ARRIVAL. OF THE GALE - lIONIA AT BOSTON. IMPORTANT PROPOSITION RELATIVE. TO THE lIRITIRFI CORN LAWS—THE STEAMER: PRESIDER I raw HEARD FROM.—DEFEAT Ot7RP. ENOI.I .1! MINISTERS. Colloid's tine steamer Calidonia, ar rived iiblioston at half past 5 o'clock, on Wednesday mornin4, bringing London and Liverpool papers to the 4th of May. We are indebted to Harnden's Express for slips and for English Gazettes. The news of President Ilarrison's death excited much feeling in London. The Irish Register Bill was defeated in the British Pa!lament by a majority of a bout twenty-three. Such a decided opin ion, so roundly expressed, naturally a wakened the enquiry—..when does the Ministry resign?" THE CORN LAWS, The most important measure that is liVely to occupy the attention of the Par liament, is one from the Cabinet, to re duce the duties on foreign corn to a small' regular sum. Ity which the revenue would be increased. An alteration, also, on the duties upon foreign and colonial timber, and on colonial sugar, will be proposed. The Corn Law subject is excitiug much attention. It is doubted whether the present Parliament will sustain the Min istry ; but the question will be subinitteLl to the people in new a election. Looking to which the London Times says : The modification of the corn laws, however, is the grand affair ; and, indeed, the only point to which the people ought to direct their attention. It is a great and glorious proposition. It is the most practical measure of which notice has ever been given in the House of Com mons—it is not a means to an end, but it is an end of itself. It is for the benefit the manufacturer, the mercfant, the work ing man—in a word, for the whole corn munity ; but there is not the slightest chance of its being carried during the present session, unless the people rouse themselves as one man, and tell their re presentatives that they will not any long er bear the monopoly of the staff ofliumaa life. Up, then, we say, all ye men of England, who are desirous of seeing Eng land great, glorious prosperous in her in dustry, by sea and land, and tell the le gislature in a voice of rhunder, that you will no longer submit to a species of tax ation, which, while it enricheth not the wealthy, condemns the poor man, his wife and his children, to low wages—to small bits of bread instead of large loaves—and, generally -peaking to an absence of fort, which is ill sooner or later bring a bout a revolution, the character of which we - shall not attempt to foretell. ' Well might Lord John Russell say, in making his memorable announcement te ' spectino• a revision of our corn laws, that a crisis hail arrived in our affairs which rendered further delay impossible. Eng. land must either advance or retrogade. This is the law to which all that exists is subjected. To one branch of this motnen tous subject, viz: the blow struck at our commercial greatness by the German com mercial league, we now propose to advert, for the purpose of showing, in one in stance, what the operation of our own laws has done. We may gather from this example, that the United States and Bra zil would ultimately do were we to re fuse to relax our tarifl as regards their products. The London Chronicle (radical) of the ad instant says—The sensation produced by the Government notice of Ft:day night on the Corn laws is rapidly extending through the country. Every where it is the signal of excitement and determination By the monopolists it will never be for gotten. Ministers have fairly thrown themselves on the nation for support in the assertion of great national right and interest. The response will soon be heard in thunder.-- The untaxing of the people's bread is a prospect full in view ; and the people will spring toward it like lions on their prey. A spirit will be roused on which the Carlton Club may expend its million with out making an Impression. We argued this Corn law question long enough. l'he pressure on those who find work for the multitudes is becoming too strong and threatening for prolonged reasonings. The season of actien is arrived, and it cannot come *more favorably fot the na• Collet interest. The announced purpose of the Queen's Ministers is as the setting in of the tide. Let it rush on, and sweep away before alt the defences of this inhu man monopoly. If Ministers be but adequately support ed ; if that national enthusiasm which their determination must produce be but evin ced in time by a people awake to their own in3st vital interests, we cannot but auger the happiest results. In their pros ant position, they can sustain no Parlia mentary defeat that would not be equiva lent to a victory. And we should like to take office on the express grounds of din franchisement for /reknit, and perpetui ty to the Bread tax. BANK OF ENGLAND. The quarterly liabilittes;blo; weekly average, from Febt uary 2 to April 27, was; circulation, £16,587,000 ; deposites, 225,000. assets on the same average were secui ities, £22,082,600; bullion £4,. 