The Sun. — London, England, 1830-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Luse eight, in die Ho!Use Of,:tiers","torir Chide calor Brougham radeemed one :of e the. imp retest. pledges which he had givers to theieteuntrystceirieroe duce and support Reform: The 'meastwe wlileh wee. the subject of his last nigbee'l3lll was Legal" scarcely less important than Parliementary - -4Le. form, though surrounded with fewer• difficulties, and exposed to less formidable :opposition. Never Wa an evil more clearly pointed out, and never Wrestle , practicability of a remedy more:forcibly demon strated, both from past experience, and from :the existing institutions in a part of the .Linited:Kinda dom. It scarcely requ ired the .minute statements and extensive knowledge of the Noble and Learned Lord, to show the vexation, 'expanse and dela the present system, in obliging suitors ' to bring Their agents and witnesses, often from great distances., to the county town, to maintain them there during the assizes, and to wait for a fedresi of wrongs one "Ix months to another. The rem e dy w hi c h h e proposes has the .advantage of experience in its favour, though the details of his Bill may demand, and no doubt will experience, the most rigid, thou g h we hope not unfriendly exoteheatione-41-- An Evening Paine ropeeta i on W1)0,41404" goad uuthority," that the L or d ,Clnsticellorbae' written to the Archbishops and Biahopee thistle means to re sign all the church patronage ; into their betide. Noeite we certainly have no eurtiorey whatever , ttiar ht ! ommon sense for conteadictingehe report. Why.. Lord Brougham, a ChriStiath and a member of'_tlte Church of England, sletudd .diepoliaess himself of the' Ptotooello appertaining to his station in that eccle, 'magical esteblishn eent to which he ,helortga, we icannot conceive. pia Lordship'will fed much better in dispose of then according to the suggestions of his own exceneet utederetanding i'the 'poorer; to men of piety and virtue. in the elected protessione-- , the richer, of wraith we briieve there are not many. 'to Persons to their Tiety an d virtue, add learns 'Mg and kite wledge. While we are upon the sub. 'feet of the new Lord Chaneellore we will recur 11 ' 1 ' 4 4 'to a recent affair, in which his Lordship bore ittvoltrw , tary part. We blame no one greatly ; yet We l i / tank that in good taste the attack on the :subject ref the Yorkshire representation, if thought neo**** 7 y shotild have been " left to that I)litett%'.vhere only the defence could be heard." But 'whist a defence I We recollect that Mr. Charles Alleles. e l his Reminiscences, speaks of an attack 'Mao Lien the Lord Chencellor ThurloW, on his acre ,talon to t be House of Peers ; end the writer, in talon to the ,'.ndignant reply, speaki of the bird of ‘Jo. ,e grasping the bolts of his master, and so on. 41 re rebuke of the 'present Chancellor weed a dif tie' rent character, but its modest dignity, mixid . with *I )(nettling of a Mild sarcasm, will not he for ,ottere Si tic ontnia, the office of Chancellor will e: not confer more honour on its possessor than be will iropurt respectability tothe office.—Tines. . . A letter from our friend " Radical," in another eo l t enne will furnish something better than even food for giNttra reflection to {the public. It bodies fettle for a retrenehing frugal Government, not merely sp „ e e etr ee of criminal practice, to be ,religiously avoided if that Government means to hold together, or to face the country for the remainder of the pees sent session, but materials whereon to exercise, from tide very hour, the pruning knife of a wholesome and indispensable economy. The uninitiated could - hardly have believed, bud not the fact beee thus brought befure them at a single view by the ;cal of our iodusitious correspondent, the enormous excess -to which lax principles of administration bad carried she waste of the public • treasure. Wu find a table of more than 86 persons—or (speaking, as we ought to do, reverently of %midi great people) 86 per lonagter a-4njoyinge down to Ike year 1820, " sa ;holes, erefits, pay, fees, and eroolurrients/' ii, /nest Taws of a multifarious nature, and amounting in the hands of eects personage, to 1,0001. a year and ups ver d e , S o me f e w, hOWeyee,Wa admit, deserve their isaluriese because they erisnet sineuerlata, We talked ex few- daya . age of tile !temerity of sweeping ewey *erne dozens of " Boards," and well we slight. 'Our correspondent's list is defective to our own knowledge, by almost numberless particulars, but, still pregnant enough with subject of contempt or anger against the system which enabled hint to ere large it to its actual diweesiome One curious com mentary opon the habitual ekes of our Government iii efforded by the language of the,tablee themselves, f r om which it appears that a vast proportion of the Sal ' .. ir i eg f &Cc', ere colJeLsed to be exorbitant, and are ee ,e n ed to reductionresbut when ? After. the de cease o f the existing occupants I Now let us look at me h es eelt only . of these nefarious jobs. lii searching the iirt for some of our favourite " Boards," we lighted on those of Excise and Customs. The members e e t hese two fermideble bodies wenn lees than 22, including a Chair mum end Deputy Chair man to each. What, thee, do wit and oplime4e to the names of the said meraberi V Why, the Chide. men hitYo each 2,0001. per annum, " to be reduced" hereafter to 1,8001.; the Deputy Chairman, 1,7001., " to he reduced" after the death of the preterit in cumbruncero, to 1,004 ; the other Commiesiouers, 1,4001. per unman, " to be reduced" to 1,200/. What is the history of these ehaineful salaries and these intolerable Breeds ? during th e ware the Commiialoners received, after deducting the property-tax, 1,040 L a -piece. Since the peace, after the property-tux wins taken and the salaries thus virtually raised to near 1,2001. per annum, • and the value of numey raised by the general fall of prices, that, lords and gentle men came down upon the country for an increase, the Commissioners of oat-sixth, or 16 per emit.; this Chairmen for above 20 per cent.;' and the Deputy s Chairman, we ate told, wee a newly-in vented rank, melting a compliment to its possetort of the difference between 1,2001. per weep, end 1,7001. The question wit would put, toehe present Ministry, who are pledged (and we believe noxious to redeem the pledge) to retrenchment, ix, are not those unjust and cruel impositions upon the pimple of England to be got rid of at once, or dust we ire humbugged by a promise to lighten' them on the death of therm who never ought to have enjoyed them for an hour ? Of this bafld of' gentlemen we find, on inspection, that no lets than 14 are actually metnbers of noble families, er their well-kociree protegis and: coneexioni, So