The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-05 00:00:00

OXFORD COMMEMORATION.

The following note has been addressed by the illus-
trious Chancellor of Dublin University to the noble
and gallant Chancellor of Oxford:—
" St. James's Palace, June 1, 1834.

" Dear Duke,—Many thanks for the information you
have given me of the honour intended me by the University
of Oxford in offering the degree of Doctor of Laws of that
University. I feel highly honoured by the offer, and I
trust it will not be considered by that learned body as any
want of respect on my part towards them if I decline it, as
I have the honour of being Chancellor of the University of
Dublin, and have the degree of Doctor of Laws in that
University. My motives in attending your installation
festival are my high respect and great regard for yourself,
and the veneration I have for the University, which has
shown itself always the steady supporter of the Established
Church, for whose defence and maintenance, feeble and
humble as my means may be, I have always exerted and
ever shall exert myself, strenuously and undauntedly, as lorig
as I live. " ERNEST.

" To his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
Chancellor of Oxford, &c."

REPORTED DEATH OF EARL SPENCER.
—The public have been long aware of the enfeebled
state in which this exemplary and patriotic nobleman
has been for some time; and, therefore, any announce-
ment or a. siiikien demise •tvia
excite surprise, though it could not but fail to en-
gender sincere regret. A report was very prevalent
at the west-end of town last night, that an express had
arrived from Althorp, announcing the venerable noble-
man's decease ; and it soon spread to the clubs and
the two houses of parliament, causing no inconsider-
able excitement. It was momentarily expected in the
gallery that the melancholy information would be
communicated to Lord Althorp, and that the house
would be immediately adjourned. In the House of
Lords, we are informed the report caused considerable
excitement, no doubt on account of the great political
effects which would naturally follow the elevation of
Lord Althorp to the peerage, and the necessary selec-
tion—no easy matter in such times, and with such
materials—of a new leader of the House of Commons.
The report, we are glad to say, was in a little time
found to be groundless. On inquiry, we find it
originated in the receipt of a letter by the Hon. Capt.
Spencer, on Tuesday morning, announcing the sudden
and serious illness of his noble father, and requiring
his presence. This communication, we are happy to
say, was followed by another, stating that the noble
earl was better, and that all danger was absolutely
over. We have every reason to believe that the noble
earl is now rapidly approaching to convalescence.
This intelligence will greatly relieve the public mind.
A rise of 2 per cent. occurred early in the
day ( Wednesday) in Spanish Bonds, which led to a
multitude of rumours, and among the rest to the absurd
one that the loan had been taken by some leading ca-
pitalists on terms highly favourable to the creditors
under the debt of the Cortes, the parties wholly for-
getting that this matter, by a solemn act of the go-
vernment, has been turned over to the new Cortes,
who are to assemble on the 24th of July next, till when
the subject cannot even undergo consideration. The
true cause of the rise is the numerous orders which
have arrived within these two or three days, more par-
ticularly from Bayonne, Bordeaux, and other places in
the south of France, for purchases in Cortes' bonds.
In the latter-named city are settled a great number of
Spaniards, wealthy men, who were driven out of
Mexico by the late troubles, and who have taken up
their abode in Bordeaux, and given to it the benefit of
their capital and their talents in business, until circum-
stances would allow them to return to their own coun-
try. These men have the sagacity now to discover
that the regeneration of the credit of Spain is at hand,
while the country at the same time is likely to become
once more an eligible place of abode for them, and
they are eager therefore to transfer their capital to
those securities of which they expect Spain to become
the future guarantee. No loan is made, nor will that
be the case for a considerable time to come, but the
delay, it is quite reasonable now to conclude, will
prove of equal advantage to the country and to every
class of its creditors.— Times.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT AND
IMPORTANT RAILROAD FROM LONDON TO BIRMING-
HAM.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a consi-
derable number of workmen, principally consisting of
excavators, were put into employ by. the surveyors and
contractors who are engaged in the intended great and
important railroad, which is to be termed the London
and Birmingham one ; the commencement of which
will be from the Hampstead-road, Camden Town,
close to the bridge over the Regent's Canal, and will
pass within about 100 yards of the gardens of Chalk
Farm Tavern. The road will then incline to the
right, leaving Primrose-hill on the left, which is en-
tirely avoided, and afterwards it proceeds through the
farms of Messrs. Rhodes, Wilberforce, and Balkus,
until it arrives at Kilburn-wells Tea-gardens, Edg-
ware-road. The carriage-road in the Edgware-road,
Kilburn, as well as the New North one will be arched,
supported by twelve substantial arches (according to
the articles entered into by the contractors, all the
roads that the railroad would have to meet, must be
arched or tunnelled under, in continuance from Lon-
don to Birmingham). The works will commence in
various parts, according to the contractors' agree-
ments, which will be the means of employing an im-
mense number of workmen of various descriptions.
The ground for the intended railroad IF being railed
oT, through the fields to Kilburn, by strong wooden
fencing. Immense numbers of implements, consist-
ing of wheelbarrows, new planks, and every descrip-
tion of articles used by excavators, have arrived for
the undertaki:ig. Yesterday a number of tall power-
ful countrymen were engaged as excavators. The
length of time before it is completed, it is understood,
will be four years ; and, when completed, it must be
of great importance, not only to Birmingham, but the
various other large towns to which branch roads will
be made.

