The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 'THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We cannot for a moment believe that the enemies of
Reform, even if they were to be for a time successful,
-would long be able to keep their ground against the
advocates of liberal opinions. There is now too much
intelligence and spirit in the country to allow the To-
ries to trample on the people and to withhold from them
the improvements to which they are entitled. But if
Reformers were not to unite and sacrifice their diffe-
rences with each other, to the great object of defeating
those who hate the very name of Reform, it is pos-
sible that the progress of Reform might for a time be
arrested. We must confess, therefore, that we do not
F, ee without regret attempts on the part of some of our
-Radical Contemporaries to show that the country would
derive more benefit from a Tory Ministry, than froY.n
the present. On Saturday last, for instance, the
Spectator had the following remarkable obs,:lyations :
" Down to last Easter holydays we certainly did think
Lord Melbourne's Ministry the best possible Ministry for
Reformers ; and it received accordingly our constant and
not inefficient support. But the case has been altered by
the new :policy of the Tories, which Lyndhurst devised
during the Easter holydays, and has ever since steadily
pursued. Lord Melbourne's claim to the support of
Reformers rested upon certain promises. ' His pro-
mises'—says Lyndhurst, in words all the more offensive
for their truth—' were, as he then was, mighty ; his per-
formance has been, as he now is, nothing.' Nothing—
no Reform—is not more Reform than a Tory Govern-
ment could give. Lyndhurst, as Premier, could not give
less than ' nothing.' Nay, it should be remembered that,
except Reform of the House of Commons and English
Corporations, all the more important changes of the last
ton years—reductions of public expenditure, the removal
of restrictions on trade, the repeal of the Test and Cor-
poration Acts, and the great measure of ' justice to Ire-
land'—have been granted by Tory Administrations which
were able to. mannge the Lords, and willing to make any
sacrifice of opinion for the retention of office. If Peel's
conformity had been allowed a two years' trial, it would
probably have done much more for Reform last Session—
it could not possibly 'have done less—than Lord Mel-
bourne's ' nothing.' So long as there is a merely Whig
Ministry—that is., a Ministry which the Tories wish to
displace, and which is not Radical enough for the masses
—the Lords can and will prevent all measures of Reform
desired by the Commons. Except through a change in
the policy of the Whigs, there is not the slightest pros-
pect of any change in the new Tory policy. That policy,
if not defeated by a sufficient counter policy, renders the
Whigs good for I nothing' to Reformers. The Whigs
do not intend to change their policy. Their Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, following their Secretaries of
the Admiralty and the Colonial-office, who speak for
-' their Secretary-at-War, has just informed us that there
is to be no ' hunting after novelty' next session—that only
44 6 e same' means of reform are to be pursu.'el next year as
h 'ibis year ended in ' nothing.' We deny, therefore,
•t '' 46 'Whig Ministry, in its present position, and as at
./t
' pi4sBtir i is.osed, is ' the best Ministry the country ever
hact",q ' . , as to its being ' better than any that could be
formed u....'its ruins,' let us observe, in reply to the absurd
and there ‘.\tinsulting proposal which Mr. Rice makes to
the earnest itdformers of Scotland and England, that a
Tory MiniArytould grant more Reform than two -mere
Eil'is, not Atts,k relating only to Ireland. There is no To-
ryism in office. Toryism, getting into office, becomes Con-
formity. Conformity is very much better than ' nothing.'
-Besides, if the Whigs were in opposition, most of them,
instead of being Whig-Tories, as they all are just now,
would become Whig-Radicals. The Whigs radicalize to
obtain office ; the Tories to keep it. Upon the whole,
therefore, we further deny that this Ministry, as at present
situated and inclined, is ' better than any that could be
formed upon its ruins.' "
On the same day the Times observed--
" Everybody knows that if the ultra-Tories would have
consented to some colourable Reform in Parliament that
might have enabled Lord Grey to redeem, or to insist
that he had redeemed, one of his pledges, he and the
Whigs would have eagerly jumped into an alliance with
them. The object of maintaining their own power was
the true Whig principle that measured the extent of their
reform, and governed all its details. The destruction of
the Conservative party—that is, of the rank, the wealth,
and the intelligence of the country—is now their secondary
object, ag the energy and consolidation of that party
form the most efficient obstacle to their determination
of continuing in office. Hence all their fury and false-
hood, when at their disloyal threepenny feasts they fall. foul upon the Conservative party, or any of their leaders.
Hence the unblushing and unbridled audacity with -which
they denounce Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Welling-
ton, Lord Lyndhurst, as enemies of all rationai, reform—
knowing, as they do full well, that the ratirnal and con-
stitutional reforms meditated and propos'al by these illus-
trious Statesmen have been frustrated hitherto by nothing
else but the determination of the Whig party to regain and
to maintain office at every sacrifice and at every hazard.
True to this, their leading principle, and to this alone, as
the needle to the Pole, they advance the papist , power in
Ireland at the risk of disuniting the empire."
If we overlook the Billingsgate of the above pas-
sage of the Tinies it does not differ materially in sen-
timent from the passage quoted from the Spectator.
