The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-05 00:00:00

THE POOR MAN'S PILL

Is an unrivalled antibilieus medicine, introduced in 1763, recom-
mended by Abernethy and the Faculty. Its efficacy is remarkable
in these maladies which depend upon the purity of the blood and a
disordered condition of the stomach and bowels, inducing, as inevi-
table consequences, indigestion, head-ache, acidity upon the sto-
mach, heartburn, flatulency, nausea, lowness of spirits, and cuta-
neous eruptions. The most delicate female, when an aperient is
required, may at all times have recourse to them. To individuals
travelling, more particularly seafaring persons, when, from change
of habit and climate, the liver and bowels become inactive, they
will prove of invaluable service. The Medical Editor of the
" Weekly Chronicle," in speaking of this medicine, which has now
become the National Medium of Health, observes—" We have
ascertained, as far as chemical analysis can extend, the ingredients
constituting the preparation called the Poor Man's Pill, and find
that they contain all that is required for a safe and active aperient.
In such a character we believe it stands unrivalled, and there is no
doubt that in a short time it must become the most popular of
Family Medicines."
In the following maladies, they have in innumerable instances
been found to give immediate and extraordinary benefit : —Ab-
scesses, ague, asthmas, bilious complaints, blotches on the skin,
boils, bowel complaints, constipation of bowels, consumptions,
convulsions, cramps, debility, dysentery, erysipelas, faintings, gid-
diness, glandular swellings, gout, headache, heartburn, hoarseness,
hypochondria, indigestion, inflammations, jaundice, languor,
lethargy, liver complaints, low spirits, lumbago, nervous affections,
pains in the bones, palpitations, phlegm, piles, rheumatism, scro-
fula, sore throats, tremblings, tumours, ulcers of all kinds, and
worms of every kind.
TESTIMONIAL from HENRY HETHERINGTON, Book-
seller, 126, Strand, selected from many thousands forwarded to
Messrs. Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street, wholesale agents :
No. 126, Strand, Sept. 24, 1638.
To the Proprietor of the Poor Man's Pill.
Sir,—Having considered your proposition that I should become
the agent for this district for the sale of the Poor Man's Pill,
I beg leave to state that lam willing to accept of the agency. It
is necessary, however, that I should' candidly and explicitly avow
my sentiments en this subject. I feel disinclined, and consider it
unjust to recommend others to take a medicine that I am not pre-
pared to take myself, and I strongly deprecate puffing Patent Medi-
cines into notice as specifies for all sorts of complaints. I thought it
my duty to make myself experimentally acquainted with the virtues
of the Poor Man's Pills before I consented to sell them. This will
account for the delay in answering your application. I believe,
generally speaking, the less medicine a person takes the better.
l'hose who enjoy tolerable health, however, sometimes require a
little opening medicine, and as it is well known that headaches and
many other inconveniences result from costiveness, there always will
be popular medicines in general use, to obviate the necessity and
expense of applying to a doctor. Having adopted the Poor Man's
Pill in my own family, I can unhesitatingly affirm that I have found
it a gentle and efficacious aperient, which, when taken, will afford
immediate relief ; those who unfortunately are afflicted with more
serious PO mplaints, will doubtless speak of the Poor Man's Pill
more specifically ; but I can very sincerely bear testimony to their
excellence as the cheapest and most useful aperient. Under these
circumstances I am induced to recommend their universal adoption
and use in families, as the most valuable of domestic medicines.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. HETHERINGTON.

Ti meet the circumstances or all classes, they are sold in boxes at
Sevenpence-halfpenny and Thirteenpenee-halfpenny. Also family
boxes suited for voyages by sea and long journeys by land, Two
Shillings and Ninepence each. They are warranted not to be
affected by age or climate. Proper directions will be given with
each box. To be had at the Depot for the Nor Man's Pill, 63,
Oxford-street, London. _ _

Hannay and Dietrichesen, 63, Oxford-street, are appointed sole
wholesale agents for the Poor Man's Pills, and by whom the trade
in all parts of the kingdom are supplied on the usual terms. They
are also sold retail by the following arrents :-
Norris, bookseller, 58, Fetter-lane, Holborn; Gifford, 104, Strand ;
H. Hetherington, 126, Strand ; Cleave, 1, Shoe-lane ; Davies, 43,
Wood street ; Lunn, 159, Aldersgate-street ; Robb, 33, St. Mar-
tin's-le-Grand ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Hulse and Co., 37,
Leadenhall-street ; Danby, 43, Bishopsgate-street Within ;
Jones, 11, Norton Folgate ; Keland, City-road ; Haycock, 10,
Plumber's-raw, City-road ; Markham, 28, Old-street ; Power,
56, Hackney-road; Tennant, 1, St. John's-street ; Cousins, 18,
Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn fields ; Turner, 27, Coventry-street,
Haymarket ; Purkiss, Dean-street, Soho ; Keeling, 4, Little Or-
mond-street Harding, 24, Judd-street ; Tindale, 105, Crawford-
street, Marylsboae ; Elkington, Edgware-road ; Saner, 4, New.
castle-rlace, Edgware-road; M'Getrick, 116, Tottenham-court-
road; Wells, 31, London-street. Tottenham-court-road ; Gibbs,
21, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square ; Jeffries, 14, Union-street,
Clarendon-square, Somers-town ; Reynolds and Co., 1, King's-
cross ; Caffyn, 13, Oxford-street, near Mile-end-gate ; Sudbury,
135, High-s'-•c et, Whitechapel ; Kaines, New-road, St. George's
East ; Clirhe, 12, Northumberland-place, Commercial-road ;
Dordoy, 42, Man- street , Shadwell; Binge, 76, York-street, West-
minster ; Monkhouse, Tothill-street ; Hutchinson and Co., 53,
".count-street, Lambeth ; Moore, 5, College-place, Chelsea ;
Strange, Queen's-row, Chelsea-road ; Bigot, 1, Westbourne.place,
Eeon-square' Pimlico ; Gadd, Vauxhall, opposite the Gardens :
King, 232, Blackfriars-road ; Marshall, London-road ;
Bridge-street, Southwark ; Wood, I, Union-street ; Lambert, 41,
Blackman-street: Derdoy, Bridge-house-place, Newington-cause-
way ; Antt, 5, Waterloo-read ; Pears, near the Plough, Clapham ;
Brocket, Church-street, Twickenham.

