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ft'VENING EDITION. LITIRAT UR --- 41 , ---- 1 LOND ON AND IVES THINS 7EI? REVIEW. We lit; li o -0 w . ofL X no H p L erio lto a r t r b , a L t i o i t a td s on,l39 of its themes, exhibited' such a marked improvement in the selection and management as " The London and 'Westminster Re view" has done during the last two or three years. .It is no longer characterized b spirit y a nar row , c ar pi ng , sectarian ; no longer adopts in its extrernest rigour, the creed of Utilitarianism ; but has become quite catholic in its ideas ; takes enlightened and comprehensive views of matters ; and appeals broadly to the public, instead of t o a party. We rememb er nhen it was in the con stant habit of trading upon one idea ; of seizing on 'time Particular crotchet, such as the Bentham system of legislation —and working it threadbare ; till, at last, we shr unk from the very sight of ti,e Journal, just as we W ould fro m t h e tore. presence of some d u ll, b utton -h o ldi ng All this i s passed, :and " The L on d on an d West minster " is now, if not the best, at least one of the best., periodicals of the day. The opening article , ifi the p resent Number is entitled " Literary Lionism,' And is suggested by that clever liltle monthly Miscel lany, " Heads of the People." The subject is can• vaned i n a f ree and liberal spirit of inquiry, and points out te mperately b u t forcible, the folly o f " Lionism," as c practised among th e London coteries. We qu o t e th e oncluding passage of thi s essay , which, from internal Flidence, as well as from the initials " H. M.," we con lecture to be the production of Miss Martineau Many are the th ousan d s w h o have let the man die nithin them from canarcily care a b out meat an d dr i n k , Rate mad a warm corner i n t h e great asylum of safety, whose have ever been thronged by the multitude who can not appreciate the free air and open heaven. And many are th e that th eir complacency hund re d s who have let the plot die within them tray be fed, their vanity intoxi cated, and themselves securely harboured in the praise of moell' immediate neighbours. Few, very few are there, ult' noblo in reason,' and conscious of being ' infinite in es,' have faith to look before and after—faith to go Pea to th e °ll t,o ' reverence the dreams of their youth"—faith to ap godlike human mind yet unborn—the mind ; I hich the series of coming centuries is to reveal. Among Vthe. millions who arc now thinking and feeling on our own , Is it likely that there is not one who might take up t ` s ° o ; of Homer —not one who might talk the night aw ay with Socrates —not one who might be the Shak . 'P eo es , r ° of an age when our volcanoes shall have become r h - "ns of green pasture and still waters, and new islands sv,ll send forth human speech from the midst of the sea? r _ Y ht are such men about ? If one is pining in war. t, ustiaa : Dn , 41 inorance, or turning from angel to devil under °` r ' ess ion, it is too probable that another may he under going extinction in drays in -rooms—surrendering his divine faculties to wither in lam g -light, and he wafted away in F"Perfume and praise. As s P urely as the human thought has t h er to fly abroad over the expanse of a thousand years, mi l% need to rest on that far shore and meditate, tit e now are the flatteries, and vanities, and compe a inns, which •seerced so important in their day ? Where '4p, r e e .... t _ he ePherneral reputations, the glow-worm ideas,. the o :zit:tier sentiments, which the imp . e n rti ? nen r h o vo d i e c l e oge r of ohlivioll'irpoouneed immortal and I Were really lis swept over them all, while the minds which sin g - n mirroredi as they shin e ' in the firmament of thought, and Therethis is in d eep of ages out of which they rose.' " . passag e a aentiment and an earnestness in the tone of Ord s i na which augur powers of thought of no e „,.. ry calibre. " Parisian Caricatures" gives a t ,".` l °Lis and amusing account of the rise and progress of Ruelaviaerwt France.' During the empire, (observes the ) c aricature was ga gge d an d put out o f t h e W ,, ser .Y altogether ; i mpr i soned, as completely as ever asolodeus was in his phial. The reason of this general slti)Pression of humourous pictures was, that Napoleon , h h, 7 a s not a l eg i t i mate Monarch, and shrunk, with all the dl'U.e sensiti veness of a d espot , f rom the i dea of having „yseif or his G overnment turned into ridicule. Fre _i,k of Pr uss i a was far more tolerant in matters of d;ri4 sort, f or no man ever laughed more heartily at e atur , es, even when directed against himself, than he t o Ai . ,evinced true this sagacity. Alluding cursorily e ar . &iauraier, who, it seems, is the most popular Icaturist th at „ t , now living in Paris, the Reviewer observes well ~u o tigh he executes very carelessly, he knows very tude t si_hat he would express, indicates perfectly . the atti heford identity of his figure, and is quite aware The identity of the effect which lie intends to produce." high c ,, ss itY, headed " Music in England," speaks in ~.t ver ms et praise of the genius of Beethoven, and 11 1. ' iti !lout his peculiar excellencies in a learned spirit of w e a re cll • Of Aloschelles, another well-known name, ha n told that " there is no style of music which he f4ije2t performed, and there is none in which he has 5 „, , :.. For force aid clearness of finger, in all "vii in petulant passages, he is unrivalled. There is have :I'l PL KY i ng." In the " Belgic Revolution," we L eopold, interesting biographical sketch of King luckiest' ""' / r vit ° is justly declared to be one of the Inucch spirit, hut gisti °' m en. This memoir is penned in a cube not too much so, and dwells with tel • eir 'P l 'asis on the cool political sagacity of the z . mil Monarch •who,says the Reviewer, "happily lot t h e ~,,,,, ~ th e ru'ltle policy of Europe, and thrice happily for peopP e r° in s Per L itY of Belgium, has held . his impatient testi of t ae leash, and proved that his title to great -0.. her character was not founded on the vulgar claims istah.roism." In " Irish Humour and Pathos," there of ?Mir:ions criticism on the " rich and oily" humour . ;'`'1421,1:: Carleton. " The Colonial Office and Sir . F . . .1a .makes sad havoc of this gentleman's pretension . ° Legislat' • ledged ive wisdom, who is, nevertheless, successful during the first to have been both bold and socce , Criticism on W oio l'art of his administration. " Re-organiza- Reviewer. and -ti e is a bitter attack on '\lr. Croker's honesty 4. is as a Quarterly ti on of s of the common Party" we shall .makedthe subject epttrate ton some more leisure ay. MAGAZINES. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. MWe rec e i ve d t hi s number at so late an h our on onday, t h at we were unable t o not i ce i t on our Magazi ne D ay ." It contains s evera l c l ever articles, foremost among which we may mention '• pathol ogy o f !he Hum an Mi n d," which is a critical Es say , suggested °Y a work u nd er that titl e , wr i tten by Dr. Mao. 'this essay t rea t s on in san ity, i ts causes and y its cure, in a su b t l e an d reflecting spirit. In " , Ireland and Lord Normanby," no more than justice is done to the Admin istration of the late Viceroy, of whom it is said with truth, that for " numerous and appalling evils, h e f oun d a remedy in hi s own s i ncerity, integrity, and justice, his excellent jud gment, i n his high and indomit in courage, personal a n d mora l , and in the able gene roes reli ance which h e pl ace d upon the character of a peo Wh o h ave ever b een di stinguished for the depth ande ardour of the gratitude." The writer add s , " B ut, Perhaps th e most remarkable advantage conferred by Lord Mulgrave upon th e cause o f pu bli c order in Ireland, w 4 g tb. e suppression of w h a t were called in th a t country mo a s e: l on fights," the existence of which, tended in a 1014, eminent degree to barbarize the combatants, Rios ,' they violated the public peace and security to a st ; dreadful extent." In the brief Memoir of Lwar°ll"--which we suppose will be continued— ie. h ave an account of some of the Turkish and w r iZ e : 4l l::E i lign s of this eminent Russian butcher. The im p , • Ju °II fain make him out a hero, but this is ous Suwaroff, though a brave and adventur ar t oefftmander, was by n o means a mato er in the `'ears., war; and his atrocious cruelties at Ismael and artles '-w, must ever fix a st a i n on th e memory o f th i s of this buffoon. " Shelley," is an essay on t h e gen i us he d eser n latical poet, who is praised quit e as much as and h a 'F will- Omit all th at i s unligiblein Shelley, not have many pages left. EAEbiarr, , s' UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. perioSaiweil we can judge from a first Number, this ,elected cal btds fair to succeed. The articles are well to pk ase ; a,r:e just of sufficient length ; numerous enough eight A al l Parties ; anithe price of the work T is only bett e .