The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1841.

DISTIttSS AT STOCKPORT.

The extraordinary and unparalleled distress into
which the town of Stockport has been thrown by the
stagnation of trade, has at length aroused the authorities
and the leading public men of the borough to the ne-
cessity of taking some measures in reference to it, and a
public meeting was called last night for that object. The
meeting, which was held at the Court House, was con-
vened by the Mayor, upon a requisition signed by nearly
200 respectable inhabitants, to take into consideration
the growing distress, and to adopt such proceedings a:
may seem expedient. The Court House was crowded
to suffocation. William Andrew, Esq., the Mayor, pre-
sided; and on the bench near him we observed Richard
Cobden, Esq., M.P. for Stockport, many of the leading
gentlemen and tradesmen of the borough, and severa:
ministers of the Gospel.
The MAYOR having read the requisition and the notice
of the meeting,
The Rev. CHARLES BAKER moved the first resolution :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the distress
which now exists in this borough is more severe, and
has been of much longer duration, than ever before
known ; and that every succeeding week adds to the
number of its insolvent manufacturers and tradesmen, and
to the destitution of its operative classes ; and in order
to convince our rulers of this great distress, a committee
be now formed for the purpose of correctly ascertaining
the real condition of the various classes composing the
population of this borough, so that a statistical state-
ment may be prepared of so authentic a character as ts,
afford to the upholders of commercial restrictions and
monopoly no pretext whatever for disputing the extent
of our embarrassments and privations."
They had lately been taught, he said, the value and the
necessity of having facts, and of having them well
authenticated. A handful!, a hatfull, a bushel of facts
could have been produced at this meeting to show
that great distress existed in this town, had be known
the necessity of them, for such was the state of the
working classes that no man need go in search of.
distress ; lie might meet it daily and hourly at his
own door— (Hear, hear)—and more than once had he
been compelled, by his compassion for the objects that
presented themselves at his door, to give away what
would have been a dinner to himself.—(Hear, hear.)
Not long ago a poor woman came to his door with a child
in her arms ; she was the third applicant that morning.
and it was not ten o'clock—(Hear, hear)—he hesitated
for a moment what to do, and the woman observing his
hesitation, burst into a flood of tears, and said, " For
God's sake, Sir, you will not send me away." He asked
her why she thought he ought not to send her away ?
She assigned a reason he should not mention ; but she
said " This is the first day I have asked charity in my
life ; my husband is a dresser ; for years we were house-
keepers, and I hardly ever sent a beggar away from our
door without a crust of bread. We have now been driven
from a house to a cellar, and last night we consumed the
last potatoe in our house." They knew that this
was no :Angular case. He had called at the house
of a friend, a shopkeeper, a few days after this, and he
learned that they had placed two loaves on the counter,
with a view of giving a slice to each beggar, and when
he called there was not a slice left. One woman who
went to that shop said she had just returned from the
pawnshop, where she had taken one of the last articles
she could part with, and for that she had obtained only a
penny: she was at a loss how to spend it when she got
it, for she said there were three children at home
besides her husband who wanted to be fed out of the
money ! She at length expended it in meal as the only
mode of supplying her family with sustenance for the day !
The Rev. Mr. LEROYD seconded the resolution, which
was adopted without opposition.
Mr. H. COPPOCK, the town clerk, moved the second
resolution,

