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017"1 1 HE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A Commission has passed the Great Seal " for considering and reporting upon a general system of Railweys in Ireland." This has been done in com pliance with an address prese nted to the King by the ' House of Lords, last August, on the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne, praying his Majesty to ap point competent persons, duly qualified, to consider as to the various lines of communication in Ireland, with the facilities which they respectively offered for the construction of railways, and with a view to see which could be most usefully applied in that way ; and that the Board of Works should be directed to give such assistance as might be necessary for carrying the in goiry into effect. The object of this inquiry bears a a close Tdation to a matter of great general importance - to the whole empire , which occupiedt' the attention of Parliament in its last session, namely. the intercourse between the United Kingdom and America. A se lect committee of the Lords was engaged in the months or April and May in examining witnesses as to the f .cilities which exist for such a communication, and Cie means of improving them. The result of their in aoiees is a valuable body of evidence, which has been prmtsal for the information of the public, strongly in fa vour of an attempt to establish a packet station and a e p o t iii s,: me pert as far to the west as maybe found con aisteot with he other interests which are bound up in swell an undeoisaking. The Lords engaged in that in quiry did not coals to any definite conclusion upon the 3 natter referred to the:o. but state in their report that they desire further information on some important yoiots, " and more particialarly that of the beneficial application of steam to voy.ages of long duration." They thought it advisable, therJore, to suspend their proceedings, recommending the subi;ect, in the mean tune, to the careful and unremitting attention of the 4joyerninent. The object of the present Commission, astliough apparently restricted to one branch Of the in du, -y, namely, that of internal communication on Ire land, has a manifest connection with the great pa.r - Tose which seems to be inseparable from any plan of a rail way between Dubli n and the western coast. There ara many rival projects contending for the approval of fa; iiament ; and the immediate matter for the Com missioners to consider will be the comparative merits of those projects. But they cannot do so without re gat ding the ultimate advantage which they respectively :hold out ; and, consequently, the subject of a com munication with America, must form a material con sideration in determining their opinion, for such communication constitutes an essential feature in every plan which will be laid before them. It will, therefore, be the duty of the Commissioners not merely to compare the several stations which are designated as peculiarly adapted to that purpose, but also to enter fully and minutely into the question how far such a description of intercourse with Ame rica, as these plans contemplate, would be practicable. The names of the persons who constitute the Co:n mission need only to be mentioned in order to declare the desire of the Government that such an inquiry may be conducted Nv;th effect, and to the perfect satis faction of the country. Mr. Drummond, faultless as he is in the discharge of is is official duties, can never be considered more at home tban when lie is engaged in advancing an object which requires scientific know ledge of the highest order, in combination with ex tensive practical experience. His co;mection with the Government will afford him opportuniti;:s of rendering those qualifications of peculiar service to the purposes of the Commission, at the head of which he is very properly placed. We also hail the circumsttoice as an evidence of the interest which the Government takes in the matter, and, in some degree, a pledge of its support. Colonel Burgoyne has been for many years at the head of the Board of Works in Ireland, and in his official capacity, as well as by his high pro fessional talents and experience, can greatly assist the labours of his brother Commissioners. His evidence before the Lords' Committee, to which we have above alluded, shows that he has well considered the subject which he will now be required to report upon. Mr. Griffith is an engineer by profession, and has made the mines and geological conformation of Ireland his peculiar study. Few Irishmen arc more extensively or better acquainted than he is with the nature and capabilities of the soil of his navive coun try, or of the available resources which it contains among its hiddeu treasures. He has also paid much attention to the weans of facilitating intercourse by constructing level roads through the country, adapted, as occasion might demand, either for railways or for ordinary traffic. Some letters which he published on this subject about three yea 3 ago show a clear, intel ligent, and practical mind, which, with his valuable stock of local information, will no doubt be found highly useful in the present inquiry. But the labour ing oar in this important Commission will, probably, fall upon Professor Barlow, inasmuch as he will have no other duties, as long as he remains in Ireland, to divide his attention, while all the rest have various and weighty avocations to follow. It is hardly necessary to tell our English readers who Professor Barlow is. His published works class him with the first scientific men of the day. He has attained the mastery in every department of appl i ed science ; but more espe cially, as his recent publication in conjunction with Mr. Babhage shows, in that branch which treats of steam as a principle of locomotion. His accurate knowledge of that wondrous power, which enables him not only to tell with certainty . its actual present range, hut to calculate the extenswn and improvement of which it is yet susceptible, confers a great value upon his co-operation. The grand object :Ind terminus of the inquiry being a communication by steam-ships with North America, Mr. Barlow's name a ,2ds a de gree of importance to this Commission, even iOsiond that which it should necessarily derive from his tinguished character and varied attainments. We pro pose to call the public attention frequently to this sub ject, which we regard as a national concern, worthy, by its own magnitude, and by the great and various interests which it involves, of national encouragement and support.