The Sun. — London, England, 1833-05-06 00:00:00

I COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL S. sion for having recourse to it with the highest ' Liverpool, Bristol, Norwich, and other towns were to come, in consequence of the desperate —........ house:- fla n i degree of efficacy would be irretrievably lost. were abandoned to the old corrupt system ; and condition of the industrious population, all rights Bell public,- house' a big 0 , REX V. THE PROPRIETOR OF TIIE CARLISLE JOURNAL. " Mr. Saunders, near the The least attentive of observers must have This, in the eyes of some men, would be a grand Hertford, Warwick, Stamford, and other small of property might be swept away. Whatever On a former day, a rule Nisi for a criminal infer- -Please to deliver to the bearer, George Wi° l4 often seen the reckless disregard of party in carry- improvement. A spirit which appears to us the boroughs, were surrendered to the neighboUring system of finance, therefore, will enable the pro- mation was obtained against the def en d an t, ca lli ng lime, and give him some bread and chee"&. / () upon him to show cause why that rule should not to bring the identical bag of lime to the 1 :::: w . r oLs- S :lr bread' H. J. ~ ...,, ins , any favourite object ; but we believe , the r., reverse of an honest one pervades this ill-con- Peers. We did not blame the Cabinet of Lord ' ductive industry of the country to recover itself, be made absolute. The application was made at o l ecloil dirty conduct of the two factions -the 1 ones strutted article. No single newspaper is desig- Grey for the imperfection of their plan of Par- ind ut forth its energies, as in former times, the instance of the Earl of Lonsdale, whom the de- blistered, reedf,eetheofboeninegofobtlhigeePd and Radicals-on the present occasion of the noted by name, so that the man coloured de- liamentary reform ;as wide a measure was pro- for its 1 3 rotect I fit and the eneral advantage of h d 'bit of shoe to p election for Westminster will surprise even the liaquencies which are predicated of the metropo- posed as the emergency of the occasion, the sac the community, will increase the security of the to his . own use,. with having received charity funds, from the gravel s tones. , oldest and most suspicious of the watchers of litan press in general, seem not to challenge of state of parties, and the power of the aristocracy the proceedings of public men. Sir John Hob- necessity from any given member a suspicion would admit ; but now that a " Reformed P a r. ri„, p p y, *ghts of ro ert whether real or moveable, and with having pensioned his friends and relatives workhe use. , house, in a plain, straightforward manner, re-But • ' that the affront was intended specifically for it- liament" has conferred power on the Go- whether in land or in the funds. it is only on the country. their immediate admittance into the Mr. GREGORIL gave the inen,An Mr. AGLIONP,Y now showed cause against the ------""""- signed at once his office and his seat, when he self. The real power of the newspaper press has vernment, the country demands that the a total change of the system of taxation that NCE. rule, but confined his observations to the circum- UNIVERSITY INTELLIGEI , felt that he could not give his vote in consistency been grievously misrepresented, and from sinister freedom of election shall be further se- could create a necessity for imposing a property stance of the application for the rule not having , --4.- -- b o w , ' , with his duty to the Government of which he motives. It has been termed a " misleading" cured. This object must be the capital duty tax. As to such partial reductions of revenue been made within the time required by the Court Ox • Ont ' FORD, MAY 4.-In a full convocan __srligo, formed a part, and to his constituents to whom p o w e r. Those who thus describe it assert, in- of the Administration, and an imperative obliga- as those comprehended in the repeal of assessed in cases of this description. Tuesday last, petitions to. bath H o uses °f i ,lainTsetrn.'rely I amend the laws sir , u to Pe ss rs 'alk wer t eo h icw" . ' b i t ' S he had given an implicit promise: men of directly, that the reading public has less discern- lion on the Legislature. The ballot has been taxes and the malt tax, we have no doubt what- Mr. POLLOCK. said that no answer had been given o A ral ß i t i i l e l s to f alter the C an h i u - .rc honour recognised in this proceeding the clear- w ent than a very small proportion of the same refused, on the pretext that it would not insure ever that a truly honest and economical Govern- to the case, and that therefore the rule must be mou,ly :greed to. • • ' ' sightedness and the courage of a man of no tom- public,-namelv, the half-dozen editors and the end for which it was proposed. But if ment could dispense with them without being made absolute.-Rule made absolute accordingly. Thursday the following degrees were conferred :-.. REX. V. LUFF. mc•n understanding and integrity. But what doe- w r iters of as many dailyjournals. These blunderers those who have opposed that simple and effica- obliged to have recourse to a tax upon property, BACHELOR IN, eisINITY. to In this case a rule Nisi fora criminal information H e y Arthur Bennet Mesham Fellow of Corp • faction say ? The Tories, who never sacrificed allege something, if possible, more absurd, for cious remedy of corruption do not administer or any other impost, by way of substitution. was obtained : •rist the defendant, Ann Luff the . place in their lives, cannot understand the pos.. their allegation implies that all the newspapers are other and successful specifics, the opponents of Let them cut down their immense establish- • r ga l l Kendal T . fh • proprietress o t le nnes, or having pub- (With License to praCtise). sibility of a man resigning his office on a point in the same interest, and promotethe same political the ballot will not only greatly advance the tilti- ments. An account, we are told, is now prepar- Robert Bentley Todd, Pembroke. c,fished a libel of the same description as those con of honour; they therefore industriously propa- „Ejects ; when it is clear as the sun that by far m ate success of that mode of election, but they ing at the Treasury, in conformity with a Par- rained in the Carlisle Journal. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Charles Vink, Magdalen Hall. 1 gate the rumour that the Hon. Baronet has not, ,s e , greater portion of them are, one and all, sen- will stand before the country as avowed and liamentary order, of the gross and not amount of The defendant admitted the publication of the William Palmer, of Magdalen. 