The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The National, a French Liberal journal, contains in its Tuesday's publication a letter from Frankfort, in which Prince Metternich is accused of stimulat ing, by means ►-f his secret police, the peasantry of that part of Germany to tumults and revolt, in order to afford a pretext for sending Austrian troops to repress them, and at the same time to crush the growing spirit of liberty along with the demand for popular reforms. The Austrian Commissioner to the Diet is said to have insisted on the necessity or urgency of establishing such a concert among the • different Powers composing the Germanic Confede ration, that a disturbance in one state might instantly be quelled by the joint forces of the whole. This desirable object might be attained by a letter from each Ambassador to his Court, exposing the dangers of the present crisis, and asking instructions to act according to the emergency of each particular case. His Excellency then proposed the formation of an army composed of the troops of the Elector of Hesse, and the Grand Duke of Baden, with greater contingents from the Kings of Bavaria and Wur t imberg. After the formation of this corps, any state threatened with tumults or insurrections might apply to the Diet for its assistance in, restoring au thority or maintaining order. Such a confidence had the Emperor of Austria in the wisdom and mode ration with which such a force would be directed, that according to the representation of the Ambas. *odor, his Imperial Majesty would have no scruple to ask its assistance to suppress disturbances in his own hereditary dominions—in Bohemia or the Tyrol. The Members of the Diet are said not to have relished this project, which they foresaw would be employed for the aggrandizement of Austria, ra ther than for the security of Germany. It was par ticularly objectionable to the King of Bavaiia, whose consent was the most necessary, ar►d there fore it was abandoned. Having been foiled in this point, Prince Metternich is said to have proposed to the Diet to annul by its decision all the conces sions wrung from the King of Saxony, the Elector of Hesse Cassel, and the Duke of Brunswick, by the valour and perseverance of their subjects. In this project the Prince likewise failed, as the King and Grand Duke in question did not wish to be re. leased from their engagements to their people by a foreign invasion, and probably thought the time gone by for changing political opinions by Austrian bayonets 1-75nrer, The list of buntings in the county of Kent, whlch . we have copied from the Kent Herald, and the strik ing and affecting observations on the condition of the peasantry its that important county, which we • have inserted from the same source, are calculated to fill the mind of every man with equal affliction and alarm. In one week Messrs. Knight, Aldridge, Ash, Castle, Lord Darnley, Mr. Dawson, the Stew ard of Lord Sondes, have had corn stacks, barns, farm buildings, live stock, in one or two instances dwelling-houses, totally consumed by fire, the work of nightly incendiaries. During the same short period very many thrashing-machines have been (le. • stroyed, threatening letters conveyed to many indi. viduals, and the whole of East Kent thrown into It state of indescribable anxiety and terror. This will be called by every body an unnatural and most frightful aspect of affairs, in an agricultural commu. nity like that of the county referred to. Viighael •. indeed it is, but not now .unnatural, inasmuch as crime is the inevitable coesequence of desperation ---of that horrible feeling which has been produced • amongst a large proportion of the lebourers of Eng , land, by a long course of improvidence amid abuse of • power in those at whose merry it has been the policy or necessity of the British Government and Parlietnent to place them. The tentleneies of the national condition for the last hell century have been, to make the rich man richer, and the poor man miserably poorer, than at any nen authenticated period .of .our modern . history.. The rich man of the present day can command a much greater amount of the marketable goods of life than his predecessor [of fifty years back ; and rich men, besides, have become more numerous than formerly. The humble labourer, on the other hand, has experienced a fall of wages, and a progressive loss of comforts, without example in the recants of English privation. His weekly wages will not at this moment buy him much more than half the quantity of corn which, in the cottage of his grand father, was the consumption of the week. %Vali the positive increase of wealth and poverty, not only has been widened the distance between the two extremes of society, but the sympathy between all who possess something and all who possess no pro perty but their labour, has sensibly and mournfully diminished. Instead of being fairly fused and incor porated, the people of this United Kingdom may now be said to lie in strata one above the other, and the pressure of the superincumbent masses on the lowest has become altogether intolerable. When politicians, therefore, speak of a necessity for putting down" the disturbers of the public peace, and for augmenting in every way the coercive power of laws and Magistrates, and still further manacling the poor, they but propose a dreadful aggravation . of the very principle which has done the mischief.— The " disturbers" are already too far down. It is their grievous prostration which torments them, ied the weight they bear, which leaves them no room to turn without agitating and convulsing all above them. The English labourer ought to be raised, not lowered. When the small far mer was destroyed, that his acres, with those hitherto cultivated by a score of Ida bre thren, might all merge in one large occupancy, taken by an agricultural capitalist at an enormous rent, we do not deny that a larger amount of pro duce may have been raised from a the same land, and on somewhat easier terms : moreover ' that the manufacturing and town population may }lave been multiplied by these unholy means, and the healthful inhabitants of green fields, and vigorous performing at country sports, been a great deal more than demi mated. But what has been the moral effect of this march of avarice under the name of political eco nomy ? Why, it has destroyed our people. It hits annihilated the wholesome link between the man who drives his own carriage and him who guides his master's plough. It has demolished