The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-25 00:00:00

NA VAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLY:um:Tx, JAx. 23.—The Southworth transport,
Lieut. Sanders, Agent, arrived on Thursday from Deptford.
on her way to Bermuda, with stores and provisions. She
will sail the moment the wind becomes fair. The follow-
ing officers of the 96th regiment have embarked in the
Southworth, for conveyance to that place :—Lieut. co).
Fullerton, C. 8., and family; Captain Spratt and family;
Lieut. Abbott; Ensigns Murray and Clyde.
His Majesty's ship Maidstone, 46, Commodore Skipsey,
anchored in the sound late on Friday evening, having
been compelled to put hack by the prevailing strong westerl:!,
gales, though she had nearly crossed the Bay of Biscay.
She came into Hatnoaze on Sunday, and will be docked in
a day or two for the purpose of getting at a serious leak in
her bread-room.

The ./Etna bomb-vessel, Captain T. E. Haste, arrived
during Friday night from the River, and moved into Barn-
Pool on Sunday ; on which day, the Infernal bomb-vessel,
Capt. E. W. Gilbert, arrived likewise from the River, last
from Tor Lay, where site took shelter from the westerly
gales, having parted from her consort, the Aiitna, on the
night of the 15th inst., when they left the Downs.
The Genoa, 71, Hon. Captain Irby, was paid off into
ordinary on Monday.
In Hamoaze—Britannia, Ocean, Windsor Castle, Maid-
stone, Erebus, Reynard, Conflict, Tyrian, Antelope, and
Hope transport. In Barnpool—fEtna.
At the lsland—Leveret, Vigilant, Nightingale, Linnet.
to Catwatci--Indian Trader, Cato, Southworth, transports.
In the Sound--Briton, Undaunted, Infernal, Britornart,
Bramble; end transport Jupiter, Borodino, Wansbeck,
Stentor ; and Pearla and Tejo Portuguese.
Lieut. Wm. Lane (It), of Stotiehouse is appointed first
Lieutenant of the Wasp. -
Mr. T. C. Roylance, Surgeon, and Mr. Pattison, As-
sistant-Surgeon, are appointed to the Wasp.
The senior Lieutenant and Mate of each ship engaged at
Navarin, are, or will he, promoted to their next rank.
Capt. John Wilson is appointed to the Tribune frigate, at
Chatham, fitting for foreign service. Capt. David Hope is
appointed to the Terror bomb, in the room of Captain
Fletcher, ill. Lieut. Robert Loweay, Coast Blockade
Service, is removed front Hayling Island, to Southsea
Castle, vice Lieut. Russell, resigned ; Lieut. Grant is ap-
pointed to the Hayling Island station ; Mr. Boreham is
appointed Purser of the Grasshopper ; Mr. Sowden to be
Purser of the Etna; Mr. Kerrigan is appointed Purser of
the Blonde frigate, just commissioned at Portsmouth ;
Lieut. Johnson Howe is appointed a First Lieutenant of the
Royal Marines (having held his rank upwards of eighteen
years) vice H. T. Watkins, resigned. —Plymou th Journal.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

WEDNESDAY, J.tx. 23.—High water 44 min. past
three.—Wind W.—Arrived the America, , from
Savannah, with cotton ; Alhree, Bradshaw, from ditto,
with ditto ; Neptune, Saul, from Maeero, with ditto ;
Meredith, Bebby, from Demarara, with sugar ; Calypso,
Newman, from Malaga, with fruit; Lady Leitrim, Breen,
from Marseillu, with madlers; Huskisson, Jackson, from
Africa, with palm oil ; Brothers, Gilbert, from Palermo,
with shumac ; Venture, Chapman, from Antwerp, with
gin ; Unicorn, Watts, from Havre-de-Grace, with brandy,
wine, &c. ; Arrow, Booth, from Glasgow, with sundries;
Enterprise, Crawford, from ditto, with ditto.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.—JA N. 24.
The atteridance4is day was numerous, but the betting
was very languid till after fivz, o'clock, when business
commenced. With the exception of a slight but marked
improvement in The Colonel for the Derby, the odds were
not much affected by the betting :

