The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

PRICE OF CORN AND PRICE OF

WAGES.

At the second great Liverpool meeting a working
man of the name of Jones gave the evidence of his own
Fa,l experience as to the pretended rise of wages with
the the of corn :

" A Member of Parliament Came down on purpose
to make a speech to them. He told them the Bill was
passed solely for their good.—(Laughter.) He said it
was passed on purpose to raise their wages. It was in
fal t works where he and his father worked, and they had
IF. 83. per ton for making the salt. He remembered
the first time their wages were raised under the opera-
tion of the Corn-laws ;they ware raised from Is. Bd. to
Is. Gd. per tan.—(Laughter.) The, next time they
were raised from Is. Gd. to Is. 4(1. This rise took
place about 1830. In 1831 corn was 703., and work was
very scarce, and their wages were again raised from
ande
thethe
Is. 4J. to ls. 3d., all under the operation of the Corn-
lia-s.—( Laughter and applause.) This was not the
had ytallowed
himselfd ay
worked twenty hours
(i e e
mana se t
to
forde
worst part of the !ratter ; when they had Is. Bd. a ton,
they had a set of men
workriig
it.efbuttwae ; ftearwmairiclles
per day for a length o' tune, and when he went to et
his four hours' sleep, his wife had to watch for him d'ur-
for one of the
mg that time. Was there anything like slavery in this ?
il
fraerue7ssoef at the
thebepatuetsiefuelt Corntime working
lava, and at last he was
obliged to leave the employ of the man, because of their
starvation. And at this moment there were, wittin a
few miles of this town, hundreds of men who were simi-
larly worked and similarly starved.—(Shame, shame.)"
Let the Chartists profit by the experience of this mem-
ber of their class, but pot sharer in their folk.
.. . ,_ ,

it? Illuits •;?„3sty-1(1

CHRONICLE.—The debate is again adjourned; and we
venture to say that the Tories are by no means so eager for
their majority as they were when the speech of Dr. Lushing-
ton, and the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Committee, led
them to believe that their hypocrisy would be successful. The
Ministers who should dream of taking office on the back of a
majority in favour of monopoly, would, in the presen: temper of
the nation, prove themselves fit for a lunatic asylum. The
budget has gone to the hearts of the people. They are ready
to prove that the Ministry who have to rely on them, may
command their fervent support in return. The people feel
that they are fighting their own battle—that to desert the Mi-
nisters at this crisis would be treason to themselves. We
know not, of course, what decision Ministers may come to
with regard to the part they ought to take at this time. The
feelings of the Tories leave no doubt as to what they think
Ministers aught to do. The Tory barristers and other re-
tainers of the Opposition exclaim, " Surely Ministers will re-
sign." The resignation would delight them. They dread
nothing so much as a dissolution, with the odium of corn,
timber, and sugar monopolies to be encountered. Fas est
ab hoste doceri.

TIMES.—In one point of view the sugar duties debate is
little calculated to raise the character of the British House of
Commons. It is true, indeed, that few persons of any educa-
tion would form their estimate of the mental qualifications of
that assembly from the sayings or doings of such ora.ors as
Messrs. Hawes and Hume. But %hen a person so greatly
lauded as Mr. Macaulay has been a follower in their train, it
may be become a question whether even the general standing
of the body of which these three gentlemen, thus united in one
argument, and that a grossly illogical and fallacious one, form
a part, is not seriously lowered by their joint absurditie:.
We speak strongly, because we have been deeply im-
pressed with the foolishness and crlininality of these
proceedings. A sort of key-note having been struck,
a crowd of partisans, both in and out of Par-
liament, have joined in a general chorus in support of the
monstrous and silly proposition that " two blacks make one
white." To come to particulars. The Whig Administra-
tion, professing to be in all its main features identical with
the. Cabinet of 1833, which framed and passed the Negro
Emancipation Bill, now coolly comes forward with a scheme
of finance, the purport and inevitable result of which mast be
to undo all that was thereby done; and to render the
20,000,000/. of compensation-money given to the West Indian
planters a dead loss to the county ! It follows naturally,that every
honest and sincere opponent of slavery at once arrays hitrself
against this proposition, although the croup of close-fisted
Quakers and noisy Whigs who form the majority in the so-called
Anti-Slavery Society proved yesterday how factious has been
their agitation on the question, and hew completely and how
readily the professed object of their union is sacrificed
whenever a party purpose is to be served. This gross
abandonment of principle, however, on the part of the
small fry of the Society tends only to show forth in more
advar.tageous contrast the conduct of the two leaders
of the genuine Anti. Slavery party. Two firmer Whigs
than ,Sir S. Lushington and Sir T. Fowell Buxton are no-
where to be found ; but their whole lives have been devoted to
the cause of negro emancipation, and they cannot bring them-
selves to abandon, in a moment, all the labours of the past
thirty years, and to aid in re-establishing the very evil which
was, as far as possible, abolished in 1833. Their whole in-
fluence, therefore, is thrown into the adverse scale, and one of
the ablest and most respectable Whigs in the House of Com-
mons has the credit of being denominated by the Downing-
street Journals, the maker, of " very silly speech !"

