The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

ttln :t:alMex!'clitteridf e
by ZestLeirA'ilr;•lidnt(ef're:rit, oann7doarn'tt'oe:
donamorrow, of a constitutional Monarch pledging him-
self to a free people to guard their rights and
privilege,, it has been remarked with very general
surprise; that the Dut-ihes! of went and the Princess
Victoria are the only iiiembei of the iloyal catily,
Old or:;tourig, who, are not, to be preszmit at the Coro-
nation. It is with deep t-egret, that we have learned
that her Royal Highness has refused to attend ! Yes,
has refused to attend ! and that her absence on this:
occasion is in pursuance of a systematic opposition
on the pit of her Royal Highness to all the wishes
and all the folings of the Kcsent:King. Now the
presence or absence., ti the I:ches fi
ter of comparative indifference—it is merely disres-
pectful ; but that of the Princess Victoria, which
must, as to its immediate cause, be imputed to her
mother, cannot fail of beinconsidered by the public
as indecent and offensive. should be glad to kinoW
who are the advisers of this misguided lady ? Who can
have dared to counsel her; the widow of a mediatized
German Pitinc,lo-Ise ambition never could
have contemplated the possibility of an alliance with
the Blood Royal of England, to oppose the Sove-
reign to whom she is bound by so many ties of gra-
titude? Her Royal Highness must have been acting
under A well-gfotinded confidence in the indulgence
and forbearance of his Majesty, or an entire igno-
rance of the authority of the Crown. The Constitu-
tion has lirnifed the,poEtieal power of the King, but
has left it uncontrolled and t'espotie over the mem-
bers of his own family; and it cannot be disputed
that she who is ignorant of the respect which is due
to the Crown, is unfit to form the mind and super.
intend the education of the infant who is destined
to wearit; We could mention some curious facts,
which, for the present at least, we shall abstain from
doing. We would rather admonish than expose,
and shall rejoice if these monitory hints be not thrown
away. No monarch has more endeared himself to
his subjects than William IV.; arid the Duchess of
Kent is grossly mistaken, if she thinks to ingratiate
herself with the people of this country by opposition
to the will and disrespect to at., power of the King.

We may at length, we believe, state that the Re-
form Bill—that vessel freighted with a nation's
wishes—is within sight of port. Her first voyage
draws to a conclusion—her second may be of ,ome
r:sk also, as has been the first 3 but she cannot be
captured or destroyed by pirates, without exciting
such an indignation in the charter parties and owners
as will tend to sweep the seas of them. Quitting
metaphor, we would advise no one to think (and
act upon the thought) that the public interest re-
specting the Reform Bill is diminished, The con-
sequences of such an error may be lamentable. No
doubt an event like the Coronation will occasion the
creation of some Peers; but it is absurd to suppose
that the fate of a Bill approved by public conviction,
and demanded by the public voice for more than
half a century, depends upon a mere expedient.
We wish to believe that the sentiments of the Peers
are in unison with those of the country, and that
their prudence will prescribe the only generous, as
well as the only secure course, for public tranquillity
and general satisfaction. It is said to be difficult to
ascertain the sentiments of the individuals in the
Upper House on the subject of the Bill, and many
units form a great stmt. Perhaps they act discreetly
not to speak of the Bill till it is before them. But
it will come to the House itself, we suspect, with
such a majority in its favour from the Commons, and
with such an acclamation from the public, who are
on the alert in all parts of the kingdom, as will
make them consider, with the wise King in the
Gospel, whether they, with their 1,000, can main-
tain war against 10,000. The odds, indeed, are yet
more formidable.—Times.

The Caledonian Mercury of the 3d inst. has the
following paragraph :
" Our contemporary, the Morning Chronicle, brought
rather a serious charge against Ministers the other day, of
passing over their own friends in appointments to offices,
and giving any when they fell vacant to those only who
abuse, revile, and thwart their persons and principles.
Passing over the Irish instances of this ilisposi,ion, of
which we know nothing, we were struck with what Our
worthy contemporary told us had happened among our-
selves in corroboration of his assertion.
‘" The same system of passing over their friends, and
bestowing lucrative situations on their enemies, has
been pursued in Edinburgh. An instance was told us of
a valuable place having been given to an affluent Tory,
who. speaking of it, said he detested their principles as
much as ever, but he was not such a fool as to
refuse from them a situation yielding so good an

income.'

