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EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION. CHATHAM,
Nov. I.—Very considerable sensation has been created
in the town of Chatham, owing to the prosecution of
an inquiry for the last four days, at the office of the
Captain Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, before
Captain Sheriff and his legal adviser (Mr. G. Essell),
and.the Director of the Dockyard police (Lieutenant
Wise). Although the investigation has been strictly
private, it :appears that it has arisen in consequence of
a young man, a sawyer of the yard, named John
Swaile, and who resides at New Brompton,
a short distance from the town of Chat-
ham, hieing been seen by some of the me-
chanics for the last week in the yard with a hand-
some watch and gold guard-chain, which, together
with some observations which fell from him in con-
versation with some of his brother workmen, created
suspicion that all was net right ; and the circum-
stances coming to the ears of the officers of the yard,
a diligent inquiry was immediately set on foot. It
was soon ascertained that Swaile, the sawyer, had
been seen with two Bank of England notes of 1001.
each, and that he had been going to several trades-
men about the place endeavouring to procure change
for them. About a fortnight ago Swaile went
to his landlord, Mr. Death, of Brompton, to pay
his rent, when he tendered one of the 1001.
notes. Mr. Death felt great surprise that a man of
Swaile's description should have a note of so much
value, and refused to take it. Swaile after that ap-
plied to two or three tradesmen of Brompton for
change of the notes, hut could not succeed ; he there-
fore went to a silversmith's at Chatham and bought
the watch and chain for 13/., and there it is said he
succeeded in changing one of the notes in question.
The other note it is said he got rid of at Stroud.
It is reported that Swaile received the Bank notes
from a convict whilst in the yard, and who was
undergoing his sentence of transportation ; and that
providing Swaile succeeded in getting them changed
he was to have 501. for his trouble. It is strongly
conjectured by the officers of the convict ship
Fortitude, that Swaile must have had the notes in his
possession some time, as the convict suspected is one
of three brothers, who wastransported for an extensive
robbery, and has gone with the last draught of con-
victs for the penal settlements, and Swaile ascertaining
that fact, brought forth the notes for circulation. On
Saturday Swaile absented himself from the dock-
yard, and upon going to his residence at New
Brompton, the house was found closed. Swaile has
not been since heard of. One of the 100/. notes, it
is stated, was paid into the Rochester Bank, and
transmitted to London. The note, it is said, is stopped,
as one having been stolen. Several witnesses have
been examined, and the evidence, when complete, will
be forwarded to the Lords of the Admiralty.
For the future, Swedish and Norwegian vessels
are to enjoy in Russian ports the same privileges as
Russian vessels, and are to be subjected to no higher
udties.
DINGWALL.—On ',Tuesday evening snow began to
fall, with the wind at north-east, and continued till
-Wednesday afternoon. Since then there has been a
rapid thaw, but the weather is anything but settled.
The mails from the south did not arrive here yester-
day
and to-day till nine and seven o'clock A.M. reSPee"
tsdainvoyewlyin,wEbitsfttuellrielyßntoisystoh mail has not been detained. The
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—If there .be one obligation stronger
than another, which the possession of elevated
rank imposes on the few who are thus accident-
ally raised above the many, the exercise of cau-
tion in becoming patrons of, or partners in,
schemes of a doubtful character or tendency,
ought not to be regarded as among the least.
Were the aggregate of misery which the records
of bubble-schemes, floated before the public on
the prestige of high sounding titles which have
headed their pompous prospectuses, presented to
the eye, how vast would be its amount! The
facility with which Dukesand Lords have acceded
to the applications made to them by sharpers, who
arc constantly taxing their invention for new ways,
of raising the wind, for permission to place their
dignified titles at the head of the delusions,
ought ere this to have cautioned the public
against being duped by the dazzle of great names.
Scarcely a project of more than ordinary atrocity
has been propounded, but its explosion has been
accompanied by the complaints of the sufferers,
that they • were duped into committing • their
little all to the custody of the well-dressed
and specious knaves who fleeced/ them, by
having their attention attracted by the great
names exhibited as Patrons, Trustees, or Direc-
tors of the concern. Hence the incautious have
been entrapped into purchasing shares in under-
takings utterly worthless, and have been induced
to deposit their money in banks whose coffers were
either absolutely empty, or containing only just
so much capital as was necessary to keep decoy-
ducks
to allure dupes to their ruin. Emigration
schemes and Joint-stock Companies for the sale
of vast . tracts of swamp or impervious forest,
which the foot of man has never trod, and
to cultivate which by European labour would
be impracticable—in such wild schemes have
hundreds been induced to embark their tittle
all, and to ship themselves and familieS
in some half-crazy, imperfectly-provisioned ves-
sel, provided by the Company, to whom they
have paid passage-money and freightage, for this
El Dorado, where they were sure to acquire
riches with facility; and while employed in the
pleasing task of obtaining wealth with ease, and
without risk, they were to be supplied with every
.necessary and comfort at the cost of the " Com-
pany." Another of these dishonest experiments
on public credulity has burst—we hope in time
to preserve the poor people who were about to
embark their persons for the region where, had
they been able to reach it, they would have en-
countered starvation. The probability is, how-
ever, that they would have perished in the at-
tempt. We allude to the British Colonial _Pni-
gration and Colonial Association—the origin, •
progress, and demolition of which forcibly illus-
trate the remarks in which we have indulged.

