The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY. 4, 1841.

pARCPAIENT,

CONTRACT F(
sTATT^—

THE ,04ER? OFFICE, AP.R11:29, 1841:
COMPTROLLER of her MA-
_ JESTY't STATIONERY OFFICE is ready to re-
ceive TENDERS for daterent descriptions of PARCH
:VENTS required for the public serViile,
Particulars a Contract Etas, obtaineJ, and samples of the
ParchlnbltP seed, it the Statimary-office, bezween the
hours 'SI' inA
Tenders to b addressed to the Comptroller of the Stationery-
holes-street, Ruck'ngham-gate, and to be deliverea by
Twelve o'Clock on AIONDAY, May 10, 1841, marked on the
ever, " Tender for Parchment ;" after which day and hour
no Tender can he received.

CONTRACTS FOR RAISING MUD AND FORMINci
I3REAKWATEIt AT CHATHAM.
DF,PAR:IOMEN THE STOREKEF:PEIt.GENERA I, OF
!if AVI, SOMERSET-PLACE, APRIL:3O, NIL
9111-1 g CO MMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 20th
May next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
tact Persottt as mar be wilting to Contract for RAISING and
REMOVING MUD from the RIVER MEDWAY, and for
FORMING a BREAKWATER opposite to her Majesty's
Dock Yard at CHATHAM.
The Conditions of the Contracts, and a Form of the Ten ter,
may be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day
of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an
Agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad-
sat tlty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Ten-
der for WerltS at Chatham," and must also be delivered at
Somereet-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by a respon-
%ible person, engaging to become bound with the person tender-
ing, in the sum of 3001. for the due performance of the Contract.

BEITSCHA to be SOLD, clean and good
as new, having been but little used. It has patent
axles, C springs, imperial, cap c..se, barouche after s .at, rumble,
Is suitable for Town or Posting, with all di., appendages usually
attached to highly-finished carriag..s.
May be seen t.t 43, Crawford-street., Portmn-square.

