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tory, and that, however much the 'presence sf Lord
Lyndhurst might be an object with the Conserva-
tives of Glasgow, that desirable political circumstance

must be relinquished. What arc the simple facts of
this case, which the Government papers are so anxious
to distort ? They are, if we mistake not, simply
these :—A Scotchman, and a barrister, holding the
high professional office of the AttornerGenera'iship,
ofkred himself to the suffrages of the young gentlemen
of the University of Glasgow, and, as is well known,
a very active canvass was resorted to for the purpose
of insuring that Learned Gentleman's return. Lord
Lyndhurst was proposed by the Conservative portion
of this constituent body ; and on consideration, it was
thought that a more decided majority could be cr len-
!tried on in favour of the late Prime Minister of Eng-
land ; Sir Robert Peel was, consequently, proposed for
the Lord Rectorship. It should be remembered, that
th,. Right Hon. Baronet had been before solicited to
accept this distinction, and had, from private reasons,
declined so doing. But let that pass. No sooner had
Sir Robert Peel been placed in nomination, than the
Whig-Radical press set to work at the vilification of
Lord Lyndhurst, and bellowed through the rever-
berating columns of their hireling influence, that the
Noble and Learned Lord was practically insulted
by the educated classes in Glasgow, and that the.
second city in Scotland was the last place nt
his Lordship could find it advisable 'to appear.
Mark, now, the inconsistency
sistencll these person',
—n* rather, the con-
aiways consiNtcut in
wrong- The election. ;laving terminated in favour
of Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Baronet
'flaying accepted the honour conferred upon him, no
public intimation having been offered to Lord Lynd-
hurst that his Lordship's presence at the approaching
festival would, politically speaking, strengthen the 111
nifestation of Conservative feeling in Glasgow, the
Noble and Learned Lord is sneered at, vilified, and
vituperated, because be does not thrust himself in the
Whig-Radical fashion on the presence of his admirers.
It is really difficult to say how Lord Lyndhurst could,
were he so disposed, shape his course so as to please
the critics of that faction of which he has roved him-
self the most formidable foe. His Lordship does not
go to Glasgow—he is forthwith reproached as fearing
to encounter the Conservatives of the North. It is
said that the Noble and Learned Lord proposes to at-•
tend in the same city—he is then reproached for pre-
sumption. Again, it is found that no such design is
entertained by the Noble and Learned Lord, and he is
virulently abused for not having fulfilled the prediction
of his political opponents. It must be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, that the very journals
now estimating the Glasgow festival
,at its true
importance in a political point of xlcw, a few
weeks back affected to laugh at the election of Sir
Robert Peel as a mere ebullition of schoolboy en-
thusiasm. Now, however, they deem it expedient to
devote whole columns of their heavy activity, for the
purpose of showing (as in justice to them it must be
admitted they do show) the paramount importance of
the approaching political exhibition in the North pre-
viously to the meeting of Parliament, and—for it is
useless to mince the matter—to the ensuing general
election. The appearance of Sir Robert Peel in
Glasgow, the distinct and manly statement of constitu-
tional views and principles which the Right Hon.
Gentleman will of necessity lay before those who are
now striving with earnest rivalry for the proud privi-
lege of doing honour to so eminent a Statesman—o
these circumstances will assuredly be found to jus-
tify even the rabid rage of the Whig-Radical jour-
nals. It will be seen that, not only the accomplished
youth of the University of Glasgow—not merely
the admitted foes of Lord Melbourne's Govern-
ment—the Noblemen, the Gentlemen, the Clergy-
men of this particular city of Glasgow—but that the
intelligence, wealth, and respectability of Scotland will
be aroused to a sense of the invaluable blessings of our
Constitution, menaced as it now is by a despicable and
dastardly Popish crew, and we are grieved to add, by
a denationalized and disreputable Government. Never)
in our judgment, was that noble passage more strik-
ingly exemplified—namely, that " there is a Divinity
which shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may"
—never was this more strikingly exemplified than in
the political accident of Sir Robert Peel's invitation to
Glasgow. To those who have watched the course of
events in the northern part of the empire, it must have
been obvious that public feeling on the part of the
wealthy and well-informed classes has been for some
time silently forming itself into a Conservative power.
We have no wish to dwell on particular instances, or
we might notice the not very recent but most remark-
able fact of the failure of Lord Glenelg, in the fresh-
ness of his peerage and the plenitude of his Ministerial
influence, to appoint a successor in the important
Scotch county which he represented previously to his
elevation to the Upper House. We take a bolder view
as to the; political feelings actuating our fellow-subjects
in the north. We are of opinion that not only this or
that particular county, but that the entire population of
Scotland, is prepared to respond to the patriotic sum-
mons for which the Glasgow festival will afford a
fitting, nay, a necessary occasion. Here we shall have
no hunting after popularity, no hungering and thirsting
after the lip-worship of public trenchermen, no spouting
about Court influence or Ministerial power—in short,
none of the paltry tricks of Whig-Radicalism ; no, we
shall have an English statesman expounding his views
with the sincere simplicity of a truly manly character,
and the consequence may be clearly anticipated, trot
only as regards the immediate hearers, but futtliennorc
with reference to the large and influential portion of
our fellow-countrymen north of the Tweed. This it is
which makes the Government and its tools so furious.
This it is which affords such well-founded satisfaction
to the friends of the constitution thrm t
11).iouthe
empire.

