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rtion
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and Deferred Annuities ori-
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upon a Policy of Assurance.
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FOR LIFE-
A. B.
kge. Without With For' One For Five
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30 2 4 4 2 9 3 019 6 1 0 0
40 2 18 3 3 ii .3 1 310 1 5 0
50 4
60 4 [413 L 5 113 0 116 6
613 g 7 8 A' ' 3 0 0 3 9 6
________
Two-thirds of Profits d7.;iiire d at inually amongst the Assured.

d at inually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED A NNDITII DEPARTMENT.
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but to far exceed in amount th e entire )enefit of all the an-
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classes through separate ir,ves trnents in Sa Banks, Be-
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I. A small yearly or -oreekl contribution Nyill secure the
most ample return for aft sr life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at the age of 20 , will give the policy holler the fol-
lowing option, at the ag e of 65 !
Annuity for remainder .uf 1ife_.......
Cash
V 4 11 0 or it
Policy, without further contributive s, of 466 0 oat death.
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, a nd 60) may be also taken
with similar advantages.
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and al w. /4 available dr ming sieknot nor want of employment.
3. Two..hirds of all payments re turned to representatives in
case of premature death.
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one to five years, effected at low er rates than are charged by
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ad R.), with option of con.
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This Institution is empower ed by
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ment, ANCE COm
holders, and to As-
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in their fullest extent, to Polic/- •
han can be obtained
ment, and is so constituted as t a afford cl.‘e benefits of Life
sent greater facilities and acco .asmodati, on t
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taut
vantages may be
Among others, the foil
.owing impos ad-,
enumerated :—, if its plan, and its
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the use of this Comp; Any from
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Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy.
All claims payable within one rm ,nth after p roof of death.
Medical Attendants remunerated in all case; i
at Two o'clock.
or their reports.

Premium per Cent per Salm= paYa
by& during'

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i oc. 'First Fly/Second Fire I
Third n
(Fourth Five Remainder
• a
0 Years. Years I or . Yeas Years. _
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20 £1 1 4 .£1 510 £1 10 77.
no 1 n 4 , 112
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40 110 1 24 4 214 , ,
511 216 7 39 4 41 .
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2 7 4 2 17 6
373 4 3 4
5 6 3 6 13 7