STANDARD.—We have copied under the
usual head an article of this day's Times, upon the
subject that we considered yesterday, the " new
orders" of the equity judges. We find that we
differ from our respected Morning Contemporary
in our view :of the possible effect of the " new
orders," but we are happy to see, that in refer-
ence to the principle which ought to guide every
refbrm in the administration of the law, the
Times perfectly coincides in the opinion we
have long since asserted—the principle, namely.,
that all official fees ought to be abolished, and
that the state ought, from the common resources
of the country, to maintain the machinery of
the law—just as it maintains the machinery
of the army, navy, revenue, police, and, indeed,
every other department of the Government,
military and civil, without imposing peculiar
burthens upon the individuals who happen for
the moment to be objects of the care of that par-
ticular department. Indeed it is difficult to ima-.
gine in what other department of Government
such partial taxation as is imposed by official law
charges could be so oppressive as these charges
are found. If one were called upon to pay
the soldier, sailor, or policeman, whose protec
lion he found necessary for a season, he would
have him only to pay, and the protection
would nut be rendered less efficient by the pay-
ment. In the case of law charges the case is
exactly the reverse; every law charge exacts a
form ; every form demands some act from the
party's solicitor, and the just remuneration for
this act must be added to the official charge, as
part of the original hurdler', But the rigt of
charging for official services offers a temptation
to render such services indispensable—a tempta-
tion such as never was and never will be re-
sisted by a succession of officers. Hence, in a
little time the. administration of the law becomes
entangled in a multiplicity of forms and the
course of efficient' justice is retarded, if not
arrested altogether. How often does• it happen
in our equity courts that a property is disputed
until it is all dissipated in costs, proving that the
fable of the oyster and the shells is no hyperbo-
lical illustration ? How much oftener do men sit
down. in submission to wrong, rathei than try the
hazard of a bill in equity—not merely hazard, if
the wrong be not very great, but the certainty
of merely transferring the property to which one
is entitled, to solicitors and officers of court, from
the pockets of his adversary, wall some of his
own property into the bargain. All this is the
necessary effect of the-multiplication of forms—
as the multiplication of forms is as necessarily the
effect of paying officers in proportion to their
amount of interference. Here is the mischief.
Establish what scale of charges you please—
and, indeed, most of the charges in a bill of
costs are ridiculously low—ingenuity and the
love of gain, natural more or less to all men,
will defeat your purpose : new formalities will
be tried; what is indifferent to-day will be
rendered by usage indispensable to-morrow,
and the' suitor will gain nothing by your best
efforts, so long as you leave to the officer the
power of paying himself. The remedy, we
repeat it, is to pay officers, and pay them well,
by fixed salaries, in no respect dependent upon
the amount of business that may come before
them—thus paying them, you will make 'it as
much their interest to abridge forms and delays,
as it is now their interest to extend both, and you
will have thus made the first effectual step in a
real reform of the law.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12f per
mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25 461, and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
don at short being 25 65, it follows that gold is
0.74 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from liamburgb, the price of gold is
433 per 'mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10fd. per ounce. for., standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13 9, and the exchange at 4amburgh on
London at short being 13 10i, it follows that gold is
0.68 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgli.
The course of exchange at New York on London
is 108 per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it
follows that the exchange is '1.57 per cent. against
England ; but the quoted exchange at New York
being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must
be deducted from the above difference.

