The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-02 00:00:00

GRIMSBY, Nov. 28.

IThe effects of the late storm here have been tre-
mendous. It commenced on Sunday evening, and
continued with increasing violence, accompanied with
rain, snow, and hail, for three days and three
nights. As the gale blew from the east, the navi-
gation of the open sea on the coast was particularly
hazardous; and to escape the dangers of a lee-shore
the colliers and other vessels within reach of the
Humber mouth, sought for safe anchorage in the
Hawk and Grimsby Roads; and on Monday morn-
ing three or four hundred vessels appeared in the
Humber like a thick grove of trees, despoiled of their
leaves by the frosts of winter. The number increased
during the prevalence of the storm, which did not
cease till Wednesday night or Thursday morning.—
In this situation a strong cable and a sea-worthy ship
promised to weather out the storm ; but still, pos-
sessed of all these advantages, danger was appre-
hended evert by the stoutest and most experienced
mariner. if a vessel broke away from its anchors,
the ponderous machine, at the mercy of the furious
elements, was not only itself subjected to the immi-
nent hazard of shipwreck, but threatened destruction
to all within its focus; and accidents happened on
the present occasion which were attended with the
loss, not only of property but also of human life.—
In such terrible cases, facts are difficult to meet with,
for common report accumulates as it flies with much
greater rapidity than a snow-ball in a thaw, until from
a pigmy it becomes a monster; .and the tales which
were circulated in Grimsby on Thursday of t wo vessels
having been wrecked at Tetaey
_and all hands
perished; and of fifteen or sixteen bodies having
been cast ashore at Cleethorpes, and many others
at Great Coates, were too replete with terror to be
literally true, and were at once rejected by the
sensible part of the community. Another day
brought more accurate intelligence, and the extent
of the calamity appears to be this. Several ves-
sels broke away in the violence of the gale, and,
with the loss of anchors and cables, were driven
on shore at Grimsby; but they lie " high and
ary" on the soft mud, and are not likely to sustain
any further injury. A brig named the Shallot or
Charlotte, of Newcastle, Mason master, laden
with coals, for Gibraltar, struck on that dangerous
shoal at the mouth of the Humber called the
" Stony Milks," and went down immediately.
There were fourteen hands on board, and when the
vessel was sinking, they took to their boats, hoping
to save themselves by boarding some of the numerous
fleet which were lying at anchor in the river. One
of these boats, containing the captain and six of the
crew, swamped, as is supposed, and went to the
bottom ; the other was more successful, and two
out of the seven mariners on board were fortunate
enough to seize hold of the ropes which were
thrown out for their preservation from another brig,
but the remainder, it is feared, were lost amidst the
darkness and the storm. Two of the bodies have
been thrown up at Great Coates; the rest have
not been heard of, but an indistinct rumour is
afloat that some lives have been saved by the Spurn
Life Boat.—Boston Gazette.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS FOR. VIE PARSENT WEEK.

The York and Ainsty Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at
Skelton ; and Saturday, at Acaster Mill—at Half-past Ter.
The Sinnington Fox Hounds, on Friday, at Hutton
Bank Top—at Nine.
The Cleveland Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Kilton—
at Ten.
The Hurworth Fox Hounds, on Friday, at Neasham—
at Ten.
The Doxford Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Hawkhill
—at Ten.
The Northumberland Fox. Hounds, on Friday, at Park-
house—at Ten.
York City. Harriers, on Friday, near Wigginton Bar—
at Half-past Ten.
The Haydon Bounds, ou Saturday, at West Dipton-
-at Nine.

The Morpeth Harriers, on Thursday, at Whalton Vi
lage—at Ten.

