The Sun. — London, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

1 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. At the time when President Jackson, by one of the boldest experiments which has been an- nouneed to Congress for the last twenty years, . . proposes not only to modify the existing import duties, but to alter the very principle on which they are founded, and consequently to readjust the commercial relations between the United States and their great customer, England, it is of the gravest interest, if not of the utmost im portance, to obtain accurate inf , rmation in this country on the fiscal laws of the Union, and the acts lately passed for regulating the trading in tercourse between it and foreign nations. A fifth or a sixth part in value of all the trade of Great Britain is carried on with the North American States, and by the modification of the tariff that trade may be expected rapidly to in crease. It is therefore with pleasure that we see the announcement, and have received an im perfect copy, of a work, to be published in London, by an intelligent German, who has long resided in America (W. R. Renss), en titled " Calculations and Statements relative to the Trade between Great Britain and the United States of America." One of " the statements" or rather tables in the 144 pages of the printed sample which has been sent us is rendered, in the arrival of the President's message, of an im portance which the author could not have anti. cipated at the time that he drew it up. Both the President and the Finance Minister, it will be recollected, declared their wish to abando all import duties intended only for protretion t peculiar branches of industry (excepting a few rare cases), and to levy future duties for revenue alone. As the American debt was to be ex tinguished, as far as it is redeemable within the year, on the Ist of January inst., and as indeed no debt but a sum of 37,000,000 dols. remaine" to be redeemed, it would be easy to calculate flit amount to which the aggregate produce of thl tariff would be reduced by the new system o 1 policy', on simply comparing the existing expen diture with the custom-house income. Mr. Maclane's estimate for the whole necessar\ expenses of the General Government amounted only to 15.000,000 dots. The tariff last year produced 28,000,000 dols., which,together wits the sale of the public lands, the interest of Bank stock, foreign indemnities, and other items, raised the revenue to more than double the ordinarN expenditure, and thus enabled the Government to cancel a proportional amount of debt. But as the import duties were modified and reduced by the act of last July, the tariff could not pro- duce so great a revenue by several millions .31 dollars in future years as in the last. According to the Minister's calculation, it would only ex ceed the expenditure by about 6,000,000 dols.. and consequently that sum would be the limit future reductions. The work before us, pro ceeding on the amount of imports in 1830, does not give so sanguine a' view of the estimated revenue ; but it ought to be recollected, that within the last two years the trade. of Americi , has extended to a degree totally ,unexampled. In a table showing the amount .of_ duties accord. ing to the rates of the tariff of 1828, and the amount of duties according to the Modified tariff of 1832, calculated upon the importations o' the year ending September 30, 1830,We find that the former was 21,714,770 dols., while the latter would only have been .15,126,959 dols. Such a produce would amount to little more than the esti mated expenditure, anti therefore would permit no further reductions, unless we took into account the increase of importations, which the Presi dent stated was last year nearly one-third beyond the year 1830. Thus do the calculations formed in Europe, and the official accounts of the American Government, nearly agree. Thougl we entered at some length into the contemplated change of policy on the tariff question, in our recent remarks on the President's message, we omittec to point out some of the other important changes of which he announces the execution if he can obtain the consent of the Congress. Tires( have all one principle and one object, namely, to narrow the basis of the General Government, — to detach from the central Administration at Washington all subjects of dispute or different( between it and the separate states,—to permit each section of the Union to enjoy as much t) its sovereignty as is compatible with a confedera. tion for eternal defence or for the prevention o mutual quarrels about their limits or juris. dictions,— and never to interfere with the freedom of their individual action except whet it would compromise the general safety Hence he has refused his consent to the renewa of the Bank Charter, because he thinks that tht General Government has nothing to do with bank ing, and should grant no exclusive privileges ii the separate states under its authority,—hence,ht seems even inclined to dispense with the federa: • judicature,—and hence he proposes to dispos( of the public lands to the separate states in whicl they be, instead of reserving them as a source o revenue, and a subject of management for th( federal Administration. In several of these pro. jests, and particularly the last, he is opposed tit men of great talents, profound political science, and undoubted patriotism. To them tires( lands, bought with the federal treasure, and de. fended by federal troops, appear a legitimate source of revenue to the General Government Their allotment in the hands of the latter is more uniform, their survey more accurate, and their registration more secure. The inhabitants of the states whose population is so dense as to render emigration to the back settlements desir able, are always sure of dealing more easily with the officers and agents of Washington than with local proprietors. In these and other are guments, ably stated and enforced in the America? , Quarterly Review and other recent American publications, the European public will generally be found to concur, though they may allow ere• dit to General Jackson for the motives whicl have led him to recommend an opposite sys. tem.