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3ebtow the best places in his gift, or attainable through his influence, upon the unprovilled members of the family, or its nearest rela tires. Thus were the late Archbishop of Canter bury, the Irish Lord Chancellor Manners, and the present Speaker of the House of Commons " provided for." Of any want of fitness in the last-mentioned Right Hon. Gentleman for his elevated and arduous office, we are unquestion ably not - unjust enough to Complain ; but of the two former it may be truly said, that however amiable they may have been in private life, their professional q ualifications were not such as could alone have recommended them to the English primacy, or to the Irish woolsack ; nor, indeed, could the undisputed competency of Mr. Man ners Sutton have borne him through his first contest for the chair, had he not fought under the banners of Belvoir Castle. We might enu merate other members or connexions of the house of Rutland, forced by its command of votes in Parliament upon the Minister of the day, but that our purpose is merely to illustrate a system of government susceptible of grievous injury to the nation, not by any means to wound the feelings of individuals who are not already and conspicuously before the public eye. The practice resorted to for strengthening family in fluence, as we have just hinted at the uses to hick it has been converted, is, to connect the interest of clever men of business, qualified to fill the part of political agents and effective partisans, with those of the great head of the family himself. Thus, to go no further, we have found the name of Mortlock, a Cambridge factotum of the Duke of Rutland, amongst the Commissioners of Ex - cise. But if the distribution of Ministerial favours throughout the county for the last fifty years were inquired into, and a list taken of the Ma gistrates, the various classes and kinds of revenue officers, of law officers, and of clergy holding Government benefices, with another catalogue of their expectant successors in the several branches were framed—a due estimate being likewise made of the kindly influence derived • from petty patronage in the hands of such mul tifarious functionaries, as well as of the more stern though not less efficient ascendancy exer cised by them through the fear of their petty persecutions—we may form some vague, but far lion' adequate notion, of that established and well-knit power with which the friends of Re form must unavoidably struggle, in the county where patronage, that is to say, the unmeasured and irresponsible controul over the public money, has been for a period almost beyond the memory of living man, radiating upon every point of its circumference, from one great centre, and that centre, the chief of the Manners family, who summons the entire host of place-bound vassals • to a last fight in defence of their common pro perty, the plunder of the people of England. Yet such a battle has been fought, and a mighty tri umph achieved, over the joint influence of Rut land and Yorke, the superlative and comparative of malignant planets in the Tory system. We aver that this has been a magnificent triumph. It was not, as in Dorsetshire, where the mater rials of resistance to prescriptive servitude ail • feeble ;—it was not, we say, all but a drawn fight; like that between Lord Ashley and his liberal though unsuccessful adversary ;—it was, in thci face of the old Pitt-ocracy, and of the church~ militant under all its forms of Episcopal and College stubbornness, a victory carried with aj high hand, and by a majority of much mor than one-third of the whole number polled by the anti-national interest. Wliv, then. was this ? Because Cambridgeshire boasts of an indepen dent body of farming freeholders,—men above want, men with opportunities of acquiring in formation upon the state and politics of the country, by intercourse beyond the precincts of their immediate neighbourhood. These en lightened, uncorrupted, and incorruptible electors, resolved that they would no longer be Rutland ridden. They were not deceived by the dis honest prating of the Tories about the hostile • tendency of the late Bill towards the landed in terests. They were sensible that a state of the law which gives the nation generally a power of managing its own concerns, must be better for the great portion of the people, than one which gives to one order of men, exclusively, a right of robbing all the rest. Therefore it was that Captain Yorke's rhetoric failed, and that Mr. Townley, without any art of rhetoric, defeated him. It is indeed a noble victory, and England may well be proud of the Cambridgeshire electors. —Times. Tranquillity has at length been restored in Bristol, but at an expence at which humanity shudders. From 400 to 500 of the misguided rioters were sabred or cut down. The loss of life was, however, we understand, mainly caused by drunkenness. Many perished in the flames. The destruction of property has been very great. The riot was quelled on Monday, by two charges of dragoons, the same—part of the 3d and the 14th—who are alluded to in our ac counts of yesterday. from the afternoon of Monday, to eight o'clock yesterday morning —the latest hour at which the coaches left Bristol—all has been quiet. The Magis trates were, it seems, weal: and inefficient, and to their want of judgment and firmness must l i be attributed the dreadful loss of life and de struction of property which have taken place. As soon as they could be induced to act with courage and common sense, the same soldiers— namely, part of the 3d and 14th dragoons--put down, at an enormous expellee of human life, a riot which they could have easily checked in the commencement, had they been allowed to act with effect. In fact it would almost seem as if the authorities in Bristol had wished to take for' a precedent the conduct of the Magistrates of London in the Lord George Gordon riots