The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1841

•Persons not in the secret have been surprised
at the spiteful and pitiful attacks made by the
Times on the Honourable Member for Bath ;
and it is appropriately enough remarked, that it
is rather singular the plebeian proprietor of the
Times should be the first to cry " stinking fish."

The fact is understood to be, that the notice of
motion given by Mr. ROEBUCK, to transfer the
duties of the Somerset-house divan to the Home-
office, has been found exceedingly embarrassing
to those Tory Members who were " open-
mouthed" to their constituents "about the three
tyrannical Poor-law Commission Bashaws."
These gentlemen cannot now well shirk the guess
tion by " coming Yorkshire" over the elector-
who have returned them to Parliament, on the
understood agreement, that on the first opportu-
nity that offered they would give effect to their
denunciations of the Bashaws in their places in
the House of Commons.
Mr. ROEBUCK, with his energy of character,
and commanding talents, can well afford to
despise the petty malice of these low attempts to
annoy him, grounded on the faithful discharge
of his public duty. Let his origin have been
what it may, it would be well for the people were
there a few more men in the House of his firm-
ness, perseverance, and integrity. It may be
very well for parvenus, who have nothing but
their wealth to recommend them, to wish to bury
in oblivion a humble descent ; but surely Mr.
ROEBUCK cannot be affected by any such weak-
ness. The fact of the Times attempting to shuffle
out of the Poor-law question, by affecting to
doubt Mr. ROEBUCK'S ability to meddle with it,
shows " where the shoe pinches."

Advices from Constantinople of the 18th ult. i
bring the important intelligence that the Porte
had directed the siege of Candia to be rased.
His Highness the SULTAN had also granted a
general amnesty to all the insurgents of that
island. If this measure be followed by such re-
forms in the administration as shall secure to the
Christians an equal share of civil and religious
freedom with the Mussulman population, the
tranquillity obtained by the arms of TAHIR
PA CHA may be permanent. It is incumbent on
the French and English Governments to repre-
sent this matter to the Porte in the most em-
phatic terms. Without a thorough reform of the
administration in the Provinces of Turkey,
peopled for the most part by Christians, there
will be no end to the civil wars which will
henceforth distract and ruin that long-mis-
governed country.
REDSIIID PACHA had paid farewell visits to
the Ambassadors preparatory to his setting out
as the representative of the Porte at the Court
of France. His speedy restoration to Impe-
rial favour, and his mission to a capital, the ad-
vanced civilization of which he is so well able
to appreciate, and to communicate to his Im-

perial Master, augur well for the regeneration of
Turkey.
The SULTAN has conferred the order of the
Niftchan Iftihar upon the Emir BESCIIIR, and
upon the Maronite Patriarch, and the Patriarch
of Jerusalem. These marks of the Imperial fa-
vour are exceedingly well, and timely bestowed.
It is not long since we were favoured with the
perusal of a letter written by the EMIR, in
which he said that he would prefer such a
mark of the SULTAN'S good will to an ap-
pointment to a Pashalic, as he was confident
that it would have more weight with the Chris-
tians of Lebanon, as a pledge that their interests
were remembered by the Divan. The confer-
ring of such a distinction on the Christian Pa-
triarchs will go a great way to convince the
Christians that that the SULTAN disapproves of
the cruelties and insults inflicted upon them by
the authorities in the name of his Highness.
As England and France are now united for the
protection of the Christian inhabitants of Syria
we entertain hopes of soon witnessing the resto-
ration of that country to a comparative state of
repose and tranquillity. When peace is restored
and freedom of religious worship permanently
secured, the influx of wealty Jews and Chris-
tians from the West will greatly accelerate the
I progress of European knowledge and civilization.

