The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

ON DON, Fir DAY SE rrr, MB ER 17, 1 %41.

LONDON :
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1841.

Sir TionErer PEEL intimated to the House of
Co:nmonslast night that he means to do nothing
to relieve either the £nincial or the commercial
di-fficnities of the country till the ordinary time
for re-ascemblingParliament after the Christmas
holidays. He will obtain the supplies. He will,
porary expedivnt not yet announced,
NoviCe -for the pre:;cnt deficiency of the revenue,
but he :3 not prepared to propose any measures
pi ln,,,nently tiliing the public coffers, or re-
„lie vast distress of the working classes.

-thy sonle t.2n-

V/I:erefo're did he reject the Whi!,?; nieasures if he
Lave none to p,"vpose? Wherefore, too, did lie and
party press on Lord J. Russ.ELL to re-assem-
tie the Parliament :Is soon as possible after the
ssolu jou, if he were mot anxious to propose his
he relief o.' the public? Was he
chly deshfous of supenzed:nr; Ifie Whigs in office,
it t:Akil;g their salaries witbou! taking on
their duties?

IneaFures fs)r t

At present the chief duty of the Lt`gislature is
tryprovide a sufficient revenue for the 'z,7+ate, and
take its e-aorrnons burdens off the sprin:Ts. of
private industry-. Sir E. PEEL will do ❑eitl.
He bus seized office, be bus got his fee, taut eve':

now :e will not prescribe.
La:; measure does he take of the patience of
the people How long does lie expect that

they will submit to starvation? Our informa-
tion fro-th the thronged manufacturing districts
n to suppose that their pa-
tience is not inexhaustible, and that the limit
G:forLearance is nearly reached. What may be
the ellet the additional insult and injury in-
ilicted by the monopolists time will show. We

girl's its TCaio

ro),,:rei-it!":0, however, that many lienons in dic-
i..ci.rl P-1"tr: of the country !Fill quake when they
learn tl;ut tin• Tory Government is stedfastly re-

olvcd to the supplies. and postpone the
vare::;si o -wrongs sine die. Our ancestors in.

sist-Q(1 VU rgrievances being redressed before the 3

noula Vote the sui;plies.

It is generally expected that gentlemen, eveA
-when they are statesmen or Ambassadors, sell::
eNpreisly to lie for the good of their country,
Should pay some regard to the appearance of
troth. Lord ST. NUE7, hl lii address to the

ele,,Lor,„; a North Laaeashire, has tautEht us a
difie-re;it lesson, and.ct)nvinced us that a noble-
man, when a statesman and a Tory, can un-
bin:3'oEloY sulTass :the utmost latltude allowed
to an An,_bassador. The Noble Lord deliberately
Writes ead publishes, and cannot, therefore,
plead the. hurry of debate or the animating con-
It sts fo:- -victory, which- sometime leads Noble
Lords tx.d. Honourable Gentlemen to make
strangc assertions, the following instance of
an astour ding and obviously false statement :
" Her a.je;;ty Las been pleased to call for my
,cri;:ce4 and having -felt it my duty, in obedi-
(.7 ce to ,':e}•J.Zajestg's cornmanthr, to undertake
t::c deep resPonsibility of superintending one of
the nicst important departments of the State,
tl:e scat in Parliament which you have con-

l'(.l.red on me is ac!;ain at your dispo.?al." Now,
tho facts are, that " her MAJESTY" did not call
f;:1. Lord STANLEY'S services,. but they were
11;rced oa her by the monopolist's. So
fa,

frol a Lis Lordship undertaking the
dcep "if 2 obedience to her
iiAJESTf::4 command," the iLet is that he and
part:. and Sir R. PEEL ai.ranged betbreband
that he was to Lave the Secretaryship of the
it ;lag so FuNiely annouticed weeks

ago, ti:o-a;7li vie do nut say that this 61:1ce, Gr some
otilee, was the Fomised price of the
adhe:-ion to the monopolists. it
opr.og;tion to her -2.,l.lJEsTv's %sill that the

