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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBBR 20.

A HORRIBLE suspicion haunts the minds of the
protectionists, that they are sold again, or, if not
actually booked and paid for, that they are once more
in the market, and liable to be handed over at any
moment to a sporting bidder. Many symptoms tend
to strecgtben this misgiving—the latest being the
common-sensical tone of the Duke of Nzwcerna at
Sheffield, and the equally inconsistent and almost in-
coherent evasion of pledges against competition by
Mr. EVELYN at Guildford. Still, were there no more
certain indications than these, the unhappy protec-
tionists need not despair. A raw candidate, or a peer
run quite to seed, may be thrown by and got rid of
when ouvenient opportunity serves. Bat to be
entertained in public on raw crotchets, plucked like
the food of donkeys from the nearest hedge at hand,
or to be forced to gulp and swallow old juiceless fare,
potted by some forgotten pamphleteer some forty
years ago, and 'Mob has ever lance lain on the shelf
unused and namable,—that is rather hard.
S.ld again? 7is incredibly provoking, and yet it
' may, nevertheless, be true. When Josern led his
brethren into the royal quarten,and then capriciouty
tweed them out again, none of them looked more
Innocent than BENJAMIN; and yet they bad not
travel! d far on their way, after turning their backs
on wily JOSEPH, until: the cry was raised that one
of them had furtively borrowed JOSEPH'S cup, and,
upon investigation, it was found that the ingenuous
Thr—enutior was the slyest rogue amongst them all.
Want he could want with the incantation cup of the
great corn minister his bewildered fellow-wanderers
could not tell. But to them who* signified it ? :Back
into Egypt did the burl of BENJAMIN evidently
lead them, so they cursed him in their hearts.
Three years ago Sir ROBERT PEEL tied his prin-
ciples to a tree and ran away from them. He had
borne the burden of them until, in weariness and
shame, he made up his mind to fling them off and be
rid of them. But those with whom he bad cove-
nanted to carry them in periodical triumph amid mer-
cenary mirth and insane shootings, would not let him
go. Their money was made by it, and they could not
afford to unload their _leader; whereon there ensued
that memorable row between a recalcitrant opinion-
bearer and the proprietors of said opinion. When
neither throats, nor blows, nor reproaches, nor per-
suasions availed aught, he who had discerned the
first s 3 mptome of the coming treachery, offered on
his own account to take up and carry the &Bearded
opinions, as Sir ROBERT had done before him. For
want of a better the indignant mob agreed to accept
the offer; and Mr. DISRAELI has ever since bees
stumbling and scrambling on over the rocky path of
finance and economy, heavy laden with the thread-
bare fallacies, out notions, and all the old clothes
of protectionism. Patiently, and even with
an admirably feigned air now and then of
pride, has be borne his unconscionable load. Occa-
sionally he has even endeavoured to look sprightly,
and leap at the double fence which on either side
shuts in the coveted herbage whose " green cloth" is
spread for the more fortunate every day. But there
are limits to all endurance, and even Mr. DISRAELI
shows symptoms of getting awfully tired of carrying
protectionism up kW and down dale, with a foolish
and feeble crew at his heels, and seeing no end to the
joorney.
" Is be going to bolt, then, and leave us with our
precious old principles in the middle of the road, just
lake the former impostor, Peel ?" Not yet, perhaps ;
but much will depend on circameances. Only let an
ill-used party beware in time and watch the begin-
nings of that curious feat which among politicians is
called "giving one's party the slip." When Sir
ROBERT first began unloosing the girths of his " un-
alterable convictions," be strove to direct attention to
imoroved agriculture." Ho preached geology,
jokes about manuren and delicately offered to lend
a bull. Da s any one suppose that all this was
done without ulterior purpose? Far from it; these
were the preliminaries, the essential portions of the
grand design which in due time the world wee made
acquainted with. It was desirable to set the
notion afloat among his protectionist followers
that home cultivation might after all vie
with foreign industry; and it was clear that this
notion could gain a hearing from no quarter so readily
as that where protection was thought to be most
assure. And now we find Mr. DISRAELI talking
with like earnestness in a painfully similar strain.
" More capital must be had on chap teams for the
improvement of land, or we shell never be able to
stand foreign competition;"—then in a bun ied, off-
hand, some said even a cynical tone,—" of course we
intend to get rid of foreign competition altogether
as soon as we can ; but meanwhile let us by all means
try cheap cap;tal." So prole otion is to have the
honour of being preserved as a point of honour, while
sheep capital is to be " the cry," and a new land-tax
the thing to " go for." Poor ofd blunder,—after being
hawked about for three additional years after it was
fairly worn out, it is now for male again.
We cannot marvel at the decent and discreet re-
serve with which the organs of the country
_party
have raised these startling intimations of the Paste
like tendencies of their favourite Anti-PEEL. It is a
trying position for any one to be placed in who has
helped to wreck a powerful party sooner than relax
the tension of its consistency; and then, after ell the
mischief is done, and all the sacrifices made, finds
that the rebel ringleader is ready to prove himself
jest as flexible as the Wee King, only not
Malt as imposing. or wise. But fir a jour-
nalist the eass d xibly hard. His words
are winged, and will not come back at a
call. Their shadow is traced in indelible forms and
cannot be effaced at will. Publicly to disown, to say
nothing of denouncing, au acknowledged chief is a
wions matter. The Post and Herald know that
w, 11, for they have had painful and plentiful ex-
perience in the inconstancy of party leaders. And to
in ate present case they seem resolved not to be
caught in an set of precipitancy; bat, without re-
radiating Mr. DISRAELI openly, tau look mysterious,
wink hard, and while preservirg all the usual
show of reepect for the hon. member for Buck-
inghamshire, they adminster many significant kicks
M their drowsy partners in credulity under the
feeble. The suggestions thrown by their eloquent friend
at the Aylesbury dinner, are " u all suggestions
sowing from him are." And the project may be very
well in a minor way, " but really the great causa
must be kept steadily in view," and 42 forth. We
cannot blame our contemporaries for not flying into
a passim and flinging Mr. DISRAELI down stairs,
betore they are certain whether they can find anyone
to tbke his place.
But manifest enough it is to all disinterested ob-
servers that protectionism is on the eve of being rec.
Cully abandoned as no longer workable or wastes for
any factions purpose. Toryism, of which it was bat
a temp( rary phase, has In rese vs a thousand others
which it may and will assume for its own selfish pur-
poses. But this wretched attempt to go back to no ex-
pl oded delusion can serve no purpose whatever. For re-
sentment and revenge the cry had its personal animus,
and setved a personal turn ; but in the war of party
it is absolutely devoid of any practical significance,
and that Mr. DISRAELI has the wit to see a little
sooner than his associates.

