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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 4.
We hold that the question of the forty personages,
styled lords and grooms in waiting, ladies of the
bedchamber, bedchamber women, he., who divide
17,00 W. a year amongst them, is one that in no way
cencerss bee Majesty's interests, dignity, oom-
het, economy, or amusement. Were they either
functionaries or companions chosen by law Ma-
lesty, were they her friends or germ* what critic
would think of asking why the Qintex should bestow
her predilection, accompanied by salaries, upon such
nod such individuals? No refiner would be so im-
pertinent. But when the known foot is, that all
these lords and grooms, ladies and women, are bat a
very eluting), and insolent contrivance, by which the
ruling party of the aristocracy surround the
QUIZN, and monopolise her mind, sight, and
hearing, for the exchange Interests and se-
verity of this especial party, then certainly it
becomes a question why the nation at large should
'pay for the privilege of having their persons, class,
Interests and ideas, he
excluded from the
notice of her Majesty, and having ell the avenues
to her Majesty's presence and services guarded by
connexions of ministers for the time beim.
• The fact Is, that the Queen of Ragland is kept in a
kind of strait waistcoat, morally speaking, by the
aristocracy, and virtually prohibited from contact
with any but themselves. There is not a prince in
Europe, and seemly in Asia, that cannot and that
does not mingle more freely with their Rejects, and that
Is not in a better position to appreciate their feelings,
Than the sovereign of England. There is no monarch
of whom the heralded individual could not obtain an
audience, even he the most trivial statement of m-
aul wants or sler ideal. One of the effects of
:Ibis fres aiag
,cifiratzti potentates with their
Ziahas been rehoa of etiquette,
ttle abolition a boot ri halal and super-
&masted umges, no longer is harmony with the
times. In our court these usages have lingered far
longer than in other coarta,—that is, our court Pro-
gresses in the inverse proportion of the nation. It
retains all the antiquated and molusive modes of en-
forcing respect, bat shrinks from adopting the more
.ratiocel ones in harmony with the age. Travellers
have compared the cumbrous formality of the English
omit with the implicity of that of Berlin, which city
no man of eminence m arts, letters, or philosophy,
could visit without instantly being invited to the
.royal table. If sash is not the case here, it is not the
•frolt of the sovereign or of the royal family of Eng-
land, but the halt o &jealous, a stupid, an exclusive
aad avaricious aristocracy.
Those bedchamber and ante-room court offices are
precisely the instruments, the expensive instruments,
by which the sway of an exclusive caste is kept np.
At times, when the two partiee in the aristocracy
sparrel, the minden is kept np by one against the
. ether. Bach wee the ease at the Quint's aossingoo,
. • when a semeerestbe eat was net allowed to mew
within the rib* calks palms' The consequence
was tie stele of 18z1h, whets the great policy of
the nation, thipsimehmes of Pio, or hlmmouans,
bug ups the webs of these hskiamber folk, sad
was leaded is emir bream
It Is time that seat emperommaiod political ma-
'hinny as this Audi bo braes up, or Abed that ffie
maim should net be pospeoliresay harassed with
Ciagfor it. Oa theinlies it is an exposes and a
. On the Quinn it met be a yoke signally air
heral. The the MfaintTLle a queen who died
coo= the St dol. from the
Bakes her emd Wombs, and sabsti-
Wig ethers, net of lam ems. bet of political choice,
b a armies of deemed@ tyranny that no lady in any
essetry, net seas in Turkey, would tolerate. And
lib durance has, within all our memories, been put
upon the Qom.
If there is one point," says the Emu, "which
people cannot understand, it is what ocesdon their
betters have for so many servants." Dose the Braes
seriously insinuate that the lords and ladies of the
bedchamber render actual serving, or that their
attendance on such oteessions es those on which alone
their presence might add to the number or splendour
of the royal following, is a service that requires to
be paid for ? There area host of duties in this country
performed gratuitously. The man of professional
eminence of commercial liminess, of landed ,
shares his time between the seperiatsadesoe of has
private affairs sad his public duties in or oat of par-
liament. He is paid by the consideration and the
sense of duty. Cannot the ariatocaney of England
afford a SONO of its members to attend and adorn
alternately the court of their sovereign, without being
paid for their time? Each party draggles to have a
monopoly of her Xingu's company and convene.

