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4" A 7 NOVEMBER. 1852.

riIIOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—The publication
A. In Eliza's Cook's Journal of " Lines written at Kensall-green
Cemetry," hos induced numerous readers to express an earnest de-
sire to assist in raising a fund for the purpose of placing a memorial
over the remains of "Poor Hood."
Many a burst of merriment has echoed above " Hood's Comic
Anual," from the lis of all classes. For many ear he cheered
ourn Christmas firesides with racy hansom, that ane ever wearied by
its frivolity nor offended by its eoarseness. Far and wide was ho
known as the Poet of Mirth: but the higher development of his
genius and tho nobler purpose of his muse were shown in such
glorious hymns as " The Song of the Shirt" and the " Bridge of
Sighs." Those who have read either of these poems will acknow-
ledge that such a man deserves to have a mark upon his sleeping-
place, so that it may be found without the help of a grave-yard
servant, and all who have laughed at his inimitable wit, or sighed
over his human tenderness, are now earnestly solicited to spare
what they can in aid of a purpose which is alike praiseworthy in
tee living and due to the dead.
For the furthering of this design, the following gentlemen, mem-
bers of the Whitting`t,Nl Club, have formed themselves into a Com-
mittee :
Mr. J. Balfour Mr. R. W. Roberts
Mr. Campbell Clarke Mr. W. Strudwicke
Mr. Edward Copping Mr. H. Roscoe St. John
Mr. J. Passmore Edwards Mr. George Waller
Mr. 11. C. Maguire Mr. John Watkins, and
Mr. C. S. Middleton Mr. G. W. Yapp.
At the request of these gentlemen, Miss Eliza Cook has consented
to be Treasurer to the Lund, and Mr. John Watkins to be Honorary
Secretary.
Subscriptions will be received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the
Whittington Club, Arundel-street, Strand ; at the office of Eliza
Cook's Journal, 3, Raquet-court, Fleet-street ; by Miss Eliza Cook,
54, Great Ormonde-street, Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins,
34, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Yost-office orders may be made payable to the Treasurer or Secre
tary.

