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MORN ING SUN PRIESTLY TYRANNY. REPORT of the Proceedings of the Presbytery of Arbroath, in the Complaint at the instance of George Key, against the Kirk Session of Barry, for depriving him and his Wife of Church Privileges, in consequence of their having Buried their Child on a Sablrath•Mornin' g. The ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Presbytery of Arbroath was held in the Town-hall on 'Wednesday, Dec. I. Sederunt—the Rev. Messrs. Walker, Muir, Bar clay, T. Wilson, W. Wilson, Crichton, Lumsden, Mac beth, Kirk, Dymock, Arkley, and Weir, ministers; Atesirs. Tod, Stephen, Petrie, Guthrie, Strachan, Mill (In vdikeillor), and Milne (Abbey Church), elders. After the disposal of a variety of routine business, the Presby tery proceeded to the consideration of the complaint against the Moderator and Kirk Session of Barry. As a considerable degree of excitement prevails in the public mind in regard to this case, it may be necessary, in order to enable parties to form a correct judgment on the merits of the question, to recapitu/ate the previous procedure. 'At the meeting of Presbytery held on the Ist of September last, there was presented the following Petition and Complaint:— Unto the Reverend the Presbytery of Arbroath ; the humble Petition of George Key, servant to William Henderson, Esq., of Grange of Barry, Sheweth—That the petitioner is under the necessity of applying to the Presbytery, for protection from certain proceedings adopted against him by the Kirk Session of Barry, in which parish he has resided for the last five years, during which period he has been in communion with the Established Church of Scotland. The circum stances are these:— _ _ The petitioner is a married man, and has a wife and one child, a girl five years of age, still alive. His only other child died on the 30th day of April last, after a short illness, at the age of six years. In order to enable the relations and friends to attend the funeral, the peti tioner was under the necessity, and considered that Sab bath, the 2d day of May last, was the day for his family and relations altogether most suitable for the interment. The interment accordingly took place early on that day. The ceremony was conducted with proper and becominr , solemnity, and was concluded , in the church-yard a Barry, before the Minister entered the church for the purpose of conducting divine service in the forenoon. The petitioner's relations and friends, who attended the funeral, attended also the service in the church. Early on the following morning , the person at present performing the duties of Session Officer called upon the petitioner, and left averbal message for the petitioner, that the Kirk Session wanted to see him in the evening. As no intimation was given to the petitioner of the cause or purpose for which he was thus called before the Session, and as the petitioner was not conscious of having done anything as to which the Session had a right to interfere, he did not attend. On the afternoon of following Saturday (Bth May), the Rev. Mr. Lnmsden, the Minister of the parish, called at the petitioner's house when the petitioner was from home, engag ed at his ordinary employment, but the peti tioner's wife was in the house. In place of "endeavour ing to soothe her . distressed feelings for her recent be reavement, or to sympathize with. her in her affliction, Mr. Lumsden accused her and her husband of having desecrated the previous Sabbath, by having interred on that day the remains of their deceased child ; and he told her, in what she considered a harsh manner, that unless both she and her husband should immediately ap• pear before the Kirk Session of Barry, and confess that they had been guilty of desecrating the Sabbath, and submit to be rebuked by him before the Session for that offence, he would have recourse to the law of the Church, and excommunicate them, by refusing them tokens for the then approaching Sacrament. The petitioner's wife told Mr. Lumsden, in a respectful manner, that she would be sorry if he did so • but that neither she nor h er hus band would confess Of being guilty of a crime by having performed the painful, but necessary, duty of burying a beloved child. Subsequent to the visit from Mr. Lnmsden, just men tioned, the petitioner and his wife have been annoyed, and had their feelings lacerated, in their own house, on five different occasions, by visits from and verbal cotn munino-'s with Mr. Lurnsden and other members of the Kirk Session, and Session officer, with a view to induce the petitioner to appear before the Session, and confess that he had done wrong in burying his child on the Sabbath day, to which the petitioner would not agree. At length, on the 3d day of July last, a written sum mons was left at the petitioner's house, to the following effect : " By order of the Kirk Session of Barry. "I, James Buik, Session Officer, hereby summon you, George Key, resident at Grange of Barry, to attend a meeting of the said Session, to be held in Barry School house, on the evening of Monday, the sth day of July, 1841, at seven o'clock evening. Witness my hand this 3d day of July, 1841, (Signed) "JAMES BULK, Session Officer. " To George Key, Grange of Barry." It will be observed that this summons does not charge the petitioner with any offence, and the Kirk Session of Barry has never yet brought any charge against him. In consequence of the written summons before quoted, the petitioner went with Mr. James Wighton, a friend of his master, to the Kirk Session, to ascertain what the Session had to charge the petitioner with ; but the clergyman declined to give any information to the peti tioner in Mr. Wighton's presence ; and, after some irre gular proceedings on the part of Mr. Lumsden, the peti tioner returned home. On Thursday the Bth day of July last, being the Sa cramental Fast-day, the petitioner went, along with the other members of the congregation, to get tokens for himself and his wife for the communion table, but he was refused them. He again applied for them on the evening of the following Saturday (10th July, 1841), both to one of the Elders (William Ewen), and also to Mr. Lumsden, but he was then "peremptorily and distinctly" refused them. The petitioner having, by these harsh and irregular proceedings been cast out of the Established Church of Scotland, and held up and stigmatised to the world as a criminal, and the . sacred feelings of his wife and only surviving child having been injured, and that, too, with out specifying any charge against the petitioner, he will be driven , to seek religious instruction for himself and family under some other Church, unless the Rev. Presby tery interfere, and interpose their authority to relieve and protect him from the oppressive and tyrannical pro ceedings of the Kirk Session of Barry. The petitioner has the greatest reverence for the Church of Scotland, in the principles of which he was educated, brought up, and has all along lived, and under whose religious instruction it is his most anxious desire to continue and educate his only surviving child. May it therefore please the Reverend Presbytery to tike the petitioner's case into their consideration to find that the said Kirk Session of Barry acted wrongfully in excluding the petitioner from the Sacra ment ; to ordain the Kirk Session to expunge from its records the proceedings against the petitioner ; to restore him to his privileges in the Church, and to do otherwise in the premises as to the Presbytery shall seem just. According to justice, &c. (Signed) _ _ GEORGE KEY. No report has been preserved of the highly characte ristic preceedings which followed on the presentation of this petition ; but the res geske will be easily enough gathered from the annexed. • The Presbytery met in the Guildhall on Wednesday last, and was constituted by prayer by the Rev. Mr. Walker, the Moderator. Mr. Anderson, writer, appeared for the petitioner. After reading the minutes of the previous sederunt, Mr. Wilson, of Carmylie, stated that it was the universal practice of the Church tv proceed with closed doors in all cases of -discipline ; and therefore moved that the Presbytery should follow the same course in the pre sent case. Mr. Muir, of St.Vigean'!