The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-05 00:00:00

TITE_SUN, LONDON, WEDIIPSDAY EVENING, NOVEMTBER g, 1845.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 94-British and Irish Union, 41;-
Caledonian, 11-Ditto Extension, ,I-,;-Cliester and Birken-
head (New 201. Shares), 9)6-Chester and Holyhead, 18%-
Derby and Crewe, 41-Eastern Counties, 213 A-Edinburgh
and Perth, 4%-Fleetwood, Preston, and 1\ est Riding, 3A-
Glasgow and Duw_fries, 605.-Grand Junction, 227-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 46%-Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32-
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 204-Grand Union, 2%-Goole and
Doncaster, 4 -Inverness and Perth, n:-Lancaster and
Carlisle, 50-Leicester and Bedford, 23/4-Leicester and Tam-
worth, 3%-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 31,4-Liverpool and
Manchester, (New Shares), 5214-Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle Junction, 5-London and York, 514-Leeds
and Dewsbury, 20-Leeds and Thirsk, 11-Manchester and
Birmingham, 80%-Manchester and Birmingham Continua-
tion, 2 %-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 3-
Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 13-Midland Railway,
5-Ditto (40/. Shares), 251/2-North Staffordshire, 6%-
North Wales Mineral, New Shares, 6-Nottingham and
Boston, 4-Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 41/.,-Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 8-Preston and Wyre (New
Shares, Preference 5 per cent. and div.), 94-Sheffield and
Manchester (Quarter Shares), 16-Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Chester, 6k-South-Eastern and Dover (New Shares,
No. 2.), 11%-Scottish Central, 17-South Midland, 7-
Welsh Midland, 3%-Great County Down, i'4,4-Waterford
and Valentia, 2 t4-Dutch Rhenish, 9-Great Luxembourg,
745.-Jamaica and South Midland, 44-Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), 61s. 6d.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Blackburn and Pres-
ton, 18-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 24-Caledo-
nian, 117 -Cambridge and Lincoln, 5-Clitheroe Junction,
34 -Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Shrewsbury, 34-Eastern
Counties, 23-East Lancashire. No. 1, 20-East Lincoln-
shire, 3%-Edinburgh and Perth, 5-Grand Union, 2 9-16
-Great }_:astern and Western, 3%-Great Grimsby and Dock
Extension, 8%-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 29-
Leeds and Thirsk, 10-Leicester and Tamiforth, 3-Liver-
pool and Bury, 32-Liverpool and Manchester, New, 50-
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 53;x-Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6-London and Manchester
(Remington's), 34-London and York, 54-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 81,4-Manchester and Bir•
mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2-Manchester
and Bury Atmospheric, 136-Manchester, Midland, and
Grimsby, 31/2-Manchester and Southampton, 4%-Man-
chester, Wigan, and Southampton, 2%-North Staffordshire,
6%-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 8-Sheffield,
Leek, and Crewe, 1%-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
4%-Sheffield and Manchester (Quarters), No. 3, 83/-
Shropshire Mineral, 13/4-South Staffordshire Junction, 6-
South Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Halves, 436-Trent
Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 176--Trent
Valley Midlands, 3-Waterfor4, Wexford, and Valentia, 24
-Welsh Midland, 34-West Lancashire Coast, 3-White-
haven and Furness, 71,4-Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe
Union, 1%.
LEEDS, Nov. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Croy-
don, 22-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 4%
-Ditto, Docks, 9-Leeds and Bradford, 45-Ditto, Exten-
sions, 39%-Leeds and Thirsk, 16-Liverpool and Bury, 3114
-Newcastle and Berwick, :16%-London and York, 51.
6s. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 5-Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 6/. 95.-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., par
-Chelmsford and Bury, par-Grand Union, 275. 6d. P.
-Great Eastern and Western, 15s. p.-Leeds, and Liver-
pool Direct, 10s. p.-Leeds and York, 13s. 6d. p.-Leicester
and Birmingham, 18s. p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle Junction, 5%-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 54 p.-Manchester and Birmingham Continua-
tion and Welsh Junction, 24-North Staffordshire, 57__
North Western, 4A-Nottingham and Boston, 51s. p.-Not-
tingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 51/2-Nottingham and
Grantham, 4%-Shrewsbury: and Hereford, 3%-Wakefield
and Bradford, 21s. p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 478. 6d. p.
-Welsh Midland, 31. 33.-York and Carlisle, 31. 19s.
SHEFFIELD, Nov. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 5/. is 6d.-East Lincolnshire, 3%-Grimsby and Shef-
field, 18-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 41/0-London and York,
5:%-London and York (Bawtry Branch), 414-Leicester
and Birmingham, 24-Leicester and Bedford, 2/. 18s. 9d.-
Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 51. 3s. 9d.-Notting-
ham and Grantham, 536-North Staffordshire, 63/-Sheffield
Lincolnshire, 5-Wakefield and Harrogate, 3%-Welsh
Midland, 3%.

