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London, England, 1831-09-23 00:00:00

ing those who manage public affairs. The sophist may
torture his ingenuity to perplex their understandings ;
but the man who asserts the moral dignity of his fellows
will at once reach their hearts. Let a military Croker at-
tempt to persuade the army, that interest and not merit
should regulate promotion ; and let a Colonel Napier after-
wards address them in his glowing language, and we know
what the result would be :—" Napoleon's troops fought
in bright fields, where every helmet caught some beams of
glory, but the British soldier conquered under the cold
shade of Aristocracy ; no. honours awaited his daring,
no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his country-
men ; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by
hope, his de ith unnoticed. Did his heart sink therefore?
Did he not endure with surpassing fortitude the sorest of
ills, sustain the most terrible assaults in battle unmoved,
and with incredible energy overthrow every opponent? at
all times proving, that while no physical military qualifica-
tion was wanting, the fount of honour was also full and
fresh within him !" It would only be necessary in critical
times to hold such language, to cut from under any aris-
tocracy which should persist in opposing the will of the
nation the props on which they most confidently relied.-
-Verb= sapienti. We were not a li•tle astonished that
Mr. Croker, who advocates so strenuously the making the
Peers the proprietors of the Commons, as the only secu-
rity for the existence of the former, should have made the
allusion to the amalgation of the Peers, Commons, and
Clergy of France at the revolution.—" He (Mr. Macau-
ley) must have known (said Mr. Croker) that France, in
her ancient Constitution, possessed three estates, and when
they met, the House of Peers went to their Chamber, and
the House of Commons, as they might be called, retired
to their's ; but the promoters of the revolution felt that to
hive the Peers in the full possession of independent power
would have the effect of defeating the project of the
Revolution ; and the first attempt at Paris, as it would be
the second in London, would be to intimidate the House
of Peers into a servile compliance with the wishes of the
other branches of the Legislature. The first project pro
posed there was the union of the two branches of the Le-
gislature, in order to destroy the power of one of them.
In the cise of England, it might be thought that the three
hundred independent Peers, exercising a separate and sub-
stantive authority, might vet controul and successfully
resist the ill-digested innovation of the Commons; but let
the 658 get the 300 amongst them, and they would soon
make short work with their less numerous opponents."
This was an unfortunate instance. What is it that the
people of England wish? That the Peers and the Com-
mons should he separate and distinct. What is it that the
Anti Reformers wish ? that the Peers, not content with
their own separate existence, should name a majority of the
Commons ; that both Houses should in fact be Lords.
The Anti.Refermers say, that if the Lords do not name
a majority of the Commons, there can be no security
for the separate existence of the Lords. The French
Revolutionists said, we have a few of the Peers and many
of the Clergy favourable to the views of ti e Tiers-Etas,
and by bringing all into one Assembly we shall have a
majority of votes. They wished the same ascendancy to
the Commons which our Anti-Reformers wish to the
Boroughmougering Peers. The Reformers, on the con-
trary, wish that Lords and Commons should confine them-
selves within their respective limits ; and the question is
not now, shall the Peers preserve their own independence,
but should they be allowed to retain the Commons in
state of dependence? Resistance to the claims of the
people to a fair representation, is transgressing their fair
constitutional limits. It is but a poor argument to say,
that justice should be withheld from the people, because,
when they once obtain what is just, they may seek more
than what is just. This point was well met by Mr.
Stanley, who told Mr. Croker, " that the security for the
stability of the Throne, and of the established institutions
of the country, was the same as the security for the passing
of the Bill ; it was the deep-rooted, heavy, and per-
severing force of public opinion." Certainly, without
public opinion there can be no security ; and the argument
of the Anti-Reformers implies a belief on their part, that
the establishments of the country are not deserving of the
support of public opinion. , Men do not subvert that of
which they approves—Morning Chronicle.

No less than 112,000,000 pounds of butter
are annually consumed in London, chiefly made within 40
miles round the city. From the three counties of Cork,
Cambridge, and Suffolk there are annually sent to the ca-
pital 210,000 firkins, amounting to 11,7601b5.

It has been remarked by many great men, and
among others by Mr. Fox, that the people of Great. Britain
are unduly, and even weakly, attached to the aristocracy ;
and it is a remarkable fact, that during the perpetually re-
curring discontents of the last forty years, the popular in-
dignation has 'seen always levelled against the House of
Commons, and has never been pointed against the utility
or existence of the Peerage.— Scotsman.

