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the only defence that remains for the prisoner at the bar. If he were in truth upon that expedition, then he is guilty, and so you must pronounce him. But, gentlemen, if he was at that time five, or six, or seven miles distant, if he had no participation in that enterprise, then the same great principles of justice require that you should pronounce him innocent.

The evidence sustaining this defence consists of the depositions of individuals avowedly participating in the expedition, and secondly of the oral testimony of several individuals showing, or tending to show, that McLeod was, during the execution of this enterprise, at a distant spot-in another town.

person to Niagara on the day of the destruction of the
Caroline; that he knows it to be that day from the
fact of having made an entry of that transaction in
his cash book under that date-that he conveyed the
prisoner in the evening as far as Stamford on the way
back to Chippewa-that there prisoner alighted from
the wagon, and went to the honse of capt. John Mor-
rison.

William Stocking was called and corroborated the
evidence of Press, and both, I may add, corroborated
the statement of Hamilton respecting Rayncock's
having left for Europe before the commencement of
the troubles in Canada.

First, then, with regard to the evidence of the commissions. The prisoner's counsel is right in telling positively as to McLeod's being there on the night of you that evidence taken in this way, is, and should be, less satisfactory than that given personally before you. But so far as the depositions themselves go to describe the individuals testifying, you may desire some information respecting the standing and character of those individuals. Some of them are lawyers -some of them mariners-and some officers in her majesty's service, and by their descriptions they should all be men of character and responsibility.

It has been said that this commission was a "roving commission"-that witnesses were examined whose names had not been returned. But there was in the spirit of liberality, and by consent, a stipulation made that more witnesses than those named might be examined. It was also hinted that some suspicion should attach to these depositions from the manner in which they had been made up. [The learned judge here described the manner in which the commissions were executed, and showed that no suspicion could properly rest upon them. He then proceeded.] The attorney general has noticed the testimony of these deponents with great minuteness, and equally great ability. He has pointed out where the witnesses have contradicted each other or the truth.

For instance, some saying that resistance was made on board the boat, whereas it has been shown that there was no resistance. If the witness swore so knowing that they were swearing falsely, that will of course detract from their credibility. But Wells himself testifies that he heard the sounds of fighting, and that in the darkness of the night and confusion of the melee, the attacking party had mistaken each other for the occupants of the boat, and that they fought together. If that were true, then it would not follow that in testifying as to resistance encountered on board the boat, they were not false in the corrupt sense of the term.

Passing from this, there is this other consideration, which must strike you in the outset. If, when Alexander McLeod sued out this commission, and directed the commissioners to examine persons who had been in each of the boats, and if in truth he had been present there himself, he must be a bold man indeed. Because he must have supposed that the commissioners would either have taken only those who could not see in the dark whether he was there or not, or that the men would have been so corrupt as to swear falsely to extricate him from the punishment of his crime. But this is no further evidence than as it is a portion of the history of the transaction, and with these views you are to take up the testimony and ascertain, after solemn inquiry, how much credit you should give these witnesses.

The family of Capt. Morrison and himself swear
the 29th of December. Captain Morrison states that
he is enabled to fix the day, from the circumstance
that his friend, Col. Cameron, called at his gate early
next morning, and informed him of the destruction of
the Caroline, and gave him a fragment of her ruins,
which he had found in an eddy below the Falls-that
he told this to McLeod, whom he found half dressed
in the parlor, where he had slept during the night-
that McLeod was electrified, and calling for his horse,
proposed to leave immediately, but finally remained
for breakfast, after which he went on his way.
Then comes the witness Gilkinson, that he met
McLeod on the day after the destruction of the Caro-
line, on the road from Stamford that they rode up
together to opposite Navy Island, from which they
were fired on that one of the balls was picked up
and handed to McLeod, who carried it with him
and Sears, you will recollect, states that on this day
he saw McLeod and another person riding along
that way, and that they were fired at from Navy Is-
land. This testimony is corroborated by that of Mr.
McLean.

"We have," replied the foreman. "What say you, gentlemen, do you find Alexander McLeod guilty or not guilty?" "NOT GUILTY."

All was hushed and quiet-no excitement visible any where. The prisoner's keen grey eyes brightened up somewhat, and taking his hat and cloak, he slowly retired with his counsel.

POLITICS OF THE DAY.

WHIG STATE CONVENTION. From the Albany Evening Journal. SYRACUSE, THURSDAY, OCT. 7. The convention re-assembled in the Congregational church at 9 o'clock, A. M. when the committee on the address and resolutions reported. The address having been read by the hon. D. D. Barnard.

Mr. John A. King, of Queens, rose, and in a most powerful speech supported its adoption. The convention, and a large audience, were most highly gratified, and were enchained for more than half an hour by the spell of the orator, save when involuntary bursts of applause broke forth.

Mr. Alvah Worden, of Ontario, next rose and warmly seconded the adoption of the address, and heartily responded to the remarks of the gentleman. from Queens, urging upon the great whig party to stand by the principles embodied in the noble address, and concluded by desiring that the document might be placed in every hall and hamlet of the state and

nation.

The address was adopted by acclamation. Mr. David Graham, of New York, rose and read the resolutions proposed by the committee, and supported their adoption in an animated speech.

This is the aggregate of the testimony, gentlemen, Mr. J. N. Reynolds, of New York, seconded their on this part of the defence. The evidence of the adoption, and paid a high eulogium to the talents and Morrisons and the declaration of McLeod on his ex-services of the hon. N. P. Tallmadge, and on the deamination have been submitted to you and criticised votion and untiring zeal of the whig members of this by the attorney general with great ability. If he has state generally, at the recent extra session. satisfied you that the Morrisons may have been mistaken as to dates, and in particular in reference to this great epoch, and that the other witnesses corroborating them may have also been mistaken, then your confidence in this portion of the testimony vanishes. But if you decide on just grounds otherwise, then it should I think be deemed satisfactory in establishing the innocence of the prisoner.

[Mr. Spencer then requested the court to charge the jury that the deposition of Col. Cameron corroborated essentially the statement of Capt. Morrison, which his honor did, and proceeded]:

But gentlemen, if, even after all, though the prisoner may in your opinion have failed completely in proving an alibi, yet if he has raised sufficient doubt as to his guilt, he is to have the full benefit of that doubt. The law never divides between the living and the dead-never consigns any individual to the tomb without an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove the guilt of the accused. In this spirit you are now to consider the evidence which I have fully reviewed before you.

And now, gentlemen, my task is performed. Your duty remains to be done. And it is one of the most solemn trusts that can be reposed in the citizen. You are to take this case into your deliberate consideraIt is undoutedly true, gentlemen, that Sears cannot tion. You are to weigh and decide on every part and say, with any degree of certainty, that McLeod was portion of it. You are to call into exercise your best not on board the expedition. It is equally true that powers of judgment-regardless of rumors which McNab cannot say so, although he superintended the may have reached your ears-regardless of every embarkation of the persons engaged in the enterprise. consideration except that of the guiding principle of None but the All-seeing eye could penetrate the dark- justice and impartiality. ness that shrouded those there associated. But, And when you shall have come to your decision then, there are one or two gentlemen, from among and declared where the truth lies, then, with an indeinmates of each particular boat, who have been examined. Some of them knew McLeod well before pendence that will honor you, and with the noble inthat time-others became acquainted with him after-tegrity that your country expects you to exhibit, you will pronounce your verdict. And then I trust that wards-some talked with and recognised all their as- all who have witnessed this trial-the ability with sociates-and they all testified that McLeod was not which it has been conducted-and your patience in amongst them on that night. Now, gentlemen, it is proper that you should apply attending to it—will be satisfied.

