The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-25 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
A. C. Tucker, linen draper, Burnham-market, Norfolk,
lan. 14, at one—E. Mercer, grocer, Capel, Kent, Jan. 14, at
two—J. Hancock, timber merchant, Welbeck-street, Caven-
Ush-square, Jan. 14, at eleven—T. Robinson, tallow chandler,
Hungerford-street, Strand, Jan. 16, at twelve—J. Stevens and
S. Baker, brewers, Whitcomb-street, Westminster, Jan. 16, at
one—A. Northcroft, stationer, Chancery-lane, Jan. 16, at two
—J. Bentlett, grocer, East Peckham, Kent, Jan. 13, at half-
past eleven.
In the Country.
J. and P. Wilde silk manufacturers, Manchester, Jan. 20, at
eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—J. Fair-
bank, worsted spinner, Manningham, Bradford, Yorkshire,
Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Court-house, Bradford—T. Maers,
dealer, \Vern, Salop, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Shire-hall,
Shrewsbury—J. Stelfox, grocer, Manchester, Jan. 17, at ten,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—H. Tompkins,
victualler, Bromyard, Herefordshire, Jan. 15, at one, at the
Black Swan Inn, Herefordshire—D. Davies, victualler, Man-
chester, Jan. 15, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester—J. Worthington and J. Coltman, drapers, Stockport,
Cheshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester.

CERTIFICATES—JAN. 14.
A. Bunn, music seller, Eagle-lodge, Brompton—A. Atkin-
son, farmer, Barnard Castle, Durham—J. Deen, tailor, Saville-
row, Burlington-gardens—S. Luce, draper, Pontypool, Mon.
mouthshire—H. Lucas, wine merchant, Leominster, Hereford-
shire—G. Chapman. corn factor, Selby, Yorkshire_J. Trus-
cott, share broker, Manchester.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
C. Richardson and J. Pike, attorneys, Golden-square, Mid-
lesex—T. Graham and H. T. Leigh, surgeons, Turham-green,
Middlesex—J. Harvey and W. Kingston, linen-drapers, Marsh-
gate, Lambeth—A. M'Vey, J. M'Ewen, R. Nichol, and W.
Collisteer, railway-carriage builders, Westham, Essex (so far
as regards J. APEwen)--J. Chapman and D. Sutton, coal-
merchants, Macclesfield—P. Johnson and G. Johnson, manu-
facturers of earthenware, Hanley, Staffordshire—G. M'Knight
and D. L. Williams, linen-drapers, Shiffnal, Shropshire—W.
Aldridge and H. J. Humpage, attorneys-at-laws, Stroud—
F. Jordan, jun. and R. L. Magrath, Liverpool—J. Whitaker
and J. Cross, flannel-manufacturers, Wardle, Lancashire—
J. Thornton and Jos. Thornton, booksellers, Oxford—F. Potter
and J. Wrigley, waste-spinners, Oldham— E. Campion, T. C.
Campion, and J. Campion, brewers, Back-hill, Hatton Garden
—W. Nicholson, J. Wheater, and P. Mann, maltstets, Leeds
—W. H. Collins, W. Nicholson, and J. Wheater, brewers,
Himslet, Leeds—J. Goodwin and W. Scott, chemists, North
Audley-street, Grosvenor-square—W. T. Catlett, R. Mather,
and W. Catlett, surgeons, Grantham—J. Ward, jun. and W.
Brown, quarrymen, Tixall. Staffordshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, writer, Inverary,' Jan. 2 and
22, at three, at J. Walker's, innkeeper, Inverary.
JOHN FENWICK, upholsterer, Dundee, Dec. 30 and
Jan. 21, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee.

WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.—Un Y uesuay
the 10th instant, five men entered a mine, at Grinn, in
the vicinity of Buxton, where they have been for some
time past regularly employed in getting a kind of coarse
spar, an article used for making paint, known amongst
miners by the name of cauk, when a large quantity of
earth'fcll from the roof, which completely blocked up
the passage out of the mine, and in its fall separated
the workmen ; two being closed up in a narrow cavern
nbout fifteen feet long, and four high. On one of the
men perceiving the fall about to take place, he gave an
alarm, which enabled three of them, with difficulty, to
make good their retreat towards the shaft, one of them
being partially caught, but he extricated himself. The
other two, named Bagshaw and Bonsai, were unfortu-
nately shut up without any sustenance and almost
without clothing, from that day till about five o'clock
on the Saturday evening, being five days and
four nights, when after the greatest exertion, night and
lay, they were fortunately extricated from their dreary
prison-house alive, but in a state of great exhaustion.
On hearing of the dreadful catastrophe ; miners, colliers,
aiseworthy intentions were themselves in rescuing
and quarrymen, from the villages in Derbyshire, to a
distance of twenty miles, flocked to the place, with the
laudable e irnetres,n thi ount ot
their
er exertingpr
frustrated, owing to the narrowness of the mine not
permitting more than two men to work at the same
time ; and those were in immi▪
nent danger of being
k 4 yardfs deep. The the surface,
a
buried, as fresh falls could not by the greatest caution
he prevented. Owing to the looseness of the earth
a
occasioneden t a sinking o
y-s
sufferers are, however, fast recovering, every assistance
lbtohvoeu,ghthis the fall
mine
ist
twenty-seven
humanity could suggest having been rendered them
both by medical gentlemen and others.—Correspondent
qf the Derbyshire Chronicle.
NEWPORT CHARTISTS.—Sir Frederick Pol-
lock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Thomas, have been
engaeed for the defence of the pri▪
soners. The fees of
Sir Frederick and Mr. Kelly will not be far short of
1,0001. They have 300 guineas each as a special re-
tainer ; 4s. 6d. each per mile to Monmouth and back ;
heavy fee with brief ; 25 guineas to each of their
,
clerks, and all expenses paid. he comfort is, that
they are worth as much as any two men at the bar, and
one
are not tinged with particle of Whiggery.—Nurthern
Star.

