The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-18 00:00:00

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.

WEnwiesnay, AUG. 15.—The Chatham Plate of 50/.
was won by Mr. Bond's Sparkler, beating Mr. Theobald's
The Baron, Mr. Dickenson's Amelia, and Mr. Lumley's
Livonia.
A Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, was won by
Captain Becher's Julia, beating Honeysuckle and Sir
Geoffrey Peveril.
A Hunters' Stakes (with four leaps) was won by Capt.
Watson's System, beating four others.
The sport 'during the three days has been excellent.

COCKING.—The following is a corrected statement of
the Main of Cocks fought at Huntingdon during the
Races, between the Gentlemen of Huntingdonshire (Flem-
ing, feeder), and the Gentlemen of Cambridgeshire (Shad-
bolt, feeder), for 10 sovs. a Battle, and 200 sovs. the odd.
Two ingoes each morning., 27 Mains and 15 Byes.

1,1,E311NG.

M. B.

SIIADBOLT.

B.

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday ...... 5 2 Thursday 4 1

13 5

14 4

Mr. CANNING'S FUNERAL—An incident
occurred on Thursday which, in a most striking manner,
evinced the popularity of the late lamented Premier. Just
as the hearse entered Parliament-street, a fellow, who from
his appearance was evidently the tool of some miscreants in
the back-ground, hoisted a placard, on one side of which
appeared the words—" Parliamentary Reform;" and on the
other—" Mark the 16th of August, 1819 !" alluding to the
unfortunate Manchester Meeting, and the somewhat singu-
lar coincidence that the anniversary of that day should
happen to have been selected for the interment of Mr.
Canning. The fellow had cautiously kept it down until
the hearse got close to him. The instant, however, it was
observed, hundreds of hands were immediately raisad, and
cries of " Down with it !—Down with it !" proceeded
from every quarter,—a command no sooner issued than
obeyed, for in one moment the obnoxious placard was
trampled under foot by the populace with the strongest
feelings and expression of indignation ; and had not the
fellow been taken away by the Police, summary pupish-
ment would .have been inil,icted oq the spot,

CONCLUSION OF CARLISLE ELECTION.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
LAST DAY.--Tmlitsivcr, Aug. 16.

I am happy to say the night lies passed over with-
chit any further tumult. lam told that, during the
disturbance yesterday, the party of infantry who
have charge of the Castle received orders to be in
readiness, and that they had assumed their regi-
mentals, &c. for the occasion, in readiness to act, if
called upon ; and I understand that the remainder
of the battalion are within call in case they should
be wanted.

As the polling was stopped on the breaking out
of the disturbances, the only immediate disadvantage
sustained by the Yellows was the loss of one flag,
destroyed by the Blues, and being compelled to
strike the other. It was, however, believed, that
it would have infused a certain degree of panic into
that party, and prevented their voters from coming
up to the poll very readily to-day; but in this people
were mistaken. '