This is of mere velum, O. it wok' sot be es
for aad so ekwsly easespoliestl.
rimeigi lit is polities' mime to whip er teetes, why
shoeld the madam, or why shodd the Quilts, ply for
it? If ever Ake sheald be grateitom mart adios
Mould be so.
Bat then we are told that to make mart cams (re-
takes§ would be delivering royalty bound hand and
foot to the power of*. . As if that wee
not completely the case ready. And mif the
QUM was really in want of dimes& service in
beddisabos and anterooms that rooked 17p001.
year to pay for it. Do away with court maladies, says
the Those, and surd ma no Wager he rewarded. The
merit el a lab ot the bedahronber I
Anepis,dsdestermetmlvemgementitwat• ihs
Qom set Ile kokk messy ia Mk way, her enema
would hi below that 'Law of her subjests. We
me tell. inkai. Obit they do ..already. Yet we have
est been that ber Meilen% dignity has sacred
tesea IL By air system el *toile we bolster up
arbibmatie ferios to as unnatural and utterly me-
lon impitede, and haviag dons this by statute, we
mot save royalty from the overshadowing effects of
Ger own instants's, by paying it merely to vie with
the exorbitant wealth that oar own system has
oreatid. Abolish entails, and reader the landed aris-
tocracy amenable to pay their debts, and the country
will not be forted to swell the royal income to vie with

;gig-WOIli"; COM
Throughout all the argonaut', too, rune the as-
sumption that wealth comprises not only all power,
but all dignity, and that respect is not worth baying
unless it is paid for. This is mere En, lisp logic,
completely controverted by experience. hout
Europe the monarchs whose dignity stood highest
were those who kept up the least expensive courts.
Those of the Xing of PRUSSIA and of the Emperor of
Avarua did not cost, either of them, one-third of
that of Louts PHILIPPI. Which was the most re-
dP What was the expenditure or civil list of
the S immer of Avernus to that of the &TERRA:ITS ?
Did that make the Emperor Ws respected than the
Hucgarka Prince The lritties, as it is its custom, takes
a cockney view of courts and of respectability. It re-
pediates all dignity that is not paid for, all services
that are not wianed, and all grandeur of which the
seams are not sewn over with livery-lace.

AT last there is a ?Soudan campaign, and at last
dumb a possibility that much about the time when
Ilea miti-weather army wee originally intended to
sews, we may be Sing the Tower guns over the
suessmill issue damns& egseatkse. Then ego be
se temerity asil notielmmee Worths la recipro-
aft en fhb died the weir the ientusb opinions
of pople on the spot as to the mosegement of this
Peolovelosreee. The people of Lelia are divided
betwess bdig.natitut sod eatoniminnent. And well
they may. It is short eft rare since the whole
framework of British waft in Hindustan was visited
lute acute sensation of the catastrophe at
The adventurers at Calcutta, and the
sivilians and the settlers—if any European
within the sphere of the Bay of Bengal can be called
a settler—who form the chain of western civilised=
which connects Simla with the Sandheade, feel that
they cannot afford an electric shock of that kind
mere ithan once during. the saute generation. And
they are very much in the right. They are not
Stele to forget speedily the moral effect upon the
native mind of that terrible consummation of irreso-
lute connsile and indecisive command: of hesitation
is action and timidity of lea, which sacrificed an
array of British troops to die treachery of barbarians,
and out of thirteen thoomand men contrived to rescue
only three. It is very true that Lahore is not the
Bela Hisser, and the revolted Duran is not AKBAR
BRAN. and Moult= is not the Khyber Pam ;
nor the people. of the DMA mew= Knew
&loophole or Games. But these are differences for
which we have to return thanks to fortune. For
time is everything to justify nil in thinking that the
Meader has only been less because the scope for it has
net loess so great.