" That this meeting is of opinion that the whole of
our commercial difficulties, and their concomitants—
distress, crime, disease, and premature death—are occa-
sioned by the Corn and provision laws, or other unjust
and pernicious monopolies ; and that there exists no
reasonable ground of hope that relief can be afforded,
or greater calamities averted, but by the abolition of
these monstrous and wicked monopolies."
He would not take up their time by any general
observations, because he had facts to lay before the
meeting which would have much greater weight, and
facts, which, being taken from official and other
sources upon which no doubt could be thrown, were
undeniable. The first document he would read was
one showing the increase of poverty by the quantity
of provisions given away to what were called able-
bodied paupers, or persons who through want of work
had been compelled to apply for parish relief to the
Guardians of the Union, and who were not admitted
into the house. The quantity of provisions given away
to these, in the week ending the sth August last, was
1,590 pounds of bread. By way of contrast, to show the
rapid increase, he would jump over the gradual weekly
increase, and come to the quantity given away now, and
on the 21st of the present month he found that the quan-
tity of bread given away was 4,513 pounds.—(Hear, and
cries of " Shame.") Yes, shame, he said, for those who
caused the necessity for this relief, and not to those that
gave the relief.—(Cheers.) The potatoes given away
had increased at the same rate, and he found that the
quantity given away on the sth August was 350 pounds,
while the increase on the 28th of October was 2,700
pounds. Looking to the total quantity of provisions of
all kinds, given away on the sth of August, he found
it stated at 2,343 lbs., whilst on the 21st of this month
the quantity had increased to 8,061 lbs.—(Hear, hear,
hear.) Having shown that there was not only distress,
but that it was greatly and rapidly increasing, he should
be able soon to show the cause ; and he was glad that
he should be able to do this from official documents, and
not on his own authority merely. He found the increase
of paupers, as shown by the abstract for those townships
included in the borough, for the quarter ending Sept. 25,
receiving out-relief, was—adult males, 368 ; adult fe-
males, 639 ; children, 1,066 ; while the numbers for the
quarter ending June were, respectively, 303, 535, and
765. showing an increase of 65 males, 104 females, 301
children—total 470 : making on an average for the quar-
ter an increase of 36 per week. In reference to the
causes of pauperism, he found that the increase during
the last quarter was chiefly confined to able-bodied
paupers, or men driven to seek relief through want of
employment. For the quarter ending in June, the num-
ber for the four townships included in the borough, the
number was 192 ; in September the number was 361,
being an increase of 169. The increase on the
whole union was 197; thus showing that the distress
from want of employment was chiefly confined to the
borough, the remaining 28 belonging to no less than 13
townships. Mr. Coppock read extracts from the reports
furnished by the medical officers of the union to the
Board of Guardians, one of whom (Mr. Blacicshaw),
whose district contained 30,000 persons, stated that he
could bear testimony to the utter destitution which at
present pervades that district, many families being at
present obliged, from want of employment, to subsist upon
the beneficence of the Board of Guardians alone, which
in some instances does not average more than from
6d. to Is. per head per week, and that within the last
week he had witnessed the death of two individuals,
John Frost and Sarah Parry, whose deaths, after
much inquiry, he had no hesitation in stating had been
accelerated, if not directly produced, by a want of the
common necessaries of life.—(Hear, hear.) This was
particularly the case with respect to the former.of these
two persons, who had appeared at the board and received
what was properly conceived to be necessary, but who,
in consequence of his previous privations, sickened the
day after his application, and died in one week from
pleurisy, leaving a wife and five or six children, most of
them very young, to deplore their loss. Mr. Coppock
concluded by mentioning that when the late census was
taken, one-fifth of the houses of the borough were found
empty; lie felt convinced that the proportion would now
be much greater, and this would be a matter well worth
the attention of the Committee to be appointed.
Mr. GRIFFIN, a reporter to the Northern Star. made
a long speech denouncing machinery and not the Corn-
laws as the evil producing all this distress, at the same
time he professed himself not an enemy to machinery. He
concluded with an amendment to the effect, " That the

