The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-26 00:00:00

DENHALL MARKETS.
oy the Carcass.

NEWGATE AND LEA
At per stone, I
d.tos d.

Beef, inferior 3 2 3 6 Mutton, inferior
- middling ..........., 3 8 310 - middling
-- prime large - prime
- prime small 4 2 4 4 Pork, large
Veal
Lamb .3s 10d. to ss. Bd.

I sitos
28 4 0
42 4 •
4 6 4
3 6 4 FI
4)0 5

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—June 24.
We had a fair supply of Wheat from the growers, as wel
as good coasting arrivals, at our Market to-day, and the trail.
ruled very heavy, prices being about Is. per quarter lowe
than on this day se'nnight. Oats were in good supply, an,
no sales could be effected, except at a decline of Is. to 2.,
per quarter en last week's rates; indeed, at this :Auction in.
ferior samples were difficult to quit. Malt continues in limite.
request, at late prices. In Barley we can note no charge.
Beans and Grey Pease are both Is. to its. per quarter cheaper.
Rye is difficult to quit at our quotations. Owing, in a grea•
measure, to the sultry weather, Flour is in very limited de•
mand, though offered at is. per sack less money than last sse:k.
LS er7 . O.
''.
Wheat, Northumberland —s —s 44s 53 .1
Norfolk and Suffolk
13erivick and Scotch soi. —a —, 53 •
Foreign
It3e, Norfolk and Suffolk 34s 33' --s• —a
Foreign s r —s —s ..;
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sunlk... 2,35. 20i
Grinding and Feeding 27i 29s -s•
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 5, 57.;
Beaus, Small
Tick •7, sth. -'-s s t.
Rase, White 4's 41s. .... —s. —6.
-- Cray 'l5l 38s —.--;
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ..... .... 29 ~ 39: '3' s. 59i.
Feed 25' 26 • 8 29 .
Foreign —s. s. —,, —, .)
Flour (per sack) —s. —s 4ls. ~:ss.

A short time ago, a female from York, who was on
a visit to a family in Wakefield, broke her needle, while sew-
ing, and part of it lodged in her eye. A surgeon was imme•
diately sent for, but before his arrival, a young man is th.
room, with great presence of mind, suggested the applieatiol,
of a magnet. The experiment was made, and the prtiel.
immediately dislodged.-11alfax Express.
At the ceremony of opening the splendid new
structure intended for the use of the Manchester lostitutior
fcr the Deaf and Dumb, on Wednesday last, it was stated that
the Manchester district of the independent order of Odd Fr_l•
lows had subseriLed the sum of 5001. to the funds of that In
stitution.—Liverpool Chronicle.
\Vc sec in the Perth Chronicle that the Tories o',

that place have induced Sir Patrick Murray Threipland 1(
come fomard for the suffrages of the men of Perth. Tin
Liberal electors will, however, no doubt, return the lion.
Arthur Kiunaird by an ovcrwhclmiug majority when the da:,.
of trial is come.

On Feb. 2/, says the paper of that date, received
on Saturday, a meeting took place in the Town-ball of Cal
cutta, tor the purpose of adopting measures " to secure a con-
tinuance of an abundant supply of American ice!" The pry,
position was warmls supported, Jonathan being, we guess, quite
ready to buy sovereigns and sell frozen water!

.
An elector in Glencoe, who signal the rcquisitionri
in favour of the lion. Arthur Kinnaird, lias also exhibitedil
his name to the requisition for Sir P. M. Thrcipland ! This
gross violation of consistency and honour is attributed to tht•
insidious cant of a reverend busybody, who, till of late surrl
intended anowspaper of high Tory principles:—Perth Chron.L'.,

O:1 Friday:ftom half-past one till half-Mast two, mi-
nute guns were fired from the Castle at Edinburgh, on oecasio:
of the death of his Abjcsty.

