The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

S F:7l MARY g F E S

AND

Vitbitt aptizton.

" Who runs may read."

Ni
The French Court FORMZG
of Peers decded on Thursday the
fate of Quenisset and his accomplices. Baron Pasquier,
the President, in the absence of the prisoners, pronounced
sentence of death upon Quenisset, Colombier, and
Bazier ; imprisonment for life upon Dufaur, Jarrasse,
and Petit ; imprisonment for fifteen years upon Mal-
let and Boggio ; imprisonment for ten years upon Lau-
nois and Boucheron ; detention for five years, and loss
of all civil rights upon M. Dupoty, for writing a
Journal read by the conspirators ! A similar sentence
was passed on Bazin; and Prioul, Martin, Fougeray,
and Considere, were acquitted. The necessary prepara-
tions were made for the decapitation of two of the three
prisoners condemned to death.
The King of the French will open the new Session of
the Chambers in person to day "It is reported,"
says the Constitutionnel, " thatin the last meeting of the
Council of Ministers a warm discussion arose on a para-
graph in the Speech from the Throne which M. Guizot
had proposed. It was a question in this paragraph of
giving express approbation to the project of the treaty of
commerce with Belgium. M. Humann is said to have
opposed himself very energetically to its adoption, and
the Council was unable to come to any decision at this
sitting.*

During 1840 there were 144 money letters, containing
230,000 E, confided to the Post-offices throughout France,
and have not yet been claimed. The total number of
such letters not claimed since 1830 is 482, and the value
of their contents 765,800 f.
In a letter from Madrid of the 15th inst., we find the
following :—" In the event that any of your Liverpool
readers should feel disposed to enter into contracts with
this Government•—which I neither recommend nor dis-
courage—l convey the intelligence that tenders will be
received at the public offices on the 15th of February
next, from such parties as are willing to sell to the
Spanish Government five thousand tierces of Havannah,
and two thousand hogsheads of Kentucky, in both in-
stances leaf, tobacco, at prices whieli' shall not exceed
20.1. dollars per quintal of 100Ibs. for the first-named,
and 13 dollars for the other, deliverable in equal propor-
tions in May, June, and July following, at the Govern-
ment stores of Corunna, Seville, Alicante, Valencia, and
one other port, the payment to be guaranteed by the
mortgage of one•third the gross proceeds of the whole-
sale and retail sales of the article at the Government
stores. Your readers are not, probably, aware that the
sale prices are about 1,000 per cent. more than those of
purchase."
M. Mendizabal, the ex-Finance Minister, and M.
Weisweiller, Rothschild's agent, had arrived in Madrid,
on the 15th from Paris.
The Correo Nacional states that its editor has been
acquitted by the Jury of the charge preferred against
him by the Government. A letter from Oviedo, in the
Castellano, announces the capture of seven bandits who
had, for some time past infested the neighbourhood.
The municipal elections in. Alicant were the occasion
of serious rioting. A band of 20 or 30 assassins entered
the hall in which the elections of the parish of St. Mary
were quietly proceeding, and one of them stabbed with a
poniard M. Luis Maria Proyet, a deputy in the Cortes,
who was acting as secretary in the assembly. Strong
measures were immediately adopted by the authorities,
and several of those miscreants ' were apprehended and
committed for trial.
General Amor had been arrested by order of General
Rodil, and was to be tried by the court-martial sitting
at Vittoria.
Four new periodicals have been started at Madrid, the
Independiente, the Argos, the Peninsular, and the Censor
del Ambos Mundos, the latter especially dedicated to sub-
jects connected with the colonial possessions of Spain.
On the 14th inst. Sir Robert Gordon was formally
received by the Emperor of Austria, to whom his Ex-
cellency presented his credentials as Ambassador to
Austria.
Letters from Constantinople of the 30th in the Gazette
of Upper Germany of the 20th inst., state that advices
had reached the Turkish capital from Beyrout of the
march of Selim Pacha, Governor of Syria, at the head
of three thousand men, for the Lebanon, and that
the. Maronites had laid down their arms on being
summoned, but that the Druses had retreated into the
mountains. Colonel Rose (the British officer) had gone
on a mission to the Emir of the Druses to induce them to

submit.
A letter from Smyrna of Nov. 27th, says, "By con-
fidential letters from Alexandria we learn that an Euro-
pean Power has been instigating Mehemet Ali to acts of
hostility against the Sultan ; but the Pacha, who has not
forgotten the lesson given him last year by England,
,does not seem inclined to risk losing what he has been
allowed to retain. French agents are very busy in the
Archipelago. Oa of these agents lately received a re-
mittance of 2,000,000 f. • through a house at Smyrna.
The money came direct from Marseilles."
PUBLIC OPINION.

The following appears in the Morning Post :—" Among
the queerest things which have happened at this Christ-
mas time may, we think, be reckoned the sudden twist of
that enlightened' Whig-Radical organ the Morning
Chronicle, regarding the present Corn-law. Arost people
who care anything at all about newspaper discussion. (if
by that name it may rightly be called) must be pretty well
aware that for months. past the Chronicle writers have
been assailing the Corn-law in a fashion which inure
resembles the bellowing of mad bulls than the ex-
postulation of rational creatures. All the epithets of
fury and ferocity which the more vehement parts
of our language supply have been 'used up' over
and over again in successive' attacks upon the Corn-law.
This, we say, is very well 'known. Well, then, on
Christmas Eve out comes the Chronicle with its disco-
veries that the Corn-law is not so very bad after all. It
has its good points in the shape of certain openings to
fraud, which Whig-Radicals find rather convenient, and
they have no notion of quietly surrendering these pet
portions, for such, it seems, there are, of this very well
abused Corn-law. And whence comes this change. Why,
the Corn-law has.been touched by the Conservative wand
of that potent magician, Mr. Christopher, in the county
of Lincoln, and straightway it becomes tolerable (by
comparison) to Whig-Radical vision,"
The Herald contains the following seasonable observa-
tions:—" Never did appeals to the charity of English-
men—never did demands upon their active humanity—
arise so thickly round them, after a quarter of a century
of peace with all the Powers of Europe, as those which
are addressed to them at this moment by hundreds upon
thousands of their destitute compatriots! How this ac-
cumulation of misery can have attained its present fear-
ful height and extensive prevalence—in what degree
fluctuations in our manufacturing prosperity, convulsions
of our monetary system, defective harvests, the surplus
supply of labour at home co-incident with an adequate
demand for it abroad, deficiencies of the public
revenue, and declining imposts—in what degree all
these may have operated to produce so fearful a
combination of distress and physical suffering, we
propose not, now, to inquire. Our purpose is, rather to
implore all classes of the British public, who are happily
placed beyond the reach of sordid want—of that intense
and abject misery which we will characterise by its well-
known and emphatic designation of pauper destitu-
tion'—now to come forward, and with a timely bounty—
with hearts open as day to melting charity'—hands
liberal and unstinting (moved by pity but guided by dis-
cretion), to relieve the misery and loneliness of the children
of want—the great family of hunger and of desolation 1"
—The Herald would be much better employed in appeal-
ing to the justice of the Government, than in appealing
to the charity of individuals. Private charity may cer-
tainly do much in the way of alleviation, but it is the
broad and comprehensive justice of Government alone,
that can effectually relieve the great and increasing family
of hunger and of desolation. Unfortunately, however, but
scanty justice is to be expected from a monopolist Ministry.
We quote the following from the Chronicle :—" A
merry Christmas—we were going to say, to all you good
people of England. But the mockery of the unmeaning
compliment grated on our ear before we could commit

