The Sun. — London, England, 1830-11-27 00:00:00

q#!mutzl 4t , •n 0. ., , ,,, ~ ,r, ..tit. , ( F lom the Norfolk Chronicle of th i s day.) i ; ARRIVAL OF MR. ROBERT GRANT. eyCle, _Thursday morning this Right Hon. Gentleman or ! -lit Item for the purpose of presenting himself to the ' .. ifreintetrand freeholders of Norwich, a new writ having i' fiteen moved for on Tueeday evening in the House of Com .`ftuuni, lit crineequence of his having accepted the office of P•;. Adtin'' , AdVocate under the new Administration. The ,''_ ' Right Hon. Gentl eman did not ma k e a pu b l i c entry, b ut It.sru-given out that he would address the fiver - ten at two :;•• :o'lloel c ' at th e A ng er, ih tlii ihiitet-plare: Previous to ' that timilitGlier; hat( collected in the spacious yard of tl . '''lhai inn, "and on the ordeal of the candidate, he was re ' 4 '''` blued with loud chiering. Having ascended the steps to ? "turillit town, Mr. Grant epoke to the foll.owing effect : ' A. ~ _ ~;- 1 w Gentlemenl am induced A t th e outset to offer you ' ..; 4-11 Catioloity, fur the unprepared and inartificial manner !:' ' l "i4 Whish I shall address Jou, circumstances to which it is "} 4 ' 14111 1 01 1540 to 'allude, having led me to suppose that I ~ ~. 4(41 not have so soon had the opportunity which is now I.: r-r . 14 'lliet me of presentin g myself before you. I offer you it : 1: :•" ° : L PO o gy for my own readiness and eagerness at all times y . ..;t0 meet my constituents, for that readiness and that ness int!l,i, I eager .' t ' t; -•••can assure you at the p resen t momen t with -' ll3B in rof ei. undiminished. 1 only bespeak your indulgence i,,,,rra thit'atiCipion, as I address you neceraltrily unprepared, :,;•11111164111Ortly aft e r th e f at i gue o f trave lli ng , a f at i gue , . ,1 tuistaine‘ arid relieved by the hope and anticipation of that " T4 CWllidi weletnne which I have now to acknowledge. Your `,„:,kflidtitss has now, as on other occasion*, even outrun my '::: l ll4 P2***4-and I do feel most particularly gratified by this n i wireitlereption. - Far be it from me not to obey the .4 : I!ettbici t you is my, constituents have a right to make at ' - ,k` t ,.. 41 ,-. 1 1 4 .10, that 1 °should give some account of what I 4 - ,. l ' ll rt Ono since I had the honour of being elected as one of ,iittnienUttiers in Parliament—it is my duty to meet !gar .,„,, a!,,..1 tk give you such an account as I am able of that ri 1 t,,,, , . aidship With which you have entrusted toe, and of the - rillttastitie.s that have led to . my now again appearing .trau.' 'lt to duty to state from what cause it om'''Zeffitt 140 soon call for a renewal of that affection and tiwhich I have so fervent a recollection of hav ... ing been sn lately bestowed upon mo.—(The Right Hon. Afttleottei was' here interrupted a 'few Minutes by the li f ilie aril'in from the pressure. of the crowd to get into lk 11 1"4_7 1 4: 4 *)---I hope that I shall. so id that I may ''' , '! s ' l ,'",, ' '''o**,itit a more disagreeable interruption than that ;,.. I t. l,loll, atis t es from the eagerness and ardour of my friends. i. `, .;" ( ! 4 ' id *ht!ri.)-oentlemen, I Owe it to you to give v 1 ih?t 01 mount lif what T h ave d one , a n d the circumstances ' l6l `.hive led to tn i . yoM soon again appearing before you, ' ,;Dot 01 * representative but as a candidate. The account o , Which I h av e -to ginels one and the stune. In the little— . 'll. /4 11 " ) " timethat'has passed since I last met you —durint 'Zs fragment of the Parli amen t w hi c h h as elapsed--little '. ' ' ...!1 i lk 4ed ' beri done, but that little has been of great mo '4flas and is peculiarly connected with those circum .. offmces whi c h h ave - led . to my again presenting myself to :: r : 1) ,"!WL 11 / 4 11 'Procred: therefore to , itttorm you, as to the ',;Pfe %Instance s th at hive lid to my taking of fi ce, and as to "ani " hitherto ela p sed of the present Parliament. fbe -..'.'" . ' 1 .1. 111 / 1 /1 ...' *of ;het Parliament to which I shall allude, not '. *murrO bed to a &silk* hot becauee it is msterially con- WO clicontetaneas that have followed,- was the ,l a li k •V-IPPeolii That Speech, it is , per'eetty well known, ;.,ganfil, felt by the ; Sovereign, is entitled to he heard ''. "'!" "900, to 4 criticised will' temper, to be remarked '7 4. 1.,2*,!Wit1i , delicacy; that e v e ry abstinence is due to it as w'ming from such authority, and that it is nut an littl et - 1 . , , o be dealt with ' captiously or canselessly.-- “.... _ .--Y . f i t..,the tame time, proceeding as that Speech ! "'"'" 444 ftwhpdgad- . to. do, •not -freer the Sovereign per -1 5 1, 14 2 1 Yr-init from Mini s t ers , it i s s till o p e n to a ll that cri ' * " l ‘ ti. " l Which ' it ii the rig h t of the people'', representatives to - Make, .and which if they do not make when comments Ire called for. by it, th 4 would be shamefully deserting the 41.Luty,tehiah they owe to the people ..--( Cheers . )— I trust '' Fhltt has passed th a t we , w h o dis a pproved of that ;:.;pees!, ki''unilett with every respectful observance that was .t . 7 1 1110k the auth or ity f rom w hi c h i t ostens ibly emana t es '' t 7p77* l mnumint . duty which we mat to you the people. • I ' „,..." l "iliveted ta_that speech, and many in the House ex ' b 'frwri . „ their obj ec ti ons t o it, b o th for what it had and ' ' . W. it It had riot ; we objected, in the first place, to the L.Allitsioas in t h at speech regarding recent proceedings on 1 1*- thotitsentof -Europe:— The great rule of English p0.1a1°.404 .lal° .404 to Its peace and forbearance—not to quarrel a:,' ' 1 7; 4 1 1 T. interfere in the internal policy of other States, 4 04 lriou 'attempt to interfere, you may judge of the feel t't4;4ll.ll!tt:.-imlusse,,by recollecting what would be your ii:' l 9 l Pttp 'l49lo4'mq prebumptuoui foreigner dare to inter . !RC with' fps's!. , diamessia ebnoerns; if MO is to he de- Hlkitte'l frent—H. the polinciple of now-interfeeenee is .to be `:; 7lll getaaset4eonsa-a-ifinsentasirs - itrerttrbe node upon the in-. Itornti attire of *llles Potions in atsiocument so public as t 4 the King's speech—if we do- digress from a rule which ~ 1 'Olt to be nbeeryerii. let that deviation be made in accord '''''' ',With the feelings and sentiment* of the people at large. ,Hear, heareand-ebeers.)—Thongh we have abstained, tied I trust we - shill abstain from any interference, it is do'reason that it should check our sympathies with ''tlill- ..revolution in Paris, which has occurred since I Cruet rt... I say we may sympathise, indeed I cannot Itcenre any. amen dissenting from it,.--I cannot conceive t p r't‘en refusing his sympathy and approbation to that 44 04• ; . bloodless , that honourable revolution, which . _ti c s , : T n 4 6 141 , IPOWer on its right b as is without those sacrifices i l lifischich that advantage is but too often purchased.— .' 4 .14 9 " . "‘ • helm )--..,1f it had.-expressed an opiuion as to the e -4 Postic taffaira of continental nations one would have ~ I NtAtilied that opinion would have been directed to recent 1 .-,1-rcitseetions in Fra n c e . I could have forgiven however , 11 .Lnolitte of the r e v o l ut io n th er e, but I do object that being 3 ‘'" 9114 ' 11 .* 10 France, the 'Speech should have given a gra , 1 . 144 )14 opinion upon what has passed in Belgium. We ; 4 • ~tollti not then kgree or consent to the propriety of the late !'!)....utileirnment entering into remarks upon that point, still • I. •'' os,"„„ 4° their pronouncing the Government of the King of '' '''"it:nethertanit, to have been an enlightened Government, 4 -.. 