The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The mystery which prevailed yesterday
concerning Mexican stock is not yet cleared up to the
satisfaction of the parties concerned. The agents had,
it appears, from time to time been asked so many
questions as to the amount of stock, that they declined
answering any more; and the last inquirer having
failed in obtaining the answer he desired, he made the
question an affair of the Stock Exchange Committee,
who wrote to Messrs. Lizardi, requesting to know the
amount of Mexican stock which they had issued. The
reply of the agents was sent to-day, and was to the
effect, that they knew of no precedent for an agent of
a foreign Government answering such inquiries with-
out the authority of the Government which he repre-
sented. They added, moreover, that the conversion
being yet incomplete, an answer could not as yet be
given as to the amount of stock issued, but that when
it was finished they had no doubt the Mexican Go-
vernment would authorise its publication.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange, under these
circumstances, intend to push their inpiries further.
The public securities maintain their former buoy-
ancy. India Stock has advanced to 264 to 266, and
ln the arrangement-
occupied
Bank Stock is 170 to 172. Consols for Money and
the Account closed 94,1 sellers.
of the settlement, which to-day ....
the attraction of the brokers, Avery facility
princlpally
ob-
tained in the abundance and cheapness of money. The
ery was
Stock is taken at about
improvement in the value of

A very curious statistical return has just been fur-
nished by Mr. E. Deas Thomson, Colonir I Secretary,
relative to our Australian colonies, exhibi Ling the pro-
gress they have made within the last ten rears which
is in many respects very remarkable. For in-
stance, the total value of imports into New South
Wales, including the district of Port -Philip, was
604,6201. in 1832, and 2,527,9881. in 1841 ; the value
of the exports was respectively at the same periods
384,3441. and 1,023,3971. These returns show the re-
markable fact of a gradual increase of trade l'tp to the
year 1840, at which point it abruptly ceases ; t he next
year showing a considerable decrease. In the r, (turns
which regard the district of Port Philip separately,
however, the same decrease is not observable in the
exports. The amount for which this place figures
in the total above stated for 1841 is, for imports,
3;35,2521. and 139,1551. for exports. The Wall
value of the imports of grain into the colony„
including Port Philip, was in 1832, 13,3651-,
and in 1841, 201,632/. ; the returns in this parti-
cular show the same decrease which affected the:
whole trade in 1841, the article flour and bread.
forming the sole exception, and, on the contrart,
showing a considerable increase. The return of
land in cultivation throughout the whole colony, at
the close of 1841, shows the principal produce to be
wheat and maize, of which the number of acres is
respectively 58,605 and 25,004, producing 832,776
bushels of the one, and 503,803 of the other. The
number of ships built and registered in the colony
was 21 in 1832, the total tonnage being 2,143 ; and in
1841 the number was 110, the tonnage being 11,250_
The revenue from the sale of Crown lands in the
colony was, in 1832, 12,5091. 13s. 10d. ; in. 1840 it
was 316,6261. 7s. 5d., having gradually increased every
year tilt then, and in 1841 it fell to 90,387/.
Among the miscellaneous news from Egypt as col-
lected from private letters, it is stated that the mor-
tality among the cattle continued, and was supposed
to rave destroyed 150,000, from which cause, and the
slow rate at which the Nile was subsiding, the labours
of agriculture were almost suspended... The importa-
tion of mares islieing carried on with great activity,
to augment the breed of horses for the purposes of
agriculture. Four Egyptian frigates have been de-
voted to this service, two of which have lately returned
from Silesia with a cargo of 370. • -
CHRONICLE.—The private' letters from the
fast Were delivered to-day, iuid= we cannot avoid
calling attention to tho important announcement con-
tained in the • supplement to the Canton. Gazette, re-
ceived in one of them, that an officer of high rank
from the Court of Pekin is immediately to set out to
represent his Sovereign at the Court of St. James's.
The presence of the Chinese Ambassador at the first
drawing-room next season would, indeed, create a
sensation ! The same authority repeats that consular
officers are to be established at the ports of Canton,
Amoy, Fow-choo-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae, which
are to be thrown open to British merchants, and that
a regular and just tariff of imports and exports, as
well as of transit duties, is to be established and
published. Our Canton Contemporary adds, " We do
not see that any time has been stipulated for the
ratification by the Emperor of China ;" but
is of opinion that the presence of the British
force commandiug the city of Nankin cannot fail to
impress his Imperial Majesty with the necessity of
expedition. Chu.:,an and Kolongsoo are looked upon
as a sufficient guarantee for the fulfilmeht of the
treaty ; and Hong-Kong remaining a British settle-
ment, will always be able to muster a naval force
sufficiently strong to keep the Celestial Government
in due subjection. No doubt is entertained in com-
mercial circles of the due ratification of the treaty.
The great anxiety is how to turn it to the best advan-
tage. The chief difficulty at first will be to select
the proper description of goods for the Chinese market.
At present they are consumers of our cotton twists
and coarse long cloth!,; but when the trade is estab-
lished on a free and proper footing the demand for ar-
ticles of the highest quality of manufacture and em-
ploying the greatest amount of labour will be exten-
sive. Merchants should be cautious, however, and
not rush headlong into stock without some means for
guiding them in the selection. Hong-Kong should
be declared a free port, or at least open to the ships of
all European countries, at very low duties, so as to
make it the general entrepot for goods intended for the
China market. If that course be adopted the value of
property in the island will become immense, and it
will rise into a source of great value to the British
Crown, covered with warehouses, and its harbour the
rendezvous of the ships of every country possessing a
mercantile marine. Cargoes will be discharged at
Hong-Kong, and thence transported by steam-ships
to the various ports, according to the demand.

