The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-06 00:00:00

these bin., he certainly should have proceeded with them
n Friday, as was his wish and intention. With regard to
the boa. gentleman'. (Idr. Disraeli's) motiononoreover, as be
had already stated. be did not think that the government
wou'd be losers if the order for its resumption were dis-
eb•-ged. (Rear, hear.) For the sake of the convenience of '
the house, however, and the numerous body of members
interested in that motion, he had consented to give up Fri-
day for its further di/en...ion. With regard to them, bills,
he must say that he believed they were calculated to be vet y
beneficial to Scotland, and he must repeat that he had post-
poned them, not from any clerics of the government, or any
wish of his own, but lot the convenience of the house, and
for the sake of the despetch of public business. (Rear.)

retail enina am emennt pram= : and prodded elm that
weft Web matilnia fro senatmei to limiter goriest we
said essoneedgeostoena Mobs esty reeve detriessof say 'mailer
agile eel Wet rated Wan per annum, if it @hall seem expedient
edelleollllo ems as le de.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE, however, having opposed the
Motion on the grosind that it would needlessly involve a
protracted dimwit*, at • period when it was most
desirable to transmit this measure to the other branch of the
ler haat** ; and, having intimated that it would be open to
the hon. gentleman to introduce the subject at some more
convenient occasion,
Sir J. WaLsit withdrew the motion.
Mr. P. SCROPE moved the foUon log clause:—
And whereas the relief that eon be afforded to certain dames of the
eldinte peer, seer the sicced eestismot the said recited act, is con.
end WM* ealy,milthst many seal pmsoes have experienced great
nfd e. end the dishmetienat WPM end even of life, om want of
Memoix *waft Maker, Whim se fuel wherewith to conk
l slimed* Ow, ask ememd, that it shall* lawful for
=ems *Jay mice is vadat the order of the poor law cow.
is seed relief to en* pencas is to force. Waif rd such
relief to thew Mean toed. et shall appear to them Decessery r
Me weervation et edict*. acid With.
the boa. gestleasaa road an extract from the rep irt of
Capt. Kennedy, to show that the out door relief afforded to
the shape of hod was, in vast numbers of cases, neutralized
by the non-provision of relief in the shape of lodging, fuel,
and aothing.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said there could be no doubt that
the provisions of • poor-law necessarily entailed partial dis-
tress, but the question was whether, by the removal of such
checks as that now sought to he removed, the dicress I
not Mamie maven*. The adoption of the proposed clause
would lead to the most enormous and overwhelming abuses.
The clause was eventually withdrawn.
Sir D. NORREYS proposed the following clause :
Whereas the reduction of the period of residence which shall create
chargeability from thirty months to twelve month. will tend to in-
crease unjustly the rates of the cities and Mined Ireland, inasmuch
as tie demolition c 4 the houses of the poorer einem in the rural
districts, the destitute poor ate compelled to seek shelter and employ.
ment In them, be it emoted. that no destitute poor person claiming
relief shall be chargeable to the electoral division in which any city or
market town may he situated, who shall bays come to reside therein
within two years next previous to his application kw relief, node-s he
shall, previous to such two years, have occupied some certain place of
residence therein for twelve m nths continuouely but th ain every
such cam the applicant for relief shall be channable to that electoral
division to which he would have been chsrgeable previous to his c.dn-
ing to reside In the town electoral division.
Mr. H. HERBERT opposed the clause.
The committee divided. The numbers were
F. r the clause 7
Against it

THE COASTING TRADE.
In answer to a question from Captain 'Luta'', relative to
the recant alleged falling off of the coasting trade,
•

➢lr. LABOUCHERE replied that there bed been a steady
incream in the coasting trade fur several years pest, and that
any falling off within the last five months might be hilly
amounted for by the peculiar circumstance of toe Con.

tbiect. . .
TAB HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.

