The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. An important meeting at a dinner took place at Reading on Thursday last, preparatory and intro ductory to a yet more important one of the whole county of Berks, on the subject of Parliamentary reform. Mr. Mona, the late Member for the bo rough,and than whom no borough representative in England was ever more, or more justly, respected, was in the chair. It is with us pleasing to observe that the aspect of the meeting was hostile to universal suffrage and annual Parliaments. The worthy Chairman gave the health of the Duke of Welling ton, on the ground, that, having carried the two im• portant questions of Emancipation and the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, he was abm a friend to the last great object and desideratum of the men of liberal principles in this country—Parliamentar) Reform. We recollect, that in the burying groans' of St. George's Hanover-square, extra »Juror, there is a monument gratuitously erected to the tumor) of the celebrated Sterne, by a liberal Freemason or two, who infer in the inscription that the deceased was so excellent a fellow,---so witty, so clever, and so pathetic withal,--that he must have been one of their fraternity,—he must have been a Freemason. We should join with pleasure in either conclusion, if we could; but in both cases we hesitate. We doubt whether Sterne were a Freemason, and whe ther the Duke be a promoter of Parliamentary Re form,—though the eulogists of each will have the eulogized to be of their own opinions. However, what is meant by the Duke's being a friend to Par liamentary Reform ? It cannot be supposed, we presume, that he. will add his own personal influence and that of the Ministry to any and every project of reform that may be offered to the House, no matter by whom l Mr. Pitt, in the heyday of his youthful career,—Mr. Fox, in the vengeance of disappointed ambition,—would not have done this; and if it be expected that his Grace should himself originate a plan of reform, propose, support, and carry it through or fall in the attempt, we do trot appre hend that he }many such scheme in contemplation it does not make a part of his project for administer ing the affairs of the country during the ensuing year —at least so far as we have yet heard. Plans, in deed, he may have many, and of reform too, but they are, we imagine, chiefly reforms in the expen- Aliture, and it is as well that the country should know this at once.—Times. There seems to be great difficulty in separating truth from falsehood, so far as concerns the narra tives from the South of France, which pass under the attune of " Spanish Intelligence." At this dis tance front the spot, it might be rash to pronounce between conflicting testimonies relating to matters of pure detail; but there are some statements which, with the help of any tolerable map, and by a slight reference to dates and circumstances, enable us at once to determine how much credit ought to be given to them, or whether they are deserving of any. It was affirmed three days ago that Colonel Valdez, who entered Spain on the 14th inst., had been met on the 16th by a battalion of Ferdinand's troops, and that the corps of Valthz had been cut to pieces, 30 men only out of 900 having escaped into France ! Now Valdez had nothing like 900 men under Ids orders ; but let that pass. His total overthrow Was said to have taken place on the 16th, and at Vera (sometimes pronounced, as is customary with Spaniards, Bern.) Vera is four or five miles east of Iron. But it so happened that Col. Valdez, whom Messrs. Aped() and his agents were exter minating thus confidently at Vera, had crossed the frontier at quite a different point, advancing upon the Pamplona road, to Urdach, which he occupied on the 14th, and taking possession of Zugarramurdi, in the immediate neighbourhood, where it appears, from the bulletin, inserted in the Timcs of yesterday, the Patriot force remained the whole of the 16th, organising the numbers of Constitutional Spaniards, who hourly flocked in tajoin in it. Vera being about fourteen miles to the westward of Zugarramuldi, was injudiciously chosen. by the Aguado party for the scene of de struction to an officer and troops which were so much better employed than in fighting, and nearly a day's March air. Valdez, indeed, had sent a small detachment to Vera, probably to observe the Irun roads, and had the rumour of a combat attached itself to this little corps, there would have been nothing improbable or very material on the face of it. The fact, however, is apparent, that 'Valdez himself was not to move westwards in the direction of Vera and Iron until the 17th. Sonic of the let ters, pr pretended letters, in French and English journals, assert that he was still " fighting" on the 19th, mid " had repulsed" the Royalists, three days after he had been shot, or hanged, or forced to retreat within the French frontier. We mention these tales only to warn our readers against the com mon ran of Pyrenean intelligence not authenticated officially, or in some known and accessible quarter. Others of these accounts say, that Mina also bas moved into Spain, with 60 officers and .500 men, preceded by many proclamations. We shall be happy to have it confirmed that Mina list were(' Spain at the head of a constitutional force, and in the company of constitutional efficers. But it must be recollected that, not many days ago, Mina wrote a circular to the officers commanding corps, already formed and armed, along the Line of the Pyrenees, requiring them to yield their several commands to him, arid to incept him for Commander-iii-Chief. This being considered rather "free and easy" in an individual who had himself procured (us it is ;aid) no troops,---naude rto real preparations for a movement,—and done hi,: utmost, during a stay of many weeks at Bayonne, to di,Auade all other Spaniards from undertaking one, De Pablo (called Chapalangarra), the Parlor, Vuldex, Gorrea, General Vigo, Miranda (orwe Mina's own Aide-de-Camp), and others, one awl all declared that Mints might co-operate with them if he thought tit, but that they declined ;4reepting him for their chief, or putting themselves and their troops at his disposal. As extraordinary pains are taken, therefore, day after day, to i.savre the public that Valdez; De Pablo, and other comaitutional headers, have placed themselves mulct time command of Mimi, and have agreed to execute his orders, it may be as well to say ut once, that in doing so these gentlemen would