The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Stan-
dean ; and Saturday, at Chailey South Common—at a
Quarter to Eleven.
The Vine-Hounds, on Thursday, at Worting Wood;
and Saturday, at Wherwell Wood—at Ten.
The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at the Bell,
Godstone ; and Saturday, at Crown Ash-hill—at Half-
past Ten.
Mr. Farquharson's Hound, on Thursday, at Dogberry
Turnpike-gate—at Ten.
Captain Freeman's Harriers, on Tuesday, at the Plough,
in Longcot- field ; Thursday, at Appleford Common ; and
Saturday, at Witney Park—at Eleven.
Mr. Berkeley's Hounds, en Tuesday, at Kempston
Wood ; Thursday, at Melehbourn-house ; and Saturday,
at the Kennel—at Half-past Ten.
Mr. Drake's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stratton Audleys
Thursday, at Charndon-common ; and Saturday, at Rycote
Kennel---at Half-past Ten.
The New Forest Mounds, on Wednesday, at Rhinefield ;
Thursday, at Embley ; and Saturday, at Levitt's-gate—at
Half-past Ten.
.Mr. A. Smith's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Southgrove ;
Thursday,. at Woodhouse ; and Friday, at Shoddesden-
gate—at Eleven.
Sir John Cope's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Bramshill ;

Friday, at Hartley Row-turnpike ; and Saturday, at New
Inn, Heckfield—at Half-put Ten.
Mr. Wicksted's Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at Black-
brook ; and Friday, at Heleigh Castle—at Half-past Ten.
The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox Hounds, on Wednesday,
at Middleton ; Friday, at Burton Park ; and Saturday, at
Langton Lodge-gate—at Eleven.
The Lambton Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Coxlme ;
Thursday, at Bradbury-bridge; and Saturday, at Long
Newton—at Eleven.

The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Barrington•
bridge; and Thursday, at Five Hills, Therfield—at
past Ten.

- The Doddington Harriers, on Tuesday, at Norwood
Farm ; and Friday, at Orton's Thorns.
The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed-
nesday, at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at
Half-past Ten.

The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket-
Hill ; Wednesday, at Asheonibe, the alternate Wednesday
at the Kennel ; and Friday, at Telsedmbe Tye--at Half-
past fen.

- The Quorn Hounds, on Monday, at Rolleston; Tues-
day, at Bunney Park ; Wednesday, at Sc raptoft ; Thurs-
day, at Brookesby-gate ; and Friday, at Oakley Wood—at
Half-past Ten.
Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Spittal ;
Tuesday, at Blankney ; Wednesday, at Noah Elkington ;
Thursday, at Tetford and Kettlethorpe ; and Saturday, at
Clay Bridges and Skellingthorpe Village—at Eleven.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Swinhop-
house ; Wednesday, at Somerby-house ; Friday, at Hain ton-
house, and Saturday, at Roxton Wood—at Eleven.
The Cheshire Hounds, en Monday, at Abbey Arms ;
and Wednesday, at Darnhall ; Thursday, at Dalton ; and
Saturday, at Tatton—at Half-past Ten.
The H. H., on Tuesday, at Brookwood Park; Thurs-
day, at Rotherfield Park; and Saturday, at Bighton Cot-
tage—at Ten.

The Harnbledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Broadhalf-
penny Down ; and Friday, at Winter's Hill Common.--at
Half-past Ten.
Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on' Tuesday, at Wondco,t green ;
and Thursday, at Dudinaston—at Half,past Ten.
The Sanderstead Harriers, on Wednesday, at Hamsey-
green ; and Saturday, At Gibbet green—at Ten.
The Essex and Suffolk Border Hounds, on Monday, at
Bentley-hall; Wednesday, at Wilton;and Pridry, at
Rivers-hall—at Half-past Ten.
The Conoek Harriers, on Tuesday, at Shepherd's Shore;
and Friday, at Imber Furze—at Eleven.
The Craven Hounds, on Monday, at Donnington Castle;
Wednesday, at Clinch Common ; Friday, at the flare and
Hounds, Lambourne; and Saturday, at Blind 11,,Itan's-gate
—at Half-past Ten.
The Cadbury Harriers, on Monday, at Creech-Lill; and
Thursday, at Green Dawn.
The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tin aday, at Widths-
ley ; and Friday, at Goose-hill—at Half-pact Ten.
The Cambridgeshire Hounds, on Monday, at Caxton
Gibbet ; Tuesday, at Warden Village ; and Friday, at
Gaily half--past Ten.
The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Marl.
y
Church ; Wednesday, at the Crown, Chesterford 4t2 *a,
turday, at Capons—at Half-past Ten,
The Badsworth Fox HowiAla, on Monday, at Ack-
worth Meor Top ; Tuesday, at traddlesey-bridge; Thurs-
day, at Barnstrale Tull-bar ; and Saturday, at volt",
Half-peat Teo.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A letter of great length has been insetted in
the last number of the Essex Herald, by Mr.
Western, the Member for the County. Its sub-
ject is the present state of the country, in its
agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing in-
terests—the circulation of course, and the means
of alleviating the difficulties. It is undoubted
that an address upon these important subjects
from Mr. Western, deserves every attention ; and
though we are unable to insert the whole, we
have made copious extracts from the passages of
his production which we esteem the most im-
portant. The cause of the evils, with , Mr.
Western, is the return to cash-payments, and the
removal of them would be a return to a more
perfect paper currency. The reasoning of every
writer upon this subject is analytical ; he exa-
mines all the apparent causes, shows that it is
not this or that, and then assumes the remain-
ing one as the most probable. And certainly, of
all the causes actually alleged, the change in the
currency is the least improbable ; but is it
clear that the catalogue is complete,—is
it certain that some other cause or causes
hitherto undiscovered, may not operate the mis-
chief ? In any case, we think—nay, we are
sure—the remedy recommended by Mr. Western
will not be applied, and therefore it would be
cruel to instil false hopes. There will be no re-
peal of Peel's Bill. It is not thought of. We
are advanced too far in the present regime to
recede. Besides, was it no danger that we es-
caped by the recall of the small notes ? The
Bank of England might have become bankrupt
any day, unless it were protected against the
payment of its own petty paper; and private
banks were breaking every day. We again say,
that a return to the small note system is impos-
sible ! We wish this pointto be observed. Small
notes would not be now as they were before, should
they be again called into existence. If, under an
avowal, or a tacit acknowledgment, that the pre-
sent experiment of recurring to cash payment
could not be carried into effect, the Bank were
to attempt a fresh issue of small notes, no one
would take them ! We would not give one
guinea for a score of them. The most imbecile
writer, and the man of the most worthless cha-
racter, would be able to decry them in a week.
Cobbett was continually hammering, in his stu-
pid way, at the old system of small notes, the
rags and the rookery, and other trash, but he
failed ; they were too hard for his impudent
shallow slang ; but should they be resumed now,
even that poor vain dotard would be able to pre-
vent their circulation. Without Cobbett, or
without any one else to oppose them, they would
not be. received ;* and there is not the least idea
of offering them. Nulla retrorsum vesti2la.
With every respect for Mr. Western, we think
he has overrated, not the present but the last
difficulties, for unquestionably our afilirs are
improving ; and here we will add,—what we
omitted to mention before, though the fact was
for an instant in our minds,—there were no
small notes in France, and consequenly none
to recall; and yet France has had to sus-
tain precisely the same distress with us,
and (what is more) contemporaneously also
with us. Her agricultural interest has been
and is, sunk quite as much as ours ; her
manufactures and commerce lave been suf-
fering. Her subjects have been unable to pay
the taxes, and the interest of the public debt ;
which besides the enormous contributions to the
Allies, is more than a quarter as large as ours,
out of a much less circulation : and all this has
happened while the exchange was against us, and
France was draining our specie, not we her's !
However, difficulties we certainly have sustained,
and are sustaining still, though in a less degree ;
and these are so many motives for economy, not
for dishonesty and a breach of the public faith.
We do not see why, in the general sufferings of
the labouring poor, soldiers who are taken out
of that class should continue to receive the war
pay, all the articles of life being also much
cheaper. The private ought to be reduced to
Bd. or at the most 10d. a day. With the offi-
cers who have bought their commissions, an
equitable arrangement might be more difficult,
But certainly a general effort to reduce prices
ought to be made ; and the consequence will be
an increased ability to pay the interest, and re-
duce the principal, of the public debt.—Times.
In the Chronicle of Saturday last appeared a
paragraph, in the shape of an account of the
proceedings at the Essex Adjourned Sessions
for the delivery of the gaols, in which that meas
sure is spoken of in terms of disapprobation.
As we have all along advocated the speedy de-
livery of gaols, on grounds of justice, humanity,
and good policy, it may well be supposed that
the observations in question were inadvertently
inserted. Referring to this paragraph, the Essex
Herald of yesterday observes :
" The writer is evidently dissatisfied with the new
measure, but he has not confined himself to facts in
relation to the Jurors; and the language of the Worthy
Chairman, Mr. Branston, in discharging the Grand
Jury, will be sufficient to convict him. With regard to
his assertion that the prisoners committed petty bt.
fences, with which they stood charged, for ther;urpose
of throwing themselves into prison to be ir'aintained at
the expence of the county in idleness, we would ask
what measure more judicious coultt have been taken
to defeat the object of the offenders, than that of at:
early trial for the punishment of the guilty, and dis-
charge of the unconvicted from custody ?—thus
chuilgtyheisnt obtssnin Cr
earlier relieving the county from the burthen of the
Juries,
graph,
aer
eahss well%
thatve aarse ofa theres tsh:lee,d,tah
orn.s :
difficulty
With respect to the assertion in the para•
that there was no difficulty in obt •
Grand or Petty Juries, and that Palling either
°se capacities are reason to believe that the p'siu •
cipa persons
called upon to serve in tf:,
satis-
fied that the ineasure which induced the Magi-
strates of Essex to adopt the measure are quite
just and sticintly strong to outweigh any dif-
ficulties, that can by possibility be urged against
it. The number of Jurymen in Essex has been
raise from 240 Q to 5000, in consequence of the
alteration of the qualification first introduced
into Jr,l Western's Bill, afterwards adopted by
Mr. Peel in his Jury Bill--.421 alteration of the
law which has had the Obct of making available
men both more iisttelligent for the discharge of
the duties,, and more able to support the ex-.
pence of, attendance. With respect to the con-
venience or ineonveniqnce caused by an ad-
journed Sessions, the case is simply this_ the
adjourned Sessions of course calls Jurors more
frequently from their homes; hot then, on the ot -ter
hand, the long detention caused by
the other sys-
tem is avoided; itwouvenien full cey equal to the
other, and the td\oor is more equally divided.
But When We consider the
immense advantages
to the communit
y of a speedy trial after com-
mitment—to say h •
not ing of the sacred duty to
the innocent t 1'
Q wye them with the least pos-
sible delay fr •
om a prison—the last considera-
tion which ought to weigh with
Magistrates
chereia'iustile:reirtyY°
the trifling inconvenience to which those who

