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conduct—and the country is reconciled to the
standard—by what the Tories did ;so that Tory
profligacy is really the national guide after the
Tories are excluded from office. Their long do-
minion has produced habit-s, both in the people and
in the Government, which, with irresistible force,
impel both on in a career that must end in ruin.
The two great sources of our excessive, and, let
us add, unwarrantable expenditure, as Mr. RICE
explained, ara the demands of the House of Com-
mons and the country for an increase of the naval
and military force—for more extensive machinery
of Government; and the unfortunate conflict with
Canada, which was brought on by following Tory
principles. When the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER referred to the expense. of the New
Poor-law, and the expense of the Factory Coin-
missioners as augmenting the expenditure for the
year, it was scarcely candid in him to overlook the
cost of improving the navigation of the Shannon,
and of building the stables at Windsor. We hope
the Right Hon. Gentleman is not averse from an ex-
penditure of public money which does not originate
with himself. To know the sources of our finan-
cial disease, is to be half way towards curing them.
They obviously arise from a general disposition to
cure all kind of evils by the agency of Government,
and the application of public money. Though we
know the source of our danger, we doubt, when we
recollect the Corn-laws, whether there be sufficient
virtue in the ruling classes to enable them to save
the country.

The aucsts of the members of the Convention at
Birmingham continue. Our paper of this day
contains the account of Mr. LOVETT'S examination
and committal to Warwick Goal. One thing is
quite palpable from that, namely, that the violence
of which the art:lorities and Police were guilty were
the paret:ts of the lesser' violence in Mr. LOVETT,
the drawing up and publishing a seditious libel, for
which he has been committed to Warwick Goal.
Thus it is that violence begets violence, and now that
an open contest has begun between the middle and
the lower classes, between those who share in the
powers of the Government and those who are denied
all share in it, lie must be a bold prophet who will
fo:etell how and when it will end.
All the accounts which we have seen agree in
representing the attack on the people at the Bull
Ring to have preceded ail warning on the part of
the Magistrates. Women and children were pre-
sent, and a working man was reading a newspaper,
when they were suddenly attacked by the Police,
beaten, and partially dispersed. As at present in-
, formed, we see no warrant whatever for such a
course of proceedings. That the Magistrates
might be alarmed, is not a justification of it.
Their alarm, their terror, might have been the
offspring of their own bad conscience.. They might
be convinced that they had seduced and betrayed
their fellow-townsmen ; and some testimony on oath
should have been given—perhaps it was, and will
hereafter be produced—that the public peace was
endangered ; but at present no such testimony ap-
pears, and, apparently, with no other warrant than
their own fears did the Magistrates order the people
fereihly to be .dispersed. We must presume that
they had some ground for this act of violence which
has not yet been made public; but whether they
had or not it is equally clear that their violence was
the immediate parent of all the following violence.
Human actions are closely connected one with
another, and if the violence for which Mr. LOVETT
has been sent to gaol be worthy of reprobation, we
cannot comprehend that philosophy which exone-
rates those whose violence was the cause of his. It
is true his violence might be contrary to the
law, and their violence ma) be brought within the
law ; but the law itself may be, in this case—
GOD knows it has been in many cases—most erro-
neous, and command or authorise that which
is criminal. We, therefore, shall not say that
the Birmingham Magistrates have not acted most
mischievously, though the law be entirely on their
side.

LAST WEEK.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respectfully informed, that the
PRESENT 31ANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE

• WITH THIS SEASON.
THIS EVENING, JULY 8,
Will ba performed the Historical Play of
KING HENLY V.,
From the Text of Shakspeare.
Kill; Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready.
To conclude with,
FRA DIA VOLO.
Marquis San Carlos, Mr. Frazer ; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett ;
Zerlina, Miss Rainforth.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Oaptain Marryatt's " Phan'om Ship " nightly attracts over-
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tiovair,g, Howeel. -
First appearance of the Bedouin Arabs since their return from

Arne' lea.
THIS EVENING, hr.,- 8,
Will be repeated the New .Iy2tical Drama, entitled
THE PHANTOM SHIP.

Philip Vanderdecken, E. F. Saville7 Amine, MrA. H.
Vining.
After which,
THE BEDOUIN Ali ABS' UNAPRALLELED
EXERCISES.
T. conclude with,
THE CURSE OF .31AAnION.
Hogaith's " Marriage A-la-mode."
An. Lstb, 3lr. Walla k, the Proprietor of the
\cw York, will make his 6rst at
in Two of his Popular Characters.

