The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-23 00:00:00

MR. SADLER AND MR. FOSTER.

(From the Examiner.)
.‘ Englishmen should attend to a man's actions, look narrowly
into his professions as regards his selfishness or his patriotism,
and be sure, above all things, to estimate the professions and the
promises that he may make regarding his future conduct by a
reference to what he has attempted in times that are past.'-'—
Mr. Sadler's Speech to the Huddersfield Electors.

When we quoted in our last number the passage which
we have made the motto of this article, we advised an
application of it according to information which might be
obtained at Leeds. It is not our practice to deal in dark
insinuations, and the conduct of Mr. Sadler, to which
we referred, is the subject of the following statement. I
A blacker case of perfidy was never laid to the charge of
a public man, and this is a pretender to the most exalted
philanthropy
The accuser, 11r. Foster, late proprietor and editor of
the Leeds Patriot, addresses his letter to Mr. Carwooel,
of Leeds. The who'e is too long for our columns, but
we shall extract the material passages, bearing on the
conduct of Mr. Sadler.
The Leeds Patriot was the zealous champion of the
cause of the factory children ; the proprietors wanting
capital to carry it on against a powerful competition,
proposed to take in a partner. The matter was undertaken
by the leading advocates of the Ten Hours Bill, and by
them Mr. Inchbald was introduced as a purchaser ; after
the price was settled, the negotiation was broken off, and
another scheme proposed by Mr. Inchbald, but he died of
the cholera. Here Mr. Sadler comes on the stage :—" I
had an action brought against me," says Mr. Foster,
" for a pretended libel in support of the Ten Hours'
Factory Bill. At a meeting held at Halifax, it was
agreed by the committee, that all my expenses and
damages, if any, should be paid out of the Factory Fund,
as the prosecution against me was purely for my exertions
in the cause.' I had resolved to defend myself in Court,
but was instructed by Mr. aistler to commit my defence
to his Lord Chancellor, 'Mr. Robert Hall, on the ground
that I had nothing to do with the costs either one way or
:be other. The Ass'ses now pressed (September), and I
was a fortnight necessarily in attendance at York. The
case, however, never went to a jury, in consequence of
the plaintiff praying that a juror should be withdrawn,
and which Mr. R. Hall acceded to, after costs had been
incurred amounting to 2731. Mr. Oastler, Mr. Sadler,
and others, almost immediately paid 1401. of the costs,
leaving a balance due to my attorney of 1331. Soon after
my return from York I had an interview with Mr. Sadler,
on the subject of the Patriot. He said, my support
was more valuable and efficrcious than that of all his
other friends'....., that I must not part with the control of
him
should
little
be s e
completed,r vice
the paper'—' that it would not do to purchase it just
then (October), as we were on the eve of an election,
and if it were known that either himself or friends had
purchased the Patriot, it then would comparatively
render
and in the
that after
meantime, election the
purchase if
I wanted money, his friends would find it.'
" Matters thus rested for several weeks ; I never for
one moment doubted the honour and integrity of Mr.
Sadler and his friends. I had the greatest difficulty from
week to week iu turning every thing into money to carry
on the publication in procuritur stamps and paying wage.,
whilst my
advertisement duty at the Stamp-office was
unwillingly
sufGred to accumulate beyond the usual period
of pay men%
I, however, never received one farthing in
the way. of assistance, and I began to feel my helplorsness
on receiving the fo lowing letter from Mr. Wailer. It
is an exact copy
'‘Mydear Sir, —I can only say I never was more
vexed in my life. Osburn told me 2001. was ready.
told me 1001. more could be advanced. But lam too
vexed to say more than that nay kind feeling towards you
increases;
would that my purse were as full as my heart !
God bless you, I believe he will.
" ' Fixby Hall, Monday. RICHARD OASTLER.'
" The election now approached—night after night I
was sent for by AL.. Sadler. I was at once the editor 01
the Patriot, which be himself described as his best sup-
porter—the writer of the greater part of his electioneering
squil,s—and also what the Leeds Mercury described as
the 'saucy Leeds correspondent of the Standard in Mr.
Sadler's cause, and I fought his battle ardently and faith.
fully. To ameliorate the hard lot of the manufacturing
poor had been the great effort of all my life. I bad been

