The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-21 00:00:00

MALTA.

We yesterday received a file of the Malta Gazettes to
the 8d instant. They contain intelligence from Alexandria,
stating that the Pacha had received dispatches from Achmed
Pacha, with official accounts of the conquest of Hedjax
and Yemen by that Commander, who, with his victorious
forces, was, when the accounts left, marching upon Rebde
to bring into subjection the tribe of Assar, which it was
expected he would speedily accomplish. Ibrahim Pacha
had left Karah for Jerusalem and its departments, for the
purpose of levying recruits, a measure, since the disarming
of the population, of little difficulty.
These advices give a further insigLt into the determina-
tion of the :Neba to organise a powerful navy for Egypt.
The naval officers of the .Pacha already consisted of one
Admiral, one Vice-Admiral, one Rear-Admiral, 76 Cap-
tains, 117 Lieutenants, with a staff and officers of an in-

ferior grade in proportion. T. infuse spirit in his marine
Mehemet AR had placed his 'son, Seid Bey, eleven years
of age, on board the ship of the line the St. Jean if Acre,
as a. midshipman. The young Prince was accompanied
by twenty-six yOuthful companions, and numerous masters
of languages and navigation were with him. He had just
returned from his firstcruise of two months on the coast. of
Syria. Mehemet Ali was anxiously engaged in one of the
most gigantic works of modern times, that of artificially
damming up the Nile, which, if completely effected, will
prove of high advantage and utility to Egypt. The
prospeiity of the valley of the "Nile *wild, by this, almost
prove unlimited if a successful curb could be effected to re-
gulate the inundations of the river, ' More than twelve thou-
sand labourers were encamped on the two branches of the
Damietta and Rosetta. The Pacha ivas bestowing the tit•
most attention upon this. project. Measures had been
adopted at Alexandria to prevent the introduction of the
plague into the arsenal, of which apprehensions were enter-
tained, as it had already shown itself on board some of the
ships of war. .
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The Malta papers contain an of note from the Eng-
lish Consul at Marseilles, intimating that vessels may hence-
forward enter the roadstead of Toulon without being re-
quested to pay tonnage dues or other charges, provided
they do not lie within the waters of the ports situated
thereon. The Consul says " Foreign vessels that may
happen to be in those parts which formerly when assailed by
bad weather or want of provisions, were obliged to keep out
to sea, not venturing to put in for fear of:incurring the port
charges, may consequently now seek protection in the road-
stead of Toulon, one of the securest of the Mediterranean,
without being subject to any formality of customs sor any
charges.

These papers furnish us with some -intelligence from
Syria, which seems to remain most unwillingly under the
yoke of Ibrahim Paella. A new insurrection had taken
place among the Ansers, a wild uncivilized race, occupying
the mountains between Tripoli and Aleppo. In conse-
quence of this Ibrahim had increased his garrisons in
Aleppo and Damascus.

The dinner party given by Sir Charles Wetherell
the evening before last, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cumberland, did not take place at Whitehall, but at (ht.
chambers of the Hon. and Learned Knight in Stone-buildings,
Lincolni Inn-fields, where Sir Charles MannerS Sutten, the
Solicitor-General, Mr. Croker, and w'select party, were in-
vited to meat the Royal Duke.

Lord Granville, the late English Ambassador at the.
Court of France, arrived on Monday at Devonshire-house.
Piccadilly, from Paris, where he yesterday was visited be
several of his friends. The English at Paris regret his de-
parture, to whom, at all times, he was accessible in his official
capacity, and was extremely popular with hii countrymen.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL.—The ornamental stone-
work of St. Stephen's Chapel, that escaped the ravages of
the late fire, though chiseled nearly eight centuries ago, is so
very beautiful and unique, that drawings have been just made
of it to perpetuate the pattern and the skilful manner in which
it was executed ; as for design and excellence, it cannot be
surpassed. The artist who made the drawing undertook a
work of danger if we may judge from the threatening aspect
of the laceratedruins.

SIR G. MURRAY.—It is stated that Sir George
Murray, defeated so completely-at Perth, is to be returned
for Kincardineshire, General Arbuthnot, who was to have
walked the course there, resigning in his favour.--Edinburgh
Patriot. -

TILE CHuncx.—The Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, and some other distinguished ecclesi-
astics, have been engaged much recently with Sir R. Peel, at
his official residence in Downing-street. The interviews be-
tween these Prelates and the Premier have latterly been very
frequent, and it is supposed they relate to the measure of
Church Reform which it is contemplated by Ministers to pro-
pose at the commencement of the ensuing Session of Par-
liament.

ROYAL GALLANTRY.—At the dinner given at the
palace, Brighton, to the Prince Augustus of Portugal, the
Duke of Leuchtenberg, the King proposed the health the
health of the Queen •of Portugal, upon which the Prince im-
mediately proposed the health of the Queen of England, when
the King, with his accustomed gallantry, proposed the health
of the Queen of Spain, saying, with great .good humour, " we
all drink the healths of the three Queens," which toast was
drunk with great enthusiasm by the noble guests present.—
Atlas.

