The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN.-TUESDAY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

It has been expected for some days past, that Mr.
O'Connell will lose his scat for the City of Dublin, and that
Air. Hamilton will be substituted : and while I write it is
doubtful whether Mr. Ruthven's death may not have occa-
sioned the necessity of an immediate election. The latter
circumstance is not within the control of human wishes ;
but that Dan should be unsuccessful in maintaining his
ground, as Representative of the metropolis of Ireland,
against an opponent not known for his public or other vir-
tues to more than one twentieth of the population, is the
strongest proof that:can be given of the necessity of Corpo-
rate Reform. Surprise, disappointment, delight, and in-
dignation pervade the minds of the different parties amongst

' us. It is not too much, however, to say, that indignation
is the more universal feeling, even among those who were
not very sanguine as to O'Connell's success from the com-
mencement. That an individual so distinguished, and be-
loved by his country men of almost every class as he is'
should be superseded by one who, however respectable, is
not known beyond the family circle, is looked upon as a na-
tional disgrace ; and it is felt the more sensibly, as it is the
result of that bribery and corruption so notorious among
the ascendancy and corporate factions in Ireland. These
sentiments were strongly manifested at a respectable meet-
ing of the Liberal party held here yesterday, when resolu-
tions were passed, and subscriptions entered into, for the
purpose of unseating the substituted Member or Members,
on account of notorious bribery and corruption.
Since the arrival of Saturday's London news, another
topic occupies the attention of the people of Ireland. Some
disappointment is felt in many quarters at the postponement
of the Irish Tithe Bill till the 25th of next month, as the
interval will, no doubt, be employed by one party in dis-
turbing the country ; while the honest tithe-owner, who has
been long expecting an adjustment of the question, is de-
prived of his rights so much longer. The number of bills
filed in the Exchequer is very great, and the usual time for
answering having, in many instances, expired, the " Lay
Association" will avail themselves of the omission, to excite
trouble, bloodshed, and disturbance by issuing more writs
of Rebellion. They may succeed in provoking some breaches
of the peace ; but as to the recovery of the value of tithes,
it is hopeless under existing laws. The great majority of
the people will not pay anything in lieu of that detested im-
post until the Legislature shall have taken further proceed-
ings, in conformity with the spirit of Stanley's Act, passed
fbur years ago. That Act rendered general and compul-
sory the principle of Goulburn's Act, passed nine years be-
fore, and held forth the promise of the extinction of tithes
altogether. The words of the preamble are—" And whereas
it is expedient that a fixed and permanent composition in
lieu of tithes should, with a view to the future commutation
thereof, be generally established," &c. Here the word
" commutation" has been understood to mean " extinction"
of the name of tithes altogether, as was expressed in the
speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman who first announced
the Bill. And, as this law was extorted from Earl Grey's
Government by the irresistible arguments of the late Doctor
Doyle, and the universal voice of the people, demanding a
change in the obnoxious system ; and as it contains a pledge
on the part of the Legislature not to stop at " composition,"
but to proceed to " commutation," the people have been
ever since under the expectation of having the " composi-
tion" very soon extinguished, or commuted for some other
payment less onerous and insulting. It is a tax upon capital
and industry ; and has been, for the last century, the source
of every evil—producing at one time prmdial agitation, at
another rebellion and bloodshed, and always distracting and
barbarising the poorer inhabitants of the land. Such effects
have been admitted by every Government, Whig or Tory,
that ruled the destinies of Ireland during the last fifteen
years at least ; and many unsuccessful efforts have been
made from the passing of Goulburn's Act, in 1823, to the
present year, to remedy such a disastrous state of things, but
the Tory power has thwarted or delayed the most salutary
measures of relief. Lord Morpeth's Bill of last Session,
notwithstanding its appropriation clauses, offered better
terms to the Church Establishment than it will get, if the
settlement be much longer deferred. The more steady
portion of our politicians think that Government are pro-
bably actuated by very prudential motives in this delay ;
and, placing unbounded confidence in Earl Mulgrave's and
Lord Morpeth's discretion, expect a measure of justice pro-
portionate to the time spent in acquiring it. At the same
time, they feel that the ultra-Tory party in this country
are not to be mitigated by any conciliatory policy or con-
cession whatsoever ; and that procrastination with such a view
can produce nothing but disappointment to the nation, and
perhaps great miscilief to a reforming Administration.

