The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY).

COURT OF CHANCERY.
ENORMOUS COSTS.—RUSSELL V. BEECHES'.
Mr. RUSSELL, by previous permission, appeared this
morning to ask for the indulgence or the Court in makire:
an interlocutary order to suspend the payment of 5,300:
and a fraction, reported by the Master to he due for the
execution of a commission to examine witnesses in the Ne-
therlands and France. The Master had allowed each
Commissioner five, and each Solicitor four guineas a-day,
besides all expenses, and a very ample sum for contingent
demands. Nine witnesses had been examined, 1541 folio•
of deposition taken, and eleven days occupied in the pro-
ceeding, for which this enormous sum had been allowed
by the Master. There were two Solicitors and five Com-
missioners engaged in the undertaking ; and one of the
solicitors had been allowed to charge as having appeared
in two characters, namely, that of solicitor for an executor,
and that of solicitor for a claimant.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. PEPYS, Mr. BA RES R.
and one or two more Learned Gentlemen, appeared Co op-
pose the application.
The Souciroa-Gestruar. called for an affidavit of the
facts.
Mr. RUSSELL was not opening the petition of appeal
against this monstrous allowance, but only sliming aprima
fide case for the interposition of the Court until the peti-
tion could be heard.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was prepared to meet the pe-
tition, and insisted on its being goKe into.
The Loan CHANCELLOR was of opinion tliit so much
of the petition should be opened as would shew to him that
the Court ought to interfere to stay the regular execution
of the Master's report.
Mr. Rossimn—My Lord, all that I have stated appears
by the proceedings, and I think, on the authority of hun-
dreds of cases that have been decided in this Court, what
I have stated is quite sufficient to induce your Lordship to
say that this large sum of money shall not at present be
paid out of the fund in Court.
The SOLICITOR- GEN zr.AL— Produce the proceedings?
Mr. RossaeL—We have not the proceedings; but you
have them.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—Have you given us notice
to produce them ?
Mr. RUSSELL—No, we have not.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Then you have no right to
call upon us to produce them.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—How can I know what the
facts are unless you either produce the proceedings, or have
affidavits to support what you have_stated ?
Mr. Rossenn—Aly Lord, we have not the proceedings,
but the Master's report chews the sum that has been
allowed—an office-copy of which I have in my hand.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—You might have had the
proceedings, by having given notice to the other side to
produce them.
Mr. RussEnt —My client is not here; his clerk only is
here, and he had no idea that the ca-e would have been
required to have been gone into beyond the mere statement
of the facts which I here made, which statement is borne
out by the Master's certificate, by the depositions, and by
all the proceedings.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—These were costs occasioned by
the execution of this commission—that is, the travelling
from one place to another, and the examining of the wit-
nesses; the inquiry was at Louvain, at Antwerp, and at
Paris. I don't mean to say the sum is not apparently
very great and enormous ; but you cannot by a reference
to the mere nunber of folios of deposition, say that it is
too much. The Master, no doubt, nude a minute in-
quiry into the propriety of these charges ; I cannot sup-
pose that it was not a very active inqury ; and it is not
because the sum appears to be very large, that I am to say
it is wrong.
Mr. RUSSELL--My Lord, I am not calling on your Lord-
ship so to art.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—But unless yon give me
some grounds for supposing that the report is wrong, I
have not myself the means of knowing it is so, therefore
I cannot say it is wrong because it is a large sum. I re-
member- a case in the Court of Common Pleas, where
1,0001. was charged for executing a commission, which
occasioned a good deal of consternation, and where, I be-
lieve, it was ultimately cut down considerably.
Mr. RussELL—lf your Lordship encourages this prac-
tice—

