The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

iiDNCINO-LANE.-THIS DAY.

SCGAI3.—The large public sales are going off heavily,
the low descriptions are diffeult of ale; good grocery
qualities are quoted about tke same as last week. The Re-
ined market without alteration.
Correa.—The small public sales were chiefly bought in
quotations remain the same as last week, but they must be
considered partly nominal.
TEA.—The news received by telegraph from China has
materially strengthened the market, there have been
buyers at yesterday's prices, but holden ask rather higher
rates. Common congou, 111 to 111 per lb.
Corrox.—The market is very firm.
SALTPWIIIII —2.50 bags sold in public sale, refraction 111
to 14, at 295. ; 1,000 bags Madras, refraction 121, sold at
26i. to 28s. 6d.

Bice.-1,160 bags Bengal sold in public sale at 14s. 6d.
to 15s. 64., which wen previous rates. 1,200 bags Madras,
first and second class, damaged, sold at 11e. to 12s. 61.
PEPPER.—Batavia sold at 4gd. per lb.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The tallow nauket is steady, but not active. The de-
mand, however, for tallow on the spot is very good.
Town tallow is quoted 60s. ; Petenburg Y.C. on the
spot, 68s. 6d.; Oet. to Dee., 58s. 3d.; Jan. to March,
:ob. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Mr. B. J. Davie report/ the supply large, and the do-
mend good. Prime meadow hay, 90s. to 115 s. ; inferior,
50.. to ; rowen, 455. to 605.; clover, 90s. to 1305.;
second cut, 70s. to 110 s.; straw, 360. to 422.

DEILIVATION Or " TOPSY TURYY."—When things
are in confusion they are generally said to be turned
" topsy tarry." The expression is derived from a way in
which turf for fuel is placed to dry ea its being cut. The
surface of the ground is pared off with the heath growing
on it, and the heath is turned downward, and left some
days in that Maio, that the earth may get dry before it is
carried away. It means then top-side-turf-way.—From
"Notts and Quarks."

Exchequer Bills remain quoted par to 4s. prem.
India Bonds ruled at jis. dis to par.
The foreign stock market was generally rather
flatter, the Amsterdam bourse showing a decline in
the foreign securities usually dealt in there, includ-
ing Peruvian, Grenadian, and other stocks. Here,
however, the actual variation in prices was not im-
portant. The chief movement was in Mexican,
which rose 1 per cent., owing to the reading in the
Stock Exchange of a notification (given below) to the
effect that a half-yearly dividend is to be immediately
paid. Russian, Grenadian, and Peruvian stocks,
besides others, were flat, but showed a
slightly stronger tendency towards the close.
At four o'clock Mexican Bonds were quoted 241 to
3. Spanish Deferred, 211 to 1; the Certifs., 43 to
51 per cent. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
70 to 72 ; ditto Three per Cents., 48 to 50. Granada
Active, 20 to 22 ; ditto Deferred, 71 to 81. Russian
Five per Cents., 111 to 113 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 96 to 97. The list of sales includes :—Bra-
zilian Old Five per Cent. Bonds., 97 : ditto Small,
97, 98. *Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates, 931.
Equador Bonds, 5, 1. Granada One-and-a-Half per
Cents., ex Dec., 1849 coupon, 191 ; ditto Deferred,
71, 71. Mexican Three per Cents., 231, 3. 241,
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 701, 711,
Portuguese Four per Cents., 401. Russian Five per
Cents., 1111; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
963, 96. Spanish Old Three per Cents., 44, 44`;
ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., 211, 21; the
Committee's Certificates, 41 per cent. Venezuela
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 30 ; ditto Deferred One
per Cents., 12.
In the case of advances for short periods money
continues easy, but all long dated paper, even of first
class character, is negotiated by discounters reluc-
tantly, and only at enhanced rates. We hear of
discount being obtained to-day as low as 41 per cent.,
but this was on unexceptionable bills, with only
about three weeks to run.
We have to-day to record further arrivals of gold
from Australia. In addition to the 256,000/. advised
this morning as received by the Eagle, the Charlotte
Jane has brought in 34,400 ounces from Adelaide,
whence she sailed on tho 2nd July, and the Pelham,
4,442 ounces from Sydney, with dates of the 4th July.
The total receipts of Australian gold for the two days
thus represent a value of about 411,0001. The Duke
of Richmond has also arrived from Portland Bay,
and the Thalia from Launceston. Respecting these
two last named veseels nothing definite is known,
either as regards their date of sailing, or the gold
on freight, but they are not believed to have more
than a trifling amount of the precious metal. Our
anticipation of largely increased arrivals of gold from
the United States is being fully realised. In addi-
tion to the large imports from that quarter reported
in our paper of this morning, the America has
brought in 491,948 dole., or about 98,4001. sterling.
Eminent firms on this side expect considerable fur-
ther remittances by future packets. We under-
stand, however, that 270,000 dole. of the amount
brought in by the America is destined for the conti-
nent. The steamer Hope has brought in 2,200
ounces of gold from Africa, worth about 8,8001.
The subjoined satisfactory communication has
been handed to us by the committee of Mexican
Bondholders :