public dinners,
" One evening, as Mr. Sadler and myself were together
in Albion-street, Mr. Sadler observed he bad good news
for me: 1 have received (said he) a letter from the Duke
of Wellington, in which his Grace informs me that my
name had been laid before, and approved of by his Ma-
jesty, to fill a high post in a new Cabinet. Now, Foster,
(continued Mr. Sadler, grasping my hand with great
energy as he spoke) you are my equal in every respect,
and, in some things, greatly my euperior ; and for my own
sake, if I accept office, you must be near in., rely on that.'
I thanked Mr. Sadler, and there the subject dropped, but
very often was alluded to afterwards."
Various little circumstances then began to shake Mr.
Foster's faith in Mr. Sadler's sincerity ; but at last he states
that he made discovery of the double face when actually
engaged in his service, to which he had been summoned
from his bed :—" I was called out of bed one night to
go on to Mr. Sadler's instantly, about half-past eleven
o'clock ; I went, and was requested to draw up a placard,
to send that night to the Standard, and to be distributed
the next day in Leeds. There were none present except
Mrs. Sadler, Mr. Sadler, and myself. Whilst I was
earnestly engaged, looking up suddenly, I discovered Mr.
Sadler in the very gentlemanly act of making wry faces at
the man who had been dragged out of his bed to serve
him. Mrs. Sadler instantly saw, from my change of
countenance,amosemeot;
whichthat I
conveyedh to my I
mind the d
had observed Mr. Sadler's singular
ofular
What a fool I am making of you!' Mrs. Sadler did her
utmost to convince me that her husband was so con-
stantly doing so when amusing the children, that it had
become a habit, and he did it unconsciously.' Sorry,
indeed, I am thus to mention a lady's name, whom I shall
ever remember with admiration, but in my very hard case
the truth must be spoken. I finished the communication
to the Standard, and said Good night !" with a heavy
heart.
"The next evening," continues Mr. Foster (Sunday),
"I received a note to attend Mr. Sadler instantly. Oil
entering his study, his first salutation being over, drawing
his chair nearer to me, and giving me a smart slap on the
thigh, he then said, ' Give me your hand, Foster, all is
arranged about the porch ise of the Patriot, and your
financial troubles are now ended; but we will net talk on
matters of business now, it is Sunday night ; you must
attend here exactly at 11 next Thursday.' I instantl),
communicated the good news to my dear family. Thursday
arrived ; I attended ; but Mr. Sadler was out of town,
leaving a message, however, that I was to attend at tht•
same hour on Monday.
" I returned home with a heaviness of heart I have no
words to describe Monday arrived, and, after cooling my
heels about an hour in Mr. Sadler's house—a thing I had
never been permitted to do for one moment before—l found
myself in the presence of Mr. Sadler and Mr. Robert Hall.
when, after a full half hour's panegyric on my 'talents,'
' integrity,' and I was told they had relinquished
all idea of purchasing the Patriot. I instantly returned
to my dear family, and told them we were ruined.
" Without a moment's delay I called my creditors
together, and laid my hard case before them, when it was
resolved that I should make over the property to trustees
until another opportunity arrived to sell it. Maik the
consequences :
First,—A fiat of bankruptcy was issued against me for
the 133/., the balance of the libel cause, due to Mr.
Stott, the attorney, grounding the fiat on the act of
bankruptcy committed in making the assignment. I
wrote again and again to Mr. Oastler and Mr. Sadler, to
pay Mr. Stott, as they and their colle Ivies were justly
bound, but never could get an answer to my letters.
" In the mean time judgments, which 1 had confessed
in my difficulties, were falling due, but which I should
have had nut the least trouble in discharging, ' had good
faith been kept with me,'—total 2031. I made a strong
effort amongst my friends to get rid of all those, and Mr.
Stott, in the most honourable manner, offered to with-
draw the fiat of bankruptcy ; when an extent arrived for
advertisement duty, amounting to 131/., notwithstanding
my two securities of 500/. each. The officer under the
extent locked up my office, took away all my books of ac
count, locked up my dwelling-house, and turned myself
and family out of doors.
" The copyright of the Patriot, for which 1,500/. hail
been actually offered, was completely destroyed. The
printing materials, which had cost me near 1,000/., were
clandestinely sold for 87/. My household furniture, after
the house had been locked up for six weeks, and, as was
reported, a great part of the furniture exchanged or re-
moved, was sold, or rather given away, for 1071.
" In the midst of these accumulated wrongs, solely oc.
casiened by the infamous duplicity I had been made the
victim of, I wrote again and again to Mr. Sadler ; but
after all his fraudulent promises to me—after all the services
I had rendered to hint, and to the cause be professed to
have so much at heart, I remain to this hour without re-
ply, and without redress."
Mr. Foster had written to Mr. Sadler for some small
assistance, which was refused. This is mentioned because
Mr. Foster has beard that Mr. Sadler has thrown out hints
of the large pecuniary aid lie had rendered.
" I now, then, discovered clearly that I was betrayed ;
and prepared to take my farewell of Leeds. I paid my
last respects to 11Ir. Sadler very reluctantly. He assured
me of his continued friendship, and that he would exert
himself for my establishment in London. He promised
that I should that day receive certain letters of introduc
tion to gentlemen in London likely to serve me.
The letters, however, never reached me to deliver, and,
to say the truth, when Mr. Sadler was holding fast my
hand, and telling me about them, I did not believe him.
" Mr. Sadie: followed me to London in about a month.
As soon as I heard of his arrival I sent him my address.
I also often called at his hotel, but could not seg him. I
could not avoid contrasting this behaviour with the year
before—we were then in London at the same time, amid
Mr. Sadler could scarcely dine without me. One
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enclosed it in a note for you." So
' and I had forgot ; but,' continued Mr. Sadler,.' 1 realty
have not had time to retch so far as your residence sine,
you did,'
I arrived iu London.' Indeed!' said Mr. Hunt in
formed me yesterday morning, that whilst lie was ringing
my bell, you ran across the street to shake hands wi
him.' Mr. Sadler here seemed to feel what God forbid 1
ever should have occasion to feel; and I said, Good morn
ing !' and since that period I have never either seen of
heard from Mr. Sadler. Toe 4ge newspaper, a few Son
days ago, 4rongly recommended Mr. Sadler to the electors
sd:daudri

