The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE , . PUBLIC JOURNALS. A glorious victory has Wein techieved in Cam bridgeshire. Captain Yorke, as c ouy. readers will see from our account, has a bandoned' the con test as hopeless.: The numbers, 'at tie& close of yesterday's poll, were—for Mr. ToVvrtley, 1,931; for Captain Yorke, 1,445, leaving a majority for Mr. Townley of 536. Thus do the men of Cambridgeshire refute the base detractor's' ' of the people, who represent them as in-' different to the cause of Reform. Here the Rutland and Hardwicke factions com bined, the University, the Lord Lieutenancy, with the Magistracy in , general, , and the Clergy, after all their expenditure in the way of bribery—after all their intimidation, have not been able to poll two-thirds of the number who have polled for Mr. Townley, a private gentleman, whose only recommendation to the freeholders is what he derives from his character and principles. Immense preparations had been made by the Tories for this contest, and already they were boasting in anticipation of an assumed victory. So little do these people know of the way of thinking of the people of England ! lii Dorsetshire, the most Tory county of England, without great towns, and far from any, all the efforts of the Tory 'Squires, Magistrates, and Parsons, with difficulty pre vailed over Mr. Ponsonby. And the trifling advantage gained in Dorsetshire was a conclusive argument with the Tories, that the people of all England were become indifferent to Reform ! The wonder is, how the desire for Reform should have ever penetrated into such a county as Dor setshire, squire-ridden and parson-ridden as it is. Let the result of the Cambridgeshire contest be a lesson to the Tories. Do not let them lay the flattering unction to their soul, that the people of England are to be deceived by them. Do not let them add insult to injustice.—Morn jag Chronicle. We lament to say that Bristol has been, and probably continues to be at this moment, the scene of riot, devastation, and carnage. In an other column we have laid before our readers a variety of accounts received in the course of yesterday, by ourselves and our evening con temporaries. Many lives have been already lost, and at the date of the latest accounts the populace had obtained the complete mastery of the place, and the work of devastation was pro ceeding at a fearful rate. The flames were rag ing in various quarters, and many of the best houses have been burned down. The latest in formation is from the passengers by the coaches which left Bristol yesterday morning between six and seven o'clock. At that time two sides of Queen-square had been burned down, and part of Prince's-street. The three prisons, the Bi shop's Palace, and the Mansion-house, were de stroyed. The passengers, after they had been some distance from Bristol, heard firing, which they concluded to be by the troops against the mob. Sir Charles Wetherell is in town. We understand he appears a good deal cast down, in consequence of these melancholy proceedings. He speaks with great contempt of l the mob on Saturday, which he thinks might have been easily managed ; but with respect to what . took place afterwards, and the manner in which ,--,. i he effected his escape, he does not seem inclined to be communicative, and delicacy respects his reserve. The accounts which we have collected are written by men holding all sorts of opinions, ,and must be taken with many grains of allow ance. A time of excitement is not one in which we can expect either accuracy or dispas sionate judgment. We would therefore caution our readers against the alleged misbehaviour of the 14th Light Dragoons, and the story of the 3d Dragoons having taken part with the mob. We are assured, on the best authority, that there is ..io foundation for either of these imputations . Whfle we lament these proceedings, we are bound at the same time to allow, that the Tories are in nc small degree responsible for them. We are not fond of attributing wicked and malevo lent designs to any class of men, and we therefore do not say that the object of the Tories is to throw the country into confusion as a last desperate means of staving off Reform ; but this we can say, that if they entertained any such designs, they could not have gone to work more successfully in giving effect to them than they have done. Why, in God's name, will they persist in insulting the people, by declaring, with all imaginable effron tery, that a re-action has taken place, and that an indifference to _Reform has succeeded to the former enthusiasm ? The people meet to peti tion, almost en masse. Every meeting is more numerous than the preceding one ; every fresh petition more numerously subscribed than its predecessors. Still the people are taunted with their indifference. Sir C. Wetherell would have it that the people of Bristol were entirely cured of the Reform delusion. This is really too bad. While we therefore deeply regret the outrages which have taken place—and the more so, as we know a handle will be thereby furnished to the enemies of the people, who of course will not fail to alarm the timid—we must at the same time reprobate in the strongest manner these incessant attempts on the patience of the people. Society is not composed solely of well-informed persons, and we cannot there fore expect from ignorant and neglected men the same forbearance tinder provocation which we are entitled to expect from the former. Let what has taken place at Bristol be a warning to the people of other places. If the people of that city had been properly organized, this melan eholy business might have been checked in the outset, and thus the loss of several lives and the destruction of much property prevented. If the me n who are interested in the preservation of order do not unite and organize themselves in such a manner as to be always available when the public tranquillity