We have received the whole of the French
Journals of Wednesday. The Moniteur Po-
risien of that date contradicts the report that
the negotiations between the French and Bel-
gian Commissioners, relative to the commercial
treaty, had been broken off. They held a meet-
ing on Wednesday on the subject, and the ab-
sence of one of the negotiators had for its object
to procure certain documents in the archives of
Belgium, judged necessary for settling some dis-
puted points of detail.
A Royal ordinance, published in the Moni-
teur, authorises the importation of sheet iron
and iron plates into France, duty free, if for re-
exportation within a period of two months. They
are to be stamped by the Custom-house officers
in the harbours open for the transit of prohibited
goods. Warlike stores of any kind are not in-
cluded in the ordinance, and are, therefore,
strictly prohibited.
The movements of the French fleet are, as we
suspected from the first, universally supposed in
Paris to have reference to the quarrel between
the Porte and its vassal the Bey of TUNIS.
England supports the SULTAN, and it seems that
among M. TRIER'S troublesome legacies to the
present Cabinet is an engagement to maintain
the power of the BEY. The French and Eng-
lish Governments were they to set about it pro-
perly, might very easily settle this dispute by
negotiation. If the BEY be not able to pay the
Tribute demanded by the Porte it is better to
give him time to make it up by instalments than
to bombard his capital, and perhaps provoke a
collision between the fleets of two great nations
who have no right to make themselves principals
in questions that so little concern them.
Letters from Berlin of the 31st ult., state that
the dispute between the King of PRUSSIA and
the POPE has been amicably settled. The KING
and the Sovereign Pontiff, tired of negociating,
had made mutual concessions, which satisfied the
sacred College andi the Berlin Cabinet. What
is to be done with the Archbishop of Cologne
and the Bishop of Posen is not stated.
Within the last fortnight more than ten of the shops
in the Palais Royal, and the celebrated Cafe du Perigord,
have been sold up under decrees of Court, and there are
now upwards of twenty of these establishments to be let
—a state of things seldom witnessed in this region.
A petition to the Minister of War has been sent up
by the merchants and ship-owners of Marseilles, praying
that a more extensive protection may be given to French
vessels trading to and from Algeria. At present fo-
reign vessels only pay a duty of 2f. per ten mere than
French vessels, and this difference, the petitioners state,
is too low to afford their interests sufficient encourage-
ment. They demand that an ordonnance of 1835 may
be revived, prohibiting trade between Algeria and France
to all foreign ships.
The Sentinelle of Bayonne mentions the arrival of M.
Mendizabal in that town from Madrid.
" The returns of the commerce of the Philippine
Islands," says tic Madrie Gazette, " show that the im-
ports during 1840 amounted to 1,746,782 piastres, and
the exports to 4,459,144p5. During the year 186 vessels
entered, and 184 cleared. Notwithstanding the block-
ade of the coasts of China there have been 34 arrivals
and 39 departures to and from that country. The ac-
counts of the depot at Manilla make the entries
amount to 3,421,483 piastres, and exports to 9,907,664
piastres. The salubrity of these islands, and their
proximity to the markets of Japan, China, the In-
dies, and New Holland, render it highly probable that
this depot will become much more extensive."
The Empress of Russia, says a letter from Berlin, has
sent a Russian painter to take views of the most favourite
spots of Frederick the Great in the Prussian dominions.
The Univers contradicts the statement which it gave
yesterday of the death of Minh-Menh, whom it styles
" tyrant" of Cochin China.
A duel, originating in a newspaper dispute, took place
in the forest of St. Germain the day before yesterday,
between M. Henri Heine, the German political writer,
and M. Strauss, one of his compatriots. M. Heine re-
ceived a contusion on the hip from the ball of his adver-
sary's pistol, and the affair ended.
The town of Louviers, in Normandy, was on the 4th
instant visited by a storm of extraordinary violence.
Towards three in the afternoon, in the midst of a heavy
fall of hail and loud claps of thunder, a whirlwind
passed over the town, spreading ruin and desolation.
Many of the gardens and public walks were devastated,
and several large trees were torn up by the roots.
Some of the manufactories received considerable da-
mage. In one belonging to M. Gastinne, the south side
was blown down, and the roof carried away to a
distance of 200 feet, where it fell on a neighbouring
house, doing great damage, and seriously injuring a
female. Three workmen who had taken shelter were
much hurt by its falling on them ; and it is said in the
letter from Louviers, from which this account is taken,
that one of them had died of his wounds. The roof of
the fish-market was bltwn off, and the door of the
church being open the wind destroyed a beautiful
painted window. Several chimnies were thrown down,
and all the glass in the windows of the factories in the
line of the whirlwind were broken.
On the 23d ult. a young man, well dressed, and fol-
lowed by a dog, arrived at Chapelle Encherie, in that
department, announcing himself to be a Controller.
On the following day he visited all the houses, tak-
ing with him a register-book, and set to work, not
precisely to take the census, but to steal all he could
conveniently pocket. Numerous articles were miss-
ing, but no one ventured to suspect a King's officer, as
they believed him to be. On the sth instant he made his
appearance at Renay, another small place, pretending to
be a land-surveyor, sent by Government for a special
purpose. Here, by contriving to send away on different
errands the people of the public-house in which he took
up his abode, he made the coast clear, and, while alone,
broke open a secretary, and possessing himself of 200 f.
and a silver watch, decamped before any one returned.
The gendarmes are in pursuit of him."
PARIS SEPT. B.—The Journal de Chalons sayS ;
"There is a report in the town that orders have been
received by the Staff to break up the corps at Chalons
by the.23d of this month. Thus all the sums expended
for the removal of six batteries for .their stations, which
is always attended with expense, will have been saved,
if this news is true, only to have the troops in camp for
six weeks.
" We hear that two merchants of Leipzic have made
a contract with the Russian Government, by which they
have engaged to make an iron railway from St. Peters-
burg to Morocco. The Russian Government wished at
first to make a contract with some of its own subjects ;
but it found their demands so high, that it judged it more
advantageous to apply to foreigners."—La Gazette de
France.
PARIS, SEPT 7.—A letter from Leghorn of the 25th
August says :
" The Sardinian steamer Dante, arriving from Lar-
gone, has brought us the agreeable news of the disco-
very of the wrecked packet the Phoenix, near Catona;
but it announces, at the same time, that the English
brigantine sent to the spot is not sufficiently powerful to
raise the Phoenix from the mud in which it is embedded.
In order to effect this operation, the Directors are under
the necessity of sending large vessels, to raise the Phoe-
nix from the bottom of the sea."
The King and Queen of the Belgians, who are still at
St. Cloud, are to return to Belgium next week.
A letter from Boulogne states, that of the 16 persons
who were arrested for creating a dirturbance at the fetes,
on the inauguration of the Statue of Napoleon, three
have been sentenced to four months' imprisonment, seve-
ral others to three months' imprisonment and a tine, and
three only acquitted.—Le Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNEHighesSDAY, SEPT.
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Madrid letters and papers, of the Ist instant,
state that the anniversary of the Revolution was
celebrated in that capital with considerable en-
thusiasm. The RECENT, in the uniform of a