Individually we: have nothing of which to coin-
' plain. We have said from the beginning that the
thing to be done was to interfere at ones, and for all
to be content with the rebellion as it stood, and
neither to aerial the idea that it was a mere accident,
nor nuns it up to the size of a civil war which called
for the mar= of an army and the expense of a special
lunlgot It is levy true that ea Indian solstice Ls not
the season that a man would select for fighting if he
had his choice, but Englishmen have faced a mon-
soon before now. Wye did not consider the
euaecs of the year, but the state of his enemy ;
and if Lord Luz had shown as much scrupulosity as
Lord Boum, it is exceedingly probable that the
panda= of TIPPOO would have been reigning at
Delhi, and the Best India Company keeping a retail
shop in the bazaar at Calcutta for the ewe-bange in a
=way of Birmingham bijouterie against oriental
But thiswas not all. It was not only clear—
ing we said so that the longer you staid the
moue yen would have to do, but also that the more
yes weld have to do, not simply in one place,
het b several. Moultan was not the only spot
wilier the Five Rivers where sedition and con-
spiracy could find dupes and a propaganda. And so
it has tamed out. By this very mail we have
the intelligence of a revolt of the Sikh soldiery
in Hunk at the other end of the Pun-
jab, ad it seems that the insurgents were otaiil
eat of Om taking poesession of Attack by the -
lime if Ifigfe! _LAURENCE. As the matter s
liesp bum RUM Colonel CANAL, an racer in the
Ingley Of the Lahore Dorbar, and have compelled
the delsauset el a special mission from Lahore.
Bow the mew will end remains to be seen. In all
likable*, the news of our expected emcees over the
Dawes Veda turn out a greater sedative than either
the aboiegants of Lieutenant Nicaorzow or the
et Mr. Cocas. In that case the little town
soliileMn of Attack will again sink into its ousto-
titemmait , and to the
serum the lli:donultuerhlhan
bviyetteeen the
cl very
loaders at three very different times—Mal-
ayan, Timone, and NADIR SHAH—it will not have
the distinction and the disgrace of adding the episode
of a Sikh revolt and a British viotory.
We an now beginning to see the extent of our
obligations to Major EDWARDUR gallantry and m-
om. The Doman ha been thoroughly beaten twit's,
but he is not yet extingniehed. Nay, he has been
able to help his post in the very teeth of his victorious
oppommiond to provoke the advance of a reinforce-
ilia of WOO ma. Nor can we say with justice that
his same les hem at ao time desperate, according to
the rules of oriental ; ad we must bear in
mind that the nalbas will look at these
events with the prefulleut at Adobes, and not with
the pirspisaoity of me wise tampeesassat
Eves after Rowantsn's seemed victory, and
the arrival of Sims Sison, as hie
ea=
i=e in the &ISM camp were is
ty, whether to regard the reseals la the tire
or the 10000, natives esteem* with theasegvai •'
the edit& of it, as the more bygones neighbouse;
sad while they planted one eentinsi to watch the
town planted two to give timely notice of the
of the new contingent. Now to what
Weithe misehief might have attained before
omb whither Mamie: might not have con-
llowei the Resident of some of his per-
plexities by fuming -down to Lahore to open the
qbeelt,lnstesi al veiling at Moult= to be attacked
Mier, is $ email* which we are happily not
odd qt' to alba The danger, however, wen there :
is IMO Oda monk, and however the matter may
ea Me ought le he at least one thing understoc'
that the Home of Oonunons meet
itself and the country upon whom
wiarteliglity Ws, and to whom we are
be that admirable see-mw of rote-
none Lino points separated by more than a
thaws' miles which has kept the flying Desks of
the Iref/AFest Provinces in a side of ceaseless nio-
tion is the epee of two mods. wooed an entire
originals Ito perils of civil war, and the name and
pooled the WI& authority in India to reproach
andjespeady. There are, apparently,tliar
:eetzttes who
have to divide the lame and the ex . First
these is Sir F. Crays at Labors, is then the
essimaniesibeshisf of the Punjaub division, and
beep the head d the Indian army—Lord GOVOR.
