The Sun. — London, England, 1832-03-27 00:00:00

points horn the former the pr,nciple of the Bill WaS not Reform ; it Wet disfranchisement, enfranchisement, the placing of ttre right of voting on a different footing, dianging the %undation of the represetvation, and when .tcoropanicd, as it would be, with other Bills, producing a complete revolution." The efficiency of the Bill is its mrrit in the eyes of Vett! Grey, while its efficiency constitutes the objection to it of Lords Harrowby and Whartre.lite. If the Bill make the Howe: of Commons responsi ble to the people, it will be efficient ; Lords liar rowley and Whareliffe wish s nominal responsibility anti a real irresponsibility. The differen..--tre_ There foie, between Earl Grey and them its Anything but immaterial. But there is still a Wider difference be tween them and the Duke of Wellington. His Grace conceives the opinion of the people ef the country with respeetto their Governments light to go for nothing. He knows better than they can know what sort of Government tlsey ought to hove, and their wish ought to go for nothing, when it does not receive his approbation. Now, Lords Harrowily and Wharncliffe dislike Reform, hut they do net see how, with a population bent on Reform, it can possibly be withheld. Wishing to preserve Parliament essen tially irresponsible, they yet dare not lay down the principle that civil strife ought to be hazarded for the sake of opposing a measure sealed by thr national approbation. They cannot resist the people, and they will try if they can rescue A few of the frag mews ef corruption from the impendin g destruction. In short, the difference betwe e n th e Noble Lords and the Duke of Wellington is just the difference between force and stratagem. The Bill will of course be read a second time, because the out-and out Anti-Reformers must now be greatly reduced in number. But the opponents of Reform in the House, as at present constituted, outnumbering the real Reformers, the warfare in the Committee will be much more rigorously tarried on than in the Commons. The great problem to be solved by the trimmers is what is the least possible amount of Reform which the Commons will be satisfied with. The people of England must neither slumber nor sleep. Their enemies are astute, and versed in the practice of deluding by the means of keeping the promise to the ear and not to the sense. Their candour and apparent submission to the unanimity . of the people must not throw them off their guard. At a time when there were a few symptoms of change in the public mind as at present, Lord Wharncliffe insisted that a change had taken place. This is no longer the tactics. But we must not halloo till we are out of the wood. Men are often farthest from the port when they think they are nearest to it. We do not mean to say that the symptoms are not favourable. Still we say, Be ware I .—Morning Chronicle. The reception of the Reform Hill by the Peers, fast night, was not very different from what many people had expected. A declaration watt made by Lord Harrowby, that there were new provisions in the present Bill which he considered improvements upon the last; that, however, much of it was still of such " a democratical tendency," and, if enacted into a law, would prove, in his opinion, so dange rous to our institutions, that he did not conceive the possibility of his ever being able to support it. Lord Harrowby added, what must have cost him a painful struggle, and the confession is, therefore, honourable to his Lordship's candour, viz., that after all the time allowed to the people of the United Kingdom for a sober consideration of the subject, owing to the rejection of the former Bill, he, Lord Ilirrowby, felt himself bound to acknowledge that the public eagerness to see the principles of the measure brought into active operation had in no degree subsided, and that a material change in our representative system was altogether un avoidable. His Lordship announced his full inten tion to vote for the second reading. Lord Wham cliffe spoke pretty much in the same sense. He ad mitted, that in their rejection of the former Bill, on the second reading, the 'House of Lords had not been supported by any party in the country—that be therefore would not atfempt to repeat the same experiment, but would vote for the Bill going into Committee. It was, however, sufficiently obvious, from the tone of both these noble Lords, that the most resolute and uncompromising resistance will be made by them to tho-e provisions of the Bill to which the country generally has attached the highest value and importance; and that if, in any Ministerial quarter, a credulous hope of a majoriry for reform in the Lords' Committee should be founded on "ghat fell from either of the above Noblemen, res pectiug their desire to mollify the national irritation on the second reading, such a delusion can led to no other than the most disastrous consequences. The Bishop of London, so far as could be inferred from general expressions, will go a step further than Lords Harrowby and Wharncliffe towards satisfying the public wishes. The Learned Prelate stated not merely his belief, had not domestic circumstances compelled him to be absent from the second reading of the former Bill, that he would have voted for ir, but his determination to admit the present measure into Committee, and there to abstain front promo ting any such changes as may endanger their rejec tion when sent back for acceptance by the House of Commons. This at least is something gained, though but an individual vote. As for Lord Csr tiarvon, his anger at what he considered the incon sistency of Lcrd Harrowby, appeared to blind the Noble Earl to every difference between the framing of the present 8.11 and of its predecessor. The Duke of Wellington evinced an unimpaired appe tite for the destruction of the Bill, which accord ingly his Grace, if not interrupted, will devour on the second reading. Indeed, we regretted to hear the Duke of Wellington repeat his original de scription of Lord Grey's Reform principle, as one under which it would be " impossible to govern the country ;" because it looks as if this great Com mander did nut contemplate the people of England as a free people, or our Government as one wherein the nation ought to exercise any power at all. Un doubtedly, if a Government approaches to perfection directly as it recoils from any intermixture of popular right, then the Reform Bill is a most inconvenient and pernicious measure; but tastes are various in matters of civil policy, arid the bulk of Englishmen arc of opinion that the most difficult of all Govern ments to conduct in this country at the present mo ment, would be one which excluded the people from all controul over its functionaries. The Duke of Wel