The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-27 00:00:00

SPAIN,

Prom the Madrid Ga;;:ettp. of March 16.)
" WAR-OFFIcg---,PORTUGUOSE AUXILIARY
DIVIe.ION STAFF.
Most Ekcellent Senhor—The military commander of
Balmaceda, in a despatch of this day at noon, writes me—
' I have the greatest satisfaction to communicate to your
Excellency, that the sth eotnpany) and the grenadiers of
the 7th battalion of Biscay) have been made prisoners on
the heights of Santo Domingo, near Bilboa, in the action
of the 10th inst., the rebels having besides lost more than
200 men, between killed, wounded, and deserters. Our
army slept at Gualdecano that night, and must this day
have entered Durango. A complete dispersion took place,
in consequence of which the young men who were in the
enemy's ranks belonging to this neighbourhood, returned to
their homes.'

" At this moment a confidential agent arrives from
Ochandiano and Villareal de Alava, and tells me that the
army left Durango, and marches over the mountains to
Onate.

" Viscount DE LAS ANT AS, General of the
Portuguese Auxiliary Division,
Villarcayo, March 12, 1837.
" To the Minister of War."
The Minister of Grace and Justice has sent the Minister
of War a communication from the Regent of the territorial
audience of Pampeluna, dated the Ilth instant at half-past
ten in the morning, stating that at that very hour the army
of General Saarsfield, consisting of 10,500 infantry and
400 horse, were defiling by the road of Irurzun ; adding,
that the said General, with his troops, was going in search
of the enemy, who was within two leagues of Pampeluna.
The Baron des Antes, under date of the 12th instant,
writes from Villarcayo, referring to advices he received from
the commanders of Balmaceda and Villanueva de Mena,
stating that the army left Bilboa at seven o'clock in the
morning of the 10th, marching in the direction of Gualda•
cane, where it encountered ten or twelve batallions of rebels,
that th• battle immediately began and lasted till night,
when in the evening some wounded and fifty rebel prisoners
entered Bilboa.
(From the Madrid Gazette of the 17th of March.)
WAR OFFICE.—" The marching out of General Saars-
field, which I announced to your Excellency in my commu-
nication by express of the 9th, did not take place till the
day before yesterday (11th of March). His corps of
operation, composed of forces enumerated in the annexed
statement, began its march on the high road to Tolosa with
admirable order : the van, consisting of the tiradores and
flankers, under the brave Colonel Leon Iriarte, opened the
march ; next came the brigade which belonged to Alaix's
division, under the command of Colonel Urbina ; next fol-
lowed the cavalry of the French Legion, and a squadron of
Bourbon, in all 350 horse ; and after that the division of six
battalions, with General Saarsfield at their head ; and the
French Legion formed the rear.
" In the village of Sarasa the enemy made some slight
resistance with two companies, who were dislodged by the
tiradores without the column stopping its march. At the
position of Erica, a little more formal resistance was made
by two battalions of rebels from behind their parapets.
But they were presently driven out of it by the tiradores,
some companies of Cacadores, under the command of Gen.
Saarsfield himself in person. Twenty men were wounded in
this skirmish, and amongst them a Captain of tiradores
very severely. The army continued its march without
opposition as far as Irurzun, and encamped that night,
leaning its left on Echavarri, at the entrance of the
Borunda, on the high road to Vittoria, as far as in front
of Irurzun, beyond Las Dos Hermanas. The night was
terribly snowy, rainy, and windy. The General passed it
in the camp, setting a proper example worthy of the
gallant veteran. Yesterday morning being without any
accounts of Gen. Evans, and doubting whether he had sus-
pended his movement because of the heavy storm that was
experienced, having likewise no intelligence of the Com-
mander-in-Chief for several days past, nor of the intentions
and the direction of the seven battalions and 200 horse who
with Don Sebastian had marched to the rear-guard on his
left, he fell back upon Erica and Sarasa, whither I sens
him the communications of Evans, which I will apprize
him, that he attacked the enemy's lines and redoubts the
day before yesterday, and succeeded in taking the same ;
and he will likewise know that the expedition of Don Se-
bastian passed at nightfall of the 11th in front of Puente,
marching in the direction of La Ribera.

" This day a fresh convoy of provisions is being forwarded
to him, for if he detains himself in these positions on ac-
count of the unfavourable weather, which continues, be
keeps in this manner away from St. Sebastian all the forces
that are in front of him.

" General Saarsfield, in grand uniform, decorated with
all his grand crosses and ribands, directed and ordered the
march, and both officers and soldiers displayed the greatest
satisfaction, veneration, and the most complete confidence
in their General. The whole population of Pampeluna,
notwithstanding the rain which fell at that moment, beheld
this imposing spectacle from its walls.
" Within these last few days we have had a diminution
of six hundred men, gone to the hospitals, attacked by the
grippe, which continues to make ravages, and inundates
our infirmaries.

" Brigadier Van Halen could not accompany the expe-
dition, being indisposed with a pulmonary complaint, which
distressed him, but he is now much relieved.

" ANTONIO MARIA DEL VALLE.
Pampcluna, March 12.
To the Minister of War."

TALAVERA, MARCH 12.—Small parties of robbers, to
the disgrace of the Government, traverse the countty, and
molest the inhabitants by their excesses. At Pusa those
(Carlist) Vandals surprised some inhabitants of Santa Olal-
lah, inspecting their herds, carried them to the mountains,
and demanded 2,000 reels for their ransom, but compounded
for one half. Three, calling themselves Faccicosos, en-
tered the house of the curate of that place, and not con-
tent with robbing, cut off, with the greatest inhumanity,
one of the ears, and one of the breasts of the mistress.
At Bermuy they carried off the brood-mare of the patriot
Don Joaquim de Coca. At San Martin de Pusa and San
Bartholome de las Abiertas they exacted money from the
justices, and sacked some houses.

- (From El Castellano, Evening Paper, March 18.)
REQUENA, MARCH 15.—At five p.m., an express ar-
rived from the Alcade of Sietiaguas to our Commander, that
the rebels from Chiva had moved against the town with
8,000 under Cabrera, and at this moment the general
march is beating.
MARCH 16.—1 avail myself of a Government express to
tell you that the rebels who marched yesterday from Chiva
consist of only 4,000 men, and that they went towards
Rivera ; that Cabrera, with four battalions, remains at
Chiva, giving out that he will unite all his forces at Utrie
to attack Requena. Our columns from Liria have re-
treated to Murviedra.

CARLIST INTELLIGENCE.
" GENERAL ORDER OF THE 17TH INST.
" Soldiers,—You have just given Europe a fresh proof of
your courage and of the weakness of the multitude of rebels,
who, assisted by vile mercenaries, wish to rend the bosom of
our country. Your heroic valour has been the shield against
which their designs have fallen harmless. Neither long
marches, nor the inclemency of the weather, could arrest
your progress. Soldiers, lam proud of you—proud of being
at the head of such brave troops ; and in the name of the
King, I thank you for your good conduct : the events of
yesterday will be handed down in the pages of history as
the most-brilliant in our glorious struggle. You have con-
quered the rebel Saarsfield by your presence alone, the ad-
venturer Evans by your valour. When the King placed me
at your head, I told you that victory would crown your
efforts ; at present facts speak for themselves. Generals,
chiefs, officers, and soldiers, you have left me nothing to
wish. I shall have the honour of proposing to the King
the recompenses which you have so well merited. Soldiers,
1,2 t us march against the enemy, and wherever we meet
them, rest assured that the God of armies, who so visibly
fights on our side, will crown our efforts with complete
success. Yeu will destroy your enemies, you will deliver
our unhappy country from the miserable yoke which op-
presses it, and you will place on the throne the legitimate
successor of Pelage and of San Fernando.