MEXICAN DEBT.

Telegraphic messag;;;;liiOn the 11th inst. by E. J. For-
Wall, Esq., in New Orleans, to J. G. Ward, Esq., in
Boston, and by the latter to Messrs. Baring Brothers, and
Co.:
"At the request of your agent in Mexico, I inform you
that arrangements have been made by the Mexican govern-
ment for the immediate payment of one dividend, and a
remittance of 40,000 i. has been sent to Colonel Facio by the
English packet for that object. Communicate this to
Baring and Co., and to the chairman of the Committee of
Mexican Bondholders, 27, Gresham-street, London."
Notice is issued of the caneelment of 194 special
bonds, amounting to 50,300/., of the Danish Tbree
per Cent. Loan of 1825.
The dividend on the Six per Cent. Corporation
Bonds of the City of Montreal, falling due the let
November, are duly advertised as payable at the
Commercial Bank of London.
The unfavourable accounts from the country re-
Tecting the weather and its pernicious influence on
the sowing of wheat, caused holders of corn to-day to
demand a further advance in price. The supply of
home-grown wheat was small, and the price ruled
2s. to 3s. per quarter above the rates of last Mon-
day. Foreign, of which the arrivals show a large
quantity, was held for an advance of 35., or le. above
Friday's rates. Flour ruled Is. dearer. Barley was
quite as dear as last Monday, and oats Is. to
higher. Beans and peas have recovered from their
late depression In floating cargoes of wheat a rise
of Is. to 2s. on Monday's prices was established. On
Saturday several sales were made, including a cargo
Taganrog Ohirka, on its passage, at 645. 6d.; a tine
cargo Galatz, at 665.; a cargo bard Galatz, at
53e. 6d. ; and Odessa (Mirka, at 64e. To-day a
cargo Galatz wheat, on its passage, was reported sold
at 585.; and Galatz Indian corn, at 41a.

The marker for home mining stocks to-duy, has
been characterised by increased activity. The sales
reported are :—South Caradon, at 242,1, 243, 247 ;
West Caradon, 220, 223; United Mines, 227, 2:10;
Boscean, 100, 105 ; West Providence. 39, 40 ; Great
Wheal Alfred, 341, 35, 371, 41 ' • Comford, 341, 36;
Alfred Consols, 26; Gilmer, 5; North Buller, 8,
; Mill Pool, 6; ; South Tamar, 6; ; East Tamar,
1; ; Wheal Zion, 24' 4; Poltimore, 215., 225.; St.
Day United, 24. 1; East Halamanning, 205.; Speed-
well, 51; Herrington, 10s. 6d.
The gold mining share market was firmer, espe-
cially in the afternoon, and closed with an improved
appearance. The inquiry was chiefly for the Colonial
Gold Company's shares, which improved ss. per
share. At 4 o'clock Colonial Gold were quoted
to 4 prem.; Great Nugget, par; Port Phillip, 7-16
to 5.16 dis.; British Australian, •o 4 die. ; Agua
Fria, 7; to prem.; Nouveau Monde, 5.16 to 7-16
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shares advanced 10s. The Metcalfe Company's
shares were flat, and closed at a further reduction,
viz., at to l; prem.
The nominal closing prices of new undertakings are
as follows t—Mizen Head, to k did.; Lewi' Hill
Range, ;to die. ; Cologne Lead, 2 to 4 die.;
Clarendon (of Jamaica), kto prem.; Britannia
Gold, to 1 per eh. ; New South Wales Coal, 2to I
dis.; L'Aigle d'Or, 2to din.; London and
Virginia Gold and Copper, k dis. to prem. ;
Mount Carbon Coal, j to : dia. ; Aenmare,
& dis. to 2 pm.; Lake Superior Copper, 1 dis. to
par: Connemara. i die. to par; thenaulin. j to
dis. ' • Australian Mutual, 2 to : dis. ; Chartered
Australian Land and Mining, 2 to 2- dim.; Golden
Mountain, to 1 die.; Poitintore, to (prem. ; Great
Crinnis, par to I pm. ; Garnett gad Moseley, I to
II prem.; New Linares, dis. to par; Sue River (of
Jamaica), par to 2 pm. ; Metcalfe (of Jamaica), I t to
12 prem.; lihurode Copper, j dis. to 4 pm.;
Carberry West, tt toe die. ; Adelaide Land and
Gold, 1, to ill die. ; Australasian Coal, & to 1 die.;
Liguauea (of Jamaica), to 1 dis.

