The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment of the 70th Regiment embarked on the
13th inst. at Cork for Bristol, in charge of deserters from
the 26th, 46th, 67th Regiments, and East India Com-
pany's service.

YEOMANRY CAVALRY.
The North Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, com-
manded by Colonel Lord Rolle,
.which was discontinue
on the 25th of December last, have offered their military
services to Government, without any pay or allowance
whatever.

A very clever pamphlet, entitled '• A plain
Statement of some particulars of the Financial Sitmatiot
of the United Kingdom," has just appeared, but want o'
room prevents our doing justice to its merits. Our readers
will see some notice of it under the Spirit of the Public
Journals.

Our euteinporary, the Times, is rather ad-
dicted to snaking mountains of mole-bills. Militar)
Despotism is to be established, forsooth ! because a con-
nexion of the Duke of WELLINGTON has exchanged a half-
pay fora full-pay Majority.---Does that Journal support
that interest now for the first time tells in the Army, and
that the relations of Dukes and Marquisses do not get
on faster than other men ? The only difference w(
know is, that formerly no service at all was. require I
whereas now there are regulations fixing the mini-
mum, and which regulations cannot be broke through
We may just add, that Major CULLING Smrrx commenced
his military career in the Foot Guards---and that our• cotem-
porary is misinformed as to his having been always in tin
Cavalry.

Wednesday last a squadron of the 6th Regi-
ment of Dragoons marched into our Cavalry Barracks, tA
replace the Depot of the 12th Lancers.—Nortnich
Gazette.

THE RULING PASSION.—AD architect,
whose designs have contributed very materially to the mo-
dern improvements in the Regent's Park-, was walking
round it the other day, in company of a gentleman of higl
sporting celebrity, and one of the staunchest patrons of th.
Turf. After pointing out the Rotunda, and other splendid
erections, he was expatiating largely on the general beau-
ties and improvements of the place. " Yes, yes," replie(:
he of the spur, with a sigh of regret; " it is, no doubt, ;.
very grand place, but—what a sweet four-mile course yol
have spoiled."—Stockport Advertiser.
DEPARTURE OF LOltD WILLIAM BEN•
TINCK.—About two o'clock on Saturday, Lord WILLIAD.
BENTINCK and suite embarked hi the Commissioner's yacht,
Excellency.vaensd wi e
n manned
o on board
bAloltae rrtdl yards,irhei three o'clock ol'aacnjl oedse Majesty's
fired
the alijs)UalUnudtneadaounnutnreetdecdel%Vviellig'ghhiherisl-
eTl
alnsaatm,v
ibtghuaertg. i 1;
anchor, said sailed for Calcutta. Previously to the em-
barkation of Lord Wm. BENTINCK, PETER BIRDWOOr,
Esq., the Hon. Company's Agent, waited upon, am
officially took leave of his Excellency.—Plymouth Journal
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE,TEB. 14.—Since at
early hour this morning, till six this evening, it bee !nowt.
incessantly, the wind blowing very fresh from the eas!gre:,'
part of the time. Fears are entertained that the roads wil
be so blocked up as greatly to impede all coach
tthiels'g'erlolitinlt.
It has now been a hard frost for about a week,
having a covering of about three arches in snow, prior t.
thei3 i
m s stormr, arrivedth is morning.here
When the Captain left Cuxhaven,
the island of Heligoland, on Tuesday, the heaviest fall (
was two feet in thickness in the Roads. After he had passe,
snow took place at sea, that he ever remembers. It last*.
for several hours. ioi
of the Elbe will be again closed.
In the, drawing-room al Raby Castle, the sei.t
of the Marquis -of CLEVELAND, are two lounging ehab
covered with the skins of a gray and bay hunter ; and ti;
bell-ropes in the same room are composed of foxes' brushes
the handles being gold, representing the same animals' paw;
,"Qunto by loge hods at the ober extremity.
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morning,,trelieng,dootnhtiei
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FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOi

WINDSOR, FEB. 15.—His MAJESTY,
are happy to say, continues in good health and exec.'
spirits ; and is only prevented by the unfavourable sta I
the weather from taking his favourite exercises in the Pa
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THE DUCHESS OF KENT'S a11.A.:, ASSEMBI
1
The Duchess of KENr gave 4i:;.ett'a 4ssernbly 1
night, at her Royal Highness's liiait ‘4ll the Kii
Palace, at Kensington, to a ntnnerousjaise4lage of to
tions and friends, and a large party ofiettims of distincti
to take leave of her beloved datightee),.the Princes:4 Fi
max, who is about to be married in-a few days, and v
shortly afterwards leave England.
The Company began to arrive at this Palace soon of
nine o'clock. The Grand Hall was brilliantly illu►ninati
In the Sub-hall the Band of the. Third Regiment of Fi
Guards, in full uniform, were stationed in an orange shru
bery, surrounded with a variety of other trees, plants, a
flowers. The band played some overtures, and other piece
music, during the night,' and received the different brand
of the Royal Family on their arrival with " God save t
King."