Mr. GLADSTONE ram to move—
That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that
bar Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that such means as to
bee Majesty shall seem moat fitting and effectual, be taken to ascer-
tain the legality of the powers in respect to territory, trade, taxation,
and meat, which are or recently have been claimed or erer-
coed the Modem's Bay Company on the continent of North
America, nn ter the charter of his Majesty King Charles the &cowl,
issued in the year 16;0, or in virtue em any other right or title, except
thous coneeyed by or under the Act 41 tieo. ill., e. 130 (extending
the criminal jurb-dietion of Canadian Courts), and t and 2 Geo. IV.,
c. 66, un act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing
ecritahul and tied jurisdiction within certain parts of North Ame-

rim:
The right hon. gentleman said he was glad to have to
notify to the house that, in consequence of the consent of
those who might be supposed most likely to entertaia an
opinion hostile to his motion, he should not have to
tunable the house with any lengthened observations.
(Hear.) The motion of that evening comprehended,
strictly and properly speaking, the territory which the
Hudson's Bay Company held, or were commonly
reputed, to bold, under the charter of 1670. In con-
cilia im, he must repeat that it was with very sincere sa-
tisfaction he was enabled to pars over any controvenial dis-
emseton upon the present occasion on account of the very
moue respect be bore to many gentlemen whom he knew
to be engaged in conducting the affairs of the Hudson's B.y
Company. Nothing was farther from his intention than to
cast the slightest censure on the characters of those gentle-
men. It was only that morning that he had bad the satis-
faction of receiving • letter from Mr. Ist:tater, who
assured him that, notwithstanding the strong I in-
gusge in which he had stated his complaints
against the company, and the gravity which he
attached to the charges he had made, he entertained the
highest respect both for Sir John Pt Ily and for Mr. Harri-
son. Without further observation, he begged now to place
his motion in the hands of the chair.
Mr. HAWES, on the part of the government, was willing
to assent to the inquiry.
Mr. HUME wished to ask the noble lord the member for
Falkirk what coulee he intended to pursue with regal ti
his imp,rtant measure relative to Vancouver's bland?
The Earl of LINCOLN said that when he brought for-
ward that motion before, and the house was counted out—(a
laughl—he gave notice that, inasmuch as the period of the
sewion prevented 114 placing another notice on the books,
he should bring forward hie motion on the first opportunity
afforded by a supply night. He still adhered to that in-
tention.
Mr. ELLICE asked the noble lord if be really
intended to bring forward that motion again. He had been
acquainted with the whole of these transacti tits for many
years, el.hough he had very little interest in them now, and
he assured the house that this question of the Hudson's Bay
Company and Vancouver's Island seemed to have grown into
• magnitude which they in no respect deserved.
After some observations from Mr. Hume, the E try of Lin-
coln, and Mr. Gladstone,
The motion was agreed to.
TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND).
Mr. if O'CONNELLiin pursuaece tri his notice of motion,
rose to call the attention of the house to the state of the re-
lations between landlord and ter &nein Ireland. He would first
say a few words on the remark which fell from the noble lord
at the bead of the government when be last drew attention
to this subject. The noble lord then said, that if any person
bad a right to Wog the subject bey. re the house it was the
hon. member for Rochdale; but the reason he (Mr. J.
O'Connell) introduced it was, that the hon. member for
Rochdale was so dishesrtened by the manner in which it was
received when be brought it forward, that be gave up the
attempt. Wren he found that government were allowing a
whole session to pass over witho.4 any attempt to amend the
relatiors between landlord and tenant, he fe:t it his duty,
as a person who hod endeavoured to collect the
opinions of the people, not to despair, lie must
also add, that he had the good wishes of the
hon. member for Rochdale, who would have been here to
support him, but he was unaware of the unexpected turn
which the business of the eve:Ann had taken. lie was not
pledged to say plan, but invited eltscuesion. The difficulties
had been acknowledged ; successive mioisters had tried their
hands at a remedy, and left the evil untouched. The great
evil 5 f Ireland now was, the disproportion between the pa.
iodation and ttte capitol of the country. The capital was
deputing from the taud—the emigration that was going for
ward was an emigration of capital. Without semi security
to the farmers of Ireland, it could not be expected that
they would till the land; it was well to talk of the
maximum rate to induce people to tska land, bat there was
the rent to be considered. What he wished to do by this
bill was to spread throughout the rest of Ireland oh it custom
of Ulster, w:.ereby the tenant who was disposed to nut
with hie land, or who was of 1 gad to do so by the act of his
lendiord, should not be °basted to leave his land without
having the vieue of the poise @Oen, so that he should secure
to himself the fruits of his labour. The hon. member was
then about to read from • nook entitled "The Monett r
Misery at Ireland," by Mr. Wigan, as to the meaning of
tenant-right, when an hoe. member moved that the hofase
be counts d, and only 33 members being present, tho Speaker
declared the house adjourned till to morrow (this day).

