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The Divorce Bill in the House of Lords has progressed to a certain extent, but we cannot anticipate that any measure on this subject can become the law of the land in the course of the ensuing two months. .ity, anu present certainty great political changes. The credulity of the multitude has been excited by charlatanic boasts. A political El Dorado has been art fully placed before the haliedueated minds of the working people. Political reform has been taught so as to be associated with con siderations of " L. S. D.," and the misled work ing man has worshipped a phrase like an Oriental bowing before a Fetich. There was riot the least necessity for intro ducing class feelings into the Reform Move• ment a quarter of a century since ; but the Whigs did so and followed Lord J. RUSSELL'S cue when his Lordship treated the opposition of the Tories as " the whisper of a faction." The feelings of the poor against the richer classes were intensely excited, and malignant passions were roused by the mode in which old rights and prescriptive influence were dealt with. The old customs, habits, and prejudices which had gradually grown up in the parochial treatment of the poor were disregarded by the Whigs. The House of Lords humanely softened the harsher clauses of the " New Poor Law " of 1834 ; but the fact is indisputable that the New Poor Law, and the exaggerated expecta tions from "Reform," sowed " Chartism " throughout the working classes, and raised a poisonous growth of feelings of the worst kind. A chasm was made between the " Haves " and the " Have nots" ; coercive laws became necessary ; and crimes against property of every sort became fearfully epi demic. The police system was gradually enlarged. The Executive strengthened itself with the aid of espionage, for which there is no English word. Detectives were planted in all our large towns, and " the spy system " was extensively applied. In the meanwhile the Whigs kept up their old system of stimulating polities, preaching up impracticable views of " democracy," and arrogantly insisting that they, and they speed.. - bourhoods. There was the Model Prison at Parkhurst, and another at Pentonville. There was the Penitentiary at Millbank, and one at Dublin, and several other places, along with " Inspectors of Prisons " and gaolers turned into " Governors ;" while " Convict Expendi ture " fur New South Wales and Van Diemeu's Land ranged at the average of a quarter of a million annually down to the year IS-V 3. Then came the question what we were to do with the convicts when the Colonies began to pro test against taking them. A great authority amongst the Whigs,'Archbishop WHATELY, had originally started the question whether it was right to colonise with convict classes. Another great authority with the same party, Earl GREY, rendered that subject more compli cated by his unfortunate method of making himself unpopular amongst the British De pendencies. The system had to be changed, and convict establishments "at home" began to figure in the " Miscellaneous Estimates," under the head of " Law and Justice," and the expendi ture has been increased in the most extraor dinary manner. It has run up under this head from 477,459/. in P-0. to the prodigious sum of 906,:374/. in l Sts6. . 1 0 Legislation has been promised on the sub ject of Church Rates and the abolition of Par liamentary Oaths. The first is a question which cannot be satisfactorily dealt with at the end of the session; and we judge flora the ambiguous language of Lord PALMERSTON that we are not to expect it immediately. To adjust the pecuniary relations of the Church with the various dissenting bodies, must be a work of time and deliberation ; and, from the magni. tulle of the interests involved, and the really great principles at issue, it is nearly as much entitled to a session of its own as a Reform 13111 which nobody wants. That the questions of Law Reform. Military Education, or the Education of the People at large, will be advanced any stages in the present session, is manifestly impossible. They have been sacrificed to a party manoeuvre, and to sweeten the putrescent popularity of the Liberal connection. The finesse answered for the time. The honour of England was Involved in browbeating the miserable Chinese. And nobody could browbeat them so well as the Liberals—that famous party which is the professed enemy of oppression. They returned to power with a large majority ; but even the most enthusiastic admirers of BowRING and SEYMot•tt did not suppose that majority was given them merely to pass votes of thanks for the destruction of forts and junks; and the country is now waiting to see what practical use they will