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London, England, 1828-05-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Having now made known to the public the names I
of those who retire from office, we must breathe
awhile. It is a work of longer time to recompose
than to dislocate and dissever a Ministry ; and such
is the number of those who have retired from office,
—Lord Dudley, Mr. Huskisson, Mr, C. Grant, Lord
Pahe.erston with Mr. W. Limb, and others that are
not of the Cabinet,--such the consequence. of those
Whom we have mentioned, for their talents, and the
several stations which they held, that their seces-
sion must be considered as a dissolution of the MiL
pistil's It is also a proof of the formation of a hew
Ministry, and that nothing less than this hi the work
to be accomplished, =that: a new plan of policy must
even of necessity, frinn henceforth be adopted; for,
however extensive may be the approbation of Mr.
Huskisson's measures,—with whatever rapidity they
were consummating our commercial grandettie—there
is no one left behind who is at onee capable of. car-
rying them on in the office, and defending them in'
the Senate. So that a different tone of corn ercial
policy must be assumed ; and this being the case,
how can a House of Commons which has sanctioned
all the projects of the late Colonial Secretary turn
round And appreve of their reversal? Hence the by
quency and positiveness of the reports that Parliament
must be diisolved. If anew Ministry and a new system
of policy are not sufficient to draw on the netemity of
a dissolution of Parliament, it is asserted, that the
consternation produced in a variety of quarters by
the investigations of the Finance Committee, and an
apprehension of the retrenchments it. may advise, in
the preient state oldie country, render it extremely
desirable to get rid of so troublesome a monitor;
and the dissolution of this body would, of course,
follow the dissolution of Parliament. Its truth,
there must haVe been some very strong motives for
snatching up Mr. Huskisson's conditional proposi-
tion to resign the seals of his office, and•interpreting
it into a, positive resignation,. That gentleman did
not, as the public will have learned from Mit pre-
ceding hints,—he did not, we say, resign :he only
told the Duke of Wellington, by letter, that he was
willing to resign, if the Duke thought it a necessary
consequence of his vote in the' affair of East
Retford. This, as we •have just said, was snapped
up in an instant, and misconstrued into a posi-
tive resignation. But the presumed Misconcep-
tion was- Soon after set right, and that when
the affair was not kriOwn to more than three or four
of the. most. important persons; so that then, had
it not been an object to break up :the Ministry,
there Was no occasion to persevere in forcing Mr.
Huskiss9n's absblute retirement from -office. The
fault, if it be one,—as we think it is,—of dissolving
the Ministry, rests with those who declared by their
actions that Mr. Huskisson's resignation was a ne-
cessary consequence of. his vote in the East Retford
business. Mr. Huskisson himself did tint esteem it
such, though, had even that cciiviction been tipon
his mind, he would still, no doubt, 'have voted as
he did. The consequence of thus breaking up the
Ministry must, as .we have said aboVe, be a change
of measures; and if the new system, whatever it
may he, shall not be approved of by the Parliament
which has sanctioned' the Ohl) then we presume the
present rumours will be confirmed,—a new Parlia-
ment must be called (fearful.as the step may be) to
approve the new system. But what will foreign
States and foreign Governments think of these in-
cessant changes amongst ps ? They will almost
suppose us on the verge of a revolution. In their
negotiations and dealings' with us, they must be
perplexed beyond measure. A foreign Envoy may
receive his instructions to communicate with one
Ministry, and on his arrival find another to.'
tally opposed to it. " Renuis quod In, jubel alter."
The thread of his negotiations will be broken. The
prospects of the empire under this falling off in
the character and construction of its existing Go-'
vernment, require to be looked at with firmness, but
with temper. -There could at no period, even under
an Administration the most distinguished for states-
manlike ability, have been a question raised as to
the grievous loss sustained by the seeession---:we fear '
we must say the dismissal—of four such Ministers
as those whose names have been recently blotted out
from the Cabinet. They are all men of talent, all
men of experience in public affairs, who have de-
voted, industriously and habitually, the efforts of
well-gifted minds to the attainments necessary for
political service in a free and great community.
They are all individuals who have attested their sin-
cere attachment to certain principles, which, in the
opinion of most enlightened then, have:become land-
marks of the cause of public liberty, and bulwarks of
the prosperity of this nation. Mr. HuskisSon, their
senior in the service, is, from his successful super-
intendence of one mighty division of the nationtl
interests, the most celebrated commercial statesman
of his time. Besides, if we come to qualities less in-
trinsic, hut, from the working of our political system,
indispensable to a British Minister, every one of these
servants, now lost to the Government,—though not,
we trust, to their country—had the power of commu-
nicating his knowledge to others—of enforcing his
views—of dissipating error from the minds of a
throng of hearers, and of settling opinions upon ob-
jects of essential though disputed policy. They were
all speakers in Parliament, infinitely valuable to those
who have suffered or caused their retreat. We ask,
then, first, with respect to statesmanlike capacity and
power, who remains in the Duke* of 'Wellington's
Administration in any degree fitted to direct and
promote the foreign relations, or the policy, whether
colonial or commercial, of the•empire ? And, se-
condly, who is there capable of discussing, before
an enlightened or adverse assembly, the measures
which the Government either adopts or rejects ?
The question which arises' out of the two former is
this—how can the. Duke of Wellington expect (how
can he possibly desire, we might add) to go on for
three menthe at the head of such a Cabinet ? If
we take the mode in which a successes has been ap-
pointed to Mr. kluskisson for a sample, what, in the
name of wonder—what military exploit was ever so
desperate, as the attempt to govern the British em-
pire on ie notions of its existing Prime Minister ?
To Sir George Murray we have already paid, with
truth and candour, Alm homage which belongs to
him. But Mr. Huskisson, a man of uncom-
mon ability. from nature, was no otherwise
fitted . for the Colonial Department, but by in.
t ense, long-continued, and various study,__
The art of moving troops over the widest
surface in the shortest time, is somewhat dif-
ferent from that of discerning the complex interests
of multifarious communities over, the whole surface
of the World,—of strictly applying or relaxinge the
f
application of principles, or suspending
the
watching the wants, and discreetly consultingthm o
spirit and temper, of distant and diversely constitut-
ed settlements,--e-an obligation, indeed, the force of
which has not•always been respected if} the history
of f
our colonial. system, but the contempt for which
has frequently been productive of the most alarming
consequences. Can it be, that Lord Aberdeen , or
Lord Ellenborough ! stands candidate for the seals
of Foreign Secretary ? But whither, then, can the
gallant Duke betake himself; or is it really out of.
ch materiali that he hopes to construct an Adminis-
tration, underthe present perplexing circumstances
of the country ?• If his Grace be determined, it is
equivalent to announcing that he will hive no Ca-
binet—no colleagues—none to differ from him=
none to deliberate with him—none to succour him;
that he will command-s-that he will vign—alone.
This, indeed, is the " monarchical prineffile;" this.
is, likewise, the t, military principle :"—What re-
spectit may show for the habits and constitution of
England is another question. ,„But 01 even, a.
common Tory Cabinet, it
would 1114ph hehovi the
people to keep guard over the publicsafetyhTlmei,

