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than the Whigs in office. In the Times of Satuz day,
to quote another instance of Tory feeling, the (11 2m o-
cracy of England is spoken of in terms of the most
unmeasured and bitter contempt. The bulk 'of the
people, the most industrious and skilful in Europe,
who are ground down to poverty by unjust a ad par-
tial taxation, by Corn-laws and other regulations
which have been made by such efficient legislators
as the Earl of ABERDEEN_the bulk of the people
are called by the Times, the great organ of .the
Tories, the " pauper multitude." To give Uni-
versal Suffrage to the people is to establish the des-
potism of the " ignorant, pauper multitude over the
enlightened minority," who constitute the fit legisla-
tors of the Earl of ABERDEEN. Again the bulk
of the people are called the " swinish multitude,"
and it is implied that they are fit only to
wallow in the mire, and be the slaves of
the aristocracy. Such phrases are signifi-
cant of Tory thoughts and are an index to Tory
acts. Those who so speak of the bulk of the
people, would so treat them; and, were they in office
to-morrow, would regard the " pauper multitude,"
though their labour is the single source of every
atom of wealth owned by Lord ABERDEEN and
his co-peers, as " a swinish multitude," wholly
unfit for any thing but to toil, and to be killed like
pigs when the Tory gentlemen, who alone are
fit to exercise legislative functions, shall suppose
that to be for their interest.

Two years ago, the Tories, backed by the
Times, called out to re-conquer Ireland, rather than
allow the Irish to be free. So it is plain that
they would re-conquer the British rather than allow
them to be anything but the " pauper, swinish, mul-
titude." If the Tories, then, were in office, we
should have the powers of the Government wielded
by a set of politicians who profess the most unmea-
sured contempt for the bulk of the people, and who
would be ready to put them down, and keep them
down, by the sword. They have done so before,
and would do so again, were they in power. With-
out any regard to individuals, we should look on
that as a great and deplorable misfortune. To
have the Government and the bulk of the people at
enmity must lead to anarchy.
The Whigs have never professed such contempt
for the bulk of the people, and never have acted on
such diabolical, tyrannical principles as the Tories.
They inherited the Government from the Tories
after the latter had possessed it for nearly half a
century, during which time it had been con-
ducted, in consequence of the commotions in some
other countries, on the most arbitrary principles.
The habits of the existing generation were formed
on that arbitary system. Considerable naval and
military successes had been achieved in conjunc-
tions with it ; great additions, too, had been in the
same period made, by the natural progress of
society, to our population and wealth ; and the most
reflecting of our people, as well as the unthinking
populace, became attached to a system that was
associated with much national glory. It is not the
fault of the Whigs, therefore, that the bulk of the
opulent and upper classes were, and still
continue, much attached to she Tory system
of policy, and that the bulk of the middle and
lower classes, taking their cue from the
others, should also love the tyranny, and
be averse from its overthrow. In fact, .the bulk of
the generation which is now passing away were
almost all Tories, and warmly attached to the Tory
policy. From the rising generation, under the
guidance of the generation which has just risen, we
may expect a warmer and more enlightened love of
liberty ; but the Whigs had to administer a Govern-
ment formed be the Tories, and when the bulk of the
opulent and influential classes were all Tories. We
never have said or supposed, or even dreamed, that the
Whigs, who had been, like the rest of us, fashioned
in some measure by the Tory system, took tine best
and wisest means to extinguish it and establish a
better. We know they did not. We have fre-
quently, anti we hope on good ground, accused
them of not having, done all which they could and
ought to have clone ; but that does not so
blind us to the peculiarities of their situation as
to make us condemn them as worse than the
Tories, or make us suppose for one moment that it
would promote the public welfare, and be better for
the cause of liberty, were the Tories restored to
power. We know that would please those who
are anxious for a fight : we are not ; and till the
public opinion in favour of liberty becomes en-
lightened and consolidated, so as to ensure its
triumph—till young England shall gather its
strength—we desire to see the Government of the
country remain, in preference, in the hands
of those who do not avow contempt for the
" pauper, swinish multitude," and have never im-
plied that the people have been and must be slaves
by proposing to " re•conquer them:' We must
admit that in the present state of opinion in this
country no Government is possible but one of the
Whigs or of the Tories ; at the same, time the
whole people will have a Government ; and the
difference is in our opinion so wide between those
who recognise the sovereignty of the people as tine
foundation of all political power, and those who
treat the people as little better than brutes, that we
cannot for a in° neat hesitate which to prefer. We
have never for a moment supposed that the Whigs
were perfect, but the only choice being between
them and the Tories, and the public peace being
more likely to be preserved by a Government which
keeps alive a hope that some Reform may be got
from them than by those who declare themselves
the enemies of the people and Reform, we are still
for the Whigs.

