The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-17 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1841.

By the arrival of the Columbia, Captain Jun-
KINS, at Liverpool, at four o'clock yesterday
morning, we have reizeived New York papers to
the Ist inst., and Ilitlifax papers to the 4th inst.
The newsl, brought by this vessel is not of im-
portance equal to the anxiety with which her
arrival has been looked for.

In Congress considerable excitement prevailed
on the subject of Mr. INl‘Leod, and we find the
House of Representatives making provision for
the national defence, talking of appropriating
money for building fortifications and steam-ves-
sels of war. For the latter purpose the sum of
500,000 dollars is to be advanced, and the sum of
1,600,000 dollars is to be appropriated for fortifica-
tions. The defenceless state of New York ex-
cites the apprehension of some of the citizens,
and as that is not the only town exposed to the
horrors and destruction of warfare, we hope that
the useful knowledge of that will, even more than
ditbmacy, serve to keep the peace between the
two nations.

In the journals we see less excitement than in
Congress, and probably till it be generally known
in the United States how seriously the question of
Mr. M'LEOD has been taken up in England,(the
President had not arrived,) it will not cause so
much general interest as it has already caused
here.

The New York Herald mentions the arrival at
Washington of a Government messenger from
Upper. Canada for Mr. Fox, which had led to
some further correspondence •between him and
Mr. FORSYTH. The Herald says—
Mr. Fox has made new and menacing demands on the
American Government, requiring ifs interference and protec-
tion •f Mr. M'Leod from the legal authorities at Lockport.
Ile has gone over the recent riotous events, and indulged in
a strain of acrimony and harshness which have rekindled a
fresh flame in the breast of our Secretary. There is every
reason to believe that the re-organisation of a war army, con-
aisting. of 40,000 men,Canada, is l • in •
militia and regu ar.,
in-
tended eforce the demand of the British Government for
the delivery of Mr. M‘Leod ; nor is there the slightest hope
that the disputed territory in Maine will be given up by Eng-
land.

On the frontier the excitement
continues, and
there the rude passions of
borderers, including
some apprehension, prevailing, have
been taken to secure Lockport Gaol,
The
or convey
if the
its inmate to another prison,people ex-
pected an irruption from Canada. new ad-
m inistrative4ower continues. to be represented as
disposed tO settle the dispute in an amicable m 411"
Der ; and a report prevailed at Washington that
gton that
Messrs. CLAY, CLAYTON, and SERGEANT are to
come to England on a special mission to effect
this object. Whichever of the two nations may
be in the wrong, it will be a terrible disgrace to
the Governments of both if they cannot settle
the difference without first having recourse to
arms.
The CO 1.1 mercial news continues to be unfa-
voura I he stock of the United States Bank
had ill lower. The Legislature of Phila-
del ► t, a Bill before it to suspend the appli-
cation • the penalties to which the banks have
made themilbves liable, and it seemed likely to
pass. Our extracts from the papers appear in
another part of The Sun.

The Columbia made her passage out in 17, and
home in 13 days. Captain JUDKINS reports that
the boat conveying the passengers from New
York to Boston for his ship, saw the steam-ship
President off New York—she was most anxiously
looked in that city.
The ..Tnbia has brought over 35 passengers.

_
In the I use of Lords list night the Tithes
ik
Compositio (Ireland) Bill vas, after a short
discussion, postponed fbr a week,

Mr. STANLEY, the Secretary to the Poor-law
Commissioners fi)r Ireland, was called to the
bar, and etamined touching the contradictory,
or false returns which had been made to the
House of Lords, concerning the appointment of
Mr. BUTLER as returning officer for the Clonmel
Union. After a lengthened investigation, tt e
evidence was ordered to be printed; and Mr.
PHELAN, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner,
to attend at the bar on Monday next. Their
Lordships have engaged in an inquiry as to how,
why, and wherefore appointments under the
New Poor-law are made in Ireland,
pro-
mises to occupy which
adjourned over ,cupy their valualb time for several
evenings. They
to-day.
Tu the Commons a brief disc' us6ion ensued on

