The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDA Y, SEPTEMBER 27, 1841.

CORN AND PROVISION LAW'S. 1 lent
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Queen may regard as the most civil thing in
GREAT PUBLIC MEETING AT GLASGOW.•, the world.—( Renewed r laeghter and cheering.) Indeed, to
( Abridged from the Glasgow Argos) take our opinion of the Queen's character !rem an accom-
' plished and prudent statesman, who has deservedly earned
Yesterday, at one o'clock, one of the most respectable and
golden opinions from Whigs and Tories, and all men, and
influential meetieg3 ever held in Glasgow took place in the
i whose absence from Parliament, I 'suppose, every one of us
Trades' Hall, on a requisition addressed to the Lord Provost,
deplores—l mean Lord Morpeth—(Great cheering)—to take
" for the purpose of considering the very distressed state of the
his opinion of the Queen's kindly nature—and I rely with the
country, and the alarming prospects of the ensuing winter, and . most entire confidence on the opinion of Lord Morpeth—l be-
of memorialising the Queen, praying her Majesty not to pro-
lieve that, if the people of this country were to rise, constitu -
rogue the two Howes of Parliament until they have entered' tionally and peacefully, but to rise, as I believe it is their
upon a full consideration of the Corn and Provision-laws,
bounden duty to do, from Cornwall to Shetland, and if the
which, in the opinion of the requisitionists, are the main y
:were to speak in such accents on the Corn-laws, as not to leave
cause of the existing sufferings of the people." 'f he hail was it a matter of option even for five weeks, I say not for months,
crowded to the doors by an assembly composed of the most re- with the Legislature to repeal. those laws, I•brlieve the Revel
spectable portion of the electors, and hundreds were compelled heart would bound with' rapture.—( Great cheering.) That
to go away. .
other individual to whom I alluded is his Grace the Duke of
• Among the gentlemen oa the platform, the meeting were Wellington. He has said, or is reported to have said, that there
agreeably surprised to find Mr. Oswald, M.P., who had hut- is no need of meddling with these laws at all—that any poor
erred from London for the express purpose of attending the man in this country, if only sober and industrious, may raise
meeting, on seeing it announced in the newspapers, and the himself to competence, or something to the like effect. Now,
Hon. Gentleman was loudly cheered on making his appear- I deny the statement, I deny the foundation of the statement.
ante. Besides, Mr. Oswald, we observed on the platform, the I say it is too bad in his Grace of IA ellington to utter such a
Rev. Dr. Heugh, the Rev. Mr. Harvey, the Rev. 31r. Graham, heartless taunt against the e men ; but so far as the effect of
Messrs. Alexander Graham, Walter Buchanan, James Lums- the statement is concerned, Ido not regret that his Grace has
den, John Tennant, George Stirling, John Pattison, James given it utterance. There are fields in which the Duke of
Couper, J. P. Reid, James Stirling, James Turner, John Ure, Wellington is not invincible. The battle field is all his own ;
Andrew Bannatyne, William - Gray, James Davidson, C. J. I and let those laurels which have been given Wm be enjoyed as
Tennant, and Robert Sanderson, &c., Sm.
.long as God may spare him on earth, but he is not invincible
Mr. OSWALD, having taken the chair-, real the requisition. in the senate.--( Cheers.) I believe wi,h Mr. Graham that
He said I may simply say that I quite accord w,th the views I not the Corn-laws alone, but the corn and provision laws, cost
entertained by the requisitionists, and highly approve of their the consumers in this country very nearly fifty millions a year.
proposal, that the public should come forward, at this time,
—( Hear.) I believe, alto, from investigations I have mane,and express their opinion.—( Cheers.) I think the Corn-laws in the statement of Mr.
