The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-27 00:00:00

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LONDON!
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1842.

The Deputation from the manufacturing districts,
whose presence in London, and whose visit to Sir R.
PEEL we have already announced, have addressed a
circular to the Members of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, reiterating some of those facts which indicate
the deep distress of the people, and calling on them
for a remedy. For example, they say—

In Glasgow, 12,000 persons are on the Relief Fund,
and wages are still falling. In Dundee, the number of
unemployed is increasing every week; wages are falling.
In Accrington (Lancashire), out of a population of 9,000
persons, not more than 100 are fully employed. Families
are known to have subsisted for many days on boiled
nettles, with a little meal sprinkled upon them. In
Marsden, near Burnley, out of 5,000 persons, 2,000 have
become paupers, and most of the remaining 3,000 are on
the very verge of pauperism. The poor's-rate is is. in
the pound per month. The farmers and all other rate-
payers are fast hastening to ruin. The poors'-rate in the
township of Great Bolton, in 1836-37 was 3,951/., in 1841-2,
216,740/., and for the next six months not less thanlo,ooo/..
will be wanted. Out of the rated rental of 86,0001. a-
year, only 36,0001 is paying to the poor-rates, the re-
mainder being either empty property, or the occupiers
are unable to pay the rates. 1n Wigan many families
remain in bed during the day, because hunger is less in-
tolerable when the sufferer is in a recumbent position.
Great numbers are out of employ, wages are falling, and
the future appears darker than the past or the present.
In Prescott, out of 1,100 householders in this town of
6,000 inhabitants, 200 were recently summoned in one
day for non-payment of the poors's-rate, arising from
inability 'to pay. A watch movement, a few years ago
worth 305., may now be bought for 4s. 6d., although the
material of which it is made has fallen little, if any, in
value. In Saddleworth, from an accurate survey made
in December, 1841, there were 55 farms without tenants;
26 mills were unoccupied; and most of the rest were
working short time, and great numbers of the people
were without employment. Since that period matters
have been gradually growing worse. Details such as
the foregoing might be increased indefinitely. We have
facts of au equally painful character from almost every
part of the country.
Some of these statements, with others in addition,
were made in the House of Commons on Friday
evening by Mr. COBDEN in the hope, vain, we believe,
of interesting that assembly in the sufferings of the
people. Perhaps one or two Members might shudder
for a moment at hearing of families " subsisting in
England for many days on boiled nettles sprinkled
with meal," but they would not think it half so
affecting as the tale of a young girl dragging a basket
along under ground, though she thereby fed herself
and saved a family from starving. When we recol-
lect that it has been for some years past a prevalent
fashion to decry the manufacturing population in
books and from the pulpit as given up to all kinds of
vices;—when we recollect that they have been de-
scribed on authority as no better than Pagans—
when we call to mind the encomiums passed, both in
Parliament and out of Parliament, on an agricultural
population, and on rural employments, contrasting
cheerful cottages and ruddy children with the squalor
and `dirt of the Manchester cellars ;—when we read,
day after day, furious diatribes in the Tory journals
against both the master manufacturers and their
workmen ;—when we cannot forget that one Tory
journal has said that England would be as great as
she is without a single manufacturer; and that another
has expressed an opinion that the community would
he benefited by the destruction of half our towns—
we are made to fear that the majority of our legis-
lators hear with pleasure, rather than sorrow and
shame, these tales of distress and woe in the manu-
facttiring districts, and that the manufacturers take an
erroneous method of reaching either their heads or
their hearts.

Our town population, in olden times, shook off its
allegiance to the landowners. A great squire, before
whom every hat is doffed and every back bent in his
own village, finds himself a nobody among the stal-
wart artisans of Birmingham and Manchester. The
squires have an habitual and inherited hatred to
such independent men. The workshops of the
empire are also the focus of strange political opinions.
The new population which grows up there not only
dissents from a number of doctrines that are time-
honoured in the rural districts—they also infect even
the squire's dependents with a little unruliness, and
they are now accordingly hated, not only for their
own sake, but for the corruption they spread amongst
others.

