Vom fht New York Sun and Herald Extra. ARIUVAfj OP THE BHITTANI V. TwMvi Ilnyi LrUcr from England. . ' u'onTAiT Nxws -Tn Ciujia DimcvtTii SKTTtKn Th SntAMSIMP PllMIUKST KOT . rtnivr.n Great rit tsr Tsas. The Steamship Brittanna, Cr.pt. It. B. CMand, -i'.rd l Boston on Thursday morning al 2 o'clock, ' Angina; intelligence from Englsnd up to the IDih i.!. She left Liverpool on llio 2('th at I o'clock, ''. M., arrive J at Halifax on Tuesday fhe4ih inst., . mx o'clock, A. M , tad left at 2 P. M. the same ,1 y; making tho passage, from Liverpool ro Boa i i' in 15J days. She brings papers from London i . tho 19lh tit., and Liverpool to the 20th. She : u'Ught CO passengers to Halifax, and SO to Eos ' ji; and look in at Halifax, for Boston, ten. Tho Cottnn market at Liverpool on the 17ih and J'.h was dull, and sales small, at a decline of id. ; The s'cuaner President had not arrived out, and i vat excitement prevailed in Livetpool and Lon :'in in consequence. Nearly all hopes of hei safety '10 giren up, and insurance could scarcely lie ef Kvted on her nt any rate. SETTLEMENT WITH CHINA. T!y the overland mail, which arrived at Marscil ! on the 4th ultimo, and reached London on ihe i'i, intelligence Las been received of the settlement : the. dispute with the Chinese authorities at Can ... .. Thin was not effected until two of the fortsat ' ! passage of tho Boguo had been stormed by the . .rili-h forces, the fleet of war junks destroyed, and batteries higher up the river bombarded by the f t. Then the Governor of Canton, seeing that ' .c timo for procrastination was pissed, sent to beg a ttipr!iinn of hostilities, ond commenced ' tho 'i foliation, which speedily led to a settlement of tho ;ute, at least, so far as he had the power of :!ing it. The details of the settlement of the China Qjcs t'"n are not fully given, but so far as they wero un '.rslood, it appears they aro not astisfdctory to the English merchants. A correspondent of the Mor ning Chronicle, under dato Bombay, March 1, says : "As will bo supposed, the terms of arrangement fi?.ecd upon by Captain Elliot and the Imperial r "irttuUrt'oner have been made the subject ahoudy M a great deal of discussion. The prevailing feel. is decidedly that of dissatisfaction, but this may t-e in some degrco attributable to the dislike so fcn tally cntrrluined of Captain Elliot." From the London Morning Chronicle. V.'e received last night an extraordinary express f'otn Paris, of Wednesday evening, bringing our Marseilles correspondent's summary of the news .mur;hl by the India Mail. Our dales ere from Chusan to tho 20th Decern l. r, frcra Macao to the 27th of January, from Sin. -ipon to tho 25th of January, from Calcutta to the t ih of Ft'.)., from Madras to the 20th Feb , from : vinde to the 1.3d Feb, from Bombay to the 1st of ,!vch, and from Alexandria totheColh of March. In consc-juencc of the insincerity and tardiness iVpinycJ by the Imperial Commissioner, an attack v.as made on the morning of the 9th of Jan. on the i utposls of the Boguo forts. Tn two hours the fort v is in possession of the English, with a loss of only : killed and 23 wounded ; that of tho Chinese is -limatcd at from ECO to 700. Many were killed i' the attempt to escape by jumping down from iheir embrasures, a depth of 20 feet, to the locki bo ! iw. Tho ships ond crews cheeped unhurt, olthu' the fort mounted 35 guns. At the same timo tho fort of Tycocktow was ct I u cd by another squadron. A heavy fire was o I t ned on the fort, and promptly returned, but the Chinese guns were speedily disabled, and a party nt" seamen landed to seize the fort. Tho Chinese make a spirited resistance, but wero soon ovcrpow i ted and the fort captuied. The first lieutenant of t!io fcr'aniarang was wounded in the attack. The sicam-vcssel then attacked the fleet of junks lying in Anson's Bay, but owing to the shallowness of the v.