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THE WEATHER—NooN, MAY 31 i;.OYA.I. GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Barometer Thermometer... 74 Highest 475 Lowest ... 5l Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS D.Y. CHRONICLE.—The agitation for the repeal of the Corn Monopoly becomes daily more and more important. 0 ne interosting feature in the accounts from several district, ; the participation by the agriculturists in the feeling of the other classes. The Carlisle Journal inserts a pe cition, " which is now," it says, " in the course of signa tare amongst the agriculturists of the east ward of the county of Westmorland ; and we are delighted to hear, on authority on which we can fully rely, that the majo :.ity of the farmers in that purely agricultural district prefer a fixed duty to the present sliding scale." Our colmans of this day contain also a report of a meeting at Torquay, in which all classes equally join against mono , poly. Another favourable sign of the times is the re currence to meetings in the open air. At Manchester, a requisition, signed by 5,390 working men, inha bitants • of that borough, requesting th Mayor to call and preside over an Anti-Corn-law meeting, to be held in the open air, was presented to that Magistrate. -ho, however, declined, on the ground that a public meeting of the borough had been held a few days ago for the same object. The requisitionists, determined on the zneeting, convened one for Wednesday next, .to be held in Stoaenson's-square, "for the purpose of pro- Waling against the lizead-tax." A circumstance is no ticed by the Manchester Guardian, which indicates in a a tanner not to be mistaken, the atrength of the feeling in of a repeal of the corn monopoly in the manufac turing districts. " Our adVertising coiamns this day," rays that Journal, " contain the addresses of all the aia. candidates for the boroughs of Manchester and Salford ; and it may not be uninstructive to our readers to point out the fact, that all of these gen ti.emen, without exception, appear desirous of placing their claims to the suffrages of the electors, mainly upon the ground of their attachment to the principles of free trade, and their hostility to the Corn laws.' As Man chester and Salford are not the only places where candi dates will profess principles of free trade in order to be able to support a party opposed to the principles of free trade, constituencies ought to look beyond the mere pro ssicn free trade principles. The trick is somewhat of the shallowest to profess one set of principles in towns and another in counties, in order to gain by both sets of principles. The question is not how individual sup porters of Sir Robert Peel would vote on the Corn-law question, but what effect would the giving the Right lion. Baronet a majority in Parliament have on the fate Of that question ? TBlES.—Before animadverting upon any of the Mi l:l:aerial speeches delivered in the House of Commons on .friday night, we think it right to express, in the strong eat terms we can employ,' our opinion of one passage in th e s p eec h o f a Conservative Member. Lord Teignmouth is reported to have said, " That for some of the measures of the Government he admitted that ti:e greatest praise was due to them, and the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) deserved inn nortd honour —the measures for the support of the Established Church, the alteration (f the Poor-law, and, above 1!, - the n 0613 stand he made (lining the last Ses :;ion for the privilege s of th at H ouse . I n those r.-:peets the .Aroble Lord deserved the highest praise." V'e trust we are not i nto l erant of ot h er men's jadgments ; we have no desire to make a personal attack upon Lord Teignmouth because he thinks dif farently from ourselves ; but we cannot regard the tone nd manner of this passage, in which he has so gratuitously chosen to express his admiration of the new Poor law and the inflexibility of his attachment to privilege, as any less than a defiance of those who differ from him upon these two important questions. After such an an aouncement, discovering such utter contrariety of feeling taal iiraconeileable hostility to the views entertained by tate great body of people upon two subjects in which their rights and liberties. are essentially involved, we should despise any man who, professing himself to be far liberty against privilege, or fel- the. poor against the am Poor-law, could yet tender his vote to Lord Teieu .. mouth - at any future Parliamentary election—we should Inispise him, ay, as much as the experience of Thursday ,• „ -I tt2,yr . ,..tffiglit the farmers of North Lincolnshire to ,: ifu, 9 Lb_ ll l l . :y N . yprsley. So much . for the Conservative • ''" l !'liiurnr, .!-ft him our notice is due to that slippery raraon'age the -- 't7taber f or S out h Shi e ld s , w h o originaly „acattue into . Parliai rkent upon the Whig interest, and till .4 - Pl3*4l4a..Yo2are: was accustomed to take his seat -aaaott thq4l.lu4stv4o. side of the House. Latterly he has g a Conservative, by chang- S ing his side and voting pretty steadily against the Go vernment proposition. Inconstancy,' however, seems to be too essential a quality in his nature to admit of his pursuing any one line of action long ; and now, when he may be supposed to think his vote of rather• more than usual importance, he discovers that after all " black's not so black," and restores his support to the Whigs at the moment when they more than ever deserve to lose it. We know not whether there is any secret history to all this ; but if there is not, Mr. Ingham must be the weakest of mankind. His conduct is such as no class, no party, no individual in the kingdom can do other wise than despise : a constituency which submitted for the future to have its influence kept in perpetual oscillation by such a see-saw representative would be come the laughing-stock of the kingdom. He will, of course, be swept away with other similar lumber at the approaching general election. POST.—There can be no doubt whatever that Lord Worsley by his recent conduct has forfeited whatever title he formerly possessed to represent the electors of a district so peculiarly agricultural as that of North Lin colnshire. His Lordship affects to be a friend to British agriculture, and to this assumed character, and the so cial position which seemed to guarantee its sincerity, he is indebted for his seat. His Lordship has now, however, made it clear to the most dimsighted and careless ob server that he is less the friend of British agriculture than the friend of Lord Melbourne's Government. _ to be the Friend of Lord Melbourris Govetnment was not per - se any- recommendation of his Lordship to the agricultural constituency which he represents, for a great majority of the latter are avowed and proclaimed Conservatives, who never trusted the professions of Lord Melbourne's Government in the matter of the Corn-law, and sent Lord Worsley to Parliament chiefly because they thought that he and such supporters of Lord Melbourne's Government, as they expected him to prove, would keep that Government right upon the one im portant subject, or, in the event of its going wrong, withdraw their support. Lord Worsley is not, nor does he assume to be, in the same position with those friends of agriculture who affect to think that its interests may be adequately and permanently protected by Lord John Russell's fixed duty of eight shillings per quarter for wheat, and proportionate duties for the cheaper descrip tions of grain. Lord Worsley knows and declares