The Sun. — London, England, 1828-05-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. At an Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ire land on Tuesday, Mr. O'Connell observed, " We may be said to have gained the key of the enemy's position. We have now to consider the means to secure that position, and how we shall be able to , scatter our enemies. In order to come to a right • conclusion OR thi s su bj ect , we s h ou ld consider the means by which we have been enabled to attain our present station. If I were asked. how we had go t thus far forw ar d, I wou ld answer in one w or d, er rather in three—fi rs t, by agitation—secondly, by by agitation. (cheeri.) We agitatiun—thirdly., have succeeded by keeping our questien emistantly in the publie, attention—we have succeeded by kedg ing our enemies in constant anxiety and perpetually on the watch—we have succeeded by combining all •cla.ses, the Clergy, the 1 1, 101;14y, and the Laity, in one common body; and by our exertions fer fie common principle. We have succeeded by not al lowing ourselves t o b e d e l u d e d b y our friends or our enemies--by following that course which has brought us to our present height ; but which lets wen; so Often tOlit bypretended friends, open enemies, was inj ur i ous t o th e Ca t h o li c cause. " 'There is great good sense in these observations of Me. O'Connell. Patience may be an excellent pass!, port for a good place in the next world, but it trill seldom fail to procure the lowest place in this. As long as men will be content to bear oppression pati ently, the oppressors will allow them abundance of scope for the exercise of this Christian virtue. The well-being of the world is promoted. by fear rather than generosity ; and woe be to the nation, or party, or individuals, who are at the niei•ey of others, and who have no security for vett treatment, in the danger of meddli ng wi t h th e m. Wehave again and again told the Catholics not to hawk their suf• ferings, not to appeal to the kind feelings of this or that class, but to avail themselves of all possible means to make the situation of their opponents un comforti,ble. The patient ass receives, as the re ward of his patience, a blow from every one who passel; while every one who descries a bulldog in his way takes (Are not to come into too close contact with him. As the Catholics have become power ful and able to annoy their opponents, they have become more and more th e o bj ects o f respect. It is impossible not to feel contempt for these who are patient under oppression, and impossible to feel con tempt for those respecting whom we are under ap prehension. Let the Catholics always bear in mind that it is not for their sakes that their claims are Con ceded ; and that if it were possible to oppress them 'with safety, they would still he oppressed. It is not compassion for them which has dictated the va rious relaxations of the Peiial Laws, but our fears for our safety ; and if our safety were compatible with their oppression, they would never cease to be the victims of oppression. When people begin to talk of yielding nothing to intimidation, we may be ,ure they are intimidated. No man boasts of not being afraid, but the coward. History, when read properly, furnishes ample confirmation of the truth of Mr. O'Connell's positions. That of Ireland will tell him when she obtained her privileges. Many and many a moving publication, from the ponderous quarto down to the pamphlet, appeared on the sub ject of the wrongs suffered by the seamen ; but the light which all these publications failed to shed in the proper quarter was instantaneously given by the mutiny at the Nore. That crafty Antinomian, Huntingdon, who saw a good way into human na ture, observes, in one of his writings, " I think every poor man in England will hold with me in this par ticular, that the rich are agreed to keep that person poor who is poor." If the Irish were poor enough to allow themselves to be kept down, they would be kept down for ever.—Morning Chronicle. Those who are called statesmen must form a strange estimate of the common sense and judgment of mankind, when they suffer empires, over which they are appointed to preside, to be influenced or put in jeopardy, by the trifling disa g reements AN hich may arise u p on t h e common everyday occurrences of life. Yet that such is the case too frequent experience informs ; and the world is continually doomed to see the greatest of human concerns succumb to the littleness of the human mind :—" A girl at the door of the inn," says Mr..Burke, - " has changed the face of nature and of nations." The British public, still less .the powers of Europe, whose eyes are upon us, were little prepared to expect that the Duke of Wel lington's Administration was so loosely put together that a mere breath could dissipate some part at least of its materials. Who could imagine, for instance, that Sir Henry Wright Wilson, and that most rotten of all rotten boroughs—the far-famed borough of East Retford, were of consequence enough to raise a schism in the Ministry of England, just at the time when that Ministry, from its oc cupation in high concerns, had the best apology upon earth for not caring one farthing more about East Retford than if its representation were merged in the Mayoralty of Garret? Yet so it is, and such is the influence of lesser matters over lesser minds, that " trifles light as air" can pro duce consequences sometimes, which greater inte rests fail to effect. That a schism has arisen in the Ministry, and that too upon this paltry, school-boy kind of ground, admits of no doubt. How that schism may end is not yet discernible. The Whit suntide recess conies opportunely enough to give the parties breathing time; and we trust, that a short period of reflection will convince them all how futile a source of disunion they have permitted to arise ; and that they will not allow the page of his tory to be scandalized by a recital so full of nothing 'less as this matter, as it now stand , , would present. We wonder, by the bye, that the judgment of pos terity does not influence public men more than it :appears to do. " What will history say ?" is a question which many might with propriety ask him self on almost every occasion. And if the Members of the Duke of Wellington's Administration ask. themselves " Wh at will history say?' should the Borough of East Retford lead to its dissolution, the answer will be, that history will record them as light • ing with shadows, while the substance was lost sight of and abandoneo.