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London, England, 1829-03-03 00:00:00

posed upon them, the more credit is due to them for
performing it; and in performing it they have nbt
only justified their own consistency, but have rescued
their University from an imputation of subserviency
which attaches, but too truly, to another place. Suf-
fering, as we believe they are, from mortification
and self-reproach, we would spare these injudicious
advisers of Mr. Peel from the additional pang of many
words. But they w( re justly sanguine, it is said ;
and why 2 Because, out of 2,500 voters, they had
promises from 650, and that was a greater number
than carried Mr. Heber's election ; so that the only
justification of these persons is, that they were weak
enough to consider that a mere personal struggle be-
tween Mr. Heber and Sir Jahn Nicholl was a fair
criterion of the interests the recent struggle would
crew e. Such shallow reasoners may be fit enough
to form a Committee at Almack's; bur are fit only
to be beat, as they have been beat, on any other
topic or occasion.—Morning Herald.

We intimated yesterday, and we intimated it
with the greatest reluctance, that new and unex-
pected difficulties had arisen in the way of settling
the Catholic question—that his Majesty's Ministers
had not had that fair play in carrying their ar-
rangements into effect- which, as the advisers of
his Majesty, and the responsible agents of the
country, they ought to have enjoyed—and that
those who had neither right or title to advise his
Majesty, and who had not to answer either to the
King or to the country for their conduct, had- taken
advantage of the relics of certain prejudices, which
it was believed a sterner logic had uprooted, to en-
d,avour to defeat a measure which was imperiously
called for by the grievances and disturbed state of
a third part of the empire, and which had been re-
solved on at great personal sacrifice on all hands.
Our information, we believe, is but too correct :
and if the Duke of Wellington did not tender his
resignation, it is all but certain that he has been
pkced in circumstances which left him no other re-
source but tender ng it or producing a change of
opinion in others, where change was least entici-
pared. It is not in our power to state to our readers
the particulars which have led us to form these con-
clusions ; hat there Are some broad facts within the
knowledge of every newspaper reader, which only
require to be re-stated and presented in one view, in
order to show that the Duke of Wellington has
had no ordinary dificulties to contend with, and
that the attention of the Cabinet has of late been
more devoted to the defeat of intrigues, than to
the consideration of questions connected with the
permanent welfare of the country. Not a day
passed, for example, during the last week, that a
Cabinet Council was not held. On Sunday there
was another, and yesterday there was another still l•
The Ministers assembled yesterday in expectation of
being joined by the Duke of Wellington, who had
gone on Sunday to Windsor, and from thence to
Strathfieldsaye; but no Duke appeared with the re-
sult of the interview between his Grace and his Ma-
jesty. On Friday, also his Grace proceeded to
Windsor, at an early in a plain travelling car-
riage, and without any other attendants than the
postil,lions who drove his horses. The speed at
which he travelled will not, we will venture to say,
be readily forgot by those who witnessed it ; and
we can bear testimony that his Grace was not anxi-
ous to be recognized as the tenant of the cariiage.
These frequent holdings of Cabinet Councils and
consultations with his Majesty, have not, it will
be read 4 agreed, been for nought ; and we believe
we have furnished above a true version of their
meaning. A diligent inquiry, it is said, is now going
on at Windsor respecting the authors of the ad-
vice which has produced such unexpected difficul-
ties in the way of settling the Catholic Question ;
and we have every reason to believe that. the Duke
of Wellington is not only possessed of sufficient sa-
gacity to detect them, but that his firmness will
succeed in defeating the plots which have been con-
trived against him. The result, however, is still
doubtful, and until the Bill for the Emancipation of
the Catholics, has not only passed both Houses of
Parliament, but received the Royal Assent, we
shall not feel that assurance which we would
gladly communicate to our readers, that intrigue
has not been more powerful than wisdom, and plot
and prejudice than honesty and fair dealing.—Morn-
inp, Advertiser.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•

LIVERPOOL.

SUNDAY, MARCH I..—Wind S. to S.S.E.—lligh
water 19 minutes past seven.—Arrived the Comet,
Phillips, from Dublin ; George Sinclair, ----, from
Dublin ; Hazard, Chace, from Savannah ; Caledonia
Packet, , from Faro; Melantho, ---, from

London.
Vessels off—Tallahasse, from Savannah ; Edward
Downes, Savannah ; Robin Hood, Savapnah ; Mon-
trose, Demerara ; Fame, Virginia; Betty, Macaio ; Wel-
come, Calcutta.
Sailed—William, Sanders, for Buenos Ayres; Roman,
Gurrell, for l'ew York; Brunswick, ---, for Vir-
ginia ; Amelia, -, for Genoa; Science, Chase, for
New York.