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LONDON, lONAY , 4 , 7
JANUARY 1 1850
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POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF

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OBSERVA T lON S.
Tt happened but lately, as I took a walk,
My ears were saluted by confident talk ;
The pith of what passed In a street conversation
I mean to deliver in faithful narration.
A tradesman stepped out and his neigbour addressed,
Ills income last year had improved, he confessed ;
Ills business had yielded little more, he admitted,
But front long tailors' bills he was safely acquitted.
lie had visited MOSES and SON'S clothing mart—
Ilad proved it was matchless 101' neatness and art ;
But the saving was such in the course of the year.
As left him in pocket a fifty pound clear.
A mechanic who laboured from morning to night,
And planned and devised to his uttermost might,
Said his children were fed and better arrayed
Since the whole of their clothing by MOSES was made,
lint this was not all, he had sent them to school,
As learning was useful in handling a tool ;
Yet no poorer had been since that he projected,
The cost had been cleared in their dress, he expected.
A nobleman's mansion stood out from my way,
Its splendour induced me attention to pay ;
The servants attending would form a great mass.
Yet each in new livery this morning did pass ;
Their master as courteous as old English days,
To every department his own notice pays.
When questioned on taxes and cost he replies,
My dealing with MOSES all that now defies :
The cost is discharged, the taxes defrayed
By the constant reductions lie offers in trade,
While to every observer it must be quite plain,
That in point of appearance I every way gain•
Pleased with my ramble, my notes I was scanning,
Nor felt the cold winds on every side fanning ;
They could not affect me, from my knee to my throat
I was safely `ensconced in a warm Witney coat.
For this coat I'm indebted to MOSES'S power,
To make it, to trim it, and sell it much lower
Than any one ever could think in these days,
Though inventions improve in a thousand fresh ways.
E. MOSES and SON,
London City Establishment, 154, 155,156, and 157, Minorles, 83,
14, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, Now Oxford-street, 1, I,
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Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Matters, Boston, Fainters, "Root and Bhoe-
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The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to =Set on
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THE Cumin's AT DARTMOOR. On Saturday
afternoon 4G rank and file, with officers, of the 19th Regi-
ment, were dispatched to Dartmoor, after half an houi's
notice, in consequence of their being 700 lbs. of gunpowder
found secreted in the neighbourhood of the prisons, which
had been hid by the convicts for some purpose, probably for
eilectiDg their mope,

TIIE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

On Saturday night, in accordance with the notice
given to that effect on the Saturday previous, the prin-
cipal engineering firms of the metropolis discharged
their bands and closed their works, but several of the
minor firms changed their intentions, as avowed, at the
eleventh hour, and intimated to their men that they
might return to their work, as usual, on Monday morn-
ing. The names of the firma referred to have not all
been publicly given, but it is positively known that Mr.
Horn, machinist, High-street, Whitechapel, who was
among the foremost to give notice of clearing, on Satur-
day night acquiesced unreservedly in the propositions of
the Amalgamated Society, so as to become fully recon-
ciled with his men. His establishment will therefore re-
main open, as, no doubt, will many others under similar
circumstances.

With respect to the more important of the firms con-
nected with the Masters' Association, the men assert
that many of thorn are seeking, by various means, to
evade the full consequences of entirely carrying out
their threats to close. This is done by the creation, in
some instances, of a largo number of nominal foremen;
it being an understood resolution of the employers that
foremen and apprentices shall be allowed to continue at
work.
Unfortunately the suspension of labour has affected
all who were employed at the establishments; and many
who did not belong to the body of engineers and ma-
chinists, such as boiler makers, moulders, coppersmiths,
carpenters, awl others, have suffered by being deprived
of the employment they had enjoyed for years. The
following may be taken as a tolerably accurate return of
the "turns out" at the principal factories in and about
London:—

Men.