be guilty of something like an in consistency, and the more so, as Mimi has since done his utmost (though with what success know not) to frustrate a loan lately raising in Pads for the constitutional cause of Spain, us appears by the letter of his Secretary Aides, published last week in some of the French Journuls. Wh4nver may be the direction and result of there movement:, in the Pyrenees,---whether a bloody contest shall arise throughout the whole of Spain oe not, and whether con:inued, oeeeeionally suspendeil sod reeinued,—it is clear, did no other evidence eximit' ,. than that founded on the acts of the Spanish Go vernment, that a spirit prevails Louse; the na tion, and that a project buss been planned and or. ganized, in harmony with that national yrit, both of which together have filled the bearte • of Ferdinand and his tiliniatgra with paroxysms of fury end dismay, and terri4ed them into a course of outrageous tyranny and cruehtv, which even beasts of the field would hardly to without resistance. We hear much talk idout CerliAle, said upostolicals in Spain, and about their machine, lima against the person and sovereignty of that Honest mail, King Ferdinand. Them , is ,wawa' to suspect that a gond deal of deception hair a along been practised nod encouraged on Ibis subject, by the Government of Spain. If there were a rang dodge' on the part of any 'Ultra-despotic faction to dethrone' this Ferdinand, wad get up ids brother Carlos to succeed him, is it conceivable that s.otne stronger measures would not ere now have been adopted, for suppressing that dangerous conspiracy, and for shoot, ifitre hanging, oe lkhkading its n distoy leaders ? If If r e a ll y a pp re h en d e d that 'a P u q of Mid Ultra-Tory Spaniards were his vai n ( :u it ,' , i 4 it not , to common sense that 110 WOO nave trea't te them as es enemies, have dealt out to them ' ill; same litelainre of confiscation, proscription, and p twention, which he systematicully bestow e d o r is:" , i_ the unfortunate Liberals, and have banished the reputed head of the faction—viz., his brother Carlos —from Spain ; instead of suffering him to inhabit the same mansion with himself,—to have access to All his own apeamenta,—and eat, as it were, from the same dish ? There is, therefore, as we have Already said, .some reason to suspect that this " Curbs! faction" is all an artificial bugbear,— that Ferdinand ►nakes a screen and pretext of this sham peril of the " Carlists,"—that he is himself a thorough, instinctive, and incurable tyrant ; but when foreign Governments, or a 4eneral outcry from mankind, require front • him occasionally some relaxation of the brutal spirit of despotism in which he tramples en his subjects, he has provided himself with a ready answer, by fostering the delusion of a "Carlist plot." " You ask me," quoth Ferdinand, " fo: liberal institutions, and a representati re Government. Alas I lam myself a liberal ! I loved the Cortes ; glo:ied in the constitution of 1820; but, wo is me, Ant can I do? My people, the Spanish people, they hate liberty; they will have me a tyrant; or they, will put my brother Carlos an my throne. You see how I am threatened by his partisans ! [Lear their seditious crimes in favour of absolutism Don Carlos. Is it possible for me to abate one jot of arbitrary prerogative in the teeth of so omni potent a party ? Wretch that I am how melan• chnly is try lot ! to be an unwilling tyrant in the midst of a nation of unteachable idolaters at the shrine of everlasting despotism I" Such is the dexterous fraud upon mankind, over which we doubt not Ferdinand chuckles in moments of hilarity with his confidants of the Camarilla. He may send home the Archbishop of Toledo under a guard of honour as often as he likes,—be may " make believe" a fit of resentment or terror to be occasioned by a Carlist gang,—but Ferdinand knows better than to be actu ated by either of these sentiments. lie and his brother, and the professional partisans of that bro ther, are all the best possible friends: the only ge nuine horror felt is that inspired by the advocates of Spanish liberty. When Cellists shall be shot, or their estates confiscated, or their persons driven into banishment,--then, and not till then, shall we believe that Ferdinand himself is not in his heart a" Carlist." A pamphlet attributed to Mr. Croker, at all events sufficiently bitter for such a paternity, has just made its appearance, under the title of Observa tions on Two Pamphlets (lately published) attributed to Mr. Brougham. The object of the pamphlet is twofold,—to vindicate the claims of the present Ministers to talents and character—and to show that the Whigs have little claim to either talents or cha racter. The second of these objects is executed with much more good will than the former. In deed, what the writer seems to have had most at heart i. 3, the demolition of Mr. Brougham. Mr. Brougham is charged with blowing hot and cold on the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel almost in the same breath, and his alleged inconsistencies are all attributed to an eagerness for office. The following may be taken as a specimen of the mode in %dila the war is carried into the (porters of Mr. Brougham : " But even in the Law it would not lie easy to find a situation satisfactory to Mr. Brougham, and still less to find one for him satisfactory to the country ! I fancy that Wearer the experiment comes to be seriously tried, it will • be found exceedingly difficult to bring two parties, who estimate Mr. Brougham's value so differently, to a common understanding. " Mr. Canning, we are told, offered Mr. Brougham the only high legal appointment in which the profession and the people could for v moment have tolerated that eloquent person, because there is comparatively little to do, and that little requires, I am told, no great depth of legal learning— I mean Chief Baron of the Exchequer. No!' exclaimed Mr. Brmighaim I look farther and higher.' Nay,' re wined Mr. Canning, in that figurative style so dangerous in affairs of business, ' take it as the first stage of your journey.' tot,' retorted Mr. Brougham, pursuing the metaphor, and his purpose ; if I quit the House of Com mons, where shall 'I get the post-horses to take me to the end of my journey?' - " What end of his journey Mr. Brougham, in his own visions, may contemplate, my bounded intellect cannot surmise : I should have thought it pretty well to hays been Chief Baron ; hut that we find would only have been equivalent to a first stage—Barnet or