COPYHOLDS, HORSEBROOK, in the Parish and Manor
of BREWOOD, STAFFORDSHIRE. •
TO BE SOLD. pursuant to an ORDER of
the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a
Suit of DODSON against CARELESS, with the approbation
of Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one •of the Masters of the Cour;, at
the Lion Inn, Brcwood, in the county of Stafford, on MONDAY,
the 31st day of May, 1841, at Four e'Clock in the Afternoon
precisely, in Three Lots.
TWO COTTAGES or DWELLING-HOUSES, with
Gardens attached, and four pieces or parcels of excellent
mea low or pasture land situate at Horshrook in the said
Parish of Brewood, containing about seven acres, in the occu-
pation of Mr. Jones. Mr. Bateman, Mr. Aston and others.
The property is within a short distance of the Great Wat-
ling-street road, and is in good ccndition and well flattered.
Printed particulars, with plans annexed, are in reparation,
and may be shortly had (gratis) at the Master's Office, in
Southampton-bui'dings, Chancery-lane, London ; of Messrs.
Cuvelje, Skilbeck, and Hall, No. 19, Southampton-huilding!,
aforesaid; of Messrs. Hicks and Harris, No. 5, Gray's-inn-
square, London; of Mr. William Dean, No. 16, Essex•street,
Strand; London ; of Mr. Richard Palin, Solicitor, Shrewsbury,
and Wellington, Shropshire; of Mr. Henry Turner, Solicitor,
Wolverhampton ,• and of Messrs. Minshull and Son, Soli,:itors.
Oswestry ; and the property may be seen on application to the
Tenants.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE•MOH.NING PAPERS OF THIS PAY.
CHRONICLE.—The Budget of Friday evening may be
characterised as the most important financial measure ever
submitted to a British Parliament. Coupled with Lord John
Russell's announcement on the subject of the Corn-laws, it
amounts, in fact, to a complete and comprehensive reform of
cur whole commercial andfintncial system upon the enlightened
principles which, in the time of Husktssrin. fi.st obtained a par-
tial and timid introduction into our leeislation. The principle
of i.rohibition being once departed from in the three great ar-
ticies of " corn, sugar, and timber," the various minor re-
forms required to rescue our tariff from the reproach so justly
cast upon it by foreign nations, ofexclusiveness and illiberality,
are sure to follow. In the well-known liberality of Mr. Ll-
kouchere's views, we see a sufficient guarantee that the oppor-
tunity afforded by the Annual Customs Bill not be neg-
lected of making an important advance towards effect-
ing a revision of many of the miner duties, which im-
pede our commerce and prejudice our relations with other
countries, without materially adding to the revenue. On
the whole, then, it is right that the people of England should
know that the cause of tree trade is now in their own hands ;
that it now depends on themselves whether they are to be freed
from the burdens which the protection of class-interests, ten
times more oppressive than the legitimate necessities of the re-
venue, have imposed upon them. The question it simply this :
circumstances render it imperatively necessary to raise an ad;
ditional sum of 42,000,000 i. annually ; this sum may he raised
without entailing a single farthing of additional burden upon
the country, but, on the contrary, by affording at the same
time a very important relief to the great mass of the commu•
nity, and a very great impulse to industry and commerce, by
extending the market for British manufacture, and encourag-
ing a mutually beneficial interchange of commodities with
foreign countries. If not raised in this way, there is no
alternative but to reimpose the house tax, the candle tax, the
coal tax, or some of the taxes, productive in proportion to
the generality and oppressiveness of their operation, from
which the country has of late years been relieved, so much to
the satisfaction and benefit of all classes; or failing. this, to
resort to a general income or property tax. That the choice
lies between these alternatives is manifest to every one:
The Times tells us that it would be "an insult to common
sense to suppose that the • Ministenal proposition relative to
corn, sugar, and timber, can be carried." Why so ? The
," insult to common sense" consists in supposing that the
Tories will ever agree to anything so beneficial to the
nation ; and they will not, as a matter of course, adopt
the alternative of dear bread, dear sugar, and dear tim-
ber, with a house tax, light tax, fuel tax, or a property
tax, rather than that of cheap bread, cheap sugar,
and cheap timber, without any additional taxes at. all. Cer-
tainly it would be an " insult to common sense" to suppose
that Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Herries, aril Sir Robert Peel, who
in 1831 'saddled the people of England with " dear wood," and
an additional taxation of 60e,000i. a year, which might have
been dispensed with if Lord Spencer's plan had beeen adopted
—who have on all occasions stood forward as the advocate of
the landlords' monopoly—who have received every concession
to the principles of commercial liberality, even when, as
in the case of the East India Ruin duties, they were made in
faveur of our own colonies, with distrust and murmurings—
should all at once turn round and warmly espouse and advo-
cate measures and principles to which they have always,
been opposed. But that Ministers have shown any
want of " common sense" in bringing forward these
measures is by no means equally apparent, unless it can be
established that.a Government are bound to adopt the course
most contrary to the principles and professions of their whole
lives, and most detrimental to the interests of the country,
for no earthly object except that of cutting their own throats
and playing' the game of their political opponents. If Berries
had announced his intention of adopting the scale of timber
duties which he opposed in 1831 ; if Goulburn had come for-
ward with a proposition for allowing the introduction of fo-
reign sugar ; if reel had startled the House by moving for a
Committee to re-consider the duties on Corn ; there would
indeed have been good ground for the imputation of
sacrificing character and consistency to a political
manoeuvre. But as applied to the present Government the
imputation is ridiculous. When were Lord John Russell, Mr.
Labouchere, or Mr. Baring other than advocates of free trade
principles? Whoever doubted that, if circumstances should
force upon a Government in which these gentlemen occupied a
prominent posi'ion, the alternative, a reform of the tariff would
he preferred to the imposition of new taxes ? With a Liberal
Government, the only question could be, to what extent they
would have the resolution to act lion their own recorded senti-
ments. So much for the wretched stuff about the
Government having been driven, in a fit of despera-
tion at their recent defeat, to throw out a revolution-
ary firebrand: In the first place, so far .from being a
revolutionary firebrand, it is emphatically a practical
measure, brought forward to accomplish sober and prac-
tical ends —to make good a large deficiency of the re -
venue, without imposing fresh burdens on the nation—to
steady and equalize the importation of foreign corn, and make
it subservient. to purposes of revenue—to afford the labouring
and middle classes of the country the benefit of lower and less
fluctuating prices in some of the principal articles of consump-
tion—to save the important market of the Brazils for British
manufactures, and ward off the prospect of adverse commer-
cial legislation in the United States and the German League.
It is a measure brought forward in accordance with the ex-
pressed wishes of the manufacturing and commercial interests
of the country—a measure upon the policy of which merchants
and manufacturers of all shades of political opinion are united,
as witness the petition from the City of London, signed by 238
leading firms, with the Conservative name of " Horsley Palmer"
at their head. In the next place, so far from being a sud-
den inspiration on the part of Government, it is in ac-
cordance with principles resolutely struggled for for years and
years by its principal Member. But, once for all, we will
have done with all party recrimination about the measure.
Here it stands, and the only question for the country now is,
whether they like it better than the inevitable alternative.
For ourselves, and for the advocates of free trade principles
throughout the country. there cannot be a doubt what course
to pursue. The principles for which we have always con-
tended being fully recognised, we will not stop to cavil at de-
tails. Upon the all-important question of the Corn-law, we
will be content to take it for granted from the complexion of
the Ministerial meassire, and from the language of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of
Trade, that the " moderate fixed duty" announced by Lord
John Russell will be one calculated to satisfy the just expecta-
tion.: of the country, and to command its support.
TIMES.—" Blow," Ministerial journals, "and crack your '
cheeks !" Agitate agitate, agitate Invoke the evil spirits
of revolution and discord—get up a great crisis, if you can.
Dreadful as may be the pother you keep over our heads, it
will not do—we tell you again, it will nut do. All that you
can accomplish is to prove—what no one ever doubted—the
wickedness of the game which your masters have resolved upon
playing. As surely as " the burnt child dreads the fire," the
working classes of England, smarting under the oppression of
the new Poor-law, will stand aloof from any agitation, the ob-
ject of which is to keep the authors of that law in office.
In the present instance that object is not disguised. It
was not till after they had been twice disgracefully beaten
in the House of Commons—it was not till their reten-
tion of place without recourse to some sudden and
extraordinary expedient had become a matter of evident im-
pos-ibility,—that Ministers thought of announcing any project
for the alteration of the Corn-laws. Who can fail to see that
the peculiar features in the present. state of affairs, which have
forced the Whig Cabinet to adopt what Lord Melbourne de-
signated as the principles of a madman, are their own impend-
ing expulsion from power, and the unconquerable hostility of
the people to their favourite measuse—the New Poor-law?
The mischief and the peril, which, at this time of all others,
Lord John Russell fears, are the effects which may be felt in
Dcwning-street and at Somerset-house from the late divisions
on Lord Morpeth's Bill and from Mr. Walter's election
for Nottingham. To prevent misconception, we think it
necessary to say, that we do not mean to argue the question of
the Corn-laws at all upon this occasion. We adhere to all
the ()Anions which we have formerly expressed open that sub-
ject ; but we are very sure that no advantage can come. or
is iteeniled to come, to the country from the proposition of
Lord John Russell. Good cannot ensue from an attempt to
stimulate into ferocious conflict the mutual rivalries of the
agricultural and manufacturing interests; nor is it in the at-
mosphere of strong political excitement that important com-
mercial changes can be rationally discussed or deliberately a
ju-ted. We protest.. also against the fraudulent delusion by
which it is attempted to practise upon the credulity of the
working man, and to persuade him that the benefit which
may arise from the admission of foreign corn will
be suffered to find its way into his pocket. If this
were so, we should hear very Ihtte of the Corn-law grievance
from its most active opponents, the hierophants of the political-
economy school, and the ovi r-grown cotton lords. The current
complaint, that the Corn-laws raise the price of labour so high
as to disable our manufacturers from competing with those of
toe Continent, would have no meaning if it were not certain
that the rate of wages would fall in the same ratio with the
price of bread. The labouting class, who know what and who
these anti-Coin-law agitators are, will be able to judge, from
their conduct on the Factory quesion, and upon the Poor-law
question, whether they are likely, in their anxious efforts upon
this or any other subject, to have any interests in view except
their own.
HERALD.—That Ministers contemplate a speedy, though
it may not be an immediate dissolution of Parliament, is a
matter upon which scarcely any person seems to have a doubt.
But, looking to their destitution of popularity in the country,
their raggedness of character, and the general contempt which
is entertained for the poverty of their talents—the shuffling
and tricky style of their policy, and th&ir shameless tenacity of
office long after they have lost the power of a Government,
people cannot help asking what are these fraudulent and bank-
rupt Ministers to gain by a dissolution? In the first place, a
'dissolution will put a premature end to the embarrassing and
disastrOns.Session of 1841—a Session which has tested their
endurance of defeat and dishonour in the most remarkable man-
ner, and which, it prolonged to the ordinary term, was likely to
be to them a source.of still more disgrace and humiliation. 1 hey
will thus obtain delay and temporary respite from further
punishment, and that is something to men who trust much in
lucky events and the chapter of accidents. A Royal demise—
an accession—a marriage, and a christening have all helped,
at various times, what their evening organ calls the " fortu-
nate Administration." And if they can only prolong their
offic:al existence for six months longer, who knows what may
turn up? In the next place, they get rid of Lord Stanley's
Bill for the purification of the Irish Parliamentary Registra-
tion. 'I hey save. thereby, for the present, several joints of the
Leviathan boroughrnonger's " tail," who is their main prop,
and which voluminous hinder appendage, Lord Morpeth, lately
took under his especial protection in vain. His miserable Bill no
longer stands between it and the extended forceps of dishonouring
curtailment. In the third place, Ministers throw the country into
general excitement and agitation. And as agitation has saved
the Whigs so often, why may it not save them again? If the
Conservatives, howeve,, had acted the part in reference to the
i iquitous Whig Poor-law which me always advised them to
pursue, they would have removed the strongest argument
which the Wh:g partisans have for calling for the repeal of the
Corn-laws. We quite agree with the Standard, that these
toool thele
two laws cannot long stand tegether—either one must be de-
stroyed or the other.. Let the Conservatives choose between.
They can now defeat
a sist the Whigs to inflict it on the country for another five
years, and thus seal the doom of the Corn-law, and deprive
themselves of a mighty moral power in the government of the
empire.
POS r.—The Micisteriale affect to be all in a blaze of ex-
ltisleunh nenw P aw,
themr- for and
everbind ;
or, gratitudetiy can
of the masses of E
ex-
citement about the repeal of the Corn-laws. This, like the
rest, is mere ti ickery. We scarcely know whether this pant-
ing, puffing affectation is most ridiculous or most impudent.
However, it deceives no one, and ran deceive none but the
most drivelling fools. The hireling jobbers would fain per-
suade the public into a sscond Reform .Bill fever, but it won't
do. The trick is not ouly palpable, but stale. L'ut after ail,
what can the Ministerial
_party do towards Corn-law repeal ?
They can do nothing. They know they -can do nothing.

