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REFORM OF CORPORATION OF LONDON.

In reply to a question from Mr. LABOITCHERE,
Sir G. GREY stated it was the intention of her Ma-
jesty's Government to introduce a bill for the reform of
the Corporation of the City of London at an early day.

SANITARY CONDITION OF THE -
METROPOLIS.
Lord EBRINGTON, having no desire to impede the
public business, postponed his motion relative to the sani-
tary condition of the metropolis, and to the urgency of
enabling the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers to
turn to account the two months remaining available for
the exec of preventive and palliative works before
the hot weather rendered imminent the outbreak and
spread of epidemic di"orders.
CUSTOMS DUTY BILL.

After a few words from Mr. M6IIEGOR and Mr.
HEYWORTEL alainst the bill, the third reading was agreed
to without a division.
DISTILLA rioN OF SPIRITS FROM MALT.
In answer to a question from Mr. GROGAN, •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated
it was his intention shortly after Whitsuntide.to intro-
duce a bill for the permi,sion of 'distillation froth malt in
bend, and to extend to sugar the same regulation as
matt, the change to commence from October next.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL.
On the order of the day for the house going into com-
mittee on this bill,
_-_• .

Sir B. HALL said it was not his intention by this
bill to interfere with the principle of Hothouse's Act, or
in any nianner to modify it. Amongst the alterations
he proposed, was that of altering the amount of qualifi-
cation for vestrymen in the metropolitan districts.
Under Hobhouse's Act the qualification was
401. in the metropolitan districts, but he found that in
some of the districts there were few 401. houses, in com-
parison with others of a less value, and be proposed that
in such parishes where the 401. houses formed an insig-
nificant portion of the rateable houses the qualification
for vestrymen should be reduced to 251., and he
further proposed that the necessity of residence should
be abolished, because he thought it a hardship that mer-
chants and others who were largely rated in one parish
and resided in another should be prevented, because they
did not sleep on the premises, from taking part in its local
government. This bill had only been denounced at one pub-
lic meeting in the metropolis at which there were not
more than 30 rate-payers present, which he looked upon
as significant of the bill being received with satisfaction
in the metropolis. • •
Lord EBRINGTON moved, as an amendment; that
-the farther consideration of the bill be deferred till the
house hid decided upon the principles of the bill an-
nounced by the President of the Board of Health for the
modification of the act commonly known as Hobhonse's
Act, which act was proposed to be incorporated in the
Metropolitan Bill. Hia lordship at great length en-
tered into the objections he lid to the details of
the measure, which he said were in union with the
opinions of his constituents.
Mr. LABOUCHERE was opposed to re-discussing
this bill after the house had once approved of the prin-
ciple, and hoped the house would be allo wed to go into
committee on the bill.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought the bill, as it was
at present, rather unintelligible.
After a somewhat desultory discussion, Lord Ebring-
ton withdrew his motion.
- Mr. MACKINNON then moved that the bill be referred
to a select committee, and the motion was seconded by
Mr. PILLATT. _

Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, considering that
no grounds had been stated for referring the bill to a
select committee. _

Sir G. Pechell and Mr. Williams likewise opposed
the motion, which was supported, in a modified manner,
by Mr. M. Chambers and Lord Ebrington, and, upon a
division, negatived by 131 to 8.
The house: then went into committee upon the bill, a
few of the clauses of which bad been gone through,
when the Chairman was ordered to report progress.
The Jurisdiction of the Stannary Court Amendment
Bill was read a second time. _ _

