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ROLL'S COURT-(THIS DAY.)

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the system of representation, and censures the
'wo alterations which were made in the progress of
.he Bill—admitting the 501. tenants-at-will, and
i, re-
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tainin the freemen—" as changes for the worse.
He subsequently quotes what Earl GREY and Lord
ALTHORP said in the progress of the measure
relative to this "being a permanent settlement of a I
great constitutional question," and denies that final
measures or finality is any term of theirs. He adds—
If after these declarations any member of Lord Grey's
Cabinet were to propose to begin the whole question anew,
the obvious remark would he, " You have either so egre-
giously deceived us that we cannot trust to your public en-
gagements, or you have so blindly deceived yourself that
we cannot believe in the solidity of your new scheme."
The question remains—ls it necessary for the good of the
people to begin anew the task of reforming the representation
of the people ? The only proof that has yet been given of
such necessity is the loudness of complaint. But let us
mark from whom this complaint proceeds, how it arises, and
to what it tends.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then traces it to "those
who never were satisfied with the Reform Act,"
"to those who expected it to annihilate the Tory
party, too deeply rooted in the property of the
country," and " the Government for sixty years
stocked with its friends ;" "to those
who expect more from Reform than Reform
can accomplish," and " that many are influenced by
the present state of parties in the House of Com-
mons." He denies, and we think with good reason,
that an enthusiasm could be excited equal to that
which carried the Reform Act, and adds " that
could it be awakened I am not ready to stir the
cauldron from which so potent a charm could
be extracted." One part of the objections
arises from those who " look to a new scheme of
representation for other purposes than those of good
government." Then, referring to the plans of the
Chartists, and to their probable effect in kindling
disorder and insecurity, making the condition of the
labouring classes worse even than at present, he
thus defines a Conservative :
It is said that upon these subjects the Ministry are in
accordance with the Tories, and that the doctrines of Sir
R. Peel can hardly be that in which a Reformer ought to
agree. Surely resistance must commence somewhere, and
whenever it does commence, those who call themselves
Conservatives must vote with the party of resistance.
Lord JOHN briefly combats the Ballot, House-
hold Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments ; and to
prove that the Reform Act has not been barren,
quotes the several useful Acts which have been
passed since it came into existence. He denies
that " it has justified the forebodings of those who
represented it as fatal to peace, or confirms the in-
vectives of those who regard it as a total failure."
All our quotations are written in a strong Con-
servative spirit, and we should not do the Noble
Lord justice were we to omit all which he ad-
vances in favour of some reforms. He says—
There are doubtless many defects in the Reform Act
which require to be remedied. The 101. franchise is too
much fettered by regulation ; the annual registration is
made a source of vexation and expense ; the freemen might
be made the pride of the working classes instead of their
opprobrium, but changes such as these, &c.
The Noble Lord adverts to the Lords as having
latterly-made their evil influence felt in an aggra-
vated shape. The Duke of WELLINGTON he
describes as now having a harder task to perform
than when he was in the vigour of his age ; and what
the Noble Lord says, on the management of the
Peers, we must also transcribe, as the only other
passage in the pamphlet tending to reform :
With these dispositions the superiority of the Lords in
all matters of Government may one day be asserted, or
England may no longer bear the double sway of
government in one House and opposition in the 0
other. Who are in that case to give the victory ? Evidently
the people of ‘ the United Kingdom. The House of
Commons must carry their measures by popular sup-
port or be dissolved, and give place to an assembly
more congenial to the Lords. In this state ;of
affairs it has been my wish that the Commons should ask
not only for what was right in itself, but what the people
would feel to be right. For instance, could we have con-
tended longer for the Appropriation Clause ? With a small
majority in the Commons with us, the people of England
were not favourable, and the people of Ireland bad grown
indifferent."—" But when certain measures of temperate
amendment in our laws have the assent of the Commons;
and of the country, it is quite just that the proposers and
advocates of such measures should be called upon to gain
the assent of Parliament to them. Otherwise men will be
driven in despair to become partizans of more extensive
changes, which, while they will be more popular, will
not be at all more impracticable. Such is the danger
of the course now pursued by the Lords, and such
the prospects before them. If they cannot be per-
suaded to adopt even such amendments of the Refoim
Act, as to give a little further time to the rate-
payer for the payment of the rates ; if they can-
not assent to any correction of the abuses of re-
gistration, and the defects of registration courts ;
if they cannot agree to give to Ireland the same municipal
privileges as England, they will force many of those who
have supported the Government in such places to say that
what has appeared to the Lords too much is in their eyes
too little. This is a temper which I should be sorry to see
prevail.