hy t'cl°ll Lew.—The citizens of Dublin have been informed,
d 8 Public advertisement, of a meeting, convened for Tues-
,',.l,'leXt by the Lord Mayor, in the upper rooms of the Royal
4 e"ange. Never was there meeting.. convened for a more
114.11,4ab1e purpose, and the alacrity with.
.which., the Lord Mayor
tioessented to the wishes of the requisitionists reflects great
Our on his Lordship.
ter-14'lb LODGE.—The Mail labours to keep alive the, emd-
IN of Orangeism, b., impressing
.the Members of the Gran_
de,ge With the necessity of attending a meeting of these
~,u'rled criminals.
oil `,l'..e Central Independent Club for Dublin held a meeting
telle;',tatirday.• evdenetnng, to receive a report of progress from the
the ballot of a Finance Committee
katItV!'TPsP°OIFnteREBEI.LION.—The attornies. and. the pa.rsons—
itte7i With the power which those odious writs give them, will
Ate It4hly drive the country. into an actual rebellion.. They
4k a''''lle too much on Christian patience. if they think the Irish
4 incapable of feeling the ruffian iiiinsults offered to female
time, if there be yet
gage capable
and virtue. Let them pauserebellion they cannot hope to
he 4'1-•-if the country be driven to
ea' e conquerors. A letter from our Athy correspondent.
kiii4:el with what devotedness the people commiserate and
hee,,ve the distresses of the tithe. victims. They have not ye
ty;,called on to express their feelings. on
.the insults offered to
Ike countrywomen—our instinctive horror• of the consequence
t`' es fervently to hope that they never may.
, oit),.
T basil Panss.—A specialfr
QIN. IPENDENDE OF D 4--- uE '
thet 14g of the Union, was held at the Corn Exchange, to
tea 4'ssures for maintaining the independence of Dublin, and
der the propriety of petitioning Parliament for an cqui -
tioi; redaction of stamp duties upon Irish newspapers. Indigna-
en t'as vehemently and very generally expressed against the.
tiollh'etrePlted assimilation of the newspaper duties, and a peti-
leibtibi7n)Parloira;iniieignt was adopted. On the same subject the
good may
Register observes, thate
‘ti‘ aellizee the British
:111 f:retn Mr. Spring Rice'st attaeymptto
rouse theq attention of the
Ate,l'''lli newspaper duties—
`'hi? ef this country to the
_entire system of tax assimilationfter
h:r.u.has been extending its devastating influence,
to
yeara
At.' la spite of all the accumulated proofs of its mischief
tlteev'enue itself. We have now a the English customs
ileael in force in Ireland; nearly all the English excise duties ;
'.IY 11 • duties; the English post-
eke the English stamp.
vets, duties : and what Is the result?ull Why, that- the re-,,
's lower in amount now than it was thirty years ago:
ttith,4e course of the article, the same Journalist (who, in
11,46')4 With the whole journaheres Omfatdlele country, is not a
by a writer in The
klaa:tegrY with some observation
by the Chancellor.
of tilecil the assimilation of duty proposed
,I)eins , Exchequer), the Regzster, with reference to its es.-
1,1 yee; a)s ~ Our own expenditure, in every way, will in
t'sBe-a-e exceed, by above sixteen hundrecl p o unds, that of the
,ealQ,Ceg year; and we add,
.that one shilling of this outlay
'at ,htlit have taken place, if we could have had a notion
,_°' 1' ",.F° all attack as the present would be hazarded by Whigs
,7 tilt:it-1:k What we demand is,. simply, a relief proportioned
needaet(l .° he extended to the British press. If their tax is to be
; tins'lt° ene penny, let ours be reduced to half that amount.
'h.sent, .ittiti net
shall`eoncdd, let things remain as they are at pre-
r'n inn we be content. If it be said thhat one half-
lva. cannot make such a mighty difference
it
tn
ist price of a
t'eatlesaller, we have merely to observe, that enot by half_
race hut even farthings, that newspaper
\Med,' - byprofits arc
ils Ciii,
.111,11:1,W PETITION.—Knowing as. we do the characters of
taitt -Ividuals who will on this inquiry appear before the Corn-
ill)._ Pre:: Yie have but little hesitation in. sayingthatutyasranny more
I,7lsOilv?, or hypocrisy more disgusting, never presented
"'d ezZlx.dignation, than this Carlow parliamentary inquiry
, A , 13.1 t.
'it
Ne"eit,iliTlition for a public meeting to address Lord Mulgrave
1.4111( tted ! signatures in Kildare. Many names of the highest
u-", ere e Lespeetability have been already subscribed to it.
-1t bha° hem> doubt that the High She!iff w.•ill consider him-
-44 littf-nhd to comply with the desire which tt expresses, and
e t'at the meeting will be well and numerously attended.
VVe
'i Un
sitiederstand Lord Francis Egerton purposes
Understand tarieashire during the present week. —Liverpool
Rd 1:4 Tuesday.
10 e4Qci, s, 1 ARCH .
qth
114
'rEs AT i 21.—Five more of the crew
ri,ls tw i Jane have died since their arrival, making a total
Of 1t The state of the hospital on the day
A 14 P 0 was as follows •—Patients admitted on the 12th
.tnohr-", 34. dead, , . 2 ---7 ; remain, 27. f
tee„ -R thoc, ? 0 ; convalescent,
"°ery. 'e in the hospital, two were lying without hope o
oaCht sat
.
71 °litte rooms evening, an inquest was held in the
0311° de' r°olll of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before Mr.
lib
''''
tkriod- a respect.e • Ty on view of the body of Thomas.s_
4at'Jt'eintae'(l' ,„.38, who destroyed himself in conseqrueernceafflofietdiing
:tnerttre.
lirolseetion under circut-ustancesf
Henry 3,
kn 444, q
r• Sarah Follett, wife of Follett, Esq.,
I ,I`, bra °' Cromer-street, St. Pancrase,udeposed that she
il-41 bre ejeeeased, who was foreman to Mr. Gilbertson, whol!-
liet"evsithaolludsobiseT't bake!, of Cromer-street, and lodged in
4, cf mart.' out six years back,
_the deceased was on
(d qter , age with a young female, but the fickle faF
h'"eas" the
bans were published, refused to become his
ef4,4l' mind he w__ifes; and she was subsequently united to another
evee,l.ll(l, 4, rr'ect-luence proved fatal to the deceased's state
NaLit'illly 0,2-,', ne. became distracted,in and his relatives were
captar.,eastit;li'F t! o place him St. Luke's madhouse, in
fa*" red b:: IT ne remained a twelvemonth, when, it being
e4,,,")rated J
~ne medical men that his malady was greatly
li u,'"e'Yttl,,„: l'ie was discharged, and subsequently obtained
11,1” eve -'" w ith Mr. Gilbertson. The unfortunate man,
4ireliin-gr'l4wsat,s
wtlittvays fri a despondingpa,sin-g state. On Wednesday
totlisih they pack
,ness was through the warehouse in
*eh Nat di '-(1 their eggs, when she was shocked and as-
Wshieeina• i_ .s.e°vering the deceased stretched on. the straw
:throi; ° ills blood, proceeding from a dreadful wound in
ittt'etrinriess g.ave:4l:Dr covered with blood was lying near him.
t° th by ,"4 aLarm, and the unfortunate man Inspromptly
Aft: nbeve ,sUrqeon, and subsequently removed _
.a
..co.a,cyh. iiitt °tiler I.'°sPval, where he expired on the followint, en.
°L.s, ,wltnesses were examined, the Jury ret.urried a ver-
L4Sanity,',

