Star.
London, England, 1830-12-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT' OF TUB JOURNALS.

TIMICIP.— We do not know that it is necessary to contradict farther
than we have done, the report that the Chancellor had resigned all the
Church patronage under a certain value into the hands of the several
Bishops, in whose dioceses it might be situated; however, we do so
contradict it. It is wholly false in fact, and ridiculously absurd in res.
son. It is almost incredible that persons could be found stupid enough
to believe it. His Lordship will most likely do what other Chancellors
have done : when he presents an unknown clergyman on the recom.
mendation of another,—inquire first the character of the rev. gentleman
from the Bishop under whose jurisdiction he has lived.

Tunts.—The Duke of Newel'stie made lan night, in the House of
Lords, one of those characteristic displays which have so long marked
him as the pride and glory, the dams d turaerets, of the venerable
borougiusystem. The system cannot surely have any thing to fear
when it has such a champion

Cm aowsetz.—The Duke of Newcastle, referring last night to a re-
port in the Chronicle of a speech lately delivered by Sir Thomas Den.
man, on his election at Nottingham, in which he applied a passage to
himself, asked whether it was right for the King's Attorney-General to
come there and utter language calculated to draw him into contempt
" He was shocked (he said) to find that the King's Attorney. General
could join in such conduct. He was surprised that such a person could
I adopt the slang of the misguided populace, and pander to the fevered
feelings of the licentious. He would not be attacked—he would not be
vilified in this manner. He gave this public notice that he would de-
fend himself from such imputations, and vindicate the rights of his
class." To vindicate rights Is all very well; but 'the public and his
Grace may differ as to whether the consciences of the freemen of Newark
belong of right to his Grace or not. This is a ticklish question ; and
we can hardly wonderthat his Grace, under all the circumstances of the
ease, should be averse to have his rights scrutinised. He
wished (he observed) to say, that he was anxious the Noble Earl (Grey)
should forbear for the present to agitate the question of Reform at all. It
would only be productive of agitation in a time of ordinary excitement.
We confess the language of the Duke of Newcastle, and some others
of his class, at the present moment, does not a little surprise. Little
do they know of what is passing in the minds of men at this time. All I
that we hear from the country ails us with the most serious alarm.—
While his Grace of Newcastle is quarrelling with the use of the word
Borouglunonger," in an election speech, the landholders and farmers
throughout the country, are absolutely meditating the destruction of
tithes. At this moment tithes are not saleable ; and men who would I
have purchased livings gladly half a year ago, now hold back. We
could say much mare if we chose ; but we abstain for the present. This
we know, that the farmers throughout the country are in a state of
alarming discontent. They laugh at tumultuous assemblages—an evil
which they tan meet ; but the incendiary has paralyzed them, and they
look forward with honor to the: period when 'the thrashing shall be
finished, and all the men at high wages are on their heath'. A gentle-
man, who has attended many of their meetings, says that the gloom on
their countenances only gives way occasionally to a bitter smile, when
they bear any anecdote of a clergyman being brought to terms by a
rope round his neck. We do not believe that men, like the Duke of
Newcastle, are aware of the full extent of the danger.

Poor.—The argument employed by the Duke of Newcastle, " Mom
I not do what I will with sly corn," occurred, it will be recollected,in a
letter addressed to the Chairman of a Meeting held at Newark last
year, on the subject of the Newark elecdon,and was, at the time,tnade the
occasion of most virulent and acrimonious strictures upon his Grace by
that party which never forgoes an opportunity of venting the bitterness
of its hatred against established authority and superior station. His
Grace asserted, as he was entitled, and even bound to do, the legal
rights of property; he acted as every man, under similar circumstances,
would have acted, in enforcing the observance of an agreement subsist-
ing between himself and his tenants, and adopting the only mans in
his power of retorting upon those who had violated conditions
well understood, and deliberately entered upon. We approach
not now the general question of borough influence ; let the
principle be honourably and consistently attacked, and we shall
see whether it can be shown to be mischievous; we speak here of ex-
isting rights, and maintain that his Grace was strictly justified in resist.
la g the attempt to invalidate that influence which has always been con-
sidered naturally to appertain to property. And who are they who so
unsparingly condemn the noble lord foe his conduct on this occasion ?
They axe thaw who are eternally rating about independence, freedom,
&c. which, however, they with admirable judgment would deny to
others, whenever it happens to militateri7r, their arbitrary notions of
sight and wrong. They proclaim the of the people ; but has the
aristocracy no rights equally sacred ? tis convenient for men of en-
larged and liberal ideas to overlook these, when engaged in the honour-
able occupation of leading the unthinking away by gross misrepresen-
tations, and, for their own purposes, pondering to the worst passions of
the multitude by sMmelmsly vilifying all that is high and ithsairions in
the land.

Tratss.—lt is, perhaps, one of the most fortunate things upon earth,
though the must Administration be not pledged to its support, that a
Bill brought in by one of its 'sambas, foe the establishment ci local
courts, should be one both et reform sad rotresehmest, and, therefore,
the beet touchstone possible of public virtue. lake ithewial's spew, it
will make the lovers of phials: sod. earruptios—the insessible to the
suferinp of the pserbs..sisrt forth is their naturally odious shape. It

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is said that one person, poaseuing a sinecure of nearly 10,0001. per annum
will find the proceeds of that infamous pension or place almost annihi.
lated by the success of the Bill: he will boldly oppose its pro.
;;rest'. The opposition of another will be more wily, as the gains
to be pared down are less enormous. It is well ! Let them
prlace their speeches with an account of their motives. But from
whence do the sums come? The nine thousand a-year and upwards,
and the sum of lesser magnitude ? From the poor suitors in courts of
law ; from the oppression of the oppressed ! The people call for this
measure as one of double merit in these difficult and dangerous times,
as one of reform and retrenchment united. Humanity anti justice call
for it. The number of causes at circuit may probably be reduced by
three.fourths, should the bill be carried. What a felicity for the coun-
try. But what an incitement to opposition by the bar, unless the bar
were indeed composed wholly of honourable and disinterested men.
Our own opinion of the measure, which we have considered as well as
we are able, is, that tt will be almost of as much utility even as pulls.
mentary reform ; and, unlike parliamentary reform, it is unattended with
danger, and kids to no undefined consequences.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.