The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1845.

It is a great relief, amidst the noise and bluster, the
insolent pretensions, and the vain threats of a certain
portion of the American people, to turn to such a speech
as that made by that able statesman and upright citizen,
DANIEL WEBSTER, at a great meeting held in Fanueil
Hall, in the city of Boston. It will be remembered that,
in the same hall, Lord ASHBURTON, after concluding
the Boundary treaty with Mr. WEBSTER, was welcomed
with the most friendly and enthusiastic reception, and
returned the compliment by an able and conciliatory
speech, doing full justice to the old friends of American
liberty, praising, at the same time, the patriotic and
honourable conduct displayed by his opponent throughout
the. whole of thedifficult negotiations, and inculcating, as
a:Minister of peace, friendship, and good-will between
the two most commercial States in the world. Mr. Wri3-
STLR has imitated the good example, and in a speech
of great length, though neither tedious nor one word
too long, has taken a general view of the Oregon affair
and the paramount importance of settling that question
amicably and honourably for both nations. Like a man
of a clear head, of true patriotic feelings, and of that
skill and tact n hich experience in settling difficult points
bad 'enabled him to acquire, he sees no serious obstacles
to the attainment of the objects which the honourable
and good mew of both countries have in view,
if *e ekpept, perhaps, the wild passions excited by the
outrageous pretensions of TYLER and POLK, and the
mad bravadoes of the men in the Western States, who
shOtit " wtirand annexation" with ceaseless fury, because
they are secure in their recesses from foreign attacks.
" There are man," said he, " who think that they can
tan( of a Ivar with England or any other nation, and
get credit for their patriotism and lofty love of country,
but, keep the game in their own hands. That may not
happen." This allusion to the dangerous effect of the
policy pursued by the last and the present President,
though he does not mention their names, is marked by
a strong sense of the awful calamities which such reek-
less tribunes of the people may entail upon the United
States anti the whole civilised world. On that point he
riseato a strain of eloquence which proves the sincerity
of his feeling, and which completely carried with him
the 'sympathies of the assembled multitude. " The
man *ho shall incautiously," exclaimed the orator, " or,
. led en by false ambition, or party pride, kindle those fires
of war over the globe on this question must look out for
it—most expect to be himself consumed in a burning
conflagration of general reproach. There will be a pub-
lic indignation before which no popularity, public or
private, can stand—it will melt down every monument
of the dead, it till destroy all respect for the living, it
will • burn up every vestige of respect for individual
worth, if unnecessarily, if recklessly, if ambitiously
it has plunged the subjects and citizens of two civilised
Christian states of the world into war—a war which
shall cause the loss of millions of wealth—shall turn ci-
ties Co smoke—shall cost thousands and hundreds of
thousands of lives ; and those smoking cities, and that
destruction of property, and that sacrifice of life, shall be
found over the whole globe, in every latitude and longi-
tude, surrounding the ball on which we live." In adverting
to the well-known remarks made by Sir ROBERT PEEL
in the House of Commons, announcing his determina-
tion to maintain, at all hazards, the rights of England,
he displayed the most friendly disposition and the
strictest impartiality. The words of the English Mi-
nister that offended the pride of Mr. POLK so grievously
are praised by this clear-sighted statesman, and re-
garded only as those which it became the representative
of a great nation to utter. These remarks, as well as
the conclusion to which he comes, we have great plea-
sure in quoting :
" I read, with interest of course, the discussion upon this
subject in the House of Commons three months ago, result-
ing in an expression of opinion from the British Premier,
which received the sanction of that House ; and I am willing
'to avail .myself of the language of that Minister upon this
-sleet, and apply it to one side of the question, as he did
to his. I have nothing to complain of as to the temper of
-that language. lam free to say that it was a temper be-
coming a large-minded, liberal, and just statesman. But
what the British Minister said in the House of Commons—
in its sum and substance—was, that England had rights in
regard to this question that must,
be, and would be, respected.
I adopt the same language on our side,
and say that we
have rights that ought to be, and must be, andwill 'be al )
spected. Now, Ido not propose to express to
youan opinion-
upon this subject. I have no bettere opinion than any one of
you as to the manner in which thist adjustment ought. to be
made, but I have full confidence, utmost confidence, that
it can be made; that it can Les
measures in a manner perfectpl wise. and moderate
perfectly consistent with the honour
and with all the rights of all
We may venture to affirm that the sentiments ex-
pressed in the last paragraph will be re-echoed by every
good citizen in both countries; and that in a very brief
s
period the extravagant pretensions of the re .
YLERS and
the YOLKS, and the men of the " far west," will be esti-
mated according to their real value. We need not refer
further to the speech on these topics. We have given
enough to show the spirit of justice and peace which
pervades it, and which we are confident will entitle it
to general attention. We must, however, give one ex-
tract more, because it relates to a subject of the highest
interest to the people of this country—the state of
slavery in the United States. Deeply does Mr. WEBSTER
deplore, the annexation of Texas, and, with an ardour
which does him the highest honour, upbraids the Friends
of Pennsylvania for their mischievous apathy on that
deplorable event. His words produced the desired
effect, for the people of Boston seemed heartily ashamed
, of.raelktf,V444-
.. " Bed ,yeleh:.. 'll
_, auzl e means of preventing_ the annexatit n
,C; 4 1ex.P.,..,:f •,P.,,kriew your own power. By joining those,.
asAuiuyii.'..t-iiqur or as you profess to be, to prevent it,
-fi.:(
ir-:7:904.2t1 could Pir"' elktrbix , : ', ' If ?;,ionu
them,
not join. Item, it would
and it did take place.
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"'t it,.77-77, ;1.1. p., ~,, - have deep feeling-tr.
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very deep feeling; and I think it must stand on the pages of
history as the recorded judgment ofmankind that those among
us who asserted themselves to be in a peculiar and marked
degree friends to universal liberty, have by their own delibe-
rate act fastened the chains of slavery on a great portion of the
black race over a vast extent of this continent. It is to me
the most mournful and most awful reflection. I know that
thousands of gentlemen who took such a course say that
they meant well. They meant well. I am not to scrutinise
their motives ; they must answer for those elsewhere ; but I
beseech them now not to fall into another such mistake. It
is thought (it is an idea I do not say how well founded), that
there may be yet a hope for resistance to the consummation
of the annexation of Texas. I can only say, for one, that if it
should fall to my lot to have a vote on such a question, and
I vote for the admission into this Union of any State with
a constitution which prohibits even the Legislature from'ever
setting the bondsman free, I shall never show my head again,
depend upon it, in Fanueil Hall."