The Loan CHANCELLOR—I beg your pardon, Mr.
Russell, I am not encouraging any practice ; but when
the Master has certified that a certain sum is due, I can-
not, without some evidence before me, interfere for the
purpose of setting aside his decision and preventing the
regular execution of it. That is encouraging nothing,
and it is not a proper phrase to use with reference to the
decision of the Master.
Mr. RUSSELL—Jt was not with reference to the de-
cision of the Master, my Lord, I used it.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—Yes, it must have been ;
and I must assume that the Master had acted properly,
unless I see evidence to the contrary.
Mrt RusseLL—No, my Lord, it was with reference to
the preposition of my Learned Friends on the other side,
that all these proceedings should have appeared in affidavit
at another enormous expense to the trustees.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then that's not what they
say. They say you ought to hove produced the
proceedings, and that if the proceedings are in the
hands of your opponents, you might have bad
them by having given them notice to produce them.
I have beard it over and over again said, that fur the pur-
pese of suspending the effect of a decree, or an order, you
inuat,go into the whole of a case.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—That is the reason why I
proposed that the petition should be heard.
Mr. RUSSELL—And I have known times without num-
ber that, on its being merely suggested to the superior
branch of the Cour, that an appeal has been filed against
a decree below directing the payment of money, that the
Lord Chancellor had stayed the execution of that order.
The LORD Ctratecetema--That has only been done
where there has been a great point of law to be decided.
Mr. RUSSELL,—WdI, I now leave the case in your Lord•
ship's hands. This we must be glad of, ut any rat-, that
by having come here now we have ascertained how the
matter is to be met on the other side ; and since they are
so urgent fur affidavits, I can assure them they shall have
plenty of them, for it seems to us so extraordinary that
this immense sum should hate been thus allowed, that we
ai e determined to pursue it afterwards, should it now be
paid oat.
The Lorin CHANCELLOR—The Master being of Opinion
that, under all the circumstances, this is not an unreason-
able sum to have been allowed, I cannot, without some
evidence, feel justified in suspending the regular exe-
cution of the award. I admit that it appears to be
a very large sum, hut it has already been examined,
investigated into, and judgment has been pronounced upon
it by a competent authority; therefore, you must rely on
the remedy you have if you should hereafter set aside these
proceedings. Application was made for the costs, which
were granted, thereby dismissing the motion with costs.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S AND ROLLS COURT.
Nuthing of any public importance took place at either o!
these Omits up t time when our reporter left.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
CA MERIDG E ITT V. BEA LES.
This is a cause relating to the right of tolls in the town
of Cambridge. It has been twice tried, and a verdi.t ou
both occasions found for the dtfendant.
_ _

Mr. TAUNTON now !limed for another trial on two
grounds—lst. The misdirection of the Learned Judge
(Tcnterden) in summing up to the Jury ; and. 2d. Ilia
Lordship's refusal of certain evidence, which, the plsintiff
contended, ought to have been received.

