The Welshman

Otne Newø. The Gazette of Friday contains two elevations to the Peerage-Mr. Littleton and Sir John Byng. The title of Mr. Littleton is Baron Hatherion, in the county of Stafford. Sir John Byng has selected the family title of Strafford, being descended from the Earl of that name. His grandmother (Lady Anne Conolly), Lady Lucy Howard, and Lady Harriet Vernon, were the daughters of the Lord Strafford who signed the peace of Utrecht. The Earldom has been extinct since 1799, and Mr. Byng, of Middle- sex, inherited all the Earl's estates and personal pro- perty, which are settled on Sir John Byng. We regret to state that the venerable Earl of Eldon is confined to his bed by severe indisposition. It was stated in the City that, at the Court of Di- rectors of the East India Company held yesterday afternoon, the subject of the appointment of a new Governor-General for India was considered. Baron Glenelg (late Mr. Charles Grant) has, it is said, been proposed as the successor of Lord William Bentinck to the India Board. The appointment of Lord Hewtesbury, to be Go- vernor-General of India, has been cancelled. His Excellency the Earl of Mulgrave will be ho- noured with a triumphal procession, on his arrival in Dublin to assume the reins of Government as Irish Viceroy. By the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir Hussey Vivian to the office of Master-General of the Ordnance, the command of the army in Ireland has become vacant. Major Vivian, the present Member for Truro, and Military Secretary to his father, will fill the office of Secretary to the new Master-Gene- ral, who has arrived from Dublin to enter on the duties of his new appointment. Count De Leon, said to be a natural son of the late Emperor Napoleon, has arrived in town from Paris. Whether the Count claims or disclaims the distinction we know not, but his striking resemblance to the late Emperor strongly corroborates the report. Mr. Sheil intends to call for a vote of the House on the oath question, though no rational being, who has a spark of candour in his breast, can regard the Pharisaical fuss that is made about it, as anything more than a second edition of the rogueries that were played off upon the stupidity of George the Third on the Coronation oatb.-Dublin Register. THE LADIES OF EXETER.—The Devonshire cor- respondent of the Times has made a curious physio- logical discovery. He states that the ladies of Exeter have all their hearts on the right side. If this be so, the fact will open a wide field for he investigation of anatomists and philosophers. It will probably, too, be a source of severe disappointment to the young men in that part of the country, for no lover can be successful in his suit. A lady whose heart is right, cannot have one left to give away. On Wednesday Lord Glenelg transacted official business at the Colonial Office, and afterwaids went to the Levee at St. James's, and kissed the King's hand on his being called to the House of Peers. His Lordship, it is reported, will go out to India as Go- vernor and Commander. The surplus of the subscription towards defraying the expenses of Lord John Russell's contest for South Devon, will be applied, it is understood, after all demands arc paid, to support a petition which it is said will be presented against the return of Mr. Par- ker. If the petition is successful the exultation of the Tories will be of short duration. LORD LIEUTENANT'S HOUSEHOLD.—The follow- ing appointments have been mentioned to us as made —State Steward, the Hon. C. Phipps; Comptroller, Colonel Knollys; Private Secretary, the Hon. Capt. Phipps. Aides-de-Camp, the Hon. Captain Liddell, Guards; Captain S. H. Paget, 92d Light Infantry; Captain C. J. Henry, 56th Regimeent; and Lieut. Conroy, Guards.-Dublin Dispatch. HIS MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE CAMBRIDGE ,,KDDRESS I receive with satisfaction, and rely with confidence upon, the expression of your fervent and unalterable attachment to my person and Go- vernment. Upon the great question to which you refer, I shall be anxious to receive the advice of my responsible Ministers, and of the great council of the nation assembled in Parliament. 1 cannot doubt that the measures which they will recommend will be calculated to secure the safety of the Church and to avert any impending danger." CELESTIAL SIGNS.—A political soiree was given at Paisley on Tuesday, in honour of Captain Spiers, Member for that place. The Rev. Mr. Baird, after an admirable speech in favour of liberal principles, concluded by alluding to the portentous signs of the times.—"The year 1835 (he said) would be a memo- rable year in the annals of the country. Halley's comet was to appear this year, which the superstiti- ous of former times always connected with some great event. This was not to be wondered at, for it had appeared at the birth of Julius Cs?sar, at the birth of Mahomet, and at the taking of Constantino- ple. Now, my friends, this comet is to appear again, and it may be said, Here is the comet to mark that great event—the downfall of loryism. In Sweden, Cernadotte has become Chairman of the Temperance Committee: If a man in that coun- try violates his temperance pledge, his name is given at the church, and the prayers of the congregation are desired for him. CHURCH RATES.