Mr. D. D. Barnard, of Albany, then rose aud said that after what had fallen from the gentleman from New York he hardly knew how to express himself for the generous manner in which the conduct of the New York members of congress had been noticed and dwelt upon. He said that one and all had only performed their duty as whigs-more they could not do-less they dare not have done. He then went into a history of the measures of the extra session of congress, and commented severely upon the exercise of the veto power, condemning its abuse. He argued that the only true way to test the principles of a party in power was to go back and see what they promised before obtaining it-and affirmed that the measure twice vetoed was the prominent measure of relief promised by the whigs; à sound and uniform national currency, to be moulded and formed in a law for the custody, safe-keeping, and disbursement of the public money, immediately on the repeal of the sub-treasury law which was expected to be repealed by the people who placed the whigs in power, and this new fabric reared over its grave. That President Tyler knew derived from his votes and speeches and referred to this. He gave the political history of the president, his course in the Harrisburg convention, and read his answer to the interrogatories addressed to him from and second bank bills introduced and carried through Henrico. He, Mr. B. gave the history of the first at the extra session, particularly the second, framed as it was with the express intention to meet in every respect the president's peculiar notions. He then exposed the present situation of our fiscal affairs, and showed that the public moneys were now where they were when Gen. Jackson seized them-and President Tyler doing as Gen. Jackson did, controlling their custody-and showed from President Tyler's former speeches that he had most strongly condemned such a state of things at that time; calling Gen. Jackson for so doing "every inch a king!"

He observed that the mind of man has as yet but devised three ways for keeping the public money. No the rule distinguishing between positive and negative If the evidence will lead you to say that he is guil-public man would now dare to place the funds of the testimony. It is true that where one man swears he ty, then, although your decision should wrap your nation in southern state banks-no whig would go did see another at any particular spot and period, it country in the flames of war, you will fearlessly pro- for re-establishing the sub-treasury-and that there is more satisfactory than when he can only say that nounce it; on the other hand if he be innocent you is no other alternative but the creation of a national the other was not there. But you will take into con- will so pronounce him, regarless of threats or mur- institution, properly constructed and guarded, to meet sideration the reasons which would lead you to be- murs or fear of rebuke, and may the God of truth enlieve that the crews of each of the boats must have able you to decide according to those principles of well known each other, and so form a correct opi- truth and equity which are the foundations of the nion as to their credibility when they say positively Eternal Throne. that McLeod was not amongst them. With this remark, I leave in your hands this portion of the prisoner's defence.

We come now to the proof of an alibi, which, if sustained, can leave no doubt of the prisoner's innocence,unless you can believe him gifted with ubiquity. The first witness to prove this is William Press. He avers that he conveyed the prisoner and another

At about 4 o'clock, P. M. his honor concluded, and the case was then given to the jury, who retired under charge of the constables, whilst the court proceeded to the despatch of other business.

In twenty minutes the jury returned to the court house.

"Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlemen of the jury?" asked the clerk.

the wants of the nation and people. He said the public moneys cannot remain where and as they now are. The people will not submit to it and Mr. Tyler when he has had time for reflection, will not desire it, judging from the tenor of his life. Mr. Barnard spoke an hour or more, and closed by remarking: "If there has been any common benefit to the country in what has been already done by the whigs, or any confidence created as to what they may yet accomplish, we must maintain ourselves, relying upon an intelligent people, or every vestige will be repealed. That warcry is on the wind-and should our opponents suc

nessee.

Mr. Filmore, of Erie, was called for, and nobly responded to the call, holding fast the convention and audience for some time by an outpouring of eloqnent patriotism.

ceed, flushed with victory, they will glut themselves regulation due to the commerce between the states; form, and they expected to accomplish it, of course, with savage ferocity on every man who has stood and that it is the bounden duty of congress, in devising by some appropriate measure to be devised, and even for a moment in their pathway to power. And a plan or system to aid in the collection, safe-keep-through the instrumentality of those whom they then will fall most assuredly the strong pillars that ing and disbursement of the public revenue, to make should elevate to places of trust and authority. now support and protect public virtue and freedom. it always subserve the purpose of supplying to the It was explicitly understood that their object, or I fervently pray that our happy country may not be country a national currency, and of facilitating and rather these two objects, the proper management of visited by so direful a calamity. regulating the general exchanges. The power over the treasure and the restoration of a sound currency, The resolutions were unanimously adopted. the subject belongs exclusively to the general govern was to be effected through some other agency than The convention was then further and ably address-ment, and should be exercised without aid from, or such as had been proposed and employed under the ed by Mr. Duer, of Oswego, Mr. Martindale, of Gen- dependence on, state authority; but the government two administrations of General Jackson and Mr. Van Mr. Clark, of Jefferson, and Mr. Reynolds, should not itself exercise banking powers, or create Buren, and the general expectation and belief was, of New York, the latter gentleman paying a hand- bills of credit to circulate as currency. among all parties and in all quarters, that resort some tribute to the public press. That the public lands after the payment of the would be had once more as the only alternative to debt for which they were originally pledged, are an institution in the shape of a national bank, enaetheld by the general government, in trust for the states, ed by the authority of congress. If such an instituamongst which, the proceeds ought to be divided. tion should be found necessary, in the judgment of This is an evil of great magnitude and danger, if congress to the due execution of the power granted the government fails to provide, by a proper system by the national charter, as it was almost universally of revenue, sufficient means for its current support, supposed it would be, then such an institution was contracting a public debt for its ordinary expendi- to be created; and so common was this expectation of-tures in time of peace, and that a public debt having and belief, that it is hardly conceivable how any perbeen contracted, whether in peace or war, as was son in any quarter, should have accepted a nominathe fact under the last administration, if it cannot be tion from the whigs for any high office, in which his shortly and promptly met by incoming revenue, true voice or his action might be required on this subject, policy requires that it should be thrown into the form without having considered himself virtually pledged of public stock redeemed in as short a time as may to make his course harmonize with that of his party The delegates to the whig state convention, assem-be, without imposing excessive burthens on the peo- on a matter so vital to the country, and to the faith bled at Syracnse, this 7th day of October, 1841, for ple. which that party had pledged to the country. themselves and in the name of those whom they represent, do make and publish the following

Hon. N. P. Tallmadge was loudly called for, but had a few moments previously left the house.

A vote of thanks was then offered by a gentleman of the New York delegation to the president and ficers of the convention, to which a reply was made by Mr. Patterson, and the convention adjourned

sine die.

ADDRESS

Of the Syracuse Whig State Convention.