No event of the kind has produced a stronger feel-
ing of uneasiness among men of property than the
ruin of the Bank of Manchester, and the wish is be-
coming general that it may lead to a review of the
whole system of joint-stock banking, with some bet-
ter protection from its consequences both to the
shareholders and the public. A Correspondent, who
professes to have examined carefully several of their
charters and deeds of settlement, observes as follows :
" Soma of the charters are admirable in their bind •
inz'precautions, but there is no penalty fixed upon di-
rectors, managers, or officers, for any delinquency be-
yond that which falls upon the innocent, because ne-
cessarily ignorant, Shareholders. The deeds of settle-
ment bind the Shareholders ; the Directors, Mana-
gers, and officers, are carefully hedged from every
danger and penalty, because any delinquent Director
has only (taking advantage of his knowledge) to sell
his shares and resign; then he is free from every con-
sequence ; never was there more iniquitous inequality
than that which exists between Director and Share-
holder.

" The reason of alb; this is evidentt, The lawyers
who frame the deeds are most frequently Directors,
and always officers. So ion as the bank is pros-
perous, they hold large shares, selling at premium ;
their knowledge enables them to retract in time.
They have only to take care that the charter or deed
of settlement saddles no responsibility on Directors
or officers.

" Private bankers are bound, in person and pro-
perty, to, their customers and the public. Joint-stock
bank Directors, on the contrary, can play fast and
loose. If this iniquitous system is longer permitted,

it will extend swindling through every grade of
English society. Responsibility must be fixed by
law ; the Shareholders (who pay in honest gold)
must be protected. For what are Directors but
trustees of property committed to their skill, honesty
and care ? No man is forced into responsiElity—no
man is forced to be Director.

" All that is required is, that Directors, Managers,
and officers of joint-stock banks shall be placed under
exactly the satne responsibility as private bankers. li
No ignorant or improper persons will then thrust
themselves into pay or
place
business, and be active, not sleeping partners,
and men whose minds and property are in the bank.
The same energy, watchfulness and
indi-
viduals exercise, will thenbacee; th
insurede care, that
to must e all know
their
public"
n. ow
The injury to Shareholders in many cases extends
far beyond the loss of their stake in the bank, and
Allianneeehtellse liquidationteris of
watched
by
yhe
all
lsseets of theoneerned Bank of
a
with
sanignuusinte
beharmdalyde anbtaineki
very anxious degree of interest. Should they fail
to realise the amount at which they are valued, which
shareholderstthe
most,,,maasn3hraosf thehap-
pened before in similar cases, for no honest man: will
allow his separate creditors to be defrauded, in order
to make good his liabilities as Shareholder of a joint-
stock bankrupts,
bank. The consequence will be the breaking-
, up of establiihments and the ruin of families innu-
mem*. It is believed ,4.9?iiitany:. thtit unless
the liquidation of the assets should turn out a very
favourable one, the depositors and other creditors of
the Bank of Manchester are by no means safe.
The following is an extract of a letter from another
Correspondent on the same subject :
" I quite agree with you in thinking that the Share-
holders in Joint-stock banks are in need of legisative
protection. As a means by which this mtga • t,in a
great measure, be obtained, perhaps the following
suggestion may merit attention. Most Joint-stock
banks have what is denominated a guarantee fund,'
which is an accumulation of the surplus profits, after
paying reasonable dividends ; but under the present
system this 'fund' .is only nominally a guarantee and
nothing more, for it may be, and almost invariably is,
used in the current business of the bank, and con-
sequently sometimes, as in the case of the Bank of
Manchester, totally lost. Now, I would propose that
this fund should, in the strictest sense of the word, be
made a guarantee, by a law being passed whereby
the Directors and Managers would be compelled to
invest the surplus profits declared at each periodical
balance in the public funds, and that such investments
should not be appropriated in any way whatever,
without the sanction mid signatures of four-fifths of
the Shareholders. I would have these investments
continued until at least one-half of the subscribed
capital was accumulated, and every investment duly
notified in the newspapers." •
POST.—It is said that a project is in contempla-
tion, the purpose of which is to secure the payment of
the dividends. on the newly-issued Three per Cent.
Spanish Stock for a period of five years, and that a
gentleman well versed in financial matters, and with
the feelings of the English public towards Spain, has
left London for Madrid, in order to make to the
Government there an offer of the means required for
the accomplishment of such an object, which he will
do in the name of several wealthy capitalists. How far
the proposition may meet the views of Senor Calatrava
seems doubtful, the terms upon which it is to be made
remaining to be developed. An opinion cannot there-
fore,
for the moment, be hazarded upon it ; but '
there can be no hesitation in saying, that to secure
the holders of the Three per Cent. Stock their
interest money for five years would be a step that
could not fail to contribute to the advancement of the
.national credit of Spain, and to give satisfaction to at
least one portion of the claimants on her exchequer.
It is to be hoped, however, that the gentleman alluded
to has not departed for the Spanish capital to enter
upon a financial negotiation without a full conviction
of the necessity of attending, as a preparatory mea-
sure, to the long neglected condition of the Treasury
bill-holders, and that he will, during his stay there,
use his 'endeavours to awaken the Minister to a just
sense of the injury under which this class of the fo-
reign creditors labour. The Treasury bills are six
years. over due to-day, and, to attempt to revive con-
fidence while they remain in abeyance must prove
nugatory. The sentiments of the individual on this
question are well known in London, and he will act
wisely in putting Senor Calatrava in possession of the
truth. More sacred claims do not, as he is aware,
exist, and hence the obloquy that has been cast upon
those Ministers, the predecessors of the present head
of the hacienda, by whom the guarantees under which
they were issued have been so shamelessly violated.

