The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

THE WING MES-ALLIANCE

That the anti-corn-law agitation, upon which the Whig
party has thrown itself for support, possesses no deep or per-
manent hold upon the public mind it would be a waste of
time to attempt seriously to demonstrate. For with whom,
in fact, does that agitation originate ? Not, certainly, with
any great and influential class in the community. Not even
with the manufacturing interest as a body ; but with a section
only of that interest—a comparatively small and morally
powerless section—one which dare not unveil either the ulte-
rior objects which it has in view or the immediate moving
cause of its frantic struggles. The really influential portion
of the manufacturing body either scout altogether connection
with its efforts, or view them with a jealous apathy ; whilst
the working classes, for whose benefit they are ostensibly
made, regard them with open and declared distrust. These
classes, in the manufacturing districts at least, will not allow
themselves to be juggled by the specious plausibilities which
form the staple of its daily tirades. They know well the rea
object which is concealed beneath the cry of " cheap bread
for the working man ;" and whatever may be their fondness
for the abstract idea conveyed by the term cheapness, they
have a goading and bitter experience which tells them that
the substance, if it could be realized, will never be permitted
to add one iota to the sum of the working man's happiness—
will never be suffered to place one comfort within his reach
which the reckless cupidity of his employer can abstract to
his own uses.

As au engine of party annoyance, it is, alone, that the agi-
tation of the league can be regarded ; for to any other object
than the creation of a temporary effervescence upon the sur-
face of public opinion it is manifestly incapacitated from di-
recting itself. It is in possession of none of those elements
of strength by which the success of great questions are brought
about under a representative form of government. It has
neither leaders to whom the people look up with respect and
confidence, nor has it one powerful body amongst the people
upon whose support it can unhesitatingly rely. The factious
motives of unseating Sir Robert Peel's ministry set aside, we
question if the undisguised object of the league—the with-
drawal of all protection whatever from the agricultural body—
would obtain the support of one-tenth of the representatives
of the people in the present parliament ; and, most assuredly,
we can see no prospect of such a change in our system of re-
presentation—none, at least, which the league would venture
upon—as would consummate that object, in the overthrow of
our existing industrial interests and the transfer of the pro-
perty of the nation, and the substantial power of the govern-
ment as well, into the hands of an aristocracy of new poor-
law philosophers and manufacturing capitalists.

The infusion of new elements of deinocraey into the con-
stitution, the adoption of the ballot, the abolition of the rate-
plying clauses of the reform bill,—all or any of these expe-
dients would not, we are confident, produce such a parliament
as would be required to realize the dream of Mr. Richard
Cobden and his fellow leaguers. Stich a parliament as would
be returned the aid of these concessions to democracy
would doubtless be prepared to rush with all due haste to
the settlement of the corn-laws, the timber duties, or the
sugar duties ; but it is equally certain that they would also
be prepared to go much further—far, in fact, beyond the
point at which the league would have them stop. The mill-
owners of Manchester and Stockport are not disposed, for
instance, to trust the settlement of the factory question into
the hands of their own enfranchised operatives; and yet the
working classes of the manufacturing districts would most
assuredly be prompt in demanding such a settlement. They
are scarcely more disposed to place the settlement of the
poor-law question in the same hands. They are not anxious
to see the propriety of taxing mill machinery seriously
mooted ; or to witness the starting of a hundred other similar
questions, into the discussion of which democracy would un-
hesitatingly plunge.
NO, no; the manufacturing agitators, with the fear of
Chartism before their eyes, have assuredly little hope of
working out the objects for which they clamour so loudly, by
the infusion of additional democracy into the constitution;
and as little, we think, from any effort in a contrary direc-
tion. The parliament, which a reformer of the league school
requires, is one which will devote itself to the securing of a
free trade in corn, labour, and every other commodity; but
will not enter upon the task of alleviating the pressure of the
new poor-law upon the poor ;—a parliament of Unitarian
philosophers—of men steeped in the heartlessness of the fac-
tory system ; and we venture to question, not whether the
materials for such a parliament could be found—(for they
are abundant)—but whether, until the character of English-
men be changed utterly, it is possible in this Christian
country to devise any system by which constituencies could
be formed to return such a parliament, or a power strong
enough to afford it protection from the storm of execration,
which its acts in one session would drawn.

