The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA.

DREADFUL RIOTS—PREJUDICE AGAINST
COLOUR—THE CORN-LAWS.
Extract of a leiter from John G. Whittier to
Joseph Sturge, dated Amesbury, 12th, Bth mo. 1812.
Mr DEAR FRIEND,—Since the date of my last
letter, another appalling proOf of the correctarss of
thv statement, relative to the bad pre-eminence ofPlii -
laaelphia, in respect to prejudice against the coloured
man has been offered. The poor coloured citizens who
had enrolled-themselves in Temperance Societies un-
6rtook to celebrate the Ist of August, the anniversary
of West Ind :a eapme!ioation, by a feFtival. over the
Schuylkill river. Thither they were moving in an
orderly and respectable • procession, when they were
assailed by a mob. Some resistance being offered to
this brutal outrage, the assailants called in others to
their aid, and broke up the procession, and hunted its
members to their houses, where they were also as-
sailed, windows broken, furniture to a great amount
destroyed, and several of the unfortunate inmates
dreadfully beaten with clubs, iron rods, and missiles.
For two days no person with a coloured face was
safe from violence in the city. Thousands
left their little properties to the mercy of
the mob. and fled into the woods of Jersey.
across the Delaware. A large and beautiful Hall,
nearly finished, erected by,a wealthy coloured citizen,
for the use of his brethren, was burned down, as was
also the coloured meeting-house in St. Mary's-street.
The City authorities, as in the mob of 1838, did little
or nothing to suppress the rioters. Some of the news-
papers apologized for the conduct of the ruffians, and
threw the blame upon the poor coloured people, for pre-
suming to celebrate the Ist of August. Is it not
dreadful ?
Our cause is, nevertheless, onward. The wheels
of our great reform move indeed slowly and heavily,
but, as in the vision of Ezekiel, there is " life within
them." The slavery question now enters into every
debate in Congress. Our indefatigable friend Joshua
Leavitt has presented a voluminous petition to
Congres praying for something nearly equivalent
to Free Trade with Great Britain in case of the
abolition of the Corn-laws. It gives a history of
of tEe Anti-Corn-law movement, &c. It was well
received by many of our statesmen, and its
prayer was only rejected by a party vote of
of the Whigs; all the Democrats in the Senate voting
for it. As the new Tariff Bill, to which Leavitt's
proposition was an amendment, has been, set aside by
the veto of President Tyler, the subject will come up
again ; and the next Congress will doubtless carry it
into effect, as that can hardly fail of having a demo-
cratic majority. Great and excellent meetings of the
liberty party have been held in Ohio, Maine, and
Vermont. Our prospects are brightening in this
department of our enterprise.
The subject of Church action is engaging a good
deal of attention. There has been a large convention
of ministers and church members held in Veamont, in
which strong anti-slavery addresses were adopted,
addressed to the slave holders and people of the north.

• A band of wolves, says the Memorial de Rouen,
have taken up their haunt in the forest of Manny, and
have lately committed dreadful 'ravage* in the Com-
munes of Yville, Anneville, and Bervi!l... A few days
back, a forest-keeper was taking his rod lid when a wolf
rushed out of a thicket, and carried off his dog before
his eyes. He fired at him, hut as the gun was only loaded
with small shot, the animal set off with his prey. A day
or two afterwards a shepherd, named Pendrix, was
driving his sheep home to Yville, when a wolf fell on a
sudden on the flock, and seized on a wether. The man
immediately ran after the animal, and soon overtaking it,
the weight of its prey not allowing it to run very fast,
caught hold of the sheep. A strggle ensued which ended
in the wolf's being frightened by the man's shouts, and
let go its prey. On Thursday night, the flock of M.
Manger, of Anneville, was attacked, and nine sheep were
killed, and eighteen badly wounded.
A letter from Dusseldorff, 28th ult., announces the
arrival there on the preceding afternoon of the King and
Queen of Prussia by the railroad. They were received
at the station by the authorities, and attended to the
hotel of the Regency, where all the persons of distinc-
tion in the town, including several foreigners, were ad-
mitted to pay their respects to them. A grand fete was
to have been given on the occasion, but was deferred on
account of the King being slightly indisposed. Prince
Charles of Bavaria, his Majesty's brother-in law, had
also arrived at Dusseldorf.

The Vi,gie of Saint Mato relates that on Tuesday
morning, a large boat, in attempting to enter the port,
was caught by the current from the breach in the bank
of the Quatre Pavilions, and upset, and twelve men who
were in her thrown into the sea. Another boat which
went out to their assistance was unable to reach them.
At length a M. Joly plunged in and saved two of the
men. His example was followed by others, and three
more were rescued from the waves ; but the remaining
seven were drowned, and their bodies were not found till
the ebbing of the tide left them on the shore.

