The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-05 00:00:00

WARWICK RACES.

B. D. GRANVILLE and BeLTOI KING, Esqrg. Stewards,
Mr. T. H. Ancurs, Clerk of the Course.

THURSDAY, SErr. 4.—A Match fur 100 cove. The
Guy Course.—Mr. White's b..g. Granby, 5 yrs, beat Mr.
Peel's b. f. Ariel, 4 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for three-yr-olds. One mile.
Mr. Leigh's hr. f. by Filho—Loo Choo 1
Sir W. Wynne's ch. c. Stapeley, by Ambo 2
Mr. Lawley's bl. c. Frederick
Mr. King's ch. c. Chester Billy, by 'Whisker bolted
Three drawn.

The King's Plate of 100 guineas. Pleats, four miles.
Mr. Dickinson's ch. c. Mr. Watt, 4 yrs 1 1
Mr. Peel's b. g. Gazebo, 5 yrs
Mr. Haffenden's b. h. Trumpeter, 4 yrs 2 3
Mr. J. Day's b. h. Nimrod, aged
Five drawn.
The Town Plate of 50 sm. Heats, four miles.
Mr. White's b. g. Granby, 5 yrs 1 1
Mr. Piekernell's br. h. Zaraiel, 5 yrs 3 2
Mr. Haffenden's br. h. Pontiff, 4 yrs
One drawn.

A Match for TOO sows. Four miles.—Mr. Hales's b. 1.
Palatine, 6 yrs, beat Mr. Haucke's br. f. Queen of Hearts,
5 yrs.

PONTEFRACT RACES.
Hun. E. Paraa and Colonel UDINT, Stewards.
Mr. JOHN TUTE, Clerk of the Course.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3.—Match for 100 sovs.—Mr.
Smith's ch. h. Roderic, aged, against Mr. Let's b. h. Guy
Fawkes, aged ; Mr. Lee's Guy Fawkes received forfeit.
Sweepstakes of SO guineas each, JO ft.. for three yr-olds.
Last mile.
Mr. Houldsworth'e Alpha, by Magistrate .. walked over
The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, by a subscription of 10
guineas each, with 20 added, the surplus to be paid in
specie. Two miles arid a half.
Major Yarburgh's br. c. Laurel, by Blacklock, 4 yrs 1
Mr. Petre's b. c. Master Burke, by. Phantom, 3 yrs 2
Lord Hawke's ch. c. Game Boy, by Octavian, 3 yrs 3
Lord Scarborough's b. 1. Sister So Tarrare, 4 yrs 4
A Silver Cup of 50 Boys. value, by a subscription of seven
sovs. each, with seven sovs. added. Gentlemen riders.
Heats, one mile and three quarters.
Mr. Baker's b. f. 3 yrs
Mr. Burniston's b. h. Chance, 5 yrs ..• 2 2
Mr. Smith's b. g. by Blaeklock, 4 yrs 3 dr

WEYMOUTH RACES.
WEDNESDAY; SEPT. S.—His Majesty's Plate of 100 ge.
Heats, two miles.
Mr. AV. Wyndham's sa. h. Colleger, 5 yrs 3 1 1
Mr. Ali hr. h. Brownlock, 5 yrs 1 2 2
Mr. Taunton's ch. m. Prosody, aged 2 dr
The Johnstone Plate of 50 oovs. given by Colonel Gordon,
for horses not thorough-bred.
Mr. Hatton's b. g. Oxford Tom, 6 yrs 1 1
Mr. M'Call's b. g. Caton, aged
Mr. Davis's b. m. Jewess, 5 yrs
Match for 25 sovs, gentlemen riders.—Captain Hamp-
ton's b. in. Blue Bell beat Capt. Beville's b. g. Timbertop.
The Members' Plate of 50 soya. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Luce's b, tn. Profile, 5 yrs 1 0 1
Mr. Ratlclyffe's b. c. Windermere, 4 yrs 2 0 2
Mr. Taunton's h. h. Kean, 5 yrs .
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SOUTHIVOLD RACES.
WEDNESDAY.—The Town Plate of 50/. Heats, Two
miles and a distance.

Lord Stradbrooke's Memirna, 4 Yrs, Sst. slb
Mr. Bromley's U. f. Maiden, 4 yrs, Bat. 51b* . 21
Col. Wi!sou's hr. to Oscar, 3 yrs, 7st.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sov. each, the remainder added.
Mr. Cala-cotes ch. h. Tom Thumb, aged, l Ist. 2 1.
Mr. Munro's hr. h. Charley, aged, 1 I at. ...... 1 2 dr'
Mr. Ross's Oliver Cromwell, :3 yrs, Sat. 101 b. dis.
A Handicap Sweepstakes was won by Mr. Gent's Oli-
via (late Jewess), beating Mr. Pedgrift's Tristham and two
others.
A Handicap Sweepstakes was won by Mr. munroe,s
Charley, beating Olivia and two others.
Match for 50 sous.--Mr. Carr's r. h. Bull beat Mr.
Caldecot.'s ch. h.

BERYSTWITFifty Guineas, the Gift of Arthur Jones,
Ail RACES.
suoND
DAy._
of Cardigan, Esq.,
maengwyn,
Three-mile heats.
and Athelstan Corbett, of Vnyii..
Mr. Gwalter's b. in. Prude, 6 yrs, lOst.
Mr. Pryst's gr. 111. Meg Merrilie*, aged, 9st. 21b 2 2
Mr. Webb's IL. e. Smuggler, 3 yrs, ist.

SPIRIT of the PROVINCIAL JOURNALS,

(FROM THE STAMk'ORD NEWS OF THIS DAY.)