General of Division, walked in solemn proces-
sion to the cathedral church of San Isidro,
where. high mass was celebrated in presence of
all the great Officers of State. The REGENT
was cheered by the people, who seem to have
lost none of their attachment to his person, or
confidence in his administration. In the even-
ing the city was generally illuminated ; and
from the French papers we learn that simi-
lar demonstrations took place at Seville, Mr-
laga, Barcelona, and other of the principal
cities in Spain. On the same day a de-
cree of the REGENT, in the name of Queen
IsABELLA, appeared in the Madrid Gazette,
granting an amnesty, and leave to return to
Spain, to all Carlist refugees under the rank of
Colonel, who are willing
.to take the oaths of
allegiance to the QUEEN and Constitution. This
Decree manifests the moderation and the strength
of the Government. ESPA RTERO, who cannot
be accused of ever acting with precipitancy, has
not ventured upon this measure without feeling
confident that he had no longer anything
to fear from the machinations of the Carlists.
The act is one of great mercy towards an im-
mense number of misguided men, who are now
suffering the greatest privations in France. Not
that we agree in opinion with CABRERA that
France has been-wanting in proper sympathy
for the Carlist refugees. Considering the ina-
bility of her own people to bear the burthen of
supporting so many Polish and Spanish refugees,
the provision made for them by the Chambers
indicated no want of a hospitable generosity.
Nor are the complaints of captives to be always
literally interpreted. The loss of liberty is an
evil with which the mind naturally associates so
many others that the protest of the indignant and
self-convinced patriot is often a mere outpouring
of the peevishness of the prisoner.
Don Avousmr ARGUELLES, the guardian of
the Royal infants, continues his patriotic reforms
in the administration of the income of the Royal
domains. His at' act blis been to subscribe in
the young QuEtii's name, for shares in the new
loans for making good roads between Madrid
and the cities of Corunna and Valencia,
This is one of the best steps he could
take, to make the QUEEN a national benefactor,
and to extend her popularity among all classes
of her subjects. The income of the Royal do-
mains is exceedingly great, but from the death
of FERDINAND, when its Administration was
entrusted to Queen CHRISTINA, to the abandon-
ment of the Regency by her MAJESTY, not a
single real of it ever went into the Royal Trea-
sury, or was expended in defraying the expenses
of the Palace. Queen CHRISTINA, whose ava-
rice is insatiable, conveyed to Naples all that
remained of it over and above what she be-
stowed upon her minion MuNoz and his family.
She even took bribes from the contractors for the
army, received a large sum for her share in the
quicksilver contract, and while the troops, fight-
ing fOr the Throne of her Royal daughter, were
marching through frost and snow without shoes,
without pay, and upon half rations, CHRISTINA,
like a vampire, was sucking the life-blood of the
kingdom to amass riches for the gratification of
her individual passions. Though she had given
a Constitution to Spain, and neither alarmed the
Cortes nor the people by a retrograde policy,
yet so unpopular bad her private conduct ren-
dered her among all classes that her abandon-
ment of the Regency did not cause half the com-
motion that the expulsion of an Alcalde would
have occasioned. •
The REGENT has ordered the •new tariff to
come into operation on the lst of November
next. It does not include cotton and corn, which
are likely to be the subjects of• future negotia-
tions. Corn is cheap and abundant in Spain,
but dear and scarce in Portugal; yet the Portu-
guese Government will not admit a bushel of
corn, nor will Spain suffer the importation of a
yard of the cottons which fill the warehouses of
Portugal. Spain ruins the corn growers to pro-
tect manufactures which can never become the
staple of the kingdom, and Portugal, like Eng-
land, starves every class to keep a monopyly in
the hands of the corn-growers. And this the
fools call protecting native industry.
A letter from St. Sebastian of the 4th inst.,
states that Queen 'CHRISTIN A has for the present
relinquished her intention of making Bayonne
her residence, where she would be more conve-
niently situated for carrying on intrigues in
Spain. Bayonne is hardly suited for the residence
of her MAJESTY. It is too dull, and we fear it
would not be much enlivened by the voluntary
residence of Spanish grandees eager for the re-
storation of her MAJESTY.