greatest of all monopolies was class legislation, and that
the Corn-laws, though hard, were only an effect, and
that the only way to put an end to these and other evils
was to give the people's Charter."—(Laughter.)
The amendment was seconded amidst great uproar,
by Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, who also attacked machinery.
Mr. COBDEN much approved of the object of the
meeting, and he had listened to the details laid
before them by Mr. Coppock with great interest,
because he thought the first step to be taken for getting
their distresses relieved, was to make them known by
bringing the details before the public at a general towns' i
meeting like that.—(Hear, hear.) It was necessary to take
Otis step to prevent that continued incredulity which ex-
isted among the party to which the present Government
belonged in the Legislature, and who were exceedingly
difficult to be convinced on this subject,--(Hear, hear.)
He had stated in Parliament what he thought to be the
condition of the people, but he found he was speaking to
incredulous hearers; they did not seem to think he was
speaking the truth. He believed there existed at the
present time a party in power who did not know, and
who did not believe, in the distressed state of the country;
and, to tell the truth, he thought they were not over-
anxious to know it.—(Cheers and laughter.) But
it must be the policy of the people to take care
that just in proportion as they manifested an unwilling-
ness to hear, the facts should be forced upon their
attention.—(Cheers.) He was sorry to say that he had
entered their borough this evening with a heavy heart,
and he never addressed a meeting with less of that elas-
ticity of spirit which he should ever wish to feel on
coming before his constituents. The town appeared to
him more like a place which had suffered from a siege,
or an earthquake, or some other calamity which had ope-
rated to oppress and put men to any shifts for the mere
sake of supporting an existence.—(Cheers.)
We regret that we have not time to prepare a sketch
of his able speech.
The Chartists persisted in their amendment, but on
being put it was negatived by a large majority, and the
original motion carried amidst great and enthusiestic
cheering. A Committee was named also and carried,
and the meeting separated.—Manchester Times.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Sunday night,
as Mr. S. Ewen, of South-place, Finsbury-square, was
standing on the covered floating barge at the London-
bridge Wharf, waiting the arrival of the City of Canter-
bury steamer from Margate, he was unfortunately pre-
cipitated into the river, the tide at the time running
strong ; and although a good swimmer, yet being en-
cumbered with his great coat, and the night being dark,
he was almost immediately sucked under the vessel, and
was given up for-lost, when oneof the wherries put off to his
assistance, and sucbeededafter some time in rescuing him
from his perilous situation, although in an exhaused state.
From the very frequent and fatal accidents which have
occurred of late at these landing places,
we suggest that
a rail for the protection of the public ought immediately
to be erected round each of the floating piers, both above
and below bridge, leaving a convenient space only suffi-
cieut to pass to and tom the stemalecs,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30 —The following are the ships
now at Malta:—Ceylon, 6 (bearing the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir John Louis, Bart); Powerful (bearing the flag
of Rear-Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, K.C.8.); Howe,
120; Rodney, 92; Calcutta, 84; Vanguard, 80; Indus,
78. Frigates--Tyne, Inconstant, Magicienne. Steam
frigates—Vesuvius, Phoenix, Iberia. Steamers—Poly-
phemus, Alecto, Acheron. Yacht cutter Stork. French
steamers—Leonidas, Sesostris.
The Carysfort, 26, Captain Martin, arrived on Sunday
from the Mediterranean. She left Malta on the 14th of
September, and Gibraltar on the Bth inst. The Carysfort
was mustered and inspected by the Commander-in-Chief
on Monday afternoon, and the crew went through the
gunnery exercise with great precision. She afterwards
came into harbour, and was paid off to-clay, and will be
re-commissioned by Captain Sir E. Home, Bart., of the
North Star, the Officers and Crew of which will be trans-
ferred to the Carysfort, as being a more efficient ship
than the North Star, and the latter will be allotted to
Captain Blackwood, as a more convenient vessel fur his
survey of the Torres Straits.
Rear-Admiral Mason is ordered to proceed to Lisbon
with three sail of the line. Three line of battle ships,
the Implacable, Hastings, and Monarch, are to lie at
Gibraltar ; and it is said two are to be stationed at
Cork. We presume this is with a view of inducing the
French to reduce their Mediterranean fleet.
The Alfred, 50, was commissioned on Monday. at
Chatham, by Captain J. B. Purvis, appointed Commodore
with a blue pennant, at Rio Janeiro. One captain, one
subaltern, and forty marines, aro ordered from Wool-
wich to embark on board the Alfred.—The Spy, schooner,
Lieut. Potbury, sailed from the Little Nore, on Tuesday,
for the Coast of Africa.—The Siren, 16, Captain W.
M. Smith, was to sail to-day from Woolwich for
Plymouth. Her destination, foreign, is not known.—
The Madagascar, 46, Captain Foote, is to pro-
ceed to Cell to raise men for general service.—The
Apollo, troop ship, was paid off yesterday all standing,
for recommissioning en flute, by a Commander. She will
also have two Lieutenants, one Marine Officer, a Master,
Surgeon, 25 marines, and 110 seamen and boys.—The
Belleisle, 72, lately paid off at Plymouth, by Capt. T.
Nicolas, has been commissioned as an armed troop-ship,
by Capt. Kingcome. She is to bear four Lieutenants, a
Master, Purser, Surgeon, six Mates, two Marine Officers,
and Assistant-Surgeon, 200 semen, 40 Marines, and 20
boys, making a total of 280.—The Formidable, 84, Capt.
Sir E. T. Trowbridge, it is understood, is to come round
from Chatham to Spithead, to complete her equipment and
complement of men.—All ships fitting in the English ports
are ordered to complete their crews to the war complement.
—The Illustrious, 72, will take 160 landsmen and 60 boys,
for distribution in the squadron on the Coast of Ame-
rica. She will sail on the 10th of November.—The
Queen, 110, was taken into duck yesterday to have her
copper examined and cleaned.—The Britannia, 120,
Capt. Mansell, put into Plymouth on Wednesday from
the Mediterranean, and will come to this port to be paid
off.—The Columbia steamer, was paid off at Woolwich,
on Saturday last.—The Volcano, steam vessel, Lieut.
West, arrived from Plymouth on Tuesday, and returned
on the following day, with 40 landsmen, raised in this
county, for the ships there, and 12 seamen gunners.—
The Driver, steam frigate, Commander Harmer, will
sail in a few days for the North Sea, to raise men for
the Navy.—The Alban, steam vessel, sailed to-day
with 150 newly-raised men from this district for Ply-
mouth.—The Rapid, 10, arrived at Cork on the 24th ;
and the Styx, on the 25th.—The Echo steamer is em-
ployed volunteering men at the Isle of Wight. The
Mercury is at Hastings.—The Pantaloon, which sailed
from Bristol, for men for Plymouth, put into Mount's
Bay on Thursday, from the violence of a heavy northerly
gale, to proceed on when the weather moderates.—
Lieutenant Powell, of her Majesty's ship Victory, has
been sent to Poole to open a rendezvous for seamen
and able-bodied landsmen.—The Cracker, cutter, arrived
on Monday, from Jersey, with thirty-three volunteers,
and returned on Tuesday. The Comet, from Southampton,
also arrived from Southampton, and returned next day.
The Emerald, tender, arrived on Thursday from Bridport
and Poole.
In Harbour.—St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Excellent,
Illustrious, Vindictive,Warspite, Madagascar, Belvidere,
Royal George, North Star, Driver, Hazard, Carysfort,
Viper, Alban.
Extract of a letter from her Majesty's sloop Acorn,
dated St. Helena. Sept. 1, 1841.—At daylight cn the
morning of the 17th August, being in lat. 17 41 south,
long. 21 9 west, a very suspicious looking brig was ob-
served about 10 miles in the N.N.W. quarter ; all sail
was instantly made in chase. At 8 A.M., found we were
gaining on her, she bore then S.W., 5 miles ; at 9 30 firea
a blank gun and hoisted our colours ; at 9 40 fired a shot
at chase; at 9 50 fired a shell at chase, observing thatshe
had slaves on board, continued firing the bow gun high
over his mast head ; at 11 30 being cut up about her rig-
ging, she hoisted Portuguese colours, and rounded too,
and we took possession, and found her to be the Portu-
guese brig Anna, from Benguela bound to Monte Video,
with five hundred slaves on board, and from their very
confined state, three or four of those unfortunate beings
were dying daily ; one of the slaver's crew was severely
wounded, but luckily none of the slaves. Mr. Page,
mate, was sent in charge of the prize to Rio Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, OCT. 28. The Britannia,
120, Captain Mansel, from Malta, anchored in the Sound
last night ; the wind, blowing from N.E., preventing
her from getting up Channel.---The Avon, steam vessel,
arrived in the night from Bristol.—On Sunday, the
Volcano, steamer, Lieut. Joseph West, arrived from
Portsmouth, with volunteers, and sailed on her return
the following day, in charge of Mr. Mills, master of the
San Josef, Lieut. West being ill. She returned again
to-day.—On Monday the Nightingale, 6, Lieut. Barnes,
went into the Sound, and sailed again the next day for
Cork, for volunteers.—On Tuesday, the Tortoise convict
ship, Mr. James Wood, master, sailed for New South
Wales.—The Belleisle, 72, was commissioned for a troop
ship, on the same day, by Captain John Kingcome.—On
Wednesday, the Spider, Lieut. John O'Reilly (a), ar-
rived from South America.—ln harbour—Caledonia,
San Josef, Belleisle, Malabar, Cambrian, Spartan, Ferret,
Volcano and Avon.—ln the Sound—Spider, Britannia.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenants—Charles Collyear Daw-
kins (1830), of the Blenheim ; Wm. Charles Metcalfe
(1837), of the Blonde ; and C. H. Jay (1815), of the
Admiralty Semaphore, to the rank of Commander—the
latter to retain his appointment.
Mates—Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1836), of the Blen-
heim ; George Walker (1837), and Wm. Rae Rolland,
of the Blonde; Anthony A. C. Denny (1838), and Wm.
Henry Symons (1839), of the Blenheim ; John M`Neil
Boyd, of the St. Vincent (1832), and at present in com-
mand of the Pantaloon, which he is to continue to hold
until Lieutenant Crozier joins ; W. H. J. Lowe (1828),
of the Britannia; and R. T. Bedford (1834), of the Illus-
trious, to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOINTBIENTS—Captain -- John Kingcome, to the
Belleisle, troop ship.
Commander—John Scott, to the Alfred.
Lieutenants—George Woodhouse, from the St. Vin-
cent, to the Madagascar ; R. I'. Bedford, Supernumerary
to the Queen ; Thomas Sapcote, to Plymouth Ordinary,
vice Holbrook ; C. H. Lapidge, to the Ferret, vice
Thomas, sick ; Henry Bernard, to the Siren, vice Elliot,
to the Queen ; J. B. Driffield, to the North Star ; David
Elliot and:M, S. Kirkes, additional, to the Queen.
Masters—Thomas Honcorn, to the Siren, vice Der, at
the Hospital ; George James Hodges (supernumerary)
to the St. Vincent.
Mates—J. Malesworth, C. B. Strong, J. C. Snell, and
E. F. Clarke, to the Queen ; Charles Bromley, to the
Belvidere ; Arthur Doyle, to the Hazard ; Messrs.
Blanckley and Bowles, from the Devastation to the
Heroine ; Lord Charles W. Butler, to the Aigle ; Thomas
Gaussen, to the Isis.
Midshipmen—Wm. Hugh Phipps, to the Madagascar ;
Charles Vessey, to the Belvidere.
Volunteers, First Class—A. M. Cochrane, to the
Thalia ; Josias Rowley, to the Dido ; Frank Peel, to
the Queen ; G. A. Pidcock, to the Illustrious ; John
Leader, to the Madagascar ; John Noble, to the Talbot ;
John Hutchinson, to the Cyclops ; C. J. Stockdale, to
the Belvidere.
Clerk—Robert Malone (additional) to the Illustrious.
ROYAL MARINES—Lieut. Fielding Campbell, to the
Cleopatra, in the( West Indies ; Captain Wright, and
Lieut. 3,l‘Arthur, to the Alfred.
The Numa transport, Lieutenant Ward agent, sailed
from Bermuda for England on the 18th of September.
Several mechanics and petty officers of the Dock-yard
establishment, have come home in her ; also a num-
ber of convicts, whose term of transportation is about
to expire.
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, OCT. 18.—Her Majesty's
ship Cleopatra, Captain Wrevel, arrived on the 9th inst:
from Labrador and Newfoundland. The Victor brig,
Commodore Dawson, on the 10th, from the West Indies;
and the Racer brig. Commander Chambers, on the 11th,
from the Bay of Fundy.
Captain Boxer, superseded in the Pique frigate by
Capt. Yates, is to receive an appointment at Quebec, said
to be Harbour-master.
The Fair Rosamond schooner arrived at Barbadoes
from Halifax on the 29th August.
There are now in port the flag ship Winchester, fri-
gates Seringapatam, Crocodile, Cleopatra, and Pique ;
brigs Victor, Racer, and Charybdis, making a
a total of eight armed vessels. Rumour ascribes the un-
usual assemblage of so large a naval force in this port to
instruction from the Home Government to Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Charles Adam relative to M`Leod's trial. The
Seringapatam is about to sail for England immediately
with Commodore Douglas. Captain Leith has resigned
the command of this ship, and intends returning; to
England in the next steam-packet.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS Or YESTERDAY.