_
The " Dublin Society" has recently exhibited a very. re-
markable specimen of that indomitable spirit of stolid ascen-
dancy which has so long impeded the improvement of Ire-
land. Mr. Drummond, the Under-Secretary's last letter
to them, depicts in very lively colours that obtuseness of
understanding which makes them averse to even-handed
justice. They regret every arrangement likely to trench
upon their habits of ascendancy, without being able to offer
one solitary reason or just grounds for doing so. The
transaction is admirably calculated to show the enlightened
and honest people of England, how a late dominant party
think the affairs of this country ought to be conducted, and
deserves the attention of the Liberal Press of England.

HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

His Majesty held a Levee yesterday afternoon at St. James's.

Their Serene Highnesses the Princes Ferdinand and Au-
gustus of Saxe-Coburg, attended by Sir John Conroy, were
present at the Levee to take leave of his Majesty on their Se-
rene Highnesses return to Vienna, for which place they leave
London on Saturday.
Baron Bulow, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from the King of Prussia, had an audience of the King
in the Royal Closet, to which his Excellency was introduced
by Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Ches.
ter, Master of the Ceremonies.

At the Entrée Levee Sir Hamilton Seymour was presented
upon receiving the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order, and
on taking leave of his Majesty on his departure for Brussels.
The Levee was attended by the Russian and French Am-
bassadors ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Hanoverian,
Portuguese, Bavarian, and Netherlands Ministers ; the Aus-
trian, United States, and (Mr. Wallez) Belgian Charges
d'Affaires ; Count de Grammont, Secretary to the French
Embassy ; the Lord President, the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and
Colonial Departments ; the Secretary at War, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Treasurer of the House-
hold, the Master of the Ceremonies, the Clerk Marshal, Mr.
Edwin Pearson ; Lieutenant of the Yeoman of the Guard,
Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish, Equerry in Waiting; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Henry Wyatt, Silver Stick in Waiting ;
Captain Courtenay Boyle, R. N„ Groom of the Privy Cham-
ber ; Master Ellice, Page of Honour; Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Frederic Smith, Gentleman Usher in Waiting; and the
following

BisitOP—Exeter.
DOCTOR—Outrarn.
MESSIEURS—C. Greville, Ancram, H. Rodolph Wigley,
Nicholson, Gore Booth, W. Stanhope Taylor.
GENERALS—Sir Charles Maxwell, Sir S. Dickens, Sir C.
Dalbiac.

COLONELS—Lord Brudenell, Fox, Cox, Weare.
MAJOR—S. Cotton.
ENSlGN—Nicholson.
CAPTAIN—J. Jackson, IL N.
COMMANDER-7Dickens, IL N.

The Bishop of Exeter presented an Address from the Arch-
deacon and Clergy of the Archdeaeonry of Totnes, praying
his Majesty to appoint a Council of Archbishops and Bishops,
to advise in the selection of fit persons to fill the highest offices
in the Church, and Theological Professors in the Universities.
Mr. William Stanhope Taylor presented a Memorial to his
Majesty, for permission to assume the name and arms of Pitt.
The following were presented to the King :
Lieut.-Col. Lord Brudenell, on his appointment to the 11th
Light Dragoons, by Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby.
Mr. Henry Rodolph Wigley ( Surrey Yeomanry), by Capt.
Weston.