—This is no case of disci pline at all. It is a. complaint of oppression against the harsh and tyrannical proceedings that, of the Kirk Session of Barry. It is quit e true t, in cases of discipline, the Presbytery univer sa ll y and wisely diffwisely proceed with closed doors ; but this is quite a adulte , Tent matter. This is not a case of fornication or of such a nature that it would 7, where the evidence is in open Court. Here there is n e improper . to adduce it taint the minds of the most delicate impure that could was a case of the greatest and :ate or fastidious. It public. The Presbytery had alreostd vital interest to the Com mittee, the labours of which, he considered appointed a probality, produce numerous cases o sitred would, in all many cases similar to the present might tlpline : and, as essentially the duty and interest of every arise, it was man to • tain clearly the mind of the Presbytery on ascer the subject.— (Loud approbation from the audience.) Mr. Wilson, Carmylie, considered the sounds the .1) bytery had just heard w ere of themselve s very s ' res ' reasons for their excluding the p ublic from their delibera tions,tiffients on account of their improper behaviour. Il e wa , sur prised to hear it stated that t his was no case of disci_ Aline ; and craved the decision of the Court on the mo tion which he had submitted. • Mr. Muir moved that the Presbytery should proceed with this case in the ordinary way. Mr. Kirk; of Arbirlot, agreed with Mr. Muir that this was not an ordinary case of discipline. He thought it should not be conducted with closed doors. On the motion being seconded, Mr. Anderson said his client had no wish for con cealment. It should, therefore, be distinctly understood, i that if there was any desire to shun publicity, t was not on his part, but rested solely with the Presbytery. The roll was then called, and the state of the vote was found to be as follows :— Fur Mr. Muir's motion (that the public should not be excluded), 3 ; for Mr. Wilson's motion (that the doors should be closed), 9. On the roll being called, and Mr. Lumsden's vote being tendered, Mr. Anderson objected to his sitting as a Judge in a case in which he was a witness, and had a personal interest, and protested against his vote being recorded. " You can't be heard ! you can't be heard !" exclaimed several members of the Presbytery simultaneously. • Mr. W. Wilson's motion was thus carried by a ma jority of 6, and the Moderator intimated to the audience the Presbytery's resolution to proceed with closed doors, and desired them to 'withdraw. Two or three gentle men immediately rose and retired, but the rest of the spectators quietly kept their seats. A very embarrassing pause now occurred, in the course of which the leading members of Presbytery exchanged looks o f surprise and astonishment, and anxiously whispered together. At last silenc e was broke by Mr. Dynaock, of Carnoustie, who, addressing not the Moderator but the spectators, asked, "Does the audience understand that the Moderator has intimated that the Court has determined to proceed with closed doors in this ease, and th a t i t i s therefore necessary for them to • Tre . trr In case they .do not, the Moderator w ill again intiiate the resolution of the Presbytery. The Moderator accordingly made a second time inti mation ; and, as he observed, there were several persons present who had not the good sense and discretion to withdraw of their own accord, in terms of the Presby tery's resolution, he assured them they were only causing a vexatious delay, and iropeding the proceedings in the case. The Moderator was heard with respectful attention, but no one offered to retire. Indeed, instead of diminish ing, the audience was increasing in numbers. The si lence that now ensued was only brotten by the gentlemen who seem to take the entire charge of the Presbytery's business--Messrs. W. Wilson (Carmylie), Lumsden, and Dymock. The import of their, remarks did not reach the ears of the "audience ; but some of them, it would appear, had been caught by Mr. Muir, who enli vened the scene by exclaiming, "Moderator, they say I court popularity. Now it is well known that there never was a man that courted popularity less than I do. I stand up, Sir, simply for reason and justice, and I do so almost alone." A burst of applause from the audience followed. After alittle farther whispering, • Mr. W. Wilson moved that the Presbytery adjourn to Seaton's Hotel, and summon parties aped acta. Mr. Lumsden—l second the motion. Nothing further was done for a considerable time. The trio already mentioned were, as usual, anxiously whispering together. The rest of the members of the Court were warming themselves, and even Mr. Muir, who seldom leaves his seat at the Presbytery's table, drew in his chair towards the fire. At last, Mr. Lums den again tried his influence, and intimated that there could be no manner of .doubt the Presbytery might re more parties by physical force, and afterwards prose cute them for their illegal conduct in impeding the pro ceedings of a Church Court. This, like the rest of the remarks that fell . from the same quarter, was received by the audience with the greatest equanimity ; and the Rev. Gentleman resumed his seat. Shortly, after, however, he again rose, and said that he had already intimated that the parties present had rendered themselves liable to civil penalties. He had now to warn them that they were also subjecting them selves to ecclesiastical censures, and the various Kirk Sessions to which they belonged would be enjoined to deal with them for their conduct. This awful threat seemed to create a " profound sensation" among the members of Court themselves, but it only elicited a gene ral titter from the imperturbable audience. In a short while, Mr. Wilson of Carmylie (who had been absent for a considerable time) returned and announced to the Pres bytery, that he had seen the Provost and one of his legal advisers, on the subject of their present position ; and that they had directed that tke Presbytery should make a formal application in writing, instead of merely a verbal communication. lie had, therefore, prepared a short petition, which he moved should be adopted by the Presbytery, and presented to the Provost. The Moderator inquired if the petition had been agreed to ? Mr. Muir turned round from the fire, and said that it was really necessary that their proceedings should be consistent. It had been agreed to nem. con., not many minutes ago, that the Presbytery should adjourn to Seaton's Hotel, and now they were about to adopt a very different course. He would like to know what the minutes of the meeting bore on the subject. Messrs. Lumsden and — Wilson—No motion was ever made or seconded that the Presbytery should adjourn. Mr. Muir—l care not for that. It was proposed and agreed to, and, as I believe, minuted. Th.) Moderator—l never put any such motion from the chair. Mr. Muir—Moderator, all I want to know is what our clerk has taken down in the minutes? Mr. Lumsden—The clerk may take down anything he likes. That does not signify. Mr. Muir—l want to know what he has taken down. Mr. Lumsden—There are then two motions before the Court— Mr. Muir (interrupting)—l make no motion on the subject. There is no necessity that I should do so. As a member of the Court I am surely entitled to know what has been minuted by the clerk. What ! Is the Presby tery- ashamed of what has been done, and afraid to let it be known ? Mr. Dymock (to the Clerk)—You had better read it. The Clerk then began to read from the minutes, in a low tone of voice, when Mr. Muir called upon him to speak out, as he (Mr. Muir) was a little deaf. He ulti mately read as follows:—" The Presbytery, in conse quence of the audience, after having been repeatedly re quested to withdraw, refusing to do so, resolve to ad journ to Seaton's Hotel, and summon parties apud acta." He then explained thatit was a common thing for him to minute the terms of a motion while it was under discus sion, and that it might be afterwards altered or expunged in any way the Presbytery might think fit. Mr. Wilson (Carmylie), moved that the part of the minutes now read by the Clerk should be expunged. Mr. Lumsden—l second that motion. Mr. Kirk considered Mr. Muir perfectly entitled to in sin on the minutes being read, but there could be no doubt they might be altered in any way the Presbytery pleased, before they► closed the sederunt. Moderator—ls it the Presbytery's pleasure that this part of the minutes be expunged? Mr. Luniiaen—Put it out. The Moderator addressed a note to the Provost re questing him to order the civil power to clear the ball. After a short interval, Provost Mann, Bailios Lyon and Jolly, Mr.Macdonald,Depute Town Clerk, and Mr. Ritchie, Procurator Fiscal, entered the room amidst the plaudits of the audience, who rose in a body as a mark of respect to the Chief Magistrate. Provost Mann, addressing them, said, Gentlemen, a com plaint has been made to me of your having interfered with the proceedings of the Presbytery. They have resolved to proceed with closed doors in a case now before them, and you have refused to withdraw and leave them by them selves. I think it is to be regretted that they should have adopted such a resolution. I disapprove of their pro ceedings as much as you can do—(l-Iear, hear)—but still it appears to me that it would be much more dignified on your part to withdraw of your own accord, and allow them to proceed in their own way. lam not inclined to adopt any proceedings officially to get the Court cleared, and as I have recommended you all to retire voluntarily, I trust nothing farther will be necessary on my part.