THE CITY OF EDINBURGH AND

LORD JOHN RUSSF,LL.

EDINBURGH, MONDAY.—The Lord Provost, magistrates, and
• council of this city having, at their meeting on Thursday last,
unanimously resolved to confer the freedom of the city on Lord
• John Russell, who, with his lady, is at present on a private visit
here, the ceremony of presentation took place to-day in the
• Music-tiall, George-street (the largest public building in the town),
the Council Chamuer being considered too small to accommodate
the number of inhabitants who were understood to be anxious to be
i present on the occasion. The hall was crowded, long before the
. hour announced for the ceremony, with a large and respectable
audience, composed of men of various shades of politics, and in-
. eluding Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir James Gibson Craig,
William Gibson Craig, Esq., M.P., Andrew Rutherford, Esq.,
I M.P., William Murray, Esq., of Nenderland, Professor Trail, A.
S. Logan, Esq , advocate, &c. kc. The Lord Provost, magis.
trates, and council were attired in their robes of office. Precisely
at one o'clock Lord John Russell entered the hall, accompanied by
Lord and Lady Minto, and was received with repeated rounds of
applause.
The LORD PROVOST the rose and said :—ln the name of the
toisn council and of the citizens of Edinburgh I have now the
honour of presenting your Lordship with the freedom of our
city. The burgesses of Edinburgh have an honest pride in their
roll of citizenship, emblazoned with names illustrious in rank, re-
nowned in arts and arms, and distinguished in the various walks of
science and literature, and we are highly gratified in being now
privileged to inscribe another honoured name in our burghal re-
cords.—(Great applause.) To you, my Lord, who have already
reached the most elevated height to which the subjects of a free
Government may aspire, this distinction can add nothing. It is,
however, the highest mark of approbation we have to bestow ; but
humble as it is, we trust it will not be without its value in your
eyes, as being the symbol which conveys to your Lordship the
sentiments of gratitude and esteem with which you and your family
are regarded by the capital of Scotland. When I inform your
Lordship that the town council, as representing the community,
is composed of men of every shade of political opinion, and
that they have unanimously agreed to present you with this mark
of their respect, it may be held as sufficient evidence that
the merit which calif forth such unanimity of approbation is of a
far higher order than that which is elicited by mere political par-
tisanship. In you, my Lord, we recognise the worthy son of a
race of patriots, who have defended and watched over and foe.
tered the glorious plant of British liberty, and watered it with
their blood.—( Great applause.) In you we have discerned the
high-toned principles of honour and virtue ; from your earliest
career we have been delighted to observe your aspirations after the
welfare of your native land, and the constancy with which you
have elevated your great talents and untiring energies to diffuse
light, and liberty, and happiness,not only among your countrymen,
but through the whale family of man.—(Loud cheers.) I'o at.
tempt to enumerate these efforts, even if I were competent, would
occupy more time than would be commensurate, and might tempt
me to trench on debateable ground ; but surely it would hardly
be justifiable to pass over your services in getting wiped from the
statute-book that blot which made the most sacred ordinance of
Christianity a passport to office.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
Presbyterian Scotland, especially, owes you a debt of gra-
titude for deliverance from the yoke of the test and corporation
laws.—(Loud cheers.) I must likewise advert to your great exer-
tions in another hard-fought field. From the commencement of
your public (life, we rejoiced to observe you In the foremost ranks
of those who struggled for the abolition of the accursed slave trade,
and it is the glory of that cabinet of which your Lordship was a dis.
tinguished member that Great Britain is no longer chargeable with
that foulest injustice. In you, the friend of education and morality,
have we found a steady friend and able advocate both in your pri-
vate and public capacity. We have likewise to acknowledge our
obligations to you for the removal of many restrictions on trade, and
for additional facilities to the commerce of the country. I may es.
pecially refer to the abolition of the East India monopoly,
and the opening of the trade with China. I cannot
enter upon that great measure of Parliamentary reform,
with which your name must ever be associated in the
history of England ; but at a meeting of the Town
Council in your presence, it would be unpardonable were we
not to proffer our thanks for the boon conferred upon the citizens
of this and the other burghs, by which they have now the privi-
lege of electing from their own number those in whom they can
sonfide the management of their municipal affairs.—(Cheers.)
Valuable as are the services you have rendered to your country—
exalted as is the station in which you have been placed by Provi-
dence—great as are the talents with which you have been endowed—
