The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

TEL SL N, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRITARY 11, 1845.

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the speech of the Noble Lord, as it must be expected
that her MAJESTY'S servants would wait until the
financial statement should be made in another place,
before they interfered in these matters.
Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Six o'Clock.
In the House of Commons, after the presentation
of petitions, and the ordering of sundry returns, the
Select Committees on Divorce Bills and on Private
Bills were appointed.

A new writ was ordered for Lewes, in the room
of Captain FITZROY, who had accepted an office under
the Admiralty.
Lord DUNCAN gave notice, that on the 20th he
should move for a Committee of the whole House to
consider of the repeal of the window-tax.
Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion for papers on
the subject of Sierra Leone and the Mauritius, and
postponed until the 20th his motion on the subject of
colonial accounts.

Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a Bill to repeal the
Railway Act of last session, and said that to-morrow
he would move certain resolutions on the subject of
rail ways.
Mr. llumE asked questions on the subject of educa-
tion in India, and of the recal of Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGIL but the answers of Mr. BARING to both ques-
tions were inaudible.

In answer to a question from Sir R. Iscms, Mr.
BARING stated that the lands of the Temple of Jug-
gernaut would be restored, so as to render payments
to the Temple unnecessary.
Lord DALMENY gave notice, for to-morrow, of a
question on the subject of the Scottish Poor-law.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was
brought up.

The various Railway-law Consolidation Billsoere
read a second time.
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER gle
for a Committee of Ways and Means for Wednesday.
The House Adjourned at Five o'clock.

It is now certain that Sir ROBERT PEEL will pro-
pose the re-imposition of the income-tax—on the re-
commendation of the Crown (as our constitutional
fiction supposes) "for a limited period." A "limited
period " is a very ambiguous term in the mouth of a
Premier or a player. It means always just as long
a time as the good nature or the prepossessions of the
public—their common patron—can be wheedled into
enduring the speculation undertaken by the one or
by the other. An engagement positively " limited "
to "a very few nights," never prevents a starring
comedian " of the Theatres Royal "—who has made a
hit in the character of Joseph Surface, for example
—from extending marvellously the " limited opportu •
pities " he had at first proposed to afford his provincial
admirers for witnessing his conception of a difficult
character. To read his advertisements, any third
party might suppose that he was about to present the
public with some signal benefit, at his own personal
expense, not theirs; and that the prolongation of the
number of nights on which he had "consented"
(such is the usual strain) to "repeat the character,"
was a concession on his part, the self-denial of which
could not be too highly estimated. In the mean-
time, the number of nights is determined actually by
the amount of the money taken at the doors, or the
sale of the tickets. Let no man suppose that it is
the Premier's meaning to measure his " limited
period" by any other than an analogous scale. Let
none be alarmed lest the duration of Sir ROBERT'S
performance in his favourite character of Income-tax
Reviver, in the tragi-comic farce of liaising the Wind,
should prove too short.
So long as this little ancillary to the legitimate
contributions of the Excise, the Customs, Stamp and
Post-office Duties, Land and Assessed Taxes to the
public income, can bring into the national exchequer
its clear five millions sterling per annum—so long
will her services be retained, and the political ma-
nager be induced to extend the " limited period"
during which it was once imagined, by some, that
this very remarkable performance of his would be re •
pelted. In truth, the income-tax'has every principle
about it of theatrical vitality. It has been, in the
managerial jargon of the day, " a tremendous hit."
It " continues to be played with unabated success,"
and it " draws bumpers" of John Bull's spare cash
" into the treasury."
On. all these accounts we implore the representa-
tivesfof the people in the Commons' House of Parlia-
ment to watch vigilantly the course of this matter.
Let them, at all events, in closing with the Political
Manager's terms, stipulate for the strictest and shortest
definition of the "limited period" he proposes. The
strongest case that Sir ROBERT and his party could
establish against the Government of their predecessors
was—that these latter could not square the public re-
venue with the public expenditure. They went out
of office, and their successors have worked the finan-
cial problem which they could not solve, by—whe-
ther rightly or injudiciously, is not now the
question re-enacting, in the twenty-eighth
year of profound peace, a tax which bad only
been tolerated in former years because it was
imposed to meet the extraordinary expenses of
the extraordinary war in which we were then in-
volved by extraordinary means. It is now the thirtieth
year og' peace, and the third year of this revived tax,
which other Ministers have always reserved for
periods of such overwhelming exigency, a condition
of hostilities, for example, between this kingdom and
some formidable enemy like France. It is enough
for our purpose to suggest that at this instant the
aspect of our foreign relations is not so utterly pacific,
so decidedly firm and encouraging, as to put out of the
pale of probability all danger of abrupt
misunderstandings with an European neighbour—of
a precipitated collision with a people equally sensitive
in the New World. Far distant he the day on
which either of these casualties shall eventuate. But
in the meanwhile, let U 3 act upon the wise and self-
evident p( 'hey of not exhausting, at a protracted
period of peace, the energies we should be prepared
with to meet the terrible exigencies that will charac-
terise any future war. On every principle of consti-
tutional -wisdom, of political expediency, and of finan-
cial prudence, Parliament ought to determine the Pre-
mier's "limited period" on this occasion at one year—
and no Laore. If the necessity for its continuance at, or
shortly before the close of that period, can be satisfac-
torily d,,;monstrated, Parliament will doubtless renew,
and the English people, with their characteristic
reasonableness, on such demonstration, will ..heerfully
pay it. :But it is objectionable on every ground, to
entrust a Finance Minister with that sort of cred