It is to correct such a temper, we presume, that
the Ministers have lately added to the House of
Peers. We will copy the Noble Lord's conclusion,
and leave the pamphlet at present to the judgment
of our readers :
It is for you to ponder seriously, in the spirit of that
true Whiggism which has always animated you, on the
dangers of the time, and the means by which they may be
averted. lam persuaded you will not think of lifting the
anchors of the Monarchy. while the signs of a storm are
black in the horizon. lam convinced that you will not,
hr a moment of disappointment, deface the work which
you have made. Great changes in law and government
often make themselves more felt, as the distance of time
at which they were established becomes more remote.
Who can doubt that the subjects of George 111. enjoyed
more fully the benefits of the Habeas Corpus Act than'
our ancestors did seven years after its enactment? I trust
therefore, that you will persevere in upholding the Re-
form Act, and seek to derive from it its sure and fruitful
results, rather than exhibit to the world a new warning
against popular Reform, and give a new argument to the
enemies of popular institutions.

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CORIOLANUS, lON, THE TWO FOSCARI,
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LONDON :
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1839,

Lord JoRN RUSSELL'S long expected Letter
to the Electors of Stroud, on the principles of the
Reform Act has at length appeared. It is undoubt-
edly an able and an honest pamphlet, but not calcu-
lated to gain for the Noble Lord the confidence of
the Movement party. We shall, however, ab-
stain on the present occasion from criticism, and
allow the Noble Lord, as far as the limit of an ar-
ticle will go, to speak for himself. He thus states
his principal reason for addressing the electors, and
we quote the paragraph to show the scope and in-
tention of his pamphlet :

The public mind is shaken by disputes, and urged on
by declamation, relating to the Reform Act- From that
Act your electoral privileges are derived. Upon that Act
the present Constitution of the House of Commons is
based. To that Act, seven years ago, the general and
willing consent of the country was given. Before it is re-
pealed, and especially before it is exchanged for a scheme
hitherto indefinite and unexplained, it seems to me desir-
able that some one connected with the introduc-
tion of that plan of Reform, and who still adheres
to its principles, should place the whole matter
before those who will have ultimately to decide
upon the important question whether it is to be set aside
as an experiment, which has totally failed, and a new scheme
of representation set up in its place ; or whether we may
not found upon the Reform Act, the amendments and
improvements which all institutions from time to time re-
quire? •

Her MAJESTY yesterday sent a Message to Loth
Houses of Parliament, recommending the considera-
tion of measures to promote the union of Upper and
Lower Canada. Her MAJESTY'S Message is to be taken
into consideration in the Lords on Uonclay.
The Bishop of LONDON, who seems to be the em-
bodyment of pries' craft, seeing the President of the
Council in his place, took the opportunity to make
a hot attack on the Ministerial plan for improving
education, which he described as containing all the
vices of the Irish system without its justification. It
would lead to indifference, to the wildest latitudinarian-
ism, and to all other "isms" but Church of Englandism,
a great recommendation to rational men, for a more
mischievous-ism than that of the Church now scarcely
exists. If it were admitted that the Dissenters should
receive a national education without being drilled by
Priests, the Church might at once, according to the
Bishops, give up her functions. The sooner the better.
