The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-27 00:00:00

N Utterly resp: i ct ‘ late Mr• 10 ,0 3' 5 Be dec lare tory, a nd ,een di4' ark-- iv , used C I Rota CbeerS.) teforrn•-- fear)---'l5 ,g everY ,rld that is as in 3" e pt sc men w "` o f re' possible love the, w EVENING EDITION. the personal respect shown me by you all, a.,el I call your attention to the important make we have in securing the independence of this borough and tlie political rights emf freedom of its inhabitants; if called upon, act with vigour to maintain the character you have so justly earned, in re turning ugnin the mean of 3 our choice ; and p _4.1114 me to say I feel deeply grateful to you all, and nt,n anxioui; to render you in return every obligation.—( Loud cheers ) Mr. lirrctitNis being called for, addressed the people. and ;n conclusion be proposed three cheers for the Queen, which were most heartily given. The cry was then for Henry Handley, Esq., M. P., for Sir Robe r t H eron , B art ., an d f or M . D. H i ll, E s q., but they had left the balcony with the Solicitor-General. A very numerous meeting was afterwards held at the Mason's Arms. The appearance of her Majesty's Solicitor-General at Newark on Saturday night, in the person of Sergeant Wilde, caused a general excitement. The feeling was evidently one which it was difficult to describe. The ultra- Tories, or out-and-out ones, immediately congregated, and violently urged the immediate publication of a hand bill, calling upon the voters not to promise their votes, as a Conservative of talent and respectability would be sure to appear on Monday. The more prudent, those who felt that the welfare and comfort of the town was best secured by the continuance of the great services of the Sergeant, urged the maintenance of a neutrality, and upon the following scns;ble grounds :—First, that the Sergeant had always secured the peace of the town. Secondly, that the chances were more than three to one against their success ; and, thirdly, that even if they could, it would be a dear-bought, a very short, triumph; for they had always experienced of what stuff the Sergeant aaa made, and that if beaten, he was certain to come again and again, and thus the town. would be perpetually em broiled ; therefore, Blues, do not delay recording your promises, aad another wreath of laurel will be added to your brows. Sound as this view of the case was, it was over-ruled by a small majority, and the hand-bill was ordered to be posted. A committee was (milled at the Clinton Arms, Thomas Spragg'ng Godfrey, Esq., was requested to at tend, and the offer of support was made to him, but in the exercise of a sound discretion he declined, recol lecting the words of his late father-in-law, Mr. Tallants, upon the last election of the Sergeant, " That now the Red party were and ought to be satisfied, and he hoped they would never again contest it." Messengers were despatched to all quarters; at two o'clock Mr. Branston and Mr. Burnaby started for London to the Carbon Club, to invite Sergeant Goul burn, Mr. Thesiger, or some other lawyer, thinking that their eloquence, which is great, could induce them to c9mf., after several gentlemen in the neighbourhood had dcci,;:f.d. We shall not condescend to hint even at the resuii, to Newark, if the Tories were success ful: for we know—mark the words—we know that the return of her Majesty's Solicitor- General is certain. The Blues netrei,' will forsake their old friend ; and the respectakle part of the are not only satisfied with the great services of the Learned Sec Tent, but they would deem it au act of gross ingratitude to join Ike op psition. MONDAI NIOHT. The town has been divided into five districts, and the canvass is already nearly completed; theLsuccess of it has been beyond precedent; never were the Blu-s in better spirits, and never did the Reds feel less desirous of oppo. position Mr. Thesiger has arrived. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) With small fresh supplies of Grain, there was an equally dull trade, and Wheat found scarcely any buyers at Monday's terms. rise fair samples of Barley have mostly been taken off at last (Mations, but stained parcels were neatly unsaleable. Beans, Yeast, and Oats unvaried. The Flour Trade extremely dull. ARRIVALS' Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 1( ur. English lrish -. 830 Foreign 7OO 1,060 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. - brls. Supplies of, all kinds were large, and the quality very good; trade lively, and prices much as last quoted. BILLINGSGATE 11ARRET. Thee were fair supplies to.day of all kinds except Turbot, which were scarce and dear; prices of other kinds much the same as l as t ctoted. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Nov. 26. —Wind W.—Arrived the Waterlily Ray, from Jamaica ; Hector, Lawson, from Quebec. Saled the Advocate, Wfikinson, for Calcutta, with the rest of the outward-bound. FOR rsmorru, Nov. 26.—Wind N. W. to N. N. W. FALMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind W. S.W. to N.N.W., strong breezes and squally. TEIGNMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Arrived the Rover, Mills, from Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Arrived the Waterlily, Win from Newfoundland. ShlELvs. Nov. 23.—Arrived the Sarah Fleming, Davi son, f i ve) Quebec. HnLL, ;Nov. 26. —Wind W.—Sailed the Wolga, Tonge, for Surinam. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 25.—Sailed the fanthe, Livesay, for Quebec. YARMOUTH, Nov. 26.-.,The Wilna, Brown, from Lon don, coal laden, has put into :his harbour leaky, and it is supposed must discharge. BRISTOL, Nov. 26.—The Pomoutt, 0 ; Clay, for New port, was blown on shore at Broad Pill, a u j will be beneaped. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 26 —The Wilberforce, Luke, sai;t. , . l . from Pillau, 13th Sept. for this port, passed the Sound ou the 18th, and has not since been heard of. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OE MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MONDAY, Nov. 27, 1839, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Loreh, Mr. J. Vining; Huon, Mr. Anderson; the Countess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Maeheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farrell ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly l'eachum, Miss Austin ; Lucy Lockit, ➢Madame Vestris. To-morrow, The Rivals, with The Waterman. Dross Boxes, is; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to ecnynenoo at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the B.x-offiee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ,::AY be had upon application. Prit,;:, Boxes to ba had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. COUKT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty promenaded for some time to-day on the East terrace of the Castle, attended by Lady Barham. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge rode out to-day in a pony phaeton, and the Ladies Eleanora and Con stance Paget, and the Hon, Miss Cocks, took an airing in a carriage and four. The Marquis of Headfort took his departure this morning from the Castle, and the Hon. General Sir Wm. Lumley left in the afternoon ; the latter has been ‘ucceeded as Groom in Waiting by Colonel Armstrong, who lias arrived. The - -Royal Dinner Party at the Palace, this evening is exp ec .‘ed to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, ilae Earl of Erroll, the Earl and Countess of Uxb r id ge , And the Ladies Eleonora and Constance Paget, the Earl of Albemarle, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, -Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Gardiner, Bkironess Lehzen, Colonel Armstrong, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. Charles A. Murray, and the Lord in Waiting. The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four to Kew. The Duke of Camb.ridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. His Roval Higltness returned to his residence at Kew in the afternoon. Captain Pelly, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, had .an interview with Lord Melbourne on Monday at his ( Alicia' residence in Downing-street. The Attorney-General, Sir H. Macleod, and Mr. Rivers, had interviews with Lord J. Russell yesterday at th e Colonial-office. The Marquis of Bute, the Attorney-General, and Mr. Warburton, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanhy yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday en Downing-street. Mr. Alston had an interview with Viscount' Met h, erne yesterday in Dowping-street. k lespatches from the Right Hon. C.Poulett Tnornson, G ov , ttlior of the Canadas, and from the Lieutenant- Gove, tsar of Gibraltar, were received yesterday at the Colonia.t-office. The Princes Ernest asid Albert of Saxe-Cobourg hav e joined the reigning Duge of Saxe-Cobourg, and th e Ki ng of the Belgians, at Wiesbaden. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are expected to leave the Doune of Rothiemurchus early in the crest month for Baron's Court, where they intend to p.bis the Christmas. Grace the Duke of Manchester has arrived 1 in Pa ris at the Hotel Bristol, on his way to Italy. Leiters were received yesterday from the Mar quis•of Hertford, dated from Turin, where his Lord ship and suite had arrived from Switzerland. His Lordship, who is o e • easl on ally laid up with the gout, will winter at Milan. SOUTHILL PARK, BERKSHIRE.—Lord and Lady Limerick have been entertaini ng successive parties of friends during the last fo rtnight, the on . I and Mrs. Spring Rice, Mr. George, , Lord Mantekle, ' 11 e Russell hav e b een of the and Lady Caroline party.L4 Lord and Lad; n Howick conti nue at Howick on The . a visit to the Earl and 6.41. Grey, ntessNoble Lord has intimated that h e has :ken lea v e of p u bli c life for the presont.—Newcastle Journa:. The Earl of Durham is severely indis i :nsed at Lambton Castle, and will remove to the with wi south • it convenient speed.—Newcastle Journal. The Duke of Cleveland is at present in suc h indifferent health that his Grace is prevented from en tertaining the Duke of Sussex, at Raby Castle.—New castle Journal. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.— The Animals' Friend Society last week caused the drover 488 to be fined 13s. by Alderman Gibbs for having so cruelly beaten a sheep in Smithfield that it could not stand, and John Hanisby to be fined by Mr. Broughton, for cruelty to a horse. The Society's agents at Birming. ham, and other bull.baiting, and badger and dog, and cock-fighting districts, are doing their best to suppress these disgraceful pastimes, which they find very much on the decrease since the Society has caused so many convictions of the bullards, &c. SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT.--Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, James Grice, a brick layer, w hil e at wor k at one o f t h e ne w houses now being . erected in Gordon-square, on a scaffold erected to the second story, advanced too near to the edge of a plank on which he was standing, when it tilted over the pud tog, and he was precipitated to the ground from a height of 42 feet ; he fell on his back, and was taken up ap parently lifeles s , an d was f ound to have b ro k en his right thigh and severly injured his spine. lie was taken to University College Hospital, and remains in a precarious state. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, The production of Ainswortles.“ .44 Sheppard," has attracted complete overflows, ant teen: pronounced to be the greatest achievement ever yet attemp.ed, it, will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, Nov. 27, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant Mis. Laws, &c. To eonelude with an Extraordinary Drama, in Two Acts, entitle.. THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS; OR, HELL'S BELLES Astaroth, Mr. Neville ; Cerberas, Mr, Cullen ; Diavolin. Miss Martin ! Robert, Mrs. H. Vining; Polycarps, Mr. \\ Smith ; Tambour, Mr. Ross. HIGILWATER AT LONDON BRIDGE T0. , 011110W, Yarning ...... 37 minute. atter 7 i Evening 2 minutec atter LONDON : WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 183 D. In another part of The Sun our readers will fit, a report of the new SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S speec' at Newark on Monday last, on the occasion of hi, again claiming the suffrages of his constituents. This speech—unlike most lawyers' speeches—is distinguished by a frank and manly simplicity. The lion. and Learned Gentleman, indulges in no specious professions—in no patriotic clap-traps, but appeals to his past, as a voucher for his future, conduct. Such as he has been in Parliament, such will he continue to be. On taking office he has nothing to recant—no promises to falsify. As SOLICITOR-GENERAL he is as strictly indepen dent as he was when plain Sergeant WILDE. He has always advocated the Ballot—the Ballot lI will continue to advOcate. He has always strug gled for Reforms, on a bold but temperate and constitutions) scale such Reforms will still find in theiY gfaunchest advocate. It is his boast that he ipis nothing to forget —nothing to apologize for—no retrograde steps to take, when lie feels that he should be on the advance. Again, his new d►gnity is not the consequence of Court or Ministerial favour, He has been chosen, because he has been thought worthy. In creased emolument he cannot hope to derive from his S o licitor-Generalship, but he may derive from it some little increase of personal and political weight and this influence he will devote to furthering the great objects of Reform. Such is a brief abstract of the SOLICITOR•GENERAL'S address to his constituents ; and we feel assured that its frank, straight-forward earnestness of character, will not Ile without its due weight at Newark, A pubi.- . -'. niepting wa s held at Birmingham on Mond a y l ast , on c ' i • the gudirct of the new Govern illiA, otne of the principa meta P o li ce B i l l , at 7 inhabitants of the town were present. Many ani mated speeches were made on the occasion, for which we ref er our rea d ers to the Itei: ort of the meeting, which will be found elsewhere in The u. 4 . 1" of this day. The Bishop of EXETER'S letter, to which We alluded yesterday, and the rejoinder of the Mar quis of LANSDOWNE, will be found in another part of our Paper. The Noble President of the Council has so completely smashed the Right Reverend Father in GOD that it would be a work of supererogation in us to dwell at any length upon the merits of this singular and highly interesting correspondence. Never was mitred arrogance more effectually hurled to the dust ; never was whining hypocrisy exposed to public disgust in a more tem perate manner, or In a more truly Christian spirit ; 4 4' n Q CIILEA MEETING in BIRIVIINGHAM on the subject of the GOVERNMENT POLICE, re cently introduced into this Borough. At one of the largest Meetings of the Inhabitants ever held in th.) Town Hail, convened this day, at the requisition of up wards of One Thousand Five Hundred Bate-payers, the MAYOR being in the Chair, The following resolutions were passed unanimously :- 11oved by the 11ev. J. MAcrioNELL, and seconded by Mr. B. REDFERI , .7 ; I. That the Birmingham Police Act. deprives the authorities of the borough of the important power of appointing and managing their own constables and police, and places this power in the bands of a Commissioner, who is not responsible to the rate-pay ers, their representatives, nor the magistracy of the borough, but who is merely an instrument. in the hands of the Secretary of State for the time being, and may be removed at pleasure. That this Comnsi,sioner has the authority to raise a large force within the borough. and levy rates on the inhabitants for its support; and that this force may be armed at discretion, and employed to prevent the inhabitants from exercising the right to assemble for the expression of public opinion. That municipal corporations have been for centuries the nur series and bulwarks of freedom, and that any invasion of their privileges ought to be resisted by every legal means, and that, in the opinion of this meeting, this Act is a gross violation of the social and constitutional rights of the people of the empire, and of the inhabitants of this Borough in particular, and a direct insult to the municipal authorities, since the chief value of corporations consists in the appointment and control of police, and the levying and management of . local taxetion. That the pretence for the introduction of the Act— the doubtful validity of the Charter—ought to have induced the Ministers to bring in a Bill to confirm the Charter, rather than to introduce a measure to destroy it. Moved by E. BROWN, seconded by J. FUSSELL ; 2. That the people will never be content with a police of any description, whether under the control of an individual, or ' a body of individuals, until they have the same political privi leges, local as well as general, as are now possessed by the few - . Moved by Mr. STURGE, seconded by Mr. SMITH ; . . 