The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-26 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

Court ? Can any satisfactory solution be given to this
quesion ? r fear not. SCRUTATOR.

* It is generally supposed that there is only one discre-
tionary clause. It is always spoken of as the discretionary
clau-c ; but, in point of fact, there are three clauses, all of
which may, with equal propriety, be so called—namely, clauses
76, 77, And 78. The first of these limits the terms of impri-
sonment to six months, the third to two years, and the inter-
mediate one to three years. All these clauses might have been
ca•ily incorporate,l in one ; but this is only a solitary specimen
of the extreme clumsiness with which the Act has been fratngd.
A GLASGOW HANGMAN.

Mr. Thomas Young, the late respectable hangman of
Glasgow, was once officially requested to perform a legal
operation, secundern artern, on .the tender throat of an un-
fortunate wretched criminal in Dumfries.. But Tho-
mas was an indulgent father as well as a dutiful hangman;
and, under the gentle influence of paternal sym-
pathy, he took his amiable interesting daughter,
in her teens, along with him in the carriage (for hang-
men officially travel, like gentlemen, in chariots), to have
the benefit of the pure fresh air of! Dumfriesshire, and
behold the delightful scenery- on the banks of the beauti-
ful With, immortalized by the lyric genius of Burns. The
worthy pair, father and daughter, proceeded together to
Dumfries, and took up their abode in the gaol. On the
evening before the execution, a venerable minister of the
Gospel visited the unhappy panel to offer him reli-
gious consolation. In passing. from the prisoner's cell
to the gaoler's apartments, he came in contact with
an elderly gentleman in black clothes, and, deeming
him to be a reverend parson like himself, come on the
same philanthropic errand, to soothe the criminal's agi-
tated mind, he requested the honour of an introduction.
The gaoler complied, and politely introduced him to
Mr.• Thomas Young, the
.venerab:e Glasgow hangman,
and his daughter. A shudder of horror ran through the
clergyman's soul. He bowed to Mr. Young, and he
looked with pity on the filial girl beside him. By and
by they began to chat, and Mr. Thomas diligently
related a few of his " legal murders" to enter-
tain his reverend friend. " Do, you never feel
any natural compunction," said the divine, " when
you are performing your official duty ?" " I recollect,"
said Mr. Thomas, • "of having once' felt it ; and so
strong was the feeling that it almost unman'd' me
for a moment ; but it was only for a moment, and
then I did my business as nicely as if nothing had
disturbed me. It happened thus. I was called a few
years ago to Inverness, to execute a woiral for a capital
crime. When I was introduced to her, on the morn-
ing of her execution, to pinion her arms, at the first
glance I knew her. She was the wife of my eldest
comrade when I - was in the army, and they
both had done me many acts of kindness ;
but she was so terribly agitated that I do not
think she either knew or recognized me. I felt a horrible
sensation in' my mind, for I was about to hang the wife of
my old friend, and one who had often been my soother
and nurse, at a time when nobody else regarded me.
I almost fainted ; and, had the intense horror con-
tinued, I must have desisted. But it soon passed off ;
and when I again met her on the gallows I per-
formed my duty, and hanged her as deliberately as
if nothing had happened to disturb me. This
was the only time that I ever felt any natural compunc-
tion for the panel, and I have no wish to be troubled with
it again." The minister looked at the old legal mur-
derer with pity, indignation, and horror, and, taking up
his hat; walked off, without deigning to reply. The un-
natural monster who could thus hang the friendly wife
of his oldest comrade, fur a little money, would have
hanged his own mother in similar circumstances. Such
legal and moral monstrosities should not be permitted to
continue to disgrace civilised society with the barbarous
recurrence of these disgusting executive operations ; and
we hope the time is not far distant when the pay and
office of hangmen and their satellites will be for ever an-
nihilated.—Scotch paper.