-en Pence. The prose portion of the Number is r th an the poetry. eCantal • SP ORTIN G MA GA ZINE. o - e i as pleasant h umourous poem , ent i t l e d t h e be-co nt' 4ne Y in Lei cesters hi re, " wh i ch, we perceive, is to • 4 pa n ued ; and three engravings, th best ohich s !Bait of a well-for me d sporting dog named f " w Dashi." A CHURCHES OF LONDON. i is dvs CHURCHES periodi ca l , i n which no little antiquarian loreu lloblspl43 S t met ed• The *views of the intior of some of . r ropolitan structures, are er skilfully engraved Th, ALDI NE MAGAZINE. Peri,d. e uelt f eatures in this neatly-printed, and.rtia cheap Whi c h 41 , are te critical p notices of new üblicaon., are written h in a spit it ofgood sense and impa ti lity. Jo tilt Th.. Lof the STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Ite ee _l lll 3ber contaius a well- wr itt en acc ount of the pur.._"s!la, !ogr ess and Present Extent of Manufactures s llto - --2--...:_—_,,,...,...„„,......... -`37.01:1Y OF NAPOLEON.—Pear IL Th e Tyas, London, 1839. 17,6, iv Co unt of Bonaparte's first Italian campaign in th n ''hen, with an army never exceeding sixty-five rtn tl i e 3a B ll , d . men, .he vanquishel in succession five. men, hostil . e s co n , , 4tnottnting to three hundred thousand I . ~ Pleted in this Part, which is embellished with nu ...er e: us , eec,•Yravings, in which we are struck with the to&tuPtil°us accuracy with which the French military Ille of e period has been preserved. Pio, _______________ s-'4 ORIAL SHAKSPEARE.—PA RT VI. Th e iv C. -Knight, London, 1839. hi tt • 'lumber before us contains the first part of the wit orl on ' h Play of King Henry the Sixth ;it is illustrated r eol 71'eral ingenious wood-euts, and is annotated with ti o K ahle care. This i s cccertainly the eomplete,t edi. a of Shakspeare that has yet made its appearance. 114.4DS OF THE PEOPLE—No rt. Tyas. London, 1839. 061:_hie Cl.everest sketch in the present Number of this f0." 14 r little miscellany, is that of the " Common In 'lller," h rom e pen of Mr. Dou4las Jerrold. • HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS.—PART The wood-Cuts in this Number are engraved with a skill that reminds us of old Bewick, who was remarka ble for his ability in this department of art. The lite rary- department is written by Mr. Yarrell, the editor, who is every way qualified for the task of superinten dence. GREECE—PICTORIAL, DESCRIPTIVE, The editor of this elegant work is Dr. Wordsworth, who has himself travelled in Greece, is a first-mite Greek scholar. and evidently fond of the task here al lotted him. We need scarcely add, after having said thus much, that the work before us is by far the best of its kind that has been published. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN SIR—In the Times of this day th,tre is a quotation from " Spar L's Life of Washington." As usual some thing polithid must he dragged forward, and they con trast Washington and Wellington, but how sadly do the portraits vary. Give Wellington all the praise for military talents the mast fanatical amongst his besotted followers claim, and then look at the patriotism of the Republican and the grasping, sordid ambition of the prijudieed and interested Royalist. The millions of money, in total, ahsorbed by our Artunatc diliverer— the 70,0001. taken by him from the 400,0001. raised for the rc/id: of the poor sufferers at famed Waterloo—where candour confesses that Napoleon (with an army only partially disciplined and sparingly supplied with arms*) was on the point of routing our Great Captain of the Age, but for the timely arrival of Blucher with fresh troops. What mould the Great Captain have probably been now, had not Baird allowed him to retrieve his folly and mishaps, at the commencement of his sanguinary and bloody ca rcer in India ? He has gloated on the public revenues ever since that period ; and his family, even his mother, have been supported by the public bounty.t Washnagton suffering his estate to decay, whilst labour ing for the publis weal—he does not take advantage of the misguided frenzy of a time when men were mad with the idea of glory (at a cost of only five hundred millions) without sufficiently understanding why they so acted ; he refuses to have even his estate (his real es tate, not presented by the nation, impoverished by long absence in the war) to be improved at the public ex pense, " but set himself to work with his usual straight ibrwardl: simplicity to improve his lands and make up 'by thrift and care for his losses." He did rot place his favourite ladies on his country's revenues ; his manly and generous feelings met their reward in the estimation and respect of his countryman ; his was not the abject and sordid military notion of plun der that spurred on a cold and calculating nature merely for the desire of ridiculous titles and wealth, but that pure spirit of patriotism who serves his country when he feels she is wronged : such men's fame live in the hearts of their posterity, which no ridi culous effigies or mountebank equestrian statues can effect. The man who receives the " Quid pro Quo" even to satiety must shrink from comparison with him who does not sully his straightforward honour with base lucre. But the narrow-minded conceive pomp and glitter are necessary to make character effective ; and truly with our heroes it is. The speculative soldier figlts for honour and profit, he receives both from a nation ; surely then obligation is cancelled. your most obedient servant, L. P. * The sudden arrival of Napoleon, and the immediate necessity of an engagement, prevented him from procuring from the manufacturers more than a bare sufficiency fur two-thirds of his army. Within a month this man, to the shame of the Mi nistry, has had from the property of the country--1,5201. worth of the stores of the count!) , for " my statue; 3001. per annum to Captain Gurwood, who has blazoned my name by publishing my despatches." # I have used the word, as we are so surfeited with it as regards the character of our " hero." • GERMAN and BRUSSELS PA PERS. It appears that the expense of the army in the months of January, February, and March, was above twelve millions of francs, about four millions per month. After the re duction of its force, which will immediately t.,ke place, and will reduce it to about one fifth, the month of April will cost three and a half millions, nearly 800,000 francs less than the proceeding months. BRUSSELS, APRIL 2.—General Debbits, Governor of the fortress of Maestrict, has just died, after a long and painful illness. A letter from Diest of the 30th March, says—The fol lowing are the new positions which our troops will occupy in a few days :-_The two regiments of cavalry now in the camp will take the place of those stationed on the second line at Aersehot, Rillaer, Sichim, Montague, Ballen, and Herch la-Ville. Those latter will be cantoned in the environs of the Camp. The staff of the 2d division, commanded by General Goethats, will leave Aerschat, to go to the Camp, in the room of the staff of the Ist division, commanded by General Brias, which returns to Louvain. HAGUE, APRIL 2. —The Russian Crown Prince arrived on Sunday at the Palace of the Prince of Orange, and went immediately afterwards to the Palace of the King. —Journal du Commerce, d'Anvers, April 3. MuNicn, MARC!! 28.—Don Jose di I.lranga, lately Lieutenant-GenerA in the service of Don Carlos, Hon Jose Tegeiro, late Chamberlain, and Fernandez Rogue, ' late Cabinet Messenger to the Pretender, arrived here yesterday from Paris, and set out this morning for a.,zburg. RATISDONE.-The Advertiser for the Upper Palatinate and Ratisbone, Lt its Number of 20th March, says " The seizure of the work, the Monk and the Nun; or, Library, published by Jemsch and Stage, Augsburg, 1839, was ordered by a Ministerial rescript, with injunctions, at the same time, to proceed with equal rigour against the booksellers in the kingdom who publish contemptuous at tacks on the Protestant Church. ALEXANDRIA, MAnctt 7. The Turkish Admiral Osman Bey, has returned to this city from Zemlensk to-day, on board the Turkish steam-boat, that brought him here tr.) return to Constantinople. He returns without having accomplished the object of his mission, as he could not wait for the Pacha, who, on his part wishes for nothing more earnestly than not to have to confer with any body on his affairs. The French steam-boat did not arrive till yesterday evening ; but it is known that the despatches for the French Consul are extremely vague, and do not allow him to make any direct declaration. The apprehensions of the French mer chants here arc, consequently, not allayed.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 3O. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning, in the course of a leading article on the subject of the dispute between this country and the United States, respecting the boundary line, ob. serves as follows :—" Should the result of survey, or com promise, or arbitration, be the establishment of the claims of England to the Aroostook soil, the fierce and intract able woodsmen who have already seized upon it, will set up their right of possession, countenanced by the injunc tions of Mr. Fox to Sir John Harvey to suspend or abandon his own, heretofore acknowledged, authority to resist such invasions, and will organize a war pro aris et focis against England herself, within her own territorial boundwries, wherein they will be backed by ' sympathizers' from every corner of the Union, and negatively by the timid or tacit sufferance of the feeble Government of Mr. Van Buren or his successor." The Morning Herald say s, in reference to the approach ing debate in the Commons on the 15 h :—" Lord John Russell means to require at the hands of the House a vote of confidence in his Government. Yet all the chile his Lordship knows perfectly Kell that 140 section of the Com•- mons—that no portion of the community—entertains the slightest confidence in the administration of which be forms a part." In another leading article on the new French Ministry, our Contemporary remarks :—" As to the thing called a Cabinet, which has just now crept into that short lived existence by virtue of the creative power of a royal ordinance, it is not a removal, but a confirmation of the difficulties which surround the French King and the French throne." The Morning Chronicle, commenting on the recent pub. lie meeting at Edinburgh to support Ministers, observes: " Those whom the lesson at Edinburgh fails to convince of the necessity of connecting the existence of the Ministry with the abandonment of the present suicidal system, may be pronounced incorrigible. It is a sign of the times which all who run, may read." Our Contemporary con tains another leading article on the subject of Ministers, in which he says :—" Flo Aile to them ? No, we are hostile to the system which has multiplied the occupants of the Op position benches from one to three hundred; and which renders nugatory, or reduces to a minimum their plans for promoting popular education both in England and Ireland. If they take that hostility to themselves, they are welcome " The Morning Post, referring to the present position of Ministers, makes the following remarks :—" It seems to us that the strongest and most prevalent political desire which now exists among rational and sincere people in this country is to have an able Government. This we believe to be the wish of sensible men of all parties." The Morning Advertiser remarks, in the course of an article on the present state of parties We are at a loss to find any party whom we would recommend as the guide of the popular demanstration. The ultra- Reformers are too violent—the moderate Reformers arc too apathetic. These are the only parties, however, honestly meaning what they profess, the rest are merely speculators in the chances which the collision of parties may present to them, reckless of all considerations, but their own aggrandise ment." Prince Alexander Lieven has returned to Naples, where he is Second Secretary of Legation to the new Russian Ambassador, his Excellency Count Gourieff, ap pointed in the room of Count Nl3tuszewic. WOBURN ABBEY —The Marquis and Mar chioness of Ahercorn, Lord Griroston, Lord Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ellice, are on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. Their Graces, at the close of the rece!s, will proceed for a few days to Camden Hill. His Royal Higlwess the Duke of Sussex has appointed L. Walker, Esq., to be comptroller of his house hold, in the room of Henry Frederick Stephenson, Esq., of Arlington -street, who resigned, on receiving the ap pointment of Commissioner of Excise. The marriage of the Marquess of Douro and the Lady Elizabeth Hay will be solemnized at St. George's church, Hanover-square. arrived at Mivart's dotel Y ia ' s a t c e c v o en m in p g an fr i o e m d Countess Battlt tan expected nf in she has been paßs . B i7 ig l i l i e to r n f , a w m b i e ly re , the winter months. Count Batthyany is shor tl ytown from Leicestershire. THE SUN, LONDON, TIITIRSDAY, APRIL 4, 1839. Mr. FRASER cried—Now for our friends : a show of hands.—(Great cheering and confusion.) A show of hands was accordingly taken for Mr. Dou glas, amidst great uproar. Mr. T. GORDON—Gentlemen, a show of hands for the Lord Provost. Another show was accordingly taken ; but neither party was inclined to yield, nor would the Whigs agree to Mr. Fraser's proposal. Mr. Douglas then proceeded towards the hustings. Mr. T. Gordon, on observing this movement, said something which was inaudible, gave an emphatic thump on the table, and looked as if on no " hospitable thought intent" to the approaching in truder. The Lord Provost tried to address the meeting, and was understood to call on his fellow citizens to support him. Mr. Douglas, however, ad vanced to the platform, where he took up a position on Sir T. D. Lauder's left hand, the Lord Provost being on the Hon. Baronet's right. After a brief pause, Sir Thomas being reduced to a pinch, took out his snuff box, which he familiarly handed to Mr. Douglas, to the great amusement of the assemblage. The PeovosT having obtained a partial hearing, said that he had been appointed by a majority , and if the minority we re to controul the proceedings of the majority, he must dissolve the meeting. The uproar, which indeed bad never ceased from the commencement of the proceed ngs, again rose to a height. Mr. Douglas tried to say something to balance accounts with the Lord Provost, but was inaudible ; a host of orators started up on all sides, end at length The LORD PROVOST cried, at the pitch of his voice —" I dissolve the meeting."_(Hooting, howling, hiss ing, and all manner of indescribable sounds.) Thereupon the Whigs on the platform retreated ; and the victorious Radicals, even before their defeated ad versaries had evacuated the garrison, scrambled into the vacant seats. Some of them appeared rather juvenile, though very enthusiastic politicians. Mr. DOUGLAS being at length installed as Chairman; DR. GLOVER (St.. Patrick Square) rose and said— Though I most decidedly anticipated a victory to day, I certainly never expected so glorious, so deci sive a victory. I did not for a moment think that they would have vanished as they have ; but I thought, that, like the Ministers, they would cling to the plat form as long as they possibly could.—(llowls, cheers, and cries of •‘ Go on,")--and therefore I had not pre pared myself with a substantive motion but an. amendment. This meeting was called in a very pecu liar manner—not in support of the principles of her Majesty's Ministers in general, but—(th e s p ea k er having hesitated, some clearing of throats took place in ridicule of his difficulty.—(Cries of Order, and confu sion ensued.) The CHAIRDIAN insisted on Dr. Glover being heard. Dr. GLOVER then proceeded by saying that he would at once move—" 'Fhat it is the decided opinion of this meeting that her Majesty's present Minister have aban doned those Liberal principles which they professed be fore they came into power,—that although they entered office pledged to reform, economy, and p eace , t h e i r con duct as to Ireland and Britain, has been illiberal, des potic, and extravagant ; as to Canad a , vac ill at i ng, bloody, and cruel ; as to Russia and Poland, pusillani mous ; as to America, warlike, whi c h t hi s meeting highly disapproves ; and that, therefore, this meeting neither has, nor can have confidence in her Majesty's present Ministers." I onclve that it is very injudicious for the Whig clique to call a meeting on the principles of Ministers as applied i n Ire land ; for if the principles on which they h ave governe d Ireland be different from the principles on which they , have governed Britain, then tehese men have two prin ciples ; and if the principles are not differ en t, wou ld i t not be taking a very imperfect view of their policy to regard it only in one aspect ? I will allude to one of the most significant and last of their proceedings. Mr. Hume lately brought forward a motion for Household Suffrage ; he showed that in many places there was not a larger constituency than three hundred ; contrary to -Ile design of the Reform Bill What said Lord John Russell? That such boroughs afforded an easy and proper way to get learned and able men into Parliament--(Laughter)—the very argument Sir R. Peel had used in former times for the rotten boroughs. But the Whigs have gone much farther than their ad * ersaries. I allude to the Poor-kw system which they have established in England. — (Confusion.) I am not going into particulars.—(Laughter, groans, and commotion.) I don't wonder that those who never felt poverty should laugh at the poor ; but there is a Power that never laughs at the poor. Their laugh will not only be heard here but recorded in a higher place. The anomaly of this measure is, that the management is taken from the parishioners and confided to three Com missioners—a system never heard of in Britain before. (Never.) It is an importation of despotism—from Russia, for there the system is carried on by the Czar with signatures, seals, and every thing else.