The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

From Mr. J. SMITH, Glasgow,

GENTLEMENs—I have been troubled for years with a dreadful
palpitation of the heart, accompanied with great nervousness and
debility, for which I have tried everything you could mention, all
to no purpose, till I heard of PAR R's wonderfnl LIFE PILLS,
and a friend of mine desired me t ) try them, which I did. I bought
them of Mr. Nelson, and I am happy to say that a box of them has
completely restored me.
"If this will do anything to help your efforts you can make
use of it. " I remain yours, respectfully,
" JAMES SMITH."
From Mr. HENRY B kRBER, Druggist, Knutsford.

" To Use Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.
" GENTLEMEN,—I forward you a oase below, which Mr. T. CASH
wishtes to have published; he speaks wonderfully of PARR'S
PILLS, and feels assured they have been the means of saving his
life. We have also additional tost.bponials Irma; respectable farmers
I. this neighbourhood.

" Mae Sia,—l have been for the lits—Awo years dreadfully
afflicted with a cough and pain in the chest, so that I could scarcely
eat the least portion of food without causing great pain In my
chest, and shortness of breath, with a violent cough, not being able
to lie down for nine months ; having had the advice of several
medical men, without deriving any benefit, I was advised by a
friend to try PARR'S PILLS, but having tried so many patent
medicines, I thought I might as well throw my money away. I
began to think nothing would cure me ; I was fast wasting away
with a violent pain in my head; at last my friend got me a box
from your shop, and advised me to try them, so I tried them, being
so strongly recommended, according to the direction, and before I
had taken one box, I found so much relief that I tried another,
and am now happy to say I am as well as ever I was in my life, and
shall always have a few doses by me, for they are wonderful.
(Signed) " TriomAs CASH.
Witness—John Thorpe."

" Mr. PARRY has been afflicted with sore eyes for twelve
years, and has tried everything he could hear of without the least
oenefit, but since taking two boxes of PARR'S PILLS, his eyes
. are quite well, and have been for some time.
" Mrs. SMITH has been troubled with a pain in her head for
natty years, has bad the most respectable medical advice, without
receiving any benefit ; is quite recovered since she has taken three
Boxes of PARR'S PILLS, which are worth a sovereign a box to
persons troubled with a sick headache; I shall always have a
supply by me.
" These cases I have selected from a number of others, and can
rely upon them as being correct. I shall feel great pleasure in
giving every information to any person who may favour me with
acall. " I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

" K►wtaford, June 30, 1842." " HENRY BARBER, Druggist."
From Mr. J. L. L. WOODWARD, Chemist, Bridgewater.

" GIENTLEmmt,—If the enclosed letter is of service, you are at
full lilberty to publish it, the man seems rather to wish for the
publics lion of his case.
" I am, Gentlemen, yours obediently,
"J. L. WOODWARD, Chemist,
ro the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.

" GE:wrtteann,—The benefit I have received by the use of OLD
PARR 'S PILLS, induces me, out of gratitude to the Proprietors,
and a wish to be of use to the whole world, to add another testi-
mou'Al to the numbers you have already received. For the last
two years I have been labouring under a complication of disorders
in my head and stomach. I think I may venture to say I have not
had an Inanss cessation of pain during the time. My sense of
smelling was entirely gone, and the most agreeable perfume or the
most intolerant stench were equally indifferent to me. I have had
the advice of several surgeons and medical men, both In this
town and others, but without the least benefit, and I
had dispaired of ever again regaining my health, in
'Tact my life was becoming burdensome to me, until
I fortunately heard of the many cures which your valuable Pills
:had effected. I purchased a box of Mr. Woodward, druggist, and
before I load taken the whole I was completely cured, and have
never experienced the slightest symptoms of its return. I have
recommended them, and shall do so, as I feel I cannot do sufficient
for the benefit I have received.—l am, Gentlemen, your obliged
And grateiul servant, " HENRY NASH.
" Bridgewater, June 13, 1642."
Front Mr. GEORGE WILLIAMS, Stourpert.

" To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.
" GIINTLZMEN,-When I was appointed your agent for the sale
Of PARR'S PILLS, I did not anticipate a large sale for them,
there being so many kinds of Pills already before the public; but
I am happy to inform you that I have sold nearly 1,000 boxes, and
require a fresh supply. Numerous are the cases of relief being
afforded in rheumatic, asthmatic, and liver complaints, sick head-
ache, coughs, colds, and diseases of the stomach and digestive
orgeals, by taking these pills. Medicine which produces so much
good to the human frame, and helps to prolong life, should be uni-
verse My recommended. Send me one gross by the earliest con-
veyailee.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

" GEORGE WILLIAMS.

