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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1841.

the statements made to the Colonial Department by the Land
and Emigration Commissioners, respecting Bounty emigration,
and which were presented to the House of Commons on the
26th of February last, and printed by its order, arid generally
to inquire into and report thereon, and on the best 'means
for furnishing the requisite supply of labour to New South
Wales; and that until such Committee shall be appointed,
their report presented, and the measures consequent thereupon
shall have been definitively decided upon, Lord John Russell be
respectfully and very earnestly solicited to direct that the
recent " conditions" promulgated by the Land and Emigra-
tion Commissioners, touching Bounty emigration, be entirely
suspended.
Moved by EDWARD DIVETT, Esq., and seconded by ARTHUR
WILLIS, Esq., and
Re,.olved unanimously;
That the warmest thanks of this Meeting, as well as of all
persons feeling an interest in the great Colony of New
South Wales, and in the well-being and comfort of the
labouring population of the mother country, are justly due to
JOHN MARSHALL, Esq., for the eminent services he has
rendered in sending out a large and steady supply of efficient
labour, under the Bounty system.
Moved by DAVID FORBES, Esq., seconded by HENRY
GODWIN, Esq., and
Resolved unanimously, •
That the Committee be authorised to publish these Resolu-
tions in the Times, Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle,
Standard, The Sun, and Globe, and in such other publications
as they may deem proper, with the view of giving the most
extended publicity to them.
Moved by JOHN MARSHALL, Esq., seconded by WILLIAM
BROWN, Esq., and
Carried by acclamation,
That the best thanks of this Meeting are due to Charles
Barry Baldwin, Esq., M. I'. , far his kindness in taking the Chair
on this occasion, and for the manner in which he has pre-
sided over its proceedings.
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN, Chairman.

WATERLOO-HOUSE, 69, 70, and 71, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD.

lIALL and ALLAN beg to inform their
numerous Friends and the Public 'iNat they have just
cleared at the Custom-house, Fifteen Cases, comprising rich
Chene, Prouche, and Damask Silk Shawls ; plain and figured
Black Satin ditto ; embroidered Velvet ditto ; and Ottoman
and Egyptian Cord ditto. The designs and fabrics of which
will be found on inspection resplendent with novelty and
beauty. -
They have also just purchased for cash a splendid assortment
of British and Foreign► long and square Shawls, which, for
quality and price, cannot be equalled in the trade. In conse-
quence of a misunderstanding between the agent of a large
manufacturer in Scotland and the principal wholesale houses in
London, H. and A. have been enabled to purchase the said
manufacturer's entire stock of Mousseline de Laine Dresses ;
comprising the most splendid Designs on Fabrics of the finest
quality. A decided job, by which they are able to offer the
same descripti-in of goods as sold last week for 15s. 9d. at
Bs. 9d. the dress.
_

The Silk and Riband departments having been considera-
bly augm?nted, are now replete with every novelty in style and
colour, that either taste or fashion can desire.

In the Drapery Department H. and A. have a great many
-decided bargains for their Friends, of which they beg to enu-
merate a few, viz., a very large Lot of the very best make in
Irish Linens at 100. ; fine do. 121 d. peryard ; beautiful 104ths
Barnsley Sheeting 14id., and 5-4ths wide 63rd. per yard. 150
pieces bordered Window Muslin 4s. 4d. per piece of 12 yards.
Marseilles Quilts, 3 yards long, 10s. 9d., really worth 21s. A
Lot of Mourning Dresses 9% yards at 2s. 111 d. the dress.
A quantity of French Cambric Handkerchiefs at ss. lOid. the
dozen, and many other articles at the same ratio.
Observe 69, 70, 71, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

SPOONS AND FORKS, 7s. 2d. PER OUN_l,_.