-atcr, oii'y the Nemesis could approach them, towing 12 armed boats from her Majesty's ships. Her first rocket set Tiro to tho powder magazine of one junk; 18 others were blown up by their own crews, and Ihe rest escaped into the inner waters. Next morning her Majesty's ship Blenheim began to throw shells into the batteries at Wantong, and was preparing to attack tho chief fort of Anunghoy, when the Chinese Commander-in-Chief made a rommunication lo Captain Elliot, who thereupon desisted from further hostilities. WITHDRAWAL- -OF TBI FoRCtf TBOM TIIB Boot e. On the night cf the 22d of January, His Excellency Commodore S. Gordon Bremer arrived in the Roads, accompanied by several khips of war nu J steamers. The Enlir-h colors were removed from, and Chinese planted in their stead, on Cheun 10. On Thursday last (bo ships of war have, we team, all left the Bogue, and part of them will pro, reed to Hong Kong immediately, to take possession cf that island in the name of Her Majesty. The London papers of the 17th state that Insu rances were dun a upon the President at Lloyd's at fifty guineas per cent. The underwriters at Liver I xl en Friday refused to do business on ber at premium of eighty per cent. Despair is legiuiiing lo lake poncrsion of the public mind respecting liei, end there is too much reason to sppiehcnd that (he worst fears will be reahioj. The American news taken to England by tho Caledonia, appears to have given general satislac lion. Accounts from Tielisonde, tcaived at Constan tinople, stale that all differences between Gieai Bri lian and Persia are arranged. United routes Dink ilmiN solJ at Loudon on Cm lGthult, at about 5 10s. No less than 16 steam fiigates are oidered to be Immediately built at tbe d.U'ereut dock yards in England, Mrl.rou.- We find nothing of importance in the English papers In relation to the case of Mo Lood. The roure of the BritiiJi (jiuvernment ap peara to i too pacific lo suit some of the rul id To ry prims. The Lendoii Morning Hem Id of the I7ih uli., iuatury ou.cl ou the McLeod afisir, ssys . Engrsnil invrr at Ihe pre-rnt day the grc.it 1 maxim, 'J'arcerc tufjcctii ct rkbrllare auptrloa? She exercises a patient endurance of insults towards such stiites o luiis and Amrrics, who are some what seqnainted with the art nf war, bot lavishes her thunders upon Chine, e and Egyptians, who fl e infjnts when opposed to tho array of European battle, with all its vast and varied means of scienti fic destruction. Tn a Tka Tr na. -London, April 12. -The Tea trjde has received a severe shock by the Intel ligence brought to hand since this duy week from China, arvl the expectation that pi ices mny yet go lower has temporarily cheeked the consumption of the country. Tho deliveries in Loudon last Week having fdlen ofT to S'JOOO Hs., or upwards cf 30,000 Ihs. less than they w ere the precccding week, and 140,000 Ihs. below the quantity token in the first week of March' last. Privately there is scarce ly any business 'doing, even at Ihe decline of Com pany's congou to Is 4 J per lb., but the public sales to-morrow will probably establish some cerium rates. The Dirt or 'Worms. Luther's appearance thereon ihe 17th of Apiil, 1.11, m ey be considered as the -greatest scene in Modern Euroean history ; the point, indeed, from which the whole subsequent history of crviliza'ion takes its rise. -After multiplied negotiations and dis putations, it had come to thru. The young Emper or, Charles Fifih, w ith all tho Princes of Germany, Papal nuncios, dignataries, spiritual and temporal, are assembled there. Luther is to oppear and an swer for himself, whether he wiil recant or not. The world's pomp and power sits there on this hand i on thut stands up for God's truth, one man, Hans Luther the poor miner's ton. Friends had reminded him of Huks, advised him not to go ; he would not be advised. A large company of ft tends rode out to meet Lim,wiih still more earnest war nings; he answered "Were there o mony devils in Worms as thcro are roof-tiles, I would on." The people, on the morrow, as he went to the hall of the Diet, crowded the windows and the housetops, some of them calling out in solemn words not to re cant: "Whosoever denieth me before men l'' as in a kind of solemn petition and adjuration. Was it not in reality our petition too, tho petition of tho whole world, ly!ng in datk bondage of until, par alyzed under a black spectral nightmare and triple halted chimera, calling itself Father in God, and whatnot; "Free us : it rests with thee; desert us not!" Luther did not desert us. His speech, of two hours, distinguished itself by its respectful, wise and honest lone; submissive lo whatsoever could lawfully claim submission, nor ubiuissive to rtny more than that. His wri;ings he said were partly his own, partly derived from tho word of God. As to whot were hia own, human infirmity entered into it ; unguarded anger, blindness, many things doubtless which it were a blessing for him could he abolish altogether. But