iebden in the House of Commons,
are founded in injustice—that they are unjust even to the and which AM. Graham has given here, that inasmuch as
,
agriculturists themselves—and hurtful, in a very essen- bread is used in nearly NA] proportions by the poor and the
tial manner, to the trade and commerce of the country. rich, and as the bteaa of the poor comes to nearly one half of
Believing that nothing of importance would take pace their earnings, and as that bread is raised 40 per cent. by
in Parliament, I paired off with Lord Kelburne—a these taxes, you put an income tax of 20 per cent. on the poor,
very excellent pair, I should thick, for his Lordship and not a tenth of a per cent. on the rich man.—( Loud
and myself never happen to agree upon any one thing. cheering.) 1 will sit down by putting the question, it it be
—(Laughter.) On Monday morning, having seen in possible to preserve long the peace of this country if these laws
the Glasgow papers an announcement of this meeting, and are permitted to stand?—( Cheers.) There is a period of
having read the reply of the Lord Provost, upon which Ido ignorance which the curse of ignorance must endure; but
not think it right for me to remark, I resolved to come down, ff there is a period of knowledge after evils have been dragged
to show my sense of what I could not help regarding as a slap at f to light; and if you attempt to legislate for the perpetua-
the cause in which you are engaged.—(Great cheering.) tion of those evils, then no man can answer for the result.—
Mr. MuItRAY then read a letter from Dr. Wardlaw, regret- (Cheers.) The question comes, has any man a right to legis-
ting his inability to be present, but concurring entirely in the late for injustice ? Has any man a right to legislate for a ino-
objects for which the meeting was called. nopoly ?—(Loud cheers)—and for a monopoly that grinds to
Mr. A. GRAHAM rose to move the first resolution. It has the earth the faces of the poor?—(Loud cheers ) I wish
been repeatedly shown, he said, latterly with more effect, by everything to be done with tranquillity, and through the than-
' Mr. Hume, of the Treasury, that the extra annual cost of the nels of law—l deprecate anarchy and confusion— I wish peace,
grain and butcher meat of the consumers of this country, be • but I believe that peace can only be stable on the sure founds-
yond what they could have *purchased the same supplies 'for tion of righteousness.—(Great cheering.) A gentleman has
from abroad, amounts annually to forty-four millions ; v bile alluded to the hazards we are in. Ido not choose to dwell on
the accumulation of the enhanced cost on consumption to the that doleful field ; but my belief is, that I know no period to
pi esent time would be equivalent to the amount of the v hole be compared with the present but one, and that is the period of
national debt.--(Cheers.) When these laws were passe(' this the restoration. I trust that no evils such i s followed that re-
country ras the only manufacturer in the world entitled tc th i storation will follow this one ; for I hopeihis restoration is not
name. The produce of other countries, having been all r grt- to be a restoration of 2e or 30 years ; if the people will, it may
cultural, could alone be given in exchange for our ma. Am- certainly not be 31) months._( Cheers.) And shall I not add
tures. Our rejection of this, the only medium of each; vge, that there is a great Ruler, and that I fear his displeasure.
has forced other countries to become manufacturers for t'em- There are such evils as national sins; and if there be one
selves, and, in retaliation, to extend a similar system ou ex- crime that merits the character of a national sin more than an-
elusion against us. Limitations of imports operate as limits- other, it is when injustice is decreed by a law. The Rev.
tions of exports. From 1831 to 18.36 our exports exceeded Doctor sat down amid several rounds of applause.
our imports by 120 millions. We have exported till nothing The resolution was then put to the
meeting, and carries!
remains which we can receive in exchange, and our manufac- unanimously.
tura, necessarily are neatly approaching a dead lock. The The Rev. Mr. HARVEY, of Calton, said, the motion itself
peculiar pressure of this system on the labouring poor is its most is at once a picture and an argument—a picture of misery,
distressing feature. There are 20 millions o' our people depend- dark and appalling ; but so far is it from being exaggerated,
ing upon their daily labour. It has been ascertained that a large that it can impart but a faint conception of the actual condi-
proportion of the weekly wages do not exceed 10s. of which it re- tion of our country to those who have not taken the trouble,
quires one-half to pay for the bread of a family. Estimating perecnally, to investigate the matter for themselves; and it
the bread. tax at 40 per cent., which is below its actual amount, contains an argument which cannot easily be reeisied.—
the weekly tax on the labourer is two shillings, or about 5/. (Cheers.) If the misery of which we complain were confined
yearly. As every man must have bread, this burden is equiva- to the idle, the improvident, and the profligate, we would
lent to an income tax, but one of most unjust and unequal ap- have little cause to complain. Moral means would be the
plication. On an income of 25/., it is a tax of 20 per cent. ; best corrective. But the wretchedness which we deplore has
On one of 100/. 5 per cent. ;on an income of 1,0001. half a per entered the dwellings of the sober, the industrious, and the
cent, ; and on the enormous incomes of the landed aristocracy, pious. They are willing to work, but can find no emplayment.