Yesterday was, besides, the principal day for the
Yellows to bring up their country voters, and all
that came into the city for them did not vote.
Some may have been obliged to i eturn without
voting, or thought it prudent to do so ; others must
be maintained in the town at the expence of some-
body. Then, again, this is to be a principal day
with the other party, and the state of the poll must
unquestionably be regarded as a strong indication of
the crisis, if not of the probable duration, of the con-
test. It has, therefore, been expected with intense
anxiety.
A circumstauce is reported which serves to illus-
trate an observation in my Tuesday's letter, respect-
ing the state of the Lowther interest in this city. It
is, that there has been something like a blow-up be-
tween the Corporation and a Noble Lord I Not
that I would insinuate that the former is a very com-
bustible body—far from it; but, if the latter were
not naturally choleric, there is quite enough here to
make him so. His Lordship is reported to have said,
that he now saw plainly how his father came,to be
so unpopular in Carlisle—that it was owing to the
niggardly and shabby (his Lordship is reported to
have used another word, dirty) conduct of his col-
leagues in the civic body. I have not the least doubt
that his Lordship holds his Corporation friends in
no better estimation than reported, and I think it
probable that he may have spoken thus of them;
but whether to their faces, or whether in such' lan-
guage as to produce a rupture, is another question.
Perhaps it would not be easy for him to use lan-
guage strong enough for that effect, as the Corpora-
tion will commit any blunder before that of under-
valuing their, alliance with • a noble and powerful
family. Now I have only to request that I may not
be mistaken, as, when most disposed to be impartial,
one is apt to be set down as a partisan, because of the
freedom with which a neutral and indifferent person
can always speak. Ido not say that the house of
Lowther derives no benefit from this Corporation
in a contested election; but that I think what it re-
ceives is very far beneath what it might expect from
a more spirited and capable set. Moreover, from
the information I have obtained, it seems question-
able to me whether the direct service which they
afford upon these occasions be not counterbalanced
by the indirect and unintentional disservice which
they do their Noble Patron by their unpopular
bearing towards the most respectable part of the in-
habitants, and, indeed, in their general conduct,
though more especially in neglecting to propitiate
the most respectable, intelligent, and influential
classes of the community. But this, I fear, is, un-
happily, not a word to the wise. It will, however,
explain the situation of parties in this place better,
as I flatter myself, than any thing which has been
said by the writers and orators of either party in the
town ; for the freemen, as I am informed, do not
amount to a thousand, as assumed by the Carlisle
Journal; but 800 would be nearer the mark; and
is it to be believed that of this number a Corpora-
tion, which ought to be affluent, and a family which
ought to be powerful, the one holding the patronage
of the city, the other that of the county or counties
of Cumberland and 'Westmoreland, could not secure
a majority without, the slightest difficulty, if it were
not for some very great mismanagement on their
part ?
The Yellows had this morning taken up the
White Hart, in English-street, as their place of ren-
dezvous, in consequence Iff having been driven out
of the King's Head. Here they displayed their
only remaining flag. The polling commenced
exactly at nine o'clock. The Blues brought up the
first tally. The Yellows had also a tally in readiness,
and their music was out; but they carried no colour

in the beginning of the day. In the forenoon the
Blues had the advantage; but, about noon', the Yel-
lows preserved the lead; and, at half-past one, the
following was the

STATE OF THE POLL.
For Lushington 862
Lawson S 2

Majority for Lushington... 39
Mr. LAWSON then stepped forward, and said—
" Gentlemen, at this period of the contest, I have a
statement to make, which I shall do without any
feeling of mortification,
.and as I before told you I
should do, without envying my opponent whatever
feelings of triumph he may be disposed to indulge.
He has at this moment a majority of 39, after 685
votes have been polledi and, notwithstanding I have
tn
ho
ew
Blues, exhibited
and fnroacthhcaaems
completelyifieorsfn shamefully
i beat
bac
One
ant
still many promised votes on which I could rely, I
must admit that at this moment I do not appear to
have the means of withstanding the influence of
your Corporation and of the powerful family with
which it is allied. But, Gentlemen, however much
I could have desired the success of your cause upon
this occasion, I do assure you that I would rather
remain for ever in retirement, than that I should
,thpeomureadwadyowirnomupboe!
have succeeded by the means to which my opponent
has resorted."—(Cheers.)
Mr. Lawson here pulled out the letter which be
intended to have read on Tuesday, when a large
body of Yellows, armed with bludgeons, which they
een.or
stet;
fore the Town-hall. Having surprised them un-
awares, few of the latter attempted any defence, ex-
cept some Irishmen, who are seldom without their
two
tilese
spponorgsfeullpoownssluveehreßlues,
after being thrown upon their backs, were still cud-
gelled unmercifully, and the principal part of the
town was in the utmost confusion.
Col. LUSIIINGTON availed himself of a period,
while the rioters were amusing themselves with de-
molishing the Coffee-house windows, to say, that he
had heard much, at the commencement of this con-
test, resppcting the tyrannical and domineering in.:
iluence of the Lowther family; " but, Gentlemen,
he continued, " all lyho know the noble heir of that
family will say, that a more amiable, mild, and
liberal individual no where existed."— (An indivi-
dual on the Blue side of the steps said, " You don't_
know him so well as we do, Colonel.")—The
Colonel proceeded to say, that h should
trattenaos
inin-
dependently as any man breathing; and
itloonboeurt.e,m, temperate. I have
will be to for the mte,
no opportunity of
rests of Carlisle, and I will lose
intemperance
in, a great deal of intemperance
doing so. I have see
the successfulcandidate, I(
in this town , and, as
intluienidtc.e,
,a,nmd
ynofirpsltacdeutoyr einolumenty,odstheotubled b_miaiis.itahriya
The NIA.Yon came forward and declared the
Colonel duly elected.
The Riot Act has' been read, and
called out.
onlylial t 0
00
thank
konyomuyfoartetnhdiss

