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No. 216.—V0L.V.

LONDON,. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1857.

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THE Whitanntide holidays are over

and the

that has by no means been subjected to as
much discussion as it required. 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

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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.

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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.

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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
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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 office 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 tire 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 ,
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tibetlirrarti"? Opinloturmaydiffer_about lot must always have mato% iniistioop, Hui Leeittlment of pbilanthrop.y,..the - lis and
whittifoo 4113. ' solutientias inteneled to' waste been unjust and unphilosopltioaL By the! their favourite—political 'doctors made the
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tongues of their declaimers, and by the pen " convicts " a peculiar subject of their care.
arms: they cannot differ 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 masses of the pcoplo boliovo in the posi- almost finical propriety. Some of these build-
fairly pissed 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
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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
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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
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ti We copy these charge •••• :O f,.,
A. . - .- • Ake
return to the Order 0fitit74.4610, el' ;