The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

KENSINGTON POLICE.

DISTRESSING REVERSE OF FORTUNE.-- Yesterday,
after the night charges had been disposed of, a decently-
dressed female, in the vale of years, who. had evidently
moved in a superior sphere of life, appeared before Ur.
Palkington, the sitting Magistrate, to ask his advice
under the following circumstances :

The applicant, who during her statement was affected
to tears, said she wished to ask the Magistrate if a son
could legally be compelled to support an aged mother,
and how she was to proceed to compel him to do so ?
Mr. Piikington informed her that, according to law,
a son was bound to support a parent to the best of Lis
abidty, provided that parent had no menus of subsist-
ence, nod became chargeable to the poor-rates.
The applicant said her mother's name was Mills.
She was eighty-nine years of age, and was the widow
of a gentleman who for tifty-two years, tilled the
situation of page to his late Majesty King George
the Fourth, as well while Prince of Wales and
Regent as after his accession to the throne.
After her father's death, her mother an-

ticipated she should receive a pension. In-
deed one was promised her by his late Royal Highness
the Duke of York, then Commander-in-Chief, Mr.
Mills having formerly served in the line. That promise
was, however, ultimately reduced to her name being
placed on the compassionate list, at an allowance of

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141. per annum, which had since died away. The ap-
plicant had since kept her mother while her (applicant's)
husband lived ; but since his death she had become so
situated that she was now compelled to look out for the
situation of housekeeper in a nobleman or gentleman's
family. She had it, therefore, no longer in her power
to assist her age] parent, having a family of her own to
see to, while her brother, who was an officer in the
navy, on half-pay, and possessed of considerable pro-
perty, on being applied to to assist his mother, refused
to do so, and said there was no power that could com•
pel him.
Mr. Pilkington said it was certainly most unnatural
conduct on the part of her brother, but the Magis-
trates had no power to interfere until called upon to do
so by the parish officers. In what parish did her mother
reside

The applicant replied in the parish of Chelsea, in
which parish her brother also lived. She had stated
the case to Captain Fitzgerald, one of the Chelsea
Magistrates, who had sent her to Sir .1. S. Lillie, but
both of those gentlemen had given her the same in-
formation as the worthy Magistrate to whom she had
applied, in consequence of being told that an applica-
tiod ought to he made within the parish to which her
mother belonged, which was Kensington.
Mr. Pilkington told her her proper course. would be
to apply to the parochial authorities of Chelsea, who
would pass her aged parent to Kensington, the officers
of which parish would then proceed against her brother,
who deserved such an exposure.
The applicant thanked the worthy Magistrate for his
kindness, and retired, remarking she had wished to avoid
the exposure, but she could ❑o longer prevent it.

London, No 3, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square.)
" The Countess of Clifford presents her compli-
ments to Mr. E. Solomon!, and is much gratified in be-
ing able to say that his " Patent Spectacles," adapted to
her sight nearly six years ago, have continued undiminished
in the perfect case and pleasure she was so delighted to
have experienced from their use immediately he so skil_
fully applied them, enabling her to read or enkic her
sight for the most minute employment, and for any length
of time, by day or candle-light, without the slighted fa-
tigue. This is the more remarkable 'nd grEtulatory to the
Countess's feelings considering the tot.l failure in the
above respects, and consequent mortifying disappointments
attending the various other spectacles she hitherto attempted
to wear; indeed, it is with the greatest pleasure the Coun-
tess testifies to Mr. E. Solomons' perfectly successful
B peculiaron d.
treatment of her sight. and submits her ow:nol
case in confirmation of the strong and deserved recommen
lomons' high professional standing.—Countess Conttantra
I dations his Spectacles hare received, and of l\;:rit.re
e ainwteenedks. t® runt
Noble
Lordthe e...,":
Clifford. To Mr. E. Soloraons, Optician, 36
street, and 1, Old Jewry, City."
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MNlMPoliimmillailmelin
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
TO-MORROW EVENING, OCT. 3,
Will be repeated the New Play, in Five Acts, written by James
Sheridan Knowles, Esq., entitled
THE BRIDE OF MESSINA.
John di Procida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper ; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
The Interval p
between the Play and the Afterpiece will be oc-
cuied by (first time)
A COMIC SCENE between Mr.CHAentitRLES MATHEWS 1
and Mr. KEELEY, led
TWO IN THE MORNING.
After which will be repeated a New
GREEK Musical Drama, entitled
THE .
Hylas, Madame Vestris ; Doge of Venice, Mr. S. Jones ;
Count Malveggio, Mr. Didclear ; Silvio, Mr. Keeley ; Claudio,
Mr. Binge ; Bernardo, Mr. F. Matthews ; .Benedetta, Miss
Cooper ; Censtanza, Miss A. Taylor.
On Monday, The Bride of Messina, with the Greek Boy.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
lb. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be bad solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bend-street.