Gentlemen of the flash mob usually employ one
of their number to attract the attention of their
lictim, while the rest pick his pocket. To Sir
ROBERT PEEL the Tories aasign the former
office, while they muster together the rare fellows to
take their be-mused opponents by surprise.
Now, it may be very true that Sir R. do
es
not d e°
not intend to treat the Jamaica question as a party
one—he speaks for himself—but his parti-coloured
partisans do not feel themselves bound by his policy,
except to take advantage of it as they list. It has
ever been thus with the Tories ; they make some-
body or other their little Oliver Twist, whom they
put through the window to open the door for them,
they (Sikes and the rest) waitin,, outside, ready to
enter and plunder the house. 'On this occasion
Sir ROBERT PEEL performs the part of Oliver,
little fellow
and looks quite as unknowing asthat
when he is found out ; but notwithstanding his
looks, the people are
apt to suppose that Sir
ItouunT, who has been breeched
,long ago, is not
so simple as not to know what s what as well as
any Dodger of his party, or unwilling to share in
the profits of their misdoing.
Of this sort of make-believe innocence is the
pretence set up oy sonic o the organs o tne party,
that the Prisons' Bill, which the Jamaica Assem-
bly alleges to be the ground of the abandomnent of
its functions, was smuggled through Parliament,
what means.
no-
body knowing or caring by How
stands the fact ?
In the Lords, Lord ELLENBOROUGH saitl,‘l
have read through the Bill, and I entirely approve
of it
and Lord ELLENBOROUGII was not the
;''
least among the partisans of the Tory faction.
When the Bill was before the Commons, Lord
CHANDOS was in his place. Now Lord CHAN-
Dos was
an impersonation of the West India in-
terest, an active man of polities, and his Lordship
this Bill ; for he had pre-
was; fully aware of
viously
moved for theß_ production of the
pro_
test, which Mr. urtGE, the
Agent for
had prielsleented against it on
the Assembly,
truth of the matter
behalf of that body.
appears to be,
that the steam of Tory
ism was not
then up, and now it is scarcely possible to keep it
under, to prevent the vessel from starting before its
time.
Had the Jamaica Bill come on last
of night, we
should have had a flaming exhibition '
Tory pa-
triotism and statesmanship ; the interval of a week
will, perhaps, change or modify the tactics, because
e
in that time the subject will he mad 2
plain to the
country, though the Tories will,
doubtless, be as dis-
honest as the occasion serves, and therefore we
must be alive, whig—Radical—Emanct • .
pationist—
West India Proprietor, and all who, it k concerns,
to preserve the peace of the Island, and to make
provision for the future security of life and property.
For our own part, we know not what to think of
Tory tactics. It seems to U 9 that they have deter-
mined to assail the Government at all points, but
that, scorning the difficulties of their own po-
sition, they mean to seize first on the ques-
tions most favourable to the Government, and
then to proceed by degrees to such as are least
so, reserving for the last, by way of bonne bouche,
those on which the Government are most assailable.
If this be their 'policy, though we do not see the

wisdom of it, they did right to select, first the
Irish question, and now, the Jamaica one ; for with
respect to the last, it would
,be difficult to find an-
other in which there had been so solicitous a regard
for existing institutions—such repugnance to visit
with severity the most ascertained determination to
evade a duty which admitted of no delay, and finally,
when it ceased to be possible to refrain from steps
by which the British Parliament should vindicate
the measures it had resolved upon, and protect the
negro, so marked a purpose not to carry the remedy
one degree beyond the evil.

