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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. and Edinburgh also. If so-if the three metropolitan
--.....--_ cities of the empire return liberal candidates, what
The two most important occurrences in the state have the Tories to say for themselves ?-what for
and progress of the elections which have taken place their usurpation of power, what for their contivance in
since our last publication, are the defeat of Sir George office ? We will not say that the battle is now fought
Murray in Perthshire, and of the two Whig candi- and won, because it might be dangerous to anticipate ,
dates Lord Palmerston and Sir George Staunton, in
the results of the elections which are still pending ;
South Hants. A vote which the former Right Hon. but we have the best possible prognostics of success
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Baronet gave upon the admission of Dissenters to the -the TOry party have lost their spirits, and the Re-
Universities, and his motives for which he has since form majority is already such as to set at defiance any
Tory returns which may henceforth reach us.-Morns
stated to have been misconstrueed, as much as we
have long felt and declared that the measure alluded ing Advertiser.
to was over-valued by its advocates, has been laid Mr. Poulett Thomson has been making a long speech
hold of by the adverse party as a handle against to a dinner company of sixty people at Manchester,
the straight-forward dealing of Sir George Mur- which claims attention merely on account of the abun-
ray, an imputation belied by every public act of dant proofs it affords that the Right Hon. Gentleman
the life of that Gallant Officer. The fact is,
is excessively angry that he has lost his place, and is
that some long purses have been emptied, and
determined, no matter by what means, or what alliance,
their contents been freely distributed throughout
Perthshire, on the side of " reform and of election to regain it as soon as possible. The loss of office
purity." Two Ministerialists have come in for South seems really to have disturbed this poor Gentleman's
Hampshire, viz., Messrs. Fleming and Compton, in understanding. He insists that the late Ministers
lieu of Lord Palmerston and his friend ; and for the possessed, up to the moment of their being turned
county of Edinburgh, Sir George Clark has been re-
out, the full confidence of the King, and of the
turned, which some time back could scarcely have been
looked for. Throughout England the elections are people of England. He boldly asserts that he and
generally going on with advantage to the Conservative his colleagues, several of the latter having already
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interest, which reckons, as we hear from good authority, confessed the contrary, were fully prepared with
on a clear inerease of above 170 votes over and above measures of Reform, to introduce in the next Ses-
its number before the • late dissolution. This, consi- sion of Parliament, which " all the intelligence and
public spirit of the country would have hailed with de-
dering its perfect •• organization, and the ill-combined
light." He is quite furious at the idea of any body
and disordered condition of its adversaries, is perhaps
believing it possible that Sir Robert Peel will intro-
the most powerful party that ever was assembled within
the same House of Commons, for all purposes of practi-
duce salutary measures of improvement, which he holds
cal government or of party conflict. But great and formi-
to be quite out of the question, his exquisite reason
dable as is such aforce, it requires the aidof a systematic being that Sir Robert Peel, in opposition to his own per-
policy, carrying out to their full extent those reforms of sonal conviction as to what was the best and wisest
which the outline was on more than one occasion traced by course, did, in deference to public ' opinion, pro-
Lord Grey, 'and of which afair prospect was in our opi-
pose and carry a more complete and liberal Imo-
sure of relief to the Roman Catholics than any
Orion presented by-Sir R. Peel's address to the electors of
Tamworth, brit will fall to pieces like a rope of sand, and liberal of the whole crew ever dreamed of attempt-
be blown .away by. public opinion. A faithful ad- ing. The rage, however, of the senator burns the
most fiercely, and it is natural indeed that it should
herence to the Reform principle must be the cementing
(la so, against Mr. Baring, who fills the post which
and upholding power of the present or of any other
formerly enabled him to receive several hundreds of
Ministry by which the kingdom shall be governed
pounds every quarter day, and afforded to him and to
during this, and possibly the next generation of
his connexions delightful opportunities of jobbing in
Englishmen. The old Tory principle was that of
b barilla and other articles of commerce, with an asbsur-
considering abuses not only as incapable of being
once of great profit, and a happy exemption from the
separated by any process of human legislation from the
possibility of loss. The speech of Mr. Poulett
ancient establishments and institutions of the country,
Thompson is, perhaps, the most discreditable that ever
but as in some measure consecrated grafts upon the old
proceeded from a man who had held the rank of a
stock, which ought not to be so separated, even were
Minister of State. The feelings it expresses are
the object practicable. The " Conservative" principle
merely those of a disappointed and angry jobber. In
we take to be contradistinguished from that of Toryism,
every part of this harangue the impatience of the
by its admitting the reform of institutions as an in-
speaker for his own restoration to office bursts forth.