)11.1.t-PA ST FOUR.
The Colonel has just been chaired,

Lord GRANVILLE, the English Ambassador
to the Court of France, has subscribed to defray the et-
pence of the medal proposed to be struck at Paris, in com-
pliment to the late Mr. CiroiratG,
EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, Esq. (tho
reputed author of Falkland), has taken Woodcot flall, in
Oxfordshire, for a term of years. This beautiful seat is
remailsable for its getbrfite4 91

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The changes that were to take place in the
internal arrangement of the Ministry were not
many or important. Indeed, how could they
be, when it was intended by his Majesty to re-
tain the existing body in power—Mr. Canning,
though the chief, and an able member, being
but one ? It will be seen by the Court Circu-
lar, that the arrangement announced in the
Times of Wednesday was yesterday completed,
as far as present circumstances permit. Of course
no answer could as yet have been received from
Mr. Huskisson, had lie acquiesced in accepting
the new honours 'which the changes consequent
on the death of his friend must necessarily intro-
duce into the Cabinet.—Times.
Our City article touches on A variety of topics
connected with the domestic relations of the
country. The affair, however, of foreign ex-.
changes is the most interesting, and of greatest
importance. We must ever regret that the.
Bank has the power of regulating the circulating
medium of the country ; but having it, we know
to whom we are to look if mischief or perplexity
takes place. We have been painfully surprised
at the great amount of paper and specie (jointly
we acknowledge) in circulation. If the former
be inconsiderately suffered to increase, the latter
will vanish ; and then, on the first apprehension,
whether founded or unfounded, comes there
another crash. The approach, however, to that
crisis is more difficult now than it has hitherto
been, in consequence of the subduction of coun-
try small notes : gold must be retained for daily
use. Accordingly, it will be perceived that the
course of exchange advances against us by very
slow degrees. Au article from authority assures
us, that the large balance, stated to be due to his
_ _

Government, by the Mexican Finance Minister,
from the house of Barclay and Co., has been
greatly dimished by subsequent advances. " Taut
miens," we say. We cannot, however, help
observing, without exclusive reference to this
transaction, that foreign States borrowing money
from English merchants, or companies, have
been treated in a way which is not likely to re-
flect the greatest credit on the high-mindedness
of the monied interest of this country.—lbid.

The report of a trial—or of judicial proceed-
ings rather, which prevented a trial from taking
place—in the West Indies, will be found in an-
other page of this Journal. The scene was
Trinidad : the prosecution was undertaken by a
new description of officer, (an officer possibly
much wanted), called the " Protector of Slaves."
The offence was the unlawful flogging with a
cart-whip, of a female slave, an infant of eight
years of age. The party prosecuted was the
manager (not the owner) of an estate in the
island ; his name William LaMphier ; and he
was discharged upon a point of law, a majority
of the " Court for Criminal Prosecutions" de-
claring that some necessary formalities had not
been complied with. It is to be observed, that
the " Protector of Slaves" had already carried
his complaint on behalf of the injured slave be-
fore another tribunal,—namely, the " Judge of
Criminal Inquiry," who, after deliberation, an-
nounced, that the proper jurisdiction under the
Order in Council of 1824, was." the Court of
Criminal Prosecution." It appears, then,
that either fromthe fastidious delicacy of the
Judges, from some negligence in the attorney or
counsel for the prosecution, or some gross blun-
der in the framing of the Order in Council itself,
which was communicated by Lord Bathurst to
the conquered colony of Trinidad,—the " expe-
rimental colony," as Ministers called it,—an act
of illegal cruelty, perpetrated by a white man on a
slave, has escaped altogether unpunished. The tone
assumed by the Trinidad and Barbadoes Journals,
in speaking of the transaction, is this :—They
do not throw the least suspicion upon either
the prosecuting lawyers for mismanaging their
business, or on the Judges for a misconstruction,
whether wilful or otherwise, of the law ; nor do
they e'en blame the British Government for
having neglected so to concoct their Order in
Council as to render it effectual for the punish-
merit of offenders ; but they jump all at once to
the conclusion that the cause was well managed,
—that the successive judgments of the two tri-
bunals were correct,—that the Order in Council
was as well put together as any order upon such
a subject could have been ; but that the grand
vice and grievance of the whole affair was, Great
Britain presuming to legislate at all between the
West India proprietors and their slaves. " This,"
say they, " is an illustration of the practical re-
sults .of legislating in Downing-street for distant
portions of the British empire.", One paper as-
sures us, that if the people of Trinidad had been
let alone, they would " probably" long ago have
themselves applied some effectual remedy to the
evils complained of, Now, we have always heard
and are taught to believe, that the ground alleged
by Ministers for their interference in such mat-
ters, was the utter hopeless of any remedy pro-
ceeding from the West Indian authorities, inas-
much as they had always declared that no evils
existed for which any remedy was required.
However, the escape of the present culprit will
show, that either here or in the colonies some-
thing must be done, and done without hesitation,
for the safety of the female negroes.—lbid.

