The Sun. — London, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGE2I,,,x.. Rawlins E ARRIVALS. s.he Ble n h e i m H o t e l, N ew B on d- street , from P oo l- , q, at t park, Staffordshire ; Captain Stanford, at ditto, from Ireland ; Edward. Sheldon, Esq., M. P., at ditto, from Brails House, Warwick ; Edward Putnam, Esq., and Mrs. Putnam, at ditto; from Brighton ; Rev. Symond, D. D., at ditto, from H eretord ; Oliver Parker, Esq., at ditto, from Melton ; G. Forsyth, Esq , and Mrs. Forsyth, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street Dr . .- Grieve and Miss Grieve, from Mayfield Hall, at ditto; Colonel Edwards, M. P., from Wales; Ashurst, E sq ., f rom Oxfordshire ; Wm. Montgomerie, tsq., from Scotland ; Forbes, Esq. M. P., at Patter son's Hotel, Brook -street, from S co tl an d ; ' Rev. Mr. Burges, at ditto, from Basham House, Hefts,. the Hon. Mr. Knox, at ditto, from ditto ; the Rev. Dr. Tarleton, at ditto, from TOxford ; Sir Hugh Purves Hume Campbell, Bart.. M. P., in eat Ge orge -street, from Berwickshire ; Colonel Frederick ch, i n B olton -street, from Brighton ,• Earl Cadogan, at th Green P ar k Hotel, from Paris ; P. Miles, Esq., M. P., t i Hamilton-pl ace, from his seat in Somerset; W. Miles, vVcl„., M. P., i n di tto, from ditto; Sir Richard Vyvyati, Bart., is r . , in Rich mon d- terrace, from Clifton ; Viscount and eountess Norreys, in Hanover-square, from Brighton ; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Harcourt, in ditto, from ditto; Col. and • Baillie, in Mortimer -street, from ditto • A. R. Dottin, Esq., M.P., i n Argyll-street, from Bugle Hall, Hants ; 13MCapt. Birlie Mathew Coldstream Guards, at Mrs. • Birlie at hews, P or t m an-square, from ' Ireland ; Sir William Bra -011, M. P., f rom ditto ; Capt. Chetwynd, M. P., at the Regents -park Barracks, from his seat Brownlow Hall, near i ltallo ro rd n :e,SEsq., ir Harford Jon e s, a t Ch e lt en h am , f rom a t our ; M. P., in St. James's-place. DEPA R TRE S. Alfred Whitaker, Esq., Mrs. o Whitaker and family, from !P th eßlenh e i m H ote l , New Bond-street, for his seat in Shrop ro ; Ed war d Wilson, Esq., from ditto, for Dover ; William ogood, E sq., from ditto, for ditto; Edward Whittingham, "9., from ditto, to Cheltenham ; W. Lambert, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Lambert, froin Vladong's Hotel, Oxford-street; Hi_ Pric e , E sq., and Mrs. Pr i ce, from ditto ; Edmund ggenson; Esq., from ditto. RECORDER'S REPORT. u nWednesd ay t h e Recorder mule a report to his Majesty ° f the P r isoners under sent ence o f d eat h conv i cte d at t h e l ast oa,; . C e ntr a l C r i minal Court Sessions, viz.:— Th N "Eminin—Mi c h ae l M urp h y,. 40, cu tti ng and maiming ; "las Hol.b s , a li as Holmes, 26, Charles Moore, 16. John joh Holgate, 30. and James Holgate, 27, burglary. DECE MBER --John Smith, 54, Christopher Hall, 17. Charles i nll est 30, a n d William Taylor, 21, burglary; John Edwards, ' l and Ch ar l es Fitzpatrick, 17, robbery. K041111'44; 18 35.—Thomas Fry, 30, William Johnson, alias 43, , 22, John Alb erson , a li as G reen , 13, Willi am P enny , pand Thom as Kerr, 33, burglary. R ob E er Lat;it . ny— I sa b e ll a H opes, 20, a d m i n i ster i ng poison ; J() t Kirby, 19, and Ri c h ar d U s ti ce , 16, b urg l ary ; Th omas roCh n e ° l 7 . , 19, George Wilson, 20, and Jamcs Packer, 28, t i, „, 11 of wh om hi s M a j esty was grac i ous l y pleased to respite ng his Royal pleasure. Sil l FRANCIS BURDETT AND THE SPEAKERSHIP. 8 .!esterday morning a deputation of gentlemen including the till'ral.parishes in the constituency in Westminster, i ja Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, St. Martin, St. p r T n e n s ! St. Clement, St. Paul, and St. Ann, wa , ited l on Sir ase 'ls Burdett, at his residence in St. James s-p ace, to ertain holy the Hon. Baronet intended voting at the en ds mg election for Speaker of the House of Commons- The anelcitutation was most courteously received by the Honourable 1 / wor thy Baronet. rilintiurtc•tiConki;s, as spokesman to the deputation, said, I beg to d e •a uttee to you, Sir Francis Burdett, a highly ,respectable gentlemen, who have waited on you to ascertain, C St respectfully, how you intend voting at the House of by t h e for the election of Speaker. It has been understood tai o a majority of the electors of Westminster that you enter gi . i a favourable opinion of Sir C. M. Sutton, and intend frj % e him your support. We have looked upon you as the not vote of the people, and do most earnestly hope that you will stote for that gentleman. I „r li t/arum—Gentlemen ; I feel extremely sorry that theaCtlillOt Comply with your request. Ido certainly consider rec o i l a i question not of the least importance. You must Op hr , e Ft. that Sir Charles Manners Sutton was elected by the vc4":ittoo party about two years ago, and now you wish . to I can ; i t e out of the office. I consider this a party question. for s• ay e no other motive under Heaven in giving my . vote kos , lr Charles Mannets Sutton than that I consider he is the ak ',Proper person in the whole House to fill that office.. I her.Piaced now rather in a peculiar situation by your coming , pitl e i at this late moment, and not having been informed of the Ai r Qns ,,°f HIE onstituents on the question before. 3 . ()I1 h . E—ln consequence of reports being afloat that Lni a , tl Promised to vote for Sir Charles fanners Sutton, the Itli n ;' Association of St. Margaret's and St. John's, West the had directed their Secretary to write to you, and state a,d",tmloris entertained by the Members of the Association, Pr at , ` l ° maiority of the electors of Westminster. If, Sir tv ei os, we had received your answer to that communication,. yo ur . °lll d have known how to have acted, and on receipt of trait e sr B wer, we should have formed a deputation, and have ml You at Brighton, and on receiving your answer, we tfic d nr ,' ° lt our return to town, ha ve zlalled a publie meeting of t he tors of Westminster, and communicated the same to Woul d 6A t''otas.-----In ordinary times the election of Speaker t he lik e a ve been o f no consequence w h atever; b u t i n times f orm e d present it is absolutely necessary that we should be in liberal w hether we are to be ruled by a Tory faction or the Party.kr, m lay th e ,"' Ec tua.—We beg, Sir Francis, most respectfully to for 'Jell are the only Metropolitan Member that will vote si - t ," - °rY candidate. the sir Tor y BURDETT.—I certainly received a letter from eon'ssociation of St. Margaret and St. John ; but such a th ws Imication might have come from three or four indivi atsw'ralld not from the whole body • and therefore it was not hav e e h a d• have been among all' parties in the state, and I eer tai " e ,lter been more on one side than on the other ; but I fi le MY consider that no faction whatever can possibly injure th a _ ° ° ll trY with. such a House of Commons as we have v_present moment. ti ot kIENTLEma.N —Sir Francis, will you be kind enough v ote • u ,at all? I w RaNCIS BURDETT.—I must take time to consider ; but kinesuid rathe r lose the representation of the City of West letteter t han my character and, at the time I received the taltxtZihnaanltuedrn,. I did not eonsider the election would have 4g4i_ rasp--Perhaps, Si r F ranc i s , as y ou w ill no t vo t e sl sSir Charles Manners Sutton, you will not vote at all. FsaANCIS BURDETT—I certainly shall not vote against riviCharles Manners Sutton. ' l l4 . W ARD, of the Two Angels and Crown, Upper St. lilioolnis-lane, here said that associations had been formed in they almost every parish in the constituency of Westminster, and andrequently 'held meetings, which were numerously at °(l, for the purpose of discussing Parliamentary affairs, toe r , Ot her matters connected with the interests of the consti .ry of Westminster. be i 4? 1-10 N. BA RONET , a f ter some cons id erat i on , requeste d to they ' , ar med by th e d eputat i on, t h at if i n consequence o f what W a T tod ued stated, and the kind manner in which they had e lect °ll him,. expressing the opinions of : the majority of the tl e ,,rs of Westminster, he should not vote at all, would they Y eonerat e him from acting in such a manr!er? th eir e dex putation replied they would ; and having expressed lria o li allks to the Hon. Baronet fr the kind and handsome ", hi which th e y had been received, withdrew. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A TATTERSALL'A.;. the Decal deal was said about the Speakership, and very little about ijil,illisible decline in Curtins, 4 S, .Y, in which, beyond a slight improvement in Silenus, and nothing of consequence occurred. The "k was briefly as follows heal " o , THE spEANERSHIT. e t t and 2to 1 offered on tho Tory candidate, and 20 b . ? 