The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, lB4l.

titions for the release of political offenders, one of which
was signed by 1,300,000 of the industrious classes, went
on to call the attention of the House to the petitions.
He knew that it was a delicate subject, but there were
times and cases when it was necessary to advise the
Crown in the exercise of its prerogative. He referred
to cases in which' the prerogative had been exer-
cised to release political offenders, and said the
persons at present confined were worthy of the favour.
His motion was confined to the home prisoners, exclud-
ing Mr. Frost and his companions. The petitioners par-
ticularly alluded to the case of Captain DUFF. Mr.
DUNCOMBE, on the part of that gentleman, stated that
he was found guilty because he did not choose to excul-
pate himself at the expanse of another person, and that
he was not present when any violence was committed.
The number of persons sentenced to imprisonment had
been 444, and 398 had been released on account of bad
health. After a just and able exposure of the evils to
which these persons were subjected, and making a feel-
ing appeal to the House, Mr. DUNCOMBE moved an Ad-
dress to her MAJESTY to extend her merciful considera-
tion to all per;ons at present confined for political of-
fences in England and Wales.

Mr. LEADER seconded the motion. Mr. Fox MAULE,
by virtue of his office, opposed it. He objected to the
proposed interference with the prerogative of the Crown,
adverted to the few persons now remaining in prison,
and put it to his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion.
Mr. O'CONNELL announced his intention of voting
with Mr. DUNCOMBE
,if the motion was pressed to a
division.

Mr. LEADER contended that several of the prisoners
had committed no moral offence, and he contrasted their
severe punishment with the slight punishment inflicted
on Lord WALDEGRAVE for a serious offence, who suf-
fered no other inconvenience than. being unable to drive
his cab to Epsom races.
Mr. Gil... Lox trusted much to the returning good sense
of the Chartists, and would give his vote for the motion.

Mr. HUME would not discuss the conduct of the Char-
tists, but the severity of the punishment inflicted on these
people; and he hoped Government would restore them to
liberty.
Mr. WABBURTON took the same side, and Mr. WAK-
LEY taunted Sir R. PEEL into expressing his opinion.
Sir R. PEEL said, the real object of the motion was,
to release those prisoners, and he should vote, as he always
would on such cases, to leave the matter in the hands of
the Crown. He thought they would place the Crown in
an improper position if they took into their own hands
the power of showing indulgence to prisoners.
Mr. EASTHOPE, Sir DE LACY EVANS, Sir B. HALL,
and Mr. AGLIONBY severally supported the motion.
Lord SANDON concurred with Sir IL PEEL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL objected to the motion as inter-
fering with the prerogative of the Crown, and not likely
to promote the object proposed by the Hon. Member, for
it was proved by experience, that pardons granted even
when such motions were not pressed, were attributed,
not to the favour of the Crown, but to the House.
Colonel SIBTHORP opposed the motion, and Mr. WARD,
while he pressed on Ministers the propriety of par-
doning the prisoners, recommended his Hon. Friend not
to press his motion. Mr. DUNCOMBE, however, divided
the House, and the motion was lost by the casting vote
of the SPEAKER ; 58 being for, and 58 against. The
SPEAKER gave his vote in the negative.
Mr. EASTHOPE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to
put an end to Church-rates, and enable the Church-
wardens to let the pews of churches. We have not space
further to advert to the proceedings, but the motion was
agreed to. _

Some other business was disposed of, including the
bringing in a Bill for the drainage of large towns, for
which Mr. MAULE obtained leave, and the House then
adjourned, at Half-past Twelve.

