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NOTICE.—The POST-OFFICE of FRANCE
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British rate to Calais. The Letters, however, in order to be for-
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Marseilles," and the whole postage must be paid at the time they
are put into the post.

W. L. MABERLEY, Secretary
General Post-offi2e, 26th May, 1937.

SANDWELL'S ISSUE PLASTERS.

P. ATKINSON, (Successor to SAND-
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preparation unless his name, " T. P. ATKINSON," is ez,graved on the
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PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION.

P00I? RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

MONDAY, JUNE 5.

Motion made, and Question proposed,—" That the Order of the
Day for the Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill be now
'read :—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " that"to.
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " in the opinion
of this House the present system' of the Currency is not efficient to
meet the wants and protect the interests of the community" instead
thereof :—(Mr. Thomas Attwood) : —Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :"—The
House divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 86.
Adana, Sir C.—Clackniznnanshire Lefevre, C. Shaw—North Hants
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockcrmouth ;: Lister, a f.unliffe—Bradford •
Baines, Edward—Leeds L mgfield, Itichard--Cork Co.
Barclay,
vDavid—Sunderland . natio, John—Sligo
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich • Maule, Hon. Fox—Perthshire
Bernal, Ralph—Rochester Morpeth, L rd—Yorkshire.
Ilcwes, T.—Plymouth 'Kusgrave, S;r It.—Waterford
Rowring, Dr.—Kihnarnoek O'Connell, Daniel—Bilkenny •
Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury O'Ferrall, Richard M.—Kildare
Brotherton, J.—Salford Parker, John—Sheffield
Browne, R. D.—Mayo Parnell, Sir H.—Dundee
Buller, E.—North SfarForahire Parry, Sir L. P. J.—Carnarvon
Burdon, W. W.—Weymouth Pease, Joseph... South Durham
C. llier, J.—Plymoutli Pendarves, K W. W.—Cornwall
Collins, W.—Warwick Potter, IL—Wigan
Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County Prymt, George—Cambridge
Crompton, S.—Third: Pusey, Philip—Berkshire
Divett, Ed ward—Fx2ter Reid, Sir J. Rae—Dover
Farrand Robert, (Staawd) Rice, Right Hon. T. S.—Cambridge
Fector, John Minet—Dover Richards, Richard—idericiethshire
Fergus, John—Dysart Roche, William—Limerick
Fitzsimon, C.—Dublin Co. Roebuck, J. A.—Bath
Forster, C. S.—Walsall Rundle, John—Tavistock
Fox, Charles—Longford Russell, Lord John—Stroud
French, F.—Rosscommon Scrope, Poulett—Stroud
Freshfield, J.'W.—Peuryn Seymour, Lord—Totncss
'Gladstone, W. E.—Novark-on-Trent Sharpe, General—Dumfries
Goulburn, Right Hon. 11.—Cain. Smith, R. Verncn—Northampton
bridge University ' Smyth, Sir Henry—Colchester
Grattan, James—Wicklow Co. Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co.
Grey, Sir George—Devonport Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Thompson, Col.—Kingston-on-Hull
Elawes. Benjamin—Lambeth Thorneley, Thos.—Wolverhampton
Hay,-.Slr A. L.—Elgin Trelawney, Sir W.—East Cornwall
Hinde, John Hodzsou—Newcastle- Troubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich

upon-Tyne Vivian, Alin Ennis—Truro
Hindley, Charles—Ashton Warburton, 11.—Thiciport
Hodges, T. L.—West Kent Wemyss, Catain—Fifeshire
Howard, IL—Wicklow Co. Whitmore, 'l'. C.—Rridgenorth
Hume, Joseph—Middlesex Williams, W. A.—Monmouthshire
Inglis, Sir R. H.—Oxford University Wood, Charles—Halifax
Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge Woulfe; Mr. Serjeant—Cashel
Jephson, D. O.—Mallow TELLERS.
JonnAone, Sir J. V.—Scarborough Baring, F. Thornhill—Portsmouth
Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Steuart, Robnt—Haddingtoni