THE LATE EARL OF PORTMORE.----The Colo-
nelcy of the North Lincoln Militia becomes vacant by the
death of this Noble Lord, who was the fourth Earl of Portmore.
His Lordship married Lady Mary Bertie, only child of Brown-
low, fifth and last Duke of Ancaster, by which lady he had an
only son, the, Hon. Brownlow Colyear, who succeeded to the
vast personal wealth of the Duke of Ancaster in 1809. Mr.
Colyear unfortunately died at Rome in 1809 from wounds re-
ceived in an encounter with banditti.

CASHEL EL ECTIO N-A PRIEST FIRED AT ',-
There was a report very prevalent through town yesterday,
that at the election for Cashel, on Thnrsday last, the Very
Rev. Mr. *Donnell, Victir-General,'who has ably assisted
the popular cause, went out of the Court-house to stop a riot
which Was taking place in the str6ets of Cashel. He saw the
police were about to charge the people. He entreated of
them not to do so, and promised he would quell the disturb-
ance. -A policethan, it is said;. levelled his gun at the clergy-
man; but the Kai) missed: fire.. He. was hid hold of by the
people, and would have been immolated by the multitude,
but for the intervention of the Rev. Gentlernan upon whom the
outrage was committal, and WhO'succceded i■ saving him—
Regiskr: -

YOUGHAL.—The victory here was still more re-
markable than it was in Tralee. ,The want of local influence
in the competitor of the reform candidate was supplied by an
invasion of the freedom and integrity-of election utterly with-
out example. Bribery went to the prodigal excess of an offer
of one hundred and fifty pounds for a vote ! Humble and
ne.dy persons did their duty to their country, resisting all
temptations, united with menaces of the most relentless per-
selution. Freemen registered so late as January—freemen
residing four-and-twenty miles from the town—freemen, in
short, altogether disqualified, were permitted to vote. Still
the good cause triumphed, and Mr. John O'Connell was de-
clared duly elected by a majority, not of one vote, as was at
first believed, but of seven votes.—Dublin Morning Register.

SNow.—ln many parts of Lancashire the snow is
from three to four feet deep. A gentleman who arrived yes-
terday from Manchester states, that in returning to that town
from the north, at about forty miles distance, the snow was so
very deep that a great number of men were employed to make
a passage through it, for the horses and carriages to pass,
otherwise they would not have been able to proceed. The
fall of snow in Scotland has been very great, but will be of
service to the ground, having fallen before the earth was
chilled with the frost.

THE HANNIBAL AMERICAN PACKET.--THIS
vessel, which, from her arrival being long overdue, was feared
to have been lost, sailed again for New York from St. Katha-
rine's Dock on Monday last, with seventeen passengers, hav-
ing been in dock only three days. These exertions were re-
Yired, in consequence of the time for her departure for New
York having expired before her arrival in the Thames.

ALIASES.—III the Dublin University Calendar
the following aliases in the names of places occur at page 39 :
Arbo alias Ballileagh ; Dysertcrete alias Tullyhog ; Agha-
lurche, alias Lisnaskea ; Killesandra alias Rally, alias Raig.
They are all livings in the patronage of the University.

DECLARATION OF LOVE.—Mary HOWitt we like
so much that we wish she bore another name.—Gentleman's
Magazine.

THE IRON TRADE..----.-At the quarterly meeting of
the Yorkshire and Derbyshire iron-masters, held on Wednes-
day at Sheffield, although it was reported that•the demand for
metal was uniforml► brisk, it was resolved that no advance
should take place. Considerable quantities of Scotch metal
still continue to arrive for consumption in Yorkshire.

We regret to find that the incendiary fire at Arling-
ton, Beds, which took placemn Friday morning, and of which
we gave an account yesterday, was followed up, by a second
fire the next Saturday morning. A poor farmer, Richard
Stone, is the sufferer on this ()Cession. His barn, recently
filled with oats and beans, was completely destroyed. ln con.
sequence of the firing of his neighbour Church's premises the
preceding morning, his two sons had been watching all night,
and it was only upon their going into the house for some break-
fast, that the incendiary took the opportunity of their tem-
porary absence to fire the premises. l'he fire was discovered
almost as soon as lit.. It is evident that the perpetrator must
be some one on the spot. The neighbouring magistrates arc
on the alert. No doubt is entertained that the delinquent will
be ascertained, and brought to condign punishment.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE .AT BRESTFORD.—AbOIIt
seven o'clock on Monday evening the house of Mr. Butcher,
pawnbroker, near the Market-place, Brentford, was discovered
to be on fire. Every exertion was made to extinguish the
flames, but, in consequence of the deficiency of water, without
effect. The three adjoining houses were set on fire, and, with
that of Mr. Butcher's, were entirely destroyed, with a great
part of the property they contained. In one of the houses
destroyed, occupied by Mr. Pearse, of the Red Lion, the body
of Mrs. Pearse, who had died a few days previously, was lying,
and in the midst of the flames the coffin was brought out of
the house. The thieves collected in great numbers, and were
very daring in their search of plunder. Some of them entered
one of the houses whilst on fire, and got possession of a consi-
derable sum of money. The cause of the fire is not,knovvn.

