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THE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY EXTRACT& FROM THE W)RNING PAPERS,
JUN I; 10, ROL

[THE TIMES.]
The right spirit is acting with vigour and success
in various quarters of the kingdom. Westminster
has frightened away air intruders from the camp of
Toryism ; there the war is- already; ended ; the pub-
lic enemy has capitulated without a blow. As Sir
Francis Burdett has misconstrued a phrase or two of
ours, addressed as part of a general exhortation to the
friends of constitutional liberty, we shall dwell upon
that point just long enough to repeat, though in less
Metaphorical language than on Thursday last, that when
corruption, as in Scotland, becomes excessive and in-
tolerable, it has a direct tendency to cure, itself, like
most other Moral eVils. The grand consideration of
all is, that, the people should be impressed with the
urgent necessity of forcing iuto Parliament such repre-
sentatives: as will help by their votes in every instance
to put down those abuses through which bad member:4
are returned,' acid to cut away those resources out of
which bad services are paid. If something like popu-
larity of election be not general through England,
there will be no responsible House of Commons ;
without conscious responsibility in the griardialis of
the national interests, there will be no fair or upright
application of the public money—bribery always forms
a large portion of. the system of extravagance and
wastess-bsiberri furnished by prodigality are always
turned against liberty,—and thus political vices of dif-
ferent denominations re-act upon arid re-produce each
other. The Scotch system, 'seems even while we write
about it, to have been illustrating, in a remarkable
manner, our hopes of its tending to self-destruction.
In another tallith will be found, extracted from' an
Edinburgh newspaper, a. curious allusion to some
proceedings at lialinburgh to 'shake off the odious
yoke of the Dundas family ; one of whom, the late
member for the Scotch capital, is painted in the nar-
rative to which we refer as at once using and insulting
his constituents. This has, at length, stirred their
tame and drowsy blood ; and in Edinburgh, the head-
quarters of" virtual representation," an idle and un-
popular sineenrist, entailed upon his country by the
late Henry Dundas, of place-loving and place-dis-
pensing memory, bids Eris, even yet, to have " a se-
cond spoon in his porridge." In Yorkshire the tone
of honour and liberality is held high by the manly
voice of Lord Milton and of Mr. Marshall, his able
coadjutor. We see some things occurring in the city
which are not prin./41;0e to be justified. why has Mr.
Garrett become a candidate, after assuring the Livery
generally, and the present Lord Mayor particularly,
many months ago, that he would not? The latter
gentleman would, it seems,, never have gone to the
expellee, and trouble of pushing his interest with the
Livery as a candidate for their support at this election,
had it not been for the confidence reposed in Alder-
man's Garratt's promise. There is nothing so con-
temptible' as breach of faith in cases where men's
words'are the only. security ; but the ofince is often,
at least among Englishmen, followed with a severe
retribution.

