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praise to the Almighty Father, the Gracious Saviour,
and the all-sustaining Spirit, who has so truly fulfilled
his promise, " I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee."

ANNE NOBLE.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

CHRONICLE.—The Tories, smarting under their failure
to carry the Boroughs of England by storm, of bribery, and
intimidation, have resolved on a coup de main in Middlesex.
We forewarn the independent electors of that county, that a
plot is hatching against the " Father of the Illtse of
Commons," the venerable and consistent Liberal, George
Byng. This veteran Reformer, for upwards of half a cen-
tury the honest and consistent representative of two genera-
tions of the Middlesex constituency, is to be opposed. A secret
meeting of Conservatives yesterday concocted the plan. A co-
vert canvass has already commenced, and a fox-huntingequire
is the probable Tory nominee. We have reason to believe
that Reynard will be turned out of the bag to-morrow
( Sunday.) We rejoice, however, to hear that he will have' an
instant and sharp run. A second candidate, in the Where]
interest, will follow him without delay. We anticipate, there-
fore, tile return of two Reformers for Middlesex, and we urge the
local committees immediately to re-organise their forces. We also
warn the constituencies of every English and Welch county, re-
taining a Liberal candidate, tohe on their guard, and prepared
for opposition. The Tories do not rely on any gain in Scotland
or Ireland ; and thus grievously disappointed in the boroughs
of England, they are conspiring to make up their numbers
in the counties. We, therefore, earnestly advise the Li-
berals in the country to organise opposition, whatever
their chances, wherever opposition is practicable. Let the
Tories at least be made to pay for their " rotten coun-
ties." We point to the noble struggle now pending in
South Derbyshire, where Mr. M. Gisborne is opposing Col-
ville and Munday. We may run the Tories out of many seats.
A whistle may be bought too dear, and we know that several
Conservatives will not face a contest. The Liberal gains in
Bath, in Nottingham, Lewes, Hereford, Gloucester, Stockport,
Preston, Walsall, Greenwich, Marylebone, Stoke, Brighton,
Bolton, and South Shields—have sorely disappointed the Tory
calculations. The Times and Standard pompously put for-
„ward their paint among venal freemen and bought watermen
of the city of London ; ut Mr Walter's retreat from Moscow
(Nottingham)—the great triumph over Gladstone Brothers in
Walsall, and all other sickening losses of the Tories, are care-
fully left without comment. Wo repeat, that the ingenuous
members of the Conservative clubs do not conceal their chagrin
at their small success in the boroughs ; and an ex- Chancellor
and his ally, a well known Quarterly Reviewer, openly express
their opinion that a " working majority" for Sir Robert Peel is
now not to be expected.
TIMES.—Such a powerful and noble spirit now reigns
throughout the land, that nothing but the grossest neglect or
mismanagement of those entrusted with the details of our
election interests can disappoint the expectations of honourable
men, or leave the assailants of our constitutional monarchy a
shad° vof criminal hope to rest upon. The great cause of
Conservatism, supported as it is by all that is upright and intel-
ligent in the nation, proceeds triumphantly to its destined goal
—the command of official power throughout the empire. Its
course, as we have said, can be checked no otherwise than by
errors of commission or omission in its appointed servants. If
the means at their disposal be not put forth with energy,
and directed with skill and vigilance, they are guilty of
a crime amounting to no less than treason against the public
weal—a crime of which an entire century may not repair the
consequences. Greatly and successfully as has the Conserva-
tive battle during this election been fought, in many places
where the promise of victory was least flattering, it must, per-
haps, be also admitted that where materials most abound they
have not been employed.or sought for with corresponding vi-
gour. Wherever a strong Conservative impulse exists, it is the
duty of those who undertake the guardianship of the cause to
turn that right sentiment to immediate profit. Wherever men
fitted for Parliamentary duty are to be found, it is the busi-
ness of those who constitute themselves managers of the
constitutional interest to summon such gentlenten into
action, and in the name of their country to clothe
them with the rights, obligations, and responsible character
and elevated rank of representatives of a people struggling not
for mere prosperity, but for moral and political existence. We
have hinted that more might have been done ere now for the
metropolitan county of Middlesex than at present seems likely
to he realised. We are sure that for the great and important
district of West Surrey twice as much might be still accom-
plished as has yet, at least publicly, been proposed. Why
should the excellent gentleman who has hitherto represented
the Conservative electors of that all but metropolitan district,
Mr. Trotter, be left any longer unaided in his arduous office by
a colleague of like principles to his own ?