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SECRET
EMPEROR OF CHINA.
MEMORIAL TO THE
(From the Canton Press.)
The Impei4al Commissioner Yu-'seen, Lieutenant-
Governor of Keangsoo, lays this msrnorial before the
Great Emperor, praying that he will bestow thereon a
sacred glance.
Last year when the English foreigners arrived off
Teen-tsin to baud up their statement of (alleged)
grievances, their ships scarce exceeding five in num-
ber, and the place where they anchored was at Kookow
(the mouth of the Peiho) a long way off the city of
Teen tsin ; yet Keshen' in his fright and trepidation
declared that " they were within the very precincts of
the imperial residence of Sbing•king (or Muk-den)
and that it behoved us to act with the utmost cau-
tion, as the whole of the coast of Chekeang had
t
been taken possession of." And he also said, " that
tsheu south
shipso
would b were
w which
coming
number, and that the whole of the country north and
o
ere
inngt afterco confusion," isoen ,'w'
withoutthus
seeking to abuse the Imperial ear, scheming thereby to
gloss over and conceal his utter want of preparation to
meet the enemy.* And moreover he sent presents
of bullocks and wine to the foreign soldiers, and ap-
pointed officers to say fine things to them. The
consequence of which was that the mandarins of Che-
keang and Shantung followed up his vicious example by
an unbroken series of banquets, until these rebellious
robbers, whet had stormed and plundered one of our
walled cities, came to be viewed as guests So much so
that Teo-Hwuy Poo, the Lieut.-Governor of Shantung,
shnfiling over the matter says, " The said foreigners
being delighted, formed a circle and made obeisance !"
Now, I find that the said English foreigners are most
stiff in the loins, and most straight in the legs, so much
so that even when they see the King, of their country
they make no obeisance whatever. During the reign
of Kesking they came to Peking, and their Am-
bassador (Lord Amherst), because he could not
kneel down and make an obeisance, was driven forth
and sent home to his country. Tnis is a circumstance
that may clearly proved at any time ; and such being
the case, how could it possibly happen that after having
stormed and plundered a city, and given a rein to their
madness and perversity, on presents being made them at
Shantung, officers and soldiers should form a circle and
perform obeisance? This disgraceful piece of busi-
ness, which has tarnished the honour of our country,
which has given rise to expressions intended to dupe
and betray the too-confiding Son of Heaven (i. e. the
Emperor), and which has made us a laughing-stock to
those without as well as those within, had all its origin
in the foolish way in which affairs were then conducted
at Teen-tsin ; and this crime of being thrown into con-
sternation and using deceit, is the FIRST charge that I
bring against Keshen.
After that the said foreigners had returned to Can-
ton, their haughtiness got more unbearable than ever,
and their greed and desire of extortion still greater
than before. Every day the matter became more ur-
gent : Keshen at that time filled the highest rank, and
ought imediataly to have assembled together Tartars
and Chinese, laud troops, sailors, and militia ; he ought
in his own person to have gone to the forts at the
river's mouth, to have vigilantly guarded the most
important passes, to have published a scale of rewards
for meritorious conduct, to have token every means to
inspirit his officers and men. But unable to be foremost
to conquer them, he waited quietly till the robbers
could conquer them, and then he could do nothing but
find fault with the Brigadier, how that he was
wanting in courtesy, and how that he made those
and those mistakes, but took net the slightest precau-
tions either for active warfare or for defence. The offi-
cers thus had no honour left them to fight for, the men
lost heart altogether, and the foreigners, seizing-the op-
portunity when they were off their guard, suddenly
fired off their guns and muskets, attacked and got pos-
session of the farts, and cut our troops in pieces.
Besides from two o'clock till four o'clock, P.m., in
the space of a couple of hours, he made two dif-
ferent reports of the case, and speaking of our troops
he uses the expression, " It is impossible for a
handful of men to fight a multitude!" Now I find that
at Canton, although the guns mounted in our ships
of war may not be so fierce and strong as those of
the foreigners, yet as regards our land troops, there is
the (Tartar) garrison of the provincial city, there are
soldiers of the Viceroy's standard, those of the
Fooyuen's standard, those of the (Chinese) General's
standard and the naval militia drawn from the sea-coast,
forming a total of several tens of thousands of men,
much more than ten times the number of the robbers,
for the whole number of the foreign robbers now at
Canton does not exceed several thousands, and the
foreign soldiers only made use of two pointed fighting
devil's ships (steam-boats !) which cannot carry at the
most above a few thousands !—thus Keshen might
easily have despatched a body of troops to cut off their
retreat and annihilate them, but how happens it on the
other hand that he allowed a thousand and more of
the foreign banditti to go round the hill, and then
attempt to explain it away by saying that " a handful
of men could not fight a multitude ?" Keshen being
lost to every sense of fear and shame, whenever the
sulaject of the total want of military preparation and
defence at Canton is introduced, excuses himself by
laying the blame at the door of former Viceroys. I
should like him to reflect for a moment, for upwards of
a year and more before he arrived to fill the office (of
Viceroy of Canton) those very soldiers of Canton pro-
vince had repeatedly slaughtered these same foreigners
and gained a succession of victories over them ;t they
had burned many of their ships and driven the rest far
out to the ocean, where they dared no longer to come
prying and spying about the coast ; all these (heroic)
deeds were done without requiring to draw troops from the
other provinces, and yet we never heard of such a thing
as the army losing heart or their valour being blunted!
This crime, then, of being absent from the post of
danger, of making no preparation to resist the enemy,
and thereby tarnishing the honour of the country, is
the SECOND charge that I have to bring against Keshen.
Although we had unfortunately lost the forts of Tai-
kok and Sba-kok, still there remained to us no less than
eight fortified places in and about the Bocce Tigris.
Of these, the Wei yucn fort (Lower Annung-hoy ?) the
Kung koo fort (Upper Annung-hyy ?) and the Yung
gan fort (Wangtong?) stand tripod fashion on the sides
of three hills, and are secured by strong iron chains
thrown across. The difficulty of skipping or flying over
these was as great as heaven itself! that was the mo-
ment when he ought promptly to have stationed valiant
marine soldiers there to make a stout defence, he him-
self ought to have galloped to the spot to take the
command, and give orders for the disposition of the
troops, thereby to set men's minds at rest Lnd infuse
ardour into his soldiers ; while he did all this on the
spot, he ought at the same time to have sent a commu-
nication to seize the golden opportunity of putting the
invaders to the sword and getting back our own terri-
tory, in this way rendering the head and tail (i. e. the
Canton division and the Tinghae division) of the ban-
ditti incapable of rendering each other's support or as-
sistance. At that time there were only some 20 odd
ships at Tinghae, and the half of those were merchant-
men ; besides, neither Elliot nor Bremer had returned
to Chekeang, and the whole affairs there were left
under the charge of a single footseang or brigadier 4
Moreover, after that Elliot had captured tho forts he
left his ship and went on shore.,t What a glorious op-
portunity that was to have seized him ; but the very
reverse is the case, for we find that in all 'else documents,he has sent up to Court he does not say a syllable about
the plans he is laying to extorniinate the'English, or
the measures he is taking for defence, but -again and
again urgently begs that the troops may be delayed,
and words to that effect, and makes use •of dlingerous
expressions (threats?) wherewith -to back his- memo-
rials to your Majesty. And, further, he writes up to
E le poo, at Chekeang, in the most importunate man-
ner, desiring that he will not advance with his troops, and
immediately followi this up by the gift of Hong KOng,
and an arrangement by which the English are at once per-
mitted to re-open their trade at Canton city, Thus, not
the very teeth of the recorded will
only does he act in
of the late Emperor Kaou t Keen-lung)
but (:. e.
but he does not even wait until Tinghae had been re-
stored, when be ought humbly to have begged the ma-
nifestation of- the Imperial pleasure to see whether
your Gracious Majesty consented to the terms or not.
By this arrangement, the foreigners first got a port
secured to them, and afterwards they restored Ting-
hae—thus, as it were, trucking one portion of our terri-
tory against another, and methinklithereby the Celestial
dynasty obtained a great accession of dignity ! In
another point-of view, he first permitted the English
to re-open their trade, and gave. them their territory,
and afterwards informed your Majesty of the transac-
tion ; thus putting those acquisitions on some other
footing than a manifestation of Imperial goodness!
In fine, these said rebels, having seized by force one
having slaughtered of our walled cities,d our soldiers
and civilians, and having spread their poison among
our common people, their crimes could not be greater—
their cup of iniquity was filled to the brim ; and yet,
to put all this on one side, as if it were nothing to
act madly and perversely to the degree he has done,
involves Keshen in the crime of undue assumption of
your Majesty's power; and this is the THIRD charge
that I have to bring against him
When Kesben was at Canton, and when he gave
the foreigners Hong Kong in exchange for Chusan, he
ought at least to have settled distinctly that the whole
of the foreign ships in
Che-keang should be delivered
d of doing this he forwards a docu-
ment from the " Barbarian eye (Elliot) to E le poo,
in which there is the following sentence:--" In reference
to tlw goods and merchandise on board the foreign

