The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

STOP?ING THE SUPPLIES.
(From the Manchester Times.)

A rumour has reached us of the intention of holding a
preliminary meeting in this town, to deliberate on the
grave question of refusing to pay any direct taxes to the
Government, until the Corn-laws be abolished, in imita-
tion of the • course adopted by Earl Fitzwilliam and
others, durinc, the agitation for the Reform Bill. We
think any such course would be illegal, if carried out by
a public meeting, or recommended by any Association.
Individuals may refuse to pay assessed taxes in money
without violating the law, which provides for such cases
by a distraint and sale of the property of defaulters. To
stop the supplies, so far as the assessed taxes go, it would
be only necessary for the Corn-law abolitionists to obey
the law by quietly and peaceably letting its officers take
their course. We question if any auctioneer in Man-
chester, or other towns of Lancashire, would be found
willing to sell goods so distrained, and we are sure there
would be no purchasers.
A respectable Correspondent has furnished us with
the following note on this important subject :—" We have
heard from several quarters repeated intimations that in
this town parties of the highest respectability have re-
solved they will not voluntarily pay any more taxes to
the revenue till the trade in corn is free. We believe the
resolution is not confined to secular persons. How will
it appear if Ministers of religion, whose hearts bleed for
the oppression of their brethren, and who have resolved
to mingle their sympathies with the poor and suffering;
shall be dragged to prison, or their property confiscated,
for the maintenance of an unrighteous system."

HAMBURGH MAIL.
HAMBURGH, SEPT.r 6.—The following is the Supple-
mentarys Convention to the Treaty of Commerce and Na-

vigation of 29th September, 1825, between the Senates
of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and:Ham-
burgh, and her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland, signed at London the 3d of August, 1841. The
ratifications were exchanged at London on the 28th of
August, 1841 :
" Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland on the one part, and the Se-
nates of the free Hanseatic cities of Lubeck, Bremen,
and Hamburgh (each State for itself separate) on the
other part, being desirous of improving and extending
the commercial intercourse between their respective
subjects and citizens, have, with this view, and in confor-
mity with the stipulations of the eighth article of the
Convention of Commerce and Navigation between Great
Britain and the free Hanseatic Republics, signed at
London on the 29th of September, 1825, resolved to
conclude a Convention which shall be considered as
Supplementary to the sbove-mentioned Convention of
1825.

" Her Britannic Majesty and the said free Hanseatic
Republics have therefore named, as their Plenipoten-
tiaries for this purpose; that is to say—
" Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry John
Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland,
a member of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the
Bath, a Member of Parliament, and her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
and the Senates of the free llanseatic cities of Lubeck,
Bremen, and Hamburgh, Edward Banks, Doctor of
Laws, a Member of the Senate, and one of the Syndics
of the free Hanseatic city of Hamburgh, &c. &c.,
who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and true form, have
agreed upon, and concluded, the following articles :
"Art. 1. The Senates of the free Hanseatic cities of
Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, hereby agree, that
British vessels coming from countries not being part of
the dominions of her Britannic Majesty, shall hencefor-
ward, together with their cargoes, be admitted into the
ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh; and such
vessels shall on their admission pay dues not higher nor
other than those which shall be paid, iu similar circum-
stances, by vessels belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or
Hamburgh, and the duties to be paid upon the cargoes of
such British vessels shall not be higher nor other than if
such cargoes had been imported in vessels belonging to
Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh. And in consideration
thereof, her Britannic Majesty agrees that from and
after the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the
present Convention, the vessels of the said free Hanse-
atic ports shall, together with their cargoes, be admitted into
the ports of all her Britannic Majesty's possessions; and
such vessels shall, on their admission, pay dues not
higher nor other than those which shall be paid in simi-
lar circumstances by British vessels ; and the duties to
be paid upon the cargoes of such Hanseatic • vessels
shall not be higher or other than if such cargoes had
been imported in British vessels.
" Art. 2.—ln consideration of the privileges extended
to British trade and navigation by the first article of
the British Convention, her Britannic Majesty further
agrees that all goods, fares wares, and merchandise,
being the produce of the States of the free Hanseatic
cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, or of the
other States of the Germanic Confederation, or of the
Sates comprised in the Germanic Union of Customs, and
which may be imported in any foreign vessels from the
ports of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, or from any
port situated on the Elbe or Weser, into the ports of the
British possessions abroad, including Gibraltar and
Malta, shall also be permitted to be imported from the
said ports of the free cities of Lubeck, Bremen,
and Hamburgh, into the ports of the said British posses-
sions abroad, including Gibraltar and Malta, in vessels
belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, built,
I owned, and navigated, as stipulated in the fifth article
in the Convention of Commerce and Navigation, con-
cluded on the 29th of September, 1825, between Great
Britain, on the one part, and the free Hanseatic cities of
Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, on the other part ;
and such goods, wares, and merchandise, being the pro-
.' duce of the free Hanseatic Republics, or of the other
States of the Germanic Confederation, or or of the States