That the government of Sir Robert Peel is not willing to
yield to the dictation, or to be terrified by the bluster of a
party so utterly powerless—so hopelessly isolated—so tho-
roughly bankrupt in the sympathy or respect of any influen-
tial portion of the community—is scarcely surprising; but
we may well wonder at the suicidal blindness of the whig
party—or of the respectable portion of it, at least, if any such
portion is remaining—in allying themselves with such a mass
of vapouring and conceited helplessness. Surely neither
Lord John Russell nor Lord Palmerston can have the pre-
posterous folly to suppose that such an alliance will shorten
by one day the period of their exile from the regions of
Downing-street !
__Surely neither of these acute politicians

can ever dream of being borne into office upon the.shoulders
of the paltry spouters of the anti-corn• law league, or floated
out of the " slough of despond," which they now so worthily
occupy, by any influence which can be exercised upon the
public mind by the malthusian supporters of those twin
abominations—the new poor-law and the factory system.

THE OPPOSITION TO SIR ROBERT PEEL'S
GOVERNMENT.

The system upon which the opposition to the government
of Sir Rober Peel has.thus far been conducted by the free-
trade agitators in parliament and their allies throughout the
couptry, presents a remarkable resemblance to the practice
of Mr. St. John Long—a quack as eminent once in the me-
dical world, as Doctor Bowring, Mr. Cobden, or any other
corn-doctor, can ever hope to be in the world of politics.
The principle of the quack medical was, that disease of the

corporeal frame was to be expelled by the creation of an ex-
tensive sore ; and the quack political appears equally san-

guine that a conservative government—in his eyes " the

rankling- evil which afflicts the state".

'—can be removed b)

the creation of similar sores upon the body politic. There
is this material difference, however, in the course by which

the former practitioner arrived at his results, and that con-
templated
by the latter. Mr. St. John Long looked for the
actual absorption of latent humours by the real suffering
which he produced ; and thus there was a spice of philosophy
in his practice, despite its quackery. His imitators, howe-
ver, in the spirit of the vulgar showman, are satisfied with
the profit to be reaped from the mere exhibition of the mi-
sery which they conjure up, and of the frenzied contortions
of the patient during the process of ulceration.
That the practitioners upon the body politic have been
moderately successful in their efforts hitherto, we are com-
pelled to admit. The virus in their possession has been
widely distributed; excoriation, bodily and mental, has been
abundantly produced ; and a mass of misery and, withal, of
exasperated feeling spread through our manufacturing dis-
tricts, which it is distressing to witnest in the heart of a
Christian land, and which, moreover, could not coexist with
a poor-law administered in any other than a Malthnsian and
unchristian spirit. Nor were they less successful in their
choice of the exhibitors, by whose hands the veil was to be
withdrawn from before the dark picture of living horror
which their art had conjured up. What tongue more fitted
than that of a Cobden to dilate upon misery almost unendu-
rable—to paint it in due melodramatic colours, and with
proper conventicle solemnity ? Who more capable than Mr.
Thomas Milner Gibson to throw a dash of bitterness into
the picture—the bitterness with which the conscious spirit
of the apostate ever teems? Or who more eminently quali-
fied to work out its details than the statistical, pure, and
patriotic Doctor Bowring ?