What a horror have the Bishops of toleration and of
justice 1 The Mardis of LANsnowNE showed that
the Bishop had exhibited the cloven foot before his
intended victim was within his grasp, for the school to
be established by the Council was not for the
education of children, but of schoolmasters. The
intolerance and in justice of the Bishop roused the
virtuous indignation of Lord BROUGHAM, who told the
Bishop that if the Church persisted in a claim to con-
troul education, the people would not submit, and he
would lead them in their resistance. Bravo, Lord
BROUGHAM the Church requires to be opposed, to be
sturdily resisted. Priestcraft has attained a rampant
ascendancy amongst us, must be now beaten down,
or it will destroy for ever the morality and happiness of
the community. There was a little attempt on the part
of the Prelate, on finding that his zeal had gone too far
to hedge out, and to disclaim the plan of making Die-
centers pay for an education to be exclusively enjoyed
by Churchmen, but it was made palpable that the
Priests of the Anglican Church are decidedly opposed
to every species of education, and to the progress of
all knowledge which they cannot controul. We have
come to a low stage of degradation when the commu-
nity must learn nothing but what our own paid and
hireling Priests sanction.
The Commons had some discussion about private
businiss, which seems to trouble them as much as their
Election Committees, and received some petitions, before
the Jamaica Bill came on, which occupied the House
the whole evening. The same Message also from the
QUEEN, relative to Canada, was sent to the Commons
as to the Lords.
Against the Jamaica Bill Mr. T. DUNCOMBE pre-
sented a petition, and announced that he should oppose
it. On the motion for going into a Committee on
the Bill, Sir ROBERT PEEL opposed it. He ex-
pressed his regret that he was obliged to take such
a course, which he had hoped might have been obviated
by concession. We must, however, reserve our notice
of the Right Hon. Baronet's speech for a future day.
Mr. LABOUCHERE supported the Bill, in a long and
able speech.
Mr. GODSON took the side of the planters ; Mr.
EWART cordially supported theßill ; but the side taken
by Mr. C. BULLER, was as Mr. HUME, who followed
him, said left doubtful. Mr. HUME himself declared
that he could not agree to so unconstitutional a measure.
Sir GEORGE GREY made a very long and a very able
speech, and exposed, in a superior manner the partizan
spirit and fallacies of Sir R. PEEL. When Sir GEORGE
sat down, the debate was adjourned till Monday.

I haie put the question thus, because on the one side
the present Ministry and their friends have never pre-
tended that amendments of the details of the Reform Act
might not from time to time be required ; and on the other
it is obvious that nothing but a total failure of the endea-
vour then made to substitute representation far nomina
:ion, would either persuade or justify the people of Eng-
land in commencing a new struggle for the sake of a
change of so extensive a naturo as those that have been of
late proposed to. us.

The Noble Lord, after asking his constituents
" whether it will promote prosperity and the stability
of those institutions to which the great majority of
us still. cling," to commence " a new agitation for
the sake of some new kind of repreSentation," points
out an obvious distinction between important and
unimportant acts, and infers that having recently
gone through all the cli,comfort of' repairing our
representative system we cannot again undertake
the task, though a more beautiful plan be now
known to 'us, without exposing ourselves to more
discomfort than the alteration is worth. Admitting
some imperfections in the Roman Catholic Relief
Aet, nobody, he says, " proposes to repeal or make
considerable alterations in it.' So nobody proposes to
"pull down Buckingham Palace, or rebuild Regent-
street, though _ many an architect is ready to
show how we might improve the comfort and
increase the beauty both of palace and street." We
shall not copy what his Lordship says against
dividing the empire into departments, allowing each
to send one Member, though some curious facts are
stated in it ; and though we find his Lordship re-
produces the argument which the Tories urged in
favour of the rotten boroughs, namely, that they let
men into Parliament of great ability, but destitute
of popular talents, or of opportunities to cultivate
popular approbation,—but content ourselves with
stating his conclusion, which is, that the House
of Commons, though composed of able and stir-
ring men, would not obtain the respect of the more.