Mr. ACLAIVD, one of the Members for West Somerset-
shire, so cruelly g:bbeted the other day, has gone to a
Meeting of his constituents in another part of the county,
to show cause why he should not have been " blown
up." " The blowing up," said the Hon. Member,
" which he had received elsewhere had induced him to
come there to see if his friends in this part had changed
their opinions of him." Mr. ACLAND appeals not from
Paul drunk to Paul sober, but from Paul sober to Paul
drunk. The Yeovil and Wincanton Society judged him
dispassionately in his absence and condemned him. Mr.
ACLAND appeals to Duncter, flattered and intoxicated
with his condescending presence, to reverse the judg-
ment. Mr. ACIAND, at Dunster, makes some re•
markable and valuable admissions. " This, he would
say, that no man had heard him at the election make
overpowering promises of being the farmer's friend.
He did not think it good policy, nor was it for the good
of the constituency or the country to do so. . . .
He did not agree with the Anti-Corn-law League, fcr
the course which it had taken was an ex-
ceedingly improper one; but the tone taken by those who
pretended to be the farmer's friends had done more harm
to the farmers than anything else. He did not know if
all who then heard him were of that opinion, but look-
ing to wiser men than himself in the House of Commons
—men who did not distinguish themselves by going about
the country professing to be farmer's friends—sensible in-
telligent men—he felt that he had the support of their
judgment, which he valued a good deal more than the
opinions of those who spoke against him."
There, take that, Mr. MILES, and my Lord Duke of
RICHMOND. There is something much more effective
in Mr. ACLAND'S great let down of the farmer's friends
than in Mr. ESCOTT'S strong thrusts.
It will not be supposed that we sympathise at all in
the views of Mr. ACLAND'S decriers. For Mr. ACLAND
himself we think that his speech at Dunster does him
great credit : it is manly, sensible, and temperate;
and a quiet unaspiring member of the Con-
servative party is not necessarily responsible
for all the inconsistencies and deceptions of his leader.
Mr. ACLAND'S views have been in favour of protection ;
he says they are so still. It was natural for him then,
in the general election of 1841, to place himself under
the PEEL banner, and oppose the then Whig policy.
He is not to blame that his leader has turned out
a rogue. His case is the more deserving of pity,
that his leader is such a successful rogue. When
PEEL gives up protection, there is an end of protec-
tion. The Bond-street re-union, the .Duko of RICH-
MOND, MILEs can do nothing ; it is well, indeed, if PEEL
does not lead all the farmers' friends captive, as ho does
the Duke of RICHMOND, with places for the LENNOXES.
Mr. ACLAND then says to himself, " What can 1 do 29
What indeed ? We think the following remarks of Mr.
ACLAND very sensible and proper :
" If people had any notion that he was opposed to protec-
tion, it was entirely and completely a wrong notion. At the
same time he held himself free to act according to circum-
stances. He did not want to increase the alarm which pre-
vailed, and he had kept back from these meetings because a
great deal of alarm had been created by interested parties.
His great wish had been, so far as his small influence went,
to do nothing that might make the matter worse."