Since the above observations were written, we have
received the report which appears in another column
of the speeches delivered yesterday week at a meeting
of the Students and Graduates of the University of
Glasgow for the purpose of forming an association in
honour of Sir R. Peel, under the title of " The Peel
Club." Our readers, we are persuaded, will rise from
a perusal of these speeches with the pleasing convic-
tion that it is impossible for sounder constitutional
principles to have been anywhere urged more ably or
more earnestly than at this meeting ; and few will fail
to observe with the highest gratification the proof
they furnish, that however the backsliding, and un-
principled " old Whigs " may cry up Tom Paine's
system of education unconnected with Christianity,
anO, Universities without religion, the rising gene-
ration stand fast in the faith, and spurn alike all
such nurseries of Infidels, and the Nothingarian
Government that has filled up the measure of its
iniquity by founding them. We wonder what
the nineteen noodles of the Glasgow Town Coun-
cil will say to this meeting. Is there no re-action at
Glasgow when a University which, until the election
of Lord Stanley, had almost always chosen a Whig
Rector, have determined for the future to mark
their sense of the base coalition of the Whig party
with Papists, Infidels, and Rebels, by electing for the
future none but men who will uphold the Constitution
in Church and State ? The brainless baillies were
afraid they should " stuitify themselves," forsooth, if
they passed any compliment upon Sir R. Peel,—
though the University of their city had elected him
Lord Rector,—though thousands of the merchants and
traders of Glasgow are preparing to receive him with
distinguished honours,—and a larger number of the
Glasgow operatives have at a public meeting agreed to
welcome him with an address " expressive of their
admiration of his talents and political principles, and
their satisfaction at his election to the Rectorial Chair."
Stultify themselves, indeed ! But this was a mere
excuse of the Glasgow gabies, who knew well enough
that they stood in no danger of self-stultification. An
African might as well have said that he was afraid of
making himself black in the face, as the Glasgow
baillies that they should " stultify themselves," nature
having been long beforehand with the parties in both
cases. The truth appears to be, that the Glasgow
Town Council were determined to rival that of Paisley
in liberality, and the claims of the latter to respect and
fame " thereanent" are thus told by a recent writer
(the Laird of Logan) :
" In August last," he says, " Professor NVilson
he went,aeeepted
an invitation to a public dinner in Paisley ; thither
attended by his friend, Thomas Campbell, author of the
Pleasures of Hope. The meeting was one from which po.