intelligent part of. the community. The following
exract carries out these views
:
The House of Lords has greater permanence than the
Commons, and it attracts within its sphere many of the
ablest men in the nation [many of whom the Noble Lord
enumerates. He then observes that both would be judged
by their actual works, and adds] The Commons would
have to contend in the presence and perhaps in rivalry with
the House of Lords—which, according to Mr. Roebuck
(no partial witness) has a moral influence on the country ;
YOU would expose the House of Commons to a gradual
recess of sinking, from which it could only rescue itself
ysme desperate struggles, in the course of which its na.
rural
streng
Al th and vigour might more easily enable it to
pull aPr water its more favoured companion than 'to
keep itself buoyant on the stream For these reasons Thursday's Moniteur has reached us with the other
amonfi others ad• •
1 Tablet to the greatestv division issib nle objection.toeartments seemed to me Paris Journals of the same date, but without the ap-
pearance, in its official columns, of the Ministry, pro-
Lord JOHN states at considerable
length the raised by the Const4utionnel of the previous day.
alterations which the Reform Act actually made in The anniversary of the King, Louis Philippa 's birth-

day was celebrated on Wednesday with more than the
usual manifestations of public joy. Addresses from the
diplomatic body, the Chambers; the Law Courts, and
the Municipality of Bilis were presented to his Majesty,
to each of which a gracious answer was returned. The
KING received :the deputations in the Throne-room,
surrounded by the members of the Royal Family, and
all the great officers of State. -In a political point of
view, the only addresses worthy of notice are those of
the Chambers, in which we find a direct reference to
the present Ministerial crisis. What is most remarka-
ble in the address from the Peers is, that the indivi-
duality of the KING is regarded as below the notice of
their Lordships, and that their object -is to do honour
to a principle, not to commemorate the birth of a Sove-
reign. In employing such language as the following,
the Peers of Francehave done honour to themselves as
a branch of the Representative Government :
" Believe, sire, that the Chamber of Peers was never
more eager to bring to your Majesty this tribute of its
homage and good wishes, a,nd may you consider them as
the expression of those sentiments of veneration, gratitude,
and love, with which the hearts of all Frenchmen ought to
be penetrated towards that grand institution of a consti-
tutional monarchy of which you are the living representa-
tive; which alone, sheltered from the vicissitudes which
all the other branches of power cannot escape, remains
fixed on immoveable bases, appealing to the country on all
occasions on which it ought to be heard, appreciating its
real wants and desires, being above all change, continuing
ever the same—because in it resides pre.emiuently the
element of that stability which forms a security for the
present and a guarantee for the future."
The Address of the Chamber of Deputies presented
by its President, M. MASSY, is much more complimen-
tary. The following is the paragraph in which reference
is made to the Ministerial crisis :
" Sire—The Chamber of Deputies, at the sight of those
political embarrassments, the termination of which it .so
ardently desires, comprehends and participates in all your
anxiety. Recently elected by the country, it is its faithful
image. You will find it full of respect and devotion to
your person, no less anxious to maintain the prerogatives
of the Crown than jealous of the exercise of its own privi-
leges, and ready to support every administration which
shall loyally fulfil that mission of order, peace, and conci-
liation, which is demanded by the wants of the times and
the generous spirit of those institutions on which rest the
dignity of your throne, and the true grandeur of the nation."