Mr. lits sts appeared for the defendant, and moved that
an order made by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor in Jan.u-
:ry last mightbe discharged. The bill was filed by the
plaintiff alleging that the defendant was the proprietor of
the Surrey Theatre, and that he had by letters entered
into an•agreement, the effect. of which was to take, the
plaintiff into partnership with him as a co-proprietor of
that theatre. The prayer of the bill consequently Was,
that certain documents might be produced, that a specific
performance of that agreement might be decreed, that. ac-
c•ounts might be taken, a manager appointed, and if ne-
cessary a dissolution of the partnership. The defendant
pot in a demurrer to the hill, upon the view of meeting
was an illegal
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Surrey Theatre was—
The Loan CHANCELLOR—I am sure I don't I:low
where it is.

..111r. BEA ms—But I hardly think your lordship is quit:
so ignorant as his Honour as to the locality, for he actu-
ally did not know whether it was within 20 miles or not of
London

The LORD CHANCELLOR—I dare say his Honour, the
Master of the Rolls, would have known.

Mr. BEAMS, Jun.--I am not quite sure of that, my
lord, because this poor theatre is net in a fashionable part
of the west end.

The Loan CHANCELLOR—IS it that theatre immedi-
ately over Westminster-bridge.
Mr. BEAMS—No, my lord. that. is Astley's, the one
over Waterloo-bridge is the Coburg, and 'that over Black-
feiars-bridge is the Surrey. They are all on the Surrey
side of the Thamei.

The Lunn CHANCELLOR—Is there horsemanship per-
formed at the Coburg?
Mr. BEAMS—No, I believe not, but I am not quite
certain of that, for I really titter was in it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—WeII, I do not think we
ought to look down on the Vice-Chancellor's ignorance,
because none of us seem to be very much more learned or
better informed on the subject here. (Laughter. )
Mr. BEAMS then detailed at length the statutes and
authorities affecting the question, full reports of which ap-
peared in the newspapers at the time the case was griped
in the Court below.
Mr. CARPENTER followed Mr. Beams.

The Loan CHANCELLOR considered it unnecessary to
call on the Solicitor-General and Mr. Stewart, who ap-
peared for the plaintiff, to support the order below. It
was clear his Honour's judgment was right. The defendant
was bound to produce the documents that had been referred
to by the schedules to his answer, upon which the com-
mon title of partnership. between the contending parties
depended. The production of those, documents could not
more directly tend to criminate, or subject him to penal
prosecutions, than the answer which he had put in and
sworn to.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

SADLER V. PALFREY MAN.

In this case a rule had been obtained, referring it to the
Master to tax the costs of the taxation. .

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Mr. BALL appeared to show cause against the rule, on
the ground of irregularity.
Mr. PoLtocic was heard in support of the rule.

