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TM! LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, ISI7 SrMIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 14 Every wave that break; across the Western Channel *efts hither the yell of outrage or the moan of suffering from the Irish shores."-7inies of Monday, Oct. 16. -The following authentications of this glowing state ment will entertain and gratify our readers. They con sist of observations addressed within the last ten days by the assistant-barristers of Kilkenny, Limerick, Longford, and the King's County to the respective Quarter Sessions' grand juries. It has been said a hundred times over by the Tory prints, when pressed with the lightness of the criminal calendar at the as sizes, that these documents afford no test whatsoever of the true state of the country, as a great variety of very serious offences, aggravated assaults, riots, faction fights, waylayings, &c., are tried at Quarter-Sessions, and do not, of course, come within the cognizance of the Judges of Assize. We shall now, therefore, give a few specimens of the charges of the assistant-barris ters, in order that nothing may he wanting on our parts to elucidate the horrible conspiracy that exists at this moment in every part of Ireland to obey the laws, and preserve the Queen's peace. Mr. Nicholas Pur cell O'Gorman drew the following picture of the terri fic state of the county Kilkenny ; " Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, it does not occur to me to address any observations to you except to reiterate my congratulations on the continued tranquillity of your county. I repeat, gentlemen, that the marked tranquillity of the inhabitants of this county has been brought about and pro duced by the firm and merciful administration of the law— by the attention that has been paid by you, gentlemen, and the authorities, to all matters relating to the peace. We are now living under the benign sway of our youthful and gracious Queen, and nothing can be more gratifying to her Majesty than to find her subjects combined in support of the laws, rendering her administration one of mildness and and mercy. If anything were necessary to induce the peo ple of Ireland to observe and support the laws, it is the gra tification a loyal people must feel in rendering to their young and beloved Sovereign an affectiopate and dutiful re gard to the feelings of her Majesty. The great body of this district enjoys the most perfect tranquillity." Let it be borne in mind that this is the same Mr. O'Gorman, who, on leaving the county of Westmeath (of which he was formerly Chairman), received the compliments of the Marquis of Westmeath, and all the Tory as well as Whig aristocracy bf that county, for the rigid impartiality with which he had uniformly discharged hi 3 judicial duties. Mr. O'Gorman (we may also remark) was not appointed by Lord Mid grive ; neither was Mr. Fallon, to whose afflicting ac count of the condition of the great Catholic county of Limerick, we beg next to solicit the reader's at tention " If you have tears prepare to shed them now. - Mr. Fallon observed as follows : " The calendar for this division of the county does not contain any charge of a novel character ; and it is matter of personal gratification to myself, as well as of congratula tion to every one interested in the tranquillity of the coun try, that you will not be called upon to investigate a single case of factious riot, similar to those which scarcaly two years since, when 1 first became officially connected with this county, constituted (to the enoi mous number of one hundred and forty) the great portion of the calendar of this district. Another scarcely less important feature in the character of the cases that will be submitted to you is, that the peasantry have almost entirely ceased to employ stones as weapons of aggression, and the result amply justifies the severity with which their offences were visited, and my re fusal to recommend to the Government any commutation of punishment wherever it appeared that the prisoners had assailed their adversaries with stones, or had lain in ambush for them on their return from a Wr or market." Shall we be told that here is not evidence of im provement the most remarkable ? What have the Tore prints to say to this ? Here is a case of the total . disap , earence of two classes of offences, of a most ferocious charac ., r, which only two years ago (about the time that the present Government came into office) disgracefully distinguished the county of Limerick. But this is not all. How have these crimes been put down ? flow have these savage habits been subdued ? By the administration of the laws of the land with unflinching severity by a Catholic - assistant-barrister. This is not cue of the cases where the turbulent and traitorous Popish priests have " kept the people quiet," to the utter horror and consternation of Sir Francis Burdett. This is a case where tranquillity -has been restored by that ri gour which the Tories delight in, hui which thee never employed, or- can employ, with the least suc cess ; for, to make rigour effective, kindness and gen . tleness must be the habit. Mr. Tighe, Chairman of Longford, addressed the Grand Jury in the- following terms : " He congratulated them on the lightness of the calen dar ; there were only 20 Ills to be sent up to them, none of which were ewes of aegravated offences." The Times and Standard will tell you that Long ford is in omen iesurreetion ; no safety for life or pro perty ; all the fien of bell unleashed upon the hap less, persecuted Protestants. Again, mark the total disorganization of the King's County ; see how com pletely in that wretched shire the Government that re lies " upon a Ribbonman majority, returned by Rib bonmen," has upset law and order, and, in fact, re duced society to the brink of dissolution : " The County Quarter Sessions was opened on, Wednesday. The assistant-barrister, Mr. Gibson, in char ging the grand jury, .‘ congratulated them upon the peaceable state of this part of the country. The business on the Crown side-of the Court was confined almost en tirely to prosecutions for larceny. There was not a sing!c offence deserving prosecution by the Crown.' " The Dublin Evening Post gives us the foliowing in formation concerning another highly Popish county— that of Louth The county of Louth Quarter Sessions opened onTues day before Mr. Richard Moore. A Tory Paper, (the Drogheda Journal ) in noticing the proceedings, says— ' The criminal cases were few and triflini. The entire bu siness terminated about four o'clock." All this is truly lamentable. We enter fully into the spirit of the song which Mr. Moore puts into the mouth of an old chief of the Rock family during a dull and alarming interval of public tranquillity : " Where art thou, Genius of Riot ! Where is thy yell of defiance ? Why are the Rourkes and O'Shaughnessys quiet? Whither have fled the O'Tooles and O'Rvans? - " .