The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE I ÜBLEC JOURN ',LS. The BrockeThank steers• boa from Ostend arrived last night with the Belgi Deputation to offer the crown to Prince Leopold. The honourable gentle men landed at the Tower teirs about seven o'clock. Must, if not all, of them hi, been in London before. The debates which took lace in the Belgic Con gress on Lord Pousonby's letter, and on the elec- tion of Prince Leopold, were distinguished by a degree of violence and irritation which reduce very notch the hopes of an amicable a djustment of (IV ferenices between the Belgians and their rivals, through the mediation of the live Powers. The discussion was sometimes interrupted for half an hour or an hour by the disorderly interference of the galleries; and the Deputies t hemselves partook of the fury tvhicb they inspired and pretended to con_ denm. The war party almost cried "To arms," arid the words " insolent, " infamous, " and other flowers of distempered rhetoric, were abundantly ap plied to his Lordship's production. It should, ho,v. ever, still be borne in mind by the friends of peace, that the acts of the Congress are not so warlike as the language of its orators ; and that though neither the Congress nor the Government has as yet agreed to the Protocols of London, the farmer has autho liz-d and the latter has adopted a step towards an accommodation which they have hitherto resisted.— They have, in short, offered to treat, and by this means have placed themselves and their cause, to a certain extent, in the hands of the Conference.— The two Envoys sent to ascertain the nature and amount of the indemnity for which thee would ob tain the limits to which they pretend, had arrived in London before the deputation with the tender of the Crown. The recall of Lord Ponsonby by England, and of General Belliard by France, was rendered necessary by the state at which things have now waived, and therefore can of itself be no indication of immedia , e hostilities. It will be seen, by examining the speech of M. Lebeau, in Con gress, that the Belgic Government had begun to insist on the production of credential letters from those two diplomatic agents. These letters would have been equivalent to a recognition of the Belgic Government or Regency, and therefore could not be communicated by their respective Courts till Belgium complied with the conditions on which a full and friendly recognition is made to depend.— This short exp:anation is perhaps necessary, to re move several mistakes into which some of our con i.temporares have fallen.—Tiones. There has been a great deal of speculation in the English, and a great lack of information in the Ame rican newspapers, on the cause of the sudden disso lution of the late Jackson Cabinet. No consp:racy bad been discovered to burn the Capitol or to blow up the Union, in which the President and his official helpers could take different sides,—no new expe dition had been planned or projected against the Indian tribes, in which the conscience or humanity of the Ministens could lead them to dissent from their Chief,—and neither the abolition nor the in crease of the tariff duties on foreign manufactures had bn en brought forward as a bone of contention. The twenty-and-odd States of the Confederation reposed in perfect safety tinder the Jackson sceptre, and no adventurous Aaron Burr had risen to divide them by attempting to usurp the honours of king. chip. The different Ministers, in their friendly letters of resignation to the President, beginning " My dear Sir," never hint at any grave questions of foreign or domestic politics which could separate them from each other or from en indulgent leader. What, then, could be the cause of their precipitate dissolution ? That cause, as now explained, affords a curious illu-tration of American manners, and shows that our Republican brethren west of the Atlantic are not exempted from those private in fluences in the management of their public affairs, which in their severer moods they ascribe exclu sively to the old Courts of Europe. A woman was the cause of the Trojan war, and the slighted pre tensions of a Minister's wife occasioned the over throw of the President Jackson's Cabinet. " What dire offence tram trifling causes springs " What mighty contests rise from little things !" It would appear that for some reason or other Cato which we fot bear to inquire), the lady was sent—not to Troy, but—to Coventry, by her fair co-equals in the official circle of Washington, and that, being supported by her husband, as he was in duty hound, she funned a faction against her rival. The President, to show his impartiality, frequented ber parties, as well as those of the other ministerial dames, and thus added jealousy to dislike. At last the ,dies contrived to embroil matters so much, and to excite so many misunderstandings between their husbands, that no business could be done, and the President, in his continued impartiality, was obliged to dismiss the whole batch. We have forgotten the mimes of his new Ministers, but we suppose that in their selection he must have taken security against the occurrence of a similar catastrophe by choosing bachelma, cr that he must have written on the Prr s;dential palace one of the rules of the King of Na y:tire, in Loce'g Labour Lost—" Item, That no woman come within a mile of my court, on pain of losing her tongue."—Times. The dreadful accounts of the sufferings endured by Dur fellow-Christians in the west of Ireland are now before the English public. What are those sutferingii ? Nothing more than famine ! the ago nies of woolen and children perishing of hunger and of pestilence —nothing more. Alas ! nothing less than famine and pestilence combined ! It would be impertinence to add another word upon this heart rending visitation : 148,000 of our brethren die within reach of us, unaided by us ! We are unable to dwell upon this scene of horror. The letter of Sir Francis I3losse,—a warm-hearted and generous clergyman of the Church of England, whose own estate in Galway, being paternally administered by its reverend and pious master, has enjoyed a great exemption from the miseries which every where sur roue(' it,—his letter to the London Relief Commit tee we now communicate. It wiii tell more than we can tell, and is language more affecting than ours. Why are not charity unions preached