Rule absolute.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said there were some cases
which the Court had kindly postponed in consequence of
his absence. He had now to pray their lordships' further
indulgence t 11 Saturday.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—They have been postponed to
Saturday.

The ATTo x y..GENE:ZAL-I have also the pleasure' to
inform your lmdships that the case of the overseers of the
parish of St. ;Margaret, Westminster, agaii.st the inhabi-
tants of Richmond-terrace, for non-payment of poor-rates,
has been settled—the inhabitants having very handsomely
agreed to pay the poor-rates without further litigat.on.

THE RING V. SEWARD AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment against the overseers of the pa-
rish of Charteris, county of Huntingdon, for a conspiracy
to bring about a marriage between Richard Spriggs, .a
pauper of the parish of St. Ives, and Sarah Button, a
pauper of the parish of Charteris, for the purpose of unlaw-
fully oppressing the parish of St. Ives. The case was tri, d
in Octobt.r, 1,133, and a verdict was had for the defen ;-
ants, on the ground that the bringing about a marriage
between two paupers was not an unlawful act, and there-
fore the indictment could not be sustained.

rule. -t--: an. trial having •übsequantly been ob-
tained, Mr. Aaniar:w•s (with whom was Mr. KELLY)
now appeared in support of the rule.
The Court, after hearing the arguments, observed that
no sufficient offence appeared to be stated on the face of
the indictment, and therefore there was no ground for
disturbing the verdict.
Rule discharged.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, JUNE 4.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Reso-
lution, Garbutt, from the South Seas ; Cygnet, Rolls,
from New South Wales ; and the Resolution, from Lon-
don, for Quebec.

CORK, JUNE 2.—Arrived his Majesty's ship, Gannett,
from Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE s.—Arrived off port, the Catha-
rine, Fenn, from Calcutta—sailed February 2, Cape of
Good Hope, March 30, and St. Helena, April 12; and
the Arachne, Memdon, from Palermo.
Pa MOUTH, Ju NV. 3.—Wind variable.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Curlew, from Africa—sailed from Ascen-
sion April 2. The Esperanza, under Portuguese colours,
was detained, and has been brought in here by his Majes-
ty's ship Curlew, being suspected of slaving on the coast
Of Africa.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 3.—Wind W. S.W. to N.N. W.,
moderate breezes.—Arrived the Preseis packet, from Rio
Janeiro—sailed April 6, Bahia 14th, and 'Pernambuco the
21st ; Camden packet, from Jamaica—sailed April 26 ;
Pandora packet, from the Leeward Islands—sailed from
St. Thomas's 9th ult. ; his Majesty's ship Scorpion, from
Lisbon—sailed 18th ult. ; his Majesty's ship Nautilus,
from Lisbon—sailed 25th ult., and from Oporto the 28th ;
Champion, Martin, from Galipoli ; and Ann, Inglis, from
Marseilles. Off port the Buckinghamshire, Shea, and
Reform, M'Beath, from China; Clarendon, Fisher, from
Jamaica ;. Faith, Jackson, from St. Kitt's ; Count Die-
bitsch, from Odessa; and Royal Tar steamer from London
for Lisbon.
WEYMOUTH, JUNE 3.—Arrived off port the Lady Flora,
Ford, from Madras—sailed Feb. 8.
POOLE, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Ceres, Adey, from Ga-
lipoli.
COWES, JUNE 4.—Arrived the Courier, G. Watkin,
from Gonaives.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Lawrence, Gill,
from Calcutta—sailed on the 20th of January ; Hy eia,
Lucy, from Jamaica; General Brown, Lowder, and War-
den, Jenkins, from Laguna; Henry, Nerwell, from New
Orleans ; Janfield, Stork, from Savannah ; Astrea, Wat-
son, from Odessa ; Esther, Manthorp, from Leghorn ;
Candidate, Mortimer, from Trieste; Young Peggy, Law-
rence, from Gibraltar ; General Bothe, Moller, from Me-
mel ; Jacoba, De Senye, from Harlingen ; Flora, Roider-
keik, from Rotterdam and Zephyr, Tulpenks, from Os-
tend. The Mariner, M'Caslin,from Honduras, is aground
in the King's Dock Basin.
NEWPORT, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Londonderry, Reid,
from Memel.
j\IILFOan, JuNE 3.—Arrived the Edward, from Memel.
Wit aux Av EN, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Audelie, Le Per-
son, from Charente.
CORK, JUNE 2.—Arrived the Branch, Currie, from
Teneriffe ; and Arabida, Baptiste, from St. Übe's.
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day appears a notification of a strong blockade of the islands
of Madeira and Porto Santo, excepting only ships of war
alct•ht off a
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and packets."
The Mary, Cromartie, bound to London, put back to
Barbadoes on the 2d .ult., making eleven inches of water
rnni theth
from Trieste to Laguyra,
perT ihtoeurA,
nannad mmuarstiad:scjahoarsegme.,
was wrecked on Tortugas on the 16th of April—crew and
greater part of the cargo saved.
The Orphetting, Van Lemmen, from Liverpool to Rot-
terdam, struck on Arklow Banks on the Ist inst, and filled
with water—crew saved.

