The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1844.

‘• nds was taken up• 4.( the amentitn--and;-and
• - to be carried by a futiji)rtty of five. A
e'er demanded, and the ro:•sutt was fcir the
agi r,.-ment:—Present, 1,248 , pr,mies, 1,256.
pr,,,nt, 576 ; proxies, 131 ; Finwing a Ina-
.
Livour of tt.e reement of 1,797.
cement was tThea carried, an : the tnet.t;ng se•
1' rate..!.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, DEc. s.—Orders were received this .
morning- from the Commander-in-Chief, addressed to
the Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, Major-Gene- 1
rat the lion. Sir H. Pakenham, to inspect the defences of
this garrison, and indeed of the entire coast, and to re-
port to her Majesty's Government the expense of putting
them into a complete state of repair to provide against
any emergency. We believe Sir Hercules has from time
to time reported to his illustrious relative, the Duke of
Wellington, the state of decay into which the fortifica-
tions of this important fortress have been suffered to fall,
anti it is consequent upon those reports that the present
commission is instit: tted. Colonel Cardew, Commandant
of the corps of K,,y al Engineers at Portsmouth, will join
General Pakeretam in his labours. We believe it is the
intention of the Government to remount the walls of this
important position with guns, as of old ; the stone and
earthwork will be strengthened, the moats and draw-
bridges rendered serviceable, the forts on either side the.
harbour and approaches repaired and strenghtened, and
the towns of Portsmouth, Pint-sea, and Gosport, put into
a state of efficient detence. The round tower on the
right, the Blockhouse fort on the left, of the entrance to
the harbour, the Sallyport, and other gates of entrance,
will also be looked to and properly fortified, and that
strong and commanding fortress, Southsea Castle, will
• once: more assume its impregnable appearance. We are
glad the Government have at length been aroused to.
the necessity of guarding against eurprisal, for a more
exposed or indefensible place than Portsmouth is at'
present does not exist as a garrison. At the present
moment there is not a ship carrying a gun at Spithead,
nor a sail in the harbour capable of firing .a shot.
A morning Contemporary has been misled in contra-
: dieting the report that some visitors to the Gomer, when
in Portsmouth Harbour, broke the glasses over the por-
traits ce the King and Queen of the French. It is a fact
titttt the e;asses were broken as alleged, and new glasses
t y tile ft.:,v,,t4 were supplied by Messrs. Emanuel, Bro-
!. tilers, of Coniznon-hard, Pcrtsea, silversmiths to her Ma-
! jesty. We cannot ico much admire the politeness which
I Will'nOt confirm a statement so derogatory to the cha-
iracter of:eeir countrymen.
1 • 'The .I),.varf steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
I Chanitoeriain, wac docked this morning, to have her screw
altered.
The Locust steam-vessel was undocked and masted

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TAAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
resp,etive, returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
v♦e.:k in the previous year:---

W,ek

Last
week.