MINISTRY.—The elements of discord are at
comparative rest—a peace has been patehed up be=
tween the members of the Cabinet, and things are
allowed to go on as before; with the turderstanding,
however., that the Catholic Claim-, to a certain ex-
tent, are to be conceded, for the consideration of
which Parliament is expected to meet so early as
next November or December, near three months
before their usual time, in order that a Committee
on this especial question may be formed. In the
meantime, negociations have been and are goitrg on
between tire Duke of Wellington and some of the
Whig leaders, especially Earl Grey, Lord Russell,
and Mr. Brougham, to strengthen his Cabinet, and,
from what we have heard, it is not unlikely these
negociations will be successful. How far, however,
Earl Grey or Mr. Brougham can take office, with-
out an understanding that Parliamentary Reform
is not to be resisted by the Cabinet of which
they will form the most talented portion, we can-
not see. Both these distinguished Statesmen
have at different times pledged themselves to
this great and fundamental measure. With-
out Parliamentary Reform nothing can be done
but by corruption,--and corruption can rarely
be used for a good purpose. The case is quite clear.
Ministers of every party must depend on the assist-
ance of the members returned by the people, or the
members returned and paid by themselves. If they
expect strength from the former source, they must
throw themselves upon the people by opening close
boroughs, arid giving the elective franchise to large
towns. It was the capital error of Mr. Canning,
that, when . he had freed himself from the trammels
of the aristocracy, who hated himr. he did not anni-
hilate, or at all events lessen the influence of Abe
aristocracy by putting in force the principle of the
British Constitution, that " no Peer shall be allowed
to interfere or influence the election of a commoner."
had he done so, he would, instead of being defeated
by the " Great Untaught," have levelled the crum-
bling temple of the aristocrats with the ground, and
permitted them no longer to famish the people by
their high rents, debauch them by their game mono-
poly, or destroy them to preserve all the immunities
and usurpations of " their order." If Ministers seek
to strengthen themselves, not by the people, but in
spite of the people, by exercising the undue in-
fluence of the aristocracy at elections, they must
please that aristocracy ; and there is no way of pleas-
ing such aristocracy, but by infringing on the liber-
ties of the people ; by keeping up the price of bread,
by ruining our foreign, and lessening our domestic
trade in consequence ; by supporting the laws of en-
tail and primogeniture, which throw all younger
brothers upon the country, to be fed from the
Church, the Army, the Law, or the Government ;
by preserving all monopolies, and, in fine, by sacri-
ficing the many to the few. A Minister of Great
Britain has no other choice. Either he must work
by undue influence or by holiest influence. If the
former, he cannot, if he would, do good by evil
means; if the latter, he must give the people a
power equal to that which will be used against him
and against them. It was for these rsasens that Mr.
Pitt, in his days of youth and honesty, while the
light of his great father's bright career shone on his
unsophisticated mind, made the memorable declara-
tion, " Without Reform no honest man can be !Mi-
nister of Great Britain." Earl Grey, and his
nephew, Lord Durham, then Mr. Lambton, with
Mr. Brougham, pledged themselves, some years
ago, not to take office without Reform. Will they
keep the pledge if they join the Administration of the
Duke of Wellington ? Alas! we fear, if they have
the inclination (which we much doubt) they will not
have the ability.

(FROM THE MANCHESTER HERALD OF YESTERDAY.)
STATE OF TRADE.—The happy change which
has taken place in the promise of the harvest has
already produced a beneficial effect upon the trade
of this district. The number of London and Country
buyers in the market this week is much greater than
we have seen for some time ; and the quantity ofi
'cloth purchased is considerable. There has not,
however, been any material alteration in price. The
supply of printing cloth for some time has been
smaller than usual, and has barely equalled the de-
mand. The cause of this is said to be the difficulty
of obtaiNing weavers at the low wages which the
manufacturers can afford to give; better terms being
offered by the manufacturers of worsted and fancy
goods. There has consequently been a small ad-
vance in the price of weaving, and should the Ile.
mand for cloth improve, there is little doubt that an
advance of price will be obtained. The demand for
exportation does not improve. There has been a
great falling off in the exports to Germany during
the whole of this year as compared with the last,
both as respects goods and yarns, particularly the
latter. The demand from the United States is of
course materially impeded by the operation of the
Tariff, and during the last two months the exports
have been considerably less than half their amount
in the corresponding period of last year. There has,
however, been a considerable increase in the trade to
Brazil, and other states of South America, with the
exception of Mexico. The export of yarns to India
is rapidly increasing. The quantity shipped from
London and Liverpool during the last two months
being much more than double that of the same period
lust year.
FROM TUE SCOTSMAN OF WEDNESDAY.)

The London Journals affect much surprise at the
pause in the advance of the Russian army, and the
Emperor's return to Odessa; hut to us neither the
one event or the other presents any thing inexplicable.
If the Turks will not meet the Russians in battle,
what are the latter to do ? It does not follow that
because Nicholas has driven his enemies before him
in the open field, he is able at the moment of hisar-
rival to storm formidable works, under the shelter of
which one man acting on the defensive is equal to
three assailants. What call be more in the course of
things, than that the RusSians, before attacking
Shumla, where they failed once or twice, should lake
a week of two to collect their troops, now scattered
over a conquered country as large as Great Britain ?
And supposing the troops collected, can tky ven-
ture to storm without first battering and breaching ?
All this evidently requires time; ar:d since Nicholas
does not pretend, like Napc;leon, to direct every
operation in person, it is surely natural enough
that he should retire for a week or two to visit
his wife and family, while nothing is going on
but preparations and arrangements, which, though
very necessary, can confer no eclat, and do not re-
quire his presence. The New Times says, that Lord
Heytesbury, our new Ambassador, is instructed by
the Duke of Wellington to demand explanations as
to the designs of Russia. We doubt if the Net,
Times, or any other journal is the depository of the
Duke's counsels; and we doubt if any British Mi-
nister has, or claims a right to question Russia as to
her designs, so long as she is only doing what her
position as a belligerent power demands. What can
that power do, but pursue her enemy, beat his ar-
mies, capture his towns, and occupy his territory,
till he shall sue for peace, and offer the satisfaction
which Britain has admitted to be due. If the Sultan
will not yield till Adrianople is in the enemy's
hands, are we to act as the gratuitous guardians of
his interests, make terms for him without his solici-
tation or consent, and tell Russia that she must wait
with arms in her hands at a certain prescribed
boundary till the Sultan's rage subsides, and he be-
comes amenable to reason ? Every one must sea
the absurdity of such a course.

(FROM THE GLASGOW FREE TRESS OF WEDNESDAY.)
WELLINGTON'S BLUNDERS.---The report, men-
tioned in our last, of a defeat sustained by the Rus-
sians before Shumla, has again been repeated with
additional particulars, which, if they. do not render
the event more certain, render it at least more pro-
bable• From all we can learn of the plans and dis-
positions of the two belligerent parties, we arc led
to suppose that the Russians have now relinquished
their hope of storming Shumla, and have com-
menced against it a system of blockade—a circum-

