The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir Olney Wakeman, Bart., has contributed £lOO, and the
site for a new chapel of ease, at Shrewsbury.
Mr. W. Bennett has been elected secretary to the Di ury-
lane Theatrical Fund, in the room of the late Mr. Hughes.

It is in contemplation to make a railway for the passage of
the mails to Dublin, passing through the county of Wor-
cester.—Hereford Journal.
DEATH OF SIR ROBERT STEELE.—Colonel Sir Robert
Steele, Knt., K.C.S., Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, expired
in Paris on the 17th inst.

PERTH COUNTY ELECTION.—Fox Maule is, we hear, to
come forward for Perthshire. It is expected that Sir P. M.
Thriepland will oppose him.—Staudard.
Mr-Francis Butt, who fell from his horse while out hunt-
ing last week, supposed to have been attacked by a fit of
apoplexy, expired on Wednesday morning. Mr. Butt was
mayor and a magistrate of Stamford.—Lincoln Chronicle.
' NATURAL lIISTORY.—A fine specimen of the Bittern
(Ardea stellaris, Linn.) was' shot a few days ago by Mr.
Frederick Campbell, near Ballaugh. The bird is an extremely
rare visitant to the Isle of Man, and is not by any means of
frequent occurrence in England. It has been presented to
the Douglas Museum.—Manx Liberal.
An entire German operatic company, under the command
of Herr Schuman, comprising a corps of 20 principal vocal-
ists, a chorus of 48. and a band of 40 instrumentalists, are
on their way to London, from Mentz, and will, as soon as the
arrangements are perfected, commence a series of perform-
ances of the German opera, at the St. James's Theatre.
SUNDAY TRADING ON CANALS.—Thelollowinz circular
has recently been issued :—" To the traders on the Worces-
ter and Birmingdam canal navigation. Many applications
having been made to the committee of the company of pro-
prietors of the Worcester and Birmingham canal navigation
to put a stop to trading on their canal on the Sabbath day,
they respectfully request that you will give directions to
your steerers to avoid such a practice as much as possible."
We understand that Lord George Lennox is about to be
appointed a Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and that Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde is to be equerry
to his royal highness. We trust that ministers do not be-
stow this mark of courtesy on Lord George in the expecta-
tion that it will operate as a sop in preventing his lordship
from baiting them any further on the subject of the Naval
and Military Commission, and the Royal Marine Corps more
especially. If they do, they will soon find out their mistake.
—United Service Gazette.

NEWLY-INVENTED HOWITZER.—The National de l' Onest
gives the following account of a trial of a new light howitzer
for field service.:—" The piece is of 121 b. calibre, weighing
only 100 kilogrames (2001b5.) so that it may be carried over
mountains on the back of a mule. It throws a shell, which
burSts on reaching the enemy, and contains 73 balls, scatter-
ing its splinters to an extent of 600 yards; and the balls are
directed with great precision, penetrating boards of consider-
able thickness. It may be used with the greatest effect in
the most mountainous parts of Algeria."
A correspondent writes us that the. President sent a mes-
sage to the Senate on Monday last, 27th, containing the cor-
respondence between our minister at London and the British
authorities in relation to the slaves so unjustly liberated by
the authorities of Bermuda, from au American brig that went
there in distress. The British Government on this occasion
has acted on a principle of justice which puts to shame the
conduct of our own authorities towards the Spaniards in the
case of the L'Armistad. The allowance averages somewhere
about 500 dollars per head.—New York Gazette.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Col. Jones, on Mon-
(lay made a personal inspection of the entire establishment of
the Welsh School, Gray's Inn-road, where he was received
by the Earl of Powis, the president of the charity, and Col.
Wood and Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, the treasurers. His
royal highness was pleased to express his great gratification
with the details and management of the institution. The
visit was preparatory to his royal highness taking the chair
at the great anniversary dinner of the Society of Ancient
Britons, to be held at Freemasons'-hall on Monday next.—
Morning Herald.
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Tun QUEEN v. FEARGUS O'CoNNon.—We mentioned a
fortnight ago that the Attorney-General had intimated the
probability of his being down at the approaching Yorkshire
Assizes to prosecute the parties charged with high treason
from Sheffield and Bradford. It is very likely that he will
also conduct the case for the prosecution in the ex officio in-
formation that he lately filed against Mr. Feargus O'Connor
for publishing reports of meetings in the Northern Star,
which will be tried at Nisi Prius before Justice Coleridge and
a Special Jury. We suppose Mr. O'Connor will again de-
fend himself,in person.—Sheffield Patriot.
COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning last, as the
Union coach was proceeding to Edinburgh, it was unfortu-
nately overturned by one of the fore axles suddenly break-
ing, when about three miles from Newcastle, by which, we
regret to say, Mr. Garnett, a commercial gentleman of Man-
chester, and Mr. John Weatherston, of this town, received
some injury ; the former having his arm, and the latter the
small bone of his leg broken. No blame whatever is attached
to either the guard or the coachman ; but it is supposed the
accident occurred by the sudden jerk in passing over the
Fawdown Railway. We are glad to say, that both the gen-
tlemen are fast recovering.—Newcastle Chronicle.