Married, in St. Michael's church, Trenton,
New Jersey, as Thursday, the 18th instant, by the Rev.
Dr. BEASLEY, Prince LUCIEN MURAT, second eon of
.10Acunt NIURAT, the late ex-King of Naples, to CARO-
LINE GEORGIANA, youngest daughter of the late Major
THOMAS FRASER, of South Carolina.—New York Pa-
per, Aug. 24.

EXTREME ECONOMY.—At a meeting of the
Commissioners of Police in Edinburgh, Mr. CusttNlE
moved that half the public Limps he extinguished during
mootvight. After a long discussion the motion was rejected.

SELECT VESTRY OF ST. JANIES.S.—A cor-
respondent informs us that a most unnecessary exp.nditure
of the parish funds is now being made, in taking up a
large surface of excellent pavement in Piccadilly, extend
ing from the end of Sackville-street to Darby-court, and
relaying with new stone, which our correspondent asserts
himself and several of his neighbours believe to be inferior
to what has been removed.

SINGULAR BEQUEST.—AI the weekly Board
of the Middlesex Hospital, held on Tuesday last, an ex-
tract from the will of THOMAS ATWELL, of Mitcham-
street, Marylebone, bricklayer, was read, whereby he be-
queathed his body to the Haspital for Oisseetion, and de-
sired that after the process had been completed, the re-
mains should be deposited in the garden of the Hospital ;
and further bequeathed two houses in aid of the funds of
the Hospital. At the request of the friends of the de-
ceased, the Board conseuted to give up their claim to the
body.

TAxATIONILLUSTRATED.—The magnitude
and severity of our taxation may he illustrated by a few
comparative facts. The gin and whiskey (British spirits)
which exhilirate John Bull, yield a sum to the Govern-
ment equal to the revenue of the Spanish monarchy; the
tax levied on the beer, which slakes his thirst, exceeds the
revenue of Bavaria—he pays as much on the tea which re-
freshes his wife, as Fgaticts the First draws from six mil-
lions of Neapolitans—as much neatly on the sugar which
sweetens it, as twelve millions of Americans pay on all
objects whatever—as much on the stinking tobacco which
gratifies his depraved appetite, as four millions of Italians
pay to CLIA IMES FELIX—as much on the soap that washes
his hands, as suffices to support the Pope, with all his
soldiers, cardinals, priests, and their mistresses—as much
for the privilege of having daylight in his house as would
fill the coffers of the King of 1-I.a.NovEß—and finally, the
taxes levied on his thirst alone, as it variously inclines to
brandy, rum, whiskey, beer, or wine, exceeds the money
paid by fifty millions of Russians for the blessings of pater-
nal despotism !—Scotsman.

Messrs. COLBURN and BENTLEY have just
published the following interesting Travels Major
the Hon. George Keppel's Journey to Constantinople
Across the Balcan," 2 vols. Svo. with Maps and Plates.
" Interesting information, entertaining anecdote, and clear
description, vary every page."—Literary Gazette. 2.
4:Lander's Wanderings in Africa," 2 vols. post Svo. with
Portrait and other Plates. " This work is replete with
information respecting the strange habits of the interior
African Tribes."—Morning Post. 3. " Sir Arthur
Brooke's Travels in Spain and Morocco," 2 vols. Svo. with
Plate, "An animated description of parts of Africa and
Sp
ain, the present state of which was little known:—
,
SP/ration:tan/. 4. " Hughes's Travels in Greece and Al-
bania," 2 vols. Svo. with great additions, and 33 Plates,
price - "A hook of standard reference in classical
studies, which no reader of Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar,
or of the Greek dramatists or historians, will he without."
—Globe. 5. " Captain Alexander's Travels through
Russia, the Crimea, &c." 2 vols. Svo. with 20 Plates.
" Information could not be presented in a pleasanter form
than in this young officer's travels."—Spectutor.
"Mrs. Colonel Ellwood's Travels Overland to India." 2
vols. Svo. with Plates. " She delights us all in her de.
scriptions."—Monthly Review. 7. " Burckhardt's Tra-
vels among the Bedouins and Wababys," 2 vols. Svo.
price 28s. " This work has done much towards eluci-
dating the real condition of the Arahians."—Ediriburgh
Review. -

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,for4rnol, Aug. 24.