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was a curious contrast of the same kind between
the humour, if we may so call it, of the two men.
Lord Palmerston's is all social vivacity resting on
good spirits, self-possession, and the temperament
which conversation or debate excites. lie is al ways
beat after dinner, or in a cross-fire of warm discue.
sion. Sir George Lewis was probably in some re-
spects the most apathetic man in the House of Cam-
mons, and was never by any chance warmed by
debate. But the cold lucid vigour of his intellect,
and the power it gave ham in detecting political
,trifles and recognising the nonsense that often ac-
quired a fictitious importance in popular diteussion,
often lent to his remarks an illihtehat had a very
unique fl .roue of its own. W a Home Stere-
tary be mei sometimes to explain to the Howie the
utter futility of the arguments that had been ust d on
the side he was compelled by his position to support,
and by his scepticism to despise, and then to sit
down, saying with a half smile, " for those reasons
I shall give my vote in favour of the bill," there:was
a sort of grotesque hatred of plausibility, a deter-
mination to show clearly what ho believed to be
the reason of the subject as a co npcnaation for vot-
ing against what he thought the reasonable policy
of doing nothing, which was the keenest of satires.
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what he thought, the exact truth in the plainest
way, even if he also said he was going to vote for
error. Thinking as he did purely from history and
experience, hie creed was always a little cynical-
Conservative,—" Don't change, it's bad enough as
it is, but all changes almost are for the worse (
thinking as Lord Palmerston does on the social
impulse of the aristocratic :society in which Le
moves—and society believing too complaisantly in
itself ever to be cynical at bottom except in very,
rare emergenoies—bis creed is always a little rose-
water-Conservative—" Don't change, better let him
alone." Of course the living statesman has the in-
flume given by expressing the feeling of the day
pleasantly—the dead that given by strengthening
it, not altogether pleasantly. Indeed no two
statesmen were ever more unlike except in their
kindly natures ; and even there they were different.
Lord Palmerston has the geniality of aristocratic
society, which is not always equally genial to men
of all origins. lie now and then breaks out against
manufacturing opponents like Mr Cobden with
something of scorn ; he can strike sharply in re'urn
for the blow given him by another, as well as
smile if it snits him better. Sir G. Lewis scarcely
knew the difference between rank and rank in his
treatment of men. While he had a certain scorn
for popular fallacies, and perhaps in a mild way for
the men who bruited them about ; there was in him
an immoveable benevolence of feeling steadier than
any emotion, and an unaffteted recognition of the
equality of the same intellect in all ranks, which.,
had he ever made a government of his own, would
have silenced all complaints against the old Whig
exclusiveness. In short we doubt if Lord Palmer-
ston ever fully knew how completely Sir G. Lewis
supplemented all his deficiencies, or whether he uscd
to the full the strength of counsel he had in him.
Both of them substantially Liberal Conserva-
tives,Sir G. Lewis was yet absolutely devoid of the
conservatism of prejudice which is Lord Palmer-
ston's. Yet with a far superior intellect to the
Premier's, rind far greater knowledge, ho was so far
inferior in cis and in mobility of mind that he need
never have endangered his chief's supremacy. The
ono would have supplied the moving power of am-
bition, and the social ease, the other the passionless
ju Igment and clear knowledge,—and probably the
only thing remaining deficient in the combination
woad have been political imagination:

