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like this to away the councils of Britain. If Sir Robert I foul a cherished attachment to former speraliJive ai:ti-
Peel dares to insult- the industrious classes, t,ythis cipations of social perfection to 1).7, arrived at by p.eans
mockery of their distress; he will soup be made to feel of a system of populoreducation Nisei on purely sMilir
that he has indeed' incurred a most serious responsibility. principles ofethies or morals. The frightful rcsultS'ffe;••
HERALI).—The opposition press has suddenly- been veloped by the officio: returns of educated and nOn;edu-
afflicted by a loss of memory. Sir Robert Peel refused ' eatecl France have produced this change of convictions ;
hi assent to the Corn proposition of the Whig Budget, returns which esntirm the melanchol o: the
on the ground that an Bs. duty would be no protection to i traurdinary spread of crime following on merely
agriculture, and would, in years of scarcity, be intolera- ; instruction.
ble to the consumer; he objected to the Sugar proposi-
tion, because it ran the risk of aggravating the horrors
of slavery and the slave trade, at a time when there was
a prospect of an augmented supply of East and West In-
dian sugars, and a consequent reduction of price to the
consumer. On the Timber propositien the Right Hon.
Baronet refrained from expressing any opinion, because
the Whig Government never performed its pledge of
laying before Parliament the plan which Lord John
Russell asserted would reconcile Canada to the competi-
tion of Baltic timber. But Sir Robert Peel's opposition
to the Corn and Sugar propositions is not obnoxious to
the charge urged against it by the opposition press.
The Right Hon. Baronet has at no time been the advo-
cate of dear bread or high-priced sugar; on the con-
trary, lie has distinctly stated that he would limit the
protection to agriculture to the extent required by the
extra burdens imposed on land over those paid by any
other section of the community, a principle, be it re-
marked; on which I 4 rd John Russell and his instructor,
Mr. M.Culloch alone justify a fixed duty. What, then,
are these extra burdens on land ? What is the amount
of duty which would place the landed on a fiscal level
with every other interest ? These are important ques-
tions, the solution of which is imperatively necessary be-
fore any scheme of Corn duties can be proetrly suggested;
and yet Lord John Russell, demandine such an amount
of protection to agriculture, actually proposed to legislate
on the Corn-laws without having arrived at any approxi-
mation .of that amount. A precise knowledge of these
burdens is as necessary to the formation of a new sliding
scale as it is to a fixed duty ; because, it is impossible to
enter into any ptoper consideration of these laws in igno-
rance of details so indispensable to a just settlement of this
great question as are the relative amounts of taxation
paid by the various divisions of the community. In
opposing the sugar proposition, Sir Robert warned the
planters that their only hope of ultimate salvation and•
prosperity would consist in their ability to give the
people of this country cheap sugar ; that the reasons
for rejecting the proposed reduction of the duty on the
foreign article were exceptional and temporary ; and
that if neither India, Ceylon, the Mauritius, nor the
West Indies could, on the expiration of the great experi-
ment now in progress in our sugar colonies, undersell
Cuba, Brazil, and Java, they would have to bear the
consequences of the competition of those countries: Sir
Robert Peel stands uncommitted on the timber duties ;
and though it is certain that he will make no such
proposition as that of his predecessors, we fully
anticipate that lie will hereafter suggest a greatly
improved, and, to the revenue, a much more be-
neficial scale of duties than now exists ; and this
anticipation is very much corroborated by what; fell
on the subject from the Earl of Ripon, on moving- the
amendment to the address. It now suits the fraudulent
purposes of the opposition Journals to assume that Sir
Robert Peel is the determined enemy to the removal of
ail vexatious and unnecessary impediments to the ex-
tension of our commerce, .and of the protective system
when carried to .an injudicious extent. It likewise
accords with their objects to describe the late Ministers
as devoted to the principles of free trade ; forgetful that
Lord John Russell, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Baring, and
indeed every Cabinet Minister of Lord Melbourne's Ad-
ministration, admitted the principle of protection, and
declared their opposition to merely fiscal duties ; and
totally regardless of the additional fact that those Jour-
nals devoted exclusively to the advocacy of unrestricted
freedom of commerce gave to the Whig Budget their
most inveterate opposition, and laughed and derided at
the claims of the late Ministers to be considered free
traders.
