The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-23 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

PHILADELPHIA, OCT. I.—The mail for the Boston
steamer to Liverpool had not quitted this city an hour,
before a gentleman called whose friend had that moment
arrived direct from Utica, which town he left on Tuesday
night. As the Liverpool packet from this port is now
getting under way, I avail myself of a few moments to
give you the pith of his conversation.
He was on his way home from Ohio, and intended to
come through Pennsylvania, but hearing so much of the
M‘Leod case, he thought he would stop a day or two at
Utica, and possess himself of the exciting news. He
fancied that that town would preseht a scene of interest
and anxiety, without parallel in the Union for many
years, especially as the account of the secret "Hun-
ters .odges," and of armed men had been so vividly
coloured. Imagine his surprise, then, to find very little
excitement, indeed not more than occurs on ordinary
trials for murder in Philadelphia, and the great masses
of the population attending to their business as usual.
True, something like a stir existed in the immediate
vicinity of the Court, and at the hotels where the prin-
eipal witnesses, reporters for the Press, Mackenzie,
Sutherland, 'Teller, newsruongers and panic-makers
were sojourning.
The evidence,' it was generally understood, would be
very contradictory, especially as some of the witnesses on
both sides were said to be without character. Still the
prevailing sentiment among the moderate and reflecting
was, that M‘Leod would be able to prove an alibi. My'
friend asked him " did you hear much of the pa-
triots ?" " No," he replied. " I heard little or nothing
about them; there are such, however, and they have
secret lodges. In short, much of the excitement that
prevails in the large cities on the subject, and many of
the alarming rumours that are circulated, gathering in
magnitude as they-go, like a rolling snowball, are little
better than humbug."
I quote the 'very words of the gentleman alluded to,
who is one of our most respectable citizens, and a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends.
Most of the proceedings of the Patriots are doubtless a
profound secret—but, founding an opinion on the infor-
mation of the citizen just arrived here from Utica, I am
convinced their numbers are much smaller than has bsien
represented: Still they must be considerable, and the
danger must be, or must have been imminent, as the Pre-
sident of the I.W.ted States, acting from official informa-
tion, issued his Proclamation on the subject, and de-
spatched troops to the frontier to keep the peace.
The fi:ontier and M‘Leed excitement has had a de-
' pressing influence on the Money Markets, from the im-
pression that so generally prevails of the intentions of
the so-called "Patriots ' to embroil England and the
United States in difficulties, if not war. Letters from
Savannah, Georgia, say that the United States Govern-
ment declines giving permission for a depot for the new
British mail steamers at Cockspur, in the South, on the
ground that they would probably injure the American
trading vessels in taking passengers and letters.—Chro.
nicle's Correspondent.

THE SUSSEX SHIPOWNERS
SOCIETY.
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At a meeting of this Society, held at Brighton on the
16th, the following memorial was unanimously agreed
to. By the time Parliament meets, Sir Robert Peel will
find tho bread-taxers his only supporters:—
" TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT OF TH2

BOARD OF TRADE.
" The memorial agreed to at a meeting of the ship-
owners, merchants, mariners, and others of the ports of
Shoreham and Newhaven, held at Shoreham, the 16th
day of October, 1841,
" That your Memorialists beg leave to call the atten-
tion of your Honourable Board to the very depressed and
ruinous state of the Baltic and coasting mercantile ma-
rine arisinc, from enormous imposts levied in the shape
of dues, and also from the great increase of foreign ves-
sels now employed in our Baltic trade, amounting nearly
to two-thirds of the whole number (except steamers) so
employed.

a That this has arisen from the fact that Baltic ships
can be built, manned, victualled, and sailed, at nearly
one-half the cost of lilritish ships. The tax alone on the
building materials for 100 tons of shipping amounts to
5001., independently of the tax on labour and freightage
of the materials to this country.
" That the unequal exaction of the Sound dues levied
on grain imported from some of the Baltic ports amounts
to 60 per cent. more if in British than foreign privileged
vessels.
" Your memorialists,therefore, pray that your Honour-
able Board will be pleased to take these circumstances
into your most serious. consideration, and afford the
shipping interest that speedy relief and protection to
which it is justly entitled."

LITERATURE.
OUTLINES OF BOTANY. Palmer, London, 1841.
In this little volume we have the substance of
six elementary Lectures on Botany which were
delivered by the author, a gentleman named
Graham, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
We have glanced our eye over the Lectures, and
have been much struck with the skill and ingenuity
with which Mr. Graham has contrived to sim-
plify, and render intelligible to the most ordi-
nary capacity, the general principles of the
science. Those who desire to obtain a correct
idea of the outlines of botany cannot do better
than study this useful and unpretending volume
with attention.

KNIGHT'S STORE OF KNOWLEDGE.
Knight, London, 1841.
The present Part of this Miscellany contains
two .Essays—one, on the National Debt and
Funded System ' • and the other on the Mineral
Kingdom. Both are written in a very pains-
taking spirit, and with an obvious endeavour, on
the part of the author, to render these subjects as
little abstruse and as attractive as possible, in
which he has, to a certain extent, succeeded.

COURT CIRCULAR.
liar Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday,
both in the forenoon and afternoon, in the garden of
Buckingham Palace.

His -Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col.
Bouverie, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon.
His Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Kent at her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's.
The Duke of Cambridge visited his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, yesterday.
The Royal dinner party, last evening, at Buckingham
Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Earl of Liverpool, Baron
Stockmar, and Sir George Couper.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, arrived at Gloucester
House, at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Birsted
Lodge, near Bognor, Sussex, the residence of the Earl
and Countess of 5.1ay0.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has re-
turned to his residence at Kew, from Birstead Lodge,
near Bognor. His Royal Highness arrived in town at
one o'clock yesterday, attended by Major Stephens, and
paid visits in the course of the afternoon to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence llouse, St.
James's, to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House, and to his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of
Hesse Philippsthal at. Marlborough House. The
Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, re-
turned to Kew in the evening.
A Deputation from Paisley and the County of Ren-
frew, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Baird, Ballie Murray,
and Councillor Henderson, to represent the case of the
unemployed operatives, had an interview with Sir James
Graham, at the Home-office, yesterday. .
The Lord President, yesterday, visited the Central
'School of the National Society.
The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch left town, yes-
terday afternoon for Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries.
Captain Canfield, of the United States army, was
married yesterday at Trinity Church, Portland-place, to
Miss Mary Cass, daughter of his Excellency General
Cass, Minister of the United States at Paris. Amongst
the company present were his Excellency, Mr. Steven-
son, Mrs. Stevenson, Colonel Todd, United States Mi-
nister to St. Petersburgh, &c.