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who have experience to answer the question. Now
let us take the other set of circumstances. The tsys

tem sometimes works oteessively ill: It does so when
die officer turns out to be a Ohair-
man says happened in his union, and, as 11 Vebdi
knowingly adds, '' may happen elsewhere." This
:irings us to rather a serious view of the
.workingof
this part of the new system. The fallowing is Mr.
Sclat sit.tera n't

" One of onr rOrroVilig• -Oft C'er's nn a system of
fraud to a considerable extent Anihig (ye Pitiater• Of
and endeavoured iso aolia Sdeelli;ri ny promieing 16.,g6Q
vouchers, And t am not have any
blame to charge theMSelve'S With; for We lk;Ctell
upon high testimooitills; *`plinViA i!,; ur,;
the signatkkroi 4 his ielloW-townsfolk ; we took the usual
security for his conduct ; we suspethtpd hiM frOiti hiS
office within half An hthir the
cious circumsl:ati f bhlc clerk lost no dine in applying
to a Magistrate for a warrant fdr hiS aPprelibnsion
bat he has hitherto chided the Piiriuit ti' the .ptili6e;
and escap4 I ty.ii§t iirettdbl3 ,ii ',,htliplE of
on the brlO.lier side of the picture ; but I declare it was
partly under despair of electing any very desirable officer
out of the class of personS, as
candidates ,fAr A'PphiiqUient, that I proposes to our
80t'..", the division of the defaulter's district amongst the

three remaining officers, for I consider our patronage the
most arduous part of our duty, though I have generally re-
marked an unusually fall attendance of the guardians on
Me days when this privilege was to be exercised.
" 14 many respects I look upon this officer as but an in.
different substitute., for the assistant overseer under the now
almost obsolete statute 59 George 111., who was always
resident within the sphere of his duties, and, not being de-
barred from pursuing. Whet avocations, could be engaged
at a moderate salary."
So much for that which Mr, Sclatet calls " the
most novel and iiiiperiAnt part of the machinery' of
the ne* within his cognizance, as Chairman of a
union of 37 parishes. The medical part of the system,
according to his account, works extremely ill, but the
wonder is that anything should work well under the
direction of persons capable of sanctioning such plans
as are described under the head of "relief." " The
books, or forms of accounts," says Mr. &later,
" are no less than 28 in number, besides waste books
and memorandum books ; so that not the smallest par-
ticle of relief can he granted without a great expendi-
ture of stationary." He supposes the case of a man
in want of a loaf of bread, or half a bushel of flour ;

