The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-06 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch.

Mr. O'CONNELL, last night, in the House of Commons
moved for " Copies of, or extracts from, the correspond-
ence between the Government and the Magistrates, rela-
tive to the witnesses produced on the trial of HARE and
others, at the late Armagh Assizes, for Ribbonism,"
which naturally brought the question of the spy system
in Ireland before the House. The papers were refused,
but the motion afforded Lord ELIOT an opportunity of
making a declaration which the country will be de-
lighted to hear—namely, that that atrocious system has
been carried on without any encoutagemeut, open or
implied, on the part of the Government. The Noble
Irish Secretary said, that " whatever advantage might
be derived from obtaining information of the proceedings
of secret societies by the aid of spies and informers, he
thought the advantage would not compensate for the in-
justice and injury which would be done by employing
paid agents to procure information." The Noble
Lord previously stated, that if the local authorities were
cognisant of the conduct of the informers, HAGAN and ,
Cox, their conduct was altogether unjustifiable. We are
happy to be able to record such language from the mouth
of the Noble Lord. We always did him, personally, the
justice to state, that we did not believe that he was cog-
nisant of the late unconstitutional proceedings of the
Irish Executive, and we are really well pleased to find
that we did him no more than justice. But the Noble
Lord talked last night of the embarrassment of the Irish
Government from most of the crimes committed in that
country being prompted by, or perpetrated under the
sanction, and at the instigation, of secret societies. Such
embarrassment can be got rid of at any moment. All
the Noble Lord has to do is to make it known throughout
Ireland that the Government will no longer encourage
any spy or informer, and that in every case
prosecutions of criminals will follow the first information
against them. So long as the spy system is continued,
there will be secret societies, because the spies them-
selves will form them, and perpetrate crimes in their
names, to bring their deluded members within the
meshes of the criminal law. Once fairly and publicly
abolish the spy system, and there will be an end of
Ribbonism in Ireland. What inducements can the
Roman Catholic population of Ireland now have to be.
come Ribbonmen, and thus render themselves liable to
inch a penalty of transportation ? Their religion is
no longer in peril ; their clergy are not only
safe from persecution, but universally respected ;
their property cannot be taken from them, nor
their personal rights invaded with impunity ; mem-
bers of their body sit in' both Houses of Parliament;
others of them are in personal attendance upon the
Sovereign ; their political chief and co-religionist is '
the Chief Magistrate of the capital of Ireland ; and in
all respects before the law they stand on a footing of
political equality with their Protestant fellow-country-
men. That a naturally shrewd race of men so circum-
stanced should voluntarily incur the penalty and dis-
grace of transportation from a country to which they are
so devotedly attached, is consonant neither with the
principles of rhyme nor reason. But it happens never-
theless, Lord awls may answer. We admit that it
does. It happens in this way. The poor Irishman, in
attending some wake, fair, market, place of superstitious
penance, or other gathering, is waylaid by the spy, who
literally plies him with whiskey, and inflames his mad-
dened brain by recollections of the horrors of the last
rebellion, and the wrongs endured by Ireland at the
hands of England. When his victim is sufficiently in-'
toxicated and bewildered for his purpose, the fabricated
revelation of the existence of a secret society for the
redress of all grievances is made, fraternization is pro-
posed, an oath of secrecy is exacted, and a password
given. When every thing is ripe, a meeting of the dupes
takes place at some Skeebeen, or unlicensed public
house, information is forwarded to the police, and the
infernal perpetrator of all the atrocity is rewarded for
turning QUEEN'S evidence, as it were, and supplying the
amount of evidence requisite for the conviction and
transportation of his unfortunate dupes. This, we
pledge ourselves, is the real secret of the existence of
so many Ribbon Societies in Ireland. As these
societies are denounced from the altars by the Roman
Catholic clergy ; from the platforms by every Roman
Catholic orator ; in the confessionals of the whole of
the regular and secular priesthood ; and stigmatized and
prosecuted by the civil authorities, they could not
exist for six months but for the continued influence of
whiskey and spies. Nor would the atrocious spy system be
suffered to continue so long in Ireland, but for the
handle which it afforded iniquitous and bigotted Ma-
gistrates to get rid of poor persons either troublesome
or distasteful to them. They had but to place a mark
upon their victims, and the spies did the rest. Half the
trouble of a conviction was over when it was known that
the accused had an enemy in the nearest Magistrate.
We do not mean to say that the Magistracy were always
cognizant of what was to follow. But the spies were
careful to select as many of their victims as they could
from among the disaffected, and those against whom local
ill-will existed on the part of men of fortune and station
in society. We, therefore, say decidedly, get rid of the
spy system, and there will be an end of Ribbonism in

