Star.
London, England, 1831-09-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THIS DAY'S JOURNALS.

TIMES —The programs.. (as it is called) of the corona-
don was previously known to the public, and we do not
recollect that it was afterwards deviated front in any sensible
degree. A circumstance, which could not be alluded to in
any programme, but which constituted, as will be slide el by
every body, one of the most gratifying appendages of the
whole solemnity. was the loud, hearty, and unsnimout, ac-
clamation which burst from all classes of his Majesty's &Ge-
-1 donate subjects through nit the whole line of the Royal pro-
gress from St. James's to %Vestotinstrr, gni afterwards on
every occasion at which a due reverence for the sacred r tee
within the Abbey admitted of any demonstrations of Public
feeling,--still more when certain periods of tho service—as
the recognition, the crowning ex.—seemed more ometi Illy
to tall for therm N. ver was an hereditaty King to
hailed and welcomed by a free and redacting people.
They are mistaken—hut there are vast numbers thus
mistaken—who deem of a coronatioo as if it were an °
un-
substantial pageant,- a pine of crowns and coronets, and
undue, to be played at grreefory by personages conoected
with the Coon. It is thoevitknce or an au were a td solemn
compact, by which the gravest of all luxnan engagements are
reciprocated between nations sod their ruler.—between par-
ties on whose digharge or absndonnient of their respective
obligations, depends the existence of society or its ruin. It
is plain, therefore, that the more impressive and menseinhk
such a formality between Kir.g and people can be salted.
the more conducive %ill be iis atributes tore
end. When protection and alit glance are
at the commencemen nt • tit w rcir.., evet7
agree that the compact ought In tK coifi,d is to
my. by a itanetion which the bulk ut mankind sacred.
It must be added, however, that toe sanction hopes=
to be draws from the fountains of that peculiar filth
is received as true by the parties hinditig themselves to ob-
i sane it. Nothing coal be maw ttalish than to peens a
Assn. rood lb* LAN% or apparel the Bishop et I.
deo so retch before a Usbeeseuut o•nAregation, on the ae-
eseslea of. descendant et the Proehrt. So the bald UM-
laden worship would little 'Sit the prejudices q(h Napes.

nesian audience; or the grotesque mixture of oid Popi.h
mummery with old feudal barbarian:, admonish, r) any
very salutary purpose, the King of England and his pa-01)k,
being Protestants, of even their most sacred duties. Ye:,
with the exception of the litany, and conniathion service. and
the sermon (provided the latter be an exception,—that is to
say, not a divine right and King's chaplain sermon.) what can
be more thoroughly:and revoltingly cumpounded of the wot t
dregs of Popery and feudalism, than a prdigious number
of the qyuackeries played off in the course of King William's
eesonatlea ? What a fuss with pals, and ingots, and spurs,
and swords, and oil for anointing (greasing) their sacred
Majesties ! and whipping off and on of mantles ; and the
rest of it. Why, what has all such frippery to do with an
oath P.what with the spirit of a great political contract ?
what with the splendour of a public festival ? A mogul.
don if you will—there is a fine animating shout of accept.
ante when the Sovereign is presented to his people. A
anon by all means, it is the received and immamorial lumina
of the Kingly office. A procession, too, (and yet we had at
this time no proceseion),—there is no harm in it, but much
to put the people in good humour, were it for nothing
but a train of graceful and lovely women sweeping past
In the robes and ornaments which denote their station by
certain known and intelligible symbols. Rut the matters
which nobody understands or cares about—the rigmarole*
above alluded to, which we do not condemn tenure they
are old, but because, with reference to our religious, and
civil, and social history, they are now utterly untrue, and
therefore have no longer any meaning,—what is their
effect, but to give an air of " unreal mockery" to the
whole affair,.—to transform it into a masquerade, or puppet-
show, and to weaken every solemn and deep impres-
sion which the mind might otherwise be disposed to
receive front those parts of the performance which do
accord with our religious sentiments and our modem
habits? Bob forbid there should be any cause in the health
or prospects of his present Majesty to thiskatiis many years
to come about another comeauos. But when a leisure hour
shall arrive, it will, we know, be an acceptable service to all
reflecting p:ople to recast the entire charaav of the 1131[111.
pity, rejecting these Farts which had been fitted i.nly to a
pit od when the outward sens:s were made renders to the
all-absorbing superstition within, and retaining those ia
which an educated, inquiring, and reasoning people, may see
some relation between the torn; and the substance—lperween
the nature of the kingly contract and its accompanying
incidents.

