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ANTI-CORN-LAW MOVEMENTS.—Last even-
ing, according to announcement, a lecture on the injurious
operation of the Corn-laws, was delivered at the Spread Eagle,
Wandsworth. On Mr. Smith's arrival, shove 900 persons
were assembled, amongst whom were several of the most influen-
tial inhabitants of the district. At the conclusion of the lec-
ture the auditory resolved upon the formation of a district asso-
ciation, and for that purpose to request the attendance of Mr.
Hawes and Mr. Villiers on Saturday evening next.—A public
meeting to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legislature
for a.repeal of the Corn-laws will be held in the Tower Ham-
lets, Osborne-street, Whitechapel, this day. (It was erroneously
stated in some of the papers that the meeting was to be held on the
17th, in place of the 13th.) The chair to be taken at 18
o'clock precisely.—The General Committee of the 1. Metro.)o 1-
tan Anti-Corn law Association will be held at their rooms, 154,
Strand, this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, when a report of the pro-
ceedings of the Association, since its formation, will be
pre-
sented.
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Orders were on Feiday last received at the Royal
Dock-yard, at Woolwich, for the speedy completion of her
Majesty's ship the Trafalgar, 120 guns, which vessel has been
bui:aing twelve years. She is to he launched in the course of
the er,,,suing summer, when her Majesty and her 1-loyal consort,
Prince Albert, it is stated, will be present. Orders were like-
wise re ceived for the immediate construction of a large war
steam-sh.;p of 900 tons burden.—Evening Paper.

•
ing the Forces, &c. &c. &c.
" Whereas certain African negroes have been recently
landed at Simon's Town, in this colony, from a vessel,
called the Escorpao, captured, as a prize, by her
Majesty's ship Modeste, and which s tid vessel. was
deemed to be in an unfit state to remain at sea, or to
proceed again thereto with the
.said negroes on board ;
and whereas it is necessary that provision be forth-
with made for securing to the said negroes, as free
persons, a comfortable present subsistence, as well
as the means of providing for themselves hereafter, I
do therefore hereby proclaim and make known my
determination to pe'rmit the disposal of the said negroes,
and of such other negroes as may hereafter land in this
colony under the like circumstances (unless otherwise
instructed), amongst such inhabitants of , this colony
as I shall deem -desirahlo, such inhabitants being
thereto consenting, and with such provisions, and
upon such .ceerlitions, as shall to me seem fit and
proper. And '1 further proclaim that the duration
of the contracts of service or apprenticeship to be en-
tered into upon the part of the said negroes shall be as

follows; to wit;:—For males of seventeen years or up-
wards, and for females of fifteen years or upwards, a
contract of service for the space of one year ; and for
males and females under the said ages respectively, a
contract of apprenticeship to continue until the male
or female apprentice shall attain the ages of eighteen
years and sixteen years respectively.
" And whereas there are other matters and things
necessary to be inserted in the said contracts of service
and apprenticeship respectively, which could not con-
veniently be set forth in this proclamation, as well as
certain rules and regulations which will be required
for the proper protection and the continued super-
intendence of the said negroes, as also for the pro-
viding for the payment to such apprentices of such
or other retooneratien as may he decreed reason-
able in respect to the more advanced periods of their
,ppreutteesiiips, I do tuaner intimate that all such mat-
ters and things, together with such rules and regula-
tions, will be made publicly known either by one or
fore Government advertisements, or else by one or more
notice or notices to be issued under my authority by the

person or persons whom I shall for that purpose delegate
and appoint.
" And whereas some expense has been already, and
will be hereafter incurred in maintaining, contracting,
and superintending the said negroes, which the said
negrocs arc unable to repay, and which the colonial
revenue ought not to bear, I hereby give notice
that no contract of service or apprenticeship, as
the ease miy be, shall be made or executed 'under
the authority of this proclamation, until after payment
by the person proposing to take such servant or ap-
prentice, of the sum of one pound sterling for and in
respect of each and every servant or apprentice so pro-
posed to be contracted, such payment to be made into
the hand:3 of the person or persons whom I shall ap-
point to receive the swap. '
And I further direct, that in every case in which
any such contract of apprenticeship shall have tix 0
or more years to run, there shall be annually paid by
the master or mistress of such apprentice, for every
year of such apprenticeship, after the first year thereof,
the sum of ten shillings, the same to be paid into the
hands of the person or persons to be appointed as afore-
said.
" And whereas it may be doubtful whether the
ages of the said negroes respectively have been esti.
mated with sufficient accuracy, I do hereby further
direct, that no contract of service or apprenticeship be
executed under this proclamation until a further exami-
nation of those negroes shall have taken place, and a
Fresh estimate shall have been made of their ages re-
spectively, by such person or persons, and at such times
and places, as I shall see fit to appoint and.make known:

• 4. God save the Queen.
" Given under my hand and the public seal of the
Settlement, sat the Cape of Good Hope, this thirtieth
day of December, 1839.
(Signed) " GEO.7'NAPIER.
" By command of his Excellency the Governor,
(Signed) " JOHN BELL, Secretary to Government."

EDINBURGH-TfilD-:SDAY.

JURY ZOURT.
DAMAGES FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT..

MARGARET LANDELL or 131toniE, residing in the town
of Berwick-on-Tweed, azainst WILLIAM LANDELL,
and JAMES BELL, Sheriff-Clerk of Berwickshire.

Mr. Milne opened the case for the pursuer.
The pursuer is the widow of the deceased Mark
Landell, &q., who died some years ago, and who, at
the time of his death, was possessed of an estate in the
Island of Jamaica, called Coldingham Hill. Miss Han-
nah Landoll, the only issue of the marriage, died on
isrh March, 1833, upon which the defender, William
Landell, the brother of Mark Lan&ll, as nearest
heir and nest of kin, succeeded to the estates.
and property of the pursuer's deceased husband,
subject to her right of terce and legal claims,
as a widow. The pursuer, after her husband's
death, resided fur several years in the parish
of Coldingham, Berwickshire ; bat, for a period
of four..years previous to 1838, she resided :n the town
of Berwick-on-Tweed, which she occasionally left to
visit her friends and relations in the village of Ayton,
distant about four miles from the boundary of the
liberties of Berwick-on-Tweed. In the month of July,
1836, while the pursuer was at tea in the house of a
friend in the village of Ayton, she was sent for to meet
a person at Bathgate's Inn; and, on going thither, she
was taken into custody by James Thomson, Sheriff-•
officer, who stated that he had a " Border warrant" to
imprison•her, at the instance of William Landell, the
defender ; and she was thenceforth conveyed to Green-
law Gaol, and lodged as a prisoner, Mr. Thomson ob-
taining from the gaoler, Mr. Johnston, a receipt for the
prisoner's body.
Tile nature of the alleged debt claimed by the de-
fender, and on which this warrant followed, was the
balance of a sum of compensation for the 'emancipation
of slaves on the Jamaica estate, which it was alleged
the pursuer. had uplifted. The warrant was in the
following to'l'ms :—" These are granting warrant to
messengers-at-arms, Sheriff-officers, and their assistants,
to pass, search for, seek, take, apprehend, and arrest
the person, goods, and gear of Mrs. Margaret Brodie
or Landell, of the burgh of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
widow of the deceased Mark Landell, Coldingham
Hill, and incarcerate her in the gaol of Greenluw, at
the instance of the said William Landell, tenant in
Swinton Greenriggi, in the county of Berwick (whose
claim or demand upon the said Mrs. Margaret Brodie
or Lundell, is 720/. sterling, and also 8601. sterling,
subject to the liferent of the said 3601., to the said
Mrs. Margaret' Brodie or Landell, during all the days
of her life), therein to remain aye and until she shall
find sufficient caution acted in the Sheriff-Court books
of Berwickshire, that the same shall be made forth-
coming, as accords, and appoints a domicile within the
said county of Berwick, at. which she may be cited,
and that as well de judicio sisti as jurlieistunt so/vi.
Given at Grecnlaw, the 6th day of Julia 1836 years.
(Signed) JAMES BELL."
And upon this warrant the pursuer was detained
from the 7th till the 12th day of July, when she was
liberated, after Mr. Eleazer Colville, surgeon in Ayton.
had granted a bond of caution in terms of the warrant,
The defender, Mrs. Landell, soon thereafter instituted
proceedings before the Court of Session
of against the
pursuer and her cautioner for payment the sums
above-mentioned—alleging, that in virtue of her ap-
prehension on the' Border warrant, and detention in
gaol, the Scotch Courts had acquired jurisdiction over
her, though generally resident in England. Thus a
question was raised as to the legality of the warrant on
which the pursuer had been imprisoned ; and it was
ultimately declared by a solemn decision of the Court,
to have been grossly illegal and irregular. The pur-
suer, Mrs. Landell, now sought reparation and
da-
mages from Mr. Landell, the appl;cant for the warrant,
and from Mr. Bell, the Sheriff-Clerk, who 'issued the
same, for the injuries sustained in her character, mind,
and bodily health, by these illegal, irregular and op-
pressive proceedings.
The case for the pursuer having been closed, Mr.
D. M'Neill addressed the Jury for Landell, and Mr.
Anderson for Bell. No evidence was led for either
defenders.
Damages laid at 2,0001.
The LORD JUSTICE-CLERK summed up, and the
Jury, after an absence of about half an hour, returned
into Court, when their Chancellor, Andrew Gregg,
Esq., Newhaven, delivered their verdict, finding for the
pursuer on the three several issues, and awarding da-
mages 5001. against the defender, William Landoll,
and 3001. against the defender, James Bell.

