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against flogging, did not so far stultify himself as to vote with Ministers upon this occasion.

He was certain, that had Sir John Hobhouse remained in office, a clause, limiting the power of flogging to extreme cases, would have been introduced into the Mutiny Bill.

Lord Palmerston defended the practice of flogging. He concluded by declaring, that it would be a most dangerous proceeding to abolish flogging in the Army.

Sir Ronald Fergusson could not vote either for or against Mr Hume's proposition.

The division showed a majority of only eleven for Ministers, so that humanity may rejoice in the hope that this infamous punishment is virtually abolished in the British army. The numbers were 151 for the original motion; 140 for Mr Hume's amendment.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-This Bill was read a third time on Wednesday.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.-After the adjournment the House met upon Monday the 15th, when the navy estimates were voted, Mr. Hume saying that, as the House had decided on the number of men to be employed, he would not divide it on any of these resolutions. He admitted that many reductions had been made, but still the scale of reduction was too limited. CHURCH REFORM.-On Tuesday 16th, Mr. Faithful moved the following resolutions: " That the Church of England as by law established is not recommended by practical utility that its revenues have always been subject to legislative enactments, and thus the greater part if not the whole of these revenues ought to be appropriated to the relief of the nation." Mr. Faithful said he was by no means hostile to religion, but the Church was one thing, the Establishment another. But he did not wish to overthrow it. Let them keep their Bishops, Deans, and Archdeacons ; all he wanted was that each sect should support its own establishment.

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He would ask the House one pointed question. Was an establishment like this sanctioned either directly or indirectly by our Lord Jesus Christ, or any of his apostles, or was it not?-No, it was not. He defied any one to show that it was. He would not ask the House to believe this on the evidence-incontrovertible as it was-of the Dissenters; but he would call to their most serious attention the opinions of the soundest divines of the esta blishment itself, beginning with that of Archdeacon Paley; who declares that "we find in the Christian religion no scheme of building up any Church, or of administering to the particular views of any Ecclesiastical Government; but, on the contrary, our religion exhibits a complete abstraction from all ecclesiastical or civil bodies." Such was the opinion of Paley; and Mr. Faithful would ask any of those Members who were conversant with Scripture, if they could point out any passage in the New Testament which could directly or indirectly induce the most distant apprehension that Jesus Christ or any of his apostles contemplated such an establishment as this as an eligible institution? Certainly not; it was never originated by our Saviour, or any disciples of the religion he taught.

No one could say that it was through love of the Holy Ghost that young men entered the Church. They entered it as if it were the Army, Navy, or any other profession. It was all an affair of calculation. Livings were bought and sold at noon-day. As Dr. Hartley said the Clergy teach the doctrines of men, and are merchants upon earth. Mr. Faithful concluded by declaring his belief, that Parliament had as much right to interfere with the Church as with the Bank.

Mr. Cobbett seconded the motion. Lord Althorp was sure that he should not be expected to answer Mr. Faithful's speech. He was a Churchman, and Mr. Faithful a Disseuter. He should meet the question with a decided negative.

Mr. Cobbett "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has declared that the House hardly expected him to answer Mr. Faithful's speech. No-nor did I either." (Laughter, and calls of " Question !"

Mr. Harvey, though a Dissenter, and prepared to sup port the abstract proposition contained in Mr. Faithful's resolution, could not agree to all its terms. He hoped the motion would he withdrawn.

Sir Robert Inglis expressed his utter dissent from all that had fallen from Mr. Faithful, in the course of his half-sermon, half-speech. It was not fair in Mr. Faithful, who was not only a Dissenter, but a licensed preacher among that body, to attack the Church of England Clergy, who were not permitted to be there to defend themselves.

The motion was negatived without a division. It is something that such a motion has been made.

