The Sun. — London, England, 1830-09-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, With the approach of the period at whlch Parlia ment is summoned to meet, the discussion of po pular or of party grievances becomes, according to immemorial usage, more active. We had believed, we might say hoped, that the new police would by this time have wof ked its way into public favour, and been recognized universally for what it really an important and valuable improvement upon the former system of "ancient, reverend," and most inefficient watchmen. The new police are, however, after en interval of some months charged (on what authority is another question) with curious and ma. nifold offences—in their composition--in their dis cipline—in the expense attending them—and, last of all, in their unconstitutional relation to the exe cutive GovernMent. They are said to be Irish men-sswhich, of course, it is affirmed, is out of character, for keepers of the public peace. Nov Irishmen, after they have been some time caught, and broken in to regulations of any kind, are found to be full as zealous, orderly, and trustworthy in the fulfilment of an active duty, as any other subjects of the realm. There are no more exemplary soldiers, nor more faithful servants, than the Irish ; nor Mote indefatigable labourers, nor better tempered or more resolute men. But, in fact, the police might almost as well be called English or Scotch, as natives of Ireland, the proportion being probably about equal in all three nations ; though if Irishmen, with good characters, can be had on easier terms than English or Scotch, we presume that no very grave objection ought. to be made to their employment. Again, they are said to be fur the most part old soldiers, and as such not fit for the exercise of any civil authority : in our Mind, on the contrary, if the common run of " peace officers" esuld be imbued with a little of the temper and courtesy with which military men are habituated to discharge coercive offices, the interests of justice, and the feelings of individuals, might be not the worse consulted. But the stern discipline of the police, and their subjection • to the Crown, are in compatible with our notions of a civil power, and with the constitutional independence of our muni cipal and parochial authorities ! We really see nothing in that form under which the principle of subordination seems to act upon the minds of police men, as now disciplined and instrueed, which ought to alarm the most squeamish worshipper of Alfred the Great and his times for the liberties of the people of England; If it be required that we should go back to the " ancient and venerable" examples of by-gone generations, we shall undoubtedly have little to fear from the discipline of those very consti tutional Dogberries, whatever reason they may give us, as they have already given ourselves and our forefathers, for lamenting alike their ignorance and insolence in the commission of wrong, and the partiality or negligence of the local autho rities by which they had been appointed, and tinder which they acted when redress was sought for their offences. So fur as we can recollect, not a week ever passed during the sovereignty of the parish watchman in which it was not made a reproach to the Government that it left the public safety in the hands of such creatures, whose miserable pay (about 10s. fid. a week) excluded all classes of decent people from their hotly, and forced parishes to beat up for midnight guardians of our lives from among the very dregs of the community. For the expense attending this useful body of men, let it be remembered that those who now pay their' money, pay for being actually watched over; whereas formerly they paid, and received nothing in return but a double chance of mischief, from a col lusion between watchman and thief. If, however, the increase of parish rate for policemen bears harder on individuals than it ought, the Press and the Courts of Law are open, and at least as certainly as under the old system redress may be sought and leaped for. But the most absurd of all the attacks on the police is that of their being a military body. A military force supposes military weapons of some sort—the police have neither swords nor pistols to defend themselves; and recent circumstances suffice to prove, that for the preservation of their own lives, to lay nothing of the public, the bits of stick with which they are at present provided, are any thing but an adequate pro!ection. We have our selves seen nothing of the police but exemplary courtesy, forbearance, and propriety, great readiness to act, and, when the occasion cells for it, to forbear from acting. Overpaid, at a guinea per week each, no rational person can consider them, We do not say that, under pretence of providing that moderate sum, great parochial extortion and iniquity may not be practised, but the extortion may be punished also, and in the mean time the public safety is, generally, speaking, secured.—Times. The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Sa turday derived considerable interest from the Minis. terial projects submitted to its deliberations. Three bills were presented —one by the Minister of the Interior, and two by the Minister of Finance. Un happily, all the three measures recommended are grounded on the distresses of the country, or the de. ficiency of the supplies. The first has for its object to lower the deity on the importation of grain, in order to meet an apprehended inadequacy of food; the second to provide a fund to assist the suffering trader or manufacturer, by advancieg loans on the credit of their property; and the third, to proeure en addition to the supplies already voted for several branches of the public service, France has her corn law, as well as us; and, like England, is cm.. pelled to relinqeish its provisions on any extraor dinary deficiency of the crops, tier system is fully as complicated as ours, though, for obvious reasons, particularlythe difference in the relative proportions Of her agricultural and manufacturing )copulation, less injurious. The French system prohibits either exportation or importation, except within certain limits. These limits admit only of very small ascii. Winne of price. Accordingly, it is necessary to alter them on any extraordinary emergency. As, however s the country gentlemen in Franco have not the com plete command of the legislature, like a certain landed interest nearer home, these changes are effected wish less clamour or discussion. fled a WI similar to the project of law introduced by Guizot been proposed to the Donee of Commons, Our legislative, Landivehr would have been in arms from Orkeey to tasetre End. The r alicy of advancing , loins froM Government to relieve the temporary difficulties of the trading and manufacturing interest is borrowed from England. If the embarrassment is merely temporary, awl the accommodation is dis. tributed with prudence, individuide may be belies fitted, and the public incur no loss : but it is evi dent that the whole beneficial success of the scheme must depend upon the stature of the distress, and judicious management of the fund. If advanced to force production in a market already overstocked, or to enable the merchant to keep up prices beyond their natural limit, it must be ultimately injurious to the party to whom the accommodation is granted, and a loos to the public which lends the money.