The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, Auc. 16.—With the exception of a few
occasional showers, the weather, during the greater part
of the past week, has been favourable for the harvest, and
cutting is now very general throughout this district, but a
vet), small proportion of the crop is yet secured ; and, as
the accounts from various parts of the country are unfa-
vourable, holders have evinced much firmness, and prices
have been fully supported.
In bonded Wheat several purchase* have been made, at
an advance of 2d. to 3d. per bushel. and the greater part
of the late imports of United States' Flour have changed
hands at full prices.
British Plantation Sugar continues in very good demand
for the home trade, and upwards of 1,600 hhds. have
been sold, consisting. chid), of middling and good grocery,
at full prices ; also 300 bags good white Bengal at 745. 6d.
per cwt. Nothing done in Foreign ; our refiners de not
seem inclined to work under the present regulations, and
there is little inquiry for export ; our stock is,. however,
very small. About 50 poncho. only of Demerara Molasses
have been sold at 245. 6d. per cwt. The business done in
Coffee is again confined to the home 'trade ; the sales
amount to 120 tees. Jamaica at former rates. In Cocoa,
Ginger, and Pimento, nothing done ; there is some iii
quiry for the latter article at Sd. to Sid. per lb. About
120 punchs. Rum have been sold; common Leewards at
2s. 2d., and strong. Demerara at 3s. Bd. to 3s. 9d. per
gallon.

HARVEST.—The wheat is cutting down in
all Nils of this neighhourhood—:fair tamplA have been
offered for sale in our market at. Is. 2d. -per stone.— Tip-
perary Free Press.

The price of Potatoes is lower 'at the present
time than •we ever recollect them to have 'been at this
period of the year. About three or four weeks since great
quantities were brought over from Ireland, but they are
cheaper here now than they are in- Belfast, as we see by
the Belfast Mercantile Register, that they are retailing in
that town at 6d. per peck, while they are selling here at
51—Glasgow Chronicle.

We understand that BYERS, the informer,
has been lately down at Margate, laying informations
against the different coach-rasters; had he succeeded to
his expectations he would hare cleared 300/, as it is, he
came off with 30/.

PORSoN ON MORAL AND PHYSICAL EVIL.
There was a large company, and the Doctor (Paha)
addressed POKSON nearly in these words :--" Mr. Poasox,
pray what do yon think'about the introduction of moral
and physical evil into the world ?" This was a knotty
question.
Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant.
PORSON, after a moment's pause for reflection, answered
with great solemnity, or dryness of manner Why,
Doctor, I think, we should have done very well without
them.' ".-13arker's Parriana.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FRO i'DIES.)