—Morning Chronicle. The Conservative meetings which for some weeks (perhaps months) past , it has been our grateful duty to record and observe upon, constitute the most for midable harrier against revolution that ever existed in any society on earth. Their power is manifold, as arc their characteristics. The nature of the sentiment which inspires them, and which is calculated to make converts amongst all civilized, mature, and prosperous communities, viz., a determination to " retain the good we have ;"—the unbroken concord which naturally grows out of that singleness and simplicity of purpos e —the great variety of ranks and classes which are ' brought into close contact by the unpretending forms which those associations have adopted, and the con sequent interchange and spread of sympathy between portions of the body politic which had else been widely separated—the actual numbers have thus dis played themselves throughout the country in defence of institutions to which history and habit ilo.d given a sort of instinctive influence over the unadulterated minds of Englishmen —the bold and manly temper in wiiich these anti-democratic Unions every where meet, and QvOV; in the face of day their hostility to that wanton chenge, so dear at all tunes to a licentious and desperate ra bloo—lastly, the stern spirit and commanding ability of those, whether noblemen, gentlemen, or yeo men, who come forward on such occasions to represent the Conservatives of England, and to inculcate their principles—a signal to the friends of civil and religious liberty throughout the kingdom that it is no wavering standard under which they rally, and to their ene oniea that it is a triple fortress which they will have to wssult. But in none of these mans' so `vices th of e hon ast est pride and el,! vents of certain victory , E _Norfolk meeting to Nviiich we alluded, and whose pro tdings were reported in yesterday's Times, excelled by any of its predecesscrs from north to south of Eng bin!. The direct force and sagacity with which every pa Itical question and national stake at issue were de .scr,:;cd, and the true genius of the crisis impressed va:,so the convictions of their hearers by Lords Orford Wodehouse, Mr. Wodehouse, and Mr. Scarlett, L lust not only tend to disperse through the country an ce , set knowledge of the dangers by which it is encom - ass od and a sense of shame at its submission to w the p . w , tch •ed Government which has caused them, but must work fo." the public benefit in another way, by making the peopr‘e of England better acquainted than they have been r ith the mental powers and noble character THE SUN, LONbON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER L 1836._ of those members of the aristocracy on whom they have to rely as their leaders in crushing the common enemy. Lord Orford on every subject, and they were various, whereon his business as chairman required him to speak, proved himself to he metal without alloy, and that a Peera g e composed of such materials, if they be indeed doomed to fall, will at least perish like Spartans. One observation made by his Lordship in r etracing the conduct of the House of Peers during the last Session contained a truth so &Tear, and at the same time so portentous, that we cannot refrain from quoting it. " The House of Lords," remarked Lord Gsford, " refused to pass the Irish Church Bill, and the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill, because they felt that the man who voted for those Bills as sent up by the Commons, must be prepared for the alternative, either to relinquish that country or reconquer it." That is a practical, pithy, unanswerable truth—one which need but be stated to enforce itself - upon every English and Protestant understanding. It is not perhaps enough to say that such must eventually be the effect of the above two measures. To make plain the atro cious character of the po lic y from which they spring —to show the vileness of that Administration which is their ostensible but not their real author, and which has become the instrument of their introduction and • progress through Parliament, though conscious that even one of them is sufficient to " itzct a heavy blow and grievous irfjury on Protestantism in Ireland" (for such was the memorable admission of Lord Viscount Melbourne), it is desirable to remind our countrymen, that Mr. Daniel O'Connell and his priestly instigators ' have declared a hundred times to their satellites of the Popish faith, that it was their full design, their settled and completely organized project, to work the Popish Corporation Bill, as a machine for incessantly disturb ing the peace of Ireland, and to use the appropriation clause as a stepping stone to the entire demolition of the Established Church ! Then, let our Protestant brethren ask themselves once more, what sort of Mi nisters are theee—takin_g, oaths of allegiance to the Protestant Crown of England—witnesses to these ,„ 1 1ily frightful threats of the Papist insurgents, and callii" themselves descendants of those very Whigs, who, aS Ministers of William 111., made open war upon the hoist power, and subdued it by the expul sion of its T yre ett King—what sort of Whig Minis ters are these, we aSik, who in the teeth of their oaths, their senses, and their ief.storical obligations, actually attempt to push the Peers of England and their Sove reign into an acceptance of those measures, of which absolute Popish supremacy in Ireland is a vowed by the Popish leaders themselves to be the predestined result ? If, then, Popery be established in Ireland, and the priesthood predominant there, will they be satisfied with that fragment of what once belonged to the Romish church, which was left at the Reformation and during the troubles of the 17th century in the hands of the Protestant clergy ? Will any particle of church plunder, that the priests can lay their hands on, be left in possession of lay proprietors ? Will any Pro testant proprietor be left a single acre of land ? Will there, or will there not, be an universal confiscation ? Will any Protestant who dares lift voice or c a ds in de fence of life or land be spared ? On grounds of so called " self-preservation," will not the Papist rebels, in their fury, do as their predecessors did under James IL—butcher all they can, and outlaw all the others ? A nice precedent of Romish tolerance, political and ecclesiastical, we have in the famous "letter from Bishop Malooney to Bishop Tyrrell," dated March, 1689, when every Englishman and Protestant was to be stripped of every shilling he had in the world, under the guise of restitution to the loyal Papists. " I would," exclaims this mild and upright Prelate, " have them (the Papists) restored to their estates, both spiritual and temporal, usurped by the Cromwellians, or under the title of being Protestants." This was in contempla tion of the possible success of James ; and let us be think ourselves how much better will the descendants of those Cromwellians and other Protestants fare, under the certain success of Daniel, if his slaves, the Whig Ministers, continue in office long enough to carry their measures for the separation of Ireland from the British Crown ? Well, then, was or was not Lord Orford right in saying that the appropriation clause was an expedient for compelling us to relinquish or reconquer Ireland ? Rather than " relinquish," every man in Britain will no doubt demand—" re-conquer." But, gracious Providence, are we to endure the dominion of these peddling slaves for the sake of entailing upon ourselves the necessity of that re-conquest, which it may cost the lives of half a million of deluded wretches to complete ? It was no equivocal index of the whole , some spirit which animated the East Norfolk meeting, that Mr. Postle, an honest yeoman of the county, in returning thanks for the health of his own class of its inhabitants, declared, " that however willing to reform every abuse, he would never consent to abolish the house of Lords, which the country felt to be one of the strongest bulwarks of the Constitution." When English yeomen, like Mr. Postle, deliver such senti ments, we would not give much for our House of Lords " Reformers."