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will be by their mutual interests, and when every
merchant's counting-house, and every manufacturer's
office, become the centre of a system of diplomacy,
which shall bind men in peace, in spite of all the ef-
forts of statesmen to embroil them in war.

assured, by the organs of the party which, for r
the public sins, rules over the land, that the
only remedy for all the national disorders is
Church extension. More Bishops are to put an
end to the master manufacturer's cupidity—
more rectors and more curates are to fill the
heart of the poor man with joy and thankful-
ness. More Church is to stifle strife, and bind
all classes into one family, living in brotherly
love. We presume that the means by which
these ends are to be wrought may be found
sketched—if any where—in Episcopal Charges,
and we turned to that of the Bishop of LONDON,
to learn from it how the people are to be made
good and happy.
The Bishop begins by explaining that the
Church—the means of healing strife—is rent
with " numerous controversies ;" that some
amongst the clergy doubt " whether they be the
genuine successors of the Apostles," while some
of them claim to he " mediators between Goy
and man." Nevertheless, their office is very
dignified, and they are " ambassadors fbr CHRIST,"
very much surpassing, in wealth and power,
their own Master. Then the Bishop implies
that some persons want to force an interpretation
on some of the Articles of the Church which they
will not bear. Next, he openly tuns a tilt against
the Puseyites, who are great advocates for pre-
scribed creeds, and who assert that Scripture
cannot be understood without the help of tra-
dition. He declares that the latter "is not a safe
interpreter of Scripture," and that, according to
the Church, " the Scriptures contain all things
necessary to salvation." If worldly strife can be
healed by theological controversy, the Church,
according to the Bishop of .LONDON'S Charge,
will be an admirable means to restore unity to
our sundered people.
Perhaps much may be expected from " re-
generation by baptism," which the Bishop says
is, beyond all doubt, the doctrine of the Anglican
Church ; but some clergymen, it seems, doubt
" this fundamental doctrine of the Christian
faith," and " alter, or omit some part of the
baptismal service." The unfortunate people who
may get amongst them one of these misleading
priests may thus lose even the advantage of
" regeneration by baptism," and be left without
any help. So again, as to Church discipline, the
Bishop implied that some clergymen do " not ob-
serve the Rubric, and are guilty of no ordinary
crime ;" yet these criminals are to be the guides of
mankind. He recommended them "to with-
draw from the ministry," and of course set up
rival chapels, to exhibit to the people sharper
and fiercer contests between the teachers of
Christianity.
" Several of the clergy," says the Bishop,
" had lately observed Saints' days," which he
‘' did not think was Popish, and he should not
object to it." How vastly will such an observ-
ance benefit the people ! It is another name fbi•
idleness and holidays; and Saint Mondays,
under the auspices of the Church, will be ob-
served thrice a week. The loss of such festivals,
the Bishop tells us, was caused by the negligence
of the priesthood, and one of the speediest ef-
fects of their new-born zeal will be to restore
them. Some people now wish to stop locomotives
on Sunday, but when the Revival is complete,
steam-engines, and all that depend thereon, must
stand still whenever the Church ordains a fes-
tival. If that should, perchance, benefit the
workman, it will scarcely add to the national
wealth nor the public revenue.
The dress of the clergy is to be simple, says
the Bishop, and thereby the people are to be
made respectable. To provide for the public
welfare, the clergy are not, "when reading, to
turn their backs on the people." There is virtue,
too, in " placing candies on an altar, if they are
only allowed to burn when the church is lighted
up." Great things, also, are expected from the
clergyman " ascending the pulpit immediately
after leaving the communion table;" and the
whole people may possibly be converted to
righteousness by their preaching " in their sur-
plices in the morning and in their gowns in the
afternoon." In conclusiou, the Bishop threw in
a recommendation to charity, as a make-weight,
and exhorted the clergy, whose controversies
he had been exciting, to be of one heart and one
mind.