Ensign Nicholson, on his appointment to the 96th Regi-
ment, by Mr. Nicholson.
Mr. Ancram, on his appointment as Vice-Consul at Tunis,
by Lord Glenelg.
Capt. Samuel Jackson, R. N., on his appointment, by Lord
Minto.

Lieut.-Col. Weary, K. H., on his appointment, by Lord Hill.
Major Sydney Cotton, 28th Regiment, on his return from
India, and appointment, by Lord Hill.
Col. Cox, K. H., on his return from the Cape of Good Hope,
and promotion to the Staff of Nova Scotia, by Lord Hill.
The King gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Glenelg, and
Lord Hill.

Lord Byron and the Hon. Capt. Campbell were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.
After attending the King's Levee, the Duke Ferdinand and
the Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha went to the Queen's
house, and had an audience of her Majesty, to take leave, on
their return to Vienna.

The Queen, we are happy to state, is convalescent. The
Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Duke of
Cumberland visited her Majesty yesterday.
The King give audiences yesterday to Sir Thomas Hardy,
Sir James Cockburn, and Lieut.-Gen. Mundy.
Their Serene Highnesses the Princes Ferdinand and Au-
gustus of Case-Coburg, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended
by Sir John Conroy, returned to Kensington Palace, on Tues-
day night, from Portsmouth.
Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillippsthal, and Prince Edward
of Carolath, attended by the Hon. Captain Curzon, inspected
the Royal Mint, and also visited the Thames Tunnel yesterday.

- -
A grand review of the household troops, by his
Majesty, will take place on Saturday the 16th of April, in
the great Park at Windsor. The Bth Hussars, Hon. Colonel
Molyneux, will form part of the brigade.
We are happy to learn that Mr. Ruthyen, M.P.,
is so much better, that hopes are now entertained of his
recovery.

THE SUN, LADON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, i 836.

LITERATURE.

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY.
Oliver and Boyd. Edinburgh : 1836.

The present volume of this popular miscellany, which
is one of the best, if not the very best, of its kind, forms
the first of a History of . China, which will be com-
pleted in three volumes. The materials are arranged
with great care ; and an interesting abridgment is given
of Lord Macartney's and Lord Amherst's memorable
embassies to the Court of Pekin. Nor must we omit
to notice in terms of praise the admirable map of
China, and the numerous woodcuts with which the
work is embellished.

ANTIPATHY. 3 Vols.
Macrone. London : 1836.

There is some interest in the incidents of this story ;
a few of the characters, too, are fairly enough pour-
traycd ; nor is the development of the plot, which is
very simple, without ingenuity : but here our praise
must stop, for the language of the tale throughout is
such as it is impossible to commend, being in one
place as slovenly, as in another it is stilted and ambi-
tions. The author seems perpetually haunted by a
desire to show off his perfect familiarity with the Clas-
sics ; yet there is abundant evidence throughout his
volumes, that he has but a distant acquaintance with
them. He quotes Latin verse for instance, just as if it
were prose, apparently riot knowing the difference be-
tween them ; and, in his Greek quotations is scarcely
correct in one single case. No man who knew any
thing of this last language could possibly have com-
mitted such a blunder as to use the word" Catanthrope"
for a Cat-Hater ; the compound has actually no mean-
ing at all, but the author, in his ignorance of classical
derivations, imagined that as Misanthrope meant a
man-hater, so Catanthrope must mean a cat-hater. We
should not have thought it worth our while to point.
out these defects, had he not shown such an extreme
anxiety to parade his classical attainments before the
public. His three volumes are literally studded with
mis-quotations. Scarce a chapter but abounds in them.

PRACTICAL MERCANTILE CORRESPON-
DENCE.
BY WILLIAM LIVDE'IISO2I%
London : Effingham Tr iLcon, 1836.