The following Contributions have been received :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G... 425 0 0
The Right Hon..T. B. Macaulay, M.P. , 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.. ...... 5 0 0
Miss Eliza Cools•• • ............ • • • • • ...• •• g. • •
0 111
ItilliCligitnitn:. 0; • ;••• ••••5••;••••• :• • • 0* • • • • • • 5 0 0. •
Mrs. Robert Elliott... ....
Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D.. ... 5 0 0
George Peabody, Esq..• ••• •• ..... ••• • • ... 5 5 0
Edward Moorman, Esq..• •• . ...... .......... 15 0 0
Messrs. Spalding and H0dge........... ...... .. 8 5 0
Samuel Rogers, Esq•• ••
C. W. Dilke, Esq... •• •..... ..... .
Elias Davis, Essi..• •••••••••••••• • • • •• • • •• •• •• 3 3 0
Charles Ltishington, Esq.. ••..• • • • ............ 3 0 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere
Sir James Duke, Bart., MX_ .. .. •• •
Douglas Jerrold, Esq.... • • .....
T. K. Hervey, Esq. .............• ....
B. W. Procter, Esq. (Barry Cornwall) • ..... 2 2 0
Rowland lllll,Esq.,'Oeneral Post-of-nee •.—• • .. 2 2 0
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. •• ..... ... ~.. 2 2 0
C. W. bilks, jun., E5q.............. —.. 2 2 0
Edward Moxon,Esq...• ....... •••• • •
Frederick Muspratt, Esq. .. ... ... .. 2 2 0
Frederick Heath, Esq. ....... ....... •• • •
Cox, Brothers, and Wyman ............ ••• • .. 2 2 0
Jas. Wyld, Esq., 20s. ; Mrs. Wyld, 103.; Master
and Miss Wyld, 10s. ................ ••
Murdo Young, Esq...• .. • ....
3lurdo Young, Jun., 10s. Gd. ; Miss Young, 10s.
fid. ; Miss C. Young, 10s, 6d. ; Miss F. Young,
10s. Gd•• .... •• ———•• •• ...... •. •• •• •• .... 2 2 0
Edwin Brown, Esq.. Coventry ........ • •
Herbert Williams, Esq., and Mrs. H. Williams lll 6
The Right lion. the Earl of Carlisle.. •• • •
The Right lion. Lord Brougham.... •• ••
The Right lion. Lord Dudley Stuart....
Lady Sandys ........
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. ••• • • • ....
J. Westland Martson, Esq
Charles Swain, Esq... ••••• • • • •
R. Swift, Esq., M.P.... •• • • ........... •• • .... 1 1 0
William Jordan, Esq.... •• •• .....
Hepworth Dixon, Esq. • .... •••• • • •• .......... 1 1 0
W. C. Macready, Efq— ...... ..... ..... • • .... 1 1 0
Samuel Phelps, Esq •..•••• • • • • • • ........... 1 1 0
Thomas Greenwood, Esq.. ••.•• • • • • • ........ 1 1 0
Thomas Cotterell, Esq., ex-Sheriff of London.... 1 1 0
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P • •
Charles Cook, Esq.,• ••••••••••••• . . • • • • . . 1 1 0
Horace Roscoe St. John, Esq.. •••••• —.• .. 1 1 0
Bayle St. John, Esq.... •••••——••• • •• .. • • .. 1 1 0
Richard Beard, Jun., Esq• •••••••• • •• • • .. • ... 1 1 0
11. C. Maguire, Esq... •.••••• • • •• • .........., 1 1 0
Rev. Felix Palmer, Fryaning .... ••.. • ... •... 1 1 0
H. Tindal Atkinson, Esq.. ••..•••••• •• • • • . •• ..1 1 0
George Grossmith, E5q........ • •
It W. Roberts, Esq..
Matthew Noble, Esq.• •••• . • •• ••...
J. Passtnore Edwards, Esq• •• . •............• •• 1 1 0
Robert Lawlinson, Esq., C.E.......•
.. 1 1 0
John Watkins, E5q...... • • .. • • .• • • • • • • • •
.... 1 1 0
Chas. S. Middleton, Esq.. •• •• • .
J. T. Bedford, Eel.. •• •• • . ..... ..... .......... 1 1 0
William Mort, Esq., Manchester ........ 1 1 0
......
W. A. Matthews, Esq. .. ...
Charles Barker, Esq.... ..........
John Franks, Esq.. •••.••• • • • • • • • ..... •••• • •• 1 1 0
Frederic Doulton, Esq.... .
William Wrightson, Esq.. • ....... - 1 1 0
J. B••••••••• • •• •. • • • .... •••
flenry Allsopp, Esq., Burton•on•Trent......... 1 1 0
Mrs. Millman• •.. • ... • ...... ................. 1 1 0
W. .Marsden, Esq., 31. D..• ...• •• •• •• .......... 1 1 0
Jonas Levy, E5q..... ...... ..........., •• •• ... 1 1 0
M. W. Walkin, Esq.
W. J. Fox, E5q.....
Lady Morgan—. ...... ........ • ......... 1 1 0
James Low, ENI.
Charles Hardwick, Esq., Preston....
T. B. Turton, Esq., Shefield... • • .............. 1 0 0
Joseph Turton, Esq., do .... ..........
William Turton, Esq., do ...... ..... ..
Twelve Poor Men. in shillings ......
Miss Mitford• • ...... •• .............. •....... 010 IS
G. W. Yapp, Esq., and Mrs. Yapp —.• .... 010 0
Edward Copping, Esq.,• ••• • . 010 6
William Strudwicke, Esq.• •••••• •• • .......... 010 6
Campbell Clarke, Esq.. 0 10 0
George Waller, Esq. • • •... •••• •• •
J. Balfour, Esq., and Mrs. C. L. Balfour ...... 010 0
Sydney Vardou, E5q............ .....
A few Poor Needlowomen....
..... .... .• 010 6
George li. Watkins, Esq-• •• ••
Lieut.-Col. Eitzmaurlce.. ...... •• •• ......• •. 010 0
AFriend •• • ... ....... .••••• • • • • .
George Sanders, Esq.• ......
Charles Smith, E5q........ ....... •........
.... 0 10 6
Thomas Watts, Es • • ...... ••••• • •....... . OIS 6
0 10 6
Leopold J. Lardner, Esq • • ..... ..
Asline Ward, Esq., New York.... • ... .... • 0 10 0
T. C.F. • ... 010 6
Robert Dawbarn, Esq.. Wisbeach .. 010 0
0 10 6
M. E. Marsden, Esq . .......... • • • • • • "
0 10 6
11. Brittan Willis, Esq.
Charles 31111 ward, ER., Liverpool.. ... 0 10 6
A Frenchman, ...... • •
11. Stubbs, E5q.........., ... ...... ..... ••• • .. 010 6
Fred. Wm. Bloxam, Esq. ........ —.. • ... 010 0
In Sixpences from Assistants at 1, North-street,
Bristol
0 10 0
Isaac Latimer, Esq... • • • ............... • .....
Samuel D. Rickards, Esq.
Joseph Hardy, E5q................. • • ........ 010
Printers employed on the Musical Bouquet, .... 010 0
0 10 0
Charles Simard, E5q..........
Luke Limner, Esq.—. ........
S. Brown, —sq., Coventry ................ 010 0
Esq.,
11. Brown, Esq., Coventry ................. ..... 010 0
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T. Brown, Esq., Coventry • . ............... .... 010 0
Alfred Keeling, Esq, ..... ......... •• •••••• • • •• 010 6
0 7 6
G. P. and C. P.
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James Teague, Esq., M.D.... ...... ..... • • ....
Thomas Wilson, Esq.—. ..... •• . ........, .... 00
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J. Ileylin, Esq, • • • •
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James Evans, Esq. ..... ............ •• •• • 0 6 0
John Phillips, E5q...... .•
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AWidow, ............
Thomas Ifeaphy, Esq... .. ~.. • • ....... ..... 0 5 0
A. J. lloney, Esq... •• • •
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AFriend ...... ..... ....•
Henry Mann, Esq...
11. Scholfield Johnson, Esq., 3f.D.
0 5 0
Nathaniel Randall, Esq.
W. Davey, Esq... • . • • .. • • •• .. • . ••
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Joel rto•vsell, Esq. ... .. . •..• •• •• ••
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C. thrown, Esq., Coventry ..... ......„ • ..... .. 0 5 0
S. Brown, jun., Esq., Coventry, 0 5 0
Mrs. Williams...
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£196 15 0
Future subsriptiotli will be announced in The Times and ether
papers. Every suLscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Jour-
nal