To ie!; Iver lorcod iLto eflice; and those Tories,

'Ling On

er 2,IIJESTY7S Comm

di,tl7.s4tca xhecarious Gflice

of th St-at c

anlongst thornseives, and left her M.ITESTV 110-
thin: 110 (10 111. t to acTilesee in them, and deliver
to them the seat; of their respective offices.
f3a.111, too, is the usual course of the Consti-
tution, and we blame the Tories not for
adeptiug it. _Bat we do Fay that when a
nobleman, who should be a gentleman, addresses
the public, he is bound to pay some little regard
to truth, and n;ft openly state a great and glaring
l,?_isehood. The customary language of office
vr!l not Warrant any man l'or openly stating
what is contraryito the fact for the manifest pur-

pose of generating the belief, that her MA-
JESTY was a free ai.-,,ent in these matters, and that
Tories only obeyed her commands, when they
turacd the Whig:; out, ai.d took on themselves
the responsibility and the salaries of office.

Sir THO7.IAS FREMANTLEmoved last night for
leave to bring in a Bill to appropriate a portion
or the gardens of Kensington, now used as a
kitchen-garden, for the purpose of building villas,
and to apply the proceeds to pay the expense of
aucrmentinc, the kitchen gardens at Windsor.
The Hon. Baronet stated that the measure was
concocted by the late Ministry, that he found it
prepared in his office, that he approved of it,
and therefore he asked the House for leave to
bring it in. Mr. PROTIIEROB and Mr. WAKLEY
(who retains his seat in the midst of the Tories)
objected to the measure, because it went to oc-
cupy, with buildings, or brick ulcers, a large por-
tion of the lungs of the metropolis. In particular
PROTHEROE remarked it was absurd, white
the Government is professing great anxiety to
promote the healthy recreation of the people,
and while the Parliament has been voting large
sums to form a park at the East end, and to open
the Regent's Park, to close up a large part
of Kensington Gardens. That would be a great
injury to the densely-populated neighbourhood

around the spot. To these forcible arguments Sir
ROBERT PEEL condescended to reply that the
ground so to be let had never been accessible to
the public, who would not consequently be in-
jured by building on it, and that it was not
an improper method, by letting that ground,
to meet the expense of consolidating the six
kitchen-gardens which now belong to the Royal
Household, without supplying it sufficiently
with fruit and vegetables. Of course leave was
given to introduce the Bill, but we trust it will
not pass.

We agree with Mr. PROTHEItOE and Mr.
WAKLEY, that it is absurd, while the Legislature
is laying out money to make parks fur the
people, to build villas on this open space. If the
people have not hitherto had access to it, and it
is no longer wanted for a kitchen-garden, let it
be added to the pleasure gardens, and thrown
open to the public.
Something may be learnt from the discussion.
While the bulk of the people are denied almost
a last resting place, while they certainly are de-
nied, so far as the soil is concerned, the means
of subsistence, that Royalty, which the Tories
and the Whigs reduce to be a mere puppet, Las
no less than six gardens for itself, and they do
not suffice to supply it with fruit and vegetables.
But few of our readers are ignorant that a Royal
garden is, in fact, less an establishment for rai-
ing vegetables and fruit for the Royal tables than
for employing a master-gardener, an under-
gardener, a sub-under-gardener, and several

helps. That Royalty should have its own gar-
den to walk in and gather fruit for itself is quite
right, but why the Royal tables should not be
supplied by market-gardeners as by market-
butchers and market-bakers, we are not able to
comprehend. Royalty does not feed its own
cap.nor grow its own corn. Why must it rear
le.
its own flo:ers and grow its own peaches? Royal
gardens are costly luxuries, which ought to be
tables supplied by the
given up, and the Roya:
industrious gardeners of Chels:a. and Fulham.
Six kitchen-gardens, and not fruit anti vegetables
enough for the Royal Household, while the
people are starving, paints Royalty to them in
very dark colours.

A new election has taken place for Bridport,
and Mr. WARBURTON loses his seat for the ses-
sion. The House did not possess a more indus-
trious Member, nor a more consistent politician.
His eminent services on the subject of the post-
age will for ever deserve the gratitude of the
mercantile classes. That they will unite as one
man to do justice to him and themselves we can-
not venture to predict. If they wish, however,
that such really useful services as Mr. WARBUR-
TON rendered should be repeated they will not
fail to testify their gratitude in an appropriate
manner.

