The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEW;

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FOREIGN.
,N;aft
A letter from Athens, 30th ult., says :—" The ,so
King and Queen Ee* out to-day on a visit to some o.:}o:7lbielt,
the islands of the Archipelago. They will be absentj
ten or twelve days.
Letters from Constantinople of the 28th ult.,' an. 0003
nounce that the Porte, in spite of the representations „loci
of the European Powers, has established a purely wiz
Turkish Government over the Maronites and DruSes.
An ultimatum had been sent to Persia." .
A new Governor is about to be sent out to tkilyrk
French colony of Cayenne. bar
Ab-del-Kader, who a":short time ago was in so tlo/
tical a position that he was wandering on the borders
of the desert with only 50 followers, has now 800
cavalry and 2,000 infantry under his command.
Baron Nagel, the Minister of the Netherlands, bad
a private audience of the King yesterday, to deliver to ,
his Majesty a letter from his Sovereign, announcing
the marriage of his daughter, the Princess Sophia,
with the hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar
Eisenach.

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A small mosque is about to be erected in the Qusr-, ~iaa
tier Beaujon, for the use of the Mahometans residing
in Paris. „10.11
During the week, from the 7th to the 13th ins!',,if
of
inclusively, the number of passengers between France,ao
and England, who embarked and landed at Boulognivicr
was 1,239. At Calais the number during the ,arp„f.r
period was 537. Jsfit
On the sth of this month the English fleet was stir
cruising between Malta and Sicily.
Rio de Janeiro papers to the 17th August had been
received at Pernambuco, previous to the sailing, of the a
packet. Everything there was going on well. Senhef .;j8
r,eato Manoel, one of the rebel chiefs from El”
Grande, had arrived at Rio, having made his sublni_
sion. The elections at Pernambuco have terminate':
in favour of the present Government, and as far a'
they had proceeded at Bahia they were equally so.
Certain of the Paris journals remarkable for their
hostility to England, appear willing at present to sunAr '
port a commercial treaty with this country, based
upon a concession in favour of the wine-growing ',in'
terest. The Constitutionncl, however, seems to COf
Sider that the concessions should be all on one sie' yi)
and modestly proposes that it should be a treatiLl ,J 9,1
which the chief manufactures of France shall netL„r 1:4
injured, and that agriculture shall draw from it serl,°r,,goil
advantages. 1/000?!
M. Raffo, the Secretary to the Bey Of Tunoli
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arrived at Marseilles on an important mission ter bat'
French Court. It is affirmed in one of the
papers that this mission is relative to the interlitise.o
able question about Tunis, which is always on "„f
point of being decided, and to which the Ottoto7,l`
Porte continually returns with extraordinary obstinite;;
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. .4A
The shipping employed in the timber trade betwee
tho .'"
Liverpool and the North American colonies, and w •-t)
timber also in the same proportion, is expected to s"°o
a decrease of nearly two-thirds before the terminatl°
of the winter.
A party who has visited Cranborne, in Partet",
during the last week, describes the parish as containil
,44-1 inhabitants, chiefly farm-labourers, and, sin dl
dependent on agriculture. Wages are at presel".4
a week, but that allowance is frequently reduced, present
all talk of a reduction. At these low wages Cranhe,rtia
has a redundancy of labourers, and many can
no employment.
Large quantities of timber have, within these fes.-
0V
days been taken out of bond at Leith, by rees?„fl
the new tariff, which came into operation last• .lu°oo,ri
day. Timber formerly paying 10s. per load, j 5
cleared at Is. ifl
ECCLESIASTICAL.
The Bishop of Jerusalem has been twice attso,esis
with fever, and his lady and household more o,r
severely, since their arrival in th© Holy Land.
are now staying in an old convent, about two
from Jerusalem, for change of air. ^
MEDICAL.
The new Queen's Hospital at Birmingham Dns„..cs,j.
recognised by the College of Surgeons, and Kr''"
Albert has accepted the office of President.
