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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS_
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—Parliament assembles at a time when
there is no longer any doubt as to the distress which presses
with more or less severity on all the industrious classes, but
most severely on those who are employed in trade and manu-
factures, and when the question is not whether remedial mea.
sures are necessary, but whether it is not now too late to hope
from them the efficacy with which, at at, earlier period, they
might have been attended. Had the late Ministry been
allowed to give effect to their intentions, the people might
have been spared much suffering, anti many evils which can
no longer be remedied might have been avoided. But we
dwell not on the past ; we look anxiously towards the future.
In the Speech from the Throne, in the recent resignation of
the Duke of Buckingham, in the important statements of the
seconder of the Address in the House of Commons, and in the
speech of the Duke of Buckingham in the Lords, and his nomi-
nee, Mr. Escott, in the House of Commons, we perceive
grounds for entertaining the hope that Ministers -are
alive to the distresses of the country, and prepared
to propose measures equal to the emergency. A strong
wish was expressed in both Houses, that the question
of the Corn-laws should now be permanently settled. The
whole system of sliding scales and averages ought at once to be
superseded by a moderate fixed duty. It is impossible that
any sliding scale should work satisfactorily ; and it is of great
importance for the interests of agriculture, as well as trade,
that men should be able to understand their true position.
When the Legislature are engaged on the question, they ought
to settle it for good and all ; and certain we are that no settle-
ment can be permanent which will not allow our manufacturers
to carry on a commerce with the corn-growing countries of the
world. The present sliding-scale may no doubt be greatly im •
proved ; but even the best sliding-scale, with its system
of averages, must be a great impediment in the way
of trade, especially with distant countries. The speech
of Lord John Russel was calculated to raise him
if possible in the estimation of the country. He met the
announcement of Ministers with the utmost candour, and
appeared only anxious that the expectations of the nation
should not be disappointed, and that the measures of Minis-
ters should be as little objectionable as possible. He dwelt, no
doubt, with just pride, on the tribute paid by the present Min-
isters to their predecessors, in the measures which they have
announced. If Ministers are true to the nation, and prove
themselves faithfnl guardians of its interests, they may boldly
count on the support of their political opponents. We only
hope that all is equally safe in their own party. The Duke
of Buccleuch is a good substitute for the Duke of Buckingham.
Personally, he has a deeper stake in the country, anti the pros•
perity of agriculture cannot be indifferent to him. May we,
then, consider the Duke of Buccleuch a more correct represen-
tative of the landed interest than the Duke whom he has suc-
ceeded ? Surely it is time that the landowners should cease to
consider their prosperity possible while the industry of the
country is depressed.
POST.—We think it will be admitted that the Speech has
been so judiciously framed as to be likely to give satisfaction to
the great bulk of her Majesty's subjects. Every right-
thinking person must feel the propriety with which a mother,
as well as a Sovereign, takes the first great public opportunity
which was afforded her, of adverting, in terms of pious
thankfulness, to an event of such interest to the nation
as the birth of an heir to the Crown. Even the Oppo-
sition will not deny the graceful propriety of language with
which this subject is touched upon ; nor will they dispute
the good feeling which characterises the cordial allusion,
which immediately follows, to the friendly visit of the
King of Prussia. The allusions to foreign matters are in the
usual style, but of rather more than usual importance. It is
better to hear of the signing of treaties than of the progress
of disputes. We are glad to observe the plain language in
which the expected conventions with foreign countries, re-
lating to matters of trade, are spoken of. They are to be
founded on " the just principle of mutual advantage." This is
better than talking about principles of " liberality" or " re-
ciprocity," or any of that jargon which persons who con-
sider themselves political economists are so fond of put-
tine forward, instead of plain common sense. The
only sound and just principle of commercial treaties,
is that of mutual advantage—mutual advantage not
to be assumed as a deduction from a theory, but to be dis-
tinctly stipulated and particularised. The recommendations
to Parliament to consider the means of making the annual in-
come adequate to bear the public charges, and also to consider
the laws which affect the importation of corn and of other ar-
ticles, show that Ministers are determined to grapple with the
great questions which demand a legislative settlement. Why
was not such a paragraph as this in the Speech framed by the
Whig Ministers for the opening of Parliament last year ? In
point of principle it was equally demanded then as now. But
the late Ministers were afraid to grapple with great practical
questions. They were busy about smaller matters of ma-
nagement. They thought how they were to get through
the Session, and not how the great questions which con-
cerned the interest of the country might be adjusted.