Tin resistance of the Cif', Union Board of Guar-
dians to the orders of the Board of lieslth is, perhaps,
of more consequence than any of the previoui in-
stanoss we Ws recorded of the oprosition of paro-
rh;al authority to the demands of the functionaries of
Owydyr-hocae. Not that the City of London Union,
is wow &needed to, or preemie a greater mortality,
the: other districts, but that the precedent of the

ilhbased' it 'ls more likely to be followed
that of ether. The great question of dif-
Ens
between Alderman GIBBS and the Board of
• of WitzliiiruLondon Union, on the one
sLa and the Board of
Int the 41Imr, is whether the latter
posseem by the Nuisances Removal and
Prerentifes Act, any power to compel
abodiesee to its orders. We need hardly my that
Iliks est, with another to amend it, which came is
fires the let of September lent, has for Its object
the very obvious ends which give to it its name. In
erder that the provisions of this act may be carried
-fat more effectually, the amended set gives to the
General Board of health the powerd promotion for
neglect of its orders. Section lIL mss, " And be it
enacted that the Secretary of the General Board of
Health may, on the order of the said Board,
sealed with the seal of each Board, and
signed by any two members themsof, prosecute
any person for wilful violation or neglect of any
direction or regulation issued by acieh Board under
the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act,
l 848." One would have thought that this was lan-
guage sufficiently explicit to indicate, with the great-
est possible certainty, the intention of the framers of
this act as well as that of the legislature, which mo-
tioned it. The spirit of the act and its amendment,
however carelessly or loorely worded, admits of no
doubt. One great object of the latter was to put into
the hands of the General Board of Health the
power of jousting on the carrying out of
its orders and regulations. It appear', however,
that the lawyers have discovered flaws in
the act, and Boards of Guardians, ever jealous of supe-
rior
authority, and reluctant to confess their own in-
activity and want of foresight, have seised on these
as an excuse for their disobrdienoe, and in one
instance which we recorded last week, we are sorry
to say they succeeded in a police court in resisting the
powers with which the Board of Health is armed.
the board, however, was not to be dismayed, and on
the occasion of the City of London board of guar-
dians refusing to appoint an additional staff of medi-
cal officers, and to pursue the plan of house to house
visitation, they have summoned the Board of Guar-
, dims before their own magistrate, the LORD MAYOR.
The case was heard yesterday, when it will be seen
that Mr. BODKIN appeared for the Board of Health,
and Mr. CLARKsON for the Board of Guardians.
The arguments used by Mr. CIARKSON were that
the Board of Health had no power conferred on them
to compel bodies like Boards of Guardians to obey
their orders ; and that the measures ordered by the
Beard of Health were not required.
The question may perhaps fairly be started as to
whether it was at first contemplated to give the
Board of Health power to prosecute Boards of
Guardians in particular. But as we have before said,
the whole :object of the act is to compel
such an attention to the sanitary condition of
the country as should ensure the removal
of nuisances and the prevention of diseases. Now, if
such an act as this had bees passed without some au-
thority which could decide as to what was; nuisance,
and what would prevent a disease, it would have been
a dead letter. The act, therefore, constitutes the
Board of Health the judge of what is in any parti-
cular case a nuisance, and what is the best plan or
for the prevention of particular distal/1M Ob-
eetiog as we do to the constitution of the Board of
ealth, we still maintain they are better judges of
what is the best way of arresting cholera than Mr.
Alderman Grans and the City Board of Guardians. It
is vain for Mr. CLARKSON to urge the plea that
the city guardians have done their duty. They have
not done so. There is not one of them can look Mr.
SIMON, the city sanitary medical officer, in the
face, and say. that they have with heart and soul
seconded him in his efforts to prevent cholera before
it bad broken out, or to arrest it when once it had
appeared. The last circular of the Board of Health
gives an immense mass of evidence, proving most
satisfactorily that where house to house visitation has
been properly conducted, there the disease has either
been arrested in its course, or prevented making its
appearance. This is the plan which the Board of
Health, with the earnestness of men who feel
the responsibility of knowing that the lives
of thousands depend upon its adoption, has
ordered to be carried into execution in the City of
London : it is this plan which the City Board of
Guardians, with a parsimony or jealousy, whichever
it be, equally unworthy, has determined not to adopt.
Whether they be compelled or net remains yet to be
seen. The: Lord Mayor, after patiently listening to
the arguments on either side, begged for a little more
time before he settled the important question.
In the mean time cholera goes on spreading in
every district except those where the plan of hoiree-
to-house visitation is adopted. In London, in the
north and west districts, there is no diminution in the
Lumber of deaths. Their fewness at present encourage
the parish authorities to hope they will not increase.
This bas been the case in many places before a fearful
outbreak. The metropolis is not yet in a condition
to give cantidence that the disease is subsiding. We
would warn the Boards of Guardians of St. James's,
Westminster, St. George's, Hanover-square, and the
other boards resisting. the orders of the Board of
Health, that they are incurring a fearful responsi-
I bility. The lives of thousands are at this moment
' probably in their hands, and we ask them, as they
would start with horror at the thought of imbruing
' their hands in the blood of a fellow-creature, to cease
from an opposition to the adoption of those measures
1 which cannot possibly add one victim to the numbers
already gone to the grave, aid which may be the
means of saving hundreds from an untimely death.

