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nounced as hypecrite,l, atheists, inntleis—nay, they
hare !wet np,,lhied as beings of a different race, and
marked for prosecution as " aliens ;" and, forsooth,
because they do not remain passive under such
unparalleled inflictions, because they have the pre-
sumption to scck a mitgation of this perscctuion, they
ate denounced as " rebellious rabble," enemies of the
tttahlished religion ;" and Lord Lyndhurst, cuistnn-

jug the tom: of an npred nmerent, ex;' -lain:rs, Where
is t!entettiott to cease—where will the Noble Viscount
stop in his reckless career ?" He might more appro-
pelately have asked, " Must the Church disgorge all
its plunder—shall Catholics be finally admitted to the
perfect enjoyment of their civil rights ?" Let the
question be put in this form to the people of Ireland,
and the Nob!c Baron shall not be long left to wait the
reidy. A simultaneous affirmative would burst in
ei;,,ht millions of voices fro:n Ireland, and the emphatic
yes would find an echo in more than eight millions of
bosoms in England and Scotland. Lord Melbourne,.
as on many former occasions, ably d:ssected and laid
bare the duplicity of the wily Baron—proved that it
was the number of Protestants connected with the
General Association which made that body more for-
midable—and that resistance to the just claims of the
Catholics would not tend to increase the security of the
Church, for which the Nolik Baron professed so much
apprehension. The Noble Premier observed that—
" The Noble and Learned Lord in his speech had stated
that it would be dangerous to give the required power to
the people of Irciand, and that the proposition could not be
safely entertained without endangering the Protestants of
that country. lla also said that he was anxious and de-
sirous that this Bill should be carried. Now be (Lord Mel-
bourne) must take leave to express a doubt of the Noble and
Learned Lord's sincerity, after the speech_ which he had
just made. After all the delAy, he would defy the Noble
and Learned Lord's ingenuity and skill to escape from the
difficulty ; and therefore he (Viscount Melbourne) would
beg leave to say that the Noble and Learned Lord had
acted inconsistently in giving his countenance to this Bill
at all."

It is nothing unusual with Tory leaders to find them,
selves impaled on dilemmas of this kind. Lord Lynd

hurst expressing his feigned conviction that the Bill
would be dangerous to Protestants, and at the same
time professing a desire that it should be carried, is no
more than what the Duke of Wellington did with regard
to the Catholic Relief Bill, and Sir Robert Peel with
regard to the Reform Bill, both which measures were
denounced as involving the certain ruin of the empire ;
and yet the parties so denouncing them had no scruple
of conscience in volunteering their services to carry
these destructive measures into effect. From this, by
their own showing, it appears that the Tories care
nothing far the safety of the State when placed in com-
petition with the good things of office. The following
observations of the Noble Premier leave the Torie 3 but
little cause for exultation in provoking a contrast
between the conduct of the General Association and
that of their own secret societies and clubs :7
" It was well known to, and in the recollection of, Noble
Lords, that he had given an opinion adverse to the exist-
ence of the latter body (the General Association), and it
should be taken into consideration, that if there were more
danger attending its existence than that of others, it would
be found, in the fact, that it is the great body of Protestants
belonging to it which made it the more formidable as a
General Association. But, looking at it as compared with
other Societies, it was harmless. The Orange Society was
entirely secret, and bound together by secret oaths, and
which none but the members could understand, and from
what he had heard, were of an awful nature.—(lnterruption
from the Duke of Cumberland.) There was another club to
which he would allude (the Carlton, we believe, to which the
Noble Duke and Noble and Learned Lord belonged), which
had given encouragement, and sent down persons to assist
in electioneering contests ; but he (Lord Melbourne) denied
that either himself or any portion of his Majesty's Ministers
had given any encouragement to the General Association,
or any thing which could be considered under the head of
encouragement by impartial persons. The Noble and
Learned Lord had thrown out more than one allusion to
which he could not agree. He hail in effect said that the
Roman Catholic religion was gaining the ascendancy. If it
was so, he (Lord Melbourne) regretted it ; but if it was, it
was not by objecting to it, or attempting to exclude them
from their civil rights, that they would find their remedy.
During the debate on the English Corporation Bill, many
predictions of an unfavourable nature hiid been made by
Hon. Members and Noble Lords, which he was happy to
say had not been realized ; the last two years the Bill had
worked much better than was predicted,
,and he still confi-
dently expected that he should have an opportunity of say-
ing, that it worked better this year than before."—dllorning
Advertiser.

