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for his own attachis paramount influence in the highest
quarter. But, as ill luck would have it, he was more
than successful. He gained for some of his attaches
an influence yet more powerful than his own, He was
supplanted. Accordingly, when he wished to retire, he
found that bolder and yet more unprincipled persons
than himself were ready to play a more reckless game
than his own. He was hitched in a cloven pine. He
saw the dangers and disgrace of remaining : he could
not and dared not retire.
Such are the issues of underhand dealing. A man
who has told one falsehood has often to tell ten more
to hide it. The first declension from virtue entails a
thousand others. Onward and downward are the paths
of infamy. We believe Lord Melbourne to have been
guiltless of this last intrigue ; but we believe he was
forced into it by the fear of detection and the guilty
knowledge of a thousand former frauds. Encircled in
meshes of his own weaving, he now wears out the last
hours of his wretched span. .

Let a man, with the spirit of a man, picture to him-
self the wretched Premier enduring taunts like these.
There was his avowed and dreaded opponent summing
up the damning tale of misdeeds, which the culprit
knew and felt as forcibly as the Judge himself,—for
which be had a defence, but one which he was estopped
from pleading, lest he should lay bare the record of
former and yet more frightful wickedness. There was
his scornful, half-pretended friend, pouring out upon
his head all the bitterness of the most galling sarcasm,
in charges which the accuser and the accused alike
knew to be false, but which the accused dared not ex-
pose, (and the accuser knew he dared not,) because he
had once found his interest in pretending they were
true. It was a sight indeed for those cruel men who
love to see strong passions show themselves in trying

circumstances.
Honesty is the best policy. Gentlemen Whigs, some
day or other-you may find this out, and we doubt not
you will then be honest.

If all Peers owed their Peerages.to the same source
from which my Lord of Monteagle has derived
his, we should find no fault with the title " House
of Incurables." With all their attacks upon that
august body, the Whigs have made no impression
whatever, except by their new creations. They have
unhappily the power of swamping that branch of the
Legislature with Littletons, and Rites, and such like
trash as these. And therefore it is that Lord Mel-
bourne can muster anything of a division : sometimes
one-third as many, and sometimes perhaps nearly one-
half as many, as those who divide against him. Take
from him his own creations, and how many remain ?
The answer is, None. .

It should never be forgotten of my Lord Mont-
eagle that he voted for the Appropriation ,Clause
in 1835 (having voted against it in 1634), because he
thought it was his duty. He regretted, from the bot-
tom of his heart, that his vote should have any ten-
dency to overthrow Sir R. Peel's Ministry ! Honest,
truth-telling man !—worthy child of Punic Ireland !
Neither should it pass out of mind that this ingenuous
personage had, Session after Session, in the late King's
life, opposed all inquiries into what he felicitously
called the " disgusting details" of the Pension List.
It was unmanly, unkinglike, unworthy. In the first
Session of Queen Victoria, (the Radicals now were
stronger and the Whigs weaker,) this very honest
gentleman himself moved the appointment of such a
Committee ! Why should we dwell upon the Sale of
Spirits Bill, the Shannon Navigation Bill, the Irish
Railway Commission,—the thousand and one measures
with which the name of Rice will be associated so long
as it is remembered at all ?

He has got his reward. His mantle at Cambridge
(placeat porcis de Barnwell) will fall upon the worthiest
of worthy successors. Doubtless Gibson will be a
second Rice.

By the packet-ship Independence, Capt. Nye, which
arrived here on Wednesday, we have received New
York papers to the 7th inst. inclusive. The news
from Canada extends to the 2nd instant.
Mr. Clay, during his progress through Oswego, &c.
was received with the greatest enthusiasm. _

It appears, from a—letter received by the Consul
General at New York, from the French ginister for
Foreign Affairs, that it is the intention of the French
government to establish a line of four steamers be-
tween Havre and New York. four between Brest and
Brazil, and also a line to run from Bourdeaux to Vera
Cruz, or some port in Mexico. The expense is to de-
volve upon the Post-office department.
The affairs of Florida seem to be still unsettled. A
letter from East Florida states, that Sam Jones had
come in at Fort Lauderdale, with 300 warriors, and
gone into the district of country assigned them in
General Macomb's treaty. It is stated, however, that
he considers that he has a fee-simple title to the country,
and will not remove west,

The news from Canada is comparatively unim-
portant. The government bill for uniting the pro-
vinces had been republished in all the Canada papers,
and seems to meet with universal approbation.
On the 22d ultimo, the assizes for the Home district
met at Toronto, for the special purpose of trying five
brigands, who were taken at Point au Pele, and whose
cases were contradistinguished from the other brigand
prisoners taken in Upper Canada. Their names are
Philip Jackson, Diogenes Mackenzie, Benjamin War-
ner, Isaac Mace, and John M'lntire.

By advices from Cobourg to the 29th July, we learn
that several persons from the American side have been
captured at Cobourg, completely armed for some des-
perate enterprize. One of the number revealed the
plot, which was to murder the most prominent of the
royalists. Among the prisoners is said to be S. P.
Hart, editor of the Lewiston Telegraph. The dis-
covery of the plot caused great excitement at Cobourg.
There are said to he many more engaged in the same
enterprize, who are yet at large in the province.—
Eleven prisoners taken at Windmill Point last fall,
have received a full pardon from the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of the Upper Province. The names and resi-
dences of the prisoners, two of whom are Frenchmen,
and two Americans, are given as follows :—Oliver Law-
ton, Auburn; Samuel Livingston, Liston ; Edgar
Rogers, Watertown; John M. Jones, Philadelphia, Jef-
ferson Co.; Gaines Powers, Dexter; John Graves,
Grand Island, Vt.; David Delafield, Oswego; Levi
Chapman, Morristown ; Turman Chapman, do. ; Bap-
tist Raza, Montreal ; Alonzo Mayott, Rosseat, St.
Lawrence Co. Delafield was pardoned because his
mother saved the life of a British officer during the
last war with the United States. It is the general im-
pression that all the prisoners at the Fort, at Kingston,
to the number of seventy, will soon be set at liberty,
provided no disturbances occur, in the mean time on
the frontier.

By an arrival at Baltimore, advices have been re-
ceived from Buenos Ayres to the 25th of May. The
most important matter by this arrival is a correspond-
ence which took place between Corn. J. B. Nicholson,
commanding the United States naval forces on that
station, and the Governor- General of the Argentine
republic, in which an effort was made by the former to
bring the differences existing between the French and
the Buenos Ayreans to an amicable conclusion. This
negotiation was unsuccessful.
The blockade was still continued, and the papers
are full of the details of each day's operation. They do
not amount to much. The blockade has now been in
existence 425 days. Under the head of " Merchant
vessels in the port of Buenos Ayres," the Packet in
each number, has the emphatic word " None."
The attack of the French squadron upon the island
of Martin Gracia, and the burning of several coasting
vessels, and plundering them of articles of merchan-
dise, is characterised as piratical, and not better than
the worst acts of the Algerines, and as in the highest
degree disgraceful to the French nation. •
On the 25th May, the anniversary of the birth of her
Majesty Queen Victoria, a treaty was signed for the
abolition of the traffic in slaves, arranged and con-
cluded between the Minister Plenipotentiary of her
Britannic Majesty, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
of the Argentine confederation.
From the Courier and Enquirer, of the 7th instant,
we extract the following account of the New York
money market:—

" TUESDAY EVENING, August 6.—A fair amount
of business was done in Stocks at the Board this
morning, without material variation on yesterday's
prices. Sales were made of United States Bank at
101+, Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 68, Bank of