to paper ; and we 1,, ithheld our pen from writing
words that would have had the semblance of an un-

feeling jest on general and acute suffering. A merry
Christmas it is to the present rulers of the people of
England, proud of their newly-acquired power and the
maintenance of their monopolies ; but we cannot say
that we wish them a monopoly of mirth. A .merry
Christmas it is not to the people governed by them, and
our wishing will not make them enjoy destitution and
despair. Our rulers are gone into the country, and the
cares of governing give place for a while to those of
shooting and the festivities of the season."—lt must be
exceedingly consoling to the thousands of famishing
operatives of Paisley, Bolton, and elsewhere, to know
that though for them there is this year no " merry
Christmas," yet that their Tory rulers are spending the
season at their several residences in all due merriment
and festivity. What though there be starvation in the
Manchester cellars and attics, is there not feasting at
Drayton Manor ? This is a reflection that should calm
the spirits, and appease the discontent of the starving
artisans, and subdue that "ignorant impatience of taxa-
tion," which the late Lord Castlereagh so justly accused
them of exhibiting.

The Times, alluding to the appointment of the Com-
mission respecting the Exchequer bill fraud, says :
"We do not remember that we ever saw a contrivance
so exactly answering to the common phrase, 'neither the
one thing nor the other.' Two legitimate subjects are
before the Government and before the country. The
first is, to see that the ends of justice are answered, and
to make it quite clear that no impunity has been allowed
through favour or affection' to any persons criminally
concerned in the recent forgeries. As the matter
stands, various honest men in the City of London are
defrauded of large sums, which either they or the nation
must ultimately lose. Now, the general voice demands
that those who have committed this great crime
shall be strictly and impartially . brought to justice ;
and a considerable degree of dissatistsetion exists,
and is spreading, from a doubt whether this has really
been done. To meet this question in a frank and sa-
tisfactory manner, would indeed be an object worthy of
such an investigation. A second purpose would be, to
devise means for the ef. ectua prevention of any such
frauds in future ; and thfis,,Soo,l be admitted to be
a very fit topic for the gravest inquiry. But neither
from the language of the above quoted document itself,
nor yet from the character of the persons whose names
appear in it, can we discover which of these two points
is to form the sui)ject for investigation ; or whether
both are to be, in some strange way, combined. There
is not a word mtrheis commission
mssi(one amongtoueh theingth wholeedisc four'olery
Cm
of delinquents,
no
s who can be imagined to have the least
skill in thief-catching.' "

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The state and condition of Darwen, near Blackburn,

MORNING SUN

i another deplorable instance of distressed trade. At 1
meeting held there on the 13th inst. it aeared that, out
of 1,200 families visited, comprising 8,00 pps
incieriduals,
684 persons were out of work ; and that 602 individuals
of the whole received only 71 d. Der head a week.
At Nottingham, ont 0f4,700 bobbin-not nischines
formerly worked by 8,000 men, there now not employed
more than 1,600 machines, worked by 3,000 men.

COMMERCIAL REFORM. held at
In addition to the conference of ministers to be
Edinburgh, there will also be a demonstration at Glasgow
in favour of a total repeal of the Corn-laws the
following days:—Friday, the 14th, and SaultlaY
,
15th of January.
AGRICULTURAL. the
Coffee and pepper are about to be cultivated on •
western shores at Sumatra. rich
Many of the tracts in the United States are so
thit the cultivators are compelled to plant Indian corn
on them for timr or five years to impoverish thew be-
fore wheat is sown. A small plain in Piekaway count),
of about 1,500 acres, planted with corn, has producea
100 bushels to the acre, and this same amount of al
has continued for two or three years. 64, the two

ECCLESIASTIC.AZ.
An odd game seems to be now playing in one cornert
of the sanctuary. When it is objected by some
`e
" Mr. Williams is no Protestant," it is answered, `.
but he is a poet." When it is objected that he is n
poet, it is replied, " True, but then he is a PusePte'

PI
Paul Delaroche's grea NEt
paAßintin TS
*now exhibiting at
the School of Fine Arts, Parigs, represents Ictinus,
he
Apelles, and Praxiteles, judging the world of art.
great painters, artists, and sculptors, of all ages' arjef
grouped upon benches. The face of Apelles is that '
Delaroche himself.
LITERARY AND SCIENT/rW• which
It is proposed that to prevent the effluviumQuidl, ilia
arises from the decomposition of bodies, the coffin_As4"weith
be filled up with Plaster of Paris, which, n3ixe" ..h
-
water, and poured into the coffin in a liquid state'p be-
water,
comes in a few minutes fixed and hard, and Preildnnot
every escape of effluvia. The additional cost well"
be more than 2s. or 3s. for each neral. h the
The tenderest roses may be preserved threug- nd
winter, if by thatching and , burying their roots lit.
stems, the earth about them is protected from the fros
C OURT —FAS HIO NABLZ• returned
The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond retlL
to Beigrave-square early in the week.
square,Th Eorall,hauranddaCyo,ufnotresss or-
Grosven e
tn.°
Duke of Wellington. tfhWfielidltsoan left
~.fsda
The Countess of Jersey arrived in town on TR'. 1
evening from Brighton. fray visit-
Lord Fitzroy Somerset has returned to town "
ing Lord Hill at Hardwicke Grange. for
Naples
Lord and Lady Seymour have arrived at
the winter. Bath
Lord Ashburton returned to the Grange from House on Monday last.
Lord Stanley left Knowsley on Friday for too'
MISCELLANEOUS. corn'
The oriental ingredients which enter into the have
position of our Christmas mincepies are supposed to have
the
a reference to the offerings made by the • e well °
East ; and it was anciently the custom 0 rea'e anger
pies of an oblong form, thereby representing the 133.,-dant
in which, on that occasion,the ' found the
sages
Ye, the seat of tb
Jesus. ; entirely
The gulf of Cronstadt on the 3d instants ft' her in
free from ice ; an unusual instance of mil%vett"
Russia. ',ared, and