—We have heard, although we doubt the truth of the statement—but we have just heard, that the late Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary, having instituted proceedings in the Ecclesias- tical Court againt several respectable individuals of that town, who object on principle to the payment of the Church Rates, have actually proceeded so far as to issue an attachment for taking the body of Mr. John Childs, in order to his being lodged in the County gaol. We understand the Churchwardens of Bungay have set up a troop of choristers in their Church, for the payment of whose salaries, and the cashing of whose surplices, they are about to con- sign those of their respectable neighbours to a prison, 1 who conscientiously refuse to pay. Our informant assures us (and he has given us his name), that the warrant is actually in the hands of the Sheriff's offi-I cer for execution, whenever Mr. Childs returns from London, where he is known to have been transacting business during the last week. We wait the result, reserving such remarks as naturally arise until we see the development of this extraordinary pro- ceeding. But, we repeat, that we can scarcely be- lieve the truth of this statement, because we know that Mr. Bobbit, one of the prosecutors, was himself, until very lately, a Dissenter, and that Mr. Scott, the other, was brought up in similar principles, his father having been for many years, and was at his death, a Member of the Independent Meeting here, and his mother was originally one of the Society of Friends. Correspondent of the Suffolk Chronicle. DEVON.—The Protestant feeling in Devon is stronger than in any other county in England, and the most extraordinary and combined efforts had been made to arouse that feeling, by sounding the alarm in aH quarters. Every town, village, and hamlet, in South Devon, was inundated with placards against Popery and CFConnell. Orators everywhere appealed to the passions to 'ie people, and awakened their fears. Pulpits were treely used for the same purpose. Sir Thomas Ackland lent the whole weight of his talents and character to the cry, and denounced the projects of Lord John Russell as tending to in- troduce Popery upon the ruins of Protestantism.— Devonport Telegraph. Bishop Phillpott's last exclamation in his present see is to be recommendatory; in case of translation by the Whigs defamatory; but if they make him primate, damnatory INTERVIEW OF THE BRISTOL SHOEMAKERS WITH THE QUERN.-In consequence of the de- pressed state of the trade, occasioned by the impor- tation of foreign goods, a deputation of t'ae Bristol and Clifton boat and shoemakers, consisting of Mr. John Kempster, Mr. Joshua Freeman, and Mr. Wm. Carter, their Secretary, recently waited upon her most gracious Majesty, with an address, and a dozen pair of boots and shoes, as specimens of the trade, and a pair of slippers for the King. The pattern shoes by which they were made had been procured some time previously at the request of the trade. The deputation was received most affably, and con- versed with most condescendingly as to the object of their interview. Her Majesty expressed her asto- nishment that English ladies should prefer shoes of foreign make, for foreign ladies always gave the pre- ference to shoes of British manufacture-they fitted better, and were altogether superior. Her Majesty bestowed the most flattering enconiums on the work- manship of the articles presented, and requested that the pattern shoes, which were also tendered, might be kept, as they would do for another time. The object of the deputation was co make an effort, through this exalted channel, to counteract the in- creasing importation of boots and shoes of foreign manufacture, to the great depression of our own trade; ard her Majesty begged the deputation to feel assured that she would do her utmost to recommend the use of British articles in preference to foreign, and that she sincerely wished prosperity to the trade of her loyal subjects the boot and shoemakers of Bristol and Clifton. In the course of the interview her Majesty spoke of the beauties of Clifton and its neighbourhood, and expressed the gratification she had experienced on visiting that interesting spot.— Bristol Mirror. MILITARY FLOGGING AND COURTS MARTIAL.— On the 24th August, 1833, orders were issued by the Commander-in-Chief, by desire of the Govern- ment, that corporal punishment in the Army should be restricted to the following offences-mutiny, in- subordination, and violence; drunkenness on duty; sale of arms, ammunition, &c.; and stealing, or other disgraceful conduct. It appears from a return, that, during the 18 months previous to that order, the number of Courts Martial held was 3,663 in regi- ments in Great Britain, and 3,364 in those in Ireland —total 7,027 and that the number of non-commis- sioned officers and soldiers in regiments in Great Britain, imprisoned during that time, was 1,144, and in Ireland 791—total 1,935. During the 18 months subsequent to that order, the number of Courts Mar- tial in Great Britain has been 3,774, and in Ireland 3,865—total 7,639. The number of non-commissi- oned officers and soldiers imprisoned in Great Bri- tain has been 1,839, and in Ireland 1,179-total 3,018. A few days since a man entered a barber's shop in a town on the western coast, and incautiously in- quired whether any smuggled brandy was wanted, when the exciseman, whose chm happened to be at that moment in charge of the man of razors, jumped up with his face half lathered, and seized the con- tents of the stranger's cart which was standing at the door. An awkward circumstance occurred recently at Ugborough and the neighbourhood. A felhw, call- ing himself a woman, has imposed upon the credu- lity of several females, without being yet taken into custody. He usually sought refuge for the night attired in female apparel, assuming the character of a lady's-maid, housemaid, cook, &c., and arriving late, said he was not in time to proceed to his place, and too often succeeded in obtaining share of a bed, which was frequently offered and accepted. The peace of families has been outraged by this wretch, who, it is hoped, will be soon detected. EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTAKING.—Mr. George Pettis, of Wymering, undertook, for a wager, with an agriculturist of Sussex, to draw the ewes with their own lambs separately from a flock consisting of 280 ewes and 300 lambs, out of which were 25 pair of twins, which task he accomplished in the short space of two hours and a half, winning his in a most masterly st)-le.- Cheltenham Chronicle. THENEW LIGHTHOUSE ON ST. ANTHONY'S POINT. -The newly-erectedlighthouse onSt.Anthony's Point, at the entrance of Falmouth Harbour, was lighted for the first time on Monday night. The light re- volves, and by means of eight reflectors its brilliancy is increased and diminished every twenty seconds.— Devonshire Independent. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—On Tuesday afternoon, the wife of a shipwright named Lego, residing in High-street, Woolwich, came to her death under the following melancholy circum- stances :-Her eldest daughter was nursing an infant sister, when by some accident she let the child fall over her shoulder on the ground in sight of the mother, who screamed out violently, Oh, mv child!" The neighbours hearing her cries, ran into the house, and found her lying senseless on the floor. Medical aid was instantly sent for, anJ Doctor Butler, accom- panied by his two sons, were immediately in atten- dance, and rendered every possible assistance, but all exertions proved unsuccessful, as she died shortly after their arrival. The unfortunate woman was far advanced in pregnancy, and has left a family of nine children to lament her untimely death. What ren- ders the case still more distressing is that the hus- band has not yet recovered the effects of an accident some time since in the dock-yard, by which his skull was fractured. The child had not sustained the slightest injury from the fall. On the 14th ult. a fishing-boat, belonging to me d'Esseins, having on board three men and a boy, 13 years old, was driven out to sea, with no other provi- sions than one barrel of fresh water, which, how- ever, they were obliged on the second day to empty, in order to use the cask in baling the boat. The same day the boy died. The three men continued to be driven about by the winds and waves for nine days, when, on the 23d, they were seen by a boat belonging to Teste, which took them in tow, and brought them into that harbour. Soon after, two of the poor fellows died, and were buried with the boy. The third recovered, his life having been preserved, it is supposed, from the nourishment he derived from chewing tobacco On Friday, about ten o'clock, Mr. Benjamin D'h- raeli was brought in a coach to Marylebone-office by CoHard, an ofifcer of the establishment. It appears that Mr. Bennett, aTriend of Mr. O'Connell's family, had made an affidavit, to the effect that a breach of the peace was contemplated by ;Jr. D'lsraeli, who intended, as he (Mr. Bennett) verily believed to en- gage with Mr. Morgan O'Connell ia a duel. A war- rant was accordingly issued (as were also two others of the same nature against Messrs. John and Mau- rice O'Connell, both of whom were on Tuesday evening held to bail by Mr. Hoskins), and placed in the hands of Collard, who for want of a knowledge of Mr. D'Israeli's place of abode, together with other requisite particulars, was unable to secure him until Friday morning, when he met with him at his resi dbnce, No. 31, Park-street, and brought him away to the office in a coach. Mr. Hoskins, the sitting magistrate, held him to bail to keep the peace towards &11 hii Majesty's subjects for the remainder of the year: Iiimqelf in 5Q0and two sureties in 250/. each. Sir F. Sykes, of Upper Grosvenor-street, and Mr. Emmett, of Davies-street, Berkeley, square offer- ed themselves as securities, "and having been ac- cepted the parties then left the office.- Observer. A new word has been coined to represent the work of alarming weak minds by the cry of "the church in danger," No Popery," and church spoliation," with all the various operations, such as lying, threat- ening, fulminating, and Philpotting—it is now called Parsonology. In the village of Thwayte, near Aylsham, a poor cottager's wife, of the name of Bustens, was delivered on Sunday, the 5th of April, of a &oy, and on Mon- day, eighteen hours a/?cr /Ae /?, she was delivered rho of a b')y and then a girl. The three children are living, and likely to do well. The Morning Chronicle of Saturday explains the mystery of the recent change in the politics of the Times-" Toe change has certainly been a most shameless one; but if it be true that the property in that journal has been sold for a valuable con- sideration to individuals attached to the Tory party, we must admit that they have the right, as the Duke of Newcastle expressed it, to do as they like with their own.' For the sake of public decency, how- ever, this transfer from one set of proprietors to another ought to have been formally announced, the more especially as the political opinions of the new purchasers are so diametrically opposed to those which had been previously maintained by that Journal. It was a fraud upon its usual readers to attempt to mislead them into the belief that the altered tone of its politics was the mere result of reflection-the offspring