The whole suite of the Duchess's apartments were thrz,u
open on the occasion, and were splendidly illuminati
with a number of superb chandeliers and lustres. Ti
Duchess received her Royal and distinguished Visitors
the saloon.
Among the Company were—
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gs
rence, the Princess Sophia, Prince Leopold, and the Prizr
ccss Sophia Matilda, the Princess Emilie of Carolath, tl
Prince of Hohenlohe Laugenhourg, Prince and Princer
Lieven, Prince and Princess Esterhazy, Prince and Pr in
cess Polignac, the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, en
their Ladies, the Lord Chancellor and the rest of the Ca
binet Ministers, and their Ladies, the Master of the Roll
the Speaker tif the House of 'Con-zincing, the Bishop c
London.
Pail,nts—...tEsterhazy, Lieven, Paul de Lieven, de 1);)
lignac, Puckler Muskaw, De Chemay.
Palscesses--Esterhazy (two), De Lieven, De Po•
lignac.

DUKES--Manchester, Leeds, Wellington, Soule' ,et
Buceleugh, Argyle, Devonshire, Dorset, Gordon, Leimtel
Richmond.

Ductasscs—Argyll, Gordon, Montrose, Richmond
Wellington—Dowager of Richmond. ,
MARQUISES—Lansdowne, Londonderry, De Palinella,
Salisbury, Bath, Thomond, Winchester, Clevelan,l, Chan-
dos, Downshire, Ailesbury, Olanricarde, Douro.
MARCHIONESSES—EmiIy of Londonderry, Cornwallis,
Salisbury, De Palmella, Lansdowne, Londonderry, Tho-
mond, Winchester, Chandos, Downshire, Cianricarde
Dowagers Hertford, Salisbury.
EARLS—Aberdeen, ilatburst, Carlisle, Cawdor, Ches-
terfield, Clare, Cowper, Darnley, -Dudley, Essex, Gower.
Grey, Jersey, Morley, Shaftesbury, Spencer, Wilton, Sef.
ton, Surrey, Eldon, Manvers, Mayo, Jermyn, Euston,
Uxbridge, Leitrim, Brecknock, Mount Charles, T.tkut-
vine, Verulam, Rosslyn.
COUNTESSES—De l'Alcudia, De Ludulff, Munster,
Aberdeen, Bathurst, Carlisle, Cawdor, Cowper, Darnley,
Gower, Jersey, Morley, Clare, Tankerville, Verulam, Wil-
ton, Sefton, Manvers, Surrey, Mayo, Listowell, Mount
Charles, Mount Norris, Leitrim, Uxbridge--Dowagers
Clare,. Dartmouth, Essex, Athlone.
VlSCOUNTS—Beresford, Melville, Templeton, GAF-
rich, Milton, Normanby, Althorp, Palmerston, Berna,(4,
Sidmouth.
ViscomrEsses:-..Hampden, Melville, Bet nard,
Sidmouth.
LoansL—Beerhaven, Ellenborough, Downes, Farnbo-
rough, Hill, Gwydyr, Howard de Walden, King, Lynedoch.
Wharncliffe, Brnce, Ashley, Castlereagh, Clifton, Howick,
Redesdale, Loughborough, Ossulston, Petersham, Apsley,
Eliot, F. L. Gower, Nugent, J. Thynne, Wallace, G.
Seymour, H. Cholmondeley, Calthorpe, J. Russell, Stuart
de Rothrsay, Fitzroy Somerset, Rexley, St. Helens, G.
Cavendish, Alvanley, Ravensworth, Dundas, A. Conyng-
heat Valletort, C. Wellesley.
-druivis—De rA/cudia, Dietreschstein, D'Aglie, Mun-
ster, rtedernlDe Ludelff, Caratshey, 0 I/ Wro zglandes_
0 V,
lob, Di Moltke.
-BARON —De Buloiv, Falck, De Itabayana, De Cetto,
Muncausen.
DoNs—Carlos Mayo, Carvalho.
Baroness Falck.
CHEVALIERS—DedeI, De Roth, De B:edermann, NieL-
mann, De Potemkin.
LADIES—St. Maur, Pages (two), Caroline Stanhope,
Grahams, Sophia Lennox, O'Bryens, C. Thynne, ouletts,
Bruces,' C. Bligh, Cornwallis (two). L Fitzzibbon, U.
Bathurst, E. Cowper; Greys (two), E. Mcunt Edgcumbe,
Astley Coopers, E. Bennett, Legges, C. Grinistorc, Moli-
ueux, J. St. Clair, J. Anneeley, Clement, King, E11c01,0..
rough, Farnborough, Gwydyr, Lindhurst, Wharncliffe,
Eliot,stuart
de
F. L.
Rothesay,GoW
Gower,
FJ.itzTrhoyynsnoern„ekr.seGt,oGrd.onc,4?.e.ndthyi,nottuar_,
vens,wortb, -De Rona, G. de Roos, Dundas, Pulteney, Con-
roy, A. Vane, A. 13eckett, Fremantle, Gardiner, nethelt
Taylor, Hamilton, Macfarlane, H. Campbell, Pringle, .191-
Whitshed, Blackwood, Hope, J. Cost, S. Gresky, L.
Lascelles, C. Wood, C. Lowther, J. Peel, G. Eilie,
A. C. Smith, E. Drummond, IL Howard, G. Wortley.
RIGHT IiONOURABLES—Sir J. Beckett, Sir W. he
mantle, Sir G. Warrender, Sir G. Cockburn, Vii, V.-.
Keppel, J. Abercrombie, W. J. V. Fitzgerald, H. cool--
burn, C. Grant, J. C Herries, W. Huskisson, B. Pei],
C. Arbuthnot, 'G. Tierney.
HONOURABLES..4I. C. Spencer, Berkeley l't‘r,•et,' P.
Gust, C. Cust, R. Grosvenor, H. Lascelles, E. Statile% ,
General Bligh, R. Dundas, Colonel Lowther, Coloilel
L. Dawson, Colonel Lincoln Stanhope, Major Keppel. C.
Ellis, 1L•. Mligh.
EJ e. nilsk
oitanN: o.
enil,t:llsLlTriad.
MISTRESSES—J.
sez
411., Ili I. .AdeeRoos,
Dawsonr oAbercrombie,
;bAi
eitcyj
s.
11,
Dundas.