Hounslow—at which he would not even stop to had. At the Rolls, peradventure,' be might have condescended to put up for a time, as be would there have opportunities of keeping his post-horses in wind, by attending public meetings, joining in every political hunt, or occasionally heading the field in a steeple chase—perhaps not metaphorically, for the church would probably be the first game hunted. " But this, again, I venture to pronounce us impossible as the Cabinet. Parliament—the Profession—the public, however much they may be surprised or amused by the multifarious talents and tricks of the' Hon. Gentleman, will not tolerate any such corrupt traffic of the seats of justice ! " Ministers must, therefore, lay their account to deal how best they may—face to face in Parliament, or pamphlet to pamphlet in the press---with Mr. Brougham's hostilities; but they never can purchase his support or his silence by judicial promotion. " I now approach the question pronounced by the title of the second pamphlet—" What has the Duke of Wel lington quieted by the Dissolution ?” and I will answer, first and at once, to that point, which I have no doubt the pamphleteer thinks the most important in the whole question. The Duke of Wellington has gained the tin. mashiiry of Mr. Brouglron, who (as the pamphleteer, with a rare,' very rare candour acknowledges) has been keg standing, with a slow and very reluctant match, ready to give fire to a mashed battery' loaded to the very muzzles. " Having got rid (f the mash, I racy there is no great danger from the battery ; but, he that as it may, whether !Jr, Brougham be a man of 00141 powers and r ea l infin. cure, or one whose chief question is— t that glib and oily art, To speak and impose not,' I believe that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and I am cure the majority of the House of Com mons, will agree with L , wil Ellenborougla in preferring an open enemy to a concealed one. While Mr. Brougham was hovering, a bird of ill-omen and of p re y, over t h e field, of polities, there were dismal suspicions in many minds that he might at last alight on the Duke's as yet unsullied banners; and this doubt did snore to neu tralize zeal, awl to alienate confidence than (consider. in,s only Mr. Breughatet's intrinsic value) would seem ere ; and lam well convincer) that the uncompromising opposition of Mr. Brougham :will exceedingly alleviate the difficulties which the pamphleteer apprehends that Mr. William Holmes may have in congregating Ministerial (llsjotides." Me, ()raker, or whoever is the writer of the pamphlet, pronounces the following sentence otper petual exclusion from power on Mr—Brougham 55 The reader sees that with the fairest disposition to 1* pleased, and with no exaggerated seep of requisites, we iia.e not yet made touch progress towards the New Admi nistratiop, and yet I have exhausted all the natters of the pamphleteer's Amster except one l--but that one is in., derd, as the pamphleteer assures us, 5 Himself a Mighty Host!'—Mr. Brougham ! 4 4 " Craviitering the relation in width the pamphleteer and Mr. Brougham appear to stand to esie4 other, such a tone of panegyric is somewhat startling, and might afford an opportunity of retaliating some yf , tlyise epithets which the pamplileteee his lavished on °diets, X will not trust myself to discuss so deg. cats a patat, ,gut will content myself with assuring ' the paniphleteee uxxl Mr. Brougham (without rip ping up cid stories, revisioi by-gone transactions, or be wildering the question with ti;re izoprierable and basun innentable obstacles that spring up flint as - Ary word and acteang. Mr. Brougham's whale political life), thud portion whn his seat at Mr. Canning's back, without' any stipulation redemption of even one of his thousand and one pledgee ;.;1, who for two years has lipfill lying in wait fur favours from 64, pq..r.el of Wyllie.. Um, AO Mowing such extremities of hot and co/1 1);,7 the saute °myth; Its, who delivered a celebrated epeecli in tl*' House of Gammons or:. the 130th of June last, and spouted the no less eelebrateirk . trapgr at the Leeds dinner, on the 18th of August, never can 14 a 114stef--responsible or subordinate, under the present Constitution of J'ar ?lament of Enaand. Whether a similar conviction 'in his sal; mind may induce hint to resume his endeavours to effect some sionfp in the representation, time will show; but as long as things ve as they are, Mr. Brougham can ;lever be a Minister." • The writer has here touched on a point of some delicacy--namely, the extent of opposition allowablp tinder the pretetit Pottatitution of the Parliament , • - To a man who, like Mr. Croker, gives himself up wholly arid entirely to the service of the Aristocracy and Church, the course is beset with few diffi culties. The course of the Whig, on the other hand, is through perilous rocks, on which he is in constant denger of shipwreck. We noticed on Saturday the mistake into which a writer in the Edinburgh Review had fallen, when comparing France and England. "It can hardly be doubted (said the writer) that were any marked attempts made against the liberties of this country, the Lee . lib,' people would iii some way resist, and would sooner or later make an effectual stand against op pression. But it is to us equally clear that des potism would have far too good a chance of being successful in the first instance." Now all this i. assuming that Parliament is identified with the people. Li France there was a struggle with the Representatives of the people. In England there can be no struggle with the Representatives, be cause ours is a proprietary Government—because Parliament is the Government, and because it is not to be supposed that Parliament could commit a felo de se. In England the Ministry and Parliament are one and the same ; and Parliament is not Ilia servant, but the master of the people. There is a slight infusion of the people into the Parliament of this country, but it is essentially Aristocratical; and as every body is endowed with the instinct of self-preservation, the difficulty in the position of a Whig is, that, in cultivating the arts of popularity, lie almost necessarily becomes an object of hatred to the Aristocracy. It is impossible to serve both God and Mammon—it is impossible to conciliate the People and the Aristocracy. Let us hear, for in stance, how Mr. Croker spoke of Earl Grey : " Lord Grey'. fitness for ;Ince, on the score of talents, no one (except on the doctrine of the pamphleteer) could deny; but the proceedings