strument for preserving them ; and from that of
One remarkable example of this we cannot resist the
Radicalism, on the other hand, by its arresting Re-
temptation of laying before our readers :-
form at the point which falls short of organic change.
" of
sessionT h e strugele, however, must come, and that very early in
and beyond which lies destruction. If those who were the Parliament : he trusted it might be at the
once called Whigs, we mean the men of character earliest possible moment ;he was impatient until he could see a
among them, should in some hour of less resentful division taken, that would prove on which side the weight of
excitement be asked patiently to examine their own the eople lay. If the people of this country proved to be
really Tories, thhenone of the two things must have taken
opinions upon the nature and amount of such reforms place_; eithert e Reform Bill had not done its work or they
as they in their hearts feel to be desirable and safe, (the late Ministry) ought not to have given the people the
how many of them would be able to point out one Reform Bill, for they would have done as well with the rotten
shade of difference between themselves and the chiefs boroughs."
of the Conservatives ? It is with the Conservatives, The meaning of this cannot be misconceived. This
in reform and Baltic produce, says in effect to
we repeat for the hundredth time, that they ought to jobber,
cultivate a political alliance-it is only with them the people of England, " Bear us back instantly to
office, or we shall repent that we ever gave you the Re-
that they will by and by be sensible of a common
interest in the stability of our national institutions, or form Bill. Surely you are not the drivellers to be-
be able to sympathise in a common view of the fortunes lieve that we gave you this measure from any other
which betide England as a state. With the Radical motive than the expectation that it would ensure to us
or Revolutionary faction, the old Whigs are identified an undisturbed perpetuity of office. Office, office,
in nothing. The single bond between them is one not without delay or hesitation : if you fail to force us
even of motive, but of outward action, for the accom-
back by the time the new Parliament has sat a week,
i
plishment of a solitary, and that a momentary success it will be a proof that the rotten boroughs were too
-namely, the overthrow of the existing Government. good for you, and ought never to have heen abolished."
The Radicals will lend themselves as tools to the ex- The poor man's head is evidently turned with his miss
Ministers for the return of the latter to office ; but fortunes, and we advise him forthwith to trr, in corn-
the loan can be secured no otherwise than by a mort-
pany with Lord Brougham, whether a Continental
gage to the same Radicals of the whole Whig govern- tour may not restore in some degree the equipoise of
ment which is to follow, of the whole system of Whig his mind.-Morning Post.
policy and of Whig free agency-of every pretension to Ministers have sustained an irretrievable loss in the
statesmanlike reputation which has hitherto been put defeat of Sir George Murray for Perthshire. The
forth by the Whigs-all becomes mortgaged-all will Duke considers Sir George his right-hand-man, and
be swallowed up-the Shylocks of anarchy will insist his election was looked upon as a matter of certainty.
