The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

LONDON:
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1841.

SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM
AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The packet-ship England, Captain WAITE, was
yesterday telegraphed off Holyhead, and this
morning entered the River, with the packet-ship
Garrick, Captain PALMER. By these arrivals
we have newspapers of the 9.2 d, brought by
the England, and of the 26th by the Garrick.
The latter ship accomplished her voyage in fif-
teen days.

The newspapers which have reached us by this
conveyance are barren of political intelligence.
The following are extracts :
SENATE, JUNE 21.

FISCAL BANK.-Mr. Clay reported a Bill to incor-
porate the subscribers to the Fiscal Bank of the United
States, accompanied by a long Report, which he read at
his seat.

The Committee say they thought it better to dismiss
all experiments, and confide in the experience of forty
years, during which time a National Bank had been in
operation, and realized the most sanguine expectations
of its friends. The Committee have adopted this city
for a location, but they consider that quite a subordinate
.natter. It is drafted on the same principle as the last
National Bank, but with all proper guards and checks.
The Directors are to be paid for their services, and be-
come a kind of Board of Control. Its capital is thirty
millions, but can be extended to fifty if necessary or ex-
pedient. The Bank is allowed to deal in foreign bills
of exchange. Fifteen hundred copies of the Report and
Bill were ordered to be printed—copies of which will
be sent you as soon as they can be procured.
The House of Representatives has passed a
measure to give 25,000 dollars to the family of
General Harrison.

A resolution has been brought forward in the House
of Representatives, calling for any correspondence which
may have passed between this Government and that of
England, on the subject of the American prisoners at
Van Diemen's Land. We are well aware that this is a
very delicate matter, particularly, since the affair of
M‘Leod has assumed the serious aspect it has in the re-
lations between the two Governments ; yet it does seem
to us, that a representation, even in an unofficial way of
the circumstances, under which so many young and in-
experienced men were seduced by the artifices of Cana-
dian refugees to become participators in the crime for
which they are suffering, might lead to a relaxation of
the severity exercised towards them. Death would-have
been mercy to the fate now endured by them. Mr.
Webster, no doubt, will, if a favourable opportunity
should present in his diplomatic intercourse with Great
Britain, keep their unfortunate case in mind.--/Vew York
Enquirer.

SALES AT THE' STOCK EXCHANGE, NEW
YORK, JUNE 25.
. (From the Courier and Inquirer.)
$3,000 Illinois 6's of '7O
7,000 Indiana Sterling Bonds 6O
14,000 Indiana Bonds 561
125 shares U. S. Bank op'g 191
60...do...Delmvare and Hudson lo6f
175...d0...N0rth American Trust 9
20...d0...Canton
40...d0...Harlem
20...do...Schenectady and Utica
50...do...Syracuse and Utica
10...do...American Ex. Bank B5
100...d0...L0ng Island blo d 63i-
SALES .AT THE SECOND BOARD.
25 shares United States Bank l9
25...d0...De1aware and Hudson s 3 ds 104 k
100...d0...N0rth American Trust •slO ds 9-1
$3,000 Indiana Sterling Bonds . 56
3,000 Indiana Bonds s6i.

3,000 Illinois Sixes .

63.

PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 25.—There was a moderate
amount of businc ss done at the Brokers' Boards, with
somewhat of a tendency to decline in prices ; United
States Bank fell off slightly, and closed at 19 a 191.
Sales reported at the Brokers' Boards, June 24.
$1,200 Wilmington Railroad, 6's, 1842, 91; $6OO Cam-
den and Amboy Bonds, 85 ; 200 shares United States
Bank, 194; 50 ditto, 191; 100 Girard Bank, 28/.
After the Board-200 shares United States Bank, 19
cash, 25 ditto, at 191 ; 100 Bank United States, b. 30
ds. 19.

Closing Prices—United States Bank, 19 a 191; Gi-
rard, 28-1- a 281; Vicksburg, 6 bid; Cambden and Am-
hoy R.R., 85 a 88.

