The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-22 00:00:00

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lintioust inoan Wird, SI& %Oda perky. 166. 4d. ;
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23, W.; dm =a 6d.; Ilesik $76. ; 416. 6d.

Nasal wormy, Oar. ; ners.l raw
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11 woks' AA. Aver. 51..
Dm.—Wlrid. 75.: Raft. ILI ONO,. 117,4. lima% led
Tim b.

Arrivals at the granaries by the Hestern Omeatiee Railway
for the week ending November 18
Malt We qrs. Mem ...-..1e fps.
arbeet
Mirky 1311 " MU, rirsif ams.
oats
Hrt.e., Nov. 21.-Biainoss of every kind bas been Very
inactive daring the week; the weather mon favourable,
how
end
geed progress now making with Need OferStialer, the s
of Wheat at this day's market was coasequently smaller than
of Late, but fitly up to the wants of millers, who, ng ;wetly
well in stock, are sky Mayen. A good s'iow of foreign, but
the trade very dull, and tht balk of the 'Wee arrival goes to
granary. We quote the market Is. loner then last week for
all deiemptions of Wheat The greater part of our Barley
import is of =dung quality, and such is very bad to sell
even et a redaction of Is. to 2a per qr., the new English
mortise; better than was repeated ; grinding sorts are comps.
naivety mates, and go off freely at lull prices • momentasily
the market is almost clear, hut further arrival; are expected.
The transactions in other kinds of spring corn are limited.
bat we have more inquiry for Beans and the better sorts of
Peas. With only en insignificant arrival el Linseed,
the actual business in this artielo has been very
trilling. and we are unable to alter our quotatioes.
Firmness is the chaveleristie haters of the trade. More
doing in Linseed Cakes foe present delivery at Our quota-
tions, withl.ss Maine's for forward. Rapeseed saleable at
our quoted-ire, and the market unsupplied. Rape Cakes
',covered from their late depression. le Bones there is
nothing doing. The fallowing an the prises of 'rale :-
Wheat, per qr., red, 62.. to .51..; new, 48s. to 31s. ; white,
52a to 345.; new, Ms. to 645. Bromic, 6Ga. to 80.. •
Lower Baltic and Hamburg, 48e. to 325. Barley, malting,
30s. to 34a. ; grinding, 28s. to 235. Oats, Danish, 17s. to
10a. ; Friesland. 20.. to 235. ; Reesian, 10s. to 21e.
Beans, 30e. to Vs. ; foreign, 325. to 38.. Pea., white and
'elide, 314. to 335. Linseed, crushing, Si.. to 40a ; feeding.
40.. to 44.. Rapeseed, per 10 quartets, 231. to 231. Linseed
Cakes, linglisb, per toe, 81. 135.; foreign, 71. to Bs.
Rape Cakes, 87a. 6d. Boom, 838. Osseo, 41. to 91. 3e. Isa-
mwm from the 11th of Nov. to the 17th Nov. inclusive:
Wheat, toreign, 8.402; Barley. 6,212 ; Oats, 1001: Beano.
1,106; Pe 3,114; Team U; Linseed, Bdo ; Rapeseed,
700; Liassed Cakes, 11l ; Raps Cabot, 67.
lt.swtot, Nov. 21.-. oar supply of Wheat was small, but
quite equal to the amen I, and s aid at Is. per qr. dearer.
Barter in fair supply; all sorts Is. per qr. lower. No shwa.
tion in pries of Beans, Per, and Oats.
Lev^. Nov. 21.-We are well supplied with samples
this morning from v. owls agar at hand;; the market rule,
slow for Wheat, at folly Is. re qr. below the rates of
Friday. Barley does not sell freely, and prices ere 1.. per
or. lower. Beans scare It maintain their value. Gate,
BMWs', and other articles, without material alteration.
Arr.v th this week: Wheat, 3,138 rim; Oats, 718; Barley,
1,243 ; Malt, 33.
LIIIOIITON Bowen, NOV. 21 -At this day's market
ewe was bat a small supply et Wheat, the time of yeas
considered • aotwlthstanding. trade was dell, at a reduction
of le, per load moat last week's rates. Barley more plena.
Rd, awl likewise la per qr. cheaper. Beans end Peas at
late rates. Worst, old, per load of 6 braise* 30s. to 33.
new, 265. to 31s. Barley, per imperial qr., 2tre. to 320.;
Beane, old, Ms. to 29e. ; new, Vs. to 235. per 5 bushels.
Lawns, Nov. 21.-Wo have to report a steady demand for
Wheat, at Is. to 2s. per qr. decline from hat week's prime.
Bosky was but little inquired tor, c inseqoeetly holders I .Id
at a reduction of Ia per qr. from last Teesday. Other
grain steady. Wheat, old, white, 151. is. to 131 10.. ; red,
141. da to 141. 10s. ; new, white, 111. to 141.; red 101.
to 121. 10s. Raley. 325. to 35e. Oats, 18e. to 23a flew,
350. to 40.. Peas, 335. to 39e.