LAW AND POLICE. • be' jrl
No less than 57 petitions from various pat"
East Sussex were presented at the Quarter Ses; the,.;
at Lewes, held yesterday, for the abolition o' A 0
rural police force. The new Parish Constables
is considered a sufficient protection. 11 es'
Eleven men were -brought up at Union
terday, charged for refusing to break stones ani,bee:'
wood for four hours each, in return for A rwlog-•
lodging and breakfast provided them in the risl.„.e day*
ton workhouse. They were committed for i°l4-
,
each to the House of Correction. f the
tdeirvdisaiyon;viwthas a cdhaarrignegd
street a t theroblVblaeg,,leboannae
James Andrews, formerly a policeruali-naffic' ,yea"-r
mitted for trial. i,;
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. the,,,
The poet Louis Tieck has been nominated by
King of Prussia to the post of scenic director d
Grand Opera of the capital.
Coma.T—F.IISIIZONABLE. id;
The Earl arid Countess of Desart have been en lei"
a
taming a select circle at Desart Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are expected 16'
winter at Naples.
• too
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are auldlitgo
the numerous English fashionables who In
winter at Rome.
Lord Kelburne, M.P., left the Clarendon Hotel'.
yesterday for the north.
Lord and Lady Ponsonby have deferred their
_eic°./3.'
7uTlyecolir
templated visit to Brighton until the ensuing were,like
Lord and Lady Mahon have been visiting the 11
of Wellington during the past week at IValnier UafaiJ
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor have arrive'
a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood.
The Lord Great Chamberlain and Lady
D'Eresby have arrived on a visit to the
Duchess of Buccleuch at Dalkeith Palace, 3'74
Drummond Castle. Wel°
Lady Mary Leslie has taken a suite of apart
at the Norfolk Hotel, rihton. 14,1°4
Lord and Lady Evelßyng are staying on a
Balborne House, Fifeshire.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Count Rossi, the husband of Mdlle. Sontag,- grit(
to be named Minister Plenipotentiary from the .;r
of Sardinia to the Prussian Court.
A meeting of the members of the „,-13, ,bot
Church Association was held yesterday in
for the purpose of taking leave of Sir Culleng
Smith, prior to his departure for the Continent. the
Thomas Platt, Esq., whose death took place °now
Bth inst., and whose professional practice for_ Ws
than sixty years has been of the highest ord7 ,
admitted an attorney on the 26th of May, 17060
was successively principal clerk to Lords 111. pr.
Kenyon, and Ellenborough, Chief Justices °scroll
land. He was engaged, among the literarf ef!WO
his life, in sharing part in the publication Of off
Gram Sibthoqiana, a work which has 111'.--:"
reached ten folio volumes of great beauty.

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SPORTING INTELLIGEiCS....;C
(GREACTEImVAENDeTHHEIsSTEDRA.IIosr.4I%t-(•;jf
against
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Marion.
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BiTitaDl BETTING
ok(E
nts
MO4TYN MILE.-6 to 4 offered on Collins► gin-
tiollel agatW ili
of
freely),
eagerly
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,A101(1E0t STARES.-6 :161
aagstgOstlt
yitajgg :or
rtjoh.T(0:11611(.3:ii.;:i:onij:10:
agst Billingham Lass (t), 14 to 1 agst Ls% rester, P"
to 1 agst Cabrera (t freely), 14 to 1 agst °r-s
16 to 1 agst Una. iotioe
DERBY, 1843.-13 to' 1 agst Mr. Bowes' irult„ 1 ag,t,
(t), 17 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot (s), l' i,Totlii''''
Col. Peel's lot (t), 7 to Tagst Scot's lot (t).
backed singly.. ~1G• • 0S
HOLYWELL COURSING MEET-L.' r, cooe a
• ;MONDAY OCT. 17.—The Talacre Stakes et.,' 6004?
each (16 subs.), were won by. Mr. Rober's Nifeuie'
(in the deciding course) Sir P. Mostyn's Celeste.
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MARQUIS WELLESLEY AND LORD /3'-ter4,105,
One of the most pleasing results of a love °,' -ersoeP
literature is the suppression, as it were, of all, Pay, tile
and political animosity towards those wlio Kaye
in:
thesarn ecatasestoef. theA A
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niaetexaLnioprldelovfoitiehsiise)Tay be ado- ug-
ham. The one the bosom friend andanadri°iirtuadfliiiioree:
ooff Mmri...PFitotx;: theL Lord
ei3r
reoquugailllaymv‘l'veadsdeftroeqttihe_enodtpb,l.;.,ittbuct
at Kingston House, where his bust was tot'Pia,c_e‘ Ny:
Noble resident immediately opposite to tl,;tis Dor
Pitt. On the death of the only daughter of
one
cote:
ship, in her 18th year, whose life had been °"..nd ever,'
nual illness, borne with great resigr!atior,e
it.`equest.et;
with a cheerful and gay temper of mind, he t''„
an epitaph from Lord Wellesley, wh° co 4:, in Lew
following beautiful lines, which we give bat
and English, from his Lordship's pen :--.ta gob°
~ Blanda anima e cunis, heu ! longo exerct
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Inter maternal, heu I leery
Quas rise lenire too jucunda solcbas,
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Et Levis, et proprii viz inemor ipsa Lett'!