This is a work which ought to find a place in every
Merchant's counting-house. A perfect knowledge of
it is necessary to every man of business. It contains,
besides an excellent collection of modern letters on
mercantile affairs—forms of invoices, accounts, sales,
bills of lading, and bills of exchange, together
with a variety of other matters of detail, includ-
ing an explanation of the German Chain Rule,,
as applicable to the calculations of exchanges. It is
well adapted to the use of schools, and may be intro-
duced into public seminaries with very great advan-
tage to the rising generation.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The idol of the Standard (for our Contemporary's
admiration, though violent for the time, is seldom long
centred on any individual) is now Sir Richard Vyvyan.
Mr. Hardy, Mr. Walter, and the Duke of Newcastle,
have had their day, and Sir Richard is now in the as-
cendant. After a column of preparation, the Cornish
Baronet is introduced with a prodigious flourish of
trumpets. Sir Robert Peel having been dismissed,
" Sir Richard Vyvyan," we are told, " followed with
that tremendous attack for which we have tried to pre-
pare our readers. The speech of the Hon. Baronet
was eloquent, as all his speeches are. But it was not
to the eloquence of his speech alone that Lord John
Russell was exposed. The weapon, however keen and
strong, fell with tenfold force, supplied by the vigour
of his noble character who launched it, and by the
elevated position he assumed." After putting in the
hands of the Hon. Baronet this keen and strong
weapon, one naturally asks what he did with it ? No-
thing ! The crushing attack was like that of a drunken
clown, who flourishes a cudgel about, by which his own
head is chiefly endangered. Sir R. Peel, with some
ingenuity, but most unconstitutionally, had endeavour-
ed to limit the range of the Crown's tight to nomi-
nate to the magistracy. But Sir Richard Vyvyan,
with the fact staring him in the face, that Tory Lords
Lieutenant had been named for almost every county,
and that these Tory Lieutenants had recommended
only men of their own party to the magistracy, chose
to bluster about corrupt conduct and corrupt motives,
because old Alderman Daniel, who deemed himself
unfit for any public office on account of his loss of
memory, was not named a magistrate of Bristol, and
because Lord John Russell had appointed a number of
most respectable gentlemen to the magistracy who were
Reformers and not Tones. When a man uses big words
without meaning, he only makes himself ridiculous ;
and we confess we are rather surprised that any im-
portance was attached to the accusation of Sir Richard.
If it was corrupt in Lord John Russell to name Re-
form magistrates in Bristol, it was corrupt in Tory
Ministers to appoint Tory Lords Lieutenant through
whom Tory magistrates were placed in the com-
mission. To be a Reformer may be a mighty sin
in the eyes of the Hon. Member for Bristol ;
but as Lord John Russell believes Reform princi-
ples conducive to the welfare of the country, he must
naturally wish to give effect to them. Not one of the
appointments was challenged on the ground of unfit-
ness ; and the charge of corrupt conduct as applied to
the naming men fit in every respect to fill the situa-
tions to which they were appointed, is sheer nonsense.
If Lord John Russell had sold the appointment for
money or money's worth, for meal or malt, as the say-
ing is, Sir Richard could not have used stronger lan-
guage. So much for the crushing attack of the great
idol of the day, Sir Richard Vyvyan. We almost re-
gret that the author of the saying which has acquired
more than European celebrity, " May not a man do
what he will with his own ?" and which Bishop Phill-
potts thinks, we understand, is the best illustration that
has yet been given of the Christian maxim, " Do unto
others as ye would that others should do unto you,"
no longer enjoys the favour of the Standard. Last
night the Duke of Newcastle endeavoured to shew
that the Papists had no right to arrogate to
themselves an exclusive right to the Inquisition,
as Protestants stood as much in need of persecu-
tion as Papists. In moving for certain returns
relative to Roman Catholic establishments in this
country, " the object lie had in view," he said, " was
to call upon the House to do all in their power to pro-
tect the Protestant religion in this country against any
open or insidious attacks that might be made on it."
he Protestant religion is protected in this
country by four millions a year of the public
money paid to the clergy of the Established Church,
by making its Prelates Lords of Parliament, by con-
fining University honours to members of that Church.
In aid of the Establishment, thousands of Dissenting,
and Methodist teachers exert their industry and ta-
lents. But his Grace tells us there are 510 Roman
Catholic chapels in England, while sixty years ago
there were only thirty. We wonder there were so
many as thirty, for by law there ought not to have
been any. But this is an age of innovation. There
is a Protestant chapel under the very nose of the
j Pope at Rome, and -at Barcelona his Min-less was
burnt in effigy only the other day. The law allows
Catholics to build Chapels—and we really see no
way of preventing the building of such Chapels,
but by renewing
the penal laws, including among
others the law passed for catching and cas-
trating Popish priests. Neither do we see how
Catholics can be prosecuted for buying Protestant
chapels, if the Protestants will offer them for sale.
But it seems Papists have even the hardihood to be-
come reporters for public journals ! This may be—
afocrtiNnvge never heard of any proprietor of a journal ex-
any other test from a reporter than his ability to
convey a faithful account of what is said in Par-
liament. Nay, more—we doubt exceedingly whether
the Morning Post or the Standard will give one shil-
ling a week rnore to a reporter with the Thirty-nine
Articles than to a Papist. But if the Noble Duke
can only prevail on Parliament to build an Inquisition

in Smithfield (and a better place cannot be found, now
that the cattle market is to:,be transferred to Is-
lington), Popery may be burnt out in a short
time. In the mean time, we fear, as long as
steam-boats convey Papists from Ireland to this
country, and religious liberty prevails among
.us,
we must lay our account with Popish chapels and
the growth of Popery. We have no other means
at present for combating the evil but persuasion. We
can exhort Protestants to stand fast, and Papists to
come over to our faith ; and if his Grace thinks the
Protestant Clergy are lukewarm, he may afford them
the aid of his own splendid talents. Their Lordships
did not seem to share the Protestant zeal of his Grace,
for they even protested against the arduous task he
wished to impose on the Protestant parish clergy, of
furnishing a return of the Catholics in their respective
parishes. We wonder it did not occur to his Grace
that the clergy cannot furnish returns of the number