--Morning Chronicle. That Lord Durham's admirable speech would ob tain for him the most unsparing abuse in that Jouinal in which he was once extolled to the skies, might have been safely predicted. Lord Durham is first abused by - the Times for " attending a shabby dinner of per sons who called themselves Reform Associators' at Durham, but a greater portion of whom consisted, it., appears, of his Lordship's own tenants, servants, and dependants." A correspondent, in another part of this day's paper, does justice to the respectability of the meeting, which has been most falsely characterized. To that letter we refer our readers. Lord Durham holds on the even tenour of his way, and even the Times does not presume to say that his opinions differ now from those to which he gave expression when he was idolized by that Journal. His Lordship is, how ever, now abused for avowing his own desire to super sede the present qualification of voters, the present method of delivering suffrages, and the present tenure of the trust reposed in representatives by household suffrage, secret voting, and triennial Parliaments. This amounts, in fact, to a declaration that the acconi plishment of one' new constitution' is good for nothing but as a step. towards obtaining a fresh set of new constitutions ; and the Times adds, that these changes " are definable, or tangible, or susceptible of classifica tion ho otherwise than as being each of them an increase to that mass of democratic power which the Reform Bill had itself so suddenly and prodi g iously augmented, and which we beli eve i t i s t h e firm conviction of all disinte rested and reflecting statesmen throughout the empire cannot now be further enlarged without at once con verting the representative Monarchy of England into an unmixed and rabble-ridden republic." " The qua lification," we are further told, " has gone low enough in England, and in Ireland some degrees too low." Lord Durham has never shown any anxiety "to communicate privileges to the ignorant and non-proprietary classes," before having an assurance that they would be properly exercised, and in delivering his opinions on the changes he deemed desirable, he qualified them by an express declaration that he would never force his parti cular views on the Government and the country. B u t it is one thing to abstain from pressing changes in our institutions for which the country may not be ready, and another to declare that no changes shall be made In our institutions, however much such changes may be demanded by the country, because such changes may possibly lead to still further changes. Th e To- indigoation of the people of England has been excited, ries, during the discussions on the Ref orm Bill, were most naturally and reasonably, against the political ac all for continuing the suffrage to classes lower than lion of the Popish hierarchy in Ireland, as it bears those invested with the suffrage by th e R e form Bill. upon our wit cavil rights and liberties; not against Lord Ellenborough, in the Hou se o f L or d s , t oo k ere-. the belief, 'whether silly or otherwise, in modern saints dit for the Tories that they were peculiarly th e p a trons —modem •miracles—the humbug of masses for defunct o f t h e lower orders, and Sir Robert Peel, on the 30th sinners—the real pres ence or th e efficacy of absolution August, 1831, observed that "he had sa id, last ses- or indulgances, bought by money : with such matters sion, that it would b e a great h ar d s hi p to exc l u d e al- Lord T Ourham was bound as an honest man to acquaint together from the franchise th ose p ersons w ho rented his hearers that the Protestant enemies to Popish ag houses under the value o f 101., an d notwithstanding grandizement in Ireland never troubled their beads. But the sneers of some Hon. Members, who talked of an vs..tten they see that those who profess a certain creed endeavour to enlist the discontented in favour of the op- follow up that profession by waging practical war position to the Bill, he retained the same opinion. ta f upon the Protestants of the kingdom in their in was an error to sever altogether the connection whial terests political and social, it is not a petulant la:- now existed b e t ween t h at H ouse an d the humbler buke from Lord Durham that will deter us Protestants class of voters—unwise to brand all below a particular from repelling blows by blows, or even from designat line with disqualification. • • . ing by the sectarian title which they have assumed those It was the argument of the supporters of tlee Bill that who combine the twofold character of foes to our faith, this class was advancing in intelligence, and why then and aggressors on our security and our freedom. exclude them now, when they are capable of under- The Papists not only hate us for our religion, but standing the injury, from all participation in the Con- avow their abhorrence to be raised against us as " he stitution ?" Not a word here of rabble ridden ! No, reties," and proclaim that they will put us down. It Sir Robert was only afraid that, by the exclusion of the is not as Roman Catholics we make battle against rabble, the franchise might be more independently ex- them, but as menacing and. turbulent destroyers. Lord ercised. The " connection between that House and Durham says, that if the charges. we bring against the humbler class of voters" which he advocated, was the Papists be true, it must operate as an eternal the connection which is still continued i n Norwich and " bar to the assumption of the Government by the Liverpool, and respecting which, in the former of Conservative party." Why ? If the Conservatives these places, the Duke of Wellington possesses some be supported, as assuredly they are supported, by the costly knowledge. Sir Rob er t did no t i n qui re , like people of England and the Irish Protestants, is there Lord Durham, whether the best interests of the aught in Popish or in Durham animosity that should country might be promoted by communicating the deter them from accepting office ? The Noble Lord suffrage to a lower class of voters ; all his anxiety labours under the same dull or pretended blunder was to secure a class of needy and venal voters, through that has pervaded all the declamations of his brother the purchase of whom the Aristocracy might find Radicals upon this question. He talks as if the Pro an entrance into Parliament, and be thereby enabled, testants aimed at any encroachment on the Papists, as hitherto, to advance their own interests at the ex- whereas it is notoriously the latter only who meditate pence of those of the country. In short, all that the aggressions upon their Protestant fellow-subjects. For Tories aim at is the subserviency of the constituencies. his denunciation of a Tory Government as a thing They have no objection to pander to the prejudices of impossible, a few weeks will decide.