I, Pete etelestes, übi nulls est curs, ree,ssu'
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Et tibi sit nullo mista dolore qui"! • t yea
arbes
" Do,,mcd to long suffering from your e
alone
Amidst your parents' grief and pain,_,l. tears,
Cheerful and gay, you smiled to south their
And in their agonies forgot your 0
masque Pat
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Go, gentle spirit ; and among the blest' , 0
4 odladieanVollfirt
•A trees
'We'r(reggreiteftaonds'tpaatein
standing between the chapel at Meg,
_groutd
made
and the President's lodgings, fell to tne
attelliP are
week. It has again been raised, and r 1 fin
tehtaertnathi
er.l- 5 rill
to preserve the venerable occupant 0. P nif Its
ugh
than 100 years' standing, by lopPlut we friford
i,ranches and supporting the trunk
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fear that the attempt will prove ineffew
Herald. elw..,1111)y; rest.

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I, AWr INTELLIGENCE.
iNsoLvENT coußT_('ruis DAY.)
Mr. Commissioner Bowen sat to-day, for the pur-
Pase of hearing motions and ,applications to bail, of
Which latter only 'eight Stood upon the list.
IN RE THOMAS WALLER.
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On last Friday this insolvent appeared in Court to
2e.liberated upon bail, until-the day appointed for his
final
hearing, when, one of the sureties swore that he
.vls a,timber-merchant; and possessed of stock and
'llrniture to the value of 4001.
d.11136n the' case being called on again, the. insolvent
not.appear, and the opposing creditor stated to the
ourt that since the
_last hearing he bad taken a
brokei,to tie premises of the timber-merchant who
aware. his stock in trade.and furniture was worth 4001.,
and so far'from such. being the case, there was not as
Mauch timber in a place which he called his timber-
and work Shop as would make a lucifer match,
"4 after valuing all the furniture it was found to be
'Otlh about 181.
.1144arned COMMISSIONER said this was a scanda-
__ us case of fraud and perjury. He should take care
and have it noted in the books.
IN RE BROWN.—THE INCOME-TAX.
athUr• COOKE said he appeared on behalf of certain
naitAnts of the insolvent. It appeared that he
essessed a retired allowance of 5001. per annum from
be Customs, a balance of which, after his insolvency,
ce.caele-vested in the assignees. The annuitants re-
,:ed...350/., and the creditors under this Court 1501.
rear, and the whole of the Income-tax was deducted
to°rni, the former. The Learned Counsel now applied
gui-,:lavejt equally assessed so that the, joint small
pro laid under the insolvency would have their fair
pr.k4 orthe t‘x.
thathot ZounigraUied the application, first ordering
...written assent of the assignees be obtained.
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. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
.13, • (THIS DAY.)
R 8414 Gorman aged 20, was indicted for assaulting
-Lent,
tor,' en 01,inden, and another constable in the execu-
I of their duty.
ion co constable Ovinden, No. 90, of the D divi-
of
:.stateil, that on the 3d of October, he heard cries
co,' murder " proceeding from a house in Grey's
fouurt, Oxford-street, and, on going into the house, he
cbaci the prisoner with a knife in one hand, and a
with ht, threatening to murdir his father. On
stru t.s4 interfering to protect the old man, the prisoner
whicei;l3,l4l on the face and hand with the weight, by
out. -1",`8, nose was broken, and his head dreadfully
seize'co.`oilst witness was on the ground the prisoner
Ott IV,III, by the ears, one of which he nearly pulled
crowd '''''Pess suffered excruciating pain. A great
Man, 4/vas collected in the court, and another police-
the ari'.6. 14,1 Ching, 97 D, came to his assistance, when
kiesl°ner, after a desperate struggle, Was secured
da7en to the station. The prisoner said he would
sssaur."-the witness, who had prosecuted him for
for ,'' a former occasion, when he was imprisoned
7 14 °rlth 011 .