HERALD.—Had Lord Monteagle been as attentive
to the duties of his office from the time when the gross
Newport-Rice job was perpetrated as he now is, the
enormous national fraud that has been committed would
never have been committed, the public faith in a most
valuable and popular description of public securities
would not have been shaken, the price of Consols on the
arrival of the intelligence of Mr. 11PLeod's acquittal
would not have remained almost as it was during the
agony of his trial, and the country bankers and other
holders of the duplicate Exchequer Bills would not have
been placed in the painful state of doubt in which they
now are. The present bustling activity of his Lordship is
perhaps the most severe practical censure that can be ap-
plied to his past negligence. Lord Monteagle is paid two
thousand pounds sterling per annum for superintending
and controlling the Exchequer ; he has neither super-
intended nor controlled that department of the state; and
his poor and miserable excuse is that his predecessors,
Sir John Newport and Lord Grenville, did no more
than he has done—which is nothing. Now, why have
the comptrollers of the Exchequer been in the habit of
pocketing two thousand pounds a year without perform-
ing any public duties ? Simply because in the hands of
Whig comptrollers—for all these three personages, be
it recollected, were Whigs—that high and responsible
office has been converted into a sinecure. Lord Grey's
Cabinet had an opportunity of placing this high office on
a proper footing ; but they perpetuated it as a sinecure,
to put its emoluments into the pocket of the worn-out
Whig hack, Sir John Newport, who during the six
years he retained the place never saw the Exchequer-
office. Lord Melbourne's Administration did worse ;
on the basis of this job they erected another—they
got the aged Whig partisan to retire, on the false
plea that he was too infirm to fulfil duties, which
he had never even attempted to undertake, in order
that they might thrust their ejected colleague into a com-
fortable life-place. If Sir John Newport retired because
he was physically incapable of performing the duties
alleged to be incident to his place, Lord Monteagle's
qualification was his competency ; but his Lordship has
proved more negligent, with all his bodily activity, than
the aged victim of his voracity. The reason, we repeat,
is, because the place, in his possession, was intended to
be a sinecure, and his Lordship has not baulked the in-
tention. The cause of this enormous fraud may be sum-
med up in one word—JOß ! In that job Lord Monteagle
is the latest actor. It would appear that his Lordship
wishes to cast doubts on the genuineness of the bills fra-
dulently issued by Mr. Smith, his agent ; happily, how-
ever, Lord Monteagle's authority on that point is just
as worthless as on most other subjects ; the law of the
case we have shown to be indisputably in favour of the
holders, and no Government can afford so to prejudice
this description of public securities as they would do by a
refusal to be bound, in the present instance, by the acts
of their own servants.