It is quite time that the Reformets of this
sion of the County should be making up their minds as tt,.;14
one great point connected with the approaching election,
namely, whether they will be satisfied with one candidate crii)
start two on this occasion ? There are many advocates fors
bath sides of the alternative. We are glad to find that,; ,y
with regard to Mr. Grenfell, it is the fixed determination of
all shades ,of the liberal party to unite for his 11 .
Livrrpool Chronicle.
On Monday a man named George Green, who had';.
a singular distaste for a residence in the' Salford New Bailey.Fl
but was nevertheless extremely anxious to be transported,Y,
called upon Mr. Jones, deputy constable of Warrington, tolf?-;:.-
confess himself guilty of a robbery.—Manchester.Times.
e regret exceedingly to learn that the Magistrates
have committed Mr. Griffiths of the Wigan Gazette to the`'
lock-ups for an alleged contempt of Court, and required bail
for his liberation. We see nothing in the circumstance to"
justify this mode of procedure.—Manchester Times. Pi
Upwards of 3,000 people were admitted to the,l
Zoological Gardens yesterday afternoon ; a greater numbeel
than on any preceding Sunday this season. Amongst the com-. 1
patty we observed the Marquis of Carmarthen, Lord W. Len.':'
nox, Lady Albert Conyrigham and party, Lord Ossulston
Lord Glengall and party, Lord Belfast, Mr. and Mrs. Brins-iq
ley Sheridan, Lord Emlyn, and Lord March. Black dressesl
were, of course, almost universal.
The Italian Journals have been loud in their praises
of a young boy from Sicily, ten years of age, named Mangi-E1
annel, who is endowed with such a talcut for calculation that...;;
he can resolve the most difficult arithmetical questions by the
force of memory alone. He has arrived at Paris, and was pre- ,1
seated at the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, and re-r,-11
plied to the questions of M. Arago in the most extraordinary
manner. The Minister of Public Instruction has written toy,
the Academie dt.s Sciences, offering to take the charge of thislA
youth's education.
We have heard that the Tories were actively engaged,
in an indirect canvass of this city as early as Monday
We have not any very high opinion of Conservative fecling,it,
but we can scarcely believe, admitting their desperate condil4
lion, that any party could be so completely lost to all de,cency.;
—Bristol Mercury. .
At the steeple-chase •at the Passage, this week, a;-.A
~
young gentleman, named Williams, was thrown from his horstq,.;
with such violence as to receive a concussion of the
which at first threatened fatal consequences, but we have since_:
been informed that he is now doing better, and hopes are en-f
tenanted of his recovery.—Bristol .itercury.
FITE..DAMP ExPLosioN.—At the Blaina tro4l
works, Monmouthshire, a most melancholy catastrophe oc,1:1
curred on Saturday, by tablet' thirteen lives were lost. Weki
shall to-morrow give the distressing details of this dreadful":.
accident.
The Court of Session adjourned for business onk'l
Thursday till Tuesday. The bells were tolled on Thursday
from four o'clock till eight; gsd the royal standard was'
hoisted half-mast high at the Castle and Leith Fort. Thee-1
Adelphi Theatre was closed at night.—Edidittrgh Courant. !.1
It is expected that a great number of Crown debtor,o
will have their liberation by an act of gi-ace on the accessionA
of her Majesty.
We are told there never was a greater improvement
in the growing crops generally than there has been during thue,
.
last week or ten days. The clovers are very good altric.'s
everynhere, and coming fast into blossom, and there arc seve •
ral pieces of grass already cut. The forward Swedes are r
good deal bitten by the fly. The. ground works reraarkabl
well for the turnip sowing; and the wheat fellows th.
Weald are in a very good atatc, generally speaking-.—Brii?tten
Gazette.
On Thursday morning an individual of fashionable*.
exterior threw himself from the top of .the tower of Notre
Dame. A crowd was soon collected round the body, whici
presented a horrid spectacle. The head was so mutilated se
scarcely to present the appearance of that of a human being
Neither his name nor the cause of the rash act are yet known
A waggon-hiad of girls for the Western marker;
passed through Northampton, Massacbussets, a few days since "f
It has been stated lately that there was, in mercantile parlance
" a great call" for the commodity at Chicago and other oc
cidental marts, and we doutia4sot that this consignment o'
Yankee damsels will be taken into " first handsas soon a,
they arrive. At all events it would be a pity for them to g,
into the clutches of e-e speculators in that region, for matter
of traffic have been blown much beyond their intrinsic valu,
I within the year past. There were only seven in this waggon
I load—not enough by any means to glut the roarket.—„jvc,
York Gazette.

1;PIRIT OF THE PU IsLl i; JOURNALS.

The .-.vents of last week have all served to confirn
,he impression that-the reign we arc commencing will
g lotions in its continuance as it is auspicious in
rourmencenicnt. Of the talents Of our young and
-ateresting Sovereign there seems but one happy opi-
don—of the education she has received under her il-
ustrious parent all respectable persons speak in the
'ig,hest praise ; and though royalty doubtless is usually
,heered by the parties who are yet uncertain on whom
'Fs smiles may be bestowed, we may state fairly that
battery could never he less presumed than in the pre-
:ant instance. And now, the circumstances under
which a Queen ascends our throne at this time have

