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London, England, 1847-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 21.

IN the House of Lords, yesterday, on the motion
of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the South Eastern
Rejigs North Kent line, as was understood, was
referred back to the Railway Board, to consider the
propriety of enforcing the carrying out of the Can-
terbury to Dover extension, a proposition which
formed part of the original bill, but which, in conse-
quence of an arrangement made with
parties during the progress of the measure throe
the House of Commons, had been abandoned.—The
Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in answer to Lord ,
REDESDALE, replied that it was the intention of
the government to proceed with the Railway Com-
missioners Bill during the present session.—On the
motion of the Bishop of LONDON, the Clergy Offences
Bill was, after a discussion, reed a second
time.— On the second reading of the Naval
Prisons Bill, the Earl of AUCKLAND said, the govern-
ment were desirous of giving their most attentive
consideration to Lord Colchester's proposition for
enabling naval courts-martial to mitigate sentences,
in cases where at present they had no alternative bat
leasing that of death. Their lordsbips then adjourned
for the Whitsuntide holidays, until Friday, the
48th instant.
In the House of Commons, Mr. MOPPVIT moved for
leave to bring in a bill for assimilating the ware-
housing privilegee on colonial and British spirits,
which, after a short discussion, the proposition being
opposed by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on
the ground that it would occasion considerable loss to
the revenue, was negatived by a majority of d, the
numbers being 31 to 56.—Mr. MOFFATT also moved
for leave to bring in a bill to permit British
spirits to be rectified in bond for exportation, and to
allow rectified spirits and compounds to be warehoused
for exportation, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
opposing the motion, because the operation of the
bill would be to occasion the greatest practical incon-
venience to the excise department. After a debate,
the motion was rejected by a majority of 7, the num-
bers being 56 to 63.—Mr. B. CRAWFORD brought for-
ward and withdrew after a discussion, a motion re-
lating to the case of, Mr. J. Dillon, and the seizure of
the smuggler brig Peru, in the year 1822.—Sir O.
GREY, in answer to Mr. Escarr, replied, that infor-
mation had repotted him of disturbanoes in the west
arEnglard, particularly on market days, in come-
gleam of the high price of provisions, bet that the
Prompt measures taken by the local authori-
ties had had the effect of restorinir tran-
quillity. The poor-law COODRlissiosers had un-
doubtedly received rsprinentations from various
districts, within the last few days, of the dis-
tressed state of the pear, arising est of the high price
Of provisions, bat it was not lust in • time of emer-
gency like the present that the whole of the respon-
sibility of affording assistance should be thrown on
the commissioners, but should rather net, in the aril
instance, on the employers of labour who were re-
ceiving such a high price for their corn.—The
adjourned debate on the Poor-law Administration
Bill was resettled, the speakers being Mr. HENLEY,
Mr. P. SCROPE, Sir J. Warm. Mr. FLOTKR, Lord
J. RUSSELL, and Mr. DISRAELI, after which Mr.
FERRAN° complained of the noble lord's misrepresen-
tation of his statements, and was retorted upon by
Mr. VILLIERS, Lord J. Russeltt explideing, when
the debate was father adjoarned until this day.—The
debate on going into, and in committee on there/leen-
gers' Act Amendment Bill, occupied the remainder of
the siting.

ME 7Smes has a wonderful power of pertinacious
hatred ; but except in cases where some pariah
stioabble in Berkshire called for its interference, we
never remember the constancy of its friendship to
have survived so long as in the case of Mr. FIOULAND.
The great leader of public opinion long ago dis-
covered chat censure is more popular than praise,
because men of eminence to be abused are few, and
readers of newspapers are many. From 1834 to the
accession of the present ministry the Tinter attacked
the members of every government without'praising
the leaders of any opposition ; every institution, and
every organisation against institutions, famished in
tam the objects of its hostility ; bat it was, above all,