— The sum, however, is not great, being less than 2,400,0001., to assist the trade of a great kingdoms The chief feature in the extraordinary supplies re , oeired for the service of the year is the addition to the expenditure of the war department, incurred by the expedition to Algiers ; and the only ennouneement of "7 interest to us in the epecell of Baron Louis is Ili, curious information that treasures to a greater amount than the expellees of the armament rewarded the (:""quest. " The expedition coat us," says the minister, " little more tharl 55,000,000 of francs owl our victory would have brought us a great desd more lied honesty .presit t le s d , fi e , v , er our operations." :l u a r v i l e u d ar l i / d O b u e ros m o a u f t ic al t i o d d i 'vs must answer this only der. that part of their plums t A IA c mh o s are not the robbers b w ei li s ul o d n a ta e c a o r ast of inference cannot fail to anggessalsssit'r front this official and public admissioe—ssionet y . 'a French Government, whate ver other mist iv t esi t t th e e have for retaining posiessittis sit Algieessis depeivenf all pretext for its continued occupation from Want of indemnity for the eipencee of the wars pmt. detrnlty was found. In the treasures of the palace, the cannon of the 'fortifications, and the ships in the _harbour. As the expenditure of France has thus been reimbur,.ed, and her honour avenged, the question of her African conquest is divested of every consideration of national justice or pride, and be comes one of mere policy or interest.— Times. The meeting of Parliament is usually preceded by a rapid succession of pamphlets; and the harvest his season ,seems more than usually abundant. Every day brings us a fresh publication, in praise or vitu peration of Ministers. We have just received one. under the title of The Result (1 Me General Elec tion; or, What has Me Duke of Wellington gained by Me Dissolution? In this pamphlet we have a variety of (Mails, illustrative of the respective gains and lo ses, which the writer balances by making Ministers losers by twenty upon the result of the whole. With respect to the popular part of the re presentation, the writer observes-- " First, as to Counties. There are in England forty Counties. Of the eighty-two Members which these re turn, no more than twenty-eight are steady supporters of the Ministry ; forty-seven, or nearly double that number, are avowed telherenta of the Opposition ;_ and seven are of a neutral east, not leaning much to the Government. Did ever Minister yet meet Pariament with such a preponde rance of the County Representation against hint? Of the thirteen great populous cities and boroughs, with hundreds (Loudon, Westminster, Aylesbury, &c.) returning twenty. eight Members, only three seats are held by decideil Mini sterial men ; twenty-four by men in avowed opposition. There are sixty-two other places which may have mates —being More or less open—they return one hundred and twenty-six 11Iembers. Of these only forty-seven are Mini ! sterial--all the rest are avowed Opposition men, save eight, whose leaning is rather more apinst the Govern ment than for it. Of the two hundred and thirty-six men, then, returned by elections more or less popular in Eng- I only seventy-nine are Ministerial votes ; one hundred and forty-one are in avowed opposition, and sixteen of a neutral vast. If, therefore, the Ministers are to make bead against a Wee of two to one against them, from every part of the country where the popular voice is heard in elec tions, it can only be by means of the rotten boroughs and the Scotch Members. Everywhere else they are in a mino rity altogether without a precedent." We very much question, however, the possibility of anticipating with anything approaching to accu racy, the course which a number of Members will take in these times. There are many Members who have bought their seats, and will vote for or againit ' Ministers, according to the opinion they may have of the proposed measures. Much of course, will depend on the measures, end the character rind talents of the Ministers who propose and defend them. Let us see how the writer characterises the Ministers : " Can any one," he says, "then doubt that the follow ing sketch paints to the life, those weak but presumptuous . . . men who affect to administer our affairs ? It would be easy to find an abler man than the Prime Minister; but impossible to name any one less popular, whether with the Ari.tocraey, the Church, or the Com munity at large. Civil experience he has hardly any— pulitical knowledge none—his talents lay in war, and with the peace they have ceased to be of any more use than an old matchlock or a battering ram. He was of some ser vice while the King's personal prejudices and unsteadiness required the contront of a strong hand ; with the life of the late Monarch, that use too ha; ceased. If he has any ►►ther claims to his station, except his extravagant estimate of his own universal genius (a new light since his me morable self-denying declaration), neither the Nation nor the Parliament have, as yet, been able to discover them. Let them be plainly brought forward, however, by any one who is quixotic enough to maintain them, and they may be fairly discussed. " The Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst has notoriously dis appointed, by his indolence, all who had formed any ex pectations of him. lie is, by common consent, the moat inefficient Keeper to whom the Great 'Seal has been en trusted since Lord Bathurst—whose heir at law would make as good a Chancellor as either hit Noble and Learned ancestor, or his Noble and Leatned Colleague. No doubt, as far as personal weight and consideration goes to make up public virtue, the present Ministry may boast a share in the person of its First Law Officer, such As none other ever had, and such as it would be absolutely cruel to ex amine in detail. " Among hit colleagues the Earl of Aberdeen stands distinguished (bold as the assertion may, to some, ap pear) for that union of feebleness with presumption—of incapacity in every other man's eyes, with all-sufficiency in his own—which constitutes the ridiculous in character. It is from such 'originals that the pencil of Cervantes drew the J3aratarian Government of Sancho Panza, that of Sheridan his Lord Burleigh, and of Swift his Gulliver, drawing upon the King of Brobdignag. Mankind have yet to learn one single ground upon which this Lord should affect to bold any other given Lord cheap ; and yet he never opens his mouth but to try some clumsy sneer. He is supposed to have studied under Mr. Pitt, who had some right to indulge in such supercilious demeanour.