Wo •
Pols. witnesses confirmed this evidence ; but Mr.
stren,E, who defended the prisoner, observed it was
Ictife6., that the prosecutor did not produce either the
(AIL Lne
weight, or the father, who was the alleged
J.Zi9t of the prisoner's brutality in the first instance.
J•ll*"`r ° witnesses were called for the defence, and the
he 3' 'without hesitation found the prisoner Guilty.—
hit2v, as sentenced to six months' imprisonment and
labour, six weeks to be passed solitary.
OLT
-uE INTELLIGENCE.
-AYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.)
r,a771..41/r Hume Plunked, a fashionably-dressed young
t., inas placed at the bar, on a charge of assault.
hap,.°"cononstable Ross, 157 D, stated that about
in Past two this morning he was in Gloucester-
re, when the prisoner came up to him, and offered.
Ito two . .
.overeigns if he would allow him to use ceorf-
fer"ip.b.rties. 'Witness refused, and the priso.ner.
eastl,hon a sovereign more, when he took him into
of On their way to the station-house he begged
„I:••itness not to ruin him, and promised if he corn-
Vo,with his wishes to give him a .5/. note.
4- lice-constable Beck, 127 D, said that about a
qtlarter the corner of
yoik. past one he was standing at
after Plaec, New-road, when prisoner came up, and,
10/. a few remarks about the weather, offered him
}IQ inal(ing the same proposal as to first witness. He,
,eer, let him go about his business then.
his prisoner asserted his innocence, but reserved
con,.._ef,, nee for another Court; and he was therefore
,ail led for trial.
was
taken in two sureties of 1001. each.

THis DAY.)
UNION-HALL.--(THIS to corn-
2tfah,
ruit su4i,iviais was charged with attempting
pretedi„ . The defendant was observed, on the
°rid* --bg• night,' to descend the steps of Southwark-
from ' ut vein;prevented
Southwark-
from
quickly followed, she was
Iti „tee g enelf into the river. . .
her iif °uoting for the • stance,, she said that
circum
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beiutpe.tc,s rendered miserable, owing to her family
tcillurittyl to great indigence ;
out
and work
by
i.tilra.llclecl It
her husband being
8 talhn
ea tc•;\ °IT his employers, who did not_
the
formerly, in consequence of h
woman the foil,
_,. Pointe,. 4Gisliti". • A out lo the unfortunate
be ') of he act she was about to have
5, reSponsible that she that sheld
' and saidt must find some one to
Ile rgust 8.9 te,gar0......_ not repeat it, otherwise
' Committed for want of bail.

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' ' --- MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
The suppliesCOßN EXCHANGE.
Irish Oats of English Corn were small,d
and
dull, and
of
mondav, fair. Wheat was excessively u
no .varraprices could not be obtained. In other grain
variation The sale of Flour was slack.
li ENV G A --c.
There -----P-4 AND LEADENHALL.
4... ,
at ;
Litt on account
was not much town or country-killed me
sible to obt-' of the cool weather the salesmen were
I Am au advance of 2d. to 4d. per stone on
nearly all d
•.
escriptious of fine fresh meat, stale
sale • sorts
Vere.duu of
Pretty good
supply of Game and Poultry we had a
}, s were
nrbetter d at moderate prices. ,g•go.,
and • "land, the supplies of English falling rr,
0., 1:TIFe8 were fully Li
. trier kinds Ss. 3d. to 6ss. 6d per 120.
pported ; English 6s. to 75.,
'lllll iaroolinet°oLfllNl,l,AL MARKET..
Parcels of --sioess done was small, and the
goods brought to public sale xere light.
There Na
8 TEA *MARKET. busiuesa w rather more demand for tea, and a fair
Congon, ILS done at full prices. Sound common
the. warelelashi I.S. 7d. per lb. The deliveries from
weekl,
,c`uses were good, averaging
4 • ,rries are lower than last year at this time.
400,000.1 s.
P.
CandIeTALLOW MARKET.
A Ir. 4Bs
the spot, and
•28a. 6d, f• 6d. to 48s. 9d. on
or delivery in last two months of the year,
With a good de -
'Rand.
