The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-23 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES.

T. James, trunk and box-maker, St. Mary Axe.
W. R. Thorn, victualler, Southend, Essex.
M. Milton, horse-dealer, Brick-street, May-fair, Piccadilly.
W. Kingsford, paper-manufacturer, Buckland, Kent.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

H. D. Broughton, H. M. Parratt, and A. Reid, carriers, An-
derton, Cheshire (as far as regards H. M. Parratt).
D. Boast and J. Edwards, surgeons, New Kent-road.
E. and S. Ring, dealers in china, Bristol.
J. Roucaglia and J. Peduzzi, printers, Failsworth, Lancashire.
W. Anderson and R. Wise, London.
W. Maddock and R. Marsh, grocers, Wednesbury, Stafford.
T. Barnes and J. Hutt, cab-proprietors, Wood-street, Old-street-
road.

J. Horne and T. Taylor, bakers, Liverpool.
G. W. Lyndon and W. Guest, jewellers, Birmingham.
J. Bitch and T. A. Garth, attorneys, Great Winehetter-street.
G. Andrew, J. Bruckshaw, and J. Bradley (so far as regards
J. Bradley), cotton-spinners, Compstall-within-Romiley, Cheshire.
D. Edmunds and J.W. Boucher, common brewers, Jacob-street,
Bristol.

ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FlELDS.—Yesterday, in
pursuance of notice, a meeting was held of the inhabitants of
this parish, for the purpose of adopting the first Report of the
Committee of Vestry to inquire into the state of the affairs of
the parish. The vestry room was crowded to, excess before
ten o'clock. Mr. Hayes, senior churchwarden, was unani-
mously called to the chair. Before, however, the business
could be proceeded with, the crowd had become so great that
the meeting was obliged to adjourn to the large room at the
top of the building, which was also found too small to hold
one-half of the numbers assembled; therefore they were com-
pelled to adjourn a second time to the large yard of the work-
house in Castle-street, where they commenced the business for
which they had assembled. Mr. Simpson, the junior church..
warden, read the Report ; when the Chairman moved each
section separately, which, after several lengthened conversa-
tions, and some amendments, which were, however, all lost or
withdrawn, the Report was almost unanimously adopted, by
which the parishioners saved in the Church Establishment
6461. 12s. annually. A gentleman demanded a poll respect-
ing the salary of the organist, which was immediately granted.
The greatest interest among the parishioners was manifested,
and occasionally during the progress of the proceedings there
was much noise and confusion. At six o'clock the poll books
were closed, after which the Vestry was adjourned till to-
morrow, when the result of the poll would be made known.
ANECDOTE OF BONAPARTE.—One of the ladies
to whom I had the pleasure of being presented during my short
stay at Ems, was the Countess d'H. The father of this lady
was one of the conspirators against the life of Napoleon ; he
was arrested and condemned to death. Before the day was
fixed for his execution, his wife, a high born German lady,
obtained admittance to the Emperor, and besought her hus-
band's pardon in that tone of deep and true feeling which ge-
nerally finds an answering chord to vibrate with it in the hearts
of others. Napoleon, was vexed, distressed, doubting, and
deeply touched. The trembling wife stood before him, wait-
ing a double doom. " Madame," he said at length, " while
such a proof as I have here," drawing a paper from a bundle
that lay on the table," while such a proof as I have here
exists, I cannot pardon your husband." As he spoke, he
placed in her hand a paper, on which the crime was too surely
acknowledged under the signature of the accused. She
clasped the scroll firmly, and fixing her eyes on those of Na-
poleon, read something, even as he turned them from her,
which gave her strength to rush towards the hearth, and in an
instant the record had blazed and perished. The happy, but
trembling woman, once more sought the eyes of the Emperor,
but in vain ; one hand hid them from her view, and the other
waved her from him. The sentence against her husband was
revised : and proof of his guilt being imperfect, the doom
was changed to that of banishment. —Mrs. Trollope's Belgium
and Germany.
How ART MAY AID AGRICULTURE.—The late
adopting precautionary vilson of and
Taylors-
land, es
unfavourable weather with the risks incurred, and the loss ac-
cruing in consequence, have put invention on the rack, as to the
land, near Gasstown, who threw out so many valuable hints
regarding the taint in the potate crop, has " been laying," as
Mr. Rankine would say, " his brains asteep." What he pro-
posesis, to have a square board, four feet long and eighteen
inches square, with a very slight handle attached, to place
such an instrument near the bottom of the stack after the
over-man begins to build, and to pull it up gradually until he
comes near the easing or thickest part of the rick. After
this, its use may be dispensed with until the first stack is
finished, and a second commenced. By means of this expe-
dient, an upright ventilator or chimney is produced ; and when
the thickest part of the stack is reached, Mr. Wilson sug-
gests the propriety of introducing two lateral boards, four feet
long, and eighteen inches square, with knobs or slight handles
by which they may be pulled out, and laid aside for the next
operation. In this way a series of ricks, one after another,
might be completely ventilated, and the risk of heating avert-
ed even during moist or rainy weather. Grain too, were this
plan adopted, might be led or stacked comparatively early
with impunity; and as the apparatus is extremely simple,
would only cost five or six shillings, and might be preserved
entire for twenty years, it seems worthy, to say the least, of a
fair trial. —Dumfries Courier.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE ARMY NOT
urn, unmoor TO RIGID DISCIPLINE.—When my regiment was
quartered in Ireland, one of the soldiers had made it a constant
practice to kneel down by his bedside, every morning and
every night, to offer up prayer to Almighty God. This drew
on him the sneers and decision of many of his comrades who
were in the same barrackroom ; and, at last, their scoffs led to
more serious consequences, for they annoyed him and ill-
treated him in a variety of ways. The man never made any
complaint, but still persevered in what he considered to be his
duty : at length, however, a sergeant, who could not bear to
see the poor fellow thus constantly exposed to the ill-treatment
of his companions, reported the case to the officer in command :
that officer inquired what was the man's conduct, in the regi-
ment ; the sergeant replied, that he was always sober—that
no man was more attentive to his duty as a soldier, and that
he was always found ready to go on any duty which was com-
manded. The officer took immediate measures to prevent
any further annoyance ; though he was one of those discipli-
narians, who would not for an instant have listened to the
allegation of the man's piety as an excuse for any remission of
his duty. Indeed, it would be impossible in a regiment for a
man to be only externally pious for the purpose of getting a
good same, without having his hypocrisy immediately de-
tected, and treated, as it would deserve to be, with contempt
and derision. Knowledge has made its way into the army,
and is still growing there : the only way to give it a proper
direction, is, to add to it, or rather to found it upon that true
knowledge, which is only to be derivbd from the sacred
volume.-114. Gen. Tolley.

LORD BROUGHAM AND THE TIMES

NEWSPAPER.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

The attention and space we have been obliged for the
last two or three weeks to devote to local circumstances
have rendered us unable until now to notice, as we could

have wished, the extraordinary manner in which the editor
of the Times has recently turned round upon Lord
Brougham, and the reiterated and ferocious attacks which
he has directed against that nobleman.
That there are some points open to attack in Lord
Brougham's character and conduct, may be very readily
admitted. Like other men he has his faults ; like other men
of genius he appears sometimes to act from impulse rather
than from deliberate and settled principle ; we think he is
obnoxious to the charge of being occasionally capricious ;
careless of what impressions his conduct may produce on
the opinions of others respecting him ; careless of things
which on a superficial glance may seem to be essential to
consistency ; that he sometimes deals too much in paradox
or hyperbole is too irritable ; forgetful of his proper
dignity ; and occasionally seeks to effect objects by some-
thing like finesse, which might be much better and more
readily accomplished by a direct and straight-forward
course. _ _

