The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-04 00:00:00

the Powers, may render necessary. 'War, at all times, is a great evil. To this country at present, as well as to Europe in general, when beginning to enjoy the benefits of peace, it would be peculiarly injurious ; bnt that injury would be still greater if we were to rush into it unadvisedly, and before the great body of the people were convinced of its ex pediency. This was the great evil of the system adopted by Pitt. He commenced wars, of which one-half of the community could n either see the ne cessity nor the justice ; they consequently opposed his measures, and thereby weakened the hands of , Government. Foreign Powers, too, saw that Eng land was: so anxious t.R enter into every qu a r re l, i that they purposely kept aloof n disputes that inte rested themselves alone, knowing well that they should not only have our co-operation, but subsidies besides, in fighting their own battles. We hope that such madness is now gone by, and that, if any im portant m easure is to be adopted, it will be one in w hi c h t he country can heartily concur, and which may seem to be called for lather by the general voice than undertaken for the gratification of any p ar ty, or the furtherance of any peculiar or doubtful line of policy. (FROM TUE MORNING ♦DVF.RTISsit.) The expedition to the Mores, is of all other sub jects that which at the present moment engrosses the attention of our Gallic neighours ; and the com ments in which they indulge respecting it prove, in the most melancholy and incontestable manner, the depth of degradation to which this country has fallen under a Tory Government. " Every thing," say these papers, " is changed now ; France, that has so long kept silence, has at length spoken, and the British tribunate in mourning, has ceased to make its voice be heard in sympathetic accord with the cause of civil and religious liberty. The victory of •Navarin, which was celebrated with (hie honour in the Palace of the Louvre, was deplored at West- • minster as a defeat. Portugal has been abandoned by England, to u surpation and absolutism ; while Greece hears the tru►npets of France spreading terror among the hordes of Ibrahim, and pre paring to proclaim from the Parthenon the re storation of the descendants of Miltiades and Pericles. Let no one deceive himself. Those twelve or eighteen thousand warriors whom hu manity sends to succour the Greeks, possess a very different power, and will exert a very dif ferent sort of influence, from those 100,000 who were sent into Spain to fight for Ferdinand and kiis monks. They have for allies and for brethren every intelligent person in the two worlds ; even• one in fact who is possessed of the slightest gene rosity of sentiment, and were they to perish at a second Thermopylae, their ashes anal their memory would render certain the triumph of the holy cause which they are going to defend !" What a contrast does this spirited language, and equally spirited con duct, form to that which we hold and pursue in this country ! We justify the war against Turkey, and yet ws dread its results—we have entered into a Treaty to effect the independence of Greece, and yet we do nothing to carry it into effect ! We seem, in fact, to be amaz . "l at the novel situation in which we find ourselves, and to be reduced, through the weakness and pusillanimity of the Government, to renounce our wishes on the one hand, and to dread to express our fears on the other'. There was a time, however, when England could have " spoken" as well as France, and " speaking" could have made her voice be heard much more loudly ; but it was when she was governed by Ministers who were aware of the energies and capabilities of the country—who felt for its honour as keenly as the people felt, and who would as soon have dreamed of talking abort teeing forced into a treaty, or compelled to recede from it, by the fear of the Russian barbarians, as of proposing a Popish successor to the throne of England, or changing its constitutional Government for one of 'Absolute despotism. (FROM THE TINIER.) Most men who are capable of looking rationally at the peculiar nature of that danger which has been engrafted in our political condition by the laws af fecting the Catholics, will be ready to acknowledge, that in the same degree in which the danger arises from the exclusion of the Catholic body, would be the efficacy of emancipation in removing it. This proposition is by many able and distinguished men maintained in the broadest terms. Emancipation in its most simple form is looked upon by them as the natural security against a danger of which exclusion is the undoubted cause. It was so that Lord Lans downe, when he last introduced his resolution to the House of Peers for their concurrence with the Com mons, delivered himself at almost the outset of his speech—" I hold emancipation itself, my f.ords, to be the best of all securities." And, unquestionably, there is no other security which, without enianeipa lion, would be worth a single farthing. We have tried to the utmost all those reputed safeguards which rsst upon the power of restraint and prohibi tion—upon the system of shutting out the King's subjects from the state_ropelling their affections, and setting their resentments at defiance. The po licy which tarns allies into enemies for the sake of treating them as enemies, and then boasts of its wisdom in fiercely persecuting those whom it wan tonly provokes--that policy, we repeat, has been tried until it can be tried no longer. Instead of con verting allies into enemies, we are now visited with the hope (Oh, it may not be a disappointment !) of propitiating enemies into friends. What, then, is the substantial bond and ceinent of such 11 policy ? !Surely a reliance on community of interest, not on manifestations of distrust or jealousy, for giving life and endurance to the league. We go thus far in Sentiment with Lord Lansdowne—that an nicety) . - ration of the Catholic laity with the Legislature, and a provision for the Catholic church out of the revenue, would be the best of all securities for the adherence of both to that commonwealth from winch one of the parties derived bread, and the other dignity and power. The question, whether such is the only security which ought to be (if we may so speak) required front the Catholics, cannot, how ever, plain as is the principle, be so easily deter:niti ed in practice. We must look to the alternative , which circumstances impose upon us, and see how far it may be allowed to make terms of amicable compromise with the exclusionists, if without corn. promise of some sort or other emancipation cannot be carried. The Catholics, as well laity as cletgy, it is said, are much alarmed at t 1 introduction of such a novelty into their church government as would give any Protestant Prince or authority a voice in the nomination of their bishops. Now we had really conceived that Dr. Doyle, in a late letter to the Duke of Wellington, had (pantie' his views upon that subject, by affixing to the right of do. 