"stOurport, March 5, 1842."
From Mr. 8. SMEDLEY, Bookseller, Sleaford.
" Sleaford, June Ist, 1842.

"T. Messrs. T. Roberts and Co.

"GSNILEMEN,—I beg to announce to you (and it is a duty I
Vise the public), that the demand for PARR'S LIFE PILLS con-
ilnites to increase daily, and why ? let the following case amongst
'many others testify :—JOHN GREEN of this place has for many
year's been afflicted with an asthma of the most painful kind, for
'which he has had the advice of as many medical men as there are
Toils in one of your boxes, but, after taking, at stated periods, only
',three boxes of PARR'S PILLS, he declared to me this morning,
fthat now he could sleep from nine o'clock at night till seven in the
lno:rning, although for the last two years he had never laid down in
Led, but was obliged to be prepped up with pillows to enable Jahn to
bre; sthe at all.—l am, Gentlemen, your's respectfully,

" S. SMEDLEY, Bookseller,&c."
From Mr. THOMAS GOODE, Congleton.
" Congleton, July Vali, 1842.

"`GENTLEMEN,—At the request of Mrs. Ellen Frost, of this
pl Iwce,l beg to hand you the accompanying testimonial for publication
" I believe she has received infinite benefit from taking PARR'S
L [FE PILLS, and is anxious that others suffering from similar
di pease should be induced to avail themselves of the same means of
re• eovery."—l am, your most obedient servant,

"THOMAS GOODE.

'To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.

OENTLEMTEN-1 beg to tender my warmest thanks for the great
be artfit I have derived from your invaluable medicine. I had
fo C mearly two years been in a state of consumption, and was under
a it' care of several eminent medical men, but could obtain no re-
li After taking three small boxes of your celebrated pills, I am
14appy to say I am completely restored to health, and am now fol-
lowing my usual employment. I beg you will make this acknow.
ledguies it public for the benefit of others similarly afflicted. I shal
be ham y to answer inquiries, either made personally or by letter
(p 0,4 pai d).—l am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully,

" ELLEN FROST.

"Wituess—JAMES FROST.
...tub, 11th, 1842."
CAUTION—BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

In ~ordertc protect the public from imitations, the Hon. Corn-
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Pll, LS" to be engraved on the Govertnuent Stamp, which is
paste d round the sides of each box, in white letters on a red
grout id. Without this mark of authenticity, they are spurious.
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and by me tot of the respectable dealers in medicine. Price Is. 11d.,
9s. 9d., aad family boxes 11s. each. Full directions are given
with each :box.