—Times. The Election by the Members of the first Reformed House of Commons of a Speaker, of enlightened political opinions, representing the spirit and sentiments of the newly- constitutet. Legitlature, is a matter of great importance ; and the conduct of Lord Grey's Cabinet, di recting the influence of Government in the ap pointment, will be rigidly and severely scruti nized by the country. We know that the ru mours in question have created great political excitement, and no ordinary surprise. The con• tinuance of men of Tory sentiments in office. trust, and power—the frequent appointment of persons of adverse political opinions to vacant places and Government patronage, have been notoriously and justly subjects of public com plaint against the present Administration ; espe. Fie . when the Reformers have observed no great AMR* advance the relations and per .4-ioit . ' ..i - e - nrslo Ministers to lucrative ofcial ''.`- in a``.-iiiiiiii tiiiit" * ations. The Tory Lord :, ':Lititttenititslikvt n allowed to reign dominant --1.1 in their several provinces, and undisturbedly to nominate, for two years, Conservatives to every magisterial and municipal office. Tory Bishops have been generously and simply invested with the deputation of disposing of the Lord Chan chancellor's Church preferment most locally offen sive to the Reformers. The consequences of this miserable and mistaken policy have been sorely felt by the country, and was injuriously visited on the Liberal candidates at the recent general election. Nearly two hundred of the Members of the late Parliament honestly and opportunely remonstrated with a leading member of the Ad ministration against this execrable political suicide of the Whigs, in a private but subscribed remonstrance. The palpable policy of Lord Grey is to confide in public opinion, and to be guided by its power and influence ; that basis is the only foundation of his Cabinet. A tem porising policy, and a cunning consultation of the " art of government" of his enemies, may meet present party emergencies ; but assuredly an extreme fear of the machinations of the Tories, and constant fencing to ward off instead ~ f to destroy their power, will terminate in the downfall of the Administration. It is an old political axiom, that a temporier—a trimmer— one who complies with times and occasions— enjoys but a brief political existence. The tricks and devices of a metropolitan club, or Tory Clique, may demand contravention, but he opinion of a nation calls for far more obser vation and respect. The state of parties in this country is extraordinary and unparalleled. The l'ories—if Lord Grey will see and believe—are put hors de combat. In the Reformed House of Commons they will rank as a miserable fac ,ion. The House of Lords must conform to the representation of the will of the people, or 1. "collision" fatal to the aristocracy must sooner or later occur. And what is the strength of the " Whig party ?" There is no such political com bination of men, in the former acceptance of the Arne. Nay, the very " party" is dependent for its being on the life of Lord Grey. No other pub lic man alive, or to be, can rally the forces of the »arty, or give them effect and power. The Whigs will die a natural death, and attend as mourners the remains of schedule B, when the " final measure" shall have been consummated. In deed Lord Grey could. not form, in 1830, a " Whig" Administration. His Cabinet is com posed of various political allies; and infinite is his merit, and happy the juncture of political cir cumstances, which enabled him, supported by 'he people, to dethrone the boroughmongers. But the sagacity of Lord Grey must teach him that a Juste-milieu administration of the Go vernment of this country cannot be long or suc cessfully maintained. His Reform Acts are instruments in the hands of the people, which 'he people will use effectively, for the avowed ind determined object of effecting a thorough reformation in the administration of public af- fairs. Practical reforms in every department o " Church and State"—decided and liberal po. icy in the promotion of active and enlightened men—can alone give permanency to the Cabinet if Lord Grey, or any other class or coalition of oarty politicians. A new and rapid formation of oublic character will take place, and the old sets of placemeri and office-hunters will be annihi lated. A Juste-milieu House of Commons may temporarily oppose a drag-chain to the po pular movement ; but, as assuredly as " know ledge is power," so sure will the people, through the breach recently effected in the citadel of the horoughmongers, storm the fortress of cor ruption. We have made these preliminary observations in relation to the re-appoint ment of Mr. Manners Sutton to the Speaker ship of the Reformed Parliament. Some of our liberal contemporaries—no doubt properly in 4ructed—are bravely defending the intention of this most extraordinary and disgusting re-ap oointment of a Tory President of the new House of Commons. We say, disgusting, because it is a monstrous violation of the Constitution that I British Cabinet should be pre-arranging the ippointment of the Speaker of a British Re formed Parliament, and a Press announcing the •:election of the individual for that responsible elective office, one calendar month before even he Members of the Legislature have met toge (her ! We cannot, and will not, believe these malicious reports. They are, doubtless, the , pawn of the Dutch fabrications of the Tories— ...reated to take the place of the last exploded lies of the Conservatives. Now, what are the facts connected with the retirement of Mr. Manners Sutton ? Unquestionably, the Ministry, at the end of the last session, intended that the Ex- Speaker should close his presidential career. Lord Althorp, the leader of the House of Com