The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The threats held over us are quite awful : we abso lutely shake in our shoes at the thought of them. Ac cording to the Morning Post the Tories have hitherto been too mild and gentle with the Whigs, have shown them too much forbearance and mercy, and in future they are to be allowed no quarter. A new Durango decree is to be issued by these friends of - Don Carlos, and extermination of all the. advocates of reform and improvement is to be the order of the day. The thun der of the Times and the lightning of the Post are to be fulminated upon the devoted heads of such as ven ture to say a syllable in favour of Lord Melbourne and his Mhostry. The Times and Post are to enact the parts of 'Thunder and Lig - lib - ling in this new tragical Rehearsal. • "Times. I am the bold Thunder ! " Post. The brisk Lightning I. " I am the bravest bully of the Press. " Post. And I another, and will do no less. " Times. I strike men down ! " Pest. I fire the town! " Thres. Let the people take heed how they grumble, For then begin Ito rumble # - Let the Whigs then look to't, For Thunder will do't. " Post. For Lightning will shoot. " Times. Look to 't look to't! " Post. We'll do 't ! we'll do 't ! " Roth. For Lightning and Thunder SHall tear all asunder, And flu town and country with terror and won der!"—Vide Rehearsal, act i., scene I. This dreadful denunciation is no invention of ours ; it is but too certain, and we and those who think with us have now nothing to do but to look out for some place of security where we may hide our heads front the pelting of the pitiless storm" to be launched upon us by the Times and Post. Let any body who has the curiosity, read our fashionable contemporary of 'Saturday, and then refuse us their compassion, if they have the heart. Both it and its coadjutor of Printing house-square arc about entirely to alter their mode of warfare upon the Whigs. The Times is to be ne longer -' tine gentle and genteel"—the refined and polished— the modest and delicate—the tender and considerate supporter of " the Conservative cause ;" and the lady's maid-delighting Post is completely to change the cha racter of its writings, to east away the disguise of its female habiliments, and, like another Achilles, to rush to the death-,going arms it has so long neglected.' " War to the knife"—Cellum interneckunz—is declared, and •' woe to the inhabitants of earth !" but double woe to the devoted Whigs I Our particular situation is most lamentable and pitiable : we are geographically placed between the two fires, and let who will survive, we most be sacrificed. Our only chance is that which saved Angiers—that our two enemies, assailing us on opposite sides, east and west, will " shoot in each other's mouth." They did so not very long ago, when the Times assailed the Duchess of Kent with its usual good taste, discretion, and refinement, and when the Post did not scruple t• denounce it as a traitor. They may adopt this course again, and that eley may is most devoutly to be prayed, for we have no other resource. It is our forlorn hope of longer exist ence. To the Pistol of Puddledock we can only use the supplicating remonstrance of that renowned Ancient, " Be merciful, great Duke, to men of mould I" And, wish the Morning Post, we may perhaps see what can be accomplished by the intercession of some of the discarded waiting-women who have advertised in our mutual columns. At all events, it is of some advantage to be made aware of the designs and inten tions of our adversaries, and so far, therefore, our thanks are due to the Morning Post for the fair notice it has given of the merciless course in future to be pursued. Though " forewarned is fore armed," we have sad misgivings that we have trot had the intimation until it is too late to he of asuch service to us. Mr. Bayes, whose Rehearsal we have already quoted, adapted his diet to ' his duties ; if he had to write met ely a sonnet to Artnida, he " made use of stewed prunes only," but if he had a fearful tragedy in hand, lie put,his digestive powers to the severest trial. So with our friend (our friend? our deadly enemy, we should rather say) the Morning Post. He contem plates " the dismal'st tragedy ere yet in act ;" and now following the advice, as in his writings he has long fol lowed the example of Mr. Bayes, he is about to put himself upon a refectory regimen, and with " raw beef-steaks and cayenne pepper" to prepare himself for the completion of the catastrophe. We quote above his very words, and tremble while we quote. Type will not show how our hand shakes while we write, and it would he almost worth while (had we time to get it engraved) to insert a fac-simile to con vince the Morning Post, the Times, and the whole body of " Conservatives" how terror-struck we are by our impenreng fate. As to the " raw beefsteaks and cayenne pepper" with which we are threatened, we refer the reader to the last paragraph of the first leading article in the Morning Post of Saturday. Our Contemporary, of course, looks to change the class of its readers : it must bid " farewell, a long farewell," to mantuamakers and mil liners—to waiting-women and clear-starchers— footmeu and fribbles—for, as it no longer intends to adapt its writings to its reader', it / must necessarily adapt its readers to its writings, or entirely disappear from lation. "My voice is still for war !" exclaims . editor, frightening all his former friends out of their seven senses ; and in order to qualify himself to en gage in it, he commenced on Saturday with the strong, stimulatiug diet of " raw be.af-steaks and cayenne pepper." Of the Times, what shall we say ? Shall we, like Ajax, defy the thunder ? Shall we brave the muddy missiles of Puddledock and all the " blud geons and brickbats" that have been collected in Printing-house-square ? No, indeed ; we are not so fool-hardy. We must look for shelter and retreat from the bursting storm. if the Times be against us, who shall be for us ? Who shall dare gainsay the oracle that speaks in thunder ? Not we, we promise ) ; •ou only we warn our nearer n ei g hbour, the Morn ing Post, to take care that in this new joint enterprise it does not attempt to borrow the thunder of the Times. This drove the prototype of the Times, John DiGois, mad ; the Times will be as furious as he, and when it is furious it is fatal : " Mildness and mercy then are blown to air ; "Nlicsock'a the word, and death to all who dare l" I n tale blindness and wildness of its rage, the Times no discrimination ; friend and foe are the same ts, its anti tine whirlwind that sweeps us from the face o f re e a ated things may involve time Post also in the w i c k cAie of its ruin.