The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-29 00:00:00

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LONDON
WEDNESDAY HORNING, JUNE 29, 1842.

Mr. WALTER was last night called to the bar of the
House of Commons, and, in a short, but plain, sensible,
and rather modest speech, vindicated the course he had
taken. He placed ifi s refusal to attend the Committee
on, a deference to his constitutional right to be tried by
none but an impartial tribunal, and he impugned, at the
bar, the impartiality of the Committee. He claimed the
protection of the House against the Committee, and,
while he professed a readiness to obey the orders of the
House, and placed himself in its hands, he respectfully
protested against the authority of the Committee. On
his retiring from the bar, Mr. ROEBUCK moved that Mr.
WALTER be ordered to attend and give evidence this
day. Sir R. INGLIS opposed the motion, principally on
account of the arbitrary, inquisitorial, and unconstu:ional
nature of the tribunal. Sir G. GREY thought it did not
sufficiently vindicate the dignity of the House, and be
wished that Mr. WALTER should be informed that he
must obey the Committee. Sir R. PEEL took a precisely
similar view, but acquiesced in the motion as it was
made. On a division, it was decided by 223 to 77, that
Mr. WALTER should be ordered to attend the Com-
mittee.

The result is, in one respect, a triumph for Mr.
WALTER. On principle he refused to attend the Com-
mittee, but he would readily obey the order of the
House. The House humoured him by giving him such
an order, and by that admitted that Mr. WALTER'S ob-
jection to the authority of the Committee was a valid
one. The House even received his protest against the
authority of its own Committee, and did not rebuke him
for questioning and resisting it. Mr. WALTER will now
attend the Committee by the order of the House—not
by the order of the Committee. Suppose a Captain of
a ship, leaving his First Lieutenant in command,
clothed with all his authority, and suppose the said First
Lieutenant, in the absence of the Captain, to order the
Boatswain to strike the t pmasts, and suppose the Boat-
swain to refuse, and say he would obey the Captain, but
not the First Lieutenant;—suppose the Captain to be re-
ferred to, and suppose that he were to say, " Mr. Boat-
swain, strike the topmasts immediately," and not to say,
" you must obey the First Lieutenant ; you have been
guilty of disobedience, and have incurred the pe-
nalties of the law"—would that not be subvert-
ing the authority of the First Lieutenant, and
admitting that Mr. Boatswain did right in not obeying
him, though he must obey the Captain ? This is a pa-
rallel case to that oc Mr. WALTER ; and the House of
Commons, by giving him an order to attend the Com-
tt►ittee, instead of informing him, as Sir G. GREY pro..
flo::cd, that he must obey the summons of the Committee
qr take the consequences, subverted the authority of its
,tiwn Committee. In fact, Mr. ROEBUCK, we believe,
meant what. Sir G. GREY proposed, but though techni-
cally precise, he failed ,to catch the distinction we have

endeavoured to point out, and so he sweetened Mr.
WALTER'S humiliation by a quasi triumph.
Mr. WALTER certainly found lenient judges; and he
is substantially where he was when he began the con-
test. He must attend the Committee, and might have
spared himself the trouble of kicking against its autho-
rity. It was unfortunate for him, too, that he admitted
he was summoned to be tried. Try a witness I Make
a man both accuser and testifier ! Not so. The Com-
mittee is to inquire, it is to find evidence ; the trial will
take place after the Report is made to the House
of Commons. The Committee can neither pass sentence
nor inflict punishment. Mr.WALTER's over sensitiveness
n the subject, and his use of the word " tried," are the
wc.rst features of his case. On this point no little con-
fusion runs through the debates of the House. The
Committee, without the power to decide, is called a tri-
bura:; and men who are called before it to give evidence
say they are going to he tried. The whole thing is a
mere inquiry by a Committee of the House ; if it were
ankdagous to a Court to try criminal cases, its secret
proceedings could not be too much reprobated.