The whole of our recent accounts from Spain
and Portugal serve to prove what we have more
than once predicted would soon happen, that
our relations as to those countries have now be-
come
critical in the extreme ; and the uncer-
tainty under which we labour in regard to certain
circumstances, gives .a still greater character of
peril to the already existing difficulty. The ac-
counts which we are in the habit of receiving, it
is true, are various and confficting; but there
are facts which adn3it of no doubt or un-
ertainty,--namely, that the bigots of Spain are
supported by the Apostolicals of France ; that
the promises of Ferdinand are not to be relied
on ; and that the fi-e,e, Constitution granted by
the Emperor Pedro to his Portuguese subjects
is either not generally approved, or in unsuited
to the people of that degenerate country. There
was a period when the Portuguese were adven-
turous, commercial, brave ; but the glorious re-
collections of what they wore seem now alto-
getior faded from their memories. Priestcraft
and bigotry rule over the many blessing; which
their happy soil affords them ; and the mummery
of mistaken reiisi.,2n has obtained the ascendant
Over sober iDquiry and the results of reason. It
is certainly difficult to reason upon the state of
affairs in Portugal, fawn our having at present no
positive data ; but all our recent communica-
tions upon
the subject characterise - our in-
terference as unnecessary, illytirried, and
likely to end.,
—ger the repose of Europe in its
ultimate eonst.,
y•ttees. It is evident that the
Emperor Pedro must brave been influenced in
some quarter
.or another to grant his late Char-
ters. They never'-:coUld have emanati2d from
himself ;. his religion, his habita.of life, the doc-
trineswhich he was. educated-L • of the school*
- • •
must have all conspire o keep him the abso-