stance which, if true, may be regarded as deter-
mining the fate of the campaign; and even; per-
haps, of the war.lf the grand Russian force sit.
down before Shumla, the heat, the scarcity of ti,ater;
the difficulty of procuring provisions, .and also the
incessant sallies of the enemy, will soon compel it
to rise and fall bad: towards the Danube; and be-
fore another spring girt it an opportunity ot again ad-
vancing, it is not presuming too much On flitiiritjs fb
calculate on the occurrence of events to render that
advance impracticable. France, from her position
in the Mediterranean, will be able to check at any
point the career of Nicholas—at all events, to
save from his grasp the city of Constantinople; there
exists, also, the strongest probability that Austria
will not only countenance, but actively assist, France
in such a measure; and even this country may per-
haps be induced to take up her crutches, and hobble
out the length of the Mediterranean, to assist in so
judicious an enterprize. That our Ministers are now
lapsing into a state of mind which will induce them
thus to act, may be inferred from the present mission
of Lord Heyttsbury to the Russian head-qttartersi
for the purpose, it is said, of demanding a full and
satisfactory explanation of the Autocrat's views con-
nected with his aggression upon Turkey. The mo-
tive to this demand can only be, to ascertain, from
suchth thateAuto cwraet'nseeedxpfleaeniatriloonalarm concerning them ;, whether his views pre
or, if they are otherwise, whether we ought directly
to enter the lists with him as an enemy, or assume,
like France, merely a hostile attitude, ready to act ac-
cording to the nature of coming events. Now, as it has
long been notorious to all save our Ministers, that
the Autocrat's views are pregnant with the most
imminent danger-to this country, it fellows that the
effect of Lord Heytesbury's mission can only be, to
demonstrate to his Grace Of Wellington the neces-
sity of -adopting the two last alternatives,--of either
rushinginto-iMmediate war, or' assuming a position
with a view to that event at no distant period. .
Here, therefore, is a dilemma for his Grace, between
the horns of which he must look not a little ridicu-
lous. He withdrew Britain from the position in
which the genius of Canning had placed her along
with France, in order to pret ent the war which
Russia has since declared against Turkey ; and now,
convinced by consequent disaster and disgrace of the
folly of that measure, he is about to attempt her
restoration to her once proud attitude, at the risk of
an almost certain war !--a war, which his bungling
policy was the chief cause of producing. The Duke
of Wellington, above any other man not in Turkey,
has most reason to wish for the defeat of the Rus-
sians at Shumla, for, should they there prove victo-
rious, he must plunge this distressed country into a
war which it cannot sustain, and which, but for the
ascendancy of himself find his faction, we might have
avoided.

(FROM THE CORI: CONSTITUTION OF TUESHAT.)
NUR PROTESTANT TENANTRY.---011e cannot
read over the speeches delivered at various Protes-
tant festivals, without feeling astonishment, that so
much reason, and information, and genuine talent as
these display, should have slumbered so long, while
open war was carrying on against Protestantism in
all its interests. At the Protestant entertainment
given to Colonel Irwin at Sligo, some of the
speeches were above all praise. If Colonel Irwin's
plan of remedy for a condition of things, so abun-
dant in dangers to the free Constitution of a Protes-
tant State, in consequence of the transferring of
farms from humble Protestants to Roman Catholic
peasants, should happen to be adopted—the " Mem-
ber for Clare" though rather " in the sear leaf " for
a political adventurer, may live to see such a change
in the Constituency of Ireland, as may tend to still
the tempest of catholic ambition—to dry up the
springs of the Catholic Exchequer; and further, to
see that peace and quiet restored to the country,
which perhaps can never be expected, so long as
fiery zeal or intoxicated bigotry may delude itself
with a notion of its power and the consequent hope
of a chance, for the extirpation of the Protestant re-
ligion out of Ireland. Happily—most happily—the
eyes of Protestants are opening at last—and they
are atoning by vigour and intellectual energy, for au
inactivity, which in a little time would have proved
fatal to them. The " Member for Clare" knows,
that the push must now be made or never, and for
that reason the Protestants are bound to strain
every effort without the less of a moment.

(FROM THE COAL MERCANTILE CHRONICLE OF MONDAY.)
THE PUBLIC PEEss.--The Press is not what it
ought to be. There are too many connected with it,
in all parts of Europe, whose pens will speak truth
or falsehood; whose talents are purchasable for any
purpose ; and the god of whose adoration is the best
paymaster. Let us but look to our own Irish Jour-
nals, as well those of the capital as of the province.
What lie, in the way of statement, can you not get
inserted in them; and what speculation► is too ab-
surd or mischievous for the calculations of some of
their proprietors. The public are, however, to
blame for much of this iniquity, if Press Men, who
knowingly inserted falsehoods, were to be treated
as private liars arc treated, the business of Jour-
nalists would not be now what it is, overrun by mis-
creant s of the most unprincipled description, who
would write for plague, or for blood, if rvriting them
up could bring money to their coffers. The Courier,
which gave its readers such a true and particular ac-
count of the late rebellion in Ireland, has not been
able to make good its intimations respecting The
terrible check of the Russians at Shumla. It does
not appear yet that the Russians have been worsted
before that fortress, whence we must conclude that
their wonted success has attended them, and that,
however the Courier may like it, they are still tri-
umphant, as the Irish are still tranquil.

FROM THE DUBLIN FREEMAN'S JOURNAL OF WEDNESDAY.

PROOFS THAT THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ARE FAVOUR..
ARLE TO EMANCIPATIO.I.—We have had a conversa-
tion with a gentleman of great intelligence, who has
returned within the last week from England, whither
he had been during a considerable part of the sum-
mer, not more for amusement than for the purpose
of being accurately informed as to the progress made
by the Catholic Question in that country. The fol-
lowing is, in substance, what he said :—" In the
summer of 1827, I found the antipathy to Catholic
Emancipation so great, that if the question was at all
introduced, its introduction but testified the almost
unconquerable hostility of the English mind to its fa-
vourable adjustment. The case, however, is now
quite otherwise. Ireland is the topic at every table,
and the burden of conversation with the old and
young. I met one gentlerrean, at Sidmouth, who
spoke of it as a bore, by which his very existence
was embittered, and prayed devoutly for its speedy
settlement. Amongst the youth of the country
there are scarcely to he found any unfavour-
able to Emancipation—particularly those under
or about thirty years of age; and the old, who had
not yet relented, were either Irish Orangemen, or
some of their dependents and connections. It is
very generally believed that the Duke of Wellington
has progressed considerably in tke arrangements for
the pacification of Ireland ; and I can assure you
that his conduct is not less generally approved of."
The tone of the British Press confirms us in the
disposition to confide in the above statements. If a
Journal of such wealth as the Times cannot afford
to run counter to public opinion, the provincial Jour-
nals of England, whose circulation rarely extends
beyond their respective districts and shires, assuredly
are not the vehicles of editorial opinion alone. The
privilege pronoun we, no matter what is said of the
independence of the Press, always comprehends the
portion of the community for whom he writes, as
well as the writer himself. When we observe, then,
amongst the strenuous advocates of the Irish ques-
tion, the ablest conductors of the English and Scotch
Press, are we riot strictly logical in the inference, that
the British public go the full length with the British
Journalists ? The soul and spirit which should
animate many of our own lending Prints, seem
as if transferred by some political metempsychosis
into the " broad sheets" of the North of England.
Until we received the Durham Chronicle, we could
not, for instance, be persuaded, that so liberal and
independent a print flourished beyond the heal"' Of