that this is not an adequate protection, nor does he attempt to conceal his belief that, inadequate as it is, the Govern ment that proposes would not be able permanently to maintain it. The case presented to the mind of this re presentative of North Lincolnshire, and distinctly recog nised by him as the case upon which his decision is to be given, is one of comparison merely between the importance and necessity of endeavouring to secure adequate protection to British agriculture on the one hand, and the importance and necessity of endea vouring to secure the continued services of the present Ministers on the other. Lord Worsley gives advisedly and deliberately his preference to the latter object. Does not the Noble Lord know that among his Lincolnshire constituents there are ten to one who would come without a moment's hesitation to an opposite deci sion in the same case ? And, knowing this, can he en tertain so mean an opinion of them as to expect that he will be permitted any longer to remain their represen tative ? His Lordship is so deeply convinced that the proposed alteration of the Corn-law would be ruinous to the agricultural classes, and injurious to the whole community, that he is determined to vote against the whole and every part of the Ministerial budget which contains this proposal ; and immediately after expres sing this determination, and explaining the grounds of it in the strongest terms, he proceeds to give a vote the keep in power Ministers whose proposal it is, and the leading object of whose future policy must necessarily be to ensure its success. To say that men who are ca pable in such a matter of the inconsistency and folly which Lord Worsley has displayed are unfit to repre sent an English county would be saying little. Such aien cannot be fit to represent any body, or even to act ,vith credit or success in the most ordinary affairs of life. HERALD.—In our leading article of Saturday last, we assured our readers that the speech of Sir James '24raham of the preceding evening would well repay the nest attentive perusal. We might have added, that it ,vas one of the inort suggestive which had been delivered e the course of the debate. If we recur to it on the )resent occasion, we do so not with the intention to ex ;ress ourselves in terms of linguaßiled praise of its . ariety, of the important topics it embraced, and of the devcrness and spirit with which they were handled— dthough it was eminently entitled to the highest appro ')ation in respect of all these particulars. But we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity that a brief :otice of it will afford us for fixing a few alient points, on which are most prominently lrn nessed those relations that we desire to see expanded fltl devoted to ends as salutary as we believe they would be permanent. To borrow a phrase from our po lemical divines, we desire " to improve" the present po sition of parties in the Legislature to loftier purposes than even that which we have so much at heart—the athstitution of a Conservative for a Whig Radical Go ernment. It appears to us that on the statements made n the course of Sir Ja.-nes Graham's speech, it behoves :he country to take securities that its support of future ,tlatinistrations shall be - given to principles rather than mrties—to measures rather than to men. It behoves the conservative constituencies to remember that they will ;oon have the opportunity of disembarrassing the cause 'f those principles. which they have espoused so delibe :ately, maintained so unflinchingly, and adhered to through every variety 'of adverse fortune until the ad ent of that season of triumph which is about to open on Thew ' from - sonle alliances which could scarcely have wen forced upon it but by the irresistible force of cir cumstances. There transpired enough in tic discus sions of Thursday and Friday last, in the House of ,ommons to demonstrate the precarious and 'itreacherous .iature of those confederacies which political converts form vith the parties whose opinions they suddenly espoUse, after opposing, for many years, with persevering and ira dacable hostility, We are sorry to place the name of :Jr. Ingham in the same category of political offenders .with Lord Worsley, as the Ipswich prototype of this Judas school—Mr. Gibson. But we extract a moral from our disappointinent. Let us learn to test present wetensions a little more sternly by past conduct ; and above all we should beware of applying, on the score of he party of a candidate for public confidence a less ;earthing examination as to. his political principles and )pinions than we should insist upon his passing, in his simple individual capacity. The fight is to be made for a holy and a magnificent cause—the Constitution of Great Britain, in Church and State. Let us have for its champions those only who will espouse them both ;—as to the former, without bigotry, but with a determination to uphold the just rights of the Establishment ; as to the latter, without harshness or illiberality, but with uncom promising firmness wherever a constitutional privilege is to be upheld, or a legal right to be vindicated. ADVERTISER—We regret that by some inadver tence the British Queen and Statesman newspaper of yes terday was led into the mistake of stating Commodore Sir Charles Napier was appointed to the command at Lis :)on. We suppose the mistake originated from con tindino• the gallant Commodore with Commander Na pier, the gallant officer who has bean appointed to the Pelican, which vessel sailed from Portsmouth on Friday ror Lisbon. That the hero of the Syrian war should ap pear to be transported to a foreign station by an elec tioneering trick, may be very agreeable to the wishes of a certain gentleman who aspires to the representation of Marylebone; but we assure that aspirant that the worthy electors of that independent borough are too old birds `o be caught by such young chaff. In any case of such importance to the interests of the borough of Mary lebone there cannot be a question of doubt as to the man of their choice—the hero who has waved " the meteor flag of England" over the Syrian coast — a hero whose fame and naval exploits extend over the world—and a gentleman whose merit seems to be that in the liberal borough of Marylebone he has been only four times rejected ! Our readers will be sorry to see by a letter from Commodore Sir Charles Napier, in another part of our paper, that he has resigned his com mand in the Mediterranean ; but they will at the same time be pleased to learn that a man who had done so much honour to his country on land and sea, is ready and willing to do his best in the senate if the worthy and patriotic electors of Marylebone will do honour to them selves by sending him to Parliament as their naval Am- bassador in the cause of Reform for the good of the people—a representative who will do his utmost against monopoly in all its various ramifications—whether it be in corn, sugar, or timber. Commodore Napier is pledged to a thcirough reform in all depirtments, and more espe cially in thd navy, of which he has proved himself the leading star. TUE WEATHER.-:"..The variation in the tempo yraetsutreenhiartsy h v e .o e s n o v x e c i o y ed gr io e gl a y t h clU i ril o th th e ei p .m as o t m e e i t g e h r tdays. show ing g 5 d eg . i n th e shade, while Y ort Wednesday se'nnight it stood at 58 deg.—Bath Herald. The St. George Steam-packet Company's eters t b e u r r s g' r S i v t e o a d m l - a s s h t a J h u t p f i r t o e m r , L s i e t tp. nf Waters, h R ha ;In C g permn ( a ) r n e e r d , thear voy,aigiheein se v en days ansdteaanhlalf. Navigation Company's Mail-packet, Ocean, arrived yesterday with the Dutch mail . WHITSUN HOLIDAYS.