M. HORTON and CO. (Late AVERY),
VI • Silversmiths and Jewellers, No. 36, L UDGATE-
STREET, ST. PAUL'S (opposite Messrs. Everington and
Co.'s), •ffer their elegantly-finished SILVER FIDDLE
SPOONS and FORKS at 75. 251. per Oz.; the King's Pat-
tern 7s. 4d. ; the Victoria and other Patterns, as also Tea and
Coffee Sets, and other articles, equally moderate. A very
great ♦ariety of Dessert Knives and Forks in cases of Sets.
N. R. An immense Stock of splendid Fancy Goods and
Jewellery at 25 to 30 per cent. below the usual London Charges

C°Tr
FLE'S GRANULES, or grains de
sante. Angular particles for mixing in the food of
children and adults, and insuring a daily action on the bowels
by an operation totally mechanical and not medicinal. They
form for all an effectual substitute for physic, of an agree-
able spicy taste. In Is. lid. packets, with practical data show-
ing that by their use in food infants may be reared safely with-
out the natural milk. By a Surgeon.
Hannay and Deitrichsen, 63, Oxford-street, and all Chemists.

THE MEDINA IMPROVEMENT

BILL.

This Bill is likely to be opposed in all its stages by
some of the most influential gentlemen in Newport, by
the inhabitants of Cowes, by the CoVege of Winchester,
and by Mr. G. H. Ward, and others. When the Com-
pany proposed the Bill last Session, they had a map and
plan publi,lied of what they intended to attempt, part of
which was to title the river frontage from the whole of
the hous, s in COWC3 harbour, but they were so deter-
minedly opposed they gave up the undertaking:
.This
Session they petit,oned Parliament for leave to bring in a
Bill to levy tolls, o4e , on all vessels, ships, boats, pas-
sengers, nacrehandize, &c., entering and leaving the
river, and applied to the Corporation of Newport for
powers to erect wharfs, &c., in Cowes harbour. This ap-
plication was met by a petition against leave to bring in
the Bill, the Standing Orders not having been complied
with. This w.is fatal; and the promoters of the Bill
agreed to take out the parts of the Bill the C,mmission-
ers for improving the town DE Cowes objected to, if the
petition were withdrawn, which was done, but not to the
sati fiction of th •• inhabitants generally, some new clauses
having by mistake slipped in ; and measures are again
taking to oppose them. Mr. Ward's interest and that of
the College is nearly the same. The Corporation of
Newport have, as conservators of the river Medina, agreed
to convey to the Company the whole of the soil and bed of
the river " to the ordinary high-water marks of spring
tiles." T'nis would not only take away the whole
river frontpgo from Mr. Ward's and the Colege lands, but
a c: widerable portion of the land ; also one field belong-
leg to the College, which a few years since measured
nearly thirty acres, does not now measure twenty. They
are empowered to deposit the soil, clay, &c., taken up in
deepening the river on the " marshes and banks adjoining
it," and, by clause lb 6, " to demise all and any of the
lands whivli they may reclaim by enclosure," by which
"sir. Ward will be deprived of acres of land which his
fa her b mght, and which he might recover from the river
at a trifling expense. The people of Cowes, conceiving
the Company next year may try to serve them in the Same
way they are serving Mr. Ward this, purpose to make
common cause with him, and a public meeting is to be
called far the purpose immediately.

REPLY OF THE DEAN OF YORK

TO DR. PHILLIMORE.

LONDON, M kRCII 20, 1841.
MR. EDITOR,—As I was prevnted by Dr. Phidi-
more from making any speech in Court, and did not
hear what passed there, I am obliged to trespass on your
columns to furnish a !Tidy.
It appears that Mr. Harcourt, on Thursday morning,
made an attack upon me, tedious to hear from its pro-
lixity, and difficult to answer from its obscurity.
The agreement for an exchange of pro,icrty to which
he alludes, has been differently understood by him and
me ; and, until some neutral person determines which
is the proper one, but little blame can attach to either
party for supporting his own view of the subjent•
There are some circumstances, howeve-, in Mr.
Harcourt's statement, which are incorrect, though,
indeed they are little to the purpose. First, he
says, " The Dean took upon himself the entire ma-
nagement of the building." Now the plan and estimate
were laid before the Archbishop, and altered and ulti-
mately approved by his Grace ; and I distinctly remem-
ber that the oriel windows were recommended by Mr.
Ha-court himself in addition to the original plan.

