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London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

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MAILS.
The mails for New Sonth Wales, Van Dieman'a Land, and New
Sialsad will be made up on the evening of the 30th June.
a
Thos • mails for the West Cos
of Africa and Madeira will be mad*
the evening of the 20th Jue.
The mails for British North America, and the United States,
will be mime up en the evening of the 311th June.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Noma, Hawanna,
Ngsr onents, Vera Crus, Tampico, and l'orto Rico, and
noodun.,
thaw for Madeira, J&Cattel, Garth:arena, Santa Martha,
cure, ',Aaron, West Coast of South America, and St. Juandle-
rneAragua, sal be mach up on the evening of the ten July.
The mails for the Brazils, We River !'tale, Monte Video, Pernsms
taco. Baba, Madeira, and Burma Ayres, will be metek up on the
evening of the 4th July.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
Will be made upon the morning of the %th July.
The overland cloned mule, eta Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Ecru, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-how, Ac., will be made up on the
.nemng of the :DI July.
The overland mails lee Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Ems, Alen, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Kong, and China, viu South...lr-
v:4 Will be made upon the morning of the 20th July,
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
Limed to the .31,,rning Ilera'cl, Morning CAronick, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOCIET
In ad, itim to the above, imued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning rdper, there were issued fur the Setups 7 Edition,
TILE EXPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe, than wets issued either to
Sys Gluts or Ntaful.nrd, Evening Papers.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON NNIUON.
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So• Lamm. W mks. pant II Alterman,

LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 27.
Loan GEORGE BENTISCK, and his bottle-holder,
Mr. Du:Rm.:Li, are principally to blame for that tone
of personal asperity—for those groundless and irrele-
vant imputations, rashly thrown out, spitefully re-
asserted, and then ehuttlingly withdrawn, which have
retarded the progress of the debate on the measure
for West India relief, and diverted attention from the
important subject before the house. But the squabble
is more or less discreditable to the House of Commons
as a body.
Lord GEORGE and the hon. member for Bucks, the
Sir Andrew Anitecheek and the Sir.n4 Bdele of this
discreditable broil, have placed themselves in
this position :—On Friday, the 16th instant,
Lord GEORGE said, with reference to the
alleged wilful suppression of Sir C. GREY'S des-
patch—" It was to be sure nothing more than a
renewal, by the Under Colonial Secretary, of the same
trick that had been played off by his chief (Earl
GREY) in another place, when a despatch was with-
held for four hours after the debate Lad concluded."
Mr. Disn.ent backed Lord GEORGE, and charged
Mr. DAWES with having, in his evidence before the
sugar and coffee-planting committee, evaded a ques-
tion by affecting to misunderstand it. On the Mon-
day following, Mr. Hawes explained satisfactorily
the circumstances out of which Lord GEORGE and
Mr. DIsRAELI had contrived to trump up an imputa-
tion of fraud against him. On Friday, the 23rd inst.,
nevertheless, Lord GEORGE returned to the charge.
Referring to Earl GREY, he said—" Ile had only to
recommend to the noble lord at the head of the
colonial department, to attend to the opinions of a
whig statesman, who said that a refined policy had
ever been the parent of confusion, and ever would
be—that plain honest intentions which could as easily
be discovered as fraud would be detected at last, were
the best that could he pursued." And again, Mr.
Disßaut backed his noble friend by declaring that
his charges had not been satisfactorily answered.
Af er Mr. DisRAELI had spoken, Lord GEORGE reite-
rated his charges in more offensive and irritating lan-
guage, comparing Mr. IlawEs to MAJOCCIII of green-
tag notoriety. Last night Mr. Hawes repeated the
explanation he had before offered, and called upon
Lord GEORGE to retract or substantiate his charge.
In what manner was this challenge answered by the
protectionist chief and his devoted henchman ?
Lord GEORGE was at great pains to remind (or in-
form) the house that he had "made two distinct
charges." The first was a general charge against the
Colonial-office of having withheld information from the
committee : the second the special charge against Mr.