it amounts to so minute a fraction per cent. that it could only be f hey toil, but in many instances cannot earn enough to keep
stated to excite laughter.—( Cheers.) The injustice of taxing their families from starving.—( Hear, hear.) To a benevolent
a whole community for the aggrandisement of a small section of mind, I cannot conceive a more melancholy spectacle than
its members is so palpable, that the advocates of the to witness inteligent;and industrious men pleading for work,
food-taxes have !lever attempted to defend them in that they may earn, by the sweat of their brow,
the abstract.—( Cheers.) The landowners have been bread for themselves and their families, and yet unable even to
estimated at 30004 only, and on the criteria of that, or obtain this poor request. And yet this is so common in the
any greater number to which they can be exaggerated, or con- midst of us, that it has almost ceased to impress us. Such a
trasted with the whole remaining population, their proper- scene is never witnessed among savage's, and yet it is a daily
tion of the taxes, on consumption, would be obviously very occurrence iu civilised, Christian Britain. ( Hear, hear.)
small. Now it appears, from statistical returns, that in Great Why is this? Because savages have no monopoly laws, and no
Britain the whole agriculturists form only twenty-eight per tax on their food.—(Cheering.) I sheet never forget the im-
cent. of the population, indicating their proportion of taxation pression made on my mind by a deputation of hand-loom
at twelve millions; while, in Great Britain anal Ireland, the agri- weavers to the late Ministerial Conference at Manchester, as
culturi.ts form only thirty-eight per cent. of the population. in- they detailed their sufferings ; thousands of them living fir
dicating their proportion of taxes at fifteen m limns sterling. days without food of any description, and, when obtained, of
Lord Melbourne, in a recent speech, cautioned the Peers the coarsest kind, and in amount quite inadequate to sustain
against subjecting themselves to the suspicion of selfish legis. a healthy existence. They said they were frequently cam-
lation. Suspicion, indeed! It is no suspicion at all, but a pelled to eat raw potatoes fur want of fire to boil them.—
broad, palpable, verified charge, of a long course of legislation (Hear, bear.) And if their condition in respect of
unparalleled in selfishness.—(Cheers.) Lord J. Russell, in feel was such as described, you may easily con-
the House of Commons, had recently adverted to the danger ceive what must be the state of their clothes and
of manufacturing establishments being withdrawn from the habitations? Some of them were actually hunted from
mother country. This, however, was practically not quite so the dwellings of men, and compelled to take up their abodes
easy a matter. He (Mr. Graham), in a late conversation with one in stables and sheds, and even others were without shelter
of the greatest cotton machine-makers in this country, had, of any description.—( Hear, hear.) Were these solitary in-
from mere curiosity, asked how far, taking into account the stances limited to one town or district of our country, charity
extra cost of new machinery, and the cheapness of building might meet the evil, and, if it did not entirely remove it, might
abroad, it might not be practicable, without loss, to take good at least greatly alleviate its extent ; but the evil is nearl
machinery, out of a mill here, and to transport and reconstruct yuniversal, and is nut confined to one class.—( Hear, hear.)
it in a new shell in some other manufacturing country. His The property that used to be most productive is now of least
answer was, that the thing was quite practicable, and could be value. Machinery, which was wont to employ its busy mil-
done without much loss. Well, then, you will all say, here is lions, and to give activity to our towns, is now nearly motion-
at ones a remedy for the manufacturer—why does he not less. Capital is leaving our law-guarded shores, and seeking
transport himself at once, bag and baggage, to Saxony, or profitable investment in more favourable climes. Our opera-
France, or Germany, or America, where his trade is tives are begging for the means of transporting themselves to
more profitable ? 0, yes ! that is all very true ; but, un- distant lands, and have only left to them the alternative of dying
fortunately, it happens that the same landowning legislators of starvation at home, or subjecting themselves to the second pen-
who crush the manufacturer at home, virtually forbid ally in our criminal code. In the meantime many are dying of
him to emigrate abroad. They prohibit him from export- starvation—and others are forced to steal, that they may prolong
ing even the machines of his own mill, and thus, while they set an existence which deepening misery only still more embitters.
tire to his house in front, actually barricade his only door of We are actually experiencing all the horrors of famine in the
escape behind. Mr. Graham next adverted more specialty midst of plenty. This is a state of things which cannot last.
to the proposed postponement of the consideration of this nth.