The speech of Mr. Roebuck, in moving for a Com-
mittee of the whole House upon the state of the na-
tion, was principally a dissertation upon the following
theme-.—" On what principles it is that Ministers have
governed, do govern, or are resolved to govern, the
nation ?" Now, we hold that any one of the ingenious
philosophers who prescribes to himself the task of dis-
covering the longitude,'squaring the circle, or dragging
from the arcana of nature's laboratory that golden se-
cret, popularly' called the " philosopher's stone," does
not undertake a more difficult labour than the poli-
tician who generously devotes his hours of patient in-
vestigation to ascertain what principles our present " all
round the hat" Government ever had, babe, or will
have. Yet let it not •be said, as Mr. Roebuck
seems to say, that Ministers have occupied the high
places of the State in vain. Setting aside the high
degree of perfection to which they have brought that
branch of the science of Government which consists
in Commission-jobbing, and in extracting as much
as possible of public plunder for their connections
and supporters out of the greatest imaginable amount
of " purity of profession"--setting all that aside, we
say, have they not made a discovery of first-Tate im•
portance in political science ? We think we hear the
public eagerly inquire, what discovery have they made
except how to stick to office if they stick to nothing
else ? We will tell the patient public. There is a
certain class of ingenious mechanicians who may be
called philosophers of " the movement," and with
whom it is an object of eternal solicitude to discover
the " perpetual motion," We have a class of politi-
cians in this country of the same stamp, but the Mi-
nisters are not of that class. Their cfrorts seem to
have been directed to the discovery of the opposite
principle in the political system, and we think Mr. Roe-
buck himself will allow that in that object they have
been perfectly successful. They have, in fact, disco-
vered what we may+. take the liberty of calling the
perpetual stoppage' system—not the " stoppage of
,
supplies ; uut the Stoppgiie of everything- else.
There is, indeed, the " going on of salaries--the go-
mg Wi 01 " jobs"—railway and others—and the going
on of long-winded speeches of Lord John Russell and
Mr. Spring Rice l I.5Ut there IS the stoppage of' all
impi-ovemeni, Their government, like that of some
of the old machines thee fofmerly lumbered along our
roads, i 5 it " jolif nu of stoppages." The vis inertia. of
I;:gitaiton is the oil; vie it exhibits. In a game of
cricket, if our Ministers could do nothing dee, they
would make excellent stoppers. Their Speak.‘r of the
Commons may sum up the whole business of the 9es.
sion (except as to the supplies for the aforesaid sala-
ries, conimiesions,and other jobs), by stating that he
occupied the chair, while Ministe,:spteall.:eetduaainsdtodpipdaagne
~infinite deal of nothing," so many months, weeks,
Lys, hours, minutes, dtid SetOnti6, by him stop-watch.
Now the grot advanta,'e of the
system" is, that it th.;es not require that Ministers should
possess possess any principles whatever. Why old] (tieB Mr.
Roebuck prescribe to himself the impracticable task of
endeavouring to asecr!ain what their principles are
Mr. Hume can tell him that he need not trouble him-
self About the matter ; for the trite prinCiple of Whig.
Radical morality and patriotism is to vote white is
black, and black is white, whenever Ministers insist
that it shall be so. Neither does the " perpetualstoppage system" require that Ministers should have
any Statesmanlike talents., or knowledge, or capacity
for business. Every thing can stand still as well, or
perhaps all the better, for the want of them just like
Sir J. Campbell's four-years' Bill for " the abolition
of imprisonment for debt," or Sir John Campbell's
zeal for the reform of the Criminal Law, which can
remain in a torpid state to the end of the Session,
without tasking his legal ingenuity, or draining very
dry the. sources of generous emotions in his heart.
Mr. Roebuck thinks the Ministers have done nothing
for Ireland.- Mr. O'Connell thinks otherwise, and for
this simple reason, that the said Ministers have done a
great deal for Mr. O'Connell, which is a far better thing.
They have placed him in a paradise of patronage, with
toL all the t
ordMulgralrTale iasjgithe grand-almoner of his bounty
agitators and sedition-mongers

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of Ireland. Thus the perpctnal stoppage system works
very well for him of the, forty-jointed tail. He would
probably prefor it very much to any " movement" that
would move him out of that patronising position Where
he greatly desires to stop. The chief ingenuity of the
eternal stoppage system is, to bring in such 13111 s as it
is known the House of Lords, supported be the great
mass of the enlightened aid Protestant people of
I Ind, will rdect while all rint;ons of real reform
and improvement are either eiLirelV tirtglectetl, or
treated tu—stich a manner as to insure their failure.
As to their foreign policy, it degrades and disgraces
the country almost more than that of the peNsioned
Ministry of Charles 11. The truckling submission to
Ru-•sia in the case of the Vixen, the other day, is as
base and cowardly as their slaughtering, intervention in
the civil war of Spain is unprincipled an:l criminal.
The longer they stop in offioe, the longer-the groat in-
terests of the country most be neglected, all the hopes
of all enlightened and Constitutional Reformers disap-
pointed ; for, while the no-principle Ministry exists,
the wheels of national improvement must stand still.—
Morning Herald.