lute, rather than to make him the dispenser of
liberal institutions. That Spain should have in-
terfered with his Charter to the Portuguese, or
seduced his subjects from their allegiance, is not
to be tolerated ; nor could Spain have been
enabled to do the one or the other, if she were
not assisted by the treasury and the bayonets of
another Power. France, by fraud and. strata-
gem, obtained possession of the strong holds of
Spain ; her Cordon Sanitaire was soon con-
verted into an Army of Observation ; and it is
matter of question up to this moment, whether
the quiescent policy of England was not carried
too far in permitting it. France, Bourbon
France, should be grateful to England—France
owes us obligations which neither time nor
money can repay ; but if her Government
think that we shall so far extend our forbear-
ance as to allow them to retain possession of
the Spanish territory, they will find themselves
woefully mistaken. Our object evidently has
been to secure the blessings of that peace,
which we so dearly purchased, and to secure
it not only for ourselves, but for the other Eu-
ropean nations ; but, nevertheless, we cannot al-
low our ancient Ally to be torn asunder by the
intrigues and the money which France makes use •
of through the agency of the wretched Ferdinand.
If the Portuguese are unfit for the enjoyment of
liberty, we can only pity them ;—if they will be
slaves and hewers of wood, and drawers of water,
we must lament their degradation ; but the trea-
sure and the blood of England should not be ex-
pended upon so worthless a set of benighted
helots. England, from the commencement of
the invasion of Spain, should perhaps have as-
sumed a -tone of greater boldness and decision ;
however the policy she acted on was to remain
neutral ; and until the formal demand of Portu-
gal for assistance—our Government was satisfi ed
with diplomatic negociation. This was unsuc-
cessful—Spaiii dreaded the infectious principles
of civil or religious freedom, and Bourbon
France largely participated in her apprehensions.
Our interference had still one strong ground
of defence—the faith of treaty ; but whether we
should have precipitately yielded to the call of
Portugal, remains yet to be decided. If we were
to judge from the present appearances, we should
unquestionably decide it in the negative. The
late Premier assured us—that our assistance
would be received with gratitude and affection—
that Portugal would willingly defray the expellee
of any armament which we might forward to her
assistance ; but it is now matter of history—that
our troops were received with coolness—apathy
—distrust—dislike ; and that we have to pay
for their maintenance into the bargain. „or
would these disappointments weigh much "Itith
us, did we succeed in effecting our praise-
worthy object. Could we perceive a ray of hope
that our armed interference was likely to better
the condition of the Portuguese—to tage
Ferdinand (for his own sake) to the adoption of
honesty or fair-dealing—or • to induce France to
withdraw from a contest into which, contrary to
the faith of nations, she had entered—then, in-
deed, would we be satisfied with the wisdom
which dictated such a course of proceeding.
But the very reverse of all this has happened ;
what worse may yet come, time only can deve-
lope. Our situation in Portugal is any thing
but enviable ; arms without use ; men without
exertion ; money expended without profit to our
character or our dignity ; these are not the
means whereby England can reach that point of
elevation, to which the councils of a wise Ad-
ministration would have led her. By the last
Paris Papers -we perceive the French Govern-
ment is feeling the pulse of England, as to the
occupation of the States of Barbary. Their
ambition may prompt them to seek so desirable
an acquisition ; but the shallow device of
destroying barbarians and pirates, with a view
to replace them by French Christians, will not
answer. England cannot, and will not permit
it.—Morning Post.

From various circumstances which have come
under our notice of late, we are inclined to think
that religious cant, generally the besetting sin of
the people of this country, is somewhat on the
decline. The higher ranks were so often told
that the French Revolution was the fruit of irre-
ligion, that they deemed it incumbent on them
to encourage, as much as they could, an appear-
ance of religion. The rich in every country are
naturally indisposed to asceticism, and there was
no intention on the part of those of this to allow
their religious zeal to interfere at all with their
lax practices. But they used to say to each
other, " Religion is a very good sort of thing
for the lower orders ; and though there is no
necessity for our curtailing our vicious enjoy-
ments, we ought to make the sacrifice of an
hour or two's attendance, occasionally, at Bible
Meetings, and appear to take
.an interest in such
things, in order to encourage religion among the
vulgar." The lower orders, and indeed all who
had to make 'their way in the world, and to
whom the good opinion of the rich and power-
ful is every thing, took the hint ; and whether
they felt any religious zeal or not, were careful
to make a show of it. We do not say that
many of the higher ranks were nut sincerely re-
ligious, but merely that there was a sort of
understanding among them, whether religious
or not, to countenance and encourage religion
from the motives alluded to. The sort of
feeling among them is happily characterised by Mr.
Galt, in one of his novels, where a profligate
West Indian, during the prevalence of alarm
on account of Jacobinism, sends for a Clergy-
man when he finds himself dying, and observes
to him " it, Doctor, in these times it is
the duty of every loyal man to die a Christian."
Religion is so natural to man, and the lower or-
ders in particular are so much disposed of
themselves to its exercise, that we believe the
higher ranks have very little cause to fear either
its extinction or diminution. That their encou-
ragement increased the amount of real religion,
we much' doubt ; but that it increased in an ex-
traordinary degree religious cant and hypocrisy,
is certain. There was a sort of general under-
standing that all should play at a game of simu-
lation. That our thieves and rogues of every de-
scription should not be the poorest proficients in
this game, was • to be expected. They soon
perceived, as well as their neighbours, the benefit
derivable from hypocrisy; and, as soon as they
found themselves within the four walls of a
prison, were seized with an ungovernable desire
of bible-reading. We have already noticed the
observation of Mr. Orridge, of Bury, in his Evi-
denpe before the Parliamentary Committee, that
lirpocrisy goes to a great extent in prisons ;"
that ‘4 the worst prisoners are :generally the best
behaved,"--that is, we suppose, affect the greatest
contrition—and " that a complete scoundrel con-
cea)s himself." Mr. Cunningham would not have
detected the motives of the pious men on board
hisship so soon, but for the hint of the York-
shire man, that the hostility of the rest of the
prisoners to. them arose from their resenting the
practising a deception on the Doctor, for the