All the papers published in the manufacturing
districts—all the letters we have received from
those quarters—all the speakers at public meet-
ings held in those districts, who could be so easily
contradicted if they stated what is false, agree in
representing the people there as plunged in the
deepest distress, yet Lord ASHBURTON opposes
the repeal of the Corn-laws, lest the starving
people should be reduced to substitute black rye
bread, like such as the Germans eat, for no
bread at all. At a late meeting at Manches-
ter, for example, Mr. HEARNE, a Catholic priest,
told the following remarkable tale of some of his
own population :
"In his ministerial character among the people he had
witnessed the effects of a famine now and again, but he
would say that this was no temporary distress ; a famine
had been raging in the district where he lived since 1838,
which proved the evil could not be a passing one, and he
attributed it to nothing else but the low rate of wages—
(Hear, hear)—which scarcely afforded the poor labourer
the means of feeding himself and offspring. The meet-
ing could scarcely form 'a conception of the misery and
destitution prevailing in the district, of which he was a
witness on this occasion. He went lately to administer
the consolation of religion to a poor dying woman. On
arriving at her bed-side she seemed to be alone. He
asked if she was. Johnny,' said she, and immediately
a sack in the corner of the room began to move, and then
another began to move, and out of these tumbled the
poor woman's sons, their only bed being the inside of
sacks filled with shavings.—(Hear, hear.) He had about
20,000 of his flock living within half a mile of his chapel.
Scarcely a single Catholic, unless in cases of sudden
death, breathed his last without sending for the priest,
and of these, and he spoke from personal observation, at
least one-half died from starvation.—(Hear, hear.) Talk of
war ravaging a country !—better by far was he who died
by the sword than he who was stricken by famine.—
(Hear, hear.) He could bear but too strong testimony
to the opinion expressed by Mr. M'Kerrow that men in
want of temporal comforts were but ill-fitted to receive
the consolations of religion—for he had found how diffi-
cult it was, when the poor man was dying, with his starv-
ing children around him, to stop the word of blasphemy
issuing from his lips, in his parting breath."
Yet, with this appalling distress, Lord ASH-
BURTON refuses all relief, because rye bread is
black. At the same meeting the Chairman
stated—

" That in the township of Manchester, in 1836, there
were thirty-two empty warehouses; there are now 340.
In 1836 there were in Manchester 300 or 400 empty
houses ; there are now about 2,6oo.—(Hear, hear.) In
Stockport there are 2,000 empty houses ; in Oldham,
1,000 ; in Bolton, 1,200 ; in Bury, 1,200 ; and in Sal-
ford, 1,400; making, as Mr. Heyworth has stated, nearly
10,000 in the whole, in this neighbourhood."
Does any person hear of uninhabited houses,
deserted stores, and starving people in Germany?
Lord ASHBURTON, however, is quite clear and po-
sitive that the abundance of Germany would be
fatal to the happiness of England. It might,
perchance, render the people somewhat more
independent, and less the submissive slaves of
the priests and the Peers, and Lord ASHBUR-
TON will not allow abundance.
Need we remind our readers of those harrow-
ing pictures of the deep-seated and almost uni-
versal distress of the labouring classes, which the
excellent representatives of Finsbury and Wol-
verhampton so recently brought before the
House of Commons, without, perhaps, tinging
the cheeks of the DARLII%IGTONS and the HAND-
LETS with one blush of shame. It will suffice to
re-quote the following description of the happy
white-bread-eating English, which Mr. S. DUN-
COMBE quoted from one of Mr. OASTLER'S letters
from the Fleet :

" It is almost, nay, it is actually incredible ; but never-
theless, it is true—absolute fact—which can be proved
by incontrovertible evidence :—Not six miles from this
place, on the edge of the Moors, a cow dying of dysen-
tery, is considered by the poor weavers and their families
as a honey-fall—a God-send ! She is called by them a
green tail.' I will not trust my own description of this
horrid fact, I will merely transcribe the notes of a friend,
which notes I know are true. In the course of our in-
quiry into the state of the labourers, one of our questions
was—` how often do you get butchers' meat ?' In the
neighbourhood of Dean Head and Scammonden the ge-
neral reply was, never nobbut wen'tle green tail butcher
gets a ka-ah' (cow). This expression, of course, re-
quired explanation, which was in the following terms ;
When a farmer had gotten a sh—tering ka-ah, and wen
t' doctor sed shu'd dee, they sent for t' green tail butcher,
to sell hur tull him ; then a lad wor hired to drive her
past ski' and sich hauses ; they all knew wat hit meant,
and thou began to mak a collecshun i their folds ; an if
ss. cud be raised, a whole quarter wod be brought in't
t'fold, to be devided amang t'foulk ; but if they cudent
raise ss. they tuk wat they hed, and gat a lump of hur
for thur brass.' Now this was all the butchers' meat they
had tasted ull the year round, except now am'. then, when
they could afford a few pence for ' su'it' to boil with their
pot'ates."The landlord of the public-house (who had
not been long there) related the following aneotiote. He
told us, "That he had once allowed a `green tail' to be
killed in his mistall, but he would never allow another to
be killed on his premises, no, not for fifty pounch;.' He
said, the poor people could not wait until she was cold,
that they ' slapped' their knives into her before she was
stiff—that they cut collops off, and held them a short time
befbre the fire, and actually devoured them before they
were half fried'—such savage work,' the landlord said,
he never saw before !' And is this a prosperous state
of trade ? These are manufacturing labourers—hard-
working hand-loom weavers. This is an English scene
—a scene in the thriving parish of Huddersfield."
r. VILLIERS mentioned, amongst other facts,
that the starving people near Oldham had dis-
interred the carcass of an animal which had died
of disease, and devoured it. We can conceive
only one greater horror to which the people may
be driven; but they will, perhaps, take another
remedy into their hands before they allow the
landowners to degrade them into cannibals.