it is not so much for these that we now testify our admiration, as
for the sterling and uncompromising honesty with which you have
pursued your onward course in promoting what you believe to be
for the best interssts of your country, although that course should
weaken your own position and strengthen that of your opponents.—
(Applause.) In conclusion, if it is the mind that constitutes the
man, allow me to claim for our city some share in Lord John Rus.
sell, inasmuch as our university had the honour of contributing
from its library and philosophic stores to the formation of his en.
lightened mind. This, my Lord, is the last act of the existing
Town Couucil ; and surely it could not conclude its labours more
gracefully than by testifying gratitude to the statesman whose
Cabinet procured for them the privileges they now enjoy. My
Lord, in presenting you with the freedom of our city, I address
you as the youngest :burgess of Edinburgh. Long may you be
preserved to grace our ancient burgh, and long may you live in the
hearts of your countrymen.—(Applause.)
Lord Joule Russess then rose, and was received with enthusi-
astic applause. When the cheers had subsided, he. said,—My
Lord, I beg to return my most grateful thanks to you and the
town council of Edinburgh, as representing the inhabitants of
this northern metropolis, for the great honour which you have
conferred upon me. You may depend upon it that I shall always
value it as expressing their opinion of services which I have in.
adequately performed, and, at least, as a testimony that they have
appreciated the good intentions which promoted those service's—
(Cheers.) My Lord, you have most justly said, at the conclusion
of your address, that whatever acquirements I may have made in
early life, I owe a great part of them to the education which I re.
ceived in the University of Edinburgh.—(Applause) Gentlemen,
I cannot stand here receiving the testimony of your approbation—
I can hardly go forth into your streets, without having my
mind forcibly recalled to the happy scenes of those days when
I was a student within your walls. I cannot but recollect
with regret, at the same time accompanied with gra-
tification, the instruction which I received from a man
eminent indeed in science, but not less eminent from
his character—l mean Mr. Professor Playfair. We know that
with respect to others, it may be said that they, in following the
lighter paths of literature, may have the accomplishments which
are suitable to those paths and those occupations; but it was re.
markable in Professor Playfair that while his pursuits were in the
abstract sciences, his character, his conversation, and his whole life
partook of all that was amiable, of all that was kind, and of all
that was engaging.—(Cheers.) After studies and abstract calcula-
tions on, perhaps, the density of the earth. he would go forth—for
I have had the pleasure of accompanying him—to enjoy the sub.
lime and remarkable landscapes which abound in the neighbour-
hood of your city. He would go from disquisitions with respect,
perhaps, to the astronomy of the Hindoos, and to all that was dif-
ficult in calculations, to be the most cheerful, the meat at ease, and
the most happy of the society of which he was the ornament. I
cannot, in entering your city, but reflect upon the days when I had
the satisfaction of being under the tuition of such a man. I cannot
but recollect also that in this city I heard the lessons of moral
philosophy, adorned by the eloquence of Mr. Dugald Stewart.
Within your walls, also, there were many others whose society I
had then the happiness of enjoying. I had to admire, in Mr.
Mackenzie, in the extreme of age, that liveliness and that spirit
which is usually the accompaniment of youth ; and I likewise had
the happiness to enjoy the hospitality of a man whose works, which
have since been produced, have become so famous in all parts of
the world—on the banks of the Don, as on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi—in all parts of Europe, in all parts of America ; whose
works tend to the enjoyment of intellectual pursuits, and to raise
men from the sordid and selfish occupations of sense to the pleasure
of intellectual enjoyment. These were at that time among the
men who were eminent in society in Edinburgh ; and you will,
therefore, not be surprised that in referring to the time when I was
•a student here I should recal their eminent merits, and reflect
upon the hours, many of them of enjoyment, and many
of instruction, which I had the happiness here to par-
take—(Great applause.) I could willingly, if it were not for
occupying your time, and because it might seem less proper
to the occasion, refer to others of whom we have not to re-
gret that they Arent) longer among us—men still eminent, in whose
society I then enjoyed the view of all that was great, acute, and
eminent in literature ; but I will go now to say a few words on
those which have since been my occupation, and to which your
Lordship did me the honour to allude. Since those days I have
been engaged the greater part of my life in the occupations and
struggles of political warfare and political debate.—(Loud cheers.)
I trust that in the midst of that warfare I have not failed to do
justice to my opponents. I trust that, engaged in a party, it has