So little cider has been made in the neighbour-
hood of Creditors, where the apple 12 cultivated to a
great extent, that one respectable farmer who has been
in the habit of attending the London market, and who
has 50 acres of orchard ground, and for several years
past has not made less than 200 hogsheads, has this year
made but 10 hogsheads ; and we know three large
farrdars near the town of Crediton, who have not grown
apples enough to make a hogshead each. There was in
general a very fair promise, but the blossoms were
nipped by the very inclement weather experienced in
May.—Western Luminary.

SIR,—In a former letter to you, which you had
the impartiality promply to publish in your excel-
lent and truly independent Journal, relat►ve to the
late extraordinary trial and conviction of the repre-
sentative body of the people of Great Britain and
Ireland for libel, I concluded with stating that it
was my intention to submit to the consideration. of
the public the share which her Majesty's Attorney-
General has had in an affair so little creditable to
the wisdom. and vigour of Parliament. It is not
necessary to inform you that when the first inti-
mation of such a trial was given to Mr. Hansard,
" plain John Campbell" was immediately consulted,
and
,the Government was guided in every step
which it ultimately took by the light reflected
by this official repository of Ministerial legal
knowledge. Sir John Campbell was never very
eminent for the profundity of his black-letter ac-
quirements, or for his intimate acquaintance with
the principles of the British .Constitution ; but I
never heard from any quarter that he was ever
known to fail in that first of modern professional
duties—the exaction of fees. The Learned and
patriotic Attorney-General told Ministers, and
Ministers told Parliament, that the best way to
assert the dignity of the House of Commons was
to leave the action undefended, and trust to the
terrors inspired in the minds of all Judges, Juries,
Sheriffs, Bailiffs, or Auctioneers, by the fulmina-
tion of some terrible resolutions with which
the Noble Home Secretary wa►s then charged. Now,
though this was contended in the House,
and has since been proved to the country, the sil-
liest advice that an Attorney-General could give in
such a case, I have a Parliamentary Return be-
fore me which clearly demonstrates that Sir John
Campbell did not scruple to make the country pay
very severely for it. We may estimate the value
which Sir John would place upon a sound legal
opinion by the heavy cost to which he has ppt the
country for the official declaration of an absurdity.
It must be ad►aitted that he appeared in one of the
Courtsat Westminster, and argued against the grant-
ing of the writ for the trial, and so successfully, too,
that the writ was not granted till the conclusio❑
of a tolerably long speech on the subject. His
arguments did not send the Judges to their
chambers to re-study the merits of the question.
The Attorney-General is not in the habit of
making such demands on the time and the reflec-
tion of their Lordships. They were, however,
courteously listened to, and—over-ruled, without a
moment's hesitation. For this appearance of the
Learned gentleman in his wig and gown, and for
giving the advicabto Ministers which I have stated