g,4
V 4)
De_

Nor.:3

Dec. 1
ov. 30

Dec 1
Nor. 30

Dec. 4
Nov. 29

Dec. 1
ov.
ll e. 3

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1,006
43,)
4

29'
1,046
2,063
3,634
1,472
71;
6,963
1,567
13,281
4,114
13,693

7 :••••••
3,8t46
1,09

762

s3C
2,97 5
6,rh
5,(34
1,031

1,40
1,,5Z;11

:i,'_ : `l

C) :a •

201
1,632
to6B

337

700
1,831
3,024
1,199

€7e

'662
6,630
1,261
11,134
3,841
13,371

618
2,942

b 39
4,879

705
2,517
5,30
7,126

1,3E31

3,fGO
3,325

470
2,9.01

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this morning, .
Felloorp,r, of Yr,rmouth, Edward Miller,
inastel.-; was run into amid-ships last night, abont six
o'clool:, (If tie:leltey Ilead, when bearing E. by N., by the
London,',Mosey, master, when the schooner
sustaieed' se.riwas damage. The crew were saved by the
pilot-heat. ‘.s.;el.-;en, of Cowes.
The i-.,ar(pie!Brunswich:, of Loudon, for Ichaboe, Camp-
b:-11, Inkster, tell in with the wreck of the schooner Ro,e
this morning, and towed her into this harbour. The
crew of the latter v,ssel have since mutinied, complain-
ing of the vessel neire,; leaky and unseaworthy. The
Rose lost her mast level with the deck, her bows were
stove is (and wl!.ea we saw her the figurehead of the
was in the aperture), the roundhouse and caboose
unshipped, the bowsprit and jibboom clean gone, and
the stem.stove in to the water's edge—indeed, the Rose
presents a 11103 i, pitiable spectacle of a total wreck. Her
crew cempistin of the treatment they received from the
master- (Mosey) of the brig, us 'very unmanly and
brutal. •
In .Harbour—The St. Vincent, discharging stores, &c.,
for docking; the Excellent, Victory, Sparrow, Nautilus;
Diligence transport; and the Comet, Fearless, and Echo
steam-vessels.
In the Basin—The Neptune, 120 ; Hastings, 72 ; and
Scourge steam-sloop,
In Dock—The Prince Regent ( the Victoria
rarking),
and Albert, Vengeance, Athol troop-ship (fitting for
surveying service), and Dwarf steam-tender.
At Spithead—No man of war.
• SHEERNESS, THURSDAY.—The Hornet, 6, brigantine,
Lieut.-Commander C. Seaver, arrived from Spithead on
Tuesday, anct.passed up to Chatham to be paid off.
The Porcupine steam-surveying vessel, Capt. Bullock,
touched at this port on Tuesday, and having coaled, left
on Wednesday for the sphere of her operations.
The Goodwill, navy lighter, Pledge master, sailed this
morning with stores for Devonport.
The Crocodile, 26, late troop-ship, was docked on
Tuesday to be fitted for surveying service.
The Herald, 26. has been undocked, and towed into
the basin for her fittings.
In the harbour—The Ocean and Skylark.
In Dock—The Hercules, Brilliant, Spy, and Crocodile.
In the Basin—The Howe, Amazon, Vernon, and Vul-
ture, first-class steamer.
.At the Nore—The Queen, 110, flag ship.

FRENCH IMPORT DUTIES
A royal ordonnance has been published in Paris,
which makes material alterations in the import duties on
various productions of India, and other foreign countries,
brought to France by French ships, and also in the
premiums granted by the Government on machinery
manufactured in France, and used in the international
navigation. The ordonnance is preoeded by a report to
the King from the Minister of Commerce, in which he
states that the greater part of the modifications have for
their object to encourage French ships to bring home,
direct from India and other countries out of Europe,
cargoes of raw materials, and other natural productions
employed in the manufactories in France. The follow-