—Morning Chronicle. Even if the times we live in were of an ordinary character, and no special peril were impending over time Protestant State and the Protestant Church, still the return of one-third of the whole repcsentation of Ireland—that is, 35 Members out of 105—on the nomination of one man, would be a startling occur rence, particularly to a Reformer who had laboured for and achieved the overthrow of the nomination sys tem under the old Constitution ; but that in a crisis so auementoue as that which we are now approaching, on the eve of a mortal struggle between the Roman Ca tholic Priesthood and the Protestant Church, one - thirrref all the 105 Members elected for Ireland should be perssine returned on the nomination of the Roman Catholic A a - ;tatcr—that four-and-twenty of those no minees should themselves be Roman Catholics, and that this' number of Roman Catholic nominees should equal the maximum of time Ministerial majority upon the entire House of Commons—these are circumstances to make timid men resolute, and brave ones apprehen sir e. The O'Connell force. at this moment, with re ference to time other parties which enter into the com position of the House of Commons, iv precisely in the poeition taken at some borough elections by a small club of freemen, who being just numerous enough to turn the balance either way, demand extravagant terms and get diem. They allow the independent electors on each side to poll out, arid then they stand together, sonic five-anti -thirty men, to decide the return,. and sack the reward. " The last five-tod-thirty men," says - the Afereury or Messenger, a journal cif the town , "notoriously received 50 sovereigns a- head." • Tla-2 O'Connellites are now the last five-and -thirty men, with this only difference, that their price is not paid in sovereigns down, but in the present patronage of the state, and the promised spoliation of the chaich. If the peoyle of Great Britain allow the matter to stand THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1837 just, honest, and liberal in the empire, cannot safely be kept excluded from their rights by the resistance of a faction. He might, perhapS, appropriately re mind her Majesty that the same faction who array themselves in opposition to the claims of the people of ' Ireland, not long since conspired against her own succession, and that whatever be their present profes sions or intentions, the almost inevitable result of their policy would be to expose the empire to dismember ment, and Ireland to, the chances of becoming a se parate kingdom under sonic native or foreign adven turer. King Leopold must be aware, and aecord:ngly may be expected to assure her Majesty of the rooted and growing aversion of all intelligent people to tax. the %%hole of a community for the maintenance of the re ligion of a part ; and, here again, the country of which he is Sovereign will afford him an admirable illustra tion for exposing the absurdity ,of the charges made against the Roman Catholics. He may point to Catholic Belgium choosing a Protestant for its So verei, n, a d n a national provision for the religions ministry of its Protestant citizens, and ask her Majesty what credence can be attached to the as sertions of those who would persuade her that the Calhol cs of Ireland arc incendiaries and rebels, and tliat if they be admitted to equality of rights with their Protestant brethren they will immediately at tempt a Popish ascendancy ? Though her Majesty's o.vn good sense must have already acquainted her with all these circumstances, and the deductions to be made from them, it might not be amiss to cal her attentio to the fact, that a Sovereign of England has and ca have no firmer basis for the throne than the affections of the"people. History, and especially recent history, might be conveniently referred to to show, that tl-,e of the Sovereign, while in unison with that of the people, can accomplish every thing, while in opposi tion nothing. Nor should it be omitted to refer to the danger of choosing councillors whose sentiments are known to be obnoxious to the public ; or, of retaining councillors after having violated or betrayed the trust reposed in them by the Sovereign and the people. The fate of the Polignac Ministry in France, and of the Peel Ministry in this country, may he judic:cusly quoted in elucidation of this topic. Thus, Leopold may furnish some judicious advice for her Majesty's guidance ; but in this we see no ground for Tory ex ultation.—Morning Advertiser. Whoever shall be Ministers during the next session of Parliament, they will have a trust of more then ordi nary importance, even in the affairs of Government, to discharge. Their responsibility will be of the very highest character. They will have to mark out the beginning of the political course which the youthful Sovereign is to take. They will have to - lay founda tions upon which the political prosperity or adversity of this country for a long time to curie will, problbly, be built. It is, therefore, impossil le to cherae'trise in terms too strong for the occasion the vital importance of having Ministers, during the first Parliament of the new reign, in whose sagacity, integrity, good faith, and sound national spirit, the Sovereign may safely rely, and the people may without feverish anxiety con fide. The question which every loyal and considerate sultject of the Queen should ask himself at the pre sent juncture is, whether the existing Administration is a safe Administration for such a period, and, if it be not, what steps should be taken to prevent the opening of the new reign from being tainted by dis• honourable, or overcast by disastrous policy ? It is certinly in no spirit of party that we declare our decided conviction that the existing Administration is eot such a one as loyal and constitutional subjects of the Crown could wish to establish the character and regulate the political tendencies of the new reign. We do not find in the present Government either the prin ciples, the talents, or the steadiness which are neces sary for upholding the national character of Great Britain under ordinary circumstances, and much less can we look upon it as one fitted to guide the vessel of the State at a moment when the utmost skill and the extremest circumspection are demanded. When we are in an established current, and no danger is to be apprehended from impelling storms or opposing breakers, even feeble hands, and hearts of no stouter materials than the world ordinarily affords, may be thought sufficient to secure us from danger; but, in such national circumstances as at present surround us, we cannot and we ought not to be so easily satisfied. Are the present Ministers the ablest and the lionestest men for the direction of pubic affairs whom the Sove reign and the people can find in the two Houses of Parliament ? If they are, then there is no more to be said. There is no use in repining at what we cannot help. But if they are not so, as most assuredly we think they are not, then the public should not stand still, hoping merely that the best men may by good luck fall into the offices of Government; but they should consider the great importance of securing the best possible Government for the young Queen at the opening of her political career, and rouse themselves to the necessary exertion for ac complishing that