The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL.

Some suggestions of an Evening contemporary
(the Post) relative to Mr. O'Connell's assertion of
his right, under the Act of Union, to sit and vote in
Parliament, induce us to avow our own opinion on
the matter in a single sentence, and to say, that we
think now, and always thought, that the effort of
Mr. O'Connell should be made on the first day,
even though the prevalent rumours that the Minister
is determined to .‘ see whether he can do some-
thing," should be declared, ex cathedra, to be well
founded. This opinion, we have no doubt, is that of
the nation at large—and we have reason to know
that Mr. O'Connell never had a view differing from
this, of what is due to the people of Ireland, to his
constituents, and to his own station and character.—
Dublin. Morning Register.

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIPPERARY FREE PRESS.
" Distillery, Borris-oleigh, Dec. 17, 1828.
" MR. EDITOR—I am sure that you will insert
with pleasure the following excellent lecture to the
Brunswiekers. The moment I read in the News-
papers Mr. Otway Cave's patriotic reply to the
friends of Civil and Religious Liberty at Leicester, I
wrote to him, stating that thou.gh his sentiments
were now known to all who read Newspapers, yet
his tenantry and the lower .elasses were still igno-
rant of them—that in fact the generality of the
people in this neighbourhood still considered him
favourable to Brunswick Clubs, inasmuch as his te-
nants at the desire of his agent, formed the strongest
portion of the Nenagh Club. These being tenants
at will and under his controul, it was natural to
think that they dare not act so prominent a part
unless with his sanction. To redeem his character,
and for various other reasons I assigned to him, I
requested of him to send some direct communication
here to disabuse the people of their prejudices
against him. He accordingly sent me the follow-
ing reply. By its insertion you will much gratify
your Boris-o'leigh and Nenagh friends, as well as
also your's, &c.

" PATRICK RYAN."
" London, Dec. 15, 1828.

" SIR--I thank you for your friendly and manly
letter, and am happy that any thing I may have said
in public, should have procured for me the approba-
tion of those whose good opinion, though at a dis-
tance, lam most anxious to deserve. If Illy name
has been used in any way connected with or em-
ployed by me in countenance or support of the pro-
ceedings you allude to at Nenagh, it has been a
most unwarrantable and unauthorised assumption on
their parts. I hare sent an intimation to this effect
to the Dublin Morning Register, and I beg to as-
sure you, that there is AO one in the empire who
has a stronger abhorrence than myself of those sedi-
tious and atrocious conspiracies against the Sove-
reign and the people under the denomination of
Brunswick Clubs which are luckily in a great degree
counteracted by the increasing good sense and good
feeling in this country, even in places which have
long been considered the strong holds of tyranny
and intolerance. I shall carefully observe your in-
junction as to your hints written to me on this sub.
ject, at the same time you are at liberty to make
what use you please of this expression of my opi-
nions. It only remains again for me to thank you
for your kind and candid communication, and to say,
that it will at all times give me pleasure to hear
from such neighbours as yourself.
" I remain, Sir, t'our's faithfully,
" ROBERT OTWA Y CAVE.
" To Pat. Ryan, Esq., Distillery, Borris-olvigb.
.„

MR. O'GORMAN MAHON.

The Evening Mail observes as follows, in .re-
ference to our statement, that Mr.-O'Gorman
Mahon was deprived of the Commission of the
Peace, on the ground of an affidavit sworn by the
Government Reporter of the Association proceed-

ings
4, We have reason to know," says the 1;461,
" that our Contemporary is totally mistaken as to
the grounds of Mr. Mahon's removal."
The cause, as assigned by us, is that which has
been communicated to Mr. O'Gorman Mahan him-
self. We have seen a copy of the affidavit, and we
have in our possession this moment a draft of
one of the contradictory affidavits alluded to in our
paragraph. It was proffered to Mr. Gabbet, on
behalf of Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, yesterday, and,
together with another to the same effect, refused by
that Magistrate. The gentleman, whose copy of
affidavit we now have, swears, "that he-sat next to,

