The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton intend shortly to leave
Bridgewater House for. Buxton Wells, Derbyshire, where his
lordship purposes remaining a few weeks for the benefit of
the waters.

LEITH.—The docks just now present a curious appearance
from the number of foreign vessels at present in harbour,
We have not seen so many Dutch, French, -Prussian, and
other foreign vessels here for a long time. -The imports are
chiefly grain, timber, wine, &c. Thirty vessels at the same
time are loading for foreign ports.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

THE LEGAL PROFESSION.—No less than 151 gentlemen
have given the requisite notices of their intention to apply
next term to be admitted attorneys of the Court of Queen's

Bench.

Ducrow, in travelling towards Paris the other day, met
with ,a serious accident. His arm was hanging from the dili-
gence when another vehicle came in contact with it, and the
celebrated equestrian received a somewhat serious wound.
CRYING DRUNK.-Mr. Wakley informed a jury the other
day that the copious tears which are so frequently shed by
persons in wmaudlin state, arise from a softening of the brain
produced by habitual inebriety.

There are many rumours as to the successor to the see of
Peterborough. • The Rev. William Strong is said to have the
recommendation of Earl Fitzwilliam ; but Dr. Lamb, of
Cambridge, is said to be the most likely man.—Lincoln
Mercury.

The West India planters and merchants are about to pre-

sent a handsome piece of plate to each of the three cominis-
sioners who had the distribution of the slave compensation
fund, on account of the conciliatory and satisfactory manner
in which their duties were performed.
OXFORD, MAY 4.—The Ratcliffe trustees have nominated
Mr. M. J. Johnson, of Magdalen Hall. to be Ratcliffe Ob-
server, in the room of the late Professor Rigaud. The Rev.

Robert Walker, of Wadham College, has been nominated by
the Viee-Chancellor to be Reader in Experimental Philoso-
phy.

AURORA BOREALIS.—There was on Sunday night, (what
is not very usual at this season of the year) a striking and
beautiful display of aurora borealis. It was particularly
brilliant about eleven, when the columns of light shot up from
an altitude of about 15 degrees nearly to the zenith.—Man-
chester Guardian

The main girder of the Great North of England Railway
Company's Bridge across the High Road, at Croft, was suc-
cessfully laid in its proper place on Saturday last. It is of
cast iron, and weighs upwards of thirteen tons. The other
two iron girders, each weighing nearly nine tons, had been
safely laid the day previous.—Newcastle Journal.

We understand a voluntary association, for protection of

life and property, has been formed at Monmouth, consisting
of gentlemen of the neighbourhood and the principal inhabi-
tants of the town, altogether 200, who have offered their ser-
vices at this time to government, and have had their services
accepted. Necessary arms are to be furnished by govern-
ment.—Observer.

EXTRAORDINARY FALL IN THE TEMPERATURE.—At
half-past eleven o'clock, A.M., on Wednesday, the thermo-
meter stood in the shade at 64 deg. ; at half-past two P.M.,
it had fallen 4 deg. •, and at half-past four, P.M., it had sunk
to 51 deg. So rapid a decline in the temperature as 13 deg.
in the space of five hours, is a circumstance of very rare oc-
currence.—Derry Sentinel.
A WONDERFUL BULLFINCH.—A poor man named James
Walton, living at Ribehester, has a bullfinch which he has
taught to answer questions, and also to whistle tunes. The
owner will say to him, " hat is your name ?" and he will
answer " Poor Dick." " What tune can you whistle ?"
" God save the Queen," .which he does in good style. He
also imitates the watering of the horses, and could nearly
whistle the tune through when three months' old.—Black-
burn Gazette.
PROSPERITY OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—WC
are much gratified in being able to state, as a sure indication
of the growing prosperity of this line, that the duties paid to
government for passengers .for the last month amounted to
double the sum paid the preceding month. As the payment
per head is uniform, more gratifying and conclusive data
could not be afforded as to the flourishing condition of the
railway.—Preston Chronicle.
FACT SOMEWHAT SINGULAR. Two gentlemen, both
grandfathers, were yesterday walking in the low street,
North Shields,—" Do you observe that broken pane," said
one of them to the other ! " Yes, what of that !'' " I saw
a boy break that identical pane seven years before you were
born !" " Impossible ! how can you suppose it is the same?"
" Why I feel myself somewhat implicated in the mischief of
my companion, and have had a conspicuous eye upon that
very pane for sixty-two years.—Port of Tyne Pilot.