—Times. the poor when by means of necessitous voters they The electioneering letter of Lord Durham, written can swamp the independent electors. It is only when to influence the votes of certain electors of the county an extension of suffrage would render a constituency at the late election in favour of the Ministerial can independent that they object to it. Provided a ma- didates, was much praised by some of our Contempo jority of the House of Commons be returned by men raries for its political moderation and Conservative whom they can bribe or intimidate, all else is a mat- tone. It was even described as a composition that ter of indifference to them. For the sake of a virtual would have done credit to Sir Robert Peel himself, representation, which they would again bring about if- and, if our recollection does not greatly mislead us, they could, they are ready to talk of the vir- the noble writer of the " election squib" was held up tuts of honest poverty one day, .and the next to the constitutional people of England as' a recent to term the working classes an uneducated rabble. and proud acquisition to the Conservative cause. Their principles are wonderfully accommodating. Greatness of mind and elevation of sentiment, such as Lord Durham is made of sterner stuff. And he constitute the best foundation for the character of pa has told the Tories some home truths resriectiug Ire- triot or statesman, were ascribed to the Whig-Radical land, which they will find it difficult to digest for some aristocrat, who has a most lofty contempt for every time. There they have outwitted themselves.—Morn- individual of " the masses," whom, in their collective ing Chronicle. capacity, he obsequiously courts. The " Conserva- It is a favourite method with the Papists and their tive" letter of the coroneted demagogue, who, after partisans of vilifying the Protestant Established doing his utmost to stimulate the passions of demo- Church in Ireland to allege that "it must be sup- cracy at Glasgow, went to fawn upon despotism at St. ported by the bayonet," and therefore that it ought to Petersburg, never deceived us. We looked upon the be abandoned. There is the same effrontery in this whole affair in the same light that Mr. Sheil regarded which characterizes all, or nearly all, the other pro- the Queen's letter to Lord Mulgrave ; but that, like positions of the Irish rebel faction. If the Church other " election squibs," exploded in vain. It did not of Ireland - must be sacrificed, because it requires a save Ministers from a disgraceful defeat at the hands force more vigorous than that of law to support it, of the British constituencies—a defeat becoming the ig then we beg leave to say that there is no one institu- nominous career which they have pursued ever since Lion or attribute, or creation of civilized society, which they put on the livery of the Irish agitator, and bound must not be surrendered as well as the Church—see- themselves to do him suit and service by the treaty of ing that in the respect alluded to they are one and Lichfield House. The Conservative " squibs" that all in. the same predicament—no one of them can were fired off at Mr. Spring Rice, Lord John Russell, stand in a • country so utterly barbarized, so d ee ply and others of the Lichfield House carps of Ministerial demoralized, so lawless and brutalized, as the spirit of serving men to the behemoth borouglunonger of Ireland, the Popish multitude throughout Ireland has b ecome altogether failed to divert the Proteetantpeople of Eng within these f e w y ea rs, without the presence of a land from the performance of the sacred duos of sending power which shall keep down rabble violence by the into Parliament representatives resolved to guard the dread of something which mere violence cannot resist. ancient institutions of the Monarchy against their nefa- Flow is law itself enforced ? flow is property of rious machinations. The Queen's name was grossly any description, lay or clerical, protected in that un- prostituted by the Queen's Ministers to the purposes of happy island ? How are peace and order, imperfect as the election, out the majority of the electors of Great we find them, upheld ? I-low are the persons of ho. Britain proved themselves the Queen's best " friends," nest and loyal men defended ? or human life—if it be by opposing the degraded Government that would rob, not. the life of priests and traitors—preserved ? Why, her crown of its lustre, and break up the Constitution each and all of these blessings, the temporal bonds piecemeal, if only assured of being still able to plant of civilization—as a religious establishment is th e their chairs of office on its ruins. Thrown now wholly spiritual bond of it—all these, we say—and we refer upon the support of an audacious and desperate Irish to the hourly intelligence from Ireland, public and 'action, they work, and Lord Durham alon g with private, for the truth of our statement— e a c h an d a ll them, in the harness of their anti-Saxon an d anti of those things which constitute social comfort Protestant masters. The " Irish Election Fund," to among men, and render existence tolerable, arc pro- enable the law to vindicate itself against brute force, teeted, maintained, prolonged, and " supported by th e and right to vanquish usurpation, has driven O'Con bayonet." Take away from Ireland the armed force. well into the most frantic expression of alarm, coin and will the rebel partisans have the audacity to biped with impotent menace, and the Ministerial ora affirm that the Church Establishment will be the only tors and their journals rave in unison. It is upon sufferer from the unrestrained fury of the disaffe c t e d this subject of Ireland that Lord Durham more cspe and priest-maddened Papists ? Will property or li- cially displays the Whig-Radical animus which causes betty, or law or peace, or limb or life, of any indi- him deeply to participate in the alarm, and sympathise vidual, be secure against the rapacity or revenge of with the sorrows of the Melbourne-O'Connell Cabinet, those whose trade is to excite the multitude r If, He threatens the Protestants of Great Britain with therefore, nothing worse can be said of the Church Daniel's " seven millions." He might as well threaten Establishment than that, being a portion of the entire t h e m with the power of his admired patron and poli inhei itanee which was entailed upon the Protestant ma- tical idol, the Autocrat of all the Russias. They jority of the United Kingdom by the Act of Union will, indeed, be on their guard against both ; but they between Great Britain and Ireland, it demands th e will not be frightened by either. Repeated conces same protection from the public force, without which sions to Popery and the Autocrat have begotten only no benefit derived from, or dependent on, a state of po- more insolent demands. The " Repeal of the Union" litical society, as contrasted with a state of nature, can would never have been agitated if " unqualified email be enjoyed or can exist at all in that country, we think ciliation" had not been conceded ; nor would the it quite enough to push the argument of the Papists to British flag have been again and again insulted in She its necessary consequence, and to insist that either— waters of the East, if our Whig rulers had not basely Ist, every armed functionary under the Executive Go- subinitted to the first insult. The time has come when vernment shall be at once withdrawn from Ireland. im- England can be no longer either cajoled or infirm mediately on the extinction of the Church ; or, 2diy, dated by Lord Durham's " friends," whether they that all the laws by which life, property, and the pub- pursue their course of piratical ambition in the East, lie peace were to be secured, shall be repealed on the or of Popish agitation in the West. With the same ground of their unpopularity as the law which motto of "No surrender," borne proudly aloft, the upholds the Protestant Established Church ; or 3d, union-jack