The letter from Bridport, which we published
in the evening. San of Wednesday, partly ex-
plains the reason why Mr. WARBURTON retires.
It appears that some of the Liberal party had
recourse during the late election to the same
means as their opponents, and bribed the electors.
Mr. WARBURTON iSpCrfeCtly free from suspicion,
but some of his under-agents are said to be im-
plicated in it. A person emplovedby the Liberals
has turned traitor, and Mr. WARBURTON, from
an over-nice sense of honour towards his col-
league, has sacrificed his seat, in order, we pre-
sume, to admit a Tory Member, and quash all
further proceedings. Accordingly Mr. B. COCH-
RANE has been elected for Bridport without op-
position, and Bridport is at present represented
by one Tory and one Liberal.

While we have a great respect for Mr. WAR-
P.CRTON, we must say that we do not understand
this transference of seats. It does not agree
wi,;!-1 our notions of a Representative Govern-
Lient t::91 Members bargain with one another
f„r seats, au li band them over as if they, and not

the constituency, chose the Members. 'Eli?, deep
di?gradation of the eo,7stituency, however, is the
result of their own acts. They have in too many
instances sold themselves, ann it is only natural
that those who bought them sho nid conclude
that they arc authorised to sell them.

By the Corn Returns to the 10th of SepteM"
her. whicl!, from thisday till next Friday, govern
the duty, the average price of the last six weeks
is 735. 2d., and the duty, therefore, is now only Is.
per quarter. The average price of the week had
fallen to 71s. 2d., and most probably it will fall
more next week, raising the duty again to 2s. Sd.,
if not higher. The purpose of the speculators,
however, is ans►rered; the whole of the foreign
wheat in bond, or which can be imported by next
Friday, will be entered for consumption at the
lowest possible duty. What quantity may come
in.cannot be known. We have seen it estimated
at tiPwards of 1,200,000 quarters of wheat, but
fresh vessels arrive continually, and before the
duty is raised, a great additional quantity will
he imported.

Such a sudden and forced importation in
wheat must be made in foreign vessels. The
success of the speculation depends on the .corn
arriving in time ; and to accomplish that the
merchant freights any vessels he can get hold of.
One of the effects, then, of the sliding scale is to
give employment to foreign in preference to
British shipping, but that we cannot expect will
interest the farmers so much as the effect of the
sliding scale on their own pockets.
It is plain that the speculation for lowering
duty has been confined to wheat, for the duty
on barley is Gs. 4d.; on oats, les. 9d.; on rye,
1.25. Gd.; on beans, ss. ; and on pease, 2s. Now
the farmers must consider whether the state of
the wheat crops is such as to warrant this large
importation at a nominal duty, while the [duty
on other grain is considerable? The Corn-law is
passed for their protection, and is intended to
keep out foreign -wheat when the price of home-
grown wheat is much below 655. Does it answer
that purpose? The sales, which determine the
averages, are fictitious. Probably the farmers
have /lot of late realised much above 635, per
quarter, and yet the duty will be levied on
the price of 735. In the returns we nb-
serve that in Cambridge and Huntingdonshire.
the average price of wheat is only 61s.
Tfow will the farmers at that price be benefited
w heat being introduced at a nominal duty?
If the quantity imported be as great as is sup-
'xved, with our own harvest, it will supply the
country till the next year, and then the bulk,
if not the whole of our supplies from abroad,
will come in without the payment of any duty.

Of course, as the purpose of the speculators
is now served, the prices will immediately fall,
cur own farmers will begin to send their wheat
to market, and they will there meet the dreaded
foreign wheat imported at a duty of ls. They
will be unable to realise what they expect fbr
their commodity, while the speculators will be
enriched. The fanners are evidently playing

with the Corn-laws against monied canitalists,
who have nothing else to do but vatcli the mar-
!:ets, while the farmer has to cultivate his land,
and is the end the farmer must be defeated.
Nothing can surely benefit and save him from
this ruinous competition but perfectly free trade
in food.