PEACE OR WAR.

(From the Journal des Debsets.)
If France arms, whose fault is it ? We were repos-
ing in full confidence in the alliance with England for
the preservation of peace. Who aroused us suddenly
from this sleep of confidence by the extraordinary news
of a treaty concluded without us, and almost without
our knowledge, between Austria, Prussia, Russia, and
England, and upon what question ? The question of
the East, the question on which the alliance of France
and England appeared to be the most necessary, in '
order to check the ambition of Russia !—England
allied with Russia ! England detaching herself from
France at a moment when the eager eyes of the Mus-
coVites were more than ever fixed upon Constantinople,
which appeared ready to open its gates to them!
England, placing herself at the head of a quadruple
alliance, which revives such painful reminiscences for
France! How was it possible for such unexpected
D.ews not to produce a violent commotion amongst
113? How could we remain calm and indiffer-
ent in presence of a treaty which taught us all at
once that we were isolated in Europe? Would not a
Government, which in such a position had neglected
to increase her fleets and her armies in order to be pre-
pared for events, have been highly culpable? The
conseepence of the treaty of London, however re-
stricted, is the absolute isolation of France. We have
not, like England, the ocean for a rampart. Our army
arid our fortresses, our National Guard and our ar-
aerials, these are our ocean. In case of war, the first
battle, perhaps, would take place within eighty leagues
of Paris, and a defeat might bring the enemy in a' few
days to the capital. Four Powers have signed the
Treaty of London ; Europe is on one side, and France
on the other, alone with the patriotism of her inhabi-
tants. Supposing even that no intention directly hos-
tile to France is concealed in the Treaty of London,
which, as regards England we are willing to believe,
Who can say that this intention may not be deve-
loped by the course of events ? Are our revolution
and our principles looked upon with a favourable eye
by all the Powers who have signed the treaty? What
would the Times have said if France had signed such
a treaty with Russia, Austria, and Prussia? Would
not England in that case have adopted the same pre-
cautions as we have done, notwithstanding her natural
rampart, the sea, which surrounds her ? Would she not
have cried out treason much louder than we have done?
If any nation is desirous for war, it is not France. In
this war we should be one to four. A great nation
may embark in such a war when her honour compels
her to do so, cruelly unequal as the contest would be ;
but it does not court it, It would not be courage, it
would be madness to rush gaily against Europe, and to
provoke at the same time England and Russia, Austria
and Prussia. We have something better to do than to
waste our blood and our gold upon sterile battles. We
have conquests enough to make upon our own aoij,
May it please God to enable us to expend the money
which balls and cartridges would cost on railways ! Who
talked of war and battles in France before the Treaty of
the 15th of July ? As to the propaganda, did we not our-
selves put it down ? The maintenance of peace is no
longer, unfortunately, in our hands—we are upon the de-
fensive. We have not taken, and shall not assume,
the offensive. The Times says the preparations made
by France are war ; we say they are peace—if the
Powers will comprehend the enormous fault they would
commit in driving us to extremes. The treaty, by unit-
ing four Powers against one, has deranged the equili-
brium of Europe. Let us not be compelled to re-esta-
blish it by blows. We must, however, admit that the
language of our Ministerial journals is but too well cal-
culated to represent us to Europe as brawlers and mis-
chief-makers. Not knowing how to be firm and dig-
nified, they assume the air of braggarts. It is the
misfortune, the fatality, the penalty of the Ministers
of the Ist of March to have in their train the organs
of a party which cannot get rid of their habits of
agitation. The Left has made great sacrifices to
the French Ministry, but the last thing that a pasty
sacrifices is its language. When propagandism, war
of principle, universal revolution have been so long
the ordinary langu tae of a party, it is difficult to
adopt more moderate forms of discussion. The Leit
support the Government in the same way as they