G LOBE.—That the Whig party is at an end, and that
the power of the Tory party is to have no end, except by
utter subversion at the hands of the Chartists or Radi-
cals, is the moral of the song of the " leading Journal"
main this morning. If this were true, it would. not
c
ise matter of much rejoicing for the wiser Tories.
pesty pan rule for ever ; and if the end of the
,way pf Ow party now in power is to be radical
revoession, unmitigated by the existence of any in-
termediate pa:r ty, then their actual triumph may sug-
gest subject of I.7sful, apprehension for the future.
Not many days hock, a Radical Contemporary made
it matter of chavigp Against the Whigs, that, for these
ten years past, they .iia4 Stood between the people and
the aristocracy, and declare 4 !Mt when the Tories should
again lose power the Whigs would not again be suffered
to protect the eneiahis of the people. It appears their lead-
ing organ is of the same opinion, The maxim "Del2nda
,Ft Carthago" has been carried nut to Whiggish extinc-
tion, When the Tories fall (as Ilinistera must, sooner or
later), iii4y will throw us without reserve into the arms
of the Chartists end Sir Robert Peel will advise her
Majesty to send for y, VUonnor, or Mr. Viwent, or
-sossibly to despatch Huoson IPPfs'er journey for states-
men „:.• a distance, while the seals of !Ace are held, ad
interior, trjsingle Wellington of the Chgrtists,
whom the Tor, may not have sent to join she diet:
f 4
of his party at the Afitipodes. Seriously, however,
we doubt whether Whipein. f understanding by that
name the principles s;_ a isoify pf gatesmp neither
Tories, nor advocates of iTenulite absolutifin) is so
utterly exanimate in the country- as the 1 irn4 i't2prP,
seats. 'We doubt this the more, becaus6 we never meet
with professed Conservatives who do not scour the very
idea of goverrinw on old Tory principles, Well 1. tut
abandoning the old Tory principles is tantamount to
adopting Whig ones ; and if this is the way the Torten
speculate on putting an end to the Whigs, they act on tbe
principle of that ancient usurper, who ruled by person-
ating a slain monarch. Parties put an end to in this
way. are apt to revive again ; because what constitutes
.parties is public action on common principles ; and those
whose principles are acted on hold power virtually, and.
must hold it finally. The more authentic morning erpn
of the party in power says (adopting the words of Leord
Howick), that " a cautious but decided advance towards
liberal commercial principles may be expected from
the
present Ministry." We shall have personation, then,
after assassination. So much the better. If the usur-
pers act as well as they depose, they may pass for awhile
instead of them. If they personate "litieeal commercial
principles" without really carrying them out, then the very
pretence of acting on them will lead back the public
mind to the consistent professors of those principles, and
restore them to their legitimate station.
STANDARD.—In obedience to the frequent and
earnest appeals of the Liberal press to the inhabitants
of the manufacturing districts, to attempt by every
means in their power to obstruct and embarrass the new
Cabinet, a small and comparatively insignifisnt portion
of the householders of Manchester have signed a requi-
sition to the Mayor fot a public meeting, having for
its professed object to take into consideration the
distressed state of that town and neighbourhood, and
the expediency of petitioning the Queen not to pro-
rogue the Parliament until a " full discussion" of
" the corn and provision laws has been entered into,"
the requisitionists being of opinion that those laws
" are the main cause of the prevailing distress." The
principal movers in this affair are Mr. Cobden and the
other Members of the Anti-corn-law League. Among
the requisitionists are many respectable and well mean-
ing persons, actuated no doubt by the best intentions ;
but by far the larger portion of them are obviously
of that order of politicians who are, never chary of
their services when the work of agitation is to be
done. Whatever their motives may be, they seem
to be but imperfectly informed of the real causes of
the distress of which they complain. 'Were the Corn-
laws to be repealed to- morrow, and the same system
of over-production to continue, the condition of the
industrious classes would not be ameliorated in the
slightest degree ; and when we contrast the misery
which is said to exist in our manufacturing towns
among the operative classes, with the overgrown
fortunes realised in a few years by the least libe-
ral of their employers, it is not difficult to un-
derstand to what origin the evil is to be referred.