On this our Contemporary remarks :
Now here, as it seems to us, is the difficulty. If
distinct countries stood to each other in the same re-
lation that two counties of the same country bear to
each other—if by creating, not one " country of shop-
keepers," but fifty—in short, by making the world
one commercial system—if by this process commerce
can be made to swallow up everything else, so that
men can speak of nothing, dream of nothing, think
of nothing, and act upon nothing, excepting only
pounds, shillings, and pence—if this is possible, then
:Lllr. Cobden's L topia may also possibly be realised,
but not till then.
It is singular to remark the different ways in which
different classes of men seize upon different common
principles as the one connecting link which is to bind
men and nations together in unity. We need not,
of course, remind our readers of the connecting point
which Christianity affords ; nor can any one fail to
remember the schemes of statesmen and lawyers for
universal and uniform codes of laws, or of scholars
for a universal language ; but it is singular that the
very love of gain should thus be viewed in the same
light, and be put forward at length as the only infal-
lible bond of unity.
Our Contemporary's description of trade pro-
ceeds on the notion, that the merchant creates
it, instead of being the mere instrument for carry-
ing it on. He supposes that it springs ex-
clusively from an avaricious desire to get pounds,
shillings, and pence; whereas it is based on the
want of food, and want of clothing, both of which
wants are satisfied by trade. The commerce be-
tween nations is only an extension of the trade
between town and country, and this again is
only the perfection of that primitive barter
which springs from division of labour, without
which each man must supply all his own wants,
and remain for ever a worm-grubbing savage.
As traffic extends men use it to gain riches, as
the lawyer, or the physician, or scientific
chemist uses his art to obtain wealth and dis-
tinction; but it would be treating the vast ac-
quisitions of a BROUGHAM, a BAILIE, or a DAVY,
with unworthy contempt to ascribe them to a
vulgar love of gain, or to suppose that all the
members of their distinguished professions
thought of nothing, dreamed of nothing, and
acted on nothing, except only pounds, shillings,
and pence. _

Mr. COBDEN'S main proposition is, that were
trade as free between countries under different
Governments as it is between the different
counties of England which are under one Go-
vernment, it would be as difficult, or impos-
sible, for those different Governments to fo-
ment or make wars between the two countries,
as it is for any men to foment war between
Kent and Lancashire. There was a time when
the inhabitants of those counties were as much
strangers to each other as the inhabitants of
Lancashire and the State of New York. Now
they are so united that it seems an impossibility
to suppose them in a state of hostility. What
has amalgamated them ? Continual free inter-
course, the uninterrupted passage of goods and
persons from Kent to Lancashire, and from Lan-
cashire to Kent. One wants hops and wheat, the
other cottons; that has begotten a mutual and
reciprocal interest; they serve and help each
other, through the instrumentality of the London
merchant and the Liverpool ship-owner; they
form one brotherhood, which would continue
to trade together and live in harmony, whatever
form of government Great Britain might possess.
Now there is at present much more direct
communication between Liverpool and the city
of New York than between Liverpool and Kent.
Already there exists between these two ci-
ties a reciprocal and mutual interest, to interrupt
which by war would be like tearing a man limb
from limb. As neither New York nor Liverpool
constitutes the whole United States, nor the
whole United Kingdom, it is possible for the
Government to plunge into war and inflict that
great injury on those two cities; but if the greater
part of England and the greater part of the
United States were as closely connected as these
two cities, war between those countries would he
as impossible as war between Kent and Lancashire.
Mr. COBDEN says that free trade would produce
such a connexion—is he right or wrong ?
In spite of a law which operates almost to
exclude the agricultural produce of the
Northern and Western States of the Union
from England, and in spite of a tariff which
burdens all our manufactures with new duties
on their arrival in America, there exists a
traffic between the two countries which in
value, imports and exports together, is not
less than 20,000,0001. per year. In the great
towns of Sheffield, Manchester, Bolton, Glas-
gow, Leeds, there are great multitudes of men
hungering for the food which is plentiful in the
North and Western States-of America, and they
earnestly desire to be employed in making
knives, axes, ginghams, counterpanes, muslins,
woollens, &c., which the owners of that food are
anxious to procure. In the Northern and West-
ern States of America there is a vast and a grow-
ing population, which is as desirous to grow food
for the starving multitudes of our towns, as they
are to make clothing and tools for their Ameri-
can customers. In the one country there is an
immense town population with a great capacity
to increase if they could obtain food, eager to ex-
change their produce with the vast and increas-
ing agricultural population of the other. In the
one there is a continually increasing number of
bellies to be filled, and in the other a continually
increasing number of backs to be clothed. Now,
if such a vast trade has grown up between these
people, based on these wants, in spite of the
jealousies of their Governments, and the absurd
and even cruel restrictions we have mentioned,
is it chimerical, is it Utopian to, believe that
were those restrictions abolished the trade would
be almost immediately doubled, and such vast
interests would speedily and mutually connect
the town population of England with the agri-
cultural population of the United States, that
hostility between them would be as impossible
as hostility between the inhabitants of the town
of Liverpool and of the meadows of Cheshire')
We look on Mr. COBDEN'S supposition to be as
true as it is cheering for the prospect it holds
out to those who will hereafter have the wisdom
to realize it.