We give an extract of the crops :
THE HARVEST.—Having recently returned from a
tour through the western towns of this, and the eastern
and northern towns of Genesee counties, we must say,
that we have never known the prosperity of the farmer
less flattering. The severe and long-continued drought
has injuriously affected fall and spring crops, as well as
the grass. In some of the towns we have visited, there
has been no rain since the last of April. Wheat is gene-
rally thin and light. On the route from Bergen Corners
to Pine Hill, one of the best farming districts in the
State, the•crops will probably be fifty per cent. less than
usual. And as far as we have been enabled to judge,
there will not be more than half a crop of wheat in the
district ivevisited, without we are soon blessed with rain.

We are informed, by gentlemen direct from 'Michigan
and the northern part of Onio, that the harvest prosp‘ct
in those: States is no more flattering than in our own
Western ,New York. The season there has been re-
markably dry: On the prairie lands in Michigan, vege-
tation appears to have been visited by fire. On the tim-
bered. lands, however, wheat looks as well as could have
been expected for the season.—Rochester Democrat.

A GHOST ON THE CANAL-STREET ELAN.—The 1?o-
-claster Democrat informs us, that the people on the
Tonawanda Creek—a part of the Erie Canal—arc very
much troubled with a sort of Cock-lane Ghost. No-
body has, seen it any more than Dr. Johnson saw the
tondtm. marvel ; but, like him, they have heard it, and
a Lockport physician actually got up a company, char-
to:l'4,a bteaai,boat, and-went ro the spot for the purpose

of looking into the mystery. The phy-sitinn reports ;
that the noise is really there, but he can no morel tell „
how the deuce it got there than the poet could account
for the fly in the amber.. It is probably an omen of
some sort or, other, and we agree in the suggestion that
it ought to be respectfully dedicated to the editor of the
Globe.

Joe Smith, the Mormon, is caught and caged at last,
and we are very glad to learn it. He was lately arrested
on his way from Nauvoo to Quincy, on a requisition from
.the Governor of Missouri, and carried into that State for
trial. We take it that there is not within the limits of
the United States so finished a band of scoundrels as
these Mormons, and the sooner the leaders are punished
for their crimes, and the vagabondism broken up, the
better it will be for the country.
PIRATES.—The steam-boat Merchant returned yester-
day from her week's cruize in quest of pirates. She
scoured the Gulf coast of the Balize to the Chandeliers,
and including those islands, most diligently—penetrating
with small boat detachmets all the various inlets ana
bayous—and no pirates were found. • The expedition
performed great labour, and in some cases were subject
to privation, even during this short cruize.
The United States brig Consort, on the same service,
was twice spoken by the Merchant in her cruize.
On Friday, having learned at the Balize that an en-
campment of suspicious looking persons were on Limo
Thin Bayou, General Smith and an armed crew started
in search of them in one of the boats. There was
difficulty in navigating the bayou from the shallowness
of water ; and they were frequently up to their middle
and arms in mud in their exertions'to haul their boats
over the shallows. A• little past midnight the tents
of the gang • were discovered, and the party landed
to give them a search. It appears that one of
them was standing sentry, and on being re-
quired, delivered up his musket. Either by the sentry,
or another from the tent, the alarm was given,
and a musket was fired which felled one of the en-
camped party. General Smith, as we are informed, then
advanced towards the tent, and (the darkness being in-
tense) becoming entangled in a tent-rope, found himself
suddenly prostrate on the ground near the man who had
been shot, and from whom, before he could recover him-
self, he received three stabs with a knife; neither of
which we are glad to say, are at all serious; The wounded
man then plunged into the bayou, whence after a struggle
he was taken out by one of the expedition, and with the
other four, secured. The men there encamped were stran-
gers to the citizens,who searched them out, were well pro-
vided with arms and equipments of various descriptions
—and represented that they were a fishing party. 'They
were 'taken to the Balize and left in charge of the officers
stationed at that place. The person shot is severely
wounded in the side, and it is considered doubtful if he
will recover. He bears marks from sundry cuts and
scars, of being a veteran in some rough service.—New
Orleans Bulletin.