The resignation of Earl Dudley took place on
Tuesday afternoon, so that the Ministers best known
to the public as able and experienced Statesmen, and
men of business, have all resigned. We alluded
yesterday to the behaviour of the Duke of. Welling-
ton towards Mr. Huskissen, which necessarily led
to the resignation of the latter. Our readers may
recollect, that in the Debate in the House of Com-

tnons on the 21st of March last, on the East itet-
ford Oisfranchisetnent Bill) M. Huskisson distinctly
deClared) that " if on the present occasion they had
only, to determine the case of one delinquent bo-
rough he,certainly should recommend and support•
the measure of transferring the franchise to some
great commercial town; but it was riot with tine,
but with t\Ve that they had at present to deal) and
tltlev had to deal with both at the smile time," Mr.
Huskisson here declated, that a only-voted for the
transference of the tratithilse of East
.Retford Co the
hutidted of tassetlaw, beenuse. Penryn was.,to be
ttalisterred at the same time to a commercial town ;
but that if there were only Otte berough td be dis-
franchised, he should rte fiat the transference to
the commercial tewn: It so happened, that on the
very night last Week on which the disetission re-
spftting test Retford took plate in the House of
Commons, Earl Carnarvoti detlated, in the House
of Lords, that the eVldence having failed in the
case of Penryn, it was not his intention to proceed
with the Bill for the disfranchisement of that bo-
rough; and this result was communicated to Mr.
Huskisson, in the House of Commons, .by Lord
Sandon who reminded him of his pledge on the
21st March, and called on him to fulfil it, as there
Was only one borough now to be dealt with. Ap-
pealed to in this direct manner, with the knowledge
that his recent declaration was fresh in the memory
of the House, Mr. Huskisson had no choice but
voting for the transference to Birmingham, if he did
not mean to have himself held up to 'the country
as a man who was utterly regardless of declarations
or pledges. If he had even felt any, disposition
to temporize, .the severe castigation which Mr. Peel
received from Mr. Stanley, and the manner in
which that Statesman writhed under it, afforded
him but slender encouragement to escape from his
pledge by a subterfuge.. Mr. HuskiSsoa has not,
however,iived so long in the world, not to know
that, even ill such- a trying conjuncture as that to'
Which we have alluded, some explanation was due
to the head of the Administration for dividing—in
order to preserve his character—against his eel-
leagues. He therefore instantly wrote a letter to the
Duke of Wellington; stating candidly the reasons
"Which had weighed with, him as an Inducement to
vote in the Minority; and adding, that if, after tak-
ing such a step,-his holding office should be felt as
an embarrassment to the Administration, he should
be ready' to resign; Mr. Huskisson cannot be igno-
rant of his own superiority, not only to the Duke of
Wellington (who, If he pretend to any profound
;knowledge of State Affairs, must be the most impu-
dent man ever dipped in the Shannon), but,to all his
colleagues; and it was natural that (if it were not
determined to abandon the moderate system of Ad-
ministration pursued of late years) he should con-
clude his services must be of too much value to his
colleagues to admit of their deeming his vote, cir-
cumscribed as lie was, a sufficient reason for his.
resignation. The Duke, however, so far from put-
ting this liberal construction on the letter—which,
in fact, made the resignation dependent 911 the opi-
nion of his Grace as to its necessity—lest not
a -moment in laying the letter before his Ma-
jesty, as amounting to a resignation ; thereby,
of course, declaring that such a measure had
become necessaryTby the vote in the affair of East
Retford. When Mr. Huskisson, who could hardly
have been prepared for such a brusque proceeding,
endeavoured afterwards to explain to 'his Grace that
. his resignation was made to depend on his Grace
himself, he cut short the Colonial Secretary in his
usual blunt way, with the observation, which he re-
peated several times, " You have resigned; you
have resigned." And byway of heightening the
insult, he coolly informed the Ex-Secretary, that if
he would consent to withdraw his letter, the subse-
quent proceedings should also be considered as not
having taken place. In that it was obvious, that
without forfeiting all claim to self-respect, andallow-
ing himself to be subjected to indignity, Mr. Htiskis-
son could no longer consent to hold office under_ his
Grace. This system of dragooning a man so much
his superior as a Statesman, and so deservedly look-
ed up to by his colleagues as a guide in these times of
difficulty, was naturally felt as an indignity to all Mr.
linskisson's ftiends and as naturally resented by
them.. They felt that his Grace had altogether mis-
taken the relation in which he stood towards the
. Members of his Cabinet, by supposing that the
decision on which he plumed himself implied the
treatment of experienced Statesmen, as he would
his Aid-de-Camps in the- bustle of a campaign;
They saw that there could be no place for them in a
Cabinet with such a head. They might be willing to
excuse his ignorance, and to supply his deficiencies
as far as possible, but not having been trained to
the blind obedience of aoimp, it was not to be ex-
pected that, besides winking at false steps occa-
sionally made by his Grace in his short cuts to the
height of political science, they should be obliged to
brook indignities from him. But this, we suppose,
is what is called transferring the discipline of the
Staff to the Cabinet; Sir George Murray will un-
derstand this peremptory system, as will Sir Henry
Hardinge, if he succeeds Lord Palmerston (which,
however, seems yet uncertain.)' The Lord Chan-
cellor Lyndhurst, like a sensible man, is preparing
for the new regime, for we observe he wears a blue
Wellington frock, blue trowsers, and a black cravat.
This is as it should be, and proves that his Lordship
can read the signs of he times. He is certainly in
the right way of preserving the Seals, if there be
not some soldier as fitted to succeed him as Sir
George Murray must be to succeed Mr. Huskisson.
The Country Gentlemen, if appearances may be
trusted, are not altogether so enamoured of this dra-
gooning system as his Grace, and indeed do not he-
sitate
to express themselves as exceedingly disgust-
ed
with what has taken place. The liberal Tories
keep aloof, and his Grace has no choice but to fill
up his ranks from the High Tories.• Mr. Peel, we
understand, is not so sanguine as his Grace
as to the success of discipline without talent
or experience in a Cabinet. Indeed, we under-
stolid that alarm for the stability of this new de-
scription of Administration is already paralyzing the
civilian part of the Cabinet. We have already al-
luded to the plan organised by Mr. Huskisson -for
the administration of the Colonies, on a plan equally
beneficial to themselves and to the Mother Country.
With the loss of Mr. Huskisson we must abandon
all hope of colonial improvement. During the short
time Mr. Huskisson presided over the Colonies, he
had succeeded, through the intimate knowledge he
possesses of the commercial affairs of the nation, in
rendering these available in a variety of ways to Bri-
tish interests, not formerly anticipated. The Colo-
nies had hitherto been abandoned to Governors, and
considered merely as the means' f affording' sinecures
to Lord Johns, Lord Charleses,&c., and it wasleft to
Mr. Huskisson to point out the means by which due
advantage of their resources might be taken to the
country. Lord Wallace, who by means difficult to
explain, enjoyed at one time, some' reputation for
business, is, it seems, to be put into requisition in
the present dearth of Alinisteri. In all the offices
he is voted one of the obtusest men that
ever held place in an Administration.—lllornieg
Chronicle.

