The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL Some of the papers in the interest of the ultra-Tory Opposition persist in bringing before the public the supposed appointment of Major- General Ellice as Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth. We took ats opportunity several days ago of stating our conviction that no such appointment could, as was alleged, have taken place, and chiefly, without pretending to a knowledge of the facts, at least, from any com petent authority, we denied that Lord Grey could have meditated such an abuse of that military patronage which a Prime Minister too often contrives to wrest out of the hands of the Commander-in-Chief, because we were assured that Lord Grey's Ministerial honour, in the exercise of a great public trust ; would revolt against the obvious partiality of the nomination referred to, in favour of an officer so compara tively inexperienced and undistinguished as Major-General Ellice. Shortly after our opinion was declared, an evening paper, which is believed by many people(how justly we know not) to speak from official information, contained a paragraph directly negativing the whole story of that promotion, and asserting that no such appointment had ever " been so much as con templated." This, it seems, does not satisfy our brethren of the Tory press, one of whom conveys, throughout a long article, the impres sion that the appointment was actually contem plated, if not completed, and has been revoked from no other motive than the alarm produced by its premature disclosure to the public by means of the press. Now, whether it may or may not have been contemplated in certain quar ters, is a question we need hardly discuss, being persuaded that such intentions, if they ever existed, are fir from likely to be realized. But as an act of justice, it is right that we should exonerate from unworthy suspicion some of those parties on whom, owing to peculiar cir cumstanees, it might otherwise very naturally fall. We shall, then, express a decided belief thsAt Mr. Edward Ellice, the Secretary at War, never concurred in any similar misapplication of patronage, and, indeed, never entertained a wish, but the contrary, that the member of his family alluded to should be held up in so invidious a light to the country. Our conviction upon this point amounts to certainty—that the Se cretary at War would have pronounced, had the appointment—or the design of it—been made known to him, an absolute and manly dissent from, and protest against it, on grounds connected with the interest and reputa tion of the service. One word against Major- General Ellice, as a soldier or a gentleman, has never, so far as we understand, been breathed by any human being. But that is riot enough. The allotment of honours and emoluments where there are many distinguished candidates must, in all fairness, be adjudged according to a re view of their comparative service, and in favour of those who can exhibit the most salient and multiplied proofs of their professional supe riority. We are sure that no fraternal preference would have blinded the discrimination of the Secretary at War on such a subject, or biassed his integrity ; and we have the strongest reason for alleging that Mr. Edward Ellice would, with whatever violence to his personal affections, have refused to sanction the choice of his brother for the Portsmouth government, had it been, which it never was, submitted to his approba tion. This Right Hon. Gentleman holding a place of high and important trust, one which, from the opportunities it affords of intermeddling more or less directly with the whole military de partment, and from the allurements which the political station of its occupant must be suspected of throwing in his way towards a corrupt or sel fish perversion of his extensive power, it becomes the duty of an honest journalist to wipe away from the conduct of Mr. Ellice whatever foul or injurious colouring the insinuations of adverse faction may have cast upon it, and to state, on behalf of Mr. Ellice, that neither in the case of Major-General Ellice—of his brother, who is a merchant--his other brother, who is a naval officer—or his fourth brother, a clergyman, has he ever asked a single favour, or lent himself to the grant of a provision for any one of his nu merous family out of the public money. It; therefore, there has been any project of pro moting Major-General Ellice on this occasion, we feel it both a duty and a pleasure to repeat that the Secretary at War has had no participa tion in it, and no knowledge of it whatever.— Times. We resume our observations on the important, though little understood, subject of colonization. It has been often remarked, that the only colo nies of the English which succeeded were founded by individuals, and that the home Government only interfered with them when they had become of consequence. The history of all colonies governed from Downing -street have been a suc cession of squabbles, and accusations of jobbing and favouritism on the part of the local authori ties, the truth or falsehood of which could not be ascertained in this country. During our Bo roughmongering Government, it was not to have been expected that any encouragement would be afforded to an attempt to found colonies on a principle merely of advantages to the settlers and the parent country. But from a Reform Government, we are surely entitled to expect that HO discouragement should be thrown in the way of whatever promises to offer new markets for our industry, and fresh fields for the em ployment of our redui4dant population. The ex pectations of the public in this respect, however, have been disappointed ; and the blame is thrown on Mr. Hay, Under-Secretary of the Colonies, a legacy of the Tories, who is as hostile to every thing liberal, if what is said of him be true, as Mr. Horace Twiss could possibly be. A body of respectable Englishmen had formed them selves into a Company, with a view to the foundation of a