1 ._ 41/066411 y as all, we know is that whatever light it has -f. " 1 " 41 1. 1 Ittd tans not unfrequetitly been under a fearful eclipse. 13, 44/ then .was our. first objection to the King's Speech. ° did also presume to feel, and other hlembers of more 4 1 2__ I• thin. inyielf did express their opinion, and if it ''-t".egen.necessary.l was ready to have supported them, '' 7,2;hy, speech , gas guilty of the fault of oniission in not :..4t15t.,,"-hing of allusion to. the present distresses of `'' ' "'T'vPili of this Country. .If indeed the late Govern . NO meant!to infer-that they could do nothing respecting -Ak a ; r ~_ ~., 4.,i41! mo•utry.tuought. that they mere great distresses, in -;-; "" 4 Yi PrOitionce, and beyond the reach of human ' 4 . lttbn; they tlugite ,art 1,44 to have stated so, they zi ~,,,,. Ore said to the people .sO4 : give you our sympathy it k .7 lsEk vOo cannot gnat you relief; they might have ex• '4, tre l *W ilips ctincern, end - laken some notice of distresses • it " 11 : 113 , I may add, been so patiently and so nobly . borne. t ' ! might have, expreased: acme wish to ameliorate the .•" 'lion f hi' . '..g toill —p . t „people, or made some attempt to carry 'illopm-111411,„_r•-4141% they were...Ain to effect, for it would have . ~.: i s 'ivagr i met it , should have proved that they were more liltr tik ,,t ll , l knott and more rodent for the attainment of ~. Seth here ° Prete wise or successful in their measures, '' igt as a subject unnoticed. On this point, 1!: 8 , - i - Zer, the-Kieg's Speech was silent, and here was our .1 ,,,,.' 7 7. *b iecti0n.;- ,, (Cheeri.) • A further objection to the I ' r - b wee tlatit it did not cell distinctly, .or "hew that ;' ''.l i.""Ml"lVNll'itleiiiled" to lead the way in that course ' •:1 4 ,;;;," sad coosistent retrenchment and economy that the . till ie oxionaly look for, that events call for, that reason isti li c t'.. 4 h,itt• - inatiee! calls - for, ' thet every t hing . in fact ~104 „ ...7 except the late Government of Is le M . ajeaty.....- •" 1 iii,17.7.!,) !liveiaid . that though these obaervations were .. Yom,. at to the Speech it did not lead to a thei 4.Nbill ?tense those who did not coincide with the language ~..' o r .:.?I''SPeech.were anxious nevertheless to chew a degree =t Peet . towards it, emanating as it did from his Majesty ,i7,l7rit.the occasion of 'his meeting the Parliament. But 4 ;irith it did not lead to a division, - it did occasion a watch 'i.thigildttiley to the, plant - atid proceedings of the late Mi . 04. 1 1; and this was speedily and strongly exhibited when 2rel'e called upon to a terimion of the Civil List. I i t alOttlisi details at - this moment to which I can refer ; - .41 41 -11 ` froth memory, burl ant tore that I am nut mit. -,.% treltrilllatlauth 'yeark• the plan proposed by the opposing !r, i tt the coiner, 'of the revision of the Civil Liat that 11 4 i im ,e, re desirimilsof Oro' ceding With every regard to de ' tit 7 ' 114 ' ) /*tillertest' his M.ijesty, and without any - Wen -.l.:riLlto‘ intrude offensively upon the King's Household. Governinent, however, resisted ns altogether that. question , division , . -ip m . u. , a took place, and _ll majority ''tai;;; tirsitit the King's Government, the King's ooveirn .. ette c et.4 Yet,' ProPtrly tiV immediately relinquoihing t mu l oci Is°n4 l and the humble individual who now addre!ses ! Rtu ptl'es invited to take Office with the new Adminiitratom, 2 14 5'i1i the prineiple.npon which be now stands herr. 4.447..tnlerrhystien bete took place in the crowd, lile . flags iO4fruris which had been brought into theand I:eincit I 7:f obstruction to the seeing and hea ri ng a. musty ''.i; 4 0, 4 „:,,,i tt.cry Walk raised to have theta removed, %blob I,i.:', %tray done; by taking them into one of the win -7.11t"E the it n .) Mr. Grant raterwardir proceeded a. tii:7l` , ''l''' l ! is contrary to ' tny'wish to speak with seve i eptik.liknorwhis 'have - now relinquished power, or . t" hut 1 d„.„.. P . 4 I Y' of what.] - may conceive their miecondul, 1 4 4 , „,z recline to "ay au ;noel' us is necessary to explain "'twit which I 8010 occupy. I would desire to do • every justice to the great Military talents of the Duke of Wellington ; would speak with praise of the prowess of one, to whom; however we may condemn some of his mea sures as a Minister, we, as Englishmen, must he prepared t o do justice. I would at all times pay a tribute of justice to the prowess of one who never planted the standard ~f battle but it proved a trophy of victory—who never asc,entled the chariot of wet like conflict but it proved a car of triumph —(Heer, and cieers.) I tvould do him jus tice in another and more important respect even than his splendid military exploits—l mean his great services in the cause of civil liberty. I would do justice to the services of the Duke of, Wellington and his colleagues, in the repeal of• the Teat and tarpOratien Acta, and ffi l. in car rying into ect Catholic mancipation.—(Cheers.) And when the column is raised to the Duke of Welling ton's glory. and it shall hereafter stand exhibited to the gaae.l of posterity, I am persuaded it will be surveyed with ad miration, not so much for the blazonry of splendid victo ries with which it will .be surrounded, as for that holy flame which will be shining at its top of religious charity. Flaring thus paid every just tribute of respect to his me rits, I will still say that the late Government, of which the Duke of Wellington was the Premier, fell justly. Why did it fall? Because it was not a Government adapted to the spirit of the times. Because it was not a Government in accordance with the wishes, from not evincing a suffi cient sympathy with the wants, of the people. Because— and I do net I trust profane a sacred expression in making use of it—h.-cause it was built on the sand of expediency, and not on the living rock of the people'. feelings and af fections.—(Cheers.) That Government is now a matter of history, and aa I did not flatter them in power neither will I speak of them with asperity now, I will pay them my tribute of justice as far as I conceive they deserve it, but I will repeat decently but emphatically that their fall was just. The Government that has suc ceeded stands deeply pledged to the objects neglected by the Government which has just been dissolved. I have joined them because I believe them to be honest in their professions—that their object is not to destroy but to preserve—and to place the people's rights on the protection of ancient 'mos. I believe that they tvili honestly attempt time revision and removal of abuses that deform our system—that deform our system of ex penditure and our system of representation.