the presentation of the Report of the South
Western Railway Bill, which was in the end
ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. HUTT brought forward his motion relative
to the Sound dues, and moved a resolution that
the King of DENMARK was not entitled to levy
them, and that they ought to be revised.
Lord PALMERSTON disputed none of Mr. HUTT'S
statements, but he requested the Hon. Member
to withdraw his motion, because the Government
' had entered into negotiations with the Danish
Government on the subject. That Government
had evinced a candid disposition, but our Go-
vernment could only object to such dues as
were illegally levied. He hoped that the nego-
tiations might be brought to a conclusion in a
quarter of a year.
Sir ROBERT PEEL thought that the delays
which had already ensued made this a case for
the interference of the House. There were
many reasons why the Government of Denmark
should desire to remain on good terms with
England, and he thought the present manifesta-
tion of the opinion of the House would have a
beneficial effect. If the existing negotiations
failed, the Hon. Member could renew his motion,
when it will, no doubt, have a proper effect.
After a few observationsby Mr. LABOUCHERE,
Mr. WHITE, Mr. VILLIERS, &C., the previous
question was put, and Mr. HUTT'S question was
not put.
Mr? EASTHOPE moved to print the petition of
Mr. BAINES with the Votes of the House, for
the purpose of founding a motion on it on
Thursday. From a misunderstanding of the
Hon. Member's intentions, and from a misunder-
standing as to the nature of the petition, the
motion was at first opposed by Lord Howicx
and others, but was ultimately acquiesced in.
Mr. BAINES obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for the better enrolment of burgesses; and the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in
a Bill to facilitate the administration of criminal
justice in the boroughs of Manchester, Birming-
ham, and Bolton.

The ,House adjourned soon after Seven.

We are glad to see that our views of Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE'S colonial policy, and of the paramount
necessity which now prevails to improve the re-
sources, by liberating the trade, of the country,
are shared and powerfully enforced by the Times.
That journal said yesterday
TLe measures introduced by Mr. Labouchere to the House
of Commons on Friday evening for the relief of the com-
merce of the West Indies and the North American colonies,
are a very scanty application of the principles which the Right
Hon. Gentleman laid down, a very tardy advance in that able
policy of Mr. Huskisson, which has now been applauded and
abandoned for MI een years, and a very slender instalment of
those commercial benefits which the people of this country and
of our dependencies demand from the Legislature.
It is to be wished that Mr. Labouchere would endeavour to
defend himself for doing so little, not for doing so much ; or
rather that he would dare to front the honourable opposition
which might be roused by a more extensive application of the
principles he adopts. It was justly remarked in the course
of the debate, that it is a galling spectacle to see the duties of
the colonies lightened, whilst nothing is done to remove the
most onerous and unprofitable restrictions borne by the people
of the mother country.
To the colonists themselves, however, Mr. Labouchere is
unquestionably granting a considerable measure of improve-
ment; and they will learn from the principles which will now
once more, we trust, be recognized by the Imperial Legisla-
ture. that their real interests are to be promoted by a relaxa-
tion of the restricticns bearing upon them, rather than by an
increase of the restrictions imposed for their protection upon
trade in general.

We asked on Monday—" Why, if the colonies
are so worthy of consideration, the mother coun-

try is neglected ?" The Times says " it was justly
remarked that it is a galling spectacle to see the
duties of the colonies lightened, while nothing is
done to remove the most onerous and unprofit-
able restrictions borne by the people of the
mother country." Let us take the first item in
Mr. LABOUCHERE'S list, and see how much
better the Government treats the colonies than

the people of England. The present duty on
flour iniported from the United States into our
West India colonies is ss. per barrel, and -Mr.
LABOUCHERE proposes to reduce that to 2s. per
barrel. Now a barrel of flour may be said to be
worth on the average 5 dollars, or 205., conse-
quently the present duty is 25 per cent. on the
value, and Mr. LABOUCHERE proposes to reduce