LOSS OF THE RELIANCE.
The following is a correct list of the passengers and
crew who perished in the Reliance, with the names of
those who left the vessel in China, as well as of some
who shipped in that country :
Thomas Green, commander ; J. S. Walsh, chief
mate ; John Green, second ditto ; N. T. Martin, third
ditto; Thomas Griffin, fourth ditto; William Gray,
sixth ditto; James Catanach, surgeon ; Charles Sim-
mons, boatswain ; William Falkner, boatswain's mate ;
William Till, gunner ; William Finucane, captain's
steward; George Hares, ship's steward; Jerry
Knight, ship's cook ; Robert Shearer, captain of fore-
castle; Jan Collier, Trmnble Crummil, Matthew
Lane, Lawrence Beatty, Andrew Wilson, Peter An-
derson, Francis Eagle, David Schroter, Richard
Thomas, Richard Coleman, William Edwards, James
Woodrow, William Leary, William Anderson, John
Pearson, William George, William Lettis, Martin
Johnson, Andrew Nicholson, Henry Thomas, John
Lawson, John Daly (all common seamen) ; John
Hyde, of Cork, shipped at Whampoa ; Richard Letter
of Gravesend, ditto ; Thomas Munroe, of Newfound-
land, ditto—also seamen ; John llandless, cooper ;
George Atkins, butcher; Alexander Morier, ar-
mourer ; James Shafe, armourer's mate; John Lehn-
berg, sailmaker ; Richard Crabtree, midshipman's
steward ; William Makepeace, cuddy servant ; John
Mouling, ditto ; John Toomey, officers' servant ;
Henry Houlton, caulker ; William Loveday, quarter-
master ; David James, ditto ; Daniel Smith, ditto ;
James Woods, ditto; William Worster, joiner; 27
Chinamen, who joined the ship at Whampoa, and 17
Manilla men, who shipped from Macao.
Midshipmen—Messrs. Curran, Sepper, Blake, Her-
ring, Dodman, Lakes, Ford, and Legge.
Passengers—Captain Tucker, R.M. ; his servant, a
youth; an old man-of-war's man, named Kelly, from
her Majesty's ship Rodney; a cabin boy, invalided,
from the same ship; Jehn Lee and John Winstall,
from her Majesty's ship Blenheim; and a merchant
seaman from the hospital at Macao.
Henry Kutingham, seaman, died in Macao • John
Weide, seaman, died three or four days before the
wreck.
William
Marsh, fifth mate ; Peter Fisher baker ;
William M`Gowan, Captain's servant; David Fraser,
boatswain's mate, were left in Bombay ; and James
Hardy, seaman, in China.
The names of the survivors, which have been al-
ready given, though somewhat incorrectly, are—
Robert Dixon, carpenter; William O'Neill, seaman ;
John Anderson, a native of Norway, seaman ; Charles
Barz, a Prussian, seaman ; and three Manilla men.
The Reliance left Gravesend on the 15th of June,
1841, having on board 70 Englishmen and. 60 Lascars.
The China men and Manila men above alluded to
supplied the place of the Lascars on the homeward
voyage.
It as been mentioned that one of the mates pro-
mised the crew just before the vessel struck that they
should be in the Downs in the morning, and on the
afternoon of the 10th, about 36 hours before the
wreck, so fully did the Captain expect to be shortly
in the river, that the royal yards were sent down, and
every preparation made for running up to Gravesend.
The British Consul (Mr. W. Hamilton), whose
prompt assistance to the sufferers, and kind and un-
wearied attention to their wants, have given much
satisfaction to the English at Boulogne, has offered a
reward for the recovery of the bodies of Captain
Tucker and Mr. John Green, third mate. The burial
of those whose bodies have been recovered took place
hasbegood lost
property, n
in the cemetery of Boulogne, and was conducted
in a manner that reflected much credit on the Consul,
under whose directions the arrangements were made.
A valuable case of watches belonging to Mr. Griffin,
mate,fourthNvasa person of
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tealiiy t
od Reliance.
took Griffin
be
have
vree themthe
Reliance out for the Chinese market, but was unable to dispose
ofthern.
saCilearitfrainomTsutc.kHeerl ena, se, m
desirous to come home in another merchant vessel
lying there, and that he was prevented taking his pas-
sage in her only by
i finding there was no accommoda-
tion for him. It s mentioned as somewhat remark-
able that the vessel alluded to was deeply laden, that
her berths were much inferior to those of the Reliance,
and that she was considered
to be a bad sailer. The
commander represented this to Captain Tucker, but
the latter continued to press his wish to take a pas-
sage in her, till assured that it was impossible to make
room for him.
A slight inaccuracy has been made in a previous
account as to the age of the unfortunate commander.
He was said to be upwards of 60, whereas he was
scarcely 50.
The survivors, who are in England, with the ex-
ception of O'Neill, continue to be comfortably pro-
vided for at the Sailors' Home, in Well-street, where
they will remain for the present.