and Conservative " hearts of oak" will that as the religious establishment, and all the other so- yet triumph over both. Lord Durham, as an cial and fundamental institutions of the kingdom, sta n d. avowed admirer of the Radical doctrines of vote by upon the same footing and minister to the one great end ballot, household suffrage, &c., can afford to adopt a of maintaining a British and civilised sovereignty against tone of mildness and conciliation, and even to advise an Irish and ferocious anarcl 7, they shall be all alike de- a temporising line of conduct, but with regard to the fended, save only in their acknowledged abuses, of which demands of the " seven millions," who claim a right there are no upright or enlightened advocates. Lord to " tranquillise" Ireland by maiming and murdering Durham speaks truth when he exclaims that the Irish the " Hanoverian heretics" who dare to exercise elec. Church question is " the one great question," and that toral rights, his Lordship.assumes almost as significant it " must be grappled with"— a declaration for which and lofty a tone of " virtuous indignation" as Daniel we suspect the Queen's Ministers feel much less obliged himself. He says, among much other rant and fus to his Lordship than do their Conservative opponents. tiara, "If what they (the Conservatives) say be true, Nay, we are satisfied that if there be one man through- the same Gazette that announced their accession to out the whole empire more panic-struck than another office must contain a declaration of war against Ireland, at the attempt, come whence it may, to settle the and a sentence of outlawry on seven millions of the Church question, it is the base and greedy hypocrite Irish. If it be not true—if the superseded and cracked who has fattened on the obstacles thrown in the way tocsin of alarm has been sounded only to enable them of its adjustment. With the appropriation (i. e. spo- to creep into power, what can you think of the conduct, liation) principle recognized in any Bill for commuting „what can you think of the hypocrisy of those who have tithe, the Bill will never pass, and Mr. Daniel O'Con- excited fears which they know to be groundless, and nell knows it. Without the appropriation clause, or endeavour to set one part of the empire against another, an equivalent for it, the Melbourne Ministers cannot for the unhallowed purpose of scrambling into place ?" dare to bring in any Bill, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell The second-hand thunder, touching the declaration of is equally well apprised of that inauspicious truth. war and outlawry of the seven millions, is like " Den- Without doing or attempting either—that is to sa y, nis's thunder," when heard aright, more ridiculous than without any adjustment of the question, the said D an i e l sublime. Durham's eloquence about time " superseded draws the double profit of agitating for his rent, with and cracked tocsin of alarm," resembles more the the non-adjustment of the tithe question for the topic " rumbling of the mustard-bowl" than any other con of his daily turbulence, and of distributing the whole trivance for stage effect. It is, to be sure, an awful . patronage of Ireland, receiving a douceur upon every timing to think of the outlawry of "seven millions" at appointment in his gift; so long as the Mulgrave Mi- one fell swoop. But Lord Durham may make his nesters shall remain in office, that is precisely so long mind easy on that subject. The accession of a Con as, and no longer than, the floating condition of the servative Government will neither produce a declara- Tithe measure shall render the Irish multitude sus- tion of war nor an outlawry of " seven millions," unless ceptible of inflammation or seduction with regard to the O'Connellite faction are resolved to fight for a it. But if Lord Durham be correct in announcing repeal ("the Union ; in which case even the Liberal that the Irish Church " question must be grappled" Lord Althorp (now Spencer), and others, his col ' with, it is the single assertion he has made upon leagues, declared they would encounter all the blood and the subject that has either justice or common sense on horrors of a civil war rather than concede the demand. which to rest. Endless are the absurdities, or (what But the O'Connellite faction, having before their eyes we should be loth to think) the wilful misrepresenta- the example of a leader who has a vow registered in tions, of the Noble Lord concerning this question— Heaven, are not disposed to run the risk of open re which at the same time he cannot excuse himself by bellion even to procure the dismemberment of the em affecting to have looked at superficially, inasmuch as pire. If th e y can ge t "i ns t a l men t" a ft er "i ns t a l men t he solemnly pronounces, ex cathedra, that it is "the of their whole demand, by the agency of the recreant great question of the day." Then under what points ministry of Great Britain, they will get all that civil of view does the Noble Earl examine " this great ques- war could give them, and something more. They tion of the day ?" Why, under no true, or exact, or have no wish to encounter even the " four gun-brigs, statesmanlike form does he consider it. He tells which Lord Cloncurry's ancient friend, Lord Angle his audience that an outcry h a s b ee n r aised sty, declared would be sufficient for the subjugation against " Roman Catholicism," an d then i s b u ff oon of the rebellious " seven millions." Lord Durham enough to exclaim---" Who can be afraid of that insinuates that Tory Government excited the cry for poor old man, the Pope ?" Lord Durham was for dismemberment of the empire. Under whose Go pledged in honour to have admitted that there was no vernment, we ask, did O'Connell first shout for re outcry, nor pretence of outcry, against Roman Catho- peal ? Under the " Liberal and parental" one of Earl licism as a religion, nor any at all against time Pope's Grey. Lord Durham's father-in-law, Lord Grey, and prerogatives, as exercised by the Pope himself. The the Whigs of his Cabinet, answered the unreasonable demand of the agitators for concession—how? : By coercion. Was Lord Grey, a Tory, or is the me mory of Lord Durham so exceedingly short that he forgets the history of his father-in-law's Administra tion—that Administration, the Members of which (most of whom are in the present Cabinet), the leader of the " seven millions" designated as " the base, bloody, and brutal Whigs ?" Lord Durham, to be consistent, must either hold up the character of Earl Grey to public contempt and execration, as O'Connell and - his faction did, and still do, or he mist be a little more cautious in emptying at second hand the phials of Irish indignation on the heads of the Tories. It was very recently that one of the journals patronised by the Irish Government spoke of Earl Grey as " a _venemous old viper," and perhaps it may be thought that Lord Durham, in making his virulent at tacks upon Britgh Conservatism is only a viper biting a • file. But hear how this eulogist of Popery constitutes himself a champion of Russian despOtism. He says, " Aye, even in Russia, which has been much libelled, and of which Englishmen know too little, do you think the Emperor of Russia would suffer himself to be de prived of the service of a zealous and able Minister because he was a Protestant or a Catholic ? Private life and moral character may be inquired into, but re ligious opinions, never." So Russia—that is the Rus sian Government has been much 'libelled—has it ? , While Lord Durham, who, as Ambassador to St. Petersburg, has had.' opportunities of discovering the " unknown virtues" of the Czar, mourns over the ima ginary wrongs of the " seven millions" who enjoy' the manifold blessings of Lord Mulgrave's beautifully " impartial" government, lie appears 'to have no tears to shed for the sufferings and melancholy fate of " four millions" of brave Poles—no virtuous indignation to lavish upon the crime-stained head of their merciless oppressor 1 Such is the stuff of which Whig-Radical patriotism and philanthropy are made.