The Tariff, or Customs Bill, was last night passed
' through its last stage in the House of Commons, in the
midst of the cheers of the Members. Were these re-
joicings inspired by a patriotic and enlightened hopo
that the measure will mitigate and cure the woes of the
people, or by mere animal pleasure at the termination of
an irksome task ? We are afraid the latter was the
source of the cheers. Sir R. PEEL, indeed, expressed
a strong opinion that his Tariff will improve trade, and
restore enterprise. No inconsiderable portion of the
trading community are of the same opinion. Without
sharing in their anticipations, we heartily hope they may
be realised. We want a return of prosperity—we want to
see the people well fed and comfortably clothed—and we
care not by whose instrumentality the good work is
achieved. We, however, believe that the Tariff in the
present condition of the community, will be of very little
ad:antage, and we shall be delighted at learning that we
have been wrong, and that the Tariff works wonders for
the people.

We cannot, however, allow the Bill to pass, without
observing that Sir R. PEEL is one of the most powerful
lawmakers that ever swayed the House of Commons to
his purposes. He has now carried, almost unaltered, all
his great measures. His reputation is gone, as it were,
out of his own keeping ; he has set it on the effects of the
Corn-law, the Income-tax, and the Tariff, and it is be-
yond his control. Events, not exercising a little influence
ever the House of Commons, will soon decide whether
Sir R. PEEL is to be honoured as a great statesman, or
derided as a mere pretender to statesmanship.

COLONEL MONROE EDWARDS.—The great financier,
as he is called in the United States, a gentleman well
known in Europe for the successful manlier in which he
took Lord Althorp in, by presenting forged letters of in-
troluction, and who has for some time been living on
his wits, was found guilty of forgery at New York, on
the 15th instant, after a trial of unparalleled length. The
Court deferred passing sentence on him. In the mean-
time Mr. Whiting, the District Attorney, has declared
his intention to try Edwards upon all the remaining five
indictments, now pending against him, and to punish
h an upon them all, if he can procure convictions.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP
COLUMBIA IN NINE DAYS.

The following only appeared in our Fourth Edition

of last night :

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, ONE P.M.
At an early hour this morning, the steam-ship
Columbia, Captain Judkins, was announced off this
Fort, after the most extraordinary passage ever

made from the United States to England. She
wiled from Boston on the night of the 16th, and from
llalifax (where she remained to take in the Canadian

mails) on the night of the 18th, thus completing the voy-
age from Boston to Liverpool in 11 days and 10 hours.
ineNding a stoppage of six hours at Halifax. The
arrival of the Columbia puts us in possession of
pa; Trs from New York to the- 16th inst., Boston to
the 17th, and Halifax to the 19th. The Britannia,
another of the steamers of this rapid fleet, arrived
at Halifax in eleven days, and would
reach Boston in thirteen days. The whole manage-
ment of this line of mail steam-ships reflects the
greatest credit upon the very able superintendents,
Messrs. M'lver and Co. of Liverpool.
By the activity of these gentlemen on the present
occasion, the North American Mails brought by the
Columbia were landed at the earliest possible mo-
ment, and despatched to London by express, seven
hours in advance of the ordinary conveyance. On this,
as well as on many other previous occasions, we are in-
debted to the Directors of the Grand Junction and the
London and Birmingham Railway Companies for their
granting an especial conveyance through to London,
which was performed with the greatest ease and safety
by our Express Messenger, who accomplished the
journey from Liverpool to London in little more than
six hours.

The following extracts compose the only articles of

nterest by this arrival :

NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY.—The Commissioners
from Maine and Massachusetts are now all in Washing-
ton. The Commission has been organised, and it is ex-
pected that the deliberations will be closed in five or six
weeks.

In the House of Representatives, the Apportionment
Bill was taken up, and by a vote of 161 to 50, the second
amendment made to it by the Senate was rejected. The
House refusing to concur in any of the amendments, the
Bill, as it originally passed, was sent back to the Senate.
TIIE TARIFF QUESTION.—On motion of Mr. Fillmore,
a resolution was passed, 112 to 96, to take the question
•at two o'clock, on the Tariff Bill, extending the present
laws to the Ist of August. The subject was debated by
Mr. Gilmer and Mr. W. Cost Johnson, the. latter of
whom was speaking when the mail closed.
PROM TEXAS.—President Houston has convened a
special sitting of Congress for the 27th June.
Judge. Terrell, the Attorney-General, has been sent. to
the East to concentrate the troops in that section.
Tn n Mexicans were recently captured on the other
side of Corpus Christi and brought to Galveston. They
were well treated and immediately liberated by General
Houston.

