The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. When a general disarmament shall have actually taken place upon the Continent we will believe that the sovereign Powers, whose destructive ambition has for successive ages subjected Europe to the vol canic eruptions of war, are really determined upon peace, but not till then. We were told, when the people of the various countries of the Continent were excited by the promises of thei r rulers to rise against the dominion of Napoleon, that the downfall of that conqueror would be the signal of universal peace, with vast and expensive when Kings, dispensing military establishments, would govern by the cheap administration of enlightened laws, and " nations should learn the art of war no more." No sooner, however, had the power of Napoleon been over thrown —no sooner had the collected energies of the people snapped asunder the chains which bound the Kings of the continental states in abject vassalage to the throne of their conqueror—than the deluded people found that the delivered despots had com menced to rivet their own. Hence it was that, only a year after Napoleon had fallen under the overwhelming efforts of confederated nations, he had but to show himself in France to be received with an enthusiastic devo tion, and to overturn, without shedding a drop of blood or firing a shot, the throne which the vic torious Allies had erected for the Bourbons. With his fall on the field of Waterloo military despotism fell not. The power of one despot was divided among many. The " settlement of Europe" was not a settlement of justice, but of force; it conse quently led to new revolutions, arid the most civi• lized quarter of the globe still groans under the yoke of military dominion. While Kings keep great armies round their thrones they will never want pre texts for using them—nor will they think it very necessary to cultivate those honest arts of Govern ment which alone can permanently secure the affec tions of their people. Large armies cannot be sup ported without ample pecuniary means. Tyranny is always an expensive mode of Government. Am bitious Governments are necessarily rapacious. The exaltation of military power is the impo verishment of a people. Armies suck the veins of national industry. Taxation, distress, discon tent, and popular commotion, are the natural consequences of a monstrous system which su persedes reason, deposes justice, and exhausts the vital resources of a State, to consolidate and main tain the physical means of oppression. If we saw any certain indications of the despotic Governments of the Continent laying aside their projects of ambi tion—their intermeddling policy—their jealousy of free States—their ancient hatred of representative systems ;—if we saw any proofs of their abandoning the Alachiavelian principle which makes them say one thing and mean another ;—if they afforded us any certain grounds for believing that they had be come enlightened enough to know that it is easier and safer to govern by justice than by oppression ; if, above all, we perceived that they had derived suf fent instruction from experience to learn that the rights of Kings can never be secure until the rights of the people are respected, and that the best pro tection of the thrones is the rational freedom of na tions;—if we saw these signs of sobriety and wisdom in the acts and conduct of the rulers of the Conti nent, we should consider the reports of a general disarmament, with a view to a universal and lasting peace, not difficult of belief, because we should, in that ease, see moral causes leading the way to such a just and desirable political decision. But we see none of those moral proofs of a transition from the Government of force to the Government of en lightened power among the Continental despots: on the contrary, the fall of Poland is likely to stimu late Russia, whose power has been continually growing in Europe, ever since the retreat of the j French from Moscow, to push the advantages, both in Europe and Asia, which the guilty connivance or the not less criminal weakness of other Govern ments has allowed her to obtain. She achieved a great object of her ambition when Turkey, her an cient rival, and our " ancient Ally," sunk beneath her arm. Now Poland lies crushed at her feet. By her conquests in Persia she holds the keys of the I'ea,t; and in Greeee, though her minion Capo d'lsttia be no more, her influence still struggles to chain to her barbarous domimien those beautiful pro vinces which Turkey has lost, and which would give her a great naval station on the shores of the Mediterranean. Will the success with which she has pursued her conquests of late extinguish the ambition out of which the lust of conquest springs ? Alas ! ambition is that passion of which it may be most truly said, that " increase of appetite but grows by what it feeds on." Russia has succeeded in her recent enterprises of aggrandisement beyond her most sanguine expectations, and, after taking the re pose which the destructive Polish campaign !tilde necessary, will rise to pursue her career of ambition, " like a giant refreshed with wine." In the mean time unhappy acid fallen Poland is trampled in the isles:. Protestations of clemency are made, and in Ithe reoment of being made, are most cruelly belied. The capitulation of Warsaw has been treated as waste paper. The citizens of Warsaw have no se eurity of property or life. Numbers of those who seciained or returned to Warsaw on the faith of the capitulation have been torn in the dead of the night from thdr homes, and dragged in chains to expiate their love of country in the mines or the wildernesses of Siberia. A Russian Government is established in Poland contrary to the treaty of Vienna—the property of such distinguished patriots as Czarto ryski and Chlopieki has been confiscated—the nembere of the Diet are persecuted. The exe cetted Constantine, the mantle of whose power has fallen on the Grand Duke Michael, seems to have bequeathed him some of his peculiar talents for government, of which the whole energy might be summed up in the art of driving a generous people desperate, A people, we say ; because, it no more vigorous intervention takes place than eny which the Powers thatare parties to the Treaty of Vienna have yet exercised on behalf of Po land, that ancient, that noble, that chivalrous people, no longer exist as a nation. Russia must go vern by armies, while her policy is oppression. As 1:9 Austria, has she yet relaxed the iron grasp of ,despotism by which she holds her Italian depend enciee ? Has she abandoned her assumed right to pour in her armies upon the " independent Italian States," if they should dare °nee more to choose their own forma of Government ? The true answer to these questions will show whether she is desirous of a general disarmament or not. Has the King of Prussia yet given his people the promised Constitu tion which i n d uce d t h em to r i se aga inst Bonaparte ? I-las his Government begun to see the true interest of the country, and separated from that political alliance with Russia which renders Prussia the fas cinated slave of the gigantic barbarism or the North Can she disarm before Russia gives the word of e emmand ? Is there not more than one succesafel revoiotion—more than one " bad example," as the Duke of Wellington called the revolution of France, to be put down in Europe ? Is not the King of Holland, at the present moment, endeevouring to put down a " bad example ?" Is Le not desirous of doin g i n Belgium w h at t h e E m p t ror Nicholas . did in Poland, and nothing more? Can the }loly Alliance seriously find fault with him for endeaveniFing to carry their own principles into effect ? They o,ay temporize , , indeed, because circumstances make it ni;assary; but the long-continued coquetry b e tween him and the " Conference proves that the simple politicizing who believe the Belgian affairs settled have come thing more to learn than any protocols have yet disclosed. In the face of all this moral evidence against the probability of a general disarmament— to which, indeed, we ought to add the increasing audacity of the Carlists of France, who confidently count, for some secret reasons, upon restoration— we have what facts ? We are told that the Prus elan landwehr are returning home, and that a great Dumber of furloughs have been given to soldiers in the Austrian service. As to the Prussian militia,l they usually go to their homes in the winter, whence they can be assembled at a very short notice ; and 28 to the Austrian furloughs, they would rather in dicate that Austria intends to continue her armies on the present footing than the contrary ; otherwise why not grant discharges to her soldiers, instead of furloughs, which bind them after a definite time to rejoin their respective corps? Surely nobody ex pected a winter eampaign.