The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Robert Peel is as small a man in Oppo sition as in Administration. We have read of the Minute Philosophers, and the Joseph Snr fice of cur times belongs to the class of minute 'rhe whole course of his public life proves him not only to have originated no great legislative reforms, but displays his total incapa city for enlarged views as a Legislator or a Mi nister, and exhibits him as the opponent of every proposed and necessary reform--the drag-chain on the State-machine of Government. His great object and Ministerial labour has ever been to check the course of political and municipal improvement. The Right Hon. Baronet was the strenuous upholder of Orangeism in Ireland —the advocate of Ultra-Protestantism—the de fender of Boroughmongers—the buttress of rotten Corporations—the cold enemy of any propositions of National Education—in short, the bigoted friend of " things as they are," and the opposer of every species of political ame lioration. The results of Sir Robert Peel's political life have been extremely cdyfying, and not a little ludicrous. In vain attempts to stay the progress of public opinion, and to confine the Leszislature to small measures, the Right Honourable Baronet has been the unwilling— and to himself perhaps the unknown—author of more sweeping and extensive Reforms than were ever accomplished in one generation by the agency and mistakes of one public man. In a useless endeavour to maintain the Hierarchy intact, and to perpetuate the essence of religious bigotry, he has unwittingly brought about a total repeal of all political disabilities ; and by refus ing to Reform the Church and to modify the obnoxious mode of maintaining it by tithes, he will to live to see a total revolution in the Ec clesiastical system of his country. By refusing to acknowledge or to rectify the abuses of our Municipal institutions, he will be obliged to contemplate a complete re-organization of Pro vincial Government. His senseless and corrupt advocacy of rotten boroughs has notoriously led to the present amendment of the represen tation, and will astonish him yet more in other changes at no distant day. We trust that the melancholy and despicable ex ample of his public life will impress our present and future Administrations with a due sense of the impossibility of resisting the public voice, and of a system of Government built on the fallacy of the institutions of our ancestors being immutable in all times. Not only have these consequences resulted from the public career and little policy of the Right Hon. Baronet, but he is now the deplorable object of a public suspicion w hich will ever prevent his acqui sition ache cafidence or support of a reformed House of Commons. Mistrusted by his own party, and despised and hated by his opponents, he can never be the Minister of an " on-going" Cabinet. There can be no reliance on his sin cerity, no trust in his political sagacity or powers. He can neither make up his mind to govern or to oppose. Popping insidious questions to a Minister—seizing hold of occasional indiscre tions in his antagonists—cunning and false mis representations arguments in debate—a spice of mock-loyalty, and " putting up" Mr. Croker to say and do what he would be ashamed to per form himself, constitute the whole tactics of his puerile opposition. Even his more formal speeches against Reform, and all his set orations are pal pably prepared with balanced cowardice, though spoken at the most suitable moment, have been compounded of mere commonplace to- Tics, and affected points of alarm, calculated to kidnap waverers and small-minded politicians. His crafty and artful oratorical tactics were well displayed, for example, last night. Mr. Stanley having abandoned, for this Session, the " Party Processions Bill," Sir R. Peel snaps at the op portunity of giving his opponents " a sly kick." He avows his assent to the principle of the pro posed Bill when it is abandoned by the Irish Se cretary ; and when the civil disabilities are re moved, he entreats the Irish Protestants to re linquish their party processions and obnoxious meetings ! Thus he indirectly accomplishes a censure on Mr. Stanley, affects to deprecate Orange politics when deprived of their venom, and curries favour with his ci-devant friends the Protestants ! The Right Honourable Baronet should be told that he wears but a thin gauze over his double face, and that these masked ma noeuvres will not now take in a Member of any party. We know nothing more contemptible than that the Ex-Secretary of the Home Depart ment should thus affect an extreme desire for peace and reconciliation, when the whole course of his Irish public life, and his opposition to Catholic Emancipation, promoted civil dissension, and blew the flame of bigotry and intolerance. The domino of Joseph Surface wi'l not hide his po litical hypocisy or hollowness ; the Right Hon. Baronet resembles the old courtier, who always frequented the town masquerades in the same disguise. We again recommend Sir Robert Peel to study the elements of oratory suited to a Re• formed House of Commons, and to acquire by rote the admirable dissertation of Godwin on sincerity of character.