Stits—J Beresford, J. Sebright, A. Barnard, 11. Pat tie!,
B. Martin, R. Gardiner, J. Watson, W. J. Hope, H.
Taylor, J. Hamilton, R. 31Tarlane, W. Jolliffe, H.
Campbell, W. Gordon, J. Whitshed,'W. Pringle, A. Hope,
J. Pechell, R. Gresley, H. Blackwood.
GENERALS--.Bailey, Wetherell, White.
COLONELS—Wood, keate,M'Neil, Chapman, Aiteheaor..
MeJons—Junes, Forster, Dundas, De Roos.
CAPTAlNS—Stephens, Parry.
MEssas.—Mitford, Conroy, J. F. Lewis, G. Luding-
ton, A. Stanhope, S. Hope, R. Abercrombie, A. Baring,
C. Brownlow, Caleraft, Calcraft, jun., Pallmer, Lawrence
Peel, Lawrence, Spencer Perceval, Planta, G. Dawson,
Deckhouse, R. W. Hay, F. Baring, De Roos, Culling
Smith, Wetherell, Phillips, W. Y. Peel, Drummond, F.
Howard, G. Bankes, Wortley, William Wynn, HtL,kissoo,
Peel, Goulburn.

MisznEsses—Wetherall, 11'Neil, A. Stanhope, A. J3/3t
Palirner, W. Wynn, F. Baring, C. Arbuthnot, Smith,
G. Bankes, Tierney, Howley.
MADEMOISELLES—De Frigola, Falck.
Misszs—Dundas, Upton, Elphinstone, Drummond Bur-
rell, King, Mitford, Addington (two), Seymour, Cavez-
dish, Liddell, De Roos (two), Stuart, Conroy, Howaid
Heprrvine);,l4S,ebpriagghet,t Hamilton (t
White, Ca'F'
o),
White, Wood,
f,tewl wt
s bl Howley,
M'Neil, Baring, Jenkinson (two), W. Wynn, Arbuthnot,
Fitzroy, Cotes (two), Vyse, S. Winyard, Johnston, Hat'.

owing to the inclemency ef
There were present only :
THE COUNTESS OF ESSEX'S Rll—
Lord -Sr-
tOhne
night,l'hurs draeyryetvheinnilnyga,
ttewnads,e3.
—The Marchioness Dowager of SALISBURY, Baron Da
, Lady TANCIItD, Miss JoirNes,
CErru, Lady DEERING, d ,
cARAsCHAI,
the Misses BL.tcxwELLs
LUTA:Ns, Dowager Lady FL',;Cl::°Audl'niiral KErreer,, MIS.
KEPPELL, Viscount and 'v iscountess D'ANSHALD, Hon.
who arrived here as -
Mrs. Malin's SrAhliorE, Mr, tr
aIAILT DAVIS.
courier at the beginning of.
the year, at Chandos House.
will return as courier to Vienna, on the arrival of Prince
zieantc, who
ScnicAll is daily expected from Lisbon.
the Count's Stay
Duringhere, we understand, that he has been invited to fashionable parties in the haul ton.
The LI'rERAR G
Y AZErTE of Saturday the 7,
,6th presents an Engraving of the King's Palace in St.
Count
Jame S's Park, as it has just been commanded by his Majesty
to lie altered from its present form ; with a, description
and remarks Amongthe other two Original '.
contents are
Poems by L. E. L. ; an account of important recent di,.
eoveries with regard to Currents of Air; and a Biographical .::
Sketch of the late Lady Caroline Lamb. The chief novel_
~,1
ties ill Reviews are Bishop Heber's Journey in India, with
copious extracts; Critique on Mr. Davies adheres editions -,
of two ancient Cot nish Poems, and quaint exauiples.of the
Spirit of these old Moralities; Annesley on the Diseases of -'L::
India; Moore's National Airs, with half a dozen orihe
..:.?
' the Abbattoirs,
songs;or Question of Butcheries in Lon- ,"
dun ; Rossetti's Dante, . &c. &c. The Literary News,
Criticisms on the Fine Arts and Drains, Scientific.
Notices, Varieties, &c. &c., are store than usually abundant t;-:
and interesting.—Published every Saturday, by W. A. 4s
Scalers, No. 7, Wellington-street, Strand, and I', South "...-
Moulton-street, price Bd. ;or stamped, for Country Cir- ,„
culation by Post, Is.—°,,* The Literary Gazette is also
i.O
published in Monthly and Quaiterly Parts, for the conve-
nience of exportation, and of those who have only oc- ::,....4,1
easional opportunities of receiving it. The Part for ."`,ll,
January, containing four numbers, price 25. Bd. stitched, :N.
nay now be had.