-2110rning Herald. We have copied the full report in the Irish papers of the proceedings at the formation of the Irish Po litical Union on Saturday last. Under the guidance of Mr. O'Connell, this Union will, we doubt not, lead to most important results. The object of the Union was simply, but forcibly, stated by Mr. O'Dwyer, in a few words. " He conceived (he said) that the Political Union was established for the specific purpose of assisting the King and his Ministers, in the settlement of the all-engrossing question of Parliamentary Reform, and of demon strating to the infatuated cabal, which now sought to destroy the Monarchy, even with the calamity of being extinguished in its ruins, that if they contem plated insanely a return to office, they assumed it with the full knowledge that there was attached to its honours the well-organized hostility of an indig nant and determined people." Toryism is essen tially at variance with justice and equity. It lays claim to a property in men. He who claims a right to take my property from me, without my consent, and to dispose of it subject to no responsibility, acts upon a principle essentially the same as that which gives to one man the property in another. Toryism is tyranny. All tyrants are not equally cruel. The exercise of power will be modified by the fear of re sistance. In England, Toryism has been confessedly much modified by the knowledge that the people were become impatient of the yoke, and would only , bear a certain degree of injustice. Still the asser tion of the claim to take men's property without their consent, through representatives fairly cho sen, is an insult to a nation, and no sacrifice ought to be deemed too great which relieves them fiom so degrading a bondage. Toryism being essentially iniquitous, we are not to wonder that the acts of the Tories should have been almost uniformly wicked and remorseless. Religion itself in the hands of Tories becomes an engine to corrupt and to de base. How often must the High Church Clergy of England have cursed, in their hearts, the simple minded Reformers, who laid open to the multitude the benevolent religion of Christ, in every line of which they see their own condemnation. A system of plunder—a system of bribery and corruption, abetted by ministers boasting of a commission from the Apostles of Christ ! Even M. de Chateau briand, Bourbuuist as he is, shrinks from English Toryism as an accursed thing, with which no one can come in contact and remain unpolluted. He at tributes to the late English Government an utter indifference to all principle where interest was con cerned. " They have always (he says) been ready to sacrifice monarchy or republics to their interests. They admitted the sanctity of the rights of Mah moud, and denied the legitimacy of the rights of Ferdinand. * * * How should England have disapproved of the efforts of the Russians to replace under the yoke a country which they looked on as one of their provinces, while she has poured out seas of blood to hold in her chains the colonies which now form the republic of the United States !" But if ever a partizan of the Bourbons exclaims against Tory cruelty and Tory Machiavelism, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. O'Connell should pourtray it under a still more hideous aspect : " The first question (he says) I ask the Reformers is, will they join with me ? Did, I ask, hell ever behold— did hell ever generate a worse progeny than the Tories have proved themselves to be?—(Hear.) They have proved themselves the enemies of liberty of conscience— they have shown themselves the persecutors of freedom— they have smothered liberty in Ireland—they compelled America by their tyranny to declare her independence— they drove France into all the bloody throes of an infu riate revolution. Have they not been monsters in Europe, in Africa, in America, in Asia ; and how can 1 talk of Asia without recollecting their direful misdeeds there ? But are not, I ask, all the evils and crimes which have been committed in all these places to be attributed to the infamous Tory party ?—(Hear and cheers.) If, then, we come to Ireland—if we look to her hardy and her ho. nest people—if we gaze upon her green fields, and behold her lofty mountains, do we not see the one reddened and the other blasted by the blood of those people—blood which the Tories have shed, because the people combined un wisely ; but, still, leaving Ireland too well—do we not find the same Tories attempting to force the consciences of the people of Ireland, and impose upon them an esta blishment in which they could not confide, and which they did not want?—(Hear, hear.) I speak not now as a Catholic, but as a Christian. If it were Catholics who did this, I would speak still more harshly of them : I would execrate them as I do the despot of Pot tugal and the tyrant of Spain.—(Hear, hear.) Suppose that the people of Ireland were Protestants, and the Monarch was a Ca tholic, and that he wanted to impose a Catholic Church Establishment upon them, I would denounce that Tory as I do his English or his Irish allies.—(Hear, hear.) If, I ask, the Tories were to return to power—sacred Heaven ! can we conceive any thing more horrible than the idea of their returning to power ?"—(Hear.) The Irish have much more powerful motives for opposing the Tory system of government than the English have. The Church of -England, in Eeg ' land, is far from popular with any of its own fol lowers, and very unpopular with the great bulk of the nation ; and the Reform question alone has si lenced for a time the outcry against tithes; but the Church of England, in Ireland, is hated by the people, to whom it appears as a badge of their slavery. So long as that Church shall be established in Ireland, so lung will the Irish feel that a foul in. dignity is affixed to them. But the Church may now be spoken of as a tree which still stands, though the sap ceases to flow : " I do not think (says Mr. O'Connell) that tithes will he paid for three years longer in this country.—(Hear.) In a great part of Ireland they have not now been paid for two years.—(Hear, hear.) And as to taking the army and police to serve tithe processes, it will soon be found to be an useless and expensive proceeding. For the recovery of five shillings' tithe, some pounds' expence must be in curred by the clergyman ; and by the time he has his ex ecution ready, the man may have neither goods nor chattels on which it can be levied.—(Hear, and laughter.) It is a game which cannot be played.—(Hear.) I am a father and a husband, and I can well sympathise with the situa tion of the Clergymen of the Established Church. These gentlemen have forgotten every other pursuit for that to which they arc now devoted, and I am not one who would turn them out on the world's wide common, with their starving wives and children.