1 ' ll Ponies that he and Lord Jersey's Ibrahim do not both win. DZABY. a i to 1 aust Lord Jersey's Silenus 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's CoriolanuS 13 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle colt 1 6 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Curtius (taken) 17 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ibrahim . 2 , to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Leopoidine colt ` t o ag stag Mr Batsn's Luminar -.0 to 1 t Operator, o Free Will, and Elizanne (taken) tOo 6 to 400 on Pucelle agst Ibrahim (taken) °O even between Spinning Jenny and Bee-in-a-B onne t. S to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's lot, and offers to take 11 to 2 SO RIDDLESWORTH. 'hi - " °n Mr. Grant's Operator agst Lord Tavistock's Oak 1 e i 4 l't P.P. (taken). OAKS. lg to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Preserve (taken) to 2 agst Lord Ch ester field's Her Majesty. kiil'hesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock,. Oiiv consternation and alarm was excited in the family of ' l 4 eo er , Mann, Esq., of Bruton -street, Berkeley-square, by the li:pypo:fsteosrrboy being made that Emma Rees, theAmper-housemaid, t o de"g woman between 22 and 23 years of age, had attempted sYerhveerdselfa by cutting her throat with a en-knife. It , d oor "r that the butler, in passing the back drawing -room stream of dark fluid on the floor, which cl ose t . _ first supposed to be some spilled port wine, but on a t o of, examination discovered to be blood. He then attempted ttLio:ebili,eatvh; drawing_room door, but was resisted by some lying against it ; with the assistance of the foot- Yo he tne floor was at length opened, and the wretched uf 'woman was discovered on the floor, weltering in a pool -r bl °°(l, which was still gushing' from a most frightful h e fiextensive wound across the front of her throat, dividing pin g ' 4 ,1 entirely to the windpipe, but most fortunately esca tVcc infiiction of any injury to the principal blood-vessels Lr eati ' t , throat, although the flesh was cut within an hair's %1 0, 'I of the carotid artery. The poor creature was insii xth which and in her ri was firmly grasped a penknife, the incision 1 “ d ' l, frected, and which it seems la _ dul p t , l ta ken out of the work-box of one of Mr. Mann's t ' s • Mr. Shute'. su- con of Albemarle-street, was h, `g ISt I,ow attendance, and administered every assistance in 4 , 14 314, r ' some slight hope is entertained of her surviving, have %. - I ,c is at present in a highly dangerous state. The her attempting to destrof herself is attributed to her g been discovered to be pregnant. cs ._Arrivcd , n, for Cape uz ; Justina, New York ; ;e, Gibbs, for for Newry. Spiers, from Scott, from from Stock- Ann, Bos cholson, from •om Halifax• r, and Eliza- from Goald it Salt feet-- 1 gale, since of earance its fresh and rrom Lisbon ;. for Mexico; ias's. tantinople to s slightly da- COUNCIL . 19, 1835. Lords of tl . O ar of the 18th zees Society, ncnt with re !m our North ig taken the me to state a• which you 1 out by the American co- Latket, is as had a very' .annot at pre ley may think may be due in ?ngage in the Ise the trade Tislative mV es to the !u -pon that voy can while be IS. LA Clc. ty." , E SCOTCH departures.-- Company's rom Arbroath lie 15th inst. ,fternoon, the mack Eagle • ;eneral cargo. Bridport and Caleb Clark, isc. No ad - ing, the Car master, front arrivals, de- 'ternoon, the smack Pilot, -al cargo. 19•' -No arrivals. hipping Coln' master, for o advices. THE CUS• nd Elizabeth , ; Twee Ge- . Gravelines , dais ; , ourg ; Crite- Pnsey ; Mays h, ;ar t Batavia , ape, St. He" G, FPB. 19. lizabeth, Tilt bae; Hippo" palding. Rot- Irthur, Tone ent. 0, FEn. 19• 'bens, Cadiz a, Brake and r, FEB. lg. 30. long. 64' CLOCK. in the Cit.)i , the triuraP the House of the knovrig tpletel7 take' tting for Sir inion is, that n their situa )f Mr. Aber- the Account► j- 92, and are Bank Stock, 3ecurit:es left panish Stock► , rniurn. The Colombia* ek, 113 1 14 ' tese, 92. with the C - , brought b 1 express front mation from dispatch from ved in pers on ades: he left ave retreat el bulletins an e per Cents', )f the earth nee. there is anY T ON E % ~ Rs in the oti , peaker of the morning 92 ; present the; mnish 5Si j; 56,ii; cLoa• ;.-A T ll° ,l l nei complete FERRETe".. From esday we e r _ its cart, P : 4 iployed w as This w bo Df those t le looked ° II 1" of Drak e " Thus reini ious box, an, r ty accurleat: by a fe4i t . leer's rill, T G8 A . 141 ; of ere etl ., l % •anthatn , ; a pparen t i ;ate of gro n the ca uses ated ground _Too 0 norning, oust, ert , 13 e ',ere d bY.„ ; than tbiril house s, &c: the distres% the loss, tict 3,0 001. AP bt La t e. Mr. no dotitte, Mr. Of fount Y.) arg h. COURT CIRCULAR. His Majesty gave audiences yesterday, at St. James's Palace to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Courtown, Earl Jersey, and Sir Charles Rowley. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the King last evening. The Queen, attended by Miss Hope Johnstone, went yester day to inspect the new Palace, in St. James's Park. Prince George of Cambridge arrived at the Palace, and joined her Majesty. In the afternoon her Majesty paid visits to the Duchess of Kent,'at Kensington Palace, and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked in Hyde-park yesterday for same time. The Princess Sophia visited their Majesties yesterday. The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl de_ Grey en Wednesday evening, at his residence in St. James's-square. The Earl of Westmoreland had an interview with the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Earl of Wicklow visited the Earl of Aberdeen yester day at the Colonial Office. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. _~..~., SIR.—You will much oblige the writer by inserting the fol lowing in an early number of your Journal, - and thereby correct an error which appears in your List of Members, in reference to the sentiments of the Hon. Member for Frome.—l am, &c., Feb. 19, 18:35. A WHIG. Mr. Sheppard, M. P. for Frome, has been incorrectly placed with the Conservatives or Tories, whereas the Hon. Member, at his last election, in his published address, " again avowed himself sincerely attached to the principles of the Reform Bill—the firm friend of civil and religious liberty"—that he " fully recognized the leading features of Lord Grey's Govern ment—Reform, Retrenchment, Peace ;—and that he never could or would give his support to any Ministry who should seeh to govern this country on di f ferent principles." In our Parliamentary List of Wednesday last, through inadvertence, the mune of Mr. R. Potter, the Member for Wigan, is put under the head of Conservatives: It-should have been among the Liberals, as it is well known that Hon. and indefatigable Member has voted in favour of every Liberal measure that has been brought before the House since he has been a Member. ' In the vain hope of seeing the King open Parlia ment yesterday afternoon, immense numbers of all ranks and conditions of persons congregated in the streets of Westmin ster and in St. James's Park. About two o'clock, as the Duke of Wellington passed through the Park to the garden gate of the Foreign-office, his Grace was cheered by long continued acclamations. The decision of laSt night must have caused the loss of many thousands, so strong was the opinion th a t Si r C. M. Sutton would be re- e lect e d by a majority of eight or ten. Large bets were laid about the House, of 5 to 3 in favour of Sir C. M. Sutton, even during the progress of the debate. Among The strangers who attended in the House of Commons, there were many Peers. They were chiefly ac commodated below the bar. The Lord Chancellor (Lynd hurst) was present during the whole of the debate, as were many other Peers—namely, the Duke of Cumberland, Earl Munster, the Lords Fitzclarence, the Earl of Errol, Lords Rosslyn, Wharncliffe, Powis,* Wicklow, Cawdor, Buccleuch, Ellenborough, Richmond, Duncannon, Salisbury, &c. Their Lordships were obliged to wait in the lobby till the division was over. The ladies contrived to make their way into the House of Commons yesterday. Being deprived of the " peep holes" of the ventilator, they were accommodated behind the Speaker's Chair. Mrs. Lane Fox, and many other fashionables, re mained in their carriages near the House of Commons until