and principles of his earlier life have left no agreeable odour in the Constitutional nostrils of England. His later professions, no doubt, and above all his avowed attachment to his order—(which orth r is the main-stay of our Constitution)—have concili wed many minds which heretofore looked on him with some thing more than suspicion ; but if Lord Gicy were again to lilac,' himself at the head of the Whigs, and adopt, or for a moment seem to adopt, any of the innovating and disorganizing doctrines advanced by his (I believe) self constituted herald, the pamphleteer, I venture to assure him, that hie impopulat ity would revive, that the indis cretions of 1793, and the inconsistencies of 1806, would spring up fresh in men's minds ; and that under no C 01)•• junction of circumstances, and at the head of nu combina tion of Whigs, Liberals, or Radicals, could he maintain the place of Minister fur a second Session ofParliumetit." This is true—the order of Lord Grey is unques tionably the mainstay of the English Constitution. The English Constitution as it is, gives the p:o. perry of the House of Commons to the House of Lords. The whole hinges on the property of bo roughs being chiefly in the House of Lords. This was clearly and explicitly stated by Mr. Burke in his letter to the Duke of Portland :—" They (the New Whigs) know," he says, " that the House of Lords is supported only by its connections with the Crown and with the House of Commons ; and that without this double connection, the Lords could not exist a single year." Were there a re presentation of the People, based on a plan which should identify the Electors in interest with the People, we do not hesitate to say the House of Peers could not exist. The aristocracy would not be allowed to put their hands into the public purse, were there a reel and not a virtual re presentation, and an aristocracycannot existwitliout a ready access to the public purse. This is a truth which we may be assured the aristocracy have constantly present to their mind; and no man, how ever clever and ingenious, can ever render reform in any shape wot th talking of at all palateable to them. The great, body of the Whi gs are necessar il y as averse to Reform as the Tories. In Ebert, the Re formers in Parliament must always be a very small body—a sort of outcast from their order, if they btiong to the aristocracy. Mr. Brougham must always be respected fur his talents ; but he hits on many occasions gone farther in his advocacy of po pular rights than is acceptable to the aristocracy, by whom he is necessarily more feared than loved. It is, indeed, no easy task to define the limits in the cultivation of popularity which may not be over stepped. But however this may be, it is clear that the aristocracy can never be brought to relish any plans by which their ascendancy may be curtailed. Again, the people are fur more hostile to those who do not go all lengths with them than to their avowed enemies. In this way a tnembor who seeks popu larity is not always so sure of obtaining it as the hatred of the aristocracy. We have front the first seen that this instinct of presery 'don would pre vent anything like a cordial opposition to Mtiitsters. aristocracy, we may be assured, dread nothing so much as change in the Constitution ; and they will never push Ministers so far as to render change probable. This is cunningly put forth by Mr. Croker towards the conclusion of the pamphlet.— The hanging back of the aristocracy after the late French Revolution vats a sign which he who runs may read. But let us hear the pamphleteer:— " The country is in danger—Mr. Fox, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Perceval, Lord Liverpool, arid Mr. Canning, are no more, and their surviving friends may, without any relaxation of attachment to their inemories, support the only man who scents adequate to the helm in the storm which is rising round us. Strange and lamentable it would be if every man, whether his stake in the country be landed property, mercantile wealth, professional independence—or the more general, but not less dyer and touching _interest which affect every Briton—the internal peace—the security—the liberty—the religion, which we have so long and so happily enjoyed—lamentable and strange, I say, would it be, if every wise and honest man, and above all, the high e r orders of society, did not tremble at the aggression with which these rights, prerogatives, and blessings, are threatened ; and liaiten to rally, heart and hand, round the only man who seems capable of consolidating a Mi nistry adequate to defending them. "If all the disaffected in Church and State—if infith Is, republicans, agrarians, levellers, and all those whir, in the short and emphatic language of the great rebellion, would not have things so,' are to be collected, marshalled, ex cited, and impelled, by dinners and meetings, by speelies and pamphlets, by the contagious poison of calumny," and by the frightful tocsin of sedition—if the French lta n i u _ thin and the Belgian Revolt are to be the signal., and in centives, and examples, to the disturbance of our peace, the invasion of our property, and the overthrow of our constitution—if the mass of poverty, which is inevitable, and the mass of popular force, which is incalculable, are to be hallooed on against the whole frame of civilized mociety—it, I say, we are threatened, as in 1792, with these dangers, let us, as in 1792, cling round a great man whom Providence has now, as then, vouchsafed to place amongst nu— - like a great sea-maik, Saving those who eye it.' " Let then the aristocracy, whose eery essence is in peril, forgetting all party distinctions, the Nut colours of which wi,ll not be observable in the disastrous twilight with which we are threatened ; let the gentry and midd'e orders, whose properties anti peca:p4s are interwuven with th e p resent intitutions; l e t ev en th e inferior classes, whose daily b re ad depends on int e rnal t ranqu ill i ty, and who m f tture support in sickness and old age can rest on no sure ground but the stability of property ; and, shove all, let the Representatives a a:1 these great and central interests rally round the King itnd mi,,;hter,the ConAitution, and those who alone are ale to defend it " Every man at all cdnveraant :t 1 '4 1 ,1 pribkie life knows that it is not now possible to form a Whig 4thninistratitm —the men donut exist. Little could be done lay a coalition of the Whigs with the remnant of Mr. Canning's party, anti still less with the Radicals. t h e prment Ministry tv‘re 01 that the pamphleteer and Mr. Brougham have re proented— bit is , no . t--- c it would still h ave t h e impe rious and irresistible eta,tr i ,e r being the only one possible ! lind to the signs of the times,' hrol se, rec!Oest , And if at the present moment hirliatat w,,,„ to 1, 1 , „, as to give countenance to any attempt at a • 4, would, probably, be to advised, rending s r : t . l u t e h t e i co d s a , n,, er the Ministry altdie, but tr; the Monarchy !" As it was in the beginning, so will i t b e to t h e end. Much tnu-t yet be done before the higher ranks can be influenced to consent to iteforrn. 