Star.
London, England, 1830-07-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TAR JOURNALS.

Cnaorricis.—The Administrition Is by no means in the safe'
position that has been so confidently affirmed. His Majesty was
yesterday closetted for some time with the Lord Chancellor and
Lord Holland ; and in the course of the morning, no fewer than 70
independent Members met in consultation at Lord Althorp's. The
Regency Question, brought forward in the distinct shape which it
will assume in the motion of Mr. R. Grant, presents a difficulty
with which the existing Government finds it difficult to grapple ;
and the King may not be soeasily persuaded, as his present advisers
could wish, that his Majesty has the same interest as they, in defer.
ring its settlement.

Lord Palmerston has with far too much ability and effect opposed
the present administration, to be suffered to enjoy unmolested the
representation of Cambridge University. With the stigma of inca-
pacity yet fresh upon poor Mr. Ooulburn, it is deemed impossible
to produce him ; but in Sir John Becket, with the Lowtbers and
High Church at his back, a champion has been found, through
whose instrumentality Lord Palmerston's inconvenient indepen-
dence may possibly be chastised.
Mr. Sergeant Mr. Law, and Mr. John Wil-
liams (to whom another rumour had assigned the post of Attorney
to her blajcity the Queen) have been mentioned as the three new
judges to Kappointed under the bill " for the more effectual ad.
ministration of justice in England and Wales," now in progress
through the House of Commons. There is at all times a certain
delicacy to be observed upon the tender subject of professional re-
putation; but in reference to these appointments, we are bound to
'say, diatif the brothers of two Cabinet Ministers, and a neophyte
such as the third gentleman, are to be in this manner elevated to
fill the national tribunals, the measure will be one of the boldest
Ind most extraordinary exertions of patronage ever exhibited by
any administration.