It is worthy of remark, that a traveller could have' tome
from the Red Sea to the city of Washington while the
House of Representatives has been organizing, or from
Washington to Philadelphia while an Hon. Member was
making a 'speech. Politicians in their waste of time
often forget what a busy world we live in.—New York
Paper.

A FLOURISHING COLONY.—The Magistrates of the
Lower Police alone have during the present month al-
ready sent to Blackwell's . Island 200 loafers and loaf-
crosses, for larger or shorter periods, under the Vagrant
Act. Added to this number about 100 have been sent
up by the Court of Sessions, and perhaps about the same
number by the Upper Police Magistrates. Should this
increase of population continue, Blackwell's Island will
soon become a very considerable village. Make the im-
prisonment perpetual, furnish the prisoners with the
means of becoming civilized, and they will of necessity
become honest, and thus form a very tolerable if not re-
spectable community.

The Tory writers lay it down as, an unanswer-
able axiom, that the first duty of a State is to
provide for the subsistence of the people. Of
late they have dwelt with much emphasis on
that duty, and their party is now likely to be
placed in a situation where the half-starved mil-
lions will call on them to perform it. Are they
prepared to execute the task they have taken on
themselves? Are they prepared to make them-
selves responsible for providing, as the Chartists
demand, a day's work for every willing labourer,
and a fair day's pay for a fair day's work f We
believe they are not; we are sure if they are en-
dowed with reflection, and are capable of reining
in language, instead of letting it run away with
them like a wild horse, they must shudder at
the awful responsibility they are now taking on
themselves, in seizing the Government on the
principle, that it is the first duty of the State to
provide for the subsistence of the people.
They may depend upon it, however, as their
great leader says, that they will be seriously
called on to perform that duty. They will be
expected by the millions whom they haoe flat-
tered, not only to ameliorate the Poor-law, but
to improve the condition of the labouring classes.
By the very act of resisting all alteration in the
Corn-law, they have made themselves respon-
sible to the starving millions to feed them, and
to them will the millions, not only now, but in
every season of distress, in every bad harvest,
look for food. They have laden the Government
with all the responsibilities of the seasons, and
fearfully will they have to answer for every pe-
riod of calamity.

There is another first duty of the State, as laid
down by Sir R. PEEL. He has more than once
declared that the first duty of the State is to
provide for the religious instruction of the people.
Accordingly, he has been a zealous defender of
the priesthood, and a zealous promoter of Church
extension. At present there is pretty good
evidence that crime keeps pace with destitution,
the number of commitments in England and
Wales in 1840, having exceeded those of 1839 by
2,744, and the number of convictions having ex-
ceeded those 0f1829 by 2,691. To overtake this
increase of crime by means of the established
clergy, the moral police of the empire as they are
called, will require, according to the Tory or Epis-
copal scheme of the poor man's Church, a large
reinforcement of priests. Awful as is the re-
sponsibility of providing for the subsistence of
the people, we are inclined to think that the re-
sponsibility of providing for their moral and re-
ligious instruction, according to the Church of
England, is not less awful. At the same time,
i! these two first duties seem to us conflicting, for
I the tax on the people, which will be necessary to
.provide additional parsons and churches, is in-
compatible with providing them the means of
subsistence.

There are, probably, more first duties of
the State which the . Tories will be anxious to
perform, such as preventing perjury at Irish
elections, such as putting down the Chartists,
and putting an end to all improper publications,
or providing wholly and entirely for the moral
as well as the physical sustenance of the people ;
but we have indicated enough of theal, and have
hinted sufficiently at their incompatibility, to
show that the Tories will have no easy, not to
say an impossible, task to perform. Under their
administration, if we believe their promises and
their reproaches of their opponents, the mil-
lennium of Government is to arrive, and the
people are all to be well fed, well instructed, and
contented, while every part of the State is to be
watched over with as much care as a mother
watches over her first child. For our parts, we
arc so thoroughly convinced that the Tory sys-
tem is incompatible with the course of nature
and of society, that to give it free scope seems to
U 3 the likeliest way to make it destroy itself.
While the Tories are profoundly ignorant, even
of the elements of political and social science,
they are, in consequence of their ignorance, dis-
posed to meddle with every part of society, and
take on themselves—poor mendicants fbrnotoriety
—the awful responsibility of providing, by Act of
Parliament, for the subsistence, morality, and
happiness of mankind.