77 Aforning" Chroni..) King's speeches, which were forme4y 104 ed to as State documents of the highest authority and in terest, have, of late years, sunk into a kind of milk -04-water nothingness, which has both degtaded the Regal ch9racter and the talents of the State.. men from whom they have emanated. A new reign opens to the country a new era, and affords to the statesmen of the present time an opportunity of rescuing both the King and the country from the degradation into which the convenient insipidity of those modern Parliamentary exposes have fallen ; and not only does the circumstance of a new reign call for this alteration, but the new and interesting situation in which both our own country and Eu rope are placed demand front the Monarch, on his first address to a new Parliament, such a declara tion of the views and policy of his Ministers, as may leave no doubt in the minds of reasonubls men but that they are feelingly aiive to the aisle! duties of their situation, and such a statement of their policy, us the world at large, and their own popu lation in particular, may clearly understand. Of the composition of the King's speech the country does not care so much as for the matter. A practised writer, like Mr. Canning, could have penned, had he been permitted, a speech which would have de scended to posterity as a model in its way. Of the present Administration, if we except the Noble Premier's own despatches from the field of battle, there is not, we believe, a single individual who can be accused of the vulgarity of ever having written u line for the Press ; and the forthcoming speech, therefore, will possess all the freshness of u writer unhackneyed in the ways of type; but, what ever may be the nature of its contents, the insipid. ness displayed of late years will, we trust, be laid aside. The sorry attempt to propitiate all parties by satisfying none will not, we hope, be resorted to, but that the expectation of Europe and the country will be gratified, by an open, explicit, and manly avowal of the views and policy which the greatest of its Monarchs designs for the greatest of its king doms. We do not wish to see our King's speeches diverging into the interMinable " lengthiness" of an American President's dissertation. At present the one resembles the turbid, narrow waters of Fleet IYtch, as compared to the wide-spread rapids of the Mississippi. If our statesmen would take a middle course, and give us something worthy of the stately and majestic Thames in its progress to the ocean, the national vanity would be flattered, and the na tional character better consulted.—Morning Herald. That O'Connell'a appeal to the people of Ireland, in favour of a repeal of the Union, has already made many converts to the cause, and will, if not arrested in its progress, make many more, is a lamentable fact, of which no doubt need be entertained; and it behoves every friend of Great Britain and Ireland, in consequence, to. consider by what means the pro posed separation may be averted, and the strength and prosperity of both kingdoms maintained. That there are substantial grievances to be complained of in Ireland, and substantial reforms required, no one can doubt, who knows any thing of the state of the country; and the redress of these grievances, of which the greatest arc the taxation of a Catholic community for the support of a Protestant church, and the repeal of the Sub-letting Act, which is now driving not hundreds, but thousands, from their homes, in destitution and want, ought to occupy the earliest and most serious attention of the Govern ment; but when these grievances have been re dressed—and far be it from us to underrate the im portance of these grievances —there is only one course which the true friends of Ireland, and of the United Kingdom, could possibly recommend—and that is the employment of force, to put down those wino are blind, or so malicious and selfish, as not to see that a separation of the two kingdoms would weaken both, and injure a prosperity which, in the case of Ireland, has been advancing since the period of her union with Great Britain, with a rapidity almost unequalled in the history of any other country. In 1800 the official value of her imports was 5,155,000/.; irr 1821 they were 6,548,000/.; and at the same periods her exports amounted, in the one case, to 3,296,000/., and in the other to 7,700,0001.; that is, they more than doubled in the space of twenty years! The same results would be produced, as has been shown by the correspon dent of an Evening contemporary, were we to in stitute a comparison between the Customs and Ex cise duties at similar periods—results plainly show ing that Ireland has gained, and that greatly, and not lost, by her union with Englund. Nor is this till ; fur not only has Ireland been pro tected from foreign invasion, and her trade and commerce increased since her union with England, but immense sums out of the general revenue of the country have been lavished upon her improvement —been paid for the building of gaols and asylums— for the support of charitable institutions—for the repairs of roads and bridges—the improvement of harbours and other public works. When we con sider, in fact, the small amount of revenue con tributed by Irelunil to the general fund for national disbursements, arid the immense sums which have been expended to improve her condition, we are lost in astonishment ut the effrontery of those who call for a repeal of the Union, on the ground that Ireland has lust by the transaction, and that her interests have not been attended to! And yet, day after day has been spent by the Legislature in investi gating her condition, and night after night in de vi . sing measures to raise her to the levelavitli En g l an d and Scotland—her taxes purposely kept below the scale of both that she might attain the equality with more rapid strides! But let us ask