The COUhT said,,the cause being one of importance,
they wou!d look into several cases before they gave a
decision.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
LA FITTE SLATTER.
Mr. Serjeant Wirmg said that this ease was tried befuT6
the Lord Chief Justice, at Guildhall. It was an qetism
a bill of exchange by the indorsee agaimit the drawer.
There was a verdict for the plainti.cf with liberty reset ved
to enter a nonsuit. The qucation turned upon. the neces-
sity of the service of a notice on the dellodaut of the bill
being dishonoured. The bill was drawn by the defendant
on a person of the name of Dobbs, and the indorsers e,ftoi•
him were a Mr. Rose and a Mr. Magrath. Tina 4.l,..ArLed
Serjeant here argued at greet length this; k'fie vson-service
of the notice of the bill being dishonpirvied could not be ex-
cused by the defendant's hav;aii 'own heard to sgy, previous
to the bill becoming II;u3, hat be could not pay it, as was
given in evidence at the trial. He contended that a notice,
notwithstanding, shout I have been served upon the de-
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SPIRIT OF THli PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The death of the Right Hon. George Tier-
ney, M.P., was announced last night through
the ordinary channel of an advertisement. Had
;this distinguished statesman's esreer been as
successful as his principles were fixed and une
accommodating, couriers might have been in
waiting to announce the fatal event, and the
precise moment of its occurrence, to the So-
vereign in his palace, and reporters stationed
to collect the details of his last illness. We
can now do little more than announce the fact
that Mr. Tierney is no more. We know not
with certainty what was his age ; but he must be
the last of nearly ten of that galaxy of talent which
illuminated the House of Commons by its
brilliancy, from the close of the American
war and during the tempestuous season of the
French Revolution. Fox, Burke, Sheridan,
Windham, Pitt, are all gone before him. In-
ferior in brilliance, but almost equal in argu-
ment, to Fox,—less burdened with the trap-
pings of learning, and less perplexed with the
refinements of metaphysics, than Burke .or
Windham,—second in wit, but more abound-
ing in an,—less sonorous
il)voissidmoogt,hathhanSleri Sheridan,—less
and
1 Pitt,—Mr. Tierney was, ge-
nerally heard with attention equal to any Of these
illustrious persons, in the debate ; and if he could
not succeed in carrying the opinions he espoused,
he seldom allowed his adversaries to boast of a
personal triumph over him as their advocate.
Mr. Tierney's speeches were more like collo-
quial good sense spoken in the parlour,• than
lofty or studied eloquence tittered in the senate
and he was therefore spared the pain of Many
a broken metaphor and redundant clause, givea
merely to round a sentence. He was sagacicus
in an eminent degree. • His enemies have given
the quality a less engaging epithet ; but whether
it were sagacity or cunning, in him it was a
tios but
promotetoo ob-
vioushis
t
own personal interests. Perhaps there might bep ure andtha
ts useful quality
nevere
xfeortredit
the less disposition abroad to excuse or pardon
it to its possessor, because it was but too often
successfully exercised in detecting and exposing
the selfish motives of others.—Times.
Among the several modes of " equitable ad-
justment proposed by country gentlemen as a
cure for what they call the " public " distresses,
but which in reality mean nothing more than their
own " distresses" arising from their anticipation
of a probable fall of rents, is one of old date,
which Mr. Western and some very few other in-
dividuals describe rhetorically as a plan for " ren-
dering money more abundant." We hope that
Mr. Western will not take amiss our applying
well-known names to devices which are by no
means novel. When the Honourable Gentleman
exclaims that money is too scarce, andehen re-
commends that it should be rendered " more
abundant," he only means in fact that it should
be rendered of less valuer—pat the material
should be more vile,—that thFcifrrency,should
be debased : he means that,_ or he employs
words which have no meaning. The expedient
of creating a different medium of currency from
that of the precious metals, moreover, is not,
with Mr. Western, an end in itself,—it is an in-
strument merely for a secondary end, that of
making bread more scarce, which, again, is but
an instrument of the great end of to
make the soil that produces the bread more
costly—i. e., to raise Mr. Western's 'rents anti
those of other country gentlemen... Now this is,
in plain English, a most iniquitous project. It
is, we do say, most iniquitous to lay this long
train of machinations for promoting the selfish
interest of any one order of men in the realin at
the expense of all the remainder. The echeme
is to operate by means of a large creation of
promissory notes, issued by all who may. choose
to utter them, and, we suppose, not convertible
into money at the will of the holder, but only
at the will of the utterer. We say we suppose
so, because at present any man who pleases may
issue Bank-notes on the condition of paying
them in gold when called upon : so that if the
" Western paper" be still convertible, we do
not see what the Essex country gentlemen would
gain by augmenting it to even such an amount.
Then, taking for granted that England is once
more to- be blessed by a currency consisting of
promissory notes alone, let us see how, even in
that case, the country gentleman would derive, a
more substantial profit than he now does. from
other men's labours. The Paper li.,sued by
the country bankers would be js.st as great
in quantity, and by consequence just as low
in quality, as ever they, ot, any of them,
might choose to make it, Two standards
would immediately start into existence,—
namely, one for our domestic transactions, and a
second for those with foreigners. We might
increase our paper currency ad iyinitum, and
the amount of interest, or of rent, in paper
money, might be doubled, or trebled, or qua-
drupled. But what would the monied capitalist
in the one case, or in the other the landed gen-
tleman, be. the better? Would the squire be
able to get one pennyweight of that species of:
coin which foreign nations value, than beat ism.
sent does for his farms? Would hot the
ex-
change rise against the counts,: so much, that
Mr. Western could notconimand a single grail,:
of gold or silver more than he did before the
new abundance of his papersmoney was called
forth ? Would a less proportion of the Hon.
Gentleman's estate go to the purchase of the
same number of hogsheads of claret, of liveries
for his footmen, or of horses, carriages, books, or
furniture, than before ? His taxes, to be sure, so
long as the nominal amount of them was not
raised, would sit lighter upon the landed gentle-
man than they had done; but the tact is, that
the taxes must be increased, or what are deemed
the necessary expenses of the Qovernment tould
not be provided for by the same nominal 'Amount
of inconvertible paper,, as of solid gold and silver
coin. Then the raanufacturiwa pOpulatione—
what wonid become of it ? ;-that sale should
we have fur our goods foreign markets, if
their price were to rise, in a currency which had,
real value ; and if'. the currency had no intrinsic
value, what ;:etrinsic benefit, let us ask Again,
would S:a:crue from it to the Hon-. Gentleman ?
In war time, with an inconvertible- paper, the
squires and farmers got enormously rich, be-
cause our manufacturing and commercial interest,
having a monopoly of threesfourths of all foreign
markets, could force foreign purchasers to me
demnify them for the exorbitant wages whim
they themse!yes were obliged, by the high price
of bread and meat, to pay their own Lnelish
journeymen. Would that, or could ie„ happen
now ? With, competition bearding es in every
quarter of the globe, a rise of (see...tenth 'or fit.-
teenth in wages would reduee our manufactures
to the home-market ; and between the aggrava-
Lion of poor-rates, end time consequent falling off"
of voluntary consumption, does Mr. Western
see no retribution (Yen ill the direct tendency of
his ,( abundant 'none)," to produce stilt male
abundant want ? The Scotch paper system has