ing quotations from the ordonnance will show the na-
ture and amount of the new duties, and fromthem it will
also -appear that the premiums on home-made ma-
chinery are to be regulated by weight, and not ad
valorem :
The first paragraph of the ordonnance says :—The
Customs duties on the undermentioned articles shall be
established or modified in the following manner. All
the duties are upon the 100 kilogrammes, except where
otherwise noted :
Wood and Roots' of the Barbery—By French ships,
from countries out of Europe, 10c. ; from other coun-
tries, if. 50c. 9 • by foreign ships and by land, 2f.
Copper, with alloy of zinc or of tin, of the first fusion,
in the mass, in birs or sheets, or from old articles de-
stroyed—By French ships, from countries out of
-Europe, 10c.
Badiana, or Aniseed, from China, in cristals—By
French ships, from beyond Europe, 15f.; from elsewhere,
30f.; by foreign ships and by land, 40f.
Volatile Oil, or Essence of Badiana—The same duties
as on other oil or essence of aniseed.
Nitrate of Soda—By French ships, from countries out
of Europe, one moiety of the present duty.
The premium on the exportation of nitric and sul-
phuric acids is reduced one moiety.
Small Rattans, whole or split—By French ships, from
India, 6f.; from other countries out of Europe, 10f.
Bamboos, and other large canes—By French ships.
from India, 60E; from other countries out of Europe, 80f.
Flowers of Carthamum—By French ships, from coun-
tries out of Europe, 12f.; from other countries, or by
foreign ships, or by land, the present duties.
Cocoa Nut-shells—By French ships, from beyond
Europe, If.; from other countries, or by land; or ;by
foreign ships, the present duties.
Lichens, for dying—By French ships, frOm beyond
Europe, 10c.; from other countries, or by foreign ships,
or by land, the present duties.
Medicinal Roots not denominated—By French ships,
from beyond Europe, 154; from other countries, or by
foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. .
Medical Fruits, not denominated—By French ships,
from beyond Europe, 25f.; from other countries, or by
foreign ships, or by land, the present duties.
Balsam of" Copaiba—By French ships, from beyond
Europe, if 20c. the kilogramme ;'from other countries,
or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties.
Aloes—By French ships, from beyond] Europe, 501. ;
from other countries, or by foreign ships or by land, the
present duties.
Benzein—By French ships, from beyond Europe, 100 f.;
from other countries, or by foreign ships or by land, the
present duties.
Raw Camphor—By French ships, from beyond Eu-
rope, 50f.; from other countries, or, by foreign ships or
by land, the present duties.
Jalap Root—By French ships, from beyond Europe,
10E'. ; from other countries, or by foreign ships or by
land, the present duties.
Produce Imported from India—Lacher, in its natural
state or in rosin, 50c. ; in dye or in trochisk, 25f.; mo-
ther-of-pearl, unwrought or in the shell, 10f. tin, 10c.
Limestone, rubble, and waste stone (dechets de
pierre), Ic.
Special regulation for Corsican iron ore, lc.
The second paragraph is in the following terms :
The premium allowed by the law of 6th May, 1841,
to steam-engines of French fabrication employed on
board French ships engaged in the international mari-
time navigation, shall be liquidated according to the pre-
sent basis, and the entrance duties applicable to steam..
engines of foreign fabrication imported by French ships."

