The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-23 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Buckingleamshire, from the Hyde-park Hotel, for
Hampden House ; the Hon. E. King, M.P. from ditto, for Ire-
land; John Fitzgerald, Esq. M.P. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Peter Fitz-
gerald, Esq. and the Misses Fitzgerald, from Marshal Thomp-
son's Hotel, Cavendish-square; Mrs. Purcel and Miss Purcel,
from ditto; Lord Foley, from Brooke-street, on a tour ; Earl of
Essex, for Cashiobury Park ; Madame de Bosset, from Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Bath; Colonel and Mrs. Cooper,
from ditta, for Salisbury ; Sir William and Lady Maria Oglander
and family, from ditto, for their seat in Dorsetshire; Mrs. and
Miss Barton, from the Burlington Hotel, for Southampton ;
- Bramston, Esq. and Miss Grove, from ditto, for Hants; H.
Fitzgerald, Esq. from ditto, for Bath; Col. Thompson, from
Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on a tour; Wm. Lascelles,
Esq. from the British Hotel, Jermyn.street, for Cambridge ; J.
Mackenzie, Esq. from ditto, fur Scotland.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND
gave a grand dinner yesterday at their residence at Kew
to some of the memo is of the Royal Family, and a select
party.

The Prussian and Spanish Ministers visited
the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Office of the Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Prince LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador,
and Count MASTUCEWITZ, had a conference yesterday
morning with the French Ambassador, at his residence i❑
Portlind-place.

Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD and Air. HUSKIS•
sort have arrived at the residence of the Marquis of
HERTFORD, Sudborn Hall, Suffolk, on a visit to his Lord-
ship. The Noble Marquis is at present entertaining the
Duke of WELLINGTON and a select party of Noblemen and
gentlemen.

Despatches from Lord STUART de RoTH-
SAY, at Pat is, were brought to the Foreign Office on Wed-
nesday night by a messenger, who passed through that
capital on his way from Ancona (which place he left on
the 13th inst), with despatches from Sir FREDERICK
ADAM, at Curfu, fur the Colonial Office. The mes-
senger also brought despatches to the Foreign Office from
Mr. DAWKINS, our resident in Greece.

Despatches were sent off' yesterday evening
from the Colonial Office for the Earl of BELmollE, the
Governor of Jamaica, and others of the Governors of the
West India Islands.

The Duke of WELLINGTON has paid into
the Treasury the sum of 1,025/., received by him as Lord
Warden of the Cinque Pot ts.

Among the items carried to the credit ac-
count of the last quarterly return of the revenue, was a
sum of 120,1211. received of the West India Dock Com-
pany for the purchase of the City Canal.
DRURY-LANE TIIEATR E.—Mr. BA RRY-
moRE's new melodrame, which he calls the Greek Family,
was lest night most deservedly damned at this Theatre.
It is sad trash, and after an attentive heating was pro-
nounced intolerable. Mr. COOPER strove to gain a hear-
ing in its favour, but was scarcely successful.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--A newpiece,
in two acts, entitled The Robber's Wife, was last night
brought out at this Theatre. The plot is taken from the
Tales of the Munster Festivals," and has already been
dramatized at one of the minor theatres. It is simple in
its construction, and replete with interest and incident.
The piece was throughout ably acted, particularly the
character of Larry 0' Gig, which, in the hands of Mr.
POWER, occasioned abundant entertainment. The house,
we were delighted to perceive, was crowded.