There-is no political news in the French Journals re-
ceived this morning. They contain nothing but accounts
of the funeral obsequies of the Duke of ORLEANS, a
report of which will be-.found in another part of
The Sun.

The Havre Journal of Yesterday says—" At eleven
o'clock this morning, twenty-one minute guns from the
tower, and from the Rodeur moored in the basin, an-
nounced to us the commencement of the funeral service
at Notre-Dame for the Duke of Orleans. At the same
time all the public establishments and the ships and ves-
sels in the port and harbour hoisted their flags half-mast
high. A gun continued' to be fired every half hour
during the time the ceremony was supposed to last."
The Toulonnais says:—" We are now able to state
positively that Admiral Baudin is about to relinquish the
Maritime Prefecture. We also learn that Admiral
Hugon will probably be called to Paris as soon as he has
inspected the squadron, which it is said he will do at the
island of llyeres. The officers who are to replace these
two Admirals are not yet known."
The loyal tial, a Journal of Smyrna, :says:—" By
order of the Porte the troops forming the camp at
Adrianople, have received orders to march to Monaster.
Four regiments have already set out, and two others have
arrived from Constantinople. A considerable force will
be collected to be sent to Albania."
The Pope held on the 22d of July, at the Palace of
the Quirinal a Consistory, at which he delivered an
allocution on the religious affairs of Russia. This allo-
cution is short, but it is accompanied with ninety diplo-
matic documents, which contain a summary of all the
negotiations between the Court of Rome and the Russian
Government. At this Consistory the Pope proclaimed
twenty-one Prelates, of whom four were French, namely,
Mena Nauds, Archbishop of Avignon, and Messrs. Ber-
leaud, Replier, and Bardon, Archbishop of Tulle, An-
gouleine, and Cahors.
The Federal of Geneva, of the Ist, says, in a supple-
ment:—" The municipal elections of Geneva have just
taken place. The Radicals have every where triumphed
by a great majority and manifest their joy by noisy ac-
elatnations."—Conuneree.

BOURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 4.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 118 ... 118 20... 118 ... 118 10
4 per Cents 101 G 0... 101 60... 101 60... 101 60
3 per Cents 77 75... 77 80... 77 75... 77 75
Bank of France 3213 ...3215 ...3205 .. 3205
Latlitte Bank I,ooof 1025 ..1025 ...1025 ...1025

5,000 f 5035 —.5035 —.5035 —.5035
Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 775
Belgian Fives lo'2 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
1840 lo3# ... 103# ... 103 k 103 k
Spanish Active ... 224 ... 24 ... 24
Passive ...... '4l 4i
Dutch 21 per Con's... 52* ... 52* ... 52* ... 52*
Neapolitan lO5 50... 105 50... 105 30... 105 40
Boman
RAILWAY SHARES

ts_t. Germain Bl5 ~. 815 ... 815 ... 815

Versailles, R.B ... 293 75... 293 75... 293 293 75
L.B 92 50... 95 ... 92 50... 93 75
Rouen - ... 520
Orleans. .552 b 0... 555 ... 552 50... 555
HA2•IBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Atm. 2.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1135 1630
Anglo-Russian Loan 1094
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 1035i 102 X
Inscription, Ist series ll3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 9B 97g
Ditto in Certificates 9l 1 11754
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent MI% 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent. -
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets N—
B Loan, 3 per Cent. 79 78%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURGU, AUG. 2-13 9U, Two months 13 734. •
STOCKHOLM, JULY 26.—Seventy-five days, 12 10.
VIENNA, JULY 29.—Three months. 9. 42.
• PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 30.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 103% ii. 3%
Prussian English Bond,, 1630, 4 per cent. It 2 e,
Exchange on Landon . 22
Prussian State Gazette, July 3:.