The slip on the Croydon Railway is now cleL • u
the Brighton trains pass through without interruPT,.),-;9.
ot '''
The most rigid winter on record was that
All the rivers and lakes were
birds and beasts were strewedthaendbllt;l6ll;
beings perished by thousands in their houses. 1 crrentli
i n ice-boundththe fields,
tn
A Worcester Paper states that the females c"„ not
preponderate over the males in England. " c abound
surprised at this, for the Tory old women 31" e
in prodious numbers. in
There ig
was a great display of excessive Tee-t°tslism
once
the streets last night ; and the president of. ajTVelength
Society in the East, was discovered stretene" “ by the
in a gutter in Cheapside, overpowered, no delln4
nervous excitement arising from green ten.
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COURT CIRCULAR• a prime
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and. and
Albert took their usual walk this murol---r'iirate
afterwards attended Divine Service ill thbeaPess the
Chapel of the Castle. Her Royal llicite and
Duchess of Kent and the Royal Itev. pr.
Household also attended. The
Merewether, Dean of Hereford,
The Dean of Hereford attended the Se as did
St. George's Chapel in the evening,
.4 some
Viscount Sydney, Hon. C. A. Murray, a" .
of the Ladies of the Court.
The Very, Rev. Dr. Merewether, V.ettic,aylla
isl
at the Castle, is the only addition to ,ii-,,-
Dinner party this evening. Albert; and
Yesterday her Majesty and
Prins Visitors and a
the Duchess of Kent, and the 1193.; private
Suite attended Divine Service yoruw.Rus.
Chapel of the Castle. The Rev' the
sell officiated. andnuchess
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke dinner
of Cambridge received a select party at
on Saturday at their residence at Kew.
#fii.dar
Lord Stanley arrived in town on Sav-- Jr
from the seat of his father, Knowsley Hall,
cashire. °
G vef"
Despatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, ‘,, die
nor of Jamaica, were received yesterday 01" -

Colonial
Marcos-(T. A
The Marchioness of Queens-bury has arrive'. at
Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave- street, from her.
in Scotland. 11
The 'Rev. Lord W. Russell, 3-raj°r-Genel‘
and the Lady Isabella lEV.erannYrthgelio3llllllllnr..:
buthnot, 'and Mr. G.
Anson had the honour of joining the ,11°Ya
ner Circle at the Castle in the evenllls.

THE QUEEN DOWAOs' ;
culatedThe mreospstecdtiisnsgatihselarctomrya
jersetpyo,srtesoncvoatitinue‘ t° be
-r
able appearances in her health have proved quit* ill,
ceptive, and that they are only those changes vibito
treacherous disease under which her MajestY 1,..
invariably presents. Even her own immediate dome~
Cu entertain not the slightest hopes of her 1141:0:
recovery,io and those best acquainted with her e(H/Aiiiry,
t n insist that the damp and marshy nature of Sevurread
accelerated in no small degree the tendency it ealso,
towards pulmonary disease. Her MajecviotY hai,,,,cks
for
a series of years, been subjected to lent attacks
of erysipelas, which showed itself to her
!stifle
and which confined her, at different ;an,. her
periods, for several weeks to, the Palace isr-asinl°s;
'Royal husband's lifetime. Such a or
o:afflicted
phere as Sudbury is truly inimical to Fetr- denied
with that complaint. It cannot, hevierbee.'latbee, illness
that so debilitated is her Majesty II t
ojed with toe
that her removal at present mightbe sae
ladllterl
,enai results
it is the 00,
itaotioaodtidoothosft 'parti ortireijeig;to
that those awful anticipations respecting her - ''''
reports 4
health may not be realited. Amongst other er's
is said- that the real state of '6 Queen 13°Vrag Cr
Majesty's iffialediSte -e.faeiv.
co
health Fs concealed to rola it e • a cleed el
t, oac
the approaching P eut throwing
ninitdtes:siodhuleetesrtdiherwise the air of hear
ppreitsuere
festivities at Windsor• Sec-,:yr re'
would be indeed truly silly, and by no mei" cr--;r;
spectful towards' the Royal sufferer —Sunciail 4.llvcs.
pirmrrooamisydLeeirfntao.etfea

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ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERDiI
IN EDINBSRGH. f
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_A preliminary meeting of ministers and .---- a its
Dissenfing Churches, residing in Edinburgh an • -
neighbourhood, was held in Broughton-Place Soeigani:nd
house on Monday eveaing last, upon lb' Pr-12tb,
meetings to be held in Edinburgh on the llth, 7.700,
and 13th of January, 1842, for the purpose of P"4"ths
ing for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. Filunter
report of those who had notified by
fion to attend, it appears that the numbers AN
Belaalr
these : Ministers and Members from ec.. t
Indepead ti,
Churches, 384 ; Relief Churches, 130 ;
Churches, 110 ; Bapiist Churches, 52 ; smaller see .
36 ; making a total of 712 ministers and mernbere! ;
than as possibly Out,
much larger meeting
.already w . ,
....wit
pated. Of the secession class it is not a little I,v7if opi
ahle that not one minister out of 494 expressos f lif all
mon in favour of the present Corn-laws, andt):ll4 °pie
their congregations only three state that thVi. rem is
trees is
are not nearly unanimous. Total abolition 01
letter their in a
almost unanimously advocated by their raelabers'• lIV
not one minister states that a majority of hi. Ongregti,,
tion approves of these laws. Out of the stnaller_„Secr of
only one out of 23 pastors and ministers is in raTirlog
monopoly. The only bodies who have declined
_bir-oi,
part in the proceedings are some of the Eploce'a of
tt:heeirlapayteaonpsle, andare
sßtrooinngain Catholdics, buth pale . ans'versol
generally state in decided terms that they 0
the other do not answery othpepoqsueeriteos.t e r°V7ioll'o6;