" D. SEBASTIEN GABRIEL.
" Head-quarters, Hernani, March 17."
Carlist Bulletin of the affair of the 16th inst.:—
ROYAL ARMY-CAMPAIGN SECRETARYSHIP OF HIS

ROYAL lIIGIINESS.
" The enemy, master of the position of Oriamendi, since
yesterday, notwithstanding the resistance of a few Guipus-
coan battalions, menaced Hernani about six o'clock this
morning. The arrival of his Royal Highness with several
battalions decided the fate of the day. The fight was
maintained, with unequal forces, until that moment, by
General Sanz, Aide•de-Camp of the Infante. Seeing the
enemy direct their principal attack against our centre, his
Royal Highness ordered them to be assailed on the flanks.
Brigadiers Don Pedro Isturiza and Don Prudencio Sope-
lana executed the movement on the right, with three
battalions of Alava and the second of Guipuscoa. The
enemy, dislodged from all its positions by this unex-
pected and vigorous attack, fell back on the adjoining
heights. Don Jachim Quilez and Bernardo Iturriaga,
who made the attack on the left with their brigades,
carried several houses and batteries, obstinately defended
by the enemy. On this point the ground was well dis-
puted, and remained covered with dead. The enemy lost
62 prisoners. General Bruno Villareal, aide-de-camp of
his Royal Highness, witnessing the success of those ma-
noeuvres, attacked the centre at the head of the battalions
of Grenadiers of the army and the first of Alava. The
enemy, after keeping up the fire during nine hours with
great spirit, thought proper to abandon the fort and height
of Oriainendi, leaving the artillery taken on the preceding.
day, and flying in the utmost disorder. Our loss cannot be

Compared to that of the enemy. His Royal Highness
direetsmei in the lively: satisfaction with which he is elated,
to abquaint ythi With those fat fs, He fkortithends, in a
special manner, to the King's solicitude, the General-in-
Chief of the staff and his aides-de-camp, Villareal, Sanz,
and Zabala (the latter was wounded at the head of hib
brigade), together with Brigadiers Iturriza, Sopelana,
Quilezi and Iturri%aga. His Royal Highness will recom-
mend to ydu late', and *heti h 6 shall liitve received the par-
ticulars of the affair, the officers who have most distin-
guished themselves in this glorious day.
" God preserve you. " JOAQUIII ELIO.
" Fort of Oriamendi, March 16.
" To the Minister of War."

GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS

PALACE OF LAEKEN, MARCH 24,4 P.M.
This afternoon at half an hour past one o'clock, her Ma-
jesty the Queen was happily delivered of a Prince. The
mother and child are as well as possible.
(Signed) MOREAU, RIEKEN.
LEBEAU, SOMMER.
_ _

—Monitcur Beige, March 25.
Two couriers were dispatched yesterday with the news of
the happy delivery of the Queen of the Belgians, one direct
to Paris, the other to Lille, when the telegraph would imme-
diately convey the news to the Royal Family of France.
Most of the public offices, the hotels of the Ministers, and
a great number of private houses, were illuminated on the
occasion.

Spring commenced on the 21st March, and the severe
cold that prevails, the fall of snow, and the ice that covers
the streams, is ould make us think that we are still in the
depth of winter. We do not, however, hear that increase
of cold has caused any increase of sickness.
A letter from Arlon says—" For some years past the
German Confederation has been constantly adding to the
fortifications of the fortress of Luxembourg. That town is
now in a complete state of defence compared to what it
was before. The works have been _ recommenced for

1837, and to judge by the materials that are heaped up
.hey will not be soon finished.

HUNGARY, MARCH 13.—The pleasing news has been
spread on the frontier during the last week that his Majesty
the Emperor Ferdinand, with his Consort, will in the course
of the summer make a journey through Hungary to Tran-
sylvania. The account says that their Majesties will stay
a fortnight at Pesth, and return to Vienna along the
Southern frontier of Hungary by way of Styria. The re-
port of this journey has universally excited the greatest joy.
It is said likewise that the two Ministers of State, Prince
Metternich and Count Collowratt will accompany his Ma-
jesty. It is added that his Majesty will set out on his
journey in July, and perhaps be present at the closing of
the Diet of Transylvania. King Ferdinand has not been
at Pesth since 1820, and the Queen was never further in
the interior of Hungary than Presburg. The impression
which the Queen made on the assembled Nobles when she
was at Presburg is still fresh in their memory.
MARCH 14.—1 t is said that on account of the intended
visit of the Court to Hungary this summer, the Archduke
Palatine will not come here in the Spring.
FRONTIERS OF POLAND, MARCH 14.—Hopes are en-
tertained at Warsaw of a visit from the Emperor and Empress
in the course of the summer. It is expected that on
that occasion, his Majesty will give his Polish subjects
further marks of his favour. The situation of Poland con-
tinues to improve, in particular t':e German colonies esta-
blished by several landowners are very thriving.
FRANKFORT, MARCH 22.—Exchange on London (money)
1514 ; for two months, 1501.—Frankfort Paper,
March 23.

MITAU IN LivoNzA.-- While the more northern coun-
tries are, during this winter, almost buried under snow,
while accounts of the extraordinary colds in Spain and
Portugal fill the papers, and even North Africa expe-
rit nces wintry weather, we have hardly had any snow at
all ; we have had the ground covered with a thin ice, which
affords a tolerable sledge-road ; neither have we had any
severe frosts. Some publications tell, 10 and 20 years ago,
that our climate deviated from its usual course. Last year
the farmers began to plough in March.
BELGIAN I. UNDS—Baussate, Ma ROW 25
Actual Debt, 2ysi per Cent. 52%
Rothschild's Loan, S per Cen.t. looq
Loan of Thirty Millions... 92
Loan et City, 1832, 4 per Cent 99
Society of Commerce, 4ii per Cent .........
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 135%
Brussels Papers, ilarch 26.
DUTCH FUNDS—Ameretteaks, Marc, 24.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic, 434 per cent 92% 9314
Ditto, ditto, 33.4 per cent. 75% 764
Commercial Company, 434 per cent 182154 153554
Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 82,4
Two months
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vlzirta, Maßcil 17.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shr

Aares 1368
—4llgenteine Zettung, March 22.

RAILWAY BILLS.