the old English farm-house, where the iellittlt of fifty or sixty acres gave bed and bouillond half-yearlywages s to the labouring servants who drove his carts and wrought his fences, and spread his manure, and harrowed in the aced, and mowed the hay, and helped to reap and stack, and threat the corn. That race has been destroyed, among whom, in the language of the Kent Herald, " the farmer was nnee looked up to by his servants as their friend, and almost their father. They formed, tie it were, a part of his family, generally seated at the seine board, and partaking, to a degree, of the comforts of a common home. All this has passed away. An insuperable barrier has been raised between the parlour' and the kitchen." The servant hag pot been recognized wry more demo as a labouring on the estate. The master has heroine a gentlemen, and the servant hiss 'intik into a brute; slave."" We do not know that the degeneracy of our apizidturel system could be painted in colours more powerful than these, or more true. The farmer is now, or pits tends to be, a gentleman. The farming Fervent is a miserable outcast from the fa times. dwelling,—an ill-paid, half-starved, heartless, end exasperated slave. That the poor lews , --or rather their modern admis nistration—beve done • meets of this, is probable. But the cause abosetremioned is ef far teperiee foree; and another cause may be added, whiat basl origin in the seine perversion of science as the! former rs -we meats the preatice of reducing the poor islrattrer to the tenantry of a itrArti, without the comfort of a garden; thereby de r tr g 1 the condition of a wretched room-keeper, ' , ll." l " St. ito Gileiesu cocepelled to buy. every egg, u 'e eFe e a r bbi, li g potatoe, from the Olopkeepc:r, at an 01 .' 2(70 ' per eent. on the price for sshaili the purchaser could shave raised theta, This -isolation of the peasant htbourer is now proilocing its pestilential cense, eprences. Instead of regarding those above w i t h h o pe, or gratitude, or affliction, lie scowls at every man but a pauper like himself with ferocious hatred, and fosters no appetite but for revenge. A terrible proof of this revolted spirit has been ex hibited throughout the recent conflagrations in Kent. It is asserted positively, that although numbers—in some cases hundreds—of the class of labourers were looking on at the destruction of stacks and buildings, not a man of them would lend his hand to extinguish the flames; but all stood by, with an appearance of apathy, or of savage exultation and triumph. He must be a short-sighted and shallow mortal who can babble about the wickedness or danger of such a state of mind among the agricul turel labourers, and not at the same time allow the profligate cause of the evil—the heartlessness or carelessness of their rich employers.—Times. We call the attention of our readers to a valuable commun'c ition in another column, fram a most re spectable gentleman in Kent, on the subject of the outrages in that county. The possessors of pro , perty are in utter consternation. Our correspon dent justly remarks, that watching is in a great mea sure inoperative in the country, from the dispersion of the property to be watched. We also refer our readers to an article extracted from the Kent Herald, on the same subject. No man who has looked with any degree of attention at what has been going on in England for many years, can be astonished at this. Our astonishment is at the patience which ' the working classes have manifested. We are not, however, of the number of those who believe that the working classes'of England are in a worse con as far us physical enjoyment is concerned, than the same classes in other countries, or even than they were at any former period. They receive better wages than the Scotch, and fur better wages than the Irish. Different districts, however, differ very much in this respect. In some districts the ' labourer is tomtit better off than in others. Still, taking the labouring population of England as a whole, we have no hesitation in saying that they are better housed, better fed, and better clothed than the working population of any part of the West of Europe. The Russians may, perhaps, have food and fuel in greater abundance. But man " lives not by bread alone." Our correspondent says, those who always opposed the education of the people now plume themselves on their sagacity, deeming, of course, the education of the people the cause of their discontent. But there is a long tale to tell on this subject, and they tell only a very small part of it. The time is not very remote when the people throughout the country were as ignorant as any Aristocrat could possibly wish them to be; but the Aristocracy of that day left them to the en joyment of a wild liberty, and did not hamper them as they do now, with vexatious restraints of all kinds. In those days the Puritans (who were the middle classes) were not held it; greater abhorrence by the gentry in general than by the lower orders. "In the valley where I lived," says Richard Baxter, in his Autobiography, " the reader read the Common Prayer briefly, and the rest of the day till dark night almost, except eating time, was spent in dancing under a May-pole and a great tree from my father's door, where all the town did meet together. And although one of my father's own tenants was the piper, be could not restrain him nor break the sport ; so that we could not read the scriptures in our family, without the great disturbance of the tabor and pipe, and noise in the street I Many times my mind was inclined to be among them, and sometimes I broke loose from conscience, and joined with them, and the more I did it the more I was inclined to do it." So long as the English could be amused with pipes and tabors, and dancing round a May-pole, there was little danger of their plotting the over throw of the Constitutions in Chinch arid State. But who made them serious? Answer that, Enemies of Education! Let us hear the Kent llerald:- 4 , The fact is that the labouring cl asses have been long borne down, oppressed in every way by their superiors— and by the system uplu Id by their superiors. They have been gradually thrust down, and trampled on, despised, driven to starvation, misery, and despair The tendency of the whole social arrangement in England for many years has been to fester and protect the great properties at the expense of the poor and industrious The pressure has worked through the middle orders, and de scended at last