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was mainly instrumental in carrying that measure, rolled
onwards, as we foresaw it would, with great impetuosity.
An enlightened toleration degenerated into a spurious,
and licentious liberality. Under the administration of •
the Whigs, Popery in the Colonies was established by law.
A spirit of fierce democracy was extensively manifested.
The voluntary system insisted on the overthrow of the
Established Church. A complete confiscation of eccle-
siastical property was demanded by revolutionary de-
magogues, and partially conceded by-a perfidious Mi-
nistry. Annual Parliaments, universal suffrage, bal-
lot, destruction of the House of Peers, and we know
not what all, were important items in the democratic
bill of demand. For some year or two the waves of
popular tumult lashed and dashed against the bulwarks
of constitutional liberty, and, conceiving that the ves-
sel of the State was in jeopardy, we made no scruple •
to throw all the lumber overboard ; we betook. our-
selves immediately to the pump ; and we have now the
satisfaction of knowing, not only that the storm has
subsided into a beneficial breeze, but that our country-
men, profiting by the experience of past danger, are
now directing their energies to the maintenance of
public order and security. Their languid Protestan-
tism has revived. Their old religious feelings arc
quickened into vitality. The traditionary associa-
tions connected with a patriotic and pious ances-
try are happily rekindled. The inertness of tran-
sition has been followed by the activities of re-
action ; and hence the zeal shown at the Glasgow
banquet : and the English Conservative festivals are
only so many arterial indications of that national
health and vigour which is once more buoyant in the
heart. " Church and King," therefore, or " religion
and liberty," are again the rallying-words of constitu-
tional Englishmen ; nor do we entertain a doubt that,
whatever minor differences of opinion may obtain
among the mighty Conservacy of Britain (for Mr.
Gladstone was right in saying at the South Notts
dinner that " to be a Conservative it is not necessary
to be a Tory"), their great leaders in Parliament and
in the provinces will avail themselves of the present
favourable state of public feeling, to deepen and per-
petuate an absorbing attachment to Protestantism, as
the basis and bulwark of the monarchy, as the dis-
tinctive characteristic and undivided aim of the Con-
stitutional party, as the dearest inheritance we have
received from our ancestors, and as the richest legacy
we can bequeath to our children. On this subject
some sensible remarks will be found in a letter by
Mr. Woodward, which we insert in another column.—
Times.

A CAPITAL DURING WAR.--That city (Ma-
drid) exhibited a sad mixture of luxury and desolation.
When it was first entered, a violent, cruel, and unjust per-
secution of those who were called Afraneesados was com-
menced, and continued until the English General interfered,
and as an example made no distinction in his invitations
to the palace feasts. Truly it was not necessary to increase
the sufferings of this miserable people ; for, though the
markets were full of provisions, there was no money
wherewith to buy ; and, though the houses were full of
rich furniture, there were neither purchasers nor lenders ;
even noble families secretly sought charity, that they might
live. At night the groans and stifled cries of famishing
people were heard ; and every morning emaciated dead
bodies, cast into the streets, showed why those cries had
ceased. The calm resignation with which these terrible
sufferings were borne was a distinctive mark of the na-
tional character ; not many begged ; none complained ;
there was no violence, no reproaches, very few thefts ;
the allies lost a few animals, nothing more, and these were
generally thought to be taken by robbers from the country.
But with this patient endurance of calamity, Madrilenos
discovered a deep and unaffected gratitude for kindness
received at the hands of the British officers, who contri-
buted, not much, for they had it not, but enough of money
to form soup charities, by which hundreds were succoured.
It was the third division, and, I believe, the 45th Regi-
ment, which set the example ; and surely this is not the
least of the many honourable distinctions those brave men
have earned.—Napier's Peninsular War.

On Wednesday evening, the 11th instant, the .fol-
lowing fatal occurrence took place at Layton, in this
county :—An aged couple named Manshaw reside in a
cottage upon some little property ; the old man is in the
habit,. nearly every night, of smoking his pipe at a public
house ; and on the above evening he went out as usual,
leaving his wife, who has been a cripple nearly 40 years,
sitting on a chair by the fire-side, and the door locked. It
is supposed that by some means her clothes caught fire,
for on her husband's return she was found consumed to a
cinder, her right hand being entirely burnt off. She was
60 years of age. The interior of the house and the furni-
ture were considerably injured. On Saturday last an in-
quest was held on the remains of the unfortunate woman,
and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned.—Chelms-
ford Chronicle.