COUNTRY AGENTS.
Williamson, Ashton, Lancashire ; Kerrison, Ashton, Lancashire;
Hobson, Ashten-under-Line ; Watts, Snow-hill, Birmingham ;
Guest, Steelhouse-lane, Birmingham ; Wood, High-street, Bir-
mingham ; Meikle, Darwin-street, Blackburn ; Lawson, Bolton;
Ainsworth, Sweet-green, Bolton ; Gardner, Bradshaw-gate, Bol-
ton ; Noble, Boston ; Payne, Castle Mill-street, Bristol ; Self,
50, Redcliff-hill, Bristol ; Richards, Burnley ; Butterworth, Burn-
ley; Thompson, Bury St. Edmonds; Binney, Bury, Lancashire;
Kay, Bury, Lancashire; Wade, Petty Cury, Cambridge; Chaffee,
grocer, Chard; Platt and Son, Chester; Fletcher, Chester: Bald-
win, High-street, Caine; Meagre, Cowes, Isle of Wight ; Fitze,
Exeter; Print, St. Sidwell's, Exeter; Heywood, Heywood, Lan-
cashire; Haycraft, Hull; Booth, Flowery-field, Hyde; Le Cras,
St. Hellier, Jersey ; Heaton, Briggate, Leeds ; Hobson, Briggate,
Leeds; Cooper, Market-place, Leicester ; Smith, Scotland-road,
Liverpool; Riches, Lynn, Norfolk; Stubbs, Waters, Macclesfield;
Heywood, Oldham-street, Manchester Carruthers, Groat-market,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mort, Newcastle-under-Line; Riches,
Bridge-street, St. George's, Norwich ; Jones, Horse-market,
Northampton; Ingram, Chapel-bar, Nottingham ; Knight, Lord-
street, Oldham ; Holt, Greenacre's-moor, Oldham ; Slatter, High-
street, Oxford ; Nettleton, Plymouth; Gardner, Queen. street,
Portsea ; Cook, Preston; Shepherd, Church-style, Rochdale;
Brodie, Salisbury ; Whittaker, 22, Targate, Sheffield ; Rogers,
Stafford ; Pilgrim, Potteries, Shelton, Staffordshire ; Riley, Ches-
tergate, Stockport; Hurst, Wakefield; Holden, Dolman's-lane,
Warrington; Ramadale, Wigan; Pierce, 42, High-street, Wind-
sor ; Stratford, the Cress, Worcester ; Hargrove, York. And by
most other Vendors of Patent Medicines in every town throughout
the kingdom ; anti any dealer who has not got them will procure
them from London (if they are ordered) without any extra charge.

" Pauci taciturn dolorem continebant."—Liv.

AS manhood approaches, the human form, counte-
nance, voice, and the whole intellectual character, rapidly
undergo a revolution. Love is the end and sum of life, creating image
after image of ideal perfection. But in the present state of society, pure
and virtuous enjoyment is often postponed and obstructed, till the excess
of youthful impetuosity impels to a course of wild and injurious indul-
gence, and the mind becomes painfully harassed by alternations of fear,
disgust, and passion. In this state relief is perhaps sought from the inex.
pericnced, perhaps from the ignorant ; in either case at the expense of
health, that being only palliated which should have been effectually cured
Here we propose to step in and rescue the victim of unwise indulgence
troth the pangs of remorse, disappointed hope, and disease ; and we pledge
ourselves to eradicate every taint of syphilitic poison, and to restore to its
wonted energy every relaxation of the generative economy, whether from
this or other causes, whereby the dignity of manhood shall have become
impaired ; equally contemning unfeeling empyricism, which with reckless
ignorance destroys where it should restore; and, on the other han,p. that
unworthy " principle" whose proud selfishness increases the embarrass
ment of the afflicted. All classes of society, not excepting the Angle
Indian, but snore especially such as are about to enter into matrimonial
life, are Included in the limits of this address, and to all we confidentiy
offer the result of many years' successful practice.
Daily attendance is given for personal consultation ; and immediate an-
swers are returned to country letters, which must minutely describe the
ease, and contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be
forwarded distant.—No to any part o fthe world, however difficu • C7l",
ur
as the Medicine will be securely packed, and carefully protected
from observation.

Pork,

GOSS and CO. (M. R. C. Surgeons),
•
Lancaster-place, Strand, Landon.
• • Just published (Twenty-third Edition)-Ist. The JEWS of ~
Acamillar commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. The SYPHILIS I , a
Popular Treatise on Luce Venerea, HYGEI A NIA, addressed
exclusively to tha female Sex. May be had at 23 Paternoster-row
London; and of all Booksellers. Price 549. each.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WERI,,

Wheat. I Barley. i Jats. Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to ► s. to a. s. Y 8 8. to s.
Carlisle 75 —: 42 25 41 29
Hexhamw..l 61 76 .25 46 28 36
Morpeth 58 61 j 22 30 22 28 38 42 38 42
Penrith 7J 3S— 35 33
Sheffield 72 I 34 24 46 43
Winchester 130 72 125 29 20 25 42 45 35 33
Per Bushel. s.d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d s. d. s (1.
Carmarthen...—. 00 9 3 00 40 00 44 00 0( 00 00
Cowbridge--..... 80 'OO 00 46. 00 3 6 56 00 00 en
Newcastle (Staff.) 9 0 10 9 36 40, 3 0 39 50 53 00 00
90 15 3 36 461 3 3 4C 56 60 00 0 I
Stone 9O 10 6 4 0 4 8 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 00
Swansea'9o 0 0 4 6 50 26 30 00 00 00 0
Warwick ..............;90 ll 0 30 46 20 33 56 60 00 0
Per 8011.
Barnardcastle—...ll4 0 '2l (3 8 0 93i 7 0 S S 9 0 12 0 7 6 11 0
Durham...--. 14 0 17 670 80'5 :3 7910 0 It S 6 90
Richmond 'lB (1 21 0 7 0 901 5 0 80 98 11 Oi 9 8 00
5t0ckt0n......14 6 190 96 10 61 5 4 70 76 BC[ 00 00

SCOTCH MARKETS.
HADDING CON CORN MARKET.—Nov. 2.
Wheat. Barley. Oats, I Pease. Beans.
First F4s 41s 04 33s pd —s Od 4Ss
Second FOs 04 2s 01 `2ss Od —s Od 45; 04
Third 7;s Od 30s Od 20, OA —s 01 445:01
Average. 3/, 13 -. 7d. 6.l2ths.
DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—Nov. 1,
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
First s4s Od 40s (id 2:;s 44 45s 01 45i 01
Second 7ls Od 23s Pd 24s 64 44s 01 44s 01
Third Od c3= 01 Od 01 —s 01

ratWheerhgaudicka EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Oct. 31
large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, and the sales were

Oats. 1 Pease. Beans
235. 01. 465. 01 46s Od
25 0 44 0 44 0
22 0 42 0 42
12s. 81.