That is, Mr. ACLAND says about protection, as the
Times might have said about railway schemes, " We see
what is much to be deplored and disapproved of, but
where large interests will be affected by unneces-
sary increase of alarm, we will do nothing to make the
matter worse." But the Times has not acted in this way;
and we know the result, and can judge of the motive.
Mr. ACLAND, too, dooms the cora-laws, but it is
needless to give more extracts from his speech. Like
most of the reflecting and experienced men of his party,
he sees the game is up, and all they can do is to submit
patiently to their fate.

We have received Madrid journals of the 21st instant
but they bring no news. A good deal of business was
done in the Funds on the 21st. The Three per Cents.
closed at 351 cash, and 36 at 60 days: 34 millions done.
Five per Cents., 24* at 60 days: one million done. Ex-
change on London, 37.

The absorbing topic of interest at Paris en Thursday
was the alarming state of the Stock and Share-market.
At the opening of the Bourse the greatest depression
prevailed, the panic was evidently on the increase, and
for the first hour everything indiscriminately went
down. The Three per Cents. fell to 81f. 40c.; shares in
the Northern to 615 f., in the, Orleans to 1,050 E, and
Rouen to 855 f. The gamblers, who probably b.ad con-
tributed to this universal panic, took advantage of. the
oceasion, rushed .into the market as buyers, and the
prices by half-past two had risen in consequence enor-
mously. Orleans rose 701., Rouen, 75f., Northern, 45f.,
Bordeaux 351., Boulogne 251., and Fampoux 20E Oc-
casional, depression took place during the brief period
up to the close of the market, when most of the lines
were considerably higher than on the preceding day. A
general belief prevails that Government will adopt some
legislatße measures for counteracting the dangerous
effects of such panics and placing a greater check on
gambling speculators. The National, that has uniformly
warned the public against the corning catastrophe, says,
" Our anticipations have been realised,' and their effects
oven exceed what we previously announced. We fre-
quently warned the imprudent gamblers of the inevi-
table catastrophes which were preparing; and the present
state' of affairs is calculated to inspire serious alarms.
Some respectable houses are said to be embarrassed, and
others to be ruined. To the difficulties of Paris are to be
added the failures in the principal towns of France.
Lyons, Marseilles, and Strasbourg are in a cala3t4oils
position. Everywhere the fever of gambling has pene-
trated it has caused the same destruction. We dread
the moment of liquidation at the end of the month, and
the disasters already known cause much apprehension
for others."