THE IRISHMAN IN HIS GLORY I—The late row at the
Nottingham election must have been a rich scene, and we
quite envy the feelings of exuberant delight with which
Mr. Feargus O'Connor must have taken part in it. It
seems that two waggons, freighted—one with Stephens
and his Conservatives, and the other with Feargus and
his Chartists, found themselves face to face one fine
morning last week, in the market-place. The result
may be anticipated. The Chartist waggon took it into
its head that the Conservative waggon looked impudent ;
and, thus thinking, pitched into it with a seal that bore
down all opposition. Feargus, of course, headed the
Chartists, and, by all accounts, achieved wonders with
his shillelagh. To be sure, in the warlike enthusiasm of
the moment, he floored the wrong man ; and was
throughout so full of his fun, that he staved in the short
ribs, and bissected the craniums, of more than
one member of his own party ; but what of
that ? A skull is a skull, whether it grows on
Chartist or Conservative shoulders ; and if in a
skrimmage, an Irishman finds one skull more to his
liking than another, sure; has'nt he a right to make free
with it 7—to give just a delicate postman's rap at it with
his shillelagh. In election rows it doesn't do to be par-
ticular. Punctiliousness and ceremony are thrown away
on such occasions. All you are expezted to do is, to
pitch into the individual who happens to be standing
next you, and get as much fun out of hini as possible,
previously offering up a supplication to Providence that
he will be graciously pleased to direct your shillelagh to
the skull of the right man ! What makes the drollery
of this Nottingham skrimmage stilt more remarkable, is
the fact that Feargus, who commenced it; was at the
time engaged as Head Pacificator to Sturges the Quaker !
AN OPTICAL EXPERIMENT. —An Optician was this
morning—as will be seen by reference to another part of
The Sun—brought up to Union-hall, on a charge of as-
saulting a younc, woman. It seems that the parties
were to have been married to-morrow (Sunday), but
happening to have a disagreement about the wedding-
dresses, the bridegroom elct, true to the instincts of
his profession, made an optical experiment on his bride,
in the attractive shape of a couple of black eyes ! The
latter, who had no taste for such experiments—not
being of a scientific turn—immediately broke off the
match ; and, not content with this, introduced her
affianced husband to the notice of the Magistrates of
Union-hall, who fined bim twenty shillings, by way of
encouraging his enthusiasm in the 'cause of optical
science. See what it is to be carried a .vay by one's pro-
fessional ardour !
EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY.—We understand that a
Grand Flying or Centrifugal Railway is now exhibiting
at the Egyptian. Hall, Piccadilly, " two hundred feet in
length, down which a car, containing a living passenger,
descends, and gains sufficient momentum to whirl it
round a circle forty feet in circumference, then ascends
another incline in perfect safety, and during this transit,
the head of the traveller is completely inverted !"—W e
wish that Sir Robert • Peel could be prevailed on to
ascend this extraordinary car ; for then— when once his
head became " completely inverted "—there might be a
chance of his adopting a different opinion respecting the
Income-tax to that which he at present entertains.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by a nu-
merous suite, left town this morning by the London and
Birmingham Railway, on a visit to Lord Howe, at Gop-
sall-hall, Leicesturshire. Her Majesty afterwards pro-
ceeds on a tour for some weeks, honouring different
noblemen with a visit.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, AUGUST 5.