MINORITY
Attwood, M.—Whltehavet,
Bort hwiek, Peter—Evesham
Bridgman, Hewitt—EnniS
Brownrigg, S. J.—Boston
Ch:chester' Arthur—Honiton
Crawford, W. S.—Dundalk
Denistoun, A.—Dun:.artonshire
Ddlwyn, 1,. W.—Glamorganshire
Elley, Sir John—Windsor
Forbes, William —Stirlingshire
Hal,e, J.---St. Ives •
Harland, W. C.—Durham
Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamshire'
Jones, Wilson—Denbigh 1

—NOES, 24.
Maxwell, John—Lanarkshire
Palmer, George—Essex
Richards, J.—Knaresborough
R uthyen, Ed.—Kildare
Seholedeld, J.—Birmingham
ibthorp, Coloncl—Lincoln
l&ne'rjr, Sir G.—Caithness-shire .
Wakley, "Itomas—Finsbuty
Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire
Wodehouse, Edmund—Norfolk

TELLERS.
Attwood, Thos.—Birmingham
Harvey-, D. W.—Southwark

RCULAR.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

Mr. Thomas Attwood favoured the House of Com-
mons last night with a speech of three hours on the
state of the nation, introductory to an amendment on
Lord John Russell's motion for going into a Com-
mittee on the Irish Poor Relief Bill. The Hon.
Member for Birmingham repeated all his nostrums,
and indulged in his usual extravagance. He dwelt
much on one discovery he had made, that there could
be no such thing as over-trading. He might as well
contend that there could be no such thing as a rise or
fall of prices—that the price of vegetables, for in-
stance, in Covcnt-garden.Market ought, instead of be-
ing high all this spring, to have been affected by the
screw of the Bank of England. It was said by a cele-
brated philosopher of phrenology, that what was
true in it was not new, and what was new was
not true. This observation is as applicable to the
speech of the Hon. Member for Birmingham as to
phrenology. But though the Hon. Member uttered,
as usual, a great deal of nonsense about currency,
and indulged in the most extravagant represen-
tations of the state of the country, it cannot be
denied that Parliament and the Government, from
ignorance or neglect, are to blame for much of the
present distress. On the renewal of the Bank Char-
ter _sufficient security was not taken against a recur-
rence of the errors which had already stripped so many
innocent persons of their property. It is now allowed
on all hands that the Directors of the Bank of Eng-
land contributed greatly to the over-trading throughout
the country by making money plentiful ; and we fear
that it will be found, when light shall have been thrown
on the transactions of the last five or six weeks, that
the Directors have much to answer for in leading the
commercial world to indulge in hopes which they have
not suffered to he realized. God forbid that we should
be thought to favour the extravagant assertions of the
Hon. Member for Birmingham, whose head seems al-
ways running on his little shillings. " They," said the
Lion. Member, meaning the merchants who have just
failed, " had been defrauded of their rightful property
by the secret, concealed, and fraudulent proceedings
of that House. He would stand up for tile character
of these unhappy men, who found their wealth passing
away under the effect of these iniquitous laws. They
had been told that the Bank of England ought to as-
sist these persons. If the Bank of England should at-
tempt to assist them, unless Government at the same
time repealed this law (Peel's Bill), the consequence
-would be that the Bank of England, after expending
all that it could possibly expend, would fall under one
common ruin with the others. The Bank of Eng-
land could not withstand the law of the land, .a law
which compelled them to pay in standard oH."
The Bank would, no doubt, have been able to deal
most liberally by distressed merchants but for the
necessity of paying its own debts in standard gold;
and a Restriction Act would no doubt be found a great
relief to all men whose assets are not equal in value to
the debts they owe. But the nation has unfortunately
experienced but too much of this quackery.
.What
men in trade require is not relief through depreceat.on,
but a bona fide adherence to the standard, so that they
may enter on speculations with something like an as-
surance that their property shall not be swept away by
mismanagement of the currency. Mr. Barclay and
Sir John Rae Reid declared that the existing embar-
rassments were in a great measure owing to extrava-
gant speculations. But this is some,rhat like the
Hindoo system of tile world, which makes the earth
rest upon an elephant, but makes the elephant rest
upon nothing. What was the inducement to enter
into extravagant speculations ? Was it not the abun-
dance of money ? And who made money abundant ?
That is the question which must be inquired into. It
will not do to throw all the blame on the Ministers,
and to acquit the money-mongers. It was well ob-
served by Mr. D. W. Harvey, that—