1 in fact, resigned; that he has his appointment ; I tle's over each other's opinions, watchful of the shameless abettors of corruption. The Stafford all taxes repealed, expired or reduced, in each libel in question, and threw herself upon the mercy Rev. James Stevens, St. John's. snug in his pocket ; and that, as soon as the of the Noble Lord. An affidavit made by the de least slip in argument or doctrine, and prompt Indemnity Bill is now the touchstone of the year since the war, and also of all taxes imposed John Henry lAl l. i t ß e 1 . , ead Barnes, vea rd Drier. E x BACHELORS OF A RTS . Edward Henry Blyth, Queen's. poor Westminster gulls put him "on his stool" and alert, from political zeal, if not, as too often House of Peers. Will the Lords have the since the same period. Now, we believe it will fendant was then read. It stated that she was a widow with six c hild ren and that the paper, which was left her by her late husband, was their sole Henry J. Maddock, W o rcester . inel:drel: again, he will be manifest in his official character happens, from personal hostility, to disabuse the temerity to mask and legalise the notorious ini- be found, that the amount of taxes taken off'lo of Secretary of Ireland. The humbler Radicals public of' what they would esteem the delusions quities of that abominable borough ? Will they since the war, even though none had been sub- of Se ll . 01 support, and that the paragraph in question was At an Ordination held by the Lord Bisho p fo llaifi j , of Westminster, unlike the Tories, never knew the practised by their contemporaries, and to enforce convey the elective rights of the electors of Hest- stituted in their place, falls considerably short of copied from another paperbyan editor whom she in the chapel of his Palace,. on Sunday last, the_ the Psi sweets of place, but their ignorance and poverty their own antagonist views. The press is an ford to the Most Noble the Marquis of Solis- the addition made to the taxes by the had since discharged. persons of this University were admitted int' make them the eas y d u p e s o f those mise- organ of the sentiments of those who conduct bury ?Is the elective power of the intelligent i n i qu it ous C urrenc y Bill o f Sir Robert Peel, Sir JAMES SCARLETT must pray that the rule order of . sable charlatans, who, conscious of their own base it ; it methodizes and circulates those opinions and. middle classes of Liverpool to be swamped which Bill compelled the people to pay the might be made absolute ;but he had no doubt that, Edward Hussey,B.A., Exeter DEAc " C s. offgee 1 and degraded nature, labour night and day ~ 0 which appear to the parties who promulgate in the gross corruption of the freemen ? Is Car- taxes, laid . on in a depreciated paper cur- if the defendant abstained from a repetition of such Septimus Cotes,B.A.,Wadham College. eradicate all sense of gratitude, all belief in vir- them the roost reasonable upon every question rickfergus, hereafter, to he put up to auction, rency, in an enhanced gold currency, which conduct, she would find that the Noble Lord was George Ashe Goddard, 8.A., BrisenOse College' I tuous principle ; because they know that while and such opinions by consequence are those and bought by the highest bidder for its venal added at the very lowest computation, 20 mil- not anxious to follow up the charge.-Rule made William Rigclen, 8.A., Magdalen College. which appear most likely prevailto amongst, and franchise ? The Conservatives are the real de- lions in value to the existing taxes ; so that we absolute. John Vaughan, 8.A.., Worcester College. the sliehtest disposition to reverence magnani - George ob e r t RobinJ m e n Ashes 8.A. 31 , M . igy:lseTns Trinity Ol c l e l f ; ge . miry and integrity exists, they themselves must to influence, the people. If a public journal be structives. If a new constituency is to be created, continue still to have aw M war-taxation with the REX V. THOMPSON. Mr. PLATT moved that the rule Nisi for a be the outcasts of the world. We have been so blind, or so unprincipled, as to put forth their grand aim, and concentrated exertions, are currency of peace. When the servile majority criminal information against the defendant, the pub- John James Vaughan, A.M., Merton College. induced to make these general remarks by the sentiments inimical to the national welfare, or to to limit the right of voting; if a corrupt franchise of the Ministers declared against investigating usher of a Sunday news p a p er , b e m ad e a b so l u t e , Thomas Cottle, M.A., Pembroke College. ci l rumours industriously propagated for the last the peculiar tenets and desires ofthat large section is arraigned before the tribunal of Parliament, the public distress of the country, and inquiring no cause to the contrary being shown.-Rule made Hugh Poison, 8.A., Exeter College. two days respecting the motive of Sir John of the reading community whose politics it sup- their strenuous endeavour is tc preserve the whether the state of its monetary system had any absolute. ECCLESIASTICAL PREEERgENTS. 13. A,, , Hobhouse in resigning his seat. His address ports-and by which it is supported-the crime rotten and lowest class of electors. Thus they connexion with that distress, it was contended, On Saturday last the Rev. E. J. PhiPP s l , l', ll ',lo Exeter College, in this University, 'and son °` ti ,111„ is a triumphant refutation of the calumnies. or folly is its own punishment. We can speak sought to raise the 10/. qualification of the large as a ground for that decision, that altering the POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Phipps, of Leighton House, 'Wilts, was prel til i pef t , ~ Can an honourable man like Colonel Evans- with hardly less confidence for our contemporaries towns, and to lower the standard of qualification standard of value was no better than robbery as ----siss-- Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor to the RectorY° yo f c i and, without any knowledge of him beyond his than for ourselves, that, no matter how they may in the less populous boroughs. The object of to existing contracts. As Peel's Bill had, how- MANSION-HO USE. The Vicarage of St. Peter, with the ftee t° l loo / , HORSEPOPPING.