And yet with all these appliances, and notwithstanding the
undoubted fitness of the instruments, the result towards
which they were directed has not been achieved ! The exhi-
bition was opened in St. Stephen's ; night after night the
curtain rose before numerous and respectable auditories ;
Mr. Cobden exhausted all his show-booth oratory—fumed,
fretted, and stamped—" tore his passion to rags," and
" split the ears of the groundliugs " ; the peripatetic doctor
dived into the cellars and alleys of Bolton with an alacrity
which is wonderful—since it is not paid for—to drag his
quota of famishing weavers upon the stage; we had marvel-
lous stories, from others of the corps dra'natique, of families
subsisting upon sawdust—a feat which the pigs of the sister
island, unfortunately for them, could never accomplish ;
and yet parliament has been dissolved, just at the precise
time when it would have been, had all this display of zeal
for the suffering poor, ( on the part of the anti-corn-law
impostors, never been made; and the administration of Sir
Robert Peel, in despite equally of agitation and quackery,
still stands firm in all its integrity of purpose, and in all its
unassailable strength ! The onus of the wretchedness dis-
played has not recoiled upon his head, or upon those of the
great conservative party by whom he is supported ; but upon
that wretched and worthless faction by whose imbecility so
vast a mass of suffering—and that it is vast who can doubt?
—has been permitted to accumulate without even an attempt
at a remedy until at the last hour, when they felt that office
and its advantages were slipping from their grasp !
But-have these exhibitions been made in vain? Has an
observant and reflecting people contemplated unmoved the
scenes which have been revealed to them ? We say most
unhesitatingly it has not ! The people of England know
that for years past a tide of unexampled wealth has been
pouring, into our manufacturing districts ; and they ask now,
with a start at the contemplation of these highly wrought
horrors—" Can it be that starvation and famine are so eery
close attendants upon manufacturing prosperity ? Is there
no middle state between the Elysium of ample demand and
this dark and despairing picture ?" And well, indeed, may
they ask these, and even more searching questions. Well
may they pause before consenting to hazard their all—to rest
the security and well-being of the industrial interests of an
entire community—upon a foundation so unstable and so
perilous !
The exhibitions, however, have now ceased for a time, upon
the metropolitan boards at least, and the performers have
returned to carry on their laudable avocations in the pro-
vinces. The process of excoriation will be recommenced;
fresh virus will be infused into each smarting sore ; and the
unhappy victim of their practices will be racked by his tor-
mentors to the extremity of human endurance, in the hope
of wringing from his misery some wild convulsive effort, in
the midst of which a reckless faction may be enabled to
scramble back into the occupation of those seats from which
an indignant and insulted people have so lately hurled them ;
but we ask, seriously and advisedly, have the reckless agita-
tors calculated all the chances of the game in which they are
embarking ? Are they sure that, even with the aid of the
reverend gentlemen, whose aid they are about to embrace,
they can controul the storm which they are bent upon rais-
ing ? Is it so certain that the rage of an infuriated and hun-
ger-stricken population may not at length turn upon the gad-
flies which sting them into madness, or lacerate the hand
which, to goad them into outrage. snatches the food from
before their expectant lips ? We have for a reply :
IVe certainly do not anticipate such an ebullition of feeling
as will hazard the safety of conservatism, however eagerly
directed to this end may be the efforts of the League and its
reverend allies, during the parliamentary recess. We have
that confidence in the good sense which pervades the working
classes of Great Britain, to trust that they will not be seduced
ob-
jects into violent outbreaks, to further the designs of a faction in
whose inmost hearts they must knowtha
they hate
t
peter
of the bitterest contempt, and whom
yet trusted without being deceived and betrayed. But we
are by no means so confident that the endurance of a people
under torture and maddening agitation can be depended upon
by those within the immediate teach of their first frenzy.
The engineer" may be " twist with his own petard," whilst
he, against whose walls the engine is directed, remains unin-
jured ; and we warn the Cobdens and the Bowrings, and
some gentlemen, too, who are nearer to us than these cham-
pions of the League, that the course upon which they are
bent is one of which the danger to the operators is imminent,
although the results to conservatism we do not fear !

~ STANDARD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL

SlR,—The anecdote related by the Rev. P. Parry at the an-
niversary of our Protestant Association, respecting the liberal
support which a certain wealthy gentleman gave to literature,
by clubbing with a friend to take the Penny Magazine
weekly, reminds one much of the support which many of
your niggardly politicians give to the-conservative press, by
clubbing together to take the Standard, Courier, or Mail, at
half price with a friend, from the Exchange or other news-
rooms. This should not be. When we consider what a mighty
engine the press is, I must say I do think it disgraceful
that the conservative press of tf# town has not better -
port than it has, for there is no Hieing the matter that th•
radical press is better property in Liverpool than the conser-
vative. If the Liverpool gentlemen feel so indignant at the
remarks of Mr. Stowell respecting the support given to the
Protestant cause in the two towns, let them look well to this
The leading conservative paper of Manchester is decidedl•
good property, and is really well supported by the conser,
tives of the town. I will maintain, sir, that to give