638,000. THE PRESIDE:NT Nothing had been heard of the Presi. dent Steamer, in L and all hopes had been abandoned. THE COURT. 'The Queen of England is in good health, but Prince Albert is to unwell, that his rhysicians advised a fsit to Get many. MINIS OF PEACE' IV ITH CHINA.I It is very generally reported and be. lieved that Lord Palmerston is wholly dissati•fied with the preliminary articles, signed by Captain Elliott, for the settle, merit of the quarrel with China ; and it is even added, that the Government is like ly to increase the strength of the Chinese expedition. The session of Hong Kong had at first,l the appearance of being a grott point gained ; but further consideration has, brought the well informed very generally to the opinion that the advantages likely to be derived from the possession of that island have been over estimatt.l. Can• ion, it is said, will still remain the seat of the tea trade; the British merchant will be debarred front commercial intercourse , with that city. Not so however, the A• I mericans, tire French, the Dutch, and the Danes ;so that, on this point, all nations trading with China will have a superiority in the principal tea market over the En glish trade to Hong Kong will we give the celestial authorities the means of making us pay, by export duties, the very con temptible amount of indemnity which has satisfied Captain Elliott's moderation:-- London Jour. of C'om. FRANCE. The Paris papers give vent to a vast deal of exultation at the result of the tri• al el Mr. Montour, the editor of La France and the virdict of acquittal is hailed as a triumph of an important character. In deed. the victory is not looked upon as a mete advantage gained over the govern- inept, but the more violent journals insin• uate that the decision of the Jury implies a tacit condemnation of Louis Philippe.— So much excitement prevails upon the subject that ithis by no means unlikely that some further steps will be taken, for,l under present circumstances, there are not wanting persons who effect to think that the letters to. Prince Talleyrand, which are declared to be forgeries, were actually written by the King. The Ga zette de France has the following remarks upon the decision of the jury. The announcement of the ministerial defeat in England caused a great sensa tion in the French capitol. An opinion is entertained by all classes of society, that a conservative administration would be more favorably disposed towards France, than the whigs have been, and 'the French public rejoice at every check' received by Lord Palmerston or the cabi net which he forms part. The result of the communication promised by Lord John Russell for Wednesday next was waited for with much impatience, as noth ing less than a dissolution of parliament lor a resignation was expected. SPA/N The Chamber of Deputies have nom noted the five following persons as part of the mixed commission on the regency question—Senores Alonzo, Bravo, Gil Sanz, Lopez, and Burriel. From Madrid we learn that the mixed committee of deputies and senators had already met twice without bring able to come to an understanding on the subject of the regency. CHINA. The London Shipping and Mercantile) Gazette of April 23d, has the following in reference to China. It will be seen that no official information has been received in this country by the Bt itania. The following most extraordinary con versacion took place last night in the )louse of Commons. It is perhaps the best commentary that has yet been made upon the mode in which the unfortnnate expedition to the Chinese seas has been misconducted. We quote from our re port of the debate :-- "Sir R. Peel wished to ask the noble opposite, whether he had received any of ficial account of an action which had tak en place near Canton, in which several lives had been lust, and it those accounts had been received why they had not ap• peared as usual in the Gazette "Lord J. Russell said, that al thoughlac counts had been received through India, the official despatches with respect to the action in question had not arrived; when they did they would appear Pb the usual manner." A battle is said to have been fought on the 9th of January at the Bocce Ti, gris, by means of which the Chuenpee fort came into posses,ion of the British forces at the expense of some lives lost, and the destruction of 600 or 700 Chinese; it is further stated, that in consequence of this, l our Plenipotentiary has been enabled to procure certain conditions, miscalled high ly favorable to the interests of this country. These matters took place, according to the private accounts received by the last overland mail, on thr 9th of January, at the distance of thirty five miles front Ma cao by the same mail up to the 27th Jan. and yet, according to Lord J. Russell, no official despatches have been forwarded respecting these affairs to the Government at hotne; which is, of course, utterly ig norant at the present moment as to even the very existence of the expedition, and cannot, possibly, send out any instruction by the next mail with reference to any circumstances which may have occurred. The Penalty of an Elopemrnt.