—Morn. Herald, The idea that political good depends absolutely upon the adoption of certain forms of Legislative or Executive Government is full of error and of mischief. In our own time this notion is put forward either by hypocrites, who expect to make profit from revolu tionary crimes, or by foolish and shallow men, whose minds are occupied with presumptuous pedantry, which their-fantastical vanity mistakes for real know ledge. The institutions which produce real political good are those which in the most natural and easy manner—that is'to say in the manner most conformaye with the habits of the people—encourage and protect sound moral principles, give the best incentives to virtue and generosity, provide the surest rewards for, honest industry, and the most effectual punishments for hardened vice. None but the very ignorant or the very bigotted will affirm that in all nations, under all circum stances, and at all times, these objects are to be obtained by one specific form of Government, or that one sort of Government will uniformly tend, more than another, to the obtainment- of these good results. The truth is, that in some places we shall find Democracy bear ing as good fruits as the political soil is capable of produeing ;- and in others Absolutism providing a guar dianship of good which it would be in vain to expect, ' in an equal degree, from any other form of Govern ' ment. A people brought up within the influence of democratic institutions may from them derive hardi hood and nobleness of thought, and to them feel those sentiments of dutifulness and affection which make submission honourable, and associate .fidelity with. glory. Again, ther e ma y b e , an d th ere are , paren t a l despotisins, in which the acts of power are felt to be acts of love, and in which, the implicit obedience of the subjcct.is as. full of honour, and as free from ab jectness, as the obedience of the child. It would be bigotry or madness to force upon nations thus circum stanced other institutions founded upon abstract prin ciples of right or of restraint. Human society is not a raw , material, to be acted upon uniformly by uniform means. Political Institutions are not good or evil ab stractedly, hut relatively, and in each place that is best Which most naturally and extensively unites with, and developes, those virtues which are absolutely, un changeably, and eternally good. We do not hesitate, ' therefore, to affirm, that he who insists upon turning every established Monarchy upside clown, because de cause democracy is better, or upon enforcing absolute authority as the only means ,of rightly governing a people, habituated to democratic institutions, is either a blockhead or a knave. There are, however, lights ' to be followed which can lead no man astray. There are objects of political solicitude which never can be wrong. There are points. of noble achievement by Statesmen which no times can alter, and no cir cumstances change, which it will be . ever ho nourable 'to pursue, and ever, in the estimation of a good conscience, disgraceful to abandon. Let it be, then, the business of every man who would serve his country to consider well what aie the public institutions and. what the public circum stances which do in practice chiefly produce around them and within them courage and gentleness, fidelity and honour, prudence and kindness. Away with the cant of "liberality," which is ever in the mouths •of babbling fools and self-sufficient tyrants. If the • word have any definite meaning in practice that meaning is laxity of principle, and it is, there fore, most worthy of the hearty detestation of every man of honesty and of courage. But let the pro fessors of " liberality" be tested by their practice. Do' they, as public men, encourage fair,* and open, and honourable courses ? Do they, promote re verence for religion, strict fidelity to engagements, steady contempt for upstart meanness ? Are _they, in their public capacity, kind to the prior, indepen • dent towards the' rich, encouragers of lofty senti ment and heroic devotedness ? - Do they teach scorn of low intrigue, and ,admiration for..-all .Ithat is .gene ; rous, manly, and sinceße ? If.. they -doAliese things, we do theme much And , - - ,thee Oughl . tn:he fol -lowed and a#planded4 . * SNifiri44,atirflOsiisa! But we say that they notoriougy in& - nioit : SiketislYely. do the very opposite of these things—that they are the champions of all that is at once impudent and servile —low, crafty, treacherous, and mean. Who ever heard a great principle or a generous sentiment from the lips of any of these professors ? Who ever heard from Joseph Hume, the Coryphreus of leeberaulity, down to the meanest political thing that crawls, the Lord John Russell, a single sentiment calCulated to make the heart of a generous and a brave man kindle, unless it were with indignation or with scorn ? We remember nothing of the* kind, and we have not been inattentive observers even of those public men who cannot be observed without a perpetual sensation of-disguat. No ; it is not to the professing " Libe rals" we can look for that policy which exhibits its excellence in the promotion of principles of virtue and sentiments of generosity. On the contrary, it is from them that the most virulent opposition to such policy continually arises. To no quarter, indeed, of the present political horizon can we look with that glad confidence which we should wish to, possess ; but least of any to the mean, equivocating, and unprincipled Administration. To us it seems, hoWever, that in all quarters too low a tone of policy is taken, as though it had come to pass that the encouragement of individual worth and generosity, and the pursuit of glory in pub lic matters, were no longer a part of the business of this great nation. The soul of Great_Britain, seems to lan guish amid the enormous aggregate of petty things which appear to. overwhelm and suffocate the moral energies and manly sentiments of the nation.