We condemned the language of men in office, referred
to by this last journal, because we foresaw it would
be turned against the Ministry. We should be sorry
to think that there was really no difference in honesty
of intention bgtween a Melbourne and a Peel Ministry;
and we agree with th-e Examiner that it is very unfair
to make the worst samples of the Ministry our cri-
terion for judging of it. But it is said the policy of
Lyndhurst ha's completely succeeded,—Lord Mel-
bourne can aeivance no farther,—he is beat to a stand-
still,—and, the best thing you can do is to suffer
him to b'. turned out ; and the Whigs, though
powerless in place, will be powerful in opposi-
tion. We admit that Sir Robert Peel made strong
professions of Reform, when, without dividing
the Reformers, he could not hope to succeed at the
general election and keep office. We admit, too,
that the Tories managed to obtain from the Lords the
ropeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and con-
cession of the claims of the Catholics. It was not,
however, supposed that these two 'measures would
weaken the power of the Tories in Parliament, or
pave the way to a Reform of the Representation. The
East .Retford question and two or three others, fought
with, the utmost determination by the Tories, suffi-
ciently show that they were obstinately bent on ex-
cluding the people from Parliament. Why are all
those who exist by the plunder of the people so eager
for the return of the Tories to office ? Is it because
'they think that Sir Robert Peel would prove a better
Reformer than Lord Melbourne ? The idea is ab-
surd. When Sir Robert Peel professed himself a
Conformer he was obliged to bid for the Reformers ;
but if he were allowed by the divisions of the Reformers
to walk over the course, he would not be allowed by
his own party to propose Reform measures. His fol-
lowers would tell hitn—you owe your success alone to
MC bold part played by Lord Lyndhurst—by refusing
any thing ; and we will not suffer the fruits of the vic-
tory to be snatched from us. There would necessarily
be a re-action, which would continue till the common
calamity had once more united the different classes
of Reformers who, for a time, woul4 be
bittered against each other that thr• common fso em-
foe
would have few obstacles to encoianter. The great aroument of the Tories at the election was—we com-
ts
mand the Has
House of Lords--the Whigs never can
have any influence with that body. If we regain
power there will be liri collision. If you persist in
givinga majority to the Whigs, our majority in 0:e
Lords will prevent, any measures of improvement from
being carried. To give power to the Tories because
of their influence in the Lords would really be to
allow the Lords to trample on the necks of the
people of these kingdoms. We have too much
con6dence in the good sense of Reformers to suppose
that they would play the game of the Tories on the
supposition that more is to be got from Tories than
Whigs. But the it
ancations of dissatisfaction in a
part of the body are not to be neglected by Ministers.
An army not err,ployed is in danger of falling into dis-
sensions. Misters will see that discipline can best be
preserved "in the ranks of Reformers by movement. If
they show a disposition to advance the people will
rally round them, and if they should fall in the popu-
lar cause they will be again borne on the shoulders of
the people to power. If they remain stationary the
people will become indifferent and abandon them, and
then the Tories will have. an easy victory, with time to
reap the fruits of it. In every sense the bold and de-
cided policy is the safest.. Morning Chronicle.

If Edinburgh be entitled to her self-arrogated de-
signation of " Modern Athens," it is surely not by
her displays of public eloquence that she can justify
her claim. On the contrary, this Northern Capital
seems to be fatal to all but the very heaviest heavings
of humdrum intellect which, with sympathetic fond-

ness, it enshrouds in congenial vapour. Were it
worth the while, we might prove that talents of a
high order—nay, genius itself, have been dimmed and
darkened by the density of this political atmosphere.
But it is sufficient for our present purpose to point
attention, for the last time, to the
hazy appearance
made by his Majesty's Attorney General oniear Mondaye
last, in the capital of his native country.
Gentleman set out by stating, that the . c
~t4g,
The learned
he ever gave was to some Sawney of
who expressed a wish to " see lais (Sir John's) face
I:':.s constituency
again." We don't Si the precise point here aimed
at by the Wh,g Attorney-General. It may be an
especial pleasure for the patriots of Edinburgh to see
their isliMsterial Member " face to face." If so, wish-
ing both parties.joy of the mutual reflection, we proceed
to consider the political import of Sir John Campbell's
visit to Edinburgh, as it is to be estimated by his ela-
borate, verbose, and, we must haa, most vapid ora-
tion. His Majesty's Attorney-General, after flounder-
ing and performing the circuitous nonsense called
"going about the bush, and about the bush," at length
came to the point most interesting to the Government
of which he is the tool—namely, the defence of his and
their master, Mr. Daniel O'Connell. With a
" Matchless intrepidity of face,"
worthy of the Great Beggarinan himself, he had the
modesty to refer to the Carlow Election Committee as
a proof of Tory oppissition to popular rights and politi-
cal purity ! I The very Whigs of Edinburgh scouted
this miserat;le attempt at " clap-trap." The " hisses"
of the impartial were mingled most audibly with the
cheers of the factious, and this grave law-officer of the
Crown was forced to seek refuge in some " fool-born
jest" about the long faces of the Conservatives, to
raise a laugh, under cover of which he might pass to a
more convenient topic. It is useless to waste a worn
upon the Carlow case. Not even the fact of its being
one of conclusive force against the faction shall tempt
us to dwell on it, so convinced are we of the inefface-
able effect which that flagitious job has produced on
the public mind. Pass we to other and no less im-
pudent portions of the Attorney-General's speech.