end. With regard to the principles of government, it is absolutely impossible to say what the present Administration approves, or what it does not. We shall not then contend about matters which are doubtful, and which are perhaps kept in doubt, in rd:r that any objection founded upon that which from t . me to time appears to be the principle of government fray be met by denying that any such principle exists. But this e may maintain, without fear of contradic tioe, that the Administration is not independent—that it is not strong enough to carry on the Government without the assistance of politicians who profess to have different objects in view from those of the Minis ters whom they support—and that there is a continual uncertainty hanging over the affairs of Government, and a continual apprehension existing regarding the permanence of our most vital institutions, which must hinder the nation from taking that lofty position, and the people from having that sense of peace and st curtty, which are essential to the glory and the happiness of the country. To those who are in tl c habit of reading Parliamentary debates, it may seem almost ludiciously superfluous to urge that the present Ministers do not take the lead among public men as men of talent. Nothing is more conspicuous than the humiliating deficiency of eloquence, of knowledge of affairs, of energy, and of manly spirit, which appears on the treasury bench of either House of Parliament, when compared with those on the opposite side. If there be any men of commanding talent on the Ministerial side, they' are not Ministers, but persons of more violent politics, who support the Government on account of the revo lutionary tendency of its measures. It would be the height of folly and injustice to suppose that Great Bri tain does not afford materials for a more respectable and trustworthy Government than the present. It is certainly true, that at the political opening of the new reign, the Queen ought to have the advantage of the ablest assistance and the safest guidance which the country will afford. 'Whoever will put these two pro positions together, may deduce the consequence which we wish at present to press upon the public conside ration—namely, the urgent necessity of adopting. con stitutional. means for fre e i ng her Majesty the Queen from the tncumbrance of the present Administration, and leaving her Majesty at liberty to provide herself ith Ministers of greater ability and more assured in dependence. —Morning Herald. If the Examiner be, as we are ourselves persuaded it is, by far the most metaphorical and facetious of our Whig-Radical or Radical C mtemporaries, the Spec tator is unquestionably the most matter of-fectish and argumentative. One is often amused by the Examiner, and the atnusement is not the less that one involun t trily assumes the existence of an arriere pensee on Cie part of the writer. In the Spectator the quantum of amusement is less, but that of argument is greater, and one is never tempted for a moment to doubt the sincerity of the writer. He is obviously a shameless, fearless, out-and out Radical, who, having drawn the sword, throws away the scabbard ; and without regard for, or reference to, the powers that be, or the sanc tions, religious and political, by which existing institu tions arc worded, advocates and aspires to another syslem of civil existence, in which the institutions and the sanctions would be of a wholly different cha racter, and in which the British Monarchy would be, a second time, temporarily merged in the vortex o o f r' ou to r of aim ephemeral h l i t c e h p t u i b l i e v e S i t a c ti o c:h bi l n ' a o t r i i o e n s s , under the fiefosm liill have r en d ere d puseol political system more popular, and which is, c i deollit pe?earhap sincere on e , col t i he whole, sen,a tives mote an 1 Church of England Christians, we conscientiously disagree with and protest against both. Maugre the perennial pleasantries of the one, which of an argu ment make a joke, and of a joke an argument—in de fiance of the barefaced Republican dialectics of the o.her—we must denounce the temporizing Whiggery of the former not less than the plain-spoken, unblush ing Radicalism of the latter. In reading the Exa miner our political hostility softens into a smile. In perusing the less attractive pages of the Spectator our constitutional placidity of countenance darkens into a frown. Thor.e" emulous fellow labourers in a great bad cause, the subversion of the British Monarchy and the overthrow of the British Church, have experienced a sort of solution of continuity in the moral and mental tie which naturally arose out of the community of their political objects. Whether the source of this fratricidal hostility partake of the nature of mercantile jealousy, or arise from causes of a more recondite nature, we will not undertake to say. But certain it is, that the hebdomadal belligerents, both of whom advocate the great cause, one and indi visible of politico-religious liberalism, appear to regard each other with most intense and edifying aversion. A Liberal, attached to persons whom he considers mos'. likely to forward the purposes of a party, and a Liberal wedded to principles, and comparatively indifferent to the persons by whom they are to be realised, are placed in different circumstances, and regard the same objects under very different aspects. The able and well-con trasted partisans alluded to have accordingly espoused opposite sides in reference to the Ministerial' policy during the last Parliamentary campaign, as well a) , in regard to the inferences to be drawn from the results of late general election. In the conduct of their amicable warfare the Whig-Radical . Examiner seems to us more ingenious and entertaining than his manly Radical opponent ; who, on the other hand, strikes us as a more dauntless and uncompromising champion of certain principles of civil and religious o vermnent, which he believes, or professes to believe, essential to the well-being of the country. The noun substantiveness of the Spectator, his ruthless expo sure of the sordid and selfish policy of the Melbourne Whigs, his reckless disregard of persons, his sturdy adherence to principles, and his consistent scorn of all time-serving shifts and equivocal expedients, have ex posed him to some not very amicable animadversions on the part of some of his political allies, whose more courtly and more calculating system would veil the ignominy of their late defeats, and continue the impo tent agency of the present Ministers. In his number of yesterday our " fine, boldfaced " Contemporary, disdaining concealment or equivocation, and following his facts and his figures to their legitimate conse quences, arrives, by an elaborate process of docu mentary and arithmetical argumentation, at the follow ing most comfortable conclusion : " That nearly half of the population of Great Britain has, within the last two years and a half, abandoned Libe , rat opinions for Toryism." This conclusion ou r C on