The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-13 00:00:00

THE &UN, LONDON, THURSDA V, JUNE 13, 1639.

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uncivilized brethren, and he affirmed that the supe-
riority of the former was mainly occasioned by" defe-
rence to law and security of property." He repeated
this, and affirmed Oat all our advantages were
owing to " the existence and preservation of law, or-
der, and property. On such a topic. however general
may be the opinion embraced and expounded by
Mr. MACAULAY, the public cannot be too careful
in forming their opinions, and we shall state some
circumstances which seem to us to prove that Mr.
MACAULAY very much over-rates the influence of
law, and is scarcely warranted in affirming that we
owe our civilization to security of property.
The whole science of political economy, with
which Mr. MACAULAY is well acquainted, turns on
the principle, that the greater advantages and su-
periority of civilized man is due to division of
labour. Each civilized man does only a small part
in the business of feeding and clothing himself.
The savage feeds, clothes himself, builds his own
house, and makes his own tools. By such a
difference of proceeding one civilized man makes
clothing enough, or procures food enough, for a
score ; while the savage can scarcely procure a
scanty supply of both, by all his exertions, for
himself and his. partner. All this difference is
owing to division of labour; and division of labour
is not dictated or arranged by law. It springs
• from the difference of sex, and extends as population
multiplies. It is a natural principle which
operated in the beginning of society, and is still
operating, to carry forward improvement and
civilization. Law may stop this progress as in
that country whence Mr. MACAULAY has lately
returned to England, where the lawgivers seized it
at a point of advancement, and fixed the occupa-
tions of men irreversibly, dividing them into a
few classes, and condemning the son not
to depart from the trade or customs of his
father ; or as in our own country, where the Corn-
law, by limiting the supply of food, limits the
amount of population, checks the division of labour
and the progress of civilisation. We maintain then
that division of labour is a great principle of civili-
zation, far superior in its effects to that deference to
law, which Mr. MA CA ULAY,an aspiring law-maker,
more naturally than justly pressed on those who ask
for; an extended suffrage.
In his first speech at Edinburgh Mr. MACAU-
LAY condemned the Corn-law, and declared him-
self an advocate for free trade. He must believe,
therefore, that a deference to the Corn-law is inju-
rious to the community ; and as the only im-
pediments or restrictions on free trade spring
from laws, he must also believe that civi-
lization would be promoted by wanting those
restrictive laws. From that publication to
which Mr. MACAULAY has in modern times been
one of the largest and most brilliant contributors,
and perhaps from Mr. MAcnue.AY's own wri-
tings, se have learned, " that the first materials
of the laws of England were little more than the
schemes of avarice or aggrandisement, or
the ebullitions of revenge. The text, though
often written upon sand, was written with
the sword. The practice, indeed, afforded an evil
commentary, but the law itself, was the parent
crime." Mr. MACAULAY is too wise a man
to suppose that a deference to ebullitions
of revenge in the law-givers—that a deference
to crime, was particularly favourable to the
progress of civilization ; and we set this opi-
nion of the Edinburgh Review in opposition to
the assertion of Mr. MACAULAY. His own opi-
nion as to Corn-laws, and the opinion of the
Review, are enough to prove that his assertion of
a deference, to law being the cause of civilization,
must be taken with some limitations.

We must now stop, but we hope we have said
enough to show that this very clever man very much
overrates the value and utility of the law, which he
puts up as a barrier to the claims of the working
classes, for an extension of the suffrage. If there
be a possibility of his being in error on that vital
principle, he may possibly think it necessary to re-
vise all the opinions on which he defends the pre-
sent unjust distribution of the franchise. •

Some of our Contemporaries are exercising their
ingenuity on the case of STOCKDALE v. HAN-
SARD, which involves a dispute between the Court
of Queen's Bench and the House of Commons on
a question of privilege. Before saving anything on
the subject, we shall wait to see the Report of the
Committee of Privileges. Our own impression at
present is, that the privileges of the House would
he quite safe, and the Courts be able to protect the
. ... . ... ..

people if the libel law were made what it ought to be.
The present dispute grows out of the libel law, and
if that were so constructed that the jury should
weigh all the circumstances of every publication,
judging of ,the•motives of the publisher, and allowing
the truth or falsehoood of the libel to pass at its
true value, no actions would ever be brought against

the printers and publishers of the Rouse
of Commons' papers for libels contained
in them, and no such dispute as the pre-
sent could ever arise. In general the conten-
tions between law and privilege only ter.d to bring
both the Courts and the Houses of Parliament into
contempt. The present dispute will be advantageous
to the public, if it lead to its proper consequence,
the making the law of libel a rational enactment.

We request the attention of our readers to the report
of a public meeting, held at West Bromwich on Mon-
day last, for the purpose of taking the sense of the in-
habitants oa the plan of education against which the
Clergy and the Wesleyan Ministers have raised such
an outcry. It is evident that these parties—who,
though they would cut one another's throats as rival sec-
taries, can unite heart and hand when the common
craft is in danger—find themselves in a pitiable mi-
nority whenever they venture out of their holes and
corners, and appeal to public opinion in behalf of bi-
gotry and popular ignorance. Some Wcs!cyan preachers,
it appears, took a very active, not to say violent part in
the proceedings of the meeting referred to ; but it is
gratifying to see that they were backed by an exceed-
ingly small number, even of their own "people," as they
call them. They are now convinced that it is one
thing to hawk about and get signatures to anti-educa-
tioanl petitions, which they falsely describe to their
poor dupes as petitions against Popery, and another
to meet the friends of education in the arena of public
discussion, where deception is stripped of its pious dis-
guise, and priestcraft exposed to merited detestation.
It will be observed that one of the resolutions passed at
this meeting, that by which a petition to Parliament ap-
proving of the Government plan was adopted, was
seconded by a member of the Wesleyan body.

German papers to the 7th inst., received last
night, bring the subjoined late intelligence from
Egypt: --
ALEXA NORIA, MAY 16.—The Pacha arrived here from
the Delta on the 12th. The Consuls-General immediately
waited on him to compliment him, and to confer with him
on the important events that seem to be impending. To
the exhortations to pre=erve peace expres!ed by the se-
veral Consuls, he replied, " I do not desire war, I wish
for peace, bat I will not suffer any one to attack me with
impunity. A Turkish corps has already patsed the Eu-
phrates, and is on my territory, yet I have enjoined my
son, Ibrahim Pacha, to wait for an actual attack, and then
to commence operations." Of course no answer could be
made to this p-udent declaration. When the Russian
Consul spoke to him of the note of the Russian Govern.
ment which had lately been presented to him, in which
the Pacha was required not to begin war with the
Sultan, to lay the arrears of his tribute, and
withdraw his troops from the frontiers, to the in-
terior of Syria, the Pacha said, " The Sultan must
wait for his tribute, for as he manifested the most hos-
tile intentions towards him, it would be worse than firclocks
if he (Mehemet Ali) would give the Sultan money, and
furnish him with the means of executing his plans against
him." He gave a similar answer respecting the with-
drawal of his troops. The English steam-boat that re-
turned yesterday from Beirout, brought word that Ibrahim
had collected his whole force, including the garrisons of
the towers in the neighbourhood of Aleppo. Damascus is
confined to the care of Emir Beseher, and his Druses.
Irregular corps are stationed along the Hemaro to Naplou'.
The Khan has wholly submitted ; Sheik Schekle seems
to be for Ibrahim. Ibrahim has large magazines in Adana,
Taraplus, Alexandretto, and Aleppo, whereas the Turks
have taken no precaution. —Algerneine Zeituug, June 7.