those who advo cate a repeal of the Union, where Ireland would find so ready, so near, and so good a market for her corn, her beef, and her cattle—for her linen, and every other article of import into this country, in the event of such a result being obtained ? Do O'Con nell and his crew imagine that these articles could not be procured elsewhere, and at a less price, or that high duties would not be levied upon them in the event of a separation ? We put not these friends o f either kingdom, because they are questions to the permeable inhabitants and equally convinced with us that the prosperity a p t: da i i s i o t :z d de toasreevemr mutually be accompanied by mutual injury ; but to those whom the vulgar oratory of the . agitator might o t f bat til a e ny c a o t u te n m tr r i r e t s mislead by its senseless appeal to their passions, and false view of the hopes which might be entertained of mt separate Parliament, and resident gentry and nobility. The evils resulting from the want of these are, as we have seen, amply compensated by her uniorwas indeed they must in every instance be, with a wealthier country; and while we, there fore, venture to express u hope that w e s h a ll not again have tb return to this subject, we give it at the same time us our deliberate opinion that no measures ought to be held with die anarchists, and / b a r if force be necessary, force ought to be ern. ployed to put them down.-211 Urning Advertiser. We understand that the lace trade of this and the adjoining counties of Buckingham and Bedford, is in a state of improvement, and the example of her MAJESTY is patronisin,, ,, this trade is already lellowed by many of t h e Nubility. 7 —Northatipion Afercury. As a specimen of overweening vanity, it is stated that several per.nns have gone to Brighton fur t h e sole purpose of leaving their names at the Pavilion, th at they might be transferred from th e p or t er ' s h oo k tha newspapcia as v;biters ;o lOyaity. Carriages have within the Ina wet.* !igen seep rolling into town in every direction, end it is supposed that by the end of thi. week London will be faller than has been ever known in the month of October. A melancholy proof of the distressed state of , triculture in Buckinghamshire ix furnished by the fact that the enti ft 'e parish of Wotton Underwood (with the exception of a small lam ktelonginw to another individual) coinvi i,i ng about 2,300 acres of iaad, the property of hir G ra ce the Duke of ByeKINCIIA)I, is aylvert4etl to h e l e t, left or giv e O tiot i gli to quit._ . Upon un eqyal spac e where one man sulm;its in Irel4lnll, ,Eiree'inen sol4ist in for ray, lit in Sweden, 36 in Turkey, 52 in Poiand, C 3 in Spain, 92 in Ireland, 114 in Switzerland, 127 in Germany, 152 in England, 153 in Prance, 172 in Italy, 192 in Naples 224 in Holland, and 1,103 in Malta! DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. THE 11Aoutt, OCT. 19.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber ►o-day, there were 43 members present. After examining the validity of the elec tions of the new members, the Chamber proceeded to ballot for three candidates to be proposed to the King for the office of President. The three mem bers so chosen were Messrs. Van Toulon, Sypkens, and Clifford, the first of whom was subsequently ap proved by the King. The Chamber then adjourned sine die. Of all the members for the southern pro vinces M. Soudan alone was present. Accounts from all parts of the southern provinces speak of the zeal with which, since the publication of the royal proclamation, the inhabitants came for ward to offer their services as volunteers. The latest accounts from Brunets represent the situation of that city as very melancholy. The Go- vernment exists merely in appearance; the mob and the club are masters. De Potter and d'Hoog verst, who a few days ago were highly esteemed by the people, seem to have lost much of their in thence. Of the lust we hear nothing; the other has thought fit to take up his abode with the Masan!, who is so often mentioned, where he thinks himself the most safe. The club exhibits the most extravagant scenes. Very violent debiges, if they may be so called, often occur. The whole is exactly like the clubs in the ' French revolution. All business in Brussels is at a stand : the shops are open, but nothing is sold. Only thelowest people are seen in the streets, and these commit all sorts of excesses. The voluntary gifts fur the national cause are the produce of extor tion from the more wealthy inhabitants both in the city and the country. Meantime, the armed bandt, which chiefly commit these excesses, grom more and more numerous. They are estimated at nearly 30,000 men, consisting of all sorts of rogues, vaga bonds, and string. ra. At Liege the state of things is equally melan choly. _ _ OCT. 21.—A Congress is spoken of, which is to meet in this town, when the affairs of the Nether lands will be discussed. It appears that the great Powers begin to take into more serious consideration the events which take place in this kingdom. FLUSHING, OCT. 19.—Our fortress is declared in a state of war, and nobody is allowed to enter it without a pass issued by the police. THE HAGUE, Ocr, 22.—The Second Chamber met this morning to proceed, in the usual form, to draw up an address in answer to the King's speech. Last night the Belgic officers, subalterns, and privates of the Ist battalion of Yager!, its garrison here, to the number of about 200, left this place for Breda, where it is said they arc to be disarmed, and cent to Belgium. It was late in the evening when they received the necessary orders. ROTTERDAM, OCT. 22.—From all quarters we receive accounts of the proofs of attachment to the Prince and the country, which are given by our countrymen in these troublesome times. At Am sterdam a corps of 1,800 men but been formed, who are ready to march at the first signal. Another corns is forming for which there are already men sufficient. AXESTRIMANI. OCT. 22.—Actuni debt, 2;li per cent., 40 to 404; deferred ditto, to 15-16ths ; Anion S)ndie, 4i per cent., tit/ to 65} ; ditto ditto, Si per cent., 52 to 53. Exchange on London, one month, 11 75 ; two months, 11 70.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 23. HANOVER, OCT. 17.—0 n account of the disturb ances in some neighbouring States, and to be able to repulse with energy any attempt of the insur gents to enter this kingdom, our Government has resolved to call into active service a corps of some thing more than 2,000 men, and to station it about Gottingen, towards the Hessian frontier. BRUNSIVICK. OCT. 18.