‘abo‘titWtletis l,'aavnedthakree enabled
nthe
oto ilde
ay o.f
shotmaking
nothing som‘ev v inquiry
geui leyr
snore unfounded. The only place given away is one of
trouble
a few hundreds a-year connected with the Court of Ses-
sion,
not a Tory,' but in all other respects a most fit
sion, to a gentleman certainly not ' affluent,' and as err-
person for the situation."
After this challenge we shall, without further pre-
face, state the foundation on which we made the
above assertion. The individual alluded to is Mr.
John Tweedie, writer to the signet, a bachelor of
sixty and upwards, who has been thirty-five years a
writer to the signet, in respectable practice, and lives
in a spacious house in one of the principal streets of
Edinburgh. These are the external signs, at all
events, of affluence. He was lately appointed
Keeper of the Minute Book; an office which re-
quires attention and accuracy, but no exercise of
talent. This gentleman may not be a Tory, but he
has professed himself a Tory all his life. He never
in the meetings of the Society of Writers to the
Signet, nor at any public meeting, voted with or
countenanced the Wing party. He never attended
any Whig meeting—never gave money to any of the
party objects for which numerous subscriptions were
almost every year going or. in Edinburgh—as on the
occasion of the late Queen's trial, Burgh Reform,
&c. He never attended any of the Fox Birth-day,
or other public dinners. He never, on any one oc-
casion, advocated or attempted to advance the prin-
ciples of the party now in power. If he be 1101%'
a Whig, it is not two months since he was the
declared enemy of the Reform Bill. About three
years ago he acquired a freehold qualification in the
county of Haddington, and since that time he his
voted with the Lauderdale interest, against that cf
Reform. All who know any thing of the Earl of
Lauderdale are aware that no man in the British
dominions is a greater adept in the arts of manage-
ment. To use a homely proverb of his nation,
" he has always a salve for a sore leg." It is under-
stood that it is to his Lordship's influence with the
Edinburgh organs of Government that this adherent
of his is indebted for his only permanent appointment
to which Writers to the Signet or Solicitors are eli-
gible that has become vacant since the Whigs came
into power, or that is likely to be in their gift for
many years. L 055 would have been thought of this
if the Government had thought fit to fill the move-
able Scotch offices with those respectable persons
who, for a long period, and in trying circumstances,
manifested an attachment to their principles. But
the fact, we understand, is, that with the exception
of the Crown Lawyer-i, and one Sheritfship, the
Government have not bestowed a singte place On