n many respects a peculiar interest. There seems a
lestiny throughout Europe connecting liberty with the
ex under which she is ordinarily personified. In Por-
ugal there is a Queen, whose throne, based on a
.iberal Constitution, is threatened by a bigoted and
lawful Pretender. In-Spain there is a Queen Ite-
ent, governing in the name and on the behalf
.f her youthful' daughter, whose title is the bar-
.;er for freedom on the one side, as that of Don Car-
(is is for political and superstitious degradation
til the other. In almost the whole of the western
I•ontinent of Europe, then her Majesty may see Prin-
cesses, toyal in blood and liberal in principles like her-
Leif, struggling against intolerant tyrants. It is iin-
laossible but that there should be in her youthful mind
1 t strong sympathy in favour of the youthful Queen
end liberty in Portugal, of the youthful Queen and
iberty in Spain I Here, indeed, there is no declared
eretender to the throne. There is no person who has
)penly erected the standard of rebellion, and placed
nimself in arms at the head of those who deem there
s no government without despotism, no religion with-
nit persecution. Neither will there be any rebellion 1
)f this kind. The persons who would join it are too
'ew for any man, however desperate, to place himself
tt their head. Still it is one of many coincident eir-
' nimstances that the heir presumptive to our crown is a
Prince not possessed of the affections of the people of
England. It is one of many coincident circumstances
.:hat that Prince professes doctrines similar to Don Car-
los—similar to Don Miguel ; that he feels the same in-
terest in their cause which we presume her Majesty to feel
in the constitutional Queens of Spain anti Portugal. He
has his faction, moreover—a faction at present weak and
!mpotent, but a faction which is devotedly and entirely
his, and which would make use of any power it might
possess to further the interests of one whom it regards
,as the representative of its own hateful principles.
That this faction will not obtain power at all events du-
ring the lifetime of her present Majesty, which may
God render long and prosperous, is our assured hope
And confident belief ; nor will we of an event so dis-
tant, and as we trust so imaginary, as our youthful
Queen's decease, indulge even for one moment in use-
'css fear or prospective reflections. On a contingency
more immediate, however, we will say one parting
word, viz., the claim of his Majesty the King of Ha-
nover to remain a subject and Peer of England. A
Contemporary ignorantly replied to our former obser-
vations by quoting the example of George I. ; our
Contemporary merely made the mistake of confound-
ing the father and the son—George the First with the
Electoral Prince. It was the latter, and not the for-
mer, who, on stating his intention to reside in England
1
was made by patent Duke of Cambridge—a title
changed into that of Prince of Wales on his father

coming to the throne of this country. But a more recent
example is that of King Leopold, who, on becoming
an independent Sovereign, renounced, as a matter of
%course, his title and prerogative as a British Peer.
It surely is but fair that the two Sovereigns should be
considered as having paired off; and if Hanover is to
be on one side, we shall be for laying claim to Belgium
on the other. But to return to the state of affairs.
We have the satisfaction of stating that the new Go-
_,
: vernment, under circumstances the most favourable, is
• now fairly launched ; and this we must add, that if it
do not now succeed in retaining its hold over the affec-
.
dons of the people and the administration of the
country it will be its own fault. We are the first, and
always have been the first, to contemn the violent
:5) ichcmes of rashness, and to defend the present advi-
sers from the foolish and unjust abuse of those who,
!advocating impracticable plans of liberty, are the
.3. worst opponents of all reasonable freedom. But while
we deprecate a violent policy we see the necessity of a
lfirm one, such as the people can, and what is equally
important, will place confidence in. 'We look forward,
then, to Lord Durham at no distant time having a
.seat in the Cabinet, and Lord Hill being released from
the command of the army, as sure and certain pledges
ito the nation that there is to be a Ministry powerful,
undivided, and possessing the sympathy of every class
of sensible Reformers throughout Great Britain.—
Morning Chronicle.
iThe Times is at immense pains in proving that the
..iMinisterial declaration read by her Majesty at the
'. Council on Tuesday is " the declaration, not of her
Majesty, but of her Ministers, and that she is, in fact,
no more answerable for a single sentence of thaLde-
f claration than any one of the thousands of her Ma-
..jesty's subjects who like her Majesty have read it,
i which is all her Majesty had to do with the matter."
14- As, however, well-meaning but ignorant persons may
tie imposed on by the contrary assertion, the Times pre-
faces a laborious argument on the subject by the fol-
l'owing observation :—" We think it right to demon-
&ate from the practice pursued in past reigns that
. what we have stated relative to the first step taken in
4 he present reign is the plain unvarnished fact, namely,
i hat the declaration put into the Queen's mouth on the
31:lay of her accession was the declaration of her Ministers,
mud not of her Majesty, and that her Majesty is not in
'.4 he least degree bound by it any more than hcrMajesty's
~ meestors were bound by the similar formal sayings which
.he respective Ministers of the day put into their
..= nouths on their accession." If the Queen is not in
'the least degree bound by the declaration, any more
.;.' Ilan her Majesty's ancestors were bound by similar
• ' formal sayings, why all the indignation which the
1 Times expended on the subject on Wednesday last ?
!I'The conductors of the Times seem to have lost their
-. wits altogether. In its fiounderings it forgets one day
, what it said the day before. Formerly there used to
I
be some little preparation before the Times answered
-'-'itself. A month or so might elapse, before it went
,on a new tack. But it seems now to write abso-
lutely at random. If the declaration of the Queen
is the declaration of her Ministers, it is preposterous
`.lto suppose that Lord Melbourne should express him-
, =self like an Orangeman. But, on Wednesday, the
Times absolutely raved at the insult offered to the
Queen. " Let. the people of England but ima-
•4 inc the honour and generosity of a Cabinet who
i:vould dare to involve their Sovereign at the very
`g first hour of her reign, and before she could, by pos.
. i Ability, have learned the force or consequctices of
- aich an obligation in an implicit pledge to follow the
,-" -sample of her predecessor, by lending her name to
!hat series of revolutionary changes which these de-
, ,Iguing Ministers hare masked under the plausible
.`. •erm of ' amelioration.' IVe have seldom heard f,
'my political expedient more unprincipled, mare
- treacherous or unfeeling than this. It is an actual
1
trepanning of their innoe;;nt Sovereign into a course
)f policy subservient lo their own selash interests, arid
an abuse more glaring than we have ever before wit-
nessed of that confi
pe_" (.I.enee which a helpless Princess
has been cog
.ied to place in a band of unworthy
advisers."
We have some cause for complaining of
:heerap;,;ity
of the changes of our Contemporary ; for
It Is cutting up our trade. We cannot answer the
I'times so soon as it answers itself. Having thus lashed
itself into a furious passion on Wednesday, on the Sa-
turday it tells us that there was not the slightest occasion
for all this expenditure of indignation, that there wLs no
treachery in the case, no pledge imposed on the Queen,
in short, nothing done to which the least objection
folld be taken. " Upon the accession of his late
:lamented Majesty King William IV. the Minister of
.the day made his Majesty intimate that he should
take both his father and his brother as his models.
,g I am fully sensible,' said William IV. ' of the diffi-
culties I have to encounter ; but I possess the ad-
vantoge of having witnessed the conduct of my re-
'vered father and my lamented and beloved brother,'
&c. Well, the Ministers who wrote that declaration