'nestle nomination, which it was his proposal to substitute for that by the Pope, a power of ap- Pr"a l by his Majesty. Be that as it may , seems quite clear from the declarations of many zealous Protestants, that no mere ner,o-a rive power in the Crown, were it ever so fully conceded, would satisfy their minds as to the safety of granting emancipation. Mr. Wilmot Horton, who has distinguished himself as one of the most earnest, industrious, and, ;ve will add, enlightened friends of this great cause, which unites in itself whatever is most valuable in religious liberty and in social con cord, was , we believe, the first who came for ward with a precise and detailed proposition for re conciling the quick apprehensions entertained by certain Protestants, with the tender consciences of the Catholic body, in matters relating to the church. —Mr. W. Horton had, it will be generally remem bered, given notice of a motion some months a g o, which would have b rou g ht his view of a novel species of security before the House of Commons, and one which goes to meet directly' the favourite objection of the anti-Catholics. " What !" it has been asked by the Duke of York and others, " shall We suffer Roman Catholics to legislate for the Pro testant Church of England ? " No," replies Mr. W. Morton. " The measure of emancipation, of which I am the advocate, meets the objection in its very teeth, inasmuch as it formally disqualifies Ro man Catholics from legislating at all upon the con cerns of the Church of England." This, in few words, is the sum of Mr. W. Horton's proposition. When it was first recommended by that gentleman in a pamphlet which he published a few months ago, we frankly stated our own fear that in practice it might be found extremely difficult to divide the cases of disqualification from those on which the Catholic Member of Parliament would still have an unre strained power of voting:. We had the fear, and we haVe abandoned it. In a recent work Mr. W. Horton has, with exemplary activity and research, collected and enumerate 4 all the acts, public, pri vate, local, and personal, to be found upon the sta tute-book, which have passed since the Union be tween Great Britain and Ireland, and which in any way concern the " doctrine, discipline, regulations, rights, - and privileges of the United Church ;" upon the subjects of all of which acts, without exception, he proposes to disqualify Roman Catholic Members from voting. This exhibition of the subject is as important as it is novel. It brings distinctly for ward the precise points of disqualification, with regard to which there can be no reasonable ground for raising a dispute or for pleading ignorance; and he produces the most respectable authorities, eccle siastical and civil, Protestant and Catholic, for the innoxious as well as efficacious principle of the secu rity now suggested. We need only mention Dr. Coplestone on one side, and the late Dr. Poynter on the other. This being now the great question of domestic policy of the British empire, which sur rounds it on every side, impedes, distract 3, and de presses it, in all its interests and all its external relations, we shall feel it our duty to recur fre quently to the anxious and laborious task of discuss ing the subject in all its bearings; but we shall now content ourselves with (lusting from Mr. W. Horton, a brief recapitulation of the nature and principles of the security which he recommends. " Ist. It is calculated to meet the main danger which exists in the apprehension of Protestants—viz. that of legis lation by Roman Catholics for and about the interests of the Protestant Church. The proof that this is the main apprehension entertained by Protestants, is to be found in the record of 51 speeches of Members of Parliament, dis tinctly pointing out that specific danger. " 2dly. That danger being once provided against, it is not pretended that any other danger is to be apprehended. The proof of this is to be found in the declaration made by one of the most distinguished opJonent-s of the Roman Catholic question, the late Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Eldon, in his speech in the House of Lords, on the 21st of June, 1822, that if he could hesitate one single moment to grant any thing which the Roman Catholics could re quest or &sire, provided the Protestant Church was secure, he should act most unworthily : but he never could learn what securities were to be given to the Protestant Church, and that was the reason why he never could assent to the concessions asked.' _ " Sdly. The security proposed has satisfied many Pro te•tsnt divines of the first rank and character, as affording, a real and substantial security. " 4tlaly. The declaration of the Homan Catholic Bishops, as well as the opinion of individual Roman Catholics, de monstrate that it is a security of a purely protective nature, and which does not trench on the conscience of the Rowan " sthly. It is a security independent of any other secu... rity, single in its character, and calculates! to effect one simple object. " 6thly. Although no absolutely direct precedent may be found for its introduction, it is not inconsistent with the recognised practice of Parliament, which admits, in certain cases, of a defeasance of the right of voting in the case of particular members ; and it has received the ap probation of constitutional lawyers of the first eminence. " In its working and operation, it is practicable and easy. " These seven propositions appear to me to he per fectly justified by the matter which precedes them. " It may perhaps be shown that the machinery which I have framed is not entirely perfect. It will be sufficient for my purpose if it be admitted (which admission, I think, cannot be refused) that it involves no subtlety or complica tion with which the most ordinary intellect would not be competent to cope. lam well aware that it will not re ceive the sanction of any person who wishes to maintain perpetually the disabilities attaching to Roman Catholics. I do net doubt that difficulty may be crowded upon difficulty, and technical defect pointed out after defect, by those who are determined not to be satisfied with concession under any form. This security has been specially