been my object to promote the welfare of my fellow-countrymen of
all creeds and persuasions. With me the colour of the negro was
no objection to his receiving the rights of a free citizen; nor
could I think that a differenceof religious persuasion ought, either
on the one hand to deprive men of those political honours and that
political power to which they might justly aspire, nor, on the other
hand, to deprive them, while so struggling, of the regard and
sympathy of those who, differing with them in religion, might still
regard their conscientious persuasion, and grasp them with the
hand of Christian charity.--(Loud cheers.) It has been the
course of my life, in the many important measures in which I
have taken a part, to extend the liberties of my countrymen, and
to promote the popular power. lam not going in this assembly
to discuss whether these measures were rightly framed, but you
will permit me here, having received the honour which you have
just conferred upon me, to state to you that which I always kept in
view in the measures, both those which I have framed, and those in
which I have taken a share as a colleague along with other per.
sons. I have always kept in view to make measures in which I
have taken a part consonant to the Constitution of England. I
have always endeavoured so to frame those measures, that they as-
similate, if I may so speak, with the blood of the existing institu.
tions. Wherever there were abuses, I thought those abuses ought
to be corrected. Wherever the franchise was narrowed by the
spirit of former times, or narrowed, perhaps, by the necessity of a
contest with some other body, and required to be enlarged, I have
been in favour of enlargement. But I always assumed it
to be my bounden duty to endeavour so to correct those
abuses, so to regulate that enlargement, that our admir-
able Constitution should not be weakened but strengthened,
and, if possible, perpetuated by the change.—(Great ap-
plause.) Men differ, as they must do in this free country, with
respect to the particular measures that should be pursued. Some
think that the prerogatives of the Crown are too much enfeebled,
others that the franchise of the people is not sufficiently extended.
—(A solitary cry of "Hear, hear.") Far be it from me to enter
into any controversy on these topics. What Ido wish to impress
on you, at least as my notion—at least, as my conviction—that in
any changes that may hereafter be made, the spirit of our Constitu.
tion should always be kept in view ; and this I say, not from any
bigoted adherence to that which is established; although with re.
spect to old institutions, even if they were less perfect than others,
it would perhaps be imprudent to endeavour to change, in order
to reach some abstract perfection—but I speak of our institutions,
bcczuse in looking at the history of the world—in looking at the
institutions of nations now existing in the world, I find none—
I will not say none in which there are not better laws on par.
ticular subjects—none in which there may not be some
part of its institutions better than ours—but I find no
Constitution so well formed to promote the liberty of man as
the Constitution under which we have the happiness to live.—
(Cheers.) It was accounted by a Roman historian a rare
felicity of the particular time in which he wrote, that he could both
think what he pleased and venture to say what he thought. Now
that is not only a great privilege and happiness itself, but it is a
mode in which truth can be ascertained, and in which the welfare
of the whole community can be best promoted: I will venture to
say that in no quarter does there now exist such freedom in form-
i • opltions and such freedom in expressing them, as now exists
in our own country. I need not, I suppose, allude to those coun-
tries on the continent of Europe where monarchy is still unchecked
by representative institutions. In one of these countries, a friend
of mine, who was endeavouring to pass some books at the Custom.
house, happened to have some of the hocks of Plato in Greek. The
Cu dom.house officers said, " these must be stopped, as there may
be something improper in them." This friend replied that " these
were works of an ancient philosopher." The Custom-house officer
retorted, "but how do we know that they may not contain some-
thing against the Government."—( Laughter and applause.) It is
not, certainly, worth our while to discuss whether, in those
countries, they have greater freedom than we have here ; but if
we go to free countries, such as France and Spain, wherethey have
representative institutions, we shall find that freedom of expression,
and the liberty of the press are checked by laws—it may be neces.
sary laws—which have been passed within the last few years. But
if I leave Europe, and go to a country which many quote as an ex-
ample of freedom to all the world—the United States of AmeriCa—
even therell do not believe there exists that uncontrolled power of
the expression of opinion which we have the good fortune to enjoy
in this country. (Applause.) It was but the other day that a
gentleman Laving one of those names which are not uncommon in
that country—a gentleman of the name of Cassius Clay —set up a
newspaper, with a view to argue the abolition of slavery—that
most detestable, on-Christian, and horrible institution of