THIS DAY.—Two o'C4.ocx.

The gold mining shares to-day an steady, at alhrut
former prices. Agua Fria are quoted 0-16 to 11-16
prem.; Colonial Gold and Nouveau Monde, 3-16 to •
7-16 prem.; and Great Nugget, par toe prem.
Australian Agricultural shares are quoted 32 to
34 : Peel River, die to par ; Scottish Australian
Investment, 1 to 11 prem.; and North British
Australasian, 1-16 dig. to 1-16 prem. laverisl Bra-
zilian Company's shares have been dealt in at 61 to
51; and Linares at (11.

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LONDO.Y. IMLAY, OCT( ABER 23.

'lint affair at Lagos,—of which M. gave full parti-
culars yester.l.l .—reises a new quest;on of seinelittle
importance'wta to the character ant! the pocket et this
country ;—a questiou which, it is to be booed, Lord
CLAKENIJON 'Ala take into his serious consideration.
It is, whether uar cruisers on the Western Coast of
Africa are to be permitted to interfere with arms in
such quarry!4 ail-1 disputes of the negro tribes as
they may chat-,,, .o meddle with? So long as a.nter-
ferenee was par: and parcel of our general Slave
Tr.ede system. ::s excuse WAS mixed up with the
larger questi rt of the Stale Trade. Thus, when
Captain I)::sitas destroyed Senhor Fenno lILANCO.4
slave hart aeoons the river Gallium., the release of
several hundred.. of unhappy beings therein con-
fined, and the check thereby given to the Spanish Slave
Trade, were held to justify the excess of authority
he ventured en. Subsequently. an innumerable
series of treaties with the petty chiefs all along the
coast hare been formed which give our cruisers the
right of forcibly suppressing the Slave Trade in
their territories. The policy or the impoliey of these
arrnngemeots is not, however, the present point. Our
interference is !raw going much further than anything
the treaties corer, for at Lagoa our cruisers are
obviously taking part in the barbarous and bloody
politics of the place,—are actively engaged in its dis-
putes and qu ureic, —aod are by their meddling exas-
perating local pissious, augmenting the horrors of
war, and doing ii:eparable injury to trade in one of
the lik, hest -pots for a great commerce on the West
(toast of Africa. Therefore it is we ask whether
this new feature in the African proceedings of our
navy has been sanctioned by her MAJESTY'S
Government ? The Slave Trade is "extinct"—we use
the language of the Commons' Committee of last
session—su far as Brasil is concerned, and the recla-
mation.. of the British Government to the Court of
Spain. have produced at least its temporary cessation
on Cuban n-connt—at Lague, the scene of these dis-
turbances, the traffic is entirely destroyed. It is
eery natural, then, to want to know whether our
cruisers are now charged with the superintendence of
the general peace of Western Africa—whether they
have been concerted from a police for special into a
police for general purposes—are they instructed to
arrange all its questions of disputed native rights, to
decide all points of controverted succession, to place
the partisans in whose favour they may decide on the
throoes they adjudicate about, to support them
against all opposition, and to guarantee the inherit-
ance to their children ? Is this now the
duty—are these, now, the instructions of our
African cruisers? If they are, let us, at least,
know the fut. Our reputation and our taxation,
ton, are involved in the matter, and we ought not,
therefore, to be kept in ignorance. Could a power-
ful and a civilised nation like England, by good ad-
vice, occasional assistance, and friendly superinten-
dence, preserve the Western Coast of Africa in peace
and tranquillity, it would be a noble, as well as a
profitable, policy to do so. But all experience proves
its impossil.ility. Ity interfering actively we do
more harm than good; by terminating a present, we