any of their cld adherefits,- loftily of whom have
spent large sums of money, schie even to the extent
of thousands, in the cause, and deVdted Mtich time
to, and' incurred much obloquy from their exertions.
CP7'. th,, receipt of the aronic/e, containing theallusion
to the appointtnes, in -g7litiliurgh it was,we learn,sup-
posed by many that the individual pointed at was not
Tweedie, bu Mr. Taylor, and that the appVt,'!,,
ment was the Solicitor, hip of Taxes. Mr. Taylor is
affluent, and he never professed Whig principles. The
.
afoiitt ett!'it, how vet;, hiS not yet taken place, though
it is understood that he 13 ilte feecutied candidate.
Tile office is held during pleasure, and worfli about
606/. per annum. The office given to Mr. Tweedic
was sought for by several most respectable and
tried friends of Government, who, of course, are
not a iitc,ie chsgrinell at the [Tanner in which it has
been disposed of. No ore ~,Meets to the fitnes of
Mr. Tweedie. The question is merely on*. of policy
and jt:stiee, as betweel Ministers and their old ad,
herents. It is nut;ustite i!'tl,le Scotch to say, th it
they do not blame Lord Melboure, knowing that
he cannot in the exercise of his patronage aci ipCtt
C;wn i7Crsonal knowledge. But they do blame
these ,rho have ainis:.,d Hi confidence in giving hint
the information on which he has acted; We should
not have alluded to the subject, had we not het[
struck with the mischief produced by the system
of paving ecurt to political enemies in Ireland, and
the advantage which the oprotlents of G >vertu-rent
were taking of it. Oar notice will produCe this
,t7.;cod efTeet-e--that it will, we have no doubt, lead to
more circumspection ;r: the exercise of patronage in
future. We are actuated by no ceeling of hostility
to any individual, either in Ireland or Scotland,
arid it was with reluctance that we made the allu-
sion bat tall.,d forth the above explanation.
CbronicL
The intentions of Government with regarri td
the Irish Church were in some measure disclosed
last night. Mr. Hume, who has from time to time
postponed his motion on ;..bC subject of the See of
Derry,in order not to interfere with the progresg of the
Reform Bill, said he should be guided by the an-
swer he (A:rained to the question—What was the
intention of the Government ret4aeded tbie filling
up of the vacant Bishopric of Derry ? ihe ;r:1
swer of Lord Althorp was important—
"lt appeared to him (he said), that although would
be improper to turn !•11'.t tetenuss eprropriated to the sup-
port of the Established Church to any ATE,f rtroses but
those of the Protestant Church Establishment, still the
question would be different, if, by an alteration in the dis-
tributien of these revenues, the poorer Clergy might be
assisted in a better maiiwt the present, without dimi-
nishing, in an improper manner, the suppo;i reVred for
the maintenance of the rank and station of the superior
Clergy.—(Hear, hear.) That was the view which the
Government had taken of the subject ; but when the ques-
tion wag !ottketl et lit that view, it appeared more proper,
that if any steps o.' tiitt.l %tete taken, they should be
taken with reference to the question eeierall, at that
the change, if any, ought not to be made applicable to one
individual instance.--(Hear.) The Government, there-
fore, had not taken any steps with regard to the S.e of
Derry in part;eular ; but whoever should be appointed to
that Bishopric would he so appointed, upon the under-
standing that rio rights he Wight acquire by that appolnt-
went would ht.t allowed to iitterfre With Such an arrange-
ment, if at any titto, tiny shell afrafigErnent shofild take
eff-et.—( Hear, hear.)"
We do not blame Lord Althorn fur stating that
it would be improper to turn the revenues appro-
priated to the support of the Established Church to
any other piirpdsee than those of the Protestant
Church Establishment, because a transference for
any other purpose could not be proposed by any
statesman with the least chance of success. But
we are not the less certain that the time is fast ap-
proaching when no British statesman will be able
to uphold in Ireland that badge of national degras
dation, " the spectacle of an endowment without a
people, and a people without art endowitient,4' to
use the language of Mr. Senior. The state of things
in Ireland is altogether anom dous. The higher
classes feel they exist by sufferance, as it were:
There are no connecting links between the gentry
and the people. The people know their strength,
and the gently know their weakness. To take the
case of tithes : it might be supposed that any per-
son disposed to pay them might indulge in their
inclination; but true it is, nevertheless, that in
Ireland a man of property dare not even gratify
an inclination seldom pushed to a dangerous ex-
tent, to pay away his money. If the payment of
tithes is the accursed thing (and public opi-
nion, which in Ireland operates whit, overwhelm-
ing force, views it as such), the owner of property,
however anxious he may be to do nothing which
tnay impair the respect for property, trembles lest,
by the payment, he expose himself to the most seri-
ous consequences. We were told, for instance, by a
gentleman of unquestioned honour that, in some
cases, individuals who did riot attend to the hints
given them on this subject, have their corn rotting
on the ground, no soul choosing to assist them with
their labour. This is truly a strange state of things.
It is the fearful way in which the balance in humeri
affairs is restored, when generations of stiff-
necked men disregard the voice of justice and
mercy, and look on the professions of religion merely
as au instrument of power. Knowledge is power ;
and the Irish, natural!), shrewd and restless, have
of late years male prodigious advances in know-
ledge. We have always said that the High Church
Clergy and Tories, who, to do them justice, always
stoutly opposed education, were alone consistent.
They persecuted almost to the death the philanthro-
pist who first established Sunday schools ; but they
were at last obliged to resign themselves to the force
of circumstances, which they could not controul. A
man who cannot see his way stands still ; but open a
man's eyes, so that he can see his course, and he in-
stantly moves towards what attracts him. The Pro-
testant Church of Ireland (we mean by Church the
endowments), canoot exist amidst an educated people
hostile to it. What, we ask, must be the effect
on a naturally clever people, taught to read, of the
perusal of details like those disclosed in a petition to
the House of Commons, from the tithe payers in the
parish of Lea, Queen's county?
" That the Rectorial Tithes of this parish belong to
the Dean and Chapter of Kildare, and the Vicarial, or
one-third, belong to the Incumbent.
t‘ That although in the receipt of 4201. per annum,
your petitioners are not aware, that in spiritual services,
relief of the poor, or the support of the Church, the tax-
payers derive the smallest advantage from the tithes paid
to the afore-mentioned Church Dignitary (the lessee of
the Dean and Chapter).
o That the Vicarial Tithes of the parish are owned by
the Rev. Rawden Green, Ream!. or Vicar of Stillorgan,
and Register to the Bishop of the Diocese.
• That the said Rev. Rawden Green is an absentee
from this
parish snore your petitioners are not aware that
hr visits his ore than once or twice in each year,
although in receipt of a large income for his spiritual care
of the parish.

" That in addition to the tithes to which your peti-
tioners are subjected, the lessee of the Dean and Chipier
of Kildare has 68 acres of prime land let, as your peti-
tioners believe, for 136/. per annum ; and that the Vicar,
in addition to his tithe, under the Composition Act, has
34 acres of land let for 68/. per annum.
.. That the Church lands belonging to the parish are,
as it appears, well tvorth 2041. per annum.
" That your petitioners have heard and helieve, that, in
addition to the tithes and Church lands in this parish,
there is an annual allowance from the public taxes of 50/.
per annum for the clergyman of a chapel of ease in this
!'
aris' h in addition to a bequest of 80/. per annum, be.
queathed for this purpose.
.6 That your petitioners have heard and believe there is
also a bequest of 501. per annum for the payment of
teachers in this parish, of which the Bishop and Pro-
testantate
oahreantyliesethrouts)tlmeeas,stearndortshcahtooylomuirstpreestsitiboenienrgs
instruction of the people front such fund,
p bequeathedaii fortii
.0 Clergy
r the purpose.
your petitioners take leave to state, that the
Rev.r John Powell, a Curate appointed by the Rev. Raw-
denae not‘Green, at a salary of 691. 4s. 71-(1., performs the
duty for which the parish pays upwards of 7001. per an•
mina ; and your petitioners have heard and believe, that
the followers of the doctrines professed by the Church of
England are well attended to by the said Rev. J. Powell.
..Your petitioners, therefore, most earnestly solicit the
serious consideration of your Honourable House to thi
facts herein stated, by which it is demonstrated—
That the present system on which Church property is