This Whig functionary thought fit to attack, as best
he might, no less a man than Lord Lyndhurst. Now,
we have no wish to stand forward as the especial chain;
pion of that Noble and Learned Lord. In the first
place, his unquestionable claims to distinction place
him beyond the necessity of any such championship ;
and in addition, we may remark, that it would require
a more formidable foe than Sir John Campbell to jus-
tify any anxiety on the part of the admirers of Lord
Lyndhurst. Still, impertinence, in what quarter so-
ever manifested, against eminent men, should be re-
sisted and repressed ; and the 'Whig Attorney-Genes
ral's remarks, with reference to Lord Lyndhurst, being
most vulgarly impertinent, deserve to be most contemp-
tuously denounced. Sir John Campbell, then, had
the impertinence to say to the " unctnny" listeners to
his Edinburgh oration," The same individual (I mean
Lord Lyndhurst) said there was a brilliant promise
but a very deficient execution. Whose fault was this,
gentlemen ? It was the fault of Lord Lyndhurst,
and those whom I must say he has misled." Really,
looking at the relative situations of Lord Lyndhurst
and the Whig Attorney-General, one can scarcely con-
sider impertinence a sufficiently strong term in the
present instance. Here we have a person respectable,
industrious, and successful as a barrister, it is true, but
never yet convicted of an enlarged or vigorous treat-
ment of any subject, professional or political, presum-
ing to prate against a man of the most distinguished
judicial intellect, as being a misleader of the Peers I
Will any man plead guilty to the inconceivable stupi-
dity of supposing Sir J. Campbell a person capable of
estimating—yes, of even estimating—the public con-
duct o Lord Lyndhurst ? If this vain implement of
a bungling Ministry must needs be reminded of who
and what he is, we must undertake the office. We
have already admitted him to be an industrious and
successful lawyer. But beyond this how could his
own vanity presume to go ? Can his name be con-
nected, directly or indirectly, with any public procedure
of political benefit or professional distinction ? Yes I
disgracefully so. He himself told his modern-Athenian
auditory that, professionally speaking, he had received
" a glorious reward." How, and for what ? It is
scarcely credible, yet the plain indisputable fact, that
Sir John Campbell had the truly Caledonian firmness
of feature to assure his constituents of his gratification
at having been connected with the Melbourne and
Norton trial ! Were ever men so bestially besotted
as these Whigs ? Previously to, and pending the
proceedings on that singular case, they violated
every dictate of common prudence, and now that
all parties are prepared, nay, wishful to forget the
business, the very person who of all others best knows
that in this, as -in other cases, " a still tongue
makes a wise head," must needs recall unfor-
tunate and unexplained circumstances to public recol-
lection I It was well worthy the Whig-Radicals at
the time to receive the Attorney-General on his
entering the House of Commons, not as one of the
representatives of the people," not as a high judicial
officer under the Crown, but as a fortunate pleader in a
cause affecting the private habits of his Lord and
Premier. But it was not worthy of this same Attor-
ney-General to allude in terms of triumph to such a
case ; it was unworthy of him, if he aimed to be a
prudent politician, unworthy of him if he hoped to be
thought a high-minded gentleman, to provoke remarks
which nothing but the forbearance of his political op-
ponents can prevent. The Learned Gentleman took
occasion to say, speaking of Lord Lyndhurst, that he
(Lord Lyndhurst) " could assume a pleasing form."
We have no disposition to allude personally to the
Attorney-General when saying, that the compliment
cannot possibly be returned. Very unpleasant (we
should imagine to the Ministers themselves), must be
the brazen impudence of this foremost legal functionary,
when misrepresenting almost every measure mentioned
by him in his roundabout speech—especially unpleas-
ing to those same Ministers the hisses of scorn and
derision with which those zealous misrepresentations
were received by the metropolitan electors of the North.
We could easily, if we thought it worth our while,
point out the peculiar impudence of each of these mis-
representations. lii the mean time we take leave to
express our cordial concurrence in one of Sir John
Campbell's sentiments ; it is this—he:says, " the Whig
Radicals are supported by O'Connell, and he (Sir
John Campbell) is glad of it." So most heartily are
we. —Times.
The Times and the other Tory journals are employ-
ing all their endeavours to persuade the public that
the cause of Reform is daily losing ground—that Con-
servatism is becoming the favourite creed of the people
—that the Reform interest is divided, and that the
Tories are merely "biding their time" to re-occupy
those places from which they were, eighteen months
ago, so disgracefully ejected. Were such actually the
case, we should not by any means despair of the cause
of Reform ; for while the necessity for it exists, the
grounds of dissatisfaction must exist also, and there is,
in consequence, every means of hope that the people,
however they may be con trouled or led astray for the
moment, will ultimately awake from their slumber, and
take ample vengeance upon their oppressors for the
follies which they have led them to commit. But we
see no reason for entertaining any such belief. The
people may be disgusted, on the one hand, by the dis-
appointments which they sustained during the last
Session
Parliament, in consequence of the un-
resistedopposition of the Tories to every measure
of improvement proposed by his Majesty's Mi.