lington ended his short address by stating that if the Bill should pass the second reading, he would assist, by his most diligent efforts, in endeavouring so to modify amid correct it as to render it more practically useful. We doubt not his Grace's good intentions ; but really, with his declared views upon Reform, we are more disposed to look upon his language as a . warning, than an encouragement to Lord Grey. The Prime Minister wai.ed with becoming patience until other Noble Lords should deliver their senti ments upon this preliminary stage of the proceeding. He then, with mingled courtesy arid firmness, as sured the Opposition Peers of his readiness to listen to all their suggestions, and to give full weight to all such proposals as should not, by their adoption, involve him in the necessity of abandoning the great principles of the Bill as now understood, accepted, and cherished by the country. But from these Earl Grey once more pledged himself that nothing should induce hint to depart. Well, then, we are well sa ti•fied with this assurance from a gentleman to whom no broken promise has ever in the course of a long public life been imputed; and we fix our eyes on such a constitutional modification of the Peerage as shall calm the anxiety of the English na tion, respecting any wt.-constitutional encroachment on the forthcoming charter of 1832.—Tim's. The Reform Bill has at length landed—we wish we could say safely landed—in the House of Lords. But though we cannot go so far as to pronounce it secure, we may affirm that its reception was at tended with circumstances which augur favourably of its result. The circumstances. to which we al lude are the declarations of Lords Harrowhy and Wharncliffe and the Bishop of London, that they would vote for the second reading, with the in tention of proposing such modifications in the Com mittee as they considered necessary to the improve meet of th erreasurc. We used not inform our readers that a general impression has for some time prevailed, the recollection of which must nave so far prepared the public for what hae, now hfppened as to prevent any thing like surprise bein g f e l t on .he oceaeiene tt is but justice, hoWever, to these Note!e.:men to admit that they e'e.preesed themselves with a manly franknees both as to the change which had taken ;,pace in their opinions, and as to thecoeret which it is theirintention to porsoe: Those w7io give them credit for sincerity-e - -as we not only do, but shall continee t - 5 do, until we see good reason for the orreeery—may look forward to the passing of the Bill unimpaired in its principles, and consequently uninjured in any of its leading provi sions. Those who refuse them such credit may tremble for the fate of the Pit!, hot they must first suspect their Lordehlt,:t not only of the duplicity which hat bee`e. prematurely charged against them seeeee of our contemporaries, but of more undis guised falsehood than is either necessary or jud'cious in the management of plots, which are always better done by being conducted with some regard to repu tation. Though Lord Harrowby alluded to the pos sibility of rejecting on the third reading what they agreed to on the second, his Lordship was sufficiently explicit in his description of the favourable changes in the present Pil!, and, above all, in his admission of the impertance of consulting public opinion with respect to it, to warrant any inference to the dis advantage of his Lordship's sincerity. " When he supported the rejection, or rather the post ponement of the Bill for six months, he hoped that the arguments, which appeared to him and to their Lordships so convincing against the Bill, would have a considerable influence on the feelings of the country. They had not prevailed to the extent which he desired, lie was compelled to admit." How different in this language from the tone of those prattlers in the other House who either de nied that a change in public opinion had taken place, or that it ought to have any influence with the Le gislature if it had ? The speech of Lord Warn• cliffe was equally satisfactory. After declaring that he would not again refuse to give a consideration to the Bill sent up from the Commons, his Lordship added " that the principles of this Bill, if they looked into them, were the only ones, in some degree, in which any change in the representation of the people in the other House of Parliament could be founded." The Bishop of London went still farther. He declared that he would have voted for the second reading, even of the former Bill, which he considered much more objectionable than the present, had he not been prevented by particular circumstances from attending. In conclusion, the Right Rev. Prelate declared that " it was not his wish to alter the Bill in such a degree as to render probable its rejection in another place." These, we r peat, were circumstances so favourable in an impartial view of the case as to justify strong hopes of ultimate success : for although Eall Grey, in the jealousy natural to a man who is deeply pledged to the integrity of a particular measure, may have his doubts as to the agreement of the Noble Lords in his views, it is scarcely possible to suppose that they will endeavour to defeat the principles of the 8.11 after such statements as they have made, and any concessions shcrr of that his Lordship ought gladly to recognise. It is true there are other and great dangers still hanging over the measure in the oppo sition of such men as the Duke of Wellington and Lord Eldon, the venerable patron of all old griev ances. Still, however, the hold which the country has taken of the measure cannot be easily relaxed ; and though Lord Caernar von, once a Reformer, and Lord Eldon, never a Reformer, and never likely to be one, tinder any circumstances, fold themselves voting on the same side of a Reform question, the public have shown more consistency—and eventually their consistency will ensure their succets.—Morn ing Herald. It is almost unnecessary to point the attention of our readers to t) e rec ption which the Reform Bill met last night in the House of Lords; for to that matter the attention of every friend of Reform will be directed—hut it is only justice to the cause which we have invariably advocated to note that it is now apparent, beyond ail possibility of doubt, that a great number of new Peers must he created, and that the Reform Bill will never pass into a law, unless such a creation be made. The utmost extent of the con cess'one of the Wharncliffe and Harrowby parry is ro allow the Bill to be read a second time—in the Committee it is their determination to mutilate ir, or as they are pleased to say, to modify it—and if riot altered in the Committee—that is to say, if not destroyed—to oppose it in every other stage! We thank the Noble Lords for their honest confessions —it is now for Lord Grey to exhibit an equally honest and efficient practice.