(From the Bristol Journal.)
The Legislature, as it was bound to do, is exercising a
severe scrutiny into the various Railway Schemes which
have been projected in the last eighteen manths or two
years. In some cases, as in that of the Bristol and Glou-
cester Extension Line, the merits of the undertakings have
not been got into, but, in the very outset, the trickery of
parties haring private counter-interests has delayed the
accomplishment of lines whose advantages were not merely
limited to a district, but were almost of national import..
ance. Still the vigilance of Parliament, however it may
in some instances have operated injuriously, and even un-
justly, will in the result have a beneficial effect in weeding
out schemes that had no better origin than cupidity, called
into action by the premiums which legitimate undertakings
commanded in the market, and also in establishing those
which, for the increase of trade and facility of intercourse,
are obviously necessary.
Within the last days, two projects, of considerable ex-
tent as to amount of capital and intended range of opera-
tion, have been extinguished—at least they cannot be
brought again before Parliament for two years, by which
time circumstances with regard to other lines of railway,
will have completely annihilated all hope of their suc-
cess in Parliament—we mean the London, Salisbury,
and Exeter Railway Bill, which has been thrown out
on the Standing Orders, and the South-Western Rail-
way Bill, which on account of the great number of dis-
sentient land-owners on the line, and one decision of the
House of Commons against it, has been withdrawn. The
length of this railway was to have been 87 miles, viz. from
• Kingsworthy on the Southampton line to West Monckton
on the Bristol and Exeter line ;—throughout its whole
range of 87 miles the Company had the assent of the
land owners on only 7 miles—the dissentients having a
controuling power over the remaining fourscore miles. In
point of execution also, this railway would have been
extremely difficult and costly, inasmuch as the gradients
on 76 miles are from 10 to 20 feet per mile, and four
tunnels are required. Taking these circumstances into
account, and recollecting too that in the Southampton line
the gradients vary from 6 to 22 feet, we are not surprised
that the land-owners have felt dissatisfied with the
prospects held out to them, and that Parliament has given
the preference to the Great Western and the Bristol and
Exeter lines,Aiik works on both of which aro in active
operation. Ha g stated the gradients on the South=
Western line, we should mention, that of the 161 miles from
London to West Monckton, by the Great Western. and
4
Bristol and Exeter lines, 100 miles have less than feet
rise per mile, and 53 miles are under 6 feet—in other words,
about 153 miles are very nearly on a level. By these lines,
it is true, the distance from London to Exeter will be 192
miles, while by the London and Salisbury, and the South-
Western, it would have been but 182 ; but this difference
of ten miles on so long a journey will be more than compen-
sated for by rapidity of travelling ; for considerable delay to
passengers and goods, as well as expense to the shareholders,
must have been occasioned by the South-Western Company
having adopted the old width of rail, 4 feet 8 inches, while
the Great Western and its colleague have secured a width
of 7 feet—a variance which would have rendered necessary
a change of carriages at the junction of the South-Western
line with that of the Bristol and Exeter.
We have noticed the failure of the London and Salis-
bury and the South-Western Companies more at length
than we otherwise should have done, because it must be in
the recollection of our readers, that at the last general
meeting of the Bristol and Exeter Proprietors, an enquiry
was made as to the probable success of what were called
the conipetiny lines, and Mr. Brunel stated that the Bristol
and Exeter Company had nothing to fear from them. The
answer of the Engineer might still have been taken as an
interested opinion ; but we are now enabled to say, that
the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter will be the
ONLY MEANS OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
LONDON AND THE WEST ; and consequently, that the
shareholders in these lines have secured another advan-
tage in addition to the numerous ones they before pos-
sessed, and which rendered their prospects superior to most,
and inferior to none, of the lines either completed or in
formation.

*MONEY MARKET.—The Stock Exchange has
presented a good deal of animation to-day ( Saturday); not,
however, with the quantity of business transacted in the dif-
ferent public securities, but in consequence of a ballot for a
committee of management for the year. A list was formed in
opposition to the existing committee, but which, however, con-
tained the names of some of them, and at the termination of the
time allotted for the election, these twenty-four gentlemen
were found to have been chosen by a considerable majority.
It is, therefore, generally expected that quite a radical change
will take place in the administration of this establiAment.—
Corning Pape•.

CHURCH PROPERT Y.

No. 11.
TO THE RIGHT ts,ON,,JURABLE THE CHANCE
LOR OF THE EXCHEQUEIi, tit:

Sir—ln my former letter, I gave you a specimen of the
estimation in which the sacredness and inviolability of cur
Church property is held by the trustees who at present
watch over it ; and I must add, that it was not their
Emit, as I shall presently convince you, that the noble
estate of Finsbury was not sacrificed in gecula seen/Drum.
It is to our good and pious citizens we owe this saving,
who made no scruple of leading the wanderer astray in
the wilderness during ninety-nine years, having satisfied
their consciences with the reflection that they should here-
after restore it to the arms of its mother. The case lam
now about to lay before you alike exemplifies the senti-
ments and conduct of these reverend guardians ; and, at
the same time, is an instance of what may be expected
from the higher orders, with respect to this property, when
their own interests are involved. But let facts speak for
themselves.
In the year 1768 the Duke of Grafton was Minister—
I mean the man whose memory and character have been
preserved by Junius. Dr. Richard Brown was at the same
time Prebend of the stall of Tottenhall, in the Cathedral
Church of St. Paul's, and in right of such was entitled to
the fee and inheritance of ,the prebendal manor and lord-
ship of Tottenhall, in the county of Middlesex, and in
divers lands, &c., thereunto belonging, subject to a pre-
bendal lease, which he had a short time before, on a re-
ceipt of a large fine, renewed to the representatives of the
then late Duke of Grafton, for a term of three lives, at
the nominal rent of 461. per annum.
The estate commences at St. Giles's pound, extends
some distance on the north side of Oxford-street, and in
other directions embraces a large part of St. Pancras parish,
Kentish-town, and up to Highgate, including coppices,
woods, and grounds lying beside Highgate, of great extent,
and from its situation equal in value to any land round the
metropolis. Very considerable buildings were at that time
erected upon it, the ground was in great request for building
on, and could then be disposed of in leases at a considerable
rate per foot.

D. grown having pocketed the emolument attending
the renewal of the lease, and there being little chance of
any further advantage to him from the estate, entered into
the views of Mr. Charles Fitzroy, the proprietor of the
lease (to whom it had been bequeathed as a patrimony by
his father, the late Duke of Grafton), and these two, in
conjunction, petitioned for, and obtained, by the influence
of Mr. Fitzroy's brother, the Minister, an Act cf Parlia-
ment, which, from the 25th of March, 1768, divested the
estate, with all its rights, privileges, and emoluments, out
of the prebendary, and conveyed the fee-simple entire and
without reserve to Mr. Charles Fitzroy and his heirs for
ever. The Act states it to be " with the consent of
Richard Lord Bishop of London and the privity of the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's," and for the following
reasons, viz.

1— That " a full equivalent is given to the Church for
he estate."
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2. That "it will be very advantageous to ,the succes-
sors in the prebend."
3. That "it is desirable on public grounds."
The estate was thus, and for these reasons, conveyed
from the Church to Air. Fitzroy for ever, with full power
over all that it contained, which is stated to have been

" brick-earth, clay, gravel, sand," and many other very valu-
able building and improving materials, and also all the

"coppices and woods?' The Act consists of twenty-seven
pages, and is nearly all made up of family circumstances of
the Fitzroys, which appear to have been introduced to di-

vert attention from the real object (the plunder of the
Church), and it succeeded, for no obsereations were made in
its progress through Parliament.

A fair estimation may be made of the value of the land
by Mrs. Fitzroy's settlement of 4001. a year being suffi-
c►ently secured on only twenty-three acres, and the estate
consists of some thousands.

The full equivalent and compensation given to the Church
is a rest-charge on the estate of 300/. per annum, which,
as 46/. of it was receivable under the lease, makes the
amount given for the fee-simple 2541. per annum, and this
was stated to be " a much greater revenue than could pos-
sibly arise to the successors in the prebend, either by fines
on the renewal of leases, or by any other means whatever."
The possession of this estate in twelve years (1780)
caused Mr. Fitzroy's exaltation to the Peerage, by the title
of Lord Southampton, by which name the estate is now
known. " Tottenhall" is kept out of view, and this Church
plunder is probably all the title possesses. Upon a mo-
derate calculation of all the advantages obtained by this
Act of Parliament, Mr. Fitzroy and his family have received
from the estate upwards of £1,500,000
The "full equivalent," which has been paid to
the Church, amounts to

17,78

Total of which the Church has been plundered
up to this time 1,482.,9.16
What was paid to the Bishop of London for his consent,
to the Dean and Chapter for their privity, or to the Rev.
Dr. Brown for his assistance in this most wicked and
fraudulent transaction, does not appear ; but it is another
convincing proof of the viciousness of that system which
has placed the immense property of the Church under such
a guardianship, as not only gives the power, but makes it
the interest of every one connected therewith to desecrate
and despoil it.
I commend to your most serious consideration the two
cases I have laid before you ; they are of the utmost public
importance at the present- moment , and I shall in a few
days convey to you the opinions of others who are well
qualified to judge, and I feel confident of your inclination to
assist by every means in your power to do justice to the
Church and the public in respect. of these transacions.
I am, &c. &c. &e.
A CHURCHMAN.