Gratitude is the national virtue of Ireland, and
the magnificent display of it made by the six
hundred noblemen and gentlemen who on Tues-
day last were present at the national entertain-
ment given to Lord MORPETH in Dublin, is as cre-
ditable to that country as it is honourable to the
distinguished nobleman who was the object of it.
Few people feel more keenly than the Irish ; nor
are they quicker to resent wrongs, than to ap-
preciate, with all the warmth of which they are
so susceptible, the fullest extent of even the wish
to serve them. They do not so much reason as
feel, but by a process of intuition, which almost
amounts to an instinct, a first appearance seldom
deceives them either as to a friend or an enemy.
Lord .11/oRpl Tll early won the affection of the
Irish people, and his official career will long
live in their hearts a memento of how worthily
they had disposed of those affections.
As no Irish Secretary was ever so popu-
lar in Ireland, so none ever laboured
more strenuously to deserve such popularity.
Not that Lord MORPETH ever sacrificed to the
prejudices of Irishmen, or sought to make him-
self the darling of one faction in the country.
He adopted a course worthier of a statesman and
a patriot. He set himself to redress the deep-
seated grievances which affected the social and
moral condition of all classes. He found the
land overrun with beggary, and his first effort
was to provide for the necessities of the destitute
poor. Against a powerful opposition from every
quarter—even from Mr. O'CONNELL himself—
the Noble Lord carried the Irish Poor-law Bill,
so important to the very existence of the work-
ing classes in Ireland. He found society dis-
tracted with the quarrels of' factions, the
hybrids of sectarian and political antagon-
ism, and he directed all the power of the
Government to put them down equally
—all the influence of the Government to deprive
them of any support from public opinion. He
strove to make all factions equally ashamed of
their petty bickerings, and to unite them in the
common cause of their country's prosperity. He
found a country with a fine climate, a fertile
soil, safe harbours, a patient and laborious popu-
lation, reaping no advantages from her vast re-
sources ; and with a view to raise her to her
proper place in comforts and influence among
the nations, he proposed railroads on a scale so
extensive as if completed, could not fail to add
cent. per cent. in the course of twenty years to
the wealth of Ireland: What the Noble Lord
was prevented from doing to improve the repre-
sentation of Ireland, has more than once
been described by Lord STANLEY and his
friends when seeking in the House of
Commons to disfranchise the sister king-
dom. Nor are the measures which we have enu-
merated all that Lord MORPETH wished to ac-
ccmplish for Ireland. We know that there were
others which the Noble Lord was prevented by
his colleagues from bringing forward, because
they were sensible, not that the measures were
not good and requisite, but that as a Government
it would be in vain. for them to think of carrying
them, and that their agitation would but increase
the popular discontent.
We have not space here to enter into any ex-
amination of the speech of the Noble Lord, at
the banquet alluded to, which will be found in
another column. The proceedings at the meet-
m e,. ma:. however, convince the Tories that in
:overn Ireland after their usual
attempting to
fashion they will encoOter difficulties for which
That it may not be
they are but little prepared.
suspected that any O'CoNNELL partiality ap-
pears in the Report, we have taken the bulk of
it, with some slight curtailment, frjni the
Dublin Evening Mail—the official organ of the
Orangemen of Ireland. The report, therefore—
if a partial one—does not sin on the Liberal side,
and may, on that account, be regarded as cor-
rect by the Tories. The burst of execration with
which Lord STANLEY'S name waft received was
not less significant of Irish feeling, than the niito
rounds of applause which followed the cup
quaffed to the health of Lord MORPETIL

We call the attention of our readers to the
brief account of the great meeting held at Man-
chester yesterday. We learn from various
sources that it was the most decisive demonstra-
tion ever made in that populous, wealthy, and
influential town, and that, with very few excep-
tions, the united inhabitants call upon Parliament
to take their great and increa4ng distresses
into immediate consideration. The cold an-
nouncement of Sir ROBERT PEEL last evening
will add fuel to the flame. Every independent
city and town throughout the country will imitate
the example, and demand as a right that the
men who have forced the I r e Trade Government
prematurely out of office shall not mock a
starving people by idle words and selfish delay..
Now is the time for action. If the people do
their duty the Tory Cabinet must obey them.
The Tories have yielded often, and they shall
yield again.

The ordinary French Journals of Wednesday
have arrived.

