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depended upon his Grace for ground to stand upon.
These will now be wandering about, as sheep without
a shepherd. They Rill be a prey of marauders. They
will listen to the exciting tales of the Tripes and Mon-
tagues, and show themselves beggared before the bar
of public opinion, calling frantically for vengeance
upon their deceivers. Lord John Russell can well
understand the loss that many " hereditary legisla-
tors" have sustained. It is truly a matter of serious
consideration to know what the Upper House will do
without the Duke. He had the same power over a
large number of volatile subjects as Virgil's .bolus
had over the winds submitted to his care. He
was placed, like the classical god, high above his
roving subjects. He held his sceptre firmly.
He alone could soothe their minds and temper
their wrath. He, like lus, knew his subjects
well, and felt certain that but for him they
would sweep over the political heaven and earth,
over the court and the nation, and create a tumult
which they would have no power to put down. Where
is the Neptune in the House of Lords, who, as in
Virgil's fable, will lift his placid head above the
troubled waters, and bring the Jerry elements to re-
pose ? Let us remember, when we endeavour to
speculate upon what will be the future conduct of the
House of Lords with regard to the great questions
that will come before it in the next session, that a
sixty-vote Moderator is gone. One broad feeling of
sympathy, which was sufficient to produce a certain
unity of action amongst very discordant elements, has
vanished. The House will be split up into parties,
without having any definite principle to guide them.
They will have all the mechanism of an integral
portion of the constitution, but they will want a
motive power they long relied on. Heine tells a
story of an automatic man, constructed by an inge-
nious Englishman, which, by the means of a com-
plex arrangement of springs, performed all the ordi-
nary functions of humanity. It would have passed
muster as a genuine specimen of the human race
amongst any assembly. Nevertheless, the automaton
had just sense enough to know its own defect. It
found out, alas ! that it had no soul, and it set to
work forthwith to tease its creator to give it the grand
desideratum. It followed the unfortunate artist all
through the world with the reiterated request, " Give
me a soul." The House of Lords will be in the pre-
dicament of Heine's automaton. The only difference
will be that it has lost what the automaton never had.
The Tory members have lost the soul of their body ;
and we know not, however loudly they may cry, where
they will get another. It would be difficult to point
out any other class which is characterised by such
features of hopeless mediocrity as the Tory party in
the present House of Peers. With respect to ourselves,
we have nothing to fear from that body. Its power
for mischief has been long since neutralised, and its
power for good has been diminished by the death of
the Duke. With Lord Derby the case is different. He
may find to his cost that a House of Peers without a
ruling spirit may—although powerless in its effect
upon the nation—be a terrible thorn in the sides of
a Minister. He may anticipate with a tolerable cer-
tainty an
anti-Derby party, as his colleagues in the
other House may
look for an anti-Disraeli party, as
the result of the sins of each with regard to Protec-
tion. The Prime Minister willlook in vain for that
shield which has
Ministries. H
protected so any Ministers and
aided so many
fall by the naked merit o'afidhibse ll have to stand or
power will come to his awictions. No
Majesty's
Government must be carried on."ecau "her
fight the battle of Protection
y, against Free-trade,
because
eHe will have to
of Bigotry against Liberality, and
without the hope of aid
in case of failure, or a refuge in case of defeat. If
those grieve most deeply on account of the occurrence
of any event, who lose the most by it,few men will
have better cause to lament the absence of " the
Duke" than the Earl of Derby.

