The Sun. — London, England, 1830-08-27 00:00:00

APIIILIT OF -TUE PUBT.TC-JOURNALS. The Paris Papers of Tuesday, Which we received yesterday, contain a vatiety of interesting inteili }mice, the details of which will be found ender the head of France. The principal topics may le. briefly described. We begin with the Chamber of Peers, which had another public sitting ma Monday. Our readers will recollect that in the previous sitting of, that Chamber ' an account of which was given io our paper of Wednesday last, a letter tehlressed by the Marquis de Rouge to the Quoddienne was read and animadverted upon by the Minister of the hi terior. The Marquis is one of those ultras who think it necessary to make excuses end apologies for taking the new oath. In his letter he intimated that he concurred in the opinion expressed by the Duke of Fitzjames, and hinted that he considered himself acting in obedience to the intentions of Charles X, This affair was noticed by the Duke of Fitzjames on Saturday, Who teems to have displayed no little irritation in his explanatory observatiotui; hat the most remarkable part of Isis speech is the conclusion, in which he advises the Ministers to direct their attention to more important objects than a captious interpretation of letters, and to prepare to meet the storms which are threatening them. The Noble Duke, of course, meant it' to be understood that the storms will be the work of the populer party. It appears, however, from the articles in the Journals, that his own poll tical friends are not enwill:ng to raise a storm if they could. The Ultras, acting by themselves s are too feeble to give the Government any trouble, but they seem well prepared to aggravate any difficulties which may occur. The anarchy they profess to dread they would Kindly have, if, through it, they could get back their exploded system, and they still flatter themselves with the hope of its return. One of the favourite stories of the fnubourg St. Germain now is, that ChiirleteX., on parting with his Guerds, carried off their colours, saying, " I take your standard, the Duke of Ilordenux will bring it back to you." Under such delusions this infatuated party will continue for some time to come, like the English Jacobites, to drink " their King over the water." The Committee to which Prince Polignac's letter was referred, made on Monday a long report, the result of which waa, a recommendation that the Chanilier of Peers should sanction the arrest of the Ex-Minister. The report was adopted. In the Chamber of Ijepetie4, M. ',abbey de Pompieres brought forward the subject of the law by which certain conventionalists and others were exiled miter the restoration of Louis XVIII. That severe law is to be repealed. A great part of the time of the Sitting was occupied with the revisal of the regulations or orders of the Chamber. A new article was proposed by the Committee which drew up the orders, prohibiting the read ing of written speeches. It would have bsen well for the credit of the Chamber that this amendment had been adopted ; but it was rejected by a large majority. -It will be seen that the want of employ ment has again given occasion to some movements among the Parisian workmen. It is stated that a beely.of 500 masons went on Monday to the Patois Royal and insisted on seei n g the King, to inform him that they lied no work. These proceedings ap pear to have - no rosnection with politics, Some disturbances, which partake however both of a p& litical and religious character, have broken out at Nisalce. The bigotted Catholics of that quarter Nye attacked the Protestants As they did after the restoration in 1815, and -some lives have been lost. Judging by the proclamation of the Mayor, which we have translated, the commotion must have been serious. A short despatch from Admiral Duperre, transmitted by the telegraph from Toulon, states that the tri-coloured flag had been hoisted on board the fleet, and on the batteries of Algiers. Nothing is said about any resistance having been made by 11Sourmont, as was reported, The civil action brought against the late Ministers by the witlow of is malt who was killed on the 27th of July, has ex cited considerable interest in Pavia. The official do cuments which forms the first step in this extract.• dimity suit, was given in our paper of yesterday. It is probable that the relations of other sufferers will commence similar actions for damages. If they succeed, there will be no question about confiscating the property of the traitors, as nothing will then be lett for the State.--Tinter. General liaudrand has, we believe, hastened to inform, his Government of the cordial reception and frank recognition which the King of England has accorded to him as the special messenger of the Con stitutional Sovereign of France. This unequivocal testimony of the friendship of the English King end,' Ministry will have more weight than the mere eti quette_ of a formal answer by a special me s senger. We do not know that a special mission will not be sent, but if official difficultiesslionldfcause a delay in carrying to a completion the forms of Ruch a mission, no Frenchmen eau, after General Baud rand's particularly kind reception, entertain one mo ment's doubt as to the sincere sympathy which the King and Ministers of this free country feel with the regenerated Government of Prance. We take this opportunity of beseeching our French neighbours to discriminate between the respectable classes in England, who admire their heroic patriotism, and re joice in its effecte, and the contemptible crew of Cohliettites, who have impudently put themselves forward as the representatives of the British na tio'''. From ignorance of the real state of things Paris persons in this country, the Manic of Paris (a body answering to the corporation of Lon don) are entertaining, with respect and hospitality, the " ragged regiment" of delegates, whom the bone-grubber, colibett, sent to the French metropq. lie. What a pity it is that some of the French journals (who have means of knowing the insigniti. canoe of these individuals). do not minion their countrymen against any frateniintion with such a peg. • Why, we may add, is Lord Stuart do Roth. say idle P He ought not to be au itidifferetit spec tator at such a crisis. It is a time when it is peen liarly necessary for an Ambessedor to Maintain it perfect understanding between the Cabinets and the people of two nattOnS situated as France and England are at this moment. - It is his duty, if , not to preiient, at least to neutralize the effect of any ,artier attempts . ' to mislead the. public mind of 'Armee, especially when suck deletion; may have an iopsrious re - action on dm public mind of Englund. Jr froM want of observation or of dimness hi is incapable of exercising this beneficial influence, then, indeed, not.enly a special mission, but a total change in that deportment of our foreign diploinecy may become absolutely neceasary.