The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. One of the discussions of last night in the House of Lords is amusing. An application is made for certain papers belonging to the Foreign Office, tending to affix, as it is thought, - or pro fessed to b e thought, the- crime of prodigality to the late Chief of that department ; and we are sure that in the present circumstances of the country prodigality is a crime, both in, him who dispenses and in him who clamours for the public money without . sufficient cause. The return of the papers shows none of the prodigality in sinuated—none of the criminality of the first kind ; but in the mean time the knowledge of a certain fact creeps out, Which (in our opinion, at least, though certainly not in that of, the pre sent Lord Londonderry) shows considerable cri minality of the second kind—criminality in at tempting to compass the public money ; for an application 'for a pension is found, to which Lord Liverpool with his own hand had affixed the defamatory description " This is too bad." Our opinion, as we have said, coincides with that of the eminent Lord Liverpool as to the merits or the application. But why should the appli cant himself say, that the circumstances have been published " for the purpose of making a wanton " personal attack upon him ?"—for if .the applies-, tion were just, the public would sympathise with its author, and blame Lord Liverpool for thus stigma tizing the claim. Indeed, how can Lord London derry 113 e Certain that the fact has notbeen published by some friend of his own, in order to show the, public how infamously a man of his Lordship's dis tinguished talents, remarkable good conduct, and vast services, has been treated by his ungrateful. country, or its callous-hearted Ministers ? How is, Lord Londonderry certain that the nation, instead of reprobating his application, may not rise to de fend it---insist upon his having the pension he has modestly asked for-=or tax themselves, by a volun• • tary act, to alloy it him ?—Timer. h‘ Non omnia possumus omnes" was a sound' and valid quotation of the • learned Mr. Par tridge ; and it really might be of public as well as private service if other great men would now and, then transfer it to their own personal use. Not a day has passed since the Duke of Wellington re tired from the Horse-Guards, and since Lord Grey emerged from tilt obseurityln which, with an apparent disgust townds Parliament, he had spent many of the latter years of his life, that the Noble Duke has not exhibited himself like one fretting under a load of insupportable idle ness—and the Noble Earl like one bursting with impatient self-importance. Could the ilhistrious Commander condescend to follow the ex.ampi l e of another mighty conqueror, and even take les sons from some Omphale on the distaff; he' would do less to " blur" the majesty of his warlike name Oats by this wild caprice of reading, lessons to statesmen on the principles and ecod nomy of complex laws for regulating the national l i subsistence. Ftir Lord Grey, it is a pity that,: in respect of what he has been, or has been I thought by the public, he should not have yeti made up hismind upon a question which, to us, appears an easy one, viz.—why he is' a Lord ? Any Peer, who talks about his " order" must, we suppose, imagine himself a- Peer of Ofd France, or a Spanish Grandee under Philip 11. In France there have been, and in Spain there are, what may be properly termed political orders of men—privileged orders, for whom there 'exist a separate code of laws, a superior class of rights,l a different system of disgraces and perils, an ; extended catalogue of pretensions and infirmities . beyond and apart from those whicirinure - sts-thes, less distinguished members of society: Now o f all the men in England who at a time within our memory, when the privileges recognized in{ other states were most the subject of discussion' here—of all the men who showed least respect for the principle on which the privileged orders are l ' founded, and least sympathy with those indivi-' duals whose history and misfortunes brought the' es sence of that principle into general and promis i n ent notice—Lord Grey was, perhaps, the per-I son who would occur to the surviving observers" of that period as one among the ,ehief. The! Noble Earl, though far from an ig,noble speci menl of a British Gentleman and a Peer of thel Realm, is the latter for the sake of the realm--1 not for his own. It is to discharge duties of a very solemn and substantial kind, not to enjoy an exemption from them, that the Noble Lord and his " order" have been created. In respect , of their peerage, they are functionaries, not idols.' They hold property by the same titles as theirl fellow-subjects—they derive from it the self-samel advantages—they are liable to lose it through thei same casualties or transgressions—they cssnnot! ,disobey a law by which they co-operate with the other branches of the Legislature in binding the poorest Englishman. It is for our use that they are judges also—and to us, or our representa tives, that they are amenable , for all their public! acts. Lord Grey, and such men, lofty thoughl they hold themselves, are but the upper servants of the nation, with which they must fall'in spite, of themselves'—without which they cannot stand.! It gives us pleasure gill to remark the eagern es s which both Lord. Grey and his illustrious coadju tor have manifested to clear themselves before the people, of certain imputations offiction and ma-, 1 lignity, arising out ott their vote and spe.eches on! the Corn Bill, which had begun to render these' Noble personages extremely' unpopular though-: out the kingdom. Lord Grey is a man whom' we would believe on' his assurance, though lies did not pledge , c the honour of a Peer," and' we at once believe the simple word of the. Duke of Wellington, that neither of them! entertained any party views in the course which! they adopted on this measssre ; but we canned cr edit either of them , or anyman who would persuade us—and