much for your bo rauglimonger Constitution I. We do not much like picking out mimes of individuals. as , Marks for pubbe odium, but near • the top of the cata logue will be found a Noble Earl, Tellerof the Exclierer (one who has not acted like Lord Cam den), erivieg from it an income of God knows.' bow much, and beildes a clerk of the Crown, e si necure office in - Chancery of 1,1011/, per annumee- Te tr a is in his ry f igliboorliood a gentleman, a chief Clerk of the Treeing, with 1,2001. ii-yeAr, who hes three salaried offices besides. There is a Chief :Pumice in Eyre,—(qu. " it ?") Abut his duties are we know not any more thee he does, but be is an old courtly Earl—what business has he with 2,250/. a year of the public money for doing no thing ? Tkere is a Buyout Clergyman who has is "salary" of 1004 per annum, and 0 emoluments" of 3,071/. So there its " a resident Secretary of the Irioh office in Lieelon," a place which was long ago condemned by 'the Cemmiftee of Inquiry as use, less, with a 'whey of 1,100/. asyeur, and another place and a pension of above 31s0/. more. There is that Leviethale or elephate of tiueenriet#, Lord El lent Innotigh, with almost 10,0004 per annum. A Clerk of the Council with ,01101, per liftmen here, hoe, besides, soother einecura clerkship of 3,000/. a-year ins jawing...re But we are fatigued with the seers sight of these ahem mations. L e t rite Ministry "NAY an its eft:tether, for the public will watch its 'node of dealing with theme—Times. A.paraphlet has been put into nor ha nds, from which we oubjoin a passage, riluArative of the miss I'OIIIIIMS now pressing on the country hum the corn 1 4 % , raid its consequences. It is ecere t ly nece ssar y se a dvert to the eolitpitti,ant effrontery with which t he esmetry getitletnati recommends to ttift tenants to raise the labourer's wages, while he (the gentleman. will lend no help to such an additional charge upon ;ti i , farmer, but stitl . insists on having the same rent. Thai farmers understand ibis, and so do the la pouters.' We roe happy to find, also, that a gentl4- , loft of the high rank and.vost possessions of Mr. . , Par matt has set a just example on the subjec t . 1 iWII le he requires of the farmers on his estates that thsti «hall-one and all raise the labourer's wages, he iltitnielf, as is stated in the local newspapers, has de - terttiineil to redoes his rents to the level of 1795 Such measures, m it extended,' must force a cor , sponding reduction'of taxes, and we like them none . , toe worse for that:— . . , ~ T he period (viz, peace) was now arrived for r e tur n i ng to a more moderate system ; and for : things to resume theit more natural standard. Accordingly, the price of labour was reduced ; the exorbitant interest, or rent of money, which hid been received during the war, could be , no kinger obtained ; the sources of employment for capital were! , , coon-acted ; the productions of our manufactories, of commerce, and of aericuliure, were diminiehed hi I value; the merchant, the manufacturer, the ship-owner, the tradesman.--dealers and Speculators—all hail to sus. tain fleavy losses upon their stores and investments. The eactit .. of the, depreciation reached, likewise, the West India planter, and the English cultivator--corn, cattle, end :wool—rum, sugar, and cotton, were among the articles subjected to the general reduction. !! The price of land was also about to take its level in the Market, by falling in a due proportion with the agri eulttiral productions. This alone was reifuired to restore the equipoise. ; the reduction of taxes, tithes, and poor fotesi must of necessity have followed, to complete the regcrierated system; sod thus the common evil would haie been only tranaitery—its universality would hsve been: its remedy—it would have been subdued by mutual interchange and mutual interest.—things would have soon lound their natural level—and the nation would again have become prosperous in peacti, as it had been glorious in war. 44 But instead of yielding to the current of events—. inst,id of submitting to the altered circumstances which the return to a state of peace dernantled—,instead of pru dently : lowering their rents in proportion to the reduced price, of produce, - the - land-owners sought to elude the geneeal depreciation, by appealing to Parliament for an exclusive protection. . . . " At the risk of reducing London to ashes, and causing a revolt throughout the nation, they obtained the Corn Bill; Whetiby they hoped to restore the priceof wheat to 80e. per quarter, and to perpetuate, in time of peace, the extravagant rate to which their rents had been raised during the war. This unwise enactment of the-Parliament—this futile at tempt to shield the land-owners from the common effect of the times—this fatal Corn Bill, has been the sad cause of the agricultural distress, which has brought ruin upon theirtenantry, and now threatens to overwhelm the mis calculating proprietors themselves. Never, perbrps, was a more glaring example of short-sighted policy ; whether successful, or unsuctesaful, its effect ,could only be mis. chievous Ii it had been succisaful in establishing a high price of provisions, it must have depressed many of the labourers and mechanics (whose wages had been recently reduced) into paupers, and caused them to be supported by the con tributions of the mistaken landowners, for whose benefit the high rents were to he continued. It must also have placed multitudes of the lower arid working classes of the people in the situation of non.emesumers, or non-contri butora to the taxes, by disabling them from purchasing vat ious articles of common use, upon which those taxes al'e collected ; or, eventually, it meet have preduced a conviderable increase in the Wages of labour, and, by aug menting the price of our manufactures, have prevented the Ronda of this country from being brought into competition, in foreign markets, with the goods of other nations. " In its Allure it has been the cause of ruin to the flrrmirs. It has exposed them a second time to the evils of depreciation, and has greatly multiplied the agricultural grievances, Its enactment deluded the cultivators; for a short time with the'hope of improved prices, while it afforded a pretence to their landlords fur demanding the high and disproportionate rents through several years longer than the stole of the country and the circumstances of the times warranted. These payments being made from their stock, or private property, and not from the produce of their farms : the cultivators have now to Sustain their renewed losses under the aggravated severity of ex hausted capitals. If the depreciation of the early days of the peace had not been dierried 4,41 its natural tendency by the delu sory Corn Bilk—if the land-owners, instead of calling