of 1780. Too much care cannot be taken to avoid extreme measures, so long as the ebul litions of the people are not of an outra ,,eoos character ; but the moment they begin to wage war against persons and property, hesitation in men, entrusted with authority, w restore order with the utmost promptitude, by the employment of all the force at their disposal, is a gross failure in their duty to the community. We were thunderstruck when we saw in the accounts received on Mon day that the soldiers had withdrawn, leaving - Bristol in the power of a ferocious mob ; but we avoided ail remark on so strange a proceeding, from an unwillingness to deal out censure which might have been misapplied. We now find that! the blame rests entirely with the Bristol Ma. gistracy. The . accounts which w e h ave col lected front various sources, represent the con duct of the populace of Bristol in the most un favourable light. " The people are guilty (says a the Bath Jorernao of every excess of debauchery and licentiousness that can disgrace human nature. Female chastity has no protection, the violation of every law characterises the insur gents. Three of them, in a state of drunken- H ess, were burnt in one of the d ouses they fired, and two were burnt in one of the prisons." " How disparaging (says the same journal) a comparison to England is the conduct of the Parisians and the Bristolians ! The former, with zeal, with enthusiasm, united firmness, judgment, and discretion—the latter go precipi tately to work, heedless of anything but plunder, and the extent of mischief they can effect. In Paris, nothing was destroyed that could be spared ; in Bristol, what wine they could not swallow, they wasted, and then set fire to the premises, heedless of thedanger to a whole city." The comparison is hardly fair. In Paris there was a great national object to animate all classes of citizens, and all more or less concurred in the great work. The battle was not fought by the mob, but by respectable mechanics and working men, thrown out of employment, and fighting for a victory which would give liberty to their country, and to their own families the means of subsistence. But in Bristol there was no cause of which a single respectable man could approve for the violence which has taken place. No rational man could suppose that the Reform Bill would derive any support from subjecting Sir C. Wetherell to outrage. The disturbance was, therefore, began by the mere rabble, to be found in all large towns. The progress they made was not so much owing to their own strength as the want of promptitude and courage in the men in authority. We know that a mere handful of 'nen ravaged London, without obstruction, in 1780 ; and if no precautionary measures are adopted, it will always be in the power of a hand ful of disorderly persons to throw any peaceable society into confusion. That which is con temptible in the outset acquires rapid strength by the accession of the weak and the thoughtless to the unprincipled, and by the catching nature of the madness. It has been stated on good authority, that during the reign of terror in Paris, men of excellent character, and whose subsequent as well as previous lives were irreproachable, lost all command of themselves, and were hurried into excesses in a manner which they could not in their sober moments comprehend, medical gentleman, of strong nerves and strong understanding, assured us that it was with the utmost difficulty he could contain him self during the mad extravagahcies of a Metho dist love-feast, which he witnessed. A mob, therefore, which is contemptible in the outset, may draw into its vortex individuals who would before have shuddered 4.. t the idea of the out rages in which they participated during the pa roxysm of excitement. It is well known thatthe very steadiest and best-behaved soldiers become almost frantic from the excitement in storming a town, and for some time eonduct themselves like wild beasts. It is unfair, therefore, to c 4 -41 1 -1,. pare a respectable population, intent on a great and elevated work., requiring for its accomplish ment the union of ingenuity, presence of mind, and courage, with the accidental outbreaiciug Pr a contemptible rabble, suddenly converted by mismanagement into an importance which was never contemplated. " And what is it about," says the s . ..roe ‘` and as hat is its cause? Why the arrival of Sir Charles Wetiae rell—a poor, weak, but honest champion of Toryism, who, though the h e i.s.; of the crew, is a mere cypher, when opposed to the talent and vizt;:e leagued on the side of the people. For him it is that the peopis we hope-not the people, but the lowest of the low, who love dicer:lee --enable > Sir Charles to escape from the danger, to fly to Newport, to chuzkle. at the almost certain prospect that the rioters are entirety destroying the influence of their own friends. Contrary to the adviec a the Press, and all lovers of. order, who are staunch advocates for R4orm, the people are acting as their own enemies. They will alarm all who are respectable and intelligent; they will cause them to forsake the standard of Reform, and rally round any Government for the cake of order, and the pre servation of property. 