went out of office, and the successors carried the
Reform Bill—a measure which George IV even, and
much more George 111., would not have entertained

for a single moment. Was this consistent with the
declaration ? Assuredly not ; but does any one re-
proach either George IV. or William IV. with in-
consistency for sanctioning, the one the Catholic Re-
lid Bill and the other the Reform Bill, after the de-
clarations they had respectively made on the occasion ?
Once more, certainly not ; and for this sim-
ple mason, that the declarations were those of
the Ministers of the Monarch and not either
constitutionally or, in fact, their own decla-
rations." To use a homely adage, the Times when
it breaks a head has always a plaster for it. We have
no doubt that we shall have a strong answer to its ins
vectivc against the Duchess of Kent, in which no
mercy will be shown to those wicked spirits who en-
deavoured to produce discord between parent and
child. The Queen must by this time be aware, if she
read the Times, that this " best possible public in-
structor" is very rapid in its circumgyrations. Her
Majesty has probably been taught to attach im-
portance to principles, but she has yet to learn that a
person may have the strongest attachment to the most
opposite principles at the same time. The Times,
however, which informs us that the education of her
Majesty has been too narrow, will, no doubt, enlarge
her constitutional views, by teaching her that the
highest wisdom in a Sovereign is to be " everything
by fits, and nothing long." One feature of the Times
no doubt remains unchanged amidst all its changes, a
feature which Cobbett only had in an equal degree—
an astounding confidence. No writer in the Times
ever doubted his own infallibility.—NforningChronicle.
We call upon our countrymen in all directions of the
empire to rouse and gird themselves for an approaching
contest of principles—such as has not been waged for
a considerable time. A new reign has commenced,
which we are willing to hope is, like the vernal season
of life at which England's young Sovereign is called to
the Throne, about to be imbued with the fresh hopes,
brilliant promise, and generous anticipations of youth.
A new era in the legislature is also about to com-
mence ; and it will depend upon the people them-
selves whether its auspices and its tendencies shall be
converted to the benefit of the people, and to the tri-
umph of popular institutions, or to their injury and de-
gradation. An election is at hand—on the result of
which the most serious interests of the country depend.
That result will give a permanent tone to the succeed-
ing politics of the Government. It will decide whether
the Tories have been right or wrong in their clamorous
assertion that a reaction in favour of their political opi-
nions lias been latterly engendered in the public mind. It
is our conviction that no tendency to such reaction has
been produced. We believe that the people are quite as
resolved upon gathering the fruits of the Reform Bill as
they were upon attaining the Reform Bill itself. They
will hardly stultify their own acts. If they are not,
they might as well have spared themselves the trouble
and excitement in which the nation was plunged dur-
ing the transition process of that acquisition. What
is the use of a harvest without produce ? or of a
fruit• tree without fruit ? The six letters which com-
pose the word " Reform" have no magic in them.
They do not constitute a talisman or charm. Reform
has no virtue in its mere name. It was never dreamt
that it could be useful but as a means to an end, as
an implement for improving the popular institutions
—a lever for raising and establishing the great de-
sideratum of the age, "cheap and good government."
The coming election will decide whether the Reform
Bill is to remain with or without fruit. The great ques-
tion which will be brought to issue duiing the impend-
ing struggle is between two principles which never
before were placed id such marked and decided oppo-
sition. The principle of obstructiveness is on the one
hand—on the other, the principle of political improve-
ment. Never were the parties by whom these con-
tending principles were advocated distinguished by a
line of separation more decided than they are at pre-
sent. The Tories, with the whole of the exclusive
faction, including the greater part of the Peers and
the whole Bench of Bishops, are in one camp—in the
other, all the friends, without exception, of civil and
religious liberty, by whatever name they have hitherto
been distinguished—Whigs, Radicals, Liberals, or
Reformers. Such is the aspect of the field of battle
on the verge of the momentous contest which is im-
pending—such is the immeasurable importance—direct
and indirect—of the stake for which the battle is to
be fought. Such is the order of battle—such the op-
posing standards under which the conflicting parties
are marshalled and drawn up. Shall the interests of
the many be sacrificed to the few, as it has hitherto ?
or shall the interests of the few be rendered subser-
vient to the interests of the many ? Shall we have
the functions of the Government palsied—an anarchy
instead of a Government ? Is the " greatest happi-
ness principle" to prevail, or are the great body of the
people to continue, as they have done for ages, " hewers
of wood and drawers of water " for their im-
perious and contemptuous masters. These are the
questions at issue. LoOking at the contest in this point
of view, the fate of England for half a century may be
said to hang in the balance of victory or defeat. May
God, in the warlike phraseology of chivalry, defend the
right I But the people must be up and stirring. The
Tory enemy is active, vigilant, and already at his post.
All the wheels, large and small, of their electioneering
organisation are already commencing their mischievous
activity, and will soon be in a state of indefatigable de-
velopment. The people must be as active on their
side. They would do well in this respect to take a
" leaf out of the book" of their adversaries. Fas est ab
hostedoceri. Above all, they must be united as those ad-
versaries are united. The Tories place (and justly) their
chief strength in the union and unity of their perni-
cious purposes. When bad men conspire, good men
must unite. Let union be the watchword of all
classes of Reformers I Let them agree to sink ail
minor causes of difference—all minor jealousies—all
minor objects of acquisition. Let them recollect that
their success in the approaching great contest entirely
depends upon their indissoluble union. Again we
say, let them recollect the prize for which they are
about to contend—the immense stake which is
hazarded upon the results of the ensuing election.
The eyes of all the freemen of Europe and m all parts
of the world are fixed upon them. Not England only,
but the whole civilized world, will be influenced by the
issue of the contest. There will be hope for liberty,
or triumph for despotism, as it may be determined.
Nor is it the temporary destinies of the civilized world
that are involved in the issue, but the weal or woe, the
improvement or non-improvement of generations yet
unborn.—Morning 4dvertiser.