for an exemption from the common evil of the times, had prudently diminished their rents in proportion to the re. diced price of farming productions, agriculture, litre com merce and roennfactpres, would, long ere this, have been reviving itoin ha dOectrelailaa, 4nd he country would not have had to deplore the renewed and multiplied distresses of 1822. " No similar means were taken to protect the manufac• Wrath Merphants t ship-owners, tradesmen, or West India planters, ageinbt the Oieetti of passing n'om a state of war to a state of peace. In all that concerned them, thirge were left to resume their usual and equitable level; nor will it be my to prove how the country could be benefited. by grantirig an exclusive:exemption to the landed propri etors. The character of soch n meetiare will be weft by the following 'supposed case, whirl' Is in strict unithrutity with innumerable examples which actually oCcorred " Vour capitalists made purchases shortly before the war coneloded, reel' to the amoent of 100,01V1. The. first invested his money in Watt India produee; the spend, in timber for building; the third, in shipping ; mad the fourth, in lend. On the change to a Male of peace, a general depreciation took please:and each of the three for owe epeculaters was expooeil to a loss. of 401. or 501. per colt. on his porehese, 4. similar yedgetiort oppuering in the price of agricultural prpiluce, laps i tvas diminished in yelue, in the same degree as West India gorilla, timber, and shipping ; pr, I the lose of the fourth pOrehaser would ne Cainarily lie preportignitte, ~'4gaipst this eotninon time neither of the cepttalists could eompialn- r eepii had ebusen,hie venture ,the timep were adverse tp eaeh—and 0 6 h o d f 8 Lade the consequeocee of his own specula tion. The CAM Dill ead only have givep relief to o ne of the fuer capitelists ; and with equ l Justice might it lava been a Sugar Bid, or p Paco )3ill, fur the protec tino of the West India planter—ram; cotton, end sugar, being as much minced in value, as corn, wopl, anti cattle " But:it proves that flies illtdeed e nactm e nt of the l'arthm ie nt has entirely failed n its result; for, in tie spite of this onwitie attempt to keep up the high deice of agrioultural produce, end, consequently, the high war. ratite, every article of farming prodection is again reduced per 44 E J % giOrle, below the etipulated remunerat ing price. Yet, in the face of this glaring feet, and in defiance of the-titter failure of legislative interference, the I.4olholders again beset the Parliament with loud importo oidist for wine new legislative enactment to keep tip the high price of 'tort; pr, in 'ether words, to effect an poywibility,in order that they Foil continue to receive, (hiring., peace, the extravagant rents which they levied Ip tips a tips of : a new Corn new inetl4l of strik , i t % the average-pelt tax on foreign grain—a, reduction of the emoted taxes, eiteh, fn its torn is called for —any thing, In ilhort, hat the., very plain ar.pi elipppriate re. aunty ef,e-redueing the rents. " It has been assert II that the Corn Bill was calculated to benefit the tenant equally as the landlord ; but this is ale r t illusion ; .for it eau make no.diffennee to the farmer whether prices ho high or low, provided the rent awl other out .goings be proportionute; all be requires ie, Matrices Mould be steady, and afford:i 'enumerating profit for his hihouv arid the e mployment of his capital if his takes eery espouses he moderate, and the price of his produce inoderete, he is not in a worse condition than if the price of firming productions lie high, and !lie outgoing. high Proportam. The great evil at present Is, that the due Gamow its fog, produce being extremely low, 'while the rent and all expenses of production are excessively high ; and this is, in tiutb, the inunediate or direct cause of the severe agrieultut al distress,"e!..l7e,es, The nsw Lord Chancellor luta intimated to the Archbishop of Cwiterbury his intention to be di rected by the recommendefjens of the Bishops, in the distribution .or alt preferments faliing under his gift in respectiVe dioeetee under two hundred pounds per annum, .- This reltnqulshment of pa tronage on the' 'part of Lord Brougham bears, no doubt, an air of 'great magnanimity and disintereet• editete; hut it it a measure which we shall bovery s l o w to applaud, however disposed we may be to. vonstrue favourably the Merlts'Of - tha'eminent pet ,on from Whom' it emanates. What, we demand, hove the Bishops done to entitle them at Lord Brutigham's hands to this boon.? Does he indelge the fund hope that any latgeos j i his power to bee stow could conciliate for him the roeuthers of that ellueek, whom the whole previous tenor of his copilupt. b3s and revolted ? the Llishops ever for t ing; Op intrepid ReplesentatiVe of the People who exposed dim 40400 Wisappro: priations, for most part made with their .pght Ater verendconnivano or acquiescence,of the various funds destined throughout thecuuntry to education and other eharitahle use.; or is it on the individuals so deeply int plirated as a holy in those fraudful epecUlntions, that he would confer further facilities of abuse; and are not the motives by which the Bishops a r epot.o. rionfly governed:in the distribution' of theli oßiJit preferments, such As make every lamest men regret they` should pniseis rather than de s ire to give then! more ? These are not the times to augment the direct influence of the Church. Every man's voice is raised against its inordinate wealth and power; yet here eve have the man of the people employing his pewly acquired authority for their extension. Happily a considerable portion of the patronage of the Church is in lay bands. Why should the Chan celler be the first layman to make a cession of his to the Bishops ? If such a cession be meritorious in him, why not alike meritorious in the case of every owner of an ndvowson ? Far better would it have been for Lord Brougham to starch out, at whatever pains, the neglected curates, martyrs to liberal sentiment, or independent character, whom successive Bishops have passed over in every diocese for the purpose of preferring toed-eaters and tuft hunters, and the graceless minions of Aristocracy. —llforning Chronicle. There is in England no law for the poor; the place of it is supplied by discretionary power. We are tit length beginning to suffer from the conse quence of this abandonment of our more humble brethren.. '• We find that all feeling, all sense of in. justice is not confined to men who are possessed •of wealth ; and that if we close against them the doors of Courts of Justice, we drive them to the indul gence of vengeance, which 'Lord Bacon cells u wild justice. It is well observed by Mr. Forsyth, a Scotch Barrister, in the Evidence in the Report