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LONDON, NONDA r, APRIL 14.

iT is difficult to discover the utility of repeating
on the 11th of April the stlf-same pualiameatary
piece which wan played just two months previous.
There was then some novelty, name interest, some
illusion. Now there was nothing of the kind, either
in the pertiongs s or the parts. 'f he protection-
ists then mustered 267; mulisters,26l. Whereat. on
Friday night the protectionists numbered 249, and
ministers 263, a diminution about equal nn both
aides. The' more moderate of the Irish maleontents
reflect' to too further in the erunade against free
trade. Still not a few' mischief-makers, who are by
ao mums furl/ n, swelled the tore vote.
moist onufissi that the result is neither encou-
raging to minister., uor in it calrulate(l to give froth
confidence to fret trade. It displays the protectionist
phalanx as kept firm and compact by the pro-pert of
power, and as not unlikely to obtain it, should they,
IPA Lard Nottumis filing', be able to coinplete by
their ultra-prettentuntisni that void in their ranks
which premetiortism has left. The remaining
Imiliouuvn, of the session will no doubt be turned to
thin 'tarpon:. lord STAN t.r:v neither wants to grasp
power nor to dissolve at ilrthlitto Iles views are
tunnel to the gnat electoral struggle ; and, to make
the financial and papal debate contribute to the in-
terests of party in that struggle, will henctfiwth be
the mile idea of leading men in parliament.
It is assminhiug with what wondrous politeness
the itultlie, and all classes of it, are treated
in such an epoch. I.ittle an the whir can do for
tie ogrieulturiste they are still most lavish of ex-
pressions of mamba ration ant) attention. Sir
Cot %ILI is Win.t. Ira's sal his knees to the country
g• 1.11.11., It, tool points out bow 1w alleviates the tax
on their many-wintloweel mansionn. Mr. I tisteeEet,
however, grudging townsfolk the diminution of
their lon-din, dates Dot pr•pose to deny it to them.
Mr. fit..eincritsc. hints that the ten-iwatticler should
prey alum fits'-tax, hut do cu he is the bet man to
it. It is MI 11011.11 111* Ci% ility,
in other words of intuiting. Thu
are cajoled with some dimlinativu of the window
tax, out saddled with u house duty, which Mr.
litsie.st•xl ossitrest us must • day lw a great
basis of taxation. Farmers are promised pro-
tection by those who " hope they may get
it." In a word, all the persons and clawses that
are possessed of political sewer are busily engaged
in humbugging 1111,4• who have merely their .. sweet
voices' to glee once in the six or seven years. And
a wenith•rbilly shat i• tillow he must be who is not
.tukett in by our talk• ror slier.
If the ineltutttions Owes s. w tether agriculturist or ,
commit mid. WM' wise, 11141 would brewers' for the
present of the arguments. ashirtases, and the two-
Raises held out to them. 144 the farmers ssaisitler,
whether tliey an• ever likely to curry protection,
, when their own members hourly and weekly shirk
the question. Let them consider. whciht r the em-
ployers and the masters of (-vital, both in land mud
to twonifactui and in trade. pipe not precisely in
the boot. inters.ted above all things in having
labour and new material cheap. Cheap food in cheap
lesson'. I Inn/1 14 I,OIV material. lit twt the
Cantors depend for pithy; tied raw material cheap,
by trusting in those who monopolise. it. Mr. Insit
• says that )1.M.. cannot come down till told clay lands
and thin up holds go out oaf cultivation: if no, the
greulent Iston to the litrmer is, that these soils
phoutti go oat of cultivation as POllll as possible,
ainct• tin'.' ran' only kept ill talthation by a tax upset
sill the soils
in the kingdom. But. in truth,
than is liar of land going out of cultivation. 'llw
grossing of wheat by all wits was a want of discern-
ment that mold only lie perpetuated under a tern
hew. Now science is huny in dissevering what is apt
for nub soil, and if the told clay be got to return
Sax with far greater returns than wheat, and if the
dims o ery lead to renewed cultivation. a moody at
once is found for an opmemouthed grievance.
It is unfortunately the lot of all species of pro-
perty, and more in our day than, perhaps, in past
tins., to lie varying and ittoeure. To make 1111 V
property fntetify n twin. more attention, mere skill,
mon• tacking the utunsa ads:image of a favourable
moment. And this begets spurts of prosperity and ad-
tradealiallwavy marketsa hr. m g It which
alternation indu.try is doomed to 11114,4 as man's
• I it..lf is doomed to undergo satisfaction and dis-
appointment. During the entire reign of protection
the' landed and the louuunrcial interests were in two
scales of balance: alien one was up the other was
down. Whin ngeiettlitin.l product. aas scans.. the
fainter tisk his pound of tic-li thmll out the suit' of
the nutraufacture•r. Wltt•ti u guns) season brought
ahumbinee. the ttttt factures- his harvest in
foreign nuakets. whilst the agriculturist grumbled
at low prim., and cursed the bounty of Heaven. All
this is 11.1 it• away with. We are brought lick to a
state of commercial bulanct• and fairness. Anti if :my
thin!: is to Is' stable we must tiphohl the law as it is.
Its et-tilts will alone uphold it : tlit.t. results being
to proeun• cniplevitivait and plenty tbr oho labourer,
anti to divide hardships and uncertainties, slack
trade and diminished prelim between the plier 0(
trade and the idougher of land. Mr. Ilatnnis pie-
tun. of the cotton trade is surely not leas tinged
with trial and tub ersity than Mr. ItisteacLis of
fanning industry. If land and stork have depre-
ciated in value. lune they done so more than railway
property? Am' are not the milks% nee., of Loue-a-
shire practising the goose-slip. and making as little
ale .11141. sal 11.111111 C. during late years. as the fanner
him.. lb•th. nutted. arc tarilded by cheap food
ft. glee more employment to the poor : both are t•nn-
Idetl to torn their capital. and keep it in activity and
t•xistentr.. hot as for sensible. profit. that canes
upon oteasnms: and by spurts, for which such tide-
rents
must be in wait. 'lbis is not very satisfactory.
but it is the lot of humanity, which no legislation*
can change.