ERUDITION OF THE " TIMES."—The Times of yes-
terday, in calling attention to what it designates as "the
curious exhibition which Mr. Roebuck made of himself
on the floor of the House of Commons," says, that " on
his first appearance he enacted the part of Bobadil, the
angry boy, in his friend Jonson's comedy of Every Man
in his Humour." Now whatever may be the friendship
subsisting between Mr. Roebuck and Jensen, it is quite
evident that the writer of the article in question has no
pretensions to the honour of even the slightest acquaint-
' ance with " rare old Ben," or he would have known that
Bobadil is no boy at all, but a bullying old Captain,
whose constant boast is of the service he hath seen ;
while the character of the angry boy is not in the
comedy of Every Man in his Humour, but in the Alche-
mist, where he is called, not Bobadil, but Kastril. The
source of the mistake is evident. The writer in the
Times had heard of Sheridan's celebrated retort upon
Pitt, and would fain have imitated it ; but, thunderer
though he be, the Editor of the Times is no Sheridan.

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VOSOMEGN;
The Porte has raised the blockade of Candia, and
granted a complete amnesty to the insurgents of that
island. This is gratifying intelligence.
The Emir Besehir, Prince of Lebanon, and the Pa-
triarchs of the Maronite Christians, and of Jerusalem,
have all received from the Sultan the splendid diamond
decoration of the Turkish Order of Merit, Nifchan Ifti
har. These arc so many distinguished marks of the Sul-
tan's regard for his Christian subjects in Syria.
.The Moniteur of Wednesday publishes a Royal Ordi-
nance authorising the free introduction into France, if
for re-exportation within two months, of foreign sheet-
iron, and other works in iron except military stores, in-
tended to be galvanized in France.
M. de Champigny, the companion in arms of M. La..
fayette in the war of the American Revolution, lately
died at the advanced age of upwards of a century.
The anniversary of the Constitution vas celebrated in
Spain on the Ist instant. Great rejoicings were made at',
Madrid. where Espartero was received with acclamations
by the people.
Portugal is still in a disturbed state. Upwards of
300 brigands are over-running the Algarves, robbing and
plUndering the inhabitants. The internal weakness dis-
played by the Portuguese Government in thus allowinfr
a handful of wretches -to spread dismay through the
country, is most deplorable. And yet these men affect
to bully England ! •
The King of Prussia and the Pope have settled their
differences at last. Well, " better late than never," as
the old proverb has it.