In the dearth of information respecting that
extraordinary, indeed we may say, wonderful region of the
South American continent—Guiana, we may congratulate
the public on the immediate appearance of a work by
Lieutenant-Colonel St. Clair, who resided some years in
the conquered Dutch colonies there. The narrative, which
will be accompanied by illustrations from beautiful drawn
ings by the author, is prepared from notes made on the
spot, which, in these " piping times of peace," he has
amused himself with preparing fur the press. It is to be
called, " A Residence in the West Indies and America."
Mr. Luke, who was lately chosen principal
surgeon at the London Hospital in the room of Sir
William Blizard, had previously been assistant-surgeon.
This promotion makes a vacancy, which is yet to be
filled up.
A BREAKFAST AT TROY.—Mr. Madden,
in his " Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, &c." tells
us many remarkable things; but one of the most remark-
able is connected with his visit to the grave of Troy's
ancient hero. After various details, he says, "We break-
asted on the tomb of Hector." Hard fare !
VOLTAIRE.—At the rehersal of one of M.
de Voltaire's tragedies, Mr. Cramer, bookseller at Geneva
(and Voltaire's own immediate publisher) was finishing
his part, which was to end with some dying sentences,
when Voltaire, all despotic over those he thought his de-
pendants, cried aloud, " Cramer, you lived like a prinet
for the four preceding acts, but at the fifth you die like a
bookseller." Dr. Tronchin (the Boerhaave of his age),
being present, could not help, in kindness, interfering ;
a lding, withal, " Why, Monsieur de Voltaire, can you
expect to have gentlemen be at the expense of dresses, and
the fatigue of getting such long parts ; if you thus con-
tinue to upbraid them ? On the contrary, I think they
all deserve the greatest encouragement at your hands ; anti
as to my friend Cramer, I declare that as far as I am a
judge, he dies with the same dignity that he lived." Vol-
taire, who detested advice or information from an inferior
(for an author was, in his eye, beyond even an .2Eseuht-.
pius, were he living) made this cool reply: " Prythee,
Doctor, when you have got kings to kill, kill them your
Own way ; let me kill mine as I please."
THE FATE OF GENIUS.—Lord Byron is
reported by Lady Blessington, in her Conversations with
the noble hard, to have asked "who would willingly pos-
sess genius?" and to have answered and reasoned upon the
question thus :—" None, I am persuaded, who knew the
misery it entails, its temperament producing continual irri-
tation, destructive alike to health and happiness ; and what
are its advantages? to be envied, hated, and persecuted in
life, and libelled in death. Wealth may be pardoned (con-
tinued Byron) if its possessor diffuses it liberally; beauty
may be forgiven, provided it is accotnpanied by folly ; ta-
lent may meet with toleration if it be not of a very
superior order ; but genius can hope for no mercy. If it
he of a stamp that insures its currency, those who are
compelled to receive it will indemnify themselves by finding
out a thousand imperfections in the owner, and, as they
cannot approach his elevation, will endeavour to reduce
him to their level by dwelling on the errors from which
genius is not exempt, and which form the only point of
resemblance between them. We hear the errors of men of
genius continually brought forward, while those that be-
long to mediocrity are unnoticed ; hence people conclude
that errors peculiarly appertain to genius, and that those
who boast it not are saved from them. Happy delusion
taut not even this belief can induce them to commiserate
the faults they condemn. It is the fate of genius to be
viewed with severity, instead of the indulgence it ought to
meet from the gratification it dispenses to others ; as if its
endowments could preserve its possessor from the alloy
that marks the nature of mankind. Who can walk the
earth with eyes fixed on the heavens, without often stum-
bling over the hindrances that intercept the path? while
those who are intent only on the beaten road escape.—
Such is the fate of men of genius elevated over the herd of
their fellow men ; with thoughts that soar above the
sphere of their physical existence, no wonder that they
stumble when treading the mattes of ordinary life with ir-
ritated sensibility and mistaken views of all the common
occurrences they encounter."
A BACKWOODSMAN'S GRIN.--In the can-
vass of the congressional election of
IB—, Mr. --- was
the Colonel's opponent—a gentleman of the most pleasing
and conciliating manners, who seldom addressed a person
or a company without wearing upon his countenance a,
peculiarly good-humoured smile. The Colonel,,z;tlno
may get
teract the influence of this winning attribute, thus ttiluded
to it in a stump speech :—" Yes, gentlemen, h
some votes by grinning, for he c
u j
anonuet:
rn gried n m
know I an't slow ; and to prove to you, that I am not, I
will tell you an anecdote. I was myself, and
a aydo you
was fooled a little of the wicke.iest. You all know I love
hunting. Well, I discov&ed a long time ago that a 'coon
couldn't stand my grin, I could bring one tumbling down
roars the highest tree. I never wasted powder and lead
when I wanted one of the creatures. Well, as I «'3s
walking out one night, a few hundred yards from my
house, looking carelessly about me, I saw a 'coon planted
upon one of the highest limbs of an old tree. The night
was very moony and clear, and old Rattler was with me ;
but Rattler won't bark at a 'coon—he's a queer dog in that
way. So I thought I'd bring the lark down in the usual
way, by a grin. I set myself, but, after grinning at the
'coon a reasonable time, found he didn't come down. I
wondered what was the reason, and I took another s early
4tin at him. Still be was there. It made me a little
mad ; so I felt round and got an old limb about five feet
long, and, planting one end upon the ground, I placed my
chin upon the other, and took a rest. I then grinned my
hest for about five minutes, but the cursed 'coon
.hunt/ on.
So, finding I could not bring him down by ,
be a droll
grinning, I
determined to have him, for thought he must
clasp. 1 went over to the house, got my axe, returned
to the tree, saw the 'coon still there, and began to cut
"vay• Down it coon-, and I ran forward, but —a
'coon was there to be seen. I found that what I had taken
for one was a large knot upon a branch of the tree, and,
upon looking at it closely, 1 saw that I had grinned all the
bark on; and left the k.ttOt perfectly smooth. Now, fellow-
contintred the Colonel, "you must be convinced
the grinning line, I myself n not slow ; yet,
that,
i44"tu
cvbs
I
look upon my opponent's countenance, I must ad-
mit that he is my superior. You must all admit it.
Therefore, be wile awake—look sharp—and do not let
rim grin you out of your votes."—Sketches of Colo.iel
Crocket(,