The old squirearchy, also, being too ignorant, too
proud, or too idle to increase their own wealth, have
seen with no little envy—which has not been lessened
by the boasting of the manufacturers—the great and
sudden opulence of muter spinners, weavers, and
They have seen those, whom they call
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of their halls and castles, and they bear no good will
to the upstarts who make money by trade. Even
those who have sprung from the loins of traders wish
to enjoy without encroachment the exclusivege privile
of aristocracy, and are more envious and jealous of
new shares in them than the older families of land-
owners.

On all these accounts, it is our deliberate opinion,
that the landed gentry, their connexions, and depend-
ents, who give the tone to the majority of the House
of Commons, hear with no dissatisfaction and no dis-
pleasure these tales of diminished profit, lessened em-
ployment, and starving multitudes in the manufac-
turing districts. It is a maxim of English law, and
of common sense, to infer motive from effects, and a
man who slays another, unless the contrary be clearly
proved, is held to have done it from design and
malice. In like manner, the manufacturers are suf-
fering distress, the people are starving, the Legisla-
ture has been informed over and over again, that such
is the fact, and was warned long before hand that
such would he the consequences; and it must in reason
and conscience, therefore, be held to design and will
the terrible calamities which now weigh on the people.
If the Deputation, therefore, have nothing else to say
to the Members of Parliament, but that their wishes are
the rapid progress of fulfilment—that the hated, because
somewhat independent and free-thinking manufac-
turing population is dying out—that our towns are
becoming depopulated—that the riotous and irreli-
gious mechanics are subjected to the pains of hunger,
they may spare themselves and their fellow citizens
the trouble and the expense of coming to London to
bring such gratifying intelligence to the admirers
of a rural, obedient, and priest-ridden population.
They expect, perhaps, to work on Sir R. PEEL'S
sense of responsibility. He has graciously admitted
them to an interview, and heard what they
had to say ; and if that impression had been made on
him, in conjunction with a doubt whether he would
get the Income-tax, it might have had some effect.
But statesmen look at the people too much in the
character of mere creators of wealth, and now that
Sir ROBERT PEEL is likely to get an ample supply
for the Government fromthe Income-tax, and hopes to
see commercial prosperity restored by the tariff, his
sense of responsibility, will, we fear, sit lightly on
him, and the Deputation will not induce him to pro-
tract the session of Parliament, in order to abolish
that law which denies the people the right to exchange
their industry for food. We grieve that it should he
so, but he has been too much accustomed to hear as-
sertions that " the people are made savage and despe-
rate," " discontented and disaffected," "that society
seems on the very verge of dissolution," to be much
influenced by them while he sees the multitude, laying
aside Chartist and other political meetings, humbly
supplicating relief, eager to get it from soup kitchens,
and only a little qurrulous that it is given rather in
meal than in money. Sir R. PEEL has passed, or
sure speedily to pass, all his measures, and when he
pursued his own course, almost to the end of the ses-
sion, in spite of his landed friends, he will not, we be-
lieve, now depart from it to gratify his political oppo-
nents.