LirERPOOL, Nov. 21 -The Europa. Americo& steamer,
arrived here yesterday, bri cgs advises from New York to
the Bth inst. The grain market there remised nearly with-
out change, and as factors were etoriug their Floar against
the winter demand, no material decline in prices was looked
for. Low qualities of Wheat had needed 6 cents per bush.
India* Corn remained stationary in value, but Indian Meal
was somewhat lower. The quotations free on board, were,
fine Genesee. Whoa 445. ; lower qualities, 34a. &I. to
38s. 81 per 480,o.; fine yellow Indian Corn, 275. 7.1.; white,
fist yellow, tied mixed, 20s 9d.; and New Orleans, 245. 104.
per 4301 b.; Indian Meal, 14s. IL per barrel. There had
been shipped to this port during the previous fortnight,
30,000 barrels of Flour, 8,000 qrs. of Wheat, and 20,000
qn. of Indian C to. Freights were firm at 2s. 6d. par barrel
for Flour, and 84. per bushel for grain. Exchange 81 to 81
for bat k bills. Letter. to the 30th ult from the Danube,
state that the English consul at Bucharest having remon-
strated against the hurried prohibition of export of green
from Wallachia, it was hoped the measure would be delayed
until the c'oeiug of the navigation, so as to cause no inecn-
veuience to chartered ships. The fine weather eotieed last
week has been succeeded by rain and boisterous winds from
the west, which have brought in a considerable number of
vessels, previously detained at sea by a strong
breeze fro the east; those already in, coastwise and
from Irelsnd, containing a full supply of grain, a fair
quantity of Flour, and • further large increase of
Oatmeal ; whilst the imports of Wheat and Flour from the
American States and Europe are abundant, including also a
tolerable arrival of Peas and Indian Corn. Influenced by
the.. extended arrivals, and the demotion noted in most of
the English markets this week, we have to report • very
languid trade in all its bearings at oar Coca Exchange to-
day. The millers having been extremely cautious in their
proceedings, the transactions in Wheat were altogether
limited ; and every description of English, Irish, and foreign
receding further this morning, piece. our present questions
2d. to 31. per 701 b. under those of Tuesday last. Similar
remarks being equally applicable to Floor of all deeming.
tions, home-made and to-h declined l• per sack, and States,
including Canadian, Is. per barreL Barley sad Malt, al-
though in slow request, were held at late prices. Beans,
meeting leas Inquiry ; Egyptians declined 6d., and other
kinds la. pee qr. Peas being more plentiful, and giving way
in value again to-day, were 2.. per qr. cheaper than on this
day week, Oats, although not generally offered on lower
toms, were in partial instances rather easier to purchase
and Oatmeal, from the largely augmented supply, dm ined
6d. per load. Indian Can, though in moderate demand,
moved off rather lam freely than of late, at Friday's
abatement, Corn Neel at the Mee time remaining unnzied.
Pinces:-British: Wheat, per 70Ibo Engliak, red, new,
ls. Od. to 7a. 3d.; old, le. 64. to 7s. 9.1; wkite, new,
7s. 31. to 7s. Bd.; old, 8 7a. 6d. to .. Od. ; Irish, real, new,
6s. 10d. to 7s. 00. old, 7s. 04. to 70. 3d.; white, sew, Gt. 4d.
to 75. Od. ; old, 1.. 2d. to 7s. 6d. Barley, perqr., liaeide,
341. to 365. ; Chevalier, 375. to 395.; Seotehand Irish, per
601 be., 4s. to 45.24. Malt, English, per qr., pale, 60s. to 64n