JOHN WATKINS, Hon. Sec.

OYSTERS.—The Real Burnham River Native
Oysters, six. years old, four hours from the beds, per E. C.
Railway, are to he had only of JOAN SIVATING, Fish, Oyster, and
Ice Merchant, 159, Clicapside, in barrels, Gs., Ss. Gd., los. Gd. ; in
bags, for clubs, Re., 12s. Gel. Very superior Oyster-rooms, Steed's
Pale Ale, and Reid's Stout; a good dish of fish for teu, ss.—Depot for
the Real Wenliam Lake Ice and Refrigerators.,

ELEGANT AND USEFUL. '
MOSES and SON frequently employ three
111 '4 • words to designate two classes or Goods, one the Depart-
ment of Luxury and Taste, as that 'of elegant VESTS and
TROWSERS, in ten thousand novel FASIUONS, STYLES, and
S II A PF.S, for which their Establishments are universally celebrated ;
the other for those STYLISH Inventions: in COATS and OVER-
COATC, for which they have gained a world-wide fame, yet never
were three words so practicably used as at the present season.
ELEGANCE and USEFULNESS is displayed in such an array of
fancy VESTS and TROWSERS as have not been presented on ar.y
previous SEASON. But E. MOSES and SON'S innumerable styles
of WRAPPERS, CAPES, &e., &e., the :names of which 'are too
numerous for recapitulation, and the pecularities of which Ito words
can describe, will, when purchased and worn, be an ineontestible
proof of E. MOSES and SON'S entire precedence over every other
House—a distinction they have long enjayed, and which they will
never loose. Raving purchased to theft* usual magnificent amount
previous to any advance in the price of MATERIALS, their DRESS
for this season will be charged very considerably LOWER PRICES,
and be FAR BETTER in QUALITY than any offered elsewhere.
EMIGRANTS PROVIDE FOR 'SEA OR LAND.
E. MOSES and:SON'S OUTFITS are suitable for any passage at any
season ; they aro prepared for any climate or occupation ; they have
been procured by thousands of Emigrants, and at the same low
prices, and of the same matchless quality, they can be secured by
thousands more. Raving many years atteadet'ta the OUTFITTING
BUSINESS on the largest scale, E. MOSES and SON have the
highest credentials of merit, having larger and more tradesmanlike
transactions than any other house. they ..can fainish the most com-
plete and the best OUTFITS for the least meneyiand that every
accommodation may bo furnished to Emigrants. antifeir Establish-
, went, they keep a 13eparate department entirely.' Outfits. All
necessary information relative to sailing of Izenoitt of passage,
&c., may be land en application, or rovrear anrpart tile.
Lichigdomi

CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of 'Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have

No CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER TIOUFE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :

London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and Is 7. Minorlee, 83,
54, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, Row Oxford-Street, 1,2,
end 3, Hart-street, all communicating.

Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Brldge-strotis

Sheffield Branch, 36, Fugate.

Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, HOsierS Furriers, Boot
and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures the lowest
from which no a,Jatement can be made.
The Establishments aro closed from sunset Friday to =nest on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'elook.
A new Book, entitled "The World's Pharos," containing the
Emigrant's Assistant, fill list at prices, and directions for self-mea-
surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part
of the kingdom.

A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application,
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—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
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—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
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he subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
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No. IL

Idvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Prind-
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and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
IKEA BY CAUTERIZAT
FIB. its Inefficienc
RTENAYy and Danger.
BYCOU,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been marked with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
fthzorvations.--" In proof of ,I‘l,l _vtlors:3la,,kairt-anzt-vsy)- • has,
given the histork of a great many cases successfully treated, as ban
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
ri peod of twelve years, the treatment by dilltation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both
In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful."
—Proresstr Lizars on the Treatment f Stricture.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—Two OEMS . TEVV3 40" letters,XGPAPERS
t h e
mwa
naa, whol ycetehh a ooFne THIS
fro DAY.
Lord
Brougham the other from Lord Denman,will be found
v
in another part, of this paper, both dealing with much
earnestness 'with the interesting subject of law re-
form. Tha first, as befits the writer, deals with a
great variety of questions. The improvement of the
patent law, the abolititm,of the office of Master in
Chancery, the admission of barristers to practise
without an attorney in the County Courts, the digest
ref the' criminal law, the propriety of. digesting and
codifying first the'statutwand•ultimately the common
law, the-improvement of the, County Court jurisdic-
tion, the snaking, the trial •1?y. jury optional, the re-
arrangement of the circuits, the improvement of the
law of evidence, the, prevention of bribery at 'eke-
tions by inalstiig it a felony, and the 'extension of
County Courts' "to Scotland and of the Scoteh decla-
ratory action to Eigland, are in turn touched .on by
Lord Brougham with his usual earnestness and feli-
city. One observation appears to us of great prac-
tical importance for the future guidance of law reforms
thethroi
mnst
through
merelylttoihuriimachinery
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anniinge
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applied
measure
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snlaouosmsrit
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results
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tingo f
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_the EeclesioatiW Coutts, and to° the Iligestin an 4
celaiTettiten of our statute-and- cemmon , ewe dabs
to the letter of Denman, which, though confined to a
single point, lays down, with an authority, which few
will be prepared to dispute, principles of very wide and
searching application, and which must be adopted as the
rule by which theßar shall in future direct its practice.
It appears that a barrister, in dedicating a professional
work to Lord Denman, indulged in a Jeremiad over
the ruined prospects of his profession, in which few
of our non-legal readers will feel disposed to join him,
since every ground of complaint which he alleges, re-
solves itself into the loss sustained by the lawyer by
speedy, cheap, and final justice. Seeing the evil
which the County Courts must bring upon the Bar,
Lord Denman is urged to lift up his voice against the
proposal to allow barristers to take briefs in the
County Courts without the intervention of an attor-
ney. This request Lord Denman negatives in a letter
clear, dignified, and conclusive, affording full proof
that the retirement of this eminent magistrate was
due solely to physical infirmity, and not to any decay
of mental powers. Lord Denman justifies the deci-
sion of Parliament which permits barristers to appear
in the County Courts en two unanswerable grounds
—the impropriety of an interference by the Legisla-
ture
with a matter of mere professional etiquette, and '
the absurdity of imposing by Act of Parliament need-
less expense on the suitors in what are intended to be
new
that
cheap courts. But Lord Denman does not stop here;
having justified the conduct of the Legislature, be pro-
ceeds to inquire what ought the conduct of the Bar
to
e be
Bar now
the Legislature
t leftheotido
has itseti
go declareduwentte
devices,sh thatali
the oi rt de iaetyhe r
w re-impose that it is
ruledevise
which it laid down ought no longer to exist. Shall
h o
some new regulution, or shall it abstain from any
attempt whatever to regulate the conduct of its mem-
tbhee
avoided freedom
as of
an acteivoini, 5
anno
hers ? Lord Denman gives his opinion in favour of
the latter course on grounds equally wise, liberal, and
mosts wrong
commonly is to
just : —" All interference of authority," he says, " with
ind
onethethmast u
elv e
aggravates whatever evil it was designed to cor-
rect. The Forum domesticum to which the profession
paid allegiance as a band of brothers will hardly
maintain its authority over a family so widely diffused
and so indefinitely multiplied. Without rules the
honourable man will act correctly, and none will
restrain those of opposite character." The days of
Bar etiquette, of the jurisdiction of circuit messes, and
such self-constituted authorities, are gone by. The
profession has out-grown them, and the rude festivities
and half-serious punishments of grand nights and bar
courts are things of another generation. The honour
of the Bar is, within certain very wide limits, intrusted
to the keeping of each of its members, with no other
guarantee than his individual sense of justice and
propriety. To guard against malpractices, the
standard of feeling in tne profession snould be raised,