Our readers, we doubt not, are anxious to hear
further information respecting the Ministerial move-
ments, and we will of course cotnimmicate every
thing that is known upon the subject. In the firstplace,
we have to congratulate the public upon the
highly gratifying;
fact, that the whole of the Liberal
party, principals and understrappers, are to
be dis-
missed, and that their places arc to be tilled by more
• honest, and more trustworthy officers. The Duke
of Wellington has at length become fully convinced
of the worthlessness of these insidious Liberals, and
has in, consequence determined to rid the Govern.
ment altogether of their hateful and dangerous pre-
sence. Now, one word with the vanquished.
" The Tories-are in ecstasies," say's a Radical
Print; and -heartily do we agree with it. Yes,
truly, they arc in ecstasies—and why not ?
Their enemies are , defeated; and shall they
not rejoice ? The Liberals are overthrown,
and shall they not shout over them
The Tories have always venerated the •

tutions Of their country, and have long fought
in their defence ; and wby should they. not feel gra-
tified in this moment of triumph ?. Why should
not their hearts gladden within them, when the
men whose baneful principles have too long reigned
paramount in the Cabinet, who would overthrow
the noblest portions of our Constitution, and who
have Crippled the energies of the country by their
mad schemes otinnovation,—why, we ask, should
not the Tories rejoice*" when • such men are driven
from the Councils of the Nation ? Surely there
can be nothing unnatural in this ! Surely, after
-having battled through so long and arduous a
struggle; after having been represented as weak,
bigotted, and despicable; after having borne, with-
Out flinching, the revilings of a desperate faelion—
sttrely after having passed through such an awful
Ordeal, we may be allowed a little sober joy
on the occasion of ,our triumph—especially when
that triumph is gained over the great and
mighty of the nation—the powerful, the talented,
and the patriotic Whigs ! ! He is no Tory who
does not rejoice at the present momelnt ; and all
that we can say is, that when we cease to express
our gratification, and that loudly too,
.at the failings
of the faction, then may our friends forsake, and our
enemies revile, us. But we can easily account for
the anger of -our contemporary. He sees his own
men dismissed with indignity, and their numerous
plans of innovation frustrated—and by whom ? By
men wheleve that Constitution which his friends,
are seeking to mutilate—who have been represented
by him as semi-traitors and impotent idiots, and who
have caused the country, as one man, to point the
finger of scorn and derision at his party ! Such is
the situation of our worthy contemporary; and can
we wonder at his peevishness ? Certainly not.
As we, the Tories, have cause to rejoice, so, pari
rations, the Radicals have cause to lament. -We
will not, therefore, upbraid our enemies ;—no, we
are too light-hearted. Within these few days, the
milk of human kindness has so materially increased
in our disposition, that we could even look upon that
nasty thing, a Radical, without feeling a very great
desire to crush it. .We repeat, therefore, we will not
upbraid our contemporary, but we will admonish
him. We would seriously urge him to be more
placid, and more dignified in his lamentations. We
would refer him to 'the wholesome advice of the
Poet—

/Equal') memento rebus in arduis
Sertrare mentem---
For, saith he—
Omnss eodem cogimur : (minium
Versatur urns; series, mitts
Sors exitura---- Morning Post.