One of the American papers relates that a farmer
finding a dozen of his men idly stretched out on the ground,
offered a dollar to one who was the laziest of the lot. Eleven
jumped up, asserting their claims to the reward, each declaring
himself " the lazicst dog' in the umverse."• However, the
farmer gave the dollar to the twelfth, who had slothfully kept
his position, and who, when the reward was assigned to him,
murmured out, " Can't, you put it in my pocket? "

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
Surrey Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—B. Oliveira, Gent.,
to be Cornet, March 6.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 13.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed 'Thomas Coombs, jun.,
of Dorchester, in the County of Dorset, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
SILAS BARNARD HUTCHINS, victualler, West-street,
Walwarth-road.

JOHN GRE EN, oilman,_l(l:sjz,litsbridge-terrace, Hyde-park.

BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM MIERS, ormulu miniature frame maker, Strand,
to surrender, March 31, and April 28, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankrupty. Carman, Finsbury-square, official assignee ;
Eieke, Eccleston-street, Pimlico.

CHARLES HENRY PAPPS, coal merchant, George-
street, Ade!phi, March" 31, at half-past one, and April 28, at
eleven, at .the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, 13asinghall-
street, official assignee ; Asprey, Furnival's-inn, Holborn.
WILLIAM HENRY STOCKWELL, furnishing under-
taker, !Hampstead. road, March 27 and April 28, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Blake
and Lewis, Essex street, Strand.
HENRY COLEMAN, merchant, Union-court, Old Broad-
street, City, March 24. and April 28, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Ash-
urst and Gainsford, Chcapside.
WILLIAM HENRY CROXSON, wheelwright, Rayleigh,
Essex, March 31 and April 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, Basinhall-street, official assignee; Stevens,
Wilkinson, and Satchell, Queen-street, City.
PHINEAS ISAACS, furrier, Norton Folgate, March 31
and April 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark,
New Broad-street-court, City, official assignee ; Wood and
Ellis, Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street.

JAMES CANFIELD HARMAN, coachmaker, Charles-
street, Middlesex Hospital, March 28, at half-past one, and
April '2B, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed-
wards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, official assignee; Goren,
South Melton street, Oxford-street.

WILLIAM DEEMING and JOHN DEEMING, hotel-
keepers, Manchester, March 31, and April 2A, at ten, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Mitchell and Hill, New
London•street, Crutched-friars, London; Upton, Manchester.
BENJAMIN JEFFERIS, ironmonger, Newport, Mon-
mouthshire, March 31, at three, and April 28, at two, at the
Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bart-
lett's-buildings, Holborn, London ; Hinton, Bristol ; Webb and
Clarke, Newport, Monmouthshire.
NA THANI AL V YSE, farmer, Nuthurst, Warwickshire,
April 1 and 28, at twelve, at the Union Inn, Birmingham.
Chilton and Acland, Chancery-lane, London; Suckling, Bir-
mingham.

