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cessarily come before it. And yet, notwithstanding all
the fa,cits; Mid 10 Rbsoltit6 lgtioratiee 4ny hddelpFlon
to *ilia that bothiiiitte6 Might come; Their toFclships
wele ed tgion to give their &win:ince and sanction
td tHttt tali cli blight tiny id lit Veeit banded, upon the
report and recommenthition Cbdiiiilttee; 'the
Committee which had sat upon the Civil List had made
its Report, and scanty as that Report was, it still afforded
some materials fbr legislation, and some grounds for sub-
seqlient Ariei hßilhq; atiptliutild a ICommittee
it was not the duty of Parliament to act in such a nianner
as to show a disposition to go beyond that which had
been prescribed as the scope and limit of its la-
bours and would not any man think that if it was neces-
sary to have one Committee on the Civil List and another
Committee on the Pension List it was equally necessary to
await the RepOrts of both, and not to let the Civil List
Committee only make its report, and to lay hold of it alone,
paying, no attention whatever to what the Committee on
Pensions might do ? If they had any way of knowing in what
sort of terms that Committee was likely to report in such a
case he could understand some sort of reason for the haste
which had been adopted ; but this extraordinary degree of
hasty legislation was far from reconciling him to the arrange-
ment which it was now proposed to their Lordships to agree
to ; and he could not help observing that all this haste had
been used, and all these exertions applied, for the sole pur-
pose of compressing the full completion of all these matters
connected with the Civil List within the limits and compass
of the present week. But why, let him ask, had they not
brought all these matters forward three or four weeks
earlier ? Why not have brought them forward in October
instead of November ? Why not have called Parliament to-
gether earlier, and have abided by the decision of a Com-
mittee ? If Parliament had been assembled at an earlier
period the suspense which prevailed upon other matters
might have been terminated. The affairs of Canada might
have been settled, and something might have been done in
unison with recommendations in which kindness and conci-
liation were as remarkable as discretion and firmness, to
have induced the Noble Lord near him (Lord Glenelg) to
have withheld in time the adoption of those fatal steps—
steps against which he (Lord Brougham) had protested at
time—which had sown in that colony the seeds of injustice
and oppression. He had known Parliament called together
in October in times of bloodshed ; and if such a course had
been adopted on the present occasion they would then have
had as many weeks as they now bad hours, not only for
passing this Bill for securing the splendour and dignity of
the Crown, but to have removed the unfortunate chance of
one of its brightest jewels being plucked from it by a want of
justice and consistency in the councils of Government—a
want which had handed over her Majesty's subjects on the
other side of the Atlantic to agitators, armed with a weapon
which, of all others—no matter whether called into action
at home, in Ireland, or in Canada—was the most formida-
ble—the weapon of a just grievance, arising out of the in-
justice of: the measures of Government. He considered,
then, that the period at which Parliament had met ought
not to be brought forward as the plea for the haste which
had been adopted. He felt, however, that he had discharged
his part, and it only remained for him to thank their Lord-
ships, with so many of whom he so widely differed in poli-
tics, most humbly and respectfully for the manner in which
they had listened to and borne with him. The Noble Lord
then concluded an eloquent speech (which, owing to the
partial and indistinct manner in which much of the latter
part of it reached the gallery, we are not able to give very
fully), by stating that the people of England revelled in the
hope that their young Sovereign would be all they had so
fondly desired. They had poured out their hearts and minds
in grateful devotion to that Princess, whose reign they
prayed might be long, and marked by no other qualities than
those which were best calculated to allay discontent on the
part of the people, and to teach statesmen the salutary
lesson, that the more liberty they gave the people, the less
they pressed on them the weight of the prerogative to-day,
the more peaceful they would render them, the more they
would cause the Constitution to be prized, and the more
safely they might to-morrow proceed to complete the work
they had commenced, with the assurance that whatever new
power they might add to the people of England would only
serve to make the Sovereign and the Constitution become
more beloved—more secured.
The question that the Bill be read a second time was
then put from the Woolsack and agreed to, and their Lord-
ships adjourned at Twenty Minutes to Eight o'Clock.

The Countess of Munster's accession of fortune, by
the demise of her noble father, is about fifty thousand pounds.
The Noble Earl has purchased a magnificent mansion in

Brunswick-terrace, Brighton.
THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " BRA M-
MATTE House."—" Jane Lomax" is, without question, Mr.
Horace Smith's most attractive production. There is the same
polished style, the same high moral tone that distinguished
its predecessors; but the characters are more vividly drawn
and the narrative much more dramatic. The idea of the story
is novel, and worked out with great spirit. The character of
the mother, a domestic Lady Macbeth, is as bold as it is new,
and is well sustained to the last. The sketch of the husband
is equally true; and there is a grace and sweetness in the pic.
ture of Benjamin that belongs to poetry."—Literary Gazette.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION.—Dr. Thos. Murray
is at present delivering a course of lectures on Political Eco-
nomy in the town of Dunfermline, and is attended by an
audience of One Thousand Persons, of all ranks, ages, and
occupations. Among them, be it mentioned to their honour,
are the seven clergymen of the town, three of them of the
Established Church, and four Dissenters. Dunfermline con-
tains 16,000 souls; so that one-sixteenth part of the whole
population, men, women, and children, are Dr. Murray's
hearers. Such a fact is nearly unprecedented in the annals of
instruction, and strongly indicates the activity of intellect of
the people, as well as the attractions of Dr. Murray's prelec-
tions.—Scotsman.
