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• system the whole habita .an character of the .. Mr. Justice Bayley immediately rejoined, iii the
army have changed; e fear not changed for words to which we are alluding," Mr. Attorney,
the better. A class of- idle',Ybuths have got into I like honesty in all places"—a sentiment
it, of whom one-third - would
.resign or sell on which, coming from such - a quarter, de:
any prospect of encountering the hardships of serves to be. written in letters of gold,
actual service, and those who i,60:, to we'd them- i quite as much as any 'on • which that dis-
selves to it as a profession are borne down and : unction was ever conferred. The truth, we
diScouraged by'thos.e who have sauntered into it; have no reason .to•doubt, is as the AttOrney-
for a /ortno•e. If Sir Herbert Taylor succeeds General states it to'be ; and we can only add,
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in. extirpating the mass 'of abbses, part of which j " and pity it is 'tis true." 'For what does it amount
we have here enumerated, he will earn the ap., to but an open avowal, from authority,, not only that
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plause of many a respectable family, and the the present age
.is deceived into a reliance on per-
vested and distorted statements, but that the truth
gratitude of many a gallant and honculahle soh.'
dier.—lbid. • • of history is Violated, for the purpose of accommo-
• dating supposed events to that system of State Po-
Mr. Cobbett, in his amusing volume On In,- . hey Which the real ones' would not suit ? But the
than Corn, seems lost in amazement at the won- admirable dic4uni of Mr. Justice Bayley is of a
higher and more universal nature
derful powers of the " Collective Wisdom." than a mere kliti-
,, The. Collective (he says} is an ' universal oe.. sctaitil
itirateisactileinhrs'an embrace. • It implies one of the
msttotb•eitv
asa it
oughtinferences
brought to be, on all the occur-
dividuals, exist in particular branches of know- renc,s of life, bear;
tend- more to the happiness
ledge or departments of life ; taut the Collective, and welfare of mankind, both in their individual
whether in domestic or rural econmny ; in fiscal nod social capacity, than any one dogn;a which
and money affairs, as well in the distribution as the mind can embrace. If political lying is to
in the collection ; in matters of free trade, in be justified from necessity, of course private
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ood cannot want for the same excuse;
those of religion, in the barrack and hulk sys-
falseh
, and truth and openness are- to be banished
terns; in matters at home and matters abroad, is from all
the ordinary transactions of mankind,
' in every
.thing equally wise.' Then, like the whenever convenience steps in (and when does it
proboscis of that wonderful animal the elephant, not ?) to make falsehood and deception more con-
while it has strength perfectly terrific to think of, venient. No one can live in the world without see-
i6 touch is so delicate as to enable it to analyse ing how much this is the case ; and Mr. Justice
particles the most minute ; while it can this tai- Bayley's apothegm meets tae, like a refreshing
trite vote away milli6ns of the nation's money, stream to a traveller in the desert, both with moral
and animal healing on its wings. We press the va-
command palaces and churches to rise up, a lue of this sentiment the more strongly, because we
• querter of a continent to be fortified, or the jails know it is the practice (and one,. perhaps, from
altogether exempt) and dungeons to fly open to receive such Eng- which we are not ourselves ' to
lishmen as the Secretary of State mrly or shall class moral maxims too often under one pervading
suspect of evil designs ; it can, the very next definition of cant. Cant, however, we need not
minute, skip as nimbly as the bee does from the say, means either false morality, or morality urged
magnolia to the pimpernel), to objects the most for selfish purposes. This bears no such interpret
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diminutive, and can point out to those who "4)". It is a maxim urged by a high public func-
tionary, in the performance of high public duties;
have the happiness to live under its controul
and, if permitted to have its due weight in the ordi-
the exact depth proper for a shop-window ; nary as well as the public affairs of life, would do
the exact number of passengers proper for a more towards • effecting public and private reform
- coach to carry, least those who wished to be than the
all
harangues of orators, or all the disser-
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earned not might know, or care, whether their tations of phil i • 1/ •
~ osop et .--/ °arrow Herald.
persons were in clanger or not ; the exact degree Some look forward to the death of Don 'Miguel
&f coercion. proper to be employed for the par- as a
desirable
event, because Portugal would there-
pose of inducing horses, asses, oxen, cows, sheep, by .