• PUBLIC OPINION.
The following frothy passage is from the Morning
Herald :—" The genius of Sir Robert Peel's Adminis-
tration will consist in manfully adhering to the great
landmarks of the English constitution, and in repudiat-
ing whatever is contrary to its spirit and adverse to its
safety and prosperity. We have tried the foree'of con-
cessions, and it is now time to.try the steadiness of firm
and consistent principles. Those principles are engraved
on the hearts of Englishnien—they have outlived all the
trials and tamperings of the Whigs and Radicals—
they have survived all the encouragements of Popery,
and the discouragements , of Protesfantisin7-whether
at home or abroad. It is time they ShoUld now.
again be received into public favour, and Sir. Robert
and the Duke are not the men who will discourage
them either at Court •or in our colonies—at the heart
or at the extremities of our comprehensive doniinions."—
The real meaning of all this verbiage is, that the new
Ministry will stick as closely as it possibly can, to its
favourite old creed of No Change. It will try " the
steadiness of firm and consistent principles "—to quote
our Contemporary's discreet phraseology—that is to say,
it will take a Tory view of things, until it finds that
Toryism will avail it no longer ; when, sooner than risk
the loss of place, it will turn round and make a show of
Liberalism, just as Doctor Phillpotts did, on the question
of Catholic Emancipation.
The Chronicle, alluding to the rumour of Sir Robert
Peel declining to have anything to do with the Marquis
of Londonderry, says :—" It is no defence of this shab-
by treatment that Sir Robert Peel lifts his eyebrows and
asks, " what could we do with him ?" There was cer-
tainly a difficulty in the way, but it was not insurmount-
able. There is an old proverb which says that certain
people may not be choosers ; and perhaps the Noble
Lord was too fastidious. But considering the school in.
which he was brought up, and the purposes for which
he has been taught that diplomatic and other such ap-
pointments should be conferred, we can hardly wonder
that the Marquis of Londonderry should have limited
his acceptance to either Paris or St. Petersburg. We
'can readily understand why Sir Robert Peel should
not wish to send the Marquis of Londonderry to
Paris. But St. Petersburg—why not send him there ?
Our relations with the Emperor are just now upon
such a footing that it would really require a man
of . some capacity to do • mischief there." —.We
really think' the Noble Marquis a very ill-used man.
He is quite as intelligent, and at least twice as honest, as
two-thirds of the Peel Ministry. His versatility of
talent, too, is surprising. He is a capital performer in
private theatricals ; is the most original speaker of the
day ; and has no superior in a certain impenetrable as-
surance of manner highly necessary to a party-man. If
he was thought good enough, for Sir Robert Peel's last
Government, he is quite good enough for the present ;
and as for the Right Hon.' Baronet fearing that the
Ministerial vessel will be wrecked with such a Jonah on
board ; why, the ship is full of Jonahs already ! The
truth is, Lord Stanley—as in the former instance—has
objected to the Noble Marquis's appointment, and Sir
' Robert Peel, notwithstanding his boast of independence,
has been compelled to give way. Poor Lord London-
derry I Instead of playing his favourite part of
" Noodle"—wide Toni Thumb—in public, he must now be
content to play it in private.
The Times thus sneers at the popular excitement
which occasioned the passing of the Reform Bill :
" The three glorious days' of July had broken down
more important barriers than %hose of the. Place des Vic-
toires or of the Rue Richelieu. The English mind ran
wild, and nothing was excessive enough to satisfy its
vague longings. The Whigs administered. to the frenzy,
and assisted in the brewing of a storm which they were
vain enough to fancy they could guide. For a while
they were able to turn its fury upon the Tories. • They
,sustained the popular prejudice against their opponents,
bs' continuing, us, fasten on. the Conservative Statesmen
of our own time every charge that was applicable to the
Tories of the preceding generation; and the leader of Op-
position was painted by the Ministerial underlings' as a
hungry wolf, isowling at the door, and eager to lift the
lea of office, foY the destruction of the people."—
The barefaced effron!.ery—to say nothing of the gross
inconsistency—of this passage is absolutely. without pa-
rallel! Who was the first ,!co administer to the general
excitement of 1830, which .!S here denounced as
" frenzy ?" The Times! Who assisted the " English
mind to run wild," by uplifting the orif!amme of Reform,
and calling on the people to raly under it? The Times!
Who proposed swamping the House of Lords, and eject-
ing the Bishops, and day by day sneered at both as a
squad of Incorrigibles ? . Still the Times! During the
whole stormy period that intervened between the intro-