of the Scotch Commissioners (1821), " That it is a dangerous error to imagine that when men are put to silence, and withdrawtheir disputes from aversion to the tribunal, whether well or ill-founded, the Judges are at liberty to congratulate themselves on getting quit of trouble. Litigation, like everything human, has inconvenience and evil incident to it. But it is the best remedy hitherto discovered for worse evils ; it is the physic that prevents the fever. If . men do not get their complaints listened to, and justice done is a way that seems to themselves or their neighbours bads. factory, the peace of the community is undermined, and angry passions are fostered. The frame and institution: of society become an object of dislike. And let it not be supposed, that by civilization we are placed beyond hasaid from the consequences. The continental philo sophers of Europe, thirty-two years ago, were talking of the effect of civilization, prosperity, and luxury in sinking nations into apathy and effeminacy, when they were stand ing on the shell of a volcano about to burst below their • feet, and to let forth the most tremendous ebullition of hu man passion that any age had exhibited. Look to Ireland —look to our own country before the improvement of our institutions, and a fair administration of justice had suc ceeded in quieting the perfgrvidum ingenium Scotorum, when feuds and private war filled every corner of the ' country. No barrier is adequate perfectly to confine them ; but they may be gradually evacuated by the cool ing phlebotomy of litigation in an acceptable form." it might suit the rich of a country that their rights and wrongs should alone be attended to ; but they may be assured that their rights can never be perma nently secure, where the poor are placed without the pale of the law. A selfish policy is seldom a wise policy . ; and they who would have all to them selves are sometimes pirnished by losing all. A liberal, and a wise ' because liberal, policy would . rather teach us to make the poor forget as much as possible the evils • incident .to their condition, by communicating to them the feelings of independence and consciousness of security which a ready access to acceptable Courts can give, whereby they may be attached to the institutions of their country, in-, stead of looking on the advantages of others with rancour and envy. The poor in England feel that the world is against them anti the world's law. We h a v e stated this at times when the rich would not have listened to the doctrine. But they have had a glimpse of the yawning gulph. They have had an awful warning. The Magisterial discretion under which they have chosen to govern the poor, has not supplied, in the minds of the latter, the plan of impartial justice. They 'May be,' like other slaves, reduced to silence ; but their hearts will still rebel. The Lord Chaneellor introduced last night his Lt.cal Courts' Bill, a measure by which, if he succeed, he will be the author of tell times more good to the people of England, than they have received from any public man since England was a kingdom. If Eng. land had possessed Local Courts a hundred years ago, that scourge of the country—the Unpaid Ma gistrates—the most barbarous institution that ever disgraced a country culling itself civilised, the lower orders would not now be in the prostrate condition in which they unfortunately are. We have no he sitation in buying ) that in us far as the peace and happiness of the lower orders are concerned, the Sheriffs' Courts of Scotland are of ten times more value than all the hortated institutions of England, the influence of which passes over the heads of the poor. Why is it that the Scotch peasant is con tented, and the English peasant, with higher wages, dissatisfied ? The one word indepanclenes. solves the difficulty, There is not a row', however low iii statitos in Seojlunsl,. who does riot know that lie can, at all times, fur a sum within his means obtain im partial justice. There is a Justice-shop in his neigh bourhood, at which he can at all times enter and de, viand justice. In England it is ett miderstood mat, ter, that no Magistrate will do unythiog unpleasant to another Magistrate; and a poor man may run from Magistrate to Magistrote without being successful in overcoming the scruples of any. One Ma gistrate hesitates to act ; another Magistrate makes jt a ride never to interfere in a eil•t %Ville!' would he hllpleal:4l4 in its: consequences to a brother Magistrate; is third lies under obligations on ac count of some poaching effitir; till tat length the poor. man ; disheartened ) gives up the business fur which he required the aid of justice. hut in Scot, land the Court of the Sheriff is is Court of Record; the proceedings are not arbitrary; the deeision can not be withheld I and irt'caae of misdeCittion: l'!l stay appeal lies to a tiprerne ,liidip, The litigant owes respect, but nothing inure, to the Judge; his aid is no favour, but is diseharge of duty. If Cie Lord Lieutenant of a cuunty injure the meanest labourer, the same proceeding must be observed towards. him, as if he were 'So equal.. The difference, be e tweets right and/hernia' is immense. Hence. Justices of Peace in Scotland have never been table to obtain more than the power to which they ought to have pe.4l! teotlfwFtl in England, that pf pre serving peace and adding justice in emergen, cies The tnonstrous idea of giving to the lain!. holders of a country all Sorts-of discretionary power over the mass pf the people, and to make them stabi stitutea for local trihnitals, vit , to - YestitYetl for Pigs land. And Lugliind is, we ltelieVe, the only country (Ireland excepted) in which feelings of rancorous hostility tire totertailied towards the rich by the whole body of the rural population. Th e Lord choli;epor ~ viti; us we l ove said, confer a great hies - sing on the country, by oideipiog Local Courts for the people. The details of his mewing will be matter for subsequent considerat a i; d n. st:o l h t :sni e gb i l i ea u t tio s t o , however, be expected that so extensive an innova tion, uffeuting sp tr . iy interests, many prejudices, shall pass without .etrenooes oppo sition. In the subsequent stages, an ab jection will be stetted to it. The eye of selfish 1110.. lioply is keep, Let us. hope, however, that justice ;) % o l i i ' l ta b n e ti i e. ° 1 I r f n , P e l t. l 71i t a . t p . i i i ' i t :: i 1) 1 1 es li o l l l y 'fr p r i i c ! v : p i r i ti „ o V a Z ili t i l le ir ,: t . e h aw no fear of the rest. Subservient rro will not be wanting;, and thus, tit laq, Eugiund will - cease to be the only civilized country in which jus, - t i c , i s w i t hh e ld front all but the rich. Monstrous (guy to su pp ose . order can repose on any otlfer fenntiatipn th4n Grneral-confideec e in the pro tection of law 1--- - .MOrnnig- (..hroutt*. The p rocee dings in the House of Lords last night arp Osertung of attention, The Lord Chancellor brought forvyard, iu their Lordships House, a Wen . - s u re for an 4tpelidirlellt of the law„ with whin - his name has been already connected in the H o „e low. The measure in question is the sithstitutitUt of lopl Courts for thOse of Westminster Hall, to have Jurisdiction., to a given atnoutt4 in every part of the country. 