—and they w ill tell you this that they will look into things houestly—l for one have so far joined them, and in presuming to join them I will add that I am inclined to derive from the pre sent times two important lessons—the one to Government the other to 'the people. I would lay to the Government we require not immediately to be laid before us details he cauie we know that your labours must be great, difficult, intricate, and extensive—whatever you attempt he honest —attempt it honestly and the people will support and jus tify you. What I would say to the people is, give the Government a fair trial—let them not have to say, or their enemies have to say, that there is no possibility of making any advance. I would decry any unfair and captious judgment of Government, but would say on the one hand I he true and honest to us, and we will be true and candid to you. One word now on a subject which it is the least pleasing to dwell upon as being of a' peisonal na ture. But on my being invited to take office, I trust I have been guilty of no improper vanity in accept ing it—or am guilty of an improper attempt to obtain your fay.,ur in now alluding to the circumstance; but when the King's , Ministers sent me an invitation to join them, I hesitated long,, and amongst the foremost of my objects was to inquire, so tar as I had an opportunity of doing so, from those who I supposed to be best acquainted with your feelings—whether my doing so would be agree able to my constituents. I addressed myself therefore to gentlemen in whom you are accustomed to confide--...the gentlemen who first invited me to this city—and they in formed tne that they believed my constituents would not disapprove of my taking office. I trust they did not pro mise for you prematurely. So far as lam concerned in joining tite Administration, I have done se with an honest intention. I was never eager to take office, and if I had obeyed my own personal consideration alone, I should not have accepted it, but rather remained in the ranks of the people. I was however induced by the solicitations of those with whom I am connected in the Ministry, and to whose `cell and reasoninga I was not inclined to pay little weight. And this I will add, as I took it not willingly, so I will not hold office one moment longer than I can give an honest support to the government with Which that office is con-. nected. I know that in assuming an Asia! station lam parting with a great dart( domestic comfort, but I am not parting with that independent spirit that first intro duced me to your notice.—(Cheers.)—One word more as to the single change which has taken place since I last ad dinned you, my beloved constituents---I have passed from a private capacity to an official character ; that change her not effected any change in my principles, and I trust that it has not caused any change in your favour. If in speaking •tri you thus unprepared I have not expressed myself so carefully or accurately as I might have dane, I throtar myself on your indulgence, and I preautne . to hope that my conduct has not been contrary to your wishes by the Confiding, candid, and attentive audience you have afforded me, sad I sanguinely and ardently hope that you will put the seal of your approbation by your liberal sup port to me on time occasion of the next election fur the city of Norwich.—(Loud cheers.) The writ having been received on Thursday by the Sheriffs of the city (S. Ilignold, EN. and I. Wisernan, Esq.) proclamation was made fur the election to take Owe on Tuesday next. THE NAVY. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN. SlR,—Amongst the various appointments which have been made in the different offices under Government, re • suiting from the recent change of Alinistry, there are none which should be looked on with greater interest than those that have been made in the naval administration. Most important as the naval service must ever be to this country froM its peculiar local circumstances, yet there is no pro fession less considered, less frequently brought before the public observation, or whose improvements or determina tions are less the subject of discussion. This arises from the peculiar nature of the service, isolated as it is from all other , professions, and from the difficulty that every one not versed in nautical affairs experiences in understanding its details. The instant the subject is broached in general society all ears are deaf, and lips are closed, excepting with the few whose years have been passed in its various scenes of denser and of glory. Even with these the subject be comes tiresome, from inability to make their voices heard, where good impressions :night be made serviceable ; and dangerous from tl.e knowledge that a difference of opinion is relation to those who are clothed with high executive authority is visited with the penalty of a breach of military Many other causes have combined to sink the naval ser vice of the country into the lowest stages . of neglect and forgetfulness.. A few of the old warriors of the thirty years' struggle have certainly • been noticed and brought forward from retirement and obscurity; but .the major part are forgotten and neglected. Excluded, , with very few exceptions, !rout every other profession or public situ. ation, they linger in obscurity, and they have the mortifi cation of seeiug the walks of their own profession laid open to intruders from almost all others. These remarks apply to the personal part of the service. But the injury arising to the country from these specimens of mal-administration, taken at hazard from a riumber most seriously affecting the personal of the Navy, is t ut nothing when compared with the defects and deficiencies of the system as connected with its material. With the exception of the administration of my Lord Spencer, which bas always been remembered with grati • tulle and high acknowledgment by. the old ufficers'of the Nary, for the improvements then made in naval architec ture, each Board of Admiralty, as far as we can trace the history of our naval annals, haw been generally opposed, in the moat unaccountable manner,' to all im provement in this particular. They very generally objected to all amelioration that could lie drawn front the superior skill of our foreign rivals in all that relates te the theoretic :part of the profession, although they could by such means have corrected the. vices of our own faulty systems in the opinions of many experienced practical men ; or when they have been compulsorily obliged to yield to the pressing exigency of the moment, and have departed for an instant from the narrow paths of ignorance and false prejudice, the improve ments have been confined to the imitation only of those ameliorations, which had been entirely outstripped by others more recently made on the part of our enemies. An adherence to this system in the last fifteen years, when a cessation of hestilitles had left an opportunity of revi►ing and correcting former habits, and of introducing those changes which time and skill have rendered neces sary, las left our Navy in a condition very-unsatisfactory as compared with the naval forces of Foreign Powers, and has called forth the regrets end the apprehensions of many able and tslelited officers. , It has been asserted by the late Administration, on one side, that. our Navy is in the highest state of efficiency, that the ships were ;lever in a better state of repair, and of readiness for service.