Various opinions have been broached on the con-
duct Lard Dudley would pursue with regard to the
Ministerial arrangements. There is; however, no
doubt that his Lordship has resigned, although lie
.was transacting business as usual yesterday.' The
Noble LoM, it is supposed, communicated his ulti-
matum to the Duke of Wellington, in the interview
which be had yesterday. After this, a gentleman,
very high indeed in the confidence of the highest
personage in the realm waited on Earl Dudley to
endeavour to persuade him to alter his determina-
tion ; but was not successful, as it is understoodhis
Lordship took his farewell of the Foreign Office yes-
terday. It is generally understood that Sir George'
Murray succeeds Mr. Huskisson. It is not at all
unlikely that Mr. Calcraft, M.P. takes office in some
shape or other. The' riegociatious are still pending:
indeed there is Ilf) douht but that he has had several
interviews with the Premier on the subject. This
gentleman held the office, in the year 1806, of
Clerk of the Ordnance (succeeding Lord Mary-
borough), under Lord Grenville's Administration.
Mr. Calcraft was succeeded by Lord Shaftesbury
when the Whigs went out. What office Mr. Cal-
craft will hold under the present'Administration has
not been hinted at. It is generally, supposed, how-
ever, that it will not be one of any great import-
-once. Whether he will have a seat in the Cabinet
is a matter-of doubt.—Morning Herald.
Though the first impression be generally the cor-
rect one, yet those who act in haste as often repent
the precipitancy of their conduct.: We have good
reason to know that, on the night of the East Ret-
ford debate, a good deal of jarrinc, took place, on
the Treasury Bench, between Messrs: Peel and
Huskisson, while the result of the division (which,
in sporting language, left the Government winners
" by only a neck "), of course, did not tend to soothe.
The affair, however, as between Mr. Huskisson and
Mr. Peel, if it had abed alone,. admitted of being
easily softened down and accommodated; though it
would hardly partake of that quality which ascribes
to the quarrels of lovers the renewal of love. Mr.
Huskisson, however, by what we cannot but describe
as precipitancy, rendered accommodation more im-
probable ; for, according to general report, in-
stead of going home and sleeping away his wrath,
he retired to his study, and, without consult-
ing his pillow, sent in his resignation to the
Duke of Wellington ; but couched, as it is said,
in equivocal terms, which admitted either of its ac-
ceptance or rejection. There are those who consider
this as a ruse de guerre on the part of Mr. Huskis-
son, in which,. as might be eXpected, the Duke out-
generalled him. Many persons imagine that Mr.
Huskisson had net the most remote idea of his resig-
nation being accepted, but that, on the contrary, his
proffer of it, on so trifling an occasion, would have
been met on the part of the Duke with a soothing
reply, which would strengthen and confirm' his im-
portance to the Government. If such were the
case, Mr. Huskisson must have calculated ill upon
the character of the person he had to deal with, and
has most egregiously deceived himself. The Duke,
it may, be readily conceived, has no turn for chilli's
play in important. matters ; and having been already
teased, past all endurance, by the bickerings and want
of cordiality which he found to subsist between one
part of his Cabinet and the other, thought' this a good
opportunity of getting rid of the evil, without being
himself, in any wise, the aggressor; and, therefore,
with a decision peculiar to bis character, seems to
have taken the matter in a much more prompt way
than was expected. We cannot say that the result
surprises us; on the contrary, we have rather bean
surprised that a Government composed of such dis-
cordant materials should have hung together as long
as it has done. As for the terms Whig and Tory,
Liberal or Illiberal, the country, we believe, cares
little for them. A British Ministry bent on con=
suiting British Interests, both at home and abroad,
is what the country at large wishes to see. But the
best exertions of a Government can never be suc-
cessful if it be composed of persons pulling against
each other, and whose minds are necessarily occu-
pied -rather in attempting to reconcile and satisfy
each other's differences, than in bending the. whole
weight of their abilities towards one paramount,
object. It is more essential, therefore, in our esti-
mation, that a Ministry should be united among
themselves, than that they should be composed-even.
of the flowers of all parties, but, as such, unable to
amalgamate. We would even sacrifice some share
of talent to ensure this unanimity; for it cannot be'
denied that weaker hands, drawing all one way, will
effect much more than more powerful instruments
tugging in opposite directions. However, therefore,
' we may regret, in some respects, the loss of Mr.
Huskisson to the Government, yet, if his secession
produces a greater union of sentiments among its
members, his loss will be in a great degree compen-
sated. In the Duke of Wellington, as the head of
the Government, the country, we are convinced, re-
posesthellest confidence: and his Grace, pas-
fullest
sessing that confidence, has a right to see about him
those who will second his views-with alacrity—not
embarrass him with their trifling differences.--Ibid.

The resignations which were anticipated in our
last have •since taken plaec. They embrace, we re-
gret to say, Earl Dudley, Lord Howard de Walden,
Mr. C. Grant, and it is even added, but not yet of-
ficially, Mr. Planta, a gentleman who, having been
brought into public life under the auspices of the
late Marquis of Londonderry, could not possibly be
deemed an intruder in a completely Tory Admini-
stration. that such will be the' character of the
Ministry when're-composed;is now a matter of cer-