A crisis has come.—(Cheers.) The cloud has been lon
ject. To that postponement he objected, in the first place, ongcollecting—it has been darkening for years, and it is now lull
account of the urgency of the claim of the manufacturers, as of gloom. It is so fully charged with all the elements of
well as their operaives, to an immediate decision on the starvation that, if it be permitted to burst, it is impossible to
causes and cure of the evils under which they labour. Masses of
anticipate the consequences. If it is to be i dispelled, prompt
the unemployed were on the brink of starvation, and threatened and active measures must be taken. There
is no time for
some outbreak during the approaching winter. For a description trifling. The air of commerce is stagnant, unwholesome, and
of the prevailing distress, he referred to the petition to the House regnant with ruin. Let the breeze of free trade but once
of Commons of the six hundred and fifty ministers of religion agitate it, and its gluten will dispel, and the bright runshine of
assembled at the Conference in Manchester. These Reverend prosperity irradiate the land.—( Cheers.) It is well that the
Gentlemen had been sent by their congregations at an expense suffering is not limited to operatives alone. Ido not say this
of three thousand pounds, and were backed by the prayers and from a wish to see the rich made poor, but from the fact that,
wishes of fifteen hundred congregations, whose ministers had as the operatives are not represented in Parliament, their voice
addressed the Conference by letter.—(Cheers.) Their peti- is little regarded, and, from the selfishness of our nature, when
.ion, therefore, may be consicered the united voice of upwards we are wed ourselves, we are apt to overlook the sufferings of
of two thousand Christian congregations, with their pastors at others. But fellowship in suffering produces common spa-
their head, denouncing the taxes on food as unjust and cruel, pathy.—( Cheers.) And now, though most unhappily in one
and as calculated to•call down the vengeance of Him who is
sense, yet most fortunately in another, the suffering is so ga-
the avenger of the poor and the oppressed.—(Cheers. s. Mr. 1 neral, that we may hope from th • combined exertions of mil-
Graiaam also objected to the postponement of this question, not lions, speedy redress.—(Cheers. ) Let Britons once be
only on account of the matured state in which it stood, after so aroused, and, wealthy and powerful though the spoilers be,
many years of discussion, growing in heat and agitation, and in
;they shall, however reluctantly, be forced to let go their prey. which discussions Sir Robert Peel himself had been a party
(Cheering.) Let the people have work, and good wages, and
since their very commencement—he also objected to delay on : plenty of cheap fond, and it will be a comparatively easy matter
account of the peculiar position of the present Cabinet with to elevate their moral condition ; subject them to misery and relation to this subject, and to the circumstances under which
they obtained office.—(Cheers.) It was on account of this want, and their hearts become hai rimed, •
caileus, and indiffe-
very question that the former Parliament had been dis-olved, rent. To offer them the breast of life, while you leave them to
and a new one called on an especial appeal to the country, starve, is not only to mock them, but to insult the Anhor of
It was on account of this very question that the former Minis- Christianity. While the temporal circumstances of the people
are desperate, you must, in spite of all exertions to the con-
try resigned, and the present Cabinet obtained their pl-ices.
The immediate and urgent consideration of this very question'teary, expect to see them sinking in the scale of ignorance, vice;
was also the bunter. of her Majesty's Speech on the opening irreheion, and crime. They have not the means of educat-
ing their children, they have no clothing to attend church, and
of Parliament.—( Hear, hear.) The present Parliament andto
the present Cabiret had been called into existence for the i
they have no heart
be brought to shear listen to messages of mercy that may
own fir esides. Something, then,
very purpose of legislating in one form or other upon this
must be done, and that speedily, to save our country from ruin.
question ; for that Cabinet to hang it up for other five months
_(Cheering.) We must tell the 31inister we cannot starve
were a violation of the implied condition of their existence.
while he is meditating in luxuriance, and that, if he cannot
Lastly, he objected to the proposed delay, because there was no ! hope that it would terminate in the adoption, by the Cabinet, ;Prescribe in the present alarming exigency for his starving pa-
tent, we must have a physician of more skill and promptitude,
of any more liberal views on the subject. The Duke of i who will act while there is yet life and hope.