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1833.

We have received since our last the Paris
Papers of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
The accounts from Spain are satisfactory for the
QUEEN'S Government. The Carlists are
dispersed on every point as soon as they show
themselves ; but, as might be expected in a
country like Spain, they generally contrive to
make good their escape, and to re-organize them-
selves in smaller bodies. The illadrid Gazette
of the 6th inst. contains another decree confirm-
ing and extending the former decree against
Don CARLOS. Paris is tranquil ; but a little
apprehension is entertained lest there should be
a disturbance on the opening of the Chambers,
in consequence of the arbitrary and stupid pro-
secution of the 27 conspirators, as they are
called, belonging to the Society of the Rights
of Man. The trial was expected to conclude
on Saturday. If the Jury decided according
to ,evidence, they have recorded a verdict of ac-
quittal, and given another discomfiture to the
press-prosecuting spirit of Louis PHILIP. The
French Funds are a little lower, owing, pro-
bably, to the unfavourable reports about Russia.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PAWS, DEc. 19.
Five per Cents., 10:3f. 80c. 95c. 85c.
Four and a Half per Cents, 99f. Mc.
Four per Cents., 90f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 75f. 741. 95c.
N.l.tional Loan, 03f. 75c.
Bank Actions, 1,740 f.
Rente de Naples, 91f 10c. 91f. 91f, Ito.
Roman Five oer Cents., 91% 92.
Rente d'Esp;goe, Five per Cents., 18
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40% 41% 41.
Royal Spanish Loan, 86U %
Rente Perpet. d'Espagt,iy, Five per Cents., 69 6.Sii
Belgian Loan, 1831, live per Cent., 96%.
ExclialvGit ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, -f. -y..
Three months, paper, 9.5 f. 20c. ; money, -1. -c.
--fours Authentiaue.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Paals, Dec. 20.
Five Nl* Cents., 103 f. 85c.65c. 75c.
Four and Half per Cents., 9!lf. 90c.
Four per Cents., 901.49 c. 50c.
Three per Cents., 741. 85c. 70c. 65c.
Bank Actions, 1,740 f.
Rente de Naples, 90f. 80c. 70e. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 91%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18%.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40% % %.
Royal Spanish Loan, 86% SO.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 69N
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 961 A.
Ilaytian Loan, 280 f.
EXCIIANOE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, -f. -c.
'Three months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 051. 20c.
--Lours Authentigue.

It is reported in the diplomatic circles that
there is some difference of opinion between the
British and French Governments as to the
course of proceeding proper to be adopted
towards Russia, and that the return of Prince
TALLEYRAND to this country, a month earlier
11,an was at first intended, is connected with this
subject. According to the report in question,
Marshal SOULT, who is for extreme mea-
sures, has ie.commended that as the SUL-
TAN has shown that he cannot himself de-
fund the Dardanelles frtim either the Egyptians
or the Russians, they should be oaken possession
of by the joint fleets of France end Great
Britain. Our attack on Copenliaggily which
was so much lauded by the Tories, has, it is
said, been referred to by the Marshal in support
of his proposal.