atiminis:er justice may be exposed. We all
know that gaols are anything but schools of mo-
rality, and that the shorter the confinement in
them the less danger there is of the corruption
of the prisoner. The interest of the public,
justice to prisoners, imperatively demand that
trials should be proceeded in with the least pos-
sible delay after commitment. This is the para-
mount consideration ; the means is but a se-
condary one. We should be sorry to think that
the statement in the Chronicle- afforded the
least encouragement to those who might feel
not unwilling to prefer their own ease to
the public good. We trust that the example
set by the Essex Magistrates, whose conduct
we have more than once deemed it our duty to
hold up as a pattern to those of other counties,
will be generally followed. To show the import-
ance of the measure, we have only to state sim-
ply what has taken place in Essex. The first
adjournment was made at the Spring Assizes,
and took place in June. On that occasion the
delivery occupied two very long days, beginning
at an early hour. Mr. Western, who presided,
did not leave the Court till past seven o'clock.
On the 25th November the Magistrates sat in
two Courts with two Juries, and got through the
business in one day. We have only to add our
wish that the Essex Magistrates may pursue the
course on which they have entered, and that they
may have many imitators. By way of atonement
for our offence towards the Essex Magistrates,
we quote the following forcible observations from
Mr. Bentham's recent publication, " Petition
for Justice ;"
In penal cases, and in particular in those most
highly penal, not a day in the year but Courts are
open to receive complaint; and complaint made,
men complained against, guilty and innocent toge-
ther, are put into jail. How so ? Because, as
above observed, Judges have bodies, Judges have
gouts, Judges have lives: so also, as well as other
men, have all those who, in point of interest, are in
any particular way connected with them : bodies,
goods, and lives, which, but for some such protec-
tion, might be wounded, carried off, or destroyed.
" When in jail, there they are, guilty and inno-
cent together, from two days to one hundred and
eighty-two, as cl ance pleases. I-Ic wso ? Because
to Judges, and those who are in league with Judges,
whether in this case a man is innocent or guilty,
stays in gaol two days or one hundred and eighty-
two days makes no difference; not to speak of
counties and cases in which the one hundred and
eighty-two days may be doubled.
" Oh yes : to Judges and Co. the time does
make a difference : for, from the difference between
the two days and the one hundred and eighty-two
days, come fees. Jail produces bailing, and bailing
produces fees. .•
" Contamination ! Contamination ! Between
uncompleted examination and definitive trial, whole
days, weeks, and months, are rolling on; contami-
nation thickening all the while.