in every pariah throughout England fcr an expir.iig people ? Public meetings we would likewise urge : but our memory is still truarting under the wounds inflicted on every man of common sense and common humanity, by the brutal fanaticism of a creature in the garb of a clergyman, who was suffered a fsw weeks since to disgust his charitable audience, t..et together avowedly for the relief of the famishing potr of Ire land, by better and persevering attacks upon their .religion, as if they had not bodies to be nourished, and tens of thousands of helpless children screaming for sustenance, because he the fiesee tyrran , , refused salvation to their wills but after such fasi;i4n as he should voebsafe to dictate. We say without sei-upla that the barbarian who that day sounded the trump of intolerance, thereby V t aa,lting up the as sembly summoned for a specific and :.!irritable ob ject, s arid robbi ng; t h e h ungr y po or of the comtribu iobespoke and intended foe them, will have a black account to renter ofany fr . ° ; sa___r_ties w hi c h m a y have been agitravt ted . by his cruelly,-fperhap ' s even of lives which it ' may have destroyed. This is an emergency on which nothing ought in the first iu li tace to be thought o f b ut to alleviate hunger, or so extinguish revec,andso.pre-erve the human being nor whatever gifts or trials the Almighty may here af-.er in his supreme wistopmaiv.afpp,oo:inet. of our it is no t considered an affair o bro ther journalists, dm most opp ose d to i;i; ( ; in ii.,: ea i feeling, have already tonic honourable te...ritnOtly, by the fervour of their appeals to public beneficence on behalf of the Irish poor.--Beiges. We have inserted a letter signed " Alpha," on the death of Mrs. Siddons ; and let his suggestion of a public funeral have what influence it may, we shall venture our opinion on the subject. From the praise of Mrs. Siddons in her private character we have no authority for dissenting; we theiefcre readily believe, even on an anonymous statement, all that is said in this respect, and olfer to her memory the tribute cf respt ct for her virtues while living - . 'Ent we will at the same time fearlessy sert that there is nothing in the art of a stage-' player that should entitle the most successful pro fessor of it to a public funeral. 'We know the cry with which this declaration will be received by the • note austere party, who reject all amusement as • profane, of approbation—by the volatile and • thoughtless, of disappointment, and almost horror. The fact is, that we perfectly coincide in Rousseau's opinion, who, in reply to a celebrated article in the Encyclopedia " on the stage," clearly proves, at least to our satisfaction, with his own marvellous and seductive eloquence, that in a barbarous state of society the theatre is useless; in one moderately corrupt it may render some service; but in a pure one it is prejudicial. Besides, what is the art of a stage-playel ? A contingent and dependent one. How few actors have been tolerable writers ! And if others did not write, they could not ace. The merely representing, even with augmented force— which but rarely happens (in the case of Shakspeare and the other writers, never)—that which the author has conceived and in words expressed, what is it ? If the general end to be obtained were the noblest in the world—and it is far otherwise—the part which the actor bears in the attainment of it, besides being, Xi we said, contingent, is comparatively but trivial. Whatever marks of private friendship, there fore, may he paid to Mrs. Siddons on her sustaining the lot of mortality, and we hope she will have many, we should consider any public testimony of regard as a proof of the decline of noble feeling in the nation —as an evidence of its approach to that state in which panis et circenses were all that was thought necessmy for a people.—Times. A Correspondent (whose communication will be found in another column) has called our attention to a Sermon, preached on behalf of the British Re formation Society, at St. Clement Danes, Strand, May 31, 1831, by the Rev. H. MiNeile, published in the Pulpit, No. 46. It is altogether a strange production, and appearing, as it does, clothed with the authority of the British Reformation Society, a very active and bustling body, it is well deserving of attention. The Rev. Mr. M'Neile, the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the Rev. Mr. Beamish, the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Noel, &c. &c., lose no opportunity for enforcing their particular views; for, go where we will, we hear of some of these holding forth in churches, in assembly rooms, in taverns, where they find numerous audiences. Mr. INPNeile concludes his Sermon with a declaration that, " as a Minister of a Church rightly established, and fostered by Kings after King, I think it the duty of Ministers of such a Church to stand forth and tell the truth concerning Kings—concerning Nobles—concerning the People—concerning apostucy, in the name of God, and of our dear and blessed Savour Jesus Cultist." The main object of the Reformation Society is the counteraction of Popery, and Mr. NPNeile is of course indignant at the concessions lately made to Popery. " Is there not," he says, " an image of jealousy that provoked' to jealousy set up in this land, even here where the Sanctuary of God is; even here, where there is a pro . esting power, which proclaims the truth of God, against the Apostacy of the Church of Rome ? Is there not here the image that provoketh to jealousy ? Is not Popery among us ? Is not Popery fostered by the State? Are not the teachers of it paid front the public money ? Are not the people taxed in order to pay for teaching Popish Priests, who, when they are taught themselves, proceed to teach idolatry to the people ? There is an image of jealousy provoking the Lord God to jealousy with England. Oh ! has he de livered us from the guilt of these abominations in time past ? Has he at the expence of the blood of Martyrs delivered us from these idols, and are we going back now to set up an image to make him jealous again—to commit fornication with idols by this Christianised heathenism, this heathenised Christianity ?" The Rev. Mr. M`Neile claims from youathat the Church eetabli•hed be considered the Church rightly established—that the doctrines of that Church be considered