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" THE LONDON REVIEW" ON ABOLITION OF TURNPIKE
TOLLS.—One of the conditions of a sound fiscal impost is
that all that is taken from the taxipeyer shall find its way
into the Treasury, with the smallest possible deduction for
oost of collection. Judged by this test, the system of turn-
pike tolls Is inconceivably wasteful and barbarous, There
are more than 1,100 turnpike trusts in England and Wales.
Each turnpike gate costa about £26 per annum, and there
are more than four gates, on an average, to each trust.
Thus wo have an expenditure of one hundred and ten thou-
sand pounds upon the mechanical operation of coilecting the
tolls. To this outlay must be added all the cost of manage-
ment and the necessary expenses for keeping up the road.
Each trust has its staff of paid offieers—its clerk, surveyor,
and sometimes its paid treasurer. In the Leomiust:r truer
it takes one-half of the revenue to pay the expenses acid
establishment charges, while the repairs, after all, are put
upon the parishes. In some other trusts the expentea
rang/ from 25 to 40 per cent. of tho whole rovenuo. To
the permanent cost of collection and management must
added the periodical expense of renewing the Acta of Par-
liament. The eleven hundred trusts have each been re-
newed (say) four times within the last century, at a coot of
above £2,000,603 eterling. No wonder that the trusts of
England and Wales, under thin thriftless system of adminis-
tration, have accumulated a heavy load of debt. The bonded
debt, which is nominally put at £1,000,000, is, indeed, one
of the chief obstacles to the abolition of toll gates. It
may, no doubt, be said in favour of the turnpike system,
that those who use the road to any extent pay for their use
of the road. The House of Commons' committee of 1836 at.
tached considerable weight to the circumstance that turn-
pike tolls caught the through traffic, Tho turnpike road
was formerly a national road. When people travelled from
London to York by stage coaches and post carriages, it Brae
but reasonable that the burden of repairing the road should
not fall exclusively upon the intermediate parishes. But
the railways now convey all the long traffic. From one part
of the country to the other you scarcely meet a single com-
mercial traveller, a single stage coach, or a stage waggon,
upon the turnpike roads. The heavy goods, as well as
passengers, go by railway. The traffic being thus boo
el
traffic, the toll payers, and those who, as ratepayers, would
pay for the roads if tolls were abolished, are now the same
class of persons. The time hoe thus demonstrably come
for reconsidering the question of toll gates, and for adopt-
ing a system of road administration in harmony with the
wants and circumstances of the time. Tho farmers and other
ratepuyere of the district really pay the tolls at present, but
with this difference, that an enormous per-centago is frit-
tered away by the cost of gatekeepers, the peculations of
collectors, the salaries of paid officers, and the multiplicity
of trusts. The vexatious and inconvenient impe
ditnents to traffic interposed by toll gates, espe-
cially in the neighbourhood of large towns, need
scarcely be insisted upon. In every part of the
country the feeling is grossing that turnpike gates are a
nuisance which the public would bo glad to pay something
to be rid of. In some cases a man can go to a neighbour-
ing town and back by railway cheaper than ho o.n drive
there, on account of the tolls. We hear one case in which
a Sussex coachman brings his master a bill for tolls for a
fortnight of 24s for a pair of horses, and this not for a great
deal of travelling, but "merely a little country visiting."
Between Etchingham and Harainge, a distance of 17 miles,
this coachman pays Os in tors; and if he goes in the oppo-
site direction to Tunbridge, it coats 48 or 6e. Things are
just as bad in the North. The city of Durham 'suffers
severely from the plague of toll gates. It is affreted with
six gates at the six entrances of the !own, besides two
check gates. If you want to reach Durham from any point
a mile distant you have two gates to pay. Tho tolls are so
onerous that they suspend or prevent the running omni-
nibus to the railway termini. At ono of the bats near Dur-
ham they make people pay, not once in 24 hours, but 24
times in 24 hours, if they pass so often. A brickmaker
states that in one day he paid 10d ten times over for pass-
ing and repassing a gate about 5 miles from Durham. The
ferments won't chive into the city on market-days, but leave
their horses and carts at a neighbouring village, in conse-
quence of of ,the oppressive nature of the tolls. In the
West of England there is the same impediment to
traffic and locomotion. A Lodbury man who goes to King-
ston, 21 miles distant, has to go through eight gates—three
on the Ledbury trust and five on the Hereford trust. lie
changes horses at Hereford, and ho has to pay five gates.
If he visits Newent, eight miles from Ledbury, ho encoun-
ters four gates, and pays at three of them. If he goes to
Worcester ho meats six gates in 16 miles, and pays at four.
If ho goes to Bromyard he finds five gates in 13 miles, and
pays at all, yet the roads are bad. The Ledbury trust com-
prises 62 miles of road. The truatece have a clerk at £3O a
year and a surveyor at £120; they had a collector at £52 a
year. but they find it better to let the tolls than to collect
them, owing to the frauds of the toll collectors. Ledbut y
is said to have suffered greatly from the railway. Rather
than pay a couple of turnpikes which separate him from
Lodbury a man will go to the nearest railway station and
take a ticket for some other town. While the country turn-
pikes offer those impediments to intercommunication, the
trustees suffer the fate of the Daneides. They catch th it
tolls in sieves, which let the money run out almost as fast
as it is poured in. 'rake as an example, tho England's Gate
Trust, near Gloucester, of 10 or 12 miles long. The trustees
collect in tolls £2BO a year, and they pay £llO, or about 90
per cent , in clerks, surveyors, repairs of turnpike gates,
and toll keepers. The consequence is that tho trust is bur-
dened with a debt of £2,600, and the ratepayers of the dis-
trict have not only to pay toll, but repair the roads into the
bargain. Are we notjastitled in calling such a system an-
tiquated and barbarous ?