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Wray. The Avhole of what has hitivrto beet-callo
the libera , it tetites, its-placszall.be stiVied•
by men_ w principle raled the state when it
reached the pin cle of prosperity and glory, from
which it has now for some years been slowly descend-
ing. , None of the successors to the vacant offices
have yet formally received their appointments. The
Earl of Aberdeen, however, it is believed, will take
Earl Dudley's place, and from his long acquaintance
with foreign Courts in the capacity of British Coni-
'missioner and Minister abroad, his qualification for
the task may, be duly inferred. Lord Stuart of
Rothesay is also mentioned for the same situation but
with a less degree of probability. The appointment
of Sir Henry Hardinge to the War Office has not
been confirmed. Lord Palmerston's successor is to
be the Right Hon. Vesey Fitzgerald. At least the
situation has been offered to him, and no doubt is
entertained of his acceptance, though sufficient time
has not yet elapsed to receive his answer from Ire-
land. Sir George Clerk hadalso been mentioned for
the same office, but erroneously. The other arrange-
ments are not less easy than satisfactory. Lord
Lowther takes the Woods and Forests, Mr. Arbuthnot
goes to the Mint, and Mr. Harks returns to the Ex-
chequer. The situation of Colonial Secretary is placed,
for the present, as we stated yesterday, in the hands of
Sir George Murray : but though the gallant officer
is a man of business; whose talents are not yet known
to their full extent—a ready speaker, and has a per-
fect knowledge of the Colonies—it is thought that
when all the other arrangements shall be completed
the office will be transferred to Mr. Goulburn, who,
after resigning the Exchequer to Mr. Herries,would
otherwise find• himself unemployed. It was confi-
dently asserted yesterday that the Marquis of
Anglesea would return from Ireland : but the re-
pot arose from the fact that Mr. Lamb had resign-
ed the Irish Secretaryship, and that his Lordship
having desired to have Mr. Lamb, on going there,
would probably not continue if he was deprived of
his services. Nothing, however, has yet been heard
from the Noble Marquis himself on that point ;
but as he took the appointment directly from
his Majesty, and is therefore bonnd to no
party, it is believed that he will remain at the
head of a country where he has already done so
much good, and acquired so much esteem and popu-
larity. No one has yet been spoken of as President
of the Board of Trade, because, ix consequence of
Mr. C. Grant's absence from town, his resignation
has not yet been officially received, and till it is, the
vacancy cannot be filled up, which, the moment its
existence is known, . will be done instantly and
usefully. His Majesty is understood to have sent
a message to the Earl of Eldon, and to have already
had an interview with that acute and experienced
Statesman. The result, however, has not yet trans-
.pired. The report of an early dissolution of Parlia-
ment continues to gain, instead of l'osing ground.
Such are the otitlines of the arrangements which have
been made up to the latest hour. It is probable
that they will undergo some fresh modifications be-
fore they are completely settled; those modifications
we shall announce as soon as they occur. With an
Administration constituted as ours now promisee to,
be, all will be unanimity and zealous co-operation.
Neither will its course be perplexed and difficult. It
is clear, straight forward, and easy. The new Ad-
ministration must sustain all the great interests of
the country, so deeply alarmed even where they
have not been shaken and injured. by the conduct of
its predecessori. It must keep in view those prin-
ciples which raised the Empire to a height of pros-
perity and power unexampled in the history of na-
tions, and it will then meet its reward in the esteem,
the •good will, and the support of all classes. We
are entering upon in era full of menace and peril
abroad: nothing can maintain us even at the point
we are, but union, activity, and energy at home.—
New Times.

LAW INTELLIGENC.E.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 28.

The adjourned sittings in London, after Easter
Term, commenced this morning, before ,Lord Ten.
terden and Common Juries.
The list contains 373 causes, 75 of which are
marked for special juries. Among the latter is the
second indictment against Robert Taylor for blas-
phetny.l The indictment against him and some of hii
late associates of the Areopagus, for a conspiracy,
which was expected to be tried in January last, but
went off on account of the non-attendance of a suffi-
cient number of special jurors, also stands for trial
at these sittings, but it is not likely to come on until
the sittings after next term. ,

MACDONALD AND ANOTHER. V. DALE.

This was an action to recover in damages the
amount of a loss which the plaintiffs had sustained
in consequence of"the non-delivery by the defendant
of a quantity of spirits of turpentine sold by them.
The plaintiffs' clerk and another witness were ex-
amined ; but in consequence of the absence of a
person named Brown (who was called on hic
subpcena), the contract for the sale of the turpentine
to Messrs. Tucker and Hunton could not be proved,
and the plaintiffs were therefore nonsuited.

SALMON V. HART AND WIVE.

This was an action for slanderous words, spoken
by the defendant's wife concerning the plaintiff.
The parties resided in Duke's-place, Aldgate ; one
of them was a furrier, and the other an orange-
merchant.

The CoslatoN SERGEANT, for the plaintiff, stated
that the words uttered by the female defendant were,
" that the plaintiff was one of the worst of charac-
ters ; that he was a thief and a common informer.'•'
A witness, named Lee, was called to prove these
words; but having, on application to the Court,
procured payment of his expences before he was
examined, he stated that he could recollect very little
of what had transpired in the conversation between
him and the female defendant, as he had on the day
in question been discharged from the Fleet Prison,
and got intoxicated. The only words he deposed to
as having been spoken of the plaintiff were, that he
(the plaintiff) was, or had been, an informer.
Lord TENTERDEN, in directing a nonsuit, ob-
served, that a witness who required payment'of his
expences before giving his testimony was seldom
worth having.

The modern prophet, whose guessing-cap
directs the forebodings in " Moore's Almanack," has this
year again succeeded in making some lucky hits, as the war
between the Russians and Turks, the elevation of the Duke
of WELLINGTON to the Premiership ; and this menth he
says that " much •contentiOn and division is likely to break
.out amongst us."
FORECASTLE.—The origin of this nautical
term may probably be found in the following curious
historical fact :—M. LEGILAND D'Aussv, in the second
volume of the " Memoirs of the National Institute (1800,)"
gives an account of the state of the French Marine at the
beginning of the 14th century (extracted from a history in
rhyme, published in 1306), in which he observes that
" the ships had parapets and battlements at the sides,
similar to the land fortifications, and that they had small
castles built fora and aft, and on the round tops."
On Thursday, as a young man and his sister
were proceeding in a cart along the Canal bank from Kil-
syth to Kirkintilloch, he allowed the horse to lower its head
so as to drink, at a place where the bank is flattened fur
that purpose. No sooner had the horse quenched his
thirst, than in endeavouring to bring the horse back to the
road, the reins broke. Being left to its own guidance,
and perhaps rendered less tractable by the want of an eye,
the animal advanced straight forward into the canal. The
young man and his sister were thus placed in a very dan-
gerous situation the body of the cart floating, while the
wheels were under water. 'With considerable difficulty,
man leapt out of the cart and gained the bank.
sister, encouraged by his example, made a, similar at-
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as not so successful—she remained floating,
but made no progress to the bank. The horse, in the mean
time, having reached the opposite bank, and finding no
egress, prudently turned about, and half blind as he was,
directed his course to ,he place where he came in—swimming
in his passage quite round the woman, but cautiously avoided
touching her. She had already sunk once or twice, and
was yet struggling in the midst.of the canal—when her
brother having procured a piece of paling, reached the end
of it to his sister, which she seized, and thus was rescued
from her perilous situation, after having been several
minutes in the water.-- Caledon icy; Mercury.