'rho 00' 16 of this measure, and its advantages over the present Rysterlnr eh6„reig and convenience, the Noble and Learned Lord ex plained with a persuasion which has lost nothing ,nr its tree by his being transplanted t o hi s p res e nt ' se . uat on. Lord Lyndhu r st said if, w h en h e exam i ne d the details, he approved of the measure, which :he con4dered to meditate a radical alteration in the ju dicature of the country, he would give it his zealous support. 'The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed; and, whatever may be its ultimate fate„ it must be satisfactory to the public to know that the Legislature are at length beginning to feel that' the system of our practical jurisprudence, with . its imperfecti o n s , cru di ti e s , fictions, and anomalies, requires some revision—a conviction to which the mind of every reflecting man out of doors had been long since led. It is auspicious for amendment that a system which was bepraised not long since by a XX-Chancellor, is now openly assailed by an actual, and not defended by an Ex-Lord Chancellor.— Morning Herald. We gave yesterday a brief account of the re election of Mr. It. Grant for Norwich ; and in The Sun of y ester d ay we fi nd the speech delivered by that Right Honourable Gentleman at a dinner of his friends to celebrate his return—a speech so re plete with hottest enthusiasm, and just thought, and so fraught with that energetic eloquence which dis tinguishes even his unpremeditated efforts, that though merely an election speech, we should, had our limits permitted, have presented it entire to our readers. As ids 'we have only room for two brief estraets from it. The first regards the Ministry With which he is now connected, and respecting which he observes, with greut justice, that " The course of improvement on which they are en tering is arduous. They will have much to do ;ad much to endure. They will 'have to contend with Many ad •verse feelings and adverse , interestl. Even among those who may be generally friendly to their designs, obstacles will be apposed to them ;—by the weakness of some, and the unsteadiness of others ;—by the rashness of political projectors on the one hand, and the bigotry of political antiquarians on the other. Nay, they may expect to meet those honest errors e‘en among some of their best supporters, those " FeJra of the brave, and follies of the wise," which are too often found to impede the execution of de signs of magnitude and complexity. " Do I say all this, however, with a view of palliating by anticipation —or, still worse, of indirectly encouraging remissness on the part of his Majesty's Government? Far otherwise. I would have them brace themselves up to struggle with the difficulties I have alluded to ; difficulties which, if properly encountered, will only enhance their triumph. My advice to them, were I permitted to gi►e them advice, (which, if they want it, they will receive from far better prompters)--would be this :- 4 In your principles, be decided--in your professions, be honest— in your plan., be wary—hut, in action, strive as for life and fur death,' "—(Loud and long cheers.) There is nothing in these sentiments but what must commend itself to the conviction of every one who knows any thing of the State of parties—of the adverse 'interests to be conciliated, and of the num berless difficulties to be overcome, by any British Government which, like the present, professes to desert the beaten truck of its predecessors, and to march boldly, but wisely, in the path of reform ; but there is much in them to justify a call for that indulgence and forbearance on the part of the people, of which a Government so situated, ao entangled, so liable to be crossed by friends and foes in its plans for the public weal, stands so greatly in need, and which, in fact, it is only bare justice to it, and to the cause which it has determined to promote, to accord. Mr. Grunt accordingly lays down the duty of the people towards those now in power, with equal felicity, as he describes the duty of the Government to them and to itself " Judge," said he, " with constitutional jealousy of the intentions of the Ministry; this is your duty ;—but, if satisfied on good evidence, that they are really sincere and single-hearted,—then recollect that candour and for bearance on your part, while their measures are iu pro gress, is sot matter of indulgence, but of justice. Justice —not merely to the individuals concerned,—but to your selves and the cause you have at hearL—For be assured that abuses are not to be overcome, nor a series of reforms to be effected, unless those who undertake the work, are sustained and encouraged •in the course of it, by the sup port and good opinion of the people." Such, we are confident, will be the conduct of all rational minded people towards the new Ministry. They know the difficulties with which it has to con. tend, and they will not drive it by their rashness into the adoption of undigested measures; they feel that it has much to overcome—that it has staked its existence, as a Ministry, on the pursuit of a certain definite line of policy, and on the accomplishment of certain reforms--. an d t h ey w i ll, therefore, uphold it by their confid ence , whilst it continues to give evi dence of its sincerity, cod cheer it by their applause, until it has enabled them to redeem their pledges to the country, or shown that it has neither the power nor the wish to do ao.