or very near, the said O'Gorman Mahon, in said
Farquharson's affidavit mentioned, during his ad-
dress, and he positively sail h that he, the said
O'Gorman Mahon, did not express himself in the
terms sworn to in said affidavit." This proves the
correctness of. our statement. We do not deny,
however, that other causes may exist, although to-
tally unacquainted with their existence.
Having given the Government credit for its de.
termination to concede to'Mr. Mahon the benefit of
the principle audi aileron: portent, we AO! offer one
observation upon the reasonableness of its so doing.
A most erroneous idea prevails upon the subject of
reporting. It is thought that stenographers alone can
(to use the technical phrase) take a speaker with
fidelity. ThiS is not the fact. In an able article
upon reporting, published in a late Westminster Re-
view, the most unequivocal testimony is borne to the
contrary. We do not mean by this to depreciate the
ability of the Government reporter; our only aim is
to convince the public, that amongst the reporters of
the Dublin newspaper press, there is, possibly, and
we would venture to say probably, capability equal
to that which Mr. Farquharson and his assistant
bring to their duties. if this be so, it is but fair to
admit the testimony of the newspaper reporters.
Four men were arrested at the fair of Elphin on
Wednesday, with papers in their possession of a
highly seditious nature. A communication has been
sent to Government on the subject, and the men are
in custody,
On Sunday last meetings were held in the parish
chapels of Coorlock and Clontarf, to organize the
collection of the Catholic Rent, and promote the
registry of freeholds. They were addressed by Messrs.
Elliott, Murphy, Smyth, and Curran ; and the meet-
ing at Clontarf was, at the suggestion of the Chair-
man, Mr. Sullivan, and several other respeettble pa 7
rishioners, adjourned to Sunday, the 28th inst.—
Freeman's Journal.

COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE

CANADA S.

(From L'Etoile, Canada Paper, of Nov. t;2.)
The future destinies of the British Colonies in
America, as far as from situation and circumstances
can be probably conjectured, seem to promise a per-
manent continuation of their connection with the
mother country ; or even if at any distant period
that connection may be variously modified, accord-
ing to the changes of time and events, yet, under
the name of dependence, protection, or alliance, it
can hardly fail to be most equally intimate and
mutually advantageous. The commerce, the wants,
the situation and fears, and, above all, the moral
feelings of the inhabitants, afford the surest earnest
of this expectation. The liberal and parental policy
of the mother country, particularly of late years, has
added the ties of interest to those of affection, and
left them nothing to gain by any change that.could
be offered; least of all can any desire either exist at
present, or arise hereafter, to exchange their de-
pendence on Great Britain for dependence on the
American Congress,and submit their commerce to be
taxed and regulated by the slave-holders of the south,
or planters beyond the Alleganies, who have never
seen the sea. Thew does not exist among them,
either in name or thought, such a thing as a party,
or even a feeling, in favour of the United States.
The avowal of such a sentiment, or the suspicion of
entertaining it, would immediately destroy a man's
• place and character in society. Their warm and fre-
quent expressions of attachment to England, and
aversion to American principles, would surprise a
stranger, and seem, perhaps, unnecessary to a phi-
losopher. We do not allude either to the antipathy of
the Canadian, or the fanaticism of the loyalist, or
the longing of the emigrant for his native home;
but to that rational preference of men of sense and
education, who having a near and constant oppor-
tunity of comparing a mixed government with a
pure democracy, see little reason to prefer the latter;
and, if tha King's prerogative appear to be some-
times exercised with less justice or judgment, know
how to distinguish' between the principle and the
abuse, and derive abundant consolation in finding the
democracy of their neighbours more capricious in the
favour she bestows, more servile in the homage she
exacts, more unreasonable in preferments, more op-
pressive in displeasure, and absolute in all. Nor Should
the disputes which sOrtietimes arise with the colonial
assemblies be considered asat all involving the question
of loyalty or disaffection, and as the natural results of a
legislature composed of several orders, or of persons
representing their powers, whose constitution has
not yet become settled by precedent and usage, and
to which the 'practice of the mother Country is not
always analogous, or the analogy not always con-
clusive. If, however, in process of time hereafter,
as they increase in wealth and population, the con-
sciousness of importance should, as is wont, give rise
to feelings of a more national description, Great
Britain will probably see it for her interest to anti-
cipate and direct these to a separate confederacy
among themselves rather than suffer them to swell
the overgrown empire of their neighbours. Of the
present policy of friendly relations with the United
States there cannot exist a doubt, nor a wish for
their interruption. But the best pledge for their
continuance, perhaps, is to hold in our hands the
means of blockading and attacking their whole
coast, which is secured by the ports of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, and an inroad
into the heart of their country, which is of-
fered by Lake Champlain, the Lower Canada, and
the annoyance of its rear by the Upper Province and
Lakes. These Colonies, though they may have
been one of the secret objects, have never been the
only causes of war with the Americans, nor have
they been ever even mentioned among its avowed
pretexts. If, indeed, by the price of their relin-
quishment, perpetual amity could be purchased with
the United States, the present question of boundary
might with more safety be neglected ; but if the
estimate of relative strength and security is often
the real inducement of hostilities, and if commercial
jealousies, which are not yet removed, and the old
dispute of neutral righis, which may at any time
revive, have already furnished the pretext, the
question is never likely to arise whether we shall go
to war for the sake of these Colonies, but whether
it is better to fight the Americans, with, if we must
not say the assistance, yet, at Toast, with the oppor-
tunities and advantages which these provinces afford,
or without them.