If the meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League,
which we have announced, is to pursue the same
tactics, and the members have no more forcible argu-
ments to urge than the decay of the manufacturing
towns, they may as well remain at home. They have
urged such statements year after year for four years,
and have never made the least impression either on Sir
R. PEEL or the Parliament. Why play such a foolish
and losing game over and over again ? Why beg
that as alms which they ought to demand as a right?
Why make themselves pitiable and ridiculous to their
opponents and oppressors year after year ? Why talk
of great wrongs and grievances, and of rights, and
then humbly sue for their own as if they were
the lowest of beggars ? Not by such means did our
ancestors establish rights and redress wrongs, and why
should this generation have more respect for a corrupt
and packed Legislature than they had for a crowned
and vigorous King.
As we said to Friday, it is not the executive Go-
vernment, but the Legislature, elected by venal and
bribed electors, by intimidated and trembling tenants
at will, or constituted by a jobbing Minister, as it
suits his party, to elevate some sycophants to the
peerage—as we have already said, and must repeat,
it is not the executive but the legislative body, formed
in the most corrupt manner, which is the source and
cause of the grievous sufferings of the people ; and we
cannot understand why this corrupt body should be
more intensely honoured than ever were the noblest
of our monarchs. It has, in spite of all remonstrances,
and in the teeth of all knowledge, lately passed an Act
to tax the people in their food, in order to swell the
rent-roll of the landowners. Such an Act is a
flagrant violation of its assumed duty. It is
a mere robbery of individuals, in the prostituted
name of the State, it is a complicated wrong
inflicted by those who claim honour because
they protect the right of individuals ; and if the
League, like the Deputation, have nothing better to
say or do than merely to tell the Legislature that its
acts have accomplished the objects for which, we be-
lieve, they were passed, we counsel them not to put
themselves to the expense and trouble of meeting in
London. They may better employ their time, and
any money they can spare in relieving the terrible
distress in their neighbourhood, and effecting, if pos-
sible, that much needed, for safety, reconciliation be-
tween masters and men.

The con. Member for Knaresborough's Punch per-
formances in Parliament threaten serious injury to the
lessees of the London Theatres. The play-going world
of former seasons is now to be met about five o'clock
every evening the House is sitting, wending down Par-
liament-street, crossing Westminster-bridge, and hurry-
ing along Bird-Cage-walk from Buckingham Palace,
each unit of that world with its " order for the
gallery," to see and hear the only performer who
rerionciles us to the retirement of LISTON. Fie upon it ! is
there no chivalrous Member to move that the ladies be
admitted to these best of all comic entertainments ?
Suppose that it might be inconvenient to rescind the
Standing Order for the exclusion of ladies from
the debates, might it not at least be suspended
in their favour on the nights when it is known
that the Hon. Member for Knaresborough intends to
perform ? True the lessee of the Opera would sustain
great injury, but we have not the least doubt that his
fair and titled patronesses, who would prefer to hear the
" enormous lying" of Mr. FERRAND to the strains of
PERSIANI, FREZZOLINI, and RoNcom, will raise a sub-
scription to cover the pecuniary loss to which other-
wise he would be exposed. We have seen, and
greatly admired, FARREN as Lord Skindeep, in
JERROLD'S new comedy of Bubbles of the Day ;
but admirable, easy, and felicitous, as this great
comic actor's performance was, who, that has had
the pleasure of seeing both, would think of comparing it
with the Parliamentary Punch performances of the Skin-
deep Chairman of the Keightley Union ? If there be
one, we, in accordance with the precedent set us by the
Hon. and refined Member for Oldham, pronounce him 1
an ass—a very thistle-browser, whose proper home is
Hampstead Common. We really do not know what
will become of the poor Managers if Mr. FERRAND
continue to speak, night after night, in the way he has
done since the date of his celebrated motion about the
truck system. Could Mr. MACREADY prevail upon the
Hon. Gentleman to exchange the back benches of
St. Stephen's for the boards of " Old Drury," the
Manager would make his fortune. Mr. FERRAND
is a company in himself. His "At Homes," as
Chairman of the Keightley Union, would far
outstrip in raciness and farcical pleasantry the
best performances of the late CHARLES MA.THEws.
Mr. FERRAND is a, great genius, who Las had the mis-
fortune to mistake his vocation. His first appearance as
a public man should have been on the platform in front
of WosinwELL's travelling menagerie. The wonders to
be revealed within, at the small expense of sixpence,
would have supplied abundant scope for those high flights
of the imagination which jar so unpleasantly upon the
matter-of fact ears of the Premier and the Members of
the House of Commons. From the speech of the Hight
Hon. Baronet at the head of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment in the House of Commons on Friday, descriptive of
the inventive powers of the Hon. Member for Knares-
borough, it is clear t• us that he is of the same opinion. If.
then, Mr. FERRAND would achieve fame and fortune, let
him throw politics to the dogs, and seek an audience
whose applause would resound from pit to gallery. The
boards which rejected a 13ORTIINVICK constitutes the only
fitting arena for the Forty-Clown GRIMALDI powers of a
FERRAND.