—Morning Advertiser. In the House of Lords, last night, the Chancel lor Lord Brougham brought forward his Bill for the better administration of Justice in England and %Vales. In u speech of great ability his Lordship explained the proposed measure, the scope and tendency of which is similar to that he submitted to the House of Commons last Session, and whiph he revived in the commencement of the present. His object is the establishment of local jurisdictions throughout the country with a view to obviate the delay and exposure incurred by suitors under the existing system. For the details and the very plausible argument by which the proposition is sup ported, we can ut present only refer our readers to our Report. On the occasion of the measure being proposed last Session we suited our reIiSOMB for be. lieving that this imposing theory could not be reduc. ed to salutary preetioe, and we shall take an early op.. rttu of reverting to the subject. That it is a measure not likely to be approved by the Noble and Learned Lords, Members of the Upper House, in which it is now introduced, seems evident from the frank avowal of Lord Brougham, that in proposing it he does not act by concert with his colleagues, none of whom he has consulted ; be bus brought it forward as " a simple Member of Parliementj" it must therefore be regerded ties emanating entirely front himself, uninctfoned by his Majesty's Minis. ters,:and must stand or fall on its own merits. lr now presents itself for judgment before the tribunal hest quelitied to pronounce upon the question; and where there are assembled lawyers so eminent to , the Lords Eldon, Lyndhurst, Tenterden, .Wynford, with Many other Noblemen whose pursuits through out the greater part of their lives have been con nected with the administration of the laws of the land, we may safely rest and rely with confidence upon the wiedont nod justice of their decision.— .Morning Post. We have more than once felt it our duty point edly to observe upon the dangers likely to arise to the Established Church from the present Lord Chencellor i who hes so repeatedly declared himself ag ainst all her institutions, having in his gift so great a portion of the Livings throughout the country. We are happy to find that our observe , . Hone have not been thrown away upon the Noble an d Learned Lord; for his Lordship, it is positively stated, h as resolved to leave all the Livings hereto fore in the gift of the Lord Chancellor ut the dis posal of t he several Bishops in whose dioceses they „.„, y be simmer]. This will of course afford general ,r t tiefutctiors to the true th© less nll'e pt rso a r ie C t le l iTot ; S a atn t l it i l is e l o w t d e. acientious (who have mainly supported him through out his career) feel sore disappointment at being thus deserted, from whatever motive,. by their f ormer patron and must strenuous advocate ?-- Morning Post. A Commissary of Marine at Itocheron. haring „ E d efe d one of his clerks to shave off hil mustachios, the lanes, thinking it a great hardship, appealed to the head a the office, who , however, confirm d th e order, re nia.tui„g. thot clerk, whoie functions wer e em i nent ! ) . lit,: . not tiathilait watlit te putblettut en his face. • At a supper given at Il 4m b urg , b y a sp i r i te d and distinguished English merchant, to Alm!. Sown to ,h e srumuncetl that her last farewel to the stage wou'll talo•place on the 20th inst., when she would tassunte her 1 , 8 , 6 , j U r CittartNE Paper. RUMOURS OF WAR. (From La Quatidienne.) The journals and the news are warlike. Our intention is uo to discuss et this mom en t a quest i on upon w hi c h our opinion has been constantly fixed since the month of Auguet Wit. We confine ourselves to a statement of the rumours in circulation, without pledging ourselves for the accuracy of the same. To-morrow there is to be a communication to the Chatn hers on the affairs of Belgium and our relations with fo reign Powers. According to the hest information upon the subject, it is intended to call upon the Chambers for the means of giving to France the attitude which she ought to assume under the serious circumstances in which she now stands. In this Sitting, which will be of grave character, the Minister of War will make a report upon the present state of the army, and call for a vote of credit for one hundred and twenty millions. The Coastitu tionel speaks of a loan of fifteen millions of Three per Cents. (Rentes), but does not s.sy at what premium the loan is to be negociated. It appears also that great activity prevails in the war de partment. We are assured that 26,000 muskets will be ready for delivery by the 16th of December. It is also said that the Minister of War, was yesterday in treaty for 600 draft horses. This day another contract will be entered into with a person named Aron, and two others, at Strasbourg, for 6000 cavalry horses. These horses will be delivered without delay. If credit is to be given to well-informed persons, the Minister of War left the Council much agitated, and dis patched, in the course of last night, no less than five couriers, in different directions. One of them carried to the Commandant, at Lisle, an order to take possession of Mona, on the first news of the entrance of the allies in Belgium. The latest news is of a more serious character, and can not he entertained on slight grounds. General Sebastiani declared, officially, in the tribune of the Chamber of Deputies, that the Cabinet of the Palaie Royal had entered into an engagement to observe all the treaties concluded in 1814 and 181 b. Now it is by ♦irtue of these treades that the intervention of the Allied takes place in Belgium, and that intervention is, after the decis►on of the COn gress of Biussels, which refused to acknowledge all exist ing conventions. In this state of things, the occupation of the frontier fortreeses by our troops will be a violation of the treaties recognized by the, Cabinet of the Paleis Royal. This Cabinet, therefore, takes upon itself an immense responsi bility, when it interferes and becomts the aggressor in a struggle which is not personal, and when all the world is convinced that the Government is not in a condition to sustain the war, for which the great Powers have had the precaution to prepare the moment they heard of oar revo lution. However this may be, the news we have thought it our duty to give to our readers is in direct opposition to the proceedings of the Ministry with the Provisional Government of Belgium, fur they declared they had nothing to apprehend from France, if the Congress pro nounced the exclusion of the House of Nassau. We can give no explanation upon that declaration; we can only say it astonished many persons, who expected to And in the new Government of France something like dignity in its political acts. (From the Constitutionnel.) PARIS, Nov. 28.