SAVINGS BANKS.-Lord Althorp moved the first reading of a bill to enable persons to purchase small annuities through means of the Savings Banks. He entered into a detail of the advantages which would arise from enabling poor persons, by a small monthly payment, to secure an annuity for life which would render them comfortable in their old age. The peculiarity of the scheme consists in providing for the return of the amount paid for the annuity, to the representatives of the purchaser, in case of his death happening previously to his coming into the receipt of the annuity.

The bill was read a first time.

SCOTCH BURGH REFORM.-Mr. Kennedy, on Tuesday, in the absence of the Lord Advocate, obtained leave to bring in several bills for the reform of the Royal and other Burghs of Scotland.

JEWISH DISABILITIES.-In a Committee of the whole House, on Wednesday, Mr. Warburton being in the chair,

Mr. Robert Grant moved the following resolution:

"That it is expedient to remove all civil disabilities at present existing affecting his Majesty's subjects of the Jewish religion, with the like exceptions as are provided with reference to his Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion".

Mr. Grant made a shew speech in support of his resolution. Sir Robert Inglis opposed it. Messrs. Macauley, Hume, O'Connell, and Poulter supported it. The opposition was feeble and contemptible, and the speeches so much breath thrown away. man lacked conviction. The resolution was carried by a large majority.

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SINECURES.On Thursday Mr. Hume moved for the abolition of civil and colonial sinecures, upon the decease, or removal from any other cause, of the present holders. This was carried without a division. He then moved that no person in future should be appointed to an office the duties of which' are performed by deputy. This also was carried. A third motion, which appeared to interfere with the right of the crown to appoint to certain offices, was withdrawn. Lord Althorp objected to it. It is worthy of remark, that members, admonished of the step they had made on Mr Hume's former motion for abolishing sinecures, quietly retraced the false step. COMMUTATION OF TITHES.-Lord Althorp, on Thursday, moved for leave to bring in a bill for

the general commutation of tithes. Before going day the 22d instant, came on Mr. Attwood's motion for the into the question, he would state to the House the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the state si actual amount of the income of the clergy; which general distress, difficulty, and embarrassment, which now was very much exggerated. It had been asserted presses on the various orders of the community; how far the same has been occasioned by the operation of our present mone lately, that church property amounted to nine mil-tary system; and to consider of the effects produced by that lions per r'annum; nothing could be more extrava-system upon the agriculture, manufacture, and commerte of the gant than that statement. The principle of the bill United Kingdom, and upon the condition of the industrious and is the perpetual commutation of tithes, both cleri-productive classes. cal and lay, for a corn-rent. During the term of brought forward. The question in reality was, whether they Lord Althorp said he was glad that the motion Ind bees one year from the passing of the bill, the tithewere prepared to stand by the system in which all contractshad payer and the tithe-receiver may agree upon the been inade for so many years. (Cheers.) The hon. Member amount of the equivalent. Though the commuta- had been clear enough in condemning the monetary system— tion is to be perpetual, the actual amount of it in but he was not distinct enough in pointing out his remedy. As money is to be regulated by the price of corn, the after "that" he left out; and that the following words be inan amendment Lord, Althorp moved, that all the words averages of which are to be taken regularly by the serted:-"That it is the opinion of this House, that any altera Magistrates at Quarter-Sessions. tion in the monetary system of the country, that should have the effect of lowering the standard, would be highly inexpe dient and dangerous." (Great cheering.) Mr. Grote, in rising to second the amendment, maid that the honourable member for Whitehaven (Mr. Attwood) had laid much stress on the great suffering that particular interests in the country were at present labouring under; but there never was a period of the history of this country that some partiesler interests were not depressed. He could not, with any approach to integrity, sanction this principle. Pia

THE BUDGET-On Friday the 19th Lord Althorp produced his plan of finance for the year. In another section are noticed the opinions entertained of it. There we explain in what it consists. Lord Althorp having an estimated surplus revenue of L.1,571,909, proposes to take off—

1. Tiles Whole duty taken off

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Estimated Surplus after the above reductions L.516,000 This surplus was smaller than it had been usual to calculate upon; but the principle which guided him, was to carry the reduction of taxes to the greatest practicable extent. If more taxes were repealed, the House must see, if public credit were still to be preserved, that other taxes must be substituted for them. He would not detain the Committee any longer, but would move the first resolution-that the duty on tiles should henceforth cease to be paid.