margin, an the plea of keeping up a surplus of in-
come, which may be anticipating the most vital and
essential features of the country's capacity in time
of war, to meet the immediate and positive demands
upon them.

This consideration reminds us that Sir ROBERT
PEEL has shown a marked disinclination to follow

out the recommendation of the Harbours of Re-
fuge Co mmission in respect of enlarging and im-
proving Dover harbour, on account of the enormous

expense, to which we referred the other day. We

are strongly disposed to recommend to his attention,
as a wholesome compromise, the immediate im-

provement of a neighbouring and very importan
point, where such improvement may be effected al

a compaeatively small expense. We mean Dunge-
ness. But the Examiner puts its pretensions so well,
that we readily avail ourselves of the language in
which our -able contemporary has noticed them :

" Dungeness is nearly twenty miles to the south-west
of Dover, but with a steam navy it would command the
straits almost as effectually as Dover, and it has in-
comparably superior capabilities for a harbour.
" Vessels that have beat down Channel to the Owers,
perhaps nearly to the Isle of Wight, and that making
bad weather, are then obliged to bear up and run, have
to put back to Dungeness at the least, losing all the
ground they had gained. So the other way, vessels that
have beat up Channel almost to Dungeness, and then
encountering bad weather are compelled to seek shelter,
have to run back all the way to the Isle of Wight. To
recover the distance so lost will take ships of ordinary
sailing qualities, with contrary winds, several days."

The Premiers remarkable faculty of saying sen-
tentious nothings with a gravity which almost disarms
the suspicion and mocks the experience of those who
hear him oftenest and know him best, has not often
been more strongly exemplified than in his answer, on
Thursday tight last, to a question from M MA-
CAULAY, on the subject of the Bight Hon. Baronet's
intentions with regard to the Small Note Circulation
idea that a
we h
of Scotland. That answer was the most elaborate
array of rany
waovredsevtoercosneeen in print.ealhalfafracßtiaotnv‘o,ef oneare
far from uvderyaluing Sir ROBERT'S ingenuity so
much as to imagine that this was an unartificial dis-
we think it was a very able
play. On the contrary,