Wheat. Barley.
First 8 Is. Od. f9s. Od.
Second..... 74 0 33 0
Third
Average price of Wheat
PRICES OP PROVISIONS, X.C
Co 11
0 4 0 7 Salt 0 . 0
0 S 1 0 Ditto, per cwt..... o '4"
0 10
Os, 4d. to Os.7d.
0 0 0 0 Eggs, per 0 13 0
amb, per qr. 1 G 3 6 OatStraw(ki )....11 CI 15 0
fallow, 0 40 0 Wheat Ditto 0
10 0 12 0
2uartern Loaf,, 010 0 Barley Ditto
...-10 10
Ereshliutter,lb..wls 01.
Potatoes, 141 b. 0 6 00 , Hay, per 0
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKOct SO to Is. Id
There
sales werewraast
211121,1.92L2000,11
oißS:tFirstea Barley-_NO.
sr
o:
en;
70; ayedAeta_i
aitntNnea.h..ao.
Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp.
..i.er ::d,..edii.."1.1,..1y.E.c.....w.s ut£P2Ply2of
()Oatmeal at this day's market, and the
GLASGOW CORN
moderate business doing
Wheat, per '.!44/11.)• s
British, old ............ 0t043 6
new ...... 260 360
Canada, free........... 36 0 41 0
Irish ..................... 30 0 39 0
Barley, per 3201 b.
English ............... 29 0 3'
Scottish .................. 0
Irish

Beef, per lb
Mutton _ _

13p
Firsta
sr e,ynP:reeearal
Oatmeal. t.o.
.n. .
..
..... 141 b.
.....
.........
100,2
Second ditto
16 —4th, M —Ptotl, 2.05.
MARKET.--Oct. 31.

in Grain; prices steady.
Oats, per 2641 b.
Irish
British lB 0 21 °
Beans, per 26011.
English
Scottish
Pease, Scottish
Oatmeal, per 140 lb
Flour, per 2801 b 5O 0 53 0

MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Qv,
Quantity of Copper Ore sold
21 0
Quantity of fine Copper..,., 3,259
....................
Average Produce
Amount of Sale. 22,4371. Od.—Averaso Standard, 1:19 /3 1
0-li:' Od.