The anxiety of the public mind as to the fate of M'Leod
is now relieved. The news of his acquittal, the ac-
counts of the deportment of the Court, the charge of
the Judge, and the circumstances attending the deli-
very of the verdict of the Jury,—so far as they go,—
impart a character of the highest and most satisfactory
interest to the papers and despatches received by the
" Acadia." It is pleasing, indeed, to contemplate, un-
der any circumstances, so noble a spectacle as the ma-
jesty of law and justice riding in tranquil triumph over
the wildest tide of popular violence and through the most
furious tempest of popular faction. And this spectacle has
been afforded to the world at large by the dignified and con-
scientious m ,nner in which an American Judge and an
American Jury have discharged their high and responsible
duties. Did the case end here—were this " the be-all,
and the end-all," of the blow, which has been struck—
we should not interpose one word to mar the favourable
aspect of affairs in connection with our American rela-
tions, which the termination of iN.l'Leod's affair appears
to have imparted to them. But, without derogating in
the least degree from the clear and dispassionate review
of the facts into which the charge of Mr. Justice Gridley
entered, we cannot shut our eyes to the remarkable fact
that the whole gist of that charge went to this; that the
judgment of the Court above—the Supreme Court—had
already affirmed the fact of the murder of Durfee; and
that the three several grounds maintained by M‘Leod's
Counsel as "excusing, in the individuals, the act
charged against them—namely, first, because those
acts were authorized; and, secondly, because done in
self-defence; and, again, because the whole transaction
has already become the subject of recognition between the
two Governments, so as to deprive this Court of jurisdic-
tion over the offence," were equally overruled. The
judgment of the Supreme Court had already found that
the killing of Durfee, although performed in the prose-
cution of an enterprise like that which had been ds-
scribed to the Court, was murder ; " it followed, then,
that all who were engaged in it had been guilty of the same
offence." It was nut necessary to prove that the arm or
weapon of M'Leod dealt the blow; it was enough if he had
been engaged in the enterprise with others. The Learned
Judge continued—" Then comes the question—the im-
portant question on which you are to pass—is Alexan-
der M'Leod guilty of that murder?" Now, this was
blinking the whole question of the rights of a foreign in-
dependent State against rebels opposed to it as bellige-
rents, and against subjects of a friendly State aiding and
abetting those belligerent rebels, That which would be
murder under circumstances not coming within this ca-
tegory ceases to be so under these conditions. The oc-
cupation of the Caroline, piratically trading with muni-
tions of ‘N ar and stores to rebels to the British authority
carrying on their designi and communications on British
waters, took, from all parties engaged in those transac-
tions, or on board that vessel, the rights of subjects of a
friendly power.