The ilioniteur contains the following:—"By an ordon-
mina of the 9th instant, tne King has appointed the
".oulg de Sainte Aulare Ambassador Extraordinary to
Majesty; the Count de Flahaut, Ambassa-
er _44t"l"n.
Etaperor of Austria, _King of Hungary and
dor to
Salrandy Ambassador to the Queen
Bohemia; an. 4
The qua de St. Aulaire has already set off.
of Spain."
The Imps says :- -"" Marshal Soult has returned
he mono it at the Ministry
from Meudon to resid3 for :
of War. The Duke d'Aumale Lieutenant-Colonel
Tuilerie, in uni-
Levaillant left by the Garden of the
form, and on foot, arm in arm, to pay a visit to the
Marshal yesterday morning."
Of the miscreant PAPPARD we find the sub-
] joined account in the Gazette des Tribunaux

Pappart, who is only twenty-seven years of age, has
already undergone more than four years' imprisonment
for various offences, and, therefore, it is highly impro-
bable that he has served the usual period either in the
17th or any other regiment. In 1334, Pappart, who is
called the Albinos, from the whiteness of his hair, eye
lashes, and brows, received his first sentence of confine-
ment for a robbery at Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and again
for a similar offence, being detained in all five years in
prison. He slid not come to Paris till 1839, and was em-
ployed by several masters by all of whom he was re-
marked for his extreme irascibility and brutality.
During a quarrel in a public-house, at Bercy, he
wounded a man with a knife, and suffered in conse-
quence another imprisonment. The woman with la hom
he lived, and who has a child by him three months old,
had suffered so much from his violence that, when she
heard of his arrest and its cause, she said, `I am sorry
for the Duke d'Aumale if he is wounded, but I shall at
last get rid of this wretch.' The preliminary examina-
tions are going on. Yesterday, Baron Pasquier and the
Duke Decazes went to the Conciergerie, and remained
more than an hour."
The National publishes a letter from Clermont, of the
12th inst., in which it is asserted that the rioters having,
in the affair of the 9th, thrown stones at the troops, a
squadron of dragoons, which had received orders to
charge, sheathed their swords; but that the voltigeurs
of the 16th Light Infantry, on the order of a Commissary
of Police, fired upon a crowd, in a great measure com-
posed of women and children, and that three of the per-
sons on whom they fired were shot dead.
BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15.

I irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. Price
rre.ch f.., per vont!. ex. div 114 85 ... 114 90 ... 114 85 ... 114 81
1 per C,nts 97 c 5 ... 97 61 ... :,7 6 .... 97 65
3 per ...Ants... ;7 15 .... %8 15 ... 77 95 ... 78
1e 01 trance
Latritte Sank 1.0601. SI are; 1' SO ...IC3O ...11 30 ...1p,39

%oil's'. shares tt 90 ...5090 ...LO9O
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 I.es t 1840 1044 104 ... 1044 14'454
ipanish Ac:lvr2 I2IA ... •.2;i
Pass-are 5 5 ... 5
•)eapolit.in
ito.nan 1034 ... 113 i ... 11.3!.a 10.3%,
EAli WAY SHAkh:b.
St Cerma,

Versa, 205 ... 206 25 ... 205 ... 205
tt. ti 3ll 2.1 ... ;111 2, ... 311 25 3.1 25
417 50 ... 477 ... 47 50 ... 477 50
Aloncpell er to Cette '2l7 50 ... 217 50 ... 217 50 ... 217 t.O
i;r3suurkto dai, ,shares red 243 75 . 243 75 ... 241 5C ... 242 50

THE WEATHER.—NooN, SEPTEMBER 17.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
30.01 In.
Thermometer... 64 Highest
67 J Lowest ... 44
Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday night,
e".ween six and seven o'clock, a young man named
M 7holas-ReoVes, was gathering walnuts in a garden, in
e parish of PlUmstead, when hi 3 foot slipped, and he
fell headlong to the ground, a distance of nearly twenty
feet, and was killed on the spo'.

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" Who runs may read."