Oats, English and Scotch, per 451 b., MI, 3a. 3d. to 3a. Id.;
Welsh, old, 3..24. to 3s. 3d.; Irish, line sans, nets,
2s. 9d. to 2s. Ild.; old, 3e. 2d. to 3e. 4d. ; general, esw,
fa. 74. toga. 10d.; old, 3a. Id. to le. 3d. Beans, per qr., Eng.,
new, 40.. to 425, 04.; old, 421. to tie.; Scotch and Irish, r
4801 b., new, kie. fad.to 355. 64.; rid, 375. to 395. Peas, B
pm qr., white, new, 41s. to 43e. ; ditto Mae Irish, grey, 36e. at
Mk. Flour, per 2801 b., English and Irish, fine, 39e. to 40a.;
superfine, 401. to 41s. ; extra; 42a. to 13s. Oatmeal, per
load of 24016., Irish, new, 255. to 20.. Od. ; old, 23e. to
2.58. ; Canadian, old, 241. to 265. Been, per 241 b.. 10d. is
ii Foreign: Wheat, per 7016., Canadian, red, 7s. Ott. le
71. 3d. ; white, 7s. fad. to 7s. 91. ; United State.,
7s. 4d. to 7s. 81. ; white, 7s. 9d. to fie. 2d. ; Dantaie,
and red, 75.44. to Is. 6d. ; high weed, Se. Od. to 81. 68.
Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 7s. 6d. to 7s. 94.; whits,
7s. 9d. to Ss. Od.; Rip and Petersburg, red, 7s. Od. to
7s. 24 ; Archangel, 6s. 10d. to 7a. 04. ; Odom, cononon,
red, Gs. 94. to 7s. Od. ; Polak, 7s. sa. to 7s. 7d. ; French,
Spanish, and Italian, red, 7s. 11. to 7s. 4d.; white, 7a. 4d.
to 7*. 7d. ; Banned and Marlesopoli, red, 7s. 34. to 7s. 6d.;
an, 6s. 64. to 6e. 94.; Mediterranean, &c., hard, rod,
6e.. -2i to 6s. 4d. Charnel gualitlet, in bond, red, 6s. 6d. to
Ts. Od. ; white, 7s. to 7s. fad. Rye, per qr., Baltic, dth., 28e.
to 30a. Barley, per 601 b., 41. 2.1. to 4e. 4d. Oats, per 461 b.,
3..3d. to 3s. Russian, 2a . 10d. to 3.. Beans, per qr.,
European, 34..04. to 36e. 641. ; Egyptian, per 4801 b.,
to 301. Pees,per qr., Baltic, Sc., white, 30s. to 395.; Ca-
nadian, 345. to 356. Flour. per barrel of 196 lb., Canadian,
sweet, 28s. 0,1. to 395. ; United States, awed, 28e. to 295. ;
United State. and Canadian, sour, 275. to 28s. Indian
Cora, per 4801 b., American, white, 31. a. to 335. ; yellow,
335. to 365.; E , yellow, 34.. to 36.. Od. Indian Meal,
per 1961 b.. 16.. 6d. to 17s. Anise, from the 14th Nev. to
the 20th SW. fralmive, into Liverpool and Runcorn: Wheat,
26,212 qrs. ; Barley, 2,987 ; Mali, 303 ; o.ta, 10,830 ; Beans,
1,041 ; Pea, 6,603 ; Indies Corn, 13,029 ; Indian Corn
Meal, 397 banns; Oatmeal, 16,027 sacks; Flour, 7,619
sacks and 26,031 barrels.
LYNN, NOT. 21.-Rather more Wheat than of late, and •
goal show of Barley. Wheat, L. to's., and Barley, Is. per
qr. lower. Wheat, 6016. to 6211 a., 465. to 505.; white to 545.
Barley, best runs, ad. to 315.; flue, 325. Beans, old, 40s.
per qr. to the grower.
PLy,pli:TX, Nov. 21.-There was a good attendance of
millers at this day's market, and sales of Wheat were made
to some 'Mem, at Is. to 2s. per qr. decline on late prices.
Flour, 425. per auk. Malting Bulgy dull.
Srannuar, Now 21.-We had a great quantity of Wheat
in oar market to-day ; but the attendance was not very
numerous. Fee the Utter samples the sale was brisk. at an
abatement if la. Id. to 2.. per qr. Ibe demand for Barley
was not very active, and a further reduction of 2s. per qr.
took place ; tad gain chiefly confined to best mating qua-
lifies. Oats underwent • slight depremion in price, and
trade slack. Beans and Pus were but little in request, an 1
quotatioe. remained much as before. 01.1 Malt in good de•
stand. fietperier old Wheat, Ws. to 69,.; new, 39.. to
668 Barley, 27.. to 34.. Beans, 40a. to 445. Oats, 191.64.
to 24e. Peas, Ms. to 425. Malt, 62a to No per qr.

