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put that principle in operation, encumbered it with so
many novel istel cut/Pierian:le p °visions that he was
bound to rip,,,,se it pissing in.o a law.—(flear.
heat) The tenant right of Litt-t W4a believed, and
he concurred in the bylipf, to be based
upon equity and ja-tice, but tho.e who enjoyed it were
apprehensive that it it was ex ended to certain parts of
Ireland that could not sympathise with it the system
would be evenoially cripp'ed, if not abolished.—(Hear.)
The Lict was this right or custom niuld not to mate
the subject of a law, and in attempting to legislate
upon it he was afraid, if they did not proceed with ex-
tr, me caution, they would render the existing state
in Ireland more disagreeably complicated than it had
ever been .—(Hear, bear.) For instance, this Bill at-
tempted to solve in a few words a problem that had oc-
cupied years in its discussion, and upon which volume
upon volume bad been written, namely, it defined the
meaning of the term of " a fair rent." It must have
required some courage to induce the Hon. Proposer
of the Bill to venture upon that definition, and
although he Admitted the ingenuity of the definition he
was bound to confess that It was so indefinite that it
would of itself render the Bill inoperative, supposing it
was carried.—(Hear, hear.) It would, however, be
impossible to work such a Bill without some such
definition, and he confessed that be was not
prepared to propose a better than the one
contained in this Bill ; but still this defi-
nition was extremely uncertain, being liable to
various constructions, and again he repeated that as the
success of a Bill of toil nature must depend upon the
simplicity of its prov;sions, it was useless to pass a Bill
the very mainspring of which must inevitably give rise
o endless discussions and disputes.—(Hear, hear.)
Looking, therefore, at these defects, he did not think
it would be prudent to pass the Bill, because
it would disturb the stability of landed property, if it
did not in fact altogether destroy its value; and if the
House wished to see the land maintain its position in the
estimation of investors, it would unhesitatingly with-
to its sanction to this Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble
Viscount the Member for the county of Diwn had
taunted the Government with a want of courage to meet
the question with a direct negative.
Viscount CAS'IsLEREAGEI did no such thing--
what he said was this, that in the absence of the Go-
vernment Bill the House had a perfect light to adopt
its own.—(Henr, hear.)
Sir EMERSON TENNENT repeated that the Noble
VI-count threw out a taunt.

Viscount CASTLEREAGH rose to order. An Hon.
M tuber had no right to make an accusation against
him when he had disclaimed the imputation which it
conveyed.
Sir EIIERSON TENNENT had put a natural c-in-
struetion upon the language of the Noble Viscount, but
as the Noble Viscount disclaimed the meaning which
they conveyed, why, of course, there was an end of the
matter.—(Hear.) But he was authorised to state that
the Government measures were to be introduced with
a+ little delay as possible, and, in conclusion, he begged
leave to move that the Bill be read a second time this
day six months.—(Hear.)
Mr. KEOGH said that had it not been for the speech
which they had just heard he should not have felt it
necessary to address the House. He had heard with
great pleasure the conciliatory speech of the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, but the
speech of the Honourable Gentleman had been
marital with so much asperity . that he could not
help throwing back the insinuation that on
that side of the House there was any desire
to treat the subject in any but a conciliatory tone. The
specch of the Lion. Gentleman had been directed en-
tirely against the details, and not, as it ought to have
herelaawllye feotrE theeglmahod-
neen, against the principle, and he could not help sus-
pecting that the sP e
ICm e Committee. intendedtee. T
andtiou lertelgand going
into
were very different; in England landlords
were accustomed to let their firms just as they would
furnished houses, while in Ireland tenants were
I hrown on a naked soil, and everything which they could
get Out of the soil by their own industry was extracted
from them in the shone of rent, and no compensation
whatever provided. He appealed to this country whe-
ther in a time of expected invasion they would not put a
sop to a system which in a space of ten years had
diminished the population of a fertile island by more
than two millions.

Mr. H. GRArTAN was astonished at what had
taken place. be thought it was unknown in the pro-
ceedings of Parliaments that the principal
liw officer of Ireland should come forward
and approve of the principle, and another subordinate
member get up a short time atter and find fault with
that principle. All that the Right Hon. Gentleman the
Attorney 'General had said had been ruined by his
friends, and it was a great pity that there had not been
some one on the Treasury bench to keep down the Hon.
Member for Lisburn.