" LIFE IS SWEET."—On Friday last, the 29th ult.
as the Lady Brisbane steamer was on her way from
Stranraer to this port, when nearly opposite Lendalfoot
the captain and passengers observed two of the feathered
tribe flying towards them, the one apparently in deadly
pursuit of the other. When first noticed, they were at a
considerable distance seaward. Many a sudden wheel
and hair-breadth escape the poor fugitive made ; and on
their approaching nearer, the one was discovered to be a
lark flying for life from its pursuer, which belonged to
the hawk species. So close was the hawk on the poor
lark, that the latter made a halt and sat for afew seconds
on the surface of the ocean ; while the former wheeled
past, and, making a circuitous turn, was just on the eve
of pouncing fatally upon his victim, when it again got
on the wing, and, flying on board the Lady Brisbane,
actually alighted on the breast of the mate, who was at
the helm, the hawk not being more than six yards dis-
tant. The mate took up the little songster, and brought it
safely to Ayr, where he set it at liberty.—Ayr Observer.
INCENDIARY FIRE ON THE FARM OF MR. ABEL.
SMITH, M.P., AT WATTON.—HERTFORD, WEDNESDAY.
—A fire broke out last evening at Bardolph's Farm,
Watton, in the occupation of Mr. Kimpton. The fire
was first observed in a barley barn, in the centre of the
extensive farm-yard, at about half-past eight o'clock, and
expresses were immediately sent off to the neighbouring
towns for the engines ; and in the course of two hours
the Hertford, Ware, and Stevenage engines were upon
the spot.. .The flames had in, the meantime extended
with frightful rapidity, and by the time that the first
engine arrived five extensive and substantial barns, filled
with barley and wheat, were on fire. It was at once
teen that it would be utterly Useless to attempt to stop
the progress of the flames on the buildings, which they
already enveloped, and all efforts were directed to pre-
vent their extending to the stables attached to their
barns, immediately communicating with the dwelling-
houses, and also to protect the ricks from the lighted
fragments dispersed by the wind. The farm belongs to
Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., and is not far distant from his
farm at Bromfield, which was destroyed by fire about ten
weeks since. While we write this account five barns
are still blazing, and no portion of them can be saved.
The loss to the occupier is estimated at 2,0001., and is
insured to that amount in the Pbcenix. The buildings
are insured in the Sun. No doubt is entertained that the
barns were wilfully fired, and a labourer has been arrested
on suspicion. The chief part of the agricultural imple-
ments were preserved.
THE LATE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE GIPSY
QUEEN.—The sum collected for the relief of the families
of the ten poor unfortunate persons who perished by thell,
late exprosion on board the Gipsy Queen, off Blackwe
amounts to near 600/., and it is expected that ere the
subscription closes 1,0001. will be obtained, The sur-
vivors of this sad catastrophe are rapidly recovering.
The Marquis of Bute has disposed of his Luton
Hoo estate to a gentleman of the name of Wall. The
consideration money is stated to have been 180,000/.
NOT TO BE WONDERED AT.--The Chester
Chronicle states that a quarter cask of gunpowder,
which had been placed in the " bakehouse" of Mr. Car
rington, of Rocklerry, had, by " some unknown means,"
exploded, and blown the roof off, besides destroying all
the window's in the dwelling-house, and dreadfully burn-
ing one of his own sons, and injuring Miss Carrington,
and a dressmaker at work there at the time.
THE GAME Lams.—Report is gaining ground, to
the effect that a Bill will he brought into Parliament•
during theensuing session, to limit the price which game
dealers are to charge the public for game, and that at a
very low rate. This would be a most excellent measure;
it would be a check upon those game preservers who
" make a trade" with surplus game ; a check also upon
the poachers, for it would not then be worth his while to
poach, his profits so scanty, that the present temptation
would be ended ; and a check too upon the dealer who
purchases of the poacher, because he could buy as cheap
of those who have legal right to sell as he could do of
the poacher. It is high time something was done re-
specting the disgraceful game-preserving and the game-
law!. The cost of the game mania to the public is scan-
aalous ; let those who wish to have their tyrannical pet
—for such it is—pay for it, not the community at large,
they are taxed and oppressed enough without paying for
the exclusive game propensity of the aristocracy.—From
a Correspondent.
FIRE AT NEWINGTON.—rriday night, between the
hours of six and seven, a very alarming fire• broke out
upon the premises of Mr. Beckett, a rope and twine
manufacturer, Hen and Chicken-lane, Newington. The
damage is considerable, but the property is insured in
the Atlas-office. A spark from a lighted candle is sup-
posed to have caused the disaster.
POACHING.—The poachers, or some person or per-
sons, at present unknown, have made a good haul of at
least 500 pheasants from the plantations of Sir E. Ker-
gaon, round and near the Obut the akley
robbers have not yet
Mansion. An investi-
ion has taken place,
been discovered.—Norfolk Chronicle.
Immense quantities of cod-fish have been caught
off this town--about a mile or two out—during the pre-
sent week. They. have been sold remarkably cheap,—a
fine fish, upwaids of 201bs. weight, .fetching only from
Is. 6d. to 2s. Large numbers, weighing 161b5., have been
sold at Is. each.—Brighton Herald.
Hoaticink.-IVe regret to state that, on Wednes-
day night last, a dispute arose between two brothers-in-
law, in the town of Kilkeel, which had a fatal termina-
tion. The names of the parties are Kinney and M`Fadden.
The altercation became so violent, and passion was so
much excited, that the former lifted up a beetle and
.struck the other a heavy blow, which killed him on the
spot.---Down Recorder.
NOVEL NOVEL FEAT.--A Plymouth correspondent fur-
nishes the following aquatic novelty:—" A great deal
of curiosity and surprise has been manifested during
the past week by those who have witnessed the manner
in which one of the officers of the Caledonia, flag-
ship, now lying in Hamoaze, comes on shore. He
descends the ship's side to the water's edge, puts on
a mackintosh-dress, and inflates it with air by means
of a small, pair of bellows. He then steps into the
water, and immured nearly up to the breast, with two
small paddles very rapidly works himself on shore.
As soon as he lands he takes off his dress, and throw-
ing it across his arm, it being very light, attends
to his duty or his pleasure as it may be. On Monday
last he landed twice at the dockyard in the way,
described and he now laughs at the idea of
taking a boat. During the time the Caledonia was in
any boat, landed at the Admiral's Hard,
the Sound he left that ship in a similar manner, and
unattended by
Stonebouse, a distance of three miles. He carries the
bellows with him in case of too rapid an exhaustion nf
air. It has been told me that during the trial cruise of
the ships in the Channel he passed by this extraordinary
means from one ship to the other. I cannot vouch for
this fact ; but the truth of the rest, may be relied on.
Should it be generally adopted, it will be a very amusing
trip for half-a-dozen to take round the Eddystone
Lighthouse.