'We hope we anal; ;;.ear no more of these dreadful works. But how does the argument affect Sir Charles? He cannot stand at all excused. Had he really desired nil ths.t has occurred, he could not have pursued more effectual meaus to accomplish it. We should have been delighted if Sir Charize Wetherell, from his xs;ero nothingness, excepting empty talk and tiresoisse delay, had foue.d his way into the Hall subject to the mortification of It - moth - aim. ous silence. But this was not the temper of the people ; fsir Charles knew it—all Bris tol knew it--the enemies of the people have I f B red the anger to their teetti, and they are responsible for it." The persons described by our contemporary seldom trouble themselves much with asking what it is for which they bestir themselves. The same individuals who now baited Sir Cherie:, 'We therell, cheered him, we have no doubt, two years ago, and participated in the disgraceful riots in behalf the Tories about that period. It is absurd to suppose that class actuated by principle. When Church and King are uppermost, they arc for Church and King; and when Reform is uppermost, they are for Reform. The rabble wbo fired Newgate in 1780, knew probably as little of Protestantism as they did of Mabome tanism. But let us profit by the lesson of Bris tol before it be too late. We have already said that most dangerous doctrines regarding property have been for some time disseminated in this very metropolis. We know not exactly the number that have embraced these doctrines, but we fear they are not a few. In fact, both in harangues, and in cheap publications, the working classes have been taught to believe that all accumulation of capital is injustice towards them, and that the upper and middle classes are robbers of wbat be long to them. Now, it is no trifling matter to be surrounded by individuals who entertain level- - ling doctrines like these, which, if acted on, would soon 'educe i;k: to the savage state. We are sorry to perceive from the Second Edition of Mr. Cooper's Political Economy, that these levelling doctrines have made great progr.3 its the United States of America, as well as in Eng land. The following is his ar,W;:W.lnt of the doctrine: " Capital, whether in the form of r ay ,material, or of the plant (4o;,tses, shops, machinery, tools, land), ; :,,r in the form of money - , is not of itself productive at all. It can do nothing ; it canka.:t ; it cannot produce—it is merely an instrument in the hand gf the labourer or opera tive. ft it the man who uses it to a gas:] end useful pur pose, and he elaize, who renders it productive. (if its e lf it is worth no more tha: - .. L tree of mahogany, growing in the wilds of Honduras. The whole of price, therefore, belongs of right to him who alone co.,ifers the value, which produ.2.7. once. Profits charged by the caFitalist are a fraud on the c,erative, who is thus robbed of what he alone has earned, and which would have had no ex isten.tv. but for his skill and industry,:' " Wlinaa labour," asks Mr. Cooper, rc pail for that steam-engine anus wtselainery ? Was it yours ? What i• right have you to benefit bit xlke labour of another man, i without paying him a reasonable cor..7.,i;ensation ? If you wish 4,7 work and earn your living by makini we of the result of past labours and savings, pay rue a reasonable proportk - ,a of the price the article sells at, And take the rest youi:celf. What that shall be depewis on your bargain ; if yoy, sb not like my proposals let thein) alone and work elsewhere., What answer can be given to those questions ? Messrs. Hodg kin, Thomson, Bellesby, I,Vessr. M e rit, T. Skidmore, and the Meektnic Political Economists, ale.,:n them. Let us have a reply, a fll and satisfactory one must be given before the present state of things can he changed. No man will work and save, if another can take from him his earnings am his saving without compensat;oil. • No man will he a member 2. rommunity, where industry is to be • robbed by force Messrs. Metig and Skidmore (Frer. Eng. New York, Jan. 1830) even pro pose, at the death of any member of the community, to abolish the exclusive claims of his widow and children, and to divide his property among all the members of so ciety who have just arrived at adult age ! What a glorious era this would create for the less and roguish portion of society I How delightful to compel the skilful, the labo rioua, the frugal classes of the community—the bees of the hive—to become the workmen and operatives for the drones ! If these be the proposals that the mechanics combine to carry into effect, it is high time for those who have property to lose, and families to protect, to combine in self-defence. Is it upon the manifest fairness and in trinsic buoyancy of such theories, that the system of uni versal suffrage is to float on merrily with the full tide of public favour ?" W e wish well to the labouring classes, and are ready to admit that great injustice has been done to them. Nearly our whole legislation towards them has, in fact, been stamped with injustice. The great object of the higher classes has been to keep the lower immersed in ignorance and superstition. We admit all this, and more than this. But, then, the destruction of property would not surely benefit the poor. We are not now surely to sacrifice all the arts of civilization, and to return to a state of primitive barter. But, then, let us only employ one-twentieth part of the pains to instruct the people we have em ployed to keep them in ignorance. But, in the mean time, let us also take care that the social edifice shall not be engendered by any accidental explosion of such inflammable materials. The fact, we fear, is that such inflammable materials exist in considerable quantity. Those who have inhaled the pernicious doctrine that teaches them to view every, man not absolutely em ployed as a mechanical labourer, as an usurper of what belongs of right to the labourer alone, are, no doubt, few in comparison with those who respect the accumulation of pro perty. But a comparatively small number may do much mischief to a public taker , ' unawares. We therefore laud Sir Francis Burdett for his readiness in putting himself at the head of an Union which will secure the double object of political liberty and security against outrage. There is the more praise due to Sir Francis on this account that the class to which he belongs is, in our opinion, most culpably remiss in its dirty at this crisis, We do indeed believe that the higher ranks and most of the middle classes are not really aware of the danger which threatens them from the exasperation of misguided men. Under the head Bristol Riots, our readers will find some sensible observations extracted from the Bath Journal, on the aversion of the rich in several places to consociate with the middle and lower classes. This must not be. These are ►rot times for men to build walls of separa tion between themselw, - - and their fellow-citizens. We therefore deem Sir Francis BUrdett entitled to high praise for his promptitude in setting a useful example at this time. We trust than the union 11,.