DERRY.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant (no takers)
11 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel (12 taken)
12 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt
15 to .1
agst Duke of Grafton's Druid
IS to I agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt
20 to I agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt
20 to I agst Lord Grosvener's Navarino
20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mariner
25 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Brother to Defiance
25 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Omen
27 to 1 agst Sir J. Shelley's Amy colt
23 to 1 agst Lord Grosvenor's Finesse colt
1000 to 30 agst Duke of Rutland's Hampden colt (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Mr. 'hornbill's Magnet—Shoveller(tak.,
1000 to 25 agst Mona
1000 to 25 agst Sir J. Shelley's Barnard()
500 even between Defiance and brother to Rachael.

OAKS.
10 to 1 agst Rosanne (taken)
12 to I agst Mr. Peirse's Sarah Sister to Swiss
14 to 1 agst Colonel Udny's Lisette filly
14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline (taken)
15 to I agst Duke of Grafton's Turquoise
IS to 1 agst Elizabeth
20 to 1 agst Mr. Molony's Zoe
30 to I agst Mr. Beardsworth's
kestelle
30 to agst Mr. Shard's I3aleine

ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bossy Bedlam
4 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Velocipede (taken)
000 to 10 agst Lestelle (taken)
No others mentioned.

THE RING.

NED NEAL ANT, WIIITE-lIKADED BOB.—The prelimi-
naries of this interesting match proceed with due punctua-
lity. The fourth deposit was made good at Jack Randall's,
Hole-in-the-Wall, Chancery-lane, on Tuesday evening, in
the presence of a numerous muster of the patrons of the
milling art. Neil was present "in full feather and fine
song," but Bob was absent. Ile, however, sent his old
friend, Tom Cribb, as his locum tenens, who posted the
Roney on time being called, with his customary punctuality.
Ned—and we think justly—complained, that " promises,
like pie-crust," ap the adage goes, " are nude to he
broken ;" for many who had pledged their faith to come
forward with the needful, were non est inventus ; content-
ing themselves with having realized the first, but forgetting
the "goose which had laid the golden egg." The hint,
we trust, will have its weight.
Ton GAYNOR AND JENNIN-cs.—These men were also
in attendance at the Hole-in-the-Wall, having staked a
sovereign a-side, for a match to come off in the same ring
with Neal and Baldwin; but Jennings's friends had found
their way into some other hole, and were absent when they
ought to have been present. A forfeit was the conseytence,
and poor Jennings was again disappointed.
DICK ACTON AND JACK NlCllOr,s,—The,e menlmet on
Wednesday night at Reuben Alarten's, the City of London,
Berwick street, and made good their second deposit, for a
match to come off on the ISth March. Dick, though a
" stale one," is a good one, and has distinguished himself
on many occasions, but especially in his mill with Peter
Crawley. Nicholls is a nephew of the celebrated George
Nicholls, who heat 'Pons Cribb ;and considered as a pheno-
menon he is " ;17 fresh as a two-
year-old," young and vigorous,
in his way. It will be his first public battle, and
his friends " fancy bins much."
Tom Reidie was present at the same house, to make a
match with Harry Jones; but the Sailor Bov had steered
his course in another direction. In consequence of which'
Tom gave notice, that he wothl be at his post on Wedmi,
day evening next, to post his rag for 25/. or 501.0 to fight
Harry or any ten stone man in the ring.