Richmond had recently declared in the House of Peers, that,
Mr. COLQUHOUN, a Chartist, rose and addressed the meet-
should the present Cabinet attempt to repeal or modify the
ing at some length, but he was compelled to sit dawn without Corn and Provision-Laws, his party would turn them out as they
moving any amendment, as he had, on risiog, given the meet-
had done their predecessors. " Let them only, said his Grace,
i •' say to believe was his intention. say we will have an eight shilling duty, and a free trade in :
other respects in corn, arid we who have put them now in
! Mr. J. Parrison rose for the purpose of moving that a me-
will again turn them out of office." There exists a most for-
mortal, the echo of the resolutions just passed, should be pre-
rented to the Queen. The memorial being read, he moved
midable league to perpetuate the present plundering system of .
that Lord Viscount Melbourne be requested to present it to
monopoly. It is doubtless as the organ of this league that, his
Grace of Richmond here boast her Majesty. of their absolute power to pull i
down and set up whatever Ministry they please—boasts that Mr. J. TENNANT seconded the memorial, which was car-
no man shall dare to be the Minister of the Queen, who shall
tied unanimously.
not also be their Minister, that that man, whoever he may be, After thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated.
shall hold office only to be theif tool. their puppet, their slave.
Good God 1. have we all come to this? Have we been fancying
we were freemen, while in reality we were slaves? Have the
people of this country been dreaming that the great authors of
the Reform Act had brought them within view of the pro-
mised land, only now to awake, and find ourselves under a more
Egyptian bondage than before—the bondage of a greedy, grasp-
ing and unjust oligarchy of monopolists.—(( hears. ) Mr.
Graham then sat down amid repeated rounds of applause, after

SHIPPING INTELLIGENUE.
(LipYD's_)

Lownow, SEPT. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.W.
OFF DOVER, SEPT. 24.—Midas, Heir, Bombay; William
Loveal, Davidson, South Seas and Sydney ; Forrager, Thomp-
son, Callao.

DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Elizabeth, from Jamaica;
Benconlen, Calcutta; Forager, Mauritius; Planet, Barelay,
Jamaica; Andrew Scott, westward. Arrive:i from the filter,
Intrepid. for Calcutta ; Chieftain, ditto.

having moved the first resolution
Mr. Wm. Caoss seconded the resolution. Many a Lord,
he said, besides the Lord Provost of Glaigow, who must now

be regarded a judge in matters of good taste, doubts, I dare
say, the good taste of our proceedings here this day.—(Cheers,
and laughter.) The 'pheasant shooting has begun, and it is.
perhaps, unreasonable in us to expect that the aristocracy will
postpone their autumnal battues, for the sake of considering
the distressed state of the millions of manufacturers in this

BRISTdI., SEPT. 24.—Sailed the Emerald, for the Cape of
Good Hope..
LIVERPOOL, SErr. 24.—Arrived the Assam, AP Alpine, from
Calcutta ; Baibauian, Jamaica ; Clydesdale, St. Ander°.
Sailed the Thomas Fielden. Valparaiso; Plymouth, Havannah ;
Evina, Porto Rico ; Lady Seaton, Charleston ; Palmyra,
Smyrna. Arrived off, the Crown, from Bombay ; Elizabeth,
Buckham, Valparaiso; Elizabeth Durham, River Plata; Avon,
Honduras.

1 country.—(Cheers.) Earnest and suffering men do not always,
perhaps, regulate their conduct by the strict standard of good
taste; starvation is unfavourable to the scrupulous observance
of etiquette; but it surely becomes us, living in the midst of
distress, being part and parcel of the sufferers, humbly to sup-
plicate the advisers of her Majesty, to take our case into con-
sideration, and, if possible, to bring forward remedies for
the distress now existing in the country. In Fiance, in 1721,
the people cried fur bread. Bread they did not obtain ; but
they did obtain the total overthrow of that aristocracy
which had so long trampled on their rights and liberties.—
(Cheers.)
.For centuries of misrule and oppression they per-
haps took an unjustifiable revenge ; but revolutions, as a dis-
tinguished statesman observed, are not composed of milk and
water.—.(Cheers.) Our aristocracy should take warning in
time. The Sybilline leaves—the Bs. duty—have been presented
and rejected with scorn. They may never be offered again.
I should deprecate as much as any man to see the same opera-
tions gone into, in regard to the Corn-laws, that were rendered
necessary in regard to the Reform Bill; but the same feeling,
and it is well to speak plaioly, the same feeling that caused the
evacuation of the benches of one entire side of the House of
Lords in 1832, perhaps may be again aroused, and then, and
not till then, will the atrocious Corn-laws be totally wiped
from the statute book.—(Great cheering.)