Minister, who assured him that if any Polish refugee
been forwarded to Russia, instead of being* a
lowed to go to France, whither that Governmen
had allowed them to repair, or elsewhere, it mus
have been at the request of these persons themselves'
and not by way of punishment. He believed there
was no doubt of the fact of these persons having been
so sent back. With respect to the quarantine arrunge-
ments on the Danube, the treaty of Adrianople, which
everybody knows was extorted from Turkey, permitted
the Russians to establish them ; but that of Vienna,
which was the general law of Europe, his Lordship ad-
mitted was against them. His Lordship, however. con-
cluded in his usual way, by saying he had no official
information upon the subject. Mr. 'Stewart, under these
circumstances, gave notice of a substantial motion,
" upon this additional dastardly and wicked act of ag-
gression on the part of Russia, for the 15th of April."
With regard to the negotiations with Portugal, Lord
Palmerston stated that they had not made much pro-
gress. He admitted that the Portuguese Government
had shown in the matter the most unfriendly feeling to
a reciprocity system, which, if persevered in, must call
upon this Government to adopt corresponding mea-
sures. As respected our relations with Frankfort, and
the adhesion of that city to the German Union, the
Noble Foreign Secretary, in reply to another question,
very coolly observed that it was very true this country
entered into a treaty with Frankfort, by one article of
which no alteration was to be made in the tariff of
duties ; but it having been lately represented that an
alteration in the tariff would be advantageous to the
Imperial City, the King's Ministers at once aban-
doned their lien, and Frankfort became a member of
the German and anti-British Commercial Union.
This last piece 'of information was official, and no
doubt must prove satisfactory to all those who take any
interest in the well-doing and extension of British
commerce. By this passing notice we wish to call
attention to the conversation itself, which will be found
in our report. The subjects touched upon are of
great importance, and we trust will shortly receive a
more serious development.—Morning Herald.
The greatest mischief-makers in the whole world
are fools. Even those whose object and business it is
to promote mischievous misunderstandings are not
generally half so successful in this way as the bustling
brainless creatures who put things wrong without
knowing what they arc doing. These are old truths ;
but we are reminded of them by the angry scene in
the House of Commons on Tuesday night, which, as
far as one can judge from the report, seems to have
been chiefly owing to the interference of Mr. Bernal,
one of the Members for Rochester. We do not, of
course, mean to charge that Hon. Gentleman with
being utterly a fool ; but we do not think he labours
under the suspicion of much wisdom. If ever the day
comes when all fools are to be whipped we should not
like to be under his cloak, however ample it may be.
He has assuredly more of the owl in him than the
eagle. We suspect that Lord John Russell felt his
stolidity very much on Tuesday night when his sense-
less allusion to the keen reproaches of Sir R.
Vyvyan made it absolutely necessary to discuss
these reproaches as a separate matter. Sir Richard
plainly charged the Minister with having acted cor-
ruptly in the selection he had made of town magis-
trates ; but, as if he had in his eye the race of the fat-
headed, who are so admirably represented in the House
of Commons by Messrs. Hume and Bernal, he took
the trouble to explain exactly what he meant in using
so strong an epithet. He added to the plain charge
we have already quoted this explanation—that he did
not shrink from the assertion that any Minister of the
Crown who had advised appointments to be made by
the Crown, with a view to the advancement of party
objects was open to the charge of acting upon corrupt
motives. Even the Speaker—who cannot be accused
of any want of readiness to interfere when anything
reprovable is uttered from the Conservative side of the
House—even he was satisfied that nothing requiring
his interference had passed ; but not so the sapient and
aspiring Chairman of Committees. With blundering
haste to show his knowledge and his anxiety for his
dear friend, Lord John, he blurts forth all he had
learned from the " Parliamentary Pocket Book,"
and all he felt for the Minister who had been charged •
with :corruption. " When a man of integrity and
ability," said he, " such as the Hon. Baronet, repre-
senting a population of 104,000—" here we find in
the report a little clash, indicating a pause. We have
no doubt that Mr. Bernal's memory failed him, and
what he intended to say was this :—" When a man of
integrity and ability, such as the Honourable Baronet,
representing a population of 104,338, of whom 9,785
are 101. householders, and whose assessed taxes
amount, or did amount before the house tax was re-
pealed, to 33,6411. a year—when such as he attribute
corrupt motives to a Minister, he is bound in honour
and duty to follow up the charge." We can easily
conceive: how Lord John must have writhed with
vexation at this most inapt harangue—how he wished
Mr. Bernal at Rochester, or at the bottom of one of
the Chatham wet docks, or at some place much deeper,
and not quite so cold. We can imagine how gladly he
wonld have taken his hat, and marched home to bed,
after addressing his worthy friend, the Chairman of
the Committees, in the last words of Hamlet to Po-
lonius

of Papists without questioning their parishioners as to
their religious tenets, and that there is no little risk in
thus exposing them to contact with Jesuits. If the