The marriage of the Princess Marie de Savoie,
Mdlle. Cari,gnan., cousin of the King of Sardinia, with his
Royal H►ghnees the Prince of Syracuse, was celebrated at
Turin on the 28th ult. The nuptial benediction was given
by the Archbishop of Turin, in the presence, of the Royal
Family and the gram: officers of the Crown. Prince Eugene
de Carignan stood proxy for the Prince of Naples. A grand
dinner afterwards took place at the Cuurt, and before mid-
night the Princess started on her journey for Genoa, where a
frigate was ready to convey her immediately to Naples.—
Paris Paper.

KNOCKING AT LONDON DOORS.—A dozen no-
blemen may have laid their own patrician hands on my
knocker within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to
write in, I am within fifteen feet of the street door, and no
favour of this sort escapes my cars. Ridiculous as it may
seem, there N a species of etiquette established, by which a
peer shall knock louder than a commoner 1 I do not mean
to tell you that parliament has passed a law to that effect,
but I do mean to say, that so accurate has my car become,
that I know a lord by his knock, as one would know Vel-
luti by his touch. Now a loud knock may be sometimes
useful as a hint to a loitering servant, but it was a queer
thought to make it a testof station.—England; with Sketches
of Society in the Metropolis, by the Author of " The Pilot,"

Letter from Washington to Lafayette, on his resig-
nation of the Presidency :—" Mount Vernon, Feb. 1, 1784:
—At length, my dear Marquis, I am become a private citizen
on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own
vine and fig tree from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes
of public life. lam pleasing myself with those tranquil enjoy-
ments of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame—the
statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights arc spent in
devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps
the ruin of other countries ; as if this globe was insufficient
for us all ; and the courtier, who is always watching the coun-
tenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile,
can have very little conception. I am not only retired from all
public employments, but lam retiring within myself. I shall
be able to resume the solitary walk, and tread the paths of pri-
vate life with heartfelt satisfaction ; envious of none, I am de-
termined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend,
being the order of my march, I will move gently down the
stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. * • * I
thank you most sincerely, my dear Marquis, for your kin 4 invi-
tation to your house if I should come to Paris ; at present I
see but little prospect of such a voyage ; the deranged situa-
tion of my private affairs during these few years will not only
oblige me to suspend, but perhaps for ever hinder me from
gratifying this wish. This not being the case with you, come
with Madame Lafayette and view me in my domestic walks."
An extraordinary phenomenon, presented in the
Southern Ocean, may render our settlements in New South

Wales of still more eminent importance. A sixth contine.r.t
is in the very act of growth before our eyes. The Pacific is
spotted with islands through the immense space of newly fifty
degrees of longitude and as many of latitude. Every one of
these islands seems to be nearly a central spot for the forma-
tion of coral banks, which, by a perpetual progress, are rising
from the lulled o:nasle depths of the sea. The union of a few
of these masses of rock shapes itself into an island ; the seeds
of plants are carried to it by the birds or by the waves ; and
from the moment that it overtops the waters it is covered with
vegetation. The new island constitutes, in its turn, a centre
of growth to another circle. The great powers of nature ap-
pear to be still in peculiar activity in this region ; and, to her
tardier process, she sometimes takes the assistance of the vol-
cano and the earthquake. From the south of New Zealand to
the north of the Sandwich Islands the waters absolutely teem
with those future seats of civilization. Still the coral insect,
the diminutive builder of all these mighty piles is at work ; the
ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of foundation ;
and when the rocky sub-structure shall hare excluded the sea
then will come the dominion of man.