• There are ten thouiand centres of little paltry fuis, but no one grand centre of mighty purpose, diffusing its force and its spirit from the heart to the extremity of the State. And was there ever more need of this ? We think not. The suardianship not only of the State, but of the Established Church, is in unfaithful hands, The Church, which not only in the high places of land, but in every remote village and sequestered' hamlet, breathes forth the spirit of liberty and loyalty, .of stern principle and gentle charity, even that great institution is threatened ; and maudlin sentiment prep are s the' way for ruthless enmity. The heart and the mind of England should awake t o this— " Ungrateful country, if thou e'er forget • The sons who for thy civil rights have bled I How, like a Roman, Sydney bowed his head, And Russell's milder blood the scaffold, wet; • But these had fallen for profitless regret Had not thy holy Church her champions bred, And claims from other worlds, inspirited, The star of liberty to rise. Nor yet' (Grave this within thy heart) if spiritual things' Do lost through apathy, or scorn, or fear, Shalt thou thy humbler franchises support, However hardly won or justly dear. What came from Heaven; to Heaven by Nature clings, And if dissevered thence-its course is short." Let riot the exquisite beauty of this 'solemn warn ing carry away the hearts of our readers from . the stern practical, political truth which it asserts. Let them look to the Church (not, for Heaven's sake, to the newly-made Bishops), and remember that i❑ pre sztving it in its integrity, and in its exclusively national character, they preserve the best nurse and champion of British liberty—and, perhaps, the only one upon which, in these days, dependence can be placed.— Morning Post. TRANSMISSION of MONEY by POST We have received a return, moved for last Session by Mr. Wallace, which presents some extraordinary results relative to the disappearance of money-letters in their pas sage through the Post-office. The return includes a period of eight years—namely, from sth January 1829, to sth January 1837—and exhibits a complete list of the cases in which letters containing money, bills, &c., addressed to per sons in London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, have been secreted or. purloined, or demanded from the Post-office as undeli vered. It may be proper to observe, that the return merely supplies us with a bare enumeration of the cases without explanation or remark. There are in the list for February 95 cases, and the value lost amounts to 3,2981. 19s. 3d. When it is remembered that this is only for one month, the fact Will appear suffi ciently astounding ; hut, in order to place the matter in a still stronger light, we have summed up hastily the whole of the cases for two several years. Accordingly, we find that in 1830, the number of cases amounted to 1,175, and the value lost to the enormous sum of 53,8671. ; and that in 1836, the caseswere 592, and the amount 54,0241. , The Scotsman, to which ably conflucted paper we are in debted for these important calculations, subjoins a table, in order to show that our Contemporary has not selected those years which have been more than ordinarily fruitful in such miscarriages, adding afterwards— " It will be observed that, with two exceptions, there is a diminution in the number of cases for each successive year ; but, according to the calculation we have made above, the value purloined or lost was considerably greater in 1836 than it was in 1830. This, however, may have resulted from 'accidental causes ; and it is therefore probable that the chances of loss from the transmission of money by Pott are fewer now than they were some years ago." From a list of the cases in which persons in the employ of the Post-office have been actually convicted of purloining letters containing property, it appears that the number of convictions bear a very small proportion to the number of cases. It must be taken into account, however, that the return includes all cases in which letters were demanded as undelivered ; and it is therefore not unlikely that, in some instances, the letters may only have been expected by the parties, but never actually sent. On the other hand, there are a number of cases in which the value lost has not been ascertained, and which are therefore excluded from our cal culations for 1830 and 1836. However this may be, there is sufficient in these returns to show that at present the transmission of money by Post is attended with' considerable risk. This is an evil which certainly ought not to exist ; and we trust that Mr. Wallace's agitation of the question will tend to its speedy removal. THE ABERDEEN SYNOD. There were some strange doings in the Synod on Tues day week, on the question of appointing a day of thanks giving for the present abundant harvest. An overture, re commending that the 15th of November should be set apart for that solemn purpose was introduced by the Rev. Mr. Murray, of the North Kirk, Aberdeen, .who edified his reverend brethren with a new theory of thanksgiving. He set forth that God was more glorified by the thanks of a whole parish, than by the praise of the parishioners indivi dually, and " more by a Preibyterial thanksgiving, than by the thanksgiving of single parishes ; and by the thanks of the whole. Synod, at once, than of the Presbyteries sepa rately—just as a national thanksgiving would be more glo rifying than a Synodical thanksgiving." It was on this ground he wished to have a day appointed. But Mr. Mur ray was running too fast, as he soon found. There was a prior question of great importance to be settled. Like Imogen in the play, the Synod " were poor in thanks, and scarce could spare them." They had first "to ba lance in their mind whether the goodness of God had been 'suffiCiently shown in the case of their parishioners to warrant tbem in calling for a day of thanksgiving at all."— " An overture of this kind," said the Rev. Mr. Bisset of Bourtrie, " should only be brought forward when the bless ing was not merely in prospect, but has been actually re ceived. He deplored that the Rev. Gentlemen should have brought forward such an overture." The Synod did not object to a day of thanksgiving if the crops were once fairly in, and the abundance proved. They even admitted that the prospect of abundance was good ; " but it was only in prospect yet, and there never was a time when the period of harvesting differed so much.",. Mr. Paul, of .Tullynessle said, that " in those parts of the country of which he knew a little, the farmers were cutting a most abundant crop; but it was exposed yet. He knew that the bore had been hurt by a severe frost, and that the reason why the corn escaped was, that there was nothinj in the ear to destroy." This was conclusive. The Synod adopted the prudent and cautious eourse'pointed out by Mr. Robertson, of El len, ,f waiting till the first Wednesday of December, when the result . of the harvest would be fully ascertained ; and " individual clergymen might then give the day the charac ter, either. of . fasting and humiliation, or of thanksgiving and rejoicing, as suited the particular circumstances of their parishes !" Could any thing be conceived more calculated to turn religion into ridicule, and -bring the Ministers of the Gos pel into contempt,. than such a discussion ? The very idea of a body of men sitting down to deliberate as to whether the goodness of God had been sufficiently mani fested in particular parishes to call for thanks, would be irresistibly ludicrous, were it not exceedingly profane.