- -
EDITORIAL MODESTY.—GLASGOW MECHANICS' INSTI-
TUTION.—We have given elsewhere, at considerable length,
the proceedings at the soiree of this Institution. We regret
that want of room compels us to postpone our own remarks
on this subject. Under these circumstances, we refer our
readers to the speech of a Mr. Weir—not on account of any
merits we suppose it to possess, but on account of the extra-
ordinary coincidence of the speaker's views with what we
would say if we had room.—Argus.
ARMING AND DRILLING.—We have heard upon what we
consider sufficient authority, that, in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Bradford, about 600 persons have possessed
themselves of arms in anticipation of a fight for universal
suffrage. • But although we believe the statement as respects
numbers, we do not believe that so many, or half so many,
are prepared to turn the point of their pikes against their
neighbours and friends who may entertain different views.
Drilling with sticks continues to be practised on Fairweather
Green ; and the number of recruits is, we hear, increasing.—
Bradford Observer.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 3.—The Vice-Chancellor has given
notice that the election to the office of Lady Margaret's
Reader in Divinity, vacant by the death of the late Bishop
of Peterborough, will take place on Thursday morning next,
at Twelve o'clock, in the Senate-house. The electors are
the Vice-Chancellor, and the doctors, inceptors, and bache-
lors of divinity, who have been regents of arts. The only
candidate for the office yet announced is the Rev. J. J. Blunt,
B. D., late fellow of St. John's College, and Hulcean Lec-
turer. The election to the mastership of St. John's College
is fixed for Tuesday,-the 7th of May. -
The Cheltenham theatre was totally destroyed by fire on
Friday morning last. The alarm was first given at half-past
three o'clock by some gentlemen who were returning home
from a party ; and as the destructive element had by that
time made considerable progress, it must have broken out at
an early hour. It soon became evident that all attempts to
save the building would prove fruitless. About five o'clock
the roof fell in with a tremendous crash ; and from the ex-
tremely combustible nature of the materials of which the
interior of the building was composed, the flames rose to a
prodigious height.
RATHER ODD.—On a certain railway, of a very extensive
business in the county of Durham, it has been customary to
designate the locomotive engines by different names, as tory,
whig, &c. &c. A new engine having lately been purchased, a
minute of its arrival was duly entered in the book of the
directors, by their worthy secretary, who is no joker ; but
some of those gentlemen were sadly shocked, when the afore-
said minute was read to them at one of their weekly meet-
ings, in the following words : " On Monday last, the
Queen' was safely delivered by Messrs. W. and A. Kitch-
ing," the builders of the engine.—Sunderland Herald.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE. Some of the channels of
this patronage we may briefly state, with the sums annually
absorbed in them : Poor law commissioners, £54,000 ;
slave commissioner, £14,700; Irish railway commissioners,
£32,700 ; superintendents of factories, £9OOO ; record com-
missioners, £4,000; criminal law commissioners, £5,000;
inspectors of prisons, £6,000 ; Scotch church commissioners,
£4,000; ecclesiastical commissioners, £2,500; hand loom
weavers' commission, £4,000; Irish boundary survey, £7,000;
with perhaps as many more absorbing an equal amount.
And these are offices created by the government which
pledged itself to act with rigid economy, and rule without
patronage.
LIGHTING OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.-,We were pre-
sent on Saturday evening when the house was fully lighted
for the first time with the Bude light, in presence of several
of the ministers, and of a great number of members. The
light is brought into the house by catoptric, and diffused by
dioptic principles, so that while it is exceedingly brilliant and
effective, it is soft and Pleasant. The lights are placed out of
the house above the roof, and being insulated by plate glass,
ventilation may be carried upwards or downwards, which is
an important point. Of the various media through which
the light was diffused, that of the chrystal octohedron facets,
combined with prism, seemed to be the most generally ad-
mired. We understand that this light, which may be regarded
as a new era in the science of illumination, is due to the pub-
lic spirit of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, at whose
expense the Bude light has been perfected for the greater
security of our merchantmen and navy.—Morning Chronicle.
FIRE.—At Kirkham, on Wednesday evening last, about
half-past nine o'clock, flames were seen to issue from the
drYing rooms of the extensive mills of Messrs. John Birley
and Sons, Kirkham. On the alarm being given, fire engines
were immediately on the spot, and by the active exertions of
the workpeople and other praiseworthy inhabitants, the fire,
which at first threatened to destroy the whole of the build-
ings, was in a short time somewhat subdued, and by eleven
o'clock the other parts of the mill seemed to be out of danger.
The drying rooms are. in the centre of the factory, and imme-
diately over the engines, but as the fire did not extend to any
other part of the premises, consequently, the.injury sustained
was comparatively small with that which at first was fearfully
anticipated ; and it is expected that the operations of the
workpeople will be resumed in a few days. We understand
that the amount of the damage sustained is estimated at
£looo.—Preston Chronicle.
THE REV. MR. STEPHENS.— This gentleman addressed
the " People of London" on Saturday night at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, Strand, in a speech which occupied up-
wards of four hours in delivery. The rev. gentleman went
over nearly the same ground of argument as on Thursday
night, and produced statements to show the barbarous
• cruelties which were being carried on under the Poor Law
Amendment Act by the instruction of the parties whom he
had christened the "Three Commissioned Devils of So-
merset House." He besought the people no longer to
remain subservient to so unlawful, so unchristian, an enact-
ment. He would rather plant the standard, he would rather
unfurl the colours, he would rather stand at the cannon's
mouth, ay, he would rather go even to the death, than con-
sent to live the slave of the poor-law commissioners—(cheers).
The room was occasionally overflowing, and during the even-
ing we should think there could not have been fewer than
4000 or 5000 listeners. The rev. gentleman at the close of
his address announced that in the course of the present week
he intended to meet " the people" at White Conduit House ;
and that on the next Sunday he should take the liberty of
preaching a sermon on Kensington-common, or in the Re-
gent's-park, of which, however, due notice would be given.
RIIIBONISM.—We are informed that John Ormsby, Esq.
accompanied by William Fawcett, Esq. and Chief Constable
Fitzsimon, with a party of police, on Saturday last, proceeded
to a public-house in this town, and found papers which esta-
blish the fact that a wide-spread Ribbon conspiracy exists in
this county. It is remarkable that the man, Flannelly, who
is suspected of the murder of Mr. Nearin, and for whose ap-
prehension government have offered a large reward, is said to
have been master of the lodge, and captain of a gang of Rib-
bonmen. It was to this public-house that the letter was
written to Flannelly, warning him to escape. And we have
been told that Flannelly was secreted within a mile of this
town, and that after the reward for his apprehension was
offered the owner of the public-house where the Ribbonmen
met, was seen with him. It can scarcely be doubted that
Nearin's murder was the result of a decree of a Ribbon lodge.
Who in this country is safe? A further discovery since the
above was written, has taken place. On the evening of
Wednesday, the Ist of May, private information having been
communicated to constables William and James Johnston,
of the Sligo police, that three persons of a suspicious appear-
ance had entered Mr. George O'Neill's, High-street, they
proceeded to the same place ; one of the party had paid his
fare to Dublin by Bianconi's car. On searching him they
found a Ribbon certificate, signed by the secretary of the
Ribbon Lodge in Sligo, and addressed to a house in Dublin ;
a ma!istrate's order having been obtained, the house whence
the document' issued was searched by Chief Constable Fitz-
simon, and a number of other documents found secreted,
which prove the universal extension of the ribbon system
throughout this county and the counties of Roscommon,
Fermanagh, and Leitrim ; many of the documents were let-
ters from the masters of lodges in various districts ; it is,
therefore, now completely in the power of the government
to drag to light this baneful conspiracy against the Protest-
ants of Ireland, and to punish the wretches who, without
doubt, have been instigating the peasantry to crime. The
three individuals have been committed, to the county prison.
—1314g0 Jourxel.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

MR. CHARLES KEAN' S FAREWELL BENalj
PREVIOUS TO HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE UNITED STATES,
And positively the Last Night of his Engagement.

