The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-16 00:00:00

Armed off Dover the Dittp'atdi, Trickey, from. Lisbon.

Yesterday the dispatches for Uengal and China, by the ship
lville, Capt. Richard Clifford, were closed at die Lost
ndia Rouse.; and deliverectto the Punier of that ship.

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DISTURBANCES AT THE MOLD MINES.

(From the Chester Courant.k
On the arrival from London of h. 'I Air
the ltlenager of the Compeny's mince, which are upon a most
extensive scale in the neighbourhood of , he , was inforrp.
ed, that as reports prejudicial to the character of'' some of his
agents had been circulated, it was the desire of magistrates,
for the satisfaction of all parties, to inquire into the trath• of
them. 'To th 6 111 r. Taylor instantly and willingly assented,
and desired that gentlemen of the country conversant in mining
should be invited to be present.
On Saturday last a meeting was held, in consequentay at
• the office of the mines at ren-y-fron, and a hearing took place
in the presence of the Rev. T. H. Clough and C. ii. V:'ltoper,
Esq., Magistrates of the county, of, Flint, whose exertionsitt '
this lamentable affair have been unremitting. It being the
regular pay-day for the men, great numbers attended ; itnil;the
Magistrates had before given notice to them that all complaints
.agatnat the Company or their agents would be heard, and in.
vited all who wished to do so to prefer them.
It appeared at the investigation, that excepting the captains
or agents, and a few .persons on the establishment for the cart
of the ,extensive machinery and pump work, net, more then 10
strangers were employed, while the whole number of *tilers
was usually about 400 ; that ill fines for neglect of labour,
were governed by written rules—that they were moderately
fixed—and that the total amount leviedin the last three eare
was only about 221., and that this sum had been carried:. pro. .
perly to the account of the Company t that of this loin only 31.
.014 svits,the subject of complaint 'by any man who appeatell,,and
that the magistrates, after. honing the parties, , thought Otto
was no ground for such complaint.
It further ti eared, that the average wages of the imen ' had
been goody arid fully equal to the rates of such labour hi, the
Country ; very few cases of complaint of any kind Awe Urged ;
and after a long and patient hearing, the Magistrates and flan-
demo present pronounced them frivolous and trifling. The
only,greunds that appear for turning out and. ill4roatiog the
agents, seem to be an objection to a rule'requiring men, if they
contract for certain bargains, to work eight hours out of 24 ;
while,it is argued that the, custom was formerly id., work but
Aix hours ; 'and farther, some , personal pique against one or
two individual agents.
The consequences to the Tompany and the neghbontheeid,
of the tutnultuous proceedings of these ,deludedi'metimatarbe
very nCriOup. The mines lay unworked for about ,I 6 years •
the Company, by an expenditure of about 00,0001., and 'the
erection of numerous powerful engines, had-dreined!thetn of
water, and the works were. becoming .productive. l The sea
have stopped the necessary repair .of the pumps the engines
have, in consequence, .ceased work ; two of the Cornish
pitmen were seized and ill-treated for attempting e*uo noses..
sery repair ; and the consequence is, that this weals are ngitirt
filled with water, The men have deprived themselves of work
at a time when the low price, of lead makes it likely that tan.
ployment of this tort will be unusually difficult to obtatits.:. The
Magistrates were under the necessity of calling in the. eWI
the military, to prevent a repititioh of the outrages thee',P.r4
taken place. They have now apprehended and, cotrunitirtt
ringleader to Flint Gaol; r' and warrants are issued ogioniorz,_
ral pthera,. who we the most active In, driTing
treating persona' eMploYed by the Company.,
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
.7' Exlivictsfi•enl the Morning Papers,March 16,1826,