Yesterday morning the adjourned inquest dp the
body of Thomas Hawe was resumed, and the jury, after a
consultation of twenty minutes, returned a verdict of " Wil-
ful Murder against George Clutterbuck," and the Coroner ac-
cordingly issued his warrant for the committal of the prisoner.
IRELAND AND THE IRISH.—Mr. Crofton Cro-
ker has just completed his editorship of the memoirs of the
famous chieftain, Holt. He was certainly the most enter-
prising and distinguished leader of the Irish Rebels in the
field, and under very singular circumstances. The reasons
which led to printing the memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone,
are the same which induced the publication of the memoirs of
Josephs Holt; in the first place, as presenting " a most cu-
rious and characteristic piece of auto-biography," and in the
second, as calculated to gratify the general desire for infor-
mation on the affairs of Ireland.

Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, the passen-
gers going over London-bridge were surprised by a ship going
athwart the Southwark side of the structure with a frightfu
crash. The progress of the vessel, which turned out to to
the brig Exchange, of Jersey, laden with a cargo of pot.toes,
was stopped by her masts striking the upper part of the bridge,
when several spars were carried away, and her main-yard was
suspended over the foot-pavement, over the first arch, on the
Surrey side, with part of the gear attached. The situation of
the vessel attracted a great crowd of spectators, who, from the
dangerous position in which the ship was lying, and the occa-
sional giving way of parts of her main gallery in conrtact with
the coping stone of the bridge, expected nothing less than a
fresh water shipwreck under the metropolitan communication
between Southwark and London. As the tide rose the situa-
tion of the brig became every moment more critical, and her
main gallery continued cracking under the copinr, stone, while
the ship itself heeled over towards the starboard side and the
cross trees snapped asunder. Soon after six the tide was at its
height, and the ship remained in nearly the same position as
when she struck the bridge. As the tide began to ebb, the
crew, assisted by some extra hands, engaged for the purpose,
commenced sheering the vessel off from the bridge, but it
was not until seven o'clock that they succeeded in getting her
clear, when she was with considerable difficulty hauled back
to her berth at Topping's-wharf, Tooley-street. The vessel
has sustained great damage, particularly about her fore-part
and upper works. It appears that the vessel came up with
yesterday's tide to discharge her cargo at Topping's Wharf,
and was lying in the tier when she had occasion to slack for
the purpose of letting out another vessel which had just dis-
charged her cargo, and in doing so the stern rope was not
slackened, in consequence of which there was no means of
checkiug her, and the tide, which was running up very strong
at the time, soon drifted her against the bridge in the manner
described above.
TuE ORTON MURDER.--William Wills, charged
with the murder of Thomas Hunter, was brought up for fur-
ther examination, at Orton, on Monday last, and committed
for trial at the next Assizes. E. W. Hasell, Esq., Sir G.
Musgrave, Bart., Richard Burn, Esq., Rev. R. Milner, and
Rev. W. R. Markham, were present, and unanimous in their
opinion of the prisoner's guilt.—Kendal Mercury.
SCOTCH DISTILLERIES.—A meeting of the
brewers and occupiers of land, and others interested in the
prosperity of the Scotch Distillers, was held in the Salutation
Hall, Perth, last Friday, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of petitioning the Lords of the Treasury in support
of the application and remonstrance by the Scotch Distillers
in regard to the unequal administration and operation of the
Excise Laws, by which the said Distillers labour under great
disadvantages, as compared with their English neighbours,
and are prevented from coming into market with their com-
modity on a fair footing of competition. The meeting was
respectably hut not very numerously attended. Sir David
Dundas of Dunira was in the chair. Sir John Richardson
proposed a series of resolutions which were adopted. A pe-
tition to the Treasury, embodying the resolutions, was adop-
ted, with an understanding that a similar petition should be
forwarded to the Legislature, should that step be found ne-
cessary.
On Monday last a gentleman of this town, tired of
single blessedness, summoned a party of his friends, for whom
he hired a co mveyance. to accompany him to the neighbour-
ing town of Chorley with his " fair one," for the purpose of
entering into the married state. On the arrival of the party,
all were soon in readiness to repair to the church. On their
way thither his intended met another lover, " more loved,"
who gave her the beck ; and, after proceeding a little further,
she returned at full speed to the outskirts of the town, to
meet her real favourite, leaving the whole party in utter asto-
nishment, and the forsaken Ccelebs to return to Preston as joy-
less and as wifeless as can be well conceived.—Preston Chron.

FREE ADMISSION TO NATIONAL
MONUMENTS, &c.
.