3. That the of a police ought to be the prevention and detection of theft, burglary, and other criminal offences; and for these purposes there is no occasion for the use of mortal weapons, nor for the adoption of military organi zation; and that the employment of the men as political spies is contrary to the duties of a police. That the go vernment force now organized in this borough is much more dangerous to the laves and liberties of the inhabitants than a body of soldiers, because, while they wear the appQarance and receive the appellation of police, they have the powers of the: military without heing under the direction and superintendence of the Magistracy, and are responsible to no one except the Secretary of State for the time being ; thus becoming, in fact, a second standing army, more objectionable to the country than the ordinary military force. That this meeting deems it to be a duty which it owes to the country to protest against the adop tion of a system of centralization and espionage, such as is in troduced into this borough, and which, if introduced into the rural districts, will prove more dangerous still to the liberties of the people, as being a tyrannous exercise of power which has hitherto been employed only by the most arbitrary and des potic Governments, and is calculated to alienate the people from their governors, if not to bring the Government of the country itself into disrepute. . _ _ Moved by Mr. CUTLER, seconded by Mr. Marcum ; " That an address to the Queen, and a petition to both Houses of Parliament, embodying these resolutions, be pre pared and presented as early as possible, and that the following gentlemen be appointed a Committee, with power to add to he:: number, to carry this resolution into effect, and to super intend the general objects of this meeting :—Messrs. Aiktchett, Cutler, Jennings, Palmer, W. Morgan, Parks, and Corbett. Moved by Mr. PALmka, seconded by Mr. WILLOUGHBY ; 5. That the thanks of this Meeting are due, and are hereby given, to the Town Couneil for their opposition to the Bill, and that they be requested to take all legal and constitutional measures for the repeal of so unjust and arbitrary an Act. Moved by Mr. W. KEREOFF, seconded by Mr. CORBETT ; 6. That these Resolutions be advertised in the Birmingham Herald, the Morning Chronicle, the sun, and the Northern Star. Moved by Mr. E3LAXLAND, seconded by Mr. HILL ; 7. That a Sub-Committee be formed for the purpose of waiting on the Mayor and Magistrates who subscribed towards the fund for the London Police, in order to obtain a subscription equal in amount for the sufferers who were injured by the staves and sabres of the said police. Nov. 25, 1839. P. 11. MUNTZ, Mayor. 13, GREAT MARLI3OROUGH-STREET. PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ALBERT. The DECEMBER NUMBER of C( ',BURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE and HUAIOURIST, edited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq., will be embellished with a FINE PORTRAIT of PRINCE ALBERT of SAXE-COBOURG GOTHA, accompanied by a Memoir; and will contain Articles by the Editor, the Countess of Blessington, Mrs. Gore, Airs. Trollope, Leman Blanchard, and other distinguished writers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE SUN,. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, - 1e39. never was fox pursued by hound through all his doublings with more unerring and instinctive sagacity than the quibbling, tricky, word catching Bishop of EXETER has been hunted through his labrvnth of falsehood and misrepresentation by his powerful adversary. If Dr. PHILPOTTS has any of that regard for his, character which so high a dignitary of the Church is presumed to have, he must curse the hour when his ill-disciplined temper drove him to make an attack on the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. Attempts are made to prove that the Whigs are the authors of the Welsh disturbances, because they excited the people to demand reform, and did not stop short of declaring that to deny it would endanger the peace and stability of the empire. The journal which now most vehemently reproaches them with what they then did went far before them in the career of revolution during the Reform pe riod. Leaving that inconsistency without further notice, for that in a journal may be a venial offence which in a statesman is the abandonment of his most solemn duty, nothing but the Tory principles now professed by the Times blinds it to the fact that it is not what the Ministers have granted of reform, or what they have obtained for the people in its name, but what they have withheld or denied which has caused the gene ral discontent of the lower classes. When it was found necessary by the Tories to concede the claims of the people in 1828 and 1829—when it was indispensable to the peace and safety of the State to concede still more in 1832—when the sovereignty of the people was then openly but necessarily acknowledged, it was, we admit, silly in the Whigs, and nothing less than extreme folly in the Tories, then to persist in maintaining nearly all the abuses in Church and State which Reform was sought for to abolish. Neither class of states men could get out of their old routine ; the Tories rallied round the conservatio n of abuses, and the Whigs,, being in office, found it their duty to abate the vigour of their attack. Hence, unhappily, instead of the continuance of the progress of im provement which commenced in 1828, and of which the principle was to set aside the old State nostrums, year after year the most reasonable demands of the people for an Extension of the Suffrage, the Repeal of the Devil's Laws, the Ballot, &c., have all been refused, and the hopes of the people that either their social or their political condition would be improved have been utterly destroyed. They have consequently become discontented. The blame, therefore, is to be thrown, not on those re forms which pacified the people for a while, but on those Tory principles of which the essence is that the people must be coerced into obedience to a great system of injustice. We are quite aware that the middle classes are rather favourable to Toryism. A wise Ministry, however, instead of conceding to their injustice, would have taught them to subdue it. The lower classes are too numerous in this country, and too intelligent, to be kept in a state of slavery. If the middle classes, therefore, will neither concede an extension of the suffrage, nor any kind of eco nomical reform, which touches their own pockets, they must lay their account with perpetual turmoil, nor even flatter themselves with the hope that the sacrifice of their own liberty to a strong Govern ment and a standing army will secure public tran quillity. Long ago we asked, when we saw nothing was to be done to satisfy, and everything to coerce the working classes, how the country was to be governed ? We have yet seen no solution of the difficulty, and it will not be surmounted, by abusing the Whigs for what they have done in the way of Reform, nor,• by restoring the Tories to office, to begin anew a brutal system of coercion. There would be some ground for the pertinacity with which our Tory politicians inflict on the Dis senters the perpetual blister of Church -rates, deny to Roman Catholics the full and free enjoyment of all civil advantages and privileges, and generate can. tinual trouble and strife for the purpose, taining the ascendancy of the English Church, had that Church been in past time, or were it at present, an instrument of political or 'moral good. But what are the facts, what are the advantages, what . the blessings for which freedom, prosperity, a nd peace are denied us ?—freedom, because as long as laws are made or enforced, trespassing on me n ' s consciences, they deserve not the name• of free ; prosperity, because the maintenance of the Church is at the bottom of the devil's or starvation laws ; and peace, because the supremacy of that Church continually threatens the tranquillity of the empire. What are the facts, what is at present the condi tion of our people ? The Anglican Church at this moment, misapportioned as are its revenues, is the richest church in Europe, and great masses of the people in all the manufacturing towns, throughout Wales, and in large agricultural districts, are tho roughly uninformed and uninstructed of all that a Church is useful to teach. They know how to gain their bread ; they are skilful miners, col liers, smelters, casters, weavers, spinners, plough men, &c. &c., but they are extremely ignorant of their moral and religious duties, extremely ig norant of the circumstances which regulate their condition in society, and extremely ignorant of the most important facts by which their own conduct ought to be guided. The complaints of the crioii nality of the people coming from the Clergy them selves are a branding condemnation of the Church. But ignorant as the people are of what it most im pot is them to know, much of the knowledge they have is due to Non-conforming teachers, who have not only taught and converted the people—the Wesleyans, to wit—but they have pricked the Anglican Clergy into exertion by their zeal, and are the au thors of all their emulation. Almost from the very beginning of the Reformation the Non-conformists have flourished by the side of the Church, and have kept her from relapsing into Popery, to which she owed her birth, and was always inclined. Protes tantism has been cherished by them, though the Church always persecuted them for their faith. At this moment, as at every moment since the days of C ROM w ELL, the Ctrycaliiity sod hasf teachingailedbotli a obedience. sait instru ment for promoting In neither point can it now compete with the unpaid D P r i e s s s e s, n t i n N g eo man ii r l a v.his s i e t n hthe