-3,A rning Herald. There is one circumstance connected with the existing Ministerial differences, which involves a principle whose violation must be fatal to any Ad ministration, and which, without any reference to the case immediately in discussion, is not undeserv ing of notice. When men speak of a un i ted Mi nistry, they do not mean that each individ ua l o f the Cabinet is of the same opinion on every subject which the Cabinet may be called to consider. This would be a miraculous, not a natural torte of things. lii the mo:,t, harmonious Ministry thz t ever i existed on sttl the' e must be as many shades of - opm iol sh of 'a not des one, but on every question, as there are knowledge and of understanding in its members. All that the most anxious for unanimity call require l is, th a t th e v iew of each question which meet s w it !, th e support of the majority of the Cabinet lie cordially admitted by the rest. If there be any exception to this rule, it must be with re spect to those questions which the Cabinet, when in its elemental state, shall agree never to dis cuss with a view to such a settlement. We m ost sincerely deprecate all such arrangements, while, at the same time, we bow, not to the arguments, so much as to the authority of those who hold the opposite practice to be necessary in the present divided state of public opinion on one great question. But g rantin g , for argument sake, t hat on that question there must exist differences in all Cabinets, it is not the less true that on all other points, not specially reserved, whether of great im portance or of small, unanimity of action is essential to the existence of a Ministry. When assemblies deliberate, they may divide into as many parts as there are individuals belonging to them, b ut w h en they act they toast act as one. Discipline in this sense is as essential among a party of high-hori, civilians as in a band of soldiers. In a council c' war the youngest member has a right to give hi , advice, and to argue for its adoption, but whei: the plan of attack or defence is once agreed on; the oldest has no right to depart from it. 4 1K 4k, ilkt P. *4. out such a subjection to the majority no. so ciety could hold together for a week. A civil meeting is as infallibly destructive to the body into which it insinuates itself as a military mutiny. is to the army whose ranks it pervades. The Constitution of England recognizes no such office as Prime Minister; but a Prime Minister is, notwith standing, essential - to the business of the State. — That Prime Minister's sentimente must be respected otherwise the office is useless. By the mere act of joining the Cabinet, every Minister openly declares tontidenee in the wisdolii df its chief, and his in tention of supporting hina to remain in the Cabi nets and ,to weaken the hands of the Premier by vote 61. by •oicC, is a breach of a solemn compact. We make every allowance for personal cOneisttncy, nor would we shut up the reed to its preservation.— When the d'ell.'lnds of his coadjutors call for such a lire f conduct as would endanger it in any man, let him resign and then act freely. But while he cOIP tinues attached to a Ministry his duty to support it through good repdri and through had report is im p era t!vt.—N'etv Times. If any individual—which can rarely happen-- , - were to take up every journal df Ila'ilirday and yesterday, end rend :'shat they all have said on the recent ali';:satisfaction which sprang up (we hope we may use that tense) in the Ministry, and were then to ask himself calmly what he has learned from hie studies—what he had reaped from thie multifarious perusal, which he eould colimitthicate to others, he certainly would he obliged to answer himself--no thing: It is clear, therefore, that the journals know nothing whatever on the subject. Some are even wild enough to suppose s that the Catholic Question, the fertile emirce of discord enough cer tainly, has 6ecasioned the breach. Some, that eetstions of foreign policy have occasioned the dis pute. But the more sane and rational couple the mischief with the East Itetford affair; and un doubtedly a connexion of this kind exists, but not in the svey s we are cure, in which they imagine ; for Mr. Huskisson was pledged before, and must have gone into the House with the perfect understanding and consent of the Duke of Wellington, to vote against the mere diffusion of the elective franchise over the hundred. But there was also a sort of compact that he was not to vote that night. It is not upon any broad principle, therefore, that the quarrel can have sprung up, but upon some of the minor accidents ; mid if so, it is the more easy to be appeased, unless political dis sensions be like religious controversies, in which the sects are always the more bitter against each other the nearer they approach to each other with out perfect agreement. Of the petty points of dif ference that may have have occasioned the feud, many may be imagined ;—such as a want of suffi cient explanation to the House by Mr. Huskisson, why he must vote against Mr. Peel; an explicit de claration that the question was not considered as a cabinet question, and others of the same kind. It is probable that before the night wanes, we may be able to communicate something as to the present state of the Ministry. If no change takes place, there is no occasion to inquire farther respecting an incident, be it what it may, that has had no consequences,— that has been productive of nothing. If—which we deprecate very much—a new arrangement, how ever partial, shall be found necessary, then the cause of the movement must naturally be made known. We still, however, feel hope that no great change will take place; a reconstruction of the Ministry at this moment would have the worst possible effect on our foreign relations.—Times. We insert a table of imposts on sugar, recom mended in a little pamphlet of seven pages, by " A Merchant," as containing an apportionment of duty which would do justice between the consumer and the planter, the East Indies being included as well as the West. It would require much accurate knowledge to determine how far the difference of Gs. only in the tax per cwt., as suggested by the author of the table, could be considered an adequate pro tection to the British grower against the foreigner, who can manufacture his article at such inferior cost; and it is likewise a question, whether the West In dia colonist could 'maintain his land in cultivation under a duty as compared with that on sugar im ported from the East Indies, in the ratio of 225. to 27e. The writer, however, having professed to re concile these jealous and complex interests with each other, and with the consumer, we shall let his scale of duties speak for itself : " The table of duties provides for the relative duties • under the smallest difference between East and West India sugars that I have ever vet heard advocated, but renders those on foreign sugars liable to greater fluctuation, —as the only legitimate means I can see, by which to check the unlimited expectations of foreign growers of sugar from the admission of it into England for home con