-Two boys named Wright and Owen, Hereford, is at length Sled by the attro s ar, pamphlets and speeches, we are ready to assume leis craft was palpable-to debase and corrupt ever, considerably altered the standard of value differ from us, and from each other, we be- a , Stevens, were charged with what is called by the the Rev. Mr. Venn, Incumbent of Pinner, n,,.`, 1 Collt, that a gallant and intelligent man must be an lieve them to be each and all quite sincere, and the electoral body, and to secure by the two ex- the original robbery was committed by that thieves " horsepopping." The Rev. Henry Parsons, M.A., of 13i ' ‘ ilpt"' i rl honourable one-lend himself to represent the earnest in the political cause, whatever it may Cremes of class voting and universal suffrage the Bill ; and although we Are no advocates for an Mr. Sly, a gentleman who resides in Bermond- has been collated to the Perpetusl Curacy 0 1 „ sc.,, disappointed vanity, the mean thinking, the h e, which they are hourly engaged in promoting. return of " Conservatives." Mr. Baring is a unlimited issue of paper m on ey, yet we think sey, on Friday, came to the city on horseback, and bLyeotnhaerdr'ess,iinnattliloenco,u4nttyheanßdedv.iocjegss..ofwethtierear;l'or grovelling feeling, "the envy, hatred, malice, Nothing could be so stupid as the adoption of type of their conduct; they are Hever particular that the investigation of the circumstances of haviug a little business to do, he desired one of the and all uncharitableness," of that fragment of d u pli c ity f o r a ground of systematic manage- in the means to secure their ends. Thus we see the original robbery was the only way to lead to bo y s to hold his horse. The boy had often been the Lord Bishop of Gloucester. ./ the Westminster Rump which presumes to de- meta in a journalist, except the suspicion that the farce of the placard posted in Westminster, restitution. 'l'he patience of the people is now employed by him in a similar way, but when com plainant had finished his business, and went to look MARKE TS COUNTRY CORN MARIC: grade him by its patronage ? Does he not see it is, or ever can be, practically made so. The " Vote for Mr. Escott and the Repeal of the severely tried by those Whig Ministers, who DURING I, AST WEER. 00 0 % that the great enemy of all liberal institutions promised them so much, and have done solittle. mistaken writer of the article in question fancies House and Window Tax l" The Conservatives be found; the second boy, however, made his ap- .................,.. ~ / 1 the Tory, is already at work ? Would he wish he gains a prodigious triumph over the press, are cunning tacticians. They always use the We trust the people will be temperate, as we ance and, on being questioned, ' said that an- Per Quarter. s. to S. 'S.toS. S. to ''. 40 0; to see Mr. Escott Member for Westminster in- by asserting the decay of its public influence, by people for Tory objects, but ever abuse the know they are determined, and that they will other Pear owner ' appeared for the animal, and rode him C H a exharn 48 60 6-29 16 i - g . t: r1i51e......--........ 58 - ..... 18 '''', o , stead of Sir John Hobhouse ? Does he reason of the reform of Parliament. If an people when Tory domination is in danger. seek redress by an unflinching and judicious clear away. morpeth ..--........ 4.5 54 24 27 16 20 ...." ii , ' admire that gentleman for his former Radical illegitimate influence be what he means, there Thus the close corporation -of Liverpool pert- perseverance in a constitutional course. Let The LORD MAYOR questioned the boys, and Penrith ~.. - 58 -. .26 -- i s , 1 J, Sheffield .................... - 53 '3l' -- . 24 ' A , n t or for his present Conservative principles ? is no doubt that such would be less likely to tion, to be heard "in support of the rights them above, all things, take care to send men into learned from him who had the horse in charge that Winchester .......... 50 58 22 26 2'2 a. , - 0 it he went to do another job, and sold his chance of a A straightforward soldier cannot admire him succeed with an elective body constituting the and franchises" of the freemen-of those Parliament, who are not the slaves or expectants ca P rn e , r ar th n el. s t; d 6. se c; s :2 l i , e' i d 6 c l l. ?, '; ,63 5 0 6 for his compromising effort to combine an intelligence of the nation, and a House of class of electors whom they can use as of Ministers, or of any faction. Let the popular decent remuneration to the other for a penny. The e l 'eVe n a t s r tie (start.) 4 ( 9 ) g.4g 1 O 2 10 5 6 0„ 6 0 opposition to Sir John Hobhouse with a Commons representing it, than with a close tor- tools to secure appropriate representatives. The constituencies take warning by Westminster, boy who purchased the char!ce not having seen the Northallerton.-.. 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 5 6 il ", master, nor received a description of him from his 5t0ne............---.... 8 0 8 6 4 0 4 8 3 0 n 0 i $ , pledge to repeal the house and window tax. Indeed poration of selfish usurpers, actuated by sinister case of Liverpool is the most important claim which had no vote against the assessed taxes on Swansea .--............ 6 9 7 0 3 6 3 9 1 0 i 6 ' 0 , , comp anion, readily gave up the horse to a fellow, who we suspect that in this ruse the Tory faction, or and sordid motives, to the disregard of all in- for legislative protection, and must demand the the late occasion, because its. representatives were walked P up boldly, hooted and spurred, and pulled war; e ic r e na — 9 0 10 0 4 6 5 0 2 2 1 00 rather Lord Lowther, who is the presiding terests but their own. But the truth is, that especial and grave attention of the Ministry. An two devoted friends of Ministers, one of w horn out twopence - as 'a ' recompence. The holder growled 4 6 5(2 1 ° 1° Lla u r r n h a a r m dcastle ....... 11 f• 17 14 0 f , 0 , ;I 4 3 5. 9 0 0 genius of Mr. Escort's party, has gone too far. such a vicious power never has been exercised unreformed Parliament virtually refused to am- voted for those taxes, and the other shirked his at the sum, and said it was too little for three- Richmond -........ 1 1l 0 16 0 6 6 7 0 4 6 " 4 1 I °0 Cunning men generally overshoot their . mark : by the press, speaking of it as a body. If the Putate the corrupt part of the franchise. Will a duty by vacating his seat, as he did on the quarters of an hour's labour, upon which the gentle- Stockton ..-............. ill 6 15 0 9 6 10 0 4 0 _ ,3 5, ,,,, "the' go too near the sands to show their wit." press had been open to corruption, it would liberal Government and a reformed House of question of military flogging.. If the people mate with the spurs, handed him over twopence- WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.