duction of the Reform Bill and its final triumph, this
apostate journal made a boast of being in the van of the
battle. No abuse was too violent—no insinuations too
malignant—no menaces too ferocious—for the Times of
that day to hesitate to pour out upon the Tories. And
yet these same Tories are now the objects of its idolatry !
Further comment is superfluous.
The Morning Advertiser says—" We have already ad-
verted to the introduction of 'the Duke of Buckingham
into the new Cabinet, as a circumstance which precludes
all hope of anything being done by that Cabinet in the
way of a substantial revision of the Corn-laws. We wish
that this were the only matter of evil augury involved in
the appointment of the
,Noble Duke. He is one of the
most rabid of the ultra-Tory school ; a man who has
proved himself, ever since his entrance on the stage of
public life, one of the most bitter and unrelenting foes to
civil and religious liberty that ever sat in either House of
Parliament."—The appointment of this man at once
stamps the character of the new Ministry. to far as he
can influence it, it will be, not only a stand-still Cabinet,
but a retrograding one, for not a single really useful mea-
sure of Reform has been projected for the last twelve
years, but has met with the Duke of Buckingham's most
decided opposition. He was the bitterest enemy of
Catholic Emancipation, and the Reform Bill found in
him au equally envenomed foe. Fortunately, however,
his Grace's capacity for mischief is in some degree neu-
tralized by his very limited understanding. • Though a
great Duke, he is a very small statesman.
The Tory Journals are quite indignant with Mr.
Byng, for his late assertion at the Middlesex dinner, that
he,now finds himself living under an aristocracy. The
Post, in particular, remarks :—" It is a common thing
at an advanced period In life to remember what has
happened many years before, but to forget completely
the events of yesterday. This must, we suppose, ac•
count for Mr. Byng's forgetfulness that he lives under a
Government which the House of Commons substantially
determines, and that, within a few weeks, the people at
large—not the aristocracy—were called upon to elect a
House of Commons ; that they did' elect a House ; and
that that Hons.e, by its vote, altered the Government to
what it is. Of all the idle twaddle that ever was uttered,
the assertion that, in the present state of the theory and
practice of the Constitution, the Government is an aris-
tocracy, is the most idle.'.—Mr. Byng quite 11.4 ht.
The present Government is an aristocratic ORE ; sym-
pathizing exclusively with aristocrats ; sworn to legis-
late in an aristocratic spirit ; and brought into office by
aristocratic influence. In fact, it is the last desperate
effort of the aristocracy to repel—what it calls—the
dangerous inroads of the demokiracy. But it will fail,
for it is impossible—as Mrs. Partington found to her
cost—to drive back the waves of the Atlantic with
a mop 1
We quote the following remarks from the Plymouth
Journal:--" Misery is deaf to sophistry, and an intelli-
gent people cannot be trifled with. The Protective sys-
tem must be relaxed. It is false in principle, and inju-
rious in tendency. It is curious to see with what tenacity
and affection Conservatives adhere to this system. The
very word is a charm. It seems to awaken all the pa-
triotism of their nature, and they talk of it as if every
element of our prosperity was to be protected and en-
joyed by it."
The Dublin Pilot says :—" The wise and far-seeing
Liberals need not be uneasy that the cautious system of
moderation and forbearance chalked out by the Prime
Minister, will be carried out—even long enough to de-
lude, to paralyze and enfeeble the union of the organized
mind of Ireland. Every act since his accesssion to
power has been a falsification of the moderate principles
upon which it was taken. Measures are indicated by
the choice of men,—and the men Peel has chosen coin
pletely decide the character of the measures."
The Nonconformist, speaking of the present state of
the country. says—" The system of forbearance and
compromise is well nigh at an end. Toryism, or; in
other words, Government carried on for the advantage of
the few rather than the many, cannot now steal down
.upon us under Liberal colours. We can be deluded no
ilonger by a specious pretence. As far as the nation is
concerned, the men composing the present Cabinet are
nothing—the principles they embody constitute the all in
all of their importance. These principles will henceforth
engage the sole attention of the public mind, and of neces-
sity those which stand in contrast with them will be more
seriously studied and more highly prized. Government
by party is fast coming to an end. It has had its day.
It has done its work. On the whole, it has greatly ad-
vanced the liberties of the people. But it is ill adapted
to the wants of the present times. It has reached old
age, and is ready to expire. With no small difficulty the
nation is struggling to cast its old skin—to emerge from