s es whol lywill s u ser n t e ndw that oed we are indebted to the Church for that naval supe riority, that ingenuity in arts and inventions, anti that patient industry which are the foundations of the national greatness ; and while our population are both lamentably ignorant and criminal, it is clear that the Church has no claims to the respect, much less to the veneration of either the people or our rulers. The very ignorant or very injudicious friends of the Church compare her to the Church of Rome, and rail against the latter as most unworthy. But the Church of Rome, with great, grievous, and glaring errors, has many claims on the respect of mankind. She was one great instrument—th e ex cloive instrument, for spreading Christianity over a i; the west m. world. For nearly fifteen centuries no o ther Ch iSiatlity was !mown. She not only irChris tianized, she 0070 the barbaria:?s who overthrew mediated united i t e b d ") tillise her predecessor, the Roman empire. w4B the careful treasuiZl of all the knowledge of antiquity which escaped tn' w reck of empires, the heir to the power of imperial Rome, and for many centuries she exerted that know ledge and p ower to more bene ficent purposes than d the all- conquer i ng c ity. Sh e between Sovereigns and subjects; if she fomentedive Si w l hote co C m i m ir o is n tia a n nd w g ' c frequently comman d e d a t ruce , ai world, forgetting league. etting localseobtained quarrels, p in one p o wer through her own merits, and only became arrogant,_ oppressive, cruel, and usurp ing when she had achieved a commanding success. She contributed her part to modern civilization ; she promoted for many eges the progress of society, and NVIIEn she became a barrier to further civilization, stopping the continued and ordained progress of society, she was cast down, bioken to pieces, and gradually destroyed. The Church of England has no such merit. She found the people Christians, and as she found so leaves them. They have made little progress in Christianity under her tuition. She has never mediated between the people and their rulerg, but, pretending to study the comfort of the latter, call inQ herself the poor man's Church, she has aggra vated their lot by her own burdens and by her supercilious insolence. To the State as an engine of good governm en t, s h e i s a source on ly o f diffi culty and inju r y. T o t h e p eo pl e , as a teacher of good morals, she is a source of continual corrup tions, partly by her doctrines, but amazingly by her example. Of no use to the people or the State, a mere engine for keeping up aristocratic oppres sion and priestly fraud, there is no good reason for maintaining her, and none for supposing that the people would be rendered immoral or criminal by the civil Magistrate taking her down from her high place and treating ail sects of Christians with per fect equality. The following are extracts from French and Getman papers received this morning : PARIS, Nov. 24.—The Capitole of to-day announces a fact worthy of the serious attention of politicians. It affirms that by a secret treaty concluded between the Three Powers, which have partitioned Poland between them, without the knowledge of France and England, the free City of Cracow is incorporated with the dominions of Austria. This is too serious a fact to be lightly credited, but it is, nevertheless, certain that the state of things in that oppressed city, the long continued occupation o f i t by an Austrian garrison, are not calculated to make the assertion appear impossible. We know, besides, that for sonic years past, the French acid English Ministers have been in vain called upon by the Parliamentary speakers in every Session to appoint Consuls to the Republic of Cracow. Le Commerce, Nov. 25. CONSTANTINOFLE, Nov. I.—Refaat Bey is expected every moment. It will then be seen whether it will be best to wait patiently for Mehemet Ali's accession to the wishes of the Powers, or to attempt to negotiate an agreement directly with him. As !Wad Bey has had the best opportunity to make himself acquainted with the views of the Powers, it is supposed that he is the best qualified to give good advice. Till within a month since he constantly wrote that no thing ought to be done without the Powers, but he has since changed his opinion, and recommends that the dif ferences with Mehemet Ali shall be considered as a kind of family affair, and amicably settled with him. This change of language, while the Foreign Ambassadors continue to be so friendly to the Porte, is difficult to be accounted for, and Refaat Bey's arrival is therefore the more anxiously expected. Reschid Paella seems to take a course which may permit him to effect a reconciliation either with the protection of the Powers or without it. lie behaves with the utmost re spect and attention to the Foreign Ministers, and does not neglect the agent of Mehemet Ali, who, though he keeps in the background, acts with much ability, and does his master great service. Count Pontois seems resolved to gain Iteschid Pacha at any rate. On the return of Mehemet Ali to Alexandria, he agreed to give up Candia, because the French Ministry has sig nified that it would object to the restoration of that island ; but he would not agree to any other concession because the French Ministry had been silent. We may soon have a similar interference of France when Count Pontois per ceives what effect fear produces here. He must already have had a fore-taste of it in the fact that the Porte did not venture to refuse the finnan for the ship of war on board which the Prince de Joinville has arrived here. The Persian Ambassador, who has been to the Courts of Loudon, Paris, and Vienna is now here. He seems in general to be much pleased •with his reception in Europe, but complains bitterly of Lord Palmerston, to whom he denies all political tact. He speaks of a conference with his Lordship, in which the latter complained that Mr. M'Niel, the British Ambassador in Persia, had not been treated with the respect due to his rank, to which the Persian Ambassador replied that all the power of the Shah could not pos!ibly obtain for Mr. M•Niel the respect which he desired, which not the title but the personal character alone can ensure. Mr. M./sliel was considered in Persia much less a diplomatic agent than one of another description, and was obliged to submit to be treated as such. Had he had any respect for himself he ought to have asked for his recal, but he persisted in keeping a place to which he ought never to have been appointed. His intrigues alone caused the differences between England, Persia, and Russia. As a physician by profession he should have con tinued to write prescriptions, and not attempt to compose diplomatic notes. This answer is said to have been very disagreeable to Lord Palmer ston, but to have led to the appointment of a successor to Mr. Nl'Neil, BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 25. rust Highest Lowest • Price Price. Price Price. reach 5 per Cents 111 20 ... 111 21 ... 111 15 ... 111 20 44 per Cents lO5 75 ... 105 75 ... 1.5 '75 ... 105 - 75 ' 4 per Cents lOl 41 ... 101 45 ... 101 45 ... 101 45 ~; 3 per Cents Bl 95... SI 95 ... 81 9 ) ... 8 . 90 Bank of ,rrance 193./ ...MO ...930 • —2910 'l..sllitt.e . Baiik 5,000 f. sh L22I) ...5220 —.5220 ...5220 0,, .. I,ooof. Sh l lO7 s') ...1007 s'o ...Ic6/ 50 ...1 , 67 50 Irelelan Bank 750 ... 75f) ... 75') ... 750 • , . ~. 5' per Cent , 10 1 , , ,,i ... 101% ... 101 N ... 10!N Dutch '234 per Cents s2i ... 52% ... 52N —5.04 ,p4iosh Ac.ive ... 2(i ... 254 i, ... 25% 74 Passive c% ... 6.).4 ... 6 NI ••• 6 %4 , . Old Deferred 7 ... 7 ... 7 ... 7 Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea.,,olitan Roman lol3s ... inlfi, ... 10J% ... 1111 1 4 •- - It A IL W A )i ' S ti A ttEs. Versailles, It. B 472 50 470 ... 472 50 ... 470 L.B. "Shi 02 50 ... :290 02,.50 Orleans .. AUS I'lllA N FUNDS.—Vtimvs, Nov 16 ........ five per Cents. Metalli ques ~ Fru,. per Cents. Three psr Cents. Rant Shares 10345, —.Allgemeine Zcitung. Nov, 21. VICE•CHANCERY.__(THIS DAY.) BEADLES V. BURCH. His Honour the VIOE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before him a short time since upon a demurrer put into the bill by Messrs. Jones and Co., the solicitors. Having read through the whole bill, he could not but think that there cer tainly was a case stated upon it that required answering. He begged it, however, to be understood that in coming to that decision, he proceeded upon the statements of the bill and those alone, and he trusted that Messrs. Jones would not for a moment suppose that he had the least suspicion of the purity of their intentions in doing what they had done ; he had known those gentlemen too long , both at the Bar and on the Bench, to suppose that they would be guilty of any impropriety in their profession. He could not, however, but think that they had been properly made parties to the bill, and the de murrer, therefore, which had been put in by them must be overruled. The COUILT then proceeded to hear motions. CRIMINAL UOURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD CO UR T. .