The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The elections are now over. If any doubt existed as to the extent of the reaction in favnur of ennstittitional principles, that doubt has I.).rt cletlnitely set at, The voice of the people of England has conaemneti the Melbourne Administration by returnittg a majority of representatives to tiett it from her Maj'esty"s councils. The King of lielgiinin is neither so ill informea .about the affairS of this kingdom as to be ignorant . of the fact in question, nor so indifferent to his niece's popularity as to decline ing the caution t© het Malesty which the . fact obviously enforces ; -a.ua by delaying to come here till the public imtd Was duly ascertained by the returns,' King Leopold has both put himself into a fitting condition for advilitnr his Royal niece to advantage, and for tuning with especial force the propriety of withholding any deciaive or premature exercise of her Majesty's confidence and prerogative. The gratifying reception which Leopold met with on his arrival at Ramsgate, taken in connexion with some of its ae cchpanying circumstances, will also suggest im portant lessons for his Majesty's guidance. The pier and the adjoining streets of that watering place, which at present is crowded with visitors conveying an average specimen of national f e eling, were thronged r with an immense multitude of spectators. During his Majesty's short progress from the steamer to the Albion Hotel, he received many tokens of a respect ful and highly decorous welcome. We do not mean Lord Palmerston's address has expcsed him to a copious discharge of filth f ro m Puddledock. The American journalists were at one time considered unri: valled in their command of the vocabulary of scurrility, but we are much mistaken if our transatlantic Con temporaries do not themselves admit that the Times has for some time outstripped them in what used to be their distinguishing characteristic. There is an inexhaustible supply of filth in Puddledock ; and our Contemporary certainly throws it about with a lusty arm. Before the Times went over to the Tories it now and tit:en exhibited its familiarity with the vulgar tongue ; but it now seems to use no other. Burke said that Kings were fond of low company. Is the increased partiality of the Times for slang and ribaldry to be attributed to the taste of its Tory masters for all that is low and degrading ? What must enlightened foreigners think of the Tory Aristocracy of England when they thus perceive that they derive satisfaction from what must fill every well-constituted mind with loathing and disgust ? " What a condition of State affairF, (says the Times) that in which the opinions of ' such a Cabinet Minister as Cupid are worth the fools cap which his protocols convert into waste paper One would suppose that, even by way of relief to its readers, the Times would at length abandon in discussion the use of a nickname, barely allowable in a squib, till it becomes hackneyed. If the English be " a thinking people," as it is said they are, they cannot surely derive any satisfaction from the substi tut:on of Billingsgate for decorous discussion. Lord Palmerston, we are next told, is " the thorough-going hack of every Tory Adminimation for the last thirty years." In this style does the Times proceed for several paragraphs, bespattering his Lordship with its filth. As a matter of taste Lord Palmerston can only be disgusted with the blackguardism ; but in other respects it must be satisfactory to him to know that nothing better than abuse can be levelled at him. " A reformed Tory," says the Times of yesterday, "makes the best Whig-Radical ;" and we do not doubt to see many such " reformed Tories" before the next Parliament shall have sat to the end of its first session. We almost expect even to witness, before that date, not the conversion, but the re-conversion of the Times to the notions it entertained and promul gated two or three years. It is an excellent judge of the violence with which the professors of ex treme opinions can rush in an opposite direc tion. Experto crede : it has so recently tried its hand in this way that it would be folly to deny its authority ; it has seen that a Ra dical newspaper in 1834 makes a most un scrupulous Tory journal in 1837 ; and ? converso it concludes, by the safest logical deduction, that " a re formed Tory makes the best Whig-Radical." When the Tories reform, as they will do one of these fine days, we shall have an opportunity of knowing what excellent thorough-going Radicals they will become ; and in the mean time we are willing to take the word of the Times upon that subject. This is saying a good deal. As to the argument in the article in the Times, it may soon be disposed of. Lord Palmerston inferred, as he was justly entitled to do, from the de cisive support given to Ministers in Ireland, that the Irish had thereby demonstrated their opinion of the relative merits of the two opposite .systems of govern ment upon which opposing candidates had taken their stand. The Times, on the supposition that his Lordship alludes to the Irish Church and Corporation questions, argues that the Government will not have a decided majority " unless the Reformers unite with the Destructives." This is begging the question. Mi nisters will propose the measures they deem best cal culated to promote the welfare of Ireland ; and we have no doubt they will find a decided majority in the 1-louse of Commons disposed to second them in their liberal and enlightened endeavours. Whether the Duke of Wellington will have sufficient influence with the extravagant ultra Peers in the Lords to bring them to something like reason remains to be seen.—Morning Chronicle. to say that the total absence of anything like popular enthusiasm on the occasion was at all intended as any disparagement to the Royal cortege ; on the contrary, we believe that every other public feeling was Absorbed in that of a quiet, scrutinizing, and complimentary curiosity. But the moment that his Grace the Duke of Wellington was ascertained to he present, as Llbrd Warden of the Cinque Ports, the decorum of the well-dressed multitude gave place to the deafening shouts of exultation. Never was that illustrious Con - servative more enthusiastically hailed. It was a noble and spontaneous tribute. The air literally rung with acclamations ; and though nothing could exceed the delicacy wherewith his Grace hastily withdrew himself ' in order to leave the King and Queen of Belgium in sole and undivided possession of the admiration of the public, enough was seen and heard to convince his Majesty that a high Conservative sentiment is at this moment proudly buoyant in all quarters of the king dom. The signs of the times are manifest on every side ; and King Leopold, if we mistake not, is no bad judge of them.