Whatever modification of the existing Corn-laws may be
contemplated by Sir Robert Peel, lie will not, we are sa-
tisfied, permit himself to be dictated to by people who
employ the phrase "provision laws" as a watchword of
faction; still less -will he- consent to allow such persons
to suggest -to him in what manner he shall per-
forth the responsible duties which have devolved
upon him. That there exists considerable distress in the
manufacturing • diattiets- cannot be doubted, but that the
extent of that distress has been grossly exaggerated for
factious purposes is equally certain. Sir Robert Peel
requites no stimulus from thb Anti-Corn-law League •
and its dupes to Witco him to seek the earliest possible'
opportunity of applying a rinnedy to such a state of
things ; but the consequences of' long years of Whig
misrule cannot be removed in a week.
COURIER.—No further particulars have transpired
beyond what we Isere enabled to communicate yesterday
respecting the hortibie attempt at assassination in Paris
of the Duke of Orleans, or one of his royal brothers who
roused part of the cortege entering Paris in triumphal
proessssion with him. But this atrocious event cannot
but re-awaken the most painful reflections on the moral
and religious state of A country where assassination is
reduced to a system, and trained assassins themselves
spilteS•thisingly mourned over as martyrs, when, on pro-
videntS*l fisilure of pistol or dagger, the miscreants are
delivered swat to the tribunals, and finally condemned to
expiate their saisoistery intents on the scaffold. In re-
viewing heretofore ces various occasions the official
statistics of crime and educatic4 in France, we have had
occason to show from irrectisable ttutitOrities that in pro-
portion as the modern theories of education without
religion have been adopted as the basis of lep,islotiott
for the instruction of the masses, so also has crime be-
come rateably on the increase. Of late, indeed,
tins French government have been made pain-
fully seesalc of the fundamental error of their educa-
tional policy, 404- ;Ave labouted, not without success,
to retrace their stele, ;se- more specially associating
the clergy, with the AdminiArpo of a system
which has eipenapy failed in all its ptetteise4 fßit,e, But
the foundation being iin3oo—the tree Ving ,r,9tlten
the core—it were vain to hope b-y graftP4g on It mo~t•g
wholesome shoots from a sounder stem to MOP it.P9Ar
meet fruit in good season. The whole system requires
to be revised and recast, with Christianity not only
fur WI basis, but as -the pervading cement of every
part of gee eociat structure. With this conviction
no one, we iselelelee, is more deeply impressed than
thlitamtselegrdnorseeians etele
goopila4lpixists,ateptiiTend,
toMhimGauilonzet,
for the philosophic mind of France s §pep frresisti-
bly impelled to the same conclusions, notwihstitiAiiig
all the force of former prejudice against what were deemed
and treated as monkish superstitions of the olden time.
The recent writings of M. Chevalier, one of the ablest
and most enlightened men of the age, and peculiarly a
creation of the school of La Jeune France, with those of
other equally distinguished men who might be named,
tend to show how decidedly they have been converted

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—The joint stock bank to which allusion was
made ) esterday, is the Nottinghamshire Banking Com-
pany. A deputation from the Directors have been in
London endeavouring to arrange matters with the agents,
but have not succeeded. It is stated by the friends of
the establishment that there are not only ample assets to
meet all demands, but that the embarrassment has been
caused by the manner in which the house on which
they draw here have conducted themselves with regard
to it. The high respectability of the parties in ques-
tion, and their uniform anxiety to afford accommodation,
and the particular bills which it is stated have led to the
step which they felt it necessary to talze, are against the
credit of the report.
Spanish bondholders are hutch pleased with the an-
nouncement that Mr. Thornton is to be requested to act
as .banker for the intended payment of the overdue in-
terest, but they fear that' the intelligence is too pod to
be correct. If such be the case, and the money actually
arrive, some hope may be entertained that the profes-
sions lately made by. the Spanish Government/are in-
tended to be kept. If the principle of honesty be ad-
hered to, confider.ce may 'be restored, but not until the
decrees which have so solemnly been promulgated be
fulfilled. The holders Of the bonds cannot but recollect
that many of them were induced to purchase upon ad-
vertisements, announcing the payment of the dividend,
signed by the Ambassador from that country, and which
proved to be vox et preterea nik.l, as they have since dis-
covered to their cost. _ _ _

If Mr. Thornton be inclined to undertake the office,
he will do well not to state so until he have the cash in
hand, and the pubic ought not to operate in any way
until they have his guarantee that such is the case. If
the promises hitherto made have each and all been
broken, what security, but thre none), can be be relied
on in the presrnt instance ?