The meeting of the proprietors—of the London University, on
Saturday, will have the effect, we trust, of introducing a better
system of mansgement in that institution. When we say better
system, we repeat the admiision of Mr.Warburton, that the council,
the professors, and the warden, were all to blame. The council, as
that gentleman fiankly observed, ought in the outset to have laid
down more definite rules for the guidance of the professore, which
would have prevented much of the very unpleasant collision which
has taken place between Mr. Horner and them. However, much allow.
ance ought to be made foe those at the head of an undertaking of so
much magnitude as the establishment of an university. No email share
of the embarrassment was occasioned by the creation of the office
warden. The gentleman who fills that of was left to discover the ex-
tent of bisown powers, and it was but natural that he should not err in
assigning too narrow limits to them. The mistake he committed
in supposing the office of Warden identical with that of Chancellor,
or Principal, or Regent, was one which he could hardly be the first
to discover. There cannot, however, be two heads; and as the
Council are the head of the London University, the authority of the
Warden, co necessitate, must be Ministerial. But some time pre-
vious to the Meeting, the Council had determined that the Warden
should not interfere with his Professors in anything reAarding the ma-
nagement of their classes, so that the communications with them
should be merely in the capacity of organ of the Council. This regu.
lation was calculated to put an end to a great source of animosity.
The Meeting approved of the resolutions of the Council of June 8,
1830, and thereby strengthened the hands of the Council. How.
ever, the admission made that all have erred, and; consequently,
that all have need of forgiveness will, we trust, not be forgotten in
the subsequent conduct of the Council, Professors, and Warden to-
, wards each other. If the Bth Article of the Resolution of the Bth
of July be acted on in a spirit of fairness, we shall be without ap.
prehension of the future. That article states, " that the Council
expect the greatest courtesy to be at all times shown by the Warden
towards the Professors, whose dignity, comfort, and interests, will
ever be the main object of the Council's care ; while, on the other
hand, the Council expect the Professors to communicate with the
Warden, acting is the discharge of his duty with the courtesy due
to his office, as defined by the Minute of the 221 d of May, 1829.
Mr. Horner is stated by Colonel Stanhope to have less of the eauvi.
ter in mode, than it might be desirable he should have. Several
professors complain of his domineering manner. It is no easy mat-
ter for individuals to judge bow fax their manner is calculated to
hurt the feelings of others. It certainly is not conducive to the irate.
rest of a man, who discharges as he ought the substantial duties
his station, to surround himself with unnecessary difficulties by
wounding the amour propre of those with whom be comes in con-
tact ; and therefore we take it for granted that Mr. Horner is not
himself conscious of having merited the censure of Colonel Stanhope.
What would give no offence in one country, would often give offence
In another—so that experience is not always of use to a man in his
progress through the world. It was the remark of Sir Walter Scott,
that his countrymen might make good men of business, and good
soldiers, but that it was difficult to make gentlemen of them; and
we believe it is a general complaint of the people of this part of the
island, that the inhabitants of the modern Athens are not in general
remarkable for the courtesy of their behaviour.
TIN Es.--We last night rest) the Paris papers of Friday. They
contain a telegraphic despatch dated Toulon the 211th ult. of which
the following is a copy The Capricierise, which sailed free
Sidi.Ferruch on the 26th of June, has arrived with despatches.
Admiral Dupree announces to me, that for the last two days the
army has had partial affairs with corps of Arabs and with Turkish
infantry, and that it has gained ground. The Admiral thihks that
on the 26th it must have established itself under the Fort of the
Emperor, at Algiers.' This despatch is addressed to the Ali.
ulster of Marine, and is signed by the Maritime Prefect of Toulon.
The French papers of Friday contain a variety of letters from
Algiers, of dates anterior to the 20th ultimo ; but though interesting
to Frenchmen, who may have friends or relations in the expedi.
tion, the would not excite much curiosity on this side of the Channel.
The Paris journals are still more occupied with the interests of the
elections than with the news from Algiers. One of them states, that
the returns of the first series of the electoral colleges, convoked on
the 23d ult. had all now been received from the provinces, and that
they gave 142 members to the opposition, and only 46 to the mi..
nistry. The proceedings of the first series of the departmental col-
leges was to begin on Saturday last (the 3d inst.) In proportion as
the Ministers feel the weakness of their cause, they are endeavouring
to prevent defection by inspiring terror. It is the usual habit of the
French Government, when a Cabinet Minister resigns or is turned
out, to appoint him to the nominal office of Minister of State,
with a small pension of about 6001. a-year. In no case has
it hitherto been understood that the ex.:llinister is bound
to any course of politics by the pecuniary reward or the honorary dis.
tinction thus conferred. The present Cabinet would appear,
however, to have adopted new maxims on this subject. " Those
who are not with us,' say they, " are against us, and
those who are against us must not enjoy any advantage of
which we can deprive them." Accordingly, they have dismissed 31.
de Saint-Cricq, the late Minister of Trade. from his place of Bli.
nista of State, and have put on the retired list other civil function-
ark.: and military offieers, supected of what the people call pa-
triothon. General Lamarque has been deprived of his half.pay, and
Generals Gerard, Sebastiani, and others, are looking for a similar
treatment. M. de Villele did nothing calculated to excite so much
indignation as this, though provoked•by the eloquent attacks and ob.
stinate resistance of Gen. Foy and other military deputies.