on the discharge with usury of this spendthrift obliga- The county of Perth is one of the largest in the island ;
Lion. The -Whigs may be led by their destructive and as it contains some of the highest ranges of moun-
allies to the door of the Cabinet, and may even be suf- tains in the Highlands, the difficulties of conveyance
fered to take their seats at the table, blit the key will may be easily imagined. We do not, therefore, won
be deposited in Radical hands, and no act of Council der that candidates should be unwilling to come for-
be held valid without the Hume or O'Connell fiat af- ward, and that Mr. Fox Maule should only have en-
fixed to it. Such has been our persuasion from the first gaged in the arduous attempt at the twelfth hour. Sir
as to the tendency of this unnatural league between George is, perhaps, too old to benefit by " great moral
the Whigs, who are intrinsically " Conservatives," and lessons ;" but the lessen read to him will not, however,
those who are no less their inveterate foes than they are be lost. We may repeat to him the observation made
hostile to the present Ministry. The Radicals hate by a very worthy countryman of his to a clever person-
the Peel Administration, because they fear its union age of questionable principles, on a similar occasion-
and its moral energy. They pant for the return of a "You are a clever man, a very clever man, sir ; but
Whig Administration, because they have had expe- what astonishes me is that so clever a man as you are
rience of its dissensions, uncertainties, and weakness. should never have discovered the advantage of being
They know one to be their master, on the other they honest."-Morning Chronicle.
calculate as their prey. It is not, however, at all sur-
prising that a game so desperate as that of the ex- MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
Ministerial phalanx should be played by their ousted ....-_
t..OUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK.
understrappers with a recklessness often observable in
1 Wheat. i Barley. ! Oats. Bean:. Pease
the lackeys of ruined masters. If the higher Whigs
have borne their defeat with tolerable dignity, it is dif- c Per Quarter. iS.to S.
,S, to S. !S.to S. s. S S. to S.
ferent with the fags and low intriguers of the party, filetici ilssiaem--.~... 1 3.1 44 2516
2.-8 i 1,1?
20 40 -
-_.
_-
%I ,rpeth ......-......... i 36 38 26 28 ,18 22 3-2 34 30 32
who cannot digest their dismissal from office without Peorith ..........--....1 - 4,4 - 27 1 - 2') - 38 -
agony : one of these, the Cheshire man, Mr. E. J. Vs;:;;Tti Winchester 3-4 441 ;-7 37
-18 2.22 T 2 40 - 39
4
Stanley, has chosen in a late exhibition before his con- Per Bushel. Is. d. Ed.!, (I. 5..1.;5. .1. ...1. ...1. 5.441 s- d. ;it
stituents, to pick up from the kennels of the metro- ic.:=sairtlshr ---"! ts', r()) gg 34 (0) 8 l 2;1 S ;21 I g g: ' 8 8 8 8
polis some offal scurrility of the pot-house press, and
..1,71-iiialert(sseta 3.) ;0" 9gl el ,si(n)' 3 3 4 0 3 300
00
ut) "
fling it at this journal, for no imaginable reason but Stone-.... !8 0 86 40 481 3 0 3 4 60 67l 00 0?,
that we are of opinion that other Ministers besides W.:i-iaseisar*". :0 0 00'3 t) ,31 ! G 32 31
(5) G G 0 00
0 3' 01
those from whom this same disinterested per- tlarnia'retteßal:lllle. 19011 61 8 0 8 614 8 50 8 6
9 6 10 6' 6 9 BOi 4 9 7 3 77 , 10
( 1)* 70 0 08
1:
sonage received his salary of 2,0001. a 1
year, nzay by I/0rhani.........-.-..
, Stockton assessed_. 9 6 13 0: 8 0 8 614 4 81. 9 6 10 6 0 0 0 e
possibility govern England on Reform principles, and
with an eye to the public welfare. Mr. E. J. Stanley, WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Jan. 16.
Wheat, P.M, Norfolk and Statlblk ...... ... -8. 445. to 445. fine 51s.
no otherwise provoked to vilify a journal which has
never attacked him, than by the spite and soreness of Yorkshire .-R. 425. to 4lis, finely,
.--.-- WI- • 4.
a discarded placeman, presumes to say that we have --- Foreign, bed s 38s. to 475. fine 51s.
White s. 40s. to 50$ one 565.