Col. DUNNE moved to insert the following clews :
And be it further enacted that when any land shall have been
unoceupied and laid waste for the perio4 of twelve months next
before the 25th March, 1849, the Bard of Guardians may excuse any
new occupier of such land from the payment of any wean of rates
leg unpaid by former occupier of such land.
Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the clause.
The clause was withdrawn. The preamble of the bill
wan agreed to ; the house returned, and the bell as amended
wan ordered to be printed; report to-morrow (this day) at
twelve, and the third 'seeing on Monday.
The house adjourned at four o'clock till six.
The house met again at six o'clock.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked the Chanceliker of the
Etehrguer, as it appears by parliamentary papers, No 250
of last sessioth and No. 2J3 of the present session, if the
gems amount of all sums, stocky, &c.. in the names of the
Commissioner for Reduction of the National Debt, to the
accoueet of the Trustees of Savings' Banks in Irelynet in
each year ending the 20th day of Nnvemher, 1847 and 1848,
wss 1.031,558 13s. 7d. Three and a Quarter per Cents.; and
if during the year ending the 20. h day of Nenemher,
1843, the sum of 1,100,9351 14s. 6d. sterling (beyond the
sum of 189,4351. rtc lye d during that year,) has been paid
by the conuniationers to the trustees of savings' banks in
Ireland; out of what fund the sum of 1,100,9351. ha. been
paid, and whether env stock or account standing in the
names of the Commistionen for the Reduction of the
National Debt to the account of the Trustees of Savings'
Bank, in England, has been sold for that purpcse, and if so,
under what authority ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was under-
stood to say teat the transaction refereed to by the hon.
baronet, took plum under the authority of the all 9.h Geo.
IV., c. 92.