the result of the debate on the question of Speakership was known, and communicated to them by their friends who had been present at the discussion. There were immense crowds about both Houses of Parliament as early as eleven o'clock, more than are usually present even when the King goes to the House ; and for some hours the approaches to the Houses were almost impassable, except to those who went in carriages. Eventually lines of police appeared, and secured open footpaths and carriage -way, according to the arrangements adopted by the police and the military when his Majesty attends the Parliament. The crowd continued till the adjournment of the Commons, and the greatest anxiety was evinced out of doors to ascertain the numbers of the division. The following, signed by several hundred electors, was presented to Sir Francis Burdett : " Westminster, Feb. 19, 1835. " TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART. " Sir,—We, the undersigned independent electors of West minster, beg to address you with the earnest hope that, in the election of Speaker to the Honourable the House of Com mons, an office of such high importance, that you will be guided solely by your known sound judgment, and that you will not allow either deputation or faction to dictate to whom you shall give your vote." MELTON MOWBRAY, TUESDAY.—Our fashion able list enumerates the following individuals of note:--The Earl and Countess of Wilton, Mr. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Ewart, Captain Stanley, Mr. Wharton, Lord Villiers and the Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr. White, Lord Rokeby, Lord Gardner, Sir Frederick Johnson, Mr. Gilmour, Sir James Musgrave, Mr. Moore, Mr. Maher, the Duke de Richelieu, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Norman, Lord Forester, Mr. Coke, Lord Macdonald ; Mr. and Mrs. Holyoake Goodricke, Captain Dun das, Mr. Spiers, Count Bathyany (the Austrian Charge d'Af faires), Sir David and Lady Baird, Lord William Poulet, &c. EARL DARNLEY.—The remains of this Noble man were interred yesterday in the family vault in Cobham Church, about four miles from Gravesend, and one mile from Cobban! Hall. The late Earl, during the few years he held the title, liver! entirely in the bosom of his family; and, al though his expenditere was limited to that of a plain English gentleman, yet he was held in high esteem by the community around ; and it is mentioned, to his high honour, that he has paid upwards of 100,000/. of debts incurred by his father, al though not legally responsible for the same. The instrument with which he gave himself the wound that so unexpectedly proved mortal, was not, as stated, an axe, but a woodman's hooked bill, such as is used for cutting down underwood and pruning hedges. The medical attendant first called in wished the Earl to permit the great toe to be taken out at the socket, but his Lordship refused, observing that his labourers frequently met with worse injuries, and yet easily got over them, although not able to command the professional attendance and comforts be could. A meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society is to take place to-morrow at• two o'clock, at which Lord Munster will preside, to present a diploma to Lieutenant Burnes, of the Bombay army, as a mark of their high estimation of the great value and importance of his recent travels in eastern countries. COURT OF COMMON COUNClL.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor held a Court for numerous purposes. It was oc cupied the entire day with the annual election of Corporate Officers, the reception of Reports and Petitions, and the ap pointment of the Irish Society Committee for the different wards. There was a good deal of angry discussion. The salary being 1001. a year, consequently there were several can didates. The daughter of a rich landowner at Chateau Lan don, near Foutainbleau, inspired the son of a neighbouring farmer with a passion so violent that, hearing she was about to be married to another, he declared to her that his despiir would drive him to commit some violent act to prevent it. Unfortunately the young woman disregarded his menaces, anti. took no precautions. As she was walking in the neighbour hood of the town, a few days ago, with her mother, her en raged suitor rushed upon them from behind a bush, and se verely wounded them both with a scythe ; and, believing that he had consummated his purpose of destroying her, he threw hiinself into the river, but not being able to drown himself there, precipitated himself afterwards into a well. He was taken out alive, but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. The lives of his two victims, though they are,in great danger, are expected to be saved. Our readers will recollect that during the last three weeks a considerable portion of our time was occupied in re porting outrages that were committed on the persons and prer perties of the electors who had voted for Colonel Bruen and Mr. Kavanagh, and we laboured strenuously to impress on ' l, e minds of our rulers the necessity of adopting some means to pro`oct those respectable men in their just and lawful rights. Since` our last publication, however, we fi n d th e • murderous designs •-if the p riests and their followers fully developed, for th e y h ave •••nLID en ced - savage war of ^ l, ed by t e stro ll' s am ex termination, which, if no t d ie , of the law, w'.ll end, not only i n the 4, .struction of lir e and property, but in the total disorganization o. We are led to these observations by the perpetration of one of the most heinous outrages it has fallen to our lot to record during many years. On Friday night week, about nine o'clock, some villains (instigated by the blessed hope of martyrdom) proceeded to the premises of Mr. John Cummins, of Begenalstown, an honest and independent Ro man Catholic, who voted for his friends, Colonel Bruen and Mr. Kavanagh. They scaled the boundary wall, and having torn off some slates, set fire to the roof of the stable, in which were five horses. In less than an hour, the fire burst forth from every part of the house, and on the alarm being given, it was found impossible, if not-too late, to remove the horses, being miserably burnt from the falling of the fire from the roof, although the rack and manger sustained very little damage. Mr. Beard and several respectable persons of the town used every exertion to check the further propress of the devouring element, and succeeded providentially in cutting off the communication between the stable and a large rick of hay and some stacks of corn which were within a few feet of the rcof, and thus, by the unexampled exertions of a few persons, there was a portion of the property and probably the dwelling house of this industrious man saved from destruction. During the fire there were crowds of persons looking on with the grim satisfaction of savages, and never assisted to check the progress of the fire. This fact alone is illustrative of the condition of society in this country, where sympathy and Christian feeling have been erased from the list of Irish virtues through the wicked agency of priests and demagogues. On Saturday a long investigation took place at the Club-house in this town • ...go, 0‘1•••7 WV IS bebefore William Fishbourne and James Battersby, la Esqrs., and strong hopes are entertained that the perpetrators of this foul deed will be brought to justice. On the 10th inst. some mis c Keats set fire to the forge of Henry Metcalf, a blacksmith, who reaides in the barony of Rathvillc, which was entirely consumed.—Carlow Sentinel. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1835. iide of C. Sutton, but the votes for his opp:menE exceeded his - muster by 10. Ttiis, then, is the first triumph of Principle !