•• disgraced' the public press, and that we have "pros- Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk . 275. to 30s. fine 325.
tituted" our powers lls this reasoning ?Is this truth? - Lincolnshire
•255. to 29s fine 18's
- Yorkshire \'old .. 255. to 2=s fine 39s
Prostitution means the commission of crime for hire. - Foreign
Beans, Old 37s to 395. fine 435.
Will Mr. E. J. Stanley venture to say or insinuate ----- New 355. to 38s. fine 42s
that this paper has directly or indirectly ever received Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 244.
- Poland -a. 17s. to 19s fine 21s.
one farthing's worth of wages or consideration for any - Friesland and Small
- Mealing
line it has ever taken in politics, or with ever so remote Shelling
a reference to the opinions it has promulgated since the Malt '3ss. 393. line 425. per Load.
Rapeseed
dismissal of the Whigs ? We believe :hat Mr. Stanley
SCOTCH MARKETS.
will not dare to do so. He knows better. When he
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. tlatiste,l.
takes a few days more for the disgorging of his bile,
we hope and trust that lie will feel more respects. Aberdeen 4O to 5t24t02419 to 22 ---
to -- no to 3:1
25 28 17 19 13 17 18 20 30 31
But what is the man who alleges ostentatiously that Coldstream Barwick 25 25 29 17 18 13 15 20 22 - -
45 56 '26 31 18 22 22 26 - -
which, when pushed to it, his conscience will not ci,",7l(Pfe - -
suffer him to repeat-what is he but a self-convicted -Eluglit-v. ' - 4 O 4O 50 24 26 RI 20 3 30 - -
38 44 25 '26 20 '22 '23 26 18 19
" Prostitution" in his teeth. Does he Inverness
iSls - -
slanderer?
flatter himself that honest men will let him so calum- Kirkaldy
50 &' 26 20 22 22 25 - ...,
. Perth
niate them with impunity ?- Times. p..i., The size of the mea:
The triumphs which we have this day to an- EDINBURGH CORN. MARKET.-Jan. 14.
We had a small supply of all kinds of Grain to.day, and the sales were
nounce, exceed, both in moral and political influ- rather heavy.
Wheat. Barley. \ Oats. \ Pease. Beans
ence, all those which have hitherto been received. First sos. Od. 32s Id. 235 4d. 31s. Od 31s. Cd.
The metropolitan boroughs did nobly in electing Second 42 0 30 0 21 0 SO 0 30 0
Third
decided Reformers only-the metropolitan county Average price of Wheat
os 3.. Od.
PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C.
did also most nobly in ejecting the Tory candidate,
per lb. ....- 00s. 441. e F eshßutter,lb......s.ll4l. to Os 01.
4 t°o'. 66d. Saltr Ditto.-.......... 0 8 (1 10
and re-electing, in spite of Tory influence, and Beef,ete
Tory bribery, the liberal Members by whom it was T.is,ral-.-. 0
to) 9 Ditto,gg ppeerr
ici%; t5:......tt
11l 73
,:;
formerly represented ; but Scotland has done better 14mb, per gr. -- 0 0 0 0 (Strawtktpl.)....... 14 6
V, (i),
than both-it has thrown out Sir George Murray, ailleil ortweisict L0af..,., 0 0 :34(;) 0 Wheat
Barley D
Di'tto°*--- 7 6 8 6
Potatoes, 1711 b...... 0 3 0 0 Hay, per 5t............ (1 8 010
the great card in the Tory Administration, and elected
in his stead, and in defiance of ten times the amount There
was
aEmDildNdli middling
MEAL MARKET.-Jan 13
supply of Oatmeal at this day's market, and tin
of influence and corrup Per exercised in the Middlesex sales were rather heavy.