NEW AVENUE OF APPROACH TO THE QUEEN.—The
Glasgow Chartists, amid all their vagaries, have occasionally
had the merit of striking out novelties. They have resolved
that, " as it is impossible for them to approach her Majesty
with any petition, a letter should be written to Prince Albert,
requesting him to use his influence with the Queen in ob-
taining a free pardon for Frost, Williams, and Jones !" It
has been said that Prince Albert has; as the Queen's consort,
no constitutional status in the country. The chartists of
Glasgow, however, seem to think otherwise, and have re-
solved to address him as one of the official advisers of the
Crown.—Scoltish Guardian.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—An event occurred yesterday
afternoon in this town, of so singular a character, that we
doubt if such an event ever took place previously. it seems
that a man had been examined at the New Bailey on a charge
of poaching. who had been stopped in one of the roads in the
vicinity of Manchester, having in his possession two live
cocks and a live hen pheasant, a dead pheasant, and a num-
ber of snares. The prisoner was remanded till to-day, and
the constable was on his return home with the evidence of
the man's guilt in his possession, when while stepping into
an omnibus in Deansgate, one of the pheasants escaped from
the bag, anil flew.with so- much violence, against
.the Three
Arrows public-house, that it fell dead upon the pavement.
Sportsmen will learn with some astonishment that a phea-
sant was " killed in the very heart of the town of Manches-
ter."—Manchester Chronicle of .Saturday. •
STATE OF CRIME IN PARIS.—The police have just suc-
ceeded in arresting a band of robbers of a desperate des-
cription. Three men, had attempted to commit a burglary
last Tuesday night in the house of an innkeeper in the
Faubouig St. Martin, and, by the presence of mind of the
owner of the house, were arrested by the police before they
could retire with the booty they had collected. One of them
proved to be a man named Duinoutier, who some months
ago had been arrested in Paris under the assumed name of
Johnson, and had subsequently escaped from the prison of
Cambrai, whither he had been sent for examination relative
to some. previous depredations. These men were all armed
with pistols, and had a large supply of housebreaking tools.
The police soon discovered where Dumoutier had been
lodging, and on proceeding thither the day before yesterday
arrested two other individuals, notorious thieves, and who at
the time were strongly armed. An immense quantity of
stolen goods was found at their lodgings.—French Paper.

BOOTS V. STOCKINGS.—A commercial gentleman going
recently into the travellers' room, at one of the inns in
Barnsley, enquired for the boots. In a few minutes a shrimp
of a lad, in rustic attire,.presented himself. " Well," said
the traveller, " are you the boots ?" The youth, supposing
no doubt, that the gentleman was up to sport replied, " No !
I'me the stockings, sur." The traveller not exactly pleased
with the. answer, asked him, "what he meant by such a
reply !' " Wha," repeated the boy in a sort of a simple
laugh, " rule the stockings, sur."—" Stockings ! What do
you mean by stockings, you impertinent snapper, you ?"
Wha, sur," said the boy, with an unaltered countenance,
" I'me under boils ; so ha must be stockings, sur." The
gentleman turned round to the window in a twitter, and the
rogue of a lad walked winkingly away, whistling the air,
" Oh, a bagman's life is the life for me !"—Wakefield
Journal.