Maudslay and Field, Westminster-road ... 800
John Penn and Co., Greenwich ... 700
Miller and Ravenhill, Blackwall and Ratcliffe ... 600
J. and A. Blythe, Marrow-street, Limehouse ... 280
Rennie, Holland-street, Blackfriars 250
Robinson and Russell, Mill-wall ... ... 200
Seward and Cape!, Canal Iron Works, Limehouse 150
Swayno and Dovell, 160
Simpson, Pimlico ... 150
Easton and Amos, the Grove, Southwark ... 120
Bryan, Dankin and Co., Bermondsey . . 150
Napier, York-road, Lambeth 100
Samuda, Blackwell
Fletcher, Limehouso • ... 60
The return from the smaller firms could not be

ascertained with any degree of certainty, pro-
bably about ... 2,500
Several hundred members of the society are employed
at the principal railway locomotive depots, such as
Crewe, Wolverton, Swindon, Stratford, Ashford,
Brighton, &c.; but it would appear that the directors are
nut desirous of joining the movement.

ation of a number of the employers of operative engineers
to close their works on the 10th, and to throw all their
workmen out of employment,
the Council of the Amal-
gamated Society submit the following resolutions to
their members, and request that branch meetings may be
called as soon as possible, and the votes t ltcin and re-
turned to the council.

" 1. That 10,0001. of the funds of the Amalgamated
Society shall be paid over to such number of trustees
(the trustees to be men in whom public confidence would
be placed in consequence of their position in society),
not less than six, as are selected by the executive, on
trust to advance the same from time to time to managers
appointed by the executive, whose appointments will bo
afterwards confirmed by the society, for the purpose of
carrying on the business of engineers, machinists, &c.
" 2. These advances, as well as those which the trus-
tees may obtain from other sources, shall be secured by
a mortgage of all the plant and stock in trade employed
in such business to the said trustees, who shall have a
power to give preference security to any other advances
over sums advanced out of the funds of the Amalgamated

e s"s 3i.;
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ecdo nedni t isoao
bef
the executive of the Amal
gwasomur
eakht e und
sn
sclaoer
crei
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nyhpi
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from
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mue
de
time
mob
feu
ns t iyo
time, with the view of giving -
possible number of members of the trade out of employ-
ment for the time being, consistently with the stability
employment to the greatest
of the business and the welfare of the workmen em-
ployed.neh
nci se t i
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employerse al f caor
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labourer threatened. The
right of a working man to dispose of himself is jeopar-
dised,
power is sought to be established
enabling
to command the service of his
and
the
en itseEn ppllea;eer a
workpeople night and day without intermission. Was
ever slavery so bad as this? If a. man claims liberty
from his master after he has done his work, he is stigma-
tised as being dictatorial and mischievous. The old feudal
times have passed away, when the baron had a property
in the person of his retainer; but their spirit is inherited
by our employers of to-day, and they seek to own and
dispose of our persons at will, and to enslave and degrade
our minds by destroying all our opportunities for mental
improvement.
" There is but one way in which this can be met—
workmen must work for themselves—the labour of the
country must be done. In every town let an organiza-
tion be commenced at once. Let every man find some
employment. Gather together all the tools you possess.
Instead of paying the funds of the society to men kept
in compulsory idleness, receive your money as the due
oearantdivo association, reward of industry. In the manufacturing districts
there is much work to be hadiniweheiach
mmenusthabvee
wk to do. Wherever
or are also negociating
e cause
alreadydone. lnfe r
n2e
formed
London,
theirp
Eastonen
sub-
scribed their own money to the amount of 51. each, and
afnprponinwteerdkstnheepir, manager.and
dhavego
They
t
you can, do likewise. Interest the public in your be-
half by being moderate and well behaved. The man
whou do, or whatever
heomayr
em spalassaultsyoy h
, employers
nns
oastaot
traitor
yar , i whatevertoeuupon r tet
the
he may
world, o
of progress. If
ymake up your
eh
minds to do without them, and with a self-reliance
worthy of Englishmen—with a devotion worthy of the
cause of labour—strive to meet the crisis by earnest of-
forts in behalf of your order.
" Non-aociety must be protected—be that our duty.
We will appeal to the country in behalf of the labourers
and non-society men. Those who are first called inde-
pendent workmen, and then sacrificed for their own
protection, must be cared for by their own order. If
400, of our members are thrown out of employment,
the other .8,000 must devote part of their means
to support them till employment is found, If 6,000
are thrown out of employment, the others, if necessary,
must divide their earnings: An endeavour may be
made to punish you for that. The employer will
perhaps say that you are not at liberty to do what you
like with your money after you have earned it. Let the
world see that you value rational liberty above all
things, and do it more earnestly because you are doing
it for a permanent benefit. You will have the satisfac-
tion of knowing that your subscriptions are not wasted
upon idle men, but are in part bestowed on the esta-
blishment of the means of labour.
" Subscriptions from the public can be obtained in
every district, and our members who remain in employ-
ment will be called upon to support those who are out
with liberal hand. Every district will be dealt with
alike; no advantage will be given to one place over ano-
ther. And labourers and non•society men must sub-
scribe to assist in supporting labourers and non-society
men who are out. To do this systematically, we request
that all monies be sent to our general secretary, made
payable at tho Whitechapel Post-office, and they will
then be apportioned to each district equitably.
(By order of the Executive Council.)
" Jos. MUSTO, President.
" WM. ALLAN, secretary.
" London, 25, Little Alie•street, Whitechapel,
_ Jan. 10, 1852."