of convictions arising out of the circumstances of the period instead of being what they really are, the direct consequence of bargain and sale, whereby it was stipulated that the Times should be entirely under the control of its Tory proprietors. They hare succeeded in passing off that newspaper, for a while, in the disguise of a Liberal, converted to their principles by some sup- posed sense of dangers which never existed but the scheme is no longer a secret, and the Times now stands before us stripped of every claim which it once possessed to the support of the people. It has thrown off the mask, and figures unreservedly as the I most bitter hater of its former politics-an Anti- Times in every sense of the word-a rank, unqua- lified Ultra-Tory—a defender of Municipal corrup- tion—an enemy of the Reform Bill-a bigoted advo- cate of the Established Church-the foul slanderer of the Catholics — the malignant enemy of the Dissenters." HALLEY'S COMET.-Friday evening, in a lecture at the Royal Institution, on the path of Halley's co- met, Dr. Lardner took occasion to contradict a para- graph which has been extensively circulated in the public journals, stating that a letter has been re- ceived from Sir John Heiochell, announcing that the comet, having altered its course, would not be visi- ble, and to which he scarcely considered it necessary to give a contradiction. He observed, that Sir John Herschell knows nothing more of the disturbing causes which would influence its return than any other astronomer in Europe, and that the statement attributed to him was pure fiction. The only circum- s ances which can prevent its making its appearance at the period stated are, that there may be existing beyond the orbit of Herschell some other planet with which it may have come in contact, so as to cause it to alter its direction, or that it may have come into juxta position with another comet in the realms of space, and that their combined attraction may have caused them mutually to vary their course. Mr. Lubbock ¡"S calculated that it will make its appear- ance on the 31st of October; M. Damoiseau's calcu- lation makes it the 5th of November and Pontecau- let the 8th or 14th of November. On the loth of November it will probably be at its nearest distance to the earth, and will then most likely be visible amongst the three last stars of the Great Bear both after sunset and before sunrise. Whether it will be visible or not will depend upon circumstances over which astronomers can have no control, because they cannot predict the exact case in which its situation may be. It is now probably about the orbit of Sa- turn. The only difficulty presented in the calculation arises from our not knowing exactly the mass of the planet Herschell, and in proportion as that is above what is computed, so will there necessarily be an error in the period of computation. The number of comets known within the solar system is between 500 and 600, whilst of these the paths of 137 have been closely examined and described. Of the above, 30 are known within the orbit of Mercury, although this is not one half of what actually exist within that space. Taking the number, however, as 30, and computing the quantity existing in a relative ratio be- tween the estimated difference of a sphere, the dia- meter of the orbit of Mercury, and that of Herschell, it will give the total number of 3,529,407 within the limits of the solar system, and as the numbers above assigned within the limits of the orbit of Mercury is probably not half of what circulates there, the total number in the planetary system may possibly be up- wards of 7,000,000.

Spirit of tbe lUufilif glaitritalo. [FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.] I We h?ve now before us the return made to an order of the House of Commons for a copy of the proceedings of an investigation, held at Armagh, into the transac- !lOns which took place in the neighbourhood of Keadv. I between the police and country peopie, on collecting an arrear of tithe due to the Rev. James Blacker, wherein one man was killed, and another wounded." A copy of the inquest, and all other documents connected with that encounter, are included in the return. The ac- counts which we receive from the Irish Newspapers, of affrays between adverse parties, are, generally speaking, j so much exaggerated on one side or the other—and, perhaps, also the imperfect organization of the ma- chinery necessary for the collection of authentic intelli-1 gence, are frequently so utterly incorrect—that we se!- dom venture to reason upon their statements with any view to show the practical operation of the Constitution in that country. But here is a Parliamentary paper, containing a chapter from thejliving history of Ireland, upon which no shadow of doubt can be thrown. The in- vestigation, of which we have here the result, was con- ducted by Mr. Sergeant Greene, a Tory lawyer of un- doubted respectability in his profession and although dicerning readers must perceive that his political and religious bias has, unconsciously perhaps, led him to mi- tigate, as far as he could, the more flagitious features which the whole transaction presents to the contempla- tion of the Legislature, nevertheless he has furnished us with a record of ecclesiastical rapacity, tyranny, con- tempt for the Constitution, contempt for human life, contempt for every feeling allied to the charities ot re- ligion, and to the preservation of order and the laws, the niost revolting that ever yet disgraced a Christian Church, or degraded a civilized nation. The parish of