should not be omitted that the spacious pavilion which
now fronts the orchestra in the gardens was built for
Frederick Prince of Wales, who was a liberal patron of
these Gardens. The present orchestra, too, which is
not the old-fashioned one of Tyerg, was built by a car-
penter ; and the ornaments are of a composition some-
thing like plaster of Paris, but known only to the ingeni-
ous architect. Before the Gardens close therewill be
given, a bal masque, which is to partake of all thatiliiiins
of the long-past Ridotto al fresco, the first kind ot'enier-
tainmer.t with which old Jonathan Tyers opened the
Gardens, and whose novelty attracted such immense
numbers as soon made, his coffers fill with gold.

T T
SOLDIERS' UNIFORM.—With a change of
Ministry there will be a new Master-General of the
Ordnance. The present we have always sincerely re-
spected as a high-minded soldier. It is, however, to be
hoped that the successor to his Lordship will make some
few alterations in the dress and appointments of the
Royal Artillery. In the first place, the yellow lace should
forthwith be taken off the gunner's coattee ; it is a dirty
thing, and is without meaning ; a good plain red collar,
with red epaulettes, would make them quite perfect.
The yellow trash of lace requires constant colouring to
look decent ; and surely the loss of this kind of thing
will be the better for a soldier who has enough to do
in other ways without being punished by clean-
ing yellow cotton. Take all the lace off the
collars, &c., of the Serjeants, leaving only their
chevrons. The same with the Staff Serjeants. In fact,
give the whole regiment, a plain red collar and cuff,
officers and all, they will all look the better, and pro-
bably the officers the best of the whole ; for a shabby
embroidery is not the best-looking thing in the world.
Again, the musket should be abolished throughout the
regiment—the carbine substituted. Do away with the
pipeclay cross. belts, and substitute a black waist-belt,
but something different to that worn by the Field Bat-
teries ; for that is decidedly the worst thing, every in-
troduced, and the men are ashamed of appearing with it
in public ; not only bad in appearance, but bad for ser-
vice.—Nasal and Military Gazette.
PILCHARD FISHERY.--GORRAN HAVEN.---
The boisterous weather has for the present suspended the operations
of the drift-boats.
LooE.—The drift-boats belonging to this place
have commenced the pilchard fishery, and have takes flora 500 to
2,200 pilchards per boa:.
LORD CARDIGAN AGAIN I—A Correspon-
dent writes us that there has been another shindy at Hounslow
between Lord Cardigan and his officers. His Lordship has
been so badgered himself, that we do not wonder at his objec-
tion to a badger bait. We think, however, that as regards the
origin of the dispute in question, his I ordship is, for once at
least, in the right. Another of his officers has sent in his
papers to sell out.— United Service Gazette.
Vice-Admiral 'Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8.,
whose death took place a few days ago, was a most zealous
and active officer. In July, 1799, when in command of
the Dart, sloop of war, and serving under Captain Henry
Inman, of the Andromeda, in an attempt to destroy a
French squadron lyins. in Dunkirk harbour, he carried
and brought out La Desiree, mounting 40 guns,
long 24-pounders on the main deck, with a com-
plement of 350 men, some of whom were on shore.
Captain Inman in his official letter to the Admiralty
says—" That the handsome and intrepid manner of his
completely carrying het, in less than a quarter of an
hour, and bringing her out, must convince their Lord-
ships of his unparalleled bravery, and the very gallant
conduct of his officers and ship's company, as the ene-
my's frigate was so much superior in force. The Dart's
loss on this occasion amounted to no more than one man
slain, and her first lieutenant and ten men wounded ;
La Desiree is said to have had nearly one hundred
killed and wounded, including among the former every
officer on board, with the exception of one midshipman,
The Earl St. Vincent pronounced this to have been
one of the finest instances of gallantry on record. Three
days after this capture the deceased was advanced to post
rank in the Ariadne. In 1807 we find him command-
ing L'Unite frigate, stationed off Corfu. During the
ensuing year he captured a French xebec of six guns, and
three Italian brigs of war, each mounting 16 brass 32-
pounder carronades, admeasuring about 400 tons. From
L'Unite he removed into the Leviathan, 74 ; and in the
year 1812 performed active service in the Mediterranean.