lay the certain seeds of a future crisis in the affairs of
these barbarous and crafty Chiefs; and as our ships
cannot always be present to enforce the policy they
Inaugurate, there is no permanent pressure on the
forces opposed thereto. Of the truth of all this we
can have no better example or more suggestive illus-
tration than what has jut occurred at Lagos.
It Is not yet twelve months since our cruisers
deposed one Sovereign at Lagos and set up another-
The depend chief was said to be a slave dealer, to
be friendly to the King of DAIIONI!, with whom our
Foreign-office has an old standing quarrel and to be
hostile to Abeeokuta, to which it furnishes munitions
of a ar. For these grave offences, and because he
would not sign a treaty to which he objected, the
Chief Kosoeo was dethroned by force and with
considerable loss of English life. In his stead, the
Chief ATAKOI was set up; and as the reputation, the
capacity, and the popularity of KO‘ioKo were depre-
ciated in the reports and despatches sent home, so the
character, the abilities, and the influence of ATAKOI
were lauded and praised. To a British King of
LAGOS, a British Consul was sent out, and British
Missionaries went. Thus, to all appearance,
British civilisation had a great opportunity at
Lagos. But unfortunately British civilisation, as
it is termed, is frequently opposed on the Western
Coast of Africa to British trade. So, when our mer-
chants got to Lagos, they found the missionaries had
appropriated to themselves all the water-side frontage,
and were in other respects by no means friendly. The
consequence was that, under the pro-British KING,
the Lagos people had not the profit they had under
the anti-British KlNG—and the loss of profit is acutely
felt by all Negroes, in whom the commercial spirit is
especially strong. The Slave Trade was gone, and it
was not replaced by lawful trade. The British KING,
too, was afflicted by the vice of drunkenness. Rely-
ing on British support, he neglected the welfare of
his people, became desperately unpopular—in short,
his MAJESTY disappointed all our expectations. His
chiefs rebelled; the British cruiser on the station
interfered ; King Kosoueo re-appeared on the scene;
so did Commodore BRUCE: and the end of all—so
far as the news goes—seems to have been, a general
conflagration and • general massacre, the Negro
KING'S death by poison, and • new war of succession.
In this struggle fur a negro crown,—unless Lord
CLARENDON forbids it,—our cruisers will assuredly
again interfere; and English blood be spilt and
English taxes be spent on Black politics. This new
fight at Lagos is a fair specimen of what our inter-
ference in the quarrels and disputes of African
Chiefs will generally lead to. Suck interferences aggra-
vate negro discords, injure our own commerce, and in-
volve us in obligations from which we get neither
honour nor profit. It is clearly a matter in
which, then, the Queeses Government ought to lay
down some general rule, and not leave to naval in-
discretion the constant chance of getting to blows on
the coast of Africa.

WE seem now to have accomplished a period in
Pular discovery. There is evidently a general feel-
ing that when Captain M'CLU&E and his brave com-
rades are safe home we are to rest from research
in that direction. It is a very interesting point of
time to thousands among us—apart from the
sympathy which all manner of persons feel tc-
wards the families of the heroes who have found
their graves under that everlasting ice. As for those
heroes, a few words will tell their noble story—that.
full of courage, they went about a great work ; and,
full of the patience and cheerfulness which
belong to such courage, they endured the
sufferings which they voluntarily encountered.
That much we all know. And from what
we know, we have no doubt of the rest—that, in
whatever way they met their death, they met it gal-