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been recommended here. Believing, as we do, civil civil rights, to the tribunes of the people ? We
that it is a system essentially rotten, we depre- may do so when we get rid of those historical
cite its introduction into English economy or recollections which identify the popular pried-
commerce. A wholesome proposal was made pies of our Government with the proudest eras
some few years ago,—viz., that bankers should , of the grandeur and prosperity of England.—
be forced to give security to the amount of the ' Until then we shall maintain the, maxim—that
notes which they might desire to circulate. It ought to be inscribed on the portals of every
was a Wise'ainLsound expedient, and if realized, Commonwealth—cedant arma togs. Until
might have enabled us to dispense with the' cost then we shall say let popular abuses be reformed,
of a metallic-currency,: and to confide securely but let popular principles be preserved. We
in one of paper, resting on the basis of solid I never denied that the self-government of pa-
property. But what was the consequence ? rishes had in practice fallen into scandalous de-
Why the bankers did all but rebel. They raised dine. We never denied that a thorough reform
such an outcry about oppression, inquisition, of this system, particularly as it affected the
persecution, and the Lord knows what, that the police of the metropolis, was necessary; but we
country gentlemen, many of whom these intro- cannot admit that a case was made out to justify
cents had got pretty deeply into their books, a forfeiture of the privileges of the people. If the
were dragooned, against their own conviction, Executive Power of the State, with the aid of
to join the chorus of the ragmen, and so the Parliament, had taken such measures as were
Minister, whose hands were as much tied up within their reach to correct the practice of the
by the aristocracy as those of the latter were by system which had grown up with our Consti-
the papyrocracy, was compelled, whether he tution, and failed, they would have had a
would or not, to forego a scheme supported by reasonable excuse for acting upon the principle
good sense and upright feeling. No, without of subversion instead of reform. It. is ge-
security, no more small notes, if it so pleases nerally admitted now, that the greatest of all
the Esquires and their keepers.—lbid. our popular institutions—the House of Com-
Our Paris Correspondent has given a spirited mons—wants reform ; but will any one say that
its degeneracy would justify its abolition ? The
and, we believe, impartial account of some of
follies and absurdities which it has inflicted on
the Members of the Administration. It seems
the country, under the name of law, have pro-
to be as dangerous to a man's reputation in
duce(' mischief enough to make the country
France to accuse him of religion, as it is in this
sorely feel the incapacity of its Representatives;
country to accuse him of infidelity, and accord-
but still, with all its infirmity of intellect—with
ingly our Correspondent deems it but just to
all its ignorant ambition of legislation—the prin-
Bourmont to prove that he is sufficiently in-
ciple of its existence is a noble one, and worthy
different in that respect.—" Bourmont, " he says,
of a soil enriched by the recollections, and con-
" has been classed by those who know nothing
serrated by.
.the triumPlis of freedom. That
about him with the High Church faction, anbd
ii, ie which says that " Englishmen shall not
has been made, forsooth, a Jesuit. The real be
. taxed without their own consent," gave birth
fact is, that Bourmont never thought an hour in
to the House of Commons ; and however it may
his life about religion. Ho finds the Roman
have been overlayed by the abuses of practice, is
Catholic Faith the religion of the State, and, as
still capable of a•glorious regeneration. Vicious,
he knows no other, lie professes the national re-
indeed, is the political logic that, from an igno-
ligion. Depend on it, no religion gives so little
rant, a vacillating, arid inefficient House of
trouble to its professors an an ' Act of Parlia- Commons, would infer the necessity of a
ment religion.' If Bourmont had been born
simple despotism ; yet, this specimen of false
at Constantinople, he would have made an
reasoning and bad patriotism is only a higher
admirable Mussulman, and no followers of the 0
degree of error than that on which the advocates
Sacred Standard would hare been, from habit
of a military system of police have gone, in con-
and education, more sincere. But when it is
tending that, because the popular system had been
alleged that Bourmont is jealous of the interests
abused, we should abolish it altogether, and
of the Catholic Church—would enlist in a
suffer another to be substituted of a military