sake of preferences and advantages gained at
their expence. It is admirably observed by
Bishop_Patrick—" You must consider how fair
an occasion men have to be dishonest, when.
others rely so much on their credit that .they
will thank them even when they deceive them,
and think they have used them very kindly be-
cause they say so, when they have dealt very
hardly with them. This makes many dress
themselves up religiously, because it is a more
cleanly way of catching the prey when the wolf
puts on the sheep's skin. He may devour a
silly lamb in a corner, and wipe his mouth, and
none can say that he bath done any harm. The
well-minded people flock very innocently and
simply to a man who is famed for piety ; and
now, if be be a beast of piey, there is no such
opportunity as this to devour and raven, because
lie is taken for one of the sheep of Christ." If
pretending piety be favourable to the practising
deception, a rogue must be a greater simpleton
than rogues generally are, to appear impious.
The difference, however, between correct con-
duct and hypocritical pretences is pretty clearly
shown in the rapid increase of our, criminals.
In the course of a few years, crime has multi-
plied tenfold, while such an appearance of piety
prevails in our prisons, that if St. Bernard were
to rise from the dead, he would take one of
our Correction-houses for a well-regulated monas-
tery of his order. The higher ranks have begun
at length to be convinced of the folly of holding
out premiums for the encouragement of hypo-
crisy, and to let things take their natural course.
Hence the freedom with which they now venture
at meetings of Magistrates, and in Committees
of the House of Commons, to inquire into what
would have been deemed only a 'few years'ago a
very ticklish subject. The foul attempt made in
an Evening Paper to fasten Atheism on Mr.
Canning, because in his last agonies no Minister
of religion was present, has excited very general
abhorrence throughout the country. The attempt
failed, however, merely because of its having been
too late. Many years have not elapsed since e
similar appeal to the most disgusting hypocrisy
would have been in all probability but too suc-
cessful. But, thank God, we are not so far gorse
as we were—that the better sort of people are
fairly nauseated with a cant with which we have
been surfeited—and that common sense dare ven-
ture to raise her voice a little. The Papers
throughout the country, organs of the general
feeling, all express themselves in the same indig-
nant language ; and as those who have reeeived
the reproof are wise in their generation, we trust
the lesson will not be• lost on them. They
would as readily have accused Mr. Canning of
religion as Atheism, if an accusation of religion
would have been injurious to him.—Morning
Chronicle.