above, I find that the country has paid the sum of
1,2661. 3s. 10d., independently of the expenses in-
curred since the rising of Parliament. Of this sum
Sir John Campbell himself pocketed 3541. 18s.,
and his clerk 101. 10s. The Parliamentary paper
on the authority of which I state these facts
was moved for by Mr. Wallace on the Ist
of July, 1839, and purports to be a " Re-
turn of the whole of the Expenses then
incurred in the trial of Stockdale v. Hansard, with
the names of the recipients of each sum, and the
sum total expended and to be paid by the public."
The Solicitor-General pocketed 431. Is.; Sir F.
Pollock 51/. 95.; Sir W. Follett 431. is.; and Mr.
Wightman an equal amount ; besides 1051. 18s. 4d.
paid to the solicitors, Messrs. Parkes and Preston.
In fact from a constitutional question to be decided
by the House of Commons itself, the case of
Stockdale was converted by the law officers of the
Crown into a legal job, for which the country is en-
titled to hold the Attorney-General responsible.
One benefit, however, must result to the country,
and to the public press more especially, from this
contest of an individual with the Legislature—the
law of libel must now be reformed. Had any of
the several Bills to effect this object, brought for-
ward by Mr. O'Connell, been properly supported
by Sir John Campbell and the Government, Mr.
Stockdale would not have dared to show his face
in any Court of Justice, to bring an action against
the printer of the House of Commons. But the
Attorney-General, though a flaming patriot and a
zealous law reformer on the hustings at Edinburgh,
is a remarkably moderate Whig in the House of
Commons. Difficulties stare him in the face in
London, which he never encounters, even in his
dreams, in Scotland. Once in sight of Auld
Reekie he cares not a button for office, and he ridi-
cules the absurdity of titles ; but in his chambers
in Westminster, secure from the hubbub and inter-
rogatories of the Canongate and Princes-street
patriots, " plain John Campbell" entertains very
different notions about the desirableness of
place, and even discovers something ex-
ceedingly dulcet in the phraseology of rank,
as the sounds are heard in his own family
circle. The Attorney-General is a professed Law
Reformer, but except where Reform, or rather
change, in the law will facilitate the practice of a
lawyer not over fond of black-letter reading, I
have long been of opinion that he will give him-
self no more trouble on the subject than may be
requisite to keep him on good terms with his
constituents and his colleagues in office. In his
changes of the law it will be the ease of the
profession, not the interest of the public that will
be the chief point studied. This, after all, is not
quite so reprehensible in him as might at first be
supposed. Sir John Campbell, though not a first-
rate lawyer, is nothing else. Now, no mere lawyer
can ever be a great law reformer. His mind can-
not grasp those grand principles which are the
foundation of all law, and by recurring to which
laws can only be beneficially reformed. This
can only be achieved by a statesman as well
as a lawyer, like Lord Brougham. Sir John
Campbell perceived at a glance, with all a lawyer's
keenness of perception, the expediency of increasing
the salaries of the Scotch Judges, while he dimi-
nished their labours ; but the honest law reformers
of that country have been vainly endeavouring,
during the whole of his Parliamentary and official
life, to make him comprehend what has long been
notorious to every person paying the least attention
to the subject—namely, that many of the laws of
Scotland are worse in themselves, and more clum-
sily, expensively, and oppressively administered than
any to be found on the Statute-book of any other
nation throughout Europe ; and that, consequently,
the efforts of the Scotch representative body °tient
to be directed to the immediate improvement of the
entire system. In conclusion, I would impress upon
the House of Commons and the country the pro-
priety of trusting less in future to the legal acumen
and the patriotism of her Majesty's Attorney-Ge-
neral, after the examples of both furnished by the
details to which I have here called your attention,
and that of your numerous readers.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your most obedient servant and constant reader,
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Brooke's Club House, St. James's-street, Dec. 21.

THE NEW POLICE ACT.—It has long been
the practice of many of the most respectable trades-
men and shopkeepers of London to celebrate Christ-
mas Eve at some hotel or tavern which they usually
frequent. This year, according to the wise interpreta-
tion of the Magistrates, the good practise is all but
abolished, as no licensed victualler could allow them to
remain his house after twelve without the risk of being
fined.

DISTRIBUTING THE QUEEN'S BOUNTY.,
The ancient custom of awarding to a number of poor
men and women a sum of money, called the Queen's
Bounty, was gone through yesterday at the Alrnonry
ies, one
Office, Whitehall-yard. There are two bount
called the Gate Bounty, and the other the Mina Bounty.
The former owes its name to the fact that, many years
back, a certain number of infirm and aged men and
women used to attend at the gates of the Royal ro.i-
dence weekly, and be relieved with sixpence each.
This
mode of payment was afterwards abolished, and the
present one instituted in its stead, that of paying the
pensioners 13s. each at Christmas and Easter. The
number of pensioners in this bounty is at present 168.
The second bounty has been instituted more recently.
It is given to 1,000 poor persons, who must be above GO
years of age. Many of the recipients are very aged,
and one of them is 100 years old. The sum received
by them is 51. each at Christmas and Easter, Thomas
A iris, who was formerly Governor of Coldbath-fields
Prison, and who is in his Oath year, has been since the
year 183:1 4 Neipient of both bounties.

" Less than the above would not meet the exigencies of
the case, and their attainment would have been difficult,
if not impossible, had not the Chinese Government already
pointed out the way for their accomplishment—not, to lie
sure, in a strictly literal sense, but in a manner admirably
adapted to the emergency wherein British interests have
been placed."
Grown warmer still, he announces his proposal in the
foi'owing terms :
" In conformity, therefore, with lria Celestial Majesty's
taste for summary proceedings, evinced in the seizure of
2,000,0001. worth of property by the detention of innocent
and defenceless individuals, sans ceramonie, let their natisra/
pi stectors, in a similar spirit of neighbourly freedom, take
the earliest possible opportunity of returning the compli-
meat, by quietly laying hold of the tight little island' et
Lantoa, which would only serve as a temporary place or
refuge for the persons and property recently expelled cnci.
excluded from Canton, but whereon (and in connexism
with the fine natural harbour of Cap-sing moon), a erma-
nent emporium for the future trade with the whole Eastern .
Archipelago could be most advantageously established,
without the power of Mr. Commissioner Lin and all his
myrmidons."