sumption. I need not here say that foreign countries ex tend no special favours to English trade, except where their own general interests dictate them ; and I conceive that there is no other principle upon which it can be argued that we are to take their interests into consideration. TABLE OE DI:TIES, AS PROPOSED IN THIS PLAN. " British Plantation Sugar, 225. per cwt. " East India Sugar, 27;., increasable by 6d. per cwt. for every shilling they may be above the average value of Plantation Sugars to 305., and no further. " Foreign Sugar, 28s. increasable by 9d. per cwt. up to 325. for every shilling of value as above, and beyond 325., to be regulated solely by the average prices of Plantation Sugar in this market. If the average of British Plantation Sugars should fall to 52e. duty in cluded, then Foreign Sugars to pay an additional duty of Is. per cent., and so on progressively (as in the corn laws), for every Is. of fall on British Sugars Is. of rise in the duty upon Foreign Sugar ; with a return upon all Sugars refined and exported equal to the duty for the time being received on Foreign Sugars, or at all events to the full extent of 28a. per cwt. ; such drawbacks to be payable upon deposit of the refined Sugar in the warehouses for ex portation. " As the quantity to refine and export will be dependent upon the foreign sugars imported, no fairer arrangement both for refiners and revenue can possibly be resorted to. " The three points (and not one of them to be over looked, if any arrangement satisfactory to all be contem plated) are— " Ist. To create a consumption for the additional quan tity of sugar to be introduced from the East Indies and other countries. " 2d. To protect the British plantations from the unli mited extent of cultivation in countries where the meant of cultivation are upon much cheaper terms ; and " 3d. To follow up the sound principles of free trade under as few restrictions as possible. " The first point I would prove, from the most simple table, can he accomplished without injury to the revenue, by a reduction of duty ; indeed, it will be totally unfair to attempt it in any other way ; for if sugars are to come down several shillings, which they must do, or an addi tional quantity cannot be carried off, then it will be un justifiable exaction on the part of Government to levy 275. from a depres se d p r i ce , o f 52 5 . when they now take it under Preferringg reatrt oelucidate complaint from and salve of arguments 6tl6. by referrin g to has been, rather than by speculating upon take what m ay b e, I the Itahsetrsei,xboluntosntlaisu ores of fi i n l4. d 27 that when sugars averaged 60s.the delivery was 76,5t5 hhds or 211. 10s. per hhd. •, paying duty at 275. per cwt. Whereas in 1826, when £1,653,372 , sugars were re duced to an averag e of ' or there abouts, 94,313 hogsheads were .. er ou t of the warehouse,. This e taken latte quan tity at 225. duty, or . prlos . r . lihd, would m ake .............. • per . ........ -£1,6,39,908 " Showing a benefit under the - low duty o f 6 3 / 36 . to in low prices and extendin g the revenue, consumption, over high ones and email deliveries. " Similar results would be shown from the comparison of other years, but the above statement by itself, without the assistance of further arguments (which would incon veniently embarrass the question in the small compass / have prescribed to myself for discussing- it), will assist i ll showing, I think, that there can be no grounds for antici pating a loss of revenue from this concession of duty, w hi le without it no arrangement can take place. " Low prices are the desideratum of the whole mea -1 sure, that consumption may extend itself here; let us rive at those prices, then. b y fair mear s , but not admit that the revenue should take out of them the same fixed duty that is already so burdensome upon the higher ones. If I do not mistake the question altogether, the perplexi ties of it will, or. inquiry, be found to have arisen not from a disposition to impede, on the part of the colonial interest, ~.-. ~-.: a freer• trade in sugar, but front a wish :if Government to avoid participating in the experiment, and to throw the burden of the alteration, and its risks, altogether upon the colonies themselves. " The second point which I have stated as to be attended to can most legitimately he accomplished by an enactment in perfect consonance with (=laws upon corn. An addi tion of duty, as the price falls, would teach foreigners not to expect too much from their admission, and form an immediate security for our own plantations, against any alarming increase in cultivation by other states. The King in Council ought moreover to have the authority to deprive any colony, persisting in the slave traffic, of any part of the privileges. " The third point my proposition will assuredly meet ; for I would, on the table of duties contained in this letter, su g gest that an sugars may be admitted into this country (provided they are imported upon 13ritish bottoms) with out any restrictions whatever as to the export of refined sugars, leaving the refiners, with the stock of raw mate rial which they would always have at their command under these regulations, to regain the ground they have lost in the last few years."—lbid. SUNDAY PAPERS. THE inoircTs OF nrssiA, AND THE MANCEUVRES OF FRANCE. " The imperative necessity of;ecuring for the future in violable Liberty to the commerce of the Black Sea, and the navigation of the Bosphorus. "—Russian he rlaratiot. " 'the Governments found themselves united by the recol lections of a common glory, and a happy union of prin e;ples and views."—lbid. " With prudence, France might join to the superiority of its population, tite superiority of its finances ; an d w h o then would dispute with it the first characters?"— LAFITTE on the New Loan. We have already observed, that if there be any meaning to the terms " inviolable Liberty to the commerce of the Black Sea," it must mean that there should be not only a recognised right of navi gation for all Russian ships through the straits of Constantinople—the ancient Propontis, and the Dardanelles, to the Mediterranean ; but that it should he preserved by some power capable of protecting it from violation; and that power could only exist, by depriving Turkey of Scutaria, on the Asiatic conti nent, opposite to Constantinople; and of the two castles commending the entrance of the Hellespont, where all ships proceeding to Constantinople are examined. Scutaria is considered about as much a part and parcel of Constantinople, as the borough of Southwark is of the metropolis of England; the Grand Sultan has a palace there; and frequently proceeds thither with theladies of the Seraglio as to a pleasant part of the suburbs of his capital ; it being only one mile distant from the Seraglio itself. To pretend to a right of