What the Tory measure is to be, whether to sa-
crifice the negro to the planter, or the 'planter to
the negro, or the security of the West India pro-
perty, or the Colony altogether, and along with it
the other West India Colonies, we are impatient to
know. That the Tories will select a wrong side of
the question, we are sufficiently apprised by their
proceedings on other occasions.

Since writing the above we have received a copy
of the following resolutions. They show that that
veteran body of righteous agitators in the cause of
humanity, the Anti-Slavery Society, are not asleep,
and we trust that their example will be followed by
all similar bodies without delay, for the occasion
admits of none. From what we have heard, in dif-
ferent quarters, we believe, that our trust is not mis-
placed. The Anti-Slavery Societies will not be
swayed by factious motives to withhold support to a
measure so important to the objects of their indefa-
tigable exertions :

" SUSPENSION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF JAMAICA.
" At a Meeting of the Committee of the London Anti-
Slavery Society, held at their Office, No. 18, Alderman-
bury, on Friday, the 26th April, 1839,
" HzNaT WA YMOUTH, ESQ., in the Chair.
" On the motion of T. FowELL BUXTON, Esq., seconded
by JOSEPH BALDWIN, Esq.,
" It was resolved unanimously,
" That a Temporary Suspension of the Constitution of
Jamaica is necessary for the purpose of obtaining good and
efficient laws for the government of that island, and espe-
cially for securing to the emancipated population the full
enjoyment of their rights and privileges as British subjects.
(Signed) " HENRY WAYMOUTII, Chairman."

On perusing the Appendix to a pamphlet by
Mr. NORTHHOUSE on " Coal Combination," we
have been much gratified by seeing the numerous
communications made to the LORD MAYOR, ex-
pressive of thanks and gratitude to his Lordship
for his exertions in rooting out this monopoly.
They are from persons of almost every rank and
class, except, of course, coal-owners in the north
and those interested in the abuse, but chiefly from
noblemen and gentlemen who have taken an interest
in the question ; not so much on their own account
as on account of the suffering and starving poor
of the metropolis. Among these are- two of
a different stamp—one from the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY, which the public have all
heard of, and another from Mr. POTTER,
which the Court of Common Council unani-
mously denounced and censured. In contrast with
the letter of the Noble Marquis, in which he
told the LORD MAYOR. he knew nothing about the
story, we may place one from another Nobleman
and a Judge, who from his long and extensive
practice as a barrister, was not likely to come to a
conclusion without inquiry. Lord WYNFORD thus
writes to the LORD MAYOR on the 3d of Fe-
bruary :—" Accept my thanks, as one of the
public, for breaking down the conspiracy in
the Coal trade. I have the honeur to be,
with great respect, &c.” The Marquis of SLIGO,
whose exertions and sacrifices in behalf of suf-
fering humanity are well known, wrote to the
LORD MAYOR in the same month, expressing
the obligations due to his Lordship for his
exertions to reduce the price of coals, and hie
desire to co-operate in the beneficent task. Besides
these, there have been many similar acknowledg-
ments from the Duke of CLEVELAND, Lord
STANLEY, Lord Lif,FoRD, Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT, and other distinguished characters. Mr.
GALLOWAY, the Common Councilman, who
knows something about City trade, and also City
tricks, thus expressed himself at the beginning of
the year with regard to the fitness of the LORD
MAYOR for the herculean task, and the great bene-
fits he had conferred on the lower classes :
I know, my Lord, you possess all the valuable attributes
for successfully accomplishing this great task, the reduction
of the price of coals to a fair and reasonable charge in the
Port of London.

This Rill, indeed, render the most important service to
the numerous poor, as well as to all other classes of the
people in the metropolis and its surrounding counties.
With many thanks for the great benefits you have already
conferred on nearly three millions of the people, in keep-
ing down the price of this most essential necessary of life,
during the winter season. I am, my dear Lord, your most
sincere friend,
ALEXANDER GALLOWAY.