lic dinners. The latter are, in a great meausure, made

the feelers of general opinion, whenever a party purpose,
or an object of peculiar weight in the eyes of certain
individuals, is to be promoted. By the medium of toasts
and speeches the required stimulus is conveyed to the
guests, and they go away with the noblest impressions of
the scheme to be adopted or the thing to be done. All,
of course, are on one side, for who would attend at the
dinner where he would be the sole opponent—the un-
supported dissentient from the voice of a whole company?
Nothing, therefore, is more delightful, and more capti-
vating, than the undivided unanimity under favour of
which every sentence is applauded to the echo, and every
speaker cheered to his heart's content. Such assemblies
may be necessary, they may be useful, they may be called
for by the necessities of the times, or the peculiar merits
of the topic to be discussed. We neither ridicule nor
condemn them ; it would be quite unnatural to do so,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—DartmOnth was among the 'boroughs
which were redeemed by the Reform Bill- from the
degradation of nominal representation. Before that
just and necessary measure was enacted, this little
maritime town gave two seats in Parliament to the
nominees of the Treasury ; in whom its close corpo-
ration invariably discerned all the requisite qualifica-
tions for the honour and advantages then pertaining
to such legislators. The Reform Bill opened the
borough, and assigned one Member to its constituency.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. H. Seale had endeared himself
to the inhabitants by his numerous virtues, and espe-
cially by the exertions he had used to break up the
close corporation confederacy by which the represen-
tation of the borough hid been prostituted to the piar
poses of private gain and political corruption. That
gallant officer became its first representative under
the new system ; and continued, without competition,
to be returned as its Member to every successive Par-
liament. His death occurred a few days since, and
his remains will be committed to the tomb this day.
But scarcely had the breath left the body of the
deceased Member than the Tories were on the alert
to recover their lost influence in the borough.
Electioneering agents of the Carlton Club, metro-
politan.and local, commenced operations. Their can-
didate was announced. Mr. Joseph Soames, Go-
vernor of the New Zealand Company, is to contest
the seat on the " Conservative interest ;" and the
Dartmouth Reformers, who have hitherto been
faithful and firm to the principles and party which
obtained for them their long-sought right to the
elective franchise, are modestly " solicited" to
exercise that right in favour of the candidate who,
with the party which nominates him, would gladly
deprive them of their votes ! The modesty of this
attempt on the constituency is equal to the delicacy
the Tories have shown to the memory and bereaved fa-
mily of the deceased member, in thus needlessly agitat-
ing the constituency before his funeral has taken place.
Although taken by surprise by this indecent haste on
the part of their opponents—and necessarily unprepared
to engage in a contest while the solemnities of commit-
ting the remains of their deceased member to the
tomb were yet unperformed —the Dartmouth Liberals
will be found true to themselves, and to the cause with
which they are identified. They have found a candi-
date worthy of their exertions in Mr. George Moffatt,
well known to the Liberals of the metropolis as an
eminent merchant, and as " a good man and true."
Mr. Moffatt has already shown by works, as well as
words, that he regards Parliamentary Reform as only
the means to the attainment of valuable results. As
the Chairman of the London Penny Postage Committee
in 1838 he contributed, by his zealous and persevering
exertions, to the attainment of that immense national
benefit. Mr. Moffatt's opinions on the question of
free trade are identical with those who advocate the
removal of commercial restrictions, as essential to the
extension of our trade and the profitable employ-
ment of our increasing population. Mr. Moffat
will commence his personal canvass of the
electors on Monday. We cannot doubt of his
success. The Dartmouth Tories, by violating the
decorum which the conventionalities of society pre-
scribe—and which, even when political excitement is
more strongly felt than it is at present, are observed—
indicate the hopelessness of the contest into which they
are plunging themselves and the constituency. The
constituency is small—not more than 250 will vote.
Nothing but the employment of corruption and co-
ercion can prevent Mr. 11Ioffatt's return by a large
proportion of the electors. The former is, happily,
by the new election law rendered more easy of detec-
tion than it was. Let the Liberal voters be but proof
against the latter, and Toryism will sustain a defeat
at Dartmouth that will discourage any future attempt
to seize upon the representation.
STANDARD.—We appeal to the memory of our
readers to witness whether we have not anxiously
abstained from the agitation upon ecclesiastical mat-
ters, which is now distracting the Church and the
country ; or if our readers are so forgetful of our con-
duct, or so ill-informed of the pressure we have had
to resist as to hesitate in acquitting us of a voluntary
part in the agitation, we can appeal to hundreds—
to thousands—of offended correspondents, whose fa-
vours we have. rejected or whose suggestions we
have slighted, though heartily concurring in their
opinions. We know our countrymen, and we best
know that most numerous and most intelligent, as
well as best disposed, division of them—the members