A squib fired by the celebrated Timor( (NI. DE Coa-
aIENIN) at the French Cabinet, in the shape of an ad-
dress to the electors of France, has set the whole French
press together by the ears. Its object is to show that
unlest the SouLT-GruoT Cabiziet be- overthrown, a Da.

SET

tional bankruptcy is all but inevitable. The Commerce
concludes a long article upon it as follows :

To sum up the whole, the real deficit amounts to 2,408 mil-
lions, and all the possible resources to 1,594 millions, leaving a
deficit in 1855 of 814 millions. If to this be added the list of
extraordinary unforeseen expenses drawn up by M. de Corme-
nin, and of which we could easily prove the excessive modera-
tion, we shall have 550 millidns more, giving for 1855, after
the loan shall have been expended, and all the reserves of the
sinking fund absorbed, a deficit of 1,364 millions. We place
these calculations before the public and the electors; they are
incontestible, and need no comment.

The Aational also has a long article upon it, from
which we extract the concluding passage :

The maintenance of the present Government in power will
consummate our ruin. They cannot appeal to the future, for
they have discounted it for ten years to come. For our own
parts we combat the present Ministry and their friends, as we
opposed all those who have been in power since 1830, because
they are in reality only the organs of ideas injurious to France.
In the solemn trial which is about to take place it is the sys-
tem and not the men that must be overthrown. Viewed in
this light, the struggle extends beyond the narrow circle of
personalities, to which the Government Journals endeavour to
restrict it, and rises to the lofty proportions of general interest.
May the electors so understand the question, and make choice
of Deputies anxious to resolve it, by looking only at the interests,
the grandeur, and the prosperity of France.
The Debuts, alluding to the delay in publishing the expected
ordonnance for raising the duty on foreign linens and linen
threads, says:—" The linen manufacturers, not seeing the
ordonnance appear, are losing patience, and are ready to ex-
claim that the Government is deserting them. The principle
has been decided on, and it will, we are convinced, be soon
applied. Aid will be given to this branch of manufacture, but
the just resolution of the Government to this effect cannot ex-
clude making a combination, by which other branches of ma-
nufacture shall also be satisfied. To arrive at this result cer-
tainly, a few days delay are not be regretted, and we are per-
suaded that the solicitude of the Government for the commer-
cial and manufacturing interests, of the country will be usefully
employed during the delay that is complained of."
W. have received by way of Marseilles and Toulon accounts
from Algiers of the 15th of this month. After six months
absence the Governor• General, with the troops employed in
the late expedition, arrived on the 9th at Blidah, and came to
Algiers en the 11th, accompanied by the officers of his staff.
On the following day he held a levee, at which the Bishops, the
Consuls, and Deputations from the several civil and military
authorities, came to congratulate him on the success of hi■ re-
cent operations. The last expedition, of which the Moniteur
Algersen of the 15th gives a report, induced all the tribes
through whose territory it passed to make their submission.
This expedition (as we were informed by a telegraphic des-
patch) likewise induced the submission of all the Kabyles in-
habiting the northern declivity of Mount Atlas to the
Metidja of the Beni-Menad, Soumata, Mouzaya, Beni-
Mesaoud, Beni-Salah, and Beni-Micera : and these tribes
have, it is said, desired that the ancient markets in the place
shall be re-established ; and there is every reason to believe
that in a short time they will come again to supply Algiers
with provisions.
The column of the province of Oran, commanded by General
d'Arbonville, quitted the Mouzaya on the 14th to return to
the West. Two columns commanded by Generals Chan-
garnier and de Bar, were to set out on the 18th on a new ex-
peditionto the East of the :11 etidja. The Prince of Hesse, nephew
of the King of Denmark, arrived in the road of Algiers,
on the 11th of June, on board the Danish frigate Thetis.
The salute fired by the frigate was answered by the batteries.
The Prince visited Algiers and the environs. The Thetis
sailed on the night of the 13th.— Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23.

