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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1837.
THE KING'S HEALTH.

WINDSOR CASTLE,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14.

The KING has passed another tranquil night ; and

his MAJESTY appears refreshed this morning.

(Signed) lIENRY HALFORD.
WM. FRED. CHAMBERS.
DAVID DAVIES.

We regret to understand that up to ten o'clock last
night the greatest apprehensions were entertained. It
is gratifying, however, to reflect that the tenor of the
above bulletin is more favourable.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, JUNE 13.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1837.

OFFICE OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TO THE
QUEEN, QUEEN'S HOUSE, SAINT JAMES'S,

JUNE 14.

Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's Drawing.
Room, intended to be held to-morrow, is postponed til
further notice.

In the House of Lords yesterday, the sitting was chiefly
occupied with considering, in Committee, the Irish Public
Works Bill. The report of this Bill, as amended, was
ordered to be read on Friday.
In the House of Commons, after the presentation of a
few petitions, the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER stated,
in answer to a question by Mr. HANDLEY respecting tax-
carts, that he should leave the law as it at present was,
both with respect to the duty on vehicles of that class, and
also as regarded the necessity of having the name of the
owner painted thereon in letters two inches long. The
clamour which had been set up on this subject the Right
Hon. Gentleman thought contemptible and unworthy of
any serious attention whatever.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then gave notice
that on Friday next he should move for leave to bring in a
Bill for the better administration of his MAJESTY'S Post
Office.
After some proceedings principally relating to busi-
ness of a private nature, which will be found narrated in

our report,
Mr. WALLACE concluded an able speech, which cannot
fail to make a deep impression on the public mind, by
moving " That the Report of the Committee of the Com-
missioners of the Board of Excise, on the twentieth Re-
port of the Commissioners of Excise Inquiry, be referred
to the late Commissioners, Sir HENRY PARNELL and H.
BERENS, Esq., to examine the same, and to report their
opinion thereon to this House."
The discussion on the motion of the Hon. Member had
not proceeded far when the House was " counted out," and
adjourned at a Quarter-past Seven o'Clock.

The Tories are still making rueful faces after the
physicking they received on Monday night. The
RUSSELL purge administered to them on dig occa-
sion turned out to be of a much more searching nature
than they had anticipated. They are now in the
somewhat ut.enviable plight of a patient who has cal-

culated on receiving a gentle alterative, equal—we shall
suppose for the sake of illustration—to a power of five or
thereabouts ; and suddenly finds, to his unspeakable dis-
comfort that be has been served with a relentless drastic,
gifted with a working power of eighty-three. We pity the
poor devils from our hearts, and are disposed to make
all reasonable allowance for those contortions of coun-
tenance, and other external indications of inward agony
which are the means which nature, ever beneficent, has
provided to afford a certain degree of relief in such
extreme cases.

This sympathetic feeling, however, must not be
carried too far—must not be indulged to that
morbid extent which precludes us from noticing what
appears to us to be symptoms of a dangerous
delusion on the part of those who have been subjected
to the severe but nevertheless salutary discipline to
which we have alluded. We shall therefore proceed
—dropping metaphor—to make a remark or two on
the misrepresentation which the organs of Toryism
are attempting to make of the grand defeat which the
party sustained on Monday last.
The first thing that strikes us in looking over the
statements issuing from the Tory portion of the press
is the flat contradiction which the writers give to one
another, when they set about accounting for the Minis-
terial majority. We are not in the least surprised
that they should have bee❑ gravelled by an event so

" untoward nor that it should pass their skill to ac-
count for it on the principle of " reaction," which has
hitherto been a sort of universal solvent to them ; but
they ought all to have fixed, by previous concert, upon
the same cause for this event, and not each to have
bewildered his own foolish brain in divining a different
cause. But to come to particulars. The Morning,
Post accounts for the Ministerial victory after the fol-
lowing fashion :—" The Conservatives (persuaded,
perhaps, by Lord John RUSSELL'S speech that ho
would be the last man in the world to make
an exertion for a majority), do not attend in
such force as before, and the Government ob-
tains a majority of upwards of eighty." Dear,
innocent, confiding creatures 1 They staid away
from the debate in the firm reliance that Lord

JOHN RUSSELL would make no " exertion for a
majority !" This is exqu:sitely rich in its way.