SHIPS ENTERED INWARDS AT TILE cc..romtiousr,
LONDON, JUNE 4.
Elnezer, Walsh, Havre, Alderman's Quay—Cool er ;
Prince of Saxe Coburg, Ladd, Rotterdam, Brewer's Quay
—De Bie ; Adeer, Tanner, Guernsey, Griffin's Wharf.:
Farncomb ; Maria Elizabeth, Olsen, Christiania, Black-
wall—Northcotte ; Grant, Sayers, St. Vincent, West India
Dock--Smith ; Jane Ingram, Littlewort, Ancona,. River
—Gibbs ; Sir E. Banks, Norwood, Antwerp, Custom-
house—De Bie ; Indemnity, Woodall, Demerara, Lo..dGn
Dock—Pulsford; Good Intent, Cook, Cadiz, St. hatlia-
rine's Dock—Barry ; Sarnia, Dale, Guernsey and Jersey,
Chester's Quay—Gilson.

CLEARED OUT IN BALLAST, JUNE 4.
Edward, Langley, Narva, 24 .ot,s; General Warman,
Gerham, St. Übes, 176 ; Neptune, Languehart, Chnr
bourg, 44.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Some of our contemporaries, obviously held by
leading-strings of which they ought to be ashamed,
have been instructed for some days past to cheat
their readers by a very gross misrepresentation of the
conduct of this journal in condemning, as it has
done,—and as, if it speaks conscientiously, it ever
must do,—the manner in which Lord Grey's Ca-
binet has been recomposed ; and the wretched ma-
noeuvres, as well as worthless motives, through
which men who might have rendered important
services to their country have been excluded from
it. The present being the last opportunity on
which, without fresh provocation, we shall re,eur to
this particular subject, it is our ir_tention freely,
though briefly, to speak outs -We have expressed
our severe disaypoir4,ment that some able men,
among others tiord Durham, Mr. Abercrombie,
and one ,:;-.-t-wo more, of whose wholesome political
iewq and principles our minds, from observation
of their history, were fully satisfied, and of
whose capacity to serve the people of England
none could doubt, have been set aside by a
" reforming" Cabinet, while other individuals
of far inferior name and pretension were ap-
_pointed. This we treated as a public wrong ;
and what else is it, admitting only that our estimate
of the respective merits of the parties excluded, and
the parties elected, was a just one ? But, as is
usual in such cases, and as is natural to mean and
little minds, one of those individuals to whose intro-
duction into the Cabinet we had, for cause shown,
and on public grounds, objected, has been stuffing
the columns of two evening papers with complaints
that we " barked" and " sulked" (and other such
figures of bear-gaiden rhetoric), because of mere
personal feelings towards the noblemen and gentle-
men whose absence from office we lamented, as if
anything so narrow and childish, or so low and ser-
vile, could have influenced our sentiments on an
occasion of such immeasurable importance to the
country. Once • for all, we inform those silly
and conceited traducers of men more honest
than themselves, that if, in this instance, we
urged the choice, and reprobated the exclu-
sion, of two or three persons of high public
character, and of a known straightforward and upright
course of policy, it was for the sake of tranquillizing
the national uneasiness, of restoring public confi-
dence, and securing the public peace, by holding out
the incorporation of such individuals with the Go-
vernment, as acceptable and sujficient pledges to
large bodies of Reformers, civil and religious,
throughout the country, that their grievances would
be equitably considered, their rights manfully sus-.
tamed and enforced, and the spirit and genius of
constitutional reform rendered steadily triumphant
over all the machinations of prejudice, selfishness,
and corruption. Where are such pledges to be
found in the Cabinet now existing? Let the late
shuffle on the Church question speak. Where is
there any rational assurance for Dissenters that their
complaints will be satisfied? Where is there any
hope for any portion of the community that the same
bondage to Court influence which was. manifested on
the famous refusal to examine the pension list, does
not now chain down, and will not always, the parli-
amentary course of this (we smile contemptuously
while we use the word)—this " amended" Cabinet?
It is such considerations as these, and. no others,
that have moved us both to sorrow and to anger,
when we look at what has been done and what has
been left undone. What private or selfish feeling
can by possibility have governed our proceedings we
challenge all the world to prove. Beyond that well-
founded respect and esteem which all men of prin-
ciple must entertain for others of honour and talent,
what personal motive can have affected our repre-