SPOIMING.
Mr. Logan, of Liverpool, shot on the 19th of August
last, a fine plump woodcock on the •Larriston estate.
Woodcocks are never found
.in Britain so early, and this
fact tends to confirm the 'belief of some naturalists that
these birds occasionally breed in Britain.
In the vicinity of Bristol, and in the Northern Coun-
ties, sportmen complain of the small size of the partridges
this season, as well as their wildness and scarcity.
An extraordinary running feat was performed last
Wednesday at Kendal, by a husbandman named Walker,
who in the short space of four minutes and two seconds
ran a mile down a steep declivity.

NAVAL, AND DIXILITAItY.
The great Liverpool steamer arrived on the night of
Sept. 7, at Falmouth, from Alexandria, Malta, and
Gibraltar, having thirty-six passengers, and forty-one
packages of letters, thirty-one of them from India.
The Belle Poule frigate, Captain the Prince de Join-
vine, has touched at Newfoundland, whence she steers for
the Canadian Coast and New York, returning to France
by Lisbon.
At Woolwich the Syren is rapidly fitting for sea. A
body of marines have just joined the Formidable at Sheer-
ness, of which Sir T. Troubridge is commander. The
singularly constructed Sardinian vessel, Aurora, is ex-
pected to sail to-day, her guns and stores being all shipped.

LAW AND POLICE.
Mr. Lascelles, a master butcher, residing at Grosve-
nor-row, Pimlico, appeared at Queen-square to complain
of having toll exacted from him, his residence being on
one side of the turnpike, while his stables were on the
other. According to the General Turnpike Act, it ap-
peared, among other exemptions, that any person not tra-
velling more than 100 yards upon a turnpike-trust, was
permitted to pass free ; but the Counsel for defence of
the toll sheaved that there was a special act for this turn-
pike, which over-ruled the Acts adduced.

EL7ECTIONEERING.
Alderman Thompson is said to be opposed by Mr.
Matthias Wolverly Attwood for Sunderland.
At the Reform dinner at Dewsbury on Thursday last,
high panegyric was bestowed upon the public and pri-
vate character of Lord Morpeth, and also on Lord Mil-
ton. Above 300 Reformers were present.
Mr. Warburton, according to the Conservative prints,
is to have a competitor for the representation of Brid-
port in the person of Mr. Baillie Cochrane.
Lord Leveson, son of the Earl of Granville, the late
Ambassador at Paris, has appeared in the Whig inte-
rest for the city of Lichfield, on the retirement of Sir
George Anson.

C OURT—PAsuson*AnLE. •
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town yesterday for
Leamington.
The King and Queen of the Belgians are shortly
ex-
pected at Ostend.
Lord and Lady Rolle have returned to Bicton Lodge,
Devonshire.
The Duke of Norfolk left town on Saturday for Farn-
ham Hall, Suffolk.
The Earl of Coventry has left Brighton for the Con-
tinent.
Viscount Beresford continues slowly to improve in
health.
Lord andLadyLyndhurst return this day to their villa
at Kingston.
Colonel Dawson Darner is appointed to the office of
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A shocking murder was committed at Box on Sunday
last, by Isaac Smith, a labourer, on Ann Little, a woman
of depraved character with whom he cohabited. The
circumstances are of a most aggravated nature, and the
Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder, committing
the prisoner Smith to Devizes Gaol.
A miniature statue of Sir Robert Peel, eighteen inches
in height, has just been executed by Signor Franconi, of
Panton-square, Coventry-street.--As the Right Hon.
Baronet is a miniature statesman, and of the smallest di-
mensions, this miniature statue of him is very appropriate.
Vauxhall Qardens were sold yesterday to a gentleman
named Fowler,'for 20,2001. What would the illustrious
Simpson have said to such a profanation of " the Royal
property 2" By the bye,_ we are not without a suspicion
that this great man is still alive, for we sometimes trace
his remarkable powers of verbiage and metaphor in the
leading articles of more than one Tory journal.
We understand that a certain Duke, who is a Member
of the present Cabinet, and a staunch advocate of the
Corn-laws, while attending Divine service on Sunday last,
and listening to that touching supplication in the Lord's
Prayer, " Give us this day our daily bread," was heard
to mutter in a very audible tone, " I'll see you d—d
first !"
The Advertiser observes :—" It is not altogether un-
worthy of remark that the month of November has
twice witnessed a change of Ministry. In November,
1830, a Tory Government went out, and a Whig Minis-
try came in ; and in November, 1834, the Whig Govern-
ment was dismissed by the late King."—The November
of this last year is still further remarkable, as having
witnessed Mr, Peter Borthwick's debut at the Surrey
theatre, in the character of Othello !