HOLLAND

OPENING OF THE DUTCH CHAMBERS.
7h- States-General of Holland were re-opened on
the 17th inst. at the Hague, by the king in person.
His Majesty observed, that in the exerc'ee of hie
privilege, and from the place which his ever-lamented
father formerly so worthily filled, he had re-assembled
the States-General, in order that, in co-operation
with him, they might give effect to the dearest
wishes of the coutttry, and a further develop-
ment to the fundamental law which he and
they, at a former meeting, bad reciprocally
sworn to observe. It was satisfactory to find
that, since the moment of his accession, tke in-
ternal and external relations of the kingdom, so far
from becoming deteriorated, had Coen greatly im-
prow d and consolidated. A peaceful and good im-
der-tanding existed with all powers. The disturbarcee
which elsewhere prevailed did not pass over the
Dutch frontier ; and the differences which, to a cer-
tain extent, had kept other states aloof one from the
other, did not affect Holland. That country,
in fact, maintained the most friendly inter-
course with ail states. Ceder the protection of
treaties, the difficulties which might have arisen with
regard to Limburg have been happily removed. Tne
victory in Bali, obtained through the bravery of the
land and sea forces, had cost the lives of many useful
soldiers, and that of an excellent commander ; but
those severe losses had mitred obedience to Dutch
laws, as well as coder and peace in the Dutch
Archipelago. The
in
had also rendered
importantharvest w
servicesasan
ambuntdanhe t Dutchon coWmetn-terceltidwlesaii
The
reviving, and manufactures were giving encouraging
proofs of their felicitous development. The Dutch
colonial market had produced advantages which, to-
gether with the not unfavourable proclaim of taxation,
had greatly contributed to the improvement of the
money affairs of the country. The partial failure of
one kind of agricultural produce, and the many
victims of a dangerous disease were the only grounds
for trouble and sorrow. Both evil., however, ap-
peened to be on toe decrease. Under those favour-
able
circumstances, many and important questions
prescribed by the fundamental law itself, and de-
manded
by the circumstances of the times, awaited
the consideration of the states-general. Not only
would their attention be required for the bul4
rendered necessary by the raiaei fundamental
law, but also for a new budget of ways and
mear s, for the discussion of ceveral ordonnancee
which may be considered necesee.ry under the present
development of the commercial system of Europe, for
the advancement of nevi otirea and commerce, for the
restoration or improvement of important sources of
national welfare, and (if prosible) for the opening of
new sources. For those purposes he called upon the
mates for their serious and unanimous co-operation.
For years to come, the happiness and prosperity of
the worthy people of Holland depended on the mea-
sures to be taken in common at the present important
moment. He hoped that the Almighty would bless
their efforts, and declared the session opened.