as to what stood on sound trouth and tho word of God, lie could not recant. How ccu!d hei "Confuto me," he concluded,"by proofs of Scripture, or else by pluin, just argument: I cannot rccint otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against con science Here stand I ; I can do no other ; God assist me!" It is, as we say, the greatest moment in the modern history of men. Englith Puritaukm, England and its Parliaments, Americas, and the vatl woik of these two centuries ; French Revolution, Europe and its woik every where at present: the germ of it Jay there : had Luther in that luomcut done other, it Lad all been otherwise ! Of Luther I will add now, in reference to all the.se wars and bloodshed, the noticeable fact that nono of them began so long as he continued living. The controvcry did not get to fighting so long as he was there. To me it is a proof of hU greatness in all senses, this fact. How seldom do we find a man that stirred up some vast commotion, who does not himself perit.li, swept away in it- Such is usu al couyic of revolutionists. Luthei continued, in a good degree, sovereign of this greatest revolution : all Protestants of what rank or function soever looking much to him for guiJanco: and he held it peaceable, continued firm at the centre of it. A man to do this must have a kingly ficulty ; he must have the gift to descent at all turns where the true heart of tho mailer lies, and to plant himself courageously on that as a ctrong true man, that other true men may rally round hira there. He will not continue leader of men otherwise. Luth er's clear deep force of judgment, his force of all sorts, of silence, of tolerance and moderation, a inong others, ure very notuhld Lit these circuuutan ces. Tolerance, I soy; a very gpnuine kind of lolor- anee: Ho distinguished what is es-ential and what is not , me essential may go as it will. A coin. plaint conies that uch sndfuch a Reformed Preach ci -win nut prraen wiinoui a casoev ell an swers Luther what barm will a cassock do the man t Lct him have a cassock to preach in ; let hira have three cassocks, if he find benefit in them!' His conduct in the matter of Karlstadt's wild im 1 1 .1 V. . a.. go oreaairig : oi me feasants' war. shows a no lle strength, very different from spasmodic violence, With sure prompt insight, he discriminates what is what a strong just man spekks forth what is the wi.e course, and all men follow him in ilut. Car y-A.' lleroe ami Hero Warship. Aluminous Salt. The body of Gen. Wayne, who died 30 or 40 yeera ago, at Erie, Pa., and was buried near the lake, was recently disinterred and removed by his son, and was found to be in very erfecl state of preservation. Those who had known General Wayne, recngniM'd his features at once. This ex Inordinary preservation is accounted for in Sdli urnu's Journal, by the fact, that tbo body had been burieJ in argillaccouj soil, strongly impregnated wtib a solution i f Alum. Or. 1j olt lardouccI. A pardon was received in this city, yesterday for Thomas W. Dyott, sentenced on Ihe thirty-first of August, I83ii,by the Judges of the Court of Uener al Keasion, to tUieo years imprisonment in the Eat... ern PenUtutiary. He has, iherefo.e, bran in ptU on within fchoit spue, ol lv.oytars.-f. & GutUtt. From the S. Lmiit Republican, May I. The Trnge.ly of the IIrM of the 1 Tlh. riri TKovsAivn noLLAna nrwan. Tor soma days past tho city authorities have been engaged in Investigating some recent developements connected with the murder of Messrs. Baker and Weaver, and the burning of tho store of Messrs. Collier &, Pctttts, and wc hare refrained from giving any of the particulars, lest our doing so might Im pedo their operations. The objects of secroey be ing over, in the opinion of (he officers, wo feci at liberty lo state the particulars, so far as they have liecn developed. A negro man named Edward II. Ennis, who has been for somo months past in the employ of a bar ber named Johnson, on Market streel, oppnsilo Ihe National Hotel, mado tho disclosure. The com munications it seems, were made to Ennis, by one of the parlies, that . Ennis being uneasy about it and yet afraid, because of the excitement, and also nf the murderers, to tell what he knew, went on Fri day last to Butcher, yellow man, who rck!os in Brooklyn, on Ihe opposite side of tho river, and (old him what he knew and asked his advice. Butcher refused to give any advice. On Sunday he went