113 following were agreed upon as the resolutions to
be submitted to the aggregate meeting of the iron
trades, to be held at St. Martin's Bull, Long-acre, this
day:—

1. " Resolved,—That many of the employers of
London and Lancashire having closed their workshops,
this meeting is of opinion that their conduct is unjust
and particularly oppressive to non•members and la-
bourers; and pledges itself to use evcry exertion in ob-
taining subscriptions on behalf of all who aro thrown out
of employment."

2. " As the best means of removing the evils which
attend the condition of working men, in relation to the
unjust conduct of employers, is self-employment on a
comparative basis, this meeting is of opinion that work-
shops should be immediately commenced by the work-
men themselves, in order that the business of the
country may be proceeded with."
The mccting is expected to prove a most important
one. _

Another meeting of the men was held on Saturday
night at the Phoeuix Tavern. About 300 were present,
and the meeting was addressed by Messrs. Newton and
Usher and others.

A meeting was onG IR'rEidEaNWICLL
y evening held at the Sun Ma-
yan,
connected with the establishiust°'
Blackheath-hill,
operative Working called by ale Greenwich Co-
wick in the chair. Engineers'mr Association; Mr. Fysh-
blishing additional workshops Amos, and Mr. W. hment of Messrs. Easton and
Newton,o were present. The object
of the meeting was to e one of the workmen
principle—one shop having been
upon the co-operative
Amalgamated the propriety of este-
g been opened by the society
saboutinco
been
fortnightotl
employed.
shop, it was stated, owe
its origin to the dispute no
ters and the Ansal
and privations to which they
posed by the contemplatedelv-Yaepgl
mated by a desire to guard against
the men being ani--
di
ni ng er
of betweenestabl
establishments.
na
tss .
eoansinst the inconveniences
few, but the capital subscribedthe might otherwise be ex-
Previous to Saturday night
shares taken had been
meeting amounted to 305/, divided amongst 110 opera-
at the conclusion of the
otfheabaomuot
amount of
2
dyes. The society has
, alreadyand have
received orders to the
have given in tenders for
,00
affairs should be conducted by It was agreed that the
workamount t o
fiv© operatives, with power to purchase tools, erect
functions. None but members
all other necessary
So-
ciety are admissible as sharehs of
the Amalgamated
With respect to the workmen olders.
Easton and Amos, 40 orwhom
employed by Messrs.
had subscribed 200/, for h it was stated on Friday
said that they were actuated in
purposes, it is
sire to relieve the funds or
the
this proceeding by a de-
upon which they would otherwise° Amalgamated Society,
the continuance of the strike be dependent during
them last night, they came to• At a meeting held by
that effect. They have obtain a formal resolution to
ployment from firms and individuals
liberal promises of em-
formerly executed while .0 Itcluals whose work they
1 he
employ of Messrs.
Easton and Amos.
The Society of Moulders, who wish
from the Amalgamated Society ei to remain aloof
compelled to join them in self-defence),Engineers (unless
a circular to their 62 branches, with on Friday issued
the number of their members who willtl view to ascertain
employment by the closing of the en be thrown oat of
ments throughout the country. The,Teering establish-
in London 187 members out of 418 circular states that
ployed will be thrown out of work in members now em-
beiug already idle. It is stated that the strike
firms, 108
the Moulders' Society more seriously rike will affect
i
in the metropolitan districts. It n Lancashire than
nlimbe
5,000 members throughout the United - rs now about
fund, however, of not more than soul, 3,001b-ingdom, with a
it
amounted to upwards of 20,0004; b oln 1847
to the present it has gradually diminished,utfrom that time
depression of trade, down to its present through the
The London and Greenwich branches have
have decided
upon meeting weekly to receive the centr- is
in work, for the support of those memberslattions of those
discharged. likely to be
MANCHESTER.—Yesterday morning
ks (e,u nday) a tele-
graphic message was received at the °me'o
of the Execu-
tive Council, stating that the whole ofs
at the men em-
ployed by the undermentioned firm Manchester
quitted their work on Saturday night •
v,riz , Messrs.
Whitworth, Fairborn, Marsden, Balhouie,
gins, Jones, Hetherington; Farr, Curtis-Lewis, Hig-
gins, and Co.;
Sharpe Brothers, liaise, Crichton, llathe .
out
and Wren.
The number of men who are thus throe,,,
employ-
ment in Manchester alone is 654. Added uttoof
thcao are
the men engaged at Goodfellow s, at 11N.,10.
Patrick Croft Foundry, which w lull] make the u11(1 at 11,0
The total of
the Manchester district about 700, returns from
the other districts had not been received,
BRISTOL, SUNDAY,--NO cessation of work has
taken place here. A large meeting of the yet
engineers
was held on Saturday evening at their club-house, the
Chequers, Old Marleot-street, and various communica-
tions from Manchester were received and read, but no
definite resolutions were come to.

