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SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. Lord MELBOURNE in the House of Lords, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the House of Com mons, have announced the resignation of Ministers, •and both HouSes have adjourned till Monday next. LORD JOHN RUSSELL and LORD STAN L EY each made a brief speech. LORD MELBOURNE announced the fact in the fewest possible words. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SuAFTEsnuaY took his seat on the Wool sack at Three o'Clock. The Bishops of Winchester and several other Peers took the oaths and their seats, after which the House Adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his sent on the Wool sack at the usual hour. A great number of Pears were assembled, including his Loyal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Lord DUNCANNON presented the returns relating to emigration to Jamaica, moved for a few evenings itgo by Lord Brougham. The Bishop of London brought in thQ Incumbents' Leases' Bill. EVENING SUN RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. Lord MELBOURNE then rose amidst profound silence and said Lords, it is my duty to acquaint your Lord ships that in consequence of the vote, which was come to by the other House of Parliament, on Saturday morning last -and which was precisely similar in terms to the vote come to by your Lordships at an earlier period of the week ; on the part of my colleagues and myself I have tendered to her Majesty our resignation of the offices we held, which resignation her Majesty has been gra ciously pleased to accept, and we continue to hold those offices only until our, successors are appointed. The declaration of the Noble Viscount was receimd with perfect silence. DRAINAGE . OF TOWNS. The Marquis of NORMANBY, in moving the third reading of the Buildings Regulations . Bill, and the Borough ImproeMents Bill,. said he had no objection to accede .to the amendments proposed by the Honourable and Learned Lord (Lyndhurst) in those. measures. With regard to the third bill (the Drainage of .Towns' Bill) which he had presented to their Lordships, subsequent inquiries had induced him to consider that it would be more desirable that the Bill should originate in another place. He would therefore withdraw it. The Boundaries Regnlation.Bill and the Borough Im provements Bill were then respectively read a third time and passed. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. The LORD CHAXCELLOR said that as the Bill Which he had preSented to the House the other evening for the Better Administration of Justice in Englandhad already passed their Lordships' House, and was pre cisely iu the same state in which it had been left by the House Of Commix's it the close of the last Session, he trusted their LordshipS would sea no objection .to its being then read a second. time, in order that it might be considered in Committee on Monday. next. Lord BROUGHAM saw no objection to the pro position of his Honourable and Learned Friend, inasmuch as his objections to the Bill would be more properly considered in Committee. He had no objec tion to the principle of the Bill, therefore he should not oppose the second reading. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed oi!Monday. BILL OF INDEMNITY. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he considered it his duty to inforin the Reuse that a certain Noble Lord, after he had- taken the oaths, had been guilty of a most curious omission. He had omitted to subscribe to the roll of Parliament, and by so doing had subjected himself to certain - penalties. He proposed therefore to introduce a Bill to indemnify the Noble Lord from the consequences of the -lemission, and on Monday next he should move that the standing orders- be - s - uspended in order to enable the Bill to pass forthwith. - ADJOURNMtNT OF, THE HOUSE. On the motion of ViScount DUNCANNON their Lordships then adjotimed to Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker having taken the Chair a few 'minutes before Four o'Clock, Sir S. Canning took the oaths and his seat. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from. 132 working people of the vicinity of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, which stated, " That the Petitioners heard with joy the declaration of Lord John Russell, that it was her Kist Gracious Majesty's intention to diFsove her Parlia ment and appeal to the people ;, that ,your Petitioners alcordingly proceeded to the place of election, but were told they were no part, of the people, and had no right to 'take .part in the election ; that her Ma t jesty's intention. was- thus rendered of no effect. Petitioneis pray- 7 ,--That• you will address the Queen to send you all buck again to the people ; having first enacted that.all her Majesty's adult male population of 21 years and upwards should be allowed to vote. Petitioners farther . state, if such a law had existed previous to the late election, instead of a few only of the late Parliament ,of blessed memory being displaced ; the services of nearly the whole would have been dis pensed with." Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from Leeds, Nottingham, and Durham, praying the House to com mit political suicide by addressing her Majesty to dis solve the present Parliament after having passed an Uni yereal Suffrage Bill. Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from 180 inhabi tants of Montreal, in Upper Canada, stating that they approved of the proposed changes in the tariff of duties on provisions imported into the West Indies. The peti tioners further prayed that that House• would' be further pleased to repeal the duties upon beef, pork, butter, wheat, flour, and other articles, the produce of Canada, and allow them to-be imported into British ports free of duty. 1)r. BOWRING presented a petition from a working man, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws ; a step de manded by the sacred principles of religion, as well as of commercial policy. Sir VALENTINE BLAKE presented a petition, praying that all Members of Parliament might be ex empted from the mecessitysof taking the oath of supre macy, in as full and ample a manner as persons profess ing the Roman Catholic religion are exempted. The SPEAKER having observed that the petitic n was signed by the Hon. Member himself, Sir VALENTINE BLAKE said he had already stated that the petition was signed by*an Hon. Member of the House.—(Great laughter.) MR. GOULBOURN objected to the petition being accepted. . • The SPEAKER having declared that the petition would not formally be presented by the Hon. Member himself, The petition was withdrawn amidst the loud laughter of the House. Petitions against the election returns for the boroughs of Wakefield, Sudbury, Bridport, and Richmond, were presented and laid on the table of the house. • Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he should move for n Select Committee to inquire into .the management of the Post-office department, with a view to promoting greater economy and efficieney; also that he should early next Session move for a Bill for aboliShing the W.:ice of Poitmaster-General ; -and' placing . the duties of that de partment in the hands of Commissioners also that he would call the attention of 'the I-louse to the evidence in the report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Supreme Court of Scotland, and to the propriety of reducing the number of the Judges of the Courts of Session, from thirteen to nine. ANSWER To THE. ADDRESS. • Lord M. HILL appeared at the Bar, andsaid that her Mvjesty had been waited upon pursuant to the resolution of that Hon. House, and he was desired •by her Majesty to read to the House the following most gracious answer to the 'Address of her faithful 'Commons "It is the greatest satisfaction tome to find that the House of commons are deeply sensible of the import ance of eose considerations to which I directed their attention in reference to the' commerce and revenue of the country, and the laws which regulate 'the trade in corn, and that in deciding on the course which it may be desirable to pursue, It, will be their earnest desire to consult the welfare of all classes of her Majesty's sub jects. Ever anxious to listen to the advice of my Par liament, I will take immediate -measures for the forma tion of a new Administration:' nEsiGNATION OF MINISTERS. At a few minute's past five o'clock, Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose - to address the House, which was then' extremely crowded, and the most profound silence- instantly prevailed. The Noble Lord, who appeared much at times I have affected,. and who wa s quite inau4i l oe . the gallery, said — now, Sir, to state to the House that after the division of Friday night her ',Majesty's MinisterS thought it their duty at once to advise the answer which has just been communicated to the House, and humbly to tender their resignations to her : . Majesty, to enable her Majesty to form a n6w,,. . Administration. Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept their resigna tions ; and we -therefore . now only hold office until Other Ministers shall be appointed to the offi ces which we respectively hOld. perllaps the I-louse will allow me on this occasion; and before I make the motion wi t h which I intend to conclude, to state some considerations, in saying which I shall as much as possible'avoid mat ters of controversy and debate—to state the impressions I entertain with respect • to late events. It was our duty, as we belie'ved, to propose the measures which were propoied iu the late Parliament in reference to the trade and commerce of the country,.and which we thought essential to its interests. Upon being de feated with regard to Otte Of these measures we advised her Majesty as soon as the fittsiness of the Sess:on had terminated to resort to a dissolution of Parliament. That dissolution having taken place, and the new Parliament being assembled an the earliest possible opportunity we have advised Her Majesty to subMit to them the consider ation of measures of the same nature, and to ask for the opinion of Parliament in reference to these m;asures, It has pleased the House of Commons by a large majority to address her Majesty, stating that her Ministers , did not enjoy the confidence of Parliament and" the country. This decision left us no • other Part to perform than that of resigning our offices. I Will not use any arguments to show why we think we were=jus tified in prolonging the struggle until the present clay t but T say that it was our conviction that our duty to the sovereign whose confluence we enjoyed—that our persuasion of the necessity of the measure which we advised, and our • notions of the interests of the people of this country rendered it incumbent on us to continue that struggle to the present moment. I have on former occasions justified the course which we pursued on those particular occasions, and in future debates I shall be ready to justify them again, Butl am now only stating the conviction which we entertain. Sir, it has been our fate now to hold power for a con siderable number of years, but I will only _say that as long as we could use the power as we believed for the benefit of the country that it was without reluctance we continued in office but this I will say, that I do not think the possession of power in this country can be accompanied with satisfaction, unless there arc means of carrying into effect the measures which Ministers feel essential to the welfare of the country, -I do • not allude now to particular measures of less or minor importance but to measures of greater and transcendent moment. With regard to such measures, we began, in the_ com- mencement of Lord Grey's Administration, with the Reform Act—we led in proposing measures for the free-, dom of commerce. With large and important mea- - sures we commenced—with large and important Measures we end. In the. pursuance of great object 4 we triumphed— in the pursuanco of great objects we were defeated.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear, hear.") Another matter I may allude to, which relates both to Lord Jersey and Lord Melbourne, as first Minister of the Crown Lord Grey at.the time of the Reform Act, and in the first year of that measure enjoyed, together with his colleagues; great and almost universal popularity. Lord Mel.; bourne, as 'being' the first Minister of William the Fourth, became, -at the ,accession of the present Queen, he adviser of a Princess who came' to the Throne at the earliest period at which by law it was al lowable to exercise the power of sovereignty; and therefore it became his duty to offer that advice, and give that information, , which a .Queen, without experience, and not to be supposed. to have, and which was received with the confidence and reliance which her Majoyty was pleased to repose. Her Ministers, now I will venture to say that neither of these principles, neither the great powers of popularity which were enjoyed by the Ministry of Earl Grey, not the power and favour of the So vereign enjoyed by' the others, owing to the circumstances in Which Lord Melbourne was placed. would enable any Ministers to conduct the affairs of the country without the confidence of this House, and v.hile fault has peen found with them for proposing measures which were not for the advantage of the coun try, they both have shown great forbearance and a great desire to preserve untouched -and unim- . paired that Constitution of the Country, and the pre rogatives of the Crown. Having said this much with. regard to the Ministers Under whom I had the honour to serve, and I may add with pride and gratification I may then perhaps be allowed to add a few words with regard to the person who now ad dresses you.--(Hear.) I will not pretend to say that there will not be other persons holding different opinions who will bring to the administration of public affairs a largeer capacity and more competent intelligence of these subjects. All ..I venture to say is, that while placed in the situation which I had the honour to hold that . no considerations of a private nature—no wish for personal advantage had diverted my attention from my public . duties, and I have endeavoured to give every moment I could spare to their discharge.--(Cheers. With respect to the measures which I have proposed, and the measures which I carried into effect, all I wish • to observe is, that I have endeavoured, to the best of my power and ability,. to exercise that power for the promotion of the best inte rests of the country, and of the Sovereign whom I had the honour to serve. ' This Muse has decided at the very commencement of She Session that it will take measures for directing the attention of the Govern ment to the measures alluded to in her -Majesty's Speech I can only say that although that decision may call upon us to .give our opposition to measures to which • we cannot give our approval, I tun sure that in all the future consultations of the House, I shall be ever ready to give that advice to the House which will promote its object, and tend to secure to it the affection's 'of the people of the United Kingdom, and will conduee to the' welfare and prosperity of the great empire which this House is said to represent.—(Cheers.) I can assure the Rouse that I shall follow that course, and in whatever circumstances I am placed I shall ex press to it my conscientious conviction ; and whether they be the acts of the Minister of the day, or of there who are opposed to them, I shall be always ready to give such an opinion as I think a nay tend .to the permanent improvement of our institutions. Never, as I expressed on another occasion—never defending, abuses as if they were institutions, and on the other hand never ready to sacrifice institutions as if they were abuses. Ihav e only further to say, with regard to those in this House with where I have conducted public affairs for many years, whether they have been my supporters or my opponents; I wish personally to express a hope that in all our future relations there may be no personal bitterness (Cheers)—and if our resignation tends to the future welfare and prosperity of the country, I shall always look back with satisfaction to " this day in which that event has occurred. I, now Sir, move that the House at its rising do adjourn to Monday next. The Noble Lord resumed his seat amidst load cheering. Lord STANLEY then rose and said—Sir after the an nouncement that has just been made, and after the allu sions that have been made by the Noble Lord to the by gone transactions, which have involved and ultimately led to the resignation of her Majesty's Ministers, I should do injustice to the feelings of the House,and to those Whosat on that side of it especially, if I did not state that we feel a cor dial participation in the sentiments of the Noble Lord. Whatever may have been our political differenceS., no sentiment of personal preference can have been engen dered in any person's mind. It was • my good fortune for sometime to act with the Noble Lord, and it has been my misfortune, for some time, conscientiously to differ from the course which the Noble Lord has thought it propes to pursue, but as I claim for myself and every Gentleman who felt it to be his duty to oppose him conscientiously, so I give him credit with having been influenced by no considertions but the sense of duty—(Hear)—which to a man of his high honour must be paramount to every other.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, in the discharge of his high duties, was distinguished for his zeal, perseverance, and talent, whether in the discharge of the:duties of his own department, or in the management • of the particular business of the House.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, I will not go back to make any observations on the statement made by the Noble Lord of the course purined by Parliament, further than to say that the Noble Lord has fallen into several inaccuracies, and he must permit me to say, that with respect to resigning office, that having in the course of the last session received' no - very equivocal de monstration that her Majesty's Ministers, as a whole, did not poSsess the confidence of the House, which the Noble Lord considered so necessary to carry on the Government, the Noble Lord.'and his colleagues pro pounded certain measures which I will not now enter into, but in which they were, defeated, and it was not until that time that the NohleLord Considered that he had only two alternatives to, pursue—one. was to resign, and the other to appeal to the country. The Noble Lord chose the latter alternative, and I believe that no one will deny that it was competent for the . Noble Lord to resort to either of those alternatives. The Noble Lord resorted to the appeal to the people, and that appeal had proved unsuccessful to him. The Noble Lord said that, upon the firstday of the session, he had thought it his duty to submit great measures to the House for its decision, but they had been objected to by the House. Now, I must take the liberty of saying, that that is not exactly accurate, because by no possible acquiescence could the Houk assent to the measures which the Noble Lord proposed, nor by refusing to assnasstni to the Address, did the House in any manner determine upon the principle under discussion. If I wanted any illustration of this I need only point out that whereas one sentence of the Address contained expressions relative to particular parts of the Budget that Address was disapproved of by Honour able Members who agreed in the proposals of the Government, while it was supported by other Mem bers who did not agree in those proposals, and who were not ready to adopt their recommendations. The Address was supported by some Hon. Members who, like the Noble Lord the Member for Lincolnshire, were altogether opposed to the measures of the Government, but who asserted that they did net in any manner, by assent ing to the Address pledge themselves to the recommenda tion it contained. The feeling of the House was this,that in the circumstances in which we were placed, the con siderations to which .the Crown, invited our attentive were considerations or too great importance. to become the subject of incidental deliberation in the House of Commons, . which after all could not come to any de c i s ion upon the matter, -and which did. not wish to enter into the discussion in the absence of a Govern ment possessing the confidence of the House and the country.