the right doctrines; and it follows as a matter of course that no other Mini ters should be allowed to teach but those who, like himself, are the right ministers. Why should we who believe the true doctrines be taxed to pay the teachers of the fuse doctrines ? But see where this doctrine leads us. All they wino do riot be lieve the Church of Mr. Al‘Neile to be the true Church, and its doctrines the true doctrines, may in like manner exclaim, why should we who believe the true doctrines he taxed to pay the teachers of the false doctrines ? The Papist, the Presbyterian, the Independent, the Baptist, all conceive them selves to be in the right, and the Rev. Mr. M`Neile in the rong. If all were to be staunch, the Rev. Mr. M`Neile would be obliged to have recourse to the arts of the flesh, or his Church would be left to the contributions of those who are attached to its doc trines. The Church of Rome in particular would, we dare to say, be quite ready to give up all that the State pays to its teachers—that is, the vote to Nlaynooth•—on: condition of having nothing to pay to the Church of England. Mr. M`Neile holds the language that persecutors in every country and every ace have held. All that they ask is, that it be taken for granted they ate in the right, and then it follows that that which is right should be en. forced. In the great Council of the nation all are backsliders and idolators, save Mr. Perceval and Sir R. H. Inglis, and a few more who have opposed Catholic Emancipation and Parlia mentary Reform, and who will oppose of course all attempts to reform abuses in the Church and in the State, and who think that the nation is to be saved by national fast and humiliations. " Oh, my brethren (he says), we behold the nation's great Council—now hear again.—l beseech you to bear with the truth ; I have no desire but to tell the truth ; I have no word that shall offend any man, except so far as the truth of God offends him :—we behold, I say, the nation's great Council burning in cense to idols, for the preservation of the nation's weal—we behold them each having his idol—one burning incense to Education, as a deity that can save England—one burning . incense to Poor Laws—one burning; incense to Parliamentary Reform, without a word front them of Gud, who alone can give success to any of these expedients; and when a servant of his does stand up in a nation, and pre pose that Ofey shall humble themselves before God, and ask his protection and advice, though, in the magnanimity of their toleration, they may give the giati a fool's reaard because of his sincerity, yet they Live not the smallest idea of adopting his prin ciples. ;moo, ; I\W—they say, in fact, as did their prototypes in Judea, The Lord bath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seed' not.' We cannot talk about religion, for in this House within Parliament, it is out of place. This is not the place for religious discussion—this is not the place fur Christie:thy. Religion and politics have nothing to do with one 4nother ; let every' man look after his own religion, and i s aase polities to us. Let ev ery man go and serve God ioa!ividually; but as for national religion, there was such a tinely rn the folly of our forefathers, but we are wiser now. So the/ say, so they say in dee midst of their offerings." The - men chosen by the Noi;le ae their representatives, instead of ore: copying them,e;vos with Education and Poor Laws and Parliamentary Reform. ought, we suppose, to employ themselves in seeking the ',old, and to re nounce all idea of raking counsel from spelt ONVII wisdoms. But yet we find, that though it is wrote, in Parliament. to troobi t e itself with Poor Laws, anal Parliamentary Reform, eed Eeltication, it did well to vote supplies for carrying oft the wig' ugajnst Re volutionary France, and to load the nation with debt. " Our own country," he says, " though in tke mercy of God it was spared from being the scat of war, d:4 tint escape tine contagion ; for the in direct effects of there wars, involvin g us in a parti which, politically sp,;(ll;ing, could not Lc avoided, have left e load —an € normous load of debt upon England, under the weight of which she yet groans, suid from which there is no human pros. pect of any honest deliverance." Politically speak ing, we say the war might have b een avoided, and the debt might have been avoided, had the great Council of that day been possessed of either Chris slag fe,:linv (ur is tie vkdoro. However, a bloody anti burdensome war, however unnecessary, is not so ob jectionablean incense to idols as improving Poor Laws and reforming Parliament. But where was the charity of the Rev. Mr. M‘Neile, where the charity of the British Reformation Society, n hen they could shut their eyes to all the circumstances in the situa tion of the Royal Family of this country, and make and sanction this wanton, this cruel insult, to the innocent children of his Majesty ? The King of that day, when the Royal Marriage Act was passed, was to blame, the Parliament was to blame, th e Nation was to blame, in not showing its disapproba tion more decidedly ; but the unfortunate victims, the members of the Royal Family, who were de prived of a liberty enjoyed by the rest of the nation, were to be pitied. Can this intolerant Priest, who audaciously culls on " a righteous nation to rise in indignation against it"—who culls upon the " Bishops in the Church" to " bring it before the public"— can this intolerant Priest, we repeat, see nothing its the circumstances of the Royal Family to justify the application of a less severe measure to them than is applicable to others ? An unjust law sought to debar the King from domestic comforts ; being a man of simple habits, and of a kind and affectionate disposition, he slimmed the dissipation of high life— he lived as a virtuous man would do, to whom th e law is tnor. indulgent, and sought the domestic hap tAness from which it endeavoured to shut him out. But this Pharisee not only sees no extenuating d r . cumstance in the situation of the King, but he would not even allow him the indulgence of the af fection which every parent must feel for his children —nay, he would set a mark of proscription upon the innocent children. "The putting into the Gazette—the putting into honourable dignity of State—children that are the fruit of fornication." And this insolent