The Rev. Dr. HEUGH was received with loud cheers. Ex-
cept on one other occasion, and that a similar one, 1 have
never felt it to be my duty to mingle in meetings that can
strictly be called political. I have not been restramed, how-
ever, from fear, or from any profound respect for the opinion
of those who condemn unqualifiedly all clergymen who think
proper to deliver an opinion on politics.—(Cheers.) It will
not, gratify our opponents when I tell them that, in
coo, rnthina perhaps,
combination what I deem the intelligence and worth
of the land, we beat them on the former questions ; so is it our
confidence that, as sure as morning follows night, we shall beat
them on this question too, and get the Corn-laws repealed.—
' ( Tremendous cheering.) There are two indviduals who have
propounded opinions on this question, to whose opinions, and
t a whom I would allude with
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have
Candleriggs.—(floars of laughter, and loud cheering.) And,
gentlemen, it may happen that what the authority I last_
referred to may denounce u altogether uncourteous, our excel

Orr DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 23. Alexander Barclay, Norton,
from New Zealand; Dauntless, Shields for Odessa. Put back
the Waterlily, for Cadiz.
PLYMOUTH, Sam 24.—Wind S. S. W.— Arrived the Copy.
from London for Sierra Leone. Sailed the Tulloch Castle, for
London.

FALMOUTH, SErr. 23.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W., strong
breezes.— Arrived the Simon, Glover, from Port-au-Prince
for Hamburgh.

OFF KA;TBOURNE, SETT. 24.—Mary Ridgway, Hawks,
from Sydney, New South Wales.
YARMOUTH, SErr. 23.—The Eliza and Ann. and the Two
Brothers, both from Newcastle, have been in contact', land re-
ceived damage ; Jean Felix, Sunderland for Nantes, leaky,
having been on the Cross Sands.
OFF ROMNEY, SEPT. 24.—D Tgerbanks, Smith, Ba►avia.
ST. IvEs, SErT. 23.—The Margaret, from Liverpool to
Mes,ina, has put in here with los, of stanchions, jibboom, and
galley stove.
KIKKWA LD, SEPT. IB.—The Mangarton, Hughes. from
St. Petersburgh, struck on the Island of Copenshay yesterday,
and immediately sunk—crew saved.
Tit uaso, SEPT. 21.—The Wi'liam, from Stockholm to
Brazil, is on shore in the Pentland Frith, and likely to become
a wreck.

RWICEf, SErr. 24.—The Prince of Wales, f►om Shields
to London, has been assisted into this port with six feet water
in her hold, and part of cargo thrown overboard. The Active,
from Dantzic to London, was assisted in here this morning
leaky, and with rudder broken, and 300 quarters wheat thrown
overboard, having been on the Gunfleet Sand.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. —Cuba, Rotterdam to Monte Vi-
deo, June 22, lat. 30 S. lon. 42 W. ; Adolph, Hamburgh to
Valparaiso, 13th ult., lat. 14, lon. 24; Pink, Valparaiso to
London, 6th inst., lat. 36, ion. 40; Alevayne ( Hanoverian
brig); Solena (Dutch ship), 19th, by the Mary Ridgway,
arrived off Eastbourne. Corrunna., Liverpool to Calcutta, lat.
31 S., lon. 31 W. ; Brothers, London, lat. 27, lon. 29 W. ;
Caledonia, bound to Rio, lat. 20 N., lon. 27 W.. by the Fo-
rager, arrived off Dover. Murray. Jamaica to Liverpool, 19th
ult., lat, 34, lon. 65, by the Barbadian, arrived at Liverpool.
Hardy, St. Petersburgh to Boston, 2d inst., lat 45, long. 42 ;
Campbell, Bristol to Newfoundland, 9th, lat. 49, lon. 20, by
the Glengarry, arrived at Liverpool. Sultan, of Hull, for
Port Phillip, 20th, lat. 47, lon. 12, by the Doggerbank, ar-
off Romney. Charles Brooke, 9th ult., let. 12 S., lon.