Mr. B. OSBORNE regretted that a debate which had
commenced so auspiciously should, in some way or
other, he knew not why, have turned all at once into a
spirit of bitterness. As a friend to Ireland and her in-
terests he should vote for the second reading of the Bill.
He wsa not, however, so steeped in party prejudice as to
resume his seat without expressing his admiration of the
wise and sincere statement of the Right lion. Gen-
tleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, and if the
subject were taken up in the same spirit by the
other members of the Government, he did not
despair of seeing the question of tenant-right
effectually settled. If he could hear from that Right
Hon. Gentleman an assurance that a Government Bill
would be laid on the table of the Hou,e at as
early a period as possible he should then consider it
better not to press for a division on the present occasion;
it not, however, he should certainly vote for the second
reading of the Bill now before the House.
Mr. WHITESIDE said that, with all due deference to
the Hun. Gentleman, he was called on now to give his
vote on the merits of the Bill before the House. He
(Mr. Whiteside) quite agreed that some measure on the
subject was necessary, a measure which ought to be founded
upon a just appreciation of the rights of property. The
present Bill, however, had no such foundation, but was,
in fact, completely opposed in almost every one of its
cleusee to the fixed principle or the rights of
property.—(Hear.) The ground of his objection
to the Bill was, not that he was unwilling to do
what was fair and equitable to Ireland, but
bt'ceuse it was an incomprt•nensible and impracticable
measure, unjust to landlords and unjust to tenants. It
was the earnest object of the Government to introduce
not a flimsy Bill, but to pass as soon as possible a law
on the subject, such as would be beneficial to the country
and creditable to the HOUSE'.

Mr. BUTLER moved the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. KEOGH hoped the Hon. Member would not per-
sist in his motion, but allow the Howe to go to a
division.

Th.! motion was then withdrawn.
Mr. CONOLLY (who was rectived with loud cries of
" Divide," which rendered him for some time
inaudible) was understood to say the question
was nut whether a compensation should be
given to tenants for any improvements which
the tenant might effect in the land. on which all were
agreed, but whether or not that compensation should
be fixed by one-aided arbitration. Tne Hon. Gentleman
was addressing the House when the hour of six o'clock
arrived, and the Speaker declared the House adjourned.

FRANCE.

THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.

The following is the opening speech delivered by
M. Billault

" Messieurs and dear Colleagnes,—Our presence in
this place marks a new era for us and for the country.
Saved from most terrible eventuali.ies by a hand whose
calm energy is slow in thought (mediter lentement) and
rapid in action, France looks upon her, chief with a con-
fidence which is unprecedented in history.
" By a vote whose astonishing (ictstant) numbers
stand unparalleled, she has asked at his hands strong and
pro'ective institutions, which will restore her security
and her greatness.
" Placed under the invocation of the great principles
of 1789, tortifi d by that Governmental spirit which
marked the Consulate, these insiturions have received
an evident consecration by the scrutin by which we are
elected—ours is th.s duty to lotus(' into them practical
life. That is the commencement of our mission; and
that rniesian, whatever may be said of it, is certainly
not altogether without grandeur and authority.
" We shall not, indeed, see the Legislature surrounded
by parties, which incessantly hold the Ministry in check,
compelling it to concentrate all its forces upon its own
preservation and defence, and by so doing not un-
frequently enervating the power of the State. When-
ever, as Ministers or Deputies, we may employ these
Parliamentary tactics, it is to business now that
we shall be obliged to consecrate them—serious and
practical basins ss. This is our part in the Constitution.
It consists in voting the taxes, the discussion of the
budget and of the laws. It implies not merely the right
of deliberating freely and publicly, of adopting or re-
jecting, but also that of amendment, no longer, un-
doubtedly, with the same facility of improvisation,
against which previous Assemblies vainly endeavoured
to defend themselves, but with a degree of maturity
which c en only prove tatal to utopian projects.
~ In such functions there i 4, believe me, a great and
if we use it, as I am certain we shall, sen-
°tidy, wirtal
t er
t
real pow
nit
Y
reservation, with loyal fideli, to the
electoral
sentiments
which have sent us here. This
power
Will constitute in our new Government one
01 those active forces which are the must usefully effi-
carious,
" It is in order to proceed with you on this patriotic
path that the Chief of the State has called me to the
,eahonour of presiding
t over you. Grunt me, my dear col-
"Ps, as much good-will as I offer you devotion, and,
being allthe united in holy love of our country, let us
e
rive 0 the world n but of a van-
-0 longer the spectacle of an assembly
ef impaetlioned men, c..ntinU3lly agitated,
table Assemblyot• Legislation, celnaly and gravely as the
law itself enacii
are submitted tonguss!utes upon the great interests which
At the conclusio'n of the sitting the President an-
nounced that there would be held a private sitting, to
decide whether the
I wear the uniform Members should be required to
on the occasion of public sittings.
The following is the collective letter addressed by
General Cavaignac, xi,
Carnot, and M. Henon, to the
President of the Legislative Corps :
“ M. le President,_The electors of Paris and Lyons
sought us in our retreat, or in our exile. We thank
them fir having thought that eur names would serve as
a protest against the destruction of public liberties and
the rigours of despotism.
" But we do not admit that they meant to send us to
sit in a legislative body
whose powers do not extend
to the point of repairing the violation of rights. We
repudiate the immoral doctrine of silence, or of mental
reservation ; and we refuse to take the oath required
on admission to the Legislative Corps. We pray you,