• [NEW TIMES.]
A petition was last night presented to the
Douse of Commons on the part of an individual,
praying that all the Friendly Societies through-
out the kingdom might be placed under the di-
rection of ts Board of Commissioners. The sub.
jest is one of considerable delicacy and import-
ante. It may be remembered that a Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons was last year
appointed, which took evidence, and presented
a Report on the laws respecting these Societies.
From that Report we made some extracts at the
time ; and there is a mass of valuable matter in
the evidence and appendix, which may throw
'some light on the object of the petition above.
mentioned. We are not very friendly 'to the
establishment of any public Board for the
purpose of exercising a direct influence in
the ordinary management of Societies of this

description, which is generally better left
to the members themselves. There are, how-
ever, many points in which the advice and direc-
tion of experienced Commissioners might be of
.immese advantage. As the rules of Friendly So-
cieties, if well formed, may be extremely advan-
tageous to the members, so, if ill drawn up, they
may lead to much disappointment and loss : and
with a view to protect the individuals from these
evils, the Legislature has given to the Justices in
Session a power of confirming or disallowing their
rules. Many Magistrates have taken most lauda-
ble pains to acquire the information necessary for
the effectual discharge of this duty ; but when
we come to consider the various contingencies
against which the Societies are meant to pro-
vide, and tile _nice and complicated calculations
applicable to some of their rules, we can easily
believe that gentlemen of extensive information
may not always feel themselves competent to the
decision of such questions. The Societies often
employ unskilful persons to draw up their rules,
and:the Magistrates in disallowing such rules,
have, doubtless, saved the members from much
inconvenience ; but where greater skill is exer-
ciSed, the errors, though less obvious, may in
the end prove equally fatal : and it is for the de-
tection of such errors, that a general Board might
probably be of considerable utility. We pre-
sume that such a Board would comprise indivi-
duals of scientific habits ; that its labours would
be directed to the establishment of sound
principles for the formation of new, or correc-
tion of existing institutions ; and it would ob-
viously be advantageous in introducing a uni-
formity of system throughout the country, with
such diversities only us might be required by
local circumstances. We know not whether
the petition presented last night was founded on
the views here stated, but we thick the subject
of sufficient importance to demand attention in
many of its aspects. Au Honourable Member,
we perceive, is about to bring in a Bill founded
upon the Report of last year; and we have no
doubt it will be found to embrace all the useful
suggestions contained in that document.

[MORNING POST.]
Our readers have already reaped the abundant
harvest of cheerfuluess and hope, which the
proud and triumphant statement of the Chancel-
Jur of the Exchequer spread before them. His
westerly and eloquent exposition of the financial,
resources of the country, present and prospec-
has dispelled the temporary gloom
which passing circvmstances had diffused,
and Which indefatigable faction had em.
played every malevolent artifice to thicken
into 'darkness. For every friend of his
country there is still left, after he shall have ar-
ranged and treasured up in the garner of ids
mind the rich harvest of triumph and of joy, no
inconsiderable, gleaning of satisfaction, in mark-
. 'lug the paltry pretences, the shallow subterfuges,
the feeble or demolished fastnesses, in which the
shruuk and discomfited champions of despon-
dency or discontent vainly seek a momentary re•
treat. To point out the lurking places of these
combatants thus unmercifully chased from the
field of their late exploits and their anticipated
glory,-, is. enough ; any vigorous effort to tear
down the frail and transparent harrier behind
which they strive to •hide their confusion, would
be as cruel es it is unnecessary. Firit, then, , the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has only stated the
falling off in tine Excise Duties for the first month of
this year, the deliciericy considering; the circum-
stances of the country being surprisingly small,
and has refrained from tiny Statement of the pro-
ceeds of the following month. The account of
this one month is, it seems, a fallacious and in-
sufgoieta basis on which to assume that the whole
deficiency of revenue in the current year will not
exceed 1,300,tX)0/, and moreover there are cer-
OM very wise people who think it will be nearer
three millions, In the dearth of arguments by
which to propagate doubt and dismay, who can
deny that this topic is judiciously selected ? It is
certainly the largest straw within reach of the
drowning faction ; but yet it will he found to be
really ho more than a straw. The Chancellor
spoke of. the deficiency of Excise Duties received
In the month of January, amountieg to little
more than 2,0001, as presenting in the circum.
• stances of tire country, a sort of fiscal
miracle. But was this the basis of his anticioa-
lion as to the general amount of revenue for
the whole year ? The cavil assumes that
It was, But the arithmetic of the cavillers has
failed them in this instance, or they would have
perceived that the defalcation of January in Ex-
cise revenue bears to the average monthly de.
(ideation of the whole year anticipated and al-
loWed• for by the Chancellor, the very insignifi-
cant proportion of about one to twenty. The
factilty of memory must also have deserted thorn
teem this occasion, or they could not have for-
gotten that the anticipetion was declared to be
founded upon a general view of all existing cis.-
that a claim to confidence was
cumstances, and
urged by the Chancellor, upon the very intelli•
gibje and satisfactory ,;round, that all his former
anticipations had been not only realized but