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Companies is £3 4e, premium per share, utter deducting (if
any) the reserve fund ; the price of issue of this Company's
new shares to the public is £2 13s. 44. premium, from
which, after deducting the amount of this Company's re
sorve fund, equal to £2 per share, leaves the share costing
only 13s. Id. premium against £3 4s. premium, the average
price of the four companies before referred to, leaving a
bonus to the public of £2 10s. Bd. per share : but, taking
the premium of the last-mentioned company as the most
analogous to this Company, it having been amalgamated
only two months, it will bs seen that their price of £3 lOs.
per share (which is fur below their intrinsic worth), added
to the £2 premium in this Company's reserve fund, gives
£5 10s. per share, or £2 168. Bd. bonus on the price of
issue.
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means represent the full value of tho different shares quuted,
the prLes of which ought to, and will doubtless be, much
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THE " SATURDAY REVIEW.' ON MR. VIIILLEV,...
ORIENTAL HOSPITALITY. The, pipers inform us that
Mr Whalley, M P., has invited all his constituents to pay
him a visit. There is something gorgeous and Arabian in
so magnificent an invitation. Other great men are caftea
free-handed and munificent, but to have a whole consti-
tuency as guests gives tho finest notion of Mr Whalley's
heart, and of his I.Knitlleas resources. We think with won-
der of the sem° that presents itself to the imagination, Tho

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constituency of Peterborough is not a very small one, and
it must be of a mixed character, and of mixed creeds. A
lacks accident may indeed divido the guests, and as Mr
Whalloy's mansion is arrays open, chance or arrangement
may induce them to come in batches. Supposing th's is so,
we are lost in fancying what they do when they get there.
Let us Pay that only ton tailors, half of them drunk and halt
of them Roman Catholics, arrive just as Mr Whalley is
sitting down to dinner. Where do the tailors go to ? What
does Mr Whalley with them ? What do they get to
eat and drink? Dom Mr Whaney carry polite-
ness to the extreme of humouring the fancies of his guests ?
Does he hob and nob with his drunken five, and bless the
Pope with his Romanist five ? Perhaps, however, the effirt
is less than it seems, ant the hospitality is based o 1 the sup-
position that no one will accept it. Mr Whalley may reckon
that no constituent in his senses would go cff a couple of
hundred miles to stay with his member, when every one
was asked in the same w)3, and at the same time. But,
then, these sense people have elected Mr Whalley, and he
may arguo that, if they could be induced to do that, they
could be induced to do anything. It is certainly odd that
ho should satisfy Peterborough ; but as ho satisfies Peter-
borough enough to bo elected there, ho may satisfy it
enough to draw Peterborough to Wales. The papers, how•
ever, that tell us of Mr Whalley's princely invitation, also
tell us that tho representation of Peterborough will be keenly
contested at the next election, and possibly the invitation
and the prospective contest have something to do with
each other. Those who comp to dine will, it may be sup •
posed, remain to vote, and this hospitality may only be Mr
Whalley's way of bribing, If so, it is as simple and inno-
cent a way of bribing as could be found. Mr Whalley has
had the honour of discovering the very slightest and most
harmless temptation to the British electOr that could be-
wilder his honesty. An elector who takes nothing more
fur ilia vats...than Liao plossuio of arriving unc..apnotakittraira
remote country honso in company with ten Whits is really
uncorrupted. In a certain way, most Englishmen love
hospitality. We think it a virtue, and it has the advantage
of being a virtue that is easy and pleasant to the virtuous
man. Of course wo cannot outulato the hospitality of men
in uncivilised countries. We cannot take in the wandering