jesuitical crusade against other sects—and is a
character, and not responsible to the people. Let
devotee—then his enemies announce their igno- •
it never be forgotten, too, that persons who had
rance or manifest their malice." It is an longargu-
carried on the trade of a noisy patriotism,
anent, we believe, of Bishop Hare, that it was a
were most zealous in favour of this violent de-
very foolish thing to inquire into the grounds of re-
parture from the spirit of cur free Constitution
ligion' when a man could gain no more by inquiry —so 0 little do intemperance and faction partake
than he was sure of without inquiry, and might,
of any fixed principles, or any steady intelligence
on the other hand, arrive at results which might
of purpose. When Sir Francis Burdett de-
he very prejudicial to him. The opinion of the
dared in the House of Commons that the army
world is certainly with those who, like General
_even the standing army—against which he
Bourmont, take whatever they find established. had eloquently railed for years, was the " best
We remember, in a case of competition for an school for Statesmen," we need not wonder at
office connected with the Church, a candidate seeing Westminster, of which he is the "glory,"
laid great stress on the circumstance of his family
quietly, or rather gladly submitting to the sure
freeing been good Protestants ever since the veillance of a military police. To produce a
reign of Henry the Eighth, which meant, no uniformity of style, as it may be called, in our
doubt, ever since Protestantism was the most • • •
institutions, the leading civic patriots seem to be
profitable (for he would probably have been employed in inoculating their fellow-citizens
puzzled to establish the family orthodoxy during with a hatred for their old-fashioned popular
she reign of Bloody Mary). The argument was regulations, and an admiration of the simple
not thrown away. Whatever philosophers may
• energy of arbitrary power. Foremost amongst
,say, we have always found in this country a those who are apparently pioneering the way
strong prejudice in favour of hereditary Lelief. for the new regime is Alderman Wood,
Philosophically speaking, there is more merit in
whose expressions on this subject on
a man overcoming the prejudices of education, several occasions, but more especially at
and becoming a member of the Established the last meeting of the corporate body, are not to
Church, than in his merely being a Protestant
be mistaken. The occasion of the funeral of
by succession. But s convert is always hated Sir Thomas Lawrence was chosen to draw a
by those he has left, and trot beloved by those contrast between the activity of the police out-
he has joined ; and we know that in the case of side of Temple-bar and the inefficiency of those
Country Gentlemen aspiring to the Magistracy,
within. Alderman Wood was particularly anxi-
tho e i the family for three generations have be-
uol eus to have this contrast remarked ; but we ask
Joneed to the Established Church, the great
0 him and other Aldermen—the chartered con-
grandfathers' taint has operated as a bar against
servitors of the peace of the city—=whether, if
the claimant in Tory counties, Bourmont takes they themselves had done their duty, .the civic
the religion of his nurse, but it is not said that
police would have fallen into the state of neglect
he could be induced to take another ; and this and contempt which reflects so much disgrace
is, in every country with .which we are acquainted, upon the, Corporate authority ? In the Courts
the ne plus ultra of a good subject and a good in which Aldermen preside for the sacred duty
Christian. With Chabrol it would seem to be
of the administration of justice, is not business
otherwise. Montbel, Minister of the Interior,
often and scandalously delayed on account of the
again, is a zealous Catholic, and personally reli-
Densattendance of Aldermen ? How many of
gious, not merely because he was educated a
those Magistrates are resident within the Wards
Catholic, but because religious zeal is at a pre-
over which they are supposed to preside ? How
mium at Court. He is now rigorous againstmany of them display zeal and activity under the
the venders of Portraits of Napoleon or the
trappings of the fur gown and gold chain in the
Duke of Reichstadt. " Yet let us do M. Mont-
prosecution of any other official labours than
bel justice (observes our correspondent).
those of a civic feast ? Some active and intel-
When Napoleon was Emperor, no one dared i•
went Magistrates, we admit, are among them,
publish or exhibit any portrait of the flour- whose constant and regular execution of their
!ems, or even any book which referred to them;
dutiesdeserve re public esteem, and places them
the '
except as an extinguished race. Now the Bour-