exceeded. But, then, the Funds, alas, have fal-
len one per cent, and this we are told amounts
to a proof that the statement of the Minister has
inspired no confidence in the country. We con-
fess we have hitherto been so ignorant as to sup-
pose that the relative proportions of supply and
demand possessed some influence in the market
for Government securities, as well as in every
other market. This error of ours is now to be
corrected, and we are to learn, for the first time,
that a reduction in the price of a particular de-
scription of securities, on the prospect of an in-
creased supply, is to be referred exclusively to
an abatement of confidence. We shall be taught,
no doubt, by the same enlightened instructors,
in the event of an unusually plentiful crop, and
consequent decline in the price of wheat this
summer, that the confidence of mankind in the
nutritious qualities of that article is sensibly im-
paired. We have selected these topics for ob-
servation, not because we deemed them worthy
in themselves even of this momentary notice, but
because they are the strongest rallying points to
which the faction, whose occupation it has been
to spread dismay throughout the country, has
betaken itself in its despair. If such be its
~strong holds, who does not feel that it would be
an ignoble warfare to pursue it into its still
weaker defences ?

[MORNING HERALD.]
It often happens that those who have been
contending warmly for victory in argument, find
at last that both themselves and their opponents
are, to a certain degree, right, and neither of
them wholly wrong. This, we think, is precisely the
Case with those who contend so positively on the
one hand that the increase of criminals in most of

the counties is mainly owing to the demoralizing
effects of the Game Laws, while, on the other,
the same effect is attributed to the low price of
agricultural wages, and the consequent distress
which it entails. Both these parties, we believe,are
right ; which is entitled to the palm of pre-eminence
in a rivalry so little creditable, we should be slow
to decide. But this we must say, that we know of
nothing which can reflect so little credit upon the
high, and, we hope, humane and amiable charac-
ter of English country gentlemen, as the appa-
rent apathy with which they can witness the ex•
istence of two such melancholy subjects of
oppression and injustice as those here alluded to

present. We know not which is most to be
reprobated, he who can see a paltry, selfish
amusement secured to him by antiquated laws,
which bring misery and ruin upon those who are
entitled to look to him for justice and protection,
or those who secure their own rents by lending
their authority, as Magistrates, to keep down
the price of labour and of parochial relief be-
low what will, in many cases, afford a bare
sustenance to those by the sweat of whose
brow their own revenues are maintained. To
see country gentlemen getting up in Parliament,
and arguing with cold indifference upon misery
of which they are themselves the cause, does, we
confess, convert the respect we wish to feel to-
wards them into a feeling which we are as loath
to characterize as to entertain. Of the demora-
lising effects of the Game Laws no reasonable man
can doubt. Besides these effects upon the lower
classes, there is not one among those who con-
tend from their continuance, who, if he con-
sults his own breast, does not know that he
is himself demoralized and degraded by them—
that the constant bickerings and ill-will they in-
volve him in are the source of unceasing vexation
to himself ; while, as a landlord, a neighbour,
and a friend, they lessen his worth and import-
ance every day of his life. The price of labour
may be a more difficult subject to deal with ;
but on this he will find, that if he had taken half
the pains to do justice to the labourer that l►e
has to please the farmer . and maintain his own
revenue•, he would► perhap., have attained both
objects, while he has sacrificed the one, and en-
damgered the other.