PRESENT TO MISS FANNY KEJIBLE.—
Another• interesting incident occurred the night before
last, at Covent-garden Theatre, besides the presence of
Mrs. SIDDONS to witness the performance of Juliet by her
niece. The actors and actresses took the opportunity of
presenting her with a beautiful chased gold bracelet,
studded with jewels; and with an inscription stating, that
it was given as a slight token of the obligation she had
conferred upon them, by corning forward at a time when,
bar; for her, probably, the Theatre could not have opened ;
or, if opened, could not long have continued so. Miss F.
KEMBLE received the gift very gracefully and thankfully,
as a proof of the kind feeling she had inspired, rather than
as a merited testimony of her excellence in the only part
in which she has appeared. It is to be regretted that
Mrs. SIUDONS did not show herself on the night when she
attended ; for she thus totally prevented the enthusiastic
expression of admiration which must have followed the
knowledge that she was present.
There has been considerable talk within the
last two or three days respecting the probability of Mr.
HUSKISSON rejoining the Cairinet, from which he seceded
during the first months of its existence. lle is now on a
visit to the Marquis of HEnzroan, at Sndbourn
where, also, Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD, the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, and a select party, are staying on a shooting
excursion.. It is alleged that the present CHANCELLOrt of
the EXCHEQUER is to give way to Mr. HusrussoN, and
that the Leadership of the House of Commons is the bait
held out. Mr. PEEL, it is added, will be elevated to the
peerage.-211orning Advertiser.

We understand that G. H. GINGELL, Esq.,
of Naish House, has, with a degree of liberality worthy of
imitation, lowered the rents of his tenants in the parish of
Bremhill, Wilts, 4,0 per cent. in consequence of the pre-
sent state of agricultural dep.ession.—Bath Chronicle.

A separation is about to take place in high
life between a Noble Lord and his lady who have recently
entered into the matrimonial state. The unhappy diN-
rence is said to have arisen from the discovery of a letter
received by one of the parties from an enomoruta, who
likewise is of titled distinction, and united by Hymen's
bands to a Supposed favourite lover. The discovery alluded
to has produced a chain of evidence which, it is said, can-
not 1 e controverted.

A gentleman travelling by a stage, was regret-
ting that be had not a seat in front. " Pray," said an-
ther passenger, "did you ever travel this road before ?"
"0 ! yes, often," was the answer. " Then now, Sir,
you have the pleasure of travelling behind."
Early on Monday morning was caught oppo-
site Newnham Passage, an immensely large eel ; its length
was seven feet two inches, weight 591bs. and girth 2S
inches. In the course of the day it was brought to Glou-
cester, for the inspection of the public, and was allowed
by judges, to be the largest fish of the kind ever taken in
that neighbourhood.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

EXTRAORDINARY FACT.-A few days since
no less than 25 earwigs, alive, came from the head of a
young female, residing at lleullis, near Newport. She
had eoniplainA of severe pains in the head, and was at-
tended by Mr. JAMES llAwk-tris, surgeon, of Newport.
It is supposed that the insects must have been generated in
the head. —3.formouflishire

It is singular (says LEDYARD) that the Arab
language has no word for liberty, though it has for staves

So strong is the propensity of the Russians to
jealousy, that they are guilty of the lowest offences on that
account. The observation may appear trivial, but au or-
dinary P.ussian will he displeased if one even endeavours
to gain the good-will of his dog. I affroo,ted the com-
mandant of this town (Yakutsk) very highly, by permit.
ting his dog to walk with me one afternoon. - He.expostu-
lated with me very seriously about it. This is aot e
only instance. I live with a young Russian officer, with
whom I came from Irkutsk ; no circumstance has ever in-
terrupted the harinor.y between us, but his dogs. They
have done it twice. A pretty little puppy he has, came
to me ene day, and jumped on my knee; I patted h's
head, and gave him some bread. The so= few at the
dog in the utmost rage, and
gave him a hIQW which broke
his leg. The lesson I gave him on the occasionhas al-,
most cured hip,--,kife ofZedyazW.

SPIRIT OF THE PU/3LIC JOURNALS.