cargo ships in the harbour of Chusan, I beg that you
will assemble the Ning-po merchants and induce them
to go thither to buy them up." Now, I fiad that
when these said foreigners weer! at Tinghim they eold
off an immense quantity of opium. Last winter
many of the distressed inhabitants of the district
banded up statements to that effeat, which may be au-
theitticated. Thus, then, it follows that the said fo-
reigners wished to follow up their ilLcit traffic in
opium, the same as previously, only with the Niogpo
merchants, by way of change. How happens it that,
when Keshen wa3 at Canton treating of peace, he did
not come to some certain understanding upon this mat-
ter, so as to cut up the noxious creeper by the very
roots ? This crime, then, of irregularity and of basely
accommodating matters to our serious hurt, is the
FOURTII charge which I have to bring against Keshen.
The terms " Barbarian eye," " Company," " Super-
intendent," &c., are just so many expressions used to
denote the principals among the foreign merchants,
quite on the same principle as we, in China, call
our " hong merchants," or " security merchants,"
&c. The old-established custom at Canton was, that
if these foreigners had anything to complain of, they
petitioned the Viceroy through the Keun min Foe of
Macao, when they merely styled themselves " mer-
chants from a distance," or "employes from a distance,"
as the case might be, and the Viceroy or Foo yuen in
reply commanded the Keun min Foo to impress the
orders on " said Superintendent," or whoever it might
be ; these forms have beeu established for a long time,
and numerous documents are in our archives, which can
easily be referred te. But from last year, when he
went to Che-keang and Teen-tsin (Elliot) has handed
up documents which he calls "clear communications
(on an equal footing)," and rashly arrogates to himself
the tiee of " His Excellency the public Envoy."
Nay more, Keshen not having the slightest iota of dis-
crimination, actually styles him in his despatches " the
Honourable Commissioner" forsooth! thus bending down
the-high Celestial dynasty to treat with a parcel of fo-
reign duffers and jobbers as its equals! Oh, what a
loss of national dignity is here! If all the foreign mer-
chants of the different foreign countries, crowding one
on the heels of the other, borrow this as an excuse to
imitate the evil example, how shall we be ever able to
govern them ? Upon what principle Call we be majes-
tically stern towards all other nations, and tamely put
up with insults from the English foreigners alone ? Or,
conversely, by what secret can we, while bending under
the insults heaped upon us by the English, awe the
other foreign countries by a display of Celestial majesty ?
The crime, then, of having; lowered the dignity of our
nation, and having thereby provoked a bloody and
mortal war, is the FIFTH charge which I lay at the door
of Keshen. •
According to my tremble and stupid view of matters,
a high officer commanding on the frontiers ought to.
have some little dignity and foresight in order to he able
to subdue and keep down the outside foreigners. At
Macao, in the province of Kwang-tung, are assembled
merchants from several tens of countries in the greet
and little western oceans, these are all looking on to see
who will prove the weaker and who the stronger party,
and as it is our success, so will they turn their faces
towards or their backs upon the Celestial dyeasty ;
for the noise of our struggle has been spread
abroad all over the seas. If it so happens that
the English attain their object, then this will more than
ever inflate the pride of all the foreigners, and set
their evil designs a working ; words cannot express
the fatal consequences to which this would give
rise ! Keshen, having blunted the high mettle of our
soldiery, having tarnished the honour of our country,
and having, per fics et nefas, begged conditions (for
the foreigners) which it was impossible to grant, Las
brought the English to look upon us with contempt,
and caused that all the various nations of the western
ocean no longer esteem us as they once did. If he be
permitted to rennin longer at Canton he must sedu-
lously apply himself to disseminate his evil example
in order the more effectually to screen his particular
crimes ; and the evil, it is to be feared, will not step
with our inability to restrain the influx of opium, and
to get rid of the daily increasing pestilence of the dis-
tant foreigners.
From days of old until now these outside foreigners
have only known to dread our majesty, they Lever
knew what it was to harbour in their bosoms any prin-
ciple of good ; therefore, in governing the barbarians}
you must first make a fearful example by mas-
sacring a part, in order that you may be able
afterwards to rule the rest. From the time of the
Sung dynasty till the time of the Ming dynasty, our
frontiers were at different epochs subjected to their
cruel inroads; those of us who wished to vindicate the
honour of their country by force of arms were the faith-
ful and wise statesmen; those who wished to compro-
mise and regarded not the national dignity, were the
traitors and parasites ; those who viewed matters as re-
lated to posterity were the clear-headed and valiant of
our warriors ; while those who were content to sacrifice
everything for temporary repose, numbered none save the
timid and the bass! The fame of the might and majesty
of our great, pure dynasty for the last 200 years has
caused all distant lands to tremble, and the barbarians
of the four quarters have been awe-struck and dismayed !
From times of the most remote antiquity we never
heard anything of the " English barbarians !" these
are nothing► more than a gang of rascally merchants
linked together by illegal ties,--a banditti leagued for
the express purpose of selling opium ; and what then
must we think of Keshen, who so often praises these
outside barbarians, and puffs off their " superior attain-
ments" as a means to coerce and constrain the Govern-
ment of the Central land ?
I, your Majesty's Minister, have partaken largely of
Imperial goodness ; I dare not look with kindness or
compassion on what my heart resents with disgust and
indignation, which might lead otherwise to rendering of
no avail our important plans for the defence of the
frontier ; therefore it is that with the utmost sincerity
I have poured out my heart in this secret memorial on
which I pray your Imperial Majesty to cast one sacred
glance.