and that must be done, not by the rules of etiquette,
but by closing its portals to all but scholars and gen-
tlemen. It is to the Benchers, who prostitute the
degree of barrister which they are permitted.to confer
for the purpose of filling their halls and letting their
chambers, that we have a right to look for the main-
tenance of the honour of the Bar. So long as they
continue indiscriminately to admit all comerslwho pay
their dues, give no flagrant occasion for scandal, and
lounge through a course of legal lectures, it is to
them, and not to the absence of any etiquette, that the
decline in the estimation of the Bar must be traced,
and the probability of derogatory practices ascribed.
This authoritative denunciation of Bar etiquette
leads immediately to a most valuable consequence.
We pointed out a year ago the great injury which
that etiquette inflicted on the public, by depriving
them of the means of consulting a barrister
directly, without the intervention of an attorney.
We showed that this rule was most injurious to the
suitor, by forcing upon him an expense which
might in most cases bo avoided, and that the em-
ployment of two agents to do that which could be
as well, or better, performed by one was a prohibi-
tion raised up against the Bar by themselves, and
which their own interest and that of the public re-
quired them to break down. The preservation of
such artificial restrictions is against the spirit of the
age. Law is the commodity in which the barrister
deals, and which the public wishes to purchase. It is
the interest of neither to raise up a barrier between
them. It was not so in the days of Thurlow and
of Kenyon, and it ought not to be so now. It is not
by rendering the access to him difficult and expensive
that the barrister can increase his dignity or con-
sideration, but by usefully and energetically perform-
ing the duty which he undertakes. The Legislature
has rescinded the rule which excluded him from con-
tact with his client so far as the County Courts are
concerned; it can hardly be consistently argued that
a barrister ought to receive instructions from his
client for the conduct of a case in the County Court,
but that he would be compromised by listening to a
statement from the same person of facts on which his
opinion is requested. The Bar has undoubtedly au
arduous struggle to undergo in these days of law
reform, but that struggle it will never bring to a
successful issue by vain hankerings after the past, or
by teaching the public to consider that the lawyer
must lose whatever the suitor gains. If the Bar of
England means to continue a permanent and honour-
able profession, it must look for its preservation, not
to erbitiary etiquette, nor to antiquated notions of
personal dignity and aristocratic exclusiveness, but
to its devotion to the cause of amendment and pro-
gress, its facility of access, its high character insured
by examination, its learning and industry, and the
identification of its interests with those of the public.
POST.—The great gathering of the self-styled
Friends of Religious Freedom and Equality is at lest
an accomplished fact. The Fiery Cross that was
sped through the land, at the bidding of Ireland's
ministers of the Christian religion, to call together all
that was penniless, reckless, aimless, and turbulent
from among the population of that unhappy kingdom,
has completed its mission, and, in our paper of Satur-
day, we were enabled to place this result before our
readers. And what is that result? 'What is the re-
sult of the frantic efforts of months to stir up the
Irish nation to a crusade against the civil and eccle-
siastical constitution of the British empire ? A ga-
thering in a paltry conspiracy of some five-and-
twenty members in Parliament—we say, advisedly,
members in Parliament, because we know that these
men, though members, are by no means representa-
tives, guided by an attendant tail of obscure priests,
panting to convert themselves into political despots.
What is the value of the attendance, the countenance,
and the co-operation a these members in Parliament
—what, in short, is their moral weight may easily
be calculated after reading over their names. We
will venture to say that, with about two exceptions,
not one has a stable, social, and monetary status in
the country, and without any exception, not one has
shown himself capable of conquering an independent
political position. Nay, we will venture to go fur-
ther, and to say that, notwithstanding the apparent
unanimity and the mutual pledges to stand shoulder
to shoulder, there is not one of these men who is not
distrusted by the other, and not one among the
leaders of the movement who has not attendant
upon him a spying and controlling brother, acting
tinder the special orders of the priesthood, with
directions to report every suspected tendency to
support " law and order,' or in other words,
every exhibition, direct or indirect, of inclina-
tion to take service with the British Government.
Let Mr. William Keogh make a reasouable speech,
or meet in a moderate and honest spirit any proposi-
tion emanating from Lord Derby's Cabinet for the
advancement of Ireland's material prosperity ; or let
Mr. Serjeant Shee attempt to carry out his common-
sense policy of accepting
what is intrinsically good
though it do come from the other side of the house,
and they will see with what bitter rage and eager spite
they will be parried by those bull-dogs of Rome, Mr.
Frederick Lucas, Dr. Gray, and Mr. Duffy. Yet
this is the rope of sand with which Jesuitical Pro.,