By accounts from Lisbon, we find that the
arrest of the Conde de TA IPA by the Portu-
guese Ministry, to which allusion has already
been made in the English Papers, has produced
a severe remonstrance to PEDRO, on the part
of the Peers, who complain that the arrest took
place in contempt of an article of the Charter
which the REGENT had sworn to maintain.
Among the Peers who signed this remonstrance
we find the names of PA LMELLA, TERCEIRA,
and LOULE, the latter the REGENTS brother.
in-law, and several others of high influence and
character. Don PEDRO has disclaimed all
knowledge of the arrest, but has allowed his
Ministers to reply to the remonstrance of the
Peers in a style which must be productive of

VA,

great injury to his own character and interests,
inasmuch as the only offence of which the Conde
de TAIPA was guilty was the publication of
two letters, in which he addressed the REGENT
in a manner not very agreeable to courtly
ears. We shall not enter upon an inves-
tigation of the grounds on which the Por-
tuguese Minister, M. DE CARVALHO, justifies
the arrest of the CONDE DE TAIPA. It is
sufficient for us to know, without reference to
the privileges of the Portuguese Peers, that the
offence which led to the arrest was the publicn-
don of two printed letters in a country which,
according to the Charter and the declarations of
the REGENT, ought to enjoy the liberty of the
press. If there was any thing false or unfair in
the publications alluded to, they ought to have
been prosecuted in a different form. It is going
rather too far, we think, in a Government pre-
tending to be Constitutional, to arrest a man,
whether Peer or peasant, by a common police-
officer, for having published papers in which
perhaps, after all, there was nothing but unpala-
table truth.

Wishing well, as we do, to the Constitu-
tional cause in Portugal, we cannot but regret
the occurrence of any circumstance which
has a tendency to show that the Ministers of
Don PEDRO are as arbitrary in their way as the
Usurper was in his. It is, besides, much to be
deplored, t.:,.4t at a moment when union is so
requisite for the cause of the QUEEN, we should
find nearly all the most influential Peers, in
eluding the brother•in-law of the Regent, the
President of the Council, and the Commander-
in-Chief of the Forces, in hostile collision with
the Ministers, with whom they ought, as far as
the interests of the QUEEN are concerned, to be
in cordial league.
With respect to the declaration of Don
PEDRO, that the arrest of the CONDE DE TAIPA
was unknown to him, we have only to observe,
taking it for granted that he has spoken the
truth, that the Ministers who could issue an
order unknown to the REGENT, and in an
affair regarding his own honour and interests,
are not worthy of the confidence which they
seem to have enjoyed.

The Tories will chuckle at this exhibition of
arbitrary power in the Portuguese Govern•
ment. But how will they get over the fact,
that all the most influential men in Lisbon,
notwithstanding their connexion with the RE-
GENT, have come forward in support of the
charter which they conceived to have been
attacked. It is true that in the present in-
stance their intervention has been in defence of
their own privileges„ but we believe the same
men would have come forward in support of the
rights of the meanest man in Portugal. Would
the minions of the Usurper have dared to do so
much in defence even of themselves, under his
system of government ? Certainly not. The
very attempt, therefore, of a Minister to violate
the Charter, has furnished an instance of the
value of the present system of government, as
contrasted with that which has been displaced.

We have this morning received Brussels and
Frankfort Papers, the former to the 20th, and
the latter to the 17th inst. Their contents are
not of much importance. It is stated in a letter
from Berlin in one of the Frankfort Papers, that
there is to be a concentration of the Russian
forces in Poland, but with what object is not
mentioned. The Belgian Papers announce that
a material reduction has been made in the
budget for the present year. We subjoin the last
quotations of the Vienna and Belgian Funds:—

VIENNA FUNDS, DEC 12.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
94 4-5; Four per Cents. 84 11-32; Bank Shares, 1224%.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BarsseLs, DEC. 20.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 95
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.

Our commercial readers will not be surprised
to learn, after what we had stated of the pro-
ceedings of the Council of Manufactures, Com-
merce, and Agriculture in Paris, that the result
of their discussions will prove exceedingly
unfavourable to the objects for which they were
assembled. They have not consented to a single
concession of importance, and the French
Ministry must either abandon the projet for a
reduction of the tariff, or bring it before a
Chamber predisposed against it by the decisions
of an Assembly to which they have been accus-
tomed to defer in matters of manufactures and com-
merce. There is very little reason, however, to
expect that the French Ministers will propose
to the Chamber any very liberal concessions to
the free trade principle, considering that from the
constitution of the Council of agriculture manu-
facture and trade, they could, if they had chosen,
have forced a decision in that body favourable to
the views which they pretend to have espoused.
Out of the 138 members of which the Council
is composed, the Ministry have the absolute
nomination of 70, being a majority of the
whole ; and of the remaining 68, at least 30
are more or less subject to Ministerial control.
M. THIERS, therefore, was either never serious
in his free trade declarations, or he has given way,
perhaps reluctantly, to prejudices, where he might
have enforced the adoption of liberal views.
According to the accounts which we have re-
ceived of the decisions of the Council, the
Council of Agriculture have declared against
reduction of the duty on wool, and demanded
the continuation of the existing duties on coals
and cattle. On the other hand, the Council of
Manufactures propose A reduction of the duty
on wool to 22 per cent., with the further gradual
reduction to 11 per cent.—the reduction of the
duty on cattle to 40 francs per 1,000 English
pounds, and a small reduction annually for 5 years
on iron in bars with the maintenance of the pre-
sent duty on manufactured iron. The Council
of Commerce propose similar reductions of the
duty on cattle and sheep, the reduction of one
third of the duty on coals, with total exemption
for coals, used for steam navigation, and a re-
duction of one fourth of the duties on iron of
every description, but the reduction not to com-
mence until after the expiration of five years.
The questions of cottons, iron railways, and
many other points, remain for discussion, but