We have given an abstractof the abstract which
the Tory journals have published of the Bishop's
Charge. The controversies and ceremonies he
adverts to are the means which the Church offers to
cure our present disorders. More Church, too, is
all which the Tories have left of their own to
prescribe for the people. More of these ceremo-
nies, controversies, and Saints' days is what they
now, as a final remedy, recommend to the starving
and afflicted workmen. If we could possibly
feel, in the present circumstances of the coun-
try, any other emotion but indignation at such
heartless, unthinking quackery, we should laugh
heartily at the transparent hypocrisy and un-
blushing impudence of those who pretend, with a
grave face, that more Church, as the Church is
described by the Bishop of LONDON, is the pana-
cea for the national evils.

To gentlemen who have never known want,
and who have engaged in no other labour than
such as tended to improve their minds and re-
fine their taste, who being, by the providence of
their ancestors, endowed with the•means of sub-
sistence, and who only study, even if they study
at all, to obtain the refinements and enjoyments
of life, this reference to filling bellies and
clothing backs, as the basis of all trade, will seem,
we are afraid, vulgar; and th ey will, probably,
fly off to their customary phraseology, and
speak of national interests and the sublime
truths of religion and science as the proper
guides for statesmen. Let us plead for the
common wants of our common nature. Let us
respectfully remind them that to ensure sub-
sistence is, or ought to be, the first and chief aim
of all social institutions; that the warrior should
draw his sword only to protect the husbandman,
and the lawyer should plead but to defend his
Itiigohstes.whTo impugn To give security to industry, while it
provides for ourwants, is the one great end and
aim of all political contrivances. Let us remind
leisure the natural wants of man,
that
'at those vuhrar wants must be t7:ratified, and
that it is only
when they are gratified that
and refinement come. Let us add, that
to gratify
them, the clever toil of the husband-
man, the wonderful ingenuity of the manufac-
turer, the bravery of the seaman, and, the skill
of the artist, are all called into being, and that
in exercising, their various arts they adorn and
ennoble human nature. Let us further add,
that it is by
e a n d
supplying mutual wants that' men
ajrue
tunar
rdees p
et mutually dependent, and taught
mutual
kindness. The trade,
which is has.ed on -sup •
Pqmg men with food and
clothing, is one great source of civilization and
moral improvement.

Our Contemporaries.4aye 104 ed at the Bishop
of LONDON'S Charge, to sere 'ho ,> beai.s on
Puseyistn—we have looked at it to see what
hope it brings to the suffering people.
We are

THE SUN, LONDON) THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 13, 1P42