holders of our rich livings were, in the discharge of
this duty, to be converted by the Papists, and abjure
the thirty-nine Articles, where should we be ?
Morning Chronicle.
Lord John Russell, and his scheme of magistrate-
making under the Municipal " Reform" Bill for Eng-
land, met with a severe worrying, on Tuesday night,
from Sir Robert Peel and Sir Richard Vyvyan. The
political justification of Ministers for bringing in that
Bill was in a great degree the unfair principle on
which, under the old corporation system, the persons
administering local justice in cities and towns had been
nominated. The charge against the former use of the
power of appointment was, that it had been exercised
in favour of one political party more than of another ;
and that considerable distrust existed, therefore, as to
the impartial administration of justice in such com-
munities. This charge, if well founded, affixed a
stain, beyond all question, upon the town magistracy
throughout England, and called for an effectual reform,
The Municipal Bill of last year professed to apply
a reform to such vices, which should prove effectual.
As originally framed, the remedy it offered was, to be
sure, a little strange. By way of excluding political
bias from the choice of magistrates, the authors of the
bill declared that the appointment should be by popular
election, thus insuring a monopoly of the magisterial
bench, and, so far as that could operate, an impunity
for crime, to one class only of political sentiments and
passions—viz., those of the majority. Of this poi-
sonous nostrum, it was said by the Conservatives that
it was, as we have affirmed of the Irish measure, no
remedy at all for the evil complained of,—that it was
not the extinction of a wrong, but a transfer of the
power to commit it,—that magistrates, instead of being
chosen for their supposed attachment to one (that is,
the Conservative) party, would thenceforth be named
by a clamorous multitude for their known violence in
the support of the Whig-Radical party--and therefore
that the measure was not national, but factious—a
mere vulgar expedient for giving certain Ministers a
lift. The objection carried weight with it ; the vi-
cious principle was got rid of ; the appointment of
magistrates was vested in the Crown, but reserving
to the town-councils the right of recommending
them to the Secretary for the Home Department.
How, then, has this measure, after such its amend-
ment, been worked by the Home Secretary, Lord
John Russell ? and what was the accusation
brought against his Lordsnip by Sir Robert Peel ?
It was simply, that the Noble Lord had violated, in
a vast number of instances, the spirit of the Bill
so amended, by virtually abdicating the power
lodged in the Crown, where it suited his Lordship's
party purposes to act implicitly upon the requisitions of
the town-councils, and to nominate the justices whom
they preferred, but by sedulously resuming and per-
verting that power where any party object could be
promoted, through a flat rejection of the wishes and
choice of the town-councils—for instance, when they
should happen to recommend to the magistracy gentle-
men of Conservative opinions. This was in substance
the charge of the Member for Tarnworth ; and we will
venture to say, that one more unsatisfactorily or im-
potently met than this has been by Lord J. Russell,
was never yet submitted to any public tribunal. Why,
the very answer of the Noble Lord admitted the truth
of the accusation. The acknowledged motive for the
Municipal Bill was, that the majority of the town
magistrates had been men who a„greed with former
(Conservative) Administrations. What is the cure, as
stated by the Noble Lord himself ? Why, that of the
600 magistrates whom he has appointed, " the majo-
rity are of liberal" politics—or, in other words, they
agree with my Lord John Russell, and are in nume-
rous cases th 6 creatures and tools of those Members
of Parliament on whose support his Lordship's Minis-
try depends. Here, then, was an extensive measure
introduced into Parliament on grounds professing to be
public ones, but producing results which are advanta-
geous only to faction. Even so is it with all the osten-
sible designs of these hollow-heated " Reformers,"
and such the concord between their professions and
their acts. It is needless for us to analyze the ex-
amples by which Sir Robert Peel's remonstrance to
the Home Secretary was corroborated. In Wigan,
Coventry, Leicester, Plymouth, the Whig-Radical
majority were indulged by the unfettered choice of
congenial magistrates, and of these cases it is needless
to say that the most flagrant among them was Coventry.
There Mr. Edward Ellice is the patron, and it fol.
lows of course that the whole bench of justices, 12 in
number, must be of the house of Ellice and Co. In
Rochester, where the council was equally divided, but
not. equally appreciated by my Lord John Russell,
who, on the representation of the Ministerial Member
for the city, appointed Whig-Radical justices in the
proportion of five to one So—worse and worse—
with Guilford and with Bristol. In the former town
(the council being Conservative) the Conservatives
recommended to the magistracy were, in propor-
tion to Radicals, nine to three ; but this was not
the sort of " public opinion which suited the
taste of our Whig Home Secretary, who therefore
very coolly, in his choice of magistrates, inverted the
ratio of the recommendations by the council, and
named three Radicals for one Conservative to the bench.
With Bristol, the like impartiality and purity in the
choice of the magistrates has been displayed by Lord
John Russell. In that great city the council was
Conservative, but the majority, in a high and generous
spirit, gave way, and agreed that the minority should
recommend an equal number of justices with themselves.
Twelve names on either side were therefore sent up to
' the Home-office ; and how did his Lordship requite or
emulate such liberality ! He appointed six Conserva-
tives and twelve Whig-Radicals to the bench. These
are not surmises or colourings of ours ; they are facts,
acknowledged, not defended, not palliated—allowed on
all hands throughout the whole of Tuesday's discus-
sion. But to what a compound of nefarious hypocrisy
and sordid quackery do they reduce the pretensions
of this precious reforming Administration ? Times.
Some questions were put last night to Lord Palmer-
ston in the House of Commons, upon the subject of
our relations, political and commercial, with foreign
Powers, which, though the answers were, as usual,
vague and uninstructive, cannot be regarded as other-
wise than of importance, since they show that there
are yet Hon. Members alive to what concerns the
honour and-interests of the country in these matters.
Theseaquestions referred chiefly to the conduct of Rus-
sia towards Cracow—conduct certainly which cannot
be too often exposed, or too generally condemned ; the
other and later violation of pledged faith, committed
by the same Power in the new quarantine regulations
which it is stated to have made at the mouth of the
Danube, and the new tariff of duties which Portugal.
is concocting, and which it is known will ruin the
trade of this country. With aspect to the first,
Mr. P. M. Stewart asked whether the Noble Lord
could now supply the official information which he
had promised at the first asking ?—Whether he had
heard anything of some Poles taken at Cracow being
selected from the mass of prisoners, and sent by way of
especial favour to Siberia ? And lastly, whether it was
true that thy, Czar had made the quarantine encroach-
ments on the Danube, which would in effect close the
mouth of that river acrainst the trade with the Black
Sea ? Lord Palmerston replied, that not having had
any communication with the authorities of Cracow, he
could not make any disclosures with respect to its
invasions, but that he had conferred with the Russian

" Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell."

But it might not be, after so marked a notice of
what had been said, and, to his great discomfort, Lord
John had to make a bravado about impeachment, which
he knew as well as any man in the House to be perfectly
absurd. We need not say that he gained very little by
the notice of the matter which hissagacious friend com-
pelled him to take, much., as we believe, against his will.
Whether Sir R. Vyvyan is perfectly right in consider-
ing that evident and gross political partiality in the se-
lection of magistrates must be the result of corrupt mo-
tives, and ought to be considered corrupt conduct, we
shall not, in our innocence, pretend to determine.
There is, however, an abstract question, which this
debate puts us in mind of, and which we should be
"lad that some Whig Professor of casuistry would
take the trouble of solving for our information. Sup-
pose it be admitted, that when a servant of the Crown
makes an appointment in right of bis public office,
being thereunto moved by a personal advantage, he is
justly chargeable with having acted upon corrupt mo-
tives—supposing this, we say, to be admitted, how far
will the self-same charge justly apply to a public ser-
vant who makes such appointments for the sake of
that support which is necessary to his continuance in
place, and not for the sake of the fitness of the ap-
pointee ? We arc very desirous of having the above
question well and truly decided by some competent
authority. As soon as we obtain 'such a decision, we
shall direct our attention to the subject of Sir R. Vy-
. vyan's charge against Lord J. Russell, and we think
we shall then be able to give a clear opinion upon 4.7-
Morning Post.

Information was given on Tuesday to the police of the
following robberies committed on Saturday night, while the
destructive fire was raging in Bond-street and the Burlington
Arcade :—Lord Colville was robbed in Piccadilly of a single-
cased gold repeating watch, maker's name " Yonge, Strand,"
to which were attached four seals, one of them with motto—
Oublier ne puis, and a baron's coronet ; another, a blood-stone
seal, has the coronet and crest, a hind's head. Col. Vachell
was robbed, about the same time and place, of a double-cased
gold watch, cyphered " J. S. V." on the back, with double
gold chain, very small links, and a gold wafer seal. In Bond-
street Daniel Callaghan, Esq., M.P., was robbed of a small
gold watch, made by Yonge, of the Strand, with gold seal
and key attached ; and Mr. Thurlow, of Titchfield-street, was
robbed of two 5/. Bank of England notes, with the name
" James Burn" written on the back; and also two checks
drawn in his favour, one on Messrs. Barclay and Co./ and the
other on Messrs. Ransom and Co.

The importation of live cattle and sheep from the
northern parts of Scotland is now carried on to a considerable
extent. During the past week a great number of sailing ves-
sels have arrived from Aberdeen laden with live bullocks, for
which, it appears, there is a great demand in Smithfield Mar-
ket,
of Aberdeen, for the
and which bring good prices to the Scottish agriculturists.
We understand Government has conthtreacAtebderfdoerena
asnudcP
neighbourhoodYesterday
thelvOic,OtuoaollfiantgeaDtetlie,arfetomment.
Mr. J. Walker commander, arrived at
Lon-
don Steam Navigation Company's ship
Aberdeen Steam Wharf, from the
port. of Aberdeen, her deck
covered with live cattle and other agricultural produce.
SLAVE APPRENTICES •
HIP IN THE COLONIES.—
The following compose
the C •
Mr. Buxton, Sir G. Grey,Committee on this subject :
Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. Baines, Mr. Plu mpye, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. A. John-
stone, Mr. Thornel
Mr. Oswald, Y, Mr. P. Stewart, Mr. C. Lushington,
Sir James Graham, Lords Sandon and Howick :
tivb the quorum. Duke of wellinLi:tooonof,

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