I;aetrui
Sack ,‘
Oatmealf"'"' Im.cl. 10 0 First (Setaoln eo l 141 b. imp
I.op. I 8
and other elections, a young man comparatively un- First
1 9 6 Second ditto ...
known to the country-and having but little direct Second
influence in the county. The elected Member is the Peas PIN sal Ol 6
I 4 0 l'easemeal - p 1 I •
Pot Barley-No. I. per cwt. 01.--2.1. 125.-341,14 s -4th, ins.- eat , tis
Hon. Mr. Fox Maule, the eldest son of Lord Panmure,
maGrUSwGlLC,OanßciraAterßblgTer.-priacnes. w
better known as Mr. Maule, an invariable and most Our Grain itre obtained fo'
consistent Foxite, and a young man not less distin- Bails..
Whey Oeart;.Aolb.
s.
d.
..
d.
Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 8.41.
guished by his courageous adherence to the principles British, °(1 22 0t025 0 Irish
---- new
professed by his father, than for his eloquence in ad- Canada, free 2.1 028 0 Beans, per 2601 b.
Irish - 0
vocating them. He is a great accession to the cause of Barley, per mu. Scottish
-.0 - 0 Pease. Scottish ...., 16 0 18 0
Reform ; and we doubt not, that with more years, sc
Enogtltiisail)) 22 0 25 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b ... .13 0 16 0
and more experience, he will prove a brilliant addition Irish
to the many young Noblemen who have lately given CORNWALL MA
toRKTS.
up horse-racing and fox-hunting, to the more severe, (Calculated at '24 gallons the bushel.)
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
but more nseful, as well as patriotic, duty of at-
tending to the people's wants, and the people's Truro -. 0 18 3 - 0 11 3 - 0 8 9
- 0 IT 6 ..-, 0 10 0- 0 7 6
necessities. But the triumph in Perthshire is not tit.eliluosnteen..
-0 18 0 - 0 Wil -0 90
the only triumph. Glasgow has given us two decided B4)<lmi" - 00
19
6 - 0 10 0 ,tt. 0 7 6
Laskeard - 0 19 6 - 0 10 0 - 0 -10 D
Reformers. Dublin is about to follow the ex- Launceston 0 19 6 - 0 90 - 0 7 0
Penzance l6
0 0 10 0 12 0 6 6 8 o
ample, if we may judge from the state of the poll- Penzance 16 0 15 0 - 0 10 6- 0 8 0
.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bean—:. Pease
' --
Per Quarter. s. to a. s. to s.! s. to s. s. s 1. to s.
42 26 20 40
flexham, 3B 44 25 28 117 20
,meth
Penrith 4•1 27 1 2.1 38
42 37 —23 40 39
Winchester 34 42 27 31 118 22 42 44
Per Bushel. s. d. a. 41 s. d. r. s. d. s.d. s.d. a. d sd. s d
Carmarthen 156 60 30 39 I 4 22 00 0e 00 00
Cowbridge t 0 00 4 0 0 2 6 0 0 5 6 6 t 0 0 0 0
Newcastle (Staff.) 8 0 8 9 4 6 50. 3 0 3 4 5 0 5 3 0 0 0 0
Northallerton 7 0 9 3 3 6 46 3 3 4 0 5 6 6 I 0 0 0 0
Stone BO 8 6 4 0 481 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 0 0
Swansea 63 66 3 4 361 2 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Warwick 8 0 90. 3 0 4020 3 3 5 6 6 U 0 0 00
Per 8011.
Barnardeastle.-- 90 11 6, 8 0 86, 4 8 50 86 10 0 00 0i
90 10 6' 6 9 80. 4 9 73 77 90 70 83
ilichniond 9 6 13 0: y 0 8 614 4 81. 9 0 10 6 0 0 11
Stockton ........ 9 0 10 0' 8 6 9 0 4 5 4 8 8(. 0 0 0
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Jan. 16.
Wheat, Bed, Nortelk and Stitliilk ...... —s. 445. to 445. fine 51k.
Lin. and Cain.

sales were

MARKET.—Jan_I3
latmeal at this day's market, and the

MARKET.—Jan. 14.
•ather better prices were obtained for

L d. to L. d.
—0 8 9
—0 7 6
—D 9 0
7 6
0 ib D
—0 7 0
66 8 0
—0 8 0