The debates of Friday evening on her Majesty's
Message, in S 9 far as they had reference to the state
of public lousineFil, or to the functions of Ministers, or
the raideney of the Legislature, under their gui-
dance, have shed an encouraging and agreeable light
not merely on the history of the last session, but on
our propccts for the future. The value of Lord
L) tidhurst's attack upon the " do-nothing" Cabinet
was his precise specification of chapter and verse for
each and all of the criminal or despicable acts and
Qtnissions which he enumerated. At the close of the
fifth month of the session, the Melbourne Ministers
had scarcely left a single trace of one legislative foot-
step behind them—" not one important measure had
been passed." The Bills "for the improvement of
the Criminal Law"—a subject emphatically (like that
of measures for giving " stability to the Church")
recommended by his Majesty at the opening of the
last session—where were they ? Nine Bills, in the
month of May, were introduced by Lord John
What has become of them ? They
were read a first and second time, and a day was ap-
pointed for committing them ; but what happened ?
Why, on that day, when it was Sir John Camp-
bell's business, more particularly, to secure a full at-
tendance of the friends of Government—on that
late and most important day—viz. 19th of June—
the House at a quarter-past four o'clock, was carefully
counted out ! There was then the Imprisonment for
Debt Bill—the grand, ostentatious, long-boasted hobby
of the Whig Attorney-General. 'What happened with
it ? He brought it into the House of Commons on
the 6th of February. The Bill was read a
first time and a second, but the committal was,
on one pretence or other, postponed until the 18th of
May ; and we repeat the question, what happened
then ? Why, at a quarter past seven (;'dock the
House was counted out ! So with the TL enefice Plu-
rality Bill, which had passed the Lor(!is in the former