--17,. PIO Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sutiblk...-s. 445. t° 9 6%5* And besides, in this instance Lord Lowther is have earned the wages of iniquity from those Commons perpetuate the corrupt power of the choose independent representatives, they need halfpenny more, and coolly drove down Cheapside; somewhat out of his element,-he is a man of who had them largelycommand. Had at the Liverpool freemen ?We have now before us an have no recourse to violent measures for redress. after which he drove back again, and went off in a —Yorkshire . , 3 5 5 . W I,' 6tiey* -..5. 455. to '".' fine 0 business, and certainly not deficient in shrewd. different direction ; ay, until he was a long way out _ For l ei e gn, Red -s 415. to .r - ; o ily press been corrupt, it would have opposed reform. able analysis of, the voluminous report of the -Morning Herald. ness and activity ; and if the object had been to Did it oppose reform? But the " diffusion of recent Liverpool Committee entitled, " Result w of sight. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' s 525. to 'Si,: 61 0 p 19s. to .._ g ... 10 e expressed on Saturday morning our wish The LORD MAYOR-How much did your horse os. t o ..1. opi Lincolnshire choose a good jockey, or a smart danseuse, sound information among the people" is to un- of the Evidence given before the Select Com- cost? Witness-About 20/.; but it would have 2 ,,,. t o s--- eot people might fairly have trusted to his Lordship's dermine the press. Was there ever such folly mittee appointed to inquire into the Petition of least that the electors of 'Westminster might have at • • been the same if it was worth 80/. Yorkshire Wold Foreign _ s . to n":: 05 c judgment, after, of course, making due allowance the opportunity offered them of rejectino 0 The LORD MAYOR-No doubt; I give you credit Beans, Small . . - 32 5 to .7' fin 06s. to 0 :' one vented by disappointed malice ? If there was the Liverpool Borough." We shall to-morrow the renegade Whig on the one side, the intern- ------ Tick for your judgment. In my opinion the gentleman 2-- atsi l i Zali o d for that possible bias which might unconsciously no instruction in England, it is plain there revert to its unanswerable expose of the corrupt -s l7s. to - ply influence even the most disinterested better at , instruction state of the old franchise of that town. If the —s lsi to 19 ‘i,st s i i"; would he no newspapers : the more ix • perate revolutionist on the other, and of sending in the spurs would ,have been a great deal more Friezland and Small Newmarket, and the most platonic frequenter obliged —Mewlin g . " the more support will there be for newspapers; intelligence' and political integrity of the new "as their-representative to Parliament an honour- to you.;- , -(A,latigh.) . shelling - - sto 2ts. --• , O, of the saloons. But what judgment can this and, in reply to another spiteful falsehood of the constituency is to be sacrificed to the numerical able and right-minded man. Before night our The second boy-=Please you, my Lord, I couldn't Malt Rapeseed ' '""T alinis fin 39 ''' ler "- 21/.IIS. Mt. 0;4. 2 35 . l (*. i shrewd and active nobleman have of the quali- reviewer, we will add, that the cheaper political power and venality of the old Freemen, Lord wish was gratified ; and the independence of the know but the - gentleman with the spurs was the ,_ f., DEVIZES CORN MARKET.-MaY - ► rt. ~ Y . , ties necessary to constitute an independent intelligence is rendered the more decided will Sandon should bring in a Bill "to perpetuate borough was • • invited to manifest itself in support ht getlean for he comed and he patted the hanimal, arid the oss looked at him as if he knowed Per Sack. .d. s. . Berle r' Quarter. 6' 9 i Best Wheat gO O to 22 6 8 ;.... ( . 1 . .. t .. 0 ...... 1 .. 0 . , ... 4 . . "A 1 1 :0 r1h% ; ')ember of Parliament ? and will ever the Tories lie the advantage possessed by those members of Corruption in the Borough of Liverpool, and of the pretensions of Mr. Bickham Escott. him, so what was I to do, for the gentleman says Isoliorr(ticis of Westminster say that they are content to take the press which possess large capital over their to nullify the English Reform Act."-Morning • This gentleman is already favourably known to to me , says he, he's a good 'un,for he corned a good 1%1;2 tck a s v o e f ra N s V e h o er sold} . 26 i +lour (per bag.. i 0 their representative from the hands of Lord IPSS affluent brethren in the collection and cis- Chronicle. sit ,L,. 1 ,.. :__. , , ~,, . 1,,, ...,,,,,,,;,,,,;,,, , th. ~,,,1,,... bit this here morning, arid then he goes off together, Bread (per gall ) . A admire that gentleman for his former Radical or for his present Conservative principles ? A straightforward soldier cannot admire him for his compromising effort to combine an opposition to Sir John Hobhouse with a pledge to repeal the house and window tax. Indeed we suspect that in this ruse the Tory faction, or rather Lord Lowther, who is the presiding genius of Mr. Escott's party, has gone too far. Cunning men generally overshoot their mark : "they go too near the sands to show their wit." And besides, in this instance Lord Lowther is somewhat out of his element,—he is a man of business, and certainly not deficient in shrewd ness and activity ; and if the object had been to choose a good jockey, or a smart danseuse, people might fairly have trusted to his Lordship's judgment, after, of course, making due allowance for that possible bias which might unconsciously influence even the most disinterested better at Newmarket, and the most platonic frequenter of the saloons. But what judgment can this shrewd and active nobleman have of the quali ties necessary to constitute an independent Member of Parliament ? and will ever the Tories of Westminster say that they are content to take their representative from the hands of Lord Lowther ? We suppose we shall have the Brocard of the Opera, and the Dawson (or rather the ghost* of Dawson) of New. market, canvassing to support the cause of order, sound principles, and virtuous insti utions, which the Crockfbrd and Carlton Clubs (the Mentors of the age) call " conser vatism." We do not apprehend much mischief from such a canvass: Sir J. Hobhouse will, we think, be an overmatch for the impetuosity of the Colonel and the jockeyship of the Viscount.