—Tinzes. We have before said, on more than one occasion, that great injustice is done by many of the friends of Re form, in blaming the Melbourne Government where no blame attaches to it. They complain that the Noble Lord at the head of the Administration does not pursue a sufficiently liberal course of policy, while the fault, instead of resting with him, really and truly rests with themselves. It is not to be denied—we have at all times been the most forward to admit and proclaim the fact—that the people of England are at this moment most earnestly bent on great and manifold Reforms ; but it is equally undeniable that Lord Mel bourne has not sufficient proof to refer to of the exist ence of this earnest and universal desire for a more liberal system of policy. Is it not, then, unreasonable on the part of the people, and an act of great injus :ice towards the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vereenent, to blame him for not bringing forward any measure for a reconstruction, on a more popular basis, of the Upper louse ? Supposing he were himself quite satisfied, not only of the necessiie; of such a measure, but that it was ardently desired by the country—still it would be imprudent in the highest, degree for him to submit to Parliament any mea sure for a Reform of the hereditary House, so long as the people themselves have given no decided ex pression to their feelings and wishes on the subject. Were the Noble Lord to propose, under these cir cumstances, any such measure, we all know how he himself as well as his Peerage Reform plan would he met. He would be taunted by the Tory Lords with bringing forward a measure which nobody wished to see carried into effect. He would be asked for his proofs that the people desired any, even the slightest change in the Constitution of the Upper House. He would, indeed, be tauntingly told that the necessity for any such change existed only in his own ima gination, or in the editorial columns of a few o f th en journals which usually identify themselves with the fortunes of his Government. The plain inference from all this is, that if we expect or wish to see Lord Mel bourne bring forward those measures which are so im peratively called for by the necessities of the times, we oust forthwith set about giving some tangible and une quivccal expression of our opinions in relation to the particular measuiefs which we wish to see carried. And this can only be done by holding public meetings in every part of the kingol n ) and giving expression to our sentiments in strongly worded resolutions , fol titions to Parlia lowed up by respectful, but energet ic "aain passive ;ie ment. So long as the people of England r :7 with regard to the perilous position in which the Los! tions o f t h e co untry are at present placed — s o long 'MS.!' Lord M e lb ourne con tinue bound hand and foot. Be cannot, so long as we are inactive, move a s te p . There never was a greater mistake, than to suppose that any Pri me Mi n i ster s h ou ld l ea d the people ; it is enough th a t h e move in the same direction , even though he thely followeeunt country y t somein tthe little iiher a l d distance. To be in advanc eslld of ter of his policy —his being so privately is another and very different matter--would be to make utter and instant shipwreck of his Mini s t r y, and to injure in a very great degree those popular interests, to promote which the people raised him to the councils of his So disposition on the part of the If : perce Noble Wlordte o i v e lo d y it a e n rbehind in the popular race ; if we saw that he was unwilling to follow wherever the peop le should lead him,we would be the first to withdraw our support from his Govern ment. But so far from there being any indication on Lord Melbourne's part to shrink fret the duties which the crisis demands, we see every proof that we could wish, that he is reately and willing to do what ever the people shall desire him. All he asks, and surely nothing could be mooas unreasonable and unjust than to refuse that to him—all he asks is that the country shall express its wants and desires in such erns as will enable him to justify the measures he nay bring forward in the Upper House . of Parliament. —Morning Advertiser. We hare at length not merely a tacit acknowledg ment, hut an open avowal, on the part of the Radicals, made through one of the most consistent and influential of their journals, not merely that Lord Melbourne's Ministry has completely disappointed their expecta tions, and failed in all its promises, but that much more valuable reforms, even in their eyes, would have been derived from Sir Robert Peel's Government, had it been permitted to remain in office. Though we were not prepared for so candid and explicit an avowal as this, we are not at all surprised at it, as it is obviously founded in truths which those who run may recognize. Such might he expected to be the natural and inevitable result of the false position in which Lord Melbourne's Administration placed itself when it found itself unable to carry on the Government, but by means of the un holy alliance entered into at Lichfield House. From the moment that the Government became Mr. O'Con nell's Government, and its measures of Reform were either to emanate from him, or be subjected to his as sent or negative—from that moment it must have been obvious to every man, not blinded by the most slavish political bigotry, that no such measures could be palatable to the country, and that the Con stitution had provided a check which would effectually counteract them. That check has been found in the House of Lords—in that branch of the Constitution which was wisely designed by our ancestors to accom plish, among other duties, that which it has now so nobly and effectually performed. The enemy, though treacherously admitted into the outworks, has happily not been permitted to take possession of the citadel, or to dictate his terms of surrender to the garrison. Even the very short period that Sir Robert Peel's Adminis tration was allowed to last, was yet sufficient to give the country a foretaste of what its results would have been : and, comparing what the country would have received at his hands, with the absolute nothings of the two Sessions of the O'Connell-Melbourne rule, no wonder that even ultrasßeformers at length discover and acknowledge that, even in their view of the matter, something would have been better than nothing, espe eielly when, instead of any of those reforms which they were promised by the Whigs, they witness in one measure alone their boasted Poor Law—the most grinding instance of oppression which ever the country experienced at any hands. But while opposed by friends and foes, with the experience of two Sessions of perfect non-entity before his face, an increasing spirit of Con servatism throughout the country, and his foreign policy the laughing-stock of Europe, Lord Melbourne him self talks of having nailed his colours to the mast, and is determined on " no