mode of extricating himself out of the springe which
had been set to catch him, unawares, at an answer.
It sounded, for the first sentence or so, so like an
answer-about-to-be-given, that even Mr. MACAULAY'S
extraordinary powers and quick perception may well
have been staggered, for two in,mtmt::, by the
tgki.sf.tdas iiiu 'that chess,' s,i,T,. a' if it
were a reply. Two moments of bewilderment were
enough. The Speaker called on another Order of
the Day, and the cheat had vanished, and could not
be recalled. Yet we agree with
,the writer of the
money article in the Times, that careful observation
might detect, through the 'studied ambiguity of the
Premier's language, a foregone conclusion arrived at
touching " the doom" of the small bank-notes of
Scotland (and of Ireland). Like Mr. MACAULAY'S,
our present business Li with the; Scotch' circulation
only. Now we differ, toto ccelo, from the Contempo-
rary we have just referred to, both in our estimate
of the value of the existing system on which that cir-
ulation is based, and in the degree of apprehension
with which we regard the new experiment about to
be ventured upon by Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is really
to be regretted, in our opinion, that Sir ROBERT has
noi political who, in virtue of that rela-
tionfor, and obtain from her
r might
MaaesTv, or her MAJESTY'S Cabinet, an effective
tto him,o cheiir i
apply n
inhibition, a controlling or restraining power, to
withhold him from damage and waste to the fortunes
and interests of the empire which have been confided
to his keeping. It is to be feared, however, that
were Lord MELVILLE, Or Sir GEORGE CLERK, or
Lord DUNFERMLINE, himself, even, on behalf of
themselves and all Scotland, as parties to their suit,
to bring such a plea to the foot of the throne, he
would be dismissed as not coming before it with
clean hands. The moneyed interest of Scotland has
weakened and damnified the powerful case it would
otherwise have to urge against being drugged by Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S nostrum through the fact of its having
been, if not a particeps criminis, an apathetic looker-on
when the same visitation was inflicted on the currency
of this country by his notorious " complement " of
the measure of 1819, last year. We assiduously
warned the Scottish people that their turn would
come next. The English nation has been operated upon,
and neither Scotland nor Ireland, we are told, can
now escape the same fate. Thus it is that JUNIUS is
justified : " what is fact to-day becomes precedent
to-morrow." But our sympathies are still with Scot-
land in her coming trial ; and we expect her to offer
a firm, an unwavering, a "no-compromise," a com-
bined, cordial, sustained, and, therefore, triumphant
opposition to the mischievous meddling of our High
Tamworth Currency Doctor. Let the Scotch repre-
sentatives take warning by the listlessness, the indo-
lence, the infatuation, and the apathy of their English
colleagues ; show a firm front from the first day the
Premier displays his battle (the 14th inst.), and by
maintaining it unyielding, resolute, and prompt at
all times for action, they may be sure of vanquishing
a Minister whose progress has been at all times iden-
tified with concessions to principles that he has at
some former period or other loudly declaimed against.
We have, in several former articles, demonstrated
the unparalled advance—the steady, unfluctuating
improvement—of Scotland, in agricultural and manu-
facturing production—in the diffusion of competency
among the middling—and her demand for industrial
labour for the lower—classes of her community ; in
the encouragement she has been hitherto enabled to
afford to a system of husbandry, the most enterpris-
ing, economical, and incessant—altogether, perhaps,
the most perfect—to be found in the world—and to
the corresponding scale in which the moral conduct
and education of her people have been raised. All
these important movements have been coincident with,
and in a main degree attributable to, that happy and
intelligible system of currency which she has now
enjoyed for about 150 years. That system has sur-
vived the shock of two great popular rebellions, many
wars, many adverse seasons. It was unmoved by,
and almost insensible to, the monetary earthquake of
1825-26, and utterly unscathed by later convulsions,
the sad evidences of the fatal empiricism which had
been practised here in 1819, and is once more in peatie
lent activity in 1844 and 1845. Scotland was permitted
to retain her small bank-note circulation, whilst pri-
vate and commercial credit in this partof the kingdom
was paralyzed for -want of such aid. Scotland
continued to advance in commercial importance,
in political weight, in social happiness, in
moral greatness ; for her steps in these noble
destinations were never impeded by the obstructive
fetters and golden manacles of an unexpar.sive, con-
tracted, costly, and unadaptable metallic currency.
The banking and monetary system of Scotland has
kept on in an unbroken march of improvement and
importance, extending to industry its fair wages, to
trade its fair markets and returns, to •
capital and pro-
perty the means of representation and evolution ; to
all mercantile dealings, security and confidence. In
England the reverse of such a system—a theoretical
fallacy forced into practical working by injudicious
Acts of Parliament—a gold standard currency, as it
is called—has cramped the energies of commerce, con-
tracted the representation, and taxed, in the most
arbitrary manner, the transfer
of property and
capital, thrown do%s n industrial wages below the
lowest subsistence scale, lowered the prices of our
highly-taxed products to the level of the quasi un-
taxed products of continental industry, sapped our
commercial credit, largely impaired our manufactur-
ing superiority, and disorganized private credit to its
very foundations. It has accumulated capital in huge
masses in a few hands ; its inevitable tendency is to
preclude its distribution into the hands of the many.
These masses are unproductive, as to any of the
ordinary and legitimate branches of trade ; they are
all powerful in the faculty of accumulation when
embarked in the enormous operations of reckless
monopolies,—or unscrupulous gambling in public
funds and enterprises, native or foreign. They are so
much of the specific volume of the life-blood of the
Commonwealth abstracted from its system, perhaps in-
fused into others,—never again transmitted, in healthy
action and regular distribution, through its own. Under
this PEEL system, certain classes, composing the cre-
ditor as well as the realised capital interest, are infi-
nitely benefited ; the other classes, comprising the
debtor and the industrial interest, are infinitely pre-
judiced. The annuitant, the fundholder, the mort-
gagee, being empowered and enabled to receive and pay
in gold at a fixed rate or standard of value, purchase
to the best advantage—that is, at gold or natural prices.
The debtor on an old mortgage, the manufacturer, the
artisan, the man who wants to convert property or
labour into money, buys this money at the dearest
price. The one to discharge his engagements, the
other to acquire his subsistence, pays in the first case
far more than he ever received on account of them ;
in the second, far more than his reduced wages and
his heavy taxation make equitable or even tolerable.
Pauperism, therefore, increases throughout the radius
of our system ; the plethora of capital enlarges itself a
a few isolated spots within it. The extremities de.