M. le President, to be so good as to communicate to the
As4embly this' deeleration.
(Signed)

4 CAN' kIGNAC.
" CARNOT
" LIENoN.

" Stroh 29. 1852 "

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PA N lES' STUCK.
From the Offiaal List.

THE UNITED STATES.

The tca-ouuts from New York by the America show
iecteasitig activity and confidence. The fresh arrivals
of geld fret') California, together with moderate impor-
tations of European goods anti the temporary suspension
of specie remittances, were producing a powerful in-
flutnce on the mat ket. utichecked by counteracting
ances ot any kind. Under those citeumatet ces,it,in addi-
tion to the largi, Ittn,':.unt of thiited ti• a es' stoAs lately
purchased on this site, there had els ) been au incautious
di-Too-don to take all the railway mid ether bonds that,
have been off-tred, there would have been considerable
danger of inflation. At present, however, there is no reason
to apprehend any such result. In addition to the accounts
from California, the papers contain renewed particulars of
gold to be obtaiaed elsewhere. In New Mexico a person,
who has had two years' experience in California, is said
to have formed a party of 38 to proceed to some deposits
which he alleges he has discovered on a branch of the
river Gila, about 350 miles from Santa Fe. Accounts
from Oregon also revive the rumours as to the existence
of rich quartz on Queen Charlotte's Island. The speci-
mens shown were brought by one of the crew of the Una,
a vessel lately wrecked there. Another statement has ap-
peared that a mine of auriferous quartz has been found
in Virginia, about 80 miles west of Richmond. " The
vein," it is std.'. " is exceedingly rich in threads, thickly
sprinkled with the metal, while the rock itself, in which
none is visible, contains eleven dollars to the ton."
the tract comprises about 1,300 acrss, but it is a sus-
picious circumstance that the parties proposing to work
it were endeavouring to raise capital in New York
instead of in their own State. It appears that the
engineers sent out by the Nouveau Monde Company
had arrived at San Francisco on the 11th of February.
They were twenty-four in number, but one of them
died of fever shortly after leaving Panama. Three
others had also been attacked, but were now re-
covering. The superintendent reports that he was
about to proceed at once to the mines. The de-
mand at NO York for passage to San Francisco
was unabated. The vessels by both routes were full
up to the end of May, and through tickets. vial
Nicaragua, were sought at 100 dolls. premium. It was
announced that a portion of the Panama Railway would
open on the 15th March. There had been one or two
small failures at New York, arid another of larger amount
at Savannah. The merchaets' Exchange in Wall-street
was to be sold on the 16th March. It was built after
the great fire, but the returns have not been sufficient
to pay the interekt on its bond', end the mort-
gagees hid at length resolved to foreclose. An applies-
non for postponement, with the hops that the requisite
sum of 850,000 dollars, or the greater part of it, might be
raised by loan in London, had been made and refused.
At Philadelphia au adjourned meeting of thestockholders
of the United States' Bank had been appointed for the
17th March. A report from a committee on the best mode
for speedily closing all its affairs would then be sub-
mitted. The struggle in Congress on the question elan
increased subsiil to the Collins line of Liverpool
steamers was still unfinished. Among the public grants
awarded by the House of Representatives was one of
100,000 dollars to Dr. Morton for his discovery of the
eaimathetic properties of ether, A Bill authorising an
organization for the construction of a crystal palace
had been passed by the Legislature of New York.—
Times.