surrender," as long as his Lich field House majority in the Commons remain true to him. While we admire courage, both in the abstract and when judiciously brought into action, we cannot consent to see it confounded with obstinacy or fool hardiness. The sailor, for instance, who literally nails his colours to the mast, determining to sink with the vessel rather than see her strike, is widely different, in point of real courage, from the man who, with his house on fire, is seen shouting from the window rather than effecting his escape. The one is bravery, the other bravado. What the country wants to see, is a Government from which such measures of reform will emanate as are consistent with the maintenance and improvement of its established institutions in Church and State. That such measures are not likely to ori ginate, indeed cannot originate, with a Government bound hand and foot to an unnational dictation, two lost years of inert legislation have amply proved. Can it be that the country is doomed to witness a third ? We hope not. We hope not—both for the welfare of the community and for the credit of the Go vernment. If Lord Melbourne and his colleagues had not the foresight to anticipate what must be the result of the course they were pursuing, surely expe rience must by this time have told them, trumpet tongued, that persistance in it must be vain.— Morning Herald. When Sir Robert Peel undertook the Government, in December, 1834, it is admitted that he did not con template the probability of having to contend in every vital question against the united force of the late Mi nisterial party, and the ultra-Popish Radicals. No two parties could be more violently opposed to each other than these had been, especially in questions of Irish policy ; and, on one side at least, the personal abuse had been so gross and rancorous that a sudden sacrifice not only of political principles but personal antipathies, and a close union even upon those points wherein the difference had been most marked, could not be considered probable by an honest and high minded statesman. So cautious, so far-seeing, and so experienced a politician as Sir Robert Peel, however, did, we have no doubt, contemplate the possibility of such a combination taking place, and beheld in it the origin of a less immediate but no less certain triumph of that sound, rational, and constitu tional cause of which he is, among the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, the leading supporter. H e saw that if such a strange and disgusting adhesion of pre viously contending parties took place at all it could only be the corruption on the surface of each that would form the blending material ; and he saw, moreover, that this foul material, being thus placed in the centre, would soon infect the mass, and render it an object of unwieldy weakness as respected itself—of loathing and abhorrence as respected the intelligent public. That of which Sir Robert Peel did not contemplate the probability took place at the opening of the Parlia mentary Session of 1835—that of which lie did eon template the possibility is taking place now, and its completion is likely to mark the opening of the Session of 1837. The perfidy and tergiversation—the mean ness and malice, which he could not believe probable —were instantly displayed when they were found ne cessary to accomplish the immediate ends of a reckless and irritated faction ; but there are consequences which follow these things as certainly as seeds thrown into the ground will produce fruit after their kind, whether it be poisonous or nutritious. The combination which defeated the Administration of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons is falling to pieces. The centre part is shockingly and offensively corrupt, and the extremes on either side which are still sound begin to perceive that they have no business to he joined together, for their objects are different. The Whigs desire to retain the present Con-. stitution, popularized, as they consider it to have been, by the Reform Act—they want no more " organic changes." The Radicals desire it to be not only po pularized, but given into the hands of the populace— they say there is no good in a n y thin g else but organic changes. The Whig-Radicals, the miserably corrupt centre, have no other view but that of holding the Go vernment ; and upon that condition would, if possible, yield to the views of both extremes. But that is not possible, and hence " the present state of affairs"— hence the anger and the threatening on right and left —hence the expostulating, and imploring, and wring ing of the hands on the part of the placed and paid official centre. The right extreme, as we will take leave to call the Whigs, being composed of gentlefolks, their anxiety and resentment are not clamourous—the canfee feel that public are not entertained with their exhibition ; bu t w li ' a f t h a e nxet p i ub y l . ie that the Ministers do not the less they ilo l'drertment, nor the less cer tainly know that if t the banner of " organic change" their right wine- would preStntly march into the neutral ground, and leave them to the horrors of a minority on the first important division. The clamours of the left are, however, undisguised enough, and no less palpable are the mean shifts of the niuisterialists to keep them quiet. 44 'Where are the measures we were promised e" bellow forth the angry Radicals. You do n othing—absolutely nothing. Your own places indeed you keep, and you make many profes sions ; but neither our principles nor ourselves seem to be a whit nearer the mastery than when we joined you. You tell us you cannot manage the House of Lords, and that it is not your fault ; but we tell you that it is your fault, for if you cannot manage the House of Lords, nor overthrow the House of Lords, you can manifestly do nothing, and you ought not to have deceived us by pretending that you could do a great deal. We must tell you that we prefer the . Tories to you, for they can manage the house of Lords, though they will not put it down." So shout, with angry voice, the Ultra-Radicals. If any one thinks we exaggerate, let him read the Spectator. The Ministerialists, in a tone between wheedling and whining, reply, that they are exceed ingly anxious to do everything that their excellent friends the Radicals require, but they do hope that their excellent friends will have a little patience—that the people are not yet " ripe" for these things—that there is none of that cheering popular excitement, and consolatary " agitation," which an enlightened Go vernment requires as a support to its grearmeasures of improvement ; that, in short, this is not the time, and they hope their excellent friends will be so kind as to wait, and not, by precipitation, to embarrass a Govern ment which is so anxious to serve them, if it could If any one asks our authority for this manly mode of replying to the remonstrances of the ultra-Radicals, we take leave to refer him to the columns of the Globe passim. Is it likely that the Radicals, who boast them selves to be a sturdy, straight-forward, English-hearted set of men—is it likely, we say, that they, having once spoken out, will be lulled into submissive acqui escence by such place-begotten trash as this ? We think