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Cooper, the Secretary to the Record Commission, has just put forward a proposal for the erection of a general repository, in which may be contained all the public records. Of the expediency, it !night properly be said, of the necessity, of such an establishment, no doubt can be entertained. The difficulties which have hitherto opposed themselves to its being carried into effect, have been the expense which must necessarily attend it, and the want of a prop( r spot on which to erect it. Mr. Cooper has de monstrated in the tract before us, that these dif ficulties may be obviated in a very easy and sa tisfactory manner. The public are not, perhaps, generally aware, that what is called " The Rolls Estate' . consists of a large space or ground,— bounded on the north by Symotid's-inn, on the south by Sergeant's-inn and Clifford's-inn, on the east by Fetter-lane, and on the west by Chancery-lane. The Rolls House, which has for some years past ceased to be, as it was for merly, the residence of the Master of the Rolls, is the principal building on this ground, and in it the Rolls Court is held out of term. The other erections are either public offices con nected with the Court of Chancery, or dwelling houses let on lease, and of no great value. Be hind the Rolls House is a plot of ground called the garden, containing nearly an acre ; and the freehold of the whole of this estate is vested in the Master of the Rolls for the time being, who derives an income ofabout 20001. per annum from the rents. Upon this spot, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls, it is proposed to erect a general record-office, and to surround it by a stone quadrangle, part of which should be appropriated as courts, for the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron, and the Judges of the Court in Bankruptcy, out of term, a ball and chamber for she judges and sergeants ( MI" would willingly exchangetheir i r present neonve- ing and commodious one), officers for the Ex miners, Clerks of the Petty Bag, Cursitors. Clerks of the Crown, &c. The other parts of •he quadrangle might be let or sold to barrister or solicitors as chambers. It is calculated th 3, 144 sets of chambers might thus be produced which would yield an annual rental of 15,0001.. and that this rental, at 20 years' purchase, woultt be equal to a sum of 300,0001., which, togethe , with other means the estate is capable of yielding would be sufficient to defray all the charges in cident to the proposal. It would not, perhaps, be difficult in these times to find builders and capitalists who would take the whole enterprise upon themselves ; but a readier and more satis factory mode of carrying, it into effect is suggest ed by borrowing the sum required, upon the se curity of the estate and the buildings, from that amount of stock in the Court of Chancery called the Suitors' Fund, the produce of accumulations on money which belongs to nobody, and which has already been on various occasions made avail able for public purposes connected, as this of the re cords is immediately, with that court. Of the prac ticability of the scheme the details contained in the pamphlet furnish indisputable proof. We have on former occasions adverted to the great inconvenience and injustice of having invaluable records of the kingdom deposited in various and inaccessible places, in the keeping of officers who exact heavy fees for permitting them to be in spected, while they are for the most part with out indexes, and therefore absolutely useless to many persons by whom they would otherwise be frequently and beneficially consulted. When it is added, that many of the records are in dan gerous as well as inconvenient depositaries, that some of them are in damp vaults, others in un suitable buildings, and some of the most valua ble in the next chamber to a magazine of gun powder, nothing further need be said to con vince every one who is interested—as who is not ?—in their preservation, that they ought in stantly to be rescued from the perils to which they are exposed, and so placed as to be availa ble by the public, whose property they are. A hundred years ago the necessity of compiling indexes to these documents was suggested to the House of Lords, as a measure which would be " of singular advantage to particular persons, an honour to the nation, and bring to light many valuable remains of antiquity which had, for want of an easy and proper access to them, long been concealed from public notice." A modern in- stance of the usefulness of such indexes is af forded in the partial publication of the early proceedings in Chancery. It appears from the office accounts kept at the Tower, that from 1827 when the publication of the calendars to those proceedings was commenced, to the month of Aug. 1831, the number of searches was more than threefold the number made during the whole time that Mr. Astle was Keeper of the Records of the Tower—a space of nearly 30 years ! By what appears a very moderate computation of the fees which would be receivable if the records were made accessible in the manner here pro posed, a sum would be produced quite enough to answer the expenses of the establishment ; and the salaries at the Chapter-house and the Tower, 2,2001. per annum, would be saved to the Treasury. This plan, which we think de serves the fullest encouragement, is addressed to Lord Dover, who is, perhaps of all public men, the best fitted to insure the success of a measure which requires judgment and taste in its execu tion, and the ohject of which is to effect an important public advantage. The Record Com missioners, who are generally persons of high and, acknowledged talents and great worth, have thus within their reach the means of achieving the most important purposes of their institution.— They must be convinced, upon looking back to the labours of more than 30 years, and to the sums which have been spent in the prosecution of those labours, that they are still indebted to the public, and we cannot doubt that they would willingly acquit themselves of the burden. Of late a much more active spirit has been dis- played in their exertions, and if they will, as we trust they will, renounce the expensive and com paratively useless publications in which they have engaged,—abandon such of them as do not deserve to be prosecuted, and reduce the others to a more rational and moderate scale of expenditure,—they will be enabled to effect the design now proposed to them, and insure the respect and thanks of the whole community.