—Colonel Von Buttlar has returned from London, whither he was sent on a special mission. We hear that he had several audiences of Duke Chalks, but failed in convincing him of the necessity of abdicating in favour of his brother Duke William : he received for answer, that " the Duke was fully aware of the causes of the riots, and ascribed the burning of the palace entirely to the licentious populace : that he had, however, forgiven every thing, and would soon return to his dominions, where he desired that the Castle of Blankenburg might be got ready for him." It is reported that Duke William, on learning this answer, at first thought of leaving us again, but was per suaded to prolong his stay by M. Lobbecke, com mander cf the Burgher Guard, who said that he could not answer for the maintenance of public tranquillity if the Duke left us. Our. 20.—The Ministry is now mild) , orga nized, and not one of the former members remains in it. The change 11:10 given great satisfaction. Duke William is much beloved, and there is now certuinly no country in Germany where there is less reason to fear disturbances than here. SURREY SESSIONS, OCT. 25. The General Adjourned Quarter Sessions corn tnenced this day, before HOIIERT HEDGER, Esq., Chairman, and a bench of Magistrates. The calendar is very heavy, and affords another proof of the increase of crime in the county of Surrey. The CHAIRMAN, in his address to the Grand Jury, said lie principally attributed the increased number of the prisoners to the more effective exer tions of the new police. In adverting to the new police, he trusted the Jury would not entertain any of the rumours which had been propagated out of doors respecting the system, but that they would disregard the popular clamour against the officers embodied accordi ng to A ct of Parliament. The Jury had only to look to the evidence of those officers, and the credence due to their testimony. ASSAULT BY A CLF.RGYAIAN. This cage excited extraordinary interest in a crowded Court. The Rev. Thos. Hardwick, eleik, officiating Curate of St. Mary's parish, Rotherhithe, was charged with a violent assault upon John Monk. Mr. TursslGEß, for the prosecution, said that h was with considerable regret he had to detail the case which would come under the consideration of the Court and Jury. lie had hoped, indeed, that it would not have been publicly presented, on account of the situation of the defendant as a Minister, but that the matter might have been compromised out of Court:—(Here the Rev. defendant, who stood by his Counsel, shook his head.) Mr. Thessiger resumed, and said the Rev. Gentleman had, in a manner he certainly did not expect, expressed his dissent from the course he had adverted to. The Learned Counsel then stated that the parish clerk of St. Mary's had been arrested for debt, when the prosecutor, Mr. Monk, a highly respectable man, conducting the business of a tailor; was appointed to the situation. Subsequently it was discovered by the Rev, defendant, that.an anonymous letter, im pugning the conduct of Mr. Hardwick, had been sent to the Bishop of Winchester, the Diocesan of the district. That letter the defendant attributed to the prosecutor, vito, however, bad made an aill dasit denying any knowledge of such The prose=hor Subseliuently called upon the defendant to require an explanation of the charge, and to retrieve his character, when the assault complained of cotr►mitted. Mr. BACON (who had only a few minutes previ oudy received some brief instructions from the Rev. defendant) addressed the Jury for the defence in a very able and ingenious speech, in which he lamented with his Learned Friend that the cause had been in troduced to that Court. The .lury, after considrrable discussion, return e d • verdict of Guilty. • The Magistrates, haying delilorated some time, The CAP WAN said, the Court had to express its sorrow at seeing the defendant in such a situation. The sentence was, that the defendant pay a fine of N. to the King. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest pike of Bread in the Metropolis is la M lib. Loaf. There are others who sell trout %d. to I}o.ll l lo that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Oct. 25. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) ve.a. Ana Old Ditto Ditto - line 4 0 2 New Foreign Ditt0.................... Old Ditto New White Clover. - Old Ditto New 'Trefoil Old Ditto Rib G rass - English Carraway Seed. Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Foin .(Pe Rye Grass ••••••••••• Pscey Ditto Linseed, for feeding .4 Ditto, for crushing 44S. 445. ftne Canary Seed, New 4ss. One —4. Ditto Old _ White Nhistard Seed--.(per lt; lk line io Brown Ditto IDs. 14s. 1104+ 1 ohm IS Turnip Seeds, • ditle ••-- 4 Green and Red Ditto 0...e././•••••• 000 . 4.1.0** ...SO . a. fares, thst 2ss. 58s. dine 4240 Ditto .411. ilapelieed, English, tine (per last): 351. 04. 70., the Wiles —a. 60a. 706. One *"... fine 90i. 506. Ana J .41. fine JUL Ws. ON 951. —4. s. 504. —4. 6,51. --s. 424 tine's MI6 Ma. new %La 40a. 451. new .4* - lit PRICES OF HOPS.—Oct. 43. Root Pockets 6l Os. 101. 0..10101. 04.0151,4. (P. Sussex Ditto limit Di FarcLai n tto Ditto, Fi0e................... 0/. Os. 16/. 11s. ktolo l . Co. —Seconds ............. W. Oi. 8/. 0. tiolg Os. 51. Oi. W. Os. to 111. 0/. Os. W. Os, to Ok ed. 15 0 . -...... 6/. Os. 81. It* to ed. • .t og,ooo_____--.-' Kent Jugs.... Essex Ditto. Sus ei Ditto PRICE OF OIL. 6 Rape Oil ), brown Relined wr si 0 Linseed till Linseed Oil Cske At the per thousand .5 :e. per WIIITECHAPEL HAY NAHKET.—Otto 1000. W 40 d. ad. to 80i. 01 I Clover Ai. 04Lt o adt. Od. New Pot to 34 1 .1... 24 CE 01 PO'PATONS.—•Ckt 06 ' 4 top. ttAW 11.1D1 0 .; SWpe , d.tos. rer Stone. s. d. to s Per 10 2 Best Miters & Steers:3 0 2 S. 8 9 I Ordinal I isch, 0 Watt - - SHEEP SKINS. . 6 Pulled Or. Gi. to Os. Ocl. ShestUngs........ It. ro. wr o Downs I 4 '2 0 I Per lb. dot T an ned Horse Hidesl3 11 Span i s h Ditto 18 1 8 Per dote% Cslttalsse. 98 to Ob. 15 le Ditto to 90 8 1 Ditto to Six 18 IS Smell So% mlsiel KET.--Oct. l td Wllet:Ad Newmarelt. Dit a to Perkins a nd Co.. F. Ditto ; Ditto Ibissoill ; 6 Ditto Walter _ Lamibton Printroot..., ,?! R u ssell's o_e Walls End H elton Walls End L . ambtots...ll7 ; Walls Eltd 14 1,1 1; Walls land Smooth ffi W. K W a lls End 'Foto ; Halley Ilangenneeh Cosi Silkstone Field Stone Coal 111116mWeln Tenby YYardeh Hs awe!' •••••"0 . er land...* Ellison small ...N.... 5 Hebburn small Stobart's small o.o o ' i s Tees 5ma11...n..00' 1 " . ips sold, 0.