(Before Mr. Sergeant ARADIN.) Catherine Purcell was indicted for stealing a neck lace, value 60/., and other articles, the property of her master, George John Parry. The prosecutor is a soli citor, residing at Islington, and the prisoner lived in his service. - On the 22d of September last she left the prosecutors, taking with her the articles in question. A description of her person was given in the Hue and Cry, and in consequence she was arrested at Dunmore, in Ireland. She had previously pledged some of the property in Liverpool. When before the Ma gistrates, at Hatton-garden, a written defence was pro duced, which had been found in her possession, and which imputed the grossest immorality both to her master and her mistress. This defence she stated Lad been drawn up for her by an Irish attorney, and admitted that it was a tissue of falsehoods. The • Jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice BOSANQUET.) THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY. M r . CLARKSON, as soon as the Learned Judges had taken their seats on the bench, requested tho Court to inform him whether the persons convicted of having been concerned in the gold dust robery, would receive sentence this session. Mr. Baron PARKE said the Judges had not yet de cideden t. therefore, probable that j u d gment wou ld nto the therefrom dwelli ng -h ouse o f Henryaa res l p t ec tin m was, g the legal objections taken t o t h e indict not be delivered this se ssion. BURGLARY.—Richard Ro bert , alias John St. John, w gold watch and chain, his property. 'The house of the p rosecutor, w ho resides at Wool wich, was broken o p en on the 23 d October and s indicted io od y for , a n breaking d st ealiag i the articles in question stolen. About a week after wards, the prisoner, who is a mere lad, was secn in company with another lad, with the watch in his pos session, which he attempted to pledge at a pawnbroker's near the West India Docks, but, in consequence of his not giving a satisfactory account of the manner in which he became possessed of the watch, the pawnbroker gave bin\ into custody. Mr. BALLANTYhE addressed the Jury for the defence. Mr. Justice I3OSANQUET summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing in a dwelling-house above the value o f fi ve pounds, but not of breaking into the house. Mr. justice J3OANqusT sentenced him to ten years' transportation , Edmond Lefrore, convicted of two larcenies, Vlat gen• tented by Mr. narPri POKE tc) Seven years' transpor tation. t h e ne i g hb our h oo d of Leeds, Halifax, y. T e h v e en f in e g g w as so dense on Tuesd ay an d Wednes , da and Bradford, that the greatest danger was experienced by persons compelled to travel. Between Leeds and Halifax the Red Rover coach was overturned on Tues day, but fortunately no injury was sustained. BOW.STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Elizabeth Tuck and C'Tarbitte Tuck, sisters, were charged, the one with stealing a shawl, and the other with receiving it, well knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared that one of the prisoners, who is a child about 12 years of age, went into the shop of Messrs. Ade and Jones, 415, Oxford-street, last evening, to purchase some small pieces of prints ; and the prose cutor thinking she was an industrious girl, having fre quently seen her make similar purchases on other occa sions, he took her to the end of the shop to make her a present of some patchwork ; and on her leaving she was observed by a shopman to have something concealed under her pinafore, which caused him to follow her into the street, and on turning into another street a few doors from the shop, she was met by the other prisoner, who appeared to have been waiting for her, when she drew out the shawl produced, and put it on the shoulders of the other prisoner. Mr. TWYFORD said the case could not be more corn plete, and ordered the prisoners to be committed for trial. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, 1" W ELTE 0' CL CK. This being settling day in the British Market, the brokers and jobbers are chiefly employed in arranging their accounts for to-morrow, pay-day. The extreme fluctuation during the present Account is about 14 per cent, and the contango (or continuation) is about per cent. Consols opened this morning at 90: for Money ; and for the January Account 91 ers ; Exchequer Bills 7 5 dis. ; Bank Stock 178 179 ; India Bonds 231 252. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were all firmer, particularly those of Amsterdam, there being a good supply of bills in the market. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off at 241 -, have rather improved, and may be quoted 24 ; Portuguese same as they closed, - 311 32 ; Co lombian 29} 30 ; Mexican - 29 - 30 ; Belgian 1001 1014 ; Spanish Passive 61 ; Deterred 10:1 11 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52$x; Five per Cents. The accounts received from the Havannah of the 20th October, state that business there begins to as sume a very active apearance, and we have no doubt when the late pacification of the north of Spain reaches that island, it will be celebrated there on a splendid scale. The weather was remarkably fine, when the accounts left. The Liverpool train has just arrived, by which we have received a New Brunswick paper of the 2d of No vetnber. The United States schooner Grampus arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, and exchanged salutes of 21 guns with the garrison at 10 o'clock on Monday. She sailed again on Wednesday morning for Portland. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We have had a dull and heavy market for Cotton to-day. The Sales are limited to 1,500 hales, chiefly American de scriptions.. PRICES OF' STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 178% $ India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. f* ,%% Ditto Bonds S 11 6 dis. 3 per Cent. Cons. 90%% • South Sea Stock — 3 ~, per Cent - , Old Annuities Ditto Red 9 71 4 44 ' New Ditto New 3% pet Cent... ...... ..93X it 9' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Now 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuitiestoeanire 1 Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860 l3 9—!6% Ditto Small .. 3 2 dis. Oct. 10, 1839 —ll3 7-16. Ditto Commercial Jarl. 5 NW• — Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1580 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 185(1 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5.1570 . —l Consos for Acc0unt......... 90N PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK• Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Drazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........ Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1524 —, Spanish Bonds ^4 54 1 4 4 Ditto Account Ditto Account. 24% .7i Ii Danish Bonds Ditto Account Deferred II 1074 Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent...—. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1225 - 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account —; -- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — --- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 9.54 per cent. 52%54 Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Acce.untm..... .... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Eadern Counties Nally/ay l6 6 5% Great Western ttailway Company 65 Ditto New 20 Brighton Railway 'Io 1....nd0n and Birmingham Railway Company WI NI ,rtn Midland Railway Company 65 Mexican and South American 7: 05 15 14 140 76% 5% COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YESTERDAY. A nisterdain t.....e. 12 634 1111,1,1Lar 4B D.tto. at sight Kottercimin ' ', U. 'l2 7 'Genoa.. . 23 83 Antwerp... 11 zinburg . Altona . 41 . 14 - ' P.lris, 3 day,' signt..— ..... 2.5.50; Palermo „ . per oz. 121 Y,, Ditto... .... ........ —.3 Ms. •.:5 75 IListlon Marseille,. Bourdoaux Frankfort on Manly, Ex. M. 151 ~ 4 , Bahia 97 ?eterAhurgh, ruble... 3 Us. 38 Buenos Ayres Btrlin . . . .. , Vienna, effective f1..,3 M. 10 6 Philadelphia 46 Triette......ditto lO 10 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. thdrld 36 3 4 Portugal beld, coir , 0 0 0 Cadiz....• :366 Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 17 9 6i1t0a................ Bareelo,l2 "(i New Dollars Se,'lle 36 Silver in Bars HALF-PAST OZYE. Adeoun - ta have been received this morning horn Monmouth, of the .9.6 th November, stating that great suspicion was caused there, owing to several strange looking men having arrived in the town, and much fear was entertained of an expected rising of the Chartists, in consequence of which a double guard was ordered at the gaol, and all the troops in the town remained under arms during the night. The Batavier steamer from Holland is not expected until a lite hour this afternoon. This will be the last week of her run. To the present time there has been little speculation in the British Market, and the settling for the Account is going off well ; and it appears to be an even one— neither Bull nor Bear Account. Consols have been, during the whole of the morning at 901 Money ; for the Opening, IGth January, 914. Exchequer Bills, 57 5 dis. ; India Bonds, 8 11 6 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1781 178 ; India Stock, 252. In the Foreign Market Spanish heavy, receded from 241 to 241- ; Portuguese 32 ; Three per Cents., 22 ; Belgian, 1001; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521; Five per Cents., 984. No further arrivals, nor any report to communicate at present. NE WPORT-MONDA Y. The following letter has been forwarded to the Mar qu:s of Normanby by Mr. Frost's solicitor :-- " Newport, Monmouthshire, Nov. 22,1839. " MY LORD,—As the solicitor of Mr. John Frost, who has been committed to her Majesty's gaol of this county upon a charge of high treason, I have during the last ten days been engaged in this neighbourhood in collecting matter upon which Mr. Frost's defence to that charge is grounded. " It will be within your Lordship's knowledge that on the day on which Mr. Frost was apprehended his papers were seized. These papers are very numerous, and as I am instructed, contain amongst them mate rials essential to be given in evidence in the course of his defence. To render those materials effectual as evidence, it will become necessary to ensure the attend ance of witnesses, some of whom reside in remote parti of England and Scotland. I have made two ap plications to the committing Magistrates for permis sion to examine, to take copies, and to make an index of the papers so seized ; but the Magistrates,' without, 1 believe, wishing to throw any impediment in the way of Mr. Frost's full defence, have expressed an opinion (clearly an erroneous one) that they have not the power to comply with my request, and they have referred me to your Lordship. To your Lordship I now therefore appeal, trusting that your Lordship will, with ail conve nient dispatch, issue those instructions that may lead to my being afforded free access to the papers in question, for the purposes which I have before expressed. " It has, my Lord, within the last few days been currently reported here that the special commission under which Mr. Frost and others are to be tried will be opened within the next month. Professional men, however, and 1 amongst them, cannot and do not give credence to that report. If this were to be so, my Lord, the trial of the accused parties would be neither more nor less than a mockery of justice. The time afforded for getting up the defence would be far too limited to enable me, by the best exertions of my humble abilities, to do my duty by my unfortunate client ; and I should shrink from the responsibility of attempting a hurried and unmatured defence in a case involving the deepest interests of man. " In addition to this, my Lord, the present excited state of the public mind, operated upon by all the influence of anger and of revenge, generated by the I unfounded and heartless calumnies that have day by day been heaped upon my unfortunate client, have destroyed, for a time, every chance and hope of a fair and impartial trial. And though deep and widely dif fused as are the sympathies of the thousands who are watching with intense anxiety the result of those prose- Icutions, those sympathies are but partially f e lt amongst the class of persons from which a Jury is, AS o f course, to be impanelled. " I shall perhaps be excused for e,alling your Lord ship's attention to the various instances i n w hi ch crirni i nal prosecutions have been suspended, and postponed, when public feeling has been strongly exc i te d . Wi th those cases your Lordship must necessarily be far better acquainted than I am, and of the justice of the course pursued with reference to those cases your Lordship is far more capable of forming a just estimate than 1 may presume to be. ~ I a bstain from further observation, feeling assured by the eNretiCUCO the past that yppy t,OrdshiP upon all occasions eN( 3l '6's the powers with which you aro lovet4, conformably with, the claims and Ilia dic tates of justice and of humanity i qp i d th a t, tegaTtiless of the designing clamour of hired and *ders pros, your Lordship will in tile Present case pursue that course wbich you may consider best calculated for promoting the ends of public justice, and, as a consequence, of securing to the accused—on the behalf of whose rights I now address your Lordship—a full, a fair, and an impartial trial. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your very obedient humble servant, " W. F. GEACH. " To the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby, Secretary of State, London." Last night Mr. Geach applied to the Mayor for per mission to have an interview with Zephaniah Williams and William Davis (the latter being the person who was arrested at Canterbury). Both those prisoners are confined in the barracks at Stowe-hill, and are not al lowed to have intercourse with any other persons. They are placed in different rooms. The Mayor, in reply to the application of Mr. Geach, gave a written order to Mr. Harris to permit him, as solicitor for the prisoners, to be admitted to them in the presence of a trusty person. William Davis's family are in very comfortable cir cumstances, and live at Blackwood ; he is quite a lad. Williams continues in the same desponding state. He will be brought up this day for final examination. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) It is fabled of the scorpion, that if surrounded by a fire, finding its efforts to escape from the flames in effectual, it destroys its life with its own still.. The Tories are now in the sit uat i on of the scorpion environed by flame; and, like it, are engaged in suicidal acts. The revengeful attacks on the Court by the Tory Press, and by the foul-mouthed vilifiers at T or y f easts, have wrou g ht, ht, to an extent which is daily increasin g , considerable apprehen sions among the aristocracy of the country as to the con sequences of such reiterated calumnies on some of the most noble fatnilies of the land, the female members of those families not excepted. To degrade is not merely a step but a stride towards destroying the order of no bility. The apostles of Republicanism, who preach the doctrines of equality both of birth and property to the ready ears of ignorant and excited multi tudes, make large and frequent quotations from the columns of the Tory press and from the speeches of Tory orators. They truly represent that these pic tures of the Court, and of those who constitute the Sovereign's " private and social circle," are drawn by the journals and speechifiers of the very party which was formerly the most strenuous in its pro fessions of attachment to the Throne, and in praise of those who immediately surrounded it. No longer per mitted to occupy the Court, to haunt its purlieus and crowd its avenues, they would destroy what they are not permitted to possess for their own exclusive advantage ! No wonder if the Tory aristocracy, with all their hereditary prejudices against Liberal opinions, begin to discover that the safety of their order demands a stand against the Ultras of the faction, which has shown so strong a disposition on several occasions to fra ternize with the advocates and disciples of demo cracy and anarchy, even though the pillar of society should thus be shaken to its base, and the ornament which adorns its summit be cast down and trampled to the dust in the general confusion! It is now the obvious determination of the more rabid of the Tory party to precipitate a crisis. The "No Popery" yell, which was only raised for mere election purposes, without any intention that this savage " battle cry" should be followed by acts correspondent with its import, is not to be suffered to remain an empty sound. The Greggs, INPGhees, Sullivans, 111‘Neils, Camp bells, and Stowells, and a host more of clerical incendia ries, who from pulpits and platforms preach up an Ant!