-,,Times. It required no special revelation to anticipate the recognition of the title of Louis-Philippe by' the British G overnmen t, after 'the reception given by his 'Majesty king William the Fourth to Corm' Baudrand, when he appeared at Court on Wednes. day, to discharge the mission with > which he had been intrusted. The Courier, however, takes upon itself to announce, with all the pump of official pre. diction, that the recognition, shout which nobody now can entertain the least doubt, will speedily take place, with the usual forms: and that a letter from the British Monarch, in acknowledgment of . the nouncament made by the French King of his acces sion to the throne, will be transmitted to France for Presentation by our Ambassador. it is quite con. I _° llll 4hle to tho u s ag e s between Sovereigns, us well I : l4 9tweett private gentlemen, that a hater should acme an atiawer ; and as King Wit re ceived the peeial messenger of f,ouis-P i am h ad ppe in tlit m tli o d11 1 1 1 :::::7 4 t treat: it t into ‘l 4 ' tl f iVl e c ai ei trr it with t 'bee 1, h ri e ti l n Yjk i :, , h il e ne C it 'on w rir ii r ! be :wrung in saying that i!dged by 6 the :British ()overlie " % diat'iy "1""- K i ng 01 is ithao,edlemii. l o he title of Xing of Mc .P'reneleHilut the it:blll*Thiliit iq 14 formerly was King of tb i , Hoeg, ur titnglis l i nks not of England. The latter tine "d r adopted or recognised until the reign ) e r t ma t i -l i : tyrant Jobe, who was the first of our M ow "' i s , by whom the title was . introduced int o iha Royal Seal. Wi believe.t.ouis XVI. accepted the Constitution in 1701, as King of the French;" `but in the London Gortette it was announced that the Constitution had 'been accepted by " his Most Christian Maje , ty," .although that title had beet; abolished. As to the recognition of the new Gos vernment of France, the menet see how it could be avoided,, unless our MiniEry were prepared to drag this country into a new crusade against the inde pendence of.the ;Trench nation, and thereby ex hibit a more obstinate incapacity to derive itistruc'e tion from experience, than even the infatuated race of the House of Bourbon, who are how fugitives upon our slime! Long and happily might the late King of France have reigned, if he possessed e mind capable of extracting wisdom from the mis fortunes of his family. But dearer to him was the sullen pride of tyrannical domination, than the en joyment of that authority which is founded in rea son, and supported by the affectionate allegiance of, a free people. Dearly has he paid the price of such incorrigible folly. Dearly too has England paid for her officious internteddling with the internal affairs of. France at the crisis of the former Revolution. It is on historical reward that ) before our Govern meet of that day made common cause with the na tions of the Continent in ,their uggressions upon the French teriitory, the revolutionary legislators of France declared that the English were the only free people of Europe. We know that the furious and sanguinary demagogues who succeeded the Consti tuent Assembly, by •whom the Constitution of 1701 was framed, were, or affected to be, exceedingly hostile to England; but it is probable those violent men 'would never have been able to obtain the ascendancy they did, if it were not for the popular alarm entl tumultuous excitement produced by fo reign invasion, of which those desperate advt turers took advantage to gratify their thirst for blood, and pursue the destructive career of their ferocious ambition. There are no such men at the head of affairs in France at present. An enlightened King, of a diameter which unites moderation with firmness in an eminent degree, and on whom the lessons of early adversity have not been thrown away, is assisted in directing the Councils of the nation by sage and experienced Ministers. Would it not, then, be an act of the most wanton folly, or of the must rash and unprincipled ambition, for our At nistry to advise their Sovereign whteever their own personal wishes may be, to plunge the nation lino a war for the subversion of this wise and temperate Government, which has been chosen, we may fairly say, by the acclamation of the universal people ? As to the weak attempt of the Ex-King to have the Duke of Bordeaux recognized es King, in vir tue of " Divine right," it has met no response in Franco. If our Government, then, refuses' to re cognize the present King of France, it must be in deference to the exploded claim of the Duke of Bordeaux—it must be in vindication of the phan tem of legitimacy which was driven out of this country along with the banished James II.; and thus our Ministers would, if they advised a war, only unsheath the sword' of a free people against the principles which placed the family of their Royal Muster, our present truly popular Sove reign, on the throne. The event of such a con flict could be easily foreseen. This country, possessing as it does the noblest Constitution which human wisdom has ever yet contrived, stands in need of salutary reforms, and the ameliora tion of institutions. It requires also that the prac tice of the Constitution should be mule more con formable with the excellence of the theory. A war against the liberties and independence of other people might delay such reforms for a time, but it would bring about at length a more terrible catastrophe. The country at present feels the ulmost intolerable premiere of taxation which the late war occasioned —the public debt is a herder), which presses the energies and the industry of the people to the earth We to the Ministry that would increase that op pressive burden—at once the evidence and the pu nishment of our former madness—by an unjust and unnecessary war! We are confident that, where the honour and the interests of the nation required it, the people of England, even in their present un exampled difficulties would submit to any sucrifice, rather than shriek from the.vindication, or tamely suffer the injuries of foreign aggression. But the honour and interests of the nation equally demand that we should remain at peace with France. If the despotic States on the Continent feel the neigh bourhood of rational liberty dangerous, the Govern ment of a free people have uo Clitike for apprehension. We, who have been as criminal in the eyes of despots as the French, by cashiering a tyrant who would have euljected the laws to his arbitery caprice, should only see, in the elevation of Louis-Philippe, an extension of the principle which our glorious re volution consecrated as a precedent to all nations.