t em p o rary candidly admits is " arithmetically demonstrated :" but he con soles himself and hi s rea d e rs bv the flattering unc tion that it Is " morally impossible." Now " a moral impossible," as Mrs. Slipslop calls it, is but an indifferent counterpoise to an arithmetical demonstration. Our intrepid and ingenious Contem porary, therefore, attempts to neutralise the appalling inference by establishing a distinction so Jesuitico- Jacobinical as to be perfectly astounding between the population and the constituency of England. The great mass of the people does not elect the Members of the House of Commons, and is there fore not represented by them, or is by them mis represented. This is the sublime of Jacobinism. It is " refreshing" to meet with such an eulogy from such a quarter on the merits of " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." The representative system, the direct result of that Whig-begotten measure which enraptured and in toxicated the illuminated Radicals of England, has already become in their own estimation " little better than a farce." To remedy the evil, to escape the overwhelming alternative, " that the people are going over to the Tories at the .rate of three millions and a quarter per annum," there is but one Radical nos trum ; to reader the population and the constituency oanvertible terms. This and the Ballot might swamp the Tories, subvert the Throne, and overthrow the Church. Few but genuine Radicals, indeed, would fancy such a purchase at such a price. For the pre sent we must rest satisfied with the conviction that the constituency created by the Reform Bill has returned a majority of Tories, and that nearly one-half the population of England has, within the short period which has elapsed since that Bill became law, aban doned the abominations of Liberalisita, and embraced the wholesome faith of old English Toryis r.—Morn ing Post. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Szrr. 2. Our market has been less freely supplied with Cotton this week than previously, and the demand continuing, prices have advanced 4d. per lb. in American descriptions generally. Brazils have been in good demand, and may be quoted 'Ad. higher, except Alaran hams, which merely maintain previous quotations. Egyptian con tinues to participate fully in the demand, and most qualities are 1 40. higher. Sea Islands have also improved, being 1 ,40. per lb. higher. Surat is in good demand at advance. 3,000 Americans and 500 Surat hare been taken on speculation, and 600 American and 350 Surat for export d. d. 260 Sea Islauds l2 to 18 50 Stained ditto 74 —ll 6,850 Uplands si 3,910 Mobile, Sce. 9,600 New Orleans 4 9 1,350 Egyptians 8 —l3 1,170 Pernams, 7 91 610 8 Demerara! 0 to 0 Peruvians 0 0 300 Laguayras si ,3,240 Surats ..... 70 Bengals Cartliagcnaa Manilla 0 0 [,530 Nlaran hams 8 - 9 Sawginncd The sales to-day are 5,000 bag: o the trade. 50 Vest lndia 6l 0 Ylarbadotts 10 Smyrna GI 0 I, at very full rates, and nearly al Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 Forwtrded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 16,600 Decrease of quantity taken for export .. 16,335 Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 26th ult., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year : Into the Kingdom this year. _ American South American Bars. 711,706 86,298 West Indies, Demerara, &c. .. East Indiei • Egypt, &C. ~ 3,878 108,193 21,936 Total of all descriptions Same period last year. Bags. American ... 648,295 South American ... 98,453 West Indies, Demerara, &e. ... 3,865 East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1827. American, 39,725; Brazil, 2,665 ; East India, 47,902 ; West India, —; Othor kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. Sept. 1, 1837 Same time, 1536 ...... 297,500 267,300 John Reeve is now considered by his medical at tendants to be in a perfect state of convalescence, and is at present enjoying the salubrious breezes from the sea, and partaking of the benefits of the saline baths at Hastings. A frightful murder was committed lately in': the de partment of Senlis. The victim was a girl of 18, and the assassin a ruffian named Guiltet, her owe brother. The n ature of the wounds displayed a degree of violence and atrocity almost incredible. The corpse was disfigured. by not less than 24 gashes, in each of which the - murderous knife had been buried to the hilt in the person of the wretched girl. The features, which are described us hav ing been remarkably comely, are said to be scarcely recogni zable, the ruffian having plunged the weapon into her face at the nose with such brutal force that it pierced the palate an d perforated the back of the neck. A mad incestuous passion urged the villain to this hideous crime, which ap pears to have been deliberately perpetrated on the poor g irl's repelling his loathsome advances. He fled to the fields after the murder, but was speedily apprehended. The Paris print La France announces in the most positive terms, that the marriage of Prince Alexander of Wurtemburg with Princess Mary of Orleans is finally de cided upon. Louis Philippe is stated to have secured to his daughter 200,000 francs a-year until his death, when she wijl comp in f?rber share of the immense roTert:( of t h e D Orleans "fattidil as it does now, the last five .and-thirty men, the O'Connell band, " the exclusively Irish majority," as one of their own vaunting journals has described them, are the masters of the House of Commons, and but for the Pters, would be the masters of the country and of the Church. just as practically and ( frectually as the last five-and-thirty men at the borough election are the masters of the return for the tos%n. With no table sophistry it is answered, " that the whole power of the assembly " might equally well be said to be en grossed by the Speaker, because on him devolves to t zive a casting vote." Most truly, if the House were so exactly bal:inced that on almost cvery important di.6ision it devolved on the Speaker to give a casting vote, he might, without impropriety, be described as the person - in whose hands the whole power of the assembly reposed ; and this is precisely the state -of things with respect to the O'Connell party. There arc so many important questions on which the House . is almost equally divided, that the occasions for their casting votes are perpetual. We arc charged with having " forgotten tlsvt Mr. O'Connell's power de pends entirely •on the state of parties ;'' but so far from having forgotten this, we make it the very groundwork of our argument. If parties were not in their present state of near equilibrium, Mr. O'Connell's nomina tion of :35 neembers, though equally unconstitutional in principle, would be of comparatively little danger in practice. It is precisely the present state of parties which creates the danger. But this state of parties, especially upon the greatest questions, those of the Church, has itself been mainly caused by the exis tence of these numerous nominees. The Whigs, pio perly