make of the confidence reposed in them. Here are the two bills of charges contrasted one with another : 14iR. Prison . Model Prison, Verily, the coming Reform Bill must be a miracle of legislative wisdom if it is to com- LATEST EDITION. . g t Vress. ' . pensate for six months"inictiVity, with so alone, were in poiss.siiaircof 7philgiathropie many important questions 'Pressing for solu- minds. They wished to treat ."lEdUcetion". as tion. But the absence of any real zeal upon one of their political preserves, and they would the subject leads us to form no very sanguine not permit Conservatives to trespass• upon it. expectations. and we much fear the results of They encouraged the school of shallow, noisy, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1857. the year 1858 will — not •be • found such as to boastful, and self-opinionated politicians, who • compensate for the ' unquestionably " wasted have done their best to turn Parliathent into ---- -2 , 4 . t year': of 1857. a 'parish vestry. " The People " were the THE Whitsuntide holidays are over, and the .• • • clients of the Whigs. In the name of " The character of the present session is fully re- . . THE WHIGS„PUBLIC MONEY, AND P " eople. the Whigs turned the Cabinet into POPULAR CRIME. an oligarchy, set up the Pope in Ireland, and vealed. The chiefs of the Liberal party haveafterwards knocked him down in . Exeter -hall. THE vices of the Whig system are most clearly not yet succeeded in binding their faggot In the name of "'The People" the Whigs sys- together. Their large majority has, no unity seen in the table of expenditure recording tematically, through their organs, vilified Lord of will, and no organised policy. To boast the cost of taw and Justice: Let us remind DERBY and every. eminent Conservative who our readers that last week we contrasted the attempted terobtain fair 'play for the landed of their strength and enjoy the fruits of o ffi ce interest and' the' Established • Church ; and is now their sole care. amounts of expenditure under "Law and Lord DERBY 'was right in saying that" the Con- Nos numerus snmus et fruges consumers mai, Justice " ••••• • • • • servatives were " a much calumniated party." they seem to murmur to themselves in drowsy 1846 X/440,089 At crying up their own friends and decrying and contented tones. But is a session of 1856 We shall proceed to illustrate how this ex- was a party so unscrupulous and untiring as reckless miles, founded on the uncertainty the modern English Whigs. Let us now see penditure has gradually been swelled to such . . of the political future, 'and of, empirical 'tam- how facts and figures, which 'cannot-be over- 1 an extent; but first we mnat "paha some turned, 1 ter demonstrate t i re thorough . , peelttg with gravel question's, in oideito save eons'? e y ; - . • general•rentarks. • : the *soOnee of abinklute, inertia, Ale result no ' i rottenness of thd•Whitt systeein dolling with : The whole system • of the 11%0 is dealing theeblltset of the `eriutinal cliettes: . *lreheeteeetitredietkd'Atot the ttfteePh a the with the humbler orders &the yeapie..w.liese; In this' &swam_ plion . of. matiuPeibllltit.- Abe , 44 tibetl i r r arti"? Opinloturmaydiffer_about lot must always have mato% iniistioop, Hui L eeittlment of pbilanthrop.y,..the - lis and whittifoo 4113 . ' solutientias inteneled to' waste been unjust and unphilosopltioaL By the! their favourite—political 'doctors made the 4- 1 tongues of their declaimers, and by the p en " convicts " a peculiar subject of their care. arms: they cannot di ff er about the fact that -,.../ of their literary advocates, the Whigs have for The country was obliged to pay for " fanciful" 5.;4 a year has been wasted. a long series of years endeavoured to make model prisons, fitted up and arranged with The ely measure of importance which has the ma sse s o f th e p co pl o b o li ovo i n t h e pos i- a l mos t fi n i ca l p ro p r i e ty. S ome o f th ese build- fairly p issed the House of Commons is Sir tive utility, and in the present certainty of ings were "lions" in their respective neigh- GEORGE GREY'S Transportation Bill, and even great political changes. The credulity of the bourhoods. There was the Model Prison at •‘...... k k _ k .... . . . Prison at Parkhurst Model Prison. Pentonville Prison at Millbank 45,384 Prison at Perth Convict Depots, Dublin 46 N . - 679 Prison for Convicts, Dublin me 4 , . iow r ~.. Criminal Lunatics at Bethle ' •„ i ' Inspectors of Prisons, 6:c., Z - '. r .o. Convicts at Home, Bermnd ,,j, i ',. --. Les. Convict Expenditure,—Nevl• •• • ' - gm , and Yen Diemen's Land , 4 . 111 tJ , 4 1. 0 /.. J..- ti We copy these charge •••• :O f , ., A . . - .- • Ake return to the Order 0fitit74 . 4 61 0, el' ;