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FROM TIIE .DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Spectator ventures a kind of semi-
apology for Major Wilde, to whose extraordinary
maladministration of the revenue-laws in the Carl-
isle coachman's case, we recently drew attention.
Our generally shrewd Contemporary, after giving a
summary of the facts, observes—
" Bad as th!s case is, it seems to be one of pure
bungling ; for there is no trace of malice or wilful op •
pression on the part of the Major—who may yet, per-
haps, suffer for his jocund rough-and-ready style of
administering law. It we say, very easy to ridicule
and condemn these blunders ; but magistrates are
not lawyers, and to err is not only human but especially
natural in their case ; and prevention would be better
than ridicule. It may be asked, why not abolish the
unpaid magistracy ? It would be difficult, however, to
find in any other class so available a staff of local jus-
tices—a set of men who are upon the whole intelligent,
sensible, independent, humanely disposed because in easy
circumstances, not needing pay, and combining in a porta-
ble shape a kind of judge and jury for preliminary, sum-
mary, and trifling proceedings. Much may be said
against such a magistracy, but much more also for it than
people always choose to remember. Moreover, it exists,
and is likely to exist."
Small comfort this to the sufferers from the "pure
bungling" of.those Magistrates who "are not lawyers."
To the.poor man who is subjected to ignominy, and
the numerous personal and relative injuries involved
in an illegal and unjust commitment to a felon's gaol,
it is of little moment that the Magistrate, by whose
warrant he is sent thither, had the best possible
intentions ; " no trace of malice or wilful oppression"
being manifest in his acts. The laws them-
selves lose that respect and veneration which
constitutes their best security for being obeyed.
When it is seen that, instead of being the pro-
tector of the subject, they are rendered the in:
struments of wrong-doing by the ignorance, if not by
the direct intention, of the Magistrate to whom the
Government entrusts their administration, the majesty
of justice is degraded in her own Courts. The
people, divested of confidence in the law, feel that its
restraints upon their conduct are loosened, and its
requirements are deprived of their sanctions.
" Judges and Home Secretaries" do unfortunately
" treat the errors of the Great Unpaid with a leniency
that probably tends to remove some degree of check
upon error. Instead of looking at the act—(and as
the law does in most cases of personal injury) holding
that ignorance of what a Magistrate is bound to know
is no valid defence, much less a justification—the
Judges surround the Magistrate with protection so
ample and complete, that redress for injuries
committed by a justice of the peace in the -
performance of his office, except direct malice
and wilful oppression can be proved, is of all
things the most difficult to obtain by application
to the Courts. As to a Home Secretary or Lord
Chancellor troubling himself with the doings of a
justice of the peace, in any matter in which a private
person complains of injury from his negligence or ig-
norance, the idea is too ridiculous to be mentioned or
heard with gravity. The notorious Alexander
O'Driscoll, Esq., of the Macroom Bench—whose
freaks have caused his name to be familiar with the
people of both England and Ireland, and whose re-
moval from the Bench he has disgraced was regarded
as an act which the Government no less owed to them-
selves than to the country—this gentleman finds a
protector in the Lord Chancellor of Ireland ! After
all his violations of decorum, his outrages of the laws,
his manifest partiality, and other proos of his unfit-
ness for the functions of a Magistrate, Sir Edward
Sugden—when memorialised by one of the many
sufferers from Mr. O'Driscoll's conduct on the bench
—sees nothing to call for his special interference;
and directs his secretary to transmit the following
answer to the memorial :
" Sir—l am directed to inform you that the Lord
Chancellor has made an inquiry, and has had transmitted
to him copies of the information before Messrs. Fleming
and Somerville, and their warrant of committal. He
does not think that Mr. O'Driscoll should have acted as a
magistrate al
he
eatil in
thinks it
wit oisinwtcaascea;sebu under
int
whicitsh cir-
cumstances,
e called
upon to act. Mr. O'Driscoll is, of course, liable to an
'action, if he acted illegally towards you.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" HENRY SUGDEN, Secretary.