• • • • • • • •
" What, if on being called in by a man with a
•tone in his bladder, a Surgeon, were to say to him,
lie there, and suffer while I am amusing myself;
four months hence, I may perhaps come and cut
you.' By Surgeons this is not said. No Surgeon
ha; a monopoly of surgery. Judges do say this.—
Judges, in small numbers, have among them the
monopoly of the commodity sold under the name of
Justice."—Morning Chronicle.

We regret to see the practice rather increasing
in our Courts of Equity of hearing cases in pri-
vate. We do not deny that there may occur
some few instances (but they must necessarily be
very few indeed) where the interests of parties
may require, and the interests of the public may
not be materially damnified, by such a course of
proceeding. We would refer, for instance, to
incipient proceedings in alleged cases of lunacy,
and those instances of matrimonial tiffs, and
other domestic misunderstandings, which may
be nipped in the bud by private interference,
which publicity perhaps would only fan into a
flame. But, on principle, we are opposed to the
system as one highly mischievous, if not uncon-
stitutional. We happily live, as the people of
this country have long lived, in times when judi-
cial favouritism and corruption are unknown.
At the same time, what has happened may hap-
pen again ; and we all know how readily prece-
dents furnished in a period of no danger are
quoted and perverted to the worst of purposes.
Besides, the practice, as far as we have been
able to follow its source and operations, seems
to originate more in good-natured compliance
witli the mere wish or convenience of counsel or
of parties, than of any necessity arising out of
each particular case. Our respect for the Courts
induces us to refrain from noticing any particular
instance. The greatest of modern Judges, Lord
Eldon, perhaps led the way in being somewhat
too accommodating in this respect. We seldom
hear of the most eminent of the present Equity
judges, Sir John Leach, permitting it. And
the less it is permitted in any Court, the more,
we are convinced, will the Court consult its
osvri dignity and utility, and the interests both
of individual suitors, and of the public at large.
—illo)n.inz Herald.
The question of the renewal of the East India
Company's Charter, which must soon engage
the attention of the Legislature, has already be-
come the subject of warm and active contro-
versy to jourulllists and pamphleteers ; and the
utmost pains are taken by the advocates of free
intercourse with India, to draw from the British
nation expressions of an opinion sufficiently de-
rided to fetter the discretion of Parliament, and
to soticipate or render useless that calm search-
ing act satisfactory investigation of the entire
oubject wl-tich Parliament alone is competent to
undertake. We lament these efforts, and en-
tertain a confident hope that they will prove un-
euezessful. Our confidence in their failure is
founded indeed upon the course pursued by the
advocates of unfettered commercial intercourse,
who, without any exception that has yet fallen
under our notice, confine their arguments to
that minute and insignificant fraction of
the subject which is immediately connected
with commerce ; as well as upon the sedate
sense and acute penetration of the nation, which
cannot fail, we think, to render it suspicious of
those who appeal exclusively on such a question
to mercantile feelings and interests, and inacces-
sible to reasonings which, overlooking the poli•
tieal effects that any alteration in the nature of
our connection with India is sure to produce,
rely altogether upon the equivocal or inappli-
cable testimony of Custom House returns and
Price Currents. It may be conceded to those
who argue against the Charter, that the trade
to India and China would_ be improved and ex-
tended by transferring it from a Joint Stock
Company to independent individuals, and yet
it is plain that we are as far from any decision as
to the wisdom or prudence of such a transfer
atter this concession as before. The mere
question of trade is of so little importance in
comparison with others which are inseparable
from the subject, that it seems scarcely worth
while to correct the exaggerations in re-
(yard to it in which the opponents of the
Charter ' habitually indulge. The actual
state of the Indian markets under the present

