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ment—to disturb • the finality of measures which b

yesterday were considered as settled portions of the

constitution, and to scatter the seeds of disruptic

amongst institutions and principles which the hand of
the leveller and the democrat had not hither dared to

cemplet, and with keeping their *fig, He said it
was iilvaneful." The merchant of Liverpool, how-
ever, have not, in general, had the benefit of a May.

nooth education, and conceive them selves—unfortu-
nately for Mr. Duffey—under an obligation, both of
honour and conscience, to keep faith with all parties,
and under all circumstances, even though it should be
to their own loss, when once they have passed their
word. Mr. Rosson, indeed, attempted to pacify this
valiant knight of the thimble, by a jesuitical gloss on
the resolutiOns. He said that nob Ody who heard them
could suppose for a moment that they did not include
the corn duties—and he begged the angry artist to
smooth his ruffled feathers, and console himself with
this assurance. Two or three other gentlemen of the
liberal school also adverted to the matter, with obser-
vations of nearly similar import ;—from all which we
draw the obvious and indeed necessary inference, that
the party would convert this meeting—which was de-
signed to be a perfectly open one, and one in which
the discussion of the corn question was distinctly pro-
hibited—into one at which the repeal or modification
of the duties was directly or inferentially recommended !
Now we say that this is unfair, and, moreover, a
breach of faith. It ista mere " keeping of the word of
promise to the ear"—and scarcely that—but a "break-
ing of it to the sense"—and calls for reprehension.
We do not mean to charge all the Whig gentlemen
with so insidious a policy; but it is manifest that some
have practised it, and that their acts, therefore, tend to
the discouragement of meetings convened under con-
ditions such as were annexed to the one in question.

Our look-out abroad is by no means comfortable
this week, and is such as leads us to fear that the luck
of the whigs is nearly run out. We regret this, we
need scarcely say, not so much for the sake of our ca-

linet directors, as on account of our beloved country
The China expedition proves to be something ye

ike, if not in reality and altogether, a failure. We
lave been humbugged, grossly humbugged, by the
I,ongtails—that's the truth of it. The fellows might
lave been brought to their senses easily at the first;

but a spirit of conciliation—a besetting sin with the
whigs—came over our commander, and the mandarins
completely got round him with their palaver. What
is the consequence ? Why, that our expedition is
treated with contempt, and no longer feared—that our
Hpldiers are dying off by hundreds at Chusan—and
that no progress whatever has been made with the ne-
gociations. Nay, it is an incident among the latest
events of which we have tidings, that the Queen
steamer was fired at from the battery when entering
the Bogue, having the Captain Plenipo Elliott on
board, bearing a diplomatic chop for the Emperor's
high commissioner. It is true some apology was af-
terwards made for this, as a mere inadvertence; but
the occurrence, trifling as it may seem, leads us exactly
to the same conclusion with that drawn by a writer on
the spot, who says, " I have always been of opinion
that we began at the wfong end. We should have
well cudgelled the Longtails at first, and reasoned
(treated) with them afterwards."
ry

Admiral Elliott has resigned his command to Sir
J. Gordon Bremer, and set sail for England, on board
the Volage, on the 29th of November. It remained a
matter of the utmost uncertainty whether our " com-
plications" with this extraordinary people woulLl be
settled by negociation, or whether their movements
would not have to be quickened at last by active mea-

The Egyptian news is also in a slight degree embar-
rassing. The Pasha vows that he will never submit to
have the hereditary successor to the government ap-

pointed by the Sultan—a nomination which the
peror seeks to retain in his own hands. And in

we think the Pasha only insists on what is reasonable.
If his pashalic is to be hereditary, it would be a strange
and unnatural power to give the Sultan, to select such
member of the Pasha's family as he might choose to
prefer to the government.

As to our western complications, they get more a
more perplexed and perplexing, and leave us nothi.

but to prepare for the worst. The hopes of the French
war party have been revived by this business, which
perhaps may be owing to an influence exerted by them
in the States. The Si.cle of Monday gives the first in-
timation of their hopes, and contends that France
ought to be more than ever cautious in signing any
treaty, as it was 'evident, from the late debate in the
House of Commons, that the friendly language used
towards France was induced by apprehension of a war
between Great Britain and America.

It is pretty plain, then, that we are surrounded by
enemies willing and anxious to find an occasion of quar-

•elling with us

The popish agitator in the House of Commons—oul
great domestic. foe—does not fail to take advantage o
these signs of the times. All his demands are nov
made, not as favours that he hopes to win, but as con

cessions that we should tremble to deny. The act o
'29 is forgotten. He is still as much as ever the Papi•
neau of Ireland, but a far more cautious and skilfu

hero of the school

moral feelings,

On last Sunday evening he reviewed his male troops
in a repeal gathering at some place in Theobald's road,
London, and told the assembled Patlanders that on that
day week he would review a hundred thousand of them
on the Curragh c,f Kildare, in Ireland. Can miscreant,
treasonable audacity go further ? But let not Eng-
land be alarmed. She has One above to protect her;
and with a just cause, she will, if it please God, fear
none of her foes.

We are sorry that the length of our report precludes
us making any observations upon the speeches deli-
vered yesterday, at the meeting convened for the pur-
pose of preventing the infliction of, the grinding
tyranny of the bashaws of Somerset House, upon the
poor of Liverpool. The petulant outbreaks of Mr.
Earle, under the rebukes which were administered to
him for his foolish exposure of himself and party, and
for his second-hand misrepresentations of the working
of the new poor-law, will afford us a little amusement
for an idle hour before Tuesday, whilst the taking ur
of the subject by the public will afford us an oppor-
tunity of showing the real principles and working of
this abominable, unchristian, un-English, devilisl
measure. In the meantime we recommend the perusai
of the speeches which will be found in other columns
together with the letter from a correspondent on tin
same subject. We must, however, offer up our heart
prayers that the objects of the deputation will bi
realised, and the poor thus saved from the blows aimec
at their comforts, their religious scruples, and their

MELANCHOLY Loss OF THE BARQUE HECTOR.—We
deeply regret to state that intelligence was yesterday received
by the schooner Flora, Captain Warren, from Terceira, of
the total loss of the barque Hector, East Indiaman, of this
port, off that island on the 17th of February, and of the cap-
tain, the mate, and another man. The Hector recently Un-
derwent a thorough repair here, and was considered equal to
a new ship. On her homeward voyage from Calcutta, with
a cargo of sugar, she touched at the island of St. Helena, and
afterwards encountered a gale of wind, which induced the
captain, as she had become leaky, to make for the island of
Terceira, in the Azores. She came to anchor off the island
on the 15th February. The gale continued violent, and as
the leak increased, the crew abandoned the vessel next day,
in the long-boat, leaving on board the captain and the mate,
and, it is supposed, the steward, both of whom were much
attached to him, and resolved to remain with him to the last.
The leak at length defied all their exertions, and the ship be-
came in a sinking state. They did not, however, leave her until
the water had reached the deck, and there was no longer a hope
of saving her. They then took to the remaining small boat,
and the vessel went down in 50 fathoms of water, at her an-
chors. The distance to the shore was but short, but the gale
was still severe, and the sea running high, and, lamentable
to relate ! the boat swamped, and the three faithful fellows
found a watery grave together. Capt. John Johnson was a
man highly respected by all who knew him, and much be-
loved by his friends and intimate acquaintance, for his manly
disposition and general good qualities. He was but 38 years
of age, born in England, and was an admirable and fearless
man. His father is an interpreter of this town, a respectable
old man ; and his distress on learning the melancholy fate of
his son, as may well be conceived, is most poignant. He
has left four sisters, two of whom kept his house here, and
two others are resident in Dautzig, the birth-place of
father. His memory will long be affectionately cherished by
a large circle of friends, who were strongly attached to him
as an excellent man, and a cheerful and engaging companion,
The Hector was a vessel of 395 tons burden, the property of
Mr. Close, of Nottingham, whose agent here is Mr. Jame!
Aikin. We have not been enabled to ascertain the names O
the mate and steward, who perished with their gallant corn•
wander.

THE BRITISII QUEEN.--This vessel left London on the
10th instant as advertised, but we understand orders have
been despatched from the Foreign Office to detain her at
Portsmouth for a short time, in order, we presume, that sh
may carry out the despatches of Lord Palmerston's bite,
tions, with reference to the important and warlike intelli;e•
recently received from America. The British Queen ca,
out nearly seventy persons, and an extensive and valua.
cargo of merchandise, and upwards of fifteen thousand le,
ters and newspapers, which will acquaint Brother Jonatt,
of the feelings entertained by Englishmen of his war b'
gadocia.