—A year since a letter was published in Montreal, announcing the elopement of Mrs. Harris, wile of Captain Harris, 24th regiment, with E. D. David, Esqr. of Montreal, Bar rister, and Major in the Montreal cavalry. --On the oth instant the action commenced by Captain Harris against Mr. David, was tried in Montreal, and resulted in a vir. . !tiict for th i rty thousand dollars damages. The Revenue The U. S. Gazette thus speaks of the Revenue ;Hill: , We hear some people cry out that it is an infamous hill —we certainly .cannot see any thing in its provisions that de• serves so uncourteous an epithet. Oth ers, who dislike it, call tt an "extraordi nary bill"--it is certainly an extraordi nary bill, but we nave fallen on extraor• dinary times, and must expect seine "ex traordinary legislation. The bill provides for three millions ut income to the commonwealth, which sum was and is absolutely necessary to the' preservation of her credit, and the carry-1 ing on of the government. Two millions are required for the debt, and one million for expenses. Now no one can be blind to the effect upon existing stock, and to ihe immense loss that must be sustained by the state upon that to he created, hail the commonwealth come into the market' with the proposition for a loan of three millions of dollars; it would have been .ruinous all round. The plan proposed, then, will, it is confidently believtd, meet the exigencies of the state, without de preciating existing stock ; on the contrary, it fully and promptly carried out, it will add to the credit of the state, while it sup plies her wants. Those who called for a tax will find that one million five hundred thousands dollars are to be raised by taxation. This' will fall rather heavily on this neighbor hood, but we get used to such things, and therefore cease to complain. IVe notice in one or two of the Loco-lo co papers of this state loud denunciations of those members of the party who finally voted in favor of the majority, and helped to make up the "two thirds." This is a family quarrel, and it does not become us to meddle therein; but we can well ima gine that the gentlemen alluded to, seeing the position of disgrace into which the old commonwealth was inevitably falling, felt that a saciifice such as they have made was not much for men who, in the as sumption of office, seem to have pledged themselves to regard the public good as superior to their own. The measure may indeed deserve the name of 'temporising,' which has been applied to •it ; but there are positions into which the body politic, no less than the body physical, may be placed, which cull fin- the application a' temporising expedients until time shall be allowed for the operation of permanent remedies. It has hitherto been a matter of com plaint that the revenue of the state appro priated to the specific purposes, particular ly the interest of the public debt, has been thrown into the public treasury and paid out for ordinary or extraordinary expen ditures, without regard to the provisions of the statute; and when the interest was due, the money had to be raised as it could. By the amendment proprosed by Mr. Senator Reed. it is made a punishable of fence in the treasurer to allow of any di, version of such funds from their proper specific purposes. This is well, and will be telt mu the strengthened credit of the state. No new expenditure is to be al lowed—no clew contract made—,ho chan nel left open to draw off the public funds. It is said that several of the banks will not accept the provisions of the law. Of course the banks will consult their own interest ; we are bound to say that they have done enougti for the commonwealth, but if some oldie banks should not feel called on to accept the provisions of the law, the operation will be more favorable on those which do• The issues of small notes may be apportionately enlarged, and the adv.antage probably proportionately increased. The bill, too, gives repose to the banks, which they certainly noed, which they I have long needed, we hope, will result to their advantage, but especially to that of the public through them. The Extra Session. Congress will convene on Monday next. The National Intelligencer con• eludes an able article on the subject of its duties in the following manner : 01 all speculations as to what Ccngress may or may not do in reference to the cur. rency, perhaps, alter all; no more can now be set down as certain than that the Ex tra Session will not pass away without the' establishment of some fiscal agency as a substitute for that which exists under the familiar name of the Sub-Treasury sys tem. The measures, in fine, which may be expec4ed to become the subject of deliber ation in Congress at the approaching Ses sion are. I. The distribution of the proceeds of the sales of Public lands among the several States. 