Of all the North American Colonies the youngest
but the most fortunate in natural advantages, and
perhaps the most rapid in increase, is New Bruns-
wick, whose interests are more immediately con-
cerned in the present question of the boundary line.
With the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the one hand,
and the Bay of Fundy on the other, this colony poa-
sesses a valuable fishery on her own shores, and lies
not far from those of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Its coasts are indented with numerous bays and
harbours, and the whole country is intersected with
large rivers and lakes, and numerous smaller streams,
to such a degree, that there is, it is said, no point
in the province eight miles distance from navigable
water. In fertility of soil it yields to no part of
America; the climate is severe but healthy, the face
of the country level, and covered with apparently
inexhaustible forests of large and lofty timber • be-
neath are mines of coal, lime, gypsum, and others,l
the source of some present, and the promise of
much future, advantage. Forty-three years ago
this country was one vast wilderness ; uninhabited,
except by a few families of. Acadian French, and the
thin and wandering tribes of native savages. At
present contains and supports 80,000 inhabitants;
its exports exceed the value of 600,0001., which
are almost all exchanged for British manufactures;
and, what is of far more importance, give employ-
ment to above 200,000 tone of British shipping,
and 10,000 seamen. A progress so rapid, which
has, perhaps, never been surpassed in America,
says much for the natural advantages of the country:,
the enterprise and industry of the inhabitants, and
the value of such a possession.
But there are politicians, for whom neither the
welfare of these colonies has any interest, nor the
loss any alarm ; who, forgetting by what means, or

under what circumstances, the present power of
their country has accrued; and preferring to tho
lessons .9f successful experience the experiment of
theorieC which, however specious in principle, may
prove inapplicable to our condition, or produce un-
expected results, would persuade us that these coun-
tries are an unprofitable burthen—that our naval
superiority might be preserved without seamen, or
seamen supplied without commerce, or commerce
secured without colonies, and have published a-de-
fiance to show what one advantage the North Ame-