—Times. If each of the parties in the union now so happily and auspiciously established between the Sovereign, the Ministry, and the people of these realms, duly and faithfully discharge the several obligations involved in the compact, a brighter future never cheered the hearts of a people than that which, notwithstanding the par tial reverses sustained in the recent elections, now opens to the British nation, and awakens new hope in the bosom of the patriot. That these obligations will on all sides be inviolately observed, we have the strongest reasons to entertain the most implicit con fidence. The naturally elevated and liberal disposi tion of her Majesty; the high moral guidance which has directed her education, the truth and candour characteristic of well-disciplined youth, and that here ditary firmness of mind, not to be diverted from the pursuit of that which is right or believed to be right, eminently developed in her character, render it not less absurd than it would be criminal to entertain a doubt of the Sovereign's steadfast adherence to the principles to which she has so graciously and glo riously pledged herself. Of Ministers' fealty, the best guarantee is to be found in the history of the two last Sessions, the well-known and well- tried sincerity of the noble Premier, and his reite rated refusal to return to the House of Commons measures which the mutilations of the Lords had de prived of all capacity to give satisfaction to the coun try. These are most gratifying and conclusive pledges to the people of the good faith of those high contract ing powers which are now associated with them in the struggle for their liberties. It then only remains for the people to be true to themselves to secure a com plete triumph orer their enemies. It will not be suffi cient for the people merely to approve the Liberal po licy of Ministers, but they must make an effort to carry that policy into practical effect. The Queen, the Ministers, and the majority of the House of Com mons, are powerful auxiliaries to the cause of Reform, but without the active co-operation of the people, even these potent influences must prove insufficient to the accomplishment of any extensive or satisfactory good. The people, without such allies, nay, even when they were arrayed against them, as in the cases of Catholic In the present state of political parties in this coun try, a visit from the King of Belgium to the Court of St. James's is a matter of no inconsiderable moment. To suspect that the Royal guest can be actuated by any sinister designs were neither courteous nor cha ritable ; and therefore, without presuming that the critical position of British affairs will fail to command a more than ordinary exercise of his Majesty's ha bitual tact and discretion, we are free to confess that this visit of the Belgic Sovereign is, under all the circumstances of the case, both natural and seasonable ; nor can we forego the hope that by a sagacious and cir cumspect use of its accompanying facilities its results may be highly conducive to the prosperity of these realms. To the peculiar situation of our youthful Queen his Majesty of Belgium is no stranger; and as the first movements of our Sovereign Lady's rule will unquestionably go far to determine the character and popularity of her entire reign, it is idle to suppose that the universal interest attaching to her Majesty's infant councils will not be participated in by her Royal uncle, or that he will wholly abstain from giv ing his illustrious niece the benefit of his experience. In ordinary cases, any attentions of this sort on the part of a foreign potentate would be viewed with extreme jealousy by the British nat;on : nor are we sure that even on the present occasion such a feeling will be entirely or generally renounced. But certainly the case of Queen Victoria is by no means an ordi nary one. At the early age of eighteen, when the mind is easily imposed on by the agencies and in fluences that more immediately surround it, her Ma jesty is suddenly summoned to the sovereignty of a mighty people, among whom various antagonist prin ciples-are in active operation, the force of impulse being often opposed to the force of reason, and the ancient bulwarks of the monarchy exposed to democratic as sault. Between two political parties, whose respec tive objects are to encourage and to repress the uncon trolled license of popular caprice; the people (not of Great Britain, but of the United Kingdoms) are nearly equally divided. The Ministers, whom the merest ac eident had left in possession of power at the close of the preceding reign, have been forced upon her Ma jesty ex necessitate. A general election just closed has established beyond all cavil or doubt that the vast majority of our Protestant fellow-subjects are utterly opposed to the existing Administration on important points of policy. Emphatically and unequivocally condemned by the counties and boroushs of Great Britain, their only dependence for support is on the Popish and anti-British section of the empire. Mean whilc.the Queen is surrounded. 'and besieged by poli tical parti;ans, whose ellef business it is to conceal from her Majesty the. Teal sate of public opinion among the more wr.:Alfity and intellicTent classes of her subjects ; and as she is precluded by Court etiquette from receivieig any other counsel than the accidents . of office hat e forced upon her, we can scarcely conceive a eau; wherein the cautions of an experienced relative can be more allowably tendered, or, if given in an honest spirit, may he more usefully exercised. Now, l a the diffi cu lt an d cr i t i ca l pos i t i on o f our yout hf u l 113veeei„en, nothine can be more natural thao that she should hold an occasional conference on the present state of affairs with her Royal uncle ; nor, provided King Leopold subject himself to the prudent restraints and abstinence which his own delicacy will commend to him, could there he a shrewder or safer adviser for the immediate emergencies of the moment. Of ()outse t ell uegociations and proposals touching her Majesty's personal happiness are at present entirety out of our view. We take it for aranted that the Royal visitant will have more judgment and considera tion than to meddle with any such matter. Nay, we assume that he will even see the propriety of with holdiag his interference as well in regard to specific tluestions of policy, as with reference to the persons who ought or ought not to conduct the Government of this empire. These are points which, without mean in; the slightest disrespect, we must plainly say his Majesty has nothing to do with. In the present nicely-balanced state of parties, if Leopold possess the wisdom and discreetness we give him credit for, lie will confine his suggestions to the one simple and ex clusive purpose, of cautioning his Royal niece against committing herself on one side or another : and if he do this, and nothing more, he will render essential ser vice both to the Queen and to the country. The time chosen by his Majesty for visiting his lovely and inte resting relative appears to us to be singularly judicious. Emancipation and of the Reform Act—for there can be no doubt that in high plades a majority of the sup porters of those measures acted from compulsion—the people, with such forces to contend against, were able to wrest the victory from their oppressors. Of their success, now, when these powers are faithfully en listed on their side, what doubt can be reasonably en tertained ? But there must be no supineness nor apathy, nqr Inuit