— Times. No information, direct or positive, was drawn from Ministers, by Mr. Cuilar Fergusson; re specting the steps taken by his Majesty on be half of Poland ; nor does it appear that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman felt it expedient to press for any such. Yet a great deal has been gained by the discussion of Thursday evening. The manifestation of feeling was deep and universal, on the part of Members having any pretence to character, as friends of rational liberty ; and the language employed to illustrate their sense of the atrocities committed by Nicholas and his agents, in defiance of all laws divine and human—first for the oppression, next for the punishment, and lastly for the extermination of the glorious people of Poland—was of a nature to make a tyrant wince from the lash of freemen, and gnaw his bloody sceptre in despair. Sir Robert Peel and Sir Robert Inglis, it is true, expressed no sympathy with those noble sentiments which did so much honour to the great bulk of the House of Commons, But it was not expected of them. They belong not to the England of 1832. The Member for Oxford clings, ex officio, to the ancient heathenism of divine right, and Sir Robert Peel to the superstitions of the Holy Alliance. They, however, were the only ex ceptions. Even he of the " breeches-pocket," Mr. Alexander Baring, called the rebellion - of the Poles a " righteous rebellion," although he would not admit that the cause of Poland ap-. pealed so much to the national interests of this empire as to the feelings of Englishmen. We certainly are not rrad encugh to desire war for its own sake, but would go a great way to avoid it ; and, even as a matter of calculation, it is clear that there are no inconveniences or disad vantages—no pecuniary losses entailed upon us by the irregular or unjust proceedings of foreign nations amongst each other, and not many risks of future danger arrising out of territorial changes upon the continent of Europe—a release from which would not be very dearly purchased tlirough an immediate appeal to the sword by the British Government, and the corn- Mencement of what must inevitably follow—a general and illimitable state of war in every quarter of the old world, if not of the new. A qlestion, however, is opened by this reference to the relations between Russia and Poland, which seks worthy of attention. When the claims of die former Government were first announced to the allied Ministers of Vienna, Lord Castle reagh, it is well known, met them by a decided negative, and the subsequent restraints imposed I"' treaty upon Russia, were mainly the effect of ret rentL o tio um ns t . ...ytaterstr)..ndits rit of Russian policy, must it not be inferred,. that nothing but the dread of actual war on the .tart of England and her Allies, would have in luced the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to with- Iraw its pretensions to an arbitrary seizure of the Polish territory, and a complete subjugation and absorption of the whole kingdom, without regard to even the name of integrity or indepen dence? It follows, then, that in 1814 Russia was persuaded of the necessity of submitting to the dictates of the Allied Powers, with Great Britain at their head. She saw that they were in earnest, and she would not brave their hosti lity. We confess that the policy of Russia now cannot he concluded as a matter of c ertainty, from what it was at the above-mentioned epoch. But from other grounds we may infer, that if, in 1814, when England and France were enemies, and Shen, had Russia seceded from the alliance, she might have made easy terms with France, ill respect both of the Polish Sovereignty, and of the distribution of power in Germany and on the Rhine, she will not now, when Great Bri tain and France are bound in strict alliance by the interests and attrac ions of a common policy, and when the German Powers would desire in their inmost hearts no consummation more per fect than the establishment of a lasting control over Russia—she will not, we repeat, be apt to set at defiance the sustained and cot dial efforts of France and Great Bri tain,—unopposed by Austria.—if not entirely to rescue Poland from her trammels, to se cure at least such barriers against the plentitude of Russian despotism over the Poles, as may ' prepar e them for the full assertion of their na tional liberty at some not distant day. If Lord Durham be instructed to 'insist on the restoration of even such forms of free agency as were at first proclaimed by Alexander to the Poles, when he associated the crown of Poland with that of Russia ; and, by consequence, on the immediate abrogation of the foul ukase of last February, a copy 0' which, through Lord Pahnerston's well judged acquiescence in the motion of Mr. Cutler Fergusson, is about to be laid before the House of Commons, some rays of light will again begin to glimmer upon that fate-ridden country. It is unquestionable, that if England makes the demand, the French Government will help her to enforce it. Some intimation may indeed be afforded as to the true spirit and bearing of the British Cabinet with regard to Poland, from the language of Lord Heytesbury's despatch, com municating to Lord Palmerston the promulga tion of the ukase, which is also to be laid before Parliament ; it being natural to presume that the Ambassador's commentary will not exhibit any material opposition to the known sentiments of the Government by which he is employed. Conciliation is, of course, the business of a Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Lord Pal merston was not unmindful of his official cha racter when he smoothed down the Emperor Nicholas with an assurance that it was " not for his interest" to oppress the Polish nation ! Not for his " interest"—undoubtedly—we all know