—(Hear.) I know that many of them are willing to adopt the plan which I have before r now suggested, of snaking a compromise with the State. —(Hear.) I am for securing to them a life interest, and I will not join in any other plan respecting the establish ment.—(Hear.) This Association ought while it is time to make arrangements with respect to the life interest of those who have devoted themselves to the profession to which they belong, and of securing the reversion for the good of the people,"—(Hear, and cheers.) What a lesson we have here ! The Emancipator of the Catholics bestowing his pity on the Ministers of the fallen Protestant Church. Will the Tories profit by no example ? Is not there here enough to convince 199 of the most obstinate Tories that ever existed, of the folly and even danger of their trying their strength with a whole people ? Know ledge is power—that power has loosened the chains of the people. Civil and religious liberty must be victorious, and barouglimongering is gone past re covery. All that we have now to guard against is, lest in its dying throes it may create confusion and tumult—and against this calamity the people are muting, that they may not be taken unawares that the great and the low plunderers may not repeat among us the scenes of Bristol. " I hope (says Mr. O'Connell) that the object for which England is so much interested, will be peaceably obtained. I wish that she tray escape th e T or i es; an d if s h e do, our Political Union will, I think, be able to achieve much; but if there should be a commotion in Eng land, I want to be prepared for the time, and that instead of flying into open warfare, and tearing out each others vitals, the virtuous men in the commu nity should stand together, determined to put down 'crime, ready to repress the spirit of turbulence, and resolved to combine together to preserve the peace and procure the liberty of Ireland. "—Morn. Chron. A different version is presented in this day's Journal, from that which we gathered yesterday, of the accommodation-meeting at the City of Lon don Tavern, between the Reformers and their enta gonists. The declaration was the production of Mr. Horsley Palmer and his friends, and was only tendered to the Anti-Reformers by Mr. Pascoe Grenfell, as a proposal of peace may be brought from an enemy by a subject of that country to which it is tendered, without an imputation of trea son on the bearer. The first overture was not made by the Reformers in this instance, but by Mr. Palmer and his friends, who, with their convictions, we have no hesitation in saying, acted fairly enough; and even as to the declaration itself, no one can have any objection to it, except such as a man may reasonably have to seven of the commandments in the decalogue, simply because they do not contain the essence of all the ten. But when a subscrip tion is called for to the seven, in order to make it a matter of inference against the subscriber that he thinks the other three unnecessary, then, un doubtedly, the subscription ought to be with held. However, the Reformers, who appear to have been good-natured enough, were spared this pain ; for, incredible as it may seem, an op position to that part of the declaration which requires the extinction of nomination bo roughs sprung up among Mr. Palmer's own friends—those who came with him, or to meet him, as he might reasonably have expected, to carry his measure. If ever noodles were like these noodles, we at least do not know were to search for them in history, or look for them in common life; and the most sagacious of the Anti-Reformers —for there are some sagacious among them ; sly, but not honest—the most sagacious of that tribe, we say, may see the issue of their vicious hopes in this infatuation and folly of their party and allies. It is proper that the names of such men should be made doubly public, in order that they may reap their due honours. Mr. Charles Barclay, Mr. Henry Drum mond, Mr. John Drummond, and Sir Coutts Trot ter, objected to that clause in the declaration which referred to the extinction of nomination boroughs.— We gather from our city article that a foolish expec tation still lingers in that region of accommodation, that concessions are to be made by the King, his Ministers, and the people; and that the Bill is to be milk-and-watered down to suit the taste of an obstinate faction, hostile to every other power in the State but its own—and hence these attempts at amalgamating parties. But we again tell the ene mies of Reform that if they have not this Bill, they will have one of a more sweeping and com prehensive nature. Not that we would have the Constitution altered with the sole view of punishing the refractory, and mortifying their vanity; but let them learn, that the measure recently rejected was of so temperate a nature, that it may be considered as making no inconsiderable sacrifices to antiquated prejudices. It may be considered as a concession. One point is clear : whatever compromise has been attempted at the west end of the town, has experi enced the same fate as its eastern parody. The King's Ministers feel the strength of that eminent position whereon, in a happy hour of confidence and public spirit, they first raised the Royal Standard for Reform ; and they have still the resolution to de fend it. The new Bill will not, in any of its essen tial principles, exhibit any falling off from those of its lamented predecessor, nor will it surprise us to see that in some provisions of great importance, and affecting most deeply the rights of the inferior orders of men of property, their just influence on the re ' presentation of the kingdom has been guarded in the new measure with increased solicitude and success. It may be asked undoubtedly, whence, then, have arisen those apprehensions and predic tions of evil which for some weeks, and in many quarters, have broke forth from Press, and per vaded the whole mass of society ? The answer is, that the stake was so enormous, that the in terests depending were so mighty, and the excite ment of the passions so general and intense, as to place the people of England, and not unnaturally either, at the mercy of each successive day's appear. ances, and, indeed, to render a satisfactory explana tion of those plans by which the final issue of the Bill must be decided, riot less a duty of discretion on the part of the Cabinet than a claim of right for the community. At the same time we are bound to state it as our belief, that there has, within a short period, been something more than appearances to justify the public alarms. And in truth and grati tude we feel called upon to add, that a personage, not responsible for any acts committed in his name, has been, if we are not misinformed, one great cause why the grounds of all just apprehension have been removed, and why the nation may henceforth, it is to be hoped, look forward to a speedy, honourable, and tr:umphant termination of its misgivings about Reform. If where the Ministers wanted strength they have been supported, or where they wanted confidence they have been encouraged, it is to the Sovereign himself they are indebted for all that a gracious Sovereign could supply. King 'William's title to the esteem and affection of his people is one which no time can obliterate. It is gained for him by a clear perception and an upright discharge of the most solemn duties, exercised for the benefit of millions of men, against bad precedent, in spite of strong temptation—in disdainful rebuke of vicious counsel—by his regarding the name of an " honest man" as the brightest jewel of his diadem.