Huron Signal, 1848-11-24, Page 2r1
"eseeltas• wiihie the last tee days among
the fees, howeet,aed &e,.er people et Eng
land." N., did Horde 1, who etas also pn..•nt.
ISO.) Old kung, the Steam olthe Whigs;
a.d ditto Hume and 1►uscum►e, who are'
the some men to dor they were then, which
c rta.•,Iy can ,c .aIJ ul few uihrss el those
c e lebn t nes .
The tory day rt( the evegbeg on whoa
thta diener lost Irlbee, therseednrn o11b
l'uy set 1.•, n mt. pr,ae*ted y t'ie f uerl
Cwiteseeno Courted to Altos*. rets bee
h�y 'the noels 0' jape
nrii(rr »*sued to n,M-
..,ree which oould trench on the law until
I saw that great; tcrriblo, and general emer-
Lrncies cause, when of plryt. to rsien the
penis?, to the proper standard of energy. —
Wben the new* of the rejection of the Re-
form H 'I reached Birmingham, 1 he people
asse:i, dud in fens of thousands—despair
aid ' 'lkm rage painted in their keel..—
.another merrier, full n1 the same terrible
rrsolu•.,•n w u hell. 1 sawn. I was col.
leered, r'1..it enrolled. Then came the
now. that Lord IS ey was reinstated," lar.
Tat this atal the gentleman whom Lord
Joh: It•uae,l mistreated •. " My dear Alt -
w wet," and lhonked him for the expression
of *I. confidence of the people who hid pro-
. tailored their determ.inaUon to sweep
easy two branehee "f the Lagt,laturc, If
they impeded the wishes of the third. In
the lace of facts ao notorious as these, what
solemn fooling is it to bo snaking emelt a
hubbub of Young's poor little prattling
piece of personal garrulity toNapier, apecu-
l.tt,ng on the probable contingencies of a
revolution after all danger of one was over!
'.That the Wings playa! off the fear of pope-
° ler physical Puree ■.asset the Crown and
the (loose of Lord., for the sole object of
keeping themselves in place—.that they
stimulated the muses to all but the very
14,4 excesses for that purpose—that'they
countenanced the worst scurrilities upon
the person, intellect, halide, and manners of
the monarch, his wife, and his illegitimate
children, and the most reoubltcan lampoons
upon royally as an institution:—these are
truths so apparent to every- one of the loam
knee ledge and intelligence, that it seems
perfectly formal that the incident cor-
,"borauon of them now, sixteen years after
date, by Young'. letter, should be received
as soinelhtog unheard of and undreamt of
before. Nu wonder Napier phonal ridicule
the assertion In the Irish journal that be had
promised to conceal—nothing in it which
any one but the un4n'iduale referral to
would care i farthing to hear, so familiar to
the public mind was the idea of Ministers
haeme, heart and soul, identified themselves
with the movement to Its thoroughly Alt-
woodian significance; but, it has Mee
turned out, fur objects as selfish and sordid
as those of your townsmen were dminterest-
ed, patriotic, and magnanimous. Although,
therefore, this pretended new discovery it
a mere piece of fudge, it is certainly fortu-
nate for the ends of historical jdetier, that
the recollection of the turpitude of Whig-
gery should hare been revived in these days
by the Secretary of the then Hoene !Holm -
ter and subsequent Premier, in connection
with a prosecution like that of Smith
O'Brien's. Political morality was never at
mo low an ebb as at the present moment,
probably since the first few year. after the
Restoration—otherwise it would have been
quite impossible that the Minsters of Ind.
tar any id them, could be the M,nteters of
1818. Public opinion, in the old healthy
Nese of the term, must be utterly dead to
permit of so„ fiagitionely un -English an 1
anomely; but posterity will, perhaps, profit
by a knowledge of the circumstances in ee-
tatnaling the _individu it who is always talk-
ing of historical parallels, rind .ppealing to
the Bill of Rights, end Charles James Fox,
and quoting from the ilia&argle Review
maxima in statesmanship whose loftiness
in principle be practically exemplifies by
'thrusting his brother into the situation of
valet to the Spreaker of the !louse of Com-
mons at 11,200 a year ! H by Peel no
longer rhymes with eel—he is no longer
I'ecksnifcompared with Lord John. His
advocacy of Free Trade, after all his Pro-
tectionism, seems the most consistent arta
natural thing in the world, contrasted with
the Lord John of 1834, enacting the role
he is now going through in 18 le. and thus
fulfilling a career that prompts the repeti-
tion of what denies once said of an ancestor
of his lordship—" By doing all thst a good
Minister should avoid, he hue made h,msell
a serapes tostrncUnn to his successors for
ever." Moine people seen, to think that if
Peel were so disposed he might drive nut
the whips merely on the strength of Yuung'a
espestle,.to which the lapse of sixteen years
to have lent potency most amazing to those
wbo happen to have been acgnatnted with
the use a razor ■t that period.—London
Correspondent of Ike Birmingham, Jomentl.