—ellerning Advertiser. The Reform Bill was yesterday carried up to the House of Lords, on which occasion Lords Harrowby and Wharncliffe fulfilled the hopes of their enemies and the fears of their friends, by declaring respec tively their intention to vote for the second reading of that revolutionary and destructive measure, for such they acknowledged that they still considered it to be. Till we had the avowal from their own mouths we could never have believed that these Noble Lords would finally determine on a course so utterly irreconcileahle with their former professions and conduct. Till this moment, had we been de sired to point out two Members of the House who, judging from their former declarations on the subject, might be most firmly relied on as opponents to the principle and essence of the Minis terial Bill, those two would have been Lords Har rowby and Wharncliffe; for their strongest argu ment on the occasion of the former discussion was directly pointed against the very line of policy they have now adopted. The 'Twits adduced by these Noble Lords for their change" of conduct will in no degree lessen the surprise or regret with which that change will be contemplated. They assert, firstly, that the present measure is less objectionable than its predecessor; and secondly that the desire of the people to see it carried into a law remains undimi nished. It is not easy to accommodate these two as sumptions, fur if the measure has undergone such al terations as are accordant with the views of its former opponents, we should imagine that, from the same cause, it would be less favourably viewed by its for mer supporters. One or other of these parties is therefore liable to the charge of inconsistency, and we think there can be little doubt to which of the two such a charge applies. The authors of the measure declare that it is " as efficient" as the last ; they pledged themselves that it should be so, and they have more than redeemed their promise. Lord Harrowby, in dwelling on the changes in schedules B and D, the combining taxation with population, and the preservation of the rights of freemen, variations which in no degree palliate the general injustice and ruinous tendency of the pro ject—wholly omitted to notice in his list of im provements that it is now no longer required of an elector that he should inhabit the same house during so much as a fortnight together, that lie should be assessed to the poor -rates, or that he should be capable of paying his landlord's rent. The real change effected in the present Bill is one by which property of every description will be more com pletely prostrated before numbers, and the legis lative power of the State more firmly secured in the hands of the lowest and vilest of the com munity. With regard to the second point, we fully concede to Lord Harrowby that, among the classes we have just alluded to, as ardent a desire as ever exists for " Reform." If he refer to them we leave him the full benefit of his position. If, on the other hand, he refer to the respectability, the wealth, the literary and professional talent of the country, we think no man of discrimination, who has given attention to the subject, will say that the statement is borne out by fact. Every day's ex perience strengthens our conv i ct i on t h at t h e great majority of these classes, are decidedly hostile to the Ministerial Reform scheme, and view it with distrust and alarm. Indeed Lord Harrowby and Lord Wharncliffe are themselves of this number. They both declare that the measure in its present shape will not have their concurrence, and this they say though its authors and supporters (4 all grades, ab they are well aware, have proclaimed 1 hat any clipping of the schedules or abridgment of the proposed right of voting will be considered equi valent Co a rejection. Would it not therefore be more honourable, more manly, and more safe, at once to put a veto upon the Bill, than to support it on one particular stage, fer the express and avowed purpose of snbsequewly adopting a course which, in either case, whether the attempted amendments be successful or unsuccessful, must lead to its ultimate destruction ? But Lords Harrowby and Wham cliffe having committed themselves by their declara tions of last night, let us hope that their Noble Col leagues will sill save them from the odium which would inevitably attach to so devious and incon sistent a line of conduct as they have proposed for themselves. The Bishop of London also announced his intention to vote for the Bill. The speeches of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Carnarvon emi nently deserve attention.—Moriting Post. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTI7, MAitcrr 24.—The Netley, tender to his Majesty's ship San Josef, arrived on the 17th instant from Plymouth, and returned to that port on Wednesday. His Majesty's gun•brig Onyx, 10, Lieut. A. B. Howe, sailed on Tuesday for Cork. His Majesty's ship Talavera, 74, Captain T. Brown, arrived on Thursday from Sheerness, last from the Downs, Ind report says, she will shortly sail for the Western Islands, for the protection of British inte•ests, during th e present unsettled statue of affairs there. She sailed from Sheerness on Sunday last. His Majesty's ship Britannia, 120, Captain P. Rainier, C. 8., went out of harbour and anchored at Spithead on Monday, and is expeet..d to proceed in a few days on a short experimental cruise. Many absurd rumours respect• ing her destination are in circulation, amoog the number, that she is to proceed forthwith with troops to Jamaica, but we understand that this service will be performed by the Jupiter and Romney troop ships, ordered to be fitted out at Plymouth. His ;Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, Captain G. Burdett, was paid off into ordinary on Friday. The Emerald, tender to the Royal George yacht, hre come into harbour for the better repair of some defects. The Lady Harewood, rile convict ship, which sailed on the 15th inst. from this port for New South Wales, with 200 convicts on board, under the medical superintendency of Dr. Inches, put back on Tuesday in consequence of foul wind. She will proceed for her destination the moment the wind is fair. The Recovery, tranqport, Lieut. Brady, agent, arrived on Tuesday from the West Indies with the head-quarters of the 35th Regiment, under the command of Lieu ..