We did not speak without book two or three
days ago, in hinting at the results whinii would
be likely to follow from an enforcement of the
official orders for stripping the military officers of
the East India Company of half their customary
allowances. The " penny wise, pound foolish
nature of this attempt to exasperate the only
friends of whom the Company might havc
reckoned for the protection of an empire—VVe
will not say how acquired or how governed, or
surrounded by what variety of dangers—is al-
ready discoverable, Ist, from the alarming I( t rs
addressed to the Governor-General of India by
four great departments of the Bengal army,--viz.
the Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, and Medical
Staff; and, 2d, from the official circular of the
Adjutant-General at head-quarters, in reply to
the remonstrances from the several corps, an-
nouncing that Lord William Bentinck (a per-
fectly honest and well-meaning man, but) the
most inflexible of all descendants from a
Dutch fbrefather, would transmit to Leaden-
hall-street the complaints of the army, and
recommend to the Court of Directors a re-
consideration of their obnoxious project. The
petition and remonstrance of the Bengal Ar-
tillery proceeds from one of the most respect-
able and celebrated corps in the world. It is
signed by Brigadier-General Macleod, and fort--
four other officers, of whom nine are of the rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel and Major. The me-
morial of the 3d Light Cavalry has the signa-
tures of Colonel Hawtrey commanding, and of
fifteen brother officers. 'fhis appeal to the Go-
vernment appears the more serious, because it
comes from parties who confess that they are not
in their own persons likely to be injured by the
proposed reduction of batta ; but that their re-
gard for the " welfare of the army" -compels
them to make common cause with those branches
of it which the measure threatens to affect.
When a military body present themselves as
complainants on the strength °fie/low:feeling,
where they have no personal stake, matters begin •
to exhibit a somewhat gloomy aspect. The Ar-
tillery memorial declares the authors of it to be
" wholly unable to bear quietly a permanent re-
duction from that which was before hardly adequate
to a decent maintenance." The Cavalry " cannot
submit sliding" to the operation of the order,
&c. The Infantry announce, that the cheerful-
ness and promptitude heretofore evinced
them in the discharge of their duty, will give
'
" dissatisfaction and de-
s i'l)aLe o feelings
det iicg,eih'ts of
with %thich it is not in human
nature to combat. The • body of Medical
Officers exclaim against the curtailment of their
allowances for medicines, &c. and plead many
peculiar grounds and reasons which make •
their situation under the intended blow one of
intolerable hardship. The whole correspondence
manifests on the part of the army a rooted con-
viction of the injustice practised on them in this
instance, charging the Company, in measured
though unambiguous language, with the most
unfeeling cruelty towards faithful servants, whose
lives have been devOted to its service, and with
a gross violation of those compacts, expressed or
implied, in reliance on which the officers of
.the
native army had abandoned their distant home,
and embraced the chances and contingencies of a
protracteda
nio laistt
to
eiid possessing
their
competence
mipne ttlei
ce le' wope
herewith
rea:' ti
days in easy and decent repose. We do not say
that the advisers of this disastrous parsimony
have meditated a general embroiling of the affairs
ier ate exile,
c
of India, as a warning, in the nature of " Noll
me tangere," to the Government and people of
England, should there be any where an inclina-
tion to relieve the Company from the toils of
empire, and to take their dominions into the
keeping of the State ; but if the wish in Leaden-
hall-street were to throw India into confusion, to •
disgust the Parliament and the nation with its
concerns, so that thus on the eve of an expira-
tion of their charter the whole property might
be blown upon, as it were, and the Company
enabled to buy it in on easy terms, why, we
submit, that if (a supposition which we allow
is absurd) so laudable a scheme were meditated,
no more promising way to execute it could be
found than to plunge the native force into a
general mutiny, and invite an army of foreign
invaders to the Indus. The statesmen of Leaden-
halbstreet (able managers though they are) may
be deceived in their expectzn,ions of subduing,
by late wisdom, the storm which their impru-
dence, if nut their injustice, has generated.—
Times.