invective was delivered in a Christian Church, by a Minister of the Religion of Charhy and brotherly love. Not a word of all, however, should we have heard, if the King had not given his confidence to a Reforming Ministry. —Morning Chronicle. By a recent calculation the appalling fact is ascer tained that there are in the county of Mayo one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred human beings in danger of perishing by famine! We have seen no returns of the actual number of persons in a state of starvation in the county of Galway but they are represented as very numerous. It appears that a portion of the county Donegal is suffering the ravages of similar want and misery. This is a frightful picture to contemplate, even at a distance; but what must it be to those who are on the spot, and witness the agonies in detail, of which we cant imagine but one vast indistinct mass ? A general description of calamity dues not so painfully touch the sympathies of the human heart as distinct re lations of individual suffering. Men can hear of the carnage of a battle without emotion who would ,budder at the recital of a solitary act of domestic homicide. Let us for a moment endeavour to imagine the agonies of individual affliction, in all its varieties, which the mass of starvation, of which we have spoken, produces only in the space of 24 hours, and we shall feel how impossible it is, in general terms, to convey even a faint notion of the dreadful reality. The Freeman's Journal tells us, " no words can describe the terrible scenes that overspread the country. Persons endeavouring to support life on seaweed, on nettles, and the common herbage of the field—poor mothers wailing for their children, and hordes of men roaming about and asking for work and food—fa milies stretched in sickness without one to attend diem." A letter from Sir Francis Blosse gives the subject a more deep and painful domestic interest. Ile says, " those on the sea-coast are endeavouring to preserve existence on sea-weed and shell-fish found along the shores. A Clergyman, on whose authority I s tate the fact, told me that, doubting the accounts which were brought to him, he visited families at unexpected times, and thus became the witness of the melancholy meal, where a mother surrounded by her children, picked out the fish from the shell with a pin, apportioning the scanty mor sels to each in turn, but too slowly to satisfy the cravings of their hunger. In other parts of the country, the poor are living on nettles and weeds, from which experience has aught them to extract some nourishment, and they pray for a few handsfull of oatmeal to boil up with those plants to foolish a meal more nutritious. I can state that a miserable mother with an infant in her arms was foutul at tempting to prolong the existence of her family by sharing with each child the nourishment which her breasts afforded." These, indeed, are heart-rendin g scenes, and a few of them may enable us to conceive a little better than we otherwise should in what va ried forms of domestic grouping that misery must present itself under which those many thousands of our fellow-creatures in Ireland are labouring, on whom famine has laid her baneful and withering h an d On this melancholy subject the Right Rev. Dr. Machale, a Roman Catholic Titular Bishop, has ad dressed a pathetic and powerful letter to Earl Grey, calling for the interposition of Government on be half of the miserable beings whose wants have nearly exhausted the partial supplies hitherto afforded by the charitable public, and whose lives at present seem but due protracted agonies of a lingering death. With humane emotion, worthy of the occasion, he says—" The people are threatened with destruction, and the Governm ent is earnestly implored to save them. If its aid i s longer protracted, it is as difficult to calculate as it will be impossible to retrieve the loss. In the name of that Being then who has ordained a ll power for the happiness of his creatures, I humbl y and earnestly, and solemnly abjure the Government to interfere, and rescue them in time. I trust, my Lord, that so solemn an appeal, reluctantly wrung from one who feels strongly for the poor, will not be made in vain." u's'e conceive it the sacred duty of a Government, when things com e to so dreadful a crisis, to ameliorate by timely bene volence the calamities which it did not avert by its wisdom. Let Ministers, when the immediate dan ger of starvation shell have been removed, take such measures as are calculated to prevent its re currence. Their first duty is the preservation of the lives of the people—the next, the improvement of their condition. The name of charity was pro faned in support of the Pension list, which feeds upon taxes, wrung from the industrious poor, by the children of vanity, vice, and idleness. What unspeakable blessings would the super fluities of the Pension-list diffuse at this moment among the perishing pop u l a ti on o f t h e s'ster island? But we observe that the state of Ireland has not entirely escaped the vigilant protection of the Executive—some relief is destined for the miseries of the population of that country—relief that will be equally energetic and summary in its operation. It is thus announced in the Limeric/.• Chronicle: Gollotuses upon a new construction have been prepared in Ennis for the purpose of transmit ting, to the different places were executions may be ordered, upon such as shall have been condemned at the present Special Commission in Clare." The' it is evident, that if the innocent arc to be left to perish, the guilty are not to be allowed to live, a nti a prospect of more sweeping relief, as regards the " superabundant population" of Ireland, could not delight the philosophic genius of :Malthus himself. We have heard of pemle who " asked for bsead and received a stone ;" but to answer the despair, ing cry of starvation, and to put down the tempuras' ebullitions of popular distress by a mechanical novelty of the sort described, is an instance of the ready application of the improved principles of me chinery to moral government, which makes us hope that, in course of time, the minds of Statesmen may ha dispensed with altogether, and society be esseo tially governed by a certain greet functionary, expert in working the apparat us o f exterm i nat i on . We should like to know the n ame o f t h e ingenious in' ve ntor of those portabl e mac hi nes o f d eat h , t h u t we might immurtaliee him, Cl are wou ld , no d ou bt, do honour to his memory, if, like the lubricousr of the brazen bull of Phalaris, he afforded in his own per son an experimental proof of the superiority of his invention.