—(Laughter) —but it is an importation from France and Spain. (Question.) I don't wonder that gentlemen cry " Ques tion." I was going to show the similarity of Whig mea sures to the despotic measures o f th e Continent. These gentlemen don't like that, and therefore cry question. Ministers wish to introduce the same system into every thing else—to centralise the police, education, &c. They have done what Sir Robert Peel .never_ dared. They have tried to deprive the metropolis of the ma nagement of their own police. Did Sir, Robert Peel or the DUke of Wellington ever do anything so despotic ?--(" Nol") I say no. They have at this moment before Parliament a measure extending the power of fining and imprisoning the working classes. W e will never submit.") They are giving power to one Magistrate to convict, where two were required before. What, then, have we to say for them? That they have professed opposite sentiments. This only aggravates their fault. With regard to Ireland, what have they done ? Have they abolished tithes ? —(Cries of " Finish," "Order," " Hear the Doctor out," " Humbug," " Come to the point," and from Mr. Peddle, " I'll second the motion.") I know it is a Whig who wants to disturb the meeting.—(Renewed confusion.) The Ministers held out the Appropriation Clause as a humbug, and though they got office through means of it, they have now abandoned it. Ti.en with regard to the poor.—(Cries of " Sit down," and cheers and confusion.) Well, I will go at once to Lord Normanby.—(Clamour, clapping of hands, and cries of " Down," and " Chair.") The CHAIRMAN again interposed ; and Dr. GLOVER proceeded to say, Lord Normanby him self has stated that the murders in Ireland arc at the rate of four a week ; and that in two years—(Confu sion)—in 1837, 228 homicides were perpetrated. Lord Normanhy made a tour through Ireland, and let out the criminals ; but are not Ministers there raising prisons and bastiles under the name of workhouses, to impri son men not for crime but poverty ?—(Continued con fusion.) Then how vacillating the conduct of Ministers towards Canada ! They sent out an individual with most despotic powers ; and they have spoken of only fifteen executions having taken place in one pro vince, and sixteen in the other.--(0h, oh.) A poor Polish Captain has been executed, Carlos-like, though he, heir).- no subje c t, cou ld b e no t ra it or .— (Cries of " Sit down.") And if the spirit of Washing ton be still alis e in America, there is no hope that we can avoid a war.—(Cheers and groans.) Mr. FRASER rose amidst cheers, and said, Men of Edinburgh—(Upraor, cheers, and hisses) —I very much regret the renewed confusion. Allow me to state what was done to those gentlemen.—(Uproar.) On Friday afternoon the Committee intimated to those concerned in getting up this meeting that we should m ove for a new chairman, and move a resolution expressing want ofcon fidence, in Alinisters.—(Cheers and hisses.) You, Wh;es, I appeal to you whether this was not exceedingly fair and honest ?—(Cries of " Yes," and " No.") Yo u say " No," know nothing of the principles of the Chartists between man and man ; or you would not have said " No."—(Confusion.) I am free to admit that the Whigs on this side of the House had rather the majority ; while we had an oyerwhelwin g majority on the other ; and therefore my conviction is that we had the majority. Still I would not have insisted on the appointment of the chairman proposed by me, had they allowed our chairman to sit beside theirs. But they—particularly Sir. J. Craig—treated this meet ing with contempt, as if it were beneath them to accept such a proposition. That was characteristic of the base Whigs.—(Cheers and confusion.) They came here to perpetrate one of the most mean and shabby johs they have eve r undertaken. They came h ere to su pport the base and bloody Whigs.—( A h owl.) The Whigs are like a shot cr ow han g in g b y a twig--(Com motion)—they are in th eir d y in g st ruggles ; they can survive but a little long er.— ( A howl .) Th e y w ill soon be extinguished as a party in this country. T his meet ing was called to support the conduct of the Whigs with regard to Ireland. What was that conduct ? Was it not they that placed poor Ireland under the fearful Coercion Bill ? What else have they done ? Disarmed the poor peasantry of Ireland, and reduced them to a state of slavery. When hundreds after hundreds are ejected from the soil, the Whigs have made a law that begging shall be punishable.—(Cries of " Oh," and up roar.) You Whigs, your conduct here shows that you are all tarred with the same stick ; it shows how soul less, heartless, unfeeling you are. You want us to sup port the Whigs for their policy in Ireland ! Oh, ye Whigs ! what is the sta te of Ireland ? A great , se) proportion of the people is starving. I s that ho nourable to the Whig Ministers ? Oh no, (Laughter, and cries of " Oh.") If there be any Irish man here, I would say, look at the Whigs laughing at vour distress. We are your friends : we wish you re lieved from the sufferings to which you are exposed. The Whigs got into power by the Appropriati on Cl ause, and aband o n e d it. Oh, ye precious high-minded Whigs ! —(Cheers and confusion.) Then , under pretext of abolishing Tithes, they perpetuated them in Ireland. The Whigs will not improve the Reform Bill ; they won't give you liberty. When po or Irishmen ask for bread, they give him a stone ; and when they ask for a fish, they give poor Irishmen a serpent. Can you deny that, ye miserable Whi`gs ? Then look at the i Irish Church, with 700,000 members, while seven millions are obliged to buy their religious wares or ieh the give a pr i ce f or ser vices why do not attend. These arc your precious Whigs—(Question.) " Ques tion," ye fools, that is the question. (Laughter.) You also seem to be blinded in mental perception, like all your miserable, dying, drivelling party, the Whigs. The conduct of the Whigs to-day will teach them a good lesson. The sooner their party perishes the better. We have caught them and had them for seven years, and devil a one of them is worth. What are they but shuffling cowards—dastardly moral and politi cal cowards, dangling betwixt truth and falsehood. Liberty never will flourish till we get the party extin guished ; and then will there be a fair fight between the freeman and his oppressor. I heartily second the mo tion.—(Cheers and confusion.) Mr. WILLIAM COWAN could not support the motion. When the Tories attacked the Whigs, and the Whigs called a meeting to support Ministers, he wondered how any other party could consider this conduct as right.—(Uproar.) On a show of hands, the resolution was carried by a large majority ; very few hands being held up against it. Mr. PEDDLE said—The Whigs are very worldly wise people. They know that " they who fight and run away, may live to fight another day."—(Cheers.) We have pushed them from their stools here ; an event which is perhaps ominous of their going out some where else.—(A laugh.) A piece of more unblush ing effrontery—of more matchless impudence—l never know than what has been perpetrated by the Whigs to day at this meeting, fur they had come to ask a vote of confidence within fourteen days of their treating with contempt the prayers and wishes of the people. It is said of John Bull, that he is a great bull-calf ; but I really think he does not possers all the assinine qua ities attributed to him ; and though he is a very grate- Iful animal, yet I hardly think him altogether stteh a blockhead as to give a vote of confidence to people who are turning a deaf ear to the petitions of the country, and treating them with most marked insult. They have refused the prayer of the people of Edinburgh, for the repeal of the Corn-laws ; of the great mass of the people fur Extension of the Suffrage. They hardly con descended to be present when Hume brought on his late motion. And yet they ask a vote of confidence. Really, really, it is said, when a man strikes you on this side, turn to him the other also. We have hardly acquired that degree of Christian complaisance. They durst not allow the discussion of the general conduct of the Whigs; but they ask a iote of confidence for their policy in Ire land, where 13,3901. has been offered within this last year for the discovery of murders alone! Surely if the polily of the Whigs had been beneficial, this would not have been the result.—(" Dreadful.") We sympathise with ) Ireland and Irishmen ; but from them we have never derived advantage ; for they come to England and Scotland in thousands and tens of thousands, and undersell the labourers in our own markets.--(Hear, hear.) 70,000 come over annually. This is their misfortune, not their fault ; but they who ask for a vote of confidence for a policy which has fostered the miserly of Ireland, and increased that of England and Scotland by such importations, have a large portion of impudence. But what is the general policy of the Whigs ? Why, they give you the smallest possible modicum of Reform. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder told you in the King's Park you would get " The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." They have kept their promise in this instance, though they have as many pledges as would furnish a very re spectable pawnbroker's shop, " unredeemed." But we tell them they must either march a little more quickly or turn to the right about. , —(Hear, hear.) At the time of the Reform Bill, it was said by a gentleman— and I am sorry he has left the room, for I wished to remind him of what he formerly said—that there would be 60,000 sabres unsheathed in Edinburgh if the Reform Bill were not carried.—(Cries of " Name, name.) Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Now these gentlemen turn round, and when we seek only a small portion of the good promised by the Reform Bill, they say to the poor Chartists, " Oh, no, you are physical force men ;" and they would put us down.—(" They can't.") No. We have given them to-day a good lesson which will teach them their real power. We can tell them the Reform Bill was carried by the apprehension of physical force ; and if they don't march about, we will give them a " pill" of their own making.—(Cheers.) If there be any here so poor as to do homage to the Whigs, I ask him to point his finger to a single act which intelligent and judicious men can approve ? I pause for a reply.—(Slavery.) The working classes have paid twenty millions for the slaves in the West Indies ; and if the Whigs have merit for that measure, we have a great deal more for paying the money.--(Pension List.) They have only added to the Pension List. They came into power pledged to economy. They have added fifty millions to the National Debt. They propose to increase the salaries of the Judges ; and it will be very convenient to allow some of them to retire on full salary, and very convenient for the Lord Advocate to pop into a snug Judgeship of 3,500/. a-year. I beg to conclude by moving—" That this meeting of the inha bitants of Edinburgh, reviewing the past conduct of her Majesty's present Ministers, find that they took office strictly pledged to alleviate the unhappy condition of Ireland, and generally pledged to the reforms of cor ruption, home and colonial, peace, economy, and re trenchment—instead of these, we find that Ireland is doubly distracted, distrust abroad, and useless places of every denomination multiplied ; we therefore pray her Majesty to dismiss them without delay." ) Mr. SMITH :seconded the motion, and said it was time for the Whigs to set their house in order. Mr. WILLIAM CowAN moved—That every man, whether Whig or Radical., who supports Lord Roden's _ .. motion, must either be a Tory in principle or in league with Tories ; and therefore has no right to the confi. deuce of the Liberal inhabitants of Edinburgh.— (Laughter.) This counter-motion not being seconded, fell to the ground. On a show of hands the resolution was carried by a large majority to four or five dissentients. Mr. HENRY RANYEN than moved—That it is the de cided conviction of this meeting, that equal rights can not be enjoyed by all classes of her Majesty's subjects, without Universal Suffrage. Mr. CU➢iMIING seconded the resolution, which waa carried by an almost unanimous vote, and amidst great cheering. Mr. IiALKET MILL proposed, That the foregoing re solutions be embodied in an address, to be presented to the Queen, and that Lord Brougham (or Earl Stanhope) be requested to present the same. Dr. GLOVER was afraid, if the address were trans mitted to Earl Stanhope, who, though opposed to the Poor-laws, dimgreed with the Chartists on other points, the Tories might think the meeting was giving them support. On the other hand, Lord Brougham had declared himself in favour of an extended Suffrage and Vote by Ballot ; and the meeting did not know at that moment how far his Lordship would go. It was then agreed that Lord Brougham be requested to present the address. _ The resolution having been seconded by Mr. BUT TERS, was carried ; and it was suggested that the reso lutions should be described as emanating from a meet ing at which the Lord Provost had been invited to preside. Mr. FRASER said if the Whigs had succeeded in this meeting, it would have been the precursor of a series of others all over the country. The Chartists wanted the sinews of war ; and he moved that Mr. Mill take his hat in his hand at the door , and receive the contributions of the meeting. He begged also to move that the resolu tions be published in certain newspapers, which he enumerated. These motions, being seconded, were adopted by the meeting. Mr. JAMES GRANT said the hue conduct of the Whigs, in calling the meeting at three o'clock, when the working-classes, who were as interested in the sub ject as others, could not well attend, had met with its own reward. The trick had failed ; but it was a good specimen of a Whig trick. The Whigs had got into power on the shoulders of the people, had called them the intelligent working-classes, the noble working classes, the masses in whom the productive wealth of the country was centred, and had said that their fiat would be attended to. -But whenever these political charlatans mounted to the top of tho ladder, they found it convenient to kick it away—to kick away the classes that had raised them ; but now righteous retri bution had come down upon their heads and the work ing -classe s h a d t a k en a pos i t i on from which Whigs and Tories combined could not drive them. Were the working-classes in alliance with the Tories ? No. They stood by the Charter ; and when the people got into power they would legislate for themselves, be cause they would legislate through Representatives chosen by themselves. In conclusion, he begged to move—That this meeting declare it to be improper to call a public meeting of the inhabitants for a political purpose, in which all are interested, at an hour which only accommodates a section of society, and not the whole ; and therefore this meeting do now censure the Lord Provost and Whig party for their conduct. Mr. Woon seconded the resolution, which was una nimously carried. ' After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated ; and so ended this " strange, eventful his tory." ( From the Edinburgh Ohserver.) The public meeting of yesterday was the most ex traordinary ever witnessed in Edinburgh. Who would have imagined, seven years ago, that Sir James Gibson Craig, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and other popular men, would have had their measures thwarted, and been forced to dissolve a public meeting called to support their friends the Ministers ? Yet such an eve:A took place yesterday in the Waterloo Rooms. When we heard it proposed to hold a public meeting, and learned the names of certain youths who were busying them selves in the matter, we did think that zeal was likely to outrun discretion, and the result has proved that we were right. We must, however, in truth, state, that the ordinary leaders of the Whig party were not. privy to the getting up of the requisition. The meet ing was actually announced brfcre the gentlemen, who generally take the lead in such matters, were c2n- PUBLIC MEETING. DEFEAT OF THE WHIGS. (From the Edinburgh Advertiser, a Tory paper.) Yesterday a public meeting of the inhabitmits of Edinburgh, called by the Lord Provost, on requisition, "for the purpose of addressing her Majesty in sup port of the pineiples on which her Ministers have hithert. conducted tho administration of Ireland," was held in the large Waterloo Room, at three o'clock. Half an hour previous to that time, a considerable portion of the audience had collected ; and a large force of police and constabulary were in attendance, but notwithstanding the stormy character of the meet ing, their sem ices were not. required. The room being at length completely crammed with a miscella neous assemblage of Chartists, Ministerialists, and neutrals, the concoctors of the demonstration, proceeded, amidst much eenfusion and clamour to take their seats on the hustings. Among those who entered the room at this t me were the Lord Provost, Sir James Gibson Craie-, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir John Robison, Sir James Spittal, Bailies Richardson and Starks, Ex- Treasurer M'Laren, Ex-13ailies Miller and Crooks, Bailie Hill, Portsburgh, Councillors D. Watson and John Rtehie ; Robert Thomson, Esq., Thomas Mait land, Esq., James Crawford, Esq., and. James Men crieff, Esq., advocates, Colonel Mayne, John Veitch, Esq., Leith, Sze. Sir J. G. CRAIG moved that the Lord Provost be requested to take the ehair..(Cheers, hisses, groans, and continued uproar.) Mr. FRASER. rose in the middle of the room amidst cries of " Down," " Put him out," groans, and com- motion. The LORD PROVOST—Gentlemen, I thank you for— Mr. FansEß—My Lord Provost—(Continued con fusion, during which the Lord Provost and Mr. Fraser both continued to address the meeting, as appeared from their gesticulation ; but not one word of what either said was audible.) Sir T. D. LAUDER—Hear Mr. Fraser, certainly. Mr. FRASER—My Lord Provost and gentlemen, I mean to move an amendment.