Session. It met a sham support from the (sham) .
Whig Government ; but, encountering also a real
opposition from the Radical masters of that Go-
vernmsnt, that wholesome Bill was abandoned
another being introduced by Ministers on. the gd
of Match) but had had beeii heard ofsince I
The Irish Church Bill, the professed sheet anchor of
the Whig O'Connell Cabinet, was read a second time
in the House of Commons on the 16th of June, more
than four months after the mettin, of Parliament, and
it it+
there is now, we guess) an end of JO ever. We
need follow Lord Lyndhurst no further in his cata-
logue raisonee of the legislative exploits of Ministers,
remarking only on the logical method adopted by Lord
Melbourne of replying to this plain statement of facts
viz , that the Learned Lord had brought " no arpu-
merits" to support them i As for Lord John Rus-
sell's statement of what he and his colleagues meant to
do during the remainder of the session, and which, to
say truth, contained merely an enumeration of those
things which for divers weighty reasons they would
not do, it amounted to a pretty long list. They are to
go no further this session with the English Church-
rate Bill, but just to propose a Committee (not a
Parliamentary one, of course), to inquire, with
instructions to report hereafter. They arc to
dismiss the Irish Poor Law Bill, which ought
to have been promoted into a " vital " measure,
but was not, because Mr. Daniel O'Connell super-
seded it by two other " vitalities" more to his own
enlightened and disinterested taste. They drop the ap-
propriation clause, that first or fundamental " 4 vital,"
by which their whole system of Government was to be
tested and supported, and on which, as an axis, it was
to revolve I They drop that second " vital," the
Irish Popery Corporation Bill, introduced with so
much pomp, and persevered in with so much sham
tenacity. They are, in fact, to do nothing at all. They
postpone even the Civil List, which naturally ought
to have been the first object of attention, and its set-
tlement the first homage of respect to their new So-
vereign, on her accession to the. Crown. But for this
there was abundant reason. The splenetic democrats
are pushing for a curtailment of that provision out of
which have been hitherto furnished the means of com-
fort, of munificence, and external dignity to the Sove-
reign. What could the Ministers do with such a
knot as this ? Quarrel with the Radicals by re-
fusing to cut down the Queen of England below the
starvation point ?—quarrel with the country by sub-
mitting to the Radicals, and that, too, on the eve of
a dissolution ? No—neither. They leave the matter,
therefore, as they find it—shirk the difficulty, and put
off the evil day. One virtue, we acknowledge, is dis-
coverable in this new course, which the former policy
of Ministers did not boast of. In the preceding part
of the Session they professed to move onwards, but
after prancing furiously did not gain an inch. Now they
advertise to do nothing, and will keep their promise.
Their acts, therefore, in the latter period, will cor-
respond with their professions, which they never did
before. But the reason assigned by the " Leader of
the House of Commons" for all this suspension of
public business is characteristic of his faction, and,
therefore, not a little amusing. He abstains (worthy
man) from bringing forward his pet measures, because
" on the eve of a general election," they " might
throw the whole country into a fever of excitement."
Say you so ? But your Lordship never scrupled to agitate
the country when you and your colleagues could gain
anything by it. Yon never were at all tender about get-
ting up the steam when it helped on your own favourite
projects. When the "fever of popular excitement"
was likely to be on your own side of any question, who
ever administered stimulants so boldly ? What, then,
is the plain conclusion from the present conscientious
alarm of Ministers about " throwing the country into
a fever ?" Why, that that the storm would rage
against themselves. That it is in resistance to their
political quackeries and Church robberies, the rage of
the people would show itself, and that the ranks
of their partisans would be wofully thinned in the
next House of Commons, by a further perseverance
in those measures which have already revolted so
many thousands of sincere but penitent electors, who
dreamed not of the lengths to which factious innova-
tion was driving them, and are now tired of that capri-
cious and treacherous movement on which they had
ignorantly entered. The Ministers, therefore, mani-
festly knew not how to meet the consequences of this
involuntary dissolution, yet were ashamed to tell her
Majesty frankly that they trembled to accept the peril-
ous honour of her service. It is clear as light from what
quarter the wind blows, by the desperate, but silly, at-
tempt of Lord John Russell to " soap" the Radicals in
the latter part of his speech. His vague and hedge-school
declamation about carrying out the principles of the
Catholic all, the Reform Bill, &c., into what he
termed their just and natural " fruits," was meant to
catch the Democrats ; but it was only so much salt
on their tails. It was a total failure. For Queen
Victoria, we trust it will not have been a failure. We
trust her Majesty will regard the words of Lord John
Russell as a fair construction of that fine " declara-
tion" which Lord Melbourne in the Council-room had
prevailed upon her to deliver ; and that by the " ame-
liorations" to which his Lordship aimed at pledging
her Majesty he meant to signify, though she herself
did not, an indefinite series of democratic experiments
on the Constitution. But, as we have already said,
the Democrats were not caught by it. They came to
the point with the rhetorical Secretary of State. "It
is all mighty well, my Lord ; but how much will do
for us ? Down with the ready. Will you give us uni-
versal suffrage and the ballot, and redress all the griev-
ances of all the Papists and Dissenters? and will you
transfer the army from the hands of the Crown to
those of the House of Commons, a Democrat House
of Commons ; and will you, or will you not, bind
yourself to all these things &yore the dissolution of
the present Parliament ? If not, you and Queen Vic-
toria may go whistle for the Radicals. So a fig for
you Lord John Russell." Now, we know not whe-
ther the Melbourne Ministers had reflected on the cer-
tainty that Messrs. Hume and Roebuck would take
the first opportunity of preparing for them the downy
pillow which both those gentlemen offered Lord John
Russell to repose his head upon, in return for that in-
sipid solfffle with which his Lordship attempted to stay
their hungry appetites. We know not truly whether
the Ministers had thought of that, or of any other
equally agreeable incident to their condition. But they
will think of it now, and we shall, from time to time,
endeavour to help their reflections.— Times.
Never did any person descend from a public to a com-
paratively private station with more universal and well-
merited attachment and applause than the amiable con-
sort of our departed Sovereign. It has been the good
fortune of this country, where female excellence so
largely abounds, to witness, for a series of years, its
influence and example in the highest station, from
Queen Charlotte and her daughters to the exemplary
Queen Adelaide. If the domestic virtues, and above
all, that of soothing the hours of affliction, constitute
the peculiar ornament of woman, no one can haveat
tended to the undeviating conduct of the Queen Dowa-
ger, and to the touching account given by the
Arch-
bishop of Canterbury of her untiring attendance upon
the death-bed of her departed King and husband, but
must feel convinced that in her these virtues have,
from first to last, shone most brightly and conspicu-
ously. May these virtues, when her Majesty's pre-
sent sufferings are abated, bring with them that reward
and consolation, which conscious virtue, founded on
religion, can alone bestow I_Morning Herald.