ADVERTISER.—So far as the elections have yet pro-
gressed the Tories have undoubtedly gained the advantage
of a few seats, a circumstance well calculated to excite as-
tonishment, considering the nature of the questions upon which
the country has been appealed to for its decision. Stripped
of the complications of financial theories and the meshes
of special pleading, the great question now at is-
sue is whether it be more advantageous to a country
drawing the whole elements of its existence from manu-
facturing industry and commercial enterprise, to have food
and the necessaries of life from *heap or from a dear market?
To facilitate the accomplishment of all things necessary.or de-
sirable to the existence or enjtavment of man is the great end
of an elightened civilization. He who devises means for pro-
ducing two blades of grass where but one had previously grown,
has been truly designated as a benefactor of his species. This
aphorism, however, has been reversed by the monopolill ; and
those who now claim the suffrages of the British constituencies
in opposition to the proposed modification of the prohibitory
duties, base their pretensisns to popular favour on the mon-
stretts,m
iniquity of alio wilig thep,eople to have but•one leaf, where
oth twesrfirlhe disgrace of
the En;lish' constituencies these pretensions have received
confirmation in the majority of elections which have
as yet taken place. Yes; notwithstanding the notorious fact
of the ruinous fluctuations caused by the prohibitory duties in
the corn trade, whereby one (lay the market is forced to its
maximum standard, whereat foreign corn may be admitted at
the lowest duty of one shilling, which is insignificant as a
matter of revenue, and the neat day the market is glutted, so
as to prevent the native grower from obtaining a fair price for
his produce, and even the landlord derives only a limited ad-
vantage compared with the evil inflicted on the rest of the
community ; notwithstanding all this sacrifice of general to
class interests, to the eternal shame of the borough cpnstitu-
encies of England, a majority has declared in favour of the
faction who resist the reduction of imposts so pernicious in their
operation, and so unproductive to the revenue.
HERAL D. —We see, with great pain, that the Conservative
cause loses in Mr. Freshfield, who is defeated at Chipping Wy-
combe, one of the most upright, intelligent, and useful of its
advocates ; a gentleman whose rare felicity it has been to pre-
serve during a long Parliamentary career the respect and at-
tention of both parties. We fully appreciated, in his last ad-
dress of thanks to his former constituents of Penryn and Fal-
mouth, the high feeling which induced him to decline the
offers of support tendered to him by the latter of these boroughs,
lest his acceptance of them should seem to compromise the
disinterested and public-spirited efforts he had previously made
in its favour, with a view to retain its pre-eminence as a packet
station. But we thought, and still think, that he carried this
principle too far. The result of his appeal to the constituency
of Wycombe confirms our exception to the step we speak of;
and the prejudice which his party sustains by his defeat still
further corroborates it. He is a person, however, who
must soon, again, recruit the ranks in which his services
were always so constitutional and effective. But if Mr. Fresh-
field have erred a little on the score of a refined feeling of
delicacy and good taste, the public will be at no loss to find a
compensating principle of thorough-paced, onflinching, open
selfishness,—and the most intelligible type of senatorial assu-
rance in the person, and the epistle of Mr. Joseph Hume, the
ejected of Middlesex Lthe palmed-upon Kilkenny,—the now
re-jetted of Leeds. We are about to recur to a letter which
we need not introduce by any such an announcement as that
of the handsome robber in the play to the fair listener,
"'Tie Mazzaroni,—the brigand—who sings ! "
For, when WC say that we allude to the epistle of an unscru-
pulous state-tinker, willing to work three holes in the constitu-