that. It is not the fist time, by a hundred thousand, that homilies have been preached to demonstrate how much it is men's interest to ab stain from crime, and how short-lived and super ficial is any benefit which they can draw from the prrpetration of it. But Lord Palmerston, who is a clever man, would not have talked so like a foolish one in that apostrophe to Russia, had he not felt a plain repugnance to say any thing dis tinct or direct to the British House of Com mons. His Lordship (lid not deny any one of the charges brought against the Russian Government of treachery, cruelty, and atro city, towards Poland ; or attempt the hope less task of mollifying the hard epithets which were showered from all quarters upon the " beneficent " Nicholas. No ; but he indulged in a strain of child's play, at which Nicholas himself and the Princess Lieven are the two per sons in the world who would be sure to laugh the most heartily. What does it signify what the real interest of Russia would prescribe, un less we prevail on her first to see that interest with Lord Pahnerston's vision, and to prefer a great, moral, real, though not immediate good— to an object more present, vulgar, and fallacious? The Russian Court thinks it, falsely of course, for tne " interest " of the Emperor, to put down free speech—free action—free thought, if pos sible, in every region of the globe. He deems it for his " interest " to maintain despotic govern ment in Russia, and therefore for his " interest" to crush every germ of liberty attoag the Poles, who are comer vinous with his Muscovite bar barians, and might, peradventure, inoculate them with a taste for free institutions. Therefore it is that Lord Palmerston's sermon about the ob vious " interest" of Russia will have been looked upon by every Russian, from the Czar downwards (for they are all alike), as no better than so much arrant fudge. The Emperor Nicholas, for his own purpose,—his blind, and mean, wretched purpose, if you will (but it is his purpose),—judges as any other dealer in the small ware of head and carcasses would do. He values nothing but the power of sacri ficing his fellow mortals to his own caprices. In the affection of the weak for the strong—a feel ing which Lord Palmerston recommends him - to cherish—his Imperial Majesty believes not. Fear with him is better than affection. Accord ingly, to preserve the Russians from any perilous contact with the Poles, Nicholas thought it right that the Poles should be slaves. He made, therefore, Constantine (a brute even among Russians) a sort of licensed autocrat ati over iicpocio)yte unhappy Poland. This demon did his work to admiration. He laboured day and night to trample down the heart of the country, to stifle every sob and gasp of liberty, and to make the people wretched : the last point he res implacable.h ti e nh d ee accomplished—their i t oat h nnu e lis i t r sai i theiralttli IlConstantine s misery Cabinet outstrippedri niwaste of i complete l avengeance tini i the e ; fully bw b e u ass t t m o swp h eolr i i s instructions. He drove the oppressed and indignant nation to be rebels, and thus gave the pretence and opportunity for extinguishing i t s h , e namethey haveof a stood glorious nn p people, ar(inn a i unpardonably whose liigh o e i r l i y i i guilt t t l h i l e t scale of existence than their ignoble masters. This, then, is the field which Lord Durham has to act upon. France is with England, nay, out steps her in the race ; Poland is with both, in a union indissoluble but by their misconduct. It might have been more statesman-lik e for Lord Grey to cooperate heartily with his ally, whilst the 'Polish army lived, and France was not his , only effective ally. But, great allowances oilght to be made. The Noble Lord and his colleagues were Tory-tied and borough-gagged. T hey could use neither tongue nor hand, until Reform should be disposed .of. n'i n e n a s s s u i ' a r , e a w n a d s w v e i l e i w i t e d m i N g N l i l t jaundic e d :: for it will eventua lly rheeyesgrela)%t destroy her power. Well, Lord Grey is free — the people of England speak out through their representatives, and call aloud for the restoration of Poland. Nor is the thing of such appalling difficult". . lLo?lc_et. the Ituasi*n frontier upon :he Euxine, and then at the resistless move ments of a British and French armament by ?zea and land. Will Russia dare such a conflict ? 'e doubt it.— Times. Sir Robert Peel is fast dwindling into a mere ecturer on decorum. He is the—schoolmaster of the Howe of Commons, in which capacity he held forth, at the close of the late debate on Mr. Cutlar Fergusson's motion, to give his hearers a lecture upon elocution, which it is im possible to read without feeling surprise at the weakness that would suggest it. The principle inculcated by the Right Hon. Baronet, not in term , , but in substance and spirit, was this that it became the House of Commons, as the representatives of the people of England, to suppress the honest language of indignation at acts of the most flagitious dve, and to express themselves in the jargon of unfelt respect to wards a sovereign who had violated every dic tate of truth, honour and humanity. Now against this principle we beg leave to enter our decided protest. We maintain, not only that plain speaking was justifiable in the House of Commons, after the conduct of the Russian Autocrat to the Poles, but that false delicacy would have been contemptible, and that even si lence itself would have a criminal and heartless corn promi-e of some of the best feelings of human nature. The House of Commons, instead of lowering its character by such language as fell from the lips of its Members on the oc caeion to which we allude, has raised its character, and will raise it more the more it is known, not only in the estimation of this country but of ail Europe. In short, the only drawback it admits of is that which must be felt on the reflection that it was not employed sooner, when pcssihly it might have been at tended with more effect. For our own parts we will confess that, so far from su')scribing to the paltry remonstrarces of Sir Robert Peel, we re joice to think with what emotions the ravager, for we will not call him the conqueror, of Poland, must read in that debate the picture of his own de formity. We wish him joy of the dose of worm wood which is travelling fast towards his domi nions, and preparing for him a night's rest, which we would not take for his throne. But Sir Robert seems to doubt the atrocities, with which all Europe rings. He wishes for further proof, as if the wrongs of Poland were not as notorious as they are heart-rending and inde fensible.