Mr. Hume could not deny that Lord Althorp, as far as he had gone, had done He was sorry that he had not gone further, for the country would not be satisfied with the amount of relief bestowed. There was a great pressure for the total repeal of the house and window tax, i-There would have been mot, loss to the revenue by taking off quarter on malt,double the quantity would be consumed. The reduction upon advertisements would have been better if it had been less com.

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plex. If the duty were reduced to the one year old advertise
ments, it would be much better. The duty on might be
still further reduced. He was of opinion that a general com-
motation of taxes, and the substitution of a property-tax, was
the best thing that could be done to relieve the distresses of
the distresses of the
Sir Robert Peel thought that the reductions had been
carried to a greater extent than was prudent Exsi
Mr.) A. Baring disapproved of this plan of relieving the
country, by taking off taxes. Mr. Pitt had acted upon a wiser
principle, at the close of the American war, when he added to
the taxes constantly for the succeeding ten years. If the plan
of raising money for a sinking-fund had been adhered to, there
would have been a great reduction of debt effected.

Mr. Robinson thought that the 1500,000 surplus should be applied to a further reduction of taxes. The reductions would have been better had they been applied more to the relief of productive industry.

Lord Sandon, Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Slaney, and Mr. Ewart, suggested several alterations in the stamp duties, which pressed heavily on the people; and Afr. Sinclair also wished a tax to be levied upon every species of property for reducing the whole or part of the principal of the Debt. pse of bipod w Lord Althorp's resolution was agreed to.

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Mr. Cobbett, who was loudly and generally called for, said, he should certainly vote for the motion of the honourable memher for Whitehaven, although he by no means agreed with the view of that honourable member as to the curreney, The hopourable member now only asked for a committee to inquire inte the distress of the country, and the cause of that distress, and whether the change in the value of money had any effect in pro ducing it. For this inquiry he (Mr. Cobbett) was prepared to vote. What could be a fitter subject for inquiry? It was said that either the taxes must be cut down or money trust he puffed up. Now, he was for cutting down the taxes. The rain of the bill of 1826 was not yet at an end, and whoever looks at the “ progress of things cannot fail to see that the middle classes ara fast approaching to the state of the lower. His (Mr. Cabbert's) great object was to have every thing brought back to that state in which it was in 1792, when this country was in the greatest state of happiness notwithstanding, that a most expensive and would scarcely believe him. disastrous war had shortly before been conclud d. The House

Mr. Richards should vote for the motion. erat,

Mr. Forster said, that, although he should vote against the meinquiry into the present situation of the country. (Hear.) tion before the House, he would yet support any motion for as

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THE BALLOT-On Thursday the 25th, came on, Mr. Grote's motion for the Ballot at elections. He opened the debate in a very able speech, going over every argument in favour of this mode of voting. From its adoption, he contended, that no harm would ensue. ནtesta °aa! v£}I

"Fear not," he said, "that the rich man who employed wealth and leisure as they ought to be employed in elevating his own mental character, and in affording conspicuous evidence of active virtue-fear not that such a nan should lose one particle of influence by means of the ballot. His standard was planted in the interior of men's bosome; his ascendency was as sure and operative in the dark as in

This is the High-Torg Attwood, the brother of the Radical Att wood, the member for Birmingham: though on this point they, In common with other Torles and Whigs, are of one mind."