— Times. The poor fellow was hanged some years ago. There is an article in the last number of the Edinburgh Review, entitled ", Progress of the People—the Periodical Press," wherein the author adopts for his text the success of certain weekly publications of great though sundry sorts of merit,—namely, the Penny Magazine, the Saturday Magazine, and Chambers's Edin burgh Journal, but before he has done, turns his back upon the professed subject of his dis sertation, and, after the fashion of many an Act of Parliament, in contriving to run away from its preamble, betakes himselt laboriously to dogma !ize upon the ;elation between the progres of the people, including that of reform, and the antici pated failure of a totally different department o f the press from that which he set out with referring to—viz., the newspaper press of Lon don, It is doubtless perfectly lawful fora reviewer, who comes before the public once a quarter, to disparage, if he be able, all branches of the pe riodical and political literature of the country but his own. It would unquestionably much enhance the value of Edinburgh Reviews, as well as Quarterlies, Westnainsters, &c., if their conductors could succeed in persuading the people of England that those who write in daily journals are incapable of uttering sound or en lightened opinions, and of exercising the powers of excitement or restraint to ends of public use fulness. That the respective parties throughout the kingdom should sleep upon their arms, and forbear to think, and of course to act, upon any oat question of national policy, until, at a giv en hour, they should receive the cue from the trtmesval oracles to which they had severally bound themselves, might well be deemed by those who achieved a transfer of influence worth PO niggard price, A little craft, with a dash lure and there of downright falsehood, would be a trifling sacrifice for an object so desirable, - which ' so far as the nation was concerned , would seem to have no worse effect than this, that, to every solid purpose the thing called " public opinion " must be. extinguished ; the key, the rec or d, ev id ence, an d organ o f th at opinion, which are now embodied in the jour nals of the day, being destroyed, there must tither be, for many weeks, a universal bewilder ment and stupor as to- what ought to be done or said in reference to measures under progress, or a permanent sitting of political clubs and unions—the most. irritating of all sources, and dangerous of all channels, from and through which the po pular sentiment could be conveyed to the Legislature—would be established ; or, finally. when opinion had formed, and pronounced it -elf, the policy which was the subject of it would already have been adopted, or the occa sion for having recourse to it with the highest degree of efficacy would be irretrievably lost. This, in the eyes of some men, would be a grand improvement. A spirit which appears to us the reverse of an honest one pervades this ill-con structed article. No single newspaper is desig nated by name, so that the many-coloured de linquencies which are predicated of the metropo litan press in general, seem not to challenge of necessity from any given member a suspicion that the affront was intended specifically for it self. The real power of the newspaper press has been grievously misrepresented , and from sinister motives. It has been termed a " misleading" power. Those who thus describe it assert, in directly, that the reading public has less discern ment than a very small proportion of the same public,—namely, the half-dozen editors and writers of as many dailyjournals. These blunderer , allege something, if possible, more absurd, for their allegation implies that all the newspapers are in the same interest, and promote the same political objects; when it is clear as the sun that by far the greater portion of them are, one and all, sen tinels over each other's opinions, watchful of the least slip in argument or doctrine, and prompt and alert, from political zeal, if not, as too often happens, from personal hostility, to disabuse the public of what they would esteem the delusions practised by their contemporaries, and to enforce their own antagonist views. The press is an organ of the sentiments of those who conduct it ; it methodizes and circulates those opinions which appear to the parties who promulgate them the most reasonable upon every question ; and such opinions by consequence are those which appear most likely to prevail amongst, and to influence, the people. If a public journal be so blind, or so unprincipled, as to put forth sentiments inimical to the national welfare, or to the peculiar tenets and desires ofthat large section of the reading community whose politics it sup ports—and by which it is supported—the crime or folly is its own punishment. We can speak with hardly less confidence for our contemporaries than for ourselves, that, no matter how they may differ from us, and from each other, we be lieve them to be each and all quite sincere, and earnest in the political cause, whatever it may he, which they are hourly engaged in promoting. Nothing could be so stupid as the adoption of duplicity for a ground of systematic manage ment in a journalist, except the suspicion that it is, or ever can be, practically made so. The mistaken writer of the article in question fancies he gains a prodigious triumph over the press, by asserting the decay of its public influence, by reason of the reform of Parliament. If an ' illegitimate influence be what he means, there is no doubt that such would be less likely to succeed with an elective body constituting the intelligence of the nation, and a House of Commons representing it, than with a close cor poration of selfish usurpers, actuated by sinister and sordid motives, to the disregard of all in terests but their own. But the truth is, that such a vicious power never has been exercised by the press, speaking of it as a body. If the press had been open to corruption, it would have earned the wages of iniquity from those who had them largely at command. Had the press been corrupt, it would have opposed reform. Did it oppose rfform? But the " diffusion of sound information among the people" is to un dermine the press. Was there ever such folly vented by disappointed malice ? If there was no instruction in England, it is plain there would be no newspapers: the more instruction the more support will there be for newspapers; and, in reply to another spiteful