It is most gratifying to be able to infer from the
following passage, that even if there had been no
quarrel with the Chinese, the author of this most
practicable and profitable scheme would not have with-
held it from the country and the State, nor failed to
prove :t justifiable under any circumstances. He
tells us—

" That this is no chimerical idea, the rapid growth and
increasing prosperity of Singapore, under infinitely lees
favourable circumstances, affords abundant evidence- And,
laying the present dispute with the Chinese entirelrynt
of the question, the extension of British commerce in thee
seas imperiously calls for some permanent acquisition it
that quarter, capable of insuring under the British jig
accommodation and protection to merchants and mer-
cheldise of all nations and at all times."
And yet, after all, this magnificent disposer of other
people's possessions does not reckon the fee simple of
Lantos (or " such hke"—for he is not particular what
he " grabs") to be any very great catch, for the present,
at least :

No.doubt the
.fee simple of Lantoa (or such lilts)
would prove in the first instance, rather an inadequate egni-
•alent for the large sum at which the confiscated opium
has been estimated ; but, neve'theless, it would stand in
wad of an interim dividend, and in the course of a short
while its actual value would far exceed the original pur-
chase-money, besides placing the whole trade along the
coasts of China, &c., under British controul. In all like-
lihood, too, respectable Chinese traders would become
settlers, and, under British protection, would naturally
become the medium of intercourse with their countrymen,
free from and unfettered by the exactions and vexations
to which the direct trade with China has hitherto been
subjected."

bhe jam sails! We will not pursue farther this
" proposal for settling the disputes now pending with
th, Chinese." It is meant as a joke of course—a bur-
lesque, probably, upon other " proposals," which, hardly
less defensible, have been propounded more seriously--
we cannot say more gravely. Indeed, it is the extreme
gravity of the facetious writer of the pamphlet that has
induced us to notice it, in order that no matter-of-fact
gentleman in the City, who is interested in the Chinese
trade, may devote the leisure of this holiday to building
warehouses and pagodas in the " tight little island of
Lantoa," or dream during his after-dinner nap of his
richly laden fleet of merchant vessels riding "in the fine
natural harbour of Cap-sing-moon."

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The honest Conservatives, who, in the simplicity of
their hearts, believed that Sir Robert Peel's sentiments
were in unison with the fierce manifestoes against the
Irish Catholics which have formed the staple c,f every
Tory journal, whether published quarterly, monthly,
weekly, or daily, now find that they have been in a
fool's paradise. Sir Robert never forgets, however they
may, that discretion is the better part of valour. Lie
now turns round on them, and calls for the productitm
of specific evidence, that he ever lent himself to a v--
sade against the Catholics. They, no doubt, think
that it was ungenerous and unmanly in the 'light
Honourable Baronet to allow them to write and
speechify as they did during this vacation, exposing
themselves to ridicule in their respective neighbourhoods,
as silly fools, whom their leader thought so meanly of
that he would not even condescend to set them right
with respect to his real sentiments. The letter
which he addressed to the Observer, steered clear of
all intimation, that he disapproved of the zeal dis-
played by the ultra Tories against the Catholics, and
that they were not justified in their endeavausa
to agitate for the exclusion of Catholics from
the Constitution. The friends of the Re&
Honourable Baronet now proclaim that if be
had spoken frankly, the zeal of the Conser-
vatives would not have led them to act with
so much zeal at the period of the registra-
tion , for, believing as they did, that a great eifort
was, once for all, to put down Popery, they made
exertions which for no other cause they would have
made. But this explanation conveys, in very plain
terms, that the ultra-Tories and fanatics have been
shamefully befooled, and that Sir Robert took a
very low estimate of their understandings, when he durst
not convey to them his real sentiments on the question
for which they were bestirring themselves. And when
we look back to the columns of our Tory Contempo-
raries, we cannot help thinking that the honest Conser-
vatives, who have been on a wild-goose chase for what
they conceived the great objects of their party, can
hardly be blamed for the interpretation they put -upon
Sir Robert Peel's caution. It suited the pnrpose of the
Times two months ago to exclaim, " The Papists may
raise a yell against those who cry No Popery ;' but
it is the cry of men whose homes and altars are at-
tacked, and who feel that there is no safety nor honour
—no peace nor refuge, but in unflinching battle:"
What sort of battle the writer had in his mind wo
of course, cannot say ; but the fanatical Orangetiken.
meant the battle with the arm of flesh. This
is not the language used when stimulating Peaks-
tants to zeal in the diffusion of their tenets, and in
combating the principles of Popery. No one weuhl
wish to damp the ardour of men impressed with the
excellences of their religion, and coffer to impart its
benefits to those who are without the pale of the Pre-
testant Church. But the speakers at great Pro-
testant, meetings, as they were called, and Conservative
dinners, boldly interpreted these exhortations to mum
agitation for the repeal of the Emancipation Act, and
the return to the old penal code. Sir R. Peel had his
eyes open, and saw what was going on. But the Right
Honourable Baronet could not resist the temptation of
allowing the zealots who entered on this work of agita-
tion to continue under their delusion. He had already,
by conniving at the manifestoes issued against the new
Poor-law by his adherents, obtained some electioneer-
ing advantages ; and he thought a profit could in like
manner be made of the 4' No-Popery cry." We
told him, when he first began to show sprip-
toms of a wish to disown his party, that " the Qan-
servative devil has been raised, and it is beyond the.
Power of Sir Robert Peel to lay him. The Conserva-
tives will show Sir Robert. Peel that there is also a
compact between him and them" (alluding to the woe
made by INIr. Bradshaw of the allegation that the
Queen had violated the contract with her people),
"and that, Who violates that compact, he must prepare.
to abdicate. They will force him to go the whole hog
with them. Reluctantly he may yield to the pre‘sstire
but he will plainly be given to understand that he hoe
no business to be at their head, if he is not prepared to
embark in the career of persecution, and bloodshed which
they have chalked out." By the cowardly (we use the word
politically, not personally) course which he has adopted,
Sir Robert Peel has laid himself open to the just
reproaches of the Orangemen. To address a letter,
characterised by a low cunning, to the Observer, not
denying in substance that he would cast off the Orange-
men when his purpose was served, but that he had
authorised any one to state that such were his views,
was calculated to deceive those who were not thoroughly
acquainted with him, into a belief that he would not be
found wanting at the proper time, if the zealous only
did their duty. This is not the course which a magna-
nimous or ordinarily honest statesmen would have
pursued at such a time. Such a statesman, con-
ceiving it his duty at all times to proclaim his opi-
nions boldly to the world, would have more partcu-