framed to meet the objection of those persons who rest their objection to Catholic emancipation on the ground of the danger to he apprehended to the interests of the Protestant establish ment, from the legislation of Roman Catholics with -re spwt to that establishment. And as an antidote to that specific danger, (the only specific danger, as far as I am aware, that has ever been pointed out, as connected with a change of law on this subject), I consider it, and I trust that a majority of the Douse of Commons will ulti mately consider it, as conclusive and complete. If, how ever, (to repeat what I have already expressed), any other security can be pointed out, more simple and more satis factory to the respective parties interested, no person will more► cordially rejoice than I shall in such result, notwith standing the comparative uselessness of the suggestion which I have made. Still more perfectly satisfied should I he, were it possible that the Protestant clergy and laity,who are now opposed to the settlement of this question, could he Induced to concur with me and other supporters of it, in our view of the solid and substantial security which the discontinuance of religious disabilities, in itself, is cal culated to afford. But as those who have practical difficul ties to overcome are compelled to deal with things as they are, and not us they might wish to find theu►, I have felt justified in the suggestion of the security which forms the subject of the preceding pages.' " SUNDAY PAPERS. (num 'n NEWS.) Mr. PECL.—The fame of Mr. Peel does not seem to gain ground, with all the aid of his denial of place under Mr. Canning; and though recently seconded by the full swing of Ministerial power. He was thought more of, and better of, as au auxiliary o Lord Liverpool's Cabinet, in conjunction with Mr.f Canning, than ever he has been since. His consoli• dation of a certain class of Statutes is now regarded as a mere bodge-podge affair; and if spoken of at all, it is rather by numbers with cenftire than praise. The course of his policy was, notwithstanding, fitted and suited to a very large class of politicians ; but they were men who wished things to remain sub stantially the same, though they called for some re forms in appearance. Just as a person in a danger ous state of health cheats himself into the belief that an aperient—or any thing in the name of physic — will complete his cure. Mr. Peel is at present steer ing his little bark through the impetuous stream of a strait, in which two conflicting currents have united. We may read in the speech of his Majesty, the sort of political unction which Mr. Peel is applying to his own mirk!, lie fancies that he has reconciled the commercial and landed interests, by " combining adequat e p rotect i on f or domestic agriculture, with due precaution against the consequences of a deficient harvest ;" thus, " promoting the in separable interests of all classes of his Majes ty's subjects." A more inconsequential passage we never read, either in a King's Speech or out of one. The insulated purpose of protecting agriculture, and that of guarding against a scarcity of grain, or both put together,—hav e a very limited province of opera tion as compared with the whole complicate interests of a great empire ; and to us it would appear the h e ight of absurdity to pretend that the great aggre gate of the latter could be included in a sort of com promised arrangement of the former. But this is Peel-like ; som ethin g has been don e. The man is going to build; ariilsome lie hasprif , sola o liilb . ei n .. In ourfa r ceeodedstkroi foreign iis, that in time e project rlati on relations t t o h 'ldgreatdown source oldo " friendly a ssurances things arc, , no wors e , of our allies" are con tinued ;only one has gone to war "on his own account " —which hi, Majesty deeply lam en ts." Then l comes ong Por tugalp.t!tireagbruatp:l/lisohf.tisofex- ; which requires two plain. Here his Majesty, with reterence,, Thin () - mer speech, confesses a " disappointment. have gone on contrary to his "advice." But ß his Majesty relies on the "head of the House , of ra ganza ' to take the "best course" for securing , the peace and happiness, &c. of the country. The " House," as it regards the Kingaom of Portugal, would be as well, or rather perhaps better, without a head, than with any ono that it can boast at present ; and this flourish of English sympathy, after we had withdrawn the troops that were to protect the Regency and the Constitution, is what may be called " doing the civil" towards Legitimacy as an old woman. The only thing in the Speech which is unlike Mr. Peel, is the decision and impudence of - one of the latter passages, which ' commands' the Speaker to " con gratulate the House on the general prosperity of the country!" We wonder that it did not wish the far mers joy on the late dry weather, so favourable for tlfe gathering of the hay harvest, and the ripening of the corn.—This passage seems to be stuck Into the Speech, as with the end of a bayonet, at the military word of "command," rather than in the grace of Monarchy. It is a cruel insult upon the people, who are more employed in remonstrating and petitioning against the measures of Government, than in any thing else. Though we have so far just touched on Mr. Peel, as he may or may not be traces in the King's Speech,—our object was to allude to him more particularly in connection with other circum stances. In Mr. Peel's sort of Pedlar's Reform, he undertook the " Bill for the Recovery of Small Debts ;" but he broke down with it ; he could not carry it through, on account of the numer ous difficulties that beset him, in time shape of claims as " remunerations," &c. We much won der that no honourable member called for some explanation on this point ; for had these remu nerations to a certain class and character of prac titioners been exposed,—it would be impossible for the House to tolerate the existence of, such a nest of infamy and corruption, for a single hour. We would defy Mr. Peel to make out a case of remunera tion, except where the claim Made would prove to be the strongest possible argument in favour of the Bill. Mr. Peel knows this; but he had not the nerve.to be just; when he found that he was disturbing an hornet's nest. Whu and w'iat are the parties claim ing to be remunerated? Is there ao honest member of the House, and friend of the middle classes that, under some revisal of the subject, will put this ques tion to Mr. Peel ? We can ass are suck member, let 'aim be whom he may, that he will give the Home Secretary one of the most unpleasant posers that he has had since his return to office; for