• Really it is difficult to convince some men, but we know not how Sir Robert Peel is to be convinced, unless he would continue to wait for the decision of posterity. As to the tendency of such language as provoked the Right Hon. Baronet's animadversion to affect the cha racter of this country injuriously abroad, the question is, ought it to do so ? Can it sink us in the estimation of any honest man ? We tate not to say that there are in the dominions t,f 11! Autocrat himself, thousands who, if they could see and read the language, would approve of it. But the Right Hon. Baronet need not be afraid ; the Autocrat will take no great pains to circulate the offensive matter in his own country. At all events, the lecture of Sir Robert Peel will be . lost upon the House of Commons, acted upon, as it will be henceforth, by the public voice. The tone of this debate, as compared with the debates on the same subject before the Reform Bill had passed, is an indic7ation of what the House will be hereafter. Sir Robert may, therefore, spare his pains. The schoolmaster without is too strong for the schoolmaster within, as there can be little doubt henceforward to which of the two the House will most readily lend its attention.—Morning Herald. It is not, we believe, generally known, that by the 27th section of the Reform Bill, all persons who are desirous of becoming qualified to vote at the approaching election, must pay up, in order to be so qualified, all poor-rates and as kissed taxes, which may be made and due pre vious and up to the sth of April last, on or before the 20th of July following. It is im portant that the public should be aware of this fact, because many might otherwise come to the poll unprepared with the necessary qualification —that of having paid their rates and taxes ; and we accordingly copy the clause of the Act in which the stipulation is contained : "Right of rorng in Boroughs to be enjoyed by Oc cupiers of Houses, §-c. of the Annual Value of 101.— In every city or borough which shall return a Member or Members to serve in any future Parliament, every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy, within such city or borough, or within any place sharing in the election for such city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other building, being, either separately or jointly with any land within such city or borough, or place occupied therewith by him as owner, or occupied there with by him as ten int under the same landlord, of the clear yearly value of 101 , shall, it' duly registered according to the provisions after contained, be entitled to vote in the election of a Member or Members to serve in any future Parliament fur such city or baroueh. Proviso, that no such person shall be so registered • in any year unless he shall have occupied such premiies fin. twelve calendar months next previous to the la-t day - 01• July in such year, nor unless he, where such premiseS are situate in at,y rrislt or township in which there shall be a rare for the relief of the poor, shall have been rateil in respect to such pretnis.s to all rates for relief of the poor therein tnaele during the time of such his occupation, so required as aforesaid, nor unless he shall have paid, on or before July the 20th in such year, all the poor-rates and assessed taxes which shall have become payable from hint in re spect of such premises, previously to the 6th of April pre ceding ; and no such person shall be so registered in any year, unless he shall have 'resided for six calendar months next previous to the last day of July in such year within the said city or borough, or within the place sharing in the election for the city or borough, in respect of which city or h rough or place he sh ill be entitled to vote, or within seven statute miles of any part thereof."—Morning Advertiser. The House of Commons has fully and fairly . declared itself in favour of the restoration of Poland, and against the barbarity, crudity, and, miscreantic infraction of treaties by the " peror of all the hussies," as Mr. Baring has sty l e d , 4 the monster of the North." Lord Durham is all but on his way to St. Petersburgh to reason with the subjugator of Poland on the affairs of that unhappy country, as well as on so me other matters which touch not the feelings of the people of England to the same extent ; but what will be the result? Will the Emperor of Russia let go the spoil which he now holds on mere remonstrance ? After having annihi lated Poland as a country, and the Poles as a people—after having incorporated its soldiers with Russian regiments—degraded its nobles to t h e vassalage of Russian serfs—condemned many of them to a life of exile and misery in Siberia, and compelled others to seek refuge in foreign chi ues—will he, we ask, after having 'e duced Poland to ruins, peopled Russia with Pules and Poland with Russian barbarians—listen to the voice of' reason and justice—retrace his steps, and renew the constitution which he had sworn to observe, and which he has so faithlessly broken ? We fear