attacked it. They alribute to it their own ideas,
and cover it with their own mask. They art exagge- ,
rated, violent, and rash, and there is something of fac-
tion even in their Ministerialism. We must not, how-
ever, be judge I by our Ministerial Journals. The
month of D.cember is approaching, and the Ministry
most assemble the Chambers. There it must explain
itself, and there also the country will, by its legal re-
presentatives, declare its true sentiments. We are
sure the Chambers Still be as much opposed to the tur-
bulent and defying tone of the Ministerial Journals as
firm in defence of the interests and dignity of France.
WEDNESDAY.—" Statesmen here begin to
wear longer faces. The positive tidings that the
Porte had at once rejected the proposals of Mehemet,
without a single foreign envoy's dictating to any
of the Dian; with the report that the decision of
the EngliAl Cab:net Council had decided on the exe-
cution of the treaty, end the probability of a Russian
fleet at !cast getting out of the Sound, have filled all
minds with ans'ety. It all this news be confirmed, we
shall lave councils hum tco, discussions, and possibly
sesioui results. I have spoken to you of a war and a
peace 1 arty in the French Cabinet. M. '.'biers, al-
though .n England accounted the great war-spirit, holds,
on the t ontra y, a middle place between colleagues who
would t; 1 rate more than Le, and colleagues who would
dare more. Admiral Roussin, removed from his Con-
stanti opl.: embassy because he was too hostile to Me-
hemet, wou'd now risk a naval collision to save him.
He propose I once to send 20,000 men to Candle,
and Tie now stroni:ly censures tae keeping the French
fleet in the waters of Athens, instead of having
it on de coast of Syria. M. Thiers is anxious,
on the contrary, to avoid a naval collision. But
Roussin threatens to resign, and should he re-
sign, assignirg for the cause the inactivity of the
French fleet, such an event would precipitate
matters, and render the convocation of the Cham
hers necessary. I know you think,
in England, that the French will attempt nothing.
I scarcely think they would, if they had any hopes
of getting honourably out of the scrape. But if
t'ae proposals of Mehemet be flatly rejected, without
any hopes of interior negotiation, ar.d should anything
serious or aggravated take place on the coast of Syria,
—both very probable contingencies—l fear you must
admit the adoption of a strong measure by the French
Cabinet as in the range of possibilities Admiral La
lande is here. Like most of the French naval men, he
speaks in friendly and admiring terms of both Napier
and Stopford ; but he is at the same time furnishing
the French Cabieet with various plans of the different
enterprises which France might undertake and execute,
by way of a set-off to the coercion of Mehemet Ali.
Should anything of the kind be intended, it must be
done before the arrival of the Russian fleet, and there-
fore immediately. The French will not dare any such
thing, you may think. It is better not to be too cer-
tain on this head, and to be prepared for the worst."

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
This Evening there will be no performance.
Mr. Kenney's New Tragedy, entitled " The Sicilian Vespers,"
in conjunction with Ainsworth's Original " Jack Sheppard,"
have attracted the most brilliant overflows ever witnessed.
This elegant Theatre is nightly crowded to the cieling.
TO-MORROW EVENING, OCT. 3.
Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled
THE SICILIAN VESPERS.
Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes-
:op, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining.
To conclude with
JACK SHEPPARD.
Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Mr. BUTLER, Sole Lessee of the above Establishment,
most respectfully announces to the Nobility and Public in ge-
neral that the Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON, on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1840.
During the recess the Theatre has been re-painted and re-
decorated, and every attention paid to the comfort of the au-
dience.
The Theatre will open with
" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."
After which, a Burletta from the French, entitled
MAISON A VENDRE.
Versac, Mr. St. John Horton (from the Theatre Royal, Edin-
burgh, his first appearance) ; Madame Dorval, Mrs. H. Cum-
mins; and Lisa, Miss Crisp.
A Drama, in Three Acts, will succeed, to be entitled
STOP HIM WHO CAN!