Jet rid of the usurper, and the dispute about
and pigs, •to proceed on the roads and in the the succession be more easily arranged. In our
streets ; the exact place and manner in which to
opinion, not the least. advantage, in either case,
unbutton, so as to avoid an ' exposure of .the
, of , a wlio would be produced by such an event. The party
person ; the exact number of beatings placed Don Miguel on the throne would soon
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pen , ,in a heat of si:a.ty degrees, by Fahren- find another of the same stamp and with similar
Imeit's thermometer, -necessary to determine the rights to succee& him, and die difficulty of arrang-
length of the A Imperial Yard,' '' &e. ke, But, ing the dispute, in place of being diminished, would,
what is most wowlerful, this singular -grasp of moatkirobably, be much increased. Leaving the
knowledge is posses:Sea), in their Collective ca- Brual family out of view, the next in succession is
parity, by men -who, in . their indivithial caps- the eldest daugh.te; ef the
.late King of Portugal,
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city, are happily distinguished from aP but a few o a Prince of Spain ar,d who has now a
son, Ddn Sebastian, about I' ''.
of their f-OuritrYinen, 4.Y not being under the pep 1. p •
all
. . tps prince the Priests and Prelates and Dukes--
cessity of krsowing anything—a privilege, of the in. short, all the Apostolical party, would turn their
value of which • at,ey seem sufficiently sensible. eyes, and, in ,I. little time render him a tmuch more
Their individual -no - 1
kwtedge in taxation has even formidable rival of Alsri3 da Qleria than her uncle
been -qtreationed by a contemporary—taxation, Don Miguel had ever been. This Prince has been
which is to ;3ritisli, legislation what action was brought up in the very hot-bed of Apostolieism—
tO plopience with Demosthenes. if We ;woe he has been taught to imbibe all the hatred and an-
-Spain against the
above a thousand iegit4ors in the British isles tipat!iy of his uncle the King of
Liberals, aieji wp.ld, on that account be regarded by -
(says the Srotsman), 'Odin?. their seats-by he-
-,,-, . the Apostolicals as the ,angst gesirable sovereign they
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reditaly right, purchase, or wain election, who could place on the throne. iit'ii. - • . L'' , nesinea; t,,e4, tm'ere
do, or ought to decide upornmanjtintrieate -Eatan- is in the
dal questions every yew. Of the thousand, we gi,e4 body of the people, is a matter of great mo-
venture to say there are not ten who know any- ment), wiai,:::.; would soon render " Don Sebas-
thing about the subject we are 00W 0 flip"( of; tiara" the most popu:ar wateh-word that ever was
and yet, if legislation were conducted like sltoFa- raised in Portugal. The Prince 4f Oat panne was
feaking or tailoring, by men who understood 4 gy,e4.t favourite with the Portuguese;—he lost
his life iii it- Atieing attempt to conquer the king:.
.vhat they engaged to perform, the worst quail-
dom of Morocco, (testae): Mahometanism, and es-
lied man of the thousand 'wbuid. be ashamed to
!dish the. Catholic
.religion la its death and his
acknowledge himself. ignorant of the subeet we ta
7reirzrrya,nsdstillchenshed. by the people with an
allude to." But if the Cit in Moliere spo•lf.e affection which appear to foreigners
arose without knowing it, our Collective have quite unacrountable. It is easy to- conceive what
practised taxation adurinably without knowing its advantage th.e Fr,i.eSts could take of such a cit.=
principle. There Huey are 11,0 t to be excelled. cumstance in the event of giop 'Lligilers death,
They cannot, indeed, manage their own private and what a contrast they could 41.4!,- 4ePsw::
estates ; and, indeed, ninety-nine out -of 3 bun,.