agai,a4 those who represented in parliament the
favourite opinions, which its columns daily supported,
that its concentrated virelenos was directed. As the
organ of tae Factory Bill pidlenthropisty the noes
never falled to sneer at Lord ASKLIK the advo-
cate of the Bank Charter Act, and of almost
all his other measures, it baited Sir ROBIRT
Peat to the last. If it steadily supports so
thoroughgoing a partisan as Mr. ',ERRAND, if it
repute his libels, or excuses their fehohood and
malignity as the ebullitions of a warm and generous
temperament, we can only amount for the moon-
shetency of its being so consistent, on the "opposition
that the emptiness and incapacity of the member for
Knaresborouish relieve his powerfulteinenclizter from
all fears of his possible rivalry or ind oe.
We should be well enough conten to leave this
rude and noisy blunderer to feel, or from constitutional
thickness of shin not even to feel, the castigation in-
flicted upon him by Mr. ROEBUCK; bat the lime.
will not be contented to let its organ and puppet be
forgotten. Either, says the great public instructor,
Mr. FRIKAND is worth attending to, or if he is u in-
capable as his opponents assert, the attention which
he excites proves the reality and greener of the
grievance which he denounces. Now a would-be
public character may attract attention in more than
one way. His opinions maybe regarded with favour
or dislike, or his name alone may become obtrusively
familiar. It is no more possible to be ignorant of Mr.
FERRANDB name than of the establishment of Moses
and Son. Whether a candidate for notoriety makes
long speeches in pariMuient, and secures a place in
the leading articles of the noes, or whether he em-
ploys runners to throw little books of advertising
poetry into the windows of cabs as they leave the
railway stations, he can hardly fail to obtain his im-
mediate object. Moses and the mart of fashion;
FERRAN') and Morn; are associated in the memories
of all men : but probably only a small proportion of
those who read the names inquire further into the
quality of the wares in which they deaL We have
not a word to say against the shop in the Minories,
which may possibly deserve all the attention it at-
tracts : bat if we may judge from the almost unani-
mous opinion of the House of Commons, which is
compelled to witness the display of Mr. FERRAND%
wares, as well as from our own more voluntary in-
spection of his stock in trade, it would have been im-
possible to eulogise in the unscrupulous puffing of the
Thus a more worthless collection of trash, and rags,
and "devil's dust."

Of Theil;;,nds who have heard of the great
Morn COM, there IWO probably very few who have
taken the trouble to ascertain its meaning. Many may
have supposed, from the incessant repetition of the
story, that it involved • real grievance, and many with
greeter reason that it was • mere mare's nest. It
seems that Mr. Mora, in a report on the condition of
a union which rejoices in the guardianship of Mr.
FIRRAND, ewe stated that the legal business of the
board was rim to the resident attorneys in rotation.
Sir Joule Watintsn, in • subsequent report, which,
in ethic rospests, confirmed Mr. Mores, said nothing
about *every breiguificant matter of legal patronage,
as to which, we pessame, Mr. Marts statement was
true, SA it was not contradicted in the affidavits re-
cently produced to the Court of Queen's Bench. It
does net appear that either of the assistant commis-
sioners knew of Mr. FRIBA:W.B connexion with the
union, or that, if they did, it affected their judgment.
On the strength of these reports, Mr. FERUAND has '
imbibed the notion that the Poor-law Commissioners
had formed • plot to crush him. What the plot was
signifies little to a person so intellectually incapable
of distinguishing between truth and falsehood. He
asserts that both reports were false and libellous.
His counsel in the Queen's Bench were obliged to
argue that Sir JOHN WALILHAIee report, on the con-
trary, was true, and that it was so eulogistic as to
prove the falsehood of Mr. Morr's censures on the
guardians. Of the conspiracy on the part of the
=l:r commissioners it is noxllems to say that Mr.
D neither has nor requires any proof. Like
Lisitgeother violent and blustering persons of de-
reasoning powers, be complains of every
statement which can be construed into a censors on
himself as • arlisnant libel, at the same time that
he flings eat with reckless assurance the most
besehos and inceesistaiet charges against his edver-
miss. Week sad weltemat characters, without any
seifocisaend, Asa stye themselves credit for bold-
ness. and gwaseerity in throwing off the ordinary
restraints of prudence and self-respect Because Mr.
Fm.iieo is neither acute nor cautious, nor gifted
with foresight, he absurdly supposes that his conduct
is manly and sincere. Candour and openness consist
in showing to others truths which it is fit they should
know ; not in disgorging, without reserve or re-
straint, all the turbid fancies and passions which pass
through an ill-regulated mind. We de not praise •
horse-leech for its openness, or a speaking-trumpet
for its candour.