STATES-GENERAL OF HOLLATD.

THE HAGUE, Nov. I.—A deputation of the two
Chambers presented yesterday to his Majesty the fol-
lowing answer of the Chambers to the Speech from
the Throne :

Sire,—The States-General have received with sen-
timents of lively sympathy the communication of the
marriage of your .Majesty's beloved daughter to the
Hereditary Duke of Saxe '\Viemar. We ardently
hope that this union will contribute to the happiness
of a beloved Princess, and we are certain that when
she attains the Crown to which she is called, she will
not forget a country which was so dear to her.
The Netherlands are constantly in need of repose
and peace. We have therefore learned with satisfac-
tion from your Majesty that our relations with Fo-
reign Powers continue to be distinguished by recipro-
cal friendship and good will.
• It is extremely agreeable to us to receive from your
Majesty the assurance that the Plenipotentiaries of the
Netherlands and Belgium have agreed on the basis of
a convention, the result of which will be the complete
fulfilment of the Treaty of London.
After the long negotiations between the two coun-
tries, we hope that your Majesty will shortly be able
to communicate to us the treaty concluded, and as it
is highly important for the Netherlands and Belgium

to be on terms of good neighbourhood, we areper-
suaded that the treaty, if faithfully executed, will con-
tribute to favour the- commercial intercourse between

the two countries.
We repeat our wish that the very necessary regu-
lations of the financial interest of the Grand Duchy of
Luxemburgh may be speedily terminated.
The Netherlands owe their origin and their great-
ness to the navy, and though the revenues of the State
will hardly permit an increase of expense, we must
never forget that a navy on a respectable footing is in-
dispensable for the defence of the country and of our
colonies. We recommend this important point to
your Majesty's constant solicitude, and we hope that
a judicious employment of the means granted will
contribute to amelioration of our navy.
We have learned with satisfaction that the best
means have been adopted to place the defence of the
country on a good footing.
Every Netherlander has always been ready to sa—
crifice his fortune and his blood for the defence of the
country and the preservation of its independence.
The same sentiments animate them now, and if
circumstances should require it, your Majesty would
find the States-General ready to contribute, as.far as
they are concerned, to the uttermost of their power.
However, we are firmly persuaded that your Majesty's
Government, in consideration of the present situation
of the finances of the State, will agree with us that
no greater expense can be employed for this purpose
than is strictly necessary.
We look forward with interest to the projects of
law on the militia and the communal guards, as well
as the proposals which will be made to us to regulate
the affairs of the Benevolent Society. We shall exa-
mine the second book of the penal code with the
scrupulous attention which the importance of the
subject demands.
We hope that the draft of the new tariff of import,
export, and transit duties, will be sufficiently advanced
to be shortly communicated to us for our discussion.
We expect that on this subject it will not be forgotten
that moderate and protecting du ies contribute to the
general prosperity, and are advantageous to the
Treasury.
We cannot conceal from your Majesty the wish
that the Government may he soon able to submit to
our examination the new projects of • law on the
electoral system. They are of the utmost importance,
and we are firmly persuaded, that in conjunction
with a strict observance of the principles of the Con-
stitution, there will be a liberal, but at the same time
prudent application of these same principles.
We rejoice to learn that our East Indian possessions
enjoy a state of tranquillity. We flatter ourselves
that the Government will succeed, by the application
of prudent measures, in repairing the injury which
has been occasioned in those possessions by the shock
given to the system of credit. We hope that an im-
provement in the price of colonial produce will allow
of an increase of the resources which the
mother country derives from the contribution of the
East Indies, without, however, increasing this contri-
bution so as to interfere with the expenses necessary
for the interest of the colonies themselves.