MEDICAL REFORM.--The Government does not
seem disposed to wait for Mr. 'Warburton's scheme of reform,-
at least as regards the College of Physicians, but has already
had communication with the magnates of Pall-Mall East, in
reference to some plan of their own.. A committee is now sit-
ting to consider the expediency of certain changes in the coi-
lege. The first and greatest grievance is the separation of
physicians into two sets or orders—viz„ fellows and licentiates ;
and the first and most popular change would be its abolition.
The licence ought not to be granted to any one who calm t
show that he has had the highest medical education, and at-
tained the highest standard of professional acquirement; and
if he does, no one has a right, as a physician, to rank ;Awe
him.—Medical 'Gazette,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JotHWALSI

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We beg the attention of our reader,. to - letter,
signed ‘. T. S. Rice," which appears in another co-
lumn, and relates to the introduction of emigrants
from the United Kingdom into the West Indies ! Of
all the projects for adding to the sufferings of the ill-
used labouring poor of this country, this scheme fob'
carrying them into the Indies to supersede the negro
population, is at once the most absurd and the most
heartless that has yet appeared. The crochet,:never•
theless, was favourably received by theTlate.Seoretary
for the Colonies ! It has been, and is still, a subject
of pride and glory to Englishmen, that by years of per-
severance and a large expenditure of treasure, they
have succeeded in nearly annihilating that inhuman
traffic called the slave trade: but we should be glad to
know how, except in name, the absence of violence, and
abstinence from the infliction of personal torture, the en-
couragement of those who would inveigle the population
of these realms to the unhealthy shores of the Western
Indies,differs from the other trading in human flesh and
blood ; for, however small, or however great, May be
the number of those simpletons who suppose that men
born and bred in this country can endure the labour of
a negro in such a climate as that of the West Indies,
it must be quite clear to every man of sense, that such
persons are mere dupes of others, who have originated
the scheMe for the purpose of pecuniary profit to them-
selves. When we find that such a speculation was
not only to be encouraged but actually assisted and
forwarded by the late Government, we have, great
reason to rejoice that the superintendence of the
Cokmial Department at least has fallen into other