it is sufficiently wonderful! that they have persuaded themsel ves , indirect defiance of fact and common sense--tl:at the Bil which Lord Vverpool's Cabinet introduced was not in principle different from that into which the Duke of Wellington's famous amendment metamorphosed it. A Bill which admitted all corn on the payment i of a grouatint duty, does seem to . ou r apprehen.i sion rathe; 'fferent from that which would hav descr i p ti o n —namely, bonded . co excluded one by a reference to Om. alone, h ssid , putting duty ou seed, or cranium of the question. A gain , hi t of the Duke of Wellington, preoheibitionmeans th same thing with protection ; but, according to ou view of the matter, there is this essential differene between them—that it is the price of corn at . home; which gives force to a prohibitory law ; b ut it is th e _ , -price of corn abrOad, which, combined with the , duty, makes or unmakes protection. Again, saYe! the Duke of Wellington, the present law for ti{ convertibility of the now warehoused corn to use no matter what the price of British corn, but sub jest to the duties prescribed h Lord Liverpool' Bill—is the same in " principle' as an amendmen which excluded the same warehoused corn from th market, until British corn sho uld reach the price o 665. FOr any man but him who' confounds prohi.: bition with protection, we should ray, that th 4 c onfounding of the Duke's amendment with this n ew law was altogether impossible , Again, and lastly, says the Duke of Wellingtop, my meaning was Bo like Mr.Huskilson's mea nin g , that th ey 4 was no telling the difference bititreen them. Theri it is precisely the same thing to enact a permanent preference in favour of corn warehoused abroad, against that warehoused in England, and to enact a temporary preference of corn already warehoused in England over corn which must be imported from abroad before it can be warehoused in England ! Any corporal in a marching regiment would muster on this occasion more logic than his Grace.—lbid. We are not a little astonished that a man of Earl Grey's . quickness of perception should be unable to perceive any difference between the present Corn Bill and the one improved •by the Duke of Wellington's Amendment. " There is nothing," said his Lordship, " in this Bill, in consistent with what that Amendment proposed. Yet it was given out that this Bill was rendered necessary, in consequence of the passing of that Amendment in this House. . . . I wish it to be known that I support it because there is no part of its provisions inconsistent with that Amendment." His Lordship repeats the above assertion two or three times, as if amplification and confident language could supply the place of proof. The object of the Duke of Wellington's Amendment was to prevent both the corn at pre sent in bond, and that which might be bonded after the passing of the Bill, from being taken out till the price was 665. The present Bill places the corn at present in bond on the footing of the corn imported under it. They who can not see this difference are either very blind, or de termined not to open their eyes. We have never questioned the high honour and incorruptible in tegrity of Earl Grey ; and we have never, in deed, heard the purity of his motives impeached in any quarter. But a man should attend a little to his temper as well as his principles. We think we never saw a stronger exemplification of the influence of the temper on the judgment than in the Noble Earl's speech of Monday night. A more splenetic effusion never was delivered in the House of Peers; and what would be amusing, if the frailties of such a man could ever allow en trance to mirthful feelings, while he has been ever since the recent changes discharging his gall on Mr. Canning, he complains bitterly of the want of temper of the Right Hon. Gentleman. " I must say, that besides- the disadvantage in other matters to which the calamity that has be fallen a Noble Lord (Lord Liverpool) has sub jected us, it is not the least of those disadvan tages that his Majesty's Councils should not be marked by the same discretion, and the same temper, which distinguished them, when he pre sided over them." Mr. Canning is evidently not a phlegmatic man, and, judging from his, temperament, we should be inclined to think that he was not insensible to the abuse which ' was poured out against him, night after night, in the House of Lords, and which Earl Grey listened to with so -much patience, if not with satisfaction. But if Mr. Canning has mastered his feelings—if he has allowed, at all events, few indications of them to appear in his speeches, but treated the abuse of his opponents with con tempt, his warmth of temper makes his conduct the mole meritorious. Earl Grey displayed an unaccountable degree of animosity towards him, for lie even descended to the pecking at detached sentences, gleaned from the speeches and State Papers of a period of considerable duration. He can make no allowance for Mr. Canning ; he has no sympathy for him ; it was quite proper that he should have been assailed, and that almost in the language of Billingsgate, by Lords London derry and Ellenborough ; but when the gross ig norance of the Duke of Wellington (displayed in the never-to-be-forgotten clause first submitted -by him to Mr.