LORD AIELBOITENE.—The Noble Viscount, accord-
ing to accounts received in South-street from Brocket
Hall, has nearly recovered from the effects of his
severe indisposition ; and when the weather is favour-
able his Lordship is able to take carriage drives.
Lord and Lady Beauvale are the only visitors at
Brocket, and will remain there until after Christmas,
when they are expected to return to town with the
Noble ex-Premidr for the season.

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afRATHE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
The Public is respectful), informed that this THEATRE
will be CLOSED TO-NIGHT and TO-MORROW.
On MONDAY, NOV. 28,
Will be repeated Shalopeare's Play of THE TEMPEST.
Alonso, Mr. Cooper; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr.
Vrandonhoff; Abtonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. G.
Pitt; -Caliban, Mr. J. Bland; Trineulo, Mr. Harley; Ste-
phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff; Ariel, Miss
Rainforth.

Alter which, A über's Opera of MA SANT E LLO.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :3s. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second 'Prim 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
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Tickets may be had.
PriVate Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Mes•rs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-ct7eet Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sama, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 25,
Will he repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Fau,it, Miss Murray, Mrs. 11. Beverly, &c.
After which, a Aew Comic Burietta, called AN ONY and
CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss
Murray.

To be followed by a Grand Ilurletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Character; by Aicssrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Giubiiei.

To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
Unparalleled success and extraordinary attraction.
T. P. Cooke in two pieces.
THIS EVENING. NO V. 25,

Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en-
titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the
•SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. I'. P.
Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville,
Smith, Heslop, Mrs. R. Honner, and the entire Company.
New scenery and splendid nautical effects never beforeattempted.
After which, for six nights only, THE MONSTER ; or,
TEIE FATE OF FRANKINSTEIN. Frankinstein, Mr.
H. Hughes; The Monster, by Mr. T. P. Cooke, as acted by
him upwards of 100 nights in Paris.
To conclude• with Mr. Ba'rber's new Drama, en-
titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the
FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Stave, by Mrs. H. Vining.
The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W.
Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss
Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian," composed by Mr. G.
Stansbury.
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Thousands of Blue Jackets are attracted by the last scene of
Un'on Jack—the destruction of the Pirate's vessel by fire—
appalling effects. •
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LONDON :
FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 25, 1842.