system, 'glutted with European goods far be-
yond the effective demand of an unchangeable
people ; the jealous character of the Chinese
Government, and the fixed habits of a nation
alien and hostile to commercial intercourse ; the
example of America, whose enterprising subjects
have cultivated to the utmost, and without im•
pediment or restraint on the part of their own
Government, the trade with China, and have
' bee❑ unable to make any thing of it ; all these
things weigh for nothing in the estimation of
those who desire to see the exclusive commercial
privileges of the East India Company surrendered
or abolished. To stimulate the cupidity of the
mercantile world, and array it in opposition to

the East India Charter, no statements are too
extravagant, no arguments too absurd. The un-
fettered enterprise of British merchants is to per-
form miracles. Under its talismanic influence the
millions of Hindostan, casting off at once their
prejudices and their poverty, are to acquire not
only a taste for European productions, but
the means of indulging it ; while the same pre-
dominant and irresistible charm is to conciliate
or subdue the jealous and hitherto inflexible dis-
position and policy of the Celestial Empire.
These exaggerations prove nothing unless it be
that those who employ them are aware that they
have got hold only of a little corner of the sub-
ject, and are accordingly desirous of magnifying
to the utmost their petty and insignificant pos-
session. The question with reference to which
every thing affecting India, or the East India
Company, must be decided is, " How shall
India henceforth be governed ?" As to any
hope of a great increase of the trade, without an
extensive colonization of India, sufficient to pro-
duce a general intermixture of European with
the Hindoo inhabitants, it is an extravagant and
ridiculous chimera, by which men in their sober
senses, and possessed of any tolerable degree of
information on the subject, can never for a single
moment be amused or misled. Here then is a
most important and difficult question for Par-
liament, involving no less than the security of
our Indian Empire, and the happiness and peace
of its countless millions of subjects, and one
upon which petitions proceeding from the com-
mercial and manufacturing towns of England,
and founded solely upon mercantile eagernesss,
cannot shed one ray of light. And when Par-
liament shall have settled what is to be the future
policy of the State with respect to the coloniza-
tion of India, the no less difficult question re-
mains—and this also is intimately connected
with the commercial privileges of the Company
—by what instruments is this mighty Empire
henceforth to be governed ? Is the Company
to - retain the onerous and awful charge of
sovereignty, stripped of the advantages which
have hitherto assisted them to sustain it ?
Will they consent to retain it upon such terms, or
can they upon these terms adequately fulfil its
duties ? To what extent for the purposes of go-
vernment have the territorial revenues of India
been hitherto aided by the Company's commerce?
Can this assistance be spared ? Or if, on the
other hand, the Government of the Indian
Empire should be exercised immediately by the
Ministers of the British Crown, how is the
Company to be compensated for the loss of a
splendid and boundless empire, the acquisition of
its policy, of its enterprise, of the dangers it has
incurred and the treasures it has expended ?
How again is the wholesome political jealousy of
the British Nation to be appeased, when such a
valuable and extensive patronage as the Go-
vernment of India necessarily implies is added
to that which already renders the influence of the
Crown equiponderant with that of the aristocrati-
cal and popular branches of the Constitution ?
These are questions, not one of which can be
excluded from any satisfactory or advantageous
discussion of the commercial monopoly of the
Company, and each of which, as a separate
question, greatly outweighs in importance any
conceivable question relating exclusively to com-
merce. Upon these complicated, difficult, and
most important questions we forbear to offer any
opinion. The information which is required to
elucidate them will be elicited during the Par-
liamentary discussions, in which the East India
Company, as well as its opponents, will have a
full and equal opportunity of stating and prov-
ing their case. And upon this information Par-
liament will, we doubt not, arrive at a practical
conclusion, combining in the highest attainable
degree all that is due to the happiness and welfare
of the inhabitants of India—to the claims which
the East India Company, the founders of an
immense empire, have acquired not upon the
justice merely, but upon the gratitude also:of Eng-
land—and to the commercial interest of the peo-
ple of this country. What we would impress
upon our countrymen is the conviction that these
objects must be pursued together, or none of
them can be pursued with any chance of success,
and the prudence and necessity of abstaining
from precipitate decision upon any one separate
branch of the subject, and under the guidance
of partial and defective information. The author
of a recent pamphlet entitled " A Review of the
Arguments and Allegations which have been
offered to Parliament against the Renewal of
the East India Company's Charter," after pre-
senting to the public much detailed and valuable
information on the commercial part of the sub-
ject, concludes with a forcible admonition against
precipitancy of judgment, of which we will-
ingly avail ourselves in support of our preced-
ing remarks :
" Nothing more is asked ; and it is not too much
to ask, on the part of the corporate body to whom
England owes almost entirely the splendid acquisi-
tion of its Indian territories,' that the question
which involves their existence, as well as the inte-
rests of Britain and Hindostan, should be decided
not by passion and party rancour, but after mature
inquiry and patient deliberation. Rash experimen-
talists' seeking their own individual ends, may un-
dervalue the consequences of precipitancy ; but
when reflecting men consider that the system which
is sought to be overturned has, by the solemn judg-
ment of a Parliamentary Committee, been com-
mended in strong terms, us showing an anxiety to
promote the confidence and conciliate the feelings of
the natives of India, by shielding every class under
the safeguard of equal law; when they recollect that
Mr. Pitt declared that experience had demonstrated,
in the case of the East India Company, the fallacy
of the theory that commercial bodies could not
govern empires; that Mr. Canning said of their ad-
ministration that it had disproved the common
adage, that little wisdom was required for governing
mankind; that Lord Castlereagh asserted that the
Company had raised and preserved an empire un-
precedented in the history of the world, and that
there never was a milder Government, nor one by
which the happiness of a people was more consult-
ed; tint Mr. Peel has spoken recently of India as
an empire which has been raised to the highest pitch
of honour and glory by conquest arid good govern-
ment, and where the fate of its inhabitants has been
so much advanced; they will surely pause. They
will bear in mind, too, that the late Lord Melville
(and no Statesman was ever better informed upon
Indian topics) has left upon record his opinion as
follows:
" The monopoly of the East India Company is
essentially requisite for the security of every impor-