Nevertheless, with these accumulated horrors
filling a great portion of the land, Lord ASHBUR-
TON in one House, Sir ROBERT PEEL in another,
and the bulk of the landlords, speak slightingly
of the people's sufferings, and will not abate one
jot of their lawful plunder to put even a morsel of
wholesome black bread into the mouths of the
famishing people. The calmest language we
can apply to such conduct is that it is a most
impudent aggravation of a foul legal robbery.
Were the tortured and half-famished multitude
to be driven into the last degree of crimi-
nality, and embrue their hands in blood
who would be most to blame, the mad-
dened people or the iniquitous law-makers?
Bread or blood has been, on several oc-
casions, the cry of a starving populace ;
and if our law-makers wickedly withhold
bread from our people, which is abundant, not
only in America, and Poland, and Russia, but
even in the bonded warehouses in our own ports,
can they expect that the laws of human nature
will be suspended for them, and that they should
live as safe and secure amidst a famishing, as
amidst a well-fed people ? For our parts, we
tremble to think of the yet greater horrors
than those we have quoted, which await the
country—though Gon knows, what with books
written to recommend a painless extinction of in-
fant life, and law-makers putting men to death
by the lingering 'pain of starvation, we have
had quite enough—should the starvation law be
continued.

We must, before concluding our observations
on Lord ASHBURTON, notice another circum-
stance. He dwelt with much force on Monday
evening, on the greater consumption of meat
and sugar iu England than in France and Ger-
many. Be the statistical account correct, how
does that throw light on the condition of our
hand-loom weavers, our agricultural serf's, or
the lumper-fed Irish? They rarely or never
taste either meat or sugar. The fact is that
rich, commercial, and manufacturing England
possesses a numerous and opulent middle class,
who enjoy undoubtedly all the comforts of life.
Our middle class town population is probably
six times as numerous as the same class of per-
sons in France, and three times as many as in
Germany. Now it is the consumption of this
numerous and comparatively favoured class
which swells the average consumption of meat
and sugar in England above the average
consumption of other countries. In no other
country of Europe, however, is there the same
mass of destitute, hard-working, skilful labourers
as in England, and their distress may be great,
their sufferings may be, as they are at present,
most poignant, and yet Lord ASHBURTON may be
able to quote, with smiling satisfaction, the tes-
timony of a Liberal, that Englishmen, on an
average, consume more meat than Prussians, and
more sugar than Frenchmen. The terms of com-
parison, in fact, are not identical. Lord Asx-
BURTON compares the middle classes of England,
the great consumers of sugar and meat, with the
middle classes of France and Germany, and
from that comparison he infers the well-being not
of our middle classes—but of our labourers. The
Noble Lord's logic is of a piece with his consis-
tency, and both are a disgrace to an honest and
right-minded man.

M. GuizoT's praise of Holland reminds us
that it was the great object of Louis XIV. to
crush that then young republic, and that Hol-
land was only saved from destruction by the
assistance of England and the victories of MARL-
BOROUGH. France then wished to destroy Hol-
land, and now M. GUIZOT vaunts its utility to
France. Such are the results of the schemes of
politicians. They build up in one year, or in
one century, what they destroy in the next;
they destroy at one time what they have before
taken the greatest pains to aggrandize. The re-
lations between France and Holland are a type
of those between England and Russia. At pre-
sent Russia is the bugbear of England, and for
many years prior to 1815, except during the
short interval that PAUL sat on the imperial
throne, one of the great objects of our policy
was to strengthen and civilize Russia. We in-
troduced her officers into our navy; we sent out
our officers to organise her fleet; and having
made her formidable, we now live in apprehen-
sion of her, and would feign check her power.
Such is political wisdom !