001.—HoDozaariaLD, Nov. 21.---Wools are
mbar better te ern thee they were, owing, as doubt, to the
rime whin art bs4. pad In the Hill of Calameree at the
imbue Wool sales I. Madan. We mly cosedratly mate
abet Wavle in the sale•ram en ►nli•iar more by Id. to I Id.
per lb th►e at the September sale, which out have the
tigers of ankh: prism better is the prerinres.

WU erpfeliL

HAILS..

TM *mind does/ maile, vie iere;illea. to, the Meditemmea,
Wetm. =M. ticai-Keardke., *ill be made up s the
the
as mils let Ilettlelk North America, and the Dmitri them,
.11 ls soft ep es the analog et the s4th Nov.
The mho Or hts, o=lll.lebes, Owl* mad OM:ohm
wW he ink spa the el the Pith Nov.
Ile Nei kr New heath elf. Tea Nemo% lAA toot New
Salmi ye milke up se the melte et the Nth Por.
Ife was kr the Vest Oast et Akita sod Wits will he made
spas the see snits Nth Nev.
Wat MIK tudneleg Demeas. Ithemt.
New Mina% mil Illeidos, eseirlieg tho se forll=lbe
111. his-d&lfisingem. Pew Oieusde. CM, owl Pety, will
he made up so the monis' el tin lei Drs.
Its mis kr Masks. tie Mile. red Dams Apse, will to
geode sa as the semi., ea. 441 i
Tee evolerl mho be Ofterisr. WY, Grease, the Tadao Weeds.
Oesleu. bale. Neag.less. lad ages, eta lbetluesp-
M 1 be made epee the =emits ~Nth Des.

MOE WATTS AT LIMON 11110411.
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stmlaastm.likaabstlla. pro anam O.

LONDON,WEDNESDAY.NOV. 22.

THE invasion, the extension, the zealous preaching
and propagandism of the school of military politics
us is very remarkable. In some instances it
is alarming, in others amusing. The unblushing
effrontery with which orators and writers, addressing
audiences of Englishmen, uphold the wisdom and ex-
pediency of putting down constitutions, • the
press, proclaiming and maintaining martial law, 'ek-
ing representative assemblies out of their halls, bom-
barding cities, and sending all who resist to instant
execution, is calculated to excite surprise and indig-
nation.

The aide ways and small apertures through which
this ultra-conserva'iszn shows Writ are equally the

symptoms of reactionary spirit, though more easily
detected and laughed at. One of the most noted cha-
racteristics of every military system of gm erament is
its horror of learning and its dread of education, if
either be applied to the moral sciences, or to the
indulgence of reason upon what concerns the nature
and prospects of man. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the
Emperor Fitaxela of Austria, the Czar of Rue-
SlA—all understood education in the same Way.
For them it was to be confined to the
drill sergeant and the mathematician. They gave
every encouragement to the learning and teaching
of abstract science; but logic, or moral philosophy,
or knowledge of the classics, or the study of history
—these were dangerous pursuits. Nowhere were
there better scientific or engineering schools than in
Vienna; but over the moral and humane departments
of education the Jesuits had charge. NAPOLEON
founded the Polytechnic school, and established de-
partments of a National Institute. One was
of belles knees, another of sciences, a third
of the arts, but the department of moral phi-
losory be carefully suppressed. Madame DE STAEL
or I errurrr TEAcY were regarded by him as the
most dangerous of writers. They appealed to man's
nature, took it for granted that he had a soul and a
heart, and that intellect should be the first object of
his cultivation. BONAPARTE exiled the one and
silenced the other.
With these recollections in our mind, when we read
the other day Lord Mtitos's speech at the Manchester
Atheneum and the observations of the limes, we
really fancied that we were listening to a speech of
NAPOLEON'. Grand Mester of the Univenity, with a
comment of the imperial M,miteur thereon. The
principles of education and government are precisely
the same. The doctrines are identical—the same
fears of the public becomincinstructed in anything
save the abstract science, of young men learning to
reason or daring to think, are expremed by the English