" Mr. Daniel Dinien."
An action ! " Mr. O'Driscoll is liable to an action,
if he has acted illegally" in the case alluded to !
What cruel mockery is this ! A poor peasant, who
can scarcely obtain sufficient potatoes for daily food ;
an English labourer, whose utmost earnings are,
perhaps, not above a shilling a-day ; a mechanic
or operative, who finds it difficult to obtain em-
ployment, and When in work finds the day's wages
barely enough for the day's necessities—for a
Lord Chancellor or a Home Secretary to inform
such a man that he may bring an action at law
against a magistrate, a country squire of ample
estate, who has perverted the laws to his injury, is a
heartless mockery of his complaint, and does but add
insult to injury. Well might the poor memorialist of
the Irish Lord Chancellor against the wrong-doing of
Mr. Alexander O'Driscoll say, in reply to the infor-
mation given him by the Chancellor's Secretary—
"lt is of little or no advantage to me to be told by
your Lordship that if Mr. O'Driscoll has acted illegally
towards me 1 can obtain redress by an action at law.
The redress to be obtained by such expensive means is
beyond my reach, or the reach of any poor man like
me."
" Rearess by an action at law" is a luxury in which
the poor mart must not indulge. The Courts of Jus-
tice are, it is true, open to all ; but, as Home Tooke
remarked, on hearing the aphorism, " So is the Lon-
don Tavern !" The Courts of Justice are open ;
but woe to the wretch who enters, unless with a
well-lined. purse ! We have no desire to see the
unpaid mttgistracy abolished; but we do desire to
see the a ministration of the laws, by their instru-
mentality., preserved from the egregious blunders and
consequernt wrongs which they often perpetrate.
Either let the Legislature empower the Government
to provid e a competent clerk to every Bench, whose
legal edit cation and experience shall be as such as to
ensure a _practical knowledge of the law, and without
whose pmsence no petty sessions shall be held, or any
1 final cottv;sltion or commitment be pronounced ; or
let one ar more stipendiary magistrates be appointed
by the C rown to every county, whose duty it shall
be to pre side at the petty and quarter sessions held
within tI to district to which he was appointed. If the
Legislate ire would seriously apply itself to an investi-
gation: off the evils involved in the existing system,
there we uld be no difficulty in devising, if not an ab-
solute ae.Lre, at least an extensive amelioration and im-
provente rrt.
STAI iDARD.—A case has lately occurred in Ire-
land, an' 3 has been allowed to make some.noise in this
country„ which illustrates in a remarkable manner
the dun, ger of judging upon imperfect information.
Two persons were prosecuted at a county sessions
for the, i violent rescue of some property distrained for
rent —4 ae defence set up was, that they had paid
the re et by bills or promissory-notes still outstand-
ing, a ,m I that having so paid, they considered that
they I tatl satisfied the landlord's claim. This was a
plausible. enough defence, and the changes were very
libere Ay rungiupon the rapacity and cruelty of a land-
lord who could thus insist upon being twice paid for
his 1. Ind. An explanation has, however, appeared,
whit' 4 sets the affair in rather a different light. It now
turns 1 out that the tenants, poor innocents, had indeed
given 1 their bills or notes for the rent, but that they were,
as th( t day of payment approached, furtively removing
all th sir property from the farms they occupied —in
short, , preparing to run away, and, of course, to leave
the Ir, osalord to take up the bills at his convenience,
and lc o. k for his rent where it might please him. The
bills N vi qe, in fact, demanded because the tenants
were 1 'rout the first doubtful subjects, and
because a recovery upon a bill is more easily had
than b T an ejectment process, while generally it
spares i the landlord the necessity of watching the
crops, though in the case of these sharp fellows
it dici not. The system may seem strange in
Eng;lo .d, but we are informed that it is common in