I him and the daughter of Don •Pedro; they would ,
pi.e,:e,iit, on the one hand, a Prince rapidly approach-
dred of them know nOthing of the condition of
ing ?. xa,n.bo,a.d? the. namesake and representative of
their estates, being ri&lden by stewards and
the King who saprificea ins bfe in the cause of religion,
others; who find their account% in their ignorance; and, besides,educated"•"(7the ,I
it a Qua most -e-
-hut they passes qualifications of the first order voted to the Church of in •t ''t - arope , °
aids
on
for improving time public estate ; and this tau* the other, a girl of nine years of age, with• inhillY
must be allowed diem, that time English• under ane vality which could attract the notice of the
their-rule are the best taxed people in the world. people, and, Relnibly, imbued with notions of Con-
And wii,-...t more is necessary to the welfare of a stitutional prineirtrieat, valiich all the true Apostolieals
nation than to tax it ? There may he some regaid as the fruits of freenic.swiry ?nd rebellion.
The different. Courts of Europe would be es itita4!
difficulty in managing a people who pay few
thwk...d on this question as on the other; but Spain,
taxes, and who., poisessingmuch leisure, will be '—-• , .
, the a4jein,inz hingdom, and, perhaps, Prance too,
prone to licentiousness. lint a highly-taut, w id ,
ou be Imre cin,tpr;4ge4 than ever; and the High
people must be industrious or starve: ;and those Church party, with the azaiatanre of these two
who are constantly toiling have little leisure, .and Courts, would, most probablY; toli,av the same
less inclination for mischief. Thus ode thousand ,20prSe which they did in calling Don Migmil tO.tW
legislators have, without study, and -by sheer in- throne, lye cannot, therefore, see any advantage
stinct, as it were, stumbled on what includes which the Cow,,titptional party would derive by the
death of Don Miguel, or That the claims of the Bra-
within itself every excellency in legislation.”--the
zilian family would be at all Ova-red while so many
Bra-
e' the greatest poasibl e amount of money ,
brw,•;hes of the old legitimate, Apostiilioal, •:tA elr-
from the pockets of the people. Before the solute arc la still remain in Europe.—liid.
glorious Revolution their genius seems to have
The Pro-Popery people appear extremely anxious
been sorriehow or other fettered ; but that grand .
rwent, which gave us our Protestant Constittition, just now to throw rids: ode upon, what they are
Vaaased to call, the childigk fears o4`';he Protestants
I,tave also a courage and a freed= of
operation
to e
wit. respect to the final settlement of the C:atholic
our legislators which have enabled them to esta- '
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that Question. fIT4!.:/ we tev,ill ask these sapient scrities
tilish in a most satisfactory manner then -' a lentant one simple question want they prove, by fair and
Constitution. Whoever taxes well must be areat L 2 •
reasonable argument, that-no grotind of apprehen-
iN High ; for, by h tax 'atnan ra
, placemen and sioa axists ? No ;--as well might they attempt to
solti;:ers can be fed, and arms and warlike stores move trace ,its foundation the sea-girt Zed whichl
can be -am-chased ; and as he who has swot+ and they inhabit ! To gas nothing can appear more just
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always be Cutn iiit, or well.founded than the saspigions of die Protestants.
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high taxation forces men to be contented whe- We have considered the questiaa caf Emancipation
0 /I it is better that men with at einem wish for its settleineat,-e-taa lat,•Ke
timer they will or not ; an- viewed it diapaasjonately in all its bearings—we haat.
uteuted, than discontented •
should be taxed and e-C,` weighed well every peinte in the remotest degree con-
nectedfrom the absence of taxat:on• As 1(-}-ngs'atilei,i1 as • I •
wit i it ; and havniu• stone so, we confess-that
the Collective can proceed in taxing as they to,ve we see the most imminent danger- • •' ' ' • .
