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London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

doubt), the country would be in that truly
happy and enviable state,—but one to which she
has been almost for ages a stranger—the situ-
ation, we mean, of being nearly independent of
external causes for her prosperity and welfare.—
For, in the mean time, the tide of national pros-:
perity appears to have set in to a degree which
ought to satisfy the least contented of the whole.
tribe of political grumblers. While an abundant
harvest has crowned the labours ofthe husbandman,
and the fruits of the earth, in every form and species,
are laid up in store for the supply of every human
wa:

—wfiile foreign commerce brings to our
shores every thing, which, though denied to us
by our climate, necessity or luxury may require—
every class of national industry is quietly return-
ing to the state from which yit had declined—
bidding fair, if no untoward circumstances, or
political quackery, intervene, to place the country
in a more healthy state than she has ever yet at-
tamed to. Such is the state of Great Britain,
at least, and we trust will soon be of Ireland also,

in which the present Ministers enter upon their
offices. That their's is altogether a bed of roses,
or that that of a Minister of State ever can be
so, we do not assert ; but it must be by had mis-
management indeed, of those at the helm, that
the vessel now that she is off shore, and fairly at
if she does not pursue
sea with favouring gales,
her voyage with safety and success. Happily 'it
is the 'interest of the rest of Europe, like our-
selves, to maintain the general peace ; and we do
not therefore apprehend that, with tolerable tact
on the part of our Government, even the steps
of Mr. Canning, to which we have alluded, can have
any very serious effect upon the general tranquillity.
It is, therefore, to our domestic state mainly that
the attention of Ministers should be directed.

Of the difficulties which present themselves on
this head, the great incubus of the debt is, as it
has long been, the most formidable. But there
are other objects besides financial ones, to which,
frost the state of the country, the attention of
Ministers ought to be, and must be called. Of
these, the state of crime and pauperism, in which
so large a share of the population are involved,
must tbirnish an almost paramount consideration.
Of this, the very state of prosperity which we
have -alluded to, must of necessity dissipate a

great deal ; but still there is unfortunately much
more which has become so rooted in our system,
that nothing but a total change of system can
effectually get rid of it. Judging from the con-
duct of too many in the higher classes of society,
it would seem, that some of them at least require
to be told, that national prosperity, to be perma-
nent and lasting, must be founded on individual
virtue and integrity. It is not the influence and
example of a few which can controul the progress
of events ; but if the day should ever come when

the majority of any one class in society become
so depraved as to lose sight of the main duties of
their calling ; if gaining, if luxury in the highest
—if dishonesty, if drunkenness and sloth, take
possession of the lowest, then farewell for ever
(or at least for the age in which they happen) to
any further progress in those exliilirating pros-
pects which mark the march of public prosperity.
Without assuming the task of the Divine, which
we may appear to be doing, we cannot altogether
refrain from impressing those topics on the
minds both of governors and of the governed. If
each man, whether his station be high or low,
could but be brought to know and to consider,
the infinite consequence which his conduct and
example are of to the well-being of the state, a
great deal of the indifference which we now
witness, even in the highest ranks, and of mis-
chievous example which we see its all, would be
clone away, and much more of individual energy
applied, where it is most wanted, to the common
stock.—Eid.

The great question of resistance or submission
on the part of the Porte has now been decided,
and, ere many days shall elapse, all Europe will
be in possession of the result. That Turkey
would not yield as long as remonstrances or
threats alone were used had been anticipated ;
that she should have maintained her proud bear-
Mg to the end, is therefore no cause for astonish-
ment. Neither is it a guide for the future. She
has hitherto attempted to intimidate, and, to a
certain extent, and for too long a period, she
has been successful ; but as she could intimidate
only by an appearance of resolution, and not by
the reality of her strength, she feels that actiol

must reveal her weakness, and that her weakness
once proved, she is annihilated as an European
Power. She will, therefore, we still trust,
though not before the eleventh, and perhaps the
twelfth hour, consult her true interests, and con-
cede what she must refuse in vain. Her last re-
fuge has failed her. She imagined, and perhaps
she acted on skilful advice, that total silence
respecting the Ultimatum of the Allies would
save her from actual conflict ; but this was also
anticipated, and the last note of their Ministers
has closed that door to hope. It now remains
for her to ascertain whether she may obtain aid,
as well as advice, and if aid is denied, as we
trust it will be, then, and then alone, she will
embrace submission.—New Times.

3IEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DI A ItY.7—TuEsDA

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Commissioners,
Alhra, J., Clielinstbrd
Allen, W., London-road 10
Clarkson, J. (;over-street lO
Collinson, T., Bread-street 10
Croft, G., Oxford-street
ilswortli and Co., C'olenian
street
Haddon, J., Cs.stle-street,
Finsbury
Haines and Fairman, Wat-
ling-street
lleinlell, F., Potton, Bed-
fordshire lO
Jackson, G., St. Swithin's-
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Pennell, G., Iludyer-street 11
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Smith, \V., :Middleton-fit ,
Clerkenwell
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Miller, J., Liverpool—Royal hot
Pain, J., Poulton—White Lior
Pasheller and Co., Huntingdon
Porter, J., St. Clears, Carmart
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Whittle, J., Rochdale—White'
Younge, S., Sheffield—Tontine,

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Several London and Country Magistrates visited
Clerkenwell Prison, on Saturday last, for the purpose of
seeing Sheen, the murderer. The Magistrates entered
into a long conversation with him, during which they ad-
vised him to go to sea, and intimated that, if he would
consent, his speedy liberation would be the consequence.
Sheen replied, that he should have no objection. to go to
sea, if a month was allowed him after his liberation to
prepare himself. The Magistrates, however, appear to
w 7.11 for better security than his own word.