The Prance draws the following picture of, this alarm-
ng calamity:—" The Cabinet had relied cin the move-
ment of the Bourse to arrest the political movement ;
but alas ! the Bourse itself becomes an embarrassment.
The mountains of paper which were negotiated with
considerable premiums are offered for nothing ; they are
disposed of by wholesale, and by 'weight, for a few cen-
times. It is no longer a panic., it is a complete rout.
This great prosperity in expectation, those great pro-
jects of fortune which turned every head, have vanished,
but not without inflicting dap wounds. The credit is
strongly affected, and there is no knowing how and when
it can recover. The immoderate speculation in rail-
road shares proceeded from the enormous profits
they presented. The moment there was no longer
any premium to bo. gained the capitals were with-
drawn, and the negotiation of the shares con-
sequently became more and more difficult. This
is a great evil, for the capital usually vested in industry
and commerce, and which had been momentarily dis-
placed to purchase shares, is now actually locked up and
unavailable. The results are a penury of money, an
almost impossibility to obtain discounts, and embarrass-
ments in trade and industry. Business is languid and
nearly at a stand at the commencement of a winter
which threatens to be rigorous and attended with a
famine." The Reforme states that eight bankruptcies
were declared at the Paris Tribunal of Commerce on
Monday, their engagements amounting to 2,000,000 E
(80,0001.) The directors of some of the companies
formed for the Paris and Strasbourg line of railway,
have announced their intention of returning to their sub-
scribers the full amount of their subscriptions. ,The
Company d'Anthouard, which was the only one that did
not enter into the fusion, has also announced that it will
repay to its subscribers the whole of the amount of
their subscriptions on the 29th inst. and subsequent
days. Such conduct is highly honourable.
The thirty-sixth anniversary of the marriage of the
KING and QUEEN, which was solemnised at Naples on
the 25th November, 1809, was celebrated on Wednesday,
at St. Cloud, as a day of rejoicing to the Royal Family
and the household. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess AUGUSTUS of Saxe Coburg arrived at St.
Cloud on Tuesday frem England.
On the Bourse the Three per Celts. closed at 81f. 75e.;
the Five per Cents. at 116 f. 90c. ; Orleans Shares at 1,120 f.;
sR6ootife.n;, 9A3,nfg.n;
Avignon, 835 f.
, 660 f. ; Havre, 720 f. • Bordeaux,
TrToyhese
faonlldow Vierzon, 620 f. • Boulogne, 495 f.;
Minogntaerreeathue, 4q3usofta;tißonasslfeo,
for other
Flirspoux, -160 f.
c a:--
Parislon and499E Lyonssoc ; dßitatoilro(Gadann(erLaoffin)ttpe)a,r
.502 f. 50c. ; .ditto
ditto (Lapin son-
niere), 499 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasho'urg (Ganneron), 4.99 f. ;
ditto (liinguerlot), 498 f.; ditto (Becket), 498 f.; ditto ( Ay-
mard), 499 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), •par •
ditto (Drouillard), 499 f. 50c. ; ditto (yNeill), 4"f: oc.:
ditto (Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 2f.;
ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), par;
Bcrdeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta),
10f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 499 E ; ditto (Col-
bert), 498 f ; Caen (Delamarre), 2f.
LYONS, Xov. 25.—Marseilles and Avignon, '3Bof. ; Pitts

and Orleans, 1,135 f.; Paris and Rouen, 942 f. 50c.; Orleans
and Vierzon, 652 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 11,:.-28.-
Anglo-Belgian Mauritius
Boulogne and Amiens.. 7 Namur and Liege l3/4
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse !Orleans and Vierzoa
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 1% !Orleans and Bordeaux 9
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. ' Over Yssel ...
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 2
chic Coast
Central of Spain .. — Ditto (Caton's)... -
Ceylon . — Ditto (Stitt Est) —
Demerara
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 63/4 Paris an Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Janet. (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouze ... Do. (Aymard's) —
East Indian ....»........ Do. (Compte deL'Est)
Fampeux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin. 11%
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre —
Constituted lO (Royal North of Spain.
Do. Pepin le Halleur — 'Sambre and Meuse .... 4%
Great Paris and Lyons — Strasburg and Basle ...
Great Western Bengal Teurnay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada dent, and Hasselt...
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction Tours and Nantes
Do. North Midland._ (Maekenzie's) —
Do. Extension ...... Do. ( Lefebvre's) —
Jersey — Do. (O'Neill's) —
Louvain and Jemappe.. Trinidad
Lyons and Avignon—. Verona and Ancona —
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valencia...

HAMBURG"' AND DUTCH MAILS.
BERLIN, Nov. 20.—M. Rouge arrived here yesterday
with his brother ; thus all the reports are found to be
false that he would not come to Berlin on his return
from his tour in Southern and Western Germany. The
Chevalier Barbosa, the new Portuguese Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, will deliver
his credentials in a few days. A report is spread to-day
through the whole city that an old and wealthy dancer
has been attacked in his own house by robbers, in the
same mann-r as Mr. Keith, who lost his life in conse-
quence.