hands. But it is all of a piece with the patro-
nizing of that job which was to enrich a few at home
at the expense of as many blockheads as might de.
sire to cultivate the acquaintance of the kangaroos
in some unexplored region of South Australia.. The
old women who tried to wash the blackamoor white
have hitherto been thought to have outdone itrabsur-
dity the wildest experimentalist of all times, anciaof all
countries; but we think that, for the future, the late'
Secretary for the Colonies may claim equal rank with
them on the ground of. the share he seems to have been
inclined to take in this attempt to turn the white.popu.
lation of Britain into negroes. At least, let us first try
the.experiinent- of rearing a native population on the
spot; who have some hereditary capabilities for tropical
labour : this will be a more humane, and (what with
the pretended philosophers of the newschoojia a more
important consideration,) will be a more economical
plan than transplanting the ploughmen and weavers of
Great Britain to cultivate the sugar-cane, niue-tenths
of whom, like the Russian Peter's Sailors leaining to
drink sea-water, will die in the experiment.—Times.
The electors of South Hampshire have valued the
diplomatic and senatorial powers of Lord Palmerston
at somewhat below his own estimate. They 'think his
repose would be. More beneficial to the interests :of the
country than his activity. All the rational and reflect-
ing portion of the English people, we believe, are of
the same opinion. It' the people of Belgium, were
polled, we cannot doubt that they would confirm the
rejection of the Lord of the Protocols, whose " Speed,
and final settlement." of their affairs, so often promised
during the four years of the Whig Administration, has
yetto come, the Noble Lord having, by hiS indescribable
! diplomacy, left the Belgico-Dutch question far more
complicated and unsettled than he found it. Acting
blindly in this question under the influence of the wily
Tallevrand, our Foreign Minister did every thing for
France, and nothing for either Belgium or England.
His.. policy reduced Beles,ium to the condition of a
French province, agreeably to the wishes of the Doc-
trinaires, and alienated a nation that was One of our
oldest allies and best customers, by the unjustifiable.
seizure of his merchant vessels, by.sending armaments
to. threaten his coasts, and by abetting the King'of the
Barricades in slat.Onering his subjects ; and all thie
done while professing_ to maintain " peace," and eer-
tainly in as peaceable a manner as acts of violence are
usually committed. Let it be also borne in mind that
this was the work of a. Government whose avowed
principle of foreign policy was non-intervenfion in the
quarrels of other States—that the Whigs loudly and
repeatedly assailed the Duke of Wellington and. Lord
Aberdeen for interfering between Belgium and Hol-
land in a mediatoriar eharaeter-LA hat they themselves,
on Coining into power, though' not boandby any4revi
ous treaty to interfere, joined with the French Govern-
ment in an armed intervention—a." peaceful war"—a
jightinp' mediatorship. :Let it be 'recollected, :at the
same time, that Belgium is a manufacturing country,.
and Holland principally 'a carrying country- that Hol-
land, after the Belgiati- revolution, having ceased to.
admit Belgic manufactures, which, of ~course, it
had previously favoured, lowered .11te ;citifies upon
British manufactures to encourage supplies from
this country, which would haye, „greatly bene-
fited our manufacturers, mei Chaiita; 'ind:Shipowners ;
but the weak mind: of. Lord .Palniersten, besotted
with the infatuation of. Daetainaire influence, sacri-
ficed those national advintages to the disastrous
alliance which was consummated in ..folly, as far as
England was concerned, by the Anglo-Gallic-Conven-
tionits Outrages and its :tihsurdities.- 'But darker is
the blot upon. Lord PahnerStOn's fOreigo policy, which
is connected with the misfortunes andthefate of Po.
land. Here there was non-intervention with a ven-
geance ! But here we were'bound by treaty, as well
as by our own interest, to preserve the independence
of Poland, as a barrier towards•the West of Europe,
against the unscrupulous ambition of Russia. Lori
Palmerston was struck with the most intense diploma-
tie blindness as to the treaty which guaranteed the
independence of Poland, and which
.L- Castlereagh
and Talleyrand had negotiated with the other great
Powers. He could not see one word of it—to his eyes
it was a blank piece of paper--while be was quick-
sighted enough to discover that England was bound
by another provision of- the Treaty, which _enjoined
her to pay certain moneys, on account of the Russian.
Dutch loan, to Russia, as long as Belgium and Hob.
land should continue united, although a complete se.
verance of the .union had taken place. The money
was"paid to Russia under a provision of the treaty which
had expired, by the failure of the consideration upon
which the compact was founded. The inougy so paid
enabled the merciless Autocrat to recruit his shattered
armies—to retrieve his repeated defeats,' and fd'accorn-
plish, at last, his threats of vengeance.in the lidod and
ashes of Poland. We never ceased from the first mo-
ment of the dreadful struggle to represeht to the 'Whig
Ministers the wrongs of Poland—to ring inaheir ears
the treaty of Vienna-7-to demand justice for tkebravest
people that oppression ever trampled in 66'44. But
the Whig Minister for Foreign Affairs viiioPdeaf as
the adder" to the cries of . Poland and ofebhuma-
nity. The applications of Russia for English gold
to conquer Polish Steel were more sueCeSsf4 The
A utociat—how will history blush to relate it 1-14eceived
the sinews of war from the Whig Government, while
he insultingly tore to pieces the treatyi of ;,Vienna;,
which bound England,. as well as the ether great
Powers, to the protection of 'Polish''intieiieildence.
Lord 'Althorp, in the House of, cOmnstons, 4tylien pro-
curing a servile vote for the payinent,of thiimoney,
intimated something darkly about 'the. necessity of a
bribe to Russia to keep the 'peace of Europe. Is
England, then, like Rome, in her corrupt and dege-
aerate days, to purchase peace of the 'barbarian with
gold ? a so, it will be easier to exhaust.her treasures
in paying disgraceful tribute to the
.mogern Alaric
than 'to satisfy his •rapacity. The sentiments which
we expressed,upon this and all other public questions.
we still maintain, and shall still endeavour, to the best
of our power, to enforce, whoever are or whoever
shall be Ministers. There are certain principles in-
separably connected with the cause of justice and the
progress of improvement and intelligence to which we
are as devotedly attached as party writers. are 'to their
party idols. By preserving a perfect independence of
faction and party, we are not under the painful
necessity of taking up one set of principles
under one GoVernment, and another set of prin-
ciples under another. We shall yet have to call
upon the Duke of Wellington to make that resolute
and decided stand against the encroaching ambition of
Russia, both -in the Weht and the EaSt .of Europe,
which we called on Lord PalnierZaonandAris
colleagues to make iii
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to which,. at the late,t,elecAitin,.l.,ve
vaitt.!f;TharefaiStcorta.Atitter as
Pa ,11, di:, kir o"ly—,a?e of the
hnerstoo atanda
.13.NKa -,,arna,