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THE APIRIT Or TqE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

I
A =appears to -us altogether impossible for the
D alce..of Wellington arid. for. Lord- Hill to remain' in
tekeir present oaces. The acceptance of the First
lordship of the Treasury was, on the part of the
Commander-in-Chief, an act alike destitute of taste
and judgment, even had he never proclaimed, as he
did so recently, his own sense of his unfitness for
the trust. In the teeth, however, of such a declara-
tion as that of the 2d of May, 1827," what but-his
utter want of all consistency and decency could ren-
-der it credible, that on the t)th of the following
afenuary,—after an inters's?. of not quite nine months,
—the same nobleman, the self-condemned and in-
. capacitated Duke ',of Wellington, would take his
seat as Pri•me Minister of the realm ? Of the
public who - gazed at this phencimenop, 'without
. bestowing on it the (hie. measure 'of -early repro-
bation, there were some who took 'for granted that
his gave would disclose a number of reasons of
such weight and cogency, establiehingsuch a change
of circumstance, or such a rase of necessity, as might
relieve him from the ban Which be had pronounced
against 'himself; ter prove the nation to be so void of
Statesmen, and consequently of materials for choke,
that the Prime Minister least liable to okjection in.
3894 Was he who in 1827 had been " wholly out
of the question,".te4m a consciousness of his own
unfitness. Oiliots there were, who, from attaching
the: idea of the Duke of Wellington's ineligibility fol.
ethigh del office to his military habits and position
chiilles, were in sonic degree satisfied on hearing
fremliis own mouth that he had resigned the post
which connected him with the army; thence infer-
ring, that he would maintain the civil government
without drawing, on the military chest. We be-
looged to both these classes of spectators, and to a
third class also. We expressed from the first a hope.
that the Duke would say. something to recon-
cile his acts of the month of January ivith
his professions of the preceding .May ; and we.
spoke out broadly our demand of a real honafide re-
signation. Now the Duke has neither explained
nor resigned. lie speaks of hie" reluctance" to be
Prime Minister,. and proves that .rcleceatice by ac-
c-epting the office. He tells the Parl:ement that he
has " resigned the army,"; aml he still directs it
through the -subserviency of his Own L cuterent.-e-
But the Duke -has, likewise di3appo sted and re-
volted that "third hotly of political observers, at
which we have slightly hinted just above; for it is
certain that if one, consideration incite than any, or
:all othees put. together, induced reflecting men to
vilope, to wait, and to forbeer, when they learned
filet we had got a -soldier at the head of a free
Covet/merit, it was the knowledge that two or
three distiuguished by a reputation for
liberal politics, had conseuted to become- his col-
leagues, and a general confidence that such men
would not have joined the new Cabinet but
with a reasetialAc seemmuty for its adherence
to the apnie of that system, and of tie mea-ures,
ro eehich they' had pledged their own characters,l
and which they founded their chime to
7;airelarity, that led the enlightened part of the
yeeople of England to postpone at least an expres-
aam of their alarm or distrust at the return to power
Nef those courtiers who had long 'abused it. But
these inducements to a fiteelurable-apticipation of the
course and result:; of the recent change are impaired,
at least, since Monday evening, if they be not ex-
tsheguished eleegether. Mr. iluekiseon, ii, confirma-
tion of the 'almost uniyereal hope, had ammunced to
eanetitnents at .Liveipool,—an intelligent and
powerful body in this kingdom,—that he would not
have joined the :existing Onvernment without ob-
taining " guarantees" • for the prosecution of that
policy to which his deceased friend ton! himself were
alike committed. Perhaps the word " emu-el:tee"
was not well chosen,--perhaps it might be felt (and
•:iiiieed it was felt) as. a sale of degradation to the
Feemier,—perhups " assurances" might hate. done
as well, sin! would not have been quarrelled with
at head-quarters,----perhaps, too, " ail underhand-
ag" (the phrase employed by Lou) Dudley)
might have equally satisfied the people uti Li-
verpool, and might hot have been offeeeive to
the Duke : but look at the consequence,' and
at the preeent condition of affairs. If. the
Duke of Wellingtbil had ,neighed disct'eetly
the feelinge and principles which now *mate this
empire, he would have seised—he would have
snatched—the precious opportunity afforded hien by
Lh.td Cernarven s motion, to confirm, in their fullest
extent, the assertions made by Mr.'Huskissob ; and
thus to vindicate the title of his new-born Govern-
ment to the national favour and good-will. The
Duke of Wellington took, unhappily, an opposite
course : he did not cherish or encourage any one of
the hopes held out by his able colleague at Liver-
pool. He flatly contradicted the welcome declara-
tions of Mr. Huskieeon, and denied that be himself
was botind to his country by a single pledge.. Well,
then, if we take the Duke at his word Let us
sink, for a moment, the question as, heteeeet( his
GraA:e and Mr. Huskissole—one of personal cha-
racter, and therefore of importance, DO' +inlet,- hut
still of secondary importance to another,—amh let
Us task, how stand his Chace and
_the new' Govern-
inent with the nation, as compared with the ground
which was occupied by them before the Doke Made
Its unfortunate speech on Monday' Why, We 'erre
compelled to say that Mr. Huskisson's declarations
had conferred upon the Government the strongest
chains 'it possessed to public confidence, and that the
Duke of Wellington has divested himself and his
ministry of that title. It is a Tory Cabinet, not re-
deemed, eas had been looked for, by one liberal en-
gagement; and aggravated, by something very like
a breach of promise, . into an Admioietration of the
sword.—Tinzes.