nisters and, on the other, dissatisfied with the
cond o
uct
as former
f their representatives in not insisting,
Parliaments did, by withholding the
supplies, and by other measures, upon the compliance
of the Lords with the declared wishes of the people ;
but where is there the slightest proof that their anxiety
for reform has in any degree abated ? What city—
whatat
ht e thepri n jciirpelseesn
ot
fmpo
enai ecne
,t
--what county is
nint, to those of foreign war
for the sake of putting down intestine reform
town
o f notifying
refoim its conversion n
( re t
reiich
mfroe
—.of cor-
ruption, and lavish expenditure ? True it is that the
Conservatives are most thoroughly united—that they
are zealous and active in their vocation--that they hold
frequent meetings, get up as many feeds, operative and
co-operative, as their purses can afford, and leave en
means untried to give them due effect upon the public
mind :—and true also it is—most true indeed—that
the Reformers, trusting too much in the justice of
their cause, have not latterly been at the same palm to

promulgate their principles, and increase the number
of their adherents ;—but if the Tories trust to this
transient calm or apparent apathy—for transient it
must be—as a proof that 'Toryism iS in the ascendant,
and the cause of reforni ikpon the We beg to
assure them that they
tift I4bouring under an egregious
delusion, and 'tat they have only test their belief at
a
election, the be,•
~ent of which they will soon
experience, in order to be thoroughly thnaeetivea, That
there is a schism among the rief6tritei-s we do not mean
to deny, We linew its Alta we deplore it as little short
of a national calamity ; and it is equally true that the
Reforinets are not bestirring thernselVes with the Energy
and zeal which the ne"Ceslities of the times demand.
But, after 611; the differences among the Reformers arc
not dill'ereirecs of principle, but differences of mode and
extent. Upon that of " progressiVo rniWenieritn all arc
united. All are determined Mat ltefdrni
,shall pro-
ceed, and that there F,116.11 be.iid unite 16 its
ultimate amount, than theit ik4AO'i',g the Tories that
there shall be WO 1k.40.ii11 Which they can prevent ;
and if the laiWt e,an find consolation in this fact, which
we Ctlntlicily confess, they are welcome to it. We do
not anticipate that it will do them much good. At the
same time we cannot but deplore the course of conduct
pursued by two or three of the would-be organs of the Re-
form party, with regard to this most important subject.
Their anxious desire to propagate their own principles ex-
ceeds theirdiscretion. Their efforts, instead of healing the
division, tend only to widen the breach, and that too at a
time, of all others, when no breach ought to exist, no
division of opinion be apparent—but when all well-
wishers of their country ought to ho united in favour
of the one great and glorious cause, that of Reform.
We would not willingly ascribe improper motives to
the conduct which certain journals, as well as certain
representatives of the people, have been recently pur-
suing ; but in truth it has begotten no less suspicion
than it is unquestionably liable to blame. It is in-
juring the cause of Reform, on the one hand, by
causing a division among its adherents, and filling the
minds of the Tories, on the other, with hopes which
however transient, might lead to temporary embarrass-
ment and mischief. 1. hat his Majesty's Ministers have
not proceeded with vigour and energy on many and
On most important occasions, which public feeling and
national interest demanded, we readily admit; but it must
be at the same time taken into consideration, that they
hare had many and most serious difficulties to contend
with ; and, farther, that they have not received that
liberal and unqualified support either from the people
or their representatives, which, in their peculiar posi-
tion, they had a right to expect. Let but these come
forward in the same manner, with the same energy, in
the same spirit, and with the same zeal, as on the oc-
casion of the Reform Bill, and all and every thing
that is wanted for the reform of the institutions of the
country, and the establishment of its prosperity on a
permanent basis will be but the work of a day. Let
them hold back—let them, by dividing their strength,
return to the Tories the power which they wielded
previously to the passing of the Reform Bill, and a
generation may pass away in useless debate, and vain
attempts to obtain those reforms of which the coun-
try stands in need, and which may be accomplished
without placing in jeopardy the interests of any party
in the State.-,—Morning Advertiser.
The citizens of London have done themselves credit
by the manner in which they have come forward to tes-
tify their gratitude for the great services which the
Duke of Wellington has rendered to his country, by
erecting a statue, or some other lasting testimonial, in
his honour, in some conspicuous part of the metropolis
of the empire. From the amount subscribed in the
first instance at the interesting meeting at the Mansion
House, there can be no doubt that the public liberality
will be worthy of the occasion. We also hope and
trust that the proposed memorial will also be worthy
of the subject—that it will be creditable to the na-
tional taste, and not, like too many of our modern mo-
numents, only remarkable for barbaric ostentation and
tasteless expense. It has been our lot for years past,
and a severe duty it has imposed upon us, to endea-
vour to diffuse true principles of taste in regard to
public monuments. Many an arduous battle have
we had to fight for the preservation of those
splendid and venerable architectural remains that
combine the principles of the most exact science
with true grandeur and beauty of effect—monu-
ments of the ancient piety and renown of England
—shedding the mellow lustre of the olden time
upon a land rich in the recollections of historical
glory. One of those ancient monuments which we
exerted ourselves to protect against the hand of dese-
crating violence stands close to the great southern ap-
proach to the new London-bridge, and now, in its re-
stored state, challenges admiration as the finest archi-
tectural ornament in the vicinity of the modern im-
provements.- We need hardly state that we allude to
the " Ladye Chapel "—one of the purest specimens
of the pointed architecture of England now in exist-
ence ; but we grieve to say that the noble edifice to
which it is attached-_.the Collegiate church of St.