—Morning Herald. We are surprised to see it again stated, as it was lest year, that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen po•- gess no power of punishing or putting an end to the dangerous mode of navigating the Thames by steam vessels. The corporate body claim to be conserva tors of the Thames, the duties of which do not consist, we apprehend, merely in swan-hopping, or looking after white-bait, smelts, and flounders, but imply the same authority over this watery highway, which, as Magistrates, they possess over the King's highway, through Cheapside, Cornhill, or Thames street. Now if, in either of these latter great thoroughfares, a coach or mum were seen driving furiously along, to the imminent dan ger of the lives of the p a s sers -by, w h a t wou ld "the street-keepers or marshulmen do but seize the offender, and carry him before the Lord Mayor or sitting Aldermen, to be dealt with accord ing to law, or, if he cannot be caught at the moment, take his number, and proceed against the owner afterwards ? And if such be the summary pro cess on land, in what degree, at the common law at least, are such things less offences in the t.ver ? This we know at all events, that the nuisance and the danger is intolerable ; and that, unless the City's conservatorial powers can diminish them, the Legis lature must be applied to at once to prevent steam vessels from proceeding higher up the river than Black wall.—Morning Herald. Whatever may be the ultimate result of the war of extermination which is now carrying on between the Poles and the Russians, there are three points on which we think no possibility of doubt can rest 1. That the former have nobly vindicated their right to a place among the independent nations of Europe —2dly. That they have been most ably commanded by their Chiefs—and idly, That the time is now come when it behoves both France and England to take a decided part in their favour. Of the gal lantry displayed by the Poles in defence of their liberties, our columns have furnished ample evi dence; and of the success with which their Gene rals have manoeuvred weainst a force not only su perior in number, but furnished in a superior man ner with all the instruments and munitions of war, even the latest accounts, concluding as they do with a retreat on Praga, amply declare. A morn ing cotemporary, in observing upon this subject, has remarked that " Skrzynecki's movement up the Narew could not be defended on military principles," because he thereby exposed Warsaw to a direct attack from the enemy; but in this ex posure of the capital there was, in our opinion, more (Farmer to the Russian force, had it proceeded to at tack it, than to the Polish. The inhabitants, be sides being protected by a considerable body of !nen, whom the Polish Commander-in-Chief had left be hind him, are, it is well known, all armed, more or less perfectly, and animated with the same zeal which pervades the army; and had the Russian General placed himself in a position to be attacked at once both by the population of War-aw and the army of the Commander-in-Chief, we are apt to think that he would have had but a sorry account to give of his success. Be this, however, as it may, the Polish Generalissimo succeeded in the main object which he had in view—that of aid ing the insurgents in another province ; and, tis we have more than once mentioned, we think the time is now come when the most effec tual aid ought to be given to the devoted Poles, both by the Government and by the public. The continuance of such a contest as that which is now waging on the batiks of the Vistula, would be dis graceful not only to France and England, but to humanity itself, which has already been more than sufficiently shocked by acts of barbarity, of which savages, or a people but a slight degree removed from that savage state, could have been guilty ; and we, therefore, trust that while on the one hand, these two great Powers will interfere as the saviours of Poland, the people in both countries will riot be slow in manifesting their zeal and affection in their behalf. Addresses to their respective Governments, embodying their feelings on the subject, would do much good; amid a liberal subscription to enable the patriots to furnish themselves mor e am ply w i t h t h e materials of war, would, we need not add, be of great value.—Morning Advertiser. The accaunts we daily receive from Ireland of the conditions of the wretched inhabitants of some extensive districts in that country are truly appalling. Humanity sicl<ens at the contemplating', of the thou sands of human beings who are at this moment suffering the agonizing pangs of hunger, and in their despair reproaching the tardiness of that death which alone promises to relieve them from the fierce torments and wasting anguish of famioe.— And are these multitudes of our fellow-creatures and fellow-subjects to be left unregarded, to die in their misery and despair, while a liberal Government is maturing that plan of relief which some months ago Lo tobe L t rd henMienlibioeurrriite declaredsconsideration, in House al ds to and nicely ad justing and while Mr. Spring Rice and other calculating Poor t o Laws w f s " t i t th Ireland hose I I :r e ! a c l l i h e S c t o i a l r e i t o e I s y, establishment are would deduct from the net rental of their estates ? An indignant negative to this question (and this is the true practic question) will, we know, burst spontaneously front every English heart. " No!" every reader will at once exclaim; the idea is too ltori• the caseibleatid brutal to be endured for an instant. But unhappily is one in which the mere expression of feeling, however prompt and encr ut ave will avail b view ttl e of e re a l c i been atd i impend ingp reseit mg 110 exaggerated y u a s re w t e o ll be a feel with promptitude and then e e n ner i g n y us i t f m a i c ie t remedies for the evil which is now ravaging mi tigatedsi o onof averted.renriote causes, lt o i r s o n f o p tr e i r Lf i o e r nit the syste matic nnd discus inhuman,re n Irelandso