—( Hisses, followed by cheers, which were emphatically repeated.) I am ap pointed en the part of a large body of the Radicals of Edinburgh to move that the Chairman—(Renewed confusion.) The Lord Provost at the last two meet ings —on the Corn-laws and on the Ballot—in conjunc tion with his party acted a most unfair—(Cheers and hisses)—a most. disgraceful part.—(Cheers and uproar.) We have no confidence in the Lord Provost.—(Cheers, cries of " Oh," and renewed tumult.) The conduct of him and his party was such on those occasions as has given us warrant to believe that we shall not meet with impartiality.—(A cry, " You have nothing to do with it ;" cheers, groans, and clamour.) We are opposed to uproar and confusion ; and all we wish to know is, whether, by a show of hands, it is the desire of the meeting to put the Lord Provost in the chair, or to put Mr. Robert Douglas, whom shall nominate—(Great uproar)—at the request of a Committee having the confidence of a large portion of the citizens—the Radi cal citizens of Edinburgh. If the majority of the meeting be in favour of the Lord Provost, we are ready to submit ; and I presume the gentlemen there will be as ready to submit as we arc to the decision of this meeting. As no Chairman is yet appointed, I propose that the gentleman who has nominated the Lord Pro vost shall take a show of hands 'for his Lordship first, and declare the result--and that I shall take a show of hands for Mr. Douglas on the other hand. I be seech our friends to behave themselves peaceably ; all we want is a simple honest expression of opinion, with out the disagreeable noise which has characterised this meeting since it commenced. With the consent, then, of the gentlemen on the platform, and with the consent of the meeting, I shall take a show of hands for the Chairman I propose, Mr. Robert Douglas.—(Renewed clamour.) A show of hands was according taken for Mr. Douglas, to whose pretensions a large proportion (we should think a decided majority) seemed favourable. Sir J. G. CR AlG. — Gentlemen—(Groans, hisses, and confusion)—Gentlemen, I do humbly—(Howls and groans)—l do humbly submit that this is a proposal diametrically opposite—(Great clamour, in the midst of which Mr. Fraser held some by-talk with certain Mi nisterialists near him but not a syllable was audible.) Sir J. G. Craig, after waiting to be heard, amidst cries of " Down !" and unremitting uproar, at length resumed his seat. Mr. FRASER then attempted to address the meeting. He called for silence, which, however, was not ob tained ; and he cried out that unless his proposition were accepted he should move that Mr. Douglas take the chair. Si:• J. G. CRAIG rose again amidst confusion, which, however, was somewhat modified. He said, protesting, as I do, against the motion now proposed to be put, as de rogatory to the dignity of this meeting—(Lau ;titer, hisses, cheers, groans, and commotion)—in order to put an end to the noise and tumult I propose that the vote be taken, and I again move that the Lord Provost he requested to take the chair.—( Loud cheering, intermin gled with groaning, and succeeded by hissing.) A show of hands was accordingly taken ; and a consi derable proportion of the meeting also appeared to sup port the Lord Provost.—(Cries of " three to one," " ten to one," and tremendous noise. Sir J. G. CRAIG said—Gentlemen, I am put in the disagreeable situation of being called on to declare with whom the majority rests—whether with th e L or d Pro- cost or with Mr. Douglas. I have no hesitation in say ing, that a very decided majority is in favour of the Lord Provost. (Cheers, cries of "No, no ;" " show of hats," groans and confusion.) Mr. FRASER—My impression is that we had the ma jority. But I shall admit this, that I think the ma jority was not exceedingly great, and I will not ask you to displace the Lord Provost frotn the chair ; but think ing we had the majority I will make a fair proposition, that we will allow his Lordship to be in the chair, if you will allow our chairman also to preside. {Great commo tion and laughter.) Thus the meeting would have two chairmen.—( Laughter.) We had the majority I believe, and I can't, in the position in which lam placed, do otherwise than insist that either our chair man shall be in the chair, or that, supposing the number of the supporters of each somewhat equal, you should allow our chairman to go and take his seat.—(Cheers, laughter, and renewed confusion.) Sir J. G. CRAIG rose amidst cries of " Show of hats." _ _ He said—it was expressly stated—(renewed interrup tion)—l was called upon to say who had the majority, that gentleman declaring that whoever was declared by me, they would be satisfied. Now I call upon him to fulfil his pledge.—(Renewed commotion.) Mr. FRASER—No, Sir ; I have as good a right as you to decide who has the majority. I have proposed that there shall be two chairmen, and I maintain that --- this a fair proposition.—( Hisses, cheers, groans, cry of "Go to the Calton Hill with your chairmen," and clamours.) Sir J. G. CRAIG—I was called on to declare the majority, and was told that whoever was declared by me to have the majority, the other party would agree, as was stated by the gentleman. He has broken the pledge upon which—(Renewed uproar.) The Hon. Mr. ERSKINE MURRAY rose at the upper end of the room, attempted to speak, and was under stood to call for another show of hats. He was greeted with a fresh burst of clamour, and was peppered by a man near the central of the room with a series of questions, of which the effect, as far as their import could be gathered, was whether Mr. Murray had a house in Edinburgh—whether he was entitled as such to speak there, or represent the city as a delegate else where. "It seems to me," Mr. Murray WSS heard at length to say ; but the storm was again renewed ; halooing, groaning, howling, hissing, and clamour of every variety continued until— • Mr. FRASER rose again and said, amidst some►bat subdued commotion, that he would state what had been agreed on by him and his friends before they came to the meeting. They had resolved that if the balance were so near that neither party could claim a large majority, they should propose that both the chair men nominated should preside—(Cries of " No, no," and confuson.) Could there be anything more fair ? " We will not insult you (he continued) as you have insulted us, by sa3inp• that it is beneath our dignity for your chairman, the Lord Provost, to preside over this meeting. The intelligent labouring men here are as worthy of respect and honour as you who use such lan guage—(Cheers and confusion)—language disgracful to Sir J. G. Craig as a gentleman.—(Cry " I3e quiet, Sir.") If my proposition be rejected, I will stand here insist ing on the right of the chairman whom I have nomi nated."—(Cheers and renewed commotion.) A man in a white coat and red cravat, said, from the centre, My Lord, I just say this ; let's have fair play.—(Laughter, cheers, and confusion.) Sir JAMES SPITTAL rose and spoke a few words which were inaudible amidst the tempest of noise. Mr. FRASER, however, raised his voice above the storm, and said, Sir James Spittal intimates, that unless you allow the Lord Provost to take the chair, the meeting will be dissolved. We are not to be juggled by these men.—(Great confusion.) We know what is due to ourselves and our principles ; and we will not adjourn. Mr. CRAWFORD, Advocate, begged to submit that this meeting, having been convened for a great pub lic purpose—(Confusion, hisses, groans, and cheers) — should not be adjourned.—(Hisses and commotion). I say that, if this meeting be adjourned, any set of men may come here and kick up a riot, and procure an ad- _ . journinent.—(Commotion). We should not adjourn, since, there is for the Lord Provost a majority of good and loyal subjects.—(Continued clamour). . _. A GENTLEMAN said, in consequence of hats having been held up, doubts seemed to be felt as to who had the majority ; and he moved that the vote be again taken for the Lord Provost.—(Cry, " Single hands.") A show was accordingly taken for the Lord Provost, with the same result as on the former occasion. —(Great confusion ensued). Mr k FRASER was understood to say th a t some o f hi s friend! had mistaken the object of the vote. _ _ Mr. TnomsoN GoilvoN—My Lord Provost— ' stilted. The whole was the work of a few young men ; and the more experienced of the party may be said to have been dragged into the affair, that they might not be accused of deserting their friends. But the proceedings of yesterday proved that the pro priety of holding publio meetings ought to be well considered previous to being announced. We enter not into the point whether the convenience or inconvenience of the Radicals ought to have been con sulted, but unquestionably if they had not attended and opposed the proceedings, they would have been held as tacitly agreeing in the object of the meeting ; but considering the state of feeling among a number of the real friends of Ministers, it was rather a dan gerous, if not a desperate attempt, to get an approval of part of their conduct, and by inference support for their whole policy. The parties must have been blinded by partizanship who did not see that the holding of such a meeting gave an opportunity to discuss the general conduct of Ministers.