stranger as a Arab sheik cr an Pllnoisbackwoutlsman does,

There aro no wandering strangers in England, or, if there
aro, they aro of the kind whom wo think it well to provide
ith a night's lodgings, a pint of grliel, and an opportunity
of a little gentle stone brooking. The distinguished cavalier
who, in romances telling of wild countries, goes up to the
cantle and sings the eongs of his country after supper, or the
traveller who, in books of travel, spends a night in an Arab
tent, drinks sour milk, and wonders at the queer Mahome-
den custom of saying prayers without shame, gets through
a much simpler process in England. lie has hie inn wait-
ing for him everywhere, and an admirable opportunity of
finding combined the maximum of cost and the maximum
of cUscomfort. It is not in the slightest degre a discredit
to civilised man that ho is not hospitable as an Arab chief

is hospitable, nor is it much credit to the Arab chief that his
hoepltality is as great as it is. If it is a gain to the travel-
ler to be hound or sheltered for the night, it is also a pin

to the host to have romo ono with a now face to break the
monotony of his dull life, Tho sheik is like Mr Whalley;
he does not give for nothing. While Mr Whalley surveys
his tailors feeding, and notices the pleasant way in which
they get through their meals, ho probably sustains himself
with the thought that he will have his reward when next
polling-day comes. The sheik, too, who has got more sour
milk and tough bread than ho knows what to do with, in
the same way soon receives ample compensation for the
simple cheer ho offers. It is something for him to notice
his guest's watch and gun, and the nervous anxiety with
which the stranger smooths his moustaches. Besides, each
individual sheik feels that ho has no option. It is not open
to him to be inhospitable, and custom decrees that ho shall
receive without questioning the wandering guest. It is
good in him to ho hospital le, but it would bo very bill in
him if ho were not. And a groat pert of tho hospitality
that is shown in the world is of this sort. It is a duty that
has to be discharged, or it is the only thing the hospitable
man can do under the particular eiruumstances. For ex-
ample, the great man cf a district, the Lord Lieutenant t t a
county for instance, entertains h.osts of visitors on stated oc-
casions. Is this hospitality? realm), so; but there is no
particular virtue in it, The Lord Lieutenant must do thus
much, and uncommonly shabbily the duty is some-
times performed. The rich men who live near a great
town like London, ar.d who have made }wipe of momy
in trade or business, exchange heavy (Elmore with each
other. This, too, is a very easy sort of hospitality. They
have nothing else to do with their money, and scarcely any
other way of showing that they have it. They meet to
give each other tacit certificates that rumour has not
exaggerated their substance. They cut, ruin in order that,
alien they appear outside their gates, they may have the
respect paid thew that is ordinarily shown to persons who
are satisfactorily anerotlited as Wog warm, wmfortiblo men,
Cuusideling Luw very largely in most c tscs tho

of hospitelity !its morn wi:h tho giver than with tho ru •
ceivcr, it in.ty ho doubted whether tho notion, 110 ounlywin
in England, of its being undignified to accept hospital y
without an opportunity of returning is not c:►rriod too