,
pacss.]
There seems to be a strong impression amongst
many experienced and influential men in the
City against the proposed plan for the funding
of Exchequer Bills ut this particular period ;
and although we •do not see what better course
the Finance Minister, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the country, could adopt, we will give
the reasons that were freely spoken of yesterday
in opposition to it. It was stated, that, as far as the
Exchequer Bills in the hands of the public are
concerned, to fund them is to take out of circula-
tion u quantity of commercial currency—paper,
Which, in many instances, performs the pur-
poses of money. As far as the Exchequer Bills
in the hands of the Bank are concerned,
to pay them off it will be necessary to withdraw
for a time from circulation money itself. The
opponents of this measure say it is not a fit time
to divert the capital and attention of monied
men from advances for commercial purposes, to
which their interest would otherwise lead them.
The Government should not go into the Market
to borrow, at the moment when the difficulty of
borrowing is already too much felt in the mer-
cantile world. 'Whenever operations of finance—
borrowing, and funding, and the like—are con-
ducted upon a large scale, the public, that is to
say, the gn at body of tax payers, represented by
the Exchequer, suffer. It is difficult to get toge-
Aer six millions for any stlch operation, and
in proportion to time difficulty must, of course,
be the premium or bonus to the contractors. The
way, too, in which money is got together
for a particular purpose by these persons
is by a forced sale of stock ; so that, in the
very operation of collecting the money, the Go.
vernment annuities (the very commodities which
the Government sell) fall in price. This oc.
curred on the very first notice of the intention of
funding. Hence the Government, which sells
the perpetual annuities or " stock," loses upon
the operation ; first by the low price to which
the efforts of the contractors to collect money
force that stock, and secondly, by the premium
which these contractors require for the command
of an unusually large sum of money.

11111.; TIMES.
The statemptiti mode by r. Wilmot Horton
tne emigrationo to Culiadnt
respecting are calcu-

lated to give birth to the most painful reflections.
Hitherto the strength of a country was believed
to consist in its population • and the opinion was
at once founded on reason;dear to philanthropy,
and sanctioued by religion : but now it is disco-
vered that we shall be the stronger for ba-
nishing a portion of our fellow-creatures, who
have as great a right to live on and from
their native laud, as the proudest. He that
treads its surface. The cost incurred in con-
veying Irishmen and their families to Canada
amounted to 224 a head ; and Mr. Maccul-
lock being consulted on the subject, gave it as
his opinion that 801. would be judiciously
laid out in conveying a man, his wife, and two
children to North America, on the horrible con-
dition " that measutes were taken to prevent the
44 gap they left from being filled up again."—
What wretch was he, and of what crimes con-
victed,—at Ephesus, we believe,—whose very
house was sentenced to be razed to the ground,
and an injunction issued that the spot should be
for ever uninhabited and unbuilt upon ? But if
Mr. Maccullock's notions be well founded re-
specting a redundant society—that is, a society
for which the benevolence of Providence would
find ample support, but which the iniquity of
1` human counsels condemns to penury,—why is
not infanticide sanctioned by law ? Why is
vaccination, by which the subjects of a country
are so evidently increased, introduced and en-
couraged ? Heaven protect us from such a politi•
cal economist as Mr.Maccullock, and from booby
statesmen who consult him ! 'With respect to our
connection with Canada, we believe the effects of
these emigrations will he most mischievous.—
The fidelity of that province rests chiefly on the
hatred of its inhabitants to the Americans, and the
diversity of language existing between the two
people: but these germs of division will be extin.
guished if we transport settlers who speak the same
language with the Americans, and feel themselves
to be equally injured by the mother country.