such oig i the wouldears o be f ediinuallyi debatersdle and assailed by the groans and shrieks of dying and starving men, women, and children. English ae bounty must flow until it has appeased the cravings tte b of famine, and then will be the time for the mind of England to consider what ought to be done in order to prevent the return of this dreadful cilia , miry ; and what ought to be thought of those per sons in power, who, when the indications of its approach became visible, promised to do something and have done nothing, thus at once mocking Irish distress and repressing British charity ? We deny the right of any man to (yeti his lips upon the sub ject of Irish distress—to pretend to any commise ration for the thousands of the Irish people who are now perishing for want—to utter a syllable of censure against those who have considered a Inca sure of relief until the objects who required it are nearly of them relieved from their sufferings by the hand of death, so lung us he has not himself to the utmost extent of his means, contributed to stay the career of famine and its coesernt attendant, pestilence. Succour to the famishing myriads of the Irish people—instant undeliherating succour from every individual who has the means, or can create them by any possible retrenchment of his wonted comforts or indulgences—is at the present moment one cf the most imperative of moral obligations. When this shall have been afford e d i n a degree com mensurate with the occasion, then will come time t ime for discussion and inquiry as to t h e causes, im fuieu----c such s i pg c rl l ei t ;e, t ei l ii i ic e teed r w e i c flo u ici r .i r i e t ti li c iol e vfeuot to horrors the mediate and remote, of th e f ata l calamity —as to th e withheld reli e f u ntil the evil has att a i ne d i ts present gigantic and me ap a ppalling magnitude ; nor can i t b e doubted that i a ;r t r i l l s y be b a y m b i d e best t hese topics will then be entered upon with an e arnestness proportioned to the intensity of feeling; which the actual situation of Ireland has excited iii every humane and patriotic rnind.—Morning Post IVhat is a Protocol? It is a species of noxious diplouivy, with which all are poi.oned who may be bold enough to declare fur liberty.—Fivaro. TRIUMPH OF REFORM is SOUTHWARK. Yesterday a dinner, ut which C. Calvert, Esq. M.P., and W. Brougham, Esq. M.P., attended as guests, was given at the Horns Tavern, Ken nington, by the independent electors of Southwark, to celebrate the triumph of the cause of Reform. Upwards of 200 persons sat down to dinner. SOLO►tON DAVIES, Esq. in the Chair. After the cloth had been removed, and " Non nobis, Domine" sung, The CHAIRMAN rose, and having made some suitable prefatory observations, proposed the first toast----" Our patriotic King—Long may he live to support the rights and liberties of his people." The toast was drank with three times three, amidst the most enthusiastic cheers. The }widths of " The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family" were then toasted amidst much ap plause. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said he would not call upon them to rise, as it implied a compliment to themselves, but would give them as a silent toast,—" The People—the only source of legitimate power."—(Great applause.) " The Army and Navy" were then toasted to gether. The CHAIRMAN next gave—" Our best hopes—a full, fair, and free representation in the House of Commons."—(Three times three.) The next toast was—" Our tried and faithful Member, Charles Calvert, Esq."—(Drank with three times three, loud cheers.) Mr. CALVERT returned thanks. He remembered having beard Mr. King, the celebrated comedian, say, that he began his career as a strolling actor, ' and that the first recompense which he received consisted of 4d. and a piece of tallow candle. He (Mr. Culvert) was acquainted with that admirable actor up to the latest period of his life, and he bud often heard him acknowledge that he never made a first appearance upon any night without feelings which he could not overcome. He (Mr. Calvert), though a veteran in addressing public assemblies, found himself precisely in that situation at the present moment. He would only say that words could not describe the gratitude which he felt to wards them. He proceeded to congratulate them on the great triumph which had been achieved for the cause of Reform. That great question, he might sty, was already carried. It would he taken into consideration o►► the 21st of this month. So much for the report so industriously spread abroad that Minis'ers intended to defer it till next year.— (Cheers.) Such a►► intention had never been en tertained by them, and it had only been attributed to them by the Anti-Reformers, and the old Tories, who had lost ►to opportunity to diffuse reports to the prejudice of his Majesty's Ministers. But the pub lic had too much knowledge, and too:much good sense, to be deceived by such a report. Not only would the great question of Reform soon be decided, but they would be soon again called upon to exercise their choice of new representatives, for it would be impossible, as soon as that measure should be carried, that any question of importance could be submitted to the consideration of the House of Commons, until an appeal should be made anew to the people, and until they had elected a proper House of Commons to decide upo❑ all such matters. He would repeat that there was as little doubt of the question of Re form being carried, and that immediately, as that he (Mr. Calvert) was now addressing them. He for one was glad to hear that the House of Peers were now disposed to adopt a vet) , different view of that measure from that which they were first inclined to take of it. ile certainly would not find fault with any persons for changing their opinions, provided that chance was for the benefit of the people.— (Cheers and laughter.) He felt obliged to them for having given him such a colleague as Mr. Brougham. He would answer for him that he would steer a straightforward course, and that even if he were inclined to act otherwise, he would not dare to do so, for his name was Brougham. The Chairman next gave, " The man of our choice, William Brougham, Esq., and may he realize all our hopes."