it to 25., or to 10 per cent. We should not
grumble if it were wholly abolished.
But now look at the duty levied on wheat in
England. According to the last week's Corn
Averages the price of wheat was Gls. 3d., and the
duty 255. Bd. ; so that the duty here is about
43 per cent. on the price, and the people
here are very nearly twice as badly
treated as the colonists, or have to pay twice as
much duty as they have to pay on their food. At the
same time Mr. LABOUCHERE proposes to remit
three-fifths of the duty now payable in the co-
lonies, and to the people at home he gives no re-
lief whatever. Such a course of proceeding
would be very unfair, provided it were no worse
than we have now represented it ; but there are
several circumstances which give to this differ-
ent treatment an aggravated character.

First, the price of subsistence, or the difficulty
of procuring food, is much greater in our crowded
community than in New York. If we estimate
the difference of price on an average at 20 per
cent. we shall be guilty of no exaggeration. Our
people, then, necessarily labour under a difficulty
of procuring food at least 20 per cent. greater
than the inhabitants of the colonies, who can im-
port it from New York, which aggravates the
unfavourable difference we have pointed out to
that extent.

Secondly, the flour is a manufactured article,
wheat a comparatively raw material. The wheat
contains bran and pollard, which are worth no-
thing fi►r human inocil: out in the wheat they
pay duty, whi a the flour contains them
►ion allu is all food. A miller might
tell us how much this circumstance ag,
gravates the unfavourable difference, but
we have no means of farming an opinion. It
is, however, something very considerable, and
becomes heavy in proportion as the wheat im-
ported into England is thin and poor, and as the
flour imported into the colonies is fine and rich.

Thirdly, the people of England are heavily
taxed to pay a large bounty on the produce of
these colonies. If we say that this tax is nearer
*six than five millions, we shall not overrate it.
The Report of the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce estimates it at upwards of six millions,
which is over and above the 20,0.00,0001. the peo-
ple of England paid the colonists for the conver-
sion of unskilled slaves into skilled and independ-
ent labourers. These circumstances, namely,
the large sum we paid the colonists for emanci-
pation, which is a permanent burden on our
industry, to the extent of 200,0001. a year, the
bounty levied on us by the cliscrimiun ting duties
on colonial produce for their behoof, while they
can give us nothing in return—amounting to
nearer 6,000,0001. than 5,000,000/. a year the
tax being levied here on a raw material and
there on a manufactured article of more value— ,
and the natural difficulty experienced in our
well-peopled and monopolised soil, to obtain the
necessaries of life, aggravate the difference be-
tween the taxation on our food and the tax on
the food of the colonies, at least cent. per cent.
Yet we are not to be relieved, and the colonies
are.
Mr. LADOUCHERE and the Ministers can-
not answer to the country for this partiality.
We need not travel through the other articles,
whole
lo
such as timber and fish, to thatsche
scheme.
samelie
partiality pervades
a latter,n d
turbots,
exceptrbot
s, which
htliicehy
arebe broughtsuc i
h luxuries as te
bs
be
free, cannot
imported, if
caught and cured by foreign fisher-
men. The importation of fish into the colonies was
in like manner prohibited, but they are now, by
Mr. LABOUCUERE'S scheme, to be imported on
the payment of a duty of 23. Gd. or 55. per bar-
rel. Why should not a similar rule be adopted
to procure a supply for the hungry spinners and
weavers of England ? With respect to timber
also, Mr. LABOUCHERE reduces the duties on
that imported into the colonies more than one-
half, while not a farthing is to be taken off the
heavy discriminating duties levied on the people
of England to enrich a few shipowners and a
few employers of lumberers in the North Ame-
rican provinces.

No man can suppose that the people of Eng-
land do not need relief'. For the last three
months the average rate of mortality in
the metropolis has been one-tenth more
than the average of the same months of ithe
two former years, when the Corn-laws were
also in existence, though they had not
then reached their highest murdering powcr.