Keadv, near Armagh, is almost wholly inhabited by Ca- tholics. The Rev. James Stewart Blacker is the Pro- testant incumbent of the parish, and it appears that in November last he had a claim upon it for an arrear of tithes amounting in the whole to the sum of twenty-five pounds! This was an arrear for the two years 1832 and 183:1. If that wretched sum were really of any impor- tanc to the incumbent, he might have obtained it b; way of a 1000tl-a loan never to be repaid—out of tti; million fund-voted by Parliament for the express purpose of meeting cases of this description. But Mr. Blackei boasts that he never applied to that fund, whence it must be concluded that his secular circumstances die not imperatively demand the addition of five-and-twent) pounds to his fortune. Moreover he states that nearh the whole of the parish had compounded for the tithe- that in another year the commutation would include every part of the parish—and that, therefore, after that period his claim would be onlv on the landlords, who would give him no further difficulty on the subject of his income. But Mr. Blacker would have the pound oj fiesh stipulated for in "the bond." If he wanted the money, he might have got it from Dublin by return of post; if he sacrificed the sum, he would never have missed it; but he very much preferred attempting to collect it from the poorest peasantry on the face of the earth, at the point of the bayonet! There is a Minister of the Gospel for you It was necessary, however, to make an application to the Government for the assistance of a police force and, in order to justify the application, it was ft*«her indispensable to procure affidavits proving some act of forcible resistance, or such other facts as would show that life might be endangered or the public peace disturbed, if extraordinary measures were not em- ployed. The local magistrates would take these affidavits into their consideration, and act upon their own judg- ment and responsibility; and, according to Mr. Little- ton's express direction, one of those magistrates must accompany any extraordinary force that might be ordered out for such a purpose. The latter condition looks something like a safeguard for the discreet use of the civil force. It was manifestly intended that a disinter- ested person, clothed with magisterial powers, shonld interpose his authority between the people and the claimant, and at the same time enforce the law in a manner not liable to suspicion. The necessary affidavits were of course easily procured, and an order was signed by two magistrates authorizing the attendance of the police, who assembled under the command of their chief constable, twenty-nine in number, on the 1st of Decem- ber, a few days after the change of Government was known in that part of Ireland. The presence of a ma- gistrate was, however, necessary to legalize the proceed- ings, and who, tilill. you, was that magistrate? The Hev. James Stewart Blacker, the claimant in the case- the party immediately interested in the recovery of the tithe! Why, if such an outrage as this upon all legal decency, upon every thing like a constitutional order of things, were perpetrated in England, the table of the House of Commons would be piled with petitions from every county, city, town, and hamlet in this kingdom, praying to have such a man dismissed from the magis- tracy and, if his Bishop did not discharge him fro.u the service of the Church, the builrling in which he attempt- ed to preach the Gospel of the God of charity, whom he had offended, it-a,ild be pulled down about his ears by an indignant people. The image of an interested magis trate, directing, in the most tranquil way, the police force, for his own lucre, is detestble eiio?h but, to behold a Minister of the Gospel, which abhuo' effu- sion of human blood, ordering an armed body of men, at- tending there to direct them to fire upon his own pa- rishioners, if they resisted the payment of his tithe, is a spectacle fit only for the precincts of that region where unpardonalrte crime is to undergo never-ending punish- ment. When the people of England in their quiet homes, where their liberties are secured by law, read of these transactions, can they wonder that the Established Church in Ireland, filled as it is with such men as Blacker, is not considered by the mass of its inhabitants as a Church having anything whatever to do with Christianity ? Can we be surprised that it is bated, that it is waned against, that it has produced nothing but discord, that it has ge- nerated the Orangemen—that it has created, by the dis- content that pervades the whole island, the invincible, though irresponsible power now wielded with such matchless energy and skill by Mr. 0 Connell ? But hear further. Every step we advance in this narrative has a horror of its own. It does not appear," says Mr. Greene, that any of the alleged defaulters had been personally required to pay, or even that any demand had been made at their houses." In the common course of things, even the most civil mode of legal process is seldom resorted to, except by very low attorneys, before the debt is at all events distinctly demanded but according t) e laws of Ireland, as expounded ar.d practised by the ltev. Magistrate Blacker, the only mode of obtaining the payment of tithe is to present a blunderbuss at the peasant's breast, and demand his money from him in the idiomatic phrase of the highway robber. The police force, headed by this exemplary clergyman, proceeded to action. A cow was seized. No attempt was made to rescue it." Four or five distresses were