support to the conservative press, your merchants and tra-
ders should give their exclusive support to that portion of it,
and, in less than twelve months, they would produce a vast
change in the state of things, and render the conservative
press a vast deal better, as it now is a vast deal more respec-
table, advertising medium than the radical press. lam not
writing in the dark on this subject. For I have been in the
habit of spending some hundreds per annum in advertising,
(not in this town,) and I never gave 6d. to the radical press
in my life, and never would consent to give a single adver-
tisement to them. " Our radical contemporaries have not
much to thank me for," and I never wish them to have. It
is common to say that men in business have nothing to do
with politics ; but if I detest radical opinions, and consider
them destructive to the welfare of the country, how can I
consistently do all in my power to spread them, which I un-
doubtedly do, by giving them advertisements? In politics I
am decidedly an exclusive dealer," and intend to continue
so. I think lam safe in saying, that the radical press of this
town is in a great measure supported by conservative adver-
tising. Although I shall not give my name to this, I enclose
it for any friend who may wish to know it.—l beg to remain,
sir, your obedient servant,
AN OUT-AND-OUT CONSERVATIVE.

LONDON MONEY MARKET AND TRADI

REPORT

WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Tea market has already lost some of that improved
appearance observable in it yesterday at the pu
Company's Congou have gone back to Is 90, and then

c sales

very little business done in other qualities
some parties called Company's is 91d.
There were some rather large sales in Colonial and
produce, which went off generally about the
day

On Chan

same as yester-

The Indigo auction goes on without spirit

The Stock Market opened with a very discouragin_
pearance this morning, and Consols at 871. Eventually, how-
ever, the market revived upon some rather extensive pur-
chases for to-morrow, and at the close of business had ad-
vanced to 88 for money, and for next account 88f to 1. Bank
Stock was 164 to 6. India Stock 241 to 6. Exchequer Bills
11s to 13s premium. The dealers were busily engaged in
making up their accounts for to-morrow, which is settling-
day.

Foreign Securities also improved generally as the home
market grew better. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were
501 to I+, the Five per Cents 98.1 to i. Belgian 1011 to 24.
Spanish Active with the Coupons 19k to I. Portuguese Five
per Cents 291 to 304, the Three per Cents 18 to 4. Brazilian
55 to 7. Mexican 244 to 4. Colombian In to 4.

It is asserted that in the memory of man, there has not
been so wet a month of September as that just past, except
September 1818.

A LEARNED MAYOR.-At the Lichfield municipal regi-
stration court, the learned liberal mayor stated that he could
not decide without coming to a conclusion ! This sage re-
mark was followed by loud peals of laughter.
We are glad to hear that the Rev. Henry Melvin, the
popular minister of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, who has
been dangerously indisposed for nearly a year, returned to his
duties last Sunday.

A correspondent in Wednesday's Times, resident in Ham.
burgh, shows that bread is cheaper here than in that city,
where no corn-laws exist.

True friendship is like sound health—its value is seldom
known until it be lost.
A good deal of excitement has been created by the at-
tempts, which are gradually being made, to exclude the pub-
lic from Richmond Park, in order to preserve the game for
Prince Albert.
WHIG FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—EarI Fitzwilliam, who
has often held up himself, and been held up by others, as a
pattern of political liberty, has given four of his Peterborongh
tenants notice to quit, because they voted contrary to his
wish at the late election.
The Rev. Robert J. M'Ghee, M.A., the firm and uncom-
promising advocate of Protestantism in Ireland, is likely to
be appointed, to the vacant deanery of Cork.
EXTRAORDIANARY OCCURRENCE.—A gentleman of the
name of Pugh, from Presteign, was in company with others
on the Beacon Hill, Radnorshire, on the 28th of August last,
when he shot a fine grouse, attached to the leg of which was
a canvass bag, containing in an envelope, on which was writ-
ten " Clock, £2 Bs. 6d.," a silver fourpenny piece. Mr.
Pugh retains the coin as a great curiosity.
A SHOWER OF FISHES.—On Thursday afternoon, during
a heavy thunder shower, a considerable number of small
fishes fell from the clouds, at the Town-hill, about a mile
north-east from Dunfermline. They were in general front
three-and-a-half inches in length, and althoug they must
have fallen from a considerable height, many of them were
alive after they fell, and jumping among the grass.—Fife
Paper.

RARE AND Ctnuous Booxs.—Amongst thesale of curi-
ous books of the late George Chalmer's library, there was a
copy of Wolsey's Grammar, with the directions for the
school, writtetriby the cardinal himself ; also Marlow's tra-
gedy of Richard Duke of York, from which Shakspere has
unceremoniously plagiarised, was knocked down to Mr.
Rodd, at £131; the highest price ever brought before by a
single play was £97 for the " Taming of the Shrew."
A LOFTY ABODE.—The highest inhabited place upon the
face of the globe is a farm house, situate 13,500 feet above
the level of the sea. or about two miles and a half above
that level. This lofty and elevated habitation is situate on
the highest peak of the Andes, in South America, Chimbo-
razo, which rises to 21,4-10 feet above the level of the sea. It
may be truly said that the dwellers in this farm house are ac-
customed to, and move in, " high life."