THIS present FRIDAY, May 10, 1839, will be Perfc)ruw-
Colman's popular Play (compressed) of
THE IRON CHEST.
Sir Edward Mortimer
r.
Wilford.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Adam Winterton.. Mr. lilke
Rawbold.. Mr. Chaplin. Sampson Rawbold.. Mr.Slaiter.
Lady Helen .... Miss Faucit.
Blanch . .Miss Cleaver.
End of the Play,
A Waltz and Gallop, by Mr. and Airs. J. Ridgway s
To conclude with the popular new Play, written by
Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., called
THE LADY oF LyoNo;
OR, LOVE AND PRIDE
Claude Aielnotte .
ard,
Beauseant.. (a rich gentleman of Lyn . Mr. W. 1-I°Yi
Glavis.. (his friend).. Mr. H. Bland.
Colonel Damas.. (afterwards ral).. Mr.
Madame Deschappelles.... .. Mrs. Clarke.
Pauline Deschappelles.. Miss Faucit. be
The Box-office will be opened daily, when Tickets may
had, and Places taken, of Mr. PARKER, from Teo 1111
Three. Baker.

There will be no performance on Saturday•

On MONDAY next, May 13th, the celebrated Antericrot
Comedian, MR. HACKETT, will commence an engag."l
of Five Nights, at this Theatre, when will be permrwho
Shakspeare's Play of HENRY THE FOURTH. Sir tree
Falstaff, Mr. Hackett, his first appearance here thesehNir.
years. To conclude with the Farce written expressly
Hackett, called THE KENTUCKIAN. Colonel 7.\111)
Wildfire, Mr. Hackett.
MONSIEUR PLEGE, the untivalled performer °note
TIGHT ROPE, with his TWO SONS, are engaged for an
Week, and will make their appearance at this Theatr,n,.
MONDAY, and go through their extraordinary evolutio

(Ebt kfinrpoot frg2i'tanbarTi.

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1339•

.4_ .0 b-
In Our last we garc an annlyaia of the repo.-
ished by the committee appointed to inquire illr° ti
state of the Parish of Westmoreland, in Janoiee)„
Since then we have received another report, strilcigivel
illustrative and corroborative of the details which
usi
have already published. It is a report on the act_.,
state of the labouring population, and of the sure
cultivation, of the Parish of St. James, in the 6°o,
island. It embraces the whole of the period interveto
ing between the abolition of the apprenticeship erteA
and the middle of February in the present year' of
series of questions was submitted to the managerite,
77 estates, from 56 of which detailed answers were
ceived. These answers are embodied in the rePert
toe
They fully confirm all that we have said respecting
actual condition of Jamaica, and furnish a most °
elusive answer to the garbled statements and monerrluis
exaggerations of those parties who have so 'Ole ),
abused the planters. As the Jamaica question, at o ,
presqnt moment, necessarily excites a considerable u.g
gree of attention, from the circumstance of its havinoh
formed the subject of a parliamentary discussion Ito
has issued in the resignation of the whig ministry,
offer no apology for occupying some space in 00 cO,

lumns with the subjoined details.
The report before us states that during the aPPrefir;
ticeship, it has been estimated, about 4341 labOUrehe
were usually at work in the Parish of St. James, nntiitat
estates from which returns were procured. Since
In the
period their numbers have decreased to 2031.
lath'
former period three-fifths were females; in the la'
only one-third are females. On 24 out of the 56 e`th
tates a resumption of work took place about the 1601,
of August—the labourers having thus taken two c°,o
plete weeks of holidays. On 17 estates nothing
done till the 31st of the same month. On 7 estates no
labour was resumed till the 15th of Septernber'°o
one not until the 10th of October—and on another
resumption of labour had taken place up to the 011"ird

of February. 4t.
Task work has been general in" the parish 0.
t:1,0
James, as in the neighbouring parishes. Thirttv
estates, it appears by the returns, have worked I"'
of
by the job. On 49 estates the average number
hours, per day, has been limited to seven. The cn:
labour performed, compared with that of the apPlci it
ticeship, has been generally less by one-third ; .e
is noted, in many instances, that the labourers ballSg
only made such undertakings a pretext for cultil°,7/ve
their provisions, while some have dissipated their
in idleness, or in cutting and stealing wood, grass' 9,
canes, for sale. The proportion of labour on 4 50
tates has thus been not only diminished, but mush's
thoroughly and satisfactorily executed.
With respect to the children of the labouring r—
lation, the extended protection of the British G°
set
ment seems to have produced little beneficial e ;
upon them. Their time is spent in perfect idlene
and out of 56 returns, fourteen only state that theYbei
to school, and only one of these mentions that tb,
work occasionally. About 37 returns show a total
sence from school, without any laudable empinYlllentber
The class of the labouring population, who, °f
countries, begin to be initiated in occupations ° no
dustry, (the youth under 16 years of age,) excite 15
very favourable hopes of future good conduct. 19113 a
estates none of these }lave worked at all, and 0123
W°
few only have been occasionally and partially at brit
Thus, out of 4341 labourers, 2031 have beetl,or),,
partially employed, and doing but very inefficient°.
leaving the remainder either in idleness, or ill caPtbe
ing grounds of their own, without contributing W
ilde
benefit of the proprietor, whose houses and gel or
they enjoy ; but in most cases exhibiting a doggecei,-
passive resistance to labour—many of them CO° that
ing, or having been told, which is more like rye
the owner cannot legally eject them from the Prtbree
on which they have been located. Two thousalw, io A
hundred and ninety-nine are thus unemployea

