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London, England, 1837-09-19 00:00:00

THE SLINT LONDON, TUES')AY, SEPTEMBEIt 19, 1837.

an cffence he )hould cease henceforn to be a magistrate ?
We again say he durst wit."
And we repeat, "le dare 4 nets" But what *re
" the principles whieliplated the House or l3runsWick
tan the throne' to do with the bloodstained bigotry of
Colonel Verner? The worst, however; is to borne.
The Times, no doubt suitiiig lahguage to the well-
known eretiitients of its patrons, and revelling as it
‘Vere in the anticipation of scenes similar to those so
enthusiastically celebrated, observes—
" We add also, that the Queen's officer who can gravely
rebu'en a Protestant gentleman for commemorating by his
words at it Protestant dinner a sanguinary feud between
Protestants and Papists, must be an egregious hypccritc or
an enormous fool,"
This the climax of impudence and ferocity. Twice
have we read' the sentence before, notwitle-tending our
experience of Tory truculence; we could believe that
tuts' party would ptibliely avow such a sanguinary dis-
position As to recommend the commemoration of m iir-
iters, and thereby excite the most savage propensities
advocate of " san-
guinary fends," we have only to add, that the man who
could pen such a passage must be both a bigot and an
assassin.— Morning Advertiser.
The Ministerial threat to commit to the custody of
the sergeant-at-arms all who subscribe to the fund fur
rescuing the Irish Representation from the monstrous
tyranny of that atrocious combination of priestly terror
and popular violence, known by the appropriate title of
the sl•ull-and-cross-bone system of intimida!ion, has
greatly aided the justice of the cause in stimulating
the manly and generous sympathies of the British
public in support of the appeal on behalf of our perse-
cuted Protestant fellow-subjects of Ireland, and the
Constitutional rights which are outraged in their per-
sons. A threat so insolent, and, at the same time, so
absurd, was well calculated to arouse the indignation
—even while it excited the ridicule—of the people of
England. It showed to what lengths our O'Connell-
ridden Ministry would go in realising the system of
that tyrant demagogue, even in this country, if they
dared. But they hare not now at their back a "tyrant
majority" powerful enough to enable them to realise
their wishes. They must be moderate, and, to a
certain degree, well-behaved, because they are feeble
in the Legislature, and the sense of weakness is upon
them. Their threat of providing a House-of-Com-
mons bastile for the subscribers to the Irish election
petition fund, was a miserable and most impolitic
experiment, suggested by the unreflecting agony of
desperation. It has had its effect, but it is the very
opposite of that which was intended—an effect
calculated to render the condition of the Melbourne-
O'Connell Cabinet more desperate than ever. When
we are reminded that the O'Connellite Whigs opened
their purse-strings to pay the expense incurred by
their master's usurpation of the seat for Dublin on the
last occasion, and that they sanctioned the appropria-
tion of one out of the two thousand pounds extracted,
by the ingenious patron of " safe speculations," from
the pockets of ex-Sheriff Raphael, to defray the ex-
penses of a petition, we cannot sufficiently express our
admiration of the matchless powers of face which could
have enabled them gravely to threaten the conservative
vindicators of constitutional privileges with the sum-
mary vengeance of the sergeant-at-arms I In sooth it
is such a comical piece of Whig-O'Connellite impu-
dence that we find it difficult to treat it with any degree
of serious animadversion. The last, and now, thank
Heaven, defunct House of Commons, carried its no-
tions of " privilege," in the true democratic spirit, to
a most unconstitutional and tyrannical extent.
That which we say of that House of Commons,
to its lasting infamy in the grave, we said to its
face when in the full vigour of life, and defied it to
put its execrable doctrines into practice. Pusillanimous
as it was tyrannical, that House of Commons, on find-
ing its odious, its monstrous assumption of privilege
grappled with and defied by the independent portion of
the public press, shrunk from the conflict which it had
wantonly provoked, and left to Chief Justice Denman,
whom it had threatened for his upright and constitu-
tional exposition of British law, an easy triumph. Even
Mr. Joseph Hume, one of the greatest sticklers for the
utmost extent of democratic tyranny which any House
of Commons ever attempted, as he pretty strongly
evinced in Col. Fairman's case, was obliged to admit
that the contradictory resolutions of Lord J. Russell
and his colleagues had dragged the House forwards and
backwards through the mud. Let Lord J. Russell and
his colleagues only attempt to carry into execution the
Whig threat against the subscribers to the fund for en-
suring justice to Ireland in election cases, and the Mi-
nisterial " mudlarking" of the former occasion to which
Mr. Hume so pathetically alluded will have been a
cleanly pastime to that which is to follow. To pro-
tect the electors of Ireland in the exercise of their con-
stitutional rights, by defeating the nefarious practices
of a faction to usurp the representation, is the duty, as
it assuredly is the interest, of every Englishman who
desires to uphold the liberties and national religion of
his country, which are threatened to be completely
swamped by the Irishoeracy which the skull-and-cross-
bones system has created; and, in spite of ministerial
threats and tricks, the freedom of election in Ireland
shall be protected.--Morning Herald.
The columns of the Morning Chronicle presented
yesterday a happy variety with respect to Spanish
affairs. The leading article, well and soundly written,
gives a felicitous Carlist view of the respective posi-
tions of the belligerent armies ; the correspondence—.
we must in courtesy also add, well and ably written—
describes the " Pretender's" troops, as usual, in the
last stage of decay, and the Queen's on the eve of
fresh triumphs. The Sarragossa letter, in particular,
indulges in those warm hopes which become the corre-
spondent of so staunch a Christino paper. It says—
" I have just learned that the Pretender has been aban-
doned by the Arrngonese. Thus his Airagonese expedition
may be presumed to be at an end. These people were his
mainstay. He has now only the dispirited Navarrese with
him ; and should his object be either to join the Soria ex-
pedition, or try his fortune in Andalusia or Murcia, there
is every reason to predict he will be frustrated."
The Madrid and Irun letters are not quite so poe-
tical in their colouring, but they contain enough to
show that the cause of Queen is still progressing ;
as Espartero's division is composed of " the picked
men of the Spanish army," according to the former,
and as Andoain has been fortified, and the factious
marauders repulsed, according to the latter. The
whole of the correspondence offers a very consoling
picture to the partisans of Donna Isabel, and is cal-
culated to throw the Carlists well-wishers into despair,
if they were not by this time proof against such de-
nouncements. The leading article of our contem•
votary is, however, altogether of a different character.
It renders justice to the able manoeuvres of Don
Carlos, hae the candour to place the Arroganese
bands "in masses near Madrid," and condemns
Etpartero as " that blind fool." We are then told
by it, that---:

