The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1842..

RIOTS IN MANCHESTER.
(Supplement to Friday :!1-'2,;•lit's Gazette.)
A PROCLAMAZION.

Chartists seek to-set aside are devised for the pi•otec-
tion of property against numbers, the aim of the
turn-outs is equally to get and to secure more pro-
perty for themselves,- and is, to all intents and pur-
pose,z, to that extent an insurrection against pro-
perty. The bulk of our dissensions, in modern times,
and of most social dissensions, relate to this subject;
and it will be injurious to the public welfare to dis-
guise or gloze over the leading fact, that this is an
insurrection of those who have little or nothing, however
much they may toil against those who own nearly
all the wealth which is annually produced. The
foundatioii of the demand for the Charter is the la-
bourer's complaint, that he is inadequately rewarded,
and all its provisions are only devices to carry out
the principle of a • " fair day's pay for a fair day's
work."

VICTORIA, R.

Whereas in divers parts of Great Britain, great
multitudes of lawless and disorderly persons have
lately assembled themselves together in a riotous and
tumultuous manner, and In,.ve, with i twee and violence,
entered into certain mines, mills, manufactories, and
other places, and have, by threats :and intimidation,
prevented our good subjects therein employed from
following their usual occupations and earning their
livelihood.

We, therefore, being duly sensible of the mischiev-
ous consequences which must inevitably ensue, as well
to the peace of the kingdom, as to the lives and pro-
perties of our subjects, from such wicked and illegal
practices, if they go unpunished ; and being firmly
resolved to cause the laws to be put in execution for
the punishment of such offenders, have thought fit, by
the advice, of our Privy Council, to issue this Procla-
mation, hereby strictly commanding all Justices of
the Peace, Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and all other
Civil Officers whatsoever, within the said United
Kingdom, that they do use their utmost endeavours
'to discover, apprehend, and bring to justice the per-
sons concerned in the riotous proceedings above-
mentioned.

The promptitude of Ministers in giving assistance
to the authorities of Lancashire, and in using
all customary means to put down this ex-
tensive insurrection meet with much appro-
bation. Certainly they have carried their own
will, and the will of the classes they represent, as that
is embodied into laws, energetically into effect;
but it would have afforded us infinitely more satisfac-
tion could we have praised them for their promptness
in taking measures to deprive the people of all motives
for their outrageous conduct. But they seem, by
their dogged determination, to exact more revenue for
the Government (which means, in truth, for the
classes they exclusively represent and think of), at
whatever cost, and their equally obstinate refusal to
allow the people to have abundance—to have done a
great deal both to sharpen in the people a desire to get
more for themselves, and to deprive them of the
means of lawfully getting it. By prevent-
ing the people from being fully fed, and
well clothed, they have contributed to provoke
the extensive insurrection which has now taken place
against property, and which no act could have excited
amongst a well7fed, contented people. Without ex-
onerating the misled persons, who have taken an inju-
dicious and violent course, those Mini4ers and those
Legislators, who are the 'authors of so much poverty
and misery, are infinitely more to blame than the
suffering and goaded masses.

And, as a further inducement to discover the said
offenders, we do hereby promise and declare, that any
persons or persons who shall discover and apprehend,
or cause to be discovered and apprehended, the
authors, abettors, or perpetrators of any of the out-
rages obove-mentioned, so that they, or any of them,
may be duly convicted thereof, shall be entitled to
the sum of Fifty Pounds for each and every person
who shall be so convicted, and shall also receive our
most gracious pardon for the said offence, in case the
person making such discovery as aforesaid shall be
liable to be prosecuted for the same.
Given at our Court at Windsor, the 13th day of
August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-two, and in the sixth year of our
reign.

Scripture says " men do not gather grapes from
thorns, and figs from thistles ;" and when, instead of
grapes and figs, which they expect, they find only
thistles and thorns, the inference is, that they have
not planted, as they intended, the vine and the
fig tree. Now the bulk of the population is
in a sad state of destitution and suffering and
there is a wide-spread disturbance calling for the
exertion of the ' military and police. It requires all
the energies of the middle and upper classes to save
their property. It puts the public to great additional
expense and inconvenience. These are undeniable
facts, and being great and serious evils, what must
the system be which bears them ? They are much
more the consequence of our laws than the extension
of cultivation, which is only supposed to grow from
them. In forming our opinion of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
plans, and his capabilities of governing, we must no
more omit this present disturbance and its conse-
quences, than the present introduction, of which he
boasts, of a few thousand quarters of corn. To sup-
pose he can escape from the dilemna, by hurling false
accusations at the Anti-Corn-law League, or against
restless agitators is absurd. He was bound to be aware
that disturbances might ensue, and to take as much care
to prevent that misery which makes the people the
tools of demagogues, as to provide a remunerating
price for farmers. He may have effected the latter,
he has not the former ; and the present insurrection is
the condemnation of Sir R. PEEL. The terrible evil
exists—it is tenfold greater than all the evils he has
warded off by the laws which has brought this on—
and the present condition of the people proves him
to be a most short-sighted politician.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
The fine steamer, Acadia, Captain Ryrie, arrived in
the river to-day at 12 o'clock, after an excellent
passage of nine days fifteen hours from Halifax, whence
she sailed on the afternoon of the 3rd, and from Boston
on the Ist.

