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Canada. — Ueinfoicemfnts for several of tlie rep;i- 



inoiits in Canada arrived at Quebec on Sunday last. 

 The number ol inimif^rants who have arrived this sea- 

 son, to the 2()th of June, is 15,254. The experiment 

 of sendinu; produce down tlie llajiids to Montreal by 

 steam has succeeded. Tlie fjoveriiment have a decided 

 majority in the provincial parliament. 



It is said that Dr. Dyott, who was recently released 

 from prison, is a^ain to be opposed upon bis application 

 for the benefit of the insolvent laws, at the next term 

 of the Insolvent Court of Philadelphia. 



Sahirday, July 10, 1841. 



The steam-ship Britannia arrived at IJoston on the 

 3d, in 13J days, bringing accounts from England 15 

 days later. 



Sir Robert Peel's motion of '-no confidence in 

 ministers" had passed by a majority'of one vote. Par- 

 liament was about to be dissolved. 



" All England is in a state of tremendous political 

 excitement." "The money market is consequently 

 stagnant; the funds paralyzed. There is an improve- 

 ment in the cotton market, but very little or none in 

 trade in general. The price of wheat has improved. 

 The crops are all in fine order. 



The canvassing for the approaching election was in 

 full operation, 



" Nothing new from China." 



The insurrection in Crete is still gaining strength. 



The great abolitioni.st and anti-slavery apostle, Sir 

 Thomas Fowel Buxton, is a great brewer and gin-shop 

 owner of London. 



"The warmest advocate of the credit system is fain 

 to confess, that the difficulty in the way of a sound 

 currency at the south is the disgraceful fact, that the 

 respective legislatures are under the influence of insol- 

 vent banks; and yet these same persons advocate the 

 raising up of a moneyed power, in whose embrace the 

 independence and influence of congress will be 

 crushed, as surely as that the currency laws of Penn- 

 sylvania have passed into a by- word." — N. Y. Herald. 



Judge Henry St. George Tucker, president of the 

 Court of Appeals, has been elected Professor of Law 

 of the University of Virginia. Professor Sylvester, of 

 the London University, has been chosen to fill the va- 

 cant mathematical chair. The professorship of Mo- 

 dern Languages is also supplied. 



The students of Harvard University (Mass.) are in 

 a state of rebellion — but somewhat quieted at last ac- 

 counts. 



It is thought that Mr. Clay's United States Bank 

 bill, (which goes the whole figure,) may command ap- 

 proving majorities in both houses of congress. We 

 doubt it. If it passes, it will be vetoed by President 

 Tyler. Mr. Clay's bill forces the states into the mea- 

 sure — that of the Secretary of the Treasury proposes 

 to bribe them into assent. It will be more difficult to 

 oppose the latter than the former application, and 

 therefore it is more to be dreaded. 



The Planters and Mechanics' Bank of Columbus, 

 (Ga.) has at last been protested on a $5 note, for 

 which specie was demanded and refused. Mr. James 

 Wesson, who did this good service to the cause of 

 honesty and the public weal, has notified the governor 

 of the protest, and, according to law, a writ of scire 

 facias must be issued against the bank. 



The steamer Clarksville, from New 'Orleans to 

 Nashville, struck on a snag, and sunk to the hurricane 

 roof in two minutes. Two persons only were drowned. 

 The cargo a total loss. 



A nomination of Gen. Scott for the next presidency 

 has been made by the whiff party in Pennsylvania, to 

 meet that of Commodore Stewart, by the democratic 

 party ; and " Chippewa clubs" on the one side are op- 

 posed to " Ironsides clubs" on the other. We trust 

 that the next president will have some other and better 

 grounds of claim than either military or naval glory. 



More than 300 officers of the small army of the 



United States have resigned their commission's since 

 the coinmenremcnt of the war in Florida. 



S. V. S. Wilder, a great stock-jobber and financier 

 of New York, has become bankrupt. His deficit is 

 stated by some to be three millions of dollars ; the 

 most moderate estimate is one million. • 



The state of Indiana has failed to pay the July in- 

 terest of her state debt. 



Gen. Wingfield Scott has been promoted to the iaid< 

 of Major General, (of which he had previously but 

 the brevet,) and thus, as senior officer, becomes com- 

 mander in chief of the army. 



A slave was concealed on board a vessel which late- 

 ly sailed from this town for Boston. The owner of 

 the slave pursued and overtook the vessel in James 

 River, and searched for and recovered the slave. The 

 vessel belongs to Petersburg, but is commanded by a 

 Boston man. 



Young Semmes, the student of the University of 

 Virginia, who was in prison awaiting his trial next 

 autumn for the murder of Professor Davis, has been 

 bailed in the penalty of $25,000. He is said to be 

 dying of consumption. 



The bill for distributing the proceeds of the public' 

 lands among the states has passed the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, but by a majority of only S votes. 



The legislature of New Hampshire, by a vote of 160 

 to 51, have passed the following resolution, bearing 

 upon the slave-stealing controversies between New 

 York and Virginia, and between Maine and Georgia. 

 "Resolved, Tliat the refusal of one state to surrender a 

 jierson charged with the commission of a crime within 

 another state, and who shall flee from justice, is in- 

 open disregard of the plain letter of the constitution, 

 subversive of the peace and harmony of the union, 

 and destructive of the ends for which the federal con- 

 stitution was established." 



The dividend of profits of the Merchants' (Cotton) 

 Manufacturing Company of Petersburg recently declar- 

 ed, was 5 percent, for the half year. This company has 

 formerly paid at the rate of 24 per cent, a year, and 

 rarely less than the last dividend. All the cotton ma- 

 nufactories here (as elsewhere) are much depressed, 

 and for the greater part make no dividends. 



The recent annual report of the Raleigh and Gaston 

 Rail-road shows that great work to be improving. The 

 receipts of the last fiscal year exceeded the preceding 

 by $17,000, or about one-third added to the previous 

 income. We learn from other sources that the business 

 is managed well, and with strict economy. 



Saturday, July 17, 1S41. 



The notes of the Wheeling Bank are now at 10 per 

 cent, discount below the notes of the other non-specie 

 paying Virginia banks, and are no longer current, al- 

 though guarantied by the state, by being made re- 

 ceivable for taxes. But for that guaranty, they would 

 sink much lower. As it is, they will afiord a fine har- 

 vest to deputy sheriffs, who will buy up Wheeling 

 notes at 10 per cent, discount, and pay them into the 

 treasury ; and all the loss of depreciation will fall upon 

 the commonwealth. This is but a small foretaste of 

 the effect of the state being security general to the 

 banks. Whenever one of them shall stand confessed 

 as bankrupt and insolvent, its whole issue of notes will 

 be used to pay in the state tax; and having served 

 that, their then only use, they will remain worthless in 

 the treasury. If the legislature of Virginia is not in 

 absolute bondage to the banks, they will, at the next 

 session, withdraw the government guaranty of bank 

 solvency; and also proceed to discharge all state debts 

 and obligations by .selling out bank-stock, until the ex- 

 isting partnership of bank and state shall be com- 

 pletely dissolved. 



The Richmond Dock was sold at auction, last week, 