of the Germanic Union of Customs, and so imported in
Hanseatic vessels into the ports of the said British pos-
sessions abroad, iincluding Gibraltar and Malta, and all
goods, wares, and merchandise, exported in Hanseatic
vessels, built, owned, and navigated, as aforesaid, from
the ports of the British possessions abroad, including
Gibraltar and Malta, to any foreign country whatever,
shall pay no higher or other duties than if the same
were imported or exported in British vessels.
"Art. 3. The present Convention, which shall be con-
sidered as supplementary to the Convention concluded
between Great Britain and the free Hanseatic Republics,
on the 29th of September, 1825, shall be ratified, and the
ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as
possible within the space of six weeks. In witness
whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed
the same and affixed the seals of their arms.
Done at London, on the third day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-
one. (Signed) " PALMERSTON (L.S.)
" BANKS (L.S.)"

ST. PETERSBURGIT, AUG. 31.--The Emperor will set
out in a few days to review the troops in Lithuania and
Poland. It is probable that his Majesty will also visit
Warsaw.

'The health of the Empress Alexandria is better than
it has been for the last three years. This happy circum-
stance is chiefly to be ascribed to the use of medicated
baths.

A Joint-stock Company in England has obtained the
Emperor's permission to make an iron railway from
Moscow to St. Petersburgh, and will begin its operations
perhaps this autumn, but certainly in the spring. Five
years are allowed to complete the whole line, which will
be 33 miles longer than the common road between Mos-
cow and St. Petersburgh, because it is to pass through
to Bybinsk, in the Government of Yaroslaw, on the right
bank of the Volga, because that town carries on the most
extensive corn trade with St. Petersburgh. All the ves-
sels laden with the produce of the South which come up
the Volga to the North must stop here.
ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPT. 4.—The town of Orel was
partly destroyed by fire on the Bth of July. The Ca-
thedral, the Court of Justice, and 70 houses are reduced
to ashes. The coffers and the archives were saved.—
Haniburgh Papers, Sept. 10.
BELGIAN s llNDS—BatissiLs • SEPT. 11.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, per Cant—
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 93
Sper Cent. «
..... 71
101/
Loan of City, 1:32, 4 per Cent. 9O
Socle ty et Commerce, 4Ni per __23%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per ..... .4
Nationa I Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 11.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 4,
five per Cants. bletalliques ........ ..«. .........
Four per Cents. ............ ••••••••••••••••• ............ 97 }4
Three p :r Cents.
Bank sliiirGs
—AUgemeine Zeiturig. Sept. 8
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Sirs. 10.
Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
107%
Rank Shares
Angle. Russian Loan lo,li 108li
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortificate ION
Inscription, Ist Svies lO2 101 N
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) B6l S 6
Dutch Actual Debt, 2s. per Cent to 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bends
149
New ticket
Angle-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75.4 75}0
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... 1(234 10.1,
Simmisli, New 5 per Cents.
16
EXCHANGES
.10.0 SuOT
wt 4
.LON months,D O N 1.3
4.
HAMBURG, s
itpT
PETERSBURGH, Seen 3.—Two months, 3IN pence.
RIGA, SEPT. 2, —Three Months, 39k.
STOCKHOLM. Sem 3.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-11Eaue, Sen. E.

Thirty-seven.

'Elite. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent....».«.« 10i 3( 104 U
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101 h
Litchange on Landon, three months 6 18%
—Prussian Slate Gazette. Sept. 8.

A large ship arrived in the river on Wednesday,
from Miramichi, bearing the extraordinary name of
Peel's One," in memorial of that statesman's cele-
brated majority in the last Parliament.—Liverpool
Chronicle.
"If I were so unlucky," said a military officer,
" as to have a stupid son, I would certainly make him a
parson." A clergyman, who was in company. calmly
replied, " You think differently, sir, from your father."
A full snipe was shot by the Rev. C. G.
Owen, on Blackdown, in the parish of Loddeswell, on
the 2d of September, weighing upwards of half a pound
—very nearly nine ounces.—Devoaport Chronicle.
We were amused the other day at a little boy
(says the John o'Groat Journal). He was. seaTnadujornedthea
step of a stair weeping bitterly, arid had just reeovered
from a rather severe illness, which had left. him very
weak. "What is the matter, Andre, ?"
person of him in passing. My legs wmna gang," was
the reply.
Loan FuRTESCUES RETURN.—His Lord-
ship and his amiable Countess have been obliged to put
back by stress of weather, and the steamer in which they
set sail, with hi_s. Lordship on board, now lies at the
wooden jetty in Kingstown harbour.--Dublin Mail