and many of them It will he seen from our city article, what a cruel
position the respectable and wealth;, body of British
subjects resident at Madeira,
pro-
prietors of estaCe's on that island, have been placed
in by the Government towhich' they had naturally
looked for a policy more fitted protect them.
The Foreign Secretary for England ha's notified an
effeefiilf blockade of Madeira by the usurper
He therefore fegalites, or disclaims the right of im-
pugning, any acts of direct hostility which Miguel
may perpetrate against the local etehorities in Don
Pedro's interest. But the chief of these neathorities
—Valdez, the Governor---insists that the English
residents must either split the island, or aid in the
defence of it by tress. When the representatives of
this unfortunate body of eire countrymen apply to
the King's Government for instructions how to act,
they are told to " remain neutral," in which case
" ptOteetion will be afforded to them." But we
beg leave to ask, what will be the amount or where
the efficacy of any stich " protection ?" If some of
the English residents embrace the alternative of de-
parting from ti.e'r homes and abandoning their pro-
perties, does the Government pledge itself to make
good whatever loss they may sustain from robbery
or confiscation ? If others of stronger nerves remain
behind and fight, will the British Government, in
case of the island falling, permit the fortunes of its
subjects to be spoiled, and their heads cut off with
impunity; or without a previous declaration to Don
Miguel, that he mtiet not dare to use violence to
British subjects ? It is . desirable, we conceive, to
settle, and indeed to promulgate beforehand, whatl
may be the course of policy resolved on by the King's
Ministers with regard to their fellow-citizens in Ma-
deira, because the present embarrassment, attended
as it has been by so many humiliating and provoking
circumstances, arises from an act of the Admini-
stration, as needless on the ground of consistency,
as it has been imbecile in policy, and false in prin-
i ciple. A notification of an eflective blockade of
either Oporto or Madeira, ought not to have been
issued until the fact was ascertained that the blockade
was really efireetive. Even in the case of Oporto;
;ze have reason to believe that at the moment when
aler "
such zle was notified, measures had not been
effective" one, for that the
not as to prevent the
theft
force
krebenl
oot
frcoa.re the harbour was..
:rchant-vessel what-
the blockade.
entrance of the exit of any ni
soever. But in respect of Madeira,
uotitied as " effective" was, arld is yet, a. the last
accounts from Lisbon communicate, rtething
than a " paper" blockade, not a ship of the intended
expedition having by possibility arrived off the
island. It was, then, we say, not required by even
the most pedantic adherence to the principle of
" effective" blockades, that the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs in England should have exhibited
such extreme alacrity in notifying as a blockade
which British subjects would be bound to obey, that
which had substantially no existence but on paper,
and against which, therefore, our merchants would
have a right to be protected. It would have been
a more praiseworthy•condoct in this Government,
to deny the fact of the alleged blockade,• until,
sending a man of war to Madeira, the reality of it
had been placed beyond question. This would have
been more favourable to English commerce—to
English-feeling—to preparations for defence by the
honest Governor of Don Pedro—and in all respects
to the constitutional cause of Portugal; but it is no
doubt consistent that to the last, as from the first,
the system of " neutrality" and of ":non-inter-
ference" should be so construed by those .who pro-
fessed it, and so adroitly managed, as in every case
during the year 1828 to serve the cause of usurpa-
. tion and despotism, and to inflict a wound—now,-at
length, we fear a mortal one—on the mangled fraMe
both of legitimacy and of freedom. With, its own
interference on behalf of Greece before the eyes of
the British Government, what it can mean by
preaching up as inviolable the duty of non-inter-
ference in defence of Don Pedro, the most ancient
ally of Great Britain, and her only friend in the west
of Europe, whose preservation is in every view of
rational policy a thousand times more important to
us than that of Greece, others, if they know how,
may elucidate. The subject is one which no true
Englishman can think of svithont shame and alarm.
CITY ARTICLE.—No further intelligence has arrived
from Madeira, but the merchants who have connexions
there feel an increased solicitude respecting the issue of tbs
crisis. The English residents at Madeira are, in fact,
placed in a very perplexing situation. They naturally
wish, as foreigners and merchants, to avoid taking any
part in the contest likely to ensue, and further apprehend,
in the event of Miguel's gaining the upper hand, that they
will stand committed for each interference, and forfeit the
protection of the English Government. Valdez, the Go-
vernor of Madeira, insists, however, that they shall all
take part in the defence of the island, or be compelled to
quit it, thus exposing themselves to the wore alternative
of leaving their property and establishments at the mercy
of strangers. To the representations on this subject which
have been made to Ministers by the English representa-
tives of the Madeira merchants, it would appear, that no
very cordial reception was given in the first instance, a
disposition being shown to put them off with the cold as-
surance that they would obtain entire protection if they
did not intermeddle with political affairs; though to this
was added, on further explanations being given of the real
situation of the commercial residents in Madeira, that they
would not forfeit their claim to protection if such inter-
ference was compulsory.
The circumstances under which the Duke of Cla-
rence was appointed to his late high office, and
those under which he held it, were such as will
probably induce his Royal Highness, or, if not, his
Majesty's Ministers, to clear away some of the
dotlbts and suspicions which have prevailed among
the pubblic with regard to the causes of his resigna-
tion. That the act of resignation came from his
'Royal Highness himself, and partook in no degree
of the nature of a retirement intentionally forced
upon him by his Majesty's Ministers, we have been
credibly informed. It is even said among the official
circles that the Noble Duke at the head of the Go-
vernment was solicitous for his Royal Highness •to
reconsider his declared purpose of resigning, but in
vain. That there was rather a succession and
even variety of causes for this occurrence, than a
single one, is not improbably asserted. It is rea-
..i:noo, :us ihrbirsleed oion'y,abltehl iHee
gephentrfehossartmatanbnec importante quoe
fs t i
Aovn h
acotlaf
sasepxpopefearrehtsides
official duties, was far from the only ground
Of mutual dissatisfaction-between the Duke of Cla-
rence anti the Ministers-on one side, and the Duke
and some members of his Council of Admiralty on
." the other. We have heard of plans' and propositions
recommended by his Royal Highness, which did not
meet the acquiescence or attention due, as he con-
ceived, to his dignity and his wisdom; but we have
not heard, though we niay hereafter 'possibly, that
any difference on the distribution of patronage has
been among-the causes of: the Duke's retreat. We
certainly lament the probable relapse of .the marine
administration of the empire into the hands of selfish
and mercenary jobbers. Once more we deprecate
the placing a Cabinet Minister,' or professed politi•
cian, at the head of this sacred service. Powerful
navies are growing up around us. Let the last brush
we had with North America be a lesson. The
Duke of Clarence wrote his letter of 'resignation, as
we have been told, on th'e 12th inst., his Majestf#
birth-day; but chose the day following for its trans,
mission to the Sovereign. His Majesty, out full.coar
sideration, was. satisfied that the tender ought.sos to
be declined.—lbid.
(rnost THE MORNING CliltONlCbc,):••
serves, " that
.The JOurnal des Debats, speaking'et.t R6s_stali
operations; which are detailed in, our extracts from
' tShceh u mPlaruisasaiasnort
the passage of which very small
carried only 'after.a-fortunate assault, long
• Should it be carried; there stilllemains the
siege.
the Balkan, and a defile
oripngoie an obstinate resistance to a con-
siderable of 28
treGnaclieeldletai'9Pl'),.owr which will be
formidable position ffea fteen
cleoarpgtstesn,iiydu
anKocesloodfstchleii 'cal spaturreetroofgl,raradienaT,notheeembeeistite.g'e;re The
army. The movement of•General' &elite-
; liinenpoo;