the tOnsciale estate. Let us heat the Editor's vin-
, dication of Mr. Dawson The time end place
chosen by Mr. Dawson for reading his recantation,
have been made the subject of severe animadversion
by some of dur contemporaries; but we think it was
manly aid bertnningi *hen he had once resolved to
change his Moms, to tult 0)6 .earliest opportunity
iif announcing that change to a tiodY of his Country,.
hien,. with whose sentiments and feelings he lia4, up
to ink Wilt, ',Men identified:" Would the Durban;
writer take this view if tht! Purlistin reader took a
different ono ? We select a few (at!. proofs,
" Having advocated the claims of the Catholics,"
anduity,
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nation; we rejoices because we think they
have justice on their side.° Agains the Let-'
caster Chronicle observesi in reftrente to the
brutal Orange dinners, lately Dawson
Ireland
and to the probability that Mr. Dawson abandoned
the faction in disgust, " this is not Unlikely, and,
looking to the speeches; deportment and seditious
spirit of that pernicious ancendantyi as ezernplified at
their late dinners, &c., who can weiHdir at it ? If
all the Catholics were to become Protestants this
precious body of patriots would be quite as full of
rage as at present." The Nottingham illereuu also
says, " we hail with much satisfaction, .Ihe sent--
meats delivered by Mr. Dawson at the Derry anni-
versary, as they confirm our opinion, that it is the
intention of the Duke of Wellington to bring the
Catholic Question to an amicable adjustMent. We
have so repeatedly given our Own views of the pro-
priety of Emancipation and so much has been Said and
written on it, that scarcely any thing of a novel
nature can be brought forward." With a similar
spirit the Editor of the Plymouth Herald contends :
I' It, is generally held by the well informed in political
economy and who have weighed well the state of the-1
British Empire, that some step of this nature (ernanci,
tuition) is absolutely neoessarys in order to ensure tran-
quillity to our sister kingdom." The Tyne Mercury
says that Mr. Dawson "made an excellent speech at
Derry, in favour of the Catholics; that it was a bold
effort, and, if sincere, a manly one to do so, at an
Orange meeting." " While the Catholics of Ire-
land," observes the Manchester Gazette, " were
for years addressing their supplications for a very
limited share of freedom to those who held them in
bondage, they were told with an insolent and un-
feeling taunt, that they ought to emancipate them-
selves. They have at last met that challenge to in-
dependence as it ought to be met. They have
retorted contempt and defiance ripen their contume-
lious oppressors, and they have emancipated them-
selves, not by violence and outrage, not by secret
association, nor even by that open appeal to arms,
which the Constitution sanctions as the last resort
of an injured people, but by the calm and dignified
vindication of their sacred right of suffrage." These
evidences of the fact, that the English people are
no bar to the pacification of Ireland—we could
multiply twenty, thirty-fold; but its truth is already
established.

(FROM THE DUBLIN EVENING rosy OF TUESDAY.)
BRUNSWICKHRS I—So then, it is just as we
anticipated—the Orangemen will not publish the
lists of their rent contributors ! They will swagger
and talk big and swear, but no one will regard the
a
asseverations.ofaii
iTnlttoe
Reverend
show their learning, and indite obscenity to manifest
reggraednodc ioa
entlemen may credit
quote scraps
their wit, but they Ivill not be able to conjure the
money out of the hard fists of their brawling asso-
ciates, or tickle it oat of the vanity of the wealthier
portion of the confraternity,eren though they should
outgrimace the mouthings of Mr. Adams's clown.
They who have been for many years in constant op-
position to the Government of the King in Ireland,
talk of lending their aid to his Majesty—their aid.
Oh ! if the King had not his seven millions to draw
upon, ad libitum, what a miserable country would
Ireland be. No, no, they find the ground receding
from under their feet—they know in their hearts that
the Duke of Wellington has decided to bring the
queition of Eniancipation before Parliament next
November ; they know, for we have told them so,
and from authority, dirk arrangements are in pro-
gress with a view to the final settlement of the
question ; despair has made them, mad. We did
intend to analyse the characters, and the kind of in-
comes which the managers of these clubs derive
from the public purse ; nor have we, as yet, aban-
doned the intention. For the present we shall dis-
miss the subject by whispering in their ears, that the
defection of Mr. George Dawson has been followed
by that of Sir George Hill, and that the Church—
we mean the decent part of it—namely, the Church
of England, has been brought round, Lord Kenyon
and the Marquis of Chandos notwithstanding.

On Wednesday his MAJESTY, attended by
the Marquis of CONYNGHANI, the Earl and Countess
MOUNTCHARLES, Lord and Lady STRATHAVEN, Lord
FARNBOROUGH, COI. THORNTON, &C. arrived at Wiadeor
Castle from the Royal Lodge, about three o'clock. Mr.
DAwE, R.A. first painter to the Emperor of RUSSIA, at-
tended by the ICING'S command, with full-length portraits
of the present and late Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA,
the Empress Mother, and the several members of the Im-
perial family, together with those of the late Duke of
KENT, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord HILL, and various
distinguished personages painted during his absence on the
Coatineut. His MAJESTY remained about an hour in-
specting the pictnres. The KING and suite left the Castle
about four o'clock, in four open phaetons and pairs, on hie
return to the Royal Lodge.

Lord FARNBOROUGH left his country seat on
Tuesday, for the Royal Lodge, Windsor Park, on a visit to
his MAJESTY.

The new American Minister, Mr. BARBOUR,
arrived in town on Wednesday from Liverpool. His Ex-
cellency has since his arrival been introduced to the Earl of
ABEADZEN, by Mr. Lawitxxcx, the Charge d'Affaires from
the United States, at the Foreign Offiee.

The Spanish and Sal dinian Ministers had in
terviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday.

The Manse Towns Minister, and Mr. FOSTER,
our Minister to the Court of Turin, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign Office.

The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the East Indio Company had a con-
ference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yester-
day at the Treasury.

Mr. Pnir,ups, the Under-Secretary of State
for the tiome Department, bm returned to town from a
tour on the Continent.

TORR ROYAL, the admired retreat of Sir 'l'.
Trawnirr, situate on the Forest of Dartmoor, with a
domain of nearly 3,000 acres of land, is, we perceive, an-
nounced in our columns for sale, by Mr. GEORGE Boats%
The rail-road being completed to Plymouth, the produce of
this immense tract of land is conveyed at a trifling expense
to Plymouth and Dvonpoit, where the markets generally
bear a very high pike, It.is also generally understood,
that in the prison of war will shortly be deposited 1,000
or 2,000 of the convicts. This alone wo'nld treble the
value of every acre of the Worthy Baronet's land.

the
.
NORTHERN SOClETY.—Pursuant to notice
the exhibition of Fine Arts closed on Saturday, having
opened natio
admission
oh the 2,3 i
during
nf
gMat3h,.is Tvli7ryfolil)orlviv receiptsiinvig.evize6to
interest haring kept up to the last:—
Season Tickets eold
Single Adniimions sold 542.2 for 86 days.
Average.... ................... 63 a day.
X s. d.