—W e have en deavoured to give a full and detailed report of what occurred. We have nothing extenuated, nor aught set down in malice ; and if there is any error in our report, it must be attributed to the noise and confusion which prevailed,for never did we witness to similar proceedings. We understand that the Lord Provost and a large number of citizens, after leaving the Great Room, as sembled in another apartment, when the address that was to bare been submitted to the Public Meeting was read and approved of, and; it was announced, would be open for signature to the inhabitants. THE CRISIS.- From the Liverpool Chronicle.) The Administration, which appeared to be tot tering to its fall, has been again confirmed and strengthened in power by a vote of the House of Lords. The vote of censure passed on the Minis ters by the Hanoverian Faction in that House has done more for them with the country than all their own acts during the last three years. It is to be hoped that they will take advantage of this new opportunity of reconciling themselves with the people ; such another may not occur. We may well say of them— _ 0 fortunnti nimium, sua si bona norint So far, indeed, they seem to have been ,gifted with a charmed life, or to be endued with a cat-like plu rality of lives, for they have survived shock after shock which threatened their destruction, and still fallen upon their feet after every error which they have committed. But this luck cannot last for ever. The false move of the Tory Peers has given them another chance of retrieving Lord Melbourne's " wild and mad" notions on the Corn-laws, and atoning for Lord John Russell's " finality" folly. Let us hope that they will take advantage of it. ( From the Manchester Times.) We believe with the Manchester Guardian that " the classes who possess political power in the nation" are not prepared for Reform to the extent recommended by the Morning Chronicle. Political power is in the hands of those who can command votes in semi-rotten boroughs and landlord-beridden counties, and who, of course, desire to retain it so long as it can be made to minister to their interests as opposed to the interests of the nation. The Guar dian is afraid that another experiment in Reform may not again be safely made, but the very safety of the first experiment is great encouragement to the carrying out of the principles which it recognised. The Suffrage was extended by the Reform Bill, and we ask only for a further extension. Precautions were taken to prevent the bribery, corruption, and inti midation of voters, by greatly shortening the periods of election, and we ask only, as an additional pre ventive, for the adoption of the Ballot. To demand the shortening of the duration of Parliaments is to ask only the repeal of the Septennial Act, which would throw us back on what had previously been the law. By the Reform Bill there was a re-distri bution of seats, and we only ask now that there should be another and more equitable distribution. Nor is the repeal of the law requiring of Members a property qualification a novelty unrecognised by the existing constitution of the Commons' House, because no qualification is required of the Scotch Members. Here, then, arc " five points" of reform on principles either adopted in the Reform Bill or forming part and parcel of the old law. NITe ask for an extension of the Suffrage, not only that general instead of class interests may be repre sented, but to remove the mass of discontent which will always prevail while five men out of six have EVkNING EDITION are great errors c o b e repaired—much skill to l used—not a little enthusiasm to be excited. But the subject that opens upon us is so considerable— presents so many points for discussion, that we cannot do them adequate justice in a single publi cation of our Journal. Again and again we shall recur to the subject. (From the Dvrhana Chronicle.) If any one of Lord John Russell's argum,nts in favour of " finalit% " be entitled to the least con sideration as a reason for not disturbing the Reform Bill—albeit only to make it what it was when Lord John Russell and the Cabinet of Earl Grey originally introduced it—it was as much entitled to be regarded at that period as an impediment to cm mencma°, as it is now t o con ti nu i n g, the wor k o f re form. Common sense rejects the notion that there can be such a thing as final legislation ; or that society can be moulded to the provisions of Acts of Pia-Ea went, instead of laws being suited to the condition and progress of society. With all our indignation at the defections of the Whig Government from their early principles, we cannot but grieve at the poor fulfilment of their great promises that we have been doomed to witness. " The Ministry of the People," as they were emphatically called in 1534, what arc they now ? They seem now to have reached the lowest depth of degradation to which the abandonment of the opinions that raised them to office can sink them—assuming, as we presume we are warranted in doing, that Lord John Russell speaks the mind of his colleagues in the Govern ment. But we will not despond for the cause they have so outrageously betrayed. When things come to the worst they must mend ; and the hour of re covery may be nearer at hand than we think of. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) The Globe does not hold with the Chronicle that the nation is at present divided into Tories " ex ultant"—Reformers wailing and gnashing their teeth. It has seen few signs of exultation a:Dongst Tories of the old genuine breed, and few of de spondency in Reformers who expect no railroad to reformation. To be sure, the Spectator and the Morning Post agree brotherly in the doctrine that all the varieties of public opinion resolve theniselver4 really into Tory and Radical—that there are no Tell divisions but those two extreme ones. And then the Globe wonders how these sages account for the tolerably long-lived phenomenon of a GovernMent which is certainly neither Tory nor Radical. The long-lived phenomenon of the present Go vernment is, we think, easily accounted for. It has " lived, moved, and had its being" in the support of that party—the Radical party—whose power the G/obe affects to despise, when compared with the overwhelming influence of the sober, in structed, thinking men who are simply liberal. The present Government, in point of fact, owes its exlstance to the forbearance of the Ministerial organ to make light of the party to whom its masters are so deeply indebted. Early next month the fate of Ministers will depend entirely upon the movement party ; would . that the fate of Ireland was not also in its hands l • The divi sion on Mr. Home's motion, for leave to amend the Reform Bill, has shown that it is not the powerless un influential party the G/obe would represent it. On that occasion the minority amounted to 50 ; and if these, or even a tithe of them, should sacriflee duty to resentment, and vote with the Tories on the 11th, the long-lived phenomenon would soon cease to be a matter of astonishment. (From the Carnarvon Herald.) We regard the warfare between the principles of constitutional government and oligarchical des potism as awakening at last from the long slumber into which the apathy, consequent upon the passing of the Reform Bill, had naturally lulled it : and such being the case, we rejoice in the coining con flict. It is the sure herald of success, and the Duke has our warmest thanks. The conduct of the Tories will serve more than any argument t o convince the - , Cabinet that their true strength is in tne approbation of the people ; and if the people make use of the oc casion to pull hard, " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," for a re f orm o f t h e Reform .1:;i11, the Ministry will be placed in a proper position to wrest it from their opponents. It is only when the Tories and Reformers caress and shake hands thst the cause of reform is in danger. The finality doctrine which the Ministers have been lately abetting, is the offspring of that unnatural union which the present conduct of the Tory chiefs has annulled ; and if the reformers do their duty, neither Lord Melbourne nor Lord J. II ussell will nurse the ugly bantling any longer. Finality in organic reform can only be the result of a radical change; and to demand this the British Reformers are not yet agreed. But they are agreed that the Reform 13i11 ought not to be a final measure ; and they are also agreed as to the items in which it may be safely extended and improved. Triennial Parlia ments, Household Suffrage, and the Ballot, must form the compact of union between the Ministry and the people, when this recent movement of the Tories has met with its first answ er in the Com mons' House. We shall revert to this subject hereafter. the brand of exclusion upon them. We ask for Short Parliaments that representatives may not for a long period be independent of their consti tuents. We ask for the repeal of the property qualification, that