We again recommend to your Majesty the situa-
tion of the West Indies. their prosperity is dimi-
nished, their productions continue to be overburdened
with import duties. It is just and desirable that
measures should be at length taken to promote their
interests.

We acknowledge with your Majesty the necessity
of improving the organization of the police. It is a
question of a very delicate nature, which must be
treated with all possible care, and with extreme cir-
cumspection.
We learn with satisfaction the flourishing state of
the arts and sciences.
Public instruction ought to be a constant subject
of the solicitude of the Goveriiment, and your Ma-
jesty will always find us ready to contribute to it if
necessary, by legislative measures.
The situation of the poor is worthy of the entire
attention of your Majesty. It must be confessed that
pauperism is increasing among us. Let us hope,
then, that the measures which will be resolved upon
by your Majesty will attain the desired object, and
preserve the Netherlands from the necessity of im-
posing special taxes on this subject.
We cannot conceal from your Majesty that the an-
nounced deficit has excited our solicitude in the highest
degree.
We hope that in the approaching biennial budget
the means for providing for the expenses will be cal-
culated with more accuracy, and that in the estimates
the chances, which are unfavourable, will be scrupu-
lously considered, as well as those which are fa-
vourable.
The burden of our debt is so heavy that an in-
crease of it can hardly be thought of. By the economy
which may be speedily introduced by the simplifica-
tion of everything that can he simplified, by a more
equal repartitiOn of the taxes, which should require a
larger contribution from the wealthy inhabitants of
the country, we hope to attain the desired object of
seeing the expenditure provided for by the receipts.
When this course is followed, when the scrupulous
investigations of the Chamber:of Accounts shall have
exercised a just control over all the finances of the
kingdom, we may then prevent for the future a
deficit, and perhaps think, under more happy circum-
stances, of a diminution of the public debt.
But all our efforts (we urgently dwell on this point)
must be directed to this object, setting aside all par-
ticular interest, and keeping in view only the general

good.
The revisal of the pensions, &c., is immediately
connected with this point; and we trust that the
next biennial budget, and the new projects of law on
pensions, will irrefragably prove a desire to promote
the general interest.
Our entire attention will soon be called to this
biennial budget. We comprehend that when the con-
tributions from our colonial possessions are insuffi-
cient, new means must be employed to provide for the
necessary expenses.
We expect, with interest, the projects of law on this
subject, and will seriously examine them: IVe too,
Sire, have no more ardent wish than to assist in alle-
viating the burdens which bear upon the people ; but
we cannot suppress the fear that the diminution in the
amount of some taxes and the fall in the price of Co-
lonial produce will not allow us at this moment to
think of a general reduction of those burdens.
We shall be happy to receive thii accounts of the
receipt and expenditure of the kingdom for 1841, and
the preceding years. We hope, at the same time, that
the account 'for the present year, to be concluded
by the Chamber of Accounts will be drawn up with
clearness, and be accompanied by a detailed account
of the employment of the means, to be laid before us
in convenient time, so that we may be enabled, by this
communication, to become acquainted with the real
wants of the Treasury. To heal the wounds of the
past, to improve our present unfavourable situation, is
the noble task reserved for your Majesty. The agree-
ment of the Sovereign with the Representatives of the
nation may certainly contribute to it; the Govern-
ment likewise co-operates by defending the general
interest on immutable principles, holding with a
firm hand the reins of the State, and maintaining
order and regularity in all the branches of the Admi-
nistration.
The States-General are ready to second your Ma-
jesty in everything .that may contribute to the well-
understood interests of a people whose love and at-
tachment to the august house of Orange are the best
reward for the indefatigable care which your Majesty
devotes to their welfare.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AI,IBTERDAM, Ovr. 31.
Money. Bills.
Actual Del t, iN per Cent 5214 524 k
Ditto. ditto 5 per cent.
Amit Synciic,44 per cent 15% P4y,
Commercial Company, 4 per cent fac;%
Loan 1837, 5 per (Amt.
Lit:Flange on Londim, One inenth.......
Two month, -
Dutch Papers, Nov. 1.

