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THE SITN, LONDON. 11711.:SDA.Y, MARCH 9,1§41.

urging of matters, will the whole of the empire be made cheer-
fully and contentedly to follow after their lawful calling.
This will realise the saying that the-people should be fos-
tered by kindness; and the doctrine of straightening the stem
that the branches may likewise be straight, and purifying the
fountain that the stream may also run clear, is all contained in
these suggestions. By following up these suggestions we shal
rejoice for ten thousand years amid peace and plenty ! and will
not this be a good plan ?

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE DAILY PAPERS ( P YESTERDAY.
(From the Times.)
It will not have escaped our readers, that the dissen- ions of
the 11th Hussars, and their Noble Lieutenant-Colonel, w etc tit;
subject of a long conversation in the House of Commons. on
Friday evening. Lord John Russell, Mr. Macaulay, Sir Hus-
sey Vivian, and Sir Henry Hardinge endeavoured to vindicate
the course pursued by the authorities of the Horse Guards in
dealing with this-affair. Lord Howick took a, diffcrent view
of the case, and we think unanswerably proved that it was due
to public opinion, to the discipline of the army. to the officers
complaining of Lord Cardigan's conduct, and to Lord Cardigan
himself, to direct a public inquiry into the causes of disagree-
ments sufficiently serious, in the eyes of the Commander-in-
Chief, to make an important regiment unfit for service. Such
a course, he justly observed, would have been fully warranted
by precedent, and was made peculiarly necessary by the cir-
cumstances under which Lord Cardigan joined the regiment,
and by the refusal of the Court-martial upon Captain R. A.
Reynolds to admit evidence tending to show provocation. If we
had entertained the slightest doubt upon this subject, it must have
been removed by the speeches of those Members who vindi-
cated the conduct of Lord Cardigan. Sir Hu.sey Vivian and
Sir Henry Hardinge referred to facts, which were sta.ed to
have occurred in India and elsewhere, and of which the public
knows nothing, as furnishing evidence of the existence of a "ca-
bal" in the 11th Hussars against their commanding-officer.
Surely it would have been right, in common justice to Lord
Cardigan, to give him-the opportunity of proving these facts
in a public Court, if they really amounted to a justification of
his demeanour towards the officers with whom he was at vari-
ance. It cannot be wise, either in Lord Cardigan or in his
superiors, to treat the public with contemptuous disregard, or
to be careless whether the people are well informed upon a
military question, affecting the reputation not only of the
Noble Lord and his regiment, but of all to whom tne admi-
nistration of the British army is confided.
(From the Globe.)
By the arrive' at Liverpool of the -West Cheste, from
New York, we have received intelligence from the
United States up to the 18th ultimo. The probable
results of the arrest and trial of Mr. M‘Leod upon
the preservation of peace with England was the all-ah 7
sorbing topic with the American public. Constderahl
excitement bad been occasioned by the publication of
the Report presented to the House of Represert %fives
on the 13th of February by the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations. This document, which
we publish entire, is, we think, anything but creditable
to the Committee, in the name of which it was drawn
up and presented to the House. The incautious and
'undignified expressions in which it indulges toward Eng-
land-e-the hiklillechleured, partial, and obviously in-
correct statements of the affair of the Carolinc, and the
manifestly untenable grounds on which the State of New
York is justified in the course it has pursued to.vards
Mr. M'Leod for his alleged part in that transaction—all
prove that passion actuated the " bare majority" of the
Committee from which it emanated ; who, instead of
conducting the investigation with the coolness of states-
men, proceeded in the true spirit of partisanship, and
stamped every paragraph of the Report with the
prevailing character of their deeply-seated prejudices.
The painful effect which this ktensperate " party
document" must otherwise produce on the strongly-
cherished hopes of the people of this country of an
amicable adjustment of the dispute, will be much relict ed
by the to: e of the principal speakers in the debate which
ensued on the question of printing the Report. It
appears that the Report was'sanctioned by " a baee ma-
j 'city" of the Committee from which it emanate.' ;and was
'lenoueced both in its spirit and tendency by the rest.
The observations of Mr. Granger, tree of the dissentient;
from the Report, and of Mr. Aiams, who just!), stigma-
feed the document as of a strictly party character, aerl
who deela-ed that " it fell on the house like a clap of
thunder in a summer's day," will find a strong response in
a great propo:tioo of the thinking part of tee popuhrion
of both ceuntres. The Reinert was ordered to be printed
by a majority of 103 to 68. By the time it was in the
hands of the members we have little doubt but the
" fiery Tybalts" of the house were materially cooled by
the opportunity afforded far reflection. The possi-
bility of an interruption of the pacific lel tions between
England and France being removed, ti e war pa-ty
in America will find themsele es much more disposed
to listen to the suggestions of reason than they would
be Were the chance of embarrassing the Government
of this country, by an obstinate refusal to liberate
Mr. M'Leod, and to make satisfation for the outrage
perpetrated upon his person, still in existence t) ex-
cite the hopes of a successful refusal to comply with
,ts just requisitions. We see nothing in this manifesto
of empty and unreasonable denunciations, qualified as
theY are by the strong expressions of dissent and repro-
bation with which :t was received, to shake our belief
that peace will be preserved. The violence of the docu-
ment will.go far to neutralize its intended effect.