any man who possesses the con fidence of any constituency may become its represen tative. We ask for a re-distribution of scats, that Harwich, with only 156 electors, may no longer have an equal share in the legislature with Manchester, which has 10,000. These are the " five points" which must ultimately be adopted, and be fore any Ministry can expect to carry on the Go vernment of the country with satisfaction to tl'e governed. The time is past for that faint-hearted Whiggism represented in the Press by such Jour nals as the Guardian. That must merge into Toryism, from which it can scarcely now be distin guished. The Obstructives and lithe Destructives must each be pushed aside, and the Practical Pro gressives must move onwards, with one heart and one mind, to the reform of the Reform Bill. (From the Reqfreurshire Reformer. ) Lord Melbourne's Cabinet has been permitted to exist for the last two years only by the suffrance of the Radicals. Had they therefore perilled their existence at this time on a vote approving or dis approving of their general policy, there would have been souse merit in their courage ; but when the question is confined to Ireland it is nothing but idle bravado ; it shows their fear of more tender ground, because that question can excite little interest. Bating the million loan to the clergy, the late rail way proposal, and a few other little jobs, the Irish policy of Ministers has been their best ; it has met with the general approval of all classes of Liberals, and they are sure of suc cess. If the Duke of Wellington and other mem bers of his party really wish to unseat the present Cabinet, they should attack them on more tender ground than their policy to Ireland. The opposi tion to that policy is so unreasonable, it smells so strongly of the overbearing claims of the Orange dictators, that though it were for nothing else than to discountenance a faction that has carried ruin, blood, and death over the country for the purpose of maintaining an idle, pampered priesthood, in op nosition to five-sixths of the people : thousands in all parts of the country will support the forthcoming motion who care nothing for the existence of the Cabinet, and who would look on its members being turned out of office in a body as one of the best things that could befal the country. (From the Kelso Chronicle.) The Courier of Monday evening, commenting on a leading article that appeared in the Chronicle of that morning respecting the necessity of union among all Reformers, and of Ministers conceding ' Household Suffrage, the Ballot, and Trien nial Parliaments, says—" arc strongly im pressed as our Contemporary is with the necessity of reforming the Reform Act ; and we are not less convinced of the desirableness of unity and harmo nious acti.m among all ranks of Lib era l s . B u t we venture to think - that it is scarcely fair to press upon Ministers, at this juncture, for an assent to the ballot and extended suffrage—simply for this reason, that even if willing to be at length con vinced, they could not at this moment, with the smallest pretension to honour or character, comply." —[ln this conclusion of the Courier we by no means concur.—Ed. K. C.] (From the Monmouthshire Merlin.) It would be both weak and silly to deny that Lord Melbourne's Government has given the greatest dissatisfaction to some of its best and ablest supporters ; and by not marching forward with the spirit of the times, and aiding the people in obtaining those other changes essential to popular representation, they hare all but placed the sceptre in the hands of their adversaries. The ill-directed, blundering, unfortunate Chartists, who move but to distract, who - speak but to confuse themselves, have played the game of the Tories ; and, unless checked and frowned down by the com mon sense of the country, would, ere this, by their conduct, have unsheathed many a sword ready to shed their blood. They know not the precipice on which they stand—the rope of sand by which they arc held. Their only hope rests on the Reformers of the empire, and by their assistance their conch tion can only be ameliorated. The Government, even if triumphant on its coming trial, still cannot go on without large concessions to the Liberal party ; and those concessions can not much longer be evaded or denied ; with the House of Lords against them, in the face of a powerful, compact, organised opposition, led by Sir Robert Peel, the Liberals of the nation must be rallied in their favour, for, without their support, the present Government must soon go out. There THE NAVY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT) LERWICK, FEB. 24.—1 f the entering of sailors for the Navy be as successful at all the seaports in the kingdom as it has lately proved at Lerwick, there will no longer be room for the censures of those who allege that the Admiralty are not keeping up an efficient Naval force. Lieutenant Pippin, who was sent down to this port a few weeks ago to engage seamen for the Royal Na'', has already entered about seventy fine young fellows ; and there is no doubt that if he remain during ❑eat month, when the seamen come to Ler wick from the surrounding islands, to seek employ ment in the whale ships that complete their crews at this port, hundreds of these will be prevailed en to prefer the Royal Navy. The success of Lieutermnt Pippin illustrates the influence which the character and conduct of naval officers have in rendering the service either popular or unpopular. Three years ado, a Go vernment steam-ship and a cutter were sent to Shetland to enter seamen for the Navy ; but all the of in those vessels were strangers to the Shetlanders ; and the consequence was that only two or three seamen were prevailed on by them to enter the service. Lieu tenant Pippin, on the contrary, had been employed for many years on the hydrographical survey of the Shetland Islands. The nature of the surveying service Ica Lim to have much intercourse with the natives ; the mildness of his manners, and the worth of his tharacter, secured the respect and confidence of all classes ; and the result of his personal popularity is, that men whom other officers could not persuade to enter the Navy, come promptly forward and engage with him. MEXICO. TRIVATEEKS. The French Consul has communicated to us the follow ing extract from the instructions given to Admiral l3auiin by his Government. They are dved the 10th of December "MI privateers under the Mexican flag which are not furnished with regular letters of marque, and do not appear to have really sailed from a Mexican port, with a crew con sisting of at least two-thirds Mexicans, shall be considered as pirates, and as such shall be treated with all the rigour of the laws of war." The above was communcated to the American Govern ment, who approved of it, as adapted to the protection of commerce in general. 1 TIIE FRENCH SQUADRON. We have been requ2sted by the Frenc h Consul at this port to publish the following official document f,,r the in formation of the pubic : " On board His !Majesty's frigate the Ner&de, Antonio Lizardo, Jan. 29. 1839. " SIR,--I have received the letter which you did me the honour to address to me, of yesterday's date. I thank y ou for the notice you have given me of your approaching de parture for Pensacola, and I avail myself of the opp or .. tunity to send my dispatches for the French Consul at New Orleans, which I commend to your kind attention. the law " In answer to your quest i on s ex r c e ni la i t l i t % c , e d to fro tl n ie l b i‘ lo l c e k x ports which may be temprarily „I l e a , I have the honour to confirm what I communicated to VOO in conversation, to wit—that the authorities of the state of Tamanlipas, having refrained from promulgating have of eNpulsion issued against my countrymen by the govern ment of Mexico, the French residents in that Slate having-, on the contrary, up to this time been treated with justeo and protection by the magistrates , and with kindness by the citizens ; and, finally, the French brig Fanny, d o _ taincd in the river Panuso, having been rel i e n a i s n id .i , pi l es Nvi h given orders to my cruisers to leave the entrance into Tampico free. " I am disposed to do as much for all the ports of tl O Mexican States that may adopt the same ' „ the state of Taman lipas, and pursue the same conduct. t " The blockade is maintained with regard 1 , 0 th e other ports. A cce pt, Sir, the assurances of my distinguished con. sideration. The Rear Admiral commanding the Naval Forces of Fiance in the Gulf of Mexico. " CnARLEs 13aun1N. To the Commandant of the United States sloop-of-war Levant, at Sacrificios." The latest absence of mind is that of an editor who lately copied from an exchange paper one of ciftt aiticlek, and headed it—" Wretched attempt at W if. American piper. ) I ~ 2 ~ 3 .year tried 51 bs. ) 1 .. 1 3 . 4 ~ 5 n d 4 Lord rable ;orU 1r the ently lenee ,e CO' I wan ough' fish a that ,and mar .evfai erim , and 6,110. )rk to TablY d the erne! s cour three • e of 111 .64 10 g. g* and arle , the O h- Wet' )1 10 - t 1 : LIO ty at e ole rid e use