DECLARATION:

On the broad basis here indicated, in general terms, When congress, came together in May last, it is the whigs of the United States stood in opposition; understood that there was an opinion and conviction and when, after passing through a long struggle, for nearly unanimous among the whigs of both houses, The whig party, now the dominant party in this the most part in a hopeless minority, but gathering that an institution of the sort just referred to was incountry, was formed and consolidated in opposition strength with every patient effort, they at last obtain- dispensable. This opinion and resolution, once cast where its distinctive principles, doctrines and policy ed power, they stood before the country and the into the form of a law, should, in our judgment, have were clearly proclaimed and manifested. It was world pledged to carry out their principles and poli- been conclusive with Mr. Tyler. He was understood not for the whigs, while in opposition, to propose cy in measures of administration aptly and wisely to have expressed himself in answer to interrogatives specific measures. They opposed the prominent designed for that purpose; and in the illustrious before his election to the vice presidency, in favor of measuras and policy of the administration then con- man whom they made president, surrounding himself the constitutionality and expediency of a national ducting our public affairs, for reasons plainly stated promptly as he did with a cabinet of noble and apand urged upon the country; and in the statement of their reasons and views, by which they justified their opposition, they disclosed, in the most explicit manner, the general principles and policy on which the measures of the government would be taken, and its affairs conducted, if its administration should be confided to their hands.

The cardinal doctrines of the whigs, broadly stamped on the face of our political history during a ceaseless struggle running through a series of years, ending with the overthrow of their adversaries in 1840-doctrines read and understood of all menmay be briefly stated as follows:

That the government should be administered for the benefit of the whole people and country; and not for the benefit of those who administer it; due regard being had to all sections and all interests, a rigid economy observed, and a strict accountability enforced in all expenditures, which should be strictly confined to objects of high public utility and impor

tance.

proved men, and in the strong whig majority elected
by them to the two houses of congress, they gave
to the country a sure guaranty that their pledge
would be faithfully redeemed.

bank, notwithstanding his former opinions, provided only the condition of necessity should appear. We think this necessity referred itself exclusively to the judgment of congress, and in no manner whatever to the president, who, in the creed of the whigs at least exercises no part of the legislative power.

Besides this, we hold that the question of constitutionality has been definitely settled, if not by precedent and recognition and by the light of ever glorious examples of the fathers of the republican school, by which Mr. Tyler, on his accession to the presidency, proposed to govern himself, at least by the solemn judgment of the supreme judicial tribunal of the country, appointed by the constitution itself for this very purpose; so that while the oath and conscience of the president are offered as excuses for the veto, (and we must presume in all sincerity) we are forced, in equal sincerity, to regard them as dangerously set up against the authority and sanction of the constitution itself.

At the late extraordinary session of congress, which had become indispensable on account of the condition in which the affairs of the government and the treasury were left by the late administration, the whig members of congress proceeded to perform the duty expected of them by the country. They accomplished all they undertook, and all which ought then to have been undertaken, with the exception of one most vital and important measure, in which they were defeated by occurrences that had been unexpected and were to them unavoidable. They passed a loan bill, by which a portion of the debt of the late administration was provided for, and necessary means supplied to a falling treasury; a revenue bill, by which additional supplies will be obtained, chiefly from luxuries; a bill giving to the poor a permanent We speak on this subject as of all; not as the enepre-emptive privilege in the public lands, and distri- mics, but as the friends of the president; bound, howThat the constitution is the charter and warrant buting the proceeds of those lands among the several ever, as whigs, religiously to keep faith with the for the exercise of all federal power and authority, states; a bill repealing the sub-treasury scheme; bills country, and to preserve our own consistency and which is to receive neither a strict nor a liberal, but for improving our neglected national defences, by character by a prompt disavowal and condemnation a common sense construction, and where doubts and sea and by land; and a bill, indispensable in a highly of all acts, by friend or adversary, at war with the disputes arise, they are to be finally resolved and set- commercial country, making uniform provisions for distinctive principles which we maintain. tled a proper case being made by the judgment security to creditors and relief to debtors in cases of spirit, as whigs speaking to a whig, and in no unkindof the supreme court of the United States; and that, insolvency. These constitute a body of whig mea-ness to Mr. Tyler, do we express our utter disappro as no power can be employed which is not conferred, sures, which, as an offering of first fruits, cannot fail val of the use he has made of the power of the veto. so no power which is conferred can be repudiated, if to be acceptable and satisfactory to the country. We declare it to be sanctioned by no principle of the its excrcise is essential to the preservation of the But while we rejoice in what has been accomplish- constitution, as understood and expounded at the pegovernment, or to the public prosperity. That the ed, we are constrained to express our deep disap- riod of its formation, and by no worthy precedent. great danger to our system lies in the tendency, which pointment and regret, that the president, providen- We think this power has been employed, in this case, has been given to it, in its practical operation for tially in place as such, by the death of the elected without warrant according to any just construction some years past, to an excess of power in executive president, has not been able to co-operate with the of the constitution, and used to arrest and defeat the hands, as well by an assumption of authority, as by co-ordinate branches of the government in the mea- just, proper and necessary action of the whig admithe abuse of power and patronage; and that the ac-sures proposed by them for the adjustment of the nistration of the government, in a point where the tion of the administrative functions of the govern- great unsettled questions respecting the management whole party, the president included, stood pledged to ment had been so corrupting both to the government of the public revenue, and concerning currency and the country by the most sacred obligations. and the people, that the virtue which is indispensable the exchanges; and on this subject we propose to to a republican system was fast yielding to dispositions give utterance to our honest sentiments, as becomes which are favorable to despotism. freemen, maintaining towards the chief magistrate of the republic the most respectful language and deportment.

In this

While we lament the dissolution of the late cabi

net, formed as it has been by the skilful hand of our late glorious chief, we declare our entire satisfaction That as the president is commander-in-chief of all with the decision to which the retiring members of the military forces, it is highly dangerous and at war that body came, in voluntarily resigning their places. with the first principles of constitutional liberty to It stood among the very first and highest articles in It was a matter for themselves to determine under all give him, or allow him to assume the custody and the creed of the whigs, that the constitution and the the circumstances of each case; and considering the control of the public money, as had in effect been government were not safe with the public treasury peculiar official relation in which they stood to the done during the last two administrations from the in presidential hands; and that the country never president as his constitutional advisers, we do not think period of the seizure of the public treasury by the could be truly prosperous, without a national curren- they were bound to cling to their offices after it had executive in 1833; and that it was indispensable to cy and equal exchanges; and we condemned, there- become abundantly manifest, by the open withdrawthe safety of the government and the welfare of the fore unequivocally the whole course of action and al of his confidence and in other ways not less significountry that some better system for collecting, keep- policy, on the part of both the preceding administra-cant, that the president desired and designed to bring ing, and disbursing the public revenues, should be tions, touching and affecting these subjects. In this other persons into their places. devised and established than has prevailed for the very point it was that Mr. Van Buren fell, and the last eight years. whigs triumphed, and there was nothing in which That the constitution gives to congress all requi- they were pledged to the country for reform if not in site power for securing to the country a uniform na- this. To establish a better fiscal system, and to retional currency and the due regulation of the ex- store a national currency, were duties, required more changes, either as essential to the constitutional uni- than any others; and so it was universally understood. formity, a proper facility in collecting and paying When the whigs sought office and power it was that out the public revenues, or as a necessary part of the they might be enabled to accomplish this very re

We deeply regret and disapprove of the course of conduct which the president thought proper to adopt towards these gentlemen, and by which they have been driven from the service of the country in the posts which they filled with such distinguished ability. We do not deny the right of the president to select his constitutional advisers, but we lament and marvel that he could not have reposed his con

fidence in those, who have enjoyed the special confidence of the elected president, and who possessed the unbounded confidence of the whole family of the whigs throughout the entire union.