In July, 1830, he was promoted to the rank of Rear-
Admiral ; and in May, 1834, appointed Commander-in-
Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1838 he was ad-
vanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral. This gallant
officer was rewarded for his services by his Sovereign
bestowing upon him the insignia of Knight Command:a-
of the Bath.
UNEMPLOYED MINISTERS IN NEW ENG-
LAND.—In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, there are 120
ministers without a charge, 56 who are candidates for the
holy office, and not fewer than 216 vacant churches.
These things must not continue to be so long. Fifty
years ago Massachusetts was better supplied with minis-
ters than she is at the present day. Look out that the
Unitarians, Universalists, and the Trascendentalists, do
not supply these vacant churches.
Extract of a letter from Tangiers, dated the
28th ultimo, quoted by the Journal des Debats :
" The Emperor of Morocco, having armed his fleet of
two brigs and two schooners, has applied to the Eure-
peen Consuls to grant passports for them, -find they wilt
sail as soon as furnished with these facilities. The pre-
tence of this expedition is to afford practice to the sailors
who have lately been pressed and put under the instruc-
tion of Admiral 13rittel. If this was the sole object, ar-
tillerymen and ammunition would not, as they have, been
put on board each ship ; but the probability is, that it is
directed against such flags as have not been recognized
in Morocco, that is, of such nations as have no repre-
sentatives here, or are not allied to the Sultan by trea-
ties. Russian, Prussian, Mecklenburg, and other ships
have occasionally entered the ports of Morocco, and been
amicably received. The salvage of a Russian ship has
even been effected here, under the auspices of the Swedish
Consul. It appears, however, that the Morocco Govern-
ment is tired of waiting for the decision of certain Powers
to enter into official relations with it, and has resolved to
make attacks upon their ships and vessels, and thus force
them to come to terms (!) As a maritime power, Russia
has nothing to fear from Morocco (!), but her commerce
may suffer, and so may that of Prussia and the Hans
Towns. The increase in the premiums of insurance
alone will be a serious loss. We are the more war-
ranted in this conclusion by the fact that among the
flags of friendly nations pointed out to the cruizers is
that of Belgium, although she has not as yet entered into
any treaty with Morocco, but has an agent at this time
engaged in a negotiation, the basis of which is already
settled. The Sultan has applied to Gibraltar for some
master-builders to construct gun-boats at Tangiers, where
they will be useful in case of war. The builders have
not yet arrived, because only one piastre a-day is offered
them, and they demand two., '
A NAVAL GHOST--(From a private letter.)
—A very singular circumstance occurred on board the
Victory on Friday night last. Two marines (Corporal
Wiltshire and private Newton) on duty, during the mid-
watch on the main-deck, were passing the last quarter
of their watch (a quarter to twelve) by telling tales of
ghosts, &c., and amidst others related that of a police-
man, who, but a few days since, was nearly frightened
to death by the appearance of a marine on board the
Princess Charlotte (which was paid off about a fortnight
ago), and which marine, it is asserted, was killed on board
her at St. Jean d'Acre. Newton, who was an attentive
auditor, declared that he " never could nor would be-
lieve in ghosts, and that even if his father had said that
he ever saw one, he should set him down as a liar." No
sooner had he spoken than, turning to walk down tho
deck towards the beef-hatch, he was all at once alarmed
by beholding an officer in full naval uniform at a short
distance from him, and as it appeared to him, supported
by two old sailors, dressed in the fashion of the late
wars—to wit, a long pig-tail, with all the et cetera apper-
taining to an old tar's costume, and with what likewise
looked to be hatchets with them. This so alarmed him,
that turning to his comrade, Corporal Newton, he ex-
claimed, " For God's sake, Newton, what is that ?"