— Times. An Evening Paper, which for several months past has been singing out the monotonous alarm-note of " revolution" whenever the Reform Bill was men tioned, and which last night honoured us, as usual, with some abuse for our defence of its provisions, shows plainly, by the following reply to a part of our article, that the editor has not read or does not understand one of its chief clauses : " Leeds now contains 2,100 freeholih-rs, qualified to vote for Yorkshire, who do vote, and who, in fact, are known to be always able to return one Member under the existing system, Of these 2,100 freeholders, 400, and no mote, would be disqualified as county electors by their absorption into the borough constituency ; 1,700 town freeholders therefore will remain—to vote for what? For Yorkshire? No ! but for the West Riding [for the county to be divided], in which, of course, 1,700 will be para mount; and the townsmen of Leeds will name the two county or West Riding Members. The same thing might and would occur in every county and division of courts (county) in England, in which there is a great town, so as greatly to overbalance the amount of new county Mem bers,which the Bill pretends to give." The freeholders of Leeds who formerly voted in the county of York for property existing in the town, will be disqualified after the passing of the Bill for so voting in any Riding, East, West, or North. The number of qualifications for Leeds is estimated in a Parliamentary return, entitled " Co pies of further information," &c., and ordered to be printed on the Ist of July last (we are thus particu lar for the benefit of our contemporary's reference), at 6,683. The following explanation is appended to this and other returns :—" 'This total contains, according to the best evidence, the extreme num ber of new qualifications. To ascertain the probable number of additional voters, it would be necessary to analyze the above, and from such analysis would result this conclusion,—that, included in the gross number of new qualifications, the number taken from the county representation would be 5-20ths (or 1-4th) of the whole." Were we right then in our statement, or has tile enemy caught us " nap ping ?" By the return, the number of voters taken from Yorkshire by Leeds would be nearly 2,000, as we foimerly stated.—Times. The leading Ministerial journal has undertaken the hopeful task of convincing the men of property throughout England that the Reform Bill was not a democratic measure. Before we advert to the state ments by which the Times attempts to establish its new position, we must observe that admitting them, as we do, to be numerically accurate, and admitting, for the sake of argument, that the inference deduced from them is also correct, the obvious conclusion then would be that the Reform Bill was a mere delusion—a hypocritical pretence—an impudent imposture palmed upon the community, the effect of which would have been to disappoint the desires and finally to arouse the indignation of the people, to leave them infinately more discontented than it found them with the institutions of the State. We proceed to quote the statements by which our Reforming contemporary seeks to appease the ap• prehensions of the anti-revolutionary portion of the British people, and to propitiate their favour for the Bill. They are such as we have already repeatedly laid before the public during the period when it was the object of Ministers to flatter and delude and in flame the lower orders of the community, and when we could not therefore expect them to be attested and republished as they now are by the Ministerial Press. According to the Bill, then, it is now ad mitted, or rather contended, by its friends, that in many places the constituency was to have been left extremely narrow, and, in not a few, much narrower than it was under the old system of representation. A 4, for instance, in the 54 boroughs in schedule B, the aggregate number of voters resi dent within their boundaries would have been 5,040, or, upon the average, something less than .94 voter s in each. In the 26 large extra-metropolitan towns or districts the total number of voters would have been 67,405, or rather less than 2,600 in each upon the average. And as examples of the diminution of suffrage we are triumphantly referred to Newark, where the constituency would hare been reduced from 1,400 voters to 351 ; and to Preston, where above 6,000 votes would have been gradually extinguished, leaving an actual constituency of less than 1,000. In these statements there is no novelty; the same, and many others of the like nature, and equally true, have often been advanced by the opponents of the Bill. The only novelty, and a most instructive, salutary, and gratifying novelty it is, is, that such statements now proceed from the Ministerial advo cates of that measure. This shows that the game of delusion and excitement is given up; that Minis ters no longer expect to force their Bill upon the country by the aid of mobs; and that now, it being no longer held desirable to deceive the lower orders of the people, the organs of Ministers hasten to turn round, and deride arid insult the lower orders for having been so long and so easily deceived. The organ of Ministers triumphantly asks, is this uni versal suffrage ?—is this a democratic constituency ? Before we answer these questions we beg to ask, is this such a constituency as would have been esta blished by an honest, rational, consistent scheme of Reform ? Is this such a constituency as would have satisfied or ought to satisfy the nation at large ? Is it possible that such a settlement of the representative system as this could be final ? Uni versal suffrage truly it is not, for it excludes and de prives by far the most numerous class of the people, separating them altogether from any kind of partici pation or interest in the national representation ; and democratic surely it is, unless where its de mocratic tendency might occasionally have been disturbed by servility or corruption, for of all classes of the people the small shopkeepers, to whom it would have given an indisputed ascen dancy, are the most impatient of the distinc tions of rank, and the restraints of authority, wherever their own direct personal sordid in terests are not visibly and immediately involved. The consequences of the Bill, we have stated them upon the authority of the Times, are enough to convince every reasonable man that the Bill was not an honest Bill. Why should fifty-four boroughs returning one Member each have only ninety-three votes a-piece, determined by the Bill ? Why should many other boroughs returning two Members each, have a still smaller number of voters so determined, when the minimum number of voters was to be 300 ? Why, but that Whig Commissoners might be enabled to patch out these defective constitu encies in a manner most favourable to the future Parliamentary dominion of their party. Why in the whole of the large towns to be enfran chised should the lowest and the highest classes of inhabitants have been equally de prived of all chance of swaying the elections, for the purpose of bestowing everywhere upon the class next the lowest an absolute monopoly of the representation, unless it was that this class was known to be the most effective allie; in the neces sary preface of agitation ? Why should the exist ing rights of any body of electors be annihilated but that in Preston and elsewhere this was the only means of restoring the dilapidated influence of the Earl of Derby and other Whig Peers ? The policy of the measure was to cultivate rabble popularity and excite mob clamour in the first place, and as the only means likely to ensure its success. The real object of the measure was, there can be no doubt, to increase and perpetuate the power of the Whigs as a Parliamentary party, and to impair or destroy that of their more able, consistent, and honourable rivals. This project has prospered and will prosper as it deserves.