so called, had no natural enmity to the Pro estant establishment ; they even professed some attachment to it : and there is no reason to sup pose that they would have violated those pro fessions, unless for their interest. But from a powerful majority in the Parliament of Lord Grey, they had become in the Parliament of Sir Robert Peel a minority numbering only about 200. Even the aid of the English Radicals, who mustered about 100 more, was insufficient to make them quite a match for the Conservatives ; and the corps of about 40 under the command of Mr. O'Connell was indispensable to their recovery of office. The con dition on which alone that corps could be secured was the overthrow of the Established Church. The English and Scotch Radicals were eager for the object : the Whigs, if they would but commit this trifling act of apostasy, would possess, with the English a n d " Scotch Radicals, a force of at least three hundred members ; and Mr. O'Connell's forty, at last ac ceding, would enable them effectually to outnum ber the Conservatives. This was the principle of the famous treaty or compact alliance concluded at Lichfield-house. The Whigs, to secure Air. O'Connell's forty, declared with the Radicals against the establishment, thus at once making up the anti church party to a nearly equal .balance against the Conservatives ; and then the forty O'Connellites, performing their part of the stipulation, joined the Whig-Radical forces and turned the scale in their favour. We say, therefore, not only that Mr. O'Connell's nomination corps have .by their casting votes decided between the two almost equi pondious parties, who are for, and against the Church, but that the expectation of obtaining the aid of that nomination corps having been the motive which carried the Whigs into the anti-church party, the band of nominees has wrought a double evil—first, in constituting the inducement which brought the num bers to a balance, and, secondly, in turning that ba lance by their casting votes. Under the old Constitu tion the nomination boroughs were very much divided. If the Tory aristocracy possessed part of them, the other part belonged to the aristocracy of the Whigs, so that the whole force of nomination, instead of being - brought to bear against one point, was distributed in a manner which pretty nearly neutralised its ill effects; besides which, no one man possessed the power of no minating to 40, or even a quarter of 40, seats in the of Commons. But now we have a nomination power of almost 40 seats, all wielded by one man— all brought to bear against one point—and .that one point the Protestant Church of the United King dom. The evils of nomination presented them selves, in very strong colours, to the view of the public in 1832—but we are quite sure they never received such an illustration under the old system, as Mr. O'Connell has thrown upon them, in the reformed Parliament. The Conservatives are charged with no little incongruity in the different views which they take of the O'Connell party at different times. If this Irish cohort is described one day as riding the Government, and another day as overcomplacent to the Ministers, both accusations, it is argued, cannot be true. Why not ? There is no inconsistency in them. The Irish cobort, for the purposes of their own confederacy—for the real monopoly of patronage, and the ostensible advancement of the objects by which Irish excitement is kept alive—do notoriously ride the Government, and ride them hard. But when the Government is pressed from any other quarter, whether by Conservatives or Radicals—when circumstances arise that threaten to curtail the career of their pro viders—then, like a witch's familiars, they lend them selves for any service of the moment, and act as menials where in truth they are masters. Both impu tations, therefore, are true ; and their truth is the Nation's mischief and the Government's dishonour. — circu- Times. It is supposed by that august authority the Times, that the visit of his Majesty of Belgium has no refe rence to any proposals nor negotiations affecting the personal happiness of our young and interesting Queen, and that his Majesty will see the propriety of withholding his interference, as well in regard to spe cific questions of policy as in reference to the persons who ought or ought not to he entrusted with the go vernment of the country. Admitting these supposi tions to be correct, and also, as is stated by the same veracious oracle, that the presence of King Leopold is likely to prove of essential service both to the Queen and the country, and that he will direct her Majesty's attention to the state of public feeling throughout her dominions, and suggest important lessons for her quid mice, we should be disposed to augur favourably of the visit, notwithstanding the experience which teaches us to apprehend evil whenever and wherever the Tories express satisfaction or apply approbation. It is rather singular that the Tories should evince so much gratification at the Queen of England receiving counsel from one who is King by the grace of a revo lution, and on whose mind the circumstances of his own elevation must have indelibly impressed the im portant fact, that the will of an enlightened people must ever prove paramount to all other authority. Why the Tories, - who are madly contending against this authority, should recommend the Monarch of its creation as the adviser of her Majesty, we are at a loss to conjecture. They cannot surely be so insensate as to suppose that because Leopold is the son-in-law of Louis Philippe, he must necessarily have adopted the anti-popular principles of this ingrate parricide, the assassin of the Liberty which adopted him as his fos ter-child. Or if so, can they imagine that a man with the cool discernment and calculating judgment of the King of Belgium would recommend in Great Bri tain and Ireland tire adoption of a policy similar to that which dismembered the empire of his predecessor, whom an oppressed and insulted people b an i s h e d f rom the throne which he now occupies, or that h a wou ld sugegest such an invasion of pop ular ri ghts , and be trayal - of public confidence as made France doubt whether the a ssassination of her King were a crime or the contrary is That the Tories are perfectly ready to hazard stu:lt dangerous experiments as these rather than acquiesce in the just claims of the people, the tyrannical and truculent tenour of their ianguage in Parliament, in the press, an d at their publiemeetings, can leave no doubt : but we are much deceived if the advice which her Majesty rnay reeaive from her Royal relative will not be oft far different character, and such as will furnish the Tories but a meagre subject for congra tulation. Had the King of Belgium even less shrewdness and judgment than the Time; gives him credit fur, he could not fail to peer-sive that the present is not a time to trifle with the feelings of &b 13ritish people. He must see, and seeing will scarcely fail to urge most ear newly Gcl her Majesty's consideration, thitt Ireiande-, seve . in its presa,a popular Admi n i s t ra tion—presents a strilang parallel to fiei g hiui es eviou 4 sly to its separa tion from Holland ; and that seven millions a people, having in their favour the sympathies of all that is NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoaTsmouTit, SEPT. I.