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.
Mr. ADDEBLEY asked the under-Secretary of State
for the Colonels, whether he objected to give formal notice
to the house of the amendments he proposed to introduce in
the Aussraltan colonies (No. 21 bill, in °mining a part of
clause 12, end tee whsle of clauses 28 and 29, or of any
other amendments it may be his intention to propose.
Mr. HAWES said that he could not with propriety give
printed notice of any amecdments in • bill the principle of
which hod not received the sanction of the house. He would
give such information as he was able short of formally print-
ing the am niments in the paper.
The Earl of LINCOLN said it was unusual to give notice
of amendments in a bill which had not been read a second
time.
Lord J RUSSELL said that timely information would he
given on the subject; at the same time be must point out the
inconvenience that would result if amendments on a bill
were to be printed before the bill itself was read a sr cond
time, as the clauses touched by such proposed amendment"
might be struck out of the bill during its progress.
ADJOURNED DEBATE.—STATE OF TILE NATION.
Mr. DISRAELI begged leave to piste to the house the
course it was his intention, in conjunction with hi. bon
friends around him, to pursue with respect to the
adjourned debate. Hitherto, when the conduct of ministers
had been challenged or impugned in that house, it had been
usual to allow the debate to be brought to • clue without
suffering any other business to interfere. Such had always
been the feeling on his side of the house; and had any
hen. member on the opposite side brought forward a
1 motion similar to his, every ere ar mid him would
have given way rather than impede its progress to console.
tims. That course had not been pursued with respect to his
motion. He thought it due to the government to state that
every facility had been given him for bridging on his mo
Bon, and he must also remove any unfavourable impressi in
which he might have crested against the hen. member for
Montrose for having refused to withdraw a motion in his
favour by stating that on a former occasion tie hon. member
had given way to him in order to facilitate his motion.
although without any practical benefit. In the present
state of affairs, it was impossible that he should
being on the adjourned debate until the 31st of July,
which would be highly_ inconvenient, even should the
house be still sitting. There was en opportunity on Tues-
day, but the noble lord the member for Marelebone persisted
in bringing forward his discussion for the purmse of repre-
senting every policeman to he a petty tyrant. On that occa-
sion the hon. member for Middlesex had risen, and urged
that his (Mr. B. Disraeli's) motion was a flash in the pan.
He did not understand what the hon. member meant,
but when • motion such as his was brought for.
ward and supported by so many of hia honour-
able friends as came down on Monday night, in
order to state their sentiments and to record their votes,
that at least evinced sincerity, and he did not think it was
creditable to treat it in such a spirit as had been evinced.
He had no wish then to avoid coming to • division, and he
still entertained a desire to divide the house upon I" is motion,
se did his hna. friends. If the government would give him
another day for that purpose, he would undertake to say
that nothing on his side of the house should impede or post-
pone the division. But it the noble lord could not give him
a day, the only alternative he hid was to move that the
order of the day for the renewal of the debate on his motion
be struck out of the paper. Tae abstract of the revenue accounts for the year
Lord J. RUSSELL said it certainly was tenet when ono. ..
quarter
which ended yesterday tells as nothing.
dons of man than ordinary impedance were male for hon. and
filers is an increase of 726,4831. on the year, and a
pdeivenisionthteo betaken. At Aoi
themh samenm.decrease of 468,6461. on the quarter. The main in-
crease for the year is in the customs, counteracted by
b e
ersrattbgl 'I lei Ville: notwd
id
11:arntvdinnt goe can
onu forffe e :on lad
wish
motion of the hon. member. The noble lord the member a slight decrease in the excise, and a considerable one
for Marylebone thought his motion was of such importance
in the stamp. The decrease for the (pieta. is in the
to his constituents as not to kisser his giving way.
The hon. =evader had stated truly that the government had customs and exese the latter attributed in port to
been most willing to make a 'settee, in order to enable the postponement of the hop duty.
him to bring forward his motion, and he must say that as Neither tile increase nor the decrense exceed the
limits of the oscillation from year to year, and from
far as the credit end the character of ministers were eon-
eerma be was quite satisfied, and should not be disre sad to carter to quarter, that must always be looked fcr.
Impose that acother day should be sacrificed to the debate—