mons, the acknowledged representative of the Cabinet, on the voluntary announcement by the Speaker of his official retirement, proposed on the 30th July, " that an humble address be pre sented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously oleased to confer some signal mark of his Royal favour upon the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, for his eminent services in the six Par liaments during which he has discharged the duties of Speaker of this House, ficc." On the following day Lord Althorp reported his Ma jesty's answer to the address, " that his Majesty is desirous, in compliance with the wishes of his faithful Commons, to confer upon the said Right Hon. C. Manners Sutton some signal mark of his Royal favour; but as the same cannot be effec .ually granted and secured without the concur rence of Parliament, his Majesty recommends to he House of Commons the adoption of such measures as may be necessary for the accom plishment of this purpose." A grant of 4,0001. per annum was therefore subsequently agreed by the House of Commons, as a life pension to he Speaker on his secession from the Chair, with the reversion of 3,0001. a year to his heir male. Lord Grey, unadvisedly we think, as we have before stated, has refused the Ex-Speaker hat " signal mark of Royal favour"—a Peerage —which, under all circumstances, is not the right, but the claim of Mr. Manners Sutton, And which would have removed Mordecai from the King's gate. The Ex-Speaker naturally de clines to sink into political insignificance. Those who are feared are respected. He retires from Scarborough, and is put forward for the Tory High Church representation of the University of Cambridge, in opposition to, and exclusion of, a Whig candidate ! The Conservatives cannot afford to throw away trump cards; and immediately on the Honourable Member's re turn, a cabal is industriously commenced, aided by the usual assistance of the Tory Press, to put forward Mr. Manners Sutton in op position to Government for the Speakership of the Reformed Parliament. The Ministry ire charged by rumour with usurping the prero gative of the House of Commons, in the nomi iation of the Speaker ; and after their own iberal candidate for the Chair has canvassed Members for the office—and Mr. C. Wynne has again hoisted his signals—report states that the Ministers applied to Mr. Manners Sutton to know hisintentions, and fell into the trap of undertaking to support him from fear ! This is the plain unvarnished narrative of facts, as cur rently reported by the Tories and admitted by the friends of Ministers. The Times an nounced last week that it was settled that the Ex- Speaker is to resume his duties. The Court Journal intimates the same strange fact as follows : " All is definitively settled for the Speaker's continuance in office ; and we learn with pleasure that letters of the most flittering description have been addressed to the Honourable Gentleman on the subject by hii Majesty's Ministers." The Sunday organ of the Ultra-Tories, John Bull, chuckles and glorifies itself on the capital success of the ruse ; and asserts on " credible authority," that " Ministers hake written, in the person of Lord Althorp, a crawling solicitation, that Mr. Manners Sutton would be pleased again to take upon himself the fatigues of the Speakership—by which we augur that the Noble Lord will propose Mr. Sutton himself." John Bull further insinuates that the Peerage was refused the Ex-Speaker lest be should at tain the Premiership, or rival Lord Grey in the Upper House—a contemptible absurdity ; but we should not marvel if the Tories, buoyed up with the success of their stratagems and in trigues, should next attempt that enterprise. The consequences of this morbid Ministerial policy is now apparent. Lord Grey's Cabinet must abandon such temporising prudery—such " overmuch nicety in conduct." The mischief is now justified by the pretended aptitude of Mr. Manners Sutton for the office ; and our strictures are pronounced illiberal and ground less, because all parties admitted the appropriate performance by the Ex-Speaker of his functions. We do not concur in the universal meed of praise to Mr. Manners Sutton, as the Speaker of unreformed Parliaments, when Lord Castle reagh and Mrs Canning led the House of Com mons. But Lord Grey will never satisfy the country—will never content the Members really representing any large constituency—that a rank Tory is a proper President of the new Parlia ment ; or that the mode of his reappointment is any credit or strength to a liberal Administra tion. The temporary saving of 4,0001. a-year will not compensate the nation for the evils of a Tory Speaker. It is " penny wise and pound foolish," to use a homely English proverb. The whole business and machinery of legisla tion in the Houses of Parliament require amend ment. Many larger sums may be saved, and much additional " money's worth" secured, through the agency of a Speaker representing the spirit of the times. The incumbent of the Chair of the House of Commons has the power of much " good and evil." The as sociations of Mr Manners Sutton are with the " system." He is, in fact, " part and parcel" of it. Is it probable that Mr. Manners Sutton will promote expedient and necessary Reforms in all the departments of the House ? Will he bestow the patronage of the office—small as it may be, but nevertheless important—upon To ries or Liberals ? But the most lamentable and injurious consequence of his re-appointment would unquestionably be the success of Tory plots ; it would act as a premium on Conserva tive intrigue. We cannot suspect Ministers of such pusillanimity or folly. The Speakership is an office of great responsibility, and in the tenure of friends or enemies of an Administration is highly important. To place it in the hands of a back-bone Tory would be about as silly as if Marshal Gerard had selected a Dutchman to be chief engineer of the siege of Antwerp. Would the Duke of Wellington, if Prime Minister now, appoint either Mr. Abercrombie or Mr. Little ton Speaker ? He is too wary a General, and we don't doubt that Lord Grey will recommend Mr. Manners Sutton to the Peerage. Suicide is a horrid crime in the political world.