— (Hear, hear,)- - It was for these reasons that r had been induced to refuse to assent to the r ecommendations that have been made, and to assert - that this lionse had not that confidence in her Ma jesty's present advisers which could justify them in proposing measures of great importance to the consideration of Parliament. sir, I cannot but take this opportunity of expressing my regret that the Speech was so framed as to be liable to a mis • construction to which, I am sure, the Noble Lord, of all men, would least desire that it should be subject.—(Hearer •• hear.) • I- ettnApp opt feel that the advice of the Gentleman to consider great questions, • in Parliament, coupled with the words in which the Speech was couched, was calculated to lead in the public mind to an impression perfectly erroneous' and perfectly unconstitutional, had it been cor rect that these recommendations were the re commendations of the Crown, and not the recommen dations of the Ministers, the constitutional advisers of the Crown. Sir, Ido not wish, as I s:.tid before, to revive any topics of irritating discussion upon the occasion. I am satisfied that the Noble Lord having found it his duty to yield to the decision of the House and of the country, and having paid that homage to constitutional principles which I trust every Minister of this country will always be ready to pay to those principles by resign ing office when he finds he no longer possesses the power to carry his measures with credit to himself or satisfac tion to the country. I am satisfied that from that moment every feeling of excitement between the Noble Lord and Hon. Gentlemen on this side, if any such had ever ex isted, will cease—(llear, hear)—and I am confident that towards him personally no other feelings are entertained, but those of respect for hi s character and admiration of his talents.—(Loud cheers from both sides of the HouSe.) And Igive the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, who has had for some time the delicate and important duty of advising us, the Noble Lord has said a young and dutiful Sovereign—l give him and his colleagues full credit for ha ving,in the course of their administration, adopted those measures only which they believed would be for the welfare of the country. I give their credit was, that they have ceased to hold °Flee from a determination not to attempt to disturb those who may be called upon to undertake the busines of the country by any factious opposition ; but that which they steadily maintain in Parliament those views in political matters which they conscien tiously entertain, the Noble Lord and his colleagues, in whatever hands power may be placed, will behold with oqual satisfaction the progress of measures which may redound to the welfare and prosperity of the people. Lord J. RU;3SELL—I can only say at present that I am sorry that a misconstruction should exist as that which has been alluded . to. lam quite ready to say that the Speech from the Throne was made by the Ministers, and they alone are responsible for it. • Mr. S. IVORTLEY begged to engage the attention :of the House ,for a few moments on something said by the Noble Lord opposite, and t'iindix" eilCutiiStaiiees which he thought would form a justification for him while he trespassed on their indulgence for a few • moments. He bad no. opportunity of doing so before— the House having been engaged in :um important dission, which lasted four nights, and only terminated at three o'clock on Saturday morning, when they were in expect ation of the important division that took place. The , Noble Lord had cast certain imputations on him, which his respect for the House pre vented him from calling for an explanation of. On Saturday the Noble Lord was not in his place, and the present was the only opportunity he had of calling on the Noble Lord to perform that duty. The Noble Lord had in the first place misrepresented certain statements of his, with respect to the Corn laws ; but into that question he would not at present enter, believing that he would have other opportunities of so doing. But the Noble :Lord had also accused him of having gone down to his constituents.. and raised the Poor-law cry. The Noble Lord could know nothing personally of the facts of the case. In the year 1837, when he was engaged in a similar contest, proposals were made to him by certain parties to make the Poor-law a parts cry. It was stated that if he did so he would have a great accession of supporters. With that suggestion he refused to comply, as there were many parts of the Bill of which ho decidedly approved ; and in consequence of that refusal he , had four hundred votes less than the Honourable Member for Preston.—(Hear.) He maintained that the Noble Lord had no right to accuse him of having raised the cry of the Poor-laws, in order to turn out Lord MOrpeth. Other parties on the 'opposite said had not been innocent of raising similar cries. We had seen the cry raised about the " big" and'the "little" loaf, and of " cheap bread," and he had been represented by these parties as the only - obstacle to the starving arti zans' obtaining it.—(Cheers.) Mr. ROEBUCK rose to order. He wished to ask if the Hon. Gentleman was speaking to the queStion. The SPEAKER said the question was, " that the answer to the Lords Commissioners' Address be taken iiito consideration on Monday next."—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WORTLEY was about to proceed when , Mr. ROEBUCK again rose to order, and said, in proof of:the Hon. Member being out of order, that it was dis orderly to refer to the proceeding debato.—(Hear.) 'The SPEAKER said that th statement of the Hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Roebuck) was correct, but that it •was always usual for the House to grant the indulgence desired by the Hon. Member.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK said he did not complain of the Hon. Member entering into an explanation—what he complained of was that the Hon. Member, while defend ing himself, should make attacks upon others.—(Hear.) Mr. WORTLEY said ho- - had not intended to make any attack on the Hon. Member for Bath. Mr. ROEBUCK—" Oh, no! not on me. Mr: WORTLEY proceeded—lt was only yesterday he had seen a placard of an organ on the opposite side, announcing that " the Queen must consider herself a state prisoner."—(Hear, and laughter.) He really thought that tt . party whose organs were guilty of circulating such randOm assertions and rumours should be restrained from venting their spleen against their political 4dversaries. Lord J. RUSSELL said, he should ha allowed to say what he stated was not founded on random asser- tions or rumours, but on what-he had seen in the accounts of what the Honourable Gentleman was reported to have said, especially in the address to the electors of Yorkshire, signed J. Stuart Wortley. After reading an extract from that address, the Noble Lord went on say that he thought the Hon. Meniber had mistook the gist of his (Lord J. Russell's) observa tions. He did not find fault with the Hon. Gentleman or any other person for holding any opinions whatever with respect to the Poor-law or for opposing Lord Morpeth on the ground of his opinions on the Poor-law, but what he (Lord John Russell) found fault with was the Hon, Gentleman stating strong opinions with regard.to the Poor-law, at the . time of the elections, and when, In that House, so far from endeavouring to enforce those- opinions, seeking the .first opportunity to place others an power who were strong supporters of their Poor-law. . (The Noble Lord here read an extract from the address before-mentioned, in which the Hon. Mem ber condemned many portions of the Poor-law, and stated that that law required ranch alterations ; at least and that he (Mr. Wortley) would always approach the subject, whether it be altered or repealed, with a deep' conviction of that first principle—dealing with tender ness to the poor.—(Hear.) The Noble Lord then went on to say that he did not find fault with any Gentleman for holding the opinions just adverted to, but he said that when an Honourable Member, holding those strong opinions upon . a law of that kiwi, came forward to bring the condition of the country before the House, he ought not to have those matters. — (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman said, that other persons had endeavoured to raise a cry of cheap bread— and that a large loaf and a small loaf were carried about for that purpose, he (Lord J. Russell) hoped that those who did so acted, in the belief that an alterationin the Corn-laws would give them a larger loaf, and they could not, con sistently with their opinions, if they .proposed an alteraton in the Corn-laws, but if - they were to come to that House and remain silent on the suk;cct, then, indeed, he would say they acted inconsistently with their opinions. —(Hear.) the Hon. Gentleman had not convinced him (Lord J. Russell) by his first speech that he attached any great importance to (the New Poor ILaw, but they should see if his subsequent speeches, whether, although he appeared to consider •it a matter of rumor, concern, he would be inclined to press for any great alteration in, or for a final abandonment of that measure. Messengers from the Lords brought up certain Bills OATH OF SUPREMACY. Sir VALENTINE BLAKE in postponing the motion of which he had given notice for leave to bring in a Bill to exempt all Members of Parliament from the necessity of taking . the Oath of Supremacy as a qualification to sit and Note in Parliament, in as full and as ample a man ner as persons professing the Roman Catholic reli gion are exempted ;" said that although he postponed that motion_ for the present, yet he thought he might congratulate the House on the prospect, that some such measure would soon become the law of the land. He placed the uttnostconfidence in the manlydeclarations of theßight Hon. Member for Tamworth, but he feared that those with whom he was associaten would prevent the Right Hon. Baronet from carrying his good intentions into effect. Mr. BROTHERTON and Dr. BOWRING, under existing circumstances, postponed the motions of which they bad given notice. On the motion of Mr. J. Wood, the following gentle men were nominated as the Committe on Public PetttionF. Mr. George William Wcod, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Greene, Mr. Ed ward Buller, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Owen Stanley, Mr. Pusey, Pusey, Mr. C. W. G. Howard, Mr. Villiers Stuart. Captain Jones, Lord Viscount Duncae, Sir Charles Douglas, Lord Fitzalan, and Mr. Buckley. The House then adjourned. Lord John Russell was loudly cheered on his way down to the House this afternoon by the crowd as sembled in Palace-yard. His Lordship, who was in his carriage, was accompanied by his Lady, and both teemed higbly gratified by the reception they met with. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel has succeeded, thus far, to a miracle in the game he has played, and by mira culous means ; for the most powerful eloque nce t h at has -been used in his behalf has been his own silence, while his abstaining ' frtin any declaration of what he shall do has given rise--we will not say with h ow much reason—to the bore that he will accomplish everything. He has up to this moment been wearing, in different eyes, the difti rent hues of the camelion ; but he must, row stand frrward in his true colours, and declare the real complexion of his political principles. Some ' of the adherents p etend to find in his speech of Saturday morning the Cesired solution of the pro blem that has *long divided the, opinion of the public as to how Sir Robert n cart to act ; and as the last scene of a melodrama generally brings to light a number of close relationships that haN e never been declared before , it is contended that the now no longer proximue Pre mier, when w n ling up his long and arduous part in The Siege - of Downing-sireet, discovered unreservedly the mature t f his relation:hip to all the subjects that have, lately o cufied the stage of politics. But we deny the Get ; at d we affirm,l that to us, at least, it is as - mystei ions' as ever what are the ties by which the rn m in the mask will for the future consider. himself bound • and though he declare s himselt w cddei to the sliding, scale, we are not sure that he do c.s nob contemplate running off from the present T,HE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1841. idol of his affections as soon as circumstances may ren der such•a-trick practicable and expedient. • Sir Robert has been wedded, before now, to - so many objects whiCh he has afterwards thought proper to put .aside, that we shall not be astonished at . divorce from the slid ing scale, when he finds the:connedion likelyto interfere with more desirable alliances. He has already given notice to the friends of the probable victim that he does not mean to bt particularly tender in his future treatment, and has refused 'd'a rtnee the support of those •who expect from him " the irrevocable mainte nance of the present Corn-law in all its details." We are told that this is " a candid and manly avowal," " leaving no sort of doubt" upon What his policy will be with regard to the matter to which it refers ; but we take leave to say that he must be an (Pipus indeed who can divine from the above expression 'What will be the course of the new minister. STANDARD.—Short as has been the experience of the first decidedly Conservative House of Commons elected under the Reform Bill, its conduct presents a striking contrast to the conduct 'of its predecessors of the last nine years. First,• the unanimous election of a Whig speaker upon principles of justice and constitutional duty. Secondly, the adoption; by a majority of 91, of an Amendment more loyal 'and respectful in tone than the Address for which it was substituted. Thirdly, the re jection of a revolutionary addition to the Address by majority of no less than 244. This is an auspicious commencement of the working of a Parliamjnt, of which, since the election had determined its character, it was predicted that it, would be violent, disloyal, and overbearing. If we pass from the acts of .the House, which are, Indeed, the - acts of the majority, and for whiAi, therefore,. the majority, when it is great, must claiinall the credit—if, we say, we pass from the acts of the House to the speeches of those by whom it has been led, we find exactly the same spirit of moderation and loy alty. The speech of Sir Robert Peel, who has been justly called by Messrs. Ward and Roebuck the repre sentative of the majority, does not excel the speeches of his friends in these characteristics, although it surpasses them in extent, depth, and eloquence. The Ministers and their organs of the press have been flattering themselves for months with the prespect of a division in :the Conservative ranks ; but what traces .: of division can there be . detected in :the speeches. from ;r4he Conservative benches during' the five days that have been passed in debate ? What sign of dis sension has there been exhibited oh' those benches ? On the ministerial side there was no doubt a rather undignified fracas on Saturday, and. e look for many such in the same party or prties, for they are now too weak to strengthen . . themselves by any Lichfield House compact of peace— but on the Conservative side all has been the most perfect harmony. Sir RObert Peel's speech gives assurance that this harmony will be preserved undisturbed, because, fairly engaging with all the topics upon which it is possible that Conservativas could ever disagree, the .Right lion. Baronet has pointed out a course with reference to each topic that must render dis agreement impossible. That course is the Conser vative course—the course of policy that defends all inte rests and all institutions necessary to the national wel fare, but does not defend them, if we may so mis apply the word, by perpetuating their weaknesSes. COURIER—We have, on several occasions, stated our views of the prevailing causes of the present state of depression in the cotton manufacturing districts, which, on the evidence of facts scarcely to be Mistaken by any man bf common understanding and common honesty, however under the influence of party passions and mercenary motives grossly misrepresented or pur posely kept out of sight in the virulent harangu6 destined much more for the exasperation than the in struction of the multitude, was conclusively shown to be almost wholly referable to the extravagant indulgence of .a spirit of over-trading and over-banking mono poly . among the manufacturers themselves, fed for years together by a congenial greeting of money making and speculative prodigality in the United States and else Where. These pcitents truths, 'which Mr. Alderman Cobden, who seems to have aspired like another Anarcharsis Clootz, to be the " orator of the human race," was careful to conceal from his Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, or Stockport assembh:ges of the working classes, he found it not so easy to shirk in an assembly like,;the House of Com mons, where vulgar declamation so/soon find its level, and so the Hon.• Member was heard thus to characterise the causes ofinduStrial distress:—"What was the cause of their (manufactures), elevation frolu that prostration to which the country had fallen in 180 ? It was clearly not a natural legitimate trade which then sprung up. From 1831 to. 1836 the increase of our exports com pared with our imports, anwunted to .20,000,0001., offi cial value. But all these goods were sent to America, where they were neither sold nor . consumed, but de spatched in exchange for bank .and railway shares, and state bonds. That was not legitimate trade ; it was over speculation ; the goods were not paid for. It should be borne in mind, too, that from the period of 1831 till 1836, there was an extension of the bank ing system in this country, increasing the number of banks by nearly 100, and extending_ their capital by nearly 60,000,00 C/ The increase of the export and . home trade thus facetiously created, accompanied with the fortuitous series of unexampled harvests, created a state of prosperity which enabled the Government of the day to move tranquilly on in carrying the Reform Bill, and amending the Poor-taw ; but it was a fictitious pros perity." Now, howeter, (kit the worthy. Alderman finds it politically more convenient to deal with facts than fic tion, he must needs fall into the same vice of exagge rating the truth as formerly wheirembelliShing the-crea tions of fancy. TATTERSA LL'S-THIS EVENING. HALF-PAST Six o'CLocr. ST. LEGEB.—MONDA Y. 6 to 5 agst Coronation 4 to 1 agst Van Ainburgh—taken 10 to 1 agst Squire--taken. 20 to 1 agst Atiddleham 20 to 1 agst Faltaway 20 to 1 agst Eringo 25 to 1 agst Lampoon 3to 1 agst Scott's lot ", THE METEOItS. On the very interesting sukect which has of late oc cupied so much of *Public attention, both in Europennd America, the periodical return of the meteors. in August and November, we have been. favoured with the following communication from Sir John Herschel : To the Editor of the Athenceum.