— Herald. In another column of our paper we give a list of the Offices and Dignities filled, by what may em phaticelly (not ironically, as elsewhere) be called the Gentlemen of the Press at Paris. It includes several Ministers of State, a multitude of Prefects, and other places of trust, of distinction, and emolu- Mont. As to Sub-Prefectships, and such like em ployments of minor. consequence, they actually go begging amongst the Literari of Paris —now, with some reason, called the Capital of Civilization. These, indeetlotre Kaprot +vim/ with a vengeance. Hobbes, in his Leviathan, said " Seientia est po tenth+, sed parva"—because, appreciable by coins paratively few. Could he now look down upon sub lunary affairs, he would surely retract that opinion, seeing the imbecile Charles X. burled from the throne in the very attempt to overthrow this mighty engine b y his s t u pid Ordinances. Fur it has been truly observed by a Liberal French Journal- 0 C'est sur tout h Liberal de le Presse, par laquelle, at pour laquelle, le peuple vient de remporter one S i eton minte vietoire."—( It was above all things the Liberty of the Press, by which, and for which, the people have achieved such an astounding victory.) I t was not a handful of bookworms, not the few, as Hobbes thought, who only could value knowledge, and the free communication of ideas, but the muss of the people—et t0;4.) , ,et, as Pericles called the multi tude, when addressing the gallant and accomplished " Men of Athens," in contradistinction to a besotted Aristocracy, who so glotiously effected this energetic explosion of a grand principle—the freedom of the mind. Our privileged orders, those Most Noble anti Right Honourable hereditary legislators, Who never could wholly forgive, even to Canning, his plebeian origin and connection, we verily believe, would burst with rage, if a mere historian, profes sor, and newspaper man, like Guizot, should ever be appointed his 111ajesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Depertment in this United Kingdom of Orem Britain and Ireland, and fill an office hitherto held by Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, Vis counts, Barons, and Right Hon. aspirants to the Peerage. Not so in regenerated France. 0 La Carri6re Guyette aux Talents," was the favourite motto of Napoleon, and the citizen King seems to have taken a leaf out of the EMperor's book; and not even the Ultrasßoyalist papers, have ventured to question the promotion of the aforesaid news paper man to the office of Minister of the Interior, lately so unworthily filled by Count Peyronnet. Since the clays of Addison, what author, what lite rary man, without other pretensions and canners. along, has ever made his way to high offices, barring the profession 9f the laW ? A distributorship of s6mps is the highest reward given to literary emi , fleece now in Englund—and in Scotland they made the poet Burns att exeisemari.—Morning Herald. We are glad to perceive from the French Papers received yesterday, that there is HQ foundation for the reports of disturbaeces at Paris, which were general on Wednesday afternoon, both in the City and in the Clubs at the west end of the town. What had given rise to the reports probably was the aseembleges of workmen out of employment at the is Royal. The French Funds present so t emptieg a subject for speculation, that till they reach their fair level, invention will no doubt be tasked in the fabr'cation of all manner of disastrous rumours. Several districts of the' South of France are yet un-, fortunately disturbed with religious feuds. In mes it has been found necessary to call in the mili tary, as appears from the following extract from Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday " Letters from Nismes of the I 9th inst. contain the following The Proclamation of the Accession of Louii Philip I. was made on the 15th, amidst reiterated shouts of Vive le Poi Louis Philippe J rive la Marie 1 In the evening a serious contest arose between the Catholics and Protestants, when two persons were killed and several wounded. M. Alexandre de Lao ste, new Prefect of the Department, published the next morning an energetic Ad dress ; and the M,iyor issued a Decree, ordaining that the coffee-houses and other public places of entertainment vimuld be shut at seven o'clock, and prescribing other measures for the maintenance of the public peace. General Lasconrs, Commandant of the Department. disp'ayed remarkable firmness and temper, and contributed in a great degree to restore order. The arrival of two battalions of the 39th fiegiment of the Line, and a squadron of the 7th Chasseurs, has since preserved the tranquillity of the town, and there is every reason to hope that it will not again be disturbed. We learn that several chests of muskets and poniards, des tined by the partisans of Charles X. for Paris, have been seized at Lyons.'" The existence of religious feuds in any country is a proof of p artial laws, or the prevalence of much ignorance after the objectionable laws have been re pealed. It is exceedingly flattering to Priests, Catholic and Protestant, that men should light for the dogmas of which they are the expounders; but it says little for the Protestant and Catholic Laity that they should be so silly as to become the tools of these . personages. Let us hope that the new Government, by an impartial execution of the law and the encouragement of instruction, will, erelong, make men ashamed of quarrelling about religion, for which men ought to be accountable to Heaven only, and not to their equals. We never had a moments doubt as to the reception of General Baudrand, in a manner suitable to the just expectations of the Go