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to it in its existing form. Let accumulated and
realised property ke taxed according to its actual
value, but free industry from the fettere that retard
its exertions and almost prevent the possibility
of its emancipation.

On this point we entertain strong expectations of re-
lief from Mr. DISRAELI. lie can sympathise with the
hard-
working professional man or artist, struggling
to maintain a position, and hoping against hope in
the arduous contest. He can feel for the " hops
deferred," for the aspiratiops after fame of him who,
although compelled to keep up an appearance, can
scareely afford the ordinary comforts of life to his
family. What must be the feelings of such
a person, when the tax - collector comes
to his door, applying for a rate on ima-
ginary profits, not one-fouth of which were
available for his own use ?—when he is threatened
with Exchequer proceedings, at the moment that
be cannot provide a joint for his children, a coat for
himself, or a decent gown for his affectionate,
though despairing wife—when his attempts to
show that, even the interest on debts long
before contracted, had reduced his income below
the starting point, are rejected with disdain by the
assessors or Commissioners, in case of appeal ? We do
not believe, then, that this monstrous grievance, this
gross absurdity, will be sanctioned even for a single
year by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He may not
be able to bring forward a permanent meesure during
the present session, but he will at least give some
intimation as to his future intentions, and modify
Schedule D so as to remove some of the most potent
arguments that have hitherto been put forward.
We may also reasonably hope, from what fell from
him on Mr. Miasma GIBSON'S motion, that the
advertisement duties w;11 be either entirely abolished
or reduced to one-third of their present amount. We
would fain hope that there will be a total repeal. It
would not be worth while for 50,0001. per annum to
retain any vestiges of the objectionable system.
There will, of course, be other matters
brought forward, but we have mentioned the chief
topics, and if the explanations be satisfactory, we
have no doubt that every fair-play will be shown by
the people who have so unequivocally expressed their
disapprobation of anything approaching to a factious
opposition.

PATTERSON, the originator of the Bank of Eng-
land, during the course of the seventeenth century,
became involved in one of those appalling calamities
which, once read, fasten themselves like fiery burrs
upon the imagination. If, at any time, the event referred
to could be forgotten elsewhere, recollection of it
could never at least be obliterated in Scotland.
There, if nowhere else, the memory of the expedi-
tion to Panama must be indubitably preserved, car-
rying unutterable anguish, r 3 it did, into
so many households both in the Low-
lands and in the :Highlands. Although the
project was strictly commercial in its character,
it was at the same time a sublime enterprise, the idea
of which emanated in the first instance from the
noblest principles of philanthropy. It was intended
to unite (by opening up either on land or water a direct
line of communication across the isthmus of Darien),
the commerce of the two vast oceans washing the
opposite shores of the American continent—trans-
forming the comparatively nerrow strip of
earth connecting the northet a and southern
portions of that siemese continent into the
world's highroad of t',; de, blending the mer-
cantile transactions of Africa and Europe on the
Atlantic with the mercantile transactions of Asia and
the eastern Archipelago on the Pacific. Such was
the sublime undertaking proposed by WILLIAM PAT-
TERiON, and which, if carried out with a munificence
compatible with the grandeur of the genius in which
it originated, would have constituted England in
truth the arbitress, under GOD, of the destinies
of the human race, while it would have tended to
realize with astonishing rapidity the golden dream
of civilization. Everything connected with that ill-
fated project, however, it is well known failed—failed
utttrly Pnd itrettievably. Auspicious though the
morning was that witnessed the sailing of the vessels
of the expedition, the unfortunate colonists on board
those vessels were from that very morning doomed to
destruction : they were doomed, moreover, by two
circumstances—the parsimony of the men en-
trusted with the management of the enterprise,
and the cruel and most culpable negilgence
shown by the authorities in not transmitting
to the isthmus of Darien the assistance that might
ultimately have been afforded by the Government.
Arrived at their destination,,the victims of this united
parsimony and negligence speedily began to taste
the bitterness of the cup of misery they were
destined to drain to the very dregs. Assailed first of
barbarians, they soon found
all by the neighbouring
their provisions running short—and before many
weeks had elapsed a fatal disease, arising from the
very soil, thinned their ranks, the mortality being
likewise frightfully aggravated by the torments of
starvation. Scarcely six months have elapsed since
the naerative of that awful catastrophe was revived
to the remembrance of the people of these islands by
the last work that ever came from the hand of
poor ELIOT WARBURTON. Fated himself to be im-
mediately afterwards destroyed by a calamity yet
more fearful then the ghastly tale his gifted hand
had Finned, WA lIBURTON unconsciously dwelt,
as by a sort of premonitory fascination,
upon incidents almost literally foreshadowing
the loss of the Amazon and his own premature and
appalling disappearance. Yet in the midst of all
these passages of terror—passages from their singu-
larity remarkable enough to bewilder the philosophy
of the psychologist—the large heart of the traveller
thrilled with sympathy for the sufferers in the old
De"ien expedition, and his voice rose in eloquent ac-
cents of denunciation against the miserly authors of
their destruction.