J. B. SMITH, Esq., in again introducing Mr. Paulton, said
it was gratifying to notice the increasing interest which was
manifesting itself on this question, as shown_ by the applica-
tion of other towns soliciting his services to give lectures
there on the Corn-laws. The Committee were endeavouring
to effect an arrangement with him for this purpose, and hoped
to obtain his powerful aid in thus spreading the knowledge he
was able to impart on this question. He reminded the au-
dience that these lectures were given gratuitously, and said it
was gratifying to observe that Mr. Paulton was actuated by no
mercenary motives.
Mr. PAULTON commenced by giving a rapid recapitulation
of the principal points of his first lecture, and went on to say
that the question of the Corn-laws was not an isolated ques-
tion, but was necessarily connected with the broader question
of a perfectly free and unrestricted commerce in all commodi-
ties with all nations. He then gave a detail of the injurious
effects of the sugar and coffee monopolies, and argued that
the destruction of the corn monopoly would bring the land-
owners into opposition to every other kind of monopoly. In
reference to the fluctuations in the price of corn, he said :
Every shilling added to the price of a quarter of grain in
this country is equal to a tax upon the people of 2,600,000/.;
a rise of five shillings would take from the consumers a sum
sufficient to maintain the whole land and sea forces for a twelve-
month—upwards of 12,500,000/. In the month of Jan., 1831,
the prices of all kinds of grain in London were 71 per cent. in ad-
vance of the prices at Amsterdam; 811 per cent. above the prices
at Hamburgh. The total quantity of grain consumed in
Great Britain and Ireland annually is estimated at 52.000,000
quarters. Supposing 50s. the average price of wheat, and
255. the price of other specks of grain, for that year, we were
paying absolutely more by 33,211,7561, for the grain consumed
in this country than the same quantity could have been pur-
chased for at the prices in Hamburgh. The landowners not
only deny cheap bread, but they positively prohibit, by express
statute, every kind of fresh meat and live stock, down even to
foreign fresh and salt fish. It is rather remarkable, and
she ws what minute attention the guardians of the national in-
terests pay to the details of legislation, that a few luxuries for
the middle classes—such as live eels, sturgeon, oysters, and
anchovies—are good-naturedly allowed to be imported, by the
payment of a fixed duty; while turbot, lobsters, and green
turtle, enjoy the aristocratic distinction of being imported
duty free, even if they be brought in foreign ves-
sels. How merciful are the landowners to their own
case ! Whilst the poor, in 1836 paid a duty of
143,1601. upon salt butter, and 70,520/. on cheese,
even pigs' bristles cannot be brought in without a tax—and in
1834 we paid a duty of 67,0001. on foreign eggs, pigs' bristles,
and nuts. Since 1835 the price of wheat has fluctuated from
365. to 84s. a quarter—the average of the whole year 1835
was only 395. 4d. —this year the average of wheat corn will
probably not be below 665. or 675. the quarter. Now, the
consumption of wheat in this country is stated to be 13,000,000
quarters; the consumers therefore will have to pay for flour
alone nearly 17,000,000/. more in the coming year than they
had to pay in 1835. 17,000,0001. of money will this year be
taken out of the market for manufactures to pay the rent-tax
on the wheat soils of the landowners. That sum abstracted
from the labour fund of the country, will throw 500,000 men
out of employment, whilst the real value of the wages of every
employed labourer will have diminished one-half. Well may mi-
sery stalk our streets, and wretchndness rob for the mere sake of
gaining a home in the prison-house. The advocates of the
Corn-laws tell you, working men, that the price of grain regu-
lates the rate of wages. Here you have a plain fact within the
sphere of your own experience, which satisfactorily dis.
proves the selfish fallacy. There is not a man amang you, I
dare be bound, who is making more money in 1838 than he
was in 1836—and yet he has flour at double the price it was
then. In 1836 the weaver was getting eighteen pence a cut
more than he is now, and yet he is paying at least 90 per cent.
more for food than he was in the early part of that year.
The principles that regulate the price of corn and the rate of
wages in this country are essentially independent of each other.
If corn rises, it rises because the supply is smaller in proportion
to the accustomed consumption, and therefore there is a gene-
ral scramble for it; but if wages rise or fall, they do so in
obedience to the profits upon capital. Those profits di-
rectly Lpend uppn the proportion between the amount
of capital in any country the field of production—and
the rate in the increase of population. In this country
capital and population have increased up to the high
pressure point ; the whole machine must shortly go to
atoms if we passively allow the safety valve—the foreign
commerce of the country—to be any longer tied down by
the merciless bread-tax of the landowners. The despotic
Corn-laws shut us out from the granary of the whole world !
The barren wills of the country have been tilled by the blood
and bones of the population until we can no longer extract
even starvation rations from our soil. The boiling elements
of society must inevitably burst the barrier by a revolution--
or the rushing tide of ruin sweep away the landmarks of ini-
quity ; or our merchants—the'high-mindedland moneyed men
of the country—must combine—peacefully, yet firmly—to
battle with and destroy the monopoly of the landowners.
Repeal the Corn-laws, and you at once relieve capital from
the pressure of a constant glut; you give to industry the
means of adjusting the balance between its disposition to con •
seine and its power of procuring an adequate supply of the
first necessary of life; you throw open an exhaustless field
of production—and let population, as designed by Heaven,
increase and multiply as much as it may. We shall ever
find the table of the world wide enough to admit a bro-
therhood of commercial nations to the feast of plenty.
Mr. Paulton went on to treat of foreign competition,
and stated a number of facts, for which we regret that we
cannot find room in our present publication. He said that the
currency doctors have a peculiar crotchet with reference to the
imagine that the price of food is regulated
Corn-laws ; they
by the state of the money market, and that the Bank of
solely
regulation of its issues. It would be easy to show from the
history of prices during the last thirty years, that on many
different occasions wheat fell considerably when the prices of
all other commodities were rapidly rising ; and on the other
hand that the price of wheat rose to a most enormous height
when the whole commercial world was in difficulties, and
bankruptcies were taking place every hour. Every one
must remember the commercial prosperity of 1835. At that
time the Bank of England, as well as the Joint-stock Banks
throughout the kingdom, were very liberal in their dis-
coiints.According to the currency doctors, this should
have bad
the effect of raising the price of grain ; but
what was the fact Why, the highest price of wheat
during the whole year was 41s. the quarter—for several
months it was only 355. 6d. Towards the end of the fol-
lowing the panic had begun : the banks withdrew a
year
large quantity of their paper from circulation. If this
currency crotchet bad been correct, these facts should have
caused the price of grain to fall as money became more scarce.
Instead of that, wheat gradually rose dui ing the whole of that
year. From 465. in September it rose to 555. in November,
and when the panic had become general in December, it had
amounted to 575. 9d. ; more than 225. higher than it was at
the same period in 1835, when money was plentiful. These
facts prove that the price of grain is not regulated by the state
of the currency. We have been told, gentlemen, that it would
be rash and ruinous to make this great nation dependent upon
foreigners for its food. This fallacy in the first place supposes
that we are to get all our food from foreigners, and in the next,
that we are not already dependent upon them for that without
which we can get no corn either from the landowners of our own
soil or any where else ! Without cotton we can have no corn
So that as it is we are dependent, both for corn and cotton,
upon Egypt and America. But if we are depending upon
other nations for corn or cotton, other nations are equally de-
pendent upon us for clothing. There is a mutual dependence
and an equal interest; therefore a sufficient guarantee that
neither party will injure the other, because by so doing they
would ruin themselves. What if the despot Nicholas were to
interdict to England Russian tallow, hides, and hemp? The
Russian merchants and landholders want cash as well as any
other people ; and as one of their means of procuring it is by
an exchange of naval stores for British produce, it is very
clear that the Russians would suffer as much as ourselves, and
therefore soon seek their own remedy. Have we not direct
instances in point? The Russian Nobility procured the assas-
sination of Paul for his mad prohibition of naval stores to Eng-
land ; and the dynasty of Napoleon was overturned by the up-
rising of Europe against the Berlin and Milan decrees! Gen-
tlemen, with the range of the world for our corn market, we
know that nature will never so far violate the uniformity of her
laws as to curse at once with sterility or cover with blight the
whole surface of the globe. History records no such calamity
to furnish an apt precedent for our landholders. Partial
variations in the ordinary operation of physical laws do at times
afflict individual countries with partial famine. We have an
instance this year in our own country—a failure of the crops
has doubled the cost ofsubsistence, and reduced our population
to at least one-third of their usual rations. Such a calamity
would be utterly impossible with a free trade in corn. For we
should then avail ourselves of the best soils of the whole globe ;
the most favourable harvests, and the finest climates ; we
should be independent of all transition and inequalities of na-
ture. Our throwsters would till the rich soils of Australia,
and people the vast regions washed by the Ohio, the Wabash,
the Missouri and Mississippi.
Six thousand years have not yet
sufficed to people the fertile countries of Asia and Europe.
Need we then fear that nations ihould be multiplied when
two mighty Continents have yet scarcely heard echoed back
from their forests the footsteps of man. As it is the
Cerberus of monopoly sits cowering at the gates of every
dock-yard in Britain, guarding the portals of freedom
against industry, and turning back the winged messen„
gers of plenty that seek to freight the ships of
.all
tions with our stores. How long shall weCo"e
pile up the altars of this monster with the laww
wrung from the bowels of poverty ? Let
ius -
-let us pull down this Moloch of the me'

„ono° tQ
offerings
,rt;-,Ase ourselves
,e 0 Phcwnicia—this
. .

monster god of legislation, ignorance, and avarice. How many
holy hopes—how many blossoming beauties of the soul have
perished as offerings at its shrine ?—how many million hearts
have groaned and cursed the sunlight that waked them, still
weary and wasted, to their toil ?—bow many multitudes have
prematurely perished, have fallen early and unheeded into the
grave, beneath the fiend gripe of this iron hand? We are not
idolators I—these are not human sacrifices. Ah Ino I—they
are accidents—avarice is an accident I—oppression is an acci-
dent I—misery is an accident 1 But, to whom ? To those
who endure them? Ah 1 no I—they are too substantial to be
accidental—too uniform to be contingent. They are sacrifices
—human sacrifices on the altars of ignorance to the passions
of men.—( Cheers.) The aristocracy are the priests of this
Moloch of monopoly. To destroy their power we must cut
off their supplies. Root up the Corn-laws and the rotten
fabric is without its base. So long as they exist the land-
owners have the power of compelling the contents of all coffers
to their own.