wh'em are weakened ty the retreat of General
Suchtelen, has given way to that of a-sembling be-
fore Sebum's, all the corps which could be dispose 3
of under this cirenmstanee. HPIWP we see, that cm,
the departure of this division, the Turks immediately
re-appear in the rear of the army investing \roma,
The resistance of the Turks decidedly increases,
with their danger." It is inferred by the Con-
stitatiog!tel, from the artide of the Messager des
Chambres, ii? which it was alleged that Eng-
land and France It ere agreed as to tke departure
of the French Expedition to the Morea, not having
been copied into she llfonite'ufy that England does not
look with a locurable eye on that expedition. The
C.'ourt'er Francais states positively, that the English
9overnment made strong representations on the sub-
Jed-, but at length gave itaye The tone of these
articled in the French Papers is not deserving of
much come/feta:token. We must suppose, however,
-that these papets'lonow what pleases their readers,
and we fear there is soave foundation for the reproaeli
obfeteancemeapdtaebtle, to
John Bull Newspapers, tlloravtestlitoeirreoabdjepretaiissesnootf
so much to say what ought to be said, as what will
his valour, magnithlmity, and other virtues, which
he possessess in such abundance, and the French
John, Bull seems not to be melt behind his insular
neighbour. It must be very acceptableto the French
to hear that the Duke of Wellington is prodigiously
mortified at the military energy displayed at present
by them. We cannot say we like the tone which
our neighbours have taken. We only trust the.
Duke of Welington will act with prudence sad
moderation. If we are in that state which the
Courier Francais sayS we are, of being obliged, for
Want of funds, to vote for every enterprise deter-
mined on by our neighbours, whatever we may
think of it in our hearts, fresh outlays will not much
mend the matter. England seems to be viewed en
the Continent somewhat in the light in which a pro-
digal, who has spent his fortune in electioneering,
is viewed by his quondam constituents, when lie has
no longer the wherewithal. We can no longer
afford to throw money about the Continent, and as
we attached great consequence to the idea of being;
thought the general paymasters, the reproach of
poverty is thought to be one which we severely fee!.
The Constitutionnd hints that Cadiz would be very
convenient to, France in many respects. The
French Bishops seem to be giving work to the
Government, on the subject .of the seminaries. A
hint is thrown out, that the Bishops might be
brought to reason by stopping their salaries. We
doubt that after things have proceeded so far. Such
a scale of episcopal revenues as we have in England,
s::_om thirby thousand to a thousand a year, with
freedozl. to translate, would, if French Bishops be at
'
all like Engl.ish Bishops, keep them always on the
side of the
44„:rnment. To be sure French Bi-
shops have no elri),),,Ln to provide for, and wealth is
not so indespensible to them:2-