colony on independent principles. The names of the Provisional Committee were most respectable. We shall here give them:— W. Wolryche Whitmore, Esq., M.P., Chair main ; George Fife Angus, Esq. ; Dviatinic Browne, Esq., M.P.; H. L. Bulvver, Esq., M.P. ; Walter F. Campbell, Esq., M.P. ; Henry Drummond, Esq. , Captain Gowan, Richard H eat hfi eld, Esq., Samuel Hoare, EA , William Hull, Esq., M.P. ; J. J ep h son , E sq ., e q M.P.; C. Shaw 1 fevre, Es ~ M.P. ; Lord Lumley, M.P. W. A. Mackinnon, Esq. NA). ; J. A. S. Mackenzie, M.P. ; S amue l Miles, Esq., John Melville, Esq., sir a. Mus grave, Bart., m.p. ; R. Norm an , E sq., J. E. Strickland, Esq., Colonel Torrens, M.P .; George Trani, Esq., M.P.; H. Throcktno rton , Esq., M.P.; Sir H. Williamson, Bart., M.P. Tnese names alone are a guarantee for the honest intentions of the Company. The Com pany, instead of az-kit.g money or assistance troni Government, offered 125,0004 for 500,000 acres of waste land, and in a country absolutely desert. Their plan was distinguished by novelty. In tne first pace, it promised a continual fund for the purpose of pauper emigration, and, secondly, it provided against the evils which, in all the colonies of modern times, have resulted from the want of any rational system in the dis posal of waste land. The Company observe, in answer to a letter from Mr. Hay, refusing the sanction of Government, " that the proposed undertaking is not open to the objection against the establishment of colonies which is held by many enlightened persons, viz., an objection to the expense which colonies often occasion to the mother country, and to the great amount of which they , place at the disposal of a Minister at home; since., in the present case, it is pro vided that all the public expenses attendant on the colony should be borne by the colonists themselves, and that the officers so to be paid for administering the government of the colony should not, the governor excepted, be appointed by the Secretary of State." They stated further, " That the proposed colony would present a remarka ble contrast with the penal settlements of Australia—a contrast of all that is good in colonization with all that is bad; local self government instead of arbitrary will ; a rational and fixed system in the disposal of waste land (one of the elements of colonization), instead of a sys tem which, though based on the plan devised by the pro jectors of the colony (the plan of the Colonisation So. ciety, just then adopted by the Government as to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land), is rendered almost nugatory by previous want of system, and is de pendent for its duration on the pleasure of the Secretary of State for the time being ;a society concentrated by that rational system in the disposal of waste land, and, enabled to employ their capital and labour with the greatest advantage, instead of a society dispersed by the profusion of the Government in granting waste land, and so prevented from raising commodities which require combination of capital and labour ; a moral society, or at least a society placed under circumstances the most favourable to morality, instead of a society pre eminently vicious, in which the most disgusting depravity prevails, and in which such vices are becoming natural habits. The contrast would, no doubt, have been most wriking. But they are at a loss to see in what way the establishment of so much good by the side of so much evil could be productive of public inconvenience. On the contrary, they submit to Viscount Goderich that the want of a costless, concentrated, and civilized colony in Australia, furnishes a very strong reason why the Home Government, not being called on to incur any expense or . . to create any patronage, should enable them to establish such a settlement in that part of the world; so that there may be one British colony as least in a favourable climate, to which persons of all classes may resort, without incur ring political, social, or moral degradation." We have every reason to believe that a colony founded on proper principles, with respect to the distribution of land, would have been eminently successful as far as regards the cultivation of produce marketable in this country, and conse quently the opening a market for British indus try. It is by combination alone that man is powerful. Wherever men are scattered, whether in Russia, America, or whatever region, they are weak, because they cannot act in combina- tion. No man will raise more than he can consume himself, because he is without a market. By a proper system with regard to the disposal of waste land—that is, by selling it at a proper rate—the settlers must concentrate, because they could not remunerate themselves by cultivation. We regret, therefore, exceed ingly, that Lord Goderich should have allowed himself to be seduced by a Tory Under Secre tary into an abandonment of his first intentions with regard to this colony, which would have proved of infinite value to the mother country. We trust, however, that the subject will not be lost sight of, and that a Reform Ministry will show that they do not wish to copy the example of their predecessors in considering colonies not as means of contributing to the advantage of colonists and the relief of the mother country, but as sources of corrupt patronage. We trust that it will be seen the clever author of " Eng land and America" is unjust to a Reform Mi nistry, when he supposes they will countenance opposition to a system of colonization from which the mother country would derive great commercial advantages, merely because it would not offer room for patronage. " If," says he, " a Governor of New South Wales shall ever be called to account for acts of cruel oppression in that colony, those acts would be defended on the ground that they were approved of by the Council, an assembly consisting partly of settlers, having an interest in com mon with the wl ole body of colonists. That would be the defence : whereas the truth is, that the Colonial Members of the Governor's Council in New South Wales have been deeply interested in that misgovernment of which they shared the profits, in the shape of contracts, undue supplies of convict labour, and immense grants of land. In Upper Canada (says Mr. Ellice, now English Minister at War), it was the fashion for every Coun cillor to get a grant of from 5,000 to 20,000 acre., to the great detriment of the country, and the great nui sance of the inhabitants around.' This is only a sample of the numerous ways in which same of the inhabitants of subject colonies are bribed to lend their assistance in hurting the other inhabitants ; to lend their names to the strangers, so that the acts of these strangers may be glossed over with the semblance of being approved by the colonists ; to lend their voices, and in case of need, their arms to the strangers ; so that to the force of the strangers there may be added that of strong colonial faction. Hence more pillage than would have satisfied the strangers; hence the most bitter feuds among the colonists them selves; hence more or less the peculiar evils which Ireland has suffered by being governed from a distance, through the instrumentality of a strong domestic faction. The evil of having to obey laws made at a distance would be great, hut less than evils inflicted in order to procure obedience to laws so made. The government of colonies from a distance involves both kinds of evil. So much evil would never long be borne by a colony which had been founded, or which was extended in the way here proposed. The colony being fit would be able to govern itself." We have already observed, that the only suc cessful colonies of modern times were founded by Englishmen without Government interfe- rence. v They governed themselves from the be ginning, the mother country only reserving to herself the foreign trade ; no great hardship, as whatever they required was to be obtained in England better than anywhere else, with very few exceptions. We do not believe that Minis, ters will, when the matter is fairly examined by them, oppose a plan which promises to be be neficial to the mother country, on the narrow ground of absence of patronage. But, at all events, the House of Commons can make the Ministry what they please they should be. We trust that, at a time when we are suffering from abuses of the poor laws—when the cry of re dundancy is heard in Ireland, and many parts of England, a plan which promises to go far to cure the evil will be encouraged by the House of Commons. We shall to-morrow examine how far the country may expect relief from colonization.— Morning- Chronicle. It was our painful duty to record yesterday another instance of the barbarous punishment of military flogging, of which the King's Mews Barracks was the scene, and the sufferer a sol dier of the ist regiment of Grenadier Guards. The crime—his having come on duty in a state of intoxication, behaving there insubordinately, and threatening, when desired to give up his arms, that he would run the first person through who attempted to take them from him. The punishment-500 lashes with the cat-o'-nine tails on his naked back 1 The whole misconduct of the soldier may, we presume, be reterred to having got drunk, as the most quiet and orderly men, when sober, are capable of saying and doing very foolish things when they have the misfor tune to surrender their reason to the fascination of strong drink ; but drunkenness is both a moral and military offence, and ought to be chastised—in some instances severely, but never by punishments of torture or brutality, Which, if they do not destroy life, only harden and degrade the offender—a wretch upon whose person and feelings the brand of infamy is stamped—whose character and caste is gone, and who is, thenceforth, worthless, desperate, and irre claimable. Soon after his present Majesty came to the throne the public were informed by some of the Journals that affect to be ac quainted with much of what passes behind the curtains of Cabinets and Courts, that the King had expressed a decided aversion to th e cruel and degrading punishment of military flogging, and wished to have it abolished. As to the sentiments of Whig patriots ou the sub ject, they were long ago known to the public by their speeches and their votes ; but unfortunately the sentiments of office are different from those that were cherished in " opposition." If it were not so, we should not, in this the third year of a Whig Administration, see public opinion braved and shocked by the application of the British knout to the back of the British soldier. And then a sentence of 500 lashes ! According to the present military system, it is, of course, quite legal, notwithstanding that the once Ultra-Liberal Sir John Hobhouse was, during the gn-Aer part of two sessions of Parliament, Secretary at War. The Courtmartial who sentenced the unfortu nate man to that amount of torture, and the la ceration consequent upon it, did no more than what they were auaiorised to do by the regula tions of the service ; hut our reforming Ministers stood pledged to the reform of a mode of punish • ment that disgraces our military system, and if it does not find the English soldiers brutes, is calculated to make them so. It appears that of the 500 lashes only 200 were administered at the one time—and why ? The surgeon felt it his duty to interpose. We have it on the authority °fa Ministerial paper that " a fresh hand was procured at every 20 lashes, but not a sigh or groan escaped the unhappy object. After he had received 200 lashes, without a murmur, Mr. Harrison, the surgeon of the regiment, went up to the man, and, from what lie observed, gave orders to stop the punishment." It is added that he was then taken in a coach to the military hospital in Rochester-row, when the proper applications were made to his back, " which was most dreadfully lacerated." We hope there is some mistake in the statement which says a fresh hand was procured at every 20 lashes. But whether there be or not, the interposition of the surgeon at the end of 200 lashes shows that the man was flogged until there was danger of his life if the punishment were pro ceeded with. It is the duty of the surgeon to watch the agonies of the writhing wretch, and to take care to stay the uplifted arm of the drummer at that point of suffering when there is peril of the torture breaking in upon the very sources of existence. What a duty for science to perform !