Newton instantly turned and beheld the same, and taking
hold of his lantern walked towards the group, when
they slowly moved away, and he followed them, when
they suddenly vanished near the water-tank. This made
Newton's " hair move his cap up" (to use his own ex-
pression), and they immediately reported it to the officer
of the watch, and the next day to the Captain and
First Lieutenant. The men are both very steady and
credible, and declare most positively that they did see
what they related, and they certainly do seem impressed
with the belief that it was so.
The Francc has an article on the question of an
alteration of the import duties on foreign cattle for the
supply of the French markets. This journal opposes
the reduction of the duties on two grounds : first, be-
cause it is unfair upon the French breeders and feeders
of cattle ; secondly, because the supply of butchers' meat
is fully equal to the demand, and the high price is owing
Criminibus debent poetos.
solely to the trickery and combination of the wealthy
A beauteous garden, but by vice maintained. bombers. The France informs us that for every fat ox
Addison's poetic fancy seems, how
charmed by the delights and meretricious ' allurements of
He dwells upon ever to have been
brought to market in France, the owner has already paid
1 from 120 f. to 144 f. in taxes, and this assertion it explains
thel by stating that the animal will have consumed the produce
Fox-hall), as " excellently pleasant at garden
this (then
die of the
the place.
of six hectares of land (nearly 15 English acres), the tax
year. When I considered the fragrancy f the walks I
upon which to the Government amounts to the sum here
and bowers, with the choirs of birds that sting upon the
called
mentioned. Whereas in Switzerland, adds the France,
trees, and the loose tribe of people that walked under
as the tax is upon consumption, and not upon the soil, an
their shades, I could not but look ti on that place as a
ox may be fatted at from 120 f. to 144 f. less than in this
sort of Mahometan Paradise." '.A'ie same graceful
tongue also speaks of " a mask" to
country, and therefore it would be unfair upon the
ping Sir Roger on
F
the shoulder, and inviting him withpher pretty impudent French agriculturist to give to the Swiss, or any other
agriculturist similarly situated to economy of feeding,
ruby lips, to drink a bottle of mead with her. They
finished a splendid little evening
with a slice of hung a still greater advantage by reducing the import duty.
On the second point of discussion, the France makes
beef and a glass of Burton. an assertion which at the moment we can neither
Vauxhall, however, till 1730, was barely more than a
contradict nor confirm in detail, but we confess that
good tea-garden of our days, till Mr. Jonathan Tyers
we should have been better satisfied if our Contem
took a lease of it, and with suitable entertainments opened po-
it every summer-evening. Hayman, who, when young, rary had favoured us with the data upon which the
was a scene-painter at Drury-lane, joined with that assertion is hazarded. We are told that for the last 25
prince of painters Hoo• 1 arth, in embellishing the gardens years the increase in the number of oxen has been from
for Tyers, but the productions'
of both were then perhaps six to ten millions, whereas the population of France
rather crude. Tyers, however, went to work with a has scarcely increased one-tenth. If the France is not
bold hand in renewing the gardens. Ho threw out more correct in its bovine statistics than it is as to the
i
broad sweeps of pavilions and saloons ; an orchestra was population, the arguments which it founds upon them
erected by him ; a statue , ' are not entitled to much notice. The population of
of Handel, by Roubiliac, sat
up ,
France, although less rapid in its increase than that of
in their centre, and engaged a goodly music-band. .,.
s purchased the whole estate, which is I any other large state in Euro e,
P does not go on so slowly
Tyers afterward .
heldof
copy hold of inheritance, and . the Prince of Wales 1 a
1 s our Contemporary states. -Twenty-five years ago the
of I? did muchexceed 28 millions; •
as Lord of Kenington Manor, in right of his Duchy of population ranee not
now exceeds 34 millions, which is far beyond the tenth
Cornwall.