It is because they know that they cannot dcGdreptish the
repeal of the Corn-laws, that they venture to andotnee
the attempt. If there were the slightest probability of
their success, they never would hove dared to announce
such :an attempt. Nothing would ov6i-trhelm them with
more dismay than the certainty of the accomplishment of
that ruin, which they announce their intention of irrip3 to
accomplish as an improvement. They are as convinced d.*
their opponents are, of the national fully—the " madness"
of repealing the !protection on British agriculture—of taking
away from British land-occupiers and British labourers
the monopoly of supplying the British natisn with earn ;
but they venture to propose that repeal because they
think it may be m•ide to produce some popular excitement
in their favour, and they know it will not be carried.
What can be more disgusting than such trickery and such
stratagem ? Is it not enough to cause every gentleman who
has hitherto supprted them to go into oppoiition, or at
al; events, to refrain from any longer giving his su:port
to the Melbourne and Russell Administration. We are happy
to have it in our power to slice that several gentle nen who
have hitherto supported Government, have since Saturday in-
timated no little disgust, and a determination not to support the
resolutions of which the stupid Chancellor of the, Exchequer
has given notice. We therefore feel the utmost confidence
that Ministers will be beaten upon the Budget question. Pro-
bably they have reckoned up in this, and then expect Lto go to
the country under • the favourable -circumstances of an Anti-
Corn4aw excitement. But the public will nut be thus de-
ceived.. The public will look upon them as a set of beaten
tricksters, who have shown themselves to be destitute of sin-
cerity, and are therefore totally unworthy of, trust.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

