The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-02 00:00:00

=
JULY 2 1852
•

Now ready, in 2 'vols., 21Nti
HISTORY OP :HE
,t 1
BRITISH
ilyCpioNayE ESTS.rjoSnlc.iin
"As a full presentation of the Indian •iuestiiM da one side —a de-
fence of the course of English exteniion ir. Ilintrustan —Mr. St. John's
book may be advantageously consultedby all, who wish to be in-
formed on a subject which is about to engage the most serious atten•
Lion of statesmen and public writers. The !ityle is graphic and
spirited. The facts ara well related and artiAlcally grouped. The
narrative is always readable and interestmg " thenietun.
Colburn and Co., Publisher, 13, Great S ....'dough-street.

time.

Time.

li
W ,-.
2
A(

'9
J 1
"4

83¢
I)K3
5
7

;.r.
:
i: T" QUARTERLY-.REVIEW,
8
. „
No. CLXXXI., will be publishespublishesTOt/VORROW.
CONTENTS:
I. Art and Nature under an Italian Sky, :' 11. Kaye's History of the War in Iffgbitniitan.
111. New Reformation in Ireland.
- IV. Count Mollion—the Finance Mnister of Napoleon.
V. Lord Cockburn's Life of Jeffrer. - VI. Contemporary History---Mr. Thebucjk and Miss Martineau.
VII. Lady Theresa Lewis' Clarendot Gallery.
- . VIII. Lord nolland's Memoirs of theWhigTarty.
- Postscript on the general Elecion. . -
John Murray, Albemark-stri''

Direct Trains from the Boats marked t
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
c 'cry quarter of an hour.
ROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of
:ho following Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station.

WEER DAYS.

SIINDAYB.

enStibeoynAis
,-; 44 1 •-' 'g 1 • F• 1 .f.F., ti a I • 1?
ojrebA.rts.amtitE
HE WINES of FRANCE and; GERMANY
obtained
dave been carefully gathered, in ther respective localities, by
where,rT, laPmßilE e
sLN
wLiat,
at
flioarolldSeari
otheraet,
ea
Prices.
rtilcee FOREIGNsII. EN
WINES, T - S Et
they
can
isim°. A1:8 11 1
.1 Ici xiii Tini.e*
,1',0„,"1:4. a•-• 1
li cb-s . i CELLARS,
;''' ' 4
- —l —.--- ---- —-- at 285, per dozen, with the •
94 9 pna, rinticounlajltywdoi:•eocrttheduteo
cioa
zfig
egblies.4oslo, WINE,
bottles, are included in the cost now described, by the proprietor,
9%
whose reputation has been appreciated by tie-public in his City Es-
-1 wy, 10 -
tablishments during the last 25 years.
tit ,
IDA —ll , _ • Post-office orders, remittances, or...,timp. ' e ere,nces 111111119 ha ad-, .
I Z ,4, —-- . —1% ;1 --* „. • , . dressed to JAMES CAMPBELL,.ISB;REGENT-STREET, London. '
24 , .It 1_,.... '
.. 14
Pli 1
6
--
La :Dicer, ADVICE ON VIE SECRET INFIRRLITIES OF
_ 7

i'asaages marked * are run direct.
LOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, si. Os. ; Six Tonths, 3:.
rhree Months, 21. Os. ; to be had of the Collectors on !soul
p •kuts ; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
M ,37 30, 1852.

Os.;
the

BOULOGNE DIRECT FROM. LONDON.
The COMMERCIAL COMPANY'S splendid Steam-ships
CITY of PARIS and CITY of BOULOGNE, will leave LONDON-
BRIDGE WHARF, as under, weather permitting :
Tuesday, July 6 • • 2 Morning.
Friday, July 9 .... .6
Morning.
Tuesday, July 13 ...... 9 Morning.
reduce Pass
de n Friday, July 16 ...• 12 Noon.
S 12s ;re Cabin, Ss.
eait•sesb. cokedaloon, throughout from London to Paris at greatly
First•class and Chief Cabin ........ 38f. 75c. or 31s.
Second ditto and ditto • ............. 30f. Oc. or 245.
Third ditto and Fore Cabin 22f. 50c. or 18s.
Offices of the Company, 4, Arthur-street East, City; or the 1.7„
...-
.
versal Office, Regent-circus, Piccadilly.

THE EASTERN STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY. .

(Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1851.)
Notice is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENE EAL
MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at the
London Tavern, flishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on WED-
NESDAY, the 7th day of July next, for the purpose of receiving and
considering a Report of the Directors on the state of the Com-
pany's affairs, ant to consider a proposition for the further conduct
thereof; also to Elect Directors, and to consider and determine of a
proposition for increasing the number of Directors to Eighteen, or to
such number as the meeting may consider expedient, and for elect-
ingniay be decided to add to the
such a number of Directors as it
number now existing, to fix the quorum of Directors necessary to
constitute a Board, and generally for deciding on the proceedings
and further policy of the Company.
The Chair will be taken at Half-past One o'clock precisely.
By order of the Court of Directors,

JOaN YATES,- Secretary.

Dated this 25th day of June, 1852.
Offices of the Company, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings.

MERCHMESMAN'S
ANT'S and ThAD
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
5, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London,
And all the principal towns in the kingdom.
TRUSTEES.

John Macgregor, Esq., M.P. I David Ferguson, Esq.
Jeffery Smith, Esq. Thomas llow, Esq.
Advantages offered by this Society
Policies Indisputable, except in cases of fraud.
All the Medical Fees paid by the Society.
Assurances of every description effected.
Non-forfeiture of Policies.
Assurers unable, or who find it inconvenient to pay their Pre-
miums as they fall due, may have a credit on application to the
Board.

Loans granted on Personal and other Securities in connexion with
Life dssurance.
The Directors being desirous of extending the Agencies in and
round the Metropolis and throughout the Provinces, are ready to re-
ceitie applications from influential and active persons, accompanied
with a reference. -

GEORGE THOMSON, Manager.
THOS. MUSGRAVE, Secretary.

ANCHOR ASSURANCE COMPANY,
67, Cheapside, London.
Life Assurances may be effected with this Office at the most mo-
derate premiums, while the Bonus additions to Policies tend still
further to lessen the cost of assurance.
Life Annuities are granted by the Company on terms exceedingly
favourable to the assured.
Prospectuses may be had on application.
T. BELL, Secretary and Actuary.
Chief Agencies—Manchester, 1, Ducie-place ; Glasgow, 135, Bu-
chanan-street, and 115 St. Vincent-street; Hull, Exchange-build-
ings; Newcastle-on-Tyne, Grey-street;
Plymouth, 5, Frankfort-
street ; and 6, Hermann-strasse, Hamburgh.
Applications for Agencies, in places where none are appointed, may
be addressed to the Secretary.

NATIONAL ASSURANCE AND
INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION,

7, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square,
London.
The investment of money with this Association, which was
established in May, 1844, on a plan peculiar to itself, secures equal
advantages to the surplus capital of the affluent, And the provident
savings of the industrial classes of the community, and affords an
opportunity for realising the highest rate of interest yielded by first-
class securities, in which alone the money
is employed.
Moneys deposited with the Association, for Investment, are
exempt from liabilities on account of life contingencies. as well as
the expenses of management, which are borne by the Life Depart-
ment, in consideration of the business brought
to it by Investment
transactions ; therefore, Depositors enjoy the entire profits yielded
by their capital free from deduction of any kind—an advantage
which no other Institution, either public or private, holds forth, or
can afford, to its members.
Interest or Dividend, is payable half-yearly. in January and July.

. _
Capital Stock, £lOO,OOO.
The Capital Stock is altogether distinct and
asnedpawraetie:egoamiattehde
Depositors' Stock in the Investment Department. It constitutes,
with the Premium Fund, a guarantee for the engagements of the
Association, and has been provided in order to render the security of
the Assured complete.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
This Department embraces a comprehensive
system of Life Assurance, with many valuable and important im-
provenaents.
Full information and prospectuses may be obtained, on application
at the Head Office of the Association, or to the respective Agents,
throughout the United Kingdom. '
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
N.B. Applications for Agencies may be made to the Managing
Director.

ria.,DICAL ADVICE ON TIIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUT a AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
Just published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free from the Author
tor Forty-two Stamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Mintage, and on the
Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Meturity, usually ac•
wired at an early period of life, which destro3 the physical and
;Deo tal Dowers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex-
haust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on
the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debi
ity, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and an
Diseases and derangements resulting from Indisaltion, as adopted
0.7 Lallemaud, Ricord, and other eminent members of the faculty of
France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining
their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that
are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection.

By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.

octor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the 'University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Htufterian
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, ned of their relative
zoneitioni in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, cho has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplcmas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally quaLfied medical man
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the
treatment of thesa Complaints. He may be consulted with advan-
tage by all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated
through secret practices acquired in youth, or ty the excesses of
later years, whereby the pleasures of life are maned, the objects of
marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered s term of unceas-
ing misery and regret.

Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Start°, Vitchborne-street,
flaymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street; Main, 23, Cornhill ;
or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the aithor's residence,
win nay be consulted on these disorders personslly or by letter,
ally firm. Ten till Two, and from Six till Eirbt

SEABORNE MAILS.
SAT eignittes that the mails are cent front the General Post-oinot
by the night—and 111 by the morning—dispatch.)

When made up in I Fran what „„
puma, GeneralPost-officel port di a.. " Hen
London: I Patched, duo.
.....91.01.1),.............8. ...a...1 ............... .1M.C.19.0•411,”1.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N July 2 .. ..ILiversool July 7
America (by U.S. pkt.) N .. .. iLivermol July 8
America (by U.S. pkt.) M July 7 .. ...Southunpt. Arrived
Australia (via South-
ampton) .. .. . M
..
..
..,
.. Southunpt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N .. .. .. .. ,Dove: ..
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope Ni2d of August . • Pllmmth • •
Africa (West coast).. Nl4th of the month IPlYnamth June 29
Alexandria* • • ...• .. N 19th & 30th of mo., Dove; .. Jane 18
Belgium •• .. •. N Daily .. .. .. ;Doves .. Daily
Brazil •• . • .. M 9th of the month Sonthtmpt. June 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southsmpt. June 16
California(viaChagrer)M 2d St 17th of month Southunpt. July 5
Cape of Good Hope N „ . Plymnith.. June 29
Cape de Verde .. ••N2d of the month .. Plymmth.. June 29
Constantinople* .. •• N 7th 17th 27ther mo Dove' ' .. July 10
Central America .. Mad & 17th of men. Sontharnpt. July 5
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southarapt. Tn. Th. Sat
.
Chili .. .. .. M 17th of the month jSoutlampt. July 5
France .. .. M.t
N Twice daily .. ..jDover •• Twicedaily
Greece* .. - . 2.5.T17 th 17 th 27th of mo ;Dow' .. July 10
Ilamhurgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday 'Lollies:l •. Tees. Sat.
Holland .. .. •'. AZ Wednes. ik Satnr. Louden ..Mers.Thus
Honduras .. .. • N 17th of the mouth Sorthampt. July 20
Ireland .. .. M & NlTwice daily .. . lloyhead.. Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) 11120th of the month Sorthampt. June 28
India (viaMaresilles) Nigth&24th efmonth Dow '• July 17
India, via C. of G. Hope Nllsth of month Pl3rnouth • . June 29
Mauritius • • • • .. N 15th of month Pl3mouth..,June 29
Mediterranean (via
Southanspton) •• M 20th of the month SolthamP
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) • • • . N Bth& 24th ofmonth Diver ... July 17
Mexico •. .• .. lit 2d of the month.. Soithampt. July 5
Madeira .' • • .. M 9th of the month Scathmapt. June 16
Malta* .. .. i 7th,17th,19th,27th 1
3Dover July 10
St 30th of month
t
Naples* • • • • .. N sth 15th 25th ofme Diver .. July 2
Papal States* .. .. N sth 15th 25th ef mol Aver .. July 2
Peninsular.. • . • • M 7th 17th 27th of mo'Sethampt. July 6
Pens • • .. .. • • M 17th of the month Salthampt. July 5
Tuscany* .. .. • . N sth 15th 25th ofmo Aver .. July 2
West Indies .. .. MI 17th of the month Scuthampt. July 5
West Indies (except t. June 28
Havanna Sr- Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Stuthattspt.l
* The mails to those countries thus market (5) are convoyed by
French packet via Marseilles.