The British Queen arrived at New York on the
27th ult. The Great Western arrived out on the
morning of the 30th, after a passage of in days.
The Columbia had arrived out after. a ten days and
"a half passage—one of the quickest to the west ever
known. The cotton market was extremely dull dur-
ing the week preceding the sailing of the packet, and
freight were without improvement. The Money
Market was heavy, and the rate of Exchange on
England 1061 to 1061.
This arrival confirms, we are happy to say, the pre-
vious intelligence that the settlement of the Boundary
Question is at length completed. The details, pub-
lished in all the papers, and criticised with consider-
able severity in some of them, on account of the too
favourable terms said to be conceded to England, are
exactly the same as those we published on Saturday.
The National Intelligencer of the 29th ult., has the
following remarks on the negotiation relative to the
North Eastern Boundary

Lord Ashburton is believed to have held out long
for the entire Madawaska settlement. But the Maine
Commissioners are said to have been as immovable as
any four pine stumps on the disputed territory. So
Maine, under the arrangement, goes to the river St.
John's. It is not unlikely, we learn, that the line
which the Dutch arbiter decided for, the line of the
St. John's and the St. Francis, will be agreed to.
But then the Maine gets what the Dutch King did
not give her, the navigation of the river ; and this
trebles the value of all her tall pine trees. West-
wardly of the St. Francis, England takes a tract
of mountain land, untimbered, and of no earthly
value but as a boundary ; and she relinquishes to the
United States Rouse's Point, the key of Lake Champ-
lain, and a large territory heretofore supposed to
belong to New York and Vermont, but which turns
out to lie north of the 45th degree of latitude, and is
therefore a part of Canada. It is said to be, and
probably is, in consequence of this cession, that the
United 'States Government agrees to pay a sum to
each of the States of Maine and Massachusetts for the
acres they have parted with ; not more than a quarter
as much, however, as General Jackson offered to give
to Maine alone, during his administration, in the year
1832. It is thought there are questions of boundary
further up, as the Secretary of State has summoned
here the Commissioners, &c., who ran the line, or
endeavoured to do so, under the treaty of Ghent (but
could not always agree), from the river of St.
Lawrence to the Lake of the Woods ; and it is sup-
posed that all remaining questions, in that far-off
world, will be settled.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.—The New. Tariff Bill
had passed the House of Representatives by a very
small majority-116 to 112. It was then sent to the
Senate, and formed the subject of daily debates there
at the time the packet sailed.
A NEW LlNER.—Messrs. Grinnell, Minturn, and
Co., have, in these dull times, laid down the timbers of a
ship of thirteen hundred and fifty tons, for their Li verpool
line. This will be the largest of all the packet-ships,
and superior in all respects, ro far as it is possible to
do better than the best of what is past.—Commercial
Advertiser.

CROPS.—The harvest is expected to be very abun-
dant. Letters from the South give very flattering
reports of the appearance of the corn and cotton crops.
Tin COLUMDIA.—The Columbia, from Liverpool,
made her passage in ten and a half days, being the
quickest voyage to the westward on record.
BRAZlL.—lntelligence from Rio Janeiro states
that an insurrection had broken out in the province of
St. Peas, but that it was thought of little moment,
and was expected to be easily put down- Captain
Smiley reports, however, that when he left, on the
20th June, appearances were more alarming. It was
reported that a large body of troops, from 1,800 to
2,200 were within fifty miles of Rio. The Govern-
ment has sent a force against them, and some skir-
mishing had taken place. Several persons supposed
to be favourable to the rebels had been arrested. A
great number of houses, suspected persons had been
searched, and all the arms found taken possession of
by the Government. The cause of the revolt is sup-
posed.to be the dislike the people have for the Prime
Minister.

HAVANNAH.—The British steamer Teviot, lying in
Havannali, took fire on the 14th inst., from spontaneous
combustion of the coal in her lower hold. The money
and ammunition were got out. The steamer was then
filled with water from engines. The precise damage
to the Teviot was not ascertained, but it is supposed
to be considerable. The Teviot was recently from
Vera Cruz.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 30.
$2OOO Kentucky Bonds
3205 New York City 7's
2000 Illinois Bonds
25 Delaware and Hudson s9O ds 82
25 Farmers' Trust ..
350 New Jersey, RR..
25 Harlem RR .