At this period, and up to. 1792, Vauxhall Gardens stated by our Contemporary.
were open daily (Sundays excepted), and the admission ! The Journal du Havre after . referring to two
was is.; it was then raised to 25., including tea and decrees of the Government of New Granada, authorising a
coffee ;in 1809 several improvements were made, lamps Granada-French Company t.o. forma
tL.onmtimcal:ication by canal
added, &c., and the price was therefore raised to 3s. 6,; or railroad between the h
Pacific
tco a statement in
Oceans, acrost the
, Isthmus of Panama, and also some American
and were open only three nights in the week ; in 1821
the price was 4s. '
paper, that the period fixed for the commencement of the works
had elapsed without anything being done, publishes a letter
Mr. Bryant Barrrett, upon the death of Tyers, sue- from al. Salomon, one of the grantees of the privilege, denying
ceeded to the property, having married the grand-daughter
of the original proprietor. Mr. Barrett's son became the execution. It adds, that the Company had established an easy
next possessor. In 1818, the entire property was adver-
conveyance fur travellers between the port of Chagres and the
tised for sale, but no purchaser was obtained. In 1821 Bay of Chorera, which in a short time will be capable of trap-
the London Wine Company became the purchasers, and ;porting machinery, materials, &c. The road in no part
again restored it to something of its old celebrity. this latter a,.ertion, and stating that the undertaking is in full
_ passes over any uneven ground of importance, and is ex-
.it
t petted to be soon fit for the • • eon \ey ance of heavy merchandise.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
Queens are not now as Queens were oft of old
Couched like stone idols on a scat of gold,
Whose triple locks and closely curtained throne
Shut out like adamant their people's moan :
Queens, now, have human thoughts—have human hearts
That flow with love, and feel for kindred smarts—
Weep with the weepers, and in tears distil—
Yea, even bleed at their poor subjects' ill.

Look up, poor Weaver ; though distresses deep
With baleful famine round thy table creep ;
Yet, have thou faith, an arm both prompt and strong,
Shall give thee rescue ere the day grow long.
Mighty thy Queen—supreme in thy behalf—
Lean on her sceptre as thy surest staff ;
For perils dark shall fasten on the foes
Who thwart her plans, or purposes oppose ;
While her high goodness in the end shall bless
Thy days with plenty and with pleasantness.
Look up, poor eaver ! trust thou in thy Queen,
Bright times et to dawn, and days serene.

THE EMIGRANTS.
They fled from the land of the brave
Heart-broken,
Where never the word of a slave
Was spoken :
O why do they fly o'er the wave
Heart-broken ?
Oh, list ! their complaint as they fly
Is spoken,
" Though plenty still hangs in the sky
Its token,
From hunger—from hunger we fly,
Heart-broken."
From hunger !—though half of the soil
Is unbroken;
And the cattle adapted to toil
Are unyoken ;
Breathe a curse on the Lords of the soil
Ye heart-broken
Birmingham, Aug. 24th, 1841. R. R. R.

SALE OF VAUXHALL GARDENS.
This venerated place of old enchantments is now an-
nounced for sale on the 9th of September next, so that
unless a purchaser is then found, its fairy-like groves,
arbours, and palaces will fall to the lot of some invete-
rate speculator, and the site of so many olden pleasures,
fetes, and feastings, be covered with bran new brick
houses, for it is, we believe, understood " to be let as
building ground." It is to be devoutly hoped that such
will not be the case—that some charm,collected from an-
cient remembrances, will yet put to flight the Vandalism
that would level it—that the mention of such names as
Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley will throw some-
thing of consecration about the spot—that old Jonathan
Tyers, and the pavilion paintings by Hogarth and Hay-
man, and the rare sparkling lamps, and the dear dusky
walks in which love and beauty have so often knit their
rosy fingers, and in which the evening and the morning
have often listened to the little soul-breathing extacies of
lovers, will not be swept away from the earth—that this
" aviary of nightingales," where in early days Beard and
Lowe, and in later Dignum, Mrs. Billington, Incledon,
Madame Storace, Mrs. Bland, and Charles Taylor,
warbled till the green groves shook—will not be allowed
to pass utterly away, but still remain through the dull
London summer to be a seat of pleasure and delight.