divided in Ireland, givel wealth to tiroge who perform n

service—as in the case of the Dean and Chapter of Kil
date, and of their tenant ; and the most striking corn
plaint against that sygtem is ex,mpl:fied in the person o
the Rev. Rawden- Gretn, whc• tift•itrtak. s the cure o'
sluls at a 6FI Inge of thirty-six miles frost this parish.
whilst the resident Clergyman, who performs all the duty
and devotes his sole and undivided care to the wants of hie
parirhio: era, has not the pay of a gofnl tradesman.
" That ~haler the preti?nt system, deception and fraud
are encouraged,
af the eat% ain;:',! alluded to, which your
petitioners are prepared to C 'eat the bai pf your amour..
able House."

The history of the Church of Ire iR a history
6bmposed of transactions like the wove,
with nothing of which the affections of a people
can fix. Mr. Senior sqe„ "If the short remains
of the present session are 10-t, Ido not envy those
ho will have to administer Irish affairs in the next,"
The session lir-Never, be lost, hitt Irish affairs
will take the direction ‘vii-lch no Minister can pie-
vent them from taking.—Morning Chronicle.
It is well hn6vrti that the reluctance of the people
to convict was the chief CaUEIC of the change which
has tal:ell Fl;.re in our criminal law. We well re-
member the opposiCot to Sir Samuel Romilly's Re-
forms, and that Lords Liverpool, Eldon, and the
whop: cf the Tories advocated sanguinary punish-
ments for triiiint, thefts, as a perkezion in our crimi-
nal law. The Juries rc,fr.rrnc.d the law. Last rtg-h,
the Lord Chancellor, in the discnss3cn on a petition
Or tti abolition of the punishment of det.".ll in the
case of Mert imasions of the right of property oh-

served,—

" There was one part of their petiticyJ which, in his
opinion, could not be sanctioned by their Lordshipu. Ile
at least, could not er aderstand how honourable men serv-
ing on Juries could trifle trlth their oaths. The oath ad-
-
mir , ,
sferen to the Jury in criminal eases was, ' You shall
dtfd truly try, P.nri a true deliverance make,- between
our Sovereign Lad tbe King and the prisoner at this bar,
and a true verdict give, aCcotding to the evidence. S •
help you God.' And yet they appeared disposed suddenly
to forget their character of Jurors, and to erect tlesanselves
intritegitiatorm In this character of lawgivers, they riot
only made a new idtv for themselves, but appeared to think
that, in the face of their daiii, they might be justified in
giving a verdict against the evidence. Hort any honour-
ab!,! men could reconcile this to his conscience, he could
not conceive. The Jury had no more to do than say whe-
ther, in point of fact, the Crime had been committed, and
it was for the Judge to award the rettiahment ; and he
could award only that which the law had pfescribed. He
Coeid got comprehend bow it was possible for them to
reconci'e it to their consciences to pronounce a man Nor
Guilty, when the weight of evidence preponderated against
him. As a lawyer, as a Judge, and as a Legislator, he
t could see no grounds on which any man could reconcile to
his Consc±enCe. such a course of conduct. If it were a
crime to inflict the rnishrnent of death in such cases, the
crime was not that of .16.00/ trut of the Lrgis'ature—
(Hear, hear)—and until the law s' altsred the former
were bound to act by it."
If Jurymen had acted on the principle reeurn.
mended Gy his Lordship, all we can say is, that
blood would still be, ptiOred oat like water in this
country, for the higher ranks clung to sanguinary
punishments so long as Juries would convict, But
it is so clear that a man who, as a Juror, is instru•
mental ttr the execution of a sanguinary law—a
law Which outrages all the best feelings of our
nature, is in ho respect himself guilty P In this
case the rtiati offedience to a decree of the
Inquisition, subjects the tidied to horrors at whirl'
humanity shudders, is guiltless. Ire Most countries,
the laws have been means for working oppression,
and the oppression has been only mitigated by the
repugnaiide of virtuous and humane men to give
effect to them. To thls repugnance we are chiefly
indebted for the amehoratiorii which have taken
place in society. We suspect they Wefe tinder a
safer guidance than the casuistry of the Noble and
Learned Lord: Jeremy Bentham, in his Petition
for JuAice, observes, that " on no day does any one
of these aeaderhies (Oxford and Cambridge) tread
on the pavement df that sane holy city, without
trampling upon some one of Mote of these oaths ;"
that every Archbishop and Bishop in Ireland lives in
the constant violation of the oath taken by him pre-
vious to investiture. In short, the great object of
our Legislature would seem to be to encourage per-
jury. Every Juryman who yields against his convic-
tion to a majority of Jurors, perjures himself: This,
however, would be no justification of perjury. Brut
the Juror in this case says, the laws force me either
to starve of hunger or to perjure myself; and un-
willing to die, I commit perjury. It is curious that
Mr. Bentham should single out the power which
Jurors have of virtually abrogating bad laws, as the
chief advantage derivable from the institution. "A
law (he says) suppose has taken place, by which,
were execution and effect given to it, malificence
would be infused into the whole frame of Govern-
ment ; absolutism, for example, with all its attendant
miseries. Individuals, at the same time, are not
altogether wanting, each of whom, if in his individual
capacity of Juryman, the law in question were
brought before him for execution, would oppose to
it his irresistible will—would, in a word, apply his
veto to it. By the King and the Lords this veto is
applicable in the first stage of their progress—the
stage of legislation : by Juries in the last stage—the
stage of judicature." But we have not time now to
enter further into this question.-3firning Chronicle
The approaching Coronation of their Majesties*
has been more than once alluded to in the House of
Commons in a strain of jocularity not becoming a
British Senate, nor, in any respect, in good taste.
If the Coronation were merely a Royal pageant,
which had no higher object than the publicly plac-
ing on the King's head, by the hands of the Arch.
bishop of Canterbury, the crown of these realms,
which he already possesses, by right of inheritance,
under the Act of Settlement, it could only be re.
garded as a useless and sumptuous relic of a bar-
barous antiquity that could not be too soon abolished.
But, so far is it from being a mere idle ceremonial
of regal show and magnificence, that it is one of the
most important acts of Stateconnected with the esta-
blishment and preservation of our Constitutional
Monarchy. Though the King of England receives
the Crown by descent, he is reminded, by what
takes place at the Coronation, of the original com-
pact between his Royal predecessors and the people,
under which he derives his title to the Crown. He
is reminded of the glorious Revolution which changed
the dynasty, because the King bad incurred
the guilt of treason towards the nation by attempt-
ing to subvert those rights and liberties which he
had sworn to defend ; for it was at the Revolution
that the Coronation oath was altered into its present
form, and the Crown settled upon such conditions
as every succeeding heir to the throne must ratify
upon his accession, that his acceptance of those con-
ditions may be placed upon record, and his title to
full sovereignty be confirmed at the same time that
the national compact, on which it is founded, is re-
vived. It is clear then that the Coronation is not
a mere pageant, where crowns and coronets display
their dazzling lustre only •to gild the ostentatious fri-
volities of a melo-dramatic exhibition. Those who
endeavour to excite a popular prejudice against it, by
so speaking of it in Parliament, are, either through
ignorance or from some less excusable motive, guilty of
endeavouring to bringinto contempt the highest solem-
nity connected with the succes,ful vindication of the
liberties of England—a solemnity invested with the
moral splendour of the noblest historical recollections,
and affords the sublime spectacle of a King renewing
that contract with the nation which recognises the
national will as the source of all legitimate power.
We admit that the Coronation of George the Fourth
was accompanied by a degree of expense which was
profuse and unnecessary. So much wealth was la vished
upon the accessorial parts of that ceremonial, that it
seemed as if the rational and political purpose for
which it was instituted was intended to be Overlaid
and lost sight of by the extravagant and costly pomp
of the pageantry by which it was surrounded. But