LONDON COMPOSITORS.--The journeymen printers of
London are in a very distressed state. From twelve to fif-
teen hundred compositors and pressmen are said to be out of
work, and there is but little prospect of any improvement in
the trade for some time to come. The many failures amongst
booksellers caused great stagnation, and this has been in-
creased by the small quantity of printing required for the late
short, do-nothing parliament. One or two meetings have
been held by the men, preparatory to a more public one, to
consider the propriety of making an appeal to the public on
their behalf.

SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—A lad,
about eighteen years of age, on Wednesday night, the 29th
ult., disappeared under strong excitement; and, it is supposed,
threw himself off the bridge at Melksham, into the Avon,
and was drowned. To recover the body, his friends on
Saturday were firing a gun along the banks of the river, be-
lieving that the report would burst the caul and raise the
corpse to the surface. On Monday they beat a drum along
the bank, believing that the drum would cease sounding
when opposite the corpse Of course both methods failed.

Letters from the northern districts of Northumberland,
North Durham, and Berwickshire, describe the crops there
as being very good, exceeding rather an average ; but they
also state that fully one half is yet in the fields, and that
there is little prospect of their being gathered in undamaged,
as the fine weather is completely broken up. The wheat of
the north of England is, it is added, of a better description
than that of the south, this year. The severe weather of the
last week has brought over woodcocks at this unusually early
period.

MAGNIFICENT COLUMN BETWEEN Ross AND Wax-
FORD.—The column erected by General Browne Clayton, on
the rock of Carrig-a-Dagon, adjoining the mail-coach road
between Ross and Wexford, is now completed, and presents
to the eye one of the most chaste and classic ornaments of
which the country can boast. The column, including the
capital, which is of the Corinthian order, is constructed of
the finest cut granite, and is ninety-four feet four inches high.
General Browne Clayton, who commanded the 12th light
dragoons, has erected this column to commemorate the con-
quest of Egypt, under the command of Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie, K.B.—Waterford chronicle.
A lady once heard a clergyman preach, and was so enrap-
tured with him, that she sent him a letter to the following
effect :—" Dear Sir,--There's my hand, (my heart you have
already,) with my fortune, which is very considerable. Will
you accept? I am, &c., ANNA." The clergyman, unmoved
by the entreaties of the lovely fair one, replied in the follow-
ing terms :—'• Madam,—Give your hand to industry, your
dowry to the poor, and your heart to God."