IVENING EDITION.
larly felt it his duty to do so, when the peace of the
empire was in danger from the bad passions excited
by the stream of invective against the Crithhiies
which had been so long suffered to flow. Sie4l:4ol
'ought to have said, " I claim no power or —4nB!
of any class of British subjects ; I cannot p
vagant opinions with regard to Irish (.>
being entertained and expressed ; but I
coantry, at the head of the councils of whic
placed, and to my own honour and repute
boldly and explicitly, what my own sentim
you are dissatisfied with my moderation. you may re-
pose confidence in others, who are disposed' to proceed
to extremities against the Catholics ; but I warn you
that if I am elevated to power, the Emancipation
Act shall be executed fairly and honestly." If 'Sit
Robert had held this language, the most fiery
bigots of his party would have esteemed him the
more for it. As it is, we charge him with indirectly
encouraging the crusades which hare taken place
throughout the length and breadth of the land ;
and the actors an.l audiences in these exhibitions will
charge him with treachery—with betraying their cause.
We charge him with preserving an interested silence,
while dangerous principles were broached, for the sake
of obtaining a paltry party advantage at the time of
the registration ; and they will charge him with a want
of courage to tell them how far they could calculate on
his co-operation in the hostility on which they were
embarking against one-third part of the population of
the United Kingdoms. But we must leave it to Sir
Robert to satisfy the enthusiasts at the great Pro-
testant meeting which has been convened for the Bth
January at Dublin, that he has acted with honesty
..and propriety towards them. In the meantime, his
partizans of the Daily Press are sadly perplemed by
his pusillanimity. The Times has lost an inexhaosti-
hie subject for invective,—Popery and the destruction
of the Established Church by the introduction of three
Roman Catholics into the Privy Council—this topic
has supplied materials for many a heavy column of abuse
in the Times. But now that Sir Robert Peel has
thought fit to back out of the fray and leave his adhe-
rents in the lurch, aad Popery is no longer to be the
theme of themes with them, new ground must be
broken. The Standard had not a word yesterday about
Popish idolatry. The Times, in its straits, has been
obliged to hash up some of its old dishes on the subject
of Lord Normariby's Irish Administration. To be
sure, the minutes of evidence taken by the Lords'
Committee may at any time be resorted to for
a piice de resistance. The Morning Post betakes
itself to expostulation with the Irish, and tells them,
if they will only be good boys, they will get
what is reasonable. " Let the Irish, or any one,
show," quoth our fashionable Contemporary, " that an
injustice is done them, or proposed to be done, and
they nave a right to be listened to, while they express
themselves in terms of decent respect." All that is
necessary is, that Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Sheil put
themselves in training in some fashionable seminary,
that, in asserting the claims of their countrymen, " they
may breathe their murmurs low," and do no violence to
good breeding. All these indications augur ill for a
campaign which was at once to drive Ministers from
their seats. Instead of the ardour necessary for such
an onslaught, to obtain for it even the faintest chance
of success, all is doubt and discouragement. Sir
Robert Peel has told them, at the very time when
they were about to sound their clarions and advance
in order of battle, to unfurl their banners, for he
has no heart to lead them. They mu;t cast about
without loss of time for some fresh grievance ; though
they have hardly time to work the nation properly
during the short interval between this and the meeting
of Parliament. Foreign affairs hold out little hopes to
them. The campaign in Affghanistan has been most
provokingly successful. Our Indian empire is more
secure than it has long been. Russia has not yet been
suffered to take possession of Constantinople ; and
Mehemet Ali has not been suffered to dismember
Turkey. What is to be done ? For it must always
be borne in mind that, with so slippery a gentleman as
Sir Robert Peel, a quarrel in which he may engage
without imprudence must be formed. The abandon-
ment of the No Popery war at this juncture is a heavy
discouragement to the Tories.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
It. is not in the language of exaggeration, but in the
painful conviction of a certainty, we affirm that, with-
out the repeal of the Corn-laws, or the intervention of
a miracle more extraordinary than any already achieved
by the mechanical genius and industry of the country,
f rent Britain will never be able to maintain her posi-
tion amongst nations. Hitherto the power of machinery
and steam—more than equal to the sum total of the
manual power of the whole population of the British
ieles—has enabled the skill, capital, and industry of
the country to sustain, even under the Corn-law prea-
sure, a competition with States more favourably cir-
cumstanced ; but while the exorbitant price of
food has manacled British manufacture, it has af-
forded encouragement to the efforts and enterprise
of other nations, and thus not only by their own
energies are those nations excluding us from
foreign marts of manufactures, but British skill and
capital, rushing to the most favourable field of action,
like water to its level, are pouring through foreign lands
those fertilising streams which would otherwise enrich
their native soil. It is not by military force, but by
commercial capacity and effort that nations must in
future maintain their relative positions. So long as
the individual aggrandisement of a despot constituted
almost the sole object to which the efforts of a people
were destined to' be addressed, States might achieve
superiority by war and conquest. But the multitudes
are now beginning to form a more correct appreciation
of their interests. Nations feel that there is a wiser
and more certain way of advancing their own
prosperity than by cutting their neighbours', throats.
War has, by repeated experience, even in its
success, unless when undertaken to repel aggression,
been demonstrated to be injurious to the general weal.
in the present phase of civilised communi ties, it would
he madness in any nation to dream of establishing for
itself a supremacy by warlike agencies. Commerce is
'the grand lever by which States must maintain or ac-
complish their elevation, and to place this element of
greatness under any restriction is as impolitic as to plaee
handcuffs on an army as a preparative for battle. To
the repeal of the Corn-laws, therefore, we earnestly re-
commend the popular effort to be now directed. It
is ground on which no constitutional principle is in-
volved, and as such, is admirably fitted to concentrate
the whole industrial classes. of the empire without ex-
citing any alarm amongst those nervous politicians, who
regard even the correction of a self-evident abuse as a
dangerous inroad on existing institutions. The absurdity
of attempting the draw distinctions between the agri-
cultural and manufacturing interests in this question,
we shall expose in a future article.