The proceedings of the House of • Commons lust
night presented the most signal disappointment of
public expectation within recollection, or even upon
record. The Finance Committee was moved for
and appointed, and not one word of explanation pro-;
ceeded iron) the months of either of the Right Hon.:
Gentlecicn, whose disputes upon this subject drove
Lord Goderich in despair down to the King,' at
Windsor, and broke up the last Ministry, of which
his Lordship was chief. The same ova gentlemen
mire not only in the new Ministry, but arc upon this
very vommittee, the formation of which was such a
bone of contention between them. We suppose
they have both had a drilling. Mr. Huskisson was
placed on the committee unwillingly, where, never-
ill be glad to see him, if he has
theless, the public
tune to act ; and it is not improbable, we pre-
sume, that Lord Althoff) may be Chairman. The
ff,llowing is 'an abstract of • what took place in
the House :—Not a Wbrd being said when Mr. Hdr-
ries's name was. proposed, and all the 17 being
voted *Without a remark, Mr. Bering got up and
complained of the omission of Mt% Hushisson'sname,
on account of the Right Hon. Gentleman's know-
ledge and experience. Mr. Peel said that he had
refused on account of his want of health and want
of time; and that Mr. Brougham had done so for
the latter reason. Whereupon Mr. Brougham joined Mr.
Mr. Baring in urging the propriety- of Mr. Huskisson
},eing .on the Committee, and'6aid that he thought
.t useful, " whatever might have been that
,Itight
Hon. Gentleinurt's late conduct, and Whatever might
be the explanation he was goinm to give of it." But
not On e d of explanation “infowC6. To have
put Mr. !ferries on the Committee, and left Mr.
Huskisson out, tvould have been very bad indeed :
not " too bad," but very bad.—lbid.

. .
Many bf our readers will he this day disappointed,
when they find that our Parliamentary Report con-
tains none of the explanations which, according to
fame, were to have been made last night in tho
House of Commons. We ourselves expected none,
from the moment we heard that Mr.' Huskisson hail
taken possession of his new house in Downing-street.
It became then clear that I'ies6rs. Huslosson and
Herrics had satisfied each other : and it is only when
men ate dissatisfied with each other that they ex-
plain, that is to say, app.:al to the tribunal of the
public. These two Gentlemen could not well make
any statement without being in t,oinething like a ,
hostile attitude to each other; and, therefore, they

have either followed the Christian example of Lord
Dudley, of abjuring the sacred duty of immortalizing
hatred, or have taken the hint from the leeture.read
by the Duke of Wellington to the Colonial Secre-
tary on Monday, that explanations were not
to his mind, and .:Prudently abstained from' all
indulgence of resentment for the present.—
Men of cultivated or uncultivated intellects
are more alike in essentials than is commonly sup-
posed. It is not so much strength of intellect as
strength of will that carries the day in human affairs;
and henee a man, who puts no restraint on himself,
but is determined to have his way, will often awe
much cleverer men into submission to him. The
late Cabinet under Lord Goderich were like children
under a too -indulgent parent, of whom they stand
in no awe, and revelled in the luxury of Hobbes's
state of Nature,. quarrelling luStily with each other.
The Duke of Wellington, on the other hand, is like
the stern pedagogue, in he awe of whose presence
all ebullition is suppresSed. The blunt and
spoken man has a great'advantage in the world over
men of delicate habits and mild manners. He can
always tell his Mind; and timid or undecided people,
knowing that he will tell his mind, often shrink from
all such manifestations as will place them in collision
with him. Hence the advantage of having Lord Lau-
ihrdale to carry any measure through Parliament. He
-,tands on no ceremony, attacks one, solicits another,
awes a third, takes no,refusal ; rt nd the consequence is,
that though there are several abler men in the House-
of Peers than his Lordship, there is not one who is
.r) successful in the adaptation of means to ends, or
..irrying his point. The Duke of Wellinston is un-
derstood to be a blunt man, and much is tolerated
from him that would not be tolerated from another.
"tjany people thought that the unceremonious way
-in which he set upon -Mr. HirskissOn; on -Monday
night, would lead to a fracas; just as many people
iiipposed that the beatincr. which. the Turks re-
,Tived at Navarin would. lead to the massacre of
every Frank throughout the East; but the Duke
linew his man, it seems, just as it has tinned out
!.hat the Allies knew the people they had to deal
ith. Let this .example be a warning to all Who
spire to rule Cabinets, to avoid the sin of over-
;ildulffence and execs-Ave good nattne.--Atorning