JOHN LLOYD, linen and woollen draper, Liverpool, April
1, and 28, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. John-
son, Son, and We:litterall, Temple, Lendon ; Bl3ir, Manchester.
JONATHAN ANDREW, merchant, Manchester, March
30, at two, and April 28, at four, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, Lon-
don ; Jessa, Manchester.

SAMUEL SAMPSON PARRA ALL, tailor, Leeds, March
28, and April 28, at ten, at the Court-house, Leeds. Middle-
ton, Leeds.

THOMAS PAGAN, linen draper, Liverpool, April 1. and
28, at one. at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Makin-
son and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; Atkin-
son, Birch, and Saunders, Manchester.

. .
JOSEPEI VINCENT GIBSON, veterinary surgeon, Man-
chester, April 7, and 28, at three, at the Commissioners'-
rooms,-Manchester. Gibson, Manchester; Chisholme, Hall,
and Gibson, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.
ROBERT CHEETHAM and JOSEPH CHEETHAM,
cotton-spinners, Stockport, Cheshire, March 30, at three, and
April' 8, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
Milne, Parry, Milne; and Morris, Temple, London ; Casson,
and Withingt on, Manchester.
RICHARD FORD, scrivener, Stafford,. March 31, and
April 28, at twelve, at the Star Inn, Stafford. Tooke and
Son, Bedford-row, London ; Clarke, Longton Potteries, Staf-
fordshire.

EDWARD BRYAN PRINCE, WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE
OVERTON, and WILLIAM WHITFIELD, joiners, Leeds,
March 28, at two, and April 28, at twelve, at the Court-house,
Leeds. Walker, Furnivars-inn, London ; Blackburn, Leeds.
NICHOLAS PRICE WOOD, banker, Manchester, March
31, at eleven, and April 28, at two, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester. Makinson and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle
Temple, London ; Atkinson, Birch, and Saunders, Manchester.
JOHN VAUGHAN, pig-drover, Trawsfvnydd, Merioneth-
shire, April 7, and 28, at eleven, at the Golden Lion Inn, Dol-
gelly, Merionethshire. Lowe, Garey, and Sweeting, South-
ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; Lloyd, Bala, Me-
rionethshii e.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Robertshaw and J. Rutherford, hosiers. Oxford-street,
April 9, at twelve—R. Lee, R. J. Brassey, F. Farr, and G.
Lee, bankers, Lombard-street, April 9, at one—G. More and
J. Wolley, wholesale woollen drapers, Basinghall-street, City,
April 8, at twelve—D. Montague, soap manufacturer, West-
street, West Smithfield, April 9, at half-past eleven—J. Rip-
ley, mathematical instrument maker, Wapping High-street,
April 7, at twelve—G. C. Yeld, iron merchant, Market-street,
Edgeware-road, April 9, at half-past twelve.
In the Country.
E. Hodson, draper, Birmingham, April 8, at two, at the New
Royal Hotel, Birmingham—T. Wattis, draper, Birmingham,
April 8, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham—C.
Batten, paper manufacturer, Moreton Mills, Wallingford, Berk-
shire, April 11, at two, at the Broad Face Inn, Reading—D. Ro •
binson, coal dealer, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, April 8, at
twelve, at the George IV. Inn, Nottingham—W. New, victual-
ler, -Ledbury, Herefordshire, June 27, at twelve, at the Mitre
Hotel, Here ford—A. M'Coy, marine store dealer. Liverpool,
April 9, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—J, Trot-
ter, auctioneer, Liverpool. April 8, at one, at the Clarendon-
rooms, Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES.—Apnit. 7.

