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that there vere some poor persons whom his former en
ployers hr d disappointed, and who would be great iv
served if t he firm would give them a passage to Ai :s_
tralia. Ile (Mr. Carter) consented to give them a y as_
sage if faeir certificates were correct, and the neces ary
preliminaries were arranged ; but the firm never had
received a farthing. Mullender had applied, in the first
instance, to be employed as an agent, but the firm could
by no means employ him, as had been previous!ly tated,
because they knew what advantage might be tal:en of
the authority to act under such circumstances. i2hey fel
.t
that a gross imposition had been practised upon the un_
fortunate complainants, and would most willingly do as
the Alderman might think proper to suggest.
The Attorney to the complainants stated that the
amount of the united sums paid to Mullende r, and
obtain which his poor clients had made the gr, mtest ex.
ertions of which they were capable, was 121.
Alderman PeasE (to Mr. Carter)—Then I - Roriid ad-
vise, as these poor fellows paid Mullcnder in th e aeliei
that he was the agent for your house, tha you piva
them 101. amongst them. That. I think, w ~
ill' j,,treablei,
liberal upon your part, and %%ill be quite a,rouvud tv
them.

Mr. Carter most cordially assented, an,' . told the attor-
ney for the complainants that he would give 101. towards
tne prosecution of Mullender for so • sross and heartless
a robbery.

Alderman PIRIE had great re-.son to apprehend that
there was a vast deal of foul -,Alay going on as to emi-
gration, and that impositions, were practised in a great
variety of cases, the temp*.atirn to plunder being in-
creased in proportion totl4e norance of those who were
desirous to go abroad, And LO the imagined difficulties of
'detection. He hapr ,nee to belong to this sort of busi-
ness, which made 'Aim conversant with matters connected
with emigratie„,- and he called upon all persons who
meant to go abroad to better their condition, to be parti-
cularly e'..ntious to whoin they paid their money. Per-
tlie exposure which had that day taken place would
be the best mode of checking an evil which he found had
:Already reached a fearful height. The good dune by the
lablication of details of villanies such as he had just de-
cribed was incalculable, particularly when so much in-
genuity was exercised to commit depredations.
SP

'MIT of the ICOB-LIC—J-OURNALS.