(trawl T/IE 31011.1011./ i7EEALD.)
Considering the peaceable characi,er of our Welch
neighbours, it seems rather hard, both upon them
and the country in general, that the princieality
should be made the scape-goat of maintainitt” a sys-.
tern ofjudicature the most imperfect with wriicli our
jurisprudence ever has been or can be scandalized.
Well may the Duke of Wellington pause,as he is s3id
to have done, in filling up the highest appointments
in Courts which appear to be of so little use,.and th
patronage of which seems to be the only appendage
of any value which is attached to thein. The re-
turns which we published a few days since of the
nature ant amount of the business transacted in
some of these Courts, backed, as they so oppor-
tunely are, by the t:nanswerable statements of Lerd
Cawdor, leave no doubt pf the necessity of a re-
vision, or rather abolition, of a system in which
money is expended under pretence of administering
Justice; where Dimling like justice, in its true accept-
ation, has been or cap be administered. We do not
say that the Welch Judges, such as they have
been, do not do their best; still less do we mean
to say that there is any thing wilfully corrupt
or impure in these Courts. But the. constitution
of them is such as admits of nothing resembling
what the people of this country recognise a., what
Courts of Law ought to be; while it is quite clear
that one-half the appointments have from time im-
memorial been held by the Minister of the day tis
mere political patronage, to be bestowed upon his
hangers-on, with little or no reference to their fit-,
ness for the high duties they are called upon to per-
form. With a Court and a Bar destitute of legal
eminence, who can be expected to resort to it its
any matter of moment—or indeed in any case in
which the higher Courts can be entered ? The
consequence, therefore, has been that all important
causes originating in Wales are either brought to
London in the first instance, or tried at one of the
adjoining English Ciren;ts, by obtaining a change in
the venue under some pretence or other. We ask
Mr. Peel and the Duke of Wellington, but especially
the former, why are these things sot What better
and more worthy object could engage these two
Ministers' attention than the reform of this same
Welsh system of judicature ?
(rsou THE MORNING ADVERTISER.)