—Times. - If ever there was a moment of which we had occasion to )a proud, or in which we had reason to rejoice —that mo nent—among the many which have occurred in the his tory of this journal during the last seven years—is the pre sent—the crowning of many triumphs—the implJ..e enting of many declarations as to the state of votes, and the state of parties—the proof that we hare dealt honestly by our readers—in a word, the election of the Right Hon. James Xbercromby, in spite of all the efforts of the Tory party, , tnd the rejection, notwithstanding his imploring entreaties, of Sir Charles Manners Sutton ! We have reason to be ?rood of the triumph on more than one ground —we ire proud of it personally, because we may say truly, that with those who directly contributed to it by their votes, pars magna fuinzus—we are proud of it is having been the first, if not also the last, to put the question of the Speakership upon its proper ;round—that of public principle, not of personal fit ness—and lastly, we are proud, that there was but an error of one in the last statement which we gave, as to the number of members who would vote for Mr. Aber cromby—our statement being 315—and the actual votes, excepting the teller, 316 ! But our triumph is nothing in our estimation, compared with that which has been achieved, not for England only, hut for the whole civilized world. The question which was debated yesterday was not an English question only—it was, if we may say so, an eniversal question—its result involved the happiness of millions, and it has told in their favour. England has at length got a Reformed Parliament in which it can confide, For it has, in the language of Lord John Russell, by its de cision of yesterday, given " an earnest that it means to set zealously about the work of Reform—that it is not going to Teceive the people by mock Reform—and that, with andoubted lOyalty to the Crown, it is determined to maintain the privileges of the people "—and E uro p e !las got a guarante e that England is still the Polar star to which the civilized world must, and will, look at its guide tnd leader in all matters of constitutional Reform, and en arged power on the part of the people. The triumph is indeed great and glorious in every respect. We congratu !ate all England —we congratulate all Europe upon it. The principle of light—of knowledge—of constitutional freedom, has triumphed over every obstacle, and bigotry, mperstition, and illiberalism have been, as they deserve to be, sent to those places from which " there is no return." The Tories may, as they have threatened, attempt again to have that from the House of Commons which no crimi nal has a right to crave from a jury of his countrymen —a :second trial ; but they will fail in the second as in the first —they will again be disgracefully beaten—again will the liberal Members muster to deepen their degradation —again will the King be informed, by a vote of the House of Com mons, that the people of Engla n d h ave no con fid ence i n hi s Ministers. The amendment upon the address will be of the most liberal character, and secure the vote of every impartial. independent, and liberal-minded respresentative of the people.—lif-rzing Advertiser. The detail of yeiterday's proceedings in the House of Commons will be seen in our, Parliamentary report. The result has been the defeat of Sir C. Manners Sutton, by a small majority of ten. Thus the Whig-Radicals have suc ceeded in their first effort to embarrass the Ministry— whether their second attempt to prevent that " fair trial" of the new Administration, whose character and intentions should be tested by their measures only, remains to be seen. Their success in the present instance will probably em bolden them to some more direct act of hostility to prevent the development of the Ministerial plans of reform. In deed, the very circumstance of the present Ministers hav ing officially made known their intention of proposing a large and liberal measure of reform in the Church Esta blishment, alarmed the selfish ambition of several of their Whig opponents, who dreaded the just popularity which would follow such a measure, not only because of its own merits, but because it would be an earnest of a liberal and enlightened course of policy for the purification and im provement of other great national institutions. The Whigs had been in office for four years, and the abuses of the Church Establishment remained the same at their departure from as they were at their accession to office. On this subject, as on many others, their patriotism evaporated in talk, while they took advantage in practice of all that was profitable in those abuses, for the advantage of their relations, sycophants, and dependents. The catalogue of Church preferments, as to sinecures and pluralities, under the late government, re flected deep disgrace upon a reforming Ministry, and we hardly want the authority of Shakspeare for asserting that " facts are stubborn things." Convinced that some demon stration of strength ought to be made to drive, if possible, the Ministers from their post before the King's Speech should have pledged the Royal word to various measures of constitutional reform, that portion of the Whigs who followed the united leadership of Mr. O'Connell and Lord John Russell " got up," to use a theatrical phrase, the op position to the re-election of Sir C. M. Sutton. - They put forward one who unites in his own person the character of a Tory placeman and a Whig pensioner, having ac cepted a judicial sinecure from the Duke of Wellington, and obtained a pension of 20001. a year from the Whigs for resigning that, which, as a professed Reformer, he ought never to have accepted. We advocate not the corruptions of either the Whig or Tory party. We want to obtain justice for the country—we want to see every burden removed from the overtaxed people that can be spared ; but while such jobs as we have described are allowed to be carried into effect for the advantage of either Whig or Tory, the curse of Jsachar rather than the bless ing of Judah will rest upon the people of England—they will less resemble a lions' whelp than an ass couching be tween burdens, The Whig-Radicals having put forward Mr. Abercomby, what. was the ground upon which they piofessedly supported him ? It was " public principle." How did they endeavour to prove that public principle was the pole-star of their conduct on this occasion ? They at first attempted, through their Journals, to disparage the qualifications of Sir C. Manners Sutton and to raise those of his opponent in comparison. When, however, their own testimonies in favor of the unrivalled accomplishments of the late Speaker in the late Parliament were quoted against them, they could not strike that string any longer without confessing themselves toile p4her false witnesses in the present instance, or the most unblushing hypocrites when they uttered those praises, which, if not founded in conscious truth, were among the grossest deceptions that a " Reform Ministry " ever practised upon a credulous public, They fennel It ne , cessary tl.en tg 4414 that Pir C. Manners Sutton had every requisite for the Speakership of the House of Com mons which could give to that high and arduous office dig nity, grace, and efficiency. Even the character for " strict and undeviating impartiality" in the Chair, which the Whigs had bestowed on him when they propesed biro as Speaker of the first lieforWel Parlimueat, could not now be called in question. What, then, was to be done to ob viate the influence which the possession of so excellent a character and such superior qualifications might produce upon all that portion of the Liberal Representatives who were not so far gone in the spirit of faction as to overlook all such considerations ? It mis micavod to trump up charges of political misconduct against the late Speaker when out of the Chair, which would damage his character in the eyes of many Reformers who would otherwise be disposed to vote for him ; and when it was found that those false accusations had done their work—that the public mind was sufficiently poisoned by their constant reiteration— then the charges were withdrawn, but so short a time be fore the election, that Members, who had been thus in duced to pledge their votes against the candidate who was the object of those calumnies, had not time to reflect upon the dishonest means by which their yetes bad bean en trapped, We acquit Mr, A hers:moray of having at all participated in or sanctioned so disgraceful a proceed proceeding which reflects more dishonour upon the victorious party than they could have suffered from .1 fair defeat. Whoever were the persons who trumped up those charges, they certainly found ready vehicles for their circulation throughout the country, in Morn ing 51 10 Evening. Newsp4pers, fbr the .course of five or six weeks, It was only on the evening before the day of election that one of those Whig-Radical Journals alluded to the report of Sir Charles Manners Sutton being able to 'give those charges a complete refutation, and r." 4 -'.!!9. , _! that no imputation should be made upon the cha racter of that Right Hon. Gentleman, that so the opportu nity of (lisp - eying them might not be given. .We ask if the injustice and influence of faction had ever been displayed in more glaring colours? We ask for any example of such conduct upon any former occasion of the