is threatened, it will al ways be in the power of •a comparatively small number of individuals to produce incalculable mischief. It is utterly impossible for the Go vernment, in times of agitation, to furnish a force in every quarter sufficient to put down dis turbances in the outset. All the troops in this country are but a handful compared to our im mense population, and were there to be anything like a general ferment, the milita r y alone wo ul d be found inadequate to the demands on them. A correspondent transmitted to us yester day a printed extract from the orderly 'book of the Salisbury Volunteers, in which Lieutenant. Colonel Brodie expresses his approbation o ' the highly meritorious and patriotic conduct of the corps of Salisbury Volunteer Infantry under his command. "At the call (he says) of the constituted authorities of Salisbury, they have, in a time of popular excitement and tumult, most nobly stepped forward in conjunction with their fellow citizens, as peace-officers, to secure the public tranquillity, by which conduct they have not only most efficiently assisted in pro tecting the property and persons of all the .peaceably disposed inhabitants from outrage, but have probably saved the misguided individuals " TO THE EDITOR OF THEL MORNING CHRONICLE. have read with much pleasure your several articles on armed associations. The paperwhich accompanies this will show that a corps of volunteer infantry exists in that place. It consists of four companies, the united strength 305, officers included. " The members of this corps have clothed themselves. His Majesty's Government has been at no expellee, save that of the wear and tear of arms and ammunition. The latter about 201. a year. The annual expellees of the re pairs of the arms are even paid out of the funds of the corps. Not a single individual receives any pay. " The services of the corps are limited to Salisbury, and thtee miles round. " The contested election for Dorchester, coupled with the rejection of the Reform Bill, caused great excitement here a short time since, and the lower orders were dis posed to do much mischief. The printed paper which accompanies this shows the utility of a well-disciplined, well-intentioned, and respectable body of men, united together for a good purpose. It may be added, that nine tenths of the corps are bona fide not half Reformers. " About forty panes of glass were broken in Salisbury —no mischief beyond this, except a broken head or two antongst the mob. "In Blandford, Dorchester, Poole, Sherborne, and Yeovil, where there are no volunteers or armed associa tions, houses were demolished, and property to a consi derable amount destroyed. You know what took place at Derby and Nottingham. " I mention these facts to you, Mr. Editor, leaving to you to make what use you please of them. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " AN INHABITANT OF SALISBURY. " P.S. Might not some thousands of regular troops be disbanded, if such corps were more general ? " Salisbury, Oct. 29, 1831." It was well observed, at the meeting for the formation of a National Political Union yester day, by the Rev. Mr. Fox, that " in the event of the final and entire rejection of the Bill, no man could undertake to describe what might take place—a confusion would ensue which no tongue could tell." Are we to remain supine, and not prepare for the worst, like men of fore thought and reflection ? No, the inhabitants of this metropolis will not allow themselves to be taken by surprise. Tlie meeting of yesterday is the commencement of a new era among us, in which the strength of all may be made available for the protection of all. " Heretofore," said Mr. Fox, " Associations had been entered into and continued for the maintenance of warfare ; now let there be an Association which should have peace for its object. There were thieves who stole in the street—there were thieves who committed robberies from their carriages ; let an Association be formed for the punishment of both." Mr. Detrosier, in an excellent speech, observed, " On a memorable occasion it had been said, that England expects every man to do his duty.'—(Applause.) A similar occasion had now arrived,but it was ofa peaceful character — and all that remained for them to do was, by the union of numbers and knowledge, to meet that approaching crisis, by which, very possibly, the fate of the people of England would be decided. It was of the highest importance that peace and order should be preserved, and indisputably a National Union would be the most effectual means of attaining that end ; it was in numbers , united with knowledge, that strength would alone be found ; the union of all classes gave the di recting intelligence to numerical force." We have seen the benefit of union in other places. In the metropolis organization is more necessary than elsewhere, because here individuals are ne cessarily less acquainted with each other in more limited societies. Any accident (and accidents ought always to be counted on) might throw the great heart of British commerce into disorder. Let us have confidence in ourselves. By each man putting his shoulder to the wheel, we are sure to succeed. At the meeting of yesterday several attempts were made to sow dissensions between the middle and labouring classes ; but we rejoice to say they did not succeed. Let this be borne constantly in mind, that a good and economical Government will benefit all ho nest men ; and would it not be folly then to differ about extent of suffrage at a time when such an extent is about to be obtained as will at all events secure the blessing of good and impar tial government ? They are the enemies of the working classes who advise them to reject all Reform, because the most extensive is not to be granted. No Reform, of any kind, can ever be obtained, if the people are not united.