EARL FITZ WILLIAM ON THE NEW

POOR-LAW.

(From the Leeds Ilfercury.)
The following letter from Earl Fitzwilliam, in acknow-
ledgment of a petition against the new poor-law, sent to him
from Rastrick, will be read with great interest, as proceed-
ing from one who has practical knowledge of the subject,
and whose kindness of heart and feeling for the poor arc be-
yond all possible doubt : •

" Milton, March 16, 1837.
" shall he very willing to present the petition from
Rastrick for the repeal of the Poor-law Amendment Act, or
any other petition which my old and early friends may entrust
to my care. 'Whatever reminds me of the long connection that
bound us together is grateful. I hope, however, they are not
impatient for its presentation, as I shall not be in town for some
time. Still more do I hope that they will not expect me to
support its prayer ; for of all the measures that the British
legislature ever passed, I am inclined to think this is the
most beneficial, as I am sure it is the most successful.
Upwards of a year has now elapsed since I have been en-
gaged very assiduously in the administration of the new
law, and, from constant and minute observation of its effects,
I can bear the rriost confident testimony to its beneficial
tendency. I affirm' this, not merely with respect to the
interests of the rate-payers, which I deem the least impor-
tant consideration, but more especially with respect to those
of the labouring classes, whose habits, characters, and com-
forts are of far- more value in my estimation ; and it is in
this point of view that I more particularly prize and admire
the operation of the measure. In addition to my own tes-
timony, I can say with truth, I know of no man, endued
with a kind heat t and a sound head, who has witnessed its
effects, who does not disagree with the petitioners. All who
know the law approve of it ; the disapprovers arc, without
exception, among those who know it not.
" I cannot help suspecting that the genius of the mea-
sure is entirely misconceived in the West Riding—the real
and important change, the change from which the new law
derives almost all its efficacy, consists in the substitution of
the board of guardians for the magistrates in petty sessions,
that is to say, of a body of Representatives, popularly elec-
ted and responsible to constituents, for two or three.eirre-
tnoverible and irresponsible gentlemen.
" This is a change which, I am sure, will not be disap-
proved in the West Riding ; and yet as this is the great
practical alteration that habeen made, this is what makes
me suspect that the very genius and spirit of the measure are
misunderstood among you.
" Willing as I am to present the petition, but feeling a
great interest in the wisdom, or otherwise, of the course
pursued in the West Riding, I could not refrain from
making you acquainted with the opinions of one who has
devoted a great deal of his time to the administration and
observation of the measure. If they should induce you to
withdraw the petition I shall rejoice ; if you persist in it
I shall still hope to be allowed to present it.

" I remain, Sir, your most faithful servant,
FiTzwILLIAm.
" Mr. Edw. Jackson, Toothill, Rastrick, Huddersfield."

It is reported that a marriage will shortly take place
between Mr. Strutt, the member for Derby, and Miss Otter,
the young and lovely daughter of the Bishop of Chichester.
At the Insolvent Debtors' Ccurt, held at Lancaster,
on Tuesday week, the discharge of James Augustin Ladbury
was opposed by Mr. Greatwood, solicitor of Birmingham. It
appeared that the insolvent formerly held a highly confidential
situation in the establishment of Mr. Peters, the detaining cre-
ditor, liquor merchant, of Birmingham. The defendant abused
the confidence of his employer by seducing his wife, arid the
husband consequently brought an action against the insolvent.
To this action no defence was made, and the jury found a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, damages 8001. The insolvent being un-
able to pay this, claimed, the benefit of the act, and the.present
opposition was the result. The Court remanded Ladbury for
the period of 12 months from the date of filing biz petition.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN MARCH 42 5 .
E GUSH DISSENTERS-GENERAL ASSOC
ATION.

There was tiis day a full meeting---Mr. O'Connell's en-
try was loudly cheered. The Learned ,Gentleman handed
in 5/. from Mr. Yates, and on his motion that gentleman
was admitted a member.
Mr. O'Connell next handed some money from Mr.
Childs, of Bungay, which lie had received a month ago, but
the desire which be felt of paying a marked compliment to
the English Dissenters for their advocacy of civil and reli-
gious liberty, and to Mr. Childs, who is one of that body,
induced him to hold it over to the present occasion.—( Hear
and cheers.) Mr. Childs was the first Dissenter who suf-
fered a long incarceration sooner than pay Church-rates,
and thereby caused the very general opposition which now
exists to them. •
Mr. O'Connell moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Childs,
which was carried.
Mr. Finn, M.P., was left speaking.
JUDICIAL INSOLENCE.—It is true, Mr. Keogh is a Li-
beral in politics, and Mr. Doherty is a Conservative. But,
then, they are both in the rank of gentlemen, and one of
them, certainly, is a gentleman. At all events, they are
both high officers, bearinc, the King's Commission ; and,
certainly, one would think it was a matter of course., if not
of common decency, that for the sake of the commissions
they bear, and of the supreme authority under which they
acted, that the ordinary courtesies r f society should not be
violated by either. Nay, for the sake of the country, with
a view to impress upon the people that there should be
no passion, prejudice, or politics, in the administration
of justice, it would seem to be expedient, that de-
corum should not be violated by the one or the other.
Certainly, by the High Sheriff of Carlow it has not_ been
violated. Whether the Judge stands equally clear in
the account, depends upon the accuracy of the statement.
If it be true—if Chief Justice Doherty had the indelicacy
—what do we say ?—the absurd and ungentlemanlikc im-
pertinence, to command the High Sheriff of a County to
quit his own carriage, and, on the quiet refusal of that gen-
tlemean to obey the insolate mandate, to menace him with

the infliction of an enormous fine, then, we do think, that
the matter should be made the subject of Parliamentary in-
quiry. We know, indeed, that the fine was not, laid upon
the High Sheriff—we know that the intemperate gentle-
man, who gave utterance to the threat, was not able to
screw his courage to the sticking place, when the time for
action came. This consideration, in our opinion, does not
alter the case very materially. No pecuniary injury, in-
deed, occurred, but an insult—a gross and saucy insult—
was offered by the King's Judge to an Officer of the King.
If the High Sheriff was guilty of so strange an outrage,

there can be little doubt that fie would [be visited by severe
animadversion, and, perhaps, receive, on the representation
of the Judge to the proper quarter, a Supercedeas, by the
returning post, from the Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant.
We know, indeed, that Doherty cannot be removed but by
an address ; but there is a middle course, which would have
the effect of teaching such rantipole gentlemen, as he is de-
scribed to be, a little manners.—Dublin Evenin Post.

ORANGEMEN.—NearIy two hundred Orangemen were
tried at the close of the Armagh Assizes, for walking in
procession. We notice the fact as another corroboration
of Colonel Perceval's solemn assurance in the House of
Commons, that there was not a single Orangeman in Ire-
land. Upwards of one thousand have been tried for vio-
lating the law during the present Circuits.

MARQUIS OF CONYNGHAM.--IS the Most Noble Mar-
quis a sincere Reformer, or is he nal It will be acknow-
ledged on all hands that he could, if he chose, secure the
return of two Liberal Members for the County Donegal at
the next election ; yet is is no less certain, that not only
has nothing effectual been done by him to advance the
cause, but great impediments have been thrown in the way
of its progress by his Lordship's agents.
Mr. O'Connell declines the honour of dinip.g with the
citizens of Waterford, owing to the shortness of the Recess.
ABDUCTION.-At the Kerry Assizes the following curious
case was tried :—Denis Coffee stood indicted for the ab-
duction of Ellen M'Gillycuddy, on the 4th of September
last. It appeared from the testimony of prosecutrix that
the prisoner, upon the night in question, came to the
house of prosecutrix, accompanied by a man of the name
of Daniel Kerrisk, and a strong party ; they broke in the
door of her father's house ; Kerrisk, who has absconded,
came over the bed where she was in at the time, and
made her get up and dress herself; he had a lighted
candle in his hand ; the father of prosecutrix got up and
struck prisoner with an iron bar ; prisoner had a pistol,
and Kerrisk desired him fire ; prisoner said he Would not
do him any harm ; prosecutrix was then taken out of the
house by the party, and placed before Kerrisk on a horse ;
the party then took her away about twenty miles from her
house to the east of Newmarket ; two men she did not
know put her on a fresh horse, as she was going towards
Newmarket ; prisoner was with her all the way ; she did
not know the names of others of the party ; Kerrisk said
he wanted to make his wife of her ; they left her at the
house of a man named M'Auliff, near Newmarket ; was
kept there four days; slept there with Kerrisk ; her friends
then came for her and took her home ; Kerrisk tied her
hands and made her go to bed ; is now in the family way.
Several witnesses were examined, when it appeared evi-
dent that Ellen was taken away by mere voluntary com-
pulsion.

