The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda
arrived in town in a carriage and four, at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from her residence at Blackheath,
and visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Her
Royal Highneis afterwards paid visits to their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St.
James's, and to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester

House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday afternoon.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from her residence at Kew, and visited
his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal
at Marlborough House, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council
Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham,
Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of
the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir
Edward East sat as Privy Councillors. Mr, Pemberton,
Q.C., and Mr. Purton Cooper, Q.C., were heard for the
appellants, and Mr. Turner, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd, for the
respondents, in an appeal of " Ranidass v. Davidass," from
the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay. The case
lasted the whole day.

ADELAIDE GALLERY.
MESMERISM.

Last evening Mr.lEfse,&lecturer. on Animal
Magnetism, was permitted, by the Proprietor of the
Adelaide Gallery, to subject one of his patients to a se-
ries of electrical experiments, from the powerful three-
feet plate machine, made by E. M. Clarke, of the
Strand, who superintended the discharge, of a Leyden
battery of six jars, constituting one of the most power-
ful batteries in the kingdom.
Mr. Halse stated that his object in bringing his patient
there was to convince the public that the exhibition
of her insensibility to the electric power during the
magnetic sleep was not assumed or collusive. Ile said,
that there could be no suspicion of collusion when the
experiment was to be conducted by the most skilful elec-
tro-magnetician in the kingdom,who was, at the same time a
disbeliever in the existence of mesmeric influence, and a
declared opponent of those who profess that mystery as a
science. Whatever credit for wisdom a reporter might
gain by affected scepticism, it is impossible for any honest
observer to say other than this : The young lady sus-
tained, without the least manifestation of sensibility, re-
peated shocks, any one of which would, in the lan-
guage of those present, knock down a bullock. Every
one of those gentlemen who assist Mr. Clarke in his
arrangement of the electrical apparatus, openly declared
that they would not for any pecuniary consideration con-
sent to be subjected to a similar experiment. The loud
plaudits of nearly 500 persons who attended the gallery,
without any previous intimation of the wonder they
were about to witness, must console Mr. Halse for the
rash and unfounded calumnies with which he has been
elsewhere assailed.
Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Sedgwick delightfully relieved
the intervals between the divine performance of the
Infant Harpist by concerti upon the piano and concertina.
Mr. Booth delivered a lecture upon the various kinds of
gas, and gave the numerous and respectable company
almost delirious pleasure by his exceedingly funny illus-
trations of the ef&cts of the laughing gas.

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn—ln The Sun of last night, you have reported the
procedings of a public meeting, held at the London Ta-
vern on the 30th November, to take into consideration
a national scheme of emigration. Whilst I sympathise,
as much as any gentleman at the meeting, with the suf-
fering thousands in Paisley and other places in the
United Kingdom, I am unwilling to allow erroneous
statements, made at that meeting, to go abroad without
contradiction, as such errors will only add to the misery
and wetchedness which millions of my fellow-countrymen
have now to contend with. -

It is V not only laudable, but it is incumbent on every
man in the country to stand forward and afford relief to
his fellow-men, if he be able, by any act or any advice,
to give assistance ; but, to do so efficiently, he must
make himself acquainted with the causes of those suf-
ferings.
If a man be sick, and a physician be called in to pre-
scribe for and to relieve him, it is necessary that the phy-
sician should firstinquire-into the nature and duration of
the disease, and satisfy himself as to what he considers
to be the causes before he can prescribe the proper remedy
to remove the disorder. On the same principle the dele-
gates from Paisley, and the other gentlemen who at-
tended the meeting, ought to have inquired into the
nature of the distress, its duration and true causes,
before they call on the British public, by resolutions at a
meeting in the London Tavern, to promote wholesale
emigration as the remedy.
It is evident from the language of the speakers that
they have not adopted that course, and that they spoke
of measures to be adopted which would not only aggra-
vate the distress of the present sufferers, but be the
means of bringing others in the community, now ex-
empt and struggling to avoid it, into the same unhappy
condition.
I admit, with them, that there are many thousands in
great distress, and the picture they have drawn of eight
or ten of our industrious population being obliged to oc-
cupy one small room, twelve feet square, perhaps with-
out tire, and with little covering and less food, even of
the coarsest kind, to satisfy the cravings of nature ; and
I will further add, which I know to be the case, that low
typhus fevers, brought on by want of food, want of
cleanlinepsoKant of comfortable lodging, and good air,
are daily ,s,weeping off numbers of our fellow-country-
men, and are fast thinning the ranks of the miserable, by
hurrying them to the grave, the only home where hey
are free from their oppressors.
Mr. Crawford, the advocate for Paisley, knows very
well that the distress has been coming on for the last
two years, and that failure 9f the manufacturers there,
and the want of work, and want of a ages, are the proxi-
mate causes of that distress. He ought also to know
that there are causes to which all the thinking and honest
part of the community attribute that distress; namely,
the maintenance of impolitic and unjust restrictions on
the industry and trade of the country, to the support of
a wicked monopoly of food, which, by preventing our
taking the corn, cattle, and food that America and other
countries have in abundance, and are anxious to give to
our starving people in exchange for the produce of their
labour; that the unjust class legislation of the aristo-
cracy is the real cause of the.present distress. Mr. Craw-
ford and others who attended that meeting, must know
that the aristocracy, by supporting the enormous taxation
of five millions sterling yearly, and by unequal and un-
just laws laying the greater part of that amount, by in-
direct taxation, on the sugar, beer, and necessaries of the
working and middle classes, are the cause of the present
almost unexampled distress; and. I greatly fear that the
men who are thus encouraging a wholesale national emi-
gration, are put forward by the aristocracy and Tories
to divert the attention of the nation from the corn and
provision-laws, which are the immediate cause of this
distress ; a want of repreSeritation, or of extended suf-
frage to the people, being the true cause of all the mis-
rule, class-legislation, and consequent misery which we
now see around us.