-1-Luskimon), -- and hi, zinguld.i conception of the meaning of Mr. Huskisson's letter, and his supposition that the destruction of the Warehousing System was not inconsistent with the Resolutions, to which as Minister he had given his assent,—when we say this became the subject of deserved animadversion, his Lord ship is quite indignant at the treatment of the Noble Duke, between whom and himself, by the bye, there can be no community of opinion, ex cepting with respect to the merits of Mr. Can ning, and the necessity for high-priced corn. "The Noble Duke's Amendment (he said), and the opinions of the 'President of the Board of Trade, had been calumniously mis-stated, and the consequences of that Amendment exaggerated, by persons who owed their very existence to the Noble Duke, he spoke not now of his great military services, 'but of services of a different kind." And the Noble Lord who condescends to use these personalities complains of Mr. Canning's want of temper ! If blind passion produce the same effects on 'conduct as Want of principle, we do not see on what ground it ought to be spared. Earl Grey, must surely, to be at all consistent with himself, conceive the prin ciples of Administration composed of Mr. Canning and his Friends, the Marquis of Lansdown and Mr. Tierney, &c. to be better calculated to promote the well-being of the Empire, though they be favourable to a trade in corn, than the principles of men, who have avowed them Selves High Tories, who, conse quently, hate popular rights, and Who would retain the population of . Ireland in perpetual thraldom. And yet he dOei not scruple from pique and irrita tion, to exert himself r,s effectually to injure the Ad ministration, as if he were entirely opposed to the principles, on which it acts. If a man cannot see any thing wrong' in this, he must take the conse quence. Let Earl Grey listen to the voice of those who have long been his warmest admirers, and he wilt hear but one voice from John o'Groat's House to the Land's End, with respect to his conduct in Parliament, ever since the Ministerial arrangements were formed. Without concert, the language of every, independent journal throughout the kingdom has been the same, disapproving and bitterly la menting the perverse course which he has allowed himself to pursue. It does not follow that a man is wrong when all the world but himself thinks he is ; but there is so strong a presumption in favour of the general voice, that it furnishes, at all events, a pow erful motive for cool and dispassionate self-examina tion. —Morning Chronicle. Nothing can be more triumphant and com plete than the Duke of Wellington's explanation' of his conduct relative to the Corn Bill. Whe ther his Grace's views upon this subject be cor rect or not, is ,oan question ; but that his motives throughout have been most pure and honourable, and wholly divested of the factious soirit im puted to them, is beyond doubt. It is now . admitted by Mr. Flusiasson himself, that it was' his obscurity of expression which led to the whol e affair ; and as Mr. Canning, it is to be suppos e d, mint late have known what was passing between hi s and present colleague, it is difficult to account for the indiscreet warmth which he exhibited upon the subject, but from a soreness of a more extensive nature. To be sure, it is curious and amusing enough, to see Mr. Huskisson, the bosom friend and most favourite colleague of Mr. Canning, 4‘ My-dear duking" his Grace, almost at t h e very same mo ment that the Prime Minister himself is taunting the Duke as the tool and inst rumen t o f f ac tion. Without meaning to use any ludicrous play upon words, we think that the count r y w ill now dis cover that the Corn Bill has been lost rather by fractiousness than faction ; and that Ministers would have acted more wisely, had th e y a dopt e d the Bill by way of experiment, such as the Lords left , it, than have pouted like angry school boy") who sometimes refuse an apple merely be cause it is not the one _they have chosen, though similar to it in size and flavour. This is the more obvious, as it now appears from the lumi nous statement of Lord Grey, that the measure which they are now passing is precisely the same in effect, as fir as it goes, with that which they chose to abandon. This speech of Lord Grey's, by. the bye, must be another mortifying blow .to Mr. Can ning. Independently of the sound and Statesman like views which it discloses, it presents a fresh irresistible barrier to any junction between this head of the Whig party, and the seceders froth that party who have, with so little credit to themselves, joined the ranks of their hitherto most inveterate oppo nents. Lord Grey must be prepared for fresh and renewed attacks from Mr. Canning's part of the Press, violent in proportion to the formidable front which he has again opposed to their new Chief. The country at large, however, will li:tle heed the bitterness of disappointment which these angry effusions present; and will not fail to mark with their, approbation every remaining token of self ' denial and consistency among public men, at a mo 1' ment when so great a share of those qualities have been shipwrecked in an unseemly struggle for the mere emoluments of office.—Morning Herald. We have been not a tittle surprised to observe from the country papers, and particularly those from the manufacturing' districts, that so little has been said of the rejection of the late Corn Bill, especially since some of our London Papers ; noted for the manufacturing of alarm, prognosticated, upon the rection of the Bill, that the whole country would be thrown into a state of effervescence, and they anticipated. that there would be public meetings; and even dis turbances in various parts of the kingdom. Now these alarm prints have prognosticated that which has not come to pass. There has been scarcely a meeting held, and little or no grumbling. But the fact is, that the people in the country, espe cially in the manufacturing districts, know as well, if not better, than we do, that the late Corn Bill would not have been of the least use in lowering the price of .bread. A ma nufacturer would reason thus-Ist. We will take the prime cost of wheat as low as 355., to which we will add 20s. for ditty, and 15s. for freight, profits, and a great variety of expenses, all which together bring up the price to 70s. The manufacturer would then say, after reading the cant of the papers in the interest of Mr. Canning, respecting his genius, &c. " Why, all that these men have written is fudge, and nobody ought to pay the least attention to it." We have no doubt that the Birmingham, Manches ter, Glasgow, and other manufacturers, have reasoned in this way. There never was a more complete hoax attempted to be palmed on the people of England than this late Bill, which Bill was said to have been enacted for the relief of the people of England, but we think that we have demonstrated that it would have afforded no relief at all.