The Jury did not come to a decision ; the prisoner,
lerefore, was remanded to the next assizes'.

It is now ascertained for a certainty that the Hon.
G. Langdale, brother to Lord Stourton, and Mr. Rich, who
has already contested the borough of Knaresborough twice,
will he the candidates in the Liberal interest for that borough,
with every chance of success.—Leeds Mercury.
CAMBRIDGE.—In the course of Thursday evening
there was a very heavy fall of snow in this town.and neigh-
bourhood. The thermometer on King's parade, at 6 o'clock
on the morning of Good Friday, stood at 15, being 17 deg.
below freezing point, and the greatest degree of cold registered
this winter.

BRIGHTON.—The cold weather has been extremely
severe for the few last days, and the fall of snow was abundant
during Tuesday night. It has, however, fallen more heavily
up the road, and so great a quantity had accumulated during
Wednesday that the mail did not come in on Thursday morn-
ing till considerably after its usual hour. During the night of
Monday the thermometer on the Steine fell to 24, eight de-
grees below freezing point.
WARWICK ELECTION.—Here we are, once again,
in the midst of active preparations for a Borough Election 1
On Saturday morning the Tory Candidate (or rather he who
professes to be a Tory), Mr. Sergeant Adams, left his head-
quarters, the Warwick Arms, and accompanied the usual lead-
ers of the party in a canvassing excursion through the town ;
in about two hours afterwards Mr. Collins, late Mayor of the
borough, the well-known leader in the cause of liberty and the
rights of the people, accompanied by a small party of indepen-
dent electors, followed the example of the Sergeant. The
two parties continued the canvass for three days.
KENDAL ELECTION.—Mr. Wood's return is con-
fidently anticipated by the Mercury. The principles pro-
fessed by Mr. Wood deserve the support of Reformers to ren-
der him a fit and proper person to represent the independent
electors of Kendal. Mr. Moorsom, it is said, fully approves
of the measures which have been adopted to avoid divisions.
POST.OFF IC E.—A paper sent through the Chelms-
ford post-office to Alaldon, a distance of ten miles, goes free of
charge. A paper conveyed to Great Baddow, only two miles
on the same road, and to which a bag is made up, is charged
one penny. At Danbury, a distance of five miles, and to
which a bag is also made up, a charge of one penny. These
two villages are on the road between Maldon and Chelmsford,
and the mad-cart in neither case deviates one rod from its
course. But this is not all; a paper sent from Bury, Ips-
wich, or London, averaging a distance of 35 miles, will reach
Baddow and Danbury free from charge. We contend that
the public have a right to expect that the stamp should frank
a paper to every post town to which a bag is made up. The
post-office regulations are at this time under consideration in
the House of Commons; we therefore entreat the Members
to exert themselves in the removal of this partial and ob-
noxious impost.—Cheinisford Chronicle:
So many of the most inveterate cigar-smokers of the
large towns having been detected in robbing their masters'
tills, the boys of Leeds, Blackburn, and other towns, call out,
on seeing these worthies on the coach-boxes on Sundays,
" There go the till robbers."

On Thursday an incendiary fire was discovered at
Great Totham, in the farm buildings and ricks of Mr. T.
King. A barn, studs, 20 quarters of unthrashed oats, with a
considerable quantity of fowls, pigeons, farming stock, and
utensils of husbandry, were totally consumed. No portion of
the property is insured.--Syffollt Chronicle.
On Saturday morning between six and seven o'clock,
the body of a young woman, apparently about twenty years of
age, was discovered floating in the New River, near to Stoke
Newington. She had on very decent apparel, and about her
person was found a letter addressed to a relative at Green-
hithe, from which it appears that the name of the deceased is
Sophia Gurling, and that she was induced to destroy herself
by the unhappy state of her feelings, but from what cause is
not explained. The body had evidently been in the water
many days.

The new theatre in Norton-folgate was lighted on
on Saturday evening. The interior is very rich, the prevail-
ing colours being " straw and chocolate," with gold moulding:
and ornaments, the ceiling panelled in concord with the fronts
of the boxes, &c. The stage is 80 feet deep, and possesses
all the latest advantages for the pr,duction of striking effects.
The house; when filled, will hold $OO/. Wilkinson appears in
Sa►n Weller, of the Pickwick Club, dramatised by a Mr.
Embdcn.

A correspondence has taken place between Mr.
George, the highly.respectable surgeon, and Mr. Whitehurst,
the Learned Counsel, who, on the trial of Dimpsey for the
murder of A.,rarshall and his sister, accused the surgeon o I
ignorance and imp4derice., Mr. George called on the Learned
Counsel for an_explanatioh, in answer to which he says it is
for the Judge and Jury alone to decide if his remarks Lc well.
founded.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The Standard, alluding to the paragraph to which
such absurd importance was attached by the Times,
observes—

‘. We would not willingly suspect Lord Durham himself
of such a piece of impudence and folly ; and we do not
suspect his Lordship ; .least of all can we think it.necessary-
to defend the excellent and , exemplary mother of our fu-
ture Sovereign—a Princess to whom this nation owes the
deepest debt that can be conferred upon a country—the
assurance of a pure-minded, high-spirited, and pious suc-
cessor to the Throne—least of all can we think it neces-
sary- to defend the Duchess of Kent against countenancing.
the ridiculous imposture. Indeed, we feel that we owe an
apology to her Royal Highness for naming her in connec-
tion with this absurd affair. But we will trespass one step
further, in the hope that our doing so may preclude a re-
petition hereafter of the offence that we have already com-
mitted. We are persuaded that if all the arrangements of
the Duchess of Kent's family, and the characters of all the
members of her establishment, were fully known to the
people of England, they would command the unanimous
and enthusiastic approbation of the country. The simplest
family in the humblest cottage in the kingdom is not more
free from ti acasserie or Court intrigue."
Having made these admissions, which satisfy us
that our Evening Contemporary disapproves of the
wicked attempt of the Times to sow dissensions in the
Royal Family, he would' have added to our obligation to
him, had he informed us at the same time that the abuse
of the Duchess of Kent, and the malicious insinuations
against her Royal Highness and the Kensington Esta-
blishment in the apostate journal, were not countenanced
by the Tories. It may be very generous in the Standard
to cover their retreat by his honourable admissions ;
but we suspect the Times was not alone in its abuse
of the Duchess of Kent, and the people about her.
We do not wish to dwell on the blunder of the Times,
" that the Duchess of Kent will, on or after, or in con-
templation of, the 24th of May, have no shadow of title
to interfere at all in or with the Princess Victoria's
household." We have shown that the Princess Victo-
ria's situation will not be changed on the 24th of May
next. But what did the Times mean by saying, " there
was an attempt made a few months back (and an impu-
dent attempt it was) to obtrude upon the people of Eng-
land, and on the young Princess herself, some foolish
notion that the choice of a consort for her Royal
Highness was an affair in which neither she herself,
nor the King, her sovereign and uncle, who has stood
towards her both naturally and politically ever since
he came to the throne in loco patris, had the least
particle of concern ; but that it must be on the su-
preme dictation of a Prince and Princess of the foreign
House of Saxe Cobourg to settle, without her free
consent or that of the Monarch of these realms—to
impose upon her, the heiress of the British empire,
whatever husband it might suit their purposes of family
aggrandisement to provide. We exposed at the time
the mercenary audacity of this revolting pretension."
If this be not levelled against the Duchess of Kent
and the establishment at ensington, we do not know
the meaning of the plainest words. It is quite impos-
sible that these charges of the Times can be true,
and yet that " the arrangements of the Duchess of
Kent's family and the characters of all the mem-
bers of her establishment" are such as, according tc
the Standard, ought " to command the unanimous ant!
enthusiastic approbation of the country." The ca-
lumny of the Times is, we are certain, utterly ground-
less ; but the Times must have had an object in giving
circulation to it. Can the Standard inform us what
portion of the Tories 'seek to fill the King with un-
founded distrust of the Kensington establishment ? It
is no light matter to state,' in this audacious manner,
that those who are entrusted with the care of the