• Prices ' WOOL MARKET.
wool, and a
fair
businessA ere firm for all descriptions of ,
coele Was done. The arrivals from abroad.
end .11 sewly, and the stocks in manufacturers'
are getting small.
~...'SPelte METAL MARKET. . •verei r continue;, to attract attention, and prices
41304., ()eking up, 28/. ss. to 281. 10s. per ton on the
' aud 27/.los. to 281. per ton for arrival.
kond --i--------- de in Bakewell
chttrt day evening an attempt was ma
lotpoyEird by two men to disinter a corpse lately
del2. They had succeeded so far in their revoltingthe
cote', but were discovered just as they got to
the
assistantli.-The guilty parties are Joshua Birley, _
_r.
w sexton, and a man named Robertson. M
,en,
his residence
bear to a„respectable cordvva , iner has
the first to give tbe
alai. - ,ne graveyard, and was
1, •el, his f -, • disturbed by the nno se made
~,5, th - anniy being
both fled, but have
1140, ,e resurrectionists. They
morn-
Ink it?eo, n taken into custody. On Wednesday.when he
co-f,,—lriY WAS interrogated by the Vicar,
as
th:l;tsed it was their intention to steal the body,
respectable
iamb tfAlad already disposed of it t* two
it to
e'illen in Bakewell, who intended to forward
ure,___D b
Ttt, ••—Derby uChronicle.
I iiA —lt is now
I:)Tie,'" VERLAND MAIL FROM NI •
which have
beelokently stated that the arrangements
to4,Pending for some time between the Right Hon.
t, rci Lowther, the Postmaster-General and the Aus-
o';ao Directeur-General, for the transmission of the
Ray ofd mail from India via Suez and Alexandria, by
:111 of Trieate and Ostend, have been concluded.
ov is
"Nv arrangement with regard to receiving the
treat"'land mail will in no manner affect the present
laY of sending via Marseilles to Malta, Egypt, and
ruailia, °a the 4th of each month, and by the French
d
25th
Packets leaving that pert on the Ist, 11th, an
" of the
pas
month.
past Iti°us ACCIDENT.—Last night, about a quarter
eott e.ight o'clock, a horse, which was drawing a cab,
.fiir• lulling its driver and a gentleman, made off at a
botitoug rate down Waterloo-place. On reaching the
co„,!to, the cab was fortunately stopped by coming in
.4 et with the lamp-post at the top of the steps,
and on
but tk the right hand side of the York column,
i 3
part ",,e horse made a tremendous leap, carrying
tier of the cab with it, to the bottom of the second
eabrortn4cPs, where it lay apparently lifeless. The_
rPeeiv„,,' who was violently precipitated to the ground
Profusely 4 erious injuries on the forehead, which bled
jOsQ,„, and was immediately assisted to Charing.
ur7l,ospital. The gentleman received no other in-
so i;i L",an a violent shock. The horse recovered itself
Tv. !ion as to return up over the steps, but it is sup-
, t ' AZt to be of little value.
44,h.ittle provisions of the new Fishery Act are about
.Ilg enforced by the gentry of evei y county in
atedn'ld• The trygen of Meath have recently associ-
- . themselves fo h of carrying the law
Into effect t e purpose
diserinc on the Boyne, where, leretofore, an hi-
e\ er _mate slaughter of •
salmon wal carried on by
. ,
_Y description of nets, weirs, &c. and that to such
-7. e ztent AS ghhost to destroy the ishing of the river.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIG JOLItIVALS.

111031 THE EVENING PAPES OF. THIS DAY.

HERALD.—Sir Charles Bagot's conduct in
Canada has assuredly made a very. deep impres-
sion on public opinion, It is occasionally excused,
but nowhere justified.. Ordinary people cannot
comprehend .the necessity to govern through the
agency of quondam rebels, and seditious and dis-
affected agitators. The Governor-General of
Canada, it is urged, had no alternative but to call
Mr. Lafontaine to his councils. The Provincial
Legislature, it is said, had not confidence in his
Cabinet, and thereibre he sought the aid of thole
in whom the Legislature would repose trust.