such at I.ast was the effect produc' on his mind by 10 base conclusions as to national prosperity or de-
such
speech of the hon. member and the reply of preseion up.on such data would be to emulate the
his right honourable fri red the Chancellor of the hypochondriac, whose spirits rise with a rise of the
Exchequer. At the same time feeling that the looth part of an inch in the borometer's mercury, and
house might desire to express a decision upon the motion, I
he was willing, at some sacrifice, that the debate should de fall with a fall of 'quit amount.
continued and brought to a close, and therefore the sooner A surer index of the state of the country are the
that was done the better. Heiproposed for that purpose to reports from our manufacturing districts and great
give up to-morrow (this day) to the hon. member, and in ~ commercial emporiums. During the first six months,
that ease he must ask the house to meet on Monday morn-
ing in order tablepit the Scotch bills. to which he attached lof 1840, both imports and expor:s have been large,
very consider importance. There was another question I the latter unusually so. The quantity of cotton ion-
vary
on which he wished to Pay a word to the hon. member for daring these six months has been greater
I ported
Lancashire, who proposed to move for an addrees to inquire 1 than in any previous year, and, with a few trifling
into the state of the three universities of Oxford, Cambridge, ' exceptions, the importers have realised a fair average
sad Dublin, sad that a eomnfesion should issue to that par- I profit on the whole. Oa sugars, teas, and silks, pro-
pose. He did not think the cause of education which the I
1 fits, though not largo ones, have also been realised.
hon. member had at heart would be promoted by entering
I Notwithstanding the unsettled state of the continent,
upon the dinuesion of such a motion as his at the present
moment. There were already inquiries going on, the result ' theMancheeterrnarket continuesinahealtLy state. The
of which would be laid before the house, and if the hon. I demand for all leading articles of home consumption
member took the same view of the matter that he did, be
' has been good, and prices have remained unusually
would not persevere in bringing on the discussion. steady. The only serious reverse that can be appre-
Mr. HEYWOOD consented to postpone his motion. heeded would be from a bad harvee:, of which
Mr. DISRAELI expreesed his regret that the offer to there are at present no symptoms.
resume the adjourned debits had not been made on the
The economical condition of the country is righting
previous day, because then they would have been able to
(Loud itself, and will continue to improve if government
communicate with their friends who had left town.
crios of " Oh, oh.") and the legislature only leave trade to take its own
Lord J. RUSSELL said there certainly was no surprise way. The sense of the urgent necessity of financial
to complain of, for the hon. gentleman knew of the deter- reform is not awakened by oscillations in the revenue
mination of the government quits es 'son as they knew it I returns; it is more deeply rooted. The people feel
themselves. 1 that the wanton profuseness of expenditure on fleets
Mr. F. MACKENZIE complained of the treatment of
the Scotch members to taking th„,r;„, Scotch mus hofo„ and navies obliges government, while it imposes
the house at a morning sitting. heavier taxes on them than are necessary, to shrink
Mr. HUME objected to them bills being taken on at times from a wise expenditure on civil administra-
Wenhiachv"detsrnruvemdberof
fMon-
dayrer
em
so re
en itlnage. d Then
e 1
against
hadt lab
consideration,p e t iei o
be n■s lion. They feel that too much is spent by govern-
and he suggested that a 00110164011 of inquiry should meat, and that much is wasted on positively mitt-
allowed to sit and inquire into these 1111UUTIff during the f ehiegOne objects which might allowably be expended
recess.
Toe Earl of LINCOLN amend the noble lord that the
e for meeitonous ends. Thee feel, too, that the inci-
repneenun just made to him by the hon. member for I deuce of taxation is unfair ; that the weakest shoulders
Matto:no.
Tashweascouptertiantp:reatedenint
proposed
a?eeedltnestbelvtherys peeebralo:lleirodl3;teoet-s
form,Th isaiLthoef
are made to bear the heaviest burden,.
fdoerniAaftnorenfitanryancrietaforuire-
not only inconvenient but extrema-1y preludicial, and he sub- origin
th fi demand of
the
whic well-grcunded distrust in our present repre-
witted to the noble lord that it was not reap, ctful to the 8 • 1
petple of &tittered to discuss these measures at a morning entation as coupled with
IL The ins and the outs
sitting. may wrangle about a few hundreds more or less in
Lord J. RUSSELL slid had he consulted only the olive- the ear: or qaaeterly revenue retur. a, but the
nience of the goverment anti his own opinion of the merits financial reformers will steadily pursue their ob-