We have heard that although the Duke of Cla-
rence has resigned, his Majesty has signified his de-
termination not to accept of the resignation; and
the country, in consequence, may still hope to bene-
fit by his Royal Highness's services. As the Minis-
try, however, is at present constituted and disposed,
it would he idle to imagine that it can hold together
for any length of time.
A Contemporary has expressed some surprise at
the conduct of Senor Sampayo, the Portuguese
Consul-General in this country, who, after having
assured the Brazilian Envoy of his entire devotion
to the rights snd interests of Don Pedro, has had
a new light in favour of Don Miguel, and has ap-
proved his fealty by a notice at Lloyd's, of the
blockade of Madeira, as Cousul-General Qf Portu-
gal. For our own part we see nothing extraordinary
about the matter. This Senor Sampayo is brother
to the Conde de Povoas, who commanded the army
which lately marched upon Oporto. Povoas de-
clared originally agamst the Constitution, for the
sake of being made a Marquis, to which dignity he
had long aspired. He is of very obscure pa-
rentage, and, as is notorious, made an immense
fortune (it is generally supposed more than a
million) by provisioning the British forces Tri
Portugal and Spain, and is a devoted friend, as he
.etriStßut what shall we say to the
ought to be, of Marshal Beresford. That Senor
,an.lacliteerrnsfo'onvioaiss,
causeknowledgeliehave
forA s this
Portugal, but agent for the Oporto 'Wine Coin-
Id naturally be anxious to march with
pany, he would
oiorfur
irresistible,
the
hi (socit'i Obfiere:tiehm:
friend and parron of his brother, and the inference is
wonder i tl cr
gentleman a t tl: e changeis not oolfilysencti
omnesruiti_iGn
eSrazipioor.
butofi+ttliaercshh
re-
spectable Corporation of Lloyd's, which,
notwith-
standing the denunciation of Don Miguel and his
Kingship by the British Nlinistry, has admitted and
published a notice of the Madeira blockade by a per-
son styling himself Don Miguel's Consul-General!
thus takintyr, upon them to acknowledge a Monarch
denounced by their own Government - - ?
as an usurper .
Ought they not to have omitted the title of Ceuta-
General, and
put in its stead " Agent to the
Oporto Wine Company ?"—lbiel.

(F 11.031 THE NEW TIMES.)

There'is to be a meeting to-day of the Jews, for
the purpose of considering the disabilities to which
they are subjected by the Constitutional Laws of
England, on account of their adherence to the faith
of their forefathers. Some discussion is expecttd,
and we sincerely hope it will be of that dispassionate
and temperate kind, which, by avoiding all re-
proaches, will be directed to conciliate their Chris-
tian brethren. In our opinion, now that all classes
Of dissenters are admitted within the pale of tl,:!
Col;stitution, it would be well to eonsider why the

Jews Sheuld' be excluded. Ent would. you admit
the Jews, it will perhaps be as Red, and continue to
exclude the Catholics ? We say yes, for this simple
reason—the Jews can give us an undivided alle-
giance—the Catholiesnrc.:ltt4AohjecoNf: ajpfcign
Potentate. The loyalty of the Jews never has been
questioned here, and rarely in any kingdom in
Europe. The loyalty of the Catholics never can
be above susoicion while they continue to be under
foreign influence. Besides, the Jews suffer hard-
ships from which the Catholics are now absolved.
They cannot hold lauded property—they are
therefore, by the laws themselves, prevented from
possessing those ties which always strengthen
the affection of a landowner to his native soil.
It may be said, however, that the Jews are tin
exclusive sect—that they mingle not with other
sects-=that they do not amalgamate with those feel-
ings and interests which render the body corporate
compact. All this may be true, but are we not the
authors of many of those non-affmities ourselves ?
Moreover, they are not a more exclusive sect than
the Quakers, and certainly their doctrines are little
less repugnant to our Christian dispensation than
those of Unitarianism. The Jews et twilled Christ,
our Saviour, 'the Son of God—the I Tnitarians ex-
culpate them of any other crime than the execution
Of a man whom they deemed an agitator. These
points, however, would better not be mooted at the
meeting. Its object should be to make the public
better acquainted with the laws which press most
sorely and vexatiously or invidiously upon them.
And having thus gradually brought the public to a
sense of their claims, they should come forward
calmly before the Legislature as petitioners for a mi-
tigation of these hardships. They must not ask too
much at first; but having made their case known,
and taken care that their grievances be not forgotten,
they should leave the rest .to the justice of Parlia-
ment. This is our view of the case, but we speak
our own opinions alone.

SUNDAY PAPERS,

(FRO3I rUE NiEws.,)

acrLectiolNs St:GOESTED DT THE TRIAL AND zxrcurioN or
CORDER. AS THE NATIONAL yezwic IS RAGANUED.