The proceedings at the meeting yesterday of
the Globe Insurance Company, though incon-
clusive, xvill he read with interest by persons
connected with that and similar establishments.
Our own opinion on the subject has been already
intimated. It is no reflection on the moral qua-
lities or conduct of any stipendiary functionaries
to reduce their salaries in these times : it is only
a proof of the prevalent and well-founded opi-
nion, that economical reforms must be adopted,
in order to allow the burdened public to pay the
interest, and ultimately reduce the principal, of
its Own debt. It was a singular argume,nt of
Sir Samuel Shepherd's, that economy, in the
management of any concern must, or might, cast
a suspicion upon its stability. Our_ inference
would be the direct reverse. Hol;ever, the
worthy proprietor in the bob-wig demolished the
fine-spun arguments of the legal sophist in the
best way—" Words, words !—mere chaff and
no corn ! Sit down, you hie talked longer
than any one else ; and said nothing to the pur-
pose." There is one vim infecting the direction -
of establishments of this nature in general, and
the Glob we believe not less tainted with it-.
than others ; and that vice is, that the sarr.e per-
son is director in several companies. Director-
ships have really become a trade. Now, if a
corporation is to derive importance and attract
customers from the influence of its directors,
ought that influence to be dividtgl ? I,r one
portion of it in one society to be wort;
against another poi tion cf it in anotlie society ?
The practice is dishonourable, and ought to be
abolished.—/bid..

A subject of very great
_ importance mas yes--
terday agitated in the Court of Common Coun-
cil—the combination of the great Coal-owned.:i
of the North, and tho mode of defeating tbeiar.:
The owners of the collieries in the neighbour-
hood of the Tyne and Wear regulate among
themselves the vend of coals in such a way, that
in supplying London they can fix their own price.
A little while ago the coal-owners fall out among
thcmselves, when each sold at his own price,
and as much as he thought proper, the price of
continuanceco fell eight
o
f thi9shillings a c
state
ofl at 1110
things,
s:
heDuringMarquis
qtubies
of Londonderry, Lord Durham, &c., warmly
sympathised with the poor of the metropolis,
who suffer so much from the high price of coals.
The sympathy did not, however, endure long.—.
The coal-owners soon found that high prices,
without sympathy fo: the suiferinas of the poor,