The French Chamber of Peers was occupied on
Tuesday with reading the Report of the Committee
appointed to inquire into the origin of the enteules of
the 12th and 13th ult., which was presented on that day
by M. MERILIIAU. This document, which is signed
by Baron PASQUJER, Chancellor of France, the Duke
DECAZES, Count DEBASTARD, and Barons do DAC.
NANT, MERILIIAU, and BARTIIE. is very voluminous,
and professes to prove that the lute insurrection was
but an extension of the conspiracy of 1834—" which
caused bloodshed," observes the Report, " in Paris,
Lyons, St. Etienne, and other considerable towns."
The language of the Report itself deserves to be quoted :
It is impossible to believe that the late revolt was a
mere fortuitous and momentous assembly of malefactors,
who wished to gratify their personal revenge and cupidity.
Everything tends to make us disbelieve this. The accused
I themselves even do not preend that it IV;t3 so, but profess
themselves
cthe continuers of the frightful horrors of

All the documents of the official history of the six years
which separate. April, 1834, and May, 1839, agree in esta-
-1 blishing the lamentable fact that the anarchical passions

overcome in 1834 have not since that period for one in-
stant ceased their criminal hostilities against the constitu-
tion and repose of the country. We do not wish to esta-
blish an unjust union between acts of unequal criminality;
but when a party is the avowed enemy of the established
Government, when men coincide in their destructive
wishes, the country ought to trace the affair to the bottom,
and to punish those who counselled crime and those who
justified it.
Thus in the interval of the complots of 1834 and the re-
volt of May, 1839, we saw Fieschi's infernal attempt, which
startled the world at the very moment we were occupied
with trying the accused of 1834 ; Alibaud's attempt the
following year, in 1:=36 ; that of Meunier in 1837 ; and the
events of Strasburg in 1838. It seemed as if Providence
warned the Government each year by some new attempt,
that the enemies of constitutional order were not asleep,
and that the vigilance of the defenders ought to keep pace
with the activity of the attackers.
If revolutionary emeutts and the annual whetting of
the guillotine, be among the warnings which Providence
vouchsafes Louis PHILIPPE, then has the French Go-
vernment received most ample evidence of the Divine in-
terposition. But the idea is blasphemous. Tyrants provoke
insurrections—they bathe their hands in the blood of
their subjects, and reeking with human gore, chant
7'e Deunis in professed gratitude for the power to tram-
ple upon virtue, truth, and patriotism.
The Report admits that the laws against Secret So-
cieties have only tended to increase them, and make
them more dangerous and more difficult of discovery. Five
years ago, when these laws were before the Chambers,
The Sun held the very same language. We stated
then that it was not by severity, but by moderation and

justice, that the Government of Louts PHILIPPE could
convert its enemies into loyal subjects. The amnesty
did much gnod, but it was clogged with too many re-
strictions, and it unfortunately appeared two years too
late. This fact is inferentially admitted, and even stated
by the Committee. One of the most curious and most
questionable paragraphs in the Report is that in which
the Committee state that the object of the con-
spirators is no longer n hat it was in 1634. The
following looks very like a device on the part of their
Lordships to alarm the monied and commercial interests,
and to increase the jealousy with which the rich are wont
to regard the political struggles of the poor. For our-
selves we have not the least doubt of its inaccuracy :
Since all France ought to be informed of the prospect
reserved for her by the enemies of her order, it is now our
duty to make known that Republican principles have
grown more exacting, in proportion as they have
gained ground. France must not retrogade to year 8,
nor 3, but 7—it is only to the year 1793, that the perfect
desired equality can be found. The mere replacing some
men in the Government of the country, appears niggardly
to the self sty led regenerators, but the power must
be transferred into the bands of those who possess
nothing, because there only is virtue to be found. There
is a maximum fixed for fortunes which is never to be
passed over. It is not only the land proprietors who arc
designated as feudal oppressors ; but also the proprietors
of capital, the heads of commerce and industry are asso-
ciated in the same proscription, under the name of " ex-
ploiteurs," who thus excite the hatred of the "exploiter"
—that is to say—those for whom they provide a subsistence.
Thus you see, that not only a political, but a social revo-
lution was in view. Property was to be revised, modified,
and transferred. It is the conspiracy of Balieuf (judged by
the High Court of Vendome, 7 Prabial, year s)—it is the
bloody execution of that mad, senseless project. The agents
destined to accomplish these incendiary dreams were ad-
mirably adapted for
_their anti-social projects. Common
workmen, and youthful apprentices, and some young
students, impatient of parental authority, these were the
auxiliaries for the work of demolition. The wants of some
were excited, the credulity of others was abused, and chi-
merical hopes of fortune and grandeur were dexterously
held out to the young and ambitious. Thus this army of
disorder was so constituted that, had it enjoyed a momen-
tary triumph, no hand would have been raised to preserve
the wrecks of social order. It was not a plot of political
resentments, for none of the agitators having anything to
lose would be the worse for losing.
The mischief of these exaggerations is, that when
comprehended they produce instead of groundless
alarm, an equally groundless security. Truth—rigid
truth is safest and best in the long run. It may be
quite true that a few wild visionaries entertain the
opinions attributed to the disaffected by the Com-
mittee, but the Republican party in France—that
party which identifies itself with the principles of the
Revolution of July, entertains no such fanciful and
absurd theory.
There is no other topic of any interest in the French
Journals of Tuesday. No business of interest engaged
the attention of the Chamber of Deputies. In some
of the Journals we find rumours of war in the East,
but they are rumours, and groundless besides. Most of
the Deputies who resigned their seats to take office
under SOULT have been re-elected.
The Pilate du Calvados of the 9th of June, contains
the following:—" It is, all over, at least for the present,
with the sugar manufactory in our provinces. NVith the
treaty which effects this rising manufacture, with its sub-
jection to the odious exercise of the indirect taxes, what-
ever be the form in which the officers perform their
duties—with the threat of a law for lowering the duty on
Colonial sugar--a law which will, in fact, impose a
duty of 30 per cent. on indigenous sugar, our manu-
facturers think it best to stop their operations, and settle
their accounts, than to go on with the certainty of losing
in proportion to the pains they should take. Accord-
ingly our farmers having received no orders, nor entered
into any contracts for Beet-root; the cultivation of that
plant, which was becoming so extensive„ in thie,,oesratryy,
will soon be reduced to nothing in comparison of what it'
might be, as only.one manufactory will continue at work;
most of our farmers have sown only what they intend in
winter to feed their cattle.