A story simpler in its details, but quite as fearful of
its kind, will be found given elsewhere in our impression
of this evening—the nrrrative of the deaths of Captain
GARDINER, of the Royal Navy, and six com-
panions, who had proceeded on a mission-
eey expedition to the savages of Patagonia—
deaths in like manner resulting from the slow and
agonizing torments of starvation. It will be perceived
from the dccuments referred to, es published
to-day by ourselves, that this most lament-
able catastrophe WPi attended with equally
harrowing incidents throughout, end that it was no
less attributible to a shar.neless and criminal negli
genre on the part of those upon whom the
duty of affording rid to the sufferers de-
volved. Unhappily, however, we cannot observe of the
scheme which was thus brought to a hideously dia3-
trolls termination, as we have already remarked of
the famors Darien expedition, that it originated in a
truly admirable and affecting plolantbropy. It was
an enterprise by which the projectors in-
tended to convey to the barbarians of Patagonia
the blessings of Chilstienity. Blind, like so many
other', to the ignorance, and the paganiim, and
the criminality, and the soffericgs, and
the degradation of thousands of our fellow-
creatures—and not merely, be it said, of one's fellow-
creatures but of our fellow-countrymen also—nearer
heme ; these benevolent aspirants for the glory of
extending religion to the remote localities of Tierra
del Fuego forgot, we conceive, the weightier
responsibilities of their position in their over-eager
anxiety to carry the light of the Gospel as
fey southwards es into the dens of the
squalid natives of Patagonia. They forgot,
it would seem, those more immediate claimants
upon their philanthropy who have been termed so
very awfully by Mr,. MACAULAY—" pagans in the
midst of Christianity end savages in the midst of Ci-
vilization." The dreadful deaths of Captain Gait-
DINEE and his companions are traceable, therefore,
to this culpable, and we are almost fain to call it
criminal disregard of that charity which " should be-
gin at hume"—the heathens of England being shame-
lessly
overlooked in a preference for the heathens
of Patagonia. But for this cruel perversion
of the holiest principles of philanthropy, the unhappy
abelre
victims of the mission would never thus have been
sacrificed on the rocks near Picton Island, in the
Tierra del n
being
recordt
a r
intolerable of their i
vicinity of Fuego.
e
agony
to death, after •
by devouring an
occasional fox go.literTelhlye starved
e d
r
protracting existence
penguin, by catching a few mice
as delicacies,
by consuming garden-seeds for
broth, by picking musclesl. and impi s; and'
ultimately even by boiling the rock.weed
into a jelly, reads less • like a newspaper an-

nouncement than like a passage from Constable s
Miscellanies. Successively, one by one, the
victims dropped off from sheer exhaustion—Ban-
COCK, a Cornish fisherman ; EuwlN, a carpenter ;
BR ANT, another Cornish fisherman; Winuirxts, the
surgeon ; PEARCE, a third sailor from Cornwall;
MAIDMENT, the catechist; and finally, the
hapless Captain GARDINER himself, who is
presumed to have expired on the 6th of
September, 1851—the previous year having witnessed
their departure upon this ill-judged and ill-fated ex-
pedition. From the horror inspired by this ex-
traordinary narrative, let us hope that the
efforts of philanthrophy may hencefoward be
directed to the Pagans and savages living (alas ! that
we should say it) in the very midst of us—in the
slums of our manufacturing towns, and in the rooke-
ries of our metropelis—instead of being first extended
to such out-of-the-way and unwilling recipients as the
barbarians of Patagonia or the negroes of Boorio-
boolangah.