-

wtre better than low prices with sympathy. Mr.
Tickner alluded to the prospect as to defeating;
the combination from the Railway now con-
structina under a new Act to the mouth of the
Tees. L"lt seems the coals in this quarter are
ample in quantity and superior in quality, and
can be worked at a less cost than those transmit-
ted by the Tyne and Wear. We trust that he
will not be deceived in his expectations. The
severe opposition which was made for two or
three Sessions to the Bill for the construction of
the Railway, is alone tolerably conclusive as to
the opinion of the Tyne and Wear coal-owners
- on this subject. It is expecting too much from
poor human nature to suppose that the great
coal-owners in the Tyne and Wear, having it in
their power to take four hundred thousand
pounds a-year, under an arrangement among
themselves, more than they could take without
it, would have any scruple in pocketing it.—
We confess we have never yet, in the course
of our experience, stumbled on any persons
who thought they could receive too much
either for their goods or their labour. To saturate
men with good things has always appeared to us
a very hopeless endeavour ; and so satisfied are
we on this point, that we should even have some
doubts whether even Mr. Alderman Waithman
might be proof against thz. power of taking
400,0001. a-year from the consumers of coals,
though he inveighs so eloquently against " the
foul and abominable combination. ' We do not
believe there is a man in the House of Lords, or
House of Commons, or Court of Common
Council, who, if circumstances gave' him the
power of adding 400,0001. a year to his former
receipts, would not avail himself of them. But
Mr. Alderman Waithman thinks that the Mar-
quis of Londonderry and his fellow-combina-
tors have been a little too lavish in the way of
hypocrisy, in the interval of the non-existence of
the combination. "An opposition (lie ob-
served) had been got up in the House of Lords
against the City of London, when, for the pur-
pose of effecting a great public improvement, it
had been proposed to levy a tax of 6d. a chaldron
on coals. The opposition was placed on the
ground of the tax being a great injury to the
poor. - Their Lordships had extended their
sympathy on this occasion a great way, and so
strong was their sympathy, that they brought wit-
nesses and solicitors a distance of 600 miles, and
maintained them in London at a great expence,
not for their own interests, but the interests of
the poor. A combination had formerly existed
among the coal owners; a quarrel had afterwards
ensued among them, and the coals fell eight
shillings a chaldron. The best coals had then
been under thirty shillings. The differences,
however, among the coal owners had been healed,
they had agreed that the vend should be re-
sumed ; and the instant this agreement had been
entered into, coals had risen more than eight
shillings a chaldron. The coal owners had ob-
jected to a tax of sixpence per chaldron for a
great public object, which would have amounted
to forty thousand pounds a year, and they levied
a tax of ten sixpences, amounting to 400,000/.,
which they took from the poor and the
public generally, not for any public pur-
pose, but to put into their own pockets. These
persons had entered into a foul and abominable
combination. Ought not (he would ask) the
indignation of the public to be roused, and ought
not the opinion of that Court to be displayed ?
An opposition had been got up to the execution
of a great public object, upon the miserable and
hypocritical pretence of the tax raising 40,0001.
on the public, while they who opposed levied
on coals a tax of ten sixpences to put in their
own pockets." It is no doubt true, as the
Worthy Alderman observes, that Lords London-
derry and Durham played the hypocrite on time
occasion alluded to very ably, which is a proof
that hypocrisy is by no means monopolised by
Methodiscd Parsons. It is very wrong, no doubt,
to affect great regret for the sufferings of the
poor, when the only regret really felt was,
that they could not add a little more to these
sufferings. But our indignation is somewhat
mitigated by the, consideration that hypocrisy is
better than force, and that it is a sort of ac-
knowledgment of your importance when people
- take the trouble of playing the hypocrite before
you ; for it is only when force is not safe, that
another way is had recourse to. When an Arch-
bishop of Cologne, in former days, built a castle,
and was asked how he meant to keep it up, as
he had no lands near it, he frankly observed, he
could be at no loss, as there were four highways
close to it ; meaning that it was favourably situ-
ated for highway robbery. An Archbishop, in
the present day, would be under the necessity
of pretending a strong regard for religion, study-
ing carefully every word and justure used in
public, And slily watching his opportunity for
smuggling Bills through Parliament, for getting
hold of sinecures in spite of the recommenda-
tion of Parliamentary Committees. Pope Leo
X. laughed 40y at his own trade. A Pope
in the preient. day is as circumspect as a Fenelon.
Before ever -our most gracious Sovereign can
build or pull down a palace, two or three Minis-
ters, one after another, are obliged to come for-
ward with plausibly invented stories, of which
they best know themselves how much ought to
be taken for gospel, to prevent the impatience
the people would feel, if the truth were to come
too abruptly across them. It would be a great
deal better, no doubt, if men would always do
what is right ; but when they are determined to
'do wrong, hypocrisy is on the whole better than
tyranny.—Morning Chronicle.
Our readers will find, in another column, an
article extracted from the Brighton Guardian
of yesterJay, on a subject of vital importance to
the people of this country—namely, the oppres-
sion suffered by them from the want of well or-
ganized local Courts. The text which supplies
our Brighton contemporary with food for his
comments, is a case of contract between a coach-
man, and a young woman, a green-grocer, whe-
ther walnuts sold for 11., and delivered, were or
were not according to sample. Tilt parties live
-at Brighton, and the County, Court is held, we
liselieve, at Lewes. The trial took place regu-
larly on the Sth October, 1829, when the plain-
tiff gained, and his attorney's bill of. costs
amounted to 411. ls. There was, however,
taxed off 121. Rs. 6d., still leaving to the de-
fendant to pay 291. 7s. 6d., besides her own
aliorney's bill of costs. In the speech with
which Mr. Brougham intisssissced his motion
for Law Reform, lie says—" In py mind, he
was guilty of no error, he was charge4lo with
no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy
into -no metaphor, who once said that all we
see above us, King, Lords, and Commons, the
whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus
of the system, and its varied workings, end in
simply bringing twelve good men into a box."
so that Kings, Ministers, and Bishops—all the
showy and most expensive apparatus, for the
fake of which twenty millions:of-industrious
People are so beatnifully exploited (e.rgoit6:), to

use an expressive French word, has only for its
object to obtain for such persons as Mellish,
the coachman of Brighton, the performance of
ccntracts with individuals in their own rank of
life. The machinery is certainly very operose
and clumsy. And yet who, without being told
that this was the end and object of all the ma-
chinery by so great an authority as Mr.
Brougham, would ever have arrived at such a
conclusion, from what he witnesses in this coun-