22 ; Isabella Helena, from Gambia, 7th inst., lat. 37, lon. 33 ;
Alexander Forbes (convict ship), by the Alexander Barclay,
arrived off Dartmouth. Cygne, bound to Bourbon, June 'a3,
off Algca. Bay, by the French ship Deboraha. Progress, of
Dundee, for Rio Janeiro, 17th, lat. 49, long. 9, by the Marys,
arrived in the River. Imogene, of Newcastle, tor Calcutta,
out 12 days, lat 49, lon. 14, by the John Marshall, arrived off
the Wight.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(groin liwttp.,h;t•r• le leg ra p
PORTSMOUTH' SEPT. 25.—The Hinglove 16, Commander
the Hon. Keith Stewart, arrived this afternoon from the
West Indies.
The Hazard, 20, Capt. the Hon. C. Elliot, arrived on
Sunday from the Mediterranean, and was paid off, all standing
in this harbour, to-day. She will be re-commissioned.
The Ardent steam-frigate, Commander John Russell,
arrived yesterday from the river, she will proceed early in the
week for the Brazils and Cape Station, taking despatches for
Admiral Sir E. King and Admiral Thomas.
The Scylla sloop of war, and Bramble cutter,`to act as a
tender, have been commissioned at Plymouth, by Captain
Francis Blackwood, for the purpose of sn-ve)ing Torres
Straits, a place of frequent passage, but very imperfectly
known. Capt. Blaekwood's attention is also to be directed to
the whole sGuth lace of New Guinea, and the many islands
which lie between that Island and New South Wales, and
which now give shelter to hordes of Malays, but which, with
our increased commercial connections, mu:t be cleared of
these pirates, and rendered useful. They present many tine
harbr.urs, and are capable t f yielding an infinite variety of
valuable products.
Captain Vidal, in the Styx, is intended to survey and lay
down on the charts the exact position of the rock which has
been seen off 'Terceira, said to be thrown up by an earthquake
very recently.
'l'lle Viper, 6, Lieutenant Carter, fitting out in this harbour,
will be ready to proceed to Rio tie Janeiro about the 25th of
October.
The Lynx, 3, Lieutenant Biirslem, is rapidly fitting at
Chatham, and will shortly call at Spithead on her way to the
coast of Africa.
The Savage, 10, arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst. from
Lisbon, and proceeded to Malta the same day.
The Curlew arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from Nlazam-
bique, on the 2d of July. The Andromache sailed from the
Cape of Gope on the 7th of July, for the Mauritius.
The Ac: aeon sailed from Lima for Valparaiso on the 16th
of May.
The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord John Hay, has been ordered
this week to bear 500 men as her complement. This ship
will go to sea with the masts, spars, sails and rigging of a
small class 74 gun ship.
The Firebrand steam yacht left the River yesterday for
Ostend, to bring over her Royal Hignness the Duchess of Kent.
The Pelorus, 16, which vessel was stranded in a gale of
wind, in Port Essington, near Swan River, has been, by the
exertions of tier officers and crew, again made effective for
sea, and arrived at Siugapore, on the 23d April, in command
of Capt. Curran
The Dolohin, Lieut. Littlehales, on the coast of Africa, a
few weeks since, seeing a suspicious vessel, sent two boats
and 15 men, under the charge of Mr. A. C. Murray, in chase,
of her. After some brisk firing, and when some miles from
the Dolphin, they captured her, when she proved to be a pirate,
and the vessel a beautiful brigantine. 51'. M. and soother
man being first on ner deck, were both wounded.
The Abercrombie Robinson, transport, was towed through
the Downs, and went down Channel, on Saturday last, with
800 of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, for Bermuda,
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Frede-
rick J. F. Hen-low, R.N., to be a Naval Knight of Windsor,
vice Lieut. W. Jones, R.N.-,.decea=sed.
Messrs. Lang, Fincham, and Atkins, are now examining
minutely the state of the men-of-war in the Medway; which
service performed, they will come t.) this port in the Comet
steamer, for a like examination of the ships here.
In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Illustrious, fWar-
spite, Madagascar, Belvidera, Royal George, Driver and Ar-
dent steam frigates, North Star, Rapid, Pantaloon, Viper,
Apollo troop-ship, Diligence naval transpert, Carron and Echo
steamers.
At Spithead—Ringdove,
APPOlNTMENTS.—Commander—Erasmus Ommanney, to
the Vesuvius steam frigate.
Lieutenants—A. ti. Ryder, and R. Bullen, to the Bt vi-
dere ; R. M. Fioud, to the Hazard ; P. Lowe, and C'. G.