—Her Majesty's ship Caledonia, haring bean released from quarantine, sailed on Sunday morning for Plymouth, to he paid off. 'LT Majesty's ship Hercules, Capt. T. Yell()las, sailed on Monday morning, to join the Pembroke, at Plymouth. Her 'Majesty's ship President, eif 52 guns, was commts• I sinned on Thursday by Capt. James Scott, for the flag of Roar-Admiral C. 11. Ross, for the South American station. The MeF.senger steam-vessel sailed this morning for Ply mouth with supernumeraries. The Isabella Spanish steam-vessel sailed on Monday for the River. Her Majesty's ship Pearl went out of harbour this morn ing. She will shortly proceed to the West Indies. Her Mnjosty's ship Melville was commissioned this morn ing by Capt. the Hon. It. S. Dundas, for the flag of Rear- Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, for the Cape of Good Hope station. Her Majesty's ship Wellesley is expected in here hourly from Plymouth, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. j L. Maitland. The Rhadamanthus is expected here from Woolwich, on her way to the Mediterranean, to relieve the Medea. Lieut. T. P. Rocpel is appointed to command the Don Juan steam•packet to Lisbon and Gibraltar. The ships fitting at this pOrt proceed but slowly, on ac count of the few seamen there are to be had. Ships in Harbour.—Britannia, Excellent, Edinburgh, Melville, President, Pique, Alligator, and Hyacinth. At Spithead—Pearl. _ (From the Hampshire Tele . ;raph.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—The Pique, 36, Capt. Boxer, will go out of harbour on Monday, and sail in the course of the week for the Mediterranean. The Wanderer, 16, Commander Bushby, left Jamaica for Chagres on the 3d of July ; the Satellite, 16, Com mander Robb, arrived at Jamaica from Vera Cruz July Ist ; the Aladaeasear, 42, Commodore Sir John Peyton, was at anchor off Vera Cruz on the 4th of June ; the Bs:1- videra, 42, Captain Strong, will return from Barbadoes to England by the circuitous route of visiting Vera Cruz and the Spanish Main for treasure ; the Pickle schooner and AlJan steamer wt re at Port Royal June the 26th, on which day the Comus, 16, Hon. Commander Carey, left that an chorage for Carthagena ; the Conway, 28, Captain Drink water, arrived at Madras April time 21st ; the Raleigh, 16, Commander Quin, was at Manilla, April the 12th. The Blonde, 46, Commodore Mason, and Actmon, 26, Capt. Lord E. Russell, were at Callao on the 6th May ; the Rover, 16, Commander Eden, had shipped two millions of dollars at San Blas, and expected to be at Valparaiso on the 20th of that month, when she would tranship them to the Blonde, which ship by that time expected to be relieved by the Stag frigate, Commodore Sullivan. The Goshawk, a merchant brig, left Callao on the 16th May, with 300,000 dollars on board, for Liverpool. The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant Roche, and Cracker, tender, sailed yesterday to Jersey, to protect the oyster fishery ; the Messenger steam-vessel proceeded the same day for Plymouth. The Alligator, 28, was taken out of the basin on Thurs day ; the Thunder and Wasp were taken out of dock into the basin ; the Nelson, 120, and Arab transport, were taken into dock. The Arachne, Samuel Munden master, arrived yester day, and the Friendship, William Bailey master, from Galipoli, to-day, at the Motherbank, laden with oil, bound to Cronstadt and St. Petersburgh. They have been ad mitted to pratique, and will sail as supplied with some sails and provisions. The Duke of Argyll, Briton, for Madras, and Duke of Buceletsch; Martin, for Bengal, sailed this morning ; the Lady Flora, for Madras, and Triumph, for Bombay, are hourly expected here from the River to embark passengers. The Sampson, New York packet, from London, hove to off St. Helen's, this evening ; her passengers went out to bar in Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon's vessel, and she proceeded .on without anchoring. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. - Mr. W. P. Cro zier, Mate, of the Royal George, Mr. C. R. Bamber, late of the Edinburgh, and Mr. Rowley (son of Sir Charles Rowley) are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant ; the lat ter gentleman has not yet passed his mathematical exami nation to qualify him for the rank ; Commander Walter Croker, Mr. Henry Williams, Surgeon, and Mr. Edward Davies, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Favourite ; Lieut. R. F. King to the Minden ; Lieut. Lord Henry Russell, Messrs. A. Cumming, H. Winthrop, J. B. Dickson, C. H. Hallett, Edward M. Mathews, Henry Bainbridge, William Moor som (from Excellent), and Charles J. Hoffmeister, Mates, Lord Wm. Compton and the Hon. Frederick Kerr, Mid shipmen, and Mr. A. W. Lane, Naval Instructor, to the Melville ; J. A. Smith, Esq., late Secretary to Sir P. Hal. kett, to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral Hon. George El liot ; Commander Thomas Ogle, Lieutenants Joseph Gill, Henry Lawrence, H. J. W. S. P. Galway. and William Barrie, Mr. William Guthrie, Surgeon, Messrs. George Sloan and George Ball, Assistant-Surgeons, Mr. Robert Beecraft, Acting Master and Pilot, and Mr. Wm. Hervey, Second Master and Pilot, to the President ; Lieutenant Charles de Courcy Ross, to be Flag Lieutenant to Rear- Admiral Ross; Lieut. Hon. F. Hit:tings, to the Hercules ; Mr. B. Drury, Mate, to the Alligator, Mr. F. H. Stevens, Mate to the Hyacinth ; Mr. Aurelius Paget, Midshipman, from the Pique to the Pearl ; Lieut. H. M. Ellicomba to the Pique, vice Lieutenant E. Ommanney, appointed Flag Lieutenant to Sir John Ommanney ; Mr. Vm. Fisher, Midshipman, from the Pearl to the Pique ; Mr. Robert Hall, Midshipman, from the Donegal to the Castor ; Lieut. Decourdeaux, to a steam-packet to be employed between Falmouth and Gibraltar ; Mr. John Gordon, Assistant-Sur geon to the Lapwing packet ; Mr. H. G. R. Page, Assis tant-Surgeon, to the Donegal ; Mr. James Allan, Addi tional Assistant-Surgeon, to the Britannia. Friday morning, a ruffianly athletic looking fel low, attired as a countryman, was proceeding through Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, in a state of intoxication, when several boys followed and hooted after him. The fellow, in a fit of excitement, turned round and pursued some of them, and at length he seized on a poor little boy, about seven years of age, and lifting him up over his head with all his strength, dashed him on the ground, which rendered him insensible, and he bled profusely. The passengers who witnessed the brutal transaction with indignation cried out Shame ! horrid !" and remonstrated with the ruffian, who threatened to serve them in the same manner, which he would have done had they not kept at a distance. Some humane persons, however, followed and watched him until they met with a policeman, to whom they gave him into cuitody, when he was taken to the station-house, and ultimately before a Magistrate. He gave his name Edward Sheppard. The boy was carried to a surgeon's, and is in a weakly condiL tion. The prisoner was ordered to find good bail, and the parties who gave him into custody were highly complimented for their interference in brin;ing the wretch to justice. FRENCH CARD.