-A FRI CES OF, Per lb. to 561 b.... 16 Ditto.......JJ► to 29 Dressing 14 191 Fine Coach Hides 16 18 Crop [fides, 35 to 401 b. 131 15 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 15 171 D.tto l7l 101 COAL MAR Adair's _ 2.25. chi. Charlotte 2.2 0 Hnlywell _ 3 9 Killineworth . 34 6 Ord': Redhugh N 6 Percy Benshaua......--. 33 0 Pitt's South M00r...—. 30 0 30 6 'Fantleld 30 6 31 9 Willington ~ • 33 6 Wylam 22 3 Walls End Bewickelte Co. 35 6 Ditto Bell Robson &Co. 33 6 Ditto Brown'. unser...-. 33 0 Walla End Boundary ... 31 9 Ditto Burraton 33 9 Ditto Callerton 31 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 22 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 22 9 Ditto Cramlington.... 30 6 Ditto Goforth 35 9 Ditto 35 0 Ditto Hilda .............. 31 0 Ditto 39 9 Ditto Northumberland 23 3 at market, 13N.—.Sh . r..:-----,--------,--------_—___ H ADDINGTON' CORN 1;1 Att K 1a....0rt, tti. Isj New Oats stand to-day le. higher on the tup. 1 ' 1 " i 1 lower 00 the average-159 livarter) sold. Barley ii "°— IF. on the top, and Is. 3d. on the average..... 4202 ear!' r 411" sold. Wheat w a s rather heavy in t he sales; pit's rage up la. 91. Little done in P eas e and 110/11 .00. Wileat, Barley. Data. Teak. ,ii- At First 73i al 3.5 i (Mt 1.' , /, 04 3th 0,1 ~,: 0 Second 6ts Ott :11a Ott !....,A ('1 --4 1 .,,k 1 ..4 3 t 4 Third -lic Iti '2.1,1 0.1 ..20,1 tid -, ta, *--„,D1,1 Tug te w ere:Z-Iqm of Wheat in non ker,ftlwltcreOrwer' " I Uowld.---0 Grey. Average .................. Si. la. al. 10-1.2014 ___.-----_— DALK EITH CORN tiIAItKET,--O c "' ier'l to The supply of Wheat at this day'a market worn(' l • salty ready, and the price s were higher than those d t '' day se'nniglit. rialo• NV Ilea. Barley. ORM rOge. 4 4 (11 sec. Fiat.. .... 1 7ti. Ha 3, 3 oil Ls, 0,1 4 , 25 tit! 0 ,t 3 .„, I) ... 70, al 1301 lid t all 4t:t al _ --,-.:-. -_------, --.--,-....,,-,---•--- - , ...... 0 „. e 2. HAMBURG 211ARKET'r w r' t d „4, it ti , BOASEN HA I.Lf. 'nit, supply "' ' 3 ",,„,,,ce, mai' last week, has been limited ; l owest in c°°: + ; orv l i ast twined themselves, and even advanced. ."' fo e demo have been again made for Fiend' s co , unt., Daley sil fur Rye increases, and prices Lave atiVoiit,'"' ti forigfetio Oats of good quality continue scarce. Dve sampies higher prices are demanded.• , iic haldi Front the 9:11 to the 15th tilt., both sloY o ',,,, d ol e, 44 canoes of Corn passed through the SA110 1 ; 1 ; 1 ' s fat 9 wete bound for British, 11 for Dutch , 11 , e wig .) Swedibilt Dsnish, and Norwegian ports ; 4 ' V r for Hamburg, 4 for Bretuen, and ` V i for ErsideTwors ght. ,to ' Dantzic Wheat .... .. . l'-2 „.. to 7.1 Pomeranian ......... . l‘2l to 1'26 ...... i otel , ' Anhalt, white llB to 10.." . : .. t ..t5 to 1 9 5 --- red 2to 114... t ot to Danish ~,, tOS ailitzie Rye llii to 1.22 ...... !rot° its Uplaml 181 to 10.•••" Ito to 9d Danish 1111 to 13 0 ...... .to to PI Petersliurgh and Riga 11A to 1.2'.1 ...... 1,,, to t „ Magdeburigh Birley 9,4 to 104 ...... ,;?.„ iii) Anhalt '2B to 104 ..... _ to ... I folstein lOO to 11*;. ...... _1 to .1 Mecklenburg!' Oats ......... . ...... .. 01 : 0 0 t o' I)anith Pomeranian Malt .— to •-' , "tey to I,lan !? , .e, yellow, tipianit ... - to ""'"".2iYo , ''," holstein Rapeseed ....„ to —• ..... , r ir , t io' The following table shows the quantity of (.1 1; a p ply ported and exported daring the preeediog v " e d :..... the quantity supposed to remain on hand for IP' 1k:- the Lasts Imported. I.oti Ezported. S" )c ° l'l oo Wheat lBO ..................... 1'2'2....... ....... ":::2° l) Rye 877.- ................ '2B'l ............... . .. 01 Barley Oatoln. ............ 1 ............. . to Malt 113 ....... ......... ..... 3 ......... Pease ........ a 8 ..................... 5 ........... ...." , 10 Beans lO . ......... 1 ........... .."' . Rapeseed on i i i • The unfavourable and contradictory l rep 'lr'ortr4 and a vitt land, with the failures in Bordeau x, lA d eoll, have depressed our market. • W h The Hanoverian Government is said to h t ,t,ii A •tl toa loan rep f a o y r a l w ,o e o io o, s o i o x o ye m o a rs r . .ks banco• The li f atei r f be ou a Tn r Adh s eneds p r.w e e-p r po c anr e t n : t h . f iLondtiestanresoarbt,aohcaoveabte:tiontakee: li cii t r,colatiel i ti;r ow .1 !W e on Tuesday last, turns out to have bee" A . v o ,ofrr. PH A : n ira g ish lo. twu i r t go us , Lo an ...... ........ ..................... ..": ...... ........ ...... ...... .. lio o ° :! : . : .. ...... . ......y. ' ...... ... E: ...... .................... New Prussian 'Four . p .. e . r ... eents.. ( I - KM ..... "--" Austrian Bank 5hare5........... . ''''''''' '':'"" th l4 New Austrian 4 per Cents. " ............... *** ~.. , 1 ' Anglo Neapolitan .. . , ..... ..... ...... ............. !..:••"'":„ '. i ; 1 4 change upon London, at two . nion"th' 'T " !J ' 1 ,;. - 100 at sigtit..o7,n; ,y5l Amsterdam, at two tem t, , , , ,, , 0 _to Paris _. .... ~ .at two otonT i , ii ' Petersburgn, at two Mon, , —Hamburg Reporter, Oct. 22. PRINT" AND Pilaus''s° BY IVIVIWO yoU oos T UC SUN °MeV, 112, BIRTHS. I, iia/ OP JO On the 9th inst. at Barraok Lodge, ''' i James, 17 ..."I,t of a daughter. ~ $1415.11 of O w n the 22d inst. at George-place, Lewistatith DI . Wm. Tucker, Esq., Commander Royal PI" daughter. MARRIED. gr' On the 26th inst. at St. Katherine-Coleolo% Ctir A .I . Carter , to Jane Lamb, only daughter of Mr• a tho tie, of Jewry-strert, Aldgate, and grand-daughte• late Mr. W. Lamb, of Carlisle. ' of go „ On the 20th inst. at Exeter , . J. NV. Gateor i e rtior tb Clifton, in the county of Gloucester, to 00 4 i daughter of Rear-Admiral Cumberlaud. DIEM 10 0 Oa the 21st ;nut. r.t I.e 14iiii.4', the I:fig l 4 JP?* 1 of Deve4ey 4 , `it') hii 6 iSt 'year. * ' . 00 0 On the 20th inst. at Little Chelsea, Sir /V. o• iota; Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel in his Majesty's 101st 108 , f . Foot, aged G. On the 20th inst. Elisabeth Mary, eldest slaughter °I Francis Kelsey, Esq. of Hanover-street, Walwortiounilo On the 23d inst. at IC nightshridge, James, oo : , ai son of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, late Deputi../ Chelsea llospital. On the 23d inst. in L ower Eaton-street, F°llll4lll`ll. wile of Z. J. IL de Bsr ltot, and daughter of ibl le w ' Esq., of Durham. ~ o ff , * ,06 On the 25th inst. at Peckham, Margate-, 1 Hagen, in her eoth Yr". On the'23,l iiist. tit -Thornton Heath, SurreP 1°7.1°7 Beataoti, daughter of J. Reid, Es :s q. %.,, 0 ',.,►1