But with all this, where is the man who has deserved
better of his country ? Where is the man who has effected
half so much for
_creating a love of knowledge and diffusing
it amongst the public ? Who is there that has used
nobler or more persevering exertions for the furtherance of
popular education ? When, in the course of more than
twenty years, the disappointments of neglect on the one
hand, and temptations of place or ministerial patronage on
the other, induced so many members of his profession to
abandon their early opinions, that want of principle became
almost.a standard imputation against the Bar, unflinchingly
maintained the, views which he had originally adopted,
sacrificing no conscientious feeling to his political ambition ;
but content to await for the appreciation of his character
and conduct, the gradual development of those juster and
more liberal notions on public affairs which he had the sa-
gacity to perceive were in progress, and on the swelling
tide of which he has been borne to that commanding ele-
vation which he now occupies. In that elevation he has
not forgotten the principles and the promises of his earlier
life. Nearly twenty-two years have now elapsed since he
declared that he wished for no higher eulogy on his
monument, than to be recognised as " a friend of peace
and of the people," and throughout the whole of his subse-
quent career, out of office and in office, he Its vindicated
his claim to the title.

We shall not dwell on those eminent services which, sim-
ply as one of the members of a reforming cabinet, he has
rendered in connection with his colleagues. We may claim
for him a high degree of merit in a sphere peculiarly his
own. . The reforms in the Court of Chancery, great as they
are now acknowledged to be, must, from the nature of the
case, be mainly ascribable to himself ; of the mode in which
justice is administered in that highest court of equity, ha
must necessarily bear the exclusive responsibility. What
effect is likely thus to be produced on his reputation, we are
happy in having a high authority to show. Referring a
few days ago to a file of the Times, we stumbled, in a lead-
ing article of that journal, of the 18th March last, on the
following passage. It enables us to exhibit in so striking and
attractive a light the consistency and the principle of that
paper, that we could not refrain from presenting the extract
to our readers, especially as we believe the Times has
hitherto been so fortunate as not to have had it remem-
bered. It will be found to present a striking contrast with
some extracts which we shall append to it :
" Since writing these remarks we have read the report of a
conversation in the House of Lords, to which we invite the
attention of our readers. The Lord Chancellor was indirectly
put on his defence, and a more triumphant vindication we have
never seen. The statement exhibits to the public, what is
already known to, that branch of the profession practising in
Chancery, that a more indefatigable, a more pains-taking, a
more punctual Judge never presided in any Court in any pe-
riod of our legal annals. His Lordship, by his persevering
attention, his unremitting assiduity, and his unexampled regu-
larity, has afforded a striking proof that talents of the highest
order, and eloquence of matchless power, can descend with
cheerfulness and ease to the monotonous duties of the most
laborious and patient drudgery. The dullest fag who ever
plodded without a thought beyond the pale of the technicalities
of his profession, never worked so hard and so constantly, as
the man whom even his enemies allow to be endowed with the
most brilliant and comprehensive intellect of his age and
country."
Such, in the serious judgment of the editor of the Times,
were the conduct and capacity of Lord Brougham on the
18th of March, 1834. What does he say of his Lordship
now ? After professing in his publication of August 23d
(we are gorry to say that we believe without a shadow of
truth) to have been assured by some correspondennt that
the Lord Chancellor was the author of some well-timed re-
bukes of the versatility and want of principle of the Times
which had appeared in the Caledonian Mercury, and which
imputed to it that it "wanted to be no less than prime
mi-
nister of Britain," it proceeds as follows
" There is fustian in it, and vulgar fustian—such as befits a
bashaw with more tails than O'Connell, when he deigup to
communicate with one, and that the most mangy tail among
them. This tale, which, like the oyster in Mother Goose, is
' made to vociferate for the one shilling gallery, accuses us of
being extremely arrogant' for wanting to be no less than
Prime Minister of Britain.' Is that, then, the highest point
of human arrogance, 'to want to be Primo Minister of Bri-
tain ?' If so, Lord Brougham and Vaux is no doubt ex-
tremely modest. But if we have wanted to be Prime Minister
at least we have not been guilty of and fraudulent or base ma-
noeuvres in the pursuit of that brilliant but elusive prize. We
have not intrigued for it, nor lied for it, nor fawned, nor slan-
dered, nor betrayed, nor undermined, nor sacrificed any man—
neither the colleagu6 who trusted, nor him who, knowing us,
thoroughly despised us. If we have ' sought to direct the
royal councils' in the formation of a cabinet, we have not
played contemptible and mountebank tricks to persuade people
that we did direct those councils, and that we were actually
(when we were not) authorized to share with Lord Melbourne