—lbid. We give to-day an elaborate report of a very curious and important trial before the Admiralty Court, the pleadings on which terminated yester day. Lord Stowell will, probably, deliver judg ment in a day or two. It involves slave property to a very great amount, and has been watched in its progress by the Agents of the West India Colonies, with the most intense interest. The particulars of the case are given at large in the Report, and we only very briefly recapitu late them. In 1822, Mrs. Allen, of Antigua, came to England, bringing with her a black fe male slave, named Grace. The latter resided with her mistress here, until 1823, when she re turned to Antigua. In 1825, she was seined' by the Crown as a manumitted slave ; and in 1826, the proceedings, which are now so near a close, were commenced. The grounds on eclarinE_Grace to be ma r.-. L9_ . in numitted; are simply' _ _ sident in England, where the acquisition of freedom has been acknowledged ever since the famous case of Somerset, to be the necessary consequence of a slave's merely touching the soil. It was stated, in the course of the trial, that the number of cases in the West Indies, similar to that of Grace, was al most incredible ; in fact, that there was not an estate of any magnitude in which one or more might' not be found.—New Times. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Whitehall, Juue 25. The King has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend Walker King, M. A. the Archdeaconry of Rochester, void by the death of Doctor John Law. War-Office, June 25. MEMORANDA..—His Majesty has been pleased to ap prore of the 4th or King's own Regiment of Foot, and of the 44th Regiment of Foot, bearing'on their colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to those Regi ments, the word "Bladensburg," in commemoration of the distinguished conduct of those corps in the action on the heights above Bladensburg, on the 24th August, 1814.' His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the Ceylon Regiment bearing the name of the " o.ylon Rifle Regiment." BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. E. Nightingale, Manchester, porter-dealer. BANKRUPTS. W. Burbidge, St. Paul's Church-yard, general .dealer, to surrender July 3, 10, and August 7, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Bousfield, Chatham -place, Blackfriars. T. Holding, Dover-street, Hanover-square, hotel-keepeer, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Com- Vander Gnat and Co., Craven-street. missioners. G. Griffiths, Wrexham, printer, July 6, 13, and Au gust 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Thwaites, Little Carter-lane, Doctors'-commons. E. Yonnge, jun., Mundford, Norfolk, shopkeeper, July 12, at four, 13, at ten, and Aug. 7, at two, at the Swan Inn, Norwich. Ballachey, Holt. J. Gi4ies„ Liverpool, merchant, July 12, 13, a nd Au gust 7, at one, at the George Inn, Liver Staple Inn ; and Hinde, Liverpool. pool. Chester, F. Heude, Bethnal-Green, cotton - manufacturer, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Cooper, Copthall-court, Throgrnorton-street. W. Mullinger, Whitechapel, flock-manufacturer, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners.' Platte, Jewin-crescent, Aldersgate-street. W. Dunn, Great Dover-street , Surrey, und er taker, July 3, 10, and August 7, at two, at the Court 0 1 Com- . missioners. Shepherd, Thomas, and Lepard, Cloak-lane. J. Cohen, Chelmsford, ca binet-maker, July 3, at eleven, 10, and August 7, at ten, at the Court of Corn rnissioners. Smith, Basinghall-street. T. Edge, Buralem, Stafford, co Ipiy-maker, July 14., 16, and Aug. 7, at four, at the Albion Inn, Shelton, Stafford. Astt iurY, Stoke-upon-Tx ent, Stafford; and Roe, Temple chal)3ers, Fleet-street. .qotharn y Bradford, Wilts, clothier, June 30, July 7, and Aug. 7, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. King, Lukin, and, Whittaker, Gray's Inn-square. R. 116- ii, Yeovil, Somerset, victualler, July 2,3, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Sturminster. Pear son, Pump-court, Temple ; and Harvey, Sturminster. J. Crook, Bishopsgatc-street, drug_grinder, July 3, 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Ellis, Broad -street-buildings. DIVIDENDS. J. Stokes, St. Nicholas, Worcester, hop-merchant, July IS, a t Hop M ar k e t I nn , Worcester—J. Littler, T. Hudson, Bowyer, Church-court, Clement's lane, drysalters, 1 7, at n i ne, at t h e C our t of Corn idso ten, n , at and d e F. rnissioners—M. Irish, Lewes, Sussex, lime-burner , July 18, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Lewes—T. Pritchard, jun., Bristol, July is, a t twe l ve, at the White Li on ri re stol r -- cha l i t it' .Abraba m , Ashb ur to n , Devonshire, ban -18, at eleven, at the Golden Lion Inn, Ashbur- Iknern: B July n . . . . ton—R. RaWilliston 'And J. M'Culloch, jun., tiVerpool, merchants, Ju 8, at one, at the George Inn; Liverpool--- J. Booth, Plymouth Grove, • Chorlton-row, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, July . ; 19, at_eleven, at White's Hotel, Man chester—T., J., -J., and, R. Ratcliffe, Manchester, calico printers, July 30, at two,, at the Star Inn, Manchester— W. Strutton, Coinmercial-road, Lambeth, timber-mer chant, July 17, at•ten, at the Court of Commissioners— J. C. Burckhardt, Northumberlan&street, Strand, gold smith, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—. D. Graves, Norton-street, St. Marylebone, grocer, July 17, at eleven, 'at the Court of Commissioners—G. Clarke, Cherry-tree-court, Aldersm b ate-street, witch-manufacturer, July 17, at ten, at the Court of Comthissioners—J. S. Clarke, Austin-friars, printer,' July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—F. Phillips and W. Cutforth, Goldsmith-street, Wood-street, Cheapside, warehousemen, JUly 17, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—J. T. Gunn, Foley-street, St. Marylebone, coach-maker, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Offer, Cam ' bridge, bookseller, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of CommissionersL--T. Alexander, Upper Flontbourne, Hants, victualler, July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners --J. Hardern and. P. Higginbotham, Macclesfield, silk manufacturers, JUly - 17, at eleven, at the CoUrt of Colin 'rnissionets—P. Charcoal', Piccadilly,' jeweller, July 'l7, at eleven, at the. Court of Commissioners—C. Clevely and J. Hutchinson, Chiswell-street, linen-drapers, July 3, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Kits and B. Best, Macclesfield Wharf, New North Road, coal-mer chants, July 20, at twelve, at the . Court of . Commisujonere —S. Shaw, jun. and T. Bateman, Manchester, small ware manufaCturere, July 20, at ten, at White's Hotel, Man chester—P. Myers, Nottingham . , optician, Aug. 3, at eleven, at the Lion Hotel, Nottingham-4 Hudson, Rad cliffe, Lancashire, and C. Quartell; Radcliffe, calico printers, July Sl,lt eleven, at the Star Inn, Manchester—R. Jen nings, Poultry, bookseller,. July 17; at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Mackenzie and J. Murhie, Oxford, tea-dealers, July 17, at eleven, at the. Court of Commis sioners---41. T. Robinson, Gun-street, Old Artillery-groUnd, silk-manufacturer, July 3, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners—H. Warner, Lamb's-conduit-street, linen draper, July 17, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. CERTIFICATES.-JULY 17. J. Johnson, Manchester, draper—C. Hitchin, Sheffield, hair-seating-manufacturer--J. Hunt, Bagill, innkeeper— J. Bardsley, Heaton-Norris, hat7minufacturer--W. Smith, Clerkermiel4 builaer—C. Thirsk, Currier—J. Cox, Leadettliall-street, victuall—Q. Levitt, Pinners'-Hall, Old:Broad-street, nierchant-E. 'J. Cooke, Gloucester, corn-dealer H-j. LeTett, : Rowley. Regis, . farmer.-,J. H. Brenell, Liverpool, mer c hant—G. 'o7eStminster, picture-dealer—T. Strange, Cheltenham, plasterer—J. Nabb, Manchester, grocer.. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T; and J. Swash, 'Bristol, boot-makers—J. Holroyd and R. Riley, Halifax, Yorkshire, tailors—J. Dean and J. Longbottom, Halifax, Yorkshire, plasterers—J. Hand and J. Simmonds, Renny Paper-mill, Durham, paper-manu facturers—G. Parkinson and J. Yates, Sheffield, file-ma nufacturers—J. Dear arid A. Graves, Romsey, Hampshire, schooltilistres.ses—R. Singleton, J. and G. Schofield, Gar stang, Lancashire, innkeepers—l. Hainsworth . and J. Naylor, Church- passage, Guildhall, woollen-drapers—G. and D. Capel, and R. J. Bullock, Dyer's-court, Alderman bury, tea-dealers--A. Zinsmeister and W. Plumb, Duke street, Manchester-square, stay-makers—W..and J. Sccitt, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, manufacturers—J. C. Schwieso and E. Serquet, Regent-street, harp-makers—W.' M. and A. U. Thisselton, Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, prin ters--W. Buck and W. Lampert, Chelsea, printers--G. Parnell and G. JepSon, Gainshorough, Lincolnshire, surgeons —IL Richards and J. Walker, Tnvistock-street, Covent garden, woollen- drapers—G. A:, Carruthers, W. E. Smith, W. Mitchell, and T. Lancaster, Pernambuco, dealers. FALL OF THE NIAGARA. (From he Roos' Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States,l.c.) 4 .‘ I .had already seen some of the most celebrated. works of nature in different parts of the globe ; I. had seen - Etna and Vesuvius ; I had seen the - Andes almost at their greatest elevation; Cape Horn, rugged and bleak, buffetted by the southern tempest =and, though last not least, I had seen the' long swell of the Pacific : but nothing I had ever beheld or imagined, could compare in grandeur with the falls of the Niagara. My first sensation was that quisite delight at having before me the greatest Itirtgeritirwas imi=a7rTeyTheZed bran irre sistible melancholy. Had this not continued, it might perhaps havelYeen attributed to the satiety' incident to the complete gratification of hope Iting deferred ;' but so'far from diminishing ; the more I gazed, the stronger and deeper the sentiment came. Yet this scene of sadness was strangelyH mingled with a kind of intoxicating fascination.— Whether the phenomeneui is peculiar to Nia-' gara, I know not, hilt certain it is, that the spirits are affected and depressed in a singular manner by the magic influence of this stupendous and eternal fall. About five miles above the cataract the river expands to the dimensions of a lake, after which it' gradually narrows. The Rapids commence, at the upper extremity of Goat Island, which is half a mile in length, and divides the river, at, the point of 'precipitation into two une.: pal parts ; 'the largest is distinguished by the several names of the Horse-shoe, Crescentiand British Fall, from its semi-circular form and contiguity to the Canadian shore. The smaller is named the Ame riCan Fall: A portion of this fall is divided by a, rock from Goat Island, and though here insignificant in appearance, would rank high among European cascades. * " The current runs about six miles an hour; but suppOsing it to be only five miles, the quantity which passes the falls in an hour is more than 85,000,000 of tons avoirdupois : if we suppose it to be six, it will be more than: 102,000,000: and in a day would exceed 2,400,000,000 of tons. " The next miming, with renewed delight, I be held from my window—l may say, indeed, from my bed—the stupendous vision. The beams of the' rising sun . shed over it a variety of tints; a cloud of spray Was ascending from the crescent; and as 1• viewed it from above, it appeared like the steam rising from the boiler of some monstrous engine. * #* * # * * " This evening I went down with one of our party to view the cataract by moonlight. I took my favourite seat on the projecting rock, at a little dis tance from the brink of the fall; and gazed till every sense seemed absorbed in contemplation. Although the shades of night increased the sublimity