The Sun. — London, England, 1837-06-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKEI. ( From the Alaniny Chronicle.) A very l ong li st of failures has been handed abatis during Sa kurtlity, but the suspension of payment of only three has been gniarly announced, namely, Messrs. Bell and Greet, Messrs. Gowan and Marx, and Messrs. Schmidt and Meugens. All t hese were highly respectable, as well as o f c ons id era bl e stand ing in the City, and were not in the least suspected being mixed up seriously in the difficulties of the three. A° ve have before stated, it is wholly impassible ) thaitfOre, to ascertain wh o is not affected ; so that ever hsanch of comattrae must he at a stand still selitli the state of t h e me tr opo li s i s k nown throughout country. the The anxiety whi c h i s f e lt b y a ll • hous ' e e e s " allot be de scr ib e d. N o l ess a num b er of mercantile than between 130 and 140 had bills upon the American firsns which have stopped returned upon theist and this was not by any means a severe day in that respect, the heaviest amount becoming due about the 20th of this month. As a strong feeling prevailed up to the last moment that the Bank would continue its assistance, this event was generally unex pected ; so that it is quite uncert a in h ow f ar t h e part i es con- Mondhave been prepared, and what the result may be ; but Tlue''oes- we fea r , w ill bear unfavourabl e t es ti mony o f i ts con- It will be remembered that one-half of the bills, ot mor e , rece i ved by the three American packets which arrived within a few days of each other in April, was pro tee for non -acceptance ; consequently, whatever inconve ce attaches to this part has been contended with and has sc woarceld rke its mischi e f a l rea d y . The remaining portio n can y, a therefore, exceed a mil l 2,on stling, a large prt of Whi ch we may fai r ly surmise Is in the er hands of the houses Which have succumbed, es may be found ensconced in the _soffers of th e B an k of England, playing the part of col ;lateral securities : 'but the remainder in such times as these s ' L lfficient t o cause much embarrassment, if not prepared t or "f°r'shand. Another most important and alarming fea tsre n as been the return of acceptances to a large amount V r al the manufacturing interests in the country. One 4 1 sent back was for 25,0001. About the middle of the Week we shall, p er h a p s , b e ma d e acqua i nted with the ef lect of thi s ; f or a l t h oug h i t would be a trifling sum in O rdinary times, the difficulty of obtainin g money promptly at The present moment mak es it of more magnitude. The Bank Srefused everything accepted by Messrs. George Wilde and 0 ., who referred all matters to that establishment, which • has tended much to increase the embarrassments, as nine persons out of ten were fully convinced that the Bank had guaranteed to carry them through, and readily took their Paper under that impression. T his is a very serious thing, en may, Perhaps, be the means of crushing parties who had cautiously abstained fr om taking anything but what they con sidered undeniable !security. It is useless, however, to argue u pon it, for it is ;mpossible to und ers t an d w h at t h e B ank means,and are believe it will be more fully gone into in a Court , o , f . but every person asks why that establishment w eti tt rn s P,_eurad Mess ' rs. Wilde and Co. to wind up its affairs if it e ,, Ir 4 the same condition as the others, and only obtained ac- '4%modation upon security. A number of idle rumours are afloat respecting the share *Bich th e A mer i can Government has had in either bringing a bout, or at least adding to, the panic which exists in the United States. It is said that that Government is at all events not displeased at the turn affairs have taken, inasmuch 4 4 it must lead to a general bankruptcy or compromise on the endpart of th e mercantile community with the British creditor, s ) hereby e na bl e t h e E xecutive to retain the specie in thebu eatry. / Ile cotton cro p, th ey say , w ill' pay Bs. or 10s. in .Pound, with out ren d er i ng it necessary to disgorge its that" I ° l l, and e very t hi ng w ill b eg i n afresh. We need not add, ttiWe do not attach the slightest importance to these impu ons on the American Government. If such were the case, "" • Van Buren and his colleagues would have calculated most erroneously ;instead of securing their bullion and re n"ling their comnaercial relations, they would have to send eo , almost every dollar, and every branch of commerce would Lie c rippled. Th e A mer i cans wou ld b e wholly deprived of their power o f d raw i ng bi lls upon London, which has given t hem great facilities in their commercial operations, and in *rite of themselves they would be compelled to take specie Wherever they went. the or the y ear ending Saptember, 1836, the imp or t s i nto i _United S tates exceeded the exports by upwards of it.dsooo,oooL, and this kas been increased yearly ; f rom w hi c h is easy to s ee that tlisa Americans must e ith er re li nqu i s h a _ a rge portion of their luxuries and superfluous wants, or con merit to give up their precious metals. The receni, advices from New York, in reference to the the ; for the most gloomy rumours were very in dustreausly circulated, and it was currently stated the next rs from this country would announce the failure, not only °‘ the firms which have already fallen, but of others of still greater importance. This is stated to be the chief cause of the panic in the United States, and led the Bank of England to decide so fatally upon this important point. The next an_ rivals from that quarter, if the vessels have reached New York from England, will be much more cheering, as a contradiction Will not only be given to their apprehensions, but they will learn that succour has been afforded to the houses in diffi culties. The Bank of England will also find that they have legislated upon fallacious data. The joint liabilities of Messrs. Bell and Grant and Messrs. Gowan and Marx arc supposed to be rather more than half a tiaillion; but as it is known they have traded with large ca pitals it is expected they will be able to pay in full eventually, and may in all probability shortly resume business, should re mittances be forthcoming from America, the non-arrival of which has been the immediate cause, we understand, of their suspension of payment. Messrs. Gowan and Marx, it will be ternernbered, were the contractors for the recent Cuba loan. The failur e of Messrs. Bell and Grant is especially regretted. The latter gentleman was looked upon as the model of an benglish merchant, prud en t, c i rcumspect , yet generous, and • was a subscriber to and strong supporter of most of the charitable institutions in the city. (From the Times.) The g reat b low, so long held in terror over the city, having f b 4ll en, the investigation into its causes and consequences has , e ,gun, and observation has been vividly on the alert, to learn ail that it has been possible to collect on the subject. One e rn avhich might have been fairly anticipated has followed .5 cicse upon it—that is, the failure of several houses, otherwise good character and undoubted credit, who had linked their late with that of the three great American houses, by giving guarantees on their behalf to the Bank. The conclusion to l ,hich many pers ons h a d come yesterday, and which we were ed to a adopt, t h at i n general this had been resorted to to tv,scpe from a greater sacrifice, and that but f e w compare it,velY had compromised th emse l ves b y so doing, will, as ,cla no w f eared, turn out a wholly mistaken one • ' but 11 the very important question arises, how the Bank to be secured if the guarantees stop payment. As e m atter now s t an d s, i t is tolerably certain that large advances have been made by the Bank beyond the sup lt).osed guarantees, and if these also break down, their situa tele.,.bccomes a very perilous one indeed, the guarantees ex- T r it . ) ! l ng, as it is admitted, to something more than 1,250,000/. to t ` 2 !