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to the house at Peckham even at one or. two o'clock in
the morning in vehicles regardless of the expense. He
wished to remove from the guardians of filet Union the
unfair and wholly unfounded charges which bad been
brought against there.
Mr. MATTHEWS did not know that the Court had any
thing to do with the question. He was sure the Court
could not dictate to the guardians.
Mr. TAYLOR said that no doubt the guardians would he
influenced by the opinions expres!ed by the Court. Ti
subject was one in which they were all bound to do al the
good they could accomplish.—(Hear, hear.)
The repot t was then ordered to be print 70.—Adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Without any disposition to allude invidiously to the
ungenerous attempts to prejudice his efforts, vve may be
pardoned if we recur to the uniform success of Lord
Sydenham's exertions throughout his career as Go-
vernor-General of C made, as the complete:t answer
which man ever gave to the calumnies of an enemy.
From the very first moment that he la ided at Quebec,
in October 1839, to the day when the union of Canada
was consummated, in February 1841, it would be diffi-
cult to gainsay either his policy or his practice. It is
fortunate that it has been so ; for Canada has been so
ofiee deluded by false hopes, by the promises of men
welling perhaps, but unable, to realize the expectations
which they excited, that it has needed a rare union
of confidence and ability to overcome the disposition to
doubt and hesitate. On the part of the Government
at home, that confidence has not been withheld. On
the contrary, it has been yielded readily and cordially.
On the part of Lord Sydenham, it has been seconded
with an ability which is cheerfully and gratefully
acknowledged, not only by Canada, but by the other
North American Provinces ; for it was not the h ast
disheartening of the prospects of that part of the
British dominions, that the disaffection which resulted
in the reteedion of Lower Canada, threatened to spread,
though in less embarrassing forms, through the other
Provinces, with results, we fear, had the tide not been
sta3ed, that must has e been eventually still more
disastrous. The success of Lord Sydenham in Ca-
nada, and his presence (enforcing his policy) in the
other provinces, has been a powerful, if not the chief,
means of givinf a ❑ew and more hopeful turn to affairs.
In estimating the value of these labours, it is im-
possible not to bear in mind the vet:), grudging support
which the Conservative statesmen of this country gave
to the great measures which Lord Sydenham has been
the means of carrying into effect. The intemperance of
the Bishop of Exeter is but a more violent and deter-
mined type of the feeling manifested with more caution
by the less demonstrative partisanship of his Tory coils-
borateurs. Fortunately, the better spirit prevailed ; and
though we look not without anxiety to the first move-
ments of the new Constitution—to the excitement that
must attend a revival of constitutional rights in one
part of the Province, and the exercise of electoral pri-
vileges throughout the Province—we perceive in all the
accounts that have reached us, such strong evidences
of what we are apt to call sound British feeling, good
sense, and practical loyalty, that we cannot but 'allow
ourselv6s to believe that if only a fair share of con-
fidence and support be afforded at home by the peoele,
by party men, and by the Government, the prudence,
skill, and energy of Lord Sydenham, will meet with
effectual support and confidence in Canada.
(From the Staudard.)
There is a question which we wish to be answered
by the Conservative Peers who opposed the Bishop
of Exeter's motion upon the San Sulpice ordinance.
These Noble Lords profess to believe the ordinance
a bad thing in the abstract, a rescinding, indeed,
of the Reformation, es far as the province
of Canada is concerned, but they hold that the
Legislature is bound to sanction the evil, because
Lord Bathurst supplied what has been tortured
into a precedent for it, and, further, because of the
long possession of the monks of St. Sulpice, and of
ietimations dropped by Lords Goderich and Aberdeen
that this possession might, on certain conditions,
(not, however, the conditions reserved in the ordinance)
be permitted to continue. Now the question arising
upon this argument which we wish to have answered is
the following :—Were not the Irish Corporations, lately
destroyed by the House of Lords by the active influ-
ence of some of the Conservative Peers, and with the
aid of the learned Recorder of Dublin, entitled to con-
tinue their existence, and to preserve their privileges
and property, upon much stronger arguments (though
of the same kind) than those to which the House of
Lords, under Conservative guidance, yielded in the
case of St. Sulpice ? The Irish Corporation had a
possession varying from 650 years to about 250 ; the
longest possession that the monks of St. Sulpice could
cl tim did not exceed a century, and their posses-
sion under the English Government was nothing

like so long. The right of the Irish Corporations
was guaranteed by charters of English Kings, re-
cognised by solemn Acts of the Legislature, and
protected by the law, which forbade that the conduct
of corporations should be questioned anywhere but in
the supreme court of criminal jurisdiction. The right
of the monks of S Sulpice, such as it is, rests upon
the charter of a French king, extinguished, as all such
charters must be, by the conquest of the province, and
on those obscure and equivocal intimations of Minis-
ters, without legislative authority, to which ,ve have
referred.