we arc certain that he has felt himself to be a conscience-struck re creant, as a legislator, ever since he gave up the Bill in question, before such an odious array of " every creeping thing" that excites loathsomeness and dis gust; and which only became formidable from their number when, on an inspection of the long range of secret places which must be cleansed out, it was dis covered that they interlaced all the channels of Law ; and clung by a thousand tendrils to the highest offices of the profession. Hundreds had been bred up to the corruption as a sort of step mother ; and to break up the system would be throwing them double orphans on the world—without kindred or character. The late Lord A , though as worthy a man as the Peerage could boast, once charged a peasant with stealing a goose from the common ; when time offender, turning round on the Noble Lord, charged him with the greater offence of stealing the common from the goose. (His Lord ship had recently enclosed a considerable extent of waste land, without the authority of any act—and planted it as a cover.) So it is with the advocates of " things as they are." While all the clamour is about the minor sacrifices of individual interests, the real objection is in withdrawing the wide pasturage of corruption from the future as well as from the present. If Mr. Peel had been challenged to go into an analysis of time obstructions of his Bill, it would have been discovered that the great Le viathan of Law had a sort of parental affec tion for all the monsters that generated in its train, down to the very vermin that propagated in the filth of the Augean stable. The, main prin ciple of the remunerating of the highest Law Officer of the State, is a per centage on the ruin of the people ; being a profit on every writ that is issued under the existing forms of the law. A sense of shame at beginning on the 40s. Courts, and break ing up tile household of Borough and County Juris dictions, acted as a sort of cork jacket to the less buoyant material of the ancient system. Here are a set of men, only known, where they are known at all, for living' on distraint: issued against the poorest people in the kingdom who have any effects that are tangible to the legal process; and without doing any thing for others except turning the har pies of exaction on the principal, when they have failed every where else. Should we ever dream of remunerating a highwayman, because an Act of Par liament had converted his ride into a sheep co►n mon ? or ought we not to indemnilv the race of Jack Ketches, to the third and fourth generations after hanging men by the neck had gone out of fashion—to avoid the moral injustice of breaking up a lucrative profession, before the existing incumbents could turn their hands with any advantage to ano her line of business. (FROM THE SUNDAY HERALD.) This has been a busy week with the wine-room and hotel-keepers in every (quarter, and at every principal office in the metropolis ; but loitherto their efforts to procure licenses have been unavailing.— The lesson, in fact, which the Lord Mayor and his brother Magistrate received from the City Alder men, for having promised a license in a hole-and corner sort of way to Mr. Hillary, and the expla nations to which it gave rise, have not been without their use; and in the case of the applications which have been made to the Magistrates during the last week, it affords us pleasure to remark that the most praiseworthy caution has been observed. In the course of this week, however, the meaning of the Hotel-keepers' Act will be decided upon. On Tuesday the case of the Strand Hotel will come before Sir Richard Birnie, and on the Bth that of Mr. Hillary's house, before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. We have no fear of the result. Sir Richard is too well aware of the valuable inte rests on which he has to decide, to think, for a mo ment, of showing favour to any one—more especially to those who have been violating the law for years, • and now claim, on the ground of that very viola tion, an admission to all the rights and privileges of the Licensed Victuallers ; while in the Lord Mayor's Court, on the other hand, there are Aldermen Thomp son and Wood—both fully aware of the intent of the Legislature, and zealous 4( doing justice to the Licensed Victuallers. In fact, however lawyers may attempt to distort the Hotel-keepers' Act, which we are far from considering to he either explicit in its provisions, or wise in itsgeneral tenour, nothing is more certain than that no wine-room can receive a licence under it, provided the intentiots of the Legislature are adhered to ; and, on the other hand, that no re spectable hotel—we mean a house of that nature whore principal object is to accommodate residents, and not to sell liquors —can, according to its provi sions, be refused. Several have, in fact, been licensed in the course of the week in perfect accord ance with its spirit, and more in all probability Will be so; but t) such licences the Victuallers of the Metropolis make no objection. On the contrary, they arc anxious to establish a union with them, and wish for nothing more than to prevent the total ruin of their property, and the introduction into their trade of disreputable persons. (FROM THE SPHYNX.) It is wormwood to the Tories to find that Ire land never was more tranquil than at this moment; the assizes have passed over almoq without a crane. Judge after Judge has complimented the Grand Juries ou the state of their counties. Mr. Baron M'Cleland is satisfied. The Peelers cannot effec tively break the peace, nor Orange processions Pro voke a skirmish of any consequence. The grand insurrection of the comity of Leitrim, the Vinegar Hill of the new rebellion, turns out to have been the arming of a few peasants, perhaps to attack, per haps only to defend themselves against one of these illegal displays. The Magistrates, as usual, took the wrong side : instead of prohibiting the illegal procession, the substantial cause of offence, they thought it better to call out the military and attack the poor people in the bog; they allowed their own friends to break the law with impunity, and turned their wrath against those who had, informally no doubt, assembled to oppose the original trans gressors. Had there been no Orangemen in Lei trim, there wouli have been no battle of Ballina- mots. Trivial as this affair was, it is important as proved to.be Mr. Lett's yard, as it was called—a serving to show the real cause of Irish disunion. place near Blsckfriars' Bridge, which led us to the Who first scoffed at the King's advice of concilia- desired quarter, at the simple