—Sir,_. the bright moonlight of th e 9th inst. having prevented my obtain ing satisfactory observations of the meteors, to whose periodical return on the 9th and 10th of this month Professor Quetelet has drawn much 'attention, as being more regular than the displays of the 12th and 13th of November, allow me, in place of observations for the current year, to offer, as my contribution to our stock of knowledge on the subject, the fol lowing incidental mention of such an occurrence, which occurs in Sir W. Hamilton's Recount of the great eruption of Vesu vius in Aug. 1799, printed in the Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 70, which will be read with the more in terest, the periodical nature of the phenomena being then unknown, 'and its occurrence being ascribed •by him to some local electrical agency developed by. the Volcanic ejections. " August 9, 1799," after describing the phenomena of the eruption during the day till seven o'clock at night, "when all was calm," Sir W. Hamilton goes on to say, "it was universally remarked, that the air this night, for many hours after the eruption, was filled with meteors, such as are vulgarly called falling. stars. They shot generally in a horizontal direction, leaving a luminous train behind them, but which quick ly disappeared. The night was remarkably fine, star light, and without a cloud. This hind of electrical fire seemed to he harmLss, and never to reach the ground, where as that with which the black volcanic cloud oflast night was pregnant, appeared. mischievous, like that which at tends a severe thunder•storm." The meteors of August 9, 1840, in so far as I observed them, radiated almost without exception from a point in the heavens very near the star Gamma, in the constellation Perseus ; which is almost coincident with the point (near the star 13'Ca melopardali) from which I observed them to emanate on the 10th August, 1839. . Facts of this nature appear al most decisive in favour .of the opinion, that a zone or zones of these bodies revolve about the sun, and are in tersected by the earth in its. annual revolution.--4 have the honour, &c. J. F. W. lARSCHELL. Collingwood, Aug. 15, 1841. . , FftIGIITFUL AtCItiENT.—On Wednesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, another of those dreadful accidents to which , all are so liable who,venture in the ricketty swings and " turn overs" Hit fairs, occurred to a young married woman of the name of Esther Bon sey. On the afternoon in question,. the unfortunate woman, accompanied by her husband and a party of friends, proceeded- to Camberwell fair, and, after visiting the shows, &c., determined upon getting into one of the swings for a ride. The party accordingly went into one, and at their own request it was propelled to the greatest height the machine would allow. In this way the swing had been going on for several minutes, when Mrs. Bonsey suddenly rose from her seat, and at the . instant of the highest elevation, she was pitched out head foremost to the ground, a fall of at least twenty or thirty feet. The violence with which she fell was dread ful; and the screams of those in the swing alarmed all those who heard them. As soon as possible the machine was stopped, and the poor woman was lifted from the ground. She was perfectly insensible, and was bleeding profusely from the mouth and ears. She was conveyed most promptly to Guy's Hospital, where it was ascer tained she was suffering from a severe fracture of the skull. She now lies in that institution .without hope of recovery. It could not be ascertained whether shi - had been seized with giddiness, or that it had been caused in a spirit of foolhardiness, she being at the time in a state of excitement, but not arising from any excess of drinking. The Univers says, "A letter from Tangiers, sth inst., informs us that the Emperor of Morocco has just authorised an expeditionary cruise against all the Powers which have not official representatives at Tangiers. if the King of Sardinia, who is in this category, shOuld be attacked by the privateers of Morocco, we recommend him to take advantage of the occasion for doing at Tan giers what wo have done at Algiers."' Among the most conspicuous illuminations 01. i Thursday evening, was that of Mr, F. Shoberl, jun., t Rupert-street, Printer to his Royalliighnese. It con sisted of the Prince's motto, Trcu and Fest (true end faithful), beautiful!) , displayed in variegated lamps, with the initials P. A. mid a Star, surmounting the Royal Arm M. Odillort- Barrot has been natnedßresidety of the Council-General Of the Alen& f The. Cornikerce states that, a gentle b an, with. his wife and his niece, was attacked on Sunday evening in the Bois de Boulogne by two footpads, who attempted to rob them. While the gentleman was, defiMding him :alf with his cane, the. cries of . the ladleS brought soccu persons to their assistance, and the as:sailants *made off. NAVIGATION of the EUPHRATES. [Connected with this subject, and so immediately brought to interest the public by very recent advices, we have " much pleasure in 'throwing a farther light upon these important Asiatic measures.--Ed. Lit. Gaz.] A short time ago there appeared in the newspapers a 'brief statement of the arrival of two steamers at I3alis, on' the Euphrates. Our readers, who all along had fell and. complete .accounts of the Euphrates' expedition, will be glad to hear of the successful termination of this enter prise. It will be remembered that, after the loss of the Tigris steamer, the Euphrates attempted the ascent, but failed on account of her deep draught of water, which 'amounted to three feet, while the Tigris only drew 'eighteen inches. Colonel Chesney and the officers of the Euphrates having returned to England, the charge of the steamer left was entrusted to Captain Lynch, of the In dian navy, who, between that period and the present, effected two very remarkable exploits: first, the ascent of the river Tigris as far as close to where it receives the Great Zab, and where he was not stopped by want of water. but by the force of the current; the second was, to take the steamer from the river Tigris to the Euphrates by the most northerly of the canals on the alluvial plain of Babylonia. In the accomplishment of this latter task the paddle-boxes were sometimes sus pended over hard and dry ground. Government, however, never abandoned the original undertaking, and between that period and this no feWer than four iron steamers, of light draught of water, and constructed for river service, have been sent out to the Eurptirates ; but unfortunately with inefficient crews, or the ascent of that great river would have been before at tempted. Two of these steamers (we believe the Nilo eris and Semiramis) have now accomplished what puts beyond all doubt the long-vexed question as to the pos sibility of navigating the river Euphrates. We are not, at the twelfth hour, going to run over again the important commercial and political advantages, and, still more, the' great advantages to progressive civi lization, which the. opening of such a navigation offers to Great Britain, and to sympathizing . humanity, wherever it is to be found: Let us hope 'that, whileother nations are'talking of these - things, England will be doing them. • We have it in our power mention one or two curious' little. filets in dentiection - with the progre.so of these events. The suecessful-resUlt of the mission sent by the Society for pr6moting Christian Knowledge to the patriarch of the Chaldean Christians inliurdistan, and which mission sprang out of the Euphrates expe dition, has not failed to awaken the greatest interest among all to whom the fate of the Eastern Christian nations possesses the slightest• attraction ; but it intlu enced still more strongly the opposing churches of the New, Worhl, one branch of which had already a very extensive mission at Urinujelt in Persia, and close to the Chaldean mountaineers. Two missions have, in consequence, reached Mosul this spring and summer. The first is composed of two reverend gentlemen with their wives, one of whom is to remain at the Mesopotamian capital, the other is to take up his residence in the mountains. These parties are Congregationalists ; and a third (Dr. Grant), who has already distinguished himself by his labours among these interesting people, has lately left Constantinople, also on his way to the same field of good works. In the meantime the Episcopalian mission from the United States has not been inactive among Christians with whom it especially feels - called upon to ally itself in brotherly and religious affections, since they belong to one of the oldest apostolical churches in the world, and one which has not protested against, for it has never tainted or corrupted by, Romish heresies. • We, learn; by'our private advices, that the Rev. Mr. Southgate, of the United States Episcopal Church, and known by his travels in eastern countries, has arrived at Mosul, • and is' in hopes of inducing a Chalthan bishop to return with him to visit his brethren of the New World. In this activity for the welfare, and wish for the friendship of the-Chaldeans, which has suddenly sprung up, England has alone been slow iu her operations. Mr. Bastam is now her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Mosul, where he will do all that is in his power to keep up the friendly alliance which was established by the mission, of which he was a member. A learned and reverend divine of Oxford has, we have, heard, offered his services to visit the mountaineers; and for them, as for all classes of Christians in the East, we sincerely hOpe that the residence of a Bishop in the Mediterranean Sea will be replete with many advantages. The next interesting fact that it is in our power to communicate concerns more general civilization ; and it is to the effect, that a gentleman, - also connected with the Euphrates expedition, and holding an official situation at Baghdad, has had sent over to that place various of the latest improve•• ments in agricultural implements, and among those es pecially a number of ploughs, a press for cotton, &c. &c. These he intends to bring into full operation, with the assistance of natives only ; as also improved means of ir rigation ; besides he is going to introduce the cultivation of cotton and sugar, for .both of which the country is admirably adapted. These movements are calculated to have a great effect upon those countries with the progress of time. . We have been led