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P-W.ICI INTELLICIBNCE.

*GUILDHALL.--John William Worboys, an appren•
tte to a paper-stainer, was brought before Sir PETER.
LAURIE yesterday by the Officer at the head of the East
India Company's recruiting establishment, to be punished
for. having entered the Company's service, swearing that
he was not an apprentice legally bound, when in fact he
was an apprentice, bound according to the custom of
London, for saved years, from November, 1825, and duly
enrolled. . _

The officer stated that this was an unusual ease, inas-
much as the Mutiny Act; which extends to the East India
service, provides that no apPrentice claiined by his master
shall be taken from the regiment with which he shall be,
but under the warrant of some Justice residing near the
Place where such apprentice shall happen to he when so
claimed, In this instance the apprentice, was on board ship
at Gravesend ; . but,- instead of being seized under the war-
tint of a Magistrate for. Kent; .ancL dealt- with upon the
Vat,. he was taken under a warrant from the Lord Mayor,
and brought to. London.
Fester,
_the marshalman, explained that the application
for a warrant had been made in London, instead of Kent,
because it Wasinown that the Lord MayOr has an un-
doubted jurisdiction down the Thames.
The officer said his Lordship's concurrent jurisdiction
with the Kentish Magistrates bad not been contemplated
by the Legislature, and it would be impossible to carry the
Mutiny Act into effect according to the letter. He was
about to pray that if. the master's claim was allowed, the
apprentice should be forthwith committed to hard labour
for two years, or committed for obtaining money under
false preterices ' • and this commitment ought to have been
to the gaol in Kent, according to the law. But the first
question was, if he was legally bound, the apprentice be-
ing 17 years old at the date of his indentures; and the
Mutiny Act expressly providing that no Master shall claim
an apprentice unless bound for seven years, not having
beerrabove 14 when so bOund.

The master said no apprentice could be bound according
to the custom of London (LT binding to a freeman is
termed) until be is ft:1114 years:of age, and as these bind-
ings ordinarily take place on . the monthly Court Day of
the Company to which the Master belongs, unless that
Court Day occurred on the very day the lad attained his
14th year, which did not happen once in a hundred in••
stances, the apprentice could never be claimed after en-
listing—a circumstance which mull not be credited.

Sir PETER LAURIE had no doubt the privileges of the
citizens would ride over the Mutiny Act in this instance.
and said he would send for information on the point to the
Chamberlain's-office.

In the mean time Mr. Payne, the second clerk, observed
that there was no doubt the binding was a good one, there
being no restriction in the city as to the age heyond which
as apprentice might riot be bound.
Soon afterwards Mr. Sewell arrived from the Chamber-
lain's. He was not aware of any case precisely similar to
the present; but produced the opinions of the late and the
present Recorder and Serjeant Watson, on the question
whether au apprentice by the custom of London may vacate
his indenture upon-arriving at the age of 21, and they held
that he was .not at liberty to do so, but must serve the full
term of seven years.
The officer said many apprentices bad been given up to
the service at other police-offices, upon proof that they were
bound wheu above 14 years old.
Sir PETER observed, that, as in these cases, the appren-
ticeship might be voided when the youth came of age, they
were essentially different from the ease before him, where
the apprentice could not, on attaining 21, dissent from the
agreement he made while an infant. He should therefore
decide that the apprentice must return to his master.
The officer said he was desired by the Colonel to press
for punishment, by way of example to others; and after be
had served the two years in gaol, and the remainder of his
term of apprenticeship, the Coloriel *mold claim his ser-
vices for the rest of his life, and would on no account allow
him to purchase his discharge, which would not be obtain-
ed from the Commander-in-Chief without his sanction.
The father had visited the young man at Chatham, and if
he had then intimated that ',e wished to purchase his dis-
charge, but desired him to remain three or four months
with the depot that he might get sick of soldiering, (which
the father had since stated), the matter would have been
allowed so to go on ; but the father had allowed him to be
shipped, and had taken him away just at a time when he
could not be replaced. Under such circumstances no lenity
could be shewn.

When the young man heard his course in this world
thus chalked out, he changed colour and his lip quivered.
Sir P. LAURIE entirely agreed that he deserved severe
punishment for, committing psi jury in swearing that he
was not an apprentice ; but after some further conversation
between the complainant and the fatber and the, master,
the former went to the India House and consulted hie su-
perior, who agreed to wave the punishMent, on condi-
tion that the apprentice should be committed, at the in-
stance of his master, for absenting himself from work ; and
it was filially agreed that he should be committed by the
Chamberlain fir one month to a cell is Bridewell, where he
would have no other companions than a Bible, and a log
chained to his legs, to prevent him from clambering to the
window.