Miss PATON is engaged fir the whole of the
Lent Oratorios; she would have sung on the 30th inst.
but her provincial arrangements prevent her coming to
town.

of suspension."
TOM COOKE was asked by a Mr. BAILEY
to explain the meaning of ~a cord
replied, "with infinite promptitude '--Ault your friend
Ketch, it is more in his line.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

When we are not able or at liberty to state facts,
we must repeat rumours, and mall: the ebbs and
flows of public opinion. There is at this moment,
then, we have to say, a kind of feeling that the
Administration now cementing will be, to a certain
extent, a liberal Administration in its course of po-
licy, and in its disposal of the public money economi-
cal. Be it carefully observed, that we give this
only as the tendency of public opinion, which we
would neither confirm nor invalidate : but our mode
of acting upon such a system of policy as is ascribed
to the Government, would be, to take what they
give us thankfully, and humbly to strive to get as
much more as we could. Lord Grey is, and has
been, at Woburn•abbey with the Duke of Redford
since Tuesday, and does not, we hear, mean to come
to town before Thursday—that is, not till two days
after the meeting of Parliament. As he made no
part of the last Administration, his Lordship, pro-
bably, does not think that he is bound to fight their
lost battles, or bring them back to the field from
which they have fled, relictis non bene parnntlis
(in English) " having left Lord Dudley and Mr.
Huskisson behind them." Lord Lauderdale is also
thought to have melted, and to have kindly received
on his softened nature the impression of the new
Ministry. As to the liberal views imputed to the
new Ministry, take one imputed measure as a spe-
cimen. It is said that they mean to bring in a
bill for the relief of the Catholics, granting them
all but seats in Parliament! Upon which we
shall remark, that if seats in Parliament be thus
got pedetentinz, it is better than that they should
not be got at all. For, that seats there, will
come at last,—we have no doubt,
We shall therefore, as we said above, be
thankful for what we do receive in behalf of the Ca-
tholics, and continue to hope for all the rest. We
recollect that so long ago as when Mr. Grattan.
brought in a Bill for the emancipation of the Catho-
lics, and Mr. Abbot proposed and carried the clause
that admission to Parliament should be withheld,
the author of the Bill indignantly relinquished it.—
Had it been carried into a law in its amended form,
full emancipation, we believe, would have been, ere
now, obtained. We are, therefore, by all means, for
taking what we can get, whoever gives it ; the cote-
cession not being made at the expence of indivi-
duals, but being a right in, or a part of, the country,
which the country itself communicates. We must
not, however, omit to observe again, that these
imputations of liberalism cast on the new Ministry
are but rumours still ; but as a rumour generally
strives to attest its own truth, by alleging some fact
in its support, it, is now stated as such, that the
old Lord Chancellor is indignant beyond measure at
the manner in which he has been treated by the•
Duke of Wellington, who, having come and stolen
out of him a kind of assent to the proposition that he
was too old to resume the seals, quitted hint as soon
after as was decorous, and has taken care never to
be seen by him since. And both the brothers com-
plain loudly of being " cut" by the Duke anti Lord
Bathurst. An otter, as we have before mentioned,
is said to have been made to the Earl of Rosslyn of
the Master-Generalship of the Ordnance, and We
know that some think he will accept it—if from ne.
other cause, from his respect-for the Duke of Wel-,
lington.—Times.