— Scotsman. The British barque Ida, Captain Arthur, from Kingston, Jamaica, bound to London, was boarded by our news boat, T. H. Smith, when our news collector was in formed that the ship experienced a severe hurricane on the the 3d ult. in the Gulf, that all her sails were blown to pieces, the caboose, boats, and twenty of .the crew washed off the decks. The Captain had temporary sails bent, and With five men succeeded in bringing the ship to anchor off Abseeom, where he . obtained assistance from the shore, shortly after which he . wai boarded by the pilot boat Mary *fa a pilot put on board.—Montreal Gazette, Sept. 14. ''','llie. - heavY,crops'O'r grass at this season of the year and the delightful 'weather to keep up the growth, are un paralleled in the memory of living man, " and yet," says a correspondent, "_the price of butter is nearly as high as in the spring of the year, when the scarcity of cattle-fodder was really alarming."—Bath Herald. . . _ _ . The late Sir Roger Greisley, Baronet, whose death we announced a few days since, was the eighth Baronet of the name, and in June, 1821, was married to Lady Sophia, youngest daughter of the Earl of Coventry, by whom he has left no issue, and the Rev. Nigel Greisley, his cousin, is become the present and ninth Baronet. The family is very ancient. Roger de Toeney, standard-bearer of Nor mandy, had two sons, Roger and Nigel, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England, the former of whom, at the time of the general survey (14th William I.), pos sessed nearly 150 lordships, whereof Stafford being his re sidence, he thence surnamed 'himself and his ancestors of the noble race of the Staffords, of whom Humphrey was created Duke of Buckingham by Henry VI., who" took precedence of all Dukes in England and Ireland, the Royal Dukes excepted. Nigel, the youngest son, had Drakelow, and many other estates in Derbyshire and Staffordshire ; and it appears by Domesday Book that he was the direct ancestor of the family. On Thursday afternoon last, three of the workmen, two masons and a labourer, employed in renovating the interior of the Cathedral of Glasgow, were fortunate enough to light upon a hidden treasure of 166' pieces of gold coin, chiefly of the reign of King Robert the 'Bruce, and his English contemporary King Edward. Although a number of their fellow-workmen were employed quite at hand, the trio managed matters so well, as not only to keep the coins to themselves, but also the subject of the discovery. Upon quitting their employment in the evening, they readily found a highly-respectable jeweller in Argyll-street, who purchased the prize for 841. sterling! The coins were in a high state of preservation; and had been carefully deposited on their edges at the base of one of the columns, immediately under the pavement, and that without any inclosure. It is to be hoped that these re cords of long by-past days will be preserved, and not, as we have reason to know has been the fate of a consider-. able part of their sterling value, be unceremoniously melted. —Glasgow Courier. On Wednesday evening, a little boy, apparently about three years old, was found in Watling-street, and now remains under the care of Henderson, engineer of the head fire station in that street. The child is unable to state its name or residence. The appears no reason to suppose it was wilfully deserted, for it is in good condition, and tolerably well dressed. It had on a brown merino frock and tippet, with good linen pinafore on, cotton printed trousers under the frock, and a pair of nearly new boots. Notice of the finding of the child has been posted at the Exchange and the Mansion-house, but up to Satur day afternoon no claimant had appeared. It is a blue-eyed pretty-looking child, and seems quite happy and content - in its present quarters. There is no mark on the linen. THE TORY RMJICAL The conduct of those dog- who during the last session did the Tories so much sc rvic i : h i c h abuse of . the Ministry, is still pursued with a rancour, , be must injure the cause of reform, and, as a emise c l u i eu- lcd, nefit the cause of Toryism. In most cases we feel . ' ss ,l O ut, that could the " power behind the throne," be trace t.. tic in-the -manger Reformers, , by could the secret springs of action be laid open to the p 'Li l o _ eye, it would be discovered that private disappointaien.tse .1-; personal resentments were the feelings s ought to We are the more convinced of this, seeing that but a le st l 2,a l e l , portion of the reform press, and a small number of tl . - 13 a , _ formers in 'and out of the House, have pursued that 11 1 . 15 . ".. thropic, fault-finding, selfish course against the Mirust,r3,l What, though the Melbourne Ministry have not carriect,3_; the reform measures we could wish, the passing of the Ed.Y.ts._.': and introduction of the Irish Municipal Corporation .154.17:ie justify their flinging back with contempt the c harge dt I ' ll - .. being p ra cti c ally no better than Tories ; and when it is born., in mind that they have had to contend with an ab'er e , beg ratin a.. Court, a Court favourably inclined to support the Lyme' hurstites in their obstructive policy,' it is not only ful, but it is positively unjust, to hark, day after day, a ( i t , week after week, upon the " do little" policy of Lord gel bourne and his colleagues. We have been induced to offer these remark`, in c e°- eciator, sequence of the extraordinary conduct of the Sp who seems, pug-dog-like, to derive pleasure from its fr quent snarlings . at the Ministry. The Spectator, V; dently sore at the charges of Tory-Radiealism brour,", against it by many tried and true friends in the vineyard of reform, affects to scorn the least imputation 013 its C°9 s istency or justice. But there is a fact which the SP ec- W ake tator cannot get over ; and that is, the Tories utensil" of its Tory-Radical leaders ; for vreungrat:: s eld9to take up a " town or country" Tory newspaper, but we be hold the SpeCtator's Tory-Radical contributions set oli with due regard to prominency of type and position. Nodrr ail the Tories are n such bad judges after all, but th e Y A ca 4 recogi distinguish nsein bet t w he een sp a e f c r t ie a n to d r a a nd fr a ien fo d e , ; and if they didOw„n,-; a volunteer e' fighting their battle, they would never give him, on m ull ° e l, casions, so comandiny a position. We look up°g ''' therefore, as full time for the Spectator to make its election, either openly to march over to the renegade ranks of the London Times, or back to the honest and co nsistent pll5- lanx at whose head we proudly recognise th e ExaniiiiflS its present course, at all events, is doubtful at best ; * L P certainly irritates and perplexes those Reformers, "° with Sir William su pport the nistry, Molesworth the Melbourne iSti y, because they believe them to be, " after all , - t most enlightened and most well-intentioned administo; ti on which has governed this country for a long daY . —Hereford Times. --,....•••11 . ~, many During the last week several public meeting s ".1; - been held in the metropolis and the western suburban '44: triets, especially in Kensington and Pimlico, for the Pe' t pose of establishing Associations, having for their obi° the formation of processions to accompany the It e Y ii h s c4 ; valcade on the 9th of November next. Many peraeo.