tory end the Purnell imperialist. Confine yourself to
anima*, is Load MstiOX'S advice to the young inn of
Manchealsr• echoes the Ms"
But sato histuy,guiralpitatoaonittilitical walla&
thepa= of man, ,lei his his wants, its
bit &dial—pray avoid such studies sa
thus. • Praitiod• rein of Manchester—do give you-
selves fo star gazing.
Now, in the whole range of human knowledge
jai issiikpluiLl pursuits, that which could be of least
as nil interest to a youth of Manchester, is, per-
haps, astronomy. Even supposing any intrinsically
intellectual study, soy pursuit that turns the mind
I upon itself, forbidden, still amongst the sciences there
are many departments, such as mechanics and
chemistry, which might throw a light and congenial
interest upon the Manchester mans daily pursuits.
But astronomy !—the only portion of astronomy that
is of religious and poetic interest, which discloses the
wondrous mechanism of the universe, an I prompts to
the adoration of the divine Creator—all this
may be learned or expounded in two or
three lectures. The popular science and know-
ledge of astronomy is a brief matter. But the
pursuit of utronomical science, and the employment
of the intellect thereon, this supposes and requires
the knowledge of a great many other abstract and
abstruse sciences, and these, supposing them ever ac-
quired, are so utterly unfit for the pastime of men
busily employed, that Lord MAHON and the Times
must have been making game of the good people of
Manchester, when they broached such nonsense.
They might as well have frankly preached what lay
at the bottom of their hearts, viz., that learning and
thinking of any kind are rangerons in a mercantile
and manufacturing community, which is subordinate
to the government of an hereditary oligarchy !
We were glad to see Mr. Baton? put in a manly
protest against all this twaddle by recommending
the study, at least, of history, to which he would
have a preference given over the works of light lite-
rature. Yet we do not know that the neglect of the
study of history by such readers u the youth of Man-
chester is owing so much to want of taste in them.
Unfortunately almost all our histories have been
written in a spirit the most foreign and repugnant to
the sympathies and ideas of our industrious classes.
The key is pitched high. The audience or the readerare
supposed to bean academic and tufted class, and events
are in general connected together by a cement of high
Toryism and genteel morality, which is mere French
cookery to the plain, hottest palates of the readers of
a popular institution.
Those who labour all day cannot betake themselves
to study at night, unless the book or the professor will
furnish at least half the interest requisite to enjoy-
ment and application. Works of history and of phi-
losophy might be made, we maintain, as interesting
as any novel. If they be not made so, it is not the
readers' fault. A book that excites an intelligent
man to think, will always be found more interesting
by him than the book that merely beguiles him with
pictures of life. But a jejune string of occurrences,
varied by the more jejune toryism of Mr. ALISON, is a
dose of somnolence that no student in search of
thought or recreation could resist.
There are studies deeper than history, social, poli-
tical, politico-economical, not to mention the religious
that mingles with all. Do what we will, !ct Lord

mingles with
MAHON preach each day in the year the virtues of
the aristocracy, and let the Times act u
his clerk, the people of England will not
be satisfied with merely following the courses of the
stars. They are pinched by poverty, menaced by
oppression. Political preachers are at hand, who
expound to them, some that emigration is the only
cure for their distress ; others, that their total absti-
nence from marriage is required, in order that the
progeny of those who do not abstain may be com-
fortable. The question put before the people will be
considered and discussed by the people, and unites
the military school should follow up the Napoleonic
principle,by drafting the operatives into the reeks and
killing them in war, it must make up its mind
that the operatives, and not merely the operatives but
those in the several degrees above them, will occupy
themselves anxiously, intently, and zealously about
those great questions of social and political philosophy
which every day and every hour of life brings before
them.
Let Lord MAHON, then, and the Times, and the
governing classes which they represent, exert their
intellects to give a good direction to those speculations
and a good solution to those questions. Stifle them
they cannot. To bid men forget them for the study
of the stars is preposterous nonsense.
" The proper study of mankind is man," and not
only the " proper" but the inevitable study. When
necessities, and abuses, and hardships press upon
every earner more or less, and when those charged
with the conduct of society, now start one theory,
new mother, to remedy its ill., displaying little be-
yond ignorance, arrogance, incertitude, and prodi-
gality ; when they treat the poor with harshness
and the middle clue with contumely ; when the sole
nostrum of government is to exile the labourer or
stick him in the poor-house ; whilst the more thinkitg
of the middle class are told to go and be taxed, and
trouble their beads with nothing save astronomy in
such times as these, we may depend upon it, that all
who can read and think—and most persons would
learn to read and to think for the purpose—will turn
their attention to social and political questions, not
from vain theory or an idle itch of meddling, but
becalm the class and the persons, hitherto charged
with these great questions, have shown utter inapti-
tude for solving them, and because the solution con-
cerns their interests and requires the intelligence and
interference of every man. When a captain has
driven a vessel upon the rocks, the humblest of the
crew has a right to bethink himself and exert him-
self for his own and his fellows' safety.