—that the material of •all Linda his been stitch improved...and that the personal is alsti all that can be . desired. Oa the other bawl, we hear that the Navy is inefficient as to the magnitude of the different clews of ship% as to gumbo, and that decoy kal Fide alarming progress in spite of all the endeavotlri to counter act the mirages of time, end of the maladies peculiar to ‘voo d e n f a b r i cs neglect, favouritism, and that (tinker of the brut, Which ativd from intioiten iervices have damped the spirit and quenched the fiery iroi of the old warrior of the oce in. Neither of these assertions are tram in every sense. The Navy is perhaps in as high a condition, with reelect to its wooden walls, as it ever was in any part of the struggle of the last eventful year* of war. The ships now existing are genertilly in good repair, and the greatest attention is paid to their gate and Condition. They are generally superior in liirm anal qualities to the generality of those, which we have posiliteseal in dny part Of the late war. But the Mieforttitie of the British Navy i., that our hostile rivals no longer haVige:e the settle class of ,hips and avoids tat which we have been hitherto op. posed. The march of improveisent has made the most rapid strides. The models we have copied are models of from fifty to sixty years standing; others have been esta blished by the French and North Americans with all the improvement* that experience and skill could suggest ; and although in the congregated struggle of opposing fleets, and under certain aspects of trind anal weather, no doubt can he entertained, under a favouring Providence, of the glorious results of British skill and Ilti• rich intrepidity, yet it iv impossible to imagine that the result would be equally the same in the battles of detail where single ships may struggle fur the mastery, when the most consummate heroic devotion, the most practised skill, must find itself unequal to the overwhelm. tog superiority of material force. That those who have been the directors of our naval ad ministration herniate in some way sensible of the fact, may be supposed by the present attempt to increase the mate rial force of some of our finest ships, by changing an ar mament perfectly adapted to their sizes, qualities, and ca pacities, for one which, by its overwhelming weight, will alestr4 the good effects of all the few improvements made in these particulars on former occasions, and will infal libly introduce again all the vices which had been so slowly and so reluctantly remedied in the qualities of our vessels. Deeply sensible of all the..defects already hinted at, and despairing of any change in the system of the last fifteen years, 1 had, iu my hours of regret for the deficiencies of a profession which I have long respected and loved, oft e n looked to the prominent Members of the late Opposition in Parliament, to discover if there was any one who, on being made acquainted with, and feeling a conviction of the deficiencies here noted, would, with a persuasive and convincing eloquence, have enforced on the minds of the nautical executive the necessity of some change in the eys tent of the various departinents of the naval administra tion—one who would, from patriotic motives devoid of all factious principles, have endeavoured to ameliorate, whit I am convinced it would be productive of national disgrace to continue. It wait on Sir James Graham that my wishes rested. It was Sir James, who in the last Session of Parliament sholed such talent and moderation, that I con►idered was the gifted personage who might have brought conviction to the minds of the high °Meets and members of the late naval administration, and would thereby have added greatly to the effects of the professional talent, the a-al, and the ewe/trying application they have been long known to possess. It was on the Hon. Member for Cumberland that my hopes rested, for working salutery changes in the systems followed by the late naval administration, had it contimml. But an entire change has been effected, and it cannot be, therefore, but with the greatest satisfaction, as such change was to he made, although with as much un expected surprise as p'easure, that I have observed his name at the head of the new Admiralty Board. To this talented personage a brilli ant career is opened. He is at the head of the most important service of the country—one that until latter days has been always most congenial to the national taste, and interwoven with its habits and constitutional principles. He possesses high independence, unshackled by political ties, and is not enveloped in - the entanglement and mystification of Parliamentary influence; prejudice to old habits and old customs, merely beceu•e they are old, must with his judgment be entirely neutralised; and gond sense will teach him, that there is no disgrace in copying from an e n e my, that which may carry the stamp of improvement and perfection with it. The state, quality, and condi. Lion of the ships, as well as of the whole material of our Navy, amongst other matters, must be taken into consi. , deration, and some deviation from old lish4x mu►t be made, as far as economy will permit. I dwell on this as the most important consideration, because with good tools any thing may be accomplished by a skilful workman,— with had ones the art of the most talented may be rendered invalid. There is, however, another most important branch of the profession to be brought tinder consideration. It is the whole persopsul of the Navy. I ellusie not to the abi lity, the seal, and devotion it contains, for that is un questionable...but it is to the abuses that have crept into every department of it by the working of borough influ ence and faveuritism ; and the making of the Navy, not n professional establishment for the defence of the country and the guarding of its commerce, but for the gratifying the corrupt and mercenary views of unprincipled borough voters. It is this misery which has crowded our lists and will be productive of the most inconvenient consequences hereafter. It is this which has brought the inexperienced youth into play, while the grey hairs of experience have lingered in forgetfulness. It is this which has filled the. clausal of our officers with a superflunus quantity of youth ful blood, to fight, as they say, future battles; when there were individuals in sufficient numbers, in the flower of their age, who in the course of nature would vigorously support the British flag for many years yet to come, al though they might have done their deeds of peril and of battle ere tl.e last revolutionary struggle was quelled. To support their talented Chief et the Naval Board, I contratulate the country in observing that our beloved and popular King has considered that the naval profession was alone sufficient to furnish counsellors for his fleet. Who can object to see the friend, the companion, and the adviser of the immortal Nelson presiding at what is considered as the naval part of the Admiralty? lie was the legacy left us at the glorious day of Trafalgar ; and it is universally known and acknowledged that no one is better versed in all the essential duties of an officer and seaman. That he is also adapted for filling other of the various duties that a British naval officer is called on to perform, he has himself shewn in the manner in which he represented the government of his country o n the coast of the Pacific Ocean, amidst the clash of contending interests during the struggles fur national independence amongst the Spanish colonists. Admiral Dundas, less known in the service, may yet be well Adapted for that portion of detail usually allotted to the second Naval Lord. In the junior members of the ad miralty, we hare great source of congratulation in finding an old experienced frigate officer universally acknowledged to be one of the best in the 'service, bringing his talents to the benefit of the professional administration, in the place'' of a young subaltern of the army, or a civilian just eman cipated from college. And in the junior Lord the service will be gratified in seeing an officer, though younger in experience, yet a relative of one of the old veterans of the first American war, who fought nobly against the well organised threto of Louis XVI. Nov. 26, 1830. VE VICTIS We understand the court Journal of to morrow will contain, among a great variety of original and entertaining fashionable and political matter, a curious and striking parallel between the public lives and exploits of the Duke of WELLING -rots and the Duke of itimmno !Lomat I AU article on Lord BROUGHAM ; and a descrip tion of the lste King's Templer, &c. at Virginia Water. The Peterborough election took place on Wednesday. Mr. FATAKIRLY, the late patriotic Mem ber for Lincoln, was returned without opposition. In about an hour afterwards he started fur London.