sentations in favour of any nobleman or gentleman
ever spoken of as fit objects of the Royal choice we
challenge all mankind so much as to insinuate. No ;
it is not we who have excuses to make for our fair,
open, and unflinching conduct ; let that task
be assigned to those wo would palliate' their own
duplicity upon false and sneaking pretences, and
who, because they fear to meet over a council-table
the enlightened and resolute boldness of men fixed
in their own opinions and resolved in their mea-
sures, would vilify them as " ill-tempered," and
proscribe them as " impractieable." We want
" impracticable" and uncompromising politicians ;
one such would be worth a waggonload of your
" conceders," which is but another name for men
who have no principles at all. The name of the
minister who has furnished the article to which we
have alluded has been given to us. Is it wise in
hint to provoke us out of our forbearance ? Let him
consider a little before he dribbles out any more of
his splenetic twaddle against us. We ought to
mention that the ministers intend to strengthen
themselves still further by the counsels and assist-
ance of that eminent person whom Greece will per-
haps remember when England has forgot him—the
learned Dr. Bowring !—Times.
Of all the mere evasions that a body of public
men ever had recourse to to stave off the evil day,
and to surmount an embarrassing dilemma, the
scheme resorted to by ministers of appointing a
commission to inquire into the state of religion in
Ireland is the most palpable. For what does the
adoption of such a step actually amount to, but to
a plain acknowledgment that they were about to
lemislate in ignorance, and that, till the secession of
their late colleagues roused them from their apathy,
they were about to apply to the Protestant church
of Ireland a specimen of that kind of Turkish jus-
tice which professes to bowstring a man first and
try him afterwards ? This, we say, is what the
measure, thus at the eleventh hour had recourse to,
admits and implies : not that we seriously believe
that it was in any respect really called for, but that
ministers are, in fact, in common with all who have
preceded them ever since the last agitation of the
Catholic question, as much in possession of the
main facts now professed to be sought for as the
result of the most scrutinising commission can put
them in possession of. To be sure, if the inquiry
is to be as interminable as our contemporary the
Standard suggests it must be, the main question,
that of rooting out the Protestant religion in Ire-
land, will enjoy a respite, which its clergy of all
denominations will, we trust,
.be fen _pd
a to take ad-
vi of, in recovering the groundlost, we regret
to say, in no small degree, by the criminal supine-
ness of .many of their predecessors. According to
the Standard the working of the commission must
be this :—" This comprehensive inquiry (says our
contemporary) is to be prosecuted through 2,500
parishes.. Nobody will pretend to say that exact,
or any thing at all approaching to faithful informa-
tion upon the several heads enumerated can be col-
lected, from each parish in less than a week. Here
then are 2,500 weeks' work for commissioners !
Now, 2,500 weeks make more than 48 years ;
which, supposing the commissioners to branch into
six several detachments, will give more than eight
years to the compilation of Heaven knows how many
folio volumes of reports." Now, though this pro-
bably is overstating the matter, yet, let them con-
tract their labours in point of time into the
narrowest space possible, it is in vain to
deny that, to render their results in any way
satisfactory, more time must necessarily be
occupied in the inquiry than the pressing nature of
the subject itself will well bear. But, leaving the
inquiry, and adverting for a moment to the subject
itself, we cannot- help remarking that there is a
view of it which seems Carefully kept out of sight
by nearly all who hitherto have, in Parliament, ad-
verted to it. Though they talk of churer property
being the property of the state, and Mr. Ward's
resolution goes the length of recognising its appli-
cation to public purposes, no one ' has yet, we be-
lieve, gone the length of proposing that the value
of tithes, or any part of them, shall be paid over to
the consolidated fund, and go in diminution of the
public taxes. No. We take it there is a more
convenient receiver than that. We mean the lind-
lords of Ireland. While the Catholics—at least a
great majority of them—are anxious, by means of
the extinction of its revenues, to extirpate the Protes-