over again and went to Alton, when Butcher communi cated the facts to two constables who arrested En nis, and after taking his statement, came here with expectation of catching one of the parties, (Wat rick) but he had left before their arrival. The circumstances of this horrible riTair, m de tailed by Ennis, aro as follows: About ten o'clock on Saturday night, Ennis went from the barber shop lo his bearding house, kept by Leah, a freo yellow woman, and Peter Charlovillc, a free mam, on Third between Market and W alnut streets. Shortly after he had gono to bed, a negro slavo named Madison, come to the door, knocked ond was admitted. Soon after lieing admitted, Madison exclaimed, "G d d n the luck," and on the inquiry why, he elated "I have done more murder to night than I ever did before, and have not been paid for it;' and after remarking, that there would be an alarm of fire shortly, he staled in ettbstance, tlvnt he and three yellow men, viz : James Seword, alias Sewell, War rick and llrown, liatl gone on that nigkt to Mr. Pettus' counting room, that the door wh unlocked ; Madison entered alone; Mr. Baker was sitting djwn with his boots off, reading a newspaper, M-Jison walked up and presented a bank bill lo him, and asked him if it was good, and as Buker turned to look at tho bill, he stiUck him over tho head with a sLort bar of iron which he had concealed under his arm : the others then came in ; and they repeated the blows until he was quite dead, his skull and one side of tho head completely mashed. After search ing the body, for tho keys, they rolled it up in the bed clothes, and placed it in Ihe bed. They secured the door and went lo work on tho vault to open it. Whilst at this work, Mr. Weaver came to the door and knocked, and called to Jesse, (Mr. Baker,) to let him in. Some dispute ensued between Brown and Madison, which should kill Weaver; and it waa insisted that Madison should, as he bad killed Baker, but he refused, saying that he had dono his share and would do no more. Brown opened Ihe door and placed himself behind it, and as Weaver passed kilo the room, struck him over the head with the bar of iron ; on the second blow he fell, and attempting to rise Brown thrust a sharp iron bar through his head. Ennis in his state ment, docs not confirm Ihe report of the firing of the piaols, but says, that hiving heard that Weaver was shot, he aked Madison about it, and ho luld him that no pistol had been fired, and that they had no weapons but the bar of iron mentioned. From the statement it would teem that ail of them had beaten Weaver. After some further effort at the vault, finding they could not get into it, MaJison left. Waniek, Pew. ell and Brown remained a short time, then fired the house in five different places, camo out, locked the door and went up ihe alley, north from the house, and threw Ihe keys away. Brown took with him a gold watch and a blue cloak, which he said he hud thrown away for fear of detection. It seems from the statements, that Ennis, on the morning following, was in company with all of them and many of the facta he got from others besides Madison. Warrick and Scwcll said but little about it. Madison had with him on the morning follow ing the bar of iron with which the deed was execu ted, and Ennis having learned the office it had per formed, took it and threw it into a privy in the rear nf Leah's bouse. The vault was y ester Jsy searched and the bar found. We understand it proves to be an instrument used in opening diy goods boxes ; a chi-cl on one end and claws on the other, ono nf the claws pnrtly broken, agreeing fully wi:U Enuu's description. There are many other minor statements, but the above is the substance. The communication of Madison appears to have been made without solici lution, end without any injunction to secrecy. Leah and her hosband confirm Ennis's statement as to tbe time Tie came home, and the time Madison come In. They heard the conversation, but not sufficiently distinct to understand it. It may be well, however, to remaik, as a further conlinnalioq of Ennis's statement, thst ye-terj.iy Madison's cost wsa found in the luft of Leah's house, besmeared with blood. From all that w ran gather, it does not appear that the schema hid been long concoc ted, or that they had very well matured their plan of operations. Arrest of the Hon. ( hnrlrs K. Mitrlitll. Tbe Montreal Herald of the Clh inst., stales that