—elforning Post. The view which we took yesterday of the prc clamation issued by his Majesty's Ministers, against Political Associations, has been embraced by almost all our evening contemporaries. Nothing, indeed, can be more evident to the plainest understanding than that institutions, of which a whole country either approves, or which are dictated by its neces sities, cannot be put down by mere proclamations, and that the Government which makes the attempt is more likely to lose character than to gain strength by it. It is in this light only that we disprove of the proclamation for putting down Political Asso ciations, having lawful ends and objects in view ; for such associations are unquestionably unlawful, and are as inconsistent with responsibility on the part of the executive, and the due government of the country, on the one hand, as they have, on the other, been summoned into existence, in the b p e re li s i e o t t r i t instance, s ordisloya n i otly the prevalence spirit ) amoiigthep of a re people, but by the necessity of supporting his Majesty's Mi nisters—of carrying the Reform Bill to a suc cessful issue, and of defeating the secret intrigues of a knot of titled and pensioned enemies to Re form, by a public exhibition of the numbers and passed, when f w t i l i r e e n p t e h o e p i le )e . ers W h i a le ve n li t s h t e ene ß d ef t o o rm reas ß o i r i l l , and the will of the people been obeyed, the Associations, having no other objects in view, will cease to exist ; but until these events have taken place there is no power in this country which is capable of putting them down. They will yield obedience, we have no doubt, to the wishes of the Government, as they are bound to yield it, in order that the interests of the Reform Bill may not suffer by their existence; but the proclamation will riot teach any one member of these Associations to think differently respecting Reform from what he has hitherto done ; neither will it prevent the members collectively from using all their efforts towards its promotion. The Tory organs, as we anticipated yesterday, are in an ecstacy of delight with the conduct of his Majesty's Mi nisters in issuing the proclamation ; but what will it avail their patrons or their cause ? The spirit of Reform is not only as much alive now as it has been at any previous period during the last twelve months, but what is more, the Political Unions, although dangerous to Tory supremacy, had also at heart the preservation of order, and it is a question with us, in consequence, whether, in case that the Tories continue to play the fool, they are not more likely to suffer in their persons and pro perty, than to gain, by their suppression. The Torres,however, cannot now bring any charge against the Government, either of having neglected to put the law in force, or of being intimidated in their con sideration of the Reform Bill ; and so far the pro clamation may work to a good end, by spoiling many lengthy and foolish speeches to which we should otherwise have been treated in the ensuing session. —Morning Advertiser. ORIGIN OF NAMES.--The Brabant manu facturer Ililixs, gave his name to the skein of worsted, which still retains it; and THOMAS BLANKET, a weaver in Bristol, has given a bed-fellow both to ladies and gen tlemen, EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF BODY STEAL. ING.-NIYSTERY SOLVED In our last Paper we gave some proceedings re lative to the dead body of a man, seized on the Courier coach, in Leeds, in its transit to Edinburgh, which had been exposed at the Court-house for pub lic inspection for several days, without being owned, which, combined with some marks of violence about the neck, led to the suspicion of his having been murdered. Under these circumstances, it was thought proper to hold an inquest upon the body, the proceedings of which we gave in our last Paper, and which, as far as they went, strengthened the suspicions which were afloat of the deceased having come to his death by foul means, as Mr. Chorley, the senior surgeon of the Leeds Infirmary, stated it as his decided opinion that he had died of strangu lation. With the view of affording further time for the identification of the body, the inquest was ad journed for a few days, and subsequent events showed the expediency of this measure, as the body was identified on the day but one following (Satur day,) when it was clearly made out to be the body of a man who had committed suicide, at East Ardsley, by strangling himself with a handkerchief, and who had been buried in East Ardsley Church yard, on Monday, Nov. 7. At an early hour on Monday, the brother and sister-in-law of the de ceased, the sexton, and the parish clerk of East Ardsley Church, were examined, who clearly made out that the deceased, whose name was Robert Hudson, was found on Sunday hanging in a coal cabin, at East Ardsley; that an inquest was held upon his body on the following day, when the Jury found that be had strangled himself, being in a state of insanity ; that he was interred in East Ardsley Church-yard on Tuesday, November 1, and that on opening the grave on Saturday, November 12, the body was missing, and the coffin lid broken open. The Jury found a special verdict, embodying these facts. The following is an outline of the various facts detailed in the course of the evidence. The head of the gang of the Leeds resurrectionists is a Mr. Hodgson, an attorney's cle k. He kept several people in his employ, to whom he gave " rounds," that is the names of a number of church-yards they were to visit, written out on a piece of paper. On reconnoitring the places thus pointed out to them, when they observed any new made graves, they repeated their visits in the night. Having opened the graves, the coffins were sawn across the head, and the bodies extracted by means of ropes passed under their arms. The names of the gang are, besides Hodgson, their chief, Mr. John Crabtree Pickering, schoolmaster of Bond•street, Leeds, and formerly of this city; Wm. Germain Parker, York-road; Wm. Henry Bradley, joiner; James Norman, butcher, Wade-lane ; Thos. Pear son, cloth-weaver, New-road-end, all of Leeds; and John Wood, shoemaker, Buslingthorpe, near Leeds. Hodgson had a card in his possession, at the top of which was a triangle, with a cross on it, under which were Hebrew characters for the words " the bones;" and then followed John Hodgson, missionary. This had been explained to one of the witnesses, by a person to whom he was a stranger—to be Hodgson's oath, that the triangle meant secrecy, the Hebrew characters stood for dust; and that the crucifix sig nified, they were sworn on the Holy Evangelists to betray no secrets; that if any of them were to be apprehended in getting a body, they were not to in form—if they did it would be in peril of their lives Mr. Hodgson was bound for his appearance at the Yorkshire .Assiz2s, in two sureties, housekeepers, in 150/. each, himself in 100/.; Mr. Pickering in two sureties of 501. each, himself in 100/. ; and all the other defendants, except Pearson and Wood, each in two sureties of 25/. each, and themselves in 50/.; all the parties to give twenty-four hours' notice of their bail. Pearson and Wood have been discharged on account of this business, but they still remain in custody.