into - this momentary digression con cerning the advanconf civilizition in Western Asia, from having read this week a 'letter, 'running the round of the newspapers, from One of the officers of the steamers en • gaged on the Euphrates, who; in the feelings naturally suggested by their triumphant success, calls attention to the prospects now held out in the East, and truly ex claims, " may civilization, flying on the wings of com merce, carry with it the blessings of the Gospel of sal vation !" We would beg leave, however, in relation to this letter (which has appeared in a Liverpool journal, and been copied generally by the press), to set the public right upon a few facts. The Yezidis arc - not, as has been calumniously stated by the Christians of the East, worshippers of the devil, nor of a peacock ; but they are among all Orientals who are not Christians, those Who are most open to receive its saving light. The names of almost every place noticed in the letter are calculated to mislead. Perisalom is I'erisabor ; l'ylor of Xenophon, 110 0 :1, Pykr, of Xenophon; Euri is Erzi, or Ezra ; Thapsacus is not at Al Der the mo nastery, but at Al Hammam, near Rakkeh ; Raccaba is Rahabah, the Rehoboth of the Scriptures ; Tenobia is Zenobia. The crusaders can scarcely be' expected to have ex tended their power to Jiaber, when they were so often defeated at Harran, which is not more than twelve miles from their stronghold, Edessa. And the Taurus is at a much greater distance than the writer appears to ima gine, when he says the distant Taurus re-echoed the royal salute fired at Bans, or Baulus, a: he writes it—the ancient Barbalissus. He thinks that the river may be navigated to the heart of Taurus. This is not so impro bable as may appear at first sight. The cataracts of Sa mosata, noticed by Pliny, are rapids of no importance ; and there are only five rapids, one of them a fall of a few feet, between Ergan Kalehsi and Malatiyah. The new iron steam-boat, which passes the rapids on the Danube above Orsovar. perhaps overcomes as great obstacles.*— Literary Gazette, Aug. 21. 0 ' Under the circumstances we have not thought it neces sary to print the letter: at any rate this week.--Ed. CORN-LAWS.—The farmers and tenantry can not eventually suffer from a repeal of these laws. A lower price for corn and cattle will be favourable to them un der every view of the question, and their rent and tithe must be lowered in proportion. Where leases exist (an article not very rife with landlords since the Reform Bill), a power can be given to abrogate them. Their poor-rates and their county-rates will be diminished one half. Content and honest among the labourers will surround their homesteads, and the odious rural po lice be as unknown as the wolf in their districts. I be- Here a review of the condition of their ancestors would prove that the farmers of tho present day are neither as opulent, as contented, or as happy a race of men as the tenantry of former times ; also that most of the present race farm upon borrowed money, at high interest, as is well known, and a large proportion of them die insol vent, leaving families educated and brought up beyond their useful sphere of life, and left to the mercy of a scornful world. On this theme much more might be said, and on the gambling speculations of large farms, taken with a view of high prices for corn and produce, and supported by the erroneous system of country banks. Let me now ask, who then will suffer from a repeal of these laws? The answer is simple; Those who i.- . • them; those who, as legislators, in 1815, coin • , -- I • Cabinet , ot Lord Liverpool to enact laws to raise 7 . '"Price of agricultural produce, in order to keep up the high rents of land, and remove from the shoulders of the landed interest, including the,titheowners, that burthen of taxation which the wanton and extravagant expendi ture in the late war had imposed upon the nation. The avowed object of these laws, was to keep up wheat to 80s. per quarter on the average of years, and other arti cles of rural produce in proportion ; but the projectors of these Corn-laws were not adepts at their ownprojects, and they did not succeed.. They then altered them in 1822, which laws then became a prohibition, and still failed in keeping up the prices, mainly owing to produc tive crops. George Canning, who became Premier in 1827, did not scruple to aid the landed proprietors in their new scheme of a sliding scale of duties and ave rages. This discovery had the happy effect of destroy ing all legitimate trade in corn, and keeping up its price to at least one-third beyond the continental prices, and thus kept the people of this mighty empire in a state of famine. It was also a proscription of British manufac tures ;_ a bar upon commerce ; and produced the neces sity of that stringent and severe administration of Poor laws that has now severed the operative classes from the masters and landlords, and laid the foundation of an , "Iliad" of woes for the British isles.—Lord Teynhant on 1 I the Corn-laws. 1 • D OCTRINE THE PREACHE R S OF COMPF.N SATION..--a was lately confirmed in these desires by hearing a sermon at church. The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the last judgment. He assumed that judgment is not executed in this world; that the wicked are successful; that the good are miserable; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the cangregation at this doc triaer As far as I could observe, when the meeting broke up, they separated without remark on the sermon. Yet, what was the import of this teaching? What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are hail by unpri nc ipl e d m en, whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be 1 made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifica tions another day—bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended.; for what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men ? Why, that they can do now. The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was, " We ' are to have such a good time as the sinners have now ;" or, to push it to its extreme import, " You sin new ; we shall sin by and by ; we would sin now if we could ; not being successful, we expect our revenge to-mdirow."—Emmerson s Essay on Compensation. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOCRA- TIC LAW-MAKING. " The cause of the general distress will be found in the selfishness and misgovernment springing from the great mon ster evil, the monopoly of legislation." Nonconformist, No. XVIII. We select from the daily papers, immediately suc ceeding our remarks upon the aristocratic . principle, the following illustrations of the misery flowing from the system of hereditary legislation—the germ of all mono polies, and the Well-spring of selfishness At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four indi viduals were brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, who Committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the temporary shelter of a station house, and the chance of a crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in Eng land than poverty. To be entitled to protection, shelter, and food, a man must be a criminal. Such a fact, though there were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that our legislation requires revision. " The process of debasement and degradation seems to be this ; scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as they are felt in class after class, make one class press down ,on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter destitution. Amongst the humble classes. there is a great deal of Charity ; they help each other; but when all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences that they may drag out their miserable existence a few days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the misery which thus forces itself into public notice, bears only a very small proportion to that which hides itself, and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too, that reckless despair instead of blithe and careful hope, is becoming, from continual disappointment, the preva lent disposition of our people ; and that those who deny them bread and a fair field for their exertions, will have to answer, not only for starving many out of existence, but for the moral debasement of all."---LSun,.4ug. 12. The people are fast getting o- to know that forcible re sistance to the • law is absurd, for the aristocracy have provided, and can provide against this—they can starve a sufficient number of the poor into ignorance and en listment as soldiers, and arm them to keep down the rest, and rake them pay the instruments. Whilst the mass are foolish enough to be incited to force and reßelliOn, and the aristocracy can vote themselves secret ;service money, they will never want for spies to incite the igno rant, and gibbet them as terrible examples .at once of folly, fraud, and:bitterncs.% Both sections, too have con= curred in drilling and organizing a police soldiery that could be made more effectual for both purposes.. If they would Win equal laws the people must not resort to vio lence. If the - practice of seeking a prison instead of the union should generally obtain among the starving and rootless that they may obtain food and shelter, the aristo cracy will find it a more difficult thing to deal with • than • an outbreak of physical violence. • Two'nien were tried during the present assizes for kill ing a. sheep, not with any felonious intent, but. that' they might be transported—the aristocracy having most benevolently enacted that the act, irrespective. of the motive, shall be so puniShed ; and these poor wretches, desiring to be sent out of this happy country, gave in formation against themselves, that they might avail them selves of the wretched provisions of this blind law, made by the " Corinthian pillars of polished society." It is not only blind, but merciless, for the Judge said he had no discretion. Would such a law, with such a punishment, exist if poor men were represented in Parliament? Thus society is suffering the natural consequence of converting the new union-houses into a prison, and of evading the claims of the wretched upon technical points, whilst the poor grow desperate from want of food, clothing, and shelter. • There is now, we fear ! but little difference be tween the two shelters, except that relief is secured at once in the one case, and is protracted in the other. By this absurd law our wretched poor have now the power to compel the country to pay the expense of their emi gration to a place where they may be better off, and can not be worse. We proceed with our extracts:— " CAUSE AND EFFECT.