They knew of the Corn-law agitation ; but, instead of an-
nouncing any determination to take the subject into considera-
tion, they spoke of a desire to confine themselves to such
improvements as would produce no party conflict or excitement.
Our present Ministers, having taken a few months to collect
information and to consider what the wants of the country re-
quire, come frankly and fairly forward to adjust these great
matters—the state of the finances, and the Corn-laws. In
the meantime, we think the intelligent public will agree with
us, that Ministers deserve credit for daring to do at once, what
is indeed but their duty, yet what their predecessors shuffled
off from year to year, because, although a duty, it was one
too difficult fur them to perform.
HER ALD.—The legacy of floating debt and inadequate re-
venue, which tLe Lord Melbourne bequeathed to his succes-
sors, will no longer be tolerated. The " evil which must re-
sult from a continued deficiency during peace," is at last
denounced from the Throne ; and what was the duty of the
Legislature three years ago is now recommended—considera-
tion of " the best means of averting it ;" but the discharge of
the Treasury liabilities, anti the equalisation of the revenue
with the expenditure, are not recommended to be accom-
plished by the sacrifice of any national interests. The amend-
ment of the law of bankruptcy, the improvement of the juris-
diction exercised by the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and
Wales, and the revision of the law which regulates the registra-
tion of electors of Members to serve in Parliament, are the minor
questions recommended, by the Royal Speech for the consideration
of Parliament. That these are subjects of deep and serious interest
no one will deny ; but the omission of far graver and more
important affairs--such as the settlement of the distressing
question which agitates the Church and people if Scotland, the
amendment of the English Poor-law, and the regulation of
factory labour—is as remarkable as it must be annoying to a
large section of the Conservatives. Not a sentence is contri-
buted to the Speech from the Colonial-office, though there is
not one colony the affairs of which do not demand the imme-
diate consideration of the Legislature. British India, too, on
which Sir Robert Peel so frequently during the sugar debates
dwelt with interest, is not named; and the accursed Affghan
war is left to the silent care of the Board of Control. Con-
servative though we be, we are not sufficiently Minis-
terial to notice these omissions without pain. By far
the most important recommendation to the conside-
ration of Parliament, however, delivered from the
Throne, is the " state of the laws which affect the
importation of cern, and other articles, the produce of foreign
countries." The deliberations of the Legislature on these
laws may, it is the Royal prayer, " tend in their result to im-
prove the national resources, and to encourage the industry and
promote the happiness of the people ;" and God grant that it
may be so. The simplification and modification of our tariff
of import duties, cautiously and circumspectly couducted, will
undoubtedly have such a tendency. To a thorough, if a gra-
dual, revision of those duties, there will be no serious opposi-
tion. But if such a revision is to include the throwing land
out of cultivation, the unnecessary augmentation of the dersg
dency of the nation for food on other countries, The en-
couragement of slave-grown tropical produce, or thi; excite,'
of Canadian timber from home consumption ;to its les' ""
country will reply in a voice of thunder—Nav etude the
Bill which will not throw land out of eee• s • To any Corn
Bill let
there cannot
exist any objection ; to perfect s'*--
able eonce,sion by the 2"-..icultu"racln a
interest be made;
t every
but t 0
reason-
anytute Bill which
• -sacrifice domestic agriculture, and substi-
the c":-n of Poland and Russia for Our own, the most de-
tel7,ined opposition must be given.
