The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

Beneath our feet or up in the air.
In all ways and fashions, foul or fair—
Conjointly—(and this, as wo said, is our quarrel)
You are stamped and known as the Popes Double-barrel.

If your owner supposes he prowls unseen,
We can plainly discern where his track has been ;
We know that he nibbed your Premier's pen,
When he coaxed your MONSHLL back again.
'Twas he who accorded the culprit's boon
To Father BURKE and Father CIATNE-
7WM he who pestered Lord ST. GERMANS
To dispense with Dr. WHATELEY'S sermons—
'Tis he who our gracious Queen displaces,
Who dictates laws—distributes Owes,
And even plumes his growing pinion
To tithe and toll in her dominion.
We grant that your services are his due,
Who formed the Brigade which created you.
But for their help, Lord DERRY still
Had been doing his gracious Sovereign's will—
But for their help, your factious band
Were long since scattered throughout the laud.
If you, in return for the help so lent,
Have become their master's instrument—
If all your barrels deliver true
Only as he—le Pape le vent—
For his behalf (the presumptuous Priest)
Our desire is this—to say the least,
A desire which cordially we have nurst—
May he sta►ul near enough when the barrels horst !

(The " Letter of a Silent Member," in type, ia unavoidably poatpoued till met weekl

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NCOTLAND AND MACAULAY.
NORTH %num, during this session, weft evidently fermenting ffir that
extraordinary rebellion which, beginning by restoring the Border, and
rerunning the heraldry of Scotland, terminattil in snatching
the biographic Campbell Item the benches of an alien J u Lt`
aristocracy, and placing him on the Scottish throne with the title of
John the Plain. The signs of the times were rife with warning, but
there lacked an eye to read them. The whole head was sick and the
whole heart was faint. At home, Scotland was groaning under
Southern injurietc, abroad, she was smarting under Saxon insult.
Her palaces were in nuns. A stick wonld have gone through the door
of Holyrood, and indeed it did nearly give way under the tread of a
Lord Advocate. The tithes of her Mint and the pew.renta of her
Cumming were spent in the English metomolie, and, though the in•
toxication prevalent in the Scottish capitals was shown far to exceed that
in London, all southern assistance was refused to the northern police.
Thu lion of Scotland ramped in gold upon the imperial banner, but
him tail was turned the wrong way, and was four inches too short for
dignity. In the British Commons, the veteran patriot, John Mac.
gregor, who not unwarrantably claimed the original invention of the
policy of Tamworth, was counted out several times during the mission,
while the metropolitan press habitually refused to report more than
seven out of the ten perorations appended to each of his speeches by
the indefinite Hume. Charles Wood (gody exulted that Fox Manic
had been removed front the Commons, and imagined that his
satiafie
Lion was justified by the fact that it was not isolated. But those who
indicted vainly believed that their ea Mennen would be shared by
those who endured. Nor was this marvellous, while the ablest sons of
Scotland were faint in their responses t, ► her cries. The mighty Ma.
Natality nightly strode down, like the Philistine giant, to the front of
battle, but it was not to fight for his cot sultry, nor even to raise one of
those Achillean shouts which in other days had turned the day for
Whiggery. Scotland asked a home for leer Master of the Mint, while
Afaeattlay was demanding a seat for the English Master of the Bolls.
Scotland required her own Exchequer, tihile her elludian was fide•
logising the collector of lloggletWollan Scotland was praying justice
for an established Kirk, while her Admirat)lel'richton wan legislating for
a Free Pagoda. Nor, when forced int,) her service, was Babington
other than one who docth the work negF.gently. Edinburgh clamoured
to be relieved front a tax which suppert(d eighteen ministers whom her
rabble declared they were reluctant to 1 my. Macaulay proclaimed the
tax a great grievance, which had led bloisisheil, and he struck Mr
three of the ministers, leaving fifteen, shuffled the tax, and compared
himself to O'Connell. The insurer ction broke out. The Scotch
applied to Vice• Chancellor Stuart, a a the lineal descendant of their
kings, to come and reign over the• m, a motion which he instantly
refused with coats. They then sou gid Lord Censplwll, who, being a
good arithmetician, told them that It is two coronets were worth infinitely
more than their one crown, but Mu d if they would consent to take the
house in the Kensington-road, air d the unsold copies of the " Lives
of the Chancellors," at a Wu,/ ion, he hod just au objecting'. So
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