with its full weight upon the lowest. "The labourer has been literally ground dawn to the very dust. Every law, every tax, every consequent change in manners, has been prejudicial to him. The consolidation of estates, the destruction of small farms, the enclosure of common lands, the heavy impositions on the neces siries of life, the temptations and ferocious inflictions of the accursed Game Laws, the vexatious tyranny exercised by the rural magistracy—the ever-memorable I Unpaid,' the canting, Itypocritic interference with his few remainine pleasures under the pretence of teach ing him religion and morality, form part of the list of those ' unfavourable circumstances' (as , Mr. Owen would say) which have made him what he is. Th e bond which once attaehol the agricultural labourer to his employer, has long, too, been severed. The farmer was ones looked up to by his servants as their friend, and almost their father. They formed as it were a part of his family, generally seated at the same board and partaking to a degree of the comforts of is common home. All this has passed away. An insuperable barrier has b , ..en raised between the parlour' and the kitchen.'--- The servant has not been recognised any more than as a labouring animal on the estate. The master has been a gentleman, and the servant sunk into a brutal slave." - We have already said, that we do not believe that in as far as regards food, raiment, and lodging, the labouring classes are worse off than they were.— But the rest of the picture of our Kentish Contem porary is drawn after the life. Never was a country so pestered with canting as England has been pes tered. In the times of the Puritans, the canters, who would hang a cat on Monday, For catching of a meuse on Sunday," were a small minority. But hypocrisy has long been taken under the protection of the Iligher Powers. The Church of England Clergy are no longer the learned men they used to be, but have dwindled down to psalm-singers; and as they chiefly com pose the Unpaid Magistracy, they are incessant in their endeavours to worry and harass the people.— The discontent in a neighbourhood may always be pretty accurately calculated from the number of resident Magistrates. To do the higher Aristocracy justice, the people do not complain so much of them as of the busy meddling Parsons, and small fry of Magistracy, who seek to distinguish themselves by their zeal in giving effect to laws which, in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, are so foolish and vexatious, as t o be only tolerable when allowed to sleep. Thera are many countries in which the means of phy sical eejoyment are less abundant than England ; but there is not imp Poetry in Europe—not one--- where the social ties have been so violently severed as in England. The accursed distinctions which run through Li.nglish society teach men to bete, envy, and despise cad; other, and repress the characters of lift. We have always shuddered, when in a great roan's house at the West End of the town, to see a dozen of big sullfrlooking fellows, between whom MA their master avid raistress there could be no one haling in common. In the feudal tips, the master depand,ed for his security on his people, and it was his interest to be kind to them. We are no friends of feudalism, but th,rp was not such a moral waste in it as there is this day in iingland. We ourselves remember the time when in soti..e parts of this island, a men in the employment of a gentleman considered his tits:; E,tp secure as that of his master. We confess we dislike cstretnely the disseverment of Fail i ng!' society. There is sets4Ahing excessively glooiny ill the idea of living under the taupe roof with human beings who care neither for your weal nor your woe—to whom your elevation or your ruin are alike objects of indifference. Our Kentish Contemporary observes further— That tl;re is little direct political feeling among the perpetrators t.f the present excesses we are convinced,-- little even of personal vindictiveness, since the objects of their attacks are almost promistNionsly taken. Some unpopolar and arbitrary individuals have indeed been ; but others of mild and Merit character have trot escaped. It scents, is fact, a war of poverty againgt 'property, of desti t ution against possession.. The poor feel that they are-not permitted tip tiljoy, and they are deter.. "lined that the rich shall not. This is the natural feeling tit ii" 9 tant, coarss-raindtsi, and ill-treated moo and it seems to have spread wide, and taken deep root. If in, there is no remedy in forcible or in conciliatory treatment, without a change of the whole system. Absolute despera tion can neither be cajoled nor bullied." The poor feel that they are not permitted to enjoy, and they are determined that the rich shall not ! And punishment ! Here is the rub ; we have so pestere►l these poor people with Penal Laws, for all sorts of acts, that they have become quite callous. It is the moral part of punishment which must al ways be the most efficacious. Among the simple people of the flourishing districts on the borders— districts cultivated like a garden—the sight of a constable would produce more effect than years of imprisonment and tread-mill in the justice-ridden districts of the south. We have long raised our voice against the system which has so long been patronised by the English Aristocracy. That sys tem has been gaining ground ever since the Aristo cracy obtained the mastery in 1688. It was re marked by Carte, early as 1740, that the Aristo cracy had signalised their ascendancy at 1688, by a regular series of encroachments on the inferior orders which he specifies. The author of an Historical Essay od the Englieh Constitution, published in 1771 observes that— " From that time many of our laws, and especially those respecting property, trade, and taxation, have be come partial laws; and have been made to operate in a manner for the sole advantage of the rich in land. All laws will be partial that are made by only one part of the people ; or, in other words, by one class of the people.