2. A revision and argumentation of the duties on imports, for the purpose of securing from that source a revenue ad equate to the wants of the Government. 3. The repeal of the Subs Treasury law. 4. The establishment of a fiscal agent, central or other to aid the Goverment in collecting and disbursing the reve nue and equalizing the currency. 5. A temporary loan, if necessary, to sup ply the immediate necessities of the Treasury. The measures would at once- disperse' the clouds that have so locg over hung and yet obscure the prospect before us. These measures, taken together, would we feel entirely confident, suffice, not on. ly to restore to the country its wonted vigor, but to carry it forward with a firm er step that it has ever taken. NVe have said nothing about the exist• ing public debt, which it will be time c- 'lough to prbvide for at the regular annu al session of Congress, when its amount will have been better ascertained than it can yet be. Nor have we taken into con !sideration the question of atlni form Sys- Item of Bankruptcy, which seems to be (within the contemplation of some of our friends as vmeasure to be agitated at the Extra Session ; nor any other question of la general character, because Congress has been called together with a special view Ito the revenue and the finances ; and it seems to be desirable, under every aspect cf the case, that the deliberations of the two Houses of Congress should be limit ed, as far as possible, to the objects for which they have convened. _ 45,.., ... , ' t i i , 4ii t.) , - 4:3 - --4.7 iitll ,•? , .. W i4j, ~,, TUE JOURNAL. One country,one conetituttonone deatin Huntingdon Hay, 26, 154.111. Democratic Candidate FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN BANKS, OF BERKS COUNTY Hypocrisy of the (doe'crnor• Is there any honest man who can look at the con luct of the present Executive of Pennsylvania, and not blush at the unmanly and deceptive course he pursues? Is there any man with a spark of honor who can advocate his conduct, or even the man that would be guilty of it? If there be, we pan only say we regret his blindness; and he deserves, at least, the pity and commiseration, if not the con tempt and scorn or the Community. We ask these questions frum the tact that the present governor pretends to be unfriendly to the provisions of the late revenue bill. In a veto of several col umns he paints, in the most vivid colors, what he calls the objections to the bill ; and those unaquainted with the real char . acter of the man might imagine that the bill was fratiOit with danger to our free institutions. Ilk message is seized hold of by his party presses, as every thing that is patriotic or just. All denounce, in no measured terms, the bill of abomi nation, as they are pleased to call it, and heap the most fulsome adulation upon the governor for his firmness. and integrity. What a contemptible humbug! They, as well as the Executive, have learned that their abuse of banks—bank rags, and • small notes, has at length become idle. Therr is no remedy for the disasters of • the times but the one that has been appli ed. (And to us it is a matter of no little doubt whether this will prove effectual.) They saw it and felt that nothing else could furnish the state with the means to keep the wheels of Government in opera tion. Still they knew Olt for,years they had endeavored to prove to the people that they would put the screws to the mo ney monsters, and make them fulfill their promises. What was to be done? The last few days of the session tells the tale. This very Lill which the governor ye . toed, and which his whole party denoun • ced in • the bitterest language, became a law by the vote of the very men who had opposed it by speeches and votes. On different occasions did these people 10. wing and self styled democrats oppose • this. First by the passage of the bill and twice on the reconsideration after the ve to. Alter all this thirteen of these same men, on the third reconsideration, voted in favor of it—others did not vote at all; . and then it became a law by the constitu- tional majority. What graceless hypocri sy! II they believed the law a good one why d:d they not vote for it at first? It they believed it a bad one did they not vi olate their oaths by voting for it at last? . We think the question easily settled. They voted against it at first, in order to give Porter a chance to veto it, and thus play the hypocrite before the people; and they did so with the perfect undcrstan• ding that they would finally make it a' law, after the governor had tried to pour , a little "suit sawder" down the throats of the anti.bankites. 