° is notion abroad, however, whether of Bank origin or th . 1 t is impossible to say, that in givinr , these guarantees for larnerican houses, an engagement 'has at the same time fatlureentered into, to give a preference to the Bank, in case of over all other creditors. This supposition has been the oj e ct of mu c h remar k and discussion, in general of a very m i gnant d escr i pt i on. That the Bank should take their chance the Power o f ma ki ng their own selection of the parties, and i .,' t s elfcluiry int o t h eir solvency, was a position injurious enough in to to th e b o d y of creditors ; but that they s h ou ld b e permit ped, b y a secret arrangement, to absorb the whol e o f th e pro rty i n the event of any serious disaster, is what any man who ._ lB exposed to suffer by it will at once pronounce a downright robbery. This is a matter which it is highly proper that the trading interest should un d erstan d , and mako them elves fully masters of ; it i s an id ea only just started, but t hey may be assured that it will be a long time before they thinear th e l ast of it. And out of this, too, thy will learn some ng, of ar t i n i qu i tous principle which is involved in a n y B an k nterference to support, or as the approved and admirable Phrase is, "bolster up" certain houses. If they are allowed to fall when their own indiscretion has brought them into a situa tion to apply for such support, all the creditors obtain their fair proportion of the assets ; but this bolstering enables a few artful men to secure all that is owed them, and leave little or nothing to the rest. The fact is notorious, that where houses have received Bank assistance, and have afterwards failed, as is, by tl.,e way, generally the case, the division among the great body of creditors has been uniformly a very small one. This is a bearing of the question, leaving the consideration of private i.arantees out of the case, which—and they can very seldom be dispensed with—are attended with consequences of a very cruel hater°, to which they ought never to have been subjected. They nre exposed, not on l y to the loss of the i r money, b ut of their c redit, for having taken so imprudent a step. Some are cajoled, others threatened into it, or induced by the fear of : es ing th e connect i ons of those by whom the guarantee is ccited- If the secret history of these American guarantees ould be trade kn own , i t wou ld di sc l ose i n that respect a ghtful picture. The extent of it, too, must have been enormous, for as few took engagements for.more than 20,000/., t° the average probably did not exceed 10,000/., from 100 150 houses must have got thus entangled with the Bank and American houses they were endeavouring to " bolster up." f ` is well known, that when these circumstances reached tZreign countries, for concealment in such a case was altoge t, er out of the question, they produced a general distrust of kne merchants of London, who were all, as it could not . be p ru de who did assist, involved in the general censure of im iei_en This is a state of things, one of the consequences Rt.:" " bolstering" system, which is a positive evil of the L - " es t magnitude, and must not be lost sight of when the d o g acute come to sit in judgment, as they must undoubtedly v i ,n the conduct of the Bank in this whole affair. of t t l e , way to deal with the matter—and this is the view taken i ßs som e very intelligent men in the City—would be to f ‘t i i t ute an inquiry into the situation of the houses which have theed at the time of their first application to the Bank, and at ‘ v h U tile of the failure. It would thus be made to appear Nat creditors had got paid in full, under the protection of uhnk interference, and what was the situation of the remainder Nroetinidthe wreck of property was made over to them. It par) ear also, which is a still more material part of the ° Nair mein 3 , what innocent persons had been led into new engage pro:s with these houses, on their faith in the efficacy of Bank caged"eti, and who, but for that confidence, would have es e altogether without loss. Such an inquiry would settle for "t imPortant question, and provide also excellent materials fer enee m . ming in future the value and propriety of Bank inter is little dosibbte.netnal imprudence of the Bank, for so, there a , it will be visited, will now be termed in taking this step, hirgelgrO,°w Pretty evident, bv a severe retribution. A very t a k epi nei absolute loss must Le incurred, We have heard_it . " as a rough estivate at. 700,0001., but we should not be surprised ultimately to find it much larger, espe cially if their suppb s ed p re f e r ence un d er th e gu arantees i s ;hakm for Which they must prepare themselves for a hard fight with the general creditors of the houses which have failed. Tim loss may produce one good, in altering the mistaken sys, tem of advances tinder which the Bank business is carried on the Direi..lttA's will feel for the proprietors, or may he made to NO, though they have no sympathy with the rat lire public. We are happy to hire it in our -- r uiver to state that the fail, ure of the 0/Kt great American housel, which took place Z l2 , te,t'thY: is not ex'26)Ctii to be attended with anythi ng lik e tne disastrous CortseqUeriCes that many persons have predicted. With a liberal allowance for bad debts; Messrs. thotnah Wil ton And Co., Messrs, George Wilde and Co., and Messrs. 'timothy Wiggin and Co., are, we are assured, each of them able to exhibit assets to the amount of from two to three hun dr,,d thousand pounds beyond that of their liabilities ; and although the arrangement of their affairs may be a work of time, no doubt whatever can, therefore, be entertained as to the issue. Messrs. T. Wiggin and Co., have issued the following Circular : " London, June 3, 1837. " Being under the painful necessity of suspending payment, we are anxious to diminish foar and excitement as much as possible ; and, therefore, solicit attention to the statement which we presented to the Bank of England, which was as follows, viz. : Bill engagement, but since reduced .... £674,700 Private creditors Advanced by the Bank against notes of debtors 200,000 908,100 Assets after deducting 103,8001, for bad debts, and which we deem extravagant 484,700 Deduct subscribed fund... 200,000 Our surplus capital will be " We trust we shall be able in time to pay every one in full, and we shall therefore propose to our creditors to wind up our concern under inspection, which we hope will meet your approbation." The Bank Directors met again to-day; but for what parti cular purpose has not, we believe, transpired. Fresh appli cations for assistance are, however, supposed to have engaged their attention. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3. The decision of the Directors of the Bank of England re. specting the embarrassed American houses arrived -here yes terday afternoon. As the decision of the Directors was not known when the evening papers were published, or when the mail left town, a London banker posted down to Birmingham, where he arrived yesterday morning, and where he met with a party of gentlemen who were making the first excursion on the Grand Junction Railway which connects Liverpool with Birmingham. These gentlemen, when they arrived in Liverpool, made known the news on 'Change, which produced, of necessity, a feeling of considerable despondency, although the result was anticipated, in consequence of the exceed ingly unfavourable accounts which the last arrival had brought from the United States. One of the houses which the Bank declined any longer to support immediately stopped payment, and it was apprehended that other failures would follow. Up to this time, however, affairs by no means realize the worst expectations which had been formed. Of the three American houses in difficulties, which the Bank of England originally rescued from destruction, only two have branches here, and one of these, it is said, will be able to wind up its affairs without the assistance of the Bank. This, however, is problematical. Certain it is that the refusal of the Bank has been productive of less serious results than were generally anticipated. The Cctton Market to-day has been comparatively brisk, and prices have been little, if at all, affected. The sales have been 3,000 bags. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The intelligence of the refusal of the Directors of the Bank of England to continue their assistance to the American houses was received yesterday afternoon, before the arrival of the London mail. It came by way of Birmingham, where it had been received by express. The directors of the Grand Junction Railway had, on the preceding day, made their first experimental trip from Liverpool to Birmingham, and started yesterday forenoon, via railway, on their return to Liverpool, while two of them, who left the main body be hind, reached about four o'clock, and immediately made the news public on 'Change. The effect, as may be supposed, was great. The business of the day was nearly over when the intelligence arrived. Still its influence was felt, in the instantaneous cessation of all demand for cotton, which had previously been remarkably brisk. Every mind was full of fearful forebodings. Predictions of failures on the morrow were rife. Some people, bolder than others, even went so far as to name the houses which must inevitably stop. The day has, how ever , p asse d over w ith out a single failure and even without a rumour, so far as it has had its origin here, of any house being in difficulties. T, 'he celebrated comedian Vernet appears at the French Theatre to-ni:ht. ELOPEMENT.--On Tuesday night Mr. T. Jer rems, the eldest son of the burgess constable of Gainsborough, having a chaise in readiness outside the town, eloped with the daughter of George Jepson, Esq., a young lady of great per sonal charms. They galloped through Brigg, crossed the Humber at the New Holland ferry, having first locked up all the oars and sculls to baffle pursuit, and at nine o'clock in the morning they were married at Skulcoates. A brother and uncle of the lady traced her, but arrived too late to prevent the nuptial knot from being tied.—Lincoln Gazette. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—We understand that a portion of this great undertaking will be open to the public immediately. The line from London to Watford, twenty-two miles, will be in operation in about three weeks ; and from Birmingham to Rugby, thirty miles, in October next. CORONER'S INQUEST.— SUICIDE OF MR. WALKER, SURGEON, OF PICCADILLY.—Saturday evening an inquest was held on the body of the late Mr. George Walker, surgeon, at his residenoe, 209, Piccadilly. Mr. John French, surgeon, Marshall -street, St. James's, on Monday, was called in to see Mr. Walker, when he found him labouring under scarlet fever, and as it was usually attended by delirium he mentioned to his friends to take care of him. On Tuesday drceased was not worse, with the exception of an increased irritation of the throat. On Wednesday the disease appeared to have abated, only the deceased laboured under a depression of spirits, and witness advised his friends to amuse him with a newspaper. On Thursday he appeared better, but witness was informed he had been singing that day, which was a thing unknown with him. On the following morning witness called between twelve and one o'clock, when he found the deceased lying dead on the landing of his bedroom, with a small bottle beside him. The bottle had contained prussic acid, with which he had evidently destroyed himself. The jury expressed them selves perfectly convinced that the delirium arose from the di sease.—Verdict, " That the deceased destroyed himself from the effect of prussic acid, while in a state of delirium, being brought on by scarlet fever, under which he was labouring at the time he took the poison." LORD GREY.—Some favourable accidents have thrown me more than I had a right to expect, in the circum st inces under which I have visited England, into the society of the leading Whigs. At dinner, at Lord Grey's, I have met Lord Holland, Lord Lauderdale, Lord John Russell, Lord Dulicannon, Lord Althorp, Lord Durham, and many men of less note, though all of the same way of thinking. Were it permitted to relate what passes when one is admitted within the doors of a private house, I could amuse you, beyond a ques tion, by repeating the conversation and remarks of men of whom it is matter of interest to learn anything authentic, but neither of us has been educated in a gossiping sckool. Still, without violating propriety, I may give you some notions of my dis tinguished host. Lord Grey, notwithstanding his years, for lie is no longer young, retains much of the lightness and grace of a young man, in his form. He is tall, well-proportioned, and I should think had once been sufficiently athletic, and there is an expression of suavity and kindness in his face, that report had not prepared me to see. He struck me as being as little of an actor in society as any public man I have ever seen. Simple and well• bred, such a man could hardly escape being ; but in Lord Grey's simplicity, there is a nature one does not always meet. He is not exactly as playful as Lord Holland, who seems to be all bonhomie, but he sits and smiles at the sallies of those enjoyed around him, as if he thoroughly them. I thought him the man of the most character in his set, though he betrayed it quietly, naturally, and, as it were, as if he could 1 1 not help it. The tone of his mind and of his deportment was masculine. —"England," by Cooper, author of" The Pilot," 8, j . c. CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL," SNARLEY Yow; OR, THE DOG FIEND.". —The specimens which we have seen of this forthcoming work lead us to expect in it a double treat ; first, as a production including all the well-known cha racteristics of this admirable and (in his way) unequalled writer—his inexhaustible fertility of invention—his perfect and graphic truth of delineation —his deep and various knowledge of human nature—and his unfailing humour and vivacity— and, secondly, as an entirely new and original attempt to com bine with the above a species of strange and mysterious inte rest, which might almost seem incompatible with that reality of effect which is the great and loading met it of Captain Mar ryat's productions. Whether the sequel to the tale of " Snarley Yow" will bear out the extraordinary and novel kind of inte rest excited in the opening chapters, remains to be seen. MADAME LAVALETTE.—In one of the private maisons de sante on the other side of Paris there now resides an illustrious patient, whose beauty madness has not all faded, for her disease of mind is gentle and calm, and took its rise from the excess of affectionate concern, heightened by terror. This is Madame Lavalette, who procured the celebrated escape of her husband from prison. Having engaged by her per suasions and entreaties Sir Robert Wilson, Bruce and Hutchin son, to aid Lavalette's flight to a place of safety, she was per mitted to enter his prison the evening b-More his execution; his hair was already cut off, as a preparation for the guillotine; he fled in the disguise of his wife's dress. His heroic wife was bitterly reproached and threatened by the governor of the prison; and her nervous anxiety lest Lavalette should be re taken, of which she was assured there was no doubt, was so ex cessive, that she never after recovered the miseries of that night. After a time her fine intellect gradually gave way, and she has resided somo years in this mansion, anxiously attended. Lavalette is now dead ; but her silence is never broken by any event; she walks often in the garden, and plucks the flowers, or sits for hours on the garden seats, but never speaks, and has not been heard to utter a word far some years. Her look is sad and lonely, and she seems no longer to feel sympathy with any being--a transition from devoted union, from passionate tenderness, to the chilliness and dreariness of the tomb.