—(Cheers.) Mr. NI ILLIAM liaot:Goaef could not sit dow❑ without congratulating them on the success of the great cause, the triumph of which they had met that day to celebrate. They might, indeed, have de layed this dinner for a few weeks longer, when the victory would be completely achieved ; but such a delay was unnecessary. The victory was already theirs the voice of the people had gone forth from one end of the country to the other ; the King was with them, the Ministers were with them, and the House of Lords dare not be against them.— (Immense cheering.) They' would, therefore carry the question ; they had catried it ; and in a very short space of time they would have a full, fair, and free representation of the people in the Com mons House of Parliament.—(Great applause.) Under the existing corrupt'system, the abuses of which the Reform Bill would remove, 7,500 con stituents sent 280 legislators to Parliament, while there were upwards of 12,1)00,000 of people with out representatives. After dwelling upon the great benefits which would be derived from Reform, he proceeded to congratulate them on having got a Ministry, who, as he firmly believed, were anxious to promote, in every respect, the real in terests of the country. The mere mention of the name of Lord Grey was a sufficient eulogium upon that distinguished and consistent states , man, and with such a Minister at the head of ' the Government the people had nothing to fear. They might be sure that such a Minister would never truckle to any King, or pander his virtue to any ag grandizement of himself.—(Cheers.) Though he (Mr. Brougham) was closely connected with an other Member of his Majesty's Government, he could not refrain from alluding to him—but he spoke of him on this occasion as a public man. The present Lord Chancellor had always been the friend of the people, and he was now too old to change.— (Applause.) There was no species of Reform which would do more good than that which tile present Chancellor intended to bring forward, by having it introduced next month, in the first in stance, in the House of Commons—he alluded to the Bankruptcy Amendment Bill. Looking at the b.,rougl► of Southwark, and the city of London, merely as commercial communities, the Bill would effect ►nore good for them than they would derive even from the great measure of Reform itself. He was sure that the present House of Commons would pass that Bill by such a majority, that the House of Lords would not think of setting their faces against it. When passed, it would form only the first of a series of measures which it was the in tention of the Loud Chancellor to introduce for the Reform of the Court of Chancery.—(Applause) The lion. Ge►ltleman concluded by proposing the health of the Ladies of Southwark," w Inch, it is needless to sty, was toasted with enthusiasm. Mr. CALVERT proposed the health of " The in dependent electors of Southwark." Mr. BLACKETT returned thanks. Mr. CtaxERT, after pronouncing u just eulogium On the uniform consistency of their Chairman, whom he designated as the father of Reform in South wark, proposed his health, ,which was drank amidst very great applause. The CHAIRMAN having► returned thanks, ga , e _ " The honest Members for the county of Surrey." Mr. BittscoE returned thanks. The next toast was, " E- n 1 Grey and his M a _ King."—(Che , .?rs.) jesty's Ministers, the honest adviser ; s in o d f Immediately after this toast had been drank, a Mini stets, concluded by proxoiing o . lr u . n iN ci l i a ig h or a l t i t o d , t , l , l , es e s u ei l og the ila co o t:: p i l: i i s y, M 6,sty,, "The hca!th of Lord Chancellor Brougham. Mr. Biro :Gil:of returned thanks, and proposed " The health of Lord John Russell," which was drank with rapturous applause. Several other toasts were proposed, and the fesi vity of the evening was kept up till a late hour. alter ePr pt: THE ARMY. A Military Board, consisting of Cavalry Officers, sat yesterday at the Cavalry Department Office, to decide upon the propriety of adopting the new Cavalry field movements of Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian, or of still continuing the practice of those of Dundas, which have been in use throughout the service since 1796. Vis count Combermere presided at the Board. Among the other Officers present were, General Fane, Major-General Sir Colquhoun Grant, Colonel Thackwell, 15th Hussars; Colonel Stistead, 3d Light Dragoons ; Colonel Kearney, late Gf tl:e 6th Dragoons ; and Colonel Lord Loughborough, of the 9th Lancers. The 70th Regiment is not, as strted, under orders for Cla e, n r are any rdlit try changes likely to be made until the arrival of Sir Hussey Vivian, who succeeds Sir John Byng. The 92d Highlanders is the first corps to quit Dublin for the country. The eight District Assistant Quartermasters-General in Great Britain and Ireland are to be dispensed with, which will save four thousand a•year. . . The several Brigade Majors and Permanent Serjeares of Yeomanry are ordered to be instructed in the new system of drill. It is understood that the Brigade Majorghips will be abolished, and their duty devolve on the General Officers of districts. Major Smith, who imitated the example of the Athlone corporators in refusing to light up his house, is Brigade Major their, a situation he received six months ago, front the present Government. He previously held a similar appointment in Dublin, which was abolished last year. Major Smith was, during the fever of Brunswickisno on the Catholic question, one of the must violent opponents of the Duke of Wellington's Administration. The depot of the 73d Regiment of Foot, it is expected, will shortly remove from Truro to Devonport. The Long-room barracks being vacated by the South Devon Militia, on Tuesday the 87th (Irish Fusileers), from Devonpoi t, and on Wednesday the 22d, from the citadel, removed into these quarters. Thursday the last division of the 79th Foot arrived at Al:erdeen from Newhaven, and immediately joined the main body of the depot in barracks. The 79th was re lieved by part of t►he 47th or Hereford regiment from 1 ) 1) mouth. The 10th Hussars, 43d, and 60tH, are now stationed at Manchester. The following officers of regiments just returned from India will be placed on half-pay :—Royals; Lieutenant- Colonel Campbell, Lieutenants Lucas, Dalrymple, Thomp son, and Dalton. 