TREATMENT of the ENGLISH ABROAD.
Another instance, says the Leicestershire .Mercury
has just come to our knowledge of the growing haw:
lence displayed by the despotic Powers of the Conti-
nent towards Englishmen residing within their sway.
The present case, too, is all the more startling because
it has not occurred either in France, Italy, or Aus-
tria. Saxony is the kingdom which is now striving
to share the unenviable and disgraceful notoriety
hitherto only attaching to the Governments of those
countries. Dresden, its capital, is the place of all
others chosen for the first overt avowal of adhesion to
the unholy alliance of the second half of the nineteenth
century. And the party who is the first victim to
this spreading absolutist hatred of the very name of
an Englishman is one in whom we naturally feel an
interest—both from his connexion with this locality,
and from his early services on behalf of Hungarian
nationality and independence. We allude to Dr.
Paget, author of the well-known work on " Hun-
gary and Transylvania."
. This gentleman, as many of our readers are aware,
after leaving Leicester, went to reside in Dresden.
There he was leading a very quiet life, and, as he
imagined, a life of security as well as peace. Sud-
denly, on the 2d of this very month, September, his
house was visited by a party of police, who seized and
carried off all his letters, MS. note-books, diaries and
a considerable number of books. The British Minis-
ter, Mr. Forbes—for England has a duly accredited
and acknowledged representive at the Court of Saxony
—was, we learn, very indignant at this outrage. He at
once called upon the Saxon Minister of Foreign
Affairs for an explanation of such extraordinary con-
duct, and, we should imagine, likewise demanded the
restoration of the books and papers so seized. The
most perfect ignorance and innocence were pleaded by
this functionary. Believe it who may, neither he nor
the Minister of the Interior knew anything—so they
averred—of this most flagrant outrage. From them
nothing could be learned, and Dr. Paget was left
utterly in the dark as to what could be the pretext
for such an unexpected and arbitrary proceeding.
Whether the documents and property thus carried
off
have been returned, we have not heard. We cannot
think that the British Minister would,
on any ac-
count, suffer them to be detained after he had
tad once
moved in the matter, unless some clear and indispu-
table justification of their seizure could be
shown and
proved. That, from all we know of Dr. John Paget,
we feel persuaded could not be done, No act of his
can have justified the Saxon Government in treating_e
him in this manner; and' we trust that, when the
outrage becomes known, there will be such an _
ex-
h
pression of opinion upon the subject throughout the
country, as shall stimulate, *f
reactionary Government to inquire
,:inisoltt..compel, even our
and sources of this domiciliary. into the real cause
We use the word ic sources" advisedly. For the
reader will observe that this transaction has not oc-
curred in any Austrian State where the embers of
insurrection and revolution are still fiercely smoul-
dering. It has taken place in Dresden in Saxony,
against whose ruler and people no Englishman can
have any
motive to intrigue and plot. Whence, then,
the
inspiration—whence the orders to act thus gla-
ringly
in violation of international_ treaties, and
towards the subject of that friendly Power but for
whose aid Saxony would not now
inde-
pendent kingdom ? To this question we fear there
can be but
pendent one rep have been an
iy. Saxony is no longer an inde-
kingdom, except in name. Its police can
only have so acted under the sanction and direction
of the agents of Austria; and the King of Saxony
be regarded only as a vassal of the House of
can DOW
Hapsburg, or, rather, of the head of the Russo-
Austrian empire. We shall look with great anxiety
to see what will be the course of our Government in
this affair. Their conduct, whatever it be, will give
no unimportant indication of their future foreign
policy, now that the great warrior, to whom the
Tory party professed to look up with so much reve-
rence, almost approaching to awe, bus been summoned
to his final rest.

THE PRINCE PRESIDENT and his CHOICE
OF A BRIDE.

The Paris correspondent of the Independence of Bel-
gium states, among other Parisiangossip, that the ex-
King of Westphalia has !Pinged his nephew not to
some trouble himself about a marriage with the Princess Wass
or any other foreign PrincNesas,blueton althoughpick out
to,
educated and healthy French female as his bride; and
bee well-
notbes
we adreectlaorldedthtahtatLhoueisw
i poll follow the advice of his
uncle, may take that course. The gossip may have had
some origin worthy of notice,
but it pats one too much in
mind of the recent feuilleton of
Alexander Dumas, in
which he relates an account of a somnambulic prophecy
by a young girl of eleven years of age, at Auxerre. She
had said " that the Count do Chambord would be King
of France, and that he would lose his wife, by consump-
tion." And then, said Alexander Dumas, who
Russian
thei
magnetiser, " Henry the Fifth will marry
. some u,s, s aon
or German Princess." to which the girl replied,
_ N ,
Henry the Fifth will say,France by
' I have returned to Fru
marry a girl of
the will of the French peoples and I will_
the people." H© will say, "Go to
will
Faubourg Saint
llefind a young girl
Martin, NO. 42, and there. youwl
on a stone dressed
who, when I entered Paris,
was
seatedeh in her hand. She
in white, and having
a gprenetner branch
shall be my wife."
is the daughter of
a carpenter,
Independanee does not make
The correspondent odf
for a wile to the Faubourg St.
Louis Napoleon
makessen the ex-King !Jerome advise him to
Martin, but fm the institution of the Legion of
pick out a v'tf'' .r%
pall .
1 Honour at St.

CITY
OF LONDON AIILITIA.--Uti Wednesday the
c,—;-
deputies, and common- councilmen of the City assem-
hin their respective wards, for the purpose of pro-
viding the required number of men for the city of London
royal regiment of militia, in compliance with the orders
issued by the Court of Lieutenancy, and also to make a re-
turn of those volunteers who have been approved of and at-
tested. The aldermen presided at their respective ward-
motes. Notwithstanding that recruits are eligible (subject
to the approval of the Secretary-at-War) up to the age of
forty-five, and of the height of five feet three inches, the re-
cruiting for this service proceeds very slowly ; and it is a sin-9
ular fact that up to the present time not one freeman has en-
listed, and comparatively few persons who reside in the City
have joined the corps; and although the staff of the regimentin Bunhill-row and the various ward officers are ind efati-.
gable in their exertions to obtain recruits, it is doubtful wilt.
ther the number (600) will be made up.