STANDARD..—Oontrary to all expectation, the de-
bate on Lord Sandon's resolution was; once more, even
for the sixth time, adjourned last night. The Conser-
vatives attended in overwhelming force, and the ad-
journment was effected by, putting forward all the
third and fourth rate men of the Ministerial party,
all, in short, who could manage to articulate a few
sentences, whatever they might be, and finally,, by an
awfully long speech from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, a speech So lOng that, after giving many
columns of an abridged report of it, the reporters are
compelled to apologise for omitting " the peroration" on
the ground that it was inaudible, the Right Honourable
Gentleman, doubtless, having worn out his voice. The
policy of this procrastination is obvious ; the Ministers
are, as a last' chance, trying the effect of the " enormous
lying" to which they owe so much, in getting up
an agitation ;_ but even this last hope is failing them.
Previously to the commencement of the resumed
debate, Mr. W. Gladstone, seeing Lord Howick in his
place, proceeded to remonstrate against the liberties
which that Noble Lord had taken with the name and
character of his (Mr. Gladstone's) father, that gentle 7
man not being a Member of the House, and no intima-
tion of the meditated attack having been given to any of
those who might naturally be expected to render justice
to its object. Mr. Gladstone reminded the Noble Lord
that, eight years ago he, the same Noble Lord, had ut-
tered precisely the same calumnies—that they were then
one and all refuted and retracted by the Noble Lord
himself, and that a pledge was given by him never to bring
forward any similar charges without apprising those who
ought to be able to answer them, a pledge which it was
plain he had forgotten, as he had forgotten what was due
" to the feelings of those against whom his attack was
directed." Mr. Gladstone then triumphantly exposed
the groundlessness of the imputations of which his ab-
sent father had been the object, and pointed to the ab-
surdity of his allusion to the merits of the late Mr. Ma-
caulay, in contrast to the conduct of his son, which
allusion was all praise, being made the pretext for slander
upon an absent man.
GLOBE.—The " plain tale" of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer last night put down effectually all the self-
contrad'etory sophistry of the Opposition. The Right
lion. Gentleman remarked, with much quiet effect, that
"if by any possibility Mr. Huskisson could now look
down upon those who called themselves his pupils,
he would not feel very proud of them !" About as
proud, we venture to suggest, as Mr. Pitt might
have felt could he have heard the "glorious and
immortal memory" of intolerance towards the Roman
Catholics toasted along with his own tolerant memory
by ''soi-disalit Pitt clubs. That Minister, who, by the
testimony of his most confidential colleague, left office
in 1801, because George 111. would not hear of Irish
emancipation, or of " Scotch metaphysics," may be
supposed to have felt not much prouder of his Anti-
Emancipation adorers, than Mr. Huskisson of the
claws who would now trick themselves out in his
politico-economical plumage—Mr. Huskisson, whom
the military chief of the present Opposition forced out
of office for an insubordinate vote in favour of a partial
reform I There is no mistake,—there can be no mis-
take about these pupils of Huskisson ! They have
caught his mantle of liberal economy, as the Pittites
that of Pitt's tolerance ! We recommend them
straightway to institute a Huskisson Club, for the sup-
port of the Duke of Buckingham's doctrines on corn,
and Lord Sandon's on sugar. The principle of Mr. Hus-
kisson, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer justly stated,
was, that " if you wished to improve trade, you must ad-
mit some principle of competition ; and that the worst
possible thing that you could do, and that which would in-
flict the greatest possible injury on commerce, was to bols-
ter and cocker it up in order to prevent any other party from
competing." Mr. Huskisson, it may be said, did not abandon
the principle of protection. Neither does the present Go-
vernment • but with him, as with them, freedom was
the general rule, protection the practical limitation of
that rule, in particular cases. With his pseudo-pupils,
restriction is the rule, relaxation the exception—the for-
mer to be maintained as much, the latter allowed as little
as possible. They accuse Ministers of attacking at once
all the great interests of the country. This means that
Ministers would remove those great interests from the
footing of monopoly, and subject them to that competi-
tion which Mr. Huskisson deemed vital to improvement,
and which the experience of his measures has proved to
have been so, even in partial application.