— 'The ilitoloos have an apologue of a dwarf, who used to keep company with a giant, and seeing him always look down upon the crowd, got the habit of looking down when he saw men whose middles he could just reach stand ing upon tip-toe. The Uther Members of the Cabinet it is really diffi cult for any one, not having a peculiarly retentive memory, or, as Mi. Brougham would say, ' not being good at proper names,' to recollect. One, indeed, Lord Ellen. borough, is remembered, not froM the possession of any shining or statesmanlike qualities, but on account of cer tain awkward passages in his history. This individual professed himself at different times the follower of Lord Lansdowne and of Lord Grey ; but he left them all upon the first hint of a place from the Duke of Wellington, and he accepted it with an Amendment to the Duke's Address ready written in his pocket, which he bed had the impudent vanity to show to several persona. To the Government he hroUght a weight of personal unpopularity, which it rarely Ws to the lot of any outs so little conspicuous as himself to acquire. And if to this disadvanWe is added an over weening conceit—overweening apparently in proportion to the absence of merit—a total want of judgment, and a singular faculty of attracting the tslerishm of others, it will be easily granted that his co-operation is, in fact, a griev ens misfortune to the Administration which is encumbered with it. Of Lord Bathurst, lives there the man so unfeeling, so lost to all the softest emotions of our nature, as to speak in an enumeration of Statesmen fit to administer a great empire? If such there be, and of heart so flinty, thee the same might also view unmoved the sorrowful plight of Mr. Goulburn, and weigh the merits of that good sensible man and most able Quarter-Master-General, Sir George Murray; as a Parlimentiry Chieftain. Whether or not Lord Francis Leveson Gower be a Cabinet Mi- nutter, may be a question ; it can he none that in such a Cabinet nature bas well qualified him to hold a place, and a prominent one. But though he may rival Lord Aberdeen in furless debility, he falls so in. finitely short of hint m presumption, that it would be a shame to speculate upon the amount of his gain by his late removal from Ireland. He was found to be perfectly unlit for the Parliamentary con.. (lied of that department ; some change of climate war' absolutely necessary to preserve his existence. So he is to battle the Estimates night after night against Mr. Hunt, for six or eight weeks of the next Session, by way or having an eti - sy lift, And a task he is At for. Of Sir Robert Peel we have not spoken. He Is man of respectable talents, moderate acquire►nents, un.; questioned propriety, undeniable self-complacency, and brilliant and boundless wealth. Whether these, added to the possession of as much unpopularity as ever fell to mu 3 man's share, ha exactly the quslifiettiotis that will fit hint for leading such a Monte of Commons as is just returned, and against such an Opposition, may be a different thing." There is a little colouring in this; yet it is ;tripoli., Bible not to recognise the features► of most of the individuals pourtrayed. It has been said of the Duke of Wellington, that he is exceedingly patient of criticism on his performances in a department itt which he is undoubtedly a great master. In the► third volume of The Life of bir Thomas Aintwa, jost published, General Wellesley is very sharply handled by that clear-headed indiv►dual, for the un skilful manner in which he fought the battle of Astoye; but we never heard that the sharpness of this censure produced any coolness between the two hien& Sir Thomas tells him, that he could hardly hove expected to defeat the enemy with less than half the loss he actually suffered; that after break ing their enemy, his cavalry, when entire, was not sufficiently strong to pursue any distance, without which he could not have done so much execution among them as so counterbalance his own loss; and that there Was a possibility of his being repulsed : in which case the great superiority of the enemy a "' , v4lr,y, with some degree of spirit which they • would have derived from success, might have ren dered a retreat impossible. The blunder committed was in effecting, with a certain loss, what might have been obtained without any risk. " Suppose that you had not advanced to the attack (pur sues Sir Thomas), but remained under arms, after recon noitring at long shot distance, I am convinced that the ..nemy would have decamped in the night; and as you could have instantly followed them, they would have been Aliged to leave all, or most of their guns behind. If they ventured to keep their position, which seems to me in. credible, the result would have been equally favourable; you might have attacked them in the course of the night ; their artillery would have been of little use in the dark; it:would have fallen into your hands, and their loss of men would very likely have been greater than yours. If they determined to attack you in the morning, so far as I can judge from the different reports that I have heard of the ground, I think it would have been the most desirable event that could have happened ; for you would have had it in your power to attack them, either in the operation of passing the river, or after the whale had passed, but before they were completely formed. They must, how ever, have known, that Stephenson was approaching, and that he 'might probably join you in the morning; and this circumstance alone would, I have no doubt, have induced them to retreat in the night." Colonel Napier, also, in his admirable History of the Peninsular ar, while he does justice to his great qualities, does not scruple to point out very frankly the mistakes into which he fell—some of them by no means trivial