in the trust of submitting the choice of a cabinet to his Ma-
jesty. We did not pretend to be honoured with the King's
commands nor with the Royal confidence, while we knew
that the King would sooner behold a mad dog enter his coun-
cil-chamber than see us approach within five miles of Wind-
sor. We never gave out to servants and hangers-on that we
were going to- Windsor, when we ordered a post-chaise to
take us no further than Putney-bridge. If we were conscious
of being called by the whole world the cracked and crazy
weathercock'of the House of Lords, we should not dare to
whisper about ' weathercock evolutions,' or eccentric career,'
or ' capricious and erratic exhibitions,' or ' reckless and incon-
siderate pilots.'"
The charges against a person whom the Times had here-
tofore been accustomed to eulogize so highly as we have
shown, are somewhat remarkable. Perhaps, however, they
might be disposed of in a similar way to what the Times
has itself been accustomed to adopt on like occasions.
" We had thought," says the Times of March 18th, from
which we have already quoted, " that the blaze of truth which
we have thrown upon so many of the calumnies against the
Lord Chancellor, would have overwhelmed the authors of
them NVith shame, and made them silent ; but we have been
mistaken."

Our extract from the Times of August 23d, however,
rather impeaches the moral integrity than the talents of the
Lord Chancellor ; and therefore does not stand in such
startling contrast with the first citation we have made, as
does that which we are now about to supply from the
Times of Aug. 26'.

" After an-examination of the tissue of error and false
reasoning which the Chancellor wove with such unlucky inge-
nuity out of the partial evidence of the Poor Law Commis-
sioners, we feel most forcibly the truth of one remark in his
speech ;itis as follows Ignorance has no bounds. Un-
happily, science has its limits, and they are not hard to reach ;
but ignorance is endless, unconfined, inexhaustible. Ever new
in invention, though all its productions are wretched and
worthless,—always surprizing you, though mingling pity and
contempt with wonderment ; and never is it more daring in
its inroads upon our credulity—never is it more strange in the
antic feats it performs,—never more curious in the fantastic
tricks it plays, than when its gambols are performed in the per-
sons of men dressed in a little brief authority, or who would
fain be so attired, and who really are decked habitually in pre-
sumption that almost passes belief.'
" We have never seen a remark so strongly supported by
example as in the speech before us. The speaker has hit him-
self off with singular truth. Perhaps the portrait may be a
little strengthened in likeness by substituting quackery for ig-
norance, though persons acquainted with the furniture of
Lord Brougham's mind know that it is like the specimens of
an upholsterer's show room—some piece of every set, but
nothing in completeness and arrangement—a lumber of fineries,
odds and ends, at once more or less than necessary to the
fitting of any one mansion of the understanding."
To this also we are enabled to reply in the words of the
Times of March 18th, on which day the editor seems to

be unconsciously constructing a priori answers to his own
future vituperations :
_ _ _