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Lik49lll4tra) cuitoxicLE.]
'
Jr 1 rands, ti —iirdett and Mr. Hohhouse were yes,
lerday elected, without opposition, for Westminster
This remit was very generally anticipated. A great
part of Sir Francis's speech conistcd of a comment on
an artie i S 'in 'the Tins of Thor ,41.ay, on the contrast
li.
which 60,181g1 at, this moment pmeuts to the rest of
the United Kingdom: The Times had very truly
stated, that "the most rotten of ,English or Irish
boroughs exhibits nothing more close or unimprove-
able than the humbug of repreientation throughout the
whole of Scotland: . Popular representation to Scot•
land there is none.. Au far as the influence of the
Scotch representation in the House of Commons ex.;
tends,
,it is a pure addition to the oligarchy of the
country. . That portion, of the ilritish oligarchy has,
no doubt, its individuals, actuated by a lovo for the
public good—just. as we, have seen Sovereigns . in
Eurppe—as Leopold, in Tuscany, for instance, de-
voting their time and their talents to the good of their
people. Hence ,IVIi. Flume holds his Seat in Perlin
.-
merit tinder the Scotch Oligarchy. We owe the good
in the Scotch representation to the caprice of indivi-
duals of rank, and not to the influence of the people
over those who return the Members.. But, if we un-
derstand the object of representation, it is • not so
much a privilege to the particular places re-
turning Members, as a security to the nation that the
second branch of the, Legislature bus been so chosen as
to be identified with the whole nation ; so that a particti.
gar class may not take upon itself to prosecute its own
separate , interests in the name of the people, over
whom it has ustiroed the coutraul, in defiance of
the general will. As far as Scotland. itself is con-
cerned, the improvement of its representation would
he a little consequence ,to it, if such improve-
ment had not the effect of so far changing the
character of the Representation of the United
Kingdom, as to .
.make it an . effective - guar-
dian of the general interest, in which case it
woulkshere, in the general improvement. If the isii
provement of 'the Scotch Representation did not alter
the general character of the whole, the effect to Scot-
land and England would be reduced,to the amount of
benefit which Parliament might derive from an ems-
sion of honest and energetic men, who, though they
might ' not affect the votes, yet would improve the
tone of public opinion, through the expression of
their sentiments in the House of Commons. Sir F.
Burdett says, " the great majority ' of the House of
Commons is rejurnect by corruption alone," and AS,
suming, as he did that the Mode of our representa-
tion was the parent of " all the system of corruption
in the, House of Cinrmions," he very fairly sunk the
partial corruption of Semiarid in the greeter and in-
fluential:corruption of 'England. If the representa-
tion of England were reformed, that, of Scotland
would follow as A matter of course; but, if the aristo-
cracy of England were in one of their merry moods
•to consent to the reform of the representation of Scot-
land, , the reform 'of the representation of
,England
would by no Imam! fOlow as a matter of course. The
reasoning Of Sir 'Francis:was, in every respect, unim.
peaohaW, and the conclusion followed necessarily
from hit premises. The ' subject admits of being
viewed- in . another light. From the moment that
Scotland merged by the Union in Englaud, she line,.
pacitated herself frolll making any future ininrovement
in her Constitution. she hecairie afterwards entirely
dependent on the will of the English Parliament ; be.
cause,
even gUpposing by some unaccountable eaprice
her forty-five Representatives were to be seized with a
fit of virtuous inaicration 4 the political corruption
of their, country, their voice would avail no more
than the majorities of the mere Irish Members avail
in the case of Catholic Emancipation. If Scotland
bad not been united to England, the existing state
possible. It is
of her representation would be im

the strength of England which. keeps ,Scotland
down, just as it keeps down the Irish Catholics. The
people:of Scotland, from the time of the Reformation
down to to the Union, were very bold experimenters, both
in religion and politics. Buchanan, and K11(4, and Mel-
vit, were the most daring speculators in both, which
modern Europe bad seen up to these times, and the
people, with a pertinacity of which we believe there is
hardly another example, struggled through the better
part of two centuries for the realization of their fa-
vourite reforms, which they at length effected, though
at the expellee of much bloodshed and suffering.
They trod the mitre in the dust, in their own land ;
and if their strength had been equal to their zeal, they
would have laid it equally low in England. The peo-
ple of Scotland were in those days wonderfully well
informed, considering their circumstances. Bishop
Burnet, in his Memoirs, tells us that he was one of
six Episcopal DiVines sent by Archbishop Leighton
to'the Western Counties, in 1670, to argue with the
people in favour of Episcopacy. "We were indeed
amazed (be says) to see a poor Commonalty so capa-
ble to argue upon points of government, and on the
bounds to be set to the power of Princes in matters of
religion This measure of knowledge
was spread even among the meanest of them, their
cottagers and their servants. " If their zeal had not
been controuled by the superior power and superior
wealth of England, there is every 'reason that the
Scotch, after carrying their Church by the sword,
would at least have attempted to reform the State, ac-
cording to the measure. of theirknowledge. But by the
Union, Scotland became a mere provin6e of England,
left in possession,of the Institutions in force at that
Union, but with Out thopower of improving them her-
self. She is indebted to her own exertions for her
Church, and her national education ; she is indebted

to her connection with England for peaes, and a par-'
ticipation in, all the advantages enjoyed hy,her more
powerful and wealthy. neighbour. But she is a mere
point in the system of England, hardly equal in re-
sources to one of her counties, and must he contented
to take the direction which the Aristocracy of Englend
is pleased to give to her. By 'the bye, we think, the
opinion so happily expressed by Sir Francis, that " he
did not expect any reform from the Parliament itself,
but from the increase of knowledge amongst the
people (arid from all that he could learn on this subject,
there was a great improvement in the public mind,)
and a growing conviction of the necessity for having a
just and. free Government, was not altogether in unison
with the sentiment expressed by him in the outset ;
that, "when they witnessed the ability with which se-
veral honest and practical men had made attempts to
procure econouncal.reform, and check a wasteful ex-
penditure, and when they witnessed. with what efl'ect
these attempts had been made, 'they would be con-
vinced that it was not possible any thing could be ob-
tained, while the interest of the great body of the
House of Commons was contrary to the interests of
the country." This is the unction which too many
honest membeis of the House of Commons lay to
their souls, as an apology for their want of exertion.—
If we admit it as an axiom, that when truth and error
are 'presented to the mind, in the majority of eases,
the truth will be received in preference to the error,
we must also admit, that/with a view of enlightening the
great body of the people of England,so as to impress them
with the necessity of having a just and free Govern..
ment, the combat with error and corruption cannot be
too strenuously maintained in the Howie of Commons.
it is trite that the votes might remain the same, though
there were ten able speakers on the right side instead
of one ; but the effect on the public mind would not
remain the same. We have seen the effect of the
exertions of one intrepid and indefatigable man; in
opening the eyes of the people of England with respect
to abuses ; and we ,cannot, therefore, hesitate to con-