ones. But we have never understnod that the Duke took these strictures amiss. But, ready to submit his military conduct to criticism, in politics, ii. which one would naturally suppose lie might be a little more suspicious of his merits, he will not brook any contradiction. This is the rock on which he splits. Notwithstanding the formi dable array of names said to be hostile to Administra tion, notwithstanding the somewhat ostentatious enumeration of great Aristocratic families which withheld their confidence from him—were he able to form a correct estimate of himself, and to under stand the true nature of his situation, lie might stand his ground. He forgets that Parliament is a popular assembly, to manage which requires experience of business, character, talents, and the powe r o f debat ing. Men who possess this experience, character, and talents, are not likely to he insensible of their advantages; and therefore the Duke, in demanding from a Cabinet an implicit deference to his own views, does not seem to have a suspicion that im plicit deference can only be obtained from such men by satisfying them that be is entitled to it. The late Mr. Huskisson, for instance, could not easily have been brought to tuppose that all his experience in the affairs of this Empire had not given him more political knowledge than his Grace possessed ; and if his Grace had been wise, instead of quarrelling with that Statesman for his want of docility, he would have himself been guided by his coup. sets. The Duke must renounce the expectation of implicit obedience from a,Cabinet, or he must re nounce the expectation of remaining Minister; for it is almost impossible that in a country like this he should find combined the self-denial which this de ference implies, and the power of influencing the de liberation of Parliament, His Grace may have good intentions • but to give effect to his intentions he must be able to move the machinery of our Consti tution, such as it is. Let him distrust those who would persuade him of his omniscience, and cea s e to believe that there is a Ministerial any more than a Royal road to all science. His political reptita tion rests chiefly on his concessions to the Dis senters and to the Catholics. The qualities dis played in carrying the Catholic question were akin to those which enable a man to gain victories in the field—a correct estimate of the respective forces, and coolness and firmness in the hour of trial. But the complicated affairs of a great nation cannot be all presented before the mind with the simplicity of the arguments for and against Catholic Emanci pation. Time and application can alone give pros ficiency in the conducting of them. Of this truth his Grace would seem, however, not to be aware. He must, however, reconcile himself to the bitter truth that ho is nut an Admirable Crichton, ind that mere plain sense will not allow a man to decide ex-calhedra, on the most complicated political tines- The writer of the pamphlet cites one or two tistances to show that in his judgment he is not in. ions. " That he urged," he says, "the wretched Polignae to his crimes is utterly incredible; that he helped him to his place a year ago seems hardly to be doubted. Ills praise of him as by far the ablest French Minister since the restoration' cannot be retracted or explained away." That the Duke of Wellington should have formed such an opinion of this poor drivelling creature does not say much for his penetration. We repeat, that we attach little consequence to the strength of oppo sition with which he is threatened, if he only dii plays common prudence in providing himself with the menus of properly meeting it. A Minister, with the necessary talents and experience at his com mend, may, with the means at the command of the Crown, fairly set the great families at defiance. But however this may be, the nation must be gainer. The writer of the pamphlet says—" Something he must do to gain applause; and by yielding to the wishes of the people, to disarm, for the moment, opposition. Will he touch the tithe ?—hardly yet. Brit, probably, he may propose some mitigated measure of Parliamentary reform—such as giving Members to the great manufitcruring towns. Or he may make•the King, Ms only . friend, his victim; and come down with his proposition for a Civil Lit, r e . duced below even the utmost wishes of the most sanguine economists; or, perhaps, the East India Company may be offered up a sacrifice on the altar of popular feeling." We confess we are not afraid of any such excessive reduction of the Civil List. But come what may, no matter what the motive, if the Duke 4rant advantages to the country, it would be foolish in the country to refuse them—Morn ing Chronicle. It will be recollected that some years ago Sir Ros Bert Peel distinguished himself by a specimen of legislation called an Alien Bill, which was to arm the Government of a free country With arbitrary powers against the fugitive subjects of Continental tyrants, who sought arrisylum from the vengeance of the " Holy Alliance" on our shores. When we think on the spirit of that Alien Bill, and ae ob:.- ject which it was intended to serve, Ave cannot but feel a deep sense of the wonderful dispensations of that eternal justice which governs the universe, when we sue the tyrants themselves driven to solicit a shelter in the same land of freedom, the gates of whose hospitality that Bill was intended to have closed against their victims. The Duke of Bruns. wick has rapidly followed the example of the Ex- King of France, in provoking and flying from the just indignation of his subjects. Th e I'm - norm " with which he excited the popular vengeance can only be equalled by the celerity with which he fled from it. We were told by those wh o p ro f ess to know the intentions of Kings, that Charles X. Would die on horseback rather titan submit to the constitutional demands of his subjects; but when this hardihood of assertion was put to the test of action ' • he mounted his hors e , not to f i ght, but to fly I So much for the chivalry of modern Princes, who, while they would have their subjeets Wor ship them as gods, take pains to show how little they are entitled to the respect of reasonable men. For fifteen years the Continent of rati 4 'rope has suffered under the iron misrule of Sovereign's, who, at the downfall of the em pire of Napoleon, called themselves the deliverers of the nations, but were, in fact, themselves deli vered from a mean vassalage by the energies of their people, whom they afterwards leagued toge titer to enslave. Those Sovereigns, while they ar rogeted absolute dominion, were themselves