Whigs.yrho had either the boldness or the folly to ap-
peal to his support of the Malthusian Poor Law Bill
as a political,merit in the eyes of the electors ! Was
there ever such infatuation ? This too at a time when,
at many of the hustings in the provinces, the people
expressed, in no measured or delicate terms, their
hatred of what they called the " coarser food Ministry,"
and the "workhouse Government." The Manchester
Advertiter, a paper of decidedly liberal principles, but
not tainted with the strange mixture of weakness and
folly which the doctrines of the Whig-Radical school
betray; adverts in the following terms to Lord Palmer-
ston's allusion to the Poor Law Bill :—" Thus speaks the
Lord of Deitch protocols of a law schemed by the wildest
head that ever wore a Judge's wig—a law of irrespon-
sible administration—a law which sets up a power
svithin the State to overrule the prosperity and common
liberties of the subject—a law which stands as a brazen
monument of the folly and cruelty of its authors and
abettors, and in fatal conflict with the generous spirit
and thriving influence of our good old Constitution."
But his allusion to the Poor Law Bill, as a thing to
boast of, did as little good for Lord Palmerston's popu-
larity as his-protocols did for his reputation as a States-
man. He would have had more chance of finding
credulous:bearers if he had stated that his four years'
contribution of an anti-English policy to the aggran-
disement of Russia in the East of Europe, and of
Franee in the West, had tended to raise the character,
strengthen the influence, and promote the commercial
prosperity •of England.—Morning Herald.
If it were not that the details of this subject are so
low and loathsome—the principle so repugnant to
every thing manly and straightforward, and the view
which it gives us of human nature so withering to the
fondest wish of every honest heart—it would be an
`exceedingly curious matter to trace the path of that
portion of the press which is in opposition to us, and,
we may add, to that people for whom we are at least
honest and vigilant watchmen, since that day of un-
wise resolve and reckless venture, upon which the
Reform Ministry ceased to preside over the affairs of
these kingdoms, and men diametrically opposed to
them upon every principle and every point, were
sought after to be their immediate successors. Their
own words are the track which they have left upon
the record ; and in after times, when all those illibe-
ralities and misrules of which they have made
themselves the abettors and admirers, have been
consumed by the radiance of freedom, men will stand
in utter • astonishment at finding that, in the second
quarter of the nineteenth century, there could exist
men who, for any gain, or hope of gain, could be so
shamefully, so indecorously, so ludicrously contradic-
tory. Nor have we any doubt, that the cause which
they have espoused has suffered at their hands ; and
those whom they have abetted will feel this, and will
treat them with the very bitterness of retaliation.
When the scouts mislead the army, they are hanged ;
and 'this will be the fate of that portion of the
press, in as far as the " Great General " has them
in his- power. It will be borne in mind that, on
that eventful day, when we said that we had
" nailectour fag to the mast," and had determined
to he with and for the people and their liberties,
in victory or is destruction--if the latter could,
. against every rational probability, be the alter-
native,—it will be borne in mind, that then, this
portion of the press described the dismissal of the
Reform Ministry, as an act of fatherly kindness on
the part of the Sovereign. They said, roundly, that
the affairs of the nation, all the interests of all the
people, were in so confused and desperate a state,
that there was no salvation but in a Ministry which
should be wholly Tory, in all its members, and in all
its movements. They did not say what had gone
wrong ; and, except Reformers and Reforms, which
the conduct of the traitors who ealled for Tory rule
applauded to the skies, there was nothing done but
the ordinary business of the country ; and, perhaps,
there never had been so clear and prompt an adminis-
tration of these as by Earl Grey and his suc-
cessor. It was to bring the Administration to
an accordance with the feelings of the people that
the fatherly deed of turning out the Reformers
was- done—to raise the Cabinet to that lofty
pitch of Toryism in the people which had been
the means of obtaining the Reform Bill, and re-
turning a majority under it decidedly hostile to Tory
principles. The people, in short, were longing in
earnestness of spirit for the appointment of a Tory
Administration, to save them from that consequence of
the Reform Bill which, according to this portion of
_ the press, had become so offensive in their sight,—
the return to the House of Commons of a majority of
Members hostile to the Tories. We wonder that
they did not add, in the greenness of this their new
logic, that the popular proposals which had been at
different times made for shortening the duration of
Parliaments, were made with the express inten-
of_ getting rid of this most mischievous majority
, of liberal Members, who were so peculiarly ob-
.. .noxious to the Tory feelings of the people. The ar-
gument would have gone this length—any length
indeed.; for, when any portion of the press says,
and persists in saying, that the King dismissed a
liberal Ministry, which had carried liberal measures
sought for by the people, in order that he might bless
the people,- by taking to his council the men who had
.opposed those liberal measures sought for by the
people, in every stage, that portion of the press
thereby establishes its title to say anything whatever,
and, all things with equal effect. It was a necessary
corollary from this precious doctrine, that there should
,tie ,no excitement, no alarm, and of course nothing_
like indignation or remonstrance in any one part of
the_country, at this universally desired act. Not a
jot. of bad temper ! The people were " God-saving-
. the King, at the top •of their sweetest voices, all
, the land over—yes, for this reason they were to
get.back into all and every the offices of the State,
those darling Tories, by whom the cause of the people
had been so constantly and liberally promoted, and in
whom the hearts of the people found so much satis-
faction and delight. These things turned round upon
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Us, and upon all the other journals, few indeed, we re-
gret to say, though we can couple with ourselves the
. Chronicle, the Globe, and the Sun, last, but not least,
...who, like us, had the manliness to stand by the peo-
ple, and the people's cause, and ward off the arrow of
deceit, which was thus treacherously, and therefore
basely, aimed at the very heart of our liberties, and as-
eused us of being agitators--of producing an excite-
ment, or a " movement," as they are pleased to term
it. We like the word "movement" in its honest Eng-
lish sense, that of going forward in the right way ;
and the "no movement,"—that sweet slumber in the
• :arms of the Tories, for which the people had been
.longing—was, in the sober judgment of some,
what is usually called " marking time," that is,
jerking out the feet without advancing a single
•inch. On this occasion they called us names—
names familiar only to those who have been used, and
long and familiarly used, to the company of the very
worst , of men, whatever may be their rank or their
riches. And they cursed us, not with " the curse of
Mews," as Mr. Sergeant Spankie wrote against the
lukewarm Tories who came not forward, with purse
and.person—to see and feel him beaten at Finsbury
by the two Liberal candidates ; but they cursed us
with the genuine Tory curse—they upbraided us about
.44 pots and pot-houses," humble implements and locali-
ties, without doubt ; and yet the only real stain that
cam be cast on them is, that they keep better hours,
behive- better, and pay their way better than Tory
Lords.. -In the matter of Mr. Sergeant Spankie we have
but one-little remark to make, and the edge of severity
may bieeonsidered as turned by the agony of his mind
in the paroxysm of discomfiture. But the Sergeant
must mind himself, and warn his Tory friends never
• again to make a single allusion to " the curse of
" Meroz ;"—that curse was on them who stayed back
from helping Mr. Sergeant Spankie's Maker—and if
the Sergeant allude to that again, with reference to the
people who stay away from his (the Sergeant's)
election,it will be blasphemy. It means, however,
that the denunciation against the " pots and pot-houses"
had-been one of that convenient species of prophecy
ion, because that which it pro-
cently felt. There has been
', and in the pot-house, if that
J for men of honest and liberal
cries and to their abettors. In
being in office, aud in office