'fhb was the truth, or else they were driven or coaxed to sup port it afterward by 'David R. himself. There is no mistake about it. There is no man in his senses that can doubt that one of the other of these positions is true. What shallow deception. Did they im• magine that an intelligent people would not see through their thin veil of de's The bill is now a law, and if Mr. Por ter told the truth in his message, the peo ple are cursed with an never ending /We -1 ension, and with evils more portentious than those which enshrouded our country in the darkest days of the Revolution. If he told the truth, t.nd still forced hi s partisans in the House to sustain it, the peoples' curses should ever follow him. If he did not tell the truth, his name should be handed flown as the most arrant hypo crite who ever disgraced an Executive chair. Anti Bankistn The citizens of our county can N ell re collect the grounds upon which his par ty advocated his, Porter's election to the Senate some years ago, and still later, his election as governor. . The banks—the worthless, unsafe, en' sound and rascally rag shops, the banks, was the beginning and end of their tale. And in the most apparent and earnest manner they begged and plead with the people to help them, and him, reform the whole system, and 'renter every man sale who held a bank note by making the stockholders liable. We presume there is hardly a man that does nut recollect the vicleut attack by Porter himself upon our then member, Jer. Cunningham, be cause he had the independence to oppose the section in the West Branch Bank charter which made the stockholders lie. ble, although he knew perfectly well that I l Cunningham had opposed the whole bill from beginning to - end. This all sounded very well, and show ed great love for the 13001' note holders It was excellent precept. It was good. bait to catch gudgeons with, and it was scattered far and near. On every occa sion Gov. 'tither was denounced for not bringing these villianous institutions up to the bar of Justice, and deprive than, of their charters. So far so good. What is the sequel of this? Is it soon told? Tito:, in his changes, elevated this man Porter to the chair of State, and gave his party the majority in the• Legislature.' ,'Phis boasted measure was brought up and a bill passed to establish a bank in Lan caster, and this valuable provision was attached to the charter. The stockhol. tiers were to be held personally liable fur their issues; and many of the honest of their party fancied that their darling !scheme was now to be brought to bear on , the banks! Poor dupes! no such thing. Governor Porter vetoed their favorite bill, and the miserable bantling slept the sleep of death. Inhuman fratricide !it died by its own father's hand; and !or once the' eyes of the people were directed to the fact that Air. Porter talked otvs way and 'acted another. But the message vetoing the bill must be read. That possessed the charm. The honest, patriotic and people loving governor had objected to the bill, because there was alrmily too touch banking capital in the state; and hundreds "ploughed to the cow" and ful , lowed their stilburn cub to the grave with out a tear, and in a tone of rejoicing, de clared that the. Governor was right!—we had banks enough! Entirely forgetting, however, that they had all for years con tended that we had no good ones; and thus, in reality, saying,That so long as we ,had bad twits we did not need any bond ones. But the governor, in order to keep all true to the faith, signified his willing• ness and determination to carry out th e measure so soon as more bank charters were needed, or in fact, old ones renew ed. This was all right but the end is n ot yet. Now let us look at untidier leaf in the history of this matter. Another session of the legislature has just been concluded, and by a reference to our paper of last week the list of their enactments will be found there. Are you an Anti•bank democrat—a follower of, or a believer in the political integrity of D. IL Porter and his party ? Did you follow the cow when the Lancas• ter loan bill was vetoed? If so, we want you, in particular, to read that veto rnes• sage again, and then turn to ttic list just spoken of, and read "an act to exten4 the charter of the Northampton Bank." Here was a chance to resusticate the deceased humbug of former :days. This made no more banking capital in the state, and that' objection, of course, was of no avail. Now why we ask, in the name of honesty, did not your veto king put his thumbupon