The officer gave notice, that he should claim his services
in lgoirember, 1832.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Giovanni Majorani,
the third party described by the boy, Michael Tagliano, as
having been concerned in stealing 470/. from the house of
Signor Schutz, was examined before Mr. Ilinsuur..L.
Signor Schutz, through his interpreter, said that the pri-
soner was wholly unknown to him, and he had no other
grounds for suspecting him than the description of his per•
son received from the police authorities at Milan, founded
on the confession of the boy Tagliano. From the descrip-
tion of the prisoner, and his own admission, it appeared
that he is by birth a Neapolitan, and had served as an officer
in the Spanish army, under General Mina. According to
the confession of Tagliano, it appeared that on the night of
the l 9th of April, having left his master, and mistress at
the King's Theatre, he went to a neighbouring coffee-room,
where he met Vigano, now in custody, and ,the priioner
Majorani, both of whom be had previously known.. He
told them that his master was very rich, that he and
Madame Schutz were then at the theatre, and that he
(Tagliano) had the keys of their apartments, one of which
contained cabinet that held a considerable sum of money.
It was soon agreed that they should go to the house of
Signor Schutz, and possess themselves of the notes and
sovereigns described by the boy. They went accordingly,
and while Tagliano went up stairs and possessed himself
of part of the money, his companions kept watch at the
streeb-doer. By a subsequent confession, it appeared
that Vigano and Majorani having learned from Tagliano
that be bad taken only a part of the money, agreed to re-
turn for the remainder, and while they went up stairs
fur that purpose, Tagliano remained sentinel below. They
continued a long while above stairs, and having 'ad-
journed to a house'• in the neighbourhood, they pre_
ceeded to divide the spoil, Vigano and Majorani reserv-
ing' to themselves all the bank, notes, and Tagliano tak-
ing the sovereigns? about 70 in number. They then part-
ed, on the understanding that Vigano, as soon as he should
change the notes which had fallen to his share, should fol-
low Tagliano to Paris.
Mr. MiNsuur,r, was of opinion that this species of evi-
dence would hardly warrant him in detaining the prisoner.,
Upson, an officer, deposed, that from the description he
had received of the prisoner, he took him into custody in
the morning, at a shop in the Quadrant. The prisoner
lodged in Carnaby-market, Oxford-street. The officer
added, that Without telling the prisoner what charge there
was against him, he immediately, on being taken into cus-
tody, said that he knew he knew he was apprehended
about Signor Schutz's money, but that he had none of it, as
the boy Tagliano had taken it all.
The prisoner, in broken English, protested vehemently
that he knew nothing whatever of the robbery.

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however, Signor Schutz would take upon him to say that
he eerily believed the prisoner to have been concerned in
robbing him, he should he detained until evening.
Signor Sclinte said he had to attend a concert, and begged
to have the prisoner remanded until this day, which was
done accordingly.
A respectable-looking man, named Jenkins, was charged
on the evidence of a young man named Taylor, an appren-
tice in a wholesale house in the city, with embezzling 200/.
from his father, who resides in Bristol.
The prisoner had been employed as shopinan to Mr.
Taylor, at Bristol, and absconded from that place a few days
ago, taking with him the amount of some cheque3, and leav-
ing a large sum unaccounted for.
The prisoner endeavoured to show that be bad aid away
Re admitted, how_
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the money on his employer's account.
ever, that he was still in arrear, and said that he came to
London on purpose to raise the deficiency, to hand to Mr.
Taylor. .
Mr. Mwsoutt, said, that under these circunastances, it
would be better for the prisoner to go at once to Bri ;tot.—
He should issue no warrant, however, for the purp-e; but
if Taunton, the officer, wished, he might convey the pri-
soner to Bristol upon his own responsibility.
The prisoner expressed his consent to this arrarieement.
Edward Janes, a young man lately employed as shop-

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man by Messrs. Gratam,linetklrapers and silk. pierce*
No. 294, Holborn, was charged by them with stealing'
piece of Bandana silk, Obtaining five handkerchiefs.
He was fully committed for trial.
MARYLEBONE-OFFICE. —Yesterday morning
fashionable young farrier, wile lives in North-street, Mar
chester-square, ca.me to this office and told Mr. I.l.swtt?'
sox lie expected, minute after minute, to be charged w 0
feloniously stealing, taking, -and carrying away a pair'c
boots, the property of another ; and as, it would be dreg
fill to be taken up under a warrant of felony, he wished t`r
be present in parson to answer the charge.
Mr. Reweixsoie asked him what extraordinary circulo'
stances had brought him into so improbable a situation?
He said he went to a ball the night before in St,
John's:Wood, anti while dancing some one took away
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boots, which were very good ones, and left a pair bek
not worth 55.
" And you walked home in them, I suppose," said 10
Ilsivenesorr.—" I did, Sir; I was obliged," replied tl
young farrier ; " and now another gentleman claimatbe;
and if you say he is to have them, I shall lose my boot
altogether."
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and why should not blaaleemiths?" -
HATTON-GARDEN.—Henry Saunders, who b°
been in custody on suspicion'of 'having 'robbed the Gam'
nock bank, was yesterday brought before the Sitting I‘lt'
gistrate, Mr. ROGERS, and discharged.
A young man, of the name of Thomas Flight, 'AI
placed at the bar for final examination, on a charge
house-breaking and robbery.
On the night of the 21st inst., the residence of a Mrs'
Scott, No. 80, Nelson-terrace, City-road, was broke'
into by cutting out the panel of the back kitchen windolfr
and forcing the iron bars with which the shutters weft
bound. Having by this means gained admittance into the
house, the prisoner proceededto the ball and front parledl'
whence he took away the following articles :—.Two wet 10°:i
lin dresses, twohats, apair of boots, apair of shoes, (impair
gloves, two volumes of " Blair's Sermons," and a p.:AYet;
book. The shoes and one of the hats he immediately Pt:,
on himself, leaving his own, which were considerably
worse for wear, behind him, and tbea taking his &ye'
tore, proceeded along the banks of the New River, as
as Colebrook-row, where he was met about half put fe°
in the morning, by Brown, a constable of the parish of SI
Mary, Islington. Brown, observing that he carried
bundle, stopped him, and took him into custody on Or
picion of robbery. The prisoner upon, this somewhat pet'
tishly asked the constable, why lie had dared to arrest bit
on his journey, and held out to him a threitethat e wok'
teach him how to discharge his duty better.in future.'
With much reluctance, he was conveyed to the watch'
house, where, as soon mire had entered, he put himself it?
a fighting attitude, and challenged the constable. On I'l°
person being searched, the entire of the above property ola;
found partly tied up in a handkerchief, and partly cramtn e
into his pockets, together with some bacon and cheese,
piece of soap, and a razor.
The property being produced, several lodgers in tr,
house came forward and identified was then fit"
committed to Newgate.
John Monkhouse, keeper of White-conduit-house, Feu;
tonville, was brought up under a warrant to answer to
charge of assault preferred against him by a brass-forasier:
of the name of Sinclair, residing at No. 9, Orchard-AO"
St. Luke's.—The charge was dismissed.
UNION-HALL.:—Yesterday, two men, mimed eMitr,
and Jackson, suspected of hiving been 'OOOO4 ro
breaking into several honies at Peckham, were broer
before the Sitting Magistrate, under the following cirt3l,ll3(
stances :
Lewis, a constable of Peckham, stated, that on the Ire
ceding ceding afternoon, as an inhabitant of tbat village was past
along the road, at a short distance from his house, ha 6,vi
served the two prisoners in a field together, busily togsgA'r
in concealing something near the hedge. Having watched
some time, they left the field, wheo the individual crl'"
perceived their motions approached the 'spot, and en turn'
ing up some of the mould, he discovered a complete set ,
housebreaking implements, together with a phoephery
bottle and matches. On this discovery he immediately
ceeded to Lewis, and gave him information of the eircu; to
stance, when the latter, persuaded that the parties who b
hidden them would no doubt visit the place again for
purpose of taking the implements away, placed a watchtna!
within view of the place, who had not been long at his P.
before the isoners made their appearance. On arrivio.
at the spot, where they had previously concealed the imply
meets, they commenced to look after them, and just as tiler
were about to leave the field they were taken into tusto4-
Lewis stated that several gentlemen's houses at. Peckbbil
had been recently broken into and robbed. Both 08
prisoners were identified by the officers as reputed thieve,
The Magistrate committed the prisoners for three month'
each to Guildford gaol, remarking that their friends woulil
not have the facilities of seeing them while they were
that prison.
The drivers of several go-carts were brought ne,
fined in the mitigated penalties of Si. each, for plying-_,'
passengers to Greenwich during the fair, without the prep'
license.
A squalid-looking Flemish boy, ragged and half-starYed'
was brought up by a street-keeper, who stated that be obi
served the defendant that morning going up to see°
females in the streets and thrusting forth from under
lappets of his coat a disgusting monkey, which terrified B°..
veral of them. The street-keeper added, that since the 60
weather had set in, great numbers of those boys were
rmf
ported into this country, and were employed by some
their countrymen, who sent them out during the day:-
perambulate the town and gather money by the exhibitive
of monkies, tortoises, white mice, &c. Their emplpTer!'
however, took care to secure all the cash, and allowed oc
boys barely a sufficiency to support nature.
The MAcibraArc observed, that the above deseriPol
of nuisance had increased to such an intolerable degree, we
it was high time to put a stop to it ; and the only vl4l
accomplish that, would be by prosecuting some of the fellevo
who employed the poor boys, and encouraged them. to lee"
their own country.
It having been ascertained that the .defendant's 400°,
lived in Leather-lane, Holborn, the Magistrates directed irl"."
to be taken to Hatton-garden.