Irel tali I, and that the tenantry generally like it, as
giv' mg ; them a little more time and more freedom in
the disposal of their produce, when the tenant's
pm wata 1 seourity is worth anything. We advert to
the subject, not only as a warning against drawing
has ty eunclusions upon Irish affairs, but also in jus-
tice to . the accused landlord, to whom we do not find
that a ny atonement has been made by the London
1
jour 2a Is that have treated him so roughly.
PO ;T.—ln another column will be found an able
letter by Mr. Muntz on the subject of the Corn and
Currency Laws. Mr. Muntz avows himself the advocate
If a 1 system of " general protection for agriculture and
corco nerce." This system of general protection is, he
cone .ends, to be attained only by means of sound money
/ lav .s. The corn-laws he condemns, as yielding only
partial and uncertain protection." We concede to Mr.
I,luntz that our protective system ought to be universal.
We concede, moreover, that the most stringent corn-law
does not, in itself, constitute a protective system. In
opposition, however, to Mr. Muntz, we maintain that of
every thoroughly-protective system a stringent corn-law
must, in the case of a country so artificial in all its social
relations as England is, form a part. The most whole-
. tonne money laws would not render a corn-law unneces-

sary. This is the point of difference between Mr. Muntz
and ourselves. We shall presently return to its consi-
deration. Let us, in the first place, however, glance at
seine other of the positions laid down by the Member
for Birmingham. The corn-law of 1815 was, according
to Mr. Muntz, " right in intention but the working
of it was bad and unjust, because it only partially pro-
tected the wages of labour." " had the framen,," con-
tinues the Honourable -Gentleman, "of the corn-14w
of 1815 understood what th©y were doing, they
would have obtained their protection by coining the
precious metals of that nominal value which accorded
with the nominal value which their corn had obtained
during the war by the depreciation in the value of the
unredeemable paper-money. By that plan, they would
not only have perfectly protected themselves----but would also
have protected all the other interests." We admit, once
more, that the corn-law of 1815 was imperfect; and
that, in order to render complete their policy of protec-
tion, the legislators of 1815 ought to have coined the
precious metals at rates according with the value of the
paper-money which circulated in England during the
war. We will add that, even after such an arrange-
ment, our protective policy would have lacked its surest
bass—laws directly protective of the manual labour of
the empire. The prosperity of the labourer—that is
the only sound foundation of protective laws—and
that foundation haS been either deliberately, weakened
by the action of our modern laas—or been only in-
directly strengthened, as in the case of the corn-law
of 1815. Mr. Muntz having laid down the proposition
that if the currency law of 1819 were repealed, the
corn-laws, too, might be repealed without injury to
English agriculturists—and Mr. Muntz having, more-.
over, shown that the tendency of the Corn-laws has been
'to raise wheat to los. a bushel, while the tendency of the
currency law of 1819 has been to lower wheat to 5s.—
we argued, as our readers may remember, that this pro-
cess of double repeal would leave matters pretty much as
they are at present. Mr. Muntz, however, regards our
view of his positions as a misapprehension of their true
nature and tendency. "I do not alone propose," he ob-
serves, " the abolition of the two laws. I also propose
to alter the nominal price of silver from ss. 2d. to is. 6d.
per ounce, in which the Bank would pay its notes ;—and
in this alteration lies all my contemplated protection and
improvement. It would protect produce and labour in
England 50 per cent. against foreign produce and labour."
Here, as it seems to us, Mr. Muntz falls into error.
We regard as perfectly sound his proposition to coin
the ounce of silver into 7s. Gd. ; but such a. change