The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing advices from
Alexandria of the 25th, Constantinople of the 23th,
Smyrna of the
,30th, Athens of the 31st ult., and Malta
of the sth instant. The news is not important.
Lord Ponsonby was to leave Constantinople in about
a fortnight, to the joy of the Turks and the Russians,
his allies and friends. Few men in such a station were
ever so unpopular with those with whom they were
acting.
Oa the 27th ult. the Sultan and all the Foreign Minis-
ters were present at a review of 6,000 Turkish troops
drilled after the European fashion. It was the first re-
view attended by the Sultnn since 1831. The Austrian
Internuncio congratulated his Highness in the name of
the diplomatic body oa the soldierly appearance of the
troops.
Austria has united with France in demanding from
the Porte the recta of British off►cers from Syria. The
Sultan has complied with the wishes of these Powers,
and orders for the officers to leave that country have been
given. France was jealous of the influence acquired by
these officers among the tribes of the mountains, who
began to regard them as their principal protectors.
The Porte has fixed the tribute of the mountaineers of
Syria at 3,500 purses, or 17,0001. sterling. This tribute
is to be both fixed by the different villages, and collected
by themselves. The' evils complained of in the opera-
tion of the commercial treaties, which are to extend to
Syria, are to be carefully inquired into and remedied.
The state of Egypt is satisfactory. Mehemet Ali
allows the Fellahs one-fourth of the produce of their
lands. Ibrahim Pacha grants a third to those who oc-
cupy his domains.
The Bey of Tunis is to escape for the present the
vengeance of the Porte. Askar, Pacha of Tripoli, has
incurred the displeasure of the Sultan by his cruelty
towards British subjects.

Flom France and Spain we have no political news
apart of the already threadbare aff►ir of the attempted
assassination of the Duke d'Aumale.

PII2;LIAMP.NTIII7I7.

The Commons met last night. The Peers do not meet
till Monday. _

New writs were issued for Portarlington and Cavan.
On moving for a correspondence relative to the new
Houses of Parliament, Sir R. Peel explained his inten-
tions. He is to move the remaining miscellaneous
estimates, including a grant of between 80,0001. and
90,0001. for warming and ventilating the new Houses of
Parliament, first referring the subject to a Committee. He is
to provide for the renewal, for a definite period,
of those Acts which would expire with this Ses-
sion, including the Poor-law, which he proposes to
renew till next July. Mr. Goulburn, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, is to state on the first day
of Ways and Means, not yet fixed, how he is to provide
temporarily for the deficiency of the revenue, 2,000,0CC1,
but Sir Robert will not now state what measures he re-
gards as necessary to equalise the expenditure and the
revenue, though that must be-done. Neither will he
now state what the Ministers will do to meet the com-
mercial difficulties of the country, postp.ming these sub-
jects till next Session. He proposes, too, that no contro-
verted election petition shall be tried till after the House
re-assembles.

Lord John Russell disapproved of Sir Robert's course,
and gave notice that he will to-day state his reasons why
the Ministers ought now to propose their measures. There
be some debate yet on the state of the country,
though no doubt the confidence of the House will follow
Sir It Peel, and in spite of protestations to the contrary,
the delights of shooting wiil carry away the Members
from town and from their public duties.
. .

Sir Thomas Fremantle obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to build on Kensington-gardens, and passed resolu-
tions through a Committee as the foundation of a Bill
for adding Frogniore-house and grounds to the demesne
of Windsor Castle.

The Foreign Bishops Consecration Bill was read a
second time, and the Hoase adjourned.

PU33LIC OlengiON.

The Morning Post calls upon the " tyrant majority "
to laugh down Lord John Russell this evening when he
urges the Government to take steps without delay to ri
lieve the alarming distresses of the people. Was lan-
guage so atrocious as this ever used by any Radical
print, or even by any of the heartless nobles and im-
moral prieSts of France, at the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion ? These are the words of our Contemporary, who
prides himself on being the npresentativa of the gentler
sex in the high walks of civilised life :—" We perceive
by our report of what took place last night in the House
of Commons, that Lord John Russell intend; to make a
speech to-night. But we fear we must infer, from the lan-
guage of the Noble Lord, that he does not intend to con-
clude his threatened speech with any motion which he
will venture to submit to the test of a division. This
is matter of regret. We should like to see Lord John
taking the sense of the House of Commons upon a mo-
tion in unison with the notice he gave last night, so far
as that notice is intelligible. It is pretty clear, however,
that the leader of the Opposition will not do so, unle
he should find that Ministerial. Members, from overiveei
lug confidence in the strength of their own party, should
have overloo:ced the consta incessity of watching yie
manouVres of the outs, and, by their absence have giv n
Lord John a chance of dividing without incurring tl e
ridicule of the country. Every supporter of Sir R.,Peel's Gu-
t v.minnent who has not a pair ought to be present to-night,
if it were only to show Lord J. Russell how insignificant
prgett ha is and of how insignificant a party he is nine
the leader. Upon the Merit,of the question which the
Oppos:tiun leader
means to suhailt to the House to-night,
it is unnecessary that we should say a single word.
He is to ILO tat with the Members of her Majesty's
Government, distinguished leader, for
that
fortnight, during which time they have had to obtain
they
iia having
gd with
been
in their
office something less than a
the renewal of their representative characters as Mem.
bers of the Ifousa of Commons by an appeal to the
suffrages of their constituents, are not prepared now
during a necessarily short Session of Parliament to bring
forward permanent measures of domestic policy, upon
which it took Lord John Russell and his colleagues
eleven years to make up their minds—if any body is
generous enough to pay them the gratuitous compli-
ment of supposing that they ever made up their minds at
all. We cipect that Lord John will be laughed down to-
night, as any person exhibiting the effrontery of which
he has given notice, ought certainly to be, in an assembly
of respectable and intelligent men.
The Morning ChronV.; has the following remarks on
the same fearful subject :—" The manufacturing districts
are all in motion to prevent the prorogation of Parlia-
ment until some measure shall have been adopted for
relieving the distressed state of trade. We find by the
communication of our Birmingham Correspondent that
a requisition to the Mayor to memorialise the Queen not
to Prorogue Varliainent has been signed by many of the
most respectable and influential merchants and manu-
facturers in that town. There, as in every other mann-
:7eturing town, the worst consequences are anticipated
from indifference to the distresses of the people,
implied in the abrupt prorogation of Parliament. At
Walsall 2 numerous meeting: was held on Wednesday,
at which a petition to her Majesty was agreed on,
praying her not to prorogue Parliament till both
Houies shall discuss the free trade recommendations in
the Royal Speech, and es; Many the foreign trade in corn.
upwai-ris. of one hundred signatures were yesterday at-
tached to a re-misition fur a meeting of the great ward
of Farringdoil \;:.A.hout, to prevent the prorogation.
of the coming storm. Sir
These are but the precut.
starving people are
Robert Peel will find that millions ,nvenience,
not to be trifled %with. It may suit his j,
and gratify the inclinations of his followers, to postp,sne
till the sprin!, the consideration of the measures to which
tile people rook for their salvation, but dearly will he
purchase the convenience. The capital of the manufac-
turers is rapidly disappearing. Their 'all drags down
one banker after another; and the people, without em-
ployment and without food, are to be deprived also of
hope! As Mirabeau said, when a national bankruptcy
was mooted, the yawning gulf will be filled up. Let the
millions be true only to themselves, and lie must abandon
his intention." _ _ _

The Morning Advertiser animadverts in the same
strain to this wretched and wicked attempt to put off the
evil day:—",Now, therefore, is the moment for the people
to support the late leader of the House of Commons.
He calls for immediate attention to their claims ; let
that call be supported by addresses to the Throne from
every city, town,
,parish, and borough in the kingdom,
praying her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament till the
complaints and sufferings of the people receive the due
consideration of the Legislature. When Sir Robert al-
leges that he has not made up his mind on such subjects
as the Corn-laws, the Poor-laws, the Factory-laws, and the
means of providing for the financial wants of the State, he
at once acknowledges his incapacity as Premier? A
little while since he refused to prescribe until regularly
called in, and now that he is called in, he delays the ex-
pression of his opinion on the plea of not having made
up his mind. Quackery itself could not require a more
perfect illustration. Let any impartial man, answer
to himself the simple question the man who
not yet made up his mind on the 'Corn-laws, the Poor
Laws, the Factory Question; or the mode of providing for
surplus expenditure, fit to Lc the Premier of Englund?'
Sir Robert must have come to some conclusions on these
subjects, and his silence can proceed only from the fear
of the storm of indignation which he knows the expres-
sion of his opinions must excite. By postponing his day
of trial till February, he merely, like a conscious crimi-
nal, speculates on the theory of chances. It is now for
the people to exert themselves against the possibility of
their rights and interests being at that time made
thoroug,hly subject to the oligarchic dictation which the
Peel Ministry is about to prepare for them.
The Herald describes the plan of the Premier as ab-
solute wisdom :—" Sir Robert Peel has realised our ex-
pectationF. Ile has acted as a wise and prudent Minis-
ter ought to act. To have rushed on the consideration
of all those great topics of excitement raised by the
Whigs to save themselves from the indignati-n of Ow
country, without due consideration as a Govern !lent,
would have been the most unwise and foolish expedient
his Administration could have adopted. Sir Robert
Peel and his colleagues are in power because the nation
confides in their aility and integrity ; but haste and
precipitation on their part would have shaken that con-
fidence. They have saved the empire from the curse of
Whig legislation ; that is ample service for one session.
The Times, though not so heartless as the Post, ap-
proves of the dilator- course proposed by Sir Robert
Peel not, however, Wi 'lout evident misgivings as to its
consequences. The seers interspersed throughout it,
remark refers to a speech made by. Mr. Macauley, i
which he described the deplorable condition of the
country when the Tories fled from office in 1830. " Let 1

the BritiJi nation read the statesman-like ekciaration of
his future policy which Sir R. Peel has of late frequently
ond never more cautiously and prudently than
las: nig .1-, and decide how far portion of the pre-
dic: is in progress of completion. But he 'went on,
' filled with the present God,' and. predicted, that they
odd return to a situation, in which they could stan.d.
only by crushing and trampling down public opinion,'—
they, who have been returned by the omnipotent forca
of public opinion, which has been at once the cause of
their success, and is, thank God, the reward of their
victory. And the second-sighted seer concluded his
wful denunciations—never were words more full f ad
—by &clarini, that if they fell from that s' u
they might in t'Aeir fall drag down the whole frame of
society.' Wh: t mischief they may thus accomplish is
beyo our power, for we were born south of the Tweed,
to di;ine ; but it is a consolation for us to know at pre-
sent., that the fundholders are not yet in dismay—the
peasantry are not yet in insurrection—and our most fer-
iae counties are not yet lighted up with the fives of in-
cendiaries.' Whether the lovers of license and enemies
of order may not deem it :necess iry to have those fires
r -lighted, with a view of getting up the steam'
cainst the present monopolists' of power, is a ques-
tion on wi:ich some doubt may be entertained by those
who look to the recent proceedings at Manchester, and
to the threatened proceedings at Southwark and
other populous places. But, though there miy
be room fir doubt, there is none for ap-
prehension, much less for dismay. The great bulk of
our population is too thoroughly imbued with the con-
viction that liberty is peace, that liberty is order, to be
seduced into acts of outrage by self-seeiting professors
of patriotism, who proclaim in our market-places, like
Jack Cade and his rable rout, that there shall b.; in
England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny.' But
if by any turn in public affairs, which it is impossible at
present to anticipate, the evils of insubordination and
anarchy should appear to threaten the country, it is en-
couraging to reflect that we have statesmen now at the
helm who know how to protect and how to defend our
beloved Sovereign, and all the time-hallowed institutions
of the land, against the desperate assaults of their reck-
less violence."

The Kent Herald' urges that, if the Liberals do not
Icing forward •an opposing candidate to Sir Edward
Knatchbull, of which at present there is only a rumour,
that they will neverthelesS not fail to attend the nomina-
tion and require from the would-be representative of
Kent on what principles the Government, of which he
is a Member, proposes to rule' the country. It will be
worth while to witness the Paymaster wincing from the
test. We hope he will be asked whether Ministers pro-
pose to adhere to the sliding scale and the present rate
of " protection" to agriculture, or will follow on the doc-
trines of free_ trade commenced by Huskisson under a
Peel and Wellington Administration., He must be asked
too what will the Tories do with the New Poor-law ?
Wail they mitigate its severity, and by consequence in-
crease the Poor-rates which fall mainly on the land oc-
cupier, or will they, now they are in office, uphold that
which in opposition they, for a factious purpose de-
nounced ? An inquiry may also be made as to the mode
in which the Right Honourable Paymaster, the great op-
ponent of Catholic Emancipation, proposes to deal with
the Emancipated Catholics. Will he act on his own
Anti-Catholic opinions, or succumb to Sir Robert, the
emancipator, whom he formerly opposed ? Will he,
the professed champion of the Church, act cordially in
unison with Lord Stanley, the demolisher of ten Irish
Protestant' Bishoprics ? Will his answers satisfy his
clerical friends in East Kent ? In short there is no
limit to the torture which the applied question might put
him to.