442 at .............................110 10 0
5122 at le .......271..... 2 0

£3Bl 12 a
The sales of pictures amount, we believe, on the whole,
to between 400/. and 5001.—Leeds Intelli.flenecr.

NORTHERN HERRING I'ISHING.----TIIC
Newhaven and ci,berrow hands are expected home from
the North this week, and it is feared that but few of them
will have completed their usual complement, 250 cranes.
No more than Os. a crane is allowed this season, and it is
believed that the grandsons and grandsires have realized
more money by trafficking in codlings, small flounders,
sand eels, and mussels, then the hardy fellows have done
who stood the peril and the toil of the fithing....Scutanan.

SPIRIT OF LONDON JOURNALS.

If the operations of war, whether civil or lia-
r , lions!, should happen to extend much further
than they do at present, there is no calculating
the
eredat Britain
egreet which the foreign commerce of
imay be impaired. We were
lately shut out of Oporto, the seat of an im-
mense property belonging almost exclusively to
the merchants of England. We are now chased
away from Madeira, another rich depot of Bri-
tish property and commerce. With a most va-
luable portion of. South America,—namely, the
industrious Republic of La Plata,—our trade is
h app
utterly broken up ; and it is threatened in other
quarters
with
iesst o
still further
ifunrtvleienrtiodierstthateion,
blockadeinasmuc
inasmuch
a s that
iruinous t than sys-
tern, seems to be travelling round Cape Horn,
t
on uponßritishil
it industry .
the i
Pacific,inflict c visitation
no less
while the only mari-
itiiimteh ea
cteeassstev,rnhihcehrniisspohpeerne
vast
lioeton s for an attack on
't°
uPserwuivtijainstl:ett
p regardect t o theto ex-
ample be speedily and
esptffeaa
ret
cc:
afilliaAy%
beelxnoilccakodeedb ipidirse.pfaarliar:
they will support, no
doubt, by a blockading squadron, and thus
paralyze a successful and fruitful trade now
r
carried on by our merchant
interests or neeeAtigg,
ni royr ethfaronlafrorenst
s'
aGmtipalyeethis
which,
co
with a pro-
mising division of the Continent"...
Ott the
other side, every mail brings informatiO tk!.t.
the Spaniards, who have collected a cons:-
derable squadron at the Havannah, talk of no-
thing with so much eagerness as an " effective"
blockade of Vera. Crux—the actual inlet of our
commodities to the immense regions and ad-
vancing population of Mexico. In Spain we
are prohibited, or superseded by the French.
From Portugal,—the kingdom whose ruin, by
calmly witnessing it, tire British Government
may be said to have ensured,—the commerce,
or industry, pr revenue of England can now de-
rive nd benefit. ,France and Russia both repel
us from their sea-ports. With Belgium we have
taken no measurtb to improve, by commercial
intercourse, a kindly feeling into a source of re-
ciprocal advantage. Where no besieging squa-
dron operates, we have jaall.niey or impolicy to
act in its room ; but where the n;:rchant might
under ordinary circumstances reap A 8n(1
overflowing harvest, from a trade undisturhet:
by the spirit of monopoly manifesting itself
in prohibitory laws, in steps—as witness Ame-
rica and Madeira—the self-imposed nuisance of
the modern blockade policy, which /eaves
the manufacturing and commercial interests o
Great Britain at the mercy of any miserable ty.,
rant who can muster half a dozen sloops of war':
We do not deny that there may be found tbr our
submitting to such inflictions an apology in that
sort of law which England has done so much
towards establishing. The principle contended
for is, no doubt, that when the belligerent seeks
to distress his enemy, the neutral has no right t
relieve that enemy by administering to the
supply of his wants. As laid down by the
jurists, the law of blockade applies in strictness
only to towns besieged—that is to say, towns of
which the capture is attempted by the blockading
power. In that case common sense directs that
all merchandise which goes to the satisfaction or
human wants, of such wants as, if left unsatis-
fied, might force the garrison to capitulate with
the besieger, shall be considered as contraband of
war, and be subject to confiscation if laid hold of
in transitu to the hands of the besieged. Arms,
ammunition, and military stores, are PbviouslY,
therefore, contraband of -war,—so are, and vught
to be, provisions, clothing, &c. ; and since oppor•-
tUnities of escape, ar of communication with, its

own court or allies, might be effected easily
through the ingress or egress of merchantmen, it
is right that all intercourse of every descriptl4s/1
with a port under siege should be forbidden.—
But how is it, or rather (the law being assumed
as positive) how ought it to be, where there is
no land force to inTeit a city, and no idea of re-
ducing it by arms ? We are somewhat doubt-

ful, whether, en abstract principle, the right of
blockade, as against vessels not freighted
with warlike stores or articles, but merely with
the fruits of peaceful industry and materials of
civilized comfert, ought to be recognized in all
instances where an immediate military object is
not to be attained through its enforcement. We
speak now of the reason—by no means of the
law as it exists, but for a reason we Beek in
vain—why war should be so rigorously aimed
against the non-combatant and helpless part of
the community, to. the greatest possible exten-
sion of its evils, instead of their greatest pos-
t
pos-
sible diminution. We have seldom heard that
the distresses of women and children had much
ff
resolves
onthoefwars.L
of Governments
be
a s it
mad-,o
on
tli
Let h
while other maritime States decide trampling
down the blockade system whenever it suits their
e:et duration u
convenience, we see not that England gains, by
her adherence to it, anything but gratuitous in-
jury when she respects it, with the risk of fresh
hostility when she strives to enforce it upon
others. Our merchants are suffering dreadfully
from the consequences of "effective blockade.
—Times.