PULMONARY .CONSUMPTION.
Mr. Cronin, Surgeon to the Dispensary for Asthma,
Consumption, and Diseases of the Heart, Liverpool, at
the Portico in that town, delivered lately a most impor-
tant and highly interesting lecture on the cause and cure
of Pulmonary Consumption. In the course of his intro-
duction Mr. Cronin observed that over 55,000 perish an-
nually in this country of consumption ; that it was on
the increase among the middle and upper classes of so-
ciety. As his views were different from the generality
of the medical profession, he would first notice the
situation, structure, and use of the lungs and the bony
case which surrounds them, and next the doctrines
generally received by the medical profession in reference
to this disease, and the various peculiar remedies at
different times prescribed for the cure of pulmonary
consumption. In these two branches of his sub-
ject Mr. Cronin showed considerable talent and
research, and explained the first part by diagrams
of the chest and lungs, which were exhibited on the
stage, and then noticed briefly the numerous, and in
many instances absurd, remedies recommended. Tho
Lecturer then proceeded to state his opinion. He con-
sidered that consumption arose from debility, which in-
stead, as was generally supposed, being attendant on
consumption, was in fact the primary cause of this in-
curable disease ; that consumption was a disease of the
general system, and not primarily confined to the lungs ;
that it did not arise from the deposit of certain matter,
which produced tubercle, but from unnatural pressure of
the adjacent parts, brought on by general and extensive
debility ; that this debility arose from many causes,
from irritation of the nervous system, improper
food, insufficiency of clothing, want of cleanliness,
sudden changes of atmosphere, &c.; that the mus-
cular system, from the prevailing debility, became
completely relaxed, in consequence of which the bony
case which surrounds the lungs, presses on them, produ-
cing in the first place congestion ; inflammation followed,
and the other distressing symptoms, as difficulty of
breathing, cough, &e., were the consequences. The Lec-
turer strongly deprecated tight lacing as an irrational
practice, which was very liable to produce consumption.
Mr. Cronin next proceeded to explain the treatment
adopted by him to give immediate relief. Acting upon
the idea that pressure of the bones on the lungs was the
great cause of the disorder,he put into aglass a few drops
of aromatic spirit. Having ignited the spirit, he placed
the mouth of this glass on the lower part of the
pit of the patient's stomach, and drew it quickly
across the body. The effect was, the flesh occupied
the vacuum in the glass, and thus raised the abdo-
minal muscles. The glass being gently drawn up, the
compressed lower part of the breast-bone was ele-
vated, which allowed the air to rush freely into the com-
pressed lungs, affording instant relief. The highly re-
spectable and numerous audience, who crowded the
room, received this announcement with loud applause,
which was frequently renewed, as many persons, who
were known to have been pronounced incurable by some
of the leading physicians both in London and elsewhere,
presented themselves on the platform, expressing in the
warmest manner, thanks for the relief which they expe-
rienced under Mr. Cronin's care. [A Correspondent
informs us that Mr. Cronin, during the few days he has
been in London, has fully proved the importauce of his
discovery—one case, that of confirmed consumption, Mr.
A. Cartwright, Clerk of the Inland Navigation and Sloop
Office, Custom House ; and another, a most distressing
case of asthma—Mr. Gelling, 53 Ticket-porter, Hunger-
, ford-market, in the presence of Mr. Fant, surgeon, St.
Martin's-lane, and Mr. Forsyth, West Strand.]

THE PRESTON ROBBERY OF
TWO THOUSAND POUNDS.