Every species of industry is here overdone with
candidates for employment, and every class, but
particularly the poorer classes, are dreadfully
hampered and constrained in their means. Dis-
tress is everywhere complained of, and the
whole community seems to move in fetters,
clanking its chains with a horrid noise, impa-
tient under the irksome restraint, and striving in
vain to bound onward.

Why the Ministers should not undertake
to _ lessen, if they dare not attempt wholly
to cure, this great disease, backed as they would
be by the exertions of the people, instead of
merely peddling with these colonial trifles, we
cannot say. Perhaps, as the Times remarks, " they
are afraid to throw themselves on the good
sense of the House and the country." For that
fear there is no ground. They have only to
pronounce the word in their own proper charac-
ter of servants of the Crown—have only to de-
clare to the landed gentlemen that they cannot
answer either for the peace or the prosperity of
the country, and cannot answer for the revenue,
unless the taxes be abolished, which are now
levied, contrary to all principle, on one class for
the benefit of another—they have only to speak
solemnly and firmly to the public, to hush every
breath of opposition. Nobody would take the
government out of their hands, on the condition
of keeping up the present odious system of tim-
ber duties and Corn-laws, and sugar taxes ;
on the contrary, the probability is, if they
do not boldly set about reforming it, that
other men will be carried into power,
wisely and deliberately, to restore, if pos-
sible, by a return to an honest system, the
peace and the prosperity of the empire. "The
only option," says the Times, "which the Go-
vernment is free to use, consists either in ex-
tending the basis of taxation by enlarging and
relieving the class of consumers, or in narrowing
that class and increasing its actual burdens, to
the great injury of all trades, and the general
welfare." Between these alternatives the Minis-
ters have to choose; heretofore they have gene-
rally chosen wisely, and poor as we think their
colonial reforms, they are still of a character
which makes us hope that they will choose
wisely as to those larger reforms which are now
demanded by the commercial world, and will
speedily announce to the public a grand reform
in our system of taxation.

The following passage from the Standard of
last night seems worthy of consideration. Our
Contemporary's anger with his party has made
him utter, though this is very seldom the case,
some serious and important truths. In reference
to the St. Sulpice debate of Monday, the Stan-
dard said—

" Your party did something like what we are doing some
twenty or, it may be, some fifty years ago ; therefore, whatever
truths may have come to light, whatever changes may have
occurred in the interval, you surely cannot resist us now."
On the other side, " What you propose is illegal, unconstitu-
tional, abominable, that is certain ; but as we are infal.ible,
and as you remind me that some of my friends did something
of the kind some twenty or fifty years ago, you must proceed_
better that all go to wreck, than break the spell of our party's
infallibility." And thus it is that this great country is governed,
and has been governed, since (and before) the death of Mr.
Perceval. The blunder or defection of yesterday is exalted
into a precedent to-day, and becomes the parent of a princi-
ple of government for all time to come, of a principle para-
mount to the express commands of the law, or the clearly
declared spirit of the Constitution.