Vapid (a Dramatic Author), Mr. Balls (his first appearance
since his return from America); and Marianne (Mrs. H.
Beverley (her first appearance here).
The whole to conclude with a new Barletta (Never Acted) to

be named the
RAILROAD STATION.

Mr. Sampson Jones, Mr. Samuel Roxby (his first appearance
in London) ' • and Mrs. Wm. Smith, Mrs. Garrick.
Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Olympian Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s.
Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is. 6d ;
Pit, Is.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr, Lowe's communication can only appear as an adver-

tis.emenr.
" A. B." may address his letters in any way that suits
his convenience. We shall not lose sight of the subject
to which he adverts.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDUE TO-MORROW
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PRINCE PIERRE NAPOLEON

BONAPARTE.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—Prince Pierre Napoleon Bo-
naparte has written a letter to the Obscrvateur, in
which he says, " Many persons having misunderstood
an ar.icle in a Roman paper, think that, by the death
of my father, Prince Lucien Bonaparte, my eldest
brother inherits, with the title of Prince of Canino, the
vast estate bearing that name. If the Pope has given
to my brae- er the title of Prince of Canino, which title,
however, is not mentioned in my father's will, it is
wholly false that my father has made any distinction of
fortune or otherwise between his children. The fact is
that, after leaving to each of them an equal share, as
fixed by the law, he has bequeathed all his property to
my mother, the Princess of Canino.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, OCT. 2.—Wind this day at noon, light airs
from the north westward.
DEAD, OCT. I.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mary, Ridg-
way, Chesser, from New South Wales ; Statira, Bocth,
from Jamaica ; Sophia, Barclay, ditto ; Egbert, Paulin,
Montserrat ; Honvood, Cole, Rio Janeiro ; Mary Laing,
Ellison, Honduras; Ceacs, ditto.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. I.—Arrived the Storm King, Gillies,
from Lagtsy.a—ssiled 27th July ; Rochdale, Shepherd, St.
Vincent's—sailed 16th August; Elizabeth, England, Santa
Cruz de Cuba; Margaret, Savanilla—sailed 7th August;
Jeanette, Coliy, Mobille ; Maryland;, ditto ; Senator,
ditto; Franklin, ditto; Intrinsic, Davidson, New Orleans ;
Coburg, Fergusson, St. John's, New Brunswick Pur-
suit, ditto; Sisters, Jaques, Montreal ; Dee, Wyley, Bonny,
sailed 15. h July; Jane, Faulkner, Cameroons—sailed
29th July; Jane, Reed, Palermo; Ace of Trumps, Ma-
laga ; Daphne, Thompsou, Bilboa. Sailed the President,
King, for New York. Off port, Brigand, Antigua.
MILFORD, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Edgeeombe, Stale
from from Pernambuco ; Xanthus, Frost, Quebec ; and Amity,, Harris, ditto.
Coax, &Pr. 27.—Arrived the Tino, Walser, from
Larache. The Prudence, Ramser, bound to London, in
coming down tho river yesterday, took the ground near
Black Rock, and lay over for the tide. She is much
strained, and makes much water. 29, —Arrived
New.
the
Eliza, Ranker, from Havannah ; Active, cox,
foundland ; and Jane, James, Larache. Sailed the John
Cooper, Salmon, for. South Australia.
HULL, OCT. 1.-- v Wind W. by .—Arrived the Wilson,
Jordan, from Pictou.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1840.