HEALTHOF LONDOIV DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The mortality has been great in the London districts
during the whole of March. Iu the first week of the
month the deaths registered were 1,128, in the two fel-
lowing they rose to 1,232 and 1,21,8, and in the last
week, as shown by the present return, they were 1,219.
It must 1).1 observed, however, that the small increase
which now appears over the preceding week arises from
more than an average number of coroners' case?. Ex-
cluding from the returns deaths from poi.on, injury, at,d
other external causes, or which inquest cases principally
consist, the numbers in the last three weeks stand thus:
—1,160, 1,183, and 1,161.

In the ten corresponding weeks of 184251 the aver-
age number of deaths was 1,126, which, if raised in a
certain proportion according to increase of population,
is 1,239. The deaths registered lust week differ, there-
fore, little from the calculated amount; but this as a
comparative test of the actual mortality is disturbed at
the end of the quarter, when cases on which inquests
have been held, and many of which occurred at previous
dates, are entered in more than a fair proportion in the
register books.
The effect of the coldness of the season is still very
apparent in the mortality produced by diseases of the
respiratory organs. This class, which comprises bronchi-
tis, pneumonia, asthma, and a few less fatal maladies, num-
bers this week 243, while the average is only 193, or with
a correction for increase of population, 212. In the re-
turn for the week preceding the number was 269; there
has, therefore, been a reduction in the interval,
but it will be noticed that while pneumonia and asthma
have decreased from 83 and 29 to 72 and '22, bronchitis
continues quite as fatal, the numbers being 126 and 128.
Consumption (in the tubercular class) is also fatal at
present, 151 lives having been destroyed by this disease
in the previous week, and 160 in the last, which is more
than in any corresponding week, with one exception.
There were 3 from laryngitis, 5 from laryngismus
stridulas.

Seventeen children and six persons of 15 years and
upwards died of small-pox; in three cases, at the ages of
14, 19, and 29 years, vaccinatio❑ is reported to have
been previously performed. Thirty-eight children died
of houping-cough, which is less tha❑ the average, and
-ight of croup. From scarlattna thirty-one deaths oc-
curred, and from typhus, remittent fever, &c., forty-seven.
t'ne unusual number of nine persons, eight of whom
were children under 1 year, are recorded as the victims
of syphilis.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAT.—One-fourth part of the sky was generally
covEred with cloud during the morning and afternoon, at
night the sky was clear; cirri and fleecy clouds. Electricity
—Positive, and tension moderate generally throughout the
day.

kONDAY.—The sky was clear till lh. P.M., three-fourths
were generally covered with thin stratus till sh. r.m., and the
whole was clear afterwards. Electricity—Positive, and ten-
sion strong throughout the day.
TURSDAY.—The sky was for the most part one-half covered
with stratus. Thick haze prevailed during the morning.
Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate throughout the
day.
_ _

VVEDNISDAY.—The sky was free from cloud until noon,
and overcast during the remainder of the day; cirrostratus.
Chick haze prevailed during the earlier portion of the
morning. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate at
noon.

THURSDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was free
from cloud tail I Ih. A.M., and generally covered during the
remainder of the day; cumuli, cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati.
r.lectpcity—Positive, and tension moderate during the
morning and afternoon.
FRIDAY.—The sky for the most part was covered with
cloud throughout the day; cumuli, cumulo.trati, and cirro-
strati. Electricity—Positive, and tension weak during the
afternoon.
SATURDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud throughout
the day ; eumulostratus and cirrostratus. Electricity—
othing was shown throughout the day.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 45.3', ; and the mean
reading at 9h. r.m. was 41.7' ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 46.0 a and 40.844
respectively.
The reading of the barometer increased from 29.99 in.
at the beginning of the week to 30.03 in. by 9h. A m.on
the 22d ; decreased to 29•74 in. by noon on the 24th ; in-
creased to 29.90 in. by 9h A.M. on the 25th; and decreased
to 29.49 in. by the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGIS'CERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1552.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —.5204
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 47
Tubercular Diseases ...............221
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 118
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 53
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... 243
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... 80
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• 19
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 15
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8
Diseases of the Skin, Sto. •••
Malformations... ... 3°
Premature Birth ... ..• ... 28
Atrophy
Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
OvlidolAengcee.
Sudden ••• ••• ..•
..•
••• 15
62
Causes not specified ... •‘•