expence of climbing tion ? Not the Catholics, but the Protestant Lord up a boat ashore, and slipping over a series of in- Mayor of Dublin, and the Protestant Lord Chan- (dined logs of wood stretching from the timber-yard cellor of Ireland. Who have cried out for exter- to the river. On cur first attempt to get out at the mination ? Not the Papists, but the Orangemen. Bridge, an intention of paying according to the new Who talked of raising his hundreds and his hundreds regulations had been demonstrated, and a consequent of thousands in arms? Not Daniel O'Connell, change had been made in the waterman's temper; but the Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees. Who, to his wrath grew black as the sky; he loitered in the this hour, halloo the adversaries to the fight? Not shower,as if to show us the impotence of regulation the priests, but the parsons ; not the advocates of , makers ; and beguiled the time with "curses not emancipation, but its opponents ; not the Freeman's loud but deep :" he expressed several hearty evil Journal, but the Evening Mail; not the constitu- wishes upon all persons who interfered in what tional press, but the organs of ultra-torvism, the they did not understand—gave it us his °pi /3:db, and the Blackweods, the Post, the Etandard,' 11 i 011 1 that regulation-makers were " obligated t o and the Age. But their efforts are vain ; even with keep all they starved," that rules were only the stage-trick of marching troops through the coun- i made to injure the poor, and, in short, until try towards Ireland at a few hours' notice, as if we had a good revolution" in the country Dublin were in flames, or Alderman Abraham there would be he living. " Look," said he, Bradley King in the hands of the Inquisition, no at me ; here have I been from six in the morn sensation is produced; and the poor Journalists are ing till now (two o'clock) at those stairs, and have obliged to back out as well as they can, and to not earned a halfpenny." He undoubtedly looked quibble between to and towards. The truth is, that very hungry. " Loot," said he, "at the numbers the Irish have hit upon a much safer and more effec- of watermen : how are we all to get bread ?" It tive mode of annoying their enemies than fighting certainly struck us that some regulation ought to them ; and much credit is due to a people, not pro. have been added respecting the increase of these verbial for their coolness, for overcoming the imper- numbers by limiting the allowance of apprentices ; fection of their national temperament, and adopting I but feeling very certain that the new regulations a line of conduct, which must ultimately put their were not likely to save us from paying just as much opponents in the wrong, and compel them to abro- as before, and perhaps any other would be equally gate an unjust law by demonstrating that they can- inefficacious, we silently paid the old exorbitant fare net exclude the Catholics from Parliament under the I (for the red-coat would not be brought to a lower existing statutes, without virtually disfranchising charge than " what you please,"), we scrambled to Ireland. our appointment, very wet and very late, through Mr. Lett's emporium for timber. (FROM TUE EXAMINER) At the very time when the Ministerial Prints were representing Ireland in rebellion, when troops were actually moving upon that country, his Ma jesty, in describing the aspect of public affairs, wholly passes over this festering spot in the very vitals of the empi►e. The fact of the dangerous state of Ireland being as notorious as the absence of any allusion to it in the King's Speech, the degree of credit helonging to that manifesto of the national condition cannot fail to be properly appreciated by the world. From so glaring an instance, people may judge ex pede of the n►ala fides which pervades these compositions. It is but in keeping, however, with the scheme of out. Government, which, if it does not come up to the old definition of the art of ruling as the art of deceiving, is yet in every pro vince aiming at imposture, and full of the spirit, however deficient in success. Falsehood possesses every branch of our Administration; it is the tool of all work, and constitutes the machinery of justice, the whole business of finance, and the grand argu ment for our policy, foreign or domestic. In no country in the world is the lie put to so many worthy purposes as in England. Strike the lies out of our system of policy, and it would crumble in an instant to dust. No Court of Justice could go through a single cause without the aid of one or more lies; no Minister could defend a single item in the expenditure without the constitutional aid of lies ; and without the suppression of truth, at least, no King could in a most gracious speech address his faithfulllouses of Parliament on the state of the nation. Nay, were he to be touched with a mad ness which should impel him to speak the truth, there would at once be an end of the graciousness, as he would surely, omitting the usual form of " My Lords and Gentlemen," designate them as " My Knaves and Dupes," and rate them in round terms for their various vile jobs and breaches of trust, their slavish prostration to himself, and their cruel extortions from the people. (FROM THE ATLAS.) By a fortunate coincidence of circumstances, Greece is likely to achieve her liberty at last. The advance of the Russians towards the Balkan fully occupies the attention of the Turks upon the one part, and the French expedition to the Morea, oc curring at a crisis of so much difficulty, still further weakens by division the Aefensive resources of the Sublime Porte. To encrease the embarrassments of Turkey by strengthening the hands of her ene mies, the Czar has transmitted pecuniary assistance to the Greeks; and France, in addition to her mili tary contingents, has also advanced money to the local Government, which is now formally recog nized through its accredited organ, Capo Thus, although the balance of power may be shaken by the Russian invasion, the Greeks will, if they eontinue united, secure their independence. But the French expedition, the proposed object of which is urged with great apparent candour by the Ministerial journalists, is subject to strong suspicions. The lifessager des Chambres repeats, with emphasis, that the execution of the treaty of the Gth of July is the only purpose contemplated by the French Government, but hints iu unequivocal language that Ibrahim and his Egyptians have reason to " re member the French bayonet at Cairo and Alexandria." If, therefore, there existed good grounds to attribute ambitious projects to Nicholas, in his march to Constantinople, there are still stronger reasons to justify the opinion that France will not be content with merely driving the Egyp tians out of the Morea, but that she will endeavour to follow her victories to the gates of Alexandria. Another year may place the independent flag of Greece upon the Acropolis, the French banner upon the towers of Alexandria, and the Russian colours upon the minarets of Constantinople. These ex tensive changes, fraught with the deepest interest, and involving the security and integrity of the Euro pean states, are not chimerical; they are within the accomplishment of the Powers engaged, who, seizing upon the accident of great National convulsions, have obtained a favourable opportunity to effect de signs of aggrandizement, charged upon them through successive periods of history. FROM THE SPECTATOR.) A TRIAL OF THE NEW " WATERMEN'S FARES."