Mr. Harcourt then introduces in evidence the me-
morandirm of a supposed conversation with the Dean,
whether made at the time or afterwards does net appear,
where the architect (according to his own showing) is
desired to make a plan, and in making a plan not to at-
tend, in the first place, to expense. Would an impartial
judge have admitted such a memorandum as evidence in
any cause? And, even upon its admission, what does
it amount to ? The Dean wished to see what was the
handsomest possible facade which the architect could
draw ; but it did not follow that expense was not after-
wards to be considered.

Mr. Harcourt then says that the deanery cost 8,0001.
I deny the fact. The accounts are in the fabric-account
book. Let him take out the items and prove his asser-
tions if he can.

Mr. Harcourt then says, that " two of the houses
given to the Dean were unsightly, and therefore were
agreed to be pulled." But when the new deanery was
finished, it so completely masked Mrs. Keatsley's house,
that the necessity for taking it down plainly ceased.
Mr. Harcourt says that the house was always consi.
dered to be in the tenantcy of Mrs. Kearsley, and the
rent was always paid to the fabric. Both of these state-
ments are incorrect. Whoever will look at the fabric-
account book will see that Mr. Harcourt is mistaken.

The bargain made with Trinity College was plainly
advantageous to both the Dean and the fabric. The
calculation was made by the bursars of Trinity College,
who came to me in person and proposed it. I imme-
diately laid it before our Chapter, who approved of it ;
and if Mr. Harcourt was in the habit of making calcu-
lations, he would see at a glance that this item of accu-
sation is really otherwise than he has stated it, as may
be ascertained by referring to the document furnished
by the master of Trinity and the bursar.
With respect to Mr. Barker's house, Mr. Harcourt
knows that the building was commenced in consequence
of a regular agreement with his brother, Mr. Egerton
Harcourt, that he would give 2,0001. for it as a
will-office. When a large sum had been expended
upon it, Mr. Egerton Harcourt heard that the wills were
likely to be removed from York, and refused to complete
his contract. What was to be done with the new
walls ? With great ingenuity Mr. Pritchett contrived
to use them in the erection of two dwelling-houses—
and it is now made a complaint against the Dean that
he first trusted to Mr. Egerton Harcourt and then let
him off his bargain, rather than have an appell to his
father.

After this disappointment, the Dean resolved to
commence no more houses for any one who did not pay
a deposit, and in consequence of this resolution he has
received deposits from every one of the many new
tenants, who in the lite improvements have made bar-
gains with him. At the annual settlement of accounts
these payments have always been made known to the
Chapter, and duly accounted for.
The bell-metal affair is of a singular character. Ow-
ing to the absence of the Chapter clerk I received 2001.
on account from Mr. Gibson, before I would allow hire
to remove the metal, and with it all the mass of rub-
bish. But the moment Mr. Thiselton returned I in-
formed him of the circumstance, and sent him a draft
on my private account for the money, directing him at
the same time to place to my credit the money which
the Chapter had ordered him to pay to me.
Be it observed, also, that this took place on the last
day of July, at which time Mr. Harcourt had taken no
step towards the appeal which ho had threatened two
mouths before, and which I was fully persuade.' that
he had given up. I conceived myself so sure of the
balance, that I instructed Mr. Thiselton how to employ
it. Let it moreover be known, that I made myself per-
sonally and solely liable for the payment of 2001. for
the new clock, and about 300/. for the new bell, and
this with the view of meeting the urgent applications
of the city for the use of them, and from which per-
sonal responsibility Mr. Harcourt, by a Chapter act,
refused to relieve me.