W. and J. Taylor, silk manufacturers, Macclesfield, Cheshire
—C. Hart and T. Lewellin, woollen warehousemen, Newgate-
street, City—NV. J. Milne and R. Morrison, pianoforte makers,
Percy-street, Rathbone-place—A. H. Tulk and E. Banks, soap
manufacturers, Gateshead, Durham—T. W. Powell, money
scrivener, Neath, Glamorganshire—D. Robinson, coal dealer,
Sneinton, Nottinghamshire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. and J. E. Greame, wool-factors, Liverpool—J. and J. '
Buckley, ironmongers, Warrington, Lancashire—D. Hawkes-
ford, J. Hawkesford, and J. Willim, screw-manufacturers, Bils-
ton, Staffordshire—C. Bosworth and S. B. Foster, seedsmen,
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar, Nottinghamshire—H. Brookman' jun.,
and J. Roberts, cheesemongers, Poplar, Middlesex—J. Holme
and J. Crompton, woollen-drapers, Manchester—T. Hodgson
and T. Dickinson, bacon factors, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--G.
Eltham and G. Southiate, fish-mongers, Rosamon-street,
Clerkenwell—E. Wild, h. Gibson, and H. G. Gibson, mer-
chants, Ltverpool—H. J. Chambers and G. Bennett, commis-
sion merchants, Liverpool—J. Curling and W. Dyason, sad-
dlers, Deal, Kent—J. Ramsey, jun., and W. B. Ramsey,
ironmongers, Devonport, Devonshire—H. Skelton and W.
Cary, surgeons, Charleton Kings, Gloucestershire—J. and T.
Dives, coal-merchants, Battersea, Surrey—G. Parker and J.
Tilley, eating•housekeepers, Liverpool—L. lieninghem and J.
Holland, jun., bill brokers. Chopping Wycombe, Buckingham-
shire—W. Hadfield, R. W. Wood, and C. G. Hadfield, mer-
chants, Liverpool—J. and G. Gibbs, gun-makers, Bristol—H.
and J. Mackay, tailors, Liverpool—ll. Edwards and J. Wilson,
surgeons, Edgeware-road, Aliddlesex—G. and J. Bradshaw,
mercers, Welchpool, Montgomeryshire—G. Wilson, G. Hulme,
and R. Briddon, machine-makers, Stockport, Cheshire—ll.
B. and W. Turnbull, coal dealers, Cheltenham, Gloucester-
shire—W. 'S. Steil, A. Robbins, G. Street, S. M. Bucking-
ham, W. B. Huggins, and W. F. Babcock, Glasgow—J. Lid-
dell, J. Reid, and W. Ferguson, Glasgow—D. Kemp, J. Law-
son, and Adam Pringle, shawl-manufacturers. Glasgow.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
PATRICK ANDERSON, merchant, Dundee, March 23,
and April 15, at twelve, at the British Hotel, Dundee.
JAMES HADDOW, ironfounder, Perth, March 23, and
April 13, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Perth.
EDWARD AITKEN, grocer, Glasgow, March 21, and
April 18, at. two, at the chambers of James rew, Glasgow.
JAMES.HENDERSON, merchant, Kirkaldy, March 21,
and April 2 at one, at M•Glas%an's Inn,Kirkdale.

ST. PATRICK S DAY, MARCH 17.—This
being the festival day of the patron Saint of Ireland, is denoted
by wearing the " green immortal shamrock." Sir Thomas
Overbury, in his " Characters," has an allusion to this day : he
says, when describing a running footman—" 'Tis impossible to
draw his picture to the life, 'cause a man must take it as he's
running ;only this, horses are usually let blood on St. Stephen's
day—on St. Patrick's he takes rest, and is drencht for all the
yeare after." "As the British druids and bards had an extra-
ordinary veneration for the number three, so," says Vallency,
" the miseltoe was sacred to the druids, because not only its
berries, but its leaves also, grow in clusters of three. united in
one stock. The Christian Irish hold the seamrog' sacred in
like manner, because of three leaves united to one stalk." The
" seamrog" is thus mentioned in the Irish-English Dictionary :
" Seamrog, clover, trefoil, worn by Irishmen in their hots by
way of cross, on St. Patrick's Day, in memory of that great
saint." Spenser, in his " View of the State of Ireland, 159{3,"
speaking of " these late wanes, of Monnster," which was be-
fore " a most rich and plentiful! country, full of corns and cat-
tle," says the inhabita,lts were so reduced, that "if they found a
plot of water-cresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a
feast for the time." Sir Henry Piers says that, in Westmeath,
between May-day and harvest, " butter, new cheese, and curds,
and shamrocks, are the food of the meaner sort all this season."
Wythers, in his " Abuses Stript and Whipt, 1613," has this
passage:—
" And for my cloathing, in a mantle goe,
And feed on sham-roots, as the Irish doe."
THE LATE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE AT
RtcaUANSWOltTH._Thompson was so far recovered on Satur-
day, as to be able to be brought up in custody be fore two of
the local Magistrates, on a charge of cutting and wounding
with intent to murder. The investigation occupied several
hours, Louisa Humphries (who is able to walk about), Mr.
Smith, the surgeon, and several other witnesses, being
was ultimately committed for trial
exa-
mined. Thompson, who appeared to feel much remorse at
theto
tiie
Assizes,
he had made,onhe capital charge ; and he was con-
veyed
' to Hertford gaol in the course of the same evening.