— Having occasion to pass from Westminster Abbey to that seat of the arts, Mr. Clowes's busy little town of letter-press and steam-engines, where we have the honour of being printed, in friendly con junction with several of our most belligerent con temporaries, who, under the high-pressure power of the engine, quietly lay their heads together to receive their lust impressions for the week on Saturday night—it occurred to us that this would be a good opportunity of trying the efficacy of the Watermen's Fares, in the theory of which a Morning Paper had just instructed us. Accordingly, observing at the foot of Westminster Bridge two official persons in red jackets, who signified their equal readiness to en gage, we gave a signal for sailing; the shorter and younger navigator caught the nod—both, however, instantly disappeared down the steps; both prepared their boats ; both claimed the passenger, the old and tall red-coat because it was his turn, the second be cause he had " plied the gentleman." The pas senger was obliged to " shiver on the brink," until the fierce dispute sank into a grumblin g deference to order and the rights of precedence. fhis was but a bad beginning. From Bridge to Bridge it is or dained that " threepence" shall be paid for sculls, . sixpence for oars; we had not pushed off before. it appeared that our bony Charon had insinuated an apprentice into the boat—as no demur had been made, he was thus entitled to charge for " oars."— Since a severe shOwer had begun to descend, any . thing which promised speed was not to be objected . to; and at any rate, if we did not learn the price of "sculls," we should be enabled to ascertain that of • "oars." Waterloo Bridge, which is nigh to the • place of our destination, being reached, and the . water being low, a landing proved almost impracti cable; and when attained, it was made on a yieid : ing sandy b og , intersected by divers gullies of I black water, which, from their odour, may be fear lessly denominated common sewers. After we had waded about for some time under the guidance of the red-jacketted boatman, and a breechless urchin, who called himself "Jack," and begged to be re membered, a passage was at length pronounced im . possible. There was no refuge but the boat once more, and the boat was recovered in a still pelting • shower. Some ether point was to be made; this POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—At one o'clock on Saturday, Mr 9. Grindall, accompanied by Mr. Bradley, her solicitor, en tered the office, when the latter explained to 'Mr. MIN-. srium, why Mr. Grindall did not attend on Friday, which was, that he had been searching after hint (Mr. Bradley), who was out of town, and had now but just returned, in consequence of seeing the account in the newspapers; and requested the Magistrate would postpone the case for a few days. Mr. Alittsnut.r.—Certainly not. I will have the case disposed of to-day. At this moment Mr. Parkins and Captain Stmt enter ed, when the former handed a letter to Mr. MlNsuum., which having read, Mr. Bradley requested to know the na ture of it. Mr. liNssitrr.r,—lt is a letter written to me, from Mr. Grindall, senior. But I would advise it not to be read, as it might probably lead to irritation. Mr. Grindall's solicitor having perused the letter, re turned it to the Magistrate, and requested the former evi dence against his client might be read over to him, which having been done, he asked 1111.. Parkins how he came to call his client a rascal and a liar ? Mr. Parkins—l did not use both epithets. He provoked me by saying I kept a parcel of brickmakers in my employ, to annoy him, and 1 admit I did call bins a liar. Solicitor—Well, we have got out the retort courteous. How came you to strike Mrs. Grindall? Mr. Parking-- I never struck her. She spat upon me. While disputing with her husband she saw me and ran down stairs, and was about to attack use, only her husband prevented her. Mrs. Grindall—Oh, you bad man—don't tell such abominable lies. You struck me on the arm, but I took no notice of it, nor would I for such a trifle, unless you had broken it. • Mr. MlNsnut.t. asked the complainant if he had any witnesses to prove the assault ?—Mr. Parkins said be had, arid called Mrs. Grindall's coach-maker, and a young gentleman, who swore to the offensive language made use of, and did not see Mrs. Grindall spit on the complainant. Mr. MiNstruLL—Mrs. Grindall, I do hope you will keep quiet, and not again intrude or annoy Mr Parkins, fur whose protection I shall now call upon your husband to find bail. Indeed I wish you and your uncle were on good terms. Mrs. Grindall having promised to do what was right, Mr. MINSHULL, upon Mr. Bradley's solicitation, who offered himself as bail in the absence of Mr. Grindall, dis missed the case on the promise of Mr. Grindall appearing on Monday to enter into the required sureties. Ruth Rose, and Eliza Rose, a child of ten years of age, daughter to the former, were placed at the bar on a charge of felony. The mother, it appeared, employed her daughter to go round the town and, when an opportunity offered, to steal front different shops any article within her reach, which afterwards she gave to her mother, who west and pawned them. Various articles stolen were produced in the office. The prisonere, having nothing to say in their defence, were fully committi.d. Sir H. But Nix desired that the poor unhappy child should be taken care of, and kept separate from the mother. The child was weeping aloud during the examination. Losc AND Snota.