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there is very little probability of their Wing
adopted in a liberal sense. The only point on
which the Three Councils are agreed is that
respecting the exportation of silks.

We wish to direct particular attention to a
letter signed " A Moderate Reformer M.P.,"
copied into The Sun from the Times of this
day. The just, rational, and patriotic sen-
timents of the writer do him great honour, and
the abuses which he signalizes will, we are
sure, excite so much of public indignation as
to make it imperative on the Legislature to re-
dress them. The people of this country are
not niggardly of reward for real cervices, but it is
too much to require the continuation of a pen-
sion and superannuation list on the corrupt prin.
ciple, and high rates, which were regulated by
war prices, whilst thousands of industrious
artisans are scarcely able to keep themselves
from absolute starvation, and the classes who
are now directly called upon to contribute to the
support of these drones, find it difficult to main-
tain their position in society.

Madras Papers to the 24th August, have been
received at the North and South American
Coffee-house :

(From the Paper of Aug. 22.)
"If the conduct of the rice merchants in raising the
price of this article of food has been the subject of just
animadversion, the forbearance of the poor, under all the
horrors which they have for a length of time suffered, and
all the miseries which they still endure, has been equally
matter for wonder, but peaceable, timid, and pusillanimous
as the natives of Madras are, they have bee❑ driven to
desperation, and unless G wernment interfere., it is dig.
tressing to think of what may be the consequences.
On Monday last the merchants combined to raise the
price of grain, but this determination was no sooner
known than the people simultaneously resolved to frustrate
their attempts.
At Chindadrepettah the first step was taken to bring
these avaricious and heartless slavec of lucre to a sense of
their conduct, and a mob collecting round the B.,zaars
began the work of plunder. The example was quickly
followed at Triplecane, at Choolay, and the Beach.
The bazaars at Triplecane were forced open, and
nearly cleared by the populace when a party of the body
guard came up and dispersed the people, and a guard was
instantly placed on the beach, but the crowd became
denser, and more threatening in appearance. A strong
force of the 15th regiment, No. 1, about two o'clock in
the afternoon, was ordered to the place for the protection
of property. Immediately on the arrival of this body,
the poor assembled gradually retired, and, as far as we
can learn, no great loss was sustained.
Native accounts from the South of the Nurbudda
speak of the famine existing in that quarter as dreadful.
NACPOOK —The accounts received from this quarter
mention that several dreadful conflagrations have lately
taken place in the city and its neighbourhood.

We have received the Manchester Times of
Saturday, containing a long account of the
dinner given on Thursday to the Members for
the borough ; but the quantity of matter which
usually presses upon our columns on the present
day of the week, compels us to postpone giving
our extract of it till to-morrow. We cannot
forbear, however, quoting in this place a portion
of the speech delivered by Mr. GREG on the
occasion of the toast—" May the present Corn
Laws, so pernicious to the Commercial and
general prosperity of the Country, be speedily
remedied."
" Gentlemen, to men like ourselves, actively engaged
in the pursuits of commerce sad manuractures, who find
the extent of all their operations limited, and the profit
on all their adventures curtailed, or absorbed by the un-
kindly influence of the Corn Laws, no argument can
strengthen the conviction of their injurious effect and
ruinous tendency, and every discussion must end in this
simple question, " How can we get rid of them ?" Aye,
gentlemen, that is the question, there lies the difficulty,
not by dint of argument to prove that they are an evil.
Who indeed seriously doubts it is an evil to be compelled
to eat dear bread, to wring from an ungrateful soil a
scan'y sustenance, and to labour two days to pur.
chase what the labour of one day would suffice
to purchase, but for the Corn Laws ?—(Cheers.)
Who doubts that such hard necessity is an evil? Does the
Philosopher ? Does the Moralist? who knows that want
of bread and want of virtue are cause and effect, and that
misery and vice are brothers ?—(Cheers.) Dues the Eco.
noraist, whose business it is to investigate such matters,
and who has no personal interest in the result ? Does the
statesman, or the merchant, or the manufacturer, or the
soldier, or the great mass of the middle or lower classes
of society, do any of these doubt ? No ! Who then do
doubt of the wrong inflicted by the corn laws ? The corn
monopolists, and no others.—(Cheets.) Are they wiser
than all the rest of the kingdom? No! Ate they more
numerous than all the other classes ? No ! Are they more
powerful? Aye, there's the rub. But it is said they must
be reasoned with; they must be convinced. Alas ! here'
lies the hopelessness of the task.