HAWES. Lord GEORGE expressed in the outset a
conviction that Mr. H.twEs's account of the circum-
stances cut of which the charge had arisen was per-
fectly accurate. Yet Lord GEORGE carefully avoided
an explicit retractation of the charge, and sought to
divert the attention of the house from this important
omission by dilating at great length, and in minute
detail, upon the general charge against the Colonial-
office. He could not support the charge, and he had
not the manliness to withdraw it. With regard to Earl
GREY, Lord GEORGE protested that he had charged
no fraud on the noble earl," he had merely accused
him of "a political holding back of certain despatches
in order to obtain a political end." Lord GEORGE'S
accusation was made "in a l'ickwickian sense." Sir
Andrew Agnerheek, finding his antagonist bold in
his defence, backs scurvily out of the quarrel. And
his faithful Sir Thliy Belch steps in to cover his dis-
graceful retreat. Mr. DISRAELI did for Lord GEORGE
what Lord GEORGE had not the sense to do tor him-
self, he explicitly withdrew and disclaimed the accu-
sation against Mr. li.nWEs. " His opinion was that
his hon. friend had never intended to make the
charge which had been so elaborated for the Hon.
Under Secretary." " The charge had been most
amply withdrawn." The quotations which we
have given from the previous speeches both of Mr.
Disitant and his principal, show how cent' lordly
the latter must have relied on the short memories of
his hearers in hazarding these averments. Having
thus, however, set himself, and as far as he could
Lord GEORGE, right with the house by this concession,
Mr. DisßAEht, with more tact than honesty, pro-
ceeded to dilate upon the general charge against the
Colonial-office, and having gained the ear of the
house for what he had to Bay on this more tenable
ground, began to try them with his jokes, and con-
cluded by forcing them all to laugh either with or at
him, thus effecting his retreat with drums beating
and colours flying, and the discharge of a few Par-

thian shots.
This may answer to a certain extent in the House
of Commons, but "elsewhere,"—to adopt a reference
upon which Mr. DISRAELI played with lugubrious
pertinacity—it is seen through. Lord GEORGE, the
stolid A.i.ix of his faction, stands before the world
mulishly
.refusing to undo or apologise for a gross act
of injustice to one political adversary, and shuffling
out of an equally discreditable misrepresentation of
another. And Mr. DISRAELI, who cannot plead in
excuse either the bull-beaded ferocity, or the utter
want of delicacy, or the bias of self-affection, which
palliate the conduct of his leader, appears shabbily
lending himself to extenuate and divert attention
from conduct at which every real gentle-
man would blush. He volunteers participation
in Lord GEORGE'S offence, and of right entails
upon himself a share in the loss of character incurred
by it. Lord GEORGE and Mr. DISRAELI have pub-
licly avowed in parliament that they believe men in
office may " politically hold back certain despatches
in order to obtain a political end," and yet not be
guilty of " fraud." The country at large, and even
their own party, would be chary of trusting men who
avow such a lax moral creed, and will acknowledge
the justice of Sir GEORGE GREY'S keen and elegant
sarcasm—which evidently penetrated even Lord
GEORGE'S buffalo hide—that ministers did not com-
plain that there was an opposition, but that the oppo-
sition bad not a gentleman, to lead it of tact, temper,
and experience in the ways of the house.
We have said that though to Lord GEORGE and
Mr. DISRAELI the largest share of disgrace on account
of these proceedings appertains, yet that the house in
general does not come out of the affray very re-
spectably. Next in degree of culpability, we are
sorry: to say, is Lord J. RUSSELL, who, on Friday
last, appeared to be animated by a desire of surpass-
ing Lord G. BENTINCK in hie own peculiar line of
offensiveness. The all but unanimous shout of repro-
bation by which his lordship's haughty and illiberal
declamation was drowned, renders it unneces-
sary to say anything more on this topic. Next
in fault are Mr. GOULBURN, Sir JOlll4 PA-
ETNGTON, and others, who have on different occa-
sions stooped to whitewash Lord GEORGE, not merely
by palliating his groundless and unjust imputations,
but by insidiously implying that after all there ap-
peared to be something in them. And, lastly, the
whole house are to blame for allowing so much of its
time to be wasted by one of those idle and malignant
brawls which it is notoriously the delight of Lord G.