It was the doctrine of ADAM SMITH, but un
fortunately he is gone out of fashion, that rent
profit, and wages, were all paid out of produce:
From that doctrine it followed that the more
produce we had, the more rent, profit, or wages,
there must be, and probably they would all be
increased. The greater the abundance, the
greater
the rewards for some or all classes of so-
ciety. That plain common-sense view is now
wholly lost sight of; and we are told by the
Tories that the more we have, the poorer we
shall be ; that we cannot add three, four, five,
or even ten millions of quarters of corn annually
to our stock, to be purchased mainly by the
toils of those untiring slaves, steam-engines,
without depriving landlords, farmers, andlabour-
ers, of what they now possess and receive. The
modern doctrine—the PEEL and STANLEY
doctrine—the doctrine which nominally has
obtained influence at London, Liverpool,
and Leeds, and which is to be represented by a
large majority in Parliament,is, that the more we
increasq our abundance, the worse we shall be
-off,' old 'the Vetorse all classes will be-paid. The

preent law is to be maintained, lest the people
should be starved by heads of foreign corn. We
are denied abundance, because it will make us
poor.

By the answer wiikh the electors have given
to her MAJESTY'S appeal, it would appear as if
the majority of the electors had adopted
the PEEL-STANLEY paradox, and believed that
the nation would be impoverished and starved by
increasing its wealth, but we are assured that the
electors have yielded to very different argu-
ments. Their poverty, and not their will, has
consented. The Tories have first impoverished
and plundered them, and then have bribed them.
The electors confessed the power of Tory gold,
not of Tory arguments. Tn another part of The
Sun we supply several exemplications of the
fact. The wealth of the Church, the wealth of
the Tory aristocracy, the wealth of Tory bank-
ers, have all been used to gain a Tory triumph.
The answer given by the electors is, not that
Tory doctrines are true, or good, but that Tory
gold is, in their present state of distress, omni-
potent.

It is a sad reproach to the electors that they
are seduced by Tory gold; it would be a sadder
niisfortune for themselves and the world, if they
believed the Tory doctrines. When they believe
that four is greater than five—that a whole is less
than its parts—that plenty is scarcity—they will
believe that adding to the annual supply of com-
modities, which, and not money, pay the land-
lord's rent, the capitalist's pr3fit, and. the work-
man's wages, will diminish the rewards of all.
If they could by any possibility have credited
such a fallacy, they must soon recover their
senses. The matter concerns not the unseen and
the unfelt world, but the visible and tangible
universe ; and political priestcraft cannot long
cheat the multitude touching their food.
In proportion as they have been deluded, great
will be their indignation when they are sensible
of their error, and those may look for a terrible
vengeance who have cheated the people into a
false creed. The world cannot now be governed
by a lie if ever it was. There must not only be
truth, but it must be sincerely believed; and the
hollow and false pretences of the Tories, their
putting forth doctrines for a purpose which they
do not and cannot believe themselves, will, in a
very short time, cause them to be regarded as the
most despicable and worthless of mankind.

The whole of the French Journals of Friday and Sa-
turday have reached•us. They bring very little news of
any political importance. An old-womanish Tory Con-
temporary having hinted in the course of last week that
France was founding a second Lower Canada in Africa
for the future benefit of England, the Court organs have
all at once become as hostile to Sir ROBERT PEEL as they
were about a month ago to Lord PALMERSTON. To
nettle a Frenchman you have only to ridicule the ten
years' war in Africa ; and to put him beside himself;
you need but express a fear that France must yet
relinquish her African conquests. Parents are said to
love their ricketty offspring • better than such as are'
well favoured and nealthy, on account of the trouble and
anxiety it costs them to rear them ; and something of
the same feeling is eviiped by France towards Algeria,
the worth "cf which she estimates, not by its intrinsic
value either as a military or commercial station, but by
the blood and treasure which she has wasted in obtain-
ing of some hundreds of miles of arid desert,
which hitherto has only served her for a grave.
The following extract from the Proclamation of the.