nagentlism has recourse when wishing to bind our
Church in chains, and our nobles with links of iron.
As for the sympathy of numbers, notwithstanding
the persevering and uncompromising efforts which
have been made "by the. Members of Parliament,
clergy, and influential laymen," who assembled at the
Northumberland-buildings on the 10th of September,
not more than 200 of all sorts, according to the high-
est estimate of the journals of the League, could be
coaxed or driven together on the 28th of October in
the Concert-room of the Rotunda, in Dublin. Dur•
log the six weeks, in fact, that they have been so assi-
duously at work, the party, even with the assistance
of the peripatetic Mr. Bright, who is ready at a
niorneht's notice to address any assembly on any sub-
ject, whether he understands it or no, do not seem to
have received accession of force, so much as in the
person of one single convert ; and from alpha to
omega the proceedings entirely justify the opinion we
had before formed and have already expressed, that this
new aggregation of the reckless, the skeldering, and
the discontented hangers-on of poor Ireland, are a
small and contemptible section of her population ;
and, instead of being representatives of the nation,
are but nominees and tools of a foreign faction ; care-
less of Ireland—careless of her peace or progress—
careless of aught save the re-conquest of the despotic
power over her fortunes and her people which was
once in their possession. .:We suppoie we need not
apply ourselves for the hehoof even of the least in-
strpted of .our readers to the disproof of the great
proposition ooptaineckl in the sth reaglutiosl.o,w,hich