of our Protestant Church. We know that they are
slow to move, because they are religious, prudent,
and just, and that they will not move at all except
upon what seems to them a clearly righteous and an
adequate ground; but we know also that when
they move, they are determined, inflexible, and
irresistible. When such men arise to action they
stand much more in need of the curb than of the
spur. We should apply the curb if we could hope to
have influence; but though we might offer violence
to our own convictions, and should certainly forfeit
all our influence in the attempt, it would be an utterly
vain one. Let us close our columns against the para-
mount topic of the day; and we may to-morrow close
our establishment ; while the line we could conscien-
tiously pursue in perfect conformity with the uni-
versal feeling would be taken Up by some mere
time-server, as indeed we see already some of the
mercenary class pressing into it—the last and the
decisive proof that the public mind has been defini-
tively made up. We copied yesterday with satisfac-
tion, from the Morning Herald, an announcement, of
the correctness of which we have no reason to doubt,
that the Bishops are preparing to interpose. We can
assure their Lordships that there is no time to spare,
and that they must make up their minds to interpose
effectually when they do interpose. It is now too
late to stand upon trifles ' • too late, indeed, to
treat any of the disputed points as trifling ;
every ensign of hostile innovation is an intole-
rable insult, and every rag of such ensign must
be abandoned, if an honourable peace is to be obtained
for the Church. Without the removal of every
tatter of Tractarianism the people will not be satis-
fied—must we add, ought not to be satisfied. In
short, if the Bishops will have an end to the present
distractions, they must exercise their legitimate
influence to bare the order of the Church
brought back to what it was a dozen years
ago, the most glorious era in the history of
any. Church since the age of the Apostles. That
glorious era ,it was which tempted vain men,
who had no share in producing it, to turn the deep
religious feeling of the nation to the account of their
own ambition or foppish conceit. They saw the
Church the object of a veneration only less than
that paid to its divine head, and they hoped to
exalt themselves Is priests of the Church- above
all other men, and to render their persons " the
observed of all observers," by fanatical dresses,
gaudy church furniture, and antic gesticulations.
'Such men could not appreciate the true source of the
veneration so universally paid to the Church—the ab-
sence of those personal vanities and passions, and of
those profane frivolities with which they, in their
stupid conceitedness, would desecrate the majesty
of religion. , If...the Church is to become again.
what the Church was twelve years ago, the
object of devoted love and reverence to the people,
all the innovations introduced by the self-seekers
and coxcombs must be swept clean out. Men cannot
be too firm, of we will say too obstinate, where prin-
ciples are concerned; but they who deny that the
surplice preaching is a mere sign of novelty, as some
bishops do, will admit that surplices are not prin-
ciples, and ' will surely surrender surplice preaching
to the feeling of the people, who cannot help con-
necting it with the Tractarian innovations. If
firmness or obstinacy upon questions of high prin-
ciple cannot be too much commended, obstinacy in
things trifling or indifferent to principle cannot be
too much despised. There are, it is true, the
two cases in which a plausible apology may be
made for obstinacy upon questions of secondary
importance. An importunate claimant may be
refused a trifle, because he is importunate--
because in his case every new concession
leads to a new demand. This cannot apply
to men who ask only for the status quo—their de-
mand limits itself for ever. They only ask to be
left where they and their ancestors have been for
nearly two centuries. The remonstrant Churchmen,
indeed, give the best possible proof of their content-
ment with, and deep affection for, the Church, in ear-
nestly praying that its practical order and ritual may
undergo no change. Arguments and answers fit
to be .used towards importunate aggressors un-
doubtedly do not apply to them. The second case
where trifles may be obstinately maintained with
some colour of reason, is when the concession of the
trifle gives a party triumph • but the Bishops will
scarcely treat the whole laity and forty-nine-
fiftieths of the clergy as a party to 'balance
against a few hundred Tractarians ; to put them
at all into opposite scales would be a triumph
to the Tractarians immeasurably disproportioned
to their real importance. No, the Church can
have no triumph in being left to the peace-
ful enjoyment of her time-honoured usages; but
the least concession of the least of these usages
would be indeed a triumph to the Tractarians
—a gross insult to the Church—an insult, we do
not hesitate to say, fatal to the Church as a temporal
establishment. his may be thought the language
of exaggeration, it is, however, the language of our
deliberate and sincere conviction. We confess
the utmost alarm for the Church as a temporal
establishment. A very few months have passed
since every hand and purse of the nation were
cheerfully openo for Church purposes. Money was
collected for building of churches, for endowments,
and for the erecting and support of church schools, by
hundreds of thousands of pounds. How is it now
The very men most active in promoting these noble
contributions, and most liberal in contributing them-
selves, are now the very men who oppose any grants
for Church use.
TlME6•—This i 4 the age of public meetings and Rob-