the slaves of crafty and dishonest Ministers, who prac tised, as Sejanus did upon Tiberius ' by making them fear the people, in order thereby to coniii'm their own corrupt influence over their suspicious and enervated minds I In almost all the Courts of Eu rope the administration of affairs has been entrusted to men, not recommended by superiority of virtue and intellect, but by the low artifices of cunning, and the base accomplishmots of intrigue. Need we wonder that, with such advisers, the rulers of the Continent have sowed the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind ?" Let us take the ablest of the class, Mettern!ch. Does that veteran Jesuit iu policy know how, like Themistocles, to make of a small community a great and flourishing State ? Or is be better qualified to make the authority of a great empire politically base and morally despicable ? The whole course. of his political career has shown that, though a dexterous politician, he is no Statesman. The former is a person rho is destitute of the trite capacity to govern, but is conversant with the little _ . arts by which place is preserved, with a mind fertile in the resources of cunning, but destitute of wisdom. His ambition tans on the pivot of self, and his for tunes are exulted upon the degradation of the country. Unshackled by principle, obdurate in heart, and adroit in dissimulation, such a Minister regards honourable sentiment and political in tegrity as the accomplishments of fools. He banishes every virtue from the range of his debasing influence, anti considers successful treachery and de ception as the criterion of political talent and the consummation of able policy. Need any one who has read history aright, and who has seen, in the vicissitudes of empires, the glorious ways of an eternal Providence, be told that such a Minister, while he imagines he is giving stability to vicious power, is only sowing the seeds of revolution Such are the politicians who are answerable for the present state of things in Europe. They have un ceasingly exerted themselves to make it an arricle of political faith with Kings, that the weakness of the people is their strength—that the debasement of the people is their glory. Tbey have opposed know ledge as an enemy, and denounced truth as treason. But the doom of this system of Government went forth when the art of printing was invented. The progress of moral revolution is slow, but, when it is not met with carrespondieg changes in civil iestitu tions, it eventually anti inevitably leads to political revolution. While an intriguing politician only looks to the present moment—and sees, in the little circle of vision which a minute sagacity commands, only the paltry interests of selfirh ambition—the States- man takes a large and comprehensive view of the relations of society, and the destinies of nations. He looks to the history of the past for that instruction which projects its light upon the future. lie as certains the capabilities and the resources of the country which he rules, and applies them to the pro motion of its happiness—its social strength—its po litical grandeur—and its moral improvement. These are the objects of thb ambition of the true States man, who only rises into fame by elevating the cha racter and improving the condition of his country. The great Lord Chatham was a Statesman of this stamp. Aloof from all petty intrigues for power, he confided in the mastery of his own genius. Inspired with a generous ardour to serve his country, he let the shafts of malice waste themselves against a re putation that was sure to be avenged by history. He waged no paltry war upon the Press—he wielded not the power of the State to crush freedom of opinion —he stooped not from the attitude of bold uncompromising virtue to explore and track the winding crooked paths of a base expediency. Redid not surround himself with a corps of incapables as a foil to his own superiority—nor did he mistake for honourable fame the sordid praise of mean syco phants and fawning parasites. His ambition had the grandeur of his intellect. He called up genius, knowledge, and public virtue around him ; for the generous qualities of great men are someti-nes as contagious us vices in an exalted station. From the splendid success of his foreign policy, and his com manding influence over the popular mind, he has left a name among the Statesmen of England un rivalled in the fascination of its glory. We wish we could see something of the spirit of his lofty and expansive ambition directing the councils of England at the present day, when the Continent trembles with the shock of revolution, the natural conse quence of the mindless arts of conceited, shallow, arid immoral pretenders to political wisdom. We deprecate the violence of democracy, as well as the oppressiveness of tyrannical power; but i t i s th e profligate flatterers of tyrants that prepare the com bustible materials which the fierce declamation of the demagogue ignites; and in the flames df which it has too often happened the valuable as well as the worthless parts of civil institutions have been consumed. Still, whatever troubles afflict and harass the nations of the Continent, we have cause to be peculiarly grateful to Providence, not only for the possession of a Constitution, whose principles are the emanation of consummate wisdom, but for having, at this momentous crisis, a Sovereign whose frank and manly character, and whose affable and conci liating manners, have made Royalty as popular in England as it is odious in some other parts of the world. It speaks greatly for the good disposition and good sense of his present Majesty, that from the moment he ascended the throne he acted in a manner that endeared him to the people. The last revolution of France had not then occurred, nor was it foresern,—cousequently William the Fourth did not adopt the manners which inspire the people with that enthusiastic devotion to their Monarch, which 'would make them the most effective guards of the Crown of England, from any thing but the just and generous impulses of his own heart. Other Kings may find it expedient to assume popularity of manners;--with the King of Great Britain it is a spontaneous and original virtue !