—Morning Chronicle. " How will it work ?" is a question which has been asked respecting the Reform Bill, not in printed pamphlets only, but in private letters, in confi.lential whispers,—nay, by every man in communing with his own thoughts upon our political futurity. So far as concerns Great Britain, there is little difficulty in replying, that the Bill has by its first operation produced an overpowering majority of zealous Reformers, — of men, we mean, who define Reform to be a redress of real grievances, and a supplying of visible defects within, but not beyond, the re cognised principles of the Constitution. Of those whose notions of a reforming policy ex tend to a change in the principle of the Govern ment, or, in other words, to the overthrow of the monarchy and a direct revolution, there are but very few, perhaps not more than a dozen Members, returned for England, Scotland, and \Vales. For Ireland, unfortunately, we cannot speak with equal satisfaction. If in this country the bulk of the House of Commons be com posed of moderate though liberal politicians, well inclined to support the existing Govern ment, the two extreme factions being compa ratively feeble, just the contrary observa tion may be made upon the returns from Ireland, where the ostensible friends of Mi nisters are few, and the two rival and unruly factions comprehend between them at least three fourths of her representatives. Indeed, if the declarations of all Irish Members on the bust ' inas and elsewhere were to be taken literally , and 0 no restraining power were to be exercised over their Parliamentary acts by the sounder portion of the British Legislature, it seems to us that the country would be exposed to shocks which no frame of law, of policy, or society, could long withstand unshaken. It is said that those Irish men who have pledged themselves to a repeal of the Union" amount to 40, on the lowest calcula tion. If the whole of these bondsmen were sent into Parliament, tied as thoroughly neck and heels as it was their leader's known intention that they should be, it is probable that there never existed a party or section in any political assembly more formidable, under cunning guid ance, to the cause of internal peace and good government than this band of 40 sworn revolu tionists. But what is the fact ? We are strongly of opinion, that besides Mr. O'Connell and his household squad, the genuine favourers of a separation between these islands might be re duced within very scanty limits. It is not difficult to understand why one discontented, ambitious, and restless spirit should with eagerness push forward a measure which would have for its in evitable result his rise for a certain (though pos sibly short) period to the absolute rulership of the Irish Parliament and nation. The returns to the separate Parliament of Ireland would in five cases out of six be made by Mr. 0 Connell and the . priesthood. The earliest acts of the separate Parliament would be at the dictation of the same parties through their nominees. Who can doubt, therefore—nay, who can be surprised at the zeal, amounting to fanaticism, with which these confederates force ion the repeal of the Union, or, in plainer words, endeavour to break down the only barrier which stands between them and the enjoyment of despotic power? But is this any reason why other Irish laymen of independent fortune, and a spirit above abject servitude, should be sincerely and from the bottom of their hearts desirous to play the O'Connell game? That Protestants should consider a repeal of the Union anything but the prelude to a total overthrow of Protestant li berty and property in Ireland, is to suppose them frantic. But we see that the higher and better order of Catholics themselves, have dis- dainfully rejected the terms of the Autocrat and his minions. Lord Killeen, the son of the Pre mier Catholic Peer of Ireland, refused the pledge, . .._ and preferred an honourable retirement from an unfair contest. Mr. Wyse, of Waterford, was equally decided, and bore the same conse quences like a man of honour and a gentleman. Now, is it possible to believe that the senti ments of such persons as the Noble Lord and the late Member for the county of Tipperary are not shared by the great majority of individuals of their rank in the Catholic body ? Mr. Sheil, indeed, to our infinite regret, has enrolled him self in the O'Connell regiment ; but even his is a qualified allegiance. He does not approve the repeal of the Union per se,—he only ac cepts and sanctions it as a succedAneum for other measures of relief or amelioration to Ire land, and in case the British Parliament should refuse to do her justice. This is at worst but hypothetical ruin ; and, in truth, we are persuaded that many of those who have, in general terms, swallowed the anti union pledge, have done so conditionally, in what we conclude to be the sense of Mr. Sheil—that if they cannot otherwise obtain a full measure of Church and State Reform for Ireland, why then, as a last shift, they will drive the repeal of the Union. More objec tionable pledges than this have been taken before now, and without much reluctance, by very honest men. We go further, and affirm, that if there be no hope from the Reform Ministry and from the British Parliament for Ireland, every Irishman who felt that there was more chance of redress from a domestic Legislature would be justified in exerting himself for its revival. How ever, the duty and policy of Government are clear. Let such a broad and effective Church Reform be introduced for Ireland as may prove a sufficient motive with every independent Mem ber from that country to support his Majesty's Ministers, and may unmask all who still persist in the scheme of separating the two islands as factious and unprincipled incendiaries. Our belief is that measures of ample Reform will be proposed, and that even amongst the professed advocates of repeal the Whig Government will find stanch and conscientious allies.