—what a spectacle for humanity to witness! Well convinced are we that military dis cipline can not only be sustained without mili• tary torture, but that it can be much more effi ciently sustained without it. The French army is an instance of the influence of the moral system of discipline. The most magnificent army that, perhaps, the civilised world ever saw, for organization, numbers, and discipline, was that army which Napoleon marched into Russia. The veteran legions that composed that army had conquered every thing until the resistless ele- 'penis of avenging nature conquered them. Not a man of all those mighty legions ever had a lash applied to his back for any military offence. We quoted on a former occasion the opinion of their Chiet—the greatest master in the art of war since Hannibal—on our system of military punish ments ; should not our readers be reminded of it again ? An English officer, it is recorded in " A Voice from St. Helena," told Bonaparte, that the greatest part of the English soldiers were brutes, and must be driven with the stick. What observation did the captive Emperor of the French make upon it ? " Surely," be said, " the English soldiers must be possessed of sen timents sufficient to put them upon a level with the soldiers of other nations, where the degrading system of the lash is not used." Whatever debases man cannot be serviceable. Bingham says that none but the dregs of the canaille volun tarily enter as soldiers. This disgraceful punishment is the cause of it. Again he says, " I would alter your system. Instead of the lash, I would lead them by the stimulus of honour. I would instil a degree of emulation into their minds; I would promote every deserving soldier, as I did in France. After an action I assembled the officers and soldiers, and asked, " Quels sont les braves r' and promoted such of them as were capable of reading and writing. Those who were not I ordered to study five hours a day, and then promoted them. I would (speaking of the English army) substitute confinement, bread and water, the contempt of his comrades, and such other punishments, for the lash. When a sol dier has been debased and dishonoured by stripes he can care little for the glory and honour of his country. What honour can a man possibly have who is flogged before his companions in arms ?" Such were the just, humane, and phi losophical sentiments of Napoleon on the two systems which have been acted on in France ana this country for maintaining military discipline —the moral system—that which wakens and keeps alive the sensibilities of honour, and the regard for character—and the systetn of brute force which extinguishes every spark of manly feeling, and drives him who has committed a military offence into the desperation of cureless debasement. Great, as a military crime, we acknowledge the offence of the soldier to be whose case has drawn forth these remarks. As a soldier, he knew that he subjected himself to such punishment ; but could no other means be found to chastise and reclaim him ? Would not hard labour or solitary confinement have brought him to his senses and to a state of contrition ? Is lie to be flogged again when he becomes able to bear the remaining 300 lashes ? Humanity recoils at the t hought.—Morning Herald. A sto r y was told some time ago in a provin cial paper, that Lord Durham, driving through a certain village, his property, and being in commoded by some accidental obstructions in his passage, so far forgot the proverbial tempe rance which distinguishes his character, as to order the said village, thus detected in flagrant delict, to be immediately gt swept fro m th e f ace of the earth." This anecdote was copied into some London papers. It seems that Lord Durham, in truth and in fact," has not driven through the village—has not been in commoded by any accidental obstructions therein—and has not uttered a syllable of the terrible sentence which has been reported to have fallen from his lips. All this is com- , mon place enough. An Editor is hoaxed into the statement of something which is not true ; he retracts the statement, as soon as he ascertains its untruth ; but the more tragical part of the tale is yet behind. The Whig Solicitor-General, instructed by the Whig : Earl, has applied for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the publisher of the provincial paper in which this libel first appeared, and against the publishers of the John Bull and Standard, who have dared to give it additional circulation. We do not well understand why Lord Durham is so incensed at the imputation of these evil deigns against the village of Philadelphia. Philadelphia is Lord Durham's property; Phi ladelphia is upon Lord Durham's estate. It' it interferes with a desirable improvement, or mars a beautiful prospect—if the publican is an ex perienced poacher, or the curate an obstinate Conservative—we do not see why Lord Durham should not forthwith prepare his order of re moval. Now, if an intention is imputed to any man of doing that which is not necessarilycriminal, we do not say the imputation is not a libel, hut we do say it is a libel which the friend of freedom, the patron of the press, the Peer who " goes along with the people," will hardly venture to complain of in Westminster Hall. The fact is, that Lord Durham, in prose cuting those whom he calls the libellers of his private character, is punishing those who have been the fearless assailants of his public con duct. It is not