It is worth observing that no public solemnity
takes place in this country which does not fur-
nish matter of complaint on the ground of mis-
management and violation of decorum. The
obsequies of the lamented Duke of York afforded
an instance of this reproach upon the national
character, which will not soon be forgotten. The
scenes which occurred at the lying in state excited
tfie astonishment of foreigners, and were quite
at variance with the sympathy so universally felt
for the illustrious deceased. On that occasion
the Deputy of the Lord Chamberlain, who took
an active part in the arrangements, attracted to
himself a good deal of the public indignation—
and certainly never was there any thing of the
sort more wretchedly misconducted. It seern2a
to be presided over from the - beginning- to-the'
end by the evil genius of confusion. The public
wishing, as they did, to show every possible tes-
timony of their sincere regret for the memory
of a Prince, whose amiable disposition and
popular address d conciliated all classes, were
proportionably irritated at finding that it was in
the power of some conceited and blundering indi-
vidual to turn the scene of decent sorrow into
one of tumult and disorder—consequently great
were the public chagrin and disappointment.
We did hope that the exposure made by
the Press on that occasion would have
worked some good—that it would have pre-
vented such solemnities from being, for the fu-
ture, placed under the controul of persons who
have neither the good feeling nor good taste to
consult for the public feeling, in preference to
making officious and insolent displays of their
own brief authority. But the funeral of Mr.
Canning proves that not even the decencies of
the grave and of religion, are yet exempt from
the outrages of those underlings in office, who
interfere with every thing of this kind only to
mar it. The confusion which such persons
created in the Abbey ought to be inquired into
and punished, to prevent a recurrence of such
disgraceful conduct at a future time. It was,
perhaps, from an apprehension of such interfer-
ence that so great pains were taken to render the
-funeral of Mr. Canning as private as that of an
individual who died in so high a station, and in
.possession of so much celebrity, could possibly
be ; but why should not a proper and peremp-
tory authority be exercised to prevent such offi-
cial vandals fro n disturbing those rites :which to
outrage, in the case of the humblest individual,
excites indignation and disgust? Why should
not some officer, whose rank and qualifications
would excite deference, and be a guarantee for
the decorous performance of his duty, have the
management of such things ? The funeral cere-
monies of the people of Otaheite and New Zea-
land are conducted with as much decency as
their religious notions will admit—why should
England be disgraced by scenes at which the
heart of a barbarian would revolt ?-111orning
Herald.

narrated yesterday.
We have said that we should be happy of the
to see
gsor
erna et
mina monument
fue
irieecrtael d
weto memory
We cannot for a moment doubt of the wish, al-
most universally entertained, to offer this, the
last, honour to one of the greatest, wisest, and
best of public servants. The circumstance of
Mr. Canning's having raised himself to the proud
station which he occupied at his death, by his
talents alone, gives him a double claim on the
sympathies of his countrymen, who, in honouring
the deceased, honour an example which none
but a free people can hope to witness. Had the
late Minister sprung Trom the loins of the Con-
queror, there would have been reason to fear
that, with the great mass of mankind, the respect
paid to his remains might have been attributed
rather to his ancestry than to himself, and the
lesson it inculcated have been deprived of half its
force. He who wanders through Westminster
Abbey, and surveys the tombs erected there,
will find many whose existence gives him but
small encouragement to run the course of high
and virtuous ambition. Were all of them titled,
he would turn from the show with disappoint-
ment. But when he sees monuments to genius
undecked with either honours or high birth—
when he sees the ashes of those whom no adven-
titious claims brought into notice, whose patent
to distinction was the possession of God's

highest gift alone (an enlightened and enlarged
understanding steadily and virtuously exercised)
—he will depart with every motive to ho-
nourable action, and every inducement to in-
tellectual exertion, increased and strengthened.—
There is another cause why the friends ofthe en-
lightened system of Mr. Canning, as well as
those whom circumstances brought more imme-
diately withiii the sphere of his personal influ-
ence, should be forward to mark, in the most
decided manner, their admiration of his conduct.
They ought to do so to show to the enemies of
that great man how poor and pitiful their num-
bers are. We would have the admirers of sound
principle and liberal policy, to come from among
the crew of revilers against departed greatness,
and leave them, like Corah, and his companions,
to sink into the earth from which they sprung.
We were happy to find from a correspondent,
whose letter appeared on Thursday, that the sug-
gestion, which we take credit to ourselves for
having first thrown out, was likely to be acted
upon. Such a requisition as our correspondent
alluded to requires but one man of honour and
credit to commence it—it will move on without
assistance. We are sure that hundreds in this
great city would feel pride in setting their names
to such a document, and that not even the
highest subject in the, land, if properly invoked,
would scruple to preside at a meeting summoned
for so praiseworthy and honourable a purpose.
One thing only, we would impress on those to
whom such a requisition may be presented._
Let them recollect that time hurries on with re-
sistless foot—that new feelings will claim their
share of public attention—that old feelings,
though not forgotten, will lose their present in-
tensity—that where delay has once interposed,
it will always furnish an excuse for delaying
somewhat longer, until that object may be irre-
coverable by any exertion, which the slightest
would, in the beginning, have kept from ever
being put in hazard.—New Times.