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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23.

Two more chapters have been added to the his-
tory of the Life Peerage controversy. Two further
debates, each terminating in a party division, have
taken place in the House of Lords. Both are full of
significance and importance. No great concession
his ever been extorted from either privilege or
prerogative in this country withoat protracted dis-
cussion ; and we have therefore no reason to re-
pet—very much the reverse—that the ill-advised
tenacity of precedent on the part of the Tories, and
their instinctive jealousy of every proceeding on the
part of the Whip likely to be popular, have led them
to place so many obstacles in the way of Lord Wens-
Lan:razes reception u a member of the Legisla-
ture. Every hour's additional debate deepens the
public eonviction that the day of an exclusively here-
ditary peerage is past, and the looser the vela resist-
ance of its members to the introdudan of re-invi-
gorating elements the larger will the enforced infusimi
of such new elements be.

On the assembling of the Upper House yesterday
an attempt was made to persuade the Peers to pause
in their passionate and precipitate ceases of wantce
antagonism with the Crown, and to ask the advise
sad aid of the Judges before hams:ding what is point
of fact amounts to a judicial decision on a great
question of constitutional law. Lord Otinum, after
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a bybernation of many years, see= to have felt the
spirit of his youth stirred within him. In a speech
which may be taken as a fair reflection of the wadi-
that of mind of many of thee* be addressed—anxious
to do what wen right, but horribly afraid of the law-
yers bewildering them into doing what was wrong—
the ex-minister of other days earnestly implored
the adjournment of the final vote proposed by
Lord Lint:mom, in order that the judicial
counsellors, provided specially for the help of here-
ditary doubts and perplexities, might be called in and
heard on the validity of patents of nobility for life.
His avowal of lay ignorance and embarrassment
maid the conflict of noble and learned diepatasts was
gait* pathetic. The LORD Cxxxottmos told him
use thing, and the LORD Cum Jun= another.
Lord LYNDHURST, he thought, might pair off with
the noble claimant himel4 who wee esakmedly a
keen and aosomplished lawyer, not likely to risk his
long-coveted honours on a nearly illegal toners.
The easilieting .vertices of Lord Sr. Leonia" he
taught, might be set off against each other; sad
time se reliable residua& of law wee left fee the me
of phis men like himself. The expediency, policy,
▪ seestitatiosality he did sot dwell es, if, in-
deed, these weighed for meek with hi; some-
what timid lordchip. Oa all hands there hoe hitherto
bens • disposition to shirk those eassiderations,
whisk are after all the only owe by whose fora
any substantial change can or will be Anted. Lord
Cimino reiterated his impostasitise tsr men law.
They bed nearly bust dews all the luminaries they
had is the Hoe" sad, after many naffs" the light
they shed was so lentos than darkness. Weald they
sot send oat for a dense of ether lights, whieh,theagh
each of less Witham might help them to me their
way 1 As if to gess* all lisp et the Idled in his
sonstrymas's breast, Lord CAMPULL immediately
lb:lowed, sad flatly oostradieted the edam he had
himself laid dews • few der before respeetiag the
illegality of Lord W 101SUITDALeS must. With as
intrepidity el &mower all his own, the Chief
lonise of the Clessn's Bsseb, wile, set a fortnight
due, is his place is Parliament, treated the title
of nobility ushered by the west in googlies,
and formally proposed that sodas shield be
gins "b air lowa Perko" that his claim to ad-
sa ne. would sot be allowed, lest sight anded at
the Idea of cesseltisg the' 'edges sa the matter, be-
aus* Needy meld doubt tee QUIRK% prerogative
to mate a peer for life, for years, or foe • mints
day I The debate yid& ensued will be found else-
where. Lord Onarruzs spoke as meek to the
purpose, and lard WINCXIIIIIA as little, as usaL
We doubt if are vote was istesseed by anything that
was said or was toe said es as lase so sorrowed
sod a theme so worm Two great parties had bees
mrshelled is appalling array to decide by dist of
yodel( a question lamina; a world of prejudice and
feeling; and they were sot to be separated sad dis-
persed by any appeal to kw sr tog* so winter
whams it sum