" When at an early period of the session a secret com-
mittee had been appointed to inquire into the opr::':ons of
joint-stock banks, the Honourable MeMher for Middi,:sex
had proposed that the operations of the Bank of England,
as connected with the joint-stock banks, should be compre-
hended in the inquiry. That proposition, however, had
been resisted. The committee to which be (Mr. Harvey)
alluded was, he believed, still sitting. If so, it would be
very desirable to refer to them the consideration of how far
the conduct of the Bank of England had tended to bring
about the present state of things. How far that state of
things would prove what the Hon. Baronet called 'a passing
cloud,' how far those on whom that passing cloud had broken,
and whom it overshadowed—how far the tens of thousands
who were starring and out of employment, in consequence of
circumstances over which they bad no control, might be
rescued from the condition in which they were now
placed, events would show. But although there could
be no doubt that the existing state of things was preg-
nant with _ inconvenience and mischief, one advantage
might flow from it ; namely, that the commercial
classes would no longer submit to a delusion of which they
had so tong been the victims. They would no longer bear
that the Bank of England should have the power of con-
trolling the fortunes of every man in the country. At pre-
sent the most mighty masses of property were, no more se-
cure from its power than was the humblest individual in the
commercial community. His Alljesty's Government and
the House would not do their duty unless they entered into
a solemn and efficient inquiry into the causes which were
continually paring down the industry and prosperity of the
country."

Mr. Forster did suflioiently meet this statement by
the Observation, -" that if the warning which was given
to commercial men by the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer in the last Session of Parliament had been at-
tended to, the calamity of the present day would not
have been so extensive." If the standard by which
every thing is measured is itself varied, it is difficult to
see how men can conduct commercial affairs with
safety. The public may rest assured that these ruin-
ous fluctuations mtrit be of constant occurrence, so
long as the body which hes the privilege of coin-
ing has an interest in abusing that privilege. It
ought to be known that the Bank Directors arc
tempted—in their individual character as mer-
chants—to be liberal in their issues, in order not
to starve commerce, as it is called, at the very time
• when all sound principles of currency prescribe a con-
trary course. It ought to be known, besides, that the
Bank, in order to make profits to the proprietors, is
under a constant temptation to abuse its power over
the currency. Mr. Loyd, Colonel Torrens, and all
right thinking men in these matters, have expre:sed it
as their distinct opinion that the power of regulating
the currency ought not to be under the con:I-old of a
body employed in banking. Though the joint-stock
banks have not acted with prudence, justice demands
that all the blame should not be thrown upon them,
as the Bank of England and Parliament are princi-
pally responsible for what has happened. What we
fear is, that, from some cause cr other, this crisis will
be suffered to pass over like so 'many others without
being profited by, and that Government and Pe.-iiament
will shrink from meeting the evil by anything better
than palliatives. It is beneath statesmen to follow
such a course. They ought to go at once to the root
of the evil. All property is insecure •so long as the
Bank of England is suffered to remain in its present
state.—Morning Chronicle.
Doctor M'Hale, with a pair of subaltern Popish
Bishops, and sundry Lay Roman Catholics in his
train, has been displaying his patronage towards the
O'Connell Ministers, in the sotnewhat Irish form of a
petition to the said Ministers : and guess, reader, what
is the drift of this " petition"--nothing else than to
beg that the Helots now in office take compassion
on, the, terrified country, and quit the disturbed
breasts
.of all loyal Protestant Irishmen, by forbearing
'to carry into execution their own undoubted and noto-
rions wish of resigning the rank, power, and salaries cf
Ministers. We do not believe that there has often been
invented a more cutting sarcasm than. this, or that
there has ever been enacted a more pungent farce
titan the formal parade of some dozens Of Popish
signatures to a requisition, of which the acknowledged