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DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 11.—If we may believe a
Journal of Bruges the Belgian pigeons are threatened
by the Directors of the French Post-office. Regular
communications between Paris, London, Brussels,
Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, and other cities, by means
of pigeons, are now established, and some of these
serial couriers are daily dispatched in different direc-
tions after the closing of the Exchange. We are
assured that the French Post-office authorities intend
to prosecute these pigeons as the bearers of letters
contrary to the law of 27 Prairial, year IX., which
gives to the Post-office the monopoly of the convey-
ance of letters weighing less than one kilogramme
(2.1b5.)

The Chevalier de Noronha, Portuguese Charge
d'Affaires in Belgium, has returned to Brussels from
Lisbon, after an absence of several months.
The most audacious robberies are committed in the
country. A few days since some malefactors
threshed cole-seed, rye, and wheat, in the open fields
in several communes, of the district of Turnhout.
The quantities carried off were considerable. The
villages are in despair at seeing their harvest carried
off, and are in great fear for the buck wheat, the oats,
the potatoes, &c. which are still to be got in, unless the
authorities watch the malefactors.

BRUSSELS, AUG. 12.—We have just learnt that
Colonel de Puydt has arrived at Brussels, with the
Deed of Cession, or Conveyance, of the port and dis-
trict of Saint Thomas, to the Belgian Colonization
Society, officially ratified by the Legislative Chambers
of G uatimala.

THE HAGUE. AUG. 11.—The Population Returns
for the province of South Holland, for 1841, are new
published :-
13irths in the Towns, Males
Females
Births in the Country, Males
Females

22,465

Deaths in the Town, Males
.14525
Females
Deaths in the Country, Males
Females •

15,844

Excess of Births
The Cologne. Gazette, of August 8, has a letter
from Dusseldorf, which states that his Majesty the
King of Prussia is to arrive in that city on Sunday. the
28th of this month, by a special, train from Elberfeld.
Great preparations are making for his reception. The
camp at Gremlengshausen will be very brilliant.
MUNICH, AUG. 3.—An unlooked-for improvement
in theDaguerrotype has been made by M. Isenring,
who is now here. Ile has succeeded in producing the
images on the plate, not merely in black, but in all
the splendour of their colours, so that uly resemble
the most beautiful paintings.

ntric it r, CI N W.--:-AANTERDAIIr, AUG. 12.
Money. fIIP.
Actual Debt. 4% per Cent
Jinn ditto 5 pet cent.
Atmat Svndic,-I4 per cent.... ..........
Ditto, ditto, 34 per cont 774 ;7.,6
Comtnercial Company, 4 for cent I43N 14414
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.. 19.% 100
Exchange on Londe,:, (Inc month ll 15
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 814
Two months 35 tr 256
Dutch Papers, Aug. 13.
BELGIAN t• u Nt.—Bituasecs, Auc. 11
Actual Mtn, as per Cent.
Rothschild's 1,,,an, 5 per (7elit lOl%
Loan of Thirt) Millions, 4 per Cent. 9l
---- 3 per Cent
---
—... Thirty.seven----- „
1;1,
,•1!
-----(1 '411)
Loan of City, 1'.'"'..2, .4 per Cent ! 2
SocictN ot Coromerce,.4 t,, per Cent Ati
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 73
National Satiety
Exchange on London (short) ~,. ...........
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._ Brussels Pavers, Aug. 12.
A Main A N / UNDS.—‘IIiNNA. AUG. 4
/Ivo per Cents. Metaiiiqucs ............................ ... 1. $1,6
Four per Cents.
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'ft, ree par Cents.
764
flank Shares.. ................
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PUINCE GEORGE.—The Town Council and the
Magistracy of Leeds have it in contemplation to present
a tr►bute of loyalty to his Royal Highness during his
residence amongst us, which will, we understand, ter-
minate about the 22d of the present month. The ex-
pressicn of this feeling will probably be conveyed in a
loyal and dutiful address. A-review of Prussian troops,
upon a magnificent scale, to the amount of 40,000 men,
is appointed to take place in the neighbourhood of
Berlin about the end of this month, or the beginning of
! September, which is to be honoured by Prince George
and a great assemblage of illustrious personages. We
understand that the Prince manifests much interest in
military exercises, and regularly attends the drill of the
troops which now takeS place on Woodhouse Moor
every morning, mostly extending to nearly three' hours.
On Sunday niorninc, his Royal Highness, in company
with Lieutenant-Colonel St. Quintin, attended Divine
service at St. John's Church, in this town.—Leeds
vittercury,