- Catt-die crusade, are sanctioning—perhaps they call it sanctifying—the sedition of their lay allies, the Rodens, Robys, Bradshaws, &c., at Tory orgies. These mutually act and ro-act upon each other, until their ardent spirits are " roused to deeds of arms," and chide the tardiness of their leaders for not leading them at once to the attack. (From the Courier.) The Welch are a peculiarly susceptible race, and of passions easily excitable. Sir John Josiah Guest could tell us, if he would, of terrible scenes at Mcrthyr fvdvil within his experience. Some twenty thousand men descended from the mountains of Hirwain in 1835, and dictated to the affrighted burgesses of Mer thyr the man they were to send to Parliament. The man of the choice of these hillmen was the candidate who bid highest, and talked loudest about Reform, and Reform so closely verging upon revolution, as, in their untutored minds, to be undistinguishable the one from the other. The leader of that day has been distanced by the Chartist Chief of this ; and the men of Dowlais, then ranged under the banner of Guest and Reform, are now seen as enthusiastically marshalled under the orina.:.ime of Chartism and Frost. The Silurian, witl; inten tional deception, may prate that the " aristocracy in Wales view with suspicion every attempt made by per sons of the middle class to enlighten their working neighbours on political or other subjects, so that the two classes have become completely isolated." But the fact is, that in the hills there is no " aristo cracy" except the great irontnasters may be so classed, and in their behalf we may testify that generally they have not been wanting in endeavours to promote reli gion and good morals among their workmen, however in other respects the indiscreet pursuit of gain may have led them to abandon the prudent precautions, once una nimously agreed upon, for the discouragement of those trade unions which have been the germ of all mischief. In the agricultural districts of the plains and valleys, where, amongst an untainted peasantry, the " aristocracy" of South Wales must almost alone be sought, no Chartism and no followers of Frost are to be found. There the people are more enlightened because religious education has been more diligently diffused, under the especial superintendence of that resident aristocracy so naturally associated from early habits and traditions among the Welch with feelings of attachment and deference. (From the Standard.) Among the many happy results which we anticipate from the proposed marriage of the Queen, it ;:ertainly is not the least, that in her future husband our Sovereign will have a protector from those insults to which every woman, whatever her condition, is exposed ; and which must be as painfully felt by a virtuous wo man upon the throne as by the most humble of her female subjects. The Sovereign, no doubt, has in the loyalty of her people, a sure guarantee against violent injury to her person, 'or outrage upon her Royal authority ; but this is not enough. Experi rience unhappily has shown that the utmost loyalty of her people cannot secu re her against insults from which any of us would guard a wife, sister, or daughter, at the peril of his life. The Rev. Mr. Giles, a Dissenting Minister of Leeds, has lately published a lecture up:in Socialism 38 compared with Christia24dy. and in the course of this very pious and able per formance, has given a summary of the leading tenets of the Socialist doctrine, quoted in the very words of Mr. Robert Owen, the thunder of the abo minable sect—such as it would seem impossible to col lect from all the ether impure and atheistical writers in all the languages of modern Europe. Mr. Giles has in this executed a most useful, though, as is plain from the general tone of good feeling and sincere piety per vading his essay—what must have been to him a most disgusting task. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Times.) There has been a strange story current for the last day or two, about a saying of the first Minister of the British Crown. In any former Administration we should have instantly rejected it as a forgery ; but the conduct of the present Government has been such, that nothing which can be reported of them seems too gross to be credible. The rumour is, that a partisan of 'theirs, one who takes an interest in their welfare, under the mistaken notion that it is possible to wish well at once to them and to the country, expressed to their chief his astonishment and regret at their omission from the Queen's declaration of marriage that reference to and recognition of Protestantism which not only propriety but even precedent has pre scribed ; to which Lord Melbourne is reported to have answered---" Well, there is nothing to complain of in that. If we have said nothing about the Pro testants, we have said not hi ng about the Roman Cattle, lies." The utmost, then, which a British Minister con siders t h e people entitled to expect in the struggle between the Protestant and Rowan Catholic religions seems to ho that the Government shall stand aeuter! ...—net that it shall aid in the discharge of that duty which the Sovereign undertakes by the coronation oath of maintaining " Proie,stant reformed religion as estnblished by Ittw," and " preserving unto the Bishops and Clergy of this realm and to the churches committed to their charge all such rights and privileges as by law, do or shall appertain unto them ;" but that all religion shall be left for an open scramble—a f ree fi e ld, an d 'no favour ! B ut we fear the case does not stand even thus. We are informed that the fitness or expediency of introducing some respectful allusicn to the Pro testant faith was made a subject of express discussion in the Cabinet. If so, the party of the Protestant Church i s th e smaller aeotion of the Ministry—for it was defeated, and the violent Anti-Protes tants, the puppets of the O'Connellite faction, have wan the victory, and are in the ascendant. v T a b in e n at e te n t t u s pt of to U g i l ni os s s te o rs r p in alli t a he te t p h eiod e r co ial press in concession nthus tondo to the reviving spirit of Popery. The precedent of her Majesty's grandfather, they tell us, is in point since the death of the last of the Stuarts, awl of Ueorge b n l t h y :effacement of that sort of theological demarcation e lt h n t g i hc e ch r 's fromaletse less applicable, the 0 fr : e u i rgonpoe wereEb e i z e aa divided._bueset h l t 4 o o p that e r i y s , the in st e ll e r de prece dent, assailing dentti' n u ' s, as heretofore irana a Continental line or battery, has now :esurned to make head against ou Church ay.'.4 oUr State in the very centre of our own 1 ,404 3 , I s a domestic so much more trivial than a foreign eongict Or are busy Papists in the councils of Vic toria less dangerous than in the closet 440 whole defence i s b es id e the charge, Wof Louis But e have not censured the omission in her Majesty's declaration t T ore, any . fear of our own that the Protestant suc ces'aion IS, in danger, On the contrary, we wholly discountenanc e any sueh suggestion, and condemn the rashness, which would jump to so unsound an in- EVENING EDITION. ferenee. We censure the omission, because we see in it a further evidence of the temper that guides the Government. There was eothirg in the circum stances of tee marriage to warrant the remotest sus picion on the part of Ministers that a reference to Pro testantism would have given umbrage to either of the illustrious partiese° the contract. It is pleaded, how ever, that " a man like Prince Albert must answer for himself." Why ? How ? When ? There will be no I I occasion on which he will or can step forward to answer for himself. The nation will not have, nor is it entitled to have, any direct knowledge of the Sovereign's con sort, except from the Soveign's declaration. It was due, therefore, to ti e Prince himself, in order that his reception night be attended with its just popularity, to introduce him on his first approach with that recommen dation which was sure to find the greatest favour among Englishmen—the announcement of Protestant principles. It is attributed to us not less untruly than clum sily, that we have represented it as a duty incumbent on Ministers to disabuse the violent persons whose in flamed imaginations have led them into angry prophe cies of danger to the Protestant succession. We have represented no such thing. We have said, and we repeat, that had Ministers themselves beli eve d t h e f a l se and abominable insinuation of their own underlings, that !•an . ii considerable part of her Majesty's subjects are shaken in their loyalty by any of those vain alarms for the Protestant Church which have been spoken of in it few rash speeches, such belief would have been a reason the more for ins er ti ng i n the Queen's declarati o n a few words which might have quieted that mistaken class. We spoke not of the wild orators ; we spoke only of those who ore calumniated by the blinisterialists as having assented to such people's rhetoric ; and of them we spoke, not with a belief that they had really been so deluded, or that any assurance was wanting to set them right, but with a view to expose the hypo crisy of those who, affecting to doubt the allegiance of a great body of the Queen's Conservative subjects, did yet withhold the few short words by which that allegiance, if shaken, would have been most effectually reassured. That w as our mean i ng , an d we expressed it pretty plainly ; but it did not suit our conscious adversaries to understand us. The logic of these writers is on a par with their candour. It is absurdly insufficient for their argument, even were it true, to say, as they say s that there is nothing in the circumstances of the time to render the tame sort of declaration which was proper for King George 111. proper for Queen Victoria. The question is, whether ti.ere is anything in the circurr,_ stances of the time to render the same sort of tion improper ; for in matters of constitutior i tlt l .o g n ro . u i 3 on d l er: r . e a c ra e: dent, even if we look at them on the score .auof . 