declined to maintain by reason or argument, conceiv-
ing it to have been established as a fact by perpetual
repetition, that the independent and separate existence
of the Anglican Ecclesiastical Establishment, and the
appropriation of ecclesiastical property to that instead
of to the Roman branch of the Catholic Church, are
badges of conquest and evidences of vassalage and
slavery. We suppose we need hardly quote historians
to satisfy even the ignorant member for Manchester,
whether really, or for this occasion only, ignorant, we
know not, that, if ecclesiastical appropriation of pro-
perty in the land and its produce could be at any time
and in any sense a badge of conquest and an evidence
of robbery, it would be in this allocation to the
requirements, just or unjust, of that Papal power
at whose bidding, for whose behoof, and for whose
extension and advancement, the conquest of Ireland
was originally undertaken, and so cruelly, ruthlessly,
and impolitically carried out by the monarchs of
England. The most amusing, however, as well as
the most characteristic part of the whole exhibition,
was, as the gist and essence of a lady's letter is tradi-
tionally said to be, in the postscript. Camillo Mapei,
a Waldensian of Piedmont, paraded as a sympathizing
Protestant, ventured, in addressing the Conference as
au ardent friend of religious freedom and equality, to
hint that previous experience and historical reminis-
cences had induced something of a doubt, in the Pro-
testant mind on the Continent, as to the possibility of
Rome being sincere in any abjuration of ascendancy;
and expressed a hope that something might be done,
as well as said, to remove a prejudice which he had
reason to know had taken d,ep root. Heavens I
what a storm he raised—whet a commotion in the
assembly convened for the purpose of establishing
freedom and equality. Nothing could be more de-
cided except the virulence with which a man is
assailed who mentions indiscreetly in America negro
emancipation. Notwithstanding his protestations—
notwithstanding his stigmatizing the feeling, to which
ho bore witness, as a " prejudice," the sympathizing
Waldensian from Piedmont had no sooner given utter-
ance to his mild thoughts, than he was incontinently
choked into silence by the chairman and two alarmed
henchmen in priestly garments. The friends of re-
ligious freedom and equality permit no doubts, admit
of no questioning, and suffer no untrammelled opinions.
God defend poor Ireland from such friends. They
are only fit to hang round the neck of Mr. Bright,
and those intolerant and warlike apostles who would
cram peace—their peace, that is—down the throats
of nations with fire and the sword.

WEEKLY DISPATCH.— RAILWAY AMALGA-
MATION.—Notbing daunted by the published mis-
givings of the Chairman of the Great Western Rail-
way, who thought aloud for the benefit of the public,
is Lao ammo' to Mr. club, the Nuril-Western Dl-
rectors, we observe, have finally agreed with those of
the Midland for an " amalgamation" of the two lines.
The squeamish prudery with which the meeting of
independent shareholders at Manchester disclaimed
the very word was, it would appear, well-acted blar-
ney, and decently got up humbug. Pistol tells us
that the wise call "stealing" conveying. The share-
holders call amalgamation " traffic arrangement."
But their representatives appear to regard it as either
unnecessary or impracticable any longer to beat about
the bush, or to butter parsnips with soft words. They
must go to Parliament for power to conspire in rob-
bing •the public—and they know very well that the
candied phraseology of a public meeting will not
conceal the truth from a Parliamentary Committee.
Throwing off the mask, therefore, the two Boards of
Directors have advertised their mutual assumption of
partnership; and the great neutral public are about to
see an attempt to club two capitals, which united will
exceed 60,000,0001. sterling, or upwards of four times
the property of the Bank of England itself, and an
absolute and exclusive command over upwards of
1,100 miles of the iron roads of England. The
disease appears, too, to bs epidemic. Notonly.has it
been proposed to the Great Western to Join its 20
millions and 300 miles to the GO millions and 1,100

