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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

APRIL. 17, 14335

by accepting the most lucrative office-under the crown.
O'CONN ELL therefote does not seek place—he only wants
Power. He offers the following terms :-
Ist. The nomination of the law officers for Ireland tin-
ting the existence of the new administration !

2(11y. A veto upon the appointmentof the Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland ! !
Illy. The extension of the elective franchise in Ire-
land to £5 householders I ! !
These propositions are so monstrous—so insulting to
the majesty of England—as to be almost incredible ; but
we believe. they. were made, and that they have been
aecepted by Lord JoRN RUSSELL as the negotiator be-
tween Lord MELBOURNE and O'CONNELL. The latter
bai aclear right to make•the best terms he can for him-
andhis "tail." may ask to lie Made viceroy of
Ireland for life, with a salary of half 'a million per an-
num,.if,he pleases. He may. ask that the high office of
Chancellor for -Ireland be given to old RUTRVEN for
life;-and his .eldest son in'succession. He may.ask that
the people of Ireland he prohibited from drinking any
ale which he does not brew, and that a poll tax of one
shilling per annum be levied upon every protestant in
Ireland for the benefit of his family.. . All this, and more,
O'CONNELL has a right to ask; but that a British mi
nister has the power to grant any one of these terms is
quite another,. questiOn. Confining .ourselves to the
three first propositions,. we contend that the minister
Ithblhould accede to any one of them .would be liable to
Impeachment,. and ought to suffer death upon the scaf-
fold. If they are_ acceded to,. we hope the minister,
,v6ev er he is,
,will so perish. Outraged national ho-
aoir-.--national independence public justice, would
ilernand: it. Tit ,such a case public- indignation would
Pay little respect 'to persons. The people of England
will never submit to see their sovereign degraded, even
tottintarily: Their pride would. revolt at it—a voice
from the grave would cry ililutragainstit—the spectre
of the good king, GEORGE Ili, would stand by the bed-
side of the issue of his loin,s,tp,eotidernn it—every drop
of blood in our veins would boil at such deep debase-
ment.

B'ut it is quite possible that such terms might be made
With O'CoNNELL without the King's knowledge or con-
'currence. In such a.case his Majesty would be.the most
lielliless and paiable object in his whole dominions. If
made at all, we are quite certain they will be made
without the privity or consent of WILLIAM THE FOURTH.
This is the most unfortunate, part of the difficulty. The
Icing may be the last 'person who is made acquainted
With the humiliating conditions imposed upon his ser-
'Ruts. While in power they will take care to monopolize
%ll the patronage, and they can use that patronage lin-
-440t0n to him, but in strict accordance with the compact
'enterettinto with O'CONNELL.

We shall therefore assume, for the sake of argument,
'MU the terms of toe Irish impostor are accepted—that
'the infernal compact is signed and sealed—that O'CoN-
NELL is. to have sovereign power in Ireland, and the
RUSSELL whigs place .and patronage in England. We
tssume the facts because we believe them to be facts.

flow comes, with regard to• the practical part, the try-
ing point. Admitting the villanous compact, the sacri-
legious treaty, the infamous.coalition of papists, socinians,
llnd infidels* to be_ completed, still there remains the
adjustment of the means or agents by which the govern-
bent .under such a compact is to be-carried on. The
11')Iig journals tell us that Mr. SPRING RICE is to be clian-
'eCllor of the exchequer ; .Lord JOHN RUSSELL foreign
secretary ; Lord PALMERSTON colonial *secretary ; Mr.
CHARLES GRANT president of the India Board ; Sir
JOnN Honitousg -secretary for Ireland; Lord DuNCAN
NON home secretary; Mr. ROLFE solicitor-general, &c.
4tc. &c.
•
No doubt it is extremely. •epsy to Make such appoint.:
tadnts; but .pray how are these very fortunate gentlemen
1.0 secure seats in
.parliament Dissolve the parliament
'tile whigs will not. The next would he, more opposed to
them than the preSent. ; There will, for this reason, be no
dfirsoluijon by them. Still the new appointments must lead
to new elections. Lord JOHN RUSSELL lias no chance of
being again returned for .Devonshire. So certain is the
return of another conservative, Mr. MONTAGUE PARKER,
for that county,: thaiieven the MOrning•Chronicle gives
:IP Lord Jonres claims as hop4eFs, Will the noble
l°r(1, the 'foster parent of the reform bill, the hater of
corrupt boroughs, descend so lo.w. as to sneak intoparlia-
tnent through the rotten borough of Tavistock-4otten in
a double.. sense, for the lands therein belong in right
bore to the papists than the surplus revenues of the pro-
testant church ? He will, to a dead certainty, lose
bevonshire, and he may creep.,in for Tavistock, but. he
Villappear in Parliament stripped Of his. present plumes, a
T'inall kite of the I3edford breed, with his wings clipped.