—" To the Great Restorator Re establisher, Before the Mint House.—There is Every Thing To eat, and To be had it ready at any Thime in .The day, With neatness, and delicacy. Parlours, and several rooms, size disposed, for a Large, and Private societys, nothing will be neglected for the best attendance.—N.B. Some furnish rooms for tte foreigners and a Proper place, for their horses they are prepared accordingly." During Saturday Smithfield-market and its neigh bourhood were rife with bustling intimations of the cele brated Bartholomew Fair, which was opened this day. Show.aen's booths have been erected bedizzened with the gaudiest decorations, and bearing the most attractive titles, while in the windows of several houses placards are exhibited, each of them presenting the seductive announce ment, " A ball will be held here during the continuance of the • fair—admission 6d. a head." What an irresistible temptation—pleasure and economy combined. During the present year, to the 14th Qf August inclusive, 700 vessels have entered the harbour of Cron stadt, and 490 have sailed thence. 'Fill the 30th of July inclusive 465 vessels had entered the harbour of Odessa, and 400 had sailed thence.—Journal de St. Petersburg. " I wonder what these ghosts of mail-coaches carry in their bags," said the landlord, who had listened to the whole story with profound attention. " The dead letters, of course," said the bagman. " Oh, ah—to be sure" re joined the landlord ;" I never thought of that."—P; sthu 711011S Papers of Me Pickwick Club. The Provisional Committee appointed to distribute the money raised by public benevolence among the die tressed class of the Spitalfields Weavers, have closed their accounts ; from which we learn, that the bull given at the Opera-house on the Ist of Juue produced 3001., and the cash received by general s ubscription 2,7051. 6s. ; the total amount being 3,005/. Gs. The whole sure has been ex pended with the exception of a balance of 9/. 9s. Od., which remains at present in the hands of tha Committee, The forty-fiist, anniversary of the Royal Sea-bathing Infirmary, Westbrook, near Margate, was held at Margate, on Muuday. The annual sermons in its behalf were de livered on the preceding day in the principal churches an d chapels in the isle of Thanet, when liberal collections were made in aid of its funds. On the 28th the annual visita tion of the infirmary took place by the committee, medical boards of London and Marvte, and a numerous body l governo rs, subscribers, and visitors of the i s l e of Thanet o , the Ri g ht lion, the Lord N , lycir in the chair, w h o r c ome fi ant London eX111"0lyfoorie order,impos siblethepurposcole.anilitneisss:an.: to speelc too higely of economy which pervade eve.? part of this noble establish ment, and the admirable adaptation of the whole to the various classes of patients of i e: l 'e .l ry age who ;Are admitted within its hospitable walls. en tertainment w u as uiven eyening a splendid d e n e y of the Lord Mayor { to a a1. , : 1 . r v 0 11- ri l u l o i l l etro ti u n s de b r o l y l D o p f g r e e s n i tielPol th4R 10911 assembled on this ocOasiou• NE `y PATENTS. To WLliam Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwen, in the county of Middleiex, manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in printing paper-hangings ; sealed July 29-- six months for inrolment. To James Matley, of the city of Paris, in the kingdom of France, and of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for his invention of a machiac called a tiering machine, upon a nes principle, for supplyieg colours to, and be used by, block printers, in the printing of cotton, linen, and woollen clothes, silks, paper, and other substances a nd articles to which block-printing is or may be applied, with out the aid or assistance of a person to tier upo❑ ; sealed Aug. 2—two months for inrolment. To Archibald Richard Francis Rosser, of New Boswell court, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for an invention of improvements in preparing manure, and in the cultivation of land, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Aug. 2—six months for inrolment. To Alexander Mactr.van, grocer and tea-merchant, in Glasgow, for his invention of a process for the improvement of teas as ordinarily imported . ; sealed Aug. S.—six months for inrolment. To Richard Thomas Beck, of the parish of Little Ston ham, in the county of Suffolk, gentleman, for a new or im proved apparatus or machanisin for obtaining power and motion, to be used as a mechanical agent generally, which he intended to denominate race vivre, being a communica tion from a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Aug. 9—six months for inrolment. To William Gossage, of Stoke Prior, in the county of Worcester, manufacturing chemist, for his invention of cer tain improvements in the processes or operations connected with the manufacture of alkali from common salt, and with the use of the products obtained therefrom ; scaled Aug. 17—six months for inrolment. To William Gillman, of Bethnal-green, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for his invention of an improvement or improvements in steam-boilers and in engines, to be ac tuated by steanr or other power ; sealed Aug. 17—six months for inrolment. In pursuance of the report of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council, to Henry Shuttleworth, of Market Harborough, in the county of Leicester, gentleman, and Daniel Foot Taylor, of the Priory, in the parish of Woodebester, in the county of Gloucester, pin manufac- • turer, of certain combinations of, and improvements in, ma chinery for making pins, being an extension of an invention for the term of five years from the 15th of May 1838, the expiration of the former Letters Patent, granted for the term of fourteen years to Lemuel Wellman Wright ; sealed Aug. 21. To John George Hartley, of Beaumont-row, Mile-end road, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for his invention of an improved application of levers for the purpose of mul tiplying power ; sealed Aug. 22.