— Times. The list which we publish this day, contain ing the names of all the Members of the new Parliament, the names (in England and Wales) of their unsuccessful opponents at the elections, and the numbers who voted for Reformers and Conservatives respectively, is a document which cannot fail to attract much attention at the pre sent crisis. This table affords the most com prehensive analysis which has yet appeared of the great political movement of the first election under the new and reformed system. It ex hibits the conflicts of the elective body through out the kingdom, not only in their immediate results as they appear from the returns, but also in their conflicting power as it stands compara tively on the face of the poll-books. We see at one glance what is the amount of the triumph achieved, and what the respective strength of the parties by whom it was contested. That the issue has been a glorious triumph to liberal principles is universally acknowledged—bating the epithet—even by the Tories themselves. Whether it will or will not Drove a triumph to Ministers will depend altogether upon the course which they pursue in the new Parliament. If they prove bonafide Reformers, economists, and enemies of corruption, even the first Reformed Parliament is strong enough to carry them through the necessary measures. The first Re formed Parliament is stronger even than that— it is strong enough to force upon them the adoptimi of such measures, even if they should feel disposed to give them the go-by : so that, in addition to the fair presumption of - the-good intention on the part of its authors, we have"the positive working of the Reform Act itself in suring to us those practical consequences with out which it would be all a delusion. In fact, Toryism is from this hour forward a nonentity. Whatever the Conservatives may be able to do, must be attempted in a different tone and upon a different scale from the old dominating party whose reign is at an end.—Morning Herald. We conceive that there can be entertained but a very little difference of opinion as to the pro priety of the Lord Chancellor's adopting some, if not all, of the very usefill and practical sug gestions which appeared in an Evening Contem porary last week about his Lordship's new Bankruptcy Court. That the official assignees, whose numbers may, perhaps, be too large, but whose services have, we know, been found of considerable value, should be put to expense by an outlay of money in the hire of clerks and offices could never have been intended, and that they should not, be repaid such expenditure is very hard. By adopting the simple suggestion of applying the rooms on the ground floor of the Bankruptcy Court in Basinghall-street, which are at present appropriated to the Chief and Deputy Registrars, to the use of those gentlemen, the expense, at least of offices, would be saved. The accumulation of books and papers will in time be very great, and they might all be properly preserved in the excellent accommodation which there is for them in the vaults and rooms under ground i n that building. By this means there might be a much easier communication with the official assignees than there is.at present, and the Chief and other Registrars might all go into the rooms u p stairs hi the private part of the Bankruptcy Court. The office,of 'the House Registrar there is now useless. It' has for many years been attended with indulgences never contemplated by the law, or :within the spirit of any Act of parliament ; and, the office be not now itself virtually repealed ~ 1.1 the Bankruptcy Court Act, the whole ,of the upper part of that Court ought not, with the exception of two or three rooms - only, to be devoted to the ac commodation of a' Registrar and a House keeper, to the exchision of the more deserving o fficers of the Court.% There can be no doubt on this point ; and. the :next, the uselessness of the glaring, of Bankrupts' Office, is equally Secretary unless the, public, or, to speak more properly, the bankrupts' estates, are to continue to pay, to the 'exclusion of the creditors, the great expenses of this ' office, for no •practical good whatever.' All that is done there might as well be done in the Registrar's Office, and parties would not then have to go to two places instead of one to pay for double attendance by their solicitor, or to give fees in both places. This o ffi cer, who is an attendant on the judicial character of the Great Seal, should now, more especially, be got rid of, when the present holder of that dignity is about to - separate its judicial from its legal functions. The salary of the Lord Chancellor is not, we suppose, to be reduced on such separation ; and so, if any compunctious visitations of conscience about turning out the present holder should occur, he might well be remunerated out of his Lordship's own purse, as his tenure and tha' of his Secretary are but co-existent, and as his Lordship, when only a political man, will have so much the less to do. Another great deside• return in bankruptcy is for the Court to have an Accountant-General of its own, and not the officer of the Court of Chancery, whereby all money orders must be drawn up twice in Chan cery and in Bankruptcy too, at twice the trouble and twice the expense, and to the infinite delay of the suitor. Why not make the Chief Regis trar of the Court its Accountant-General also ? Another thing is, to extend the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the Court, by letting them have power to do every thing which the Court of 'Review now does, and enabling them to enforce by a summary power all debts under a certain amount due to the bankrupt's estate. Orders which are made of course by the Court of Re view, or which, when asked for, are merely men tioned, might be madeby one Commissioner only, and other orders by a sob-division