because he is accused of demo- lishing a village, but because he is accused of ruining a nation, that he seeks, by aid of the eloquence of Sir John Campbell, the friendly interference of Sir Thomas Denman. We con gratulate our Contemporarirq upon the testi mony which is borne by this angry man to their integrity and independence. Let not Lord Durham flatter himself that by the vengeance he is now preparing to inflict he will succeed in silencing the reproofs which his guilt and folly have deserved. If our Bench were corrupt, as the Whigs have not yet made it—if our Jury-box were servile, as the Whigs have not yet found it— there would still be Englishmen ready to de nounce, through all pains and perils, the dema gogue among Lords and the Lord among demagogues, the country's worst citizen, and the King's worst subject. As for Philadelphia, it is much to be congratulated on the discussion of which it is the subject. Instead of being " swept from the face of the earth" it is immor talized. The salvation of Philadelphia will be as eternal as the destruction of Troy. The hero of the one epic, to be sure, will not resemble in all respects the hero of the other ; for, though all men know that Lord Durham is, like Achilles, Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, . _ . no man will say, who witnesses his exploits in the King's Bench, and elsewhere, that Lord Durham, like Achilles Juru negat sibi nata ; nihil non arrogat armis. —Morning Post. There are occasionally publications whose con tents are of such an extraordinary nature as frequently t o render it a matter of serious doubt with those on whom the task of perusing them is imposed, whether they were written in the spirit of truth, or in the spirit of falsehood—whether in a sarcastic or in a serious vein—to laud in earnest, or to expose to greater contempt and indignation, the objects of their uncalled for eu logiums. Of this nature is one now before us, entitled " Russia as it is, and not as it has been represented, together with observations and reflections on the pernicious and deceitful policy of the new school ;" and truly, after having perused its forty pages from beginning to end, we are in doubt whether we ought to quarrel with its author for having been guilty of the grossest flattery and falsehood, or to award to him our mite of approbation for having exposed to merited scorn the Sovereign of the country of whose interests, and institutions, and policy he treats. From some former recollec• tions, however, of the style and sentiments of the writer, we are inclined to believe that the pamphlet has been put forth as a defence of Rus sia and Russian policy, and that it is not to be treated as a thing o f double meaning, which strikes while it flatters, and kills while it appears to embrace. As such accordingly we are bound to treat it. The author, a Russian priest or a Russian cook, for his quotations and his meta phors render it doubtful to which class he belongs, enters upon his subject with hearty good will, deplores the infatuation of those who cannot see in Russia the very essence of perfection in moral and political institutions, and in her Sovereign the very image of the Deity. There is no such thing as slavery in Russia, says he, and he proves his proposition in the following very clever manner : " We shall now show," says he, " our readers, that what has heen called slavery by those who have thought fit to misname everything Russian, is properly vassalage, with the reservation and enjoyment of certain rights and privileges granted to them by the laws, there being no word, in all the books on Russian legislation, to signify a slave Peasant is called, in Russian, Krestianin, but when spoken of in relation to the lord of the soil, he is named Krapostnoe Chelovek, or bondsman ; a name at once indicative of the contract existing between him and his lord. Otherwise be would have been styled Rab, or slave, a word no where found in Russian legislative acts. Indeed, I may add, that it is almost an obsolete term, very rarely used. A criminal, who works in chains, is called Nevolnik. The word Rab, or slave, is only found in the language of adulation, when the ancient Boyars, presenting tbemselve- before the thrones of their Princes, exclaimed, We are your slaves.' " In order, however, to understand more com pletely the real character of the freedom and happiness enjoyed by the Russians, the ignorant in such matters will do well to peruse the follow ing passage, which forms an appropriate pendant to, if not a necessary explanation of, the other : " The peasants are composed of Crown peasants, or free farmers, and vassals. The free farmers, or Crown peasants, amount to about fifty or sixty thousand; men who have obtained their freedom by mutual agreement between them and their Lords, and whose rights have been confirmed to them by the Crown. They occupy lands, which have been given or sold to them, and of which they are the owners, having the power to sell or dispose of them in any way they think proper. A Crown peasant pays no land tax, nor any but a capitation tax, and he is subject to none but the public authorities of the province where he resides. V, sa ds cultivate the lands belonging to their Lords, are attached to the glebe, and cannot be alienated from it. All de,cripti ,ns of peasants are bound to furnish recruits ; the free farmers do it by turns, and the vassals by the nomination of their sta. rostas, with the consent of their lords. The law obligee every proprietor of vassals to furnish them with a sufficient quantity of land for their own use : they work three days for the lord, and three days for themselves. Others, by their own desire, are put upon obrok (a tax in money), as it is termed ; that is, to pay the lord so much a head pet annum, instead of working for him. Those who have been taught a trade of any sort, pay him a higher obrok than a mere cultivator, and he receives a passport to go and reside where he pleases. The peasants who become