contested election of a Speaker, or, indeed, upon any electimi whatever in which the electors claimed the title of gentlemen, and were pr esuni . o d 1 12 R 9 170; 9 1119 Confident We ore that many of those who voted for Mr. Abercromby were not tainted with any participation in such dishonourable proceedings ; not a few were dupes of the disgraceful ar tifice which _created those groundless charges and kept them la yenornoas ekisteg e e t flying all over the country, day afte r d ay , through coltitilos of the Whig=ltadical journals, and withdrew them at the eleventh hour, with the barefaced acknowledgment that they were withdrawn to prevent Sir C. Manners Sutton having an opportunity of giving them a complete refutation. It was calculated that if no charges were made against the Right Hon. Gentle man in the jime of Commons, lie could not venture into the vindi ca ti on . o f his Character 'without appearing to con tend with newspaper shadows. But lie found that, phan toms of journalism as they were now represented to be, they had both substance and a sting in their effects upon his character and the fate of the election. An artifice some times practised 'at electiono ;Or 4#eipliera of V4fha-7 meat by th e mos t di s h onest part i sans, i s to ra i se a I re- port of a candidate haNing cheated his creditors or 0 on something-else disgraceful, and many a man whose char. to ter was without blemish, has lost his election by a cabin - I.ly of this kind, which, although it bore an easy refutation at the hustings, had already done the mischief which its fans is cators intended, by driving the prejudice too deeply ir,,z , men's minds to be easily got rid - of or suddenly effac e d by any explanation. The baseSt electioneering stratass,ern that could be resort e d t o i n th e case o f other electior,s by un principled partisans has been successfully employed. to turn the scale in a contest for the exalted 'office of Speaker of the Commons of England. Losing his election by such means must be far less painful to the mind of an hrmourable man like Sir Charles Manners Sutton, than to 'have suc ceeded by the use of such means as have been employed against him. He may truly say, as a distinguished mai said before him, who was defeated, but not disgraced —"I have not suffered the greatest loss—that of honour." Even Lord John Russell admits, as will be seen front the report of the debate, that the late Speaker's character was uniin peached—and so it was in the House—and so it now is in the country ; but the mischief of the calumny Lord John knew was at that time effected, although the calumny was groundless. Lord John, having disclaimed any other ground for his opposition to Sir Charles Manners Sutton than " public principle," chose to quote a precedent to justify his conduct ; and what a precedent! A Whig leader, wishing to fortify himself with some Constitutional authority, opens the book of English history to look for it —where ? In that chapter which records the acts of the corrupt, the oppressive, sand disastrous Administration of Lord North ! He relies upon the successful opposition to the re-election of Sir Fletcher Norton given by that Minister ; an opposition conceive" in personal malice, and rendered successful by a fraud! The Minister, to Carry his object, was under the necessity of imposing upon the House by a delib era t e f a l se h oo d. Si nce Lord John Rus sell chooses to make it a parallel case, we cannot do less than give him the full benefit of such a precedent. Un doubtedly Sir Fletcher Norton is not the only candidate for the Speaker's Chair against whom fraud and falsehood haVe been employed by some persons as legitimale weapons of political warfare. We re f er t o t h e speec h of S i r Robert P ee l, no t - only for the apt and ready answers which he gave to Lord John Russell's precedents--for he quoted another one—but for the complete vindica tion which be, established of the late Speaker's con duct; with regard to the Ministerial appointments, for one of which it was stated that he had been in triguing, and this was one of the charges repeatedly made against him in the Whig-Radical Journals. Sir Robert stated that he had applied to the Right Hon. Gentleman to know whether he was willing to accept office under the Crown, and the answer which he received was, " I have served in the Chair for a period of eighteen years, and I do feel that if I were now to enter the arena of discussion, I should, after so long a service in the authority of that office, run the risk of lowering it if I appeared in the House of Commons as a Member of the Government." The Pre mier added that, when lie learned that upon that ground Sir C. Manners Sutton was not willing to enter into the service of the Crown, he did not feel it his duty t'S consult his Right Hon. Friend, either as to the formation of the Government or its policy. What a mass of columns, built upon the supposition of such interference, is here thrown to the ground ! But we forget—the question was not one of personal considerations, personal character, personal merits, or personal qualifications—it was one entirely and solely of"pub lic principle !" The part which Lord Stanley took in this debate was worthy his character for high and honourable sentiments, and an attachment to Constitutional principles, stronger than any party considerations. He inquired what the great principle was upon which the opponents of the late Speaker rested their case ? He clearly showed that if it meant the having a Speaker whose own political sen timents were in accordance with those of the. majority, it was not the principle which Lord Grey and the Whig Ministers recognised or acted upon, when they proposed Sir C. Manners Sutton for the Chair of the first reformed Parliament. If those Ministers had sacrificed a great principle placing him in the Chair, well knowing that his political opinions were not in accordance with those of the majority of the House, nothing on earth would have justified them in acting as they had done. But if the circumstances of that period were so different from those of the present as to make it necessary to have a trial of party strength with the existing Government, he thought an act of grosser in justice could not' be committed than the taking a decision upon that point on a question materially affecting the ho nour and character of an individual. He emphatically said, " I appeal to the honour and candour of gentlemen in this House, when I ask them if it is not an injustice to remove a Speaker against whom it is not only admitted that there is no present charge, but who is allowed on all sides to be pre-eminently qualified for the situation—if it be not an injustice to remove him for the purpose of ascertaining the strength of parties." But reason or a sense of justice could not prevail with those who had made up their minds to sacrifice both the one and the other to a " great principle." Therefore the new House of Commons was deprived of one of the verb ablest Speakers that any House of Commons ever possessed, without its being possible, in the hour of conflict., to throw the slightest imputation on his character, whether in or out of the Chair. But while both the Legis lature and the public will have reason to regret this politi cal defeat, it has been to Sir C. Manners Sutton a moral victory.