Hemmen—Before the obsequies of departed Royalty have been
performed, and the tomb has closed over the ashes of (Icorge IV.
the underlings of the present Administration make a triumphant an-
nouncement of the expected continuance of their patrons in. power,
and already celebrate their victory in the language of loud and in.
decorous exultation. It is of little consequence to the country who
is Minister, provided sound principles of policy govern the decisions
of the Cabinet. If the continuance of the Duke of Wellington's
Administration was to ensure to the empire the exercise of that
political wisdom, by which only the prosperity of nations is created
or preserved, we would be among the first to deprecate a change in
the Councils of the Sovereign ; but, if the experience of the past can
serve to enlighten our views of the future, we can anticipate nothing
Proof the genius of the military Chief, to whom, we are told, the
Rang has already given his confidence, but an increase of those na-
tinal difficulties by which his administration of civil affairs has
been hitherto so unhappily distinguished. it has not often hap-
pened in the history of the world that a sue:enrol soldier has ap-
peared in the character of a safe and enlightened statesman. Seldom
east it happened that the warlike laurel has been auspiciously inter.
miegled with the civic wreath. The habits, the manners, the morale
of the camp, are not propitious to the growth and develop-
ment of those talents and virtues which distinguish men quo.'
lihetl . .to govern free States. Military education •
first virtue of a soldier is a blind
the curd of command, and that it •
vation of authority that it should
The logic of war is force t it reasons
finery. A narrow and illiberal
movements of the parade, or control
evolutions of battle ; but be who, in
en Skill in inanteuvring, may be a clever P.-
oo.statesman. To administer the government
gimes a mind not only clear, but -
courage, a love of honest fame more
contempt of all sordid temptations, and
to the public service. The military
Wellington was titablished by a t
did as any that have shed lustre
happy would it have been for his
been possessed with the ambition et
in the Cabinet which his talents and
in the Bell. Whatever his 7 a
capable of, if trained to evil =he
school of war to submit to becomes pupil
science, ltle Came Into high offiee when

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his balks were too hod to be cbanpd by an coons
instrucuon ; and therefore we that the of en-
perketos has not ,ht him something mono iseensidtor for
him who would the doweblee of imlesia activitY
lin the details of business or in glebe the
word of command. It is evidrnimmtbe ofthe Date of
" ellington's administration, reckon/as Hams the *giro, relight,
of Lord Goderich,to the present day, that be supposed the gram art sad
mystery of civil government consisted in having a well-drilled cabinet
disciplined into a state of implicit obedience, without any reference
to the moral or intellectual qualities of the individuals by whom it
was imposed. If this were not his opinion, would he eve:
thought of bringing Lord Melville back to the Admiralty after
nation and the navy had so happily got rid of the incumbeenos
his services ? Would he ever have expelled the Duke at
from office—popular as be was in the station of Lord High Ad.
mini, as the enemy of corrupt patronage and the friend of unre-
warded merit—would he ever, we say, have expelled that gal.
lent supporter of our naval glory from office to make wa for
the return of him under whose ill-omened auspices the ttta
greatness of England had fallen into deplorable decay sad neglect ?
If he did not think civil government was one of the easiest
of human tasks, would he have despised the instruction to be
derived from the events connected with the Congress
Verona, and have placed our foregn relations under the
superintendence of the portentous imbecility of Lord Aberdeen?
Would he have oppressed the feeble intellect of Mr. Goulburn with
the onerous responsibility of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer,
or graced the exquisite brows of Lord Ellenborough with the dia-
dem of our Indian dependencies? Need we go on to multiply proofs
of the Premier's impression that the work of Government was a
matter of routine, and that it was not of so much consequence to have
an able as an obedient Cabinet ? We did not regret that he cashiered
Mr. Huskieson, whose theories had done more mischief to the ma.
aufacturing and shipping interests than can be easily repaired t but
It was not on public, but on personal grounds, that his Grace In.
flitted on his old friend so sudden and cavalier a dismissal
lie rejected the man, and not his measures ; and. no doubt, be
was glad of the opportunity afforded him by the hasty Meter
of Mr. Huskisson, as it enabled him to add to the regimental &e-
-recter of the Cabinet by supplying the place of a civilian by a Ge-
neral Officer. This appointment would have been more appropriate
If, like the Emperor of Russia, we were establishing ‘. military
colonies;" though we must say that Sir George Murray Was con-
ducted himself in his station in a manner that entitles him to great
personal respect. Then, as to the influence which public opinion
ought to exercise in a free State, how has the Duke of Welligton
rpoer it T—By setting his Whig Attorney-General upon that
of the Press which dared to treat his measures with dis.
courteous animadversions,and opening upon one refractory journalist
in particular a battery of es.offteie informations. Under that tremen-
dous fire the Paper was brought down ; but the Duke looked
smaller slier that victory than the bitterest commentaries of a pha.
lanx of adverse journalists could have made him look.