-- Drakard's Stamford Weirs. LORD MUTON.—This Noble Lord having for the present resolved to retire from public life, has cated his seat for Peterborough, and named Mr. FAZA -IINALIT to succeed him. Ms Lordship's chief reason far this step is stated to be an anxious desire to superintend the education of the numerous family, which his late amiable lady, on her death-bed, commended to his personal care:; and the Noble Lord is too good a father to neglect so gcl limn an injunction. We have also beard other reasons assigned. It is said, that the venerable Earl Frrzwattat is to have a Alarquisate ; and that Lanillfaros expects to be called to the Peerage in his father's lifetime. Tbfa we do not believe. Earl FITZWILLIAIt has attained too great an age to render additional rank desirable or cot venient. He has, in fact, fallen into dotage; end this circumstance, as well as the motive above assigned, renders Lord MILTON', prellenee at home a matter of prudence. Wc agree with one of our contemporaries, who lauds Lord Itlttams us s public man, that " at this juncture wiS can 11l 'spare intelligent and independent'services; hut we cannot, in any view of the case, agree with the Mingo in considering " even the Noble Lord's temporary reti re" went a national tnisfortutie." Personal purity and hide. pendenre we cheerfullyawarti . him;` lu some'Other r espects a sense of duty leads us to censure rather than praise-- Levi, littellivncere ItLtsCTION COMMIETEES, HOUSE OP COMMONS, Nor. 20. . CA LN , ULEcTtor4. The.Alasquia of Lansdowne is the patron of this bbrotigh, 'tile ntimbernf electors its 93. Mr. Sergeant ni . totwxxustrt, in opening thirase, oh. served that Colonel Chewy and Ur. dfookintton, the un successM c redid ties at the fete eW:tion, were the peti tioners. The grounds on which they petitioned Fees, that , a Majority of householders of that borough had tentlere. their votes an their behalf at the Iva election, and tint the iletirtning Ofncer had refused to admit such votes.. The Learned Sergeant then proceeded to show that this was a borough of ancient demetto-, and that conneluently all the iishabtutints paying scot and lot were entitlett to vote at the election of Menthes's to aerie in Parliament. After 4 i•ery. !caroled and el borate statement resp.ctine, the franchise d this borough, he waa proct4 ling to examine witntitio in su pp ort , of his position, when Mr. Angst, on behalf of the petitioncre, oisj,eted to that course, on the grounds that a Committ,e tif the n o os e of Cotnmona had decided in the year )723 that the right of election for that borough was vested in the Mayor and ancient burgesses, and that this decision was, according to Wynn's Act, binding on all future Committee*. The room having been cleared, the Committee, of which Mr. C. Wynn was Chairman, after a short deliberation, decided that the right of election was vested in such only as were admitted into the freedom of the Corporation ; that the sitting Members were duly returned, but that the petition against their return was neither frivolous nor vexatious. THE DARTMOUTH RLEOTION. Mr. Pot LCCX stated the me on behalf of the petitioners, Colonel Seal and Sir Henry Wiilouglby. The grounds o the petition were similar to those of the preceding namely, that the right of voting at elections was vested in such of the inhabit ints as paid scot and hit. On behalf of the sitting Members it was objected that a decision of the House in 1793, which declared that the right of elec• Om was in the Mayor and Burgesses, was decisive of this point. Mr. Pollock contended that the word burgess implied an inhabitant of the borough paying scot and lot. The Committee having deliberatA more than an hour on this point, adjoutned the further consideration of it until ten o'clock to-morrow (thisi day), without having come to a decision. THE MARI.BOROUO/1 ELECTION. The petitioner.' in this case are Sir Alexander Malltt and Mr. Mirrhonse. Mr. HARUISON, in open;ng the case, observed that, according to the census made in 1821, the population of this borough exceeded 3,000, and the number of house holders amounted to 500, yet, at the last election, the number who, according to the government of the town, were competent to vote, did not exceed 11, all of whom were tenants of a Nobleman who resided in that neigh bourhood (the Marquis of Aylesbury.) The borough was entirely under the controul of an attorney, who acted as Viceroy, to the Noble Marquis, and who, in that capacity, could return any Member whom he thought proper to re present it in Parliament. The Learned Counsel then pro ceeded to observe that this was a borough in ancient de• meow, and, as such, that all the inhabitants paying scot and lot were entitled to vote at elections. In his opinion the best way to meet the cry for a wild radical reform in the representative system was, that Committees, when ouch cases as this came before them, should restore those rights of the franchise where they should appear to be usurped. A Committee had decided, in 1717, that the right of election in this horoulm was vested in the Myor and burgesses ; both parties felt bound by this decision ; but he (Mr. Harrison) contended that the word burgesses implied an inhabitant paying scot and lot; whereas it was insisted on the other aide that a burgess was a person duly admitted into the Corporation. The only question for the decision of the Committee was, what was the meaning of the word Intros. The Learned Counsel having concluded a learned mitt. meat in support of his position, called a witness to esta blish his case. Mr. ADAII objected on the ground that the decision of 1717 was conclusive on that point. Sir R. l'szt. (the Chairman) observed that, in his ap prehension, it was competent for the petitioners to produce evidence to chow that householders paying scot and lot were admitted to vote at elections previous to 1716. After some desultory observations between Members of the Committee and Counsel, the room was cleared ; and the Committee, having deliberated fora short time, de cided that the petitioners might proceed to establish their case. Several ancient documents and charters having been read, the Committee adjourned at four o'clock, until ten to-morrow (this day.) LORD' BROUGHA Nt..-This nobleman was born in the year 1779, and is descended froM a respectable Cumberland family, who, 60 or 70 years ago, first settled in Westmoreland, in which is situate. Broughsm-hall (in the parish of Brougham), called by a celebrated touri,t " the Windsor of the North." llis mother war the sister of Professor lton►tnTxort, the historian, and is *till in the enjoyment of a gmen old age. He has three brothers— JAMES, And WILLIAM. The former resides with his mother in the hall : he is in Parliament. The latter is at the bar. Jolts W 45 twiny years a wine-merchant in Edinburgh, where be lately failed. The Learned Lord first took his seat in the Commons for Camelford, having been returned by the Duke of Hauronn ; he subse quently eat fur Winelielsea, under the Marquis of Ct.sva. LAND ; then for Knaresborougli; lastly, as we all know, far Yorkshire. In early life he was an admirer of Mr, Par; hut lived long enough to declare himself ambitious of being known to posterity as that statesman's greatest enemy—politically of course. In early life, too, he wrote a work on colonial policy, in which he held the doctrine that the African was so inferior to the European as scarcely to belong to the same species : but he lived to pronounce himself the champion of that injured race, and the advocate of the instant abolition of colonial slavery. Ilia contests for Westmoreland—his unsurpassed oratorical powers, whether in the senate or at the bar—his vari►d talents and acquirements—his criticisms—political tracts —unwearied industry—are all too well known to be dwelt upon here. A few years ago, he married the widow of the late JOHN SLADIC, Esq., of llill•street (now Lady Motto tuts), by whom he acquired &considerable property. By this lady, he has, we believe, only one daughter, who is about eight years of age...