For what were all these landed patriots born ?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.
Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent

Their brethren out to battle. Why ? For rent !
Year after year they voted cent. per cent. ;
Blood, sweat, and tear-wrung millions. Why? For rent I
They roared, they dined, they drank, they swere they meant
To die for England. Why then live? For rent
And will they not repay the treasures lent?
No I down with everything, and up with rent 1
Their good, ill, health, wealth, joy or discontent,
Being, end, aim, religion—rent, rent, rent !—( Cheers.)
On the CHAIRMAN rising to move a vote of thanks, and ex-
pressing his hofrifkat every man who could afford ss. would
become a member of the Anti-Corn-law Association, an'indi-
vidual at the other end of the room said he should like to know
what they thought would be a practical way to obtain the re-
peal of the Corn-laws?
The CHAIRMAN said the establishment of such Associations
as this,—(The man, amidst the confusion of parties leaving
their seats, said something about Universal Suffrage being
the only chance:for the working man. )—The vote of thanks
having been carried with loud cheers Mr. Paulton, in ac-
knowledging it, said however important the Suffrage might
be, the repeal of the Corn-laws was not less important on that
account ; and he saw no reason, therefore, why they should
lose sight of the Corn-law question. He conceived that they
would not be the worse prepared to battle for the Suffrage
by first filling their bellies.--( Cheers.)

THE REGISTRATION OF 1838.
(CONTINUED.)

1 In Fraser's list of boroughs, upon which the Tories claim
a gain, there are five places mentioned, and numbers stated,
apparently for proof, but really for deception. Portsmouth,
Southampton, Truro, Stroud, and Northallerton are alleged
to have given the Tories a triumph of 22, 37, 8, 27, and 5
respectively, and the number of objections sustained by each
party are stated, but no mention is made of claims. Now, the
Tory scribe who supplied to the Newspaper the account which
Fraser's penny-a-line gentleman copied, knew that if the return
for these places bad been correctly given the gain to the Liberal
party would have been apparent ; but by omitting all mention of
claims he contrives his own majority. At Portsmouth, for in-
stance, the objections sustained were 49 by the Tories, 56 by
the Liberals ; the claims 14 by the Tories, 34 by the Liberals.
Fraser states the numbers at 56 objections sustained by the
Tories, and 34 by the Liberals; and thus, by falsifying some
figures, and omitting all mention of claims, he seeks to impose
upon the public. At Southampton and the other places the
same process is repeated ; so that five boroughs in which
Toryism has lost are put down as having gained.
Without giving any data Fraser claims a gain at Aylesbury
of 12 votes, where the Liberal party increased their strength
27, in spite of Tory Churchwardens, who sought to make out
a list to the exclusion of the one prepared by the Overseers.
He claims a gain of four at Weymouth, where the Liberal
party again triumphed by 14 ; of 12 at Newport, where the
Tories sustained 10 claims and objections, the Reformers 31,
thus gaining an advantage of 21 ; these three boroughs may,
therefore, also be deducted from Fraser's list of Tory triumphs.
In addition to these errors in Fraser's list, we will now
correct the blunder, be it wilfully or ignorantly committed, of
placing many boroughs in which the Liberals most indisputa-
bly gained among the list of Tory successes. We publish
the names of these towns, the erroneous number given by
Fraser, and the correct numbers ; and we again repeat, that
whilst we publish no list for the truth of which we cannot
answer, we have in every case rather underrated the Liberal
gain than stated it at its extreme amount. We have excluded
all doubtful and confined ourselves to positive and certain gain.
If our statement be denied,tswe can support itby actual returns.
We have not ransacked the files of Tory papers to pick out a
jumble of false statements ; but we have men of integrity who
can vouch the truth of our numbers.

TRUE TORY CONSTI.
STATEMENT
PRESENT 1 UENCIES
of Claims and REPRE- by the last
ST iTEMENT
_ Objections ' - ' • SENTATION. Parliamen.
Sustained. tary Return
Tory ILiberal Tory Liberal Tory Liberal/
- - -
Westminster ll9 91 98 127 .. 2 13,268
Bristol 504 5.33 391 634 1 1 10 100
,
York l2O 74 26 38 1 1 2,890
Winchester 3l 24 22 33 1 1 415
Dover 45 i 31 86 47 1 1 1,564
Durham
Yannouth 7B 33 35 60 ... 2 1,615
Shaftesbury IS 6 12 24 1 .. 554
Gloucester
Totnes ,O 4 16 19 ... 2 259
Chichester. l6 12 2 20 .., 2 958
I.ewes 25 10 13 19 1 1 7EI
Cambridge. ...... .
Hull l3l 117 99 174 1 1 4,244
Sunderland 72 41 50 d 8 1 1 1,359
Bewdley 5l 0 , II 30 ... 1 414
Her ford
Reading 62 61 , 42 67 ... 2 1,002
Poole 24 !2 , 24 30 ... 2 450
Bradford 9O 56 72 75 , ... 2 1,225
,
!11 I 27 I