Tue meetings of the cabinet being resumed, we
may well suppose that the measures to be next ces-
sion presented to the legislature are under discussion.
Sure we are that they ought to be not only discussed
but arranged now, that not only the principles, but
the details may be settled, and measures prepared
which will carry out the objects intended, and not be
liable to the charge of crudeness, so aptly applied to
the " tom hand to mouth" attempts cf the past session.
To settle what proposals are to be made next
year it will be necessary to take a retroepective glance
at what was left unfinished in September. Among
the bills then dropped was the memorable scheme for
inquiring into corrupt practices at elections. The
unfortunate bit had the misfortune of kindling no
sympaliy in doors or out, and when it was quietly
shelved in the Lards, the suspended writs for Derby
and for Leicester were as quietly issued by the Com-
mons. The subject, however, will not be allowed to
rest. The canker of electoral corruption will not be
permitted to eat up the vitals of our system, and the
government will be called upon to produce tome plan
which will facilitate the punishment for corrupt prac-
tices, not only in the towns where by the accident of
a petition atter the election of 1847, the facts were
made patent, but in those towns and counties where
the notoriety of the evil and the tacit assent of both
political parties stopped all petitions. The trumpery
payments in Derby and Leicester must not alone bring
their punishment, the whole system must be amended.
What ministers intend to do or to attempt is be-
yond even our surmise. An old and zealous friend,
however, has just rim from a bed of severe, and,
as we once feared, fatal sickness, to tell them sad the
House of Commons some home truths. In the whole
range of men who have been in parliament no one
hashad better opportunities of seeing the working of
the machinery by which elections are carried than
Mr. Ttromets GISBORNE, and no one of the Whig
party has more ardently striven to extend the fran-
chise to a really free constituent body. At a dinner
given the other day to Mr. Svnuvr, at Derby, to pre-
sent him with a memorial from the electors, in whose
service he had been for 17 years, Mr. GISBORNE thus
=of the_ pseudo-hatred of corruption which made
and Mr. &rum. the victim to screen more
earrept places and worse men :
Hs was somewhat rudely pushed out of the House of
Cammene. Now Ido not impugn the decision of the com
mitten who tried my right hoe friend's election, but I've no
sympsthy with the general feeling which mused that election
to be avokled. I don't mean with regard to the case of
Derby merely, but others. I don't like sham proceedinp.
The House of Commons had no serious intention of putting
down comurion They Cr. " Conservative Reformers."
They only wish to put down the scandalous parts, in order
that they may preserve the rest. If they really imam to put
down corruption, they pi about it in the clumsiest way in
which anybody ever tried to carry out a sincere purpose.
I never at in a House of Commons that would have granted
• committee for the most unreserved inquiry into cormytioa.
Now, if men are sincere, and an abuse exists, is it not easy
to asoertain what that abuse is, its stature and dimensions ?
But the House of Commons do not want to deal with it
When Mr. Liddell wanted to put down dog stealing in the
metropolis, be readily obtained a committee, sod some tow.

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tear gentlemen were shut lap gene er vs weeks buoulriog
into all the mama with whirl Mang was con-
nected. And a blue bock was =4IFY be Pur-
ebred at the green's prima, he la and pro-
Ibably he something less at the lewarmakers. a this fall
and iirt!cular account you may learn thew the ElpaMsh sat-
=deg was ache, sad of iiiltil it was
by his sureness, 1 har Faintawsy
WOW poodle, and how bar ladwad I letter by re
tweirenny post, stating that if ot sent by fim
Warr nest dm, the poodle should lose one of his legs, for
which she begged so heartily. All this is to be found in the
report of the commitme, and upon that ample information,
Kr. Liddell brought in a hill, which was passed, in order to
pat down dog-etealing in the metropolis. That bill, how-
ever, was kicked out of the 11 use of Peers. That's the
way that practical, sincere, and earnest statesmen proceed.
They inquire into the nature and extent of the abuse they
wish to put down, and they proceed."
In 1833, indeed, the Commons did venture upon a
partial inquiry into the proceedings at the two oleo-
dons after the Reform Bill, a mass of evidence was
taken and a report duly published; but the inquiry
did not exhaust the subject, it did not point on; the
many places where corruption went on, and when the
report was laid upon the table no measure was
founded upon it. For 13 years the subject has been
allowed to slumber, or to be taken up by fits and
starts, as some particular committee or some private
member has thought it worth bringing to the
notice of the house. Thus, Sudbury, by common con-
sent, has lost its privileges—the return of Mr. DTCA
liornitit completed the measure of its virtues
in the eyes of a house jealous of all taint of electoral
impurity ; whilst Great Yarmouth escaped with the
sacrifice of its freemen, and other towns suffered the
more mischievous and less useful punishment of hav-
ing the right of representation suspended from the
many for the sins of the few. Rut there has been no
systematic attempt to trace out the crime u ProtAns-
like it distributes itself in a thousand ramifications
throughout the different constituencies, for in each it
takes some particular shape, and develops itself in
some peculiar phase. It is not always in the shape
of direct corruption ; it is more ffr.quently indirect. It
is not so often the hard cash at the time of voting as
habitual rules of the place. litre, again, is Mr. Gls-
uoarrit's honest avowal :