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DR. WARUEN.—Amongst the gentlemen who received
episcopal ordination, at the cathedral, on Sunday last, by the
Lord Bishop of the diocese, our readers will perceive the
name of the Rev. Dr. Warren, who, for many years was a
distinguished preacher in the Wesleyan Connection. We un-
derstand that the scene of the rev. gentleman's future la-
bours will be in Manchester, where a commodious church is
now in course of erection for him, and the foundation stone
of which was laid in October last, by Sir Oswald Mosly,
Bart., who, in furtherance of the pious undertaking, has mu-
nificently given the land. This densely populated district
has been hitherto in a state of destitution as to church ac-
commodation. The long experience and ability by which the
rev. gentleman will be aided in the discharge of his ministe-
rial duties, cannot but contribute most materially to the
moral and spiritual improvement of the population amongst
whom he will now be called to reside. Chester Courant.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY OF A PONY.—About 18
years since a gentleman gave to Mr. Titchmarsh, of Knees-
worth, Cambridgeshire, an old grey pony, aged 23 years,
which was supposed to be worn out, requesting him either to
shoot it or give it gentle work to do. The latter request
was acted upon, and singular to state, revived the strength of
its younger days. Six years ago (at the age of 35 years,)
the same pony went through a hard day's hunt, carrying its
rider, who weighed 12 stone, to the death of the fox. Asto-
nishinc, to relate, till within the last three weeks, it could
scarcelyb be kept in the close or stable on bearing the yelping
of hounds, the sound of a horn, or the Dort of a gun ; from
that time it gradually drooped, and on Saturday last, the 22d,
died a natural death, at the great age of 41 years.—Farmer's
Journal.

ADVICE TO THOSE DISSENTING TO THE APPLICATION
OF THE RIVER WEAVER FUNDS.—The following remark
taken from Mr. Collins's " Statistics of Church Accommo-
dation," will prove interesting at the present time, the sub-
ject of church extension having been brought prominently
forward. •"rhis is an age of economy, and if the state can
secure the peace and order of Society more cheaply by ex-
tending the means of religious instruction to the people,
than by extending the police and other criminal establish-
ments of the country, would it not be a wise economy in the
state to adopt the one in paeference to the other ? The
truth is, the question will cost us much whether we will or
not. If do not build them churches we must build them
gaols and bridewells." Have any accurate calculations been
yet made to show that the amount of crime differs in towns
or parishes of equal population, according to the greater or
less amount of church accommodation provided for the in-
habitants ? Within 30 years, from 1800 to 1831, about
£4,000,000 were spent upon gaols and lunatic asylums.
Again, in the last 10 years we are told that the sums collected
as poor rates fell little short of £50,000,000 or £60,000,000
sterling. Who shall say how far this expenditure would
have been diminished by an outlay of 1-20th part of these
funds in support of the Church of England parochial system
of multiplying schools, churches, and clergy ?

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THE " PRIVILEGE" PRISONERS.—The conduct of Mr.
Pearse, whose only crime has been the faithful discharge of
his duty to his employer, Mr. lloward, has excited the ad-
miration of many of the leading members of the House of
Commons, who have not only visited him during his con-
finement, but kindly contributed to the necessities of his
wife and family. Mr. Pearse is an exceedingly intelligent
and well-informed man, and in early life held a commission
in the army, and participated in many of the glorious achieve-
ments of the Peninsular war. He had also two brothers in
the army, both of whom fell in the service. Upon the pro-
clamation of peace, Mr. Pearse sold his commission, and,
from adverse circumstances, was ultimately compelled to
follow the unenviable avocation of an attorney's clerk. Im-
mediately after the order for his committal was made on
Tuesday night, a member of the house asked permission of
the sergeant-at-arms to speak with his prisoner previous to
his being taken below, which being granted, he took Mr.
Pearse aside, and, after paying him a very flattering compli-
ment for his firmness, made him a very handsome present.
On Thursday Sir Francis Burdett sent a communication, by
one of his own servants, to Mr. Pearse, requesting in very
kind terms his acceptance of an inclosed cheque. The rooms
in'which he and his fellow-prisoner, Mr. Howard, jun., are
lodged are on the basement, under the lobby of the house,
with the doors facing each other, and are very comfortably
furnished. Young Howard, however, is in very bad health,
and suffering from the effects of his confinement. A pro-
fessional gentleman named Russell, residing at Chelsea, is
;carrying on Mr: Howard's business,,!as his agent.-11forAing
Herald of Tuesday. .