hon, member on the other side of the House, some sessions ago, had divided the House on a similar question to the present, and he, (Lord Althorp,) ou that occasion, had certainly divided in favour of the ballot; and on every other occasion he had ex

the light ; his admonitions and recommendations needed no coercive power to ensure attention. (Hear, hear.) And what harm would ensue, if that coarser and baser influence, which could not exist without coercive force, were suppress ed and extirpated altogether? What harm, if the worth less and unfurnished minds, who now dictated their commands to expectant and timorous dependants, were compel-pressed himself in favour of the adoption of this led to restrict their ascendency within the narrower limits mode of voting; but at the same time he must be of persuasion and good will? (Cheers.) He maintained allowed to say that he had never in any instance that not only no harm would ensue, but very great good, urged it as the sine qua non of good representation, Dr. Lushington made an able speeeh for the moin this, as well as in other ways; that it would so materially strengthen the motive for men of wealth and sta- tion. Mr. Cobbett and O'Connell supported the tion to extend their knowledge, and to enlarge their sphere motion, and Sir Robert Peel spoke against it. The of active virtue. As matters stood now, a man's influence House divided; 105 of a majority against the mowas in the ratio of his property. (Hear.) Whether his tion; only 317 members being present. The thincharacter were good or bad, whether his capacity were vastness of the House when a question of such vital or limited, in either case his power over the comforts of importance was discussed has provoked severe aniothers, and his consequent means of perverting their votes, madversion. was equal. So long as he could thus command their votes, he had not motive to earn their esteem and admiration.

(Cheers.) But if their votes were rendered free instead of
servile genuine instead of simulated-then he could only
hope to obtain them by really deserving them; then would
he hav
powerful motive to attract to himself those heart-
felt sentiments, from whence alone free spoken votes pro-
ceeded; then would he be stimulated to enrich his own
mind with those commanding acquirements, without which
he could scarcely aspire to be useful to his country at large.
The question had been started, whether an uneducated
gentry were not the greatest of all national evils? Cer-
tainly, if not the greatest, they were among the greatest of
national evils; nor was the counterpart of the proposition
less true, that a gentry well educated, and of enlarged sym-
pathies with the people, were among the foremost of all
national blessings. He was sure that the most effectual
way of assuring, and perpetuating to themselves that bless-
ing, would be to render the vote of an elector inaccessible
to all coercion, and attainable only by those who should
have earned his genuine esteem. (Hear, hear.) This was
the only prize which could stimulate the listlessness, or
soften the natural pride, of one whose wealth placed him
above the communion of his fellow men; and by rendering
the suffrage secret, lock this precious prize in a casket,
which could neither be stolen by fraud, nor ravished by
tyranny; reserved it in the inmost sanctuary, as a free-will
offering to ascertained merit, and as a stimulus to all no-
ble aspirations. If he had no other ground to ask for the
ballot, he would ask it on this that it was the only school-
master of a frivolous and self-indulgent aristocracy. In
conclusion, he would say, that if they possessed the power
of breathing into English voters a new heart and spirit, so
that they should become insensible to all the threats and
temptations of the private seducer, and open only to the ad-
monitions of those who came to guide their rational and
conscientious, preference if they could operate this great
moral improvement in the bosoms of the voters themselves,
would they not eagerly hasten to do it without a moment's
delay? He knew that human power reached not so far as
that; but he knew that the ballot would go near to ac-
complish the same end-not, indeed, by rectifying all the
moral infirmity of the voter, but by breaking the force of
those seductions which would otherwise overpower it. This
was all that they can do with respect to the frailties and
liabilities of our common nature; they could not altoge-
ther eradicate them, but they might circumscribe their
range and counterwork their efficacy; they might disarm
and beat off those ministers of evil who strove to take ad-
vantage of them. They could not render a man invulnera-
-ble, but they might at least enable him to walk unhurt.

Sir W. Ingilby seconded the motion. The Earl
of Darlington, Mr. Petre, Major Fancourt, and Lord
Althorp spoke against the motion. His candid
Lordship
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observed, that he felt himself placed in rather an
awkward dilemma by the vote which he should
think it his duty to give against this motion. An

MALT DUTIES.—On Friday the 26th, T. W. Ingilby brought forward his motion to reduce the duty on malt from 20s. 8d. to 10s. He was strenuously supported by the landed members; and Lord Althorp, on the division, found himself in a minority of ten, and his ways and means farther curtailed L.2,000,000! This result took the members of the Government, who were present, by surprise.

