The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-23 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) • JONES V. POWELL. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that in this case he was to have made a motion on the part of the plaintiff for the payment of a sum of money which had been agreed upon as due to his client, but that as the cause was about to be heard upon further directions, upon the subject of costs and the equity received, it would probably be more convenient that the notice should stand postponed for the present. The hearing upon the further directions had been fixed for to-morrow ; the Court, however, he under stood, would not sit to-morrow, the parties had come to town from the country, and it was very important that the hearing should not be postponed indefinitely. The LORD CHANCELLOR supposed it would'talte a con siderable time, and ordered it to stand peremptorily for Friday morning next. HEARING OF CAUSES Mr. RoLrE applied , both sides consenting, that a cause which stood for hearing before his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, might be transferred into his Lordship's paper, it being an important cause, and a course in which an appeal would he sure to be lodged from his Honour's decree in whichever way the court be low decided. The Loan CHANCELLOR expressed his perfect willing ness to accede to the request. It was just such a case as he wished to be brought before him. He had spoken to the Vice-Chancellor come time ago, with a view of having an arrangement come to, by which the hearing of such causes might be brought before him (his Lordship), but his Lordship thought there might be some difficulty in arriving at any definite arrangement, and it was agreed between them that the subject should stand over for a fortnight, to ascertain what propositions were made in that respect by the parties. %%tun r. POMFRET. • Mr. TINNEV made a similar application in two causes in this matter, which The Lour. CHANCELLOR directed to be transferred into his paper. SWANSBOROUGH z. Mr. WALKER applied for permission to have this case restored to the paper, which had been struck out while the Court was sitting at Westminster, in consequence of the non-attendance of counsel. The appellant had been de prived of both his counsel from circumstances over which he had no control, and which he (Mr. W.) was prepared to explain. The Loan CHANCELLOR said there were objections to his granting this application, but he would consider it. STATE OS' PORTVGAL.-SOARES V. GOWER. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that in this ease, w hi c h stood for hearing before his Lordship, the parties were in hopes that recent events in Portugal might relieve the consideration of it from some embarrassment. --- The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was very likely, and that he would recommend a delay for a week or two, until it was known what result the recent events produced. Probably the parties might be able to negotiate the bills now, or at all events to get instructions from Portugal. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL said that the parties to whom he was opposed, and who had the duplicates of the bills, would attend to no instructions from Portugal, but acted under their instructions from Paris, and that there was a danger of the property being lost. The LORD CHANCELLOR put it into the paper for the purpose of being mentioned on an early day. COURT OF BENCH-(THIS DAY.' (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Special Jury.) ROBINSON V. ROGERS. This was an action brought by the vestrymen of the united parishes of St. Giles, and St. George, Bloomsbury, against the defendant, who had acted as churchwarden of the union in the year 1832, for a balance of 88/. 2s. 3d., all-ged to be due by him to the parishioners. Slr JAMES SCARLETT and Mr. THESSIGER appeared for the plaintiff, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. FoLLETT for the defendant. - - - Robinson, the Vestry Clerk, in whose name the action was brought, having been examined, . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that the plaintiff must be nonsuited. The action was brought by the pa rishioners, but the act did not constitute them a corpora tion for such purposes, and they could neither bring actions, nor could actions be maintained against them. If a churchwarden had not duly accounted for moneys received by him, the proper mode of proceeding was to summon him before a magistrate, and after an investigation of his accounts he could be compelled to pay the balance ascertained to be due, by sum mary proceeding. In the present case an action was brought by the parishioners against one of their own body, Which could not be maintained, as the defendant, being a parishioner, was al so one o f t h e p l a i nt iff s . Th e l earne d counselhere referred to the act of Parliament, and con tended that the parishioners had no authority under its provisions to bring such an action. Mr. FOLLETT followed on the same side. Sir J. Scant Err replied. The action was not brought against one of the parishioners, but it was an action by the parish against one of its officers, in his capacity of treasurer. The objections of his learned friends on the other side were therefore of no weight. The Learned Juncz suggested that as the Attorney- General relied 5o confidently upon his objection, there could be.no harm in entering a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with leave to enter a nonsuit, should the opinion of the Court be in his favour. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL assented, and an arrange ment was entered into between the learned counsel, that in the event of the decision of the Court being against the de fendant, a gentleman of the bar should investigate the ac counts, and award the amount due by the defendant (if any) to the parish. GLIN PETTY SESSIONS, Ju 21 EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A MAGISTRATE. By order of the Lord Lieutenant, Thomas P. Yokes, Esq., attended at the Mil Petty Sessions on Saturday last, to investigate a case in which" Mr. Thomas Madigan and his niece were complainants, and John Francis Fitzgerald, Esq., Knight of Glin, defendant. The inquiry was founded on a memorial forwarded by Mr. Madigan to the Castle of Dublin, in which lie stated that on Ash-Wednesday evening last, at the hour of ten o'clock, the Knight of Glin entered his house, and found his way to his niece's bed-room; that on entering it he clasped her in his arms, and that she screamed and called to her uncle for assistance, who rushed in to the room, and laid very violent hands upon the intruder, so far as to knock him down with a poker, and blacken his eyes and sides; th at lie (Madigan), while lie held the Knight prostrate, sent for his next door magistrate', Capt. Hamilton, who proceeded to the spot, and, finding them in this situation, exclaimed," Madigan, what have you done ? you have killed the Knight; and so saving he raised him up and carried him away. Madigan's memorial went to say that, while the Knight lay prostrate at his feet, he wrested two