TIMES.—The new session of Parliament has made an
Auspicious commencement. The Speech from the Throne
(which justifies in every respect our anticipation of its pro-
bable contents) stands in advantageous contrast with the do-
cuments of the same class manufactured by the preceding
Government. Although purposely framed so as to give no
unnecessary opportunity for party cavils, it has none of the
vacillation, the evasion, the laborious efforts to say nothing,
by which those lecebratiens were generally characterised.
Brief as it is, it has condensed into a small space the in-
tineatiou of a variety of specific measures of Reform with
which the Ministry are prepared, and all of which the country
may be very sure they will not, only propose, but carry
through, in the present session of Parliament. The defi-
ciency is, the revenue is to be adequately and immediately
peeveled for. The Cern-laws are to be altered. The
law of bankruptcy is. to be amended. The jurisdiction of
the Ecclesiastical Courts is to be improved. The registration
system is to undergo revision. All this might have been talked
about and promised (as much of it was) by the Whigs ; but by
the Conservatives it will be done. And the principles on which
it will be done constitute a still more important distinction be-
tween the present and the late Alinistry. They are concisely,
but pointedly, expressed in the last paragraph of the Speech,
in which her Majesty declares her trust, that the deliberations
of the Legislature " will be directed by a comprehensive
relent for the interests and permanent welfare of all
(lasses of her subjects." The Ministerial announcements
by which the delivery of the Royal Speech was followed
up in the House of Commons will add to the satisfac-
tion with which the nation will receive the Speech itself.
The Whigs were unwilling, net only from a laud-
Able desire fur unanimity upon the present occasion, but also
(no doubt) from conscious weakness, to challenge any party
encounter yesterday. Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell,
as might have been expected, while they could find nothing to
blame in the Speech or the Address, were very free in their
taunts against Sir Robert Peel for having (as they affected to
believe) learned within the last four months to take a different
view of the situation of the country, and of the measures ex-
pedient to be adopted from that which he professed before
his accession to office. For this imputation we need scarcely
say there is no foundation whatever. Sir R. Peel has
never, either before taking office or o: nee, bound himself to
consider the existing system of Corn-laws irreproachable, or
to
that maietain them untoutle-,d- he never expressed a doubt
in providing 4.."5•r the wants of the revenue it might,
and probaill.-;
Would, be necessary to review the import
dutt., and the other restrictions upon commerce. The budget
of the late Ministry was not objected to by the Conservatives
because it dealt with these questions, but because it dealt with
them amiss. Lord J. Russell seems to suppose that a States-
man who opposes a particular measure, and afterwards legis-
lates (it matters not how differently) upon the same subject,
is guilty of political piracy. So puerile a fallacy needs no re-
futation. If, indeed, Sir Robert I'eel were to imitate Lord
Melbourne—if, after ten months' apprenticeship, he
were to discourse most eloquent music against the
sliding scale (the date of the Noble Lord's conversion
was about contemporaneous with the Nottingham election
in April last), then there might be some ground—though
we ourselves could scarcely regret it—for accusing him
.—Atieseiday morns of inconsistency. It is laughable enough to hear lips which in DEATH OFA CENTkNARIAN
1840 pronounced an alteration of the Corn-laws to be " the mug week,
Trinity Church, in Liver.
maddest idea which it ever entered into the imagination of Ann Linwood,
at the house
t off
a hereabnienpeltiliwa,
kienr,Blianekhferriarlgma tteh,
Dear,
man to conceive "declare in 1842 that " nothing can be snorel742. She heed lived during five
absurd os ridiculous than the sliding scale ;" that "it exceeds having been baptized6w
ot
fowj
uaolty. e Holy
pool, the h
and as the vigorous old lady wllo so heartily e •
n.loYed
all that can be found in romance, all that we meet with in reigns, --- ``t
patty on the Coronetion of her present Ma..
in the house where she was Dorn, and was
herself a
Rabelais." Sir Robert Peel, whatever he may do, will not
y, it themeitani of-our readers will recollect., She had,
play the mountebank like this ; and it must be obvious to every
m
ewdasestf"ndructiobnYtiaaher
an, from the last sentence of the Royal Speech, from the is
acted d nwefarLinNitych7a gale of wind unroofing it about insH years
language of Lord Abercorn, when moving the Address in the e-
on which occasiolnu,itbeeitinengre,_eo•neicyl.itodieueralpfo,oofsiltihemnes.