Lord Althorp said, whatever were the motives of the mover, the result would seriously embarrass Ministers. But, after the decision had been against him, notwithstanding the majority was not very large, he should feel ashamed of himself if he were capable of making any opposition to carrying into effect the resolutions of the House. (Cheers.)

The question was then put and carried, that the malt tax be reduced to 10s. per quarter. Lord Althorp moved that the committee of supply be deferred till Monday. *

EAST INDIA COMPANY-Mr. Grant's scheme for renewing the East India Company's Charter has this to recommend it, that the country is satisfied, and the monopolists cry out. The leading terms of the renewal are, that the China trade be thrown open; that the Company's property, territorial and commercial, be assigned to the Crown for the benefit of the territorial Government of India. The Company to retain its political functions, and the Directors the sole patronage, civil and military, as at present.

Every British subject to have the right of going to and settling at either of the Presidencies, without licence; but the right of going into, trading, or settling in the interior, to be subject to such restraints and regulations as the local Government might require.

The Board of Control to have the right of altering despatches; and, on the refusal of the Court of Directors to send them out, to have the power of sending out such despatches themselves.

The appointment of Governors to remain, as at present, with the King. The veto still to continue with the Court of Directors.

The Directors object, in the most earnest manner, to the loss of the China trade; and there is, altogether, great grumbling.

Mr. Grant, in a communication, declares, that he was bound to say, frankly and fairly, that MiWe refer to our postscript of latest news, for the result,

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nisters, convinced of the justice of the terms now offered, were prepared in the event of a refusal, to propose a plan to Parliament for the government of India, without the intervention or instru-stinate resistance. A quarter of an hour was sufficient to mentality of the Company. If the consent of the Company were not signified by the 23d of March, he should feel compelled to consider the Company as declining the proposal.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

restore tranquillity. The troops of the line had four killna and fifteen wounded. The loss of the rioters is not known, The whole affair might, however, pass for an ordinary riet, but of those arrested, several have been severely wounded.

but that we learn there were troubles in the environs of the city on the same evening, that bodies of armed peasants were stopped at the city gates, by finding them occupied with troops, and that it seems to have been known in many other places that a rising of some kind was to take place in Messrs. Enfantin and Chevalier, the chiefs of the Saint Frankfort on this particular evening. There are those whe Simonians, were tried at Paris on Monday, on the charge think, however, that the whole affair, like some of the polist of being the heads of an "unauthorized political and re-machinations of the Parisians, has been contrived in orde ligious association." They admitted the truth of the to afford an apology for extinguishing more effectually thai charge against them; but the Jury, after deliberating about spirit of liberalism which has been for some time exhibit. ten minutes, found them Not Guilty. The Government ing itself moest unequivocally among the subjects of the were lately affecting to expect a movement by the republi- petty German despots. The object, if this be so, is as bad can party. The pregnancy of the Duchess de Berri is de- as the means are base; and a discovery of the plot thes nied by her partisans, and her letter said to be a forgery. early must mar the effects anticipated by those who planned The denial is laughed at by every body.

SPAIN.

The Cortes are summoned by the King, for the especial purpose of confirming his daughter's right of succession to the throne..

The young Queen, Donna Maria da Gloria, attained her majority on the 19th instant, on which day she was 14, the period at which, according to the laws of Portugal, she may assume the reins of government.

HOLLAND.

Active preparations for war are going on in Holland. Fifteen thousand additional men have been raised, and fifty thousand guns are purchased. The arsenals of Rotterdam and Dordrecht are busily engaged, and the Dutch artillery is much augmented. In Belgium the priests, as was to be expected, have gained the ascendency, and military affairs are considered as of less consequence than ecclesiastical. It is generally supposed that Prince Leopold will sacrifice his religion to obtain the support of the Jesuits.