rican provinces have ever rendered to the parent
State. And were they so utterly useless and bur-
thensome as is asserted, one would still, perhaps, be
rather inclined, in this instance, to approve the ex-
ample of that old English gentleman, who wished
to reduce the expenditure of his household, when
his steward presented separate lists of his depend-
ents, distinguishing the useful from the superfluous,
said, he would retain- them all—" Those, for I have
need of them—and these, for they have need -of
me." For these colonies, we think, were not plant-
ed and maintained upon merely a mercantile specu-
lation, but a more generous motive, to do good to
mankind—" to replenish the earth and subdue it,"
and, still more, to fulfil that higher obligation of every
government, to provide and secure the welfare and
happiness of all its subjects, and to " multiply
and increase them." For, however early or late
may have been the period, and far or near the seat of
their emigration, they are nevertheless our fellow-
subjects—members of the same community, and, as
they have never failed in any duty of allegiance,
they have not forfeited any rights to protection. It
may be said, indeed, that this cannot apply to the
whole population of those provinces, and it is true
that their inhabitants are of two descriptions, and
that nearly at► equal portion are descendants of
France. But so covetous were we once of their

territory, that we forcibly separated them from their
etvn country, we adopted them into our common fa-
mily, and, having imparted to them the-privileges,
have ever received from them the loyalty and sup-
port of British subjects. However agreeable to our
future interest, it would, at least, be little consistent
with our former policy to cut them off now; it
would reflect no honour upon the constancy of the
nation, more especially as that cannot be done with-
out betraying also another description of settlers,
whom, perhaps, it would be almost a shame to aban-
don ; for, formerly, when the injustice or impolicy
of the Imperial Government had excited a re-
bellion in the old Colonies of America, there were
certain of the inhabitants, and, if inferior in num-
ber, they comprised a fair proportion of the
wealth, talent, and character of the whole, who,
either agreeing with the measures of Adminis-
tration, or thinking that no- opposition, or none
yet experienced, could justify an insurrection, con-
tinued firm and zealous in loyalty to their Sove-
reign and attachment to their mother country,
and exposed themselves to proscription, exile, and
death, in her defence; and when the King became
unable, or the kingdom unwilling, to protect them
in their own land, with a singular spirit of fidelity,
as if they had transferred to politics that obstinacy
and enthusiasm which in religion had led their fore-
fathers to exchange their native soil for a distant wil-
derness, again came out and abandoned the seats of
their birth and hopes : and, as no other asylum could
be afforded, they removed, with desperate hearts
and ruined fortunes, covered with defeat and insult,
from their enemies, and regarded too much as a
burthen by their friends, and took refuge in these
Colonies of Nova Scotia and Canada. Such were
the refugees, or American loyalists—an unfortunate
race of men ! for the cause in which they had staked
all was unsuccessful; and they exchanged home for
exile, the comforts of a cultivated country for the
inconveniences of a wild and inclement forest—
literally beginning, not life alone, but the world,
anew; and such has since been the change in the
opinions of mankind, that the principles to which
they offered so rare an example of devotion have be-
come irrational or inglorious, and their descendants
must scarcely know—when in England at least—
whether to avow their conduct as an honour, or ex-
cuse it as a delusion. And yet so far were they from
being ashaMed of their own fortune, or envying
that of their neighbours (though they had some-
times seen that preference. shown to the new Re-
public which, could loyalty merit commercial
advantages, seemedrather due to our own colonists),
that, lately, when an epportunity was offered for
repentance, and the Mother Country was almost
sinking in the struggle with Europe, and the United
States would gladly have communicated, and prof-
fered, and endeavoured to force on them the privi-
leges of independence, there appeared no symptoms
of diminished affection ; but those who were at-
tacked, armed and fought, and all were alike zealous
and ready, had they proved less able to defend,
again to abandon their properties, and a second time
to seek an asylum in some country, if any could be
found, within the protection of Great Britain, or
beyond the reach of the Americans, where the latter
would cease to covet, and the former to despise their
possessions.
It cannot appear a very gracious, or even a very
reasonable thing, to complain of the incumbrance of
such a portion of our subjects, and demand of them,
so soon, an account of the expenditure and advan-
tages they have occasioned to the Empire. For had
the reciprocal duties of allegiance and protection
been as diligently performed on our part as on theirs
they had never been .a burthen to the revenue. But
to insinuate an opinion of their disaffection, and talk
of the probability of their union with the American
Republic, must appear, to them at least, a conjecture
of little reason, or a suspicion they have not deserved.
If such an account, however, is now to be rendered,
it may, perhaps, be found, on a fair consideration
of their means and resources, not so utterly deficient
as is asserted, either in political or commercial ad-
vantages.
For they certainly have retained and added to the
empire 1,200,060 subjects, and 150,000 fighting
men, who are posted in that quarter, in which we
have most to apprehend, and stand in most need-of
support. They occupy and preserve to us a country
of such extent and situation that it is scarcely of
more consequence that we should possess it than that
another should not acquire. That an insular, com-
mercial and manufacturing nation, with a surplus
and fast increasing population, had better remove
some of the supernumeraries by emigration than suffer
them to starve at home, or subsist by crime or do-
natives, is a position which reason must imtne-
diately acknowledge, and which necessity seems
likely to enforce. That it is better to plant the emi-
grants within our territories, and add to the power
and wealth of our common empire, than dismiss
them to a foreign state, to be numbered with our
enemies, appears no less evident. NoW we do not
possess, nor does the world afford, another country
so near and inviting as this; so inviting that the
voluntary and unassisted emigration thither is al-
ready considerable and successful, and so near that
the political connection must probably continue
longer, and the commercial return be more pro-
fitable and immediate than with any other planta-
tion. But there are other reasons which render this
possession highly important, if not indispensably
necessary, to the power and commerce of Great
Britain. It lies between us and the United States,
between the United States and our fisheries, and,
either in geographical position or political results,
may be found to lie between the United States and
the West Indies—we think it not absurd to add the
United States and Ireland. It makes the Atlantic
a great lake for the domestic commerce of the em-
pire, and, by shutting up the farther shore, enables
the King to dictate who may sail, and who may
fish, and, almost, who may wash their hands in the
sea; a haughty and extravagant Pretension, but
which was nearly exercised in the late wars, and might
be again repeated to-morrow; and as it must first be
disputed, and has already igen challenged, on that
side of the water, so it is upon that side we should
be most careful to secure its continuance. New-
foundland is too near, and naturally too dependent
upon the other provinces to follow a different des-
tiny; and we should find some difference, perhaps,
between giving the Americans leave to take and

