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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 14.

Loan JO= ItIiSiELL is evidently quali'ying to be
a member of the new Holy Alliance. To throw ar
his old liberal weight and ride a race of conseivatisru
with Louts NAPOLEON himself, seems his object.
Had we a NW/in commissioner in the galhoies of
each house of parliament, and if miuisterial existence
depended on the pleasing this comenishmer, end
ape %king m harmony with absolutist and retrograde
prnuciples st government, the ministerial speeches in
both houses could sot be other than they are. As to
Lord Par.mmurrox, he is evidently sesnendei, and
the Furerign-offtee in examiseioa. Lied lone him-
self, at least the old Lor I lotto, seems in the same
predicament. And Sir GEORGE GREY, forgetting
that he is a Oast, leads the asetamorphoced whigs in
the path of resisieeree.
Urn principle evidently guides and domlnates the
tory section of the whip, and that is 'eddy.
"Finality JACK" mar disown the namo in words, but
in deeds he is pinned by his more retrograde col-
lea ms. Tao'r sy moathies and determlnaion arc
m toot stly not merely tory, but n'tra-tory —what
they protean and axp -and are the ideas of Lords
STANLEY and NEOT terns, with the great exception
that they deem it ding. roes to tax the food of all
Englishmen to keep up the rent of sore hundred
large 1 indholders. It is not that all difference hue
ken sia.rothed ktween the whigs and Sir Bonner
Pert.; bat with the exception of the One great mea-
sure, we defy any one to distinguish between woig4
and pretectioaists. The backward movement of par-
liament and of public men in England cannot be
better exereeed thin be saying they have retro-
gni eel from CANNING to CASTLEREAGH.
In such • state of general defection on the
part of all m mbers connected with the aristocratic
cl trews, of what nee is making motions in parliament
about ballot and triennial parliaments co matter
how raVonal, how me:derive, hoe cail-d for the re-
form ? inert is but one Testi y that would get it
takes irate consideration—there being a popular
clamour behind it. lot the people be quiet, as in
lent. Let the middle classes give in their Tesigns
tier—as ter s-cm to have done—end the relaxing
of the coeds' will inevitably have the effect of milkier
the whip fall back oa the reckon, and the Pee:-
ills on the uha-tories. In this they show but
their natural (*liege and colour. It was only the
Jibe:ahem that wee artificial. And where there is but
one oral or just melon, as that of Mr. IYEeneotorrtre,
the people may learn from the division upon it th-
difference between their true representatives and the
sham I.lerals.
We discerned same days since by anticipation the
question of the duration of parliaments and charge-
te ri-tei by antienration the only miniwerial objections
to triennial parliaments. This is that it requires two
or three years to oomph to a parliamentary educa-
tion, and that a I riennial parliament would thus ensure
List a rapid suceeation of ignoramuses. It is certainly
cool and characteristic the assumption, that the
people would never re-elect a candidate after his par.
liamintnry education was completed; this speaks
pet y 'riskily what kind of an education Sir
GEORGE GREY contemplated.
But the truth is. that it is infinitely too late for any
one entering p rrliament to commence his political
oducat;oo. What with nightly debates and daily
committees, a member exercising considerable the-
rm and assiduity, can scarcely keep himself
net roarant with the business of the day. To know a
few que-tions pretty well, and enough of others to
avoid any very gross blunder, is the utmost a member
of parliament can obtain, unless his political educitiou
has been made previous to his election. After that
sweat, he may hire to wend his way with ease
through the Treasury corridors ; may have that
"pull" at the miles which excited Mr. BER-
NAVA innorrent indignation—he may also become
bat r acquainted with that &seioline of the whip-
pers-in which we lately exp dish d upon—but the
question is, is it for the advantage and interest of the
people of Erglsnd to give a seven years' lease of
mfinc °ce to their ?epees. Metiers in order that they
m ghe Require such experience as this? Admitting
that duration is the great preventive of crime, we
do.,lrt if such education be not the very road to
Tao i•l4.
Went the ministerial orator most deprecated in the
measure of • parliamentary dissolution, was the incon-
venient inde,tenderce and liberalism of members
dlonnic the list yeas of a part amt nt ; the prospect of
• @overly appearanra betote their electors rendered
them quite unmanageable, and in fact de-
stroyed all the g red effects of their boasted
educe' mn. The ministerial policy, therefore,
is revere to allow a last sessile of parliament,
but to el! rer a last session to be passed by membsts
in • hippy ignorance of their approaching dissolution.
It is ie order to give room for this manceuere that
gove meet insists on the Septennial Act ; first, that
members may receive an "duration which makes them
f eget their cone•i•tients; and, secondly, that their
teener of palitical life b'euffi-iently uncertain that in-
conveuient sec elite i ms and fears of their constituents
may rot corns to destroy all the good effects of that
*daemon. A mere bare-faced juggle than this it
would he d flicult to find, defended by more bare-
faced ere flimsy sophisms.