occupation of this portion of the Stamboul of the Otto man, were as reasonable in the Emperor Ni cholas, as to claim the privileges of the Black Eunuchs in the Harem, \without their qualification. It is remarkable that such a power as Turkey should possess some of the richest and finest provinces in three quarters of the world; existing in a position towards each other, and towards other States, the best adapted to purposes of powerful Empire ; and that this garden of the old world, comprehending the scites of a great portion of the most celebrated nations of antiquity, should, for about seven cen turies, have remained exclusively barbarous as it were, under the greatest splendour of an European sun ; but so it is; and we very much doubt yet whether it will be left without a dreadful struggle to the next barbarous power in Europe to break the charm of Pagan authority ; and, after the lapse of so many centuries, call upon the Cross to supersede the Crescent on the ancient throne of Constantine. We are rather surprised to see the kind of easy certainty with which the destruction of the Ottoman Power, by Russia, is regarded by some writers. The whole progress of the conqueror, from the banks of the Pruth to the walls of Constantinople, is spoken of in the same short sentence as though it were to be traversed by some Jack the Giant Killer in his " seven league boots." A march of from three hun dred and fifty to four hundred. miles, through au enemy's country, full of obstructions at every step, through swamps and rivers, and opposed by moun tains and moors, rife with all sorts of foes, from the sword to the pestilence—is quite a pleasant and brief trip in a paragraph. The Pruth, which is a small river rising in Red Russia, and which, passing through Moldavia, empties itself into the Danube, may pos sibly not be the theatre even of a skirmish; nor may the Danube itself witness any decisive battle on its banks. But from this latter point, the march on Constantinople will be opposed by the main body of the Turkish army. In 1711, Peter the Great was so closely attacked by the Turks, even on the Pruth, that his whole army were hors du combat; and he was obliged to yield up Azoff and all the fortifications which he had constructed on the coast of the Black Sea. It should be recollected that we know little or nothing of that which is transpiring within the prin cipal provinces of Turkey ; strangers would sec little, if there ; and hear nothing ; there are no political tell-tales within a few days' march of Con stantinople. The Turks, when necessary, are all soldiers; to serve in the wars of the State is the most honourable occupation of which the country affords; and hence the curious fact that Christians and Jews are not honoured with the privilege of dying in the defence of the Grand Sultan and his monopoly of Ladies. That post is reserved for the faithful followers of Mahomet. The Russians, as is customary with the other Christian nations, give the amount of their armies to the public ; but with the Turks, few indeed know any thing at all about the subject; and fever still ever venture to agitate the question. In what force the Turks will be found, when they hazard a battle, none may tell ; we shall hear the result; but of the details few, except such as it shall suit the Russians to inform us. The con tinent of Europe is thus once more irretrievably com mitted to war ; and Russia,—the oily nation that has never yet moved but in the purposes of aggran disement ; nor paused, but in some accession of fresh dominion,—is the greatly-injured power to first re commence the work of the worst of human ills. She commences it likewise, in a true Commercial spirit (which it were well if England had adopted fifty years ago), viz. that whenever a peace shall be concluded (assuming of course to be the conqueror) the enemy shall pay to Russia all the expences of the war; giving up its strong holds, or other indemni ties, as pledges for the reckoning. This is a new way, as a general principle. How many millions has it cost England, that Russia might be enabled to hold such a language. With - her fifty millions of subjects, this must be the best trade that Russia could embark in ; for she would be literally making a charge for every mutilated b6dy of her surplus po pulation, that the sabre or the ball gave up to the vultures ; and putting her own price on the blood of her subjects, as a sect of barter between gold and human carcases. The present aspect of things has put the spirit of France in motion : she has it ap pears proclaimed a fresh levy of troops, and con cluded a peace with Algiers ; the objects and the means did not .square; and she has taken a more in telligible position : the fourteenth year of peace has literally tired her out ; and she is conniving at a scene of things that will soon find her either employment or plunder. In the debate on the loan of eighty millions (on the 17th and 1660, M. Lafitte, the Banker (and Bankers are the real men of war), said, that the " Peace had rested with the stipulations of Vienna--that strange as semblage of states without frontiers—of Powers without proportions—and ambition without counter poise." Next to England, Austria is the first nation to excite the jealousy and the hostility of France; which wants dominion and strong holds on the Rhine; but on the present occasion, if we consider Lafitte as speaking the sentiments of the monied in terest, the French are for gain in any quarter. the Banker proceeds, " Though France should not at tach herself to ruin, yet Empires must not be divided befor e her eyes, without her being consulted compensated for the threatening aggrandisemen t of her neighbours." This is only the avowed opinion of M. Lafitte, the first banker in France, yet we all know what it means; and we may "„~~ ~t., see clearly that the phut r 1 of• at‘tgher7," tar titioned " Empire is in contemplation. trance will look to Egypt, if England do not. The speaker goes on to say that " France has remained within her limits for a century, while surrounding kingdoms were devoured." 'What a bouncer ! There was no merit in France submitting to be pared down when the Revolution was over, if this is the moderation that is to be taken into the ac count ; because the Allies had her in a strait waist coat after her hallucination of glory. Having spoken of the partitian of Poland as the foulest blot on Europe, the Banker glances at the premeditated affair in the East; which he seems to regard in a milder light, provided France may have a finger in the pye , he then weighs France and England in his money scales; and names the former at a thou sand millions (francs) of Revenue; the latter at fourteen hundred millions, taking the deduction from that of 750 millions for the interest of the debt; an "alienation of more than half our I Revenue, as it is called ;" while France is dipped only one-fifth. This is Bourbon gratitude. Looking forward to what may arise out of the present war, France is held most competent to take the lead ; England having failed in obtaining the objects of her financial science; while France is coming round with her superiority in her finances, to join her pre vious superiority in population. All this is very in telligible; and,—excepting poor debt-bound and anti-Catholic bound England, in the new treaty, it shows forth a " happy union of principles and views," as proclaimed by Nicholas I--News. On occasion of an action in the King's Bench for the recovery of 21. 