—Nero Monthly. Tnk SUN, LONDOX 3 MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1837 LAW INTELLIGENCE. t) - 1?t Vith\tatitt iutr IN ht ALLV6ii ielt+A; In this Oast? thu neiinei was of un nund and incapable of managing his lands and goods, but that he was capable of taking care of himself. An ap plication Was itittle litash the injuncti?n on the ground that this finding attiounted to ri dcelaratitin that thc pat scin *as not a lunatic. His Lordship thought, howeter, that it *as ttieiblk d HilsbaiiiagN and, kqUesOon then arose whether there could be anew conitniggion without ti ffttli petition. The matter stood over for inquiry. His LORDSHIP now said the secretary had searched, and there seemed to be several precedents for a new commis sion without a fresh petition. IN RE I'ERRIOR. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied to the Court to su persede a commission of lunacy issued against Miss Mary Ferrior, of Haverfordwest. Within the last twenty-seven years she had suffered from three attacks of delirium, the last of which commenced in October, 1835, and continued with very little cessation till July, 1836, when she began to recover. The commission of lunacy was is sued in July 1836, but the inquisition took place on the 9th and several following days of September, in the some year, at which time Miss Ferrior had recovered ; but the Jury returned her of unsound mind, enjoying lucid intervals. Miss Ferrior had been examined in person before the Commission, and the evidence of several persons showed that at the time of examination she was perfectly sane ; all that appeared singular was, that, without any reason, she had cried out—" Who au thorised the dairymaid to flog me ? She flogged me with a deal board for half an hour by the clock." This, how ever, was accountable for owing to the ill usage she had met with during her confinement in the madhouse. Upon the Barrister Commissioner summing up the evidence, he had stated that a lunatic, according to Blackstone, meant one who had had understanding, but had become insane— very often subject to lucid intervals, depending sometimes upon the changes of the moon. The evidence of the sur geons went to show that her insanity was owing, in a great measure, to a confinement of the bowels, for that at times a fortnight would pass without their being relieved, which, it was stated, would cause inflammation, and from thence lead to insanity. Affidavits were also produced to show that since the inquisition had been taken, she had remained in a perfectly sane state. Mr. WIGRAM contended, on the opposite side, that as Miss Ferrior always requirsd to be reminded of the neces sity of taking physic, it could not be granted that if left herself she would remain in a sound state of body or mind. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that there was no evi dence to show that she was insane at the time of the com mission of lunacy taking place. His Lordship said that it was better for the parties to satisfy themselves by appoint ing thei r own surgeon , t o save ex p ens es, for otherwise, if he superseded the Commission, another might be applied for, and if he should continue it a traverse would ensue. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUXE 3. LORD EGREMONT V. SAUL. Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this case, which had been argued some time ago. The question was, whe ther the plaintiff was entitled to certain tolls of a market. There was proof of the grant of a market to the ancestor of the plaintiff, and the grant stated the King "concessisse et confirmasse," and the word by which the tolls were sup posed to be mentioned was consuetudines. It was consi dered probable, and had been so argued, that the words first referred to might mean a confirmation, in which case consuetudines would clearly be suflic►ent to convey the tolls, but the Learned Judge who tried the cause (Lord Abinger) had gone further, and he had stated it as his opinion, that in the creation of a new right that word might mean the same thing. It was possible that the Jury who gave a verdict for the plaintiff, might have done so upon this direction of the Learned Judge in point of law. With all possible respect for the Learned Judge, this Court had thought it right to pause upon this rule laid down in his direction, and to examine the authorities on which it was founded, and no instance had been found in which the consuetudo, in an original grant, had received such a mean ing. The verdict, therefore, given for the defendant in this case could not stand, but the rule for setting it aside must be made absolute. THE KING V. THE CORPORATION OF LYME REGIS. Lord DENMAN also delivered judgment in this case. He stated that an application had been made to the Court to issue a mandamus, requiring the Town Council of the borough of Lyme Regis to pay a sum of money as com pensation to a gentleman who had held the office of Town Clerk . of that borough. This gentleman had already ap plied to the Corporation, which had decided against him, and he had then appealed, under the provisions of the Mu nicipal Corporation Act, to the Lords of the Treasury. They, too, had decided that he was not entitled to com pensation, and then the present application was made to this Court. The Court were of opinion that the Town Council and the Lords of the Treasury had been right in the decision at which they had arrived, and that this rule must, therefore, be discharged.—Rule discharged. BAIL COURT. THE KING V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE room. OF ST. PANCRAS. Mr. BODKIN moved for a rule, calling upon the Direc tors of the Poor of St. Pancras to show cause why a man damus should not issue, commanding them to support a male child, held to become chargeable to the parish under some what novel circumstances. On the 11th of May a respect ably-dressed female went to the lodge of the Foundling Hospital, and stated to the porter that she had brought a parcel for one of the persons of the establishment. She was accordingly shown into the lodge, and laid on the table a rush basket, packed• up. The porter, at the request of the female, went to ascertain if the individual to whom the basket was directed was at home, and during his temporary absence she opened the door of the building and decamped. While the porter was endeavouring in his own mind to ac count for the absence of the bearer he observed the basket to move, which was quickly followed by a cry. This in duced him to open the basket, and he there found a fine boy, about six weeks old, meanly, but cleanly, dressed. Mr. Lievesly, the secretary to the hospital, was immediately in formed of the circumstance, and he directed the infant to be conveyed to the workhouse. The overseers, however, refused to take the child in, saying they had no authority so to do, for they were under the immediate controul of the directors of the poor, and the child was accordingly sent back to the Foundling- Hospital. On the meeting of the Governors of the Hospital the infant was sent to the work house, when he was again refused admission and support. An application was subsequently made to the Magistrates of Hatton-garden, when Mr. LAING, under the 54th sec tion of the Poor Law Amendment Act, made an order for :he admission of the foundling into the workhouse. The directors of the poor, however, conceived that the limited authority given to the Magistrates to interfere in cases of extraordinary and urgent necessity, the parish being under the operation of a local Act, did not extend to the case in question, and they therefore refused to be burthened with the maintenance of the child. The Governors of the Foundling had, therefore, no alternative in their view of the case, but resolved immediately to submit the present motion. The case stood over for the decision:of the Learned Judge. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNK 3. THE MAYOR OF BATH V. FINCH. Mr. CROWDER showed cause against a conditional rule for an attachment against the defendant on a former day, by Mr. Sergeant Bompas. The plaintiff sued on behalf of the Corporation of Bath. The defendant was a brewer, occupying premises at some short distance from the Hot Wells in that city. Sometime ago the defendant, requiring a more extensive supply of cold water for his business than the well on his premises supplied, determined on having it sunk. Immediately after this the water in the Hot Wells, belonging to the Corporation, was discovered to have dimi nished to a serious extent, and the cause having been ascer tained the defendant was called upon to restore his well to its former condition. Some difference with respect to the expenses, however, ensued, and the result was that the Mayor, as head of the Corporation, brought an action on the case against the defendant. When this action came on for trial a compromise was entered into between the parties, by which the Corporation undertook to have the water pumped from the well, in order to have the damage re paired, and the defendant submitted to a verdict—damages, one shilling. It became necessary to erect a steam-engine to pump the water out of the well, but the defendant re ' fused to allow it to be placed on his premises without com pensation. He also claimed the sum of 1401, the expense which the boring had cost him ; but to these terms the Cor poration would not consent, and the consequence was that the plaintiff applied for and obtained a conditional rule for an attachment. These were the facts of the case, and the Learned Counsel now contended, on the part of the de fendant, that the rule nisi ought to be discharged. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS said that the only proposition he could agree to was to have the rule made absolute, upon the understanding that the attachment was to stand sus pended for a given time. . _ The COURT made an order to that effect, at the same time strongly recommending the matter to be amicably compromised. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jc.vE 3. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN GROOM. In this case a rule was obtained at the instance of Mr. Vickers, of the firm of Child and Vickers, the distillers, as assignee of the insolvent, calling on his widow, Mary Groom, as executrix, and John Christopher, the executor, to show cause why the sum of four hundred pounds, stand ing in the Long Annuities, should not be transferred to the assignee for the creditors. A rule was also obtained on the Bank of England to retain the sum until further order of the Court.—The rule was accordingly enlarged. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. -•-• the Ilampshire Telegraph.) v - T r ne, 18, Commander t 3 Hitits l srl, thINA Lisbon. • ~.4 JuiaKe, i;iile yt.lo.;ri..ta• tot'. tlyrh64th. thence ••• and afterwards to the East ind;&;. The Jaseur, 18, was paid off into ordinary, at on Wednesday. The Pique ! it is understood, is again to go to sea with Masts, yards, ihd SAS tit giti has hitherto been fitted with ; but she is to be brought two feet sit itithqs by the stern, and take a month's cruise in that trim ; at the expiration of t6hit h, i;rtl Delleve ? the Hon. Captain Rous will give up the command for private edrittnienee. The Rhadamanthus, steam-vessel, Cattle in on Tuesday from Plymouth, and afterwards proceeded to the river: The Messenger, steam-transport, proceeded to Cork on Wednesday with the depot of the 58th Regiment, and will return to Portsmouth with the depot of the 90th from that port. _ The Gossamer tender has returned from cruising off Brighton. The Partridge, 10, arrived on Thursday from Falmouth. The Prince Regent transport, Lieutenant Scrymgour, R.N., arrived on Thursday, with the head-quarters of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, under the command of Major Stevinson, from Cephalonia, which place she left on the 13th of April, put into Gibraltar on the 11th of May, and sailed again on the 15th. The Prince Regent sailed on the same evening for Dover. The Fair Rosamond, schooner, went out of harbour on Monday ; she was paid wages to-day, and will proceed im mediately for the coast of Africa. The Charles Kerr, convict ship, has taken 240 convicts from the hulks in our harbour, under the superintendence of Mr. Edwards, surgeon, R.N. She will sail for New South Wales in a few days. The boat Betsey, of Plymouth, with 112 kegs of spirits and two men, was taken on Saturday night last about twelve o'clock, off Mullion, by a boat belonging to the Dove cutter, which brought them to Falmouth Custom-house the fol lowing day. His Danish Majesty's ships, Galatea frigate, and Diana corvette, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Monday, and sa luted the British flag in the customary manner : they are fine vessels. and have been already visited by several naval gentlemen. A light will be exhibited in September next at the en trance of Dartmouth harbour ; Colonel Scale, M.P. for that borough, has made a present of a lantern, &c., for that purpose, which cost him between 401. and 501. At. Spithead—Princess Charlotte, Hercules, Seringapa tam, Fair Rosamond, and Sparrow ; Chares Kerr convict ship, General Evans cutter. In Harbour.—The Britannia, Victory, Revenge, Ex cellent, Royal George, Pique, Hazard, Sparrowhawk, Par tride, Romney, Cracker, and Gipsy tenders ; Diligence naval transport. Promotions and Appointments.—Mr. G. H. Morris, Mate of the Hastings, to the rank of Lieutenant of the same ship ; Commander R. S Triscott to the Coast Guard, Plymouth ; Lieut. W. T. Strettell to the Coast Guard ; Lieut. John Mackett to the Magnificent, at Jamaica ; Lieut. J. Cheere from the Revenge to the Bellerophon; Mr. Thomas Thompson, Assistant Surgeon to the Bri tannia ; Dr. Wm. Browne, Supernumerary Assistant Sur geon of the Royal Adelaide, to Haslar Hospital ; Mr. George Harper, Mate, to the Excellent ; Mr. G. S. Boys, of the Britannia, to be Mate of the Fair Rosamond ; Mr. W. C. Geary, Midshipman, to the Sparrowhawk ; Mr. Joseph Antey, Clerk, to the Hazard ; Mr. W. W. Ad dington, Volunteer of the First Class, and R. B. Graham, Master's Assistant, to the Princess Charlotte. Royal Marines.—Lieutenant Doratt is appointed to the Rodney, vice Lieutenant L. G. T. March ; Captain Samuel Malloch, on the half-pay is placed on the retire ment, vice Captain Victor, deceased. Admiral Sir P. C. H. Durham struck his flag this eve ning, having six weeks' leave of absence. Himself and Lady are gone to visit their estate and coal mines in the neigh beurhood of Edinburgh. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's Gazette.) DAHLIAS.—PIant out without loss of time ; drive in the stakes they are to be supported by, before you insert the plant in the ground. If the root protrudes through the bottom of the small pot, rather break the pot than disturb the fibres of the plant. TULIPS.—In very hot days, water the paths round the bed, and if be of importance to preserve the bloom, water ing the side and even the top cloths will make some days difference in the length of the bloom. Give all the air you can, but care must be taken to keep off the wind. BULBOUS Rocas of all hardy kinds bloomed in pots, may be advantageously turned out into the open ground to ripen, and remain in the ground until the leaves have died down, when they may be taken up and put away in a dry place. ANNUALS of all kinds raised in beat, may now be plant ed out where they are to flower. CARNATIONS.