TIME.S.—From the fact that Mr. M'Leod's life and
liberty, whatever might be dune by the solemn little
finks at Utica, had been virtually guaranteed by Mr.
Webster on behalf of the American Government, we
must frankly own that we have awaited our countryman's
fate with much irreverent composure. Poor Judge Grid-
ley—one can scarcely read his elaborate summing up
without a compassionate smile ! Conceiving that he had
to deal with the most important cause that had ever agi-
tated the world, the anxious functionary seems to have
beeniliterally bowed to the dust under the weight of his
fancied responsibility. The quiet and humble apart-
ment he sat in, became, in his excited imagination, " the
solemn temple of justice." The presence of a few
straggling Canadians, whom curiosity had attracted to
the spot, was felt to be so flattering to the solemnity,
that the Judge publicly complimented them as "distin-
guished actors in the scenes of blood and suffering" con-
nected with the suppression of the M'Kenzie rebellion,
Whatever excesses might have disgraced the Republican
frontier, no unseemly ebullitions had ventured to escape
in the consecrated COurt of Utica. The entire cir-
cumstances of the ceremonial had perfectly delighted
Judge Gridley. Nothing, he thought, could possibly
equal the talent and learning evinced by the Attor-
ney-General of New York, except perhaps the ability
of the prisoner's Counsel, and the decorum of
the people's Jury. All the mass of worthless evi-
dence adduced for the prosecution, was as patiently ana-
lyzed by Judge Gridley, with the usual cautious dis-
tinctions, as if M'Leod's life had been actually dependent
on the issue ; and after indulging in a long and wasteful
expenditure of profound judicial saws, the complacent
luminary was constrained at last to let the Jury retire.
They, too, lest the farce should suffer in their part of
the representation, make a decent show of hesitation,
although, as even the New York journals confess, their
acquittal had been agreed on two days before. Thus, if
any sensible portion of the British public ever conceived
that the continuance of our amicable relations with
America depended upon the issue of M'Leod's trial, their
apprehensions on that score may now be considered at
an end.

POST.--We foretold some days ago that the trial of
Mr. M'Leod would terminate in his release, and we fore-
told this upon no vague or conjectural grounds, but upon
distinct information, which we had the good fortune to
receive, as to the nature of the evidence to be produced
against him. Our prediction has been fully realised.
From the full report of the trial of ,Mr. M'Leod, which
has been received at Liverpool by the Acadia steam-ship,
it will be seen that the Jury pronounced, upon the evi-
dence, this gentleman not guilty of the crime alleged
against him, and thus relieved the Governor of New
York from the duty he had determined, if necessary, to
fulfil, of exonerating an individual of whose innocence,
whatever might have been the verdict of the Jury, he
had become convinced. The people of the United States
and those of Great Britain, are equally to be congratu-
lated on this result of the affair, of Mr. M'Leod, since it
leaves the really important questions still in controversy
between the two countries, to be adjusted with the calm-
ness and coolness that the discussion of important ques-
tions requires, that conduce to an equitable decision, and
that befit the character of wise and powerful States.
CURONICLE.—A considerable portion of our paper
to-day is occupied with the trial of 3PLcod. The result
of this trial might have been easily anticipated from the
proceedings of the three first days, published and com-
mented upon in the Chronicle last week. The manner,
however, in which the investigation has been conducted
is highly creditable to the character of the judicial tri-
bunals of America. Had the case been one affecting an
American subject in England, and triable at one of our
assizes, we could not have wished the mere formal pro-
ceedings to have passed off otherwise than they did at
Utica. The question of M`Leod's " triability" at all
is, however, another matter, and one upon which,
if we are to credit the Tory press, Lord Aberdeen is
determined to make a stand, in opposition to the
decision of the Supreme Court of New York. Is this
one of the questions his Lordship intends to submit to
the arbitration of Louis Philippe ? On Friday last we
intimated our belief that the British Government in-
tended to have recourse to some such method of at once
complimenting a doubtful ally, and compromising a
question of national interest. The Morning Herald,
usually well-informed upon questions of Tory foreign
policy, says on Saturday—
" We have reason to believe that if any serious differ-
ence should arise between Great Britain and the United
States of America, relative to the trial of INPLeod, the
north-eastern boundary, or any other question pending
between both countries, our Government has agreed to
accept the mediation of France, which mediation has
been offered as a guarantee of peace and good-will be-
tween the French and the English Cabinets."
Relatively to the trial of M'Leod, no question is likely
to arise between England and America. The question
of international law iovolved in the Caroline affair is not
a question for arbitration. We might as well appeal to
Louis Philippe from a decision of the Queen's Bench.
It is a mere question of law (upon the facts of the case
there can be now no doubt), on which all the legal ad-
visers of the Crown have given a decided opinion. As
to making the, boundary question one of arbitration, it
is the merest delusion to suppose that this would " settle"
it. Why it has been arbitrated upon already. America,
refuses to be bound by the decision of the King of Hol-
land. What guarantee has Lord Aberdeen that America
will be bound' by the decision of Louis Philippe, or is
Louis Philippe an arbitrator such as England ought to
accept upon such a question ? We cannot yet believe