We are anxious to give to Mr. Tyler, in the discharge of the duties of his exalted and responsible office, a hearty support, and it will be wholly his own fault if we do not. He has already compelled the whig party, almost as one man, to meet some portion of his official conduct, not only with dissent but with open reprobation. We should have been false to our own natures if we had done less; and the world will find that, if we have no other virtue, we have that of integrity and faithfulness to our own principles. We mean to demonstrate that our integrity cannot be purchased-not even by the executive, with all his patronage and power.

departments and places, and that it is its right and its
duty to conduct these operations mainly by the hands
of its friends. We respectfully commend this just
and necessary rule to the notice of the president,
for a more efficient observance and enforcement than
it has yet received at his hands.

In the avowal heretofore strongly made by Mr.
Tyler in favor of the one term principle, we have the
assurance that, in his time, the country will not be
cursed with the revolting spectacle of an administra-
tion conducted through an entire term chiefly with a
view of securing the succession to the incumbent, or
to any particular executive favorite, by the corrupt and
corrupting application of government patronage. The
whig party, without the aid of executive influence,
will designate in proper time, a suitable candidate for
the office of president in 1845.
We offer to Henry Clay, of Kentucky, the tribute
of our heartfelt gratitude and thanks for all his emi-
nent public services, never more conspicuous or va-
luable than in the senate during the recent session of
congress; and we devoutly trust that he may long be
preserved to his country.

As a national party, sustained by the strongest popular majorities, and dominant in the country, having carried into office, in both the great departments of the government, the legislative and the executive, men of our own selection and choice, it is a crying shame that any doubts should have existed, or should arise, whether we really hold power in both these de- The union and integrity of the whig party, and its partments, or only in one. We will not admit the continuance in power, are still indispensable, if the belief that the president has designed or desired to constitution and the union are to be preserved, and betray or desert his party. That the interests of the the welfare and prosperity of the country promoted party, in some eminent particulars, where those in- and advanced. Failing now to maintain our ascenterests were identical with the interests of the coun-dency, we give up our state and our country to all try, have been sacrificed by him, for the time, we the untold mischiefs and evils which an unhappy exmust not hesitate to avow. perience has shown is certain to follow the rule of Our trust is, that all this was not so much his fault those whom we had only so lately driven from power. as his misfortune. Coming suddenly into office, with- The restoration of the late dominant party to power, out expectation or preparation, he wanted time, as he in this state and in the government of the union, himself declares, "for deep and deliberate reflection." would lead, of course, to the establishment of all We trust he will faithfully improve the present op- those odious measures, and also that destructive poliportunity for that purpose; and finding out his error cy against which we have so long contended, and will correct it. In the future we shall look to Mr. finally with success, and to the loss and destruction Tyler for better things. We shall hope and expect of all the good which we have achieved or can to find him every inch a whig, in the true, national achieve. How long the delicate machinery and fabric sense of that term. In this character and capacity of our political system can stand the new rending he will have the support of the whigs, and in no other, which they would thus suffer, none can tell; but we and we shall fairly give him credit beforehand for believe not long. good intentions. His acts must show us what he means and what he is.

As whigs we profess to hold power strictly as a trust for the common and equal benefit of all; we are afraid to see it placed again in the hands of our opponents, where it has been so much abused; and we pledge ourselves here, to one another and to the country, for ourselves and those whom we represent, that we will spare no effort to continue and perpetuate the ascendency of our party both in the state and national governments. Doing this, we may hope all good things for our country, its institutions, its freedom, its prosperity, its honor and its glory-from the firm and permanent establishment of our principles and policy, and the completion and success of all our measures.

It is understood that Mr. Tyler has declared since the dissolution of the late cabinet, in the most solemn manner, that his administration should be a thorough whig administration; that none but whigs should be called into his cabinet or his counsels, or appointed in any quarter to the performance of important official duties. Such a course will secure our confidence, and nothing else will. We must see his new cabinet, with Mr. Webster at the head of it-a man the best years of whose eminent political life, with all the energies of his great intellect, have been devoted to his country in the advocacy and maintenance of whig principles-we must see that the cabinet one and all, so acting as to prove to us and to the world, TO THE WHIG Electors of the STATE OF NEW YORK. of the faithfulness with which they shall represent Fellow citizens: The state central committee, in their party and sustain its distinctive principles in discharge of the duties devolved upon it, solicit your the conduct of their own departments respectively-earnest attention. and by the faithfulness and success of their advice and counsel to the president in the discharge of his duties, that they not only have been, but are whigs in very truth and deed. So much we hope for-so much we have a right to expect and demand at the hands of any man, calling himself by our name, who consents to retain, or take office in the cabinet under Mr. Tyler.

With faithful counsellors around him, enjoying his confidence, without forfeiting ours, we have a right to hope and expect, that the president will look again, and with more care, and better judgment and conclusions, into the important subjects on which he and congress have differed. The public money, now in his hands must be taken out; a better fiscal system than that of General Jackson, or that of Mr. Van Buren must be devised and created: and as a part of that system a national currency must be supplied, and the exchanges equalized. All this must be done by the unaided authority of the general government, and in a way to avoid the monstrous evils of a government bank, in which, we know, the late sub-treasury scheme, by slight modifications, might easily be converted.

In his own impressive language, applied to General Jackson, on a memorable occasion not unlike the present, we say to the president, that "honor, due regard to the sacred obligations and duties of office, require of every public man to repair the mischiefs which his own unwise policy may have inflicted on the country."

We repudiate and reprobate the abominable doctrine, avowed by our political adversaries, that the public offices belong to the conquering party, after a contested election as the "spoils of victory." Our doctrine is, that a political party coming into power, is at once charged with, and responsible for, the administrative operations of the government, in all its

We proffer you, fellow citizens, no holiday com-
pliments-no joyous congratulations. Not as when
last year we assured you in advance of the triumph
of whig principles, here and through the union, in
the election of the patriot of North Bend, do we now
address you. Since the close of that desperate strug-
gle, resulting in our unprecedented, annihilating vic-
tory, a deep gloom has spread over the face of our
public affairs. That inscrutable Providence which
deprived us of our beloved president, while the ac-
clamations which hailed his inauguration yet lingered
on the ear, has been followed by other calamities
alike disastrous and deplored. It were idle to recall
or recite them now-they are living in your memo-
ries-they weigh upon your hearts. Enough, that at
the close of the first session of congress under the
whig ascendancy-a session which has been produc-
tive or more wise, beneficient and wholesome mea-
sures than all the ten sessions preceding it-a session
which added vastly to the permanent resources of our
own state, and all the states; which has provided
amply and justly for the national defence and the
national credit-which has rekindled the flame of
hope upon many desolate hearths and in very many
despairing hearts-a session which, in all respects
save one, has already fulfilled the pledges of the
whigs to the country, while it has done much for the
restoration of national prosperity-at the close of
such a session we find the great and patriotic party
which has accomplished so much for the general wel-
fare, paralyzed by an inglorious apathy, surrendering
into the hands of its oppressors all that has been
gained by a twelve years struggle.