—Water them as often as they require it ; if the sun shines warmly, the pots soon get hot and dry, and the fibres of the roots which have reached the side, soon suffer. _ _ _ V .. GREENHOUSE PLANTS should be always placed in classes, that the watering and other necessary attendance may be the more easily managed. For instance, all hard wooded botany plants, and those of similar habit, should be toge ther. Camellias should also be together. Where plants of different habits arc indiscriminately mixed for the sake of appearance, it is easy to overlook some important speci men, and perhaps lose it. KITCHEN GARDEN, see last week's directions. CAULIFLOWERS, LETTUCES, and all fast growing veget ables, should be occasionally refreshed with water, and when this is done, let it be done effectually, that is, let the ground be saturated with moisture. It is from the ineffi cient manner in which watering is generally performed, that makes the difference between that and a shower of rain when one spot only is watered. The following distinguished personages were amongst the assembly who attended the private view of Mr. H. Groom's splendid collection of tulips, at Walworth, this week :—The Duchess of Sutherland, Archbishop of Can terbury and party, Bishop of Ely and party, Lady De Dun stanville and party, Lord Bexley and party, Lord Skelmers dale, Lord Willoughby De Broke, General Lord Lyne doch, Lord Davy, Marquis of Ailesbury, Countess of Buckinghamshire, Hon. Mrs. Perceval, H. Goring, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. NATIVITY OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS —The auricula was brought originally from Cairo, the tulip from Cappa docia, the pink and carnation from Italy, the lily from Syria, the tube rose from Java and Ceylon, the jessamine from the East Indies. The cauliflower was brought from Cyprus, asparagus from Asia, shalots from Siberia, horse-radish from China, lentils from France, kidney beans from the East In dies, potatoes from Brazil. MR.COOPER'S NEW WORK, " ENGLAND; WITH SKETCHES OF SOCIETY IN THE METROPOLIS."—These volumes are unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not to say philsophical, of any which have been published by an Ame rican on England. Mr. Cooper is much less flippant than the " YOung American," and far deeper and more comprehen sive. His experience and acquirements are much greater than %Vilna's, and his judgment less likely to be imposed upon by the mere externals of things. His time and opportunities were greater than both these writers, whether we regard the length of his sojourn, or the society in which he mixed, and the men of mark—as Rogers, Scott, Mackintosh, Lord Hol land, Earl Grey, and others—with whom he associated. • Mr. D'lsraeli's " Venetia" seems likely to create a greater sensation in the public mind than has been effected by, any literary production for a long time past. Frazcr's Ma gazine devotes sixteen pages to its review, and certainly ex hibits ample proofs of the justice of the praise accorded. "It is," says Frazer, " a work which must extend and strengthen the author's already wide and well-established fame, and we are rejoiced to find it pervaded by that healthy and manly spi rit—in short, that truly English spirit—for which our recent escape from the fribble school has afforded so keen a relish in the public mind." MR. LOVER ' S " RORY O'M - ORE. ” —The style of the narrative of this new romance is as varied as a lover of transition can wish : we have pathos, joke, grave incident, droll adventure, anecdotes, comical and cross-examinations— Irishisms, in short, of all kinds—succeeding each other as fast as we can turn the pages. Of the characters, we can only say sufficient for the story is the Rory thereof : the O' Mores are genuine —their habits of body and mind are thoroughly Irish ; there is no mistaking the portraiture of Phelim, the school master, for any sowl' out of Ireland—the gallantry and patriotism of De Lacy stamp his character with equal truth; and sweet Mary is perfect, even to her rich though delicate brogue, which we fancy we can hear as she sings The Land of the West." Rory O'More ' is, indeed, a richly characte ristic story."_ Court Journal. Nothing adds more to the gloom of a desponding mied than the vicissitudes of weather, with a predominance of the bad, as is the case in our island : whilst, on the other hand, the serene mind and serene sky, the warm heart and glowing su n , are for the most part coincident. Dry, cold air, in conjunction with brisk exercise, is not without benefit to the hypochondriac. It is, however, frequently difficult to per suade a confirmed neuropathic to take exercise in cold air ; he will bask in the sunshine, but dreads the eager air of a clear frosty day. The physician, once established in his confidence, he will cease to do this; and certainly the latter is well worth the trouble of obtaining when it gives the power of persuading to exercise on horseback in cold weather—without exception, one of the most powerful hygienic means that can be em ployed. Nor can the pace he too rapid, nor the horse too rough. M ounte d on suc h an one , th e r id er soon b eg i ns to find that he really can bear a considerable quantity of knock ing about, that his arms are not of glass, nor his head of butter : his horse tramples these and all other such vagaries under foot. _Gully, on Nervousness. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We were rather amused, we confess, in looking over the pages of one of our Sunday Contemporaries, to ' kill with which it usually contrives to direct see - z . t. Mr. Borthwick brings for tteeame to one puz ward a liili ft? the ,purp . ose or more money into the pockets of the Estblislied Clergy: calls it an Education Bill. The House adjourns, as it was natural it should do, in order to get rid of tiiis frivolous and foolish proposition. The Ministry, however, he it remarked, teite againgt the adjournment, which is carried by Mr. Borthwick's own friends. This is one case. Now for another c. Sir W. Moleswortl4 at the commencement of the Session, gave notice of a motion for reforming the House of Lords. The motion was judged by most sensible people, both in its wording and its purport, to be (to say the least) inconvenient and ill-timed ; and had it come on, the Government would necessarily have opposed it. Sir W. Moles worth abandons his motion ; seeming at last to think for himself, as most of his best friends thought for him some months ago. What does this prove? Mark the sequitur of these two extraordinary facts. Mr. Borthwick's bringing forward his measure, which was done on an open night, when no Govern ment could have opposed his doing so, and the adjourn ment, against which the Government voted, taking place. This is urged as one of the proofs that Minis ters are not making every effort to carry on the public business of the House. " Here is Mr. Borthwick bringing forward his Bill of education," says our Con temporary : " why dont Government bring forward their Imprisonment for Debt Bill ?" Mr. Borthwick's Bill is brought forward because Mr. Borthwick has a right to bring forward his Bill in opposition to the Go vernment ; and the House adjourns because it chooses to do so, in spite of the Government. The House may be to blame, and Mr. Borthwick may be to blame, but who else is to blame, unless it be our Contempo rary, for his very singular logic, we certainly are at a loss to discover. But Sir William Molesworth abandons his reform of the Lords. He abandons a motion against which the Government would have contended, and which most of the more moderate Reformers thought should at all events be postponed. What a blow to the Government I argues the Paper we allude to—what a clear proof that the more mode rate Reformers were wrong ! Sir