House of Lords, from the circumstance that the Address in the
House of Commons was moved by Lord March, and from the had been going on around h
Duke of Buckingham's explanation of the cause of his retire- j raelalives in bed, and

SPORT' N G INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET NEW COURSING MEETING,
THURSDAY.
Chippingham Field.—Ties for Allington 11111 Stakes.—Mr.
Inskip's 11la beat Mr. Dobede's Diana ; Mr. Finch's Gossip
beat Er. Edwards's Antoinette ; Mr. Vipan's Victorina ran
a bye.
First Ties for the Cup.—Capt. Daintree's Krtab beat Mr.
Gillett's Ganymede ; Mr. Edwards's Arsenic beat Mr. Bagge's
The Toad; Mr. Dobede's Dunallan beat Mr. Fyson's Fan-
tail ; Mr. Vipan's Vulcan beat Mr. Finch's Gibraltar.
First 'nes for the Chippenb.am Stakes.—Mr. Edwards'l
Arctic beat Mr. Fyson's Fakeaway ; Mr. Moody's Railroad
beat Mr.. Nash's Caleb; Mr. Dobede's Defiance beat Mr. In-
skip's Ibrahim ; Mr. Vipan's Victor ran a bye.
First ,Ties for Port Stakes.—Mr. Begge's Telegraph beat
Mr. Inskip's lanthe ; Mr. Fyson's Finesse beat Mr. Dobede's
Delia ; Mr. Edwards's A B C beat Mr. Nash's Curiosity ; Mr.
Fyson's Fly beat Mr. Gillett's Go-to.
The Rutland Stakes.—Mr. Fyson's Frederica beat Captain
Daintree's Kathleen ; Mr. Gillett's Grecian Queen beat Mr.
Dobede's Dartford ; Mr. Batt's Crucifix Junior beat Mr. In-
skip's Iliona.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—CHESTER, 1842.
Acceptances for the Trades Plate : —Lanercost, 9st 91b;
Satirist, Bst 71b ; Vulcan, Bst 51b • The Squire, Bst 31b ; Bel-
lona, Bst ; The Dean, Bst 21b ; druilkeen, ast ; Johnny, Bst;
Clinker, 7st 121 b ; Ararat, 7st 121 b ; Portrait, 7st 111 b; Black
Beck, 7st 101 b ; The Lord Mayor, 7st 91b ; Cormorant, 74
91b; Retriever, 7st 81b; Nancy Dawson, 7st 71b; Rhods.nthe,
7st 71b ; Disclosure, 7st 71b ; Rory O'More, 7st 51b ; Hum-
ming Bird, 7st 51b ; The Young-'un, 7st s:b; Pagan, ist 51b;
Marshal Soult, 7st 41b; All Four's, 7st 31b; Ermengardie,
7st 21b ; George, 7st; The Maid, 7st ; Billingham Lass, Esc
131 b ; Zelmyra, 6st 121 b ; Jolly Tar, 6st 101 b ; Sister to Glen-
coe, 6st 71b ; Alice Hawthorn, Est ; Rebecca, sst 71b ;
Fid-
he sst ; Brother to Harpurhay, sst ; Topsail, Tripoli, anal'
Proof Print.

Acceptances for the Cheshire Stakes :—Satirist, ;
Bellona, Bst 51b; Cruiskeen, Bst 31b; Stnollett, 7st Nilo, km
Young-'un, 7st 71b ; George, 7st bib ; Miss Kitt! tackle,
7st : Moonbeam, Est 121 b ; Alice Havrthoish Est 614 1,7
Laurel out of Shoehorn, 6st 61b. •

°lice, that full justice will be deneby the Ceaservt.
`,everflegitimate claim of the agricultural interest.
-The Speech from the Throne contains no
of national interest—beyond those which
arose out of the event that has given on Heir
the Throne—which was not found in the
Speech with which her Majesty opened the last Session.