Asa specimen of Mr.. FERRAND'I3 fitness for legis-
lation, we saight,mfer to his argument that par-
liament cannot mmaakkee the power of the poor-law
board even legal; in other word., that it cannot
delegate to any administrative department the
power of making rules, to courts of justice authority
to tegidate their own proceedings, or to corporations
orespeteney to onset by-laws--but it is unfair to test
sash a mind by its rapacity to deal with general pro-
ritips. Thu mode of dealing with particular facts
mec characteristic of the intellectual feebleness,
which is brought into motive by remarkable pulmo-
nary vigour. Mr. F =win eomplained, the other night,
and has often complained before, that ander the poor-
law, paupers were sold as slaves to the manufacturers;
and he proceeded to prove his statement by quoting a
terse written by a manufacturing firm in the north to
the muter of a workhouse inWales. "It is possible," said
the writers, " that some persons in your union may
wish to improve their condition by working for us.
If so, we will employ a certain number of women at
such wages, • certain number of boys at such wages,
and the boys hereafter will be able to earn 30s. a
week. If you know of such persons, one of our firm
will come over and select them." There is not a
word here of selling, not a word of compulsory mi-
gration. An advantage is offered to poor persons,
which they are free to accept or to refuse but Mr.
FEILIAND has probably a dim consciousness that many
persons read general accusations without reading the
proofs adduced in support of them. I4eofrobably is
not aware that the whole transaction, or bad, has
nothing whatever to do with the poor w. If neither
the 3d and' 4th of WUJIAM IV. nor the 43d of
ELuAserm had ever been passed, thete is nothing,
as far as we know, in the English constitution, which
prevents a Lancashire cotton-spinner from being •
Welsh operative, or from giving notice that he is in
want of labour through any channel he may think fit
to select. But it is enough that • manufacturer and
the master of a workhouse are brought into some
kind of relation, to raise a clamour against capitalists,
and of course against the new poor-law.
There is nothing to tempt us to follow Mr. Pen-
NAND farther, bat the Times is not as imbecile
or as helpless. The marked support which that
powerful journal has long. given to the Mem-
ber for Boaresborongh is a etriking per
tration of the spirit in which its own anaWat7
the poor-law have been carried an, without the No;
ease of intellectual obtuseness. The errors or faulia of
local authorities, the very evils which the new system
has tended to correct, have always been massed with
charges against the commissioners themselves with
obvious and wilful unfairness. The Times has never
suggested a practical altsenstive, or saggeated any
means by which, is blink of the new law, the abases
of the old law might, be obviated. Perhaps it is not
unnatural that it should wish its views to be repre-
sented in Parliament by a speaker who cannot see the
inconsistency of them, or understand the arguments by
which they are assailed.
At present the 7Tmes is celebrating a triumph pre-
maturely. We can see no signs of a change of opi-
nion in the government, in parliament, or in the
ooantry. The proposed modifications do not touch
the principle of the law, which has always been sup-
ported by the great body of the intelligent classes and
of the rate-payers, though naturally misunderstood by
the poor, in consequence of the misrepresentations of
its opponents. It will take the ?Imes more than an-
other thirteen years to bring things back to the state
of 1833.

'Ma accounts which we receive from Ireland nearly
all agree in the urgent necessity of the leaders of the
liberal pasty in that country making some combined
effort to resuscitate the liberal interest. If matters
continue es they are, the political representation of
Ireland will be shared between sun small knots
of members, acknowledging no leadership, identified
with no feasible measures, impersonating no wide-
spread social feelings. It may have fared ill with