Princess Victoria consulted only the aggrandize-
ment of the foreign House of Saxe Cobourg. But
the Times of Saturday having made this malicious
charge, attempts to escape from it in this cow-
ardly manner—" Every one is willing to take for
granted the decorum and prudence of the Duchess
of Kent. We can go beyond this general as-
sumption, for we know, and are now, and have
always been ready to acknowledge to the full-
est extent, her Royal Highness's anxious de-
sire to manifest that respect and deference which she
sincerely feels towards his Majesty ; we know and ad-
mire, and have always admired her Royal Highness's
wise and conscientious retirement within the limits of
her own proper duties, and her ready recognition of her
daughter's future and absolute independence of that po-
litical as well as social authority which has hitherto
been exercised over her. No ; it was not against her
Royal Highness that our remarks were aimed; and
most. deeply grieved should we be if we thought that,
to any reasonable mind they would bear such a con-
structive application ; it was, against that intriguing
clique which seeks, end has long sought to domineer
at some time over the councils of the heiress pre-
sumptive, that our arrows were shot, and we ap-
prehend that our shot has told among the subor-
dinates, and will yet terrify the principals, of a
long meditated, but most shallow enterprize." A
fine sample of the respect entertained for the
Duchess of Kent, and the readiness'of the Times to

bear testimony to the decorum and prudence of her
conduct, was given in the insulting article of Thurs-
day last, in which it was insinuated that " she was
so little cognizant of her own station in this country,
and its incidents, as to entertain the preposterous am-
bition to play a great part in politics, and become a
species of imaginary Queen Mother or Regent after
her daughter's maturity, and before his present Ma-
jesty's demise." But we waive this, and ask our morn-
ing Contemporary how it can reconcile with the de-
corum and prudence it now says it has always allowed
the Duchess of Kent to possess, the attempt to im-
pose a consort on the Princess Victoria without the
consent of the Princess herself, or that of the Monarch
of these realms, merely to aggrandize the foreign
house of Saxc Cobourg ? Does the Times mean to
say that such an intrigue could he carried on with-
out the cognizance of the Duchess of Kent ? Does
it mean to say that those about the Princess
abused their trust, and that all the prudence of the
Duchess,did not enable her to discover the intrigues ?
The Times should not be allowed to escape in this
manner from its foul slanders. If the Duchess of
Kent was the prudent and careful mother which it at
the twelfth hour admits she has always been, .an in-
trigue of this kind could not have been carried on with-
out her cognizance. This indirect way of eating its
words will not do. It must plead guilty, and express
contrition for having most foully calumniated a virtuous
Princess by holding her up as wanting in due respect
to the Sovereign. The Tories will reap no laurels in
this mean warfare against the illustrious mother of our
future Queen. His Majesty has had a most instruc-
tive specimen of the lengths to which the Tories and
their organ, the Times, will go, and of the little re-
liance to be placed on their statements.---Morning
Chronicle.

The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
practicability and expediency of consolidating the dif-
ferent departments connected with the civil adminis-
tration of the army, have laid their Report before his
Majesty, and by his Majesty's command that Report
has been presented to both Houses of Parliament.
We shall, on examining this document., have occasion
to contrast the conclusions of the Commissioners with
the evidence given by officers of the very highest rank
and professional experience. But, first, we would ex-
press our opinion as to the real object proposed by
Whiggery in advising the appointment of this Com-
mission. It is the same object which, in every one of
their almost countless Commissions, they have pro-
posed, and by one means or another pursued, v:z. the
aggrandizement of their own faction at the expense of
the public interests. Of course economy, efficiency,
regard for his Majesty's service, are the pretence's on
which they proceed. But that these are nothing More
than pretences, is clear enough to the most careless
observer. indeed, it were an insult to the genuine
spirit of Whiggcry to attach any other than the diame-
trically opposite meaning to the fine phrases which it-
t lc long and dreary days of opposition became to them
familiar as household words, and now naturally. come
to the tip of their official tongues whenever a new trick
is to be tried. Let any man in the three kingdoms
remembering Lord Grey's solemn declaration that he
assumed the government of the empire on the intelli-
gible principle of reform, retrenchment; and non-inter-
vention, look at what has past, partly under that Noble
Earl himself, but chiefly under the persons whom he
first invested with the powers of mischief, and then say