CREDULITY AND FRAUD.
One day last week an old gentleman, living on an in-
dependent income with his niece at tie Hotwells, fell in
with a stranger, who said he was desirous of viewing
the scenery for which-this neighbourhood is celebrated,
but, being entirely unacquainted with the locality, wished
for a respectable guide, whose expenses he was quite
willing and able to pay, as ho had recently come into a
fortune of 20,0001. For the purposeof talking over the
matter more conveniently they adjou'ned to the Hiber-
nian Hotel, when they were joined la; another man, who,
it transpired, was also affluent and gnorant of the na-
tural beauties of the district, which he was anxious to
visit. To prove his respectability tad wealth he ex-
hibited a lot of notes; the other man did the same; and
the old gentleman, who had no money with him,
offered to procure a sufficient number of similar vouch-
ers from his residence, to which place his com-
panions went with him; and h 3 having procured
from his " strong box" eight 51. Bark of England notes,
they all again returned to the Hibernian Hotel, where
one of the " strangers" observing that the old gentle-
man's parse was not a good one, insisted on presenting
him with a better, into which his rotes were apparently
transferred. It was then agreed that on the next morn-
ing they should go on a trip to Weston; and by way of
finishing the day agreeably they rode in, an omnibus to
the Full Moon, North-street, whesce the old gentleman
departed, after sundry libationsof brandy
and water.
On reaching his home he sought hs pillow immediately,
and slept composedly until the morning, when just as h e
was starting to join the strangers at the ' rail Way
station
his niece happened to discover that the notes in his
purse were flash notes, and that he was less wealthy
than he had imagined by the sum of 401. Information
of the robbery was at once forwarded to Mr. Inspector
Attwood, and the police are making search for the
thieves by whom the old gentleman was so impudently
duped.—Bristol Mercury. •

THE DIGGINGS.
The amount of gold brought by the Admiral from
Port Philip is 30,840 ounces, valued at nearly 120,0001.
The captain of this vessel states that at the time of his
departure the,difficulty of getting a crew was undimi-
nished. Ho was to have sailed on the 31st of March,
but was detained in the bay till the 3d of April, from the
necessity of sending on shore to get gold to pay his men
before they would weigh anchor. The rate of wages
thus required to be paid in advance was 451. for the rtm.
There were about fifty sail in port deserted by their
crews. The number of persons arriving at Port Philip'
was about a thousand a week. A piece of pure gold
weighing 281b5., recently brought into Melbourne, had
been shipped for England by
the Posthumous. The
statement that the average production at Mount Alexan.
dor was upwards of 12,000 ounces per week (or at the
rate of about 2,500,000/. a year) is confirmed. At Syd-
neyaonouthnetsqaufantatieticesurorbetnatinsaeadlawaef wareprgoebsa, however, are less
as large. The
unsatisfactory than might have been anticipated. Build-
ing, which had ceased at Melbourne, was recommencing,
M
workmen being obtainable 'at from Ws, to 15e. per day.
Shepahnonrudni,
s wewrietalsroatbioeninsg,
and
dany of those who had
deserted at from 351. to 40/.
per
deserted were returning.

...,
[ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE ROYAL .V.XIIIIIITION.—g
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known 111 miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses; country scenery
and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 Piles; they are invaluable
Piccadilly, for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentle-
-13. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albem
men, Gameiteepers, and Tourists.—To be had at Messrs. S. and
ob-
serve, opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most
important invention in Telescopes, possessing such extra-
ordinary powers, that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye piece,
will show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and the
srle-street,
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only three
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 3 miles distant,
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and Race-
course glasses, with wonderful powers; an object can be
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imper-
feet vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to
its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or-
ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief
of extreme deafness.-39, Alberroarle-street, Piccadilly, ob- '
Imo opposite the IN A kletel. ,

REVIEW OF THE SESSION.