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
WARWICK RACES.—THURSDAY.—(CONCLUDED,
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats two miles
Mr. Wreford's Wardan, 4 yrs, 9st. 61b
Mr. Denham's f by Pantaloon out of Souvenir,
3 yrs, Bst 21b
Mr. J. Day's Viola, 3 yrs. Bst 21b
Mr. William's Anvil, 3 yrs, Bst 21b
Mr. Cooke's Esperanza, 3 yrs, Bst 21b
The second heat was in a canter.
The Town Plate of 501. Heats two miles,
Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged, 9st 71b ...(Marlow) 1 1
Sir C. Cockerell's Lady Liverpool, 4 yrs, Bst 91b 2 2

4 2
2 dr
3 dr
5 dr

MORPETI-I ItACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Borough Member's Plate of 501. Heats a mile and
a half.
Mr. Dawson's Little Bundle, 3 yrs, Gst 121 b 1 3 1
Captain Pott's Jolly Boy, 3 yrs, Gst 121 b
Sir C. Monck's g by Blucher, d by Whisker,

4 yrs, Bst
The Steward's Cup of GO guineas, added to a sweepstakes
of 5 sovs. each ; the second saves his stake. Heats
two miles.
Mr. Loy's Ararat, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 1
Mr. Crawford's Centurion, aged, Bst 101 b ... 3
Mr. Fairlie's Zobrab, aged, Bst 101 b
Centurion broke down.

PORTSMOUTH AND PORTSEA TOWN AND
GARRISON RACES—WEDNESDAY•
The Town Purse of 251. the winner to be sold for Gel.
was won in two heats by Mr. Coward's ch g, Gobe-
meuche, 3 yrs, Bst 41b, beating Ploughboy,
and two others.
The Ladies' Plate of 15/. winner to be sold
Bst 41b, beating for 3C/.
was won by Mr. Coward's Gobemouche, aged, 9st ilb
objected to
Bloughboy, 9st 11b, and Angelica, 9st111) (bolted) but is

TIT CRSDAY.
The Garrison Cup of 351. for officer's horses, was won
in two heats by Mr. Wardlaw's Theresa, 9st 111 b, beat-
ing two others.
The Hack Stakes were won in three heats by Captain
Freestone's Ploughboy, beating Theresa and Forest
Lass, and the Hurdle Race, by Ploughboy beating
Angelica and Mendicant.•

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THE ST. I,EGER.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Ale, days ago I gave you an " inkling" as to this
race, and tne prophecies. I remain of the same
opinion as to the winner. Coronation is well, and,
with fair play, cannot lose, but I have changed
my mind as to the " second." Van Hamburgh
is half suspected to be amiss, and the more so as Bill
Scott swears lie is " all right," They are trying
to bring up Satirist. Warn your readers against him, fix
how can he win unless two or three tumble down ?
About eight or nine will run. As to the prophecies,
Pegasus and Judex, the only writers whose predictions
are the result of observation, it is clear that, like
" Uncle Toby," and " A quiet and easy Observer," they
must have Coronation. Yates has been so wide of the
mark of late years, that it matters little what he tumbles
upon this time—but he is sure to have Coronation. The
Cup will be between Charles XII., Beeswing, and a
three years old, as neither Coronation nor Lanercost will
go for it. • T.

In the anatomy school at Oxford, among other
curiosities, they show the skeleton of a woman who had
ten husbands, and was hanged at the age of thirty-six
for the murder of four of them.