Mitchell, the American Forger and member of Congress, has at last been captured by Captain Comcav, of the Monlieal police Mitchell, was taken at Lou-rue Pointe, a few miles from that city, and waa foolish enough to attempt lo throw above twenty thousand dollars into the St. Lawrence a circumstance which could not have benefitted him. The New York Euquirer of this morning says: A letter leceived from one of our police officers, who went in persuil of the honorable uhsquatulator, dated Montreal, May 6, lSll, stales (hat he has 'positively arrested MiTcnur has him now in eus. tody, and is about In alatt for New- Yoik, wit!) bin in charge.' Bilk Cnlttire In Xew-Vortt. A bill has locn reported In tho New York I.e. gislaturc, proposing a bounty of fi teen conts for eve ry pound of cocoons, and fifty cents for every pound of Silk produced in that state until June 1st, 1818. The report states that Silk can be raised at a much I greater profit than wool, because ihree pounds of Silk can be produced from ihe same laud that would prod. ico but one pound of wool, and the raw silk will sell for eighteen dollars, while the wool will sell but for fifty conts. Tho labor of taking rare of and feeding aheep lasts all the year, while that of raising Silk is performed in six weeks, and man who has but littlo land, can employ his fami ly at home in its production, as almost any one can attend to the labor, which is very light. Correspondence nf tte Savannah Georgian. FLORIDA, May I, 1811. As I expected, the rumor relative lo the disap pearance of Cosaluatenuggee, and 80 warriors from Tampa, proves to bo without foundation. The General has about 200 of Ihe enemy ready for emi gration. I have not learned when he purposes to embark them. You are aware that Cancoocho (Wild Cat) consented lo emigrate, and had per mission to be absent until the 6th of May, for the purposo of collecting his people. He has sent in right of his warriors to Ihe General, (a be retained as hostages, eaying that circtimstancea have occur red In prevent liis reluming by the specified day ; but thot .10 will return, and in company with his people. AVe have (notwithstanding the favorable tioin that events are now in) every prospect of an active summer campaign. It is rumored, that in consequence of the Indian difficulties in the West l-clwcen the Choctaws and Kicapoos, that the 21st Ilrgimcnt of Dragoons will be ordered West of the Mississippi. An act of most infamous wickedness is noticed in the Philadelphia Gazette of Thursd it. That paper states that the guns which were fired at the Navy Yard after tbe launch of the steam frigate on Wed nesday, were examined by order of Com. Strwabt previous to firing, and found to contain several grapo shot, supposed to have been deposited there bf some malignant villain subsequent to the loading. Had it not been found out in time, there is no telling the number of human beings that would have been 'launched' into eternity. Ball. Amer. Bawk atNkw DHuftftwicK. Ail claims agninst the defunct Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., must be presented widiin six months from the 21st inst., or they will not be al lowed. So say tho Receivers. Spirit cfthe Timet. Persevere tier. Let any who are disheartened at tho obstacles whi. h they imagine lie in the way of their improve ment, read the following, and see what patient per severing industry can accomplish : 'I learned grammer," aaid Wm. Colietf, '"when I was private soldier at sixpence a day. The edge of my berth or my guard bed was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my book ease, and a bit of board laying on my lap my writing table. I had no money to purchase candles or oil; in win ter time it was rarely that I could get any light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. To buy a pen or sheet of paper, I was compelled lo forego some portion of food, though in a state of starvation. I had no moment of time that I could call my own : and I had to read and writo amid tulking, laughing, ainging, whistling, and bawling of at least half a scoro of the most thoughtless of men ; and that too, in the hours of freedom from all control. And I sav, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome tho task, is there, can Ihere be, in ihe wholo world, a youth who can find an cxcu for tho non-performance V The Derby mail is met every morning, at ten o' clock, by a dog from an extensive ironworka at