— (Loud applause.) Mr. Wilson (Carmylie) trusted they would now be enabled to proceed to business. It would be perfectly useless for the audience to attempt to remain longer. He was determined they should not be gratified by being allowed to be present and hear the proceedings in the case ; and he would not submit longer to the treatment the Court had to-day experienced.—(Hisses, followed by the audience resuming their seats.) Provost Mann—" Fie, fie, gentlemen ! Hissing is an unseemly practice at any time, and more especially so in a Church Court." The Moderator hoped the gentlemen present would now have the good sense to retire, without making any farther attempts to impede the business proceeding. He had stated, and now repeated, his own opinion, that the Court should not have been closed ; but after the Pres bytery had deliberately resolved to do so, there was no alternative for the spectators but to retire. Mr. Muir—Gentlemen, as the Provost has requested you to withdraw, although he disapproves of the discre ditable conduct of the Presbytery (in which I think every man of character and conscience must agree with him) I hope you will now obey his solicitation and leave the hall. Loud applause followed Mr. Muir's speech, and the official gentlemen, and the greater part of the audience, withdrew immediately after. Several, however, still seemed disinclined to retire, and kept their seats: where. upon Mr. Weir—who had been gnawing the top of his walking cane for a considerable time, with no great relish apparently—exclaiming " This will never do," bounced out of the room in a very considerable pucker, overtook the Provost at the head of the stair, and-, bringing him back, said, " You must really clear the Court, Provost." The Provost advanced to the Presbytery table, when after some further angry discussion they resolved to ad journ to the Hall. The Moderator then summoned the petitioner to follow the Presbytery, and closed the meeting with prayer. Immediately after leaving the Guild Hall, the Presbytery walked up to Seaton's Hotel, where a room had been engaged for them. Due care having been taken that no intruders had obtained admission, the ad journed meeting was constituted by prayer by the Mode rator ; and the minutes of the previous sederunt having been read, parties were then called ; The Presbytery's resolution to proceed with closed doors was then communicated, against which Mr. J. A. Anderson, for the petitioner, protested, and appealed to the ensuing meeting of the Synod of Angus and Mearns. Thus ended the scene. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. The Committee of Journeymen Silk-weavers, ap pointed to inquire into the state of the Spite!fields trade, and the extent of the distress existing in that dis trict,laid the result of their investigations before a meeting, convened for that. purpose, on Saturday night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Bethnal-green. The following is the report : The Committee bad visited thirty-six streets in Spi talfields, Bethnal-green, and Mile-end New-town. In them were 784 families, comprising about 3,436 persons, taking men, women, and children. There were 1,02.5 loom s in work, and 658 out of work. There were 63 empty houses, lately occupied, in which on an average were three looms each, which made 189 more looms out of work ; which, added to the former, made a total of 847 looms vacated. The Committee were told that those looms which wars at work were only half em ployed. From a general calculation, it is believed that there are between 12,000 and 13,000 looms in the district, halt of which are not in work, while the re maining half are working half time ; and as each loom gre employs three hands, th e weaver, warper, and winder, o a u large m p or i t o i y o a m e o n f t. e T hp: Populati on i s necessarily sung the workh p ouse, so that there areatbody object to go i nto many rooms in which 1 t w o and three families are living together. THE NIGER EXPEDITION. (FURTHER PARTICULARS 1301ITSNOUTLI, MONDAY.—The Horatio transport, s Lieutenant Chapman , a rrived here on Fri day fro m Helena and the Coast of Africa, and has bro ught iintnte' some of the officers who have been invalided belongi ng to the Niger expedition, and who had come down the river in the Soudan steamer. The accounts they bring born e are up to the Ist of' October, and are most deplorable. (These we published yesterday ) The steamers make very slow progress in ascending the river ; none of them are remarkable for their speed. The current of the stream is about three miles and a half, and the average speed of the steamers is six miles, conse quently their progress is not more than two miles and a half per hour. The Albert was to proceed up the Niger, and the Wilberforce up the Tchadda, while the Amelia schooner was to remain at Mount Stirling, where the farm is to be established, and where the tent lately used at the Eglinton tournament has already been pitched. The natives were very friendly ; at Eboe, a town containing 8,000 or . ' 9,000 inhabitants, several of the officers went on shore, the natives crowding to see them. At the Queen's palace they were received by her sable Majesty, who I THE SUN, LON was squatted at the door surrounded by her ladies, the principal of which were decorated sith heavy ivory anklets, weighing fronireiglit to ten pounds each. They seemed much pleased with the visit, and laughed immo derately, and in return for some little trinkets given by the officers, her Majesty presented them with a fowl and some Gooza nuts, the bestowal of which is considered highly complimentary there. The King of Eboe went on board the Wilberforce, accompanied by his son and the interpreter, and others, his suite. A bottle of port wine was placed before — him, which he did not pass round to any of his attendants, but drank it all himself, and then gave a broad hint, which, however, was not taken, for some grog. The King of Attah was more dignified, and upon the Commissioners waiting upon him he told them he was perfectly aware that they were the sub jects of a Sovereign to whom they paid every respect, and he should expect the'same respect paid to him. He should not go on board,. because he considered he was entitled to as much attention as their own Sovereign. He said they might have the command of the water, but he had the command of the land. He looked with per fect indifference on the elegant and valuable presents of velvet robes trimmed with gold, but seemed much taken with the spectacles worn by the chaplain, and gladly accepted several pairs that were given him. He, as well as the King of Eboe, entered most willingly into all the arrangements of the Commissioners, and they both ex pressed their desire that their subjects should be in structed. He sold them_ the land at Mount Stirling, where they intend to establish the settlement, which he said was just within the extent of his dominions. The officers belonging to the expedition who came home in the Horatio are—Lieutenant Harston, Mr. Belem, master, and Assistant Surgeon John Stirling, of the Soudan. LITERATURE. BLACKWOOD'S STANDARD NOVELS,VoI. I. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1841. The present volume contains two of Galt's ear liest and best tales, the " Annals of the Parish," and the " Ayrshire Legators ' " together with a memoir of the author, writte n by his friend, Mr. Moir. This memoir is chiefly taken from Mr. Galt's own autobiography; but the letters in terspersed throughout it are original, and im press us with a highly favourable idea of his frank, manly, and social character. It was un fortunate for his , reputation as an author, that his works appeared about the same time that the Waverlev novels were de lighting or astonishing the world; and being also chiefly devoted to Scottish subjects, were, by the majority of readers, pronounced to be imitations. But nothing was ever further from the truth, for Galt, in his own peculiar line, was quite as original as his master; and in his ad mirable sketch of "Leddy Gripps" in the "En tail," displayed a power of minutely pourtraying character every way worthy of his illustrious contemporary. If Galt had not the exuberant fancy and chivalrous enthusiasm of Scott, he had quite as much humotif," and of a more decidedly Scottish cast, for it was dry, and grave, and caustic, and pre-eminently shrewd ; whereas Sir Walter's—though we do not forget his " Cuddie Headriggs," &c.—had more of the frank, sunny, English bonhommie and cordiality about it. We have little doubt that "Blackwood's Standard No vels" will be a successful speculation, for it is proposed to comprise in the collection some of the cleverest fictions of modern times. PICTORIAL SHAKSPERE. Part XXX VIII. C. Knight, London, 1841. This Part contains the Sonnets of Shakspere —or rather the last portion of them—and is em bellished, as usual, with a variety of appro priate illustrations. THE COMMISSIONER. Part I. Curry. Dublin. 1841. As this is only a First Number, we must see more of the work before we can venture to pro nounce a decided opinion. At present, all we can say is, that it promises well. ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE " The Origin and History of the Indian Navy," written in a brief and, hurried style, forms, ne vertheless, a useful•paper, from the correctness of its data. " The Ceylon system of the Universe," with its thirty-four heavens, one hundred and thirty-six hells, and doctrine of materialism, gives a curious exposition df Cuigalese belief " Papers on Malwa informs us that the notori ous Holkar still lives, though in a most preca rious state, and has adopted Dundee Row, a boy of eleven years of age,• of the Holkar tribe, son of a common Sowar, and thereby entirely shut out the restoration• of, Martin Row. " Life at Melbourne" contains some valuable meteorolo gical observations upon the district, and consi ders the chief causes of its great sickness of late to arise from its river of generally impure water. Honololu, both in its shipping and internal trade is reported to be on the increasing and improve ment. ANTI-MONOPOLY AT LIVERPOOL.—We have great pleasure in stating that a numerous and influential meeting of ths friends of free trade was held in this town, yesterday, Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P., in the chair, at which it was unanimously resolved to form a Society for the purpose of exposing the injustice, and aiding in the overthrdw, of the Corn-laws, the Sugar Coffee, and Timber Duties, and of all other commercial, and agricultural monopolies, and protections of every kind, now in existence.—Liverpool Times. The Railway Bridge, in consequence of the heavy rains (across the Bath road), has so far given way as to be considered quite insecure, at which from 50 to 100 men are engaged day and night, in order to prevent its falling. It is intended, we believe, to lengthen it.— Salisbury Herald. CONVICTION OP EDWARD BOLING.—This notorious villain, of whom our readers have doubtless read, has been tried for "bigamy" at the Superior Court of Rockingham county, N. C., and found guilty. He was sentenced to be branded with the letter B on the left cheek (which was carried into execution in the pre sence of the Court), to be imprisoned three years, and receive 39 lashes at three several times before the expi ration of the term of imprisonment. His abode has been assigned to him in Guildford jail. It would been well to have branded in legible characters the word " fiend" upon his forehead.—American Paper. RUMOURED CHANGES.-4n addition to the reported change in the Horse Guards, by the apppoint ment of Sir George Murray as Lord Hill's successor in the office of General Commanding-in-Chief, which we noticed in The Sun of Monday, we are intbrmed that it is probable the following changes will also take place: —Lord Fitzroy Somerset to be appointed Commander in Chief in Ireland ; Sir Henry Hardinge to be appointed Master-General of the Ordnance ; and Mr. Herries to be the new Secretary at War. A meeting of Deputies from all the towns and villages in Forfarshire, and the adjacent counties con nected with the linen trade, is fixed to take place at Dundee on the 6th of January, for the purpose of for warding the cause of repeal of the Corn and Provision laws. The Rouen Papers state that a well-known poacher was found dead three days ago at the foot of a tree near Quillebceuf. His skull had been shattered by a discharge from his own gun, and it appeared on ex amination that he had formed a retreat among the branches of the tree, whence he could the better mark his game, but in getting up a twig had no doubt caught the trigger of his gun, anfil thus produced the accident. A few days ago a youth of 17 years of age, who was employed in a nail manufactory at Valenciennes, was killed by a blow of a wheel of the machinery, which was revolving at the rate of 800 times in a minute. A similar accident has just occurred to a man in a sugar refinery at Choque, near Bethune. A tailor, named Pabre, of Lodeve, in the He rault, had a quarrel some time ago with another tailor, named Coste, of the same town. Bad feeling was en gendered between them, and a few days ago the former, entering the shop of the latter, exchanged a few angry words with him, and, drawing a pistol from his pocket, shot him dead on the spot. The next moment he put another pistol to his ow n h e ad, an d bl ew ou t hi s brains. ATTENDANCE OF COUNSEL.—The sudden termination of Michaelmas Term at the unusual hour of eleven o'clock in the morning by Lord Denman has caused a considerable sensation both with the profession and the public. We are rather surprised to see that Lord Denman has been blamed by some of the news papers for his conduct in this matter. The public would, we conceive, come - to a very different opinion, if they knew the real state of the case. There is a considerable arrear of business in the Queen's Bench, and the Judges are doubtless anxious to reduce it ; and we must say that it is the duty of the bar to assist them to the utter most in accomplishing this wish. Now, do they so ? We would ask any one in the habit of attending this Court if there is not frequently very great difficulty in proceeding with business, arising from the absence of leading Counsel. The Judges do all they can to get them to attend—they. remonstrate, they linger, they complain—all without effect ; at last they act, and probably they may now be attended to. If the adminiztratiun of the law were to be carried on purely for the benefit of the profession, the practice of the bar in this respect might be all very well ; but is not the suitor to be considered a little in this matter ? He isield that his cause is put off till next term, by reason tif the absence of Counsel; his at torney tells him that he retained such a Counsel, and that if the cause had only come on, all would have been right, but that unfortunately he was not there. What are his feelings on the occasion ? They are not the most agreeable, and surely deserve consideration. Now, if all this grumbling were to end in nothing—if the suitor must bear it —we should not say a word; but we have repeatedly pointed out the remedy. The leading Com mon Law Counsel should fix on some one of the Superior Courts (as the Queen's Counsel in the Courts of Chan cery have recently done) and adhere to that. We should then hear no more of the Courts adjourning from the absence of Counsel. Whether this would injure the individual Queen's Counsel we do not know. We con ceive not. Was Mr. Knight Bruce injured by confining himself to the Vice - Chancellor's Court ? We believe that his profit s were as great as those of any man of whom there is authentic record. But if the Counsel were injured, we humbly conceive that this is a case in which the superior claim of the public comes in. and the particular interest must give way. We trust, therefore, that the result of th e Present sensation may be that the course we hare pointed out may be adopted.