We may give another excellent authority on the
subject, a genuine Tory, worth fifty of that class
of Tories who regulate their political principles
according to their selfish interests—Sir JOHN
HALL, of the St. Katharine Docks. In his evi-
dence before the Coal Committee, he proved that
within the last three years the 'mice of coals had
been raised ferty per cent ; that of this proportion
the shipowners participated to about 16 per cent.;
and that the great source of the evil was the repeal
in 1836 of the 2Sth of GWO. 111., c. 53, by which
it was declared an " indictable offence, if more than
four persons united to make regulations with re-
spect to the manner of carrying on the coal trade.''
In the month of January, Sir Jollti thus writes to
the LORD MAYOR :

The public owe your Lordship obligations for the
attention you arc pleased to pay to the subject of the coal
trade, and I cannot but persuade myself that great and
important benefits must attend your Lordship's exertions.
About the extent of the evil, and the cause of it,
there is no occasion to add one word—they are ad-
mitted by all impartial persons. The only question
is the remedy and all that is wanting is some per-
severing, independent Member of Parliament, who
will take up the subject in the House of Commons,
as it has been taken up in the City, setting at
nought, as the LORD MAYOR has done, all the pre-
judices and interests of colleagues or friends. We
close these extracts with a letter from a staunch
Reformer in the country, merely adding that Mr.
NORTIIIIOUSE'S pamphlet ought to be read by every
enemy of this grievous monopoly.
My Lord Excuse m• making so free, being a
stranger to you. I never open my Sun paper but I read
with great pleasure the efforts you make to crush the most
abominable combination that has been carried on, to my
knowledge, half a century. Excuse me, my dear Sir,
root to the core of tha evil. Instead of coals being offered
from waggons at 225. per ton, which by land is two hun-
dred miles, I have no doubt )ou will have coals offered, if
a free importation is allowed, for considerably leas money
than 225. London is not more than 120 miles from the
coal fields of Staffordshire and Derbyshire ; superior coals
there are not in the kingdom than the former, nor is there
iu the known world such a vein for thickness and quantity.
Any Dudley, Wolverhampton, or Birmingham gentleman,
can corroborate what I state.

Although an old silk-manufacturer, I have some
knowledge of the Coal Trade (inland).—Allow me to
subscribe myself, your Lordship's humble servant,
(Signed) RICHARD GAUNT.
Leek, February 19, 1839.
P. S.—l am an enemy to combinations in food and fuel.

The latter part of the report of the interesting
proceedings at Truro, which our Correspondent
was under the necessity of delaying, appears in
The Sun of to-day. The addresses of the Merent
speakers will not fail to be read with that deep at-
tention which they deserve. They all breathe one
spirit--a spirit of triumph over the vain attempt to
suppress, by persecuting means, the opposition of
conscientious minds to the payment of a tax in sup-
port of a religious system held to be unscriptural
and sinful. They all evince one determination,
fixed and irrevocable, that no compromise shall
hereafter be made with the Church-rate abomina-
tion, and that agitation shall never cease in Truro
until the land be cleansed from its impurity.
Nor, we trust, will this agitation be confined to
Truro. To be effectual it must be general. A
partial outbreak, if not seconded by all who hold
similar sentiments with the insurgents, is sure to
be, if not entirely crushed, unproductive of any
results of an important .character ; whereas a uni-
versal movement, indicating as it does, that some
great cause is at work, strikes the tyrant with
dismay, and soon brings him to terms. One of
the speakers at the Truro meeting alluded
to a cell in the Church-towers, which was used
in former days for those malignants whose swal-
low was not large enough to gulp down all the
prescriptions of the priest. The unfortunate cul-
prit was so ingeniously placed in this dungeon, that
he could neither sit, stand, nor lie, without great
pain, and to this cell was given the appropriate
name of " Little Ease. Now the Dis-
senters must take a hint from the Church.
They must place the cross-grained old
dame in her own cell of Little Ease. She must
not be allowed to sit, stand, or lie comfortably—she
must have neither sleep to her eyes nor slumber to

her eyelids, until she renounces her false claims to
the property of others, forswears all improper con-
nection with Baron Gun NEY, and promises to be-
have herself better for the future.