PLEADERS.—WB
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tends to offer himself as candidate for one of the tcao
ships
Richardab o en
Syra—canWt.
P:lttLornock, of the Inner, Temple, barrisrnier
8 understand that in.
Jove
COMMITMENTS TO ABINGDON GAOI,-""'
James was committed by R. Currie, Esq., on gocitYo
last, for trial at the ensuing County Sessions, on a ehlVr.
of stealing a quantity of cut wood, the property of ;',..,,
W. 11. Davis, a farmer at Dry Sandford. Jane lis.-ell'ff,
was committed for trial, for participating. in the tli 'I
but bail being offered she was allowed- to go at large eietiv
ltahset,sebsys.i\olrtisi.liaGmeoioleis,Clack was committed on Thursutj
ringdon, for the sussionsE. Esq.,
ir,
A GENUINE WOMAN HATER:" gray, sid
will you never marry ?" said a fair girl to a browil()0
for stealing a gun a FP-
bachelor. " Ahern ! why—l don't know—Yes-43a et
—I might get married, perhaps, if it were possible to g
married to anything but a woman "—Richmond Star.
as
TAKING IT COOLLY.—Commodore Napier as
sitting in an arm-chair by the wheel, and a $ lth° little
several gallant officers on board began to look it.cif
astonished at the thickly-coming missiles, the st% 0
Commodore did not so much as turn his head ; het,lthe
calm voice, and motioning with his hand, said ,t'',l,-09
steersman, " Port a little—port—that will do; ,S fans
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PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
At the first meeting for the present session, Dr.
21liotson, the President, announced that the meetings
would be held on the first and third Monday of ever'
month, and that on the second Monday of every month
a lecture would be delivered to the members and to such
of the public as might apply to the Secreta#y for a ticket.
A east was presented to the Society by Mr. Prideaux
of Southampton, exhibiting a large depression, obvious
toevery one, at the spot in which Gall declared the
organ for judging of colour to exist. The gentleman
from whom the cast was taken affords a striking con-
firmation of Gall's discovery, for, though possessed of
good eyes, and having no defect of vision, he has never
been able to distinguish between dark green and dark
red, calls crimson velvet a sort of blue, and upon being
desired to name some surrounding object of the same
, Colour as a cake of yellow ochre, he named the grass
*•' outside the window. When signal officer on board, he
. • talks sorely puzzled at first, and learned gradually to
distinguish the flags by the relative positions of the light
And dark parts. Yet he can distinguish the most minute
differences of deeper or fainter shade far better than
hill wife. Thus, bright scarlet is almost the only
colour he can recognise with certainty ; and he calls it
"the colour of a soldier's jacket." Bright yellow he
generally names correctly ; but sometimes he mistakes
it for light green. All other colours he is constantly
mistaking. When together, he can only distinguish a
slight difference among them, but cannot name any one
of them apart.
Dr. Elliotson Mentioned, that in the majority of the
cases in medical records, the deficiency respected one
ray only, and that ray is the red. This was not known to
Gall.nor was the fact known to him that the defect (which
is often hereditary, and occurs in more than one of the
same family) prevails far more frequently in the male
hex. The brothers of the gentleman in question have
• the same defect ia a slight degree. But his sisters are
free from it.
A singular cast, also presented by Mr. Prideaux,
was next exhibited, in which the forehead was narrow
and retreating, and indeed the head narrow throughout.
But the superior part of the head was of great height,

especially the back part of the superior regions. -NO
' further information had yet been obtained, than that
the boy, from whom the cast was taken, is excessively
Obstinate, and will be guided by none except his mother.
While the cast was being taken, he kicked violently alt
Who came near him.
At the second meeting of this session, Dr. Elliotson
delivered a lecture upon the functions of the nervous
',stem at large, and the brain in particular.
At the third meeting a paper upon temperaments,
by Mr. Prideaux, was read. The author pointed out.
as Dr. Elliotson had done in his " Human Physiology,"
the impropriety of Dr. Thompson's calling the relative
development of the head, chest, and abdomen, in differ-
ent individuals "temperaments," and considered that
the best division of the temperaments was into the san-
guine, bilious, and lymphatic, rejecting the nervous,
which has lately been introduced. To firmness of tex-
ture he attributes capacity for rapid action ; to firmness
of texture and absolute size of organs, he attributes
power ; to firmness of texture and relative size, the re-
lative energy and tendency to frequent action.