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ...
Populatien Deaths in eorre-
Enumerated, sponding week

1,219
Dentt a
In the
Week.
191
221
204
273
330

1851.
West
Districts..Ditrict 4397 06 6,3492 7
North
Central Districts 393,256
r:ast Districts ... 485,522
South Districts.. 616,635

of tits:.
202
289
231
299
397

.
Totals.... 2,3E2,236 ... 1,418 ... 1,219
Males ••• ••• ••• ••• .. 615
Females ..• ••• ••• ••• ... 604

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males SOO ... ... .., ... 814
Females ... ... ... ... 793

Total ... ...1,607
*ln this number are included 31 by Scarlatina, 42
by Typhus Fever, and 13 by Diarrheas.

has been very extensively disseminated in the provinces.
It explains (with patterns of the article produced) pre-
tended patent for the manufacture of a fabric in universal
GULLIBILITY.—We were shown a circular, which
demand. It promises to each subscriber for one share,
pricepaltry
5L (to b sent, of 4 course,()o per
cent.,
. ,m
buton e y -
a o r dgeoro)d,
round
da
v theythe pirnevceiseet, words of the
realize front
returnoef
300
or
income.7Prsi/n. tteod 3 bait.oo.‘
"Subscribers,"
sterlingeirili,b efpir': w
eeryqOuso.te
annum !" t o be paid, it is politely
stated in another part of the prospectus, quarterly Nowt
rational people will say that the wild extravagance of such
a promise, exceeding all possible guliibility, Would be its own
defeat. The said rational people, however, Will be (as they
sometimes are) in error. Credulity has no bounds. It is a 1
factthat since the issue of that golden circular, the Post-office
authorities have paid to its eoncoctor—not hundreds,. but
thousands of pounds. Post•office orders have poured in from,"
believers in impossible profit at such a rate that s°l' fwente
handed over to the successful s
Schemer in the course o o
single week.—Dickens's Household Words.

Two fires occurred in London yesterday, one at a
Lucifer-match manufactory in Bethnal-green, which was de-
stroyed; and the other at a fluor-cloth factory in Lambeth,
which was considerably damaged. The origin of both fires
WM accidental. •

Ie.ETI4I UTII k: .1 U,S7'IC.E
(From tar; S pee:l,7l°l.o
The actual position of th:• of parties ia'full of
vci,lulble instruction. L !;4ad.tion of disappointment
and tratible. Taltior: Lore I)44rhy, Lord J. ilasacll, Lord
Anerdeen, or tits Duke of Nave:tido, ail l Mr. Cohdeo, as
chiet'a of the parties into which the country is divided, not
one of the four can ne eithor 14.tiAe4 with the pre,:e•,t or
hopeful as r4"gards the future. On the et4ntrary, 4'very
:mu of them 1.; in a and wit.h4.ar... any cite prospc:t
of getting Out of it. Anti, whet is of tn.ire importatico,
because it contains the moral of the le son, ceon else
one of retributive j'istice; the discotnfori endured being
in the nitture of a punishment justly incurred try- the suf.
hirer's wilful misconduct.