Mary Overy, also a magnificent historical monument,
is mutilated, and in danger of destruction by the roof-
less and dilapidated condition of its nave. The hand
of the modern Vandals has been upon it. We hear
much .of the improvements going on and projected in
the neighbourhood of London-bridge—were the church
which we speak of completely restored—were the
nave rebuilt in accordance with the ancient model,
as the choir and transepts have already been, it would,
indeed, be a noble ornament to the part of the me-
tropolis upon which its mutilated condition now re-
flects disgrace. Shall other monuments of talent and
taste be raised to adorn the approaches to the new
London-bridge, while close to that great work the beau-
tiful but perishing temple of the Deity totters neglected
to its fall ? It is somewhere in the neighbourhood of
London-bridge or its approaches that the proposed
memorial of the Duke of Wellington's achievements is
to be raised. This brings us back to what we before
observed—that we trust it will be worthy the grandeur
of the subject which it is intended to illustrate, and not
less creditable to the nation as a work of art, than as
an example of patriotic munificence. This.can only
be obtained by excluding favouritism--the great bane
of modern art—and giving that encouragement to the
production of excellence which fair and open com-
petition only can give—the source Of generous emu-
lation—the incentive to the energies of genius. We
cannot quit this subject without noticing, with feel-
ings of pain and regret, the spirit evinced by a Morn-
ing Ministerial Paper, in reference to the proposed tes-
timonial to the public services of one of the greatest
men that the British empire has produced—of pain and
regret, not because the exhibition of that spirit can in-
jure the work of public gratitude which has been so
auspiciously commenced, but because there should be
found existing in England a party of such anti-na-
tional sentiments and grovelling passions, as to endea-
vour to repress the patriotic feelings of Englishmen
about to do an honour too long neglected to the Chief
who saved his country, and gave peace to Europe.
Our Whig rulers have indeed undertaken a task
equally malignant and hopeless, when they attempt to
impair the estimation in which the country holds the
services of Wellington, but for which services there
would be no country from them to degrade in character
even more than the conqueror of Napoleon had raised
it. But that they are absurd and infatuated enough to
undertake that task, is evident from the laboured and
envenomed tirade against the Wellington testimonial
which has appeared in one of their public organs, of
which we will quote the concluding words, " If the
Tories must have a Wellington monument, we would
recommend them to purchase that in the Phcenix-
park, Dublin, which we are certain the people of Ire-
land would dispose of much under prime cost—here
we shall be ready to help them to a bargain, but we
shall not subscribe a mite to do honour to a man, who,
whatever his achievements in war and whatever his per-
sonal character, is the political enemy of his country.
Even of his greatest victory, that of Waterloo, it is
a question whether the tyranny which it established,
or that which it subdued, was most hostile to human
happiness." This witless ribaldry strongly savours of
the taste and eloquence of the democratic patron of the
Whig Ministers, the man who called the Hero of
Waterloo a " stunted " Corporal," and a " swine-herd
General." It is worthy of him, and therefore worthy
of the Whigs. We admit that a tyranny has grown
up in Europe since the victory of Waterloo—a tyranny
which, if it becomes equally extensive, would be worse
than that of Napoleon—the one having been coin-

paratively splendid and intellectual, while the other is
gloomy and barbarous, We allude to the ascendancy of
Russia in the. afFairS of EtiOnel But, ihit,Ortiinately for
the Whig Organ, it is the Whig policy whialt has done
more towards extending and establishing the dreaded su-
premacy of that barbarou 1-)ower than the talents of
ttussittit Stfttegitlen or the valour of Runiati conquerors.
By atheii: haSe 'Ana ttilcltliii poliq the Whigs, during
the lets Yeats they have an haire proved
more serviceable to the encroaching ambition of
Russia—z-lhe iilVeterate Oidiny dl elk maritime and
commettiiii greatness, politiud of military
leaders of her own that Russia has produced since the
time of Peter the Great.. While the eitiens of Lon-
don tAisd a statue tt3 %Aliligtoli, *lid plevefited liberty
from being sacrificed in her last asylum, Russia,
striding like a Colossus over prostrate Poland and
Turkey;lbfgot he bdtiefdetdl,39 did Whig
Ministers. If she have any sense of gratitude she
will raise statues to Lord Palmerston and his col-
leagues, in the most conspicuous places of her enormous
empire. If Wellington be honoured where the Thames
enriches that emporium of commerce, which, but for
his glorious achievements, would have been the spoil
of the foreign invader, the Whigs, whose loftier genius
can look down upon those achievements with disdain,
ought to be idolised on the banks of the Neva. For
that tyranny, " most hostile to human ,happiness and
human liberty," which is spreading far and wide its
noxious shade over Europe, has derived more strength
from Whig truckling and imbecility than it could have
obtained by many victories.—Morning Herald.
We have devoted a considerable portion of our
space this day to the publication of the reports of the
proceedings at Preston, at Liverpool, and at Droitwich,
on Thursday and Friday last, on the occasion of three
splendid Conservative Festivals. One of these was the
second anniversary of the North Lancashire Associa-
tion, and another the first annual celebration of the Li-
verpool Operatives. The two latter splendid meetings
are of considerable importance at the present moment, as
much from the continued display of loyalty on the one
hand as from the unquestionable proofs of re-action to
be found on the other. We need award no higher
praise to the speeches at Preston than to affirm
that they were fully equal to those delivered at the
late magnificent re-union at Newton, and that the
northern division has nobly emulated the example
of the southern portion of the county. The Liver-
pool Operative Association is more deserving, how-
ever, of our especial notice, and of the unqualified
approbation of the country. This display of feeling
on the part of the working classes is decisive of the
fate of Mr. Ewart, of Maltese-agitation notoriety.
His chance of representing the town of Liverpool is
now as small as that of Mr. Joseph Hume to conti-
nue Member for Middlesex. We state broadly, and
from the best sources of information, that two Con-
servatives are certain to be returned for Liverpool at
the next election ; and that Lord Sandon and Mr.