The Barial-grounds (Scotland) Bill passed through
committee.
The Infants',Marriage Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Other hills passed through committee.
Mr. KENDALL obtained leave to bring in a bill for
the better regulation of the payment of poor s rate on
the royalties of mines in England and Wales ; and the,
Lnrd Advocate a bill to consolidate and amend the lima
relating to bankruptcy in Scotland.
The house then adjourned.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Times of this day.)
LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S MOTION.
The intentions announced last night by Lord Ellenborough
were in all respects meritorious—to restore to Parliament
that influence which it ought to possess over the public
opinion of this country ; to place the House of Lords in the
front of the battle for the rights of merit and for adminis-
trative reform ; to assure the Crown of the fearless deter.;
mination of Parliament to give its active support to the war,
while it lays bare the causes that have hitherto increased our
sacrifices and impaired our success. These 'c ere objecti
worthy of a great orator, a great crisis, and a great displas
of political excitement. Never was the House of Lords more
crowded, never did a snore brilliant audience throng the gal+.
leries or besiege the bar, never was public curiosity morii
excited ; yet, in spite of all these announcements, of a
these preparations, and of the tiptoe avidity of the public?
we are constrained to add that the -debate in no degree
realised these expectations, and the largo majority which nei
gatived Lord Ellenborough's resolutions expre.sed the opinioq
of all who listened impartially to the debate, and of all, w#
believe, who will read the r,pert with. suniCar impartiality
this morning. The most brilliant audience in Britain was
indeed, kept for above an hour suspended between platV,
tudes which no one could contest, and paradoxes which
no one could believe ; and we suspect that most of those
present retired with the melancholy conviction that, although
the country may be sorely in want of ,a powerful War Minis-
ter, that heaven-born statesman is not to be found in the
accomplished orator who had commenced the discussion. Nor
was Lord Derby more fortunate. Brilliant as usual, his
speech failed to convince his warmest admirers that he was
sincere in desiring the Administrative Reform which he
affected to advocate, and he must have borne his friend's de-
feat with more even than his ordinary resignation.
Lord Ellenborough, with characteristic military tactics, be-
gan the action by throwing out his light troops, and succeeded
by a small anecdote in raising a faint laugh. But this petty
advantage was not favourable to his career, and in discussing
the wars of empires -we can forget the-fate of small birdi
The true gist of the speech was confined to two points -th'e
strategical operations of the war as projected and executed
by the late Government in the last campaign, and the seled-
tion of men 'for the public service, and especially for
the military service of the country, without interest
or favour, but .by the sole test of merit. On this last
point we need not say that we cordially agree with Lord El-
lenborough, and that he has the country to back him ; but
the application he made of the principle led him, as we shall
presently see, to a most extraordinary paradox.
We gather from 'Lord Ellenborough's remarks on the last
campaign that he would have preferred, if possible, that the
English and French armies should have been engaged in dis-
tinct operations, in order to avoid the evils of a divided coni-
mand. Ho approves, however, the gradual advance of the
forces, the lines at Gallipoli, and the landing at Varna, but
from that point his course of operations would have been
wholly different. He appears to think that one portion of
the allied forces ought to have been employed in Asia to co-
operate with the Turkish army of Kars, and that the re-
mainder should have co-operated with the Turks and Auii-
trians in the Principalities, so as to drive the Russians from
the Pruth to the Dnieper. There have, no doubt, been many
defects of military judgment and administrative ability in the
conduct of the past campaign, but, all things considered, no
blunders have been committed at all approaching to the ab-
surdity of these suggestions.. The position of the allied
armies has been most trying during a winter in the Crimea
within six miles of the sea ; what would it have been in
the mountainous, regions of Armenia, cut off by rocks
and snow from the coast, and buried in that wild
region which Xenophon crossed by a march still cited
as a miracle in military history The Government are
sometimes accused of not knowing what they under-
took when they invaded the Crimea, but that reproach
is, at least, ill-founded in the mouths of men who would
have despatched an army into Mingrelia and Imeritia. Again,
Lord Ellenborough advocates a campaign in the valley of the
Danube, the Principalities, and the plains of Bessarabia—a
country already exhausted by the passage of armies, infected
with pestilence, scorched by heat in summer, and swept by
the severest cold in winter L--where we must have encountered
as we advanced two or three fold our own numbers in the
ranks of the enemy. Both these plans appear to us so ex-
travagant, and so evidently fatal to the troops which might
have been engaged in them, that they materially shake what-
ever confidence we might have been disposed to place in Lord
Ellenborough's judgment and sagacity; and we are confident
that the difficulties we have already had to surmount in our
operations would have been immeasurably increased if these,
schemes had been adopted. Lord Ellenborough, on the con-
trary, omits the one main point of
distancefrom;
in climates and countries we know little of, where even food
and habitations are scarce, and the means of inland communi-
cation wholly deficient. What, then, have we in all cases to rely
upon ? Our maritime superiority, which gives us the command
of the sea ; our innumerable transports,which bring France and
England into contact with Russia, and enable us to main-
tain our armies, to reinforce our troops, and 'even to plant ournes
railroads and telegraphs on the soil of the Murk Cfiersosed
it
to
It is the peninsular form of the Crimea whichh e
to carry on the war there with a secure
Rime bas°
character of
the attacks of the maritime Powers, and whice
fenxciappboelemsttihers.
Lord Ellenborough loses sight of the. mo r
atbat the conquest of
the war, and hence he does the attainment
ject he recommends us to pursue,
d in Sebastopol no other opera.
fleet unattacked-and uninjure
the Crimea would go far to the aptetarwinehimvereasent ofwi etvheit•
ttempted.
ular as they un-
however, sing
These strategical views, yhe°tßhuesrstibii.
doubtedly are, were not
h.
tion could with safety havethbee en
Adopting the popular cry for
fipepdo s
supportiti on t f
ta 0-
Lord Ellenborough's spere akd portion of
vouritism and rouitiiinohe,
the experience of the last few months
those p
„,„ '"rinciPlehsewmouth of every man not pledged by interest
the advancement of merit
ho
placed agnatvi cc ahlisa tniqiunal
ein:o the existing system. We give Lord Ellenbo-
udic't for something of that sprrit which enabled Lord.
rough credit
t the best instruments for the boldest l•
Chatham to set ec Po icy,
bor—prej
and to triump over obstacles in war which baffled the con-
stancy and the courage even of his illustrious son. But, while
Lord Ellenborough gave utterance to these honourable and
patriotic sentiments, we were not prepared to hear him wind
up his harangue by a direct appeal to the personal merits of
his hereditary auditors. The merit to which the country looks
for the work of administrative reform is the
those who raise their own fortunes and personal merit of
confer
own names—the merit of those who a lustre on their
do not often inherit them. There • make peerages, but who
assembly who cannot invoke the fame
is scarcely a peer in that
e
an-
cestor, and reckon the honours ame of some illustrious
servant of the realm. he bears from some eminent
We neither f
ciP thoso forget their past services
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( From the Morning Herald of this day.)
The sole reason for the motion made by the Conservative
party, is, the alarming nature of the crisis. Long since, deeply
impressed with the necessity for administratiie reform, they
felt the hour had at length arrived at which it could not be
much longer delayed. Lord Derby admitted that recent de-
monstrations proved the existence of a deeply-seated dissatis-
faction and discontent amongst all classes. And unless this
feeling be met in a fair and judicious manner the very foun-
dations of our constitution may receive a shock. This is the
blow which the Conservative party would ward off from our
distracted country. In vain did the Coalitionists endeavour
to change the real question of debate, and to convert a cen-
sure upon the feeble policy of an incapable Government into
an attack upon the united services. Again and again di
both Lords Derby and Ellenborough commend most warmly,
as•they have ever done, our gallant defenders and their noble
allies the Fronch.
The Mini-try by the greatest exertions contrived to defeat
the motion, but the whole weight of the debate goes against
L them, and the vigilance of our friends in the country will
soon bring victory to the cause.