We have received the following letter. Con-
sidering the important subject it refers to, and
the high authority it quotes, we publish it with-
out reluctance, notwithstanding the blame it
casts on ns:—

WORDSWORTH AND TIIE OXFORD
TRACTARIAN S.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Beading the lately published volume of our
great philosophic poet, IVordsworth (" Poems of Early
and Late Years"), I was struck with his notice (p. 402)
of the present Religious Navement, erroneously (for it
is of no locality) ascribed to the influence of the
writings of the Oxford divines, but, in reality, gene-
rated by.a wide-spread feeling of disgust in the public
mind at the meagre and unsatisfactory nature of mo-
dern ultra-Protestantism, with its self-indulgent prac-
tices, its effete and mawkish divinity, and the absence
of all self-denial and high and ennobling charac-
teristics,
,from its system. This conviction has been
deepened by the revival of the writings of our elder
divines—Hooker, Hammond, Bull, Taylor, Beveridge,
&c., those giants of our theological literature—and
the feeling is exercising a vast and increasing influence
over the more earnest and deeper minds of the United
States, as well as of Great Britain and her depen-
dencies. Now, I could not help contrasting the calm
and reverential tone of the poet's observations—(bear
with me if I speak plainly, as I feel strongly)—with
the flippant character of some of your late remarks on
the same subject. May T, then, submit to your con-
sideration, and that of your readers, the opinion of
William Wordsworth—a name dear to all true Eng-
lish hearts, a witness most unexceptionable, as a lay-
man and a bystander, whose sole interest can be to
vindicate that sound truth to which he has dedicated
a long and beautiful life :—"lt would be ungenerous
not to advert to the religious movement that has made
itself felt, more or loss strongly, throughout the Eng-
lish Church—a movement that takes for its first prin-
ciple a devout deference to the voice of Christian an-
tiquity. It is not my office to pass judgment on
questions of theological detail ; but my own repug-
nance to the spirit and system of Romanism has been
so repeatedly, and, I trust, feelingly expressed, that
I shall not be suspected of a leaning that way,
if I do not join in the grave charge, thrown
out, perhaps, in the heat of controversy,
against the learned and pious men to whose
labours I allude. I speak apart from contro-
versy; but, with strong faith in the moral temper
which could elevate the present by doing reverence
to the past, I would draw cheoful auguries for the
English Church from this movement, as likely to re-
store among us a tone of piety, more earnest and real
than that produced by the mere formalities of the un-
derstanding, refusing, in a degree which I cannot but
lament, that its own temper and judgment shall be
controlled by those of antiquity."--WORDSWORTIL
I am, Sir, your 'obedient servant,
Nov. 21, 1842. CANDIDUS.

We must, in justice to ourselves, deny the accu-
sation ofotir critic. What he probably mistakes for
flippancy, is a sincere conviction different from his
own. The vs;ri ter e quotes, and he himself, have, and
the authors lie alludes to had, a sincere reverence
for the English Church ; we have as sincere a
conviction that it is totally unworthy of respect.
What does the writer . himself say of it ?
That " ultra-Protestantism is meagre and unsa-
tisfactory ; it is sel f-indulgent ; its divinity is effete
and mawkish; its system lacks all high and en-
nobling characteristics." Let' us add, that the
Church is a cheat on the public understanding.
It receives from the nation an immense income,
under the pretence of instructing the people, and
devotes it to maintaining a proud and worthless
priesthood iii princely magnflicence. It leaves
the people in the darkest ignorance, or rather
it labours to plunge them in ignorance, lest they
should learn their rights and their duties, which
are totally incompatible with priestly power.
We marvel at the mind of our Corr;2spondent,
which can think of ultra-Protestantism as he
thinks, and reproach us for speaking without re-
verence for such a worldly fungus, planted on
the religious feelings of mankind.