Lord Derby has to swallow free trade. Tnst is ine-
vitable. He cannot do it at a gulp, as naustioue doses
are taken with the least inconvenience, but must needs
sip, and suck, and taste to the uttermost the gall
and wormwood which the nature of things has pre-
scribed for him. And why? why cannot he embrace
free trade, like so many before him, without this pain-
ful loathing and slow torture? Because of his own
behaviour in 1846, and down to the time when the
Queen sent for him the other day, at Lord John
Russell's suggestion. He was the author and has been
the stay of the Protectionist party. If he is not a
Protectionist, he is nothing. His rash quarrel with
Sir Robert Peel, his leadership in the persecution of
that tree statesman, his delusive promises to landlords
and farmers and shipowners, his professions of
confidence in the triumph of a lost cause, his rais•
leading eloquence—all these things now rise up against
him, it not to torment his conscience, at least to sting his
pride, by making his recantation itself shameful, and
so compelling him to recant in a doublefaced, shameful
manner. In leading an Opposition for fun or spite, he
could pretend what he liked with impunity; but
the responsibilites of power at once unmask the impostor,
and without relieving him from the necessity of going
on with the detected sham. Our first simile is not quite
exact: he has not merely to swallow bitterness sip by
sip, but to swallow it and bring it up over and over again
, till truth shall be fully avenged. No wonder that Lord
Derby should have avoided office as long as possible.
He might have avoided it altogether but for Lord
John Russell's parting advice to the Queen. That ad-
vice was unconstitutional and improper,
after constitutional ea-Feeetuisity had ceased. But
anoth.L responsibility attaches to Lard John Russell
in this matter. He is still responsible to his party;
and he appears to have done them a great disser-
vice. He probably imagined that Lord Derby
would not swallow free trade, and would therefore
have to repeat last year's process of in and out again;
the Whig chiefs getting back to office, "as you were,"
with the advantage of having this time seriously fright-
ened the least thoroughgoing of their supporters. It
was a sad miscalculation. Lord Derby, really aban-
doning Protection with whatever wry faces, may
keep the government fur a long while. Any
change would be endurable atter Russell-Grey
rule for six years; and the actual change, as it pro-
mises the benefit of useful Whig labours in opposition,
has merits independent of the mere novelty. Lord
John, accordingly, is now reproached by many of his
party with having b'-trayed them by his awkwardness,
or perhaps through the singular jealously of his dis-
position. They ask why, if he took oa himself to pro-
pose his successor, he did not name somebody who
might perhaps have restored the Liberal party to the
position, which his Government never heid, of being
supported by a majority of its own in the House of
Commons. And this question suggests a welamerited
reproach. For years the ex-Premier was urged to
strengthen the Liberal party—to obtain for it the con-
fidence of the country and 4 majority 4* its own in
the Commons—by getting rid of the most inefficient
and unpopular of his colleagues, and calling to his
assistance such Whigs as Lord Clarendon, and such
former colleagues of Sir Robert Peel as the Duke of
Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, and Sir James Graham.
But no; his inordinate but feeble self ~utficiaury,
combined with his belief in the indeteasibte right of
certain Whig families to govern, could not stetnach the
proposition that his Ministry needed impriiv,-mint.
he went on, depending on the frail support of being
squeezed between two Oppositions, till the general in-
capacity of his Government became too manifest for
longer toleration. Deserted by his adherents, turned
out of office by himself, and disregarded by
the country, he is provoked by the consequences
of his blunder in proposing Lord Derby as his
successor into making a plunge or two in Opposition;
but having been justly reproved for quarrelling with
Lord Derby's Government because, like his own for
six years, its party is a minority in the Commons,
for threatening to stop the supplies, and for
otherwise seeking to embarrass the Government
of which he is the principal author, he is now
pretty quiet and seems to be conscious that he has
" made a mull of it." If his party know their own in-
terest, they will keep him as inactive in Opposition as he
was ib power. As intending to be again Prime Minister
of England, he is a heavier encumbrance to them than
their own errors sad neglects in having allowed him to
. make a Tory Government for some years to come far
from improbable.
The colleagues of Sir Robert Peel cannot be much
better pleased with themselves than Lord John Russell
and Lord Derby. Their great chief has been gone
nearly two years, and they have not yet even chosen
a leader, They have seen the Russell Government
slowly dying out for want of a policy, and have
themselves neglected to promulgate, it may be
even to construct, a policy of their own. They
must know that what the country at large has needed
and desired for a long while is statesmanlike purpose in
the leaders of parties; of any party , it may be said; for the
old party distinctions and associations have been almost
extinguished by the struggle about free trade, and a large
preponderance of public favour would be given eithi r to
Lord Derby, or to Lord John Russell, or to any of the
Peelites (they have no leader to be named), or to Mr.
Cobden, if he would declare a sufficient policy of
Conservative reform, and give evidence of possessing
the will to carry it into effect. The Peelites have had
ample opportunity of satisfying the country in this
respect, and they have almost entirely neglected
it. They had a great prestige to work upon, and
many other advantages; but nave neither done, nor
even said, anything of consequence. Self-imposed
obscurity is the d fect of their position. If Sir
James Graham, the only one of them who has not
appeared asleep since 1846, lied lately taken a more
distinct line of his own, a course more independent
of the Russell-Grey Whigs—..till more, if
Men of
the ability and patriotism which private circles attri-
bute to the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Gladstone,
acting in concert with the respected Lard Aberdeen,
had formed a clear view of the public exigencies, and had
made it known by actively sharing in the businesso of
fon t have taken
Par-
liament, the Queen, it is very likely, would
Lord John Russell's advice about sending r Lord Derby.
In the politics of a free country inaction is a personal dis-
ability. And the Peelites caria,it se
6f whethey were not
warned long ago of the cunsequeucesy
they regret a general election upon sirortttsnollot
issues, and the prospect of a new Parliament without
fixed ideas, led by a Government
fwof pretenders without
a policy, they must feel guilty
op-
portunities of action by having neglected Whichthoe mischief might have
been averted.
The Manchester gentlemen are out of court. Though
they have not been deficient inl a bustling kind ut ecti
city, their views ofohnl_ati,o7a policy e insist of vague
generalities suited theplatform. They may
enjoy a triumph in seejing4Lord Derby swallow free
trade ; but when that spectacle shall be over, they
will have no function or distinctive character. In-
deed, they greatly resemble the Protectionist party in
having but one idea, and one which is on the point of
disappearing from our politics; so that, in two or three
months, they will probably break up through differences
of
opinion
on other subjects. There would have been
just the same prospect for the Derbyites if any of our
parties were now capable of supplying the country with
an acceptable Policy, and the Queen with a man qualified
to carry it into effect.