Court, which ' should always sit one day in the week for that purpose only. There should be but one appeal, and that to the Vice-Chancellor, or the new judicial character that is to be. The Commis sioners who have worked so well merit the ex tension of their authority ; and the Court of Review, for which there never can be business enough, and which has in practice proved no very great improvement of the law, should be abolished, and its Judges, who are excellent and able men, be provided for elsewhere. The Registrars of this Court would still be wanting to draw up the orders which would still be made, but by another tribunal, and their places might be continued. The last improvement would be to send all the costs, of whatever sort or kind, or wherever incurred, to one officer, to be taxed ; for there is now neither practice, rule, uniformity, or any thing else, to guide the suitors of the Court respecting them. How much expense these alterations would save, and how much they would simplify and expedite business, is for the Lord Chancellor's considera tion.—Morning Post. LOWTHER CONSISTENCY.—CoIoneI Low- THER lately informed his auditors from the hustings. that if a resident gentleman, viz.. Mr. WILSON, of Milani Tower, had offered for Westmoreland, he, the said - - , precious Colonel, and his dear brother would not have been put in nomination. 111-uk Lowtherite consistency. Mr. LITTLEDALE, a resident of Whitehaven, offers him . . self for that borough—and at the desire, too, of a majority of the voters—and the LOWI HERS send down a nominee to oppose him. 0, rare consistency I What, was there no Yellow in Whitehaven, of note enough to he even Lord LoNsnALE's nominee? Alas, for the poor sell-lauded con temned slaves, and the consiatency of their task-masters, self-titled Conservatives. It was quite amusing to watch the countenances of the small contemptible knot of self styled Conservatives at Lancaster, when Mt. STANLEY (not Lord LONSDALE'S Cumberland nominee), so bitingly ridiculed and denounced these would-be perpetuators of every abuse.—Kendal Chronicle. ULVERSTON TORIES.—These liberal and enlightened politicians are quite inconsolable at the signal defeat, in North Durham, of Omir youthful leader, Mr. E. BRADDYLL. The present of the Bear to Lord LONDON DERRY did not, it would appear, cause the electors of Durham to send Mr. BRADDYLL, the son, to Parliament. Oh, ye undiscriminating el ctors ! Fie upon ye.—lbid. MARCH OF INTELLECT.—Among the sup porters of Colonel EVANS, at the Westminster election, were some honest fellows who had the misfortune of being born before the " schoolmaster." Two of thes, patriots met before the hustings on the last polling day, when the following dialogue took place :—Higgins —I say, he's a werry clever chap, I kno's he is. I shall vote for him; if I don't, blow me ! Spriggins—And I means , o vote for him, too, for he's a regular trump. Higgins_ Trump ! don't you he a fool, Mr. Sprigging, he's no such thing, be's an hofficer ! Spriggins—Thankee, for no thing ; d'ye think I don't know my own language ? Vhy, I gees it printed on his blackguard that he's a Leeftenant Kurnel ! And so saying, Mr. Spriggins turned upon his heel, and went up to vote.— Gentleman's Magazine. NOVEL RAT TIRAP.—On Tuesday night last the family of Mr. JENNISON, fishmonger, in the But chery, Queen street, were alarmed by a great noise in the shop, and suspecting some person had broken in, one of them went to the place, when to his surprise he found the disturber of his repose not a human, but a four•footed thief, namely, a rat, who, in helping himself to an oyster, on the shop-board (as, we are informed, is the custom with this species), had his intruding paw so firmly clenched in the grasp of the assailed oyster as to render escape im possible. We have seen the ponderous oyster, and the maimed rat m IT still be seen alive at the shop above men tioned. —Hull Advertiser. I once saw a Spanish gentleman in a crowded Tertulia, present a rose to a Peruvian lady, who had cap tivated him ; and shall never forget her look, and the fatal action which accompanied it. She dashed the flower on the ground, and trampled upon it with a frown of inef fable contempt. The astonishment of the assembly, and the frantic rage of the Spaniard, can be more easily ima gined than described. He rushed from the room, and tl,e next morning was found a corpse, a strong dose of lauda num having terminated his earthly career. It is but just to add, that such instances of, self-destruction are extremely rare, the philosophy of love being better understood by the Spaniards than perhaps any other nation ; and the general remark made upon this melancholy event is seldom called for, " Que Bongo! debia haberse enarnorado de otra." " What a fool ! be ought to have made love to another." The author of this tragedy was little affected by it. I met her at a ball a few evenings after, looking as gay and as beautiful as ever.—Tait's Magazine for Ja nuary. STATE OF TRADE IN PAISLEY.—We have seldom seen the year commence under more favourable cir cumstances as regards the trade of Paisley. During the whole winter, the weavers engaged in almost every branch have been kept in constant employment, and since the preparations for the spring trade have commenced, a great increase in the demand for workmen has taken place. The jaconet harness dresses, which have been se very dull since about the beginning of the agitation for Reform two years since, have been greatly in demand for some time past, and the prices paid for weaving have within this late, been raised from 20 to 25 per cent. This being the season when the Canton shawl trade usually begins to stir, there is every appearance of a very brisk spring trade in these articles. The silk mills are all uncommonly brisk pre paring the materials for the loom, and the weavers for plain cantons are greatly in demand, although as yet no advance in the price paid the workmen has taken place. Flush trimmings are also very brisk, and the demand for weavers