BIRKENHEAD, WEDNESDAY.—EIiza Bailey, who
(with a male acquaintance) was examined on several
occasions at Union-hall, before Mr. Traill, and even-
tually set at liberty, there not being sufficient evi-
dence to warrant a committal, was brought to this
place, where she has undergone three examinations
at the Town-hall, the last of which took place last
evening, and ended in her committal for trial. The
examinations have taken place before Mr. J. D. Case,
a Magistrate of the county, and, owing to the activity
and zeal of Mr. G. Palmer, special high constable of
the hundred of Wirral, such a chain of circumstances
have been collected together as left the worthy Ma-
gistrate no other course to pursue than the one he
has adopted.
The prisoner, who appeared very fashionably at-
tired, was defended by Mr. Owen, a solicitor from
Liverpool, who cross-examined the witnesses at very
great length.
Mr. John Marquis, of Accrington, in the county
of Lancaster, gentleman, stated that on the 17th of
August last he received from the bank of Messrs.
Cunliffe, Brooks, and. Co., at Blackburn, the sum of
5,9341. 6s. 2d. All of this sum consisted of Bank of
England notes, except the odd 41. 6s. 2d., which was
in gold and silver. Three thousand of this he paid into
the bank, and on Sunday morning, the 4th of Sep-
tember, he counted over the notes he had left, and
placed them in his pocket-book. They consisted of
two 5001. notes, and nine 1001. notes. These he
placed in his pocket-book, and put it into the I,:ft-
hand breast-pocket of his coat. On the morning of
tcanhe rneectoelsl eacl
lt ,
saabfeo about
tthszset,hel,eVveii,tninestsh(eaes
his pocket. He walked about the streets of Prewon
fnt eeranr ol ye
na)B saw he
e
until the evening, up the main street towards the
church. When opposite the church a man and woman
came up to him. The man took hold of his left arm
and the woman his right, when the former said to him,
" Are you taking a walk ?" He immediately dis-
engaged himself, and said " No." They then left
him, and ran across the street to where a number of
persons were standing, and he lost sight of them. On
searching he found his pocket-book was gone, and he
immediately gave information to the police. The
witness said he thought the prisoner was the female
who spoke to him.
Ellen Lodge, barmaid at Mr. Watson's, the Railway
Inn, at Birkenhead, said she recollected the prisoner
in company with a man come to her master's house
on Tuesday, the 6th of September, about one o'clock.
They remained in the house until about half-past
three o'clock, when they went away towards the
Chester Railway.
Another of Mr. Watson's servants gave similar tes-
timony, both being certain the prisoner was the person.
Mr. Watson, the landlord of the Railway Inn, de-
posed to going to the water-closet shortly after the
parties left his house, and to finding a piece of paper
on the floor, which, on examination, turned out to be
a 100/. note, with a 101. inside of it. (TheSe notes
were produced and identified as part of the notes, Mr.
Marquis received at Blackburn.
Mr. Wilson, the manager of Messrs. Cunliffe,
Brookes, and Co.'s bank at Blackburn, deposed to pay-
ing to Mr. Buck, solicitor of Burnley, the sum men-
tioned by Mr. Marquis, on account of the latter. He
identified the notes found in the water-closet as part
of the money.
Mr. Buck, solicitor, on being called, stated that
within a few minutes of his receiving the money he
handed it over to Mr. Marquis, except 726/.125. 11d.,
which he retained to pay off a mortgage.
In cross-examination by Mr. Owen, he said most
probably he should retain a 5001., two 1001., and two
101. notes, to pay the mortgage.
Mr. Owen then, at very great length, contended
that there was not sufficient evidence to justify the
Magistrate in committing his client for trial. As the
notes which had been retained by Mr. Buck had not
been traced, it was fair to presume that those found
might be part of that sum.
Mr. Case said he had given the evidence the -best
attention, and he was bound to say that he felt he
should not be performing his duty as a Magistrate if
he did not send the prisoner to trial. She therefore
stood committed to take her trial for the cffence at
the next Knutford Sessions.
The prisoner, after being cautioned, was asked if
she had anything to say, when, by the advice of Mr.
Owen, she replied
" Nothing."
She was then removed, manifesting the utmost
apparent indifference.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.--The stock comedy
of the Jealous Wife, by Colman, was performed at this
• theatre last night, the part of Mrs. Oakley being
enacted by Mrs. Salzberg, well known some eight
years since, as the favourite Miss Phillips, of Drury-
lane. her
accomplishments and powers have been
recognised of old ; her voice is as clear and distinct as
formerly,
and her form and face are well adapted to
the best characters in the higher department of her
profession. Her portraiture of Mrs. Oakley was a
vigorous and effective sketch. The Oakley of Mr.
Vandenhoff was
• a tranquil and well-conceived piece
of acting. Harley performed Sir Harry Beagle, and
the Lord Trinket of the evening was Mr. Walter
Lacy. , Mrs. Or ger's Lady Freelove was pointed and
agreeable, and Miss Cooper's Harriet was quiet and
genteel. Crretry's Cceur de Lion followed. The
house was exceedingly thin,
though "Miss Phillips"'
re-appearance
was very warmly greeted by all who
were present.
DIVIDENDS OF THE ESTATES OF BANKRUPTS.—We
have heard
much su rise expressed at the very great
rp
number of dividends now announced in the London
Gazette, as well as wonder at the cause of so much
activity on
rupts. The cans:, is a very natural one. The new
the part of the Commissioners of Bank-
Bankruptcy Act, which will come into force on the
11th of November, displaces all the present Commis-
sioners,
who are to receive compensation for the loss
of their offices to the amount of two-thirds of their
fees for a period prior to their displacement. Hence
their activity in working bankruptcies, by which i
their present fees are swelled and their compensation
increased.—Liverpool Albion.
FOREIGN CATTLE.--Up. to Saturday last the total
• number of foreign oxen imported at London, Hull,
Margate,
passing of the tariff, was 1,007. Cows, 333 ; sheep,
Ramsgate, and Southampton, since the
240 ; and pigs, 628. At Devonport also, about 200
Spanish oxen have been imported and sold in the
neighbourhood. On Tuesday, 20 oxen were im- ,
ported from France in good condition, and sold at
a good price.
RATITER OMINOUS, --- A shark was. caught in
Charleston (S.C.) harbour. It was eight feet in
length. There Were' found in his stomach a part of a
man's shirt, and the skin of a man's head.—American
paper.