—News of the arming of the foreign Powers has produced upon the borders of our departments great energy. AU the population of the East is in mo tion ; and more patriotic than in 1793. Without wait ing for the orders of Government they ran to arms, and rising en inane, they prepare to repel unjust aggression. In the towns, villages, and hamlets, they are all organised. Lorraine and the Vosges set the first . example. They be gan by forming patriotic associations, and securing each other against the tnisfortunea of war. In the Meuse, and in the Meurthe, all the inhabitants of the Communes, civic or rural, have applied their private funds, as well as subscriptions, to the purchasing of sabres, gnus, and ear touch-boxes for the volunteers. The am ill Commune of Gondreconrt has requested, moreover, authority to advance the profits of their wood cutting for one year, in order that they may assist in the same object. The city of Bar and the villrge of Sam. pigny have raised cavalry et their own expense, in Aortic is all emulation and enthusiasm in our beautiful Lorraine. Th►s ardour cannot fall in exciting sympathy in every put of France. We have just understood that the warlike Burgundian* are preparing to imitate this patriotic example. Chain paigne, which rose so courageously in 1614, cannot re main long behind. Franchecompt, Dauphine, l'Auvergnr, and the centre of France, will rush to 'a man to meet the enemy if he should dare attack us. We understand that battalions of volunteers were formed at the commencement of our revolution in the never*, De partments, end the leer, alone can furnish 10,000 sol diers. On the other hand the Government does tint re main inactive. .The indefatigable conqueror of Toulouse is io hit, cabinet every morning at four o'clock, occupied in arranging our victory. From the Pyrenees to the Alps the territory is a few days will be laiatled wick baYunetit• Let Europe, then, or we may ray, the Kings, now adViince. We fear them not; we have Justice, conscience, and the sympathy of the people on our side. FLOGGING IN THE NAVY. One of the last acts of the late Board of Admi ralty was an order, exceedingly creditable to them, containing tome new regulations on this subject, the tendency of which is, by imposing greater responsi bility on the officer who directs punishment, to in troduce additional checks upon its adoption, and a safeguard against its unnecessary use. We have obtained a copy of this document, which we annex, and Shall take occasion to preface it with a few remark•. Of late years, maey very humane restrictions have been laid by the Admiralty on Commanders of ves sels, with reference to flogging; and we believe the instances to be now exceedingly rare . of the punish ment being resorted to, except in extreme cases. —W e are also persuaded that there is r►o mart, possessed of common feeling, —and we trust few officers are entrusted with a command who do not come within this description,—that does not regret the, necessity, whenever it occurs, which renders the infliction a matter of duty. Still the power of resorting to it is a means of discipline, without which we are satisfied the efficiency of the Navy cannot be maintained ; slid we therefore re ject at once all the smiwkisliness which is displayed by soma sensitive people. This is not shared by sailors themselves;—thut they, on the contrary, feel bow indispensible it is to the welfare of the fleet, — was amply proved by their own conduct at the time of the Mutiny, when the Delegates, who exercised the supreme authority, flogged the crews under their coraniand, with far greater frequency and severity, than had been previously done by their own alters. The only thing which remains therefore is, by in stituting wholesome and effectual restrictions, to render the recourse to punishment as rare a circum s►uuoe as a due regard to discipline will allow. This is the object of the new regulations, to which we have accordingly much pleasure in thus giving publicity. _ _ Admiralty Office, 13th November, 1830. 14Z110111,414 DU )1. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having taken into consideration the important subject of corperal punish ments in the Navy, are thoroughly convinced thin it is re quisite for the maintenance of the present efficiency, regu larity, and even safety of our ships of war, as well as for preserving their superiority over ships of war of other nations, that ;he power of inflicting corporal punishment, when neeeseary, should remain solely with and writer the responsibility, of the Captain or Officer having the com mand of any of hie Majesty's ships or vessels. flut al though their Lordships are isipressed with this conviction, they nevertheless consider that this power should be mt.- eised with great discretion and all safe forbearance, and therefore that all necessary forms should he interposed which may operate us a salutary control over it, without destroying the principle or diminishing the power itself, My Lords consequently desire that, on the retieipt here of, you make known to all the Captains rind other Officers in command of his Majesty`e ships or verheis under your orders, thiit they ere in future to (Atm to be made out, and to sign, a separate and particular warrant for every corporal punishment they sney respectively find it neer-a s:try to order to he inflicted on any man or boy under their commsnd ; which warrant, iu all t* , ell of the of f•nce not having .been corninittefl under the inunediate eye of the Captain or Oil4cer lowing the command, is, in a 1- dition to the signature of the Captain or Officer having _ . the c rtronatol, to bear alto that of the -complaining officer. . _ The aforesaid warrant is to mitt forth the crime corn. 'flitted by the Mm, his rating, and length of service it, the ship, and whether he bad previously been complained of, and how often ; the name And rank of the officer or in dividual who made the existing complaint against him, the name of the investigation gone into by the Captain, and the names and rank of the witnesaes one to the warrant of punishment hav' and no corporal punishment - upon so to be awarded by the authorit, Officer having the command of one ships or vessels, he even in extreme forty-eight lashes, or to take place at least stall have elapsed subsoil pitting and signing the warrant of by ordered ; except in cases of mr mediate punishment of the offender may Capndn or Officer having the command, necessary ; but under such circunastand immediately afterwards to write a detai' particulars which called for such dot fore directed general rule, the degree flitted, and all the other points required rent, always recolleetine the heavy responsibility incur if he fail to make out to the satisfaction of their'; ships a real and sufficient cause tor such devietien Wei*: course now ordered to be adopted. Bo neither the completion of the said warrants neePi thing above stated is to be construed as taking from ill Captain or Officer in command of one of his Mejidell; ships the power of remitting any portion or rho whol,,ov the punishment ordered in the warrant, if, front 60 1 1°.'",_ sequent contrition of the offender or from other eireVir , stance, in his favour, such Captain or Officer, imoomateed shall be so disposed,—and in such ease the mitigati.). punishment ordered is to be noted on theitectf*-- 41t * • bottom of the warrant. In flag ships the signature of the Fleg CAW i s k, ,• ' obtained at the back of the warrant, under ,the War" " Approved," in proof of the puniehment itseieg It"; his sanction, in conformity to Art. 27, see' 4. OOP* the general printed instructions, The warrants above ordered, with , a, schedule or lista, the same , are in future to be r e g ularl y treos t eifted scith other quarterly returns) through the Admits!' c° ll3 , l° , sag on the different stations, to the Admiralty, uktr the present reports of punishment ; and it is to be understood, that no persons are to be deemed caps. , giving these warrants for corporal punisheneos man or boy, except the Captain or Officer apeldru s command one of his Majesty's ships et ves s els, ,tflu'', ear succeeding to such command by the deaths or inclet: parity of the Captain or Officer whit was appoited ttir command—or the Officer left in chVge of one ef htfl l jesty's ships whilst the Captain shall be ;Orient ratty lease, or oa leave for a lengthened time granon ted bi , Commander in Chief abroad.