HANOVER, Nov. 22.—Yesterday evening, at eight
o'clock, his Royal Highness the Electoral Prince and
Co-Regent of Hesse Cassel, who has passed two days
in this city, left it to return to Cassel. His Majesty the
King has conferred on his Royal Highness the order of
St. George and the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order.
It is positively affirmed that the Minister of the Interior
intends to have the iron railway from Hanover to Bre-
men proceeded with as speedily as possible.
POSEN, Nov. 14.—The Pope's Bull for the benedic-
tion of mixed marriages has really arrived here ; but
we doubt whether the execution of it will satisfy the
parties interested, unless they will be content with this
civil marriage, for the benediction, a:cording to the new
Bull, is not much more, for the priest only takes from
the parties the promise to be faithful to each other.
POSEN, Nov. 18.—To-day again several persons of
consequence have been arrested. Besides this, other
arrests have taken place, so that the number of our in-
-habitants who are now lodged in our prisons is nearly
forty ; we say nothing of the persons arrested else-
where, who are daily brought in. To-day a detachment
of infantry, consisting of t a.° officers and eighty pri-
vates, arrived from Genesen, to reinforce the garrison,
and especially to strengthen the several posts. The citadel
is now closed against everybody at ten o'clock at night.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18.—The Gazette of Fahnn states
that there are now 14,000 of the labouring classes in
Upland without employment.
The Governor of Westarae offers rein-deer moss at
low prices to those who suffer for want of bread.
It is reported that the distilling of brandy will be pro-
hibited ; but perhaps a general abstinence, at the in-
stance of our very active temperance societies, may ren-
der such a prohibition unnecessary.
BERLIN, Nov. 21. The Consistorial Councillor
Snethlage has returned from his mission. We under-
stand that ten German States have resolved to send depu-
ties to the Council to be held at Berlin.
The Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs is said to
have sent to Czerski in Scheneidemuhl, Post in
Posen, Bernard in Thorn, and Sylvester in Chodgiesen,
the four protesting Catholic clergymen, calling on them
to agree to a united and special confession of faith on
which they may be recognised by the State.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 28.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, a royal mes-
sage was received with a project of law relative to the
support of the indigent, accompanied by an explanatory
memorial. In the same sitting, after a long debate, a
law for regulating the surplus colonial revenue for 1844
was agreed to by a majority of 41 to 11.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Nov. 25.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent ••..• . • . 98
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months ... .. 6 24% 624
—Universal Prussian Gazette, Nov. 26.
HAMBURGH. BORSENIIALLE, Nov. 25.
Bills. Money.
kustrian 5 per Cents ••• • • • •. 114
• Bank Shares ....... . - • . •. • . 1620
Anglo-Russian Loan .. • •
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 103%
Ditto let series Inscription ••• • • • 104% 104
Ditto,Ropo andeo., 3d and 4th series • - 98
Ditto, in Certificate...... • •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co.
Ditto Stieglitz
Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••••• • • • • • •
Ditto 3 per Cent •-•• • • • • 31% 31%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • .
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent— • • 58%
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1814...• 83
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
National Bank 5hare5,.........
Exchange on London
Hamburgh, Nov. 14. ...... ••• • • • 13 8%
DUTCH F LiNDS.—AMSTARDAIt, Nov. 28.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 211 per Cent.. ••
Ilitto, 3 pee Cent •
Ditto, 4 pr. .r Cent.
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent— •. • . 99 9934
Ditto, 3 .per Cent ..
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • . 156% 1573,i
East India Loan, 4 per Cent...—. •• •• 93% 93%
Exc.l3,:inge on London, it sight • • • • 12 25
Twe months, ' l2 12
On Hamburgh, at sight .• • • 33 93
• • Two m0nth5:......... 33 43
On Paris .....
Twomontha. • e • • • ....... •.
—Dutch Papers, Nov. 29.