— Morning Chronicle. The first step was taken yesterday towards realizing in the metropolis that scheme of na , tional police for the security of life and property, which has already produced in Birmingham and elsewhere such powerful and beneficial results. Knowing that the passions of men cannot be eradicated, but may be much exasperated and ruinously misdirected in the absence of go od counsel and of moral controul, we plead guilty to the charge, for such the Tories represent it, of having encouraged the formation of " Politi cal Unions" throughout the whole country -Ist, on the principle and for the express pur pose of bringing into one mass an immense weight of opinion and feeling, and guiding it, through the instrumentality of intelligent leaders possessing large stakes in the public prosperity, to the immediate success of the great redeem ing measure of Reform-4d, for the application of the physical means commanded by large numbers of active and honest Englishmen, to the defence of society against lawless mobs, and in aid of the magisterial and execu tive power-3d, for the establishment of an organized and, if necessary, an armed body, co extensive with the rank and intelligence, the property and regular industry (the latter being, indeed, the most valuable description of pro perty), ill the nation, as a safeguard against the tyrannical attempts of faction arrayed in power on one side, and of faction aiming at the over throw or usurpation of constituted authority on the other. The history of the Press, or of conver sation amongst men whose interests are involved in politics, affords no example of violence like that with which the proposal to organize and arm the nation has been assailed by the Tory journals and the Tory partisans. We are accused of arming " the mob" against the laws and insti tutions of the country—of substituting " armed rtfffians" for the Parliament—and some low and reckless parvenu—some Robespierre or Collot d'Herbois, for the Sovereign him self. Nay, the deplorable and disgraceful, though easily explained, outrages, of which the accounts reached town yesterday from Bristol, are described by one vagabond Even ing: Paper to be " what the Times called for and desired. This is too contemptible,— it has not even the merit of being mischievous ; for there is no child of ten years old whom it themselves, who were disposed to commit those I outrages, from punishment, and consequently frpm the disgrace and repentance which must inevitably have attended it." Along with this extract he sent' us the following communication, from whiCh it appears, that while Blandford, Dorchester, Poole, Sherborne, and Yeovil, in which the inhabitants are not organized, have ,been the theatres of dreadful riots, Salisbury has been in,the enjoyment of tranquillity. The com munication is important at this moment : would deceive. It is plain that a voluntary na tional armament, offering to include men of all ranks and shades of opinion who are able to pro vide themselves with clothes and arms, and have fixed habitations to shelter them, is an , institu tion which may be said to embrace the nation itself. Will the nation, then, make war upon itself, or upon the delegated depositories of its own political and civil power ? No ; but it will, be better qualified than it ever yet has been to protect itself, and its rights and interests, against a usurping faction, which has hitherto held the King in trammels, and the State as its owl) proper inheritance. The faction which has propped its lever upon the borough system, and with it drawn up the treasures of England, and employed them for its selfish uses—that faction is the natural enemy of all expedients and of all measures, which may enable Englishmen to resist its pre ' datory machinations ; and accordingly it is from that faction alone that is experienced the hostile fury we complain of. The Tories do not dread the mob : the mob is their natural ally. Its prejudices, nursed by the barbarous ignorance in which Tory policy has for ages striven to retain the humbler classes,—such prejudices, fostered by such folly, are always convertible to some subtle purpose. A mob, of the right old Tory Church-and-King calibre, can at any time he wrought up to the destruction of lives, or houses, or possessions, of which the owners may be obnoxious to men in power. Thus was Dr. Priestley, the simple-minded, benevolent, and enlightened philosopher, stormed in his peace ; ful dwelling, and banished from his in sulted country. A mob may with little art or labour be instigated to any frantic out rage, fitted to be afterwards brought up as evidence in favour of new coercive laws. Was it not avowed even by the wary Lord Liver pool, that no Government could be carried on without the aid of spies, when it was in proof ,hat the business of his Lordship's spies had been .o seduce the mob to insurrection ? The real ob ject of terror to the Tories is a union and orga - ,-- lization of the people, as contradistinguished ,ro►n the mob. The Political Unions, therefore, such as have existed for some time at Birming ham and elsewhere throughout the north of Eng land, where 150,000 citizens have assembled and separated with as much decorum as the congre gationlolthe Chapel Royal at St. James's,—such are the real sources of agony to the borough monger crew. Men who know their rights, who fulfil their duties, who love peace, as the mother of industry and property,--who obey the law, as their own best shield and protectress,—who suf fer their actions to be directed by chiefs of tried integrity and understanding, in whom they can implicitly confide,—men instructed, disciplined, self-restrained, calculating on distant though sure results, and willing to wait until time and cir cumstance shall mature them,—men, in short, who will give the Tory enemy no pretext or handle for trampling on the country, under the cloak of guarding against popular ex cesses,—these are the men at whose combina tion a boroughmonger trembles ; these are the sober reflecting citizens, whom it has been our eager wish and strenuous recommendation to array, whether armed or unarmed, as occasion may prompt, for the defence of England against all foes foreign and domestic. Is it, then, ex traordinary that the domestic foe should eXhaust, the language of Bedlam in railing at a project so subversive of his system of misrule ? Those who know how the unions of the north have been conducted, and who will be at the trouble to read our report of the proceedings which took place yesterday in Lincoln's-inn-fields, may judge whether the disastrous occurrences which have been communicated to us from Bristol could by possibility have there been witnessed had a Political Union, under the guidance of able and respected leaders, been in operation before the wild exposure of Sir Charles Wethe rell to the resentment of the people whom he had for months been misrepresenting and pro voking. It is making us pay too dear for proofs of boroughmongering falsehood and audacity to write the "no-reaction" of the city of Bristol in characters of blood and fire. If there be those who blame the mob of Bristol for their atrocities, we join our hearty reprobation to theirs. The sword of the law ought to fall with its sharpest edge upon the enraged and brutal incendiaries, and we trust will do so still. But what caused the evil? What provoked it ? Against whom, and by whom, were the people so incensed ? Was it other than madness in Sir Charles Wetherell to proceed at such a time to Bristol ? Was it a sane act of the constables to commence an attack upon the mob after they had secured the safe entrance of the Learned, albeit unwise, Recorder into his Court-house ? Be these things as they may, the crimes committed, and the destruction perpe trated, are altogether frightful. But we return to our first question, and ask, whether if a t' Conservative Guard" had been formed at Bristol, comprehending the property and intelli gence and numerous householders of that great city, it would have been possible for the mob to execute an hundredth part of the ruin which the want of such a force unhappily enabled them to complete ? It is now obvious that the regular troops and peace officers are not of themselves sufficient to defend the lives and properties of the peaceful and well-disposed, on occasions of sudden and very general emergency. We say, then, to our fellow-subjects, organise and arm ; to Ministers we say, hasten the meeting of Par liament ;—to Lords and Commons we say, sleep not until you have passed the Bill. We need scarcely contradict an absurd rumour in an Evening Paper,—allowed to be questionable by that Paper itself,—that the 3d Dragoons aban doned its fidelity by taking part with the mob, and that the 14th Light Dragoons exceeded its duty by an excess of cruelty. For neither of these statements does there appear to be the slightest foundation. A regiment of Infantry has been ordered to Bristol, and would arrive this morning.— Times. In transcribing on Saturday the French tele graphic despatch, which simply announced the death of the President of Greece by assassina tion, we mentioned it as our belief, that from the heated state of factions and parties in that distracted country, his Excellency had fallen by the dagger of political, rather than of private revenge. The account, which we extract from the French journals, in another column, con verts this conjecture into a reality. The Presi dent had met with factious opposition, if not with armed resistance, from several of the Chiefs who had figured in the revolution. He had in vain used the legal force with which he was in vested, and even the foreign influence with which Le was surrounded, to counteract their machinations or to ensure their submission. Whatever may have been his good intentions, or his powers of management, he does not ap pear to have succeeded in converting enemies into friends, or in preventing friends from becoming enemies. He even seems to have produced a greater alienation every day of the persons who had distinguished themselves in the revolution, or who were known for their eminent services and nume rous followers. He had disgusted the French General Fabvier and other French officers,—the English General Church, and some German officers,—and, what was worse, he had provoked the hostility both of the Princes of the Fanar, such as Mavrocordato, and of the native chiefs, such as Miaulis and Pietro Bey. To talk about observing any of the numerous Greek constitu tions which had been put on paper, but never in practice, during the course of the revolution, to speak of following the rules laid down for the government of a state by a band of ignorant and turbulent chiefs, called the Congress of Argos, who, for want of the shelter of a house in which to deliberate, were obliged to promul gate their forgotten decrees from an orange grove, to insist on conforming to legitimate order, or on permitting unrestrained discussion among a set of liberated Turkish slaves, would have been the height of absurdity. But when the President otherwise became unpopular, the charge of putting down constitutional rights, and of destroying the freedom of the Press, became an excellent make-weight in the scale of popular odium. It was echoed from the mountaineer-robbers of the Morea to the revolutionary workmen of Paris,—from the heroes of Sparta and Hydra, to those of the barricades,—that Capo d'lstria had be come a tyrant, because he had not convoked a Constituent Assembly, and had enforced a cen sorship of the Press, where no free Assembly or free Press had ever before existed. Pietro Bey, and other ambitious leaders, who contested with him the possession of power, could' easily cover their selfishness with the mask of patriotism, and affect indignation at a public wrong, while they really desired only a private advantage. It is almost superfluous to those who have ready