—six months for inrolment. To Thomas Du Bonlay, of Sandgate, in the county of Kent, Esq., and John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Lewis ham, in the same county, Esq., for their invention of im provements in drying and screening malt ; sealed Aug. 24-- six months for inrolment. To James Crellin, of' Liverpool, in the county of Lancas ter, and James Holt, of the same place, plumbers, for their invention of certain improvements in watercloseti ; sealed Aug. 24—six months for inrolment. To Robert Brown, of Water-side, Maidstone, in the county of Kent, engineer and iron -founder, .for his inven tion of certain improvements in the construction of Cockle's stoves, or apparatus for drying or stowing hops, malt, grain, or seeds ; sealed Aug. 24—six months for inrolment. To William Hearn, of Southampton-street, Pentonville , in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, and county of Middlesex, engineer, and William Dasies, of Upper North place, Gray's Inn-road, in the parish of St. Pancras, and county of Middlesex, plumber, for their invention of a cer tain improvement or certain improvements in the construc tion of boilers for the generation of steam and heating water or other fluids ; sealed Aug. 24—six months for inrolmeot. To William Southwell, of Winchester-row, New-road, in the county of Middlesex, pianoforte-maker, for his inven tion of a certain improvement in pianofortes ; sealed Aug• 24—six months for inrohnont. " KINDNESS IN WOMEN," BY T. HAYNE3 BAYLY, ESQ.—Mr. Bayly's name, winged by some hun dred of the most popular songs of our time, has flown far and wide ; he now comes before us in the character of a novelist. In " Kate Leslie," he devotes himself to senti ments and affection, and relates the history of one of those successors to the patient Grisel, whose lot it is . to have their happiness blighted by selfish and exacting husbandi• Kate is a sweet, gracious creature ; and we have a kind ness for Ibhotson, the usher in her father's school, and whom she ought to have married ; but Mrs. Podd is stir favourite, and is one of those characters that gives relief and interest to every novel . In " David Dumps" Mr. Haynes Bayt3., illustrates with unchecked huut o u, e vi career of a doleful man, born to ill-luck—whose love 'of course, goes wrong—whose friends suspect him ; one whom knaves cheat and strangers laugh at, until he is com fortably married to a sensible young gentlewoman, w ho ii as mirthful as he is melancholy, and rules him for 11 16 good. These volumes are sure to become a favourite. --- .4thenccum. A young Englishman was lately found drowned In a reservoir near a chalet on Mount Tendre, one of the points of the Jura. His knapsack was laid'in the chalet. and be had probably gone to the reservoir to draw salt water and had fallen in. His watch, money, papers, and other effects were sent to the British Ambassador at Berne- It has since been ascertained that hi s name was Henry' Herbert, a medical student of London, aged 25. " 151 , 1CL8 HORACB."—Mrs. Hall, in her pew novel entitled " Uncle Horace," has hit on a mutt bop/ expedient for ensuring that popularity for her Mork which an appeal to the self-love of her readers . So claims. A British merchant, in the best sense of that Cour prehensive phrase, is one of the highest and noblest g rades of modern character, :nd in " Uncle Horace" we sra presented with the very best ideal of that character which has hitherto been given to the world. His unbounded ire' nerosity linked with the severest caution—the bitter vets of satire that blends with his hearty good nature—th b acute penetration and quick perception which nevartlieles, cannot overcome the natural and almost necessary, Prer d dices of his birth and bringing up ; these, and many otb" equally marking traits, give to " Uncle Horace" a..,fliiror chance of passing down to posterity, and taking 'his rank amon g the Squire Westerns, Parso n Ad anases , &c., of ou r English Gallery of Literary Portraits than almost any othet character that we could name in -Our current literature of this class. On Saturday, the 19th ult. (says a corresponden t )* a gentleman from Yorkskire being. struck with the irnme tilus number of vehicles which 119,saW pass down King W r illi ar . street, London-bridge, determined to count their numlier for one whole day. By the kindness of Mr. Robert 'Al' s ' the proprietor of the white almond soap, he was accomm.o" dated with a room over the manufactory, at 51, 1(11 , 1 i William-street, and from ei g ht o ' c l oc k i n t h e morn ing "," eight o'clock in the ev e ni ng h e care f u ll y counte d t h e cies passing to and fro, and found that during that one day, or Pfliours, there passed the extraordinary number 11,000 carriages. It is believed that there is no street ill the city, or in any part of the metropolis, or perhaps in arif city in the world, where so many carriages may be seen to pass in one day. The principal part of the cargo of the Trusk'y,which arrived ve ye ti to o n Lon Limerick do n. frlotm consisted China only about one-sixth of which have found a ssaoiulottris. were eey mostlyae I t i vr ab a i n t k ed ay i s n , k s h il " , °-n a s 'cl a w nd ertr m n S u r;ing T on h d e squandering their money thr ou g h the streets, i n a state of intoxication. - - - - - T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Sze., 47, CornhIll: London, informs the Public, that he offers DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES and FORKS, with plain ivory handles, silver. ferrules. plated on steel blades, at Three Guineas per dozen pair, or with solid silver blades, at Eight Guineas and a Half per dozen pair. N. B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra per dozen Pair._ BIRTHS. t P-' - Lode' Peckham, Mrs. S. Steinnout On the 30th ult., a nory ge, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Dinham Lodge, Ludlow, the lady of the Rcr' Robert Aleyricke, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Tooting-common, the lady of R. H. Lloyd, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 31st ult., at Sunning-hill, B er k s hi re, H enr y Hugh P razt h .r .: Esq., of Flamstead Bury, Hertfordshire, to Catherine, eldest daug ter of the late W. Dawson, Esq., of Turnham-green. c ioft, yßaluOrtar.le,tril ta t o e wj : y 3 on l i s , itaAtiriba t il l ea t r ., o a nr t ea T t,h us widownb rof A t ri . dge Wells a c l t S r Aoccbt, E sti. Archer Denn: o a „in On the 31st ult., at St. Mildred's, Poultry, Fitzmaurice , t i h do ir i a t , son of Dr. West, M.D., of Newbury, Berks, to Catherine, ei daughter of the lat e M r . Dulin, of the Poultry. 11. On the 31st ult., at Blendworth Church, the Rev. ' o f the Clinton Chester, eldest son of the late General Chester, tho Coldstream G uar d t, an d R ector o f El s ted, Sussex, to D ori, daughter of the 1 4 te Rear-Admiral Sir Michael S e y mour, and K.C.13. . ber t On the 30th ult., in Wyndham-p DIED lace, Brvanston-square, , Sir Grahaert; Esq., of the Admiralty, Somerset-place , eldost'iou Ro °' R. Gram2Bth , Bault. rt., aged 24. gliter On the ha , at Kilmarnock, Janet, eldest (twin) oul of James Finale, Esq., of Tulse-hill, London , aged ei g ht yesr9 three mouths. path. On the 28th ult., at an advanced age, in Brook-street, , o f Mrs. Amelia Rogers, only daughter of the late Rev. 13. Rains On comb, Wilts. the 31st Ult., at Chelsea. Mr. Ceo. Hardcss, aged 71. 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