short daggers from him, which he had concealed under his coat sleeves ; the next: day the Knight swore - informations against Madigan, and had him arrested and imprisoned nearly twenty-four hours. On obtaining bail for his appearance to abide his trial at the late Assizes, he proceeded to Captain Taylor to get informations. The Captain, in • reply, said that he would grant them at once, but that under the circum stances he would wish to have another magistrate present. Captain llamilton (the gentleman who witnessed a part of the scene) was of , the same opinion. The memorial did not directly go t o i mpeac h the magistrates, but the object of the government evidently is, to ascertain whether Ma digan's state ments b e true or not. - Mr. Madigan was then called, and deliberately detailed all the circumstance s , the substance of which (as given in the memorial) we have just stated. The niece in a long examinatio n made the same state.: ment. The Knight of Glin being called, declined to examine any witnesses ; but denied all the allegation s , and said that he went to Madigan's house on the night in question, by invitation. He further .said that he would relinquisliiii; commission of the peace if required. Madigan and his niece denied having directly or indi rec_tls given him any invitation whatsoever. We should observe, that in the course of the inquiry the magistrates alluded to denied having refused to grant infor nuttiensl- on-die-contrary they said, when duly assembled, they sent for Mr. Madigan in order to grant them, and that he did not attend. To this Madigan replied that they did not send for hint, that if they had, he would readily have attended, and that in "Kisequence of their refusing this informations, he was obliged to lay his case before the Lord Lieutenant. • V °l'es, who, we Underitand, will confine himself strictly minute to n th e c h arge contained in the memor i a l, after a Limerick, inquiry, which l as t e d over three hours, departed for government. to Pr e p are hi s repor t an d f o rward it to.the The trial created the greatest p oss ibl e interest in the r ood.—Linienck Star. , . - TIIE TAILORS' ST Itl KE.—Within the last week or two a great number of the journeymen tailors hat 4 returned to their work, notwithstanding all the rk measures of their leaders to prevent them from so do inq The master tailors of the metropolis ha ve r i g idl y adhered to their determination not to employ any man, unles s he signs the declaration framed by them, that he will not, in future, have anything to do with trades' unions. This declaration is the chief cause of many of th e men holding out so long; and if the masters would take them back without signing it, they would long before this have defeat the tailors have received to their work. The has been attended with the most beneficial r'oeerlts,inasmuch all the other tradesfollowing as fromit has deterred the metroolis so mischievous an example, as w as their expressed in tention. if the tailors' strike ha d succeeded. LITERATURE. ITALY; WITH S T ITE SOY SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. BY THE ['THOR OF 6 , VATTIEX." Two Vols., Bvo. Richard Bentley. London, 1834. A new work, from Mr. Beckford (whose high intellectual endowments and taste in art are uni versally acknowledged), is very naturally hailed by the literary world with delight. The author of " Vathek " will gain new honour by his present production. He approached the classical land of Italy in a right spirit. He did not rush from one end of the Peninsula to the other with breathless rapidity, like most of his country men, but took up his residence at all the places consecrated by art and antiquity—at Rome, Florence, Padua, Naples, Venice, &c. In all of these, he associated with the very Hite of society, and was therefore able to give pictures of mannersf in those circles from which the great majority o strangers would be necessarily excluded. To say nothing of other attractions, in this respect alone his " Letters" may be considered unique. He was much at the Court of Naples, and has accordingly detailed, in the best style of Horace Walpole, a series of capital anecdotes of the King and his cour tiers. During his stay in Florence he had frequent opportunities of visiting the Grand Duke and Duchess of Tuscany ; and in like manner the doors of the great flew open at his approach, whether in Italy, or on his way thither throyigh the Low Conn ' tries and part of Germany, or during his subsequent residence in Portugal and Spain, where, when he was not indulging his enthusiasm in excursions to view the romantic scenery of those countries, or in examinations of the noble-works of art they contain, he was the fitOd guest of the most recherché festi vals. The rare privileges of this kind which he possessed impart to his book a certain piquancy and anecdotical character which, though it may be equalled in the letters of Horace Walpole, is cer tainly not surpassed. But this characteristic, highly entertaining as it is, is only one of the many charms of these en chanting volumes. Mr. Beckford's account of his own adventures, and of the moods of his mind, are highly attractive and curious ; while in wit, and brilliance of style, he appears to us not to be ex ceeded by any writer in our language. He pos sesses, too, that graceful and pregnant faculty of expression, which the Latins termed the curiosa felicitas. It hOs been our lot to read many nar ratives of travels in Italy ; but no one of these has been able to impart to us any adequate idea of the grandeur and luxury of that splen did land. The vivid descriptions of Mr. Beckford supply the deficiency. His eloquence and deep feel ing, and poetical imagination, enhance the truth of his sketches, and the truth warrants the enthu siasm. Here is an extract, descriptive of the author's approach to Venice, dated August 2 : " Our route to Venice lay winding about the variegated plains I had surveyed from Mosolente ; and after dining at Treviso we came in two hours and a half to Mestre, tween grand villas and gardens peopled with statues. Em barking our baggage at the last mentioned place, we stepped into a gondola, whose even motion was very agreeable After the jolts of a chaise. We were soon out of the canal of Mestre, terminated by an isle which contains a cell de dicated to the Holy Virgin, peeping out of a thicket, whence spire up two tall cypresses. Its bells tingled as we passed along and dropped some paolis into a net tied at the end of a pole stretched out to us for that purpose. " - Ai soon as we had doubled the cape of this diminutive island, an expanse of sea opened to our view, the domes and towers of Venice r►sing from its bosom. Now we began to distingUish Murano, St. Michele, St. Georgio in Alga, and several other islands, detached from the grand cluster, which I hailed as old acquaintances ; innumerable' pr►nts and drawings having long since made their shapes familiar. Still gliding forward we every moment distin guished some new church or palace in the city, suffused with the rays of the setting. sun, and reflected with all their glow of colouring from the surface of