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EVENING SUN. s
itroNEy MARKET and CITY NEWS.
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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The stoppage of the:prrn of
Boggs, Taylor, and Co., in the East IndiliArade
is currently spoken of this afternoon, anaiwe
suspect there are heavy differences in thatltade:f‘lt
still to settle.
The Act for the distribution of public lands
in the United States ist an object of great impor-
tance to the holders of American Securities.
This measure, which passed last Session, pro-
vides for the appropriation of the price received
for public lands, by enacting that one-tenth of
the purchase price shall be applied for the pur-
poses of education within the State where the
lands so let are situated; that another portion,
also one-tenth, we believe, shall be retained by
each State where the lands sold are situated, for
their own hehoof and disposal; and that the,
balance shall then be divided amongst the various
States, according to their population. It is ex-
pected that this enactment will assist the dif-
ferent States in providing for the payment of
their loans by the establishment of efficient
sinking funds with the proceeds. Supposing the
annual land fund to produce 3,000,000 of dol-
lars, the distribution of so much money annu-
ally among the States ought to afford important
aid to them in providing tbr the interest of their
loans.

POST.—It is sufficiently well known that the
house .of Scott, Fairlie, and Co., has been for a
considerable time past involved. It was to this
once eminent establishment we referred on Fri-
day, as being at length compelled to bring its ac-
counts to a close. .the name of the firm appears
in last night's Gazette, and that it should have
been reduced to the alternative of winding lip its
affairs, is lamentedby the mercantile community
at large. We had no intention of creating alarm
by alluding to the embarrassments of another
house in the East India trade, so long as there
was a chance of their being, by any possible ar-
rangement, overcome. It is nevertheless true that
a second firm in the same connection has, during
the last day or two, had its checks returned upon
it. This is certainly a house of no long standing
in itself, though it cannot with truth be said to
be one of recent origin. As a general practice,
we abstain from blazoning forth names in cases
of difficulty. Much mischief is done by such a
course, but we think, at the same time, it must
be considered due to the public that where there
is something undoubtedly wrong abroad, a hint
at least should be given of the tact, so that men
of business may avail themselves of it by pro-
ceeding in their own judicious manner to make
the requisite inquiry. The position of the minor
firm here spoken ot; we are informed, is such as
to lead persons the best acquainted with its af-
fairs to hope that it may overcome itA difficulties.

AMERICAN POLITICAL PRESS.
The New York Herald complains of the most dis-
graceful outrages upon fetnales in that and other cities
of the Union, and the apathy of the public authorities, in
the following terms:—" Other attacks have since come to
our knowledge, and, although the fellows did not in all
the instances succeed in their brutal object, or take the
life of their victim, still it is evident that nothing but. fear
saved them from the guilt of a capital crime. At Broolt:
lyn, a married lady was seized by a gang of -ruffians and
violated. On Coney Island Beach, two sisters, while
bathing, were attacked by a brawny rascal, and but for
the nerve and courage displayed by the younger of the
girls, the brute would have accomplished his purpose.
In Philadelphia and Baltimore similar outrages have
been attempted. Aboitt ten days since a young lady
was violated in open daylight, in one of the public parks
of the latter city, in the presence of several respectable
citizens, who were unable to save the daughter of a neigh-
bow- from the loathsome contamination of a herd of
wretches who are a disgrace to humanity. This is a
pretty picture of United States' civilization ! &c." *
The foregoing precious rnorceau from the New York
Herald, is going the round of the press in Great Bri-
tain, and has been republished in, probably, every press
on the Continent. In every instance it is referred to as
evidence against the morals and civilisation of " Repub-
lican America," furnished by an American editor and
an American press ; and the good, the moral, and the
friends of order, unite in exclaiming—" if these are the
fruits of Republicanism, God preserve us from its in-
fluences."

Now, it is due to our country and its institutions, to
say to the press of Great Britain, that the editor and
publisher of the New York Herald is a Scotchman—a
loyal subject of Qucen Victoria—one who has never
forsworn his allegiance to Great Britain, and is not an
American citizen even by adoption. His associates, too,
are all foreigners—men who have learned their vocation
in the least reputable portions of the British metropolis;
and we would add, that the press thus owned and con-
ducted, is almost exclusively devoted to vilely misrepre-
senting the morals, the manners, and the customs of our
country ; decrying its institutions, and injuring, as far
as practicable, the country at large, by the most delibe-
rate and systematic attacks during a succession of years,
upon public and private credit iu every section of the
United States.