try ? If asked why Kings were appointed, he
would naturaAy say to build and pull down
palaces, to hold levees, to distribute courtesies
in such a way between the ins and the outs,
that the one shall never be too confident, and the

other never too despondent, &c. If asked why
Ministers were appointed, he would say to ob-
tain money for Kings and Placemen. If asked
why Bishops were appointed, he would say to
keep up palaces for themselves, and bestow rich
livings on their sons, and the husbands of their
daughters. If asked why Judges were appointed,
he would say because they were become too old
and too lazy for toiling at the bar, and wished
to pass the evening of heir days comfortably on
the Bench. If asked why Magistrates were ap-
pointed, he would say that 'Squires, when living
in the country and not more pleasantly engaged,
may have something to do, and he enabled to
preserve their game by punishing poachers. But
it would be a long time before he stumbled on
the discovery that the end of all this was the
protection of the persons and property of the
people. No—the only part of the whole that is
neglected is that part for which all is contrived.
It is like as if an expensive water-mill should be
constructed, but no water-course should be
made, and consequently no grinding should take
place. Beautiful machinery welave, indeed, of
great benefit to those who have the care of it,
but only to them. The wants of the people are

the only wants which have not been attended to.
Far are we from saying that the business of go-
verning is a light one. It is, indeed, no easy
matter to keep peace amongst the various per-
sons employed in the management of this costly
machinery ; for though the benefit of those for
whom the machinery is constructed is kept out
of view, and the only persons who benefit are the
employh themselves, yet to adjust the share of
loaves and fishes in such a way as to satisfy all

parties is a difficult matter. Hence Legislatures
have long sittings and stormy debates—hence
intrigues are constantly forming—hence Mini-
sters are made and unmade—hence Tories take
the place of Whigs, and Whigs the place of
Tories. The science of governing, without
attending to the end of Government, is not the
less a perplexing and difficult science on that
account. This, however, is certain that no part
of the difficulty is occasioned by any attention
being bestowed on the end of Government.—
During the days when the end was a little at-
tended to, that is, in the long Parliament time,
when the King and House of Lords and
Bishops were disposed of in a very unceremo-
nious way, the idea of bringing justice home to
the door of every man occupied occasionally the
thoughts of the Legislature. But ever since the
people were relieved of the trouble of self-go-
vernment, it is astonishing, amidst all our diffi-
culties, how little difficulty there has been in
staving of all attempts to obtain Courts for the
people. In the last number of the Westminster
Review there is an article on Law Reform, in

which there is only the slight oversight, that in a
country in which so much money is required
fir other ends than the good of the people,
money cannot be afforded for Local Courts.—
Had the Reviewer lamented the disappearance of
cassocks, the rarity of shovel-hats, and proposed
a tax of a million or two to gladden the eye-
sight of Lords with a hundred or two additional
church steeples, his recommendation would have
been sure of due attention. But to wander
from the machinery to the object of it is as
ill-timed as the recommendations of Wick-
liffe or Huss, in an age when the smell
of burning Heretics ascended sweetly to Hea-
ven. Mr. Bentham, according to this article,
" proposes the establishment of Judge-shires,
or districts, to form, as nearly as possible, a
square, equidistant, and of similar size ; the scat
of justice as nearly as may be in the centre of
each ; the Court to sit six hours a-day, and,
from its adjacency, to allow to the suitor the
facility of reaching it, dispatching his business
there, and returning home to sleep. A radius
of twelve miles would be enough for all this ;
and one hundred and twenty-five Courts or
thereabouts would suffice for England and Wales.
But as the population of cities and towns is en-
titled to consideration, seventy-five other Courts
would amply provide for these." To these
Courts Mr. Bentham would commit all suits
whatever (military and ecclesiastical excepted).

Herald.