This unfortunate state of things is very prejudicial to
our Arondissement, because the Sugar manufacture gave
employment to numerous persons. who must now look out
for some other means of gaining their livelihood.—Cour-
rier,Francais.

BOURSE.-PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 11.

t irst

Highest Lowest

I Ast

Price. PFice. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lOl 50 ... Vil 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 t 0
3 per Cents 79 90 ... 79 95 ... 79 90 ... 79 90
Bank of trance
Laffitte Ba.ik I,ooof. 811 1075 .00:5 ...iino —fiat:
5,00 A h 545 ...5241 ...524 i ...5245
Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ~.810
Coupons
Spanish Aciive l9's ... 2 . ... 19% ... 20
Portuguese 3 per Cents
Nea. ontan 99 00 ... 99 60 ... VJ 50 ... 99 50
Roman

RAILWAY SHAREa.
St. Germain

... (Inn

...o

Versailles, B. B 7OO ... 707 5,1 ... 700 ... ;or 50
LB I6J ... 170 ... 155 ... 155
.
Havre
952 50 ... 952 50 ... 950 ... 050
Orleans .
46) ... 460 . 461 ... 460
DUTCH FUNDS.—ASIST
ERDAY,JUNE 11.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, `2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic, 4},i per cent.... 95 95
Ditto, ditto, *2 per cent. fietj t-N
Commercial Company, 41., per cent lBO k 1504
Ditto (1K32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto PM, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2
Two months
BELGIAN I. UNDS—bxuass.Lis, JUNE 11

loi 14
t 0.)%

Actual Deist, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1 I%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 7144
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent ......... .......... 1k.%
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent lly
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7S%
National Society
.—Brussels Papers, June 10.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE S.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Rank shares l5lO 1515
An 10-Russian Loan .. InB 1074
Russian S per Cent. Ist series, Certificate ...... 14,314 10.3;,
Inscription, Ist Series 10•2% 1W
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Lo. 3d and 4th
Se • its
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch actual Uebt, 2% pe Cent. 51% 51
Ditto 5 per Cell' 1 usi 100%
Polish Bond,
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 725( 7254
Norwegian Luau, 1!.31, 4 per Cent....... .IW% Itl%
A USTRI A N FUNDS.—VtaxNA, JUNE 3.
Five per Cents. Metalliquee .....».»..........»....».. 107
}oar per Cents. ..... ............................. ..... 101%
Three per Cents.
Hank Shares . ............. ...... .............••• l5lO
—AllgemeineZeitung. June S
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. JUNE 8.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 1(0% 102%
Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 102%
bjccrutnge on London, three mourns 6 20%
—Prussian State Gazelle. June 9.

11Iadrid Papers of the 4 h inst. have reached us, but
they are barren of news of importance. An address to
the electors, signed by the Minister of Finance, is put
forth with a view to make known the political creed of
the Government. It is vague and unsatisfactory. The
Ministers claim to belong to no party, and to have no-
thing at heart but the defence of th 9 QUEEN and Con-
stitution.

Letters from Constantinople of the 221 Wt., have
reached us, but they bring no news of importance. The
greater part of the Turkish fleet was leaving the her=
hour for a summer cruise in the Mediterranean.

THE RIVAL PSALM .SINGERS.—Some years
ago, at a town in Wales, a humble set of psalm singers,
consisting chiefly of mechanics, were told by a newly in-
ducted incumbent, that they must no longer sing in
the church, for he had patronized some young bucks, who
offered their vocal services, but in a different part of the
church. Well, Sunday arrived, and the bells were rung,
as usual, and the church soon became crowded to bear
the performance of the " gentlemen singers," as the new
ones were called. In the usual place the clerk commenced
with, " Let us: sing praise," &e. &c. "an anthem taken
from"—but, ere he could complete the sentence, the "old
originals" struck up, with all their might, to the utter
astonishment of the congregation, and to the high indig-
nation of the clergyman, who sent the clerk up to the gak
lery to order them to desist ; but they only laughed at poor
Amen, and sung the louder, until the anthem was con-
cluded. On which the minister motioned to "his" party
to commence, which they had no sooner done than the
others started again, and completely roared their rivals
down. Of course, this made a great noise in the town,
and the clergyman threatened to prosecute the ancients;
but the townspeople took their part, and the thing dropt,
and so did both choirs ; and from that day to this, it has
been "every man hisi own psalm singer."—Cheltenham
Looker-on.

We understand that the action brought by Mr.
Paternoster, against the parties concerned in arresting him
as insane,
-will. be tried at the Court of Common Pleas,
before -a special Juiy, on l riday week.
A grand meeting of the friends of Poland is to
be held at the Freemasons' Tavern next Saturday, at one
-o'clock, the Duke of Sussex in the chair.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELT.E O'CLOCK.
Arrivals this morning—French and Ostend mails, also
a Jamaica mail, by the Lapwing, sailed the 6th of May ;
St. Thomas's, May 1 ; Porto Rico, May 2; Cape Henri,
May.lo

We have received Jamaica papers of the above date
( May 6), The following are extracts from the above
papers:
" We have received a file of the Observer, published at
Nassau, New Providence, and perceive by it that the elec-
tions fur members of the Bahama Assembly are going on.
Several had been elected in the latter place, but at present
we are unprepared to say what are the changes that have
been made, and whether favourable to the Governor's
views or not.
" It is rumoured to the Windward, that a change was
likely to take place in some of the Governments. Sir H.
M.Leod is to go to Trinidad—this is known to be the
f.ct ; Sir Wm. Colebrooke to Barbadoes; and Sir Evan
M'Gregor to the Cape of Good Hope.
" We perceive by the Emancipator that it is sought to
impress the British public with the opinion that it is ab-
solutely necessary the labourers should have their ground
secured to them for twelve months, and that the proprie-
tors will not consent to the arrangement."
A new bank establishment is about to be constituted in
Jamaica, to be called the Jamaica Loan Society, or Plan-
ters' Bank, for making loans on crops, produce, land,
houses, and other property ; capital 500,0001., in 20,000
shares, at 251. each.