COURIER.—The Ministerial Press is in happy and
heroic mood by turns. Whilst the Morning Advertiser
loftily counsels its patrons to act the part of " Curtius,"
and cast themselves into the gulf (of dissolution) to
" save" their country, the Morning Chronicle is deriving
sweet solace from small sayings at certain hole and cor-
ner meetings recorded under a heading of the most con-
spicuous dimensions, to swell the apparent numbers and
columns of which the reports of the meetings themselves
are ingeniously published by instalments from day to
day, or, as in the case of Bolton this morning, given in
duplicate. In vain, however, all this paltry trickery in
behalf of a drowning faction which. by trickery has
alone existed so long ; the conscientious Journals
may as soon hope to whip a storm in a teapot into
a tornado, or set fire to an iceberg, as to coax the
people of. England again into a political convulsion,
which may.longer keep their unworthy employers where
they are. Among other sources from which consolation
is affected to be drawn, the Ministerial prints refer to the
meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
held yesterday at Exeter-Hall. After carefully perusing
the reports of proceedings, we can discover no ground
on which to build so convenient a conclusion in their
oWri favour. It is true that a few of the most furious
partisans of the Government were present, and did not
fail to vent, by fits and starts, a portion of their
factious spleen, although reminded by their worthy
Chairman that "the meeting had been convened for no
political object whatever ; but their reception was any-
thing but flattering, and they could only obtain a fur-
ther hearing on condition of forbearance, or by the tole-
ration of a portion of the audience, against whom, when
in turn they wished to be heard ; these very liberal tools
of a Liberal Ministry called in the police to put them
out of Court.

TILE C R tsis.—The following from the Derby-
shire Chronicle is fair specimen of the spirit which animates
the country Liberal Press at the present moment :—" Now or
Never is the Time for Action !—We said that the great thaw
had set in, and the icebergs of Toryism are splitting and rend-
ing in every direction with no very harmonious noise, while
the voice of the country lifted up against the monopolist is,
indeed, as the voice of many waters." The country has nobly
responded to the appeal of the Ministers. East, west, north,
and ,ouch, meetings and petitions are being got up with a una-
nimity and alacrity unparalleled since the days of Reform, and
while Lord John Russell is nightlystaving off the hostile
ru,ll of the Conservatives upon Downing street, day after
day brings cheering notice of help at hand, hastening
to the rescue. From 11th energy everything is to be
hoped for. The aspect of the country on this important occa-
sion will impart new vigour to the champions of the people,
and every successive petition confirms their resolution to dis-
s-ilve and not resign. Let the people remember that it is not
the speeches ncr the votes of the Tories in the House of
Commons that will influence Ministers, but the apathy or as-
sistance of the people. For them it is truly a tremendous
crisis. If the Tories be this time conquered, they disap-
pear
• for ever from the future political history of the country.
fhe Liberals will have a hold of power which nothing can
shake. They will be infinitely stronger than at any mo-
ment subsequent to the Reform Act. Cut away the Corn
monopoly, and the sheet anchor of the Tories is gone."

English. Scotch. , Irish. Total.
----..._
On Jan. 25, 1830.
Life Guards "O9 66 15 790
Horse Guards
Cavalry
Foot Guards 4,388 437 .192 5,017
Infantry
Royal Artillery
Sappers and Miners 651 - 407. 262 1,320
------
44,329 13,800 42,897 101,544
On Jan. 1, 1810.
Life Guards 724 67 19 810
Horse Guards
Cavalry 6,174 781 2,569 $9,654
Foot Guards... ......
Infantry
Royal Artillery
Sappers and Miners 667 329 147 1,143
---
51,559 15,239 41,218 110,918
Country not stated. Country not stated.
*lncluding 349 1 f Including
j-
Including ...... ..... 169 §lncluding ..2,772

Country no
*lncluding
Including .....

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Notting/um Review.)
The warp silk blond hands have made a faint attempt
to raise their wages, but it has failed. This is truly la-
mentable, as that fine body of artizans are great sufferers.
They should strike at the root of their distress—the
baneful restrictions on the importation of _corn. The
making of figured plat nets still continues, and is extend-
ing ; though the Jacquard is as yet very sparingly ap-
applied ; the, workmen, not aware of its amazing powers,
prefer, for the present, the extra bar system. It is to
be regretted that the patentees (if as their advertisement
states, published some weekS since), mean to license that
they do not declare the terms.
We have been 'favOured With tlic.sight of some ex-
quisite patterns Sketehed by - Mr. Webster, drawing-
master of the Free .Grammar School, for the ornament-
ing of glove backs, in the French style of ornament,
that is in coloured flowers ; nothing can be a greater
contrast than these designs with . those which our
cheviners have been so long in the habit of making,
and the adhering to which have in many instsnces
lost them their employment, as the light beauty and
Mowing elegance of the finished drawing pattern upon
comparison would command • a sale, when those orna-
mented by old system would be scarcely given away.
It is but justice to Mr. 'Webster to say, that his de-
signs excel most of the French, we have seen, as they
are so light as to seem a sort of flying bouquet, the artist
having taken Nature as his guide, his teachers being
flowery banks, hedge-rows,. mid wild products of our
native fields. They have been, to the credit of
our hosiery manufacturers, bought up with avidity for
the purpose of being imitated by the cheviners, who,
it is hoped, will exert themselves to the utmost in com-
pleting them ; for this purpose, they must wholly
abandon the wale counting system, and insert their
needle-work in the same manner as though the pattern
was first printed or stamped on the. glove ; this may
appear very difficult at first, but perseverance will soon
enable them to overcome it. The French cheviners
find little or no difficulty, and they ought not to des-
pair of doing what others can accomplish. The greater
part of the London tambourers, though working the most
difficult and complete patterns, have no stamp or guide
but the eye, but practice enables them to do it with ease
and facility. Even at the present time there are consi-
derable quantities done in Derbyshire upon the French
principle, and they must exert themselVes or lose their
employment. The bobbin net trade in some dpartments
is very dull ; many of the hands, we are sorry to say,
only work short time. The traverse warp branch has a
little recovered ; but the pusher branch is nearly ex-
tinct—all their hope is in the Jacquard, which is ex-
tremely expensive to apply. We have been credibly
informed that the Jacquard is well at work at Cambray,
in France, upon a principle for which the inventor has
obtained a patent ; it is- applicable to the circular bolt
machine—several machines are building. but they are
much impeded in not being able to obtain implements
from England ; every attempt to establish the making of
good insides in France has hitherto failed.