BENTINCK to stir up. Every assembly of gentlemen
have the power, if they have the will, quietly, but
effectively, to put to silence any vulgar bully who
may get amongst them. But, by not exerting this

power, the House of Commons have allowed nearly
one half of the time they have ostensibly
devoted to a question vitally important to colonies
containing a million of British subjects—and bearing
closely upon the commercial prosperity and financial
stability of the whole empire—to be lost in railing
accusations and covert imputations still more mean
and equally malignant. We are often told that by suf-
frage extension, the power of returning members of
parliament would be vested in a class incapable of
appreciating the qualities requirci in legislators. We
defy any class of men to elect a House of Commons
that would show more obtuseness to what duty and
self-respect require from them than the present house
have shown on this and too many other occasions.
A word or two in conclusion on the general charge
agcinet the Colonial-office advanced by Lord GEORGE
and his friends. It does not appear to us that they
have succeeded in convicting that bureau on the pre-
sent occasion of withholding information from a wish
to deceive. But the circumstances under w hich the
despatch which Earl GREY and Mr. HAWES believed
to have been transmitted to the committee was kept
back, are alone sufficient to prove that there is in the
Colonial-office an utter want of the requisite precision
and regularity in transacting business that the country
is entitled to expect. The additional cases of de-
spatches not presented to the committee as early
us they ought to have been, enumerated by
Lord GEORGE and Mr. DISRtELI, prove that
this slovenly and negligent mode of business is
habitual there. And the manner in which Mr.
Hawes a few nights ago met Mr. ANSTEY'S inquiries'
about the Van Diemen's Land despatches relating to
the late extraordinary treatment of the judgrs in that
colony, shows that he is but too ready to throw the
mantle of hie official protection over the Gichesse of
the office. Without implying that any department
in Downing-street is characterised by a very high
degree of accuracy and efficiency in the despatch of
business, there can be no doubt that the Colonial-office
is the worst organized amongst them, and calls most
urgently for an entire reconstruction.

WE are threatened, it seems, with a ministeria.
crisis. Whilst popular insurrections shake the thrones
and upset the governments of Europe, the ferment of
the sugar hogshead agitates parliament, has driven
parties and their chiefs into violent personal collision,
and very gross personal abuse; and ministers are
menaced by a coalition of planters, distillers, protec-
tionists, and even of some Peelite& before which they
have given symptoms of entertaining a disposition to
withdraw.
Hereat the Times professes considerable alarm, and
expostulates with the tones in a manner highly amus-
ing to all reformers, however little flattering to
ministers :
Why upset the whigs at such a moment (exclaims the
Times)? When they arc in office what difference is there be•
tween them and the tories ? Surely the domestic policy of this
country has undergone no perceptible aturetion since 1842.
"The whige, being in power at this juncture, renders them
hostages and securities for the peace of the country. Had
they been out of office last February and since—had
they then been engaged in their usual. course of collecting
materials, far and wide, for an active and progressive opposi-
tion, and then suddenly found themselves backed by a dozen
revolutions abroad, and a sympathetic movement at home,
we can hardly answer for the extremities to which they would
not have pushed the nation. The "six points" and " repeal"
might only have been the parts of a more comprehensive po-
licy, which would not, indeed, have been successful, but
would, nevertheless, have affected the stability of the na-
tional mind and institutions by the simple fact of its having
once been proposed by a respectable boy of statesmen."
Such is the cpinion entertained of the whigs by
their chief supporter in the press, such is the opinion
entertained by that organ of the reform movement. It
is depicted as a measure which the whigs would in-
fallibly have adopted, did they happen to be out of
I office. So obviously necessary and popular is the
reform, so monstrously unjust the inequalities, so
flagrant the abuses it would remedy, that the whigs
would infallibly take up the cry, as they did that of
reform in 1830, were they but out of office. The
whigs count in their party the flower, and the wealth,
and the best intellects of the aristocracy ; but still the
motion of Mr. Hustle not menacing the just right
and natural ascendancy of that aristocracy, it might
fairly count on their support, it the sweets of office
did not act as a retaining fee given by the anti-popular
side.