It tees se ermy to inform oneself of the statistics of corrup-
tion la the country as of the statistics of the import of coffee.
Ha man wants to represent some borough, for instance, he
knows where to find the place where every information is to
he obtained concerning it. You go and inquire, " What ere
the circumstances of the place you have invited me to stand
for?" The answer Le, "There are 300 Swiss; they have
three guineas each; they are staunch men, quite with us on
princine, and would not sell us for Rh. a head ; they were
paid up at the general election, but as this is a by-election,
we will tope that they will take half. Then there is about
2001. of back water: that must be cleared off. There are the
publicans and others who must he paid, and until this is
done the borough won't do for you." " Well, what risk is
there i" " With a capital fellow, as little risk as poesibla."
Now, I would be bound to prove before a committee of the
Howse of Commons, and would take delight in doing so,
what this corruption is about which I have been talking ;
but the house is not doom in the desire to put it down.
The thing occurred to myself. I was invited to stand for a
place. I asked what Sr. the circumstances of the borough
the answer was, there is no buying of votes. Well, I raid,
that's good. " But you must keep up the charities." Well,
I said, what's that ? " About 3001. or'4ool. a year "; and
then the name of a great purist was mentioned—a very great
purist in the House of Commons—and I was told that " it
did not cost him more." How well that sounds—" keeping
up the charities." Well, if I did that, what would be the
chance of a man in those charities—what chance would •
man bare, or ought to hove, who did not come to the poll
and give me a vote ? It's only another name for bribery.
It's nothing else. It's a round-about way of bribing, and I
hope that the present Ileum of Commons, if they ever in
take into their serious consideration this question of bribery,
will put down the charities. That is perhaps of all sorts of
bribery the most offensive.
It is not by sending down paid commissioners to
particular and selected places that we shall get at the
true facts. There are half-a-dozen men in London
who can give " every information" respecting the
boroughs and the counties, who can hit the blots of
each, and expose not single places, but the whole
system, whether it be the corruption of the freemen,
the hard gold to the " Swiss," or the insinuating
" charity" of blankets, coals, and meat, or the exor-
bitant subscription to some partisan society. It is
the system that must be known, and the sys-
tem that must bo changed. Here and there
we may find such flagrant instances that condign
punishment should fall on the whole constituency
yet in most cases the leaven will be found to be
small ; remove that, and the mass will no longer be
leavened.
It is clear that the law lords, with Lord DaNttaN
at their head, have an insuperable objection to the
principle of the last bill ; the government must, there-
fore, fix upon something less objectionable. Let as
hope that it will also be far more extensive ; it should
sot be limited to some half-dozen towns, it should ex-
tend to all where corruption is capable of proof; and
with the proof the correction should follow quickly
and certainly.

WE hasten to do an act of justice to the Chairman
of the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
Capt. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, R.N., whose appoint-
ment to the office of Superintendent of the -Indian
Navy the journal in the service of the company an-
nounced on Thursday last, or the morning after the
appointment was made, is not (as we yesterday
stated) the son of the chairman, he is nephew only ;
Sir J. L LLSHINGTON not being blessed, we believe,
with any son. The inaccuracy is not, however, of
any consequence to our argument as to the abuse of
patronage involved in the appointment. For, be he
son or nephew, the nomination of Capt. LIISIIINGTON
is equally objectionable.
In correcting the mistake, we take the opportunity
of giving some further particulars relative to this ap-
pointmint ; more especially as it has occasioned very
great dissatisfaction. The candidates for the vacant
post, worth 4,0001, a year, were Sir HENRY LEEKE,
and Captain Lesnlxaron, who was of course pro-
posed by his uncle, the chairman. The court was,
we are assured, equally divided as to their choice;
and, on a division, eleven directors voted for each can-
didate : whereupon the chairman, it is posi-
tively asserted, gave a casting vote in fa-
vour of his relative, whose nomination

