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London, England, 1830-11-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP Mt JOURNALS.

Thurs.—Lord Grey's declaration is as satisfactory as " words" can
be to the sane and intelligent part of the community z the acts must
follow and confirm the words, and we shall be content. We hall with
great satisfaction the accession of so respectable a nobleman as Lord
Wharncliffe to the cause of reform, but there is another and more im.
portant auxiliary. Among the friends of Parliamentary Reform—of a
temperate, rational, and definite reforns—there now appears the Sing
of England himself. We do not say this with a view to sway the decision
of parliament upon the momentous question,butin order to rescue hie Ma.
jesty from that odium to which be would be unjustly subjected if irwere
thought for an instant that he *me opposed to the universal wish °filth
loyal subjects in a matter that appertains to their Apts. And while
• the cause of reform boasts such a partisan, let Minimises recollect by
whom it has been chiefly defeated before, and by tam, next to an
insincere master, the continuance of men of their ia office has
been universally abridged. This mischief has been always effected by
the adherents of that old faction of Pitt and plunder, of which the Go.
vernment avenues were never sufficiently cleared. While the present
Ministers, therefore, impose retrenchment, and cut down extravagsocim
wherever they can, they will, if they are wise, be extremely careful to
select for the efficient and indispensable offices which remain in Church
and State, men of their own opinions, and who have but too often been
the victims of these opinions in their several professions and pursuits.

Caton mtg.—The great disease of the English social system is eon.
stant interference with the labouring people. A shoe cannot be mended
for a child in a village, or a new pair of atocklnp purchased, except
through the complicated instrumentality of overseas and magistrates.
The people have in this way been taught that everything ought to be
done for them. We must gradually retrace our steps. Instead of
making the poor subjects for all manner of fanciful experiments, they
must be placed in a situation in which they out take ears of them.
salves. The perversion of the poor laws to the creation of what
was called • reserve pf labour, has created a redundant popula-
tion, and the temptation to poaching afforded by the Game Laws to are.
dundant population, has formed everywhere bands of vspbonda. We
have long and often warned the gentlemen of England ef their danger.
But the iseincipal feature of the times is the cowardice of the Great Un-
paid. A number of Magistrates are known to have skulked—endea-
vouring, on one subterfuge or the other, to keep out of the way. It is
obvious that vigour and spirit at the outset would have prevented the
mischief. But every Magistrate wished to keep out of the way of dan-
ger, and to throw the responsibility on his neighbour.

Tux Trento.—We regret to state that the disturbances in the coun.
try still condone unabated, though the apprehension of the ringleaders
in several parts, which is the first step towards their punishment, must
also lead to the exposure of all the secret counsels, if there be any. For
our own parts, we cannot help observing that there is no general propo-
sition or ;violation for the rise of wages. Something ought to be done
in this way ; and the obstinacy of the farmers and the land-owners, in
still resisting every measure of that tendency, is most undoubtedly the
principal cause why public tranquillity was at first disturbed, and why
It remains so. The pretext thit no concession should be made to threats,
that there must be no yielding to intimidation, is a very tinny one in.
deed. Every one acknowledges that the wage are too low, and men
ought to do what is right, wbather they are threatened ano.

11211LALIN—In all criminal cases, be it remembered, the maxim of
the constitution of England is, that the jurors are judges both of the
law and ties fast. The presiding judge, it is true, assists them with
his opinion, but the decision is their own. Is it not, therefore, of
great importance to the administration of justice that the spirit of
the laws should not be in opposition to the consciences of jurors ?
We are told by the theorists who are satisfied with a !Turku re-
form,
and who mistake superficial alteration for substantial improve.
meat, that those statutes commonly called "Peel's Acts" have re.
formed the Criminal Law. We took occasion, last 80111100 of
parliament, while the sanguinary Forgery Bill was under die.'
mission, to show that this was a delusion—that the amend-
ment Introduced by those statutes, was, for the most part,
one of fortis, not of subststics--si recasting of the outufesr,
not an improvement of the spirit of the law. We did not rest upon
general assertions—we adduced proofs ; the object of our special attack,
at that time, was Sir Robert Peel's Forgery Bill, which, like his other
Bills, altered the outward form of cruel and inhuman enactments, and
cut off some obsolete severities, without extracting the core of basikarisst
by which the criminal laws are pervaded. The House of Commons.
after several discussions on that Bill, concurred with our view of the
question, and threw it out on the third reading, in spite of the most
active exertion of Treasury influence, as disgraceful to a Christian coun.
try and a civilised age. The Jurors of London perfectly coincide with
us in opinion upon the statutes in question; for they say that "the re-
teat Acts, passed with the professed intention to amend and improve the
criminal laws, have not remedied the evil of which an enlightened cow.
munity have the greatest reason to complain, but have still left those
laws a disgrace to our civilisation, by retaining the opprobrious distinc-
tion of being the most sanguinary of any in Europe."

Porn.•-No Wilda' appointment which the recent change in the
misery has occasioned, is likely to be auen led with such serious come.
queues, as the nomination of Mr. Brougham, to All the high office of
Lord Chancellor of England; thus placing in the hands of one of the
most rancourous and inveterate enemies of the Church, the disposal of
its vast patronage, and the selection of its highest dignitaries. It is
notorious to every one that no weapon which misrepeesentation, scurri-
lity, sarcasm, or calumny amid furnish, has been left by him untried,
to cover with derbies and am is. most learned, eminent, and pious
members, or so Meg its ingingdans and doctrines into ridicule and con-
tempt. Bray mos must madleat the furious and violent invective 111 r.
Deengimen lllMlWOMMlagsbotoloCharch af Raglosi, sad its Cl•igy as a
tlaoshe theologised& will of Williams Aar • Ilbsi ots the Clete of
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Speech," be. It was written by a annimmob and able divine,
since deceased, the Rev. Tema Loa It closes with the
following weeds:—" Remember, Sir. the she. may come, and shortly
come, when a Statesman like yourself MB Wisely lamest the hour in
which he raised the bowl of popular ladigeetion against a pure and an
unoffending Church, and amidst the condos and misery which be has
contributed to create—
Mein cum opined' Sarum
lutecium Pellenla."
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*nose of the Cbll/1141 and the combos! and soperlasodenee
of those endomings, which the fifty of war 11101111111/ has provided for
the encampment of wind boning, and for molandolng inviolate the
institutions, diedplies, end domrines of our pun and rellimmed sale.
Medal establishment.

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have bees overcome, sod that he has tam plus. There was wipes-
datable delicacy la his hesitstim to maps the smolomests of Gams
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