This reasoning is quite inadmissible, because it is.
regardless of facts. The Parliament of Canada
had come to no such decision as is meant to be
thereby conveyed. All that the House did was
to debate most furiously over the address; but
it had not recorded any vote adverse to the Ad-
ministration. True, it was suspected that the Ad-
ministratii;n, as constituted, had not strength
in the House to conduct the public busi-
ness of the session, because it had previously
been damnified by Sir Charles Bagot
himself, and it was very probable that Sir
Charles Bagot's Ministry might have found itself
in a minority on the Address. But it was the
duty, as well as the interest of the Queen's
representative, to have stood aloof while the con-
test was going on. When the exigency requiring
a change of advisers had actually arisen, Sir
Charles Bagot might have profitably interposed,
and called to his aid the moderate and reasonable
from all quarters. Instead of waiting with the
dignity and self:reliance demanded by his po-
sition and office, until the Provincial Legislature
bad agreed on a hostile vote, the Governor pre-
cipitated the fate of part of his own Cabinet, and
entered into premature and voluntary negotiations
with the most bitter opponents of the advisers in
whom he professed to have confidence, and to
resign with regret,—with men whom a pre-
decessor bad proclaimed as disaffected and dan-
gerous,subjects. If the opinions of the majority
of the Canadian representatives were adverse to
the provincial Ministry as constituted, those
opinions should 'have • been. tested by a divi-
sion, and it would have been time enough to
have' looked • about for other advisers when
legislative confidence was thus publicly with-
drawn from those who stilt possessed the Gover-
nor's trust. Such would have been the consti-
tutional course of •conduct---•such was the line of
policy most befitting responsible Governments.
This objection to the mode in which Sir Charles
Bagot called Mr: Lafontaine and his friends to
his councils is not one .of mere formality ; the
haste with which Sir Charles acted is indicative
of a foregone conclusion, and' of his having pur-
sued the course lie has 'followed- under peremp-
tory instructions from home. The change which
has taken place in the Canadian Administration
is, it must be recollected,. only partial; but pre-
parations, it is clear, had been made sonic months
ago for this change by the admission of a Mr.
Hinckes, a rabid Radical politician of Upper
Canada, into the Cabinet. The adoption of that
person, who had preViously been the conductor
of a violent Opposition journal at Toronto, by Sir
Charles Bagot, amounted to little short of a de-
claration of hostility by the Queen's representa-
tive against that portion of the loyal inhabitants
of the Upper Province who rescued it from the
rebellion and treason of Mr. Hinckes' clients;
and so it was received by the gallant Sir Allen
M'Nab, Dr. Dunlop, and the other firm sup-
porters of the British dominion there.

POST.—The argument of Mr. Webster on the
subject of the impressment of Britisii seamen
from American merchantmen, which forms part
of his recent correspondence with Lord Ash-
burton, might have been permitted to descend
into oblivion as a piece of abstract and specula-
tive reasoning, wholly inapplicable to existing
circumstances, had not some of our Contempo-
raries thought fit to give it a prominence and an
importance to which it seems scarcely entitled,
by founding on it dissertations on the right and
policy of impressment as a means of developing
the resources of our country in naval warfare.
It must always, no doubt, be important to Great
Britain, when engaged in hostility with any of
her continental, neighbours, to abstain, if possi-
ble, from the adoption of any line of conduct,
however justifiable upon the principles of inter-
national law, of which the practical tendency
would be to enrol the United States of America
on the side of her European foes. But it must
be recollected that the question of impressment
is not the only one which renders the
maintenance of pacific relations between Great
Britain and the United States, on the occurrence
of a war of any considerable duration between
the former and any other European Power, ex-
ceedingly difficult, precarious, and, we may add,
improbable. The doctrine that free vessels make
free goods7-a doctrine subversive of the essential
commercial policy of Great Britain whenever she
is in the situation of a belligerent, no less than it
is repugnant to the established law of nations in
which all civilised Powers, unless when warped
by palpable self-interest have uniformly acqui-
esced—Lis one upon which the United States and
Great Britain are as much at issue as upon that
of impressment, and in connection with which
the right of visitation would be as strenuously
repelled by America. From this view of the
subject the opinion seems naturally to spring that
it would be useless and imprudent on the
part of Great Britain to concede any thing to
America in derogation of her own right to claim,
wherever they can be found, her own subjects
to subject them to the operation of her own
laws—and to exact from them such services as
they are peculiarly qualified to render, the per-
formance of which, when required by the State,
being plainly included in the general obligation
of allegiance. The question whether it would be
a prudent and advantageous alteration in the
practice of the British Government, or whether
justice and humanity towards the people of
England require such a change, to abolish the
system of impressment, is, it must be remarked,
an English domestic question exclusively, with
which neither Mr. Webster, nor the President,
nor the Congress of the United States, can be
allowed, or probably would wish, to interfere.