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TURKEY.

There are many contradictory accounts from the Fast. We can only be certain that the Russians will preferecupying Constantinople, to allowing the Pacha to advance farther. It now seems almost a race between the troops of the Pacha, and those of the Czar, which shall first gain the Turkish capital. UNITED STATES

The threatened explosion between the northern and south. ern states, has passed over. The former have shewn good sense, and the latter availed themselves of an opportunity to repeal their angry decrees, or rather to recall their foolish manifestoes.

pattern to Europe.

America thus continues to be the

A body of Dutch troops, amounting to about 3,000, is reported to have been massacred in the county of the Rajah of Siac, in the island of Sumatra. They were surrounded during the night by a large body of the natives, whom they had exasperated by their extortions.:

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to be under the truth, rather than above it,' estimates the L.4,000,000 sterling. Of these, probably about one-fourth debts and obligatious of the house at no less than part is due to English creditors. The shock given by the event to public confidence in Calcutta, is, of course, very great, and such as must be felt for a time throughout the whole commercial operations of that part of India.—Times.

JAMAICA.

Some excitement has prevailed during the week, in consequence of the receipt of accounts from Frankfort, which lead from the extraordinary extent of its transactions, occupies to a belief that much dissatisfaction prevails throughout Ger. many, and particularly among those States which once form-calculation which has been made, and which is supposed a large share of the attention of the monied interest. ed the famous Confederation of the Rhine. We learn that on the evening of the 3d instant a party of young men sallied forth from the theatre, and being joined by a crowd of persons, many of them strangers assembled in the streets, they attacked the guard-house, occupied by troops of the line and constables. The crowd was headed by young men in the costume of students, wearing white scarfs. On their arrival before the guard-house, one of the young men, stepping out of the ranks, harangued the people, who had collected in great numbers. In this speech he expatiated on the oppression of Very foolish doings have been going forward in this illwhich Germany was the victim. The people received the fated island. We wait with patience to see how Mr. Stanspeech with unanimous applause. In an instant guns, pistols, ley, the new Colonial Secretary, is to manage between the and sabres were distributed, the guard-house was attacked, colonists, and the anti-slavery party at home. He makes and the prisoners confined for political offences set at liberty. considerable professions; and decision is not the quality in The same crowd, having been considerably augmented, then which he is deficient. His plan will be promulgated forthproceeded along the Zeil to the principal guard-house, attack-with. Mr. Fowell Buxton has deferred his motion to the ed it amidst shouts of "Liberty or Death!" dispersed the 14th May, in compliment to the new Secretary. sixty soldiers who occupied the post, and set at liberty the prisoners, among whom was M. Mohr, who had been confined two years on suspicion of having taken a share in former disturbances. Whilst blood was flowing on both sides near the guard-house, the drums were beating throughout the town to call together the National Guards. Part of the citizens came in time to prevent the captures of the arsenal. The troops of the line, amounting to five hundred men, came up in haste, and succeeded in retaking the chief guard-house, and after a time the disturbances were thoroughly repressed. Among the rioters were seen

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They are misfortunes they are blots let them, we implore members of Government-let them be salutary warnings. This series of ill successes, side of the Whigs, ought to be regarded as an inwhere all had been heretofore triumphant on the dication that the mind of the country is undergo