. .
And Mr. SPRING RlCE—the -chancellor of the Ex-
'chequer that is to bes—Lis he quite sure that Cambridge
will re-elect him ? We can hardly think so. He must
have strong misgivings on the subject. If we are not
Inch misinforthed, the right honourable member sits for
that to for the last time. He was turned out of Lime-
by the papists, whom he had assisted to power; and
Ireland had no mercy upon him. By virtue of the, torn-
Pact.tvith O'CoNNELI:- he may.find a place there—but the
degradation must unnerve and eventually kill him.

Lord PALMERST6N tool Where_ is this antiquated cox-
who has lived .npon all parties, and disgusted all
Plitties--who has worn all colours, and disgraced every
e louv6—wbere is he to find a convenient borough? These,°
nbt one in England. He is the living personification
Of Contempt. Turned out of Hampshire he has no hiding
rr
a, His friends cannot assist him. The .whigs have
rotten boroughs—.(the only rotten boroughs extant_
ty.
eing theirs exelnsiv'elyl—still they have. not one to
l'Pare for Lord PALMERSI'ON. " Cupid," as the Spanish
grandee said of his dead ape to, ~his servants in .a com-
-414/Iding but a melancholy tone, "must b.e buried with
811 due solemnity."

Is Sir JonN HOBROUSE perfectly at ease in his
find about Nottingham.? We believe not. He will be
41 oat strenuously and we hope successfully opposed. If
,
Should happen to' be returned it will be at an expense
hich will consume three years' salary, supposing him to
Mate
that term in office. • It is most melancholy to
Me that even if returned 'at:.so serious a. cost there
net chance of his being in office three months!
,LWe pass Mr.'
Rorsi in charity, he being a personage
"liorn every progressi.ve step in advancement under whig
Attronage has tended to injure.'' Falmouth disgorges him
I, t
the next election. Whetie;,-then, goes Lord•Jouti
li UEisELL's solicitor-general,?

• ; . .7 , -•
lkir• CHARLES GRAN atis to e member of the Rus-
hLL cabinet. lie sits :thqCO`onty of Inverness. Is
quite safe there 2' No, if Itteie bea spark of pride,
pildePendence, or national feeling, in the blood of the
44Erts, or the MACDONALIiS of that shire. He has
illitAnted" away all his professed piety. He has ,proved
'self to be unworthy of the station which he has too
tiol'g occupied in the religious world—an overrated in-
11°Ient man, utterly destitute of principle. Flow will the
,°llest presbyterians of the i-th be pleased at seeing an
:'der of the kirk doffing his no
Cap to DANIEL O'CONNELL
htld the.popish priests .Ireia'nd, and instead of doing
t "'age at the shrine of 'JOHN' KNOX, paying his devoirs
1.4 the Bishop of OLYMPUS, or the bishop of some place
4Yond the confines of purgatory 2' He has only to take,
(I,.l6eeunder Lord JOHN to giv the finishing stroke. to his
euttracter.

Whom have we next ? Mr. EDWARD 'ELLICE, it is
10
4 .
u, declines office ! This is Considerate ; but it is the
hit Lime that Mr. EDWARD Etricg ever declined any-
ist that was worth the accepting. 'The goodly reason
that this gentleinan has been too long at Coventry.
(14 electors are tired of him, and they have come to the
6"ertnination of dispensing with his services at the very
°Pporl unity. Mr. ELLICE declines office ! ha ! ha !
there are many other honourable members in a similar
predicament. They have no chance of being returned to
parliament. The case of Mr. SPRING, Rica is the most
hi PQrtaut, for without Mr. Rica Lori' JoHN cannot form
8 Oministration. If Sir EDWA.RD SUDDEN be removed
the chancellorship of Ireland, be is determined, we
,timiet.ota'nd, to contest Cambridge with the new chan-
ionr of the exchequer, in which case Mr. must
"0i,09 to the classic todesmen • on • the banks of the'

Cam, and seek some snug retreat on the banks'of the Lee
or the Shannon. _

We have now pointed out the unhallowed lengths
which the RUSSELL whigs are prepared to go, and the
obstacles which stand in their way. The voice of the
nation is against them, and the very agencies of a popular
nature which they created for their own benefit oppose
their progress and mar their hopes. We therefore look
on with calm composure. They will struggle hard, but,
defeated ultimately they are sure to be. The end must
be the recall' of Sir ROBERT. PEEL and the dissolution of
the present parliament.