The quiet intimation which the Deputies give of the
folly of another dissolution, by stating that the present
Chamber is the faithful image of France, will be under-
stood and appreciated. Sensible that a Royal explana-
tion was in fact demanded under this courtly act of
homage, the KING in his answer did not evade the ques-
tion. His MAJESTY said :
"
In answer to the wishes expressed by your President,
I will say that, deploring as he does the momentary
embarrassments to which we are subjected, I have not
omitted, nor will I omit, anything which may hasten its
termination ; for I, more than any one else, am desirous
that France should possess an administration in accordance
with her wishes, with your expectations, and the wants of
the age. The constant object of all my efforts has been
to maintain a perfect union between all the Powers of the
State. It is in this union alone that can be found that
strength which is necessary to enable the public func-
tionaries, and all those who are invested with authority, to
fulfil the duties they are called upon to perform ; it is from
this union alone that we can derive that moral force
which, by guaranteeing the stability of our institutions,
inspires the nation with confidence in the future, the first
pledge of its repose, its happiness, and the maintenance
of its liberties. You have ever found me ready to defend
them, and I take pleasure in acknowledging that I have
always found you equally ready to uphold the constitu-
tional prerogatives of the different powers of the State.
I thank you for • the good wishes you have expressed
through your President. For myself, my efforts shall be
ii:sremitted, my personal abnegation shall be complete,
to obtain the faithful accomplishment of the high mis-
sion which has been entrusted to me by the nation ; and
I shall be happy in owing this accomplishment to that
loyal concurrence which I demand of you, and which you
will grant."
M. TRIERS was the only Deputy of any note absent
from the Palace on Wednesday. This was a great
disappointment to his friends, who were unable to
conjecture the cause of an act which must have stung
the Court.
The following telegraphic despatch was received by
the French Government :
" BAYONNE, MAY 1, HALF-PAST TEN, £.M.—On the
27th Espartero attacked and took the position of El
Moro, in front of Ramales ; the two armies were in pre-
sence 'of each other upon the banks of the Querenza. Es-
partero had about 30,000 men, and Maroto 15,000."
This includes the whole of the ,news from the French
Capital. Of its importance a few days will enable us to
judge correctly.
BOURSE, PARIS, THURSDAY, MAY 2.
HALP-PAST THRER.—Settling day in the French Funds for the
April account. There being no new Ministry, the same disposition
has prevailed on the part of the speculators as on Tuesday (yester-
day being a holiday); much business has been transacted. The Three
per Cents, opened at 81f. 40c., rose to Sif. 75c., and closed rt 81f.
65c., a rise of 25 cents. The Five per Cents. 'from 110 E 95c.,
advanced to 111 f. 30c., and closed at 111 E 25c., a rise of 30c.
For Money the Three per Cents, are 45c., and, the Five per Cents.
30c. better. For the end of May the Three per Cents., from 81f.
70c , advanced to 81f. 85c., and closed at 81f. 80c. The Five per
Cents. from 110 f. 20c., reached 111 f. 50c., and receded to 111 f. 40c.
last price. The Bank of France Shares are 15f. higher. The
Belgian Three per Cents. for the April Account (settling to-morrow
for the foreign stocks), are 73f. 20e. ; for the end of April, 73f. 4Se.
The Spanish Active is as on Tuesday, 201,, and very little business
done therein. The Belgian Bank Shares are 15f, higher. The
Railway Shares maintain their position, and some have [nightly ad-
vanced. The Versailles Right Bank 5f.; the Versailles Left Bank
2f. 50c. The Strasburg to Basle, 2f. 50c. The Mulhausen to
Thann, SE, and the Havre 51. 'The St. Germain, not quoted for
money, are, for the Account, 7021. 50c.

IN RE RUGBY SCHGOL —.JUDGMENT.
The MASTER of the ROLLS, this morning, gave judgment in
this important case, which was argued in January last.
The petition was presented by Mr. Wrattislaw and Gibb,
praying that it might be declared, the several alterations
made in the management of the school had been improperly
mode, and ought to be corrected; that the second and thin:
forms might be restored; that the exhibitions might be confined
to the foundationers or free boy's; and that the benefits of the
school might be extended to all the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood of whatever duration their residence might have been.