We have just received an extraordinary express
from Paris, bringing the important intelligence of M.
Sauzet's election as President of the Chamber. Be-
fore the first scrutiny the numbers were—
Sauzet 2lO
Odillon Barrot
Dufaure 39
Dupin l6
Berryer

No candidate having the " absolute majority" re-
quired, a second scrutiny was proceeded with, when
the Ministerial candidate was elected by a majority
of 25. This first defeat of the Opposition is regarded
in Paris as of considerable importance.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The market has completely recovered from the panic
of yesterday afternoon, and some extensive business has
been done both in English and foreign securities. Con-
sols are 91,1 for Money, and for the Account ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 92i-:; Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 1001 101; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,
100 - 1004; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock, 249 251 ;
India Bonds; 33 35 prem.; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 ;
New, 49 51 prem.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been sold at
51f, and the Five per Cents., 1001. The quotation for
Mexican is 35f.

The Share Market has not to any extent participated
in the improvement of the Funds. Business to-day has
been limited, andincludes both London and Birmingham;
182 ; Great Western, 89 90; South Western, 62k; South
Eastern, 234; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47i.
The Bonds noticed to-day are, Portuguese Five per
Cents., 334; Spanish Five per Cents., 20k, and the
Three per Cents., 19i.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 47} to
Great Western

London and Birmingham 90 lB2 ...... to
London and South Western 4156 ... 62i to
South Eastern and D0ver......... 50 ...... 23i- to

:CPRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 4.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 991! Grand Canal Stock —
Ditto Reduced ...... ... 1 Ditto Debs. 6 per cent—
_ .

Ditto New 1830......... 993 Ditto 4 per cent ...
3i per Cent. Dabs.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. s.—The Share
Market exhibits more firmness, Shares in our local
Banks are still in considerable request. The transactions
of the day were :—Bristol and Exeter, 411 ; Eastern
Counties, 9 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 973 ; Man-
chester Assurance, 91. 18s. 9d.

THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.)
WHITECHAPEL MEAT MARKET.
The supply, though not large, was quite sufficient, and
lower prices were submitted to. Most of the country
killed meat was in bad order, and some almost unsaleable
at any price. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 4s. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s.
10d. ; Veal, 2s. 4d. to 4s. ; Pork. 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ,
Lamb, 2s. 6d. to 4s.
TEA MARKET.
The market was very dull, and Is. Bd. to Is. Bd. was
the nearest price for useful Congou, cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
The prices of Russian Tallow were not quite so firm,
but there appears to be more inclination to purchase, and
48s. must still be paid for really fine quality on the spot.
For delivery in the last three months of the year 48s. 3d.
was accepted for small parcels.
HOP MARKET.
The market was very quiet, and nothing but really
choice qualities could be sold, and these only at easy
prices. The accounts from the hop growing districts are
decidedly more favourable, and the duty is 140,000/. to
145,0001.
WOOL MARRET.
There was a fair business transacted in both the Eng-
lish and Foreign markets at fully former rates.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEL

The, supply of iiieat was large, and prices again declined
29. per quarter. Oats id. per stone, Shelling Is. to 2s. per
load, and Beans Is. per quarter lower than last week. No va-
riation in other articles.

6/neat, Red, Essex and Kent s. 534, to 554. em 511.
Norfolk asat Suffolk .-..b. 51111. to 535. fine 535.
Lin. and Cam. -s. 524. to :%. tine 54 .
-- Yorkshire ...... 553. to 53,. fine 545.
- White •.4 ...1. 54, to 555. fine Mg.
--- Foreign, Red. -s. -s. to 503. fine 55i.
White -s. -s. to 58A. sine ls 0•.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 24h. to Ns. fine .18
-- Lincolnshire
---- Yorkshire Wold ..... 24a. to 29A. tine 50s.
-- Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s
Beans, New
-- Old
Oats, Potato -s. to 90s. fine'. 2s.
--,.- Poland -s. -s. to 20s. tine 225.
-. Friesians' and Small -s. -s. to ISs. line 20s.
- hsealing
Sh‘llitig ... 27s. to 29 .od. per Lao*
Malt
Rapeseed -As- -I.os 2U. Os. 291. Os. per Last