ty
hitherto done, they need giYe themselves very
tales
do not judge the Catholics from ofteialewatad
little concern about the minor qualifications.—
Be and cruelty, nor do we look to RA
They may 911 the time between one Tax Bill and
we restitaiir 7,c
as for evidence against them; but
another with a succession of Bills in the usual , :
tneir natural°-,l„len—an.4 ;ate rest it firmly too—on
well-
style of petty legislation, Bills imposing .•41,4i- they Who now chum admis"-6' '' ' . Who are
ton to Aktf unatiservial
tional penalties for treading on partridge eggs, or confidence ? Are they not men who ha'te is.:v4 ii
poaching, &c. &c. ; or they may throw out a ail tia yiolence of hatred which sectarian \pre...
tub to the whale in the shape of a Commission judices net{' 41 to nourish in the human heart ?
for inquiring into the Abuses of the Law— Are they not men wtt:o are told that to injure
abuses with which they need give themselves P`i and to persee.uyte us is aaa ,
net of holiness in
the siiht of, Ci- a re
.they not teeit
little concern, as - they never can know how towho are
taught to loop: ,nporl.,u, s asnhoeretics and oil( oasis
remedy them. Tut these are secondary matters. '
Let it always be born: in mind that the Collet- Arid fingU,y, are ti 7,.Ydirte not men who are •iii-
formed that it
.la. a, (3 blackest dye
tive Wisdom owes all itsaillustration to taxation ) ye s:Uell ill:,
to keep faith witn 0. , , 2 ,
.„ '!e4 is the cha-
_a taxation which makes I 4-wisdom be felt •
t ia, m ratter of those men to WIWI. 11V Ake .Ile,qcl to Lod
the uttermost parts of the earl.`.':—Morit;izathe • 1 }randof fellowship ! Who' if , t"
. 4, out rig it .
resisting : : tan, altatt
Chronicle. .
say that we are not fully justified in l time gxj..
•nd so determined f -
Mr. Justice Bayley uttered a short and un-
, erktaelynents of so bitter a , a fee a
Contemporaries, a recent-
''' • f ala earning
premeditated expression the other day, which Lea R - •-.`• • 0i- to be apprehe den-
,. deavour to allow Oita: „tio danger b . . _n e d
quite as deserving of immortality as
a any or the. from the immediate graft g ginancipatiou, has un-
most celebrated apothegms of antiquity. In• - ' liZ.5 proved fairly
ar- ' wittingly betrayed hiruseM, araf. a Luc' y
gulag in support of the rule for a criminal in- ofthe
z-, 1 t
taat tat: fears
formation obtained by the agents of Lord St • his words,
rang- nee and reatani. The following are
ford for a supposed libel, the Attorney-(general
" If the Catholics sp,are the majority is the empire, or if
was stating to the Court that it was a common Ireland were a r parate ~4 mm, there might be some
practice, in preparing public despatches,
to have ground for jealousy with repect Ati:4 foreign connection.—
" No. 1 for the Ministers inspection, and We might then fear that the Clergy, ..,cting under the
guidance of the Coot of Rome, would yr:deli:Our ,4a,.F.htain
::%•10. 2 for the public ;" and that this was " just-' an ascendancy for .their religion. But tweaddidg er thret-
the
lied by the nature of
,a,, ,public service.., On faunas of the inhabitants of 6.4,2 kingdoms are Protest- i
this Mr. Justic.o3l43oey is said to have -shaken ant 9, and .the Union renders the Catklic masorit subser-
.l Y
his head, as if.o-.-i, ~, obation of the explana-,
41PPr . view to the gentwal majority."
tion of thee g4itinsel. On which the f H.ere there ate two very material points in (tatur
..a the Alar»liSt
Attorney-Gii,n,L.4-- said to have remarked ,oh nise i ~ coced.ed by the .1.‘,70n-alai.Tis:ts
Well, t'n'illitiiii ~:,lit is the .practice of
~, ~., ..., CC These de-
. . t e . e vesa—,Firstathat the Irish Catholic Priests
are influenced by the council', of the,Copt of Rome !
partments,. Jilyt- may be'justified by necessity," and secondly, that if occasion shqrri 14 0"#.e.,-; .they
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