Pitt 'll4,eilszt.
The correspondence quoted by Lord Rossmore,
in his speech at the Catholic meeting on Tuesday
last, was calculated to produce so fatal an impression
against the anti-Catholics and their cause, that we
little wonder at the attempts already making to de-
troy the authority of some of its most important pas-
sages. Lord Rossmore read an extract of a letter
from Lord Cornwallis to an Irish Peer, in which
the Noble Marquis, then Lord Lieutenant, expressly
promised, in the name of Mr. Pitt, " that the ac-
complishment of the measure of Union would be
followed up by imparting to the Catholics the bene-
fits of the British Constitution." Now there is no
getting over such a proof as this, of the pledge
which were tendered to the Catholics as the price
of their co-operation, except by denying the author
deity of Lord Cornwallis's letter; and this accord-
ingly has been done with characteristic impudence
by an evening paper of yesterday. The phra.:,e of
" will be informed," instead of the more natural one
of " shall have been informed," is seized upon as a
sufficient ground for declaring the letter to be "a
forgery." The letter was no such thing. The late
Lord Llandaff, a man of honour, transmitted it by a
King's Messenger to Mr. Walshe, who then repre-
sented an Irish borough : it was an autograph letter
of Lord Cornwallis, and handed over by Mr. Walshe
to his neighbour Mr. Lidwell, a gentleman of large
estate, and who, from hostility to the measure of
Union, had refused the office of High Sheriff for the
Queen's County, pressed upon him by Lord Cas-
tlecoote. Mr. Lidwell states to Lord Rossmore, in
the letter of recent date, which his Lordship read at
last Tuesday's meeting, that this autograph epistle
of the Lord Lieutenant lay in Mr. Lidwell's own
hands from the Spring Assizes to the Autumn
Lidwell, made of its contents at the time. It is
in ciAssizesuet i
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teas
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copied year
fli.Boomo,. andriot thate
N,4,
itshhe l
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extremely probable, that an Irish gentleman, making
a succinct abstract of the contents of a letter, might
in the use of an auxiliary verb, have substituted the
word " will" for " shall," without subjecting him-
self to the imputation of serious error, much less of
actual forgery, in the mind of any candid observer.
But the attempt at denial of a notorious fact, is too
hardy to be supported on any authority, howe‘-er
respectable it might be, and therefore howev'er
op-
posite to that of the Evening Journal. V:very man
who lived in Ireland at the time whtra the Union
was negociating, was aware of the industry with
which the friends of Lord Corn•;vallis and those of
Mr. Pitt himself pushed and circulated in all direc-
tions the assurances of the Prime Minister and of
the Lord Lieutenant, that the Catholics should be
rewarded for their support of the Union, by the
certain grant of emancipation. We ourselves have
seen copies' of communications from both, which
were vouched and countersigned by as honourable
names as any now existing. The question was
de9air of can-
vassedpersc,ad
in every company, not whether Mr. Pitt had
pledged his word upon the subject, for that was a,•
well known as was
rtehreioalancagnuagenetewrthai.tclht
all:iye used in
despair obliga,ior,.
Parliament on propo'4ng the measure to the British
House of Commons, bat whether Mr.
sere? That was the only question. If, then, there.
be no hope for the intolerants but the success of
their effort to affix the term " forgery" to a declara-
tion of Mr. Pitt, of the truth of which. no man eon-
versant with that
doubt, we believe that they nI"Y
Ott the lirithile
restsGi li
gor•teh rinencopnueln)sltiri.tmoPmai tgotyCeael,"l:l:e' imilt.iYl:l7\ Vi .We andmust add, u n re..
deemed.—Bid.

pastoral Letter from the Secteti
1 Presbytery in
London, addressed to the baptised of
' We lay before our readers part of a peer singular
document--„ A
1 the Scottish Church, residing
g in London and its
cinity, and ;n the southern parts of the illantl:3.
As the document nuns to great lengthove are forced
to reserve the remainder of it for a future day. Is
is
subscribed by‘,
"James Miller, Moderator of the
Presbytery, Minister of the Scotch Church, Pros-
pectliaee) Bouthwark ; John Blvth, D.D. Minister
of the Scotch Church, Woolwich • John Cromhie,
Minister of St. Andrew's Scotch Chu'ra, Commercial.
road ;Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch.
Church, Regent-square : William Woodrow, Mi:iis-
ter of the Scotch Church, Swallow-street; Hugh
13aillie Mac Lem.), Minister of the Scotch Church,
London Wall; Alexander Mac Donald, Minister of
the Scotch Church, Birmingham ; and by John
Polwarth, Walter Mitchell, Robeit Wright, William
Dinwiddie, John Lomas Johnson, and John Law-
rence, Elders. In this document there are some
very curious statements.
" Of the tens of thou-
sands of our countrymen (it is said), and their chit.,
dren, and their descendants residing in this City and
i neighbourhood (of whom t is reckoned not less
than a hundred thousand have received baptism at
the hand, and are thereby Members of the Scottish