there was an influence then behind the Britisl

ihrone, which it is well for public morals, as well
as for public economy, does not exist at present
We have a Queen, whose domestic virtues and
amiable disposition gise to the British Court that
gwrhaiccehof benign
iseupei attractions
iortoihcl austrreidasptohteleshs character
iehesgaa

'oe. With suet a Court, especially, the Euguish
ieople would not like to s. e the Coronation etle-
ira ed under circumstances that displayed a loran
and serlid parsimony. The sum voted for the
or-
tose is not too much to give a proper degree of
plendour and dignity to the occasion ; and it should
of be forgotten that the expenditure of that sum
v 11 give employment to a large portion of the trAes-
;nen and artisaes of the metropolis.—Moin. Her.
The Duke of Sussex presented a petition last
,ight in the House of Lords against the sanguinary
pint of our criminal code—a subject upon which
ve have often taken occasion to enlarge, under a
.!onvicion that, in these days of Reform, the Re-
Orm and amelioration of that code is demanded by
the best interests of the country. Strange that,
with our superior civilintion, we should continue to
he the proprietors of the rrwst barbarous system of
laws in the known world. But :Ile time is fast aF"
moachiog when this stain will be w;,?ed away from
he national character. It is gratifying to see a
Prince so nearly alliedto the throne conb-ibuting
he influence of his name, and directing the pnwers
of his mind to mitigate the more than bra:al
ferocity with which, under the name of justice,
aur legal institutions are steeped in blood; and
it is no less gratifying to see men of such
weight and importance as the petitioners thtan-
•elves coming forward with a holy zeal, and
adducing arguments and facts of great practical
triment in behalf of outraged humanity. We refer
to tLat petition, and to those facts and arguments,
evidence that the system cannot long continue.
Tiae speech of .he Lord Chancellor, though perhaps
justifying the application of punishment to
an extent in which Tre cannot agree, was also in
favour of a revision of the criminal code ; and we
can scarcely doubt that, when his Majesty's Mi
nisters come to apply their minds to the subject,
,be necessity for such a change will force itself upon
their understandings with an energy that will cum-
mand their best exertions to promote it. La the
mean while that portion of the public—and it is a
large one—who think that no time should be lost in
setting about such an improvement, should omit no
opportunity of pressing their views upon the notice
of the Leg'slaturc.—Moraing Herald.