(From the Mornin,a Herald.)
For this day, at least, be politics forgotten
Let this day, so pregnant with mightiest good
to the great family of Christian man, be devoted to the
interchange of charity, peace, and goodwill by all r. On
this day we will permit Lord Melbourne to eat his pud-
ding in quiet--Normanby shall coquet with his mince-
pie unmolested—yea, Daniel O'Connell himself play at
snap-dragon with the Pope, and no harm dune. To-
day we will not tread the " burning marl " of politics, but
give ourselves to the genial spirit of the time, pausing
from the daily warfare of party to celebrate the festival
made sacred to the dearest hopes and holiest aspirations
of millions of the human race. We will forget ribands,
orange and green, in the holly and the misletoc. Christmas
brings, indeed, its special enjoyments. To the rich, it
should be a most grateful season, for it affords to them an
opportunity of marking their thankfulnes to Providence
by the charity they themselves exercise towards their
lcss,happy fellow men. On this day, the man of many
thouv.nds may profitably forget the worldly distinctions
that." hedge him" round for the rest of the twelvemonth,
in his practical sympathy for want and wretchedness.
On this day, above all others, he should reflect, if Pro-
vidence have made him the possessor of earth's goods,
that he holds a part of them but as steward for,those
to whom are denied, it may be, the meanest necessaries
of life. On this day, he should remember, earth was
sanctified by the Advent of Wisdom, Love, Charity,
Benevolence, Meekness,---sent from God himself—to;
be a Preacher and a Pattern to the lowliest of men.
Hence, we would ask the rich man, seated at his dozen
courses to-day—Have you given any of the poor a din-
ner ? Are you sure that there are hearths burning the
brighter for your bounty ? Faces, to which smiles are
not common guests, lightened with at least a passing
gladness ? Have you made common cause with human
nature, in its lowest necessities, and shaken some of
` the lowly
your " superflux" to want ? Have you taught
and the ignorant the holy purpose of this day, by the
awakened and active sympathies of the rich man towards
the poor ? Have you impressed upon them your 011,11
Mill. in the Divine origin of Christian charity, by your
obedience to its precepts? If you have done this, why,
"eat, drink, and be merry." If not—if. forgetful, reck-
less, of the benign duties of the season, no poor man
gathers a ci utr,'A from
your table—no fireside is made
warmer by your bounty—no face the happier by your
care ; you wilt indeed keep a Christmas—that is,
a poulterer's Christmas—a butcher's Eihristmas--e
wine-merchant's Christmas —but not 'the Christ-
mas of the Christian, not the Christmas demantied.
Providence from the rich to the poor. This day should
yield some hour of self-examination to all men ; tro hour
to he made golden by its fruits. How many, on this
day, might be the better, were they to ask theriselves,—
if no man suffered from their injustice ? If, with a petty
and perverse tyranny, thoy did not persectAte some small
offender ; or it may be, some one wholly innocent.? If
they did not scourge misfortune for critr,e, and, forgetful
of the charities due from man to man, 'neap coals of fire
upon the heads of the fallen ? On, this day, let the
creditor ask himself if he hold no man harshly in bonds
—if he press not, with more than sufficient prudence,
the struggling debtor? It may be, that compassion for
the prisoner, lenity for the unfortunate, may be born
of such consideration, and thus the d ay be "twice
blessed," blessing him that gives, and bins that receives.
If with no such self-questioning, the day pass away, the
man may keep the Christmas of £ s.
hut not the
Christmas of a good man or a ChristirAn.. On this day,