We speak frankly to you, fellow citizens, as be-
We know that you
comes our character and yours.
may be trusted with the truth, as you know that we
are incapable of addressing you in any other language.
Fully aware, as you are, that the late locofoco tri-

umphs in our sister states are based on no serious diminution of the whig strength, nor any considerable accession to our adversaries, but solely on apathy and distraction, in view of the recent difficulties at Washington which have paralyzed the exertions of a portion of our friends, and withheld many of them from the polls, we yet say to you, in the sincerity of profound conviction, that a similar course on your part, followed naturally by a similar result in this state, will be virtually fatal to our hopes of maintaining a whig preponderance in the councils of the national administration. And with the overthrow of the whig ascendancy perishes not only the hope of securing the other blessings for which we have struggled, but is restored to power a party pledged to "repeal" the distribution law. These are among the consequences depending upon the issue of your rapidly approaching election. Freemen of New York! we entreat that your efforts be proportioned to the magnitude of the blessings to be secured the calamities to be averted.

Electors of the empire state! It has devolved on you in more than one memorable crisis to save the cause of your country from disaster-upholding and sustaining it until feebler hands and hearts were nerved to assist you in bearing it on to victory. It was your earthquake voice which, in 1837, first pealed the popular condemnation of the sub-treasury project. It was your indomitable spirit which, in 1838, when Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio succumbed to executive power, restored the hopes and revived the energies of the republic. It was your undaunted firmness--your lofty, patriotic devotion-which, in 1839, when almost every other state surrendered, rekindled the dying watchfires upon the battlements of freedom, and in the breasts of your admiring countrymen lit up an enthusiastic ardor of which the triumph of 1840 was the legitimate result! Freemen of New York! You are they who achieved those glorious victories; your country again appeals for your filial aid in her direst calamity, and if the same spirit still lives in your breast, you can rescue her again! Is she not worthy generous effort?

At all events, we entreat you, fellow citizens, to come forward and vote at the approaching election. Indifference in such a crisis is the blackest treason. If you are tired of serving your country, turn against her and vote the locofoco ticket. If you desire the restoration of servility, venality, and corruption in our state councils-if you wish to see the business of banking a monopoly in the hands of a central power and the liberty to pursue it sold out in parcels for gold or votes-if you wish to see the business of auctions another monopoly of the central regency, to be doled out by them only to desperate partisans in payment or purchase of services-if you wish to see your supervisors overruled by a bevy of party made judges in the appointment of local officers-in short, if you desire the return of that rule which so long rendered New York politics a by-word for corruption through the land, then vote openly for the locofoco ticket, and secure at once the object of your desires and the reward of your exertions. But never, we implore you, let the thought embitter your future years that New York fell supinely into the grasp of her most justly banished Tarquins, when the freeman's weapon in your outstretched hands might have prevented it.

For the venal, the versatile, the timid, the feeble in purpose, we can offer no incitements to engage earnestly in the cause of the people in the coming contest. The struggle must be arduous, but its issue need not be doubted. The spoilers, at once smarting under the tremendous defeat of last year, and electrified with sudden and sanguine hopes by recent occurrences, are already in the field with their drilled followers. To their fierce onset we can oppose only the calm good sense, the stern integrity, the indomitable patriotism of the majority of the freemen of New York. If these will but devote to their country the few days intervening before election, in the spirit and with the energy of the three last contests, then victory will again smile on the whig banner, and hope thrill the breasts of our brethren all over the union. To you, freemen of New York, is committed the great duty of keeping alive the sacred flame of liberty amid the fury of the tempest, when feebler bands have proved unequal to the task. May the result prove you worthy of the high responsibilities with which you are intrusted, and commend you still more strongly to the affection and gratitude of your countrymen!

Albany, Oct. 16, 1841.

LEWIS BENEDICT,
JOHN TOWNSEND,
SAMUEL STEVENS,
JOHN TAYLOR,
JAMES HORNER,
ROBERT THOMPSON,
SANFORD COBB,

State Central Committee.

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missioners.

CHRONICLE.

The hon. John Murphy, formerly governor of Alabama, and representative in congress, died at his residence in Clark county (Ala.) on the 21st ult. aged 56.

ELECTIONS. In Pennsylvania Gov. Porter's (V. B.) majority over Banks (whig) will be upwards of 20,000. The house of representatives will have a large Van Buren majority. In the senate it is said the whigs will have a majority of one, the whig candidate in the Alleghany district having succeeded by a majority of one vote.

In Georgia the majority for McDonald, (V. B.) is between two and three thousand-in the senate there are 57 Van Buren to 35 whigs, and 1 tie-in the house, 119 Van Buren, 88 whigs. Van Buren majority on joint bal

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have no doubt he will be able to accomplish his labor in
Courier.
the course of the next summer. Twenty or twenty-one
courses of stone only are yet to be laid.

NEW ORLEANS. The deaths reported to the board of health on the 6th inst. amounted to 30-of which 15 were by yellow fever.

THE PROFESSIONS. It is calculated that there are in the United States 14,012 lawyers, 14,680 clergymen and 10,322 physicians.

SHIPWRECKS. At a recent meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, a statement was read, affirming that in the course of the year 500 ships

had been wrecked on the coast of that country-the an

In Ohio the elections result in a Van Buren majority of nual loss of lives being 1,200 and of means £3,000,000.
One hundred and ninety odd vessels that have suffer-
two in the senate and of two in the house-four on jointed more or less in the late severe gale on the east of New
England, have been reported in the Salem Gazette al-
ballot.
ready.

SILK. Since the mania for speculating in mulberry
trees has subsided, many persons, we learn, have turned
The
their attention in a greater or less degree towards the
this neighborhood, is Mr. Robert Sinclair, senr.
culture of silk. Among those who have entered into
the business on a scale perhaps as large as any one in

ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. At a late anti-slavery convention in Vermont, a young fanatic moved for the appointment of a missionary, to travel in the southern states, for the purpose of remonstrating against the sin of slavery. The convention concurred in the motion, and the young zealot was very properly himself appointed the missionary. He avows his intention to undertake the crusade; but we imagine he will find his valor oozing out at every pore as he approaches the Potomac. If not, however, we doubt whether he will make his business known after he gets among us. Indeed, if he will come with his eyes open and his mouth shut, we shall not be surprised if he makes his home among us, and becomes a slaveholder himself-which we assure him is far preferable to the tate which awaits him if he [Virginian. FANEUIL HALL. This structure is just one hundred visits us in the spirit of a crusader. J BANK ITEMS. The Bangor Whig states that the Still-years old. On the 14th of July, 1740, Peter Faneuil, a water Canal bank has been enjoined by the bank com- distinguished merchant of Boston, made an offer, in town meeting, to build a market house, the town being then The Commercial bank of New York. R. W. Red- without one. The offer was accepted by a vote of 367 field, cashier of the Commercial bank, which was recent to 360-by so narrow a vote did Mr. Faneuil secure imto the amount of about $56,000. They trace the com-liberty. The building was commenced the next year, gentleman, notwithstanding some mishaps, which expely enjoined, has disappeared-his accounts are deficient mortality to his name by connecting it with the cradle of season a sufficient quantity of reeled silk and cocoons mencement of his default back as far as 1837. It is ru- and finished in 1742. The generous donor so far exmored that he went out in the Acadia. This is a very ceeded his promise as to add "a spacious and most beau- rience alone will teach him to avoid, produced the past astounding disclosure, Mr. Redfield having always been tiful town hall over it, and several other convenient to yield him the sum of $357. The result is very flatteresteemed a very exemplary man. His bond for $20,000 rooms," as the description published at that time repre-ing, and satisfies Mr. Sinclair that the business can be sents them. In cominemoration of his generosity, the is said to be perfectly good. We are authorised to say that Messrs. E. R. Biddle town, by a special vote, conferred his name on the hall, profitably pursued, and that if, as in other states, a small to themselves aud advantage to the community. and Edwin Lord, president and vice president of the and, as a further testimony of respect, it was voted that bounty was allowed for its production, many persons [Balt. Amer. Morris canal and banking company, have been removed Mr. Faneuil's picture be drawn at full length at the ex- would be induced to enter into the business with profit Mr. Faneuil died on the 3d day of March, 1743. The from office by a vote of the board of directors. We also pense of the town, and placed in the hall. understand that their successors have not yet been ap- first meeting of the inhabitants of Boston, held in Fa[Newark Daily Advertiser. neuil hall, was on the 14th of the same month, for the This discourse has one merit not of purpose of a funeral oration on the donor. The orator ten to be found at present, in kindred performances[Boston Times, chusetts Magazine. that of brevity. It occupies 2 octavo pages of the Massa

pointed.

A new counterfeit of the following description has been detected in this city-$5 bank of Auburn-pay to B. Reed or bearer-dated August 1, 1841-J. S. Seymour, cash'r; Samuel Kellogg, pres't-engraved by S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith, N. Y. Mr. Kellogg has been dead [Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.

some two years.

A letter from Circleville to the editor of the Ohio States

man says, the new bank at Circleville has exploded and made an assignment of its assets-there is a good deal

of excitement consequent upon this explosion.

The Philadelphia National Gazette says-There is an increasing demand for money, and the rate in market has advanced. Nine to eleven per cent. per annum, for good notes, is readily obtained.

The ability of the banks of the city to discount is greatly circumscribed in consequence of the large amount of their capitals being locked up in the post notes of the bank of the United States. These were received in payment of the sum contributed by them to aid the United States bank to resume specie payments in January last. The following are the amounts held by the banks respectively

Bank of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia,

Farmers & Mechanics,

Commercial,

North America,

Mechanics,

Manufactures & Mechanics,
Kensington,

Northern Liberties,

Penn Township,

was John Lovell.

FIRE. About 7,284 houses were destroyed by the recent fire at Smyrna.

FLOUR TRADE. The New York Express of Thursday says:

The receipts of produce down the North river, and particularly that through the Western canal, are truly astonishing. All accounts agree that, along the whole

Aug.

SPECIE. The packet ship Wellington, which sailed from N. York last week for London, carried out $120,000 takes about $40,000. in specie. The packet ship United States, for Liverpool,

specie.

The Havre packet ship Sully, takes out $185,000 in The "Acadia" sailed from Boston on the 16th with It is thought that a large through Harden & Co. $64,000 in specie, from New York, which was shipped amount was sent by private hands, of which the agent

had no account,

The British ship Race-horse had arrived at Port Royal fron Vera Cruz, with $900,000 for the Commissariat and Colonial bank.

STEAM SHIPS. The Caledonia, for Liverpool, left Hahours, with 59 passengers.

The Alabama, Capt. Windle, sailed from Baltimore for New Orleans and Havana, on Saturday last. She went off in fine style.

line, the increase is equally great. At But the elifax on the evening of the 8th inst. after a stoppage of 24
ceipts for three months, compared with 1840, were as
Arrivals. Wheat. Flour. Corn & Oats.
follows:
15,789
50,612
1840 210 155,331
189,186
59,376
28,774
290
1841
163,239 25,027
224,184 62,718 21,415
284
403,862 74,561 44,412
54,015
1839 227 271,393
1840 218 216,009 91,295

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The Acadia left Boston on Saturday, with 61 passengers for Liverpool and 17 for Halifax. She carries out 10,000 letters, and 6 bags of newpapers.

STRABISMUS. The king of the French has conferred the order of the legion of honor on the celebrated surHere is an exhibit rarely given In September the geon, Dieffenbach, the discoverer of the operation for the 427,488 receipts were 403,862 bushels of wheat, nearly double cure of strabismus. Dr. Dieffenbach, it appears, has re521,855 that of the previous year, and this month will, no doubt,nounced his own operation for the cure of stuttering, a 160,369 swell the receipts to an equal magnitude. It is also to patient having bled to death under his hands. A distin21,350 be considered that a much larger quantity of flour has guished English surgeon, Mr. Bennett Lucas, long since 214,477 gone from Ohio to Canada, through the Welland canal, demonstrated the danger of this very operation. 160,857 han formerly. The surplus produce this year from CHANGE OF TROOPS. Detroit, Oct. 12. We are informed Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, via: Buffalo, will be nearly that an order has been received in this city, by General $5,078,444 double what it ever has been. It is only surprising that so Brady, informing him that the several companies of the BANK ROBBERS SENTENCED. Brown, Green and Francis-vast an amount of produce as is pouring into the city, 4th artillery stationed at this place, Dearborn, Fort Gra can be so easily turned into cash as it is. Flour, wheat tiot, Mackinac and the Sault, are to be transferred to cus, the robbers of the Herkimer county bank, having se- and all other grain find ready purchasers at cash rates. Buffalo, Niagara, Oswego and Sackett's Harbor; and verally pleaded guilty to the indictment found against them, were on Saturday sentenced at Herkimer to four The demand continues here for supplies for the New that the 5th regiment of infantry, heretofore ordered to years cenfinement at hard labor in the state prison. They England markets, the British provinces, and foreign Florida, are to be stationed upon this frontier-four or

Total,

started for Auburn that afternoon, to enter upon the duties of their new station.

ports.

five companies in this city, and the residue at the posts to be vacated by the removal of the 4th artillery. The [Advertiser. counter order will probably meet the 5th infantry at St. Somewhere near Louis. If so, they will arrive here early next month.