IRELAND.

NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, OCT. 31.—The weekly meeting of this
body was hell this day. Mr. Devitte, barrister, in the
chair.

Mr. Jomi O'CONNELL, M.P., read a letter from
John Hesketh Lethbridge, Esq., dated from Brussels,
in which he stated that he had been in Liege, Co-
logne, and other cities, in all of which the Catholic
religion was predominant, and a freer or happier peo-
ple were not in the world. It was, therefore untrue
to say that the cause of the poverty of the Irish p-o-
-ple was their attachment to the Catholic Church, as
had been alleged. Mr. J. O'Connell confirmed the
statement of Mr. Lethbridge with respect to the hap-
piness of the Belgian people.
After several members were admitted—

Notice of a motion was handed in by Dr. MURPHY,
to the effect that this Society, and all Ireland, call
upon Mr. O'Connell to retire from Parliament, and
devote the energies of his mind to the repeal agitation
at home.

The Loan MAYOR said that although one vote
would now be of little value in Parliament, still he
thought that, as "both is best," he could be of ser-
vice to Ireland both in and out of Parliament.—
(Cheers.) He then proceeded to address the meeting
on the present state and prospects of the repeal cause.
He said that the hour of Ireland's regeneration was
approaching. He was convinced of this when he
looked to the state of England and what was going
on there at present. The working classes were steeped
in distress, while nothing better appeared in store for
the agriculturists. Peel and his friends had suc-
ceeded in seizing on the reins of Government on the
understanding that be would, at least, protect the
rights of the agriculturists; but what had he done for
thorn ? After six great nations had increased their
tarifTh for the purpose of shutting out English goods,
Peel not only threw open the English market to fo-
reign manufactures, but he betrayed the agricul-
turists in the same tariff. There was some comfort
left still for the English farmer. A few days ago
they were told by a fat, good-natured kind of a
lump of a Baronet, called Sir Tyssen Tyrrell, to
keep up their spirits, for it was quite impossible
that American pigs could come over to lower the
price of their pigs.—(Laughter.) And could the
meeting guess why the American pigs would not do ?
Because they were fed on mutton.—(Laughter.) You
laugh at this (said the Lord Mayor), but it really was
asserted by a man with a head on his shoulders—not
by a Punch and Judy figure, or a man in Bedlam, but
by an English Baronet. Just let the poor Irishman
fancy an American walking into his pig-stye, and
asking what part of the mutton would be accptable—
whether the grunters would like their mutton rare or
well done.—(Great laughter.) This Baronet would
very soon find out his mistake, and the error he and
his party committed in confiding in Peel. It looked
as if'the people of England were losing their reason
a common symptom that appeared in the history of
nations, previous to their downfal. England would
soon require the entire support of Ireland, and she
should have it if she acted with justice. She had been
compelled to do justice to Canada, very much against
her will, and if the people of Ireland only combined
together in legal and peaceful bonds, but with a firm
resolution to procure her domestic Parliament, Eng-
land should speedily grant it. There was a ge-
neral opinion abroad that by the Union all the
markets of England, were thrown open to the Irish agri-
culturists, which would be immediately closed if
that measure were repealed. What was the real fact,
as he only ascertained a few days ago ? That in the
year 1791 there were sold at Ballinasloe 64,207
sheep; in 1837 there were only 63,219, a falling off
of 988 ; and it should be borne in mind that in 1837
the population of Ireland had nearly, doubled that in
1791. In the former year there was no exportation
to England, while in the latter nearly three-fourths
were sent away. Was-this a proof of the improved
condition of the Irish people ? Again, in 1799, the
year before the Union, the sale of sheep at Ballinasloe
was 74,175, while in 1842, the numbers were 63,865,
a falling off of 10,310. What good had the English
market with the Union done to Ireland ? He next
looked to the sale of horned cattle. In 1798, two
years before the Union, there were sold 7,782; in
1836 the sales wore 6,117, less by 1,665 than when
the Irish farmer had no market in England. Before
the Union the Irish people, then about one-half the
number they are at present, ate their own beef and
mutton, although they were not like the American
pigs spoken of by Sir Tyssen Tyrrell. He concluded
a long speech by reading a Report on the state of the
Repeal Question, which was adopted by the Associa-
tion. The week's rent was 1021.65. 4d.