-11/Orning OLD BAILEY, SE .21. THE FATAL. DUEL AT BOULOGNE. Mr. ATAXY applied to the Court to fix a day for the trial of this case. The Learned Gentleman,said that Oil a former (lay the Court had been pleased to postpone the trial until next Session, in consequence of an expected delay in procuring the commission of the Lord Chancellor. This commission was, how ever, now in the hands of the officer of the Court, and the Learned Counsel was also provided with nn affidavit of Captain ilelsham, the party charged with the murder, in which be swore that two wit nesses, whose evidence was material on the trial, were now in London, or its immediate neighbour hood. One of these witnesses was the Judge of the " Cour de Commerce," at iloalogne-sur-Mer, in France, and the other was a French barrister, resid ing at the same place. The duties of both gentle men would require their presence in France at the time when the next Sessions for Middlesex would be held. The affidavit concluded by stating that Captain lielshron would be deprived of the benefit of these witnesses, un!e.s his trial should take place before the termination of the present Sessions. On those grounds the Learned Counsel was quite sure that the Court would great the application. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said it would be necessary to issue a precept both for a grand and petit jury, and that 1.5 dap; must elapse between the date and return of the precept. A long desultory conversation here took place be. tween the Learned Judges, Mr. ALLEY, Mr. C. PHILLIPS, and Mr. CLARKSoN, when it • wall at length arranged that the necessary precept should be issued forthwith, and that the trial should take place on its return. MACIIINERL—rThe parts of the country which have flourished most, and in which the population tire s i rnecartceas , tei d i ula n n n s t i t t y r rap (l ln i e e r y b thhaot sewere i llia n p c ore ) ei s t s e e r d , Bolton, pretton, Blackburn, Ashton, Stockport, Levi's 'Judder - 441, Medford, Nottingham, Glasgow, and Pais ley, previous to the applic,tiou of the mechanical powers to the fabrication I) f cottons, wooll ens , stu ff s, and hosiery? . The inventions of ARKWRIGIIT alone have given employ ment directly or indirectly—either in the actual fabrication of cotton goods, the production of the raw material from which they are formed, the conveyan ce of it from foreign countries, the 641 e of it in this, or the construction of the w o man', complex, and expensive machines with which it is fabricated,—t o millions of persons. The improvements in the woollen manufacture the a h p a p ve lic h a e t e io n n s o cr i e m el p y ro l v eo e t: i portent or valuable, and chiuery to the silk trade, promises to give us the same superioritr in that which we possess in other branches of industry, is spite of foreign competition, and of the mani fold offences of Mr. Hususstis,—Lintrpool Times. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 21. Julia Joreplts was charged with keeping a brothel, and in another count she was charged with keeping an ill-governed and disorderly house. Mr. ADOLPHUS opened the case as one of peculiar aggravation. In this case children of a tender age had been allured to the place, and the fact having come to the knowledge of Mr. Rawlinson, that Magistrate had directed the present prosecution. Charles Cooke, lately a police constable, on the evening of the 13th of July, heard a noise ut the house of the defendant, No. 8, Dean-street, New road. On going up, he saw a girl, named Eliza Burrowes, standing outside the door, and three little girls standing in the passage. The girl Burrowes was abusing the defendant, and telling her it was a scandalous shame for her to harbour such children as those. The defendant gave Burrowes in charge for creating a disturbance, and witness took her to the station house, but at the same time conveyed the three young children there. On hearing the statement of Burrowes, the inspector detained the children, but discharged her upon her promising to appear at the Marylebone police-office the following morning. She did appear according to her promise. He had long known the house as a disorderly one, and had often seen common prostitutes and low fellows, cads and others, going in and out at all hours of the night. Mr. PRENDERGAST, on behalf of the defendant, here stated that she had already left the house, which was now shut up, and offered to plead guilty if the Court would consent to her discharge upon entering into recognizances not to offend in Uwe. He denied that the children had been taken to the house for any bad purpose. Mr. ADOLPHUS should most indisputably resist the application made. The CHAIRMAN certainly could not entertain it, until the Counsel for the defence had removed the fact of the children having been taken there for the infamous purpose stated. Sarah Chester, the eldest of the children, was then examined. She %wilt in her fourteenth year, and was walking with the two little children now standing by her side, when a footman came up and told her, that if she and the children would go with him, he would give them a shilling each. They did go with him ; as also did a bigger girl, named Ann Norman, to whom he promised 3s. On getting to the house, the footman and Ann Norman went up stairs, and mittiess and the two little girls, were sent down stairs by the defendant, at whose desire the servant undressed and put them to bed. Some time after the defendant came and asked them if they had any money, and, on learning they had not, slapped their faces and turned them out of doors. Ann Norman, the big girl, apparently about 16, confirmed the evidence of the last witness, and added, that after going up stairs with the footman, the latter blew out the candle and locked the dour, but she got it open and came away. The CHAIRMAN said the evidence of the intention of the defendant with respect to the children was not quite clear. To say the best, the affair looked very suspicious, and he should require the defendant to enter into her own surety in 801., and find two sureties in 401., to appear and receive judgment when called on. COURT OF REQUESTS, KINOSGATE- STREET. Yesterday morning, a man of extreme old age, named James Evans, wns summoned before the Commissioners, for the sum of 12s. 8d , due for beer, brandy and water, and pipes of tobacco, to a licensed victualler. The plaintiff stated that the old gentleman was a customer to most of the public-houses in the neigh bourhood of Gray's-inn•lune, and usually paid for what he had. It was, however, to be feared from his late conduct, that he was going to change cha racters with some notorious impostor, for after hav ing drunk and smoked to the amount above stated one night, he refused to pay, and actually bullied every one in the house. COMMISSIONER—What ! did he incur this debt in one night ? The plainriff—Yes. He is a most extraordinary person. When I thought he had his whack, I refused to give him any more; but he said that he drank to keep his bones free from the rheumatism, and if he did not get his quantum, I should be summoned in a few days before the Go roner.