We congratulate the Conservatives of the United
Kingdom on the prospect which ()pens before them.
If the approaching general election should not give
them a decided majority in the House of Commons,
the fault, we are persuaded, will be their own. That
they have power to rescue themselves and their coun-
try from the degrading thraldom in which both have
been held so long, and to avert the dangers which
king over our national institutions, is a fact which does
not admit of doubt. But we cannot too earnestly ex-
hort them, if they mean to accomplish this great, and
important, and glorious triumph, not to lose time.
Every day, every hour, is now of incalculable value.
The retainers of the Administration are hurrying away
from town in every direction, carrying with them all
the influence of the Treasury, redolent of the rich
scent of I,7ltronage, fraught deeply with projects of
forthcoming coliznissions, affluent of places for es-
innumerable boards, and of
quires and gentlemen a:

clerkships, messengerships, &c.. &c., without stint or
limitation, for the sons, nephews, and cousins
of more humble voters. Nothing on the part
of Ministers is to be , spared in the way of
promises, or AT herepromises ore not enough in any
other way that is likely to proire more eltiaCiotis.
mandate has gone forth from Whitehall, end the elec-
tions are to be carried by the Ministerial candidates
route qui route. Ministers are determined if possible
to succeed, for they re and success at the approaching
elatidii as a iflattef of lire of death, and the oily
hope of success which they really cherish is
founded upon the means of corruption at their dis-
posal. But there is, we hope and believe, a spirit at
work in this country which will frustrate their hopes
and defeat their machinations. They have been
tried in the balance and found wanting. The
people are weary and disgusted with their everlasting
professions and their unvarying failures. A Ministry
which has lived for years, and which still strives to
live, upon the sympathy and support first of one
class of the people and then of another, and which
seeks that sympathy and support by promises which
it neither intends nor has the power to realise, is
not a Ministry that an intelligent and high-spirited
nation can be expected to tolerate. The system of
sacrificing the general good in order to catch the
support of detached portions of the people by ex-
citing in their minds irrational expectations, and
wedding them to impracticable projects, which has
characterised the Parliamentary career of the pre-
sent Government, will be appropriately succeeded
by that system of more direct corruption upon
which Ministers rely in the approaching crisis
of their fate. But, if the Conservative party be
true to themselves and to their country as Ministers,
they have failed in one case will also fail in the
other. In attempting to bribe particular sections of
the people by dangerous and pernicious laws, they have
made few friends and many enemies, and the same
result will attend the coarser and more vulgar bri-
bery upon which their calculations of success at the
general elections are chiefly founded. The subjects
of the Queen of England will do so much justice to
their youthful Sovereign at the commencement of
her reign as to place her at the head of an
honest, an intelligent, and a patriotic Parliament;
and not of a Parliament in which fraudulent and un-
principled Ministers may carry on an open traffic,
offering to surrender one by one in exchange for the
votes of revolutionists, the most precious institutions
of the country, and to knock down in succession, for
the gratification of various classes of their supporters,
every prop and bulwark of the national Throne and the
national altar. We have the happiness to announce
to our readers with the utmost confidence, and after
having had recourse to the best sources of information,
that the approaching general election promises to yield
to the cause of the Throne and the Church an un-
equivocal triumph, and to place in a position of lasting
security those valuable and inseparable institutions of
our country. In a great majority of the counties and
towns of Great Britain the Conservative constituencies
are fully arrayed for the encounter with the enemies of
the Constitution, and eligible candidates are in most cases
ready to come forward to present them with a fair occa-
sion for their patriotic exertions, and to secure them the
full benefit of their success. It is fortunately needless
for us to say much to stimulate exertions which there
is every reason to expect will generally be made with
a promptitude and vigour proportioned to the urgency
and the magnitude of the occasion. If we offer one
word of advice it will only be to urge the friends of
the Constitution in every county, and city, and bo-
rough, to lose no time in taking their ground, and
placing their candidate in the view of the electors.
Delays are proverbially dangerous : and there is
no case in which procrastination may be attended
with more disastrous consequences than on the eve
' of a general election. Our enemies are on the alert,
and in cases where the result will depend upon
a few votes on one side or the other, all may be lost
by permitting them to pre-occupy the ground. We
do not call upon the Conservatives, therefore, to be
zealous or determined, for we know they are both ; but
we caution them of the danger of inactivity and delay.
An hour should not be lost. If in any case there be
hesitation as to which of two Conservatives shall stand
we do not scruple to say that the less fit of the two
will have a better chance to succeed if he be brought
forward to-morrow, than the more fit if his presenta•
tion to the electors be deferred until to•morrow week.
We exhort the Conservatives everywhere, then, to be
up and stirring. Our impatience does not arise from
diffidence in our cause, but from anxiety that its
triumph should be decisive and complete. Why
have we not yet in the field the two Conservative
Candidates, whose election for Middlesex may so
easily be made secure ? When are the Constitu-
tional Candidates for Marylehone to be defi-
nitively announced ? What are the loyal people
in the City of London about ? We could men-
tion, at least, a dozen men in the City, emi-
nent in commercial life, and not less distinguished for
their loyalty to the Throne, and their rational and
virtuous attachment to the institutions of the country,
for any two of whom, at the very least, the prompt
' and active exertions of the Conservatives of the City
of London would secure seats in the House of Com-
mons. Why, again, are the Conservatives of the
county of Surrey not yet in motion ? We implore the
loyal men in the different places to which .we have re-
ferred, and there are many others which we might also
mention—not to let their disloyal opponents steal a
march upon them. We would rouse them to imme-
diate action, in the name of Victoria and the Consti-
tution of England.—Morning Post.