THE MILITARY COMMAND OF
PARIS.
The National publishes the following letter from
Marshal Soult, Minister of War, to General Pajol,
announcing to the General that he has been displaced
in the command of the First Military Division :
" 30th October, 1842.

" General, —I have the honour to inform you, that
by a decision taken the 29th of October, 1842, the
King has superseded you in the command of the First
Military Division, and placed you en disponibilite.
" In announcing to you this arrangement, I cannot
but express the regret I feel, that you did not re-
spond by acquiescence to the desire I feel to procure
for you a situation that his Majesty was disposed to
grant you. I should have been happy to have seen
you the object of a particular manifestation of the
King's high satisfaction for your honourable and an-
cient services. You will surrender the command of
the First Division to Lieutenant-General Count Se-
bastiani, appointed to succeed you in this command.
I have given orders that you be paid at Paris, your
place of residence, the amount to which you are
entitled.

" Receive, General, the assurance of my most dis-
inguished consideration.
" The President of the Council, Ministary Secre-
tary of State for the War Department,
" Marshal Duke of DALMATIA."

"It would be difficult," adds the National. `‘tc; ex-
plain. the brutal order which stries G.en.eral Pajol,
aGnednethraelfio,ramie,l no less brutal, in
thwhichGovernmentitis cou cwheitt
zeal, but the doctrinary Cabinete cannot forget that
rheerwelasatioonneooffltBh3eofirstmthat
fembrace the cause of the
ren-
der him suspected, notwithasetatnwdiasngsuaffill chieisntsethrviees.
It appears, moreover, that M. Jacqueminot having
been appointed Commander of the National Guard,
desired that a man whose services would place his
own in the shade should not be maintained in the
command of the division, and before whom he would
have reason to blush. One of M. Jacqueminot's qua-
lities, and which renders him dear to the juste milieu
party, is, that he is afraid of Foreign Powers, he
himself having so declared at a large meeting of
electors. General Pajol is not animated with the
same sentiments. From this fact there consequently
existed an incompatibility of temper between the
commander of the troops of the line and him of the
National Guard of the department of the Seine. The
necessary intercourse between those persons would
have been unpleasant for both. It was then deter-
mined to dismiss the old servant of the republic and
the empire, the man who (a serious crime now-a-days)
never would wear a white cockade, and who is cogni-
sant of the manner in which a fallen monarch was
compelled to travel to Cherbourg. We have been
told, and Marshal Soult's letter confirms our informa-
tion, that a long negotiation was carried on with the
General, in order to induce him to accept the place of
Aid-de-Camp to the King. Some skilful and hitherto
successful advocates endeavoured to induce him to. ac-
cept the appointment; but he firmly refused, and the
authorities could not dissemble their bad temper.
This explains to us the brutal, unceremonious letter
of Marshal Sonit, and the disgrace which it inflicts
upon a General officer covered with wounds, at the
very moment when drawing-room Colonels arrive at
the-first rank, both in the National Guard and in the
regular army."

STATE OF BIRMINGHAM.-If what every one says
be true, the past has been, perhaps, the worst week of
trade which has been felt in this town. The com-
plaints are almost general. There are few ordersintbe warehouses. The men are daily being less em-
ployed, money is consequently scarcer, and the shop-
keepers can best tell their own tale. To add to the
gloom, the winter has set in with snow, cutting winds,
and pinching night frosts.—Birmin
(rho' In Journal.
A circular was sent round this morning to the
different police-stations
coinsinth
the metropolis, giving a de-
scription of the variousin gold and silver stolen
from the Saffron 'Walden
25th ult., and to which we Museum, on Tuesday,a 10.
Many of these were of the reriegfnesrrondf Eadwtidalg. and
the succeeding Henrys,vet coins were equall 'old and
s, and were continued to the
present reign. The
scarce. Her Majesty's Ministers
have offered a re-
ward of 501.—the
die sum to be paid by the Trustees
of the Museum—for the apprehension ot the offenders.
No trace of them, however,
has yet been discovered.