taken, which "were removed to the cart without any molestation although by this time a crowd had collected in the fields. Will an Englishman believe that the debt for which the cow was taken was just eight shillings that in the other cases of distress the sums demanded were severally 5s. 6d., 6s. 11 teL (which the poor man, having by some accident lost his receipt, was obliged to pay twice over), 6s. 71d., and one or two other sums, stiU smaller in 6s. 7?d., ? Although the whole arrear due in the parish amount is said to have amounted to 251. yet the sum which Mr. Blacker actually proposed to collect by the aid of the police was not quite two pounds The distresses were made, and redeemed by the poor people no opposition was offered to the police and the business of the day seemed to have been completed, when some of the police thought proper to get up in their minds an apprehension that disturbance was intended. The police party was divided into two detachments, one of which went to protect the drivers. The chief constable was anxious that the whole force should be re-united, and made a movement in double quick time for that purpose. The other detachment, who were already on their return, perceiving this movement, took the alarm, and loaded and primed their pieces. About sixty peasants had col- lected by this time, several of whom bore pitchforks and bludgeons in their hands. One man had a gun :— "The constables having loaded (says lIfr. Greene) resnmed their march, without any symptums on the part of the multitude of a design to attack or molest them. Thornhill (who commanded the returning detachment) upon seeing the man with the gun, said lie would arrest him, and desired a tile of men to follow him for that purpose. He and two others then left the road, crossed the ditch, and proceeded into the field towards the crowd. The rest of his party went after them. Upon Thornhill's arrival at the rock (upon which the peasants were standing) he states that he called upon the man who had the pun to surrender. He went up to the man, seized hold of the gun, and attempted to wrest it from the countryman, who struggled to retain it. An instantaneous attack commenced upon the police. Showers of stones were thrown at them repeated blows were given to them with stIcks; their carbines were seized, and two were forcibly taken from them. Two policemen were knocked down. Then, and not till then, a shot was fired (by the police) and was fol- lowed by several others (from the police). It is impossible to dis- cover by whom that first shot was fired, but no order to fire was given. The men used their carbines, each as Jhe could, without any command or regularity, and almost in actual contact with the multi- tude. One countryman named James Hughes wm kilted; another was wounded." This narrative requires no commentary. It is mani- fest that the police were the first aggressors. The peo. pie were at a distance, assembled on a rock: Thornhill, without any provocation whatever, set out upon a Quixotic (probably a drunken) expedition, to arrest the man who had the gun, and he brought on, by his gross impudence, a general engagement, in which Hughes was killed-Hughes, who happened to be apart from the combat altogether, who took no share in it, and was merely a distant spectator standing at his own door; now all this took place in Blacker's presence! He gave no order to the policeman to abstain from this wanton attack upon the people. It was therefore made with his sanction and this, too, after he had in his pocket the one pound nineteen shillings which he came to collect We must return to this precious sample of Irish history, and show the people of England, without any disguise, and from the mouth of the Tory faction itself, the sort of incubus which it is summoning all its strength to force upon the Catholic people of the sister kingdom- I under the pretext of the Gospel! ) [FROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.] I It is not in the compass of thought or language to furnish so indisputable a proof of the necessity of the Ballot, as is to be found in the management and result of the South Devon election. A decided majority of the electors had given distinct promises of support to Lord John Russell; but held in terrorem by their landlords through fear of expulsion—seduced by bribery—or in- timidated by threats of persecution, they forfeited their pledges, and either held back from the poll altogether, or were marshalled by the esquires and the parsons to the support of a stripling, having no claim whatever to their suffrages, save as the tool of a party anxious to revenge their expulsion from office on a man who in- herits the love of civil and religious liberty, as a birth- right from ancestors who have struggled and bled in the cause of England's freedom. It is in vain that the elective franchise has been extended if voters be not protected in its exercise.