the waters. " The air waicalm ; the sky cloudless ; a faint wind just breathing upon the deep, lightly bore its surface against the steps of a chapel in the island of San Secondo, and waved the veil before its portal, as we rowed by and coasted the walls of its garden overhung with fig-trees and surmounted by spreading pines. The convent discovers' itself through their branches, built in a style somewhat morisco, and level with the sea, except where the garden intervenes. " We were now drawing very near the city . , and a con fused hum began to interrupt the evening stillness.; gon dolas were continually passing and repassing, and the en trance of the Canal Reggio, with all its stir and bustle; lay before us. Our gondoliers turned with much address through a crowd of boats and barges that blocked up the way, and rowed smoothly by the side of a broad pave ment, covered with people in all dresses and of all nations. " Leaving the Palazzo Pesaro, a noble structure with two rows of arcades and a superb rustic, behind, we were soon landed before the Leon Bianco, which being situated in one of the broadest parts of the grand canal, commands a most striking assemblage of buildings. I have no terms to describe the variety of pillars, of pe diments., of mouldings, and cornices, some Grecian, others Saracenic, that adorn these edifices, of which the pencil of Canaletti conveys so perfect an idea as to render all verbal description superfluous. At one end of this grand scene of perspective appears the Rialto ; the sweep of the canal conceals the other. " The rooms of our hotel are spacious and cheerful ; a lofty hall, or rather gallery, painted with grotesque in a very good style, perfectly clean, floored with a marbled stucco, divides the house, and admits a refreshing current of air. Several windows near the ceiling look into this vast apartment, which serves in lieu of a court, and is ren dered perfectly luminous by a glazed arcade, thrown open to catch the breezes. ' Through it I passed to a balcony which impends over the canal, and is twined round with plants forming a green festoon springing from two large vases of orange trees placed at each end. Here I esta blished myself to enjoy the cool, and observe, as well as the dusk would permit, the variety of figures shooting by in their gondolas. " As night approached, innumerable tapers glimmered through the awnings before the windows. Every boat had its lantern, and the gondolas moving rapidly along were followed by tracks of light, which gleamed and played upon the waters. I was gazing at these dancing tires when the sounds of music were wafted along the canals, and as they grew louder and louder, an illuminated barge, filled with musicians, issued from the Rialto, and stopping under one of the palaces, began a serenade, which stilled every clamour and suspended all conversation in the galle ries and porticos ; till, rowing slowly away, it was heard no more. The gondoliers catching the air, imitated its cadences, and were answered by others at a distance, whose voices, echoed by the arch of the bridge, acquired a plaintive and interesting tone. I retired to rest., full of the sound ; and long after I was asleep, the melody seemed to vibrate in my ear." The following is an account of Venetian man ners : " Many of the noble Venetians have a little suite o apartments in some out-of-the-way corner, near the grand piazza, of which their families are totally ignorant. To these they skulk in the dusk, and revel undisturbed with the companion s of their pleasures. Jealousy itself cannot discover the alleys, the winding passages, the unsuspected d ,vii, r iithh r a s ps , po b my y el w uf, h o.re ic tr h u, n wlahhteeusserei mistress retreats are acce ss ible. Many an a is h tr a e s s s s ea d r i c s ied aippeaforrs heron haausnutas in vain. The gondoliers themselves, though the prime ma nagers of intrigue, are often unacquainted with these in terior cabinets. When a gallant has a mind to pursue his adventures with mystery, he.rows to the piazza, orders his bark to wait, meets his goddess in the crowd, and vanishes from all beholders. Surely, Venice is the city in the universe best calculated, for giving scope to the observa tions of a devil upon two sticks. What a variety of lurking_ places would one stroke of his crutch uncover! " Whilst the higher ranks were solacing themselves in their casinos, the rabble were gathered in knots round the strollers and mountebanks, singing and scaramouching in the middle Of the square. I observed a great number of orientals amongst the crowd, and Hre h e eard th T e u s rk el i a s N l , l o a n n ia d n A d r ia a : Ara bic muttering in every corner. e n c t t e s i r g e i d h o l e. Had m i n at ed ; theret. s some Church Grecian been the e al ost un iwondrous tower, and -its piazza the chief square, ofthecttyof of Baby lon, there could scarcely have been a greater confusion language:. " The novelty of the scene afforded me no small share of amusement, and I wandered about from group to group, and from one strange exotic to another, asking and being asked innumerable ridiculous questions, and settling the politics of L on d on and Constantinople, almost in the same breath. , This instant I found myself in a circle of grave Armenian priests and jewellers ; the next amongst Greeks and Dalmatians, who accosted me with the smoothest corn pliments, and gave proof that their reputation for pliability and address was not ill-founded. " I was entering into a grand harum-scarum discourse with some Russian Counts or Princes - ,' or whatever you please, just landed with dwarfs, and footmen, and gover nors, and staring, like me, about them, when Madame de Rosenberg arrived, to whom I had the happinesi of being recommended. She presented me to some of the most distinguished of the Venetian families at their great casino which looks into the piazza, and consists of five or six rooms, fitted up in a gay flimsy taste, neither rich nor elegant, where were a great many lights, and a great many ladies, negligently . dressed, their hair falling very freely about them, and innumerable adventures written in their eyes. The gentlemen were lolling upon the sofas, or lounging about the apartments. " The whole assembly seemed upon the verge of gaping, till coffee was carried round. This magic beverage dif fused a temporary animation ; and, for a moment or two, conversation moved on with a degree of pleasing extra vagance ; but the flash was soon dissipated, and nothing remained save cards and stupidity. " In the intervals of shut ling arid dealing, some talked over the affairs of the grand council with less reserve than I ex pected ; and two or three of them asked some feeble ques tions about the late tumults. in. London. It was one o'clock before all the company vere assembled, and I left them at three, still dreaming over their coffee and card-tables,. Trieze is their favnvrite . game : tine, - tre, quarto, cinque, fante, cavallo re, are eternally repeated ; the apartments echoed no other Sound: " I wonder a lively people can endure such monotony, for I have been told the Venetians are remarkably spirited ; and so eager in the pursuit of amusement as hardly to al low themselves any sleep. Some, for instance, . after, de claiming in the Senate, walking an hour in the square, and fidgeting about from one casino to another till ,morn ing dawns, will get into a gondola, row across the Lagoons, take the post to Mestre or Fusina, and jumble over craggy pavements to Treviso, breakfast in haste, and rattle back again as if the'devil were elorriOteer : by eleven the - party is restored to Venice, resumes robe and perriwig, and goes to council. _ _ " This may be very true, and vet I will never cite the Venetians as examples of vivacity. Their nerves unstrung by early debaucheries, allow no natural flow of lively spirits, and at best but a few moments of a false and feverish ac tivity. The approaches ,of sleep, forced back by an immo derate use of coffee, render them weak and listless, and the facility of being wafted from place to place in a gondola, adds not a little to their indolence. In short, I can scarcely regard their Eastern neighbours in a more lazy light ; who, thanks to their opium and their harems, pass their lives in one perpetual doze." Where every page contains some exquisite pas sage, the task of selection is not a little puzzling. We will, therefore, take an extract at random from the second volume, the whole of which is occupied by a narrative of the author's residence in Portugal and Spain, if, indeed, we may not rather say, in the courts of those countries. It is a description of.a visit to the Marialva Palace " As soon as I returned from my walk, Horne took me to dine with him, and afterwards to the Marialva Palace to pay the Grand Prior a visit.. The court-yard, filled with shabby two-wheeled chaises, put me in mind of the en trance of a French-post-house ; a recollection not weakened by the sight of several ample heaps of manure, between which we made the best of our way up the great staircase, and had near tumbled over a swingeing sow and her nu merous progeny, which escaped from under our legs with bitter squeakings. " This hubbub announced our arrival, so out came the Grand Prior, his nephew, the old Abide, and a troop of domestici. All great Portuguese farnilies are infested with herds of. these, in general, ill-favoured dependants ; and none more than the Marialvas, who dole out every day three hundred portions, at least, of rice - and other eatables to as many.greedy devourers. " The Grand Prior had shed his pontifical garments and did the honours of the house, and conducted us with much agility all over the apartments, and through the iiianege; where the old Marquis, his brother, though at a very ad vanced age, displays feats of the most consummate horse manship. He seems to have a decided taste for clocks, compasses, and time-keepers. I counted no less than ten in his bed chamber; four or five in full swing, making a loud hissing : they were chiming and striking away (for it was exactly six) when I followed my conductor up and down half-a-dozen staircases into a saloon hung with rusty damask. _ " A table in the centre of this antiquated apartment was covered with rarities brought forth for our inspection ; curious shell-work, ivory crucifixes, models of ships, housings embroidered with feathers, and the Lord knows what Vesicles, stinking of camphor enough to knock one down. " Whilst we were staring with all our eyes and holding our handkerchiefs to our noses, the Count of V , Vice roy of Algarve,- made his appearance, in grand pea-green' and pink and silver gala, straddling and makinr , wry faces as if some disagreeable accident had befallen him. lle was, howeVer, in a most gramous mood, and received our eukigiums upon his relation, the new bishop, with Much complacency. - Our conversation was limpingly carried on in a great variety of broken langttages. Spa nish, 'ltalian, Portuguese, French, and English. had each their turn in rapid succession The subject of all this po lyglottery was the glories and piety of John the Fifth, regret for the extinction of the Jesuits, and the reverse for the death of Pombal, whose memory he holds in some thing not distantly removed from execration. This flow of eloquence was accompanied by the strangest, most buf foonical grimaces and slobberings I ever beheld, for the Viceroy having a perennial moistness of mouth r drivels at every syllable. "'One must not, however, decide too hastily upon out.; ward appearances. This slobbering, canting personage, is a distinguished statesman and good officer, pre-eminent amongst the few who have seen service and given proofs of prowess and capacity. " To escape the long-winded narrations which were pouring warm into my ear, I took refuge near a harpsi chord, where Policarpio, one of the first tenors in the Queen's chapel, was singing and accompanying himself. The curtains of the door of an adjoining dark apartment being half drawn, gave me a transient glimpse of Donna Henriquetta de L , Don Pedro's sister, advancing 'one moment and retiring the next, eager to approach and examine us exotic beings, but not venturing to enter the saloon during her mother's absence. She appeared to me a most interesting girl, with eyes full of bewitching lan guor;—but of what do I talk? I only saw her pale and evanescent, as one fancies one sees objects in a dream. A group of lovely children (her sisters, I believe) sat at her feet upon the ground, resembling genii partially concealed by folds of drapery in some grand allegorical picture by linbens or Paul Veronese. . " Night approaching, lights glimmered on the turrets, terraces, and every part of the strange huddle of buildings of which this morisco-looking palace is composed; half the family were engaged in reciting the litanies of saints, the other in freaks and frolics, perhaps of no very edifying na ture : the monotonous staccato of the guitar, accompanied by the kw soothing murmur of female voices singing mo dinhas, formed altogether a strange though not unpleasant combination of sounds. " I was listening to them with avidity, when a glare of flambeaus, and the noise of a splashing and dashing of water, called us out upon the verandas, in time to witness a procession scarcely equalled since the days of Noah. I doubt whether his ark contained a more heterogeneous collection of animals than issued from a scalera with fifty oars, which had just landed the old Marquis of M. and his son Don Jose, attended by a swarm of musicians, . poets,. bull-fighter s , grooms, monks, dwarfs, and children of both sexes, fantastically dressed. " The whole party, it seems, were returned from a pit- grimage to some saint's nest or other on the opposite shore of the Tagus. First jumped out a hump-backed dwarf, blowing a little squeaking. trumpet three or four incises long ; then a pair of led captains, apparently commanded by a strange, old, swaggering fellow in a showy uniform, who, I was told, had acted the part of a sort of brigadier general in some sort of an island. Had it been Barataria, Sancho would soon have sent him about his business, for,. if we believe the scandalous chronicle of Lisbon, a mote impudent buffoon, parasite, and pilferer