(From the Morning Advertiser of this day.)
The speech of Lord Ellenborough will prove a heavy blo
and discouragement to the oligarchical system, out of which
our disasters and dishonour have arisen. A great portion of
it might have been spoken with much propriety at the meet-
ing at the London Tavern, on Saturday week, to inaugurate
the Administrative Reform movement. We do net suppose
that the Administrative Reim Association will formally ex-
press a wish that Lord Ellenbgerx:igh should join their organi-
sation. Nor do we suppose it. -ely that he will forward his
subscription with a request that his name may be enrolled as
a member ; but still the association may, so faras all practica 1
purposes are concerned, regard him hereafter as one of thei
body. They must feei-rat least they ought to feel—that they
owe a debt of gratitude to the noble lord for his speech last
night.
Lord Ellenborough was very severe in his remarks on the
House of Commons ; but no one can charge the noble lord
with having carried his severity beyond the confines of justice.
He affirmed that the House of Commons had lost the confi-
dence of the country. Who will deny the truth of the asser-
tion ? Poll the entire population of the kingdom, and you
will not find one intelligent person who does not share the
opinion of the House of Commons, which the noble lord so
plainly and so forcibly expressed. The fact is one which can-
not be too 'deeply deplored. It is ominous, indeed, for, a
country boasting of its representative institutions, when
rose
very men whom the people return to Parliament to
forfeited
e
their views and give utterance to their feelings,
all claim to the character of being the representahtai;:sf:fatheo.sea
who sent them thither. That is the position which
t ws
fall lof
at present. It is a truly f the 1101180 of
slimming position. I
peril. There must be a sweeping reform o
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