4s. 6d., Sir James Scarlett re marked, " it was unfortunate that there was not some inferior tribunal to try actions for these small sums, for as it was, sometimes plaintiffs and sometimes de fendants, found themselves in very unpleasant situa tions. A plaintiff, when he knows his claim is good, is unwilling to forego it; and a defendant, who imagines he has a good defence, is unwilling to pay, though each Islay be aware that, by bringing the matter into Court, they will lose more than the sub ject in dispute amounts to." And this is. the man who resisted Lord Althorp's Bill for the Establish ment of County Courts. According to the trite adage that, " An open foe may prove a curse," " But a pretended friend is worse," we should rate Sir James Scarlett a more formidable enemy to Law Reform than Lord Eldon--Examiner. There has been a general report during the week of a partial change in the Administration, and on Friday it was believed that Mr. Huskisson and Mr. C. Grant, and Lords Dudley and Palmerston, had actually resigned—Lord Goderich taking the Colo nies, Mr. Goulburn the Foreign Office, and Mr. Herries the Chancellorship of the Exchequer; but since that period the differences which existed in the Cabinet have been at least patched up, and a re conciliation has taken place. Those who are best informed still believe that Mr. Huskisson will under any circumstances retire—if he should do so, the question as to which of his particular adherents fol low hire, does not, we think, very much signify—for if, as we know it does, the majority of the people of England, whose politics and principles are identified with those of the Duke of Wellington, is convinced that s the political measures of Mr. Canning and his friends were decidedly injurious to the best interests of the country, we cannot but think the secession from the Cabinet of the most influential friend of Mr. Canning, and the most ardent supporter and seconder (if seconder he was) of those very mea sures, will be most acceitable. There rnsy be— there must be a strong difference of opinion upon all subjects, and the opinions of the Duke of Wellington and the opinions of Mr. Canning on political matters, must be as different as light from dark. Of this we are quite certain; that while the Administration of the country is headed by the Duke of Wellington, the continuance of any of Mr. Canning's political supporters in the Cabinet can only be prejudicial to the country, and injurious to the progress of public business. The system upon which the country expects the Duke of Wel lington's Ministry to act, and the principles which the people require it to adopt, are diametrically op posed to the system and principles adopted by the Administration of Mr. Canning; it follows then, of course, that a mixture of conflicting elements must vastly impede the public service, and, as we think, endanger the public safety ; for as we have already said, and will repeat whenever we have the oppor tunity, firmness and decision, energy and prompti tude, are wanting to give us security ; security only attainable, as we believe, by the most unqualified retraction of every measure adopted by the Ministry of which Mr. Canning was the head. This decla ration will, no doubt, highly offend the advocates of what in these days are called liberal principles, a term which, by being indefinite and mysterious charms the people, and serves to cover every po litical mutability, which, by its adoption, the most unprincipled, or the highest minded Mi nister, may be equally supported, according as the wheel of fortune turns. For our own parts, we have principles fixed and definable, and we have al ways avowed them ; we have had leaders who avowed them also, and those men we supported, not because they were in power, but because their power strengthened the good cause; when they sacrificed their power to their principles, we served. them with even greater zeal, and when they returned to power we welcomed their return as the sure omen of our deliverance from the evil machinations of whiggery and popery. We felt no more than all the tones of England felt, and we felt with them all along as we have just now stated, that a perfect Tory Admini stration would not only have been more serviceable but more acceptable to the nation. We repeat, that mixed Councils must be ruinous to the countries where they exist ; and in support of this assertion, we have the unimpeachable evidence of history. We trust no new examples of their destructive tendency may be afforded us; where experience is so dearly bought, warnings should not be thrown away. So .long as the leaven of Mr. Canning's principles is permitted to work--so long as his disciples and wor shippers form an integral part of the Govern ment—so long as great constitutional questions are carried by clamour, and the King's Ministers divide on opposite sides of the House—so long, in fact, as change and vacillation, and timidity under the name of conciliation, remain the order of the day—so long will the Government be weak in itself, and weak in the confidence of the country. That the Papists should divide the Government, is bad enough, we admit ; but custom has in some degree softened down that ground of offence. On how many other points is it to be divided ? Mr. Huskisson's speech at Liverpool was no bad prologue to the comedy that has since been performed: it is true, the Duke of Wellington gave him no gentle correction for the show-off, and it is equally true that Mr. Huskisson took the correction quietly, and made no reply ; but he must have felt it—at least we sup posee dk o_he puppet s s t o s h . tei Nextt world camethatppt o that the e borious person, Mr. C. s tthe sraniis i :i Grant, e‘v t c h o esh ißt ad lll o , w of Mr. although 1i e as brought in by him, was not agreeable to him, and that he, therefore, was much more - liberal than the Duke. What would Pitt's astonishthent have been to hear a Minister from the Treasury Bench depre ciating his own Chief, and descanting in misplaced panegyric upo n a f a ll en f oe !