Canning will be the future representatives. We tell
the miserably-deceived Radicals of Liverpool that the
O'Connell game is up. The " good men and true"
will most unquestionably reject the tool and minion of
the Irish Papist agitator, and the mission of the latter
will have been one of the chief causes of this re-action.
O'Connell has totally mistaken the character and opi-
nions of the inhabitants of the second commercial city
of Great Britain. He thought that he could safely
agitate the Peerage Reform question ; and by meens of
his base instruments, a knot of Atheists and Dissen-
ters, in the Town Council, he imagined that he could
have- introduced the Irish anti-scriptural system of
education into the schools of Liverpool. The result
of these insidious arts and impudent attempts has been
most satisfactory to the friends of order and good Go-
vernment. The respectable Reformers of Liverpool
have taken the alarm. 'They may have been misled,
but they are still attached to the Church, the Mo-
narchy, and the House of Lords. They are opposed
to the government of " the fierce democracy," always
sure to be wielded " at will" by some coarse, insolent,
and brutal despot ; and hence the triumphant assem-
blages, on Tuesday and Friday last, of tradesmen and
operatives,
" With hearts resolved and hands prepared

The blessings they enjoy to guard:"
Our Liverpool correspondent informs us that the
rage of the Whig-Radicals is unbounded, and their
organs do not fail to give adequate expression to
their feelings of anger and disappointment. , Their
melancholy anticipations will undoubtedly be real-
ised. They must take a long farewell of Ewart
whenever the present Parliament shall cease to
exist. From both divisions of the county of Lan-
caster our accounts are equally cheering. After
various and persevering manoeuvres to procure one
candidate for the southern division the attempt has
been abandoned as hopeless, and the present members
will walk over the course. We earnestly invite the
attention of our readers to the eloquent addresses deli-
vered at all the loyal and constitutional festivals we have
mentioned. Those of Lord Skelmersdale, Lord San-
don, Lord Redesdale, Mr. W. Gladstone, Mr. Charles
Wilkins, and others, will amply repay the labour of a
careful perusal. Our Ministerial contemporaries will
endeavour, no doubt (for it is their proper function),
to undervalue the many striking and conclusive mani-
festations of the spirit which pervades Lancashire.
The Conservatives of this important county can, how-
ever, afford to laugh at all such attempts. Their im-
potent absurdity will be fully exposed by the state of
the registration when completed. Our information on
this head we believe to be unimpeachable ; and we only
hope that the day is not far distant when the princi-
ples and feelings of the English people will be fairly
tried. At all events, Liverpool is safe.—Morzz.Post.

The farmers near Liverpool are asking 8/. a ton for
hay at present, a price unknown since the war.
FAMILY JARS.—At one of the Courts of Requests,
Thursday last, an elderly gentleman summoned his son for
a debt that had been due upwards of seven years ! The
case was dismissed under the Statute of Limitations, much
to the chagrin of the old gentleman, who seemed to think
the recovery of Bs. well worth the indecency of appearing in
Court on such an errand. The very next case was one
of brother against brother, for a moiety of the expenses at-
tending the funeral of their own father ! This case was
also indignantly dismissed by Mr. Dubois, who animad-
verted very severely upon the brawling propensities of the
two brothers on such a solemn occasion as that of burying
their father. A third case came on of niece against aunt,
likewise dismissed.

WISBECH.—Our Magistrates have been making a
most serious investigation into a charge of murder laid by a
man named Jessup, a porter, of this town, against another
man named John Bowman, a native of this town, but of
late years living in London. He is charged with having
murdered a person named Evans, a supervisor of this place,
in the month of March, twenty-one years ago, by forcing
him into a dyke in Jolt-lane, and holding his head under
water with a fork till he was dead. The charge was laid
last week while Jessup was drunk, when he said, " I never
murdered the exciseman, if you did." Mr. Evans was
found in a dyke in Jole-lane twenty-one years ago, and the
Coroner's inquest returned a verdict of " Found drowned,"
as there was no mark of violence on the person.--Norfolk
Gazette.

AMERICAN MAILS.--The American papers con-
tain a development of a plan for establishing what is
termed an " express mail" throughout the several States.
The object is " to carry daily an express mail on horse-
back, in railroad cars, or in steam-boats, for the purpose
of conveying slips from newspapers, in lieu of exchange
newspapers and letters (other than such as contain money),
not exceeding half an ounce in weight, marked express
mail, and public despatches, on the routes and during
times," specified in a circular for tenders issued by the
Post-office establishment of Washington. The above quo-
tation details the character of this improved mode of con-
veyance. The following is a specimen of what the Post-
office will require from the contracting parties :—" From
New York to Philadelphia, 90 miles and back, to stop at
not more than three intermediate offices ; to leave New
York at five, p.m., arrive at Philadelphia by two, a.m., next
day ; to leave Philadelphia at seven, a.m., arrive at New
York by three, p.m." In conclusion, it is said, " Those
who enter into this service must make up their minds not
to let bad roads, nor floods, nor casualties, nor dangers,
prevent their performance according to the contract.