—( Laughter.) Costattsstomm—And so you allowed him to get so deeply in your chalk ? Plaintiff—Why, Sir, he is 107 years of age, and he was with general Wolfe at Quebec, and I couldn't refuse him. The defendant—l owe no more than six and a tanner, please your Worship, for I had only five glasses and six pipes, and a pint of beer, and old as I am I don't like to pay double scores. COUMISSIONHR—WeII, arid are you able to ;my that ? Defendant—Not a halfpenny your Worship. 1 was so mad at being so treated, that I never stopped till I drank the rest.—(Loud laughter.) The plaintiff, upon whose feelings the venerable appearance of the old man had a visible effect, said well, I will be satisfied with that. Suppose you pay,part now ? The defendant replied that it was wholly out of his power, but he would endeavour to pay it at a shilling a month. This proposition was accepted by the plaintiff, who, it appeared, had summoned the old man merely for the purpose of preventing him from repeating such trests, for nobody could resist the eloquence of his snowy locks, or the downward attitude of his shrivelled and bony frame. The COMMISSIONER then asked the defendant whether he had been advised by a medical man to apply brandy as a cure for the rheumatism ? De fendant—No, please your Worship, not to cure the rheumatism, for I never had it in my life, but to prevent it from coming at all.—(Laughter.) MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (Pram the London New Price Vstrreet of yesterday.) SUOAR.—The Sugar Market became rather dull last llist week, hut the prices were fUlly supported ; the total sales were estimate(' at 2,500 lihds. and trs. The stock of West India Sugar is 49,34'7 hlids. and tea., being 10,995 less than last year, 'rho stork of Mauritius is 41,974, hags, being 4 4 0 I 5 less than last year. The deliveries are very large ; of West India last week, 4,075 hhds. and tea., being 463 more than last year; and of Mtur;tu, 4,996 bags, being 1,337 bags more than the correspond ing week of last year. At the dose of the Market this afternoon the estimated sales this day, including the Bar ' badoer and a small public sale of Trinidad Sugars, were only 600 Ude. and tea., the Market to-day is fist, hut not lower. The arrivals are extensive. The attention of the shippers has been directed to the change of bounty on the sth proxiMo, aad the necessity of getting the goody they have contracted for on boird before that date, and as the principal demand is for kw lumps, of which there is st small supply, the business done last week was inconsider• able ; the fnmer prices were fully supported ; the finer descriptions of goods for shipping appear neglected, The goods suitable for home consumptiLn ere in small supply, but the demand has lately been limited. Molasses dull. The Refined this afternoon is very dull. Molasses Is. lower, and dull at the decline. Pitmen; SUOAL—The purchases of Havannah Sugar consist of rather a large parcel of white, by private con tract, at a reduction of 14,, Ms. to 41a. ; some la( wn 20s. to 22e. 6d. ; and some yellow 245. to 265. 6(1. There were no sales of Brazil Sugar. This day, at public sale, 511 boxes Havannah Sugar, a part sold 235. a 25e. 6(1., lower prices, but the sale was languid, and a large propor tion taken in, the whole yellow Sugars. EAST INDIA SUGAR... -About 4,000 bags Mauritius sold last week et rather higher rates. The Bengal Sugars of the late sale are Is. 6d. profit. This day, at public sale, 3,874 bags Mauritius Sugar; the whole went off heavily at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per cwt. INDL& MOLASSICS.—.It is reported a sale has been effected at Is. reduction ; $5O puncheons new St. Vincent's 221. 6d., Trinidad 225. COFFEE.—A parcel of S. Domingo Coffee told, good ordinary at 34a. 13y public sale about 250 casks Jamaica sold freely, maintaining the late advance, chiefly fine or dinary to tine fine ordinary 43a. to 50s. ; large parcels of Demerara and Berbice 42e. to 48e. Thii day, at public sale'. 244 casks 451 bags British Plant-110" 1,341 higa Sr. Domingo ; the latter ordinary and fair ordinary, fia which there were no offers made above 28s. 6d.; tits Jamaica sold heavily at a reduction ol Is. to 21. Tlta Colonial Markets are dull this afternoon. RUM. BRANDY, AND HoLuosne.—The Isles of prod Leeward% about Is. 9d. have been considerable; the Market looks firm. Several contr,icts for Jamaica tO also reported 914 PM. to Bs. 2d. The purchases ol Brandy 1 eve been more extensive than usual, first marl 4s. 84. and 44. 9.1. and yesterday be was paid. In Geneva there was no alteration. HEW, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The TAllow Market it ; the ships passing the Sound are more numerota than was x v ected ; the pri,•es of Tallow are in eon* quence rather lower, and the Market is dull. Flax it without variation. Hemp is rather lower. Carroar. —There is no new feature in the Cotton market; there is no briskness in Ce trade. The purchases (or the week ending last niet consist 'of 200 Bengal, ord. 4ji.► goal fair bd. ; 300 Surat, ord. 5d., mid. 5 d. ; 100 Pernatus Bitl , fair SFI. INDIGO.—About 6.800 chests are now d ec iared; th e quantity is still expected to be 0,000 to 9,000 chests; there is no new feature in the market. TOBAcco.—There are several sales of Tobaceo report, d, and one cargo of 260 hhds. at about 3d. ; 09 lJirl'• 6 " Kentucky 20. a 3d., and 60 hhde. fine !dick Virginia about 441. brae TA.—The demand for Whew continues; E 41 c )i h rivi sie gan t le i e. tha inT t i c pw o u s a t tteeco l .r s :ur O lu i t : it t . fh , roe a re at Id. per lb. prott ; A k w break.' of Congnu tine Twankay bare been asked fir' Luau Paovatons.—There is little doing in &et or Pork, but the holders are asking' higher price; for th i a are s at o. t o h oo .! rt•k;intshaerree onis ltihttelepmdtrierego,lhatoenurdetht:whsteicti:rnealnpitirnt.;lll4ll;: is still dull. Hors.—The picking is going forward whiff , b", 1 ) . 3 many places the Hips are not worth the erpeoce of pre ing. The accounts from the Weal+l, and front Sussex. here are more favourable, and sever al parcel, of good new sold from EU. 81. to 81. 10s. ; the mo uldy new sells duty Sos. a 145*. ; 1829 sa l es at 130 s. a 1654. The estimated ii now SALT96,OOO/. to 99,0001. rgrAz.--The pewee o advancin . f Sittpetre continue briVIY •UN -- ttY MARI: ETS C •Ii CORY Hata Per Quarter. Boston Gainsborough Grantham Grimsby Lincoln , Spilsby Stamford York O. to to i. '24 t !. 30 17 15 = I) 20 ° 3 93 27 23 3') to sa .„. 