The recommendations are precisely the same.: the rea-
sons which are assigned for such recommendations from
the Sovereign to the Parliament are precisely the same
—the language scarcely varied. The Speech' is, in all
its material parts a plagiarism. The " distress of the
manufacturing districts of the country," the continu-
ance" of which her Majesty is, in the present Speech,
made to " regret," was in a state of fearful:- progress
last year, and was by the late Government recog-
nized and referred to as demanding_ immediate at-
tention from the Legislature, and especially its taking
into consideration the laws which, by restricting impor-
tation of corn and other articles of general con-
sumption,
the
thuss mpetinohn:;
enhance
otnbcee
priceob str I,l)et t commerce,e diminishthe
diminish trade,h and
rate of labour wages. Sir R. Peel, rejoiclinegdaut thie,
ma-
jority which the combined monopolist
refused to comply with the recommendations posal, on condition that he would upehiouilapttihoaenti
existing Ad-
s;of-thelca ps?(l)iyees.,
reign—repudiated the
ministration, as false in principle and destructive in
mono-
polist proposed plans of the
ration—seised on the Government by dint of
polist majority—prorogued the Parliament without
deign-
ing so much as to notice the frightful and daily-increasing
distress of the country—asked for " time to prepare his
"measures"—and now comes down to Parliament with an
intimation that the measures he designs to propose .for
relieving the commercial and trading interests of the
country from the fearful pressure they have long
sustained, and the labouring classes of the community
from the privations they have suffered, as the natural
consequence of that pressure upon their employers, are,
in the general objects they will embrace, those which
the late Government announced, and which Sir Robert
Peel and his colleagues then denounced as false
in theory and mischievous in their operation at
once chimerical and destructive ! Her Majesty
was yesterday made to say, " I recommend to your
consideration the state of the - laws which affect
the importation of corn and of other articles the
produce of fi.reign countries." Why was this "recom-
mendation" introduced into the Royal Speech ? Be-
cause it goes on to say—" I have observed with deep
regret the continued distress of the manufacturing die.
tricts of the country"—and further, that their "suffer-
ings and privations have," as a natural consequence,
" resulted" from ibis. " continued - distress." - Let any
one read the language of the Premier-prompted speeches
of the movers and seconders of the Address in their re-
spective Houses last night, and compare it with that
used by the impatient aspirants to office on these subjects
on the first night of the last session, and say, was there
ever so heartless and unprincipled a postponement of
the public interests to party objects as is supplied by the
comparison !
STANDARD.—It will be seen that Lord Melbourne
and Lord John Russell, while acknowledging that the
Address was faultless in all respects, insidiously in-
sinuated that the new Government had adopted the prin-
ciples of the last. The falsehood of this insinuation
will be seen on Wednesday. In the House of Lords
Lord Brougham made one of his peculiar and eharke-
teristic speeches. His Lordship's wayward display was,
however, rendered graceful and valuable by the following
just tribute to the Royal guest of England, who. has
so much gratified the nation by his visit :
" There was not in Europe at this time—he (Lord
Brougham) believed there never was—a more philan-
thropic, more kindly disposed Prince upon any of the
thrones of Europe—a Prince of large and liberal views--
a Prince universally beloved by his own people, univer-
sally respected abroad, and, unlike many Princes (at
least in former times) of hint it might be said that he was
the more beloved and die more respected as he was better
hnown.—(Hear, hear.)"