far, In some cases, of cour,e, the notion is a very proper
one. Where, fur example, there aro neighbours in the
country who In.ld much the same position in hfe, and have
much the' same pretensions and claims, it would bo ac-
cepting a position of humiliating inferiority if any one of
them were always to bo content to be the guest and never
wished to be the heat. Or again, if thew are many well-
to-do persons living together oa sociable and easy terms,
as in the upper circles of a provincial town, it fairly raises
the suspicion of meanness and stinginess if ono mem-
ber of the circle seems to shirk his share of enter-
taining. But where no inequality among local cqu Its,
and no imputation of stinginess, can arise, the guests need
not think that they aro receiving a benefit from the host
which. if uureturned, will cover them with shame. Let us
take the case of a cheerful couple, free from family troubleel
with a countryhoufte whore they wish to reside, and a large
fortune. What aro they to do with their house and their
money P A man cannot go on for over staring out of his
window, slapping himself. throwing up grateful eyes and
saying to himeelt that ho is monarch of all he surveys. He
cannot be always riding or driving. Nothing is more
worrying and more desolate than large rooms with no one
to fill them, and I trge dinners with no one to eat them.
The host wants guests. I'o get them is to got the beat thing
that money can purchase, and that without whites most
other things that money can purchase are useless. The
guest, as ho walks through tho largo rooms and eats the
large dinners, may fairly say to himself, "My host is very
kind; he gives me the luxury of a great house. I can
walk through his park and fish in his lake. I can get in
hie stables a good horse to ride, I may shoot his pheasants.

I can read his books, and have for the time all that his
wealth gives him; but then, in return, I prevent his wealth
being a burthen and a curse to him. I and my fellow•
guest. give him tho sathiletion of having a full house in-
stead cf an empty one. We enable hint to swell with the
happiness of exercising an easy virtu., and so, on the
whole, wo do more for hints than ho does for us, and, although
his kind hospitality charms us, it scarcely leaves us his
debtors." In the same way, young married people in Lon-
don need not be under the apprehension they sometimes ex •
press, that, in accepting Invitations to dinner without being
able to give dinners, they aro incurring► a humiliating obli-
gation. This is a pure mistake. The obligation is, out of
all proportion, on tho side of the hosts. It is everything
for them to got young married women at their table. The
cliff:rem:a between one dinner party and another is not In
tho eating, for all dinners are cut pretty much in tho same
pattern ; nor in the drinking, for scarcely any wino at big
parties is so far drinl.all t as to ma)co its little variations
worth noticing; but the difference is in having or not hav-
ing plenty of young married women at table. What is the
good of staring for hours at a pile of ferns and camelias, or
forced fruits, to a man who is placed between a silly silent
girl on one side and a solid rook of matronly silk the other ?
Young married women who look tolerably nice and will talk
aro of priceless value at dinner parties, and, of course,
their husbands must come too, and very amiable creatures
they generally aro, and quite worth their keep. At tho
same time, it is not fair to represent all hospitality as
pure pleasure. Those who aro consistently and widely lms.
pitable, as a matter of principle, have many Wale to go
through, and the world may be obliged to them when they
bear these trials pleasantly. In the first place, they cannot
help receiving professed stayers-out—men and women
whose business it is t) go from house to house, and who
have a happy art of making life, wherever they go, seem
artificial, vapid, and frivolous. A man whose position
condemns him to come down morning after morning and
find a parcel of such people gathered round hie breakfast
table must often wish ho had boon born in a humbler
position, which would have permitted him to breakfast in
peace with his wife, hie children, and his paper, Then,
again, when men arc widely hospitable, and sot on I.rinciple,
they find themselves impelled, or forced, to include in their
hospitality ptrsons who are in very respectable position.,
but who have not the receive of educated persons. The

penalty of this extension of tenevulence is the netoninhing

.hough innocent, familiarity with which their gucs s phow

their rendinm.s to bo sociable, tho confidonces about their
TOlll3 and Fannys into which they enter at once, and their
ou tdcn tranritions from stiffness t) boundless Intimacy. It

is not, therefore, so very enviable to be in a position to
exorcise wide hospitality as it might :mom, and they are
perhaps the happiest whose hospitalityconsists merely iu
welcoming known friends, and in shoring with thew the
pleasures of an unassuming but comf)rtable home. It is
true that hospitality in this ciao ceases to ben virtue, for
all is pure pleasuro in it, Bat different itiLit 11 .e,) different
duties, awl every ona is not ellied on is 1,•3 li,spitable on a
wand scale. Every ono is not either an Arab kilitik or Mr
IVhalley.

WATER, says the Guardian, Wlla recently being
rctailca in Jotaoy at 11 a pint,