WHY DOIVT YOU CRY, YOU FOOL!
The trial at the Salisbury Assizes, lately, of an
unlucky
Wight, who had been helping himself to his
neighbour's goods, gave rise to a piece of ingenuity on
the part of a well-known lawyer, which to us, who
chanced to witness it, was somewhat amusing. The
prisoner had been defended by counsel, and every thing
that could be said on his behalf had been said, but
the case against him was too palpable to admit of a
shadow of doubt, and a verdict of guilty was pronounced.
The Judge seemed to look upon the culprit, who was a
rough-looking lellow, destitute alike of friends and cha-
racter, with some degree of pity, and previous to passing
the sentence of the law upon him, commenced giving him
a few words of advice. The benevolence of bis Lord-
ship'i tone was not thrown away upon the lawyer, who
sectned to feel that so long as there was a chance of
helping his client he was bound to do his utmost. Unob-
served, therefore, he at once whipt behi,iiiidsatvheead
—Ymias standing as Un-
putting his hands to the sides of his mouth, whispered to
a women
the prisoner as loud as prudence would perreit_o Why
mo dock,
t ha and
dt
don't you cry, you fool! Be quick
least!" rhe culprit, who betore:hthlithsrawysot
moved as a statue, immediately took the hint, rubbed his
eyes with his knuckles, and for
over-
come by a sense of the degraded situst. t s.eemed.
stood. The dodge answered,
ship) that the sense of shame lon in which he
his Lord-
prevent you from appearing, avi • situation in
a court of justice, and in that ti nin sucuh
I am induced to pass
upon you a much lighter sent (saidn ow feel will
hope
than I should other-
wise do, which is that
of Correction, in this of one ca-
, is county, for tbe space'
lendar month." The you be sentence
muperisoned is the House
fellow, we were afterwards in-
formed, is a mos! hardened rascal.--Devizes Gazette.

THE COST OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
According to Mr. Brayiey, io " Brittou's
Public
Buildings of Londoo," which contains a plan and five
views of the structure, full halt a million of money was
Ultimately expended upon Somerset House, and it was
then left unfinished. The whole of the accounts, we
may mention,
have recently turned up, and will probably
ter for publication. That Chambers was not
his judgment as to the probable cost of
taninsome architects (f ui-dern days, is prove:d
more
at
hgrhwdeocr:D:krirarLAtratce that, in a revrt presented by him
by t
to the House of Commons, he said he thought, though
there were difficulties which provsoted accurate e,,m puta-
don, that the cost certainly would not exceed 250:000t
What do we now cite whether it cost a quarter of a
million or half a million ; and how much do a the
question offcct the opinion we form et the builein4 and
i.s designer? Nothing. Nor will :any ask fi century
some ir‘f the buildings " run
hence, when contemplating
up" in our time (it they apt so looe), - t arse
cost, or find in the small otitis), if to, -y enithl , k n,‘
reason for withhulning condemliatiou. Pruu..nce tittu
circumstances must, of course, regulate expenditure. If
we must have a building for a particular purpose, and
hare only a cortaia ma of IntaleYl the balldwg am