It la awarthelem Emil= that do divides es
Lord Ge.samo's motion was bit to be a preliminary
trial of streagtl4 sad that the =Meat of the struggle
Zagged after the easomeessent el the majority of
thirty-ons. That, were far bwor listens= to Lord
LTNDIRMIT than thew had bean to the scrambling
sad inessaintdve prefatory debate which had gm
before. finale is the appreelatioa of hereditary taste
far eloquence sad beralag—anek the &Soma it
makes in oar vaunted Upper Rowe, wheeler a ma
of pales rims to eddies@ them Were or after
Maser. Differing, es we do, altogether fro. Lard
LTIIDZIIIST in the views he hoe adopted as the
Peerage gaieties, we cannot withhold the tribe= of
ear admired's from the mangle= ability sad
power be displayed ea the meek= For es bow
sod a belt he addressed the Peeve on the history of
their privileges, end the perils to which be &seise
they are espeeed, without a wee to aid his memory,
or • pease to recollect what topics he had wed, or
what he had still to touch upon. Om, cad only
000% he mad to have some usligivinge whether his,
phyakal strength would sustain him to the sad.
Ile had toiled through may paten= which, one by
est, be sought, by verbal oritieleme, to take at of
tie category of precedes= again= him, and time
appealed to the Curacetwa whether he would act
admit them all to be what he bad described. Lord
Csanwown answered that he would admit about
ass-helf of them we,. "Ralf r azolainiod the sz-
treardisary aid ma, his voice suddenly acquiriag
Was sad =era se be preseemeed the word l "thee
I'll go through them all:' sad he did so without
falter's'. The bast portion of his speech was that
wile= he referred to amp w the methadon=
basis en which so many dear best rights sad isadta-
ticas rest. We do not cue te pinny in general terms
the view in this respect saannood by the Moran paw.'
Bat Lord LTIIDIRTILIT ought to rends= that he less
himself se Minister bean the adviser of pest ehallgelb
with whose accomplishment his reputation is ladle-
solably hosed up, and again= which the power
et resistance was nudely and emphatically that
traditional obstinacy and =gaited opposition to
all improvement to which, unhappily, be now leads
the leers of his eloquesce and the authority of his
same. Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade Le
Corn were resisted by the sem phalanx of hereditary
Idly that know arrayed to frustrate Peerage Reform.
To the last Lord LTN Daum failed to penes& the

majority of them that either measure was necessary
or just ; and both of them wen carried without their
conversion. So also will the present 'measure be,
even thm.gb he should persist in sanctioning sad
encouraging them in their futile inilination.

THE proceeding* at the Treasury yesterday morn-
ing, upon the occasion of the bidding for the New
Loan, were somewhat remarkable. This loan, like
that of April last, though thrown open to free com-
petition, fell practically into the braids of one eminent
firm. In each cam only one tender was presents&
the monied public being content to combine their
subscriptions under the swims of the Yeses•
ROTHSCHILD. The April loan, however, was sego-
dated smoothly. The price bid for it was above the
Government sealed minimum, which was Dome-
quently not opened. But in the case of the loan
tendered for yesterday, a difficulty occurred. The
terms offered by the intending contractors were nearly
1 per cent. below the minimum price which the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought he would
be justified in exacting. The difficulty was obviated
by Baron RoTascnuses agreeing to take the whole
loan of five millions, together with the contract for
the funding of 3,000,0001. Exchequer Bills, upon 81r
G. C. Lewm's own terms. Speculations as to the muss
which Government would have adopted in the event
of this satisfactory arrangement not being arrived at
are thus rendered unnecoteary. Upon the whole, the
State seems to have made a good bargain. The
Treasury authorities may legitimately plume them-
selves upon the saving of l per cent. which they have
effected by a little judicious self-confidence. At the

same time there is no ground for the belief that the
subscribers to the loan have booms committed to •
losing engagement. This is, indeed, sufficiently proved
by the fact that, immediately epos the conclusion of
the transaction, the paper representing it could have
been sold by the holders at 1 per sent. premium or
profit. It would thus almost appear as if, so far, we
could congratulate both parties to the bargain. Bat
the point which the general public will regard with
chief satisfaction is the eagerness shown to take the
saw stock now offered by Government, who officiate as
financial agents of the nation. Practically, the deposit
spon subeeriptica was no less than 20 pee teat., for,
although the preliminary deposit was reduced to 10
per mat., the subscribers will be required to meet
the eecond payment of 10 per cent. us early as the
3rd of March--i. 0., before they can transfer their
scrip to other hands. Notwithstanding the notorious
tendency of this heavy deposit to check applications,,
the total amount of the subscriptions is known to
have amounted to upwards of thirty spoilliesu Wait".
This fact speaks etzengly in favour of the universal
disposition at the part of the monied public to

come to the assistaiee of Government: It also
affords abundant proof that the socanialated wealth
at the nation may always be relied apes as awe