While It riMithithtbit fleas iiiennZes Madrid from
thn sotithl about to pay itself with the plunder of
Atanjuet, the full-gorged bands which lately occupied Se-
govia have retired no further than Burgo do Osma, be-
tween Aranda and Soria,"

We are further infOrmed that
" Not the least alarming part of the accounts just ar-
rived is the unaccountable diminution of the numbers of the
Queen's army. But lately there was an army of Espartero,
together with the division of Buerens and Oraa, each able
to cope with the enemy. One of them is now destroyed.
Espartero has incorporated the greater part of the other
with his own army, yet he states it at not above 12,000 men.
The concluding passage of the article is not the
least remarkable:

•ng Post present a wonderful vnifoimitv. But why,
the public will ask, is it that the Morning Chronicle
rlmudiates the hitelligelide ftitnished by its correspon-
a nee, and gives tinboufided crecleiice to iievirS ptoVided
in another manner ? Has a new light: broken iii npdti
6.1 r Contemporary Is it running a fade with iisJ arid
striving to be in at the death of the Spanish Consti-
tution ? We, of course, admire the plan of giving
every latitude to the pen of a correspondent,even when
his views may differ from our own ; but the case is
very different when facts, and inferences from facts, are
concerned; but we cannot but feel surprised that so
strange a discrepancy should exist between the conelu-
-2 ons of the Morning Chronicle and the writings of its
oxn agents. We, of course, do not complain of the
altered sentiments of our late Liberal Contemporary,
and we congratulate it on its reformed tone, both with
respect to Portugal and Spain. It has tknounced the
Constitution in Portugal, and it is sending Spanish
liberty to "public execution and a malefactor's grave!
—Post Morning.