THE PRESS.
At a public dinner given ow the 1 1 th inst.,
to John Scott, EN., M. 1'. P. for Bytown,
Mr. Friel, Editor of the racket, in reply
to the toast of tho Press, delivered the fol-
lowing appropriate .peecl,:—
in return for the compliment paid to the
Press permit me to offer you my acknow-
ledgements. My desire after the perform-
ance of this duty would be to resume my
moat, fur 1 feel the delicacy of my position,
being the first owicg to tho order in which
the toasts have been placed, to aJJre.s you
air, this evening. It would be however
inert affiedatuon on my part did i bay shit
much consideration was necessary to ons -
1.1e me to make a few remarks, fur the hie
tory of the press isknown lit the greater
portion of the people, and I shall therefore
cnnfiee myself to a few obeervatiuns gene-
ral ,n they nature and perhaps suited to the
occasion. The encourage:uent of the Press
isone of the genteel inertia b, improvement
in a people, tee mtmplo proof no winch is
that ounce the invention et tepee a general
,ntelhgenee bar bee,, diffeet•J nruond, and
that education which esolel men—which
aometimea .natefjee ml t emo the
darkest hovel and places it •1..o a nigh pe-
destal melting it the riesI of the C cc•.., the
Socrates or the 1)ern„sthenes u anetaul
ages ham been borne through all le tepee
the wiego f that 'nighty engine, t Press..
That know e
edge Po re.atu1 lit ibe well be-
teg of ma and which in the darker age.
u
t•►led oa
the chance p1ee.rm le soar 10 the
)wen,w of s Jew,i-god, is sow within the
.etadd of every roan and we haw but to ap-
ple -Om t.xl '• melt end you shalt Got as •
pl•
oua'sewer to the plear
of lginanee. A
learwmtantler has .old that thrww things
snorer* '4 5 ye,me
eente el reukied, the
Nemo. the Potlp.l and t%'.,00• e. flow.) , of
cepa':ate on Lae power y•b en w....a ea
ure►eee, it is thrrIgc t., wap ,rmk,jeci. fMomd Mu
of awe bare realised the Neta grease,
" The ',appose, Leer W.i ere 1 'peat
Was +pen, arrwmg site Maws (Cheers. )
Nm need l dwell oe ibe labors of the pol
pt ester. 1 will merely remark that
Christ lam! yJ has received me ferial a ssistsate
from the frees, arid •1lbovgh a Voltaire, a
Daderot, ora Payne, I've nude use of the
sante .benne!, trete is tn.mphast where re-
vellieeurc psoas*: 1 DM hest ON= thesikeuiar mrceastance Nat the Pssaa
• bush scat forth the dasgurow docdslnen u(
Valetta to the world, sae nri,seessydp used
to thaw of leepsamtone K the Bikes epos
o /itch is based the Christian Reltgion.—
Corning so near to France, reminds me of
the great revolut*n etInch has been effect-
ed Is Mees eeeiwsrp, Uelsko the bloody rage
of Ilobispiere mid bre fellow., the Govern-
ment of Lainerllne and Cevaugnac t0 re-
markable f.r its parity, fad this revolution
which drove a tyrant Usurper from his
throne, and established a system' which Is in
accordance with the wishes of the French
people was •liect,J through the agescy of
the Press. As simple evidence of the hal red
which Louis Pbillippe bore to the Press I
may state that he instituted 1129 prosecu-
tions against tl,e Press and that 57 journals
were 10 consequence obliged to suspend
publicarron. 11e sentenced the writers to
dutF,rent terms of imprisonment amounting
rn the aggregate to 3141 years and the
fines came up to the Crum of 7,110,6001.—
Tbc *niunga of Larnertiae -and Louis
Blanc, the former of whom when at aiO
height of ins power was the idol ofed°P ,
ha• done more toe ards the re .ration of
Freres then would the trio of a duzen
such 'nen as the great ei eon Bonsparta.