cannot be supplied. But what those connected with the trade of Paisley look forward to with the greatest pleasure is, that the rich Indian imitation shawl trade is equally brisk with the other branches we have referred to ; and weavers are finding ready engagements at prices con siderably advanced. The importance of the present great demand for workmen in this department is much enhanced by the spring patterns being of a very rich description, which, besides spreading a great deal of work through all the trad e smen connected with the preparation of the goods for the loom, enables the weaver to earn a far superior wage above what is to be got for common work, and pre vents the market from being overstocked by a super. these e are articles, likewise which rathe it ; gone abundant soppy, which is too often the case when the patterns are inferi or. The demand for blue dresses, which lately gave emp lo y ment to a g reat number of bands, has passed over with nowon transparentfor dull, but that is customary at this time of the year. A revival in -this department is, however, confidently looked by. The the se season forward to in a lew weeks, when the assembling of Par liament will have collected the nobi ity in London. Scots Times. lINSOLVENT COURT, JAN. 7. Thomas Woodcock was opposed by a Mr. Saunders ,- The creditor had taken a bill of exchange of the insolvent, which he had passed away, and nor yet ° taken up ; it was accordingly adjudged by the Cour t si that he could not appear to oppose. ales for Ai The insolvent was ordered to be discharged. Benjamin Burrough Boniface was opposee by cie I tor named Durham; he was supported by Mr' Coma:. The insolvent had rented a farm of the Marquis of Salisbury, near Hatfield Hertfordshire, at a reel of 2601. He had left the farm in 1831, and a die' tress had been put in on the premises. The ir qtfry was to discover what had been done with cer tain furniture which had been in the house, and which, it now appeared, was the sole property of the wife of the insolvent, and had been removed to Yalden, iii Kent. The Court ordered the insolvent to be discharged' William Hawkes Langley, a clergy man, applied on his petition to be discharged. There was no opposition to the application on the part of the creditors, but it appeared by the exams' nation that Mr. Langley had borrowed 3001. of e Nlr. Eight, and that the living of the Rev. Gentle' man was tinder a sequestration, and Mr. COOKE, 0 0 the part of the insolvent, applied to the Commis' sioners to appoint an assignee by whom an inquirl might be set on foot as to the legal validity of the sequestration. The COURT appointed Dr. Foston assignee, a discharged the insolvent. To hip and B a Island Rants Tale of To his M meats, a LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 9d. for 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I►,4d. be' hat price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Jan. 7. fine —5. 70 5, hne —s..- 1 ' fine —s. fine —s. 65s' fine 655. 7 01 ' fine —s. 64' 4 fine 365. 4. 06 ' fine 26s fine —B. 421. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 565. Old Ditto Ditto —s. ....C. *l4' Foreign Ditto Old Ditto . —s. 546. New White Clover .. __ ......... 58s. 635. Old Ditto Ditto .....3. Ms. , TeNs , Trefoil --30 s. 3. 1 5 31dDitto ..............—....;..................... —s. 20s Rib Grass —. _ . —s. 375 FAc Iro n , tile . blishpci in SW/ F , autl lmize, SHATtE, rANy for th e ' 'arPe, wl as above, Se —s. —s. 655. fine 726• —s. —s. 635. fine 70>• —s. Its. fine -a. 146 , ,(per 335. CIA. fine --s. 465• —s. —s. new 30s. 38 1 * 40s. 565. new —s. —s. 565. fine —s. English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto ....—...... Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing Canary Seed, New ' 'at° Old —s. —s. 60e fine Os. —s. —s. —a. fine Qu ar ," ... White Mustard Seed —....(per —B. Ss. 9s. fine -. 4 ' `v r , ;. Brown Ditto - Turnip Seeds, Bounds. — s. — s. 18 s. tine 2 00 ' `'Y re tn i. Green and Red Ditto . —s. —s. 18s. tine 2 ,..,"" euted Fares, Old _ —s. 4s. tine 5:. Ditto New —s. ss. fine 6s. b 9; Etai,eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 241. 271. Foreign 22/. 2Di• PRICES OF HOPS.—Jan. 7. Kent Pockets 6l 10s. St. Os. to 11/. 1 . 1 16 Sussex Ditto _ 61 6s. 71. Os. to 71. 7e. Wesex Ditto Ol. Os. 01. Os. to 01. Os. Farnham Ditto. 01. Os. 121. Os. to 131 OM Seconds 0/. Os. 10! lOs to 11/ 111. 71. Cs. St. Os to 91. 91. 0/. Os. 01. Os. to W. 0 0 . 0/. Os. 01. Os. to 01. Os a s o I na a i t , T o*n of th e . hi totil y j 4tle x,cept N i - 9ply i n - iL Kent Bal Sussex ditto Essex Ditto,. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 61. Refined 6 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand , 13 0r Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY MARK ET.—Jan. 5 Hay 633.0 d. to 813. Od. I Clover —605 Od. to 1103. o ,l ' Od. to 30.. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Jan 7. Kidneys (York) Ol. Os. to 3/. 10s. per ton. Scotch Reds Marsh Champi0n5.—...—......... 01. Os. to 41. Os. ditto. Oznobles and Shaws .-2/. 1os. to 34 Os. ditto. PRICES 0 LEATHER Per lb. d. to d. Butte, English- 15 23 Ditto, 14 20 Dressing Hides— 12 15 Ditto 14 16; Ditto, light Ciop Hides, 1ight...... 12 14 to 451 b 13 16 Ditto l5 18 _ Per lb. English Horse Hides.. Spanish Ditto Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 30 to Ditto ........ 50 to 701 b. Ditto 70 to 801 b. Small Seals, Greenland Large ditto. SHEEP Best Polled —... ss. Od. to 6s. 6d. Middling Polled 4 0 5 0 SKINS. Half-bred 5......... 49. Od. to 55. f ) , 36 4 v RAW Per Stone. s. d. to s. cl. Kest Heifers& Steers 2 4 2 8 lfiddlinga 10 2 0 PRICE OF TALLONA ['own Tallow sls. 6d. Yellow 475. Od. 455. 6d. Soap Ditto 445. Od. Melted 375. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 131 b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters),..«. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in I Candles. per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od CANDLES. II Y Al TB] C PAL MA Per Ton. s. d. it dales 17 3 Chester 16 0 Dean's Primrose 16 9 Forest Main 16 6 Ii Owed 18 6 - l6 6 rf.willev » l5 9 Willington West Hartley 17 e Wylam 18 • 0 Wall End Callerton 16 0 Ditto Bewicke and C 0... 19 6 Walls End Gosthrth 19 6 Ships arrived since ••ogo SCOTCH MARKETS. h Act 4' ek t• Wheat. Barley Oats. 1 Beans. .0221 ... , 11 mile ---- Berwick....... 32 ........ 3 4 2 0 f.. 3 7 9 3 16 13 18 15 22 . 17 . 4 fa ° e gg b oat ai pl , , Coldstream .., 34 38 19 2 1 14 15 19 2 1 •-• / th-;-I Cupar —...... 48 70 28 32 20 24 26 29 .... / Tab, Dundee 50 (10 30 33 2 0 25 30 31 / .U 1 t Egai 45 53 28 30 18 21 23 30 -... / sa id b I nverness 40 4.6 24 28 16 23 23 30 46 / th et ./ Kelso ......,....... 3 4 37 18 19 13 15 23 24 -- /4 ,„, It i Kirkaldy 40 45 27 39 25 32 45 48 43 •/ s'. th e Perth .......--.. 54 57 29 31 21 24 26 30 •-• .../, 0 44 4 P L.'-- The size of t he m e a sure varies throughout the county t , i TN . Ip_ ------ E - 1 — ../INBURGH CORN NARKEI.—Jan. 2. s oi A phi 1d ', l i d We had a middling supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, the sales in general were heavy. ~s! .„ ! _ 424. , 0 C1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. ROW ' .... 4 1ie 1 l First ... ... 5Ss Od 34s Od 22s Od 29s Od 293 Od Th e S e cond... 52s Od 31s Od 20s Od 27s Od ."( od b Third..... 46s Od 22s Od 14s 8d 235 Od 23 3 tir Y I. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. i le I f ill te th Beef, per lb. .... Os. 3d. to Os. 7d. Fresh Butter, lb. s. Ind. to . s ', Arbi l ,. Mutton.....---. oak 0 7 Salt Ditto--...... 0 9 0' j, ol peal ~....»..... 0 4 0 9 Ditto, per et; t. 80 0 84 i n _t Vet P0rk............--...0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 0 0 4pir e e Lamb, per qr. 1 6 2 6 OatStrawckpl.) 6 0 7 " W —I 'fallow, cwt.... 37 6 40 0 Wheat Ditto", 6 0 7 it v." 11 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto ~5 0 I . `‘reui .-....... 17111, A Az A n fr. .-. " t i s. 1711 b. 0 3 0 0 Hay, pet 5t...... 0 8 EDI NBU It(i /I MFA The supply of Oatmeal at this and the sale dull, at last week's Per. Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal 4l 10 0 Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 Peas eineal 1 5 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. Tits LMA ItKr.:l.--Jan. 1. 0 0 day's market was rather 6 prices. Per Stone of 14113. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 i 1 Second ditto 0 li Baricymeal Peasemeal 0 :0 ;..-2d„ 14L-3d.l6s.—Psai Pe w , °la ] ' ll 4l :me.xc Vin e 4' r.ara, GLASGOW COR: Our Grain market is still without alteration. ta li E t K e,a T n . d —J pr a i n. ces2. gen' , t fatt%l'att th '-. It h ti le e... a_ tio t 7 that al' t (tete . bold e T Itq t j ek - • ,: she la %ea•= * far --1 t Itt t ne t ia ,• tiv ' e ac 'clreviei oi UN. % .!' • Th t eA c hi ti 'ottly h t ,_ AN The a i DIED. i On the sth 'inst. In Thayer-street, M anc hester-squarep. 1 1 ,-; Hon. and Rev. John Blackwood, Rector of Rathcormac, 0 01 Cork, Ireland. I. Th i On the 6th inst . in the 78th y ear o f hi s a ge, th e . Rey'- . .. . j 'Ph: Hughes, Canon Residenti ary o f g t. P au l' s . Ar. eon On the 6th inst. in D evons hi re-p l ace , Elizabeth Kathy - .41'4 relict of the late William Surtees, Esq, in her 88th year. On the Ist inst. a t Worplescon, Surrey, the Rev. WO a. /111 Roberts, Vice-Provost of Eton College, and Rector of plesdon, aged 71. A id 6 . L v io ° , l On the sth inst. at Sidmouth, aged 22 years, Geerge s ;# 4 1 4) , strong, Esq., of the Colonial Office, son of Colonel Arms ph of New Burlington-street. Sussex, 0 n tll e in6tthhe _i inst. at year a r the f hisfam a i g ly e, in ti a le ns it io i n g , ht S H hi o l n li . n t g h le e e rfr l 0 1 . Cal l :, Winterton, after a long and severe illness. His LordshiP,, ". St. 1 vived his father, the late Earl, only twenty.one months, at npt ~ Os , left his Lady, now the Countess Dowager Winterton, abd li . 3 . Flee children, two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, the i i Ba. Lord Vlseount Tumour, now the Earl of Winterton, su ~ S e lf to the family titles and estates. 2. _.,..11" vol PRINTED AND PUBLlsilso RI MURDO YOUNG, Al' ON • SUN 01 , FroZ, 119, STRANDLONDON. Wheat, - periiiiiii: s. d. s. d. British, old 25 0 to 31 0 ------ new Canada, free 27 0 29 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 0 Scottish 22 0 24 0 Irish °lle 1 Oats, per 264111 s. d. Irish l3 010 British — 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish ... 15 0 Pease, Scottish 15 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 13 0 Flour, per2801h.... 47 0 BIRTHS. On the sth inst. the Hon. Mrs. Martin, lady of Captain t shave Martin, R.N., of a son. On the sth inst. at Castle Goring, Sussex, the Hon. Pealed, of a daughter. On the sth inst. at Clifton Rectory, Nothamptonshirer lady of the Rev. Henry Spencer Markham, of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst. at the Cathedral of Christ Church, Cad bury, Richard M. Mount, Esq., to Isabel, eldest daughter 0. , late William Mackeson, Esq. K On the sth inst. at eighington, John James Scott EST I the island of Jamaica, to Elizabeth Margaret, eldest daught the late Lieutenant-General Aylmer, of Walworth Castle, iv connty of Durham. d.tod, 12 1 " 18 ,' 14 io 16 0 94 16 1127 [IDES. . d Per Stone. d. tor Ordinary , 0 th Market 7 0 ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. 0 Yellow 50ap.................... 625. „A Mottled _ 7os. White 72s. 0 6 Graves _ . ............. 16s. Good Dregs ...................., fss. cop Got 1 138, aRO )44y • en fo op l , re‘e a n a l KET.—Jan. 7. 6 °nl )' of Per Ton. ' . „ Walls End en Walls End Newinarch,.... U' a nitto Northumberland • Walls End Riddell's — II Wabton's Primrose g vro Walls r.nd Hetton 19 Walls End Lambton 1 9 4 du B r a Walls End stewart's....... 6 g a l •al Walls End Tees .....•—•••••• eta; Howard'sNethertonMain 16 •alld New Flockton, Milne, ' l e and Co. " pael poi Silkstone Jackson 1.7 le t last market-day, 24. t hat • ' tll ;he retail shops, is as follow. . I Moulds, per d0zen..,..: