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TH E WEE K. stalls without buying some trifle. Among the holders of stalls was to
be seen every variety of feminine beauty. The pure Saxon and Eastern
0 pes were both there. The IN'eather has been eminently ftvoruble
The House of I ords has agreed to the creation of a certain lor this and similar charitable efforts during the week. The fancy
number of Life Peers to assist in the appellate jurisdiction. Great fair at the Crystal Palace to-day will, we hope, be equally fortu-
unanimity prevailed among them upon this occasion, and, had the rate in all its incidents.
original motion for the creation of Life Peerages taken this shape,
there can be little doubt it would have met with very trifling opposi-
tion. It is amusing to see how the Government organs aro endeavour- The solicitor of the wretched prisoner PALMER is exerting himself
ing to twist this arrangement into a virtual surrender of the point to procure a reprieve for his client, on the ground of the incomolete-
maintained by Lord LYNDHURST in February last. They wholly ignore ness of the chemical evidence and the necessity for a fresh analysis.
tthe difference between a peer ex officio and an ordinary peer. It was It is to be regretted that our press has taken up the question
the introduction of Life Peerages, on exactly the same footing as here- with great vehemence on the one side and the other, there being a
ditary peerages, which was so strongly objected to by the majority who a hanging and a reprieving party. The case is one,
voted against Government in the Wensleydale case. The moment as it appears to us, for the Home-office alone to decide
Life Peerages are limited to a particular class of officials the question on the evidence--
submitted to it. On all accounts it is to be
is at an end. It is a slight increase of the regular Government regretted that in so important a case the analysis was not, in the first
patronage, but that is all. It is easy to see at a glance that under instance, conducted by a commission of eminent men, as then the
these conditions Life Peerages can never be turned to those ends question would almost certainly have been decided whether strychuia
which the Opposition dreaded in the first instance ; and further, that had been administered, and all possibility of doubt would have been
they never can have that effect upon the character of the aristocracy removed.
which we repeatedly showed they would exercise if conferred ad
libitum.
A man or a woman in this country is no sooner convicted of
having committed an atrocious crime, be it murder, forgery, fraud, or
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT'S speech, on Thursday night, upon the
education of officers in the army, is valuable as a Parliamentary recog• anything worse, but he or she, as the case may be, instantly becomes
"an object of interest." The public mind, satiated with conviction
iaition of an important truth. The Right Hon. Member for Wilts insisted
and its power of death or banishment, would save the prisoner, and
on the necessity of increasing the efficiency of our army by improving
S, the education of the o fficers. We have ever since the conclusion of
leave him to reflection and a
.BAT S, pleasant life for the rest of his
peace pointed out in this Journal the impossibility of keeping a large days We are alluding to Mr. E formerly of 217, Strand. It ap-
pears that a strong feeling has been got up in his favour, and it is said
standing army on foot, and the consequent necessity of raising the
efficiency of such troops as we do retain to the highest possible pitch. that representations from certain quarters have had such influence
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT observes that we need not any longer break up with the Home-office RS to obtain, if not a positive promise, at least
our army into driblets for the sake of keeping it out of sight, and that something very near it, that Mr. BATES shall in a short time be restored
to liberty. Now, upon reading the evidence of that case, what Mr.
rarity of the army at a time when it was employed as a police, and
therefore we shall now be able to exercise it in masses. The unpopu-
BATES did less than his partners in arranging those frauds and profit-
which, happily, has now vanished, would however soon return ing by them, does nut appear. But it did appear so plainly that he
were its numbers to be very much increased. Experience is was thoroughly conversant with every act of rascality that the jury
pronouncing more and more every day against large standing
lilies. What did her immense army effect for Russia? or did it en-
to subdue the Hungarian revolt? What we want is a convicted him without much hesitation. The argument that Mr. BATES,
though a partner, was only a clerk, will not hold good, for Mr. BATES
able Austria
&
was fully aware of every transaction carried on by the house, of every-
small force of regular troops in the highest possible state of efficiency, thing done by either of his partners ; and, if report speaks truly, be
and the Militia retained as a reserve in case of war. Mt admitted on the morning of the bankruptcy that " they were all
" alike to blame, and would well deserve the punishment they got.'
discipline of the latter body must be kept up, and they must continue
The petition which the jury sent round is nothing to the effect that
to be soldiers without being soldiers alone. It is time that the sub-
ject was taken up by Parliament; and we hope that in any scheme Mr. BATES is less guilty than his partners. His innocence was there
that may be propounded for the education of officers all sorts of quali-
put forward hypothetically. " If' the evidence adduced were not true
fications will be allowed their due weight, and that the pedantry of a the jury would appeal, &c.; but there was nothing to shake that
evidence, and, if STRAHAN, PAUL, and BATES were tricd over again, the
particular school of politicians will never be allowed to domineer over
those wh
fitness. o attach great importance to physical and social as well as in-
three men would again be convicted. Neither one is less guilty than
tellec
the other, and it will not only be a mistake, but a discreditable exer-
cisetul of clemency on the part of the Crown if Mr. BATES be pardoned
and his two confederates left to linger in gaol.
Her Majesty's Exhibition Commissioners have determined,
according to their last report, upon doing things on a grand scale.
The surplus funds remaining in their hands after the removal of the A discussion of some little consequence to all members of the
old Crystal Palace amounted to 186,4361 18s 6d. In addition to this
Church of England took place on Thursday night in the House of
they have received Parliamentary grants during the last four years to Lords. A petition was pi esented from the Mayor and inhabitants of
the amount of 157.0001., which, with the sum of 5,0411. 6s. 11d. from Blandford by Lord SHAFTESBURY against a resolution of the Bishop
new and miscellaneous receipts, make up a grand total of
349,338/ ss. sd. What does the reader suppose has been, of SALISBURY, who bad declined to consecrate the chapel attached to a
and is going to be, done with all this money ? Why, new burial-ground unless a communion-table were erected in it. The
Bishop contended that the celebration of the Holy Communion was
the whole fund has been sunk in the purchase of various estates of the essence of the consecration service—a view in which he was
in Kensington and Brompton to the extent of eighty-sex acres, and the supported by the Bishop of OXFORD, as well as Lords REDES-
buying up of " existing leases and reversionary interests." In what DALE and DUNGANNON It is aRD,
great pity that men like
golden age of Parliamentary liberality do the Commissioners expect Lord SHAFTESBURY will lend themselves to paltry agitations of
to get the money to render this extent of ground available—that is, to this nature. The Church of England has ordained the observance
cover it with galleries and museums? The present generation has of a certain formula which cannot in itself be obnoxious to anyone—
bought the ground, the next will invent a plan for the build- why should the parishioners of BlandfOrd think themselves wiser
ing, a third will find the materials, and a fourth perhaps than the rest of the world, and set up their backs at the authority of
erect the edifice, if the world lasts so long. We must own, how- the Bishop whom the Church they profess to honour has set over
ever, that our sympathies are not quite so capacious. We think that with them ? This is the mum wantonness of turbulence They are merely
the sum of money they possessed the Commissioners would have dto confor to an ecclesitical sae hicils no d.
done better to attempt some one great practical object We might
shiprequire in the way, either of doctrineas or praucticge— wandh yeten forsoothta hal
they
have had a first-rate picture-gallery, for instance, where all the
must take it into their wise heads to complain of the Bishop's preroga-
national pictures, RS well as all the annual exhibitions, might have tive! The thing would be ridiculous on any other subject but that of
been brought together under one root. Had these gentlemen pos- religion.
sessed as many millions as they had thousands, the case would have
been different. But we think that in thus ignoring the maxim of -
cutting their coat according to their cloth, they have been guilty of an
imprudence which no magnificent prospects can atone for. THOUGHTS ON THE AMERICAN QUARREL.
Art—" Here's to the Maiden."
One of the most agreeable features of our social state is the Here's to the measures of aid Aberdeen,
manner in which we entice people to be charitable. Whether it be a Here's to the legion they gave us,
dinner, a ball, an amateur pantomime, or a fancy fair, the universal Spite of Canadians who'd ready have been
success attending our efforts on these occasions testifies to the skill From the dishonour to save us.
with which such things are arranged in this country. One of the beat
attempts of the sort has occurred during this week for the benefit of Here's to the Ministry timidly fierce,
the Consumption Hospital. The grounds of the Toxopholite Society Here's to each blundering talker,
were chosen for the bazaar, and for three days, Tuesday, Wednes- Always affording a handle to Pierce,
day, and Thursday, the fair was crowded by all the rank, wealth, and Calmly oblivious of Walker.
fashion
- of the metropolis. The sale of goods was of course prodigious,
and the prices realised much on the same scale An immense tent was Here's to the chief who cried " muskets for sale,"
set up in the centre of the grounds, and the stalls collected together in When Costa Rica was rising,
is one spot The effect, besides being extremely novel and brilliant, Thinking '(would be, if its efforts should fail,
Insured purchasers; for no one could wander round such a cluster of Sad—but by no means surprising. j
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