Our sympathies enlist so strongly with this old fa-
vourite place of resort, that with the love of a zealous
antiquary we have traced out the pretty history of the
place, and our researches on the subject will perhaps be
pleasing to many at the present moment. These cele-
brated gardens are situated near the Thames, in the
parish of Lambeth, about a mile and a half from West-
minster-bridge. They derive their name from the manor of
Vauxhall or Faukeshall ; but the tradition that this proper-
ty was the property of Guy Fawkes is erroneous. The pre-
mises were, in 1615, the property of Jane Vaux, and
the mansion was then called Stockdens. Originally Sir
Samuel Moreland, a private gentleman, appears to have
laid out the gardens for his own pleasure,. and planted
them with trees, the. same Sir Sarauel having displayed
many whimsical proofs of his skill in mechanics, and,
above all, had added a public room, " the inside of
which was all looking-glass, and fountains, very pleasant
to behold, and much visited by strangers.
Up to this period Vauxhall was invested with but little
publicity, nor is it. precisely certain as to when the
place first threw open its enchantments. Nevertheless,
its celebrity is upwards of a century and a half old. In
the reign of Queen Anne it appears to have drawn greatly
as a place of resort ; for, in a paper of the Spectator,
dated May 20, 1712, Addison has introduced Sir Roger
de Coverley, going with him from the stairs at the
Temple to Vauxhall, which was then termed Spring-
gardens. Addison s motto to hispaper seems to throw
rather a doubtful sort of morality over this haunt of
facinations, for he has topped it with this Juvenalian
line :

SPIRIT. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF TUESDAY.
CHRONICIZ—The business of Parliament com-
mences to-day ; but whatever interest is directed towards
its proceedings rather bears the character of mere
curiosity than that of a sense of the importance of its
probable decisions, or a disposition to abide by them
practically or permanently. 'People are on the look-out
to see how 'Sir Robert Peel will wriggle out of the diffi-
culties of his position, or to mark the conduct of diffe-
rent sections 'of the heterogeneous majority in the use
of its newly-acquired preponderance. For such curiosity
there is indeed abundant stimulus. The elections have
conferred ascendancy upon a single class of Members
—there for the English counties ; the great question at
issue being one in which their interests are presumed
to be in collision with those of the rest of the community.
The majority Of Scotch Members, of Irish Members,
and of the representatives of English boroughs, are,
together with her Majesty's Government, opposed
to the continuance of the Corn monopoly. The English
county Members, leagued with the several minorities of
those sections of the representation, overpower them all.
They are the ruling power ; and the public waits to see
'now they will use their preponderance. It behoves them
to coraiaer well their position. The mastery they have
acquired should, of itself, make them pause before they
affirm the perpetuity of monopoly, and " shut the gates
of moray on mankind." They are judges in their own
cause. There is no tribunal to which they and their
opponents make their pleas. Their advocacy is to them-
selves. Their will may supersede reason. The question
whether law shall keep up rents at the Cost of the
labourer's diminished loaf, is in their hands ; and
they are the rent-receiving class. Nothing hinders
their adjudicating in their own favour. They can un-
questionably, with all constitutional forms, award them-
selves the profits which must be wrung from the toil and
the privations of millions. On this matter they are law
and sovereignty. The nation waits and watches ; the
world looks on ; that is all. Parliamentary resistance
is at their feet ; the spoil is before them ; what will it
do, this landlords' House of Commons ? Corn-laws are
the landlords' interest ; but the full means of legally se-
curing it may, perhaps, induce some reflection upon the
sort of interest thus constituted. Human interests are
of various sorts, from the simple transfer of coin from one
pouch into another, up to that interest which exists in
the kindly and approving hearts of our fellow creatures,
only to be attained by the semblance of moral justice,
or that yet higher approval which is only to be se-
cured by its reality. The landlords' interest in the corn
rnoaopoly is not that humane interest which consults the
rights of all who toil, by promoting such interchange of
• the, products of their labour as must needs benefit the in-
dustrious every where. It is not the patriotic interest
which binds itself up with the prosperity of an entire
nation, and opposes no class objects to the well being
of the whole. Nor is it an equal class interest as to
agriculture. It keeps the farmer in a state of degrading
dependence and demoralizing uncertainty ; the labourer
in one of semi-starvation. Even the permanent value
of land is injured by the monopoly. The measure of
that value is only to be found in the prosperity of manu-
facture. Acres of houses are worth more than acres of
wheat, and they enhance the worth of all acres near
there And what acres are not, or will not soon, by
more rapid means of communltation, be brought near
them ? The landlord's interest in the monopoly is only
the lowest, dirtiest, most evanescent interest of his class;
taking that class as distinguished, not only from the com-
mercial classes, but from the rest of the agricultural.