not. He will say that he has subdued the Poles, and that having subdued them, he has a right to treat them as a con quered people ; but although he has, for the moment, subdued them, does any additional right accrue to him of continuing his enormi ties ? Does he stand -excused in the eyes of Europe on that ground, for having forfeited no: only his faith to the treaty of Vienna, but the pledge which he, not long, ago, gave in person to all the European powers, that when he bad ptr. down the insurrection, he would take advantage of his victory to proclaim a general amnesty, and to re-establish Poland according to the stipula rions made in its favour by the Congress of Vienna, and the constitution granted to if. by the Emperor Alexander? Such a pledge mast be fresh in the recollection of our readers. It was mentioned—nay, we may say it was proclaimed—in the French Chamber of DeputaeS, in loud and emphatic terms—it was handed from the Ambassadors of the different Powers, resident at St. Petersburgh, to the differ ent Governments under which they acted, and even repeated to these Governments by the im mediate functionaries of the Emperor—there is, in fact, no shadow of doubt to be entertained of the pledge, be it taken either on the private word of the Emperor or on the more public and recorded document of the treaty of Vienna ; but both have been broken, and, as we have al ready observed, will any remonstrance, short of actual force,—nay, will force itself—compel him to observe them ? The lukewarm friends of Poland say that it is of no use to remonstrate —that it is of no use to go to war—that Po land has been subdued, and that all the efforts of France and England combined would not suffice to re-establish her on her former founda tions. The cravens ! How dare they to speak thus of the gallant people of Poland, and the well-tried courage and firmness, as well as com manding power, by land and by sea, of France and England ? It is true that a great and glorious opportunity has been lost—that the Poles ought to have been assisted when in the full vigour of armament and resistance, and not after they had ben subdued, their best blood shed, and Poland and Poles but a name in Europe ; but while we lament that such should have been the case, we see no reason in it why the grew cause should be despaired of. No. Let but England and France show themselves in the front of the haul?, and all will yet be well. There is no single Power—there is no combi naiion of Powers—capable of resisting them. The Poles are not extinct. They are ready to make battle again, and to fight it to the death. Let them but have the countenance of Europe, and, a farthing to a million, but their present Viceroy and his barbarian horde will be compelled to quit Warsaw as his predecessor did—under the cloud of night, under the guardian Ship of a Polish brigade. Let the English Government be firm and imperative in its demands. It is backed by the HotiSe of Commons, unreformed as it is—it is backed - by the people of all' 'Eng land ; and what, let us ask the Emperor of all the Russias,: will be said of his conduct by an Assembly .composed of the true re presentatives of the people ?—Morning Ad vertiser. A Morning Paper of yesterday contains some farther remarks upon the renewal of the Bank Charter, the opening observations of which we hail Kith considerable satisfaction, because all we ask for in this question is calm and dispassionate inquiry, and this our contemporary in his pre sent observations also claims for it. We have distinctly given our reasons for the opinion we have formed as to the necessity of continuing _ _ the pecuniary dominion of the Bank of England, if we may so express ourselves, over the com mercial and monetary system of the British empire. Those reasons may be right or wrong, but sure we are that they are sufficiently cogent o lead to searching investigation. Whether they have been well put by us we leave to others to pronounce ; but they are based upon the evidence of facts that ought to be scrupu lously attended to in the present inquiry. Let it for one moment be considered how sweep- ing must be the change if a renewal of the Bank Charter do not take place upon the great principle upon which it is at present founded. The commercial relations of this empire are not in a situation to have experiments tried upon them ; and that a change to any ex tent in the present system of the Bank of Englan,d would be a most important one no person who has seriously reflected upon the sub ject can for a moment doubt. Every branch of wholesale trade would be affected by it ; and, in the ultimate working of the change, every retail buyer and seller would have his little pittance, at one time or another, operated upon, for inces sant and oppressive alternations must be the early consequence, at all events, of an abandonment of the present system. With regard to the latter remarks of otir contemporary we cannot say that we have authority to contradict them, because that would be assuming a position that we are not entitled to take up ; but we will unequivo cally assert, and stake our reputation upon it, that there is not one word of truth in the re ported collusion between the Bank of England and the country bankers. Neither directly nor indirectly has any attempt at a conjunction of interests taken place on the part of the Bank, and we state this under the strongest impression of the accuracy of the assertion. We have advo cated the cause of the Bank of England because we sincerely believe it to be the cause of the British public; but we say again and again, in quire, investigate, sift the subject to the bottom, leave not even a minor branch of it unexplored, and it, after deliberate judgment be practised upon it, a balande of evil be found, then abandon the old system, but do not abandon it until that fact be calmly and dispassionately ascertained, and upon that issue we are content to leave this great question.