A FELINEMONSTER.—On Thursday morn,'
ing last, a cat belonging to Mr. ScHor.rnELD, of we
Golden Fleece, Pavement, in this city, brought forth tb,!°A
kittens, two of which were perfectly formed, but:the tn"r
exhibited, in a singular degree, that mal-cosformatinn ;-
which the feline race, perhaps more than any other bran%
of the animal creation, is subject. Between tke fore-ifg:
grew four other legs and a tail, and from the belly, 100k',13.';
towards the hinder quarters projected another heads L.,,
kitten, which was dead, seemed to have been, to the
of iti production, in a healthy, state, its size being eflun', t,
the which were alive, And when placed upon its lee. ;
its head and back did not Present, anything uncommon LI,
their 'appearance. Its hair was smooth and sleek; and t""
colour grey striped with black.—Edinburgh -Fretting
Courant. -

BIRTHS. ' . ,
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On the 26th inst., at Barham-wood-cottage,. Slim,'
Herts, the.lady of William Douglas,,Essp of a eon. , ' i
On the 26th inst, in Devonshire-platy, Old Kent-0°
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Mrs. Wood, of a daughter. ' .Af
'On the 28th inst., at Islington, Mrs. itebert Older' ia
jun., of a son.

Esq., of Monmouth.
MARRIED.
On the 26th inst., at Monmouth, by the Rev. Tboll:
Price, Edward Peppercorn, Esq., a the Hon.. Eastpa;
oCof mhpsaenpyh'spmriitl.eit:ry service, to Charlotte, third daggh
On the 10th inst., at St. George's lianoverrsquareo by
the Rev. --- Glann, M. Chamberlain, of Broad-stree
Bloomsbury, to Mrt. Charlotte Pearce, late of HaufllY:
street, oxfoiii-street.

DIED. st
At Clifton, on the (ith of May, Caroline Jane, young f
daughter, and on the 26th of May, Harriet, the wil°°
William Henry 131aauw, Esq.
On the 28th inst., at her house in Upper Brook-street
Grosvenor-square, the Hon. Anne Seymour Darner, these
child of the late Right Hon. Field-Marshal Henry °elti.
moor Conway (brother to Francis, Earl of Hertford)
the Lady Caroline Campbell, daughter of John, court',
Duke of Argyll, and widow of Charles, Earl of AilesburYo
On the 28th inst., in New Bridge-street, Blackfrizn*
seed 60, Warner r hipPs, Esq., Secretary to the Albion,
Fire and Life Insurance Company.
shire,Ot jtloTin2swtrleibibu,stE.,4.t, hinishirses74l4etnhcve.e,aLr,eet-ohuacllh,
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by his afflicted family and numerous friends.
On the 25th inst., in Lombard-street, Robert Service,
Esq., aged 69.
On the 28th inst., at Lower-Clapton, George, third 0.
of Isaac Sewell, Esq., of Salters'-11111.
On the 19th inst., at Nockdrin Castle, county of West'
meath, the Dowager Lady Levinge.
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