Lord and Lady Wilton's party at Heaton Park will
assemble on the 27th instant. The sale of his Lordsiip's
valuable hunters will take place on the succeeding day.
Public dinners are at present the rage in the North.
We lately reported one at Cromarty, commemorative of
the return of Mr. Macleod, as representative of the In-
verness burghs. Another followed in Forres, also in lie•
. noun of the same gentleman, and Mr. Macleod is further
to be entertained this week by the electors of Fortrose.
The Conservatives have as yet had only one ovation of this
kind, which took place on Friday last at Forres, and will
be found reported in our present number. As the enter-
tainment was regarded as a farewell dinner to the late
Member on his retiring into private life, a number of
county gentlemen attended from the surrounding districts,
from motives of private friendship as well as of political
principle, and the party was equally numerous and re-
spectable. In acknowledging the honour thus conferred
on him, blended, as it was with feelings of personal kind-
, ness and regard, Mr. Cumming Bruce alluded gracefully
to the union between motives of a private nature and the
approval of public conduct. He soon, however, plunged
into a sea of political declamation, metaphor, and violence
which, to our minds, jarred harshly with the objects of the
meeting, and far exceeded the bounds of' fair and gentle-
manlike discussion. The only principle he allows to the
present Government is a desire to retain office, at whatever
sacrifice of consistency or public honour. He must admit
they have never turned to Conservatism, by which, if the
Hon. Gentleman's reasoning be correct, they might attain
and preserve office. Imputations of so low and sordid a
character are really unworthy a man of talent. Mr. Pitt was
a poorer man than Lord Melbourne, and he pertinaciously
clung to office even when outvoted in the House of Com-
mons. He died in debt, yet his opponents, amidst all the
excitement of the times, never charged him with holding
office from mean personal considerations. Why should
Lord Melbourne be considered more avaricious or sordid ?
It might with greater force and plausibility be urged
that the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, instead
of bringing forward in 1829 a groat measure which they
had always opposed, should have resigned in favour of
the Whigs, who had constantly supported it, and that
the only feeling by which they were actuated was a
paltry love of place. We believe that motives of this
kind are rarely felt by Statesmen, who at the best are
but indifferently paid ; and that Mr. Cumming Bruce has
fallen into a common and vulgar error which connects the
love of money, or personal advantage, with nearly all
the springs of human action. When Walpole said that
every man had his price, he could not himself have be-
lieved the assertion, and at all events for the last
century there has been a much higher standard of
public morals and virtue in England. eThe Hon. Gentle-
man terms the Home Secretary " the prince of political
charlatans." For what ? For changing his opinion
respecting the utility of the old corrupt English boroughs,
and we suppose for other changes of sentiment. Without
looking into Lord John Russell's " Essay on the English
Constitution," or his early speeches, we would ask what
Minister has been, or is, exempt from such a charge ?
Did not Pitt change sides on Parliamentary reform ? Did
not Fox coalesce with Lord North ? Was not Burke a
different man towards the close of his life than at its com-
mencement, or in its prime ? Did not Canning—has not
Sir Robert Peel, changed on many questions ? The
charge of the Hon. Gentleman respecting a compact at
Lichfield House has been repeatedly denied by the Govern-
ment, and no new information has been adduced_ in support
of it. Of the same nature is the statement that Ministers
are slaves, body and soul, to Mr. O'Connell. On one oc-
casion, however, the slaves seem to have commanded the
master ; for we are assured that they sent Mr. O'Connell
round the country to Oeach against the Peerage ! These
are the mere waifs and straps of party warfare, which Mr.
Cumming Bruce sheuld not have stooped to pick up. The
Hen. Gentleman also states that many of our countrymen
are still " addled with the fumes of reform," which he
thinks have been wafted across the Scottish line, and
proved fatal to the hopes of Sir James Graham in Cum-
berland. We have carried on a sort of contraband trade in
reform principles similar to what was formerly carried on in
ardent spirits on the Borders! But. we have done. Mr.
Cumming Bruce has retired into private life, which his lite-
rary talents and accomplishments are so fitted to adorn.
We wish him all health and happiness, and we are sure,
that in his pleasant oblivion of public cares in the country,
he will ultimately acknowledge the injustice and intem-
perance of the strictures on which we have bestowed thia
hurried glance.—lnverness Courier.
On Friday, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a
young gentleman named Edwards, who has for the last
eighteen months resided with a female in Granby-street,
Waterloo-road, was found in the outhouse with a frightful
wound in his throat and a razor lying by his side. A sur-
geon was instantly in attendance, who sewed up the wound,
and he was shortly afterwards removed home in a hackney-
coach. The unhappy youth has been in the habit of re-
ceiving a cheek every Thursday for .51., through the two-
penny post, from his mother (a highly-respectable widow,
residing near the North London Hospital). On the above
morning a letter came as usual, without the check, inform-
ing him that his disgraceful sonduct had caused the death
of an only sister, and inviting him to attend the funeral.
He remained in very low spirits during the remainder of the
day. The feelings of the mother can be better imagined
than described.