. .
CHRONICLE.—We have advocated the. necessity of go-
verning the circulation by the Foreign Exchanges, and pointed
out past error by which a drain of bullion was attempted to be
stopped by an expansion of paper money. We have also
pointed out that the prohibitory duties exacted by our ti ,cal
laws on the importation of foreign products, more especially on
corn 'and timber, had compelled the inh thirants of the Conti-
nent to become manufacturers in self •defence. The result is,
that our export trade of manufactured goods has seriously dimi-
nished, and the Directors of the Bank of England have been
kept in a constant lever of apprehension at the prospect of the
weekly report on Exchange days. One of their chief duties
has been to study atmospheric phenomena, in a vai❑ efirrt to
gather foreknowledge of the seasons, and to be able to form
early comet tures as to the character of each approaching sea-
son. This state of things has been attended with frequent
panics in the Money Market, and commercial vicissitudes pro-
duced from a consequent change in prices. But the policy of
the Government, as now told fa'rly to the country, will speedily
relieve the Bank of England from this cause of alarm. The
month of June will no longer be a month of fear• with the
•Bank Directors, for the balance of trade from the vast impulse
given to our exports will keep the exchanges in our favour,
and the bullion will flow back to the Bank coffers. England
wilt open an account on a wide scale. She will deal with all
the earth, and will buy and sell freely with all nations.
It is in vain for the Tories to say that other countries will
not reciproc rte with us when we open our ports to their pro-
duce. T .ke the case of Prussia so far back as 1825. The
Prussian Government, through Baron Maltzahn, proposed
to conclude a treaty of reciprocity with this country for
eighteen years, on condition that the British Government
would allow the importation of Prussian corn, subject to such
duties only as should nut exclude the possibility of carrying
on that trade with a reasonable profit, and that greater
facilities should be allowed for the importation of
Prussian timber into British ports. That offer of reciprocity
was met by a direct and positive refusal from the British Go-
vernment ; yet the Prussian Government, in 1836 and 1839,
still expressed their willingness to negotiate for the same pur-
pose. This point is placed beyond cavil or conjecture. The
papers laid on the table of Parliament prove the fact that
Prussia has repeatedly offered to negotiate on the principle of
taking our manufactures on a moderate ad valorem duty, pro-
vided we would receive her corn and timber on reasonable
terms, and that this offer was negatived by Great Britain—
yet Prussia still expresses her readiness to negotiate for
the same object, and now the free trade policy adopted by the
Government says we will meet you in the same spirit. The
lowering of our tariff will open the whole Prussian commercial
union, with a population of twenty-six millions, as a market for
our manufactures. Dr. Bowriog remarks, The tendency of
our commercial legislation since 1825 has no doubt been towards
free trade, and in the extension of our relations with the world
we find the justification and the reward of our policy ; but I
venture to suggest that the time has now arrived in which
the state of intercourse with foreign nations demands a
general revision and lowering of our tariff, and that such re-
vision would be much facilitated by the existing friendly dis-
position on the part of several of the European Governments."
The importation of timber to the United Kingdom from the
different German States exhibits a yearly decline of duty
from 1820 to 1838, notwithstanding the gr.iwth of our popu-
lation, The average for the years 1829 to 1833 is 430,455/.
duty, anti from 1834 to 1838 427,4551. _

The funds have been flat to-day, and C.lnsols for the Ac-
count hare given way per cent. on the closing quotations of
Saturday.

HERALD.—The gloomy exposition of the financial con-
cerns of the country conveyed in the budget of the Chancel!or
of the Exchequer, is operating its natural effects upon the
funds, the rates of which are on the decline. Commer-
cial operations appear to be as much unhinged by the
loose propositions of changes in duties on sugar anti timber,
with the probability of other changes also, as stocks.
ness has been extremely dull and unsati.factory both in
Mark-lane and Mincing-lane. It may be safely asserted
that there never was a period when mercantile men were
so much at fault how to shape their course as now, not from the
common casualties and fluctuations occurring frail some un-
'mat disturbance in trade arising out of causes which at. inter-
vals effect revolutions to a certain degree in commercial affairs,
but from the announcement of extensive alterations in the
fiscal system to be shortly enacted, with others of a m,.re
sweeping character still well understood to be in prospect. No
man therefore knows how to take his measures or conduct his
business, since the ordinary standard by which commerce is
shaped is entirely deranged by the fiscal alterations already
proclaimed and others well understood to be in contemplation.

POST.—.Money was particularly scarce to-day. Loans
upon the deposit of English stock could not be procured at less
than 5 per cent. ioterest, and the transactions were conducted
altogether with the view, as they were generally intepreted, to
a change in the Administration, and an early dissolution of
Parliament, on which points numerous reports are in circu-
lation. _ _

In the American papers brought by the Acadia steam-ship
from Boston and Halifax, are two long letters by Mr. N. Bid-
dle, on the affairs of the United States Bank. Mr, Biddle en-
deavours to extricate himself from the charges brought against
him by the Committee who have been lately sitting in judg-
ment upon his conduct, as former President of the institution, in
common with that of others. His defence is considered more
ingenious than conclusive. The object is to prove that the In's-
tortunes of the Bank have their origin in a period posterior to
that in which he was the principal manager. the corrupt
practices sl fatal to its credit have, however, certainly been
going on from the year 1835, and Mr. Biddle withdrew, we
think, only in 1838 or 1839.