—On Saturday, a Waterman, named Tomlin, who stands about six feet high, charged another of the same fraternity with assaulting him, and knocking him overboard. The defendant's name was Perry, and the contrast in size between him and the complainant was re markable—Perry being scarcely five feet four inches. Tomlin stated, that he was en board his own boat very comfortably taking a snooze, after a hard bout at pulling with a fare, when he was row:ed by the defendant, who was in the act of taking off his hat, with the intention, witness had no doubt, of running away with it. lie jumped up, and seized hold of his hat and the defendant at the same time ; upon which the latter started from his seat, and with one blow knocked him out of his boat into the water. Mr. Mixsuut.r,--Well, Perry, what have you to say? You seem to have a great spirit for a little man. Perry—(a regular thorough native of Cockaigne).— Vy, your Vorship, it seems rather odd like, that I should strike this 're big 'un, but the facts is as this :—He was a good deal the worse for licker, and had fell fast asleep in his boat, vich you know, your Vorship, vas rather dangerous upon the river, 'cause he might have been run'd over by some of the craft. Tomlin—That's a lie. Perry—Vy you don't mean to say as you vasn't drunk, do you ? My eyes, that's a good un howsoutever. Tomlin—l was as sober as I am now. Petry-0 Lord, 0 Lord ! Mr. MlNsnum.—But what do you say to knocking him overboard ? Perry—Vy, Sir, I only meant to vake and so be jump up and sarves me a pelter over the mug. Now, as I only meant to do hint a sarvice, I thought it bad treatment, so I lets fly, big as he is, and eatched him under the smeller, and he being lnsby, " Vy overboard be vent," as the song says, your Vorship.—(Loud laughter, in which the defendant was one of the loudest.) Tomlin—lle wanted to steal my hat, your Worship. Perry—Vy, -- your great eyes, how CAA you say such a thing? Mr. MINSIMLL—Steady, steady, I must not have any swearing here. Perry—l begs your pardon, your Vorship, but bow the d—l can I help it. Here's a pretty chap to bring m e afore a " beak" for " insaulting" him. Vy he is big enough to eat ten on me, your Vorship. Mr. AliNsHuLL—That may be, but you assaulted him, and I must call on you to find bail unless you can settle the matter. Perry—l'll settle it if I can, your Vorship : but now I'll only just ax you—isn't he a nice uu to bring me up for such a job as this 'ere? Look at him and look at me.— Vell, your Vorship, I must stand the law, but my eyes and limbs, if I shouldn't like to have another shy at hits, if I lost my stick, big as he is. Mr. AltssuoLL—l think you are made of goad mate rials.—Perry (chuckling)—Vy I is but a little un, but vat there is isn't haul timber, I believe. Mr. `.AllNstrum. then ordered Perry to be discharged, on his paying half the expences, which be readily consented to do, and was set at liberty. 111ARYLEBONE.—Tw o sisters, one of them a married wstuan, were on Saturday brought before Mr. Hoswis, on charges of fraud made against them by several trades people living in the neighbourhood of Prospect-place, lit"- road, Islington. It appeared that these females lived toge ther, and they had not been long in the house they occu pied before they got deeply in debt wherever they could prevail on the shopkeepers to give them credit. Both the defendants were represented as being equally active in pro curing goods, but the debts were principally contracted in the name of Mrs. W. the married sister ; and, iu fact, said one of the complainants, " they are so much alike, that I always thought I was servi n g the sanielamon." Th e in dividuals who have suffered so far as is at present known are dealers in provisions makers, straw-bonnet-makers, ; and in mos t cases t h e generally, sho ema k ers , stay aggrieved parties say the defendants have defrauded them of their property, in concert with another woman named who was living in the house with them. The fraudulent intentions of the females were inferred from their clandestinely removing their furniture away to a distant part of the town in the night-time, without ever hinting to any of the tradesmen their intention of leaving their house. The furnituse wtt, traced to a bouit'iu one of tite uotorioui streets leading from Fitzroy-square, some time before taken by Mrs. S., the third woman alluded to, and at the mo ment the discovery was made, the creditors found the whole property in tke possession of a broker, under a distress for rent, which Mrs. had suffered to run in arrear. The statement of Mrs. W. being a married, woman was die_ believed, as no Man was ever seen about the house who acted as master of it. The explanation the married woman gave was, that her husband was a law clerk, holding a situation in Chanoory lane, that some differences had arisen between them which occasioned a separation, and mad, it necessary for her ta leave the house in which she had resided. She denied that she intended to defraud any of the tradespeople, and declared that no dishonest means had been used to obtain the articles she had been supplied with. She more parti cularly denied that she and her sister had ever changed or used each other's names ; but, she added, " we are twins, and so much alike, that people are continually mistaking one for the other, and that is the way the mistake has now occurred." She, then, with confidence, called on the tradespeople to compare the two, and it did appear their voice, com plexion, height, form, feud feature, were so precisely similar as to require a critical examination to discover wherein they differed. Mr. llosxrNs thought there were some points not fairly answered, and only liberated them on their giving bail for their appearance again at this office on Thursday next. UNION-HALL.—Jeremiah _Mahoney, an Irishman, was charged on Saturday, by the pariah officers of Ber mondsey, with deserting his wife and three infant children. The poor woman described the troatment she received at her husband's hands previously to the present accusation, from which it would seem that she and her family had been shamefully used. He could earn from 30s. to 2/. a week, but, instead of taking home the money to make her and the children comfortable, he would go regularly awl dine at a cook-shop, thence he would adjourn to a neigh bouring public-house, and only allow kis family a few.ohil lings for their sustenance, scarcely enough to keep thou in existence. Latterly he never appeared but at night, and, not giving her any money to procure food, she was under the necessity of seeking aid from the parish. • The facts proving the neglect to provide for la kunily, and that parochial allowance had been extended, in con sequence of the wife's application, Laving been sworn w, the husband was committed to Brixton for a month. As the gaoler was removing him from the Magistrate's pre sence, he declared that he would give his wife a severe thrashing when he was again liberated. Zaehariala Chalk, William Hall, James Sherry, and two others, all youths, were committed to Brixton for a month each, under the authcnity of the Vagrant Act.