without the alloy of one liberal man, or of one man
who ever gave a vote for a liberal measure except in the
hope of its enabling him to introduce and carry an
illiberal one, or to oppose one that was more liberal,
—and in spite of the necessity for and the longing
after a Tory Government, so confidently stated,
there is a very large majority of liberal Members re-
turned for the new Parliament ; therefore, though the
people
were so longing for a Tory Ministry, which the
King of his royal clemency had the power of giving
them, even his royal grace, lauded as it has been
that portion of the press which we have been labouring
to understand, has not been able to deliver them from
the liberal majority of the Commons' House. Nor
does it appear that there are any means by which the
people can get rid of this most offensive majority, so
that they may express their Tory feelings openly and
boldly, but by the means of the repeal of the Reform
Bill—which repeal, cloak it as they may, is really and
truly involved in that cant about the liberality of the
Tories which is dribbled forth by that enfeebled portion
of the press which, if it cannot have our applause, de-
serves our pity. And, only remark to what a strange pass
they are come; and how those who trample upon any
little understanding that God may, in mercy, have
given to themselves personally, is taken away when
they fall into this, the foulest of all political idolatry.
We need not, from any motives of delicacy, conceal
the name—and as that name is heard in few places,
comparative to what it once was, there may be even
charity in the mention of it—the Times of Monday
has these words—" If those who were once called
Whigs, we mean the men of character among them,
should, in some hour of less resentful excitement, he
asked patiently to examine their own opinions upon the
nature and amount of such reforms as they in their
hearts feel to he desirable and safe, how many of them
would be able to point out one shade of difference be-
tween themselves and the chiefs of the Conser-
vatives ?" Gracious God ! (if we may dare to
call a most holy name to witness a most unholy
purpose,) what infamous slander upon all the
parties is this ? Is black white, and white
black, is good evil, and evil good,—or, rather, has
that which in all past time was felt to be evil, become
good by some sort of unholy magic of which the world
has had no former taste ? Either the " Whigs of
character" must be Tories in disguise—deceivers, im-
posters, cheats ; or there must be some monstrous
falsehood—and some false heart of " a dog in the day
of his desperation" in this. From time immemorial
the Tories have invariably been opposed to every
measure of the " Whigs of character," and the more
character that the Whigs have had, the Tories have
always been the more opposed to them ; and, in the
present instance, if there can be any cause shown why
the Whigs, as they are called, (but we prefer calling
them b 1 their true name of " the Friends of the
People, ) should have been removed from office, at the
time they were so removed, the only cause is, that the
said Whigs were for the people, and against those
who unfortunately have the means of poisoning the
ear of that Sovereign who, as the choice of the peo-
ple should, and as we fondly believe, is, for them, in
spite of all opposition from those who are equally un-
worthy of the confidence of the King and the appro-
bation of his people. We shall, at an early opportu-
nity, return to some of the various points in the expo-
sure of those whose understanding (and honesty) it
has pleased heaven to take away ; but in the mean-
time we cannot help noticing, as the most remarkable
feature of the present race, and the most unanswerable
reply to those who dare to say that the Tory Ministry
was wished for by the people, or anything else than
execrated and detested by them, that the present is the
only instance, since the days of Charles 1., in which
the people have returned a majority of the Commons
hostile to the Cabinet. Let those who have been the
planners and perpetrators of the deed beware of the
consequences !-.-Morning Advertiser.
We may learn one very useful and important lesson
from the result of the contests in Middlesex and the
metropolitan boroughs, and that lesson is the neces-
sity of unremitting energy, activity, and perseverance.
`We will not, indeed, until convinced by more satis-
factory evidence than has been hitherto adduced, be
persuaded that the majority of those who are really
bona fide entitled to the elective franchise in the
wealthy and populous districts in question are hostile
to the religion, laws, and institutions of their country,
a belief which might be almost warranted by the con-
sideration of the wretched, ignorant, and worthless
creatures who afflict to represent the sentiments and
feelings of a constituency, of which the enlightened and
intelligent portion repudiates their mischievous preten-
sions with disgust andscorn. How thin is this misrepre-
sentation to be corrected, this mischief to be obviated ?
We will reply briefly but satisfactorily. Constitutional
or Conservative Associations (the words are syno-
nymous) should be formed in the metropolis and its
environs. Professional men of sound principles should
be retained to watch the proceedings before the Re-
vising Barrister, care being previously taken that the
qualifications of persons claiming to vote are strictly
and rigorously examined. It can scarcely be credited,
indeed, by those who are unacquainted with the details
and minutia of elections, how much depends upon zeal
and activity in the preliminary stages, especially under
the Reform Act, which leaves but little scope for exer-
tion during the limited period prescribed for the dura-
tion of the actual contest. We are not quarrelling
with this provision of the enactment in question ;
we quote it simply as an argument to rouse the
thoughtless and the slothful, to convince them of
the vital importance of the antecedent struggle,
and to show the permanent individual responsibi-
lity which rests upon each friend of the Constitution.
In many places the registry of electors is in such
a state, that persons without the slightest claim to the
franchise are enabled to give their votes in favour of
the worthless and profligate demagogue of the hour ;
yet no fault can be attached to those who, in the dis-
charge of a Ministerial duty, are compelled to admit
such votes, unless objected to in a legal manner.
Nothing can possibly be more simple and clear than
the provisions of the Reform Act on this head