falsehood of the reviewer, we will add, that the cheaper political intelligence is rendered, the more decided will he the advantage possessed by those members of the press which possess large capital over their less affluent brethren in the collection and cir culation of the best intelligence. A catalogue of small charges is brought against the London press for its conduct with regard to the Reform Bill and the Irish Coercion Bill ; they are feebly urged, and of little interest; if we ourselves be among the parties glanced at, we can de clare conscientiously that, were the whole of both transactions re-opened, there never ap peared a syllable in the columns of, this journal which we should not feel it a sacred duty to repeat ; and such, we doubt not, is the feeling of the greater part of our contempo ra ies. Those gentlemen who amuse them selves with crying down the daily press and its authority, had better meditate upon one ques tion before they finally answer it ;—what is it that has enabled the newspaper press to over power and supersede that mighty empire which used some 40 years ago to be wielded over the mind of the country by the writers of political pamphlets ? No man has of late years consi dered the ablest and most successful pamphlets as worth enumerating amongst the active causes of change either in politics or parties, whilst all are ready to admit, and some prone to exaggerate, the operation of the journal sway. One satisfactory reason, and one only, can be assigned for it,—namely, that the knowledge and talents which once held themselves aloof from newspapers, and from the scanty remunera tion which they afforded, have now found con stant and liberal employment in the conduct of the daily press, or in contributions to it ; and -hat of the class who, under the social modifica tions of the last century, would have carried on the out-of-door warfare of a Parliatnentary season with batteries of pamphlets -running through half dozens of editions, the - most efficient members probably at this moment form the standing establishment of many of our daily journals, not only in the metropolis, but in the remoter parts of England.— Times. The most important subject before the re formed Parliament, and the most severe test of its efficiency, is the existing corruptions of the present representative system, developed in the recent and pending Election Committees on the disputed returns, and the application of reme dial measures to punish past, and to prevent future mal-practices. The cases of Stafford, Hertford, Liverpool, and Carrickfergus, have excited the deepest interest, and the people arc scrutinizing, with evident jealousy, the inten tions of the Legislature. The Reform Acts were only a partial amendment of the represen tation. They destroyed the majority of the nomination boroughs, and by the subdivision of the places of polling, and the limitaion of the duration of the poll, materially improved the county representation. The gross number of the constituency was also greatly increased, and the boundaries of many of the smaller boroughs were enlarged. But the modes of election were left unreformed. Bribery and improper influence were limited only by the increase of the constituency. The lesser boroughs still remain a prey to the domination of the local aristocracy, and the Tories took care to neutra lize the effect of the Ministerial measure by the perpetuation of the rights of the freemen, and the enfranchisement of the tenants at will. Thus A little foresight would save our Ministers a great deal of trouble. It is a quality in which the present Cabinet, as well as the one that pre ceded it, is remarkably deficient. The Duke of Wellington saw little of the future when he made his memorable declaration against all re form. As little of the future did the Whig Mi nisters penetrate into when they induced their obsequious House of Commons to stultify itself by rescinding its vote on the malt tax, and sent forth to the suffering nation their arrogant de. tree for the perpetuation of the assessed taxes ! If Lord Althorp had sufficient intellect to read the signs of the times, and sufficient sagacity to see but a small distance before him, he would not have insulted the country by the mockery of relief afforded by his budget of " tile and taxed-cart" celebrity. He would have known that such was not the relief that the country re quired and expected as the practical result of the working of the Reform Bill ; and, knowing that, he would have foreseen that the disclosure of such a miserable scheme of fiscal reform as his budget presented would have excited in the public mind feelings of astonishment, ridicule, and indignation. His Lordship anticipated nothing of the sort. Though every financial scheme of his has proved abortive, and every budget has only exhibited new varieties of official incapacity, yet Lord Althorp, strong only in his own conceit, and unable to extract instruction from experience, has proceeded from one blunder to another, until, in the "tile and taxed-cart" plan of public relief, he has attained the crown ing absurdity, beyond which we defy even his genius to go any further in the invention of what is pompously trifling and solemnly ridiculous. Lord Althorp voted against the assessed taxes, like other leaders of the Whig party, when out of office, but he has received a new light upon the subject since he was invested with the robes of Chancellor of the Exchequer. He now dis covers that public faith cannot be maintained without them, but, while seeking office, he felt no such compunctious visitings with regard to public faith. Yet his own former argument, and that of many of his Whig colleagues, against the c ontinuance of the assessed taxes, still holds as good as ever—namely, that they were ex pressly laid on as war taxes, which within two years of the close of the war were to be repealed, but which are still inflicted on the country, in violation of the faith which the Government had pledged to the people. That the removal of the house and window taxes would involve the ne cessity for a property tax, we deny. As to an income tax, we leave that out of the ques. tion, as we w ell know the country would not bear it, and ought not to bear it—a tax so op pressive and inquisitorial in its nature would be an evil of so great a magnitude that it would be as well to submit to the consequences of a national bankruptcy at once. But a graduated ta x upon realized and tangible property, is a very different thing from a tax