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EXTRACTS FROM THE Dll LY MORNING PAPERS

March 15, 189-2.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It was gratifying to hear Mr. Frederick Ro-
binson, hi the ever to be remembered Debate on
the motion for reducing a useless Postmaster-
General, bearing testimony" to the extent of in-
formation which prevailed amongst all ranks of
the people," as it was .to hear Mr. Huskisson a
week or two ago bearing testimony to the im-
proved moral habits of the lower orders. While
the zealots of Bridge-street, aided by the sub-
scriptions of empty-headed Nobles, and proh
pudor ! by nearly the whole of the Bench of
Bishops, employ Catos and similar writers, to
prove that the mass of the people labour under a
constant incapacity of distinguishing good from
evil, and truth from falsehood ; that they will
always prefer foolish to sensible writings, as
they prefer vicious indulgences to virtue ; that
the communication of knowledge to them has
only called forth their evil propensities, and
produced an almost universal demoralization ;
it is consolatory, we say, to hear one Minister
not merely admitting the increase of knowledge
amongst all ranks, but that it tended " to im-
prove the conduct of public men," mid another
Minister acknowledging, that the increase of
knowledge had not merely improved the [ponds
of public men, but the morals of all.

Emtrusti rntss.]
The stealing of cattle is now become the fa-
vourite pursuit of the Whiteboys in the south of
Ireland. In the space of three nights more than
100 head of cattle were taken last week from

different persons residing within three or four
miles of Newmarket. The cattle were carried
off to the neighbourhood of Abbeyfay le and New-
castle. The number of houses in the vicinity of
Kanturk attacked on Friday night amounted to
seventy, the inmates of which were severely
abused. In the mean time the Special Sessions in
the Counties of Limerick and Cork proceed with
promptness and decision. The persons convicted
a-re immediately sent off under a military escort
for transportation ; but the spirit of outrage has
not yet began to yield to the force of the law.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade and Plantations, it is said., have, for
some time past, had under consideration the ex-
pediency of relaxing the system by which the in-
tercourse with the British Colonies is governed,
not only with a view to the relief of- the planter
from the existing pressure by which he is borne
down, but also with reference to the change of
circumstances produced by the continuance of the
Foreign Slave Trade, and the present freedom
of intercourse with the Spanish and Portuguese
Settlements in south America, which has effected
an important change in the situation of our own
Colonies. The 'West India interest strongly urge
the necessity of opening the ports to American
shipping ; whilst the Ship-Owners as strongly
object, on the ground of the injury to• British
shipping which will be occasioned thereby ; and
are joined by the North American Colonists.—
Many persons incline to think that the best course
to be pursued would be to allow the British planters
to send their surplus produce, in British shipping,
to any market in Europe, or elsewhere, in which
they may find a sale; and to allow them to re-
ceive in return any articles necessary for their
plantations, the importation of which from foreign
countries would not injure the produce or manu-
factures of the mother country. It is also argued,
that there cannot be a more effectual way to
check the Slave Trade, than the allowing our
Planters to pour their surplus into those markets
on the Continent of Europe which are now sup-
plied by the Powers who continue that nefarious
traffic. For our own part, we do not presume to
offer a decisive opinion on a question demanding
such extensive investigation, and involving such
important interests. We shall, however, keep
our columns impartially open to the statements of
all parties in this discussion, if made with due
moderation and candour. Our only wish is that
the public good, and the interests of humanity
and justice may be promoted by the regulations
which may be ultimately adopted ; but whether
this is best to be done on either of the principles
above mentioned, we at present think it prema-
ture to determine.

[THE TIMES.]
The businesg of the two Postmasters-General,
we are happy to see, is not terminated. The
affair, indeed, assumes a serious aspect, when
useless offices are justified on the score that they
give the Crown influence in Parliament. It is a
new era in our history when such things are
avowed. From the notice of a motion given last
night by Mr. Calcraft in the, House of Commons,
it was learned that Lord Clanoarty was absent
for two years out of the Kingdom, and engaged
in totally different business, whilst he was re-
ceiving pay as one of the Joint Postmasters-Ge-
neral ; and if he had been absent two hundred
years, his services at the office would never have
been wanted. Lord Londonderry attempted to
compare this absence of the noble Postmaster on
other business to his own absence at Vienna and
Paris on the business of his own office. This si-
militude, of course, could not stand long. But
it is lamentable to see men in eminent station's
driven to such shifts. One of the Postmasters,
we have no doubt, will go at last. How foolish,,
then, in Ministers, to subject their obsequious ad-
herents (that interest which it is said the Go-