— From this selfish principle proceeds the partial, arbitrary, and tyrannical spit it of our Game Laws; so that now no man can either fish or shoot without having a qualifica tion in land. Indeed all this tribe of laws are so pitifully partial, mean, poor, and wretched, that they would dis grace the petty tyrants of Barbary. " They have engrossed within a line of their own draw ing all the hares, wild-fowl, and fish, that are natives of this kingdom ; and these laws have not only subvertedthe natural right of mankind, but established their own with a bitterness little less than cruelty; for they are guarded and defended with the same selfish spirit that the most niggardly miser would guard his treasure. So that a poor man cannot entert.iin his longing wife with a gudgeon of his own catching, without being guilty of felony ; or kill a partridge without fine and imprisonment. Nay, more than this, no man dare touch one of these prohibited bodies, even when they are dead, under a penalty of five pounds, without being first franked with the band of these qualified engrosser.. From the same selfish principle procei d all our taxes upon the necessaries of life, which so much dis tress the poor These are the first law-makers that ever appeared in the known world, that were so notoriously partial to their own interest as to give five shillings a quarter, or one-eighth dint value, out of 'the public money, for:the exportation of bread corn out of their own country, the place of its growth; which has increased their estates to double their former value, and raised the price of all provisions that are the produce of the land, to such an extravagant degree, that the poor-rate is now become almost equal to the land-tax _ _ Sir Robert Walpole was the great father of corruption; he has contaminated the whole nation with a venal spirit, and made the generality of our boroughs rotten to the very heart. The guilty Members now give continuance to the act, and boldly open their hands to the bribes, and think themselves no longer infamous. Hence perjury, bribery, and corruption, are ditrus,d through the whole body of the nation, by the same channel that contains the elective power of the people." - Causes of demoralization have been long in ope• ration, and, as is natural, the effects become more and more violent. Another extract from the Kent Het aid shows the working of the system in a strik ing point of view. At Queenborough the rights of humanity were outraged in a most scandalous manner. What has happened ? The people have at length overpoWered the Authorities.—There has been a sort of Brunswick business there. Well and truly sung the philosopher Goldsmith, who, having .seen many countries, was fully aware of the social disease of this " The self-dependant lordlings stand alone; All claims that hind, and aweeten life, unknown ; ------- As nature's ties decay, As duty, love, and honour, fail to sway Fictitious bonds—the bonds of wealth and law—. Still gather strength, and force unwilling awe. a N- a • a r Each wanton Juike new penal Statutes draw, Lao's grind the poor, and rich men rule the law." The middle classes of this country must bestir themselves. Instead of twaddling about the evils of education, let them go to the root of the evil. If they do not, there will soon be no security for property. The only security is, when all are irate• rested in the observance of the law.—liforn. Chron The occurrences which continue to take place in parts of Kent, are of a nature to excite much un easiness in the public mind ; and if it turns out, as we too much fear to be the case, that the lenity which has been shown to the convicted perpetrators of the outrages in question has been but thrown away upon them and their associates, there remains but one alternative—viz., that the law should stretch out its sterner arm, rind put down by punishment that which mercy has failed to do. But when we call upon the laws to vindicate themselves, and to rescue the community from (burger, and themselves from an imputation of being too weak to protect the persons and property of the King's subjects from lawless proceedings, such as those which we allude to, we are not the less anxious that the origin and the motives of such an anomalous state of things should be diligently, temperately, and thoroughly in. vestigated, and the wrongs, if there be airy, which give rise to them, redressed. Lord Bacon has laid down the maxim that the surest way to prevent seditions is " to take away the matter of them . ;" and in this case, however lawless and unjustifiable these outrages are, they must, we suspect, have a cause, which cannot too soon and too ef fectually be sought out, and, if possible, re medied. We do not believe, us writers n some of the public Journals would have us do, that the lawless acts which at present disgrace so large a portion of the peasantry of Kent are mainly attributable to their connection with smug. filers, and that the connivance of the Preventive Service has involved a large proportion of the popu lation in one description of lawless nets, which readily leads the way to another. This may be true to a certain extent, but not to the extent contended for; and, if so, only proves bow little free trade has done to protect the revenue, and to put an end, as was promised, to contraband practices. But the root of the evil, we apprehend, is to be found in the pauperised state of the agricultural labourer=, not only in Kent, but in many other of the southern counties, arising from the inadequacy of their earn ings, in too many cases, to supply the necessaries, much less the comforts, of life. Whether this arises from the want of a remunerating price to the farmer, from the want of a sufficient circulatiog me dium, from the Game Laws, from a misapplic a tion of the Poor Laws, or from all or any of these and other causes combined, are inquiries which both Governtnent, die Legislature, and the local autho rities throughout the country will do well speedily and effectually to investigate. At any rate, two things to us seem equally clear—that the lives and properties of the King's subjects ought and must be protected from the violence which has now un happily been so long going on ; and t h at mea ns should be taken to prevent a recurrence of ev il s which endanger the very existence of society. — Morning Herald. We are rejoiced to see that there is an Intention oo the part of the Corporation of London to take up, an d it is to be hoped, reform, if not overturn, the present wretched state of our bankrupt system. Mr. Bousfield, an attorney s we believe, of consider 4ble eminence, having given notice of a motion that " the (out do petition both Houses of parliament, praying that the whole of the present fourteen lists of Commissioners of Baukrupt may bit abolished I anti, in lieu thereof, un efficient and regular Court 11 , constituted, to sit daily io matters of bankruptcy. " It is the