snares is timeset deaseial seed. -
We an glad to wades that the CHANCILLOI of the
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EXCHLQUiI soriomed in the propriety of the sug-
gestion that when any future floandal saneness-
meets are to be 1161114 so made* loping shall be ob-
served. Complains are made, ad with resew, that
the Stock Exchange and the money marine wen
kept in anneesseary and injurious suspense se re-
garde the intentions of Government. The first Gla-
cial *nineties that a loan and a funding of Bache-
queer Bills were cestemplated fell like a thunderbolt
upon the Stock Exchange shortly after the WIS.
meneneent of bonne on Friday morning last. The
Inotautaneees elect of the intelligence was a species
of panic in the stock markets, Consols expert-
easing an humiliate fall of so lea than 11
pit cent. From Friday morning until one
&don en Monday, when the preliminary interview
of the City capitalists with the Quantum of the
Ililattgont task place, Rumour had the field to her-
self. In many quarters the mast exaggerated re-
ports wen circulated with referees* to the probable
amount of the sew loan. We may take some little
credit to ourselves for having contributed to cheek
the tendency towards a &nein of this nature, which
ought to have been dispelled by an examination of
the statements of none and expenditure recently
published by the Anil authority. Bat there
can be no doubt that the den of the prevailing un-
certainty was very prejudicial. The operation of
merchants throughout the kingdom were temporarily
impeded by the apprehension that made:able
disturbance of the many market might take
place. Had the limited amount and ether
essential partioulare of the new loan been sem-
annicated on the Friday morning, all this nese
realises would have been obviated, sad the fads
would probably have been preserved from undue
depredation. Land, we an no mason why Lodi-
genes of tin -animal character should sot be sun
enniaated to the daily Jimmie la the nurse of the
night. It wool them be disseminated throughout
the country prior to the ootamenomeent of badmen
the following seerniag. No napkin end thee win
that any exeinsin information had bees impend le
the interest of favoured individuals. By the
adopted on the present :amiss, behead.= kin
contrived to obtain a loess sisal, sod as lotion
responsibility has been ant upon some of the rank
through whom the important intelligence we
permeate prior to its communiestioa to the general
public. Air G. C. Liwuh's ready misnames i• the
proposal Ix a future departure in certain poiats
from the of system of routine, warrants the belief
that ether suggestions tending to the satisfaction of
the public will be received by him in a similarly
undid spirit

VACANCIVI, APPOINTIIIIITS, AND PIIOIIOTIONS 111
vas Civil. 83ov:co.—War Depertsast : Mr. Drew, Ps
Pee aopoieted PristeipolClerk at the Pall-wan brae* vies
Mr. Weed, resigned. • :sense, la do Ones of
Chief Baturisesdsst of tie Lead Transport Depot at
Soaps baa bees enact by she dee* of Mr. W. B. Baku.
The Consehoodelts Mr. deauel Petrie, Prindipat Clerk,
Pa
bees
Ho
Musa" Quota of Vie COlMMilli4fiSt
Breech Hospital. Ortetwioh—Clack of the Cheeps
011 so : Mr. teemed Linsley, Chief Clerk, be. red
alter a tanks ef fly years ; Mr. George Ikw has btu
appoiehill 0161 curb, vies Lusby, retired ; 11r. J. W.
Reps, has bass prineted to the sewed elan, vies Dues ;
there 4 a weasel for a Wed slue Clark. Cuesne—Mr.
Willie= Lieglen hn bap applaud a Clerk le the Lug
3401/1 le Tastes; Mr. Janes H. Mackay bee beta ap-
plaud • Cleo! la Na Warts tad Matures Oaks is Lu-
das ; Mr. J. C. Jelnearee bee boss ponoted frau Coe.
*elk r st Celeeeins ie be Psindjui Mar at Bosh Melds ;
Mr. 7.lesienbeebtapoeloned Mae Camas r ot
L.-
.I,h to be Operallor at Oelsaine. Own Gearti—Mutu
Theuat Use., 1.111„ W ban stneesed nom
re
esetaarld the Let suns., vies Jame P. Suer
Chief 011eer tiehard =Pals, esimeadiegeke Lociuu
district. hos bus sepaieud Chief Oilers{ dolsvutikse,
vie, ilr. W. C. Piper, R.N., previously resoved.—C.ul
Ise Cksetts.

NAVAL MIDICAL l'inu.—Tho Gilbert Bless
Primeed ale hem lest hese 11W1/40 I by the preetieste of
the Royal Colliers of Physician* sad flisro of Z0e19.4
asd the Direeter-Oeseral of the Novel Modkal Departmest.
to Dr. William of H.M.S. Cennerest, 1860;
Dr. George hieskay, of H.M.S. Powerful, 1861 ; Mr. Jame
Semen. of H.M.S. Prism Begest, 1862; Sad Mr. Retort
I'. O. Sett. .f H.M.S. Hastbip, 1863, f.r the aspirin
maser is which Mei. )(meals wm kept. Them miles,
shish ars is poski, sad of the Mee *4 ten seisms, were
eat cetmi by the late Sig. Nantes', set homes the reverse
a eviller likeness ef the late Sir Gilboa Slum, the fassier,
with the (*hawse Isecri otion Gilbert Blase, &rem-
tse Arehl•tree it. teed." Os the obverse Is a mycoses-
taloa et • ea ter hilise wesaded bete the eras of a sow
mow, whilst Britsasis, whe leeks meandslly es Dm emu-
ream, palate le lb, emblem of the bellies art at her
silo, with the t ice, " Mast* Mossise, bestial
▪ D.COCXXII." no 4 he. swam, es It the nem
ef
the Naiad* ',driest.

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