`• Murder though it hath no tongue,
♦Vill speak with most miraculous organ."

It is a proverb with other nations • that there are
no people so fond. of a " good bloody murder" as the
English. It is perhaps the only means by which
all minds can be turned undivided on omme solitaty
subject. This peculiar anxiety cannot be traced to
any particular tenderness of human life; for wd fro-
quently hear of explosions in coal mines, where
twenty people are destroyed in a moment, and treble
that number left as orphans in an uncharitable
world ; and yet you shall find the meat momentary
interest but partially excited ;--e-to say nothing of die-
scientific destruction effected by war,_ in which a
battle is scarce deemed worth reading of unless some
ten or twenty thousand persons have on each side
been sent to their heal wept:tut. So squeamish
were the newspapers in the days of Buoneparte, that
in the common detail of military operations, they
never dwelt on any thing less than a regular battle.
It was a wretched postscript that stopt to record a
sacrifice of less than five or six thousand persons ;
with a proper - garnish of sacked towns and
flaming temples. The more civilized States
have been always remarkable for a liability
to extreme excitement, from morally incon-
siderable causes. The annals of Greece and of
Rome, as well as those of modern nations, furnish
us with abundant instances where the fate of ob-
scure individuals led to the 11105 t outrageous rebel-
lions ; or to sanguinary wars that changed the des.
tiny of empires. The pOor that perish itich-ineal,
by the lingering death of starvatietm, or the crowds
that die desolate and broken-hex;ted under the crush-
ing hand of all-ruinous Law, or of monstrous oppres-
sion,—call forth no portion of the public sympathy ;
it doee not take. There is no outcry—no grind
stage ogees; no parading of executioners, with night
caps to cover 'convulsed face:; ; and hempen cords
for strangulation ; no psalm-singing Parsons, devot-
ing all their anxiety of mind for the comfort of a
wretch that is just going to be throttled, in a grand
scenic exhibition, where there is a gratuitous admis-
sion to John Bull and his Wife and family. The
. Trial and Execution of Corder, with the previous
Courtship, the Murder, the. Barn, and the Burial—
hisMarriage With an advertised-fur wife, &c.—ac-
companied as the story troeS by carious well-disece:ed
theatrical incidents,—particularly the seduced fair,
one in mens clothes ; the reticule of loaded pistols ;
with the Lo ver turned Sexton and Workman. All this
we say combined.; and rend off as au exordium ex-
traordinary by all the newspapers of the United
Kingdom,—introductory of " the last scene rf all,"
—the Herothe Gallows—and the Deputy. Sheri
—formed a practical novel or " romance of Real
Life," that beats any thing in Walter Scott, hollow.
Name to any one of the twenty millions of people
that Were reading, hearing, talking, thinking of
and about this same William Corder,—ahat hanging
is a very grievous and insulting death ; that " it is a
dreadful thing to die," &e.; and you will scarce find
it single chord in the whole national mind that would
respond to any feeling that went to remit the pu-
iiishinent for anything less horrible than the old
form of hanging by the neck, with all its disgusting
and inconsistent. ceremonies. Use is a strange Re-
conciler with man, let him boast how he may.
There is, however, we must admit, in the life of
Corder, an accumulation of crime which, if taking
away that which tee cannot restore can be at all
justified on Christian Principles., we are free to ac-
knowledge his case to be an exception from a general
rule.* We are not- however reconciled to the religious
baiting which even he underwent after his conviction.
If a man be condemned to suffer death, it should be
only at hi? own yob/wary request, that a Clergyman
should attend him ; and one of such creed as he
should. likewise voluntarily natne. That is the sole
affair of the culprit, and his most immediate friends.
The Deity can take no delight in the worrying of
his guilty and Unhappy creatures With applications
in his abused name, to produce those effects of con-
trition Which are alone spiritual and genuine when
they flow in the full grace ef the free action of the
mind. All beyond that is the mere artificial effect
of combined fear and horror, excited by the most
absurd means. If the victim were left alone to the
meditations induced in his solitary cell, aided only by
such further support as he directly solicited from
others, we should have fewer instances of that whin-
ing disheartedness, so common on the scaffold, under
which a man,looks as though he were half-hanged ;
and that tottering imbecility and despa;r, which only
show that the wretches have been termed rather
.than made sensible of other and better feelings. It
is in the most fierce contempt of nature, that we
bully as it were a despairing and drowning
into a confession that he " frets happy, in
the prospect of a sudden jirk on time gallows, that
will leave him dangling by the neck in a rope, before
a gaping gazing crowd of people; with all the horri-
fic violence of convulsions that is to follow. Yet
nothing less than this pitiable weakness, or mon-
strous hypecrisy,Vill satisfy the thorough-bred Saints
of the day, in a ease of capital punishment. It is a
fine lesson to be sure to • teach matt,--partietilarly
front some fat, -fair, and sleek professor of the Mini-
sterial office, who comes forth from his coffee amid his
couch of down to preach the great felicity of the pre-
pared mind, in strangulatiox by the neck; and of
being choked, hustled, and suffocated, amid every
We are of opinion that ws are riot libelling the me-
nary of this wretched Mall :When We express a belief that
the child he had,by his unfortunate victim, and which it
turns out was buried in some hidden part of a field, also
fell a sacrifice to his hardened and villainous disaNition.
And that the poor Mother was privy to this fact, if not
consenting to it, we think equally probable. This will se_
count for the reply she gave him, when threatening her
with imprisonment on account of her children,-,-thst if
she went to .prison he should accompany her.. It is also
worthy of remarkohat his confession was confined to the
death of the murdered' Annan alone, he-refusing to the
last to disclose any previous circumstances of his flagitious