William Molesworth actually withdraws a motion that would have been op posed by the one, and which was condemned by the other. How clear it is that Reformers ought to go faster, when the gentleman who was for starting and continuing at the top of his speed deems it necessary or prudent to sober in his course 1 We refer to these remarks not with any to our Contemporary, not with any wish to enter into altercation with him—all such altercations we think between Liberal men and Liberal Journals should, as much as possible, be avoided ; but in vindication of the course we have generally adopted, as well as in vindication of a Ministry which seems to us to have deserved well at most times, and more especially at this time, when assuredly it ought not to be lightly attacked or unjustly accused by Reformers, confronted as it stands—because it has acted boldly, because it has acted spiritedly, as well as judiciously on behalf of the Dissenters—by all the malevolence of party zeal, the workings of tempo ral interest, and the prejudices of mistaken bigotry. Another Contemporary's conduct is far more in telligible, and affords a capital lesson, we think, to the party, " the Whigs," whom it is addressed to. "We trust," says the John Bull, alluding to Lord John Russell's motion on Church leases, which stands for Thursday, " we trust that no Whigs will vote for an inquiry into the practicability of a measure, for which measure they have already voted." Why not ? If men have voted in favour of the prac ticability of any measure, and that measure has been opposed because impracticable, the very first step they should naturally be most anxious to take, is one show ing that they were right in considering the measure in question practicable, and that their adversaries were wrong in treating it as impracticable. It would be a sorry proof of the strength of their own case, if they were not anxious for this. But mark the usual march of Tory tactics ! A measure is brought forward. " Pass such a measure I" say the Tories, " why you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for talking of such a thing ; the measure is impracticable." " Well," you say, " we will inquire into the practicability of the measure, if you please." " What," is the rejoinder, " will you be such fools I will you so stultify your selves, as to inquire into the practicability of a mea sure which you have declared practicable ?" " So ductile dullness new meanders takes." The measure is rejected because inquiry is wanted, and inquiry is rejected because the measure is claimed. The same instructive journal has_ a long article, and promises another long article, upon Westminster ! What Westminster still ? It was said of the Scotch, .hat never having gained but one battle over the Eng h. " Bannockburn" was neve- It of their mouths, Asn, _ ou_ kleA. The valour of the Scotch was pre-eminent—they had vanquished at Bannockburn ; " not a word about any other battles," if you please, would the Laird say to his minstrel. So with Westminster and poor Sir Francis. There is a gentleman of Tory politics famous for his skill in singing " The dog's-meat man." We cannot help suspecting this gentleman, to whom the image must be familiar, without making such frequent use of the name of " Burdett." What nobler animal in his youth than the horse ?—high-spirited, eager, his nostrils extended, panting for the course. But he gets old, feeble, his spirit and his strength fail him, and at last he dies, or is killed, and cut up, and hawked about as doer's meat—made to minister to the appetite of a pack of worthless curs, who go yelping after the cart, and, at each vociferous mention of their food by the dog's-meat man, burst into a new halloo, which be troys equally their greedy nature and their starving condition. Let us now, for ourselves, look at the state of business before the House, and also at the prospects of the Tories. It has become a common cry to say, " there is no business done, and there is no business doing, the House is idle," and the like. Now what is the proper course to remedy this ? A kind of idea has gone abroad that Parliament every week should have the conclusion of some important measure to an nounce—that the brains of Members of Parliament are so peculiarly organised that they should be able to atte:id to half a dozen important queftions in all their bearings, and that these measures should fly with such a rapidity through both Houses as should even leave importunity behind. It is altogether forgotten that the very slowness of the proceedings of Parliament is a cunning and wary device framed not against the people, but for the people, and with a view to let pub lic opinion watch and follow. carefully and comment fully upon all laws and measures in their several stages, so that the public may either express their entire dissatisfaction with them, or wish for their amendment. It is forgotten, too, that though there may be sufficient time to crowd various great measures before the country and into Parliament at the very same moment, that while each is jostling for public attention, none come fairly before it ; if these things were remembered it would be seen that if there be a fault at present it is not that of having too few, but very frequently that of at tempting to have too many, questions stirring at once. There are at present carried, or partly carried, the Irish Municipal Bill, the Marriage Registration Bill, the Irish Poor-law Bill ; and in addition to these measures there are two others for the settlement of Church-rates and Irish Tithes, of the greatest importance to the content and peace of England and Ireland. The Abo lition of Debt Bill is also to be proceeded with this session ; nor must we forget that Bill which is mate rially to mitigate the ancient severity of our criminal code. What man in his senses will say that in these questions, not idly and prospectively agitated, but agi tated by Government with the view of converting them immediately into laws, there is not quite sufficient to oc cupy, if there is not indeed sufficient to distract, the public mind. The only excuse fur there being so many is, in our view, one of the grounds of atccusation against there being so few—viz., that some have been before through one House of Parliament, and are already pretty well known and considered. " Why," say some people, " some of the measures now again brought forward arc merely old measures—last Session's mea sures'." What, then, are no t l ast S ess i on ' s measures to be again brought forward ? Is not this the only way of carrying any measure ? Must not there be in every country like ours, where there is, thank God, p ts I : ----. i ee rAol ) constant discussion, variety of jailopinicae?