—The uneasy state Of , i the public mind in Ireland, produced by the prospect _of a Tory Government, has induced her Majesty's representa tive to recommend that an addition be made to the mili tary force in that country. We have, of late years, had the pleasure of reporting a reduction in the army sta tioned there. We have now the unpleasant duty of stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry re giments."-.—Sun. This is quite consistent with Lord John's intimation to the electors of London—which the Morning Chronicle called a state paper. In the outset of that pledge-myself-to-nothing docu ment, he volunteered this intimation to his Tory cousins :-- " It would be inconsistent with my notions of public duty to harass the Government of the day by vexatious opposition, still less to deny to the Crown the means of maintaining the reputation of the country abroad, and in ternal quiet at home." Lord Ebrington, a pet Whig, is carrying out the hint, —if the section cannot give good measures, they can make the people submit to bad ones. The passage, being translated, means, " It would be inconsistent with my notions of di4y to my order to -deny to the order' the means of compelling the people to submit to. laws in volving their starvation." • Read agaia the paragraph—he falsely assumes that some one had asked him to harass the Government by a vexatious opposition, and to deny to the Queen the Means of maintaining the reputation and peace of the country: Men resort to false assumptions to veil dishonest or indi rect purposes—his purpose was to tell the people that he considered the interests of his " order" more important than theirs ; and that though he was going out protest ing in words against the prohibition-of-food laws, he meant that the Tories should have the soldiery to com pel them to submit to those laws. He well knew there was no other cause for apprehension at home, and that the Crown was never more popular. Contrast the Queen's. present visiting tour with the apprehension as, to the late King's visiting the citizens. We do not object to the purpose, but we point out the anxious and unnecessarrvolunteering of the information, to show that thq love of the order" is paramount to the love of the country ; that is, as we use the word, of the interests of the people. With the aristocracy it is the class first, and then the people ; but the class at all events—it must be so, whilst we have privileged classes irrespective of living merit. We proceed with our illustrations of the effects of aristocratic selfishness and its spirit : "GAME PRESERVES.—The extent to which the system of game-preserving is carried is almost incredible ; for not alone in the ranks of our proud and overbearing aristocracy are game-preservers to be found—the mania extends to tradesmen,—aye, to Liverpool tradesmen too, —and we are bound to say . that the proceedings of the latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark will apply, in an equal degree, to the Earl of Sefton. : The latter Nobleman commences with his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby Simmonswood, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton (a township in which lie scarcely owns an acre of land), Altcar, to the sea—a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton should not put the county to expense for punishing tres passers on twenty-four square miles of land. Some years ago his lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, was left for dead by some poachers, who were transported for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were borne by the county. Within our recollection one of Lord Skelmersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the convict Chub now lies under sentence of death for the murder of a gamekeeper. We repeat, then, game pre servers should dip into their own pockets, and not into those of the putilic to pay for their whims."—Liverpool Albion. _ _ _ It is not only the expense to society, but the moral destruction of the men, and their unfortunate, and from thenceforth miserable, wives and families..• From that time, too, the bereaved wife may be shut up in a new union, if she cannot drag up her helpless children, though able to maintain herself—in this way women are constantly the victims of bad laws, and of the temptatl ons 4 o f tress and misery into which they are plunged by the im prisonmentl and transportation of their fathers, hus bands, and sons. , _ _ " .i.-FREEf.ThADZ MISSIONARY FROM THE UNITED i S n 'T g A t T : A me il t t i n d b d e r : S o lV an delivered the the mane Manchester r Tuesday Anti.corn e_v i e n i i i; Association, by J. Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, North America, upon the capabilities of that country to supply s with co rn and provisions. He stated that he was authorlsed bythe public voice, in the United States to state that nothing was more desired by his countrymen than to exchange their agricultural produce for the manufacture s of Eng land. He was listened to with great interest whilst he went into a great vari ety of facts, showing- the rich re sources of the`gveat west,' and at the cl ose of his ad dress a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered to him by the meeting. make a tour through " : — Bread tux-t t lll United States to the principal towns for the purpose explaining the capabilities of the le understand lqr . Curtis o f the intends kingdom to Can any population. A c de ir ti c c u ie la n r e . y of food for our the er hat if our aristocratic leis lators permitted our brethren in America to pay the im mense sums they owe us by their flour, that our mer chants would have been paid their debts, and our work men kept in employ ? Now, mark how these gew-gaw titles seduce those who once were generous, and in some degree disposed to equal rights and equal laws : " We hear it. rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is at Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage."—Sun. This plague spirit runs away with every thing that is generous and noble in men's nature. It is not alone the renegades and the demented whom the law of primogeni ture, and the folly of hereditary titles seduce from the nobility of nature, and convert into subservient cringing idlers but those who have been great and useful, when they get dry and shrivelled, are made Lords, and become the parents of idle and useless men and women, despising work and promoting corruption and patronage that they may be placed or pensioned upon society. The suppres sive.effects of hereditary titles are more injurious 'than the positive, and they are blighting and destroying. It is the black jaundice of the body social. THE STORM.—The thunder-storm of Saturdal last raged violently throughout the Potteries. The electric fluid struck a building at Habley and did some injury, scorch ing a child's hair. At Burtlem a large tree was struck, which presents a shattered appearance. Several little injuries were also sustained in various parts of the Potteries, but we are hapfl to hear of none of a serious nature.— Stafford Gazette. Among the numerous interesting facts recorded in the census returns for Scotland, the. followi ng a ff ec ti n g case appears under the head of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Iron Grey, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright :—" Slept in a barn a soldier's widow of - Highland regiment, whose husband mid ten sons I fell in battle.' EVENING4SUN TRACTISTS, vE L RE ,A. L U I D sT I s S . TS, SACHE (CORRESPONDENT OF THE BRIGHTON GUARDIAN.) About the year 1330 a small number of clergymen, at their meetings in the Common Room of Christ Col lege, Oxford, entered into an agreement to 'employ whatsoever literary power they might possess, or could in any way bring into aid, for the special purpose of' Je crying and discarding that system of religious faith and practice, which, since the days of Queen Elizabeth, has been called Protestant. • - Dr. Pusey, Professor of Hebrew, was I believe, the first to make a public declaration, in an Oxford pulpit, of his abhorrence of the name of Protestant. The wri tings of a young enthusiast, named Fronde, were then published by the Associated Anti-Protestants,-expres sive of their wishes, but with a view of feeling the.4.way with the public, lest a sudden declaration 'of open war on the Established Church and on those opinions and, sentiments in which Dissenters and Churchmen com monly unite, should excite alarm and promote revulsion. Pamphlets were published in rapid succession, all con demning the character of manners of the present times, and all uniting in wholly attributing such evil to a gene ral relaxation of submission to the Church and the clergy, and all claiming unconditional reverence for the Church, and obedience to its canons, and subjection at all times, and under all circumstances, to the clergy, as the heavenly-endowed successors: of the Apostles, vested with full spiritual authority, with full powers to discern spirits, to bear the keys of heaven and of hell, and to open and to close the gates of salvation or-damna tion, according to their decisi o n— a ll requ i r i ng a return to all the rites, forms, and ceremonial practices of the Church of Rome, not expressly forbidden by Act of Parlia ment —all advocating opinions of ancient usages, candles on altars, holy water at church doors, crossing of breasts and foreheads, genuflexions, confessions . to obtain absolution, with tables of fees for such offices; invocations of saints for heavenly intercession, prayers for the dead to obtain re detaption from purgatory—all utterance of prayer to 'be delivered with faces turned to the cast, especially by priests or deacons, and in churches—in fact, all firms of ritual observed in Romish churches and chapels. Prayers for special or paramount protection addresied to the Virgin are, I believe, Omitted,_,and pray e rs f or the " Pope of . Rome which declare his temporal supreMacy. (See I)l...Wiseman's "Invitations to a full avowal of entire return to the Bosom of the Antient (i. e. Romish) Church." See - also " Introductions to Hey. Dr. Arnold's Sermons on Christian Life, its Course, - - its Hindrances, and its Helps," preached at Rugby, 1841.1 The pride of young divines, at Oxford and elsewhere, is flattered and fostered by the carefully-instilled tutori persuasion that, by the imposition of hands in Ordim non, they have been invested with. Apostolic authority, and power, superior tot hose of all other mortals, whatever be their station in society ;. and the Might be expected, is especially manifest -in their eon versation and address, by an, assnined air of pomposi:, of dogmatic assurance, and of coarse insolence, trid,:':- fied, indeed, in some degree, according to the grade Society in which they have moved in their earlier yor'' , . but warranting an expectation, to - the rising generatt..