seeing that men are seldom, we may say never, so
good-humoured, and so ready to take everything
for granted, as after a festival of this kind. How-
ever, with all our readiness to do justice to the
value of such entertainments, there may be, and there
must be, certain occasions, and certain remarks
to which those occasions give rise, which do not alto-
gether win our approbation or goodwill. Our readers
will find in another part of our paper a report of a meet-
ing of sundry noblemen and gentlenien at Cirencester,
at the annual commemoration of the Cirencester Agri-
cultural Association. There was indeed the abounding
flow of sentiment, and the usual amount of speechifying.
There was, of course, much tender pathos; a due ad-
mixture of the grave and gay to interest as well as to
amuse the audience. The principal theme of the day,
however, was one which all of every class now feel
themselves imperatively obliged to consider ;—we mean
the depressed state of, the labourer, and the best means
of ameliorating his condition. The Hon. W. Bathurst
seems to have been powerfully awakened to the subject.
We must not forget," he said, " on an occasion like
this, the agricultural labourer ;" and truly the company
did not forget—to mention him at least, as how could
they at such a dinner, and amid the recurrence of such
questions ? This gentleman, however, unadvisedly as we
think, strayed into one or two diversified branches
of argument, which he might certainly have left
unnoticed with much better taste and feeling than
he showed by introducing and dwelling upon them.
He made, in truth, a somewhat angry attack upon
the manufacturer on behalf of the agriculturist
population, neither well-timed nor exactly applicable
Ito the whole state of the case. There was manifested
throughout a pointed desire to accuse and overwhelm
the millowners as the most selfish and heartless race of
men—the oppressors of the poor laboufer whom they
had taken into their employment, and who, when his toil
had answered their purpose, and he was no longer use-
ful, or could no longer be maintained, turned him adrift
at once upon the parish ! No doubt there is, and tit
doubt can there be, that all the peasant wants is em-
ployment ; he wants, and is ready to do, " a fair day's
work for a fair day's wages," than which no proposition
more equitable or more reasonable was ever offered to
the human understanding. He wants just what the lot
of man enjoins upon his station—to gain his bread by
the sweat of his brow. He asks this of his employers—
he has a right to ask it ; although it is a portion of toil
and privation, such as it is, it is his birthright, and can
be no more justly withheld than the rights of his land-
lord
can be refused. No wonder, then, that several
of the speakers adopted this subject for their observa-
tions. It could Rot well escape their attention at
a meeting so obviously connected with the cause
of the poor man. But, we confess, how his
cause could be advanced, or his condition mended,
by flinging it with aggressive violence in the
face of the manufacturer, is an enigma that it puzzles
our ingenuity to solve. Whence this fiery emulation,
this undisguised jealousy of the millowner ? Could not
Mr. Bathurst, or any other speaker, find topics enough
to dilate upon, and remedies of some sort to offer upon
the bitter portion of the unemployed tillers of the soil,
without arraying all his chivalry against the manufac-
turers ? Besides, gentlemen, you will permit us, if
you please, to show you one very sufficient reason why,
if any charge of the kind were made at all, it should I
have been aimed elsewhere in the first instance. Who,
we ask, was it that turned the agricultural labourer into
the plodder of the factory ? Who first exhorted and
urged the peasant to forget his original occupation, and
bend his energies to another employment ? We do not
underrate the earnestness of these speakers, but we really
must refresh their memories with a correct representation
of the circumstances under which they themselves are
placed in this respect. How, then, came the manufacturers
to find labourers at low wages ready at their hand? Surely
it ought, in common justice, to be remembered that the,
landowners themselves were the persons to encourage
this exchange of toil ; that they-did all in their power
to free their parishes and estates from the superabundant
hands ; that they gave to the public highly-coloured re-
presentations of prosperity, making their 'own poor be-
lieve they would discover the secret of transmutation in
this Eldorado—that they were to rise rapidly in wages,
and enjoy all the contingent comforts of ample pay. All
this may have been thought politic and judicious ; but,
after driving these men from field labour, to which they
were born, and bringing them into a totally different
sphere of life, the landlords should not, in common fair-
ness, turn round upon the manufacturer and revile him
for doing in after times what their own example has but
too successfully taught him. And, again, though it may
sound very feasible to talk to the farmer about the neces-
sity of finding employment for the poor on his farm, it is
scarcely intelligible to ordinary minds how this can be done,
when, as Mr. Kearsey, a farmer 'present, very justly ob-
served, so heavy was the taxation under which they suf-
fered, that they were driven to curtail their own expen-
diture, and this always operated upon the wages of the
labourer. Really, no one who advocates any benevolent
scheme ever seems to feel that the first effort should
come from himself, and that if be wishes others to do
good where he should himself set the example, he must
prove his sincerity by so doing, and doing it quickly.
It never seems to strike the wealthy landowners at such
meetings to propose a real reduction of their own rents,
as a foundation for employing additional labourers or
paying them more adequately. Thus, it is to be feared
too many of the schemes of advantaging the lower orders
fail'or fall to the ground, from the want of this great first
principle of showing the way where we would wish to
lead others. It is-no great praise to set tip for a humane
character at the expense of a neighbour's reputation ;
nor is it any credit to the possessors of largo estates
where a numerous population is without employment,
that the master manufacturers treat their own drudges
no better.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE 8.
FROM THN MORNING riPEREI OF SATURDAY.
TIMES.—This was the day for opening the tenders
made for the fourth parcel of the Canada loan. At the
close of business the general impression in the City was,
that the applicants had received no answers, and it is
considered probable that the tenders may not be deemed
so satisfactory as upon former occasions.
A new Dutch decree, dated the Ist instant, has been