(From the 'Times of yesterday.)
, To-clay this strange session will be over, and in a fi--w
r.,o,i4x_rariosu 656 r(presentatives. will be released from the
th(;_u° 0 endaa_honourable office which the greater pert of
_„„,"-!.. %. i tly won at s') much cost and trouble. 'They
u___".‘', after_uit a great settlement. and at a time when it
7_'_ 2
ear;
r•,;u,!3.-, proclaimed that the reign of faction
‘7.7 ",,.7., a ,
sotr,ceo it be said that their period of po'.Vcr
°r by tluinu.asrua bed either by any great domestic event
9,73:17,,'..n, l struggle of parties; yet in four yours
, ".. f,,e_v
en,monthsak from their assembling for business
1)-07'au psoxiiarneentto their constituents. So frail is the
, and so precarious the tenure of this
much priz:d positi in. The existence of this Parliament,
ahvogvgeertvrbhriioPhf ash it has been, is cdnsiderably over the
prevailed since the pa: sing of the
J'arts Bill.
ores_..a.ir,
_., Littleorte. reason, then, does tssere seers for
itselefr•a'nd; 'aeues rlimits to that which cont2ins ::(thin
But it is only when we
conbider the diffl of, decay
02i:wits and delays inseparable from
the legislation ~thaat great empire and a complicated
state of society,
the
demand for
The "shortmos. reckonings" with our repre-
sentatives. importantye;,a questions must be
discussed for many Sears before they can attract even
.. Legislature. They must thenpass
the notice oftho
through an ordeal of annual motions and petitions. At
last they rouse debate, and form the orm subjects of prelimi-
nary investigation before Select Committees. They are
then embodied in Bills, which
be defeated, or, - carried, may fail in
operation. even under Ministerial
auspices, may
Tee best and most successful measures if
re-
quire almost annuli amendment,and it requires no or-
dinary skill and research to track the principles one by
one adopted or rejected in ~,-. long series of abortive Bills
of parliament. Nor can it be over-
and imperfect Acts
looked that the body which has to follow all these threads
day to day, and from session to s
es-
of legislatkerfacni
sion, itself undergoes no
.inconsiderable change. Daring
last death, and other causes,g
last year alone, through Illness
there were twenty-
ame changes in the
representation, or
at the rate of near i quarter the
of the whole body in
course of five years. These changes, too, all mast re-
member, embrace those ard?nt politicians and those able
statesmen to whomwe chiefly look for the movement
and regulation of the Legislature.
Our representatives may truly tell their constituents
that this has been all eventful, a laborious, and a useful
Parliament. They might add, what is equally true, that
there never was a Parliament which more illustrated the
weakness, not merely of statesmen and of parties, but of
Legislatures themselves, and their absolute dependence
upon influences over Which they have little or no con-
trol. The events of the Parliament have been from
without; its labour has been a mere compliance with
imperious calls, and its good deeds have been often so
done as to reflect but little honour on the doers. So far
as regards mere matters of history, its five years' exist-
ence has been one of the most memorable periods in the
annals, not only of this empire, but still more of Europe
and of the whole world. It was summoned to its first see.
sion in haste, while trade was slowly recovering
universal collapse,
from a recent and while Ire-
land was suffering an unparalleled famine.
Eeery circumstance of the crisis was extra-
ordinary, colossal, and portentous. Commerce had
not adjusted itself to an immense increase of im-
ports, and domestic credit was breaking down under an
extravagant amount of railway enterprise. The Bank
Restriction Act had just been suspended on the respon-
sibility of the Minister. Crime, now predatory as well
as " agrarian," was rapidly increasing in Ireland. One
of the first votes of the new Parliament was 1,100,0001.
far the late Kafir war. Oa the continent were heard the
murmurings of the coming storm. Pius IX, was at the
beck of a revolutionery committee. The Austrians had
occupied the city of Ferrara. A civil war raged in
$ witzerland. Lombardy and Sicily were both on the
eve of revolt. Schleswig-Holstein already gave work to
the diplomatists. There were ill-omeneel scandals in the
Court and Government of Louis Phillips. The new
Parliament had scarcely met after the Christmas recess
when the volcano justified these warnings, and all Europe
was in a flame. Capital after capital fell into the hands
of the populace, and Government after Government was
revolutionized. All the existing bonds of empire seemed
broken, and Italian, Sicilian, German, Slavonic, and
lastly Celtic nationality, were struggling to extricate
themselves. With the continental part of these con-
vulsions Parliament did little, except sit still and hope
that Lord Palmerston knew more about them that it did
itself. Whether it had any plan, whether his Lordship
had any plan, and whether either Parliament or Lord
Palmerston is better satisfied with the forcible suppres-
sion than with the sanguinary outbreak of a dozen re-
volutions, does not appear in the proceedings of the
British Legislature. What we possibly admired, how-
ever, we were not inclimed to imitate. When a crazy
Irishman took some twenty thousand Chartists across
the river with equivocal designs, at least ten times that
number of peaceable citizens took care there should be
no revolution here ; and when another crazy gentleman
pushed matters rather further in Ireland we sent him,
with a few vulgar miscreants, to our penal colonies.
The rest of these five years has been of the same
eventful character. We have had a fearful visitation
of the cholera, and have seen the mortality of the me-
tropolis trebled. We have had, and still have, another
Kafir war. The Punjaub has been finally annexed;
and we are now at war with the Burmese. While we
were still absorbed in the calamities of Europe, and
vvhile Protectionists still talked about a drain of gold,
strange news came from afar. California, which when
this Parliament met was an almost unknown province of
Mexico,disclosed
, i its long hidden treasures. Australia
nas followed,
and though'the '
amount of gold and silver
now in the Bank is the largest accumulated
ever by the
hand of man, It Istwo no more than the expected annual pro-
duce of these
thenavral treasures. A new state has
been founded onat our
and a new empire is strug-
gling into existenceeof our antipodes. Meanwhile, the
nightmare povertythe miseranda no longer sits upon the
industry of the old world; atrhlieament under which
t
the Bank of England has dreaded drain of its last
sovereign may this week see the re 22,000,0001. of bul-
lion. Another fear now presents itself. What if our
people should leave us too rapidly? Of these wonders
England, as well as the Legislature, has been aplissiVe
spectator; but in another event the country at least has
some honour. Thanks to a noble-hearted P • rince and
a small band of enlightened men, we had festival'of
a
art such as the world has never seen. Among
hincidents
not so agreeable, but adding to the memorablehmc
ea:teeter
of the period, we have witnessed the establishment of a
foreign •
hierarchy with territorial titles in this island,
with other attacks from the same quarter on the autho-
rity
of the Legislature and the dignity of the Crown,
The usurpation of despotic power in France by a nephew
of Napoleon Bonaparte has revived the alarms which
the victories of Nelson and of Wellington bad long since
dispelled. At least, since the Peace, there have been no
five years so crowded with events likely to govern or to
disturb the course of the future.