The maiy speech of Friday night's &Tette which
atruek out ani I hang new was that of the honour.sble
member for .Mail most certainly. for a gen-
tic nun who mart -inted the metropolis of Ireland, his
line of argument was as startling as it sas condo-
▪ e. Mr. Itcaxut.irs proved very notch to the iamb.
busting% of the house that whilst the landed intenid
of let Land had been mawh bunk m al of lute scars, thr
eiminscreial. this monied. and prof..l,4omA interests
a that country had prospend. Now tlw laperclam
• interist in Inland laterally pays nothing to the
state. It pies no prop rte tax. no window tax, no
house tax. whilstat has largely Is nettled hi the 1.11
in the rite of all Kan isions and all cononoliitit.. It
was impossible to make out a Mrungter case for the
extension of Schtiluka I), and F.. and c‘ctt of
that put of .% whith them not include land. to Ire-
land. We do not know whether Kir II %EL
has beta alert enough to keep his motion in right
trim upon the papa r; but Ibis we know, that the
member for Mardi hone cannot pradueo atrantrer
aralumicob, for the extetohon of the greater part of the
income tax to Inland than arc to be found in the
pp .+h of the mends r for the fits. of l/uhhn.
We cannot conclude without adverting to an asset-
of the I'IItNCLLIMR of the 1:x(1w:out:It. Ile
*,:in•i'4l of th. houm tax to duellie,
15W, tiatirii. annual ialue would unly prai.:uee
. This supposes that there are but 100.0(M)
it that category. Surely this is a nistrke.

THE rejection of Mr. FERRAND at Aylesbury is at
all events a recognition by a majority of its electors
of the value of good manners, propriety of language,
and gentlemanly canduct and habits in their repre-
sentative. For, irrespectively of his political opinions,
Mr. FEKRAND it, on the ground of intemperance of
thought. words, and acts, wholly unfitted to represent
any constituency in which the ordinary influences of
education, responsibility, intelligence, and respecta-
bility, produce their natural effects on political senti-
ments.
Strong, and even irreconcilcable, as are our dff-
ferenci of opinion on many important questions,
and actively as those differences ace brought to
bear on legislation, they are nevertheless quite
compatible with the interchange of mutual re-
spect with the exercise of charity as to motives,
with the predominance of goodwill, friendship, and
esteem, in public and in private affairs, with good
nature, good feeling, and good manners. We may
fight our political battles rudely and roughly ; give
hard knocks, and use strong language occasionally
exaggerate the importance of our own success, and
depreciate the merits of our adversaries; but as
"one touch of nature makes the whole world kin,"
so in the midst of all these political struggles and
contests there is a great deal of kindliness, a strong
under current of justice, a real belief that, whilst we
ourselves are not altogether the angels we profess,
neither are our opponents quite the demons we some-
times describe them to be.
In all England there is but one flagrant exception
to this state of things; and this is Mr. FERRAND. In
his mind seem to meet, to rage and to overflow all
the bud passions that can afflict a politician ; there
"envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness,"
riot in furious disorder; he never meets a man in
public controversy who rube does not malign, asperse,
anti blackguard: his ingenuity is ever at work to
discover bad motives to detract and to libel. No
matter whether it be a body of Lancashire manu-
facturers or a Prime Minister, whenever they do not
, agree with Mr. FERItAND, they are denounced by
, him a+ all that is vile, abominable, greedy, rapacious,
. and cruel. Dissent from hint, and von are a con-
spirator, a rogue, a liar, a villain, a traitor, and any-
thing worse that his foul tongue can lay hold of.
Differ from him, and you can base nu honest
convictions, no proper motives, no morality,
no honour. According to him, the Poor-Law Board
is a hug" conspiracy against the relief of pauperism :
Lam ashire a great conspirace to enslave Ahica and
, ruin English agriculture'; and every liberal in the
empire is thinking of nothing but putting him clout'.
Ile is a sort of Malay running a muck, careless of
, whose bowels he thrusts his knife into—a political
•