Again, persons of large property, and with a great
stake in their respective districts, neglect to take the
necessary steps for the acquisition of the franchise
which they have virtually a right to exercise, and then,
when the time arrives, wonder how they omitted that
duty (for duty it undoubtedly is), and declare, " that
next time they will take more care ;" meanwhile the
gentleman, the man of honour, the legitimate repre-
sentative of the intellect and wealth of the county or
city, is rejected, and the dolt, bankrupt, or profligate,
the highest bidder for mob favour, is chosen to mis-

represent it in the House of Commons. We have

briefly pointed out how this odious consummation may
be for the future avoided. Let us now, however, do

justice to-the Conservatives who have in several places
anticipated our suggestions and remarks. Societies
whose formation we have recommended in the metro-

politan districts have their models in many towns in the
United Kingdom, and the effects produced by their
zealous yet judicious exertions have been of the most
beneficial and satisfactory kind. Can it then be ima-
gined that in London, the first city in the world—in
Westminster, the abode of royalty, and as a neces-

sary consequence, the spot where the aristocracy of
rank and talent love to resort—in Middlesex, the
metropolitan county--can it be imagined that in
these places the Destructive have a real and
substantial predominance ? It is impossible. We
will not imagine anything so derogatory to our
fellow-country men. Still let us admonish them can-
didly, but respectfully, that unless they are aroused
by a sense of their combined danger and degradation,
they must and will labour under the imputation of
hostility to the institutions of the country—of prefer-
ring the galling yoke
.of mob tyranny, to the mild
sway of King, Lords, and Commons—of trusting a
Duncombe, a Hume, a Wakley, and a Lushington,
before a Ward, a Lyall, a Wood, or a Spankie ; or
under that of choosing, for sake of their own ease or
convenience, to preserve a neutrality, if possible more
disgraceful than active hostility where the most im-
portant interests of the country are at stake. We call,
then, upon our fellow-citizens to exculpate themselves
from this disgraceful charge, be it of a positive or
negative nature, and to manifest to their fellow-country
men that they are not indifferent to those blessings,
the value of which will never be adequately appre-
ciated until they are finally and irrevocably lost, for