in honourable contrast with their brethren. But
Pions reign. ' Each one his turn,' as we say in
there is no doubt that the indolence and remissness
France. The Bourbons adopt the rule of Na- of a lame number of tire Aldermanic body cause
whilst against Napoleon'e rule no
poison—and 9
a certain degree of relaxation and weakness to
one said a word, against the same rule, when
pervade tire whole system of civic government.
adopted by the Bourbons, there are a thousand,
Hence vices of practice have crept into that sys-
nay a million dissentients." Tire principle
tem,which make it neceseary to reform it through
which governs men like M. Montbel wrs very ~
authe gradations of authority. Let it be re-
natvely stated by au honest Scotch Jacobite,
modelled, not destroyed ; for it is quite possible
Lord Balmerino, at whose trial was present,
to make life and property secure by an efficient
among others, Si ray, the poet, who, in a
police, without endangering the liberty of the
letter to Wharton, 13th of August, 1746,
subject. Unity of action, and simplicity of ar-
relates the following conversation as Irving
ranpment, may be introduced into a system of
been overheard by him :—" The Duke of Are
pooee, without the sacrifice of the wholesome
oyle telling him how sorry and how astonished he
principle of popular controul. The Magistrates
was to see him engaged iti such a cause, my
of the City, as weil as the New Police Commis-
Lord, says he, for the two Kings and their
sinners, can obtain the services of active and
rights I eared not a farthing which prevailed ;
able-bodied men in sufficient number. They
but I was staining • and, by God, if Mahomet
0 ' -ail also pay them well enough to enable them
had set up his stan4erd in the Highlands, I had
to live comfortable without accepting the wages
been a good IVlussultrien for bread, and stuck
of corrupt connivenee, They can discipline
close to the party, for I must eat." . It would
and oreanize them, if they will take tire trouble ;
be difficult to give a clearer :conception of the they can . • i
can stimulate them to tire emulous cum-
prineiplee of a good many people no the world
tion of their duties, by a judicious plan of re-
*hart his Lordship has here given in a few words.
ward and promotion ; and they can institute that
~...._Morning Cironicle. defined 4nti intelligent controul that will make
Nobody Call doubt the necessity of re-model- every subordinate -member of, the body know
ling tins city Police ; the state of inertness and whom he is to obey, and what instructions he
inefficieney into which it has fallen calls loudly is to follow. Let the experiment of reforming
for reform. Advantage is taken of this state of the present system, at all events, be fairly tried ;
things by the egettte, of the Executive to pro- and if it fail, it will be then time enough for the
pose the introduction of till~ new, or Government civic patriots to eerrender the most valuable of
Police, within the limits of the chartered juris- their chartered privilegea at the feet of the Home
diction. From the manner in which we have Secretary, and acknowledge that tire Crown had
seen chartered privileges abused of late years, to confirmed certain valuable franchises to their
the promotion of jobs and the oppression of tire ineerStaters, which their degenerate posterity
subject, we are not inclined to advocate their were incom exercise said unworthy topeieet te
inviolability, We see nothing in the wisdom retain.—Morning Herald,
or purity of civic patriots that peculiarly etitities
Our table is at the present moment actuelly
them to the charter by which their authority is
coveeeed with letters and communications on the
created to our veneration. But we are not • .er
ashamed, even in these days of innovation, to state of the coootry—some of them urging an
confess ourselves devotedly attached to the old equitable adjustment—others ceiling for a seizure
popular principles of English government. of the Church property—avid all for a reduetiop,
Modern " philosophy" sneers at the name of or an exchainge, of taxes. We have also a letter
Alfred, and the gothic antiquity of Anglo, signed " justitia," on what may be termed
Saxon institutions. So did the sophists of " politics in general," or the present aspect of
degenerate Rome, and are flatterers of the the times, in which many bold truths are stated,
Cesare, decry the examples of early virtue and much sound advice, we are afraid, thrown
rend the institutions of ancient wisdom which away for the present. What, however, we wish
raised the city of Numa and Fabricius to the to impress upon our readers and upon the
empire of tire world. Shall we, too, prefer tire pohlie, is, that owing to the distressed state of
leaders of Imperial cohorts as. the guardians of our the country, the'p is a spirit now abroad which

will not brook delay in reform and retrenchment
—which calls loudly for a revision of the wholt
of our internal- policy—and which, if it db
not succeed in obtaining some part of its
demand, may ultimately prove dangerous.
It is many years, in fact, if indeed ever, since
such unanimity prevailed among all classes. At
one time the table of the House of Commons
has been covered with petitions from the manu-
facturersat another with those of the land-
owners ; but now all classes may be said to be
up in arms in pursuit of one common cause.
The " march of intellect" has marched through-
out the whole laud :—cities and towns, mer-
chants and manufacturers, landowners and work,
men are equally seized by it, and the complaint
is distress, and the cry a reduction of taxes I
We do not pretend to foresee the end of
all these things; but we think that it is
high time for his Majesty's. Ministers to
be " setting their house in order," and
casting about for remedies against the evil
day. Political evils may be averted, as well
as physical diseases prevented ; and we would
fain hope that his Majesty's Ministers are deeply
engaged, not in devising how they can quiet the
present alarm for a season, but how they may put
an end to it entirely. No Minister ever had
such an opportunity of doing so as the Duke of
Wellington now has ; and he may rest assured
that no one will stand so high in the estimation
of posterity as he will, if he succeeds in termi-
nating with equal success the internal evils of
the kingdom, as he once terminated the most
dangerous and expensive war in which the
country was ever engaged.—Morning Adv.