—Leeds Interligencer. REroam.—We inform the friends of this great healing measure that meetings have been held in a number of places, to which our limits will not admit of even an allusion. It deserves however to be mentioned, that on Thursday. last a numerous and highly resfieetatile meeting of the parish of Armagh was held is the Market house, for the purpose of presenting a loyal and dutiful address to his MAJZSTY, on his aeoession to the throne of these kingdoms, and taking into consideration the pro priety of petitioning Parliament to change the present system of open voting to that of voting by ballot. The westing was addressed by a number of good speakers, but the speech of Mr. WAVC4I was 'clearly the best. He made a happy use of the celebrated memorial of Earl GamT, presented to Parliament in May, 1798. It reprobated with energy and indignation a system which allows 399 Peers, sitting in Parliament, and their families, to receive 2,754,3361. ; and 209 Peers, not sitting in Parliament, and their families, 978,0001. ; which makes 3,732,386/. out of the taxes paid by an impoverished people. la mentioning the burdens with which the newspaper press in this country is borne to the earth, he said, on inatitut• ing a comparison between the Press of .thin and ether countries, it has been found that in France, where the duty is only lid., and the price of a paper to the sub ! scriber 21d., the circulation is considerably greater than in this country ; while in America, where there is no stamp duty, the circulation is five times greater. The resolu tions were unanimously passed, and the prayer of the peti tion adopted was, 44 that your liontorrable House enact a law that will compel every voter of the United Kingdoth to vete by Ballot, and thus give the freedom of choice in reality to the Electors ; protect them from those who can injure, and deprive the venal of the power of bartering their suffrages for their individual advantage, without re gard to the public weal.".—Seotsnian. Our coltirmis are filled with the sad details of the dreadful outrages perpetrated by desperate men and by some deliberate villains upon farming property in various parts of the country, and even within 20 or 25 miles of this city. Whatever may be the sufferings of the agricultural tenant e, is not a n earth,thehi p m e i a t s , :in g t i r t y t: he A tle il l l t i r ig u i c i t ty ion c oL i tl f l u e r fr i u nc it i s es of au tle expedient th a t can either remove or mitigate them, an d aw f ul example* s h ou ld b e ma d e o f thbse who shall he deteete I in such Atrotioui attempts. The only effectual mode of permaneney providing fur the Maintenance of this useful class of men, and of emitting trout. them a respect fur th e l a ws and general good con. duct, is to give them a home Ant/ a bit of land. Build cottages, apportion a rood or two of ground, and you may, iu process of time, revive the race of honest yeomen, We -I;rndent in character and respectable in conduct, whom Urge firma and rapacious Ilindlorifis have citified to di , oP" pear front the face of this once smiling country. —Bade Herald, WHAT IS THE U - TV% OF NOTTINGHAM IN RESPECT TO MR. !OMAN? (Frem the Nottingham Review.) , \re kfive re 1101111 t tit come! of one readers will be in ;clines! tit differ with hi the opinion we may advance, as in Mr. Deno-utie re-election fe7 Nottingham, now that he haw di:; , :epted the office of Attorncy Ilentral; hut ad vocating as the Itarf; ever done, the doctrine of the molt extensive suffrage, and rot' solTrage by ballot, as the only rarlieal reform, we still &We've that the great body of refor:Sie armild be acting inconaistemir in encourag ing any opposif:ok pia }%fr. Denm tn. It I, w'elY known that he has never been ,t fflislength Endive! reforthime (at feat as far as one, essential point gtftsf ; • his declaration in the House of Commons, on Monday evoning en pre. senting the miles' reform petition from Nottlrigham, and leis adlress in again sAiciting the suffrages of th e eicatortli ietti4l the principle of reform in extent quite as far tt4 hr his e , , , er advocated that measure. It will he recolletred that a dit? itiOninatien on the nOth of ,fitly', kit teur months e3nce, Mr. l rothari twirl, " during 'he whole time he hail been in Parlianonti lid had nut given ori•Votl.! which sanctioned the imposing of a singes penny of unnecessary t doliti»? mr had I,e, at their repro 'emotive, ever lest a single opporttiaii of urging retrench merit and economy. He also avowed hirnsolti A friend to ,eform ; these two great measures, so necessary to the hen /deem of the people, must go together, for there wottld he nu r, dl a Menial economy without reform; it was a subatantial radical reform that he advocated, the calling firth the mind of the whole people, so that it should be heard end respect-d in the councils of the nation." These Were Mr. Delmar - 1 1 i sentiments at the election, and his language Anew he joined the new Administration haw been the 110710. If the electors of Nottingham were satisfied with their repreiait alvee' political creed, when tiny returned them to Patti tment at the late general elec tion, they cannot now with any degree of ; consistency, in our opinion, refuse to recognise, in the very commence ment of the first Session, the same principles to which they two recently assented. The only topic on which Mr. Denman has avowed hitnselli as differing from the ma jority of his constituents, is that of the ballot, and this he hers done all along; we know that the men of Notting. ham are not such imitators of the Duke of Newcastle as to require the prostration of the right of private judgment before their ; he recognises their opinion as of great influence with 'him, and sufficient to make him doubt of the solidity of the grounds on,which his opinion is formed, • am! he has expressed his readinesi so far to acquiesce in their decision, as to support the measure, though uncon vinced. More than this cannot reasonably be asked. Another reason for a unanimous support of Mr. Den ' man we ground on the fact of the necessity of union. The friends of Reform in Nottingham have hitherto been always united—they have mutually conceded minor points o f belief to the general principle ; now that an Adminis tration is formed on a degree of that measure for which they have been .so.lon; contending, will they now divide among themselves, and afford an opportunity to the ene ones of Reform to triumph ? Without union, we are nothing. We cannot anticipate that any opposition will be offered ; and we expect that this will be the first eleo tion for many years, in which the people of Nottingham have not been engaged in a e ontorit. LIVERPOOL ELECTION. THIRD DAY-THURSDAY. The polling commenced at the usual hour this morning, and continued with great spirit until four o'clock in the afternoon. The numbers then stood thus:— Mr. Denison 930 Ewsrt 9lB Each candidate, both yesterday and t o ,d a y, p o