-30•0# r*i , ) hostile opinions to be vanquished buketekiei'M- \ Wat iiit:47 : cussion, by patience, by perseverance \_ 'Sitin - p -I g''''''*/ argue as if they thought the whole adval l wrildt -fi n- - ing forward any scheme was to occasien a crirtari;i4jigkz about it, partly arising, perhaps, from the very novelty of the scheme itself, and that then, forsooth; it might be laid on the shelf, and give place to sonic new scheme, which was in its turn to be equally prolific of debate and barren of utiiiiy. But then old measures should pass through less tedious i I—forms are very ricketty ~ :rrns thinge—to be preserved at all they must be preserved steadily ; and it is here as elsewLere, if you wish to pre serve what is sufficient, you must preserve, perhaps, accounting for the natural and constant weal and tear of importunity and impatience, a little more than is sufficient. If we are wise in passing laws w hich are to affect the people slowly and cautiously, so that the people may have on all occasions full cognizance of those laws, there will be some occasious, doubtless, where we might profitably pass them quicker. But it is this which we wish especially to impress upon our readers—that the House of Commons is not to be con sidered as a patent and speedy grinding-law-machine, which is to reduce all things thrown into it with the best possible speed into legislation ; nor is the time in which the House of Commons can do these things alone to be considered. The country is to be consi dered also. Its attention ought to be kept concen trated as much as possible on that number of measures on which it is possible to concentrate attention, and not distracted and diffused by a multiplicity of measures which might possibly be carried, but which could not be reflected upon. In these observations we pass no blame on those gentlemen who make at certain times what may be called speculative motions. It is right that the country should be prepared for legisla tion as well as that the House should legislate, that preparation is afforded by such motions. On the contrary, what we contend for is, that there should only be a small and convenient number of practical measures proposed in each session ; that the fault is rather on the side of there being too many than too few of such measures ; and it is even better that a cer tain portion of time should be what is called " lost," or merely speculatively and preparatively occupied, than that it should be attempted, because there is a spare evening, to thrust into it some new and crude law, and then to call this fussing, fidgeting, itch after statute-making, doing business. Now for the pros pects of the Tories. They seem to have two species of advocates—those who are opposed to all change and im provement, and those who advocate the widest and most sudden changes as the only improvement. The first are well known, and as thoroughly hated. To the last we address ourselves. They are very few : they ap pear in one or two of what have been called the " Tory Radical" papers, but they appear nowhere in public life ; or, if they do appear, Mr. Roebuck, should he, as it is said, pursue a course which he has not yet pursued, and which we do not think he will pursue, is the only person of any note amongst them. We say that we do not think that Mr. Roe buck will take this line, because it is quite clear to us that is not for his interest, nor the interest of any sensible man, well disposed to advance the doctrines of liberty and maintain the peace of the country, to take it. It is evident that the present Government, representing almost every section of Reformers,l"goes as far," to use the cant phrase, as the great body of Reformers, constituting a majority in the House of Commons and the country, will allow it to go. No other Liberal Ministry going much further —certainly none going to the lengths of that section called Ultra- Radicals—could be constituted. The Liberals have, then, as a body the only, or almost the only (there might advantageously, perhaps, be some personal ad missions), Administration that can be formed. They go as far as their majority in the House and the country goes. If that is not far enough, what they do is throwing no impediment in the way of what is afterwards to be done. If reason and reflection arc on the side of further changes than they are disposed to advocate, reason and reflection will make its way in the country, and those changes will arrive not the less easily, will not be the less cheerfully conceded, nor the less warmly supported when they arrive gradually, by degrees, as the next necessary steps to the steps just taken, without shock, without tumult, and without convulsion. The only , persons, then, having liberal ends, and willing to pur sue them through Tory means, are those who, using the common phrase, , say, " Things must be worse before they are better ; ' and wish to make that excite ment which misrule creates the minister to good Go vernment. This is very much like the Minister who excites the people to an untimely rebellion for the pur pose of suppressing all freedom. The morality is the same in both instances. You ,sanction what you know is bad for what you hope may produce good. But the flames which the tyrant excites have sometimes destroyed his own power; and the ty ranny which the demagogue would favour, by sanctioning anarchy, has sometimes produced ser vitude. At all events we, and, as we believe, the people of England, are opposed to this crooked policy and system of desperate measures. That people —attached to the principles of the great change in our Constitution which took place in 1830—are desi rous to see those principles carried out, resolutely but temperately, neither wishing to see them impelled for ward by the violence of one party, nor driven back ward by the violence of another. A Tory Govern ment to them, ‘s hether it is to be the stable means of maintaining servitude and corruption, or whether it is to be the temporary means of producing anarchy and confusion, is equally obnoxious, and more especially obnoxious at a time when speculation, carried too far at home, but which seems to have been carried to the very last limits of extravagance and absurdity on the other side of the Atlantic, has produced a state of things, not awful, not tremendous, not such as should excite unbounded alarm, or perpetuate inveterate mis trust, but such as must necessarily excite attention, and will, for the sake of renewing and main taming credit, require all the consideration and care of a Government in which the people can place confi dence, and under which in times of unparalieled diffi culty they have for seven years enjoyed prosperity and peace.—illorning Chronicle. There is not a true Englishman who has not felt "or many months that which we demonstrated in the rist number of this journal—that his noble country is without a Government," and that the name of a Government, without the benefit of one, is an impu dent usurpation, and an ignominious fraud. What have these mean pretenders, now wearing the livery of office and pocketing its wages, done on which to found any title to the rank or quality of Ministers in the poli tical signification of that word ? They set out by declaring that certain measures, termed in their vocabu lary " reforming" measures, • were indispensable to the well-being of the kingdom. They announced that the purpose with which they undertook the Govern meet was to carry such measures, which were likewise called for by the entire nation, or the bulk of it. We have already seen that towards ths accomplishment of one of those measures—viz. that for stripping the Irish branch of the Protestant Church of its property, and transferring the said property to the hands of a Papist enemy—the Melbourne Cabinet have not during two years advanced a single step, although the scheme in question was notoriously made by them the grand test of their principles of civil and ecclesiastical government for Ireland, and the rallying point for all their supporters. It is the same in effect with regard to the Bill for Irish anti-Protestant cor porations. That was from the first to be a most im portant and peremptory feature of Whig O'Connell policy. Since the defeat of the Irish Church Robbery Bill, owing to the exposure of its endless mischiefs, and to the abandonment of it by most of those who had been its original supporters—since that signal and mortifying defeat, the municipal project has stepped into the shoes of the Tithe Bill, and has been dubbed by the Cabinet spokesman "the vital" ineasun% Has the second sample of vitality, then, made any better progress than that which it superseded ? Not a bit : there it lies, at the threshold of the House of Lords, a torpid embryo of Popish trickery and falsehood, under sentence of suspended animation, if not of death, according to the more or less envenomed nature of other offspring from the same foul bed, with which it waits to . be associated. The Irish Poor-law Bill, which was looked forward to by the House of Lords as the most natural means of sup