DOVER, SATURDAY, JAN. 10.—Lord Nornianby
anived here in her Majesty's steam-packet Vivid, at one
o'clock to-day. Lordship proceeded to Birmingham's
Ship Hots;, and left Dover for London by the two o'clock
train thi4 antrum.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Assistant Surgeon Mr. G. 0. Willes, of the Dolphin,
3, Lieutenant. Commander Temple, coast of Africa, has
been appointed acting surgeon of the Alecto, vice Fin-
lay, who has died, we fear, from the rupture of a blood-
vesFel.

Mr. Octavius Walker, late midshipman on board her
Majesty's ship Acheron, Captain Stokes, and youngest
son of Charles Walker, Esq., late Major of the sth Dra-
goon Guards, aged 18, died oa the 6th instant in Ply-
mouth Roads.

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84,
from the Mediterranean. Sho will be duly inspected
and paid off in the course of a few days, when we trust
the London, 92, will be ordered to fill up all her sea-
going complement.
Dasher steam-vessel, Commander Lefebre, from the
Channel Islands, anchored at St. Helen's in the gale on
Thursday night, and _on Friday afternoon went into
Portsmouth harbour.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Sprightly steam-vessel
sailed to-day with seamen-gunners for the Hotspur naval
gunnery-ship, at Plymouth; also having supernumera-
ries on board for ships at that port.
The Simoom iron screw (auxiliary, of 350 horse
power) steam troop-ship, 2,000 tons, was taken out of
harbour to-day to try her engines and rate of speed.
She was in charge of Captain Henderson, C. 8., and was
manned:by about seventy seamen and stokers from the
Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, at this port. There
were also on board Admiral Prescott, superintendent of
this dockyard; the Lion. Captain Pelham; Commander
Gardner, of the Blenheim; Commander Van Donop, of
the contract mail-packet service; Mr. Andrew Mannay,
chief engineer at this port, and other officials. The
Simoom had received on board 600 tons of coal and a
large quantity of ballast, but the latter not being fairly
stowed, caused her to be down very much by the
stern. She was taken well out to and through Spit-
head, and thence to the measured mile in Stokes
Bay, where she made six trials. The maximum speed
attained, wind and other conditions favourable, was about
9.50 knots per hour, and the minimum, against wind,
was about 7,50; the mean result of the trials being 8.45
knots per hour—a result quite as favourable as was an-
ticipated, considering her low steam power and largo
tonnage. Her engines worked very well. A trial was
also made of her readiness in answering her helm, when
it was found that she would turn round in three times
her own length. It was remarked by the pilot who
took her out, that she was one of the easiest vessels he
had ever handled. She had a very steady appearance on
the water, and looked a remarkably fine ship. The
weather was fair, not much wind blowing. She came
into harbour in the afternoon, and in running alongside
the dockyard her yards got entangled in the rigging of a
collier that was unloading. In hastily making a back
turn of the Simoom's screw, to get clear of the collier,
the starting gear of the engines gave way, but this was
not attended by any serious consequences.
The Champion, 14, just paid off, and the Flying Fish,
12, have been taken up in ordinary to-day.
The Southampton, 50, Captain Cory, late flag-ship of
Rear-Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., ex-Commander-in-Chief
in the River Plate, arrived at St. Helen's last night,
from Devonport, on her way to Chatham to bo paid off.
She saluted Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G.,
this morning. She brought up 50 seamen from Ply-
mouth to join ships at this port, whom the Echo has
since brought in.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, flag-ship for
the Mediterranean station, received her crew from her
hulk yesterday. She has about 670 entered in all.
The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden,
hauled alongside the Malabar coal hull yesterday, to
complete her stock.
The weather continues very foul.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Her Majesty's store-ship
Tyne, 4, Master-Commander Peter Wellington, from
Barlyidoes for the eastward, was spoken at noon
to-day, two miles south of the Eddystone,
under single-reefed topsails, two top-gallant sails,
standing and flying gib, by Mr. Stibbs' pilot boat
Zedora, No. 3, which vessel, at four o'clock in
the afternoon, when four miles inside the Eddystone,
saw the Tyne on the starboard tack, under single-reefed
topsails, no topgallant sails, apparently unable to
weather the Bolt.
The brig Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, having heel
repairs made good, was towed to-day by the steam-ves-
sel Confiance out of harbour. She will sail on the first
wind for the East Indies.

The-frigate Southampton, 50, Captain Cory, sailed
yesterday at 11 A.M., with supernumerarie for the Bri-
tannia, at Portsmouth, after which she will go to Chat-
ham to be paid off.
The Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell, was
yesterday towed by the Pike steam•vessel from the Sound
into harbour, and taken to the jetty to be dismantled.
She will probably be paid off on Friday next, the
16th instant.

[PRICE SD.