whether the bare affirmation of ‘Vhiggery, on any
public matter. is not of itself sufficient, to excite distrust I
eiar:L! In all matters relating to the army this is
Tae_arliarly the case. That loyal body has always been
obnoxious to the Whigs since they have been in power.
Nothing amidst all their humiliations and mortike'Ll'ons
Las galled the thread-hare patriots so riuch -as the
knowledge that the King's (mops could never be
made to do the duty of a Parliamentary army
in furtherance of the views of a disreputable Akta
tyrannical rnajgritv. From the very first hour of
Lord Grey's Administration, the exclamations of
Whigs and Radicals in Parliament and out of Parlia-
ment, at public meetings and public dinners, in Go-
vernment papers and Government pamphlets, have
been loud and unceasing against retainina. Lords Hill
and Fitzroy Somerset in the offices whicbh they fill so
efficiently at the Horse Guards. Not a military pro-
motion has taken place without curses loud or deep
(unless, indeed, the officer promoted chanced to he
connected directly or indirectly with Whigeerv.) No-
thing could he hoped for, we were told, till the Horse
Guards was brought under the direct control of the
responsible advisers of the Crown ; and, though these
consistent gentry conceded the principle, that the Com-
mander-in-Chief ought not to be a Cabinet Minister,
lest he might acquire a political bias, yet they clamo-
rously contended for the removal of that very Comman-
der-in-Chief, because he did not vote in the House of
Lords with the Whig Government ! Now, we ask, are
we not justified in entertaining especial jealousy of any
attempt on such men to interfere with the administration
of the army ? We look to their general political charac
ter, and we find it perfidiously disregardful of the most
solemn public pledges. We look to their conduct as re-
gards th,e army in particular, and we see a factious spirit
angrily endeavouring to overcome the salutary restraints
by which its all-grasping nature is at present held in
constitutional control. Under such circumstances,
can we believe that a disposition to benefit the King's
service suggested the Commission immediately under
consideration ? An examination of its Report, and of
the evidence on which it is not founded, will be the
best answer to this question. From the names ap-
pended to the Report we find that the Whig-Radical
Commission for consolidating the civil administration
of the British army consisted of Lords Howick, Pal-
merston, J. Russell, Strafford, Sir J. Hobhouse, and
Mr. Rice. Of these names one only—that of John
Lord Strafford—is that of an officer in the army. And
to show the progress made by the present Government
in a few years, we may mention that the first Com-
mission on the same subject, appointed in the fourth
year of his present Majesty's reign, contained the
names of the Duke of Richmond, Sir James Kempt,
and Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas, all officers of rank
and expericiice ; whereas in the sixth year of his Ma-
jesty's reign the name of John Lord Strafford stands
alone in contradistinction with five such names as those
of Howick, Palmerston, J. Russell, J. Hobhouse,
and T. Rice. If the question to be considered were
perfectly simple, divested of all complicated details, one,
for instance, like that of military flogging, the four
Lords and the Right Hon. " fifth" might inspire, if not
confidence, still no very absolute distrust. It is true that
they have most of them spoken and voted against
corporal punishment when out of office, but, like
consistent Whigs, they have " wheeled about" when
in. Yet allowance could be made for the new lights,
&c., illuminating the official, as distinguished from the
non-official, Whig. But what can the four Lords and
one-fifth of a Minister know of the question of which
they have constituted themselves judges ? A Secre-
taryship at War, a Paymastership of the Forces, are
offices, to have filled which would have entitled any
one of the four Lords to be examined as a witness, but
not, we apprehend, to sit in judgment on this ques-
tion. If the latter—why was not the prime contriver
of the scheme, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, once
`Whig-Radical Secretary at War, Whig-Radical
Whipper-in, &c.—why was not this estimable person
included in the Commission ? Perhaps the Right Hon.
Gentleman was deemed too Radical ; or his delicacy
may have induced him to decline carrying out the plan
of his own contrivance. In either case, he would
surely have inspired as cordial a trust in the public
mind as Lord Palmerston and his colleagues in the
Commissionership, who have shown by their recent
exploits at the Ordnance-office, and indeed in every
military and naval department in which they could
compromise the dignity of the King's service, the fatal
consequences which must follow should the two great
arms of the national defence be intrusted to their un-
controlled direction. Having said thus much on the
composition of the Commission, we shall devote a sepa-
rate notice to its report.—Times.
In looking back to the proceedings of Parliament
since the opening of the Session, and examining the
snm total of the objections urged by the Tories against
the measures of Reform proposed by the Government,
we shall find that, notwithstanding the number and im-
portance of the Bills under consideration, all of them
resolve themselves into a single problem—the whole
question to be solved being, whether or not Reform is
to progress or retrograde—we say retrograde, for to
remain stationary is altogether impossible, as the mo-
ment the Tories perceive, or imagine they perceive the
slightest disposition on the part of the people to forego
any portion of the justice for which they are contend-
ing, an attempt is immediately made, not only to
defeat the Reforms which arc claimed, but also to
deprive the country of those which it has already
achieved. When Sir Robert Peel was desirous to ap-
pease the indignation which his usurpation of office in
1834 had aroused in the minds of even the moderately
liberal men in every part of the empire, he professed
himself a Reformer, and assured the public that he ac-
cepted office with a sincere and ardent desire to carry
the principles of the Reform Act into full operation ;
but after his expulsion from the position into which
lie intruded himself by factious influence, and when
the liberal measures proposed by the present Ministry
lied so far restored public confidence, and tranquillised
the country, that the Tories, wilfully misinterpreting
the calm of the popular mind as an evidence of indif-
ference, exclaimed " reaction”—the aspiring ex-Pre-
mier immediately changed his tone, and became so
enamoured of all antiquated abuses as to consider any
effective attempt at their correction to he equivalent to
an assault against the safety and stability of the na-
tion. The cry of "reaction" was too ridiculous to be
persevered in, though it was kept up until the Tories
became a laughing-stock to the whole country, and to
each other ; besides, it was found that the excitement
such a false representation of the public feeling pro-
voked, was more detrimental to the interests of the
faction than the falsehood itself could be serviceable,
and it was accordingly abandoned. The measures of
the Government are again on their reintroduction
hailed with general satisfaction, and again we have the
pliable ex- Premier parading his desire for all "just"
and " necessau" reforms—which "just" and " neces-
sary" reforms, in his accptation, mean simply those
reforms which the popular effort make it impossible to
withhold. The truce to the wordy war of Parliament
which Easter has brought must be highly acceptable
to all who have taken part in the discussion since the
commencement of the Session, and we hope it will at
the same time prove advantageous in affording the op-
ponents of reform time to reflect calmly on the conse-
quences of persevering in their desperate and infatuated
career. We would impressively urge upon them to
consider coolly the results which their conduct is likely
to accelerate. Suppose they defeat for the time, by
the instrumentality of the Lords, the great measures
now before the country, we would ask them what will
they gain by such proceeding ? Do they imagine that
the people of Great Britain would ever submit to an
Administration based on Tory principles ? Do they
imagine that, if Sir Robert Peel, or any other apostate
was tQ foist himself into office, and carry the reforms
which he hitheito opposed, as in the case of Catholic
emancipation, that, as then, as soon as the country
perceived his duplicity, he would not receive the same
indignant dismissal ? Do they suppose that Ireland
Can be governed without Municipal and Church Re-
form, or that the Dissenters of England will submit to
more astringent laws for t he enforcement of Church-
retes ? Do they really suppose that Ministers are so
blind to the necessities of the times as to abandon any
of these measures, or that if Ministers could be guilty
of such a dereliction of public duty, that the move-
ment would not rather be accelerated than impeded by
such proceeding ? If they are deceived by any such
impressions as these, we trust that the present recess

will give them an opportunity to find out their lois-
take.—Morning Adver!iser.