vernment of which he is the Representative. The Ex-King has had his day; and there is no romance in politico. Colonel Gustation, Ex-King of Sweden, may perhaps deem the title of Charles the Tenth , as sacred as ever; but he will find to his cost, that the Governments which were the most hearty in their wishes for the success of his plans, will be as much disposed to neglect him now as those which disap proved of them. Fortune is the sole tenure by which favour of the world is held. The •degree in which the various Governments of Europe en couraged Charles and his Ministers, can only at pre sent be conjectured. The belief is, that the papers diScovered at Paris will serve very much to clear this matter up. Should the trial of the French Ministers be proceeded in, the papers must see the light. A contemporary (the Standard) a day or two ago, seemed to entertain some apprehension lest a wish to hold the Duke of Wellington and Prince Metternich in his power, should induce the King to prevent the trial, in which it would of course be necessary to produce papers implicating the Courts of London and Vienna. " A great deal, it is said, depends upon the right deci sion of this question, as our readers will see, when they reflect that the papers of the Polignac Administration are in the hands of the new Government—that these papers would of course be submitted to the Chamber of D.Tuties, as part of the materiel upon which the Chamber should found its accusation—that, as the Courier (the London Courier) informs us, these papers are of such a nature that the Ministers of four foreign powers (not named) have earnestly sought their suppression ; and that finally the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, being public by the Charter, to hand the documents to that assembly would he to publish to all Europe the Polignite cone spondence—a proceeding, as we suspect, the reverse of agreeable to half a dozen Ministers that we could point out. " Whether an unwillingness to embroil himself with the Ministers of his neighbours may induce King Louis- Philippe to exert himself to withhold this valuable know ledge, we cannot guess. If he be a Statesman of the vulgar stamp, it will be, no doubt, an agreeable thing to him to be able to hold Wellington, Metternich, and com pany in his power, by still keeping this rod over their heads; but if he be the wise man he has hitherto shown himself, he will know nothing of Ministers. Ile will feel that Prance is to owe neither her safety nor her tranquil lity to Ministers, but to her own strength, end to the re spect of neighbouring nations." _ _ _ If the Ministers of England be implicated in the lute proceedings at Paris, the matter, we should think will not be hushed up. The French must know that they have no favour to expect from the English Oligarchy. The favour of that body never will be bestowed on any Government which really consults the interests of the people. Woe to the Liberals who trust to the friendship of the English Government! Open enmity is safer than the covert hostility displayed towards Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Fortunately for the French, they are too powerful to be interfered with. The hostility of Austria is even a subject of merriment in France. We never, however, believed that the Duke of Wel lington mixed himself up in any way with the mea sures of Charles. That our Cabinet was aware of what was intended, and would have been delighted at the success of Charles, is a question very different from that of participation, or even of approbation of the measures resorted to, prudentially considered. Austria and perhaps Prussia (though the latter is not so probable), may have gone farther ; but the Government of England, owing some account of its operations to the public, never commits itself di rectly in any such questionable mutters as inter. ference with the internal affairs of nations. Thus, for instance, Sir Robert Peel, as an individual, at the time, did not hesitate to justify the invasion of Naples by Austria; but the Government took care to afford no evidence of its hostility to Naples,— England, though approving of the Holy Alliance, did not become a party to it. Covert intriguing is the utmost that an English Ministry will attempt in such eases. We quite agree, therefore, with a con temporary (the Globe), who some days ago observed, " The Ministers of England, we are petsuaded, have no reason to fear any such disclosum ; and if they had, the people would have, on that account, to desire the die. closure. If a Ministry in England did bold forth to the lee Government of France promises of aid which it would have been at once criminal and foolish for it to make, the friendly relations of this country with France would only he drawn the closer by the unanimity with which it would be seen that the notion would repudiate such a Ministry." 'But we are not sure that we can subscribe alto, gether to the paragraph which immediately follows the above:— "By the way, there is something apparently not very consistent in the manner in which some persons, whose opinions we generally respect, speak of the Duke of Wel lington with reference to this accusation. While in one restence they throw out insinuations that this Minister is bound up as a conspirator in the guilt of the crimes of the Polignac-Bourbon party, in the next they hint that he would be s fit man for a Minister if he had hut better col leagues. This we confess we do not tmderstand. If the accusation is not believed to be well-founded, it should not be made; if, on the other hand, those who utter it believe it, how can they talk of the possibility of union with the men against whom it is directed ? If the Duke o f welli ng/ t om did enter into a conspiricy against liberty and constitutional government throughout Eur o p e , It is no longer a question whether with this or that change he could patch up an Adinirkistration ; but it is clear that he should be rejected as unfit to form any, Ivan t h e meanest , part of the weakest Ministry in E'ngland--that every thing wise which he has effected (in policy) has p rocee d e d f ro m chance, and every thing honest and magnani mous in ap pearance has been intended by him dishonest end." a s the means to some The Duke of Wellington shares no doubt, the feelings of the English Oligarchy, Under the Con stitution of this country, the Oligarchy have, at present, all the