The Moniteur of Saturday publishes the following return
of the slaves freed in the French .colonies since the latter end
of 1830 :
In Martinique....
Guadaloupe
French Guiana
Bourbon

19,290
10,373
1,608
3,316

In all 34,587
A few days ago the bell of the church at Fressonville. in
Picardy, was heard to sound at an unusual hour, and in a
very extraordinary manner. The people hastened to make
inquiry, and found a man suspended to the clapper. He was
immediately cut down, and, after some pains, restored to life.
No account is given of the motives which led to such a fanci-
.

ful attempt at suicide.
RAILWAY COLLISION.—Monday evening last, the train of
the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Railway Company, which had
left Irvine at past 7 o'clock for Ayr, came in contact, at a
mile from the MonlitOn station, with a horse and cart which
had stopped upon the line,. The cart was-literally dashed to
pieces, and the poor horse instantaneously killed. We are
happy to learn, that not the slightest injury was sustained
by any of the individuals on the the train.—Scottish Guar-
dian.

. ANOTHER WHIG Jon.—Mr. Knight, the leading joint in
the Scholefield tail, is appointed to the office of superintend-
ent-registrar for the district of Birmingham, vacant by the
. compulsory " resignation" of Mr. Pare.. This Mr. Knight
holds two other public situations—viz., borough treasurer,
at a salary of £3OO per annum, and receiver of police, at a
salary of £250 a year ! Talk of local political influence and
jobbery in tory times,—and who talked more about these
things, in the days of reform, economy, and retrenchment,
than pluralist Knight, and 'his patrons Joseph Parkes and
Joshua Scholefield? When—when, we ask, was there any-
thing so palpably unjust as the two last appointments given
to Scholefield's man Friday ?—Ten Tenons Messenger.

On Monday morning a person named James Liddell hav-
ing occasion to go to Ford fur coals, a distance of 16 miles,
he was not a little surprised, after reaching the pit; by the
crowing of a cock beneath his.cart ; on looking with a light
below the body of the vehicle,- he observed a cock and hen
roosting on the axle, apparently quite at home. Finding that
they belonged to no one about the place, he put them into a
sack and brought them to Kelso. On making inquiry after
his return, he ascertained that the fowls were the property of
a neighbour, and it appears that having gone to roost upon
the axle the previous night, they had kept possession of their
dormitory, unperceived by Liddell, and, what is still more
singular, had remained undisturbed by the jolting of the cart
during the journey until the following morning, when the
natural instinct of the cock warned him of the approach of
day.—Kelso Chronicle.
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The Commerce guarantees* authenticity of. thefollowing
extraordinary story :—" A rich and noble lady of the Fau-
bourg St. Germain, lately received at her house in the coun-
try the visit of an officer of gendarmerie, who informed her
that there was a person in her house of suspected character,
and that he had been ordered to search it, but begged her
not to be agitated, as he would wait the return of her hus-
band, who was absent, before lie commenced his investiga-
tions. The husband was sent for. -On his arrival, after the
usual salutations, the husband- inquired the object of the
visit. The officer, drawing out a pistol and pointing it at
him, said, ' You area forget,- and have broken your ban. I •
arrest you in the name of the law.' The- husband . was in-
stantly
removed to Paris, where he was identified by a female
who had formerly lived with him, and by whom he had been
denounced, after having for a long time purchased her silence
with large sums of money. To get rid of her repeated appli-
cations, he had withdrawn to the country, where he was ar-
rested. This unfortunate marriage was contracted about six
months ago."—[This is quite true. The lady belongs to one
of the first families in France.—Correspondent of Morning
Herald.]
We mentioned in our last Gazelle, that Rear Admiral the
Hon. G. Elliot, C.B. would succeed Rear Admiral Sir F. L.
Maitland, K.C.8., in the East India command ' • and we have
since heard, that Rear Admiral Briggs. G.C.M.G., will suc-
ceed Admiral Elliot at the Cape of Good Hope. The suc-
cessor of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8.,
G.C.M.G., in the Mediterranean is, we believe, as yet un-
decided. Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., is . said to
have long had his eye on that station, and, if this rumour be
correct, there can be but little doubt who the selection of
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himself and his brother lords will fall upon. Few holders of
office under the present Government would be fool-hardy
enough to thwart the wishes of one of the " Family." It
is, however, but fair to admit, that Admirals Elliot and Sir
Charles Adam, are both efficient officers, although far from
being the best that might have been selected for commands
involving such great and serious responsibility. John
Chinaman will be posed to find an Elliot, employed in re-
pairing the blunders of an Elliott, and will be sometime be-
fore he can reconcile himself to the apparent anomaly.—
United Service Gazette.

LAND SLIP, OR \RATHER. MOUNTAIN SLIP.—A singular
occurrence is related to have taken place near Salins, in the
district of the Jura, on the night of the 29th-30th of
January. A mountain, called the Cernans, has come down
in mass on the plain by which it was surrounded, and a por-
tion of the royal road from Dijon to PortaHer has sunk with
this great landslip to a depth of more than 50 metres. That
portion known as the Rampe de Cernans (the ladder or
staircase of Cernans) is rendered impassable, and all com-
munication between Cernans and the border of the Doubs is
cut off. During the day of the 30th a fresh mass of earth
and rock detached itself, and slid down with a motion suffi-
ciently rapid to he distinctly perceived at a great distance by
the naked eye—displacing in its fall an additional portion of
the road. It was apprehended that the mischief might spread
much further, and the conjectures were various as to the
cause of tile disaster. By some it was attributed to cuttings
made at the foot of the mountain for the formation of a new
road ; others were of opinion that a fountain which ceased to
play upwards of five and twenty years ago, must have taken
a subterranean direction, and mined out a portion of the
mountain. happily no lives have been lost.

COMIII SIR JAMES PE ARL.—ltis oar painful du

to record the death of Commander Sir James Pearl, R.N.,
Knight, and Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Or-
der, in the 50th year of his age, which melancholy circum-
stance took place suddenly on Monday morning last, 13th of
hinnary, 18.10, at his residence, Mount Pearl, near St.
John's, Newfoundland. lie had been 39 years in the ser-
vice. He commanded the poop of the Neptune of 98 guns
in the battle' -of 'Trafalgar, and was one of those brave men
who volunteered to break the enemy's protecting boom in
Aix-roads; which caused the deStruction of the French fleet.
Upon the latter occasion he steered the Mediator fire-ship,
and was severely wounded in the head. During the expedi-
tion to Walcheren he commanded the boats of the advance
squadron which destroyed.the'enemy's flotilla off Batz ; and
finished his career in the East Indies, where he received the
repeated thanks of the government of Bengal for his great
services during the Burmese war. In this last service he
commanded 30 sail of transport ships and 500 transport
boats, 'and (luring the war he took an active part in the
storming of Mungdoo Padao, Mahatte Bamree, and the ca-
pital of Arracan. It may also be mentioned, that at great
personal risk of Sir James Pearl saved nearly 200 fellow-
creatures from among shoals and breakers after their vessel
had gone to pieces, an exercise of humanity which, besides
the danger of life, involved a very great pecuniary sacrifice.
To the above we will add, that Sir James Pearl was presented
with a sword of 50 guineas value by the Patriotic Fund, for
his gallant conduct at Basque roads. A gold medal of great
value was given him by the King of the Netherlands, for his
humanity in saving the persons alluded to above, in the
China seas ; and lastly, the British merchants at Canton
subscribed a handsome sum to purchase him a piece of plate,
from the circumstance, as stated by them, that he had, by
his conduct, exalted the British character among the Chinese.
—United Service Gazette.
MOST IVloifr.NTous.—The sovereignty of the seas may be
lost to this country through the indolence of the Prime Mi-
nister.—We submit the following facts, for the accuracy of
which we pledge ourselves in every particular, to the consi-
deration or rather indignation of the British people. For the
last six years a gentleman has been devoting his time, talent,
and energies to a discovery which will alter the mode of war-
fare all over the globe, and render opposition to the power
which possesses his secret hopeless. He has expended above
thirty thousand pounds in perfecting his plans. In Septem-
ber last an interview was obtained with the Prime Minister,
who referred the matter to a gallant naval commander, since
deceased, and a distinguished officer yet alive, who fought
at Trafalgar, and shared in Egypt all the exploits of Sir
Sydney Smith. The report of these competent judges was,
that neither the British navy nor all the navies in the world
could compete with this formidahie invention, or rather se-
ries of inventions. Will it be credited, even of Lord Mel-
bourne, that this benefit is not yet secured to this country ;
the inventor is left_upon the rack of suspense, and, with
exhausted means, left exposed to the tempting offers of Rus-
sia and France, which hitherto he has had the patriotic for-
titude to repel. EVERY WORD WE WRITE WE CAN PROVE.
—Farmer's Journal.

QUALITY OF LAST YEAR'S WHEAT.—Considerable
difference of opinion appears to exist respecting the quality
of the produce of the last year, which is, of course, now
being brought into general consumption. By some the wheat
of last year is regarded as very much inferior in quality to
that of former seasons, whilst others maintain that no clew-
rioration has taken place in this respect. Perhaps truth lies
in the medium. The great test of the quality of food in ge-
neral use, and by consequence the staple article of consump-
tion, Wheat, is its effect upon the public health • and of this
perhaps no better indication can be afforded than the com-
parative mortality of large towns, particularly the metropolis.
Now, looking to this test, what do we find according to the
official registry? Why, that the present is a season of
remarkable, we might say of unexampled, -healthiness,
notwithstanding a state of weather which seems to promise
anything but salubrity : take the last weekly return that has
been published in London, that for the week ending Fe-
bruary 8. The deaths for that week are hut 818, whereas
the weekly average for 1838. was 1013, or according to the
proper suggestion of the General Registrar, adding a 27th
for the difference of-population 37-1-10504. Here, then, we
have a dimunition of considerably more than 20 per cent.
upon the mortality of the metropolis in two years. If this be
the effect of bad Irish wheat, in ten years more, if the same
commodity be supplied in equal abundance as at present,
there can be no mortality at all. It is remarkable, too, that
the greatest decrease has been in mortality caused by the
derangement of the digestive organs, or in typhus fever, the
classes of disease supposed to be most immediately depend-
ent upon diet. Typhus fever, for example, which in 1838
averaged 78, cut off but 31 in the week referred to, and but
30 in the week preceding. The only disease from which
there has been a serious increase of mortality is scarlatina,
and, that has been mainly confined to infants—in the week
ending February 8, the deaths have been 33, in the preceding
week 55 ; whereas in 1838, the average was 29. We think
that we have cited enough to cairn all fears for the public
health—enough also to prove that the corn-laws do not in-
jure the people either by restricting them to insufficient or
unwholesome food.—Newcastle Journal.
CORN-LAW AGITATION.—Let us exhort our agricultura
readers to keep their attention on the Anti-Corn-law League
in the north of England, to which more than £6OOO have
been subscribed in Manchester to defray expenses. What
can we expect from such an expenditure but a course of ruf-
fianly delusion, if not violence ? The engines chiefly set at
work in these times to effect any great changes, political or
ecclesiastical, are agitation and intimidation, and these hav-
ing been successfully applied to more than one great subject
of popular excitement, the same are now put in motion to
accelerate the downfall of mil- landed interest; simply be-
cause it is the conservative interest of the state, and serves to
control and check the sordid aristocracy of trade and manu-
facture. As respects the Corn-laws, the confidence of those
who apply themselves to procure a repeal of those lows dis-
plays itself in a tone of triumph and anticipated defiance, as
if the deed were already achieved. We can hardly, therefore,
be lulled into a dangerous security we see the peril actually
before us, and have only to consider what may be the most
available means of protection and defence. The spirit of
really malignant warfare is rarely to be softened by overtures
of compromise and concession ; these, for the most part,
will be regarded as indications of weakness, timidity, and
self-reproach, and will stimulate only to fresh aggression.
Experience has too often proved this. No sooner has one
sacrifice been made, than another has been called for—one
security being yielded, the surrender of another and another
has been demanded, in order that the victim of despoliation
may become so much an easier prey to the despoiler. We
throw out these observations, at present, to excite the landed
interest, and the tenantry in general, to make the most vigi-
lant exertions ; there must be no compromise or concession
of any kind made to the Anti-Corn-law League. It will be
seen that Mr. Pryme's motion has terminated by becoming
merged in Mr. Villiers' larger and.more revolutionary mea-
sure7—to, abolish. protective duties altogether,-;--Netvcastte
Journal.