---Legal 1 Observer. DON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841. Now ready, in - 2 vols. post 8v0., , T HE GLORY AND SHAME 'OF ENG LAND. By AN AMERICAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " THE SUBALTERN." THE VETERANS of CHELSEA HOSPITAL. By the Rev. 6:11: - GLEIG, Author of " The Subaltern," &c. In 3 vol.. post Bvo., Is NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. In 1 vol., elegantly bound, price 125., with 37 Illustrations by . the Author a n d M r . L eec h, MR. HOOD'S COMIC ANNIUAL FOR 1842. 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NOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND TILE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLU'ENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 8, 1841. THE WEATHER.—Noort, DECEMBER 7. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE•STREET Thermometer... 45 I Highest 49 I Lowest 36 Barometer 29.74.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HUH! WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 39 minutes after b 1 Evening .14 minutes after 10. : ft to 4 4( 46, ,* • ftv, $ • .741 c. 4 ' • • fie 1.Z 4 -• 6 .1 .1 oge o§4ll, LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841. English landlords are renowned all over the world, according to their flatterers, for theif cleverness and generosity, and English farmers are, on the same authority, equally renowned for their English clergyman, however, the Re s v k .C h . CLARK, speakinglikt the Harleston Farmers' Club, on the 2Gth ult., and speaking apparently with knOwledge on the subject, asserts that the agricultural "improvements are, beyond comparison, greater in Scotland than in this country," and he assigns as a reason that in Scotland long leases are given on corn rents. " The farmer there, for the first ten years," he says, " cultivates as he pleases, and during the last four years he comes under the rotation system prescribed by the lease." "He is bound by his covenants," says a Mr. HARVEY, the Se cretary to the Club, " to leave the land in as good a condition as he found it." The Scotch farmers are, by this testimony, superior to the English ; and now. the English farmers shall, in their turn, testify to the cleverness and genero sity of our English landowners. According to the Harleston Farmers' Club the " COMPULSORY PLOUGHING by which tenants are bound in their leases is iidudicious and unneces sary." Compulsory ploughing ! What! are farmers bound to plough their ground when it is injudicious and unnecessary? Yes, says the Secretary to that Club,' speaking of Norfolk, one of the best cultivated parts of England ; " the leases are constructed on pretty much the same form as those of two centuries ago, and what were considered good covenants in those days are not so. considered (by the farmers) now." A JOHN GEDNEY, Esq., at the same meeting, bore similar testimony. "It was the custom," he said, " of his part of the country, that farmers were compelled to plough four times a year." He was ready to prove that it would be advantageous to both farmer and landlord that the latter " should not be compelled to plough up his land." The farmers of England, then, are compelled, at this day, by their clever and generous landlords, to cultivate the soil under certain covenants in their leases, according ,to the custom of the county, as it was cultivated, according to Mr. HARVEY, two centuries ago. Well might the Rev. C. CLARK say— Why should a farmer be told whether he shall grow wheat or whether he shall grow turnips ; where he shall ' lay his manure, or wlien he shall lay it on, whether the land requires it or not ? I believe there is no other body in England, manufacturers or others, who are dictated to in that manner. Manufacturers, like every other class but farmers, are left to the exercise of their own judgment. This, however, is not quite all. According to the same Reverend authority, farmers, lest they should frighten the game, are " restricted from cutting their fences under a certain number of years," and, " when the fences are allowed to grow, a considerable quantity of land is lost, and the farmer loses one-third of his crop." The farmers of England, therefore, are at this time the slaves of an antiquated and ignorant system, and are compelled, in many respects, to cultivate the soil as it was cultivated two centuries ago. At present this is a very serious consideration for the con - ununity, which is obliged, by a bread tax, to pay the expense of the cultivation. In what condition would our manufactures be were they conducted according to the knowledge of the year 1640 ? They would be nearly the last instead of the first of the world. Our agriculture is not the last, because the improvements which our manufactures have introduced—(and it will be recollected that those improvements have mainly sprung up in the cotton manufacture, which owed no allegiance to the ancient guilds and apprentice laws of Europe)— have extended their beneficial effects to agriculture. Nevertheless, though not the last, owing to such restrictions our agriculture is much behind. Money and labour, according to the testimony of the Harleston Club, are wasted on injudicious and unnecessary, but compulsory ploughing. Money and land are wasted, ac cording to the Rev. Mr. CLARK, by compelling the farmers to allow their hedges to grow for a certain number of years. Money and labour, therefore, are wasted in providing the neces sary supply of food for the community. The cost of the production of corn in England is much increased ; we cannot grow it—how should we with such management ?—as cheap as other countries; and Corn-laws are maintained, because the farmers must preserve game, and lose a third of their crops, and because they ar• compelled to plough, injudiciously and unneces. sarily, four times a year, according to the custom two centuries ago. So the people are plundered and starved, because the stupid or wilful land owners are unwilling to promote, or desirous to prevent, improvements in agriculture. We are bound, on this occasion, to tell the public emphatically, that such conduct on the part of the landowners of England is nothing new. We learn from a little] work, called "Political Arithmetic," written about 1660, by Sir HENRY PETTY, the founder of the LANSDOWNE family, and first published by the first Lord SHELBURNE, that the landowners of his time were afflicted at the great abundance of provisions which then prevailed, and complained of the cultivation of clovers and other green crops, and sought to check it. In truth, the landlords, as such, have never bee n the actual cultivators of the soil, and they have always looked with as much envy on the fortunes made 'by their serf or middle class tenants, as on the fortunes made by citizens or manufacturers. Every farthing gained from cul tivating the soil they have regarded as their property, and they have always tried, by binding down the farmers, to prevent them from making improvements and gaining all that they possibly Could from the soil. We rejoice to see the Norfolk farmers are be coming sensible of the vile slavery to which their landlords subject them. The Harleston Farmers' Club unanimously agreed to two resolu tions, declaring in substance that Many of the clauses in the existing system of leases compelling a fixed mode of cultivation, are unnecessary and injudicious; they tend to render skill and science of less value, because any deviation from the lease is effected at the risk of a heavy penalty; and - that these compulsory directions, given at the commencement of a lease, and extending through a term of years, over a variety of soils, and still greater variety of seasons, cannot be so efficacious in promoting the best system of husbandry, as leaving the details of each operation to the skill and judgment of the occupier. We believe not; indeed; and as the farmers are becoming somewhat enamoured, and justly, of the principle of freedom in cultivating the soil, we hope they will extend their liking to other branches of industry, and adopt the opi nion that compulsory directions, extending through a long term of years over an immense variety of occupations, prohibiting buying here, and selling there, cannot be so efficacious in pro moting the public welfare as leaving every man at full liberty to buy and sell where he likes according to his own skill and judgment. Our extracts, we must state in conclusion, are made from the Norwich Mercury. The spirit which prevails among the clergy of almost every denomination in this country, forms a striking and alarming feature of the age. While the people of Spain and Portugal, for merly the most bigoted and most submissive to the will of the priesthood, . have