confidence in the Government be allowed to supersede that vigilance and acti vity on the part of the people, without which it is utterly futile to expect that any sensible progress can ever be effected in the good work of Reform. Not withstanding all the vapourings of the Tories, and their much vaunted minority in the House of Com mons, we can scarcely believe that if office were offered to the:n to-morrow, they would be so rash as to ac• cept it. What purpose would it serve ? They know from experience, the best of all monitors, that they could not hold office for a week in defiance of the na- tional sentiment, and_that their accession would serve only to aggravate the abhorrence already entertained towards them, and rouse the public mind to a general manifestation for their expulsion. Another Tory usur pation would be the most injurious occurrence to the policy of the faction that could possibly befal it. It would, by the indignant excitement it would neces sarily produce, provoke the people to insist upon more extensive Reforms than those in which the present Government is . If the Tories have not lost all sense and discretion, they _must perceiVe that the more quietly they keep themselves the better for their cause. The demands of Reform will increase in pro pertiou to the inveteracy of the opposition--and if legislation be marred by obstruction a relief will be sought in organic change.—Morning Advertiser. Let those who have a turn for straw-splitting discus sion dispute about the precise number of persons whom O'Connell returns to the Imperial Parliament. To us all such discussion appears idle and superfluous, when it is as notorious as the sun at noon-day that this wholesale horoughmonger returns the great majo rity of the Irish Members, either by direct interference of by means of the system of priestly coercion and popular intimidation which he has established. Some years ago, when he was less practised in this line than he is at presnt, and his machinery less perfect, he counted at least 38 of his nominees in Parliament, who dared no more vote against him than any nominee of of a borough proprietor under the old boroughmonger ing system dared vote against his patron. On the question of the Repeal of the Union the votes of the Irish repcalers, including that of Daniel himself, were 39. That " glorious minority," as our readers may recollect, was " swelled" to 40 by the vote of a soli tary English Member—Mr. Kennedy, to whose disin terested patriotism, anti a lively expectation (since realised) of a Colonial appointment, Lord Pal merston, upon being deservedly ejected from South Hampshire, owes his seat for Tiverton ! So much for the working of the Reform Act in both countries ! At the time when the repeal of the union was moved by Mr. O'Connell, he was in oppo sition to the Whig Ministers. All the Conservative Members for Ireland supported the Whig Government against the dismemberer of the empire. We need not add that all the Liberals who were not O'Connellites did the same, and yet he was able to muster 39 Irish votes, including his own, against Whigs and Conser vatives. His political power, great as it was then, was small and feeble compared with what it is now, since the comp . act at Lichfield House made him the dictator of the measures, and the protector of the in terests of the Whi g Ministry. The knowledge that he had, at length, prostrated at the footstool of his power those " base, bloody, and brutal Whigs," who had denounced him in th e speec h f rom t h e Throne - gave an immediate and immense accession to his political in fluence in Ireland. But when it became known by the most convincing " outward and visible Signs," that all THE SUN, LONDON, THrRSDAY, AtiGITST ,1, 1837. tho i i AtiOnage of Ireland was placed at his his influence an:_i wer—tiiieditha personal influence and power---were contiderably ittcreased, Until he has l br_Toine the leliathan disposer cf Parliamentary seats that we noW behold hilb * ibithifig the inethory of all botouglimongering, that existed in this country look insignificant and contemptible * compared with the grandeur awl tmkgiiitiide of the scale on which he opel'ales, in turning to personal advantage the repre scntative system, and controlling the freedom of elec tion ! What matter" it, then * whether of the 73 non- Conservative Irish Members, the influence of O'Con nell, direct or indirect, returns some half dozen more or less? Can any man seriously aver that the great majority,,of the 73 are not returned either by his direct nomination or permission ? Our own opinion is, that there are not ten supporters of the Whig Government now returned in Ireland without his leave. We ques tion if there be six. His skull 2nd cross-bones system is worked for him in all quarters by intolerant priests, been wont to do when they desired to mark their disaporobatlon of a Ministry, and to procure its re mova, from • Until now the very palpa ble hint of leaving Ministers in a minority Z.: `.leemed quite sufficient. but with the growth of the power of tug Irish rabble, and the adoption and adulation of that power by a Ministry—which we can no longer bring ourselves to call " British"—it would seem that Irish modesty has also become the happy inheritance of our rulers. They will interpret no hint, however palvable, as against themselves. The gentle remonstrant in the song, who says— " Perhaps it was right to dissemble y6lif le*ei But why should you kick me down stairs?" was evidently wanting in that happy indifference to all but the ultimo ratio, which is the lot of our present Ministers. No dissembling of the love of the British people, whether high or low, Lords or Commoners, will satisfy them. They will accept of no notice to quit less intelligible than that of fairly kicking them down stairs ; and really if, on the strength of having the Irish mob at hand to help them, they continue to affront the nation with their presence in places which ought not to be disgraced by such occupants, it will be necessary for the British people to determine upon some mode of summary expulsion, to convince these gentry that we really are not quite so well disposed to submit to the O'Connell domination as they appear to be.