was, as already stated, publicly announced
next morning. Now if these particulars be correct
(and we have them from a quarter likely to be well
informed), the appointment is clearly void. For on
turning to the 53 Geo. 111., cap. 165, sec. 77, it will
be found that where there is an equality of Totes in
favour of two or more candidates for any place in the
gift of the Court of Directors, such election has to be
determined "by lot, in manner directed by the
charter." Consequently, the chairman of the court
had no more right to two votes on the occasion
than Mr. Locu or any other director, and having
given two, the nomination made inconsequence is null.
As, however, a mere notice of this asserted irregu-
larity must lead to come explanation on the point, we
forbear further remark on this part of the case until it
has been given, and proceed tonotice another objection
to the appointment.
It is the fact that Capt. LUSIIINGTON is at present in
command of her Majesty's ship Vengeance in the
Mediterranean. Now, though it may be quite proper
for an officer in commission to resign his command
on receiving another appointment from the crown,
it will surely be a very bad and hazardous
precedent to allow Queen's officers to resign their
commands on the receipt of an appointment of great
pecuniary value in another service, even though such
resignation may allow ministers an opportunity of
throwing a sop to their political opponents. For in
this instance the Earl of lIMIDWICK6 Will, it is re-
ported, succeed Capt. LUSHINGTON in the command
of the Vengeance.
Nor can we find in Capt. LtISIIINGTON'iI past
services in the Royal Navy any evidence of his
surpassing fitness to be entrusted with the
superintendence of the Indian navy. For, on re-
ference to Allen's " Navy List," we find these ur-
eic( e contained in two lines and a half, " Lushington,
S., Lieut. of Cambrian, at Navarino, and commanded
the /Etna Bomb at the taking of the Morea Castle in
1828." For all which, most people will think, his
present command of the Vengeance, 84, to be ample
reward.

THERE is nothing that any man or body of men
ought more to deprecate than the advocacy of the
Time. Whether it be owing to an irrepressible spice
of malice in its composition, or to sheer stupidity, is
nn "pen question, but this is certain, that the Times
never praises anyone without insinuating parentheti-
cally an imputation or two that neutralise all its
panegyric. A political abuse may survive the most
vigorous assaults, but as soon as the Times undertakes
its defence, it is all up with it.
In the Times of yesterday accordingly we find an
article vituperative of the Liverpool Finance Associa-
tion, and laudatory of our military system ; and
wrapped up in this laudation are two charges against

that system which are conclusive as to its rottenness
and need of a radical reform.
_

-1, Our military system," says the Times " may be too
mercantile, but it certainly is not too aristocratic." Too
mercantile it certainly is. The act of procuring a com-
mission is in time of peace neither more nor less than a
profitable investment of money. The vast majority of
commissions are obtained by purchase, until recently
all commissions were thus obtained. An ensign's com-
mission may be had for 4501., and the purchaser
comes immediately into the receint of 901. per annum;
a lieutenant's costs 7001., and a lieutenant's pay is
1801. per annum. And when the holder is tired of
wearing a red coat, or wishes to invest his money
otherwise, he can sell his commission for what it cost
him. His duties in time of peace are not sufficiently
onerous to prevent time hanging heavy on his hands.
This is patting out money at tolerably. high interest.
The Times is right: the accent certainly is too mer-1
cantile; though owing to the peculiar constitution of
the British aristocracy it is not a whit less aristo-
cratical on that account.

Again, that " good-natured friend "—the Times,
while eulogising our military system, takes care to
remind its readers in a parenthesis that our " much-
abused and much-worked army " is "just equal to
that of Belgium and one-fourth of that of France."
This is not strictly accurate. The effective force of
the French army at the time of the last revolution
was 336,000 men ; the number of men borne on the
estimates for 1848-9 (army and ordnance together)
was 128,141. The English army is in number about
one-third of the French. The coat of the whole
French army in 1847.8 (exclusive of extraordinarica
for Algiers, which may be set off against our Kaffir
war expenses) was 13,500,2441. The army estimate
for 1848-9 was 6,318,6861. ; the ordnance estimate
3,115,2181. ; in all, 9,433,9041. In point of numbers
the British is only one-third the strength of the
French ; but the British army costs this country more
than two-thirds of what the Fri nch army costs
France. .

The Liverpool Financial Association ought to pass
a vote of thanks to the Times for assisting them to
prove the rottenness which pervades our system of
army administration, and the profligate exec*s of ex-
penditure entailed upon the country in its name.

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