any history of the late Greek revolution, to describe the cha racter or to enumerate the services of this Pietro Bay, the chief of Maina,—a mountainous dis trict which forms the southern promontory of the Peloponnesus. Though his territory had never been subjected to the Turks, being exempted from their tyranny for the payment of a slight tribute, its chieftain was one of the first to join the standard of insurrection in 1821 ; and he has continued faithful to the Greek cause ever since. He was one of the most respectable and least selfish of the Moreot leaders, enrich ing himself less than the rest by plunder or pe culation. He was the only considerable chief tain whom the Turks left in the command of a district, and accordingly got the title of Bey, though a Christian and an enemy. This is the person with whom the late President un fortunately quarrelled,—whom he imprisoned for some time in the citadel of Nauplia, and by the hands of whose immediate relatives he has lately fallen. The crime is perhaps confined to the family of the Bey, and the removal of the President, though by an atrocious deed of as sassination, will most probably facilitate an ulti mate settlement of the Greek Sovereignty. We subjoin the following confirmation of the French accounts above alluded to, in an extract of a let ter received in London from Napoli di Ro mania :—" Count Capo d'lstria was assassi nated here on the 9th instant, whilst attending divine service, by two members of the family of Mavromichaelis, the chief of which family (Pietro Bey) had been imprisoned since last January. One of the assassins was killed on the spot, the other escaped through the con nivance of two of the President's body guard. A Commission was immediately appointed by the Senate for carrying on the Government, un til the meeting of the National Assembly."- 7imes. The fatal outrages of which Bristol has beet the scene will furnish a fruitful theme of decla mation to the Anti-Reformers and their Press. They will say that they always predicted, from the agitation of the Reform Bill, those convul sions which lead to revolution. But we believe there are among the Anti-Reformers not a few of that class of prophets who take pains to realize their own predictions. We said some time ago that the emissaries of Anti-Reform were abroad, endeavouring to instigate the people to disgrace and weaken their cause by violence. The atrocious and sanguinary placards which were exhibited in many places, by unknown agents of mischief, were evidence of this. It is clear they could not be the work of Reformers, because, conscious of the strength of a measure which the vast majority of the nation embraced, and which the King and the Ministry supported, they had no need of violence to assist a cause whose peaceful and constitutional triumph was already er.sured. Who were the violent men in both Houses of the Legislature on that memorable day when his Majesty dissolved the Parliament, and appealed on the question of Reform to the sentiments of the people ? Were they not the Anti-Reformers, whose dis. appointment engendered malice, and whose sense of weakness exasperated them into fury? Have the yeople of England, powerful in their union, and in the virtue and justice of their cause, and who, therefore, can afford to carry on the contest with good-humour and mode ration, become infected with the frantic passions of which their adversaries gave them a sample ? Even the .Auti-Reformers, who assert that the people have the subversion of order, and not the restoration of their legal rights, in view, do not believe it. But there is a rabble, distinct from what is properly called the people, in Lon don, in Nottingham, in Bristol, and other places ; and it is not difficult for the emissaries of the Anti-Reformers to instigate such a rabble to transgress the laws when a multitude has once been assembled on any exciting occasion—and the spark which falls into a large quantity of com bustible materials soon becomes a conflagration. The exciting occasion which drew a large mul titude together in the present instance was the arrival of Sir Charles Wetherell in Bris tol—where. he bad so recently stated a re action on the question of Reform had taken place. It may be asked why he was so rash and imprudent as to go there after venturing such an opinion. It may be that he believed hi s own s tatement-.-and certainly his personal appearance at such a time seems like a proof of it. We must also do him the justice of stating that he had a duty to perform, as he was bound, by his office of Recorder, to preside at the Sessions, which could not proceed without him.. Besides, if he calculated upon the people intending hi m no violence, we believe that he calculated rightly. That many persons would have assembled to sig nify by hissing, and other harmless marks of dis approbation, that their opinion ou Reform had not changed, was to be expected. They no doubt wished that Sir Charles Wetherell shou Id be a living witness of the practical refutation of his own statement ; but farther than this, we be• lieve, they had no intention of proceeding. Some of the rabble, most probably set on by the etnis- saries of the Anti-Reformers, appear to have com • menced the work of mischief by throwing stones ; but, if some of the accounts are to be believed, the intemperance of the police and special con stables materially assisted in spreading the spirit of disturbance, and in exasperating it into savage fury. A troop of Dragoons, too, are stated to have conducted themselves in a manner which made the commotion more general and desperate than it would otherwise have been. The first accounts of such lamentable occurrences must contain many distortions of the truth, and much exaggeration. Neither excitement nor fear paint matters truly. That much mischief has been done—that serious acts of destruction have bee❑ committed—and that some lives have been lost— is