that this is to be the first step of Lord Aberdeen's fo-
reign policy.
GLOBE.—If the matters in dispute between this
country and America be settled amicably and satisfac-
torily—as we believe they will be—it will not be the
fault of the Times; which has used its best efforts to
blow up the coals of jealousy between the two nations
into a flame. The acquittal of 1114Leod furnishes a
new occasion for reiterating the sarcasms with which
that journal assailed the Court before which he was
arraigned, and the whole proceedings of his trial. The
following is a specimen of this unseemly treatment of a
tribunal which is fashioned after the model of our own,
so justly prized ; and the proceedings of which, in the
present instance, were marked with dignity and impar-
tiality equal to anything ever exhibited in the highest
court of criminal judicature in our own country :
" Poor Judge Gridley—one can scarcely read his
elaborate summing up without a compassionate smile T.
Conceiving that he had to deal with the most im-
portant eause that had ever agitated the world, the
anxious functionary seems to have been literally
bowed to the dust under the weight of his fancied re-
sponsibility. The quiet and humble apartment he sat
in, became, in his excited imagination, ' the solemn
temple of justice.' .

" The entire circumstances of the ceremonial had
perfectly delighted Judge Gridley. Nothing, he
thought, could possibly equal the talent and learning
evinced by the Attorney-General of New York, except
perhaps the ability of the prisoner's Counsel, and the
decorum of the people's jury. All the mass of worth-
less evidence adduced for the prosecution was as pa-
tiently analyzed by Judge Gridky, with the usual cau-
tious distinctions, as if M‘Leod's life nad been actually
dependent on the issue ; and after indulging in a
long and wasteful expenditure of profound judicial saws,
the complacent luminary was constrained at last to let
the Jury retire. They too, lest Ike farce should suffer
in their part of the representation, make a decent show
of hesitation."

As the public voice refused to respond to the war-
whoop of the Times, but, on the contrary, compelled
the great god of war" to lay by his thunder, and
sound a note more in accordance with public feeling,
and more likely to advance the real interests of both
nations ; so, or we greatly mistake, the insults hurled
at the high judicial functionaries and entire system of
criminal jurisprudence of America, will meet with as
little sanction from the intelligent portion of our coon.
trymen as the Times' attempt to get up a war-fever, in
which it most signally and properly failed. The trial
having terminated, and in a way which relieves the
public mind of all anxiety as to the possibility of a rup-
ture with the American republic, which any further
detention of M‘Leod must have produced, another
question fairly arises, viz., the necessity of such an al-
teration in the Constitution of America as will afford
security to this and other countries against the recu-
rence of a similar grievance, arising, as this has done,
out of the anomalous position of the Central Govern-
ment with relation to the absence of a sufficient con-
trolling jurisdiction over the several States which com-
prise the Union.
STANDARD.—The Grand Storehouse and Ar-
moury of Small Arnris in the Tower of London was
totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night and
yesterday morning. The loss to the public is esti-
mated at more than one million sterling ! The
particulars of this national misfortune will be found
in our next page. The destruction of the
Armoury following so closely upon the burning
of the Royal Exchange and the Houses of Par-
liament, as well as the successful attempt to destroy
the Talavera, and the unsuccessful attempt upon the
Camperdown, all within about seven years, will
excite an unpleasant interest. The dealers in omens
will, of course, anticipate in such a rapid succession of
disasairs some melancholy presage. They have seen
the burning of the Houses of Parliament, followed
at a short interval by the renewed tenure of office
to the worst section of the Whig Radical party ;
and the destruction of the great commer-
cial rendezvous in like manner, seemingly at-
tended by the accession of Lord Monteagle
to the superintendence of the financial affairs
of the empire ; and probably they may fear
that the destruction of the Armoury promises that Sir
De Lacy Evans, or Colonel Thompson, shall succeed
Lord Hill at the Horse Guards. For our own part,
however, if we must trace a prognostic, it is a good
one—the commencement of an era when arms shall
be less necessary than they have been—the com-
mencement of a long period, not only of peace,
but of freedom from the apprehension of war.
On the other hand, alarmists will see in all these
fires a systematic public ruin, contrived by some mys-
terious conspiracy. Here, again, we must take leave
to think for ourselves : that there has been an incen
diary, tnough an abstract one, in each of the cases,
and that he is the same incendiary, we have a strong
suspicion ; and though he has been too much a public
favourite of late years, we do not scruple to arraign
him before the public, upon whom he has inflicted
great amount of injury ; his name is Economy. Tn
this delinquent, we believe, must be imputed the fires
of which we have spoken.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