Nothing can be better established in natural
reason, or in public law, than the right of a
State to claim and to compel the services, in
war or in peace, of the whole or any part of
its subjects, whenever the general safety and
welfare of the community render the exer-
cise of this right a matter -of necessity
—of which necessity the rulers of the State,
ex necessitate rei, must be regarded as the
infitl-
lible judges. The right ofimpressment is the le-
gitimate consequence of this principle. It is not
confined to seamen otherwise than by the effect
of those peculiar circumstances in the condition
of England, which make the services of seamen
in special emergencies, and in numbers, greater
than voluntary enlistment would probably afford
at the necessary moment, a paramount and vital
interest of the State. It would be equally, that
is, perfectly, justifiable, upon principle, to com-
pel the services, if they were of a nature that
could be compelled, and were not offered in suf-
ficient abundance to meet any national exigency,
of physicians, barristers, doctors of divinity, or
landed gentlemen of 5,000/, a year. Nor, when
the matter is properly considered, is there any
hardship towards the seaman who is impressed,
since he must have entered, and must have re-
mained in maritime life, with a perfect know-
ledge of the established policy and practice of
the state of which he is a member, to avail it-
self in certain circumstances of the services of
its s'a-faring subjects, by the exercise of com-
pulsion.

CHRONICLE.—Whatever maythe be worth
of the investigation conducted by Messrs.
Tre-
menhere and Allen, into the .management of
the Pauper School of St. Pancras, there is one
point which we are disposed incidentally
to no-
tice, though probably it presents nothing pecu-
liar to this school—we allude -to the mode
iu
which the poor children pass their Sundays. it
consists of an unbroken and monotonous routine
of religious services, so dove-tailed and continu-
ous as to be much more likely to induce a
weariness and mental nausea in the children
that will last them all their lives, than to open
their hearts to any of the truth and beauty of
religion. That the pauper boys should, if pos-
sible, be made religious, as religious as their
bettirs, or very much inure so, is a proposition
in which we heartily concur. It is, indeed, be-
cause we concur in that. proposition that we object
to the prayer-grinding system practised in St.
Pancras workhouse. No good can come of it.
A truly religious result is not in the nature
of things. Sectarian chatterers, orthodox
parrots, and sneaking pocrites, that use
good words to cajole their superiors, may be
formed thereby ; but not intelligently pious
and moral members of the community. Perhaps,
too, some of the roughest young rascals in the
school may be manufactured into the sort of
churchman which the devoutToryism of our day
seems to desiderate. If religion is really to be
promoted, the Sunday of the pauper, and espe-
cially of the pauper child, should be made so
f‘veleome a day to his feelings that he will lo(,k
aonid•wagrdiadto
eixtpteleirttannith the week with heartfelt
should be lightened Y.
His
The little that will sunk religious lessons
lay hold upon his 'an
p r e fe rred to the nturi:cknld and excite his
iy interest.lvaried, that they abiyes
sense. Religion cannot
of Three. Four •
repetitions
be instilled by the Rule
of the Liturgy will

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not make a boy four limes as devout as if he
only.heard it once. The Lord's Prayer is short;
but not for the purpose of being multiplied
every Sunday by twelve or twenty repe-
titions. The spiritual dietary of a workhouse need
not be precisely the reverse of its physical dietary.
Cramming is as bad for the mental as for the
bodily digestion. And word-cramming, in reli-
gion or in anything else, is the most unwhole-
some treatment to which youthful intellect can
be subjected. While the object, then, is steadily
kept in sight, of cultivating the moral sense and
cherishing religious feeling in those whom their
parents' misfortunes throw upon the parish for
what early training they are likely to receive, it
will be well if the means be more wisely chosen.
Let them not be such as to defeat their own
purpose. In the instance that has occasioned
these remarks they manifestly are so. The au-
thority most reverenced might be cited, were it
needful, against " vain repetitions." And, surely
no repetitions can be vainer than those which
disgust the poor boy with his Sunday, his Bible,
his-Prayer-book, and his Church; and thus tend
to render him permanently irreligious by the
unwise employment of religious forms.