To the details or this project we regret not to
be able to give the spce they demand. They
will be found in a work now passing through the
Press, to which we must refer our readers. Mr.
Bentham says (p. 63), " The County Courts
ought to be diligently reformed—their process
extended to matters of large amount and of
greater variety—their officers rendered more able
and effective. The remedy is well intended,
and intended, doubtless, to forward the ends of
those who originated the County Courts' Bill'
a few years ago ; but it is wholly inadequate, its
benefit small, its expellees enormous ; and, by
its expence alone, likely to have thwarted any
more e,xtensive reform, for it proposes to allow
the continuance of all the existing judicial ma-
chinery, to the charges of which, enormous as
they are, it would have added its own. Both
logically and locally considered, the County
Court plan is in every respect inferior to the
Departmental Judicatures constituted by the
Napoleon Code." Can anything be more op-
pressive in the working than the existing County
Courts, as exeliiplified in the 401. plaintiff's bill
for a one-pound ,contract ? But who cares for
the people in England—and who ever will care
for them, in a country in which it is the height
of imprudence to appear to take any interest,
however slight, in their welfare? Occasionally,
even in a canting and hypocritical country like
this, an individual no doubt wili h,e found who,
from indiarence to the ordinary objects am-
bition, and the acpidental determination of his
inquiries to the good of his fellow-creatures, may
oectlpy himself with speculations of which the
object is the advantage of the people. But even
such an individual dreads nothing so much as to
he known fora man who has any other than sel-
fish and vulgar aims. p_e knows that. his only
chance of being able to do good iptit depend
on his objects not being too clearly revealed', a,r4
that ;numbers of the very people whose goods he
seeks, from the ignorance and prejudice insepa-
rable from their degraded condition, ssould be
among- the first to tear him to piesea if set on by
their eneinies.—Thid.
Certain paragraphs, by way offeders, are, we
see, putting forth by the Press, relative to re-
placing Mr. Peel in his seat for Oxford. That
there bre certain persons in both the Universities

who know the value of having a Minister of
State for their Representative cannot be doubted.
Of the good-things which Lord Lyndhurst has
showered upon his former constituents is an un-
answerable proof. Some of the paragraphs in
qu2stion go the length of saying that Sir Robert
Inglis is to resign his seat to make way for the
return of Mr. Peel. In this we cannot believe
that there is one word of truth, or the least sha-
dow of foundation. None but a corrupt motive
(and that, we are sure, cannot for a moment be
imputed) could induce Sir Robert Inglis, we
should suppose, to resign an honour so gallantly
and so decidedly won. Sir Robert Inglis may
possibly partake of the infirmities of other men ;
but nothing, we suppose, short of a Deanery or
a Bishopric for some very near and dear con-
nection, would induce him, or any other man,
to relinquish such a prize as that which he has
so unexpectedly and honourably obtained. Has
the measure for which Mr. Peel abandoned all
the principles of his early life brought with it
that " healing on its wings" which we are
taught to expect ? In short, are the University,
or their late Member, proved to have been in the
light ? Let the present state of Ireland answer.
It; then, the University has nothing to upbraid
itself with on the score of political sagacity and
foresight, or on behalf of those principles which
it was especially bound and called upon to main-
tain, what silly, what damning inconsistency
would it not speak, to retrace, without reason,
the step which it so manfully and consistently
has taken ? Nor would it become Mr. Peel,
we should think, to attempt to place his Alma

Mater in such a dilemma. To be sure, to see
oneself transformed from the high station of
Representative of one the most learned and cele-
brated bodies in the world, to be a Jew's nomi-
nee at Westbury, is mortifying enough ; but as
Junius said of Sir William Draper, " if Mr.
Peel's be a bed of thorns, he has made it for
himself ;" and we doubt whether it can be now
remade but at an expense of honour and con-
sistency which no man should impose upon
others. To be sure the Vice-Chancellor has
made a Latin oration in honour of Mr. Peel;
and Dr. Copleston, who wrote him into his cur-
rency principles, will, perhaps, now write him
out of them again ; but nothing, we should say,
can or ought to be done (especially in the way
of compromise, behind the backs of the non-
resident members) to involve the University of
OxfOrd in the double dilemma of retracting a

solemn judgment, and that, apparently, for the
sole purpose of having a giver of Church Pre-
ferment for their Representative.—Morning

