Star.
London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THIS JOURNALS.

Teresa.—lf any one bad had the hooray to remonstrate with
Charles X. and to tell him of the gross iniquity, the outrageous op.
pression. the revolting folly as nganled himself, and the beanies*
cruelty in relation to others, of the ordinances of July 25, and then
to ask him what could induce his Majesty so to break faith with
his subjects, and so to endanger his throne and its succession in his
family, we apprehend that Charles, trout the extreme weakness and
other deplorable qualities of his head and heart, would have an.
swered in these words..-." liave not I a right to do what I please with
tray own property'!" It is quite certain that Charles X. looked
upon his people as a species of property which he might tor-
ment or trample on as he thought fit, and also on the prerogatives
granted him by:the Constitution as another species of property, which
he might make his instrument of castigation upon the people, as it liked
him. Now let us ask the Loris Newcastle and Exeter—do they un-
derstand this matter ? Do they see what it was that brought about this
mighty French revolution of July, 1830 ? Was it net the perversion
of " property" to ends destructive of those for which it had been given ?
And yet these foolish noblemen—kings, as they no doubt fancy them.
selves, each in his little realm—these foolish lords, with the newspapers
of the last two months before their eyes, are just copying, with more than
Chinese exactness, the scheme which drove Charles from his throne,
anti instigating the parties aggrieved by their barbarity, to indict on
them the fate of that now memorable despot, or of his con.
genial adviser. These two borough-anointed Pens, when they expel
honest men from their habitations for exercising a constitutional right
in a manner approved by the constitution; and actually turn electors
into the highways, for daring to choose as members of Parliament, those
whom they judge most capable of fully discharging their duties ; these
two Peers, we say, have perpetrated a amp d'eget against the people of
England, which they, the pecople, a quick-sighted and resolute people.
may be apt to repay in cobs not hitherto current among members of the
aristocracy. A better case tor Parliamentary reform could never be
I Imagined by the most sanguine mind than this 'bleb the news.

papers of t.”r las: few days have annourrei its—air the an.
Ing re notice.. to quit by the reapec•bc agents of the Duke
of N:we.stic imd of Lord Extter, 'I Koch t ~!;•,,
of
their several mates as had at the late election voad against
the crearmvs set up for candidates at Nesark and Stor-,Mtil by
the said Noblemen, and this avowedly as a punislunen, t, c suet,
a disposition of the votes of the parties so pro, cuted. Thy Dohe et
Newcastle's famous answer to a reproach upon the subject re here al.
ready noticed—" Might he not do what he pleased with 11,: pro-
perty ?" " No, my Lord Duke," we rejoin : " you must t yea
pmperty, and not abuse it. You may eject a terant for abn lc!. of orlr
covenant exprest.ed in the leak which binds him; but not fly doing
what his !vase door not forbid." It is a case, we trust, 11l
letter of the law will ere long explained by the spirit of th • Conti
tution.