Black game shooting commenced on September Ist
in the New Forest, and from the fine breed, good sport
throughout the season is anticipated. Our sporting
friends should, however, be aware that a peculiar license
is required to shoot in this forest, and it can only be
obtained of the Lord Warden. There is an express
Act of Parliament for Hants, Dorset, Devon, and
the New Forest, forbidding the killing of black
game until September ist.—The breed of partridges,
pheasants, and hares, is greater in this part of the county
than has been known for many years.----- Salisbury Herald.

A FARMER'S CPINION 02;

CORN-LAWS.

Never were metsures of any Cabinet calculated
to injure the farmer to so great an extent indirectly as
those recently carriel by the present.

Since 1834, when the New Poor-law Bill effected
a considerable saving in the agricultural districts,
landho!ders have very generally raisedthe rents of
their farms, thus pocketing in every instance what
should have been for the benefit of all. Again, more
recently, the sordid desires of this all-grasping class
have not been by any means satisfied. Ihe years
1840-41 will be remembered by many as years in
which a general advance trok place throughout the
country; since which time they have continued con-
s:derably higher than during any part of the war
time

This artificial price of land has tended most mate-
rially to the injury of all our manufactures in one
way or other : it has in many cases ruined the frugal
awl industrious occupier of land, it being impossible,
with such rents, to realise a fair remunerating profit :
it has brought to the verge of starvation and rebellion
(in many places both of these have actually taken
place) thousands both of our agricultural and manu-
facturing population ; and it is bringing, fast as the
energies of a self-willed aristocracy and bigoted clergy
can do, the entire country to a state of ruin.
But what must be the remedy both for agricultural
and manufactoring interests ? what can prove a last-
ing beneficial measure for both ? is the question
eagerly asked by many. Not an Income-tax, or a
" scale" for duty on corn, that dexterously " slides"
the last sixpence from the pockets of a famished yet
still industrious people.
As a practical farmer—as one who has been en-
gaged in this pursuit between thirty and forty years,
acid during that time has watched minutely all events
connected therewith, and as one having the interest
and welfare of my country as well as myself at heart,
I would most unhesitatingly declare that free
trade in corn will be the only thing that will bring
the value of land, and consequently the relations of
society, to their proper basis.

This will enable our manufacturers to supply their
goods lower than any other country; this will, con-
sequently, enable them to defy competition in the
foreign market ; this, after the first year or two
would enable the farmer to go on much more satisfac-
torily than at present; and this, alone, would restore
that peace, plenty, and content lately so much un-
known amongst the English population.

A BRITISH FARMER.
Bedfordshire, 2d September, 1842.

THE NEW TARIFF.—Some curiosity has been ex-
cited in Winchester during the past week by an announce-
luent from the public crier that Amercan pork was
selling at .4id. per pound. We have seen some of the
meat selling at that price at Mr. Parniiter's shop, and
fro n its appearance should pronounce it good and
Wholesome food. In colour it is, of course, darker
than the young pork salted here, but it is thin in the
rind, fat, and smells very sweet. If the tariff will pro-
duce plenty of such meat at such a price, it will be
indeed a much greater benefit than we anticipated, and
pr.we what the farmers assert, that Peel is the greatest
diriny die farmers ever had, and that they were coin-
li..inhu.L4ed by the Tories at the last election.
'R:e only drawback upon the American pork, is that it
is coarse and cut up in a most unscientific manner. We
thin;, a little time %%HI remove both these objections, and
we most heartily rejoice that the principles of free trade
have at length so far prevailed that good and wholesome
meat is now placed within. the reach of the poor man at a...
price which will enable him to occasionally taste wia.t

was bnfore p. I,i• 11;i» r:azue °nil:—
Hunts Independent.