Woiksop, waiting to be tbo bcorcr of the letter bag for hia master, which is regularly dropped by the guard without waiting. If, however, the canine messenger is not somcwVero about at ten the horn is sounded, and the dog is immediately observed in the distance coming along the road to meet ihe moll at the lane end ; bat this is very seldom the case, as the dog usually seat himself upon the wall adjoining the works, listening for the approach of the mail. When the bair is thrown down the faiih- ful creature, without delay, invariatdy takea Ihe near, est way 'home through the hedge and over the fields. Later in the duy the empty bag is brought back by the dog to meet the mail to Derby, but in consequence of the guard not getting off hi seat, it is neceij-nry to send a person with the bag, who can throw il upon tho mail while it is going. The log, feeling his inability to supply the deficiency, denotes his anxiety by barking and howling, With this exception the animal performs all ihe duties of a letter carrier lor bis matter "with punctuality and despatch." English Fitper. In making this world, God did not mean to sn percede by any arrangement the ncccrsity of activity, If nu n would know any thing, they must think i If they wuold have any thing, ihoy must work, But, iflhey will do iliher, all things are so arranged that they may receive rich rewards. As on the one hand, the great truths of science aro not made into bo. 4s, or written on tbe rock or sands that the idle man and fool may know, without thinking ; so on the other, they are nut plinted so dorp, as lo elude patient thought. In the same way, God has stored the earth with treasures, not for the lazy man, but for the industrous. If any one thinks lhat the soil is sloreJ with apontaniously growing product, let biin fence in hi land, and rcop lhat which he did not sow, and what will his crop be ! Solomon told him long ago. "I went by the field of the slothful, and lo, it was all grown over wiih thorns, and nettles bad covered the face thereof A poor crop to winter upon. DeecJier'i .idjress. Breach or Maueiasi J'uojiise. At Palerson, N. J, on Monday, a suit was tried for a breach of the marriage promise, brought by Mia J a no Hart ley against Mr. Joseph Henry, The juiy ruturuej verdict iu favor of Ihs hit piaiu'iiTof $1600. THE AMERICAN. ftaturdav, Jflajf 15, 1841. Democratic Candidate for Governor, Gen. DATID K. PORTER. fj A Mktiho will be held at Price's Hotel this evening, upon the subject of the Mails. fjj T)y reference to our advertising column, it will be seen that Mr. B.7.. Thomas propescs teach ing the art of writing well. Ve think from tho spe cimens of the improvement of his former pupils, ex hibited to us, that ho is competent to the taek. We advise our citizens who are desirous of perfecting themselves in this necessary and useful accomplish ment, to avail themselves of this opportunity. (Jj"Th Bill, to meet the demands upon the Treasury and relieve Uie Community. We invite the attention of our rcadere to the reasons of the Democratic members for their vote in favor of this bill, which we publish in another column. Let every democrat give them his candid consideration before he pronounces judgment upon them. (jj McLxon was brought before tho Supreme Court of ihe State of New York, on Thursday, Ihe 6th inst., upon a Habeas Corpu, and when his esse was called on, his counsel, Mr. Spencer, in formed the court that it was intended lo move for the prisrrcr's discharge, on several grounds, one of the most prominent of which was, that if the priso ner had committed any offence at all, it was a pub lic or national offence against the United States government, the British government having autho rized the at ock upon the Caroline. The further hearing of the case was pos'poncd untd the next Friday week. (jFinx. An extensive fire occurred in New York last week, by which five stores with part of their contenta were destroyed. The losa is estima ted at $355,(.