—Morning .Post.. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The demand Inr West India Muscovades waia weady and extensive till yesterday, when the market 4(:-, came languid ; yet where sales were effected they were at very lull market prices, from 6d. and Is. above the prices of last week. This afternoon the market for Muscevades is again firm, and rather higher. The estimated Sides for the week, 3,700 hogsheads and tierces. The refined market, notwithstanding the advance in Raw Sugars, is again 6d. and Is. per cwt. lower, brown Lumps selling at 61s. 6.4. and 655. ; fine goods are in the tame proportion lower and more heavy than the inferior. Molasses, 25, This afternoon the market continues dull, and low goods bare been sold cheaper, large Lumps being offered at 655. at which, however, the merchants do not at present ap pear inclined to purchase, not having as yet received their letters from Hautburgh, per steam-boat, which was ex• pected on Mood• y last. In the fine sorts also there is very little doing ; good small Lumps, however, for melt ing bring high prices. In crashed nothing doing. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—At the India House an Mincing-lane this week : Bengal, 11,500 bags ; fine yel low, 23 , 1 3 4 1. a ria ; damp, 225. and 225. 6d. ; ord. white, 245. 6d. damp, 24.. good white, 255. 6d. and 28s. damp, 245. 6d. and 275. fine white, 28s. 6d. and 30e. and fine yellow, 255. and 275. damp, 23• , . 6d. and 25 , . white,d,am p 2237a5.. 6d, an d an 2 2 5 8 , 5 . . This day's public sale, 1,022 bags Manilla sold at full market prices. 6: d ' Si : msian9i3ll4 a , b 47 3 8 6, B °l m d. at t s o , g g i n::; l _ . MAURITIUS SUGARS.—The purchases of Nauri•iu Sugar this week are above 5,000 higs, at an advance r 1 6J. to Is. per cwt. ; the prices 51... a 578 —This da) . a puhlie sales, 5,169 bags went off steadily at former pricy . FOREIGN Svaan,...There have been no purchases tf ej ; Foreign Sugar by private contract this week. At publie sale 39 barrels 12 cases Para Muscovades sold 235. a 241, for brown and yellow, which were full Market prices.— This day's public sale 430 chests damaged white Havannab Sugar sold very high, 275. a 325. 6d, . COFFEE.-Foreign and East 'O6: Coffees are at full Market prices, the Briti-h Plantation , dacriptions are a shade lower. The purchases by private contr ict consist of about 4,000 bags Foreign and East India, and at public sale 1,000 East India and 700 bags Mocha ; all the low ord. descriptions sold Is. per cwt. higher, the other qualities said at full Market prices. Sumatra 555. a 57 5 ., Batavia 5Ss. a 595. 6 , 1., Java brown 625. 61 rood ord. Cheribon (315., Ceylon 57, , . a 5Ss. 61. Brazil 595. a 635., St. Domingo 60s. and 615., good and fine ord. Jamaica soli 795. a 82s. 64., mid. to good mid. 84s. a 89s. The reports of the sales of Caff...e in Hal:and have given great firmness to this Market. This day's public s Iles 174 casks British Plantation sod at Muliet prices, mid. Jamaica 865., fine mid. 965.; Batavia 60s. ; Sumatra, blacks 565. East India Coff,e is again a shade higher. RUM, BRANDY, and Hor.Lanns.—The Rum Market continues firm ; the nearest quata , ion fur proof Leeward* Is. ; the chief demand is fur strong Jamaica Ruin for limns consumption, of which a large parcel has been sold 34 and 35 over at 3s. In Brandy or Geneva there is little alteration. SILK.—The Market is very flat ; there is nothing at all doing ; prices remain the same as last quoted. Hoes.—The fine weather having succeeded the heavy rain, the accounts from the hop plantations are most fa— vourable; the duty has ri.en to 180,0001. ; the prices of hops in the market are nominal. SALTPETRE.-Saltpetre is higher than on Tuesday, making an advance of is. a i s. Bd. on the prices of last week. COTTON.-The Cotton Market has been very steady ; the accounts this morning from Manchester and Liverpool are very favourable, both for raw Cotton ond also fo,r the manufactured goods. The purchases here this week con- , sist of 500 Bowed, 514. a 6id. ; 20 Bengal, 4841; 1.140 ditto, public sale, 411. a ; 120 Surat, 44-d. a 411 - . ; 60 Madras, 4111. ; 2,730 ditto, public sale, 41. a qd.; 3,500 Surat, pW,lic sale, 4,1. a 5411. RICE.—In Rice there is little alteration. ITEMS', FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow Market continues weady ; yellow candle at 41s. 3d. a 41s. 6(1. The prices of Hemp are little varied ; the alteration in duty has little effect ; it appears to have been anticipated ; there are large purchases reported at St. Petersburgh. In Flax there is no material alteration. • IRISH PROVISIONS.-The Bu ter. Market is very firm, and, owing to a short supply of both Foreign as well as of Irish during the week, somewhat higher prices are looked for, and in some instances obtained. For Bacon landed there is a fair sale at last quoted prices ; and for Hams, Bladder L urd, 13,.ef, and Pork, we have no altera— tion in price or demand to notice. SPICES. —There is little alteration in Spices; Pepper is rather heavy; good Pimento sells at 6d. a. 6P. Isnrco.—The quantity of In•rigo d. dared for the Ent India sale is now about 4,700 chests, and about 7,300 chests altogether are applied for ; this intelligence has given ad— ditional heaviness to the Market, but there are no parcels offeting at any reduction. Tol;Acco.—There have been several saes for Ireland, leaf at and stripts at 51d. ; the home trade is very brisk, the low prices having attracted the attention of the trade; for export there are no sales of any extent reported. TEA.—The delivery continues very good since the sale, but the inquiries in the market are limited to a few Chests of private trade teas, which prove cheap. INDIGO, LAC :DYE. &c.