THE GHOST OF JUVENAL•STREET.—For
some time past, more especially for the last ten days,
much annoyance has been occasioned to the inhabitants
of Juvenal-street, and the neighbourhood, owing to the
immense Crowds of persons who nightly assemble there
in consequence of a rumour that " some phantom of the
other world" is in the habit of paying his or her (for the
sex is doubtful) nocturnal visits to the house of a re-
spectable 'gentleman residing at No. 2, Juvenal-street.
Several respectabk, inhabitants of the neighbourhood
have assured us that most unusual noises are frequently
heard in the house alluded to, although they smile at the
idea of these noises being occasioned by supernatural
agencies. A lady residing near, a person of education,
and not likely to have her fancy led astray by a belief in
supernatural beings, told us that the nuisance occasioned
by the ringing of bells in the house, without apparently
anything to account for seuting them in motion, became
so great, not only to the inhabitants of the house, but to
the neighbours, that it was deemed necessary to take
them all down, and they remain unhung at the present
time. This unusual occurrence commenced about three
months ago. After the bells were taken down, a greater
nuisance occurred, owing to an minsal and unaccount-
able noise being heard .at intervals in the house, occa-
sioned by the sudden and simultaneous bursting open
and banging to of the doors of the different rooms. No
later than yesterday at noon, so great was the noise
thus occasioned, that it might have been heard a hun
Bred yards off, and the vibration was such as to cause
the house to shake to such a degree as to attract the at-
tention of the police-officers (who have for some time
been appointed to parade before the house), and persons
in the street. These statements we had confirmed by
several of the neighbours, and they may be depended
upon as facts, let what will occasion the effects named.
The police and others have investigated the matter, but
no clue has yet been obtained to account for the unusual
occurrence.—Liverpool Journal.

The survey of the western provinces of India
seems to have been nearly completed, and the definition
of agricultural rights and boundaries, which was in-
cluded in the work, has roved of great benefit in re-
moving a fruitful source of litigation, as well as violence,
and has, in consequence, greatly enhanced the value of
landed property. The extension of this survey to the
Benares district appears to have been a recent enlarge-
nient of the original plan. After the portion of the
Azinghur district, which is beyond Benares, had been
surveyed, dud the revenue had been settled, the collec-
tor proposed to the Government that they should con-
tinue the survey to Pergunnah of Secunderpore, not to
make a new settlement of the revenue, but to obtain a
clear definition of rights, and boundaries. The desired
survey was effected,
.and the benefits that resulted. were
so obvious, that the western provinces. solicited an ex-
tension of the' plan to the whole of 'Benares. Lord
Auckland readily sanctioned the-Scheme, which, after a
few interruptions, arising from the disapproval of parties
at homy, and the loss of some money, has been allowed
to proc6xl, and is expected shortly to be completed.
The gallant Commodore, Sir Charles Napier,
K.C.8., has kindly promised to preside at the twenty. eighth
anniversary dinner of that truly deserving institution, the
City of London School of Instruction and Industry, which
takes place on the Ist of June next—a day glorious in the an-
nals of this coantry.

LAW. .
TO THE EDITOR-017'TM; SU. '••;:•7\
SIR, I address you because Vow. Paper IS mi •
in News-rooms here, and other .plarea where
yelled, and is calculated to give more light than •sk
others which appear like a star in compaffsoti •
great orb of night. I have concluded, from the result •
of the Nottingham election, that surely we must' have
arrived at the summit of ignorance on the one hand, amd
deception on the other. • When the Poor-law is con-
trasted with the Corn-law, the first does not affect above
one in an hundred, while the other affects ninety-nine
out of.e9ry hundred. Even admitting the Poor-law
was bad, which I deny-though not perfect, I am sur,s- it
is superior to the old law—indeed, in large toN'ms, the
new law is very like the old law to them, so inticr,, so,
that there required no alteration, where is the corn;a-
rison of the two questions ; and the model of the new
law was found in Nottinghamshire under the ohl system.
The aged, infirm, and deserving poor will find the supe-
riority of the new law, and idle, drunken, bad characters,
who are the cause of more than one-half of pauperism,
will find the new law too strict for them.

OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW POOR-LAW.
LARGE BASTILES.—EIegant, clean, well-regulated.
buildings ; instead of low, filthy places, which would
not keep out the rain, wind, or snow—all masters, and
fighting continually, in some of the country places.
SEPARATION OF MAN AND have been in a
workhouse belonging to thirty-eight parishes. but there
was not a couple there ; if there had been, they would,
have been separate during the tiny, and together aL
night, unless young people ; indeed it seldom happens
a man and his wife to be paupers together.
TOO MUCH EXPENSE WITH OFFICERS. --I believe they
save the towns more by preventing imposters drawing
from the fund, and especially law expenses about the
right settlement of paupers, which is not so much dis-
puted, than is paid to all the officers put together ; and
.;
the Guardians are respectable, cost nothing, and meet
in the morning in their sober senses, which, under the
old law, was far from being the case, the business
being done. at public-houses in the country.

OBJECTIONS TO REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
IT WILL LOWER WAGES.—If so, increase the price ;
but when corn is low, wages are high ; and when high,
wages are driven lower.
IT WILL RUIN THE FARMERS.—DOeS the farmer eat
bread ? If rents ere lowered as they have been raised,.
it miiSt, benefit the whole community except the land-
owner ; in manufiicturing districts some farms are fiwor
times the rent they were forty years ago. In country
places we use three kinds of corn, viz oatmeal, tour;
and malt. If a Moderate fatnily, the corn avin cost ss.
per week, 2s. of which may be used for clothing if the
law is repealed, if not our population must continue in
rags, and destitute of the common comforts of life, like
many of the Welsh and Irish. Indeed, some of the
Whigs here say, " if the Corn-law cannot be repealed
without universal suffrage, which may be universal con-
fusion, we had better have it than universal starvation."
Our population is increasing 1,000 per day ; our best
land is covering with buildings and railways ; two-thirds
of our population in some districts are not so well fed as
in the workhouse ; our cottages are deserted, and hus-
bands seekin,r shelter in a foreign land, mid leaving their
wife or children to the parish. One of our best cus-
tomers is in debt to us and cannot give us money ; but
can give us corn, which we want far worse. Indeed, in
America, Has. of best flour may be had for one shilling,
and the same would cost us two shillings ; the carriage
(which is a sufficient protection to our farmer) to Liver-
pool of a barrel is 2s. 6d., though: it weighs 1961b5.
Butter and butchers' meat will be more within the
reach of the poor man, for they. are double the price
they were in the memory of some who are now living.
Leaving you to make use of what you please, and when.
you please, of the above, I am, &C.
YOUR CONSTANT READER.
Huddersfield, May 11, 1841.
P.S. I believe we had one of the most unanimous and
best meetings on the Corn-laws in this town, a short time
ago, that ever there was in this large county.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.) .

LosnoN, MAY 15.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze
. o n E. to S.E., fine clear weather,
'DEAL, MAY 14.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived the
Sumatra, from Ceylon ; Malcolm. Sims, Singapore. Arrived
from the river and sailed the Forth, for Sydney ; Jasmanta,
Hobart Town; Five Sisters, Quebec ; Deva, Port Phillip.
DOWNS.—Arrived the Alexander, from Calcutta; Penyard,
Part, Mauritius.
SHEERNESS, MAY 14.—Arrived her Majesty's slip Volage,
from Portsmouth.

STANGATE CREEK, MAT 14.—Arrival the Sharon, Fox,
from Alexandria. _ _ .

HASTINGS, MAr 14.,—Arrived off, the William Nicholls,
Elder; from Manila for Hamburg, President, front La Guayra
for Bremen.
EASTBOURNE, MAY 14.—Arrived off, the Eleanor Russell.
Worth, from the Mauritius.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind S. S. E. —Arriced off, the
Ada, Simpson, from Jamaica, with loss of boats, bulwarks, Ste.,
haring experienced very bad weather. Sailed the sarah
Bell, for Sydney, New South Wales; Boadicea (transport),
Rio Janeiro.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 14 —Wind variabl6.—Arrived •the Har-
mony, Jamieson, from Mobile ; Fairfield, Wil-on, New York,
sailed lsth ult. Sailed the Richard Anderson, for New York ;
Queen, Quebec ;. Shannon, Prince Edward's Island. Arrived
off, the Lancashire, from ltobile. The Alpha, bound to New-
port, which was on shore on the North Bank, got off last night.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind N.—Arrived the Lucretia,.
Lovering,for Antwerp. Sailed the Prince Rupert, for New
Zeiland. • •