—lliorning Post. " Who deal daMnation round the land On each they judge his fue," and by ignorant, fanatic, and ferocious mobs who, armed with tougher implements of Popish logic than crabbed syllogisms, _ _ " Prove their doctrines orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks." And, gracious Heaven ! this is the mode of election ~-the system of representation—which the authors of the Reform Act patronise and praise I Every day the journals of the Reform Ministry teem with sycophantic adulation of the great Irish borouglimonger, and the most shameless admiration of his system of electioneer ing terror, jobbing, and corruption. Nay more, .the Ministers, through their journals, have the flagitious hardihood to avow that it is upon a majority created and wielded by the " safe speculator" in the Carlow traffic, and the author of the more recent Kildare job, they rely to govern the empire and control the enlight oneil opinion of Great Britain ? This requires a degree of vicious boldness whiCh amounts to despera tion. We question if, with the decided and unequi vocal expression of the opinion of Great Britain against them, their Popish patron, and their destruc tive policy, they will, upon reflection, he disposed " to screw their courage to the sticking place ;" but whether or not, no sense of shame, no feeling of repentance, nothing but a salutary apprehension of the consequences, too strong even for the sordid love of place, will ever induce them to obey the voice of the English constituencies, and retire from the po litical position which they have filled only to bring dis grace on themselves and humiliation on the country, both at home and abroad. Will King Leopold and the diplomatic favourite of the Russian autocrat,the author of the electioneering Durhamite letter, intended to catch silly Conservative birds, by throwing salt on their tails—will they be able, we ask, to extricate the Melbourne-O'Connell cabinet from their difficulties,and reconcile to that Ministry the public opinion of Eng land which it has disgusted ? Intrigues are rife, but a little true English feeling and spirit in our statesmen would be worth a great deal of intrigue. We presume our respected contemporary of the Standard must by this time be convinced how greatly he was imposed upon when induced to believe that Lord Melbourne, touched at length with shame and contrition for the policy which has led to the repudiation of his Ministry by the English electors, repeatedly declared, since the recent elections, that he " would obey the voice of the Eng lish constituencies, and resign." —Morning Herald. During the past fortnight a fellow calling himself Mr. Edleston, jeweller, possessing a decent exterior and a plausible manner, visited Chesterfield for the purpose of " doing a little business" with the inhabitants. His first step was to take a house in Narrow-lane ; he afterwards waited upon several tradesmen, and made various purchases, for cash, to be paid on the Wednesday morning following. In his dealings he was what might be termed " a hard customer," bantering down prices, and' showing a decided determination to obtain his goods at " ruinously low prices." On the Wednesday some of the creditors called at the house to receive their respective amounts, by appointment, but the wily rascal had decamped, leaving behind him an empty porter-barrel, half-a-dozen mahogany chairs, and the dregs of a gin-bottle. Nothing has been heard of him since his abrupt departure. It is suspected that he had confederates in the town, who assisted him in conveying away the pro perty thus fraudulently obtained.—Derbyshire Courier. An investigation has been going on for some days in in the last week, at Mangotsfield, respecting the death of a young woman, named Sophia Bissex, about 17 years of age, who was reported to have died from the effect of gross injuries received from some young men in a cow-house, on her return from a revel, on the night of the 31st July. The evidence was of that nature as to be unfit for publication ; but the purport of it may be presumed from the verdict, which we understand was to the effect that her death was accelerated by the treatment she received from the young men. We hear they have absconded.—Gloucester Journal. UNCLE HORACE.—Mrs. S. C. Hall's new and delightful novel, bearing the title of " Uncle Horace," more than sustains the high reputation of its popular writer. Its bachelor hero is a capital and perfectly original sketch, more truly and emphatically English than any character of the kind that we are acquainted with, at least from a living pen. The same may be said, in a lesser degree, of Peter Pike, his faithful attendant and humble friend. On the other hand, the two principal female characters, Mary Lorton and Lady Ellen Revis, are the very poetry of real life—each resembling the other in the scope and result of the sketch—yet each as utterly different from the other as the light of the sun is from that of the moon—Lady Ellen brilliant and piercing as the first, Mary Lorton gentle ant: spirit-soothing as the second. This delightful work pro mises, and most assuredly deserves, to attain a popularity not surpassed by those of any other female writer of the day. LORD KENYON'S CLOTHES.—Erskine would declare that he remembered the green coat of this modern Lord Mornington for at least a dozen years. He did not exaggerate its claims to antiquity. When I last saw the Learned Lord he had been Chief Justice for nearly fourteen years, and his coat seemed coeval with his appointment to office. It must have been originally black ; but time had mellowed it down to the appearance of sober green, which was what Erskine meant by his allusion to its colour. I have seen him sit at Guildhall, in the month of July, in a pair of black leather breeches, and the exhibition of shoes frequently soled afforded equal proof of the attention which he paid to economy in every article of his dress. To these unfortunate shoes Dr. Dibdin bears a similar testimony : " Once in the case of an action brought for the non-fulfilment of a contract on a large scale for shoes, the question mainly was, whether or not they were well and soundly made, and with the best materials. A number of witnesses were called. One of them a first-rate character in the gentle craft, being closely questioned, returned contradictory answers, when the Chief Justice observed, pointing to his own shoes, which were regularly bestridden by the broad silver buckle of the day, Were the shoes anything like these ?'—' No, my Lord,' replied the evidence, ' they were a good deal better and more genteeler.' The Court was convulsed with laughter, in which the Chief Justice heartily joined." But we should not have his dress complete were we to omit the black velvet smalls worn for many years, and threadbare by constant friction, which he used to rub with most painful assiduity when catechising or browbeating a witness. For the whole man was in polish about a par with Sir Fletcher Norton, who, when pleading before Lord Mansfield on some question of manorial rights, chanced unfortunately to say, " My Lord; I can illustrate the point by an instance in my own person : I myself have two little manors." The Judge immediately interposed with one of his blandest smiles, " We all know it, Sir Fletcher."—Law Magazine. Of all the popular works of the great American novelist, Cooper, none has given more general delight than such of his romances as describe the boundless wildernesses of his native land, and the strange adventures of the savage tribes inhabiting them. Of these " The Prairie" is among the most conspicuous. But the theme, though treated in so masterly a manner by Cooper, is far from being ex hausted ; and the public will be gratified in learning that Mr. Irving has adopted it as a subject of a new romance, now in the press, to be called, " The Hunters of the Prairies ; or, the Hawk Chief." Yesterday morning, about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, as Mr. William Fortune, a gentleman residing near Kennington, was driving in a four-wheeled chaise, ac companied by one of his sons, a youth about eleven years of age, when near the Horns Tavern one of the wheels came in contact with that of a spring cart, and, by the collision, Mr. Fortune and his child were pitched out. The former escaped without injury, but the latter fell on his head, and so severely fractured his skull that his life is despaired of. Near the Thames Tunnel, on the Rotherhithe side of the river, is a small cottage called Bligh's House, in which a person so named was, , in 1805, murdered by his foreman. The murderer, whose name was Patch, con victed by a most extraordinary pie ce of c ircumstantial evi dence. On being desired on his trial as is usual in such cases, to hold up his right hand, he from the force of habit, held up his left instead, which incident, coupled with pre vious proofs that Bligh had been shot by a left-handed per son, procured his condemnation and execution.