cline and die ; the centre preternaturally fattens and
corrupts. Domestic trade languishes,
domestic in-
dustry declines from its twin-like connexion with
trade. The condition of the one necessarily
reacts upon the other. With a revenue
of fifty-four millions for the last year,
with a surplus, at the close of it, of income over ex

penditure of 3,356,000/., with an actual balance in
the Exchequer of 6,254,0001. on the 9th of January,
1845, we have scores of thousands of famishing, un-
employed artizans, with hundreds of thousands of

destitute paupers, and millions of pounds of annual
poor-rate to pay for their maintenance. This is so
under our present currency system, and the evil goes
on increasing. It WAS NOT so before Sir ROBERT
PEEL was permitted, in 1819, to put upon tle statute
book his two-sided Bill—a Bill of infinite aggrandise-

ment to the private capitalist, of incalculable mischief
to the national welfare and resources. Let Scotland

regard this picture of our gold standard system and
its consequences ;—and contemplate, in contrast, that
which exhibits her own happy and instructive history
under the system common to both countries, from

1797 to 1819. If she considers the gigantic efforts we
made under the latter, and the brilliant triumphs which

rewarded our confidence in it with the most signal

success and opulence ever recorded in history, and if

she will then look at our social declension and misery

since 1822, she will assuredly and
firmly resist, and
cast from her the fatal millstone which the Premier is

obviously bent upon tying round her neck.

Madrid journals of the Ist inst. have been received.
The return of CASTELLO-Y-AYENSA, the Spanish en-
voy at Rome, had created some surprise in the capi-
tal, as it was generally believed he had failed in his

mission to procure the POPE'S acknowledgment of
Queen ISABELLA. This, it appears, is to a certain
extent true, as the Court of Rome, before the recog-
nition, demands that all the unsold Church lands steal
be restored to the clergy. The envoy not having
rowel's to that f-xten.t, he returned for 3thqructions,
and will 'gain proce,d to 3Rorn in a. k,,:oi:r2-Int.
CAN TERO, formerly Minister of Finance, had returned
to Madrid. -

On the Ist inst. the Three per Cents. closed at 33
for cash, and 33i for 60 days; the Five per Cents. at
241 at 60 days, and the Coupons at 26i fur the 28th
of March.