• of a rank harvest of Wolseys and of Bonners—of refer less partisans, but not of humble Christians. • COUNTRY CORN :MARKETS. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEr Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... ..- -, 665. to 7,0, fine 725. -- Lin. and Cam. -s. 65;. to 681. 6ne Co . ----- Yorkshire -B. MA. to lii3. title I Gt. - VVliite ...--- Foreign, Red -.. f2s. to Os. fine 70.. White -s. ":os. tr, 71i. nrie 725. Barley, Norfolk and Suflidk ......... .............. 30s. to 3:O. fine :41. .---- Lincolnshire .--- Yorkshire Wold ' os. to 315. fine !2p. - Foreign Beans, New ... 404 to -s. fine 444. - Old Oats, Potato -s. to 3Fs. fine 3();, -,.- Poland .--.. Friesland and Small -s -s. to 205. fine 2 3 9. .---- hsealing ....... ........ .......- ...... 122. to ;341. pet Stone. Shelling 3lB. to 32s Od. per Loar4 Malt -........... ..... -8.4415. fine 435. per [mac Rapeseed ...... ...... ..................... -I.os. 31/. Os. 36/. Os. per Last NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red. White.. ~ Wheat, Northumberland... „ 70:.71 8......, 7 2 8 71 % • - Norfolk and Suffol ..... 7.1.1 795 7Bs. S2s. .--- Berwick and Scotch ......... ...... 625. 70s - Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 403. 414...... --.. ...6 i - Foreign 90,. 116; -s. --5.61 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk-. -6. -s -5. --;. '..1.,-; -- Grinding and Feeding 34s. 385...... -5.-r. 1: - ,i Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk... - . ........ Beans, Small 346 406 - . b. -a, . .""'• Tick ......, 40s. 44s 1 a Pease, White 4os. 425. . ... my. .....‘ . - Gray . . 365. 38,--. -5......; 9ats, Northumberland, Potatoc ......... 2 •s. 2.... s s. .-g. . Feed 1 ..- Foreign ... 204. 263. -0 -1 j Flour (per sack) s4s. 57s - & ....1. HULL CORN MARKET. :, Whit( (per Quarter) 72s. 744. IS,. Red 7os. 745. 78s. Foreign lts. 765. 7Ss. Malting :29s 30s. ::2& Grinding .. 2...5. 295. :Zoi. • Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans 36s. 38s. 425. Pease, Grey 3ls. 365. 3:::. Blue and White 3'is. 3Ss. 10;. Linseed 5 . 25. 56i 1.28, Flour (per sack) -. 575. 63 . Rapeseed per 10 quarters) -1. 33f. 834 Wheat, Barley. W heat. ITCH MARKET Batley. Oat'. Beans. Oacat i t kberdeen Berwick Coldstream cuFir (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverncas Kelso Perth Tha 33 to 35 :.;5 27 '.?3 32 60 to 70 1 27 to 28 21 to 25 —to 45 56 22 25 10 20 30 33 47 50 22 24 17 12 28 36 48 65 26 31 18 52 2..) 96 i 59 65 25 28 21 24 37 33 0 38 52 60 26 27 22 25 4P U ... 48 60 23 23 21 2t 32 33 43 56 24 '27 17 20 30 22 54 66 '29 35 20 25 45 48 43 —I 66 67 32 40 25 35 41 41 .... ilze of the measure varies throughout the country. H ADDINGTON CORN MARKET. 1 Wheat. Barley. 1 oats. Be .ns I Pe a se. Sts OJ :Ns 0,1 26s 04 446 04 —s Oct 14, 00 3.36 0;1 456 Od 42s ed I ,0d 6as Od 32. Od .23s —s 04 406 Od —s 0:1 t•GrAge 31 146. 6.1 11.1•2thls. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. i Oats. ('ease. FICA 09 FAS 4 a 3is Od : ' 23s 01 I 41s Od I 44s Od 686 00 :14s 6d i Os P•cf 4:ls Od 4':s 0.) tits al 28s ed lt• 8d —, 64 6tl EDINBURGH COltN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Me ails. Peaso. First Bol.od 404.00. 296.44. 465. Od. 40; r tiscond '7B 0 36 0 96 0 41 0 43 0 Third 74 0 33 0 24 0 41 0 40 0 Average price of %'heat IL 16s 6d. PRICES OF PROVISIONS. kC. Beef, per itr. ......... We. sd. to 05.84. Fresh Butter, le. s lld to Is. 'A Mutt0n.,................. 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditte—...... 010 01 , Veal— . . 0 5 010 Ditto, per co, t.... 85 0 90 ,‘ Pora —.............. 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos... 0 S 0 ~ Lanni, per qr. ...... 1 6 4 6 OatStrawt(.pl.)...., 6 0 r: • ('allow, cwt.......... 39 0 43 0 Wheat Ditto.— 5 6 7 Quartern Loaf ...... 11 Si 0 9 Barley Ditto ...,... 6 0 7 . P0tat0e5,141b...... 0 0 0 b Hay, per 5t.—.... 011 1 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone of 11th. Imp . First Oatmeal £2 0 C First Oatmeal .f.O I' 1 Second ditto . ,,, Barleymeal I 10 0 Barleykleal.. ....... .......... 0 1 Peaseraeal 1 8 0 PeasemSal -. Pot Barley from 30s. to 455. per sack GLASGOW CORN Mt RR ET. Wheat, per'l4olb. a. d. s.d. Oat", per 2641 h. e. ii. B.G. British, old 36 6to 40 0 Irish l9 0 t 022 0 • .—.--.. ilew Canada, free — 0 0 Beans, per 26016. Irish Barley, per 3201 h. Scottish 22 0 V 3 0 English 2B 6 29 6 Pease, Scottish ..... 21 0 12 0: Scottish 24 0 26 6 Oatmeal, per 1:31b.... It; 0 20 0 Irish First ... Second Thirst First Second Third ~ CORNWALL MARkETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. OatG. - s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. fruro —, 0 10 il 0 a tlelstone St. Austell — 0 7 7 -- 0 3 Codmtu — 0 8 8-- 0 4 :..iskeard — 0 7 6 0 3 Launceston Camel ford 9 0 10 0 3 0 1 Penzance 7 8 8 4 .... 0 4 d. s. d. to s. d 6 0 2 11 g 0 3 0 —'o 3 2 4 —. 0 3 0 6 0 '3 9 80 2 b 4 - 2 6 2 4 O—o 2 6 per .....__.••••21•""* ... " ... " p MINING INTELLIGEWCE. Tons.Cwt,2ts Quantity of Coppe r o res so ld a t R e drath Ist week... 2,‘X1:1 0. 0 4..... ••••••••••••••••••••• Average Produce ..... • 6 Pa - 195 I I U Quantst y ol tine C o Amount of sale. 10,651 i . ;Ws. ea —Average k tandard, 1251.05. Od. The Tunis co rrespone.lent of the .Constitulionnel, and Montebello ha s p rod u ced a. g ood effect both u p on writes, on the 18th :—" The arrival of . the nati ves Neptune and Europeans. In the midst of reports, which ichar arc daily_ gaining consistency, of an attempt me ditated upon this Regency by the Turks, it is 4atural-teu conceive that the French Government has felt the m „ity of insuring the; Bey against any such measure. ,Th e defensive preparations making at the Goletta are confirmative of this. The day atter - the ,arrival 'of the tibove ships, Captain Leray, of .the • Montebellb, Who carries a Commodore's flag, had a ccnference of three hours with the Bey and immediately thereupon, the garrison of the' Goletta was increased from 1,200 to 6,000 men. It is . certain that, if the Bey is supported by the French Government, lie may make an effective resistance, and render it difficult for the Turks to force a landing. The . Goletta is well for- - tified ; the Bey has 16,000 men equipped and drilled in the European manner, and in a few days can line his coast with armed Bedouins. A few days ago six sailors of one of the Bet's corvettes jumped into the sea; and attempted to swim to the French ships, although the diStance was more than a league. Four reached the Neptune, one was drowned, and the sixth devoured by a shark. It appears that they had been ill-treated, and sought protection under the French flag. Captain Leray felt himself bound, however, to give them up to, the Bey: but first stipulated that their desertion should be par doned,-and that they should be kindly treated in future. We are expecting shortly the arrival of the.Androraede. and it is believed that this squadron will remain on our station several months." CORN MARKETS IN FRANCE.-PARIS, AUG. 17.—The market was not so animated to• day as on ilia last market day (Saturday) ; but there has we been any alteration in the quotations of wheat oh. the Corn Exchange or Halle, the price of where of the first quality remaining at 30f. to 31f. for •he hectolitre and a half, corresponding at the sent course of exchange in Paris on London, bills at one month's — date, or short paper, _ 30c. " money" per pound sterling, with 455..10i-d. , ilt 475: sd. for the English Imperial quarter. It is exi, ed, however, that a decline may take place, as :I-, advance of last week in the. principal markets from Vtic the supplies of Paris are generally received was tie , : sioned by a deficiency in the quantity brought.forwar( .The labours of • the harvest, which progresses wit much activity, engross the whole attention of the cut - tivators, so that they • were unable to bring their produce to market. In flour there has not been so much business doing as on Saturday last, and prices have declined from one franc to one franc fifty cents. on those published officially on Monday last. The principal cause of the present comparative dulness and the fall in the price may be found in the very fine weather which has prevailed during the last few days. From the provinces, eighteen markets are retorted to have advanced ; six to have declined; actual stagnation is not stated of any place ; five markets are said to be very steady . ; from six Awes theAceounts mention..no alteration ; and from the remainder there has not beer. any intelligenoe received since the last market clay.