—Thaptes and Planet Guide. Nothing more clearly indicates the weakness of the Ministerial cause, than the eagerness of its professed advocates• to shift their ground when an attack is made upon them. Finding it impossible to defend them selves, they wish us to show what the Conservatives could do to maintain their ground if they had posses sion of the Government. This is a demand which our antagonists have no right to make. We are not to leave the discussion of important facts, in order to indulge them with an anticipative discussion of hypo thetical circumstances. We charge the actual Govern ment with feebleness, with incapacity, with want of principle, with gross and palpable dependence upon avowed enemies of British institutions. We charge them with attempting to carry on the Government of Great Britain, though a majority of the representatives of Great Britain in the House of Commons, and an im mense preponderance of the aristocracy of Great Britain are against them. We charge them with making this monstrous attempt through a base desertion of those principles of honour which hitherto even the worst Administrations have held in some respect. We charge them with beim -, the poor, wretched, drivelling tools of a Popish-Radical faction, whom, by their weakness, they have allowed to take complete posses sion of Ireland. They have found the invariable fate of the mean-spirited and the stupid, in becoming the slaves of the perseveringly turbulent and tyrannical. We charge them with having, by their folly, their sel &hness, and their pusillanimity, placed the Govern ment of this empire very much at the disposal of the rudest, the most bigotted, and the most un-English faction that, from the days of the usurper John to the present day, has ventured to put forth the hand of tyranny over the British people. " So this one Minister—he who is ever Among the paltry still most paltry found—" in miserable fear of the absence of quarterly wages and the presence of unpaid tailor's bills, acquaints the people that they are to be quite satisfied with his Go vernment, though it be nothing but the instrument of the Irish Priests, became " in Ireland remedies arc most urgently required for existing evils !" But this Minister's logic is rather " too bad," except for those who, like himself, are " By sloth corrupted, by disorder fed, Made bold by want, and prostitute for broad." The regular advocates of Ministerial policy know that such poor stuff as this has no chance at all of going down with the British public, and therefore they abandon their weak defences to make a sally upon timse who attack them. To the charges we have enu merated they have, in fact, no answer, except it be that they do not feel any alarm, or sense of disgrace, from the facts which we call alarming and disgraceful. Of that matter let the nation judge. If to hold the Government through the aid of the avowed enemies of the Protestant Church—if to continue in office with a decided majority of the Representatives of Great Britain against, _them, and to rely solely on an Irish preponderance to save them from defeat—if these things be not alarming and disgraceful in an Administration, then we are wholly wrong in our estimate of that which British statesmen ought to shun and men of honour to be ashamed of. But we are warranted in believing that, except in the estimation of so miserably worthless a creature as the Minister we have quoted, and another contemp tible Lord, who is his colleague, even the iVliniste rialists are not so dead to all British sentiment as to feel it possible to dwell upon such circumstances in the language of approbation, or even of defence. On this account they turn upon us, and, granting the battle to be won as against them—or assuming it to be so, for the sake of the argument (the argument is not convenient on any other terms)—they ask what we could do, supposing our party were in ? We readily admit that if affairs had in effect come to this point, we should probably have a much more difficult task in hand than we have now, in pointing out the utter unworthiness of the present Ministers to hold the reins of Government. Looking into the future, the pinching point undoubtedly is to say how the poisonous fungi which have arisen out of the darkness and corruption of Irish policy are to be eradicated ? It is a mournful tale to tell, but it is the truth, and it is a miserable disgrace, which the Whig- Radicals have to answer for, that, looking to the fitture, the difficult question is to say how English policy—English spirit—English principles in Church and State may regain their ascendancy in the manage ment of the affairs of the British empire? But it would be a very silly thing to lose heart, and to waste our time upon future possible difficulties, when a present pressing evil, about which there can be no mistake, chal lenges our best attention. Whatever embarrassment there may be in future—and we assuredly believe there can be none which resolution and honest plain dealing with the British people will not easily overcome—there will be nothing so bad as a base submission to the present pre posterous Administration. They at all events have no claim upon the consideration of the people. They have nothing to say why sentence should not be imme diately passed upon them by every man who has a particle of British spirit in his breast. The B r i t i s h people have already done all that the people have hi, REFORM JUBILIES.—" Rejoicing" seems to be the order of the day in North Derbyshire. At Hardwick, Darley, Dale, Edensor, Pilsley, 'and other places, females have been regaled with tea, buns, punch, &c., and the festi vities have generally terminated with a dance on the " green sward." A hundred and fifty of the inhabitants of Edensor assembled on Tuesday se'nnight, and " tripped gaily on the light fantastic toe" till midnight. The Baslow 13 , -ass band were in attendance. At Pilsley, on Friday evening, one hundred met to celebrate the triumph of Liberal principles. At Darley Dale the fete was on a very magnificent scale ; and at each place have reigned " jollity and joy."