From the pressure of Parliamentary and other
matters, we are compelledto defer till to-morrow
a report of the great Anti-Corn-law meeting
which took place at Liverpool on Monday last.
The proceedings throughout were of a most
satisfactory character, for nothing could surpass
the earnestness and animation exhibited by the
different speakers, and the favour with which
their convincing arguments were received.

The Paris papers of Monday have been re-
ceived, together with the first day's Report of
the trial of DARMES and his two accomplices,
DucLos and CONSIDERE, for attempting the life
of the KING, 011 the 11th of October last. The
trial excited no interest, and none of the usual
precautions were taken to preserve the peace of
the metropolis. This augurs well for the Govern-
ment, and for the state of public feeling in Paris.
It must also satisfy the KING that a Government
which outrages the public sense of justice by
unduly magnifying offences, in order to glut its
private vengeance in their punishment, is sure to
provoke their almost immediate repetition. Still
enough has not been done to discourage the
atrocious crime of DARMES. While a villain,
who has earned from the justice of his
country a verdict of detention in chains
and hard labour for life, can by the per-
petration of an additional crime make him-
self an object of European curiosity, and
demand, for his Judges, the Peers of France,
du* he may insult the Court and set the laws
at defiance, and so act the desperado on a na-
tional theatre, there will exist a strong tempta-
tion to the morbidly vain in villainy to aim at
the life of the first Magistrate. To deter from
such a crime it should be punished with the
utmost obscurity. No Court of Peers, no Cham-
ber of Deputies should be consulted, or made
officially acquainted about the matter. The busi-
ness should be left to a common Jury, an ordi-
nary Judge, and the few witnesses capable of bear-
ing testimony to the mere crime for which
the accused stood charged. "But," cry the
courtiers, " would you afford the KING 110 more
protection than you would the meanest of his
subjects ?" Unquestionably we would. We
would enable him to do more good than others,
and so make himself more beloved than any
subject could do. We would grant him such
prerogatives as, if properly exercised' would alle-
viate the sufferings of the afflicted, improve the
c mdition of the industrious, satisfy the wishes of
fie virtuous, second the exertions of the benevo-
-1 ant, and force even the evil-minded to respect in
him the majesty of virtue. These are the true
protections of Royalty. But to punish with
greater eclat, and with more severity, offences
against the person of a Sovereign than against
the obscurest of his subjects, is but to exalt him
as a target courting the bending of the bow of
the hardly thought-conceived crime of regicide.
DARMES, the principal criminal, when brought
before the Court, presented the appearance of a
rather stupid, common-place man. He is of fair
complexion ; and.when asked if he had fired at
the KING, admitted it at once. His age is forty-
three. DucLos' age is forty-four; his hair and
complexion black, and his eyes exhibiting in
their wildness indications of insanity. The third
conspirator is only thirty years of age, but his
appearance manifested nothing remarkable. To
the preliminary proceedings of the Court, such
as reading what in England we term the bill of
indictment, which occupied two hours, the pri-
4oners manifested the utmost indifference.
The unfortunate affair of the LOUIS-PHILIPPE
Correspondence excites an hundred times more

lively interest than the trial of DAIIMES. The
Government has been sadly at fault with regard
to this correspondence. It abandoned: the charge
of forgery, which it, at first instituted .against the
France—a Royalist paper. It set at liberty two
Editors which it imprisoned, without :daring to
bring them to trial: it brought charges against
six Journals, abandoned five of them, and was
defeated by the sixth in a Court of Justice. At
the very outset we besought the French Govern-
ment to take no notice whatever of this corre-
spondence. Unnoticed by the King and the
Ministry, we well knew that, after serVing for a
nine-days' wonder, it would be thrown aside and
forgotten. But the prosecution of it, by the
Court has acquired for it an immense importance.
Already do the Opposition Journals declare that
they will not be satisfied—that France will not
be satisfied—with a Ministerial pledge. to the
Chambers that the letters are fyrgeries.
The fact must be proved—proved by Judges,
and before a Court where the originals
cannot be seized on their production by
the creatures of the KING. They therefore de-
mand the prosecution of La ContempOraine in
London, where the correspondence is, offered to
be exhibited, and where it actually is at present.
See to what mischief the foolish vindictiveness
of a Government may lead ! The KING has con-
trived to get himself into a very troublesome
scrape.