CHIONICLE.—The middle classes of London arc somewlsst lib,. the
Head of Louvain University, described by Goldsmith. Greek had
never been taught under any of his predecessors, and he del nor, then! -
fore, see the use of Greek. The sort of education given to the Aristo-
cracy naturally determines the education of all who look up to the Aris-
tocracy. If the seats of learning at which tie ,Iristocraer are educated
are not calculated to form valuable members of society, we cats hardly
expect to find the other schools established on a better principle. The
class of teachers will naturally acquire. not what they themselves niche
hold in the highest esteem, but what they can tn.::: to the moat I:rentable
account ; and persons anxious that their children sb..s: Id one day app.-or to
advantage in society, will endeavour to proem,. :hem the inbuilt.
Non which is given to those who are at the heed er society. It may
safely be said of the higher ranks of this cmantry, :hat they ;ear. the
University utterly destitute of any sine brands to knowledge of the
slightest use to them in after life. An acquaintsece wish two dead lan.
guages, admitting that in the acquititir.:: of thesis sonu knowlcd-r is
obtained
for an active life. Yet a smattering of Greek and Ls.in is, in nine:sr:in
eases out of twenty, all that 3 gentleman carries wish hint into the
House of Commons. The education of a genti;nian in hoglaud
commences after he has quitted the University ; unfottunately
bustle of life seldom allows him to acquits what demand
serious application. In the aceettnt of the trial of De Poiret,
to which we yesterday alluded, we find that distinguished individual,
In a letter:co his !fiend 11'i:demons, refusing to become a Member of tier.
States-General, from a consciousness of his not possessing Cm relit: •
site knowledge :--‘ 1 fed too great tin anxiety," he says, '• tomb!! try
duties, to let any one impose upon site those which I am iucapabl.:.if pet.
formine. My friend, the education that has been given to me is useless; 1
was taught Latin, Greek, and Roman History, and Alytholugy.•-
,
The education I gave myself consisted of our studies in brick,
Ecclesiastical History, and Caton Let., all which is useless with
reference to what we are speaking c.f. Of Political Ecoroiry,
Law, Administration, Finance, Commerce, not a word do I know. I
hope, my dear Tielernans, that these six lines are enough for any rea-
sonable man, under the circumstances, to save me front thy reproacii tit
indifference in all public affairs, and the general good. It is not sty
fault, if I am wholly unable to pay my entire debt to my country ; it
shall make part of the inheritance of Agathon (his von), who will pay
it along with his own." Compared with the great mass of British be.
gislatots, De Potter would have at least this superiority—that he is
sensible of his deficiency ; but they have yet to learn that a I.egitdator
needs any other qualificition than a pecuniary one.

Hriat.D.—Something bearing very much the character of the
puff preliminary," is going the round of the Press, stating that Sir
Hobert Peel Is "wanted" as Representative fur Liverpool, but that the
reasons which induced Mr. Canning to resign the seat (viz. the incom-
patibility of official duties and thos,t emanating from so Lr3e a budy of
electors) are likely to operate against the Right Hon. Baronet luting it to comply with the request. From all that we can gather
persons best acquainted with Liverpool, we very much doubt whale:
such is the wish of any great proportion of its constituency. The vtople
of Liverpool, who know as well as any people in the world " a tidal
from a handsaw," are, of course not insensible to the advantages
of having " a friend at Court," in the person of one of the King's
Ministers, for their Representative ; yet it does not follow that what
may be very convenient for the people of Liverpool may not be quite
otherwise for the country at large. And the truth we believe in thi.
ca.e to be to ; and that, though Mr. Canning fortunately had at hand a
plausible reason for abandoning the represented= of Liverpool when
he became a Minister, we have no doubt but that his true reason
was the incompatibility of local interests where it is a man's duty to
look to general ones.ln fact, it is most desirable that a Minister of
any country, but more especially the Minister of a great commercial
country, should be unshackled with local claims and partial interests.
No man has been a Minister without having found how difficult it
is to possess this esanption even without embarrassments of
his own seeking ; and that, therefore, to add to them willingly and
knowingly is indiscreet and foolish in the highest degree. There are
then, in the nature of things, reasons enough why Sir Robert Peel ought
not to be the representative for Liverpool, without descending to any
that may apply to the Right Hon. Baronet's personal qualification for
the office. At the same time there can be, we should think, no difficulty
upon the subject; but that the town of Liverpool, whose rats good for.
tune it has been to have become at once as intellectually as commercially
prosperous, can have no difficulty in selecting from among its own po.
puiation a person possessing at once the local knowledge, and the talent,
character, and weight, which its representation naturally calls for, and
ought to possess.