Church, for whose souls she is responsible), not one
thousand present thoniselves to the body of Christ,
for their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace."
It would appear that, while the number of Scotch in
London is constantly increasing, the number of church
goers is constantly decreasing. " Within the memory
of the Reverend Father of this Presbytery, there
were ten or twelve places of worship in the Com-
munion of the Church of Scotland ; which now, al-
though the number of our countrymen resident here
be multiplied four-fold, are diminished to five, and
these by no means in a flourishing condition." The
Presbytery do not, however, accuse the absentees
of defection to other churches. " How many there

may be who have departed from their Mother
Church, and fallen away to other Communions, we
gre unable to say but we have reason to believe that
they are not mans." We proceed to notice another
of the statements : " Of the young Scotchmen
whom you shall find labouring in every vocation of
life, especially in the depaitments of literature and
art in this great city, we lament, yet are bold to
say, tle.it you shall not find one in a hundred who i,:
a regular worshipper or joined member with any
Church." These are strange statements, especially
when we hear that " there never was a nation so
blessed of Heaven with the knowledge of Christ,
and the pure administration of his Church, as our
nution hath:been ever since the Reformation ;" and
that " religion bath so enlarged the faculties of the
mind, awakened the sensibilities of the heart, and
opened all the avenues of industry ; there bath been
such an outpouring of wisdom and understanding
upon the people, for the sake of the faithfulness and
long-Suffering of the Church, that it may be said of
all, but especially of the lower and the middle
classes, that being compared with the same orders
of the people in any other country under Heaven,
they are, as the servants in the parable, entrusted
with ten talents compared with the servant entrust-
ed only with one." No nation, it seems, is so
blessed of Heaven with the knowledge of Christ as
she Scotch, and nowhere bath religion so enlarged
rite faculties of the mind and awakened the sensi-
bilities of the heart ; and what is the result ? " How
fearfully, alas I this righteous law of Providence (to
much is given, of them much Should be re-
quired), hath taken effect upon iur country-
men, sojournevs in every region, the earth,
where they are generally found to be the
.e..ost regardless of God's ordinances, the most
zocrldly, the most given up to the utter darkness of
i!fidelity, has been reported to us by the most cre-
dible
witnesses, who have expressed their astonish-
ment and dismay to find such excellent knOwledge
of Divine truth existing in the minds of men aban-
doned to all worldliness and wickedness, jut we
need no testimony from a distance to convince us
bow evil it must be with our brethren, in the hen-1
thenish and outlandish parts of the world, when we
are daily the sorrowful witnesses of their unholy ne-
glect and indecent contempt of the ways of God,
their greediness after the gains of this world, and
their devotedness unto the works of darkness, in this
;the city of our habitation." So that this best (Well
religious educations, in the best of all churches, has
led to the melancholy result of Scotch
in every region of the earth the most regardless of
God's ordinances, the most worldly, and the most
given up to infidelity. As far as WP, Q.n under-
stand the reasoning of these Fathers of the Ssoteli
Church, it is this : an excellent religious education
makes those who receive it more worldly-minded
wad irreligious than those who receive a bad educe-
;'ion, because they are required to be better than
(Idlers in proportion to the excellence of the educa-
tion, and not being able to be so much better, it is
justice that " even what they have should be taken
from then;," However, the Reverend Fathers of
the Scotch Church in another place speak less
mysteriously on this enbject. It seems it is an easy
matter to unite faith and ignorance, but exceedingly
difficult to unite faith and mental cultivation.
This," they say, is the vulnerable side of our
Church, which having trampled upon tbn eupersti-
tions of the sense, and established herself tree; the
primitive simplicity of the Rpirit, cannot he pee.,