- repommends will be extensively adopted. By such unions alone can we be .9ared from despotism or anarchy.—Morning Chronicle. 1 In our anxious desire for the effective but peaceful tritiniph of Reform, we have questioned the propriety of political unions and armed sociations. Where the people of a great and intelligent nation are united for any rational purpose, p riirl ttnions cannot increase their concord, but may serve to create dissension and. if dissension be once created, it is better that the partisans of conflicting opinions should en force the tenets of their respective sects with such arguments as suggest thempelyes to the mind of the peaceful citizen, than have recourse to a mode of decision more in accordance with the character of the soldier, " sudden and quick in quarrel,?' 741;is apt to be impatient of knotty points of disputation when he tan server the difficulty by the sword. The deplorable events which have occurred in Bristol have not altered our opinion !lion this subject. Some of our contemporaries say that, if the citi;,'ens had been organized as a National Guard in that city, the disgraceful scenes which have taken place there pould not have happened. Let us ;look to the facts, and se2 rf they are justified in jumping to this conclusion. Bristol is one of tho.'e places where the Anti-Reformers muster stronger per haps, in proportion to the whole population, than any other pity or town in the kingdom, with one or two exceptions. The Anti-Reformers are mostly in the corporate and mercantile bodies, and of the wealthier classes of the inhabitants. Bristol was one of the few places that sent up an Anti-Reform addre.3s tp the King, if we re collect right, with a considerable number of signatures. Now let us suppose a National Gard had been organized in that city. It would of course, hawe beep composed of the wealthy and middle classes, to the exclusipp of the mere populace. Such an armed force must have con sisted of two parties violently opposed to each other in political opinion—namely, Reformers and Anti-Reformers. These two parties, it will readily be admitted, do not coalesce well together any where ; and they are not likely to become more peaceably disposed towards each other by having mortal weapons placed in their hands, and being thus inspired with the pride of the warrior without pinch of the discipline of the soldier. Let us also suppose that under those circumstances Sir Charles Wetherell arrived in Bristol to prove, by his own practical experience, the re-action which the question of Reform had not aufrered. The populace could not have been prevented from expressing their senti ments by hissing, or other 4ispordant signs of disapprobation. It is probable they would have hisso. the more for seeing bayonets glittering along the I;ne of the corporate caval cade. Some ,of the more intempepto pr evil intentioned of the mob, either under the influ ence of their own passion:, or the instigation of treacherous advisers, could not have Leen pre vent;:? from throwing stones from a distant part of the crowd, as 7:as done on the recent lament able occasion. 'This provo,:ation being given, the feelings of the Anti-Reformers woul4, of course, have been exasperated ; and it is hardly to be suppos - 41 that they could have been pre vented from chastising tie r -,, A) with their fixed ,„ bayonets, or from firing a volley into them, un let:, the armed Reformers used their weapons for the proteeilo;;2. of the multitude. Then it is probable that more bioo4 would have flowed, and more destructive scenes of civil warfare have ensued, than ,eyep those frantic acts which have rendered the recent opping of the Bristol Ses sions so melancholy and so memorable. Let us bear in mind that the accounts of the origin of these dreadful riots inform us that when Sir Charles Wetherell, accompanied by the civic functionaries, had got safe into the Mansion house, aver gpme stones had been thrown, the mob were actually diTersing, when a large • body of special constables made a charge upon the unarmed and retiring crowds, and furiously laid about them promiscuously with their staves, whereby serious wounds were inflicted ; and then, for the first time, did the mob proc,eed to arm themselves with sticks, and such weapons as fury could supply, and re turned to engage in those conflicts which caused the sanguinary interference of the military, and ended in loss of lives, burning, pillage, and de vastation. We find now certain Journals, whose language has been for a long time most intem perate ur on the subject of Reform, and most ex citing to the multitude, ne. declarithat the axe of • the law ought to fall-with its sharpest edge upon the infuriated incendiaries. This is not a de mand for justice, but an invocation of vengeance. Let those who are so ready to call for the exter minating visitation of our sanguinary laws upon an ignorant and misguided multitude beware how they make violent and stimulating appeals to their passions—beware how they tell them to " strike at the faces of their enemies"—lest they be not accounted altogether guiltless of the dreadful consequences. The Special Commis sions of last winter shall not soon be for gotten. We have always thought it an im perative duty, in time of excitement, to con troul, rather than inflame, the passions of the people. • We know that there is a great mass of ignorance, discontent, and misery, among the lower classes in England, which makes them exceedingly ready, at the present