I_t_lisajug pueblo that as parliament is not sitting
the whole thing will be at an end before
January—the inquiry may be got over or refused.
That is a device which may be convenient for the
present. But we all know the end of such expedients.

Tax Bishop of Oxford commenced his first visita-
tion of the clergy on Saturday last. The occasion has
excited great interest among some of the clergy, who

whose is standing
to towsofee ths7real onward movement,
the is wise ems* to Wks this seernimat as
which his ley User would all a' pest
608.1111:1=to cost ,taco this poseurs. Bit ROMS;
Ahura be creasseer hie pelititt ched lits in sossrezioe
1 ilk -thi, gust tory and Mi
tturch party,
sell bee never yet lost the en•N of a large
Mol that party, has still shown himself the mast
seamy that has yet appeared to the majority
of them claims which were consicered to be tory
wateh-words. Nothing bat commanding talents
sedistsiatain kit their poseemcw a parallel situation on
the mineral bosh, and its believed that in this
sirhie lordship k not deficient.
bids=se our Omsk lexicons tell us, is an over-
r "to overlook" bee, in our leaguer,
two sieehisatine. arrest totally opposite, it has been
ill=semelly suggested that the bishops have chosen
eat ajed that meaning of the word which is
Meg to a quiet life. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
in a emeralls speech defined the duties of a bishop
in a moaner which proved him to coincide in the ill-
natured opinion referred to. The Bishop of OXFORD
has adapted the other definition. An overlooker means
with Ida an inspector and a szrutiniser, not
a " assiseter." He tell' his clergy that "he regrets
the change which has puled over their diocesan
councils, as he believes that the bishop on such °en-
dow ought to have the power of speaking boldly on
them matters which relate to the church, and should
speak sly to those who were engaged in the ministe-
rial work." The extraordinary fact is, that a bishop
should have to enunciate this as a matter merely cf his
own private belie,. If a bishop may not speak boldly,
who may P Every one knows that the lower clergy
may not—that their tongues are tied in all matters
requiring free deliberation. No clergyman who is
I energetic in his expositioos to his flock feels safe from
reprehension. He is never sure that be may not kick
unwarily against some angular point of doctrine which
his episcopal superior has just dug out from
I the dust of the Palace Library, and
I made a corner-stone of his edifice of dogmas.
He is never sure that his lordship may not to-
morrow fulminate anathemas against the pet doe-
trine of yesterday.. These things do happen every
day. M e could give instances of such transactions
from the public life of many of our bishops. Why,
then, seeing that the lower clergy may not speak
boldl, should the Bishop of OXFORD give notice to
his clergy that he was going to take upon himself
that office, as if he were announcing an innovation—
& new thing ? The answer is, because under the pre-
sent state of episcopal government it is a new thing.
It is notorious that the Urn ideal of a bishop, sc.
wading to the tradition on the beech, is one who will
speed his large income freely, taking care to some
Wore the üblic (whether clergy or lay) as little as
=lle. The grand object which the heads of the
to themselves is quiet. It was there-
in* trifler not in the least extraordinary that
a bishop should be elected to one of the
I time important diocues about three years
bask, the state of whose health precludes him from
1 pertbrming any of thou functions which belong vie-
, emearily to the episcopal office. The Bishop of Ox-
i !ORD, however,rn determined to do something towards
iedidag the primitive idea of a bishop. "In order,"
he ape. " to make the episcopal office a living reality,
eel ast a mere abstraction, it was his intention to
jela se Seger tly OA possible in the parochial services
the diocese. He wished he could attend
ash; Ilibletoourse, but the extent of au English diocese
resisred that impossible." • • " Bach a course, be
Wired, would give rise t, a free intercourse between
himesif and his clergy, which could not fail to pro-
mote, to an incalculable extent, their common and
mutual interest." Now, giving the bishop due credit
Ilar intending the laity of the church to be thcluded in
the benefits of this arrangement, what are we to
false has been our condition for long years ?