cure fish in those waters, and asking it of them.
Let it be remembered, however, that " phinting co-
lonies is like the planting of trees, in which a man
incurs a certain expense, and waits long for his re-
turn," and that "these plantations were principally
made by persons whose fortunes were dissipated,
and industry relaxed, by the long continuance, the
miserable conduct, and ruinous termination of a civil
war, and who, till within a few years, have never
received any assistance from British capital (except,
indeed, the short and limited credit of the merchant).
And yet, though the average of exports from Great
Britain to those provinces, upon six years, ending
with 1774, previous to the war, amounted .only to.
the scanty sum .of 379,411/. annually; on the like
average, for six years after the peace of 1783, they
were raised, by the influx of the loyalists, to
829,088/. It is worthy of remark that during this
same period our exports to the United States had
decreased from 2,732,036/. to '2,332,643/. (on a
similar average), a loss of 398,393/. annually, which,
however, was supplied, and more, by this increase of
419,677/. to the colonies. In 1799 the exports
thither amounted to 1,066,3961. In 1809, to
1,733,667/. In 1819, to 1,970,2571. ; and for the
last year they reached the sum of 2,241,215/, Our .
exports thither, during a period of fifty years, ending
in 1824, have gained an addition of four hundred and
fifty-five per cent. over and above their amount in
1774. With regard to the imports from them, it is
enough to know that all theie exports are finally paid
-for, and though the balance against them must often
have been, and stil► b., in arrear, yet in no quarter
of the world are the debts so secure, and the losses of
the British merchant so rare and inconsiderable.
But it is far less for the advantages of commerce
than of navigation► that Colonies are planted and
their improvement valued, and it is chiefly by con-
sidering what the possession of these provinces has
added to the mercantile navy and seamen—that is,
to the real strengths and vital interests of the etn-
pire, that their importance can be duly understood ;
for, from the year 1772 to the year 1789 (upors an
average and \medium of the vessels cleared and en-
tered for the three preceding years), the tonnage
employed between them and Great Britain is found
to have advanced from 11,219 to 46,106 tons, being
an increase of 34,887 tons annually, and which
more than repaired the decrease that had reduced
our annual tonnage to the United States, during the
same period, from 86,745 tons to 52,595. In 1818,
the amount of British tonnage in this trade, on an
average of the five preceding years, had further ad-
vanced to 179,317 tons ; and for the seven years
since, ending with 1825, it has amounted to the
average of 340,776 tons annually, and the number of
seamen employed has been more than 15,00(Y men ;
and for the year 1825, the vessels cleared thither
amounted to 411,332 tons, about one-fourth of our
whole foreign tonnage, exclusive of vessels to