TIMES.—A meeting of the principal leaders of the
Conservative party was held on Sunday, at which the
course to be pursued on the opening of this first Session
of the new Parliament, and the communication on the
lent of the Crown, was discussed and settled. The re-
sult of this conference is, we understand, that an amend-
ment to the Address will be moved in both Houses—in
the Lords by the Earl of Ripon. and in the Commons by
Mr. Wortley, seconded by Lord Bruce. " Now, mark
Low a plain tale will (in both cases) put the Addresses
down." Want of confidence—want of confidence is a
sufficient answer. How long a Government can go on
—whatever projects they may conceive, or whatever
proposals they may have to make—without the con-
fidence of either Peers r Commons, it is not difficult to
Conjecture. Each House will express its opinion ; and
her Majesty, with the true constitutional principles
which have ever belonged to the Sovereigns of her fa-
mily, will turn to her people and listen to their voice,
expressed from the only legitimate organs, her two
limes of Parliament. According to the plan laid down
in what may be.called Lord John Russell's programme,
Ministers will go out ; and this first event of a con-
stitutional change in this great country will probably
take place before the end of the week. Sir Robert
Peel has had time to arrange his plans, and to fix
upon his persons. The great Duke—whatever may
be his own situation, is comparatively of little im-
port—will diffuse the lustre of his name over the whole
body. Lord Aberdeen, it is understood, will resume the
station fhr which •he is alike qualified by natural talents
and preceding experience—namely, that of Foreign Se-,
cretary. Lord Stanley goes to the Colonialoffice in the
place of Lord J. Russell. Lord Lyndhurst will of
course take the Great Seal. The other offices, without.
difficulty, find possessors fitted for the discharge of their
functions, into the detail of which, if we should
.enter, we might, perhaps commit some trivial errors.
It is not expected that Ministers can or will at-
tempt to make any resistance. They have, in- I
deed, themselves pointed out the course they mean to
adopt—they will go out. Lord John Russell has stated, '
that their duties will then be, to watch the proceedings
of their successors, and prevent them from doing 'ins-
c.!hief,•or committing' extravagance. If he and his col-
leag”.ca had not been so watched and guarded themselves
and *prevented from committing mischief, perplexing and
unliaeny as the state of the country is, it would have
been much worse. We do not object to an opposition,
belied upon good old constitutional principles, watching
the proceedings of the men in power. Perhaps we owe
some of the worst laws on our statute-books to the ae-
aordance of those parties.
HERALI).—Few questions are more frequently put
;just now by party quidnuncs, than, " What will Lord
Brougham do during the Session about to open ?"
" Heaven knows," is the almost universal reply ; " but
there will he some fun now that he will be again in the
House of Lords." This answer discloses a truth, which
is worthy of the serious consideration of Lord Brougham.
However much his Lordship's studied eloquence may be
admired ; however much a " mute Senate" may atten-
tively and even sympathetically listen to his fierce
invectives, his coarse and excruciating irony, and
his elaborate and ingenious special pleading ; how-
ever much new friends may flatter, and old friends
denounce his Lordship, yet is Lord Brougham
devoid of moral influence in the country. In
ntellect;:al powers, in information, and in high
designs Lord Brougham is as far superior to any of his
Former contemporary labourers in Whiggery, as the
noon-day sun is in brightness to a farthing rushlieht.