seldom " Close at his heels stalked a savage-looking monk, as tall as Sampson, and two Capuchin friars, heavily laden, but with what sort of provision I am ignorant ; next came a very slim and sallow-faced apothecary, in deep sables, completely answering in gait and costume the figure one fancies to one's self of Senhor Apuntador, in Gil Bias, followed by a half-crazed improvisatore, spouting verses at us as he passed under the balustrades against which we were leaning. ." He was hardly out of hearing before a confused rabble of watermen and servants with bird-cages, lanterns, bas kets . of fruit, and chaplets of flowers, came gamboling along to the great delight of a bevy of children ; who, to look more like the inhabitants of leaven than even nature designed, had light fluttering wings attached to their rose coloured shoulders. Some of these little theatrical Angels were extremely beautiful, and had their hair most coquet tishly arranged in ringlets. " The old Marquis is doatingly fond of them ' • night and day they re ma i n w i t h hi m , i m p ar ti ng a ll th e advantages that can possibly be derived from fresh and innocent breath to a declining constitution. The patriarch of the Marialvas has followed this regimen many years, and also some others which are scarcely credible. flaying a more than Roman facility of swallowing an immense profusion of dainties, and making room continually for a fresh supply, he dines alone every day between two silver canteens of extraordinary magnitude. Nobody in England would be- Fere me if I detailed the enormous repast I saw spread out for him; but let your imagination loose upon all that was ever conceived in the way of gormandizing, and it will not in this case exceed the reality. " As soon as the contents, animal and vegetable, of the principal scalera, and three or four other barges in its train, had been deposited in their respective holes, corners, and roosting-pla ces , I received a n i nv it a ti on f rom the old Marquis to partake of a collation in his apartment. Not less, I am certain, than fifty ,servants were in waiting, and exclusive cf half a dozen wax torches, which were borne in state before above a hundred tapers of different sizes were lighted up in the range of rooms, intermingled with silver braziers and cassolet tes diffusing a very pleasant per , fume. " I found the master of all this magnificence most cour teous; affable, and engaging. There is an urbanity and good-humour in his looks, gestures, and tone of voice, that prepossesses instantaneously in his favour, and justifies the universal popularity he enjoys, and the affectionate name of father, by which the Queen and royal family often ad dress him. All the favours of the crown have been heaped upon him by the present and preceding sovereigns, a tide of prosperity uninterrupted even during the grand vizariat of Pombal. Act as you judge wisest with the rest of my nobility,' used to say the King Don Joseph to this re doubted minister ; ' but beware how you interfere with the Marqtfs of Marialva.' " In consequence of this decided predilection 'the 'Mari alva Palace became in many cases a sort of rallying_point, an asylum for the oppressed; and its master, in more than one instance, a shield against the thunderbolts of a too powerful minister. The recollections of these times seem still to be keptalive ; for the heartfelt respect, the filial ado ration, I saw paid the old Marquis, was indeed most remark able; his slightest glances were obeyed, and the person on whom they fell seemed gratified and animated ; his sons, the Marquis of Tancos and Don Jose de Meneses,never ap proached to offer him anything without bending the knee ; a-id the Conde de Villaverde, the heir of the great house of Anjeja, as well as the Viceroy of Algarve, stood in the circle which was formed around him, receiving a. kind or gracious word with the same thankful earnestness as cour tiers who hang upon the smiles and favour of their sove reign: I shall long remember the grateful sensations with which this scene of reciprocal kindness filled me. It ap peared an interchange of amiable sentiments ; beneficence diffused'without guile or affectation, and protection received without sullen or abject servility. " How preferable is patriarchal government of this na ture to the cold theories pedantic sophists'would establish, and which, should success attend their selfish atheistical ravings, bid fair to undermine the best and surest props of society. When parents cease to be honoured by their children, and the feelings of grateful subordination in those of helpless age or condition are unknown, kings will soon cease to reign, and republics to be governed by the coun cils of experience ; anarchy, rapine, and massacre will walk the earth, and the abode of dcemons be transferred from hell to our unfortunate planet." We regret that our room will not permit us to indulge our readers with a taste of the author's Spanish sketches, such as the account of his recep tion at Court, his visit to the Escurial, his anecdotes of the Duchess of Berwick and of the. TurkiSh Am bassador, .his interview with Don Gabriel and the Infanta, his description of the valley of Aranjuez, and other charming passages. For these, however we must refer our friends •to the book itself, a' work of which our literature has reason to be proud. CHATHAM ELECTION. Mr. Ching, the Chancery Barrister, entered the town shortly after the departure of Mr. Erskine Perry, accompanied by a band and colours, the latter having " Purity of Election," " The Independence of Chatham," &c., inscribed on them. Mr. Ching esta blished his head-quarters at the Chest Arms, and, on presenting himself to the electors, was received with loud cheers. . The Learned Genllernan admitted that there was a time when he had acted in opposition in politics to many of those now before him, and that he had op posed the Reform Bill ; but, now that that bill was become the law of the land—now that many stabs of the bayonet had been inflicted to destroy it, and that it would be as difficult to turn it from its legitimate course as to turn the tide, stem the torrent, or to make a rope of sand, he would obey, and never try to dis turb it. ( Hear, and cheers.) He would then give to the Dissenters perfect liberty of conscience, perfect immunity of their rights, and a right to worship their God as they might think proper. (Renewed cheers.) Should the ministers be defeated in this election, he thought there would be an end, for ever to their career. He considered them a domineering set, who had made much boast of the Reform Bill, but who, in giving it to the people, had given them " the bill, and nothing but the bill." _ _ _ An Elector here asked Mr. Ching whether he Would pledge himself, in the event of his being now returned, to resign his seat, should he, in any vote of his on a material question, give his constituents dissa tisfaction, and on a requisition signed by them calling on him to do so ? The question led to much confusion. Mr. CHING said that should he differ from them in any vote_ he might give in the_ House of Commons, and could make it appear to them