lust Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price.
French 5 per Centess.....i... 119 ... 119 5 ... 118 95 ... 119
4 per Cents. ..... 101 '45 ... 101 75 101 '75 ... 101 75
3 per Cents 79 2U 'l9 30 ... 79 20 ... '79 25
Bank oi tirance
Laffitte hank 1.0001. Shares 1055 .J 055 _1055
5,0001. Shares 5055 ...5055 5052 50 ...5052 50
Belgian 5 per Cents.
1840 104% ... 104% ... 1.4% ... 104%
3 per Cents 7l 70 71 '7O 71 70 ... 71 70
ipanish Active 23% ... 23i ... 23% ... 23Si
Passive 4% ... ... 4%
Portuguese 5 per Cents 31% ... 21% ... 31% ... 31%
Neapolitan
104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Veriailles,R. P

L.B lt.2 50 ... 102 50 ... 101 25 ... 101 25
Rouen 520 522 50 522 50
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale 205 205 ... 2t3 75 213 75

NEWSPAPER STAMPS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.—From
a return laid before the House of Commons, it appears
that since the reduction of the stamp duty on newspapers
in 1837, the number of newspapers published in the
United Kingdom has been nearly doubled. In 1836,
when the stamp was 4d. for each paper, the total number
of stamps issued was 35,576,056 ; and in the year ending
March 31, 1842, it had increased to 61,495,503. In the
former year the amount of duty was 443,278, while in
the latter it was 253,779, showing a gradual increase
since 1837, when the duty was 217,4801. The number
of advertisements in 1836 was 1,432,612, and the duty
103,2481. ; while in 1841 they had increased respectively
to 1,778,957, and 128,3181. The increase in the number
of stamps issued has taken place chiefly on papers pub-
lished in Great Britain, as will be seen from the follow-
ing returns .—Stamps for Irish papers in 1836, 5,144,582;
in 1841, 5,986,639. English papers, for the same years,
27,777,036, and 49,674,855. Scotch papers for the same
years, 2,654,438 and 5,388,079.
A TORY PREMIER'S IDEAS OF TRASH.—In speaking
on Friday in the House of Commons on the New Poor-
law question, Sir Robert Peel observed :—" Would it
be safe to return to the old system ? But it was said
there was no necessity for returning to the old law.
It was said, trust the rate-payers ; they know the
character of the poor, and will be ready to affbrd them
relief ; trust the people of England, and all that trash !"
—So, it is mere trash, it seems, to talk of the kindly
feeling of the English people towards their destitute
fellow-countrymen ! They have it not—they know it
not—and Poor-law Acts, to be sound and efficient, must
be based on this assumption. But if the bulk of the
English commonalty be really so heartless, that only
to hint an opinion that they are otherwise is to talk
" trash"—how comes it that Sir R. Peel recommended
the begging box to be sent among them the other day,
in the confident expectation that they would evince that
charitable sympathy with the poor which he now thinks
fit to deny them ? If to show a reliance on their kindly
feelings be to talk "trash," what " trash " the parsons
must have talked lately in their pulpits ! The Duke of
Wellington once observed, that it was " a mere farce "
to lay any stress on popular meetings ; and Sir Robert
Peel, in a spirit of congenial Toryism, tells us that it is
mere " trash " to talk of confiding in the voluntary mu-
nificence of the English people towards the starving
thousands of their countrymen ! Verily, these two
statesmen are worthy of each other, and do credit to
the haughty, intolerant, purblind party from whose loins
they sprang.
MR. FIELDEN AND THE ASSES.—We do not wonder
at the extraordinary sensation created by Mr. Fielden
on Friday in the House of Commons, when, in asserting
some obvious truism, he observed that " no one could deny
it who was not as ignorant as an ass !" The word "ass"
must have jarred painfully on the long ears of the oc
cupants of the Tory Benches, and caused them to bristle
up, as if something directly personal had been alleged
against them. No wonder that a Borthwick cried
" Oh !" and a Sibthorpe cried " Shame !" and that the
Opposition were in roars of laughter" at such a happy
allusion to the Tories ! It was a hit between wind and
water.