A conclusive answer is afforded, by the declara-
on of the Preston electors, to that most important

-
of all questions involved in the consideration of the
Ministerial Reform Bill, viz., the question—Daes
this measure fulfil the desires of the mass of the
Reformers—the Radicals—the supporters hitherto
of the present Administration ? The answer is,
No ! it does not, it will not, satisfy thorn; excited
by the Ministerial project they demand mere, much
more, than is offered them ; and once armed with
the power which this Biil tends to confer,
more they would have. On the first introduc-
tion of the Bill to the last Parliament the Lord
Advocate, we remember, applied himself to this
anticipated objection in nearly the following;
words :—" Our object is to satisfy the reason-
able, not the unreasonable ; let the demands of
the reasonable be conceded, and aye shall then be the
better enabled to resist those of the unreasonable."
But who are these self-styled reasonables? Nume-
rically they are 84 a drop in the ocean. They are the
philosophers ; the doctrinaires; men doubtless who
mean well, but whose self-conceit leads them to be-
lieve that nothing can be good which is not adjusted
according to their own abstractions; a self-centeit
which was never more remarkably illustrated than in
their present attempt to try their experiments on a
political Constitution formed by the wisdom of a
succession of ages, and admitted in its results to have
conduced to a degree of prosperity and glory unex-
ampled in the annals of any country that ever
existed. Such are the " reasonable" of this country :
they fife of the same genus, as politicians, how-
ever inferior in ability, with the Guizota and
Dupitis of France, the men of the juste milieu, the
practical results of whose philosophy are now deve-
loping themselves. And those denounced us the
" unreasonable," who are they? They are the true
Reformers, who discard and despise theory, and
turn their attention only to those real practical be-
nefits which they hope to secure in a general
scramble. They are the men to conciliate whom
and to obtain whose support this Reform Bill was
brought forward; their clamour and outrage carried
the elections; they are, in fact, neither more nor less
than the creators of the present :majority, and it is
absurd to suppose that they will be satisfied with
less than full payment of the debt owed to them by
the present Ministry. The attempt to defraud them
must prove abortive, and the idea of being able
to resist their demands by enlisting against them
an imaginary squadron of "reasonables is altoge-
ther vain and futile. This Bill erects no defences,
but rather removes those that now exist, while it
would arm the Republicans and Levellers with a
power against which neither the property nor any
of the institutions of the country could ultimately
be protected. It may be said that the Birmingham
Union and other such societies profess contentment.
' No one can seriously believe that it is o; her than
' mere profession. These gentry are of the Hume
' school, and, less honest than those whom Mr. Hunt
' represents, act on the politic advice to " keep quiet
for the present." They accept this Reform Bill as
the Goths accepted the gold of Rome, well knowing
that the offering proceeds from the fears and weak-
, ness of the enemy, and that it affords them the
, means, at the same time that it holds forth the
temptation, of exacting further and further COD..
Ce•GiOnS till nothing remains to be yielded.—
. Morning Post.

LAST RELATIVE OF ADDISON.--Died
lately, at Strasburgh, Mr. JOHN ROMAINE Annisoti, the
last relative of the celebrated JOSEPH ADDISON. This
young gentleman was educated in the University of this
city, and intended to take out the degree of Dactor of
Medicine. He sotne time since set out on a tour through
the most romantic districts of the Highlands, and subse-
quently visited the south of England. He remained a few
days with a relation at Maidstone, went over to the Con-
tinent, and was drowned while bathing at Strasburgh.
lie was in the 23d year of his age.--Scotsman.
GLovES.—There are now five thousand
dozens of light cotton and lamb's-wool gloves made in
Leicester weekly.
Among the sportsmen taking the diversion
of grouse shooting this delightful season have been the il-
lustrious inmates of Holyrood. On the 12th, and several
subsequent days, CHARLES X., accompanied by the Duke
D'ANcouLEatE, partook of the amusement in the fine
shooting grounds of Slipperfield, belonging to Lord MED •
WYN, and in Wakefield, the property of the Earl of
WEMISS, and killed several brace of birds. The Ex-
King and his Royal Highness, attended by a small re-
tinue, arrived each of the:days at Bridgehouse lon, precisely
at nine, a. en , and immediately proceed,d to the sport,
where they continued till two o'clock, when, after taking
some refreshment at the Inn, they returned to town.—
Edinburgh Courant.
KIRKALDY.—Ott Thursday last a woman,
while shearing on the farm of Kilrie, in this neighbour-
hood,and in a state of great perspiration, took a large
draught of cold water, in consequence of which she was
immediately taken ill, and died in the course of a day or
two afterwards.