Such has been the use, and so rapid the increase
of these possessions, that they need not shun com-
parison, in commerce or uavigation, either with any
other portion, or with the collective improvement of
the whole empire, and not even the United States,
loudly vaunted, and justly dreaded, as their wonder-
ful advance has been, have added more to their in-
tercourse with Great Britain or with the world.
For, in the year 1771, the exports from Great Bri-
tain to the United States bore the proportion of

14 per cent. of those to all other countries. The
exports to the West Indies, which are justly valued
as the richest possession of the Crown, were at that
time 7i per cent.; and the exports to those colo-
nies were but two per cent. In 1824, upon an
average of the ten preceding years, the whole amount
of our exports was 235 per cent. niore than it was
in 1774. The exports to the United States, on
the same average, have increased 245 per cent.,
and are now 141 per cent. of the whole.' The exports
to the West Indies have increased 300 per cent.,
and are now 9 2-8 per cent. of the whole; and the
exports to these colonies on the same average have
increased 455 per cent., and are now 3} per cent.
of the whole. With reference, therefore, to our
,whole exports, the comparative increase of the pro-
portion which these several countries now receive
above the proportion received in 1772 may be
measured respectively by the following figures, viz.:
—four for the United States; eleven for the West
Indies; and twelve for the colonies; and with re-
ference to the amount received,- the comparative in-
crease in 1824 above 1772, is respectively as forty-
nine for the United States; sixty for the West
Indies; and ninety-one for the colonies. In 1772
the proportion of British shipping employed be-
tween Great Britain and the now United States,
was 7 8-10 per cent. of our whole tonnage cleared
annually. The proportion to the West Indies was
nine per cent.; and that to these colonies 1 3-10
per cent. In the year 1824 (on an average of teal
years), the tonnage of the whole shipping cleared is
found to have increased 167 per cent. above
the amount cleared in 1772. That employed to the
United States has decreased 5 5-10 per cent., and
is now 2 2-10 per cent. of the whole. That to the
West Indies has increased 189 per cent., and is now
9 7-10 per cent. of the whole; and the tonnage to
the colonies has increased 2,370 per cent., and now
forms 12 4-10 per Cent. of the whole foreign navi-
gation of Great Britain, including the vessels
cleared for Ireland. As far, therefore, as our navi-
gation is concerned, the advantage now derived to
us from the United States, and the North American
Colonies respectively, compared with that of the
year 1772, may be represented by the following
quantities---5. 5 for the former, and 4. 11. 1 for the
latter, and the difference in favour of the colonies
is 4. 86. 6 ; that is, as nearly one-sixth of our whole
foreign tonnage is to 0.