upon uncertain and fluctuating income, and the amount of which cannot be come at, without the exposure of an individual's private affairs. A tax upon realized property is in the nature of a premium of insurance, by which a portion is paid for the security of the remainder; fur, if a convulsiou We expressed on Saturday morning our wish that the electors of Westminster might have at least the opportunity offered them of rejecting the renegade Whig on the one side, the intem perate revolutionist on the other, and of sending as their-rtpresentative to Parliament an honour able and - right-minded man. Before night our wish was gratified ; and the independence of the borough was invited to manifest itself in support of the pretensions of Mr. Bickham Escott. This gentleman is already favourably known to all the friends of the constitution as the author of several excellent pamphlets upon the subject of the changes to which that constitution has recently been subjected. He has shown himself in those pamphlets, a conservative in the highest and truest sense of the term ; one who venerates our ancient institutions, but is yet desirous to correct their abuses, and to supply their de ficiencies; one who is not hostile to temperate reform,- but is yet sensible that no violent change can be effected without much of difficulty, and something of danger. He is known also to our readers as. having been a candidate for one of the divisions of his native county, Somerset shire, at the late general election. Although worsted in _ the contest, he may look back with justifiable pride to the circumstances of the struggle. In the midst of adverse accidents, which might well have disheartened a more prac tised electioneerer, he went right onward in the path of his duty with a fortitude which the timidity he witnessed could not shake : with an equanimity which the perfidy he experienced could not disturb ; with a strength of principle which secured the perfect confidence of his friends ; with a courtesy of tone which com manded the unwilling applause of his enemies. We know no man whose conduct entitles him more fully to the reputation of an honest and trustworthy man. Does he hold all the opi nions which we hold ? condemn all the heresies which we condemn ? praise and blame the men who are praised and blamed by ourselves? "My friend Tom always thinks as I think," said some body to Dr. Johnson. " Then, Sir," said the ' Doctor, " he is either a fool who is led by the nose, or a knave who pretends to be so." We know that Mr. Escott is a man who will sup port the dignity of the Crowh, who will main tain the sanctity of the Altar, who will uphold the integrity of the law. We know, moreover, that his opponents are Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Lieutenant-Colonel Evans. It is enough. We give Mr. Escott our cordial good wishes, and our most zealous co-operation. The result of the contest is important as a test of public opinion, not only on general principles, but on some particular questions of great inte rest. If Westminster shall elect Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Westminster will clearly approve of the conduct of the Baronet upon Sir John Key's motion. The petitions which have come from the constituency of the borough for the repeal of the house and window taxes will at once be come mere waste paper. The poll will convince Lord Althorp that the house and window taxes are vastly popular in Westminster. If West -minster shall elect Colonel Evans, Westminster will convince those who, in their eulogies upon large constituencies, quoted the list of her re presentatives with triumph, that there is far less loyalty, far less discernment, far less common sense in Westminster than her admirers have given her credit for. If Westminster shall elect Mr. Escott, Westminster will undoubtedly em barrass Lord Althorp by a distinct condemna don of a tax which his Lordship is determined to retain. But, on the other hand, Westminster will gratify the friends of good government and social order by sending to Parliament a repre sentative who has virtue to value and genius to defend them.—Morning Post. The LORD MAYOR—No doubt; I give you credit for your judgment. In my opinion the gentleman in the spurs would ,have been a great deal more obliged to you.;-.-(A.lattgh.) The second boy-:Please you, my Lord, I couldn't know but the- gentleman with the spurs was the right gentleman, for he corned and he patted the hanimal, and the oss looked at him as if he knowed him, so what was I to do, for the gentleman says to me, says he, he's a good 'un,for he corned a good bit this here morning, and then he goes off together, him and the oss.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—A very good way of doing business. But, perhaps, as the gentleman had spurs, he had a horse in the neighbourhood, and might have mistaken yours for his, Mr. Sly ?—(Laughter.) The second boy—Please you, my Lord, I thought so myself, and looked about, but I seed no other oss, and I don't believe but the gentleman with the spurs was a robber, and no mistake. Tne LORD MAYOR—You make a very clever guess; bur I hope there was no other robber con cerned.—(Laughter.) The two boys declared that they were quite in nocent, and The LORD MAYOR could not think of detaining them. He regretted that he could afford no assist ance to Mr. Sly; but he trusted the robbery would make men cautious of leaving their horses with va• gabonds in the streets. Q UEEN- S Q UA RE. A youth named Richard Churchman was charged with stealing a necklace from the person of a little girl, the daughter of Wiliam Porter, a tailor, resid ing in Spencer's-place, Chelsea. There was nothing remarkable in the evidence against the prisoner, but the conversation which took place between the mother of the girl and the Magistrate excited much surprise. The prisoner was seen to take the neck lace from the neck of Mrs. Porter's daughter; but on his being taken into custody the property could not be found. This having been proved, the fol lowing dialogue took place : Mr. WHITE—How many children have you, mis tress ? Mrs. Porter—l have seven, your Worship. Mr. WHITE—And are you in the habit of curling the whole of your children's hair as you have this one's ?—No, Sir; the girls wily have their hair eurled:' ' Mr. WIIITE—Pray do the whole of your children wear such fine necklaces as the one taken from this child ?