REMARKABLE FEAT OF A SLEEPWALKER.
—Brechin Castle, a seat belonging to the lion. WILLIAM
MAULE of Panmure, stands in a fine romantic situation,
on the banks of the South Esk. Some time about the
middle of last century, a falcon hawk had built her nest on
the face of a precipitous cliff; overhanging the river, in the
vicinity of the castle. Many attempts had been made to
reach the nest, particularly by two gardeners belonging to
the castle, but it was found inaccessible either from above
or below. The young hawks were supposed to be about
fledged ; and the gardeners had resolved upon making
another effort to secure them. The young
to-
gether ; and on the morning of that day when they.. inse'eto•e_
to make their final attempt upon the falc7;B.cYdrifteillow t
the gardeners, when be awoke, said.tolit.t)
I climbed the
" 0, WILL! I had a fine dream
. to
c-night. a
couple
of
fiii.
cliff, and plundered the hawk
where are they now ?" said
young falcons." "AYe—butri hIl•d
t p ate them
iy.
he-
his companion jeeringly. g. .
arias in our room," replied the other.
low that tub which se
out of bed, they saw the tub bottom up-
wards,Upon looking men slept
contrary to its usual position.. One of them sprung
out of bed, lifted the tub, snii.r.the hawks were below it.

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MURDER. OF CELIA HOLLOWAY.