wise and necessary as it is would, as-
suredly, not protect " English produce and la-
bour to the extent of 50 per cent." against the produce
and labour of foreign countries. The producers of Eng-
land need a double protection, and that double protection
it is the highest duty of every Government to afford.
Producers need to be protected, in the first place, against

the influence of usurers and idle consumers: Producers
in this country need, moreover, to be protected against
the competition of foreign producers. Foreign producers
are apt and powerful instruments in the hands of idle
consumers and of usurers amongst ourselves. By means
of free trade, our usurers and idle consumers would
mould foreign producers to their purposes. By means
of money laws, like the money law of 1819, usurers
and idle consumers have already abased, to a scarcely
calculable extent, the condition of all English producer'.
The process of coining the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d.
would, immediately, subvert that empire which our
usurers and idle consumers have founded on the currency
law of 1819. Such a process would invert—wisely and
beneficially—the relations which now connect producers
with idle consumers. Producers would become strong
—idle consumers would become weak. The change
would, almost immediately, double the strength of the
British empire. The change in question would not,
however, we repeat, protect English productive industry
against the productive industry of foreign countries.
Let the ounce of silver be coined in this country into
7s. 6d. per oz.—and let free trade be established, at
the same time ; foreign producers would, forthwith, to a
fearful extent, supersede the native industry of England.
Now—the ounce of silver being coined into ss. 2d.— fo-
reign corn growers could, if a free trade in corn were es-
tablished, pour into our markets a quantity of grain suf-
ficient to paralyse our agricultural industry. The coin-
age of the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d. would not affect
the poser of foreign corn growers to produce such a
disastrous result. After the suggested change in our
money laws, foreign corn and English corn would rise
in precisely the same proportions of nominal price. If
English wheat be now worth, on the average, 50s. a
quarter, foreign wheat may be grown and imported to
any extent for 40s. English wheat would obviously,
after the coinage of the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d., rise
to 755., while foreign wheat would rise to 60s. ; sixty
shillings of our money would, in short, after such a
change in our currency laws, possess the same value as
40s. possess now ; and since, under a free trade
system, foreign wheat to any extent might now be
procured for 405., so might it be procured to
any extent for 60s. ; if the change in our monetary
laws, proposed by Mr. Muntz, were adopted by our Le-
gislature. No reform, in short, of our unsound money
laws would render unnecessary comprehensive and strin-
gent laws for the protection of British industry from the
effects of foreign competition.
ADVERTISER.—And so the " Oastler Liberation
Fund" is to be the Starvealls' instrument of mystifica-
tion and abuse, for damaging the characters of the manu-
facturing capitalists, in the hope of marring their efforts
for emancipating industry from its fetters; and William
Busfield Ferrand, M.P. for Knaresborough, is to be the
Coryphmus of the party, in whose behoof it is to be em-
ployed. The work in which the Hon. Gentleman is en-
gaged is most congenial to his feelings, and if he succeed
as well in this mission as he has in former missions,
having the like objects in view, the Starving interests
will owe him not a few obligations. Su long as Mr.
Ferrand was satisfied with throwing the filth of his abuse
at random, recklessly assailing every manufacturing
capitalist who ventured to think that the working classes
can have no interest in the maintenante of laws which
limit the quantity of food to be distributed amongst
them, while they form foreigners to become our rivals in
the production of those articles which formerly furnished
employment for the masses of our population, and
wealth for the country ; so long as the Hon. Gentleman
was satisfied with such a mode of warfare against the
objects of his malignity—imputing to them hypocrisy,
fraud, oppression, and treason, in the wholesale, without
descending to particulars, or specifying the precise
nature or extent of their delinquencies, he could
scarcely fail, in some degree, to damage the character
of those he thus foully assailed, and to afford satisfac-
tion to those who found him the fitting tool for pro-
moting their selfish and sordid objects. To venture
beyond, this was a hazardous undertaking for such a
genius as the Member for :Knaresborough, and it sur-
prised us not a little to see that he was permitted to
enter upon it. Dunderheaded as the " country gentle-
men" are, they are seldom found lacking that sort of
cunning that avoids unnecessary danger or exposure.
Mr. Ferrand, however, was permitted to essay his
powers against the manufacturers in a more specific
manner; and, as might have been foreseen, a more signal
failure was never before witnessed. His " devil's dust"
affair ended, appropriately enough, in smoke; his dis-
coveries in the practice of " trucking" proved to be " a
mare's nest ;" -and his equally confident averments
connecting the master-manufacturers with the turn-outs
and riots in the manufacturing districts, were proved,
after a series of gravely-conducted judicial investiga-
tions, to have been unfounded and malignant slanders.
It might have been imagined that after all this the
Member for Knaresborough, if so lost to all sense of
decency himself as to still present himself to the public
gaze, would have been thrown overboard and abandoned
by the party in whose behalf he stood forward. But,
no ; such is their utterly forlorn case, that oven Mr.
Ferrand, " with all his blushing honours thick upon
him," is not too contemptible a thing to Le put forward
as their champion and—Jack Pudding. Mr. Ferrand is
making a tour of the country, avowedly to aid the fund
fur the liberation of Mr. Oastler ; but not less avowedly
to assail and abuse the master manufacturers generally.
and the members of the Anti-Corn-law League in par-
ticular. A tolerable specimen of his mode of proceed
ing was furnished at Liverpool, last week, at a meeting
called in behalf of the Oastler fund :—" I am here," said
this discreet and truth-loving gentleman—" I am here
to bring forth evidence against a party, and you
have driven me to it. Those parties first en-
tered into their conspiracy at Manchester. They
sent for O'Connell—and for the employment of
O'Connell, let the factory children tell the price—
the bargain was made for the destruction of the Pro-
testant religion ; and, in return, O'Connell was to
be assisted in his efforts to obtain a repeal of the
Union." Look at that, all ye quiet, peace-loving, church-
going old ladies in the kingdom ! It is none other than
William Busfeild Ferrand that speaks, and his word is
the word of—a Member of Parliament ! A conspiracy
was concocted at Manchester—O'Connell was sent fur
(the purpose does not clearly appear, but that there was
one none can doubt, for) his employment was proved by
his refusing to aid the Starvealls in adding to the wages
and comforts of the poor factory people, by limiting
their hours of work, enhancing the price of the articles
they produce, and thus narrowing the markets for their
sale ! One thing is clear, however, that the great oh-
ject of du, couspir.ey oaf, **s list action of the Pro-
testant religion; the corollary was to be, the repeal of
the Union; and for these two great purposes the Anti-
Corn-law League is prosecuting its gigantic labours !
Such is the staple of Mr. Ferrand's present philippics
against the manufacturers and the League; and the
Times, and the rest of the Tory press, are not ashamed
to occupy their columns day after day in retailing their
trash. -Verily, the Starveocracy is in a desperate plight
to be reduced to such champions.

INTERESTING TO MARINERS.—Through the inter-
cession of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., with the
Trinity Board, the dangerous reef of rocks in Christ-
church Bay, on the Hampshire coast, has just been
properly buoyed. The rocks are known as the Christ.
church Ledge, and have long been dreaded as very
perilous to navigation.