—York Courant. WHAT WILL MR. IRVING DO ? The " Interrogative System" has been much in fashion of late; and we have had " What will the people do ?" " What will the Commons do ?" " What will the Lords do ?" " What will the King do ?" asked and answered in various ways, and at an extraordinary expenditure of paper. We have heard another question, touching the doings in Regent-square, of scarcely less importance, after the proceedings of Sunday se'nnight ; and it is this— " What will Mr. Irving do ?" The answer is briefly given in the following extract from his " ex planation" last Sunday morning :—" The disturb ance in the church last Sunday was caused by indi viduals not members of this congregation, who banded themselves together for the purpose—wicked persons who came here in hundreds; and the won der is that the Lord preserved us as he did preserve us. I then promised that the gifts of the Spirit should not be heard in the church this evening; and it is not for man to break his word. What I then pledged I will stand to, and therefore I have re quested that those persons who speak in the tongues should not come to the church this night. I have, nevertheless, examined the Scriptures—l have availed myself of the opportunity to see how the thq Ghost would order their services, and I find it is his will not to confine what is witnessed by his word to the faithful in Christ, but that it shall be made to the scoffer, the hypocrite, and the unbe liever also. The gift of prophecy was sent not only for the refreshment of the believers, but for the wicked ; and though the worst and vilest of the po pulation—though Atheists, Deists, and reprobates, should assemble here—l dare not—l dare not for my life—say to the persons who are endowed with the gift of tongues, You shall not deliver the com mandments of the Lord to the people.' On this Lord's night, then, according to my pledge—how ever painful it may be to me—there will be no manifestations of tha Spirit, but hereafter the voice of the Spirit must be heard." Mr. Irving then proceeded to lay down the following regulations for the morning service :—" After having read a chapter, and expounding it, we will pause—it may be for a minute or so—and you will reflect on that which you have Just heard ; and in th;s way we will wait to see whether the Holy Ghost wishes to speak unto us. If this be the case, receive it thank fully--be glad ; if not, let us proceed reverently and peaceably in the service. At the conclusion of the sermon, in like manner, we will wait for the mani festations of the Spirit, if the Holy Ghost be pleased to send his word amongst us ; and let us, I again beseech you, receive it with thankfulness and reve rence.', In accordance with the order of proceeding thus laid down, the Reverend Gentleman proceeded to read and to illustrate the 15th chapter of St. John ; after which he observed, by way of introduc ing the ladies anti gentlemen of the " cloven • tongue,"—" If it now please the Lord to speak to us, hear, I beseech you, in silence." A short pause followed, and then Miss Hall (we believe), pitching her voice at its highest key, proceeded in manner following :—" 0 übo! 0 übo ! 0 übo ; 0 übo ! * 9 tt ik ♦ * (hiatus valde deflendus—we cannot master the tongues) —you shall receive—you shall receive— you shall receive—you need it—you need it—you need it," &c. Miss Hall having brought her nut- Infestation to a close, Mr. Irving warmly congratu lated his congregation on the very proper spirit which they had just exhibited—" You have heard, and you have heard reverently; take, then, the en couragement thus given, and bless the Lord that you have heard his ordinance." The usual Psalm came next; then the sermon, Mr. Irving winding u p with—" And now, having fulfilled the dice of Pastor, if the Holy Ghost manifest himself amongst us, I beg you to hear the words in silence." But " they did not come when he did call them"—Mi ss Hall, Miss Carsdale, Mr. Taplin, spoke not, and the service terminated in the usual manner. —Morning Herald. DEBT.—If you boast of a contempt for the world, avoid getting into debt. It is giving unto gnats the fangs of vipers. THE BENCH OF BISHOPS. The Lords Spiritual may be divide very few classes. First come the aristocratical connection; for to be bl a Lord is next to being chosen of God. the present Peers of this order, the names Jenkinson, Bagot, Percy, Vernon speak selves. The literature which has taken the the occult science is the Greek languagt would have done, provided it were suffici tinct from the science of Government. the acquirement which of late years, all-sufficient. Eminence in Christian ledge was not demanded; pastoral aexii trinal scrupulousness, all these were some. But a man might go to the dest depths of an anapestic chorus, or corruptest passages of a tragedy of Euripide• out troubling the Government about his %rot( the same time by means of the said Greek, it must be said, is sacred in prejudice, and,' aid of certain conventional solemnities, equal to the making of a due impression people. Blomfield, Bishop of London, is a Bishop ; his fame rests on the arrangt certain plays of 2Eschylus, while it would to him to witness one of our own at Covet All that Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, has an edition of certain plays of Euripides. Lincoln, has a reputation solely founded knowledge of Greek. Carey, of St. - written several books of Latin prosody: the would not, however, have been sufficient,' not also been master of Westminster Sell ( thereby connected with a rising aristocracy ingford, of Hereford, has the same claim: master of Winchester School, and has put book of Greek exercises. The present Ai tion, as yet scarcely understanding the are upon, have proceeded on similar prince only Bishop they have had to appoint has but that of being of their side, as the others the other side, and being, like them, a lar, who published a Greek prosody. Some to be sure, have direct political claims. Peterborough, wrote a defence of Pitt point residing in Germany, when Europe was di' tweet( France and England; and Philik . wrote violent pamphlets against the Catholl! cipation, and next equally violent ones in it. The Sumner. come under the head of Bishops.—Spectator. AN UNDOUBTED PARSON.—It is to observe how soon a Parso❑ repents of the sudden fit of liberality or when necessity i m pels act of forbearance. Behold an illustration. " risings" of the last year, the Rev. Mr. HAL- C'ayton, who owns the tithes of the parishes of and Keymer, (value 500/. a year,) he'd his tithe Friars 0,1 - under the auspices, --doubtless enjoin meekness of his religious tenets,—of a guard of diers. Thus armed, and protected from the im; Yielding to intimidation, the Rev. consumer of dred pounds' worth of the industry of the very considerately reduced his tithes tsveni cent. Now, it is well known that nothing occurred to better the farmer's condition ; poor silly men, not knowing the hearts of . fed priests so well as we do, imagined that amount which had satisfied the tithe-owner would content him this. But, no such thing' days back he held his audit again at Friars, but there being now no " risings," this father of I' l this preacher of contempt for the wealth of this jetted the proffered reduction, insisting on the the original amount being paid. Some expressed ability, while others flatly refused compliance; hear that the scene closed with hi, Reverence's fix' for the final settlement of the full demand, in which he threatened the visitation of the law. is a man whom the people are called upon to esi respect—one of those whom the parson of Ar siders it almost impious not to do obedience to. downfall of the Church was at all doubtful as estlblishment, the mercenary conduct of these , priests would secure the accomplishtneut of that object.