—The Ballot offers the only means cf security. It is futile to assert that secret voting militates against the independent spirit which should distinguish freemen--because it serves as a shield from the revenge of a malignant aristocracy. The rejection of Lord John Russell can afford the Tories hut little cause for exultation their triumph will he temporary; its most certain consequence will he to stimulate the country to a more determined exertion to defeat the future machinations of its enemies. To gain this isolated victory the Tories were obliged to employ all the vile machinery which their ill-gotten wealth enabled them to put in action. All the other Ministers have as yet been re-elected whereas, when the Tories appealed to the country, eleven of their Cabinet were ignomii.iously defeated. Yet they still had the insolent assurance to assert that they had the confidence of the country! The general result of the present elections must teach them a different lesson their party is dis- armed of its venun, and in future their thinned ranks nay be expected to present an opposition, not vexatiousi out wholesome in its consequence of keeping the Minis- try in closer connection with the people, as the only basis of a stable support. Stiil we must be watcbfult and the first object should be to secure the freedom of elections. The Ballat: the BaUot is the thing. Whetl the fair working of the Reform Bill will be guaranteed ily this necessary appendage, the smile which now plays m the face of the Tories will be changed to the sardonic .riu which occasionally marks tbe death-bed struggle.— In spite of all struggles to the contrary, the return of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding of Yorkshire is al- most certain. On this great—this glorious occasion tur compatriots of the North will do their duty-will act like men determined to set the seal to their coun- t liberty. They will not disgrace themselves like the electors of Devon; but, respecting their own pa. tnotism and honour, will return the friend of freedom, civil and religious, to represent them in Parliament. This we assert with coaftdence, for it is impossible to suppose that so large arid independent a body as the electors of the West Riding wwM i*dontarily sell them- selves the victims of Toryism. Let tbem ask themselves what have they to gain from Totyism ? With what evils has not the base and maBMttt spirit of Toryism already overwhelmed the ctHnMBT? What have Tory Governments been but a consetiWkr* aeries of the most withering oppressions, corruptions, aimd crinum ? Since the name of Tory was firxt kagmuieitb what baa It Vrn linked but arrogance, injustice, and their sequences, war, taxation, debt, and rsuicorjjps.bostility to every in- terest of the people ? In their foreign as well as domes- tic relations has not the same evil genius been equally manifest ? Who squandered British money, and spilled British blood, against the just claims of America ?-The Tories. Who squandered British money and spiffed Rritish blood in attempting to maintain despotic prin- ciples, and to uphold an execrable Bourbon dynasty in France ?—The Tories. In both these instances the feel- ings of the English people were outraged by their tyrant rulers but in submitting to, they became the accom- plices of, despotism, and an irredeemable debt is the just penalty of acquiescence in the barbarous and bloody policy. But we need not seek in other countries, or in history, the b!ightin? operation of Tory ?principles suf- I ficient evidence of their atrocities may be adduced in our own land and generation. Who sent emissaries to Ireland to excite the people to rebellion, and exposed that country to the horrors of a civil war?—As appears by the Report of a Secret Committee of the House of Commons, the Tories. Who massacred the people of Manchester, for assembling to petition for that reform which they now profess to be their principle of action? —The Tories. Who opposed Catholic emancipation with fire, bloodshed, ami horrors, that the mind shud- ders to contemplate and afterwards, to keep office, re- canted their principles, and carried it through the Legis- lature ?—The Tories. Who at present prefer barbarism and spoliation and bloodshed, in Ireland, to a just appro- priation of Church property to the purposes of educa- tion ?-The Tories. Who upheld the extravagances of the civil list, of the army and navy estimates, of mono- polies of every grade and denomination ?-The TQqrie& When they opposed Catholic emancipation, No Popery and Church in danger" was their Shibboleth. When they opposed a Reform in Parliament no revolution" was their war cry. But now, with pliarasaical cant, they attempt to mingle with Reformers, and uphold a bloated and hydropic Church, by returning to the ex- ploded and insensate cry of No Popery and Church in danger." Will they re-enact the penal code ? Will they abrogate the rights which the Reform Bill restored to the people? They dare not acknowledge such in- tent; but, if they be consistent—and in villainy they have ever been so-such must be the cherished end of their hopes and principles. Men of Yorkshire, will yon choose your Representative from sucli a party ? Will you betray the highest privilege that freemen can exer- cise, by turning the weapon entrusted for the defence of liberty against its bosom ? If there be any amongst you so besotted as to be duped by the false promises of a Tory-if there be any so base as to barter liberty for lucIe-if there be any so ignorant and -ile as not to ap- preciate his own liberty and his country's weal, may a righteous indignation put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascal naked through the world, « „ Even from East to West!" I [FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Bishops, the Parsons, and their scribes, set no bounds to the exultatioB which they feel in consequence of their equivocal triumph in Sooth Devon. it has al- ready cafct into the shade of oblivion the general rrwt which their Admiralty Lords and Secretaries, and their Ordnance officers, encountered at the last general elec- tion. It has beguiled them from the contemplation of the Gazette, which, day after day, records their disasters elsewhere—at