common fate of most things, now-a.days to increase in worthlessness and inutility, in proportion us their defects are pointed out ; whereas it is the obvious policy of those who have an interest in maintaining them to profit by the censure which is passed upon them, by reformi ng what is pointe d out to be amiss. Now these bank rupt l i sts, both us t h ey are constituted and eluded on, ha ve b een an ev il of so lon,' standing, and of such general and obvious complaint, that the public at large have good reason to resent the silent indignity with which their re peated remonstrances have been received. The prevailing evil is the utter incompetency of so many of the persons who are appointed —generally brietless Barristers, wholly igno rant of trade, and often not much ac quainted with the laws which they are appointed to administer; but who owe their appointments gene rally to mere favouritism, and that often of the worst kind—political or Parliamentary patronage. We do not say that, of the seventy persons of whom these lists are composed, there are not some, and we would hope many, who were either originally com petent to the task, or have become so by experience; but that the majority are not so is but too apparent to any ene who has bad the misfortune to see much of their proceedings. The mode too in which they profess to carry on their business is also blame able in the extreme, being evidently framed upon the sole principle of getting all the money they can, in the shape of fees, in the shortest possible time. The consequence is, that in all cases except those in which the solicitors are men of goad sense and in tegrity, and do what the Commissioners ought to do, the evils of insolvency are enhanced, instead of ! being mitigated, by the Tribunals appointed for its adjustment. To be sure, the system works well enough in some respects, the blunders and in competency of the Commissioners producing pe titions, briefs, and fees without number, through the whole channel of equity, up to the very fountain-head. That such a system must sooner or later, he reformed admits of no doubt. That it would have been reformed long ago admits of as little doubt, were not the majority of those from whom the reform should have come interested in defeating it. The image -makers for the great God . less Diana, in modern as well as former days, know too well the profits of their craft to part with them voluntarily or without a struggle. We do not know a more unexceptionable or more proper quarter, from whom the attack upon such a system as this can come, than from the Corporate Authorities of the great trading capital of the Empire, the merchants and tradesmen of which not only see and feel its abuses, but actually pay for them ; with the addi tional disgust of seeing persons quartered upon the already broken-down fortunes of bankrupts and their creditors, some of whom hardly know a bill of ex change from a bill of parcels. What the species of reform should be, which would most effectually re medy a system which so unequivocally calls for one, should, of course, depend upon the judgment of those best acquainted with the subject; but it seems to us that a moderate extension of the present In solvent Court would enable it to embrace the whole of the business of the Bankrupt Lists, in addition to their own.—Morning Herald. Whether the Speech from the Throne contain any meaning or not, we trust that the Address of the " great Council of the Nation" will be neither vague nor unintelligible. It is not by the concealment of truth that the evils of nations are to be remedied. Last year the Government and the Ministerial Jour nals denied the existence of great and extensive die tress. We maintained the contrary opinion—we supported our arguments by facts; and we earnestly called upon the Government to attend to the com plaints of the people, and, if they could not imme diately remedy them, at least to soothe their feelings by expressing sympathy for their situation, and to encourage their hopes by promising to make every possible exertion for the alleviation of their suffer ings. But the Government listened not to those who gave them independent and wholesome advice, but to their " fawning parasites," who suppressed unpleasant but useful truths, and described the eountry as increasing in prosperity, with an assur ance unequalled in the annals of obsequious false hood. Well do we recollect that Paper, which calls itself the " leading Journal," sneering at the cala mities of the manufacturing and agricultural classes, and predicting that what was described to be dis tress would disappear with the " peeping forth of the crocus and the primrose v " This was in the winter. Well, the spring came, but hope did not blossom in its sunshine for the industrious classes. On the contrary, there was an aggravation of the dis c tress, hut the people were patient and loyal; and al though in some places they had to yoke themselves to waggons, like the beasts of the field, to earn a liveli hood, and in others to live worse than the swine which their forefathers fed, still they bore their pri vations with a meek endurance, and fortitude sup plied the place of content. It was then the Journal in question, with the view, no doubt of fulfilling its own predictions, spoke with ineffable merriment of the " pest distress," and congratulated the Govern ment on the p rosper i ty o f t h e country . F rom t h at time to the present, the distress, which was described us past, has gone on increasing, and the continued decline in the revenue ever since is a pretty evident symptom of it. What proves, beyond all dispute, the misery of the people, is the uninterrupted falling off under the head of Excise. The heavy taxation upon the necessaries and comforts of life, along with the want of means, in consequence of the failure of employment, or the low state of wages among the industrious classes, compels them to consume so much less of those necessaries and comforts us makes is serious difference to the revenue. It was expected that the l a st quar t er ' s a ccount would have exhibited an advance under this head, as the natural result of the additional consumption of exciseable articles produced by a general election ; but even with the advantages of this stimulus, the decline of the re venue was shown, by that account, to be still pro gressive. We lament that in many places the people have displayed a tendency to acts ofinsubordina tion ; but while we deprecate the guilt of those who