better of them than to indulge in the supposi tion that they will. We beg leave to assure them that all the world has perceived for some time how very scurvily they have been used, and how they have made it public that they are themselves sensible of this usage ; what will the world think of them, if, seeing that they are sensible of it, it also sees that they tamely submit to it ? We detest the principles of the Radi cals, but there can be no question that they have among them very respectable talents. As for the Whig-Radicals, who so very civilly desire to keep them back, and to make use of their votes, they are equally destitute of talents and of principles. vlere meanness, that will do anything to get into place, en dure anything to retain it, and ask for anything that they think will keep them in it, we do not consider ta lent. The Radicals owe it to themselves—to their cha racter as men with a definite object in public affairs— and to their cause, which, though unsuccessful, need not appear contemptible, to strike out for themselves, and for ever abandon the corrupt contamination of the present Ministerialists. It may be objected that this observation of ours is not disinterested—that if the Radicals separated from the Ministerialists the Conservatives would, in the order of direct consequence, become the strongest party in the State—arid that what we urge is suggested merely by desire for our own party advantage. That we deny. We admit, indeed, that advantage to the Conservatives as a party would arise from a breaking-up of the coalition which, during two Sessions of Parliament, has enabled the present Ministry to drag on a feeble and disgraceful existence ; but that would be only an incident apper taining to the great national triumph of honesty and fairness over duplicity and fraud. The Conservative party, and the Conservative cause, would indeed be advanced ; but the advancement would be, as it ought to be, a political corollary, arising out of the great ar gument which had established principles of sincerity and justice in the conduct of public affairs, or had, at all events, overthrown their opposites.—Morning Post. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER. The harvest scarcely ever yet concluded in the most northern parts of the kingdom, has been protracted by the unusual falls of rain. It has, however, on the whole, been got up better than had been at one time hoped. The effect upon the market has been to rally, or rather confirm, prices which had slightly receded at the close of the last and the commencement of the present month. They may, how ever, almost be called weather markets, for the factor's re ports all begin by allusions to the weather. This year will try the question of domestic supply and domestic de mand, and, so far as so variable a matter can be reduced to certainty, will set it at rest. Farmers are in better heart, and therefore will not fly to the market as they did under the panic of last year. From this, rather than any natural cause, we conceive the prices will be higher gene rally, though not high, unless the supply turn out to be in adequate—a result we cannot bring ourselves to anticipate. Nothing can have been more favourable for the wheat sow ing, upon the lighter lands than the alternate rain and sun shine. We have even seen some wheat showing its long lines of beautifully green spires above the dark ridges, in the most promising ;manner. The heavy clays must, however, have had too much of a good thing in the continual falls, but all is activity. The turni:ls have in many instances suffered under a new visitation from the black canker. We have seen many fields where the leaves of the finest plants have been perforated by thousands of holes ; and we think the crop will, from this cause, be shortened a full third in dis tricts where the canker has prevailed. The prices of stock (of lean especially,) have been somewhat checked and reduced by this calamity, but upon the whole, perhaps, the sales were nearly equal to the usual average. In truth, nothing but some very striking and universally operating cause can greatly affect either the quantity of stock necessary to the agriculture of the country or the prices. This year certainly looks better, in every respect, than the last, when people talked themselves into more than common irritation by the perpetual iteration of the cry of distress. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 31. The Kent, Tune, from Boulogne; Harlequin, Middleton, Boulogne; Giraffe, Major, Rotterdam; Columbine, Stran nack, Hamburgh; Active, Dart, Oporto ; Violet, Murray, Dantzic ; Useful, Kay, St. Petersburgh ; Charlotte, Daniels, Calais; Julius, Michaels, Stettin ; Concord, Rukinson, St. Petersburgh ; Green End, Gales, Guernsey; Brothers, Ma thieson, St. Petersburgh ; Ann Gales, Clappison, St. Peters. burgh ; Rio, Richards, Honduras; Jane Sheriff, Manson, Honduras; Matilda, Catley, Oporto ; Ellen, Usher, Quebec ; Hurling, Annaud, Rio; Emma, Maine , Palermo; Dart, Sacken, Guernsey; Briton, Fremage, Malaga; Eliza, Donne, Guernsey ; John, Symonds, Jersey. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, OCT 31. The Dawson, Dawson, for Hobart Town; Manchester, Nl`Leod, Cadiz; Charlotte, Demault, Calais; Olympus, Cowlo, Calcutta; Giraffe, Burns, New South Wales; Anno, Scales, Caxli; Calpe, King, Cadiz. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, OCT. 31. The Charlotte, Wills, for Calais ; Affleck, Ford, Trinidad ; Calypso, Wilkinson. Jamaica. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, OCT. 31. The illiam Miles, Hindley, for Fernando Po ; Ilamburgh, Blow, Gottenburgh ; Medemblick, Gray, Medemblick ; Dier Julie, Gaymer, Dunkirk; Wortzennan, Norman, Baltic. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30. The Columbus, from New York, sailed Oct. 1; Lady Nor man, Teasdall, Anega. SAILED. The Dampier, Newland, for Antigua ; San Pablo, Ha vannah ; Killogrew, Naye, Seville ; Cornubia, Bell, Charles ton ; Perseverance, Adams, Cadiz ; Nearco, Ferraro, Genoa ; Fairy Queen, Welch, Syria ; Ventura, Antonia, Vienna; the Glorat, Thorns, Brazils; Aberfoil, Dowling, Demerara; Dale, Burton, Maranham ; Frederica, Ostend ; Cestrians, Kelloek, Bombay; Superb, Cook, Jamaica; Henry, Allen, Leghorn ; Swift, St. Übe's ; Hutchinson, Robinson, Trini dad ; Hannah, Clayton, La Guayra ; Hormosa, Mitchell, New Orleans ; Mary, Johnson, Sierra Leone ; Briton, Neale, Rio Janeiro ; Puella, Hardy, Gibraltar ; Minerva, Bombay ; Oro zembo, Bartlett, Baltimore ; Camoens, Barns, Oporto ; Celia, Black, Charleston ; Devonia, Long, Havre ; Helen, Naples ; Gesina, Postman, Rotterdam ; Margaret, Still, Sierra Leone ; Unicorn, Redman, New York ; Fergus, Cornforth, Apala chicola. To-morrow, being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Gentlemen of the Bar, who will breakfast with the Lord Chancellor, will go in procession with his Lordship to estminster Hall, where the Courts of Law will be opened with the usual ceremonies. _ A young lady of Bath who sent the beautiful little picture, " The Gipsies of Valencia," to the Manchester Exhibition, to which she attached forty guineas as the price, had that sum remitted to her on Saturday. The lady is scarcely 20 years of age, and has but lately devoted herself to the study of oil-painting. POWER OF PREHENSILE TAILS.