The Magnus Apollo of the Protectionists—" Sir
Fits and Starts," as our facetious contemporary Punch
jocularly, terms the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—wiII to-
morrow claim the most sweet voices of a purely agri-
cultural constituency. He has already exhibited all
the fickleness of an electioneering MACREATH. Un-
dismayed by the numerous defeats which he has
already sustained, or by his still more disastrous
victories, he lashes madly into the arena,
and, mirabile ditto, selects Ipswich as the
scene of his future exploits. While he was
paying devoted attention to the consti-
tuency of Exeter, he surrenders at discretion to
the blandishments of Harwich, promising, however,
a return to his allegiance when he had
sown his wild oats. Scarcely, however, had he
obtained a seat--scarcely was he entitled to add
the magical letters M.P. to his designation, than he
deserts the charmers, allowing them to bewail his in-
constancy. Like the fa;r young knight, "he
loves and he rides away." Earnest are the
protestations touching the vows which he
addresses to the object of his latest ad-
miration. To gain its favour there is nothing too
absurd for him to assert, no pledge which he
is not prepared to swallow. He distances
BALL and BOOKER, and even GEORGE FREDE-
RICK YOUNG is nowhere in the race. At
the moment when those long pledged to protection,
who gave sterling proofs of their devotion to the
cause when there was a possibility of retaining a
bread tax, are abandoning their former
positions, seeing that they are no longer
tenable, the Solicitor-General of Sir R. PEEL, who
continued in office notwithstanding the change of
opinion in his leader, and who voted for the repeal of
the Corn•laws, in obedience to the orders of
that Premier, now comes forward with ridi-
culous pledges that can never by a possibility te
realized.

Will the electors of East Suffolk suffer themselves
to be thus palpably hoodwinked, to be so grossly
humbugged, and made laughing-stocks in the eyes of
the community? Is there no reputable country gen-
tleman of orthclox opinions whom they can prevail
urn to come forward, and who would make a fitting
colleague for Sir EDWARD Goocu ? We should have
thought that there would be many such, ambitious of
the honour of representing his native county. It
would appear as if the Learrici SOLICITOR . GENERAL
WI to have a walk over on the present occasion,
es if no one supposed that a seat for
the brief duration of Parliament would be worth the
expenses of a contest; but this will not be so at the
general election, eud we shell be much mist' ken if
Sir FITZROY KELLY have not ample cause to deplore
the infatuation that induced him to prefer the doubt-
ful chance of a county representation to the certainty
of a borough, and to abandon the moderation which his
colleagues in the Ministry, and their more sagacious
followers, are generally exhibiting.

CHANCERY.-f,THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORDS JUSTICES )
MONEY v. JERDAN.
Their Lordships were occupiel this morning with the
argaments in this pelt•heard appeal.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
After disposing of a number of motions, his Honour
proceeded with th© part-heard oas® of Smith v. Parker.

The Vico-Chancellors' Courts were occupied in hear-
ing motions, but nothing of importance came before
them.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord CAMPBELL, Mr. Justice
WIGHTMA.N and Mr. Justice CROMPTON.)
QUEEN v. PARHINSON.—JUDGMENT.
Mr. KNOWLES prayed the judgment of the Court in
this case. The defendant had been found guilty at the
last Lancaster assizes of committing a nuisance in the
town of Blackburn.
Mr. WATSON, who appeared for the defendant, said
his client was quite willing, and in fact had abated the
nuisance.
Lord CAMPBELL—What did the nuisance consist of ?
Mr. WATSON said an open sewer; but it had been
filled
, and the defendant was now pre-
pared to pat
this judgment to hang over him to meet any other
nuisancethat
ht
hoe theme tasiogrsihttl
of
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guilty of.
the other side, end to allow
Mr. KNOWLES said the Crown would be satisfied with
these terms, and the case was adjourned sine die ac-
cordingly.
QUEEN V. CHICHESTER.—JUDGMENT.
Mr. CROWDER prayed the judgment of the Court in
this case. The defendant was convicted of a nuisance
at the last Exeter assizes,
up since
Lord CAMPBELL---What was the nuisance?
Mr. CROWDER said it was a weir in the defendant's
possession which had obstructed the navigation of the
river Taw. The prosecution was instituted at the in-
stance of the Admiralty authorities, who felt that the
public interest required that the weir should be removed.
Lord CAMPBELL—Certeinly, it is of the last import-
ance that the nuisance should be abated.
me. BARSTON said he was instructed to appear for the
defendant, who was a poor labouring man. The weir
was a very old one, and was originally erect-el by his
landlord, who, in pciut of fan', was the real offender.
The weir, however, was in the course of removal; and
it was, therefore, hoped the Cont.; would see no objec-
tion to the defendant being discharged from custody.
Mr. CROWDER said the cone:ction took place as far
back as the last summer assizes, and the weir had not
yet been removed,
Mr. BARSTON said there was a Ilona' fide intention on
the part of the landlord to remove the weir immediately.
The defendant was a Poor man, and in consequence of
his imprisonment his wife and children had been thrown
upon the prish.
Mr. CROWDER said he would consent to his discharge
if the defendant would g:ve E'2urity for his re-appear-
ence on a future OCC?Si011 in the event of the weir not
bong removed,
Aft.. BARSTON said b;8 client was quite ready to give
such security.

--Lord CAMPBELL—Let It b 9 so then, and the case may
stlnd over on those terms'.--Judgment deferred ac-
cordingly.

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