The Times has quietly dropped the ,new bomb
by which it was to blow up Lord MELBOURNE.
It was probably afraid the contrivance might ex-
plode in its office, or it grew too hot for even the
case-hardened hands of the Times. Perhaps it
will condescend to tell its readers—if they are
worthy of the least consideration, and are not to be
treated as the merest noodles and dupes that have
ever learnt to read—what has been done with the
wonderful invention for destroying fleets at a dis-
tance, it announced some time back. For our parts
we should not be surprised to learn that the Light-
ning God had, from the abode of the Thunderer in
Printinghouse-square, set fire to the ships at Ply-
mouth, in order to convince the public of his
power. At --Itwer, -
mischief the Times and. its protegee seem best
capable of achieving.
Yesterday the Times, in pursuit of its darling
object, of abusing the " Minto Board," adverted
to the celebrated quarrel about Nootka Sound, and
held up the vigour with which Mr. PITT did busi-
ness to the admiration of the public. No " shilly-
shallying then," said the Times :
On the sth of May, within a week of the day on
which the particulars of the transaction had reached
him, the Prime Minister came down with a message to
the House of Commons. On the;llth he obtained a
vote of credit for 1,000,0001. sterling. Within two
months he had a fleet at Spithead. fully manned and fit
l'or service, of between 30 and 40 sail of the line. On
the 24th of July he obtained a full and formal satisfac-
tion from Spain for the wrong which had been perpe-
trated upon British subjects, and for the insult offered
to the Crown of England, which satisfaction had at
first been stiffly refused by the Spanish Government.
Further, on the 28th of October, in less than six months
from the date of his Majesty's mcssage to Parliament, a
regular and permanent convention was signed at Madrid,
providing solid restitution of all rights, privileges, and
property of which British subjects had suffered loss or
curtailment through the injustice of Spanish function-
aries, and also establishing fixed regulations for their
future security against every species of aggression.
This was doing business. This was the consequence of
a fleet at Spithead, whose apprehended broadsides
riddled the hull of the Escurial, end brought the
Spaniard to his senses, although hocked by the)trench
National Assembly. which recognised the obligatiuns
of the family compact against England. The British
Minister of that day was not of the race of Palmerston,
Melbourne, or Minto. He was a maa—his name was
William Pitt.
But what do historians say of this Nootka Sound
affair :—" In the month of May, 1790, there was
a hot press on the Thames, and all over England,"
to procure the seamen for the forty sail of the line,
The consequence of the hot press was that houses
were broken into, vessels boarded and stopped, com-
merce interrupted, and :tonest citizens carried off and
treated like felons. More misery was inflicted on
thousands of honest men by that " hot press,"
which the Times would be glad to sec revived, in a
season of peace, when the country was in no danger,
than Mr. PITT'S whole thirty years' adminis-
tration compensated. The business of which the
Times boasts was commonly described as a war for
a few cats' skins, and it is said to have cost the
country 3,000,0001. That was indeed a glorious
business; but this generation is so stupid, so insen-
sible to glory, and to the value of Ministerial vi_
gour, that they would rather allow our merchant
seamen peacefully and securely to sleep in their
own ships, and rather keep the 3,000,0001. in their
pockets, than employ it to bully the Spaniards 01
the French about any such object as getting a few
cats' skins.