—About three months since an opossum' (of about the size of a small rabbit) escaped from its confinement at the Zoological Gardens, and the poor creature was supposed to have crept into some hole, and there to have died ; but within these fe ,, Y (14y$ it 1)45 been brought to the institution in Park street,.having only 4 fpw lipqr% previously paid the debt of nature. In search of food, ip appears, he disoeyored 4 tub containing a small quantity of pig's wash ; cunning enough to know the Pld *verb, ,‘ nothing venture nothing have;" and moreover desirous of tasting the savoury medley, he secured himself by means of his prehensile tad at the top, and lowered his head and body into the tub. Having freely partaken of the good things there, he attempted to ascend, but so slippery were the sides of the tub that he could not effect his purpose, and in this position, secured by his tail, and with his head downwards, was lie found dead, literally ha ng ed by his own tail.--Fel i x Fa:. ley's Bristol Journal, COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held, specially to consider the Report from the Revenue Committee, on the references respecting - the allowances to the several Committees, &c., for their expenses. THE ROYAL HOSPITALS. Mr. LoTT, in bringing forward his motion of the last day of meeting—" That, as the matters before the Royal Hos pitals Committees are of great importance to the interests of the City in general, it is expedient that the wards not at present represented in that Committee (except by governors) be represented by members therefrom"—proposed that it should be adopted as a resolution. The reference to the Committee embraced the following objects—viz., to inquire and report to the Court to what extent, and by what means, the benefits and controul of the Royal Hospitals, origi nally granted by the Crown to the citizens of London, have been alienated from them, and to determine as to the best mode of recovering such rights, or of exercising whatever degree of controul was still retained by the Court. I\lr. CeoucHEß seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and an addition of twenty commoners was immediately made to the Committee. THE EXPENSES OF THE CORPORATION COMMITTEES. Mr. PLETCHER, on rising to move the first recommenda tion of the Revenue Committee, " That the expenditure of the Irish Society, exclusive of the charges and expenses of a deputation to Ireland, should not exceed 2001. per annum," was anxious that at a time when so much was spoken of the reform of public bodies, it should be seen that the Corporation of London was fitting to be continued under any new legislative dispensation which the Govern ment might think proper to establish by the reforms which they were disposed to make amongst themselves. The amount of the reductions recommendd by the Committee extended to one-half of the present expenditure. If hu man nature was as it ought to be, it would be the advisable course to recommend the total abolition of allowances, and that course could be adopted without any hazard to the due performance of the duties ; and, as it must be dealt with as it was, he thought that, taking the labours and eir eumstaace fairly into consideration, the recommendations were worthy of adoption. He should propose them seria tim, as it was likely that there would be a difference of opi nion upon some. The motion having been seconded, Mr. BURN stated, that the attendance of members in the Committee was so difficult to be obtained, that those who did attend were obliged to send round to the other Committees to make a quorum ; and he considered that fact an argument against the abolition of allowances ; for the Revenue Committee had no allowance at all. Under-Sheriff WIRE rose to propose an amendment— " That all the allowances to their Committees, &c., be dis continued." Mr. ANDERTON seconded the amendment. Mr. STEVENS said that, notwithstanding all that had been said of patriotic and disinterested motives, it was im possible to get a meeting of men together to do this dry business for the Corporation without some hope of per sonal gratification.—(Hear, hear.) He could well see why an Under-Sheriff should be ready to do the business of the Corporation without participating in the social meetings. It happened that attornies were of all people the very persons who were to be benefitted by sitting in that Court. —(Laughter.) Tradesmen who sat there could not be employed by the Corporation. There was no chance ex cept for the disinterested lawyers—(Loud laughter)—the lawyers, who were advising the tradesmen to be satisfied with the praise, and the honour, and glory of serving their fellow-citizens for nothing, and were keeping all the sub stance for themselves.—(Shouts of laughter and cheers.) Mr. TICINER thought that those who advocated the amendment affected excessive righteousness. Now he would go between the extremes of the sweeping amendment and the existing allowances, but the original proposition must be put in another way before he could vote for it, as he considered the Irish Society quite independent of the Court of Common Council.—(Hear, hear.) The above is a fair abstract of a discussion in which se veral other members joined, and which lasted till near six o'clock. The original proposition was agreed to by a large majo rity, and the Court adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday, an elderly respectable looking man, wearing a pair of large green spectacles, and much pock-fretten, who gave his name G. S. Mutch, Esq., solicitor, of No. 41, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, was brought from the station-house of the G division, in the custody of Inspector Penny, and King, 120 G, charged by Wm. Baker, or namental painter, of No. 10, Upper Bryanston-street, Portman-square, with forgery, and with having obtained ten pounds under false pretences. The case excited con siderable interest, and the office was crowded to hear the examination. _ _ . ...... Mr. Baker, on the sth of September last, advertised in the Morning, Chronicle, Times, &c., for a situation, and on the same day he received a letter, purporting to come from G. S. Mutch, Esq., of No. 41, Devonshire-street, Queen square, stating that through his influence with Lord Mel bourne, and other persons connected with his Majesty's Government, he would be enabled to procure a lucrative situation, and suggested a personal interview, in order that they might come to some arrangements relative to the matter. Witness subsequently had an interview with the prisoner at his residence, 41, Devonshire-street, where he occupied a couple of parlours, and seemed to be carrying on the business of a solicitor, having his desks bestrewed with parchments and papers, and a young man writing, and the importaint air of the place induced witness to suppose that all was right, and that he would be ultimately pro vided with a situation equal to his wishes. The prisoner spoke largely of his connection with Government authori ties, and represented that he could with his influence pro cure a situation if certain conditions were agreed to, which being explained, on the 13th of September witness met the prisoner, who prepared the following