Nailed against but by the natural intellect, in itself
se hostile to faith, and in its own strength more
proudly entrenched, than is the sense, which still
linketh us with the hopeful visible creation yet to
be redeemed, while the naked and unbelieving' irettal-
lect cloth carry us directly to the fellowship of
the spirits fallen." This is a strange sort JO rea-
soning to find used by a Scotch PreThytery
in the very heat of the Second Reforma-
tion. The Catholics, indeed, are in the habit of
holding this language; they say—Examine not
avhat is an object of faith—the moment you examine
you cease to be a Catholic ; and they say, that the
:application of intellect to faith is destructive of it;
but Presbyterians, ate imagined, were obliged to le
always ready to give a reason for the faith that in in
them. The following causes of infidelity are as-
signed as those which affect the Scotch nation in
particular. " These are, first, the peculiar character
of our Church, which taketh no instruments in the
visible, but chiefly or altogether in the invisible, ad-
dressing herself neither to the eye with any ma-
ments, nor to the ear with any instruments of music,
nor to avarice with any wealthy endowments, nor to
ambition with any high places, but to the under-
standing of truth, and to the feelings of righteous-
ness, and to the sense of duty, and to the lawe of
excellence, and every other affection of the invisible
mind ; so that on her, and above her, there can ga-
ther no banks nor barriers of superdition to with-
st„,:nd that tide of apostate intellect which bath filled
all the. channels of thought and feeling, and is served
lip to the .lips of the people in all, or almost all, th,p
literature of ilhese times. If, indeed, men so disci-
-line I 'mild
p t cleave to the ordinances of the Church,
and submit the imagination of their minds to the
obedience of faith, then would they be in the hands
of God's spirit the very champions to withstand
and bear hack the present -Infidel Confederacy, as
our fathers did Popery and Arminianism ; but ye
have forsaken, oh! ye graceless children of gracious
fathers, the ordinances of the church, and the prin-
ciples of the faith; wherefore Clod hath gireu you
up to become an easy prey to the unbelievers. A
second cause of this proneness of our countrymen to
infidelity, against which we solemnly warn you, is
the infidel character with which the most fareDus of
our Scottish philosophers and economists, and nioll
of science and literature,htive been impressed for al-
most a century, anti which hath obtained a seat and
habitation of a long time in the most famous univer-
sity and capital city of our nation; and which, for
the last thirty years, bath circulated its poison
through our far famed Northern Journal and Review..
To these, the ornaments anti the works of unsancti-
fled and apostate intellect, the eye of our Scottish
youth is directed with admiration as the pride of
their country, until by much admiring they come to
love, anti at length to adopt the infidel opinions
which are so attractively set forth. Oh, how the
intellect of Scotland is proving her bane. •
We, who have continual intercourse with the Scot-
sigh youth, and who know the character of the wan-
derers from the character of those whom we leave
reclaimed, do solemnly declare our conviction, that,
as of those who have devoted themselves to worldly
g,
ain hardly one but is converted into a worldling;
SO of those who have addressed themselves to the
sciences and the arts, to periodical writings and
the weekly or daily Press, scarcely one but is less
or more tinctured, if not wholly corrupted with
infidelity. • • " Our young mechanics, the
most ingenious in their several arts, with our young
tradesmen, the most prosperous in their several
crafts, are, to an extent which we fear to characterise,
possessed by the spirit of infidelity ; and, being men
of understanding and calculation, are used by
Satan as his most successful agents for diffusing the
poison abroad in a thousand unseen directions."
These are woeful results from the being blessed with
the best Church and the most religious education in
the world! However, it is time we took care of
ourselves. No wonder that England abounds so
much with wickedness and crime, and that her
prisons are fast approaching to an equality with her
Churches, it a most industrious and intellectual