thrown off the yoke, and in most other States the influence of the Church is on the decline, here the reverse is the case. The Catholic priests in Ireland, if we take Mr. O'CONNELL as authority, are furious against ESPARTERO, and friendly to the cause of the EX-QUEEN REGENT, simply because the for mer has stript the clergy of their usurped power and enormous wealth, while the latter would bring back the glorious days of ignorance, super stition, and slavery. In England the rage for the doctrines of Popery is spreading among the clergy of the Established Church to a fright_ ful extent ; the Bible, and the Prayer-book are looked upon as old almanacs, and the traditions and fictions of the men who paved the way for the dominion of the Romish hierarchy, and the thraldom of the dark ages, are, in their eyes, the only sure guides. In Scotland a system of priestly dominion, unequalled during the worst period of the Inquisition, already prevails. Under the pretence of giving the people the free choice of their clergymen, and of honouring the ALMIGHTY by the most scrupulous observance of the Jewish Sabbath, the Non-Intrusionist clergy have committed acts of oppression, which, if perpetrated by the civil power, would have raised a rebellion. In the course of a few days in the mouth of May last they deposed ten clergymen, and threaten to punish in a similar way some two hundred more, because their tyrannical edicts are not im plicitly obeyed ; they are interfering incessantly with the rights of private property, endeavour ing to shut up railroads on Sunday, imprisoning respectable shopkeepers for refusing to observe the Jewish Sabbath, and withholding the rites of the Church from others whom they cannot bring within the grasp of some obsolete or local Act. The scene which occurred at Arbroath the other day, reported at length in The Sun, exhi bits these arch-hypocrites in a light which can not be mistaken. A farm labourer, longamember of the Established Church, had buried his child on a Sunday, a practice hitherto common in Scotland, and, for:performing this sacred work ofnecessity, he was excommunicated by the clergyman, stig matised as a criminal, and forced to appeal to th e Presbytery for redress. This body contained a majority of spiritual tyrants of the same starnp:; they of course sympathised with the oppressor, attempted to exclude the public from the Guild- hall where they met, and finding the people dis obedient, one of the fathers of the Inquisition held up the terrors of the Church, and threatened to deal with them for resisting his spiritual au. thority. All attempts, however, were vain, the audience kept their seats, . and laughed him to scorn, and the Presbytery having finished the sit tine by prayer (in the true style of the Spanish In quisition), marched off in a body to a hotel, where another prayer was said, and the mock investigation was about to commence in secret conclave. The petitioner, however, declined their authority, and appealed to a higher Court. In this disgraceful transaction there is one circum stance which affords matter for beartycongratula lation. It was all the work of the priests. The people unanimously took part with „their oppressed fellow-parishioner, and we have no doubt will stand by him until the excommunication is re moved or the Church deserted. They begin to see that that the cry for Non-Intrusion means only more power for the clergy, that no father of a family would be allowed to vote who buried a relative on a Sunday, or travelled by railroad, or tasted spirits, or sold " or refused in any way to obey the ,command of. a spiritual tyrant, and that the only way to save them selves from this frightful thraldom' is to read the Scriptures, and judge for themselves. We trust this scene will not be without use in Parliament when the Non-intrusionists claim protection for the members of the Scottish Church. Should Sir ROBERT PEEL, or the Earl of ABERDEE N , or any Minister of th e Crown, in any way, by favouring the dominant party, con tribute to their success, and consequently the de struction of public liberty in the north, he would richly deserve impeachment. At the public meeting held in Southwark on Monday, Mr. A. PELLATT, a Liberal Dis senter, but remarkable for his moderation, was constrained, by his sense of what is due to the suffering people, to consent to a me morial to her MAJESTY, a part of which prays that the People's Charter may be come the law of the land. But, far as this went, it scarcely satisfied the numerous meeting. The memorial was indeed unanimously assented to ; but after that, the National Petition was offered for acceptance, and, having been supported by more than one speaker, who urged the division of the land, was almost una nimously adopted. Will such facts not awaken the aristocracy ? Govern this nation by force, in opposition to justice, they cannot; and if they will not allow the people to have bread, the people will insist on sharing their estates. Between an at tempt to establish despotism, an agrarian revolu tion, or granting free trade, they have to choose. Reason, Justice, Nature, and GOD command the last, and if they decide for the first, no power on earth can ward off unspeakable calamities from England. The French Journals have duly reached us. The Court of Peers sat till six o'clock on Saturday, again occupied with the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices, but no important fact was elicited. From Avignon the Government had received a telegraphic despatch, dated the 4th instant, stating that the Rhone had overflowed its banks, and inundated a large portion of that ancient city. The suffer ings of the inhabitants were in consequence very great. The Journal des Debats ridicules the pre tensions of M. THIERS to effect a change in th e Ministry. From several articles in the Court organs it is clear that the Court is doing all in its power to produce a coldness between the people of Great Britain and Spain. As a means to effect this they are endeavouring to alarm the Spaniards for the safety of their Colonies. (From the French Papers of Sunday.) The bulletein of the laws contains a royal ordinance, which fixes the revenue of the Legion of honour for the year 1842 at 7,856,998 francs. It is announced that General Rumigny is going to set out for Africa, where he has already ;had the command, and that he is to act as Governor-General, ad interim, in the room of General Borgeaud, who has permission to come to France to remain there during the session. Ge neral de Rumigny, it is added. will be accompanied by M. August Martineau Deschenez, Auditor in the Council of State.— Temps. A journal announces that M. Thiers had a long con -ference with the Duke of. Orleans, yesterday. The Journal of, Angers and of Rennes announces that the rivers have overflowed their banks. At Rennes the Velaine had risen to a greater height than in the most considerable inundations of the last forty years. The proceedings against M. Dupotz may be consi dered as an important fact. The sitting of the Court of Peers yesterday disclosed the really political part of the affair of Quenisset. People did not comprehend why M. Dupotz was accused, though there was nothing in that report which materially implicated him. Yesterday, when after the declaration of that writer, that he did not know any of the accused, the Attorney- General instead of abandoning the accusation, took files of the Journal du Potpie, and read extracts from them, in order to find some connection between the facts of the process and the theories of the writer, people under stand that the real object was to attack the political press, and that the frequenters of public houses and con trivers of plots were brought before the Peers only to lead to an attack on the most vital of our liberties. We must only be astonished that M. Hebert did not manage more dexterously the transition from an assassi nation to a misdemeanour of the press. M. Dupotz nobly represented the press. His exami nation lasted three hours and a half.— Gazette de France HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, DEC. 3 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. ............ ........ .. ....... 107% 107 Bank . Shares 1625 1(115 Anglo_Russian Loan lOB% 108 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series IO•A% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... 98% Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 2 54 per Cent 50% 50% Ditto 5 per Cent -- l'olish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76% 76% Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent. , 112% 1025 Spanish. New 5 per Cents.... 15% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG. DEC. 1-13 6%.—Two months, IS 5. RIGA, Nor. '25. Three Months, 39 fI-16. CußikrriANlA, Nov. 20.—Three months, 4 48. PETIIRSSURGII, Nov Z.—Two months, 35% pence. STOCKHOLM. Nov. 26.—Seventy-five days, 12. 6. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bermax. Nov. 30. __ Bids. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 45. per cent. 1044 107% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 10154 Exchange on London, three moults 6 10►5 —Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 1 Da. BIRKBECK.—The funeral of Dr. Birkbeek will take place, we are informed, at Kensall green, on Monday next. A meeting of the Mechanics' Institute will be held on Thursday, to settle in what manner the respect of the In stitute shall be shown to the venerable Gentle man's memory. Similar meetings are, .in ,con temptation at the other Metropolitan Institutions. The warrant creating the infant prince Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, received the Royal sign manual yesterday, and the creation, we have every reason to believe, will be an nounced in this evening's Gazette. Besides being Prince of Wales, the infant Prince is the Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, and Duke of Saxony. We have authority to contradict a paragraph which has appeared in several of the public jour nals, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus sex is about to resign the Grand Mastership of the ancient order of Freemasons. That his Royal Highness has no such intention is evident when we state that he was unanimously proposed at a meeting of the Grand Lodge on Wednesday last to fill the distinguished office for the ensuing year. CHURCH-YARD POETRY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) SHEFFIELD, DEC. 6.—Being in the Court-room at Ecclesall to-day, I picked up the following rich and racy thing, which I thought too good to be lost, and therefore send it you. I was fortu nate enough to get possession of the original copy, given by the defendant, and have it now in my possession. At the Court of Requests for the manor of Ec clesall . (Sheffield, Earl Fitzwilliam's manor) a person was summoned before the CommiiSioners on Monday last for 2/. 4s. 2d., being the value of a grave -stone ordered by him for his wife's" grave. His defence was, that Isis instructions had not been followed in the inscription, he having writ ten a verse and given it to the plaintiff, who had altered it. The following is a copy verbatim et literatim, of the author's production:— " fierse sickness and afliction come Blasted my flower just in my bloom in love I lived in peace I died my life was asked but god denyed." The plaintiff had corrected this morceau in the following manner:— " Fierce sickness and affliction came, Blasted my flower just in her bloom, In love she lived, in peace she died, Her life was asked—but God denied." After a lengthened hearing the Court held that he plaintiff had no right to recover. "The original epitaph in the abo v e is as grea t a curiosity as can be conceived; but the stone cutter, inspired by a generous emulation, has in his alteration made it tittle less of a phenomenon. Not the least curious part of the business is, that the action was dismissed, " on the ground that the sense of the inscription had been altered"—a result that seems to us to be decidedly illegal, inasmuch as there was no sense to be altered! Had the word " nonsense" been substituted, the decision would have been legal enough ; but scarcely so as it at present stands.] SIR FRANCIS CHA.NTREY. As every incident connected with the late lamented Sir Francis Chantrey now assumes a mournful in terest, we subjoin some lines which appeared in one or two literary periodicals of the day, on occasion of the chance-medley by which Sir Francis, when at Holk4m, shot a brace of woodcocks, as his first feat in arms. If we recollect aright, the Mar quis of Wellesley wrote some elegant lines in Latin on the event, which we re tr ans l a t e d into Greek by Lord Brougham, and all three are inscribed on the pedestal of the petrifaction of the birds effected by the great sculp tor, which he presented, in commemoration of the event, to his host : Chantrey, by genius prompted to excel, When first the fatal tube he tried, Sad victims of his new-found skill, Two beauteous woodcocks died. Repenting quick the cruel deed, And urged by pity to atone, He calls his magic chisel's aid, And turns them into stone. Thus sacred justice is appeased ; Each bird in breathing marble lives ; While the immortal fame they gain The sculptor shares and gives. Russell-square, Nov. 1830. W. T. CREATION OFTHEPRINCE OF WALES, &c. (Froiii the London Gazette of last Evening.) Th e Queen has been pleased to order letters patent to b e passed und er t h e Great Seal, for c reating his Royal Highness the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony , . Duke of Cornwall and Roth say, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Gr ea t S teward of Scotland), Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. MORNING SUN S IJ2il 4'ARY OF NEWS AND Vtibla Opinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. peristoi The Great W es t ern s t eamer . w hich arrived at P on Monday night, in 13 days from New Yor k, brings vo, political news of interest. She has brought, b oi,e 500,000 dollars in specie, and thirty passen gers. I d e . St. John's, New Brunswick, appears doomed to ra , struction by fire. On the 15th ult. a dreadful contisnsg.li, tion broke out there, which destroyed 75 buildi n ' eluding the new market-house, 40 vessels from Vs ease street Wharf to Whitney's .Wharf, and an i nli tel quantity of merchandise. The fire was not exting when the latest account left St. John's. „e err Another dreadf u l fi re d es t ro yed a great de s ' .'"" ii loes perty at Vicksburg on th e 9th ult. Two entire sq. lie d, of the town were burn e d d own b e fore it was cxtingo; the The American Papers contain a long a ccount Cl o d late revolution in Me x i co . S an t a Anna was at th e ro• of 9,000 veterans, when, on the sth of. October , ue p egs posed an amicable settl emen t w ith Bustamente. 101 was concluded on the 9th. Whether Santa 2 1 -n°, ll e has observe goof faith towards Bustamente, now that pool, him in his power, we know not, nor can we h e 'p lecting the fable of the wolf and the crane. re ic The Paris Journals of Monday publish a dsspatch from Avignon, dated the 4th inst., an: b 1 tbo that a great part of that town was inundated or of the Rhone. f SUS S6 . The Hanover Gazette denies that the Dukes 0 ü blic and Cambridge have protested against any °t. theeorilio acts of the King of Hanover. It is so much the i ,„ o ses of the Hanover Gazette to discredit whatever flog the tyranny of King Ernest, that we care not ' b r ie life for its denial. The Duke of Sussex's whvi e l, u , 0 0 1 has been one continuous protest against the proceedings of the ex-Duke of Cumberland. In Joh n ,* In a leading article suggested by Lord John, * s kis answer to the Plymouth Address, the Morning ;Sir introduces the following incidental observat4,2l:ncir telegancieg Robert Peel :—" When Peel introduced the - t rt i , tion till, he grossly violated the principles of 'owl public life. His political existence and imn o l. he y the creation of his No-Popery professions-eoo°.: given. him a name in a House where the. 4. e diert' h i ,' Canning for a leader. They had exalted hsf us ed into a sort of rivalry with genius. He hs- d ea ll3l l ‘ o l power they gave him to thwart the policy the difficulties of that great man. They ha' n - s i t ion ' Member for the University of Oxford ; a ni P„ e s " which, otherwise, he had about as ,-.7„ - r hetS pretension as the Reverend Messrs- la Williams have to the Professorship of .. ,,P e ''' po pee; i i same learned establishment. With hire, law, and constitution, and mon ar chy, an u , - ! fie g e ; 1 1 ; I 1 j what not. And so, und e r th e D u k e 's °, one night and proclaimed that all religi ° " - We 6 °-;' tions should be equal in the eye of the law be glad to learn what there is like this iii rclos4roi Russell's proposition to lighten the burden ° ",, t . bis tion upon the necessaries of life?"