There is in these lie 1.-C.:3`&i:iption of persons, call-
their-A,`ft:'.! r;-iends of the Church, who do it more
N:~ titer than its open enemies. We allude to a `,n
low and plausible class, who. u7;t1.,,-ft'.;, 'understanding,or having- capacity. to illdeistand, the principles upon
whirls :t having capacity.
Establishment is supported or resisted,
pAttlk themselves upon the wisdom and moderation they
exhibit by taking a middle way. Now, there are many
things in which moderation is good, and so far itt the
fashion of an M'glimont goes, or the manner of urging
trioderation is, no doubt; generally so. But when
..ve come to matter of high principle, and to actions of
which the wisdom or the folly, the justice or the jujus-
tite, depend upon a disputed principle, it is sheer weak-
ness of head, or absurdity, to compromise the ques-
tion by taking a middle way. If one man were to
maintain that the angles of a triangle were equal to
two right angles, and another that they were equal
to four right angles, what would be thought of the
wiseacre who should propose, by way of a pruden-
tial settlement of the dispute, that all the angles of
a triangle should be allowed to be equal to three
right angles ? We admit that mathematical truth
being capable of strict and indisputable demonstra-
tion, the absurdity would he more palpable in this case
than in any case of morals or of ecclesiastical polity ;
but still, if we admit certain principles to be true in
anything, it is weak and irrational to take a medium
point between them and the opposite falsehood. But
if this medium point be taken for the sake of obtain-
nos popularity with the vulgar, who know nothing
about the matter, but only applaud moderation as an
affair of manners, then the taking of it is not only ir-
rational but mean—it exhibits a want of honesty as
well as a want of understanding. The great question
of a Church and a Church Establishment is not a
thing of yesterday. The principles of educated, and
especially of religious men ought to be settled upon
this point, if they be settled upon anything beyond
the realm of physical demonstration. The principles
relating to such a subject must be independent of po-
pular opinion. It is not conceivable that any man
who, upon principle, has supported the Church as a
thing of divine institution, and has approved of its con-
nection with the State as sound policy in the very high-
est department of policy—it is, we say, inconceivable
that such a man should believe the right and the
wrong in these matters to depend upon the state of the
popular mind. He may find the popular mind so
wilful that; do all he can, it runs counter to him in
those matters. What, then, is to be his course ? Let
us suppose him a Statesman, entrusted with the guid-
ance
of the Government—what is he to do ? Is he
to give up such principles at the bidding of the breath
of the multitude ? Is he to allow that " the spirit of
the age" is with him more powerful than the spirit of
truth ? Finally, is he, for the sake of compromise, to
give up a part of the truth to the prevailing prejudice,
and thus to confound things divine and human, and
adulterate political principle in the very highest matter
of policy, with the base mixture of temporary expe-
diency ? Whoever takes any of these courses is
morally a coward, and politically a poltroon. And not
less worthless is the man who, holding opposite prin-
ciples to those supposed—who, believing that the
Church is not of divine institution—that its connec-
tion
with the State is not sound policy, undertakes
nevertheless, for a public hire, the guardianship of
institutions founded on the opposite belief, and
betrays into the hands of enemies that which he is
bound in conscience to defend. Again, however, comes
the relentless questioning of these restless times—what
is to be done ? is there to be no reform ? Yes there
is, and let no one suppose that we are so bigotted as
not to wish that it had come long ago, before had
fallen upon these evil days, when honest reform (by
reason of the power of dishonest enemies) is so awfully
difficult. Let reform be carried on in conformity with
principle. If we believe the Church to be of divine
institution let no pains be spared—let nothing that
human energy can do be left undone to purify it from
mere worldliness, and from everything unbecoming
such an institution. Let political partisanship have
no footing there. Nothing in which men are con-
cerned, although it be of divine institution, can be
perfectly pure. No order of men so numerous as the
clericy of our Church can by human possibility be free
from reproach; but no doubt much might be done, and
much ought to be done, by active superintendence,
to improve that body, and to make it in a greater
degree worthy of its high calling. This has been by
no means lost sight of within the Church, but the Le-
gislature gives no aid of the right sort, and how
should it, for its spirit is not of the right sort. Our
statesmen give way to those whose wish is not to im-
prove the Church, but to cripple it—not to elevate it
to its just position, but to put shackles upon it, and
fasten it down into a state of menial servitude to po-
pular authority. The Reform which the Church
might undergo, in conformity with sound Con-
servative principles, would be exactly of an opposite
character. The tendency of that Reform would be
to relieve it from every trace of servitude save
that which it owes • to its divine founder, and to
make it a blessing to the souls of men, and not
a pander to the vanity of vulgar wilfulness. There
are persons in the House of Commons in whom
everything is little and contracted, save their ig-
corance and their presumption. These persons
proclaim that the people must reform the Church,
a proposition which none but the ignorant and the
presumptuous can listen to for a moment. The
people may alter the Church—they may plunder
the Church—they may destroy its temporal estab-
lishment, but they cannot reform it. Ignorance
cannot reform knowledge, nor wild irregularity amend
a calm and sober system. A wise Minister of the
King would take the opposite view—lie would look
to the Church to reform the people, and for that pur-
yose he would desire above all things, and promote
above all things, the better and more extensive adapta-
tion of the Church to the instruction of the people.
The Legislature should give the Church a power over
its own internal arrangements which at present rests
nowhere, or if anywhere, in a Commission of which
more than a half of the members have published them-
selves traitors to the Church. The present watchful-
ness of the public—the responsibility to the public,
which now more than ever is made effectual for evil,
might be turned to good account, were a proper system
organized in the Church, whereby internal government
could better be preserved, and causes of of-
fence be more readily and speedily removed. But
how are we to expect such desirable improve-
ments when the Church finds enemies in the Mi-
nisters of the Crown, and in majorities of the House
of Commons ? Instead of being assisted to accom-
plish the great works which are to be done, it is as-
saulted and put upon its defence. Instead of being
aided in those undertakings conducive to the honour
of God, and to the best interests of man, in which it
is disposed to embark, it is threatened by the strong
hand of the spoiler, and he who uplifts that hand is
the conductor of the King's Government ! Such is
the encouragement to reform in the Church given by
those who call themselves the friends of Reform !
Away with such mockery—such insolent delusion
Let things be called by their right names, and let pub-
lic men range themselves accordingly, that all the
world may see what they are, and judge what confi-
dence is to be placed in them. If Ministers believe
the principles proclaimed by Mr. Warburton and Mr.
Hume regarding the Church to be true, let them say
so, and make their conduct intelligible ; but to call
themselves friends of the Church, and yet to act as
they do, is monstrous, and beyond endurance.—Morn-
inff6 Post.
fierce, but not unamusing altercation, has been
carried on during some days between certain of our
Contemporaries, Whig and Tory, touching the precise
interpretation, bearing, and origin of a foolish para-
graph in a provincial journal, which points to the ap-
proaching return of Lord Durham to this country, for
the purpose of presiding over the establishment of the
heiress-presumptive on her coming of age, in accord-
ance with the wishes of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent. The " apple of discord" which
the malevolent Goddess of old threw among mortals
was not the moving cause of more bitter and fiery
contention than the combustible paragraph which the
heathen God that waves his leaden caduceus beside
the Tyne, has thrown among the journals. Where
he dote his information, for Mercury being the god

t-`,,,:r.sc, did not a;
\-N'e cannot say. It certainly collies eolitrdbatid
shape that the police of the p;est it ivicessary
to keep a sliaFp It ,-tk out after A barrel of British
gunpowder on board the Vixen did not create greater
alarm and commotion at the Russian Court, than this
Mercurial paragraph excited in the• Republic of the
press. A firebrand thrown from the banks of the
Tyne has neatly set the Thames oil lire I Lord Dlit-
h lit the most aristocratic of Radicals, who has had
the good fortune to be embraced by Louis Philippe—
glorified by the Glasgow mob—praised and pat: onised
by the Autocrat of Rus-iia and destroyer of Poland,
comes to take upon himself the office of political
Mentor to the future Sovereign of Great Britain ! At
least, so says a voice on the banks of the Tyne. We
sispect it is the voice of a false oracle. Mercury
dealt in poetry before he gave his lyre to Apoll'-'. Pro-
bably in remembrance of his old trade he still indulges
in fiction. We recollect a letter from a London cor-
respondent, published in a Radical Canadian paper
some time ago, in which the comfortable assurance was
given to that faction that wish to get rid of the " bale-
ful domination of the Mother Country," that if they
waited until the Princess Victoria came to the Throne
they would have everything their own way, it being an •
assured and certain matter that the reins of power would
be entrusted to such enlightened Statesmen and worthy
patriots as Messrs. Roebuck, Hume, and O'Connell.
If we are not mistaken Lord Durham's name was also in-
troduced. This was no doubt, to use an Irish phrase,
" great 1 OWS entirely" for Canada ; but what was the
effect which it produced when re-imported into Lon-
don—the place of its manufacture ? Only to laugh at
its absurdity. The paragraph in the Tyne Mercury
deserves no other notice. The worst of this gossiping
fiction is, that it has caused the names of two illustrious
and amiable ladies to be dragged into public controversy,
while, remote from the bustle and contention of politi-
cal life, they shrink from all ostentatious display, and
cultivate the virtues and practise the charities of private
life in peaceful retirement. It is true, such notoriety is
a tax paid for distinction ; but we dislike unnecessary
and immoderate taxation of all sorts, and see neither
justice or moderation in the tax which the intruders upon
the retirement of the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Victoria would cause those distinguishod personages
to pay. Cannot the little luminary of a provincial
journal, affecting a familiar acquaintance with State
secrets, twinkle in its pretty orbit, without causing
exalted worth and female delicacy to be intruded upon,
and annoyed in the sanctuary of domestic life by male-
volent or gossiping curiosity ? Long may that event
be distant which alone could make the heiress pre-
sumptive of full age before the usual time ; but, under
ally circumstances, we do not apprehend that the
Princess, or her illustrious parent,
_will forget those
principles of Protestant and constitutional Government
which placed the family of Brunswick on the throne of
these realms.—Morning Herald.