Star.
London, England, 1830-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THZ JOURNAL&

Casnossoms.—Whin 31,. HunTs, at-Olsepw, sopeesed his coo&
dance in the Duke of Wellington, as one who would keqp the aristocracy
in cheek, we remarked at the time the utter impossibility of his Oran
doing any thing of the kind. It is impossible, as Mr. Pitt declared,
foe a minister of this country to be an honest mac. Bricks want be
made without straw—blocks cannot be cut with men. Those who
have Parlismentary interest must be gained over ; and in what man-
ner can they be pined over, but by dividing among them all that
can be wrong in the shape at taxes from the rest .of the com.
enmity ? An individual Isere and there may exhibit such lofty
disinterestedness as to decline availing himself of his parliamentary
interest to promote the advantage of himself or his connections; but
these are exceptions to the rule. The Duke of Wellington knows that
votes are not to be obtained without an equivalent; and that those who
nominate the majority of the House of Commons, look on the people m
existing for their profit and convenience. Taxation in this country,
therefore, under the present system, will always be limited by the ability
to bear it. The object is not to take only what the public service fairly
demands, but. under the pretext of the public smoke, to extract all
that the potence of the people will suffer to be taken.

Tunis.—Our opinion is, that the incendiaries (in Kent, Sussex, and
Surrey,) ate indigenous to the places where the fires happen, and that
they ate agricultural labourers; and this is more firmly our qinion,
inasmuch as it will be observed, that the minim of bailiffs and over.
seers are chiefly attacked se menaced. We wrote years ago against the
race of UM no such persons ought to be employed. When a
farm, or, a too often happens, an accumulation of farms, has a
bailiff to support, it is evident that it is charged with the main.
unmet., and that in a genteel and expensive manner, of one
person more than is necessary for he cultivation, and the
public pays for that person's maintenance by an increased
price put upon the producrions of the farm. The farmer
ought to manage his land, and be with his labourers himself. If a
landlord, ignorant as be must be of one of the most difficult of all arts,
that of ageiculture, take a farm or farms into his own hands for amuse.
meat, as it is called, but really from mere sordid motives, then the
manta IS WNW : the farmer is extinguished, farm-houses sink Lewd&
my, the 'meant has no where to fly to for shelter or relief in eases of
difficulty or ilinass.—he is brutalised, and the country buena a kind
of desolation. No one can conceive the absurdities as well es miseries
that have sprung out of gentleman-farming. There have bean stock-job-
bers and tailor that have written books upon the beeediag of horses, and
the five-crop husbandry i However, be the incendiaries who they may, we
believe we have now stripped them of thelr_postentound garb,—they
are no mystic befogs, but simple, stupid, sidieing, and, withal, malig.
rant knaves, who may be detected by peeper miations. And, did we
belong to any of the fire dices, we avoid heissas saki and apist, be.
fore we paid the insurance, it sulkiest watiihimus ha not been die.
played beau the aft pm perpetrated, and seellieleat activity in the put..
suit and detection afterwards; and if the pelisse wee not pripuly
guarded by an household appropriate to *dr value and aimessime;
and, above all, if the muter and his family slept at a Mouse in same
other farmhouse err maasion, surrounded with dogs and savants, and
all things necessary for preserved= or alarm. The cane of peat farms
has inflicted a kind of absenteeism in England, similar to that of
Ireland.

lisaaz.z.—lt is stated, with an air of authority, that Charles X.
has made urgent solicitations to the Bridsit and other /Gauguin
Courts, to interpose their Mosses in favour at the Eel s, and
that he has received the most satisfactory ausatimm on thil=t as
a proof of which h is added that the Duke of %Megan in has
shown an anxious &she to save the lives of these safamema..
This may or not be true. If true, the feeling is enditaldo to webs,
though we doubt exceedingly the discretion of forelp poem isedor.
lug in favour catate delinquents in other earnates„ mom oigssiolly be.
fore they are tried. And here we think hinges die Aar whisk has per-
vaded the whole proceedings in Franca upon this. ead, if
the above report be true, elsewhere. Instead of lerrksibi idleasla to
take their course in that calm uninterrupted manner wi Ii shoolisttena
the match of criminal justice, the parties ate *swiped or @Rehm',
pardoned or executed, ley modelpsdow, just as salts the views of their
eandamasts or aeuipart.. This is not as it dwell be. Last of all
does it become feu* ems se Wafers at all, or at any rate by mosidpa-
doe, with the mesetolswitirk my oats may chess. so take towards loam
subjems. Besides those arshipassey intssferedees with the eosseedisides
mst _defer ties *et. In the sass of the unhappy Namarth,
I. the lostelhesate of bailie lioeseassests is suppo so have
asodesated Isis hoe t sad is that el WS ire Lord tits Itises
=tidr Perdue was the wry she which himiseel is fillillment. We
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of &nip Powers.