—• entered their names as subscribers to the funds now r e '!" ing for the purchase of banners, and flags, with embletna.tti; cal devices, and the hire of bands of music, horses, SLe" w ., 1 0 0 which they intend to walk in procession, and line a Pe r "' of the road along which her Majesty and s_uite. w ro P i a l It is expected from the number of names already c that the members will muster in some thousands. J 3 o f well, of Covent-garden, and the property manufacturers Drury-lane, it is said, and the other theatres, are busilY e r i a gaged in the designing and constructing banners, flags , a the accompanying properties for this occasion. s It is gratifying - to know that the working clesse this town are now again in full employment, wages are still very low, when compared with former Y" t „, yet it is confidently expected that trade will cont;on iil e ,trY improve, as it will require great perseverance and al" - ,: e to on the part of the operatives for a length of time to " ear any thing like the circumstances they were in a t the Buts mencement of the late unprecedented stagnation. 15°,,ives all events, every one who is able ought to avail tham%, iv as soon as possible of the advantages held out to b e so so the shape of sating-banks, connected with the tostn:e tt and althougri, that some provision 'may be made for the evil day bef ° ' arrives.— Glasgow Chronicle. AURORA BOREALIS.—NearIy the whole 13-r der tion tion of Leamington appeared, with ourselves, t oe co struck, last evening, by the appearance of a phenole' which is seldom witnessed in this locality, viz., the aurora , borealis. This gorgeous and most sublime spectacle :la visible from six until half-past seven o'clock. Th e el° in the north-east appeared as if suffused with the reflect!, of a vast mass of crimson flame. The stars seen throtr, this brilliant medium had an extraordinary appearauce7g the brilliancy seemed to be heightened by the surroutonod glory. A gentleman who stood near us on the bridge,, a who had resided in countries where the aurora boreali s 14 , 0 , frequent viitant, directed our attention to a singulari:as velty in the effect of this striking atmospherical spectacerod it appeared about half-past six o'clock. At that lines lol or dense lines and dark clouds in parallel per s p ective spread from the far south-east, narrowing by regular, dations, and converging towards that flood of sine;‘,o" light which " pavilioned with its thousand glorious " the whole northern horizon.—Leamington Chronicle. t he According to accounts from the IVloluccas Woo 28th of May the steamer Wile»: 1., on her passagei ere Sourabaya, had been wrecked, and the (144 in number) had saved themselves on a rock , ` v p s el µ`e they remained, with scarcely any supplies.. it . v-s th e passengers an" % er e sent off to their assistance, but was unable to fe ac a , to spot, on account of contrary winds. The vessel was start again, to renew the attetnpt, but it was clu e e the that she would not be able to reach the ro ck bel ec oln 12th of June. One of the passengers was tdre ad t to have died of thirst.-I?otlerdant Courant. f SOP ies A a F rm-an Paper says that the King • I# intends to do away with the separate Administrat!eio tbo which Sicily has hitherto been governed, and to dic lu die c i d s ei l r a ren n ee d tdie in inn to et two provinces, to be placed under the ill % e on', f he th l e at N e e r o io p t o s lit i a a n d Ministry. Sixtyinditilytleot Jo . 0 1 already been shot, Del Carretto. tor 01 The beech tree is said to be a non-condrdiao, nearestittorm , leave beee their tree pursuits .ei nT e nr a sn. n e d s s e t e a a k yt he neorpeefeolpgpl lightning. So notorious is the fact, that the I h u ea der e g h whenever the sky wears the appearance Of a t under a 'otter w ho a mplete protection. Dr. Becton, in Mitchell, states that the beech tree never kne w e n es are e st f r t u en ck si b ia y tre a r t e m d os in ph te eri s c pr el t e e ctricit m y, whil t e a nt k he n r o,via t i r r lgo jobi l this fact afford protection to many when if such are the qualifications of this tree, ni a l l A o teri e° made useful as a protection to our dwellings ?"--"- Paper. • fotl ijc` An inquest was held on Tuesday on a ni r clo se# dead in his bed at the Temperance Coffee-house, °a":‘,"npioK He was wholly unknown in' this city. He had been r i at the Temperance Coffee-house about three wec" k s : a ged was of a - gentlemanly appearance, dressed in hia..„,00 50 about 40, possessing handsome features, with aerful nu rs . It and dark complexioned, and reserved in his manne tha t bo would seem from four phial bottles in his possession tie , of had been in the habit of taking laudanum, a P : a d r en ce Ci f exam i na tionb ut &- which remained in one of the bottles. From the eV' it ar Mr. Cox, surgeon, after a post mortem peared that death did not proceed from that eaus e l uan tea a refuge otns e cl o et r. r t , termination of the blood to the head. In his of were found a large sum of money, two pairs of hat / 1 / ' marked "G. 5.," and other wearing apparel. I.lo`arkd, which he was in the habit of wearing was pied " Downs and Co!, 246, High Holborn." Verdict-- . by the vistation of God."—Bath Pape?. o - PATENT I,EVE'II. WAT - G 6 With. ilver double-bOttom cases ..............................b chi ti _ With silver hunting cases... .... : .............................. This celebrated cOnsfruc ' tion . (the most accurateuorilovanen7 watch can be made) is iiownffered, with the latest n, P c are er i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four lion ng . po o hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintr by to continue going while winding up, at th e above pric T. COX SAVORY, , Lon don. Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, exchange' N.B.—Second-hand Watches purc hased in "` Sole BIR TH. OnDtihgebyT Esq., of a on. stinst., at Bishop's Caundle , the lady of Get' yule Sims,nosnt.lyadt Cockburn On the 21st • MARRIED. ~,,, Or count Valentia, ' St. to I of only son of the Earl Mountnorrisl irsq ., . Esq., Jamaica,M. neice of Lady George Cockburn and J. W. aughtNericohfoltahseClhauterch. Bjr.ighstiownsi, rl',,er:ecitsi, M.P., of Moor.place, B tch th e wor • r. Ge°' On John _ ?an 8 h inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squuar:, 1 ter of Mr. B chard, of Piccadilly to Emma, third da o ' of , mina, Lohr, of Holborn., . 0 Esq . ' o f On the 14th inst t D cl lien • m'n Wen` °- ' es° - ~ a armsta t,ia i • coot Bengeworth, Worcestershire, to Katherinelien, the Schwalbach. _/- ---• —----- ------- - D I ED. i _stooT,', On the 21st inst., at Idlicote House, near Shipstono;:Pr`;ooso) ' Lieut.-Colonel Charles , Peach, late of the Eot I d . ' an Service, aged 61. Wad° On ie 22d • t ins ~ at Rayne, Essex, the Rev. James 7 4. Alexander, aged 72. 1, aged, will . On the 21st inst,, at Sheen, Mrs. Margaret Chiphane, ...,, P" On the 20th inst., at King's-road, Gray's Inn-1 , of Pritt, Esq., aged 54. w idos • arth a, On the 12th inst., at Frankfort -on-the-Maine, 111 ~, or? Dr. R. Steuart, late of Bombay j a verti e ver- On the 22d inst., in Old-street -road, aged 77, Mrs . 'street' A' relict of the late Mr. Robert Devver, of Great Georg /No, --- --- 0 41°. London: 1.3 • G 0 ------------foli N • o wit/ Printed and Published bY _MU' RD,' •, t o 112, Strand, at The Sus Ofice, No. 112 Strand, of ddlosev—Tusiday, Ostolier 24, llif•