sistance as he has'uniformly afforded me, and I stall .
feel the imperative obligation of considering his c!anis
upon the Government, whenever an opportunity may
offer of adequately acknowledging them. This will
place the office of Attorney-General, with a seat in
the Cabinet, at my disposal, and I am prepared to offer
it to Mr. Baldwin.
The absence of Mr. Sherwood deprives me of the
opportunity of ascertaining how far he might be will-
ing to accede to the arrangement, and of knowing
whether he is ready to fulfil one of the conditions of
his appointment. by obtaining a seat in the Assembly.
This disposal of his office must therefore be left a
matter for future consideration.
From my knowledge of the sentiments entertained
by all the gentlemen who now compose my constitu
tional advisers, I see no reasons to doubt that a strong
and united Council might be formed on the basis of
this proposition.
In this persuasion I have gone to the utmost length
to meet, and even to surpass your demands; and if
after such an overture, I shall find my efforts to secure
the political tranquillity of the country unsuccessful,
I shall at least have the satisfaction of feeling, that I
have exhausted all the means which the most anxious
desire to accomplish this great object has enabled me
to devise.--I have the honour to be, &c.
C. B:LGOT.

Mr. Girouard, who is proposed by Governor Bagot I
for a seat in the Council, was one of the active movers
in the events of 1837.8, and a reward of 500/. was
offered and paid for his apprehension.
CANADA.—The Toronto Patriot has the following
remarks on the subject :
" The letter of his Excellency the Governor-Ge-
neral to Mr. Lafontaine, has been since Friday before
our fellow-subjects, and the doubts which long existed
as to whether it was genuine or an impudent hoax
and gross personal insult to the pretended writer—
have been removed, and to our mingled sorrow and
humiliation, we know that this document is what it
purports to be. No public document issued in the
British North American Provinces from the triumph
of Wolfe down to the present day, has ever been
perused by the true-hearted subjects of the Sovereign
of Great Britain with such an intensity of mortifica-
tion and such a feelingof abasement, as this indescrib-
able letter from the head of the Government to Mr.
Lafontaine. We will not, we need not attempt to
analyse its contents. It is as matchless in style as in
substance—and as a State paper stands alone and "sui
generis."
It offers a carte blanche to Mr. Lafontaine to form
a new Cabinet—dismisses with a " damnation of faint
praise" Messrs. Draper and Ogden, and Sherwood and
Davidson—offers to reward with a thousand a year a
gentleman whom Lord Seaton thought Rorth half
that amount to ensure his being lodged in gaol—im-
plores Mr. Lafontaine to accept office with a piteous
intreaty, laughable but for the terrible importance of
the subject—and finally casts down before the feet of
that gentleman and Mr. Baldwin the whole preroga-
tive of his Executive office, the dignity and the
majesty of the Royal authority. •
On no former occasion do we recollect witnessing
so strong an expression of intense sorrow and humi-
liation, as has been exhibited by every one with whom
we have conversed on the occasion of this abject sur-
render of the happiness, hopes, and prosperity of the
people of this rising colony into the hands of a merci-
less and grasping faction, who have never known
power but to abuse it, who have never been for a mo-
ment intrusted with influence but they have used it
toward the embroilment of the whole country, the
strangulation of public prosperity, and the paralysis of
enterprise and improvement.
The offer of a thousand a year to Mr. Girouard—
with Lord Seaton's proclamation yet fresh in their
memories—must give grave food for reflection to all
those who took up arms on what they fancied to be
the right side, in 1837-8.
If names, things, and principles, have undergone
such a complete metamorphosis in the last four years,
as to render a man, v<hom the gallant leader of the
now insulted Loyalists thought it necessary, for the
safety of the land, to thrust into gaol, now deserving
of a large salary and a post of the highest rank, then
indeed we have all to reflect whether, if his conduct
deserve reward and promotion, ours must not neces-
sarily deserve punishment and disgrace. We cannot
have been right, if Mr. Girouard and his compatriots
were also right; and we look to the writer of the
letter to Mr. Lafontaine, for an explanation of our
true position in the matter.
The following, from the Rochester Democrat,
shows that the dissatisfaction with the late appoint-
ments by the Governor, has extended to the Parlia-
ment of Canada :
CANADA.—There is trouble in the Canadian Parlia-
ment. The Governor. General,-in trying to administer
the government upon " conciliation principles," is
likely to find himself entirely unsupported. By culling
into his Cabinet men of liberal principles, he has of-
fended the Tories and a portion of the so-called Re-
formers' who together command a majority in Parlia-
ment. Mr. Draper, one of the highest officers of Go-
vernment, has resigned, and it is expected that there
will he a general break-up of the Cabinet. Lis also
rumoured that Parliament will be dissolved. If so,
there will be another general election, which will
attended with unusual excitement.