power they can wish, and therefore they aro, no doubt, admirers of Constitutional Go vernment as existing in England. But in Prance they had the spectacle of a Constitution, in which, the people were really represented, end which Was every day giving more and inure strength to the people. Was it the interest of the Oligarchy of England, as a body, that the people of England should have constantly before. them the spectacle of a Constitution working like that of France'? We can hardly doubt that the higher ranks of England generally, therefore, in their ; hearts, prayed•for the success of the King, as they prayed for the tiro , . throw of the Constitution of the Cortes. The Duke of Wellington has never been supposed to have any other feelings than tho.e of the order to which he belongs. There is, therefore, no contradiction in supposing that the Duke-may, supported by proper colleagues, carry on the affairs of this country fairly enough, and yet that he oily have disliked the Con stitution of France.. There are few who will sup pose that he can have. any into ntionB hostile to the English ConwiTution, becau , .e.he may di 7 .like that of France. Why. should he dislike the English Con stitution ? The English Constitution is all that the Aristocracy of the .comitry can wish for. If the English Constitution were so reformed us to allow . weight to the people, that would be another affair. The Aristocrat whO &likes the English Consti tution as it exists must be a lunatic. Even the Gratt,lees of Spain would hail with joy a Cotistitu tion which should. give them the power possessed by the English Nobility.--Morning Chronicle. The Report from the Select Committee of the 'louse of Common, appointed " to consider the meals of lessening the evils arising from the fluc tuation of employment in the matmlacturirg dirt tricts,"has been sonic time before us, and deserves a few passing observations—not so much for any important suggestion contain, d it, as on account of the importance of the subject itself. With regard to the various fluctuations which take place - in . ma- . nufacturing employment, - the Committee very justly attribute them to changes of fashion - and place, to improvements in machinery, and to foreign rivalry, regulations, and prohibitions . ; but . we think it will be owned that the plan which they propose for do ing away, or, at all events, greatly mitigating the evil, is in every respect inadeginee to meet it. Their conclusions, in. fact, which are as. follows, are any thing but satisfactory, and argue any thing but enlightened and profound views of the subject. They are— " Ist. That considerable fluctuations in employment frequently take place in manufacturing diNtricts, productive of great distress. " 2d. That the earnings of worko en in many of ihe,e districts are on an average of several years, sufficient (if duly husbanded) to provide fur the periods when they are deprived of work. " 3d. That considerable facilities and inducements for this purpose may be afforded to workmen, by the plan recommended, of which the fUllowing is an abstract; viz. " Ti.t facilities be afforded by law (as to benefit clubs) for the formation of societies supported by the voluntary contributions of troll:nen, and confined to the especial purpose of support during want of work ; that each member's contributions stand in his name, and he have a right to allowance when unemployed (at a certain rate) to the amount of his share of the fund ; that an annual divi dend of interest, forfeits, and deductions on deaths, be made in proportion to each member's share." This plan is given more at length in a subsequent part of the Report ; but the above brief statement of it sufficientiy explains its object. Now we are inclined to quarrel not only with the plan so delibe rately laid down by the Committee, but also with the premise 3; and every mie who has perused our columns during the last five years must be aware that the wages of the working classes, either in the manufacturing districts, or in the metropolis, have not, on the overage, been sufficient to meet the ordi nary necessities and comforts of life. The state ment of wages said to be received by them is, in fact, wholly at variance with truth—a fact which need scarcely be doubted after the intimation given in the Report, that the information on which the state mi is grounded was received from a member of the Committee. Let facts, however, speak for themselves. The statement of the Committee with respect to the Cotton trade is us follows : " lst cl.ss, consisting of men earning 20s. per week. " 2d. Male and female, earning 12s. per week. " 9d. Mule and female, 7s. Per wrek. " 4th. Male and female (including children from eight years old and upwards) earning 2s. rid. per week. " Tlase are all paid in money, and, fin• the most p by the piece, working about twelve hours in the twenty four." Now the fact is, as we stated nine months ag,), that the wages of the workmen• s —we mean grown up and able workmen—did not average 3s. per week; and we stated this, be it remembered, not on the authority of casual report, but on that of a committee of masters and journeymen who were de puted to inquire into the matter, and who reported that about 40,000 workmen only earned 2s. 2d. per week I So much for the premises; and of the plan we have nothing better to observe. If workmen hive not sufficient wages to procure the necessary comforts of life—and we argue that they have not — they cannot lay by anything for seasons when em ployment is scarce and wages greatly reduced. The premises being incorrect, the plan betomes, as a matter of course, also incorrect ; but there is a greater fault in the report than either of the two al~endy mentioned, and that is, that the Select Com mittee do not seep to have gone into, or have studi ously übstained f r om, a rigid inquiry into the real causes of the present depressed state of manufac turing industry. They have brought forward the effects us causes, and left the real causes in the dark. The " changes of fashion and place, the foreign rivalry and prohibitions, and even the improve ments in machinery," which they assign its causes of the miserable condition of the working classes, may all be traced to the operation of other causes— causes which are now in operation, and which must be removed before the industry of the country can be restored to its former state of prosperity. These