(t0, of which $253,000 were insured, fJjThc National Htcam Ship Mississippi was launched st Philadelphia on Wednesday, the Cth inst. She is a fine vessel, and is said lo be len leei longer than the Pennsylvania. She will consume about 25 tons of coal per day. Her engines aro of six hundred horse power. RciiuVr unto Crcsar, it. We o?serve that the Saturday Evening Tost has copied from this paper, '1 knew by his Lock? with out the usual credit. It is not often Ihbt we coun try rJitors lay claim to any thing in that line, and we hopo therefore that tbe city corps will hereafter give us credit when we deserve it. Balloon Ascension. Mr. AVise, the celebrated Eronaut, who has al ready made twenty successful Kiial voyages, is now at Danville, and proposes to ascend in his balloon (rom (hat place, provided the citizens will agree to take 400 (ickets at fit) cents each, to compensate him for his expenses and trouble. A meeting of the citizens hos been called upon the subject, and the thing will most likely be accomplished. Our neighbors are so used lo puffing, thai they doubt less are anxious to w itness the process of inflation on a larger scale. Towaiidu Bank. The IT. S. Gazette says, "we learn frnrn the ca shier of lire Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Bank, lhat extensive arrangements have len male to in sure the regular redemption of the issues of ihe To wand Bank, at the former bank, and he expres sed to us his confident belief, that the arrangements were ao made thai there would be no inli-riuplion." Mmmtlfss rtrvcrsion of the Lircnse Lav. We have been more (ban once surprized that Philadelphia city and county, with ber vat num ber of stores, did not yield a greater amount of re venue under the license law, until we observcj the classification of the merchant, aa published in the city papers. The law divides tho merchants into eight classes. Those selling $50,000 worth of fo reign merchandise lo constitute the first class, and to pay $50. The second class to pay $40 and so on to the eighth class, whose sales do not exceed $2,500, who aro to pay $10. Now we can point out from our own knowledge, more than tiuo hun dred on lhat list who are placed in the 7th and 8th classes, paying but 10 and 12 dollars license, whose sale of foreign merchandise amount to more than 100 000 dollar, and in some instance exceed half a million pur annum. By this grons and p jl pable neglect, the slate is defrauded out of at least $50,000 of revenue, while In many instances in the country, merchants pay more than the law requires. In this ceuntry there are merchants whoe sales of foreign merchandise do not exceed $3,000 who pay a greater Kcenie than many of ihe Pbtladelphia merchants whose sales in some instance exceed half a million of dollars. 1'his is gross injustice, not only la the stain, but to individuals who are made to bear unequal burdens iu taxation. Sluury Matters. The Philadelphia Inquirer of May Vlh says i "We state wilh pleasure that the feeling in our mo ney and business circles was decidedly better yester day. United States Bank sold a high a 18, and $20,000 of U. S.- BanV notes, sold at a depreciation 0f 14 per cent., being an improvement of 3 or 4 with I in ihe last day or two. Our capitalists seem dbpo- I sed to regard the Relief Bill wilh favor, and a'though not exactly what it should be, we trust that the Banks anJ the commuiiily generally, Will endeavor 1 to render it a available at possible, for tha purpose c-f busine and trade." M. M. Noah, Eq, formerly editor of the New Yoik Star, hat U-n appointed Judge uf tha Court of Stwoiou iu tha city gf Naw Yoik, REASONS Of the rrmorrntl Ulr-mhers, for their Yolo i on Ihe Itcrenne and Improvement Hill. Extract front the Journals of the House of Rep resentatives, Tuesday, May 4, 1841. Having voted in the affirmative on tho final pas sage of the act entitled "an act to provide revenue to meet the demands on the Treasury, and for oth er purposes," we respectfully a-k leave lo enter on the Journals of tho House the reasons for having so voted. It has been onr anxious desire throughout the session, to obtain the passage of such a b.S lo meet the public exigencies, a would accord with the views of our immediate constituents, and carry out tho policy which has for many years been cotilen ded for by the party to which we lieloiig. Tho Journals of Ihe House will bear evidence lhat such has deen our course of conduct on every bill which has been presented this session to provide the way and means to maintain the honor and credit of Penn sylvania. But being in a minority, onr view and wishes have been frustrated by the power of a ma jority, ntertaining different opinion, of public pol icy from those which wo have always cherished. In this emergency no other alternative waa presen ted to ua, than lo pemit the legislature to adjourn without the passage of any measure to sustain