" The subtle author of these charges against the Lord
Chancellor must have known full well himself the treachery
of them, and respectable journals should be cautious of suffer-
ing themselves to be gulled by such a person. "
They should indeed ; but if the Times is " gulled" by
its editor, it is quite certain that the public is not. Re-
cent events have rendered that moat clearly manifest. We
well know it is pretended by the Times that the
change in its tone towards Lord Brougham has hem in-
duced by misbehaviour, by an abandonment of principle,
on his part ; and the following is an extract, in which it has
sought to justify its recent conduct on that plea :
The Times for fifteen years praised, supported—or, if you
will, patronized his Lordship. So long as we supposed Lord
Broughom to be actuated by honourable and elevated motives
guided by fixed and enlightened principles—aspiring to power
through none but direct and manly means—disposed to use it
virtuously, and capable of using it wisely, we did by every
possible exertion, through evil report and good, zealously,
boldly, indefatigably—nay, if we had said affectionately, it
would be no more than the .fact—strive to maintain and ex-
tend the influence of Lord Brougham throughout :all classes

of society : we supported the man whom we believed to be
true, upright—whatever we might sometimes have thought of
his discretion. But what would good men think of us if.
discovering the same person to be no better than a miserable
trickster, whom none could rely upon without paying dear for
their simplicity, we changed our course, and sought by ex-
posing his (to speak mildly) errors, to save others from being
misled, as we had been, and the country from any further risk
of suffering confidence misplaced."
All this is mighty fine and patriotic ; but where are the
facts ? Where are the proofs of Lord Brougham's
incapacity, duplicity, quackery, and the other heavy offences
he is charged with ? Long and loudly has die Times been
called on to specify them ; but most doggedly has the call
been disregarded. Meantime the people began to specu-
late what could be the motive for that savage hostility to
his Lordship which the Times had latterly displayed. Rea-
soning from the ancient and consistently-supported cha-
racter of that paper, they at length came to the conclusion
that it was not patriotism, but private spleen, which guided
the editor's pen ; that Lord Brougham had in some way
or other crossed the path of the " leading journal," and
thus committed an offence against its dignity, for which
nothing less than his political annihilation' could afford a
commensurate revenge. At length, in a moment of unac-
customed candour, the Times suffered the truth to slip out,
and, in so doing, amply justified the worst suspicions that
had been entertained respecting it. In its number of Sep-
tember 6, it says :

" A man loves his wife, and treats her with affectionate re-
gard and attention: he suddenly finds that in return for his
love she has wronged him by gross and repeated infidelities.
He repudiates her with contempt. Is his conduct unreason-
able? A man esteems his friend, feels the warmest interest in
his success, exerts himself to the utmost, finding and making
opportunities to render him essential service : he suddenly
learns that his friend has, by way of compensation, villified and
calumniated him, and done every thing in his power to injure
his character and property., He repels him with disgust, and
thinks it his duty to unmask the cheat. Is such conduct un-
just? And yet there are noodles who call such well war-
ranted manifestations of disdain and displeasure inconsisten-
cies. The public know better, and can call things by their
right names. It is the treacherous friend who is inconsistent,
and not the man whom he has betrayed.
Here, then, we have, the Times 's own acknowledgment of
the inducement to its recent course. The editor says the
Lord Chancellor has " done everything in his power to
injure his character and property." It is for this then—on
this at best private, but also unproved provocation, that he
is represented as, in effect, one of the greatest public rene-
gades, one of the most abandoned betrayers of popular
principles, one of the most arrant quacks of the day !
It was not likely that the people would be deceived
either by the aspersions of the Times on the Lord Chan-
cellor, or by its pretences as to its own motives. And as-
suredly they have not been. The enthusiastic reception
which the Lord Chancellor has experienced in all parts of
Scotland, which he has recently visited, prove to demon-
stration that his character and services are appreciated as
they merit, and that the calumnies and defamations of the
Times have either come unheeded before the public eye,
or done no injury but to itself.
So far as we ourselves are concerned, they have merely
given renewed strength to an opinion which more than 20
years' constant perusal of the Times had previously led us
to form, that, with all its activity and talent—with all its
occasionally splendid services to the public cause—it has
very little real principle, is utterly unscrupulous in its con-
duct towards those who have offended it, and would rather
commit a hundred acts of injustice than make one acknow-
ledgment of error.

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