What a silly—or, rather, what an unworthy—charge
is this, then, of which we have heard so much ! I have
always been willing to balance accounts with the Chapter,
and should gladly hear of an equal readiness on their
parts.
I believe, Mr. Editor, that I have now answered all
the tangible points of Mr. Harcourt's attack which re-
lates to me! Mr. Dixon's case I shall reserve for future
discussion. My general remark is, that whatever has
been done without respect to the new buildings, has
been done by the Dean and Chapter, and they are
equally responsible.
Let any inhabitant of York, who knew the state of
the Minster-yard when I became Dean, look at it now,
and say if I have not greatly improved it, end whether
the money spent has not really and bona fide been spent
for a great public object, namely, to encircle the noble
Minster with buildings suitable to its magnificence.
Had I not been thwarted by Mr. Harcourt, I should
certainly have done much more. r have never had any
difficulty in finding money for those improvements,
which I have never scrupled to take upon my own re-
sponsibility ; and, notwithstanding the expense of them,
the produce of the fabric estates will in a few years be
500/. a year more than when I first undertook the
management
I repudiate, thereffire, all Mr. Harcourt's malevolent
attacks, and if any one is inclined to credit his mis-
statements, I would bid them only walk round the
Minster.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obliged, bumble servant,
—Yorkshireman. WILLIAM COCKBURN.

TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BAIT.,

M. P., &e.

SIR—In placing your name at the head of this letter I am
not actuated by the too common motive of merely wishing to
attract attention to my observations. I offer those observations
especially to your notice, because, as the author of the existing
law of election petitions, you must of necessity feel an interest
and a concern in the proper working of that law.
I am sure, Sir, that you .must have already arrived at the
conclusion, from the occurrences of the last three weeks, that
some further provisions are necessary to enable Election Com-
mittees to carry on their proceedings with any chance of a tan-
gible result. A very few more such cases as the recent one of
the St. Alban's petition would establish a conviction in the
public mind that all petitioning was useless, and that whoever
could get the return, by whatever means, had, in effect, fully
gained the seat. And the result of such a conviction would
obviously be a prodigious increase in all manner of electioneer-
ing criminalities, from a confident expectation of entire im-
punity.
Were this all, I am fully convinced that it would be enough
to satisfy your mind of the absolute necesity of some fresh
means for checking and punishing corrupt practices. My
object, however, is to carry the matter still further. J wish
to acquaint you with a fact of which you may be only partially
aware—that already, without the further encouragement which
the failure of the late petition's must afford—already is the
practice of corruption making such rapid strides among us,
as to leave little hope that a single borough constituency in the
whole kingdom would be, at the end of another ten years, free
from the taint of actual and extensive bribery.
To illustrate the advance of this pestilence I will give a
rapid sketch of that constituency with which I am best ac-
quainted.
I was accustomed, twenty years ago, to glory in my con-
nexion with the city of London, and to boast that not even a
suspicion of corruption had ever been brought against it. It
was only about that period that the first symptoms of such a
danger began to show themselves.
The form in which the mischief began was this :—There
was said to dwell along the banks of the river, down
to Poplar and Blackwall, a good number of liverymen of
the Watermen's Company, who were all known to the beadle
of that Company, who kept a public-house thereabouts, and
who was generally requested to canvass them.
But then a claim was advanced for " loss of time." It was
said that the poor waterman could not afford to come three or
four miles from his work to vote at Guildhall, except an al-
lowance was made for his day's work, and the demand was at
first confined to the trifling sum of is. 6d. each, on this ground.
Now certainly this was the most insinuating and harmless
guise that bribery ever assumed. But, once admitted, it 'Was
sure to grow. In the exciting times of 1830, 1831, and 1532,
a clever but not very scrupulous 'electioneering agent was em-
ployed by Sir John Key; and the price of " the long-shore
nice was raised; and, as a natural consequence, their numbers
greatly augmented.
Recently, however, the evil has arrived at an alarming
height. I was concerned in the late struggle against the pro-
prietor of the Dispatch. In that Committee frequent offers
were made of the " long-shore men ;" all of which were un-
hesitatingly rejected. But in the course of these discussions I
came to the knowledge of the startling fact, that these said
" long-shore men" are not now, as of old, the watermea ; but
consist of a body of miscreants, some hundreds in number, re-
siding in all the suburbs of London; who have enrolled their
names in the books of certain vote-merchants, and who are
ready, at any election, to vote for any party that will, pay them
the most liberally.
But even this is not all. At that same election, men were
actually employed to pick up idle strollers in the streets, to fur-
nish them with the name and address of some dead or absent
liveryman, and to pay them ten shillings for the perjury. I

