The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

MURDERS -.AgDTSUICIDE

AT BURNLEY BARRACKS.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS. •
The barracks erected in 1821, cover a Large area, and
are generally occupied by both cavalry and infantry. At
present there are stationed there twr.',' or three troops of
the Queen's Bays, or Second Dragoon Guards, occupying
the cavalry part of the barracks. The infantry quarters
are tenanted by two companies of the 60th Rifle', under
the command of Major Cockburn. The regiment quitted.
Windsor about two months ago, and its present head-
quarters are at Bolton, under the command of Colonel
Sir John Maclean.

Lieutenant O'Grady, during the latter part of the
tragic occurrences, had been placed by his brother
officers on the hearth-rug, and attended by Mr. Cohen,
the assistant-surgeon of the regiment ; tte principal
surgeon, Dr. Fraser, being at the I`eatFluarters at
Bolton. The wounded officer bxclaimed to those
about him, "Oh ! I have. tang expected this from
that villain !" and inim(''Lately afterwards, he asked.
"Is that poor girl dead f" Mr. Cohen told him she was
not. Taking an .o.ffieer's hand, Lieutenant O'Grady said
to him, wit.ll 'much earnestness and emotion, " Oh, this
is a bad 'way to-die. Any way to die but this !" Mr.
Cohen then deiired him to keep himself quiet—that per-
naps all would not be so bad as he anticipated—and he
endeavoured, by holding the lips of the wound together,
and compression, to stay the blood which was now pour-
ing from the wound. Mr. O'Grady looked at him, and,
speaking as if in pain and with difficulty, said, " Oh, it
is of no use, I shall not live many hours. This is the
death of me." He was then placed on a table, conveyed
to his own room, and laid upon the bect. By this time
Mr. White, a surveil in practice n't Burnley (which is
distant about a mile from the barracks), arrived, and,
with Mr. Cohen, attended the unfortunate gentleman
during the remainder of the night. lie lingered till half-
past ten o'clock on Monday morning, and then expired.
When the poor girl was raised from the ground, it was
found that she was bleeding profusely from everal
wounds inflicted below the shoulder on the left side and
on the back. She appeared to suffer much pain ; and
twice in paroxysms of pain she exclaimed, " Oh Morris!
oh Morris !" She survived only till eleven o'clock the
same night, about 23 hours after the fatal deeds.
Robert Morris was almost instantly raised, and car-
ried to his room ; ho expired in two or three minutes
afterwards, having apparently stabbed himself with
such desperation, as to inflict - two or three mortal
wounds, beside others of a less serious nature. He
never spoke after the fatal acts above described. The •
sergeant-major picked up the knife, which is about
a foot in length,—being an old carver, much ground,
and so thin that the -back had alMost as sharp an
edge as the true edge ; the point, too, was very sharp.
The force with which this deadly weapyn had been used
in its too fatal success, against three. lives, was evident
from the blade being quite bent for several inches next
the point, and th 3 point beinn, also turned, as if it had
come into contact with some hard substance, probably the
resistance of a bone: •

14.igtagiefreu.pArtietd4rs. as to_the_deceased persons)
lira y, NN Oi targO Sutra
tinguished Irish family, being the nephew of the late
Lnd Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (Baron
O'Grady), who, in 1831, was raised to the Peerage, by
the title of Viscount Guillamore, and died in April, 1840.
The young officer, who has now come to an untimely
end, was cousin to the present Lord Guillamore.
Mr. O'Grady's father was one of the nine sons of
Darby O'Grady, Esq., of Mount Prospect, county Lime-
rick. We believe the deceased's widowed mothur at
present residua at Dublin or Kingstown; and, if repJrt
be correct, this will be the second time She is doomed to
mourn over the premature death of a son. A brother of
the deceased, we art told, was shot in a duel some years
ago with a Captain Smith—an affair which at the time
caused considerable
.sensation in Dublin, where it oc-
curred. The deceased officer was in his twenty-ninth or
thirtieth year. lie is described to us as having had many
of the characteristics of the young Irish gentleman ; he
was hot-eaded, and at times intemperate, hut was much
liked by the soldiers of the regiment. The dying officer
declared to the chaplain, that he had lost his life in en-
deavouring to save the life of another.
_ _

Robert 'Morris, whose age we were told by one per-
son was twenty-eight or twenty-nine, and by another
twenty-four or twenty-five, was a Scotchman, a native of
Aberdeen, a private in the regiment., but also employed,
as we havestated, as mess-waiter. We believe he had
been about eleven years in the regiment. lie was con-
sidered a good, steady, trustworthy man, and nothing
hid been alleged against him, except some former quarrels
with the girl, to whom he appeared devotedly attached.
It is said that Lieutenant O'Grady once ordered him
into confinement for some neglect of duty, or act Of in-
subordination ; but what that was we could not
as-
certain.
Isabella Madden, as she was generally called, only
completed her twentieth year on the 21st April last. We
learn that this wretched girl, the fatal cause of all this
crime, had long been of indifferent character. When
man
sixteen years of age, she married a onlynamed
Patrick Territt, a private in the 97th Regiment then
stationed 'at Burnley Barracks. Sho has for four or five
leamnpol
employed
leNd' i t
bhyhilse
r regimentmother in
about Maltath eorkiCt_cohrfeun,,
years lived separate from her husband, who, we believe,
about two years old ; this child was placed on:115;13a:
n
in cooking,. &c, She has left an • infant, a daughter,
thtienn
nurse
in in Burnley or the neighbourhood.

Fatly yesterday
a report (Wednesday)
muchin excited, —BE DOWN.
'tatted on the prelim
ail that we have been enabled night
which wo write
RiteDd,Eby
that a murder had been com-
mitted cox!.
morning our city was
agreement arose on Combo Down. From
, it appears that four men, two of them
enabled to learn at the time at
named Bancroft
fight subsequentlylah)e• u ep.a r
tli)eatt rai iv]
e-
ther nt the Carrie,*
Down, kept by ,isi,re
land Horses publie-house, on the
Stilthard, had been drinking togfight, the and inclined to
landlord dismissed them from his house. A
gpotalli.eine;ening a dis-
the
ensuedpar-
out of doors amongst.
ties, after which Bancroft
went up and offered to shako
hands with Stinnar when the latter immediately up-
lifted his hand and struck Bancroft on the breast. lie
immediately fell, and never rose alive again, for, upon
being lifted up, a large clasp knife was
to discohave bee vered stickor-
-
ing in his breast, and which appeared n f
cibly plunged in up to the haft. From the instantaneous
death which followed the blow it is conjectured that the
murderous weapon must have pierced the heart. Mr.
Massey, surgeon, was immediately sent for. He drew
out the knife, but all efforts to save the deceased were
vain. The men who were engaged in the affray, together
with the man who stabbed the deceased, we
ere nt off to their
respective homes to bed, where they w severally
apprehended and brought into the city. They under-
went a short formal examination at Chandos House
yesterday (Wednesday), when they were remanded, in
order to await the result of the Coroner's inquest, which
will be held this morning (Thursday) The assassin is
a sullen-looking youth, and betrayed a dogged incline
'
rence about the proceedings, which did not appear to 1
-lave
the slightest effect upon him. g
—o great was the exeit„
ment occasioned by the horrid occurrence, and —CC
numbers of people who followed the prisoners on their-e
way from the gaol to Chandos House that it was d
advisable to escort them by a number of the police.emed
These unhappy effects Of passion appear to be
the increase. Scarcely a week passes but someawfull on
suit is recorded, in some part ef the kingdom fatall-
from the un-English use of " the knif „
of this day. e. --Bath C/ '
monk*

MISS AGNES TAYLOR --Me' have the best
authority for stating that there is no truth in the para-
graph which appeared in our columns of Wednesday, an-
nouncing the decease of Miss Agnes Taylor, of the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The lady, we are happy
to say, is in the enjoyment of excellent health.. The
tbhye Croydon Railway an occasional Correspondent
have
par,ii
agrlaepth laielesteontst toofus
been unremitting in their exertions for the removal of
the obstruction occasioned by the late slip on their line,
near New Cross. Already one line of rails has been
cleared ; and a luggage-train passed through yestnday.
It is expected that both rails will be free by Monday
next ; and in the mean time the passengers on both the
Croydon and Brighton lines are protected from the wea-
ther, in passing from train to train, by the erection of an
awning along the side of the slip.—Brighton Gazelle.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1841.

One of the reasons on which the Pro-Corn-law
men resist the abi,iition of the Corn-law is,
that it would lower wages. If we are to believe
the Herald, Standard, and Post, there never
was in the world such a feeling and humane race
as the landlords. Their whole souls are filled
with an enthusiastic desire to protect the labour-
ers from the grinding tyranny of the cotton
regardless of unpopularity—regard-
lords, and,
less of the abuse of
a bold and wicked press—
they uphold the Corn-laws to keep up the wages
of spinners and weavers. The mi lbowners, it is
said, only insist on demanding the repeal of the
Corn-laws to beat down the wages of their
workmen, which the kind-hearted landlords will
on no account allow.
The Tory press is unani-
mous' in describing the mill-owners as grinding
tyrants, whose sole
it is to beat down
object
wages, and, for the sake of their own workmen,
the disinterested and humane landlords maintain
the Corn-laws.
The master manufacturers, the Anti-Corn-law
law Press,
League, and the Anti-Corn- are by no
means behind their opponents in vilifying
the
landowners and their pseudo humanity. They do
not pretend, indeed, to care much for the
icp• eal of the
la-
bourers, though they state that the
Corn-laws would greatly benefit them • , they
avow that their object in asking for the repeal
(and a leoitimate one it is), is to enlarge their
own trade and increase their own profits. At
the same time they accuse the landlords of be-
ing actuated by the most sordid motives, of
wishing to keep the labourers in poverty and
dependence, of being resolute to deteriorate their
condition—as witnes the conduct of his Grace
of RUTLAND in the Grantham Union, of being
wholly unmoved by the most severe distress, and
of actually starving the people to death for the
gratification of avarice, both parties ac-
cusing each other of grinding down the labour-
ers; the only difference between them is, that
the manufacturers do not pretend to study the
interest of the labourers, while the landlords as-
sert that their sole object is to increase the sum
of employment and benefit the working classes.
Without saying, at present, whether the master
manufacturers or the landlords are most justly
accused of grinding down the
labourers--though
we may remark, that the landlords
are guaran-

teed in possession of the soil to protect the com-
munity, while on the manufacturers no exclu-
sive privileges are conferred, but they are left to
struggle like all other men for what they can
get,—without pretending to decide between the
accusations of these rivals in gathering wealth,
the fact unhappily, most unhappily, is, that the
wages of the labouring classes are in many cases
reduced to the very lowest pittance which can
support existence, and their food is of the most
common and `scanty description. Thousands of
the people are living on 9- 4 . a day each, and if
we could penetrate into the cabins of Ireland,
we should probably there find that many thou-
sands have not so much. Day after day do we
read accounts of mothers studying how they
shall lay out a penny to most advantage for a
family, for a single penny is all that they have
to buy a meal with.
Whose especial fault is it that the population
of this great country, abounding in all the ele-
ments of prosperity and wealth, are in this con-
dition, we do not now say. We content our-
selves with reminding our readers that the le•
gislative power has, for a long period, been al-
most wholly in the hands of the landlords and
the clergy, and that they are chiefly responsible
for this sorry condition of the labouring classes.
If they allege, retreating behind a false theory,
that they cannot help extreme poverty, that it
is the consequence of a too rapid increase in po-
pulation, and a too slow increase of subsistence,
and that things have been so ordained by Divine
Providence, the retort is, that, by undertaking
to rule and govern society, interfering with
every part of it, particularly with its subsist-
ence, they virtually undertake to shield the
people from poverty and misery ; and must, there-
fore, be either most contemptible charlatans or
most guilty law-makers, whenever poverty and
misery exist. It is their duty, in order to pro-
vide for the security of property and the safety
of individuals, to take care that the bulk of the
people be well and sufficiently fed.
When men are exposed to severe hunger, as
happens in cases of shipwreck, they are known
to turn cannibals,—the stronger kill the weaker,
or they cast lots who shall die, and they drink
their comrades' blood, and feed on their quiver-
ing limbs. An approximation to that most hor-
rible and appalling condition is brought about in
every society by deficiency of food. Against ex-
treme poverty and hunger, neither life nor pro-
perty can be safe, and the surest way to render
both insecure, and make a people retrograde
from civilisation into barbarism, is to approxi-
mate them to the condition of mariners forced
by hunger to become cannibals.
Without insisting on this extreme case, which
the wisdom of those who devised humane poor-
laws endeavoured to make impossible, though
now, we are afraid, very far from being so, let us
place before our readers some of the disadvan-
tages to the whole community of that low rate
of wages which at present prevails in many em-
ployments, and which the landlords and the
1n:11-owners accuse 'each other of causing, and of
desiring to cause.
" If the condition of the labourer," says Mr.
M'CULLOCTI, in his "Essay on the Circumstances
which Determine the Rate of Wages,*" be de-
pressed—
" The prosperity of the other classes can rest on no solid
or secure foundation. The labourers always form the great
bulk of the society ; and wherever their wages are re-
duced to the lowest limits, they must, of necessity, lire
on the coarsest and scantiest fare. Men placed under
such circumstances are without any sufficient motive to
be industrious, and, instead of activity and enterprise,
we have sloth, barbarism, and ignorance. The example
of such individuals, or bodies of individuals, as submit
quietly to have their wages reduced, and who are content
if they get only the mere necessaries of life, ought never
to be held up for public imitation. On the contrary,
every thing should be done to make such apathy be es-
teemed disgraceful. The essential interests of society
require that the rate of wages should be elevated as high
as possible—that a taste for the comforts, luxuries, and
enjoyments of human life, should be widely diffused, and,
if possible, interwoven with the national habits and pre-
judices. A low rate of wages, by rendering it impossible
for increased exertions to obtain any considerable increase
of comforts and enjoyments, effectually hinders any such
exertions from ever being made, and is, of all others, the
most powerful cause of that idleness and apathy that
contents itself with what can barely continue animal
existence.

__________
" The state of the peasantry of Ireland furnishes a
striking example of the disastrous effects resulting from
the denressed_e.2n4;tian:-Utualges is *there determined
by the lowest possible standard. Having no taste for
conveniences or luxuries, the labourers of Ireland are
satisfied if they obtain a sufficient supply of potatoes.
But as the potato is raised at less expense than any
other species of food hitherto cultivated ix Europe, and
as the wages of labour must, in a country where it forms
nearly the sole subsistence of the labourers, be chiefly
determined
-by the cost of its production, it is easy to see
that they must be reduced to a state of extreme, and
almost irremediable distress, whenever the root happens
to be deficient. When the standard of natural or neces-
sary wages is high—when wheat and beef, for example,
form the principal part of the food of the labourer, and
porter and beer the principal part of his drink—he can
bear to retrench in a period of scarcity. Such a man
has room to fall ; he can resort to a cheaper species of
food—to barley, oats, rice, and potatoes. But he who is
habitually and constantly fed on the very cheapest spe-
cies of food, has plainly nothing to resort to when de-
prived of it. Labourers placed in this situation are ab-
solutely cut off from every resource. You may take from
an Englishman, but you cannot take from an Irishman.
The latter is already so low, he can fall no lower : He
is placed on the very verge of existence : His wages,
being regulated by the price of potatoes, will not buy
him wheat, or barley, or oats ; whenever, therefore, the
supply of potatoes fails, it is next to impossible he can
escape falling a sacrifice to famine !"

To the condition when nothing can be taken
from an Englishman who lives on 2d. a day, our
people are rapidly sinking. Whatever may be
the cause, it is the duty of the Legislature to
remove it, lest the peace of society and the se-
curity of property be seriously compromised.
To show to what extent other classes are in-
terested in the well-being of labourers, now re-
duced to live on the scantiest portion of the worst
fare, we will quote two other passages from the
same Essay, and leave them to make their own
impression on the reader :
" It is of equal importance to the peace and good order
of society, as to the comfort and happiness of indviduals,
that the standard of natural wages should be maintained
at as high an elevation as possible. The higher the
notions the labouring classes entertain of what is neces-
sary for their comfortable subsistence, and the greater
the number of their artificial wants, the more secure is
their condition. When a revulsion takes place in any of
the great departments of industry, or when the crops fail,
the labourer who has been in the enjoyment of a con-
siderable amount of luxuries, can, by parting with them,
still obtain a sufficient supply of necessaries. But he
who is divested of all artificial wants, who is never seen
in an alehouse nor a tobacconist's, who cares neither for
comfortable clothes nor comfortable lodging, and who is
satisfied if he has as many potatoes as will enable him
to subsist and continue his race, can make no retrench-
ment. Such a man cannot part with what is convenient
to obtain what is necessary. His subsistence having
been reduced to a minimum, famine must unavoidably fol-
loweitizebn any reduction of its quantity. But if such must be
the fate of those who are placed so very near the verge
of existence, what must be the fate of the richer class of
Lord B
as,ppifentshetrebe any such amongst them, when the
crop
be deficient ? It is a just observation of
dreadfulacjit
aeon,ltilt 6 Of all rebellions those of the belly are
peaceable, and toeurina
sucht.' possible for human beings, placed under
be supposed, circumstances to be quiet, orderly, and
that esect the rights of others ? Is it to
mit to be starvedthose who have no property will sub-
on that of others ?Without.tipreviously attempting to seize
be respected
idler to suppose that the right
of property should ever
incompetent toal;
themselves utterly destitute of
fspected by those who are
property, and whose
persons will
tee rather disposed to
them the means of
acquiring
are totallyit.
such
Pte secure the interests
regard it as a bulwark, thrown u
oeniotributing of a few favourites of fortune, than
countries only
massi of
essen-
tially to the public welfare. It is in those
where labour is well rewarded, and
the people are placed in a situation to accumulaeteiNnvea th,
that they acquire a stake in the hedge, and are,
con-
sequence, made to feel a direct personal interest in the
support of all those great fundamental principles essen-
tial to the existence of society, which they otherwise
regard either with indifference or aversion, and which
the slightest provocation is sufficient to induce them to
attack."
" Nothing, therefore, we repeat it again, can be so sig-
nally disadvantageous, so overwhelmingly disastrous to
any people, as a permenent depression in the rate of
wines, or a decline in the opinions of the labouring
class, respecting what is necessary for their comfortable
and decent subsistence. No country can be flourishing
where the rate of real wages is low ; and none can be
long depressed where that rate is high. The labourers
are the sinews of agriculture, of manufactures, and of
commerce. Their numbers are not estimated like those
of the other classes, by hundreds, by thousands, or even
by hundreds of thousands, but by millions ! It is by
their labour that our machinery is constructed and kept
in motion ; and it is by their industry and ingenuity
that we are enabled easily to support burdens that could
hardly be supported by any, other people. Everything,
then, that may have the slightest tendency ,to depress
their condition, or to sink them in the scale of society,
* Published at Edinburgh, 1826.

THE SUN, LON

ought to be most particularly guarded against. Those
who feed and clothe all the rest, ought themselves to be
well fed and well clothed. They are the foundation of
the social pyramid ; and so long as the standard of natu-
ral or necessary wages continue high, this foundation
will be solid and secure ; for, so long will the labourers
be industrious and orderly. But if this standard be per-
manently reduced, if the labourers be once brought to
place their principal dependence on the cheapest food,
and to rest satisfied with mere necessaries, the want of
sufficient motives to exertion will infallibly render them
idle and dissipated. The spirit of industry, by which
they are now so eminently distinguished, will evaporate;
and with it the morals, prosperity, and tranquillity of
Britain 1"

We are reminded by a Correspondent, whose
significant signature " No Jobber," suggests a
host of unpleasant suspicions as to the motives
of those who are so eager to get our population
transported to the colonies at the public ex-
pense, of the great sums of money which Colonel
GAWLER and other Governors of South Australia
have expended in that colony. Its fictitious
prosperity has been supported by drafts on the
Exchequer. The other model colony, on the
WAKEFIELD principle, which a Company
has begun in New Zealand, has been
too short a time established to enable us to form
an opinion of its results. To the New Zealand
Company, indeed, which a few days ago declared
a dividend of ten per cent., it seems eminently
profitable ; and when such large interest can be
made on capital invested in London, by selling
land in the Southern Ocean, we cannot be sur-
prised that there should be a great multitude of
persons ready to recommend emigration. It is
certainly suspicious, however, that few or none
of the advocates of emigration try it themselves;
they prefer reaping the harvest at home tolireak-
mg up the ground at the antipodes. Our Cor-
respondent, who writes from the City, and who
knows, we presume, something of the jobbers in
that quarter, has made us look on the emigration
scheme in a worse light than before.

We should like its advocates to inform us
what classes are to be transported. The present
system is intended to give a stimulus to agricul-
ture at home, the Legislature must expect it
probably to want all the hands now engaged in
it, and few of the agricultural population can be
spared. The population which must be sent
abroad to relieve distress are the manufacturing
artisans, whom the landlords will not allow to
have work and food at home. What spinners
and hand-loom weavers can do in agricultural
colonies we are not aware ; and we should con-
sider it the height of cruelty to send such men
to grub for a living to the untenanted wilderness.

Let us also observe that the condition of Ca-
nada may serve to typify the condition of most
of the colonies which may now be formed by
England. There the dissensions between dif-
ferent parties are notorious ; the quarrel between
the aristocracy and democracy led to a
rebellion in Upper Canada, and now con-
tinually threatens its peace. So, or worse;
will it be with every colony now esta-
blished by England. It will carry with it the
seeds of a contest, which, sooner or later, will
involve it in confusion. Those who, however, go
to the United States, become absorbed in its po-
pulation ; they must conform to democratic
usages : and dissensions would be avoided, while
the public funds would be spared, by giving us
free trade, and allowing the stream of emigration
to set in strongly, if the people were that way
inclined, to the United States. Instead of ex-
tending enmities and multiplying points of col-
lision, as would be the case with emigration to
Canada, emigration to the United States would
extend our friendships, and multiply the bonds of
amity and peace.
as.
The Morning Post says :

" Instead of attempting to show how the Corn-law
is injurious to the interests of the productive industry of
the people, the bold bad writers against the law as-
sume and assert that it is a wicked and tyrannous law,
and come to the conclusion that it is a law which ought
not to be obeyed, but resisted I Such opposition to the
law as this ought to be punished."
The impudence and arrogance of this para-
graph are on a par. If one point has been
better proved than another by facts and theo-
ries—by arguments repeated to satiety—it is
that the Corn-law is injurious to he ,r,,-
___...... - ..a,.."..7‘5.y tix ULU- people. It blows
out the furnace in wales; it arrests the
motion of the shuttle in Manchester ;
it stops the hammer at Sheffield; it keeps ships
rotting at anchor at Liverpool ; and while it thus
puts an end to a whole multitude of occupations,
it actually starves those who are engaged in
them. Such facts have been proved, over
and over again, years ago ; but the Post, not
having entered into the controversy till the case
against the landed aristocracy had been made
overwhelming, and being ignorant of all that
had previously been done, assumes that its own
ignorance is common to all the community. To
arguments its patrons have replied by asserting
that they " will have it so ;" facts they answer by
threats; and now those who show that their mo-
tives are as sordid and base as the results of
their conduct are mischievous, ought, it is said,
to be punished. The Tories are sustained in
power only by terror; they are the authors and
patrons of penalties and punishments, and no
man can be surprised that they are ready to have
recourse to them to bolster up their falling cause.

We anticipated, in The Sun of yesterday, the
reports of the trial of QUENISSET, in the Paris
Journals of Tuesday. Other news they contain
none of much interest, save that the impression
gains ground that Louis PHILIPPE seriously
meditates the overthrow of the Spanish Govern-
ment. In this nefarious design his MAJESTY, to
the disgrace of the British press, is encouraged
to the utmost by that tool of Royalty the
Morning Post. It is, however, some conso-
lation to the people of England to know that
the Post stands alone as the abettor of the trea-
sonable designs of the King of the FRENCH.
None of the leading organs of Toryism espouse
the side of the Post. Neither the Times nor the
Herald can be brought to mount the tricolor in
a crusade against the liberties of Spain. We in-
vite attention to the gross insult offered to the
Spanish Government and nation in the following
extract from the Post's first leading article of
this morning :
Let us suppose that the time-honoured Earl, who pre-
sides over a certain scientific society should, under the
influence of some new theory of animal government,
throw down the barriers which confine the tenants of the
Zoological Gardens, and leave it to the rhinoceros to
keep in order his companions the bears and monkeys ?
Under such circumstances would anybody be astonished
if a certain Noble Marquis, the nearest neighbour,
should send back their old keepers to control the beasts
in their saturnalia, and draw up a cordon protecteur of
armed servants to keep the danger at bay—shrewdly
opining that if the gifted Earl lived in the Regent's
Park instead of at Knowsley, he would have post-
poned the experiment.
This suppositious apologue, however homely, exem-
plifies what Lord Palmerston much more elaborately
effected in Spain when he severed the last link of
established hereditary Government, and let loose upon
society the desperadoes of every extreme opinion to
be guided by the brute force of Espartero—and no
less truly illustrates the measures which Louis Philippe
had recourse to in his owu defenee. And still the latter
is the course which has so violently moved the wrath of
our Radical Contemporary who has vented his spite in
accusations of family ambition on the part of Louis
Philippe.

We really know not which most to be sur-
prised at, the falsehood or the insolence of this
illustration. But if the name Louis PHILIPPE
be inserted in the place of the word of ESPAR-
TERO it will be passably correct. Had ESPAR
TERO received CHARLES X., flying from the ven-
geance of the French people, with open arms,
and provided for him apartments in the Palace
of the Escurial—had lie allowed the Royal exile
to hold a Court there of Carlist refugees to plot
the downfal of the Government of July—had he
supplied the leader of a body of French insurgents
with 40,0001.,
and arms and stores, to raise the
standard of revolt at Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and
Toulouse—and had he, in the event of the failure
of this infamous scheme, marched 50,000 men to
the French frontier to establish a cordon sani-
taire preparatory to an invasion of France, then,
indeed, what the Post calls a " supposititious
apologue," would not be ill applied to him. But
to whom does it really apply ? Have we not suf-

DON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER l9, 1841.

ficiently indicated ? Hear what the Tory Herald
says in its first leader upon the subject :
For ten years Europe believed the King of the French
to be a profound and benevolent statesman; a conviction
is now rapidly, though unwillingly, spreading that he is
only a cunning and a selfish politician. The laurels
which he won in preserving peace whilst his subjects
were bellowing for war his Spanish intrigues are rapidly
rotting from his brow.
The line of conduct lately pursued by Louis Philippe
towards Spain is as disastrous towards his own power as
it is to a good understanding between France and Eng-
land—if not to the peace of Europe. The present im-
mersion of the French Court in Spanish intrigues—
hateful to the people of the Peninsula—in dynastic po-
licy and in family compacts, finds little response in the
feelings of the French nation; and if on the approach-
ing meeting of the French Chambers M. Guizot is ob-
liged to bend before the wrath of French Liberalism,
the whirlwind will have been unloosened by his Monarch.
But after all, the condemnation of the CITIZEN
KING might have been left to the blundering
writer in the Post. Take another extract :
And first we will ask why was Christina driven from
Spain, and her two children—girls, at the age most need-
ing maternal protection, given in pledge to her enemies—
made over as passive political instruments to such gentle
governesses as the " divine Arguelles," and the still
more sublime Espartero—to be taught, perhaps,
that to despise and hate a mother is the first study
of those whose duty is to represent God's power
on earth ? Was Christina banished because she
deluged Spain with blood by abusing her power over her
bigot husband in his dotage—when, at the approach of
his last agonies, she procured the vain sentence of abro-
gation of a fundamental law of the kingdom ? Or was
it because she degraded the hallowed precincts of
• the Escurial by making " the funeral bake-meats
serve forth the orgies of a degrading union ?" No !
our Contemporaries apparently cordially approved
these abominations, and the price of their com-
placency was radical concessions in the consti-
tution of the Government, which the degraded
Queen conceded freely, in her first absorption by her
unhallowed passions. But, as in the monkish chronicles,
we are told that he who sells his soul for a temporary
vantage to the evil one, will, at no distant day, have both
body and soul, and even life, claimed as the penalty of
unhallowed good fortune-.'-so did Christina find that her
unnatural allies ultimately claimed from her the whole
of that power by which she could effectually uphold
the infant Queen and her kingdom. In a word,
it was after flying from Madrid to the coast, and
there refusing the last concession, one which would
have placed her at the mercy of each desperate party as
it triumphed in its turn, that Christina was torn from
her children, and forced to embark for another land.
What enormity was it; then, that Louis Philippe should
give her an asylum ? How could he fail to reprobate,
with his utmost energy, a state of things in Spain, which,
if imitated in France, might bring him from the throne
to the block ; and, feeling thus, how could lie otherwise
than give fair chance of success to those who, in the
name of Christina, would restore the last semblance of
constituted authority and of legitimate power in the
Bourbonic name ?

So then, because the Spaniards rid their coun-
try of a woman whom the Post represents as a
monster of depravity, they are to be denounced
as objects of regal distrust and abhorrence ! But
then what becomes of the morality of the King
of the FRENCH, who took to his bosom and con-
fidence, a woman so notoriously infamous ?
Could Europe regard as other than an enemy
of morals and social order the Prince who would
not scruple to replace such a woman at the
Lead of the Government of a nation, whom the
Post tells us she scandalized by the flagitiousness
of her crimes? The Post asks why she was not
banished for her first and most flagrant offences?
The Post is an indiscreet organ of the aristocracy,
or it would never ask such a question, even by
implication. Were the people to assume the
right ofbanishing Sovereigns for theirprivate vices,
GEORGE IV. would never have reigned in Eng-
land, Louts XVIII. would never have reigned
in France, nor would FERDINAND VII. have
figured as the crowned dupe of MARIA CHRISTINA.
So long as the Ex-Regent's crimes were of a pri-
vate nature the nation tolerated them ; but
when she turned the Palace into a Royal brothel
—when her bastard offspring crowded the apart-
ments of the Infant Sovereign—and when it was
discovered that she had formed a conspiracy to
overthrow the Constitution purchased by the
blood of Spaniards, then, and not till then,
did the Spanish people compel her to
descend from a station which she dis-
graced, and to relinquish a power which she
abused. And this is the woman whom the Post
lauds Louis PIIILIPPE for attempting, by " des-
picable intrigues and marriage huxterings," as
the Herald well phrases it, to replace at the
head of the Spanish Government! Alas! poor,
blind, misguiding Post 1

„ v - ...vat wig,” 1.--nea-
sant, Captain Burton, from Sunderland for Rouen, was
driven ashore off Havre, at the Point des Neiges, on
Sunday night, and" totally wrecked. A boy was lost,
but the rest of the crew remained in the rigging till
the morning, when a boat put off and fetched them,
five in number, ashore. One was so much injured that
he died soon after. During the storm on the same
night, as a Correspondent of Calais informs us, a
French brig, from Cronstadt to Nantes, with a cargo of
hides and tallow, was wrecked to the north-east of
Calais, and every soul on board perished.
" The conferences," says the Ministerial evening
journal, " have been resumed at the Ministry of Foreign
affairs between the French Commissioners and the Bel-
gian Commissioners. The French Government has ap-
pointed as its Commissioners the Baron Deffaudis, Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary, formerly Director at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and M. Magnier de Maisonneuve,
Councillor of State, Member of the Chamber of De-
puties, and Director at the Ministry of Commerce. The
Belgian Government is represented by Count Lehon, its
Minister Plenipotentiary. The different statements on
this subject which have been given by several journals
are incorrect."

The Gazette de France publishes the following extra-
vagant assertion :—" We can affirm that Admiral Stop-
ford declared while at Malta that if the French fleet had
been stationed on the coast of Syria he should have been
obliged to abstain entirely from taking an active part, as
he was not authorised to fire a single shot in the pre-
sence of the French ships. ' They make me,' added he,
a second Nelson ; they talk in the papers of giving me
the title of Duke of St. Jean d'Acre ; but all my glory
comes from the retreat of the French fleet.' " Such a
tissue of absurdity has rarely appeared, even in the Gazette.
The Arnhemsche Courant gives the following, as the
principal points of the Constitution intended for the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. " There is," says this
Journal, " to be a Chamber of Deputies elected by per-
sons duly qualified, but the sittings are not to be public.
The members are to be repaid their travelling expenses
from their homes, according to the distance. The Ses-
sions are to be opened by the King Grand Duke, and
are to last a fortnight. The King is to have the power
of dissolving the Chamber, and convening a new one, and
may be represented for the Duchy by a delegate, to be
chosen from the Royal Family, and who is to reside in
Luxemburg."
An immense quantity of Roman coins have just been
found at Rennes, where some excavations are making in
the bed of the river for new quays. One hole that was
made produced upwards of a bushel of copper coins.
There are many of the reign of Tiberius.
M. de Briqueville has been elected to the Chamber of
Deputies for Cherbourg. lie had 275 votes, and the
Ministerial candidate, M. Quenault, 246.
The Bishop of Beatvais, whose death we have an-
nounced, was the Abbe Colbret, formerly editor of the
Gazette de France.

A letter from Brignolles, in the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles, mentions an accident, which might have been
fatal to a magistrate in that part of the country, not
long since. Ho was going in a cabriolet to Artignocs,
and had to pass over a bridge, which was only 10 feet
wido without parapets, and was thrown over a ravine
nearly 30 feet deep, with a torrent, at the bottom. His
horse shyed at the glittering of some water while going
over the bridge, and fell with the cabriolet and his
master into the stream below. The animal was killed
on the spot, but the gentleman contrived to get out of
the water, and to hold on by some rocks. Fortunately,
another person, who was coming along the same road,
heard the noise of the fall, became aware of the accident,
and, having summoned tho neighbouring peasants, suc-
ceeded in rescuing the magistrate from his dangerous
position.

The Augsburg Gazette still endeavours to alarm
France respecting the health of Henry of Bourbon, and
the frequenters of the Palace every where repeat this pre-
tended news. We know in the most positive manner
that the Prince has not met with any accident, and the
repose to which he is condemned is only a measure of
prudence.
Two armies aro marching to the North and to the
South, to overturn or to protect the two revolutions
which have been produced by ours. Leopold will be
aided by our troops; P
—sPartero will be threatened.
It seems that the warlike impulse is given this time
by the Napoleon of Peace. The dread of a republic on
one hand, and the desire of obtaining for the Duke of
Aumale the three hundred millions of Christina on the
other, are the two moving powers of the policy of the
moment.—Guzette de France.
We have the following letter from Toulon of the
11 th November :

" For some days
Past there is a degree of activity in
our road, which under the present circumstances sur-
prises us. .
" We have announced the sudden departure of several
vessels, two:of them ships of the line. Yesterday the Medea
frigate also left the port, and it is said that the Trident
and Marengo of the line have received orders to prepare
to put to sea. The Marengo has landed its 36-pounders,
in order to be able to take more men on board, which
clearly shows that it is going to receive troops, but it is
only to Africa that it can go to fetch them. It is then
intended to reduce our army of occupation, in order to
increase the army of
observation, which is to be formed
on the frontiers of the Pyrenees?
P.S. We are this moment informed that the Diademe
of the line, Captain Tronde, and the Andromede and
Minerve, which are under quarantine, have just received
orders to be ready to put to sea. AU th© resources of

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