The Charity was founded in the year 1367, when Mr. Lau-
rence Sheriff conveyed certain hereditaments to trustees in
trust after his death, to build a convenient school house and
four lodging-houses for four poor men ; and should " cause an
honest, discreet, and learned man, being a Master of Arts, to
be retained to teach the free grammar school, to serve chiefly
for the children in Rugby and Brownsover, and next for such
as should be in other places thereunto adjoining." That the
Master should have the mansion house without paying for it,
and should have a yearly salary of 121. Mr. Laurence Sheriff
died in 1568, and the school house, as well as certain alms-houses
part of the endowment was established. The regulations tor
the management of the school had been considerably affected by
orders of the Court, and by several Acts of Parliament, and the
master was permitted to educate at the school not only.the boys
who might happen to have been thefirst objects of the founder's
bounty, but also other boys who came from distant places,
to be educated in the Rugby 'school, and the boys edu-
cated at the school were permitted to receive exhibitions
in aid of their subsequent education at one of the
Universities. The present master of that school, Dr. Arnold,
was appointed to that situation in 1827, and complaints
were now made, that of late years certain regulations, preju-
dicial to the interests of the founder's bounty, had been in-
troduced. The complaints were—first, that the exhibitioners
were .;hosen from among strangers and free boys equally ; se-
condly, that children whose parents had not been resident
within the limits for two years, Were excluded ; and, thirdly,
that young boys were discouraged from entering the school ;
and, therefore, that boys entitled to enter at an early age,
were obliged to have a prior or preparatory education, to tit
them for education in the school, as now conducted.
His Lordship said that the first of these complaints
raised a question of very considerable importance, with
respect to the powers given to the Trustees by the origi-
nal foundation by the Acts of Parliament, and by the orders of
the Court. And also with respect to the mode of conferring
the most substantial benefit on boys peculiarly entitled to the
benefit of the foundation, whether it should be by placing them
in a free or unprotected competition with the other boys, or:
by giving them an exclusive right. It appeared that,
in 1803, the income of the charity being greater than
sufficient to pay the expenses of it as then con-
ducted, by an order of the Court it was referred
to the Master to take into consideration such plan or
scheme as the Trustees should be advised to lay before him for
the future disposition of the accumulations. The Master hay-
frig reported against the scheme proposed, the Trustees pre-
sented a petition to the Lord Chancellor (Lord Eldon), praying
that he would nevertheless permit them to carry their plan into
execution. The Lord Chancellor gave them leave to do so,
and it was ordered the Trustees should be at liberty to elect and
send seven more boys as exhibitioners in like manner as the then
exhibitioners were elected and sent. The Master having in his
report set forth the evidence by which it was shown that daring 25
years only 21 exhibitioners had been elected from foundationers,
and that 42 had been elected from scholars not in the founda-
tion, and that as by the words of Lord Eldon's order he gave
leave to elect more on the same principle, it appeared to his
Lordship that Lord Eldon must, on deliberation, have consi-
dered the exhibitions might be given to scholars not on the
foundation, and being of that opinion, and not thinking there
arc circumstances affecting this question now existing
which did not exist when the question was brought
under the consideration of Lord Eldon, his Lordship
did not think that he was at liberty fo do any thing
inconsistent with that order. If any alteration ought to be
made in that respect it must be made by higher authority.