In no del artmeat o the public revenue have so many
improvements been made of late years as in that of the
General P 4 st-office, in "-consequence of the facilities
afforded by the rapid progress of steam navigation
railways. To the commerce of this great mercantile
country the iraroduction 'of locomotive power since 1820
has probed of the greatest'importance. Our well-built
steamers now cross the wide .Atlantic to America and
the West Indies, Portua;al, Spain, down the Medi-
teranean to Egypt, and the Indian seas ; up the Baltic
to St. PetersLurgla to Hamburgh, Rotterdam, Antwerp,
Ostend, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, and Havre de Grace,
and run daily like a trip to Gravesend ; whilst by the
means of railways we are conveyed in a few hours to in-
land towns of England and Scotland, which formerly oc-
cupied days and nights of dreary travelling. The, fol-
lowing is the official list of Post-office arrangements for
the present year, which came into operation on the Ist
of January, and the postage on foreign letters, which no
doubt will be interesting to the public, viz.—Calais daily
(Sunday excepted), due in London daily ; Ostend,
Monday, Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday, due Sun-
day, Monday, Thursday, and Friday, by steam-
packets via Dover ; Holland, Tuesday and Friday,
due Monday and Thursday ; Harnburgh, Tuesday and
Friday, due Tuesday- and Saturday, by steam-packets
from London ; Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, every Tuesday morning ; Malta, Greece,
and the lonian Islands on the morning of the Ist and
15th of the mouth ; Egypt and India on the morning of
the Ist of tire month, by steam-packets via Southamp-
ton, to Malta, Egypt, India, and. Hong-Kong, by the
overland closed mail via Marseilles, on the 4th of the
month. British and foreign colonies in the West Indies:
--Madeira, Mexico, Honduras, Havannah, Bahamas,
Chagres, and New Granada, on the morning of the 2d
and 17th of the month ; Bermuda and St. Jago de
Cuba, on tke 17th only, by the morning mails ma South-
ampton. British North America, Bermuda, and the
United States in the evening of the 3d and 18th of the
month, except in December, January, February, and
March, and then only on the 3d by steam-packets via.
Liverpool. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres on the
first Tuesday of the month by sailing packets from Fal-
mouth. Postage on letters by steam-packets from London:
—Holland, Is.; Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia,
Is. Bd.; Heligoland, is.;. Ilamburgh,, Cuxhaven, Lubeck,
Bremen, and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburgh, 6d. By
stead-packets from Dover :—France and Algeria (under
quarter of an ounce), 10d. ; Belgium, ls. 6d. ; Spain,
Portugal, Sardinia, and Southern Italy, via France, 10d.;
Switzerland, Turkey, the Levant, the Archipelago,
Greece, the lonian Islands, Austria, Venetian Lom-
bardy, Germany, Belgium, and Holland, via France, per
half ounce, 5d.; Baden, Bavaria, certain northern States
of Europe, forwarded through the post-office of the
Duke of Tour and Taxis, via France, sd. ; Alexandria,
Smyrna, the Dardanah s, and Constantinople, by French
packets, via Marseilles, on the Ist, 11th, and 21st of the
month, a uniform 131itish and foreign rate of ls. 3d.
(under a quarter V an ounce) ; Tuscany and the Two
Sicilies, is. 9d. ; Human States and Greece, Is. ?el. ;
Malta, by the monthly closed mail, via Marseilles,
Is. 3d. ; Alexandria, Is. Bd. ; India, Is. 10d. ; Hong-
Kong, is. lod. ; and the lonian Islands, Is. Bd.
By the steam-packets from Southampton :—Lisbon,
Is. 9d. ; Spain, 2s. 2d. ; Greece and Egypt, Is. 6d. ;
Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands; India, and Hong-
Kong, Is. ; the British West India Islands, Honduras,
Panama, Chili, and Peru, is. ; Hayti and the foreign
West India Islands, ls. sd. ; Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba,
and New Granada, 2s. 3d. ; Madeira, Is. 9d. By steam-
packets from Liverpool the United States, Bermuda,
Halifax (Nova Se. tia), Newfoundland, and British North
America, via Boston, b. ; Upper and Lower Canada,
Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia, Is. 2d. By sailing packets from Falmouth :
Madeira, is. lout. ; ; Buenos Ayres, 23.7 d.
N.B. All foreign letters must be prepaid, except to
France. Holland, Batavia, Baden, Bavaria, certain
northern States of Europe, forwarded through the office
of Tour and Taxis ; Alexandria, Smyrna, the Darda-
nelles, Constalatinople, Tuscany. and the Two Sicilies,
Roman States,. Greece and MUNI, via France ; Gibral-
tar, Malta, the British West India Islands and Canada,
by their packets. Ncr, simpers can be sent free of post-
age to all the British ta'asessions in the West Indies and
North America, Brazils and South America, France;
Spain, and I'ortugui, and India, via Southampton ;
Hamburgh, Sweden and Norway ; to Holland and coun-
tries through Holland, 111. ; the United States, 2d. ; the
Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, South Australia, New
South Wales, Van Dionen's Land, and New Zealand,
Id. ; India, via France, 2,1. ; closed mail, 3d. The next
mails for Malta, Egypt, India, and Hong-Kong, by the
closed overland mail via Marseilles, in time on Thurs-
day, the 4th instant. The West Indies, yesterday,
the 2d instant, by the Teviot steamer, via Southampton.
United States of America, Canada, &c., via Boston, to-
day, the 3d instant, by the Britannia steamer, from
Liverpool. Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres,
ditto, by her Majesty's brig Penguin, via Falmouth.
Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, tomorrow
morning, the 4th instant, via Southampton.