The Paris papers are occupied with some curious
discuss ions and results in the Chamber of Deputies,
and with remarks on the debates in the English Par-
liament on the QUEEN'S Speech. The old saying,
" They manage affairs differently in France" was
never better, nor more ludicrously illustrated than
on a motion brought forward in the Chamber of De-
puties on the 6th. M. LHERUETTE introduced a Bill
relative to the appointment of public functionaries,
the object of which is thus stated in the first clause—
that no person should be admitted into a Govern-
ment situation unless he had proved his fitness to fill
it by a special or public examination, a diploma in
one of the faculties, or a' concours, the form of ,
exa-
mination being decided by royal ordinance.'
After a brief discussion this clause was adopted
by a large majority, and the four remain-
ing clauses received equal support, yet when
the question was put, that the Bill be
adopted, and the sense of the House was taken by
ballot, the majority was converted into a minority—
there being for the Bill, 157, and against, 156; ma-
jority against it, 1. The Bill consequently was lost.
The result excited some sensation in the Chamber
next day. M. ST. PRIEST brought forward his mo-
tion for the reduction of postage on letters, and the
result was equally remarkable. He proposed to fix,
from January 1, 1846, a uniform tax of six sous for
all letters carried more than forty kilometres (about
twenty-five English miles), and four sous for all
shorter distances. M. Molina DE LA SIZERANNE
proposed as an amendment that the postage of all
letters act weighing more than a quarter of an ounce,
for whatever distance, should be only four sous. After
a discussion, in which this amendment was strongly
opposed by the Minister of Finance, the Chamber
adopted it by a majority of one, the numbers being
130 to 129. On Saturday the discussion was resumed,
and the two remaining clauses were adopted, but when
the whole Bill was tested by the ballot, it was also
rejected, the numbers for it being 170, and against
170, and as an absolute majority of 171 was required,
the President announced that the Bill was lost. On
the same day Colonel DE BRICQUEVILLE moved that
the remains of General BERTRAND be laid near those
of NAPOLEON, in the Hotel des Invalides. The mo-
tion was unanimously agreed to, with the addition
that those of DUROC should be equally honoured.
We find little of interest in the remarks of the papers
on the debates in Parliament, though the contrast
between those of the Ministerial and Opposition jour-
nals is curious. The Journal des Debuts says:—" It
is with as much astonishment as regret that we see
a man so enlightened and so high-minded as Lord J.
RUSSELL employing his talents and influence in de-
preciating the work of peace so happily accomplished
by the two Governments. It has been generally re-
marked that his speech was steeped in bitterness to a
degree altogether unusual with him. The leader of
the Opposition did not, it is true, condemn the con-
clusion of the Otaheite affair, and joined with the rest
of the world in rejoicing at the preservation of peace,
but he severely criticised the manner in which the
negotiations were conducted, and the appointment of
Commissioners for revising the treaties on the right of
search. Sir R. PEEL gave a most complete answer to
this attack; he called upon Lord J. RUSSELL to make
specific motions on which the House might categorically
declare its sentiments on both questions. The papers
relating to the right of search were to be laid before
the House on 'Wednesday, and therefore it is probable
that a day will be fixed fur discussing this question-
We cannot, naturally, express any surprise at the
language of Lord PALMERSTON. All that the Oppo-
sition here has urged against M. GUIZOT was even
more acrimoniously advanced by him against Lord
Aberdeen. His Lordship attempted to prove that
England had been outraged and humiliated, as M.
BILLAULT and others have endeavoured to establish
that France has been outraged and humiliated—and
with just the same success ! We do not wish even to
avail ourselves of the accusations laid by Lord PAL-
MERSTON against the British Government, as argu-
ments in favour of the value of the results obtained
by the French Government. Neither of the two
Cabinets wishes to triumph over the other. Both
have accomplished in concert an honourable task;
both have made secondary considerations subordinate
to the great and permanent interests of the general
peace and civilization; and each of the simultaneous
attacks, of which both have been objects, reciprocally
destroys the other."
The Constitutionnel, on the other hand, pays the
Opposition a high compliment. " The speakers," it.
says, " and principally those of the Whig Opposition,
express themselves in terms most honourable to the
French nation, and the political parties into which
our Chambers are divided. We have not found in
one of their speeches any of those stale calumnies that
used to be cast upon the pretended war party.
Henceforth in England, as well as in Fiance, the
mat-address and weaknesses of M. GUIZOT may be
condemned, without driving the two countries into a
war with each other. The high-toned speech with
which M. TRIERS opened in our Chamber the debate
on the Address, has exercised a happy influence on both
sides of the Channel ; he enlightened the statesmen,
and silenced the declaimers."
The France thus animadverts on the inconsistency
exhibited by the Chamber of Deputies on two im-
povant propositions :
" We proceed frem astonishment to astonishment, and the
representative government is a see-saw which an atom
causes to incline now to one side, and again to the, other.
The day before yesterday, the proposition relative to func-
tionaries was rejected by a majority of one ; and, yesterday,
post-office reform, contained in an amendment of M. Monier
de la Sizeranne, was adopted by a majority of one.
Perhaps to-day another ballot will abolish that of yes-
terday. We are in the reign of the half minus one,
and this one, which gives the law, can at its
pleasure overturn Ministries, and adopt or reject
propositions. There may be in the Chamber thus divided,
a man, an unknown, as powerful as Bonaparte and the Com-
mittee of public safety. The Chamber cannot any longer,
after these two days, proceed seriously. Votes and ballots
are nothing more than a mystification. What ought to
be the value of those reforms adopted or rejected by a ma-
jority of one ? Propositions are incomplete, ill-combined,
and they prove abortive ; the Chamber is floating, unde-
cided, and weary, before it has fought. Is it the fault of the
Chamber ? Is it the fault of the propositions ? How is
this hesitating, irresolute position to be got out of ? By a
dissolution of the Chamber, or a Ministerial crisis. The
first means appears to us alone to possess any efficacy."