TREASURY SCREW.—We understand that,
according to a recent order of the Treasury, the revenue
remittances to the receivers-general of the different
rblic departments from the outports, and from the col-
ectors of excise, and stamps, and taxes, shall be made
every ten days, instead of the much longer period before
allowed. We understand, also, that this new arrange-
talent has given great dissatisfaction to the country
,olcers, in whose hands the amount collected has
hitherto been allowed to rest to their own profit, and in
diminution of the means of the Government to meet the
exigencies of the public service. The shorter the time
w4lowed for these remittances, the less necessity exists
for the issue of what are denominated in the Bank
Parlour " deficiency bills," which are, we believe, Ex-
Chequer bills issued to the Bank in order to meet any
temporary deficiency of the revenue, and are recalled
according as the remittances to the different receivers
general arrive. The country bankers generally are very
much annoyed at this new arrangement, as the only ad-
pntage they can derive is from keeping the remittances
they
as long a time as possible in their own bands, and
'ey have made great endeavours to obtain the extension
of the period to fourteen days.—Observer.
SMUGGLING OF SUGAR.—Attention has for
!long time been drawn to the fact of the importation into
Southampton, from Jersey, of large quantities of foreign
sugar as a manufactured article. It is formed into large
cakes, as manufactured, for the purpose of fraudulently
Latroducing it into this country. It is often seized at
e Custom-house, because it is unmixed with any other
TgTedient. The quantities of foreign sugar thus frau-
dulently,,, imported are small compared with the quantity
of sugar consumed in the United Kingdom ; but the
.Pi'actice has increased of late, and gives an unfair ad-
.t Ihntage over the regular trader. But this is not the only
ractice connected with Jersey which excites attention.
• ~,_The whole of the laws and customs of that island must
~7tniirito revision. The inhabitants of Jersey import into
"Ais country foreign wheat and chicory as the produce of
own •island, and the laws which are enacted to
kiill4Sh the parties who are guilty of making false decla-
tip"lls in Jersey are defied, because the Jersey Legisla-
e Assembly wilfully neglect to allow such laws to re-
ewe the Royal assent. The criminal courts of Jersey
1)70 transport their convicted felons to Southampton to
let loose upon Great Britain—and the Jersey laws of
debtor and creditor are so iniquitous that a creditor in
this country' has no chance of recovering his due from a
Jersey
debtor.
THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF EGMONT.—
tThe Right Hon. Henry Frederick James, fifth Earl of
Mont, Viscount Perceval (in Ireland), and fourth
itrou Lovell and Rolland (in England), took place on
athe 23d instant, at his Lordship's residence in Wigmore-
threet• The deceased Peer was great grandson to John,
e second Earl of Egmont (first Lord of the Admiralty,
w,tho Ministry which succeeded Lord Bute's, in 1763),
,;14km) was father, by a second marriage, to the late Lord
, and the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval. The late
*;441,411 le in his 47th year, and, dying unmarried, his
es
have devolved upon his cousin, the Right lion.
s`urgo James Lord Arden, captain in the navy, who
1„„
Exmouth
with distinguished gallantry under the late Lord
-11104th at the siege of Algiers ; and, before succeed-
. to his peerage, represented the western divisfon of
county of Surrey, in the late Parliament. George
-,.14141,1e5, the present and sixth Earl of Egmont, was born
0'794, and married in 1819 Jane, eldest daughter of
e late John Hornby, Esq., of Hook, near Southampton,
41' Countess of Egmont. His surviving brothers are
C
non. and Rev. Charles George Perceval, rec'or of
alverton, and the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Perceval, one
of her Majesty's chaplains.
TIVERTON
MARKET, DEC. 21.—ConN.-
4ittleat, Gs 6d to 8s per bushel ; Barley, 3s 6d to 4s 3d
; Oats, is 5d to 2s 8d ditto.—slipply good, demand
PANNlER.—Turkeys, 5s to lOs 6d and 12s each ;
toy, 3s 6d to Cs ditto ; Ducks, 3s 9d to 5s 6d per
liture ; Fowls, 2s 6d to 4s ditto ; Eggs, Is per dozen ;
water, Ild to 12d per pound ; Potatoes same as last
; there was a very superior lot of poultry in our
rket to-day with very -rapid sale at excellent prices.
th,4-3111LEs.—Beef, 6d to Ed per pound ; Mutton, 6d to 7d
it:49 >. Veal 6d to 8d ditto ;
_Pork, 6d to 6id. ditto ; Dry
;Irmeot,
8d ditto.— Wes tern Taws.
..-3Z-ARsIiALsEA PRlsoN.—The Earl of Liver-
„`lii;; 1)4 Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, hay-
benevolently forwarded to J. Rutland, Esq., the De-
, k-„Y_,.'-tarshal, a very liberal Christmas donation, for the
• littmt_el:lt of the debtors, the Noble Earl's bounty was
don Christmas-eve, to each inmate, in a plentiful
e'Y of beef, bread, porter, and coals. with ls. 6d. in
4.4
_milies. His Lordship's munificence was most gratefully
the. far eu, arid thankfully enjoyed by the debtors and
i
'jr MONEY MOSES.—This notorious
eace, who, it will be recollected, was concerned in the
rld dust robbery, and was sentenced to transportation,
ed at 1.-tobart Town in the month of June last. His
t -.1111n"Y mourned according to the most approved form of
• eJ .wish religion. His wife and two daughters weretq .
t',,e colony at the time of " Money's" arrival. He was
4ced on the public works, and became a turnkey. His
bath is attributed to a white swelling on his knee, which

a, --- .
-=odered amputation necessary, under which he sunk.
~, DISTRESS AT STOCKPORT.—At a public
the
held at Stockport on Wednesday last to relieve
(.14ko distreSs, the Rev. Mr. Waddington handed to the
• fac-lieman 500/, which he had received from the Maim.
' th.,-uter4' .Committee,London. The Mayor commenced
~4---,,- subscription with 501. James Heald, Esq., gave 501.,
V' and the ArissH ealds, 50/. Thomas Walmesley, Esq.,
•.;1 '4ll. > Cephas. Howard, Esq., 50/. ; Rev. C. K. K. Pres-
a;s' tt, rector, 501.; James Marshall and Sons, 10.01.; H.
v 4
t ' PPock, Esq town clerk, 501. ; Messrs. Carringtons,
44 ...-Manufacturers, 501.; Robert Gee, Esq., .501.; Jona-
-11113r•ItOlobinson, Esq., 501.; Joseph Marsland, Esq., 251.;
tlti. v
1 ltr ' Edward Howell, 25/.; James Leech,
io I,ol4Ssit. Kidds, 251.; E. D. Devenport, Esq., of Capes-
Esq., 25/.;
11j441?"11. , 101.; Mr. C. Poppleton, 10/.; and the Rev. Mr.
'44446 ?I'llton, 31. A Central Committee was appointed, con-
t4.tylv:l44 of about fifty gentlemen, of whom about twenty
pa 7re clergymen and ministers.
-ilqi... INIQUITOUS CHURCH-RATE.—Three persons
,ecently met in the vestry of Stanley Church for the pur-
:'ityise a leying a Church-rate, in addition to the one now
thtempting to be collected, for the Wakefield district,
'Os Making a double dose for the poor Stanley-cum-
; reuthorp rate-payers. The three individuals present,
th'ere the Churchwardens and the Parson ; and these
i rec officials had the audacity and cold-heartedness to
:11111°4e . a rate on their starving neighbours, many of
b unl are now existing for days together on othing
ti t
common Swede turnips. We know instances of
"Ille families who have been fed and life sustained by
nothing but this beasts' food. Shame upon the men who
t'ills attempt to wring money from these poor wretches,
and°po the overfed and overgrown State Church ;
thanwho threaten all who do not, on a certain day, by
tr,,elll appointed, pay this iniquitous demand with the
1-1.13 rs of the Church ecclesiastic. Is there none in this
itt•ge district to protect the poor from such a disgraceful
Inposition.—Leeds Times.
iiOTHE FAMILY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.—
r, v vain are often our most cherished hopes and ambi-
t...," Sir Walter Scott expected and toiled to found a
1411111 Y which he would rival of those of the
°order chiefs in theolden times. Itseems now certain
that the direct succession will not continue beyond the
resent generation. His eldest son has no family, the
. , eti has died in a foreign country without issue, and
1_ bockhis daughters are dead. Misfortune and death have
Walter
the crest of Abbotsford, and the halls which Sir
!,s"Vter took such pride in rearing will scarcely ever
Mbe trod by one of his children, The only suryiyor
4/ nOW in India.