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subjoin extracts from the American
papers, with the state of the markets at New
York and Philadelphia :
A FPROPRIATIONS—The appropriations made by
Congress during the late session are as follows :
Civil and Diplomatic-list
Army ..,....,„,, 6,405,280 36
Navy.. ' 6,774,405 42
Fortifications
Pensions 730,776 00
Indian Department, Treaties, &c 1,300,077 47
Private Bills, House of _Representatives 37,585 01
Private Bills, Senate 62,773 03

$24,952,190 82
YELLOW FEVER.—The number of deaths in New
Orleans during the week ending 10th inst., was 93, of
which 44 were by yellow fever. Strangers were ar-
riving in great numbers, many of whom will probably
full victims to the disease.

The yellow fever was prevailing badly at Tampico
by the last accounts.
NEW ORLEANS.--a duel Was fought near the Sugar
Refinery, between our Postmaster and a gentleman
connected with the St. Louis Cathedral. The weapons
used were small swords. Both parties received flesh
wounds. The difficulty grew out of the late contro-
versy between the Bishop and Members. Two more
duels are on the tapis, and these " affairs of honour "
will not cease until a frost comes, which always de-
stroys affairs of this kind, as well as the yellow fever.
(From the New Orleans Picayune, Sept. 13.)
FROM MEXICO.
By the schooner Water Witch, Captain A rnou x,
arrived since our last from Vera Cruz, we have the
following interesting letter from our valued Corre-
spondent : " Vera Cruz, Aug. 18, 1842.
" The Mexican squadron, the departure of which I
announced in my last, sailed on the morning •f the
15th inst. The " getting under weigh" of this fleet
was a sight well worth seeing, and the expert ma-
noeuvring on board one of the vessels in particular,
has furnished Vera Cruz with a sub:ect for laughter
for some time to come. The vessel was the schooner
Eagle, commanded by a capitan de fragata named
Diez Miron. After succeeding in getting foul of al-
most every vessel in the port, the war steamer wqs
obliged to return and take her out in tow, with a very
fair wind!

" Letters from the capital, by yesterday's mail, are
without anything of interest, except that the mur-
derers of Mr. Egerton and his wife have been, it is
thought, discovered, and are now in prison, undergo-
ing their examination. If the persons arrested are
really the murderers, the perpetrators of this horrid
deed are natives not foreigners, as was generally sup-
posed at first.
"All is dead silence at Mexico on the subject of Mr.
Webster's letter. I can give you no opinion as to the
probable course which this Government will pursue,
though I fear Santa Anna will not feel disposed to
raise Brother Jonathan's Irish.'"
(From the New Orleans Bulletin.)
A certain Mr. Joseph Wells has offered to loan
the Mexican Government the sum of 7,000,000 dols.,
on condition that he be permitted to import from
London a certain quantity of English cotton goods.
The proposition has been laid before Congress, but
has not been acted on. The domestic manufacturers
were protesting loudly against the project.
A prolific vein of gold, extending nearly 20 miles,
has been discovered near the Bay of Francisco, in
Upper California.
(From the Crescent City.)
The Mexican manufacturers are clamouring loudly
for. protection duties on coarse cotton and woollen
cloths.
The new Mexican tariff goes into operation on the
Ist of November. The duties are reduced about one
half. We understand it will be published in pamphlet
form in a few days.
The plan of a new Constitution has not yet been
reported to the Mexican Congress, by the Committee
appointed to frame it.
A conducta of specie was to have left Mexico for
Vera Cruz on the 25th of August.
The first division of Mexican troops (1,300) des-
tined
for the subjugation of Yucatan, sailed for Vera
Cruz -about the 10th of August.
MORE INCENDIARISAL—Between 11 and 12 o'clock
last night the Reading Railroad bridge over Mill
Creek, together with the Montgomery County bridge,
both crossing Mill Creek, immediately adjoining each
other, and about two miles from Manayunk—the last-
named of wood, and covered—was fired by an incen-
diary, and the flames soon extended to the railroad
bridge ; both structures were entirely destroyed. The
Company's bridge was guarded, and one of the watch-
men succeeded in arresting the incendiary, but was
unable to secure him from escaping. The bridge was ,
200 feet long, and its destruction will materially affect '