—b ut th ese w ere not liberal times. From the affair of the Corn Bill, let us proceed to th e T est an d C or poration Acts— another topic o f op afeffealiirrig3s‘—vethheayveopen discussion—but here, for the as pre v a has i sake of friend s , we must t h row a v eil over the whole needa l reit d u y o e r x e p p r e e t s 4 s i e o d n opinionsu N r omn th e appleand ofdiscord w ,discord m for us the t al- w r e ° 's b h shall r 4 l pass th over, t least present, some Colonial matters, in which the con duct of Mr. Huskisson towards his principal was cons ceived in the same spirit, and come to the present — what are we to call it—rupture, dismissal, secession, repentance, reconciliation ? 7 -Would we. could call it eternal separation ? In addition to all the evils produced by free trade—in additiOn to the distresses of the manufacturingogricultural population by the support of liberal principles, Mr. Huskisson has been pleased to conciliate the votaries of Parliamentary Reform with his smile and his vote—because he once agreed with the Democratic party, and has since left it, he would wish to support those who are out, while he remains in himself. But did Mr. Bus kisson avow his intention upon this point before hand —did candour palliate the disobedience ? No. Did he —?—but we must stop—Mr. Huskisson is still a ser vant of the King--we may,however,assure our readers that in thehighest quarter theverycontraryof annoyance was felt and expressed at the supposed dismissal of cer tain persons; and although, by dint of intercession and earnest entreaty, a return to office, for the present, has been permitted, we hope and believe that it will not be long before the Cabinet may become what, to be truly agreeable to the King and to the people it ought to be—a Tory Cabinet. Let us know who are to be our enemies and who our friends--let us know in whom we are to trust, and however much the Whigs and Liberals may rant and bluster, oar Statesman may rely upon what we have over and over again repeated, that a firm, uncompromising, united Government, founded on old English Pro testant principles, will ensure the enthusiastic sup port of all Protestant Englishmen, loyal to their King and devoted to the Constitution.—John POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Tur: CITY or LoNnoN v. SCALES.-This case, the consideration of which occupied two days, exsited a great deal of interest, as it involves a right long undisputed. The facts are briefly as follows: This defendant is a :nost extensive carcass butcher in Aldgate High-street, - and he had, according to practice long established, removed the pavement under the pent house before his shop, for the purpose of putting down new pavement. The Commissioners of Sewers, upon the part of the city of London, claimed the right to pave the spot as public property, and laid an information against Mr. Scales. The penalties recoverable upon proof of a violation of Taylor's Act, in this instance, by Mr. Scales, amounted to I,OSO/. The City Solicitor produced witnesses to prove that the ground under the pent-houses along the line of Aldgate High-street had been paved by the Commissioners of Sewers at the public expence. Two surveyors, employed by the city, proved, one of them that he had put down two stones under the pent houses, at the expellee of the city, a few years ago, and the other that he had made - some trifling repairs occasion ally there. The defendant contended that the ground in question was not publio property within the meaning of the Act. It was private property, and possessed every description of right to which private property was entitled, as much as a shop or counting-house. He had occupied the ground at all seasons and under all circumstances, and it had been used and enjoyed in like manner for the last seventy years. The City Solicitor persevered in saying that the ground was public property. The defendant said the object was to make the pent houses liable to whatever charges the Commissioners might think fit to impose ; but in the Act of Parliament those pent-houses were excepted from the fate of other places of a similar description. • Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Brown proved having applied to the Commissioners to repair part of their pavements, and were answered that the ground was private property, and Mr. Boot proved having resided in the house occupied by Mr. Scales for 60 years, during which he always used the pent-house and pavement as his private property. A City Surveyor stated that he had refused to pave or re pair the ground under the pent houses, as he always consi dered it private property. One of the defendant's title deeds was produced, denot ing the measure of the ground under the pent-houses. The defendant accused the Commissioners of having made a most unwarrantable attack upon his property; but he knew to what to attribute such an invasion of the rights of indi viduals. Some of the members of the Common Council felt a❑ interest in proceeding, because all the butchers, to a man, voted plumpers for him on last St. Thomas's day, and thus became black sheep in the eyes of the other can didates.—(A laugh.)—But he cautioned them to beware of the next election. The City Solicitor positively denied the correctness of this charge. The LORD MAYOK said, thlt the question was one of such importance to his fellow citizens that he would submit it to the Quarter Sessions, by fining the defendant Si. for re moving one foot of pavement, and 51. fur doing so without having first had the leave of the Commissioners. He by all means advised an appeal. He had known the pent houses upwards of 50 years, and it appeared to him that the pavement and erections were attached to the houses; and, judging as a casual observer, he considered them pri vate property. The defendant then gave notice of appeal. GUILDUALL—The time of Sir PETER LAURIE was much occupied last week in listening to the complaint of an elderly spinster, named Jackson, against an eminent so— licitor practising in the Court of Chancery, who, having been employed by her brother (since deceased) to assert his title to the estates of the late Duchess of Norfolk, had (according to complainant's statement) entered into a con. spiracy with the Clergyman of a village in Berkshire, to furnish a false copy of a tombstone inscription, and thereby defeat her brother's claim. Sir PRTEA LAURIE, on the strength of her representation, sent fur the solicitor on Friday last, requesting him to come in and answer it ; but the solicitor being from home, his principal clerk came back with the officer, to state what he knew about it. On Saturday the solicitor did attend ; and seemed wry indig nant at the charge of conspiracy. Ile admitted that he went down into the country to seek for evidence in support of the claim, and that he saw the tombstone inscription in question, a copy of which was afterwards furnished, to him by the resident Clergyman ; which copy he verily believed to be correct ; but whether it was, or not, was of little consequence, as the Court of Chancery had decided the case in favour of several other claimants upon much more conclusive evidence.