single parish.
,here
The rate of wages in the Parish of St. James, tll.
day labour has been adopted, is Is. Bd. per ,00
in most instances, medical attendance, and foe'
gratis. Where job-work has been resorted to the per
lowing rates have been paid : viz., cleaning Cane' ere,
acre, 155.; if foul, 205.; clearing pastures Peril:ie.
los. iod.; holing, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. per 100 ',here
Many of the returns state that the labourerf, `cod
they have exercised ordinary industry, have ea 43,
4s. 2d. to ss. per day, and in holing as high as 65;19
On 37 estates no rent has been demanded. tto
rents have have been demanded, varying from 3s. 4d' 't
all
4d. per week for house and grounds; but alin°s he la'
these demands have been made in consequence of t4ate
bourers refusing to work for the estate. On 49 e' tool
no rents have been received. On seven, tbe.llisgs
amount received has been seven pounds two slit O°
and sixpence .1 This is all that has been recovered
keep
4341 labourers, who, with the exception of 15'
possession of their respective properties.
estates to
The refusal to do work is attributed by 25 e 5"
one or more of the following causes :—Bad ativic,,tbe
the Baptist preachers and stipendiary magistrate 6 a.
maladministration of the law by the stipendia?:
gistrates—a belief, which has been industrioOlY nor
stilled into the minds of the labourers, that the:ad
prietors could not dispossess them of their Igniseitbool •
grounds—and that the British Government nom'std
to pass a law to give them legal possession of the
and grounds. see Arr
On the question of the state of agriculture' o
of the returns describe it as " very backward'sbie,.
bad"—" very melancholy"—and " truly dePiljrut nat
Most of them report cases of cane lands dug' gavel
planted—lands planted, but choked with weeds
not thrashed—ripe canes rotting—pastures verytir:
Of
and all these evils arising from the want of labf
crop
48 estates, 38 state their probable diminutliSl°.,, and
at one-third, as compared with the apprenticesPirce'cliO,
one-half nearly as compared with the three 1'1%00"
years. The prospect for the next crop is rePre'
as truly deplorable. f Pt
There are on 44 estates /90 hogsheads ,c;„ce
short. The remaining 11 arMtpected to Pr°""
thing, from want of labour. h la:
The wanton and pernicious extent to wbie-_,,,,pers
bourers have gone, in encroaching on the OU f their
lands, without permission, for the cultivation ;real'
provisions, is described in 34 returns to be very calle:,
On 47 estates the labourers have cut and wo'eaore 10'
to a very considerable extent, and great claoi.'lloo
been'done to the cane-fields by the trespass matte'
and cattle, in consequence of the idleness and,
pre hay
tion of the cattle-minders. On 14 estates °-
occurred combined strikes to raise the wages' lifer'
When complaints against the labourers heir
brought by managers, they have never had th 4ot:et
antes fairly redressed by the stipendiary
of th4e
doe°
The manner in which the proceedings no
of
have been conducted, has had no tendeneY t° .natt
tbe
order, subordination, and good conduct, on
the hboarers.

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Such is the
Pation for which so
Miriduals in this co
clanlorous. Has
repel ro apprentices
tkins ? Have they she
'port spontaneously b€
tttli?

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much fear, frc
coloured population, a;
diellts reso
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arrived. We since
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tat fine colony the da:

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r&ecessary to se
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unsuccessful in ti

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ro "leY lierald of the
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tbar-";t3 tnrnips and ca
58. 51, to per lb. ; sali
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might be inferrec
great increase
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tonnage duler
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to and the tonnage
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Jamaica"
rt, strilciugli
which 've4
on the actu
of the sugare
,in the sal°
iod interve:,
!.e.SII/11 sYste,
sent year.
managers
veers were re:t.
n the repo
,
'espectiOg tb
a most cop
nd monstrous
ye so lavishl
testion, at the"
iiderahle ue:
of its basil
c ussion whic e
ministrY, `vo,
we in our c

lg the aPPren;
.341 labourers
James, on tilt'
d. Sincetbae
W3l. In tiir
in the istte,
of the 56 e,h
Lbout the 15',
aken two c°ll3_,
's nothing
)n i estates n 4
>eptember-1
on anotherlio
) to the oida

f St.
e parish 0 to
s.
worked 110
ge number :4
en. The cis,
ry
of the aPPrcei
;
re
labourers ba._,
for cultivare
ated their 05
ood, grass' aer,
,ours n
m 4ur 710
, bu il

abouring Po
3ritish Gaee,t,
ieneficial en:;
erfect
ate that they If,
itions that thirel
show a total at.
e employ
other
n, who, in is
.:upations
.of ao
age,) excite
13
)Luct. °I4, $
all, and on 3j
ii.
artially at Wtibrot
have been 4,
inefficient
or in cultisty
tributing W dl
es and grow
ng a tingge‘i,iv
f them thatcolle-,
nore likely, _.;ee
m the proPer''re
3 thousand tba
nemployed .0

;t. James' whey
whewheyl. per day,
and medicioee
orted to the f°l' r
!aning canes Pe
stures per acre,
1. per 100 hole6'
labourers, Where
:IT, have earod
s high as 60.
landed. On 19
)111 3s. 4d. to
01+
5.;
but afrsOste
quence of th
• On 49 estate;
seven, the to
ds two Ailli9l
;n recovered fro°
)tion of 15,

BS,
teso
[by 25 esta
—Bad advice
rnagistrates-'lP-
stipendiarY Ifir
ndustriously
s, that the PO;
their house9°l;
nnlent was 81711:i
scion of the P'
sever
Ticulture, °
ckward99.,...?
.ulydePlorable.
ads dug' pot
hot
flc
ith
Pol
Mures very l
Lnt of labour. °
minutioo of al
prenticesbip I'l3
,
z three prececlio
op is represeoo4
O
gsheads of
duce 11°'
tif
a to pro

_
-
to which the Ilr
on the 1061
itivation of theft
L
to be very let,
and wasted catid
;rear darnid
gel,
trespasd s of
ness an inatteive
,states there
V
i
' "'ages.
ourers have yell
r eir griev
had th ,
liar,' wasistrateg.
ligs of the latter
oency to prove
tgl
Lot, on t 3 Pg
ti '

j Such, then, is the present condition of the island of
patarnalio Ca* Such is the result of that complete eman.ci-
-44411,, for 'which so many good and well-meaning
,0 I"uals in this country were, a short time since,
the clamorous.
Has the final enfranchisement of
tionne,gro apprentices realised their sanguine expecta-
bot,n''' Have they shown themselves grateful for the
'Pontaneously bestowed upon them by the p1an-
,1•,5
2tatters are already bad enough in Jamaica ; but
cii:erY much fear, from the present disposition of the
die4lltred Population, and from the unjustifiable expe-
atir4:6°rted to in order to excite their feelings of
ht•B'tY against the planters, that the crisis has not
C't:.rived• We sincerely pray that the advent of a
'tervativ
Illas admi
cist rati on
ers to office wavert from
fine colony the dang by whi I itsit threatened.