Thousands of good orthodox churchmen have
sever seen a bishop more than once in their lives :
what are the benefits of which they have been
deprived? Of what are they to be now made parti-
cipators, by the sonsitast apparition of a bishop be-
fore them P That the bishop is " a being reality'
they have, perhaps, never doubted ; that his office
episcopal is no " abstraction" they have substantial
proof in the thousands that pay for it. But what are
the benefits which the church is now to enjoy, and of
which it has been so long deprived P We can fancy
the churchwardens of the diocese in a tremor of
alarm. And what sort of impression will this avowal
of unprofessional activity make upon the episcopal
bench? How will his brother
a prolatesapprove of the
endeavour of the bishop to turn his ' abstraction "
into a " living reality ?" How will they relish the idea
of a perpetual jostling with poor rectors and humble
curates who may be encouraged bT ere*
proximity to ask for the resolution of anxious doubts?
It is well known amcogst the clergy that there is no
more sure road to disfavour than a habit of asking
awkward questions. In spite of the turbid state of
the church—in spite of the well known fact that the
divisions among its members amount to something
very like schism—it is still esteemed the highest po-
licy to keep quiet: the petted alarm is manifested
in high quarters at the approach of a questioner.
Some of our readers may remember an amusing in-
stance of this which took place some years ago, when
a Mr. WOODHOCISS, a clergyman of the established
church, took it into his head to entertain some doubts
as to the propriety of subscription. His account of
his reception by the various bishops to whom he w
plied to obtain a resolution of his doubts is curious to
the extreme. He wee received generally with the
utmost courtesy, bat always with a caution that be-
trayed a fear on the part of his ecclesisatisal sups.
rimiest they should commit themselves.
This ',seem is threatened by the Bishop of OXFORD.
Ilene at the sleepers in the enchanted palaces of the
prelates is awakened, there will be soon din enough
at the gates of all to waken the tenants from their
deathlike slumbers. That this will tend ultimately
to the good of the church we have no doubt, but in
the =seethes what will be the intermediate state P
From of motet race of bishops, we cannot expect
realsiort that we doubt tittle metal it =sr=
for the mins duties whisk the
idea of a bishop requires of them, bud brew the
new regime of his Orem of Oxamar preeeppeue her
time of which their lordships have-novei tabs ear
name. We can no more expect to see our present
bishop become working clergymen than to see them
walking abroad with lawn sleeves on their shoals
and mane on their heads; but since the teed&
some Bishop of OXFORD bus made a stir, they rut
tocane forward and pretend to do
Lt:rdship has discovered that the world
awake, and that the church has been sleeping, but,
although he has awakened his brothren,canheinstruct
than is the race whisk the world is running P Can
he tell them what are the of the times, and in-
fides
them how to them ? In a word, the
thusexeseessment of the means, in fact, that the
erre sue partake of the spirit of the me, which
is a working sprit. How will the establishment
NANO_ itself to its novel profession ? We think that
the bith9's determination, if carried out, points to a
new era ut the church. In no spirit of hostility is it
that we record our feats that many of those who are
y at the direction of affairs will be found wanting at
1
the ends.
sc.