Waterproof bags," it is added, " will be furnished for the
mails, and no excuse whatsoever will be taken for a failure
to arrive at the time set in the schedule. P.S. If the mail
shall regularly exceed 701bs. in weight, the department will
consider itself bound to pay for an additional horse, when
the express is carried on horseback, if an additional horse
be employed." The idea is a good one, and, as we are
about improving our means of communication here, it may
not be unworthy of consideration. On such roads as ours,
of course, much greater speed will be obtained.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

Pow.r§ito,tt'ilf; 22.—The Ranger, packet, from
Jamalea, atAtiiitj th it the Belvidera, 46, Captain
Strong, arrived at that island Darliados, having on
board Major-u,;;Peral Sir Lionel Smith, on the tPth of
August; The General was sworn into office as Lieutenant-
Governer cif 14,614101 M tintl Commander of the Forces on
the 30th and the I..ekidat'd Vrt the 2tl of Septet-
ber, late doVefndr; the Marqiiil gligo? em hoard,
for the Havannali his Grace's family being
in the United States ; wbetneV 1.10 Belvidera will come to
England sas rid known. Major-General 4' Amos Nor-
cott, the see6t;d in ..orturtand at Jamaica, also fcti.fryys to
England. The Pincher edvociner, Lieut. Bvng, captured
on the 12th of July, the Spanish o:blotter slaver l'reciosa,
from Rio l'ongo, bound to Cuba, having' an hoard 300
slaves ; she chwjetl hot from Cape Ginger, wilem tdts was
observed an the 9th, to Uay NI, off Matanza, and made
prize of hef Vii the 12thi at 2. 50. A,ll, The Florida In-
dians had burnt doing the Light House tin Cape Florida
(Biscayno.) Outward betind ships should notice this,
though in a great measure the mischief is compensated by
the display of two new lights in the Bahatitas. The Racer,
16, had arrived from Newfoundland on the 2d of Sept. ; the
Skipjack schooner from Chagrris on the 6th of Sept. ; and
the Pincher schooner on the 27th Augnst from a cruize,
The Meteor steamer sailed for St. 'Thomas's, and the
Craizer, 16, for Carthagena on the 24th of August ; the
Pickle schooner on the Oth of Septembor for Bermuda.
The Carron steamer arrived at Barbadocs on the 28th of
August, in 23 days from Falmouth, arid subsequently reached
Jamaica on the 4th of September.
Sir Charles Paget's squadron, consisting of the Bello-
rophon, Vanguard, Pembroke, Hercules, Inconstant, Pique,
and Pantaloon, sailed on Thursday, from Plymouth, for
Lisbon, where the Pembroke and Hercules will part com-
pany with the squadron, and remain on that station. The
Admiral will then proceed as far as Cadiz with the remain-
der, when the Bellerophon and Vanguard will part com-
pany, and go to the Mediterranean, Sir Charles Paget
shifting his flag to the Inconstant, in which ship, with the
Pique and Pantaloon, he will return to Spithead.
The Rodney, Captain Hyde Parker, was at Barcelona
on the 27th of August, waiting instructions from England.
The Tyne, Captain Lord Ingestrie, had recently conveyed
General Dodgin, second in command of the Portuguese
Legion, to Vinaros, to join the army marching towards Tor-
tosa ; this ship has also taken General Manuel Breton to
Port Vendre (France). The General not agreeing to the
Constitution proclaimed at Tortosa, was fired at three
times by his own men, and compelled to fly to Villacarlos,
where he found the Tyne, and embarked on board her, ac-
companied by his daughter and military secretary. The
Tyne was to leave Barcelona on the evening of the 27th of
August, with invalids, &c., from the squadron, for Gibral-
tar. She lost a seaman, John Sinclair, from falling from
the mizen-top sail yard, at sea, on the 24th of August.
The Childers was at Barcelona ; the Clio had gone to
Mahon, thence to proceed to Malaga ; the Orestes was at
Carthagena : the Jaseur at Gibraltar. Two frigates from
Sir Josias Rowley's squadron were looked for at Barcelona,
to assist in constituting a court-martial to try a marine of
the Rodney, for knocking a sergeant down one of the hatch-
ways, which caused the latter's death.
The Rhadamanthus steam-Vessel arrived yesterday from
Plymouth, when her officers and ships' company were
transferred to the Pluto, and those of the Pluto to the
Rhadamanthus. The latter this day embarked a subaltern,
eight sergeants, and 20 rank and file of the Royal Marines ;
two sergeants, one drummer, and 18 gunners of the Royal
Marine Artillery, and 11 men of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, with whom she will proceed to-morrow morning to
join the squadron on the north coast of Spain.
The Beagle surveying-vessel, Capt. Fitzroy, arrived on
Thursday from Plymouth, and proceeded to-day to Wool-
wich, to be paid off.
The Prince Regent yacht, intended as a present from his
Majesty to the Imaum of Muscat, arrived on Thursday
from the River, to embark Lord Elphinstone, for Bombay,
of which Presidency his Lordship is appointed Governor.
The yacht came into harbour, and has since been taken into
dock, to have a leak stopped, which was effected in one tide.
Lord Elphinstone is expected from London this evening,
in which case the yacht will proceed to India at day-light
to-morrow morning. She is splendidly fitted, partly in
the Oriental taste, a point upon which long residents in
India were consulted. Among the gorgeous furniture there
is a pianoforte. The more superb fittings will remain co-
vered over, to prevent their being spoiled before the yacht's
arrival in India.

At Spithead—Norfolk convict ship.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory;Excellent,RoyalGeorge,
North Star, Conway, Rhadamanthus, and Pluto steamers,
and Barossa transport.