causes are, we need not observe, all resolvable into the pernicious effects of oppressive and ill contrived taxes—'of taxes exceeding in amount the means of supply on the part of the,publie, and of taxes bearing more upon the industrious, than upon the wealthy, classes of society ; and until these taxes have been reduced, arid the restraints now im posed on the productive industry 'of the country re. moved, there can be no improvement in the wages of the working classes. It is here that " the shoe pinches," and here that it must be enlarged, to give ease and comfort. The taxes on corn, and on many other articles, must also he abolished; and the tax ation of the country generally so regulated, that the greatest amount of revenue shall be collected at the least possible expense. The contrary has hitherto been so much the case, that the expense of collection has nearly equalled in many instances the amount of revenue; and until this system has been changed, we thoroughly 'despair of any great diminution of the national expenditure, or any considerable ame lioration of the condition of the working classes.-- Morning Advertiser. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOVBE. A man named James Jones, with dark eyes, and rather a dm nose, was brought up, and charged by a great number of persons with having given them orders for a variety of goods, merely to live himself a pretence for borrowing money from them. The Loup MAYOR was quite astounded at bier log of the multitudes of tradesmen whom this inge nious person had succeeded in " victimizing," as the spongers practices in eublic-hou s es. I tl,vas c s a tt l t i t t e her d i that the prisoner on one occasion ordered come shirts and stockings to a false address, and almost immediately afterwards borrowed Is. 6d. from the shopkeeper, for an immediate object, as he had left his money at home. This was the course thoughriee T o h h f e e the°r representeddme r was anso g li e k n a e ‘ ra v h i lay s o t peat he varietyp r t empting,eten de o d t ittio ra hee d pba c iep s ' , Pseuaer(. a nd al the loan required so small, that his suc cess was not interrupted until by accident he give an order to a tradesman whom he had " victimized" before. The indignation expressed against him was very great, but it was very ludicrous in oue instance. The prisoner rung at an accoucheur's and requested that the medical gentleman would at once be so good as to put on his clothes, and gp to visit his (the prisoner's) wife, who was in the pangs of labour. " Surely," said the doctor, " PII go to her this moment," an d he started up, although he had just sought repose after the performance pf a similar whit to that for which he was preparing. He scarcely had his breeches on, when another ring at the bell introduced the same visiter. " Doctor,' said he, " will my wife require a nurse ?" " A nurse ! good God, to be sure she will. You must get one immediately," said the Doctor. " Bless me," said the prisoner, what ? No nurse will come at this live hour without money, anti, in my hurry and anxiety, I have not brought out a halfpenny with me.' " Never mind that.," said the doctor, pulling on his boots with much difficulty, " I'll let you have . what will answer the purpose," and he handed two half-crowns to the prisoner ' 'Who immediately departed i n quest o f t h e nurse. 8 0. 0 n afterwards the doctor followed. but how much must he have been astonished at finding that - the house to which he had been directed was a police anti that there was no woman there except one that had been a mother 50 years_ ego. The LORD MAYOR—Does any Lody know whether he has taken in any laWyer ?—(Laughter.) The shopkeepers all said they could find all trades and professions in the prisoner's list except the ko.yer. The LORD MAYOR--He is too clever a fellow to try an experiment there. The tradesmen here caused - much laughter in giving accounts of the labour they underwent in carrying carpets and other unwieldy articles- to various dis tances, after having lent the prisoner 15d. or 16d. The LORD MAYOR thought the tradesmen had been easily duped. They replied, that they were convinced that up wards of 2,000 had been imposed upon, and they Were anxious to check the prisoner. His Lordship advised the tradespeople to get Robert Cruikshanks to take a likeness of the pri soner, and to enclose it to one of the t:ewspapers that exhibited the sling and villain} , of the metropolis. The prisoner was remanded till Monday, when it is expected that many of the 2,000 will be in attendance. GUILDHALL Mr. Hagan, of the &n or Hagart and Co., tee dealers, in Lawrenee-lane, Cheapside, attended vo luntarily before Sir J. PERRINO yesterd,iy, to meet the complaint of a young woman who had formerly been in his service. • Mary Ann Cummins, the complainant, briefly stated that she had left apparel and other article- by permission at Mr. Hugart's house, upon going into the country, and he had refused to give them up on her return. Mr. Hagart then replied, that in November last he purchased the business from a Mr. John Lawson, in whose home the complainant then resided, as ser vant or agent. Ile re-engaged her, but after the ex piration of five weeks they parted, and she went to Liverpool. Mr. LaWson had previously left the country. On Saturday last she came to him for some articles of trifling value she had left behind, but he refused to deliver them, because he had di,. covered that the complainant had caused a parcel of teas and sugars to be taker► to a Mr. Beevor's, in Finsbury-place, after the stock had been transft•rred from Mr. Lawson to him, without accounting for the same either to him or to Mr. Lawson, whose kooks he retained. The complainant replied, that this order was ex ecuted the day before Mr. Hagan came into passes. sion, and she thought the property belonged to Mr. Liwson. The goods amounted to only 16s. 10d., and at all events she had not received the money. She had stopped with him and instructed him in,the qualities and mixing of the teas, and the making of green teas, for the small sum of 10s. a-week ; and the return he had made was, to revile her in the most shaMeful mariner. Mr. Hagart Enid he had asked her a few days since where Mr. Lawson was, and she replied in France; hut two days after that he met them walking together in Holborn. What was he to think of this ? And as respected the " secrets of the trade," ho found a good