FROM MEXICO.—New Orleans papers of the Ist inst.
announce the arrival of thirteen more Santa Feans, late
prisoners in Mexico, but liberated through the interpo-
sition of the British Minister, the French Minister, and
the Prussian Consul.

It was reported at Vera Cruz that the President,
Santa Ana, was about to liberate all the prisoners—find-
ing the expense of feeding and the trouble of guarding
them rather inconvenient.

FROM FLORIDA.—On the 19th of May a Mrs. Da-
niells and her five children- were killed two miles south
of the natural bridge on the Santa Fe ; and on the 20th,
still further south, two men were waylaid and put tc
death.

On the night of the Ist inst. the house of a Mr. Ro-
binson, in Jefferson county, just beyond the Ocilla, was
attacked by a party of Indians, supposed to be 50 in
number. Mr. Robinson's mother and four others of his
family were killed, and the house plundered.
FROM HAYTL—At Port au Prince the Legislature
have, on the rr>commendation of the President of Idayti,
passed a law exempting from the payment of taxes the
inhabitants of the districts devastated by the earthquake.
CAPE HAITIEN.—The disorders that prevailed in this
unfortunate city in ruins, of which we have before heard
so much complaint, have been consummated by the pil-
lage, or rather theft of the public treasure, which had
been hitherto preserved, it is said, by a guard. Letters
announce the conflagration of the rest of the houses
overturned, and not before burned. The first fire can-
sutned only a quarter of the city, and was extinguished
by rain. Generals Obas and Monscardy have gone
thither with instructions from the President to establish
order.

The proclamation of the President, dated May 18th,
after alluding to the facts of the earthquake, says.
"This immense calamity has torn my very heart.
Wherefore have I yet to regret excesses which are come
in to aggravate the measure ?"
ST. JACO.—Letters frern this unfortunate city con-
firm the sad news of the overturning of all the houses
built with masonry, and of all the public edifices. About
two hundred persons have perished. The earthquake
was perceived at the same time as at Cape Ilaitien.
New shocks, very strong, haring continued through the
night and the following days. The rest of the population
removed a half league from the city. At the first mo-
ment of this strong convulsion of the earth, the river
Yaque was seen to go up towards its source, and to di-
vide in two parts, leaving a dry passage in its bed ; then
to descend with astonishing impetuosity.
The excesses committed here by the prisoners who
escaped in consequence of the fall of the prisons, are
deplorable. St. Jago is described as a very flourishing
city, that had just begun to acquire the prosperity due
to industry.
ST. DomINGo.---The powerful shock experienced here
was preceded by a terrible noise coming from the
East. The fine Cathedral, commenced in 1514, and
finished in 1540, had resistedevery earthquake, especially
those of 1684 and 1691. But it was considerably injured
by that of the 7th inst. The sea was excessively agi-
tated near the. harbour. The injury experienced by the
Cathedral occasioned the fear of its fall ; on which ac-
count the Vicar-General Portez thought proper to take
away the holy sacrament, and carry it to the church St.
Dominick, and afterwards to a barrack constructed in
haste. _ -

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 15.
1,000 Dols., New York Sevens ............ 1011
1,000 Dols., New York Sixes, 1854 96
5,000 Dols., New York Sixes, 1862 96—b 60
1,000 Dols. ditto ditto 93i—s 3
2,000 Thils.New York Five-and-a-Half, 1861 89
1,000 Dols. ditto .............. ditto B9i