op
itithe Aireinblypr ; biesut the remit of the
renewal of the Bureaux yesterday affords a moot on-
iceuroble pragmatic of the result even there, the
pooldwO and oseretaile. being almost all dynasties
ial sridso. Its party which mumbles at the
Lade bad an extraordinary meeting last night, for
rho of coming to a decision on the question
on which &el, could not apes at
▪ kd Illialleg. This discussion was u fruitless*.
the Iled. Seward speakers addressed the meeting. Two
p apsdally were discussed—first, as to the mode of
Jading the President to be adopted as the pain/went
article of the assednaka I and, secondly, what poli-
tical expedient Amid be resorted to for the
'elution of that funotioury under existing cirents•
stances. The observations to which this latter emo-
tion gave rise produced some strong
tations of feeling at the meeting ; opinion, however,
as before, proved to be so equally divided hat no re-
solution could be come to, and the deliberation was
accordingly adjourned to the next meeting.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY—MONDAY.
After some proceedings without interest, 1
X. BVVIONIER mounted the tribune, to address to the
government the interpellations of which he had given notice
respecting the Italian question. He declared that public
opinion was much preoccupied with the subject of these
negotiations, which involved the honour and consideration of
France. It was heard with regret that the idea of the i
Antelo-Firench mediation had been accepted by the cabinet
of Vienna only on the eondition that France acknowledged
the right of Austria over Italy. He would merely oak an '
answer yes or no, whether the proposed mediMion rested
upon the acknowledgment of the right of Austria over Italy
antecedent to all negotiation.
Gen. CAVATONAC rose and said that when government
had announced to the assembly the offer of mediation an the
part of France and England the Assembly did not think fit
to require any explanations. At this epoch, when the net
are gamely opened, the Assembly, he hoped,
would net be more exigent. He acknowledged the right of
the Assembly, but at the same time demanded that it should
pass to the order of the day. (Marks of assent.) it was
asked if the mediation was based upon the acknowledgment
of the rights of Austria, to which he would answer that if it
were so there would have bean no need for mediation.
M. Lamm/ Ituxitte next observed that, although the
question required prudence, yet that the necessary reserve
had its limits. He recalled the times in which France had
promised her aid to nations which desired to emancipate
themselves. The present government had declared that the
mediation must lead to emancipation ' • nevertheless it was
said on all aides that the question would be settled by an
European congress. Ido not understand ('aid the orator)
the silence of the government in such a situation. I do not
understand that it can say that the treaties of 1815 are not
the basis of the negotiation.
General CAVAIONAe.—I sae it.
M. Leutiu 1101.1.1 N.—Let it not be declared that we are
going to constitute la Italy another kingdom of Poland, far
we know what that means. The orator then passed from
Italy to Germany, and accused the government of having
deserted them ; also the policy of February. There remains
(he declared) no onus open but war, which, however, he
did set fear.
M. CRITON referred to the cause and the nets which had
compromised the diplomacy of the country in the eyes of
Europe.
Gen. CAVAtONAC replied that the government was net to
trouble itself about the distrusts of monarchical Europe. It
was only to pursue with honesty and firmness its policy.
As to the treaties of 1815, it the question was simply to
accept them there would be no room for negotiations.,
Varlet:l " arches du jour motives" were then proposed by
MM. Huvignier, Florian, and other members. The home
finally divided on the previous question, which was carried
by a majority of 141 to 336.
After this, M. Sr. ROllllll asked what sense the govern-
ment attached to WI motion?
M. Demos replied that it left the government in the
same situation as before, without liberating it trom any pre-
vious obligations.
Gee. Lanozietaaa presented two demands for credits
and a project for the naturalisation of Gen. Youssonf, se
African in the service of France.
The Assembly then paned to the question of agricultural
instruction.

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• *with kW. otemh itsidfr.4l do sot, Fillsolt Ptal 0. urhee Intro* %together, have
suntan to as the Pin of the epwaspal boost. not bees. and are not at heave onset a republic.
Oer readers will 'understand by this, that dame The exalted dasoceste knew Ord if the President be
amalkinie mad eating with a powerful bay, elected by universal Whew the malt will be fatal to
'boo mist rinsOce# property le standing still, and their party. They therefore propose that the election
fhb Amose•lay • hat thw ,welt a the