We have received Port of Spain Gazettes to the 27th
of April. •

" The removal of our Lieut.-Governor, Sir Henry
M'Leod, from this island toTrinidad, has caused great re•
gret. We pledge ourselves for the authenticity of the fol-
lowing letter from a manager of an estate on the coast:—
" EsTArE, Avail, 19.
" Dear Sir,--The labourers of the quarter of --,
in general, are badly disposed to fulfil their duty ; they are
besides very negligent and insolent, particularly those of
estate, of whom the Africans are worse than the
rest. Not only they, but the carmen and crook boys of
the estate, are ill treating the stock, by either beating
them, or not giving them necessary care. I have frequently
observed this, and remonstrated with the people; much
insolence has been the answer I have received from them.
Under these circumstances I beg to inform you that I can-
not any longer remain the manager."
We have received the Journal VAntwerp of yesterday's
date.

Accounts from Frankfort state that Stocks were heavy
here, owing to advises from Visama, that of the Bank Ac-

tions having receded from f. 860 to 1,816, but afterwards
improved to 1,822, after 'Change.
We learn that the Course of Exchange at Vienna of the
3d of May comes as follows :

Metalli-clues 1071, Bank Actions 15154, they were pre-
viously 1527. '1 his fall is alp ibuteti to a large sale by the
house of Sina, after having received a courier ft om Turkey.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—We have
had a good demand for LCotton to-day, and lull prices
have been obtained. The sales 5,000 bags, chiefly to the
trade.

'1 he accounts received from Manchester to-day state
that there was a fair demand for yarn yesterday, and a
considerable amount of business would probably have been
done if the spinners had keen disposed to accept previous
prices; but as they generally demanded a slight advance,
the actual business done was by no means in proportion to
the extent of the inquiry. In some few articles, and espe-
cially m inferior qualities and low numbers of mule yarn. a
slight advance was realized ; but in other descriptions the
prices paid were about the same as on Tue,day last.
There was very little demand for goods of any description,
and the market was not improved by the knowledge of the
fact, that the Stalybridge manufacturers had resumed full
time, or by some rumours of the failures, one of which
indeed was publicly announced, but not of a serious extent.

SHERRIFFS COURT-(THIS DAY.)

IMPORTANT CAsE —FIZIVILECES OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