resort to acts of violence, for the purpose of obtain ing redress, we cannot consider those who refused to listen to their complaints as guiltless. A wise Government will not act like the silly ost rich , that i thinks to escape danger, when the hunter is n hot pursuit, by running its head into the sand, and thus, by closing its eyes, hope to ensure its security. It will, on the contrary, look the danger in the face, examine its cause, and take every step that prudent courage suggests to remove or overcome it. We therefore think, if the Government be capable of deriving wisdom from its experience, it will no longer, by concealing the truth, endeavour to blink the great question of the difficulties of the country. If it should do so, however—if it should put one of those unmeaning speeches in the mouth of the Sove reign, which, though professing to give a true picture of the state of the nation, both in its foreign and do mestic relations, evades or mystifies the subject— we do hope that Parliament will perform its duty, and, instead of making its Address an " echo" of the Minister's speech, will tell the Goveniment plainly what the evils of the country are, and the necessity for measures of immediate relief.—Morn ing Herald. Accustomed as we have been for years past to the blustering language and ridiculous exaggerations of Irish demagogues, and willing as we are to make every allowance for the terms in which they usually speak of England and Englishmen, we really were not prepared for the Billingsgate harangue which appears in another column, with the signature of Themes Steele. Every one will remember the name of this individual, as being somehow or ether connected with the joint.steck concerns of 1825, the results of which not having, we presume, proved very satisfactory, he has taken to the trade of agita tion, and, as will be seen from the article to which we refer, commenced with the re d-h ot an d Vega wad spirits of Clare. On this last matter we should not have deemed it wort h w hi le to pass a remark,inasmuch as it is merely done in imita tion, or by the orders, o f t h e great Dan, who, finding h is oratory at fault at S t. Stephen's, has ' re turned it to its own native moss as the snore proper e l ement ; b ut we have a right to ask this Mr. Steele on whet authority, or for what ream!, he dares to co m pare the resent Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to " one of those poor peasants, whom he would consider fitted far no higher function in the Scale of society than that of eating tripes for a wager against a bull-dog, or car rying guts to a bear." As little do we know for what reason the people of Ireland should consider " Thomas Steele" as their " true friend." His name is unknown even in modern Irish history, and but for the worse than Billingsgate address, which we publish in another column, would, in all proba bility, have remained unknown. He has done no good to her, so far as we are aware ; and had he the means, we are quite confident that he is now bent on doing her serious injury; but thanks to the better star of Ireland, the sallies of such orators are not likely to be of much avail in rousing a spirit of in surrection. We should, indeed, pity the people, as infinitely beneath contempt, who could listen for a moment to the infamous language of such a dema gogue.—. Morning Advertiser. CORONER'S INQUEST. An inquiry was instituted on Wednesday afternoon at the Bedford Head, Maiden .lane, Covent-garden, before Mr. Htoas, touching the death of William Mester, Esq., aged 63, a gentleman of fortune, who expired suddenly at his lodgings, No 43, in the above lane, It then appeared, that on Tuesday afternoon the deceased, after dining at a frietas house, returned home about seven in the evening, accompanied by a dashing young female, named Eliza Goaling. Sours afterwards he was taken alarmingly ill, and vomited incessantly for a considerable time. He con tinued in this state with no other attendant but the female alluded to, until nearly midnight, at which time, Mrs. Abbott, the landlady, who wee absent, came home, and found the unfortunate gentleman in bed, on the point of death. It was the opinion of the medical gentleman (Mr. Weatherfield, of Southampton-street, Strand,) that the deceased's death was caused by apoplexy. A verdict to that effect was returned. The following day, however, Mr. Cooper, the church warden, who acted as foreman, and several other juror', felt dissatisfied with their verdict, considering it a cireum stance pregnant with suspicion, that the deceased should have been so many hours with the young female (Eliza Gosling), without medical aid, and this, coupled with other facts, gave rise to a variety of rumours which were circulated through the neighbourhood, one of which was, that the deceased had been poisoned. Under these circuto , stances, Mr. Cooper, and other parochial officers, in order that the atTair might be more fully elucidated, determined upon holding another inquest, and yesterday afternoon a fresh Jury was empanelled at the above house. Eliza Gosling, the young female alluded to, being sworn, stated that she resided in the house of a Mrs. M'Donnell, No. 278, Holborn. Her acquaintance with the deceased commenced about nine munths ago, and she was frequently in his company. On the evening of his decease she met him, and went home with him. In about half an hour afterwards he complained of a violent betel ache, and commenced retching. She assisted him to the sofa, where be sat down. Soon afterwards he rose from the sofa, and drank two glasses of wine, which stood on the table in a decanter, and which seemed to revive him, and he walked up and down the room several times, when all of a sudden he reeled and fell on the couch in a state of insensibility, but he subsequently recovered a little ; when she implored him to have medical advice, which he de clined, saying, '6 My dear girl, I shall soon be better." He soon afterwards fell on the floor, when she then was induced to think flat he was labouring under the effect* of too much wine, and she suffered him to remain where he was for about half an hour. She then rang the bell, and was answered by a little girl, who told her that Mrs. Abbott, the landlady of the house, which is highly re spectable, was from home. Under these circumstances she got the deceased to bed as well as she could, and re mained with him until half-past eleven o'clock, when Mrs. Abbott came home, and expressed much surprise at seeing her (witness) with the deceased, and wished her to leave, but she persisted in remaining. Mrs. Abbott then i went to the deceased, and finding that he wee in a very dangerous state, being black in the face, sent for medical aid, but the deceased died before it arrived. Mr. Cooper, the fort/um—Pray are you related to the deceased? Witness—Oh I dear, no, Sir; but be was un der a solemn engagement to make me his wife, and we were to have been united in a week's time. Mr Beaman, of James-street, Covent•garden, the parish surgeon, had made an attentive post motion examination of the body of the deceased, and was of opinion that his death was caused by apoplexy. In answer to a question from the Jury, the witneassaid, that the deceased, being a powerful man, and very full of blood, his life might have been saved had medical assistance been called in when he was first taken ill. This being the whole evidence, the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of—Died by the visitation of God. The deceased, who was highly connected, Las left a and daughter behind him. MARKET IN I'ELLICIENCE. LODON MAKET& (From the London N Neu Price ß Current of yesterday.) Sorsaa.—The Sugar Market has been heavy all the week, the buyers not inclined to purchase, except at a further decline, which the holders will not submit to. The estimated sales for the week are only 1,800 hogsheads and tierces. In the Refined Market the transactions) are on a limited scale; the prices 'are again 6d. to Is. per cwt. lower. There has been more inquiry this afternoon for lumps, but the offers have generally been very low, say about 65a. to 655. 6d., which most of the Refiners have refused to sell at ; some partial business however has been done at that price, and one or two parcels of very ordinary quality were reported to have been sold a shade under by some of the small houses for money; for good small lumps 681. a 695. is asked, but there has been very little done at present. Of Prussian lumps and single loaves the melters are at present the chief purcha.ers at about 71s. a 725. For crushed there is very little inquiry, and scarcely any of the parcels placed in bond that were on hand have been disposed of, the few offers that have been made being at very low rates, and the holders refusing to sell at such reduction ; in the price of the Grocery descrip tions there is very little alteration. Foam/4 SUUAlt.—There were no purchaservof Foreign Sugar last week by private contract. At public sale 1,054 hags Ilevannah were offered, chit fly white, low 345. a 38s. fine 405., all taken in ; a few lots good strong yellow taken in 235. a Its. ; the washed are 3s. a 4s. lower. EAST INDIA Suoaa.—lly public sale this week above 5,000 bags Mituritiue., the whole of better quality than last sale, and went off at fair market prices, brown 435.64. a 465. 6d., yellow 475. a 51s. ; Bengal by public sale Is. to Is. 64. lower. TIC/L.—Bohm are rather heavy, though they have not given way, the market generally is dull, and the delivery has fallen off. Comm.-There is but little business in any descs ip lion. The bulk of the orders for shipping hav►ng been now supplied, and the dealers indifferent about any but good quality, the quantity brought forward by public sale was small. Some b►own fine fine ordinary Jamaica sold as low as 465. to 465. 6d. ; good ditto, 475. to 50s. ; real good, 70.. ; middling, 60a. ; tine ordinary Dominique, 435. to 46e. ; andgood orolinary, 40s. 6.d. to 425. 6d. Rust....-This Market continues to be neglected ; a small parcel or two of proof Leewards have been sold at Is. 81(1., but there are very few sellers at this price; 3 to 6 over proof, Is. 9►l. to Is. 10d. per gallon; 23 over proof, 2s. 2d. ;28 over proof, 2s. 3d. to 2s. ; 35 to 40 over proof, 2s. sd, ; Jamaica 14 over proof, 21. 2.1. ; 25 over proof, 26. 411. ; 28 to 30 over proof, 2s. 6dt to 2s. Bd. ; 33 over proof, 2s. 10d. to 31. 64/. BRAWDV.-First mark of 1828, 61. 2.1. per gallon; second mark, ss. 4d. to ss. 9d. ; third mark, 4s. 9d. to 55...; first mark of 1829, 6s. HOLLAND 9.-21. 6d. to 21. Bd. per gallon. Sricza.-The market is firm; Mace at an advance of horn 3d. to 4d. per lb. ; Nutmegs are in g oo d d em and. Mate, FLAX, AND Ts. Ltow..-The Tallow ram ket con tinuee to fluctuate; the priors have varied from 39.. 6d. to 41s. ; the latter is the quotation this afternoon. In Ifetnp or Flax there is no material alteration. This day 489 casks Archangel Tallow sold 395. 3d. a 395. 6d. 'The Tallow market quoted at a late hour 41s. 3d. a 41s. 6.1. basil! PRovisioNs.-Butters are at the decline of 2s. a 41 .) which took place early in this week. Bacon unvaried. Ott.s.-The Oil market is very firm. Common Oil 50/. to 521., Sperm 84/. ; other description, all higher. The market this afternoon brisk ; 22 ships off the coast from Davis' Straits, nine clean, 13 with 27 fish, CorroN.-The Company's sale, 407 hales of Bengal, realized 40. to 4id., being at a reduction of ed. per lb. lower than the previous sale ; 2,449 bales of Surats were brought forward, and only one-third sok!, at 54. to 6,1. and Id. per lb. Market dull, and prices nominal. llors.-New Pockets, 6/. Bs. to 141. 144. ; 1829, 71. 75. to 9/. 9s. ; 1820, 6 1 - 6 0 . to 8/. Bs. ; 1827, 5/. 12s. ; 1826, M. ss. Duty 100,000/. Market heavy. Itenico.-There is not much doing ; the price. ob tained at the last sale is hardly maintained. Fautx.-On Tuesday the first parcel of new Turkey Figs and Sultana Raisins, just arrived ex-Smyrna packet from Smyrna, wan put up to public sale, fur which the following prices were realized-viz , Sultana Raisins iu drums, of which there were 1,600 (all sold) 70s. to 72a. a and 12,800 drums pulled Fige, the mite part VIM to 61 s. ; yesterday the public asks of A* dal_ have been very large, having consisted of WAN pulled Turkey Figs. of which only a small part t►u and prices declined to 60.. a 525., and a few lots PIO rior quality 655., at which price the remainder ef Sib parcel was bought in; 4,412 drums Sultana ry a which only a few lots were sold, 655. a 665. ; *PO Carabourna Raisins 455.: 100 brie. Red Sinyreedi* sold 425. to 4.3:1., and 55 brit. Verne ditto 46 toed Fur Vslentia Raisins, since last week, the iaagsirus been very extensive, and 2.. higher priers bore heeell used, and there are now very few sellers Oro II P 1 higher prices. Of new Currants there are ono or le parcels landing, but they are taken off rather slowilkti old Fruit there is nothing doing. This day anelbet P' isle was brought forward, hut only a few lots sold. • SID' then the new Elenae Raisins are dividing about 4814 S al 13,000 drums Turkey pulled Figs 535. a . 