—Brighton Gazette. SPECIMEN OF CLERICAL LIBERALt Last year when " risings" were the order of the Priest of Barcotnhe met the peasantry in corni the farmers of the parish, when the labourers de g. ' diminution of the tithes as one of the means of themselves an augmentation of wages. To till' the parson consented, and forthwith deducted per cent., adding at the same time that he s hould ready to meet the necessities of the times next , they be worse than they were. On Wednesday tithe audit took place, when the fair promises of t li t were put to the test, and the mann e r i n wh!c'' deemed his pledge may be gathered from his the whole composition, declaring in the face of sent that he bad made no promise of reduction, the greater portion of the meeting affirmed the The Reverend gentleman not only pocketted the f 0 of the tithes, but he also refused to give the fi customary dinner. Upon his determination known, about a dozen of the m ore opu l ent re tire' Royal Oak Inn, in the village, and ordered a din' English fare, of which they partook at their own The afternoon was spent with more good hut. might be expected, considering the conduct of th e Song, toast, and sentiment, beguiled the time. removal of the cloth, the Chairman gave , g The WILLIAM 1V.," which was enthusiastically drank, also—" The QUEEN," " Earl GREY and his 31ini,ters," &c. &c. The Rev. Mr. TREBECK complimented for the generous manner in which fulfilled his promise made to the farmers at the and his health was drank with every feeling of and respect,—while " reformation" to the Priest' tion was as cordially quaff e d. W e can on ly wonde r O infatuation of such men, s e eing th em d e t erm ined I, times of excitement to take every opportunity. at. themselves obnoxious to the people and thereby: their own downfall as a state appendqe.—Brig, i td -, e~ FnANKENTsTEIN.—(Just published, .„ ninth volume of the " Standard Novels.")--'` terrible, and witls its interest sustained to the 1 . 16 kenstein is certainly one of the most original ever proceeded from a female pen. The rn , feminine writers possess, are tact, feeling., a kco' ton at the ridiculous, or a touching appeal to gY r Not one of all these is the characteristic of the fore us ; it appeals to fear, not love; and, contrail general materiel in the writiugs of women, I t , e heart in it than the mind. The character of thusiastic young student, with whom know s passion, is powerfully drown ; and w e know, imaginative literature, few scenes more appall' where Frankenstein is pursuing his monstrous dictive enemy over the frozen deserts of the Literary Gazette. ~L 1~ DETRACTION.—Fishe rmen , in nrJ, j, handle eels securely, first cover them with dirt. manner does detraction strive to grasp excellence' BONAPARTE'S OPINION OF SIR SMITIL—The EMPEROR thought him an honest believed him to be mad ; as he could not, he said) heed how any man in his senses could undertake reasonable things, —.M em s i res d e m a d ame la d'Abran tes. N A Frenchman having a violent pail' breast and stomach, went to a physician fur rehr doctor inquiring where his trouble lay, the Fi with a dolorous accent, laying his hand on his 1)1 " Vy, care, I have one very bad pain in my port (me3ning his chest). BITS. ' i'• On the :220. inst. in Weymout ß h-s H treet, the lady 0 1 ft , Esq., of a son. d i c On the `_"3d inst. at 31Ichael's Grove, Bromptop, ' E. Deacon, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. 13. On the '2.'2d inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, -„ c Esq. of Bruton-street, Berkeley-sq uare , t o Mary „, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Stevens, of Di r' s c " o f' Somersetshire. f o,, On the 24th inst. at All Souls', Marylebone, John , 4. 11ev. Wm. Gadsby, of Manchester, to Miss Green, stre O et, St. Giles's. r O n the 3d2: inst. at West Hackney, T. T. Laugtw o f of Leyton, to Louisa, slaughter of W. IL Price, I , s4' Lind-place. DIED. ", On the 9.2 d inst. after a long and painful illness, of Charles Deacon, Esq., of Wes - mouth-street, Pat ia ": On the 22d inst. at Paul's Cray Rectory, Kent, Rev. J. Simons, aged 65. On the 22d inst. at Greenwich, Elizabeth Bousfield son, wife of J. Richardson, Esq. aged 3.. ••4 ff On the 2lst inst. at Hare Hatch, Berks, aged Holroyd, Knt. late on e o f th e J u d ges o f hi s MajestY''" King's Bench. PRINTED AND PI , BLIsIiED BY MURDO YOU;NO, This thy r TREE POW] Ritnp 'tY vea ' of thi and S ,to he, " ii k Pi, ' Weig °I the N (14 par 1)6 capit a klui cn or hav J im et ► N ho EI) ' or 01\7 .e )rt D g, Pei beat, ti t tr3 i:) 4 , N et) Wit] ans, Paeu: al re,nl /1. • Period Ite r I4 Ven , V find `.4111141 Co' ti Rtre, 3 8 . Will Atk b Y tl Of h is - of apd v 11 4 ; rt ~~A ~yED it, 1 111. 1 , ti 2 , c Akek ~yBeio s jj~e f, h . qte rt(').',!! 1 ~ ~~ ivy The 7,' e .4s „ e lelpt a . L j or aristocratical - i s c chosenfocrun itoeof Gb' e7dob.f r...-°,:tsti ill', ',be.. Pi'.4tintrttottetatel:,7.,S'l.,.resi 4,ereiYme'''lln,,, jeota.twp:rhrntrl°Gtll"i'te:eng_tliet'ei.,illll' the 'resent Peers of this order, the names a' Jenctinson, Bagot, Percy, Vernon speak for • selves. The literature which has taken the liltorof th e s the occult science is the Greek language—et would have done, provided it were sufficies k tinct from the science of Government. l i 1 .-- — ) F .,,,,, the acquirement which of late years, he' - . 1- ' E all-sufficient. Eminence in Christian Ipehii ihed ledge was not demanded; pastoral anxieti li t ,. ath trinal scrupulousness, all these were i f tit ml some. But a man might go to the r and sr. dest depths of an anapestic chorus, or pr corruptest passages of a tragedy of Euripidsh il'ieletteotth‘leenti out troubling the Government about his vote) 41" ed King the same time by means of the said Greek'tr i t % t he end it must be said, is sacred in prejudice, and, i cll le ty -r '" , Fiscr aid of certain conventional solemnities, b u ilei l 4 W , eight, equal to the making of a due impression °f , t, ,/, t " We people. Blomfield, Bishop of London, is a P 4 (l ir„g r aPl Bishop; his fame rests on the arranged , certain plays of 2Eschylus, while it would 1 ' 4 ,, to him to witness one of our own at Coventr i 40 111 4 . s All that Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, has ' th LIP it A 114 , e Ch. an edition of certain plays of Euripides. P I ° win ilm i Lincoln, has a reputation solely founded , A r ! 4. l - 1 ------ ------ - ENT( knowledge of Greek. Carey, of Sr. Aori . written several books of Latin prosody : til e i tile (LORI would not, however, have been sufficient, for tes not also been master of Westminster Sch It A s thereby connected with a rising aristocracy , 1 ,4 Ar e ingford, of Hereford, has the same claim :%-ie::141/1g 1 master of Winchester School, and has pub . ll l4 hili t , 4 e i r ' n ' book , as s f y G e r t e Greek scarcelyexercises. e r s T ta h n e d i p n r g es t e h n e t gArod; 1 , r tion are upon, have proceeded on similar principle ° "' h r ota si r only Bishop they have had to appoint has o° _,AN u r ublishe but that of being of their side, as the others 7 ,t''') r of the other side, and being, like them, a Greek' t : t d Pride lar, who published a Greek prosody. Sorne ° o l to be sure, have direct political claims. 1 0 Ileti 4 11 °f Peterborough, wrote a defence of Pitt politieili ', ea ,ms residing in Germany, when Europe was di e° , 4111 con s i tween France and England; and Phiiipotr ev 4 1 041 • wrote violent pamphlets against the Catholi c ,' to ilet " or i n cipation, and next (equally violent ones in fe ,, , lf ; ,1 11 havi nl it. The Sumner. come under the head 0 1 ' Inl eg PI • Ett Bishops.—Spectator. CAy si C ' 0 T ,91Th E AN UNDOUBTED PARSON.—It is SO i ii Wir e ,, - '%II to observe how soon a Parson repents of the deep otii\i' oth sudden fit of liberality or when necessity i m pels b it . l o l Sl] act of forbearance. Behold an illustration. Du i 1 ktt i ,eon ] " risings" of the last year, the Rev. Mr. HALL° ,osi v ,." 1 31, C'ayton, who owns the tithes of the parishes of 0 , .trk`rPatroi and Keymer, (value 500/. a year,) he'd his titbe, t v top: i !tsioti; Friars Oak under the auspices, --doubtless enjoilleati 4 li e . 18, res meekness of his religious tenets,—of a guard of b °.4. 