-Col. George Toulon ; she brought passengers—Captain Gor don, of the Ist Royals ; Lieut. Montgomery, of the 36th Foot ; and Mrs. Mallett, widow of the late Colonel Mal letr, of the 86th Foot. The troops were disembarked on Thursday, at Gosport, and proceeded to Forton barracks. The Nereid, frright ship, Capt. Jay; arrived on Friday to receive on hoard Ordnance stores for Gibraltar. The Arab, transport, Lieut. Harris, agent, will proceed to Cowes this day to receive on board the 82nd Regiment, - under the command of Lieut.-Col. Wte. Balfour, for con veyance to Leith. The Neva, transport, Lieutenant Adamson, agent, was spoken on the 7th instant. by the Atlas, from the Mm ritius, i❑ latitude 35.54 N., longitude, 34.50 W. The Atlas supplied her with pro%isions, and the Neva pro ceeded with the intention of calling at Terceira for a fur ther supply. At Spithead—B itanni t and Tal avera. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, and Confiance, steam-vessel. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Os borne Foley is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia. [This appointment has been announced in anticipation, a month ago, but it has only now taken place.] Lieut. Josiah Thompson is appointed to his Majesty's gun-brig Brisk, vice Butterfield, promoted.—Mr. J. Morrison, As sistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's packet brig Pigeon, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Conway.—Mr. James Lambert, late Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Wellesley, is appointed to the Pigeon, vice Morrison.— Commanders Wm. Hen. Haswell, Henry Bolton, Francis D. Hutcheson, and E. R. P. Mainwaring, are appointed to the Coast Guard in Ireland.—Lieut. John Mc. Clin tech Clive is appointed to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent. —Lieut. R. N. Kelly of the Kent Coast Guard, is ap pointed to Locharbour.—Lieut. It C. Oster, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ocean, Flag Ship at Sheerness.— Mr. Charles Martelli, Mate, is appointed to the same ship.—Mr. Wm. Dunn is appointed Clerk to his Ma jesty's ship Rattlesnake. The following Midshipmen have been found duly quali fied in n avigation to serve as Lieutenants in the Rsyal Navy, viz Mr. W. Greet, late of his Majesty's ship Ocean; 3lr. W. T. Newenham, late of his Majesty's ship Gloucester. On Monday, Sir W. Burnett, Cannmissioner for Naval Affairs, made his visitation atthe Royal Hospital at Haslar, and on the following day he visited his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, the Dock-yard, and the Royal Marine Infirmary. There was no case in either in the slightest degree resem• bling cholera. When the Bill for the Consolidation of the Admiralty, Navy, and 'Victualling Boards, should have passed. it is confidently reported that a material alteration will take place in the Naval uniform. The junior Officers, we hear, will have red facings and cuffs. We understand that the quantity of timber required for the building of the Vernon, at Woolwich, has been sup. pli d from other yards. Every practicable despatch is being used in expediting the building of this ship ; between two and three hundred shipwrights, besides blacksmiths and others, are almost exclusively employed on her. A method of deducing the longitude from the moon's right ascension, by Mr. Thomas Kerigan, Purser of the Royal Navy, and author of several works on navigation and nautical stronomy, communicated to the Society by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C. 8., was read before the Royal Society on the 15th inst. The South Sand Head Light Vessel, which the late heavy gale had driven into the Downs, has been remoored at its former station near the Goodwin Sands. We have t eceived letters from his Majesty's ship Pelorus, 18, Commander Richard Meredith, dated Teneriffe, Jan 18th, 1832, by which we learn that she ar rived at Teneriffe after a fortnight's passage from England. It will be recollected she sailed from this port on the 2nd of January, for the Cape and African station, via the river Gambia, with despatches for Rear. Admiral Warren, C.B. On her passage out, she entered a strong westerly gale for several days in the Bay of Biscay, during which she lost her jolly boat. His Majesty's ship atna, 6, sur veying vessel, Commander Ed. Belcher, and Raven, 4, surveying vessel, Lieutenant William Arlett, were found lying at Teneriffe, performing quarantine, when the Pelorus arrived there. The latter ship was also ordered to perform quarantine for twenty days, but she was about to sail on the following day (Jan. 19th) for the Gambia, after having taken on bawd a supply of water and wine. The inhabitants of Teneriffe are represented as being much alarmed about the cholera. His Majesty's ship Isis, 50, Captain J. Polkinghorn, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad miral Frederick Warren, and Charybdis, 3, Lieutenaut R. B. Crawford, had touched at the Island a few days pre viously on their way to the Gambit, hut on being ordered to perform quarantine, she only remained there a few hours. The Pluto, strain-vessel, Lieutenant Geo. Buchanan, had not touched at Teneriffe; she intended to proceed from Gibraltar direct to the Gambia to join the Admiral. The ship Abercrombie, Captain Inn: s, which put into St. Helens last week from London, bound to Bombay and Cl,inr, on board which ship a suspected case of cholera had been discovered, and she was in consequence placed under quarantine, sailed on Tuesday last with a fine wind at north. The pilot-boat, with the bomboat-woman and others, who had had communication with the ship, went to the Motherbank, but have all been since released from restraint by a special Order in Council. Nearly one hundred vessels from London, Sunderland, Newcastle, and other places in the North of England, at which the cholera is supposed to prevail, have arrived and been carefully examined at the Motherbank, but we are happy to say not one suspicious case has been discovered to p;evail on board. An Order in Council, dated the 17th inst. has been re ceived at the Custom. house of this port, directing that, in the event of any person dying or being affected with symptoms of cholera, OR board any vessel or b oat sa ili ng from any British port , a t the time of, or subsequently to, her leaving her port of lading, the mastet or other person in charge shall cause a yellow flag to be kept hoisted, and shall not himself leave his vessel, or permit any other per son to do so, or to have any communication with any other vessel, or with the shore, until the said vessel shall have ben duly examined by the proper officers of Cus toms, and regularly released, or ordered to a quarantine station, as the case may be. A second order, of the same date, directs that clean bills of health may be given at all the out-ports, ten days after the last case of cholera shall have been declared convalescent ; and a third order, also of the same date, directs that all vessels, arriving from fo reign ports with enumerated articles, must be furnished with the necessary certificate or declaration, to prove that the said articles were not the produce or manufacture of Turkey, or, in the absence of such certificate or declaration, they will be subjected to quarantine. Ilis Majesty's 'ship Ganges baying been paid off on Friday, at this port, her detachment of Royal Marines, under the command of Captain Timpron, disembarked in the morning, and joined head-quitters ; and the ruda-com inissioned officers and man belonging to the Woolwich and Chatham divisions marched for their respective divi &ions on the following moil-ling, under the command of First Lieutenant Skinner, of tile latter division. BYRONIANA. Mr. Moore has a poetical way of glossing over a murder. The great uncle of Lord Byron had stabbed a man in the dark with great atroci'y and cowardice. Mr. Moore says he was tried for kil ling his relation "in a duel, or rather scuffle." In another place he calls it an " unfortunate affray." And he relates with applause Lord Byron when a boy inflicting on another " a hearty beating"—" for he was a Byron and would never belie his motto." All this we suppose is consistent with the piety of the poer!e temperament to which Mr. Moore so perpetually recurs. A lady once remarked to Lord Byron that she thought he had a little of the Scotch accent. " Good God! I hope not," he exclaimed, " I am sure I haven't, I would rather the whole -- country were sunk in the sea. I the Scotch accent indeed." It is to be regretted that Mr. Moore in his "Life of Byron," when he relates an act of atrocious cruelty at Harrow school, did not take the oppor tunity of reprobating the fagging, and other barbar ous customs of our public schools. So violent were the scenes between Lord Byron and his mother, whom he called his Hydra, that on one occasion each was known to go privately that night to the apothecaries enquiring anxiously whether the other had been to purchase poison. " Apropos, sorry to say have been drunk every day, and not quite sober yet—however, touch no meat ; nothing but fish, soup, and vegetables,conse quently it does me no harm—sad dogs, all the Cantabs."—Lord Byron's Journal. According to " Moore's Life of Byron," Cam bridge University at this period was the reverse of being exempt from drunkenness and atheism. " Were rr asoning, eloquence, or virtue the objects of my search, Granta is not their Metropolis, nor is the place of her situation an El Dorado, far less an Utopia. The intellects of her children are as stag nant as her Cam, and their pursuits limited to the church—not of Christ, hut of the nearest bene fice." The utter contempt or abhorrence which our great geniuses have had of a University education is very memorable. Witness the sentiments of Milton, Gray, Gibbon, Locke, Dryden, Cowley, Ad dison, Cowper, &c. &c. Swift, Goldsmith, and Churchill, had been pronounced dunces at college, whilst Shakspeare, Pope, Ciray, Thomson, Burns, Chatterton, and a host of geniuses, had not the ad vantage or disadvantage of a collegiate education. Lord Byron, speaking of his entrance into the Uni versity of Cambridge, says, " though my tempera ment was naturally burning, I could not share in the common-place libertinism of the place and time without disgust." This is passing strange, if we consider that the clergy are absolute monarchs of the seminaries. In another place, Lnrd Byron says, " Alma Mater was to me injusta Noverea ; and the old Beldam gave me my A.M. degree, because she could not avoid it." Mr. Moore in his life of Byron, has taken upon himself the responsibility of many omissions and cur tailments, beyond, we believe, what any man can approve of. He has dwelt much upon Mr. Dallas's inducing Lord Byron to suppress his imitations of Horace, but was not the biographer aware that Mr. Dallas had much greater difficulty in persuading the noble poet to suppress a poem in imitation of the sec Lind Eclogue of Virgil, a poem which Mr. Dallas was obliged to acknowledge full of excellent poetry, misapplied Lord Byron, when he was entering upon the world, and but little known to the aristocracy, in troduced to his friends au object of his attachment, whom he had dressed in boy's clothes, and passed off as his younger brother. The disguise was at length suspected by Lady P., who met " this younger brother," taking his usual ride on horseback at Brighton. Determined to discover the truth, she accosted him—" What a pretty horse that is you are riding,"—" Yes, ma'm, it is, and my brother is the gentleman what gave it me." The expose was complete, and Lord Byron's rage may be easily imagined. Lord Byron's reply to a comparison between him self and Rousseau—" He wrote prose, I verse; he was of the people, I was of the aristocracy; he was a philosopher, I am none; he published his first work at 40, I mine at 18; his first essay brought him universal applause, mine the contrary ; he mar ried his housekeeper, I could not keep house with my wife; he thought all the world in a plot against him, my little world seems to think me in a plot agaitht it ; he liked botany, I like flowers, herbs, and trees, but know nothing of their pedigree; he wrote music, 1 can only catch it by ear ; I never could learn anything by study, he had a bad me mory, 1 had an excellent one ; he wrote with hesi tation and care, I with rapidity, and rarely with paints; he could never ride nor swim, nor was cun ning of fence, I am an excellent swimmer, a decent rider, and was sufficient of fence, nor a bad boxer, when I could keep my temper, which was difficult, but which I strove to do ever since I knocked down Mr. P. with the gloves on, and put his knee pan out—but Rousseau was a great man, and the com parison, if true, would be fl rttering enough to me." Gifford's story of the Irish gentleman, who re quested him in his second edition of " the Baviad," to change " C—'s drowsy jest" to C—'s lively jest, resembles a change in Byron's " English Bards." The line " I leave topography to coxcomb Gen," was changed, upon his acquaintance with Sir W. Gell, to I leave topography to classic Gell ;" and upon his acquaintance with the scene of Sir William's travels, the lise was again changed to I leave topography to rapid GelL Rapid, indeed, he typographised, and typographised Priam's dominions in three days. " The mode of h's life, at Newstead, was simple and unexpensive." Mr. Moore's notions of a " sim ple" life are very poetic il, and full of the poetic temperament from which religion is separable. An inmate of Newstead, after alluding to the drunken revels and debaucheries, thus describes this "sim ple life :"—" Our average hour of rising was one; it was frequently past two before the breakfast party broke up. Then for the amusements of the morning, there was reading, fencing, single stick, or shut the cock in the great room, practising with pistols in the hall, walking, riding, cricket, sailing on the lake, playing with the hear, or teasing the wolf. Between seven and eight we dined, and our evening lasted till one, two, or three in the morn ing. The evening diversions may be easily con ceived. I must not omit the custom of handing round the human skull, filled with Burgundy. This skull Mr. Moore calls " a sort of boyish (query brutal) mimicry"—" by no means an inelegant object"—" an interesting relic."