tent church, the landowner is, on his part, quite'
ready to appropriate to his own use a revenue to
which he is no more entitled than to his neighbour's
estate, but which he finds, or rather his high-rented
tenants find, it extremely burdensome to pay. This
is a view of the matter, a state of things, which every
man both in and out of Parliament is bound to - re-
sist. In looking at the present ,state of the Irish
Protestant Church, we never lose sight of the fact
that much of its present state of degradation and
danger has arisen from within. But the very ex-
istence of the Protestant religion itself carries us so
much higher ; and with that object, as well as its
extension in view, instead of abandoning it in
despair, it is the duty of the Legislature to set about
its repair, and, above all, to wean to its services
those means of its furtherance and promotion, which,
however they have been abused and neglected, are
still applicable, and ought .to be made available, to
their legitimate end.—Morning Herald.

We know of no circumstance better calculated to
give a favourable idea of the intentions of the Go-
vernment of Spain than the eagerness which it has
shown of late to regain possession of the distin-
guished exiles, whose only crime was, their devo-
tion to the cause of their country, and their exer-
tions for its improvement and regeneration. Among
other exiles who have been specially invited to re-
turn by the government is the distinguished Ge-
neral Mina. We regret to learn that the health of
this hero is by no means fully re-established,
though we believe he will be able to return to
Spain. Mina was held in high estimation by all
our officers who served with him during the war of
the Peninsula ; and when he first sought an asylum
in England, was received, by his old companions
in arms, with a hearty kindness, which he deeply
felt. When we say all, we believe we ought to
make one exception—that of a great general,
who must have highly esteemed Mina's exer-
tions in the Peninsula war, but who, either
from a strong dislike of the patriotic cause,
or from the hardness of his character be-
haved unkindly to the Spanish hero. Miguel
will, no doubt, be more fortunate with his Grace.
We are prepared for some signal manifestations of
sympathy with this special object of the favour of
our Tories, on his re-appearance in the metropolis.
It will be curious to witness the interview between
Miguel and Lord Aberdeen. " I called your Ma-
jesty a tyrant and a monster, but I have since done
good service to your Majesty. It was a grievous
mistake on my part to call your Majesty a tyrant
and a monster, and often have I wished to recall
these words." The ex-foreign Secretary, no doubt,
made many a heavy speech afterwards in support of
the cause of Miguel, so that he may hope, not-
withstanding the strong epithets qpplied to this dar-
ling of legitimacy, to be pardonld this escapade.
Ministers may well be proud of their achievements
in POrtugal and Spain. If the Tories had conti-
nued in office, how different would have been the
present state of the Peninsula. The inquisition
would have once more been ready to stretch out a
helping hand to the united churches of England and
Ireland.—Morning Chronicle.
The•numerous petitions presented to the House
of Lords by Lord Dacre, on the 2d instant, a list
of which appears in one of our columns, in support
of the London and Southampton Railway, have
drawn our attention to that great undertaking ;
which, although a private enterprise in regard to
capital, is, in truth, a measure of the utmost na-
tional importance. The connection of the metro-
polis with the English Channel, by railway com-
munication, through the commodious port of South-
ampton, is an object fraught with the most benefi-
cial consequences to the trade and agriculture of
the kingdom ; and this is the light in which the un-
dertaking is viewed by a large majority in the
House of Commons. No proposition is better
established, than that a railway always adds greatly
to the value of the property along its line ; and the
owners and occupiers of land between the metro-
polis and Southampton will infallibly derive much
benefit from the diminution in the expense of car-
' riage of produce. Possessing these recommenda-
tions, we cannot suppose that such a measure will
not receive the sanction of the Lords.—Morning
Chronicle.