Newport, Dungarvon, Cashel, Drogheda, Berwick-on-Tweed, Sandwich, their own Totness, the northern division of Northumberland, Nottingham, Cam- bridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dundee, Haddington, Kincardine, Elgin -i,berever in fact the Church has no power of intimidation, no instrumentality for corruption, no Phillpotts for the fabrication of slanderous placards. Their victory is like a child's new toy, everything for the day—it is to produce all sorts of important conse- quences—it is turned on every side, looked at in every kind of light-in order to examine it in all its phases. If we are to believe the Anti-Times, that victory has already destroyed the Whig party, swelled the Tories to treble their recent numbers, and prepared the immediate downfall of the Government. Never were predictions so lightly hazarded or so vainly announced. A majority of six hundred at a poll where seven thousand votes were recorded is undoubtedly decisive as to the senti- ments entertained by a considerable body of freeholders in the county of Devon, but it shows that even there a strong minority is to be found holding opinions of a dia- metrically opposite character, and it predicates nothing whatever as to the geneial feeling which pervades the United Kingdom. That feeling is assuredly much more truly represented by the new returns which have been made in different parts of England, Scotland, and Ire- land and we fearlessly assert it to be as six to one in favour of his Majesty's present Government. We are told indeed in the most unblushing language, that that Government has been formed out of nothing," and that it Jeans upon" nothing" for support, if this were the fact, why all this joy about Lord John Russell's defeat? It is an anrient adage, Btr- nihtfo nihu fit, If the Go- vernment be really formed out of nothing, it must in- stantly perish, and the labour of the Devonshire eccle- siastics has been therefore quite superfluous. If it be true that the Government leans npon "nothing" why was the Times purchased to rail it down ? Why was the most shameless apostacy that ever disgraced the literary history of any country perpetrated in order to annihilate a nonentity No, no; these infuriated scribes, who affect to be engaged in the sport of breaking a butterfly upon a wheel, well know that the "nothing" from which Lord Melbourne's Cabinet has sprung, is Ireland —that vexed ocean of political strife in which so many ministries and systems of misrule have successively found their graves. If the wrongs of seven millions of the King's subjects be nothing"—if the exactions from the miserable wirluw and the famishing orphan, extorted through the blood of the husband and the father by the pampered Ministers of a sinecure Church, be nothing" —if the long years of subjection to Orange oppression and scorn, through which Ireland has struggled for ex- istence, are to be accounted as nothing"—if the total denial to that portion of the King's dominions of the spirit of the British Constitution in the practical admi- nistration of the laws be nothing"—if the substitution of discontent for happiness, of agitation for tranquillity, of misery for prosperity, of crime for industry and virtue, be nothing," then it must be admitted that the over- throw of Sir Robert Peel's Government must have been a must puerile operation, since it was produced by a series of "nothings." These are. however, the sort of nonentities upon which the New Government has been constructed and we are only grieved to say that they combine to form perhaps the most dense and -SQIIO W. ass of grievances that have ever afflicted any nation of an- cient or mouei wo.™, AS to the "nothing" upon which the Government leans," we suspect that here too, by some marvellous process, it will be composed of a decided majority of noes" in the House of Commons, whenever the Tories choose to try their strength upon any proposition of an affirmative character. It may be true that the Aristocracy is determined to withhold its support from the Ministry. So much the better for the people. If the Ministry can look for no assistance in carrying on the Government to any other quarter than the great body of the people, the fact will be the strong- est guarantee which we can require, that their measures must be unequivocally popular in their tendency. There are Whigs in the Cabinet, but the men who are resolved to maintain it with all their force are not Whigs; they are the Reformers of the three Kingdoms. The Cabinet must therefore be, in tvery sense of the word, a council for the thorough reform of all proved abuses: the lines of distinction which have hitherto separated the Whigs from the Irish Members, atid from such men as (iis- borne and Grote, must be erased. No nice delicacies of theory, no hesitations of exploded doctrine, no haughty traditions can now be admitted into the deliberations which are to preside over the destinies of this roused and mighty nation. The time has arrived when we nehoJd our institutions once more assailed by the myrmidons of corruption, from whose talons those institutions had only been recently extricated. The removal of the evils of the Irish Church, and of those which convert oar Corporations into sinks of bribery and peculation, may do much for the common welfare. These ameliorations must be speedily realized, the spirit that d. wands them must be forthwith appeased—otherwise we may look forward to a revolution, which, while it crushes the Tory malcontents in its march, may be productive of other consequences, of a nature calculated to All tbo stoutest heart with apprehension.