, I 2,000 Dols. Water loan, 70 - . 82 --
1,000 Dols.lllinois Bonds l9
1 1,000 Dols Indiana ditto 2l
20 Shares Mechanics Bank 63
' 1 10 ditto Bank of America B5
l 11 Delaware and Hudson 92
15 ditto Ohio Life and Trust
23 ditto Jefferson insurance Co.
15 ditto N. Y. Gas
25 ditto Mohawk Railroad
25 ditto Canton
15 ditto Harlem Railroad
50 ditto ditto ditto 17,1
5C ditto ditto ditto l7l bn w
50 ditto Long Island Railroad
5"4
50 ditto Paterson
25 ditto Stonington
PHILADELPHIA SALE OF STOCKS—JUNE 14.
20 Shares Phila., Wilmington, and Batt. R. R.
85713000 llTlcillitt-tgst
20 ditto Planters, Tenn.
onal.,clNSoixteese, 1842
rete is'talkilri 75
49
$l,OOO Check on Bank Pennsylvania
Juert 16.—There is nothing worthy of note transpiring
in the market. Money continues abundant, and the of dinary
business paper is easily discounted at fair and even cheap
rates. Our quotations of domestic exchange vary but
little from day to day, except when there is an occasional
blow up like that at New Orleans. We make very little
change in quotations since last Saturday. Mobile Funds,
after a slight improvement last week, have fallen back
again to quite as bad a state as before. It is hardly
possible, under present circumstances, to give a correct
quotation for New Orleans, as everything is at present
so uncertain ; the two or three banks which held out at
the last accounts may be able to weather the storm, and
if so, exchange will soon get to its legitimate stand ;
beak notes are at a ruinous discount. We quote :
New York par to advance
Philadelphia par to discount
B dtimore
Virginia 2l to 34
Cincinnati, specie drafts-
do currency do
Louisville . 4 'to 41-
New Orleans
Mobile 98 to 30
St. Louis to 10
Illinoiscurreir.: -
Treasury Notes.
Bank of the U. States notee 40 to 45
Exchange on England
There has not been much doing in Exchange for this
packet for England.
The sales of Stocks at auction, yesterday, were pub-
lished in our first edition this morning, as follows
5 shares Western Railroad, 65 per sh.
24 do Eastern Railroad, 961
50 do Providence Railroad, 991
90 do Atlas Bank, 83f
70 de City Bank, 80
100 do Traders' Bide 73f
5 do North Bank, SO
5 do Freeman's Bank, 964
7 du People's Bank, 41 ; (par. 50)
,
5 do Hope Ins. Co., 79.;i
5 do Winnisahnmet Co., 194
1 do Boston Library, 124
7 do Firemen's Ins. Co., 981 ; (25 par.)
6 do Canal Bridge, 37:1
- 1 do Oriental Bank, $5 per sh.
1 do Boston Library, $l2l.
EXCHANGE—FOICEIGic.—There is not much doing to-
day in bills on England at 7 a 71 per cent. premium.
TENNESSEE BANKS. —The Nashville Union says
" Our banks have Lot determined Nvhether to resuhie as
the law directs. or to await the issue of a .scire facias."
ST. LOUIS, MOBILE.—It appears that the shin plasters
of the city of St. Louis have occasioned a row in that
city, and that after other people refused them, the
Butchers had a meeting, and resolved to continue to take
them. The consequence Was, that many of the citizens
tried hard to keep them up, and many of the traders ad-
vertised to 'ake them at par.
'li' President of the City Bank of New Orleans has
publicly expressed his opinion that the State is insolvent.
The Bonds issued by the State amount to $20,820,889.
There was a greet sale of Real Estate in New Orleans
on the 6th inst., the property of John Richardson. The
entire property brought the sum of $170,900, said to be
notanure than two-thirds of the original coat. The
terms of the sale were one-tenth cash, the balance in four
equal instalments, without interest, payable in one, two,
three and four years after date of sale.

CRICKET.

MARYLEEONE CLUB v.