—Morning Herald. The proceedings of yesterday in the House of Commons will produce a general feeling of dismay throughout the country, and we shall indeed be greatly surprised if even the Whig-Radical party do not speedily turn hack with affright from what themselves have done. In the Iti ory of Parliament there was never perhaps a' instance in which the strength of argument and +) e strength of num bers were more diametrical]; opposed. But it is unneces sary for us to urge this, for it was very candidly admitted by some of those who degraded themselves by swelling the Whig-Radictslsmajority. It is now for the country to pro nounce whether it - skinks its interests can be safe in a state of things in which the Members of the Legislature are compelled to vote in obedience to the mandates of the more ignorant classes of society, and in opposition to their own conscientious convictions upon the most important subjects. The Whig-Radical triumph of estorday is the triumph of the revolutionary principle of Parliamentary representation. It is the victory of pa rochial clubs and of taproom declamation. It is a prece dent which, if it be permitted to run its course, degrades the House of Commons into an office for the registration of the decrees of the thoughtless and insignificant persons who play the part of orators and leaders in the haunts of local vice and dissipation. We refer to the speech of Mr. Ferguson for one out of the many instances that might be adduced in illustration of our assertion, that the House of Commons, in electing Mr. Abercromby in - opposition to Sir • charlea Manners Sutton, did not speak the sense or uphold the dignity, but manifested the folly and exposed the degradation, of that branch of the Legislature: To the influence. which we have described of the lower orders of English electors, acting through the agency of local clubs, is to be added the numbers which the O'Connell faction in Ireland brought forward to reinforce the power of British ignorance and disaffection. Mr. O'Connell, and the party which surrounds and sus tains him, were in fact the prime authors of the whole proceeding. Sir Charles Manners Sutton was not a Speaker who filled the Chair in a manner favourable to the purposes of agitation, From Mr. Abercromby something better may be expected. Mr. O'Connell may now say with im punity to the face of the present House of Commons, what he only ventured to say of the last House of Commons behind , their backs. It is remarkable that in the debate of yesterday the man wilo really got up the question and deCisled its issue was entirely silent, and that the same. taciturnity was imposed upon the whole of his En glish and Irish followers. Mr. Hume, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Wakley (from whom a brilliant display had been expected) even Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, who is known to possess the ability of inflicting a lively harangue upon the House, were so discreet or so cunning as to hold their tongues. The whole of these gentlemen yielded to the timid scruples of the Radical- Whigs. Lord John Russell knew that the success of the measure depended upon keeping its interior machinery out of sight. And for some valuable consideration, to be here- after paid at the expense of the country, Mr. O'Con nell agreed to give a silent vote, and to make his dependants and confederates imitate his example.— What can 411 this contrivance mean, if it be not that the Whigs are ashamed to show themselves to the country in those chains which they have per mitted the Radicals to cast upon them, and that the Radicals have seen it to be their interest for once to refrain from leading in open triumph the captive Whigs? The result' of yesterday's debate appears in its [mopes place ; and deplorable as that result is in itself, it will appear more so when compared with the discussion which preceded it. The speech of Sir Charles Manners Sutton in vindication of his own past cOnduct was all that the warmest of his friends cqul4 114ve wished. It was calm, argumentative, dignified, and manly, The Pre noer made an earnest and impressive appeal to the good sense of the House, which could not have failed to decide its vote upon the question at issue, had not a large propor tion of the Members been deprived of the power of exercis ing their independent judgment by the authoritative core.- mond of the persons who elected them i n intent upon ulterior obiects, with the merit, whether positive or cemparatisle, of the candidates for the Chair had no con nection whatever. The speech of Lord Stanley excited universal admiration for the cogency of its arguments, the clearness of its exposures, the point aod ylgonr of its well-directed sarcasm. To cheep displays of wisdom and of power there was literally % nothing to oppose. And Mr. Abercromby is now Speaker of the House of Commons by _.:-~.~ i ()P . nothi ng , o r nothing worthy of attention., having b een iI sait''. in his behalf. Lord anllej' Stuart, of all the mem -1-) ars of the :Whig party, acted the most honourable and manly part He came boldly forward aad said, that not- I withstanding all She solicitations whieb had been addressed tc,, him, he would vote, as - his conscience dictatad, in favour i of the Right -Hon. Gentleman who for eighteen years had I filled the Chair of that House, 'with great honour to him self, and advantage to the publics—M<,rning Post. ( The good cause has, as we have all along foretold, ob- • tained a signal triumph. Mr. Abercromby has been chosen ' Speaker by a majority of 10, in a House of 626 members .: the largest on record. Our readers will see from this, that we did not speak of the victory of the Reformers as certain, on ,light grounds. They will now he able to estimate the salute of the assertions so confidently made by the Times and., other Tory journals, either without Correct knowledge or for purposes of delusion. 'Whatever our opinions may be,, we will never allow them to influence our statements. Truth ought to be the polar star of the journalist, and we will never willingly deviate from it to serve a par ticular . purpose. • From the sources 'of information open „to . us, we know that if airy reliance was ta e'' - rilaced.. - On the most positive assuranacs—if bonwar and honesty had any existence among men—Mr. .Ab er _ cromby could not fail to be chosen Speaker. We have not been deceived. The immense importance of the vote • of last night will soon be understood. Our readers will perceive, from our report of the proceedings, and the List of the Majority, Minority, and Absent, that there divided in favour of Sir Charles Manners Sutton, not only all those on whose support the Government can count, but the Stanley or neutral party, the Trimmers, and several Mem bers who are pledged, as Reformers, to oppose -Ministers. We have thus on one side the whole Tory strength, backed by all the Neutrals, the Waverers—the source whence alone Ministers can by possibility add to their numbers—with the addition of defections from the ranks of the Reformers, front personal and accidental considerations ; and on the other. not the whole strength of the Opposition. The conclusion is obvious. Ministers cannot possibly carry on the Govern ment with the present Parliament. The vote of last night proves much more than a vote on some particular question, calculated to gain the votes of the Waverers and Trim , liters as well as Reformers, that the country has no con ' fidence in the present Ministry, that it believes their professions of reform assumed .for the purpose of decep tion, and that the object for which they took office was to prevent, reform, and to frustrate the hopea of the people from the Reform Bill. On no conceive*. question can Ministers hope to obtain so large a division in their fa vour ; for of the 32 absent Members, 1) : - .,' . are Reformeri, and only seven Anti-Reformers i and therefore, without counting on the natural effect Of the vote of last night on the Waverers and Trinnners, the Reformers have a consi derable reserve '.'n the absent Members. The present wretched c L . '',,Tinistry, who deluded th emse l ves w i t h the hope ". oeing able to conduct the Government in defiance of the nation, must prepare for a speedy exit from the scene. To all lovers of peace and order, who seek reform only through safe and constitutional channels, the vote of 'last night must be. gratifying beyond measure. It tells Ministers, in a language not to be mistaken, that their plans for deceiv ing the people have signally . failed. If, unfortunately, Reformers had been less impressed with the importance of the first vote of this Parliament, and had suffered the Tories to gain a victory, the cause of reform might have received serious injury. Ministers might have been tempted to pursue their schemes of deception and fraud, the less decided Reformers might have lost heart ;. and thus, step by - step, the Tories might have been encouraged to attempt mea sures so 'revolting to the nation,that patience under them might hive ceased to be a virtue, and the consequences might have been most calamitous. But the sham Reformers must now give place to real Reformers. Our institutions will be placed in harmony with the Reform Nil ; and this great and prosperous nation will no longer be tormented by the attempts to govern in defiance to public opinion and to the spirit of the age. Hence forward the course is easy and. safe. The Reformers, confident in their strength, tray laugh to scorn the Tories. The organs of Ministers are again threatening us with dis solution. A correspondent in the a//bion of last night (the Duke's own paper), under the signature of " mbra," tells us th a t " the p resent Mi n i stry are not only calmly • prepared, but steadily resolved to do their duty. It is out of the question to imagine their abandoning their post with out one more