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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1855.

Lord PA N3II7RE has already seen the propriety
of modifying the intended regulations respecting
the increased pay to soldiers in actual service.
He has candidly admitted the weight of the ob-
jections that would naturally be felt by those who

were deprived for an indefinite period of the
money they had fairly and honourably earned.

It would indeed bear too close a resemblance to peace, refrains from inquiry into the affair, on his
the condition of convicted criminals to become very own admission, because the injured party had nut
Popular with those who felt that their conduct in addressed him, but the House of Commons, in the
Bo way merited such a slight, nor would it greatly first instance ! Why, this is arrogance, and some-
add to to the inducements to those who looked for- thing more, with a vengeance ! The culpability
ward either to promotion or a glorious death in of the Hon. Baronet, and also of the Government,
the field of battle. will more clearly appear from what followed. The
The great objects that would influence a party well-known Liberal Member for Finsbury, Mr.
about to adopt so very serious a step as enlisting DUNCOMBE, had petitions to present from persons
will be either to be enabled to help his praying for immediate redress against the police ;
familia
I) or to improve his own present posi- and the substance of their complaints he thought
t=on.
NY
of these would be greatly pro- it his duty, following Mr. ROEBUCK'S example,
meted
by the original plan of Lord PANMURE ; to read. But, though singly formidable, he was
on the
contrary,
inns to it would only aggravate his feel- not so dangerous to meddle with as Mr. ROEBUCK.
think that there was -a
fund nominally to So every obstruction was put in his way ; he was
his credit, which
would amply suffice to relieve out •of order—there was no urgent need for a
the exigencies of those
near and dear to him, or by speedy remedy—the courts of justice were open
means whereof he
could obtain many additional to all parties ; and—this came from " the comic
comforts for himself, but
gula
which, in consequence of old gentleman," and was an attempt, as will be
injudicious and vexatious re
• vented from making tions he was pre- seen, to pass a joke for an argurnent—" Did his
available. It would be adding friends desire to refer the petitions to a select
the tortures of " available It would be adding friends desire to refer the petitions to a select
the tortures of "Tantai to his other annoyances, committee imply that there was an immediate ne-
and produce the utmost irritation , without any cessity ?" Undeterred, however, by clamour or
equivalent advantage. Gener
speaking, pri- joke, Mr. DUNCOMBE persisted, and, having read
vats soldiers are not ver 'fly y provident. On that the allegations of the petitioners with regard to
point, notwithstanding the
plausible fallacies of the conduct of the police on Sunday, advanced a
the Secretary for War, we fully concur in the number of reasons of the greatest cogency why
opinion a Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and few Indeed an inquiry into that conduct should be instituted.
are
the number of those, face to face with the
enemy, -
The working classes, he justly remarked, were
And daily risking their lives, who would
the nominal credit in the Savings' greatly exasperated by it, and would not rest
greatly value
satisfied by the matter being hushed up. It was a means of obtaining a tempo- n
Bauk—save as
e •
not enough to have withdrawn the Sunday Trad-
rary advance--byway of sale or mortgag
from some accommodating Jew or sympathising ing Bill ; something more must be done ; and he
give a glass of grog for the re. go to the P
was told that these persons were determined to
suttler, who might
ark next Sunday ; and, if molested,
version of a month's extra pay.
We know what would go
armed the next time ; and then who
wade by sailors, of prospective would gay that there would not be loss of life ?
sacrifices have been
of prize money, ilsc.; and He hoped they would be told what Government
advantages iu the way
that soldiers, more espe- intended to do.Atuletaaalltteevrebnetfsn,rehtehnhaHdodusonn;alniids
why should we suppose
the fatigues and priva- duty in bringing
ciallY those worn out by
be more prudent than evidence he believed coin be
the he had stated. e produced in support of
tions of :a campaign, should
The peace and safety
the
metropolis depended
metateta of the sister service ?
which the question was dealt
• Lord a in the
11-111tonn has therefore acted wisely and of life and property
honourably in eo prom ay and courageously con- on the manner in
with. To a plea
this speech, ;hat
e° urgent
in
fviewsessiu g to his
theu i 'l:eau-I:n:7e and
and a warnine• so
surrendering his own
nf others more impressive as were contained
' opinions -
competent to form a correct t. Had the was the nature of the reply ? Sir GEono a
judgmen
matter been submitted • the pious Sir GEORGE who has E -REY)
in the first instance to the ~es falsehood as lie
House of Commons, as con • ,ht loves the people, " denied these
to have been, the mistake 'titutionally it ou,
statements, and
woUld on the part of the police—fit advocate_cc
have been rectified. But • unquestionably pro-
since Ail • tested against such sweeping and general all
decided on abrogating the functio lusters have ega,.
sentative branch• of the Le •• Lions,
, nz' °f the repro- unsupported as they were by a tittle of evi,_
gislature or concluding by an intimation that while
allowing them the barren privilege of merely dew,"
'
formal assent O a matter carried -i 4 e4rig a any
measure of conciliation like Mr. Derrcounn s
n.o ars....
meet with opposition from Government,'
operation befote their opinions w "meal would
ere asked' a
would be taken for the preser-
thus reducing them to a condition allalOgPu °4
extreme measures
R to • Such is the consideration of
that of a Dean and Chapter, vslio are auth • vation of peace.
os,sea
the tranquillity of
t o elect a Bishop, but bound under heavy penal- Government for human life, and
avy penal- the gratuitously false
ties to choose the nominee of the Crown—we metropolis—such also the
may auertio s Mr. ROEBUCK at
be thankful that we have found a Minister
not on us of sir GEORGE—a
wedded to his own crotchets, but willing to take heeiaeallidh"f,ed* "The Right Honourable Baronet,"
' t .
ed that the charges were general
c
advice and confess his faults, and adopt the best
131. and swee •
4 tat
; butthe charges which be
means to rectify them. (Mr. Ronßuck) b surely
But there is still a hankering after his hobby. enough f had brought forward were specific
, or he had
f.
Ho does not "go the whole hog" in his submis- He had charge an given' time, place, and name. ,
inspector
d I
;ion. He still resorts to hall measures, Sixpence no number or letter or of 'police, who ha i
er on Isis coat and who, thare• . t