SALcomBE, MA Y 13.—Arrived off, the Gazelle, Donaldson,
from the Mauritius

FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Royal
William (steamer), from Dublin, for London, and has received
on board 200,000 dollars.
DUBLIN, MAY 12.—Arrived the Acrel, Hansen, from Kid.
Sailed the Prince Albert, for St. John's, Newfoundland.
Coal:, MAY 12.--. arrived the William 3letealie, from
London. for Sydney. Sailed the Queen, for Quebec. Ar-
rived off the Seven, France. from Mauritius ; Robert Parker,
Dwight, North Orleans, and sailed for Havre. The Sovereign
(packet) from London to Malta, has been towed round by the
`Victoria (steamer), with mainmast cut. away. The Robert
Parker, arrived off this Port, from North Orleans, saw off
Cape Clear yesterday, a black ball Liverpool packet ship.
The Seven, France, arrived flute from the Mauritius en-
countered a heavy gale the 19th and 20th February, off the
Cape, and lost bulwarks, sprung bowsprit, &c. The Columbia
packet. from Monte Video to Antwerp, reported yesterday, has
come in, and the master reports that ten days since, in lon. 18,
he saw at some distance a large steamer, bound to the eastward,
and which appeared to him to be disabled, as she was going very
slowly, and could hardly keep way with his vessel. As night
came on he lost sight of her, and two days afterwards had a.
heavy gale to the eastward; she was so far from him that he
cannot describe her appearance further than that she was a
large steamer.
SWANSEA, MAY 14. Arrived the Smith, froni Cuba.

BEACIIY HEAD, MAY 13.—Arrived off, the Wanderer,
Smith, from Calcutta.

VESSELS SPOKEN WiTn.-:•The Mary of Jersey, for Mont*
Video, March 23, lat. 2, N., long. 23: Perth, Clyde to the
Cape of Good Hope, 24, lat. 3, long. 23. Gambia, River
Gambia to London, lat. 31, long. 40, by the Columbia packet.
arrived at Cork. Maria, Marseilles to Mauritius, 30th ult.
Lord Ogleby, Morris, Smyrna to Liverpool, 3d ult., off Ma-
laga ; Maria Louisa, America to Penzance, 2d inst., in the
Straits of Gibraltar, by the British Queen, arrived in the
Creek. James and Thomas, Hull to Bombay, 7th ult., lat. 6,
N., long. 21 W. Eltheldred, London to Jamaica, 21st, lat.
27, long. 40. Warrior, Leghorn to London, 24th, lat. 3.3,
long. 41. Nymph, Cadiz to Newfoundland, sth inst., lat. 42.
long. 22, by the Alexander, arrived at Portsmouth. Htbe of
Swansea, 4th inst., lat. 50, long. 9, by the Andrew White, az •
rived at Holy Loch. Clarisse of Nantes, from Martinique.
20th inst., lat. 42, long. 87 ; Welcome of Jersey, 24th, lat.
45, long. 33 ; Streatham Castle, Clyde to New York, 30th,
lat. 52, long. 15, by the Nina, arrived in the Clyde. Nor-
thumbria, Newcastle to Quebec, Ist, lat. 49, long. 17, by the,
Kate, arrived in the Clyde. Endreyht. St. Übes to Baltimore,
out eight days, and supplied with br, ad, &c., 7th ult., lat. 39.
long. 57 ; Tyne, Newcastle to Quebec, 18th ; Caroline,
Aberdeen to ditto, 21st, lat 48, long. 38 ; Harvest Home
Newcastle to ditto, same day ; Powhattan, from Liverpool,.
27th, lat. 57, long. 54, by the Sterling, arrived in the Clyde.
Rintike, ditto, to Newfoundland, 241, lat. 57 ; Massila, Lier-
poel to New York, 15th, lat. 35, long. 45, by the Halyards,
arrived in the Downs. William Nichol, Manilla to Ham-
burgh, 4th, lat. 41, long. 24, by the Duke of Bedford, arrived
in the Downs. Falcon, Liverpool to Bonny, out thirty-eight
days, lat. 7, N., long. 17 W. ; John Brooks, of Liverpool, for
St. Thomas's, Ilth ult., lat. 25, long. 34 ; Lady Seaton. 27th,
lat. 45, long. 26 ; Urania of London, 9th, lat. 50, long. 6, hy.
the Venilia, arrived in the Downs.