THE COIZTY OF

SUSSEX.
The match between eight gentlemen and three players
of the Marylebone Club, and four gentlemen and sel en
players selected from the several districts of the comity
of Sussex, was commenced at Lord's on Monday, and
terminated yesterday afternoon in favour of the blurr by
a majority of 145 rune. This is the first deli-at the
Mttrylebone Club has sustained this season, and it is to
b 3 attributed solely to their being overmatched, they
having :thly the advantage of Ilillyir, Barker, and Bay-
ley, while the eleven the County included the following
seven "crack" players :—Box (one of the finest wicket-
keepers in the kingdom), Lillywhite, Dean, Millyard,
Hodson, Hawkins, and Pioknell.

The match attracted each dal. a very large assemblage
of spectators, including. the leading members of the
Mar3lebone Club and other metropolitan, suburban,
awl provincial club,, end comprising nio,t of they Oxford
and Cambridge. (University) elevens. Aiming other
noblemen:and gentle nen of high rank and di4inetion,
we noticed the Marquis of Exeter, Earl of
Verulam, Earl of A boyne, Earl of- March,
Earl of Winterton, Viscount Drumlanrig, Vis-
count Folkstone, Lord H. Loans, Lord W. Beresford,
Lord F. 11.auclerc, Lord M. Hill, Lord E. Hill, the Hon.
F. Ponsonby, the Hon. S. Ponsonby, the Hon. 1L Grim-
stone, and the Hip. A. Grimstone.

At the coonnencement of the game, the betting was 5
to 4 in favour of the County, with plenty of taken, but
after each eleven had played their first innings, the odds
increased to 3
to 1,
without, however, any decrease in
the number of takers.

The Club placed their best men at the principal
stations in the field as follows :—Sir Freda rick Ba-
thurst, cover point ; Mr. Nicholson, point ; Mr. Ky-
naston, long stop; Mr. Thackerary, long field at the log;
Bayley and Hillyer, bowlers. The County thus dis-
posed of their players :—Hawkins, point ; Millyard,
long stop ; Mr. C. Taylor, cover point ; Picknell, slip ;
Box (wicket keeper) ; Mr. Ponsonby, as the substitute
of Mr. Landon (long field at the leg) ; Lillywhite and
Dean (bowlers).
The County, having won the toss, went in first. Box
displayed some very splendid batting, and cleared thirty-
nine runs, with two fours, six threes, a two, and eight
ones. Picknell twelve, with a four, twice two, and four
ones. Mr. Langdon ten, with a four and six ones, and
Hodson eight, with a four, a three, and a one.
The Club then took the field, Bayley and Mr. Thac-
keray obtaining the majority of runs, the former marking
nineteen, with two fours, two threes, a two, and three
ones ; and the latter fifteen, with a five, a four, twice
two, and two ones.

In the second innings of the County Mr. Taylor exhi-
bited some very scientific batting, scoring no less thun
sixty runs, with a six, a five, a four, three threes, eight
twos, and twenty ones. 1),-an nineteen, with a five, twice
two, and ten ones. Hodson sixteen, with a five, a three,
a two, and six ones ; and Box sixteen, with a four, a
three, twice two, and five ones.

In the second innings of the Club, Sir Frederick
Bathurst made fifteen, with two threes, twice two, and
five ones ; Mr. Thackeray seven, with a four, a two, and
a one ; Mr. Kynaston live, with a three and two ones.
The fielding of both sides was excellent, and the
bowling of Lillywhite and Dean, and of Bayley and
Hillyer was greatly admired. Dean, in each innings of
the Club, lowered four wickets ; and in the second innings
of the County, no less than six out of eleven wickets were
bowled out by Hillyer.
Subjoined is a copy of the score :
SUSSEX.
FIRST INNINGS.

Lillywhite, b by Hillyer
Mill 3 ard, run out
Picknell, c by Bayley, b by Hillyer
Hawkins, c by Mr. Anson; b by Bailey 0
Mr. C. Taylor, c by Mr. R. Nicholson, b by Bayley 4
Mr. E. Napper, c by Hillyer, b by Bayley 9
Box. b by Bayley
Mr. G. L. Langdon, b by Hillyer
Mr. C. Barton, b by Hillyer
liorlson, not nut 8
Dean, c b y Mr. R. Nicholson, b by Bayley
Byes _
_. 0

Wide balls
No balls
4