KINMEL PARK, NEAR ST. ASAPH.—The works
have been pro iem. suspended in consequence of Lord
Dinorben having found it necessary to obtain an Act of
Parliament to enable his Lordship to re-build the man-
sion destroyed by fire, without diminishing the fortune
set apart for the junior branches of his family. The Act
is progressing through both Houses, and will receive the
lioyal Assent in a few days, when the edifice, from the
designs of his Lordship's architect, will be commenced,
and will afford employment to a large number of work-
men in Denbighshire.-
TEMPERANCE.— INTERESTING FACTS. —lt will
doubtless be interesting to the friends of temperance. as
well as the public morals generally, to know that the
criminal prosecutions for this year are less by more than
half what they were in the same length of time last year.
We have it on unquestionable authority that the criminal
prosecutions in the town of New Haven, from the Ist cf
January, 1841, •to the Ist of July, 1841, amounted to
175; while from the Ist of January, 1842, to the Ist of
Daly, 1842, they amounted to only 76, and of these
sixty-seven were caused by intoxicating drinks.---New
Haven Palladium.

SUMMARY OF PIEWS,
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AND L- fIfTO

Pubit c Op tit to tU7:'3,,l'Ali

" Who runs mcy read."

rox,Excaw.
The French Journals received this morning are
with observations upon the funeral' of the Duke of 9,:t
leans. These remarks are in good feeling, for sT
amiable was the character of the. deceased Prince,, al a
so prudently did he abstain from mixing liniselfo
with the party politics of his day, that his loss ha 4.4.111-
spired the great majority of the nation with feelings
deep regret, and his memory is treated with respect bY,
even those who, politically- speakink, cannot be Supposea,
to feel very great regret at the death of any member (')L
the reigning dynasty.. It would have been disgracefU
indeed to the national character if this had not been the
case ; but it is, nevertheless, satisfactory to be enabled
to record the fact, that by the tomb of the deceast4
Prince faction was silent, and rancour had no place.
The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. publishes a de-
cree authorising the Directors of the Sinking Fund to
grant, within the next two months, any portion of the
confiscated religious buildings to such persons as Will
engage to convert them -to purposes of public utility%
After this period, all such buildings as are not so ells'
posed of will be sold by public. auction.
The Spanish papers assert that a new political party is
nearly organised in that capital. The head of the peel
is Don Francisco de Paula (or, rather, Donna Carlotta,
his wife), and their Object is to force the eldest son of
Don Francisco on the young Queen as a husband, or to
compel Espartero to relinquish the regency in favour of
the Infanta. This hopeless scheme will be knocked eo
the head without delay, and in order that Don Francisco
may understand that Espartero will enter into no compro-
mise with him, he and his family are compelled to reura
from Madrid without delay.
The Wurzburg Gazette states that when the King of
Prussia received the news of the death of the Duke of
Orleans he burst into tears, and that; as soon as crap!!
he wrote letters of condolence to the King of the Frenche
and to the Duchess of Orleans, who is a near relative of
his house.

The Gazette d'Augsburg has the following TI
Pope has addressed a circular to all his Cardinals o#
the differences which have arisen between him and the
Emperor of Russia respecting the treatment of Catholics
in Russia. His Holineas enters into details of the tour
plaints of the Catholics in Russia, and of his own re
monstrances in their favour, for ,the purpose :of c,or:
vincing the world that he has not neglected the interests
of the Catholic Church." . T"