I shall, in another letter, examine the arguments used
at the public meeting on Wednesday at the London
Tavern, and prove how fallacious they are. But I con-
sider it necessary to undeceive the public as to one of
the gross and exaggerated statements made at that meet-
ing. A Mr. Rogers (I hope not Mr. Sheriff Rogers)
warmly expressed his approbation of the plan of a great
national scheme of emigration, and he concluded by
stating that " Her Majesty's provinces of Upper and
Lower Canada would take two millions of emigrants with
great and lasting advantage to themselves." By the
Britannia steamer, files of New York Papers have been
received, by which it appears that the emigrants from
Scotland are in a state of starvation there, and that
there are no means of relief but " the cold charities of
an unfeeling world." Let the people recollect, tjiat here
they have a claim on the poor-rates against starvation,
and that, although such a claim is at best a very poor
dependence, yet it is better than no claim, and perhaps
no relief, in the Canadas.
I shall resume the subject, but urge the publication of
the following extract from the Canada Times of the 15th
of October last. IL

DESTITUTE IMMIGRANTS.—We have repeatedly taken
occasion to censure the conduct of those who have been
inducing the poor of the Mother country to emigrate to
British North America, at a time when there are no
public works in course of prosecution, nor any means at
the disposal of the Government, or private benevolent
institutions, to aid the destitute, or to give them employ-
ment. And we have expressed the opinion, that
many of the poor immigrants would be left destitute
of the common comforts of life at the approach
of that season when' they would become in-
dispensable. In proof of the correctness of
this opinion, we refer to the fact, that at the present
time there are at St. Francis, Lower Canada, two hundred
immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland, in a most
wretched and destitute situation, and actually on the point
of starving! Relief has been asked from the Montreal St.
Andrew's Society, but in vain; and the poor creatures
are thrown upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world,
for the bare means of subsistence failing in which to fa-
mish, to sicken, and die, in a land of strangers, far from
the silver streams, the green valleys, and wild mountains
of their fatherland. Who can contemplate a situation
more deplorable !
EMIGRATION FROM CAxADA.--While Dr. Rolph and
other equally patriotic individuals are using all their
little strength in endeavouring to entice the poor of the
mother country into this province, to beg, steal, or
starve, many of the oldest inhabitants, those who have
been the pioneers in the settlement of the country, who
have composed the hardy yeomanry of Upper Canada for
twenty, thirty, and even forty years, have reared large
families, and k-now no other spot as Home, are selling out
their all, and going to seek
an asylum in the deep foresti,
or upon the wild prairies of the Western States. No
doubt a change of Ministers at home, with an anticipa-
tion of a change of policy here, is the actual cause of so
many very respectable and intelligent individuals as are
mentioned below, leaving their fine, comfortable homes
to be occupied by strangers, and flying from amongst us
(to use the language of Sir Francis Head) as from a
land of pestilence. Itis much to be regretted ; but,
really, can they be worse off than here, under the domi-
nation of a Tory Government ?--.Kingston Herald.

ERRATUM.—It was Dr. Clutterbuck who pre-
sided at the Mechanics' Institution on Wednesday
evening. Another name was mentioned in our Journal.
SOUTHAMPTON) DEC. I.—The Great Liver-
pool steamer sailed hence this morning with every berth
occupied, having 110 passengers on board. A great
in-
crease of passengers seems to have occurred on this
voyage in consequence of the communication by
.steam
being now opened throughout. The steamer India will
await the arrival of the Great Liverpool, and convey F?s-
sengers on from Suez to the various appointed Indian
stations.