slavery. His press was seized by force. The persons who seized
it sent it away, and told him he was no longer to venture
to print anything against slavery; and he was now endeavour..
ing, and probably endeavouring in vain, to recover damages
from those persons. They contend that to set up a newspaper
which will argue against slavery as an institution is a nuisance
which ought to be suppressed by force and violence. Do I ask
you, then, without reason—am I not justified its saying, that, of all
countries on the globe, there are none where is a greater power of
forming public opinion, and of expressing that public opinion, from
one extreme to the other; from the extreme of declaiming against
our Constitution as too democratical, and proposing to go back to
the reign of the Stuarts, and to the other extreme of denouncing
the Crown and the aristocracy, and endeavouring to obtain the
abolition of those institutions. I say, from one extreme to the
other there is no latitude of opinion which men may net dare to
form, and men may not dare to express.—(Applause.) Having
given this opinion, my Lord Provost, I will not venture to
make any observations upon those laws in the discussion of
which I have had to take a share, still less upon other laws
which it may be the part of Parliament hereafter to discuss;
suffice it for me that, If I am right in what I have stated,
public opinion will sift, will weigh, will. measure truly—perhaps by
a slow process—but will measure in time justly all the proposals of
change, of improvement, or, it may be, of restoration, which
various persons of various political opir.ions may from time to time
propound.—(Applause.) My opinions are, that the Constitution of
this country admits of the greatest enjoyment, both of civil and
religious freedom. Your Lordship has done me the honour to
allude to an ancestor of mine, who laid down his life in behalf of
the laws of England, then unjustly suppressed, or tyranically vier_
hated. lam naturally proud of being descended from such an an.
cestor. I believe that his blood was not shed in vain, and that it
tended to that revolution which a few years after fixed the repre-
sentative government—fixed the representation of the people as the
governing principle of our institutions ; and that blood will not
have been shed in vain lithe people of these countries wisely and
soberly appreciate the blessings that they enjoy ; will not be
either deceived or blinded by the defects of those in which
abuses or defects prevail, but will go on from time to time amending
and improving, as the spirit of the age requires, constitutionally
extending the liberties and promoting the welfare of the people,
and making this country not only happy itself, but an example to
all the nations of the globe.—(Great applause.) My Lord Provost,
I have ventured to make these abservations in answer to the address
which you have pleased to make to me. It now remains to me
again to thank you and the town council for the honour you have
conferred on me, and to assure you that this day will ever be pre-
served in my grateful recollection. His Lordship resumed his seat
amidst the most enthusiastic applause.
After a pause, the Loan PROVOST proposed three cheers for Lord
John Russell, which was cordially responded to.
A similar compliment having been given to the Lord Provost, the
meeting separated.