_Lord Brougham has undoubtedly, in his past career, done
much harm ; during the greater portion of his life he has
given up to " party what was meant for mankind ;" but
he is a man of genius, and to such men redemption for
the past can always be achieved. For upwards of a
quarter of a century Lord Brougham
" Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought"
in the ranks of Whiggery ; he alone preserved the
Whiffs,
discomfited and in dismay, together as a political
body; lie ultimately secured for his party place aid power,
for himself rank and pension; but, even when their hold of
office seen:ed strongest—when to all appearance the desti-
nies of the country were in their hands for the next twenty
years, Lord'Brougham renounced his party, withdrew him-
self from the-friendship of his early associates, disclaimed
all participation in their views, ridiculed their ability,
held up to scorn their motives, and opposed with all
his might their measures. In thus acting we willingly
accord to Lord Brougham political honesty and personal
integrity. Disappointed his Lordship may have been at
the treatment he met with from his former colleagues
:tad ungrateful associates ; but he was more disgusted
by their genetal conduct, than by their meanness towards
haneelf. 'He did not rush into the arms of the opposi-
tion ; rejoicing in his release from his former party, he
'quietly surveyed for a time those whom he had so long
and s(3 bitterly oppOsed ;' he became slowly aware that
lie had, while in the bonds of faction and under the in-
fluence of those who admit of no merit beyond their
own narrow circle, underrated the pure and lofty pur-
poses, the patriotic ambition,. the stern integrity, and
the matchless good sense of the foremost man of his
age—the Duke of Wellington. At the Cinque Ports' fes-
tival Lord Brougham nobly and eloquently recanted his
;past errors, and his subsequent conduct has demon-
mtrated that he now understands and appreciates the ex-
cellence and greatness of the most modest and most able
of British statesmen. For this political regeneration we
believe Lord Brougham to be much indebted to the
friendship of a Peer who thoroughly knows, and now
heartily despises, Lord Melbourne and his colleagues—
we moan the venerable Marquis Wellesley. Both these
noble persons—Lord Wellesley, from his extreme age,
necessarily, so far isethe public is concerned, in silence
—have for some yeara, beheld in their former political

associates,—

" An impious crew
Of men conspiring to uphold their state,
By worse than hostile deeds, violating the ends
For which our country is a name so dear ;"
both now rejoice at the approaching downfall o 7 tl e
Whig-lZadical Administration.

POST.—The journals of the beaten Ministerial party
anaeunce, cvith their accustomed accuracy, that there are
such. divisions in the Conservative ranks as must prove to
the Conservative leader the impossibility that he should
cal ry on the Government. This information, upon which
the Whig-Eledicals appear to pride themselves not a
little, is uo doubt derived from the very same source
which enabled that careful and veracious journal the
Giu:;;T to assure its numerous readers, on the 25th June,
•.he general election, then just about co commence,
would give an excellent working majority to Lord
John Ljnsseli ; that the Conservative majority in the
House of Loris would then " eat their leek " in calm
arisyscratie dudgeon, while Sir Robert Peel and
Lord Stanley would quietly take their seats as Opposi-
tion I,)fah.-rs. in the house of Commons, well pleased to
be relieved from the importunities of those who had
fancied them strong enough in the country to take
office. The minuteness of this information made it, no
doubt, very interesting at the time ; and it was, indeed,
everything that could be wished, except for this trifling
circumstance, that it happened to be altogether a mis-
take. The same admirable organ of Whig-Radical truth
announced at the same time, that the citizens of London
would within a very few days record their opinion of the
:benefit; wl i h Whig-Radical policy held out to the corn-
3nercial world, by rejecting every one of the Conserva-
tive candidates who so absurdly aspired to represent the
itycn in Parliament, and by triumphantly return-
Lord John Russell at the head of the
poll. This too, was extremely interesting ; but, un-
luckily, like tho,
e general information
tobe as to the elec-
tion results it turned out tiki4te a mistake.
. The
a woe 'Whig-Radicals did not get mg majority nor any