TIMES.—The democratic party are, of course, highly
delighted at the firm and manly conduct of President
Tyler. The question of a national bank seems now to
be set at rest, the Bankists having been defeated by the
Vice-President of their own choice. He has conscien-
tiously taken his stand on his own views of the Constitu-
tion, and has declared against u national bank, not on
account of minor items of detail, which might be 're-
moved in a modified scheme, but against a bank of dis-
count generally. This proceeding is in conformity. with
the views we have always advocated, on the conviction
that an office for theople purpose of collecting; and dis-
bursing the public revenue, without any private interest
that might clash with its duty to the public, was the
only institution calculated fur.the United States, and that
a national bank and its cot comitancies' would be but a
national eril. As for the objection to the sub-treasury,
that it would keep locked up a vast quantity of specie,
it has, we believe, been ascertained that $5,000,000
would be all that would ever be required to lie in the
vaults at once, a sum which could not in any way embar-
rass such a nation as the Union.

MIDDLESEX SESS 1 ONS—YESTERDAY.
Sarah Cooper, a young girl, only 11 years of age, was
indicted for stealing two shillings and tenpencein copper
the moneys of James Lane.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor was
a milkman, residing in Peter-street. Clerkenwell. The
parents of the prisoner reside in the same.hou :e. From
some suspicions, on the. Ist of September, a sister of Mrs.
Lane was stationed behind the parlour door, and no one
appeared to be in Mr. Lane's part of the premises. Shortly
after she had concealed herself she saw the little girl get in
by the parlour window ; she passed into the shop, opened
the till, which tell down ; she took part of the money,
and locked up the till' again. While she was getting out
of the window again, Miss Lane came forward and
caught her. When Mrs. Lane came home and opened
the front door, the prisoner threw the money into a tub
of water, and attempted to escape, but was given into the
custody of an officer.
'The CHAIRMAN said it was a most pitiable case, and as
it was proved that the parents had shown themselves unfit
for the duty of taking care of their child, the State must
do so. However, in order to give time fur making mi-
nute inquiries as to the character of the parties, he would
not pass sentence until the adjournment day.
A few more pettylarceny cases were disposed of, but
no point of interest arose.

SURREY SESSIONS-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. PIiCKLE and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Wdtam Dungate was indicted for stealing, on the
14th August last, 120 pence, 120 half-pence, and certain
quantities of bread and meat, the property of Richard
Bashford.

Richard Bashford, the prosecutor, is a grocer residing
at Battersea. On the morning in question he left his •
house at six o'clock, and returned shortly before seven,
when he discovered that two papers of half-pence and
certain quantities of bread and meat had been stolen
from his cupboard during his absence. On his return
home he met the prisoner at a short distance from his
house, walking away.
J. Jordan—ls a carpenter, and was at work on the
morning in question on the house next to Bashrord's,
and on looking into Bashford's house, between six
land seven o'clock, he saw the prisoner there. He went
foti a policeman, but Dungate was not taken into custody
at L!”}L Pine, He knew the prisoner, for he had been at
work with him In the same premises. They had both
worked for Mr. Cwt.
On his oroai-examination by Mr. Corner, the witness
said that he had on that morning told the prisoner that
if lie came on the premises again, Mr. Cox had given
orders that he should be taken into custody ; that was
lit PPliaeltience of ad uarrel which had taken place bey
tween the yri6pper e Mr. Cox. The boy Hutchins was
with him at the time: On their way to the Magistrate's
at Wandsworth, had had some conversation with the
boy Hun:bin:l on the subject of the charge; had told him
to speak the truth, nod had denied before the Magistrates
sked the boy about
such conversation, but admitted it now.
the day of the month,
tHheath he had
merely
had
a
which he had forgotten. Had worked for Mr. Cox for
three years, Had previously worked for Mr. Spencer.