Vu ewe's.

OUTGOING MAILS.

Malls for British North Maoris' and the United States will be
made up this erealog, July 6.
The roads for Vigo, (motto, Lidion, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will he mode up tomorrow morning, the 7th of July.
The mails, ere tdarseillee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon,
liong-Koog, he., will be made up to-morrow evening, the 7th of

Ms Walt India Mails, excluding Bermuda. Hanuts, Plasam,
Honduras, New Orleans., and Menlo), and including those for
!Weirs, dt. .do
7th of on the 1 Jusa-wleorsr s, u New Granada, Chili, and Peru, wile
be
m ails made up
th
the fot eralter, Yrtty.., the lonisa Wands. Porn
er7lnat. Ind* and Cbiel. via ton, wu to made up on the
morning of the 20th of July.
The mails WI Madeini, the Brazils, end Buenos Ayres, willbe made
upon the 4th of August.

MOH W ATTAR. AT JAIN DON MIMS.
Ty. D., —VenslAz. 31 Ma. Art •Iterwa. 63 lola. post I
K.ww—Uslstar.lo W. vest 3. Aftwesees. W. past 3

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 6.

ject regardless
tending factions.

THE limes has a convenient, though not an
criginal way of dealing with liberals, whenever it
encounters them. It cries out " Stop thief and de-
nounces every one, who f om the cut of his beard or
the freedom of his tongue looks like a redic tl, as being
a danger( 114 robber. Thus did it treat the Viennese,
we recollect, and the Hungarians. KOSSUTH himself,
in its column; was made to run away with
crown jewels and the military caisse. Toe
brave Romans aro, in the pages of our contem-
_ _

, . .
porary, but a band of fare'gn ruffians, represented as
more anxious to make money of the great works of
art than to fight. The last victim of the peculiar at.
tillery of our contemporary is the Financial Reform
Association. A report of the meting in Mary lebone
is given in one paragraph by our contemporary. That
paragraph of course omits every vestige of liberal
argument, but it takes care to convey the
one essential dart of poison. It reports,
that the meeting made great progress in the npu-
diation of the national deb'. As financial reformers
are the lest persons who could favour au+ a doctrine,
we have but to denounce the calumny, without taking
the trouble to refute or deny it. We can imagine
such misrepresentation in the fervor of en article, bat
surely it is intolerable in a report.*
We yesterday discussed one point of the People's
Charter, and gave our reasons for preferring to limit
the franchise to those who have a status in life, a
status which includes even the poor industrious man
and the earner, bat which should not take in ether
the waifs or the absolute dependents, or the basely
ignorant of the population. All parties indeed, save
the protectionists, admit the necessity of extending
the suffrage. The Prime Minister is for it, the PEEL
organ is for it, the Times abets it, when it happens to
be in a liberal humour—that is, when the nubile give,
symptoms of the kind. The suffrage therefore is but
• question of time and of degree.
That point will be won. But the question of equal-
ising electoral districts will necessitate a mwe p o-
longed and contested struggle. For whilst the tories
arid the country gentlemen dread such a change, as a
chaos in which they would be annihilated, too many
liberals hold fears of a contrary nature. We there-
fore think, that one of the fist duties of the Financial
and E'ectoral Reform Association should be to work
out the problem of equal electoral districts, to trot
their probable results, and to dissipate the doubts and
errors which exist not only in tory, but in lib-rat
minds, upon the question. One great difficulty,
which is the possibility of pipulatiou varying io t a
I inverse ratio of property and intelligence, dOes not exist
lin England, population arid property always going
together, so that the numerical representation of the
one will ever be the representation of it-tercets re-
quired by the other. But the idea that there exists
an agricultural interest apart from all others, and
more sacred than they, constituting a kind of pill-
leged priesthood of sane and noble sentiments, and
of the only orthodox political creed—this will mili-
tate long against all the demands of equality and jus-
tice which claim the due proportion of electoral in-
fluence for numbers, for capital, and for intelligence.
And for the self-same r, aeon, this entrenchment of
the political hierarchy in the r resent electoral divi-
sion, is what must be attacked and carried, ere any
real reform is won.
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR WM, to lay most stress
upon annual parliaments. He thinks less of the
composition of parliament than of the necessity of
keep ng its members true to popular exigencies and
opinion. Here again the augurs interpose, and
declare that the longer the existence of parliament
the more accomplished the politicians. And the
remark is just, and will be just as long as politics and
parliamentary management f arm an ccuult science. 'lhs
objection to the cantinual excitement of elections is
quite in harmony with the objection against the igno-
rance of newly-chosen legislators. Both are puts of
a system which monopolises political intill genre.
But if education in publio, affairs was general, if in-
formation was wide-spread and facile of obtainment,
if politics, instead of being the profession of a few, was
the half business half pssome of all, thin years suet
in listening to the nightly. debates of sessions would net
be requisite for each legislator's e 'ucation. And then
annual or septennial parliaments would be the taint,
MY far os the experience and fitness of legislators were
concerned, the only difference being that the peop'o
at large, instead of being dupes, as in the one case,
w..uld be tho intelligent arbiters and directors of
their own destiny.
In the present state of things parliament and the
people are two. A man when he enters parliament
eoters a different world from that which he quits.
lie learns to regard things in a peculiar and perils.
mentary point of view, and this view he has to con-
ceal from his constituents, to whom he deals a sit of
popular and plausible Oman, like so many cards.
tierce the mistrust of parliamint by the public, and
of the public by pariiarnect. Hence it takes two or
three years parliamentary echo-ling to make a legis-
lator, and hence a septennial duration is even better
than a triennial one fir our political augurs. Anusl
parliaments would break through this, end hence we
are inclined to agree with Lord Jowl Russia,
though by no means on the same grounds, that annual
would he decidedly better than triennial parliamenta
They would do one thing at less!. They would make
politics a popular science, instead of b.ing a dandy
taste or an official calling.