By the arrival of the I,ulependence at Liverpool
from New York, v hence she sailed on the Sth inst.,
we have received interesting intelligence from the
United States, Canada, and Mexico, which wal
be found i❑ another part of The Sun. The boun-
dary question is in a fair way of being amicably
settled—" a consummation devoutly to be wished"
by the people of Great Britain and the United
States. Great praise is due to General SCOTT for
the share he has had in adjusting all differences be-
tween the Governors of the State (f Maine and
New Brunswick. The correspondence on both
sides is characterised by a frank sincerity,
and an individual spirit of good feeling, which
must go a great way tow.irds the simplification
of ulterior proceedings. When Govermnents and
their Representatives are mutually sincere in their
desire to maintain peace, there is no question, how-
ever intricate, which cannot be adjusted without eli-
citing a vindictive or distrustful feeling.
We regret, however, to announce that there is
no diminution of the bad feeling between the fron-
tier Canadians and the American '6 Sympathisers."
Burning of dwelling-houses, barns, out-houses, and
in short destruction of property in every way, are
crimes nightly perpetrated on both sides Of the
frontier. The Americans, under the conduct of the
scoundrel refugees were the aggressors, and the
Canadians retaliated. Governor SERA RD, of the
State of New York, has issued a proclamation,
of large rewards for the apprehension of in-
cendiaries, but the authorities, on both sides, had
failed to make prisoners of any of the leaders of
this detestable combination.

The House of Assembly of Upper Canada has
passed a resolution in favour of uniting the two
provinces. Sir ALLAN APNAB and Mr. H.
MEI-mi. will visit this country as Commissioners
for negotiating a union which the Upper Cana-
dians deem so desirable.

The Fredericton Sentinel of the 23d of March
is filled with an account of the prorogation of the
Assembly on that day by the Lieutenant-Governor
Sir J. HARVEY in person. His Excellency made
a long speech on the occasion, in which he congra-
tulated the Assembly on its loyalty and liberality,
and finally dismissed the Members in that best of
all humours—good humour with themselves. It is
not of any political importance just now, and there-
fore we need not occupy our columns with it to the
exclusion of more interesting matter.

The reconciliation of SOULT and THIERS,
which on Saturday promised to be productive of
such happy consequences to France, was without
any result up to a late hour on Sunday. The list
of a Cabinet, including among its Members SouLT,
PASSY, and CUNIN GRIDAINE,
was prepared and submitted to the KING by MM.
PA ss Y and DUPIN, but to the surprise of these
gentlemen his MAJESTY was pleased to examine it
in silence, without stating whether he did or did not
approve of it. From this it was inferred that the
whole negociation was but the development of
some new intrigue to break up the Coalition.
The September laws in France, or as they would
be called here, the gagging laws, against the Press,
are quite in abeyance at present. About three
weeks ago the Editors of three Journals were ac-
quitted of the serious charge of attempting to create
discontent in the army, and hatred against the
KING'S Government ; and at the end of last week

two more were acquitted of similar charges. In
fact, almost any thing may be written or said
against the KING, under the present peculiar cir-
cumstances of the country, provided only there is a
little care taken in the selection of names and
phrases. LOUIS PHILIPPE has been libelled in
almost every possible way, but then for that name
has been substituted SOULT, or the Camarilla, or
the 221. Juries will not convict, and every de-
partment of the State—trade, commerce, Le-
gislation, and Cabinet-making are completely
paralysed. The people, according to Conser-
vative Journals, both in France and in this
country, are indifferent to this anomalous state
of affairs, and the plan of the KING is to
weary out the leaders of the Chamber by delay, in
the meantime furnishing employment and amuse-
ment to the populace in carrying on great public
works, or celebrating fetes and holidays. Possibly
the KING and his Camarilla may so deceive them-
selves. So was CHARLES X. deceived. The
people then were quiet till their leaders stirred them
'up to mutiny on the 27th of July, and these
leaders appear now to have the same power over them.
What, in fact, has kept them quiet but the exer-
tions, commands, and the synipathy of the Liberals,
displayed by public subscription for those out of
employment ? Can this continue, and are the ma-
nifestations made at the elections, at jury trials,
and in the great majority of the public prints,
not to be regarded as more safe tests of 7public
feeling than the fictitious and deceitful calm
of the Parisian populace ? We may be mis-
taken, but after the events of the last two years,
after the unequivocal partiality shown by the KING
for the Northern Powers, his disregard for repre-
sentative Government, his State prosecutions, and
his hitherto successful attempts to destroy every
embryo Cabinet opposed to his supreme will, one
little step further might produce results which the
CITIZEN-KING and his dynasty would be the first
to deplore.
The news from Madrid is not later than the ac-
counts received yesterday. The following Royal
Ordinance appears in the Madrid Gazette of the
ISth inst. :