HERALD.—Whether the pestilent disease with whif
the malignant genius of Russian ambition has smote so many
parts of Europe shall eventually visit the shores e Rig' aid
with a renewed appetite for devastation. is a fearful problem
which, of course, only time can solve ; but, whatever miy
be the event, it is worth considering if such a calamity
should befall us, whether the habits of the people arc AUC:I
as are likely to mitigate or aggravate the destruAiye violence
of the distemper. Whatever difference of opinion et: stet ai
to the origin and nature of the disease, it is agreed upon sill
aides that intemperance predisposes the human body for the
reception of this foul visitant, and increases its pow. r over
human life. Of all intemperance that which consists in tha
inordinate use of ardent spirits is, perhaps, the worst. W he.
than we regard it as the agent of moral or physical evil, its
ftvages are dreadful. It is a prolific parent of crime, and •
sluice of the most afflicting and dangerous nuldtlies.
That this sort of intemperance has increased, and is
Mill increasing in this country, admits unhappily of no
doubt. Without taking the trouble of going into any
detail on the subject, we may rest satisfied on this point
with the authority of the Loyd Chancellor, who gave a
melancholy account the other day. in the Rouse of Lords,
of the inanee of gin-drinking, and, as a convincing proof
of the progress which that destructive propensity has made
since the duty 00 gin was lowered, he stated that the reve-
nue derived from gin was now nearly as great as before that
reduction took place, which, of course, could only have
arisen from its increased consumption. Even the nuisance
of unlimited beer-houses, which his lordship did not deny
to be an evil, as being a source of irregularity and Rao-
doneness, he endeavoured to excuse, solely oo the ground
that they were a less evil than gin-shops, which he said
they tended to discourage. We said at the time that a
more effectual discouragement of the consumption tot gin
would be to raise the duty upon it, and repeal the malt-tax.
We have quarantine laws to keep out the pestilence, but we
have seen that in other countries it bas overleaped all qua.
ratite restrictions, and broken through NI ltary cordons an
that no very satisfactory dependence can be placed upon ;Itch
attempts to coerce the deadly influence of this new au my
of mankind. But to mitigate its effects, Wit should cons
amongst us, Is within our own power. To exasperate its ma.
lignity is equally a matter dependent upon ourselves ; and we
believe the most effective sanitary oo.don would be that
which would cut of the inordinate use of ardent spirits.
We think the Government are bound, at such a crisis, to
take all measures necessary for the preservation of the public
health. They lowered the duty on gin because the political
ts economis told them that the cheaper the article became,
the more of it would be consumed, and that eventualy the
revenue would become greater than if the duty were not
reduced. The Government and the poli deal economists,
caring nothinj for the month of the people or their health,
opened to them every facility for procuring that " liquid
fire^ which consumes both one and the other The pn:sait
Lord Chancellor sees and admits the mischief. It is within
the power of the administration, of which he is so th.tic-
guished a member, to obviate it. We have pointed out the
way. If the pestilence should hereafter reach a people pre-
pared for it by the worst intemperance, we, at least, shall
have done our duty. i

POST.--No sooner has the Reform Bill passed the 01;110
mittee of the House of Commons, than we find the Morning
Papers of the Ministry opening heir tire of intimidation on
the House of Lards. Tile 71ines, and the Chromic*, eazli
in its particular vein, denounces the Upper House of Parha-
, mem, should it presume to exercise a deliberate judgment
upon this bill, unwed by what these newspapers mourns to
be the opular Wince. the subject. We think we are not
too sanguine in expecting that the Peersof England rill allow
these threats to pass by as the idle wind which they regard not ;
or, if they crest all affected by them, that it will only be to
show 1i a more prompt and decisive manner how much their
sense of duty elevates them above the clamour of the Juur-
nab. When the course was taken of bullying the House of
Commons by threatening them with the diNpleasure of the
people, such a course, insolent as it way had at least this
much of reason in it, that as elections to that house are eon-
&mealy swayed by the popular passion of the time, the
seats of the members might be, even in strict conformity
with the Constitution, endangered by
.pspolar odium. But
in the Pee if the lads there is oo pailkiuon of the revolution-
ary violence which is resorted to. When members of the loser
house were told of the danger of opposing the clamour of the
mob, we might at least suppose the meaning to that thee
incurred the risk of not being again returned to i• .rls-inent
whets an election should take place; but when rat ;..,sguage
is addresed to the House of Lonls, the only ineaniug which
It con have is, that revolution will be the consequence of
not bowing down. and forfeiting honour, and duty, and the
COINCIOUSIieSS of rectitude, to the colonised of the mob aid
the journals. As the legislative power of the Peers is not by
the constitution subject to the will of she people, no danger
can axnee to the Peers by opposing the popular passion ex.
cept the Constitution be overturned. What then car. be
more insulting towards the Piers, or more audacious to-
wattle the authority of the Constitution. than the tilt raise
of these threats la the Newspapers ? They say the House
of Lords west pan the Bill, or else •----. But we reel
coofident the Peers of the Realm of Britain will not be
moved by such audacious folly and falsehood, for the assn.
ranee of the earnestness of the popular voice in favour of the
Reform Bill is we believe untrue, and all that we see around
us confirms the opinion. The effort to rouse the popular
clamour against the Lords will doubtless be made ; it has
already begun; but we look upon it as the despairing
struggle of a faction upon which contempt is so faster...emu.
!sting that its future efforts will be of lid. impurtance, even
with the lowest rabble, ethers its congenial infLeuce
most sway.

On Monde last, the Rev. Christopher Eitannanl, R. D.
Fellow of Is. Jahn's college, was instituted to tilt rectory of
Great Swing, with Thurslord annexed, Norfolk, vacant by
the death of the Rev. J. Fawceu, B.D. Patrons, the Al.'s:ay
and Fellows of that society.
LAST RELATIVE OF ADDIRON.—Died lately,
at S•rasburgh, Mr. John Romaine Addison, the is., re.
lative of the celebrated Joseph Addison. This smiald • and
accomplished young gentktnan was educated in the I
shy of this city, and intended to take ant the degree of Di.emr
of Medicine. lie some time since set out on a tour tirmigh
the most romantic districts of the Highlands, and subs.
gently visited the south of England. lie rental:n.ll a
days with a relation at hialdiamte, went over to the
einem, and was drowned while bathing at titrasburr.—
lie was in the 2341 yeas of his age, and his prtutamse desalt
will be long and deeply regretted by ail his friends sod
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