`For who is convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still,
And howsoe'er we turn about,
'Ti6 interest that solves the doubt.'
Gentlemen, the Corn Monopolists are beyond the reach of
our arguments, and unless the rhetoric of Ministers, and
of our right honourable representative, be armed with
sharper weapons than reason can supply, I fear the day of
conviction is yet far distant. There is a work lately
published, entitled, England and America, containing so
much interesting and I think novel remarks connected with
the Corn Laws, that I cannot refrain from briefly alluding
to it. The first chapter presents us with a gloomy picture
of the wealth of England, wealth not confined to a few,
but widely diffused, and exhibiting undoubted proofs of its
exuberance at every step. The second chapter presents
us with as lively a description of the great numbers of
indigent, of the poverty of the lower classes, and what he
calls the uneasiness of the middle classes, an uneasiness
arising from the difficulty of employing their capital
profitably, or of obtaining such interest for the
use of it, which will enable them to live in com-
fort. This state of the country, be shows, has not
been considered by the political economists of the
day, who, laying down but two elements of production,
capital and labour, have confined themselves to showing
in what proportion the produce must, in different cir-
cumstances, be divided between the capitalist and the
labourer. But our author points ont the amount of the
produce to be divided as a more important matter than
the proportion in which it shall be divided; how much
both shall have, rather than how much each shall have.
Thus, if now the capitalist takes half the produce, and
the labourer half, double the produce, and the wages of the
ibourer are doubled, and the profits of the capital are
doubled also. This most important point, the amount of
the produce, he shows to depend on a third element,
which he calls the field of production, or the means of
employing capital ; and he shows, I think, dearly, that
the small extent of this field in England, in proportion to
capital and labour, is the cause of both being so ill re-
quited. To illustrate this, he supposes a strip of fertile
land 300 miles wide, to rise from the ocean and to en-
compass England, and he shows bow instantly all classes
(except the present monopolists) would be benefitted by
such an acces,ion of territory. The superabundant capital
and labour find there profitable employment, but profits
and wages would rise to the same level in the old country.
Gentlemen, such a strip of fertile land, not hundreds, but
thousands of miles broad, does now encompass England,
which might furnish profitable employment for our idle
millions both of men and money, for ages to come why,
then, do we not avail ourselves of it? We are prevented
by the Corn Laws. The barrier rises up between, and
forbids approach to these fertile re4ium, it issues its
stern and tyrannical edict to the wealth and industry and
the population of England. So far shalt thou go and no
farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.'"._...
(Cheep.)
The cheers with which these sentiments were
received do honour to the enlightened auditory
iqr. GREG addressed. it is to the people of
Manchester that we more particularly look for
some active exertions against the present
attempts—vain attempts--of the landowncrs to

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enrich themselves at the expense of the com-
munity. It is not enough that they see the
owners of land are cutting their own throats,
or consider that their piggish conduct is its
own punishment. If the landowners alone
were concerned, they might, if they chose
to neglect the friendly warnings given them, be
left to their own wilfulness. Unfortunately
there is not a man, woman, or child, through-
out the empire, whose interests are not vitally
affected by their insane conduct. Again, there-
fore, we say to the Manchester people, let not
the knowledge they have of the evil be as
nought ; let them not sit down as if they saw
it not. Of what use is their electing liberal
Members into the House of Commons—Mem-
bers willing to do justice, unless, as Mr. P.
THOMSON said, " they strain every nerve" to
support them in the struggle they have to make
in their behalf.
There was a remarkable circumstance oc-
curred at the dinner, which it may be worth while
to note here. Mr. ABSALOM WATKIN,
in the course of an eloquent speech upon
the condition of the labouring classes, took
occasion to urge the necessity of a poor law for
Ireland, as well for the sake of the English as
the Irish labourer, and concluded his speech as
follows :

What, then, are the destitute labourers of Ireland, and
their Eugl:s,h brethren who suffer from that destitution,
entitled-to expect at the hands of a reformed Parliament ?
On behalf of the working classes I answer, a " poor
hiw to Ireland."—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
The extension to that unhappy country of the great
charter of the destitute—the work of no less men than
Bacon and Walsingham, Coke and Raleigh, which will
compel the rich to feel for the poor, and which will
drive hack, by the all-powerful impulse of self-interest,
those absentees from Ireland who now riot on the produce
of her fertile fields, while the labourers by whom they are
cultivated perish with hunger. (Enthusiastic and long-con-
tinued cheering.) To you, gentlemen, the representatives
of this borough—the representatives be it remembered,
of many thousands of indu-trions Irishmen who reside in
it, I commend in the name of humanity and sound policy
an attention to this great measure.—(Cheers.) By the
wrongs of our Irish fellow-subjects—by the sufferings of
our own most worthy labourers upon whom those wrongs
have been severely visited, I entreat you to lose no time
in urging the adoption of a system of parochial relief in
Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) In this effort may the blessing
of heaven be upon your labours ; and may it stand re-
corded to all succeeding times, that in the first Reformed
Parliament, by the exertions of the Members for the new
borough of Manchester, an Act was passed by which
the influence of nefarious agitators was annihilated, and
the union of the constituent parts of the British empire
permanently secured by giving to the long-suffering
population of Ireland the blessing of a legal provision
for the destitute poor.—(Loud, enthusiastic, and often
rep.ated cheering, in which Mr. Thomson and the other
Members of Parliament heartily joined.)