lantly —even willingly. There can be no reluctance I
to meet death in men who, for a great object, place
themselves in a position where they no longer, as in
civilised life, command the forces of nature, but are
at their mercy. Before men can place themselves
deliberately in such a position, they must have so
deep a oniviction of the greatness of their cause as
to be always and unaff,wedly ready to lay down life,
fur it; just as the patriot goes out into the battle-
field with his life in his hand, and the martyr's eyes
shine like stars in the flame that kindles about
the stake. If there is any question as to whether
their conviction is sound and their enthusiasm rational
—(and that is the question in more minds than choose
to utter it at the present moment)—we can only say,
for our own part and ou behalf of a multitude whose
opinions are worthy of respect, that the adventurers
were as right in judgment as in heart, and that we
deliberately agree with them that it is worth the
nation's while to lose even a band of heroes for such
a cause. Their names and memories will not be lost.
Those Polar ice.fields and mountains which have pre-
served for us so curiously the frames of ancient crea-

tures-90111C of which would otherwise be extinct—
the mighty forms which once made the earth shake
and resound beneath their tread and their voice—
can no less perfectly preserve the fame and memory
of those giants of heroism who are sleeping their
last in the frozen caves of the Pole. If the pre-
sent generation is pleased to Lind the great
elephant, and greater beasts than the elephant,
lammed in ice beside the Polar Sea, much
more will a future generation, visiting that Archi-
pelago, perhaps, with comparative ease, exhume
from its snows and its bergs, by the power of admir-
ing sympathy, the thoughts, impressions, and aspi-
rations of the men who have not returned to utter
them with the living voice. It is a new kind of
monument ; and, while human enterprise endures,
there is no one of the shows of nature which will not
be made monumental by sonic noble spirit or an-
' other. Will any one say that there is a human lot
more to be coveted than to be the first favourite whom
Nature thus immortalises?

But, say some—" The cause; what is the cause ?"
The cause, as we understand it, is that of human pro-
gression. Such progres,ion can take place by few other
means than the development of scientific knowledge.
There was a time when our earth was supposed to
be the one grand, only pace in the Universe—the
Heavens being a firmament to roof it in, and the
stars, lamps made for human use. When men found
out that there was something more than this in
nature, they grew wiser; and growing wiser, they
grew better. Was there ever a greater contributor
to the progress of his race than Ricnea, when he
went to Cayenne in 1672 to measure the pendulum
at the Equator, and brought away the most preg•
nant single fact that human observation ever fur-
nished—that immortal observation, two-thirds of the
results of which verified the rotation of the earth,
while the remaining third led Nawros to ascertain
the flattening at the Poles. To establish such bases
for indestructible knowledge is to work far the

highest of causes. The services of COLUMBUS and
of our Polar voyagers may not have been so great
u those of RICIIER and NEWTON; but that is no
fault of anybody's, and it does not affect the
greatness of the cause. Moreover, we do not
yet know the full importance to mankind
of the discovery of the western hemisphere ; and

much less, of course, are we fit to estimate the value
of Polar discovery. What we do know is, that man
must discover and understand the globe he lives on
before he can become all that he is capible of be-
coming. This is enough to justify our calling such a
process of investigation a mouse, as it was enough to
animate heroes to go out in pursuit of it. What
results we may finally derive, we know not, and no
living man can in sty way conjecture. We know
that there is treasure buried at the root of every
scientific enterprise; and that is enough. There
will be eternal honour awarded to those who go so
far—to the Equator or the Pole, as may be—to dig
out this treasure, to cut it into the lap of a coming
affe-