miles, but it is officially announced that terms of
amalgamation have been agreed on between the
York, Newcastle and Berwick, the Leeds Northern,
and the York and North Midland railways, embracing
a capital of 23,478;4001. By a recent award of arbi-
trators, the North Staffordshire line has just been ab-
sorbed into the North-Western by purchase, and the
Eastern Counties and Eastern Union are about to
undergo a like process of assimilation. On every
hand we hear of combinations among large steam-boat
companies with railway companies, to seize the ex-
clusive carrying trade in their respective districts,
by raising up exclusive mutual advantages, in the
shape of traffic, which they deny to independent ship-
owners and carriers; and we entertain more clearly
than ever the full persuasion that unless the country
awakens to the magnitude of the danger with which
it is threatened, it will, before the close of the coming
session be handed over, bound hand and foot by Act
of Parliament, to the tender mercies of as foul a cone
spiracy of monopolists as ever grew rich upon the
plunder of society. We must not be taunted with
the imputation of vulgar prejudices, or indulgence in
exploded fallacies, in making use of very plain lan-
guage to characterizs the con, not we feel bound, as
guardians of the public interests, thus emphatically
to expose and denounce. The morality of railway
management is very little superior to that of the com-
mon swindler ; and not more respectable than that of
eingses of impostors, who, in place of being presented
with pieces of plate, are more summarily handed over
to the tread-mill. The " cooking of accounts" is a
very clear case of obtaining money under false pre-
tences ; and what is " making things pleasant" but
the grossest fraud upon that portion of the public who
have been simple enough to regulate their purchases
of shares by a reliance upon the honesty of balance-
sheets ? Who can tell the amount cf scandalous
jobbing, imposition, end downright theft, of which
railway directors and managers have been guilty ?
It is not possible to estimate the commercial
demoralization which has been directly trace-
able to the railway system. Contracts for iron,
coal, maintenance of way, construction, repair,
in the various railways of the kingdom, have made
the fortunes of many flourishing directors, and robbed
the companies of millions. About every acre of land,
and every house required fur the various lines, there
dishonest bargain with the proprietor.
Parliament at
premium, were allotted to Members oft
thao directors.
par, to bribe them to sell the publiccreoei
was some job—some feeler to an official, and some
dishonest
rs and repro-
Extravagant prices were giVen to
re erty as were
sentatives for such portions
hush-money, or a dowurighft i
orwer are all invested by
legislation and the issues of p
directors. There is
these railway proprietors a
and Great Western
nothing the North-Western .
dotewnarisgehietnreeasceaolityo
ask of Parliament which they
would combine to _
affect great zeal for the pro-
tection r rliament itself is made up of
would not carry ;
on the lines, ostensibly as coorafb.ptelbnlcese.atroTni,:buavterneuaellsy aosf
forh ldaers in the respective under-
directors and
the system has e
it were, overlaid
com-
pletely as to have, as itself with its
Every company has its spies, white
own cunning.
bonnets, and men of straw on the share list of its rival
indignationthetime, . a
their
ht
ehi the
neor rye d aunc de
d
real aim is to ruin the interests of the company,
taking. nsegts
of.
whose advantage they are pretending f
misconduct
epf proprietors, ide
directors,
ers and
while,gre at
all
.0 promote, and
to accomplish the purposes of the rival with whom
scoundrels The shareholders
been
who
they appear to have no connexion. It has been proved
by Lord Lyndhurst, in Parliament, that the North-
Western Company, great and honourable as it pre-
tends to be, has frequently had recourse to such prac-
tices; and the machinery of fraud
and
imposture his
reached to such a height, that simple shareholders, at
meetings of their own company, are totally at a oss
to know whether the eloquent gentlemen and the fer-
retting men of business, who appear to be so zealously