-
THE SPIRIT IN THE WALL.—The Spirit
in the Wall was first heard in March 1554, soon after ihe-
accession of Queen Mary, in a house without Alders-
gate, and was certainly a Protestant spirit ; the tenor of•
its exclamations and prophecies, as Strype acknowledgeS,
being "against the Prince of Spain, and the Qtwn'4,
matching with him, and against auricular cont'es-
sion, the mass, and other Popish worship newly in-.
trodused." In fact, so far as it went, the affair was as
exact a parallel to that of the Maid of Kent as well
Could be. By her dark utterances,
"the people of the
whole city," says Stow, " were wonderfully , molested,
for that all men might hear the voice, but not see her
The sounds were supposed to come froth
nothing less than an angel. It turned out that Croft,
" a wench about the age of eighteen," made them
with a peculiar kind of whistle, which sho had. got
froth one Drakes ; among her other confederates were se-
veral parish clerks ; but the plot was nipped in the !mid,
i
before t had time to attract any higher patronage or coun-
tenance. On Sunday, the 15th of July, she WM brought
guilty of. Strype relates that " she
out at Paul's Cross, and placed upon a scaffold erected for
the purpose on the usual spot, where she stood all the
deeknneeled down, and asked God mercy
time of the sermon, and made open confession of the de-
ceptionw ep t
bitterly, she hada
nb
and. the Queen, and bade all people beware of false teach-
ing; and said that promises were made her that she
should have many good things given her, as though that
hceos, wasliv edp inu
t
had been the cause that induced her to this deceit."
tNoeidtehaetrhsh;e
bhuetrseolif,ienoorr any of heraweaver, accomplices,
m
Golden-land, was a few days after set on the pillory.—
C. Knight's London.

ATTEMPT OF A MOTHER TO DROWN FOUR
CnrumENT.—During last week a woman, living at Sau-
verny, near Gex, on the frontier of Switzerland, who was
then mother of five children, and, as believed, enciente with
a sixth, left One of them with a neighbour, and took the
rest with her to the banks of the river Versoix, and
threw them all in. They were carried down by the
current to a mill, but fortunately, the flood-gates being
shut, they were stopped from being drawn by the full
under the wheel. A young man, with admirable cou-
rage and humanity, plunged in, and brought three of the
victims to land, while some women, who were washing
in the river, succeeded in saving the fourth. Proper
Inc ans were promptly taken, and they were all happily .
restored. Meantime the mother disappeared, "and no
intelligence of her could be learnt. Some apprehension
of further disaster was entertained, as the eldest of
the children, who is only eleven years old, has declared
that she had utteredthtleredatosuboft
_as
entertainedburningthedownof h
houses
of her enemies. Little
insanity.

LONDON :
MONDAY, MAY 17, 1841.

ARRIVAL. OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
By expre;s• from Bristol, we have received
New York Papers of the Ist, brought by the
Great Western, copious extracts from which will
be found in another part of The Sun. Our Cor-
respondent in that city, whose letter is dated Fri-
day night, writes as fbllows This noble vcsst
:arrived at her buoy in King's-road at ten minutes
to eight o'clock. this evening. She has had a
most prosperous voyae.e of 13 days 1 hour, hav-
ing sailed from New York on the evening- of the
Ist inst. She brings 97 passengers. The Great
Western arrived oat on the 23d of April, that
being the anniversary of her arrival at New York
on her first voyage, three years since ; and what
.is more remarkable, she sailed from Bristol on
/1.. e anniversary of her first voyage, the Bth of
Apr ii, showing that she is still as good a boat as
ever she was. The Colombia steamer arrived at
in the 17th, and Ba3ton on the 19th ult.
" V 4 .? are much concerne 1 to find that the
Great Western brings no intelligence of the
President; but Capt. HosKIN is of opinion that
she has been crippled, and subsequently frozen
in the ice. Capt. TiosKtx met with immense
masses of ice on his outward voyage.
" There had been an unimportant deb4te at
Albany (StatE. of:New York) in reference to the
leasc of Mr. M‘Leon, but it ended in. smokt.
_Monetary and commercial affairs appear still to
lie in a dull state. in the Canadas everything
was proceeding satis,factorily for the Govern-
ment, under the re-union of the Provinces."
To the above we add from the Journals, that
the timber monopolists in Canada were getting
up meetings and addresses against the redaction
of the timber duties ; while, on the other hand,
the New York Papers Avere demonstrating that
.the introduction of American wheat here, duty
Tree, would be
foNwed by an immense increase
British manufacture::
of the consumption of
throughout the United States.

EXTRACT FROM THE LOG
WEST OF THE GREAT
OF
-May 1.-8 30, p.m.—Excliangtvl colour: with the American
shit, fanuett, tat 40. W., tong. 70.30., steering to
the westward. \
•A'l4v 12.-9 45, p..m.—Sitoke to the apparently Ametican
ship James 3lorens la,. 50. 4., lung. l, bound ,„
Liverpool.
Afar 13--- p.m.--11fary Anne, from Buenos Ayres, for
41-zpool, lat. 51. 14., :3ng. 11., out 75 days, standing to the
z-

Etli
:Vlay l.—At one, REMAS.
p.m., left the wharf; at three, pilot kit
oTthe Hoek. Fresh breezes arid showers, moderate and tine.
North westerly.
}lay 2.—Light breez-s. and fine, squaly dark weather, at
times lightning:. Variable, south westerly, variable.
May 3.--Increasing to ft,?.sh gales and (Jowly, sea rising
fast. Moderately, high cross seas. S. E: to W.S. W.
May 4.—A,oueratra to light winds, and a heavy westerly
swell. Squally unsettled weather, heavy rain, thunder, an 4
lightning. West, carialve !out!! easterly.
May s.—Squally and cross sea. tbutrier, rghtninge and
rain. Moderate gales and cloudy.
_Moderately. Sou.h caat-
orb/. south westerly.