there must be in the first place a note in writing of the
names and ages of the man, his wife, and each child
sepatately, the alleged cause of seeking relief, and, in
short, the whole family history, all which particulars
are afterwards neatly recorded in the Pauper's Descrip-
tion Book, and again in the Application and Report
Book, containing 23 different columns. M ost of these
particulars have then to be transcribed into the
Abstract of the Application and Report Book, and
all this must be done before the case can come before
the Guardians for their solemn judgment upon it. Can
any thing be more pedantically silly than this ? A
modern writer of great celebrity has described political
economy as " the formality of nonsense ;" and the
transposition of the terms would well describe the re-
gulations of these politico-economic Poor Law Com-
missioners. Such regulations are, indeed, most em-
phatically, the nonsense of formality.—Morn. Herald.
When a Government-Radical meets an Opposition-
Radical in conflict, the result is not doubtful for a mo-
ment. No matter what the question may be upon
which the dispute arises—Ballot, Tithe, Poor Laws—
the cashiering of the Bishop of London, or the creat-
ing of the Bishop of Ripon—the turning of the Duke
of Wellington into a commoner, or the transforming.
of Mr. Scales into a Lord ; no matter who the com-
batants may be to whom the championship of their re-
spective causes is entrusted ; the True Sun demolishes
the Morning Chronicle; the Daniel of Southwark
slaughters the Daniel of Derrynane ; Sir William an-
nihilates Sir Hussey. The explanation of this is suf-
ficiently obvious. Both profess to reason from the
same principles ; but the Opposition-Radical can only
obtain power by acting upon them ; the Government
Radical can only keep power by swerving from them.
Mr. IVlacauley's speeches in defence of the Reform Bill
will serve for the support of universal suffrage.
Lord John Russell's argument for the appropria-
tion of a part of the property of the Protestant
Church may be urged as a plea for the plunder of
the whole. If the premises of the Ministers are
correct the inferences of the Ministers' masters are irre-
sistible. Hence the necessity for shuffle, and prevari-
cation, and postponement, of the tactics of the friends
of the Government in Ireland. Assume the principles
of the Cabinet to be true—suppose the revenues of
the Protestant Church to be rightly at the disposal of
the State—conceive tithe, in short, to be not property,
but tax—and we connot conceive on what grounds the
O'Connells and the Sheils can hesitate in the adoption
of Mr. O'Malley's scheme. They have formally an-
nounced their purpose to be satisfied with nothing
less than the entire confiscation of the income of the
Protestant Church. There remains the question to
what uses it is hereafter to be applied. We can ima-
gine others more suited to the convenience or the
necessity of the apostles of agitation. Mr. O'Connell
would desire an augmentation of the rent ; Mr.
Sheil would have some thousands forwarded to
Tipperary for the promotion of the election of " Mr.
Otway Cave' and me ;" Messrs. Grattan might fancy
that a bonus of one hundred per cent. might properly
be thrown back to the landlords. But they will
hardly succeed in convincing persons less liable to sel-
fish influences that, if Parliament may newly appro-
priate the revenues of the Church, Parliament ought
not to appropriate them at once to the relief • of the
misery, the beggary, the disease, the starvation, of
Waterford, of Limerick, and of Cork. The fact is,
that, however the distresses of the poor may serve oc-
casionally to point a paragraph or round a period, the
leaders of Irish agitation are for the most part essen-
tially uncharitable. Many a beggar to whom the ex-
posure of his sore is profitable knows that a hospital
would be his ruin ; but when gentlemen earn their
bread not by their own ills but by the ills of their
neighbours, it would be too much to expect from them
a disinterested application of remedies. In a little
journal of a tour in Ireland, performed last winter, we
find an amusing, and still a disgusting, instance of the
extent to which mock humanity may differ from genuine
benevolence. The journalist, after witnessing in Lime-
rick in one morning, more extreme destitution and suffer-
ing than his English eyes for the whole of his previous
life had encountered, attended a meeting, called for the
discussion of the question of poor laws, at which Mr.
O'Connell attended, and held forth in his then usual
strain against the introduction of compulsory relief,
which " would interrupt, he feated, the flow of natural
affection and spontaneous charity." The journalist,
as the meeting was about to break up, remembering
that hundreds, if not thousands, were actually naked,
cold, and hungry, in the very next street, and might
die of famine before Parliament could meet, turned to
his neighbour, a clever Popish Priest, and suggested
that, before the meeting should separate, a subscrip-
tion should be commenced for the relief of the existing
distress. There seemed to be upwards of six hundred
persons present—many opulent, all philanthrophic :
surely a thousand pounds might be raised in five mi-
nutes. The Priest shook his head—" It would not
do, it would not be popular." And from the parish
in which this scene occurred Mr. O'Connell received,
a few months_ afterwards, forty pounds, which had
been collected in pennies at the chapel door.—Morn-
ing Post.

Wednesday morning, the 14th instant, the keepers
belonging to Sir John Guise's preserves at Churcham, near
this city, heard several guns fired in rapid succession, and
Lock, the head keeper, and two assistants, immediately ran
to the spot, and in a field called the White-lands, adjoin-
ing the Ross road, they encountered six or seven poachers,
one of whom they seized and endeavoured to secure, when
they were attacked by his companions in a most determined
manner, and a violent contest ensued, which continued for
nearly half an hour. The keepers were armed with strong
sticks, and the poachers fought some with the barrels of
their guns, and others with extremely formidable bludgeons.
At one time, notwithstanding the disparity of force, victory
seemed inclined to favour the three keepers, but ultimately
the poachers prevailed and succeeded in effecting their
escape. The keepers were very severely bruised, but are
now considered out of danger. The poachers also, no
doubt, most of them carry about them marks of the affray,
which may perhaps lead to their detection. A sharp look-
out has been kept for them, but they have hithf.rto eluded
discovery. A reward of 50/. is offered for their apprehen-
sion.—Gloucoter Journal.