1 , ) - alone, and say nothing of the su(b,:tury t i d ority which the precedent may rest, the to be followed, unless where some publ i i t c i isa a d f v f a orm is likely to arise from the adherence to it. The burden of proof and of argument is on those of ho commit the departure. If; then, the Minister gives no reasons of his owe for his irregularity, he can scarcely be surprised that the people find out reasons for him. And if it happen that he and his colleagues are a set of persee . , dependent on a Roman Catholic junta for their 'f ri ll tenure of office—unable to take an y, the rwsst rent, step without referen ce to t h at Ro r at a n C at h o li c combination—h e lpl ess at t h e f eet of a '.. - foman C at h o li c leader, who i nsu lt s , exposes, screrc ees, disgraces, yet maintains and f ee d s them —the, people will naturally conclude, in the d eart h of all other r easons f or a viola tion of constitutional precedent, that the breach was committed for fear—frar very fear—for base, dishonour es t n e t r , s because ;in a word, that M . excluded PrOtes- Royal doeu l m ni able fear, of the Roman Catholics in the Hoes. of Commons to have tantism from the admitted it would have been " as much as their place is worth." (From the Morning Past.) It has been remarked by those whose research'esliave made them :acquainted with the habits of the very worst, sort of people who degrade the society eallcd l in:1 aduLci on . "&ilisel,," a tl r t e at utshialwy haolsaorethtehemboasstesatetiinvescirnvileitayi. sruny aria the most scurrilous in abuse. The truth of this theory is rial journals. The g il r lu o s ss tr e a s t t e , d m b o3s ' t irrational sycophancy of the Court and the Minis' ,. several of and the I\ m l o in s' is . ti ry is found in the same Sir Robert Peel. Of columns with the most true. t ette the minions of the Court elent and scurrilous abuse of and the Administra with a new stoci. of venom against the Right Hon . ..ion seem to have been furnished Baronet, wbicl they seek every opportunity of shoot-„,,.., forth. P..eapily the impotence of these cref,tures is c0"..al to their malice. Nothing trisagree able, happens to Ministerial eyes or ear s but Sir Rob er t P ee l must b e at the bottom, of is. n t ., it seems, desires to " bully the Queen:" He incites people to " iesult her Majesty." He points out her Majesty to " hatred," and exposes 'her to the "a t of the calumnious tongues of ' What a pother of nonsense have we here! W hi tee vidence of the wretched malice of a faction, writhing under a sense of public contempt, and seeking for consolation is the most outrageous asertions of frantic folly an delirious malevolence 1 The general esteem which. Sir Robert, Peel enjoys, the popularity which is his, fir the cu sling and servile courtiers of the Whi:g.ltadical fat don because the y are c are despised, and hissed, and hooted 'is which sets t i ne Mi found out—this public esteem it and. leads them irsto such nisterialists mad with envy, ravings as we have alluded t',.l. But the cause of Sir Robert's popularity is more. stinging and painful to them than the thing itself * . ri.e is popular without havin g -without having employed those . t iOn which the present Ministers fished for popularity— tours d'addresse u r.s so much, as the proper policy for plume themselv . their Sovereign and the people over managing both ( .3overeign reigns. This policy of trick and w de h l o n t s i i ' en th l a sa t s run to the full length of its tether, so tar. as the people of England arc concerned. We wou A fain hope that it begins to find its limit even at Co . sr s . in Popish Ireland we are aware it may proceed ,is far and as long as it likes, for the populace there a n the victims and the practisers of delusion and I a i se l ioni i , from their cradles to their graves, and canr mt become disgusted by that which is to them so f amilia, Si", Robert Peel is popular simply by:the force of the honesty, the dignity, the propriety, and the for' of o f hi, public conduct. He is known to be, a wise man, and a serious man—a man of great c!eility and great assi duity —a man: who eourts noth;.n g that is glittering and showy ; but, with ample mean s to enjoy ev pleasure and magnificence - which life- affords, chooses ery the better part of devoti.ig himself, calmly and soberly, to the subssiantial 'interests of' his country. The re sspectable opponents of Sir Robert Peel's political views will be as ready to acknowled ge the truth of thi• picture as we have been to assert it. The comet sense of thi s nat i on sa l utes him as the first statesny• . 0„ it ; and th e H ouse o f Commons of this empire, lr `n in will be th e technical " leader," or the ofF,cial no. „ of in her. wh o fluence, ackn ow l e d ges hi m as its chief and abl His knowl e d ge o f affairs—hi est mem_ —11:s pruden ce —hi s f orce of spr est character the same tim e hi s h a bi tua l self- pf antic s.deecn ern eomma'ad, a ll conspire ~ and at to mark hi m as i n di v id ua ll y the most p owerful and and therefore th e fi ttest to most umblemi s h e d o f the p , aitical men of thi s per i od, mixed Gov ernment , ,be the directing head o f our in I'd - licit the popul ar b ranch is now undoubtedly the most powerful. it i s the public s ense , of this f ac t which "sets the hangers-on of the present. Administration ir, so bitter a rage—they see that thr, calm judgmersi of the nation turns with favour ar.d with hope to the first and most intelligent of Firi tish commoners, Sir Robert Peel. Sir Rene et Peel snay be said to be popular in :spite of himself, for it is in hint a fault, or a defect, that, be neglects even reasonable and laudelle mear, s cf gathering around himself some of. !Ise enthUF: Aagro of personal popularity. No man tP.kes less pain; to excite the ardour of political friends 'Amax& himP,, e ll. H e i s far wore, ready to repress the, a to encoura4e—to remark a fault than to notice an excellence--,;ri repro ve an im prudence Osan to praise the warmth o f zea l . The at tachment o f Sir R. Peel's party to. their chief is that of resPret and confidsmee, too litt,'ie mingled, we should j % , ..y, v4ith personal feeling ; but that, as h e ought te, kno.w, is his own fault. Perhaps he could not be so usefe: i ifs'ader the fs public man, and so perfectly calm in considering s and ' deciding upon the clear justice of every publics mat ter which comes before him, if he were r,f that and popu rssteerr, e p n e t r i s l o u n s a ia l sm tern o p f ere h m is en i t oll w ow h e ic r h s. winßsutt,o b e e 416 as it m a y, certain, . !ashy which Sir Robert now en, ,,n _. ) s are altogether tain it is that the public a tributs, to the public ability and 'virtue for which he so justly has credit, and not at , all arisi ng from either thr,se natural qualities or tnrsse cultiv he ated arts ich snakhas e the pu e blic c the pnleling to alic. man independently of w w h hat ' don for as much evidence in prshlic If Sir R o b ert Peel gave of warmth o f f ee li ng as he we do not scr u le does of depth o f intsirtriation, and e l evat i on of judgment, better, and pe ► hapto c onfess that we should I;.ke him s admire him more. Nesdertheless a , as humble members of his political party, tkiere may be a prouder feeling in pointing to him as a man who, by the mere force of a great capa6ty for public affairs, and the honest exercise of ;.t, has manfully fought his way, through all sorts of difficulties and dis enuragements, to British s the fir s t place la. public este em as a tatesman. I 4.—.-4.---.... -40 RD NUG EN T,--Like Sir Francis Burdett & .?,e.fic!a- Mr. Walter, and others. of that class, Lord Nugent as serts that he is unchexged. To those who are inclined to listen to this rid;.culous assertion of his Lordship, w e t at on would say, " Compare the sound Constitutional prir.c;.: plea of Lard Nugent's letter of December 26tb, 1 4 ,,, 36 ` , with the impudent assumption of a claim to th e r-.` - ' qually torship of this borough and hundreds which every address which his Lordship has lately ; , ,,,.. I : d Vai e uea electors of Aylesbury ; and if you do r .o . "sued the change which has taken place 'in his Lord " mind, we must give you up as e Lordship.—Aylesbury .News. SIR C. WOLSELY.--ArAr. Ebellezer Elliot has received from Sir Charles a lett er • - in which he urges thr, necessity of w r.tten at Dublin, Queen, and Pr°'.ecting her IV • standing up for the chinations er, those invetera' -ajesty from the vile ma base treannical Tories. "e enemies of the people, the Irish, - Sir Charles ' , From a residence amongst the their spirit, a olsely appears to have imbibed lost n ight; it 0 1, , ren t u, and that I