Mr. Peel brought forward last night his motion
';mr a Finance Committee, and, afterwards proposed
Committee composed of names, so unexception-
:ble in all respects, that opposition was necessarily
,ileeeed. Mr. Tieruey is at the.head of the List,
eid few men of experience in business of any name in
the House are excluded. The-Financial state of the
,euntry for the last two year. has been sufficiently
410oiny, • and we are hardly warranted in looking to
my great improvement of the Revenue for the fu-
ture. In fact, when -we lay aside the use of hocus
peas tricks, of which the object is to conceal the
situation of affairs flout the multitude, and
tate, the Income and Expenditure of the coun-
i-cy as a private individual would state his in-
eonie and expenditure, we find that at this present
•imment there is a considerable deficit. There are but
two ways of removing deficits—either raising the
Revenue to the level of the Expenditure, or lowers
ing the Expenditure to .the level of the Revenue.
l'o raise the Revenue, -in the present state of the
country, is impossible. We have, then, only to
!ewer the Expenditure. In the establishment of a
.nan of fortune, it is the rule that every servant acts
is if he thought he could not be too extravagant if
sae kept within his master's income, forgetting that
there are other departments to be provided • for be,
,ides has o vn. This, according to Mr. Peel, is pre-
,isely what takes place in time case of the nation:---
`` I think, Sir (he said), that I may very fairly as-
sume, tiotwithstanditig what may be supposed by
some of the Honourable Gentlemen opposite, that
the increase of the public expenditure has been oc-
easioned by very laudable motives.. I hear that the
Directors of the various public departments, natu
rally proud of the efficiency, of-their respective
establishtneuts, are anxious to maintain that
efficiency, without, perhaps, a sufficient re-
ference to the general expenditure." Thus
he cook thinks only of the honours .of the
kitchen, and thinks his Grace's reputation would be
lost for ever, if the best pat t of the income did not pass
through his hands. Hounds, horses, wines, hot-houses,
every-one charged with these respective departments
,deulates them according to the whole income. Mr.
Peer -sav4 he most sincerely believes " that the
Noble Duke who is now arthehead of the Treasury
has both the disposition and the power tocontroul
ill the subordinate depot (merits to an extent greater
than was ever possessed by any man in this country.
• . . That the Noble Individual in question
will exercise the power advantageously to the public
no one can doubt who has observed his conduct in
the various civil offices, the Ordnance, &e..which he
has hitherto filled; and in all of which he has
evinced a disposition to introduce every possible re-
trenchment compatible with the interests •of the
countre.". We shall see how far the Duke realises
these anticipations. it must be said in praise of
military men, that when they set about any thing,
they. often go through with .it, threeving down
all obstacles in their way with very little
ceremony. Thus. we have alwaysbeen assured,
That Lord St. Vincent, during the short-time he was
at the head.of the Admiralty, did more • good in the
way of clearing the Au; can stable, than a Civilian
would have done in a life-time. -1h went straight
forward to his end, turning aside neither to the right
nor to the left. He threw the whole host of pht-
derers into consternation, allowing of no subterfuges
or evasions. If the Duke take Lord St. Vincent for
-his model, and avail himself of that power which
Mr. Peel says he has, in cutting down without cere-
-1 inony our establishments, so as to bring the expen-
diture within due limits, the public will be disposed
to forgive his 'short speeches, and may even be re-
conciled to his monopoly of both the purse and the
tword. Mr. Peel firet proceeds to take the Revenue
of the country for five years, and the Expenditure
for five years, and during that period certainly there
has been a considerable surplus of Revenue. He
afterwards takes the two years of 1826. and 1827,
excluding- in'thc Revenue the Dead Weight, &c.;
and exchdinf, in the Expenditure payments for Sink-
ing Fund,'lfead'Weight, &c. ; and he makes the

Balance of Revenue oveilixpenditure in 1826...X118,000
in 1827... 94,000

Ditto

The Financial state of the
,country is exhibited
very clearly in a small pamphlet just published by
Mr. Ridgway, under the title of " A Plain State-
ment of some Particulars of the Financial Situation
of the United Kingdom," &c. In the following,
passage he elucidates successfully the state of mat-
ters, if we throw the Bank entirely out of considera-
tion :—" Besides (he says) another, and most im-
portant point, to which I have not ye; adverted, re-
mains to be considered ; I allude to the termination,
in the present year, of the payments which have
been made for the last six years by the Bank of
England to the Government, on account of that part
of the Pension Annuity which the Bank purchased.
These payments have amounted to the following
sums in each year since
.182:3, and have virtually
been a Loan to the Crown to that amount, in pur-
chase of an Annuity of
1823 to 1867 : .585,0001. per annum, front

1823 £2,178,589
1824
1825
1826
1827 .,,, 2,030,740

1828
The last of these payments will 1)7e5'1-3)171 in July
nelt, when the result of that part of the Dead
Weight Schetne'..Avill be that the Government has
received from the Bank, during the last six years, as
above stated, the sum of 13,089,419/., for which
they have paid and are to pay an annuity of the
amount befere stated for forty-four years, from Api il,
1823. Thus it is evident that unless the Govern-
ment - sell a further portion if the annuity 01
2,800,000/. originally proposed to be sold (of which
the 585,000/. Is a part), but which, as the scheme
has met with the general condemnation it deserves,
is not likely to be detertnined.upon, a ftJther dimi
tuition of income to the amount which has been paid

by the Bank of England, in each of the last six
) ears, must take place next year. The cessation of
these payments will, supposing the actUal'llevenue
ilot to increase, turn the balance of7the account, and
there will be an actual deficit of incorne-to.meet the
eXpenditure, exclusive of the sum established as the
Sinking Fund. For example,
_if we abate the pay-
inent made by the Bank in
.1.827, from. the total in-
..ome of the country, instead of having a surpluA of
1,132,0001., we find that the income was less than
the expenditure, exclusive of sinking Fund, by the
large amount of 898,000/. viz. :
rapeuditure of 1827, exclusive of Sinking
• Finnt £53,800,000

Total Income
,11

A:54,932,0W
U Bank of b:?,902,000

bate payment by Jam. of
England :2,030,000

Deficit £898,000"
It is quite clear that the Finance Committee will not
commence their labours one whit too soon, and that
the earlier the pruning knife is resorted to the better.
—lbid.