And how quickly the ages come and pus !—those
of science and natural history, if not the centuries
of human life. Of the thousands of us who have
this last week been poring over oar maps, adding to
our former pencillings those which trace the com-
pletion of the North West passage, a multitude must
have been struck with the names which the pencil
encounters. There is Cape Clarence, and Prince
Regent's Inlet, and then King William's Land, and
Boothia, and Bathurst, and Dundas; and then
arises Victoria Land out of the sea, to receive a new
royal sunshine; and now we have not only an
Albert's Land, bat Princess Royal Islands, and a
Prince of Wales's Strait—all these, and a whole
series of explorers' names, within the memory of
those who have been studying the map this week.
And since the FABIUS and their comrades were sent
out by the REGENT, what western passages have been
discussed and undertaken, without reference to the
north! What inducements, western and eastern,
have arisen, to make us unite the Atlantic and
Pacific, while our northern voyagers have been
blocked up out of the way of the new. which would
once have been thought of more consequence to them
than to anybody else ! In the interval, while
they have been enjoying (as Captain M'CLURE's
despatches show that they really have enjoyed) their
searching expeditions---their landing upon a strange
new island, with its snowy peaks, its black ravines,
its mossy plains of brilliant verdure, and its gleam-
ing lakes, whose reedy margin was all alive with
wildfowl, and where the musk oxen came down to
drink—and, again, their wistful gazing to the
N.E., till they had assured themselves that it was all
sea to Barrow's Strait ; while they have wrought
out in their seclusion the problem of four hundred
years, we have been deciding that the solution is
commercially—some would say practically—super-
seded. So fleeting are Man's occasions, and the de-
sires of his ignorance ! The better part, however,
belongs to our Polar heroes of ministering to the
desires of his knowledge, which are not fleeting, but
eternal. There may be many ship-passages westwards
for commerce; but there is but one North Polo for
science, and no discoveries of the first order can in-
terfere with the value of that of the second. If
FRANKLIN could return when our ships are in full
sale on a tropical strait from the Atlantic, right
through to the I'acific islands, he would find us, no
doubt, as much more nobly eager than of old for his
Polar news, as science is loftier than commerce.

What is to be done next ? We suppose, and we
hope, that those icy regions will now be left for
awhile to their singular repose. The time will
doubtless come when, by improvement in the arts,
in consequence of our new accessions of science of
various kinds, men may cuter those latitudes with
less risk and suffering than now, and for
that period it will be well to wait. For us
at home so much hu been done that we
can afford to pause awhile, till the risk to life is
lessened. Before, a cold dense gloom shrouded that
region from us, vs the glare of Sahara blinded us to
the burning scenery of tropical Africa. In the latter
case, art and science have so tempered the glare as to
list us sec in the desert the shadow of rocks, the
in
springing of w and verdure of thick groves,
the midst ofells, the beat.the In the Polar case, the fog
of our ignorance has been so far lifted as that we can
discern the towering of mountains above ice-fields
and a black blue sea ; and the smoking of sulphur
springs, and the browsing of cattle and the scud of

the hare, where we thought there was only sea, and
a glittering sea where we thought there was a dead
lock of land. Much more of natural history than
this we know, and some things, perhaps, higher than
natural history itself. This is enough for the Pre-
sent Let the sorrel put forth its leaves for a course
of seasons, and the torrents sleep and wake iu frost
and sunshine, and the eider ducks bring out
their broods, and the icebergs crash and topple
unmarked by human eye or ear, while our returning
heroes tell their great tale by their warm firesides,
and those that shall not return are boasted of to
new generations, whence fresh adventurers will
surely come out to seek service in that field of con-
quest where men first learned to separate the ideas
of blood and glory.

LORD DALHOUSIE AND THE BORNEO
COMMISSION.

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Our readers will recollect that the nomination of
the Commissioners to inquire into the validity of
complaints urged by our traders in the Indian
Archipelago against Sir James Brooke, was referred
to the Governor-Os 'eral of India. Those complaints
ha beeu either frivolous

must Save (prim facie) or
weighty. If the former, no commission of inquiry
ought to have been issued; if the latter, care ought
to have been taken that the investigation was real
and impartial. It was therefore incumbent upcn
Lord Dalhousie to select commissioners against whom
no suspicion of partiality could be raised. Yet a rumour
has reached us respecting his exercise of the delicate
authority to choose commissioners, to which, not-
withstanding all that has transpired regarding his
conduct in relation to Scinde and Burmsh, we hesi-
tate to give belief until it is confirmed by an official
report. It is said that the commissioners he has
named are Sir Christopher Rawlinson and Mr. El-
liot, the former of whom is accused of having unduly
favoured Sir James Brooke in the head-money in-
quiry, and the latter is a near relative of one of Sir
James's most decided and influential partisans. An
inquiry conducted under, and areport emanating from,
such auspices cannot possibly act the quasticn at
rest. It would be infinitely better to quasi the
whole proceedings at once than to abuse the pablis
patience by carrying them on in an illusory faskion.

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