Committee of 111:3 Holy Land, in Paris, in favour of the
Syrian Christians, will be read with some interest. It is
signed by the Marquis de PASTORET, the Marquis de
llitEux BuEzE, Vicomte WALK', M. de GENOUDE, and
several other distinguished French Royalists:—
" United by sentiments of faith and attachment to the
honour of our country, we have thought that it belonged to
France to give to the Christians of Palestine the first testi-
mony of a generous sympathy, worthy of those who suffer
and of those who succour, which offers relief in present
circumstances and insures the future ; whose efforts may
be avow,d, and which can encounter no obstacles, except in
calculations, in which no person will venture to take part
openly. We will endeavour to obtain, by prudent measures
and persevering representations, by relief and arms, the ame-
lioration of the condition of the Christians of Palestine and.
Syris, the free possession of the religions edifices which be-
long to them, tne complete guarantee of their existence, all
the liberty which is consistent with the situation of the East ;
in short, every thng which may demonstrate in these coun-
tries the influence of France, ever great, useful, and generous.'
Christians, we come to the succour of Christians, we appeal to
all those whom they call brothers, to assist us in adininistering
this succour. Frenchmen, we call upon all who have shown
that they are proud of the name, and that they are sensible of
•the obligations which it imposes, to set forth the inheritance of
intlucnee and glory which belong to Ffanee."
Whatever th,.; Court organs may pretend to the . con-
trary, we know.for certain that tile most exalted per-
sonages in France sympathise deeply with the Christian
population of the East. The Queen of the FRENCH,
who is not restricted by political considerations, makes
no secret of her earnest desire to improve the condition
of the Christians in every part of the Turkish empire.
On the subject of the new loan we find the following
paragraph in the Temps of Saturday :--•
" bix principal receivers-general have determined upon
joining some Faris bankers, and forming a Company to tender
for a part of the new French loan. They have sent circulars
to all their collagiies, announcing their intention, inviting
thrm to join, and asking** shares they will take in their
Association. We are not yet acquainted with the effect pro-
duced by this step, which has been denied, but which lays never-
theless been confirmed to us by persons perfectly well informed.
We have given, under a separate head; an account of
the recent riots at Toulouse.

Several of the French holders of Spanish bonds hive just
addressed to the Spanish Government, through the medium of
its Ambassador in Paris, a memorial complaining of the con-
duct which has been adopted towards them, and soliciting re-
dress. In it the following passages occur
We respectfully solicit, through the medium of your
Exeellency, that the accumulated interest of the active debt
may be ad..ed to the capital, offering, if necessary, to submit
to a reduction tf even one-fifth of the rate of interest fixed
for the capital; but in waiting fur the time when the finances
of Spain shall admit of the payment of the interest on thedebt,
as is (lone by other States, we earnestly solicit the adoption of
a measure which would have the effect of giving a real value to
Spanish bonds. This measure would be, after having added
the accumulated interest to the capital, to allow the half-yearly
couporis of the interest to be received in payment for one-half
of the whole amount of any customs' duties payable to the Go-
vernment. Such a measure as this would only be one of strict
justice; but it would secure the payment of dividends until the
Government should be able to pay them in the regular and
usual way."
There is now living at Nozieres, in the Cantal, a woman
named Elize'Clergues, 110 years years old, and who yet con-
tinues to tend a berd of goats. Her summer-dress is com-
posed of a canezou, or short jacket, with an apron before and
another behind, in the fashion of the middle ages. She has re-
siding with her a daughter, whom, though she is 72, she treats
like a mere child.