ely•I
ilare b South \Nales papers to the 2d of December
Svdo een received, from which it would appear that
chliare'Y was visited with an epidemical disease of a pe-
4t4llaracter, to which that colony seems to be an-
kat..r cull.
neat. The mortality is described to be very
1,51).4 '-'he weather, after being for some time remark-
kitthsrene, had become mild and propitious. The
bleg we't country had been infested with a forrnida-
-144
een
e of armed bush-rangers, whose depredations
xtended over a district of 200 miles in ex-
ittroelhese robberies had been so frequent that it was
of poiienecessary to send Lieut. Cobham with a party
'ter, tlile to protect the settlers. They had been, how-
Shit Inlc prose
in their efforts to apprehend the nif-
hcikeu I°llB continued to be very dear at Sydney. The
fkitB4.lleraid of the 22d of October quotes potatoes
401. t° 128. per cwt.; cabbages, from 4d. to is.
blittecti:rniPs and carrots, 4d. and sd. each : fresh
4178* Per lb. 1
; salt outto,:3s. 9d. ; colonial wheat, 4' Per
l bushel; Van Diemen's Land ditto, 7s.
6dlbe . ; oaten hay, 12s. to 16s. per cwt.
elaL°P4lrl Van Diemen's Land are described as
4oda
th --nt, so much so as to enable the growers to
is \e deficiency in the crops of wheat and pota-
ile el"' South Wales.
kthberilkltralian gives a statistical account of the
Pounds of wool exported from :New South
'4eet: Van Diemen's Land from 1820 to 1837.
1162574 frOm both colonies in 1820 was 99,415 lbs.
oki u
icta.,
tea increased to 323,995 lbs. In 1830 it
uNe 11;ti1 1,967,309 lbs. Since that year the in-
-4)3 (*ea enormous. In 1834 the export amount-
,436, ti 377,538 lbs. ; in 1835, to 4,210,301 lbs.; in
1450 -
.25 4,991, 808 lbs. ; and in 1837 it reached
t°B.
Naut be inferred from the preceding, there has
thtte4t increase in the number and tonnage of
erg which have arrived at New South Wales and
Imtillther- .°l°nY during the same period. In 1820 the
g):123 of
shiPs Was 8, and the amount of tonnage
-a 1829 the number of ships had increased to
'4) ktia tonnage to 27,623. In 1837 the ships were
eitt4 the.tonnage was 47,240. From these state-
Nit: 1114 y form some opinion of the rapidly in-
The 6 Pros„,_,,
r'uty of these important colonies.
14110,.4, 11.8 from South Australia is of little impor-
""abo 'e settlers appear to be on good terms with
Nines.
N-i eat West arrived at Bristol on Tuesday
to°ll(iatitaving accomplished the voyage from New
i'lliphrldaYB. She has brought 110 passengers, a
:41a15-ta will be found in another column. Among
frog ,8 the name of the ambassador extraordi-
tOt of ew Grenada to the Pope. The outward
• ` L) "e Great Western occupied 22 days, during
I to
-e the language of the New York Morning
' "Perienced " squalls, head winds, heavy
4,1417.1 and lightning, and every obstacle that
he c`fer could create.,,
th, 224 eat Western has brought New York papers to
C'e ~11thilo, inclusive. The news contained in
ClktteheZnParativel unimportant. It is said that
t 40,1-7 had beenY forwarded to England, both from
.h minister ad the government of the United
il(l4ls„.:ieh leave no doubt that the question about
L'llt es:o7l territory will be settled on the principle of
nge, so as to give to the province of New
• wie-ttiserritory enough to form a winter commu-
e%;' Quebec and the Canadas.
Ora alleged papers of the 22d ult. give an account
111e44144e -;ged outrages on the Canadian frontier, the
°1 which we have given in another column.
must be taken cum yrano salis. Incen-
qqe 'Vs seemed to be prevalent on the borders.
cL
i.-8 from Mexico is of a highly satisfactory
• 2; A letter from Vera Cruz, of the date of
,741 t„Th states that the difficulties had been termi-
iltilos' mutual
satisfaction, the treaty between the
itliktirn'eOf Vera Cruz and Admiral Baudin having
4e N °Y the Mexican government.
it,ll from ,1 Era of April 22 gives the following
tkke l'exas :—'` A report had reached Houston
OPlet.:l4, that the federal forces under Urrea had
the defeated the central army, and that Busta-
"et e°rlltnander, was captured and beheaded,
h re e also s
everal other officers.
doe tot Pect to the crop of cotton in the United
illlovtite last season we have been favoured with
Liire-r,extract of a letter addressed to a respect-
-4ito7°l house
iced
ec *6,, a duplicate of my respects per Vir-
Ott,•i'lLt Probably may not reach you before the
tq" '''ae opinions therein are entirely confirmed
c11:14:1..s this day (22d ult.) from the south. The
ak,„ 4tbatt, • . '
1 .44 he Is ; probably not more than 10,000
401 v \ received for the remainder of the season.
4it for 2-irleans
the most sanguine bale-men do not
rule.°ere than 80,000 to 100,000, in addition to
kelletw elpts, and the estimate by this day's post
kii,..4ektileen 1,300,000 and 1,450,000 bags."
.1)1:14 et iS appended from a Grand Gulf (Missis-
or' to the following effect :
kttitlltcot eltoP.—lf we estimate the crops through-
tt 411(4%,:t°4 states by the following tabular state-
itig the crops for the years 1837 and 1838
4ttil4tiOltitati°nB in Claiborne county, (and from
tllttl4le,ell from various parts of all the cotton states,
Pepe the d .
enciency is general), it will be seen
t•N 4;15,,P ofear last year will be but half of that of the
conseqnently cotton must advance
esini When the manufacturers of England be-
eto need of the fact."
1/,t(2.1) fed
the plantations alluded to amounted,
111e14411,11,887, and, in 1838, t0•6,705—a falling
1„,, -ay be taken as an aveaage for the rest of
eoti
NI no, cleared from all parts of the United
19 '44 t°
APril 13, in the year
11 lB3B,
.amounted to
'to 571 ' and during the corresponding period in
11)t '385 bags.
ktt ttela
o.°f thia.t3twhieh are daily occurring in different
th- 'ingdorn serve to strengthen our convic-
Akt), lvit3/4 e chartist -.agitation is not a matter to be
Yekle. The more the objects of the incen-
ip 10_ - th • developed, the more
cnartists are
'ipt4tiektite we feel alarmed. That we arc not seek-
litt4t
that
fears of our readers without adequate
14% 41.44 we do not indulge in exaggerated state-
-I\4led itiaappear very evidently from the language.
/t, blYiaß hit aPPeal to the labouring classes which
4'4t:llei-iti.ef°re us, and which is said to be printed
Abe 4'4.8 Printer." The following is a literal
kit% Ne ess
England was heard to say : your civil
!Beries----your physical, moral, and intel-
liti:e,,,ayesuotations theare WAGES OF INJUSTICE
fit
of
Creator gave to man—the LAND for
"111;:entob.A1-1-, and endowed him with powers of
Itit, Ine the things he gave for the support
, his
creatures, with the injunction-
-4 1114' NOT STEAL." The land has been
st,,llotakaontrieziiola,ting the will of God, and bring-
(4 t.,„,„th • the holders of this property are
Ilkeeer d s' who hold the "people's land for
ki:1141147 t,',,,!Priving man of his right to the earth,
y t
14w$"ur gave for the support of human life,
iL
"It ennillel man to exercise his mind and
EN eensu al
11,46!.14.. , aggrandisement of that unjustly
Illora and
Ns I think upon and discuss
NI 104; ' and civil right of yourselves and
hh„na, th„, e
the a You are convinced of the judgment
tt (
4Lt Your profit of the earth is for all,' then
k
tite
t:tfrok t:vernors to redeem the land to the
ioqd 411 d a who hold it for ever and ever, that
e -
L. Or G A •
_
Of 44. r ',rust by the people's trustees, for
ou is no respecter of persons,'