agreement, viz.:-- " Matter of agreement made and entered into this 13th day of September, 1836, between Mr. W. Baker, of No. 10, Upper Bryanston-street, Portman-square, on the one part, ornamental painter, and G. S. Mutch, Esq., of No. 41, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, on the other part (that is to say) the said Mr. Baker instructs and employs the said Mr. Mutch to procure for him a Government si _ _ tuation as clerk in his Majesty's Treasury, at a salary com mencing at 2001. per annum, and to rise progressively 501. per annum, until the same shall amount to 4001. per an num, for the procuring of which situation the said Mr. Baker agrees to pay the said Mr. Mutch th© sum of 1001. by way of bonus or douceur, in part payment of which bo nus or douceur the said Mr. Baker has this day paid a deposit of .5/. ; and it is further agreed upon by the said parties that the appointment shall be received within four teen days from the date hereof, at the same time it is un derstood by the said Mr. Baker that the said G. S.' Mutch is acting as an agent in this transaction ; but in case the said Mr. Mutch shall fail and neglect to procure the said appointment by the time specified, then and in that case the said Mr. Mutch agrees to refund the said deposit when thereto required ; but in case the said Mr. Baker shall re fuse to accept the said situation when appointed thereto in that case the said deposit shall become forfeited ; and it is further agreed upon that the balance of the said sum of 1001. shall be paid to the said Mr. Mutch by quarterly in stalments of 221. 10s. until the whole shall be liquidated ; in witness thereof the parties herein-mentioned hereunto place their signatures, the day and year first above-written. (Signed) " G. S. MUTCH." Witness advanced Si. and subsequently Si. more, and he waited on the prisoner several times, until his patience was worn out, and he began to suspect that it was an imposition, as there seemed to be no prospect of a situation being pro cured for him ; but the prisoner still urged for more money from witness, as being necessary to attain his object, and in order to lift up his expectations he forwarded him A note, with a mourning border, purporting to have been written by " Edw. Finch, Esq., of Whitehall," of which the following is a copy :--- " Whitehall, Oct. U, 1686. " Sir—l am desired to inform you that, agreeable to the wish expressed by your relative, Mr. Baker, your appoint ment will commence from the 14th of November next.---I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " EDWARD FINCH. " Addressed to G. S. Match, Esq., No. 41, Devonshire-street, Queen-square.". Mr. Baker determined on not being played with any longer, and on Saturday evening he called at the house where the prisoner resides, and called in King, 120 G, and gave him into custody. He at first refused to go with him, but at last submitted, and he was taken to the station house. On searching him, one shilling in silver, and ;ix penny worth of halfpence were found, with several cards strongly scented with musk, with the address of G. S. Mutch, Esq., 41, Devonshire -street, Queen-square, printed upon them. Mr. LAING asked whether an inquiry bad been made at the Treasury in order to ARCertaln whether the prisoner or Mr. Edward Pinch wero at all known there ? He was answered in the negative. Mr, LAINQ asked him what he was ? The prisoner re plied, " I am a general agent." Mr. LAING—What do you mean by a general agent? Prisoner--a house agent. Mr. LAING said that an application was made to him the other day by a person Wilg IVA been seriously imposed upon. Mr, Barron, collector of rents, &c., of No. 86, Albany, street, Regent's Park, late surgeon, of Birmingham, here stated that he advertised for a situation undo; Government, and the prisoner applied to him by ) c enter,under similar cit. . 11 • umstances to those of the last witness, and receive, from him ; but he did not procure him a situation. fo Mr. LAING said that ho should remand the prisoner .r a week, and gave directions to inspectors DennY a nd King to proceed to Whitehall, and make inquirie s as to whether Mr. Finch, or the prisoner, were known at the Treasury, and to collect all possible evidence against t he next exann nation. The prisoner was then locked up. About two years ago a person was brought to this office charged under similar circumstances, having practised his impositions to a considerable extent, when he w as mantled. Oakley, late an inspector of the E division, who had advertised in the newspapers for a loan upo n interest, was communicated with by the prisoner at P ortsmouth, and he was swindled out of 101. under a pr omise that he would negotiate the matter ; and, suspecting , from the de— re- scriptmn, that the prisoner was the person who had duped him, he proceeded to Clerkenwell prison to s ec him, whe he identified him to be the same person ; and on that oc casion the above psisoner Plutch) was waiting at the prison to see him, with his green spectacles, and nearly the same as he yesterday appeared at the bar. There is no doubt but the system has been carried on, to a considerable extent for a length of time, and numerous charges are expected to be brought forward at the next examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The march of modern legislation has, in some matter!, kept pace with the march of intellect. The combined wl!" dom of both Houses of Parliament has succeeded in putting a stop to the slumber-breaking cry of " sweep," but as yet has signally failed in silencing that terrific to the tympanum tintinabulary clamour, the dustman's bell. As one great step towards this desirable consummation measures at length been successfully adopted against its diminu tive mimic, the muffin-bell, and henceforth the lovers of the tea delicacies of muffins and crumpets will have, 0 0 Sundays, to supply themselves otherwise than through tbose humble purveyors who have, time out of mind, monopolis ed that branch of traffic. To those who rejoice in the partial extinction of their morning miseries it will give pleasure to learn that the police have received o rders to devote all their energies to the extirpation of the muffin merchants' calling, and their exertions last Sunday have been crowned vr.ith great success. The Magistrates, Mr. Conant and Mr. Ha ll ' were applied to by the police for advice in an unlooked-for dilemma. In discharge of their new duties, between four and five o'clock yesterday afternoon, they heard the pr?" hibited cry of " Hot muffins," and on reaching hold of the astonished muffin m a ker, a n d took from him stock, about 100 large and sma ll. Th e A c t of Parliament which legalised this seizure did no t c l ear ly s p e cify the. moan er in which the property was t o b e di s p ose d o f, a nd it theref ore . became a point whether the muffins were to be devoted to feeding the police or the parish paupers. Mr. CONANT inquired if the muffi n m a n, was present? f or, on looking at the Lord's-Day A c t, h e f oun d h e wa s also lia ble to a penalty for trafficing in his commodities. the spot 131 . (1 The muffinman, however, w as t oo good a judge to make his appearance, and the decision of the Bench was that the man was to have his basket, and the paupers were to have the muffins. EGYPT AND MOIJAAIIVIED ALl.