people are suffered to enter, to spread themselves
over the land, who " are used by Satan as his most
successful agents for diffusing the poison abroad in e
thousand unseen directions." And observe, too,
the coincidence between the rase of the increase of
Scotchmen and the increase of crime. The Reverend
Fathers of the Scotch Church tell us, their country-
men have increased four-fold during the time of one
of their body. The Parliamentary Commissioners
tell us, that clime has, during the same period, in-
creased four-fold. Here we have the cause stated
on evidence not to be challenged. It has been pro-
posed to exclude the Irish. Exclude the Scotch we
say. Let us draw a sanitary cordon along the
borders; shut our ports against them. Who knows
when the most successful agents of Satan are refused
admission, but England will be herself again ! We
cannot close these observations without throwing out
a hint for the benefit of our northern neighbours.
We see what have been the/ woeful effects of culti-
vating the intellect ; suppose they leave the intellect
uncultivated. A Clergyman of the Church of Scot-
land (a paukie chid) in Sinclair's Statistical Ac-
count, vol. 15, p. 432, does not scruple to tell his
countrymen, that, instead of cultivating the intellect
they ought to cherish and cultivate superstition.
Are the remains of " superstition and enthusiasm,"
he says," which do affect the character only in small
and unimportant matters; or scepticism, which gives
A new and totally different direction to the under-
standing and the will, least dangerous to our happy
establishment in Church and State ?" Accordingly,
he recommends that ghosts and witches should be
treated with due respect, and that we should not be
too hasty to " exchange old prejudices for new and
strange doctrines." Reasoning leads to all that is
evil.—Morning Chronicle.
Should the Duke of Wellington remain at the
head of the Ministry (though many say that he will
be Prime Minister pro tempore only, for that Mr.
Peel will succeed him)—yet should he remain Prime
Minister, which we think it likely that he will, not-
withstanding all the reports put about, probably by
those who belong to the Household, the question
with respect to the Army would have to be con-
sidered; for surely the Duke would hardly remain
Commander-in-Chief, and be at the same time Prime
Minister; that would be giving him two of the
greatest powers in the State. To give him such
would be unconstitutional, and it is very likely that
in such case petitions would pour into Parliament
for an alteration ; it is also likely that Parliament
would interfere ; and if it did, the Crown, no doubt,
would give way, and it would be to its interest.
For our part, we have long thought that the Crown
was aiming at an inerease.of power. At present, it
disposes of the Church patreriege ; and in the in-
stance before this last, of a change of Ministry, the
Crown availed itself of circumstances, and seized the
naval power; and soon after the death of the Duke
of York, and just before the Duke of Wellington
was appointed Commander-in-Chief, we recollect
that it was announced that a messenger had been des-
patched to the Continent, to the Duke of Cambridge,
offering him the Commander-in-Chiefship ; but,
before the messenger could have arrived, the Duke
of Wellington was appointed. We thought at the
time that these was a degree of precipitation on the
part of the Ministry, end that it was in opposition to
the wish of the King. Sport after this the messen-
ger
returned, and a report was ;pared that the Duke
of Cambridge had refused the command. This re-
port, however, we did not believe. The Crown
having etieceeded in engrossing to itself the Church
patronage, enri. the Navy by the appointMent of the
Duke of Clarence, it strikes us that it has its eye
also to the Army; and we think that it will take
advantage of circumstances, and acquire that power.
Now here is the opportunity. " Vaulting ambition"
has possessed the Duke of Wellington to accept the
Premiership : which being obviously unconstitu-
tional he holding at the same time the Commander-
ehip-in-Chief, eye think his Grace will remain in
possession of the Peere'erehip, but that public opi-
nion, backed by the (rowri 4t;.4 the Cabinet, will
cause him to resign the command of the ituriy; in