MINISTEER are appireetly afraid of the forthcoming
triplet by the c nomittee on ordnance estimates.
Tbeir &operate struggle on Thursday evening to get
the romaa a brought on before members could read
the renort, the shallow pretexts advanced to pallia.e
their iseecent haste, and their waspih and wanton
impuetwas of " vexatious oppooition," all betray
the txtremity of terror.
It ie not easy to sward the palm of absurdity among
so essay romp .titorte, so equal are ths claimant the ed-
ucates he f *ring on the consideration of the estimate a.
Lord J. ItirSSELL declared that t. he had postponed
the ordnance estimates for a considerable time in the
lope that the re pet would be laid on the table of the
home : it had beet d ine that day, and he did no
th bk it an unreasonable prapnetion to proceed
with the votes now." If Led JotiN thought it
decent to wait fur the report, one ohould imagine
that 'he propriety of waiting a few days till mem-
bers enuld reed it, wee equally obvious. The CHAN-
CELLOR or THE EXCHEHtAtIe hinted that "it they did
ace proceed with the subject, they would protract the
swim for a week which he did sot think would be
ail. iseihle." Sir CHARLES thioks the wanton voting
of m me r not required, in a state of at.er ignorance,
is a r r i I pe-cedilla and may be committed to save
himself and o her good easy Ines the bore of a whole
week of pultament. Sir JAMES GRAHAM thought
"it ...cold be advi-ablo to proceed at once with the
estin.n •up to the s:h of April last, taking the pe-
riod of 'be recess fully to consider the voluminous re-
port of the committee." Sir Jnees is anxious to have
one lolly extravagant vote before he tu•na economist.
H:s sugg-inion rem mhlts lister some old sinner who,
wheu vi.e.l to reed the Bible, proposes to have a jolly
debauch that night, and to begin to study repentance
next day. Good-r allured Mr. BROTHERTON weS for
aamply.ag wits the request of ministers: "he felt
that though they voted the money government was
sot ohlig-d to speed it r
All t • e speakers from whom we have quoted were,
like S;r Taw Belch, "in admirable fooling." But
Mr. BROTHERTON might boast with Sir Andrew
Awa. ;reek, that if the others " did it with a better
he dii it the more natural." In the niaieeries of
r.ll the mit there is a lurking meaning and purpose ;
the a' suriity of the epeeth is a cloak to a shrewd
8,1. er inrr ntion. LernJOIIN wanted to says appear-
wace-; Sir CHARLES WOOD to frighten the grouse.'
chute's ; Sir JAMES GRAHAM to mores the com-1
me-tem-et of mi,i.torial economy till i e shall have
IA woe Char:cello. of the Exchequer. But the worthy '
militia for Salford spoke nonsense for sheer lack of

meaning. The fool's cap, the appropriate nward fcr
distinction in *no', a contest be hie :

Ha won ft will, and may be mar it long.