RIO DE JANEIRO.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)

The arrival of German and Belgian immigrants at Rio de
Janeiro for the purpose of settling in that province, particu-
larly on an estate belonging to the Emperor, called " Corrego
Secco," who has very generously granted the land necessary
for the building of a new city, to be called " Petropolis," has
given rise to some animated discussions in the Senate, which
gave rise to the following notice thereof being taken in the
Jornal do Commercio, of the 23d August last :
" Some of our politicians have latterly suffered themselves
to be carried away by their private interests or party spirits
as to prefer discussions relative thereto, to those of vital im-
portance to the State, uttering frequently in the bosom of
the august Chambers of the National Representation the
most shameful falsehoods against their opponents, to the great
offence of their own dignity of the place which they occupy,
and of the people they legitimately or illegitimately repre-
sent. These, becoming familiar with such gross misrepre-
sentations, have shown themselves indifferent, placing no
confidence in what is advanced justly or unjustly, take no
active part in the affairs of their country as they ought to do
to counteract and correct such disorders, which have a ten-
dency to bring into disrepute amongst us the Representative
System, which already has lost much of its quintessence.
The vessel of the State impelled by a tempest of the passions,
and leaky is driven until she strikes on some, God knows
what, rocks.
" The press—that power which has such influence over the
destinies of Governments, in fact, constitutional countries—is
entirely abandoned to a party ; or rather has submitted to
the,caprices of one man, who like another Proteus, assumes all
manner of forms and colours to promote his own interests to
the exclusion of every one's else; deluding, to serve his pur-
poses, the ignorant and incautious, publishing the most atro-
cious calumnies against all those who raise any opposition to
the march of his malevolence through the instrumentality
of a periodical, which assumes the title of The Sentinel of
the Monarchy,' to the great scandal and disgust of the whole
nation, because it daily publishes the most offensive articles,
and derogatory to the sacred and inviolable person of the
Monarch.

"In the meantime the present Government, as if they under-
valued the support which a periodical could afford them,
which very loyally defends their acts, and re-establishes the
truth when perverted, not only does not sustain it, but even
allowed the many to perish, who came forward voluntarily
to support it. Under such circumstances, of what avail is it
that a voice should be raised far and near to inform the pub-
lic on this or that fact, concerning which it had been
attempted to deceive them, if a voice in the midst of the
apathy which prevails should die away like that of a person
drowning ?
" But, notwithstanding, in order that there should exist a
protest in black and white against such falsities, whenever
our occupation will admit of it, we will undeceive the public,
at least, in matters which concern the province of Rio le
Janeiro, and we shall continue to offer up our prayers that
the day may arrive when every public functionary (in his
proper sphere), and all taking an immediate interest in public
affairs, shall concur in establishing a proper equilibrium, this
day, which, if as Mignet says, whenever a reform is be-
come necessary, and the moment arrived for its being carried
into effect, nothing can hinder it ; on the contrary, everything
will promote it.' NVe trust in God that it will not long delay
its dawning.
. . . . . _