Friday night a singular spectacle presented itself at
the West-end of the town; about twelve o'clock the whole of
the street lights, from Charing-cross down to the Houses of
Parliament, and very large proportion of the streets in the
neighbourhood, were suddenly deprived of the supply of gas,
and total darkness succeeded. There being neither moon nor
stars visible, great perplexity was occasioned to all passengers,
whether in vehicles or on foot. A singular concomitant was,
that whilst the street lights were all extinguished, the lights
in private houses at intervals were observed burning as bright
as usual. The House of Commons breaking up at half-past
twelve o'clock, great inconvenience and much risk was in-
curred, by the endeavours of the Members and others present
at the debate, to reach their homes in the dark. We are not
aware to whom blame attaches, but it is highly necessary that
some precaution should be adopted in the proper quarter to
prevent a recurrence of so dangerous a nuisance.
On the afternoon of Thursday week three majestic
wild swans were observed floating quietly near the shore, in
the basin of the Esk, by Mr. D. Leichton, while engaged in
cultivating his fields at the Braes of bossie. Quickly throw-
ing aside his implements of husbandry, he loaded both barrels
of his fowling piece, one with ball, the other with small shot,
and hastened to the beach. The alarmed swans rose grace-
fully on the wing from the bosom of the waters. Their flight,
however, was destined to be short; for two of them were
dropped right and left, in true sportsmanlike style. The
other, loathe to forsake its fallen friends, and still lingering
near the spot, was also wounded with ball by the same un-
erring aim, and, thus disabled, was afterwards killed by other
hands at a short distance from the spot where its companions
fell. The length between the tips of the wings, when ex-
tended, measures six feet and a half, and five feet from the
bill to the extremity of the tail. They have been presented
to the Montrose Museum.—Monfrose Review.

Mr. Towneley, influenced, we believe, by considera-
tions of a private nature, has, we regret to observe, withdrawn
from the contest for the North Division of Durham. The
Hon. H. T. Liddell and his brother Tories are, in consequence,
in a state of rapturous anticipation.—Tyne Mercury.
ECLIPSE OF TILE HONEY-MOON.—Brewer, of
Baddow, some twenty years' old, or thereabouts, was charged
at the Chelmsford Petty Session, May 30, by his spouse, a,
lady with the flippancy of the teens in her face, with having
violently kicked her over the reatri4ionial traees. Some few
months—a few short months—since Mister Brewer put on his
best Sunday clothes, and walked forth with the lady at his
side, to lift a large load of little responsibilities to his shoul-
ders ; but, alas ! he soon found—for lovers are sometimes out
in their calculations—that all the sunshine he had expected
came a day before instead of a day after the wedding. The
honey-moon rose eclipsed—and before the first quarter was
out, frowns flew- across the connubial horizon, and low mut-,,
terings were heard in the distance. He looked about for Love
to assist him, but the deceitful little urchin, after all his pro-
inises, had slipped out of the back door without being missed,
while the parties were eating the nuptial dinner. The matri-
monial glass continued to fall—first to peevish—then to sulky
_very sulky—quarrelsome—very quarrelsome—and soon af-
ter, according to Mrs. Brewer's statement, it came to blows
and starvation, where. with a few short intervals, it had re-
mained ever since. It appeared, however, that the lady had
laboured diligently to bring about a consummation so devoutly
to be avoided; and the Bench dismissed the complaint, ad-

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vising the parties to bind' up their old wounds, and take a fresh
and more friendly start over the matrimonial course—advice
which there seemed, from the knitted brows of the bridegroom
and the pertness of the bride, as much probability of their
a'lopting as there is of vinegar returning to sweet wine.—
Essex Herald. -

Monday -Mrs. Wilson, wife of John 'Wilson, fish-
monger, Bolton, put a period to her existence. She had of
late years been much addicted to drinking, and her husband
and she lived most unhappily together, and have frequently
summoned each other before the Magistrates. On Monday
Wilson procured a warrant against his wife for some alleged
misconduct, and between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening she
was lodged in the Star-chamber. Mrs. Borrow, the wife of
the deputy-constable of Great Bolton, had occasion, about 9
o'elncit, to' go into the room where Mrs. Wilson was confined,
and found her hanging from one of the iron bars of the win-
dow. It appeared that the deceased had acted in the most
determined manner, having tied a silk handkerchief to one of
the top, bars of the window and the other end round her
neck ; her feet being upon the floor, she must have completed'
the act by pressing her whole weight on the handkerchief.
She was a woman of about thirty years of age, and has left
two young children. A few years since she was much re-
spected in the town, and gained much custom by her cour-
teous manners.—Manchester Guardian.
BIRMINGHAM.—In our last we announced that a
Sub- Committee was appointed to draw up a declaration, and
the following was agreed to, and is in the course of signa-
ture :—" We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, manufac-
turers, and traders, and other inhabitants, having been called
upon, in a memorial addressed to us by upwards of 13,000 of
our fellow-townsmen, the workmen of Birmingham, to take
into consideration the present state of the trade of the town
and neighbourhood, deem it our duty, in confirmation of the
facts alleged in the said memorial, to declare that for some
months past the customary operations of trade have been as-
tended with the severest losses ; and the result has been a ge-
neral want of confidence, and suspension of business, which has
deprived the labouring classes of employment, and caused
among them a state of distress rapidly approaching to starva-
tion. That in such a state of things every principle of huma-
nity and of prudence equally requires the united and energetic
efforts of all classes of the community, for the purpose of ob,
taining prompt and adequate relief` Birmingham Paper,