—They were sworn to be reputed thieves. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Burley. Oats. Per Quarter. Catlisle- Hexhaiu Morpetli Penrith --- Sheffield ----- Winchester ----- Per Bushel. Coventry - Newcastle (Stall.) Nurthallerton Staffbrd Swansea Q. to 8. 59 62 48 59 60 50 55 s. to s. 3.4 35 I. to Y. *2 ..44 16 '2- 18 25 S. to S. 52 sti VZ :S3 7 30 27 30 35 27 30 r.d. 32 42 00 00 40 43 00 40 46 39 40 50 52 3'2 35 58 68 52 68 s. d. s. l. 63 76 93 96 60 70 84 86 66 70 76 80 20 26 20 23 s. d. s. d. 34 4 0 39 42 23 26 40 4 2 29 3 6 30 4 ;3 44 51 59 60 s. d. s. d. 49 58 76 80 50 5 6 00 80 0 0 • 50 56 Per 8011. Barnartkaitle Darlington - Durham --.. 136 156 i 11 0 150, 126 16 0' 1,30 156 90 00 90 106 89 0 0 86 90 50 70 5 9 ii 0 50 70 60 76 00 12 10 10 d IY ti 00 09 WAKEFIELD, Aug. 1. We had heavy rain on Friday evening last, as well M on Saturday ; siace then, up to Wedneeday evening; we had cloudy weather, 'with occasional showers ; yesterday was very tine, but some quantity of rain fell during last night. The supply of Wheat from the farmers is large for this time of the year, and pretty fair up the river; the millers Laving purchased freely last week, and the day be ing very fine, the trade fur all sorts below fine quality has been heavy-at the rates of last week, although Lane prime White has obtained 70s. per quarter. Goad Beans are ls. per quarter higher, but there is no improvement in ordinary descriptions. Malt, and other articles, are with out variation. In Holland, France, and Germany, tire weather is stated to have been of late pretty . rouelt the same as in this country, and the crop of Wheat upon the ground is by no means well Spoken of in many parts of the two latter countries. The quantity of Old Wheat re attaining upon. the Continent is certainly small. ' Wheat, Red, Norfolk and SudialL .;.„ ,5,15. to 584:line ed Lincolnshire sls. to 5131. - tine 60 , Yorkshire, &c slg. to V*. tine.stia• White Foreign, Bed SCO. to 54.5. fine 57s- Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk. r -s. -- Lincolnshire to ti ne Yorkshire Wold —a. to —a. tine Beans, Tick 99s. to 42a. tine 435. ----. Small 376. to 44141. fine 43a. Oats, Poland and Potato 29a. to 266. fine 98s. Friesland and 811101 l9s. to 245. tine Vss. --- healing ltd. to 19 d. per Stone. Shelling 3..5. to fiia. —a. to --a. per Load. Malt 31... 40s. fine 425. per Load. Rapeeeed '4'ol oa. 93/. Oa. VI. Ios. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN Al A ttKET.—Aug. 1. A very small supply of Barley ; only three quarter s sold, and three unsold ; average down 2s. Oats met with dull sales; 171 quarters in market, and 159 sold ; toP 6d. and average Id. anove last day. Wheat was in goo d demand, and soon changed owners ; top Is. and average Is. Id. up. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Peace. ' Dean. First oos (k 1 32s Od 2lis CA :12,3 od 35s Od Second s3a Od 3ls Od 25a Id —s 0(1 3.te Od Third There were 1411 qrs. of Wheat an market, 052 whereof ware eutd• 21 Unsold.-0 Grey. 21. 13s. 101. o.l2ths Aver: DALKEITII CORN MARKET.-July Ul. The supply of Wheat at this day's market was.large* and sold heavily ; top price the same as last JAY , beet, ti2s., current .565., inferior 50s. Barley, best 36 4 ., current 344., inferior 308. ; Oats, beet 28.., current 245.. inferior 21s. Pease and Beans from 30a. to 363. p e r (r. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beam. First......OA Hd 3bs 5.1 2Rs ed . 3Cis 51 3Gs •04 Second... sfis Od 34s Od 21s Od Ma 51 Sts 04 I Third..." f)Os Od 30s Od 213 Od 30s od Stli VA CORNWALL. MARKETS. Tau o.—Wheat (average) 2.15. (M.—Barley, 9s. 6cl.—Oats, 9i,. FlELsToN—Wheat, 21s. Oct —Barley, 10e. Ott. Sr. AtisTELL—Wheat, 2(le. to 722s.—Barley, IC4. to 11x.—Oat 9s. to 10s. ta Boomix—Wheat (average) 235. Od.—Barley, 10s. 6d.—Data, Os, Ltuxelict os—W hea t (average) 21s. Od.—Barley, 10s. tit L —Oat 7s. al.—Beef, CAL—Mutton, tid. Ltsasarto--Wheat, lbs. to 15s. CAL—Barley, 8.1. to Bs. tkl. ST. CoLmn—Wheat, 21s. to 2s.—Barley, 9s. to 106.—Bee and Mutton, 5(11 to Sid.—Veal and Lamb, Od to Ca. PENZANCIi—Wheat, ?Os. to µ2e.—Barley, 11s.'to Itt•,—Oat 9s. to 104. Od.—Beet and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—York, lid. to 4d.- Butter, Bd. per lb. WINING IN rELLIGENCB. Tow. Ce Quantity of Copper Ore gold at Rodrutli bat Thursd:by 2.649 Average Produce Quantity of fine Copper 173 1 Amount of Sale. 12,2111. Is. Od.—Average Standard IIY./. PRINCES.—GIBBON, who was no republic , observes that the generality of Princes, if they were strip' ped of their purple, and cast naked into the world, wool' immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without hope of emerging from their obscurity. lie might hall, added, that most of them deserve to be compelled to walo the experiment. —Londort Weekly Review. PRINTED and PuB4.I4HEn by MURDO YOUNG, at SUN ()FricF, 11, *IRANI.), LeliP(n4, • BIRTH. On the 21st inst. in Beaufort-buildings, East, Bath, the lady of Thomas Gibson Inman, Esq. of a son. On the 28th ult. Mrs. Darby, Aston House, tlerts, of sou, who survived only a few hours. On the Ist inst. in Cower -street, the wife of Henry Curtis, Esq• of a son. MARRIED. On the 31st ult. at Beeston, by the Rev. Rotwrt mond, the Rev. Jer. Burroughes, of Liugwood Lodg e Norfolk, to Pleasance, third daughter of the late Sir Tb oo Preston, Bart. of Beeston Hall, in the same county. At Henley, the Rev. I. Wood, to Mrs. Bristow, both' , that plaee. At Winchester, Captain F. W. Austen, R.N. C.V. Martha, danghter of the late Rev. Nimes Lloyd. On the 29th ult. by the Rev. Henry Askew,' Rector ,! Greystoks, Capt. Temple, second son of Sir Grenvi fr , Teeple, Baronet, to Jane Dorothea, third daughter ° John Marshall, Esq. M.P. for Yorkshire. At Abberley, Worcestershire, Captain Thomas it... A ' Maling, R.N. to Jernima, daughter of Henry Bromley, On the 2d inst. at St. Andrew's Church, Canterb ur , by the Rev. Mr. Jones, Mr. Charles Hills, irenimo l g e ; Canterbury, to Ann, second daughter of Robert Edward' Esq. of Deal. DIED. On the 31st ult. Harriett, daughter of Mr. Wm. °rol' of Charlotte-row, Walworth, in the 25th year of her ae i Oa the 29th ult, at Priors, near Ongar, Sarah, whit/ of the late C. A. Crickitt, Esq.lll.P. aged 84. $ 1 Mr. John Scol es , B roo k- green , Hammersmith, ag ed Plai a fa Lt E airii sive the %ref %till Ult a tl a iimi Int re 4 IL( m•; •n ;ia s tia. 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