"To make a beginning to the fulfilment of our promise, we
shall show to-day the injustice of the accusation made in the
Senate against his Excellency the President of the Province
of Rio de Janeiro, by Senhores Torres and Vasconcellos in
regard to the importation of German immigrants.
•'Senhor J. J. Rodriguez Torres asserted that the President
had very imprudently entered into a contract for the intro-
duction of six thousand industrious immigrants without having
any work to give them and that he had at the same time in-
fringed the law relating to such immigrants, which required
them to be agricultural labourers. Senhor B. P. de Vascon-
cellos, seconding these charges, said, 'that he much feared the
mode adopted by the President would only serve to bring
colonisation into disrepute.'
" We cannot but believe this apprehension on the part of
the Noble Senator to be sincere, springing from the great
desire he entertains of banishing from this country, the
African race, for, certainly, it was not him who proclaimed,
in the Chambers, Africa to be the civilizer of BraziL

"sThe Government, by the contract entered into with the
house of De la Rue, of Dunkirk, engaged to receive 600
immigrants of different trades and employment, giving a
preference to married men. By virtue ofthis agreement there
have already arrived 1,300 immigrants, composing about
260 families. What will, therefore, be the probable total num-
ber of immigrants whose passages the provincial authorities
are to advance? It is not required to make any very
elaborate calculation to discover the value of this—which
cannot exceed 3,000, being less than half the number quoted
by the noble Senators.
" The Law of the 30th May, 1840, No. 224, not only
authorises the establishment of agricultural and mechanic
settlements, but also in the Bth article provides that the
President may, until such settlements take place, engage
100 families of tradesmen and mechanics for the public
works; that of the 11th May, 1844, No. 333, in the 3d
article, likewise concedes authority to the Government to
engage in Europe workmen to be employed on the Canal
Campos and Macahe ; in what, therefore, has the President
infringed the law, by ordering mechanic immigrants? Is
not such a charge the offspring of hatred, and intended
solely to deprive his Excellency of the good opinion he at
present enjoys of his compatriots?
"The sth Article of the Law of the 30th May, 1840, says,—
' Should it happen that no adventurers nor companies shall
appear for the establishment of such settlements, the Presi-
dent is authorised, in order to promote and facilitate the
prosperity of any of those settlements, to introduce indus-
trious immigrants in all branches of useful employ; and
may, in the absence of unowned or national lands, or sesma-
ries duly granted, procure such as are required fcr distribu-
tion amongst such immigrants, by purchase, transfer, or any
other lawful means.' This is precisely what the Government
has done—they perceiving that no companies were being
formed for the making of such settlements, and that no indi-
viduals offered for that purpose, ordered immigrants to be
sent from Europe, advanced their passage money, and have
established a part of them in ' Petropolis ;' and propose es-
tablishing others on the land appertaining to the powder-
mills ; another portion between Petropolis and Parahiba ; and
the remainder on the different works in progress throughout
the province—some as labourers, in repairing and preserv-
ing the old roads of the Estrella; others, in the making very
important improvements, such as constructing new roads at
Itagoahy, or Pica, of the Estrella, of the Policia, of the
liodeio, of Malto Grosso, from Cantagallo to the Port of
Caxias, &c., in which works about 500 cantos of reis are ex-
pended annually.
" After the above exposition, can any one assert that 6,000
immigrants are too many to be introduced into the province,
and that there is no work for them; that his Excellency the
President has violated the law, and that his mode of in-
troducing immigrants will bring colonisation into disrepute?
Those who possess a great many slaves and emancipated
negros employed on such works, only can attempt to intimi-
date the parties to whom are entrusted the promoting the
immigration of free labourers, because it interferes with the
works on which these slaves are employed."

TUESDAY 'MCI-IT'S GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
George Brooke, dyer, Huddersfield.
Matthew lbbotson and John Ibbotson, paper manufacturers,
Eeclesfield, Yorkshir

IRELAND.
THE POTATO DISEASE-DEPUTATION TO THE

LORD-LIEUTENANT.