Slight as the indication of the intentions are,
perhaps we should rather say the wishes, of
men in office, contained in the last line, it does,
we confess, give us a gleam of hope that a por-
tion of the Ministry, at least, are seriously in
favour of introducing some kind of poor laws
into Ireland. They will meet with the op-
position of Mr. O'CONNELL and those of his
tail, who wish, by means of the starvation
and the absenteeism they so often pretend
to lament, to keep up the ferment and agi-
tation which has elevated them into their
present unnatural situation, as we may almost
call it, of legislators ; but they may depend upon
the support of the wishers of peace both in
England and Ireland.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY),

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, DEC. 22.—Wind S.W., strong during yesterday,
and today gales at intervals from the westward.—Arrived
a French Government steamer from Calais. Sailed his
Majesty's ship Rover for the Mediterranean. The Water
Witch, for Geneva; the Londonderry, for Jamaica; and
several others lost anchors and cables ; also the Jupiter,
of Bremen, and the Elizabeth, for Sierra Leone, has put
back, and remains with the outward-bound. The brig
Aurora, of Bremen, passed for Ramsgate this morning,
with loss of anchor and cable off Dungeness. Sailed the
Lord William Bentinck and homeward-bound, for the
River. Five p.m., squally.—The outward-bound appa-
rently well.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21 ♦ND 22.—Wind S.S.W. to
W. S. W.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 2l.—Wind N.W. ; it blew heavy
yesterday, and last night increased to a gale from S.W.,
hut moderated, and shaped this morning to N.W.—
Arrived the Mary Jane, Barrett, from Prince Edward's
Island, with loss of foremast, boat, bulwarks, &c.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Since the 19th instant to this
morning it blew with little intermission a strong gale, with
violent squalls from S.W. to N.W., but from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. to-day, moderate breezes from N.W. to W.S.W.—
Sailed his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, for Oporto and Lisbon,
with mails.

STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Tiber,
Candler, from Odessa.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 22.—Arrived the David Walker,
Morris, from Dublin.

PORTLAND, DEC. 22.—Arrived the William Irving,
Herbert, from Prince Edward's bland.
BRISTOL, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Caroline, from
Richebucto ; and Reform, from Oporto.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Welcome, Castle,
arid the Tyrer, Ellis, from Bengal ; Bridget, Corn% from
Africa; Broad Oak, from Bahia; John Joy, Glover, from
New York ; Rosina, Martin, from Odessa; James Dunn,
Turse, and Ann Paley, Robston, from Lisbon.

The Canadian packet, Reichan, foundered near Newark,
on the 18th init.

The Mary, from Newry to Liverpool, is waterlogged.
Cargo much damaged, and must discharge.
The Hamella, from the Clyde to Demerara, put into
Derhyhaven Bay. Cargo shifted.
The Industry, Rendle, from Dublin to Plymouth, put
into Bideford, leaky, and with loss of anchors and ca-
ble•, &c. &c.

The Mary, Croinarty, from London to Barbadoes, put
into Portsmouth, leaky.
The Isabella, M'Quoid, of Belfast, put into Milford,
with loss of main and mizen masts, bowsprit, starboard
quarter, &c., hiving been run foul of by the Eliza, of
London, which also received damage.
The Ruby, Isaacs, of Campbeltown, was driven on
shore at Milford, on Friday.
The Hope, from Down to Glasgow, was on shore on
the island of Magee Piasi.
The Constitution, Dagen, from Christiansand to Bar-
celona, put into Stourniway, with loss of keel, having
struck on a rock, and must discharge.
Th. Lively, Farmel, from London to Sligo was driven
on shore in Witlewall thy, 9,h inst.
The Allegbany, from Liverpool, is on shore in the
Delaware. Cargo discharging.
The Limerick, from Lon-ion to Charente, is on shore
near Weymouth, but expected to be got off.
25thT ult.
The Lord Byron, was on shore on Mirarnichi bar
The Hepburn was on shore in Miramichi river, 25th
ult. Repairing damage sustained by the ice.
The Margaret was on shore near Esquimsux Point,
25th ult., and not expected to be got off.
The Brandy Wine packet, Duel, from Calir ; Mervin,
from Wyburg to Boston and the Lord Nelson, from
Lynn to Hull, were driven on_shore near the Spurn, dea-
ling a gale on the 17th inst.
The Thetis from London to Liverpool was op shore
near Yarmouth yesterday, but expected to be got off.
The Clyde, Parfitt,frotn Glasgow to Bristol, was driven
on shore near Newton Stewart, 17th inst., and the master
drowned.

All yesterday, and more especially this day,
London has been visited by a dense gloom and constant
rain, unusual even at this perioii of tbn year.,