fore, did not come within the category stated by
the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had described a
disturbance created by an inspector of police,
he had stated the name of the street ; the
time, last Sunday ; the hour, ten o'clock
at night ; and the name of the man who was
struck. Well, what more could he do ? He
asked the Right Hon. Gentleman to assist that
poor man—poor, because he had been so shame-
fully used--to enable him to bring to justice that
person who, under the guise of authority, had
done that unauthorised act. He did not make
general charges and accusations against the police,
but he must accuse Noble Lords and Right Hon.
Gentlemen who brought into that House measures
which were only the offsprings of their own
bigotry, without consideration for the good govern-
ment of the country or the happiness of the people."
This was enough to cause the elastic Baronet to
limit his remarks to the cases adduced by Mr. Dux-
COMBS. Mr. ROEBUCK'S statement was now per-
fectly specific, and he would request that gentleman
to send him a copy of the statement in writing, and
he would immediatelyorder an investigation ! Why
did not Mr. ROEBUCK present the petitions also ?
Thus it will be seen that Government, after com-
mitting at best a miserable blunder in relation to
the Sunday Bill—after having let the police loose
on the people—after having powerfully aided in
lowering the dignity of the House of Commons,
and after having, more or less, directly been the
cause of the peace being broken, and men,
women, and children bludgeoned and cruelly
injured, and after being warned that some
inquiry was necessary, and that, without it, the
peace and safety of the Metropolis would be en-
dangered, he met Hon. Members preferring the
people's complaints with arrogance, the complaints
with denial, the requests for redress with disrepu-
table caprice, and the warning with a cold-blooded
threat, only at last conceding a solitary inquiry
out of a number of cases equally supported by
facts, as Mr. DUNCOMBE subsequently showed—
when the temper of the House warned their
leader that Sir GEORGE was going too far. All
this surely conveys a useful lesson, and that is,
the people are very badly governed that are go-
verned by an aristocratic clique, and, if they would
do well and live in peace and safety, must have
an uncompromising reform.