A more disgraceful exhibition on the part cf mi-
nieces and their &abaci vie nt Commons than the r -
pested majaritiis spinet the patontiewit ul the
eminence estimates it would net be easy to imag
A committee was appointed to inquire whet is due-
ti ma cal be made in theta esitinwee ; the cc n-oile-a-
ton of the estimates is postpon d till t', r vat of
the commi:6 e is ready ; &r.l as s ion as wail-ten
know the nature of the report, they strein every
nese to peel the eetitnatee throu:h the boost•
before it is distributed to the members. It is
in vain for ministers to plead ign. raece of the
contents of the report; even thru,cli the. treat salet,
Mr. Fox MAVLE, vowel that he had kept the pro-
ceedings of the committee a dead secret hum his col-
leagues. Will Mr, MAULS directly sea unequivocally,
without " mental resersatirna," &di-re that his toi-
-1 levees did not learn from day to day every:Wiz that.
I passed in committee ? The statement of Sir WILLIAM
Ilineswearrir respecqug a speitt: retrenchment re-
commended by the committee filly explains the
eagerness of Lord Join RUB-ELL to prose on the
money votes before the report was priuted. lie had
no leer that his Janizaries would reuse to vie
any money he asked, eves after they hail read
the report, but he was willing to give alai
of them as sit for popular cunNtitutn its an
opportunity to pretend that they had von din igno-
rauce. The vropeell to We the estimates with an
unread report on them lying on the table STAS in-
decent, was susp.eious; and yet a majority of tee
Howe of Commons was sufficiently lost to anion to
support it.
fhe financial and parliamentary reform avocet-
tions will do well to elreulate rep-in's of the disew-
-51011 of Thurs lay en the motion to go into commi tee
on the ordnance estiamt-s, with tee divireon lists ap-
pended. More :hen any debate of the s 'aim, it w.ll
show the people how their money is voted away, and
what shallow pretexts their repreeettatives are emit.
to accept at the lands of goveremer.t in pathation
of the gror•e s. violation of their duty. the report se
the debate with the division lists, are wide a tun-
dred arguments in favour of parliamentary reform.
Thi y show how utterly unworthy the House of Com-
mune, as at present constituted, is to be intrusted
with the strings of the tastiest"! purse. They show
how short a way the purest intettion., and the cleareat
knowledge of the national wants can go to woke a
reliable representative, unless combined will that
character of stern self-reliance which is inaccessible
to the insidious contagion of bad c impiety. Mary
who would make valuable members in a parliarner t with
a majority of men who entertained their own views and
,entiments are too soft to assert thin iu the c ntp.any
of such as do not sympathise with them. Only in a
parliain-nt where men with popu ar s. M.Mlbl,ll ore
the majority can we hope to keep the puulic virtu
f ordinary tempers nnrelaxeri. 'llaisy are aeheineit tit
their own austerity in the cimpany of politi lens of
easy virtue.
On. important lesson, too, the earnest practical re-
formers MST I aril from the perwe dioge Thuliaai
evenieg. It is the power which a resolute, u-.e.rni
promising minority ponces of checking and exposing
the laxity and lack of principle of a sunuervient par-
liament. The minority on that evening never fell
below 20 (tellers included) ; but it was the dogged re-
gelation with which Messrs. Hume, Glnsus, J. B.
SMITH, BRIGHT, and COBDEN placed their backs
ag4inst the wheel of the in is ithe machine
that kept the greater part of this minority
to their duty; and these gentlemen with thew
three or four silent friends could have accomplished
the task alone. They who are familiar with the
older volumes of HANSARD know that, in the earlier
part of his carter, Mr. Hume has =thieved important
victories with even fewer supporters. We hope this
levean will not be thrown a ray upon the finale:is'.
reformers in parliament, with reference to the cease-
less guerilla war against the estimates which they
will have to wage during this and it may be many
future sessions.

THE return showing the progress of cholera from
the 11th of June to the 12th of July, which appeared
in the Gazette of last night, is it etru-Live.
In the metropolis cares of cholera occurred in 13
districts during the hat nineteen days of June, where
none have been reported since; eases of cholera have
occurred in 57 districts during the first twelve days
of July where none had been rep nted previously.
Throughout the rest of England cases of cholera were
reported to have occurred at 16 places during
the last nineteen days of June where none have
appeared since; cases of cholera have be n
reported during the first twelve days of July from
twenty places preview-1y unvisited by the disease.
Two places in Seotiaad affected during the last niae-
teen days of Juno appear to have been free from
cholera since, and three new placer+ have been attacked
during Vie first twelve days of July. Ia all, thirty-
three localities, the seat of cholera during the last
nineteen days of June, have had no cases in July;
eighty phloem free from cholera during the last nine-
teen days of June have been invaded by it during the
first twelve days of July.
The epidemic is slowly, but decidedly, widening
the range of its visitation'. In Scotland and the
English provinces the num'xr of attacks and deaths
do not appear to have augmented with the increase
in the number of places aff.cted. In England (Lon-
don excepted) 2,026 cases and 811 deaths were re-
norwd during the last nineteen days of June, 1,432
cases and 524 deaths during the first twelve days of
July. In Scotland 82 eases and 35 deaths were re-
ported during the last nineteen days of June, 87 cases
and 30 deaths during the first twelve days of July.
But in London there has been a masked increase both
in the number of cases and of deaths. The total number I
of cases in the last nineteen days of June was 91, of
fatal cases 61; during the first twelve days of July
there have been 453 cases, of which 278 were fatal. I
Throughout the rest of the island the disease ap-
pears
to have spread over a greater extent of ground I
in July than in June, but without increasing in fre-
quency
or malignity ; but in the metropolis its ter-
itorial range has been exteidA, and its malignity
augmented.
We are authorised to state that no groups of cases
have been visited, on the part of the Board of Health,
in which the warnings issued so long ago as Novem-
ber last have not been neglected. Even independently
of such information, the localities where the disease
has been most frequent and deadly would suggest a
similar conclusion. It has crept in a great m-a-
sure along the banks of the river ; in Old Brentrord,
Lambeth, Shadwell, Hotherhithe, Deptford, Green
wich,Lewitham Union, and Wools; ich, it has been
more frequent and deadly than in any other metro-
politan districts, with the exception of three :
Holborn Union, Whitechapel, and St. George's-in-
' the-East.
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