By an express which came from Constanti-
nople to Vienna, letters were yesterday received
in the city from the first mentioned capital, dated
the 6th ult. Although the tcnour of their lan-
guage does not upon the whole bespeak a greater
disposition on the part of the Sultan to yield to
the force of circumstances, than lie has all along
manifested, a favourable inference was drawl t
signed . the treaty
from the fact of the Grand Vizier's having been
ordered to take the field, and having taken with
him to his head-quarters the individual who ne-
ttle Grand Vizier is, front the nature of his sta-
tion, invested with unlimited
his
of
every
kind, it was supposed that ' presence in the
army was as much meant to favour the work of
pacification as to conduct
ne-
gotiated and
military operations so
long as these were deemed
Constantinople unavoidable.
It was,
however, feared at by the Eu-
ropean residents that in the
I, , event of Shumla
lacing compelled to surrender, great disturbances
might ensue in that capital, as the road to it
would thereby be 1 left entirely open to the Rus-
sians • but
; E this perhaps will not, at all events., be
very soon the case it bein stated in letters from
Odessa, dated 1 ' I g •
t le 12t.1 ult., and written by well-
informed
persons, that Shumla was likely to
hold out some time longer, the Russian army
having determined to reduce it by famine, and
having resolved nett to attempt it by storm,
Owing to the desperate defence whicli
would be made by the troops shut up in the
place, and amounting to fifty thousand
men. Although well supplied with necessaries
of all kinds, it had been calculated by the Rus-
sian Generals commanding the siege, that the
number of persons shut up in Shumla,
, altoge-
ther upwards of 80,000, must hasten the con-
sumption of the supplies, and filially lead to the
reduction of the place without much spilling o of

blood. During the last war between Russia and
Turkey every one of the Turkish fortresses on
the Danube was, in its turn, stormed by the
Russians, who, with the exception of the storm-
ing of 'broil alone,- were repulsed with severe
loss. The same fortresses were, a month after
the fruitless attempts, each of them reduced by
famine. It is likely enough that the recollection
of those occurrences will induce the Emperor
not to risk. defeat or severe loss, where success
is in the least doubtful. through the force of arms,
and greatly probable through the means now re-
sorted to. The Emperor was to leave Odessa
about the 15th, for his head-quarters before
shims.a. Notwithstanding the critical aspect of
affairs, a good deal of commereial business was
going on at Constantinople, and several
ship-
ments of colonial produce for Odessa had been
latterly made.- No returns of former cargoes to
that place had, however, yet been sent. The
exchange on London is stated as being low on
the sth, but no quotation could be mentioned,
as the price is usually regulated by the nature of
the bill transactions with Europe a day or two
previous to the departure of the regular post,
which always takes place on the 10th and 25th
of the mouth.—Bid.
In the very valuable speech of the Rev. Mr.
Seymour, at Sligo, few more truths were told
Ids audience thin they could listen to with much
satisfactioe.. It appears from it that those most
sealo'f.s partisans of the Reformation; the Orange
gentry of Ireland, at the very-time that they are
deafening the nation with complaints against
Popery, and distributing Bibles, and making a
dozen or two converts in a year to the Protestant.
Religion and Scripture truth, are very quietly
driving off the Protestants by thousands and tens
of thousands, to make room for Catholics. This
it is, was, and ever will be. Interest is of no
religion—br rather, interest is the grand religion
to which all men bend the knee. • " Have not,"
says Mr. Seymour, " three ships laden chiefly
with Protestant emigrants .sailed from this town
of Sligo within the last three months, and am I
to be told by you (the gentlemen of Sligo); that
You cannot find Protestants for your estateS?
Let us now leave home, and look around us-. It
appears, as I am assured, as nearly as can be
collected from official returns; that last war—sone
single year—upwards of 25,000 Protestant souls
emigrated from Ireland." The emigrants could
not pay what Mr. Seymour calls the pish Rent,
and thus they were allowed by the landlords to
carry their Protestant outs elsewhere.. But out
of the Popish Rent, the landlords nó doubtemi-
tributed their mite to the fund for the purchasing
Bibles to be distributed among those who will
never look into them. Thus do Well endeavour
to cheat the world with words, and sometimes
succeed in deceiving themselves. How little is
known in England of the real springs
.of the ac-
tions of those who have had the ascendancy in
Ireland since the Revolution I The Protestant
religion forsooth ! • Trenchard, an English gen
tleman of rare honesty, who, with Gordon, pub.-
lisbed the well-known Cato's Letters, &C., was
one of the Parliamentary Commissioners for de-
tecting the frauds committed in disposing of the
forfeited lands, and. such a scene of villainy he
exposes in the Report to Parliament. But the
sons of Zeruiah were too powerful for him. It
has sometimes been supposed that the penal laws
were relaxed, because the Protestants were tired
of . oFpTcssiog.. popis4 rents: wrought tl4
miracle. .. The rents.earhe in- -aid of humanity'.
The Rev. Mr. Seymour refreshed
,the memories
of his Protestant 'audience with some rather awk+
ward facts in roofs' of this. But the periodical
Press of Ireland. of the time abounds with proofs.
In a distinguished series of papers published in
Dublin in 1769, 1772, &C., Under the title of
" The Bachelor," there is a curious paper, illuss
trative of the cause of the liberality of the Pro-:
testant gentry.- The, discovery.of America,"
says the writer, " introduced.the

and potatoes into Europe, and it would puzzle
the Constitutional Club or the Robin .Hood
Society to determine .which .of them has been
most prejudicial to. society. But it is.now time
to examine how this kingdom suffers in air
eminent degree by this cursed root. It haS
raised the rent of land to a most ex-
orbitant pitch ; for the peasants, by living.
solely on potatoes, drinking water, and going
naked; maintain themselves and families at a very
cheap rate, and prove the best tenants to our
needy landlords. These humane gentlemen,
therefore, labour. indefatigably to plant the
potatoe-feeders in all parts of the kingdom.
Whenever a lease expires in the North, they are
generously invited from Connaught and Munster
by public-advertisements, under the gentle call of
no exception being made to religion." The Pro-
testant manufacturer (the manufacturers of the
north of Ireland are at the same time farmers), who
who must eat bread, is out-bid bythese emigrants
4nd banished from his country to take shelter in
the wilds of America. Thus potatoes serve as
a bribe to our lauded o. -.el t-
Ty to encourage Po-
pery ; and our Charter Schools can be of no
service till that weed. is ban4hekl-from the face of
the earth." Thus we see 01 de-,renal Laws,
the Biblical Learning of the Divines, the Fro_
t estaut Constitution—that Constitution for which
Lord Eldon would shed Jiis last tear—under-
mined by the potatoe. Let us thank Godit is
no worse ; for if Ireland had been handed over to
the Jews, as the celebrated Harrington proposed,
and the Jews had taken it into their heads to
eat potatoes--between which and Protestant
stomachs there scents to- be an irreconcilable
enmity--to a certainty the Jews would have be.
come the masters of the Protestant Constitution
Panopia keland), says the author o.
Oceans, the soft mother el a slothful and pusillani-
mous people, is a neighbour island, riciently sub.
jected by, the arms orOceana ; since almost depo-
pulated for shaking the yoke, and at length re-
planted with new race. But (through what
virtues of the soil, or vice of the air sown it be)
they can still be degenerate. Wherefore, seeing
it is neither -to yield men fit for arms, nor
necessary it aliou/d,' hid been the interest of
Oceana so to have disposed of this province,
being both rich in the nature of the soil, and
full of commodious ports TM- trade, that it might
have been ordered for the best in relation to her
purse, which, in my opinion .(if it had been
thought in time) might have }teen best done by
planting it with Jews, allowing them their own
rules and laws ; for that would 'have -brought
them suddenly limn all parts of the world, and
in sufficient numbers. And though the Jews
be now altogether for merchandize, yet in the
Laud of Canaan (except since their exile froM
whence they have not been landlords) they
were altogether for agriculture ; and there is no
cause why a man should doubt' but having a
fruitful country, and excellent ports too, they
would be good at both. Panopia, 'well peopled,
would be worth a matter of four millions dry