,contumely and insult oflthe world, :at the moment
you are leaving it,—as the gracious introduction
which the wise Law and, the- Holy Priesthood fur-
nish—to the beatitude of another world ! To be told
just before you are throttled, in singing the last stave
of a psalm, that you will in a few seconds be found
chanting the praises of the great Redeemer of the
world, in the splendour of Heaven;and amid a scene
of never-ending felicity!. If all this were so certain
as to reconcile a man to the horrible process, one
might conceive him offering as n very great favour
to change praccs with the Parson. It is "in our
minds,' a scene of anything but that which is
Christian; and the contemplation of Nthich ‘.` Maketh
the heart sick !" No. less :than a dozen different
Priests we understand were solicitous to do, in part,
the Ministerial honours of the gallows for Corder;
and to connect their
.obscure nine 4 with his cele-
brity.; they literally wished him to patronize them !
(trawl TOE SIINIIAY HERALD )

The. 'great- subject of 'political intere'St during- the
last week has been the reSistation of the Duke of
Clarence, the Lord High. Admiral. of England, and
•
Patron of the ,Licensed Victuallers' School, to which
all
.the prolits of this paper are uniformlyi and most
scrApulously, -devoted. Of the causes Which have
led, to this result the public is as yet but inaperfectiv
acquainted; and some time may possibly elapse be-
fore it is pnt in possession of all of them.; but in the
mean time .it is universally regretted, as re-opening
the flood-gates of corruption in the • Navy, and cal-
mimed to restore that system of undue influence
which, under Melville and others 4 Wt3s the only
means of preferment.
.That ide Royal Highness may
have incurred somg considerable expense in visiting
the different ports...,,itivecting dock-yards—and as-
certuiningi th,e Ittalifications of the vessels lately built
,for the Nevy, is undeniable ; but is it not also a fact
thatlio money can be better expended than in re-
storing " the wooden walls of Old England " to
their former efficiency, and communicating new
life and spirit to the gallant fellows on whom
• the country must rely in the hour of danger ?
The expente of an army, not only useless but perni-
cious, amounting to a quarter of a million of men, is
not grudged by the Duke of Wellington; but if only
a thousandth part of it is expended on the better half
• of oar defensive service, the cry of economy is imme-
diately raised, and those who have been accessory to
the eapence treated in such a manner as to render
their resignation the only means of avoiding insult!
We' know more than we are •at liberty to state re-
specting the resignation of the Lord High Admiral;
but We 'trust the time is not distant when we shall be
[enabled to lay the fullest particulars before our readers.
In - the mean time, there is 'every reason to believe
that it will not be the only resignation. Mr. Peel, it
is said, came to town on Thursday last with the ex-
press view of tendering his resignation ; but the Duke
of Wellington was off to Cheltenham, and nothing
final has in consequence taken place on the subject.
There have been rumours also of different portions of
the Whigs coining into office; but we have not been
able to trace them to any authentic source.