The French deputies are proceeding slowly with their
extremely heavy debate upon the claims of the United
States. It is obvious that they have a strong repugnance
to paying the money. One member gives a curious
reason why it should not be paid. He says that during
the late war—" on the 13th Prairial,' year 2 of the
republic",—a flesperate engagement took place between
a British and French fleet,-in which the latter, as a matter
of course, were tightly thrashed and then captured ; but
that neither the fight nor the capture would have hap-
pened but for information supplied to the British admiral
by the master of an American vessel. The seafaring
citizen of the United States told the English commander
where the French fleet was, and thereby enabled him to
steer in the right direction and come up with the French-
man within sight of his own shores. For this jriforma-
tion, argues the learned deputy, the American people
should be made. responsible; for the lois sustained by
the capture of the French fleet was more than equivalent
to the American claim of twenty-five millions of francs.
This is sharp and ingenious reasoning, but we think
that'upon the whole it is as fair a bar to the demand as
any right we have seen :established by the Americans.
But what will JONATflax say to it ? Thii perhaps
Here is your tlond. Monsieur CRAPAUD !—here is the.
treaty executed by Monsieur LOUIS PFDLIPPK!—bere is
the bill drawn by Mr. ANDREW JACKSON, our president,
and dishonoured by'you,- Monsieur BEOGAR !—and we
tell you at once, " slick and away," that if you .attempt
to cheat us in this manner, there is the Constitution.
frigate riding in your waters -at Havre, with the star-
bespangled banner and the " striped bunting" waving
before your faces—SHE will speak to you, and no
mistake ! -

Such is the fact with respect to the Constitution
frigate. She is at Havre; with her guns run out, waiting
the issue of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies. If
the chamber should refuse to pay the dollars, and the
interest of the dollars since the 4th July, 1831, which, at
5 per cent., would he an additional million of dollars, she
is to carry off the American ambassador, suite, and bag-
gage, without a moment's delay.

We do not know how the pride of France relishes this
sort of treatment.. It certainly looks very like a threat ;
and. it will be• the boast of the Americans, in case the
money should be paid, that they owe it to the Con-
stitution frigate. •

LONDON LATEST' NEWS.

City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Wednesday Evening.

We stated in our Sunday report that obstacles existed to the
formation of the Melbourne ministry, and we may now add that
they still exist. In point of fact nothing has been.done since we.
last wrote; Lord Melbourne is premier in prospective, but for.
the rest of the cabinet where are' they, Earl Grey swears " he
will not march through Coventry" with Lord John Russell's
nondescripts, and that Mr. O'Connell's alliance is pollution to
his order. Mr. Bickersteth will not he chancellor for the month
or two the administration that is tube may exist ; the Marquis
of Lansdowne is not inclined to "go. the whole hog;" Burl
Spencer does not altogether:approve of the "movement" sys-
tem ; but, above all, the King is firni, and the 'religion of the
country will be saved. Such is the position of affairs here, and
those who have been the cause of this position now recoil from
the consequences. In truth, however forward Lord John ltus-.
sell may have chosen to be to clasp Mr. o"Counell's dirty tail,
the superior portion of the whigs seem inclined to turn theirs
upon it. The money tnarket remains in -a most passive state,
and money has become rather scarce. This may be ascribed to
this day being the limit for the return of the quarterly advance
made by the hank. Consols for' the account are at .92%, and
for money at 92%. The consequence of the scarcity of money
has been a decline in Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, the
former have fallen to 35 37.prem., cud. the latter to 18.
There is a further advance in the South American securities
since we last wrote. ColUmbian' has touched upon 50, and
Mexican Bonds are 48,4. In Portuguese Bonds also the market
is rising, 99 is the quotation at the close of the market to-day.
We have accounts froni Alexandria to the 3d ult. The plague
was making dradful.desolation, and the deaths were estimated
at 100 per diem. The cordon sanitaiie had been deethed useless,
and had been abandoned; and the unfortunates attacked with
the dreadful disease were seen iotnityg from their dweltin"s.aud
dropping dead in the Streets : the number of •unburied dead
bodies increasing of course the, disease. It is said likewise to
have extended to the Frank quarier, and also to the Egyptian
squadron; two ships of the line, Nos. 6 and 7 having exhibited
the disease in a fearful form. It had also appeared among the,
crews of moose of the merchant vessels, amonguthers two Eng-
lish, one French, and several Greek and Egyptian vessels bad
been attacked. Business was entirely suspended. We have no
colonial arrivals to-day of any moment.