The celebrated author he quotes, in common
with most reflecting men, repudiates Romanism ;
on his own`showing, ultra-Protestantism is
rather worse than Romanism, end thus there is
" wide-spread disgust in the public mind," and
a " movement'in England and her de-
pendencies." But when the public mind has
been so imposed on by ultra-Protestantism and
Romanism, each in its turn, is there any flip-
pancy in holding back our confidence from the
Oxford divines? They may be very sincere, for
aught we :know, and so may Jou SMITH, the
Mormon prophet. It happens, however, un-
fortunately for both, that great Worldly advan-
tages will be the consequence of their success.
Joz SMITH will have numerous contributing

followers; and the Oxford divines, becoming
paramount in the Church, will be the recipients
of its vast wealth. We, then, zire quite as sin•
cere in our disbelief of the great merit ascribed
to the Oxford divines and their writings, as our
Correspondent is sincere in his belief; and it is
no more flippant in us to express our want of
respect, than it is for him to signify in 'measured
words his great reverence for the new religious
movement and its authors.

CANDIDUS refers to HOOKER, and the other
giants of our theological literature, few or none
of whom flourished since the Elector of Hasro-
PER ascended the Throne. They were the im-
mediate children of the Reformation, and of
those troublesome times which followed it. They
had not seew the Angl►can Church in quiet pos-
session of all its revenues and honours for a cen-
tury and a half, and they had bright hopes,
which we know have been completely disap-
pointed, that it would be a blessing to the nation.
Had they seen the ministers of the English
Church slumbering in ease on their vel-
vet cushions for more than a century,
busy only in plundering the endowments of
the poor, and flattering the rich, that
they might to be protected in their iniquity,
promoting no useful knowledge, but trying to
impede its advancement, and bursting with
envy, spite, and anger when they were com-
pelled to exert themselves- by the success of
Dissent,—had those strong-minded and honest
men seen ultra-Protestanism, as described by
CANDIDUS, they would have turned from it and
from the Church with greater disgust than does
the public at prese►►t, and would have repu-
diated, as we do, the notion of the Oxford
divines, that to establish the influence of re-.'
ligion the clergy must go backward, and take
refuge' in the ignorance, superstition, and vice
of semi-Papism. If those giants referred to
Christian antiquity, it was to expose the errors
of Rorne, and justify ultra-Protestantism ; the
Oxford divines refer to it to discard Pro-
testantism, to throw dirt on the Reformation,
and to justify that prostration of the understand-
ing before the priesthood which was the master
vice of Rome, and is the- most injurious of all
superstitions. Fetiche worship is a mere, idolatry
of wood and stones, which inflict no injury on
their devotees; the worship of the priesthood is
au idolatry of active, worldly, cunning, tyrannous
men, who use the power it bestows to debase
others and aggrandise themselves.
Let us, in conclusion, say one wordabout the an-
tiquity Mr. WORDSWORTH honours, and which is
described as flippant in us not to reverence. With
all respect to our great living Contemporary we
must observe that the ancients were only men
like ourselves. Their thoughts and their expres-
sions, except as they were more true, are no more
to be honoured than the thoughts of living men ;
but of that relative truth we must be the judges.
Over them we have many advantages. In rela-
tion to them we are the aged and hoary men of
the world. We possess whatever was preserved
of their experience, of the experience of all men
betwixt them and us, and we possess our own ex-
perience. While to them (and the more ancient
the people the more correct is the remark) almost
all phenomena, both of the external world and of
the mind, were irregular, unconnected, and extra 7.
ordinary,to us who have the hoarded experience of
so many more ages, the bulk of those phenomena,
both of the physical world and the mind,
however minute, as the cysts of little insects
which constitute diseases of the skin, or however
vast, like the motions of the comets, are all regu-
larly connected by one chain of cause and effect,
methodical and harmonious. For them things
were marvels, wonders, inexplicable, inspiration,
which we know to be and to have been part of
the regular and ordered course of that system
which has endured in unity, or oneness, with all
the changing and succeeding generations of men.
Having, therefore, so much more knowledge and
experience than the ancients, we must continue
to think and assert, though it may be called flip-
pant by the priesthood, whose constant endeas
your it is to vaunt antiquity and depress living
men, that no useful reformation can be obtained
for the Church by consulting the works of anti-
quity. The generation have seen its errors ;we
know pretty well what it can do and what it
cannot do; we know, much better than the
ancients, what is required by our society; and
we tell the public to seek counsel rather from
the living than the dead.