Relative to the late news from French Africa
we find the following in the National:—
It appears, as well from General Bugeaud's despatch as from
several letters from the head-quarters of the army in Africa,
that it was the precipitation with which, without orders, the
Duke de Nemours charged at the head of the 24th Regiment,
of which his brother, the Duke d'Armsale, was Lieutenant• C-
olonel, that preventedthe complete success of General Bugeaud's
plan, and the entire destruction of the Arabs under the com-
mand of Abd-el-Kader.

It was known in Paris on Monday that the
French Government had ordered its representa-
tive at the Court of London to sign the Treaty for
the pacification of the East in concert with Eng-
land, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. We have good
authority fbr stating that the Treaty was so signed
on Tuesday at the Foreign-office, so that there
1-s an end to the isolation of France. The influ-
ence of France in the East has suffered greatly,
from the adoption of the puerile policy of M.
TRIERS. But TRIERS was intoxicated at finding
such warlike Allies as King WILLIAM, of
Holland, and his eleven thousand Dutch horses.
Had M. TRIERS added to King WILLIAM and
his Dutch horses, ST. URSULA and her eleven
thousand virgins, the force against England
would indeed have been overwhelming!

The following extracts include what other
news there is in these papers :

Orders have been sent to Cherbourg to fit out a Govern-
ment cutter, selected for quick sailing, and to station it in
the Bay of St. Brieuc, for the protection of the oyster beds
from English fishing-boats.
A water-spout burst over the village of Revermont, in the
Rhone, a few days since, and extended its ravages over that
and several adjacent communes. A great deal of damage was
done, the water washing away gardens on the sides of the
valley, and swelling the streams to torrents. No lives were lost.
Several Journals quote advices from Cuba of the 15th
April, which state that sixty-two negroes from Jamaica had
landed on the southern coast of the island, and that thirty had
been immediately shot, being suspected as emissaries to excite
the slaves to revolt.

From Vienna we learn that, on the 15th instant, Prince
Metternich celebrated the 68th anniversary of his birth at his
summer palace, in the suburb of Rennweg, and gave a grand
diplomatic dinner, which was attended by all the Foreign Mi-
nisters. 'l'he Prince, in the couree of the day, received an au-
tograph letter of congratulation from the Emperor. Prince
Metternich was expected to remain only a few days longer at
Vienna, being prepared to visit his estates in Bohemia, and
thence proceed to Johannisberg, where he will have the honour
of receiving the King of Prussia during his Majesty's intended
tour through his Rhenish provinces.
Extract of a letter from Athens, 30th ult. :—" Our last
arrivals from Candia inform us that the Sfaxiotes had come
down from the mountains to Argrocoma, where the main body
of the Christians were assembled. A corps of the latter
remained in the environs of Canea that they might not lose
sight of the Turks, and the inhabitants could not leave the
town, even for their ordinary business in the country, without
permission from the insurgent commandant. The other strong
places of the island were in the same position. Mustapha
Pacha had not dared to take any active steps before the arrival
of the promised reinforcements from Constantinople. A report
is spread that Mount Athos has revolted, and that the insur-
gents have beaten the Turkish garrison."
BOURSE—PAnits, MorwAy, MAY 24.

irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. Price
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4% per Cants 104 50 ... 104 51 ... 104 50 ... 104 50
4 per Cents 000000 99 ... 99 ... 99 99
3 per Cents 79 30 .. 79 40 ... 79 SO 19 40
Rank of fiance
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5,000 f. Stares 5131 ...5130 ...5130 ...5130
Belgian Bank
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5 per Cents.
3 I,er Cents 7l ... 71 71 71
New Loan lOl% ... •101% ... 101%
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NeApoht4n lO4 60 ... 104 80 ... )•.;4. 60 ... 04 80
Unman
RAILWAY sHARES.

Versailles, LP 217 50 .. 217 50 ... 210 ... 212 50
R. B 337 50 ... 3 0 ... zi3.5 ... 335
Orleans ".
itrastiurg to Bale :230 ... 230 ... 227 50 .. 227 50
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viunma, MAY 15.
fiveper Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cent 5................. ..... ...
Three p,:r Cents.
Bank Shares 1639
—Allgemeine Zettung, May 20

German Papers have been received this morn-
ing with some accounts from European Turkey,
which, having reached us through another chan-
n'el, appeared in The Sun of yesterday.