that he was right, and that they were mistaken, he thought they would not call upon him to resign his seat ; but otherwise, if they should be right and he wrong, he would undoubt edly- resign into their hands the trust they might repose in him. (Applause.) An Elector then required Mr. Ching's opinions on annual Parliaments and vote by ballot, and was an swered by him that, To annual Parliaments he was most decidedly op posed; and as yet he did not see any events to justify him in saying that he was friendly to vote by ballot. He was then questioned as to his opinions respect ing triennial Parliaments, and replied that, Of two evils he should choose the least, but he ne vertheless was opposed to triennial Parliaments, from a conviction of the corruption which 150 years ago marked their proceedings. Mr. Ching was then asked various questions about the church rates and dissenters, and having given some degree of satisfaction on the first point, produced long continued applause by his avowal, that he would, to the uttermost, exert himself to remove every disability affecting the dissenters. The meeting then adjourned. The candidates, from an early hour on Friday, to an advanced one of the evening, were out on their canvass, and in this warm weather a hard day's can vass of a refractory constituency is no joke.. Each is pushing his interest with much energy, and in the end, whichever may be declared the conqueror, will cer tainly have been indebted for much of his victory to " the sweat of his brow." The contest is spoken of as likely to be a very closely contended one. - . At the close of the day's canvass on Friday, Captain Byng met his friends at the Sun Hotel, High-street, where his committee sits. The meeting was nume rous and most respectably composed. On the gallant Captain, whose father, General Sir John Byng, is in Chatham, entering the room he was received with cheering and clapping of hands. The cause in which he had the honour to appear before them was not his, but that of the people of Chatham. (Hear.) It was the cause of independence, for it was averse to that of destructiveness on the one hand, and of Conservative illiberality on the other. ( Applause.) _ General- Sir JOHN BYNG then rose, and.said that it had come to his knowledge, and was circulated through the town, that Captain Byng was the government candidate; now he ( Sir J. Byng) would ask those gentlemen - present, who had been canvassed by Cap tain Byng, if; on soliciting their votes, he had in a single instance used any such influence ? (General cries of " No, no.") He hoped then that the friends ho then heard hint would contradict the gross ca lumny. Mr. CHINO, accompanied by his band, colours, and a numerous train of followers, proceeded to Brompton (a part of the borough about a mile distant from the town), on Friday evening, and addressed the electors residing there. J_. Lieutenant the Hon. F. A. Gordon, son of Earl Aboyne, gets the vacant Lieutcnantcy in the Ist Life Guards, vacant by the melancholy death of Lieut. Sydney Parry. The deceased young officer had been in the regiment about five years. His friends reside at Englefiel4-green, Berks. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE 21. —We have had a very fair extent of business done in Cotton this week, and we make no change in prices,. save in the lower class of American, which are plenti ful, and offered freely at a turn in favour of buyers. ,Exporters have taken 800 American and 150 Surat, and speculators_ 300 American. 2,200 Surats are de- Oared for' auction on Friday next. Arrived, but not yet reported, one vessel from Maranharn, and one from Charleston. The import is 33,012 bags, and the sales are 21,160 bags—viz., 110 Sea Islands, 161 d. to 20d. ; 110 Stained ditto, 12d. to 14d. ; 5,040 Boweds, 71d. to ; 7,310 New Orleans, lid. to 10d. ; 6,860 Alabama, &c., 7d. to 9d. ; 910 Per nams, 11id. to 121 d.; 1,080 Bahia, 10d. to HO. ; 290 Maranham, 90. to 1 i d. ; 20 Bahama, &c., 12 d. ; 30 Common West India, ; 410 Surat, 60.. to 70. per lb. The sales in our Cotton Market to-day amount to about 3,300 bales, at the prices ob tained.through the week, principally in American de scriptioris, from 7id. to 9d., ,of which upwards of 1,000 bal es h ave b een t a ken or export. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.! (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, JUNE 22.—Wind fresh.—Arrived and sailed fol the river, the Mary Ann, from Madras ; Abberton from India; and Prince Regent. Aitken, from London for. New South Wales. Remain the Gale, Flora, and Free Briton, for Stockton ; and Union, 'Meeker, for Newcastle. PORTSMOUTH, Ju NE 21 AND 22. —Wind W.—Arrive(' his • Majesty's ship Romney, from Jamaica. Off port th( Eliza, Sutton, from Calcutta—sailed on the 15th February, and from St. Helena on the sth ult. ; and Ontario, Seber, from New York. Prxmorrit, JUNE 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Nautilus, Redhead, from Valparaiso. Off port the Lady Macnaghten, Faith, from Calcutta FALMOUTH, JUNE 20 AND 21.—Wind S. to S. S.W., moderate. Arrived the Virginia, Miller, from Havannah ; and Georgia, Wylie, from Cape Haytien. Off port the Rubicon, from New South Wales. Sailed on the 20th the Zeffiro, Sicilian sloop of war, for Gibraltar ; Assanta, Cafrir ; Archimedes, Munro ; and Two Brothers, for St. John's; Harriet Smith, for Africa ; and Creole, Symons, for Trieste. On the 21st the Pandora packet, for St. Do mingo, Jamaica, Mexico, and Havannah ; and the Osprey, Payne, for Lisbon. HASTINGS, JUNE 22.. L-Arrived off port the Wave,Gold smith, from Hobart Town. COWES, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Horteusia, Messicot, from Yqueque. GUERNSEY, JUNE 20.—Arrived the Argus, Vautur, from Messina ; San Pedro Fortunata, Roberts ; and Dili gent, Gub, from Tarragona; and Rowina, Benet, from Cadiz. LIVERPOOL, Juwi 21.—Arrived the Blanl, Callar, from Calcutta, sailed Bth Feb. ; Cape, 10th April, and St. Helena, 21st ; Economy, Smith, from Maranhatn ; Nandi, Bishop, from Jamaica; William Wallis, from Bar badoes ; St. John, Spence, from Mobile ; Hamilton, Ball, from Savannah—Superior, Bailey ; Sir James Kempt, Patrick ; Frances, Lester ; and Julian Woodberry, from Charleston ; Sisters, from Messina ; Julian, Snecker strom, 'from Borgo; Kronus, Lunt, from Iceland; Eliza, Harrison ; and Neptunus, Baker, from Amsterdam ; Au rora, Dunning ; and Walker, Foulk, from New Orleans. Off port, John Heyes, from Calcutta; Mary, Catherine, from Bombay. Sailed the Gilmore, Londsay ; and John Morot, Clucas, for Bombay. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. In the past week there were tolerably good arrivals of most kinds of grain, and a moderate return of Flour. The trade was languid during the week for most articles. This morning there was a good supply of Wheat fresh up, and of other grain moderate quantities. The few superfine samples of Wheat which appeared were taken readily by our millers at last week's prices : for all other sorts there was a dull sale, at a decline of Is. per quarter from the terms of this day se'nnight. Barley meets little demand and having few samples the rates are udaltered. Beans are more plentiful of late and Is. per quarter lower. Peas are scarce and remain at last quotations. For Oats the demand has been slack to-day, and except for the best parcels may be reported rather lower, with many samples left unsold. The Flour trade is extremely dull at last quotations. ' PRICES ON BOARD OP SHIP. Wheat, Red (old , —s —s Beani, Small ,new) —s.