Notwithstanding the disheartening failure of
the Niger Anti-Slavery expedition, it is impos-
sible to help laughing at some of the circumstances
connected with it—more especially as regards the
model-farm, the whole history of which is one
of the drollest episodes to be found in the annals
of Quixotic philanthropy. It seems that about
two years ago, a party of amiable, well-meaning
individuals, shocked. at the extent to which the
slave-trade was carried on in the interior of
Africa, determined on sending out an Expedition,
whose primary object should be the suppression
of this accursed traffic. With this view it

was directed to ascend the Niger ; open
a trade with the natives—for the philan-
thropists had a small eye to business, as well as
humanity ; endeavour to establish a social and
familiar intercourse with them; and impress on
their unsophisticated minds the horrible crime
they were guilty of in making slaves of their
fellow-creatures, and selling them to the highest
bidders. But as it was not supposed that the
negroes could be all at once preached into anti-
slavery, the crews of the Expedition were ordered
to plant a model-farm on the banks of the
Niger, which was to be a sort of Utopia on a
small scale—say, rather, an African New Har-
mony—where the blacks, who composed the
colony, were to live like so many Ciucinnatuses,
in a state of perfect republican simplicity ; to
practise all the household virtues; subsist on the
produce of their daily labour, which must have
been very productive among swamps, under a
burning sun ; and teach their savage country-
men the arts of husbandry, besides inoculating
them with Penny CyclopEedia knowledge, and
the true
havingeioprincip principles of Christianity.
establishedthis model-farm,
set its black inhabitants fairly
to work, and
seen that all was going _ on as it should
go, returned to England.—or rather a few
sickly remnants of the crews le • t
urned,
for the rest found their graves among the
marshes of the Niger, under the very nose of the
,negro colony. And now comes the droll part of
the business—the cream of the joke !No sooner
had the Expedition set sail on its way home, than
the blacks—the virtuous, regenerated blacks—
who, we may suppose, were all picked men, and
looked on as so many models of virtue and mo-
rality—held a meeting among themselves, at
which it was resolved that they were all inde-
pendent gentlemen, and that as daily la-
bour was a very ungentlemanlike occupation,
it was expedient that they should have slaves to
labour for them. Accordingly, they laid in a
good stock of cats and whips; sallied out one
fine morning from the farm; gave chase to a
party of negoes ; caught them; and then, by
way of setting them the required example of
intelligence, civilization, and philanthropy, made
slaves of them all! Such was the course of con-
duct pUrsued by those who had been purposely
selected by the crews of the Niger Expedition,
to instruct and elevate the minds of their country-
men, and more particularly to impress on them
the awful iniquity of the slave trade ! We can
imagine the horror with which Sir POWELL
BUXTON, and his amiable drab-breeched
coadjutors, must have heard of this untoward ter-
mination of their efforts to suppress African
slavery ! How they must have writhed and
wriggled at the idea that they themselves had
assisted in the manufacture of slaves, by planting
a model-farm for them to work in! Though we
sympathise with them in their d' •
isappointment,
yet we cannot say that it is wholly unmerited,
for who but mere
visionaries would ever have
dreamed of creating an Ut • opia, and realizing the
virtues of the Golden age, among swamps on the
banks of the Niger, with the
blood-heat, and crocodiles and hippopotamuses
confronting 1 •
ppopotamuses
confronting one at every turn!

. .
Some of the London Jourrialisti have displayed
a great deal of virtuous indignation lately against

Mr. Itorcx, a County Magistrate, for accepting
1,0001. bail on the part of a " gentleman"
charged with a misdemeanour. They evidently
know nothing about the amount of his property,
and therefore are incapable of judging whether
thissum was proportioned to his means, or was not
even oppressive bail, yet go on writing in the
dark, and do all they can to blast the character
of a respectable and useful Magistrate. We
may let that pass, however, as Mr. ROTCH will
be able to defend himself; but we. cannot
help repudiating the bad taste and feeling
displayed, not only in keeping. the offence
before the public, but in calling for a.full dis-
cloSure of the particulars in a Court of Justice,
Such exhibitions only tend to increase the crime,
and it would be infinitely better for public
morality and decency if such offenders were
allowed to purchase, by a fine, perpetual ba-
nishment from the country. These writers seem
to have no idea of parental affection, and would
by exposure needlessly add to the poignant
,dis-
tress which already overwhelms many fami-