—They do not, Sir. The one stolen was given to my child by a friend. Ido not understand the meaning of . such questions. I presume I have a right to dress my cliildren as I like. Mr. tell you, mistress, I shall not be at all sorry if you never recover your child's neck lace. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for allowing your children to go about the streets with such fine things around their necks, as it is an en couragement to petty thieves. But, however this may be, we will remand the prisoner till Tuesday, to give you an opportunity of recovering the pro perty; and if you should get it back I would re commend you to sell it, and purchase something more useful. Aberdeen ..... 8erwick,,..,... Coldstream ... sco Wheat. upar -- 148 Dundee .—...—. , 50 Elgin -------. 40 Inverness—. 40 Kelso ......... 36 Kirkaldy....... 40 Perth .....—........ SO jI -- - The size of th 'CH M Barley KET Mrs. Porter left the office in high dudgeon at the observations of the Magistrate, and declared that at the next examination she should send her husband. Oats. 48 122 25 16 19 37 IIS 20 12 14 38 IS 19 t 3 14 56 26 31 18 22 60 30 33 29 25 49 24 2fi 16 20 46 '24 27 16 20 38 19 21 12 14 45 27 39 25 32 56 23 26 20 22 le measure varies throe i3e_ . „...4" - • .... IS 92 3 1 30 1 0 23 `0 2'2 0 20 40 45 0 f 2.2, c I ' sd l i EDINBURGH CORN MAIIKKF , """ • to - itb We had a small supply of all kinds of Grain igso sales were rather heavy. - pp Wheat. Barley. Oats: as 0 , , of First 67s Od 35s 6d -22 s 84 Second Third 493 Od Ss Od 16i 8,1 xt" COP PRICES OF PROVISIONS, A .C. - ( Beef, per lb. N. 4d. to 03.6 d. Fresh Mater, b g Mutton 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditto,, ,, ~0 0 , Veal—.--........... 0 5 0 8 DitiO, per cw t • - '0 6 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dOz% 8 6 , Lamb, per qr. 4 0 5 61' OatStrawticP l */ 8 6 s Fallow, cwt.... 35 0 39 0 _Wheat Ditto.. . 0 Quartern Loaf 0 8 00 . Barley Ditto , 0 8 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 4 - -0 - , 0. -1-14, per da A y l , A s RmKart.klt;Vll led, P e r Stone o f 'es. .S 0 O ... Fir s t Oatmeal ''''''''' S econ d ditto ......... Barlerneal ...... ... ...... Pead, m seme c a_ zo l ._2 EDINBURGH MEAL The supply of Oatmeal at this the sales dull, at last week's pric Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp First Oatmeal ...... 10 0 Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 6 0 Pea.s ent eal . I - 3 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per-cwt. 12s GLASGOW CORN The supplies of Grain have be mand, at full prices. No alteral Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 250t03101 PAUPERS' EMPLOYMENT.—Among the ♦ast num ber of paupers who applied for parochial relief were two individuals who complained of the conduct of Nicholson, an under, or deputy beadle of St. Mar garet's workhouse. The men, whose names are Speed and Winn, being reduced to the utmost state of destitution, applied for relief at St. Margaret's workhouse. Their claims were acknowledged to be just ; and small pittances of bread and cheese were daily st-reed out to them. On Thursday, how ever, Nicholson, the deputy beadle, observed to Speed, who was then in an ill and hall-famished state , that he should work for the relief he received. The pauper expressed his willingness to do so, and the beadle then sent him to Hounslow with a bag of lime, weighing nearly half a hundred weight, the distance there arid back being about twenty miles, for which he received about three-pennyworth of bread and cheese. The very next day Winn, the other pauper above alluded to, was despatched to Hounslow with the following note, and directions new Canada, free 27 0. 300 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 C Scottish 22 0 24 0 Irish Oatmeal, nsl R eel 05: K hans i „411 ; 0113 : ,, ge j' cotty b, 0 'en Moderate. .3 Lion in other Grain. 0, d. lO l, Oats, per :2,50' 19 U *‘ Irish ................... •British .................. ik Scottish .............. 150 Flour, pert 201 b..,. CCORNWALLMARKET Tituito—Wheat (average) 205.&. —Barley, s. to Sr.AusTsta,—Wheat, —s. to 215.—8ar1eY." ... 131.. 0 0 7s. to 7s. 6d. g; , t ° Od PENZANCE—Wheat, 20s. to 21s. —Barley , 10.14 Os. to 7s. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, Od. to 61-- Oa' ; Butter , LAUNCE TON er Wheat (average) 19s. 6.1.—"8 lb. 9S. a rid , _ o o l ' ss. 3d.—Beef, sd.—Mutton, 641. 15'• LisKE.sao—Wheat, —s. to 225. 6d. —Barley' 0 0 ' to B Bs. &I. ODM iti—Wh eat (average) 22s. —Barley, gs• 10,7 HELSTON—Wheat, 21s. (kl.—Barley, 93 Od• to Sr. CoLuma—Wheat, 203. to —s.—Barley , and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Larnb, O Qum Av • mtity of fine 1 !uantity of Copper Ore sold at Redrutlf BE N T zIu .il Lverage Produce.. Amount of Sale.l7, ...a........................ ------------- • 1 13 ,1 " BIRTHS. ,„,, rii r o of On the 4th inst., Mrs Fitzwilliam, of a still- 0 pia" On the sth inst., in *Portman-square, 1,3" AO daughter. f— ) rs• St, On the 4th inst., in Brook.street, the Ho n. of E. J. Stanley, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. ---. cis Du n tth d ; a t s j' ; t 7l I.4l o v)en n rct t ah h ue e i3od l , st inst.. at Sutton, Surrey, ' by the ll o c u l ' ter Sir James Lake, Bart. to Anne Maria, eldost Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart., K.C.B. , a oo o 4o Fran ' On the 30th ult., at Cairngall, Aberdeenshire, Lc/ only son of Alexander Ilutchiso_ Esq., el of Jane, youngest daughter. of John Jiutchison, :ato'n'tesatH:dsaom:ilbiltuocririg,wheildjueassiTideresa.ulgahrtgeurj:ehfottive_::o:4.o,,.hr t it/0 PRINTED AND PUIILIsIiEt) BY MU It I) 0 fr ° r , t1 0 4 Orrica, 112, &VIAND, Lara 'rj°lPAL A ii p, E Otle Shil so , 'R o k3ARy with t i li ons} ARLES W • Bead r r)i n lek e . 4 On, allttpe, or T erriptei N.g. I)r tii , : The o th„" e ' ° R ti ard, t !unty c 11 . 01 - 1Pf11,1 ;4 i ; 4 ,1411 i )14 4No' 44l not l iti o4hat 41 r e WI , tp k liOt ty I ti n '. 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Jane, W i fe er b 1 44,0 On the 4th inst., at HighburY- terfsee, hr - 411 Taylor, Esq., of St. John-street,' and eldest fat er iii t' 'l 4tl 4 Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Islington-green. philleo On the 4th inst., Sugar Mas wife 91 te .1k s Ft Fenchurch-street, and Enfield, ,IVliddlese X. relict o f t e n : l.ow On the 3d hist., at Hampstead; Saiabv hir e ag h et 0111 ) „ than Patten, Esq., of Hales Hall, Statfords ' t i e r Cde but' On the 4th inst., in Upper Grosvenor -streeN 00 ,7 11 1 744 second and youngest son of the Hon. Rob e Lady Harriet Clive, aged 4. k A. ,t4t, ill