Tan proceedings of the public meeting of the citi-
zens of Rochester, reported in our paper of yester-
day, disclose the seqml of a case of ecclesiastical
dishonesty and of episcopal neglect, tot lmg ado
stated in the Express; and a sequel of no ordinery
of premien and injustice it is; as a n capitulation of
the facts we form,' ly d toiled will show.
The Rev. Dr. WuISTON, a clergyman of high chi-
racter, and a echolar of established reputation, was
(and we hope in law still is) the master of the Gram-
mar Scheel of It-cheater. This school was esta-
blished in the reign or MENET VIII., by the same
chatter, which gave life and propertylto the dean an
chapter of Rochester Cathedral. The support of the
school-house is a charge on the capitular estates; the
appointment of the schoolmaster is a piece of perm-
age of the capitular body; and, in addition, the
maintenance of twenty boys at tLe schocl,
and of u many, we believe, at the uni-
versities, is by their statutes impos d
on
the property of the Dean and Chapr. Thew
statutes every member of that body
obey is sworn t:
; and when the Church Temporalities Bill wee
before the House of Lords, the present Dean sad
Chapter appealed in solemn language to the ob'ige
tion of their oath as a reason why the legislsto
should not alter or vary the disposition of their re
perry. Like other chartered grammar schools, It'
chaster school appears to have been allowed by the
DO2II and Chapter to fall into great neglect—the
master was incompetent; the schoolhouse
dated; and at last, scholars there. were none. bell
this decay there was, of course, pecuniary prefilA I
well as moral disgrace to the Dean and Chapt r.
church reform, however, approached, the Dean sea
else, began to set their house in order ;
Chapter of Rochester, like capitular bodies ererywlttql
an inefficient master by the inconsistent expedient d
giving him who could not teach lads a care
of souls; they rebuilt the school-house; and, IT
way of re-creating the school they appoinled,
D
WIIISTON master. Their appointment was rtun.q
successful : under Ifs direction the school loon
poular and useful ; the number of scholars grscluallf
increased; and the citizens of Rochester To with,
each other in beating testimony to the excelleme
the education Dr. WIIISTON gave their sone.
they gavel st
Natinally enough —most properly indeed—D!;
WHISTON wasled to inquire into the ancient enott
I tution of the school; and the result of his ineeeltr
revenue
• and ue•

• The Quarter/y Review, however, stands first se_ -of
rivelled in the application of the " stop thief' ay-e
argument to liberals. The cumber just. published 0' °
cruel. on Austria and Central Italy, in which it curehallf
stamps every liberal as a robber. bisszini is therein 61
down as determined to betray the Romans the firtt, and
01
1 uniting the ambition of Robespierre to the **POI 0
Daaton. his brother triumvirs, and all the leading t 34
democrats, are es summarily disposed of. "Thetwe!!"'s
and Pepe, the gl Ilona defenders Of Venice, kno
unwilling to 'mutt their plunder, and withdraw. su3l.
private honour se w.ll rs public patriotism, ere roreeeet•l
as having setup d their property on board foreign vet,!'.
ready for a bolt—as pelmuing defence merely for the er_
of their private emolument, and as determined toplan"'
the city themselves heft re •h. y go, and not let the Aurnsu.
have all the repine! The beet 'seise fir toryiera is that 0
least it is gentlemanly and of Gi 411 sentiment now CAS r.
r,epect it when it defends its superannuate•d prejv.litil ri
the dirtiest ink of the libeller, and by thevolicorce. blude
•of the argamootativo roars ? on for ow.