—s ---..—. White (old'...—s. —a. -- (old) —s ---s. —Red ,133.3) —.— Tick new, 32s 35.. 'As 52. (old) 25; :Cs Superti, e... 525. Harrow (new) ns, 675. --- .Wh to (1833) .48.. 525. (old; 40s. 42. --- Fine Sts 565. - Super fi ne 575. 595. Foretgn free —s. —s. Rye 32s 365. Barley Grinding 4 75. 30s. Malting 3os 32. Malt -- Fine New sos. 6. Pease, Grey, New 0 a. 441. Maple New 4O:. 42. -- White 34s Os Boilers ...405.44, • Bran k —s —s Oats, Feed. -- New Poland ;•20s . .-s • 6 - Potatoe ::ts. New - Scotch --- Irish 1 83. 21's. 9.-Is Flour Town per sac.lo . 4as. 47 eeond= 49 • -3 . North Country 38 . Bran • 10A.116. 'NO LAST WEEK NOON OUR! GRAIN IN L I T 2 t., n,- _r, z• , R '? 0 From Whence. n. • !.;- F a TO ts • !,, s i l : Qrs. ter. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrc. Sas Aldboroitgh 427 43 j 5 • 10 16 , Alernouth Boston Bridgwater Bridlington 5l 250 Dartmouth — 5 _ ). Colchester 5"l 10 *lO7O 36 243 13 •77 Ilarwich m Leigh 434 27 1 . 2 m slaldon 638 4 100 11 .47 49 58 r;xeter ..... G ailisboroug h — 34 _ _ 25 Grimsby 3 Hastings 49 - 20 Hull — _ 456 277 Ipso., tch 397 1510 108 24 615 li. enti 1053 24 45 217 665 53 1!80 Lowestoft 3O 96 Lyme — 100 Lynn 535 147 860 318 34 Poole — 25 100 Rye — 29 —0 Southampton Spalding , tookton Wells — 4.0 4 Weymouth — j `..'80 200 _ 5 Wisbuach ll6O 10.0 350 —0 Woo.lbridge 473 -- 12 I 110 larntouth lO5 522 1116 lilt ‘herdeen — 1400 Arbroath — 700 Band ' :3 10 j 3739 31 . ocrwick Amilee — 235 InverneSs 36 _ 613 36 17 Leith Montrose — 735 636 Perth — 2400 1 'l' h urso ——— 6643 2-173 5179 18592 20:4 168 5533 1 'usu. Cork ,' 594 I 754 — I Galway 540 1565 Lune ick — 2499 Newry — Sligo — 163 Waterford . — 375 Wexford — 1 1220 Youghall — 1631 -- !8 FOREIGN. Etnden ....... Hamburg ...... N ykiohing . . 560 ——— Total AGGREGATE II ye, o —Tares, I C 643 I QUAN• 15—Li Mus 4107 I TITY 0 inseed, stard,l`. 1 5179 1 , F OVH 207--! 127402 IRK 1 1 / 4 L RaF,esee ,eds, 84. 2113 ns 3:3 ' r 111.3 .Brank, lE. 0-- SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Sheep was rather great; of Beasts, Lambs and Calves, moderately good i of Porisers limited ; and the trade was dull, at the following prices : PRICES PER STONE OF 131!iS. TO SINK THE OFFAI.S. s. d. to s. d., • s. A. c.,. Inferior Beasts 0 0 2 " ' Large L-imns 100 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 4 2l 1 Prime small ditto :3 10 5 0 Prime large Oxen... 3 6 3 8 1 arimeoarse Calve, 2 4 3 6 Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 0 1 Prime small ditto 3 8 4 0 Inferior Sheep 2 2 2 4 Large 1 - I , g , Second quality ditto 3 2 3 4 Small Porkers 3 4 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 4 3 6 ; Suckling Ca:vcs 12 ~ tt,26 eatt. SouthdownWethers 3:8 310 ; Q,,arter ,ild Pigs 12s. to 18r.each. SUYPI.V.. AS YEA STATEMEST. Beasts. Sheep and Lambs. I Calves. Pigs. 2,1137 I •i 6, 70 :250 I 3013 I .. . . About 130 of the be:tits came up the St. Alban's road ; about 370 up the other northern roans; about 120 (including Irist,) from the western anti midi tud , bstriets. about 700 'rum Nut_ folk, Sudblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; .^.l) rut E5O f Kanta•id Sussex and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c. in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENUALL MARKETS. 4t pet slque uy the Carcass 6. .1. to s. 4. s. tt.to3. d Seel, inferior '2 0 2 2 Vl , ,ttni , , inferior... 2 2 2- 4 middling 2 6 21U - middling.. 210 3 2 - prime large 3 '2 3 6• - prime '3 4 3 8 --- prime small... 3 6 3 8 I Port, large Vea. 2 4 :4 U -small '3 4 3 6 Lamb 4s. od. to ss. 01 NEWCASTLE CORN MAILKET.—June'2I . . Our market to-day was well supplied with Wheat, and the fineness of the weather, with the dull accounts from London, having their usual effect upon the buyers, sales were slow, at a decline of Is. and 2s. per quarter from last Saturday. Oats were in good supply and heavy sale, at a trifle lower. For grinding Barley there is a good demand at our quotations. For Malt a steady sale, at an advance of Is. per quarter. Rye sells in limited quantities. Little business doing in either Beans or Pease. For fresh well-dressed Flour there continues a good demand. ~ew. 01.5. %Vlic..t, Northumberland -- - Norfolk and Suffolk-- - s 1 --- Berwick and Scotch 44=• 50, ..... 8 :• —..- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 34 . 05...-. -s. -s. --- Foreign .-s -s -s. --S. II; Barley. Malting. Norfolk .ind Siittblk...24. 32s - a . -a. --- Grinding and Feeding ois 27 -a. -s. Malt, Norfolk and Sutfolk Us. 584 s. 573. -,;. Beans, Small 31s a 15....... -s. -s. ...- -- Tick 3os. 32,. -s -s i.,' Pease, White IG, 335. ... -s. -, --- Gray 'los 32s Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 'os 21 , l9s. 20s. —.—..--- Feed l9s 21s S. --S. ..:-.-. Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) -s. s 3ss. 87s. The circumstance which attracted most at tention at the Oxford installation was the appearance of Sir Charles Wetherell in clean linen, and with a pair of braces for the occasion. The Governorship of Bombay, to which the Right Hon. Robert Grant has been appointed, is one of the most lucrative posts in our Indian possessions ; the salary is 10,0Q0/., with much patronage, &c. Mr. Grant is brother to the President of the Board of Control, and 'was formerly King's Sergeant in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, and a CommissiOner of Bankrupts. AItaIVALS OF SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Duke of We:in. 6 * and his political friends lave, in our opinion, staked their existence (or, vhidi is the same thing, their power) as a. party, ipon an experiment of the most desperate kind, :antely, upon the affirmative of the question wEe her the high church frenzy of Oxford does or nct wevail throughout the majority of the English na ion ? There is truth in the assumption of Sir Re )ert Peel, in his speech on the Dissenters' Bill, that he various measures for commuting and appropria -ing tithe, for dealing with church-rates, and .for re ieving dissenters from the restraints and disqualifi ntions imposed upon them•by the statutes of our ancient Universities, ought to be looked at " as parts of a whole ;" of which whole body of legisla tion, the aim and result would be to change, in some important respects, the relations between the stablished church and the entire lay community of England. Sir Robert Peel much more than *im plies that the effect of such a change must be injurious to the church. With all his shrewd and speculating foresight, it appears on the face of things that the right hon. baronet has fallen into the trap which was laid for him by the zealots of the conservative faction. He seems to have nailed thd colours of the church of England to the rotten flag- - staff of her defects, and thrown