Monett/re PosTA—The French Ministers would seem to have eons.
posed their differences for the present, and to have determined to per.
severe a little longer in the attempt to govern the country they have
revolutionised upon principles inimical to revolutioo. The terms of
this temporary reconciliation, and the ground of this renewed hope, so
far as they can be collected from the facts which have occurred, appear
to be, that the Clubs which contest with the Administration the do.
minion over France, shall not be dealt with simply by means either t.l
force or of cajolery, but by a certain skilful admixture of the two. Thus
we find the Minister of the Interior, in the Chamber of Deputies, de-
nouncing the associations, and threatening them with the ap-
plication of a law of unmingled tyranny, while, on the very
same day, an assembly of the most formidable of these clubs
receives from the Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard, the
Republican Lafayette—master unquestionably at this moment alike of
the ministers and of the King—not a hostile interruption, but a friendly
and conciliatory request conveyed by one of his stair, to adjourn their
proceedings on account of a tumultuous crowd having been collected
around the place in which their meeting was held. The Club, we are
told, acceded to the request, not, however, in deference to the odious and
arbitrary law which M. Guizot invoked in the Chamber of Deputies,
and to which the message of the veteran Revolutionist, M. Lafayette,
cautiously avoided all reference or allusion—not in deference either to
the opinions so clamorously expressed by the Chamber of De-
puties, but in deference only to the person, sentiments, and eha.
recur of this Republican leader. It is impossible not to be struck
by the contrast which theme different precectlings present, when
we view them us proceedings of the same Government, taken
on the same day. The denunciations and ducats of the Minis.
ter—the loud and boisterous clamour of the majority of the Cham-
ber in the morning, followed in the evening by a communication
of so mild and respectful a character as that of the Commander-in-Chief
of the National Guard, is au admirable display of unanimity, firmness.
and vigour, on the part of the Government, and is well calculated, ate
doubt, to exalt the Ministry and the Char:bet in the estimation of the
country, and to inspire :he ardent and enthusiastic associations with lire.
solution and dismay. There is much boldness and energy, but we imagine
very little exaggeration, in the declaration of M. Manguin, that " France
is now at war with the administration ;^ and the violent and unseemly
expressions of displeasure by which it was nceived in the Chamber, so
far from impeaching, ought to be taken as one of the strongeet_possible
attestations of its accuracy. What is the present Chamber of Deputies
itself but a Club—a Club contesting the aacendancy with other rival
Clubs, some of which are better entitled than it is to Le considered a
fair representation of Revolutionary France? Of the Club which
chooses to all itself the Chamber of Depute,, the Ministers arc the
leading Members. Its interests are, its tle,ery must he, the same
as theirs. Is it wordetfut, then. that in this assembly the assailants
of the Administration should be heard with li le favour. or that
their animadversions shcald excite anger in the proportion in which
they ate felt to be true?

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—About twe:vc o'clock last nirist
a fire was discovered to have taken niece is the house of .Mr. Evatio,,
the sign of the Castle, Greenfield-street. Clerkenwell. The dames
were first discovered in the lower part of tic 'cease, and progressed so
rapidly that all escape from below was nyder/Al impracticable, aid the
inmates were with difficulty 'saved from destruction. The parochial
engines were soon on the spot, hot they had but very little effect in
staying the progress of the fire, and in ten minutes the whole building was
in one body of flame. The engines from the various fire offices on their
arrival were put to work with great effect, and suezeeded in stopping
the farther extension of the fire beyond the two adjoining houses, which
are considerably damaged. We regret to say that rot a vestige of the
property and stock was saved ; and Mr. Evans, though insured, will be
a groat loser by the accident. The building is insured in the County
Issuranee, and the Stock in the Phoenix.—Another lire took place in
the cooperage of llr. Hall, of G uiltiford-street, Blackfrians-road, which
was not overcome until it bad destroyed the workshops of a glass-cotter,
with the building in which it commenced.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday evening an Inquest
was held at the Crown and Cushion, in Parker-street, on the body of
James Hants, a indict, who died suddenly on Sunday night, at Me re.
sidence in Parker-street. Catharine Hart is deposed, that she Is Wife
the deceased ; her husband has been oceariorally ill for along pasted;
nothing agreed with him; he got medicines from Bleheys-eourt ; he
took them on Saturday and Sunday; they did not arse with t I
h:td occasion to go to Wapping on Sunday night; I returned at three in
the morning ; I found my husband lying stretched saes the bed, deed
and colt!. Alr. Powell, surgeon, deposed, that the deceased cams to the
Dispensary; I gave him a prescription to relieve hie cough ; *hake the
deceased died of an organic diatoms of the beset, or a rupture of the longs.
—The Jury remised a verdict of" Natural Death."

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