With respect to the second complaint, that children whose pa-
rents had not been resident for two years within the limits were
excluded. That was forwarded as a resolution of the Trustees,
dated the 6th of July, 1880 ; but the effect of that resolution was
not to exclude the boys referred to further than from one annual
meeting of the Trustees to another. It did not affect boys who
might be the children of old residents, or, after the next annual
meeting of the Trustees, the boys who might be children
of persons who came to reside bona fide within the
limits; and supposing the resolution to be, as was stated, for the
purpose of protecting the old residents, it would seem to be free
from objection. lithe income of the charity was so large, and
the number of free boys so small as stated to him, it was difficult
to find any substantial reason for thinking such a regulation
necessary for the protection of old residents ; and if it were not
necessary it ought not to stand. Considering, however, that no
instance of practical inconvenience or of any individual being
excluded from the school under this regulation had occurred, it
did not appear to him that any order was necessary,
but it might be thought to be safely left to the discre-
tion of the Trustees. With respect to the third complaint,
thatyoung boys were discouraged from entering the school, he
coulct nots.help thinking on the evidence before him that that
complaint had, a foundation in fact ; and if the fact were so, it
was prejudicial to the interests of the free boys. It appeared
that as a classical school it had greatly flourished under the mas-
tership of Dr. Arnold. When he was appointed master there
were 136 scholars ; at Christmas last there were 278. The
boys in the upper school in 1827 were 111 ; at Christmas, 1838,
they were 240. In 1827 the boys in the lower school were
25 ; in 1838 they were 38—an increase, but much less
in proportion than the increase of boys in the upper school.
At Christmas 1831 and Midsummer 1834 the boys in the lower
school were 112 ; and looking at all the evidence on the sub-
ject—looking at the state of the school from time to time—the
declarations imputed to Dr. Arnold and Sir Grey Skipwith,
and not denied—looking also at the masters from time to time
employed, it did appear to his Lordship, on the whole, that it
had been thought desirable to discourage the entrance of boys
under twelve years of age into the school ; and he did not
think such a course of proceeding could be beneficial to the
objects of the Charity. The School was by the founder de-
signated as a " grammar school," but the boys were to be
taught writing, and arithmetic in all its branches ;, that was,
something more than grammar or classical learning was to be
taught; and it appeared to his Lordship, that those who were
qualified in other respects ought to be admitted, if they were
capable of reading English, and being taught the first elements of
grammar. It did not appear that any boys had been excluded for
being too young ; but the expressed opinion of Dr. Arnold might
of itself have been a discouragement, and though his Lordship
could not attribute the state of the school in that respect to the
designs supposed by Mr. Wrattislaw, and could not see the pro-
priety of ordering forms to be established when there were no
boys to fill them, yet it did appear to him provision ought to
have been made for the instruction in the school of those boys
who conk' read English, and were eatable of being instructed
in the first elements of grammar. That being his opinion, the
regular course would be to refer it to the linter, but
he hoped the trustees would adopt a regulation by which
any reference on the subject might be avoided. The costs
of the petition ought to be paid out of the funds of
the Charity, and if the Trustees would adopt some mode by
which proper encouragement would be given to the entrance
of young boys.. His Lordship would be very willing to leave
t to them to suggest what would be the proper course to

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pursue.
Mr. PEMBERTON said that perhaps it might be desirable to
suspend making any.order till Michaelmas Term, because after
the expression of his Lordship's opinion, in all probability there
would he no difficulty.
Mr. KINDEBSLEY could assure his Lordship the Trustees
were very glad to heir the opinion of the Court expressed, and
that they would do all in their power to conform to it in every
possible way.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL
SUMMARY.

The Morning Chronicle of this day expresses great dis.
satisfaction with Lord John Russell's letter to the electors
of Stroud, observing that it will satisfy neither Tories nor
Reformers, and adding that " his Lordship admits the ex-
istence of many defects in the Reform Bill, but he points
out no way of obtaining a remedy for them ; and he objects
to the Ballot, because it would lead to changes to which he
is opposed."
The _Morning Post observes of Lord John Russell's
letter We have neither space nor time for an analysis
of this elaborate and very feeble performance, of which the
' best thing that can be said, is, and this may be truly said,
that it is more Conservative in its tone and principles than,
we could have expected."
The Morning Herald, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's
speech last night in the Commons on the Jamaica question,
says :—" In the comprehensiveness of its views, in its lo-
eloquence, in the true liberality of
gical power, in its manly
irs spirit, that speech was worthy of the brightest period
in the history of Parliamentary eloquence."