APPOINTMENTS.—Commander M'Hardy, from Deal to
the Isle of Wight Coast Guard ; Commander Parry to the
Coast Guard at Deal : Lieut. Fletcher to the Conway ;
Mr. Justus B. Kooystan, extra Mate, to the Raleigh ;
Mr. G. B. Rutherford, Midshipman, to the Excellent ;
Mr. R. B. Barwell, extra Mate, to the Conway ; Mr. Sul-
livan, Volunteer, Ist class, from North Star to the Wol-
verine , Mr. Hawkins, Master's Assistant, to the Pluto ;
Mr. William Wallace Walker, late Midshipman of the
Asia, to the Beacon, as draughtsman.
Lieutenant Thompson, agent of the Katherine Stewart
Forbes transport, having received a severe hurt in the gale
of the 9th ult., when returning from Halifax, was obliged to
apply to quit the ship, and their Lordships were pleased to
appoint Lieut. John Duncan to supersede him.
The St. Nicholas, H. R. Parrow, Master, arrived to-day
from Dantzic, with oak timber for this dockyard, and with
seven men, the crew of the Dalkarlen, of Frederickstadt,
Jacoa Morck, Master, which upset in a squall off the Dog-
ger Bank on the 1 th inst., on her voyage from Riga to
Havre, with hemp and staves. The St. Nicholas took
these men from the wreck on the following day ; one boy
was drowned.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 21—His Majesty's steamer, Pluto,
Lieut. Duffil, sailed on Monday, to have her boilers re-
paired. His Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, 10, Lieut. T.
L. Roberts, arrived on Saturday from the eastward, and
sailed the next day for the coast of Africa. His Alajesty's
ships, Russell, 74, Capt. Sir W. H. Dillon, and Minden,
74, Capt. Sharpe, sailed on Saturday, for Lisbon ; the
former took on board 10,000 stand of arms. Sailed also
his Majesty's brig Partridge, 10, Lieut. Bisson, with des-
patches for Lisbon ; and Hermes steamer, Lieut. Blount,
for Falmouth ; she will take out the next Mediterranean
mail. The Pique, 36, Hon. Capt. Rous, and Inconstant,
36, Capt. Hayes, arrived on Sunday, from Portsmouth ;
also the Dervolk, Dutch brig-of-war, from the eastward,
bound to the West Indies. Sailed the Diligence, naval
transport, with stores, for Pembroke dockyard. His Ma-
jesty's sloop, Fly, 18, sailed on Tuesday for Rio Janeiro ;
also the Beagle, surveying vessel, for Woolwich, to be
paid off. The Comus, 18, was taken into dock on the
14th, to be repaired for commission.
Sir C. Paget, with the Bellerophon, Vanguard, Pem-
broke, Hercules, Inconstant, Pique, and,, Pantaloon, sailed
yesterday, supposed for Lisbon, as the Marines brought
by the Rhadamanthus yesterday from Woolwich, were put
on board the squadron, and the
.Rhadamanthus shortly af-
ter proceeded to the eastward.

A woman named Elizabeth Rockliff, was brought
to the old gaol in this town, committed by Wasey
Sterry, Esq., Coroner for the Liberty of Havering-
atte-Bower, charged upon the Coroner's Inquisition with
the wilful murder of her child, Mary Ann Rockliff, at Horn-
church. The unfortunate woman, who evinces strong symp-
toms of insanity, placed the infant, eight months old, upon
a bed, and with a stick beat it upon the head, fracturing
its skull in several places, and horribly mutilating it.—
Chelmsford Chronicle.

On Thursday morning Mr. Henry Wallace, an
elderly gentleman who resides in apartments in King's
Bench-walk, near the Bench, cut his throat in a shocking
manner. The people of the house observed him for some
time before to be in a depressed state of mind. About half-
past four they were awoke by an unusual noise, and on en-
tering his apartment they found him extended on the bed
bleeding very profusely. The wound was so large as nearly
to admit a person's hand, and he breathed entirely through
it. A surgeon was immediately called in, who secured
the cut vessels, and hopes arc entertained of his recovery.

A hostile meeting took place on Thursday last in
the Bois de Vincennes, Paris, between M. Robert Conn.-
de-Vey, a gentleman of property, and M. Brock, a Bar-
rister. The parties at first fought with swords, but without
effect. A pistol was then placed in the hands of each
combatant, and at the first fire M. Brock received his ad-
versary's ball in the thigh. His wound was immediately
dressed by a medical man who was on the ground, and
both parties retired.
The tomb of Queen Catherine Parr was lately
opened, and the body and feet have been found as perfect
and beautiful as on the day she died. It appeared that the
body had been embalmed, and coated with wax. Several
gentlemen of science are now engaged in• ascertaining the
exact nature of the preparation.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—An explosion took place
at the Edge Croft Colliery, near Pendleton, belonging to
A. Knowles, Esq., on Thursday morning last, which was
attended with serious injuries to two individuals, father and
fanchester Guardian.
A BASS VOICE.—A vocalist having heard of a
man who was said to possess a deeper bass voice than him-
self, rode about 100 miles to ascertain the truth of the
story. On meeting him he called out, in his very lowest
notes, " Good day to you, Sir ;" on which the other an-
swered, four or five notes lower, " Your servant, Sir." The
traveller was perfectly satisfied, turned his horse's head, and
retraced his steps homeward.