THE BOURSE--FRIDAY, FEB. 8.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French FiveperCents•• .• •• 122 50 .. 122 50 .• 122 30 122 30
Fours.. ..... ....• •• 103 20 .. 108 20 •• 108 20 .. 108 20
Three per Cents..... 84 95 .. 84 95 84 80 .. 84 80
New Loan
„, „,,„ 86 .• 86 .. 86 •• 86
Bank of France ..... .......3285 .•3285 ..3280 ••3280
Gouln Bank, I,OOOL Shares.. 1085 "1085 ..1085 ..1085
Belgian 8ank.............. 650 .. 650 .. 650 ~ 650
Belgian Fives, 1840 ........ 104% .. 1043;, •• 104% 1047 i
1842 10614 .. 1061 .. 106% .. 106%1
Four.and-a-Half ... 10334 .. 10314 .. 103;4 .. 103%
Spanish Threes— •• •• •• •• 411 .. 41% 414 .. 41%
Active •.••• • • • • 39% .. 39'4) • • 39;4 as%
Passive . .. .. 6„
Portuguese Five per Cialtil• • 694 .. 694 • • 59% 59
Neapolitan
. 99 60 .. 99 60 .. 99 60 .. 99
60
Roman . . 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 1 5
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ••• • • • 1080 ..1080 ..1030 ..1020
Versailles, R.B. . 570 •• 580 .. 581 535
L. 8.• ...... 417 50 420 .. 413 .. 415
Rouen . • .
Rouen to Havre 905 .. 905 .• 905 .•
Orleans
..1162 50 ..05
1
Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• •• 317 30 .. 318 75
.. 316 25 362 50
! 50
Avignon to Marseilles...... 957 50 .• 955 7 950 •• 952
Bordeaux to Teste.• 262 50 .. 275
•. 262 50 .. 265 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB 15.
St. Germain .......• .• •• ••1080 "1033 75 ..1077 50 ••1077 50
Versailles, R.B.— •• •• •• 570 .. 571 25 .. 560 566 25
L.B.•••••••••••• 420 .• 421 50 .. 403 75 .• 417 50
Rouen ....................1117 50 • 1117 50 ..1110 —lll5
Rouen to Havre............ 905 .. 935 • 900 • • 902 50
Orleans - •••••• 317 50 318 75 .. 316 25 31 7
Avignon to Marseilles...... 957 50 .. 957 50 7 50
. 950 •
MuillausenitoThann 263 75 • 272 53 .• 263 952 50
75 .. 270

EAST CORNWALL.—By the following address from
Sir William Trelawny, to the electors, it will
be seen that there will be no contest for
the Eastern Division of Cornwall. Mr. Carew
will now be returned without opposition. We
regret this; but in the present state of parties, what
honest Liberal will spend money for a seat in the
House of Commons ?
G