—North Derbyshire Chronicle. Sweden, though, perhaps, the poorest nation in Europe, is making extraordinary strides towards the ad vancement of steam-navigation. Sweden already possesses no less than twenty-four steam-vessels, and others are ra pidly building, and will be afloat before the close of the year. We hear that those Ministers who are now absent from town will return early in the next month, when a Ca binet Council will be held, at which the time for the meet ing of Parliament will be fixed, and will most likely take place in the second week in November. A HINT.—The reception rooms whence the pas sengers start upon the Paris and St. Germain railroad at Paris, are decorated and fitted up in a style of showy ele gance, which, though not calculated to bear critical exami nation, is exactly adapted to its purpose, and presents a most effective coup d'ceil.—Galig,nani. The flowers of the changeable rose hybiscus are white in the morning, pale red at noon, and bright red in the evening ; but this change does not happen if the ther mometer fall below 70 degrees of Fahrenheit, but it then passes indirectly into yellow, the colour assumed by the petals of most fruit trees when dying.—The Botanist. An old farmer of the name of Greenaway, who is now 87 years of age, and residing in the parish of Blisslam], in Cornwall, has this season, in addition to the usual routine of his farm, shorn the whole of his flock. On one of the days when he was so occupied, this veteran accomplished the surprising feat of shearing twenty-six sheep without the help of any one but his dog, whose business it was to fetch the sheep to his master.--Falmouth Packet. Last week forty-three tubs of foreign brandy, which had been sunk near the Eddystone, were discovered, and seized by the Fo x , revenue cru iser, Lieutenant 13c*, and brought into Pow €l ,.....F a h t/Qu o p‘cket. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LIrEnrooL, AUGUST ")E3 ROBINSON V. lIUBBERSLEY. Mr. CIIESSWELL stated the case. The. plaintiff was an to th e Waterworks Company in Blackbura, nod the =bar and cattle-dealer, carrying on bu defendant was a u . sine6s iti the same town. Tile i l ,±9dant paid his addresses to the eldest daughter of the plaintiff, and tile young woman having unfortunately given birth to an illegitimate child in December last; of which the defendant ins the father, the present action was in consequence brought to recover da thagea for seduction, as he had refused to make the daugh ter of the plaintiff reparation in marriage, as she had ex pected. Rubinson, a good loot4ing girl, and rather fashion ably dressed, said that she was tho daughter of the plaintiff, and had throe sisters, the yourageat five and the ridest twenty-one years of axe. She was hersdliow•-and twenty. She became ucquainted with the defendant tai June, 1835—had known his sister previously. About two months after their first acquaintance the defendant began to visit at her father's house, and afterwards came three or f tur times a week to see her. In September, 1835, went. with the efcndant and his sister on an excursion to Ly tham. The defendant breakfasted at her father's bous. that morning—he had also been present at her father's house when they had company. He came there as a suitor to her down to 1836. From his conduct and expressions she had good reason to think that his intentions were ho nourable. He was received at her father's house as her suitor, with her father's sanction. An intercourse took place between them in March, 1836. She afterwards be came I,he mother of a child, which was born on the 24th of December last. The witness was then cross-examined at considerable length. She stated that the misfortune happened in the field, a few yards from a public foot-path, at about eight o'clock in the evening, and that she had been in the habit of walking with him (defendant) in the fields after dark, generally from five till eight o'clock. She could not tell how often she walked out with him—it was nearer twenty times than five. She carried on business as a straw hat manufacturer, and boarded with her father until tlas hap pened, but could not pay for her board - afterwards. The defendant was a master butcher, and he told her that his father was a farmer ; and she believed that his father paid 4001. a year for his farm. She generally walked out with the defendant about five o'clock. The intimacy happened again at the same place, but not often. The Learned Judge summed up ; and the jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—dama es, 601. UTILITY OF RATS. The rat, a well-known pest, is sometimes eaten as a matter of necessity by persons who endure the pains of hunger, and would at another time shrink from such a meal, although by some natioiss it is considered not bad fare. In 1741, Admiral Don Joseph Pizarro, in the ship Asia, was with his crew reduced to the utmost distress at sea. Such was the famine that, when one of the sailors died, his brother, who lay in the same hammock with the corpse, concealed his death in order that he might receive the dead man's allowance of provisions. During this period a single rat sold for four dollars. De Lery tells us that, during his passage home from Brazil to France, the people on board endured a dread ful famine. After devouring every thing, even the horn out of the lanterns, they thought of catching rats and mice which ran about in great numbers famishing with hunger. They laid traps for them, pursued them, and watched them like cats. Whoever caught one valued it more than he would an ox upon land ; and two, three, and even four crowns a piece were paid for them. The ship's barber was so fortunate as to catch two at once, and a person on board offered to clothe him from head to foot at the first port to which they might arrive if he gave him one of them. The barber, preferring life to dress, did not hesitate to refuse the offer. They boiled the mice without cleaning out the interior. One of the seamen having caught a fat rat, cut off the four paws and threw them on the deck. Another picked them up, broiled them on the coals, and ate them, at the same time declaring that he never had found the wings of a partridge so savoury. Pliny narrates the instructive fact that when Han nibal laid siege to Cassilinum, a rat was sold within the town for 200 sesterces : the man who bought it lived, and the man who sold it died—so much for lore of gold. The repugnance felt by eivilized nations, in times of prosperity, to rats' flesh is a prejudice, to overcome which a less degree of privation is sufficient than might be supposed, as appears by the relations of per sons whose experience entitled them to give an opinion. In some parts of the world no such prejudice exists ; and the rat as food is viewed in the same light as any other quadruped, notwithstanding the shudder which even its presence excites amongst Europeans, and the repugnance manifested to it even by dogs and cats. Nay, the rat is in certain countries sought after, as well as its diminutive prototype, the mouse. Rats and mice are' amongst the delicacies of the native of Aracan. The people of Asam, who take nothing amiss, devourrats and mice in abundance. When the supply of fisb, falls, the inhabitants of the Alaman islands are glad to have recourse to the same dainties. The Kalmucks, more remarkable for a good dispo sition than for nice habits, do not object to a plump rat. The children of the celestial empire,who consider all na t;ons but their own to be barbarians, are well pleased with a dish of rats. The Tonquinese, second to none in the plainness of their palate, eat this food with great good will. The people of Sumatra also relish it. The Be douins, whose wretched condition makes every kind of flesh welcome, consider it no . bad fare. The negroes in Jamaica not only eat rats con amore, but expend on them some delectable cookery in which molasses is largely used. The rats are there very large ; and so numerous, that they sometimes ravage and destroy one-twelfth of the produce of the sugar plantations. Roossewein says, that in the island of Ceylon the tribe Partias fed on rats and mice ; but refused cow's-beef, deemiin , that creature sacred, as the . Egyptians (lid. Our polished neighbours, on the adjoining parts of the C o ntinent, do not look upon a nicely cooked water-rat with contempt ; and there, as well as some other countries, it is eaten as fasting fare ; because it chiefly lives upon frogs and fish. = We learn from Pliny that, by the edicts of the Ro man censsrs, and principally by one made by M. Scaurus during his consulship, it was provided that no rats, mice, or dormice, should be served up to ta ble at great suppers and feasts. The Romans must have been much -addicted to this luxury,, since the in terposition of the consular authority was necessary to restrict it. The rats do not fail to retort on mankind whenever they get the opportunity, either feeding on his deceased remains, or stealing on him during sleep, or taking ad vantage of his inability to defend himself. Coroners' inquests, held ' on bodies which had remained un watched, afford continual testimony of the depredations committed on them by rats. Instances have frequently occurred in which a rat has nibbled the toes, fingers, or even the nose and lips, of a sleeping person. The remarkable case of the unfortunate officer is still recol lected, who, having descended into a vault under the church, to witness the interment of a friend, and having wandered about, was unfortunately locked up, and found in some titre after standing against the wall with his sword drawn, still in the attitude of defending himself, although dead, against the assaults of the rats, by which he had been attacked and much mutilated. The case of the Archbishop of Mentz will also probably occur to the reader, who, it is said, having retreated from the rats to a certain tower on an island of the Rhine, was followed thither by them, and at last devoured. These vermin have ferocity enough to attempt anything, and do not want for cunning to carry their designs into effect. A crowd of persons, some time since, witnessed with great inte rest the sagacity of a rat occupied in a singular way inside the railing of the Green Park. A cat sat amonsist some bushes, in so natural a position, that she might have been imagined to be alive. The rat, however, knew the truth, and was busily occupied in tearing asunder the remains of his deceased enemy, within a few yards of the crowd ; but the animal knew there was a railing between.—Doitouan's Domestic Economy—Human Food ; being V o l. 94 of Dr. Lardner s Cyclopcedia. ELECTION PETITIONS.—Mr. Harrison, Sergeant Merewether, Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Austin, and other Learned Counsel usually practising before Parliamentary Committees, have already received more retaining fees on petitions con, - plaining of undue returns than was ever before recollected at any general election by the oldest Parliamentary agent. EAST 1::PIA SHIPPING. Arrivals at Manilla,—The Cruzier de Manilla, March 9, 'from Batavia : Hope, March 9, Bril i int, Rorls,, , erson, and the Morison, Ingersoll, March 10, from China ; Rasselas, Nivel 10, from the Sandwich Islands, and sailed 18, for China. Departures from Manilla.—The Morrison, and Hope , March P 3, for China. The British ship Victory, Biden, wa. 4 sold by public auction on the IW.h of March for 13,000 dollars. Arrivals in Table Lev. C Cape. )—The Hamilton Ross, Robb, June 16, from Portsmoutn. Arrival in Algoa Bay.—The Watkins, May 21. 4 .. from Table Bay ; Grace, Barber, May 29, from the Mauritius, and sailed agay 30, for London; Ligonier, June 2, from Brecde River; Time, Jute 2, from Table Bay. Arrivals at Calcutta.—Tbe Hindoo, M'Gill, and Crusader, Wi!dman, from Liverpool. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Ludlow, July 9, from 'Cal cutta, and sailed July 10, fer London ; Java, July 9, from Ceylon, and sailed July 10, for London ; Bengal Merchant, July 9, from China, and sailed July 10, for Bristol; Ele ohanta, July 10, from Calcutta, and sailed Jul y 10, for Liver . pool ; Globe, July 11, from Algoa Bay , for London. The Java signi!ised the Severn, from Bombay for London, going into the Cape; the Eagle saw the Isabella. VESSOL.S SPOKEN WITH. The Henrietta, from Liverpool to Valparaiso (out 15 days; Mary. from Bordeaux, both near the Cape de Verds, by the Earl Grey, Arrived at Cork. On the 3d inst., during the night , while her Majesty ' s ship Rodney was cruizing off Barcelona, during a gale of wind, and when in the act of taking in the second reef of the topsails, the captain of the maintop fell frlin the lee yard arm into the sea. On the cry being raised of " a man over board !" the mate of the deck, Mr. Hildebrand Stevens, ran to the gun-room port for the purpose of throwing o ut some article to enabl3 the man to sustain himself till a boat could be lowered ; but seeing the man at the moment floating past the port, and no one near to assist him, he, without hesitation, jumped into the sea at the imminent peril of his life (being encumbered with his heavy pea-jacket and other articles of clothing, it being bad weather at the time), and happily succeeded in rescuing the seaman. The Captain complimented Mr. Stevens very highly on his humanity and intrepidity. Such conduct should not be overlooked by those who have the power of rewarding it, mt.s.re especially as this officer has been fifteen years in the service, and for seven years past has served in most arduous situaZions.-- Naval and Military Gazette. On Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at the City of London, City-road, on the body of Mr. Thomas Phillips, aged 41, a respectable tradesman, who commit ted suicide by cutting his throat, under circumstances of very afflicting nature. Caroline Phillips, a genteel -looking young girl, about 14 years of age, daughter of the de ceased, deposed that her lamented father 'tarried on the business of a brassfounder, at No. 19, City-gardens, City road. He had been in a low depressed state of mind for s ome time, and his bodily health had been so seriously af fected as to prevent his leaving his bed-chamber for thee' weeks before his melancholy death. On Wednesday morn ing last her poor father was much worse and kept his bed. About ten o'clock in the day witness went into deceased's bed-room. On entering, she was horror-struck at discover ing her unfortunate father out of bed, standing near the dressing-table, in the act of cutting his throat with a razor. (The witness here wept bitterly, and was unable for soma minutes to proceed in her deposition.) Mr. Sleatb, a lodger in the house, went for a surgeon, who promptly arrived, and attended to her father ; but he died about half an hour after he committed the rash act. Mrs. Ann Phillips, the widow of the deceased, a respectable -looking female, who was in a state of deep affliction, spoke of her, unfortunate husband having been in a dejected state o f mind for some months, chiefly arising from constitutiona l ailments. He had latterly laboured under a great delusion of mind, being of opinion that his life was intended to e be destroyed. The surgeon stated that the dece ased had a his throat from ear to ear, the whole of the principal yes; eels being divided. Verdict—" Tempi: wary Derangement " VICTORIA. " —There has been one, and but one sovereign of this n'tme (before the accession of bet. present Majesty), and she was a sovereign of a great portion of the western division of the Roman Empire. She is thus spoken of by Gibbon :—" After the murder of so man/ valiant princes, it is somewhat remarkable that a female for a long time controlled the fierce legions of Gaul. Tile arts and treasures of Victoria enabled her to place succes sively Marius and Tetricus on the throne, and to reign with a manly vigour under the name of those dependant emperors. Money of copper, of silver, and of gold was coined in her, name. She assumed the titles of Augusta , and Mother o f the Camps. Her power ended 'only with her life' Decline and Fall, chap. 11. It has been the custom at Dieppe for the ladies why subscribe to the baths of M. Mira to enjoy the evening breezes from the sea, seated on three ranks of chairs on the terrace, the foot of which is washed by the briny sei se d, and to retire at a fixed hour, which latterly has come to be considered as far too early. A short time ago application was made, and a promise given by M. Mira, that the sae loons should be lighted, and that the enjoyments of the evening should be prolonged. Two nights passed, and e the saloons remained involved in darkness. At s unset on th third sounds were heard to steal along the shore indicativ! of a rising storm, not of the elements of earth and air, bn' from the disturbed spirits of the visitants of the terrace; Many anxious eyes were turned towards the wind ows of the saloons, but not a single ray of light was visible. 44't length one of the dissatisfied fair, more resolute than the rest, entered the interdicted rooms, drew forth two botteil s she had brought with her, and, by the aid of a phosphoru s ' box, set them in a moment flaming on the mantelpiece._ At this signal all the confederate dames uttered a shout of victory, entered the saloons en masse, and one of them was entertaining the rest with sounds of triumph from th e piano, when one of the attendants summoned them to de part, as he was ordered to extinguish the lights. T hil j could not be submitted to, the insurgents interposed , Is e boldly declared that they would not quit the room unless driven out at the point of the bayonet. Several g entle men, who had hitherto remained silent spectators, felt th eir gallantry in question, and came forward to support th e cause of the ladies ; for the fair insurgents, finding the con' test likely to become serious, were struck with a panic' and were on the p o i n t o f a b an d on i ng the fortress, wh en flag of truce was sent in by M. Mira, announcing that he vening ha siegedsurrendcred. The dance has been kept up there every Messenger. MATERNAL SOLICITUDE.—There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood, that softens the heart, and brings it back to the feelings ef ` e fano!. Who that has languished, even in advanced life' in sickness and despondency, who that has pined on a inve 6rl bed in the neglect and loneliness of a foreign land, bet has thought on the mother that looked on his childhood, that smoothed his pillow, and administered to his helpleesnet4 ' Oh there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mothelr to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart • It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by' danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by in" gratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his cow" - nience, she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoym ent A ' she will glory in his fame, and exult in his prosperity ; and if adversity overtake him he will be the dearer to -her leY 'misfortune, and if disgrace settle on his name she will still love and cherish him ; and if all the world beside cast hie s off, she will be all the world to him.— Washington Irving. It will be recollected that, in the course of last winter' a pauper named Wethers was taken out of a sick behead the overseer of a neighbouring parish a t Bath, and enofnt74l o n a siege coach, in order to be pass ed to CP"' the parish, on en order of removal, and the severity and on weather was so great that•his joiuts were hi p Pe( • He was ire_ his arrival in London "Le was unable to move. mediatelY put to bed, and ceery medical care was provided, but the unfortunate man lay for considerable time in (' a rile' plorable state, and hi s legs and hands were mement.4.l , expected to drop off. These anticipations have been realistea , as, about two months since, the hands and feet separa, e 1 _1 c! from the arms and legs, and he is now lying in Clerkeno., workhouse in a dreadful state. Every humane attention paid to him in his sufferings. He is to undergo some 01 ) 1 7 0 ration, but it will be a considerable time before h e will enabled to get from his bed POWERFUL AIUSICAL BOXES , ill ; w ith cases, 1-2 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing Four ''''":fo; the mechanism finished in a very superior manner, are offerre six. Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, vcitriving Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. COX SA VORYS, W°lti Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornh ill, L°"e'lling N. B. The small musical boxes, 3k inches long, continue in tin cases, price 19s. each, or in composition shell West 14t each. 818 On the 27th inst., in Meeklenburgh-square, Mrt. Pe tttnart C'f daughter. On the :.ollth inst. at StMeio?rßrel'EDßlOonisbury, John ' el tet Of A 1 gi de Fitg: i t g e ie iFs_h7E, Esq., Oporto, to Ml'a;'-g'ile.Collett, third (laugh R ~ of oomsbur ' _.---------- _______ -------- DIED. 73, At Holloway, on the 30 th inst. , J ohn Sievier, Dig., Ag ed late of Southampton-row. On Tuesday, the 29th inst., after a long and painful illnes9f Whichr( he bore with great fortitude and resignation, Adamson Par ke ' ( I Longley, near Sheffield, in the county of York Mr. K. S. Parker, the eminent barrister, of 'Lincoln's lon' pg 76 years. AVa rd On the ')3d ' - inst., at Broseley, Shropshire, aged 351 F Charlton, Esq., of Falcon-square ' zr.., fP. On the 28th inst., at the Terrace, Putney, Susannah, w"'" O Dormer, Esq., late of Wandsworth, aged 69. ,-, „k W. On the 19th inst., at Rotterdam, Hester, wife of IL L' a-J1 Esq., of that place ..........-!r2 Esq., the f ather ta London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN hb co nty 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, is of Middlesex. —Thursday, August 31, 1!;.17.