TI M ES.—The questions connected with the Budget still
press heavily on the Consul-market, and on the day's business
there is a decline of a quarter per cent.
It will be satisfactory for the public to know that the Com-
missioners of Sewers considered the projection of the San-
Fire-office at their meeting last Tuesday, and directed their
solicitor to take the ground on which the projection stands
under the statute well-known as Michael Angelo's Taylor's
Act, while at the same time the' Royal Exchange Com-
mittee directed their solicitor to proceed by injunction, a
question having risen whether even an indictment for nui-
sance might not have been framed. Several interviews,
however, took place between the Governor of the Bank,
Mr. Cockerell, the Bank surveyor (who is architect of the
Sun, and all parties concerned in the affair, and the result of
that negotiation is, that the Governor proposes to cut an
angle to the extent of 10 feet off the projection, and the works
stopped on Friday. Now, the effect of this conees4on wou'd
merely be, that a turneated figure would be presented to the
eye of the public, instead of a sharp angle, and nothing what-
ever is conceded which would restore the line of demarcation
originally proposed, and on the preservation of which all beauty
and symmetry depends. It is perfectly absurd to suppose that
the City will be satisfied with so miserable a concession as this,
or indeed with anything less than the restoration of the line.
The Bank committed a gross error in allowing the improve-
ment to go out of their hands, and they are now bound to see
that every reparation is made.
In advocating an alteration of 'Change hours, fir which
many correspondents assign excellent reasons, the relief to the
clerks is not to be treated as of less consequence than that of
their employers. To bring that part of commercial business to
a close an hour earlier would be, as a correspondent justly and
feelingly remarks, a kind of emancipation to a numerous and
hard-toiling part of the community, many of whom are seldom
favoured with "a clear view of the sun or the face of nature
throtighout the year." The interval from three to fuer
o'clock is the idlest part of the day, and if appropriated to the
Exchange business, would leave time for the writing of letters
and all other business that arises out of it without hurry or
confusion. Formerly merchants dined before going to 'Change,
which gave some sort of propriety to the lateness of the hour ;
to continue it, now that the practice in that respect has so
universally changed, appears perfectly unreasonable and absurd.
A correspondent, adverting to the effort of the Scotch bankers
to protect their own interests from encroachments by any act
of the Committee of the Rouse of Commons, points out as ore
of the consequences of their small note circulation, the advan-
tage given to the Scotch manufacturers over those of Eng-
land, an evil which has generally been kept out of view is all
yi
it
lhb that
former discussions on the subject. The effect is, as he re-
marks, " that production and overtrading are stimulated in
Scotland to a fearful extent, and the English markeis
are deluged with their commodities, to the injury of their
English competitors, who are necessarily denied, under
the hard money system, those facilities by their bankers,
which are readily afforded by the Scotch bankers issuing It.
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submitted to in sanctioning one kind of paper circulation for
Scotland, differing from that prescribed for England, and man-
festly prejudieal to the commercial interests. of the latter, the
more important section of the United Kingdom. It is to be
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SUN.—The mercantile markets are very dull in the City.
Throughout the day the Stock Market was in a very weak
condition, and no improvement occurred up to the termination
of business. The immediate cause of this alteration appears to
be, first, that money has all at once become in increased de-'
rand, under the idea of a dissolutiOn of Parliament being
probable, when, of course, large sales of stock must be eff..eted,
in order to carry on electioneering contests, which, from the
state of parties, there is every reason to believe would be more
severe than for some time past. Whether, as is partly hinted
in some quarter:, Government, until it obtains some relief to
its Exchequer by the establishment of new duties, is indebted
to the Bank of England for temporary aid, it is not easy to as-
certain; but no doubt (and unquestionably it is proper) the
Directors in their corporate capacity will facilitate the efforts of
the Ministry in restoring the finances of the country to a more
satisfactory condition. Consols for Money opened at 89/ to 90,
but lett off at 89a to 891. For Account the highest price w.ts
90, the lowest 89/, and the latest 891 sellers. Exchequer Bills
fell to 13s. and 10s. premium ; India Bonds remained at to
4s. premium ; Bank Stock was 167 to 166, being a further
decline of 1 per cent. ; and India Stock 2522 to 251, or Qs
to 3 per cent. decline. The New Three-and-a-hale per Cents.
were at 98i to 981, and the Three per Cents. at 881 to 88a.
7, In Foreign Stocks and in Railway Shares there was very

Ppicig sd.

little business done, and th 4 ten 4.,-cted were at redt:Cll
rates. Spanish Actives were 23%, Partoguese New 34 to 33k,
MeNtican 29i- to 29, Columbian 22i, Brazilian 69, Russian
1134, and Dutch TWO. and-a-Half rer Cents. 52i. Great
Western Railway was 30 to 3ti, the Fifths Bto 7/, the Lon-
don and Birmingipm 72 to 73, anti the South-Western 19/
premium , Brig do Shares were II to 2/ discount; Provincial
Bank of Ireland Share4itarroved to 17 premium, and London
and Westminster Bank were 3 premium.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE HIPPODROME RACES. _ _

The first meeting of the season commences this day under
the stewardship of the Duke or Beaufort and the Hon. Captain
Rous (one of the stewards of the J. C.) with a list which is
strongly recommended by the liberality of the additions made
to each stake by the proprietor of the establishment, the
amount given toWarda the two days sport being no less than
'2OOl. 'this sum, larars as it is, appear,: insignificant when
comparel with the ;ri leelq bonuses announced for future
meetings, and of which the bilto:y of the turf can furnish no
parateL The attention of the prorrietor has not been con-
fined to the single item of 'sport ; he has been equally lavish
in his expenditure on the course, which, from the immense
quantity of tan spread vivo it during the winter, has been
brought to state of perfection calculated to remove all the ob-
jections formerly raised to it $' the proprietors of race-
horses. Extensive alterations and improvements have been
completed in the stabling, and wit hin the iticiosure, appropriated
to weighing, saddling, &c. ; a grand or betting stand has been
erected, which commands an excellent view of the runnings,
and provided with a spacious refreshment. room ; the office of
caterer has been intrusted to Mr. Careless, whose experience
at the Epsom Grand Stand cannot fail to have made him au
excellent judge of the public taste in thesematters. With a
double object of attracting company of a resperatable grade, and
of obtaining something of adequate return for his enormous
expenditure, the proprietor has raised the price of admission to
the ground, the charges, as recently advertised in this and
other papers, being half-a-crown for foot ca.3sengers,
five shillings for horsemen, and for carriages .in pro-
portion. A large body of the police will be iii atteni/tnee
each day, and extra gates opened to prevent the inconvei,:i-
ence which would othervri,e arise. The following is the list for
this d iy's racing, as completed last night:—
The Bayswater Free Plate of 50 soya, for maiden horses of
all ages, 3 yrs, 7st; 4 yrs, Bst 91b ; 5 yes, and upwards, 9st ;
mares and geldings, allowed 3 lbs. Heats, one mile.
Mr. Houldsworth's Delusive, 8 yrs ; Mr. Wade's Turncoat,
6 yrs ; Lord Worsley names h c by Plenipo out of Rosebud ;
Captain Gardnor's Dismal Jemmy (late Runnymede); Mr.
Booth's Russell Frost ; Sir C. Ibbotson's The Black Knight ;
Mr. Roe's ch fby Nonsense out of Alda; Captain C,olquilt's
Miss Emily; Mr. Skerratt's Rachael. ; Mr. Stirling's The
Pocket Viper ; Mr. J. Day's Marius, Captain Green's Miss
Gray ; Mr. Warne's Saraeena ; Mr. Lucas's Traitress ; Mr.
Balehin's Affection.