rents; that is, besides the advantage of the agri-
culture and trade, with which a nation of that IL-

dustry comes at last to as much more, 'Wherefore

Panopia being farmed out by the -Jews and their
heirs for ever, for the pay of a provincial army to
protect them during the term of seven years, and
for two millions annual revenue from that time
forward, besides the custom which would pay
the provincial army, would have been a bargain
of such advantage, both to them and this com-
monwealth, as is not to be found otherwise by
either. . . . To receive the Jews after any
other manner into a commonwealth were to
maim it ; for they of all nations never incorporate,
but taking pp the room of a limb, are of no use
or office to the body, while they suck the nou-
rishment which would sustain a natural and use,
-ful member." However, thank God, we have
escaped, this danger ; though to landlords looking
after rents, Jews not eating pigs—therefore
breeding them merely fin- sale—would have been
an acquisition. Thus se see how the elective
franchise was given to Catholics. A landholder
having dispossessed his Protestant tenantry,
would have been without influence without this
communication. The same causes which have
brought our Protestant Constitution thus far will
carry her still farther. She is no match for Po-
tatoes and Popery.—Morning Chronicle.
It is stated in an Irish Paper that Mr. Daw-
son, whose speech at the late Londonderry
Meeting excited so much surprise and indigna-
tion among the Anti-Catholic party, has not
changed sides, but will still continue to vote
against the Popish Claims. We never consi-
dered his speech as an evidence of hiS conver-
sion to the sentiments of the Catholic Associa-
tion ; we attributed it to the effect of fear, in
consequence of the threat thrown out in the As-
sociation that an attempt would be made in his
county to play over again the drama that had
been enacted in the county of Clare. It was
shortly after that threat had been thrown out that
the meeting to commemorate the raising of the
siege of Derry was held, and Mr. Dawson, in-
stead of hurling back defiance at the.agitators;
as a more intrepid politician would have done,
thought it prudent to deprecate their interference
by abandoning the old Derry watch-word of
" no surrender," and raising the cry of tempo-
rary submission. It was, therefore, that he de-
picted. the- ascendancy of the Roman Catholic
Club in such appalling colours, and described
the whole of the Aristocracy, Clergy, and Gen-
try of Ireland as prostrate at their feet, because
no charge of individual timidity could be made
against a man who only bowed down to a power,
whose irresistible supremacy had already trampled
the Protestant strength of the country to the cart h.
The speech has, perhaps, had the effect of di-
verting the leaders of the Association from their
purpose, and Mr. Dawson is at leisure to conci-
liate the Orangemen Whoin be had so grieVously
offended.—Moriting Herald.
Whatever may be the result as regards the in-
dividual, there can, we should 'hope, be no
doubt but that the present discoveries as to the
way in which some of the pecuniary concerns of
Greenwich Hospital have been managed, must
lead to a prompt and efficient scrutiny into, and
a consequent reform of, such of the alleged
abuses as turn out to exist. The present agita-
tion of the subject, we apprehend, arises from a
circumstance, .untbrtunitely of no uncommon
occurrence among us—viz., of high official station
being looked upon as a mere source of honour or
emolument, wahOut much reference to the way
;in which those duties are 'fulfilled.- It was found
very convenient, for instance, for a Noble Lord,
some years ago, to enjoy the honour and
emoluments of a high office in the Exchequer,
while a deputy signed even the principals
name to documents, which rendered them in-'
valid. The Treasurership too of this Hospital
is amy snug berth (and a very proper one' for '
a Naval Officer. It is ti the credit of the Govern-
ment that it shOuld be so filled ; and we trust
it always will be. But then there is no reason

why such an appointment should be rendered a
mere sinecure, or that a deputy, giving security
to- the amount of 2,0001. should have the whole
and sole command of the entire funds of this
magnificent institution ; but here are; besides,
four-and-twenty Directors, composed of Noble-
men and others of the highest rank and character
in the country. What are they about that these
alleged abuses can occur, and be going on for.
so many. years, without their knowledge ? Is a
Directership of Greenwich Hospital looked upon
as a mere feather ? Even be it so, there is no
want of subordinate officers to see that all the
details are well looked after. We have not time
to count their actual number, nor room to give
their various designations ; neither do we mean
to insinuate that there is one too many ; but this
we know, that they occupy a page and a half of the
Red Book ; and as they must, among them,
take a large share of the funds of the Hospital,
we hope m future, that means will be taken that
among them the funds of the Hospital will be
looked after with somewhat more circumspection
than has, apparently, been at all times the case.

I We gave yesterday, in the shape of a para-
graph from a Dublin paper, a soi-disant audio-
riled denial, that Mr. Dawson, the Member for
Derry, had changed Isis sentiments on the Ca-
tholic question, notwithstanding his avowals at
the Derry dinner ; and we have since heard that
'he had written to Mr. Peel, his brother-in-law,
and to the Duke of Wellington, explaining the
reasons Which induced 111111 to make such a me-
morable speech, and that lie had received no
answers to his letters. We do not vouch for the
authenticity of this intelligence ; but it has come
to us from a quarter on which we have been ac-
customed to place sonic reliance, and it may not
therefore be wholly without fOundation. We
had been led to believe, however, that Mr. Daw-
son had conummicated both with Mr. Peel and
the Duke of Wellington before he committed
himself and his principles at the Derry dinner ;
laiticre,
to imagine, fora and whatever we may think of the former, we
tlNien
ge
au opinion of
ot
en-
tertain too highr a ha
signified his wishes, he would, on any consi-
deration, retract. The question of Catholic
Emancipation Li
certainly one of fearful import
not because its concession would endanger the
.e it would ofFend a large
Constitution, but because
I this country ; and it be.
body of the 'Topic o
haves in -consequence every one who may hold
the Isiah station which the Duke of • e lington
' now occupies, to think well hifore he acts ; but
still, fearful as conces.ion might be, when viewed
as connected with the feelings of the people of
England, it is still more fearful when we think
of the effects which its refusal might produce on
thOSC of Ireland. If Mr. Sheil is to be believed,
they are regimented, marshalled, and ready for
action—rebellion is ripe—and were it to explode,
where, let us ask, would be the power of this
country ? Seven millions of men are some
strength to a country in a time of difficulty; but
it would not simply be the lots of these seven