We have here 20 boroughs in which the Liberal party has
clearly beat the Tories upon their favourite test of claims and
objections, and which are yet included in the list published as
the Tory registration manifesto of triumph, and not only im-
pudently but fraudulently inserted therein. And this list we
falsehoods
could carryof
mtubceh
Tory farther—westat
emenctso;ulbdutstailsl
wfaerothnelyr
commenced
enetehd e
any notice of the Tory article in Fraser because, knowingit
to be false, we would not allow such falsehoods to pass cur.
rent, and form the ground-work of Tory venom in the Times
or Standard, so now we think it quite sufficient to cut down
the 65 borough triumphs to a minority of 1. Let us, then,
sec how the figures stand.
We have first 5 boroughs, of which Portsmouth is our ex-
ample-3 more, Aylesbury, Weymouth, and Newport—mak-
ing altogether 8, to be deducted from Fraser's 65. We have
next 20, commencing with Westminster, also to be deducted ;
and, having done this, 37 boroughs remain to Fraser. Now,
we do not admit that any one of the Tory statements is correct ;
nay, more, we doubt them :all, and shall be ready to sup-
port our doubt when required. But we have only to
put 38 boroughs on the record brought into court by Fraser,
and we have entitled ourselves to a verdict, provided our asser-
tions are true. We think we have met this question fairly.
We have shown errors in the numbers given for 17 boroughs,
without reversing, although reducing the majorities claimed.
We do not think it worth arguing about boroughs such as
Maidstone or Beverly, and the Tories are therefore welcome to
the six of that class ; but we will now give them 38 boroughs
in which, we assert, the Liberals have gained upon this year's
registration. These are—Bath, Bedford, Ashton, Portsmouth,
York, Shaftesbury, Reading, Cardiff, Oxford, Halifax, M
Man-
chester, Southampton, Dover, Cambridge, Hertford, Walling-
ford, Leicester, Cricklade, Huddersfield, Winchester, Dur-
ham, Hull, Poole, Liverpool, Coventry, Warwick, Westmin-
ster,
boroughs, being
of some
two
r
two
stet. Aylesbury, Yarmouth, Sunderland, Bradford, Rochester,
Chester, Monmouth, Bristol, Newport, Gloucester, Bewdley,
We could add the names of
i many other towns in which
the Liberal strength has been increased this last registration,
ttShhtraoencekwpaosr otherstr.e ciCtuhhiasalttlael Chatham
for
; givenin our
purpose, all
40
in one of our previous lists.
but we will not travel out of our way to boast of that, which
until the day of trial comes is only matter of argument
after all. The alteration of political circumstances, the
single step onward by a Liberal administration, would vary
the registry more than the mere paltry gains in any one in-
stance of which the Tories boast. It is not affection for Tory-
ism that makes Reformers inactive ; hatred of Toryism 'is
deeply implanted in the breast of the great majority of
borough constituences. It is the want of some stimu-
lous to exertion, the variance of the objects at which
Reformers aim, that keeps them apparently indifferent to
: inumeybe ofr
of
Tory boastings, and even to Tory lies. But let an
election come when it may, the borough constitu-
ency
m
England andemb e
rlsirtaole S
Parliament will
and we an increased
ieasnes.d.
ti,ged in asserting this, even if we did not know it from un-
doubted sources, upon the results of the last general election.
Upon the boroughs the Liberal party gained at that contest,
although nearly every corrupt constituency was bought by the
Tortes, and the sum of money expended by them was larger
than ever known. The loss to the Liberal party came from
the c tounties, from the acre constituency, not from the towns
and t boroughs of this country. The Tories will do wisely to
confine their boastings of prospective gain to the voters by the
acre ;, they may in addition always have Berwick, and Bridg
vrate r, and Maidstone, and divers other similar boroughs as
long as they choose to pay for them ; but in the honest con-
stitu army of the large majority of boroughs in England they
will rook in vain for supporters, and all their hopes and long-
ings -after them are fruitless.

A young man, named Calmel, student of law at
Crae,,l, who was engaged some time ago in a duel, in which he
had th c misfortune to kill his adveisary, fell into a state of
profoutui melancholy soon after that event, and gradually de-
clined .health from day to day, until towards the end of last
week he exp:red, his body having been completely worn out by
the anguish se remorse remorse of his mind.

FRIENDSHIP OF A COURT PHYSICIAN.
Feeling the sincerest respect for the private and personal,
as well as the greatest admiration of the professional character
of Sir Henry Halford—holding his family and connections in
the highest esteem, we think we do nothing but a duty to that
eminent man to call his attention to a statement which has
been generally published, touching the circumstances connected
with the sudden Hines; of the late Mr. Lockley, the well-
known surgeon of Half Moon-street, and his consequent death.
The statement given to the public—no Coroner's inquest
having been held on the body of the lamented gentleman—is,
that Sir Henry Halford having invited Mr. Lockley to biz
house in the country, Mr. Lockley, although in not particu-
larly good health, accepted the invitation which was kindly
pressed upon him, and accompanied Sir Henry in his journey
by the railroad towards Wilton.
When the train bad nearly reached Tring, the Papers say
Mr. Lockley was seized with something like an apoplectic fit,
and when the train arrived at Tring Sir Henry Halford had
him removed from the carriage and gave him in charge of the
people at the station, vouching for his respectability, and
directing them to get medical advice for him as soon as pos-
sible. The train waiting but a few minutes, and Sir Henry
being anxious to get home in time to receive the party, of
which Mr. Lockley was to have made one, proceeded on his
journey the moment the carriages were again ready.
Mr. Lockley remained behind alone and unattended ;
medical advice did not arrive for some hours ; when it did,
Mr. Lockley was removed to London in the afternoon, and
died.

We have received several letters written in the most friendly
spirit towards Sir Henry Halford, praying us to urge upon
him some explanation of this most unhappy affair. "If Sir
Henry Halford deemed the case of Mr. Lockley to be such,"
says one, " as to demand medical assistance, why leave him,
and, in leaving him, deprive him of the first medical assist-
ance in the country.' If," continues our correspondent,
" the impression goes abroad that Sir Henry Halford
considered the case trivial, which so shortly after proved fatal,
it cannot fail to mar his hitherto unsullied professional reputa-
tion."

These are questions which we cannot presume to answer.
We believe that when medical assistance did arrive, the gen-
tleman who came to Mr. Lockley's aid lamented that be bad
not been with him sooner; and we know that Mr. Lockley.
who in the morning had started, the invited guest of Sir Henry
Milford, departed this life in the evening of that morning in
Half Moon-street.

The characters of eminent public men are public property,
and the justly-favoured physician of George the Fourth, and
William the Fourth, who has received the highest honours by
creation and decoration that were ever conferred upon any
medical man in this country, ought not, and must not, be run
down or beaten down, by party details or ex-parte misrepre-
sentations. Therefore is it that we venture to hope that Sir
Henry Halford will—as we are quite sure he can—put at rest
a feeling which, we regret to say, has been industriously
created upon this subject, and condescend to explain, for the
gratification of his friends and admirers, a transaction at pre-
sent most unpleasantly discussed by his enemies and detractors.
—John Bull.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,--I have waited for several days in the expectation (to
which my wish was father) that a contradiction of the late
melancholy occurrence relative to Sir H. Halford and his de-
ceased friend (Mr. Lockley) would appear from some autho-
rised Correspondent. The matter has been noticed in several
of the Provincial Journals, and Sir Henry must be aware of its
notoriety. I grieve to find that he is not as fully sensible of
the heartless and discreditable nature of the action to which I
allude.