DEATH FROM ILL-TREATMENT.
SUDBUllr.—This town and neighbourhood have, dur-
ing the past week, been in the greatest state of excite-
ment, in consequence of a rumour that a boy, 13 years of
age, named Joseph Cl.Jk, late in the employ of Mr.
Simon Viall, of Middleton Hall, a short distance from
the town, had come to his death in consequence of blows
and kicks inflicted by his master. Mr. Viall is a re-
spectable farmer, occupying, it is said, 700 acres of land.
The poor boy expired at his father's house, in Cross-
street, All Saints, Sudbury, on Sunday, the 24th ult.
His father is an agricultural labourer, in the employ of
.Mr.Viall. The investigation was carried on for four days,
and at the conclusion on Friday the jury retired at a quar-
ter-past five, and after Consulting an hour and a half, re-
turned the following verdict The jury, after four
days' careful investigation, are unanimously. of opinion
that Joseph Clark, deceased, on whom this inquest has
been held, came by his death from a kick or blow given
him by Simon Viall, of Middleton-hall, in the county of
Essex ; and that the jury return a verdict of Manslaughter
against the aforesaid Simon Viall." A rumour has just
reached us, that Mr. Viall has absconded.—lpswich
Express.

IIoYAL ExttiANGE.—lt is the intention of the
Gresham Committee at once to take into consideration
he possibility of giving the public a direct thoroughfare
through the new area of the Royal Exchange, but as
this cannot be done without materially interfering. with
the operations of isle. Jackson, the contractor, and his
workmen, who have engaged to finish the building in a
specified time under a large penalty, a covered passage
is the only one that can in any shape be acceded to, and
even in this case, it would cut off a direct intercourse
with the western and eastern portions of the buildings,
and prove very inimical to that rapid execution already
exhibited. With an open thoroughfare the attention of
the workmen .would naturally be called from their duties,
and that system of surveillance, so necessary under such
circumstances, would he rendered one of increased diffi-
culty, if nut altogether impossible. At present the
space afforded to the workmen is unprecedentedly small
--..aitadeed, it is calculated that the loss accruing for the
wadi of more has been at least 4,0001. Upon the east
side-there are about eight feet between the hoarding and
the Building, and upon the three other sides there are
scarcely ten. There is a fact which has not been com-
nieated on during the progress of the works, which, by
reason of its absence at ether public buildings, demands
a passing notice. It is the great unanimity which has
throughout existed between the contractor and the work-
men. This comfortable feeling. is, it would now appear,
directly owing to a vvie forethought in founding a fund
for the relief of all employed upon the edifice. The
principal source of such fund arose from the permission
of the Committee to exhibit far three days the marquee
under whk.ii his Jh Flightless Prince Albert, and
other disth4uished persons, met to lay the first stone.
From thia means alum: an exchequer has been furnished,
out of which, sst;i some trilling additions, no less a sum
than 500/. has taa n disp•nsed to the families of the sick
and maimed. The number of casualties during the
erection has been very small.
DEATH BY Flne.—On Saturday, a young man,
named James Purraws. aged twenty-one years, expired
in St. George's under the following circum-
stances : —lt appears that Burrows, who was a labouring
man, and resided at Na. 15, White's wharf, North-road,
Paddington, arrived home at an early hour on the morn-
haying proceeded to his room, lit. the candle_
tlhaeal
thehis r head, and
tact: do
fsotohne
morn-
ing of the 19th instant, in a state ofinebartnedtyp,laireda
'gfit7
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it on the table, upon which he
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he was discovered
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a strong smell ie).Bwu
Burrows,
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speedily
lying undur the table in a dreadful state of agony, from
as possible
where he died. The
removed to St. George's Hospital,
body awaits a Coroner's inquest.