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LITERARY REVIEW.

Charlie', the FetaTist--3 rids.—BULL.

We have no hesitation in introducing this Novel to the notice of our
readers, as one much superior to the light gossamer webs, which have
lately been seen Boating for a mere evanescent sunshine, on the parterres
of fashionable life. The narrative is founded principally on one of those
superstitious fancies, or weaknesses In human credence, which are fee.
quently seen, by influencing the mind which entertains them, to pro-
duce actual results, confirmatory of the very apprehensions they occasion.
We have heard of ships having been lost, because they have sailed on a
Friday ; and we are Inclined to think it not improbable. Many a soldier*
like COW, we are sure, has been haunted by uneasy thoughts at the
recurrence of a particular day ; and many a man, and maid too, have attri-
buted their evils, like the hero of this Novel, to an inezplicable local
fatality. The marriage of Chartley to a woman be never saw, km:
incident so unlikely to happen in real life, that it could not have been
deemed admissible, as almost the basis of the tale, had not the author
in his preface testified as to its truth. That incident admitted, as true,
all the remainder of the story occasions the Interest, which verisimili-
tude of detail seldom fails to produce. The language and character of
the narrative are both simple, perspicuous, and devoid of ardfichd com-
plexity. The author does not draw out, like some, three or four thuds
of narrative at once, intending to tie them together at the end; but
his narrative is simple in structure, and told in what is colloquially
termed. a straight-forward manner. The author is not one who seats
himself on every stile to look around him, and amuse his readers with a
description of all the hedges and hills in the vicinity; nor does be de.
scribe his heroes and heroines—turning them Inside out—fee the edifice.
tion of his readers, before he allows them to utter a syllable or perform
an act : on the contrary, with few exceptions, the characters derelope
themselves by the facts. On the whole, we think the work a very cre-
ditable specimen of novel-writing ; and we would recommend the author
to persevere in the same line.

HER MAJESTY AND THE SILK-WEAVERS.

At • general meeting of the journemen silk-waver in SpinMA& on
Thursday night, it was announced that on Wednesday morning *sir
Committee had proceeded to St. James's Palace, with the new and
splendid silk which bad been woven by her Majesty's desire for bet
dregs when she visits the City on Tuesday next. They delivered it to
one of the ladies in Waiting, who, having laid it before the Queen,
returned and told them that" her Majesty thought the dress most beau-
tiful, and was highly pleased with it ; and that the thought of doing
good to the country generally, and to the kltallields-wavers in purl-
cubs, made her Majesty extremely happy.'
This report by the Committee was received by the meeting with loud
cheers, and cries of " GOD save the Queen i" which continued foe se.
vend mimes.

It was then announced that, in order to enable the weavers to attend
the Royal precession more respectably than their own bumble means
would permit them to do, the master.nlanufactutvra, upon the applies.
'ion of the Committee, had generously given them 110 yards of silk far
the purpose of forming 90 banners; and the Committee had no doubt
the =duct of the weave's on the day of procession would evince that
gratitude to which her majesty was so deservedly entitled. (Cheers.)
A Weaver said that be hoped no one would be allowed to join them'
without producing his ticket, so as to prevent a recurrence of the dim.'
graceful acts of the rabble which mingled with them on the day they
west to the Duke of Wellington.•
Joxw POTTOX, the Chairmen. said no 1100•01' could begrudge Id.
'for a ticket. which would enable him not only to show his gratitude to a
Queen who was so graciously endeavouring to further their universal
interests, but would also enable him to look upon a pageant which many
will give five guineas to see. He then gave them an admonitory
Cl:l4:nreaas to their bearing on the day in question, and the meeting ad-
journed.

THE CHURCH.