quite certain ; but it is just as certain that all real Reformers lament such acts, and repudiate the perpetrators as the worst enemies of the cause which they pretend to support—a cause which is one of intelligence, not barbarism—of improve ment, not destruction ; and which its sincere and honest advocates could never think of degrading by violence, or tarnishing with the stain of blood. —Mornblg Herald. Captain Yorke, finding the majority against him increasing, resigned the contest for Cam bridge yesterday. This result will be viewed with almost-unmitigated regret by all true and sober-minded friends to their country. May the freeholders of Cambridge never have cause to rue with bitter but unavailing repentance the aid they have thus afforded to the cause of revolution. — Morning Post. The friends and allies of our Revolutionist Ministry have been rather more active than usual within the last day or two, as our readers will perceive by the accounts from Bristol, and by the proceedings of yesterday in Lincoln's li-in fields. The Bristol ministerialists have thought proper to manifest their zeal and devotion in the cause of Government by attacking a Judge, the representative of the King, in the discharge of the most august and important of his func tions; by compelling him to flee for his life ; by suspending the regular course of law and justice ; by entering the houses and destroying the pro perty of the Magistrates ; by liberating their meritorious co-Reformers who had the misfor tune to be in gaol for burglary, murder, or any other of the acts hitherto, that is before we had the happiness of living under a liberal Govern ment, deemed the most pernicious to society; by setting fire (and here who does not recog nise instinctive prudence) to the prisons and destroying the gallows; and, finally, by making war upon the King's troops when the latter preAnned to attempt to interrupt these vigorous reforming proceedings. Since his Majesty's Ministers, so far as we have been able to learn, never attempted to bring to justice the Reformers who attempted to murder the Marquis of Londonderry and other Peers, in the streets of the metropolis, when proceeding to the discharge of their legislative duties, it must appear rather hard to the surviving friends of the Bristol Reformers, who, when seeking the life only of a local Judge, have fallen under the fire of the King's troops, that the same punity .should not have been secured to them. Might not these deluded Reformers of Bristol naturally suppose that zeal in the cause of Mi nisters would justify and protect them in any violation of the law, however atrocious ; and may not tie mourning families left destitute by their death justly lay their blood upon the head of those who have so strenuously urged them on to acts of violence ? The victims who have fallen at Bristol are the proper objects of pity, notwithstanding the atrocity of their offinces, and the lamentable consequences which such offences cannot fail to produce in a civilized community. They have been ensnared and beguiled into violence by the example of vio lence left unpunished ; by the • example of vio lence encouraged ; by the spectacle of an Exe cutive Government tolerating violence, and pre ferring, if any judgment may be formed from its conduct, that the worst outrages should go un punished rather than adopt such measures of just, wise, and humane severity as might have endangered by possibility that rabble popularity which is the pabulum of its existence. The unfortunate men who have been slain at Bristol are the first sacrifices to the unnatural and inaus picious alliance between Ministers and the mob. We fear they will not be the last. The popular Reforming Ministers must again be lenient to their allies. Again must the laws be lulled to sleep, and again and again we fear the natural consequences will ensue—rabble violence upon the slightest occasion, or without any, and the dreadful necessity of military execution. Upon the heads of Ministers and their Revolutionary allies of the Press, who daily excite the ignorant and thoughtless to deeds of viclence, be the blood that has or may yet be -shed during these days of fearful commotion. But in London we are, it seems, in all future times, to be exempt from such horrible scenes as have occurred at Bristol; for here the preser vation of the public peace is to be taken out of the hands of the Executive Government, and all reliance upon the vigour and efficacy of the law is to be superseded by means of a Political Union, which is not only to secure the passing of the Reform Bill, but in the meanwhile to render all Government and all law entirely needless ; that is, provided the chandler's-shop keepers of London will so far abate of their dignity as to admit their fellow-subjects and fellow-Reformers of the labouring classes to an equal participation with themselves in the regal and legislative and judicial office they are about to undertake, or the labouring classes will sub mit to the superior dignity and wisdom of the aristocracy of the counter. If these high powers can compose their differences and mi tigate their mutual jealousy—which at pre sent seems improbable—then the Old Bailey may, it appears, be abolished, and Lord Melbourne indulge himself to his heart's content by sleeping twenty-four hours in every day. Now this speculation of putting down or rendering useless government and law, of superseding Ministers, and Judges, and Courts of Justice, and gaols and tread-wills, and soldiers and policemen, by so simple an expe dient as the institution of a Political Union, is no doubt very attractive to those who, having little or no property of their own that requires protection, are of course quite at leisure to un dertake gratuitously, and very desirous no doubt to monopolize, the duty of protecting the pro perty of others less favourably circumstanced in this. respect. But those who