The mission of the ("Aber was grant®'( by
ntelligence, end b.ee violence the weir cry
of the latter --bleed and power. Whether
viewing the ruins of Herculaneum or
mounting the tribune in the National As-
sembly, the mind of Lauartine was intent
upon one object, the freedom of his satire
and. 1 -fear that 1 am trespassingon your
time but as I see that my ramara Iso far
here not been brought to bear upon matters
nearer home I must lean somewhat to that
side, for i am anxious to do my subject jus -
ice as far as my humble powers will o, and
hough et tnay be said that 1 am de ending
he clans of craft, 1 assure you there is no
e tch intention; I am as one who feels the
necessity of •drotating a system whereby
■1l may be benelitted. The time is ap-
proaching when the i'ress will need no ad-
vocate—at present in Canada there is room
0r improvement in this respect. We must
however go on and conquer. We have al-
ready dune much and hope whispers as ■
, light reward that
" Wbea other stars Mak in the rye of uigbt
1t .ball poor in beantuov. light,
As t'were the lamp of God himself."
(Cheers.) The freedom of the Press of
Canadair in the hands of the people.—
Every man who can afford it, and who is it
that cannot, •bould take a paper, should
read it carrfelfe, and abuve all things pay
for it regularly. (Laughter.) In such
case enlightened public opinion would con-
trul the Pres., and the Press would lay
down rules under such COSIral for the cud-
.
ancc of Ude masses. As itis in moat cases
the Press is at the mercy of the designing
Mew. The people by a want of energy in
this matter commit the suicidal crime ul
trampling upon that which to properly their
owe, for under such a system as 1 have lad
duA n—the I'resa becomes what It ought to
be the organ of the people, the safeguard uf
their rights. Much has transpired Istely
with regard to the frees winch calls lar
notice. Cul. Gugy, formerly Adjutant
Denote' of Molina 14 Lotter Canada, -has
aimed a blow at the liberty of the l'rese res
Montreal, which if he succeeds, and ,ay
wish n fit cou.ee that he may be duappuint
ed, will throw new light upon the conduct
ot the Press. Should he succeed three of
the first new -papers io Canada will be
blotted off the ort. Nu,t 1 think there it.
little danger ut this, and although I am sot
of those who belied. that the Prean should'
ride rough shod over an Individual or teat -
personal character should be assaulted with
impunity, I think there can be no sympathy
for Col. (iugy. Its conduct as a public
man has not been such as to Win for him
the sympathy of his fellows,aod the. attempt
to gag the Press which exposed his mis-
deeds is worthy of the man and of bun
alone, 1 trust he will meet defeat, and as
the frees is, under the present law of libel,
at the mercy of such men,, that changes
will be introduced during the coining Sc. -
stun which will place the Press to a proper
position. In ,unclusiuo I would, remark
that although much remains to be dune with
regard to the encouragement of the Press
to Canada, U is nevertheless pleasing' to
witness the improvement which bas taken
place. Dr. Barker of the Briti.h Whig,
when placed in a position somewhat similar
to tomo this eveotug at a dinner mien by
the Agricultural Society of Upper Canada,
a Society which is composed of the first
AJfricultunets in Canada, in returning
thanks for the marked attention paid to the
Press on that occarion, stated that there
were sizty-seven newspapers in Canada. -
1t is said that we aro to have a Refufin Bill
doubling the number of Parliamentary re-
prasentattvee. In such case double the
mealier of newspapers will be required to
.latch them end the more the merrier. The
pre.. has occupied a prominent place in the
great struggle which 1. passed and ns et: -
witting to the good cause has sled a 1gstre
round its name which sbould never be fur -
gotten in Canada. Apologising for my
intrusion 1 make way for tho toast of the
evening. (Cheers.)
