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London, England, 1837-11-07 00:00:00

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any rezion of the globe ; never was there exhibited
to the public eve a spec:-nclo inure hnmilia!ing to :be
pride of Englishmen th:ci that abject su:render of
every principle of independevco, and dictate of con-
science, that slavish prostration of manhood, which
the territorial tyrants exacted. from their unf,:rtunate
tenants. The tyranny thus exorcised, rigorous aodi
cruel as it was, failed of its object, and has entailed
upon its perpetrators the usual consequences of unsuc-
cessful crime. It has excited the abhorrence of all
right thinking men, whom it has leagued together by
their common lore of virtue, as well as by a regard
to the best interests of their common country, to inter-
pose the shield of protection between the oppress..] and
the oppressor, and to vindicate the honour of the Bri-
tish nation from the disgrace which has bee❑ brought
upon it by the minions of a sordid and worthless faction.

Among the converts to the Ballot we are extremely
glad to be able to enrol the venerable name of Lord
DINOHBEN. At a public dinner given by the Refor-
mers of Flintshire last week to their late representative,

the Hon. E. Al. LLOYD MosTY tsT, a report of which will
be found clsewhere in our paper, Lord DINURBEN made
a speech which we are sure will thrill through the heart
of every Reformer that reads it. Who is there that
does not feel his spirit refreshed and his principles in-
vigorated by such enlightened, patriotic, and truly
noble sentiments as those which are embodied in the
following passage :—" The elective franchise has
been held by some to be a privilege ; by others it has
been he!cl to be a duty. I believe it to be both one
and the other—(Hear, hear)—a privilege to support
our own, and a duty to guard and protect
the rights and liberties of our country.—
(Applause.) But if this right is to be exercised
only at the bidding of another, you are not free agents ;
there is no expression of public opinion ; your voice
is but the type of ,ervility—the echo of an oligarchy.—
(Applause.) Corruption, Sirs, has been too strong for
the legislature, and things have been brought to a pass
that loudly calls for reformation.—( Loud applause.)
But where is the remedy for the wrongs of which we
complain ?—(Hear, hear.) I cannot find it. The
weak must be protected against the oppression of the
powerful—(Hear, hear)—and I am compelled to join
the ranks of those who seek for that protection in the
Ballot." When the Noble Lord uttered this declara-
tion, the whole company rose as one man, and gave three
rounds of cheers—cheers which, while they indicate the
deep feeling of the people on this now vital question,
speak of nothing but swift destruction to the power of the
Tories. We advise these infatuated men to look upon
this demonstration of the popular sentiment as one of
those signs of the times which they will do well not to
neglect. " I would" continued Lord DINORBEN,
" couple that (the Ballot) with the household fran-
chise._(Hear, hear.) Of household franchise, I

have always been a warm friend ; but I confess that I

have been a late, and perhaps reluctant, convert to the
Ballot.—( Hear, hear.) But though late and re-
luctant, I assure you I shall not be a less zealous advo-
..

cate." We sincerely hope the beautiful example of
Lord DINORBEN will be followed by many more of
our nobility.

It may perhaps be in the recollection of such of our
readers as are curious to see how Conservatives disport
themselves on public occasions after dinner, that Mr.
CoLQUHOUN, who simultaneously contrived to squeeze
himself in, and Dr. BOWRING out of the representation
of the Kilmarnock boroughs, delivered himself some
weeks ago of an oratorical monstrosity, a sort of lin-
gual iusus, besmeared with bigotry and buffoonery,
and spotted all over with the hereditary sins of igno-
rance and assumption. Mr. O'CONNELL, it appears,
did what, we believe, few persons would undertake ;
he read the rambling but illiberal after-dinner speech
of the Killermont hero, and having read it, the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman has condescended to reply by
letter to those points of Mr. CoLQuimus's out-
pouring which possess any personal interest. Mr.
O'CONNELL'S letter is necessarily long, and is, of
necessity also, of that politico-polemical character
for which the columns of a newspaper may not by all
persons be thought the most fitting place. 'We shall,
therefore, give only the briefest abstract of the letter
before us. After a few very severe prefatory words we
meet, in Mr. O'CoNNELL's letter, the following pas-
sage, which is strongly characteristic of his manner.
He writes--

" You. have, it seems, determined not to sit by my side in
the House of Commons.