Five pieces per month is plenty of work for one man
to do ; and if the man has not a loom of his own, he
has to pay 3d. out of every shilling of the above state-
ment for his loom-room, winding, and attendance. Tho
kind of cloth called quilting was 3s. 3d. per yard for
weaving it in 1815, and now, in 1840, is 111 per yard
weaving—a reduction of 2s. 4d. out of 33. 3d., since
those starvation laws, were passed for only work-
men's
wages. The situation of those people who work
in the factories, is a most deplorable one, for when
they are in full work it takes all their earnings to pro-
vide the commonest food, to pay rent, and clothing, is
not worth mentioning. For instance, Mr. Yates' fae-
tory in Little Peter-street has been stopped for ten
weeks, discharging 400 hinds. Mr. Paul Chappe's mill
has been stopped about five weeks. Tnis is the great
sewing-cotton thread manufactory. Then there is Mr.
Massey's spinning and power-loom weaving manufac-
tory, stopped for two or three weeks, under some re-
pairs. So that on the compass of about four acres of
land there are three factories, which employed 1,200
hands, completely stopped ; and the great fa-itory in
Salford, of the firm of Lambert, Hook, and Jackson,
has stopped about l,ooo# hands the last week,who have
not the least hopes of being employed again until
Whitsunday. This is the dreadful state to which thoic
cursed Corn-laws have brought us within the last
twenty-five years.
In the New Cross district all the fine yarn-spinning
factories are working three days per wc.ek, (except Mr.
Houldsworth's factory, which is working four days per
week, thus putting 1,800/, pair week out of circulatio►t
in that district. I was speaking to a person who keeps
an inn, with a spirit-vault attached to it, who told ine
that he drew 451. per week, or thereabouts, twelve
months since, and now he draws about 20/. per week ;
butchers and bakers, likewise, are closing daily.

J. L.

Manchester, March 15, 1840.
l'ilodestly said through the alteration of machinery.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

read, with a sad and sickening heart, Mr.
TLomasson's touching account of tho miseries entaileil
upon the poor of Bolton by the Corn-laws. Teere
is not a single town in the kingdom where distress of a
similar kind is not felt, in none more than this of Li-
verpool, the great artery the trade of the west side
of England. In affording you some information respect-
ing the operation of the monopoly, I only hope that I
may forward a cause which should be dear to the heart
of every philanthropist—the cause of justice and hu-
manity. During the whole of the winter the sufferings
of the poor have been very great, and the high price of
fond has been added to the want of employment, conse-
quent upon the general stagnation of trade. Not-
withstanding that much has been given in private cha-
rity, the funds of the public institutions have been
completely exhausted, and urgent appeals are and have
been making to the benevolent. But the point to
which I would direct attention is the state of rcmune-
:ion for labour, show 41g, as it does, the gross fallacy,
that because food becomes dear, wages must rise. Men
are either knaves or fools who will dare to make such an
assertion with the evidence of the last two years betere
them.