Mr. PITT had at that day, according to the
Times, a " system of sound and formidable marine
policy," including the hot press on the Thames.
" There was no niggardly and beggarly
\r
parsimony,"
as our national debt proves. For i . PITT'S
extraordinary vigour, and his extraordinary gene-
rosity with the people's money—which, allow us
to tell the Times, he most unrighteously plundered
them of—we are now suffering most severely. He
bound his successors in money chains, which ham-
per the whole nation to this hour.
" There was not in Mr. PITT'S time," our Con-
temporary further says, " a general dismissal of
hands from that most useful depot of naval strength,
the Ordinary." Where was the veteran officer of
forty years' standing, who vouched for the fleet-de -
VasszL3 SPOKEN WITII.—The Traveller, from Clyde to
Newfoundland, 20th ult., lat. 49, lon. 2 E., by the
Janeiro
.
e. ntia, Hayden arrived at Waterford; Jessie, Rio stroying power of the coadjutor of the Times, that
he did not correct this statement ? The " veteran,
to Gaspe, 6th t:lt., lon. 55 ; Transit, Dublin to Quebec,
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lath ult., lat. 48, lon. 38; Royal Albert, from Miramichi,
2,.d, lat. 49, lon. 21, by the North Star, Curtis, arrived at if he have not lost his faculties, must remern-
ber what sort of men were employed in the
Torquayvetltri: Henry of Maryport, and Glasgow, Clyde to
C.ibsona i 3tl alt., lat. 46, lon. 53 ; Countess of Mulgrave, , ”,
. ah, lat. 47, lon. 34 ; Volunteer, Hull to Que- ,g ' Ordinary, and, if he be still able to read, he
13( c, 14th, lat. 48 1
`must have laughed as muchpuatbitilciatwillileinlagnah":lteit)lo, te
sten ; General
Brock'". 33 by the Urgent, arrived at Kingl
-
lay; 30, lon. 35 oasotse'
treemZ:
10 t Coast
rio
el ester, Cadiz to B
Sr. J. hn's, N. 8, ,
~o passengers dead); Man- 'of naval strength," as the
Lowdo9ntn, lat. 35, 10-. 30 ; Jame!, Times for lauding as vigorous and Wise the " hot
Fanny, arrived lit 09N4e;. ,213 t, lat, 46, 1914 19, by the
press" in 1790, to secure a few cats' skins. The per-

111/41 Pft,„

sons employed in the Ordinary, except the warrant
officers, who are still retained, were one and all
worn-out and debilitated, wholly unfit for active
service. Many of them were not even seamen,
but persons almost incapable of labour, who managed
to-get borne on the Ordinary for the sake of the
provisions. Such was the reason assigned for
j abolishing this depot of naval strength, and sub-
stituting a small number of good hands for a num-
ber of feeble and worn-out persons. The author
of the alteration so severely, and equally unjustly,
condemned by the Times, was Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM ; and there was not, we believe, one Tory
in Parliament who did not approve of the change.
The Right Hon. Baronet has committed many er-
rors, particularly since he ratted to the Tories ; but
he presided at the Admiralty with much discretion,
and was, not many weeks ago, described by the
Times as the only administrator that ever belonged
to the Whig Government.
It was Sir JAMES GRAHAM, SlSO,vvho converted
the Preventive Service into a Coast-guard, which is
most ignorantly condemned by the Times. What-
ever the Preventive Service might have done for
the Navy, that the Coast-guard is more capable of
performing. When the former was broken up,
there were, we believe, of 2,500 men of
which it consisted, not 800 whose services
the Captains of our ships would accept, whereas
it is a condition of receiving a man into the Coast-
guard, that he shall have served on board her MA-
JESTY'S ships, be yet in full vigour, and shall have
behaved well. The appointment is now a reward
for service ; and, in case of any emergency, the
bulk of the Coast-guard would be ready to serve
afloat. It is a singular circumstance, that we who
are opposed to Sir JAMES GRAHAM should be
obliged to defend his conduct from the attacks of
his friends ; but the Times only values men as they
are able and willing—like the wonderful inventor—
to do mischief to the country, and it loves and ad-
mires in the Cumberland Baronet only his mis-
chievous bigotry.
Not only the Times, but the other Tory Jour-
nals, have taken advantage of the disaster at De-
vonport to sneer at the mode in which the dock-
yards
and ships are guarded. If there were any
negligence on such an important matter, no blame
would be too severe ; but let us, from some per-
sonal knowledge on the subject, assure the public
that the dockyards were never better watched and
guarded than at present. Within a few years a new
and a well-organized police has been established in
them, and no stranger can enter them without per-
mission, or go through them, without being fre-
quently liable to be questioned as to who and what
he is. There are ship-keepers, wardens, and sen-
tinels in almost every part, and every possible pre-
caution is taken, both to guard against accidents,
and prevent all temptation—by not allowing the
opportunity—to commit incendiarism. Suspicious
as the circumstances at Devonport may be, it is too
soon yet to conclude that the destruction of the
Talavera was the act of an incendiary.

During those vigorous days—and those days of
extravagant precaution—praibed by the Times, the
dockyards were more than once in a blaze. A man
called JACK the Painter, otherwise JAMES AIT-
KEN, was hanged in 1778, at Gosport, for setting
fire to the rope-yard at Portsmouth, and for many
years he swung there in chains, equally a memorial
of his crime and of the national barbarity. As the
Times, and the Tory Journals are anxious to revive
old customs, they would probably like to see the
several headlands of the Thames, and some of the

most conspicuous points in our highways, again or-
namented with decaying human beings suspended
in chains from a gallows, swinging and creaking in
the air, and tainting with disease and death the
sweet breath of Heaven. Such things with a " hot

‘ sound system" which the Times yesterday held

up to admiration.

The Livery have not yet, we regret to say,
answered our expectations. They Lave not rushed
to the poll, to defend their own rights, and the
most valuable right of the public—free discussion.
Whatyver Mr. HARMER may be, or however his
Committee may conduct his election, in his person
the right of every Englishman to speak freely, and
freely to write what he thinks, is attacked, and the '
Livery ought for their own sake to hasten forward
and defend him. They ought to do this, if Mr.
HAItMER, instead of being a generous friend and
an excellent citizen, were one of the worst men of
the day ; a►ud how much more, then, ought they to
exert themselves, when they will by the acne act
honour private worth and serve the public !
Let them remember that the system attacked in
Mr. HA umErt's person is not a monopoly like an
exclusive system ; it is not the oppression of any
class or condition of men ; it is the system of
allowing all equally to speak and write their thoughts.
The Liberals claim that for the Tories as well as
for themselves. They seek to place no fetters on
Tory thoughts, or on the expression of Tory opi
nious ; but the Tories require the Livery to place
fetters on Liberal opinions. Exercising a sort of
Lynclt-la, the Tories in a tumultuous manner
knock down and tread on Mr. HARMER, because
the Editor of the Dispatch does not write in favour
of Christianity. Are we then to be Lynched
into Christianity ? Is it of such doubtful
benefit, that men will not love it, nor embrace it,
unless for some worldly honours with which it is
connected ? Those insult and injure Christianity,
who suppose that it cannot bear free discussion ;
and religion as well as liberty is assailed by the
hypocrites who have arrayed themselves against
Mr. HARMER. But it is yet in the power of the
independent Livery to save, by electing him, the
honour of Christianity, and the liberties of the
country. To reject Mr. HARMER, will be to tell
the Tories they may pursue their nefarious schemes
unopposed. They will use their success in the
City, should they achieve it, to inspire their par-
tisans with new arrogance in every part of the
country. Already we are threatened with the
most serious calamities by the predominance of bi-
gotry and Toryism, and to save us from them the
Livery must return Mr. HARMER. The one thing
needful to reconcile our Irish brethren to us and
put down repeal—to reconcile the Chartists to our
present institutions, is to convince the world that
the middle classes of England are just, honest, and
liberal. Let Mr. HARMER, however, be rejected,
and all hope of begetting such a conviction will be
at an end. For the many evils which will follow
the rejection of Mr. HARMER the Livery will be
responsible.

Some persons treat the proposition to raze half
the towns of the empire as a crazy joke. They
will not believe that any such project has ever en-
tered the head of any man, still less the head of a
cautious, careful writer. Such persons, however,
cannot have read the Post and the Herald, and
the Agricultural Journals. They have for months
teemed with vituperation of the town population.
They have over and over again said that there
would be no happiness or safety in England unless
the growth of the vicious towns was limited, and
the increase of the virtuous rural population en-
couraged In fact, that is one object of the Corn-
laws. They are intended to augment the rural at
the expense of the town population. The idea,
therefore, o razing half the r:ttropolis, is strictly
consistent with Tory doctrines and Tory practices.
We ate not in the least surprised at the proposal in