Just look nt him at Aylesbury. Ms opponent
them was the leady ror the Chaneers. bar—a man
who had refused an Equity judir,hip—a learned
lawyer—a mild, acromplished gentleman a person
given to precision and accuracy of statement—who,
to place such matters on their lowest footing,
could not aft:wil to make himself 1 liticaii ridiculous.
Well. no sootier did Mr. lirrtir.u. reach Aylesbury,
than outpour* d this roan-r a budget of false-
hoods. all aiming at the depmeiation of Mr. Ili:-
personal honour. lie was a mt-re venal
itolitician, ready to sell himself to any party. Ile
was a tory at Shaftesbury. a At lag at Syli sbury ; he
had sought the assistance of the tory whipper-in to
stand fur Shoreham; in short, Mr. IlEritrit. was
assailed with all the scandalous gossip that Mr.
FEItItAXn cooed pick up, and every wool of it was
untrio, for at sioirkAory Mr. WM; Lit. supported
Sir 1:i ua.yrr triumphs ; at Shoreham he was
pressed to come forward as a liberal of that stamp,
and nt Aylim.hury he appeared in that elutruett r.
Hut, had he been an angel, he could not have escaped
Mr. FEttlt Ws malice.
The rejection of such a man at Aykshrory is there-
ram in itself, and irrespeetiyely of politics, a contri-
bution to good sense anti "rood manners, fur which all
gentlemen ought to b thankful.
The return of Mr. Itcrum.i. is however matter of
ronterutolution for other n amots than that it excludes
Mr. Ft to t.mmin from the I louse of Commons. In the
first plum. Mr. l'ntt:ANi. went to Aylembory, he told
the ebston, " at the call of the hailer of his party, to
fight the great and mighty battle of protection;'' and
he means of Mr. Mt mfr. he has las n defeated in
die contest. Now. Aylesbury is what is called
an 44;1-Wafturel honing. h ; a Lime part of its
tsar-film in,. are farmers the halt-sawn of the
town are greatly tkpendent on agricultural
custom: and, nt the moment of the "light," a motion
of importance to airrieulture was depending in the
House of Commons. Yet not toile is u protectionist
candidate defeated; but, during the nomination, one
of the leading thnnerm announced his adherence to
for trade, whilst another. Mr. Ilotlarrox, was
there. as usual at Ash-,bury, defending its interests.
Th.. result of the election is therefore unfavourable to
any mtnrn to protection: the leaders of the party
sent Mr. MAUI %ND there to light that battle; and
they awl be and it have been defeated. At a junc-
f its the ]cement. n, as Mr. GLADSTONE
reminds us, Lord- ST NE' has placed a return to
proteetbai as the leading feature of his policy, this
result of an appeal. even to Aylesbury. is napoilant.
In the next place. the contest ups ars to have
been uncontaminated with those praetiees for which
.131 e-bury has hitherto been notorious. If Mr. Fiat-
R %ND maid. after the election. have raised the least