4 14 gent diers. Thus armed, and protected from the imPu t : ep h TEI Yielding to intimidation, the Rev. consumer of eig oft -DANE dred pounds' worth of the industry of the tly ° 'e • ' t h i of 1. ,. °1 very considerately reduced his tithes twentY j , 41 'i h% P ,7 11 ° 1 • 1 cent. Now, it is well known that nothing l ',l - b t'll t i ; ' or occurred to better the farmer's condition ; i tt '; 3 , qt3 Li '„ 't a .,.; poor silly men, not knowing the hearts o f thet,CelN r , - ,., r ,' fed priests so well as we do, imagined that P : t Cres - `" 4l amount which had satisfied the tithe-owner Is ' t, 4 h; ;.'"°' wou st ld hbera c ec o k n be te ih n neg t ni h joe i ll in vd nho tl i t s i , s :aruisdi ß filtg u s t, ,a,g, n at o hini. such thing' i t. -astve ), h - - acul ~ days this preacher of contempt for the wealth af o at f th t Fe h r is ia .:L 'R O ne jetted the proffered reduction, insisting on the °i ; t period the original amount being paid. Some expresse d t , 'l, ci„ ) ability, while others flatly refused compliance; y s -me hear that the scene closed with his Reverence's fixies h 3 ) „, i a nd for the final settlement of the full demand, in de t , which be threatened the visitation of the law. ''''CTO is a man whom the people are called upon to est if 11 ine eme, respect—one of those whom the parson of Ardia , ti a nd v , siders it almost impious not to do obedience to. the, c : downfall of the Church was at all doubtful as! 3 : 14 , C o l' , establishment, the mercenary conduct of these gal"," 4, 1%, 6 7 : priests would secure the accomplishment of that d' k t f t° trane e t. , object. —Brighton Gazette. a. i!, ,4,1 street, SPECIMEN OF CLERICAL LIBERAL I i I q t1e . ,,,, ) , 1i 0 ', 6 Last year when " risings" were the order of the ci a ' tt a " n 4 Priest of Barcombe met the peasantry in contP 3Pl I As i . the farmers of the parish, when the labourers d ett. '„ 2. Ous,, k f°l. diminution of the tithes as one of the means of stab //,`, RH t themselves an augmentation of wages. T o this ‘, vt , p the parson consented, and forthwith deducted t tv , e ;: e ile „ I lth e : per cent., adding at the same time that he should bi t °f his D. ready to meet the necessities of the times next yel f i t o tiif t ' t Y of G they be worse than they were. On Wednesday kik y t ,44l Vi go tithe audit took place, when the fair promises of thl i ytti, t t to uli were put to the test, and the manner in avid cit At: t h lt befo e , deemed his pledge may be gathered from his des t oe hti,;:rt spay the whole composition, declaring in the face of tl 'hek 3 2 lll 'ete l sent that he Lad made no promise of reduction, ' s l,l;i t ,`", I), the greater portion of the meeting affirmed the o t isk t t l, e nd 1 The Reverend gentleman not only pocketted the f 0 rye s heir 3 , of the tithes, hut be also refused to give the farr ye / 1 4 3 , ki t tons t b i customary dinner. Upon his determination beit? o , li c ;ed y o , known, about a dozen of the more opulent retire d itfi cji ttE, ,s. Royal Oak Inn, in the village, and ordered a dinee r sf illo. 4. tb / English fare, of which they partook at their ovr'' t / 1. 44 4 ' C' Frey' The afternoon was spent with more good humO r req might be expected, considering the conduct of tb e f ittlt il . httYi ng Song, toast, and sentiment, beguiled the time. i,..,redi ti 10 1 removal of the cloth, the Chairman gave " The w i"'tb e ' ll e b e , WILLIAM 1V.," which was enthusiastically dralt ir ,'Dr eri also—." The QUEEN," " Earl GREY and his ' ' o 'go o , _Ministers,"&c.Sze. The Rev. Mr. TREBEcK i'l e l '''lt complimented for the generous m anner i n which e ; I tliUN fulfilled his promise made to the farmers at the sirs'* 4 . , l and his health was drank with every feeling of F'„y 4 :°44„ tish and respect,—while " reformation" to the Priest ''',l.7tts t ,"' on tion was as cordially quaffed. We can only wonde r yes s ea t of infatuation of such men, seeing them determined l a lo qe 1 1 , 4 " stop , times of excitement to take every opportunity. ef ol ittir , ti e, themselves obnoxious to the people and thereby 11 (Vlslie t t :eral their own downfall as a state appenclage.—Brigia °4 es t se e ,i al 41 16, 14 Y 1 FRANKENSTEIN.—(Just pUbliSheu, 4 /4 4 t"Ci r A ninth volume of the " Standard Nwels.")-- .4 ' P, l to tl t 4 ll'ati yi terrible, and with its interest sustained to the lit t ivir bigtl.s., kenstein is certainly one of the most original wE ir ,„ f "ItTio ever proceeded from a female pen. Th e mew p 4 , feminine writers possess, are tact, feeling, a kee°,,, Pe i att: i t) 3 , 2. o 3, tion of the ridiculous, or a touching appeal to si r rt,ohlthe h k Sta Not one of all these is the characteristic of the ° liir , ,,,Vel g : y ' fore as It ; it appeals to fear, not love; and, contrail'', "Aco t tlic; general materiel in the writivgs of women, O t tt et) tti4r 34 ° lrt t , e heart in it than the mind. The character of,, Il t° Ptt h 'rit Y h tt ; thusiastic young student, with whom knowle"FiA ll i lreP e rtre passion, is powerfully drawn ; and w e k n otv, in; ll i t Nitth - a( imaginative literature, few s,enes more appul li ;lktit7 where Frankenstein is pursuing his monstrous 5 ,e'vti t i:reestitt dictive enemy over the frozen deserts of the ° ce fr: 3 ;l 4r t . e n i e, 4 Literary Gazette. tOti orn: fj. bait at,p,,,t%fl'irtithhi DETRACTION.—Fishermen, in 0 . to ;•:, handle eels securely, first cover them with dirt. k i ;Re4°N . o ] manner does detraction strive to grasp excellence' A t 'itl a ii4 BONAPARTE'S OPINION OF SIR S l ot I t q4 4t i lt h i e l i': SMITII. —The EMPEROR thought him an honest ' '' ,,elfilt, 4 l - 4,„tha' believed him to be mad ; as be could not, lie said , c e liliqe t7Yi bend how any man in his senses could undertaltetel t )tolit t P t reasonable things.—Meinsires de Madame la 11 tZ t t i 'elt, (° f d'Abrantes. t L , ,,,k e ,Y.t jo i k h ll'or t ,' l,l , A French man h av i ng a v i o l ent pai a 1 t ,.44, 4 kip doctort,reast inquiring i iili g stomach, n,here we h n i t ,, totroaupbllieysiitaiya,n timefur rFei!cirofc.oiti:Oittllttl,4thttattyhort with a dolorous accent, laying his hand on his 10 11 ,01,?oth,:ltaie, i Vy, sere, I have one very bad pain in my ports s° ttipctr tl e4tr o i (meaning his chest). ' 1 : 4 tZu e i, ....,___-_—.....-.... _ __ -- - t;t4+ttt° file, BIRTHS. II. l'. .Jtj,, (l libnar On the t22d inst. in Weymouth-street, the lady o f ift ',Lar; - aril Esq., of a son, , e # 3. , 1 o L tk a s On the nt inst. at Michael's Grove, Brompton , t'' „"ft 4t have ' l , E. Deacon, Esq., of a son. .(Z i Nc e I Will MARRIED. „ 1 .0 t ri I, ' V eil t , On the 2'2d inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, u jel„l' o rvl, e it , ite d t Esq. of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, to Mary 1!'„,,e , " ot h tofy,, , •oungest (laughter of the late Colonel Stevens, of Dis`: oo f fs l , . 4 , 'ort I - , somersetshire. 1 cOv!i Wm.the d s ins,. by , at o fAll Manchester,S Souls', ul s ', 111 a t r ,r, v I e 3 b i o i s n:, 6 J r o cti h ec n ir, , ,, - 00 i f, ; ,, ,iol:l:ll . l6 4 b e,h z : ,, ir,e , treat, St. Giles's. On the 23d inst. at West Hackney, T. T. Lau; if Leyton, to Louisa, (laughter of W. 11. Price, Esq , ; 4 40)1 tnd-place. , ° i 4i ge, t DIED. ilf ', 4 0 On the c...2d inst. after a long and painful illneEs, P o ll i , AN 4 4 if Charles Deacon, Esq., of Weymouth-street, l'ort, J tDci IN. Ws, On the 2.A inst. at Paul's Cray Rectory, Kent, i'" ,pir, I, 14 7 rev. J. Simons, aged 65. la P ( 1 ‘ ' On the '2•2d inst. at Greenwich, Elizabeth Bousfie if. N l 'Dir t on, wife of J. Richardson, Esq. aged 312. ~., ,a ,e tell on the :21st inst. at Hare Ilatch, Berks, aged d - :.0 i t- s-ntl - iolroyd, Knt. late one of the Judges of his MajesfY" ~s o e l i e 1 04 ring's Bench. /0'44., 'lt at --. __---",'( 14 -" ssrit 'HINTED AND PCDLI- II PD BY M U RDO YOUN , : I, ° .. _