—The we p $ be e° ai which Lord John Russell has been guilty,"l'substan!i.i, occasional tardiness in promoting the work. es too `,..750 reform; an apparent apathy has been at tip eivea o f ble in his conduct, and this has very natera' n ' to distrust ; but his Lordship has never, fr e Lwer; %- expediency, and to maintain himself in r t be tatized from the one great princiPlet „ s bleo e ae vering support of which h a d alone e '" s ett?" t ie to acquire political, distinction. He oe v i e n t ,t tlns ih . o lo year in the House of Commons that he al u," - t time would ever come when he would g" - a fter' fi 'jc- Emancipation ; and then, scarcely six inentbssphot, when the position of affairs was not in ti . o? o g l gree altered, turn suddenly round on his be" - Th e ,oll porters, and carry the measure without reser: stid t "fot we approved at the time of his changed P °l '..e c '' th ilfr g ot approve it, yet we never did, and never 01 by b ° , 0 ,0 an instant that Sir Robert P ee l w as influen ce ova ' f o r conviction, or leaped from intolerance to liberret,soloo disinterested or conscientious motives. Th e o re Y u his change—beaeficial as th a t has proved t ie t ie selfish. s The Post says •.—" Lord Palmerston sal by l' o ch Parliamentary decision of 1841 was produ ced is rJ bination of monopolists, making private int ere' t the %0 over public good. Does he mean to say t " ro e same decision which was come to upon th i s s co less i e in 1840, and to which decision he and I• s n - 0 1 0) ,blic contributed, was produced by a cornbinat' ° ' o erPf",lo polists, or was a triumph of private interesta,„o o f good ? The fact is, that the assertions of liv v i c iie°, o l Russell and Palmerston, relative to their e 0 ht fob the excellence of the prin c ipl e s of trade hre li e w ost„ c r; by them this year for the first time, IS th e d to tso if mous impudence that ever, was uttered, a° a nitf'lo9 worthy of the credence - of-any one professing: JO t iie J they believed these principles to be sound , f r o rte r „ e d, not bring them forward when they had gre t be influence ? If they did not believe them " t to o r why did they bring them forward f l o e te b igs We fear, no good answer can be given t° t he v 4e s; truths; but it . is not for the Tories to tann, 4o o9' fi te with their supineness in bringing forward rf nic ers t ; it is not for the men who, wielding all the r eho rie' y va State, and exercising all but unlimited an'''; i o . o ;to fused to give the slightest Law Reform for y e a rs for years, too, though the necessity - as gl ade a he Ite", ; 0 them, refused 2 to strike off even one link of / btl) ° e fi chain that galled the Dissenters, and drove th e well nigh to desperation—it is not, we rlY:bey" like these, to presume to obj ec t t o o th ers that " r e , tardy in doing what they had the power to °',00 6 ,7 t ,1. The Times, returning to it s Monday's rd tie marks as follows :--".Lord John Russell anti c s' O ti o merston are, in their own way, expert F ° , cess lt a si paigners ; and accordingly, dreading ; I: i t io the a zure' from from party warfare during so long a Per! to P ri ' s . in adtl e l / might have the effect of hurrying theol, l o - e lvhs t are st'i: oblivion, they seem to ha ve f orme d ac o ; soar", conspiracy for reminding the public t„rs w it ° of alive, and for astonishing their suce i e % effe i ri n f v Lor a concerted peppering. IThe angry "11„eoseu,"": bath. John at Plymouth we have already, ":„ . "' e geS n' s m ittru Palmerston, as a humble imitator, ds c i ; feriae! e i s tter,' less decoction at Bridgnorth ; and as 4 7 03 , tn e io his spleen in a highly concentrated °, 2 f bis °' doing homage to th e s u p er i or dexterity ere ( lit ...fio rd has contented himself with giving u5,, 11 1 , D - 1 , h4 ! as it, by adding a little wea k en ing a ddreja John Russell's answer to the Plynit:b ice n ,. ° ' 0 11 , to sit like an incubus on the Times, Iv'T„,. at %lea' but cannot, shake off ; we do not WO" - &aim' temporary's wincing under it, for it ha s it severe shock to self-complacent Toryism- . II „ per;iso We quote the following from the .11.fOr ni b ( e " The outcry of monopoly' from th e N° l a te S 1 t mere' springe to catch e woodcocks ;' t he , b u dge, was not ejected from office on account 0 f tn norog ar ao cort, r ,positions, monstrous as they were. Th ose A were brought forward to stimulate that P O P 4 O- t bel t which hen o fi p v p e osi tyears'ion refused maladministration to debatet hadhe their ' p e r p ' oorbi l c c oote o i replied to them by a vote of non-confidene,ro to ll t h carried. The country was appealed to fro aa ct) tir the result of the appeal was its confirtna t :; 0 0 1 new Parliament repeated the vote. Wha t t /l ight ce plaint of the late Ministers, from the budg i e 0 10 1 , 1) ,0 to the last hour of their disastrous offieia,_ Agalth, That their opponents would not debate the.ir.er•oo3ooi that they were condemned without having ti',, el t b , " considered. How dishonestly impudent is " 00; jog to represent themselves as the victims 0f s s s eOf tb policy. Their fate as an Administration Ws fo teLiits , before their budget was thought of."-- - l b b e fonbr-otl i ,' late Administration was not sealed until the e one and all, took the alarm ; in every sense o'resV therefore, the Melbourne Government was' truly, the victim of its free-trade policy- •io MONEY—TRADE—consmsi tc * voedlll‘ th The mines of Cornwall maintain a dire c L;rs/ r o me f esnt l : o 6f o c: , or o o Q to O h . aerme A ob b sot o y u ps t aurn i t B,ooo are strictly nil O' emplo yed under 18, fels end less than three-quarters of the total number fee t, in the mining districts west orTruro.. outd The General Annuity Society and uasndinersingryntli3r:ieers; „41 ing in the Poultry, yesterday. From the 1 1 1,1 1 03 peared that the balance in hand ainounted to 19 1 , 0 . 6 icie t The Lord Mayor was elected one of the Vic °- held their sn ero " rt l J , 1 011 for the year ensuing.l3 The railroad about to be constructed in the 0, embrace a length of sea-coast, north and 5°`1,4, phi eii°' miles. The , provinces and districts thr°9 2e will pass, commencing from the capita l lti°,roctie contain 300,000 p e op e . The cost of cons amount to mion. . COMMERCIAL SLEr— , b urt, A meeting of the Metropolitan Young fin" - in? Monopoly Association was held on Alondai at 1! ree B . 2 t io o Among the resolutions passed was, th t4 e pair 0 most strenuously deprecated the system -00#700,1, now proposed as a remedy for the existing clist aal , 4 0 being totally inefficient for promoting s t e h ri e d g i n e ;l 3 l,S cr and only advocated for the purpose of vias o o distant lands in search of that food vviale w ere b fr o mitted to be import e d i n t o th e ir own." -- c - fu e ri vi dst ; l l o to hear it stated th a t th ere was a want o rga confident that ever y mem b er w ill come ib t " support. z r otn The itsrnftioguN'nfdfiacVti foundation .., . A 4till, stable of side, about a dozen yards south of the lighth () " ...' 0' • €(/ ojktintLtpoie"ar caot:NsVidreirrabybir:Hectertns7:lolll:9oio7.o.°' At Mar 1 LAW ""CILZCZ. Paliell, making t h y e e uE b s o ed n (i e :ti p su o ino l i sn c e e ec,hi al court arngge duoanag. language. a o n n da v v i t 12 , it u ,.. e i r; g r ; 15 i l 'AilL ' SCIENCE AND AST' °f siii je As a:tribute of respect to the memory 0 - hilc: i3 4o , Chantrey, the members of the Royal Aeadela- j a ) 10 14 t termined that the triennial distribution of g° of u• esenPe on the 10th i ns t.. s hall take place in the 1 members and students of that institution only. i io On Thursday th .r ere liZa was ir allithCeAatriric.al diveriisse:c.onl'lli,l! the Woburn Abbey Theatre, under the patronalvloe; ' •e ° lion. General Grosvenor, commencing at °,.. iii jitle f e , The piece selected was Who's the Dupe? th e Diu; characters being sustained as follows :--P°lleY'llsse,if pant-Colonel Keppel • Gradus, Lord Ilen r, fo . r d • ii,c , Granger, Lord Charles Fitzroy l • Mrs. 6 . 4 , 9 "! l o l e y; C g ii i)ll Charles Fitzroy; Elizabeth, the several M iss ..- yie o Till e lotte, Al se t Wilbraham. The riot s ' , i s ' discharged by the above distinguished Pers°—..'tref party broke up on Saturday. the . P . 7,0 An alarm of fire was given on MondaY a t o f 1 31' 4 Theatre, a few minutes after the peforniene°4oeo° a scene caught fire, and occasioned a general P.' o der , do the audience, but luckily the fire was soon go'disarro the , sci A mp b u a lo te u l s i , of v s ro tr t o e ll t i h n e g ip.olltlioywerisn,gin order t ° - c s ° • ill singular WO.r ivoptp bottom of their bills of fare, circulated ab?o v ~, this last week :—" Strict Attention to worala ' e e., a 1 1 s a