STOCKDALE V. lIANSARD.
Mr. CARRINGTON stated that this was a writ of inquiry
to assess damages in a cause in which John Joseph Stock-
dale was plaintiff, and Luke Hansard and others were de-
fendants. The declaration alleged the publication of a
libel by the defendants against the plaintiff, who had been
for years a publisher, arid who had pnbiished a certain
scientific work in 1827, treating of anatomical subjects,
and illustrated by anatomical plates. The defen-
dants, in a report of the Inspectors of Prisons,
stated the work to be of a most disgusting na-
ture, and obscene in the extreme. There was no plea
asserting that any portion of the libel was true. In the
state of the record the libel must therefore be taken to be
entirely false. But the defendants pleaded that the In-
spectors of Prisons, Messrs. Crawford and Whitworth
Russell, made a report to the House of Commons, who had
passed a resolution that all their reports and papers be
printed and published for general circulation, that the de-
fendants were ordered to publish for sale, the report in
question, and that the House of Commons had resolved
that the power of publishing such of its papers as they
deemed necessary, was conducive to the public interest, and
was an essential incident to the constitution of the Com-
mons House of Parliament. The plaintiff demurred
to this plea that it was not good in point of law,
because the established laws of this realm could not be
superseded, suspended, or altered, by any resolution of the
House of Commons, which could not create a new privi-
lege, inconsistent with the known laws of the land. The ,
question had been solemnly argued before the Court of
Queen's Bench ; who decided that the plea was bad, and
that the defendants had no justification for the publication.
The present writ was issued to the Under Sheriff and the
jury, to inquire and assess the damages received by the
plaintiff by reason of this unjustifiable publication.
Mr. CURWOOD said the jury were now called upon to
discharge their duty in one of the most important
cases which had occurred for the last 150 years.
The question of law which had been decided
was no less than this : whether the laws and
liberties of this country could be subject to the resolu-
tion of the Muse of Commons. In stating this, it was not
with a view to inflame the minds of the Jury ; but on the
contrary, to warn them, notwithstanding all that had taken
place, that they were legally to confine themselves to the
awarding such damages, as they thought the plaintiff had '
sustained. What had the House of Commons assumed?
He wished not to speak disrespectfully of that House, they
had acted on the report ofa Committee of Learned lawyers,
but the result had proved that they had rashly adopted
their opinion of the question. Never had there been a
case more solemnly argued in the Queen's Bench.
The Queen's Attorney-General had consumed three days
in endeavouring to convince the Court that the power
which the House of Commons hod claimed was legal—the
jury could do no better than read the luminous judgment of
Lord Denman and the other Judges, who had held that
the law must triumph over one branch of the Legislature.
Nothing could so deeply interest Englishmen : and this
judgment stood unequalled, and unrivalled.
The UNDER SHERIFF said this had nothing to do with
the question which the jury had to decide.
Mr. CURWOOD had already submitted that the jury
were not to consider this in their damages, except
in this way,—that Mr. Stockdale was a humble in-
dividual,—he had raised this important question, he
had fought this momentous battle, he had thus far
been instrumental in securing the liberties of his coun-
try. The slanders that had been raised against him
stieuld not weigh with .the jury for a single moment.
The Attorney-General had stated that he would not get
a farthing damages. What was that but an impeachment
of his character and an allegation that he deserved all
that had been said against it ? Let no reports that might
have come to the ears of the jury make any impression t
upon their minds. The case had been calmly, solemnly,
and constitutionally argued, in the Queen's Bench ; it
now was the jury's duty to give the plaintiff such damages
as upon the Record he was entitled to—whether it was
one hundred pounds, fifty pounds, or—if they thought
he deserved no more one farthing. Doubtless,
the jury had heard a great deal about the dignity of the
House of Commons being compromised; and about the
House of Commons not allowing itself to be subjected to
the decisions of the Judges. It was not so. It was the
law, which emanated from the united wisdom of the three
branches of the Legislature—which was superior to any
one branch separately considered—the Judges were but
the oracles, who pronounced the law—as the Holy Spirit
of old spoke by the mouth of the prophets; it was no de-
gradation to any body of men, even to one so powerful as
the House of Commons, to submit to the law of the
land—the emanation of the united wisdom of the Im-
perial Legislature. The House of Commons had set up this
claim, that whatever they published was intangible, not to be
questioned ; that they might, in short, libel the whole world
with impunity. They had libelled enough already by their
Press. It was but a day or two ago that a member of that
House had told him that a petition had been presented,
containing the most calumnious statements in regard to a
gentleman who, by a friend, appeared in the House and
vindicated himself.
The UNDER SHERIFF—Why state circumstances which,
even if you could put them in evidence, would not be rele-
vant to the case ? What have we to do with what was
privately told you ?
Mr. Cuewoon—The same thing is stated in the judg-
ment of the Queen's Bench.
The UNDER SHERIFF—The judgment of a Court is a
different thing.
Mr. Cuewoon proceeded to say, that the libel which
had been published by the defendants in this case, had gone
into ten thousand channels, not one-tenth of which would
votes of th• House of
''knistfor friatztlh grerliar 'ail Then all over England, uS,Y.
all over Europe ; for copies of the proceedings of the
House of Commons were transmitted to public bodies on
the Continent—even to America. Thus widely was Mr.
Stockdale's name damned as the publisher of obscene
works—which it was admitted upon the record he was not
—and he (Mr. Curwood) had read the work in ques-
tion, and could state that both the letter. press,
and the plates were of the same description. as
those of many other similar scientific works, Cyclope-
dies, &c. But two " Inspectors of Prisons," forsooth--
one of those bodies of Commissioners so frequehtly ap-
pointed by the present Administration—had, without
reading the work, only glancing at the plates, declared
them to be obscene. Now, upon the Record it stood
clearly admitted, that Mr. Stockdale was the publisher "1
scientific works—that the work in question was one—and
that he had been unjustly libelled. The amount of
damages which should be given was for the jury
alone to determine. What evidence would he (Mr. Cur-
wood) give of the extent of mischief which his clime
had suffered through this libel? Libels of this kind were
like the " pestilence that walketh in darkness. You see
it not, you hear it not—but fell under its fangs." How
could he give in evidence what persons had refused to
deal with Mr. Stockdale in consequence of the libel ? It
was matter entirely for the Jury to draw their own con.
elusions upon. Suppose a tradesman libelled—he found
his custom falling away—he found himself gradually
ruined, but he could not produce sufficient evidence that
A. or B. or C. had, on account of the libel, refused to deal
with him. He could not show the exact amount in pounds,
sh;llings and pence, which he had lost by reason of the libel.
The Jury must say what in their opinion the plaintiff, an emi-
nent publisher, had suffered, or was likely to suffer, through
the libel in this case ; and they would understand that it
was on account of its impossibility, that the plaintiff had
not produced distinct evidence of the loss he had sus-
tained. No persons appeared on behalf of the defendants
to speak in mitigation of damages. It was in the Votes of
the House ot Commons that they would not appear upon
the damages, though they did upon the plea. The Messrs.
Hansard were the nominal defendants—but they acted by
the orders of the House of Commons, and had nu malicious
feeling towards the plaintiff. But under the law, they
were unanswerable ; yet they would not suffer by the
verdict of the jury, for the House had agreed to repay them
any loss they might sustain in the matter.
The UNDER-SHERIFF—That is not proved, is it ?
Mr. CUItWOOD—It is in the Votes,
The UNDER-SHERIFF—That is not evidence.
Mr. CURWOOD said—Every Englishman was supposed
to be present, by Deputy, in the Commons House of
Parliament, and supposed to be cognizant of its votes.
However, he only stated that as matter of congratula-
tion, that innocent men would not suffer. He only
asked the jury to give to the plaintiff such damages as
the law, upon this record, entitled him to, for a libel
admitted to have been unjust.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said it was qu i; true
that the present action had given rise to the trial of a very
important public ' question, but he concurred with the
Learned Counsel, who, with so much moderation and tem-
per, had opened his case ; and if the Learned Counsel had
not stated it it would have been his (the Under-Sheriff's)
duty to till the Jury that they had nothing to do with that
topic. They were simply called upon, in virtue of the writ
from the Queen's Bench, to assess the damages which in their
opinion the plaintiff had sustained by the libel complained
of. The nominal defendants, the printers, as in most
cases, though the law supposed malice, could searcely be
imagined to have been actuated by any ill feeling towards
.the plaintiff; but the plaintiff was entitled to recover such
damages against them as, in the judgment of the jury, he
had suffered. The declaration alleged no special
damage, which it might have done, by affirming that
certain customers had, since the libel, ceased to
deal with him. The jury thud' >re hail to esti-
mate,to the nature of his business as a
bookseller lookingsellerarid publisher, what he had probably suffered,
was now likely to suffer, in consequenee of the libel. And
he (the Under Sheriff) felt bound to tell the jury that
they had nothing to do with any indemnification of the de-
fendants by the House of Commons, even had it been
proved, for the law made the defendants responsible, and
upon the verdict of the Jury execution might be taken out
against them.
The Jury consulted for a few minutes, and then found
1001. damages.

SOUTII A USTRA uovernor has re-
ceived a d, spatch from her Majesty's Secretary for the
Colonies, in reference to the re-iti.tatement of Mr. Charles
Minn, as Advoc,,te.General and Crown Solicitor of the
pros ince. Lord Glenelg had acceded to the request of the
Commissioners ; but the Governor has considered that the
opinions entertained and promulgated by Mr. Mann ren-
dered it impossible that he could act in Council with ad-
vantage to the public service, and his Excellency has acre-
fore been pleased further to suspend Mr. Mann from dice
until hor Majesty's pleasure should be linown.—aouth
Australian.
The ball for Queen Adelaide's Hospital, on
Friday night, at the Hanover-square Rooms, holds forth
the greate,t attraction. Many of our most distinguished
nobility will be present, and the scene will be ore of the
mast brilliant and attractive of the season, though it may
not be so crowded as was th ball for the Academy of
Music, when for a length of time: dancing was impracti-
cable. Tue opprtuniry of rendering an important service
to a deserving Hospital will not be lost by the rich and
generous.

LITERATURE.

FESTUS : A POEM.
Pickering, London, 1839.