We believe there is no doubt in any reasonable mind that, at the general election, four months ago, the general feelings of the great bulk of the constituency were in favour of Lord Grey's Governing an anti-ministerial change. It is the part of

ment as contradistinguished from the two factions form administration than to fear it it is the part an independent friend, more disposed to love a reof Tories and Ultra-Radicals. There may have of such a friend to admonish such a Ministry, that, been some persons returned under the description while there is yet time, they must recall the people of outliers upon the skirts of the above two parties, to their standard, or they will not long have but of the important fact there can be no question, that the main body of the reformed House of Com strength to carry on the Government, The public have often been appealed to on bemons was, when first sworn in, decidedly ministe-half of Ministers, by reason of the difficulties unríal; and, being so, did fairly speak the sentiments der which Lord Althorp and his colleagues have of the people out of doors. The motive which influenced the majority of electors in the choice been placed by the keenness and pertinacity of the of such a House of Commons was simply their opposition in the House of Commons upon the confidence of their general good government, and Irish Coercion Bill. But were not such difficulties in a great degree of their own conception. of their eagerness to redress all grievances, inspired by those Ministers who had carried through than crime. The man, who hesitates, contradicts, Imbecility is more dangerous to political power the Reform Bill, and who had themselves announcor turns" his back upon himself," is first laughed ed that bill to be but a stepping stone and introat, then despised, then without mercy turned out. duction to every other useful reform. He cannot stand by his friends, because he dares est intentions, he is eternally, like an ugly woman, not face his enemies; and, with the best and purin the wrong. Why should a department of such Prodigious magnitude, with the most extensive patronage in the state, be left in the hands of Lord Hill and Lord F. Somerset, under a Whig Administration. The latter of these noble Lords may be, and indeed has the repute of being an excellent man of business; but really, as it has been often said, this continued holding of the Horse Guards by Tories is to the country such a ridicule weakness and signal of distress, as must encourage upon the Grey Administration, such a proof of every political antagonist of the Government to raise his hand and offer it a buffet, either for the sake of directly overthrowing it, or for that of sharing those rewards, from which, with punetilious greatness of mind, it excludes all but its ad...

Now, it seems not altogether irrational to conjecture that what the King's Ministers gained by fidelity to their engagements, they might, by continuing the same proud course of honour and vir the, have preserved to this hour undiminished. Yet, what appears to be the fact? In Parliament, as the session advanced, their majorities have been dwindling from week to week; and out of Parlia ment their declared supporters have been roughly handled wherever they showed themselves as candidates against Radicals or Tories. In the city of London, which at the general election had returned Alderman Waithman, an avowed friend of Ministers, a new election was held for a citizen to supply the place of that honest and consistent Whig; but instead of Alderman Venables, who, besides being a pledged liberal, and a friend of the Grey administration, had recent and considerable claims upon the favour of the London constituency, Mr Lyall, a known Tory, was returned. In Mary-lebone, Mr Murray, a professed friend of his Majesty's Ministers, was set aside, with little apparent trouble; and. Sir Samuel Whalley, whose liberal politics were understood to be of a far broader and more thoroughgoing character than those which had lately begun to be ascribed to the Cabinet, was elected by a large majority, Mr Hope, the rankest of the Tory race, was far ahead of the ministerial candidate. The Grey principles were, it seems, more odions even than those of the Conservative Club. At Sunderland the friend of Ministers was sigually defeated. At Gloucester itself, where the Whig Berkeleys are so strong, a gentleman of that family, who had just taken office, and had thus identified his cause with that of Ministers, has been beaten by a Tory, who himself, but a few short months before, had been a rejected suitor. Why are such things? We speak of them, God knows, more in shame and sorrow than in anger.

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Once more, these observations have been wrung from ns. We see the ground slipping from under the feet of Ministers. Now or never, therefore, when Parliament re-assembles, is the time to recover their footing. Timessiges esmitan nidiae ang

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In Tait's Magazine for May, in a bold and spirited article upon the Budget, we find the following character of the Radical party in Parlia ment. We give this Magazine all credit for speak ing needful and well-timed truths, even of the party of which it is understood to be the monthly organ. The reputation for honesty which this periodical has earned from friend and foe, is fully deserved by such frank and uncompromising expressions of opinion :---

"In our first paper, the first article of our first number, we mentioned the fact, that one portion of the Cabinet and its retainers were perpetually

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