" Agreed, Sir, agreed. Ido not indeed know that you
would do me any harm if you did sit by me ; but of this I
am quite sure, you would not do me any good. As to your
sitting part, therefore, Sir, on which you not undes
lay such stress, we are heartily agreed. Sit where )ou
please so that you sit remote from me."

The more essentially controversial portion of Mr.
O'CoNNELL's letter commences thus
" Ist. You say that lam a keen Roman Catholic!: and
that you are a sincere Protestant.'

" Sir, I deny both branches of the proposition. I am
not a keen Roman Catholic ;' I am, on the contrary, a
plain, blunt, unaffected, and most thoroughly convinced
Catholic—perfectly submissive to the decisions of that
Church which Christ instituted to decide controversies and
preserve union.

" You, on the other hand, are not a ' sincere Protes-
tant. 1 undertake, before I close this letter, to demon-
strate that you arc not sincere as a Protestant. If you
were, you would adhere to the Protestant principle, as the
Protestant Dissenters do. You are an Established
Churchman.' Of this more hereafter."

The Hon and Learned Gentleman then proceeds to
state in what sense Mr. COLQUIIOUN'S assertion that
he (Mr. O'CoNNELL) is " anxious for the exaltation"
of the Roman Catholic Church is true, emphatically
deprecating any extension of temporal power to his
Church by a State endowment.
In reference to Mr. COLQUIIOUN'S assumption of
beinz, par excellence, a champion of the ProL:stant
Church, Mr. O'CONNELL concludes some cognit ob-
servations in contradiction, by declaring--
" No, Sir, no—you are not sincere in the support of any
church. You are for money—for tithes—for church-rates
—for compulsory payments—for temporal authority. In-
deed, indeed, good Sir, you are not sincere in your love for
any church."

The remaining portion of Mr. O'CON NEL L's argu-
mentative letter is principally occupied by a discussion
on the Bible question. Mr. COLQUIIOUN revived the
old story, making it rratter of charge against Mr.
O'CoNNELL, and of odium to the Roman Catholic
Church, that the latter gentleman was "anxious to
gratify his priests by thrusting out the Bible, and keep-
ing it out of the hands of the people ;" whilst he
(Mr. Col,QtmouN) was "anxious that every one of
his countrymen should enjoy and preserve the Bible."
We shall close our notice of this letter, which has
extended far beyond the limits we at first prescribed to
ourselves, by giving the following. passages :
" I roost highly applaud the plan of National Education
established in Ireland. It you would but read the Scripture
lessons, and other books used in the schools connected with
that plan, you would—if you be candid--at once agree with
me, that such plan does prudently, and very wisely, blend
the wisdom of man with the word of God: , I thank you
fur so accurate a phrase."

Mr. O'CoN N ELL concludes by inviting examination
into the tenets of his religion, ant] connects with this
invitation a consequence from which we must be per-
mitted to express our dissent. We give the
passage, however, and take leave of the subject without
further comment :

" It is the inquiry which I challenge. That inquiry which,
blessed b;.! great God ! is daily diminishing dissent, and
augmenting the number of the professors of the Apostolic
faith. Every other persuasion is daily complaining- of a
falling off, or division. The Catholics alone perceive and
avow their augmentation. All, therefore, we can have to

wk.h that our reliuiou 'ue known to th;;;.
tvi:ich in rt.ality."