The concluding sentence in this extract will find an
answer in every breast. The King of Prussia was re-
ceived with honour and respect as the guest of our be-
loved Queen and the chosen sponsor for her infant heir ;
but the too short period of his stay amongst us has ex-
cited a feeling far beyond the honour and respect rendered
to the highest in his station. His Majesty is now regarded
in every family of the nation as a personal friend, and
his necessary departure to the great country blessed by
the possession of such a Monarch, is a subject of regret
in every private circle. Thus it is that great and good
qualities force themselves so much upon admiration and
love, that as they become known to us, we covet to do.
mesticate their owners. The Duke of Buckingham's ex-
planation, our readers will observe, fully supportS the
view which we have suggested of the real cause of his
Grace's retirement from the Cabinet. His "only,differ-
' ence with his lute colleagues related to the details of the
measure about to be proposed for the revision of the
Corn-laws, and this difference apart, the Noble Duke
will give his firm and zealous support to the Queen's
Government. The Opposition Journals find around or
accusation in this ; but men whose Minds are free from
the corrupt influence of faction will at once understand
the Duke's comhict. Like Lord . Ashley, the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos will not incur the responsibi-
lity due' by the Member of a Government for all its aets
and omissions—will not incur this responsibility in even
the slightest degree, where conscientious conviction does
not go time whole way with the act or omission for 'which
responsibility is owing ; to decline responsibility in
a particular instance is a very different thing-from de-
claring a general hostility, or even from separation-upon
points in which men are conscientiously agreed-- It
would no doubt serve the convenience of the 'Opposition
to obtain the Duke of Buckingham's votes and the influ-
ence of his exalted character upon all other qurAtions of
free trade, because he differs from the Ministers upon
the details of a Corn law Bill. Equally convenient would
it be to enlist Lord Ashley in the ranks of the enemies:
of-the Church and of the poor, because he differs from,
the Cabinet as to the policy of introducing a Short-time
Bill ; but however convenient such accessions would be
to the Opposition—how consonant soever the desired de-
sertion might be to the practice of a party that always: transfers its conscience in gross to the side of interest, la
would scarcely suit the character of men like the Duke of
Buckngham and Chandos, and like Lord Ashley.
COURIER.—Ifer Majesty's most gracious Speech
from the Throne, with the proceedings, for debates there
were none, in both Houses of Parliament, '..41 the propo-
sition and passing of the Addresses in kanowledgment,'
are now before the nation. Rumours. had long been rife
of mighty doings and unrul,y comanotions on the first
day of the Session, So terrific vas the onslaught pre-
destined, that the Premier to be put to the rout, or
his " pinions fluttered" at the least, and the very isle
frightened front its propriety. How, predicated. an;
Evening Whig sage, will Sir Robert stand aghast when,
on the-very first night of the Session, " Inglvithth
fate" of Whig and Radical, Lord John, thp_, doughty
champion of a miscellaneous host, shall rise, in his place
to give, notice of a mihty and mysteri !As motion " on
the state of the nation," amid the eX.'alting roar of deaf-
ening acclaims from—one siu..4 Of the House at least.
Well, the day at lengt:n to:rives, the "day fore-
doomed by fate i" 'ate terrible Lord John himself
arises, and e
tempest4'.',,ctation trembles ere he speaks—the
s&tns lowering in the distance—time tiny
sPe,OC of the gathering tornado, on the first sight of which
lime fearful mariners furl all sail and strip the vessel to
, its ',mire poles, is there on the horizon, or, as figuratively
represented in his own person, on the floor, and what
then ? Why, in faint breathings of not a zephyr's
power, that " speck of the incipient hurricane" dissolves
like the " baseless fabric of a vision" which leaves " not
a wreck behind ;" the conquering Ctesar is hardly heard
to whisper in faintest tones, " Give me some drink,
Titi-
nius, like a sick child." Such and so quiescent was the
commencement of this stormy sitting, that was to. be,: and
we would hail it as the auspicious opening of a new era
in legislation, when boisterous passion and fierce party
declamation shall give place to dispassionate discussion
and well digested act.: for the relief and regeneration of - •
the whole diseased body politic. The sting indeed of
viperous intent was drawn at the outset, or rendered in-
nocuous, by the prescience with which the Government
armed themselves, and the vigour with which they went.
to work. Let our readers but cast their ,eyes- over tilt,
documents moved for, and the " notices of motion':;al- „
iksidygitien; mhich we extract elsewhere from the daily..
~Qr the House, and. they will find ample evidence
already of the untiring industry with which the - reeess -
has been improved and public business matured for the
early deliberation of the collective wisdom of the empire,.