Last night Mr. Peel brought forward his motion
respecting the appointment of a Finance Committee.
The Riabt Hon. Seeretary prefaced it with a brief
history of the former . Finance .Committees, which,
by a coincidence as singular as it was fortuitous,
have been regularly appointed. every ten. years for
the last forty years. He. then investigated the state
ef the income and expenditure for the last five years,
and many of his statements on. this part of. his sub-
jeet, are highly. satisfactory.. The.positivc excess . of
income over expenditure for the, last five yearS, not,
7ithsta»ding the pressure of two. of them, perhaps
sve might say of three, hes amounted to twelve mil-
lions. This is areal bond:fide- Sinlcing
,Fund. The
actual sum which has been placed the hands of
.the Commissiones for the Ireduction'Of the National
Debt, 'during that period, antounts to nearly thirty
millions, the additional eighteen millions bovine.
been made up by the arrangement respecting theri
Dead Weight, by the reduction of Exchequer ba-
linces, and by monies raised for the purpose;, but the
real diminution which has been effected is the
point to which we refer, with most pleasure. It
proves, indeed, that We have no such Sinking Fund
as was contemplated in .1815; but it also proves,
contrary to what has been repeatedly asserted, that
there is a real Sinking Fund, and that it is not all a
delusion. The reduction of the interest of the Na.!ional Debt since 189.2, is equally satisfactory.; and
the more so, as in this case, as well as in the other,
the official statement ef.the Right Honourable Secre-
tary stands opposed. to those which the cavillers
against Government have so repeatedly made. - The
reduction, as compared with 1822, amounts in round
numbers to a million and a quarter, and that
it, is not .casual is obvious; for, on being com-
pared with 1815, the reduction is two millions
and. three quarters.- The . next gratifying point
of the. Right Honourable Secretary's statement is
that which refers to the Estimates of the current
yeer. These are not, of course, to be received, as
true to a few thousands ; but that is. perhaps the
utmost of excess or diminution between these gene-
calculations and the More minute and detailed
•tatements which will be laid before the House.
The total amount of 'the Estimates for the year
1828, exceeds what was deemed by the Finance
Committee a fair prospective estimate, by only the
trifling sum of two hundred thousand pounds, while
they are lower than those of the last year by no less
than twelve hundred thousand ! The members of
the Committee have been selected with but one
view—the fitness of the individuals for the arduous
duties imposed on them. The number moved by
Mr.-Peel was twenty-two, to which, on the sugges-
tion of Mr. Baring,.. was added, the name of Mr.
tiuskisson. In arranging them we shall have recourse
to a somewhat different method than that fol-
lowed by the Rights Honourable Secretary. Among
the twenty-three there are fourteen Whigs. and
Liberaln,.partly belonging to -the right side and
partly to the left side of the House. These are,
Lord Althorp, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Hume, Lord
Howiek, Mr. Maberly, Sir M. W. Ridley, Mr. Stan-
ley, Sir J. Newport, Sir H. Parnell, Mr. V. Fitz-
gerald, Mr. Baring, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Huskisson, Mr.
W. Horton; while of the Tories there are only nine,
lamely, Mr. Goulburie, Mr. Ashurst, Lord Lowther,
.‘fr. H. Drummond, Mr. 13ankes, Sir E. Knatelt-
bull, Mr. Herries, Mr. Littleton. We indeed should
doubt, were it not perhaps desirable that no politi-
aal feeling; should mingle with their deliberations,
whether the composition of the Committee were not
too fair ? One thing is obvious—Ministers will not,
and do not, seek in any way to tratinnel its opera-
:ions ;. arid, indeed, by their selection of the above.
individuals, they have put away the power, should
they at any tune be .seized with the wish, to du
so. Again, looking to the Committee in another
point of view—there is the agricultural interest of
Kngland represented by Sir E. Knatehlatill and Lord
Althorp ; that of Scotland, by Mr. Home Drum-
mond ; that of Ireland, by Sir H. Parnell. • The
Stockholders have Mr. Baring to look after their in-
teresta ; the East India Company, Mr. Ward ; the
weavers, Mr. Stanley ; and-the Committee itself will
be, checked by •Mr. Hunie.- We can easily, indeed,
believe, that to that gentleman last night .was the
inost delightful of his Parliamentary existence. He
will be as happy wading through-the accounts which
.others behold with dismay, as Dominic Sampson
was in the library of Ellangowan. Ilte powers of
the Committee, as was stated by Mr. Peel on a
former night, will be in every respect as ample as
those of any former One. It will not be precluded,
as it seemed to be the opinion of Mr. Huskisson it
should be, from - considering, %vith a view to. their
financial regulation, any of the numerous establish-
ments of the country. And, although Mr. Peel well
remarked, that in -many eases whore circumstances
called for secrecy some material &Merit of a
just judgment would be wanting, we are as-
sured that in such cases only, and they are not nu.-
melons in a time or. peace, will the Committee feel
any deficiency of data ; and even there every thing
that Government can counnuoicate with safety to
the State will.be communicated freely. There are
one or two particulars which Mr. Peel indicates as
more especially calling for the Committee's notice;
among these are the Consular Department, which
has been rapidly growing in magnitude and expence
of late years. We shall say a very few words on
this. Consuls are now. paid by salaries alone; this
is one of the novelties of modern reformers. It
no doubt, improper to leave the amount of his fees
to the caprice.of any public officer; -but because fees,
in many Instances, demanded regulation, it was ne
reason whatever for abandoning the system alto-
gether. The heavy expense which is entailed on
Government by the change
from fees to sa-
laries, may at once be got rid of, with in-
finite advantage to the public convenience, by simply
having recourse to the old plan of letting
the Consuls be paid for their services by those
who require them. Let the fees be fixed, and let
the slightest attempt at exaction, further than the
law authorises, be punished with instant aed pe-
remptory dismissal; and we shall not only greatly
diminish our expenses, but greatly increase the va-
lue of our officets. Nor would we stop short with
Consuls, but revive the system of fees in every de-
partment., and diminish the salaries in proportion.
The departure from it has been productive of much
carelessness and sauciness on the part of the sa-
laried officiary, and with a degree of inconvenience
infinitely outweighing the petty saving to those who
required his assistance. On the military defences of
the Colonies, it is not easy to speak very decidedly,
for it is a difficult and complicated subject. A Co-
lony is to be i iei"ed in its relative,.as well as in its
direct value. It is net so much what this or that
island may advantage England, as what, if in the
hands of a rival or a foe, it might disadvantage
her. There- is one intolerable expence, which we
conceive might, by a series of well-planned mea-
sures, be got rid of---ave mean the expellee of
transporting troops to the Colonies, which calls
for a large establishment at home, beyond what
the wants of the Mother Country require, and the
loss of men by which the present system is accom-
panied. We would endeavour gradually to recruit '