deal of trash on the premises, and if he hail followed her advice as to Ihe before-mentioned secrets he should soon ha ve had no trade at all. He discovered immediately the expedient!) , of getting the complainant out of his house as soon as possible. She replied that she had made green teas into black, and done every thing else he required her to do, and therefore she did not understand why he discharged her. _ . Mr. - Hagart said he was obliged to get rid of her,. or he should have lost all his connexion ; but he only complained of his goods being sent away to customers without making any entry in the books. Sir JOHN PERRINO said he had a right to corn. plain of such conduct, and he should not interfere in the ease. The complainant asked what she should do to recover her property ; and declaring the attacks on her moral character to be unjustifiable, concluded by calling Mr. kluged a blackguard. Sir JOHN intimated in a peremptory manner that he had done with the matter, and the parties retired. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Edward Whalley, a gentleman who resides at South Mimms, appeared before Mr. MINSHULL and Mr. HALLS, and made the following statement He WWI returning to town, be said, at a little after one o'clock that morning, and was riding in the dickey of his brother-in-law's chariot along the Greenwich-road, when, upon arriving at the New port-cross turnpike, two policemen came up, and while one of them seized the horses by the head, the other demanded to see what the chariot contained, and having satisfied his curiosity, by opening the door and looking in, lie closed it again, and went away. Mr. Whalley added, that it fortunately hap pened that his two sisters were asleep in the chariot atthe time, or e l se h e was sure t h ey would have been considerably alarmed. Feeling that such con duct on the part of police constables was highly re prehensible, he (Mr. Whalley) thought it right to lay the matter before the Magistrates. Mr. MINSHULL observed that the police constables were certainly not justified in opening the door of a gentleman's carriage in the manner described. The' proper course, however, would be, to represent their conduct to the Commisioners of Police. Mr. finis asked Mr. Whalley if the constables had stated what they searched forl ) —Mr. Whalley replied that they did not, nor could he obtain any explanation whatever froM them. 'On arriving within about a quarter of a mile from the turnpike, he observed one of them running after the carriage and this was the same man who at the turnpike `de - mantled to see what was inside the chariot. He carried a lantern with him, the light of which be directed towards the carriage before he proceeded te search it. He (Mr. Whalley) demanded this man's name and number, and he said, in a very sulky tone, that he belonged to division R. and that his number wee 12. Mr. HALLS observed, that the constables had no doubt stopped the carriage under a belief that it contained smuggled goods. Mr. MlNStita then told the gentleman, that he had better proceed at once to the Commissioners; of the Police, and lay a statement of the fucts before them. Mr. Whalley skid, he should certainly do so, and in about art hour after he again appeared before Mr. Minshull and said, he had seen . Mr. Commissioner Mayne, who had received him very politely, and told him that be had received a report of the circum stance complained of, from the inspector of the divi sion in which it had occurred. The report stated, that the scrjeant had stopped the carriage from priiate information 'he had received that contraband goods were constantly conveyed to town along that road. He added, however, that upon finding his mistake, he apologized to the gentleman to whom the carriage belonged. > He (Mr. Whalley) told Mr. Moyne that this was not the fact, for if an apology had been offered at the time,- or even a proper explanation given, he would have thought no more about the natter. iltr Mayne then said that he should cer tainly cause an inquiry to be made into the conduct of the constables who had overstepped their duty in taking upon themselves to search for contraband goods, and thereby place themselves in the situation of Excise-officers. Mr. ?anvil, observed, tuna in recommending Mr. Whalley to go at once to'the-Contiitiesionere of Police, to state his complaint, he wa s q uite sure, ae indeed ' the result had proved, that every attention would be paid to his statement. Mr. Whalley dun thanked the Migistrate, and retired. QUEEN.SQUARK Yesterday Thomas Witham, the young man who was apprehended on suspicion of having murdered his wife, the particulars of which have already been before the public, was brought -to the office in custody, and placed at t he bar, before Mr. GREddittro On the verdict beim.; returned by the Coronet's Jury, of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown," it has been represented that the pt ironer was discharged out of custody ; Such, how ever, lias riot been the ease, and he was httnight before the Magistrates, by the directions of NIG Dowlig, th suerinten lent of L. division of pace. Mr. n Dowto e n, p the comedian, and Wend other Jurors were present. Mr. Harmer a•tendeti for the prisoner.- At the request of Mr. Dowling the prisoner was out bock, on account of some of t he-tvitnesses not having arrived. After wai.ing some time Mr. Harmer inquire d ,vhother there was any additional evidence to be pt%ultiveti besides what hail been already heard be; fore the Coroner and Jury ?