It is easy to tell of what materials a ministry is
composed—whether it be of the right sterling
stamp, in so far as mere talent is concerned—or
whether it be what is termed by a morning con-
temporary, of the red tape character. But it is not
so easy to say what a ministry will do—whether it
will implement its previous pledges to the public,
or whether, from a feeling of weakness on its own
part, and of superior talent and influence on that
of its adversaries, it will surrender a portion of its
will, and sacrifice itself for the sake of place. It is
granted that in the present Cabinet one man has
seceded from it, who, in the House of Commons,
has but few equals in debate ; but after all, acts are
better than words—performances than promises—
sincere and honest intentions, than unmeaning
phrases and abstract propositions. Mr. Stanley is
a man of some note, and will always enjoy a certain
consideration in any assembly in which he may deem
it worth his while to exhibit his strength ; but that
at the present time, with all his high church no-
tions, he would be a. useful public servant, no
one who wishes well to the cause of reform,
can possibly assert. He is to all appearance one
of the inconvertibles. He bears testimony to the
importance of the commission which has been de-
creed by the present Cabinet, for inquiring into the
comparative state of the Protestant and Catholic
churches in Ireland ; but he says at the same time,
that in or out of office he will always oppose the
practical application of the results of the inquiry,
and that he cannot conceal his surprise at the adop-
tion of so decisive and so rapid a step having been
made towards a radical reform of the Irish church.
The step, indeed, is a most important one, in every
respect ; and coupled with the exemplary conduct
of Government in declaring that national education
is one of the first objects of its care, and that all the
Polish refugees in this country shall share its li-
berality—things which were opposed, lie it remem-
bered, not many weeks ago, by the Government
as a body—must have its weight with every one
who is disposed to look more at deeds than
at words—at performance than at promise.
The issuing of the commission seems to tis, in fact,
not only a great step, but the best and the most
satisfactory which the new Ministry could have
adopted to gain the confidence of the public, and to
furnish to it a pledge that no existing grievance
shall be allowed to pass without redress. The con-
scientious but bigotted adherents to the church as
it is, consider, and justly consider a disclosure of
facts synonymous with an acknowledgment of the
principle, that church property is the property of
the State, and they, therefore, consistently resist
inquiry, and very honestly avow that reason for re-
sisting it. But the very same premises lead all rea-
sonable reformers to the conclusion that a Ministry
which fearlessly pursues and honestly discloses truth,
is a reforming Ministry, and the Commission issued
entitles Lord Grey's Administration to that charac-
ter in every respect. The Minister has a right to
exact confidence in his appointments when he gives
the public sucn security for the justice and intre-
pidity of his designs. A step like the institution of
this commission is worth all the names, however
respectable, of those who accede to the Cabinet, or
indeed of those who desired to be admitted, or to
take the lead in its formation. We not only place
more reliance on things than on words, but even
than in men ; and we know not that the nomination
of persons loud in their promises should weigh
more in public consideration than a grain of actual
performance. In a word, we have seen enough of
the present Ministry to entitle them not only to our
forbearance, but to our good wishes. A fair trial
they shall have. If they fail in meeting the ex-
pectations of the public, they must naturally also
expect to receive its rebuff. But we hope otherwise
of them. Let them do well—and fear not. The
people will support them manfully in every just
cause, whatever may be the talent or the amount of
opposition arrayed against them.—Morning Adver-
tiser.