--The Briti s h Museum will be open for the week until Saturday, and the National Gal lery, Trafalgar-square, from to-day until Thursday. Car toonsTerorherow: ' of Hampton Court Palace are al s o op en to-day, to• r and Thursday, and the romantic beauti es o f the the charms of the Palace at this time of the ye ar in g , Ca vite e a g ardens s gr ea t and deal of company. At the pleasant village of Ke w a l so are - the arboretum, formerly attached to the Palace, and the R oya l Bo tanic Gardens, which are open from ten o'clock until six. The Tower of London, with its rich stores of attractions, are also open to the public for sixpence. A pleasing mark of improvp ment in the feelings and disposition of the age is shown in the many thousands who annually resort to these places, instead of the fairs in the vicinity of the metropolis a few years since, where so many brutalising scenes of debauchery were practised. THE HON. MRS. DAMER'S DlARY.—Travels in the Holy Land must always be regarded as among the most valuable illustrations of the Scriptures, affording, as they invariably do, such abundant confirmation of their authenticity and sacred character ; but, notwith standing so much important commentary has been made public by Lord Lindsay and other recent travellers in Palestine, we Limn!. mass of contributions to the popular study of Biblical 11irs - erature of a still more interesting character in this " Diary of a Tcur in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the llOly Laud," by the lion. Mrs. Dawson Darner—a lady o? high literary attainments, who met with such facilities for prosecuting her r2.Bertreh es through out a country that may justly be entitled "The Cradle of Religion," as have enabled her to obtain an accession of information that cannot but be considered of unrivalled interest in every part of the Christian world. We have to announce the death of the Hon. Henry Dawson Darner, which took place in Hyde park-terrace on Thursday. Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield inspected the R o y a l M ar i nes on S atur d ay, on t h e para d e - g round in front of their barracks at Woolwich, and, in the evening, djped mith the cfaters in their mess-room. THE FRENCH COUNTERPART TO THE ENGLISH CORN-LAWS. There has been a good deal of skirmishing in the House'of Lords on the Corn-laws. Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord. Radnor, and Lord Clarendon have successfully combated the misrepresentations and fallacies of the monopolists ; and on Tuesday Lord Lansdowne made a very able speech, in which he clearly showed the mis carriage of the sliding scale, and also very happi4j illus trated the consequences of attempting to make ti coun try independent of foreign supplies of corn by the pa rallel absurdity of France in endeavouring to make herself independent of foreign supplies of oxen. As to the sliding scale, Lord Lansdowne remarked : " A fixed duty had been called a delusion, but there never was a greater delusion than that of supposing, that the sliding scale gave a steady protection to the agricul ture of the country. He was aware—and he only stated what he knew could be proved—that parties in different parts of the country had agreed to cram the market with a particular kind of corn, on three or four market days preceding the striking of the averages ; and this was done for the purpose of controlling and obstructino• act of the Legislature. The consequence , that the averages suddenly rose to a price which foreign corn could come in at a very;wduty, and then one or two millions of quart of corn were suddenly thrown in. The r;; ,g law was the lever with which these parties effected this operation, by which, at a sacrifice of 30,0001. or 40,000/., they made 300,0001. or 400,0001. at the expense of the revenue. What was the conse quence ? This corn did not come in the regular course of trade, which would enable merchants, millers, and far mers to calculate upon it ; but it was suddenly thrown in, and consequently there was a necessity for its being paid for in money ; and then, in addition to the, evil to the farmer, if there was any evil to the farmer, the whole community was disturbed by a derangement of the cur rency, the export of the precious metals, ajul the disorder of the paper currency of the country. The introduction of forei g n corn, which in the regular course of trade would have been perfectly innoxious, produced all these evils, because it was sudden and unexpected. This had occurred in the autumn of 1839, and it was repeated in the autumn of 1840." The doctrine of protection, to the degree of producing independence of foreign supplies, was thus happily exem plified by Lord Lansdowne in an apt parallel, coming with peculiarly good effect in retort— " A Noble Lord opposite thought to make out a tri umphant case of the superiority of the condition of the people of this country over that of the people of France, among other nations, by quoting from M. Cunin Gri daine a statement how lean the French oxen were in com parison with the English oxen, the one, as he said, not being half so big as the other ; but had it never occurred to the Noble Lord that these very lean oxen were the crea tures of protection ?—(Hear, hear.) That these very lean oxen were precisely the result of the protection which the French legislature had thought proper to extend to French graziers, the French graziers insisting upon it that all France must inevitably starve if it, depended upon any other country for its supply of oxen ?—(Hear, hear.) It wes admitted that - French oxen were, as the Noble Lord said, lean, but the French graziers said, Give us time, and we'll let you have such fine fat oxen some time or other, if you won't let anybody else supply you but French graziers. (Hear.) Besides it would never do to allow fat German oxen to be admitted into France, lest, peradventure the principles of some of the German illuminati might get in with them.—(A laugh.) From the leanness of French oxen might an illustration be drawn as to the effect of similar protection upon our agricultural produce.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that it was impossible for a nation to get on without it extended protection to its various interests ; yet in Switzerland, where it had not been thought neces sary to have a system of protection, every branch of industry was greatly improving, both in agriculture and manufactures, though there was no country in Europe which contained a larger proportion of poor land than there was in Switzerland.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He did not mean that, while other interests were protected, agriculture should be deprived of protection, but he was fully persuaded, that not only the general prosperity of the country, but that of agriculture itself, would be promoted by the change now proposed.—(Hear, hear.) Ile himself was a considerable landowner; he depended, indeed, en tirely on land,' and the land he possessed was not free from those incumbrances which it had been urged so materially aggravated the disadvantages under which the agricultural interest laboured ; but, he would repeat, he was fully con vinced that not only he himself would not suffer, but rather benefit by the change, but he was convinced also that the class to which he belonged would not suffer, but rather benefit by the change as a body.