PARLIALMENTAILY.
The House of Lords met as usual yesterday, and, after rot!!
warding a considerable number of Bills, including the Bribe.ll
Bill, which was read a second time, on the motion of Lor
Campbell, adjourned to this day.
The House of Commons met at twelve o'clock, and was elv
gaged, principally, with the Newfoundland Bill in Committee,
till four o'clock, Mr. O'Connell'epposing and dividing on severe'
clauses. The Bill went through the Committee. Ordered t°
be reported to-day.
Mr. O'Connell moved for copies of correspondence betwees
the Government of Ireland, the Magistrates, and the police/
relative to the employment of spies to foster, and then detect,
Ribbonism. Lord Eliot declined to produce it, because'
possibly, his Lordship is ashamed, at least we hope so, of the
conduct of the Government on this subject. Mr. O'Connell
divided the House on his motion, which was lost by 72 to 24.
On the House resuming at five o'clock, Lord Palmerstee
gave notice of a motion for correspondence between a Member,
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a refusal 0'
the Chiltern Hundreds. The Chancellor will not be a party t°
election compromises.
In reply to Mr. Villiers, Mr. B. Baring stated that order°
had been sent out to promote the aboNion of slavery in Singe-,
pore and Penang. From India drafts of laws for the grad"
abolition of slavery had been transmitted to this country, std
the Directors of the East India Company had siE,nitied their
assent to them.
Mr. Redhead Yorke drew the attention of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to the irregularity of the delivery of the Income-
tax papers, when that lively official was jocular about genii!:
men not yet having had the pleasure of filling them up. To "°
that will requite legal assistance, and we would propose that for
each paper Government be charged an attorney's fee. Sonic
persons say that they are made complicated on purpose.
The Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill was read a third time
and passed. Sir James Graham added clauses relative 10
letting mines, and there was a slight discussion on the principle
of appropriating Church property, when Lord Palmerston re-
marked that the present Ministry took a middle course, jo"
tified by no principle, of dealing with Church property, but
only for one particular purpose.
Mr. M. Philips opposed the motion for the Speaker to leave
the chair, in order that the House might go into a Committee
on the Bankruptcy Bill, but gave way, and the Bill was die-
cussed in Committee. It occupied the principal part of the
evening. The House rose at a Quarter past Two.