A large proportion of the labourers of Liverpool are
employed in the moving of merchandiz•, conveyed to
and front the vessels, and a great number in un-
loading the vessels themselves. With the first the
price of labour has not varied fur many years ; it
amounts to 3s. 6d. a day, and most get hat two or
three days a week, a fact testified by the experience of ;
all who have seen them standing by hundreds beneath the
piazzas and oa the area of the Exchange, no man hiring
them. The latter portion, called stevectmes, are
mostly paid by the job, but oa an average their wa;es
are little more than half a week's work. Thcse men
have, of course, in many instances, large families to
support, mouths that must be fed, and often, as I know
from personal information, are they compelled to pawn
their clothes from their backs that they may ked their
stomachs. In other• branches of trade and manufactures
connected with the port, with blacksmiths, sAlmakers,
carpenters, and engineers, wages, as in other places,
never vary.
In the rural districts it is nearly the same. I am
well acquainted with the wages of farm labourers in the
neighbourhood of Prescot and St. Helen's, both con-
siderable manufacturing places, and, consequently,
drainers of the labour in the vicinity, and in no case are
they higher than II s. per week, having advanced Is.
during the last two years.
The evils of the monopoly art not confined to the la-
bouring classes, they- sorely effect cur interprising mer-
chants. Tens of thousands of pounds are locked up in
grain and flour, which, even in the face of high prices,
cannot be released from bond. Much of it is Ameri-
can flour, and of the best description for mixing up
with the unsound from Ireland, so largely imported
here. Thus this infamouo enactment not only confines
the people to unwholesome food, but makes the risk,
the skill, and the time of the merchant who has brought
his produce thousandi of miles across the ocean, value-
less, at the very time that he should reap the fruits of
his labours. It must be conceded that his occupation is
AS necessary to the community as that of the grower,
yet his trade is made as uncertain as the winds, and
whereas the duty on every other article of commerce,
high or low, is fixed, and can be a matter of previous
calculation, that on corn, the first necessary of life, is
not fixed at all ! Was ever heartless selfishness so flimsily
concealed? was ever infamous felony so clumsily per-
petrated?
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,

A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.
Liverpool, March 14, 1840.

RESIGNATION Oki' TILL BELGIAN

MINISTRY.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 14.—. After three days' debates
upon the question of General Van der Smissen being
re-integrated upon the strength of the army, with the
rank and pay of Major-General en non-activite, M.
Dumortier's amendment has been carried by a majority
of four against the Ministry. In consequence of this
M. de Trieux, General Wilmer, and their colleagues,
have tendered their resignation, and it is reported
that they have firmly declared their intention of not
holding office longer than may be necessary for the
nomination of their successors. To analyse the debates,
or to enter into a discussion upon the merits of this
question, would be tedious. Suffice it to say, that
General Van der Sitivsen, an officer of good repute,
who commanded a Netherlands' brigade of artillery
at Waterloo, first espoused the revolutionary cause, and
obtained the rank of Major-General in a few week s.
Front motives which he considered justifiable, he then
forsook the patriot cause, and was implicated with
, others in an attempt to produce a counter7i.evolution
March, 1831. This scheme or plot. failing, lie was
compelled to fly the country, and rant(' to France,
He was consequently accused of treason and deser-
tion, and condemned by default (par contumaccl to
punishment and the loss of rank, &.c. After thy:nature of the treaty (of twenty-four articles), and
of peace between Holland and Belgium,.
declaration
M. Van der Smissea returned to Brussels,
. where,
re-
lying upon the amnesty promised by tee in.
article of the treaty, he demanded the exte • of
its advantages to himself. The Government
hawing in-
terpreted the article in question in his favour, acceded
to his demand, and was forthwith restored tio his rank
and to half-pay. This measure is e-entia iy unpopu-
! kir, and produced great fermentation' So much so,_ that
' three out of six sections of the Ph
—..artl?ltetris declared that,
they looked upon his reintegration regret, -chi,st
individual members proposed a vote of censure. This
latter motion was, howwver, withdrawn, and the ft:4l(Al-
mg proposition substituted and carried --
"The house decidcsithat'tlae amount of the laa Ifpay
(trattement de disponibilite) entered in the army -esti
mates as accorded to Mr. Van der Swissen (au Sicur)
shall be struck out of the schedule in which this sum is
comprised."
The Ministers having formally declared that if this
amendment. should pass they would resign, nothing le-
mauled for them but to act up to their word, and they
have done so.—Chronicle.

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