day, to listen to that sort of appeal which, either directly or indirectly, indicates to them a chance of po litical or social advantage by the application of their physical force. It is easier to rouse the sleeping giant than tame his excited phrenzy. Let us, in the mean time, reflect well that Spe cial Commissions mid executions may brutalize, but cannot improve, the feelings and habits of those classes, who suffer great privations, and have both political and local grievances to com plain of. Our laws, and the system of society in England, have long contributed to draw a line of separation between the rich and the poor. The latter are more and more alienated in feel ing, as well as removed in condition, from the former. Desperate of any improvement in their circumstances, except by some great change, they are easily driven to desperation. It is the duty of 411 who have any influence on the public mind to teach them that the peaceful attainment of Reform can alone lead to that amelioration of our social system by which their condition will be improved. In the mean time let mercy tem per justice when they are deluded into crime, more especially where they hare already felt the sharp edge of the sword of military execution. --Morning Iferag We perceive that the Journals in the interest of the Administration are endeavouring to throw the blame of the wholesale burnings, murders, plunder, and violations, which the Reformers of Bristol have committed, upon the Magistrates of that city —upon Sir Charles Wetherell—upon the assertion' made by us and others, and to which we still adhere more confidently than ever, that a re-action upon the subject of Re form had already begun in the public mind— upon any body, or any thing, in short, rather than the ferocious rabble who perpetrated these horrible atrocities in aid of the cause of Reform. What are we to infer from this impudent per version of fact ? Have determined in this case also, as in that of the bloodthirsty attacks upon British Peers in the streets of the metropolis, to arrest the vengeance of the law, and to avert from the parpetratozs of these abOminable crimes the punishment which they deserve, and the unsparing inflic tion of which is essential to the security of society, because the eriminals are friends of ‘i the Bill ?" is the reign of terror to be esta blished throughout England by the connivance of the Ministers of the Crown, that they may be enabled to retain their places and carry their Bill? In a ease like this the Cryernmept -,yhich spares the criminals patronises the crime. And after the attempt of the Ministerial Journals to charge upon others than the real criminals the brutal enormities which have disgraced the city of Bris tol, we shall wait with much anxiety to see whether the Ministers will dare to follow the course their supporters have not scrupled to sug gest, and proclaim themselves the patrons of re bellion, incendiarism, violation, and murder. How much skill and daring in 'the suppression as well as the perversion of fact is essential in the present day to carry on with success the trade of a Ministerial Journalist ! The leading Ministerial ,Tournais, Morning and Evening, affect to consider the horrors which have taken place at Bristol as evidence of the necessity which exists for the establish ment, everywhere, of Political Unions, and some of them go so far as to say that these horrors would have been impossible had such an institu tion existed in that city. They know very well, the wretched prevaricators, that one of these in stitutions did exist in that unfortunate city, in full vigour and efficacy, at the very moment when it becatne the prey of fire, and pillage and murder, and still more unmanly and brutal and heart-rending atrocities. Full well they know that the political Union of Bristol, acting by its Council, proclaimed its sympathy with the perpe trators of these crimes, and gave them direct en couragement, to proceed in their diabolical career of infamy and bloodshed. But a drivel ling and superannuated Jacobin, who supports Ministers in Parliament, and aids them in all their revolutionary projects, was to preside at a meeting in London for the formation of one of these vaunted unions ; of which he vainly hoped to be placed at the head, on the very day on which the accounts from Bristol arrived in town. The coincidence was peculiarly unfortunate. It would never do for the Ministerial Journals at such a moment to expose the conduct of the Political Union, which, instead of discouraging or resisting the Bristol rebels, had artfully and successfully laboured to madden them to re newed and augmented fury, The only course which remained was to suppress the facts of the existence of a Political Vnion at prist o l, and of its successful efforts to exasperate the passions and redouble the violence of the mob, and boldly to pretend that 14 there been such an institution the scenes of horror would have been mitigated or averted. The falsehood is the most rank, shame less, and profligate that ever disgraced the Press of any co4ntri. It is a consolation, however, to know that the falsehood is 4/together useless in this case, and that the character of the London Political Union, which has been formed, stands revealed to the world, and needs no reflected light from the conduct of the kindred association of Bristol. The revolutionary Baronet and his junta of Westininster shopkeepers, who inso lently thought to i:epp the working of the ma chine in their own feeble hands, were foiks.d in all their manoeuvres by the more resolute, honest, and consistent revolutionists under the guidance of Mr. Wakley. In the room where the meeting was appointed the base and hypocritical revolutionists found themselves outnumbered beyond all compa rison by the mote frank and manly revolutionists, who scorn to wear a mask. The former then pro posed an adjournment to the open air, in the hope of improving their