PUBLIC °PINYON.
The Herald observes, in reference to the Ipswich elec...
tion :—" Ipswich is defended by the advocates of
xcos-
ruption on the very ground that we anticipated.
The
t
penditure at the last election was too small to conhe e
constitute.
venality. Bribery is not bribery so long as the price
a vote is only thirty shillings ; make it
thirty poun
a head, and an Election Committee may void a retuid
without being abused by a journal, the politics of which
vary according to the state of the biliary secretions or
the electioneering interests of its chi 'proprietor. The
law formerly meted out punishment Tar larceny accord-
ing to the value of the stolen goods ; the Times would,
l;1
in manner equally barbarous, regulate the decisions of
Election Committees by the price given for the suffrage..
What, void an Ipswich election because 500/. have been
spent in purchasing votes ! • Forbid' it the undetected
thousands that have been spent on former occasions."
The following is from the Herald The present
session of Parliament will, we.take it, have done as much .
to destroy the confidence of the country in both the
existing divisions of Parliamentary parties as any pre-
ceding session that can be remembered. The policy
which Sir Robert Peel has pursued in internal affairs,
however wise and salutary, however acceptable to the
great majority of the community, and however gradually
and cautiously developed, was not certainly antici-
pated by the people at the last general election, and was
received with surprise by a large section of the great
party over which he presides. It is perhaps more fa-
vourably regarded in its main features by the Conserva-
tive constituencies than by Conservative representatives-
Sir Robert Peel has realised the predictions of his sup-
porters in the House of Commons, that he would be a
great Minister ; but in accomplishing their predictions
he has somewhat startled the predictors occasionally-
He has maintained his own consistency, but he has not
had much regard for theirs. Ile has endeavoured to de-
prive Conservatism of a sectarianism ; if he succeed he
will be the founder of a great national party ; but should
he fail, the country will either have to bow its neck
again to Whiggery, attempting to cheat Radicalism, or
a coalition Administration will arise out of the conflicts
of parties."
The Chronicle thus expresses itself on the subject of
Lard Ellentorough's reported intention to evacuate Alf-
ghauistan :—" It is gratifying to observe that there is
but one feeling, as far as any feeling has been yet ex-
pressed, upon the rumoured intention of Lord Ellenbo-
rough to evacuate Affghanistan. No Englishman can
hear of such a resolution without shame and dismay.
All parties, those who blame as well as those who de-
fend, the policy of Lord Auckland, must, at all events,
admit that until our fellow-countrymen who are in the
hands of Akbar Khan are restored, and satisfaction be
had for the murder of our Envoy, our army could not,
under any circumstances, be withdrawn from Affghanis-
tan. To this Sir Robert Peel's Government is, fortu-
nately, pledged. Fortunately, we say, for, upon a care-
ful perusal of the Indian papers, we believe Lord Ella-
borough had, before the receipt of his overland despatches,
commanded a retreat! Incredible as this compound of,
cowardice, cruelty, and impolicy may seem, disgracefid
to its author as a man, as a British subject, and as a
statesman, nearly every Indian paper we have seen.
agrees in stating that Lord Ellenborough had actually.
determined to abandon so many of our country peoplQ to
a dreadful fate, to leave the murder of so many more un-
atoned for, and to sacrifice the character of our 'nation
and the safety of our Indian empire, by calling back our
troops like a band of beaten robbers, instead of with the
prestige of a victorious army. 'We may tremble for the.
ultimate result,' says the Bombay United Service Gazette-,
when Lord Ellenborough has already began to waver,
to vacillate, and to doubt.'"
The Chronicle says:—" The Times has taken to
're-
flect upon the decision of the Ipswich Election CSiti•;
mittee; and the more it reflects the less it likes the de-
cision. But it turns out with marvellous exactness, that,
every topic of lamentation to the Times is adapted to.
afford satisfaction to the public. In its leader of yeeter- •
day, we have a succession of vituperations that will mu-.
mend themselves to all honest minds as grounds of ap-
proval. We begin to think there must be considerable
promise of good in this decision, to make it seem SP uri.!
savoury to the palate of corruption. The Tinan coue=4
pains of the Committee for a Report tending to over-
turn all the notions which the world has hitherto enter=s;
tained upon the subject of bribery.'. This is just what e. 04-
wanted. "The world,' i. e. the bribing world, has hi
therto acted upon its own lax and unprincipled notions.:
Briber is notoriously treated as a joke at the Clubs. It:
induces no taint upon character; it damages nobody in
society. Very gross cases were to be shunned, because,
of their folly, their publicity, and their inconveniences;
but even such were deemed rather unfortunate than cal-•
pable. The Ipswich Committee has startled th',s
world' by applying the professed test strictly and 'e,o-
nestly."

The Post thus speaks of the approaching harmst :
" The cutting down of the harvest is rapidly proefee,ing
in many quarters, and under the most favoterable
auspices. Never was this country blessed Neith y, finer
season. It is true that no fineness of the -wreath er now
will wholly make up for the defective sowir,g of last
autumn, and the wetness of the early winter which in-
jured a good deal of the seed. The wher.t crops are,
therefore, in many instances far from thic:a—there is
more' than the usual distance betweete 'the stems--bits
everywhere the ear is remarkably flue,
and with such
weather as this we may expect a quality of grain which.
will yield much more and much better flou than has
been obtained from English wheat, of late years. We
r
doubt whether, since 1826, the har%st has been so early
as it is this year."
The Tones expresses itself as follows, respecting cer-
tain clauses in Lord John Russell's Bribery Bill :—" We'
lately exposed the futility, except fur purposes of mis—
chief, of those provisions in Lord John Russell's Bribery-
Bill which have passed the House of Commons. We,
showed that the ze,•,l exhibited to defeat compromise.'
would only have the effect of checking the introduction
of charges of bribery into election petitions by parties
claiming the seat ; while the machinery afforded for-
enabling investigations of alleged ' bribery to be prose—
cuted at the public expense at the instance of common
informers, with the strange proviso that no seat shoulci
be affected by the result, seemed trained merely for the
purpose of exposing Members and them constituents to an
incalculable expense and annoyance, and bringing the