Madrid Journals, of the 17th instant, have
reached us. Senor CLOZAGA had failed to form
a Cabinet, and the REGENT had charged Count
ALMODOVAR with powers to try what he could
do. At a Cabinet Council it had been resolved
that the title " Highness" should be prefixed to
the name of the REGENT.
Letters from Corunna of the 14th inst., state that Madame
Mina had been appointed governante of her Majesty Queen
Isabella, and of her sister the Infanta, at the special entreaty of
their mother, Queen Christina, ex-Regent of Spain.
El Castellano of the 17th states that the Commander Don
Miguel Matan had surprised the famous Carlist Chief Jose
Canela in a farmhouse near Agramont. He had come from
the valley of Andoura, with a commission from Tristany to
raise guerillas in the Segara. Before he was executed he
made some important confessions, which might serve to defeat
the plans of several other Carlist Chiefs, who purpose making
similar attempts during the summer. Canela suffered death
with resignation ; but to the last moment he besought an in-
terview with Espartero.
The business transacted on the Madrid Bourse on the 17th
inst. was but trifling. The Five per Cents. closed at 27 3-16 k
cash, and 28i at :ixty days.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—Friday, as usual, Was spent in
prayer, and on Saturday a variety of subjects came be-
fore the Assembly. They were, in general, •of little
interest to the public, with the exception of the case of
Mr. Wright, of Borthwick, one of the most useful mem-
bers of the Kirk of. Scotland. He has published several
excellent works on the ditties of Christians, which have
had a general circulation, not only throughout Scotland,
but England, and the north of Ireland, and have been
greatly admired by those who derive consolation from
the Gospel dispensation. Some of them, however, have
given offence to the Evangelical party in the Scotch
Church, who consider them heterodox, and that party,
therefore, has persecuted Mr. Wright for the last two or
three years. He appealed from the inferior Courts to
the General Assembly, and that body as now constituted,
of coarse decided against him on Saturday, by confirm-
ing the decisions of the Synod and Presbytery. It is not
at all improbable that the wild men who now rule the
Kirk may eventually depose him. The more we see of
these agitators, the more are we convinced that the
Church of Scotland is now really in danger.

EFFECTS OF PENNY POSTAGE IN THE LONDON DIS-
TRICT POST.—The revenue in this post (after deducting
the receipts on General Post letters collected by this de-
partment), for the year 1838—the last year totally unaf-
fected by the great reduction of rate—was 118,000/. ; for
the year 1840 about 104,0001., so that an increase of 13
per cent. only is wanted to make the revenue of 1840
equal to that of 1838. But the present rate of increase is
14 per cent. per annum, so that, assuming this rate of
increase to continue, the lapse of another year is all that
is required for the complete restoration of the gross re-
venue of this department.—Mr. Rowland Hill's Postage
Paper, read before the Statistical Society, on May 17.

CALM DISCUSSION, FOR THE CORN•LAWS.
—The landowners want to have the Corn-law question
discussed with calmness. These men with full bellies, ask
the hungry labourer to be as placid as they are. They
should have made the request in 1835 and 1836, when
food was abundant, and prices low ; but the men to
whom calmness must th:n have been recommended, were
the fidgetty, fretting landowners. Their request comes
now too late ; and as they have taken great care to con-
vince the public that it has nothing wLatever to hope
from their sense of justice, they must expect that the pub-
lic will appeal to another sense.
THE NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.—This
morning, at seven o'clock, the first stone of the projected Ca-
tholic Cathedral, which is to be erected in St. George's
Fields, opposite to the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, was
laid by the Rev. White, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Til-
ford and Macstay. Although admission could be obtained by
tickets only, nearly two hundred persons, whose appearance
bespoke the highest respectability, were present at an early
hour, and remained on the ground some time after the cere-
mony had been performed. The service was read in Latin by
the Rev. White, and the responses, which were ehaunted,
were given by Messrs. Tilford and Macstay. After the stone
had been laid the. Rev. Gentlemen walked the bounds of the
projected edifice, and retired,
A NEW HAY STACK.—Yesterday, Mr. G.
Rumble finished his haymaking, and got all stacked in excel-
lent condition. For so early a mowing the crop is greater than
usual.—Lincoln Gazette.