ll e d the same number of votes. The most shameless bribery and corruption, it is said, prevdiled. The sum of 100 sme• reigns was, we are told, given for rank' of 10 voters, whilst some individual voters got not less than 10 sove reigns for a single vote. If the contest goes on at the same rate, 60,0001. will be expended by Messrs. Denison and Ewer% IMPORTANT MEETING at M ANCIIESTEZ (nom OUR. MANCIIVIIVER COMLICNPONDIXST.) FRIDAY, NOV. 26. Yesterday, pursuant to a requiaitiou most respectably signed, and addressed to the lloroughreeve and Constables, a meeting of the merchants, manufacturer's, and others, took place at the Town-ball, fur the purpose of consider• ing of the propriety of supporting the application of the printers, far the repeal of the excise on printed calicoes. The Boroughreeve (James Ruler), E.q. was UDATII• tnaUttly Canfrl.to the,Chair. ,The Meeting was addressed by several gentlemen of the greatest respectability connected with the cotton trade, who Showed the impolicy of fettering in soy way a prin. dim' branch of the cotton trade, by the int-rference of the excise ; and that a tax levied on a return of 00000/ , and producing only a decreasing income nf 350,0001. yeatly, and causing by its operation the loss of an equal amount, must he injurious to the general elmmercial inte rest of the country. The impoliey of the duty wee noticed from its restricting the operations of a branch of trade which furnishes employment to one-tenth of the population of Lancashire. and upwards of bO,OOO hands in the neighbouring counties. In con sequence of a duty of sit per cent. on cotton, and an average of ten lel cent. on almost every description of drug used by the printer, it would be found that this trade pays four times greater duty than either the woollen, silk, or any ether trade; independent of the print duty. The duty frequently was three-fourths of the amount that was turned over by many of the printers of low goods, and thus furnished a temptation to over-trading and unnatural competition. It was notorious that the duty has become a source of income In the dishonest trader to the injury of the honest man. The impolicy of the tax was further urged from the impossibility of fairly charging . the duties. Variations existed of a charge on the same goods from ten to fifteen per cent. on the amount of duty. Some !muses in the trade were on leniently charged es to make a difference of direct profit in theif favour, often umounting to several thousands per annum. The expense, of collecting the tax, owing to the immense sums raised, and afterwards on drawbacks for exported goods, amounted to about 1'77,000/. ! The hardship of the tax, and even its cruelty, Was 'shown by the manner in which the duty is charged. The low priced goods, principally worn by the working classes, on account of the duty tieing paid on the superficial square yard, without any retrence to the value, are taxed from seventy per cent. downwards, in a ratio actually diminishing in amount on the most valuable, till it becomes not more than seven and a half per cent. on the highest Fisted gawk It time happens, that while the wife or daughter of the labourer is paying only one-half the value of her gown in texas, the femelee in the higher rank* of life do not pay the tenth of the amount. It WAS contended, that if the duty were repealed, the impetus given to the trade, by &tiny put on a fair /Wang with all other*, would give such an inereased consumption to imported produce paying duties, as would snore than replace the sum given up. and would give ern ployment to many thousand additional Ninths. The total amount of duties paid an printed calicoes in England and Scotland, for the year coding January b, 1890, was 1,942,9181 Hs. Gd. ; the net revenue to the kingdom was 652,9831. I 9s. 2d., from which deduct a chsrge of 177,0001. The hardships to which calico-printers were subjected by the present system were clearly and ably stated, and the loss to the Revenue, by the oppressive tax put upon them, was fully demonstrated. Many instances of extreme op-1 pression, and consequent pecuniary losses were stated and proved by documents, as the concomitants of a system which offers a source of fraudulent profit to the dishonest, but renews remunerative profit to the honest man and the man of real capital. A Committee, consisting of tome of the moat infitiential gentlemen in Manchester and its vicinity was (twined to carry into effect the resolutions of the meeting, with power to send a deputation to London, to wait upon Ministers on this momentous business*. A petition to Parliament was also agreed upon arid nume rously signed in the course of the day. The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the worthy Chairman, the Iloroughreeve, the meeting. atljonrned, - sine die. " Dr. Thomson's History of (7homistry," which forms the third volume of the Nstioual Library, 'is, perhaps, the most comprehensive and 'popular account of that science extant. The progreos' of Chemistry is traced from the earliest ages, and - through all nationst awl while the writer conveys the witutilest information, he Is never dry or shstruse, but, oh the, contrary, so amusing as to fix the attention even of the most artless reader. his biogrophical sketches too, of distinguished profes sors, are to the lad degree interesting, not only as in. eolving ninth which it :is . important that the scientific enquirer should know, 'nut+ at the discovery of new facts, and the coasequent establishment of new theories, Sse.—but as presenting pictmeo of human nature iu its fi nes t aspect, as shewn in the quiet carter of intellectval man distributing anions his fellow creatures the inestima bly I l lessings ot, his .tinorinits researches. " ThAt History chirory'_' fr ont Slit psi of 0, P. 11. .laases, Esq. .. auttoi of " L'Orme, '" D anley," 'lke, is to form t i n , subject ot 4 the fourth Number, which we understand will siva lip kw tkyes. COVET CIRCULAR. E4tl Oast- h. 4 w Indium' pater 'ity of Woo Xiito t •t Lir Palace in St. hunts's. fler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kaxv, attended by Lady CATiIthISZ JENEINSOW, Prince Leorotn, and the Doke of Duvossatrar, dined with their itlanattott on Thu' inlay. The Duelieu of ICBXT end the Mehra* of CUISSIN.• t Man v . si 4rl the Qualm yesterday at the Palace at St. J %Mil's, and partook of a dejettnif with her MAJESTY. The whole of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers irsident at this Court, paid their respects to Viscount L - ArAignstOn yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office, on Slw occasion of the Noble Viscount eater ng on the duties nf t, ice, se his lacrasTy's principal Secretary of State for r•reigit Affairs. Their Excellencies canto in full C..firt dress, wearing the stars and ribande of the several rirders of which they are Knights, and were severally in (induced to his Lordship. There were present—the Austrian, Firorh, and Netherlands Ambassadors; the Russian, Prussian, Spanish, Swedish, Neapolitan, Sar dinian, American, Bavarian, Mexican, and Wartemberg Ministers; the Danish and Brasilian Charges d'Affaires. A CAWnet Council was held at four o'clock yesterday uf ernoon at the Foreign Office, which was attended by Earl GRIT, the Marquis of LAKSDOWNIt, Lord DUIWAU, Viscount Psi.srsittcrox, Viscount, Gunmen, Viscount filstsounstr, Viscount ALTlllOltr, Lord lior,Lemn, the Mlle of Mamoru), the Earl of Csatast.a, and the Right lion. GRANT. The Ifitibners :retrained in deliberatio■ till a quarter past five o'clock. The Ambassador front the Netherlands held a conference with Earl GRIT