relative position, to which the l a tt er , con scious of superior stren g th be the meeting where it might, did not o bj ect . The confidence of the latter was fully justified by the event. Mr. Wakley absolutely governed the meeting, and redueed the poor conceited Baronet, who had expected to monopolise the glory of the day, and the drivellers, who, like him, aim only at a bit-by-bit revolution, to the in- significance for which nature designed them. Hard hands and unwashed faces are to be quali fications for at least one half of the Council of the Political Union of London, and the silly old dotard of a Revolutionary Baronet, who thought to be King of the Association, with a select body of Westminster shopkeepers for the Aristocracy, who were to shed lustre upon his throne and impart wisdom to his resolutions, is fairly beaten from the field, to which we venture to say he will never again venture to return, by the Editor of the Ballot and his un washed supporters, who candidly proclaim their design to abolish all hereditary distinctions, from King to Baronet inclusive, and who man fully assert the right of the people to demand universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, and vote by ballot, and to be satisfied with nothing less. The defeat of Burdett and the b ase crew who at tempted to support him is a matter of unbounded gratulation. They were at once formidable and despicable—" cunning and fierce mixture ab horred." In contending against the more honest and honourable men who have defeated and dis graced these hypocrites and drivellers, as it will be our duty to contend, we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that, mischievous and wicked as their purposes are, our antagonists have so much of manly resolution and integrity as plainly to avow them, They are antagonists with whom it is no degradation to be engaged. But to have had to struggle with revolutionists ' who pretend that they have no higher object than to establish an aristocracy of " the till" upon the ruins oldie British Constitution, bah ! the thought is sickening.—Morning Post. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France, of Sunday.) The Court which was to decide on the seizure ofi the number of the Gazette de France of Sunday! has negatived the accusation of exciting hatred andl contempt of the King's Government, which the! public prosecutor had founded in .the article headed) " On the consequences of the revolution with re-: spect to its partisans ;" but it sends for trial the; article in answer to a provocation of the Illessager, which was published in the Gazette of 10th August, 1830, without giving rise to any prosecution. M. de Genoude has received to-day a second sum mons, to answer to the Juge d'lnstruction on the second seizure of the Gazette de France. It is the appeal to the convocation of the nation that is incriminated in the second number seized.' We shall soon know what we have to expect from. the third. The third summons will not be long delayed. Another seizure of the Gazette has been required this morning, against a Supplement to the Gazette, on account of the letter of M. Cotta, which it has published after five or six other Journals, The Tribune of this morning says—" The Ga z:_ite, has been seized four times within a week. Surely there is no seeing the end of these vexatious and petty persecutions, which render the liberty of the press illusory. It would be more frank and more honourable boldly to aquire the censorship. This would be a much more expeditious means of getting rid of all enemies ; and, at least, it is not necessary to act a hypocritical part. Assuredly we cannot be suspected with respect to the. Gaze;te ; but we claim liberty for all, 4nd our warmth cannot excite surprise. The Tribune has the right to say, Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco." The printer of the Gazette has been summoned to-day before the Juge d'lnstrttc!tion, ( 'rutn the eonstitutionnel of Sunday.) PARIS, -OCT. 29.—A1l Egypt is infected with the cholera morbus, which is more destructive in the principal towns than even the plague has been. From 600 to 800 persons died daily at Cairo. The Sardinian and Austrian Vice-Consuls in that city have fallen victims to the contagion. The Spanish Consul, who was seized with the disorder at Alexandria, is dead, though the disorder is much less disastrous there than at Cairo. The Viceroy and his faithful Minister Boghos are on hoard an Egyptian frigate; Mehmed Ali cruises on the coast to avoid the scourge which carries off his subjects; he has with him his family and the greater part of his harem. Extre7te ; - ...mlsternation prevails; everybody flies by sea, or on the Nile, or into the desert to seek refuge. The towns are de serted ; the disorder is so fatal, that the physicians, fearing to encounter it, have left Egypt ; the eretich physicians alone remain at their post. There is no longer any Government; the sanitary measures ordered by the Consuls of the different nations constitute the police„ which is obeyed. All trade has ceased ; many ships have sailed in ballast ; others without completing their cargo. Some vessels lately arrived from Europe have has tily returned without touching, to seek un asylum in the islands not infected, or in the ports of Candi°, The Gazette de France says—Letters from Mqr aeilles give an afflicting account of the state of Egypt. From the 19th August to Ist September, above 9,000 persons had died of the cholera at Cairo. The harem of the Viceroy had been at tacked by it. Ibrahim Pacha was gone to Upper Egypt. The Viceroy was on board of a man-of-war at Alexandria, where the disorder broke out on the 20th of August; there were daily 1,000 or 1,200 deaths. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) SPGAR.