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[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

Extracts from the Morning Papers, March 13.

The French Papers, in commenting on the
communications between France and Spain re-
specting South America, lately presented by
Ministers to Parliament, remark that England
has taken one side and the Holy Alliance an-
other, and they predict from this circumstance
that the general recognition of the new States is
at no great distance,—We wish our Government
had always acted with the wisdom and spirit
which have been displayed on this occasion.—
Mr., Canning has maintained the dignity and at-
tended to the interests of the country at the same
time.—The course which he has announced will
ensure the object he has in view without en-
dangering our tranquillity ; because England has
nothing at present to fear from the powers of the
continent combined ; and so long as she confines
herself to her own element, she possesses that de-
cided superiority which must extinguish on their
part all hope of successful opposition. In the
present case, too, the interests of England and
the United States happen to coincide, and the
'factor have expressed themselves with still more
determination than we have done. We have here
a striking proof of the truth of the observation of
M. Chas. Dupin, in the section of his Travels last
published—" Thus, from the vigour of her
institutions, and her advancement in civil
.and military arts, an island, which in the
Oceanic Archipelago would hardly be reckoned
third rate, causes the effects of her industry, and
.the weight of her power, to be felt in every ex-
tremity of the four parts of the world, while at
the same time she peoples and civilizes a fifth
part, which will follow her laws, speak her lan-
guage, and receive her manners and commerce
with her arts and intelligence." It seems at first
sight singular that the 120 millions whom the
Holy Alliance command as subjects, should be
enable to give any serious annoyance to England.
When we consider, too, that the successive Go-
vernments of this country, so far from displaying
any particular wisdom, have wasted its re-
sources in impolitic and unjustifiable wars,
from the last and the most expensive of
which, into which Mr. Pitt so unnecessari-
ly plunged us, we are just beginning to recover,
the impotence of the Holy Alliance compared
with us becomes the more striking. But, though
the Government has not been wise, the people
have been virtually free, and their enterprize has
been allowed full scope.—The Governments of
the Continent are weak from the very means
taken by them to become strong. The industry
and enterprise of a people can alone create real
strength ; but the Governments in question ex-
pend all that they draw from their people, in
controuling the spirit which alone can give birth
to enterprise, and cramping their energies. Their
armies of soldiers and police are, as it were, so
many guards placed over their subjects to retain
them in indolence. So long as the Governments
of the Continent shall be niaintained against their
own people by armies, England has little to fear
from them. Should the Governments become
one with the people, the latter might become
powerful, but free nations can have no motive for
injuring each other.

[BRITISH PR ESS.]
MrAIUSICISSOB, in the absence of Mr. Canning,
stated last night the intention of the Right Hon.
Gentleman to submit to the House, on Tuesday
next, an important statement and papers relative
to the West Indies. . He stated the intention of
Mr. Canning, at the same time, to bring in a Bill,
tile object of which would be to make the trading
in slaves by British subjects piracy. An enact-
ment of this description will lie the only ef-
fective mode to destroy for ever this nefarious
traffic. The foreign barter in slaves never will
he generally put an end to until other countries
follow our example, and concede the right
of search, visiting with the consequences of
piracy this horrible trade in the lives and
rntseries of the people of Africa. All parties must
cordially unite in such an object, however they
may disagree as to any present internal regulations
respecting the slave population throughout the
West Indies. The fact is, that the slave trade,
now so universally reprobated anti proscribed by
law, was long not only connived at, but formally
recognized and sanctioned by government. More
humane and enlightened views have- since been
adopted, not only by our Legislature, but by the
civilized world in general, and the united voice
of all has at length proscribed this abominable
traffic, though to a certain extent it is yet carried
on by the subjects of some of the continental
powers. But the late agitated state of the West
Indies will require the most calm and cautious
policy to ensure the continuance of tranquillity ;
a different conduct would shake the islands like
a hurricane, and endanger the lives and proper-
ties of the European residents all through the co-
lonies. Anxious anticipation now attends the
promised important statement of Mr. Canning on
Tuesday night. Any measures proposed by the
Right Honourable Secretary will, we are sure,
have equally in view the safety and prosperity of
the colonies, and the character and justice of this
great country.

[THE TIMES.]
It seems likely that the new Came Act ,will
pasS the Commons. We feel a certain degree: of
timidity in speaking on this subject, and shall tell
our readers the reason. We have often obieried
in common life, bow very little understanding'
will suffice to render a man excessively knoW::
ing, and' really quite 44 up to" that subject,
whatevei it may be, upon which he thinks al-
ways. :And as the sporting gentry but rarely
suffer their attention to be diverted to other sub-
jects, and are almost exclusively occupied (we
were going to say body and sou!) in the preser-
vation and destruction of game, the right of,
manors, leave to sport, qualifications, licences,
and deputations, we know that if we were to
make the slightest mistake, we should be ex_
posed to the detection, of not the brightest or
tnnst intellectual' portion of our fellow-subjects,

but to one perfectly au fait to the present ques-
tion. We confess, however, in spite of this dis-
claimer, that the act seems to us to be a very
monstrous one. It makes the game—(under
which name is included several species not be-
fore acknowledged as such)---it makes the game,
we say, under this sweeping denomination, pro-
perty ; but property to whom ? Why, to the
landlord—exclusive property to the landlord !
and that, after he has let the land on which it is
reared and fed to the tenant. We really should be-
gin to suspect, that the next step in legislation,
upon the same principle, might be to enable
the landlord to pursue, take, and destroy,
the calves and lambs of the occupier of the land,
or to let that right of destroying them to others.
The third clause seems to us a direct invasion of
property; for it ordains, that where the landlord
has, by lease, conceded to another the full and

exclusive possession and enjoyment of what be-
comes by that act the leasehold property of the
tenant, the landlord may invade or enter that
property pending the existing lease ; and he tray
not only so invade and enter it himself, but may
transfer that right of invasion and entry, either
gratuitously or for a valuable consideration, to
another. We cannot exactly see how poaching
is to be prevented by the 13111 as it stands at pre-
sent. To the sale of game there can be no ob-
jection; for to allow of it is only to legalize that
which is in as full practice as any the most ordi-
nary transaction of human life.