1d EDlraii at VIP gviv,
SlR,—i perceive s‘ofif tleitr*,"tifi Ban ei a'n drtiele from
the .ilforning Post, that that journal hdn. feni6'd ifs spleen
on the Corninittee for the above object ; and, ag I ita4e the
honour ofa Hiroo tVrfion of its notice on the occasion, ITV
will perhaps do me the ftifeili 14/ irrsert also this answer to
its ebulit ions.
The writer allows the object of the Commi'Lslet to be,
with cthtie restrictons, a desirable one, and therefore his
regret that it has fatted it;ti hands that necessitate resist-
ance or delay. He represents Lad Sohn Russell, Mr.
Hume, and myself, as devoid of sense or temper; bat pos-
sessed of a good cause ; whilst, on the other hand, Dr. Ire.
l.tnd, the Dean of Westminster, is described as a man who
has been one of the most distinguished scholars of his day,
but enlisted in support of a bad one ; for, after considering
the letter and memorial of that very Reverend Gentleman
against free admission to the Abbey, he again says—" We
admit that it is a desirable object," adding, " we are of opi-
nion that the public should be admitted gratuitously to the
inspection of our national edifices, ecclesiastical, military,
and civil, except in such instances as that of the Tcwer of
London, in respect to which the reasoning of the Duke of
Wellington seems to us to be conclusive and unanswerable."
It thus appears, that, in spite of the arguments of one of the
most distinguished scholars of the day, his friend of the
Post decides that we ought to be admitted gratuitously to
Westminster Abbey—aye, and to St. Paul's, and to the
civil as well as to the ecclesiastical edifices—ergo, the Royal
Academy exhibition—although the President be any thing
but civil to us—and to the military, with the exception of
the Tower. Verily, this must be to the barracks and guard-
rooms. What a wise amendment to the proposal of the
Committee! Instead of opening the historical collections
of the Tower, two or three hours a day, to that portion of
the community (the working classes), that would rather
seek objects of instruction than waste their leisure at the
public house, this considerate friend of the Church would
allow free admission to places which, in the opinion of the
best men, are productive of neither instruction nor imprOve-
ment—that every servant in the north of London might
spend her leave of absence at the barracks near the Re-
gent's-park, and those westward enjoy the same privilege at
Knightsbridge. But what is it that the public desires?
Free access, at all convenient times, to every place built at
their expense, or containing public property, calculated to
improve the condition, the mind, or the character of the
people. We claim unpaid, but not unrestricted admission
to Henry the Seventh's Chapel, the place of sepulture of
our Princes, on which Parliament has in a few years sp( nt
40,0001. of our money. We claim access to the monuments
of Shakspeare, of Chatham, and others, who give dignity to
the title of Englishmen ; we claim this right in virtue of
the sums taken from the comforts of the poor in the reign
of Queen Anne ; in virtue of the revenues granted by for-
mer Sovereigns ; we claim it in honour of the dead ; whilst
our feelings instruct us to listen for the church bell, not as
a signal for lounging among the effigies of the great to the
annoyance of the pious, as it has hitherto been, but to dis-
tinguish the hour of prayer and adoration to a Supreme
Being from the proper time for contemplating the images
of human greatness. But men deeply read in the Divine
law say to the poor—you must either gaze on the monu-
ments of Nelson, of Howard, and of Johnson, or on those
of Pitt and of Fox, at the very time that you ought to join
in the praise of an all-wise Creator, or you shall not see
them at all ; for the moment the last vibration of the anthem
fades on your ear, the money collectors shall drive you from
the House of God.
We desire that no personal suffering to Churchman or
Layman be the consequence of what the Committee ask
for the improvement of the people ; but that due compen-
sation be made to all who deserve it.
As to the arguments of the Duke of Wellington in favour
of a total exclusion of even that respectable class of society
that can afford one shilling, but will not give three to see
the armouries of the 'rower, it is enough to say that this of
course excludes not only the working man, but also every
veteran on half-pay who might wish to breathe the spirit of
glory in contemplating the arms of former great Generals.
And then the unanswerable argument that danger would
attend the admission of multitudes is unworthy the conque-
ror of Napoleon. With any thing like discipline, surely
thirty, far less three hundred, men would exclude or dis-
perse any mob that could beset any entrance to the Tower.
But matting of the kind can be expected.
The effect of his Grace's letter is evidently to draw a
line between the Aristocracy of wealth and the middle
and working classes—between the plumed lordlings of a
parade day, and the rusty heroes of a hundred fights.
If, as the Duke states, there is not suffieient room
for the people employed in the Tower, the remedy
is clear ; let the curiosities be removed far from that scene
of bustle and suspicion ; give us the treasures of knowledge,
the remembrances of national prowess, amid we care little
for the clumsy mass of brick and mortar, the dumb witness
of treason and murder ; for we wish not to ponder on the
crimes of a by-gone age, but to rejoice in the extension of
intelligence, of liberality, and of happiness in our own.
Men of all parties are united in our cause—surely the
abuse of one who cm/mow/edges the propriety of the object
will hurt no one.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obliged servant,
London, Dec. 20, 1537. GEO. FOGGO.