Now this, in the organ of a party which decries
reason, and rests altogether on prescription,
which is nothing if it be not a combination of
precedents, is a remarkable passage. " The
blunder or defection of yesterday, is exalted into
the precedent of to-day ;" but why does the
Journalist who makes the profound remark, con-
fine this practice, which is universal, to the period
" since the death of Mr. PERCEVAL." We deny
that there is any good grounds for the limita-
tion, and we contend that the statement holds
good before the commencement of Mr. PERCE*
VAL'S career, as well as since his death. Indeed,
it is more forcible as applied to the anterior period
than the posterior period, inasmuch as the igno-
rance was then greater, and men reverence politi-
cal principles in proportion as they are removed
from the time of their adoption. The law itself,
of which the Standard implies the commands
are so reverential, was, and is throughout the
whole mass of its enactments, but a succession
of blunders exalted into precedents. Similar
contests of party to those which we witness and
censure, have always prevailed, though formerly
they were conducted with more heat than now;
and the laws which the Standard worships, were
consequently, in most cases, embodiments of
party passions.
What the Standard calls the principles of the
Constitution;—the Reformation, as begun by
HENRY VIII. from diseased appetite, mortified
vanity, and over-bearing pride—as prosecuted by
EDWARD VI. from dreaming sentimentality,
under the influence of heads cunninger than his
own—and as completed by ELIZABETH, including
the statute of supremacy to protect her Throne
against a foreign force and a papal party ;—the
Church, which was founded on the partial re-
formation, and the change of dynasty which
grew out of the attempts to change the Church,
were all party triumphs, the results of contests
for superiority, not for truth or the public wel-
fare, which deserve no more confidence than the
blunder or defection of yesterday whenever they
interfere with the present welfare of the com-
munity. To those who seek in the permanent
natural laws which regulate society for the rea-
son of any proposed or existing enactment, and
have no more respect for what are called the
principles of the Constitution than for the blun-
ders of Earl BATHURST—except as they may
more conform to these permanent natural laws—
the observations of the Standard will be most
welcome, as showing that the force of truth gains
them powerful allies even amongst the chosen
leaders of their most vehement and bigoted
opponents.

We have received Madrid Papers of the 7th
inst., which being Sunday, there was no Bourse.
The following extract from a letter shows the
little reverence that is entertained for the laws
in some districts of Spain :

XERES LE LA FRONTERA, MARCH 1 . —The following ex-
traordinary fact occurred here three days back. 'I he Alcade
published a bando, in which he stated his intention of doing
his utmost to prevent smuggling. The smugglers assembled
in great numbers and fell upon the crier, whom they beat most
severely, tore down his proclamation, and ordered him home, if
he valued his life. The Alcade called out the militia, both
foot and horse ; this last was insulted And attacked so grossly
that it was obliged to charge the people. In this conflict two
men were killed, one by a lance, and the other by a sabre. The
foot militia sided with the smugglers.
At nine the municipality met, and it was decided that the
bando concerning smuggling should be published. At half-
past ten the members of the municipality, escorted by half a
company of grenadiers, and by a detachment of cavalry, came
out, but no sooner was this. body in the -street than 400'
persons assembled at the door of the municipal hall, voci-
ferating that they would oppose the bando, and that the horse
militia men were assassins who had charged tt e people, &c.
menoo
who
himolmteetelddi
janeyvebreygandirtoectuorhs,ueanthdeoridnefarnwtraysaraltd popu
lace,
The Alcade hastened to the barracks of the cavalry, and
1
restored.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Presse has a long and, so far as regards
England, hostile article on the differences be-
tween England and the United States. As the
Presse is the organ of Count MOLE and the Con-
servative party in the French Chambers, this
article is important as indicating their views.
Though pressed for space, we make room for a
long extract from it

the whole of Europe The Americans are serious in pushing matters to extremi-
ties, because they fully understand that sooner or later almost
d i se mint
principle, for two reasons,.
oeendl.villbe f reed . to take a part in this war,
F whetherfirst ,
ft coveredrhoemflhaognour,
be
etahuesem
sehr merchan-
dise ahna-s
cla.med by Englandin
as the grand
protesting against the right of search
cessity will oblige ,prnd, sego:idly, because imperious re-
ranee, at all events will dispute this
the principle stigmati France to resist the application of
taken the initiative
Aldan decrees. It woulde beby
do
sipnotitshme
to B e rl n
shut and
French commerce from the coast
1,600 i n
elleuadgeueas
haitif America by the declara-
orortlinterests could permit such
ration of an Older in Councnilort
soon
part left to us but ag-
llwetrheeothe,
would be The United
block-
ade Neither our dignity
not that the people of
leration There Would be
the local
gression, and in this we should
be free to remain
maritime Powers, for our cause w
and this is
,that
tnd inherent
States know this. They are well
Europe, especially of France, would
simple spectators of this stupendous struggle,
the reason, independently of
of the American character,
and decision in America, whichthere is
such daring
. _. • in England, because she is struck with agitate
public opinion
causes
the same
truth The London Stock Exchange has been more seriously
the news than at any period since the
affected byJuly Treaty
whilst the French Funds remain stationary instead of falling- '
as they did some months since. For
twenty per cent., all
these reasons, our firm belief is, that England, as in the affair
he Vixen, will yield. In this
of the capture of t dispute
with Russia she had as much ground to demand repa-
ration as in the It'Leod affair. The British press in
vain n:enaced Russia with war. She never yielded, but
England did, and the Czar cajoled Lord Durham, who in
turn was prodigal of flattery for the Emperor. Mew wiu