FROM THE ATLAS.

TRAGEDY AND TEUNS.—A You Tit—ominous ap-
pellative—has transmitted to us a fragment of a tra-
gedy, with a request that we should " gratify him
with remaks on the same." The value of good ha-
bits in boyhood is incalculable; they influence the
future course of man, and decide the character, awl
frequently the fate of the whole life. For this rea-
son we object to private theatricals ; because, when
young gentlemen get a taste fur the sock and buskin
before they understand grammar and arithmetic, the
probabilities are, that they never find leisure in after
years to learn what they should have learned at
school. But, however vicious this taste may be in
its multiplied evils, it is innoxious and praiseworthy
contrasted with the passion for writing plays. We
have kwywn sober, staid men, who had reached the
years, not of discretion, but of maturity, suffer severely
from their love of dramatic com?osition. One indivi-

dual, a solicitor, used to write down Sophonisba, or
Hector, or whatever name was running in his head,
in the blank of a writ ; so that when the sheriff issued
his warrant, the officer was directed by the powers
vested in him to make goOd a capture upon the body
of Sophonisba Wiggins--,who, of course, was re-
turned non est invcntus. A jtidge on the bench has
passed sentence of seven years' transportation upon
Don Alouzo—and an insurance clerk granted a fire-
policy to the hat-manufactory of Barbarossa. 'The
youth who transmits his fragment is too young to
understand our ommentaries, should we offer any.

It may be suffiCient to assure him that if trade opens
to him any avenue of occupation, he should enter
upon it. Better for him to woo the counter than the
muses ; they are saucy ladies, and must not be treated
with levity. A tragedy is not to be compared with
a box of blue ribands; it is not half so valuable to

:be great mass.of mankind. Ribbands are in con.

stalt—t requisition; the poetry of their water-dyes may
be sufficient for his aspirations : he can run a yard of
grus de Naples in less time than he could write a
line of heroics; and for tile yard of gPos de Naples
he will receive half-a-crown ; whereas, for the afore-

said line of heroics he will not receive half-a.farthing.
And there is a vast field for the imagination in
the haberdasher's. Parnassus is the top shelf, where
the costly gems lie in small parcels—the. wooden
measure is the staff of Apollo—the band-box may
be converted by a little art into a poison bowl—
and the tiny stick upon which the lace is wound
may be made to represent a tragedy dagger. Armed
with these auxiliaries—onmipotent on the boards—

the author will, find canvass and compass enough for
his genius. Shoal& he possess a creative spirit, lie
can. have a satin moon and a glazed calico sky at a
moment's warning—the pillars of the shop can be
dressed up in liombazines, and decked with frills
and flounces—a trap-door can be constructed over the
cellar steps—and a throne for his Queen may be
elevated on thy: desk of the cashier; side-wings can
be made by projecting a few drawers right and left
—=the flat will be found in Ow door and pannel of the
little back parlour—a stage-curtain is already in the.
windows—the shutters are the drop-scene—and the
proscenium is completed in the gorgeous shop en-
trance, supported appropriately by the King's arms.
In this playful manner can the aspirant indulge his
taste and cultivate his business. Brit we pray all
. .

young writers of tragedies to read the homily truly,
and make their passion for theatricals of every de-
scription subservient to their profession, be it what

it may.