CHRONICLE.—At the date of the Acadia's depar-
ture from New York, the market for State Stocks was
generally heavy, and prices depressed, from an appre-
hension that Mr. Jaudon would fail in obtaining a re •
newal of the period for payment of the debentures of the
Bank of the United States. Hid Mr. Jaudon been un-
successful in that object, the large mass of State Stocks
deposited on security of the Eurupean loans, would have
been thrown on the market, and a serious depression
must have followed. When it is known on the other
side that Mr. Jaudon has succeeded in effecting an ar-
rangement for another year certain, by a fresh deposit
and bonus to the holders, it is likely that the prices of
Stocks will improve in America, as the Money Market is
easy, and the fears of any serious misunderstanding with
this country must now be removed.
We have been told to-day that Mr. Beaumont Smith's
first fraud was to the extent of 5001. Being hard pressed
for that sum of money, he either fabricated an Ex-
chequer Bill for the amount, or purloined one, on which
he raised the money.
The anxiety displayed by Mr. Smith that the lender
should on no account part with the bill, and that the
identical document should be returned, attracted his at-
tention. He immediately suspected how the matter
stood, ,and determined to take advantage of it. He ac-
cordingly told Smith that he knew be was in his power,
and that he could ruin him, which he certainly would do
by an immediate exposure, unless he instantly consented
to comply with his demands, which were, that the unfor-
tunate man should supply him with Exchequer Bills,
from time to time, to such amount as he might require.
It is said that Smith, finding himself in this man's
power, consented to his terms, and thus began that career
of crime which has brought him to his present disgrace-
ful condition. This anecdote is current in the city, and
as such we give it. It is very likely to be founded on
fact, but on the other hand may have been purposely got
up to create a sympathy in Smith's favour.
POST.—The acquittal of Mr. M'Leod at Utica, ac-
companied by the release of Major Grogan, has given a
decided impulse to the markets for our domestic securi-
ties, the announcement of the event in extra editions of
the journals being quickly followed by an advance of no
less than i per cent. The settlement of this affair, as it
was one that threatened to disturb the amicable rela-
tions
which have subsisted between Great Britain and
the United States since 1814, has given great satisfac-
tion to the mercantile interest. So completely has it,
in fact, absorbed attention in the City as to have cast
the unpleasant Exchequer Bill matter into the shade ;
and we are glad to have the opportunity of record-
ing the circumstance, inasmuch as it proves very
clearly that the more intelligent and respectable
classes of society in this country do not entertain that
hostile feeling towards the Americans, which they have
been given to suppose from the illiberal attacks made
upon them in the newspapers. Our merchants want no
war with any nation, and least of all can they want it
with the United States, a country with which they have
been so long connected by an intercourse that has proved
conducive to the interests of both communities. The
summing up of the evidence adduced upon the late trial
by Judge Gridley, is referred to as one that is demonstra-
tire alike of the good sense and impartiality of the indi-
vidual ; and certainly the commendation bestowed upon
him is not undeserved. It had been fancied that Mr.
Gridley was biassed to the prejudice of Mr. M'Leod, and
that the weight of his influence would have been thrown
into the scale of the party charged with the prosecution; yet
with how little justice. The distinction drawn between
one class of witnesses and another was judicious, and may
be held up as an example worthy of adoption in the
forensic administration of any country. There had
been more than enough said to provoke a feeling of ani-
mosity in the public mind of America against England,
from the contagion of which very few or none of her
citizens, with their deeply-rooted nationalities, were ex-
empt ; but the honesty of the Judge seems to have been
impregnable. He heard with patience all that the wit-
nesses had to say on both sides—all that the Counsel
employed had to urge in behalf of their respective
clients, and whose abilities appear to be entitled to great
respect, but he could not be brought to believe that the
prosecution of Mr. M‘Leod was founded on the basis of
truth.

The accounts in the provincial journals received
this mornini, all agree in describing the amount of rain
which has lately fallen as far beyond the average of any
season for many years past. A great. deal of mischief
has been done the farmer by its continuance.
We regret to have to announce the sudden
death, by gout in the stomach, of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Francis Geary Gardner Lee, R.M., whose decease took
place early on Saturday morning, at the Royal Marine
Barracks at Woolwich. Sir Francis had seen distin-
guished service, having been at Copenhagen, the siege
of Cadiz, and various boat affairs in the East Indies and
on the French coast. He also served in Spain, under
Gen. Evans, with considerable distinction. Several fo-
reign orders had at various times been conferred upon him.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, OCT.
29.—Our market was again brisk on Saturday last, 939
new, and 101 old pockets being sold and weighed from
the planters, with the addition of 474 new, and 46 old.
in the week. Prices for the
.brown low qualities ranged
about the same as before quoted ; but fine sorts were full
3s. per cwt. higher, and more scarce to obtain. Duty
estimated at 13,000/. Present prices, per cwt :—Brown,
new, from 105 s. to 1265. ; fine, 130 s. to 150 s, 1839'5,
from 84c to 110 s. ; 1837'5, from 60s, to 841.

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( Copy.).
" Admiralty, filth September, 1841.
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BIR7HS
On the 17th ult., at the Vicarage, Youlgreave, Derbyshire,
the lady of the Rev. R. P. Hull, of a son.
On the '26th ult., in Sussex-place, Regent's-park, Mrs. a
Cumberledge, of a son.
On the 2tith ult., at Egremont-place, New-road, St: ran-
cras the lady of Daniel West, Elq., of a daughter, still born.
On the •2.9 th ult., the wife of Theophilus Thompson, M•D''
Keppel-street, Russell-square, of a d-mghter.
On the 29th ult., at Springfield, Wandsworth-road, Ors' E.
Rapallo, of a son, still-born.

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~ of Kin
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DIED.
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On the 26th ult., Nancy, the relict of T. s - .
Oak-hill, Lancashire, aged 62.
On the 27th ult., at Havre, William Laird, Esq., a Birk's-
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On the 27th ult.! at Huntingdon, Catherine, relict of E. "
Oswin, Esq., late of the above town.
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Joseph Douglas, Esq., aged 73.
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_a. fortnight after his arrival from India,.
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