The following is the number of burials which took
on Sunday afternoon in the following burial-grounds :—St.
John's-wood burial-ground, Regent's-park, 16 ; 'Paddington-
street, St. Mary-la-bonne, 2S ; Paddington Church-yard,
81 ; St. James's Chapel, Hampstead-road, 41 ; St. George's,
Uxbridge-road, Hyde-park, 38 ; in the same ground, mili-
tary funerals of the household infantry, 14 ; St. Pancras Old
Church, ;at Greenwich Hospital the mortality among
the pensioners is very great. The disorder is-now spreading
to an alarming and extensive degree amongst the household
infantry, cavalry, and Royal artillery, at WOOlivieb.
STROLLING POLITICIAN.---A paragraph headed
thus, appearing in the Stockport Advertiser, has been pointed
out to us. We hardly know whether we are justified in
reprinting so scandalous and indecent a libel on Mr. O'Con-
nell. After such a specimen of reckless slander the fetidity
of a cess-pool is comparatively inoffensive. Here is the
dirty second-hand lie with its foul scarlet commentary :
" At a meeting of the Operative Conservatives of Oldham,
Mr. It. S. Sowler, of Manchester, made the following very
important statement Mr. O'Connell had written to
Rochdale, in reply to an invitation from the Radicals of that
place, that he would accept it only on condition of being
paid the sum of .50/. and his expenses.' This is, indeed,
making of itinerant sedition a trade more profitable than
that of the strolling player, but not so honourable. It is
quite in the character of the meretricious female who meets
the advances of a temporary lover with the burden of an
old song, Without your cash your kissing won't do.'
Never has there been a prostitute °fatly description so base,
impure, shameless, and mercenary as O'Connell."
LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM. Yesterday fore-
noon the general annual meeting of this- institution took
place at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr. Alderman Thompson was in the chair. The report
read by the secretary contained a favourable account of the
state of the institution. The receipts between the 24th
of December, 1835, and the 24th of December, 1836,
amounted to 11,3371. ss. .5d.; and the expenditure to
11,190/. 10s. 6d., leaving a balance of 46/. 14s. 11d. in
the Treasurer's hands. Among the receipts was a legacy
of 2,0001., bequeathed to the society by the late Mainwar-
Mg Davies, Esq. The number of children on the founda-
tion at the last election was ;3•10, since which time there had
been admitted 56. During the past year 63 had left the
asylum, and 6 had died. The number now under care
was stated to be 3'27 ; and the total number who had re-
ceived the benefit of the institution since its commence-
ment was 959. The average expense of clothing, maintain-
ing, and educating each of the inmates was 21/. 10s. After
the reading of the report the meeting proceeded to the
election of the Board of Managers, and of 25 additional
children. The thanks of the meeting were also given to
Mr. Alderman Thompson, to the secretaries, and to the
board of managers for the past year.

A man was observed by the police of Yeovil on
Thursday searching for a person, who, he said, had taken
away his child. After a short inquiry the person and the
boy were found at a lodging-house. It then turned out
that the mother and father had sold the child for half-
a-crown. The father said it was true ; and if the pur-
chaser would give him another half-crown he might keep
him : the man not having as much money in his pocket,
the unnatural parent took home his child.—Dorset County
Chronicle. _

We are sorry to have to record another melancholy
shipwreck at the mouth of the river Tay. The following
are the particulars of this distressing event :—The sloop
Success, of Dundee, Alexander Clark master, which arrived
thereon Monday, reports, "That he sailed from Holy Island
o❑ the I.2th instant, in company with the sloop Grahams,
of Perth, and they arrived together at the entrance of the
river Tay on the 13th, about one p.m. It was then blowing
a strong dole from N.N.E., with heavy squalls and snow
showers. The Grahams, at this time, was about half a mile
distant from us, and in the act of staying. As soon as she
came about, a squall at the same time coming on very heavy,
she went gradually over on her beam ends. As soon as I
discovered it (says Mr. Clark) I tacked and stood towards
her ; but before I could reach the spot, there was no re-
mains of crew or vessel to be seen. When the vessel went
down, the Buoy of Tay bore a W.N.W,, distance about
half a mile." Mr. Clark deserves credit fOr his humanity
in standing towards the vessel when he saw her in distress.—
Perthshire Courier of Thursday.
Elizabeth, relict of Julian Pithardo Hitchcock, of
Bungy House, Camberwell, having met with a fatal acci-
dent, the following epitaph is inscribed on her tombstone
" Sad was her death ! she met it thus :
She wqs tirtiv over 11 a—bus,"