At a Cabinet Council held in Hanover on the 25th
uh., the Ministers in a body tendered their resignations,
sooner than countersign a decree for convoking
_the
States according to the law of 1819—which Minis-
tetial act would be tantamount to an official abrogation
or the Constitution of 1833. King ERNEST was
furious at meeting with such strenuous opposition ;
but adopting the advice of M. VON SCIIELE, he. at.
once accepted the resignations of his Ministers, adding
that he would not be driven from his purpose by the
'fears of the timid, or the clamours of an insolent fac-
tion. His MAJESTY had previously informed his
Cabinet, that he would allow the Members of it till
the 25th ult. to reflect whether they would or would
not sign the R nyal decree for setting aside the Consti-
tution ; and that whether they signed it or not, he
would, on his own responsibility, issue it on the 27th,
and look for success to his own firmness, the fidelity
of his troops, and the influence.of the Crown in the
Electoral Colleges. ERNEST has good reason to an-
ticipate support even in this stronghold of popular
liberty. Since the promulgation of his memorable
Decree of the sth of June, his creatures have been
employed day and night in bribing, threatening, and
corrupting the electoral body. No base device—no
lying expedient has been left untried. Corporations
have been threatened with the abrogation of their
charters, and. Municipalities with the ruin of their trade,
in the event of their so voting as to give the shadow
of offence to the Royal despot. The army, too, has
been augmented, and a reinforcement of 200 troops
were ordered to the capital on the Ist instant to
quell any popular attempt to uphold the Constitution
of the country. The grand struggle is therefore on the
eve of its commencement, and we most sincerely hope it
will terminate in the overthrow of the tyrant who has
provoked it. But whatever be the result, the attempt
to overturn the Constitution of Hanover imperatively
calls for an Act of the British Parliament-for changing
the order of succession to the Crown of this country.
If the lineal descendants of JAMES 11. were voted
incapable of inheriting the Crown of these realms, by
reason of the crimes of one of their ancestors, no
Member of the Legislature who approves of that A-et
can hesitate to vote for the exclusion of an Heir-pre-
sumptive, stained with the turpitude of attacking the
fundamental laws of a constitutionally free people ?
A Legislature that can approve of the exclusion of
Prince CHARLES EDWARD, must glory in abrogating
the hereditary claims of ERNEST, Duke of CUMBER-
LAND, and tyrant of Hanover.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been re-
ceived. Their contents are unimportant. The elec-
tions, as we stated yesterday, commenced on Satur-
day ; but very few members of the electoral body ap-
peared to trouble their heads about the result. Nearly
a fourth of the members of the late Chamber of Depu-
ties have either been promoted to seats in the House
of Peers, or have retired altogether from the candi-
dateship for seats in the next Chamber. When to this
retired list is added the names of such of the late
Deputies as shall be rejected by their constituents, it
will be found that Ministers and the Court will have
an abundance of fresh materials to work upon. The
political complexion of the new candidates is decidedly
liberal ; though a few of them hesitate not to avow
their, attachment to the KING, in preference to the
people. In the fourteen electoral colleges of the de-
partment of the Seine, the preliminary proceedings on
Saturday were regarded as especially favourable to the
Government candidates.

From Spain there is no ne►is of any interest in these
Journals ; and the accounts from Africa are still more
meagre and unsatisfactory. The annexed paragraphs
contain the only extracts interesting to English
readers :

. According to the Sentinelle des Pyi eenees of the 2d inst.,
the Christino fort of Inigo had capitulated on the 29th ult.,
and the garrison, after laying down its arms, had retired to
Pampeluna. The next day the Carlists removed the four
pieces of artillery of the fort to the valley of Ulzama. Ge-
neral Bartolome Giubelalde had been relieved in the command
of the line, of Andoain by Brigadier Iturizza. On the 26th
the junta of Navarre sent round to all the villages a pro-
clamation to the inhabitants, in which it was stated that all
the Cellist deserters at present in Prance, who, in the space
of sixteen days, had not presented themselves before the autho-
rities of their respective districts, would have their property
confiscated, and their fathers and friends arrested and brought
to the French frontier. It was reported in Bayonne that a
new Carlist expedition was preparing to cross the Ebro.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains a report on criminal jus-
tice during the year 1835, addressed to the King by M.
Barthe, the Keeper of the Seals. It appears from this docu-
ment, that out of the 7,233 individuals brought to trial in
France during that year for criminal causes, 2,816 were ac-
quitted. and 4,407 convicted and sentenced to various penal-
ties; viz.—