-The demand for Muscovades last week con tinued steady and considerable; the estimated sales were 3,400 hlids. and trs ; the coloury Sugars fully maintained the late advance; the lower descriptions were without alteration, The stock of West India Sugar is now 56,764 hhds. and trs., which is 3,224 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius 105,187 bags, being 69,958 more than last year. The delivery of West India Sugar last week 3,060 hilds. and trs., being ,i 67 more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius 6,150 bags, being 2,113 more than in the corresponding week of 1830. At the close of the market the estimated sales this day were 700 hlids. and trs., including the Barbadoes, which sold at very high prices, particularly the fine descriptions; the market currency is without alteration. In the Refined Market there was much heaviness last week, and lew goods were sold at a further reduction ; parcels of Lumps at 608. 6d., mad even lower in some instances; the fine descriptions, entitled to the double-refined bounty, were in some request, and rather large sales were reported ; low crashed were dull and lower. Molasses 6d. to Is. lower. The market this afternoon is again lower; low Lumps offer freely at q 04., and sales reported below that quotation ; all other qcalities dull ; except the fine for the double bounty. Mo lasses brisk at 245, EAST INDIA SUGAIL—About 10,000 bags Mauritius Sugars sold last week ; the lower descriptions were at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per cwt. ; the finer were Is. higher than the previous prices; Bengals sold Is. a 2s. higher, fine white 335. and ; of about 1,200 bags Manilla nearly the whole taken in, good grey 225. 6d. and 235. This day's sale 2,922 b . ags Manilla Sugars, one half sold at previous prices, good quality, chiefly 225. a 235. FOREIGN SUGAR.—There is little doing in Foreign Sugar ; there are inquiries after the Bra;;i1 qualities, bat few sales are yet reported ; the better descriptions offered at public sale all taken in ; a few grey white Bahia sold 20s. a 21s. lid. Average price of Sugar 1/. 2s. per cwt. COPFZE.—After our publicatiou of Tuesday last the Coffee Market became quiet, some sales of St. Domingo were reported at 575., and ord. Brasil 535., but towards the close of the week parcels were offered at a small re duction, without facilitating - sales. In East India descrip tions no sales were reported, except in Mocha, which sold at Market prices. The ord. descriptions of Jamaica maintained the previous currency, but all the better de scriptions were heavy and lower. There were no public sales this day, no buyers 'fly private centract, and none of the holders are pressing parcels on the Market. • Roar, BaaNpy, ANp HOIL -- LANDs.The only descrip tions of Rum last week sold in any extent were parcels to the Government contractors, about Is. 4d. Brandy has been in more request, but there ie no alteration in prices. There 14 no pale Geneva at Market, is 21. id. and 2s. Bd. HEMP, FLAY, AND TALLow.—Tbe Tallow very firm last week at 424., when extensive 01 ; menced, and the price was driven down to 40s. 6u . extensive contracts were made; the Market rallied to 41s. 3d., which is to-night the nearest VI In Hemp or Flax very few purchases are re ported. IRISH PROVISIONS. —ln the last wee k the ita 4 foreign 'hitter wa53,532 casks, of Irish 20,481 fir v ' of Bacon 2,095 bales. Fine Friesland Butter quote 110 s. to 112 s. at the quay, and although vals of Irish are large, prices do not give way, b ut j contrary, for som e d escr i pt i ons, rat h er more money manded; fine Carlow Butter (as to repute of V° quote 1008. to 104.5. on board, 1024, t o 105 s. Waterford 965. to 971. on board, 975. to 98"' Cork and Limerick 965. to 975. on board, 98s' landed ; Dublin 945. to 955. on board, 965.; landed ; an d N ewry, Sli go, &c. 935. to 945. on For fine f res h. s i nee d B acon there is a steady d e ° l 511. to 535. landed, and for this month's sliipEO to 475. on hoard is demanded ; Bladder Lard ( 10 ,1:, lily) 635. t o 66 5 . on b oar d , 659. to 68s. landed. ,1 bale or ti erce middle, very littl e d o i ng , as we ll as I Beef or Pork for shipment. TOBACCO.—In Tobacco no sales are reported. Ons.—Seed Oils are rather lower. INDIGO. —.There is no alteration in Indigo. p SPlCES.—Spi ces are h e ld w i t h much firmness; is higher, no parcels now offer at 34d. COTTON.—The stock of Cotton at this port is !_ l er j t reduced : th e sa l es are i n consequence on a limig; compared with th e b r i s k ness at t h e out - ports. $ this week are 100 Pernams, good 7-ad. ; 200 Pa r :', dung Gd. ; 150 Surats, m iddli ng 41.1 -s go j 160 Surats, public sale, good ordinary 4id. FRUlT.—Yesterday, by public sale, 1,025 bat ei red Smyrna Raisins, part sold 41s. a 455., darlig.f i l a ; 200 drums new S u l tanas, taken 10 a,ts? 16,669 drums new T ur k e y pu ll e d Fi gs, part solu i ., ) 535. ; 500 boxes, 200 h a lf-b oxes o ld Valentia Pt; nearly the whole taken in at 46R. This day's drums pulled Figs, chiefly sold at 525., being v el ip quality. Of Raisins small portions sold "of 66 ' 1 1 Sultana, at 705., and of 477 barrels red STnyros, $ RlCE,—Rice is held with much firmness. SILK.—A little has been doing at very low price °. market rather looks down. _ WooL.—ln the last week there have been be public sales, consistinz of 2,774 bales of Wool, al as follows—vi z . 2,106 New S out h W a l e s 3 ' 3 9 Diemen's Land W o ol 10d. a 2 s. 3d ., 545 Spani'ho Is. 10d., 64 G erman I s. 3d . a 2s. 14d., 22 Good Hope I s. a Is. Gd., 20 Bombay 3d. a 4d.• Merino Wool Is. Id. a Is. 61,1. The sales were vt attended by buyers from the country, and all the sk i off briskly at advanced prices. There is also 0 0e in the market generally b y private contract. CoUNTRY CORN MARK i Wheat. Per Quarter. Boston . S. to - 60 Gai4iberough 61 Grantham 60 . 65 Grimsby 54 62 Horncastle—..—. 52 SS Lincoln Spilbby _ 56 64 5tamf0rd.,,,.,„...--... 54 64 56 68 TS DU It' Barley. I Oats. S. to s. s. t o s. ! 27 2. 0 40 39 45 30 38 33 39 40 44 28 42 38 43 32 40 20 - 27; 16 4D 16 24 2S 0 18 24 , g 18 1 9 0 18 12S_/- LEWES MARKET.