assert this from actual knowledge ; for I detected one such
case myself:
Even yet more recently has the same practice been seen in
operation. There are now, I believe, two persons in one of our
prisons, who were apprehended in the fact of personation and
perjury at the late election for Bridgemaster.
Such, then, has been the rapid growth of corruption in the
City of London within the last twenty years. The existing
law of election petitions will afford no means of checking it.
The fate of the City petition in 1837 was exactly the same as
that of the St. Alb in's in 1841. Yet if some remedy is not
speedily applied, the result of a London election for the future
will depend, like that of a Norwich or a St. Alban's one, on
the readine-s, and extent of bribefy which .the respective par-
ties may exhibit.
If London, then, is thus rapidly sinking, what can be ex-
pected of any other constituency ? What shat preserve us
from a deluge of corruption, sweeping away every vestige of
public principle that yet remains?
Surely, then, the danger is great, and the subject one which
calls for immediate and energetic exertions. I feel that it
might appear disrespectful to you to press so obvious a truth
any further. The question, then, i., what ought to be done?
And I should be inclined to sly, hat the first thing to be aimed
at is, wholly to change the course of proceeding adopted by
Election Petition Committees.

The main object with these,Committoes at present seems to
be, to avoid convicting a Member of bribery, except on evi
deuce altogether undeniable-evidence, in fact, which can
scarcely ever be obtained. And keeping this object in view,
their decisions are frequently, as in the St. Alban's case, per-
fectly startling to the common sense of the community.
Now, I would submit that the only course which can ever
put down bribery must be an entirely opposite one. Far better
would it be, if each witness were placed before the Committee
alone, and encouraged, without the aid of any Counsel, to state
upon oath all he knew of the matter.
The objection to this is, that by the existing law this might
lead to fearful consequences to a (perhaps innocent) sitting
Member. This danger must be incurred, or bribery will
never be put down.
An election won by bribery ought at once, and unreservedly,
to be c,:ncelled. This should he the first and eading prin-
ciple. If it appears to press heavily upon a candidate, per-
haps betrayed by an injudicious friend, let means be devised to
lighten the blow.
If an agent, without the knowledge or consent of his em-
plo)er, bribes the electors, and thus vitiates the election, such
agent might be saddled with the costs, or otherwise mulcted,
in lieu of his employer. But if Committees made it their bu-
siness to gain all the information in their power, and if on
their report the law officers were in all cases to prosecute every
party charged with corrupt practices, is it not certain that
the \Vebsters and Edwardses would be effectually held in
check?

But I will not trespass further on your patience. I con-
conclude by publiclf calling on you, as probably the only man
in England who can, if you will, apply a remedy, to step for-
ward at once and save us from this advancing deluge of cor-
ruption.
A LIVERYMAN OF LONDON.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC 'JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Times.)
The account of the year's and quarter's Revenue was pub-
lished last night. Compared with the revenue of the preced-
ing year, the decrease has been 309,2801.: compared with the
corre.ponding quarter of last year, the decrease in the present
quarter is 70,5141. The deficiency in the Customs is
301,0421. on the year-54,1151. on the quarter. The defi-
ciency in the Post-office is 833,000/. for the year-27,0001. for
the quarter. In the branch of Excise the tables represent an
increase in the year of 489,2991., but a decrease on the quarter
of 44,5261. Though the total deficiency may not be very
formidable, yet looking at the increased expenditure which has
been lately incurred, and which is still being incurred, it is
impossible not to feel some apprehension as to the balance of
ways and means With the demands upon them. It is a bad fea-
ture, too, that the decrease in the Customs seems regularly
progressive, and that in the last quarter the Excise has begun
to decline.