happen to have any thing to lose will probably begin to doubt the sufficiency of this protection when they look at the manner in which the Bristol Political Union—for at Bristol they are blessed with one of these invaluable institutions for the presei tion of peace and the protection of prOpert set about the execution of its exalted task a( moment of need. When the fury of the mob at its height the Magistrates thought tit to seek aid of this peace-preserving association. Th! suit will be seen from the following passage w we extract from a Ministerial Evening Pape! " An indirect communication (it is reported) WO by the Magistrates to the Political Union, in consalt. of which the Union published the following address The Council of the Union have heard with -fc of surprise that the Corporation have requested and tallied the assistance of armed troops, for the purP oe , b ,'• conducting Sir Charles Wetherell, in his judicial caPar, into this city. It is the opinion of this Council, 0144'; the Magistracy of the city feel themselves incompeleW preserve the public peace without being supported by the • tary, they should resign their offices, and suffer the civic thorities to be elected by a majority of the votes of their citizens. The Council think that a man clothed in th , of magistracy ought never to be a politician,' as such a giatrate cannot be expected to possess the public contid , without which he will always be found incompetent to pr the public peace. They would therefore recommend Corporation the immediate resignation of Sir Charles Weth as Recorder, such being the means best calculated to pi riot, and perhaps bloodshed. At the same time the Cott earnestly recommend Members of this Union, and Rel in general, at all times of popular excitement, tp use most strenuous endeavours for the preservation of the • PEACE, as it is only by such a course they will be enabled lain the rights they seek. " By order of the Crinci "Oct. 25, 1831." " J. P. VEN, SecreWY , " Happy had it been for the peace of the city if the trates had adopted the recommendation contained address." It is not fur a moment t institutions, upon the fort _- much thought and contrivance have stowed as upon that of the, Political Lill' to act upon different principles in differ of the country. They must be utterly less for every purpose which they profess not profess to have in view unless they are tuated by one common set of principles,. feelings. It is only necessary, therefore, parody the language of the Bristol Unior know exactly what would be she language Metropolitan Union in a parallel case. try the effect of this very simple process " The Council of the Union have heard with feelings prise that Viscount Melbourne, his Majesty's Principal tary of State for the Home •Department, has requ' obtained the assistance of armed troops, for the I conducting Lord Tenterden, in his judicial capacity - , minster Hall. It is the opinion of this Council that jesty's Ministers feel themselves incompetent to public peace without being supported by the should resign their offices, and suffer the members of cutive Government to be elected by a majority of the their fellow.citizens. The Council think. that 'a - in the robes of magistracy ought never to be a such a Magistrate cannot be expected to possess the fidence, without which he will always be . preserve the public peace. They would, therefore, . to his Majesty's Ministers the immediate resignation Tenterden as Chief Justice of the Court of King's- - the means best calculated to prevent riot, bloodshed. At the same time the Council earned) mend members of this Union, and Reformers in times of popular excitement, to use their most deavours for the preservation of the public peace, as it such a course they will be enabled to obtain the rights th This being the language of the J Union of London, as in the east- al there is no doubt it would be, the 'pit would be preserved by their efforts,.; has been preserved at Bristol. In ' polis indeed, should such an popular fury at any time take place, would be more deplorable, so far as Unions are concerned, than that of B ristol, here we are to have two Political Unions ir of one—a plain-speaking Union, u nder the tiers of Mr. Wakley, which pronounces an , reditary distinctions, whether of Kin g or _ to be subversive of the natural ri g hts of m kind ; and a hypocritical Unio n, under sanction of the more wily Jacobin Bu r d which for the present does not think it pa l( to go quite so far. They must be fools in who expect the actual conduct of the one to d in the slightest degree, at any season of co pal : tion, from that of the other. The f e ebler the two, which submits at present to weal 6 mask of deceit, will tear it off %.k henever the f it , pent arrives that impels it into the arms °` 0 , more robust and dauntless brother.— Post. AGRICULTURAL REPORT for OCTOO With all its alternations of moisture and drough t ' 1 4 7 1 d a nger and many accidents from fearful thunder . l in frequency beyond any late-year experience , its eu and continuous parching heats, urging on premature,/ simultaneous ripeness in the corn, to its obvious itObei, risk, unless preserve! by the instant exertion o f all t hour that could be raised, the late harvest se° 3ll o o proved, and is generally acknowledged, as one of th e fortunate. So much, however, cannot be safely av er 11l f a vour of the crop, as ta the far greater proporti ° , ll : o 4o this draw-back main tunately refers to the most pro d ) corn districts. Little novelty has occurred on this o r s i since our last Report. The prime article, wheat, ,abed average, is judged, by some perhaps hastily, t° ti t) one-third minus. In the great corn county, Su o '", 4 many of the lands have returned barely three tu'et.".