16 44 43 44 90 44 40 43 40 40 ' 24 44, 35 :18 28 ad 25 33 28 3 4 sa 3 7 28 Si LEWES MAR White Wheat (per quarter) Red ditto Barley 000000000 .....«...•« 000000 Oats, New .... Beans 00000000 Oil Cake. New ...«....«....... rK ET.—seo 9 16 WWI ... . ■i 1 1 t ::••• .. •••• 1 16 • ..•• 12 0 0 to 0 0 0 0 per $0 2 0 0 0 9 0 17 ° Our farmersbroughtsePsoot.dituPPY o f Wh'ilet4 sam ;) us a good dry ples went freely at an silrarce of lib lot 21. per quarter • damp and inferior were Pl a , at V week's price. The supply of Batley is inerra.iing rL4 p 'llion to the price ; la. per quarter snore was it übttio to-day. Oats Beans, and Prase, are 10.00 er per quarter dearer. The millers are askivl 9 4 4 p more lor Flour. s 4fika l 'sr a t r i l e e a y t (per qr.) sos. Bean' ({ fir citi••••" - ' 3'24, Ms. 371. l'ease Grey ........ Gai5......—... 264. 9135. I Dour: fine (pat lOW CANTXRIttntI. Sept. IS. , „isrk 6 We had some fair samples of New Wheat $ a p t th'.B day, and a good extent of businepa was tr P 4 o s ; NO an advance of Is. per quarter. The suPPsupp ly fortba Spring Corn comes slowly to hand, bu t autUcieut present demand. Nothing is yet doing in Hops 16 ,,, Wheat, white bits. to 1365....... M 1....." to - 4 - red 52e. to 635. Darby. Malting 2lO. to 345....... Grinding. , V,',. Or Oats /Scans 2Bs. to 225....... 01d......... gt.:v Pease ........... EXETER Alt KETS .-sept. 1 7, 6 4 90.?, 1 Beef (score) .... 6d. 8.. &I. Wheat (busbco..l 6 3 Mutton (1b.).. O4A 0 q .............. t Veal and Lamb 0 5 oni Oats ............. 3 A 0 10 P , rk ........... 41 0 6 Beaus g Geese (each) 3 0 0 Batter Q 1)) .......... 0 Ducks (coup e) 5 0 4 Eggs ( 12) .“..,•••••::A 0 Fowis 2 6 6 Potatoes (pec.). 0rf ,14 !Jules. Cowl. I cave.. 1 ev. H r s 1 sh CATTL I E . : II.. I.N ACCOUNT Or CANTU* lIIIPORTIZD INTO Ltroora. TO AIM. 18. 50TH OVVII INCIA-1;;,, . 2154 I 46 5 I 3416 I 130 H :=------- ' ,---:: c IRISH MAnK ETS. 11. DUBLIN MARKET NoTE.—FitioxY, S'r i ; it riq 1 !ir071 ( 1 1T.. 1. ° 3 1) 0 4 ( I II o 13 '„), 13 ; 13 11 I.i i ," 14 5 1 5 :: e t s s t 1, ,1 7i .,. 1 - - 6 t i 14 9 Lk/ " it V; 0, 19 0 ?o g Arc,,, o‘i• id Flour • 011— xi o w'' ....... Noun 0. w i: 100 9 ' pj, la, ....... from 10 14 Od4 to 10 I, froM $ l,l 40., 'Mum igglf Quarter:lr ...•'''"..s' 1,7 8-1 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 273 Bete- _ l7 stone 222 stone 2,484 Oats 12 stone 9,397 Cwt. 9 stone 4011 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Makers only. 8,531 Cwt. Flour Average price of Wheat am Firsts, Receipts of Flour. 8,0601 8 „ on d Sales of Do. 0,397 Thin' , PRICE or lo%d. I Quartern Loaf -..............10%d. 1 Half Quarters t. I 211, Wheat, Barley. 004, 11°11, per barrel per barrel per barrel , . 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. A"' ~' d. s.d.aml. cd. a s.d. s.d.as.rl.ls. 11 •1 4 6 l y 0 aonmel -10 6-30 0 II C0rk....... 21 6-30 0 11 0-15 0 10 0-13 El 20 In, c, 0 1/"*0 0 Limerick 40 0-35 011 6-12 A 9-15 0 18 u"'„___,v 1 6 mo li 'lti 6 Waterford!..ls 0-40 012 0-14 010 0-12 017 ' , 3 7 1 „ 10 ~ - 0 0 Carlow ..... 26 0-40 012 0-10 0 100.-43 0 20 6 .-:.-- - -.-.:„„ 1...-• ___________--=-_ ____ __------ -- fnrl.''r,, - 51 1 '• Beef, Hutton, - Pork, , s i..- • „„.„.• 0-14 6 10 6-12 612 0 u—ii 0y... -- ; ;;; !per lb. per lb. per cwt. 6 l st. ...-01 s• 6 ,; --..-- -.- ammes+o.... ....... ,of , / 1 01 V 'l. d. I. d. dI it l' aL . OM' teo I a ( a a. __. aI. i . 011. ~ 7.2 ~0 . Cork .:4j -6 4-6 16 0..20 70 „1 , 1 t ) 0u• 0 fp7 1, Limeriek-!3 -4 3 - 4 32 0-35 0.80 0 , u ' id 6; 1) , Waterfonli3 -4 3 ..- 5 W 0 -.25 6186 i"'„,,, ... „I' 54 0 . u Cloninel ... 3 -5 3 - 5 0 0-40 08'1 - t6 4 '' - t° -..- Carlow--. 4 -4j 0 ... 0 0 0.- 0 O7B 7 4 ,---ci ii , o4 ' - t ' _ r _._.----,.. • .. bit a. d. a s. ‘1,16. d. 16 0...e0 000 0 0 : 141 0-35 0800 0 W 0 —.25 aro ' , iiF' ° 25 0--311 0 SUI Or OIA ° 0 ,-- 0 0 78.....:____;;,...irrii: t° 81e. per cwt. ; lNb"t,,,,ll're;' bor EL Ver bag; ot ' s NI. t ° T u ttoo ii. ace( 4d. to :A, per lb , i , 6 001 'tope; Coald lg. 9.d. per 04 ' Kll.llClll4ft —But per barrel; Flour rel ; 73rrle y Ws. to to 4)id. ; Potatoes Piga 'AL to 40s. pe ter 78i I 245. to We 13e.; 13 is 4d. per s !t cat, corroN WOOL. , 'OW L IST or t stro : T : A____:o:rxro c.„:„....„.........rol sT s. xro Fro I , ~...—.........k.............., _ os Saint lie. 1Y eat' This r i o d 14ot Y_...-. ,••• ib year. yea, -- I ..............- ..—....- ------ v ,T 0..- 176 nags, &c. $3O,- so , 110 Liverpool.. Gm 184 577 gll i . ./1 o 'ol London 16,818 5N 169 " ... Olivtip rar 44199 2 7 6 18 1 g9,81.e Total exported In 1830 *" .. """ " 84)96 Of Same period 1129.... ........ ..... -.NM ce vmatter sooner 0___..................hinerry muit.fitih;neissiirwhwieoc(nioi litl,hlriallecic, T retlusi h ininn e igtnint,v:rved, : eratar t aNtfill. n litcs i h,s ) ,;: i ntwq c lisr, : ..ic:o,i.onoipu, ; (2, g ,,,,l. u ti i iii l iii}hi : ,.. o tttioe bf ii:,iFi lt : t it i tch i o l .n t i l o l on l, e i rd o.p so r : l l lte enti e n t i::: , e r lir ,ion. Report says that the Low Oakes _ gb o , We cannot believe, bowife't 00 , et time is come, or, we trust, ever will, when tio °I" a o de tha Viols Advocate,,a,7e, be e who he may, can auftsr en toolo i On o sl n ow th T e r 2 e o n t t h , an app e al, If so, judging from the olightnol ',ode the elart:idanptwsvealtiihtlaceyherlighwalimelal :71111)1b7f7:14n d --- _, ............ - , was w BU ppollitli tO deCreOlihilaiervelsilt:die::::ol'i On the 20th Es-i i sO II t , O r On the 18th inst. at Brighton, ib° —di --- BIRTHS. LoVrO tl lips , of a eon. MARRIED. . Ti . Webb , $01;'1,1, On the 21st inst. at Hackney, "• ...bur ° I nns:itt.'ai6ontifßlaaVigildrnaln:toPil•letillelitl7:l(llt.be wit 4 (::::11 Lincoln's-inn- fi elds, to Letitia, e ldest ,I.',Tll_ n, Gven, Esq., late his Majesty's Consul at l'il i e p e g., i, On tlte 21st inst. at Cliesitut.S. tl4 d ,obvt 81 Lewin, of Yately, Hants, to Sorb, third kaishuot• K. Santion, Esq., of Alttury-plice, C.- -- in DIED. , A i a Itlstl l° On the 16th inst. at Edinburgh, LA' ,„ poor, EN., of Portmore• o jelhaa" ota On the 12th inst. at the rheum of 1., cw hire, Berne , T. Shone, Esq., late of Stag-lia i of On n ou t r e te2or-tphia.:ines,t.LatonLedotnrei. , sussexcl,lTer i,0);.0..,P,L0i: late of Gower-street, Bedford Ware , 1 :' . 3 f r , Vi. On the 21st bast. at Hadley, lifiddl'e ' b ß o e l ( e 3 t t : on ' r lh G oef d l t i te t ib h r- v i l a n w n s e t. ' s C u a i g l )ed ' e ctsl s. : : ' o th : e o g uc ell es ev fr a 'i r .. ., %/ ;i i. : ; t r : o f r ti r os:l‘il'ef Clare Portion, Tiverton, and an acting """" county of Devon. 6 [ 4 lE 'OOO t% '1"4111) AND PHELISHRH sr tOOV' ; TH E SUH 'OTWICEI 1 if, filitAEPi