We took up this singular poem with something not
unlike a prejudice against it, for in the very first page
we met with a dialogue, of no great excellence, in which
God, Lucifer, the Holy Ghost, and the Son of God
were the chief speakers ; and we naturally concluded
therefore that the volume was the production of some
crazy, ambitious visionary, who had mistaken the
promptings of self-conceit for the genuine inspiration of
genius, and was eager to furnish the world with another
illustration of Pope's prophetic line, that " fools rush in
where angels fear to tread." We had not gone far,
however, before we discovered that " Festus," so far
from being what we somewhat too prematurely sur-
mised it was, was a poem evincing uncommon vigour
of imagination ; penned in a daring but not irreverent
spirit ; high-toned, though not uniformly well sustained
in its character ; rich and graceful in its poetical gar-
niture ; and abounding in bold, subtle, and occasionally
original thought. That the author is one who thinks
and feels for himself, is evident in every page ;
that he is young, and his intellect consequently not yet
matured, is equally evident in the frequent crudities,
and pert familiarities of expression, strangely out of
place in such a theme as he has chosen, by which his
poem is defaced. A still more striking proof of, as yet,
unripened mind, is manifest in the vagueness and inde-
finiteness of purpose that everywhere characterize Festus.
It is a grand, and in many instanccs,a sublime, collection
of fragments, but nothing more. As a whole, it wants
unity and distinctness. The aim proposed to be accom-
plished at the commencement, is continually lost sight ot.
Still, despite these drawbacks, we consider the author to
be one capable of the very highest flights in poetry, butnot
until the judgment which comes of experience, shall have
disciplined his thoughts, and sobered the riotous excesses
of his imagination. The leading idea of his work,
namely, that of Lucifer presenting himself at the foot-
stool of God, and asking leave to tempt Festus. is taken
from that sublime oriental poem, the book of Job ; and
the incidents consequent on this idea, will frequently
remind the reader, of Goethe's and Marlowe's
Faustus, and Byrou's Cain. There is nothing
however, like servile imitation apparent ; and the
conception of Lucifer, who is represented as a grand,
and thoughtful Intelligence, remorse-stricken, is a
thousand times loftier than Goethe's vulgar, callous,
Mophistophiles, with his eternal bad jokes, and still
worse sarcasms, and, at least, equal to Byron's Fiend.
Thus much for the leading idea of the poem ; we now
proceed to some of the pissages that have most struck
us. In the first soliloquy of Festus occur these impres-
sive lines :

" Man is one ;
And he bath one great heart. It is thus we feel,
With a gigantic throb across the sea,
Each others' rights and wrongs ; thus are we men.
Sometimes we feel the wish across the mind
That wc should join with God, and give the world
The go-bye; but the world meanwhile turns round
And peeps us in the face—the wanton world!
We feel it gently pressing down our arm,
The arm we had raised to do for Truth such wonders;
We feel it softly bearing on our side;
We feel it touch and thrill us through the body,
And so we're fools."

The presentiment of approaching ill, such as has been
known to cloud for a time the most brilliant intellects,
is finely described in these lines :
" There are points from which we can command ouc life,
When the soul sweeps the future like a glass,
And coming things, fullfreighted with our fate,
Jut out, dark, on the quill!, of the mind."
There is infinite tenderness and beauty in this sen-
timent, which is put into the mouth of Lucifer ;--
" I have oftentimes heard my angels call
Most piteously on their lost loves in Heaven,
And, as I suffer, I have seen them come—
Seen star-like laces peep between the clouds.
Some souls lose all things but the love of beauty,
And by that love they are redeemable,
For in love and beauty they acknowledge good,
And good is God, the great necessity."
Here is a midnight scene breathing the very spirit
of repose :
" All things are calm, and fair, and passive. Earth
Looks as if lulled upon an angel's lap
Into a breathless, dewy sleep ; so still,
That we can only say of things, they be.
The lakelet now, no longer vexed with gusts,
Replaces on her breast the pictured moon,
Pearled round with stars. Sweet imaged scene of time
To come, perchance, wlien this vain life o'erpast,
Earth may some purer being's presence bear ;
Mayhap e'en God may walk among his saints
In eminence and brightness like yon moon,
Mildly outbeaming all the beads of night
Strung o'er night's proud, dark brow."
The subjoined passage is as nobly conceived, as it is
poetically expressed
Day bath too much light for us
To see things spiritually. Mind and night
Will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers,
With whom, to see each other's sacred form
Must satisfy.—The stillness of deep bliss,
Sounctas the silence of the high hilt-top
Where thunder finds no echo."

The intense, hopeless melancholy of this sentiment
will convey a vivid idea of the author's conception of
Lucifer :

I know
Nor jot', nor sorrow; but a changeless tone
Of sadness., like the night wind's, is the strain.
Of what I have of feeling. lam not
As other spirits ; but a solitude
E'en to myself."
Compared with this, how coarse and mean are the
sentiments which Goethe has put into the mouth of his
not fiend! The following is festub'.s description of his
first love :
I her for that she was beautiful ;
And that to me she seemed to be all nature
And all varieties of things in one :
Would set at night in clouds of tears; and rise
All light and laughter in the morning : fear
Nu petty cus'oms nor appearances ;
But think ,A hat others only dreamed about ;
And say what others did but think ; and do
What others would but say ; and glory in
What others dared but do; it was these which won me;
And that she never schooled within her breast
One thought or feeling, but gave holiday
To all : and that she told me all her woes
And wrongs and ills: and so she made them mine
In the communion of love : and we
Grew like each ether for we loved each other :
She, mild and generous as the sun in spring;
And I, like earth all budding out with love."
Their parting is thus described. The words marked
in italics arc exquisitely beautiful and pathetic :
" I see her now 1—
Whate'er thou art, thy soul is in my mind ;
Thy shadow hourly lengthens o'er my brain,
' And peoples all its pictures with thyself.
Gone, not forgotten—passed, not lost—thou wilt shine
la heaven, like a bright spot in the sun.
She said she wished to die, and so she died ;
For, cloud-like, she poured out her love, which was
Her life, to freshen this parched heart. 'Twas thus—
I said we were to part, but she said nothing ;
There was no discord; it was music ceased!"

The deep, earnest, and solemn feeling that pervades
the subjoined sketch of a Sabbath-day, will remind the
reader of Wordsworth's most emphatic manner in the
Excursion :
Come, we will quit these saddening themes ; and sing
To me, for I am gloomy, and I love
Thy singing, sacred as the sound of hymns,
On some bright Sabbath morning, on the moor
Wh,,re all is still save praise; and where hard by
The ripe grain shakes its bright beard in the sun;
The wild bee hums more solemnly ; the deep sky ;
The fresh green grass ; the sun, and sunny brook ;
All look as if they knew the day, the. hour,
And felt with man the need and joy et thanks."
In the following passage a striking, though not per-
haps very original thought, is expressed with great vigour:
" What is life worth without a heart to feel
The great and lovely, and the poetry
And sacredness of things ? For all things are
Sacred ; the eye of God is on them all,
And hallows all unto it. It is fine
To stand upon some lofty mountain-thought
And feel the spirit tretch into a ;
To joy in what might be, if will and power
For good, would work together but ohe hour.
Yet millions never think a nob!e thought,
.Put with brute hate ef brightness. hay a mind
Which drives the darkness out of them, like hounds."