dude, that the effect would he, inealeulabtLigreater,

were the proportion of industry greater. tce great
thing is to enlighten the people. Sir Francis, indeed,
contributed nobly towards the Institution in this rne-
tropolis, for ditFusing knowledge among the people ;
but Much might also 1w due in the House of Cone-

01111.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

vlcE-CHANCEI.I.ORis3 count, Juxx D.
wnsu v. r.Lovn.

Mi. HOR.NE moved for an injunction on behalf of the plaintiff,
who is a scller of mathematical and surgical instruments in the
Strand, to restrain the defendant, who is a maker of such instru-
ments, .from making or selling any more s,yringes, fur the making
of which letters patent had been obtained by the plaintiff.—
Injunction granted. ---
COURT OF KING'S 10414C11, Jume 9.
DODOAN V. DOLVAND AND Origil.S.,

This was an action, brought by the Clerk of the commissioners
under a local Paving Act for improving certain streets ereckd on
the estite of Mr. Lucas, in the parish of St. Pancras, to recover
a slim of money, collected from rates leVied under the before—
mentioned Act, and which hail been paid by the Commissioner))
into the hautb) of Messrs. Marsh, Idlauntleroy, e, and Co. soon, time
before the failure of that firm, whose assignees the defendants
were. It appeared that, without any specific appointment, the
bankrupts had acted for a considerable time. as bankers to the
commsssioners ; and the question -was, whether the bankrupt)
were periona tvho came within the meaning of the general Me-
tropolitan Paving Act (the 57th Geo. $, cap.,29), by which it is
provided that a preference shall he given to the Commissioneri, to
whom money is clue from the persons therein mentioned, the
Words used being " treasurers and others," before all other cre-
ditors: Mr. Fauntkroy had, it aeemed, prior to the transaction
in question, been appointed Treasurer to the Commissioners under
the local Act. A meeting had been convened for the purpose,
but the appointment was signed by the Chairman alone.
The Comer, in giving judgment-this day, held. that the
cnity respecti,4 the appointment of Mr. Fauntlerey was out of
the question; and therefore they restricted their judgment to the
words of the Act which have already been recited. They were
1 on that point decidedly of
,opinion, that Messrs. Marsh and Co.
came within the meaning' of the words " or others" receiving
money collected by the Commissioners, although they did not
come within the enumerated daises of persons Specifically
pointed out in the Act. They therefore gave judgment fur the
plaintiff.

THE KtNG V. )101.1LTS.

The defendant, at the last assizes for Norfolk, was found guilty
of publishing a libel on the character of Mr. Owen, a disse.nting
minister at Norwich,,imputing to him au improper intimacy 'with
the defendant's
Mr. Rostusor now prayed the judgment of the Court.
Aker Mr. Klux and Mr. Roamou bad been heard in miti-
gation,
Mr.- Justice BATLIEY pronounced the sentence of the Court,
which was, that the prisoner (who has been confined in Norwich
gaol since Aprillast) be further confined in the same prison for
the spice of sir calendar menthe.

LAVGIII6I/ V. YOINTInti
An action to recover compensation fqr injury caused by the
defendant's carriage and horses to the plaintiff's- carriage. Tl►e
raw was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, when it was tug-
gested that the'horses employed by the defendant were not his pro-
perty, but hired by him for the day from a person named Bryant,
who Will liable. At the trial, the plaintiff was nonsuited.
Mr. Justice 'Houton, was of opinion, that the hirer and
driver of the horses were liable as much as if the defendant had
been driver.

Mr• Justica BarLEY was of the same opinion. tie thoulthi
that the nonsuit ought to he set aside, and a new trial granted.
Mr. ',Notice foam-twits of a different opinion. At this trim
he thought that the driver could not be considered as the *email'
of the defendant,

After some dslilwation, the Loan Curar, Jurrica said that
the Rule could neither be ovule absolute nor discharged. The
verdict, in consequence) is !ytt disturbed.