be hanged, and the British Government will not wage war
against the United States, because England is ',net certain of
gaining anything by a conflict. She will bide 'tier time, for
she never forgets nor forgives an injury, and soccer or later
she will be revenged, but she will be in no hurry t.\-z. reprisals.
She is selfish and not warlike. She has no love of war. She
is inspire& only with interested considerations. She is prodigal
of blood and treasure, and will make war for a quarter of a
century provided she can gain ultimately. 'I his is the
secret of her still increasing strength. Our fault is to
give way to blind passion. We wish to decide everything by
the enthusiasm of the moment. It is a brilliant and chivalric
fault, but it is a defect. Let us leave to the English their per-
fidious habits, which render their policy so often odious ; but
let us endeavour to borrow from them the calm and persever-
ing character of their combinations, since they have afforded
them so many advantages over us up to this moment."
Upon this extract we will not waste a word of
comment. That the writer and his party do not
love us with the fervor of passion which distin-
guished the friendship of DAVID and JONATHAN,
may, after all, be no great misfortune. But we
never allow ourselves to retort the vulgar abuse
of prejudiced ignorance.
Of general news there is an absolute dearth in
the French journals. The Report of the Com-
mittee on the supplemental-3r credits for 1840 is
the subject of an article in the Debats. It ap-
pears from the Report that the contracts made
after the Treaty of July were from 14 to 16 per
cent. higher than those made previous to the
signing of that document.

The Journal des Debats publishes a report dated the Ist
inst., from M. Hesse, the Royal Commisary of Saar-
bruck, which states that a fire had broken out at Hannaveilcr,
in the Prussian territory, which would have consumed the en-
tire village but for the prompt assistance by the inhabitants of
the French frontier, andparticularly the Ist Regiment of Lan-
cers, in garrison at Sarreguimenes.
The prosecution of the National before the Court of As-
sizes, for an attack on the King and for bringing the Govern-
ment into contempt, has beet, again adjourned until next
term, in consequence of the continued illness of M. Dela-
roche, the publisher. The indulgence of this Court is con-
trasted by the papers with the severity of the Chamber of
Peers, which condemned him to a month's imprisonment
and the maximum of the fine. M. Delaroche's agree-
ment with the National was to receive one thousand
francs per month (forty pounds) during any imprison-
ment he might have to endure. This covenant during the
teciet sitting of the Peers became a matter of conversation,
and it was strongly urged to sentence Al. Delaro,he to the
maximum of the impri4nment as well-as that of the fine, be-
'caUse the National would have Mil to pay for three years
36,000 f. to its incarcerated publisher, and the Republican
print would probably be unable to stand the outlay, and a for-
midable enemy in the press would thus have been disposed of.
It was with great &filenlty that the more merciful Judges pre-
vented the application of the utmost pt malty of the law.
The Moniteur of this morning contains in its official part a
Report of the Minister of Mar ne to the King, pr,,posing to
determine that the reward promised to the crew of the Astrolabe
and the Ztlee, if they reacred the 75th degree of south latitude,
should be given to the officers and c-ews of these two vessels,
and to the heirs of those who died during the expedition.
The sum total will amount to 15,000 francs. The King ap-
proved of the proposal.
The fol!owing letter from Blidah is dated Ftb. 24 :
"The ditch intended to enclose the plain, is three quarters
finished, and extends not merely half-way to Mimish, but to that
place itself, which enlarges the circuit by twenty kilometres.
'the whole plain will be emlosed in a fortnight. There will
remain to be dune the works on the mountains, where the
block-houses, are already placed,l.nd we shall be able to circu-
late freely in the finest plain in Algeria, which will be co-
vered with harvests this very year, and will no more be as it
has been—a theatre of carnage and destruction."—Le Consti-
tutionnel, March 14.