and hath said the LAND shall NOT BE SOLD for ever,
for the earth is mine, ye have it for a possession, and
while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest shall
not cease.' When you have read this, please give it
your neighbour, that he or she may also think of the
cause of the evils, and call out for relief; and be assured
the great cause of poverty, want, and oppression, is the
individual ownership of land."
The blasphemous perversion of scripture in the above
address is calculated to do mischief, not only among the
ignorant, but even among those who have received what
is popularly called " a liberal education." It is useless
to laugh at the " absurdity" of such appeals as the pre-
ceding. There are hundreds of thousands, not only
among the uneducated peasantry of the country, but
even among the more polished artisans of our manu-
facturing towns, who have been cursed with an educa-
tion devoid of religion, that entertain sentiments akin
to those expressed in the diabolical placard which we
have reluctantly transferred to our columns. The lan-
guage of the Chartist speakers, echoed by assembled
thousands in various parts of the kingdom, abundantly
proves the truth of our assertion. The cry for " equal
rights" involves a demand for a community of pro-
perty, for how can the rights of all men be equal, when
the most important right of all remains intact in the
hands of a few ? It is of no use to disguise the truth.
The Chartists have an " ulterior object" in view, even
after achieving their present enterprise, and obtaining
their " charter." They only want the charter as a
means to obtain an end. That end is the equal division
of all the land and capital in the country. The self-
styled libe.rals or reformers, as far as they clamour for
" equal rights," are urging the Chartists on in their ca-
reer of spoliation and plunder. Let the liberals beware !
They may, perhaps, find it inconvenient to be caught
in their own net.

If such objects are really entertained by the revolu-

tionists of the present day, it is important to consider
how they may be frustrated in their plans. How are
we to defeat the Chartists ? There is only one way in
which this may be accomplished, and that is by sup-
porting with heart and hand a Conservative administra-
tion. We see no other mode of saving this country
from the horrors of a revolution like that which deso-
lated France. Every man that refuses to render this
support is a traitor to his country.

The last straw has broken the creature's back.
Long will our readers bless the day that brought them
the tidings of this " crowning mercy." Born in per-
jury and nurtured in corruption, the Melbourne minis-
try has out-whigged whiggery, and out-Walpoled
Walpole. Their days are numbered, and the legion-
aries of Lichfield House have fallen to that region of
dark exclusion, (saddest sorrow to a liberal soul,)

" where peace
And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes
That comes to all ;"
and they know that they have fallen, like Lucifer,
never to rise again. For this event we trust the
readers who have attended to our observations, since
Lords Melbourne and John Russell inflicted upon
themselves the so-called crisis of last Easter, have not
been wholly unprepared. From no hostile quarter,
from no impatient adversary, has the fatal blow pro-
ceeded. The inherent rottenness of the wretched
cabinet, their utter insufficiency and incoherency, have
worked their dissolution. The only wonder is they
have held together so long. There was acid enough
in Lord Howick, jealousy enough in Hobhouse, stu-
pidity in Palmerston, vacuity and insincerity and mu-
tual distrust in each and every of them, to have split
the administration to shivers at the first. But liberal-
ism in fact, like reason in fable, has been suspended
by a golden chain; and marvellous is the ductility and
strength of these mysterious links. But there must
be an end at last. The estate was bankrupt. Every-
thing that could be laid hands on was already in
pledge : their credit itself (never very good) was gone
to pawn. Creditors were clamorous. Men had sold
their constituencies, their character, their consciences,
(what little of these two last they had to sell,) to their
Whig employers, and they became obstreperous on the
score of wages. They had sold themselves to Satan,
but they had not got Satan's pay. They desiderated
the consideration. The bargain was an Irish one : it
had no mutuality—the reciprocity was unilateral. They
began to find that while they thought they were making
catspaws of the whigs, they were burning their own
claws, and the roasted chesnuts were grasped by the
wily whigs, who lauded them in public, and winked
knowingly at radical and philosophic simplicity behind
their backs. The court was a whig-sty : all the offices
of importance or high emolument were thrown into
the Whig-trough : the radical portion was that of the
man in Horace, whose Calabrian entertainer pressed
him to eat pears that were too sour for his swine.
This game has been admirably played, but it is now
up. The bank is broken, the dice are detected, the
tables are overthrown, and the rascally gamesters have
met with their due deserts.

Outraged Justice, then, has vindicated herself at
last. Men now turn round and ask each other,
What is to be done next ? Finality, it is studi-
ously asserted, has been the death of the whigs :
there must be a new agitation, and a new reform
bill. Our readers have long been prepared for these
assertions. We have considered them at some length,
and given our reasons in detail in several former
papers. We trust we have not left their nakedness
a rag to cover them from the cold winds of popu-
lar indignation and contempt. Was it because more
radicalism was wanted, that the lying whigs (O'Con-
nell auspice) surrendered the apprcpriation clause, to
which they had solemnly and repeatedly pledged their
public and their personal faith ? Where is the church-
rates bill ? Where is the pension-list ? Where is the
ballot ? Where is the extended suffrage ? Where,
the corn-laws ? Gone' one and all, to the tomb of
whig professions. Where they were radical, they were
forced to retreat. Where everybody knows they would
have been radical if they dared (for instance, ballot),
they dared not advance. Was it finality lost them
Devonshire ? Mr. Buller hoisted conservative colours,
but he supported the ministry, and the men of Devon-
shire would have none of him. Was it objected in
Leith to Mr. Rutherford that he supported finality ?
Was it finality that lost them Ayrshire ? Campbell of
Craigie was no man for finality; but conservative Ayr-
shire rejected him for his liberalism. We will venture
to say, that if whiggery be low, radicalism is lower.
Men have come round to Johnson's view, and see that
patriotism has been the refuge of every scoundrel in
the empire. Want of character must be made up by
extraordinary professions of public zeal. It answered
once to be extreme in liberalism, for in 1830 the libe-
rals were better trusted than known : we can tell them
that in 1839 they are better known than trusted.
Well, then, the blow has fallen ; and the next con-
sideration is, how did it fall ? 'What ! even Mr. Hume
ceased to pat the ministers on the back,—
" Via prima salutis
Quod minime reris, Graid pandetur ab urbe."