THE LAST VERDICT UPON RECORD.

peace

MCLEOD, was acquitted on the 15th instant, and left THE WILLIAM BROWN. The grand jury at Philadelphia Utica on the 16th for Montreal, under the protection of have ignored three bills for murder against Holmes, one the sheriff of Oneida county and two officers of the of the seamen of the unfortunate ship William Brown, United States army who accompanied him to the Canawho helped to throw the passengers overboard. They da line. The Montreal Herald announces his arrival however have, under consideration, bills for man-in that city on the 16th, by the steamboat Princess Vic-Cleveland, Ohio, a suit was brought before a justice of the toria. He was received with open arms, and cheered slaughter. by an immense crowd that accompanied him to his CHARLESTON. The census of the population of Charles- lodgings. He has been a year in confinement. His first ton, South Carolina, furnishes the following exhibit:- artest was upon the 24th September-the second upon White males 6,826; white females 6,203; total white per- the 12th November, 1840, just 11 months prior to his acsons 13,029. Free colored persons-males 584; females quittal. 977; total free colored persons 1,561. Male slaves 6,834; female slaves 8,339; total slaves 14,673. Aggregate total 29,263.

case."

We tell the tale as it was told by the Cleveland News. A jury was en pannelled and sworn to hear, de termine, and a true verdict to give-according to law and evidence. The trial proceeded, witnesses festified, the lawyers argued long and learnedly. The justice gravely charged the jury as to the law involved in the case. The MONUMENTS. The ladies of Wilkesbarre, with com-jury retired; suspense was intense but short-they returnmendable zeal, are striving to obtain $3,000 to build the ed with a written verdict. The foreman presented it to the court. The justice mechanically inquired "Gentlemen Wyoming monument. They have about $2,500 on his specs, and, to his utter astonishment, read as follows: U. S. FRIGATE CONSTELLATION, "at sea, lat. 34 6, Shand and the balance they need before starting with the are you all agreed?" "All!" He then carefully adjusted lon. 18 34, E. July 31, 1841. It will gratify the friends noble enterprise. of officers and men on board the Constellation and BosThe monument on Bunker Hil! has become an im-"The jury find that this court has no jurisdiction of the ton, to know that we are in unusually fine health, not having lost by sickness a man or officer on board this posing object. It has risen to the height of one hundred and sixty-five feet, and may be seen from various points ship, and but one man belonging to the Boston." at the distance of many miles. To a spectator in its im[Boston Atlas. mediate vicinity the effect of this simple, unembellished DEATHS, during the last week in New York, 183, of column of granite is a sensation of sublimity. From the which 100 were natives of the United States, and the re-top the view is inexpressibly grand and beautiful; while sidue were foreigners, 39 of them from Ireland, 9 from few persons can stand near its base and look at the top England, &c. 23 occurred by consumption, 10 were co- without a feeling of awe and veneration. The work, we believe, is now suspended for the season, to be renewed lored persons. again in the spring, and prosecuted with vigor to its completion. The builder, Mr. Savage, is by contract, allowed till October, 1843, to complete it; but, from the rapidity with which he wrought the present season, we

Death of Mr. Forsyth. By yesterday morning's cars from Washington intelligence was received of the death, in that city, on Thursday night, of the hon. JOHN FORSYTH, late secretary of state of the United States.

WESTERN NATIONAL ARMORY. The Madisonian says that in compliance with the provisions of the act passed at the late session of congress, the president has directed the formation of a board for the purpose of "selecting a suitable site on the western waters, for the establishment of a national armory," and has designated the following Brevet Brigadier General W. K. Armistead, president; officers to compose the board, viz: Lieut. Colonel S. H. Long, topographical engineers; Surgeon General T. Lawson.

We understand that the board will proceed without delay to the execution of the duty assigned to them.

FIFTH SERIES.-No. 9.-VOL. XI.]

BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 30, 1841.

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CONTENTS OF NO. 9, VOL. 11. FOREIGN AFFAIRS-Great Britain-the queen, parliament, corn law meetings, naval equipments, items, effect of the sliding duties on bread stuffs upon American trade, cotton market and prospects, trade. France-quiet restored at Paris, census riots in other parts, naval item, rupture of the negotiation with Belgium. Spain-Mr. Ashton, bull fight. Portugal-difficulties with Spain. Turkey-renewed discontent of Mehemit Ali. Prussia -experiments in walking on the water, Gerstenburg. China-British attack on Canton, the city ransomed. Africa-Dr. Charles Mathew's travels in. Buenos Ayres lem. Texas-treaty with Yucatan, election. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.-President Tyler's excursion.

The Cabinet-Secretary Forward, dinner to the post master general, Secretary Upshur on the one term system. Consul-item; seizure of arms; Reeside's suit; statue of Washington conveyed to the rotunda; sarcophagus of the late President Harrison; funeral of the late Secretary Forsyth. Presidential-Scott meeting at Lancaster, Van Buren meeting at Philadelphia. Commerce -tonnage and new shipping of the United States, lumber trade.

night, the mayor presiding, at which upwards of five
thousand people, principally laboring men, were
present.

Unusual activity prevailed in the dockyards of
Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth. The line-of-
battle ships Formidable, Illustrious, Belvidere, Thalia
and Heroine, and the men-of-war Speedy, Pique,
Harlequin, Aigle, Syren, Styx and Malabar, were
nearly ready for sea. Some difficulty, however,
was found in collecting crews for these vessels. They
were supposed to be intended as a reinforcement to
the China squadron.

The lord mayor of London had given a grand dinner to the mayor elect and sheriffs for the ensuing year. Among the company were admiral sir R. Stopford, and sir C. Napier. These distinguished men had lately been presented with the freedom of the city, for their gallant services in Syria.

Sir C. Bagot, now governor general of B. N. America, was to leave England on the 10th. Lady C. and family will not accompany his excellency. ARMY-General orders No. 62 and 64; movement of Messrs. W. R. and S. Mitchell, old established and troops from Arkansas for Florida, of 5th regiment of in- highly respectable W. I. merchants, and proprietors fantry, of 4th regiment of infantry; operations in Florida; of vast estates in Jamaica, &c. had failed, in conseTiger Tail's brother comes in; dragoons leave for Ark-quence, it was said, of the shortness of the crops. ansas, 7th infantry.

NAVY-The Concord; Decatur; courts martial; the Delaware 74 for Rio, list of officers; south sea squadron; exploring squadron; items; Florida squadron; death of capt. Jos. Whitney.

land, upon the deposites, which it is understood that they provided in case of emergency such as the present, in Paris and Hamburg; for their bullion is actually £322,000 less than represented in the returns of 17th September.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 1, 1841. Our grain harvest is nearly finished, but it is yet too early to ascertain the extent of the crops. Much of the wheat, owing to the uncertain state of the weather which prevailed during the harvest, has been carried in in bad condition, and the opinion prevails that the crop is below an average. A serious deficiency is also apprehended in some other articles of food, particularly in potatoes, which in some parts have completely failed.

On the 17th ult. all the foreign wheat and flour in the kingdom, a quantity equal to 1,500,000 quarters of wheat, was released from bond at the lowest rates of duty. This large quantity thrown on the market occasioned a temporary dullness, and a slight depression in prices, but from this the market has recovered, and there is a steady demand for free wheat at 9s. 3d.a9s. 9d. per bushel of 70 lbs. and for free flour at 36s.a36s. 6d. per barrel. For bonded wheat and flour, there are no quotations.