So this is fashionable friendship 1 This is the conduct of a
man born and educated as a gentleman, and who is nearly
allied to one that would have acted in a very different man-
ner. A physician, too 1 He leaves London in company with
an individual for whom he has always professed amore than
ordinary regard ; that individual is struck with death in his
presence, and under circumstances the fatal nature of which
must have been better known to himself than to any one else ;
and he leaves him in the care of strangers, doubtful whether
he shall see him again a living man, to hurry forward to his
own country-seat, where he coolly carves a haunch of venison
and drinks champagne with his guests, as if nothing extra-
ordinary or unusual had occurred; perhaps wondering, over
the sixth bottle of claret, whether " poor Lockley be still
alive."

If these facts receive no refutation (and if they can receive
one, it ought to have appeared sooner), I am bound to say
that they convey to my mind a feeling of unmitigated disgust.
This letter is not written from motives of private pique and
personal enmity, for I never spoke to Sir Henry Halford in
my life—aad, what is more, I hope I never shall ; but, in
common with the rest cf the public, I strongly deprecate such
un•Christian like behaviour, and denounce its heartless inhu-
manity.-_I remain, Sir, your obediet servant,

HOMO.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—The Alfred, Jameson, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed from Saugor the Bth of June, and St. Helena
the 12th of September ; Kyle, Fletcher, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed from Saugor the 2d of July, and St. Helena
the 21st of September.
Ships Spoken with.—The Boyne, Richardson, from Cro-
marty, N. 8., to Sydney, New Soutb Wales; and Glenbervie,
Rine, from London to New South Wales, in company on the
sth, in lat. 9 N., long. 22 W. by the Kyle, arrived in the
Downs ; Narcissus, Currie, from Moulmien to London, July
19, lat. 3 N., long. 94 E., by Margaret, Connall, arrrived in
the Clyde ; Earl Grey, from Liverpool to Calcutta, Oct. 24,
lat. 50 N., long. 2 W., by the Pandora, arrived in the Clyde;
Dortenaar, from Sourabaya and Cape of Good Hope, to Dor-
drecht, Sept. 26, lat. 5 S., in a leaky state, by the Diana, arrived
in the Texel ; Porter, Porter, and Dorset, Bishop, from Liver-
pool to South Australia, Sept. 27, lat. 10 56 N., long 20 6 W.,
by the Sarah Barry, arrived in the St. Katharine's Dock ;
Nile, Anderson, from Liverpool to China, Sept. 2, lat. 28 S.,
long. 22 NV., out 47 days; Princess Charlotte, Sbroull, from
Liverpool to Bombay, July 15, lat. 6 N., long. 17 W.

'ENRITII AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—We
are delighted to hear that this undertaking is making most
rapid progress in public estimation. Shares to the amount of
about 30,0001. have already been taken in the neighbourhood
of Penrith ; and there is every prospect of a rapid increase.
Applications for shares have already, we understand, been
made from London, Manchester. and Liverpool ; and if the
capitalists of these places come forward with the zeal they at
present manifest, it is by no means improbable but we shall
soon see the shares at a premium. We trust that some deci-
sive step will soon be taken in Carlisle to encourage the un-
dertaking.—Carlisle Journal. _

KNOWSLEY.—We are happy to announce, upon
the best authority, that the health of the noble ow ner of
Knowsley is daily improving. Earl Derby derives great ap-
parent benefit from his daily drives in an open carriage attended
by some of the female portion of his family, and his spirits are
very good.--Lancaster Guardian
BEEFSTEAK CLUB.—On Saturday evening the
noblemen and other distinguished members of this the oldest
and most celebrated club in the metropolis, dined together in
their new and elegant room attached to the English Opera
House.

On Saturday last the splendid Indian sword pre-
sented by the late Earl of Dalhousie to the Royal Company
of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, was shot for
in Hope Park, Edinburgh, and gained by John Stewart, Esq.,
W. S. Glasgow Courier.
POLITICAL DUELS.—The violence of political par-
ties during the early part of the:reign of George 111. gave rise to
many duels. In 1762 Wilkes discharged a brace of pistols with
Lord Talbot, which meeting he has described in a manner irresis-
itbly ludicrous in a letter to his friend Earl Temple; in the follow-
ing year he fought his well-known duel with Martin, the secretary
to the Treasury, and was severely wounded. Just previous to
the American war, Mr. Whatley fought and was dangerously
wounded, by Lieutenant-Governor Temple. In 1779 Mr.
Adam called out Mr. Fox for words spoken in the heat of a
debate. Two cases of pistols were discharged ; Fox was
slightly wounded. When the affair was over, Fox, in al-
lusion to the clamour which existed as to the badness of the
ammunition supplied to the troops, is said, on discovering
his wound to the party, to have remarked—" Egad, Adam,
it would have been all over with me, if you had not been
charged with Government powder." In 1780 Colonel Ful-
lerton, the Member for Plympton, wounded the Earl of
Shelburne, for designating him " a mere commis." in the
House of Lords ; and in the same year Sir Philip Francis
challenged Warren Hastings, then Governor-General of India,
for severe animadversions on his conduct as one of the Mem-
bers of the Council of Bengal. Hastings waived his dignity,
and gave Francis a meeting, at which the latter was severely
wounded. Francis, on his recovery, hastened to Eng-
land, and accused his antagonist of high crimes and misde-
meanours, and to him Burke was deeply indebted in his gi-
gantic attacks against Hastings. In 1786 General Stuart
wounded Lord Macartney in a political duel ; and in 1798
Pitt and Tierney discharged a brace of pistols each with a
lucky perversity of aim, and shook hands in the harmless smoke
they had raised. We pause on the threshold of the 19th cen-
tury.— United Service Journal.
A wretch who had deserted his wife and family to

live with another woman, at Charleroi, in Belgium, lately as-
sassinated his wife, mother-in-law, and three children, the
eldest of whom was only five years of age. After appropri-
ating to himself all the money in the possession of his unfortu-
nate wife he set fire to the residence of bis victims, and then
made his escape. He has since been arrested, and is now in
prison at Nivelles.
The case of the fruit growers is becoming of gene-
ral interest throughout the country ; and we are glad to learn
that petitions, similar to those carried at a late meeting in
Kent, have been resolved upon in other places. It requires
only an union of action among the growers of the kingdom to
obtain a restoration of the rights and protection they have
,
the
been so cruelly and nefariously deprived of by the
Ministry.--
Kentish Gazette.
We mouth, which has of late by
Hff'of exterior ignitions, caused renewed ex-
citement, continues an object of peculiar attraction for the
el-las;ran
geologist. The cliff has now been in an uninterrupted state
of ignition upwards of eight years,
opretahCclei
and at no period during
that time has it ceased to emit vapour, occasionally extensive
and expansive, with masses of ignited substances ; at other
times more limited, but al • d • h high
ways accompanie with r
charged effluvia, of a bituminous character. The
fissures just
now are much reduced in number, but l •
all still eying the
interesting characteristics which have heretofore attracted so
much notice,—Exeter Gazette.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1838.