The Sentinelle de Toulon says,—
A report is in circulation among persons connected with the
navy that a French squadron, composed of six frigates aria one
74 gun ship, will be formed in the Indian seas, under the com-
mand of Bear-Admiral Leine. The Belle Ponte, commanded
by the Frince de Joinville, will, it is supposed, form part of the
squadron.

A let!er from the Turkish frctntiers of 26th February to the
Augsburg Gazette says, that several refugee's from Candia, who
were in Greece, have left it with arms and proclamations, in
order to favour the insurrection against the Turkish Govern-
ment, which is preparing in Candia. English agents are sup-
posed to favour in secret these projects.--Le Commerce.
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N otwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... —
Spanish. New 5 per Cents. l9,i
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HAMBURG, MARCH s.—Two months, 13 3►%
BREMEN, MARCH 5 —Two months, 615.
PETERSBURG'', MARCH 2.—Two months, SSA pence
1.311'31C, MARCH 3.—Two mo ths, 6, 18%.
CHItISTIANIA FEB. 27 —Three months, 4 52.
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 2 —Seventy-five days. 11. 42.
liwktirt, MARCH 9. —Three months, ti. 1734•
VIENNA, MARCH 4.—Three months. 9. 48„

EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA.—In the
" Correspondence relative to Emigration to Ca-
nada," presented to both Houses of Parliament,
comparative statements are given of the number
of emigrants arrived at Quebec since 1829 up to
1840, both inclusive. The grand total is 293,721,
of whom about 5,090 were ,froua Nova Scotia,
Newf6undland,"llavre, &c., and not less than
178,760 from Ireland, or nearly two-thirds of the
total number of emigrants from the United
Kingdom. The greatest number of emigrants
arrived in 1832, namely, 51,746, of whom 28,204
were Irish. In the previous year the number
was 50,254, and of these not fewer than 34,133
were Irish. The smallest number in any year
was in 1838. only 3,266, on account of the dis-
turbances in Canada then. The number of emi-
grants that had arrived at New York during the
last twelve years was 315,223.
RATE OF PAUPERS IN COUNTIES.—Tn a return
just made to the House of Commons, the counties
are arranged according to their highest rate per
cent. of paupers relieved to the population, and
the agricultural county of Wilts has the honour
of being at the head. of the list, thus surpassing
every other county,m England and Wales in the
number of paupers as compared with the popu-
lation. The proportion in many of the Welsh
counties is also very high i ; n the manufacturing
and northern counties, it is the lowest. The fol-
lowing list denotes the proportions :—Wilts, 14
per cent. on the population. Dorset, Sussex, Me-
rioncth, Radnor, 13 per cent. Bucks, Essex,
Anglesey, Montgomery, 12. Bedford, Oxford,
Hampshire, Suffolk, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint,
11. Cambridge, Devon, Huntingdon, Leicester,
Norfolk, Somerset, 10. Berks, Hereford, Hert-
ford, Kent, Northampton, Westmoreland, Car-
digan, Carmarthen, 9. Gloucester, Lancaster,
Surrey, Warwick, York (B. R. and W. R.),
Brecknock, Pembroke, 8. Chester, Cornwall,
Cumberland, Durham, Middlesex, Northumber-
land, Nottingham, Rutland, York (N. R.), 7. Lin-
coln, Monmouth, Salop, Worcester, Glamorgan,
6. Derby and Stafford, 5.

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