-0, bse St, acre, much of the crop mildewed, or the grain tibi a l shrivelled from its too speedy maturity. There et t i t ot id ever, exceptions to this ill fortune in .most or all a . oil some lands escaping, the produce of which is said t ° o o fine quality, the kergals plump and heavy ; hut ;30 few parts is the acreable quantity much boasted. not equal to last year's crop, on the whole, is not P er :o 4 deficient in quantity and weight of sample, but the 10 is so generally inferior that the tnaltsters will not 6 11 plea very profitable for their purposes in great pleoti' (0 ley, however, will be much in demand where be ny li pease have not been productive. Oats have partsl.oooo once. tainty of the season, failing in some parts but ge 6'a they are little, if any, below an average, but, like ot her s i defective in height and bulk of straw. In the gret 6 41 county, Norfolk, that crop is said to be one quar t. ' "I' of au average, the quality still further deficierit'l.4l constant rains of the last and beginning of the POI month, with the subsequent high temperature, hille an immense vegetation of the grasses, and have h milar beneficial effect upon the root crops. All tbee tt o l air exceed in bulk that of any year within memory'' are very few failures in turnips, for the Swede"!',ol l have escaped the mildew, appear likely to be laighl9X l tive. Potatoes are a vast crop over the whole - ii'l_ d in Ireland, and the breadth planted in England 7-10 bably greater than in any former year. This roots 'tail and improving in quality, its salubrity and indieLoy use (honour to the memory of its introducer, Ra i n acknowledged by all but the infallible Cobbett - • in Berks, 2s. 6d. a sack—in Wales, Is. a cwt. lot or cattle beet, where the plants did not fail in O d e oil stance, is a fine productive crop.—Monthly •ij for November. The eelebrated India or Chinese FIT: much in request among engravers for the fillet" ot , slum of their works, is manufactured from the hark of the mulbery tree. • n io/ CIIOLERA MORBUS.—It is the 0 1' 1 , - many that the cholera niorhus is generated by $ 3 1:0 which nettle on, and infuse the pima) into, th e the skin. If such is the cause, the most certain tive is camphor lotion, applied to the surface of 111 :4 for no animalcule will touch the skin when so n camphor—From La Belle Assemble s. --- BIRTHS. „. Ale; On the 31st ult. the lady of J. Richards, Esq. 11 ' ' JP, Department of Ordinary, Portsmouth, of a daughter. 0 r o i On the 30th ult. in Bryanstone-square, at the ba ° ,o4 0 Bishop of Norwich, the lady of Major Mahon, of a soa p ,. ti• On the 3uth ult. in Portman-square, the lady of Ca II keley, 2d Life Guards, of a daughter. tti t re, • On the 30th ult. in Charlotte-street, Bedford - sq ua of FL Mozon, Esq., of a daughter. d MARRIED. 3 1 1 0 d On the 31st putu at Christ-church, St. Marylebone, as 44 wing, Esq. Depy Conamissary-General, to Caroline, 011,r c i. , ,, f oq t l i i ,, e toh la f e t i e 3ioat A , hi Hanley, Staffordshire. at G a ß ll r a i s si , Esq., and widow of A' ggehntt.o nsq, DlED. uca .r : On the 31st ult. in Regent-square, ot fl county of Sussex. 70th year. 4 ------------'lt'n.n---'lf// PRINTED AND PUBLISNFD BY All/RDO YO o ' SIIN OFFICE , 112, STRAND, Loistool4 iTtf.oHrda,rEsqriso-n,, fly'/, Eatil 441 41 • as tni ,oweit •--,,.. 5 : q / ~~ ,~~~ R .l a' ~~ ..,.!ittid l Rf ‘kd l 'h! 41 thq it. l . T, Fqz.,l4, i~f k c4J , AR • the preserva. I , al 1 of property--• ' LER of Ited task at the he app s of the mob was, e ' be r re , rri E , it tit to seek tne i Itti •1 11,..0 Ltion. There', e i t -... ; passage w hite' 44 i _d a :. 8i , lung Paper r--•• I ,;,:aosio, Sported) was Ma° ''. .....2; an )n, in conseqO Wee —"......., lowing address...-- ' .l ip card with feline 4, Ro reques t e d and eb• 1 Or the purpcie i , 114. te 1 1 1 : a4 , judicial caPac iti a' ' .., 4 7: 4 her pp 'i t is Council, that- ''"'' L A ,'' eel ves inCompetent. Tit -- "i!es r ~,at• 41 tyr n ,ported by the __!, Ic_, . ..I suffer the civic, s";; % pe "Diem votes of their fell9 f .' '' , to e tlttile . clothed in the col° 4 ',. • , ' ian,' as such i i .A. ,,i# , P? c public confidence] illi. imPetent to pre , c" - ,.. * 4 4 pip\ recommend to to; ' r Charles Wether c ", • , f Hi alculated to precis. ~ 1 a time the Counc tis ''', 'L ?, lion, and Reforractej 1,474 a, 'went, to use th ~ i ii . t yli. 1 ation of the rote fral will be enabled lo ob . ' 'of the C9unciL . it VEN, secret ri.' CA,V p i he city if the Magr: tOb;:: L contained ill tV • I mo 41 4 iii 4 ~ or „,,,,R, have teen , ': :::t2 . 4 Z, ical Unit), n diff ere nt i• ,' '. ' F- e utterly wort „,t k ,_ i i ey profess or ti' , j, .‘„ rt less they a re it' ) :: , . 7 4,_. ; , 1 principles, , ' s' 1 , :. , therefore , . t, ristol Union ~ , : It; language of nii: I LE, el case. Lft:l4: ► 1; '' t w C process :--- , ~• ~to it 1 with feelings o , o ' ' • " ',LI. ty's Principal Se''' .-- it '417. , k ~ has requestei , , _.... ' '; l f ,t4 1 ,7; I, for the p0r1w" . .., ..! "lt al capacity, Ca ' ' , . ' 1 , outwit that if bli ,ri.i. , ctent to prese o ! I `i,t4 ' C by the military`; 'O t t , 1 members of tbe 1,1 1. ajority of the 01, ) ,„ that , a man, '"'.l to be a politicis.: i ., ti l POSIICSA the p ublic fa 1,:, . , found incom 'f. tiliPNl o f therefore, r ' ' ' , t, N 1 ,. e resignation o f ' 11 . ' if King's Bench, ' ‘ 't4i,by ent riot, and . ' Ntid 1 Inca ea rnest!? ' l46 b; mere iii gelers4_ Nti4 to it most stremsouL A Ni. ty c peace, as it 1 110 . .. 1 . • %,,,,s. ‘ k n the rights theg,"-. 4 4 ,,N. 0 , of the Yoliifr N, 61 44 104, 1 4 t yt , e cast styli° _. A 40 4 44 the plblte.pelP7 Sate efforts, just a 5,.,% , b.. 4 1%,„ , t1 I. In Ihe tn • et ru f 'l'l4 1 .0. -\..,..... n effervesceno, . ke place, he cg s li r , ) far as Polb.ir 3 lA'qt :rorlilgohuttis.ce::fallmharo, ho .`Ny,writist::7: j'''ariolitl,filjouoKinirl',idin°Begirrsinosthcitr:ee'slPr'btelite:l"; -144:41Z:bliafatbl.'rti 7 Jacobin Burdo,l It4tl: think it prud e t So, ist be fools tad IA ale Sy of the one to - 1 t , -,( , ___ /V -.4 ea.ic:rtn nf colni lli ci Z42;',11, (