the plighted fuith-of the commonwealth, and to prevent a portion of her citizens, to whom aho is indebted from being reduced to a stato of beggary, or to vols for the bill which has just become a law. In adop ting this latter alternative, we have not abandon ed any of the principles upon which we wci". elec ted. We bare been governed solely by our solemn convictions of public duty. We have been willing in a patriotic spirit of conciliation to make such a compromise wiih our opponents on this floor as were justified by the deplorable state of the public Treasury. The executive with whom it is our pride to act, had pointed out in his mot excellent veto message, the ground upon which he was wil ling to meet the majority of the legislature. But lhat majority having the power in their own hands, were unwilling to relinquish il, and exhibited their determination to reject any modification of tho bill which would give il even the coloring of a com promise ; and the evidence was loo clear to be resist ed, that tho question was narrowed down either to pass tho bill for which we voted, or to have Iho Treasury bankrupt, Ihe credit of the stale tarnished, and a large portion of our meritorious fellow-citizens, who had relied upon her solemn faith for the liquidation of their demand to utter ruin. In this emergency, wilhont the numerical strength to a dapt tho bill to our views, or to the view ol thosa whom we more immediately represent, wo fill it be our duty as representatives of a people who have felt proud of the character which they have hithertc borne for private and public integrity, to make e temporary sacrifice of many of our preconceived o pinions. Trom the commencement of the present ses sion, we hato been strenously opposing the objec tionable features of this bill we have used all ou energies to obtain one more in consonance with ou own opinions we have entreated Iho majority t meet us upon terms of a fair compromise but ou opposition and our entreaties have been of no avail Our opponents, knowing their strength, seemed de termined to exercise it We thus, within a fev hours of the final adjournment, saw that the publi credit of the state must be dishonored tho publi creditors, lth foreign and domestic, deprived ofev cry prespect of receiving their just cl iimi, unles this objectionable bill should become a law. Ui der these circumstances, the path of public duty wo plain lo us. Sooner than see our Tieasury ban! nipt sooner than see Ihe credit of our belove Pennsylvania dishonered sooner than witness th utter ruin which would inevitably visit the desidt of so many of our domestic creditors sooner tha permit the war-worn veterans of the revolution I beg their daily bread for the wont of tho per.siot which had been granted them as a small recompem for their glorious deeds sooner than see our e lightened common achool system crippled for ll want of funds aooner than hear the wailing the widows and orphans who look cither lo 11 justice or tho bounty of the slate for their subri ence sooner, in short, than behold the commo wealth become a by-word and reproach among t nations of tho earth, we reluctantly waived our jections to the bill and voted for it. Having do so, we have to Wk lo the rectitude of our inteiilioi to the immediate, nay, the permanent ennsequt ces of the act, and Ij the, as yet, unsullied honor Pennsylvania, as justification to those whom had ihe honor to represent. H. B. WRIGHT, JAMES L. GILL'S, . JAMES GAMBLE, JOHN WEAVER, JOHN MAY, ALEX. HOLEMAN, J. C. HOKTOX, GEORGE BOAL, JOSEPH DOUGLASS. ANDREW CORTIHGHT, DANIEL SNYDER, F. LCSK, GAYLORD CHURCH, Ha arrist-urg, May 4, 1841. low. This interesting young Territory is creasing in wealth, population and impoitancc, w a rapidity truly astonishing. Settled, s it w but yesterday at the close of the Black Hawk v in 1833 it now contains population of al 50,000 souls, with a soil unrtvalbd for its agric tural productions, and no less itch in its miiu wealth. Tut Crssta. The MaJlsor,ii.n gives then census for I rUO, compile from the record at Wa ington. Tbe population of New York i 2.4, 931 Pennsylvania 1,72 1,023 Ohio 1,510,40. Virgluia 1,239,707. No other slate exceed, a n lion. Tlx total population exceed 17,100,572. Of kit deceased Presidents, four have died on ' 4th cf ihe month Adum, Jefferson, and Mom on tb 4 th of July, aud Harrison on tha 4th Apiil
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