flay r; —Light -witt2s and westerly swell, at times rain.
,Squally, ram at times. Variable, easterly, south westerly.
May 7.—Fre,b breezes. to mod rate gales, and
sopt2ly, seas rising fast. W. S. W.
mj)-. CS —Moo. rat, gale., soivalls and sle wsr=. Light. vari •
able syn. ant cloudy.. S. to W., variabl•."
May :1 Light variable Winds, inereas.ing to stronz breezes,
and squally, with slicw erg and cross sea. Variable, north
easterly.
,flay 10.--Fresh lsreez s, and cloudy. North easterly, calm.
May 11.—Light bre( zee, in,reasing to strong breezes, and
'wally, north easterly swell. South easterly.
May W.—Strong breezes and squally. Moderate breezes
and cloudy.
My 14.---Moderate b eeze and fine; 6.15, Fasted Cape
Clear. light breezes and 1 ne smooth sea. Easterly.
May 14.—Light, 1 reezts and fine. Smooth seas. Horn.
Got s pilot at Lundy. At 7, came to Rocky Roadi.
This passage way performed in 13 days 1 hour.
I VAST OF PASSENGIsta. E. James, N. James, Mrs. James,
Ansi Jame*. Nlisv E. James, 0. palmy, Wm. Cripps, L.
S'a-ek, C. Pee ea, E. Dasis, Nils.; Barnard, W. Lattimer,
111 rs. Battersby, Mr. Cube, bliss Rae,: W. Sthamer, nurses and
infants, Miss Meyer. .Miss Weysehieder, T. athees and ser-
Nam, W. W. Leyermann, Mr. Wrillor, Charles Walton, Mrs.

The agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws
is going on well, despite the little aid, it has
received from those who are bound, by their
situation, to be the leaders of the people. On
such an occasion we naturally look to our repre-
sentatives for counsel and advice. Mr. O'CoN-
NMLL, however, is the only one we are ac-
quainted with who has shown himself sensible of
the importance of the crisis, and has done his
duty on the occasion. He has addressed more
than one letter to his countrymen, expressing his
opinion of the present state of affairs, and ad-
vising them how to act. Why should not the
Members for England, and particularly the
Members representing the great manufacturing
districts, and more particularly still the Members
representing very remote constituencies, now ad-
dress their countrymen with that weight of au-
thority which belongs to possessing the confi-
dence of such vast and intelligent bodies of men?
Mr. RAISES CURRY, the Member for North-
ampton, is one exception. He has drawn up
a paper for his constituents, the great use of.
which, it is properly said is, that it itamps im-
portant truths with local authority. We want
such conduct to be imitated wisely and judi-
ciously, not blindly imitated on a large scale.
Messrs. M. PHILIPS, GREG, BAINES, and
WARD, for example, may make very useful
saeeches in Parliament, nut a letter from each
to his constituents, embodying, perhaps, some of
ms arguments in favour of the proposed mea-
sures, and suggesting what they should do to
strengthen the hands of the Liberal party in Par-
liament, would be more efficacious than a speech.
We advise them to think of this, and put their
shoulders to the wheel, which wants as yet to be
forced round.

As for the Metropolitan Members, with the
exception of Mr. HAwEs and Mr. G ROTE, who
have each made a good speech, and Mr. B.
Woon, who has attended a public meeting, the
metropolis might as well be without them. Where
are they'! Do they take no interest in measures
which are the commencement of the most im-
portant change that ever was begun in
the policy of the em,pire,
or
onothef the
principlewo
of
firstAfterhaiN‘aivnour
legislated
furperhapsages
human industry and then another, ing one branch of
it is at length
found out and avowed in Parliament, that the
system is unjust, is wicked, is injurious to the
nation and it is proposed to commence a system
in which no taxes shall be laid on for the eacou-
ragement or protection of any one particular
branch of industry, but only for the service of the
State. The principle of the change is to substi-
tute impartial fur partial legislation, just laws for
the fancied expediency of interested and seifish
wen and this last change finds no other advo-
cates or impugners in those gentlemen who are
honoured with the confidence of the electors of
this mighty metropolis, the heart of the empire,
than those we have mentioned.
The measures proposed have a subordinate,
bit a more attractive interest. They go to
cheapen sugar and to cheapen bread, and make
the trade in both steady. They go to
remove restraints from the sources of supply, acid
extend the markets for own productioti,
creasing. our abundance, and increasing the
means of obtaining it. They are of great benefit
to all traders and all consumers, and the princi-
ple on which they are founded, carried out to its
proper conclusion, would be , more fraught with
blessings to mankind than all the Reform Bills
or Constitutions that ever were penned.
Though we should recommend a large- reduc-
tion of the sugar and timber duties, as more be-
neficial to the people, and equally productive to