The Notting Hi I Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 50 added by the
Proprietor, fur all ages; 3 yrs old, 6st I.lllb ; 4 yrs,
SA 1:1b ; 5 yr:, 9st 71b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 12Ib ; mares
and geldings allowed 3lbs; the winner to be sold for 3001.,
&c. Mile and half.

Mr. Wade's Turnmat, 6 yrs ; Mr. Connop's Hazard, 5 yrs ;
Mr. Bradford's Jessica, 3 yrs ; Mr. Bennett's Whisperer, 3
yrs ; Captain Gardnor's ,Rhon, 3 yrs ; Mr. Booth'i
6 yrs; Mr Morris's Fat Jack, aged; Mr. Isaac Day's Science,
5 yrs ,• Mr. Lucas's Traitress, 3 yrs ; Mr. Kling's Dahlia, 4 yrs.
The Hyde Park Derby Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., if de-
clared, with 200 added, if five start ; for 3 yrs old colts, Bst 71b,
and fillies Bst 21b; the winner of either of the Riddlesworths,
the Column, 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Guineas, or Newmarket
Stakes, 51bs extra; of any two of the above, 71b3 extra.
Mile-and-a-Half.
Lord Miltown's b c Fidhawn ; Mr. Stirling's The Comp-
troller; Mr. Pewlett's Kedge (dead) ; Mr. Houldsworth's

Delusive; Mr..Bristew's Sterne; Mr.„ Ferguson's Tearaway;
Mr. Skerratt's Lydia ; Mr. Skerratt's b c by Newton, d by
Mr. Lowe ; Mr. Sadler's Defy ; Mr. Sadler's Diversion ; Mr.
Sadler's Protection ; Mr. Boat's Clarendon ; Capt. Gardnor's
Ben Brace; Capt. Gar.inor's lEthon ; General Yates's Si-
mourn, Mr. Bradford's Prussian (late Hazell) ; Mr. Tyson's
f. by Ishrriael, out of Erymus's dam.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added by the Proprie.
tor ; for three yrs old, 6st 91b ; four yrs, Bst 71b ; five yrs,
9st ; six yrs and aged, 9st 41b ; winners, once, 31bs ; twice,
51bs ; thrice, 7.bs extra ( Matches excepted.) The second
to receive 20 sovs. out of the stakes. About two miles.
Mr. Galpine's Blemisli,4 yrs ; Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged ;
Mr. Bateman's Vapour, 4 yis ; Mr. I. Day's Tamburin., 5,
yrs; Mr. Houldsworth's Hampton, 3 yrs; Mr. Kingston's
Ruby, aged. •
The first race will take place at three o'clnek precisely, and
the others fellow with the usual intervals. Friday's list is not
yet complete.
It is in contemplation by the Proprietor to give a Challenge
Purse and Handicap of 5001., to be run for in the June
Meeting by the first and second horses of the Derby and Oaks.