lies, and casts a stigma on the victims,
however innocent, which they know can never
be effaced, The Scotch Courts, in general,
exercise a wise discretion in trying cases which
tend to corrupt the morals of youth, by ex-
cluding the press and the public. The Judges
and Magistrates of this country would do
well to imitate the example, and thereby
disappoint and check that morbid. craving.
for offensive and horrid details which dis-
tinguishes and disgraces the present age.
Mr. ROTCII, in place of reproach, de-
serves great praise for the course pursued. He
wisely concealed the evidence from all but the re-
latives and the accused, and thereby prevented
disclosures which could serve nopossible good, but,
on the contrary, be productive of great mischief:
We admit the advantages of public trials, but there
are exceptions to :very general rule. Publicity,
occasionally, not only causes great distress to
the innocent, but incalculable injury to public
morals. One half, probably, of the suicides in
London are committed from the strong propen-
sity of imitation inherent in mankind. All the
sickening details are read with the strongest
interest by persons of diseased minds; their ma-
ladies are increased by the frightful pictures
which haunt their imaginations, and they are
at last driven in despair to follow the example.
Trials.such as those our Contemporaries wish to
be made public have a pernicious effect on so-
ciety, and probably lead to many crimes which,
but lbr them, not one in a thousand would ever
have contemplated.

The following extract is from the letter of a
naval officer in China :—"The EMPEILOR is highly
satisfied with all arrangements, and has asked if
he should send Mandarin to the British Court,
would he be well received? The Admiral, it is
said, has replied that, should he wish to do so, a
frigate should be placed at his service, and, ofcourse
he would be well received." It would appear
from this, that we shall probably ere long
have a Chinese Ambassador in .London, with a
tail twice the length of DAN'S, and a yellow face
as flat as a pancake ! Conceive the sensation
that such aphenomenon would create in the metro-
polis ! Not a Barbarian eye troM Hyde Park cor-
ner to Mile••end turnpike, but would open to twice
its usual extent, to gaze at the interesting Im-
port. Imagine QUANG-170 in a dress-box at
Covent-garden, and 0-Tr, his Secretary, ogling
one of the actresses through an opera-glass!
Truly, wonders never cease, but a Chinese Am-
bassador in London, with a pig-tail as long and
lively as one of the leading articles in the
Herald, is the greatest of all imaginable marvels !

We regret to learn by accounts from Bar-
celona that the news of the insurrection in that
town has been confirmed. The authorities had
fled, and the citadel and different posts were
occupied by the National Guards. Fighting in
the streets had continued fnr three days, and it
is said great numbers were killed and wounded.
No sufficient cause is assigned for this sudden
outbreak, and with our present information it
would 'therefore be premature to attribute it to
foreign intrigue. The insurgents, from all ac-
counts, belong to the Republican party, whom
neither LOUIS PIIILIPPE nor his virtuous cousin
CIIRISTINA would be likely to support. All the
particulars yet obtained will be found in the
telegraphic dispatch, and a letter dated Barce-
lona„ Nov. 17.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 15th, but
as the insurrection commenced only on the 14th,
no intelligence of this unfortunate occurrence had
reached the capital. The Opposition had succeeded
in returning all the officers of the House by a
considerable majority. The number of Deputies
present was 130, but only 125 took part in the
election. The four Vice-Presidents elected were
M. CORTINA, by 82 votes; M. CANTER°, by
M. CABALLERO, by 63; and M. DOMENICH, by
64. The four Secretaries were MM. GALVEZ
CARNERO, MATA, GARCIA, and (ARNICA. M.
OLOZAGA immediately took the Chair, and
thanked his colleagues for the honour they had
conferred upon him, after which the House orga-
nised its Standing Committees, and adjourned.

Nearly all the Paris papers have now broken
silence on the good news brought by the last
mail from China. Though in general they
display their usual • bad feeling towards
England, they are compelled to admit that she
has achieved a great victory, and that important
services will thereby be rendered to the cause of
humanity. Of all the papers that have come
under our notice, the Journal des Debats alone
treats the subjec:, with calmness and moderation,
As the opinions of these journalists may possess
some interest with our readers, we subjoin ex-
tracts from six of the principal journals.

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