(Hear, hear.) The farmers in . England are not more improved in condition by protection than the oxen in France. Both are brought to the leanest possible state by the excessive care of their Legislatures. Some time go we proposed that the argument that the Corn-laws served the farmers should be brought to the test by an annual farmers! show, like the cattle show, in which might be exhibited those prize farmers who have fattened on the system of protection. A farmer who had increased his capital by a large per centage would be as great a wonder, we suspect, as .a fat ox in France. If the oxen of France could speak upon occasion, as the oxen of ancient Rome used to do now and then in the Forum, would they bless the protection which makes them so small and slim, or would they take Wiser views of the interests of their flesh than our Buekinghams and Knatchbuils would assign to our farmers ?—Examiner. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. FURTHER ENDOWMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. At a Convocation holckn on Saturday, May 22, 1841, the scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Eng land, for the further endowment of the University, was laid before Convocation and received the approbation of the House. The scheme is drawn up in pursuance of the intentions and engagments of the late Bishop Van Mildert, and in accordance with the previous resolution of the Ecclesi astical Commissioners to make certain arrangements with respect to the Deanery and Canonries of the Ca thedral Church of Durham, with a view to maintaining the University of Durham in a state of respectability and efficiency.__ _ _ The following are the principal provisions of the scheme : The office of Warden, upon the first vacancy, is to be attached to the Deanery of Durham • the present War den receiving 5001. annually during his incumbency. A Canonry in the Cathedral Church is to be attached to each of the Professorships of Divinity and Greek. The present Professor of Mathematics is to be ap pointed Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, with an annual salary of 700/. When the office of Warden shall be annexed to the Deanery, the salary of 5001., paid to the► present -War den during his incumbency, is to be applied to found a Professorship of Hebrew and the other Oriental Lan guages. In addition:to the six Fellowships already founded by the Dean and Chapter, there are to be founded eighteen Fellowships, making twenty-four such Fellowships in the whole. Two of such eighteen Fellowships are to be founded on the . 29th day of September, 1841, and the same number in each year until the year 1849 inclusive. Eight only of the twenty-four Fellows who have exceed ed the age of 23, are allowed to continue Laymen. The Lay Fellowships are tenable for eight, the Clerical for ten years. They are to be of the annual value of 1201., the ten senior Clerical Fellows receiving 1501. Candidates for Fellowships must have been admitted to the degree of B.A. in the University of Durham, and are to be elected according to the regulations now in force, or such other regulations as shall be duly made for securing the election of the most meritorious candi date, regard being always had to moral character as well as to learning. The Fellowships are to be vacated by marriage or ec clesiastical preferment. _ _ _ Towards providing the funds for making these pay ments, all the estate and interest now vested in the Ec clesiastical Commissioners, in the lands, &c., formerly assigned to the Deanery and to the eleventh Canonry of the Cathedral Church of Durham (all tithes being ex cepted) are to be vested in the Warden, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Durham ; and when it shall become necessary, further provision is to be made for granting such additional endowment, as may appear to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners necessary for making up the deficiency. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 28—Yesterday the following 'gentlemen were elected Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholars : —Henry Bailey, B. A., St. John's College, first Hebrew Scholar ; William Henry Guillemard, B. A., Pembroke College, second Hebrew Scholar. We understand that the author of the second best English poem on the death of the Marquess Camden, bearing the motto " Non lugendam esse mortem quam immortalitas consequatur," is Mr. John Purchas, of Christ's College, son of Captain Pur: chas, R.N. At a Congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN PHYSIC.—W. H. Miller, St. John's College. LICENTIATES IN MEDICINE.—Thomas Willis, Caius Col lege, Hugh Francis Burman, Caius College. .MASTERS OF ARTS.—James A. Foot, Pembroke College ; Bentham D. Koe, Caius College ; Edward D. Bland, Caius College ; William Charles Sharpe, St. John's College • John Thornhill, St. John's College ; Joseph Beete Jukes, St:John's College; Edward Hicks, Trinity College; John Wing, Clare Hall. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Thomas Burbidge, Trinity Col lege ; Robert Aris Willmott, Trinity College ; James Losh, Jesus College. The Rev. J. Thornton, M.A., of Catharine Hall, in this University, has been appointed to the United Chaplaincies of the Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Northampton. The Rev. George Dugard, M.A., of St. John's College, in this University, has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the perpetual curacy of Birch-within-Warrington. Patron, John Dickenson, Esq., Devonshire-place, London — Value, 1601. Hans Bush, Esq., of Trinity College, in this University , has been called t o th e ar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn. MRS. MABERLEY'S NEW NOVEL, " THE LOVE-MATCH."—Judging , from the unanimous tone of the various opi n i ons on this new novel of Mrs. Maber ley, its success promises to •be even more decided than that of " Emily." The following is from the Weekly Chronicle :—" We have not read . for a long t i me s o pleas ing a novel as The Love-Match.' The power with with which the characters are drawn—the admirable manner in which they are balanced with one another— the strain of melan c h o l y runn i ng through the. story, deepen ing as it proceeds, and ending so pathetically—nll com bine to render it a most interesting and moving novel, The contrast whi c h B e Gre y, the o ld fasc i nat i ng man of the world, pres en t s to t h e gentle, unsuspecting Florence —the clever picture of the old dowager Lily Maywood, and the intriguing Julia—all bespeak the power of the authoress, 4nci h er i nt i mate knowledge of t h at society which she so bare 4 and e x poses in these admirable vo, lumes." STATE OF TRADE.—We have no improvement to report.—Trade still continues in a very depres s ed itate. ,—Leicester Mercury, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1841. NAPIER FOR MARYLEBONE. 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Miss JANE PORTER.—Thaddeus of Warsaw, The Scot tish Chiefs, The Pastor's Fireside. MAXWELL.—Stories of Waterloo, My Life the Divouae. Mrs. TROLLOPE.—Vicar of Wrexhill, Widow Barnaby. Mrs. GORE.—Mothers and Daughteis, the Soldier of Lyons. MARRIAGE. By the Celebrated Author of "The Inhe ritance," and " Destiny." Any of which may be had separately. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT GARDEN. UNIDER the MANAGEMEiST of MADAME VESTRIS.. THIS EVENING, MAY 31. Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON .ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bar'., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hall away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Harley ; Grace H arkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs, Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Hamby. After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex- travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, M. W. Harrison ; John, Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Itainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Rases, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, witl Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at halt-past ix—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Plica, 35. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 6tl. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.• Gallery . Is. . . Tickets and places for the foxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till lFeur, where S rason Tickets may be had upon application.: ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. JNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Extensive Novelty. The first Vocalists in the Kingdom—Miss Romer, Mr Wilson, and Mr. Leffler, assisted by Mrs. Serle, and a numerous Chorus from the Theatres Royal—Conduc tor, Mr. G. Stansbury. THIS EVENING, MAY 31, Will be acted Bellini's Grand Opera, LA SONNANIBULA. Amina, Idiss Romer ; Lisa, Mrs. Serle ; Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler ; Elvino, Mr. Wilson. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled FEMALE POLITICS. To conclude with the Grand Romance of BLUE BEARD. Splendid scenery, dresses, and appointments, supported by Mrs. W. Stoker, and the entire Company of this popular Establishment. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. THIS EVENING, MAY 31, AND TO-MORROW. An entirely new beautiful pathetic Domestic Drama, it: Three Acts, with splendid scenery, decorations ' &c., entitled SUSAN HOPLEY ! 011, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL ! William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville; and Susan Hopley b7} Miss Vincent, the accepted Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which (first time), the Operatic Drama of THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE. Henri (the Prisoner), Mr. Osbaldiston; Beatrice by 'Miss Vincent, who will introduce the popular Song of " W'sntsd a Governess !" accompanied by herself on the Pianoforte. To conclude with (first time), a new Romance, in Th:.:ee Acts, entitled THE GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON ; OP., THE HIDDEN TREASURE! Louis tie Valere, Mr. Otbaldiston ; Claude Lapels, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Rabin, Mr. Saul ; Bouquet, Mr.. Ross ; Antoine, Mr. Howard; Leonora, Miss Lee; Madar.sc Bouquet, Miss Howard, &c. &c. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. half-price at Half-past Eight. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY ! ! ! First Exhibition of the Great Fire Works of St. Angelo ! First Promenade Musicale by the Band of Sixty Wind Instru ments ! ! Whit Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. THE first grand ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the rejoicings which take place in Rome at the celebration of " II giorno di S. Pietro," will be given THIS DAY, MAY 31st, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb GIRANDOLA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest and most magnificent display of Fire Works in the World, com prising arcong its beautiful effects, the Cascade of Fire— Fountains of Blazing Stars—and the tremendous Arial Bou quet • with the ILLUMINATION o f St. PETER'S, w h en • the w hole: of this vast and glorious' edifice is brilliantly lighted with countless myriads of lamps , presenting together a coup d'ceil of in conceivable :splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, augmented by the addition of many performers of eminence, will give the first Promenade Musicale et Cham petre in the enlarged and newly-decorated Orchestra. The Menagerie, including the great male Orang Outr Ag . , and several other rarities, is exhiaited daily, with D'..nsotis Colossal Pictorial Model of Rene ! Open at Ten. Admission One Shilling. Concert at Six. Fire Works at Nine. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We could not insert the statements of H. r even if we pos• sessed his name and address. OM IMMO. HIGH WATER AT LONDON i r .tIDOE TO.MORROW Icrnmg ...... 53 minutes altzr 10. 1 Ev f .ming e minutes after 0 4 41 41 , * ,- • ; #e" • ° C gV-2•,' • '• k e — 2 . A. • • ' re • t• 0 C`" ,_.v LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 31, 1841. If we do not remark at any length on the debates on the no-confidence motion, it is that we believe the minds of our reader, are long ago pretty well made up as to the enaracter of the. Ministers and their (;- p ponents. Whatever may tiaal of the wQr^lo gir ROBERT PEEL'S motion and his `owner, that of the later is much speech were both made to blacken the character of his rivals, and we never Listen with any plea- sure to scandal. We do not shun the d iscussion from an opinion that the Ministers were inferior to their rivals in argument; for we think Sir ROBERT PEEL'S constitutional doctrines, as we explained on Saturday, were completely overturned, while his own conduct refutes the first proposition of his resolution. Mr. MACAULAY showed that the chief I, lY;lness of the Ministers was to conduct , the executive government, and Sir ROBERT PEEL himself did not deny the Ministers hi: confidence in that capacity. He voted, the sup• • plies into their hands; he seconded th e CHAN• • CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S resol , ition 01 the subject of the sugar duties ; he de - clared that he had no wish to em - barrass the Government but, as a n hone ;t representative of the people, if he : had r.o confidence in the Ministers, it was h is duty 'to withhold the supplies from them, and' his duty to embarrass and impede men in what h e suppos es to be and calls a ruinous career. By taking an opposite course his practice refutes 1 ais own : is sertions, and contradicts his affirm ation. ZVe cannot comprehend the consistency • which ,Je clares Ministers unworthy of confidence, and votes to place the national revenue in their hai As the administrators, too, of th Le executive government, the Tories do not den: T that Mi nis ters have shown consummate abilit3 r in defea ting the secret designs of M. THIERS, without :pro voking a rupture with France. Nor do i;hey deny that all our foreign relations have been well conducted. As to home affairs, t' ne quietness of Ireland, the peace which has bec : n preserve :d in England, while the people have been subjf acted to the greatest privations and ;reatest injuries that ever were inflicted on a nati .on by dastardly plundering it by law; attests the goodness cpf the administration. It is true tat Ministers acted more harshly than we ever app roved of towards the Chartists; but when we c( )mpare the'ir con duct to that of the Tories under somewhat ,similar circumstances, we must cone fede to them the palm of equal vigour united f to much greater moderation. We admit that we began t D think, and so did a large part of the public, 'that the Ministers were fast forfeiting the con idence of the nation, and their great superiority I r en their opponents is manifested by the simple /fact that the instant they took a step worthy of ;' their former conduct, and calculated to restore • them to the confidenCe of the nation, the Tori( is vehemently assailed and defeated them. T' then proceeded to record their own hatred I - to the people by a vote of censure on the Minh 3t(!rs for proposing to re lieve