—Captain Scott, of the Royal Staff Corps, wh o h as recen tl y re turned re t . ° his travels, is on the e ve o f l ay i ng b e f ore th e public the narrative of his wanderings. Hi s wor k i s t o be entitle. " Rambles in Egypt and Candia, with details of the ilt tary Power and Resources of th ose C oun t r i es , a nd Ohs° . vations on the Government Policy, and Commercial Sy s " tern of Mohammed Ali." The proceedings of the prese t. % ruler of Egypt have, for some y ears p as t, a tt r acted tu s marked attention of all the Eu ro p ean p owers , a nd varl et / 5 conflicting statements have b een p u t f or th re l a tive to thto extraordinary man. Captain Scott, who . was introduced. him, possessed singular facilities of gaining an insight le " his real character, and his observations on this subject ca n t : not fail to be highly acceptabl e a t th e p resen t wome n Various characteristic illustrations will accompany the ' l°- lumes. The attendance this year at the Reform dinners 'Al d the public dinners of the Tories, was infinitely more 011 ‘ merous at the former than the latter, though each i te i former pays for himself, while tick e t s are p urc hased out , e the money of the Conservatives' club' s s t oc k p ur se, and a; tributed among those who choose to dine an d make it Sh e's of a numerous attendance. STAGE COACH TRAVELLING IN AMERICA." a , One of the New York Papers says :—" C urs es, not le e but deep, are uttered against the road managers every dilY; by tourists and travellers in every part of the union, rfid as ° , wonder, for the system in some parts now is for every P senger per stage coach, to walk on f oo t by the i,tde of t vehicle, so as to be in readine s s t o ass i s t i n re li ev i n g it fr e er , any accident which happens to it on accoun t o f the cler bis holes and ruts which it h a s t o encoun t er cont!inually. ere was borne good-humouredly enough for some time, appearing to be no alternative ; until at length the st e ''' s , coach agents, embold ene d b y success , i ns i ste d t h a t the the sengers should not on ly wa lk on f oot, as occas i o n er rrY driver might requ i re , b ut t h at eac h passenger s h ou ld. 0 4 a rail to pry the coach out of the mud whenever it s tn ' therein. The Recruiting for the Royal Marines h a ving ° late gone on most successfully, each division had beer l :: structed to call in t wo o f it s recru i t i ng part i es. The es s: blishments at Reading, Taunton, Chippenham, L ou be borough, and Glocester, are among those which are to given up. In consequ ence o f th e report ma d e b y the Cou rt a o t Inquiry l a t e ly assem bl e d i n t h e Royal Marine barrack s he ir Chathr , ld it t : tiatham, the Lords of the Admiralty have deemeL- es duty to recommend to his Majesty that the officers' nanire (whose conduct was the subject of inquiry) should be moved from the list of officers of the Royal Marines. obe y A letter from Bucharest o f th e 7th of 0c t %,.. speaks of a revolt having broken out in Silistria, in I :ea quence of the Sultan having c a u se d hi s p or t ra it to be P A " - hid 'over the arsenal, in consequ ence o f hi s h av i ng resume; sway in the fortress after the Russian evacuation. t c , j 5 said to have been en courage d b y th e M u f t i ( pr iest); 4 " o t, suspected of being in the Russian inte res t. The Ilan however, is vague. Government have determin e d th a t th e sinecure app pointments of General, Lieutenant-General, and Mai nr- t hO noral of Marines, and the four sinecure Colonelcies of d corps, hold by Captains of the N av y, s h ou ld n ot be ° le , boo as they become vacant. The appointment of Genera' 01 become vacant by tho decease of Lord De Saume n tb r is' one of the Colonelcies by the decease of Captain Sir .topher Cole.— United Service Gazette. ROY3I BERLIN, OCT. 23.—The marr i age o f her Highness the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Prin ne a c sse , Liam of Prussia, an d hi s Hi g h ness P r i nce Ch a rles of l' igoi 4 was celebrated yesterday w ith grea t p om p, at the 1' Palace. 'e s ri .illy TEA TRADE, MONDAY.--The last week am oun t e d t o about P o ,ooolb. The traue,", ther inactive. Th e p r i va t e tra d e sa l es w ill coalme n ' morrow. PLATED CORNER DlSgosteu with Strong Silver Edges and Handles.—A Set of re ur u ineo.' Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Nine or a set with richly ornamented Edges, Handles, t Etth, 611. news. The Handles take off the Covers, so as to form when requited. T. COX SAVORY'S, Working G°'" --I°l versmith, and Watch ma k er , 47, C orn hill, L on don. 4 0' - ffe' N.B. A variety of Secondhand Wat c hes may be se lec ' all price Two Guineas each. Warranted. ftr DIED. ~,, m r Char les On the 28th ult., at Kentish-town, aged 00, •-•-• , 0 1° bert. Wissett. On the 28th ult., at Peamarsh, Sussex, aged 72, M artaa' e, of Mr. T. Brown. , 1 . PO On the 28th ult., Mary Jane, infant daughter of iqr. i' 1 . 1. .. 7 oliey-read, North Brixton, aged six mon ths. o f AlP l ' s' On the 26th ult., at Datchett, Rober t Todd, Egl" 0, w ife ° road, aged 79. f Mr. $' On the 27th ult., at North Lynn, Eliz abeth, Briggs, of Chipping Barnet, Herts, aged 33. MONTHLY MILITARY OBlTUAler'ry gilitia' Colonels--Watling, h. p. Port. Serv. ; Crosbie, Major Malone, h. p. 4 W. I. Reg. Captain Leschen, h. p. 2 Lt. Dr. Ger. Leg. 0 - 4 . 01 00; j- Lieutenants—Shore (Adj )14 F., in the ship t-"*„,g. ; Walker, 99 F., in the ship . " Doncaster ;'' Par s ' t F. Ve rt- - maim ; Dixie, h. p. 11,, Afar. ; APGregor, b. 1 .• - bl F. st , : eA I a Aa r i,e h Kd n i i ci a na n :.: s h C . ou , ny l , P. lsi Camberwell; ew uri o,i. M'Calis t e r , h• P . o f W e Ensigns—Vaughan, 94 F. ; Nase, ii. p. King's A nl-." IC. " Ii- Commissariat Department,-Den. Assist. Cora. Gen' Csi' coils, Tortola. Dr. 1 3 ° 1° ' ord• mitt?,-iiepartmont—lnDspr.. GG*T.Aossf is H t. dr ur • g. p r . V": , , 1 Surg. Hately, h. p. '34'l' Dep., in the ship " Domatter ;" Mulkeran, b. P' Lor l d 2 o ; n s : tr P an r d it:ted aacicublis-------hed by AlUll-DO Ya 10 111'Ite3; micldlesex:t. The Sun Osfflovceem, November 1, 112, St!and , in " BIRTHS. oo°ll. On the 29th ult., at Sty vcc h a ll, th e H on . Mrs. Gregoll.„, °_',Detlif Or. the 2,9 th ult., Airs. S. M. Peto, of the York-road, ''' of a daughter. f Jol o wa O orn n d,t t iE h tes e q. ;th ult., at Newland, Yorkshire, the lady °' 1 , ter • 37th u a lt s . o , n ;he lady of G. Gataker, Esq, °f a d ______2 “lg' _-__ MA R R IE D. f F leet' On the 29th ult., at St. Bride's, Mr. John Sangster,c% Jon eit street, to Susannah, second daughter of the late Mr. Frao ' of Ludgate-hill. or, n„,, so' , et On the 24th ult., at Thoydon Garnon, Mr. John i --- 1 f:sq'',,r goon, of Tolleshunt D arc y Essex son of John Davis°u'ciaugh Bridgford Hall, St a ff or d, to , Caroline Buxton , y oungest fd' of the late Mr. J. Argent. gr. at On the 25th ult., at St. Nicholas Church , Worcesester.; _, h icr Janson Atkins, of Barbourne-terrace, to M a ry, eld dub , te i „ 6 : Mr. IL. Hcming, of the same city. On the 29th ult., at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Thom of as it. ?Jr. s Esq., of the Tower of London, to Mary Ann , daughter Wattg, of the former place