THE MINISTRY.
(From the Observer,)
Tho conjectures respecting the Ministry have been so
indestriously set on foot, and so indefatigably repeated,
with all sorts of additions and variations, that every
dapaper,Whig, a Tquors-Biiniste
yiadßriaadl, have
ical, Ministerial, anti-
Mmisterial, considered them-
selves bound to have something very knowing and pro-
found to say upon the subject. At this season, just
before the meeting of Parliament, there is a rare crop of
rumours in the absence of news. We shall all have plenty
to write about when Parliament meets. In the mean-
time we are all greatly left to conjecture what the meet-
inc.; of Parliament will bring forth. In any ordinary
year we are never free from those interesting rumours,
and the gossip that peculiarly belongs to the season.
This year, in the absence of other domestic excitement,
the retirement cf so prominent a member of the Cabinet
as Lord Palmerston has given rise to more than usual
speculation; and it is not unreasonable to expect a vast
amount of conjecture and of comment upon passing
affairs. It is natural to expect all this; but it is Ea-
prising bow much of it, after all, is superfluous, and
what a quantity of con
ton s secession fromwat
ethstarellspinecatnto;he immediate cause of Lord Palmeri-
jecture is ventilated—looking as
likely as possible, and yet for the most part utterly
destitute of foundation.
Win. Parliament at the very commencement of the
sa7i
fscoieorn. The cause, or causes, of that event—of which
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ai it
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an in
to inw
ttleluttaiokne
yanayndonefultloy mreavknealleidg.ht—Awftielrl
session.
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ththen
abned atffhencrtea ttirount
hffourn
all that had passed in Europe and in the country and in
Parliament in relation to that able and distinguished
statesman—not only as related to the organized assaults
upon the liberal policy of the Government, but the more
inveterate attacks upon the Minister who was its ex-
ponent at home and abroad—after, especially, the great
debate and division in the House of Commons the ses-
sion before the last—after all the great changes which
have coma over Europe in the last three or four years—
after all the battles that have been fought in Parliament
and in the press—coupled with the balanced state of
parties and of the various shades of opposition—consi-
dering all these things, it is not wonderful that conjec-
ture should be more than usually rife, and that state-
ments should be hazarded with more or less of probabi-
lity as to the new blood that was to be infused into the
Government to replace that which is lost. And yet,
after all, there is really very little to be said. The
policy of the Government is in no respect changed.
'rho vacant office is tilled up. There is actually no
office in the Cabinet empty. There are two offices, not in
the Cabinet, to be filled up. The offices of Paymaster
of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
as held by Lord Granville, were combined with one
salary. There is also an Under-Secretary of State,
who, according to law, cannot be a Member of the House
of Commons. By the statute of Anne it is provided
that only two Secreteries of State are to sit in the House
of Commons. It may be observed en passant, that the
permanent appointment of three Secretaries of State is
of a later date. This rule is held to apply to the Under-
Secretaries also, and, as the two gentlemen who fill those
offices, Mr. Bcuverie and Mr. F. Peel, are in the House
of Commons, the third Under-Secretary cannot be a
Member of that House. Tho rule was first established
on constitutional grounds, although it is an arrangement
that a certain school of Ultra-Liberals now denounce as
more honoured in the breach than in the observance.
But, at all events, there it is ;
and it may, perhaps,
become a question whether it is useful or injurious in
thus limiting the selection of the Crown with respect to
those offices in the State that are called " Parlia-
mentary." There it is, however ; and this, with the
offices just vacated by Earl Granville, are all the offices
to be filled up at present.