—Brightos &setts. pcwporr.eo T sg.er h :c, e tsaas e itil a ineo u dgn s i, e r;ap o ai f od, t il e yi m i 7p y e lel r or a t t t e ha : f n ew d wbo j pi tt i: :: : l , o94: iikn i tri :: : :.—... t t , lll : , : i .'' , :r a ' a tc :l b e e re meeting fo s r ha th v e e cex it p h r e e r si be p e u tt ril li f tl: o ', o lf t i . ` r rolll i . mid where o p t r h o e po b se ul d k an ot admirable set un aet iv olA* lo.9l4 f h. Magistrates of burghs are cheig .i rWY amo. re nmn g doa re nrfe t gos t rp o ttnieic se eetmra e bo , nceiilsoiteayingn,ioenensoitchepoaporstrtiateihgtonen.ictiThrOrirtsehitskoe'ens:titheirsolantilih:ordpoptuto:ll::::::tito!l::: ,*.',' vost, to whose merits we willingly bore " 1°541 ' 7 by giving the go-bye to the wishes of ti ro_lff,,,„, midable phalanx of requisitionists, who '6 01 1,""' , ~.j, he is the bead, but of the inhabitants geilarlKTL''' the city of Edinburgh. In the Scotch OOP' the aggregate rental on which the Polies,Talle ' , levied is taken at 400.0001.; but of this tire tanW„ , the amount of property ra ted b y the assessors es' b if4 longing to the members of the Town Council issk actly 2,800/. ; and yet the Lord Provost chop wool , Corporation and spurns the community; and.the tail eon he assigns for so doing is, to say the least,slll - singular one. His Mkjesty's Ministers hst's,,,,ige, taken up the question of . Reform; ergo it ,stiligfiis indelicate to interfere ! Excellent well fOd gli , ' ' as excellent! Prudence is the better poi at irti r lour; and while his Majesty's Ministers are ate Ow' ' of the importance of public opinion, and abiiiticdSk approachi ng wiabove,sghoiuitlealeirliolesmstpchbohianleitg:,:lutthiciefriglieirolirdd.:Prermihienidets):unslotrfh?ipsttirrt, sage in a celebrated letter,—" Is not a patron' fal Lord, one who sees a man struggling in the witith r i t i i n hi g e m e ; n :M ::l a r ind e . laA'sehrlrolsesaunbillediwnseditleavvl ibioictireehnt:dhlonese.ll2:l;T:ibliehm:d"lt i 4111 ipyai.:fiebilyxivvereo.dnbalinleilsildiS'eroMatWili:6lFu:r-4 : even time, Teni : fi ,,o‘e r vn s e t tti ; h: eeeae honoured uo t h p mp e oi I r e e i dt a i d o nnh a o ett n f h es t w h t ic e : ilh r deF e i q sirn i oc i a i : s i rac i a t ri l i ig o eg i jioi!st.:wiyiti. , e tw ire r t e- 01.1 , : the public. am A pi t e l o to f m p e e th tit e io ß ni u ng rge n s i s f e a s v all due submission, we con°:efiliAvre°"fnatilibleeby;:tlernss:b:u;tlF:itar'tbi" great deal too far. Their petition, we' s' ,o u r business-like, able, and contains resat i l , 1 d pet gestions; but, on the other hand, it is ael an d to 0 Radical, and on that account seems talc's more harm than good. We have a de " 11 6; Republic tliveiej‘tipviihsoutsuobbi would he; aire A cet i t jp : o n ulune i .r t acgt a se l hau. Parliam e nts an d VII i v e rgii • huge would be found incompatible with egillsitilkht atitutions ; and, alive as we are to the ..:„, t h a t our sen ti ments abjure the idea of a Repablie--a most f9rtutiwairorge f e a u rt s o tA f n u c r e i ' li a sh il uttinagdsdiettionttliesretraitnyti t w or hilehh° °Wit'. i of Europe. Tlieinhibitants of Dumfries are als° 61)(41t • r t move in the caufe of Reform. is called for Thursday first, at which t he % r e nt lo . il Issue ' se s consentede t r h r a e t ts n o o t f h tt i oh n gel) reside . ex tra a g Committee; Wan e aorrbeAiiimx:°:‘t;:te):::;".ll4,ttlea::obtrisilird: b e proposed ; that, on rellaile" wilt be moderately, temperatelY, an d consi,r in i, lieges, ; and that any attempt to boo o ', ot ici• should any be made, which we da n°!, o v er. pate, s, will be put dawn by A triumphant An° the contrary, the' ^helloing inajority.—Thonfrits souW' - - no oric LucK Is ALL.--When Niasol iy_s i is killed by a eannon.ball at Plidiriburg"'/loniso ofV Ltaas waa dying in his bed at Inc.. s 1 diet, fate of his rival, he said, v:ith ths sido gi. 41 "That wan had alef4y / m um lock thin *spire! in a few days afterwards. .:~.: On the 2d lust. in Hat i e ß y-a T i l ma iS ;l Mrs ' C' 51.1i11111.4 of Oa the 28th ult. at Cheltenham , iht l ' 14-1 B. Many°, of a daughter. ,A, or the 1444 At the Grove, liorndeato, the IAdY °f ""$`..",1 Vicar ," , ;alPits.sll4 • o n t o : J so to n r , tgherapnlocsononofottheolate Archdvatoo 6° , 4 away. MARRIED- ~ i! „,, of gir: On the let lost. at Hackney, M. J. uor""",,' &weft(' ham, near Norwich, to Frances Eleanor, oecu n ' t• of Mr. J. Watson, of Palma. f Gor l44 :* On the 29th alt. J. B. 'Devonian, Eq ., Q. ,sil l i f f :0 0 8 :: t Cornwall, to Susannah Stoma daughter of Sir Burdett, Bart., M.P. ' On the 30th ult. at Wllley Cl urch; w'rur 000 Hon, George Anson, second sun of the hita 0: we Anson, to the lion. Isabella Elisabeth .„ bil L l 7,ol re daughter of the late, and s ister of the roe"' - rester. _ 1 ,. r 0 0041 J h On the lst inst. at ilpt.m.upon-Sevete, --', s l+ On surg, , ems, of OW Broad-street, Lootloot `° - foks Rickards, eldest daughter of the late G. SheWarth of the for mer itlace. Oa the DIED. ~, Est o w bit h ii ,-VoiliCr to the late Lord Mayor. 'Pt 30. h ult. aged fiti, a t Stockwell , J. P. '-' l ' On he 2d inst. aged 74, John Crowder, to o Ahlern. S an o the Wan! of Emil:l4lon Wititiot lad -NUYor of London. di i ll On the Ist inst. suddenly in Sornerset.streetf Hon. Hugh Elliut. ' A • if 0044 On the Ist, intt. at Lestherheed, Surreys -- 4 F.N. aged 73, ~,,. prow On tie eSil ult. - at WAthato C roe, Sarah Jale_...ool, mond, wont! daughter of the late Capt. F. P. Dullm of Sloane-street. PAINTKD AND t y MI IWO yov no* TUN SUM ()rifialt, )114'SVP.A140, LOl4- 481418 ettomitted havittl beet, AL , _.„ 'Rifler Ii tli, - of '4; . ),1 4 . 11 1 ;!... 1 '" d 'l li- ' ; ' , , , '1, : : 4 Jni .....i.., , „.,,,, .._,. 1 uotil ',tilt!, . ° -..,-, luently to ' " Z . ` of punithmet! ' r , , lutiny, witeti 3 to , l''''; s be ifeente4 i f r. 1 ,. 'z land, be 'A f trances , ~ thee' t ' • - tailed etatemett t. ,.,.t ' eviotioa from tiol ree of poollt, • * red by the ustigAti, •,) , ..gnonsibility ho*F - .. REFORM.