Had left him heeall§e be had no more work for him.
Had never been accused of stealing tools, Did not say
when he heard the prisoner was taken into custody that
he was glad to hear it, That he should like to hang him,
fur he owed him him a grudge, Had never said any thing
of the sort.
EclwArd Hutchins, the boy, corroborated the evidence
of Jordan in every particular.
James Howard, a policeman, was told by Jordan on
the morning in question -to take the prisoner into cus-
tody.- He saw the prisoner walking away, and missed
him at the filming of it lane. The prisoner was walk-
ing, not running.
Police constable M‘Mahon took the prisoner into cus-
tody on the 22d of August.
Mr. CORNER addressed the Jury for the pri-
soner, who had, since this occurrence, enlisted
in the Marines ; and on obtaining leave of ab-
sence front his commanding-otlicer at Woolwich,
had come back to the neighbourhood where this had oc-
curred to see his father, which he would certainly not
have done had he been guilty of this charge, The
Learned Counsel also commented severely en the testi-
mony of Jordan and Hutchins,• and put it to the Jury
whether they could convict on such evidence.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter.
The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the July found the
prisoner Not Guilty.
147.11iam Edmonds a little urchin, who was scarcely
higher than the bar, was convicted of stealing a cheese.
On inquiry, it appeared that although at the time he
committed the offence he was in company with a well-
known thief, yet he was not known to the police, and
that his parents were hard working people, His mother,
a respectable-looking woman, was in Court, and
said she was not aware her son, who she hail
always kept at school until lately, when •he had
worked with his father, had any bad acquaintances,
and that he had been in custody fourteen days before his
parents were aware of where he was, during the whole
of which time his father had been searching for him.
The CHAInmAN sentenced him to fourteen days' im-
pris:omment in the House of Correction at Brixton, to be
kept in solitary confinement the whole time, and to be
once privately whipped,
Etzabeth Horsley was indicted for stealing 1.41 yards
of printed calico, the property of Eleanor Williams.
The prosecutrix keeps a:drapers shop in Lambeth-
walk, and on the, night of Saturday, Aug. 21, between
the of 11 and 12, the shopman of the prosecutrix
received info:matioo lea hiln to look outside the door,
n hen he observed that a piece of calico, which was ex-
hibited outside the shop on a chair, was gone. He saw the
prisoner walking away; apprehended her, and the calico
wo found in her possession.
• The OicAittilivi, in summing up, commented severely
on the imprudent conduct of drapers in exposing goods
outside their shops at so late an. hour as lidween eleven
and twelve at night.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on the ground of the temptation which had
been thrown in lice way by the imprudence of the pro-
secutrix in permitting the goods to be oiposed in the
street at so late an hour.
. Two previous convictions having been proved against
her, she was sentenced-to twelve months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
The-Conrt rernSed."to allow the expenses of the pro-
secution, on the- grielacl that the incautious exposing ce.
goOds in the street -at- so late an hour was holding out
too.great a temptation to persons iii the situation of the
prisoner.

TEETOTAL LECTURE.—John 1-I°i:icings, the
Birmingham blacksmith, who lately delivered sevtral
hiptures in this town on total abstinence, delivered the
course in the theatre of the Mecha: ics'
InstitOPP: Pi)i4P-ii.s i:pe,t. last evening. He spoke for
upwards of an how and ; Peclu-
cated man, and, as he himself states, brought up " in the
college of drunkenness, where.ncither grammar nor logic
i; taught," he has evidently a st:ong and vigorous mind.
His manner of treating his subject is original ; his illus-
trations are striking and foreib!e, and be relates them
with no small degree of piquancy and effect. He was
heard throughout with
,the greatest attention, and was
freqgcnay !p4ch applauded.—Manchesier Guardian.
The manufactory for spinning and combing wool
which was built by the lite Mr. John Cockerill, at a cost
of more than a million of francs, only three years ago,
near St. Denis, was sold by auction in Paris nn Saturday
last for only 375,500 f. No person connected with the
house at Liege was present at the sale.