—The consequences of this simple and unexpensive life soon appear.— " As to money matters," says Lord Byron, " I am ruined, at least till Rochdale is sold," &c.—So much for a simple life. AN TIT lasts. Lord Byron was a good deal weakened and thinned. Standing one day before a looking glass, Ise said, " I should like to die of a consumption, because the women would say, Look at poor Byron, how interestiug he looks in dying." Let the reader reflect that this was said to the Marquis of Sligo, and if he kno qs the person of the Marquis, he will see through the quiz. (TO EL CONTINUED.) The murder of Mr. Potts in the colliery, ap pears to be a part of the system of extermination which is in such active operation. A man from the colliery was asked, " Why was he murdered ?" when he repljed—" He was a devil of a Lutheran, and we sent him to the devil !! !"—A thy 0,,-revondevr. CARMAnTFIgN MAGISTRATES, (From the Welshman.) The following report of Magisterial proceedings is pre suite] to our readers without any addition or embellish. ment whatever On Monday last the Editor of the Welshman attended, by appointment, at the Mayor's Court, 'in this town, for the purpose of preferring a complaint against a constable. The Magistrates present were Captain Edwardes, the Mayor's locum tenens, Grismond Philips, Esq. and Charles Morgan, Esq. Clerk of the Peace. On com plainant appearing, be was sworn, a proceeding, though perhaps very correct ; yet, not usual we believe in similar cases. He then stated, that, on Saturday last, said e , n stable met complainant in a street, in Carmarthen, and followed him a considerable distance, addressing him in language the most grossly insulting and abusive—that the conduct of the constable caused a concourse of persons to assemble, by whom complainant was surrounded, that he was compelled to take refuge in a shop, and to remain there until the departure of the constable caused the mob to disperse—that complainant told constable that he would procure his dismissal from his situation, to which constable replied, that it was not in Me power of complainant to do so. The constable admitted the facts unhesitatingly, and advanced nothing whatever in extenuation of his conduct. The Magistrates' chamber was then ordered to be cleared, and at our return Capt. Edwardes addressed the constable as follows: We have maturely considered the charges brought by this gentleman against you, and we agree in thinking your conduct highly improper—and we therefore require of you to make a suitable apology to the gentleman. After a pause, " Will you make an apology ?" After a ioecond pause, " Are you sorry for our conduct to this gentleman ?" Con stable, " I am, Sir." Capt. EDWAROES then turning to complainant said, " Thee now, Sir." Complainant—" There now, Sir 1" Allow me to ask you, Sir, in sober seriousness, if this be the nature and amount of the redress I am to receive at your hands ; and if this be the notice you take of the insolence of your servant? Capt. EnwaanEs—l do not know what mote we can do. We certainly think his conduct highly improper, very incorrect, and unbecoming, and this is the decision to which we have come, after mature deliberation. I really do not know whether we posses the power to dis miss him, besides the charge is a very slight offence. Compldinant—lf this be a very alight offence in a con stable, I should be glad to know what is a great one ? I wish to ask Mr. Morgan a question—" Pray, Sir, was this constable ever a servant of your's ?" Mr. PHILIPS—No; he never was Mr. Morgan's servant. Complainant—l address myself to Mr. Morgan himself, Sir ; not to you. Mr. MORGAN—You are put up to ask me that ques tion, I see a person whispering you. He never was a covenanted servant of mine; he was only a groom. Complainant—And you dismissed him for good con duct, I presume? Mr. MORGA N—NO, for very bad conduct. Ile treated my horses badly: he was a great scoundrel. But I want to know, Sir, do you mean that I lean to him on that account? Complainant—Sorely, Slr, you cannot imagine that I would insinuate that you were influenced by any motives inconsistent with the important duties you sit here to dis charge ; every one present is too sensibly impressed with the justice and equity of your decision here this day, to entertain such in opinion. I now declare my determi nation of seeking redress in another quarter, and °flu ing ing the proceedings of this day before a tribunal, to which not only the constable, but his master also is amenable. Captain EDWARDES—A have already stated my opinion of the constable's conduct, and I again declare, that nn the very next charge of this kind I will dismiss him. Here another respectable inhabitant of the town came forward, and addressing the Court, said " I have a charge to make against this same constable." Mr. PDILIFS—Oh ! we have not come here for the purpose of attending to such matters. Captain EDWARDES—Something I suppose that oc curred long since. _ _ Complainant—No, Sir, last week, in this Hall, whe❑ the Judge was presiding. One of the Magistrates, our reporter is not certain which, replied, " We cannot take cognizance of what oc curred i❑ a superior Court. Mr. PHILIPS-This is downright persecution ; we must protect the constables. First complainant—Yes, and no matter about the in habitants. Complainant then left the office. PORTUGAL. The following is a brief abstract of the prin cipal events which have taken place in Portugal since the Revolution of 1820 up to 1832 : . . Aut. 21, 1820—The first Revolution broke out at Oporto, headed by Senhor M. F. Thotnaz. OCT. 1, 1822—The Constitution decreed by the Con stituted Cortes is sworn to by King John VI. MARCH, 1823—Generals da Silveira (Marquis de Chaves) and Count de Villa Real organise in the province of Tras.las.Montes a partial insurrection to re-establish absolute power. They were driven from Portugal into Spain. MAY 27—Colonel Satnpair (Viscount of Santa. Msrtha) leaves Lisbon for Santarem with his regim , nt; the Infant Don Miguel joins him and proclaims the aboli tion of the Constitution of the Cortes. MAY 31—King John VI. abjures absolute power and promises a liberal Constitution. JUNE 2—The Ordinary Cortes separate after having signed a protest against any modification or alteration in the C institution of 1822. JUNE s—King John VI. enters Lisbon. JUNE 18—A Junta composed of fourteen Members is created to prepare the Articles of the new Constitution. APRIL 30, 15124—D0n Miguel puts himself at the heal of the army to dethrone King John VI., his father, and to massacre the Liberals, this horrible attempt is discovered, and the tyrant, Don Miguel, distni Bed from the command of the army, and banished as a traitor to Austria. Nov. 15, 1825—The Treaty of the Independence of Brizil is ratified at Lisbon by King John VI. MARCH 10, 1826—King John VI. dies at Lisbon; the sante day Don Pedro IV. is proclaimed King of Portugal and the Algarves. APRIL 29—Don Pedro offers a Constitutional Charter to the Portuguese. JULY S—Sir Charles Stuart (Lord Stuart de Rothesay) arrives at Lisbon from the Brazils, and presents the Por tuguese Charter to the Infanta Donna Isabella-Maria.