the public distri e ; ii;, If the Ministers by their late conduct hay , e forfeited the confidence of the House of Coro m )ns. , they have regained that of the public ; • which will carry them triumphantly throW gh the fiery ordeal into whiCh . they have been for :ed Ijy the Tories. The readier wit ref nember that one of the main , argutnents adduced by Sir R. PEEL as a proof that the Mi piste rs.', had lost the confidence of the Horse, was defeat on the sugar ques tioa. By- that n .easure - the Ministers intended to give relief t o the '-people, and the Tories would r lot allow theni. They maintain that the Minist(!rs act cc ntra ry to the spirit of the Con stitution by ren lain ing in office after that defeat. So tb e Tories c len .ionstrate their hatred of all whic/.1 is for the Pr ,hlic good, their determination to in flict distre: ;s and ruin on the nation, and the:.r vast infer rity to their rivals. - • One of the amstances which, in our estima tic )n, ought to re commend the Ministers to the pprobation oft h 3 Tories, is made by them a sub j ect of bitter .re proach. They quote over and .over again Lor. I VIELBOURNE'S speeches against repealing the Cor 7i-la W, and against the agitation by proposing such a. measure; and they con clude that - Lord 11rIF.J.nounNE must be really as mad am', as uric: iced as the :Noble Lord . described. those to b e who would agitate the coun try for a total and i n, mediate repeal of theCornL laws. There can l3e nn doubt - that Lord MEL BOURNE, whO is di,. ;: inguished for his, frankness, spoke his hone: ;t col evictions on those occasions. Nor can there be ally ddubt that he has been most reluctant] y com yelled, by the evidence. of facts, to take a part w !alai makes him appear in consistent, ant - I practically exhibits him as the • opponent of hi s forme >r St atements. Every mo tive, except t hat of de,‘,ermination to do his duty, knowini ; the f. /wets clf the case, prompts Ldrd M]mnou .Ilasrm to st. 3.nd those statements; but public' d istress is so ; grat,—lie is so well 'convinced by the - fad s,, from various quarters, that the c ;ornmeree ofi fne country. has reached its maxi mum under?. this • system, that the revenue i s falling Oiti; • 7 that the greatest danger is to be apprehended from , adhering to his former oi ?inions, that 1i braVes all the censure to which I ; Lis presumed inc. ?nsistency exposes him to do w . .. 0 .at he believes to be his duty to her MA JESTY Sl.l d the cou,ntry. Such high-minded con duct at could recommencl him to the Tories, who for ever boast of th eir ,own high-minded ness; 1: ;ut it has brought c arjrirn the most severe reproai :hes. :His self-saer ifiee, too, which ought to cony ince them that the necesoity to which he yielde , 3 1, is overwhelminq ; and Ought to them g ive up the Corn -I ! Iwo - with a good grace, only hat •dens them hr thei r iniquity. Their own bare natilre disables thel n from conceiving the' ei.dstence of an honoulrabl p motive in other men, 'And they _,et down the de vial which Lord MEL BOURNE is now giving l.. 1; .r his acts to his former sentiments to a 'paltry boy( of office, instead of an honest but reluctant cot, version to the Anti Corn-law creed. • It is unOestiond,bly curie MIS to see a nobleman, ' who denouv.ced tl-,e opinici ns which we, in com mon with Ow AT Iti-Corn-h tw League, have long held, as the 01 ;Pillions of ani, adman, at the head of a Cabinet will( qa. is now 11 'yoked to carry them into effect, an 1 which is p Jepared, as the only means of savii ig the Stati '., to take one stride towards our obj ect. But A . ough curious it is not unexampled, n( )r even unrisi tal, to find those who have most yell(' :rnently e7Lpif, 'ssed the most erro neous opiniong , become the I .speediest and most hearty convert sto the t;rutli . Lord MELBOURNE is an ingenuoi I s, frank gent] Leman, and we do not despair; we i AO not even d .oubt when the true nature of tln , starvation It L w is made known to him, by th e : lccumulated . evidence which the public prey s. ha ~ s brought tc ) bear on the question, that he WI ii b, .c ;cane that ma tdman he formerly de scribed, / en d gt ) along wit:, i us in abolishing at once, ar . the endi y safe, prat .. .i.cal, and just method of proc eeding, i, lie whole system of Corn and Provi ision_laws. --.— - . V r . e hen once tiler, s have r.ittained the conviction 'la' c the Corn-law' curtails the supply of food, anc l iannuallystarv c s sti. considerable number ofmen, wo men, and' child; r i:n out of existence, it seems fl to us not merely sT we:uous, but almost a mock ery, to justify the , aboh :fion of the law by any . less imposing ar kumenito., authors cont it mit slow and de liberate ms.;rder—murder the most painful to which - man, can be sub ject, murder by tl • D., c lingering, cret.k."inr wasting, torments of stars ; 11 , , ion. To be shot t Zsrough the heart, to be expo! ie d . ‘.,0 instant death by as.;-3assina tion, though a crir ' Ile of *the deepest dye in the iisur derer, is a mete c h ar ge of being to the v ictim, r.O . -%d or for evi l is known and• whether it .be ! f or only to HIM • to w f rom all s are known. But ‘ vc -th2 , .: 1 murder by a . star' ration a and unna foc land unnatural as at best" - murde 1:r is, is be said to ' be con tural," for the tt )rture 1' at 'Y (‘ most fou2 tinual, and them .urderer, ; se e and hear, year after year s the par, igs and t . 0., 3ans of their victirds, and hear and see tl tern unrc k i e nting and unmoved. The - murder is b iasely cm ' 0 fitted, too, by those who are tr us t e d wi tit the gua rd ianship of their vic t. ms. Th e aut l u )rs of this g., - eat crim e ask the obedience, ask t' Ue respect, as , i the reverence of the people, on a , ccount of a fi 'or( ling them protec tion ' • they call . themselves pa t ernal legislators, and having' ow e they use it to. o' otained confid consign a uni ititude of the pc ~opt, e annually to the horror's of -. starvation and a premature grave. Such being the effects of the Corn-law on our suffering people, and being made by those who claita authority for their superior goodness, seems to us a great mockery to argue the ques- tion of abolition on any grounds of price, or ad vantage to commerce, or extension of civiliza tion, and the preservation of national peace, though all these be in our favour. The awakening perception throughout the community that such is the real nature of the Corn-law—that it withholds food from the peo ple, and dooms a great number to death, is the main cause why the question is now taken up by the ministers of religion, and is now argued as a most important moral and religious question. The public feel, and in particular the ministers of religion feel, that so great an injustice—so heinous an offence, never can be expedient, and they have a deep conviction that the continuance of such a crime must draw down upon the nation the punishment of the ALMIGHTY. In fact they see it already overtaking us in public distress and public strife—they see it in future' aggra vated and embittered by more violent quarrels, by convulsion and bloodshed. What can those doomed to starvation care for a Constitution ? What is it to them that our ams triumph abroad and that certain arts, encouraged by wealth, flourish at home? The sacred principle of self-preservation commands them to resist the starvation law, and, if they can, to overturn the. Constitutiol which sanctions it. The authors of such laws, there fore, enlist against all authority the 'strongest passions of human nature, and foster anarchy, if they may not be said to decree it. The Rev. Mr.BuuNETT observed at the Lambeth meeting— It was said that the aristocracy considered • the Corn laws necessary to their existence andwould defend them as part of themselves. He could scarcely believe that they would be so foolish. He did not think the Corn laws necessary to the aristocracy, but if they were so, then he would say have at the aristocracy itself. Not only must they have at the aristocracy, they must, for their own safety, if the Corn-law be continued, subdue the aristocracy—they must annihilate it. They dare not tolerate, much less submit to, an organized system of murder. They may be told of the sanctity of property; but they will be told in vain, as long as property is the produce of a tax on their bread. What is it to them whether the land is to be long to a person called RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE CHANDOS Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or to some money-lender called JOB GURNEY or MOSES ROTHSCHILD? What care they who are the recipients of the bread-tax ?