traders also pay a very high obrok ; sometimes the lord takes out a gild for them, and they acquire large fortunes by commerce. Many lords permit all their vassals to pay obrok ; then, should they cultivate any portion of land for him, he pays them for their labour, unless there should be an agreement made to the contrary, in consequence of the smallness of the obrok." Where the Nobles are so good—so kind, nad c . o7generous—the master of them all cannot but be supposed to excel them in all good qualities, even as one star excelleth another in glory ; and accordingly the author dwells upon this subject with a repetition of praise and delight which ought to exempt him, and his descendants, from the gratification of the knout for generations to come. Among other notable doings we find the following : " The clergy who serve in the remote parts of Siberia, receive nay and rations of flour from the Government ; indeed, I ought to say, from the Emperor's private purse. His Imperial Majesty having heard that the clergy of Kamchatka were extremely poor, and unable to buy bread, immediately ordered them to be furnished with fl iur, and their salaries increased :fun') his own funds; one of the strongest proofs of his paternal care ; for in some of those distant places the number of Russians are so few, it w.uld he a sufficient pretext for a Government less protective, to refute them a Church Establishment. But to the honour and eternal glory of the Emperor, be it said, that throughout his empire, wherever there are a handful of Christians collected together, there will you find a church, a clergyman, and all the consolatory assn. e i ar i ons of religion. In this, his Imperiil Majesty has strictly fulfilled the words of the gospel, and has ' laid up for himself treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust cannot corrupt, and where thieves cannot break through and steal.'" Aga n— " - " If it had been said that the Emperor of Russia is the most powerful sovereign of Europe, I should not attempt to deny it; because it is true, and because it is necessary that he should be exactly what he is, the Monarch and the father of his people. The immense empire over which be reigns, compounded of various nations, several of whom have been conquered, but have al.e aye been left in the full enjoyment of their religion and their laws, united now under one head, certainly require the protect ing arm of a firm government, and the. mild and genial influence of a paternal one, both of which they have ex perienced, unaccompanied by any of those capricious traits of tyranny and oppression, which are the peculiar attri butes of despotism. The fiirbearance, the benevolence, the generosity, the tolerance, and the greatness of soul which have distinguished the monarchs of Russia, are not less worthy of admiration than the conquests of their invincible armies ! ! " We have not space at present for any further extracts from this precious production ; but we shall return to it to-morrow.—MormAdvertiser. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 14. NALDER V. HAWKINS.—Ira this case, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, The LORD CHANCELLOR said he must read the affidavits before he gave his final judgment on the motion. At present he inclined to an opinion that the order of the Vice-Chancellor was right, in so far as it refused to stay the progress of the suit, but he should consider whether it was not fitting to refer the case for inquiry to the Master. VICE-CHANCERY CO URT, Nov. 14. BOLTON v. EARL NELSON. This case came before the Court upon a motion, the object of which was to compel the defendant, Earl Nelson, and Mr. Noselwood, to place in the hands of the clerk - in Court the cases and opinions of the Sicilian lawyers relative to his Lordship's property in the Duchy of Bronti, and various other confidential communications on the same subject. Ferdinand the Fourth, the King of the Two Sicilies, in consideration of the great services ren dered to him by Lord Viscount Nelson, bestowed by grant upon that Noble Lord the Duchy of Bronti, accompanied with the title of Duke. By the grant the Noble and Gallant Lord was to hold the pro perty according to the law of the Franks, but Fer dinand, in order to mark his opinion of the services rendered to him by Lord Viscount Nelson, gave have him a tenancy in tail in the Duchy, with a power to nominate his successor to the property, Lord Nelson by his will appointed the present Earl, and in default of his leaving any male heirs, then the property was to go to Susanna Bolton, whose sort the present plaintiff was. The present Lord Nel son becoming possessed of this feudal right entered into the possession of the property, which he had retained since his brother's death ; almost immedi ately after becoming possessed of the title his only son died, and the Noble Lord, anxious to ascertain whe ther his daughter, Lady Bridport, would not enjoy the property of the Duchy according to the law of Sicily in preference to the plaintiff, who would take the Earldom of Nelson, took the opinion, together with his co-trustee, Mr. Haselwood, of Sicilian' lawyers upon the subject. Mr. PEPYS, for the plaintiff, submitted that the opinion had been taken by the defendants in their character of trustees, and that the plaintiff, to whom they were most material, was entitled to their pro duction. Mr. ROLFE and Mr. BARBER, for the defendants, contended that the Court had no jurisdiction to do what was asked, the case relating to the possession of proper), in a foreign State, the laws of which must decide the question. His HONOUR said that his present inclination was against the motion; but before he finally de cided the case he should consider it his duty to read both the bill and answer. CRIMINAL INFORMATION-HERTFORD ELECTION- THE KING V. NICHOLSON. This was a rule calling. on the defendant to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for sending a challenge to Baron Dims dale, and posting the Baron as a coward in the town of Hertford. The defendant was examined on the subject at Bow -street, and bound over to keep the peace. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained the rule. Mr. FOLLETT this day showed cause against it, and having read the prominent parts of the affida vits, was not prepared to vindicate the letter and the handbills which posted the Baron; but the Court, looking at the situation in which Mr. Nichol. son stood, would no doubt feel that it was by no means unnatural that the defendant should send such a letter, acting as he did under irritation occasioned by a calumny so injurious to his private character. The Court intimated that the rule must be made absolute. It was made absolute accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 14. CORBYN V. LEADER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against ,he defendant for a breach of covenant. The plaintiff was in 1830 the Commander of a vessel, an Indianian, the property of Messrs. Palmer and Co., of Calcutta. He had engaged to take a certain number of passengers to England; but in consequence of the failure of Messrs. Palmer and Co., ori n h l es a h s i Pt was detained at Calcutta. Th e de fendantb e Commander of a v esse l ca ll e d t h e and he agreed to take th e plaintiff's etta, w pas sengers, and provide them with all necessary accom modation, and entered into articles of agreement covenanting to perform the same. The plaintiff obtained a verdict on three distinct breaches of covenant. Mr. Sergeant TADDY on a former day obtained a rule nisi to reduce the verdict as regarded one covenant, for the breach of which 50/. damages were awarded. Mr. Sergeant WILDE to-day was heard against he rule, and the COURT discharged it. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 14. SMALL V. ATTWOOD. Mr. WAKEFIELD applied for an order in this cause to set aside, on the ground of irregularity, a subpoena calling upon the defendant to pay a sum of 7771164., being the amount of a bill of costs paid by t he plaintiff to Mr. Edward Taylor. When the decree in this.cause was made it was ordered that the costs of Taylor should be taxed forthwith, and paid by the plaintiff, and that, as soon as they were so paid, they should be repaid by the defendant. This had been done, and, the plaintiff, after paying the costs, issued a subpoena calling on Mr. Attwood to repay the amount to him. The irregularity complained of wascthe calling:of the d e f en d ant to repay c°lt.,ll'-' writ of subpcens, althou g h suc h repa yment WP - i d tinctly provided for by the decree in the cau se ' eil Mr. WIGRAM, for the plaintiff, contended ni mi ° o ol practice of th e C our t was f avoura bl e t o th e " . adopted in the present case. A fli s The COURT—Let a cer tifi ca t e b e procure- 04 0 such of the o ffi cers of t hi s C ourt as were not eti co ot in the cause as to the ordinary practice of this MI/ in such cases. Should there he no p r ecedel e l bore inquire what is the practice of the Court 01 eery, and that practice I will adopt in this Until the inquiries are made let all proceeo° the case be stayed. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARK E•I'S DURING TH5 .... .,,„/" . %V heat. Barley. Oats. ----...—,.......... , tett Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. B. to 14 Blandford ---......— 54 29 2 2 0 0. Brigg- 40 58 36 40 15 22 a Cambridge—........., 51 31 17 il Chard Huntingdon....,,., 58 63 21 23 14 20 0 Long Sutton.- 056 64 17 22 40 j 1 Louth „................—.. 48 54 28 32 18 22 0 Lynn 5O 60 22 25 16 20 e 4 1 Newark ~,,,,,.,,M , ,,,,,57 60 29 40 16 22 0 Nottingham ............ i 4B 58 92 38 20 23 i'j , Peterborough . 4B 60 30 36 14 22 ~, Plymouth ......--...... ,50 64 30 34 20 23 ..0 0 P0ntefract.....,....—.. 1 67 43 27 it 0 Sleaford ........-,.--.. 65 70 36 38 22 28 ,„i 0 Uppingham ........... ,50 60 28 36 118 2! .7 ....._ y Wisbech _! 48 62 ,20 33 14 22 "" LEEDS CORN NIA R KET.—Nov. 12. 0 4 1. s Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 0,;. t°4ls. Barley, Norfolk and Suffhlk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. 0 Oats, Potatoe Healing, For. 12d. to 13,1 Eng. 9d. to 10}t f 1 .4 Shelling Rapeseed, Engli , li. 25/. to 07, __.... webroic -.-/ CO ..---1. r/ i 1 rapeseed, Engl 251 to 27, oreign, 1..±A . 11 . 1 545 RK . 56 s k.T.—N s o u v. 12. w .....s. „, At 0, Wheat, Old HU Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond...--s. ... A :V! Oats, Poland — s . 18 s . 20 s O ld -...5. .- -- 'e Small or Feed.... —a. I6s. 18s Foreign —s. 16s. 18s Barley, Norf. & Sul ... —s 30s. 31-s Line. & Wold — 6 . .I' Foreign --S. }P' Beans s. 36s 38s. Foreign —s. -•'" Pease, White... —s. 425. 465. Grey —s. 0 1' , ' —s. ••"-4 0 faros —s. —s. s. Foreign Free, per last 2, Rapeseed. in Monti none. . LIVER 12 80 0 POOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Nov. ~ WHEAT, English, White, p er 701 b. ------- Red • 0 Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 0 10 -- Red 6 0 91 Foreign 7 9 3, OATS, English, Welsh, and Scot c h, per 451 b 2 S . g ;', - Irish Foreign 2 6 0 0 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quart er 34 0 47, Scotch and Irish, per 6011.3. Feeding 3 '7 400 BEANS, English, per Imperial quar t er 36 0 0 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 49 0 ' Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 4l 0 40 , - Irish 16 0 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2l 0 0 0 INDIAN CORN, per 44011). . It VE, per Imperial quarter HALT, per Imperial quarter or IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week endin g Nov. 1 os , t Wheat.' I Oats. !Barley Flour. Loral Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. (Foreign, Lrls.lrish,&c. Scks.l 4,t , 12,152 6,708 i 2,021 462 6,623 HAILSHAM MARK E f.—Nov. 13. 4.0 4 - 3s. 01 to 4s. Od. 4s. o,l * t° 6 4 6 I Pork --.—...... 4 0 t A fair time of year supply ; trade with the pr blie s somewhat brisk, but otherwise dull ARUNDEL MA RKET —Nov. 12. 