EVENING EWT-1..011-44.,
..:
LITERATURI ,
THE PARLIAMENTARY G'M 1541. t.
E. '
By R. B. Mous, E 4. ,Simph'n and Co. ~ , .' t
\\b„.
This useful book must have cos .zhe colnil_ ri...,.1/4:-.../
Mr. Mosse, no little labour, as may e.,,ieit t....,.._ 1
~...'t: ?
the following summary of the contO.ipip- 1
jtie,911",,-..‘''
sists of 414 pages, printed in sm t all -Ittettwivr:i
legible type, and gives a concise biograpby- or
the Members of both Houses of Parliain,calt,
with their respective ages, connexions, and i to
merous other family details; a synoptical tab.l.e
of the votes in both Houses on the leading ques-
tions and principal divisions since the intro-
duction of the Reform Bill to the preient
p,?riod. An alphabetical list of the Coulities,
Cities,., &c., returning Members to Parliaminat,
showing. the period when each place
was enfranchised, the population, accord-
ing to the li....test returns, with the result of the;
tions in 1835 and 1837,.
different contested elec.
the number of voters regibtered and qualified to.
Polled, arid the
n.
vote, the total number of vt,stOr.,
ucces3ful candi-
plurnpers and gross poll for .'..
~ch candidate, t.
gether with the names of tbq tins
dates. 1 t contains also exclusively a table of the
gross numbers of voterS'polled eac2l day at the
.Teneral elections in Ireland since 'b.`l=,with an
b
abstract of the total number of el.e."l3rs regis-
tered for the several counties, cities;' and bo-
roughs in that country from 1831 to 18 AI ; thus.
furnishing complete information on a1mo:, t every
subject connected with a general election. The
work is sold at a very moderate price,
and justly
I
deserves every encouragement and support li DU
the public. The following is a specimen 01* ti to
biographical notices:-
1830. BROUGHAM AND VAUX (BAR. ), HENRY BROUGHAM;
I.R.S. WHIG.—B. 19 Sspt. 1779; m. I April, 11419, Mary
Ann, eld. da. of Thos. Eden, Esq., and widow of 'I homes
Spalding, Esq. ; sister of the Lady of Adm. Sir Graham
Moore, G.C.11. ; cousin of Earl of Auckland; Lord Henley,.
the Lady of Sir Edmund C. HartoVp, Bart. and Sir :Robert,
Johnson Eden, Bart. His Lordship is anther of " Historicat
Sketches of Statesmen who nourished in the times of George.
111. ;" grandson of the late Rev. Dr. Syme, by Mary, sister
of Dr. Robertson, the Historian of Scotland; cousin of Sir
Henry 3leux, Bart. and the Lady of Mr. Serg. Arabin. Was
Lord Chancellor in the administration of Earl Grey; C.Aounsel
to Queen Caroline in her trial before the House of I.,orsts;
but tided no office under the Crown previous to his elevation to.
the Woolsick. Was M.P. for Camelford in 1812. Wine hilseia
1 in 1820 and 1826 ; Knaresborough and Yorkshire in 18.30 i
1,-id stood ar. unsuccessful candidate for Westmoreland in 1826.
Iti the House of Commons his Lordship was oonsidered the
most I,,werful antagonist on the Opposition benches. 4, i',iraf-
tono.tret: Brougham Hall, Penrith.

\

REPEAL OF TEIE ktiSi AND PRO-
VISIOIN•LAV;:q, AND A REVISION OF TilE
IMPORT DUTIZS.
(Fnon A CORRESPO/M"T')
A public meeting was held its the popul, us and manufactur-
ingm. village of Watrrhead-mill, near Oldha'. lasr Wednesday
evening, called by a requisition of the pritteicar inhabitants,
Tories, Whigs, Radice's, and Chartists, for the a:We purpose.
Mr. John Lees, cotton.manufacturer, in the Chair.
The meeting was numerously attended. It had b, 'en pre-
viously understood that a party of the Chartist ugh atm is from
hlarchester would attend to upset the meeting. SIXtTal of
the Chartist leaders of Oldham and neighbourhood -were there:
to support the views of the requisitionists. As a first move-
ment of the obstructives or anarchists, they proposed a .noisy
fellow to the Chair; however, the motion was lost. The
friends of the inecting. many of whom are Chartists, but will-
ing and ensious to better the condition of their fellow'-Yuen,
spoke admirably, exposing the . pernicious effects of the Corn-
lees on the lahoin4sg population, the total ruin of the •.rritruly
anu-
f rcturers, and the baiefaced wickedness of the system,
depicting the distress they were occasioning, and the certainty
of their producing a terrible convutsian in the country' if not
uttered. The small clique from Manchester, and one or two
other renegades, uttered a mass of the greetest absurd ides.
They fell on the master manufacturers with every reproachful
and abusive epithet, and endeavoured to excite in the minds of
the working classes the most bitter animosity against em-
ployers, against Government, and against property people In-
de eed there was no bounds to the violence of their langu age.
They worked, what would otherwise have been an orderly
meeting, into one of turmoil and uproar ; however, on the nele
tion being put, the Chairman declared the petition for thee
repeal and revision to be carried, on which an indescribable'
confusion ensued, and the chairman vacated the chair.
It is but justice to say that most of the leading, virtuous,
and intelligent Chartists in the neighbourhood, by the erns
dour and reasoning powers they displayed on this oceasien,,
won the esteem of even t):6Y^ who differed from them in
polities. The rabble of prowling paid orators, vise live out of
the misery of our cour.try, were mostiy supported by more un-
i thinking tans from twelve to eighteen yesn's of age, and those
not many. Let the Toner beware how th,'Y use such instru-
ments ; their principles go to sap the founda:ions of civil so-
ciety, and prepare men for desperate deeds.
DARING BIJRGLA_II.Y.
A daring outrage, and similar to that recently committed at
Bexhill, which excited 30 much alarm throughout the whole
county of Sussex, was perpetrated en Monday last at the resi"
Bence of a farmer named Bayman, residing near '(ring, on the
borders of Herts, in the county of Bucks. Mr. Hayman el Ad.
His family retired to rest at their usual hour, and about one*
o'clock on the Tuesday morning, they were alarmed by a noise
as of sonic person being in the house, and immediately after-
wards, three men with their faces blackened nailed it go Mr.
Batman's bed-room. He jumped out of bed, when the first
I man, who hat a lighted candle in one hand, 'and a pistol iu the
other, presented the pistol at him, and threatened to blow his
brains out if he did not be quiet and give up his matey, and
they then forced him on the bed, and with the most dreadful
oaths, declared they would murder him if he did not gives them
I money. Mr. Bayman, finding resistance to be hopeless, gave
the villains ten sovereigns and souse silver, and one
of arm stood guard over him while the two °eters
proceeded to the bed-rcom of Miss Bayman, .he.
daughter of Mr. Bayman, of whom they demandatt
money, and upon her telling them she had not got:
any, they used most horrible imprecations, and broke open
every box and drawer in the room, in the expectation of find-
ing some money. The ruffians then proceeded to the lower
part of the premises, and for nearly two hours they were em-
ployed it, raleacking the house, and when they had packed up
a quay City of valuable teoperty, consisting of wearing apparel,
silver spoons, watches, &e.. they again went to the bedroom
of Mr. 13ayman, and one of the men produced his gun, which
he had brought from the lower pirt of the }lessee, and loaded it
in his presence, and told him that they would fire it off
as a signal when they had left the prem'ses. And
they told him that if he went down stairs. or gave I
any alarm before the morning they would return and rnitrdet
hint. The villains then decamped ; bur Mr. Baymsn anti th e
family e ere so alarm, dat their threats that they did not s ;se
down stairs until o.aylight, when they found every drawer wed
cupboard had been forced open, and a quantity of valuable
pr. perry abstracted. Mr. Bayman then gave information cof
what had occurred, and Ashby, the constable, of Trine, hr .-
meeiately made inquiries in the neighbourhood, and barb ig
ascertained that three men, , ach carrying a lirge bundle, b ad
been seen going in a direction from the neighbourhood wh ere
the rolebe-y had been committed to Chest-eon, he obtained the
assistance of an thcr constable, and proceeded in pursuit, and
upon going into a public-house near Aston Clinton, they
found three men answering the description of the thieves,
and they took them into cusi ocly,and found nearlyseven pounds
in gold and silver, and several articles of the stolen property
in their possession. The next day they were taken before Sir
John King, a Magistrate for the county of Bucks, when they
gave their names David and George Allice, and John. Reeve,
but the latter is well known by the soubriquet of " Gipsy
• Jack." The above facts were then given in evidence, and Mr.
Bayman also stated, that although the men's faces were black-
, enel and otherwise disguised, he had a good opportunity of
observing their features, and he swore positively they were the
parties who had acted as he described, and he likewise identi-
fied the articles found in their possession as being part of the
st, len property. After a long investigation, the prisoneis,
who merely denied the charge, were fully committed to tate
their trial.