- : —they only care to avoid the tax. The people will not maintain a law which starves them in order to keep the estates of the aristocracy from passing out of their families. On the con trary, they have a strong motive, from being taxed to prevent mortgagees from foreclosing, t o hasten the foreclosure, and substitute the rich money-lender, who has no claim on their purses, for the poor Duke. Those men, then, risk the safety of property who confound it with taxation, and assign to it no more sacred origin than a Custom-house or Excise law. We are not .sure that the right of property can be suffered to stand in the way of a starving people. 'We are sure that in their pre sence it is not safe, and that a right of property, 'founded on taxing them will not be long endured. The safety of the aristocracy, the safety of the Constitution, and the security • of property are all put to hazard by that wicked law, which was passed, and is maintained, to in crease the wealth of idle owners of rent at the ex pense of the comfort, health, and lives of the in dustrious classes. Mr. MACAULAY, in his able speech on Thurs day evening, laid down a principle which we refer to,.because it is undoubtedly correct, and because it is a part of the Tory usurpations to overlook it, greatly we think to the public disad vantage. He was understood to say, in allusion to the defeats of Ministers on certain pro posed measures of legislation, that it was the first duty of_the Ministers of the Crown to admi nister the existing law; whence it is to be inferred that the making or proposing new laws is only a secondary part of their duty. On this distinction the Right Hon. Gentleman justly concluded that it was no proof that the House of ;Commons had no confidence in Ministers if it withheld its as sent to any new legislative measure proposed by them, or refused, when asked by theth, to sanction the alteration of an old law. The Right Hon. Gentleman illustrated the distinction by several examples of Ministers who, having failed to carry the legislative alterations they proposed, never, on that account, thought for one moment of resigning the Government, of which it was their chief duty to administer the existing laws. We think Mr. MACAULAY'S doctrine sound, but it is rather in opposition to the modern prac tice introduced by the Tories, and extended by the Whigs, of monopolising all legislation by the Ministers. Government has its own days for its own business; it has, in fact, so much control over the whole formal proceedings of the House, that it can prevent any individual Mem ber from carrying any measure to a successful conclusion. It has become, therefore, responsible, as it were, for the whole proceedings of Parlia ment, and now to oppose it on a question of le gislation may be considered as tantamount to saying, that it is by the Parliament no longer thought fit to conduct the business of Parliament. We conceive this monopoly of legislation to be a modern innovation, which lays on the Mi nisters of the Crown the burden of initiating all necessary changes in the law, and imposes on them, perhaps, a higher duty than that of merely executing the existing law. Ministerial ambi tion thus tends, as much as anything we know, to extend the onerous duties and responsibility of Ministers, and to make it almost impossible to carry on the QUEEI4 Government. Within our political experience, most of the great disputes which have either broken up or tended to break up a Ministry, referred more to the alterations in the existing law, or to making new laws, than to any neglect on the part of the Ministers in performing their chief duty, that of executing the law. The abolition of the Test Acts, the emancipation of the Catholics, the Committee on the Civil List, the Reform of Parliament, the little improvement made in the Irish Church, the Irish tithe question, &c. &c., were all questions of legislation; and the modern practice of the House, some what contrary to Mr. MAcAuLAy's just theory, made the passing or rejecting such measures the test of the confidence placed by Parliament in the Ministers. It is more easy to account for the origin of the practice than to defend it. Under the borough mongers a union of a few aristocratic families, for whose especial advantage the laws were both made and administered, sufficed to turn out or keep in a Minister. The same parties were, in point of fact, the law-makers and the law-ad ministerers, and it was for their convenience that no laws should be made which they did not like to carry into execution.. Hence they usurped, and placed in the hands of the Executive Government, which since the Revolution has been carried on for their benefit--the power . of making as well as admi nistering the laws. The Ministers were the servants of a dominant party of the aristocracy, who . employed the same hands to conduct legis lation, as well as the Executive Government, for the advantage of the aristocracy. Now that we have weakened this aristocratic domination, and have got, in a Reformed Parlia ment 7 something like a popular representation, the stria union of these two functions in the hands of Ministers is no longer either convenien t or necessary. Hence we conclude that Mr. MACAULAY'S theory is more correct than the modern practices of the House of Commons. We conclude, too, that it he for The advantage of the I;XMOY9. CIEO7I9TP 9 0 1 14.0 n t i lair part of 6 usurped control over EVENING EDITIO.I., the House of Commons, and leave re forms and alterations of the law , much more than at present, to individual Men'. bers of the House of Commons. There a, many cases, such as the Corn-laws, and m ost et our taxes, in which it is necessary for the Execti tive to take the initiative ; but there are otiler3' such as bribery at elections, registratio n of voterl; which they may with propriety leav e to suci Members as choose to propose alteration s in the" Mr. MACAULAY also expounded a just tile °rY : when he stated, in opposition to Sir .11. that it was highly inexpedient to affirm a state s; things to be contrary to the spirit of the Coo tution, which might be inevitable. He g ave 'xi an illustration of his theory, the present hala.oc-A state of parties in the House of Commons, su; the scale being turned now to one party an d to another by a few independent would, by first defeating one party a nd then tile if other, render all government impossiblevr, the resolution ofSir R. PEEL were adopted' „to. MACAULAY by this remark, gave a practical io fe.. tration of our statement a few days re a t rence to the dissolution, that