SECOND and FULL CONFESSION MADE

BY JOHN HOLLOWAY
(From the Brighton Guardian of Wednesday.)
In consequence of a letter received on Friday morning
from the Rev. Mr. Weatherby, Chaplain of the gaol at
Horsham, and written at the request of the prisoner Hol-
loway, stating that if the High Constable of Brighton would
promise to bring certain persons who should be named to
confront • with him (Holloway ), he would, after urging
them to reveal all they knew of the atrocious affair, and in
the event of their refusal, make a full disclosure in their:
and the High Constable's presence, the letter was sub-
mitted to the Magistrates, who were of opinion that the
Melt Constable should proceed forthwith to Horshee, and
have an interview with Holloway. On reaching theteebl,
the Chaplain and the High Constable were 'shown into
the Infirmary. On the prisoner's enteaing, 11Ir. W.
stated to him that Mr. Polkaed wee present in compliance
with his request of yesterday. Holloway immediately en-
quired if Kennett was fully committed He was answered
in the affirmative, and that she was at Lewes. " Had she
confessed anything ?" was the next question. Mr. F. said
thet he was not at liberty to state what she had said. Rollo-
way replied that she was the person lie wanted to see,
feeling desirous she should reveal all she knew for the
satisfaction of the world. There was but one connectesi
with him in the deed, and he wished only to be confronted
with Kennett. It would relieve kis mind, he said, from
a grievous burden. He was not his own master ; the
finger of Cod was upon him and he was about to appear
before his face; and how could he hope for forgiveneae if
he left the world without disclesing all he knew ? That
which had transpired, he said, had caused great Surprise;
but it was nothing to be competed with what he had yet
to disclose. Alluding to the articles of apparel belonging
to Celia and which he himsalf brought away from the
house in Cavendish-place, he stated the gowns and one
flannel petticoat were . pledged the same day the murder
was committed, and he understood at different pawn.
brokers, but was not quite certain. He did not know
but what the key of the house in Donkey-row bed been
went back to Mrs. Taylor, as he hail given it to
Ann Kennett for that purpose ; and if White; (the
brother of Mary White,) had the key, he must have
got it from Kennett, as he had no doubt they -were ac
quainted, although he did not know the patties. He
denied all knowledge of the sheet found near the Pier and
stained with blood. He solemnly declared, appealing ti
his God before whom he must so shortly appear, that the
shift which was found in Trafalgar-street was not the one
Celia wore when she was murdered. He said she was
strangled as soon as, or *hoed), after she entered the house,
and that she fell and struck her nose on the stairs, which
caused the marks of blood which he tried to get out on the
stairs; after she was dead, lie put the body into the closet
tinder the stairs, and was surprised the marks of blood in
the closet had not been discovered. He let the body re-
main there until the next day, when he c t off the head,
and then, and not till then, was ler throat cut: tha!
what blood came from her was very thick like jelly, which
be said explained why there was ne stain on the linen of
Clothing she had on when buried.. lie was positive i,
could not be the shift. He declared he had no motive fit
denying it; but it was not hers. The Symondses, be is rid.
might he mistaken. If tiny one belonging to him had kepi
the shift, would they not have burnt it? it tonld be neithet
Kennett nor himself who put it there. If it was Celia's,
some one must have undressed the body after the murder hail
been cceumitted ; if so, it was unknown to him ; but that
could not be, for the throat was not cut until the be id was
severed from the belly. The bonnet belonging to the de-
ceased was burnt before they left the house in Donkey.
row. There was one question, lee said, he wished to put
about the matter which reeled him greatly. When the
body was buried, it had on a pocket which coreake
Celia's certificate of marriage, a little money, and sonde,
other things. It was strange, he said, that it had never
been produced by the party who first discovered the body.
He expressed a wish to see his mother as soon as possith
after he bid seen Kennett; hut if she imagined that le
would disclose any thing further to gratify any envious
feeling she might have against the poor girl, site was mis-
taken. Such would have no weight with him—no—it
was far different with him ; he wished to appease the
offended wrath of God—to obtain his forgiver:yea, before
whom he was so shortly to appear, and to make the oril,
reparation to the world in his power, by disclosing who
were the innocent and who were the guilty parties.
The High Constable returned from Horsham the same
day, and a meeting of the Magistrates took plate, and the
request of Holloway waa submitted for their consideration.
They determined that Pilbeam should take Kennett from
Lewes to Horsham ; and that Sir David Scott, Bart. and
Mr. Seymour with the High Constable should leave Brighton
for the same place at ten o'clock on Saturday morning
Both parties arrived about the same time, and after an in-
terview with H. Tredcroft, Esq., a M igistrate of that dis-
trict, who agreed to accompany them, they all proceeded te
the gaol, where it was arranged that unless at the special
request of the prisoners, the High Constable and the Rey.
Chaplain only should he present at the interview. Mr.
is'olkard went to the Infirmary to Kennett, while the
Chaplain went to Holloway's cell. On Mr. Folkarila
entrance, Kennett was in tears, but seemed calm and ra-
tional. lie informed her that Holloway had exaressed a
great desire to see her; but itshould be only with her own free
will that he did so. Her reply was that she had no ob-
jection, if it was his wish. Holloway soon after carne
from his cell, and went to the Infirmary, where Kennett
was, the High Constable, one of the turnkeys, and the
matron remaining just without. The first recognition of
the prisoners- seemed to be that of kindness. Kennett ex-
claimed, " Oh, John, to what have you brought me ?"
Holloway began his entreaties for her to reveal all she knew
about the matter in language the most energetic, calling
on God, before whom he was so shortly to appear, to aid
him in his persuasions to induce her compliance. Kennet
increased in violence as much as the other did in enthusi-
asm; she knocked the table with the utmost violence, using
to Holloway the epithets of " deceitful wretch," "villain,"
"blackguard," saying he knew she was innocent, and crying
out that " the devil bad possessed him and was urging him
at his elt,ows to cause her ruin." When she understood
from Holloway that he had resolved on revealing all that
had happened, her violence increased to such a degree that
the High Constable was called in. She promised to try
to be calm ; but she could not help it, she said, when she
herd the paltry wretch try to get her to confess what she
was innocent of. Holloway again urged her to relieve his
mind of a grievous burden it laboured under. Much
as he loved her,—and he did love her better than all the
world,—if she did not disclose all she knew, he must ;
he could not else appease the wrath of Heaven ; how
could he hope for forgiveness for hie crimes, if he left the
world in ignorance of the facts yet undiscovered ; lie then
again urged her to reveal what she knew. On her re-
fusal, saying that she had not any thing to reveal, he said,
Mr. Folkard, I am ready." He then made his
statement, which was taken down in writing at his
request by the High Constable. Holloway throughout
his confession appeared particularly firm, his coun-
tenance hearing marks of composure; but after it was
ended and he had retired to his cell, his firmness forsook
him, and he was drowned in tears and grief, which lasted
for a considerable time. Just as he was about to leave the
Infirmary, he went up to Kennett, offering to shake hands
with her, saying, " Come, my poor girl, let us not raft
ill-friends—Goer knows I love you dearer thin all the
world; and nothing but to obtain the pardon of God, be-
fore whom I am about soon to appear, would hive caused
me to disclose whit I have; and had it been my own fa-
ther or mother, my conduct would have been the same."
The hand was rejected with violent indignation; Kennett
at the same time reviling him as a " liar, and deceitful
wretch," and declaring she was innocent of being in any
way concerned in the murder.
[lt will be gathered from the above,—which may be
considered a demi-official statement of all that transpired,
excepting only the detailed confession,—that the confession
implicates Kennett in the very fact of the murder. The
details of the confession we forbear from publishing till
after the trial of the prisoners, although they are quite
familiar about the town, owing to the indiscretion of a
Magistrate, who has, thoughtlessly, we presume, been the
means of promulgating to the world a statement, which,
resting only on the assertion of a confessed murderer,
ought not to be allowed to prejudice the public mind
against the wretched woman, Kennett.—En.)

In the minority of the Liverpool writ, the
name of the Hon. GkoßcE JOHN VERNON wai omitted.

On Saturday the 27th ult. them, was shot on
the farm of Alavieston, near Innes House, b
y keeper of JAMES DUFF, Esq., the largest deer a game_p.rha
ever seen in this country. He has been known in the
Urquhart woods during the last eight years, and of late
as bearing the title of " The Deer." He has been much
sought after both from Gordon Castle and Jones house.
This extraordinary animal, when put in the scales, turned
27st. 41b. When cut up his haunch tveigheil G Ib. ;
the fat on the kidneys and brisket was equal to that of
stall-fed ox. His immense head is well worth the atten-
tion of naturalists and sportsmen, and may be seen at 111 r.
Burl's skinner, Elgin, which, together with his skin, is
being ("used, to perpetuate his rueluory.—Elgin Courier.