In the discussion on the Poor-law Bill on Friday
Sir James Graham informed the House of the astound-
ing fact, that not less than twelve hundred thousand per-
sons were at this moment in the poor-houses of England
and Wales alone ; and it will be evident to all those who
have attended to the dismal reports which are pouring
in from all parts of the kingdom, that five times the
above number, at the very least, are suffering even more
severe distress than those who are immured in workhouses.
We may take this opportunity of expressing our sur-
prise that Sir James Graham carefully avoided giving
any reply to what Mr. Wallace said respecting the
Manufacturers' Relief Committee, in King William-
street, which has been called a Poor-law Parliament.
If we understand the lion. Member for Greenock
rightly, this said self-constituted, irresponsible body
of men has, somehow or other, got possession
of the funds which the charitably disposed
all over the kingdom have contributed, during
the winter and spring, for the relief of the unemployed,
and their destitute families, in the manufacturing districts;
and, in addition to this fund, as Mr. Wallace asserted,
the sums raised in virtue of the "Queen's Letter," from
hundreds, placed entirely at the discretion of this Com-
mittee, whose origin and authority all appear to be
equally ignorant of; and the Home Secretary is evidently
resolved that this ignorance shall continue, for he
abstained from replying to that point of Mr. Wallace's
complaint. Surely some explanation is due to the public
on this most important matter, and to the charitable con-
tributors also, whether they contributed by subscriptions,
or under the Queen's letter, or both. Mr. Wallace has
had several notices of motions on the books of the House
of Commons, with a view to obtain information on those
points; and these having appeared in The Sun, we have only
to express our hope, that the lion. Member for Greenock
will persevere until he obtains the information he seeks ;
for the public at large have a direct interest in the ap-
plication of the charity they have furnished ; and it is
moreover of vital importance that the amount of the
funds still in hand should be publicly known, as these,
so far as we know, are the only means left to preserve
thousands of industrious men and their families from
positive starvation ; and surely it would be madness to
couceal from the distressed districts the means which are
available to prevent death from hunger, and to let the
nation at large see when its charitable donations will be
finally appropriated, rather than let the announcement
come forth as the knell of death to those who at present
are indebted to it for their very existence.

TILE CONVICTS FRANCIS AND COOPER. In an-
swer to the petition presented by the mother of Cooper for a
commutation of his sentence, the following answer has been
received:—
Whitehall, June 25, 1842.
" Madam,—Secretary Sir James Graham having carefully
considered your application in behalf of Thomas Cooper, 1 am
directed to express to you his regret that there is no sufficient
ground to justify him, consistently with his public duty, in ad-
vising her Majesty to comply with the prayer thereof.-1 am,
madam, your very obedient humble servant.
(Signed) S. M. PHILLIPPS.
" To Mrs. Cooper, 1, Rawstorne-street, Clerkenwell."
Thus it will be seen that the execution of Cooper is placed be-
yond a doubt, but this, perhaps, may augur well in favour of
Francis, since no answer, up to last night, had been received
to the petition of his father. The mother, father, and two
sisters of Francis had an interview with him in the gaol of
Newgate on Friday evening. His father expressed great anxiety
to get the sentence commuted, but, at the same time, exhorted
the criminal not to entertain any hope. Francis expressed
himself to be perfectly resigned, but repeats that he had no in-
tention of injuring the Queen.
Last night the Count de St. Aulaire, the French
Ambassador, arrived at the Ship Hotel here, and embarks this
day in the French mail-packet, for Paris.—Dover Chronicle
of Saturday.
There are conflicting rumours as to the determi-
nation of the Government respecting Francis. The prevailing
report is that his life will not be the forfeit of his deliberate
treason. All positively known at present is, that Chief Justice
Tindal has been called upon to furnish the Home Secretary with
t copy of his mite of the teal.