which case the Dikes of Cambridge or Cumberland
tvt-,:azlAl become Commander-in-Chief, and thus the
Crown woold secure to itself the chief powers of the
realm—the Churein the Army, the Navy ; and the
Lord Chancellor being cagy co during the King's
pleasure, the Crown might then 1;,:: 3.'',4,1 to possess
tii:: Religious, the Legal, the Military, and Q Neval
power a :be State. All this is natural enough, and
agreeable to k,A-,,lpMon reasoning as to man—his love
for power. Shoul4 the hickerings between the par-
ties end in this, and th C,',7,9wn seize the good
things for which the parties have been tie tong squab-
ling, many would say that our Government Into re-
solved i!..:•,eif into an absolute monarchy, with the
semblance, however of freedom. Hence probably
would come the quesse;oh, What has brought us to
this ? We should reply, i.j) Debt ; which being
of so unmanageable a'Siature, on ageoshit of its large-
hiess, neither party could long encounter the o;eghe
of it.—elforaing Herald.
FRom A CoRRE,iWNDENT.—ProbabIy the British
Government was never ip greater difficulties, arising
from official blunders, and the iseees neglect and in-
attewion of public offices and public ofSicees.. At the
Privy Coancil held on Tuesday week at the finyel
Lodge, Windsee, there was only one confidential
adviser of the King present—viz. the Lord Chan-
cellor. The others present ca neat time were merely
Privy Councillors—viz. the Doi,p arf wellington,
Mr. Arbuthnot, Sir Wm. Fremantle, toe PO
Steward, kvi4 Sir George Cockburn. At this as..
sembly the Prye ,Councillors advised the King to
agree to an Order in en:mei) to put off, or to pro-
rogue, the Meeting of Parliemem, We are at a lose
to know what to call it, the proceediur6 vas so ex-
tremely irregular. The regular mode of proroguing,
the Parliament eseeuld have been to supersede the
former Order in Couneil /when a Royal Proclama-
tion was issued for the asserniie.2.,pf Parliament for
the despatch of business) by issuing another Royal
Proclama.t;tee to put off the other, or supersede it ,!'er
a week ; and theeefore, if the Parliament meet next
Tuesday, it will mese., illegally, as the necessary
forms have not been obsessed, At the assembling
of the late Ministers and their renenessors at the
Royal C-odge, Windsor, last Tuesday, eha former
to resign their official situations, and the latter
to receive the eeas of office from the King
as their successors, th.e proceeding necessary
to qualify tine new Minister.; en act as such
could hot be completed, owing to the same
causes. The first neglect rested with the Mar:neje
of Lansdowne, az Secretary of State for tine Home
Department, who oughee to have summoned a Privy
Council, to swear in the new 'Ministers, or have sent
orders to the Council Office for that pitenose ; if the
Noble Marquis had not himself gained suttieient
official knowledge epon the subject, he could cer-
tainly have sent fo,• bis principal clerk to make in-
quiries. On account of this neglect very great con-
fusion existed Yesterday. Mr. ge.el, although virtu-
ally appointed Secretary- of State for the Home De-
partment, did not attend at the Office of that P,e-
partment, owing to his not having been sworn into
office : the Right Hon. Gentleman received official
communications, and transacted various business as
Secretary for the Home Department ; but we un-
derstood that any documents, which required the
signature of a:Secretary of State, the Right Hon.
Gentleman sent to be signed by Earl Dudley—the
Noble Earl being the Secretary next in rank to the
Right Hon. Gentleman. A similar correct diffidence
of improperly was observed by Earlllathurst,l
who acting
ioditl not attend at tine Council Office to transact
Earl not having been declared
business, tolifetiNieohle
Council by the King in Council ;
and, as a last instance, at a Cabinet Council yester-
day, a Nobleman was present who ought not to
have been so--viz. Lord Ellenborough, his Lordship
not being a Privy Councillor.—lbid.
Some of our contemporaries seem to puzzle them-
selves very much with the difficulties which are
about to overtake Ministers at the opening. of Par-
liament. The Times of yesterday quotes largely
from Hatsell, to prove that the two Houses can-
not open without a Royal Speech, and if a Speech
be made from the Throne, then, for certain, it will