Aid further I have heard that when foreigners
arrive at Canton they must employ our Chinese people
t.) act as compradores. These compradores are, in
fact, so many native traitors ; it is they who first teach
the monkey to climb the tree (i. e. point out to
foreigners the path of mischief). Formerly when Tang-
ting-ching was Viceroy of Canton, he reported to your
Majesty that the rascally foreign merchant Dent, whom
he had driven out, had a compradore called PaoLutsung,
who was the most wicked villain among the whole of the
depraved brotherhood. The vagabond, having the
ordcers of justice at his heels, fled to Shan-tung, from
which place he proceeded to Pih-chilee, whero be changed
his name to Paou-pung. He there foregathered
with Keshen, who took him with him to Canton, and
made him his bosom friend and confidant, and made
use of him as a go-between when he had any business
to consult with Elliot, which circumstances arc in the
highest degree strange and suspicious ! When Keshea
writes, " the said (English) foreigners say, we must
fight with you first, and then we can trade with you
afterwards 1" it is hard to believe that it was not this
traitor who spied for him and brought him this report,
after that he had instructed (the 'English) to say so.
I, your Majesty's Minister, am certainly of opinion,
that unless this Paou.tsung be put to death, the affairs
of the foreigners must remain unsettled ; and therefore
I now beg of your Majesty to send secret instructions
to the imperially appointed rebel-quelling General Yih-
shan and his subordinate colleagues Lung-wan and
Yang-tang, that they examine every hole and corner about
Keshen's dwelling if there be such a person as Paou-
pung ; and if he be indeed the very compradore Peon-
tsung, let him be secretly arrested and sternly inter-
rogated (by torture) as to the nature of his traitorous
communication ;—let him then be beheaded and his
bead exposed on the sea shore, as a warning to others,
which may cut off the evil of illicit intercourse between
those within and those without.
I, your Majesty's Minister, having beard this, dare
not, because the case may not have legal proof, sit and
tamely look on as with my mouth sealed, while Keshen
is being involved in the toils of native traitors and ban-
ditti. I, therefore, send in a secret memorial for this
spacial purpose along with my other, hoping that your
Majesty will graciously cast a glance upon it, and cause
that its prayer be duly put into effect. A most re-
spectful memorial.
Our copy has. no date, but we presume that it was
tame written
Elliottten wasortly knownafter
Keshen's
pkn, say betweenshenesitreatyofpeace the h
withl
sCap.t
February and Ist March, 1841.

e The reader will bear in mind that Keshen was at this
time Viceroy of PilLhelee, and had any disturbance then
taken place with our ships, he would have been held re-
sponsible.

f These are the fabulous victories of poor Kwan, Kow
lung, Chuenpee, Bilbaino, Black Joke, &c.
Captain Bourehier's Chinese title while commanding at
Chusan was, " the Foutseang Bourchier."
§ We think there is a clerical error here, and that it ought
to read " the whole of the foreign ships in Chekeang to sail
away immediately."