(From the Courier.)
We conceive the Times itself will not be disposed
to deny that the effect of any sweeping change in the
Corn-laws would be to displace a very large propor-
tion of the working agricultural population, that is, to
eject them from the labour market of land, and cast them
by consequence upon the labour market of manufac-
tures, already redundantly supplied, for support. We
ask, therefore, how, on what is something more than an
hypothesis, the condition of the hand-loom weavers is
to be ameliorated by throwing upon their special craft
the ruinous competition of, to take a low figure, some
two or three hundred thousand additional hands? For
to that craft the ejected agricultural labourers must be
driven for employment, it employment they were to
have at all, inasmuch as hand-loom weaving is the least
skilled, the most readily learnt, and the most attainable
of any species of industrial occupation whatever. A
man, woman, or child may acquire the art of weaving a
piece of calico or fustian in a week, and in a month
would become a veteran in the service. The Times,
we know, would argue that by letting in foreign corn
the fold of manufactures would be enlarged so as to
absorb beneficially, both for new comers and old prac-
titioners, the additional mass of labour tkns displaced
by the abolition of the Corn-laws and forced upon manu-
factures. Non constat : nothing can be more false than
such an inference from such premises. Tncre is no
conceivable improvement in our foreign trading relations
which could achieve such a consummation. All nations
have, and have long had, their own special industrial
and n:anufacturing interests to care for and to encour-
age, and there is not one where those interests are not
of as old, or older, date than in this country, whatever
be the supremacy to which we have attained in parti-
cukr branches.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--The Highlander, Liverpool to
Valparaiso, off Cape Horn ; Sarah, Berkett, Trieste, 25th ult.,
off Malaga ; Quiz, of London, Ist inst, off Cape Spartel, by
the Oscar, arrived at Portsmouth. John Graham, bound to the
Cape of Good Hope, 13th inst., lat. 47, lon. 9; Ann, Cornhill,
Brixham to Gibraltar, 14th, by the Perseverance, arrived at
Plymouth. Surprise, of Dartmouth, from Liverpool, sth inst.,
by the Eclipse, arrived at Plymouth. Aurora, Newcastle to
Bermuda, 15th, off Scilly, by the Brothers, Lewis, arrived at
Falmouth.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.—The Carena, Tayden, from Bengal at Liverpool,
sailed 2d Nov.;Eccles, Paul, from Penang, in the Downs,
sailed 2d Dec. :Ludlow, Brunton, from Mauritius, off Ply-
mouth, sailed 15th Nov., St. Helena 26th Dec. ; Forth,
Lamhpom, Batavia, off Hastings, sailed in Nov. ; Victoria,
Saunders, from New Zealand, at Bristol, in 103 days; Sybilla,
Knowles, from Mauritius, at Bristol, sailed 23d Dec.
Arrivals at Mauritius.—The George Canning, Harvey,
Dec. 17, from Havre ; Manchester, Turner, from Ma-
ranset ; Ewell Grove, Parrett, 18th, from London; Graham,
Mitchell, 19th, from Calcutta; Cape packet, Lamb, from
Ceylon ; Ganges, Fadzer, from Moulmein; Seven, Prance,
from London ; Widgeon, Capes, from Calcutta ; Tiger,
Loulieth, from Foulpointe.
Departures from Mauritius.—The Spartan, Miller, Dec. 15,
from Waterford; Regina, Poole, 17th, for Calcutta ; Mary
Smice, Boyd, 18th, for Liverpool: Mary Nixon, Field, for
London. The David Scott is loading for Rangoon and Cal-
cutta ; Placid, Maw, to sail 23d for Cork ; the Europe,
from London to Bombay, had been surveyed and abandoned.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.—Charles Car-
ter, Brcad, Jan. Bth, from La Guayra ; Lord Goderich, Ray,
9th, from Manilla; Mary Nixon, Field, 12th, from Mauritius.
Arrivals at Madeira.—The Paragon, Cumming, Jan. 31,
from London, sailed Feb. 4th, to Madras.
Departures from Batavia.—The Eliza, Mann, Nov. 8,
for London.
Departure from Sourabaya, Louisa, Pallot, Nov. 9th, for
London.

THE APPROACHING CENSUS.—Active pre-
partitions are now being made for tatting the decennial
census, and instructions io this effect have already been
sent to the Registrars in the different parishes of the
United Kingdom. Ecch parish will be divided into
different districts, extending from fifty to eighty houses,
and the inquiries will be made by intelligent persons
residing in the neighbourhood, to be appointed by
the kcal R-gistrars. Each of the agents so appointed
will have to deliver the notices at the houses, and on the
Ist of July have t) fill up all the details respecting the
age, sex, employment, &c., of the different occupants.
On Monday, a circuler was issued from the Home-office to
the different district registrars, assigning as a rate of re-
muneration the sum of ten shillings for every fifty houses,
with one additional shilling for every ten houses above this
number. The Inspectors will be appointed from intelli-
gent tradesmen and others in the different districts, by
which means authentic details will be ensured. Inspectors
have already been appointed for the purpose in most of
the parishes in the eastern districts of the metropolis.

VIENNA, MARCH 4.—Travellers who come
from Russian Poland, assert that notwithstanding all that
has bean said to the contrary, there is certainly an ex-
traordinary accumulation of troops in that )t.itigdora, and
that they nun*** is at least 00,000 Men,