Without entering into the very ingenious disquisitions
of our contemporaries, we are able to state our own con-
viction that the present Cabinet will meet Parliament
in substantially the same condition that they are in at pre-
sent. With respect to the negotiations that are so con-
fidently alleged to have taken place, we believe they
have no existence save in the imagination of their inge-
nious authors. So far as precise facts are given it is
possible to be more explicit still. It was confidently
and unhesitatingly stated that Sir James Graham had
an interview with Lord John Russell, which lasted three
hours, on Wednesday last. Notwithstanding the pre-
cision with which time and place are given for this three
hours' interview, the simple fact is that Sir James Gra-
ham had no interview with Lord John Russell at all.
The Right Hon. Baronet was in town the greater part of
the week, and came up specially to attend the meetings
of the Chancery Reform Commission; which sat daily
during the week at Lincoln's Inn, and of which Sir
James Graham and Mr. Henley are the two lay mem-
bers. As Sam Slick says, " that's a fact."
So far as conjectures go, we du nut pretend to judge
better thau others. But we should have little difficulty
indeed in surmising, after all, that should any further
changes be found necessary, and should the Government
require to be strengthened, as we are so constantly told,
the recruits will be from the ranks of the same party,
and little confidence indeed could be had in any combi-
nation where honest conviction and honourable identity
of opinion and congruity of action were not to ho the
basis of the 111'ra:3:gement. There is rather a loose mo-
rality abroad upon these subjects. Every one points out
his own friends. Each dwells upon the propriety of some
incongruous combination of dissonant and opposite ma-
terials, which he is fain to call strength, but which, on
the contrary, would carry the seeds of dissolution in its
own bosom from its very birth.
There is one puint dwelt upon which is right, if
rightly understood. This country must be governed
upon broad and comprehensive principles. Let us add
that these principles must not only bo broad and corn-
prehensiveabut also well defined. Of these the Parlia-
ment and the people of England will judge. The prin-
ciples of the party in power are well known and truly
tried. The Opposition will also, it is to be presumed,
put forward a programme upon which they can agree,
and to which, before it is successful, the people of Eng-
land must assent. It is proverbially easy to find fault.
We are constantly told that such and such people exist
who can be brought into consultation on public affairs;
and in the next breath wo are informed that such and
such people aforesaid are good for nothing. We are
to have a broad basis fur an Administration, end
yet the materials foe such basis are shown to be
utterly unsound ono after another. The crochets of
the Manchester school are paraded in lieu of
statesmanship one day, and the pro-Popery of the
Peelites is extolled on the next, without a thought being
given all the time to the dangers of the one course, and
the thorough British unpopularity of the other. It would
be worse than madness, worse than folly, it would be
a crime to knock down before you are ready to build up
again. We ore told that the Ministry is not strong or
commanding enough; but no other party is strong or
ccmwandiug at all. There hare been Ministers with a
larger following in Parliament, but they had to contend
against a more combined Opposition—an Opposition that
saw its way to power on principles open and avowed,
practised and recognized. There is a great disposition
on the part of the Opposition (professed) to heal the al-
leged differences of the Liberal party. Some of their_
disinterested zeal for the constituency and strength o
their opponents might be more legitimately epplielj(f).
themselves. These qualities are relative, after all._
an
dhe
question will be, where is the public mind of E I
The Parliament will judge the Ministry, and the _
will judge the Parliament.
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y.
for there will be the governing power of the
_ c'euentr3;:

MURDER IN IN OXFORDSHIRE.
BANBURY, SErNDAy.—A murder, attended with cir-
cumstances of an unusual and unnatural character, the
nephew of the unfortunate victim being charged with
the horrible crime, was committed near this place last
(Saturday) evening. The victim is a jeweller maned
with which
John Kalabergo, who for many years has carried on
thriving trade in the High-street of this town. Hi is-- a
Italian. ' an
His business was not confined to the limit, of
and profitable
the borough; and he possessed a vehicle,
coutitra
v Re started
(laden with his wares) he made frequent
accompanied. by
journeys through the neighbouring
murdered near
miles from Baebury.
upon one of these excursions yesterday,
carrier':; cart, found the dead
his nephew. Returning at night, be was
Wilscote•hill, a distance of three
somewhat near Banbury,
body dwyotimpaonn, thei advanceroad, be ot
between eae n seven o'clock ; his
horse and eart being stoppTehde,
the ball h.
about the same time,
public-house in thethvaitllahg
jecodf Wilscote, hard by. It was
body was conveyed to a
a coal:Wins
oath had been caused by a
then discovered
gun-shot wound,
skull. There was alsaod having d entered:wound theu p
on backthe
o fore-
head. The pockets had not been rifled; a 101. note, up-
wards of 31. in coin,
found therein. If the and
a bank receipt for 300/. being
.. object of the murderers was plun-
der, it has been effectually defeated. While these events
were taking place
had reached place, the companion of the murdered man
of his uncle, Banbury, where he made known the death
stating (we are told) that they had been
attacked bythreeresistance, he had
ruffians, and seeing the uselessness of
fled across the fields to the town. A
visit to the scene of the catastrophe was immediately
made by the authorities, and a conside • ration of the pecu-
liar ci • rcumstances of the case led to the arrest and de-
tention of the nephew until such time as his innocence
eau be satisfactorily proved, and a coroner's jury have
pronounced their verdict. The deceased was an elderly
man, we believe upwards of 70 years of age, but well and
hearty for his years. He is believed to be possessed of
considerable property for a man in his station. His
nephew had been living with him for some months. A
short time since th© young man purchased a pistol of a
gunmaleer in the town, and this is ono o! the strongest
facts against him. Up to this time no weapon has been
discovered, though a strict search has been instituted.
The coroner's inquest will be held id tomorrow (Monday),

THE LATE STABBING CASE AT TEMPLE BAR.—
The man James Huilley,. who was stabbed in Ship-yard,
Temple-bar, on the morning of 21st December, by George
Henry Dawson (who !vas remanded by Mr. Hall, of 13ow-
street the nest morning), has sufficiently recovered to be
able to leave King's College Hospital this day, where he has
remained since the occurrence. Numerous overtures have
been made to him to compromise the matter, by the friends
of the prisoner, who have constantly visited him since he
entered the hospital.
The Duke of Saxe Cuburg Gotha is about to pro-
ceed to Vienna, to be present at th.cl 9Pellii3g of the wilt 91
sl4a Ache retdiand, hi 4 wade.