Rigge, to the Devastation ; Parkhurst, to the Styx:; James
Johnstone and W. Butler, to the Ardent ; W. Wilson to North
Star.

Master—J. G. Mugford, to the Devastation ; Ashton to
the Styx; James Doida,,e, to Ardent.
Pursers—J. Grant, to the Devastation; J. Millingham, to
the Styx; W. Stanv ay, to Ardent.
Surgeons—J. C. Bowman, to the Tweed ; Henry Baker, to
the Ardent ; J. Elliott, to Devastation.
Assistant-Surgeons—T. Wells, to the Ceylon, for service of
Malta Hospital ; Dr. A. Battwell, to the Viper ; L. 11. Saun-
ders, to the North star ; George Butler, to the Driver ; J. H.
Paterson, to the Devastation ; J. Boland, to the Volcano ; Dr.
W. Wood, to the Ardent.
Second-Nlaster—E. M. Fox, tothe Apollo.
Masters—R. W. Alcor k, to the Exceilent ; Henry Trollope
and Davis, to the Ardent; R. Hopkins, andß. L. Reynolds,
to the Warsptte; A. P. Arkwright, to the Pantaloon ; F. L. A.
Selwyn, and H. D. Blankly}}', to the Devastation.
Volutiteers Ist llass—R. Dawkins, to the Harlequin ; G. D.
Murray and E, H. Hatchell, to the North Star.
Clerks--George Munro, from the Victory, to the North
Star ; Penry Pinhorn, Clerk-in-Charge of the Heroine; H. R.
Cole, Clerk-in-Charge of the Skylark ; E. Whitehead, Acting
Clerk to the North Star.

CITY of LONDON REGISTRATION.
On Saturday a decision was made in this Court before
F. Bayley, Esq.. which will have the effect of increasing
the constituency of the City in the liveries to the amount
of 700 or 800. The particulars of the case are as fol-
low :—By the 32d section of the Reform Act
it is provided, that no person who shall have been elected,
made, or admitted a burgess or freeman since the Ist
of March, 1831, otherwise, than by birth or servitude,
shall be entitled to vote in any election, unless that right
be derived from some person who was entitled to vote as
a burgess or freeman previous to the Ist of March 1831,
or through some person who shall become a burgess or
I freeman in respect of servitude. The 33d section of the
Reform Act appears to have a reservation for those who
may purchase into liveries, as it uses the Worth " free-
men and liverytnen," relative to these who may have the
right of voting in cities or boroughs. A Mr. Baggally,
of CanAgre ell and Lincoln's Inn, purchased into the livery
of the Merch'snt Tailors' Company, and claimed to be
placed on the registry last Tuesday, and urged his
claim with much cogency before Mr. Bayley. The
authorities in that Court were all against him up to
this regiatration, but the Learned Barrister, in giv-
ing judgment yesterday, affirmed the right. The
question he had to decide was, whether the first
proviso of the t'2(l section applies to freemen end
liverymen, or was it confined in its operation to persons
entitled to vote as burgesses or freemen only. His de-
cision proceeded on the legal principle, that disfran-
chising clauses must be construed strictly, without re-
ference to the intentions of the framers of a law. In
" Fludyer and Lombe Rep." tempore Lord Hardwicke,
307, cited also by Mr. Elliott, p. 146, Lord Hardwicke,
speaking of the statute 11 Geo. 1., c. 18, which was
made to define who were entitled to vote as householders
within the City of London, he observed, it had bee,.
rightly said that this being a law to take away people's
franchises, should be construed strictly, and that men
were not to be excluded from voting unless they were
excluded by the plain words and pennings of the statute.
A question then arose, was there sufficient doubt reason-
ably entertained of the intention of the Legislature in
reference to the liverymen ? He thought there was ;
and, further, that the proviso did not apply to freemen
and liverymen,. hut may be fairly construed to apply t
persons only who, but for the proviso, would havele. been
entitled to vote. He considered the Legislatut e had
words sufficiently expressive to convey their meaning, it'
they intended to disfranchise all those mho purchased
their livery since March, 1931. He thereiore admitted
the name of Mr. Baggally to the registry.
This decision, in a political light, will cut both ways.
It is difficult to say whether it will enfranchise a greater
number of Tories or Reformers ; but it is the first deci-
sion since the Reform Bill which has registered pur-
chased liverymen.