' A letter in the Le;psic Gazette, from Constanti-
n. of Aug. 10, says :—‘• Accounts from Syria announce
) that, by order of the Porte, the Seraskier Mustapha
Paella and Selim Bey have assembled the chiefs of the
Druses, the Greek Christians, and the iMaronites, and
have rsquested them to declare freely whom they de-
; sired to have as Governor. After a discussion of some
days. a petition was signed by the Druses, the Greek
Christians, and the smaller portion of the Maronites,
who demanded the confirmation of Omar Pacha, and
the exclusion of the Shahab family. The two petitions
will be sent by the Seraskier to the Porte, which seems to
' be waiting for them to take a determination. The
French agents have exerted themselves in favour of
Emir Bechir, and those of Russia in favour of Omar
Pacha. The latter has asked for permission to visit the
capital until the matter is decided, as be does not wish
to appear to instigate any one in his favour.
Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., Lord-Lieutenant of
the county, accompanied by Colonel Sir M. Creagh, of
the 11th Regiment, visited the Tredegar Iron Works
on Monday last, for the purpose of inquiring as to
the state of the place and -neighbourhood, and finding
all quiet, and that the men had returned to their works,
orders were given, that the company of soldiers stationed
there should return to Newport. We are happy to find
that the whole of the men around the hills have returned
to their work. About 50 of the leaders have been dis-
charged from Cylarthfa works ; amongst the number is
Miles, a ringleader of strikers. Things begin to wear a
cheering aspect all round the district, and we are in
hopes of a speedy and favourable turn in the works.—
Monmouthshire Merlin.
The 21iOniteur de la Propriete states, that in conse-
quence of the high price of forage, a vast number of
cattle have been very lately sent up to the neighbour-
hood of Paris, to be sold to the butchers and slaughtered, •
the breeders not being able to afford feeding them any
longer. In. July; 1841, the number of oxen arrived at
Paris ; amounted to 10,008, whilst, during the same
month of the present year, the number was 12,616,
showing a difference of 2,608. There has been no dimi-
nution in the price of butchers' meet in Paris, in conse-
quence of the increased quantity of castle sent up from
the country, hut an augmentation ofprice may be feared,
as the stock becomes more and more in the hands of
persons whose necessities will not compel them to send
it to market.
The Journal de l' Aveyron states that the inn of
Vitarebe, in the Loiere, was lately reduced to ashes, by
a fire caused by lightning. The proprietor was sittins-
with sonic travellers in the dining-room, when the
electric electric fluid fell amongst them, knocked him down, and .
stnnne.d another. This latter was for some minutes
unable to stir, and when he recovered his senses he
found that three of the toes of his right foot were psra-
lysed. Strange enough, the stocking over the place was
much torn, ;bilst the boot was uninjured. The other
porFoas in the room were unhurt. The tire commencer)
Ina issrn, and in a short time, after destroying the corn
and forage, communicated to the dwelling-house, and
destroyed everything. The loss is estimated at
80,006 f.

The Journal de. Rouen contains an article com-
plaining in very stringent terms of the annoyances to
which English travellers are subjected on leaving the
steamers at Havre. There is scarcely any sort of vexa-,
tion, this paper asserts, to which they. must not submit,
and adds, that in consequence the number of travellers
by Havre is sensibly diminishing, Ostend being preferred
as their route. Nor is it at Havre alone that annoyances
are met with, for at Rouen the trunks, band-boxes, and
other luggage, are again examined, as if it was feared
that they contained some pieces of game or bottles of
brandy subject to the Octrot duty. The Journal de
Rouen recommends that, in place of all this vexatious
searching, each passenger should be required to affirm on
oath whether he carried contraband goods or not. The
Journal du Havre, in alluding to this matter, states that
it does not hope to see this plan adopted, but expresses a
wish that the Custom •house officers would do their duty
more gently, as there can be no doubt that such pro-
ceedings arcs calculated to injure the town.

We have reason to believe that the Queen and her
Royal Consort, Prince Albert, have most graciously sig-
nified their intention to visit Ireland during the ensuing
summer or autumn.—Dublin Packet.

The gold medal mentioned in the English papers
having been struck in England, in honour of Mehemet
Ali, arrived at Alexandria by the last packet, with an
address signed by sonic of the most influential mercantile
men and others of London and other places. On one
side of the medal is the portrait of the Viceroy}• ; on the
other are the following words in English :—" The friend
of science, commerce, and order, who protected the sub•
jects and property of the powers opposed to him, and
who opened the route to India."

SUNDAY TRAVELLING IN FRANCE.--The railroad
on the right bank of the Seine transported to Versailles
on Sunday week, the fete of St. Louis, 18,000 persons.
There was &so a considerable number of travellers on
the St. Germain's road. The public is now satisfied
that railways arc safe, and henceforth to use them will
be the custom of the population.—Journal des Chemins
de Ter.

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TO THE EDI7OII OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The present majority in the llouse of Corn-
mons, " •
hating been principally formed by the influence
of the agicultural part of the country, led on, :f
course, b- the promises of the landlords, that their
interests sjould be scrupulously protected, at whatever
cost; it having also become so general an opinion, not
only amongst the manufacturing but likewise with the
commercial part of the community that the late
measures of the present Cabinet, instead of being
framed for giving that impetus both to the trade at
home and in he foreign market, which is necessary '
for the real interest of the country, had been formed
more for the irterest of agriculture and protection of .1
the British Earner, I have been induced to send you
the present lett& with the hope that many of your ,,,1
impartial readers would come to a different con- ~sdl
elusion. .l