(From the Morning Post.)
We publish in another column the quarterly official tables of
the net produce of the revenue of Great Britain in the years
and quarters ending respectively on the sth of April, 1840 and
1841. Those official statements present, we regret to say, a
very gloomy view of the financial situation of the country. The
loss in the year upon the Post-office revenue alone is 834,000/. ;
and in the quarter just ended, as compared with the corre-
sponding quarter of last year, when the fourpenny uniformity
was in operation, the loss under this head is 27,0001. For this
sacrifice the increase of taxes proposed last year by the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, and granted by the House of Commons, has
yielded no adequate compensation. The diminution of the aggre-
gate revenue in the year is above 300,0004, and in the
quarter above 70,0001., although the comparison relates to pe-
riods in which the declining condition of the national finances
had excited such a degree of public anxiety as compelled the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to make an effort for their resto-
ration to something like an equality with the necessary expen-
diture of the Government. The effort of the Finance Minis-
ter was not a skilful one, and the result shows that it is utterly
unsuccessful for the renovation of the public resources ; while
the necessary expenditure of the State, from circumstances with
which the public are familiar, has greatly increased., By what
means the Chancellor of the Exchequer will now attempt to ex-
tricate himself from the difficulties in which the failure of his
scheme of taxation proposed last year has left him involved
it is not very easy to conjecture. The general opinion is that
some temporary makeshift project, aiming at no higher pur-
pose than that of getting over the immdiate difficulty, will
be resorted to. It is natural that such an opinion should pre-
vail, considering the precarious position of the Government.
But even a Government conscious that it only lives by suffer-
ance from day to day will scarcely venture, we should hope, to
propose to the House of Commons so startling a novelty in
British finance as the project of a loan, without offering, at
the same time, the clear and satisfactory development of some
financial system based upon existing facts, and presenting a
guarantee for the payment of the interest in the form of ordi-
nary net revenue.
( From the Advertiser.)
We present to our readers, in this day's paper, an abstract of
the revenue of Great Britain, in the years and quarters ending
April 5, 1840 and 1841, showing their increase and decrease.
As there happens to be a small decrease in the Customs, as
well as in the Excise and in the Post-office, we doubt not that
our Tory Contemporaries will lay hold of these facts as grounds
for assailing the present Administration, and charging it with
incapability, as well as injudicious legislation. The real truth
however, is, that it is much more astonishing that the de-
crease of revenue should, under all circumstances, be so small,
and not that there has not been an increase. In the first
place, every one must be aware that such an experi-
ment as that of a penny post could not have been
carried into effect, either without a large expenditure
of money in a variety of arrangements, or, in the first instance,
a direct and positive loss of revenue. A boon, however, of
such an extensive nature is beyond all price, and our readers
will perceive that the loss ensuing by the experiment is de-
creasing to such an extent as to be scarcely worthy of notice.
It is, in fact, on the quarter, only 27,0001., and who would ex-
change the accommodation, the comfort, and the cheapness of
that diminished tax for twenty times the amount? With re-
p ard to the trifling decrease in the Customs, amounting to
oaly a trifle above 50,000/., we need not remind our readers
that there have been causes of a political nature more than
sufficient to account for it. What with the war in
Syria—what with the threatened war with France—what with
the actual war with the Chinese authorities--and what
with the anticipated rupture with the United States—it is as-
tonishing that our foreign trade should have suffered so little
diminution as it has undergone. The decrease, in fact, is as-
tonishingly small, and furnishes a proof of the good sense
which, under such a combination of alarming circumstances,
Englishmen, and Englishmen only, could be found to display.
With respect to the Excise, there is a decrease of more than