SUMMARY Of ileiiii;:';

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public eptitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
M. de Cormenin (Timon) has thrown the French press
into a ferment by an Address to the electors of France, on the
financial difficulties of the country. The Address is an attack
upon the Government, abounding in that causticity for which
1 imon's portraits are so remarkable.

M. de St. Priest and the Duc de Valmy have written a
letter to contradict the assertion of the Gazette relative to the
dissolution of the Legitimist Committee. They declare that
it holds together, and continues to direct the elections in its
interest. Its organ, moreover, adds, that the Committee dis-
dains to adopt an ally with Republican opinions.
The Provisional Treaty of Navigation and Commerce, which
was concluded some time ago between France and Denmark,
and which forms the supplement of the Treaty of August 23,
1742, has just been ratified by the King of Denmark. It con-
sists of nine articles, the chief of which confirms the previous
understanding between the two countries, and declares further
that French vessels entering Danish purts shall be liable only
to the tonnage and harbour dues chargeable upon Danish ves-
sels. A similar exemption is made in favour of the vessels of
Denmark by the French Government.
It is stated in a letter from Rome that the monk who re-
cently murdered his nephew in that city, was on the point of
being made a Bishop. Amongst the papers of the murderer
was found a manuscript against celibacy. The Pope, it is said,
shed tears on hearing of this crime, and immediately nominated
a commission, composed of four Cardinals, to inquire into the
matter. The details of the murder are not given.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMBRCE.
The system of large bodies of men begging together, has
again commenced at Leicester this week. The Mayor has
issued cautionary hand-hills ; but when the men were re-
monstrated with, and told that they were disobeying the orders
of the authorities, they replied, " We know it ; but what are
we to do? we cannot starve. If you wish to take us to goal,
we are ready to go-500 of us." A meeting at the Town-hall
to consider their distressed state, taok place at the beginning of
the week, and 3001. was subscribed for their relief.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
A munificent donation of 2,0001. has been made by the Rev.
Thomas Halford, AL A., to the University of Cambridge, for
the purpose of erecting a new wing to the Lbrary.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Sir Edward W. C. Astley, R.N., died at Boulogne-sur-Mer
on Monday last, in his fifty-third year. His commission as
Lieutenant was dated 11th August, 1808; Commander, 12th
August, 1819; Captain, 7th April, 1829. Sir Edward co-
operated with the patriots on the coast of Valencia in 1811, and
was first Lieutenant of the Royal Sovereign yacht, when tiat
vessel conveyed the Duke and Duchess of Kent to this country,
three weeks before the birth of her present Majesty. He re-
ceived the honour of knighthood on returning from India with
Earl Amherst, Governor-General, in 1830.

LAW AND POLICE.
In the Court of Common Pleas on Friday an action was
brought by Marshall and Stinton, linen-drapers, Vere-street,
to recover 353/., the amount of a bill for millinery supplied to
the wife of !Ir. Snow, lately a partner in the banking-house
of Snow, Paul, and Co. The Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages, 2001.
At Greenwich Police-office three men named Brookes,
Hone, and Humpheries, were charged with creating a dis-
turbance in the street, by exhibiting the effigy of a baker
named Milne, and his housekeeper, a married woman, and
afterwards burning the effigies in front of his house. A mob
of about six hundred persons had assembled on the occasion.
The parties were fined 40s. each.

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