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ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE.
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPE-
TRES, and ERUPTION of }IECLA COMBINED ! !
First Exhibition of the Extraordinary New Light,
KONIAPHOSTIC !
THIS DAY, TO-MORROW, and THURSDAY,
JULY Ili, 9, and 11,
A GRAND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,
By a splen,llLand, composed of the most distinguished Instru-

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mental Performers in the Metropolis,
Selected and condumed by Mr. Godfrey.
Commencing at Six o'clock.
At. Dusk will be intros aced, for the first time, an extraordinary
Boveity, produced under the superintendance of Mr. 11. Carter,
called KONIAPHOSTIC, by which the Whole Gardens will
be illumined in the most brilliant manner with One Central
To be followed by the F.IIUPTION of MOUNT HECLA.

Adrnif,sion One Shilling.
Hour of Foe:ling the Carnivore, Five o'clock.

WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS,
(Open Every Evening)
Second Week, and triumpCant success of the BRITISH
JIM CROW, Mr. DUNN, who will, THIS EVENING, and
during the WEEK, sing and dance the celebrated Songs of
" Sich a 4-rettin' up Stairs," '• Clare de Kitchen,'" and '° Jump
Jim Crow'," in the highly amusing Vaudeville, intitled, THE
COURT JESTER, or, THE BLACK SENTINEL.
In addition the Amusements will consist of a GRAND VO-
CAL CONCERT, by Miss Ford, (from the Theatre Royal
Drury Lane), Miss Smith, Mr. and Mis. Rogers, and Messars.
'Benson Field, and Co.
In the oonrse of the Evening the wonderful Arab, AB SHE-
KIR ABDALLA will go through the whole of his extraordi-
nary Performance on the Corde Volante.
The Evening's Entertainments will conclude with a Magni-
cent Display of FIREWORKS.
Admission Is, Juveniles 6d.
Full particulars in the Bills of the Day.
To-morrow a Grand Gala Fete, for the Benefit of a Philan-
thropic Lodge, held at the Queen's Head and Artichoke, Al-
bany-street, Regent's Park.

As to the part which the Government has taken
in this deplorable transaction, we understand it
amounted to this : the Mayor of Birmingham ap-
plied to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department for the assistance of some
Police to enable him to keep the peace
in Birmingham. The Home Secretary granted
his request, establishing the fact that the London
Police, as was said from the first it would be, is an
addition to the armed force of the country, which
the Home Secretary can put is motion with-
out any concert with the military authorities, so
that the country hat somewhat less security for its
being judiciously employed, than if the orders were
first to be transmitted from the Home Secretary and
then from the Horse-guards. Having acceded to the
Magistrates request, we take it for granted that
the Home Secretary did nothing more in the
matter, and left the Mayor and his Councillors
to their discretion. They alone, then, are the re-
sponsible parties, and possibly they may coivince
the country that they have discreetly used the
power they have newly acquired, and that they have
not obtained► a franchise only to make use of it to
the injury of others.
The Recorder, it will be noticed, justly compli-
men' ed Mr. LOVETT on the frankness with which
he answered questions that concerned only himself ;
and the equal firmness with which he refused to
answer any questions implicating others, will be
generally admired. Such men are the stuff out of
which martyrs are made; and martrys to liberty are
now likely to be more sincere than martyrs to reli-
gion. What support the members of the Conven-
tion, which was dying out, may now meet with—
what enthusiasm their arrest may kindle—is hard
to say ; but the event is well calculated to try the
temper of the people, and the strength of their
attachment to principles which they have
loudly professed, hut which we have always
regarded as erroneous. If the mass be not,
as we. think they are not, particularly in the
North, degraded to the lowest stage of political
abasement, the consequences of these proceedings
on them may be alarming. We openly say, that
our fears surpass our hopes.
We condemned the excessive bail which was de-
manded in the case of Mr. STEPHENS—we must
equally condemn it in this case. Taking the in-
come of Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS at two
pounds per week each, to require bail of them
which amounts to five years' income, seems to us
excessive and unwarranted by the custom and
practice of the Courts of Law.

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LONDON :
MONDAY, JULY 8, 1839.