SECOND EDITION
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

['liE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, Jan. 28, 1830.

MANCHESTER MEETING ON THE EAST

INDIA MONOPOLY.

(Erom the Leeds Mercury.)

On Thursday last a numerous and respect.ble
meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, and others
of the town of Manchester, interested in the trade
to India and China, took place in the Town-hall;
BULKELEY PRICE, Esq. Bmoughreere, in the chair;
for the purpose of petitioning for a free trade to the
East Indies and China.

Mr. G. W. WooD, the President of the Chamber
of Commerce, before moving the first resolution,
requested that the resolutions adopted at the meet-
big last year, upon which petitions to Parliament
were then founded, might he read. This having
been done, he proceeded to state that the necessity
for further and immediate exertion on this im•
portant subject had become pressing from the cir-
cumstance that there was soma reason to believe, on
grounds which hardly admitted of question, that
about twelve months ago, a part, at least of his
Majesty's Ministers were favourable to a renewal of
the East India Company's charter in the course of
the present year. It was therefore extremely im-
portant that the commercial interests of the country
should at once be roused; and that no advantage
should be allowed to be taken of any apparent apathy
on their part to obtain a premature renewal of the
charter on terms inimical to their interests. Mr.
Wood then made a variety of important statements
tending strongly to show the great advantages to
be anticipated from opening the trade to India and
China, referring frequently to the papers concern-
ing the India trade that were laid before Parlia-
ment at the latter end of the last Session in proof
of his statements. He concluded by moving a re-
solution, expressive of the full concurrence of that
meeting in the petitions presented to Parliament
from the public meeting of 1829.
Mr. HUGH Hortsinv BIRLEY said, that although
he had been almost wholly confined to his house by
indisposition for the last two months, he felt ex-
tremely anxious, having been absent from town
when the last meeting was held, to take the present
opportunity of coming forward to express his full
concurrence in the proceedings which had then taken
place, and his sense of the importance of an active
and vigorous exertion on the part of the mercantile
and commercial interests at the present time. After
some allusions to the circumstances connected with
the last t enewal of the charter, Mr. Birley added,
there was one other subject on which he would say
a few words. He was extremely anxious that the
proceedings of commercial bodies in reference to the
East India Company's charter should be strictly
limited to the commercial bearings of the question.
With the future political government of India they,
as merchants, had nothing to do ; that was a matter
for the consideration of Parliament, and upon Parlia-
ment he felt that it devolved a tremendous responsi-
bility--a responsibility which he trusted they would
take care not to divide with it. Mr. Birley con-
cluded by seconding Mr. Wood's resolution.
Mr. SIIUTTLEIVORTII then addressed the meeting
in a very long speech, containing much important
and elaborate argument and detail, in support of the
motion; after which the resolution was put, and
carried unanimously.
The other speakers were Mr. John Bradshaw,
Mr. Robert Hyde Greg, Mr. James Wood, Mr.
Thomas Sharpe, Mr. Henry Tootal, Mr. Mark
Philips, Mr. George Fraser, &c.; and the various
resolutions were all put and carried unanimously.
A subscription was opened to defray the expenses
incurred in the prosecution of this measure, and con-
tributions to the amount, we believe, of upwards of
2001. were announced.

The meeting terminated) at two o'clock, having
lasted three hours.

Mr. G. W. Wow), the President of the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce, said at the meeting
on Thursday, " That the necessity for further and
immediate exertion on this important subject, had
become pressing from the circumstance that there
was some reason to believe, on grounds which hardly
admitted of question, that about twelve months ago,
a part at least of his Majesty's Ministers were fa-
vourable to a renewal of the East India Company's
Charter in the course of the present year. It was
therefore extremely important that the commercial
interests of the country should at once be roused ;
and that no advantage should be allowed to be taken
of an apparent apathy on their part to obtain a pre-
mature renewal of the Charter on terms inimical to
their interests." We have ourselves received infor-
formation corresponding with that of Mr. Wood, re-
garding the disposition of some of his Majesty's
Ministers ; and we are induced to urge strongly that
the Leeds Committea for the opening of the trade
to the East should take immediate measures to call
a public meeting for the promotion of that object.
There is not a day to be lost in reusing the country
to an assertion of its own rights.and interests at this
important crisis.

The small-pox is exceedingly prevalent in the
neighbourhood of Howarth, and a person named Mull-
GATROrn has unfortunately lost five children, being all
that he had, from the ravages of this dreadful malady,—
Hafificr Chronicle.

The King has been graciously pleased to approve of tl e
appointment of David Wilkie, Esq., as Principal Painter in
Ordinary to his Majesty, in the room of Sir Thomas Law-
rence, deceased.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northum-
berland and Newcastle•upon-Tyne.
George Shatlforth, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant for
the town and county of the town of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. Dated Dec. 31, 1829.