this shaving machine? Why did he not veto this bill which breathed anew the breath of life into the body of this_unsafe, un vound and wicked institution, as you have been told, all are, when the stockholders are n' liable? Answer 11l that, waster Rout? Loco Foco Groanings. I We cannot take up a piper of the. Loco Focus, that is not weeping and v ailing over what they call the persecution for opinions sake. Officer after officer they name, who has been beheaded with the political guilotine of the Harrison party. Oh / dear oh /is on every tongue. Per secution!persecution ! persecution ! Now we have a word to say on this subject. It was the leading argument a gainst Van Buren and his fictionist--that corruption had become the order of the day. That from the Great leader down to the petty Leg Treasurers, they had pursued a regular system of appropriating the money of the nation to .their own use. Some people have called it by the mor e offendive term stealing. At any rate such was the fact. Every speaker who advo. cated a change failed not to lay the whole truth before the people ; and they were urged to assist in driving these cormorants from their prey. Nobly and patrioticals ly did the honest yeomanry of our state rise in their might and decree that the day of deliverance was at hand. Does any sane man, suppose that the pledges made to the people, will he vio lated. Never! The people demand the removal from office of these old rats. They desire to try another swarm, who if they be more greedy may for a time be less bold. The people demand ed, in words not to lie misunderstood, a complete and universal change ; and does any one im agine that the groans and howlings of these pampered curs, will make them relent. What a dreadful thing this persecution is !so says the Loco Foces now. But has our readers forgot the turning out ct i every petty post master, who refused to do the dirty work for that prince of knaves Amos Kendall. 'We hope you have not. But some of these groaning Locos have com pletely, forgotten it. It • was very good then, and it was very fair too. That was all right. Now when these minions of this " panther pimp, and parasite!' are told as the fanner told the sturdy beggar —to ttavel--,their party presses moan taut a sigh and with tears in their eyes, talk of the proscriptirri. Curiosities. The Boston Transcript publishes a list o f curiosities, any one at which, we think, would afford capital enough to "set up" a Inusru:n upon. The follou log is the in ventory: It i a curiosity to find a stump orator who will not praise himself, and will not abuse his opponent. It is a curiosity to find a politician who will hold an argument with an opponent for half an hour without getting angry. It is a curiosity to find a politician who will be convinced by his opponent's argu ments. I_ is a curiosity to find a person who does ILA think his own children possessed of more talents and accom,lishments than those of his nei4hbors. It is a curiosity to find an artist who does not think himself perfect in his pro fession. It is a curiosity to find a candidate for an office who does not think he is fully entitled to the suffrages of his fellow citi zens. It is a curiosity to find a man who pla ces too low an estimate on his own abili ties. It is a curiosity to find a Miss of fifteen who has not begun to think of getting, a husband. It is a curiosity to find an old maid who does not wonder that she has not long been married. It is a curiosity to find a fop who does not think he is the admiration of every one he meets in the street. It is a curiosity to find a miser trans formed into a generous man and a bene. factor to society, so long as he can retain his riches in his own possession. It is a curiosity to find a political editor who always tells the truth. It is a curiosity to receive a letter from a lady which has riot a P. S. attached to it. It is a curiosity to meet with a woman who stammers in conversation. It is a cariosity to find a lawyer who. pleads a case succ?sslully for you, and then docks off a nr"elion of his fees. It is a curio - istY to find a physician who I Whir , restored you to healt'h, does not I wish you to think lie has performed a won. Jarful cure. It is a curiosity to find a dentist who will nut tell you he can extract a tooth and cause less pain than any one else. It is a curiosity to find a schoolmaster who does not wish it to be understood that he knows more than any body else. • It is a curiosity to find an editor who does not know every thing, and more ton; and It is a curiosity to meet with a man who thinks less of himself than other peo. plo think of him. ELECTED.—John Greig, (whig) has been elected in the Ontario Congressional Distric, N. Y., to fill the vacancy caused by Mr Granger's resignation,
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