~11 our Colonial Regiments in the Colonies which
they ate to defend. The Officers, and, perhaps,
even the -Subalterns, should be Europeans; but,
with the precedent of the sepoys in India, it is evi-•
dent that there is no necessity for white skins among
:he 111(.11. We'have no dotibt that among the free
blacks .and half castes in the West Indies, a military
fOrce might be found, as faithful and brave as in the
.East. There was another point, which though not
directly connected with their labours, rises naturally
nut -of them, and, indeed, is essential to carrying
them forward, .which Mr. Peel very earnestly press-
ed on the attention'of the Committee; namely, a sim-
plification of the mode of keeping the national ac-
counts. We confess, much as this seems to have
puzzled successive Finance • Ministers, we never
:•ould see the slightest difficulty, if there existed
the slightest wish, to post the accounts of the na-
tion every Saturday night, as easily as the accounts
:f `every merchant in town. We are persuaded
that if left to the unassisted labours of. halt' a dozen
of plain desk men, the'desire of Mr. Peel might be
,lecomplished in six months, and a plain form &fawn
for all future Chancellors of the Exchequer, which
would defy the blundering-of the thickest headed
Ireinber that ever sat in- the House again to puzile.
We have given, in addition to the plum and sensible
,peech of the Right Honourable Secretary, the
Financial Statement, from which be so frequently
quoted in the course of his speech, and which could
not •have been given in so *detailed a form there,.
without very materially injuring its continuity.—
New Times.

We wish Mr. Hume won't" move for a proper
return of the- Sinking Fund ACcount Current for the
last year. We mean an account that should sho*,
on the debtor side, what had been received by the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt,.from
dividends, and on the creditor side the appropriation
of the sums so received. The account • which has
been lately exhibited is not a Sinking Fund Account,
but a Treasury Account.—Morning Herald.
Mr. Secretary Peel, on bringing forward the sub-
ject of the -Finance Committee in the House of
Commons last night, entered into au elaborate and
luminous view of the present Financial State of the.
Country : disdaining to disguise. in the remotest de-
gree any fact whatever, bearing upon the publicser-
viceand expenditure ; and justly 'observing that no
good was -to be derived from a suppression of . the
truth or an attempt to mystify the real state of af-
fairs. In stating the incumbrances,- he alluded in
the first instance to the provision for which the
country was bound by. every principle 'of honour and
honesty ; observing 'that under all circumstances, and
whatever might be our difficulties, faith with the
public creditor must be kept. He then proceeded
to detail with the utmost accuracy, the whale of the
incumbrances, the revenue, and the expenditure, of
the last five years ; and without entering into a par-
ticular prospective view of what the revenue might
be for the next year, he stated the gratifying fatt
that the estimate of the expenditure would be
less than. that of last year by •1,168,0001.
With respect •to the army, it was deter-
mined to propose some reduction in the present
amount of their forces. This reduction would take
place in the number of men, and the number to be
reduced Was 5,000. By a reduction on the prin-
ciple intended to lie acted upon there would -be a
saving of expense in the way of. pension's. He
lately had a conversation with his Noble Friend at
the head of the Foreign Department, and he was
happy to be-able to state, that it was the intention
of his Noble Friend, if possible, to effect a reduc-
tion in the expenditure arising from their foreign
missions. ConFiderable reductions in the expendi-
ture of the Colonial Establishments were also in-
tended ; but he would_ studiously avoid touching,
upon any of those complicated questions of poli-
tical economy which could lead to no satisfactory
result, and confine himself merely to practical
yietti s.Fire Right Honourable Secretary then
proceeded to explain ,the powers ' under which
the Committee were to act (which "will be
found to be exactly the same as what we
stated a day or two ago), pledging himself
that Government should be ready to communicate
every information respecting the various establish-
ments, which might be• deemed necessary to enable
the Committee, to form a correct judgment; and as-
suring the House, on the part of the present Admi-
nistration, that they were most decidedly inclined
to act•uport a principle of economy in every branch
of the public expenditure, solar as they thought it
could be acted upon consistently with the great
principle of still supporting the honour and interests
of the country. The disposition to economy on she
part of the Noble Duke at the head of the Govern-
ment was manifest, and the hopes entertained of
him would not he disappointed. After some ob-
servations froin Mr. -Hume and others, the Com-
mittee was appointed.—lt will be seen by the list,
that it is; conStititted.in the best manner poSsible for
the intended purpose, and that no party views or
considerations have been yielded to on the. occa-
sion.—Morning Post.