—As soon as the Constitutional General, Count de Saldanha, is informed of this event, he has proclaimed in the city of Oporto the new Charter. JULY 31—The Charter is sworn to and accepted by the nation, and General Saldanha, in consequence of his devotedness to the cause, is named Minister of War. JULY 23, 1827—General Saldanha resigns his office as Minister of War. MAY 3, 1828—Don Miguel usurps the absolute power, and convokes the old soi-disant States of the kingdom. MAY 16—In consequence of the arbitrary conduct of the usurper Don Miguel a disturbance breaks out at Oporto. JULY 6—The Constitutional army, under the command of Don Quevedo Pizarro, is obliged to retreat into Spain. JuLY 11—The Usurper is proclaimed King by the pre tended States, the priests and rabble of Lisbon. OCT. 12—All the Portuguese emigrants, headed by General Saldanha, take the oath of allegiance to the Con stitutional and legitimate Queen Donna Maria 11. .lAI4. 16, 1829—Count Saldanha is prevented, after bravely defending himself, to land on the island of Ter ceira, in consequence of the heavy cannonade of the English squadron, under the command of Commodore Walpole, who had been instructed by the Wellington Ad ministration to sink the Constitutionalists if they attempted to join the Regency established in the island lay Count Villa de Flor and Palmella, in favour of the Queen and the Constitution. The same day Saldanha signs a protest against such a violation of the laws of nations on the part of the British Commander, and surrenders himself as prisoner of war sooner than see his brave companions massacred. JAN. 13, 1832—The Emperor Don Pedro, previous to his departure Irom Paris for Belleisle, informs General Saldanha how painful it was to him not to be able to em • ploy one who had rendered so much service to the young Queen in the expedition against the u surper Don Miguel, hut that diplomacy prevented him, at present, from so doing. JAN 18—Count Saldanha invites all his friends to en gage in the expedition, on the p oint of sailing, to re. establish the legitimate Que en, Donna Maria 11., on her throne, and restore to the Portuguese nation their Charter and their national rights. JAN. 2.3—Don Pedro leaves Paris for Belleis'e, where he arrives on the 2d February amidst the enthusiastic cheerings of the troops and sailors, who take the oath of allegiance to Queen Donna Maria 11. The same day he issues his Manifesto on board the frigate La Rheina de Portugal, commanded by a British officer, Admiral Sat , torius, annouiring to the Portuguese nation his determi nation to restore the legitimate Queen to her throne, aid the Constitution to Portugal. FEB. 10—Don Pedro and toe whole of the first di- vision of thc Expedition sail from' BeHusk for Tetesits to establish a kgencii. The Q teen and the Duchepa do fir.iganta remain in Paris unicr thc protection of Lonis NEW SOUTH WALES. General Doling sailed from Sydney on the 20th of October last, in the Hroihly, Captain Reeves, via Cantsa been confined from indispasit'iOni Mr. Justice Forbes L•us..ce hive recently -o London. Two of the Judge o f S y d ney Forbes and Mr. Justice Stephens. The whole of tht la bour necessarily falls on Mr. Justice Dowling —no sine cure, considering the increasing state of commercial enter pri,,e and other causes in such a clnitnunity, to which it i unnecessary to refer. NEW WI VES I . OA New SOUTH WA yowl, we believe the Red Rover, has been taken up by Govern ment, for the purpose of conveying two hundred free fe male emigrants from Cork to New South Wales, who are o be provided with situations or hushandv, as chance may offer, on their arrival. There are now only three Terms in the admihiithttintl of the law in South Wales, instead of (our, as at hoini.; There are, however, regular Quarter Sessions, and other 'nodes of gaol delivery, which prevent any inconvenience from this arrangement. FEUDAL FEAST —At the late departure of Governor Darling (who was succeeded by Colonel Lindsay, who acts as Lieutenant-Governor until the arrival of General Rourke) a grand feudal entertainment was given by Mr. Wentworth in honour of the occasion, at his seat at Van. close, according to the Sydney papers. A general invite• tion was advertised to all the Sydney folks to come and partake of his hospitality—an invitation which it is unne cessary to say did not require many repetitions. It is supposed that about 3,000 of the most accomplishedinha. bir.nts of Sydney visited the feast. An ox and 12 sheep were roasted whole, together with a variety of ether deli• cacirs suitable to the palates of the party. It is also Ceti , mated that 100 gallons of gin, and 20 hogsheads of been tended to rejoice the hearts of the enemies of General Darling. After a certain period had passed, however, 411 the old maxims of " meunt et tuunt" were forgotten, and the predatory habits of the assembled multitude burst forth beyond controul. A most glorious scene of confusion fol lowed ; the house of the worthy host himself was smashed, and the plate carried off, the thimbles of all who possessed them changed fingers, and, in fact, such a ge. neral metamorphosis took place in the state of property, that few were found to possess a single article which could be cried their own. The plantations of Mr. Wentworth were unhappily destroyed, and great damage done to his other private property. On the same night several illumi nations w e re exhibited by the friends of Mr. Wentworth in Sydney. On the ensuing morning the Governor quitted the harbour under a salute from the battery, the whole of the military being drawn out, having previously received respectful addresses from the civil and military officers, as well as front the principal inhabitants. We suspect the new Governor, with the cards he has undertaken, will have no child's gime to play. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest Mice of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. fet the 4th. Loaf. There are others who sell from sid. to I%d. Wog , that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—March 26. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 5'M. fine —s. SOs. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. hne —e. --e. gew Foreign Ditto Old Ditto hew White Clover 50s. 80s. fine —s. IX)s• Old Ditto Ditto New Trefoil - —s. 10s. fine 48, 50s. —s. —s. fine —s —s. —s. 355. fine —s. 40s. - —s. —s. 58s. fine 635. —s. —s. —s. fine 7—s. ald Ditto Rib Grass ;lish Cai —. —a. —s. fine was. 03s. St. Foin ...—..............(per Quarter).—.......... —s. —s. fine —s. 70s. Rye Grass —. - —s. —a. new 20s. 435. Pacey Ditto •••••••••••••••• 00.0. e• I - 40 s. 565. new -a. —s. Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing . 3435. 40s. —s. fine —a. Canary Seed, New . —s. 70s. 72s fine —s. "lan 01d. —a. —s. —s. fine —s. White Mustard Seed —(per 8u5he1)......... —a. 7s. Bs. fine —e. Brown Ditto . —s. 10s. 17s. fint. —s. Turnip Seeds, R0und5—............... . —a. —s. Ss. fine 12s. Green and Red Ditto ....--..—.--. —a. —s. fis. tine 12s. Fares, Old ..-----.—.. —s. ss. ficl. fine Sr. Ditto New —......—. —a. —s. fine —6. —a, Ita,!eSeed, English, fine (per Last) '231. 271..,.,, Foreign '2Ol. 944. Voriaiider PRICES OF HOPS.—March 46. Kent Pockets. 4l ISs. 61. Os. to 81. Os. Sussex Ditto Fesex Ditto _ 41. 12i. 5/. 12s. to V. 04 Farnham Ditto. Fine—. Seconds Kent Bags „,—. Sussex Ditto ................. Essex Ditto _ 9/, Os. 121. Os. to 01 Os. 01. Os. 71. Os V) 91. Os. 41. 10s. 51. 15s to 61. 151. 41. 4s. 41. 15s. to 51. ss. 31. 15s 51. Os. to 51. 12s. PRICE OF OM. Wipe Oil. brown O. Refined 0 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, par thousand Rape Cake, per ton 12 0 6 0 AVHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—March ?A. Hay .525. Od. to E4A. Od. I t 684 Oki. to 120 s. Od. 30.. Od. to 38.. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—March 26. 21. ss. to 2/. 10s. per ton. 31. Os. to 31. 108. ditto. 21. ss. to 21. 10s. ditto. PRICES OF Kidneys Scotch Reds Per lb, d. to d. Butts, 16 21 Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing Hides 13 151 16 18 Ditto, light Crop Hides, 12 13 Ditto 4U to 451 b 13j 15 Ditto 15 161 ItA Vs/ LEATHER. l'er lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 12 la Spanish Ditto ............ 14 15 Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 3( to Ctib. 23 Ditto 50 to 70Ib. 17 21 Ditto 70 to 1301 b. Small Seals. Greenland 18a i 9 Large ditto l2 15 HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. e. d. toe. d. Best Heifers& Stuerb2 2 2 6 Ordinary 1 4 1 10 '2 0 Market 6 0 each. SHEEP SKINS. J•;. Od. to is. Od. I Downs 3s. Od. to 4s. tid. Shearlings.....—.. Os. Ott. to Os. Od. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. Moulds, per dozen-9s. 6d. PRICE OF TALLUV Town 'fallow 476. Ifd. Yellow Russia . 455. Od White 44s. 6d. Soap Ditto 436. Od. Melted Stuff 355. Od. Ditto hough 245. Od. PRICE OF RAW F Price of Tallow (as stated by th, , SOAP, Sic. per 1121 b. Yellow 6.25. Od. Mottled 705.04. White _ 745. Od. Graves Good Graves 55. Od. 'AT, per stone of Blb. le Tallow Bd. .ET.—March 16. Per Ton. Walls End Newmarch... 20s. od. Ditto Perkins and C 0... 19 6 Walls End Riddell's.... 20 0 Walls End Walker,.,.,. 20 0 Bell's Primrose l5 6 Lambton's Primrose l9 9 Morton Main 15 0 Walls End Helton ..... 72 0 Walls End Lyons Walls End Lambton—. 21 9 Walls End Stewart's 22 0 Walls End Adelaide...* 20 0 Walls End Butter Knoll 20 6 Walls End Gordon —. 20 0 W. K South Durham 17 3 Walk End Tees 21 0 , 18 0 21 6 Hartley —...—......... . 19 0 25 0 New Flockton, Milne, and Co. Silkstone Field and Co. IS 0 . Greenwich Hospital.... 16 6 TantieldTrader............ 18 6 Ellison small 14 0 • last market-day, 71. C'-)AL MAR Per Ton. kdair's ........... 18s. ed. Beaumont l6 9 Bensham Main Bishop's Main 16 6 East 16 6 Holywelt lB 6 Killingworth 18 6 Ord's Redhugh —...... 15 6 Pomo', Windsor, , 17 6 Shipcote . 16 6 St. Lawrence Main ....... 19 0 Pantielsi Townley . 16 9 Wylam---.-- 16 6 Walls End Bell & Co.— 19 3 Dittoßcll,Robson,&Co. 18 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 3 Walls End Brown's—... 17 9 Wall, End Callerton 16 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 18 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 18 0 Walls End Heaton..... 20 3 Walls End Hilda 19 6 Walls End Hotspur.-- 19 0 Ditto Killingworth 19 9 Ditto Northumberland 19 0 Ships arrived since Since the appearance of cholera in Glasgow and Greenock, the trade between those places and the High• lands has been nearly suspended. Formerly hawkers went to the Highlands, c an ; dhueitthie,orwextehhoasnegie,edopthleeil,ill not be admittedr goods or gave mo to places in the Highlands for fear of introducing the cholera , and the Highlanders dare not leave their residences for th e purpose of going to the Lowlands, as, in the event of doing s ° P they will not be allowed to return to their dwellings. ESP, have in consequence become so plentiful, an d f ew b uyers, the they are now to be had in abundance, in many places in the Highlands, 1 id. and 24. per dozen.—Caledonian Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 2tlth inst. in G uildford.street, the lady of J. D. Thoo l " son , Egg., of a son. of a daught er . gro(ivne,tteeLtnhgtionn:. Mrs. William Dickinson, of Doddington- ARRIED. On the 'Nth inst. at St M amford.hill Chapel, George AMOY' Esq., of Stamfbrd.hill, to Elizabeth, third daughter of Henri Richmond, Esq., of the same place. On the 14th inst. at Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, Maberly, Esq., to Miss Louisa IL Martin. DIED. On the 23d inst. at his house in Bryanstone-square, aged tig, John Clifton, Esq., of Lytham Hall, Lancashire, and the Manor. house, Ealing. On the 23(1 inst. at Hamtnersmith, Eliza, the wife of Mr. W. html,r jun., after a few days illness. On the •-sth inst. Richard Vyse, Esq., Conveyancer, Yardley, near Birmingham. °lithe 2.50 inst. in Stratford-place, Harriet, wife of Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, Bart., and daughter of Lieut.-General Molyneux. On the 'W inst. at the house of her brother, Upper John-street . Fitzroy-square, in the Stith year of her age, Elizabeth Pollard , only daughter of the late Stephen Pollard, of Cork-stree t t 64 Ri t c h h y a e rd ar l . Yebb, B ur li ng t on -gardens. . n ß 3'h o lir l s i . ert, the elde s t son o f t h e l ate J o h n M ea re" On the 23,1 inst. at Kilburn-mill, Mr. Ch ar l es E nnos , in his 29th year. scim o e f r ß et o . ttom Farr*, OtO t. E M s ((a q } . lnll , ° o tt"lh f .''ee N ß2 : 33dd ' u a e l g e House, Frorne, PRINTED AND PWILISHF.D BY MIIRDO YOU 14 0, A 11 11 Sing OrricE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. Polled