[MORNING POST.]
One of the most malignant, and at the same
time one of the most unfounded attacks, which
has ever defiled the columns of a Newspaper,
appeared the other day in a contemporary,against
both the personal and judicial conduct of the
Head of the Court of Chancery. The studied
barbarity with which reiterated hopes were insi-
nuated of the speedy close of his Lordship's
career, seemed to adapt the article rather for
readers with the cannibal propensities of New
Zealanders than for the civilized inhabitants of
England. We shall not, however, stoop to notice
the atrocious personalities which were used to
season the vapid arguments of the writer ; but we
think it due to the public to expose the flimsey
pretexts on which it is sought to bring into
contempt the highest tribunal of the country.—
One fact we would observe is implied throughout
the article, which in itself is nearly sufficient to
refute the worst charges which have been pre-
ferred against the Lord Chancellor. The enor-
mous increase of business attached to his Lord-
ship's office within the last few years is taken for
granted, and the gravamen of the accusation is,
not that the duties of the Chancellorship have
been neglected, but that since their accommoda-
tion they have been wrongly divided. Thus it is
admitted, on the authority of Sir Samuel Romilly,
that no judge who ever sat on the Wool-
sack before the Earl of Eldon spent so
much time, or was so assiduous in deciding
bankruptcy petitions as his Lordship. —it
is also said, that he is equally prompt and
zealous in the determining of lunacy petitions.
therefore, that in these two branches of his Juri-
sdiction there is neither delay nor indecision
to be complained of. What then is the con-
clusion deducible from the writer's own statement
of facts ? It is as follows—that in bankruptcy
cases, when dispatch and decision are so indis-
pensable, particularly in a commercial country
like this, and also in lunacy cases when dispatch
and decision are likewise so indispensable, to
save property from waste and spoliation, the
present head of the Court of Chancery outstrips
all his predecessors ! The motive imputed to
the Lord Chancellor, in both instances, is beneath
remark : for supposing it to exist, he can only
rceive fees on the petitions of which he dis-
poses, and the sooner they are determined and
the fees paid, the better for the suitors—the
more advantageous for the public. But notwith-
standing the alleged avidity of the Great Seal for
his lawful emoluments, and notwithstanding the
assistance of the Vice-Chancellor in gather-
ing in the golden harvest, what is the fact
actually stated by his Lordship's bitterest
enemies ? It is that the other business of the
Chancery has of late multiplied exceeding-
ly ! And then comes another grave accusa-
tion, namely, that without any additional expence
to the public such means have been devised for
temporarily faciliating the hearing of Appeals in
the House of Lords, in order that the Lord
Chancellor may the more speedily decide them,
as will enable his Lordship to devote more of his
time to the remaining description of Chancery
causes than he could possibly have so applied
hitherto. The whole of the charges, there-
fore, come to this—that the Lard Chancel-
lor of England is not possessed of übiquity
and omnipotence—that he cannot do five or
ten times as much business as his ablest pre-
decessors were ever tasked with—and that in
endeavouring to meet the magnitude and multi-
plicity of his duties, he endeavours to dispatch
those of most importance to the public most
speedily, and to hasten the determination of
others, with the least possible addition to the
burdens of the State. We may well say that in
thus attacking the Court of Chancery, the ene-
mies of the Earl of Eldon " bite against a file."

TIMES.]
The able argument of Mr. Peel on Thursday in
support of Mr. ,-Stuart Wortley's Bill for the
Amendment of the Game Laws, will have been
• read with interest by all who direct their thoughts
to that subject. We should greatly regret the
adoption of any measure Which might tend to ren-
der the Gentry of England' absentees from their
estates ; for we hold ttuit the frequent and cor-
dial intercourse of landlOrd with tenant is one
• great causes of harmony and strength in the con-
stitution of society. But surely laws may be
devised which, While they leave to the higher
ranks of society the means of healthful amuse-
ment, will check the baneful habit of poaching,
so injurious to the morals of the labouring class.
Such we understood to be the object of Mr.
Stuart Wortley's Bill ; and it is gratifying
'to observe the Secretary of State for . the
Home Department availing him Self of the ,official,
trieans afforded by his high stq-Ijon acqmirefor„

the use of Parliament precise and accurate infor-
mation of facts on which to ground their legisla-
tive enactments. In order to ascertain whether
the existing laws against the purchase and
sale of game were really operative, Mr. Peel di-
rected returns to be made from Bristol, Li-
verpool, Glasgow, and Manchester of the
number of convictions for those offences within
the last five years. It turned out that in the
three former of these towns not a single convic-
tion had taken place, and in the last only four
persons had been convicted in five years. Ishii
is quite conclusive; for nobody can doubt but
that during the season game in abundance is daily
sold in all those towns. In another state of the
law, those sales would no longer be made by
poachers exclusively. Poaching therefore would
no longer be a gainful occupation, and we might
reasonably hope that many of those who now
pursue it would betake themselves to the pursuits
of honest industry.