In the dissertations of the Press on the unsatisfac-
factory state of our prospects, whether we look to
India, Russia, or the Canadas—the present condition,
power, wants, and feelings of the Irish nation have
been nearly overlooked; while every statesman that de-
serves the name, and every rational being that turns
his attention to the subject, must be convinced that the
great question, " What is to be done with Ireland ?"
ought to be the most prominent feature in the view.
Since England was last engaged in war, steam haS pro-
duced a vast revolution, which will influence all her
operations by land and sea whenever another great
struggle commences, but even that change is not
greater than the moral and physical change which has
taken place, as regards the connexion between this
country and Ireland, since we commenced war with
the French Republic. According to Mr. BUSHE and
Dr. BEAUFORT the population of Ireland at that pe-
riod was four millions. It now approaches to within a
few thousands of eight millions. But that is nothing
compared to the moral and political power acquired
within the same time. Catholic Emancipation gave a
moral tone and courage to the Catholics which they
never before possessed. The Reform Bill completed
the revolution, and since that event the Irish Members
have held the balance between the Tories and the
Whigs. In fact, without conciliating them, or rather
the Irish nation, no Government, in peace or war, can
work well. Independent of the risk of civil war, and
the difficulty of finding means to repress it, should the
party of Sir ROBERT PEEL, owing to some national
excitement, get a majority in the House of Commons,
and place him in office, the Irish Members, with the
large proportion of English and Scotch Members that
would support their claims, must form a constant
source of embarrassment, and, on the turn of the po-
pular tide, eventually eject him. And for what object
is all this embarrassment, and expense, and national
weakness to be endured. To make a distinction be-
tween Catholics and Protestants—to withhold rights,
which in every other civilized State are alike granted
to both, on the bigoted, atrocious, and absurd prin-
ciple, that Catholics ought to be a proscribed race,
because a certain portion of the community think their
religion bad. We are no admirers of the Catholic
religion, or of any State religion, where the power of
the priest is not pared down to the lowest standard,
but that circumstance forms one of the many reasons
why we advocate fair play and justice to Ireland. If
Sir ROBERT INGLIS, with the long train of religious
and political bigots that form his tail, could put down
the Catholic religion, or even check its progress, there
would be some sense in the restrictions and penalties
which they would impose on its professors ; but the
history of Ireland, and of all other countries, where
the more powerful sect oppressed the weaker, proves
the folly and the wickedness of such an attempt.
Every Christian sect strengthens in proportion as it is
persecuted. The very cruelties endured for the sake
of any form of religion, render it in the eyes of the
worshippers only more sacred, and that of the oppressor
more detested. The six years' reign of the cold-
blooded ALVA in the Netherlands, during which
18,000 Protestants perished on the scaffold, sealed the
triumph of Protestantism in Holland. But it is
needless to multiply instances. Sir ROBERT PEEL
jS too well read in history to deny the fact, and his
own experience must teach him, that, if he consults
the bigotry of Orangemen, he can govern Ireland °nit
by the sword. If the Duke of WELLINGTON refused
to draw the sword when the Catholics demanded po-
litical power, would Sir ROBERT PEEL, when that
power is obtained, be justified in the eyes of impartial
Europe in waging a civil war for the sake of a few
thousand pounds ? No. The day of persecution for
religion's sake is about to close. Let him and his
followers consent to the completion of the work which
WELLINGTON in 1829 so nobly began. Let provi-
sion be made for the moral and religious instruction of
the Catholics before the tithes are swallowed up by
the landlords, and give to the Catholics of Ireland the
municipal rights and privileges enjoyed by Protestants,
Catholics, and Dissenters, in Great Britain. They
will not, and ought not, to be satisfied with less.
The folly of the Covenanters at the battle of Dunbar
is only surpassed by the folly of the bigots of the
present day, who would alienate a third portion of the
inhabitants of this great empire, and thousands of our
best soldiers, for scruples not so excusable, and not
more respectable, than those of that army of zealots
which CROMWELL crushed to pieces. England has
enough to do with foreign broils without these domestic
quarrels.

The Tory Journals are speculating on a change of
Ministry, but the Times, afraid of the success of its
party, which would ruin its trade, is extremely desirous
that the Tories should not take office. Our Contem-
porary, it must be admitted, is not made to be an
eulogist, and is only great when he is flourishing his
scourge. He is a most adroit flogger. lie peels a
bound up victim from the nape of the neck to the
breech in a most ferocious and boatswain-like style ;
but, as a courtier, he is like the jack-ass imitating
the fawning dog. He kicks those he meant to
caress, and gets disgrace as his reward. In opposi-
tion only is the Times grand, ,:,nd it is very desirous
to make the Tories now serve it, as it has of late dili-
gently served them. 1-"tarving men, however, can hear
only their stomaeins, and the office-hungry Tories will
not notice the Times. Whenever they can clutch office
they will, though they know that their approach to it
will be the signal for uniting against then all the dis-
contem of the kingdom, which would first overthrow
their Ministry and then the State.
How are they to govern ? We admit that they are
not like the description the Times gives of the Whigs,
,uncertain as to their own course. All men could see
the future if the Tories were in office. They are pre-
pared to follow out a permanent Tolley. They have
made up their minds by bayonet and gun to urhold the
Church of Ireland. They will not suffer—they have
sworn—a single sinecure rectory to be abolished. They
are pledged to have a Protestant parson, with at least
3001. a-year, in every parish of Ireland. They are
pledged, then, to provoke rebellion in the name of reli-
gion, to set, by a sort of Mahomedan proselytism, the
sword above their duties as statesmen—and to employ
the troops, as the Times has said, to reconquer Ireland.
They are pledged to something more than this. Dr.
CHALMERS and his friends have bound them to the
endowment of new Kirks for Scotland, and the religious
strife amongst the fervid Caledonians, which will arise
when the Tories come into power, will be more terrific
to the Government than -the pike and gun war in
Ireland. And then come the successors of the
Apostles in England, with their 20,0001., 15,0001.,