We know well enough that this statement will scarcely
be credited, because it will be difficult to believe, that
such a press, conducted by such men and with such ob-
jects, could possibly be tolerated in any portion of our
country. We admit with shame, however, because we
are compelled to do so, that so little pride do many of
our people feel in our national character, and so little do
they accustom themselves to !inquire what is or what is
not injurious to the national welfare, and so great their
love of slander that this infamous sheet is extensively
purchased and read, although a very little reflection
must satisfy every purchaser of it, that in the act of pur-
chasing he is paying a bonus to have the morals and
habits of our people slandered, and the great interests of
the country misrepresented, assailed, and injured
"How long do you think such a press would be tole-
rated in England ?" is a question which has been asked
us a thousand times ; and our answer has been, that
New York is the only city in the United States that
would tolerate it for a single week. We all know that
Philadelphia some time since prohibited even the sale of
this vile sheet in the public streets of that city, on the
express ground that it was a nuisance which no reputable
ccmmunity could tolerate ; and if the authorities of a
sister city would not tolerate even the sale of this slan-
derous paper in its public streets, how long would they
tolerate its publication among them ? If published fur-
ther south, everyperson connected with it would have
lost their lives before the civil authority could have in-
terfered to save them by suppressing the paper.
Of those who purchase this sheet, we would inquire,
what they think would be the course of the people of
England or any other people, if our Government, or cer-
tain persons who had a direct interest in the matter, were
to hire the most reckless native of the United States to
establish a paper in London, and devote its columns to
assaults upon the government and institutions of that
country, to slandering its best citizens, assailing the pri-
vate character and morality of its females, basely mis-
representing the morals of the people at large, and
systematically assailing the credit and character of
every public institution and even of the Govern-
ment itself ? Would such a press be tolerated
fora in
Would
tooku d any Englisinnan who re-
spected pride in the prosperity
and the character of his country, consent
to sustain a
sheet devoted to such an object ? This •
hoimmseenitf, ?o r wV
is a question we
leave to be answered by those to whom it is
an
' ld esse d ;
and we would simply ask them to reflect upon the' cha-
racter and the course of the Herald for the last four
years. Let them do this, and they cannot doubt but
adopted, there was a regular plan of operations which
has been systematically persevered in, to injure the cha-
racter of our country abroad ; to mi
srepresent its morals
and the tone of its society
; to prostrate and destroy our
public and private credit, by false and malicious state-
ments and colourings in rela • our fiscal
relation to affairs;
finally, to hold up to contempt and scorn our republican
institutions by these false versions of the consequence of
free government, at the same time that a deadly blow
was aimed at our national prosperity, by coining rea-
sons why the capitalists of Europe should not loan their
funds to our people, to our Companies, to our States, or
to our general Government.
We do not say that the Herald man was hired to pm--
sue the course he has, the object of which is apparent to
all our reflecting men, because we cannot prove that he
was ; but we have ne hesitation in saying that his pur-
pose was such as we have described ; that he foresaw, if
he was not assured, that such a course would be most
acceptable to his fellow subjects of her Majesty ; and.
what is far more, that he has been eminently successful
in accomplishing the base purposes attributed to him.
If any one will take
the trouble to examine the monied
articles in the Herald since his return from London in
1838, and also the monied articles in the London Times
since that period—they will not, cannot doubt, the object
of these articles, or that they were written with a full
understanding as to how and where they should be used.
The most of them have been copied into the Times, ands
re-copied
into every paper in the kingdom ; and as the
amount of English capital flowing into the United States
prior to 1837, had caused serious alarm to the Govern-
ment and to the capitalists interested in the Bank of
England and other monied Corporations, the greatest
possible care has been observed, to impress upon the
English capitalist the imminent danger of losing what-
ever he had, or might invest in American securities. No
English press could accomplish this object ; but it has.
been accomplished by four years of
well-planned,
arranged and well-systematised assaults upon the credit
of the country through the columns of the New York
Herald. These assaults have been extensively •
lated through the English press ; and that they ellirculild-
have proved successful should excite no surprise, ohow-
ever mortifying it. may be, that reputable, well,'
tioned, and honest men, should have made themselves-inten
parties to this most. isastrous crusade against lch
racter and prosperity of our common country, by
band of corrupt, unscrupulous, and lin
reigners, who have not a solitary feeling iPn nci
Unison with
the people among whom they are pe •
rmitted nay en-
couraged, to pursue their infamous
course.—Morning
Courier and New York Enquirer.

SOUTH HACKNEY.--A meeting of this pariq
was held on Friday, to levy a Church-rate ; the Rev.
H, H. Norris, the rector, took the chair. A rate of 4d.
in the pound was proposed by Mr. Haddon, church-
warden, and met b y an amendment, moved by George
offer, Esq., a magistrate, and seconded by John Mor-
ley, Esq.,
of Well-street. The amendment was negs-
thed by 65 to 85, and the vote for the rate was then
put and carried by 80 to 62. A. poll was demanded.
The scene was a stormy one, the police being in attend-
ance, and all but parishioners excluded.