" Her Majesty the Que.:n Regent, in conformity with
the opinion of her Councilor Ministers, has thought proper
to remove General Don Antonio Van Haien from the com-
mand of the army of the Centre and Captain-Generalship
of Valencia and Aragon, naming at the same time as his
successor, ad interim, to the above commands, Major-
General Don Augustin Nogueras, and has also given
orders that a Court-martial be immediately formed for the
examination of the operations before Segura without delay."
The military talent of General NOGUERAS are
said to be utterly contemptible. He is, moreover,
like all the QUEEN'S Generals, in such bad health
that half his campaigns are made in bed. Why,
in such a crisis, not recal NARVAEZ ?

The following are extracts from the Paris papers
of Sunday : _
__

MOVEMENTS OP THE RUSSIAN FLEET.—We have re-
ceived the following letter
_ _

" Odessa, April 30.
" The Black Sea fleet, consisting of thirty ships of the
line, completely manned and armed, has just assembled i❑
our road. Part of this fleet under the command of hear-
Admiral Prince Gortschakoff will sail to-morrow or the
next day to join the squadron under the command
of Admiral Ommanctz, which has been at anchor
for these three weeks off Sinope, to observe what
is passing in the Dardanelles. The reinforcement
of this latter squadron has been ordered in con•
sequence of the despatch front Admiral Ommanetz
announcing that the English fleet was off Tebesme, and
that be had learned that the English intended to take pos.
session of the Dardanelles the moment hostilities should
break out between Turkey and Egypt. The greater part
of the Black Sea fleet will remain under the command of
Admiral Lazarieff, who is Commander-in-Chief of that
fleet; but it is affirmed that the Grand Duke Constantine,
the Emperor's son, High Admiral of Russia, and Admiral
Prince Monzikoff, will arrive at Odessa in the course of
May, in which case the former will take the title of Chief
Admiral of the Fleet, and the latter will have the real
command.

" A great number of foreign naval officers, especially
Danes, Swedes, and Dutch, have just been attached to the
Russian navy actually in service.
" Everybody here thinks that war is very probable, but
nobody even in the a-my or navy likes the Emperor Ni-
cholas. The army is averse to a war with Turkey, and all
our merchants agree that war with England would be a
death-blow to the commerce of Russia."—Le Commerce.

The llfunilcur of Sunday contains the following para-
graph :
" All the letters from the Levant, received via Mar-
seilles, concur in announcing that peace betwen the Sul-
tan and the Pasha of Egypt will not be disturbed. This
result is due to the interference of all the Arnbasadors ac-
credited to the Sublime Porte."

Lesage, the accomplice of Soufflard in the horrible
murder of a Madame Renaud, and who was confined in
the prison of La Roquctt, Paris, hung himself on Satur-
day morning

BAIL COURT.-:•_(TIIIII DAY.)

LIBEL.

A rule calling on Messrs. Harmer and Bell, the proprie-
tors of the Weekly Dispatch newspar, to show cause why
a criminal information should not be granted against them
for the publication of a libel on Capt. Hewett, was granted
this day. The alleged libel, which appeared in the
Weekly Dispatch, ststed that Captain Hewett bad caused
two Hundred lashes to be inflicted on a sailor under
his command as a punishment. It appeared from the affi-
davit read in suppert of the application, that tl.e sa for
alluded to had been tried by a court-martial for disorderly
conduct, and sentenced to receive thirty-six lashes ; but
that after twenty-four lashes had been inflicted, the re
mainder of his sentence had been remitted.

Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and Miss Wynn
will give a ball and supper at the mansion of the lion.
Baronet, lit St. James's-square, on Tuesday, the 21st May.