Indian corn is in limited request at 34s.a38s. per In consequence of the failure of the Bath bank, quarter, duty paid; the duty this week is 3s. 4d. per Mr. Hobhouse has resigned his seat for Hereford; the quarter. The speculators having attained their obvacancy is contested by Mr. Freshfield on the conser-ject of realizing all the foreign wheat and flour at vative interest, and Mr. Pulsford on the liberal in- the low duty, have now no desire to depress the aveSTATES OF THE UNION-Maine, amendment of the con- terest. The hon. Octavius Duncombe has been re- rages; and the new wheat carried in in bad condition, stitution; Vermont, legislature net, official returns of elec-turned for the N. Riding of York, vacant by the ac- being brought to market, the duty is advancing as ration, governor, &c. elected, Grogan case: New Jersey, cession of his brother to the barony of Feversham. pidly as it fell. legislature assemble, election returns; Maryland, military Sir Edward Sugden has been gazetted lord chanconvention, election of governor, list of delegates elected, cellor of Ireland; the right hon. F. Blackburne, atrecapitulation; Georgia, election; Ohio, slave case; Illi nois, cultivation of tobacco. torney general; and E. Pennefather, esq. solicitor general.

HOME INDUSTRY CONVENTION--Constitution of the "Home League for the promotion of American industry and reciprocal commerce."

Mr. SLADE'S SPEECH on the abolition question.

OFFICE NILES' REGISTER, BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 25, 1841. Mr. C. W. JAMES, of Cincinnati, Ohio, assisted by M. Meeker and James R. Smith, are authorised to collect money due this office and receive new subscribers for the same. His office and residence is on Harrison street east of Broadway line.

The very kind intimations of our friend D. J. are duly appreciated, and the hints conveyed will be

tended to.

FOREIGN ARTICLES.

It appears to us that almost all kinds of trade in England, must be in a most depressed state, and immense suffering must have followed. As the duties on wheat had risen to 10 shillings, of course bread stuffs had fallen; but whether the depreciation had reached the point which in the near approximation of the harvest it would, under ordinary circumstances, indeed we cannot tell.

This week the duty is 10s. 8d. and in a few weeks it will again rise to 20s. 8d. per quarter. Should the deficiency in the crop be as great as is apprehended, the better qualities of wheat being offered for sale, the averages will rise, and foreign wheat and flour will be again admitted at the lowest duty; thus affording a practical illustration of the admirable and equitable working of a sliding scale.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Oct. 4. The whole
Against same time 1840
import of cotton in Liverpool Oct. 1, 984,698 bales.
1,266,672

Leaving a decrease of
The imports of American this year
Against same time 1840

281,974

775,181

1,101,722

326,541

Leaving a decrease of The stock on hand, of all descriptions, on the 1st Oct. 1841 535.070 bales. Do. 499,410

same time 1840
Increase

LIVERPOOL, 2d Ocr. 1841. In our letters since the 1st May, we have constantly alluded to the efforts making for a change in the import duties, more especially on corn. We are now told that nothing will be done until next year, and that then no alteration of any importance will be made in the corn laws. Previous to this declaration on the part of one of the at-leading members of the administration, we had colleeted the following facts, in order to convince even the most obtuse, of the absurdity and injustice of the present, or any sliding scale of duty, as affecting the The stock on hand of American, on the 1st Oct. import of wheat and flour from the United States.For example-Since the 9th of August, when the duty on wheat was 22s. 8d. per quarter, to the 20th of Sept. when the duty was 1s. per quarter, the importation of wheat from the continent, into five of the principal ports of this kingdom, has exceeded 600,000. quarters, whilst from the United States not one bushel of wheat or one barrel of flour has been received,

The steamer Columbia, arrived at Boston on the 21st, in 15 days from Liverpool, which she left on the 5th, bringing 117 passengers, amongst whom is Professor Hare and his son, and Lord Morpeth M. P. late secretary for Ireland, who designs visiting the principal parts of the union and British America. Mr. Stevenson the American minister in London

is to leave in the Great Western.

GREAT BRITAIN. John Bull is just now mightily amused with the hope of shortly having a prince of Wales, as heir to the power to rule over him-his present professed devotion to petticoat government notwithstanding. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The first session of the parliament which made sir Robert Peel minister, was to terminate either on Thursday or Friday, the 8th or 9th, by an adjournment to the month of January or February.

1,208 barrels of flour arrived last week at the 2s. 8d.
duty, now it is 10s. 8d. and in all probability will be
16s. 8d. next week, and 22s. 8d. in a fortnight after.
The minimum duty-the woek it took effect-and
the present advance in the duty, are in exact accord-
ance with the opinions of three of the first houses en-
gaged in the corn trade in this town, and were by us
sent out by the steamer which sailed on the 4th Au-
gust, and the 1,208 barrels of flour alluded to were
ordered by that steamer.

If these facts do not open the eyes of the most in-
veterate of the bigots, we know not what will.

The sequel then is this, these 1,000 barrels will Parliament continued its sittings, but the new mi- nett about £1,500, which will be applied to the puristry appeared very much at a loss as to what mea-chase of the manufactures of the country, the 600,000 ures it were best to propose for the relief of the country. Sir Robert Peel finds it much easier to bull down than to build up. The people were eviently growing impatient, and were beginning to inuire for the tokens of that public prosperity so loudpromised them upon the accession of the conserative administration.

Meetings have been held, and continue to be held, all the principal towns of the kingdom, to memolise the queen not to prorogue parliament until the xisting national distress has been inquired into and leviated. One was held in Liverpool on Saturday VOL. XI-SIG. 9.

quarters of wheat will have cost about £1,500,000,
which will be taken from the coffers of the Bank of
England in gold. The same game is to be played in
the spring, probably towards April or May. What
confidence therefore can be placed in the stability of
trade, when the state of the currency of this country
is in the hands of a few of the dealers in corn in Lon-
don and Liverpool! They, in fact, and not the Bank
of England, become the regulators of it.

The continental exchanges are now favorable to
this country, but we rather apprehend that this effect
is produced through the agency of the Bank of Eng-

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35,660

395,580 bales. 428,660

33,080 Showing a decrease in sales of American as compared with last year

293,641 There has been taken, to 1st Oet. Bales.

By the trade
Speculators
For export

Bales.

775,520 Same time in 1840 922,300

157,860
37,690

971,070

190,350

51,190

1,163,840

Being a decrease of 192,770 bales. The sales of the week, ending 1st Oct. 1841, were 13a18

Sea Island
Upland
Mobile, Ala-
bama & Ten-
nessee

160 bales

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N. Orleans

The sales of the week, ending 24th September, were 32,450 bales.

The current prices have been, of American. Sea Island, ordinary to middling 12a13; fair to good fair 14a15; good to fine 17a30. Stain'd do. ordinary to middling 5a5; fair to good fair 7a7; good to fine 8a10. Upland, ordinary to middling 4a5; fair to good fair 6a6; good to fine 7a17. Mobile, ordinary to middling 42a5; fair to good fair 64a63; good to fine 74a7. Alabama and Tennessee, ordinary to

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