..4entlemen,—My struggle through a long life has been to
obtain for the people a free, full, and fair representation in the
Commons House. That not being obtained, and finding that ao
other person would come forward on the present occasion as a
candidate, I yielded to the wishes of many influential and tried
friends of the people to offer myself, with the hope that the
inhabitants would use their influence on the electors, and that

the electors would feel, as they ought to feel, that they are
not entrusted with the franchise for their own bensit or the
benefit of their landlords or employers, but for the good of
the whole community.
Having just seen a list of so many electors pledged to my
Honourable Friend and opponent, and being convinced that
it would require a Irzre-er sum of money to oontet tim
on lo
iuo?, t
once withdraw from the contest, returning my waroit
thanks to the gentlemen and yeomen who have so zealously
Interested themselves in our common cause, and remaining
ever, Gentlemen, your faithful friend,

W. L. SALusuuttY TRELAWNY,
Harewood, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1845.

NATIONAL DE3T.—Accounts have just been issued
from the National Debt-office, showing the results of
operations undertaken from 1822 to 1844, for re-
ducing the charge on the debt, and the terms on
which the reduction has been made. The total an••
nual interest saved during that period amounts to
3,051,8001. Also, accounts of the unredeemed public
debt, from 1817 to 1844, and the amount of un-
funded debt in Exchequer-bills, from which it appears
that in 1817 the capital of the unredeemed Funded
Debt was 796,200,1911., and the annual charge
29,842,014/. ; while in 1844 the former was
772,169,0921., and the latter 28,516,882/. The
amount Of capital in Exchequer-hills in 1817 was
650,300/., and the interest 2,173,9271., while in
1844 they were respectively 18,407,300/., and
594,0511.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 10.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer I'acha. Captain Burney.
arrived this morning, at eleven o'cloLk, from Vigo, bring-
ing the following mails :—Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon,
Oporto, and Vigo. Her dates of departure are as follow:
—from Gibraltar, Feb. Ist ; Cadiz. 2d ; Lisbon, 4th ;
Oporto, sth ; and Vigo, 6th. Ships of war lying at
Gibraltar—None. Cadiz—H.M.S. Scout, a Swedish brig,
and a corvette, having been in search of three piratical
vessels, reported to having been seen off Cape St. Vin-
cent. Specie on Board—Six packages. List of Pas-
sengers—Thirteen, including the master and shipwrecked
seamen who abandoned their vessel in a sinking state,
the brig Idus, of London, from Ichaboe, bound to
London, on the 14th January, in lat. 49 N, long. 9 W.;
also four men from the schooner Tumbler, wrecked off
Cadiz; also from Oporto, the master and two apprentices
of the brig Ilebe, wrecked on Oporto Bar. Three other
passengers.

We wish to attract the particular attention of our
readers to an advertisement which appears in another
column, announcing that a fancy dress ball will take
place at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, the 26th
instant, for the benefit of the distressed needlework
women of the metropolis, under the patrurage of the
Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord
Ashley, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, and a Committee
consisting of nobility and gentry. We have no doubt
but the ball will be well attended, and we would
suggest to all those who intend to be present at it, the
propriety of employing those distressed persons for
whose benefit the ball is given in making up their
fancy dresses. We scarcely need add, and of paying
them a proper remunerating price for their labour.

We have this week to record the death of Mr. Andrew
Franklin, of Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, in his 90th
year. Near seventy years since Mr. Franklin com-
menced his literary labours in connexion with the Morn-
ing Puss newspaper, and subsequently joined the Morning
Advertiser, where he continued till old age compelled
him, a few years since, to relinquish his editorial duties
and retire into private life, taking with him the respect
and esteem of all who had the pleasure of his &!quaint-
ance.

FALL OF SNOW.—The weather within the last few
days has been excessively cold. For several nights the
thermometer has been many degrees below freezing, and
on Sunday morning it had fallen to 21. In the course
of last night there was a fall of snow which covered the
ground for several inches in depth. The temperature iN
now more mild, but it still snows heavily, with an ap-
pearance of continuance.