The Times contains a leaching article on a tract just put
forth, on the subject of the Jamaica Assembly Suspension
Bill, in which our Contemporary says :—" The manifesto
requires an immediate authoritative disclaimer, in common
justice to the characters of those with whom it assumes to
to be connected."

THE MAR KETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT GARDEN MARKET.
Supplies good, and trade brisk. Plants, 3s. 6d. and 4s. per
dozen; Asparagus, Sc. to I Is. per bundle; Celery, is. Gd. to
2s. 6d. per bundle;' Onions, lss. .6d. per sieve ; Carrots, bs.
per dozen bunches ; 13rocoli, Is. 6d. to 2A. 6d. per bundle ;
Turnips, 4d. per bunch ; Oranges, ss. to 10s. per 100 ; Lemons,
6s. to Bs. per 100 ; Apples, 4s. to 10s. per bushel ; Rhubarb,
10d. to Is. per bundle; Strawberries, Is. Gd. to 2s. per ounce ;
Cherries,. 245. per lb. ; Cucumbers, 45. per brace; Peas,
Bs. per sieve; French Beans, 35. per 100 ; Potatoes, le. 6d. to
3s. per lb.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
A good supply ; trade dull, and prices drooping. Beef, 2s. Bd.
to 3s. Bd. Mutton, 25. 10d. to 3s. Bd. Veal, SS. Bd. to 45.8 d.
Lamb, 6s. to 7s. Pork, 3s. Bd. to 45. Bd. Irish, 3s. to 3s. Gd.
Game is small. Demand dull, and
Poultry in large supply.
prices lower.
HUNGERFORD MARKET.
Supplies of Fish good. Turbot ss. to 20a. ; Cod ls. 6d.
to 7s. I
; Lobsters ls. to 4s. Butchers meat not in very
lively demand. Beef 7d. to Sid. ; Mutton 7d. to 82d. per
lb. ; Veal Bd. to 91. ; Pork 74-d. to 81d.
COAL MARKET.-11 ay 3.
Male'ss. cl.l
14 61
Bunion Main 2O 6,
Itebburn Main 2l 3
Holywellartley Main 2l 0
South H
Tanfield Moor
Wylapa
Walls End Bea icke and Co 22
Walls End Br •
Waits End Heaton 21 %;
Walk End Hilda
1N ails End Northumberland 21 0
hips arrived since las

s. d.
Wall, End Walker 2l 0
• Walls End Belmont
vval's : nd Hetion
Walls End Lyons 23 0
Walls End Clarence Tees `2l 0
W Ils End Gordon
Walls End Tee,
Walls End Tees Hetton
Walls End Victoria Tees
Walls End West Tees
Blythe l6 ti
Howard's Netherton Main 18 0
it market-d'iy, S.

TILE REFonm BILL was carried by an expedient less
justifiable. The Private Secretary of the King wrote a
letter to the Peers in opposition, requesting their ab-
sence from the House of Lords while a Bill of the
highest importance to the country was pas,ing through
its various stages ; a precedent of the highest danger;
which nothing but the respect felt by both parties for the
Sovereign could have induced them to permit.—Lord
John Russell's Leiter.
The Bath Herald of this morning says, " We
can state, from authority, that the Right Rev. and Vene-
rable Bishop of this diocese, who has been alarmingly ill,
is now out of danger."
AYRSHIRE ELECTION.
-The result was de-
clared last Wednesday in due form by the Sheriff. The
numbers are Kilburne, 1,758 ; Campbell, ,296 ;
Craig, 46. Lord Kilburne's majority is 462 ; the gross
number polled was 3,100. The entire Scotch Liberal
press concur in declaring that no re-action in favour of
Conservatism has taken place, and attribute the loss of
Ayr to the absence of the Ballot, no less, than to a want of
energy and decision in the Melbourne Administration to
make Reform progressive.