He will understand our allusion, just as we pretty well
understand that honest Joseph had his own very ex-
cellent reasons for his vote. The real truth is, the
cabinet itself was wofully divided. There were too
many screws loose, and the machine could not have
been kept on its wheels any longer. And we hail it as
a circumstance of very considerable interest, that Ire-
land and Jamaica should have been the battle-fields
on which these two decisive contests have been fought.
They speak volumes for Lord Normanby and his
chance of patching up a new reform coalition. Why,
Lord Normanby brings into the cabinet the selfsame
principles on which he acted when unhappily the exe-
cutive of Jamaica was in his hands before. He was a
partizan governor. He cared not for constituted au-
thorities ; he would suspend governments, whether
monarchical or popular; he would carry out his own
party views—he would depress his opponents. This
the cabinet, liberalised by his accession,, have endea-
voured to do in the Jamaica bill. And they have
failed :—so much for Lord Normanby. Twice has
the battle been fought in his person, and on the ground
of his government ; and twice have the Whigs experi-
enced the blessings of his suicidal counsels. Once
again let him try, and, like the wrestler of old, the
third fall will seal his fate. Ter cecidere manus.
But honest Joseph is the sworn leader of the prac-
tical radicals, as Mr. Grote is of the unpractical or
philosophic. It is facetiously said, that Mr. Hume
voted against ministers, because every body acknow-
ledged that the blow was aimed exclusively at the white
population, and he was afraid of being entrapped into
any acknowledgment of a distinction between, black and

white, which he has pledged himself never to discrimi-
nate. So say the jokers of. jokes. For our parts, we
think it highly satisfactory that he, whom the radicals
delighted to honour last week by a public banquet at
the Crown and Anchor as their chosen leader, should
have committed himself to opposition against this dar-
ling concoction of the impartial Normanby. The
practical Joseph, then, and the theoretic Grote, stand
outside the coalition, and increase the embarrassments
of the discomfited and despairing faction.
But we distinctly repeat, we have no confidence
whatever in any disunion among the liberals. Fresh
terms will soon be agreed on : fresh distribution of
posts will be made : and the plunder will be promised
anew. There will be a Pan-Hellenicum, a gathering
of Greeks, at the reform club. And where the gather-
ing is, Mr. Grote will assuredly be found ; and we will
peril our very existence, that as Mr. Hume bears no
resemblance to the martyr Philopoemen, so will he
never deserve, when plunder is to be shared, the title

" Last of the Greeks." No, the liberals will re-assem-
ble their scattered forces, they will re-unite in the
common bond of a common hatred. But the people
of England will have recorded their differences —will
have noted down in the stern book of public justice,
that these lying accomplices have been telling different
tales. We shall revert to this subject in our next.
Be it remembered meanwhile, that a liberal ministry
has been ejected for conspiring to suppress free insti-
tutions, and a popular form of government ; and above
all, that the final blow has not been dealt by the impa-
tience of a faction, eager for office,—but that the
wretched creature has perished, like the scorpion,
from a self-inflicted blow.

" The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like the scorpion girt by fire :
In circle narrowing as it glows,
The flames around their captive close,
Till inly searched by thousand throes,
And maddening in her ire,
One sad and sole relief she knows—
The sting she nourished for her foes."

The liberal faction has been signally disappointed in
their expectations that a more democratic cabinet would
succeed that of Lord Melbourne. Already have the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel been in com-
munication with the Queen, and it is probable that we
may have to announce, in our second edition, the
formation of a conservative administration. We learn
that the Queen sent for the Duke of Wellington on
the suggestion of Lord Melbourne himself! The
organization of a new ministry could not possibly have
devolved upon better or fitter men than the illus •
trious Duke and the " first statesman of his age."
We have no doubt that they will select as their asso-
ciates and colleagues men possessed of the highest
powers of mind, and thoroughly conversant with the
details of public business —men who are the very
opposite in every statesman-like qualification to the
miserable blunderers who have just resigned. The
conservative side of the House of Commons possesses
many men of the character which we have described.
The only difficulty will be to select from so great a
number of first-rate statesmen as are now found adorn-
ing the conservative ranks. It would be, perhaps,'
invidious to enter upon a detailed enumeration, but
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Mr. W. E. Glad-
stone, Mr. Goulburn, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Wm,
Follett, Lord Sandon, &c., stand forth in great promi-
nence as men of the most distinguished abilities.
Thus the confident prophesies of the radical press
have been utterly falsified. Thus have perished the
last hopes of the most degraded faction that ever dis-
graced this country. With the resignation of the
whig ministry, O'Connell must resign all hopes of
riding roughshod over the people of England—his tail
must resign all expectations of being provided with
any further share of official patronage—and the Irish
priests must resign the long-cherished scheme of pros-
trating in the dust the protestant church, and of
erecting on its ruins the foul tyranny of the papacy.
Briefless banisters may now bid a long farewell to
Whig-created commissionerships. Ambitious com-
moners, who have abased themselves, for the sake of
anticipated coronets, by doing the dirty work of the
shabbiest ministry that ever existed, may now despond-
ingly exclaim, that " the grapes are sour." The dis-
senting agitators throughout the country must hence-
forth content themselves with rendering obedience to
the law. Their plans for overturning the church, and
carrying into execution their utopian scheme of " reli-
gious equality," are signally frustrated. We shall
hear no more of their darling system of national educa-
tion. Protestantism is now in the ascendant, and un-
christianising modes of instruction must be left to the
sole support of the enthusiasts and the infidels, who
have been their only advocates.
We can well imagine the consternation with which

the announcement of a conservative administration
will produce in the ranks of the radicals. What a dis-
cordant yell will be raised by our " liberal" contempo-
raries ! Our. ancient friend of the Mercury is, at the
present moment, horror-struck at the gloomy intelli-
gence that the Queen has consulted Sir Robert Peel,
and this day he will probably pour forth his doleful