We have said that our author's conception of Lucifer
is that of a lofty, ambitious Intelligence, stricken with
incurable remorse, and so far differing from the malig-
nant, glazing, mean-thoughted Satan of scripture. In
the line which we subjoin, his entire character is re-
vealed to us in three brief, but most significant and com-
prehensive words, which are sublime in their very terse-
ness and simplicity. In order that the reader may
rightly appreciate their uncommon force, we should
inform him that a funeral has just passed, which draws
Irons Festus some common-places about grief, where-
upon Lucifer abruptly interrupts him with—
" Would you have grief? Let me come—l am Woe I
The happiness of earth is thus gracefully alluded to ;
" The highest hills Pre miles below the sky ;
And so far is the lightest heart below

'Flue happitioss."

The pleasure which a refined and elevated intellect
lerives from thought is eloquently insisted on in these
lines :
oh, to create within the mind is bliss !
And shaping forth -the lofty thought or lovely.
We seek not—need not Heaven; and when the thought,
Cloudy and shapeless, first forms on the mind,
Now darkening into some gigantic make,
Slow the heart shakes with pride and fear, as Heaven

Quakes under her own thunder."
As a specimen of case, richness, and melody of ver-
sification we quote the subjoined passage. The image
with which it concludes, is exceedingly felicitous
‘"Tis sweet to be awakened by a kiss,
When dreaming of the very lips which waken:
Ah, never be that visionary bliss
But for the bright reality forsaken !
'Tis sweet to dream we're blest at last with her,
Who first made pleasure in our nature stir ;
Tho' many a fairer, kinder, since we've known,
That first voluptuous vision sits her throne ;
Still, it, our sleep, plays o'er young passions's part.
As pleasure's chest still haunts the ruined heart."

E,VI4",NING EDITI

The following idei is striking, but, if our recolleckTi,
does not deceive us, the germ of it may be found, in
Sir Thomas Browne's " Religio Medici :"

" All things that speak of heaven, speak of peace :
Peace hath more might than war; high brows are calm :
Great thoughts are still as stars; and truths, like suns,
Stir not, but many systems tend around them :
Mind's step is still as Death's."
The character of the author's philosophy miy be
judged of from the following sentiments, whose tone is
remarkably healthy and genial :
__

" Unsay
What thou bast said of man, nor deem me wrong ;
Mind cannot mind despise—it is itself.
Mind must love mind; the great and good are friends
Aid he is but half great, who is not good.
And oh, humanity is the fairest flower
Blooming in earthly breasts.
A woman's gentle and melodious voice gives rise to
this poetical image :
" A soft, rich toae—a rainbow of sweet sounds,
Just spanning the soothed sense."
Perhaps the above simile may be considered of rather
too abstract a nature by those who regard only tho
common-places of fancy, but, to our thinking, it is ster-
ling ore. Spenser, we are sure, would have been de-
lighted with it. We quote the following, not for its
poetical beauty, but for its elegance and refinement as a
compliment :
" To me there is but one place in the world,
And that's where thou art."
Au obvious truth is well expressed as follows :
" Drink and drain
The bowl I The vintage of a hundred years
Would never slake the memory f shame,
Nor quench the thirst of folly."
Here is a graceful, periphastical manner of telling a
lady—in plain English—to " hold her tongue :"
" Now, stay thy pretty, little tuneful tongue,
Nor silver o'er tby syllables."
A serene summer sunset :
" The day Bath gone to God,
Straight, like an infant's spirit."
The approach of the day ofjudgment is thus solemnly
intimated :
" There is no shadow on the face of life,
It is the noon of fate."
The following graphic description is suggested by the
recollections of youth :

" bad
A friend with whom in boyhood I was wont
To learn, think, laugh, weep, strive, and love together;
For we were always rivals in all things—
Together up high, springy hills, to trace
A runnel to its birth-place; to pursue
A river: to search, haunt old ruined towers,
And muse in them ; to scale the cloud clad hills
While thunders murmured in onr very ear;
To leap the lair of the live cataract,
Or crouch behind the broad white waterfall—

Tongue of the glen, like to a hidden thought—
To reach, perchance, some long, green-floating flag,
Just when the sun's hot lip first touched the stream
Reddening to be so kissed; and oft at night,
Bewildered and bewitched ly favourite stars,
We would breathe ourselves amid unfootcd snows,
For there is poetry where aught is pure ;
Or over the still, dark heath, leap, like harts,
Through the broad moonlight, fur we felt wherever
We leaped the golden gorse,or lowly ling,
We could not be from home—that friend is gone I
There's the whole universe before our souls.
Where shall we meet next ? Shall we meet again ?
Oh ! might it be in some far, happy world,
That I may light upon his lonely soul,
Hard by some broad, blue stream, where high the hills,
Wood-bearded, sweep to it's brink—musing, as wont,
With love-like sadness upon sacred things."
The moral of the poem, and a nobler was never yet in-
culcated, may be found in these lines. Festus, alter
having been pardoned by the Almighty, thus addresses
his tempter, Lucifer :
" Let us part, Spirit. It may be, in the coming,
That as we sometime were all worth God's making,
We may be worth forgiving."
In the above extracts from Festus, we have confined
ourselves almost exclusively to the more level passages
of the poem, and such as are least likely to be caviare to
the multitude ; but there are many others of a far
higher and rarer order of beauty, in which we are at a
loss which most to admire, the boldness and grandeur
of the conceptions, dreamy and abstract though some
of them are, or the incomparable ease and simplicity of
the expression. The descriptions of the Fiend's flight
round the universe ; of the passing into Heaven, and
thence into Hades ; of the inauguration of Festus as
sole monarch of the world ; of the perishing away of
man from earth ; and the consummation of all things on
the " great day of compt ;"—in these descriptions, as
in numerous others, where the interest is more strictly
human, the author shows himself a poet in the most
comprehensive meaning of the phrase ; as in his occa•
sional abstruse speculations on Life, Death, and the
mystery of Mind, he shows himself an acute and search-
ing reasoner. We have already glanced at his faults,
and may here say, in addition, that they chiefly origi-
nate in his somewhat feverish anxiety to produce an
effect. He often goes hunting and beating about the
bush for striking images and uncommon forms of ex-
pression, forgetting that to startle is not to delight, and
that eccentricity is no proof of imagination. Then
again, he is apt to be so abrupt in his transitions, as
almost to engender a feeling of the ludicrous in his
reader's mind. Where be is most successful, there he
is uniformly most simple and natural—a hint which, we
trust, will not be thrown away on him. We conclude
with the remark, that Festus, whether viewed with re-
gard to its blemishes or its excellencies, in the most re-
markable poem that has appeared since the days of
Byron.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEA 1., JUNE 12.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Neptune,
Giles, from 31anilla •' Reward, llagg, Jamaica; and G,aphyra,
La Guavra. Sailed—Litherland, 11..wkin_s, for Barbadoes;
Re,overy, Barker, Queboe ; Herald, Alcock, Alexandria ; and
Attea, Constantinople, with the rest of the outwarn bound.
PotersmouTit, JUNE I2.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 1 . —Wind N,W, to S.W.