We must confess, that we are in a great measure
of the same opinion as the Times, however we
might have shrunk from expressing it so im-
pertinently and so crudely. The country owes
an immense debt of gratitude to the whigs In
opposition, and to the carrying of those measures en
ministers, which they embraced in opposition. But
for any measures, which the whige have conceived and
brought forward as ministers, for those we have very
little of either respect or gratitude. Each year of
office, indeed, seems to diminish their strength and
talent as it widens the interval between them and
popular sympathies. Like the giant, they require to
touch mother earth,as mere members of parliamenton
opposition benches, in order to recruit their strength
and muster their original energies It is not possible to
have witnessed the reform debate without exclaiming
" Oh ! for one hour of Lord JOHN in opposition."
We should, therefore, welcome the retirement of
the present ministry, as a great gain to the popular
side. But that gain would be tenfold, when
we consider the chances of Lord STANLEY'S
being offered the post of Prime Minister.
The result of such an administration upon the
liberals of Ireland and the reformers of England we
can scarcely contemplate. But this we well know,
that such a proof of the uncontrolled domination of
the Houseof Lords and its most bigoted section, shown
indeed sufficiently by the mere fact of Lord STANLEY
being at present heir-presumptive to office, would of
itself give such an impulse to reform, that not even
the accession of the whigs to its tenets, so dreaded
by the Times, could do more.
We cannot, however, but deem the alarm un-
founded. Sir ROBERT PEEL, who carries in his
pocket the keys of that cabinet which he can himself
with such difficulty enter, will never play the
awkward part of unlocking that door for Lord
STANLEY. Ile too well knows that this would be
the commencement of the end, and that power falling
into the hands of one extreme, would soon precipitate
itself into the hands of the other. Sir J. GRAHAM'S
combination, therefore, of the two centres of whig
and tory is much more likely to be the scheme con-
templated for the reinforcement of government.
Whatever befals the cabinet, however, it is for re-
formers not to relax in their exertions. The ad-
mission that the whigs will be theirs the instant they
are out of power shows, that liberals have but to lay
a broad and firm basis for their building, end there
will be plenty of hands and materials to raise the
superstructure. The great difficulty is to prevent
any relaxa'ion of effort, or any cooling of ardour in
the first instance. Every form of ridicule, every bug-
bear of terror wilt be employed to produce this
effect. In one sentence the movement will be
stigmatized as insignificant and ridiculous, in the
next as menacing and dangerous to society ; and the
convulsed state of European countries and capitals
will unceasingly be adduced, as if the whole of these
revolutions had not proceeded from a monomania of
Louts l'iouvrE in not allowing Frenchmen to dine
together and talk of electoral reform. The dining
and the talking might, to be sure, have led to reform.
But the KING aid M. GUIZOT preferred revolution.
Verily, their wish has been amply satisfied.

INQUEST, YE,•TERDAY.--ALLEGED 341:11DER.—By
Mr. Bedford, resumed at St. George's Hospital, respecting
the death of George Jemmitt, aged 40, a mendicaw.. On
Monday week he went into a tripe shop in Westminster-
read, to solicit alms, when the shopman ordered him to leave.
The deceased not going out as fast as requested, the shopman
pushed him off the step of the door, and he fell violently
with his head upon the pavement. He was picked up and
carried into the surgery of Mr. Berrall, Mount.street,
where the wound was strapped up by the surgeon's assistant.
The deceased then walked on to Hyde Park in the company
of his son, where he was seized with a fit. He was removed on
fo a
stretcher to the above hospital, where he expired the l-
lowing morning.—Mr. Cowell, the house-surgeon, whp
had made a post modem examination, proved that the de-
ceased's skull was fractured, which had caused an effusion
of blood on the brain, and which had caused death. The
fracture might have been produced by a fall. There being
some doubt in the minds of the jury as to whether the in-
juries were caused by the deceased being pushed down, or
by his striking his head when he fell down in a fit, they re-
turned a verdict—" That death was caused by a fracture
of the skull, but by what means produced there was no
evidence to rove."—The coroner stated that as the verdict
was left openp, he would recommend the police to make
further inquiries into the case.
The judicial committee of her Majesty's Privy
Council had a weeting yesterday. The lords present were
Lord Brougham, the Muster of the Rails. the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court.