IWe regret to learn from the statement made
by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER OD
1 Friday evening, that the expenditure for the year
ending sth of April, 1839, was 430,3261. more
than the revenue, and further that the expendi-
ture for the current year is likely to be, according
to the Right Honourable Gentleman's estimates,
427,554/. more than the revenue. Such a con-
tinued excess of expenditure above revenue in
time of peace, is we think, a serious evil ; and
measures ought to be taken at all hazards to reduce
the expenditure to a level with the revenue.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pro-
poses to meet this deficiency by an issue of Ex-
chequer Bills, which in the present state of the
Money Market, and in the present circumstances
of the country is a measure of doubtful propriety. 1
What amount he will actually ask for on a vote of
credit he will state at a future period. While
he is going on borrowing at this rate, we cannot
see the propriety of still keeping up an office for the
reduction of the National Debt, which is, we be-
lieve, yet in existence. It is no consolation to
us to be thus obliged, year after year, to give up
the hope that the national burdens would be re-
duced by the economy of a reforming Government. We see, in the establishment of a Society for Be
ti
We are not to get from Lord MELBOURNE any or- .erino the Condition of the Natives of British India,
ganic returns, neither are we to get any economical the dawn of a new and brighter era in the history
reforms, for they are wholly impossible while the of the East. We expect not ever to behold the
expenditure exceeds the revenue. inhabitants of Hindoqan assume the rank among
i Generally the nation was accustomed, and with Oriental states which belonged to them under the
great justice, to reproach the Tories with having martial sway of the Jagatay and Mogol Princes--
heaped on its accumulated debt, by prose- under ihe sceptres of thel3AaErts, the HEMAYUNS,
cuting unjust wars, but an ample justification the ACBARS, the JEHAN GHIRS, the SHAH
will be found for them if the reforming Govern- JEttANS, and the AURUNGZEBES, when a con-
meat adds to the debt in a time of peace and pros- quering Prince carried out of India gold and
peritv. The Tories, with the glory of their con- jewels of the value of one hundred and twenty-five
tests will, by the Ministers now adding to the millions sterling, without greatly impoverishing the
debt, be rescued from reproach, and be handed people; len down to twe anticipate a period when moderate
Posterity with honour conferred on them human labour will be more than adequate to supply
by the Whip. Some fatality appears to weigh an abundance of the necessaries, and a corn-
on the Government. It has fallen over the preci- 1 petent share of even the luxuries of civilized
pice of strict integrity, imposing on the future the I life—when famine will become unknown, and when
payment for present follies, and it seems doubtful knowledge, as a beacon-light at sea, will guide un-
whether the power of mortal man can save it from erringly the now blind, groping idol-worshippers of
being dashed to pieces,
that the living springlt is,;at the same time Asia. This will require time, and perseverance,
, coneolatory to know and patience, and much toil, and some hazard ; but
, of the national welfare the resuscitation of a country, under any circum-
is unimpaired. The revenue, which has stances, is a labour of extreme difficulty, and of
fallen short of the expenditure, has
the estimates of its probable amount.e
exe d d slow and painful accomplishment. To wound is
long the spring may flow unweak e e
Ilow easy, but the process of healing is tardy and
with our Corn-laws, and cotton-mille workingeneci—_, troublesome. 'lyranny is doubly dreadful and de•
testable from the fact, that it can perpetuate more
short- time, and with great efforts makino. '' • than can he removed '
b to evils in a year
restrict the currency, and produce a general fall And that besides P
in-
in prices—we will not conjecture. The CHAN flicts moral wounds
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER seemed to have a suffers in a century ;
physical wrongs, it too often in the generation- t
incurable that
them. The crimes committed under the
fearful forboding that its end is not far off; but sanction of the British name in the East would
up to this time the Customs, the Excise, the Post- be venial indeed, if we could hope to destroy their
office, and other great branches of the revenue, effects by the stretching forth of a hand, or the hare
have continued to increase. The excess of ex- passing of an Act of Parliament. It must, there-
penditure over income, then, is caused, not by the fore, be obvious, that the Society just forrired, and
drying up of the springs of our wealth—not by having fel' the object of its labours the physical
the falling off in our income, but by the great in- and moral improvement of an hundred millions of
crease of expenditure. It is clearly, therefore, human beings, has undertaken a work of immense
and that is our consolation, within the power of difficulty; but let it not be forgotten that te prin-
the Government to make the two equal. The , ciples of justice, the precepts of the Gospelp, and
origin of that fatality which is hurrying us on in 1 the dictates of a far-seeing self-interest ll .
1 , equa y im-
a dangerous career is the system of government. pose upon the whole British nation the bl. t•
' o iga ion
It belongs to the habits
of the people. It exiSts of cordially supporting them, and such
support is
in ourselves. It is the corrupting legacy bequeathed all that is wanted to secure the
/ ultimate ac
com-
to the nation, and bequeathed public men, by ! plisliment of so eldrieus a perpose. We have 101- i
the protracted system of Tory profligacy and Tory 'Jo ..,.'d ti;C, example of 'NADIR SHAH in ritlino 1
inisalle• Oar preseet statesmen rneasure their I India of her diamonds, her pearls, and her gold.;
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