—N - ov 1. ° . 0 1 1 t t i White Wheat (per quarter)...........X3 5 0 to Red ditto—,..... 3O 0 9 111 1 I IS 0 5 0 1 2 0 1 18 0 00'2 011 Cake. New _ . 19. OCI per t 12% il Oats , New NORWICH, vet. 29. r 3 4 ' Wheat (per qr.) 565. 688. 70s. Beans (per qr.) .... , N'405•5 BarleyPease, Grey.----1 Oats --... 24s. ••;s. Ws. Flour, fine (per sac CANTERBURY, Oct. 29. .... to / Wheat, white-- 60e. to 725. 01d.................. 6. 0 , ----- red .....-- 50s. to 68s. --.. '01d.......--* , to , Barley, Malting —40 s. to 445...,..., Grinding.. . to 4 l Oats - Old-----. ,„. to, 8ean5......,,,,,.,,..,,,,.,., 345. to 3,45. Olci.-----. ;1` : Jo) Pease ...s. to —s. --. Grey --..... .'°,:: MANCHESTER, Oct. 29. __ ~ to , Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. 3d. to 9s. 9d. Red .....• =,',s. `,'," !,, Marley, per 601 b 5 0 5 a Oats 4 - . 5 , ' 0 ,4; Beans, per Imperial quarter s. Pease, White, per Imperial bushel ............. .• .t :: 50 , Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels ............ . 48 0 ' 7 Flour, per Sack a 280 1 b ....... EXETER NIARKETS.—Oct. 2S. Beef (seore)--Ss.6d. Bs. WI. Wheat (bushel) „Bs. Muttons 0 51 Barley _ 6 Veal and tainh-0 5 0 6 Oats 2 4 Park 0 4 0 6 Beans Geese (each)._ —2 6 4 0 Butter ‘;; Ducks 'coun!ea.9., 4 4 0 Fjp: (141.,.,,,,,,.0 I", Fowls 0 3 0 potatoes (peck) SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN Al A RKET...—Oct 3 C l , f e Wheat had a heavy sale with a re d uct i on in t he P A 70m. ; current and average prices 2s. lower than last daY' a bol quantity of Barley in merket--best 375. ; current pric e ':t° higher. Oats—beat 29c. ; current 225. to 2Ss. Pease Beans 325. to 40r., e l Wheat. Barley. Oata. Pease , 4 First 7os Od 37s Od 29s OA IOA 3Y, Second 6os Od 32a Od 2&s Od 341 Od Third of There were 343 qrs. cf Wheat in market,3.l6 whcrem i 7 Unsold.--0 Grey. Average 31. Os. S.t. DA LK I ETH CORN Id Alt K ET. —Oct. There was a large suppiy of all kinds of Grain ket of this day, which met with a heavy sale, at 1.3 prices than those of this day se'nnight. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 4: 1 74s Od 28s Od 43s al ,f 4 tits Od 2a al 24s od 405 Od 50s CU 2.8 s Od 21s Od 344 0.1 First Second Third IRISH MA' DUBLIN MARKET NO AKETS ITE.—FRi From :. ) 5 0 I) 6 14 6 8 6 5 0 10 0 • IDAY, • • I To 33 0 11 14 0 1 4 16 0 10 13 0 0 24 0 11 15 0 13 0 24 0 ~c [Flour 453. od. per s'co! from 2.1 g. u ' to , f f r r o o m m 1011 3,3 fn Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 514 Bete l6 stone 494 Barley.. l6 stone 6,217 Oats l2 stone 13,5.27 Cwt, 9 stone 952 Oatmeal S stone Sold to Bakers only. 11,360 Cwt. Flour Average price of Wheat anc Receipts of Flour, 12,5821 Firs cond ts, Se Sales of Do. 13,527 rhirds, RIOT DA MAGES.—The amount o ,11 , done through the riots at Mansfield is about 11th of November is fixed for hearing the cl f l i oiet the Justices. The damages at Nottingham ' ,4 s rese ° wick Hall, and Beeston silk-mill, it is suppose " than 50,0001. 1)1 1Cr • ACCIDENT TO THE ELEPHANT A-- 0 10 41 :, LANE.—On Saturday night the small elepll ant 'd the companion of Madam e D'J ec k, i n the ,ec° l - 3 0 4 ; lipler Ali, in which th ere i s a gran d process l° 6 ; !Ai eending the platf o r m . t o procee d over t h e euggd one the mountains, wh en it s i mmense we i g ht caue e 0 0 staunchions to gi ve way . Th e c on sequence w ' '- o cip l platform broke down, and the poor beast wa g P 1,04 from a considera',l e h e i g ht on t h e stage. The:cl so great that th e animal screeched with pa in ? O i r legs, one of which (the left fore leg) was 0 str. ik not without some difficulty that she could be ral woeei , she was unable to walk, and the chest 11 rated by a nail. 'he two lads, were 03 The' the time, narrowly escaped being kille d ' t be elephant is bo much injured that she will ll° appear for some time. Wir BIRTH. On the Ist inst. in Baker-street, the Lady Jeraiu)a Martin, of a son. MARRIED. bere .1* On the 31st ult. at Marylebone Church, A. 11 ,,, ° i • of Berners-street, to Ann Phillips, daughter or, Boxill, Esq., of liarbadoes. ' • ' h e Lately at Cartinel; with the key belonging to t . 0 ) (instrad of a ring) Mr. John Knowles, cordwain er, itawlinson, both of Cartmel. DIED. on °- On the 29th ult. in Baker-street, James Davis, t p* Carnac, R.N. wif e! 1 On the 3lst ult. in Bedford-square, Eleanor, 044 Dealtry, Esq. • ' • • , A 4 t? On the 15th ult. at Pisa Miss Marie Fratfio';', 6 1 '4/ Henry, daughter of their Majesties the late ' of Hayti, and of Marie Louise, now commonlY Christophe. UN°, " PaiNTED AND PUBLIMED BY MURDO 10 SUN OFFICE, 112, S T on), Low° , vs• as ter ll e r r PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf., Sid. I Half Quartern Wheat, 1 Barley. Oats. Flour, 0 per barrel per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. A 1 s. d. as. d. s.d.as.d. s.d.as.d. d. ' s o ° Cork --,. 216 303 96 16 01 9 6 11 116 0 0 0 r. Limerick 26 830 0 130 14 0112 0 136 18 0 0 e 10 Waterfordl26 0 29 0 12 0 15 01 9 0 10 0 18 0 20 - Cloinuel —126 8 300 106 15 013 6 13 920 0 no 0 0 Carlow --.125 0 27 012 0 13 01 9 0 9 6 Beef, Mutton, Pork, per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2sl. d. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. 3. d. 5. d. '• Cork 44 6 3 64 5 3 N 22 5 00 0 :343 3 5 1 00 0 1193 4 00 0 91 90 0 g e,, , , „9" (o t: r ‘C l 'Tt e e r r i f e o k r - ti 4 3 4 6 1 . 3 34 Clonmel 4 5,3 6 300 33 0 1 98 087 0 7: 6 ' 0/ 7 Car10w...... 4 5110 0 0 0 0 0198 0 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 98; to 1.95. per cwt. ; Whea ilsootti per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats 9s. 0 plo t , rel ; Barley lls. to 14 s . ;- Beef 4d. to 5,1. per lb. ,0 to sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per st o na ; C oa l s I s . 2d. per c 0 Pigs 325. to 335. per cwt. NO THE m Ou ‘;1, ii nx:ikexxt xtfh; N's• rea t . A 'lerir) li treet. . Th e 1,4 • Pe l 4, I 'kl P 1 ME