/1111110.111 us to the islements of Mr. Brotald.'s sue- I ,
ecsis he would, we may be Pure, have given to the
slightest grounds the worst of words. lint nothing
of Ow sort fell.from him; he " left the town for his
seat in Yorkshire" without venturing to hint or in-
sinuate that Mr. Bromm. owed his seat to corrup-
tion. bribery, or treating. We have a right, there-
fore. to ai•isunw that the liherul cause was not so dis-
graced on this occasion, and that the free-trade
triumph at Aylesbury is the honest expres-
si• .11 or ,ketoral purity. Let us, therefore.
hope that purity may prove as infectious as impurity
w. 0.; and that, through Mr. liamtEl.r.. A‘\ I,,bury,
may le-acquire the character it hail preciously so
seriously damaged.
Rut it is not merely the vote which the result of
this election gives to free trade that is so valuable;
the member in and through whom that vote is ac-
quired greatly increases its value. The adherence of
Mr. ItErtimo. to free trade and enlightened political
views generally, is only another proof that protection
is nieeted by almost every man of logical. and culti-
vated, and sell'-dependent mind in the kingdom;
that free trade is not a party cry, but a
deep. 'lamest. individual conviction of men com-
petent to come to a right conclusion: and that
iffiservatioo, retlei•tion. and study, are only confirm-
' ing the adherence and devotion of the learning, the
• intelligence. and the indepentlyinc of the country to
• the polity. On the one hand, all the ability of the
• realm is enlisted in its support and detYnee; on the
other is a great party, so ftwble intelltytually, that
r its chi' f could not form a ministry out of its ranks,
I when he had an opportunity of advancing in office a
- return to protection. A few Mulish. angry. and vin-
-1 dietive Insh members may for a while damage and
endang v the came of free trade by their votes; but
- the intelligeut mind of Great Britain is made up.

TF,.TIMI,NI.bL TO Till: LATE MR. ItE,OTON—
Froth the aiatount already collected towards a fund for a
temitnimial to the Lite lament. sl Liverpool magistrate, wham
family nee left in rattier straitened eireumstance., it is tally
p ta. W A th it the suet will ,hoirtly reach In,tloo/. It is in-
tetiolovl. .o. ear ads me ntioned, to have two stipendiary
mag..tritis instead of ala , -11.11*1. rpm.] is future.
As vi 1 itxf AT HIM Mti E... lAN TIIEATRL—BC-
twat gi I.) need II 0.4.41 A oda S.aturoLy au aCtitla at of a ,
frightful, if tett fatal. cheriet. r, .s. orro al on the .tag.. of
her Minewf.. 'theatre. Ilaysinah, I, 51. AI young man named
4,111., 11, ..wall, 0ft..1 21. .110, uritorturrite felkm is by
toad. •I. work•ssials •r, iiii I no. crovlop.d, with hi. father,
at the You,. ... Ow isisso".nr. at at th, pyrotechnic th part•
Iry us It .. ,ma that it ego the duly id Iktiwal. in the
third art ol 0... ..1,4 ea et .. Mum. Ito,- to Inv off rune
vou• on the 0 qt. laihseirl (h. sr, n. ii, awl willst so engaged
.a,....1 th,,is es looreart• d mot dew" 'rip il its enutents in his
to tt I. '. the tow, r twit ot who It was completely sham n.. 1
to p„,.,.., ..th all Me bon" ot Ile. hint. At the time of the
tate troph• the pi rhinsent es were witnessed by ht r moot
1tt.,r00.19 MA. sty the 1t,,.. a. with several of the royal
family, and a crowded olitti..nee, hut the Ortidellt h.lpp• nirrot
behind the sei :wry the tact war sot made drown to the
econitiey, which could only hail: had the rivet of throwing
an anniv‘.. try rtlisita upon the evtnirres reit. rtairins nt.
Although some little ....infusion was the ennetqui.n••• .4 the
accident. the unfortunate man was quickly removed to
eh:wing-cm,. Ilirpital. Ile we. immoclistelv ay. by Mr.
11. 11. Lingham, the home surgeon, who. firieliiie Mot the
pr,WerP Of ,inirleatioll Of the leg was ta. • rolvy, e1,,q,,,e11041
a sus-.nu, r tor Mr. II enctek and Mr Awn, the two psis-
: viral-urz• urn ..1 the in.tit.itinw. reams Malt 'mist th.,
s, ~„ton, ~,,,.. I,riornted t..e.orst 1.1..11y_ Ma I. ~y 1..,,,
Istate • that the right h.; i..a.0 ururh iniiirril. but it is rm.
stood that 4.iiputation in that roan will be awassltd. Y..
today be Mil: nossaintil is a so ry pre carious elate, bat was
ping es ae lavviirably as weld be espeelei

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