65 1 ., tanas all taken in, and the black Smyrna 311. WIMP, New PRICES OF HOPS.—Oct. 'pi Kent Pockets 6l 00. 101. os. OLIO Aim' Svssex Ditto Yuen Ditto Elf Ditto, Fine, ..13/. Os. Seconds 9. Os. Os. Kent lial Euex Dato., Sussex Ditto Oil, brown 0.. la oialot 06 to IN. fa. 000 a 0000 w. Ja a . er.o.to -- PRICE OF OIL. AO 0 Os. MO, si /0 I° -0 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand *V. Rape Cake s per ton HITECH ------ APEL HAY 1%1ARKET...... v.A1t , te a' 365. Od. to 75i. Od.i_llover ...... Ws. tkt to Straw_.....___Od. to fflo. PRICE OF POTATOES -4d' top, 4 .tomtol2l.loll RAW HIDE& 0 13.10 Per Stone. i. d. toe. d. I Per " I Best /letters & Steers 3 0 S 2 Orditiart......„, oat: Middlings 2 6 2 8 MinketVaits*** Polled 0.. Od. t0 5 0. 11 . 11 04 E . P 1 1 4 0 1 Lis SKINSort LEATHER. Tan ta liffOt ide ‘ a Sidilth I ilt* • P. dlloo.,rs lc Call 810101,1: ff DIM DUO .4:....lo_t_triZ 4,101 Saial $Ol l 4 0 Yeuflw 1110 rti:4:04,;04 PRICES OF Per lb. nous , A) to 581 b... 18 23 Ditto..._ to 881 b... 25 28 Dressing 14 191 Fine Coach Hides 18 18 Crop Hides, 35 to 40W. 131 15 to 451 b. 15 17 Ditto 171 PRICE OF TALLOW, Si Town Tallow .................. 445. Od. Yellow nUidia............. 41s. tkl. White _ —a. Ocl. Soa Ditt0,—.................. 30*. Od. Melted 5tuff..—.....—.... 335. 04. Ditto R0ugh«....—.........221. Od. Price PRICE OF RAW FAT, E 1 tolle, 01 , 10,. " The price of Store van% . , nueAret% Candles, per doz. 7s. Oct. to B s. Od. Mould*, iON ... 0 0 4 4 0 ,Kli'l. 1111 ' r a Wan :1 Walls WI $ Ditto N 4 si nut° P Ili 6 Ditto roe._ „P c "! e Ditto Versr.r-,. - ' 6 Ditto ' 0'....!."'"." ,it Eden Mal t.i:al. 0 i r WI autbt PrigisOlolt`st'g aits 04 WIN .111 if p Wall End lalalgo,o,, Walls u" Vosh'r r 14 .0 Walls End 0r1ft....., I' 0 " , 0 W. E. Russell no"" oi 0 Ditto NOM 56,01L..1 Tito • mwe...---.—.....--„,-• g i moo ............--,- , Sagami* Fled ....." , • SustqCoal ItilfordVein : 0 'Wallies 1,001.11 Y. .. a t Wall tad Eltin'" 0,0 Ditto Henderson...os . 0 Walls Old lielby. T; Calterton small ......... 0 , 0 Wagon moll ---.....„ A Hebbura imar.:-....0 r, 0 Lambton 0 Stbbart's Ismail ............!, , iv said, ea ....400. 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SCOTCH MARKETS. ~ 00 46 w olfllth EDINBURGH MEAL HARK __ . 6 .,,, We had a large supply of ()atonal al I° 7, nr fral. which met with very dull sale, at last wri bli t kOgri Per Sack or 2801 b. Imp. Per Slo", °1 ~..iP 110 First Oatmeal .... .... .£1 18 0 Snit Oaines. ..' i .., 1 3 e Pot Barley—No. 1 Second ditto.... . 117 0 Second ditto ................, 1 flarleymeal.... " ******* 1 11 0 flasteysseld."'" ..,... P or. Peaieniatil . per 0,04:.?...,..,..11 0 Yeatemeolvri.,oo,l SUPPOSED INVADE°. ''' ' ---- nesillietli Mr. George Watson, of Bentley Orsnet - , ) , • tbai s" , West, has been musing since Friday lasi ~jpostillet he attended Wakefield market, and left his la a A t colfee seven o'clock in the evening. He passed tb rau liii ettd" bridge-bar about bait--past seven, on his We is th e -bblo Wakefield and Denbydale turnpike-road. 11111 time he was seen or heard of. On &turd* , / 1" ar s j i horse was found grazing on the turnPiln i 1.° 2 - 1 1 00 C l ; the Suspension-bridge over the Calder, wil'ut,;4ol. ' of the bar where he was last seen' Nil .. ....r 6 Wen which was empty, and some lettere and Pr-wroth found near Blacker Hall, strewed about in a , lace .... yarth Crigglestone Cliff from Nethertont about 'till s from from the turnpike-road, and upwards of two , IL 0110 the place where the horse was found. two : 7 1 - e ig 0 0 1 body has hitherto been obtained. Hs wile nu e' 604 ' I :: when juet he as le w ft Wakefield, and at all tin' lb" iieste °' . I had a wife and eight children, the youngest ay. i- ..., STD:IW SW ACCOVNT. 1 t h. fOl/ 0. jag respectin e g w m e r r . e Ngvoaitsongnto:_pr,eriti7ejorenelisoivicoef B ois ro t codf as Mr. Watson on Tucs d &y Warning, ill 1. ":, - 0 101 gore,_ t ° B e en an tl o e n as Mr. Jackson reached home, be , 00 , t hat e`, l Bentley Grange to communicate to gra is biorpo" husband This was alive, and that he had seen Mal ;Jo) OS' . news reached Bentley early this C0 7 , 4 „ 1 , 71 g t jgr. W i ll . S inge On inquiry, it has b ee n &covert" that " exchanged, at the hank in Wakefield Of t 77 . 0 ,ket , b 001 , and papers fur Bank-of-England notes. .. r o , Olt al e„,.....paPers being scattered about on 1) 1 :1 ro o f 0 being robbed and sham to induce the sus Piper ofoired o f ' bowurhnomi dtohic:ll;ltutrdbeerreedh,asanblesinmusehmeowool:7,:bise a m o l d it e _ zip r i: /, The cause " to the public. However, precipitous step ‘)P ; -' ain tbe 11" tv However, it is well n''''' _logandinlf,, h strongly en him and some members of his faint l y prltl f an unfavourable suspected that his pecuniary Pa ll- k m - t here a i t .„d" ° unfavourable appearance . Watson w a wa hall a left I.o6tra'" went to America some tim e . ago. He, ta a ', be tin y quite unknown to his friend s, and it apPZ o saits r,, P son's intention to go thither. Ili, son, Mr. ' - plift '''' on, is gone to Liverpool in 'march of bi l '" telligenrer. ................... On the 27th inet. at Creed Devon, the a' 0 BIRTHS. 111;110 1,1etr tenant-Colonel Ferranti, Gre nad ier Guard , ' °,-, Of - On the 29th tont. in Fitzroy..square. S u " ' Richard Barker, Esq. of a son. k Pf lier On the 29th inst. the lady of Edward 110-,kezitter Esq. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital; e P.-- MARRIED. . 1T At On the 28th inst. at Clitheroe, by the Arr.: . i ' d e, M.A. Incumbent, the Rev. E. 111. Orme, b P. 91 Mary Hall, Oxford, eldest son of Edward 0101e40, 4 eldest Daughter y London, to Mary. Jeremiah Garnett, Esq. Roe Field, LanceshireL Wa ls h Orr On the 27th inst. at Capel Curig, North ,y, 1 Ashley, Esq. of Brixton, in the county of Sa r ii - t)ril Margaret,fitii,nfcapyrolucngurrsigt.daughter of the isle M r ' Jusq I On the 28th iota. at Ishtworth, Allied prig' i t , ~ Emma Ann, daughter of the late Wm. schinto;lllo On the 28th inst. at Weatherer, John Tyler , ° (P l ' ing, Essex, Esq. to Grace Small, eldest daughter ° Greenhill, of Westhant Frith, Esse), E.g. DIED. • . 0 1 On the 25th inst. at Glynhir, Cormarthenshue, 11 1 . 6e1 I-lend:ell, relict of the la te James ilenrkell! dsw Pk , Wanorth Common. On the 29th inst. Mr. Thomas Tisdall, o f Si° in his 74th year. PA iNTID AND PUBLISIIIID BY haniDO QS' viz SU Zi QOM; Ilg far LOP 0