•
LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM SYDNEY, NEW
SOUTH WALES, BY THE OVERLAND MAlL—Extract of a
letter, dated Sydney, 4th August :—" We are going on
very agreeably; everything looks prosperous; money is as
pientiful as it was scarce two years since ; every description
of property is in demand; stock and stations have changed
hands at 16s. per sheep. There is a prospect of the squatting
question being satisfactorily settled. We are to have leases
on reasonable conditions. For this boon the colony is in-
debted to the unwearied exertions and great abilities dis-
played by Mr. Benjamin Boyd, the Chairman of the Pastoral
Association of New South Wales, and Member of Council for
the district of Port Philip, in conducting the struggle between
the squatters and the Colonial. Government."
CABINET COUNCIL.—We understand that the seve-
ral members of the Cabinet intend to remain in town until
after Tuesday next, on which day there will be another
Cabinet Council.
TERMINUS IN THE STRAND.—WEST-END AND
SOUTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY METROPOLITAN TERMINI
The Fleet-prison, Farringdon-market, and Moorgate having
been marked out for the termini of Northern, &c. lines,
the West-end and Southern Counties have given notice of
their intention to apply for a Bill to bring their railway over
Waterloo-bridge, and 'form the terminus in Lancaster-place,
extending to the Strand, and covering the unoccupied area
and wharf frontage to the Savoy. This plan does not involve
the disfigurement of the architectural design of the bridge. '
A RELICT.—Died in the Lambley Hospital, on
Saturday night last, Mr. T. Evans, aged 82 years. He was
the last surviving victim of the cruelty of the Tories in 1794,
the year of the " ducking." On Thursday, the 3d of July in
that sear, he was ducked in the canal, near the Eastcroft-
bridge, because of his political principles, and was pinioned,
while undergoing the infliction, as a felon. In his case, as in
many others we could cite, persecution only contributed to
strengthen preconceived opinions, and promote their exten-
sion. Thomas Evans lived to see the truth of his principles
generally acknowledged, and maintained his consistency
throughout life. Nottingham .Review.
We learn from the Baltic ports that a considera-
ble quantity of wheat has been in the course of exporta-
tion for this conntry, indeed a much larger amount than
was expected to be *sent at the present advanced season
of the year. It may be expected that the navigation in
the north of Europe will soon be blocked up by ice.—Leeds
Times.

VALUE OF PLANTATIONS.--A sale of wood took
place at Inverness on Tuesday, which forcibly illustrates the
value of plantations. The quantity sold:was 76 imperial, or
60i Scots acres of fir wood on the estate of Tarradale, Ross-
shire, and the price was 2,560/., or 39/. per acre. The planta-
tion is just forty-two years old; and if we reckon the thin-
nings for the last twenty years at 14/. per acre, the laud has
produced 1/. ss. per acre during the whole period it has been
under wood. What adds to this remarkable result is, that
the plantation disposed of was by no means extraordinary for
growth Indeed it is sold, for the purpose of being replaced
by larch, as more congenial to the soil. That gratify-
ing result (added to that lately recorded by Mr. Grigor of
the Balnagown woods, and many others of a similar nature
which we have described) should stimulate our northern pro-
prietors to increased exertions in this important branch of
rural improvement. There are many light soils and bare
hills, at present unsightly and unproductive that might thus
be made almost as valuable as arable land, and certainly
more valuable than pasture. Ilighland properties are daily
becoming of more importance, and we anticipate still further
advantage when we have railway communication to convey
agricultural produce and transport heavy timber to the coast,
besides multiplying facilities for social intercourse and the
transaction of business.—lnverness~Courier.
Tax TICKET BILL.—The framework-knitters, as a
body, are doubtless aware that the Ticket Bill of last session
will become law on the Ist of January, and that the bill will
compel each manufacturer to give a ticket upon delivery of
work, specifying the quality and the price of the said work.
This has already caused much confusion in the ranks of the
middle men or agents, and attempts are now being made to
make up the loss which they will sustain through the Ticket
Bill, by reducing the men's starvation prices. One individual
offered plain silk half hose, last week, at 6d. per dozen less .
than some of the employers, and ls. less than others This
would have been a reduction of ls. 6d. in the one case, and
3s. in the other, in a week's earnings. The men resisted this
encroachment, and as the work was wanted, the master con-
sented togive the price; but the individual who first refused
to work under price he has turned away, or, to use his own
words, " boiled off ;". he also refused to give him more than
seven pair of hose, that came to 4s. Bd., from which he de-
ducted 2s. 6d. for frame rent, leaving him 2s. 2d. to subsist
upon the ensuing week. The association, however, have
aken the man under their protection.
HIGHWAY ROBBER Y.—L ONG SUTTON.--WO re-
gret to find that another highway robbery has bean perpe-
trated in the county of Somerset. Mr. John Gaylard, of
Knowle, Long Sutton, on his return from Somerton,
market, on Tuesday evening, was stopped by six highway-
men, who dragged him off his horse, tied his legs together,
and robbed him of a 5/. note, and other money; 40/. reward
is offered. We hope the scoundrels will be detected. We
are inclined to believe that an organised gang of highway
robbers exist in Somerset, and we think it is a very proper
question for the magistracy to consider the advisableness of
specially appointing officers to endeavour to rid the county
Aof the disgrace and dangei-Whiai these ruffians °coition.—
erborne Journal,