WRECK OF THE WILLIAM, WEST INDIA
MAN, AND LOSS OF ALL HANDS.

About six o'clock on the morning of Friday last,
a large brig, of about 250 tons burthen, went on a
reef of rocks near Fortelle, about two miles east of
Boulogne ; a dreadful surf running at the time,- she
was, shortly rolled over and went entirely to pieces,
and all on board perished. A man of colour reached
the shore, dreadfully exhausted and bruised ; he was
able to walk up the sands some distance by the aid
of some humane fishermen, but was unable to speak ;
they gave him a little brandy, and were in the act
of taking him to their heuse when the eustom-house
officers arrived, who immediately ordered the fisher-
men to leave their charge, on the penalty of a thrust
from their bayonets if they refused;
this they very
reluctantly did, and the custom-house officers pro-
ceeded to get such valuables articles as might float
ashore, while the poor black, left exposed in the
wet and cold for several hours! perished on the
spot, where the inhuman monsters left him. This
is the return made to the English by some of the
Authorities of the politest nation in the world, for
their humanity to the
passengers and crew of the
Jenne Emma, French
`Vest Indianian, recently lost
on the coast of Wales!!! By the cargo, and pieces
of the vessel that have come on shore, she proves
to be the William, of Liverpool, from the West
Indies, with a cargo of coffee, sugar, cotton, log-
wood, &c.—Several of the dead bodies were seen
floating in along shore in the afternoon, but the
douaniers would not permit them to be picked up,
consequently, on the ebbing of the tide, they washed
out again. The barbarous and inhuman conduct of
those whose duty it is to attend in cases of this
kind, has caused a universal feeling of disgust among
the English; and most of the French in Boulogne.
The only excuse made by the principals in this af-
fair for their inhuman conduct is, they were appre-
hensive the vessel was from an unhealthy port. Even
if this had been the case, surely much more was to
be apprehended from the cotton, and other articles
of the like nature, which they sought after with
great avidity and much risk.

Last week a goose was purchased in Taunton
market, which, ou being prepared for the table, was

discovered to be stuffed s-vitli sanci--a----circumstance
adopted to make it appear more heavy to the purchaser.—
Taunton Courier.

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'ME ARMY.

(From the Limerick £ve!iing Post of Dec. 23.)

Major-General Sir E. Blake:..v spoke in favour-
able terms of the discipline and apt ,arance of the •
36th Regiment, at the recent half-yearif"T,spection
in the new barracks, Limerick.
Sir Charles Doyle, the. late esteemed Major-Cc= 6,
neral of the Limerick District, will shortly proceed
to the %Vest Indies, where he has been appointed to
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a command.

The following eircultr from the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, to the Lord Lieutenant,
relative to a proposed reduction in the expenees of
the Militia Staff has just been issued :
" Whitehall, Dec. 13.

"My Lord—l have the honour to inform your Grace,
that his Majesty's Government having taken into consi-
deration the expense of the Staff of the Militia, have deter-
mined to submit to Parliament a bill for effecting some re-
duction in that branch of the public expenditure.
" According to the proposed measure, the future esta-
blishment, retained on permanent pay at bead-quarters,
will te, for each corps—one adjutant, one so:leant-x(1;14w,
one serjeant for every forty private men, one drummer for
every two companies, with an additional drummer for each
flank company; over and above which, in Regiments con-
sisting of eight companies and upwards, a drum-major will
be allowed.

" It is not intended to discontinue, till the 24th of June
next, the pay of those members of the Militia Staff who will
be included in the proposed reduction.
" The substance of this communication will be made
known to the Commandants of the different Corps by tke
Secretary at War.
" 1 have the honour to be, toy Lord,
" Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,
" ROBERT PEEL.
" His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of -."