F.% LMOUTH, JUNE Il.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Lap-
wing (packet), from the West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas's,
I ult. ; Porto Rico, 2d ; Cape Henry 10th.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE Ih—Wind variable.—Arrived the PeZ
nang, Lawson, from Canton ; Alert, Sutton, Bahia ; Portia,
Pernambuco ; Eliza Kitlick, Waugh, Hayti ; Jenny, Jamaica ;
Belmont, Young, Honduras ; Caledonia, Bibby, Zolaff, Mer-
rill, and John Walker, Laskin, New Orleans ; Colchester,
Withers, Mobile ; Ganges, Seofteam, and Chieora, Halsey,
Charleston ; Queen Victoria, Chambers, Savannah ; Thomas,
Seymour, Jamaica ; Ilobinhood, Proctor, New York ; Cal-
cutta„M'Kinnell, Sarah, Lacket, Ruby, Westcott, and Hannah
Kerr, Bacon, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Halifax, M'Clearv,
Halifax ; Earl Grey, Douglas, Marseilles, Tally Ho, Miles,
Lisbon ; .Niary and Jane, Archer, Danzic. Sailed the Dibdin,
Kruger, for New York. Off port, the Jamaica, from Jamaica ;
Chester, St. John's, New Brunswick; Jupiter, Charleston.

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• IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 10.

. , .
The Pilot of to-d•ty, speaking of the " No Popery
yell," raised on the National Education plan proposed
by Ministers, observes, that if. this yell were successful
to the point of bringing in the Peel party the Tories
could not carry on the Government. Ireland would
not submit. " A Government formed on the principle
of "no Popery" would at once concentrate and ener-
gise---lermit us the word—a third of the hardiest.
population of the empire, which the Catholics are,
while a large portion of the Protestants would be
neutral or friendly. We tell the no-Popery men that
they Would be beaten: We deprecate the interval of
horror to Ireland, but we tell the enemy that the
peOple of 'lreland will not submit, and they have the
means of resistance. Let them go into our chapels on
a Sunday, and see that two-thirds of oar troops are
Catholic—that the very poverty in which injustice
has steeped Ireland, has caused enlistment here almost
exclusively, and that the crime thus prepares its own
correction, in the constitution of the army. One-third
of the population of the empire Catholic ; two-thirds of
the army Catholic! Away !—you dare not construct
a no-Popery administration, and you cannot, Tories,
construct anything else."
Our Contemporaryicalls on the county of Limerick to
meet in order to record their grateful sense of her Ma-:
jesty's noble conduct towards the Melbourne Ministry.
—" Many friends have inquired of us how it has oc-
curred that the county of Limerick, which has manifested
independence in a degree as high as any other in Ire-
land, has been so apparently backward or listless in the
course of the events which have within a short period
roused the spirit of the Liberal party throughout Ire-
land. Our answer was that the all absorbing nature of
'he difficulties of the position of the constituency with
regard to Mr. Smith O'Brien, was the reason why the
people of independent Limerick bad not taken occasion
to speak their known sentiments." _

The elections of officers under the new Poor-law are
proceeding, and they are in favour of the Liberals.
Tne city registration is of course against them. The
Corruptionists have it hollow.
We are glad to see some sympathy manifested towards
Mr. Barrett, whose property has been struck down by
a verdict. Personal liberty, as is well observed by a
Rev. Gentleman who transmits the subscription of eight
of his clerical brethren —" has been consigned to the
damps of a dungeon ; but depend upon it the sympathies
of your countrymen shall shine in on the darkness of your
prison ; and, thank God, there is • still enough of pa-
triotism in the hearts of Irishmen to sustain you nobly
at the present juncture—aware, as we must all be, of
the importance of a liberal and patriotic press—in the
sustainsuene of humble worth and industrious poverty—
whether assailed by political oppression, or by the no
less deadly aim of the heartless cupidity of depopulating
power."_

In reference to the public meeting of his constitu-
cuts, called by Mr. O'Brien, who has arrived in Li-
merick, the Pilot observes :—" Either his general par-
liamentary career deserves the vote of unqualified
censure; or it does not. If it does, we hesitate not to
declare he should at once be called on unconditionally
to resign.; if it does not—and in this opinion we are
inclined to coincide—and that only a disagreement as
regards one vote has now arisen between his constitu-
ems and himself, the club perhaps should go no farther
than a strong remonstrance reprobatory of such conduct.
Let us implore of the constituency then, and of the
County Limerick, Independent Club, whose trustees
they have to ably and usefully proved themselves to be
on all occasions, to farget differences, and unite in a
conciliatory manner to act with independence, discre-
tion, and good
.temper on Tuesday. The empire is
looking on with anxiety at their proceedings, and we
sincerely trust that such a course will be adopted as
will show the public at.large, the domineering Tories,
and the cruel and unrelenting Orange faction, that they
hat e to chance ever to expect the representation of the
great county of Limerick to fall again into their ruthless
l;ra`P•

The Mail, with an air of amusing self-gratulation,
refers to the proceedings in Parliament last week, when
the " Popish Lord Archbishop" John Tuam, afforded
an occasion for much dull twaddle, delightedly exclaims,
" Our strictures on the assumption of the Arclaiepisco-
pate of Tuam, by John Mac Hale. and the concession of
that title, by Thomas_ Plunket, both of Tuam, have
been attended with thy: good effect of drawing the
attention of both Houses of Parliament on the subject !"
The some paper, in another place, contains the follow-
ing.
I,Veliloo (says the writer to whom the editorial duties
both of bottle-holding and black-balling are perfectly
familiar), the High Sheriff of the Queen's County, has
very properly refused to convene a meeting of his baili-
wit,k to address the Queen, alleging in his reply. to the
~luisitionists, that he does not perceive, unless with
:.pry few exceptions, the names of the resident landed
proprietors attached to the requisition ; and that he
himself entirely dissents from the dews of the requisi-
tionists on the subject.' These are the only reasons
.:,signed by Mr. Weldon—and very sufficient re,sons
they arc—yet the Government. Press has thought fit to
put into that gentleman's mouth a further rea,on, viz.,
because he is unwilling to disturb the county in. its
present quiet and tranquil state 1' and this is given
under the headin,, of Tory evidence o: tranquillity.'
Hating n:cntioued the source from which the statement'
proceeds, it-is almost unnecessary to add; that it is a
mere fabrication. We fear Lord Ibrington is. not :1 he
man we have been disposed to take him for, when he
permits the use of weapons-so disgraceful in his cause.