; '-:*omestie feuds skould be forgotten. To-day, the broken
Lamle should bz, made whole again, and the strangers of
y..ars become again of the household. " Old Familiar
iir,ould again gather about the hearth, and all that
I..arsla2r thoughts of a hasher time be of things un-

erriembercd. If men so celebrate tlie clay, they sacrifice
t sri it. in the purcst spirit of its purpoge,—if otherwise, if
i wth outside mirth, they suffer an ancient grudge to
' rankle in their beams,—like hoi!v on a pi ison wad, their
festive looks aro but a mockery of guilt and wretched-
ness within. They keep Christmas ; but it is a Christmas

. -
to the spirit of malevoience, and not to that divinest
source of all mercy and all goodness. On this day,
there are few so poor, so wretched, that they may not
as ist their fellows. Some mark, some token of gym--
puthy and common-love may be exchanged by all men ;
aod they who mike such communion, though in
ooveirty arid suffering, keep a Christmas, not to
pass aw but to abound with future blessings. We
be:,; n rsportively, and have become, let it not be
glowing, but serious ; a seriousness we trust, the
.:atural re,qift of a consideration of the purpose of this
,'ay. It is said, and truly, that as civilisation advances,

a--:spitality withers. Thousands are not, as in the olden
day, dependent on the bounty of a few : the necessaries
aad comforts of life arc more equally, more generally

:,?read. Hence, the, Chr;'st►nas of the nineteenth cen-
tAry has not the roystering attributes and characteristics
fi he sixteenth. There are, however, nobler things
be considered for the many than ale and brawn ;

-,tztiely, the exercise of a loftier sympathy, an attention
Co :ite higher and dearer wants of our fellmi men
_to
6-,.lrk and pre-eminently distinguish this our boasted age.
7F they, who govern their fellow-creatures, keep Christ-
:s in this spirit, they—but no, we forswore even the
Inost distant approach to politics, and we will keep our
cord. In all the cordiality and truthfulness of the old,
tiuti-hallowed wish, we pray for our readers " A Merry
ristmas and a Happy New Year."

L
fROU THE EVENING PAPERS OF YETRERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
'.. The Herald seems so have opened its columns to
I. f het pompous inanity and high-sounding nonsense about
e ,astern affairs which disappointed cunning and baffled
totrigue have been endeavouring for some time past,
thremagh various channels, to palm upon the public ; but
we sust;ect that the Herald will soon follow the ex-
ample of the Times and Post, an,l, growing ashamed
of the trash which is stuffed into its pages (wi
say pages, for this rigmarole cannot be measured
by columns), it will leave the outpourings of itinerant
leaenomania to be bestowed upon admiring Chambers of
i, Ceireerce: or upon select meetings of Chartists. The
f prese in object of these choice effusions is to assert (we
et; not say prove, because this writer does not condescend
to deel as preeo that Russia is circumventing the
Whig Gsveretueet, and that none but a Tory
' !Goverement cal eiwk the ambition and stop
the egeratidisemeot .sf Russia, Now, with respect
to this circumvention 'f the Whig Govern-
ment—if, as the Herald implies, the circumvention
wh R eicus,ia is practising upon England consists in
CA,liipi)ing• with tie wishes of England, we must COP-
, taiiily admit that Russia never so circumvented a Tory
l ieeetennient ; and it is probable that if a Tory Adminis-
tration were to come in to-morrow, it would be perfectly
free from circumvention of this sort from the govern-
ment of Russia. Bat as to the assertion that a Tory
government, if unable to obtain the good will of Russia,
I would at least act upon her fears, we must take leave to
I say that an assertion more directly at variance
' Ivith historical fact never was made : for, let it be
leenetiebered—and we shall take care to repeat the
I remark is often as we hear the assertion see it
was ti.rougis the apathy or the timidity of a
"-rosy Gevernnuent tic it Russia was allowed in 189.8
eml 1829 to subdue Turkey, and to dictate to the Sul-
tan the Treat of Adriaeople—a t reaty which gave to
Russia
the mouths of the Danube, and the whole of
the easteeet coast of the Black Sea. So much for
Tory eigotes, Tory watchfulness, 'Tory foresight, and
Tory sagacity ! We strongly advise the Herald, un-
less he be a Chartist in disguise, to drop this subject ;
I but it he insist upon instituting a cemparison between
the foreign policy of the Tories and that of the Whigs,
of • will cheerfully meet iim in that arena, and we pledge
otneelves to make him bite the dust.
(From the Stolard.)
'l'..:e Whig-s who, conseious that theft' stock of
joy,liiy is very limited, reserve it, like a pool' mac
Seneey coat, for public use only, are just now circa-
,.:tie r a story the reverse of respectful to the Queen.
:f if ,ivlre not necessary to allude to the fable for
the purpose of contradicting what may operate in-
juriously in many quarters, we should leave it in
le, hands of its authors and original promulgators,
:eel as it is we touch the matter with extreme
i te;uctance. The tale is briefly as follows. The Queen,
it is said, upon being consulted by Lord Melbourne as
wilat her Majesty considered as a suitable pecuniary
.:,,nvir,,4o(l for her future husband, named 100,0001. per
• I,,tiuni,
,(.0,11 Melbourne, we are told, represented this
;um as greater than he-could hope to obtain from the
House of Corninens in its present temper, and suggested
`t
s, a maximum 60,006 V. Upon this her Majesty ex-
i e- lied her dissatisfaetice: very strongly (we will not
teeew the Whig example Id u: scribing particulars), and
.id something which led to a proposition from the Pre-
!r to consult the Duke of Wellings:on. The legend
~tetis to tell that the Duke of %V e.llington upon
ink;consulted, named 30,000/. a year as qu,:i.e enoug,b.
;V,. suspect the story to be from first to last a specimen
A 71-ie " enormous lying," as wholesale manufacturers
i ;,,f which the Whigs have long since advertised them-