UNIVERSITY BILL
tV* have very great pleasure in inform -
,ng our roadent that that troublesome* fad
long vexed questions of the Provincial Usi-
ver'Ity I. likely to be smiled at last. The
present Administration are preparing a bill
the leading features of which we grim below,
fed ehoul, they perforin only tit,. 'Ingle
a,_f, if well dose, they will be re,.enebered
fur u. There is ale public question of the
day which has given greaser cause of cow
,Mari, ■nd very Justly so, than the corner•
slay atter. A aplendd endowment, intend-
ed, .teordt•g to ib* very letter of the ori-
ginal Act, out liw one denumlastion, but
for the whole Promisee, has bee. shameful-
ly wowed, and the taatilulron sustained by
it established wpm' the closest sectarian
promptest. Preceeding Admesesatrattone had
pledged thetw551055 to settle Mho victims,
bet whether (rasa inability, .r Irsatol 11..-
C.* Mention. or want of support i5 Parka -
meat, they sfwaye soled ea they began, in
doing meMieg. We are confident a will
net be tau ,s She present teatime* ; the pre-
sent Adnw.'or&wo•, sink!. els pr.d.eeeeer,
w ill rcerg• upon tbo refutes' of the bill by
the people's repreee•tauvaa, that th if k ie
brought in es a w,al.4rla1 mee.eeaa
Not haws/ .era the bill itself, we
can say bet !mho( it sow, but we Ntie
tyre or three features which will, we are
s.It. led, gin very gosera1 sans(aw
eta
meth better guar•.tee against midst Pro
(memo than a U..retAsy •apt' yy gives
so that the fetus' o(a y Gedlw Moto.
tap" canoe( be mode sal luster ; 1)i.iaity
chairs are is be abolished ; .•d au detainee•
Yoe of part tae ioaaeysataoa is to be tmedt
jo the app.lsyan .at to elle pati elaseem
The following ars the ledug features
the bull :— be
Divtoily Chairs ars to he abolish oa
j y
llaairealy r w be ootadusted elle. gay
principles ; each Theological --
0a
leg • Chenille, shall have •
the Hoard ; the Board to
Professor., .ix iadiv
(Jureramo•t ; end tl
the several 7'beol� sw1)1 be aritatlsws :
—the est tai Pry's i titre. qualified Can-
oe governor in Council
will a.lect sae ,.see Governor to he Vset-
tor of the ud-r'ity ; the chaecsllor rill
be elected + the graduates to Cuevocation,
which w' glee them a lasting interest in
the w.,pre of the institution ; free educa-
te.„ .did support will be gives to poor
�ring young men ; no distinction of
y or denomination will be m e in the
lappointment to Chairs or io t%e Class-
es ; it will bo strictly a Provincial uairsr-
silf : and three 'Trustees will have the
management of the property and of the
pecuniary affairs, and their proceedings are
to be annually examined and reported on
by an Auditing Commute.
This bill, to say the least of it, will put
an end to the Iavebtag of the ll.tversity
funds upon favountes. We suppose the
Theological Colleges are to be supported
solely by the several denominations to
whoa, they. ; this will be so as a
matter of coarse.
We will keep our friends advised on this
great subject.—Protinciufisl.
'native in
t of thirteen
appwnted by
taluses from
al colleges ; the ap-
PARLIAIIK?IT: TI1e Canada Gazette of
the IIth instant contains • preclamatioo
proroguing the meeting of parliament until
the 'I'wcnty-first day of December next—
but not then to meet for the dispatch of
business. The Montreal correspondent of
the Kingston Herald, says that Parliament
will meet fur the dispatch of business on
the Tenth of January next.— Victoria (Aro-
n ick.
A Naw Corsa.—A few mornings ago
Mr. !leery Jones, residing a few miles Mot
of Cubuyrg, found at No door, an infant
about a month' old, finely wrapped up to
keep It warm unto it should bo taken from
the door sill. Mr. Jones has put the little
stranger out to be nursed.
1Vbo the mother is, or where the young
adventurer came from, are Gunge yet to be
found out.—,Vewcoatle Comfier.
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meets s( virtue sad wrshu7 awl teeir� ie► a be.
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bwr5a. dawn sed impose
'r'' skos44 ser- ,stasd,5 iu se g os. tet wi. .g
monk be regarded as le l dnty e( e•n7 mea The . „ ti• dpsd •' /{y lsatsYs. ••—
who claims ea a writer lee rh. ►abhe
Miser [breed apish et it pukka ne est►"'.—
Aad peat ,a i e ah'eld b. an beetle Thud ie esse,d.e with the calumny, w►,cb
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