LITERATURE.

NOTES OF A HALF-PAY IN SEARCH OF
HEALTH. 2 t'-oh. Madden, London. 1841.
The author of these volumes, though he shows
himself to be a bustling traveller, having watt
dered through Circassia and Crimea, and made
• his way :iito the interior of Russia, yet adds little
to our stock of available knowledge of these
countries, for Spencer, Bell, Longworth, Raikes,
and a hest of other travellers who have recently
produced works on the subject, have exhausted
nearly all that could be said respecting the do-
mestic habits and military tactics of the 'high-
spirited Circassian tribes, the manners of the
Crimean chiefs and peasantry, and the social
peculiarities exhibited at Moscow and St. Peters-
burgh. The utmost that can be said in praise
of these volumes, is that they are neither heavy
nor prolix, but read off lightly and pleasantly
enough, though they contain scarcely one single
fact likely to impret,s itself on the reader's re-
collection. Perhaps the most useful portion of
them is that wherein the author describes the
character and hardships of the Russian army,
though even on this subject we have been already
supplied with copious information, in a work on
Russia, that was noticed at length some months
ago in The Sun. Alltravellers, whether friendly or
otherwise to the military system pursued with
such undeviating strictness by Nicholas, seem to
be agreed on the fact that nothing can surpass
the oppression and uniform discomfort to which
the Russian soldier's life is subjected. His
pay is but three-quarters of a farthing
per diem, out of which he is actually obliged to
buy his own blacking, and candle with which to
grease his moustachios! When employed on
public works, he is supposed to receive about
threepence halfpenny; but he gets very little of
this ; and even after he is superannuated, he re-
ceives no pension on discharge. His food is of
the coarsest and cheapest kind, usually peas,
salt cucumber, water-melons, buck-wheat, rape-
oil, and black bread. Discipline is kept up by
extreme measures, and the cane is used at plea-
sure. " I once saw a captain," says our author,
" inspecting his guard near the quarantine at
Odessa, strike one of his men a blow on the
face with his fist, and seizing him by both his
ears, shake him until lie pulled him out of the
ranks; the man's cap then fell off; and the officer
ordering a corporal to pick it up, jammed it
down on his head with another blow. The whole
system is carried on in the same tyrannical and
overbearing manner. The Russian soldier meets
with very little kindness or consideration to
soften the misery of being imperatively driven
into the service." One cannot wonder, after
reading an account like this, that the ranks of
the army are considered by every Russian, high
or low, as the Vltima Thule—the ne plus ultra
of hardships and degradation. Of Russian hos-
pitality, of which we have lately heard so much,
we are told that the accounts are. greatly ex-
aggerated. The generality of the InKher classes
are not hospitable in the real sense of the word;
but show attention to strangers, more with a view
to their own amusement, or to show off their own
importance by patronizing them, than from any
kind feeling. We close our notice by the author's
remarks on this subject :
Shortly after my arrival at Odessa, a large public din-
ner was given in honour of the marriage of the Grand
Duchess Marie. I mentioned to a Russian acquaintance
that I intended going, when he told me, that in compli-
ment to the occasion. I ought to appear in uniform ; I
did so, but though the military governor, Count T., ten
general officers, and a numerous staff, were present, I
found that, neither from motives of ordinary civility to a
stranger nor any " esprit de corps," as military men, did
they show me any more courtesy than if I had been lost
amongst the crowd in plain clothes ; on the contrary, I
was left to find a place for myself at a side table ; this
was the more surprising, as I was known to the Count,
who, on entering the room, had condescended to sto? as
he passed to ask me for the English receipt for making
ginger beer!!! Such incidents come in amusing con-
trast with the descriptions I had received from my Rus-
sian friends in Italy of the urbanity and hospitality of
their countrymen towards foreigners, and their partiality
for the English.
A letter of introduction, as in any other country, will
procure the stranger a dinner, and, as there are no inns
in the steppe, a bed also, if he has an invitation to any
house on the track ; but it is quite a mistake to suppose
that Russian hospitality exceeds that of any other nation„
or that it proceeds from the same motives. A lion will
always find keepers ; but if the traveller be an unpre-
tending individual, he will not only be unnoticed, but,
from the want of protection, be subject to frequent an-
noyances, in the public offices more particularly. The
acquaintance, therefore, of some person holding a high
official station is absolutely necessary to ensure it, for it
is certain to be required in a few months', perhaps even
a few weeks', residence.
Hospitality, so called, is exercised according to the
eclat which it produces. General L. N. is a striking ex-
ample of this fact, and, from the contradictory points in
his character, is by no means a singular specimen of a
Russian noble. Though immensely rich, he sees no one
at his table, and will go the round of all the tailors in
the town to cheapen a waistcoat ; but when the whim
takes him his conduct is, marked by unbounded prodi-
gality. A company of French players came to Odessa
under the management of an " ancienne amie "' of the
General's ; the whole corps were entertained during their
fortnight's quarantine at his expense ; a band serenaded
them every evening, and his carriages were sent to the
Lazaret to convey them to their hotel at the expiration
of their imprisonment. This freak could not have cost
him less than twenty thousand roubles. His speculations,
for they must gamble in some way or other, are nume-
rous, and wholly devoid of common sense ; one day he
buys a schooner of thirty tons, fir built, and a most
wretched craft ; he is then a merchant, and has a ship
"it est dans le commerce." A few months after he has
some excellent scheme for exporting hareskins, or rags ;
then comes a sugar refinery, or a factory for stePirine can-
dies or cloth. He has racers that never win, wears ear-
rings, and keeps a mesmerizer, who mmriably attends
the General when he is, bilious. This If:cedstone was once
a non-commissioned officer in the Pied
:inontese army, but
finding it safer and more profitabl to kill by magnetism
,
than the sword, he has taken to this profession, and be-
tween his patron and his.aur:,,, picks up a good income.
The lady was, in early
the mistress of Alexander,
and had great persor."4l attractions ; she is now fat and
a devotee.

