The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-08 00:00:00

NULL, FEBRUARY 6.

On Friday last the excitement of popular feeling in the
town of Kingston-upon-Hull, against the Mayor and
Aldermen, was manifested in a most extraordinary manner
by its inhabitants.

The people of Hull have long been subjected to an in-
finite variety of grievances, by the Corporate authorities
of that place, but it is only within about six months that
any effectual resistance has been made to the Magisterial
abuses complained of.
Id August last a publication, entitled the Hull Port-
folio, was established by Mr. Acland, an entire stranger,
and of whom little more was known than that he had for
several years edited a similar publication in Bristol, and
bad on various occasions been prosecuted by the sapient
Corporators of that city for publishing what they called
libels ; but which be and the inhabitants of Bristol consi••
dered, and still consider, to be truths. This gentleman,
from the moment of his establishment in this town,
set about the Herculean task of exposing and correct-
ing the Corporate and Magisterial abuses, of which
he has so great reason to complain ; of course, he
has written strongly of the worshipful noodles ; but
there are few, indeed, in Hull, or who knew any
thing of Hull, who think he has written too strongly.
But, be that as it may, Mr.Acland has already greatly be-
nefited the town, and has delivered its inhabitants from
many grievous impositions, and especially from the illegal
exaction of tolls of from 18001. to 20001. per annum.
The Corporation is of course highly incensed, and has in-
stituted a host of actions and prosecutions against Mr. Ac-
land and his friends ; and among other proceedings applied ,
to the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information
against him for libel. Mr. Acland, on his departure from
Hull to oppose the rule nisi, was accompanied to the point
of his embarkation by a great body of individuals, who
greeted hint with every demonstratio❑ of anxiety for his
success; whilst the Town-clerk, who was sent up to
London by his prosecutors, to aid the Recorder and his
legal colleagues (Sir James Scarlett and Mr. Pollock) in
making the rule absolute, was obliged to steal out of town
before daybreak, and wait three hours on the Lincolnshire
side of the Humber for the departure of the mail.
The dilatory conduct of the Counsel for the Corpora-
tion, in not moving that the rule should be made absolute,
with the repeated and ineffectual efforts of Mr. Acland to
force on the argument, and the eventual enlargement of
the rule until next Term, induced the people of Hull to
conclude that the Magisterial persecutors had good reasons
for avoiding the contest with their opponent.
About one o'clock on Friday afternoon last, the Com-
mittee and a large party of Mr. Acland's friends, accompa-
nied by an excellent band of music, in uniform, left Hull
for Barton, in a steam-packet, hired for the occasion, and
returning to the former place at half-past four, p. m.,
where they were met by about 20,000 people, with two
additional hands of music, and a magnificent display of
splendid silk banners and colours. On Mr. Acland's land-
ing,he was greeted with three times three loud cheers.

The procession formed near the east pier, and proceeded
to the Market-place, where a commodious hustings had
been erected in front of Mr. Walker's house (Secretary to
the Anti-Toll Association), where Mr. Acland returned
thanks to his numerous friends, for the handsome manner
in which they had welcomed him home, after fighting
their battles with their oppressors. Mr. Acland espe-
cially charged the immense assemblage to separate imme-
diately and peaceably. After giving three cheers for the
King and Reform, and three cheers for Mr. Acland, " the
man of the people," the people went home, and at nine
o'clock the town was as quiet as on any ordinary occa-
sion—much to the astonishment of their compassionate
Worships the constables in the Mansion-house, and the
garrison, which was under arms all night iu the citadel.

Extract of a letter from Amsterdam :—" The
Conference count without their host if they think that
we Hollanders will subscribe to the twenty-four articles
as a whole. We would rather give our last penny and
melt our household silver. In the succession war Holland
maintained, during that long and arduous struggle,
130,000 men, and she came off triumphantly. We
will do the same again, having justice and a kind
Providence on our side. Let our enemies recollect too