the magnificent residence of Cardinal de
Wehelieu, is now a heap of ruins. Under Napoleon's rein
it became the property of Marshal Massena, who restored

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its ancient splendour, and gave grand fetes in it. In 1815
it was devastated and plundered by the Prussians, It is
now on sale, in small lots. The park, gardens, and build-
ings are divided among a large number of purchasers, and
the land is cultivated. The same is nearly the case with
the beautiful domain of Malmlison, which Napoleon inha-
bitcd, and where Josephine settled after her divorce. The
church of Rucil contains her tomb, erected in 18123 by her
children. In the 9th century Malmaison was called Male
Domus ; it was then but a farm, often devastated by the in-
vading Normans.
A new bridge is about to be erected across the river
Thamos, from Streatley, in Berkshire, to the opposite
shore, in the parish of Goring, Oxfordshire. An Act of
Parliament for the purpose, and to make approaches, passed
the Legislature in the last week of the last Session.
During the past week Mr. Ford, of No. 31, Lon-
don-road, Southwark, has had the honour of exhibiting his
ingenious fire escape at Windsor-castle. One of his ma-
chines was erected in the Quadrangle, in the presence of se-
veral of the chief officers of the household, the Queen view-
ing it from the corridor. Her Majesty, the Duchess of
Kent, and some of the 'loyal suite, we understand, had be-
foie witnessed it. 'the machine, if to very simple a con-
trivance can be id talledi is unquestionably superior to
anything we have before witttesSed, it has all the attri-
butes which we conceive it possible to blend together for
the preservation of life and property, and such seems to be
the coo,ittion of dttfy person in Windsor who n,. wit-
nessed it, Already, We finderstand, hang Mr. Ford's
chines been supplied to the ectlt, where the eiptr6lents
made with one, this week, have been highly eulogised, es-
pecially by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville. They are there used
for cleaning the windows, for which, as well as for their
service in cases of fire, they are admirably adapted.—
Windsor and Eton Express.

ISUMMARY ANDWELL-DESERVED PUNISHMENT.
,On Satnrclay forenoon, ono of those lazy hulking fellows
who are to be seen about the streets driving dog-carts, was
passing up the New-road, near the Belvidere, when one of
the dogs attached to his cart fell, from being overdriven,
and was unable to rise. The follow, who was riding, im-
mediately jumped from the cart, and began beating the poor
animal with a large stick which he had in his hand. The
cries of the poor brute soon collected a considerable number
of persons, some of whom remonstrated with the ruffian on
his cruelty. This interference, however, seemed only to
have the effect of making him strikei
aster and harder. At
last, a gentleman, who had looked on fora few minutes, and
who was said to be connected with one of the .rtrge breweries
in the Metropolis, rushed upon the fellow, and, wrenching
the stick from his grasp, applied it with right goon will to
his shoulders, amid the cheers of the spectators. The ,"n"
tlelnan then took out his penknife and cut the harness, s:
as to disentangle the animal from the vehicle. The unmanly
scoundrel blustered a good deal at first, but being threatened
with the police, like a tqe coward, he soon changed his
note, and sneaked off on foot, with the ill-used animal at
his heels. The
cruelties perktrated on dogs by the vaga-
bonds who employ them in a -way manifestly not suited to
their strength are looredible, and ought to be suppressed.

" Messrs. P►a Pita and Espartero resemble at this mo-
ment a pair of wretched executioners, intrusted with drag-
ging Spanish liberty to public execution and a malefactor's
grave."

Now we take the libcrty, with due respect, of asking
the Morning Chronicle which of these two statements
we are to believe ? Are we, on the one hand, to place
implicit credence on accounts written from the seat of
war, backed by all the advantages of communica-
tion with the Queen's Generals and the British Le-
gation at Madrid ; or are we, on the other, to be-
lieve, without flinching, the editorial article, written
in London, after a due comparison of all the public
and private communications which we suppose our
Contemporary commands ? Editorial propensities
incline us, of course, to the latter opinion ; at,d
we have no doubt that our recently c(mvr.ated
Carlist friend has given a true expose of the
~fate of
I
affairs in Spain. Our own information accords with
his, and for once the Morning Chroniclethcl Morn-