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. A person of the name of a
Richard Shaw, residing at Oldfield Carr, near Poulton-le-
Fylde, who keeps a quantity of hens, having for a week past
lost the eggs of one of them, which was a constant layer, he
was induced to make a strict search, but for four or five days
without success. At length, on Thursday week, he saw the
hen come cackling off an apple tree, in the garden, in which
was a magpie's nest. He immediately got a ladder, and ex-
amined the nest, when to his great surprise he found nine of
the hen's eggs deposited in it. The nest is about fifteen feet
from the ground.
A SUICIDAL FAMlLY.—Saturday evening, between five
and six o'clock, a determined attempt at suicide was made
by a young married lady, whose connexions are of respec-
tability at Brompton. She suddenly rushed down the stairs
leading from Hungerford-market to the Thames, and, in the
presence of several persons, precipitated herself into the river.
An alarm being raised, some men entered a boat and pro-
ceeded to her assistance, and succeeded in taking her out of
the water as she was on the point of sinking, and conveyed
her, in a state of total insensibility, to the Swan Tavern,
where the most kind attentions were immediately paid her.
Surgical assistance being procured, after some time she was
restored to her senses. On being asked the cause of her
making the rash attempt on her life she burst into a flood of
tears, but objected 'to assign the cause. She admitted that
she was married, and that her aunt, a respectableeoslpdlealdleyßrompton-row, resided in Brompton-row, Brompton, giving the name and
address. Mr. Howard, the landlord, immediately despatched
a messenger to her aunt, acquainting her of the unfortunate
circumstance. On the messengers arrival, to his astonish-
ment, on communicating the circumstance, the old lady did
not betray the least surprise, but cooly answered that it was
nothing more than she had daily expected, she having at two
previous periods, made similar attempts, and that she be-
longed to a suicidal family, her two sisters having put a pe-
riod to their existence some time since, one by precipitating
herself from a boat into the river, and her eldest sister poi-
soned herself at her residence near Regent's-park. The
young lady having recovered was safely restored to her aunt,
and she accompanied her once again safe to her residence.
TIIE MANNER OF DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT IN THE
REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. The following curious
piece of historical information is derived from a rare work,
entitled " Records of Parliament," printed in folio, 1602.
Ann. 27 Reg. Eliz., Sept. 14, 1586 : —The Lorde Chiefe
Justice of England, the Lorde Chiefe Justice of the Common
Pleas, the Lorde Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer, and the
Maister of the Rolles, beyng sente down from the Lordes to
the Commons, the say Lorde Chiefe Baron having the greate
seale of England, declared that her Majestic havynggivin com-
mission to dissolve the present Parliament unto the 4th day of
reb.ifollowing, and soe whereupon it was by
N7crerathaadjverrinaeidn
untill the day appoynted. Which done,
standing
most, andpri
nputting
andthe , signified unto
go ink
itell‘,Tnleren.stsbersanee of her Ma-
jestiesd
tifull cares and travails of the
thankfull acceptations of the u.
the House in the messages and declarations of herllighnesses
hearts 'minds
together House that we doe altogether joyn our and
House in the service of her Majestic and the realme, moved
1110 voyutsi
of her Majestiesreign and
preser-
for the long continuance
had.. .
together in humble and earnest prayer unto Almighty God
preser-
vation. 6;
learned man ; yet, albeit it was
he would read it as well as he could ; if it
He then said he a paper, in writing; 1-
after him, as she should begin and say
honest, godly, and . not very
; which being assented to by the whole house
before them
up•leelalse‘dvrtihtteemn,
to
say.
everie one kneeling upon his knees, the sayd Mr. Vice-Chain:
berlayne began the said prayer, wbieh being ended, ecerie
one departed untill the sayd daie of adjournment."

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f unstable minds are

f which they are more afraid,

what is this court

,se powers ar

so omnipo-

ral sentimeni—the concur-

And why is this court

dicrees so profoundly reve-

ant results which it

tual rewards it can bestow, or

t—but to the mere moral power
; whence, we would ask, is this

there would seem to be considera-
t place, we find that the decisions

but uniform ; nay, that

,ing that its very rule of right

)nourable, is different in dif-

reason of fact which ought greatly

of its authority ; but there

constitution—inherent in its very

me to diminish the terror of its

t is composed of an infinite

ie judgment, separately and indi-
ree to maintain the least possible

can so many cyphers, at the

quantity, make up a gross total—

—so many fallibles, as they
ilt in one infallible ? There

Al of society in which this common

le world more than common error
In some savage tribes—(we believe
ines of Australia)—there is a want
to the existence of deity ; and in

moron sense so teenas with superstitions

it it exercises a power, or rather a
[ to the general happiness—retains
nd trains them inhabits which ren-
adcd in the eyes of civilised nations.
ucted, uninformed, and unenlight-

ch constantly misjudges and mis-:
d one, which judges rightly, leads
its to the general character

Niety, and what wt

This, then, is a most inn-

at, and happy are the people

but what is its source, and how is it

isl►nien are in the habit of considering
ivaluable possession has fallen to our
al character is distinguished beyond
)y a plain, unadorned, sound, yet

sense, and that we give proof
ginable shape and form. We

articipate in the national feel-

boast, for we think it is

ev is merely as to the source

,etion. Does it come, then,

our stormy winters, our

and mist, and rain ?

acles overcome—hindrances sur-

serenity nor the elasticity which
-id is an attribute of our clime, and
iat mind does not slumber here.