tion rather than forbear the reforming of one which he
has assisted to make himself, and wandering about
the country from one constituency to another, soliciting em-
ployment, and professing to work at the chealg:uenoslppt
employers, every body must anticipate that
" Vawe the
In his letter to !‘ Mr. Low, the Secretary of the Whig-Radi-
""f is Joseph Hume, sirs, that sings' Wha wanitvetrtseh,hasrmteeye
cals of Dundee "—( what a berth ! but, probably, no sinecure,
as we supj ose that the gentleman's principles are, feworostoehdgde
have
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delightedpart'narin'steintoetivjecisreePphrel'elneteeddliluDnrgiunillidweecor,ivteebli-tolr‘ was prevented
from looking,- towards it by Sir Henry Parnell being_ in
ig and sagacity at nepetti
possession.' Alas ! this,htusneso:stnn,isolteienkd.deerseierslopenmetecot
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next
breaks out again I Like some
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to Dundee
.trader furtively
at,
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id the 'dependinig prizes. liow
ing, but anon returning to the
al eye detects the danger, and
anical shark-fish, he turns from
tbscure and muddy soltitude in
in and his disappointment, and
ler fry.
• day or two ago to explain one
mad been set in motion, with a
was felt, would v e
1),I ration from the disgrace that, it
• . en inseparable fiom the rejection of
Lord John Russell by the electors of Lond
London. We allude to
the nine Conservative liv • et.) men, Government clerks, residing
in Chelsea, who were corannled by
vote for the Noble Colonial the threat of dismissal to
Secretary. But it was not only
by the exercise of intimid • ation upon legal voters that the Go-
vernment party laboured to secure that result which they
regarded as vital to their character and interests. They
brought to the poll persons not legally in possession
of the franchise, and had them enrolled as voters in favour of
Lord John Russell and the other Ministerial candidates, in
numbers sufficient, we believe, not merely to make up Lord
Bohn Russell's majority of nine ever Mr. Wolverley Attweod,
but to make op Sir M. Wood's comparatively large majority
of 298 over Mr. Alderman Pirie. We will here present to
the public a small specimen of the manner in which the Minis-
terial party in the City of London' have procured the return of
their two favoured candidates. In one small part of the com-
paratively small Ward of Coleman-street no less than five false
votes have already been detected in Lord John Russell's poll.
1. John Sotherden Burn, No. 9,303 on register, voted for
Lord John Russell upon the qualification of offices at No. 25,
Tokenhouse-yard. He had removed from them seine months,
and they are now in the occupation of another person.
2. Robert James Culverwell, No. 9,308 on register, voted
for Lord John Russell, -upon the qualification of the houses Nos.
7 and 8, Founder's-court, Lothbury. These houses wire pur-
chased of him by the corporation upwards of six months ago,
and have been pulled down some months.
3. Charles Roach Smith, No. 356 on register, voted for
Lord John Russell, upon the qualificationshop of a and rooms
has been pulled down some
at 47k, Lothbury. The house
months, and there remains nothing but a vacant space.
4. Henry Wilson, No. 9,557 on register, voted for Lord
of house No. 42, Coleman-
John Russell upon the qualification
He hsd removed from these premises for some months.
street.
N 9 701 on register, voted for Lord
5. Thomas Holloway, o. ,
Russell upon the qualification of the house, 'No. 25,
John
t He was once the partner of Mr. Trueman,
Coleman-street.
in that capacity was
who still occupies the premises, and
re-
gistered as joint
occupant. 13ut the partnership was dissolved
a considerable time ago, and Holloway
has no longer anything
to do with the premises.
We hope that the Conservative Association of Coleman•
street and
other wards will each' pursue to its completion an
investiga,ion similar to that by which the circumstances above
stated have been revealed. er
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