We inserted in our Paper of yesterday seve-
ral documents, or rather memorials of the discon-
tent which exists at the present moment in the
Indian army ; and the first observation which we
mean to make upon them is, that the Directors
of the East India Company never adopted a pro-
ceeding more truly impolitic in all its bearings—
more uncalled for, or more likely to gratify those
who would delight in seeing its empire at an
end, than that of reducing the pay of its military
servants, and thereby exciting discontent in the
very quarter where discontent is truly and greatly
dangerous. The Company, to speak the truth
of it,cannot, indeed, be charged in its general
conduct, either- nitt being aixel taskmaster, or
a niggardly paymaster. It has uniformly re-
warded its servants handsomely, and it has been
repaid by an affection and loyalty, and good
service, on their part, which, considering the dis-
tance of the seat of government from the seat of
actual rule and management, has no parallel
in the annals of history. The system was
good and worked well ; and we cannot
really account for the hallucination with which
the Directors have been visited in attempt-
ing to change it. " Our empire in India,"
as Lord Hastings most truly remarked
in our own hearing, " is an empire of
opinion ;" and nothing, in consequence, can
be more impolitic than to expose its extreme
fragility to such dangerous contact as that of a
collision between the civil and military power--
between the power which controuls, and that
which actually maintains our supremacy in the
East. The sums, we readily allow, which are
paid by the East India Company to its civil and
military servants in the East appear enormous,
and out of all proportion, when compared with
those which are paid here ; but it ought to be
remembered that every one who enters the service
of the Company in the East, does so, not only
at the expence of leaving behind him relatives,
friends, and connections, but, from the unfavour-
able nature of the climate, at the risk of his life
—that the health of all Europeans is more or less
injured by a long residence in an Indian climate
—and that those who thrive best, and survive
their time of service, return to their native
country with at least ten or fifteen years of
shorter life than they would otherwise have en-
joyed—and that that life, from the breaking up
of old habits, friendships, and connections, is
by no means the most delightful. And are not
these grounds for the awarding of greater emo-
luments and indulgences to the officers of the
East India Company than to those in any other
service? And is it not unjust and cruel first to
entice men into such service by offers of liberal
reward, and then to turn round and cut short
their allowances ? We shall not indulge in the
remarks which, under other circumstances, we
should be inclined to make ; for we are confi-
dent th4t, when the Court of Directors come to
revise their proceedings, they will rescind them
at once as unjust and impolitic. The army in
India, or rather the officers of that army, is
their tower of strength ; and it would be much
better for them to resign their empire at once
than to give such just ground of discontent to
those who can maintain, lime, or seize it, as may
suit their interests and inclinations, as they have
now done.—Morning Advertiser.

Considerably more bustle has been perceptible
at the lower part of the harbour for the last few days than
has been witnessed for the three previous months. The
trade, however, is principally confined to the steamers.—
Since Saturday five of these arrived from Ireland with
grain, and the exports of dry goods, coa's, &c., are on the
increase. A cargo of herrings arrived from the North
Highlands on Saturday ; and another of potatoes from the
Water of Leven, which are selling at l Is. per boll.—
Glasgow eh r (Mick.
The fate of WILLIANI VIALL, a lad of 16,
who was tried under Lord ELLENEOROUGH'S Act at our
last Assizes for cutting and maiming GEORGE GREEN, his
fellow-apprentice, with an intent to murder, of which he
was found guilty, and sentence of death accordingly
passed upon him, but which has been respited from time
to time until the last week, is decided, and his punishment
computed to transportation for life. lie will very skortly
be tient f-o-, to hence to the prison-hulks at Portsmouth, to
•
be embarked on board the first ship that Government fits
out for Botany Bay. It is said tliat the recovery of
GEoncE GREEN is still very doubtful, and that the sur-
geons who have hitherto attended him cannot pronounce
him put of danger. Should he die within a year and a
'day Of the time when the act was committed upon him,
the charge against Ytat.r.. will then become murder, for
which crime lie has not been, but in that case will be
liable to be, tried, being a distinct offence from that pro-
vided for under the Act before alluded t0....8ury