—The case was dismissed. THE KING V. MARK ANTONY AND ANOTHER.--TWO persons, who had given their names Mark Antony and Emilius Lepidus, were placed at the bar together, char ged with having, disturbed the King's peace—Mark An tony by an ascending ejectment of his s upper against a shop-door in Cheapside ; and Emilius Lepidus by an un provoked battery upon the head of one Alfred Coley, a watchman of the ward of Cheap. It appeared by the evidence of the said Alfred Coley and others, that, in the.dead of the night between Friday and Saturday last, as the said Alfred Coley was on duty in Cheapside, he heard a strange rushing and spattering sound, intermixed with grunts and groans ; and, looking about him to ascertain what might be the cause thereof, h e saw Mark' Antony, with his legs set wide apart, and his fore head leaning against a shop aloor, apparently under the operation of ipecaeuhana, o r some other distressing stomachic projectile. Whereupon he, the said Alfred Coley, went to him and told hint that he bad chosen a very unfit place for much a purpose ; to which, Mark Antony replied, " Oh ! let me alone—let me alone—l'm very, very sick_ Oh ! oh !—confound the sherry !--oh !"—by which reply the said Alfred Coley understood that Mark Antony was drunk. He therefore set about rendering him such help as is customary in such cases; and, whilst so doing, the o th er prisoner, .Em ilius Lepidu s , came runn i ng to th e s pot, and began cuffing the ears of the said Alfred to the tune Hallo'. you Charley what l . are you going to do with my friend ?" By this co n d uc t the said Alfred perceived that Etnilius Lepidus was as drunk as Mark Antony—though not 90 sick ; and therefore Ire called his brethren of the watch together, .and took them both to the Compter. In their defence before the Aldermen, they had nothing to say, except that they had been supping out, and as the . Alderman held that to be no defence at all, Mark Antony was fined live shillings for having been drunk, and .Emilius Lepidus was ordered to find bail for having assaulted the watchman ; by which process we gathered that Mark Antony was no other than Bob Nugent, a lawyer's clerk, and that Emilius Lepidus was neither more nor less than Jonathan Thompson, a buttermonger's apprentice. . Sangster, a watchman of St. Sepulchre's parish, was next charged with having wantonly re spectableon woman named Clark, as she was pagingpaging Skinner-street, on Friday evening, and the otfeme being fully proved, he was locked up for b ail. ..a. M ARYLEBONE-OFFICE.--OnSaturday, J o h n Morgan, a canal boatman, an d Henry, his son, w ere charged with stealing a quantity of oats and a hor se c l ot h , belonging to Mr. Edw. Kelly, a w hartinget• at Padd ing t on . They were fully committed. Thomas Bolton, a Paddington coachman, WilS charged with neglecting to have a person at the heads of his horses when he left his box to set down passengers, as r e quired by law. About 10 o'clock at night, on th e 18 t h i n o. Mary Collins, a ser vant belonging to Edward Goldsio A, Esq. was thrown down as she got off the defendant's stii_e at the top cf Harley-street, New Road, and her clothes NO torn and her arm bruised by - the hind-wheel. For this injury the defendant refused to make COO' pensation. Mr. RAWLINSON fined him 40s. The coachman afterwards satisfied the coniisiainant, apd the fine was remitted. • BOW-STREET.—On Saturday Charlotte Dunn, 11 . , young woman of colour, who was on Friday discharged . ; the Westminster Sessions, to which she had been commit' for making a disturbance at Messrs. Cox and Greenwood came again to this Office, and said she was still convince" that Sir John Gore's brother, who was killed at Berge y op-Zoom, was the gentleman who brought htr over frog' America, and had left her a legacy. 1 Mr. HALLS asked her what sort of a person this Colon el Arthur Gore was, who brought her to England ? Clot' lotte replied, that he was a tall handsome-man, above o' feet high, and was an Irishman. Mr. HALI.S-Why, that very gentleman is now a 1 and well ; I saw him a few days ago. Charlotte—l will never be convinced of it. Sir Jo° Gore told me his brother was the man. Sir R. BIRNIF—Sir John Gore's brother never was iP America in his life, and it is of no use to apply to him further—all letters will be stopped, and as you are so pc#' tive, go about your business. I wish you good morni 4 ' Charlotte then strutted out of the office, vowing that.' s, would not be crone by any body. HATTON-GARDEN.---On Saturday, a woman n atoe 3 Davis, about forty years of age, was charged with assaul t ' lag her husband. The complainant stated that whilst sitting in his apO l ; meat, in Whiskin-street, Spa-fields, looking over sou'. papers, his wife came behind him and struck- him with poker on the right side of the head, which brought him it ' the ground. " When I came to myself," said the 60; plainaut, " I said to her, my good wench, here is the othei side, serve that in, the . same way ; and I believe she WO, have done so, if she had not seen the blood trickling de my face." The MAcisTaaTE, however, ordered the defendant ° find bail for her appearance at the Sessions. UNION HALL—On Saturday, James Smith, a pectrible tradesman, was charged with an attempt to+ ste ! a child, named Maria Snell. In his defence, he alleg', j 1 that the child was ill-treated by some of its companion l i that he questioned it about its parents ; and that he it along the street, as he believed, towards home, as 0 as he understood the directions given him by the intar_l,j bay' that neighbours gave him an excellent character, aod,: : , that he had himself a family. It being Obvious that interference was intended in kindness, he was dismissed A tailor residing in Newington, upwards of sixty yi d of age, of a most forbidding aspect, low in stature, st' it the father of a family, was brought before the Magi stis, o upon an order of affiliation. The mother of the ell; is under fourteen years of age, and was servant to the ( i r fendant. The Magistrate expressed the strongest indignation he the defendant's conduct ; and, as he refused to give ba il, P e was sent to the House of Correction at Guildthrd. , Government are said to be in treaty for purchase of the Guildhall, Westminster, with the vier/ ° converting it into a place of security for the Public f: cords, now enclosed within the wooden receptacle in Wet/ minster Hall. ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CANAL.—The of this canal which originally cost 1131., but subseques tu fell to, and remained for some years, at 10/. per share, I ff o i now in demand, at more than 60/. each. A dividen d (11 2/. per share has just been declared, being, we understaeo the first which has been made since the completion of canal more than thirty years ago. There were asset' d sufficient re t s o e r i N ir e a k a e b t a h l a e a t e ] dividend i i d n en h d a 1 4 1 , fo but meetit ‘‘'9 d h e a e n i d ne n d e e a x rl p y contingent expenses that may arise.—Leicester Jourrfr s , We conversed with a gentleman the other . (Di who very lately went to London via the City of burgh steam-packet. The passengers on board exceede u hundred, and as fully three-fourths of the Whole had see',` ed snug births . in the cabin, at the rate of 51. per he,ad,, freight of live stock, to say nothing of goods, could :O A , under 500/. sterling. Among the company Were a o'gvo known M.P., a Rev. Doctor from the " north couistL ie ' and a W. S. from the Scottish metropolis; and when Suet' day arrived, the Legislator politely told the Doctor i the voice of psalms and the voice of prayer might as appropriately from the face of the sleep as eser tloi rose from the solid land. His Reverence , h owar :: stated in excuse, that he had no manuscript serre',i along with him ; that his memory was not what it 1!.1 been, and that he was rather afraid of extem poriSl before an audience nearly as numerous, and probably se', deal more learned, than could be collected in the majoP" of country parishes. But the other was not to be dri from his purpose. By inquiring among the passengers ,l° lighted on a copy of Dr. DODDRIDGE'S sermons, and t) 01 proposed that the Minister should preach froth a 'pri,P ted book in place of a written paper of his own. To this L . , posal there could be no objection, end iuunediately IP; dinner was converted for the first time into a church-o ;f' , bell, and the cabin crowded with a respectable and attenti`.., band of worshippers. As a number of these were hatr, i , of England, the Clerk to the Signet agreed to officio A ., parish-clerk, and read very distinctly the prayers of e c day. Dr. 0. succeeded, and after a very Sllit i ,t discourse, closed with an impressive extempore I n t' —thus mixing for the edification of all, the EPivr o pal and Presbyterian forms of worship. The scene, fr°i its novelty, was deeply impressive ; and while the WO whistled, and the waves lashed the vessel's side, the atti l v , tion of all was so deeply rivetted, that they resembled itaj Covenanters of old, whom the sword of persecution ', derned into some mountain cleugh, and whose d evotios ie were not the less sincere, that they arose from a tempera sot made with hands. At table the company, 114 10 .' 11. 1 ;y in excellent spirits, publicly thanked the M.P. for judicious suggestion, in regard to spending the "I '".0 , day ; and now that steam-packets have become so cv mon, anti carry such unusual numbers of passeng e° ,l„ trust a similar practice will be followed whenever a Pa.lo bath intervenes between leaving one port and arrivingbe, another. With a view to this, every Clergyman S vb° r cam's a voyageur should carry with him one or m ore 0 4 m o ns, that he may press even the elements in to t' service of his Maker, and speak from the heart 0, tbs heart, when the dangers inseparable from the grea t e r make even the most callous and indifferent r nin(V. e s culiarly susceptible of re li g i ous i mpress i ons .—Du r' Courier. i s dY BIRTHS. ► On the 23d inst., in Regency-square, Brighton; th e of Charles Douglas Halford, Esq., of a daughter. On the 24th inst., in Suffolk-place, the lady 0 - WraOny, the Esq., of a daughter. Job° 24th inst., at \Vest-end, Hampstead, Mrs . Miles, of a son. MARRIED. j, On the 24th inst., at St. James's, Clerkenwell, S, H. Tapper, of Wood -street, Cheapside, to Miss Topping, of Devonport. On the 22d inst., at St. Philip's, Liverpool, by the _ .4 ,0 1 Thomas Bowstead, Mr. John Jerdein, to Hope , '7: - daughter of the late Silas Richards, Esq., of Livere ° , On the 22d inst. by the Rev. Philip Perring , r illr John Butlin, of Whitchurch, Oxon, to Miss I‘ llC only daughter of John James Mackrill, Esq. t he On the 24th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, 0 . . 1 . ` Rev. John Haselwood, Richard Tatier, Esq., of 1 3°7 10 Bower, near Epping, Essex, to Rose, widow of tb e Wtn. Cade Key, Esq., of Haropitead-heath. On the 24th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-511 0 : 1 0, the Rev. Wm. May Ellis, Alexander Sutherlod O r Esq., of Grwme's Hall, in the Orkneys, t0,144fr , 71the second daughter of the late Robert Graham,,li4l4 , Bengal Civil Service. ~,.! age dpir 18th instal DIED. on the ait, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, - Lit i e r , Joseph Francis Forster, Esq., son of the late 41.1 r. P to ni an J o seph Forster, of that town, and grand 'WO; 00 t h e Right Hon. the Earl of Eldon, and Lord Stowe's' deceased was a Lieuteaant in the Royal Navy. e after On the 23d i nst., at hi s h ouse in Alontagu-squar-'OOO. a long and pai n f u l ill ness , C o l one l W egue li n , of the East India Company's service. rd On the 24th i ns t., Mary, daughter of Mr. -A " Taylor, of Kingsland.crescent. On the 23d inst., at the house of her brother-1.0:11s.° William Cahusac, Esq., at Maida-hill West, Jo'el? 1 7 1 10 youngest daughter of H. Bache, Esq., of Limiters, in county of Herts, in the 18th year of her age. od e On the 23d inst., Ellen Emma, only daughter of flanking, Esq. P On the 25th inst., at his residence at Holloway" Thomas Wace, late of Rose-street, Newgate-marke t • , in Suddenly, on the 22d inst., at 38, Brompton - squ,..! r `'W her 36th year, Jane, the wife of Colonel Anthony t o n King, and daughter of the late' Rev. George IV01;01' On the 22d inst., Henrietta Maria Jones, of J 3l l O OO cre scent, Tavistock-squ ar e, d a ught e r o f the late Joh° Esq., formerly of the Charter House. 1;1 On the 21st inst. at Ludlow, in her 28th year, the wife of the Rev. T. T. Lewis, of A yrnes _4p • PatprrEn and ruattsnen by M. YOUNG, tl4 01 UNG, at the • No, M, Strand, . I 0111911. • ' ADN isi, N iyilooar:tgdei r fp : Asa T t,la i rh d aA l , ( l.., ) C c N si v il R 4141 Navy, brialted for thi Cha r i ty, viz. , The Widoy rair ids, Ca tai on Saturday t' Carpenters on Ck ' di4 g Thur, Awl noti ce i s ' l4 t on the 1( C°4 lltrY, whi 44 r th • ___. e,r oja4joyprulnr,aiinaluilit E ,),tuneßtf A ,oesr S ,geo i T rci THE C . eI ,. UNE 'CILAND g i ve Noti ce :- nat a SP CO MPANY s treet, on WI Pole of layi ng e4 gal Retire 41 addition L C The Report t ogeth er with too has been • 'oPrietors at The Court u eneral C uti r Parliament, e v vral Acts 1 London, b y , for t h e aceom iSTOBL. f AGRI( for that pied at hi wATERPRC rll uiner, with Gentlemen ,man are s o li 14 , 11 QUEES 1 ,4, " - I ,G and B 1 Yet~, Pitch, Order s b y ' Loi AMIN s lit ecoi ° DENTIS ENTI t al, that tl Ztrt the Inver 0 . 7‘ 1 , Btqford edthe Nubility t „ c al Gene ;.._P r °lttseional ~,L 4t trat operat ;mg the loss of l tPPly for r i ttlium and (