that our loans are all, every penny, subscribed by our own
citizens, and not by foreigners, who hold 9-10ths of the
Belgian loan. Holland receives yearly f: om Russia,
France, Spain, Austria, and indeed from almost every
State in Europe, remittances, as interest on dividends due
to Holland, to the amount of upwards of thirty millions
of guilders."—Morning Paper.
An official statement had been laid before the
Senate relative to the amount returnable to the merchants
of the United States, should the Bill " to exempt mer-
chandise imported under certain circumstances from the
operation of the Act of the 19th of May, 1828, entitled
An Aet in alteration of the several Acts impaing Du-
ties on Imports,' " pass into law. The further amount
included in this statement is 75,033 dollars, which, added
to the amount before reported, of 160,433 dollars, would
make the whole amount returnable, if the Bill passed into
law, 235,466 dollars. The information on which the
statement has been made was only derived from importers
who chose voluntarily to communicate it ; the Treasury
had no means of ascertaining whether it embraced the
whole amount liable to be claimed. The total value of
imports in the United States, during the year ending the
30th of September 1830, was 70,876,920 dollar', and of
exports 73,849,508 dollars, of which last 59,462,029
were of domestic produce. Rather more than one-half of
the imports had arrived at the single port of New York :
but the exports sent from thence were not estimated at
more than 13,618,278 dollars ; which, with those of
Louisiana, which were of about the same value, were higher
by some millions than the exports from the other states of
the Union.

A correspondent, who writes from Chelmsford,
states that gaming to a most destructive extent is carried
on in some of the low public-houses in that town. He
says,—" Small tradesmen and Journeymen mechanics are
allowed to congregate at these receptacles, and squander
what ought to keep their families off the parish funds. The
practice is pursued in back-rooms till five, six, or seven
o'clock in the morning, and as much as 71. has been lost
by little tradesmen at one sitting. A few nights ago a
journeyman, after losing the money which was to have
supplied the to-morrow's meal of his family, sold his shoes
off his feet and his hat off his head—lost their produce,
and then proceeded to his wretched home! The authori-
ties ought to look to this."—Esser Mercury.
The Tories in the City affect to be exceed-
ingly amused at the speech of the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, whom they call " fructifying Titoursosr."
We are not admirers of this gentleman, but we must say
that so far as the debate of last night is concerned, he ap-
pears to us, and, we believe, to the people in general, to
have had decidedly the best of the argument. It is very
fine for these men, who have brought this country by their
extravagance and shameless corruption to the verge of
ruin, to talk about economy, and blame the present Mi-
nisters for their lavish expenditure of the public money,
but the people will know how to appreciate this verbiage.
They will weigh facts against words, and the eloquence,
or rather brazen-faced effrontery, of the Opposition must
inevitably kick the beam. Mr. POWLETT THOMPSON is
accused of having said that " the deficiency of the re-
venue remained in the pockets of the people, there
to fructify by use, and to stimulate their efforts to in-
dustry." This is not true. He said that the surplus
which might have been wrung from the people by taxation
remained in their pockets—not that the deficiency in
the revenue remained there. These are Mr. POWLETT
THOMPSON'S words :—" Perhaps it might have been
more gratifying to the Right Honourable Gentleman
who cheered had there been a surplus, even though
that surplus had been wrung from the people by a
large and heavier taxation. He was happy to say that
it (that is, the supposed surplus) remained in the pockets
of the people, there to fructify by use, and to stimulate the
efforts of their industry." Now, for our part, we can see
nothing ridiculous in all this—nothing that ought to excite
the sneers of tax .payers, whatever it may be calculated to
do with tax-eaters. But why all this outcry about a defi-
ciency in the revenue, which, as the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade showed, had repeatedly taken place when
the Opposition were in power? It is true that when they
were in power, so conscious were they of the little hold
they had upon the people,--90 convinced, were they that
their measures were not calculated, without mystification,
to sustain the credit of the country—that it was their
custom to make false statements, and to endeavour to show
a surplus of revenue, at those times when a deficiency
actually existed. But the present Ministers can afford to
tell the truth—can afford to be honest, as the high price
of the Funds and the confidence of the country clearly de-
monstrate. —Morning Herald.
PATRICK HARTIGAN, JOHN BRADY, and
PETER DONNELLY, convicts front the hulk at Cove, were
escorted into this city on Thursday evening by a detach-
ment of the 17th Lancers, and were forwarded hence
yesterday morning to Ennis gaol, under a similar escort,
for trial at the approaching assizes. These fellows are
charged as principals in the well-known murder of
PATRICK DONNELLAN, the faithful servant of Mr. SYNGE,
of Dysart, near Corofin ; independent of which they are
reputed chief actors in the atrocious murder of Wsi.
BLOOD, Esq.; of Applevale, in the same neighbourhood,
Limeriek Chronicle.