(From tge Standard.)
The Westchester, American packet-ship, arrived
y esterday in 18 dais from New York. She brings
New York papers to the 17th ult. In these papers
we find the Report of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, to which had heel referred the correspon-
dence upon Mr. M'Leod's ease--a document which
must make every Englishman blush to remember
that it proceeds from men of the English race. We
complain not of its angry and envious tone as regards
this country—for anger and envy (at least jealousy) are
not necessarily base ; hut what moves shame and indig-
nation is the trickery and
_falsehood to which men
who we v:pitose are no:: the very meanest and
most despised of all the citizens of the- States,
have not scrupled la put their names. If the Commit-
tee had said at the beginning, as they havesaid at the end,
of their Report, " Eagland ia too powerful—she outruns
us is arts, in arms, ana in commerce—she will not sub-
mit to our demands on the boundary question, de-
mands which we are afraid to enforce by direct hosti-
lity ; let us, therefore, by murdering an innocent
British subject, whom a foolish reliance upon our
laws and our hospitality has thrown upon our
mercy"—if the Committee had, we say, at first
given candidly this explanation of their motives,
which at lust they cannot conceal, the insult to sense
and justice would Lave been violent enough, but
still the men who offered it would have escaped the in-
fame of the miserable pettifogging by which they at-
tempt to justify an act of foul, premeditated murder.
The Report is exceedingly long, according to the usige
of all who offer apologies for acts of scoundrelism ; but,
long as it is, it must be read fully to appreciate the
morals and the honour' of its authors,
(From t beCourier.)
We shall not pretend more to•day than merely
draw the attention of our readers to the extraordinary
document and important intelligence from the United
States, transmitted to us this morning by our active
correspcudent at Liverpool. The document in question
is in the shape of a Report from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs to the House of Representatives, pre-
sented by Mr. Pickens, the Chairman, drawn up in
the wildest war sense, a confused and heterogenous
farrago of professing facts and false inferences, and
couched altogether in the most inflated and bom-
bastic language. The leading matter of this R--
port refers to the capture, conflagration, and de-
struction of the piratical steamer, Caroline, with
the arrest, imprisonmeat, and proceedings against
Mr. M'Leod growing out of it. Without intending to
dissect by consecutive, process the attempted reasoning
but telly vague d.:elamation running al! through it,
we may be allawed to cull some few of the
flowers of fact and speech it abounds with, in evi-
dence of the rank exuberance of the ment it soil from
which produced,and of the excited senses of the auditory
for whose gratification evidently de,tined. For example
Mr. Pickens starts ab origins with what logicians would
call a suppressio veri, or rather a discolouration of truth.
The collection of Canadian rebels and United States rub-
bers at Navy Island is described as an " unusual and ex-
traordinary collection of adventurous men." And he as-

sumes that the Caroline was occupied in peacefully run-
ning as a ferry boat from Sclisser, on the American
b

shore, to Navy heeauEe " there is no proof that
any arms or munitions of war were carried in ti.e boat,

except, perhaps, one small sirpounder fieldpiece, be-
longing to a passenger." What a simple passen;er

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could have to do with six-pounders seams extrem. ly
odd ; for it -is. .rte kerma to be usual in thr Untied
States; or'aeylitigirclir, for ferry.-b Oats to carry heavy
artillery, or for passengers to shoot or hunt by land cr
water with field, pieces. Here follows, however, a
clas.ification of the freebooters of Navy Island
by the Reporter, which would have startled any other
audience by the flagrancy of its falsehood ; but which
was accepted and acquiesced in as the most incontestsi,le
of truth. " says this Mr. Pickens, or PickwiLk,
" concerned in the outbreak or excitement within tLe
British jurisdiction, claimed to be British subjects, in
resistance of the authorities of Canada, a province of the
British empire. Even admitting, then, that the Caroline
was engaged in contraband trade, yet it was with
citizens who claimed to be subjects of the same empire
with those who were styled the
legitimate officers
of the province." This is the first time certainly the bri-
gands were ever said to claim as British subjects. Ge-
neral Sutherland, the tailor, and General Van Rensse-
laer, commander-in-chief of the gang, assuredly did not
profess to be British subjects, ,tor,
when sham process
was served upon them by the New York authorities,
did they refuse to plead to American jurisdiction.

FRACAS IN DUBLIN.—On Saturday last two
youths, Mr. Foster (son of Baron Foster) and his cousin,
Mr. Arthur Foster, were bound over to keep the pethe
towards Lord Ma;serene. It appeared ttat his Lordshiti
was the author or a poem, called the
"Live Sketch," in
which there are some offensive allusions both to BAlen
Foster and his brother, and that Mr. Arthur French h. I,
in consequence of its publication, laid a aLip on his Lund-
ship's shoulders, saying, at the same time, " Cunside, you
are new horsewhipped, and not only so, but publicly horse-
whipped ;" and in this act he was abetted by Mr. Charle,
Foster, and then both gentlemen presented their cards to
Lord Massarene.
Government intends immediately to do away
with army agentp,
future communicate direct with the Paymaster-General.
and the Paymasters of regiments w)11 in
A saving of 24,0001 per annum will be made by this; the
Irish agents will first be git rid of, and the English ones
will soon follow. —llacipshire Ttlegraph.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 6.--The Duke of Saxe
Coburg, the King's brother,
is expected at Brus:4ls in a
few day,. The Chamber of Repre•entat,ve-t confirm, ti...
day the discussion of that part of the Budget of tl e ways
and means 'which Eelates to the changes. to be made in the
tariff o! customs.