An American Paper describes a lucky man to be
one who turns two corners without being accosted by a dun, or
meets a sheriff's officer without receiving a tap on the shouldcr.
The Bristol (Rhode Island) Gazette of Saturday
last has the following :—" Captain Blye, of the brig Clyde,
which arrived at this port yesterday from Mantanzas, saw on
Sunday last, in lat. 38, long. 73, about 10 o'clock, a.m., a
queer-looking fish, in the shape of a snake, under the lee of
the vessel, of a grayish colour, and about the size of a ship's
mainmast ; his head had passed under the vessel's bottom ;
about 100 feet was on the surface of the water. Captain Blye
thinks he must have been at least 200 feet long. The body
was perfectly smooth, without the appearance of any hump
or prominences. As he passed very near the vessel, he was
distinctly seen by all on board for a very considerable time.
No doubt one of the sea serpents so often seen on our coast."
—New York Paper, May 27.

The claims for relief at Paisley stand at upwards of
2,000 men on the work list, and 1,143 applicants on the soup-
kitchen list, who have dependent on them as many as 3,769.
Many of these individuals receive only half a portion per day,
which again reduces the number of portions to about 1,800.
We are happy to add that, though the expenditure has now
reached the alarming sum of 1201. per day, there is now some
prospect of the suffering having attained its climax. The num-
ber of applicants has been gradually diminishing for the last
four days.— Glasgow Chronice.

On the morning of Saturday last there was found,
in a pasture field to the north side of Annan, a gentleman's
morning dressing-gown, carefully wrapped up. A sight so
unusual, the locality considered, excited some surprise, and
the feelings of the finders were of a stronger nature when they
dig ovcred that the parcel was not only smeared with, but
contained large quantities of coagulated blood. That a name
had been sewed or stamped on the right corner was evident
from the pains which had been taken to obliterate every mark
of ownership. The gown, which is made of the best white
flannel, and rowed with white horn buttons, is of the largest
size, and nearly new. Appearances strongly point to the sus-
picion that a child has been murdered ; and although the ma-
gistrates of Annan have exerted themselves to the utmost in
investigating the afflir, no traces of the parties implicated
have as yet transpired. In the same field, and pretty near the
same spot, the fragment of a letter was picked up in a gen-
tleman's handwriting, complaining of the party to whom it
was addressed, for not answering certain communications, and
particularly one inclosing a bank draft for 201. —Dumfries
C.) urier.

A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.—A St. Louis paper
says, that the anthracite coal found lately in Missouri looks
like coal, feels like coal, and smells like coal—all the difference
is, that coal burns, but that will not—American Paper.
Forty fine orange-trees arrived at Rouen from Paris
on Sunday last, on their way to England. They arc under-
stood to be a present from the Duke of Orleans to the Duke
of Sutherland.

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A fact rare (if known at all) in this country occur-
red the other day in Derbyshire. A boy fishing disturbed a
nest, the birds from which flew in different directions, one with
a bird in its bill. The boy followed the weakest looking, and
discovered it to be a young woodcock, which is now in posses-
sion of Mr. l3urgoine, gamekeeper to the Duke of Devon-
shire, at Chat worth. The bird which the boy first saw was
one of the parents conveying its offspring from the impending
danger across the river at Ashford. Hopes are entertained
that the other three %yin be found : if so, it will form one of
the rarest possible incidents in the history of those birds, viz.,
their breeding in England.—Derbyshire Chronicle.