0 4 5 1 3s. Oa. to 48.0 d. 4s. 4 ,1 .`" 4 Mutton —...... 310 410 I 4 0 Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. CHICHESTER MA RK ET.—Nov. 13. Oki Beef wosnnor 38.0 d. to 4s, Od I 4s. 441. 4 1 41 Mutton 3 8 4 8 Pork 4 0 ~A As Supply moderately good; trade with prime Beef Pp' somewhat brisk, with other meat dull; in store 5t ( 7 ...... / doing. k RUMFORD MARKET.—Nov. 6. d. :ICf 3 s. d. to s. d. th 0 6 i Beef 3 0 4 0 I Veal Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork 3 9 50 1 ' , to Suckling Calves, 145. to 31s. ; Quarter old Stor e Pigs, . 2, , Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 101. to 151. _,. or A moderate supply ; trade with the b e st m ea t rathe r but otherwise dull. A Frenchman arriving from London W° o l few days ago searched by the police, and found to bad e/ sealed letters, all of which w ere t a k en f rom bit° a iro eff into the post o ffi ce, to be sent to th e i r res p ec tive ad d Ter and a prosecution has be e n in s tit u t e d aga i ns t the 17% for the penalties he had thus incurred.— French .Par e. re' rnr TORY SPITE IN WAREHAM.—A 4i- o o spondent says that the Court L e e t f or thi s t o wn has h o d. for sixty years held at the Black B e ar, Mr. P Lead-quarters at the late election. On WednesilAY' d 6th inst., the Jury, by a considerable majority, v" te i .iolo dine at the Red Lion. The Jury consisted of two-r:400 Tories, and one-third Reformers. The Tory party fi b! resolved to crush every liberal movement ; suppor t 04 the neighbouring Squirearchy and Clergy, 0 1 0 04 Their triumph permanent and complete, because theY As thus oppress an industrious and deserving landlord, till now was a favourite among them. BIRTHS. co On the 12th inst, the lady of J. Johnston, 04. 0 0 Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, and the Priori , Surrey, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at St. James's Church, John Athol yil e gor, eldest son of Sir Evan M`Gregor, Bart., to Mar,' CIAO I ' Hardy, youngest daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomasollv Bart. There were present Lords Sefton, Glenlyon, a hallan, J. Russell, Rosslyn, and Ipswich; Ladies sew , j ton, Molyneux, K M`Gregor, Fitzroy, Seymour, &c. On the 12th inst., at Peterstield, William Curtis, "" - ;.,C Hastings, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late W. line, Esq., of Daugstones-house, Sussex. 0 Or On the 14th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, the Rey., jot Morton, vicar of Holbeach, to Margaret, daughter 0 Bruce, Esq. o I On the 24th ult., at Brixton Church, Charles Chrl t e Black, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Catherine Francis i 1 01 0 second daughter of the late James Elderton, Esq., of On the 12th inst., at Gresford, Randle Wilbrahst e ste Esq., to Sibella, eldest daughter of the late William Esq., of Gresfield Lodge, Denbighshire. DIED. r : fon°' On the llth inst., aged 83, Richard Lysley, Esq., Collector of the Customs at Dominica. On the 13th inst., at Bath, Admiral Sir Herbal." K.C.8., in his 70th year. ,4 On the Bth inst., suddenly, at Lily Hill, Brucknell, ay" widow of the late Henry Dormer Vincent, Esq., dauglite r ol v late Hon. Felton Hervey, and granddaughter of Johll • Bristol. At Liverpool, after a few days' illness, John, eldest Mr. John Meabry, of Broad-street, Bloomsbury, aged . .. 3", On the 14th inst., in Lower Gros venor . s t re et, D water, aged 59. On the 12th inst., at Speenhamland, Mrs. Huraphrich advanced age, formerly of Swindon, Wilts. On the 13th inst., in Piccadilly, of paralysis, 3lr Beckley, bookseller,agel i , On the 12th inst., Mr. William Bayley, of Souto ‘ o o f street, Bloomsbury-square, and of the Stock Exchangeflof On the 12th inst., Mary Elizabeth, the only de" 0 1 Benjamin Mills, E4q., of Park.village, Regent's Park. vi of On the 13th inst., the Rev. John Prince, M.A., Enford, Wilts, and 45 years Chaplain of the Magdal e. p t aged e 81. V Bridge.end of Perth, North Britain, 011 ° I" rity A , inst., Mr. William Dick, long head Master of the P r Or School of that town—an excellent scholar and wo rtli , 'lo ber of society, who united, in a rare degree, the li be- itiod ings of a man of the world, with the professional h P O . 4, qualifications of a successful teacher. Though Mr . ' ir., 0115 y for several years retired from the active duties of bi b 0 00 he was never lost sight of in his retreat by his nup e o l i ty pits, many of whom entertained towards him respec t c ise titude, not only for his zealous direction of OW studies, but for his advice and encouragement in ti le' 04 , sional duties. Af On the 13th inst., Margaret Stewart Forbes, fourt h of Mr. James Forbes, 16, Cunningham-place, St. Johnl4flNpt Suddenly, on Monday, the 11th inst., Mr. Thomas 1$ Palmer terrace, Holloway, from an affection of the " 0 0: 0 / had been engaged in business as usual in the city t he day, and at about four o'clock, just after entering , t etlV of Messrs. Sykes and Co., wholesale tobacconists , : o il 0 0 street, he exclaimed, " I am ill," and fell; medica l and prompt measures were immediately adopted, l' u extinct. He had been for many years a respec ted ;005p e of Lloyd's, and a man of great Christian charity ; g rP l mired in life for a universal excellency of principle, ~t l l2llft maintained unsullied during a period of 40 years of ployment, very sincerely regretted by his friends t e d 6s. ing and greatly esteemed by every one who knew hirnp - 7 ; On the 7th ult., Elizabeth, of rapid consuniP ti° , o tilLeo; 14th, Robert, suddenly, of inflammation of the DP' of PO mer the only daughter, and the latter the elder son ot", Ferrier, of Kilrea, and both previously in the earl Yet, 010 .1 0 4 promise of health. And on the 31 s t ult., MOP' _ o olPSto lf was found dead in her room, not having previousca ou• of illness, the supposed effect of a mother's un aval for her deceased children. PAINTED AND PLIBLIMID in , MU RDO Y N 0, SVX OFII4II, 112, b'a'it►a>•• tte Ate 11 1, ttti