TUE COMIC ALMAN ACK.
Tilt and Bogue, London, 1842.
This Almanack, in its humourous embellish-
ments, is the ite plus ultra of grotesque extrava-
gance. Throughout, George Cruikshank shows
that his powers of comic illustration are unim-
paired ; and—to use the language of Peter Pas-
toral—that he i 3 still "as fresh as a daisy." The
work appears just at the right season, when all
grave, harsh thoughts of business are for awhile
laid aside, and people are hungering- and thirst-
ing for opportunities of laughter. To enter into
any minute, serious notice of the " Comic Alma-
nack" is absurd, for who can criticize a broad
grin ? Enough to state that those who have a
taste for the facetious, will hers be gratified to
their heart's content. We will just briefly hint
at a few of the leading embellishments, and then
leave the work to make its own way with the
public. " Over-head and Under-ffiot" represents
a party of Bacchanals who are making an awful
noise over their cups, infinitely to the disgust of
a lean, pensive scholar, of a meditative nd
poetical a turn of phiz, who is end.eavouring to
pursue his solitary studies, in the room immedi-
ately beneath. . What an air of sullen resigna-
tion appears in the countenance of the helpless
scholar ! He sees that remonstrance is unavail-
ing, so resigns himself to inexorable circum-
stances; though, in the true spirit of an indig-
nant Briton, he condemns the eyes of his drunken
disturbers to perdition, as is very plainly evi-
denced in his countenance. " Ringing a Belle"
shows a marriage party, standing at the altar,
the two leading members of which are about
to be converted, by the mysterious inter-
position of the parson, into one flesh. Tht
bride is crying, of course—for all English
brides make a point of crying, God knows
why or wherefore !--and the countenance of
the officiating priest is lit up, as is natural, by a
lively anticipation of his fee. As for the bride-
groom, he looks the fac simile of an ass, and
stands bolt upright in his new tights, just as if he
bad swallowed a ramrod, which had not yet di-
gested. The scene is replete with sterling comic
humour. In the plate entitled " Valour and
Discretion" we see a squadron of those brave and
chivalrous warriors, the city train-hands,_ march-
ing forth to battle against an enemy, who, how-
ever, making his appearance somewhat unex-
pectedly, the valorous Cits run off the field with
marvellous rapidity, as if they were so many
a flying from the hot pursuit of Satan.
lawyers
eare several other embellishments, but
those which we have noticed are the cleverer.,,
arid are accompanied by lively literary
nations.

SCOTTISH ROE-DEER IN WINDSOR GREAT
PARK.-It has been for some time past the desire of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert to attempt to propagate
the breed of this description of deer in the Great Park
at Windsor. This wish on the part of the Prince having
been communicated to the Marquis of BreadalbanN his
Lordship immediately ordered Mr. Guthrie, the head
keeper upon his estates in Scotland, to secure a sufficient
number of roe-deer for his Royal Highness. Accordingly
several of the deer were secured when very young, and,
with great difficulty, brought up tamely by hand by the
Noble Marquis's keeper ; and a few day s since six males
arid four females arrived at Windsor by railway from
London, where they were landed from the Dundee
si;eamer. After they had been exhibited to her Majesty
and the Prince in the Quadrangle, they were conveyed to
Sandpit-gate, in the Great Park, a portion of which had
been fenced off expressly for them, and left in the care of
Mr. Cole, the head keeper. In about April or May next
they will be entirely set at liberty, to roam where they
please; and it will then be seen if the breed can be pro-
mated in the south of England. •

OBSERVATIONS OF THE TIMES ON THE
MANCHESTER CONFERENCE-CHARTIST
PLAN FOR BUYING WASTE LAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sits,--I proceed with the account in the Times
of the Conference at Manchester.
" The jobbers who make distress their staple."—
Times, Dec. 20, 1841.
But what are they to the jobbers who make
the distress that they may live on it ?—who keep
their coach-horses on the blood of the people,
and dress up their wives arid daughters on a na-
An's bread ? The fault of Messrs. Brotherton,
Thornely, and Cobden, who arc spoken of as if
they were individually something not to be set
by the side of a robber of the soil, is that they
have not bought their places in Parliament with
money picked from the people's pockets by the
fraudulent rise of rents. Rob Roy in his cups,
spoke so of Glasgow " websters."
" One would imagine that nobody but the members of a
certain high aristocracy could be landowners in England—
that nobody but yeomen born could farm the soil. If; in
the long run, the profits of the farmer or of the land-
owner paid a better interest for capital than the profits
of the trader or the manufacturer, does anybody be-
lieve that capital would not flow toward the land until
the level was restored ?"—/b.

A mere money fraud, which every banker's
clerk ought to be able to expose. The dishonest
gains are all to be paid for in the price charged;
hence no rush cart take place towards suck bar-
gains. If the landowners were to pass a law that
all Consols now in their hands should be paid 30
per cent. interest instead of 31, this would cause
no rush to the purchase of such stock from them;
and for the simple reason, that it would all be
charged for in the price. If landlords (as is
urged somewhere else) can only get 3 per cent.
on the price of land, this proves, not that the
landlords may not have raised the value of their
land by robbery a hundred-fold, but only that
the profits of other people, and the use to be had
for money in general, are reduced by the conse-
quences of the landlords' robbery, till men are
glad to lodge their money where it will pay
them 3 per cent.
Never forget, that we have a Government
whose continuance in office is pitted upon esta-
blishing monstrosities like this.
" But if the trader and the manufacturer, calculating
that in the long run their profits will remunerate them
for their risks and losses, choose to continue their own
business year after year—ay, and to increase the scale of
it by fresh building and machinery—let them nut, after
a series of lucrative seasons which have filled their
pockets, complain of the balance of aff4irs, and try to
throw all the loss upon others who have never specu-
lated for any of the profit."—lb.
See how we will retort all this, when the time
comes that the agricultural interest are begging
for a merciful release from the bounty on foreign
corn. Why should not they stop their cultiva-
tion at the point which is for our interest? he-
member again, that we have a Government dc-
pendent on establishing the principle of this.