overboard all tola- . ranee of repair or improvement, however necessary.. So far as words go, he maintains the full integrity of grievance and abuse, in spite of the wishes, the judgment, and affections of an entire nation. That Sir Robert Peel should have so compromised his own freedom of action by such a course, and. oti such grounds as these, is among the marvels of this anxious hour : that he should have inistaken the ,yells of a hooded, gowned, and cloistered mob for the downright voice of the English people, walld . be incredible if we did not every day find proofs of the degree to which personal ambition and party clamour can disturb the most circumspect and sober calculations. But to return to the Duke of Wel lington. The noble duke - was - celebrated, as a Minister, for his ignorance of public opinion, We should do him great injustice by saying that lAI de= spised it. He did no such-thing. He was honestly an 4 profoundly in the dark as to almost every thing that men thought and felt throughout the larger portion of educated society, and he took the right method to keep himself irretrievably misinformed, never looking for intelligence beyond the circuit of Down ing-street and Whitehall, or listening to any sug gestions but those of flatterers among the coteries of fashion. Unless we are much mistaken, the duke has become partially convinced of the above error in his ministerial policy, and of the influence of his own blindness to the state of things around him in producing the untimely downfall of his ad ministration. On one point, however, the Duke of Wellington came to a sound conclusion. He had the country with him in restoring the Catholics to their rights ; and when we hear him taunted with the " failure" of that great act of policy and justice, it appears to us that an extraordinary oversight is committed by the commentators on the noble duke,—inasmuch as, if the Catholic agitators of Ireland have since carried on a war of insubordi nation and violence, not merely against the King's Government, but against the principles of all settled and peaceful government, the ?wen of roperty and gentry of the Catholic persuasion have, as a body, and with few or no exceptions, been won over to the British Crown. But we have recurred to the Catholic Bill for the sake of a fact connected. with it, which the circumstances of the present day have rendered not a little remarkable. The University . of Oxford was furious against the bill of emancipa tion. Had the Duke of Wellington shown himself in the High-street of Oxford during the progress of that great measure, was he not at the time con scious how he would have been received ? with what denunciations ! with what curses, loud and deep ! with what yells of hatred and abhorrence ! He did not go to Oxford ; but he knew it all. Ho well understood the feelings which pervaded that University against the removal of Catholic re strictions—that it was a bill for the establish ment of Popery, and for the total ruin of the church of England. .The_ outcries were as fierce.; and tremendous against the bill of 18.29 as they now are among the green and grey multitude of Oxford against the various measures proposed by the King's Government of 1834, for disburdening the Church of her abuses. Yet the Duke of Wellington was not at that time cheated by the overbearing clamour of the University into a suspicion that Oxford spoke the sentiments of the people of England. The people cordially supported him in the policy which the gowns of Oxford reprobated ; and of what avail was the high Church opposition ? The Duke of Wellington held it—most reasonably—in contempt. He pursued and carried his national object in defi ance of it. Why, then, let us ask, if his Grace was then alive to the total insignificance of the Oxford ebullitions in their angriest and most fearful mood, if lie would not listen to those grave maniacs when they besieged the Crown, the Ministers, and Par liament with prophecies of ruin, and invocations of punishment, and cries and wailings that the Protestant religion was at an end—if the Duke of Wellington then rejected the cleri cal follies which assailed him, and looked for " public opinion" in far different quarters, even across the Irish Channel, and acted confidently-1n the teeth of Halls and Senate-houses, what, we again ask, is it that has so far exalted the hurrahs of the same Tory citadel in the estimation of the brave and illustrious duke, that he now venerates what he then treated with slight and contumacy, and relies on the drunken acclamations of doctors and freshmen, as affording .a popular, nay, a na tional, sanction to his vows of hostility against the Dissenters' Bills and Church Reform Bills of the present session, after holding the same acclamations utterly cheap and worthless when they ran counter, but five years ago, to his own predetermined mea sures ? The duke's friends boast for him, that if he formerly-erred from an indifference to the voice of " the people ;" " but lo! he has repented—he has now appealed to the people ! the cream and flower of the people !"—the sons and servants qf the Tory aristocracy at atford—and they ex hort him to stand by Ike church ! Alas ! alas ! are pluralities, and stalls, and sinecures, " the church ?" Perhaps they are so, almost as much as Doctors of Divinty, and sophisters, and gold gowns, are " the people." After all, if, as .we may • guess from the speeches of Sir Robort Peel, Mr. Stanley, and even Lord Al thorp, a law has been passed by the Conservative Club men, so to damnify the Dissenters' Bill, even in the House of Commons, that it shall retain no thing of its original character worth preserving— worth indeed the trouble of throwing it out in the Lords ; and for the Irish Tithe Bill, if we may sur mise from the sum total of Conservative declara tions, that it is to be deformed by the intrusion of a clause against any alienation of " the minutest. fraction " of a surplus, should a surplus exist after providing for the wants of the clergy, and thus that the reproach of a sinecure church is to be made perpetual against that of Ireland ; we do not think that the Conservative leaders will, after a few weeks have passed away, find much whereon to congratu late themselves in the condition to which they have reduced this country. The false fire of Oxford is already going out, and th e ec h oes of her orgies are to be heard no ;tenger. But let us be just : the gross error into which the Conservatives have fallen is a natural consequence of the weakness, the variableness, the absurdities of the government ; they are daily witnesses of a course of management which makes every friend of the ministers blush, and every foe rejoice ; and they cannot be ignorant of the contempt, calm but pro found, which this management has produced throughout the kingdom. But we can tell them, that they will commit a greater political blender than any impUtable to their opponents, if they con sider the unpopularity of the government a proof of any desire of a return to the old anti-reform admi nistration. If indeed the Peel and Wellington party would have the candour and magnanimity to