;t, Cowper, sung on this

'et Nature here,

Spring, and often pours

miner's drooping flowers;
Luench Autumnal beams,

curl the streams ;
rvest, ply the fork

er at their work

for his good designed,
le man of all mankind.

climate, nor parallel of latitude

.esult, perhaps it is organization,

some other physical instru-

We have visited the catacombs of
❑d sundry other well-stored theatres
.amined many skulls in our day, and
dogmatise on this point; we will just

position that he must be a very wise
feed, who will pconounce with all the
ty of Hamlet's grave-digger, that here
i—here that of a Spaniard ; that this
his an Englishman's. On this point

her remark; but, as to temperament,
loss to know how it should produce
bough we have some idea that common
a very considerable control over tem-

communicate common sense by diet?
d porter, in sausage and Rhenish ? or

sort we must leave to physiologists; we
s quite incapable of offering any feasible

ig it ; we can only say that in none of
ly, nor in all of them put together, are
ny causation at all capable of accounting
se reality we feel so perfectly sure. On
is no doubt whatever that the true source
)d sense, which is the glorious charac_
ry, is to be found in the principles dif-
ard of wisdom set less, by our national

that a sound Christianity is the

.ly pure fountain of a sound, rational,

produced many more good things into
Norld is not willing to give it credit for,
ids and tens of thousands who reap the
owledging the hand which deals out the

a vast many, who refuse to acknow-

Christianity, who yet owe all they are
•espectability they enjoy in the world, to
of its precepts and the adoption of its
lemselves as others. Put out the light
we know not at what vestal lamp the
ankind is to relume its taper. If some
n Le the religion of the people, think

11 remain an o'ermastering common

1 ordinary secular matters to overcome

le supposition is false and delusive : a
Ipts the court—that court of which we

1 you look for equity, truth, or justice

There is no instance of any such thing
ere mockery to talk of the good com-

tious populace ; they can constitute

my wind when I do blow,

g to another when it blows,
I always by the greater gust

adard to regulate their conduct—nei-
,ss to steer by ; and the will of some

rules the whole

,eople who have emancipated themselves
Lot only of what we call superstition, but
!cord of history leaves us nothing to re-

hat it tells us of their common sense

)f reason was enthroned among our Gal-
l' common sense seemed absolutely and
e them, or took so sanguinary a turn that
afe either in the capital or the depart-
otley was then the only wear " ; but it
nkled with the blood of perpetual and
ions, and rendered mirthful only by the

ctims. Common sense of this sort

ther name than that of common madness

nd consider

DROIT ROBBERY

'rom L'Audience.)

_ jemme de chart:bre,
Jarfaile the white cambric apron of
Ted the shop of a jeweller in the
eur," said she to the jeweller,
will require her jewels to-
ack again to you after she has
you may change that stone
to the directions which you

pectabi

fact had the evening previously
e V a parure de diarnans, in

have some slight alteration made, with-
•ed the casket to the maiden, who took

trick or fraud

But imagine

utiquier, when in the afternoon
drives up in her carriage to inquire
; been made. "Madame must be
ble," replies the jeweller, " as I
by , her femme de chambre, who
' " What is this I hear ?"
I sent no person for them." "
Ma-
Jr. It was a young person about 18,
)rie apron, with an air de:quge." "My
mote than 30, and has not quitted the
rejoins the baroness. _ _ .

xclaims the jeweller; and this
In a state bordering on dispair he runs
de Police, and in passing the shop of a
line of business, he sees coming out of
recognizes as the heroine of the cambric

6. Ire attempted to seize her, bat in his
basket instead of her arm, and the adroit
. _

r arm from the handle and was off like a
.sket in the hands of the stupefied jeweller.
owever, and, to his inexpressible joy, found

>eared that the interesting little thief had
day been trying to dispose of her booty
in the neighbourhood, and was just Com-
ng an unsuccessful attempt of the kind,
dupe ; and the latter was so overjoyed at
from his mental anxiety that he protested
,old not make any attempt at discovering

A frightful crime
, near
sfnd
orote
ase of Detention atEY
was sea was
re.
of the prisoners, who
,ceived a severe reprimand
•ts secret correspondence bew-
,wo or three of his comrade;
the wretched man conceived
Armed with a sharp utensil,
hop attached to the prison,
Jnfortuuate comrades passed
:d the instrument into his breast,
He then withdrew the bloody
-ds threw himself on a se-
struck with the utmost fury, in-
terrible blows. Excited almost to
Ad crime, he next fell upon one of the
good fortune to escape ; and it was with
that he was at last secured and put in
the wounded men expired, the one in-
other on the following morning, in the
horrible sufferings. The murderer, who
in one of the dungeons attached to the
no remorse whatever, but expressed his
g made other victims.

interdic

.tely afterward