To death
To hard labour for life l5l
Ditto for a number of years
To seclusion 796
To imprisonment 2,599
To surveillance without any other penalty 9
Children under 16 years of age, sent to
I-louses of Correction

Total 4,407

El Tiempo, a Cadiz journal, announces that thanks to the
firmness of M. Tacos, the new Governor of Ceuta, the Maro.
quins whose insolence had so increased as to threaten the place,
had consented to the placing of Spanish sentinels on the outer
sea line from north to south. There is every reason to believe
that our former intercourse with the Maroquins will be soon
resumed ; they have withdrawn their forces, and placed their
camp in the interior of their empire. Fifteen or twenty Moors
are appointed over the guard of the camp. This account has
been transmitted to the Governor of Gibraltar for his informa-
tion. The hostilities had been directed up to this time by the
Governor of Amhara, supported by 2,000 men ; those troops
of the enemy had occupied the outposts of the place from the
16th of July last. All the remonstrances addressed to Tan-
gier were of no avail.—Gazette de France.

Sir Alexander Grant and Mr. Wilson Croker, wh o
proceeded to Put-is to meet Sir Robert Peel on his arrival
from Germany, will accompany the Right llon. Bart. to
England. Sir Robert is expectea to remain two or three
days in Paris, on his route to England.

A small body under the denomination of War-
renites, who some short time ago withdrew from the Me-
thodists in Pcnrith, were dissolved on Sunday last, from
the want of funds, and. the congregation gradually re-
ducing itself.—Kendal Mercury.
There is said to he growing in the hot-house of Lord
Shrewsbury, Alton Priors, Staffordshire, an enormous pine,
described as having 15 heads.
THE BISHOP'S COURT.—Last Wednesday week
Mr. D. Jones, the parish churchwarden of Llanelly, a Dis-
senter, attended the Bishop's Court, held in St. Peter's
Church, Carmarthen. to receive judgment for net regularly
attending church. The proctor who conducted the case
endeavoured to stay the judgment of the Court by an at-
tempt to have the said warden dism;ssed from his office ;
but the Court objected, and delivered judgment, censuring
him for past neglect of duty, with an'admouition to a more
strict observance of the same for the future, at the same
time mulcting him with costs of the citation !—Ca»zbrian.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—We are concerned . to
state that the ship Robert Thomas, of this port, burthen
near 1,000 tons, bound from Quebec to Liverpool, laden
with timber, deals, etc., came into this harbour at eight
o'clock on Wednesday evening---being water-logged the
day before. She anchored above Craven-head, got a pilot
in a short time who weighed anchor for the purpose of get-
ting her into deep water—but striking shortly afterwards
her anchors were let go—both her cables parted, and she
aro% e on shore at Broom-hill, where she now lies, at four
o'clock this morning. We have the consolation of saying
that the captain and crew, after exhausting and tremendous
exertions saved their lives by climbing up the precipitous
and rugged cliffs of Broom Hill, and were brought to this
city on Thursday by the Duacannon steamer. Captain
Grandy has received some dreadful bruises, and is in a
weakly state. In cutting one of the masts it fell in a con-
trary direction on his legs, which is the cause of the injuries
he has received. In honour to our respected fellow-citi-
zen, Mr. Pope, who owns the greater part of the ship, we
have to record that he expressed himself in terms of thanks-
gising for the safety of the captain and crew, saying that
he did not care what became of the ship and cargo, as they
had survived the wreck. We understand that the.stern of
the Robert Thomas has gone to pieces, and that there is
little likelihood of her being of future utility. The cargo
will, we learn, be saved in part.--_Waterford Chronick:

CHANCERY COURT—(TMs DAV)

dousuzy V. CARR

The LORD CHANCELLOR WilS OCCUriCd the whole mornin7,
with the further arguments in this appeal, w hick was part
heard yesterday. The case eacna before his Lordship open
appeal from the order of the 1111stre of the Rolls upon ex-
ceptions to the Master's Report. The question in the case
arose upon the partnership accounts of Mesrs. Ulster and
Co., of Lancashire, relative to the wnrkii;g of a coal-mine
in that county, The arguments in the case had not concluded
when we left.