DEFALCATION OF OFFICIAL ASSIGNEES.—
It is the duty of Government to provide an effectual preventive
against a repetition of these injurious frauds, no suggestions
can be snore pertinent to the question, or better deserving the
most serious attention not only of the Government, Lut
every merchant and tradesman in the kingdom, than those•
coniained in the Sixth Edition (which is just published) of
Mr Jackson's Check Journal," in an article " On the most
effectual means of preventing and detectieg Forgery, Fraud,
an I Embezzlement in Cash and Bill Transactions," &c._ _

..... _........,...................,......... ,
FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—Atoung man of fash-
ionable appearance applied about four o'clock on Saturday after-
noon to the keeper of the column in the Place Vendome for
permis•iou to go up, but was informed that being alone it was
not allowable. He was turning away, when a party of visiters
came with the same intention, and as this removed the ob-
jection, he ascended with them. While the rest were engaged
in admiring the view from the gallery he seized an opportunit,
got on the rails, and in a moment threw himself headlong It.:
tae ground. When taken up, and carried to the quarter*. °l'
the Etat-Major on the place, he was perfectly lifeless, havil
fractured several of his limbs, and received other mortal !tt
juries. He had neither papers, cards, nor any other thing
about him by which he could be identified.
INQUEST.—An inquest was tield by Mr. W.
Carter, the Coroner fur the Eastern Division of Surrey:.,at, , _
Kingston Union House. on Ftirlay evening, on the bc!.e 4a-
man named Thomas Martin, who was
fol-
lowing circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidenceand
re-
veral witnesses that the deceased was a lao,,neittg man,
sided some
sided at East Moulsey, but having been out
"1
"errening last
ho oned under tonf
time he was reduced to great distress, and
lone..lia.house at
week he applied to the landlady of the
Moillsey to give him a night's lodging, for a small
tbuatsatsfrkeoeind his dirty ap_
petrance she declined to do so. He then.
he went to the
of gin, which was given to him.getti nag some water to mix
back of the house for the
and it is supposed that tkrz
with it, and as he passed purposethoughtoheef,eb-kreitacdhaenntli:uottbesrerlan.edd:::.
pieces of bread and butter on a plaht
5 was covered with arsenic.
and the mornnit it was.
poor man, being hungry, took up t
irtaa.srs-a's then ascertained that the
This bread and butter it Pe
Information was ircitneliat..ly given to
for the purpose of destroyindag
missed inquiry was made, an
„,atthdadieoacdcfuuirrsetcalte, a,nud.asthre'epornoorvemdante
deceased had eaten it.
assistance was rendered him by
this . as in a most the parish authorities of what.
who by time w
of the union but withou_t
.il, and the
very soon after his admission to the
the workhougsee.twie.ieneri
Ithe medical
poor creature exPlr
workhouse. The jury, after hear in all the evi Lefler, returned
the deceased died through eating bread and
been covered with arsenic, for the purl ose of
•
ia).vtetredritcht
and at the same
killing rats, ,
terms their sense of the impropriety of allowing such a thing
to be left about in so careless a manner.
atthhaatd
Between the hours of six and seven, on the
afternoon of Wednesday last, Carnatvon was visited by
a severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by .a
heavy shower of rain. After seven the thunder subsided,
but the sky still continued to gleam with remote and vivid
lightning, and the rain fell in torrents until towards eiiht
o'clock, when it cleared up, and the atmosphere became
deliciously fresh and cool—the morning having been
somewhat sultry, although there had been a copious till of
rain during the three or four preceding days. During the
entire evening there were indications of distant storms in
several points of the compass--the sky sending forth the
most intense flashes in very opposite directions, unaccom-
panied by any report whatever. A little after midnight,
however, the inhabitants were aroused by a terrific peal,
which appeared to burst immediately over the town, and
was succeeded by a soaking shower of rain, which conti-
nued more or less copiously until the dawn of day. The
weather during the whole of Thutsday was sultry intbe
; extreme. From all that wocan gather, similar vicissitudes
; of weather were observed in many other districts of
North Wslos...Carsamt Herald.

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