of th 4 prospect, and `'deepened the murmur of the falling floods,' the moon in placid beauty shed her sat in fluence upon the mind, and mitigated the horrots - of the scene. The thunders which bellowed from the , abyss, and the loVeliness of the falling eletnent, which glittered like molten silver in the moonlight, seemed to complete in absolute perfection the rare union of the beautiful with the sublime. * * * " While reflecting upon the inadequacy of language to express the feelings I experienced, or to describe the wonders which I surveyed, an American gen tleman, to my great amusement, tapped me on the shoulder, and guessed' that it was Fetty droll!' It was difficult to 'avoid laughing in his face; yet I could not help envying him his voca bulary, which had so eloquently released me from my !dilemma., " Though earnestly dissuaded from the under taking, had determined to . employ the first fine morning in visiting the cavern beneath the fal l . The .. . guide recommended my 'companion and myself to set out as early as six o'clock, that we might have the advantage of the morning sun upon the waters. We came to the guide's house at the appointed hour, and disencumbered ourselves of such garments as we did. 'not care to have wetted : descending the circular ladder, we followed the course of the path running along the top of the debris of the precipice, which I have already described. Having pursued this track for about eighty yards, in the course of which we were completely drenched,e found our selves close to the cataract. Although enveloped in a cloud of spray, we could distinguish without diffi culty the direction of our path, and the nature of the cavern we were about to enter. Our guide ,warred us of the difficulty in respiration which we should encounter from the spray, and recommended us to look with exclusive attention to the security of our footing. Tints warned we pushed forward , blown a bout' and `buffeted by the' wind, stunned by the noise, and blinded- by the sprayEßA successive gust penetrated us to the very bones with cold. De ter mined to proceed, we toiled and struggled f3n, And having, followed,the footsteps of th e guide as far as was poisible Consistently if4tll s a fety, we set down, and baying collected our senses by degree's, the wonders of the cavern slowly developed themselves. It is impossible to describe the strange unnatural light reflected through its crystal wall, the roar of the waters, and the blasts of the.hurried hurricane which perpetually rages in its recesses. .We endured its fury a sufficient time to: form a notion of the shape and dimensions of this dreadful place. The cavern was tolekably light, thoiigh the st i n was unfortu nately enveloped in clouds. HiS disc was invisible, but we could dearly distinguish hissituation through the watery barrier. The fall of the cataract is nearly perpendicular. The , bank over which it is precipitated is of concave form, owing to its upper stratum being composed of lime-stone, and its base of soft slate-stone, which has been eaten away,by the constant attrition of the recoiling waters. The ca vern is about 120 feet in height, 50 in breadth, and 300 in length. The entrance was completely invi sible. By screaming in our ears, the' guide con trived to explain to us that there was one more point which we might have reached had the wind been in any other direction. Unluckily it blew full upon the sheet of the cataract, and drove it in so as to dash upon the rock over which we must have passed. A tew yards beyond this, the precipice becomes perpendicular, and, blending with the water, forms the extremity of the cave. After a stay of nearly 10 minutes in this most horrible purgatory, we gladly left it to its loathsome: inhabitants, the eel and the water-snake, who crawl about its,recesses in considerable numbers—and returned to the inn." SECOND EDITI()N. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS. . . Lord FAIIN'HAVI presentod a petition' from the county and city of Cork, complaining of the state of the elective franchise in; ,Ireland. The Noble Lord said, ,that the present, disgraceful ,system was op posed to the popular part of the representation, as the 40s. freeholders were, in almoet every instance, Under the influence.of the large landed proprietor, or were guided by demagogues - and their Clergy. The Noble Lord thought that Soinething should be don'e in the course of the next Session to remedy such a state of things. The_ Noble. Lord presented a, ,petition :from certain Protestants, Catholics, and Protestant Dissenters of the County of Kerry, complaining of the interfer ence of the Catholic Clergy, in' preventing parents froM eduCating their children in the manner which they themselves thought fit. The petition prayed that the system of education in Ireland might be reformed. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the Protestant. Shopkeepers of Mount-Mellick, in the Queen's County, stating, that the Roman Ca tholics in that neighbourhood had entered into a r - solution not to deal with such Protestants as were not faVourable to their claims. This the Noble Lord said, had been a standing regulation with the Order of Liberals established in Dublin. The Earl of DARNLEY observed, that in the town of Mount Mellick, there was art Orange Lodge, and that Orange procession took place there from tune, to time.. When a party spirit was thus engendered, was it to be wondered that the Ca tholies,could remain quiet. _ . Lord FARNHAM admitted that there existed great excitement in that town, and that both parties were in some measure to be blamed.—The Noble Lord presented several petition§ against further con cessions to the Catholics. The petitions were laid on the table. .Sax-Munday, praying for protection to agriculture. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from Suf folk against the warehoused Corn Bill. The Arrest Process Bill went through a Com mittee, and was ordered to be read a third time to morrow. CUSTOMS BILL. Viscount GODERICH moved the order of the day for the House going into a Committee upon the Customs Bill. jt oc Lord noorgfd oocopper FALMOUTH aoursore from fitn.mth es rose ßouilt ih foraAli allowing p ega u t r fhpoeors importa tion of ep or o t b a I pur pose of being smelted here, and then of being export ed again, to be sold in foreign markets. This clause would prevent the exportation from Birmingham and other parts in England of coppeer. There were no less than from 80 to 100,000 men depend ant upon the mines of Cornwall, and the House ought to reflect on the condition of those 'men. — In the year 1825, the spirit of speculation in these mines had been carried to an extraordinary extent : that speculation had failed—and by that failure many mines had been totally stopped, and vast numbers of men thrown out of employ. The clause, therefore, alluded to by the Noble Lord,he considered would give a licence to the South AmeriCan Mer chants, which would be most prejudicial to the in terests of this country, inasmuch as it would enable them greatly to undersell the English Merchant. If the Noble Viscount would explain to the House why . the South American Merchants should have this li cence if this Bill should be pressed forward, he (Lord Falmouth) would have no objection to it passing in the next SessiOn provided the reason was . at all satis factory; but in the absence of such reason he begged to move, that this clause be expunged. .Viscout GODERICH considered that his. Noble Friend in moving for this clause to be expunged, had been under a misapprehension as to its probable effects as to the grounds on which it had been pro posed, and as to the circumstances under which it had been introduced. The Noble Lord seemed to thinkit had been introduced into the Bill without any consideration on the part of those interested in the question, whereas he could assure the. Noble Lord that the subject had been constantly under discussion fOr a length of time by the Dowd of. Trade, and that Mthiene slightestr.„ If th e m i nes chanc e o f Miners.; persons most deep l y interested in Minin g the concerns of this country. He had been g iven to under stand by Mr. Taylor and others, that this clause mi ght be very fine copper than could be a ip c on a rr r eei r: es e dao d ni uedtet h into ait effect aehffterieccea produced theßwarpitiehtrioshuni:tte pro cured here, and if the consumption of copper was great on the Continent after the ore was smelted, he was 'firmly persuaded that it was 'the interest of all parties to have it carr i e d there. There wa s no difficulty, mystery, or magi c in the sme ltin g of copper ore i n France, Holland, or Germany, any more tha n th ere was in England ; it onl y re quired a littl e cap i ta l t o do it there as effectually as here, and if th e w i s h of the Hous e was to send it en tirely ,th ere , t h ey could not ad o p t a better course th a n the p r i nc ipl e of the N oble Lord who • had j ust spoken. If the House perinitted it to be brought to this country, it would be brought in English ships, and the probability was, that if it went out of this in it would be taken away also in n g, country age • lish vessels, whereas, if the importation of it was to be prohibited in the manner now proposed, not one farthing's worth of copper would ever af terwards be brought from Chili, or any port of South America, by English ships. By permit ring the importation of it, this , I country would decidedly have the auvantage of the navigation,— of t h e warehousing—of the labour employed in t h e smelting—and of the capital that would neces sarily have to be employed in the traffic; but if the importation was prohibited the House would do a very great injury to the interests of this country without effecting the smallest good—therefore he felt it his duty to do all he could to maintain the clause in the Bill. Lord FALMOUTH would feel greatly Mistakeu if those persons most deeply interested in the copper mines in this country had either giventheir assent to to this bill, or anything like it. All he had heard was that those persons had made frequent re monstrances against it, and that their remonstrances had been utterly disregarded. - He could not under stand how Mr. Taylor could have given all opinion in favour of it, because he could not on any ground see how this license to the foreign merchant was to be beneficial to this country. He was sure that the mode of smelting here was far superior to that of any other country`; and he could assure the House that, in allowing this clause to stand, they were taking the first step t o do the Cornish miners an irreparable injury. Lord ELLENBOROUGH considered it very natural for persons to take the alarm when any thing at all of a serious nature approached themselves; whether this alarm bad been taken by his Noble Friend on such a ground, he would not p res ume to say, but certainly the Noble Viscount opposite had himself admitted in what he had stated, that there were some grounds for apprehension. The Noble Viscount had admitted that the supe" riority of smelting in 'this country, as sveli as the. great convenience :of getting ore here but still he did not suppose that that ' was sufficent to prohibit the importation. His Noble Friend (Lord Falmouth) was justifies in finding fault with the late period at which the present Bill was brought up.. .. It was incumbent upon their Lordships to throw out the'Bills brought up at so late a period, for .if they did no t do something of that kind, their privileges would be abridged, and this Milne only used for registering the edicts of the other House.