the appropriate punishment of apathy, negligence, and
indolence.—Morning Post.
We have lost one member for East Surrey and one
for West Kent. We hare, on the other hand, gained
one for Belfast.- The dependant state of the tenantry-
at-will in the English counties is now felt in the elec-
tions. Men will once or twice, perhaps, make sa-
crifices for their principles ; but the demands on them
in this way must not be too frequent. Upon the
whole, the elections hitherto gave a result correspond-
ing to within three or four of the calculations made
beforehand by the best informed Reformers. The
Scotch elections have exceeded expectation as much as
the English counties have fallen short. The Re-
formers have gained in the great towns, and wherever
the constituencies are enlightened. They have gained
most in Scotland ; and it will not be pretended that
the Scotch are either the least enlightened or the least
moral portion of the population of these kingdoms.—
Morning Chronicle.

The difficult task of pleasing both parties has been
accomplished by the country. The Reformers are sa-
tisfied with the general result of the elections ; and the
Tories profess to be marvellously delighted with their
very moderate share of success. This is a most re-
markable example of contentment. The one party is
satisfied with its majority, and the other with its mi-
nority. When before was anything so divided as to
please both claimants ? The Tories in a minority
make an exception to the common rule of man's dis-
content with his lot. They fill up the process of de-
feat with the cry of triumph. They are like the
Baron Pompolino in the adventure of the glass slip-
per, who, as he endeavours in vain to squeeze in his
daughter's foot, shouts out, "'Tis done, *tis done—all
but the heel !" "'Tis done, 'tis done—all but the
heel," is the triumphant cry of the Tories ; but so long
as the heel is kept out of the measure of success, we
are satisfied. These " all-but" victories are not to
be grudged to our enemies. They have, however,
one resource upon which they greatly reckon. It
ac-
cords with a maxim upon which they have always most
religiously acted, which runs in these words, " -What's
yours is mine, and what's mine is my own." As by
virtue of this convenient principle they in former times
helped themselves to the money of the public, so now
they promise to avail themselves of the votes of their
adversaries. Looking at all that may be timid and
wavering in the opposition, they claim it as theirs ;
and then they sum up the list of their minority, and
say, with reason, that it is all their own. What they
want it numbers they reckon on borrowing from the
ranks of their adversaries. Their hope is to tarry on
the Government with the Tories, and those who will not
throw out the Tories, but wait for measures at the Greek
kalends. ." Pay to-day, and good credit to-morrow,"
is the facetious promise of the French sign-posts ; and
there runs a story that an Irish gentleman spent
his life, which was all that he had to spend, in waiting
for the day of trust under one of those annouucements.
" Support to-day, and good measures to-morrow," is
the similar promise of the Tory Ministry ; but what
becomes of the interests of the people while that en-
viable morrow of all reforms is waited for ? And to

trick the thoughtless and credulous out of the support
for the day, is not all that the Tories design ; they
know that if they can dupe men into waiting for just
measures, the same good, easy men, to save their own
credit for sagacity, will accept of inadequate and paltry
measures rather than confess themselves deceived. The
grossness of a trick often makes the safety of the
trickster, men being ashamed to declare themselves the
dupes of shallow artifices. Every one knows the trite
story in point of the fellow who advertised the exhibi-
tion of a horse with his tail where his head should be :
.the curious country folk were admitted one by one to
the stable, where they found a horse with his rear to
the manger, or his tail where his head should be, ac-
cording to the letter of the advertisement ; but each be-
fooled visitor slunk uncomplainingly away, and tacitly
connived at the trick, rather than confess his own gul-
libility. The Tories are now setting up a school for
dupes to serve their turn, and any whom they may get
into the first form will graduate onwards. This is one
of those cases in which the first step determines all ;
and the man who parts with his head now will go on
with•ut it to the last extremity of folly. Well-mean-
ing men, as averse as the most firm and high-spirited
to the Tory Government, may be timid and wavering :
but will they allow themselves to be the tools of the
Ministers to all whose known objects and proved pro-
pensities they are opposed ?—will they lend them-
selves to carry on the Tory Government, and to give it

the credit of a confidence which they know is not re-
posed in it ? To speak plainly, thepons asinorum is the
vote on an amendment to the address, declaratory of
the people's want of confidence in a Ministry, composed
of the inveterate enemies of popular rights and popular
objects. If that opportunity be lost, the Ministry has
an indefinite period for the preparation and production
of measures ; and after each lengthened delivery of the
mountain of its mouse, patience for another labour will
be asked, and can hardly be refused by those who have
granted the first foolish experiment. The consequence
must be a long contest and the responsibility for all
the evils in its train will rest with those who refuse to
secure the public peace when they have the power.
Fling but the stone now, and the giant dies—cast the
truth at the Goliath, and he falls—strike him on the
forehead with the distrust of the nation, and lie is laid
low. To wait to see what he will do, is to court mis-
chief, and to incur a tremendous responsibility.—
Morn ing Chronicle.

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