" A monopoly is an exclusive right of sale ; which no
class possesses."—lb.

A money fraud again. A monopoly which can
only be partaken of by purchase from a class at
their own price, is a monopoly to that class.
" What the agricultural class does possess is a protec-
tion for the commodity it produces, and the manufac-
turing classes have a corresponding protection."—M.
The manufacturing classes know, that when an
article is bought at a higher price than needed,
On the pretext of protection, there is a national
loss in the aggregate equal to the difference of
price. And they know that two blacks do not
make a white—still less two losses a gain. They
know, therefore, that a Government which
should pretend to set off loss against loss, and
call it compensation, would be fit only for a den
of thieves.

" There is a strange want of sequence in the proceed-
ings of these League conventions. When a number of
powerful masters have met together to confer upon the
disastrous state of their district, and have called in their
reverend' coadjutors to back their announcements of
distress, one is prepared to expect among so many rich
gentlemen, that the charity sermon will be followed by
a collection on the spot. But he who expects that con-
clusion from those premises is destined to a sad disap-
pointment. There is no plate at the door."—Tiines, 21
Dec., 1841,

Hold the plate at your own door, thieves.
Make what you can out of the petticoats you
give away at Christmas? while you rob all the
rest of the year; but do not insult us with a
demand to keep your victims. The man who
gives a shilling in the way of public charity on
landlord invitation, unless it be in some of the
modes which have been invented for impressing
on the receiver that the landlords' robbery is
paid by others in his stead, is a dupe and a
simpleton.

Seriously, let us look into this pretence of
charity. Fancy ourselves part of the victims in
the Turkish frigate, where the captain went to
sea with a third of a stock of water, and then sold
it to his prisoners. Then fancy a Turk, in flow-
ing robes and with the best of perfumed tobacco in
his pipe, proposing to help the evil by a scheme of
charity. Would it not be plain, that all it could
do would be to relieve some of us at the expense
of some of the rest, and as the brutes who wore
above us would always take care of themselves,
it Was only to be taken from one of the sufferers
to be given to another? So much for the
" charity" device.
" There is no end to the complaints made at these
meetings of the rapid strides by which the continental
manufactures are advancing in the continental markets.
Our northern mill.owners appear to think, that however
odious monopoly may be in the case of other people,
they themselves are entitled to the monopoly of the whole
trade of Europe, and that if, in the general march of
improvement, other nations step in to share what, until
the pacification of 1815, was enjoyed exclusively by
English capitalists, the cotton lords have a right to com-
plain of the movement as an injury, and force an indem-
nity from their own countrymen.' —lb.
We ask for no protection from anybody
abroad, we ask for protection from robbers at
;come. What the thieves call payinr, an indem-
nity, is giving up the road. But let us lay this by,
against the time when the landowners are begging
for removal of the bounty on foreign corn; or we
never shall have the impudence to use the argu-
ment. But remember always, that Et Govern-
ment is pitted on establishing the principle.
" There is so much in all this which smells of fraud
and force that we have little time to notice mere blun-
ders. Else\ what a lecture might be written to these
ignorant writers, for the sake of their ignorant readers,
art such an axiom as is contained in the passae ' A
heavy land-tax would not be felt by indttstry If a tax
of four shillings in the pound were assessed upon the
landowner, would he discharge no servatits) ci iostle tlr
predial ? Would he and his liktnity leave no chasm in
the industry of the cabinetquftker, the coach-maker, the
tailor, the mercer, the bookseller, and a hundred other
tradesmen, and (through them and theirs) the in•
descry even of the coarser manufacturersn..
" Blunder" in your own p-Jeket% tt p-in Were
to propose to encourage thieve?, for the sake of
the thieves' expenditorie) Would not you be told
directly, that 0.0, Oftpenditure of the money by
the hottest men was just as good as by the
thleAvst And so it is here. Either the Govern-
ment that expends the land-tax after It is taken,
or the honest classes who are relieved ll'otn taxa-
tion if that process is pursued, will spend the
money with just as much advantage to the rest
of the community, as if it was filtered through the
pockets of the landed thieves.
" We only doubt which is the greater Tillany,--to
speak and write these things with an expectation that
they will actually do their criminal work, or to speak
and write them in the cowardly persuasion that better
men will take care they shall come to nothing."—M.
Rob Roy banning against those who will
finally pat down him and his. See if ynn itre
not ground small, when the gods get you into
their mill at last.

Surely, if there be truth ht 'hitttrY Whiff toils
us that a certain degree ref hslftioft',:;; has always
preluded a fall) it it itutvvYable that a Govern-
ment whoft ekiAtnce is pitted on the main-
teuante of such enormities as these, can keep in
place. Anybody may see, that as Marlborough
once said before an action was well begun, "They
must go off, they must go off." Let us, then,
take heart of grace, and see only to taking care
that we make a better "bob" of it, when we
" bob it again."
But there is another reason for hope and ele-
vation at this moment. The kettle which was
tied to the tail of the Charter under the title of
Chartism, has burst, and out rolled a Bubble
Company. The plan Wits not the rude
one for the division or landS) MIMI the
carQlessness of its VOaditte tkolhetimes left
it to be takoi tot t but something more
curious], Vni'etktonable. The assertion might
st.euk to savour of the dioecerleA Which
tome from time to time ftont thtta-Protes-
tantism in Ireland, if
.the bVidtiqn WaS tf4t in print to back it. Oft- tV let iittiflt .till
tical power ViUti it IS gotten, is to be to take a
Hundreii 'and Twenty Millions sterli of the pub-
lit Money, on the lender pretext that a Parlia-
ment is to see to the division • tweet y
land-
millions are to be given to the
owners for the lands for which
nobod
will give anything now; and the remainder is to
be served out at the rate of a hundred pounds
a-piece to the privates of the force, and the are
to pay rent and interest fbr this land which will
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duals will naturally look for increasedadvantages
in proportion to their services;
Commissionerships are hungry pickings, corn,
pared with what may be looked for from this
job of jobs. Of course these pew landowners are
to feel no interest in removing the Corn-laws;
but on the contrary, to screw them up as long as
another drop can be extracted from the national