THE HARVEST ivlousE.—The smdiest of
British quadrupeds is supposed to be the harvest MMISP,
hitherto found only in Hampshire, and which is s&di-
minutive, that two of them put into a scale just weighed
down one copper halfpenny. One of the nests of these
little animals.was procured by Mr. White. It was most
artificially platted, and composed of wheat blades, and
perfectly round, about the size of a cricket ball. It was
so compact and well. filled, that it would roll across a
table without being discomposed, though it contained
eight young ones. This wonderful cradle was found in
a wheat field suspended in the head of a thistle.—Licer-
pool Chronicle.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOIJRNALS.
FROM TIIE nem?. PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.---Some of our contemporaries are rail-
ing, apparently very much at random, on the Chinese
subject ; one of them with a violence .which naturally
puts people on their guard, and those who are put on
their guard, will be disposed to ask--Do these writers
who have objected in turn to the course taken in every
vicissitude of Chinese affairs know what they would
themselves have done, or what is the aim, end, and pur-
pose that they would keep in view? According to them,
when Captain Elliot took possession of Hong Kong,
but without immediate payments of cash, it was not an
island that was wanting—it was money—it was in-
demnity. Now that lie has sent six millions of dollars
to Calcutta, he is no better than a robber and plun-
derer for taking the money, and it is the city of Can-
ton that he ought to have taken. When there was
some doubt whether the trade of, the season would be
got through, the question was a purely commercial
one, and nothing in the world could compensate for
the evils of delay ; anything ought to have been
hazarded rather than interrupt the trade, in comparison
with which (and this is perfectly true) the value of the
opium sinks into insignifieance. But, when Captain
Elliot managed to get hostilities suspended till all the
tea was sent home, he was a wretched tea-monger, who
bartered the honour of his country for mere trading
considerations. It is easy to assail an officer who is
serving his country, in most critical circumstances at the
other end of the world, and who, for his country's ser-
vice, may find it Isis dtity to oppose the interests of
many parties, both on the .spot and in this country, and
whose transactions are communicated to us by Indian
newspapers in the • interest of his opponents.
Those who have read the despatches of Captain
Elliot, laid before Parliament in March, 1840, can-
not bat know that if he has committed errors, they
can be no other errors than such. as an able, pru-
Teteinteleikii-14 capable of. It is very
possible that Captain Elliot may have committed
errors, and since he was recalled by his Govern-
ment, that was Clearly their opinion; but what those
errors were, and what may be his vindication, no one
can know who has not had access to his despatches, and
the last of his despatches which has been printed for
Parliament is that of the 16th of November, 1839. The
present complaint is, that he has not suffered Canton to
be taken by assault ; and we ask again, what are the
objects which his duty and the interests of this country
require him to keep in view? Military glory is an ex-
cellent thing, and very satisfactory to the people at first,
and until they are called upon to pay for it in taxes.
Promotions in the army and navy are pleasant, and
prize-money is precious to those who get it, who are
generally the lawyers engaged in the litigations. But
these were not the immediate objects of the expedition
to China. Neither was slaughter the object; nor was it
intended to lay the foundations of an Anglo-Chinese
empire. And if these were not the objects, Captain
Elliot may have had very good reasons for not taking
Canton by assault.
HERALD.--The quarter's revenue ending on Satur-
day evening, the tabular returns of which will be found
in another column of to day's Herald, shows a slight
improvement in the public receipts, the increase on the
three months being two hundred and forty-one thousand
seven hundred and twenty-one pounds ; and that on the
preceding twelve months being two hundred and forty-
eight thousand one hundred and forty-eight pounds.
Although the increase in the Customs is but small, it is
satisfactory to remark that the augmentation in the im-
port duties has been from sugar ; thus con-
firming the predications of the Conservative party
during the debates on the budget propositions.
The principal increase on the quarter has however
been in the Excise, and. on the cause of this increase we
cannot congratulate the public, as in all probability it
has arisen out of the profusion, the treating and the im-
morality
,of the general election. If we be correct in
this supposition, this very augmentation may be taken
as affording some estimate of the injury done to public
morals by elections as at present conducted, and is a
strong practical argument for the necessity of repressive
legislation on this important subject—to which indeed
Sir Robert Peel has pledged himself that his Go-
vernment shall turn their attention during the re-
cess. It will be remarked that the Post-office reve-
nue continues to decrease, to the utter discomfiture
of the prophecies of Messrs. Warburton, Villiers,
Cobden, and Rowland Hill, and the other great
political economists of the age. The decrease on the
year is two hundred and sixty-eight thousand pounds,
and on the quarter seven thousand pounds. The annual
decrease in this department shows the complete financial
error on which the absurd postage scheme was based.
The cacoethes scribendi, or epistolary mania, caused by
the cheap novelty being now almost over, we may anti-
cipate a gradual falling off in the -Post-office receipts,
until their amount as a Treasury contribution is unwor-
thy of notice, and the conveyance of the mails becomes
a source of expense and not of revenue to the nation.
Two facts are now almest universally admitted, that the
reduction in the rate of postage was made to a ridicu-
lously low rate; and that Mr. Rowland Hill is at present
an extremely well-paid servant of the public, for having
seriously damaged the revenue.
TIMES.— The military honour of Great Britain, not-
withstanding his sportive feats at Canton, has been
brouglit by him into such contempt, that in proportion as
Elliot has dallied with the Mandarins, the Emperor's
manifestoes have risen in impudent bombast. Then, as
to the expense of this protracted buffoonery, we beg our
readers to recollect that, apart from the opium-confisca-
tion, for which no adequate indemnity has yet been re-
ceived, this country has long been obliged to maintain in
China a costly armament, consisting of ten ships of war,
with propertionable • complement of land forces.
Look, too, at the hopeless prospect of continued
bloodshed. All the human life heretofore expended
in the contest has gone for nothing. A renewal of
hostilities must ensue, and perhaps a deadlier slaughter
than any that has yet occurred. Wlegreas, by a vigorous
and unyielding prosecution of footer successes, the
whole dispute might have been finally adjusted more
than a year ago. Our trade interests, too, have been in-
jured in an equal degree; nor, in consequence of Captain
Elliot's invincible folly, in having once more withdrawn
to Hong Kong without securing a satisfactory or ra-
tional compensation for the past, can we possibly fore-
see to what extent our interrupted commercial relations
may yet be destined to suffer. But Captain Elliot has
at length actually forced a compensation from the Chi-
nese. To an extent, let 113 ask, that will either cover
the opium confiscation, or re-imburse the British Go-
vernment for its enormous outlay in obtaining it ?—No
such thing ; he has contented himself with a mere frac-
tional composition. And upon whose authority has this
composition been actually allocated and applied ? By the
authority of her Majesty ? No, but at the sole pleasure
of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Captain Elliot. And to
whom has it been appropriated by that wise and potent
-arbiter ? To the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the
purpose of helping to liquidate a portion of the nation's
expenses ? No, indeed ; but out of the six millions of
dollars agreed for, five millions have been given to the
opium smugglers at Canton, and the residue is kept in
hand, to be used as Captain Elliot pleases.
POST.—The revenue of Excise has always been re-
garded by statesmen as the most certain index of the
general condition of the people.. But we find from the
comparative receipts in this department during the years
ending respectively on the 10th of October, 1840 and
1841, that the people were in so much worse a condition,
were so much more restricted in the consumption of the
various articles which contribute to the Excise revenue
during the year 1840, as to keep the receipts under that
head 872,0001. below the amount to which they have at-
tained during the present year. The questions must na-
turally occur, why did the Whigs withhold their finan-
cial and commercial experiments for the relief of dis-
tress during the year 1840, when distress was at its
height ?—why did they then propose no other measure
of relief than a direct increase of the rate of taxation ?
why did they defer the exhibition of their pretended
sympathy with the sufferings of the people until those
sufferings_ were evidently alleviated by circumstances
wholly independent of any measure of theirs ? These
questions admit of but one answer. The position of the
Whig-Radical Government in'Parliament and the coun-
try had made it a matter of party necessity with them
to attempt to create an agitation in 1841 which in 1840
they had thought it expedient to avoid. It is thus only
that their course can be rationally explained. Their
desperate projects of the present year, in relation to corn,
sugar, and timber, were adopted in the hope, not of re-
lieving the people, but of saving themselves. •
ADVERTISER.—By the official returns of the
quarter's revenue this day before our readers, it appears
that there is an increase for the year, as compared with
the preceding, of 248,1481., of which 241,7211. is to the
credit of the last quarter. In the Excise there has been
an increase for the year of 879,5471., of which
244.617 L is for the quarter ; and in the Customs for
the year the decrease is 667,5221., though the quarter
shows an increase of 74,3401, which last item may
be attributed to the inundation of upwards of one
million and a half quarters of corn, which took
place when. the gambling speculators of Mark-lane,
and not the fair average price of grain, had reduced the
duty to its lowest level of one shilling. Since, therefore,
the increase of Customs is solely attributable to the
forced and fraudulent introduction of corn, it furnishes
in other respects no cause of congratulation to the com-
merce 'ti erce of the country. So much f '
or the sliding scale
The farmer is compelled at the very season when he must
sell his produce, to pay his rent and general expenditure,
to compete with the grower of foreign corn,, w
o, or ratheri.e
with its Brititli importer at a duty of one shi
for the rest of the year, the greater part of f the
market at
growth corn being thus forced into
most unfavourable prices, the bread -eatest-
measure left at the mercy of corn-jobbers, ianroerienreacgkrleesast
and unprincipled in their speculaxteihoannsgtehin Yetthe itnhoisstidseasn-
prate gamblers on the Stock E
affair upon
present Cabinet requires four
which the
months for deliberation, beforeitiecn_and, d
an even
accordingly,
traiii ngl)
.opi-
nion, much less arrive at a conclusion--and,
while the jobbers
swindle, and the people
legislators are dismisseds to
tarve. Such is the present as-
.iriect of our politicaland social system under the sliding
scale—that ingenious ticrice of official knavery !
GLOBE.—The late Government derneastr ted thall
taxation had reached its utmost limit of production, and
that, to endeavour to raise the revenue by adding to the
imposts already existing, would: be to increase the
burdens of the pegple, and to diminish, instead of en-
hancing the nation income. lieu, they proposed an en-
-