But, while such has been the period as Providence has
made it, Parliament has had to perform an unusually
humble part. The legislation of the period has been of
a remarkably passive sort. There has been no ruling
mind, or even a dominant party. Events have been
met, and measures which have been for many years in
the political laboratory, dropping from ono party to an-
other, have fallen on this Parliament, and will give to it
an undeserved celebrity. We have met, or rather had
met, the Irish famine. We have established an Irish
poor-law on a tolerably permanent basis. Thanks
mainly to the surviving shadow of the League and Mr.
Cobden's attractive idea of falling back to the expendi-
ture of 1835, we have had searcning Committees,
followed by reductions in the Miscellaneous, the
Army, Navy, and Ordnance expenditure. Under the
advice of the late Premier, the actual insolvency of
nearly all Ireland has been met by a novel court of
bankruptcy with special powers tor the purpose. The
actual insolvency of a score or two unions has been mot
with a rate-in-aid from the rust. When the arch-Re-
pealer was gone, and his position usurped by men who
talked of vitriol and gingerbeer bottles, we mat these
vermin with an Act which made it felony to agitate
against the Act of Union. We met wholesale evictions
in Ireland with an Act that provided at least
ant the
under which the evicted might lie down and die
cost of the landlord. We met the cholera, when it came,
with a Public Health Act, and with Acts for the removal
i
of nuisances and the management of the metropolitan
sowers. We have met one or two monstrous Cafes Cafes of
bribery and corruption by disfranchising: least received
or
the borough. The West Indies have s
for the equali-
their threatened coup de grace by an 2te.
zation of the sugar duties. The navi6att
Loll-laws, really
involved in the fate of the corn-laws, and actually
suspended in 1846, as far as Corn was con.
curried, have fallen, in spite
,_of a noisy defence,
l'
though with hardly a blow. 'rnaPs it ranks the ge-
neral feebleness of the periods that the coasting trade
was excepted. In order to sweeten the measure to the
,
shipowners, we threw in an Act for the regulation of
the merchant service; and, in order to sweeten that Act
to the sailors, we added another for the extrication and
better management of the Aiorchant Seamen's Fund.
The Boards of Excise and Taxes have been consolidated,
and the Crown lands and public parks and buildings put
into different hands; both Sound administrative improve-
ments. The Cana of Good Hope, and most of our
other colonies, having all steadily refused our convicts,
we have met the difficulty with public works on our own
coasts and with monster prisons. The Australian co-
lonies and New Zealand have demanded self-govern-
ment, and we have met the demand after a fashion of
our own. The Canadian Government required Im-
perial aid in the settlement of a ceeain awkward
question, and we rendered it with more wisdom
roan glory in the Rebellion Losse3 Act. Sir Jam
Brooke cat off the heads of too merry piraetur!4_.
we reduced the allowance of head-money fur tbon.
The Ten Hours' question has been w:sely corn ,
an unusual
There has, during this Parliament, r, moral
number of questions rather of a material
athan
fforded some
character, and which certainly might haviencip
31 of these
scope for a strong Government. The Pr'se, on which
has been the question of railway enterprise' it
must be confessed Sir Robert Peel had set the evil pre-
cedent of inviting rather than controlling competition.
The chief mischief was done before the days of this
Parliament. It met the presser© by extending time to
companies.that could not buy their land or finish their
works ; by offering facilities for the Itbandoment of