tives. Be this, however, as it may, no one can
atonht that the part of it which respects the Duke
of Vii,,4llington must be utterly untrue. Whether
his Graeae was ever consulted in the manner de-
scribed, is, aig we have said, at the least doubtful
but that, if so consulted. his Grace would not give
the answer ascriiiAd to him, or indeed any specific
answer, there can he no doubt whatever. His
Grace would certainly not descend to the service
of an occasional Minister, 10 accommodate Lord
Melbourne's difficulties with his itt;yal mistress. The
question of Prince Albert's pecunary- provision is one
which we believe has not engaged the thoughts of
many Conservatives. They will leave ,it to be
settled by precedents, or, if precedents exa,:tly in
point cannot be found, by analogy. 4Vhen
Lord Melbourne shall have adjusted- the mat-
ter with Mr. Joseph Hume and his Loi.4-
ship's other habitual supporters, upon those
principles of economy and retrenchment which
constituted his Lordship's chief claim to public support
at the last and preceding general elections (how asserted
in practice the public knows)—when his Lordship shall
have adjusted the matter with Mr. Joseph Hume and
company, it will be then time enough for the Conserva-
tives to interpose. For ourselves we shall withhold any
hint of an opinion one way or the other until we see the
terms upon which Lord Melbourne and Mr. Hurne shall
coma to an agreement.

(From the Courier.)
Sonic* worthy people about Asiiton•under-Line and
11,0 neigh,...ourhood have, we are told, taken the trouble
to :;ine togeLLter, in the " very room," too, which, it is
coaspieuousiy a.nio.nneed, was the theatre of the " Lac
Tory treason." T. this newly-discovered process of
T,,:,;ation there can be no possible objection, and the
honored host irinelt will doubtless agree that
cry best of all specifies against the malaria with
his rooms may be Imre:vitiated by " Tory trees-
r‘4,," or Tory loyalty, somewhat e:evated perhaps by good
as the case may be, trill be
,found in the fumes of
sT,,iking- dinner table, and the cop ,:ous after ablutions
whio m.,1 Radicals. Nor
i•lariz and Champagne, by
wohH lie be disposed to repine at the oft -repeated coup
red cont-e coup of gatherings, so politich.llY convivial,
;,1 of which be would say the -" bane and
.at: We are both before you," to one party as
!'• e other. On the prosent occasion the out-
sensibikies of Ministerial hangers-on, were
soothed with words of flattering unction, a
Tory treason against her Majesty's AlinistNrs,

'•:-11 in th,sa times of reform and revJlution is con-
into nothing less th-'n high treason against Ma-
;4-!1; v itself, was liberally drowned in sparkling wine,
stumps of wilse•inspired eloquence, whose vitupe-
ratty,: thunders in " one cheer more" ought to affright
&I-I:rounding. Toryism out of its " propriety." This
tve display of Ministerial loyalty seems, however,
ocr misnamed as of the people of Ashton-under-Line,
among the names of those assembled as promi-
given, so few are those of real Ashton folk, and
At of proportion those of well-known party lame,
"rat or vicinal. that with equal truth it might be
Al as much a Carlow as an Ashton carousal.

A ''...'• Lr Pi 4 Al - ----Th -----.---
--- - - -
-LORNING tiiiitALD" AND THE MAN-
cuEsTER ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING.—This Vella-
! ratde print vents its impotent rage and impudent fabri-
' cations on the late decisive manifestation here on
the subject of the
)Corn-law by asserting that " the
, rooei was adroitly packed ," whereas, as we have al-
fready shown, the only persons in it, previous
to throwing open the doors to the public en masse
were the reporters and three Anti-Corn-law To-
ries. The Herald then babbles in the following
r-shion, in reference to the declaration of the first
resolution, that the free interchange of the commo-
i , ditics of different countries is a right recognised by the
Creator himself :—" It is really disgusting to so) the
tenet, to hear men who thilek no more ef
the waste of
human fife in their service, than they do qf the Wear and
tear (VI machine (and not so much, for the wear and
tear of the machine costs them something), pleal for
( filthy lucye under the mask of a concern for religion,
end presuoptuously enrol the Creator Ji!msell on their
I side, in at least a questionable attempt to enrich them-
I saves at the expense of their neighbours."
Reasoning
I with the Herul
d is out of the question ; its inility is
reason-proof; bet, if we did not think it also lost to
ell sense of decency, we would demand to know who
are the men against whom it makes the siinderous
1 4 charge ,Ae iisve above marked in Italics. We know of
tioTlcsii:li. The herald bears rnlse witness against its
n,,,;yibou, s —.Manchester Guardian.

I;OUBTFCIL.-It is said a chiid fell from the top
of :i btory house in Boston on to the hard pave-
inent, and Was not the least injured ; not a bone was
iir„k,iior a bruise visible.