40,000/. ; but this decrease is easily to be accounted for on two
grounds : the first, the imposition of extravagant and injudici-
ous duties upon the sale of spirits ; and the second, the
establishment and hypocritical pretences of Temperance
Societies. Respecting the first of tin se causes there can
be no doubt, for increased taxation invariably carries along
with it decreased consumption; and with regard to the latter,
there can be no question that in endeavouring to reform in-
temperance, they have done immense mischief to the revenue.
This is, however, only the mania of an hour. Father Mathew
may preach abstinence from the good things which Providence
has provided for his creatures, and Mr. O'Connell may sup cold
water instead of the vivifying Champagnes and generous wines
to which he has been accustomed; but wercpeat, that the mania
cannot long prevail, and that ere twelve months have passed over
our heads the charm will have been broken, and the people
have returned to the senses of knowing what nature meant for
them, and of what is best adapted to their constitutions. There
is no other item in the account on which it is necessary for us
to make the slightest obiervation. Considering all the cir-
cumstances to which we have alluded. we cannot regard the
state of the country as otherwise than highly gratifying. When
the affairs of China shall be settled—v hen the excitement in
the United States shall have passed away, and the Eastern
Question subsided into repose ' • there can be no doubt that
the trade of the country will increase to an extraordinary
amount; and that instead of there being a decrease in its re-
venues, there will be a glatifying surplus over the expenditure.•
The Morning Chronicle of this day, alluding to Ur. Lab )u-
-chere's resolutions last night in the Commons, and his modif.
cation of them, altering the differential duties on foreign com-
modities imported into our colonies, remarks as follows :
« The British consumers have a right to expect some advan-
tage in their turn from the relief afforded to the West Indian
cultivators. It is confidently affirmed by intelligent persons,
who have lately visited the West Indies, that the gre.t_causL of
the cheapness of Cuba and Brasil produoe is superior skill.
There is nothing like competition for calling forth ingenuity.
As long as the West Indians have a monopoly price in our
markets, which are scantily supplied, they are without any
powerful motive for the exertion of diligence and ingenuity.
That monopolists should dislike to be disturbed is intelligible
enough, and Mr. Goulburn thinks only of the monopolists, re-
gardless of the severe privations to which the British labour-
ing classes are subjected by the monopolies of sugar and corn.'
The Morning Herald thus recurs to the question of the Poor-
law Continuance Bill :—" We call on every Member of the
House of Commons to recollect by how sacred and how distinct
obligations he is bound to prove that he has not permitted the
intervention of this or any other recess to withdraw his mind
from the most anxious consideration of the measure in all its
bearings ; and will not permit any accumulation of busir e s to
be despatched within a given time, which may grow out of this
interruption of two weeks to the deliberations of the Legisla-
ture—to withdraw him from a conscientious and vigilant care
of the interests and the claims of the pauper, as well as of the
1 rate-payer, under each and all of the enactments of the pend-
ing measure."
The Times observes, in a leading article suggested by the
Poor-law Union system :—" The metropolitan union may de-
pend upon it, that either the London system must be intro-
duced into the country or the country system will
into. London. If they do not insist upon the former alterna-
tive, they must be prepared to submit to the latter : if they
make themselves the Commissioners' accomplices to-day, they
will be their victims to-morrow, and unpitied victims too."

The Brussels Independent states :—" The King
has conferred the cross of the Leopold order upon Mr. Charles
White. The services rendered to Belgium by this distin-
guished writer have well merited this mark of royal satisfaction."
The experunent of an electro-magnetic telegraph
is to be made by the side of the railroad between Berlin and
Potsdam.
PREFERMENT.—The Lord Chancellor has pre-
sented the Rev. Thomas Nlaude, M. A., Curate of St. Paul's,
Covent-garden (late of University College, Oxford), to Vic
Rectory cf Elvington, in the county of York, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Andrew Cheap.