distinct appeal - to the people, on th e s p ec ifi c question; ' Wh o s h a ll b e t h e King r And the Albion, commenting on this letter, has the assurance to say— "lt would certainly be a subject of much regret and patriotic - shame, that so many Members of Parliament should be found banded together in the cause of brazen-fronted falsehood, and reck less factiousness, as would be necessary to prevent the election of Sir C. M. Sutton. But beyond this—beyond the triumph, of fraud, impudence, injustice, and gross tyranny, of which such preventio n would be the evidence; we do not see so much reason to dread' deprecate the event as others see. Their judgment may be letter than ours—their anxiety for the success of the good cause, we are sure, cannot be greater ; but the opinion we have fon:at(' we shall not hesitate to declare :—We do not think that under the prudent, determined, conscientious Government, which ave now trust we have, that the nation need consider the eleet;.On of a Radical and palpably inefficient Speaker (should SQ `Anprobable - an event take place) as the step immediately preced;, ng that which shall put our necks under the feet of the most tyrannical wretches now existing in the sphere of British politiP:g—namely, John George L am bt on , Earl of Du r h am , and Da.a'.el O'Connell.' Let th em venta';re to provoke th e i n di gna ti on o f the country by 'such an appeal. They have already tried bri beryliP:a) intimidation to the extent of their ability ; they ''Nosy what they can hope for from this source ; but if they think that they can with impunity add the further insult to the nation of openly attempting to govern by prerogative, instead of by Parliament, through wearing out the people by frequent elections, they will find themselves wofully mis taken. We treat their threats with scorn. Sir R. Peel dares not offer this insult to the nation. He cannot be at a loss to understand the consequence of the vote of yesterday ; and we are much mistaken if he have not already determined on the course he is to take. Lord Stanley's speech, last night, was character ized by a total want of tact, g oo d taste,judgment, . and • proper feeling ; and we may, without hesitation, affirm, that he threw away all hopes of playing a distinguished part in these eventful times. It was precisely such a speech as his worst enemies would have wished him to make ; and if any thing could add to the regret of his friends, it was the hearing Sir M. W. Ridley loudly cheering the most intemperate and absurd passages. We could hardly have believed Lord Stanley. elm:fable of the spiteful attacks which he directed against Mr. Abercromby. However, we do not wish to dwell on the unfa vourable side of the picture. The triumph of the people ought alone to fix our attention at this time. The hypo crites and imposters, like foul birds of night, must retire at the approach of the light of Reform. The nation will easily shake off its Tory incumbrances, and the cause of Reform will advance easily and naturally under the gui dance of men in whom the people repose confidence. The enemies of Reform are the enemies of the King ; for they who would stretch prerogative so far as to bring it into collision with the constitutional rights of the people, are the most dangerous advisers by whom a Constitutional King can be surrounded.—Morning Chronicle. BASALTIC COLUMNS.—A range of Basaltic. co lumns has been discovered on the south side of Ca.irr.earny in the parish of Connor, three miles N.E. of Antrim. The columns are as regularly formed as those of 1:1ie Giant's Causeway—they are in general hexagonal—they incline f rom the perpendicular towards th e nor th at an 'angle of about 17 degrees, the columns at either side leanin-6. towards the centre. The space of ground already opened is about 40 feet in breadth, and fourteen deep ; the c , . ) .unms appearing at present being about 12 feet in height. It is the opinion of a scientific friend (as far as he could i'ddrre from a hurried observation), that these columns form. probably part of a great whin dye, running southward frrJrn the northern shores of Antrim, and that they will not be found to extend much beyond the width now exposed to view, either towards the east or west. This will, in some degree, soon be ascertained. In the mean time the discovery of such regular basaltic columns so far inland may form to the geologist a subject of interesting speculation. —Belfast News Letter. The most marked traits in the character of Ark wright were his wonderful ardour, energy, and perseverance. ' He commonly laboured in his multifarious concerns from Ave o'clock in the morning until nine at night; and, when consi derably more than fifty years of age, feeling that the defects of his education placed him under great difficulty and inconve nience in conducting his correspondence, and in the general management of his business, he encroached upon his sleep in order to gain an hour each day to learn English grammar, and another hour to improve his writing and orthography ! H e uas impatient o f w h a t ever i nter f ere d w i t h his favourite pur suits; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to b e . mentioned, that ho separated from his wife not many yrars after their marriage, because she, convinced that he '.vould starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery. Arkwright was a severe economist of time ; and, aw l he might not waste a moment, he generally travelled with tour horses, ar.d at a very rapid speed. His concerns in Det : byshire, Lan cashire, and Scotland, were so 'extensive and numerous as to show at once his astonishing power of transacting business and his all-grdsping spirit. In many of these he had partners, but he generally managed in such a way that whoever lost he him self was a gainer. So unbounded was his, confidence in the sucecaz of his machinery, and in the national wealth to be pro duced by it, that he would make light of discussions on taxa tion, and say that he would pay the national debt ! His spe culative schemes were vast and dari ng ; he contemplated en tering into the most extensiv'l mercantile transactions, and buying up all the cotton the world, in order to make an enormous profit by tile monopoly ; and, from the extravagance of some of thew' designs, his judicious friends were of opinion that if ile had lived to put them in practice he might Imo overset the whole fabric of his prosperity !--.Fropt History of the Cotton Manufacture. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, When we yesterday addressed our readers] we had not anticipated the election of Mr. Abercromby as Speaker, by the defeat of Sir Charles M. Sutton. It was our expectation that the latter gentleman would have been chosen, though by a small majority, be cause he had the . whole body of Conservatives avow edly for his supporters, and because, if the' Whig party had been either consistent with itself, or alive to what will be the probable consequence of its own un natural confederacy with another class of persons, it would also have voted for Sir Charles Sutton on this occasion, as it praised, recommended, and joined in electing him on the last. Sir Charles Sutton, how ever, after first being acquitted by the Opposition leaders of every charge, whether of political delinquency, party indiscretion, or even doubtful taste, between his former election and the present motion to re-elect him— charges which it had been the sole business of the Whi g _ Radical journals to make or to insinuate for the last three weeks—has been unceremoniously told that his Services and reputation go for nothing,—that his conduct as Speaker, or his fitness for the office, is not worth inquiring into, — and that without examination, and without comparison of any sort, another Speaker shall be preferred before him ; thus convicting of gross hypocrisy or folly the whole mass of pretences on which the Whig-Radicals first succeeded in getting up an opposition to the former choice of the House, and on•which various bodies of constituents had been induced to exact promises from their Representatives against Sir C. Sutton. We have said that the event of yesterday has surprised us. It has done more—it has deeply chagrined and pained us. And this we say, without any reference to the personal pretensions of Mr. Aber cromby. But that is not the point. The people of Eng land will not confine their views upon the Parliamentary proceedings of yesterday—to the merits of either of the gentlemen who stood against each other for the Presidency of the House of Commons. They will look to the mo tives