—On Wednesday last, sixty— four chests East India Gum Arabic, sold from 38s. a 535. pretty good quality; 34 chests Lac Dye, Is. a Is. U., all sold, and for such quality certainly rather lower. The inarket for Lac Dye is dun and heavy, notwithstanding the appearance some shot t time since of more business, in consequence of some parcels having changed hands at low rates. Twelve chests Esst India Indigo sold at about pre vious to 31. lower ; they fetched from 3s. 3d. a 4s. ld. in bond, and two chests samples 2s. sd. a 4s. 3d. duty paid ; what trifling business is doing in this article is ra— ther b.low the last East India sale prices. A public sale is already advertised at Liverpool, of the new arrivals, for the beginning of August. The catalogue is now out for 4,060 chests towards the nrxt East India Company's sale; also at public sale a parcel of 2S bags Honduras Cochineal, two hags only of which were good original black, and fetched Ss SA. a Bs. 11.1. per Ili.; the remaining 26 bags were middling to good fair silvers, and sold from 6s. I Id. a 7s. 6 1. per ; 130 tons Honduras Logsvood in bind, sold from Si. 10s. a Si. 15s. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from toe Returns made in the week ending the 26th day of June, 1832, is 28s. 4d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OF HOPS.—June 29. Kent Pocke's 4/ 15i. 5/. 5;. to 41. 15,. lirssex Ditto 104. 51. tls. to 5,, Fssex Ditto 4 1 . 121. sr. es. t 5 . 121. 7 . Os. I 0!. O. to W.. Os. ' tit. Os. sf. Os to. 71. Os. „ 4. Os. 4 11s to 51. ss. :3. 15s. 41. 4s. to 10s. 0/. Os 01. Os. to 0/. Os. OYd Duty laid at 175,0001. PRICE OF OIL. Fhtttham Svco Kent Bags— ussex Ditto Essex Ditto, Rye Oil, brown 921. Os. Refined 0 Llnseed Oil 23 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 10 10 ' , ?ape Cake, per ton - 4 10 Wl-11TEcEi A PM. HAt NlARKEl'.—June 23 Tay 505. Od. to 90i. Od. 0.1. to 130+. Od. ' Od. to 42.. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—June t . 9. Kidneys _ _.—«,..,. 41. O. to 51. Os. per ton. :icotch Reds -,—. - Si. ss. to 5/. 15s. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws —.—... 0/. Os. to 01. Os. ditto. LEATHER. I'er lb. d. to et. English Horse Hides.. 12 14 - Spanish Ditto 14 16 I'er dozen. Calf Skins... 36 to 4003. 15 20 rßicLs Per th. d. to d. Butts, 15 21 Ditto, 15 181 Dressing 12 14 Ditto i 7 18 Ditt ,, , light 1 Ditto *5O to 7111 b. 19 23 Crop .Hides, light 12 131 Ditto 70 to t3olb. 17 19 Ditto 4O to 451 b. 131 141 Small Seals, Greenland 191 19fr 1, .tt0 RAW H 1 DES. Per Stone. s. ff. to s. d. Per Stone. $- d. to 5.d. • Lest Heifers& Stqers2 6 210 Ordinary 1 8 2 C Nthidlings-55.......--2 2 2 4 Market Calf. 6 0 each. ' SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Os. Od. to Og. 01. 1 Lambs Is. 01 to 9.5.2ds Shearlings-- Os. Ott. to Os. 84. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sre. per 112 lb.• Town Tallow 445. Od. Yellow 60s. Od. Yellow Russia,. 43s. Od. . .725. Od. 428. fid. White. 74g. Od. Scup Di 41s. 6d. Graves 14s. Od. Melted Stuff .345. Od. Good Graves ss. Od. Ditto Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters).—.:—.4s. sd. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in t Candles, per doz. 7s. lki. to Bs. Od. C A NPLES. he retail shops, is as follows :-- . I Moulds, per dozen--9s. Ad. • C`PAL MAR Per Ton. s. d. Adair's 18 0 Garesfield 16 0 Holywell 17 6 Ord's Redhugh 16 6 Pitt's South Moor-- 15 9 rontop Windsor -- 15 61 Shipcote 16 6 South Holywell 15 6 Lan ti cid 111 6 Pownley Walls End Callerton 16 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co._ 19 3 Waslls End Carr and Co. 17 0 Dit'n Clarke and Co.—. 17 0 Walls End G05f0rth......... 19 6 Walls End 19 3 Walls End Hotspur...... 18 0 Ditto 15 0 Ships arrived sine, :ET.—June 29 Walls a End E n P d e r t4 H Tom, Walls 1 8 g d. 63 Ditto Northumberland.. 18 0 Ditto Todd and Watson.. 18 ti Walls End Helton 20 9 Walls End Lambton 20 9 Walls End Stewart's 20 9 Walls End Adelaide 18 Wal!s End Te es 20 .0 Walls End Elgin 16 1 0 Halbeah— 15 6 Llangennech 26 6 New Flockton Milne, n and Co. 1 7 Silkstone Holmes ' g Walls End Selby Greenwich H05pita1...,... 15 Adelaide Nuts, 5ma11.... 4 13 1 ' last market-day, 8. COUN IRY CORN MARK ET:3 DURING THE WEEK• 1 Barley. I Oats.... Bea ns ' Quarter. Per, Wheat ' , ,---- I , Ashliurn.....;.--..' 62 66 —.— 22 27 38 A 442 Bisingstoke"---.1 56 74 '26 35 20 25 4 0 - ' - A a ; B tlt ............_„„.......... 1 46 C 3 30 42 22 28 ,3,2 Bridgewater ..........„. 54 70 26 29 22 26 ‘-- 36 8ri5t01.....,. 56 60 34 39 20 23 36 4 43 Chcstertielt.! ....--. 5S 64 21 26 36 Zit Derly .....—......... 60 67 :30 33 22 27 36 40 Devizes ..-- 66 70 30 38 22 27 39 Doncaster 0 68 ..... _ 17 25 40 44 Dorchester-- 56 64 30 33 10 23 338 42 Exeter.........._....,„, 61 66 26 38 19 26 . n.-, 46 is Glotteester, 52 66 26 38 18 2. , ••,,, -- 28 34 44 Hungerford --.. ... 48 72 28 3 2° 23 3 1 Leicester..., . 63 '''' 34 20 32 38 g Kewbury 43 75 2 7 Romsey ._ . . 56 titi 30 37 36 21 27 —. 4 ', Shaftesbury —.......— 5 6 " 42 Sheitton Mallet 56 62 32 3 2 0 26 36 40 Sherhortie— 56 62 32 36 21 24 36 :... 72 -- 35 20 38 faunton---- 5846 Yeovil , 52 66 34 43 20 26 36 .d. Per Bushel. ;.d. s. d. s. cf. s. d. s. d. s. d. 4. d. -.. 60 p 0 0 Shrewsbury —..... 9 0 9 8 5 4 5 6 5 _o___ MARRIED. On the Sth inst. at St. Pancras Church, by the Ha•inam, Thomas Trevitt Slack, Esq. of Hendon, Min. Hester Clulow, eldest daughter of Edward Orme, Esq. roy-square. Rev. F"F P. tdiesof eFi tz - • DIED.. On the 29th inst. Sir James Macdonald, of Woohoer-lodge' in the county of Hants, Bart. On Ihe 29th inst. in Connaught-place, Joseph Graham. only son O of Godfrey Molting, Esq. aged 12. th, On the Aith inst. in Stonehouse, Devonport, D. Srni On the 24th inst. at Plymouth, of apoplexy, Walter Esq. of that place, in the 53d year of his age. PRINTED AND PUDLISDED DV MURD O YOUNG/ATI ..• " SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON*