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LONDON:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1841.

HER MAJESTY'S MASTERS have nearly com-
pleted their arrangements. They tell us through
their organs that their victim bowed her neck to
servitude with a good grace :
"• It affords us much gratification," say both the Times
and the Standard, "to hear that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, in conjunction with her Majesty, mani-
fested an earnest desire to act in strict accordance with
the spirit of the Constitution, and to afford to Sir R.
Peel every facility in the formation of his Government.
The reception which the Right Hon. Baronet met with
from her Majesty was most gracious and kind. Her
Majesty expressed her determination to extend to Sir Ro-
bert Peel's Government her most implicit confidence and
support, under the firm belief that no measures would be
proposed to Parliament that would not tend to maintain
the dignity of the Crown, to conserve the institutions of
the country, and promote the happiness and prosperity
of the people."

Prince ALBERT, as if he had promoted the
submission, is honoured by being placed before her
MAJESTY, and is said, we are sure falsely, to have
manifested an earnest desire to accept the Mas-
ters whom the monopolists by bribery, corruption,
and intimidation, have imposed 'on. the QUEEN.
The Prince undoubtedly felt it his duty to be
present with her MAJESTY, and inspire her with
fortitude in her new and trying position, but
it must be a libel that he manifested an earnest
desire to facilitate the triumph of the
.monopo-
lists over the lady who honours him with her
love, and shares with him a throne.
It being now the fact, however, that HER
MAJESTY'S MASTERS are installed, and the bulk
of them known, it maybe worth while to look at
the means by which they got their power, and
who they are. The notorious bribery, corrup-
tion, and intimidation, which were the main ele-
ments of their success in the elections, are the
least of the offences which should make them
odious to the people. They have long headed
the party which has resisted to the utmost all
legislative improvement. If BAD LAWS be the
curse of the country, as we, at least, sincerely
believe, then are these men the authors of the
curse, for they would not allow the bad laws to
be repealed. They have latterly crowned most
worthily the labour of their lives, by obstinately
resisting all attempts to abridge the monopolies
of the West India Planters, the Canada Ship-
owners, and the Owners of Rent. They, in fact,
are carried into power by a combination of all
these monopolists, in order to put down the pro-
posals to untax even a little the bread that
nourishes, and the sugar that sweetens, life. The
foul calumnies, too, against the bulk of the indus-
trious classes, and the bulk of all those who do not
belong-4o the State sect, by which the partizans of
the monopolists have helped them into place, are
just as odious as the monopolies themselves. By
uniting all the plundering interests into one firm
phalanx, and by using arts worthy of their prin-
ciples, the monopolists have succeeded in making
themselves masters of the QUEEN'S person and
Government.

And who are they ? The most respectable
name in the list is that of the Duke of IV-EL-
LINGTON. It was thought pitiable to see
" Down ➢larlborough's cheeks the tears of dotage Sow ;"
but it was better to wither harmless in the course
of nature, than to use the last energies of life in
inflicting misery on a tumultuously-grateful peo-
ple. The hero of a hundred battles, the reci-
pient of the nation's bounties, who owes his cas-
tles and his lands, and his income to the indus-
trious and grateful people, is to be the leader in
the House of Peers of the starvation Ministry.
In the Commons, the leader and the chief of
all is Sir ROBERT PEEL. By the careful indus-
try of a manufacturer, lie was made wealthy,
and he uses his wealth and influence to aid the
monopolists in crushing rising wealth in others.
He has acquired or affects a sentimental horror
for long, dull lines of railroads, with great manu-
facturing towns at the end, and he heads the
starvation Ministry to check the ordained pro-
gress of the manufacturing interests and guard
game preserves from the encroachments of loco-
motives.

What can we say of Lord LYNDIIURST ? Is
he not the alien enemy of Ireland ? He has no
love for starvation in his own person; but the
fee of the Chancellorship makes him readily
lend his aid to the starvation Ministry.
To pronounce the name of the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM is enough. His presence in the
Ministry stamps its character. Not one jot of
the sliding scale will he give up. The Govern-
ment of which he is a Member must be for the
bread-tax, the whole bread-tax, and nothing but
the bread-tax.

Ml' 6011LBURT is the ernbodyment of the

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planter monopoly and of financial juggle. His
accession to the Exchequer is the signal to revive
all the exploded mysteries of enriching the na-
tion by extorting its money.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE and Lord STANLEY we
place together, because both have signalized
themselves as advocates of coercion to Ireland.
Force properly follows financial chicanery, for
it must provoke hostility, and may need pro-
tection.

With all deference to the Earl of ABERDEEN,
neither his foreign diplomacy nor his attempts
to legislate for th Scotch Church has made him
so well known to the people that they do not
ask why should he be Foreign Minister? We
cannot answer the question. Judging by his
outward man he is not an unworthy Member of
the starvation Ministry.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM is too well known to the
public for his desertion of friends and principles;
but it is an ominous sign that be, who has avowed
a more than ordinary hatred of Mr. O'CONNELL,
and a more than ordinary attachment to
the State Church, should be placed at the
head of the Home Department, and have
Ireland under him. As an administrator, he
was successful at the Admiralty, but instead of
sending him back thither, Lord MINT() is to be
succeeded by the Earl of HADDINGTON. It
would seem by such appointment as if both par-
ties were anxious to convince the public that the
smallest possible quantity of previous statesman-
ship suffices to govern the navy. What will Sir
CHARLES NAPIER say to Lord BINNING that
was, being First Lord of the Admiralty? If the
starvation Ministry had wished to place a more
insignificant Peer than Lord MINTO at the head
of the Admiralty, they have succeeded.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH, renowned for curls and
sensible speeches; the Earl of RIPON, once Prime
Minister, and then called by no flattering name,
now a Lord of Trade and plantations ; with Sir
E. KNATCHBULL, another staunch Corn-law Ad-
vocate.

Ireland is to be governed by Lord Ds GREY,
best known as the brother of ;the Earl
of RIPON, and as having some taste in the fine
arts, while his Secretary is to be Lord ELLIOT,
best remembered as willing to lend himself, for
reputation sake, to those who have New Zealand
jobs to promote. (See the Times of last year.)
In order to show their love for the slaves, for
whose sake the monopolists would not untax the
people's sugar, they have placed the son of a ci-
devant slave-holder, and the great promoter of
the new slave-trade in Hill Coolies, in the Board
of Trade. From first to last the bread-taxing
Ministry seems to consist of persons well adapted
to carry its principles into execution. Force,
fraud, and hypocrisy are typified, and have their
appropriate representatives.

Looking at the Ministry as a whole, it is de-
cidedly aristocratic. There is no one Member of
it who is a representative of a populous place.
Eight Members of the Cabinet are Peers, and
four or five only Commoners. Sir R. 'EEL re-
presents his pocket-borough of Tamworth\ Mr.
GOULBURN sits for Cambridge University, and is
sent to Parliament by the parsons. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM is sent to Parliament by Dorchester,
and represents, in fact, the Nobleman who com-
mands the borough. Lord STANLEY, who is,
by-the-bye, more one of the Peerage than a
Commoner, represents the tenants-at-will and the
squires anci factory owners of Lancashire. To
show accurately how little the starvation Mi-
nistry regards the people, Sir GEORGE MURRAY,
who has been rejected by them, is to have a
place of honour and distinction. Behold, then,
the revival of the Government of the aristocracy
and the boroughmongers.

A Migistry so constituted, forced into power
by such means, and intended to accomplish such
purposes, naturally giv94 rise to much specula-
tion and to some curious thoughts. We are
taught, it is said, to obey the QUEEN, but not to
obey the monopolists. Though her MAJESTY,
by the Constitution, may be obliged to accept
them as her Masters, the people, the source
of all Power, are under no such obligation.
They trace the origin of the Ministry to its
source in the most selfish desires and the vilest
fraud, and they ask themselves very solemnly,
can it be good—is it right for us to obey such a
Ministry ? Do we not, by submitting to those
who avow a resolution to plunder and coerce us
by measures of Parliament and the law, render
ourselves accessories to, their offences, and court
the slavery they are resolved to inflict on us?
These are very important questions, and they
are asked through a widening circle.
The theory of the Constitution is, that the
minority must obey the majority—in this case
the majority is required to obey the minority.
The whole electoral body constitute a minority
of the people, and of that body, were it polled
man for man, it is doubtful whether the mono-
polists would be in a majority, while the bulk of
the non-electors are .against them. Neither is
property on their side, for their possessions are not
property. Their income is derived from taxation.
Rent now springs from the bread-tax. Their
right to levy the tax is questioned, and they decide
for themselves that the right is in them, and
they will exercise it. Their power to do so, how-
ever, depends on other men, and it is only by
the submission of the community that they can
retain in their hands the means of oppressing it.
To doubt their authority is to weaken—to resist is
to destroy it. Sir R. PEEL and the Duke of
WELLINGTON, by associating with the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM, and constituting a starvation Mi-
nistry, may not mean to bring things to extremes,
but they have formed an extreme Ministry, and
rather than submit to starvation, men will ques-
tion their power.

Sir R. PEEL, on Friday evening, was ex-
tremely anxious to make the House believe that
he is attached to the principles of free trade.
He again boasted of the assistance he had given
to Mr. Husxrssom, and of the assurances he had
received from Mr. Husxissorr that from no
Member of the Government did he receive a
more cordial support than from Sir R. PEEL.
The Right Hon. Baronet also quoted two para-
graphs of a Royal Speech, drawn up by himself
in 1825, in which the extension of commerce,
by removing inconvenient restrictions, was
strongly recommended. Some of the followers
of the Right Hon. Baronet have taken the same
course, and have claimed a great deal of credit
fur themselves, for being disciples of Mr. Hus-

KISSON.
These declarations were issued a week or a
fortnight too late. Had they appeared ten days
ago, one of the leading Journals of the party
might have suppressed, at least for the present,
its attack on Mr. HusKissox's policy.
" The reciprocity and free-trade system," says Mick-
wood, " introduced by Mr. lluskisson in 1823, and
which for the next ten years was so perseveringly carried
out by every subsequent Administration, introduced at the
same time unparalleled success in the shipping interest of
Britain, and beyond all question had the effect of re-
ducing one-half the value of all the property held in that
form by the British merchants."
There is more of the same sort in the same
Magazine, intimating pretty plainly that this
leading journal of the Tories regards Sir It. PElt
as a great fool for priding himself on having
supported Mr. HUSKISSON, and having trodden
in his steps. Though Sir ROBERT will not speak
out, and will endeavour to delude and beguile
us by assuming an air of liberality, his fol-
lowers have a thorough disdain of such
hypocrisy. Blackwood declares that the " con-.
test now going on is between the powers of Hell
and those of .Heaven;" "Conservative Govern
ment must be based upon religion as revolu-
tionary Government must be based upon worldly
knowledge." " There can be no dallying, no.
truce, no compromise even. for a day between
these mighty powers. He that is not with me is
against me." Sir ROBERT PEEL, who is a
great dallyer—who is'. fond of compromise—
who thinks himself only safe while a
truce laSti—will not receive the support of the
Tory.Blachwood. We thought the starvation
Ministry was uncomprorniS • enough, but it
will not t3utlicc for the ittlui4Liine lad the tierce
,

zealots of the Tory party. We are slow to infer
division amongst our opponents, butiwhen there
exists amongst them such fundamental differ-
ences—one set being all for compromise, and the
other set fiercely declaiming against it—how can
they, without a most unworthy sacrifice of prin-
ciple, work together ? Either Sir ROBERT must
become a bigot, or Blackwood must cease to be a
PEEL-ite journal.

In noticing yesterday the new light which has
broken on the Tories relative to the impossibility
of the country being inundated with foreign
corn, we omitted to state that the average duty
levied on the great importation of the last three
years has been less than 4s. 6d. per quarter. Now
that fact is of considerable importance, and it
dissipates, as far as facts can dissipate, the un-
founded delusions which have been encouraged
on this subject. We have imported on the
average upwards of 2,000,000 quarters of foreign
wheat every year for the last three years at less
than 4s. 6d. per quarter duty, and with that im-
portation no land has gone out of cultivation.
Another curious fact is mentioned in the cor-
respondence of Sir A. TERRIER, the Consul at
Rotterdam. Holland, it is well-known, has long
enjoyed an almost free trade in corn. Holland,
too, is one of the most populous parts of Europe,
and Holland did not in former times grow
enough wheat to feed its own population. But
while Holland has had a free trade in grain
her own cultivation has extended, and Sir
ALEXANDER TERRIER reports that " more
wheat is now grown in Holland than is re-
quired for home consumption." Why might
not that happen to England ? Why might not
cultivation under a free trade be extended in
England, that she might, like Holland, come to
grow more than is sometimes required for home
consumption ? Mr. bl‘Cum.ocx, no bad judge,
contemplates such a thing possible, or he would
not propose to allow a bounty on the exporta-
tion of wheat. The example of Holland is very
encouraging for those who dread national de-
pendence as the consequence of a free trade
in corn.

The French Journals of Monday have been
received with Madrid Papers of the 23d ult., but
the news they bring was anticipated in yester-
day's Extraordinary Express from Paris. Their
abuse of M. GUIZOT we have sufficiently noticed
in our Summary of Public Opinion. The fol-
lowing paragraphs, which we extract from them,
are not without interest :

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The German Journal of Frankfort states that M. Thiers
arrived in that city on the evening of the 28th instant,
and left the following morning by railway for Mayence.
The illness of Mme. Thiers had induced him to relin-
quish kw the present his intended visit to Vienna. He
intends going first to Ems.
It is related, says the Augsburg Gazette, that a lady
of Weimar, who deals in prophecy, has read in the hand
of M. Thiers that he will be again Minister at the end of
a year and a day.
A letter from Trieste, 18th inst., in the Frankfort
Journal, states that the King of Wurtemberg had visited
the theatre llauroner incognito, on the previous even-
ing Majesty took his seat in the pit and conversed,
with the greatest affability, with those around him.
Next morning he proceeded on his journey into Ger-
many. _

A'letter from Athens, of 12th inst., in the Augsburg
Gazette, says :—" The Greek mail brings new de-
tails relative to the insurrection in Candia. It ap-
pears that the rebels were betrayed by a certain
Roussot Bourdoumbant, who had assumed the com-
mand of the Sphakiotes. This person was bribed by
the Turks, and opened a passage to them into the
interior. Upon this, a portion of the insurgents took
refuge on board the English ships, and the rest divided
themselves into small bands, in the hope of still being
able to resist the Turks. The Chief of the late Provi-
sional Government has declared that his intention, and
that of his colleagues, was, not to abandon the Candians,
and that the English had conveyed them to the Piraeus
against their will, after touching at several places to
spread the news of their defeat, and injure their cause."
The following is what the Globe says of the measure
which the United States of North America are going to
adopt againgt our wines and our silk manufacturers :
" France exports a great quantity of wines and silks
to the United States ; the productions of our southern
departments are therefore in danger of being seriously
atlected. The Bill will be a terrible blow to the manu-
facturers of Lyons ; it will likewise have a fatal influ-
ence on Bordeaux, for an increase of duties in any arti-
cle always diminishes the consumption.
" When the commercial interests of a country are not
defended by a strong Government, they are necessarily
everywhere sacrificed."—La Gazette de France.
The two ships of the line, the Marengo and Triton,
which have sailed from Toulon for Africa, have taken on
board two, battalions of the 33d regiment, which consist
of no more than 1,.546 men.
To-day at noon Marshal' Soult received the Commit-
tee of the Fortifications, who meet every day with accu-
mulating embarrassment. The news that it is intended
to erect the see of Cambray into an Archbishopric is
confirmed. We are assured that Cardinal Lulour
verque has accepted this see. The Bishop of Arras, in
the letter which he has written to the Government, at-
taches, however, some conditions to his acceptance. One
of them is said to be that he shall have the choice of his
successor in the see of Arras.

The Obset vateur des Pyrenees, of the 29th, says :
" We this moment learn that the General Council of the
Upper Pyrenees has refused to give its approbation to
the census."—Le Commerce.

BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prico. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 21 ... ltd 25 ... 1.6 10 ... 116 25
. 4 per Cents ..... 99 60 99 60 ... 99 0 .., 99 60
3 per Cents. ex. div. 77 15 77 20 ... 76 10 ... 77 20
Bank of /trance
Willie Bank 1.1.1001. SI area 1030 ...IC3O
5,000 f. Shares 5110 —.5110 .4110 ...5110
Belgian Bank
~.. 765 ." 765 ... 765 Belgian 5 per Cents.
Portugueses per Cent,.
Roman :02% 102% ... 102% ... 102%
RAILWAI sHARRn.
R. liermain
Versailles, 910
... 210 210 ... 210
R. 11 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 327 50
%mien
.
4trasburg to Bali, shares red 237 50 ... 137 50 ... 237 50 ... 23/ 10
DU I.'Cft rtiNDS.—AmsTaanaii, Aua. 30
Actual Debt, '2% per Cent • Money. 51 52
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Anon t Sendic,44 per cent 91.% 4 91
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 75 ti 75%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155% '36 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. .....
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ............ 94% 95
Exchange on London, One 12 07g
Two months
Hamburgh, One month ...........
Two months...,,, 33 52%
Dutch Papers, Aug. 31.
AUNTRIAN FUNDS.—Vuouti, Am. 23
fire per Cents. Metalliques .......
106
Foci per Cents. 0111111••••••••••••••• 110•••••••••••••••••••••• ..... 97%
Three p;zr Cents. ....... reell•••••••
Hank Sh ••••••••••••••••••• 76%
ares .......... •••••••••••••••••• ..«.»........ 1592
Zeirumg, Aug. 27

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.-- The Queen and Prince
Albert left the Castle a quarter before four o'clock this
afternoon, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of
Horse. Guards, under the command of Lieut. Vyse, for
Claremont.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her at-
tendants were taken in one of the Royal carriages.
Her Majesty's Suite, and that of Prince Albert, occu-
pied three carriages and four.
In the forenoon her Maji-oty and her Illustrious Con-
sort enjoyed. a walk in the Park.
Sir R. Peel arrived about twelve o'clock, and left a
little before two o'clock.

The lion. Miss Paget will join the Royal party at
Claremont this day, and the Hon. Miss Lister is ex-
pected, to arrive at Claremont to-morrow, to succeed the
Maids, of Honour at present in attendance on her
Majesty.

The Earl of Liverkwolsarrived at his town residence
on ThesilaY evening, from his seat, Buckstead Park, near
tickfield, SuSsex, the Noble Earl having received a de-
spatch from 'Sir ,Robert Peel. His Lordship had an in-
terview with the Right Hun. Baronet.
Sir Robert Peel dined on Tuesday evening with the
Duke of Wellington at. Apsley House. Yesterday morn-
ing; Sir Robert left town fur Windsor Castle, to have an
audience of the Queen. The Eight Hon. Baronet had an
audience of her Majesty soon after twelve o'clock, and
afterwards took his departure from Windsor Castle for
town; Sir Hubert arrived in Whitehall-gardens soon
after four o'clock, and was shortly afterwards visited by
his G'ritee. the Duke of Wellington The. following No-
bietileii and. Gentlemen also arrived in the course of half
in fit* at there.siderfee of the Right Hon. Baronet :
Lor&Lvindhurst, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir James Graham,
Earl of `Aberdeen Lord Stanley,.•Mr.,Goulburn, Earl of
Haddington., Ellenborough, Earl of Ripon, Sir H.
Hardinge,"'Eari IV Grey, Lord Eliot, Sir Edward
Knatchbulc'Sir'rh'OmaS Fremantle, and Sir G. Clerk.
The meetinibi.6ke np at half-past five o'clock, when
the Duke 'Of. IVellington took his departure, arta was
shortly followed' by Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl' of ltipon,
and several of the Noblemen and Gentlemen attending
the meeting. ,
The Duke of Buccleuch paid a visit to Sir R. Peel
yesterday afternOon after his return to town.
E:xl of Jersey went yesterday to Osterley Park,
Middlesex, from his seat, Middleton Park, near Bicester,.
'Oxford. His Lordship received yesterday a despatch
from Sir R. Peel.
His Royal- Highness the Duke of Cambridge went
from his residence at Kew yesterday to Richmond Park,
and spent the forenoon shooting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing from Kew. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew
in the afternoon.
Sir John 1)03'10, K.C.8., Captain E. C.
Richards, and Mr.- Ifertry, Mier, on the part of the Naval
and Military claiirraticA'On the Government of Portugal,
accompanied by Mr...'Vike,' their Secretary, had an inter-
Tieiv on SAtirdlLy 'Viseou utTaknorston.