through which the successful candidate was chosen, to tl - .e power by which be was nominated, and to the further operation of similar motives actuating the same power in it:s losislative capacity upon the interests and well-being of the State. The purpose of the opposition to Sir Charles Sutton, as latterly avowed, after the earlier pretexts had been abandoned, was to secure a Speaker whose political sentiments should .be in accordance with those of the " majority" of the House of Commons. We have already demanded under what description of members the " ma jority" of the. House is to be found ? and what answer, we should like to know, can by possibility be returned to such a question ? The proposition can never be dwelt upon too forcibly, that mere, concurrence in a single vote, or assent, however active, to any single measure cannot be considered the binding test or constituting principle of a party. When we ask what is the party of whom Mr. Abercromby has been chosen as the representative, some people of course, for want of a more specific phrase, may tell us the " Re form" party ; that is, when you come to cross-examine them, the majority of Parliament which voted for the Re form Bill as contradistinguished from those who opposed that measure ; but such a definition will soon, we suspect, be dropped, on reminding gentlemen, as we observed some days ago, that it would include many who no longer form any portibn of the same or even of two contiguous parties: It would embrace on one side, the anti-Englisb, or O'Connell party—on the other, such persons as Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Grad, Sir James Graham—for they were stanch supporters of the Reform Bill —nay, it would absolutely make Mr. Abercromby represent, among his other indoor constituents, - Lord Stanley (being a Re former), and Sir Francis Burdett (being a vetern Refor mer), both of whom voted, and the former of them spoke against him ! This is marvellous. -It is even an awful, prospect for the country. The tie, and the only ostensible one, which unites the majority through whose co-operation Mr. Abercromby was yesterday voted into the chair is, or can be, no other than one solitary vote. We are some what sceptical as to the existence of any second question on which they can act together as a party. On the address it will be difficult, we should - think, to frame an amendment on which all those Members can unite who yesterday voted for the Speaker. Unless the whole business of the session could be confined to the n:anufacturing of Speakers, there must within the very first month be " twenty mortal gashes" in this majority. It must split into unnumbered pieces, leaving the only solid, incorporated, and extensive party in the House, viz., the Conseivative, not represented by the Speaker, nor having in the chair a suitable organ of its sentiments. But the true motive and real bond of the temporary confederacy by which Sir C. Sutton has been rejected, is the effort to destroy the Administration. And what then ? What next ? The question is so all im portant, that we must claim permission to repeat it. What will the Whig-Radicals attempt when the King sends for One of them to rocz;nstructi-the Government.? . Suppose hej sends for Lord Melbourne, will Lord Melbourne sit in the same Cabinet with an Irish Repealer, or an abettor of an- nual Parliaments ? Will Lord Spencer, though more to lerant of such cattle, like to feed out of the same crib ? The O'Connell section of the Speaker-spinning majority, counting•with it the English Destructives, is numerically stronger in the present Parliament than the old Whig party. Can the latter, then, shoulder their masters out of Downing -street ? If they cannot, there is at once a Destructive Ministry. Will that do ? If the Whigs do exclude the Destructives from their partnership, and succeed in filling up the offi cial places with persons of their own coterie, shutting out every other, how much longer than a single week would be the duration of such a government ? Why, their whole army would not muster 150 votes ; with a determined and exasperated ultra Radical Opposition on one de of about 170., and a Conservative on the other of som thing more than 300 ; we put it, therefore, to the nation to look searchingly into this entire question, to follow out the po litical premises to their conclusion, and see if it be not inevitable, that failing Sir Robert Peel's Administration, there must be either a mixed Government of Whigs and Destructives, the major part being Destructives, whose short tenure of office would nevertheless be equal to the duration of the Monarchy: or a make-believe Government of mere Whigs, which, like a: house of cards, the first puff of opposition would blow down. These practical sug gestions upon the state of the country are not of a nature to make themselves felt by a hot, and eager, and shortsighted body of place-hunters. But they are such as it imports the people of England, and the independent and unpledged men in Parliament, to aet upon while it yet is in their power. A party vote (we must not now say factious, or the Liberals will be upon us)—a party vote for Speaker is an evil, but a limited one. It need not drag any fatal conse quences after it, if it be not followed up by other mere party votes, bearing directly upon the existence of the Government. We would only entreat both Members and their constituents to look out in time. With regard to the debate of yesterday,. gentlemen seemed more anxious to come to blows, than to parley long beforehand. The late Speaker delivered a powerful vindication of his own con duct (hiving the recess, and knocked down like nine-pins all the wretched attacks that i 144 peep tTIPPPP4 up against him. Lord Stanley made a vigorous and indignant speech in support of Sir Charles Sutton ; and was answered, though feebly, by the new leader, Lord John Russell, who was strangely unlucky in the illustrations of his historical research. For egamplg, when quoting from a speech of Sir Harbottle Grimstone (anno 108) (41 a W4Pstirill arising gut of the re jection of Mr. Seymour by the King, after being elected Speaker by the House, we presume it was Lord John's intent to frighten Ministers touching the late dissolution of Parlia- ••• merit -- ; but in quoting a passage which he thought bore upon the subject, his Lordship stated it thus :—" Who ever broke the last Parliament without the desire cf this House will break this too, to the utter undoing of the na tion." But as we keep a sharp eye on politicians who quote sentences for a particular object, we turned to Grey's Parliamentary Debates, and found that Lord John, in his anxiety doubtless to save the time of the House, had woo how or other ountrive4 to distort the meaning of the passage-,-" Whoever hroltc the last ParliaroPot without the -insire of this House, or Me advice os the Privyco u ned, that 41 qt broke that Parliament w ill b rea k t hi s t oo , to man or men • - .1 • nation This is what be the utter undoing or tn,J 4 .! )(1 . , called sha r p p rac ti ce i n an O ppos iti on ..7. l .' ie f• after this, we cannot be surprised that the termination of the dispute in Seymour's case appears to havo•oseaped Lord John Russell's notice. The affair, however, ended in the withdrawal of Mr. Seymour by the Commons, and the proposal of Mr. Sergeant Gregory in his stead—and by whom ? Why, by Lord Russell, who, in noininating . the Sergeant, used these remarkable words :—" I hope the occasion of the late unhappy differences about tho oboi(je of our Speaker is removed by the prorogation. And I hope now that no ill persons, by tricks, can create a misunderstanding betwixt the King and his people, and hinder the happy ejects of this Session," Again, his Lordship had the modesty,—the compound modesty and common sense,—to adduce, in justification of the vote against Sir Charles Manners Sutton, the precedent set by that virtuous Minister Lord North! which we recalled yesterday to notice—viz., his expulsion of Sir Fletcher Norton from the chair for being an honest Speaker. His Lordship was, however, lucky in his prece dent, for Sir Fletcher Norton was cashiered orifidoo pre tences. Sir Robert Peel exposed the parallelism of this egregious precedent in the most emphatic manner, and dashed to pieces the somewhat elaborate fabric of the ,Noble Lord's harangue. Nor was his ridicule of Mr. De nison's beau ideal of impartiality in . a Speaker less triumphant. In fact, it was the general observation both in the body of the House and in the gallery that there was an immense preponderance of reason and argument on the