mi lions--but the loss aLo of those who might
be necessary to keep them *down.—Morning,
Advertiser.
The effects of Mr. Peel's Bill are daily and
hourly, the nearer we approach the month of
April, arousing the country to a consciousness
of the fate that awaits it. We can state, upon
the most undoubted authority, that in most of
the manufacturing towns, and in all those dis-
tricts where the people depend most upon the
accommodation of the Country Bankers, these
Bankers arc systematically calling in their credits
and narrowing their issues to a very large amount
weekly. The progression of this restriction is
so uniform and so general, that the greatest em-
barrassment will shortly' be produced, which will
increase till the country is once more rendered
frantic, and all its confidence absorbed in a tor-
rent of bankruptcy. We have reached this al-
ternative—we must either resort to the viti-
ated, the insecure, and the discreditable cur-
rency of Lancashire, or the trade and industry
of the country must submit to the most
ruinous restrictions, by which its manu-
facturing population will again be plunged
into all the horrors of pauperism. The in-
fbrination we ore daily receiving from almost
every county in England is of that kind
which deprives us Even of a doubt as
to the result. In these circumstances the first
question that arises is, will Ministers persevere ?
Will they, with the fatal effects before their
; eyes—the certainty of fresh impoverishments, and
a declining Revenue—the discontent that will
cry aloud in the streets, and the complaints that
will pour in from the collectors of the taxes=
will they, with these facts staring them. in the
face, "persevere in this most unwise and unjusti-
fiable measure ? We still cling to the hope that
they will see their error at the eleventh hour, and
that when they perceive the machine of Govern-
ment grating from the want of oil, and from the
visible poverty of the people, they will relax the
restraint and abandon the Bill as they have done
before. lt is not now a question merely involv-
ing the consistency of Mr. Peel and the prospe-
rity of the nation. The Right Hon. Gentleman
is not now mixed up with it. To him the country
has ceased to look up either in hope or in cola
deface. He cannot now stoop to what is called ex-
pediency; he has identified himself so much with
the measure,. and dove4ailed into it all the inte-
rests of his friends, and fortificd.it with so many
family pledges, that neither he nor they can
honourably or consistently consent to its post-
ponement, or .conditionally abandon it. But is
the Duke of Wellington so bound ? We affirm
that he is not. He has lately admitted, in a
correspondence which he has in the most laud-
able spirit carried .on with certain eminent
bankers in the country, that the calculation which
Mr. Goulburn made to Parliament respecting the
amount of one-pound notes in circulation, was
under-rated, and that many of his statements
were founded on/a/se data. He has frankly and
honestly admitted - this, and he has, moreover,
conceded that the evidence of those witnesses be-
fore the Bullion Committee, which formed, the
basis of their celebrated report, is equally erro-
neous and absurd. We assert, on the most nil,
questionable authority, that the Noble Duke has
candidly declared these to be his sentiments.
Are we, therefore, to believe that_ the Duke .of
Wellington is
.likely to legislate in the teeth of
-his-own conviction, or surrender his opinions to
the fettered opinions of others ? Having 'Adz
mitted that the principle of the Bill is fallacious;
he cannot, without further inquiry, consistently
enforce it. All eyes are turned towards .him—
every hope and wish concentrate in him—his
high character is at stake—the peace and prosperity
of the countryare at stake—the fortunes of thou-
sands depend upon his interference—and we con-
fidently flatter ourselves he will not disappoint the
nation. The authorities upon which the Bullion
Report was founded have proved to be destitute of
all authority. The men who influenced thesenti-
ments of the Committee, and upon whose evi-
deuce the Legislature acted, are now universally
accused of having been utterly ignorant of the
subject. The country bankers were not con-
sulted on the subject. Mr. Hudson Gurney
alone, and a gentleman of the name of Stuckey,
a clerk in the Treasury, and a banker at Bristol,
were the only individuals belonging to the
country banking interest who were examined.—
A few bill-brokers and stock-brokers, dealers in
coin and clippers of exchanges, men of London
alone, educated in the grand mart of intrigue
and fluctuation, constituted the select array of
witnesses. A more imperfect, a more partial, a
more exceptionable body of evidence, on which
to found a legislative measure, was never
submitted •to Parliament. For these reasons,
we have not only a right to demand, but reasons
to expect, that the Duke of Wellington will re-
open the deliberations of this Committee, and
bring them under the serious and dispassionate
review of the country. Before the interests of
the nation are committed by the measure—be-
fore the ruin which we dread has overtaken us—
before we are plunged into an inextricable laby-
rinth, it would be well to reconsider—not the
effects, fbr these are before our eyes—but the
solidity and soundness of that evidence on which
the measure rests. We trust that the Duke of
Wellington will institute that inquiry on an early
clay in the next Session
_of Parliament. We
sincerely rely upon this exercise of his inde-
pendence as an unshackled and uncompromise&
Minister of the Crown. We expect that he will
do the same justice to the English bankers and
the commercial and. manufacturing classes de-
pendent upon them, which was reluctantly done
to the Scottish bankers by a former Ministry.
If we are disappointed in these just, and we have
reason to say sanguine • expectations, we can
only say, we have greatly misunderstood the
views and the character of the Duke of Welling-
ton.—Nero 7imes.

• A carriage coninninication is, we hear, about
to be made between St. James'r-square and St. James's-
strett, by adding to King-street the court which now ter-
minates its west end.

As a proof of the extraordinary price of pigs, a
farmer in this ❑eighbourhood has made no less than forty
pounds, in the last 12 months, of the produce of two sows
sold off at the age of seven weeks.—Bury PM.

When Monsieur Louts, the French giant,
was exhibiting in the west of England, he was one day
visited by a very little, lively, active naval officer. The
giant looking down on the little fellow, asked him what he
could do to defend Muss, If, if he should take it into his head
to box with him? " What could I do?" said the tar,
putting his diminutive form into a boxing attitude. " you
had better try me." Monsieur stepped back, and play-
' fully raised his huge arms, as if to send the little man half
way to the moos, when the latter bobbing down, pitched
his head between the giant's legs, lifted him off the ground,
and laughingly asked the ponderous burden on his shoulders,
whether he shonl.l send him out of the window, which he
swore be would do if he did not admit he was vanquished.
The admission was made, and the tar replaced bins again
on the ground, to the no small amusement of the sputa-
tom......l3riyhtQn Gazette.