—Mr. Dowling riPlr in the negative, and said that he thoeitfti it l ' .. Isis duty to b,ing the prisoner before the Magistrte, Some angry'words occurred between met. and Mr. Dowlieg about the proceetlingsagailol the prisoner, and detaining him in custody after the verdict of the Jo. y, in which Mr. Dowton and scans uf the Jury joi.ied.' Mr. Harmer said, that the prisoner's master was in attendonce, and was so c onvinced of his in °. come, that he was teadv to t.,ke him into his ern' ploy. again immediatelY. The prisoner's master here stood forward, and 'poke to the good character of the ptisoller, and said he wt,tild give him employment directly.; Mr. Grtr,ootta: expressed his surprise that Mr. Dowling should have brought the rase before hiol, , without one tittle of additional evidence to that whic h had been given before the Coroner's Jury. li t would not entertain the charge for a single moment,. Mr. ,Har - Mr. Gregorie ordered the prisoner to be discharged, immediately, and he received the congratulations or a numb'' of his friends, who wcre wait in g for im, anti left the office with his muster. fttt. l t t ui ss s •a t s o s b ta ti t t e l d to an b a e et t io h n e fion:enraiti4otet of With'''' '6 against Mr. - Dowling, for illega lly custody, as he ought, in the first instance, te hav e brought him before a Magistrate. The murder of the till retrains poor WOlllOll i• 0 n enveloped in mystery, but the police ere 11,° , the alert, and from some circumstances, lhr t ' ' st.ll hope that the murder will be discovere d. UNION.HALL. Yesterday Thomas Witham, the husband of th,, e unfortunate woman who was barbarously [mailer° at her house in Bince'S-street, Lambeth, on Tho r! : day afternoon last, attended at this office, 01; partied by Mr. Harmer, and several of the l ' re de tiaiinapiirikoo; me in before whom the late investigation bad take ni b ' ee n Mr. Harmer complained that Witham h",, ~,- r . kept in custody ever since Friday last by the 'l e l,. u w i a ilt s n e ci ti w ll n k ,' e ' pt ort intendent of the Leinbeth Division of Police, ''' o . lo . out being taken before a Magistrate, etoi e ve , i ll i d of the Coroner's Jury had pronounced $ ve r- r , - 0 0 " Wilful murder against some person °r P ,,, c l tiut acti--i n . Witham of guilt ; yet that unfortunate Yee li g ~t i l in custody, and wa t s h , e n re et bY that morning, when be was taken 1. 1 L," ) ? A' d'e• , 1 square office. Mr. Harmer here profes s " "; 1 11e0 scribe what had taken place at Queen -ignore. gen' Witham was taken before Mr. (ire that li, ri i tletnun inquired of Mr. Dowling wbet °er i ;Ile any further evidence than that produced bef°reThe Jury to charge Witham with then'ur•gaffis reply was in the negative; upois which tb h e a yo ung tilde expressed considerable surprise tot study t $ 11 ) man a should have been detained ill eu' l° "'e b iarl p ticularly after the verdict of the Coolie .1 ~0 4 b w ad been pronounced ; and he at Otte billet: !them was at perfect liberty to leave the ' „ je e r. „ j eer. present that the moment Withamreleased etir Mr. Kamer said that before leaving Qoee ll '; o lics 1 that morning he lied been told IV t htt new ( the ir ' custody it was the intention of the officers 01 ti, o ' re I ball to apprehend him again and take hi l i ni i t :riat ° Magistrate. Upon hearing this repOrif . 1 .- ~1 1 10 well as his master (Mr. Nash) i xpreesed such'''! 0 , 0 1 proceed to this office to escertain whether , SV 3 the mention , and to deliver himself up if u se r s so 'c o n , cerned in the atrocious murder of bi t s ia ls any shadow of evidence to show tbst', l3l/ ,,,Ti Wit' 03t 4) ,,, 1 1 0 0. Chief -constable 11411 said that both days the Coroner's Jury met, step liesiig greatest attention to the evidence, and , „ N J t he had no doubt as to Witharn'a initoeem,Le'd the no officer belu"ging to the establishment most remote idea of taking him into ettst °j i r t ioo i ll Mr. SWAHEY said that he had a° lie '„:tatlY, 6t saying that the detention of Withon ill c '"" ,perl" . all was illegal, and contrary 1 11 . tl l ' b . 1 .1 v il ' l, ' to ia%v. tendatit thought prop e r. 00 hi s , 4 „ re sp oo is to false that person into custody, it to' duty, per' it t'''rio 0 , the firs i t -nstanco, to have taken the 'P ec o f l''' son before a Magistrate, and not deprive eeefiijay Majesty's Ili °-%teers of his liberty from th (3 d ad until the Thursday following. The Magistr,at4roceet that the superintendent had, by thii illegaiL o t er lastte-riti ti/h: mg, subjected himself to ' King's Bench. ittP er. Mr. N 1 said ,the t .as i that when he spoke ts foi l, intend a ent on the subject of Witham!a d eter : l ; te l/6 said that the latter had expressed a s eat to a desire to th e se the station in the S P V e a ri t ken to the station-house rather than l' e )Os bee' i Horaemonger-lane gaol, which would Ito' case had he been taken before a Magis tr t ie ; pre sse t , j itha a tu w w is as h on no % t v he as s k u e b d j a e w c tih t: act b ht tl ieo t rn ' h y leall ' hattl'al"el;tl:: ' The parties then witethiritdeorteo.niwraonatd,touibide. 1 1 ::: .. „' v er e r station house ?—Witham said that .be ,/,..'",., off to pressed - ,a .- i 1 up ever since Friday last. SNUFFING ------"-": ".".."... .—What has been •;I ,ll i d' i ,, rele op i ; gl. : If DONA PARTIC's immoderate use of snuff is not` -,-- b oor ;, to truth than his likiejg for co ff ee. CertainlY I l i e . ; begun to show a partiality this way. Ru ar r i l' bo l'r f to but a small quantity, always in a box, so '''r e ' a nal ' I great many; for this was one of his f a ncies , t 0,,, rip, resembled . in any thing the great Fezosatc.l„! o,oo's in converting the pocket of his vest into a' ntmj€o,, to f r I have already said he carried neatness i n asP -- , degree of fastidowetese.—ceestabm'e, Aiisceli •,„ ~, fill' BIRVIS. On the 25th inst. at the Principal's lA i l t - en i d nose College , Oxford, Mrs. Gilbert, of a IlaUtiororAl. ' He O rt n ford th s e bir 2 e ,t t h ha in lad st y . at of J I-f a tt ut r ea pele in n i to , u risg e° ' , t ef s ' and heir, tun , hoif li ; On the the 24th inst. atnArollandwalEptere, near v. --t t 41 0 ° 1 Qte G ro . Aro ‘ it v ter . Acter:lroe.,GbeEd:o(ilinetorynio!tltZE:.olqiitisP:WrDeieitinchi,Jno t : e t : ; ) : 1 7. 1 ::: : :7 P : ,r OP I 11. P., to Miss Mary kielli eat° 00' , 'Pt 0, n of O D n the 25th inst. at Norwood, 11: - .. P. "Clo'n}i:, t'l3to L. over, to Anne Elias, eldest daughter 01 t ' l Thompson, Esq-, of Rye. DIED. tonabirh On the 23.1 inst. bt liszlebeech-hall, Northill ~1301"; from the rupture of a blood-vessel, Willisol ' d ii , } 1 ,,,, Au ° n abY , Esq., of the Inner Temple harriater-ot" Common Pleader of the city of Lon'tlon- On the 25th inst.' at Great Surrey-street' 13 1 13 :11 1‘ ): iil l ' David Iloss, Esq. aged 84, Enoch respected are ) h, c o 0 , 1 Jane marig-a•Pii.tirveyor to toil 1 , On the 23d inst. in her ithh year, 0° 144 or 111 r. J. Dotell, of Cranbrook. l, daolibter t On the 25th inst. at Watford, Elitabet , J. l i ' 11 T. Nichol) Es ,- ti.., solicitor , a 431 v' On the 25th inst. lin Norton-street, Ille,elool Naftali, M.D. Physician to the Wittrainitir peneary. ' r -----It ie -----------,--,------„,nnillt)tj Pattivto awn Putsusttio iirkitivs....- ... - , 4 , : . XUI SUS OrSICS, 112, Stl 144 fr