ROW, 95 0 a first, circumstances domineered over hots -cei constitutions, and that whatever circuulstatio to command is fully justified though oPP °se cei constitutional p o ractices. But into cireumstallre the Tories will not look ; they look on l y at P cedents ; for them the House of Common s ' 5 „, 5 . whole world, and its former deeds the only r sible wisdom. -So Sir ROBERT PEEL, fl u. Ir ti ° e ' cl examining if the conduct of Ministers be j' lst ! (). by the new circumstances of society and let vernment, growing partly out of the Ref i l l' i • and other Acts of modern legislation, b i t t c ' Le „iti out of the natural progress of society, C OLl A ' t he only the votes of the House of COMMOUS 311 " 1 speeches of former Members. But if Ar e to stances, as Mr. MACAULAY and we say, ar k - i d overrule constitutions and laws, it is a va let - „, 1 11 of policy to take advice and instructions -the from the latter, and never inquire % 4 ' 113t 'icy former command. Second-hand or val e n t P• e ' 4, is, however, the highest ambition of tile -I°v- SIR CHARLES NAPIE II . jo The following paragraph has appea r fe stel Sunday paper, evidently concocted by in t , e ,,pot parties to make an impression against the u" Commodore : fro,...eed " Sir Charles Napier has received order 3 - „ i- r s , „ Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty's' [ in the Pelican to Lisbon, and take commandul h 0 Tagus, vice Commodore Coffin, who is at Pivin,otther It will , be seen from a communicaticn part of the Paper, that the statement is.cll put - destitute of foundation. - The parties wll° t lO forth the paragraph must have known vela (V Sir CHARLES NAPIER, after his speec h St 000 trict meeting in Marylebone, on Frid a Y' d - t bd not have accepted such an appointmen t, ail - co ol' must also have known that they sent til e . ; let munication to the Sunday Paper with tl - 1. 911 ' -' OO purpose of influencing the next election t") . 1. °.• of borough of Marylebone. We wish t hen' their knavish tricks. f oi l We are glad to learn from varions. o . l 4 0 that the Chartists are everywhere be,ria'slete make common cause with the rest of th e P lbef in demanding a repeal of the Corn-lows' o be r , I are to have a great open air meeting at ..'" - . 1 %. 0 1 ' ter. In all cases they go for a total rePea i'pe:‘ it is, we believe, quite hopeless t° , h e l io $ their co-ope a ion in order to es t-3 ' 3 .' l re' fixed duty. It will be incumbent/ to ar fore, on those who look for their P-' 1 i 4 t ° sign some good reasons why a fixes'. dit t l o tl be preferred to a total abolition. It wil l l ' ol ot e ' at ,i 0 to say that the. landlords wilt not gr a The same force which can extort a fo' eti ,,pf from them can extort a total abolition; a i l to own that we scarcely think it worth whloo excite the public feeling for so small a 1) _°0 ? an Bs. fixed duty. The Chartists and the rtiet are wiser, and in conjunction they will be $ .0 'achieve the total. abolition. 'P We trust the example set by the Char.' ijoo Manchester and other places will not be If it ic eSt its beneficial influence in London. The - ,,i11' meeting to be held at Guildhall .to-naorfo ri , i i o we are sure, be undisturbed, and will et ur /0 1/ resolutions unanimously. It will do M ini iittl e no harm whatever to urge public opini o,°9 pr"' beyond the point at which they think, fr°"-,,,,,0e dential motives, it is at present expedient° it , air The General Assembly goes on braedbel.:)l _the work of destruction. On Monday it - 1 0 , ' / , Mr. WRIGHT, of Borthwick, 011 C Of ib il e re br respected and able Clergy men of the C li o , Scotland, for constructive heresy,. on I . 4 stiat li i : at one fell swoop, it deposed the Seve n , e . 10 9 ., bogie Ministers for obeying the law of tic pt:a on Friday it deprived Mr. Enwartns , i i cie cOr g sentee to Marnock, of his licence,• ao l !f ~, 0t1 . :,. him incapable of accepting a call foul 1 0 ' 0 ) parish, or of admission into any offiee tha t it nister of the Church, and report states ro il," tentions were at one time seriously' en ti te fy c',,, of deposing all that side of the .Asse llw e ' ' 9 le " c o taming one hundred and twenty-fiv l e bees, who voted for the Seven e le)7 ;(e`' of Strathbogie. We feel no regret for t i eo ,!„ ' sion as, regards these reverend gentle- 11 110 s ll ' cause Dr. Cu A LMERS and the nodul e ! ': st nr til, ; f port him will find the law too strodl:' co oti . ,,' l , The seven suspended clergymen '''4.l tai, i.. their sacred functions, draw the F:L .1 1 3e 1 .1 ,,,0 keep possession of the glebes - ,,nd I ' s l '7i usual, and the Supreme Court, will, ' vit al d te v hand, vindicate their rights. After t he ,:, ' 0 11 ,,e was pronounced, steps were imme diateq e of'', in the Court of Session s :'at the install o ie fit, Duke of RICHMOND, tO ' set aside the 0 e r oil 0,1 ceedings, and no doe,' But the case of Mr", WRIGHT, we fear , i 0 Fif the power of the Civil Court. For e ft fe ll 0 4 d t remains as to tl i i)e )q ~ trines, which tl'.ese disturbers of the ei l ' i j i to td the peace of d omestic life, have s uffer de ck' unnoticed fob . twenty years, he has bee ti Der o f of his livinc and expelled the Church it s vo l t , Before sentence was passed, a prayer "454,0011 for his repentance, but the cruel i° elfe c illt would not wait even a day to see t hc' i o fli c " t / their prayers, but proceeded at once t ° eo ltY, highest punishment the law allowed t b oo lop minister. But such proceedings e al li,,,ii' be winked at by the Legislature, o . ll ' "/, toV a Bill like that of the Duke of Ano l !'. l oll'," them more power to do mischief, st‘: l , r t ? ! taken to bridle their wickedness, 3 -1 "., - 0 ,/ 1$1" ,t`' them from degrading the most exer ll l ) ,`% l il ir ters of the Gospel, -and ruining their .1 1 gratify their own malignant passions. - t o', ---.----- 0 - 1(i s tli oer We are glad to find that some of our -, t he I I !Wormers are likely to be ret lea t- i :" ol'''' ur. . ~,, ai p , general election. Mr. Roebuck bas e l %-e- II" for Bath, and though in some Poh l° i 111 1 1' from him, we believe there is no 111. " Il e 4 Country so much wanted in Parliainer it 'l l if ,";:'' no hypocrisy about him. He att r x lcs i AO il , of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals wi t 4 or I fll e partiality, and is, besides, one °* t , c i f or. • Do p i eloquent . speakers of the .p - ieseh t oat Iv r,.,,ie: e people of Bath have found 11 r; , o`l much they have suffered by , 1:10 4 . {.''t r ee tion at the last election. colon el st d 1 11 1 ' 0 0 too, is in a fair way co recove r ~,-,, o• v eo position in Hull. Th e Whig pg';',:oP,0011; may now say the Liberal pa.r7Y, i n , i ' a ib.ed,"rli e t i,/ their adhesion to him, and have Pr ° l - o .o ( `' o f o i port him on the question for c heaP ingo y 51 1,4 sugar, and good timber. In inept a ' ) independent boroughs other mei' - inq f irt,i stamp are coming forward, c;atl if l e .re i t l i - o lti, from what we have learned front I "' he ~pro of the country, Sir Relyert Peep tivoiwt,lo,l Buckingham, and the other gr eat dise i ' l .44 will have no cause. to rejoice on th e Parliament. a te s•lie ....--........111 ' the .aatf t , a We have received by expr ess No- , ,e, do of Satur(lity night, with the Paris Lo tto 7 , 1 , pers of the same date. The only ill i r i , ti° 4# '• appear in the Afternoon Editim i ° ii iio',t , f Di' ,r, j e in Vriday's Journals reached tn. ylie f O l Saturday evening. The trial 0 - ote • c t ult hrt" , pa r° lawght to a close, when the • was condemned to suffer death as -‘ . .09 11