- - For his (Lord Ellenborough's) part, he would en deavour next Session to do all in'his prower t o pre vent the continuance of this most reprehensible practice. Lord GODERICH said, that for his o w n part he should be extremely obliged to the . Noble Lord, if he persevered in the course: he intimated his in tention of adopting. He considered that an itch for legislation was one of the greatest evils o f thr present day, and any thing done to abate that evil would be a public benefit. Lord LAUDERDALE concurred with his Noble Friend (Lord Ellenborough) in cond e m n i n g t he practice of ,crowding the table with Bill.s at th e end of the SeasiOn to such a degre,e,`that no human in , dustry was sufficient to enable their Lordships to,br . come acquainted with the topics which they were legislating. Lord BEXLEY said, the complaint just made was to be of long contirmance,but he conceived some iudulgence should be granted during the present Session, considering ~ t he change which had taken ploce in the administration. Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought the Bills relating to Ireland at all events, should be introduced early next Session, to allow time to communicate with that country. The Marquis of SALISBURY wished to knOif whether the Bill might not be postponed, or at least the objectionable clause, for a few days. Lord GODERICH said, he had no objection to postpone the third reading until Friday, though bt saw no reason why it should not be read a third time to-morrow. Lord . FALMOUTH thought the only way, of meeting the objections urged was to omit the clause to which be had referred altogether. The question was then put on the clause, which was agreed to without a division • the House dot resumed, resumed, and the Bill was ordere d to be read a tlio time on Friday. WAREHCUSE ,CORN RILL. On the motion that the Houie resolve itself int° a Committee on the Corn Warehotnie Biil, Lord GREY took the opportunity of calling th e attention of his Majesty's Ministers to a subjec t which bore remotely on the question now und er consideration, and also on the measure which it wto understood it was intended to be submitted to the House of Lords next Session. It was admitted on all, hand.. that the agricultural interests were noW 'suffering under great depregsion, and fie - WaS Sure there must be every disposition to afford any relief to an interest so important to a ll other interests and to the country. There was a plat t which he understood mi g ht b e cu lti vate d with great advantage, but the cultivation of which W under a direct and absolute prohibition, h e metal tobacco, which he understood might be cultivste u with great advantage in many parts o f the country, and the unnecessary restraints on which which could not be justified upon any princill, e of free trade, or of p o li cy an d justice. _„*" thought •the subject w or th y o f t h e cons id era ti°"; of his Majesty's Ministers, and after turning ...t 11 ; matter in thei r m i n d s b etween th i s and the n et Session of Parliament, perhaps they would be pr e .' pared to come forward with some spec ifi c propoBl- tion on the subject.—(Hear.) , ! Viscount GODERICH a d m i tte d that, vil'e„,-f these impositions were laid, f or t h e purpose it", encouraging the cultivati on o f to b acco in t", Northern American Coloni es w h en i n our P°,,,"' session; and as the origi na l cause did 'not l' ° „ - exist, he believed the reason for not re p ea li n g th e , ) , was some doubts which were entertained 09 the practical effect of their refusal. H e ende r ; ssood that the climate of this country was 13° favourable to the cultivation of tobacco; but te ll d, this subject, he did not pretend to be well informe d ' and he considered the whol e su bject well worth the attention of Parliament. Lord LAUDERDALE said that for six Of . seven years after the American tobacco iv!: knew one instance cultivated with great success in this country ; in particulars in the p art o f the country which he came, where 200 or 30° acres were under it, . and, the Nobl e L ar d w ould look into the Statute Book he . would find e Code of Laws enacted p ur p ose ly for encouraging it ' and for placing the cultivation o f un d er t h e s uper intendance of the excise. [Left sitting.l MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DlA.RY.—TutnasnAy, Jurra 28.—.(At tilt Coll" COnarniainoners, Basinghall-street.) Bov/en, T., Lynn ll S h ep h er d and Co., South ii - Curtis, W., Slo ane -st ree t • 11 amptou • 1 1 G w g defteld—Sessions-house, Wake- 11 Button, 8., imam" , • field.. .............................. .61lichester ll Dalby, R., Chichest t Malvern , Worcester —Star and G ar ter, 1 0 Dawes, Great ............ ........ ... ....... .77 Burt, J., Zg i o l : T Z- R - Y Worcester . .. -. • co. Plymouth —Royal ate), Plymouth ..........•• it Dickins ir port—Star and Garter, Worcester..,,,,,, ...•••• Drew, T., J."• Forsyth and C0., 1 / 4 . Ica-u pon-Tweed—Half-moon, New" 1.; yne .................. .................. .6.. ........ •'• cait w r - Green, R., Cambridge—Hoop, Cambridge ll .......... ° Harris, N, Shaf tesbury—Grosvenor Arms, Shaftesbury J., Barton—George, Barton .. eci_r_DlAßcY,..ewli'RerlDn:V, JUNE 29. r. H H:ti e w n st t a o , l n d .l , :, Blakenham Parva—bear and Crown, Ipswich ..•••' BIRTHS. ~14 On the 25th i nst., at Gifford's-ha, the lady of Pat ti- Bower, E sq ., o f a da n ghter. ' On the 13th inst., at Florence, Mrs. Jasper Hall? a daughter. di/ On the 25th inst., at the Vicarage-house, Ealing' lady of the Rer. Herbert Oakeley, of a daughter. ______ DIEb. it Hr On the 27th ult., Xi% _-oratio Rynier, surgeon' la , Norfolk-street, Middlesex Hospital, and late of his jesty's Royal Navy, in the 29th year of his age. l‘lr" On the 25th inst., after a long and painful illness, Peter Roy, of St. Mary-axe, in his 41st year. On the 24th inst., at New College, Oxford, afte r 3 fed hours' illness, Henry, eldest son of Henry Perkins, 694 of Springfield, Surrey. O n he the 26th 73d i y n ear st., of inhisPze.tla odrplace, David ', d ye Esti.n, - - PRINTED and PnigLismxn by M. YOUNG, at t e kinr-Orriess, No. 112, Strand. MARRIED. r On the 26th inst., at Brighton, by the Rev. H. 1 : o f liott, E. Pauli, Esq., of Balham, to Emily, only eV' J. P. Berjew, M.D., of Kingsdown, near Bristol, On the 23d inst., at West Bromwich, Stafford' Mr. James Ayres, of Cardiff, to Maria Jepson, 414 ,01 daughter of Mr. J. T. Gritton, of that place, and 6 4- 10 , daughter of the Rev. Geo. Jepson, Prebendary of Li