tint interest connected with our Indian empire; and
so deeply am I impressed with the truth of that pro-
position; that I am prepared explicitly to deLlare
that, although the first formation of an East India
Company proceeded upon purely commercial con-
siderations, the magnitude and importance, to which
the East India Company has progressively advanced
is now so interwoven with the political interests of
the empire, as to create upon my mind a firm con-
viction that the maintenance of the monopoly of the
East India Company is even more important to the
political interests of the State than it is to the com-
mercial interests of the East India Company.' "
Morning Post.

We are glad to find from the Irish papers
that the Quixotic scheme of Mr. O'Connell, for
dissolving the Union between England and Ire-
land, has met with the fate which it so amply
deserved. It has been scouted as disadvan-
tageous, uncalled for, and injurious, by almost
all who fought with him in the cause of Eman-
cipation, and been approved by no respectable
name that we know of—or at least by no name
which ought to have any weight—but that of
one, whom we regret to see mentioned as an
adherent of a scheme, the main object of which
is to gratify the ambition of an individual—we
mean the venerable George Ensor, who is re-
spected by all classes and all parties—who has
done more for Ireland by his writings, than all the
O'Connells and Sheils and O'Gormans, et hoc
genus omne, which she has ever produced, and
whom of all men we should have least expected to
meet with hunting in such company. Some
strange delusion must have come over the apostle
of " National Education," when he enlisted in
the ranks of the Agitator to promote such a ridi-
culous project—to call it by no worse epithet
—and of which we trust lie will speedily recover.
The revenue of Ireland has never defrayed the
necessary expenses of her own Government—
both England and Scotland have been taxed to
maintain it ; and while it must be admitted by
all that she has driven a profitable trade with
both, we think it would be difficult to show
what peculiar advantage would accrue from a
dissolution of the Union, and the elevation of
Dan, as he is familiarly styled by his country-
men, to the regal dignity. We, at least, have
seen no argument of that nature, tholfroth we
readily allow that the independence of Ireland
might be an injury to England—the only thing,
perhaps, that is aimed at by those who are so
anxious to promote a dissolution of partnership.
—Morning Advertiser.