issued in English by Messrs. Raphael and Sons. The
following is the operative part :
" Art. 1. The fourth series of inscriptions of the na-
tional debt, bearing 5 per cent. interest, to be drawn for
payment only, is fixed at 20,000,000 guilders capital.
" This series can, however, be augmented to not more
than 21,000,000 guilders capital, if it appears on draw-
ing, that such extension is useful to avoid division of a
whole letter or a whole inscription.
" Art. 2. The drawing will take place on Saturday,
the 7th of December, 1844, in the manner prescribed by
article 3 of our decree of the Bth of August last.
" Art. 3. The payment of the capital forming the
fourth series begins the Ist of January, 1845, on which
day the iuterest on these Five per Cents. ceases.
" Art. 4. The fifth series of inscriptions of the na
tional debt, bearing 5 per cent. interest, to be drawn for
payment or conversion, is fixed at 10,000,000 guilders
capital.
' This series can, however, be augmented to not more
than 11,000,000 guilders capital, if it appears, on draw-
ing, that such extension is useful to avoid division of a
whole letter or a whole inscription.
" Art. 5. The drawing of this fifth series takes place
immediately after that of the fourth series, as fixed by
the foregoing Ist and 2d articles, being Saturday, De-
cember 7, 1844, in the manner fixed by article 3 of our
decree of the Bth of August.
" If all the accounts that stand under the last letter
drawn in the fourth series are not required for payment,
that letter takes part again in the drawing of the fifth
series, for the amount so remaining unpaid.
" Art. 6. The price of inscriptions in the Great Book
bearing 4 per cent. interest from the Ist of October last,
to be issued in exchange for stock, forming the fifth
series, is fixed at 971 per cent. ; and accordingly there
will be paid for each 100 guilders so converted, 2i
guilders, but without any compensation for the diffe-
rence of interest since the Ist of October.
" Art. 7. Those who do not choose to exchange their
stock, drawn in the fifth series, into Four per Cents.,
must declare to that effect on or before the 28th of De- COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 7.
cember, 1844, in the manner appointed by article 7 of RING V. SARSON.
our decree of the Bth of August last. The payment or This was an action for assault and false imprisonment
conversion of the capital forming the fifth series begins under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff had
on the Ist of January, 1845. The interest on the stock been a footman in a gentleman's family, and being con-
paid off ceases oft the Ist of January, 1845. victed of larceny is stealing pheasants and game fowl
" Art. 8. The holders of stock drawn in the fourth or from his master's stable, he was sentenced to four months,
fifth series, which has been already subscribed in the imprisonment. At the expiration of his time he returned.
voluntary to his own family, who lived in the neighbourhood of the
conversion under our decree of the 6th of No-
vember last, preserve their claim to the conversion on Regent's-park. One ev, ning, in September last, he went
the foot of that decree." into the house of the defendant, who keeps the Windsor
A project is on foot for establishing at Algiers a Bank Castle üblic-house, Park-terrace, St. John's Wood.,
of Discount, with a capital equal to 40,0001. sterling, or road, and having taken a seat in the parlour, and dered
1,000,000 f. Of this sum 300,000 is to be laid out on a pint of beer, which was brought -him by thaw: :titer,
mortgage, at 10 per cent., producing 30,000 f. per annum. a park-keeper of the name of George, ob.
This forms a guarantee fund. A suns of 350.000 E is to the
to the 'plaintiff's being allowed to sit
be laid out in the same manner, producing 35,000 f. ; the room, because he had been convicted of theft.
and the sum of 350,000 E is to be employed in discounts, It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff's wit..
with three signatures, at 12 per cent., producing o,ooof. nesses, that no one else, an I there were several prssents
The total amounts of these receipts is 107,000 E, which, at the time, objected to King's presence. On th:-- con..
after deducting expenses, amounting t° 37,000 f., leaves trary, some of them invited him to drink with than.
a net profit of 70,000 f. It is proposed, moreover, to I However the landlord insisted on his leaving the le 'use g
issue notes of from sf. to 1,000 f., payable three days I and ultimately expelled bins by forlce, tearing his coat
after sight ; and although the rate of discount has been and shirt in the struggle. Sarsen tacu gave him into
calculated at 12 per cent., the present rate is estimated custody of the police, who took him to the s'ation.
at 15 per cent. house, where, however, no charge was preferred strainst
he was dismissed. For the forcible ex 1 '
This plan is given without "the slightest intention ofandthe a• • 141 "cl 4
recommending it. Indeed, those who would be din- from the house,
sr detention in custody him, and
f'or the ' ' Cf.' of the
posed to embark capital in such an undertaking should Polices this acttioTniiwraoubaDou
, sts‘tea these
be aware, that in the African countries, where there is a Mr.aSedrgeaande a forcible ' , l t P.ain 1 '
great disposition to form monopolies, many difficulties
factds'hinandm injustice of apersecutingPfe a o the j; s e :., -a, to the
may be found in the way of working a bank, which hardship s
life, p
after he had a man wail infamy
expiated an off- ~, e, not
would be unknown in an European city.
HERALD.—As the case, Richards v. Macey, tried of the most heinous nature, by the punishment ti, ias deil
in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday last, involves hy‘tril..° Sergeantlaw•
S
,
nta for the
several principles of importance to shareholders in joint- nu• defendant, insisted ,Isre
stock banks, and also regarding the liability and trans. the propriety of the landlord's conduct in ender ,ou Isol
fer of notes of hand and bills of exchange, we shall recall to keep his house free from persons of tainted character.
the attention of our readers to the facts of the case. It The Learned Sergeant called witnesses to prove that the
appears that the late Borough of St. Marylebone Bank plaintiff made a violent resistance to the defendant's at.
had borrowed 5,000 L of the London and Westminster, tempt to remove hisi, and that Sarson did not give hire
upon security, for the purpose of winding up its affairs. into custody until he was endeavouring to force his wag
But this sum not being found sufficient, application was into the parlour again after he had been expelled.
made fora fur.ther leap of iO,OOO/. This was refused,, Mr. Justice Eit.ix mimed up very muniteiy. Hi
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