1,11.031 THE DAILY PAPEIIS OF tiF.STERDAY.
GLOBE.—It is not often that the Prime Minister of
England has condescended to practise what is commonly
called a hoax ; and though we have heard it alleged that
some fiscal impositions, such as those upon attorneys and
pigtails, originated in a jest, yet the fact of those taxes
having been irst conceived in joke—rather a serious one,
by the bye, for the victims who had to pay them—was
not allowed to transpire openly beyond the walls of the
Cabinet. •To tax the limbs of she law was a merry con-
ceit, n(s ;.loubt, in which, on account of existing preju-
dices, the public would fully sympathise ; whilst the
duty on tails, which led to the practice of cur-tailing in-
ate ed of pig-tailing the heads of the rising generation,
ss as at least a legitimate subject for a laugh ; but the
joke play ed off by Sir Robert Peel, mocking, as it does,
the expectations and hopes of the people, is doomed,
eve suspect, to be very ill taken by the whole community.
'We will, however, xilain the nature and subject of the
/nl-flier's wit, and t ien leave the public to judge plow
far it has been well-timed. and what amount of taste has
been displayed in choosing a subject for its exercise.
The re-assembling of Parliament on Thursday had been
looked 14i-ward to with the greatest anxiety by the whole
nation, plunged at this moment in more than ordinary:dis-
tress, as the day on which there might be expected from
.ts;ir li. Poel some announcement of the measures he in-
ttended to propose for the alleviation of those tails that he
lorofesses to have the skill as well as the will to remedy.
Instead, however, of suggesting even a temporary measure,
of relief for the people's sufferings, the new Minister
comes fora ard in his place in Parliament, to talk only
about " warming and ventilat'ng the House," and
"granting lea.ses of a portion of the kitchen-garden at
Kensington." That these are subjects on which Sir R.
Peel may have had an opinion to give is true enough ;
but when we find that on the first day of meeting Par-
liament as a Minister, he begins his speech with "Doctor
Reid, and the warm •air stoves," concluding, with the
" Kensington kitchen-ground," and mentioning inciden-
tally thatehe shall ask for six months' supplies, the
whole affair wears the appearance of a monstrous hoax,
following as it does immediately on his repeated assu-
rances that " when called in," he would deslare the
plans he had formed fur the country's benefit. •#-le may
tell us, perhaps, that the Ministers can do nothing till
they are " warm in their places," and that Dr. Reid
:and his hot-air apparatus are consequently pi eliminary
requisites to the legislation of the new Cabinet. But
while the poor are shivering through the winter in their
comfortless hovels, may not the position of Sir Robert
Peel, with all his adaptation of temperature both high
and low—his blowing warm and cold with the same
breath—may not his position, we say, in spite of every
artifice, become a little too hot for him ? We are now
bluntly told that we are to expect nothing from the
Tory Government until February next. As to the distress,
that is to be left to die away ; and if some of the people,
in the course of a severe winter, should happen to die
away too, there is to be no help for it. It is said that
Nero was fiddling away while Rome was in flames.
Sir Robert Peel proposes also " fiddling away"—the
whole of the time between this and. February, while the
people are either inflamed into disorders, or frozen into
apathy, as the strength of their passions or the severity
of the winter may happen to operate. We suspect, how-
ever, that discontent so general as that which now enxists,
when roused, as we fear it will be, by the inattention of
the Government to its prayers, will be more likely to
burst into flame than to hybernise into torpidity. Zi'"o
doubt any such incidents are fo be deprecated, and, if
they occur, must be quelled ; but condemnation would
not be less merited by the policy which should have pro-
voked them.
COURIER.—The public meeting held in Manchester
on Thursday last, the report of which appeared in the
papers of that locality on Saturday, possessed the attrac-
tion for once of the absence of Mr. Cobden's vague decla-
mation and mouthing coarseness, and of Dr. Bowring's
random recollections of foreign travel at the public cost
and statistics travestied, so far at least as the personality of
these honourable persons, for their places and more spe-
cial cast of performances were supplied by two reverend
dissenting actors, who scarcely left their absence to be
regretted by such an assembly as could take pleasure in
that sort of oratory. The proceedings on the occasion
were opened by a Mr. Absalom Watkin, of whose
speech, disagreeing as we do with the tenor of its argu-
ment and assertions, we are still disposed to observe that
the language is of a higher order, and that it is free from
the vices of that foul personal and class vituperation
which pervades every display of his townsman the Alder-
man M. P. for Stockport. Mr. Watkin draws an affecting
picture of the general distress in that large manufactur-
ing community, the existence and the actual extent of
which we are by no means inclined to question, although
when he affirms it to be " unprecedented" we must
take leave to acquaint him that he can be but little con-
versant with the history of his own locality to he ignorant
of the fact, that on more occasions than one Manchester
has been the scene of much more calamitous afflictions.
In those periodically recurring visitations to which the
manufacturing, as well as the agricultuial and every
other great national interest, are inevitably subject in
the order of things, as the physical world is to storms
and earthquakes, it could scarcely be hoped that Man-
chester alone should escape unsheathed. There are dis-
tricts, however, where the cotton manufacture is carried
on, which have suffered infinitely more than that town,
even in the worst stages of its misery, of which it is
only necessary to consult the Report of the Hand-loom
Weavers' Commission for abundant proofs. The condition,
some few years since, of Blackburn, Padiham, and other
:places where common calicoes were chiefly woven, was
infinitely more heart-rending and disastrous than can' be
paralleled in Manchester at the present time, admitting,
as may, the general fidelity even of the lamentable
description drawn by Mr. Watkin himself.
STANDARD.—But a repeal of the Corn-laws for the
distresses of the people (say the Corn-law agitators) is
the only remedy. How ? The stimulus that it would
give to trade would set all the mills in motion. We have
not belief that such would beh the case; but grant. that it
would for argument sake,
fowlloat, as respects this parti-
cular question, would
pregnant with a thousandw_ change otherwise
ilals ? "Would conti-
nuous employment ofofmethnebe one jot snore secure?
'Would the repeal
Corn-laws be more than a meal, from which mill-owners would
rise, as giants refreshed, to build me ore and to find,
uses for " more capital which must be employed" in the system of gambling with the lives and happiness
of our fellow creatures ?Coverylou all England with
brickwork and machinery, and
only prodigiously I
:Nothing can qualify I
augment the mass of evil.
that evil but :s full protection to agriculture
generous Poor-law, as , and awe have more than Once proved
We could say a .
great deal more of the debate, but
-we are satisfied that most readers have already
as
by failed drawn
their own conclusions ; if Sir Robert Peel
to convince them of the propriety of his proposed line
we cannot hope to succeed. Meanwhile the weather'
and the prospects of the harvest, and the minds of men
ion the Continent, as well as at home, are working to-
gether gloriously for the Conservative Minister, so as
-to render probaby early in February that which might
be difficult in November.

DESTRUCT OF THE. SHIP INDIA.--Ac.
DESTRUCTION
counts have been received from Rio Janeiro, of the loss of
this vessel by fire at sea,
on the 19th of July. The fire was
ctr
aed by a candle falling between two barrels where some
spirits had been spilled, which were immediately in anlaze and
:set fire to the store-room which was fullofctane water'svass an
edge,other
.combustibles. The vessel was soon burnt to the
and the passengers and crew, to the amountoefse of a F
214, made their
escape in the boats of the India and
those
whaler, which came to their assistance.
eigh-
teen persone perished, of whom sixteen
were steerage
o-.;eerage passen-
gers, one a cabin passenger and the boatswain ; the people on
board the French vessel showed the survivors every attention
wort conveyed them to Rio Janeiro, a distance of 600 miles.
STEANI-BOAT ACCIDENT.—BRIGHTON, SEP-
TEMBER 17.—Last night considerable excitement and
alarm was created at the pier-head by the non-arrival
of the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer
the Dart, running from here to Dieppe. It appears that
she left Dieppe yesterday morning, the weather being
very fair, with about twenty-five passengers on board.
About throe hours after she had put to sea one of the
cast-iron beams, on which the piston works, suddenly
snapped, causing the greatest alarm amongst the pas-
sengers. Captain Cheesetaan acted with great firmness,
and did all in his power to allay the alarm. When the
extent of injury WU discovered the engineer discon-
exceed the damaged engine, and succeeded in reaching
Brighton with the help of the sails and one engine about
four hours after their proper time. On arriving at the.
pier-head the wind was blowing rather stiff, adhaving
only one engine at work she was so unruly that some
done to the piles by her dashing.. against
damage was
them. The broken beam was taken out of 113 r this morn-
ing, and Mr. Black, the agent to the Company, imme-
diately proceeded to town to get another vessel round in
her place, as to-morrow (Sa
vught to leave here for Dieppe.turday) is the day she