14th Foot : Lieutenants Darner, John. ston, Greztrson, De Vernet, Ottor, and Graves ; Ensign Senior, S9th ; Lieutenant-Colonel Al'Caskill ; Lieutenants Kingston, Graham Pole, White, and Wilson. Recruiting is still going briskly on in Edinburgh fur the 92d Highlanders; and as the officers are so remark ably circumspect and punctilious with their recruits, some time is likely to elapse before they complete the number required. THE ARMY IN INDIA. The Dacca provincial battalion was disbanded on the Ist of January, in conformity with the instructions fur nished to the Commanding Officers; the Adjutant and European Non-commissioned Staff of the battalion being placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief. The Military Board at Fort William was re-organised on the Ist of January : the Board to consist of the Chief Engineer, the Commandant of Artillery, Chief Magistrate of Calcutta, and two stipendiary military members ; and to controul the Ordnance public works, canal and em bankment, commissariat, and stud departments. The officers appointed to the Board are, Lieutenant-Colonels A. Galloway and J. Cragie, with salaries of 2,250 Sonat rupees e ,ch per month ; Ciptain G. Young, 7th Secretary; and Ciptain Gowan, of the Artillery, As sistant ditto. The Mundlaisin kcal battalion was also disbanded on the Ist of Jimmy. The Assistant-Surgeon is fay the pre , ent retained, to perform the medical ditties of the Nimur district. The Court of Directors have directed the issue of sashes to be once in every four years, instead of triennial;y, as hitherto. The next issue will be in 1832 in advance until 1836. The 3d and 4th Native Veteran Battalions Were dis banded on the 31st December, and the Ist and 2d Native Veteran Battalions were re-organised from the same date, to consist of ten companies of 1,000 privates. An Order in Council, dated Fort St. George, Oct. 26, fixes the same batta for veterinary pupils as is authorised for medical pupils. A riding-school has been established at Bangalore, for training young officers arriving from England their riding, drill exercises, &c. Captain Wilkins, '7th Regiment, L. C., is appointed Superintendent of the School, who is to draw the pay and allowances of the young officers. An order of the Court of Directors extends the term of service of General Officers on the staff of the l'reideocy of Madras from four to five years. The term " Northern division of the army" is in future to be substituted for that of " Surat division of the army." A Court-martial was held at Singua, India, on the 23d of September, 1830, of which Lieut.-Colonel Nott, of the 16th Regiment, was President, for th e t r i a l of Ser jeant-Major Duffey, 71st Native Infantry, for disobedience of onfers, in not quitting Colonel Warden's bungalow when commanded, and, when taken away, for having re turned to it; for other disgraceful and disrespectful con. duct, and for threatening expressions. He was found guilty of three of the charges, and sentenced to be reduced to the rank of a private. The Court accompanied their sentence with a recommendation of the prisoner on account of the great aggravation he had received. Errl Dalhousie, the Commander-in-Chief, remitted the punishment, and addel the following remark :—" That the misconduct of the Serjeaut arose from the very reprehensible interfer ence of Lieutenant -Colonel Warden with the domestic concerns of the non-commissioned European staff under his command." (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) The following changes of quarters in the 56th regiment have taken place last week :—Captain Leighton's com pany, from O'Brien's Bridge to Callireonlish and I3ally neety ; Captain Hay's, from Clonrara to Abingdon and Capparnore; Lieut. Mauleverer's, from Mount Shannon to Newport ; Captain Higgins and Ensign Woodgate's,from Kiilaloe to O'Brien's Bridge. Thursday, the head-quarters of the 17th Lancers, at present in this garrison, received the route for Cork, to proceed on Monday next. They are to be replaced here by the 6th C,rhineers. The different detachments of the Lancers, quartered in parts of the county Clare, will con tinue to occupy their stations until the state of the county will admit of their removal. Captain Burnett's company of the 74th Regiment has replaced the 56th in Killaioe. The following officers of Regiments just retut ned from In•lia will he placed on half-pay:— Royals—Lieut. Colonel Campbell ; Lieuts. Luc Is, Dal tnple, Thompson, and Dalton. _ 14th Foot--Lieur. Dornor, Johnston, Grearsou, De Vernet, Ottor, and Graves ; Ennign Senior. 89th—Lieut.•Colonel M Caskill; Lieuts. Kingston, Graham, Pole, White, and Wilson. The depot of the Rifles is statiored at the Pigeon-house. The depot of the 20th at Beggar's Bush, Dublin. The Lancers, 30th, and 92d, in the Royal Barracks. The 70th in Richmond Barracks, and the Enniskill eners at Portobello. The Lord Lieutenant lost one of his medals at the review in the Park, on Saturday. The half-yearly inspection of the reserve companies of the .58th Regiment, under Captain Sargent, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday last, in Londonderry, h.-fuse Major_ General M`Donnell, who expressed himself highly pleased with the appeatanc e and steadiness of the men and their movements, and also with the interior economy of the depot. The Major• General also noticed the great pro ficiency the recruits had made, considering the very short period they have been in ti e Regiment. I . On the 7th i ns t . in Uppe Br RTH S Gower-street, the W lady of George arry, Esq., o f a son and heir. The wife of the ltev. G. It. Kensit, of Rode, Somersetshire, of a daughter. On the sth inst. at Slough, the lady of F. W. Herschel, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 9th inst. at Stamnore, by the Itev. Edward Smyth, stone Bucks, to Emma Sarah, eldest daught er o f O avid Chain- Rector of Stow Maries, Essex., Philip W roughton, Esq. of lb. , hers, - Esq. of the Weald, and Commander in the lloyal Navy. On the 7th inst. at St. Alphage, Greenwich, J. G. Stilwell, Esq., of Arundel.street, Strand, to Ellen M ary , eldest daughter of J. Tingcombe, Esq. On the lith inst. at Prior Park, Bath, by the Catholic Bishop, C ap t a in Ellis, of the 4th Ei ght Dragoons, eldest son of the the Hight ltev. Dr. Baines, and afterwards at Walcot Church, 'Colonel Ellis, of the ....)sth Light Dr a goons, to Eli z a l ( eldest daughter o f Colptiel J. L. 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