.
• tire revision of the import duties,
with' a view to their
equalization. This, they contended, wouldgive an impetus
to our paralyzed trade and commerce—provide employ-
ment for the thousands of our operative manufacturers
deprived of employment, and consequently of the means
or adequate subsistence--and thus meet the exigencies
ofiwith the
outgrtateeaitnlytl,iiencreonalngway in which they can be met,
the distresses and inflaming
the discontents of the people. In this course, in which
prudence enforced the dictates of patriotism, the late
Ministers Were oppoSed and defeated by the con tined
forces of the monopolists. The interests of the corn-
Inunity were sacrificed at the'Shrine of selfishness ; and
thousands of families doomed to privation, and many
more to want verging on 'starvation, that 'the' class-in-
terests might maintain a doubtful advantage. The tables
before us • confirm the views taken by the late Govern-
ment ; and, notwithstanding the . clumsy and ill-timed
gratulations of the Post, will go far to • convince the
country that it is approaching a gulph which can only
be avoided by interposing measures similar to those
proposed by the late Government—measures which a
considerable portion of Sir Robert Peel's Government
have expressly denounced, but for which the Premier is
evidently. yeserving himself. To the Cabinet the an-
nouncement of such intentions will be fatal. •
STANDARD.—Where was ? This is a ques-
don which, a few weeks ago, would have received an-
swers from every place in which profitable patronage
could be dispensed, as numerous as those that replied to
the call " Mr. Smith is wanted," in the pit at Drury-
lane. At present our question is more definite, " where
was Elliot ?" we mean the Elliot—the man who sold the
honour of the British name and the fruit of British gal-
lantry and skill for certain bags of dollars—the man placed,
as it appearS, by the late Ministry, in the chief command
of the naval and military forces in the Chinese seas
—where was he on the 24th of May, a day by the way,
doubly auspicious, as the birth-day of our Queen, and as
the commencement of a series of victories glorious to her
arms? Where was Elliot on the 24th of May, and on
the three following days? As yet we believe no one is
able to answer the question. All we know is, that he was
not where he ought to have been if he was to exercise,
as. unhappily he did exercise, the command of the expe-
dition. lie was not with Sir H. Gough, he was not with
'Sir Senhouse, he was not with the army or the fleet
that he commanded. He was at some place so distant
that a naval officer had to ride hard a whole night
to carry his communications to the military and
naval commanders. The gentleman in questiOn, it is
true, mistook his read ; but a man used to move by
the c.nnpass could not haVe mistaken it for a whore
night unless he had been under the guidance of some
,mischievous " Tony Lumphini" -which is not pre-
tended. Looking to the event, one is sorry, not
that lie missed his way, but that he found it
so soon. But three quarters of .an hour later, and
the British flag—the glorious red cross—would have
waved over . Canton—not, as the Globe tenderly sug-
gests, at the expense of hewing through solid columns
of human flesh. We wonder where were our con-
temporary's fine feelings when the explosion at
Acre was announced—not at the expense of hewing
through solid columns of human flesh—the columns
would have found themselves feet soon enough—but with
the advantage of disarming and dispersing some scores
of thousands of enemies that have been permitted to re-
tire with their arms, and in perfect organization, in order
to take up a more favourable position—with the greater
advantage, too, of dictating terms from. Canton—terms
which dictated from that place must have been accepted,
and must have put an end to the war. But we repeat
our question, " where was Elliot ?" Why was he not
with the expedition that lie commanded?