yesterday. ffir .1. SHas has been appointed one of the Untler.Serre ttries of State for Foreign Affairs, iu the roam of Lord DUXULJ►6. EAST KENT SPECIAL SESSION. (Continued from ywatfrei.o.) • TRIAL OP THE MACHINE BREAKERS. CANTERIVIkT i ' rattur ArtitWOON. The Court, est thierisevaing it half pact eighaeolock. Business teas eutmendeti last night at desks • John, Stannard, wows Siam* and William Deveseht, were severally charged with feloniously .breek ing and destroying a threshing machine, at Ash, next Sandwich, the property of Richard Souther. The principal feature in the shove mei was the examine sion of the Rev. Mr. Gleig, author of the Subaltern. He deposed as follows;--I saw the prisoners hi the early part of the day at Westmount; they were assembled armed with sticks, saws, Sec. I persuaded them to disperse and go home. Siddtrs was partienlarly active in forcing other men. Saw them afterwards, at Ash-street. They agreed to go home. I saw no more of them that day. I did not see them break any machines. ,They told me their wages were too Muf f and remonstrated with me on my , interfe rence. I was present when the men threatened to break Mr. Southee's machine. Stallard, in that case, was active. I did not see the machine broke, but I heard after wards that they bad destroyed it. The hey returned a verdict, that Stemma and Stone were Guilty; sidders Not Gailty. . William Stone, William Bidders, Stephen Prier, Stephen Pitcher, and William Madden, were then ar raigned one similar charge. The offence, as stated in the indictment, was, for breaking a threshiag-mitehine at Stourinouth, the property of JiOnell Moeller. The Rev. Mr. Gleig examined—Sew the prisoners on the morning of the 25th ; they had hammers, but he slid not see them do any thing. After further 'eidetic* had been ashineed, the Jury re turned a verdict, finding hilsdiett,,, filcher. end Sidders, Guilty; and. Stephen Price. Not Guilty..-. Pries hurt wife and eight children., • Sveen other priestlier*, amongst whom was Taylor. styled in *rime of the. Evening Papers " the incendiary," ' were then placed at ibt bee on a charge of, breath% a threshing. machine, at Ilrekesbourne, the roptrty of ! John Friday. - Verdict—Guilty. , ( room OUR co it it ear° ST..••IIICOMPTIUSII; 4 49; I 4 4O . ) SENTENCE ON TNT CAnT*lll4nrp rA/rl/.1 . !tour. About four o'clock this afternoon the vahuh,i of the Ma gistrates again catered the Coed, the. trials having all terminated, after an alonmee of mute ,than art hour en gaged in the consideration of the wenteneis which they should pass upon the prisoners. The Chairman, Sir EDWAnn KNASCHSOLI, having re sumed hie seat, the moot breathless anxiety prevailed. Previous to hisssing their matinee he addressed tleepri swept, who h ad been again placed at tholanr. flearke as follows Prhtorteres yoe stand convictesi uffrfsOilS against th e .)AMS. of your toiletry, and the, trsrditit raided iga'net you have Mrs .313' 11 yid IMP" - fish Jury. sad all who have heard Use evident* front : Whist; they have arrived at their sionelusions mom eotieer opi nion with them, that they bad done their deitY, and derided yaccording to the evidence before them.'" The . Curt, continued, Sir E. Knaishbuill, On a formerometaiop, When several men stood before him convicted of *hailer offences, had taken them, being the first seen, into their salient' consideration, and had hoped that the extension of indul gence to them would have tended to moors the tranquil lity of the county. Although the sentences pissed on them had been of the most lenient kind, unlawful and riotous assemblages continued to be held, sod not only this Court, hut the public in general, who looked attentively t k the result of their lenitive judgment, had been di.ap pointed in their expectatioss, He had now to Morin them, that the Court had endeaveared as far as Fallible, consistent with the sleds of jastica, to aimed' to every thing suited in favour of the wiseacre where they bed ob tained characters for general good suminet, But he had .01 a painful duty to perform. Standing before them, as the organ of that Court he was retry to inform thern , thet his duty was indeed a pitiful one. He mot remand the prisoners that they had offended against the laws 'of their country, and the sentences which the Court at - Irwin instructed him to past were of a peculiar nature, and dif ferent from those passed on the former occasion. 'The sentences then passed had not, he repeated, put a step to these lawless proceedings, the mercy shown was found of rio avail. The laws of the lead had exhibited their mercy, it now became a painfol deity imposed on him to vindicate their justice. The following sentences were then passed :-- Thomas Read, aged2s, for breaking a machine on the premises of Sarah Matson, Wingham, to be transported air life. lit had been previously convicted of stealing lead. The prisoner's wife, who had been standing in Ceurt the two days of the sessions, fainted On hettring"the sentence. John Stannard, 96, William Sidarn alias William Dsvison, 26, Thomas Stroud, 19, Henry Andrew*, 9, and Henry Hullos, ft, merral of whom bad been non victed on two or thrre mtlictments for niachins.breaklng, were each sentenced to ttsnspottatinn far wen PO*. Stephen Pitcher, 22; Abraham Clarjushold, 20, law. Mutter, 91., Daniel irselor (shoemaker), 30, Thomas Cobb, 46, and Richard Stiskell, 26, tivolve months' im prisonment each, Cobb bad hard for mercy, laid he had four children, anti a w ife in bad health, all wholly de. pendent on him. ltet had, he said, never been in trouble before. Thorne' Stour, 34, one yeer's imprisonment, William 42, six months', and hard labour, The choir man said , this light sentence had been pewit on account of bit priciest good ChllteCttl. John kiineb, Ses Hint months" imprisonment ; Cherita Terry, la, sin menthe' imprisonment; °tarp Ford, ad, flirt* months' impri sonment; Jame' Bright, 33, four Months; Henry Stash, fi4, and Thomas Gamin - ill, 31, three month,* imprietin mune each ; Faulkner Harding, 33, fourteen days, and Santurl Junes, 83, one morith's insprisooment. They had all been convicted of riotous mersublage, Ind brooking threshing machine*, The woeful*, particularly on those who are to be transported, e kcarifisd the whole Court, sod have been the subject of Ctltleelibethat tiPtCO among the, immense crowds of country people collected in this oilX_. ll l l (14 . Y. The CIIAIIIMAD, in dis c harginA the Fetty ,Jory, thank e d th e m for their great Attention to the important business which come befirre thetas, Ile ba4 newer, he said, since be had had the honour of prreitling an that b e nch, discharged s Jury to WhOlti the Court and the whole county stood so watch indebted, Yi yeaa Cmprunibla in &scribe 114 was ootoido guotino's wilest tile OPUS .100. 1101 , 41114 islet% fothero,imil Motives iti. iite 814100 d distreme ooroir l , they them, " tho,hord.haarted itfogi..orotoo" fur ion di ng th e ir fricode obit of tilt eoostry for oadoitrouriss In earn their broAd sod get goof! way% It liott74,—On Friday a requisition respect. a bly ijratcl wits preeented to the Prevost of 11additttollt requesting him t o ce ll a mottling to petitio n fee bittMrstioo With a litierelity and frmiknese 'Which dui hint helliP 4 4 tit. ihNLor at once complied with the proposal. ..awl, the meeting; is to be held te-morrow. Will utr(0100.44/: trait s low the 11144 defy to the hope, be will. At any rate he *ill tOit n if i all ; s are sow, taking io call a 'public ttieeti*l it t ioii, t ilt and we think we ran . promo**, that . thr i a ilat exhibit eoinethiag gam onpritredeilletl elispd, rt. *town.,