DUBLIN, Nov. 3.—This day a deputation, consisting of the
Lord Mayor, the Duke of Leinster, Lord Cloncurry,
O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Grattan, M.P., Sir John Power, Pierce
Maliony, Esq., Win. Ford, Esq., Aldermen O'Brien, Keshan,
and several members of the. corporation, proceeded to the
Viceregal Lodge in the Phcenix Park, for the purpose of
submitting to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant a series of
resolutions adopted by the Committee appointed at the meet-
ing held on Friday last.
At three o'clock his Excellency, who was attended_ by Sir
Thomas Fremantle, the chief secretary, the Hon. Mr. A'Court,
private secretary to his Excellency, and Captain Begot,
A.D.C. in waiting, entered the drawing-room, and the depu-
tation was admitted.

The LORD MAYOR then read the resolutions, which were to
the following import:—
•` 1. That sufficient evidence of the imminence of famine exists
to render it necessary for the Government to take immediate steps
to provide food for the people.
" 2. That the best mode of distributing such food will be by
the encouragement of public works of national and local utility.
" 3. That the Lord. Lieutenant be called upon to open the ports
for the reception of all articles suited for human food.
"4. That the Lord-Lieutenant be also called upon to take
measures to prevent the exportation of corn from Ireland.
" 5. That the Lord-Lieutenant be called upon to take measures
for the establishment of public granaries, in convenient situations,
into which grain shall be received and receipts given fur the same
at the current prices; and that in the event of famine being averted
from this country, the owners of grain so stored shall be permitted
to dispose ,of it at any higher prices that it may be possible to
realise in other markets.
" 6. That the propriety of stopping the distillation of spirits
from grain be submitted to the consideration of Government.
" 7. That the Lord-Lieutenant be requested to take measures
for raising at least a million in aid of the purposes recommended ;
and that the payment of the interest and principal be secured
upon the receipts of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in
Ireland."

BiS EXCELLENCY delivered the following reply :
" My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—lt can scarcely be necessary
for me to assure you, that the state of the potato crop has for some
time occupied, and still occupies, the most anxious attention of the
Government.

" Scientific men have been sent over from England to co-operate
with those of this country, in endeavouring to investigate the na-
ture of the disease, and, if possible, to devise means to arrest its
progress. They have not yet terminated their inquiries; but two
reports have already been received from them, which have been
communicated to the public.

" 'The Government is also furnished with constant reports from
the stipendiary magistrates and inspectors of constabulary, who are
charged to watch the state of the potato disease, and the progress
of the harvest. These vary from day to day, and are often contra-
dictory ; it will, therefore, be impossible to form an accurate
opinion of the whole extent of the evil till the digging of the pota-
toes shall be further advanced. To decide under such circum-
stances upon the most proper measures to be adopted would be pre-
mature, particularly as there is reason to hope that, though the evil
exists to a very great extent in some localities, in others it has but
partially manifested itselL

" There is no Immediate pressure in the market. I will, how-
ever, lose no time is submitting your suggestions to the considers.
lion of the Cabinet. The greater part of them can only be en.
forced by legislative enactment, and all require to be maturely
weighed before they can be adopted. It must be clear to you that
in a case of such great national importance, no decision can be
taken without a previous reference to the responsible advisers of
the Crown."

His Excellency bowed to the deputation, and was retiring,
when

Mr. O'CONNELL said he begged to make an observation
with regard to the proposition of stopping the distilleries,
which had been under discussion at the City Assembly
House, and at a meeting of citizens last Friday. The depu-
tation had resolved upon not calling for any specific inter-
ference by the Government on that subject, being apprehen-
sive that illicit distillation might be resorted to, which was
an evil to be guarded against.
His EXCELLENCY said—You are quite right, Sir; you are
quite right. The Government and you are agreed on that
subject.
The deputation then withdrew.