lamentations over the untoward fate of the party to
which he has so fondly clung. We can offer him no
consolation. The star of liberalism has set for ever.
Henceforth let him either repent and turn conservative,
or betake himself to his interesting speculations on
spinning-tops and life-preservers. What furiously
rabid tirades shall we see in the Chronicle of to-morrow !
How the slop-pail will be agitated, and send forth a
more intolerable stench than ever ! With what assi-
duity will the editor of this stamped edition of Paddy
Kelly ransack the Billingsgate vocabulary for terms of
abuse to lavish on the devoted heads of the "hero of a
hundred battles !" With what deep and tender pathos
will the classical Journal bewail the discomfiture of its
cherished and immaculate friends the whig ministry !
But what shall we say of the Albion ? From the ba-
boon-like grimaces of our contemporary of Castle-street
it will be difficult to say whether he will be found in-
dulging in a fit of laughter or a fit of melancholy mad-
ness. But it matters not whether he deals in bad jokes
or in serious pasquinades on this occasion. The con-
servatives will be in office, and the Albion may be merry
or moody, as it pleases.
A short time will prove that the liberals are not one
whit better than the chartists. The Morning Chronicle,
under the tutelage of Lord Durham and his convenient
tool Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, has already ad-
vised large concessions to the revolutionary demagogues
of the national convention. 'We shall soon find this
base and profligate journal "going the whole hog" in
favour of the five principles of the chartists, and em-
ploying in their defence the bludgeon style in which it
is so distinguished a proficient. The provincial press,
in the radical interest, will echo the ruffianism of the
Chronicle, and urge the people to rebellion. The whig
press, provincial and metropolitan, will probably be-
come conservative after a fashion, adopting for their
political creed the modified system of conservatism pro-
fessed in Lord John Russell's letter to the electors of
Stroud.

As far as regards the organs of public opinion on
the radical side, these conjectures will very probably
be realised. But let us look a little into ,the general
effects which may he reasonably expected to follow the
advent of the conservatives to office. In the first place,
there must be a thorough purgation of the court of
Queen Victoria from the antiquated roues by whom it
has been so long infested. The Queen must be sur-
rounded by attendants of unblemished virtue. Then
we may expect to find the British court once more
graced by the presence of the high-minded aristocracy
of England. Then shall we find ample reparation
clone to insulted modesty, and foul-mouthed slander
visited with punishment and disgrace. The Queen
will then filly regain the alienated affections of many
of her subjects, who have hitherto felt disinclined to
make sufficient allowance for her inexperience.

The formation of a conservative cabinet must be the
prelude to a general purgation of all the public offices
from the radical creatures by which they are now de
filed. A general revision of the magistracy should
also take place; and sundry Unitarian and dissenting
justices of the peace, who have prostituted their office
to subserve the meanest political ends, should be sent
back into the ranks of private life. Fas est ab hoste
doceri is a sound maxim. The Whigs have consulted
the interests of their party in the appointment and
suspension of magistrates—the conservatives must do
the same. One of the first acts of a conservative ad-
ministration should be, as we have before urged, the
re-instatement of the venerable Duke of Newcastle in
the lord-lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire. This will

be taken as an earnest of the line of policy intended to
be pursued in reference to the magistracy generally.
Among the more conspicuous benefits which may
be expected to result from a conservative administration
may be enumerated the following :—England will be
tranquillised, by the suppression of the Chartist agita-
tion—lreland will be tranquillised, by the suppression
of the Precursor agitation—the Protestants of Ireland
will receive that protection in life and property to which
their devoted loyalty so richly entitles them—our colo-
nies will be tranquillised, by the firm administration of
justice—our foreign relations will be placed on a better
basis, and, of course, the formidable aggressions of
Russia will be successfully resisted—the national flag
will no longer be insulted with impunity—the financial
affairs of the country will be managed with greater pru-
dence and economy—and a far larger proportion of
practical, but strictly constitutional reforms will be
carried into effect. Perhaps we might add that, after
the first ebullitions of radical rancour are over, the
political excitement which has so long distracted the
country will subside into that calmness and contented-
ness which is naturally attendant upon general confi-
dence in a wise and patriotic administration.

Neither the Times nor Morning Herald of yesterday
contains any definite information respecting the new
ministerial arrangements. The former states that "as
to the arrangements of the new ministry, which are
committed to Sir Robert Peel, nothing was known at
midnight, except that the right hon. baronet was busily
engaged in forming them." The Morning Herald has
the following paragraph, which is a little more ex-

plicit :
" (FRom A CORRESPONDENT)-Sir Robert Peel, after
having had an interview with her Majesty, at Buckingham
Palace, had a long conference with the Duke of Wellington,
at Apsley House. Lord Francis Egerton also had an audi-
ence of the duke. A select party, consisting of Lord Ellen-
borough, Sir James Graham, Bart., Lord Stanley, and Sir
Henry Hardinge, assembled at Sir Robert Peel's last even-
ing, and did not separate until a late hour. The Earl of
Aberdeen and Lord Lyndhurst also visited the Duke of
Wellington yesterday. It is said the arrangements of the
right hon. baronet are to be submitted to iher Majesty. to-
day."

From a private source we learn that the following
appointments were likely to take place :
Sir Robert Peel Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and First Lord of the Trea-

sury.
Earl of Aberdeen. .. Foreign Secretary.
Lord Stanley Home Secretary.
W. E. Gladstone, Esq Colonial Secretary.
Earl of Haddington. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
Sir James Graham First Lord of the Admiralty.

Lord Sandon President of the Board of Trade.
The Duke of Wellington to have a seat in the cabinet.
The resignation of ministers, and the prospect of the
conservative party coming into power, had exercised a
beneficial influence on the market for the British funds.
With resnect to a dissolution of Parliament the
Morning herald remarks—" A dissolution of Parlia-
ment would, in all probability, secure to Sir Robert
Peel at least one hundred to the list of his present sup-
porters in the House of Commons. The fear of a dis-
solution will operate, undoubtedly, to the repression
of factious opposition to the government of Sir Robert
Peel. A new House of Commons must, of course, be
summoned, at no distant period, to grapple with the
difficulties which Lord Melbourne's government has
created ; but the present representative body may easily
(according to ordinary calculations) be managed during
the remainder of the present session."

In our second edition we shall furnish such additional
nformation as may reach us in the course of the morn-