COURIgR.—The more remarkable feature in these
revolutionary developments in Spain consists in the cir-
cumstance, which would now seem to. be
.decisively esta-
blished, of the league and united co-operation of -the
Carlists with the Christinos. Herein is the special peril
for Espartero, for of herself it may truly be said that in
Spain the partisans of Maria Christina are neither
numerous nor powerful of themselves. There is no
principle which they represent, and consequently no com-
mon bond of action. They consist for the most part of
men whose selfish and ambitious views have been dis-
appointed, or whose envy and hatred have been stimu-
lated by the extraordinary advancement and aggrandise-
ment of Esparterd, the fortunate soldier, so lately their
equal only, or their inferior in station, and now supreme
Dictator of Spain and the Indies These, With the in-
termixture of a few adherents to the ex-Regent from
motives of personal regard, and few they are, for • her
conduct of late years was not calculated to increase the
number or retain even all those before, attached, con-
stitute the whole of the so-called Christine party. Thc
Moderado party, as wretchedly represented by men of
tainted character and broken fortunes, or of an ambition
as unprincipled as they are destitute of capacity, such
as the Isturizes and Torenos, can bring no accession
of strength to whatever party they espouse, but on the
reverse' must be an clement of weakness and discou-
ragement, so odious have they rendered them-
selves in the eyes of the whole nation by their
former career of corrupt misgovernment or scandalous
betrayal of principle. The case is widely different with
the Carlists and the Clergy, embodied privately and
publicly as a united compact mass all over the kingdom,
imbued with the same convictions, animated for contest
• by the same passions, prejudices, and interests, With
wrongs to mean rout to retrieve, and former ascend-
ancy to regain. How this most powerful of all Spanish
parties may have been beguiled into strict alliance with
former deadly foes, it is hardly necessary to inquire, for,
in truth, leis- no uncommon event in the history of con-
tending parties and civil warfare to find ancient foes
combining to sink mutual jealousies and disputes, and
making. joint-head against the one irresistible power by
which both had been vanquished, and were. forcibly held
in subjection. It is, however, impossible not to suspect
the existence of French agency and intrigue in the work
of this singular combination, the quid pro quo of which.
may consist in a pre-concerted match between one of
the sons of Louis Philippe and the young Queen Isabella,
by which the favourite saying of Louis XIV. that
it n-y a plus de Pyrennecs, might more truly be rendered
a reality than even in the days of the Grand Monarque ;
or, it may be, that the disputed rights of succession are
to be merged and amalgamated in the marriage of the
eldest son of Don Carlos with the little Queen. This,
it is known, was always the favourite project of Zeaßer-
mudez, who, we see, is spoken
.of in the Paris Press as
one of the advisers of Maria Christina.

:ONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
• TIMES.—The American intelligence was read with a
great deal of interest in the city this morning, and the
conjectures as to the final result of the M'Leod question
were various and uncertain. At present opinion seems
to lean against the continuation of friendly relations
between this country and the United States, and this
opinion having extended itself to the Consol Jlarket, it
bore. in the early hours of business, an unhealthy appear-
ance. But it was not till some heavy sales were made,
and, as it is supposed,in a quiet and covert manner, that
the effect was perceptible to the full extent. Towards the
close of business the decline became so rapid that the
market was seized with panic symptoms, and, while the-
fall in the value of Consols may be estimated at !per cent-
the jobbers are in a state of uncertainty as to the real
position of affairs, making quotations which die not to
be considered strictly accurate. Such a Movement
' as this having been 'of late a rare occurrence, the
most experienced of the dealers are at a loss to divine
the real cause which produced a fall so momentous,
since, although a general gloom could be accounted for
by the nature of the American intelligence, followed by
the operation of those in the American interest, that
seems to them hardly sufficient to account for this sudden
decline. The speculators for the fall of course took the
opportunity of forwarding their objects, when they per-
ceived the weakness of the market, but without they
brought a very strong force to bear upon it, the origin
of the movement can scarcely be supposed to. lie with
them. These were the facts and opinions that presented
themselves at the moment to the minds of thok who
have the opportunity of judging of Such matters there,
but such was the agitated, state of all interested; that it
was difficult to arrive,at any fixed view, especially as the
sudden run came upon the market shortly Wore its
close. when naturally enough each was occupied with his
own individual interest.
IX/ST.—The fall in Consols mid other permanent
Stocks was ascribed to various causes. Ships .of war
were said to have been ordered to different parts. of tlie
world for the purpose of protecting the national interest`.t.e
America and the southern coast of Spain
points more especially flamed as giving occasion juste.n
of
fur the vigilance of our Cruisers; the near approaronl
the trial of. M. APLeod Dinning, however, tli-eids :not,
neat ground of uneasiness. The Chinese
war ' ability
n all pro° of course, been overlooked, since it
is i- a endituren of
were
eau,
giving rise, or about to do so, to an exP too, for'
heretofore contemplated. The revenue, ,
of in
the quarter ending this day, wastern„ of discou-
the early part of the morning in b
ragement that were not borne out 3
1 Ysome the fall was
the intimations
contained in the Evening Papers. Y
d g measure with the
attributed to the late Government
altyde,alnessctlil
sons subsetibed to the new funding
~,
mranted by the Chan-
-o,icilaccsrroer
a settlement l., was estimated at fto t
inoperation. Many per-
view simply of obtaining the. bo
small advantage, the
cellorof thlenlioxrcdheerqtuocrs
per cent.
'll their pledges at the Bank,
subscribers, haying givenkl
to the. amount subscribed,
immediately sold
time ilt is
asruep supposed
unable theth.
Stmas the newly-created security is
for the Account ;
.!,. ,eewuriellethis
nefxoit:
parties who what is technically called
which produces
to be deliverecilmoriethasec
pay for it, )J It It is in our recolleetion that
large Batt ae,,,at •
a
upon the occasion of the last
B'l9 of about 2. per cent. . This was
18
' fortnight after the close f the theno
etehoer ifil i
rnsgt
rteoatdhi
ne
a.day practice
of
of differences doesnottak
e
place The
faundfainllg,
_
about ten
of the Stock I.N.c h. ,
place till Tbii;rsd.anirieexttb,:ibsiliNt,aas
the account, on which the actual state of it, and the
ability of parties to, meet their engagements,
•
are pretty
well ascertained. 1 hese circumstances connected with
' the house may explain in yartLif not wholly, the fall we
have noticed, as there is nfT doubt that many persons
,made purchases in the expectation that a great demand
would arise for the new Stock to enable them to realise
au advance. But, as the subscription for the five mil,
lions contemplated to be raised was not filled up, many
of the subsctibers are left with the Stock on hand at a
depreciated Mlle.

M. Aude, who was the oldest of the French
dramatic authors, died two days ago, aged 86. He was
at one time Secretary to the Marquis de Carraccioly,
Viceroy of Sicily, and afterwards filled the same office
for l3uffon. lie wrote 47 pieces, most of which were
..favourably received, at the Royal or secondary theatres,
f7.nd yet died in great distress, as in his time the
1 rights of authors produced them but a mere pittance.
For the last fifteen years he existed on a small pension
granted him by the Society of Dramatic Authors. We
else have, to announce the death of Baron d'Allarde, the
*lief Or 'several pleasant vaudevilles,

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
II IDEA the MANAGEMENT of MADAME TESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 12, •

Will be prodne4,s New Comedy, entitled OLD MAIDS.
Sir Philip-Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mathews ; John Blount, Mr.
Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr, G. Vandeuhoff ; Robert, Mr.
Walter Lacy ; Lady Blanche, Madame Vestris; Lady Anne,
Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistress Blount, Mrs. W. West ; Charlotte,
Mrs. Humby ; Jane, Miss Lee.
To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF
ICELAND.—Hans of Iceland, Alt. W. H. Payne; Gill, Mr.
J. H. Ridgway ; Frederick, Mr. Gilbert ; Oglypiglap, Mr. T.
Ridgway ; Iceland Boy, Master Marshall ; Guth Stasen, Miss
Bailin ; Iceland Girl, Miss Marshall.
Doors to X. opened at halt-past Six—the performances to
sammence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Cir&es,.ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 31.;
Second Price. 2;.; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Fear, where Season Tickets may be had upon application.
PrMite Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
107. New Bond-street.