The Presse mentions a report of Mme. Laffarge having
poisoned het self. The Indicateur of Tulle makes no mention
of any such circumstance.
Important works are going on the rooms of the second
floor of the Louvre. Some of them are, it appears, to be pre-
pared for the reception of the pictures and books composing
the bequest recently made to the King by the will of Mr. Frank
Hall Standish. TheEpictures are, it is said, 200 in number.
Amongst the books is a Bible, which belonged to Cardinal
Ximenes, and which is valued at 25,000 fr.
We learn from the Hague that the Hawking at Loo, un-
der the Presidency of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands,
hai been very successful thii season, and is still kept up.
Already 194 herons have been taken, of which 101, not having
been seriously struck by the falcons, were set at liberty after
being marked as usual.
.- On the anniversary of the coronation of the King of
Denmark his Majesty granted free pardons to 50 convicts sen-
tenced to hard labour.

—• hi. Diday, of Geneva, has received a gold medal for his
landscapes exhibited this year at the Louvre.
The Echo du Nord, of Lille, says—" Our Exchange has
been thrown into great anxiety-, by the stoppage of three houses
at Dunkirk, belonging to persons who hold public oilices—one
in the finance department, and the two others in the notariat."

The storm which reached Paris on `unday evening, fell
with equal violence about two in the iftern6on, lasting till five,
at Pont Audemer, Saint Simeon, Seiles, Tourville, and other
communes in the Eure, breaking up the roads by the torrents
t created, swelling the little river, the Sebeque, till it over-
flowed the meadows on its banks, destroying the whole of the
hay which happened to have been cut. Two spinning-mills
were very much damaged, their walls being shaken by the
force of the current, the machinery displaced, and great part
of the materials washed away.
The consumption of meat in Paris, during the last
month, amounted to 5,029 oxen, 1,738 cows, 5,5:-.3 calves, and
34,529 sheep, being a decrease of 741 oxen and 996 calVeF,
and an increase of 410 cows and 693 sheep, as compared with
the consumption in June, 1840. During the first six months
of the preAint year the consumption has been 35,429 oxen,
10,765 cows, 32,452 calves, and 212,155 sheep, being a de-
crease, as corn' aced with the same period last year, of 1,272
oxen, 3,911 calves, and an increase of 1,220 cows and 4,432
'beep.
The Rotten Journals state that the pastures of the Grand
Couronne have lately been invaded by a pack of wolves, who
have devoured five mares, and torn in a dreadful manner seve-
ral more. A number of sheep have also been eaten up by
them. The Journals add that the storm on Sunday fell with
the greatest severity in the communes or the Grand and Petit
Couronne. '1 he crops were seriously damaged by the hail,
which, at ten o'clock on Monday morning, was still lying on the
ground. The water in the ditches was covered with ice of great
thickness. At Caudebec-les-Elbeuf a ravine overflowed, and
caused great damage.
The Echo du Nord states the extraordinary fact that a
woman of the commune of Berlaimont, in that department,
has been twice delivered of twins within the last eight months
and a half !

The Munich Gazette publishes a note from Professor
Gruithuisen, announcing that he had ascertained the exact
time in which the sun makes its rotation upon its own axis.
He finds that the sideral rotation is made in 25 days, 14 hours,
54 minutes, and 5 seconds; and its synodic rotation in 27 days,
13 hours, 17 minutes, and 19 seconds.
A mason at work, a few days ago, at a house in the
Faubourg Saint Germain, found a quantity of money which
had been concealed in the wall. The owner of the house
being away from Paris, the honest fellow called in the Com-
missary of Police to take charge of the discovery. The Com-
missary ha:Aug counted the money, which was in silver, and
gold coin, ascertained that it amounted to 25,000 fr., which he
sent to be deposited at the Prefecture of Police till the pro-
prietor of the house returned, who, we trust, wilt amply reward
the conscientious workman for his resistance to so great a
temptation.
... Two evenings egoVaTolii employed- in a mina.