Now let us look at the version of the affair which
the Times gives :—" Between thirty and forty gentle-
men (says the oracle of Printing-house-square), who,
like Mr. GALLY KNIGHT, usually vote with the Op-

position, went over, as he did, on this occasion."
Thus it appears that the Members who are

staled by the Morning Post to have been absent
from the division, were the very men who

according to the Times, went over to the Ministerial
side, and swelled the majority against the party with
whom they usually act ! 'We shall leave the two Tory
organs to settle between themselves which is making
the largest draught on the credulity of its readers,
merely referring those who feel au interest in the
matter to the list of the division, which will be found
in another column of our paper. The Times is in a
very great rage at the result, and pours—or to use its
own favourite word—shovels out a double portion
of abuse both upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL for entrap-
ping the Tory Members, and upon these :9,entlemen for
being such good-natured " gobemouches," such "short-
sighted and lily-livered Conservatives" as to be en-
trapped. All this is mighty pleasant. We do be-
gin to think there is " re-action"—among the Tories.

This evening the repo' t of the Select Committee on
the petition of Messrs. HENRY and SEALY FOUR-
DRINIER, praying compensation, for the non-renewal
of a patent granted them for most valuable improve-
ments in the manufacture of paper, will be brought be-
fore the House of Commons. It appeais from the evi-
dence taken before the Committee, that the Messrs.
FOURDRINIER, Upon making known their invention,
obtained a patent for seven vears, of which six had ex-
pired before the invention was perfected; that on ap-
plying to Parliament in 1807, the House of Com-
mons extended their patent-right to fourteen years
more ; but that the Lords confined the extension to
seven years, with the proviso that another seven years
would be given them if it were proved that they were
not remunerated ; that when their patent expired they
were in a condition to prove, that not only were they
not remunerated, but that they had been losers to a
large extent ; but that in the interim a Standing Order,
placed on the journals subsequent to the passing of
the Patent Protective Act, forbade all application on
the part of the petitioners for the boon promised them
by the Lords. This left them without any resource,
save that of submitting their case to the Legislature,
and praying for some compensation. We consider
their claim founded in justice, and we trust the House
of Commons will freely and liberally concede it. We
gather from the minutes of the evidence, that owing
to the discovery of the Messrs. FOURDRINIER the
price of paper is reduced nearly one half, while its tex-
ture has been greatly improved ; that it can be made
of any size ; that, whereas formerly, five weeks were
required to make and dry paper, it can now be made
and brought into the market in less than as many
days ; and that without this invention printing by cy-
linders could not have been adopted. These are facts
which we recommend to the consideration of a Minis-
try, anxious for the diffusion of knowledge among the
labouring classes. Without cheap paper and cheap
printing we cannot have cheap literature.

The pioneers of politics, as of armies, frequently
render more valuable if not more brilliant service to
die cause in which they are embarked, than the more
pretending leaders who derive all the honour and
emolument of success. So it has been in the recently
renewed discussions on Church affairs. The debate
of Friday night on the " Wigan Rectory Bill," suffi-
ciently singular as it was in itself, was brought by
Monday night's discussion on the ChurCli-rate ques-
tion into most felicitous illustration of the mode in
which the Tories carry out their own theories.
The Rector of Wigan already labouring under the
grateful burthen of 2,300/. (net) per annum in-
comes proposes, through the, intervention of Parlia-
ment, to apply certain of his Church lands to purposes
which will at least double his stipend. Startled by
such a proposition coming at such a time, Mr.
CHARLES HINDLEY, the Member for Ashton, sug-
gests, with a- view to the possible adoption at some
future day of those Church Reforms for which
Tories, equally with Whigs, though in their own
way, profess to be pining, that a clause shall be intro-
duced—" That nothing in that Act contained shall in
any manner prevent or interfere with any future appro-
priation by Parliament of any of the moneys raised
under and by virtue of this Act, to the providing
salaries for additional Ministers of the Established
Church in the parish of Wigan."
To this reasonable proposal, based on Tory pro-
fessions, and sustained by arguments from the Tory
vocabulary, Lord STAN LEY and the Conservative host
of zealous Church defenders vehemently demur, and
after no less than three divisions, Mr. HINDLEY and
his friends are routed. So the matter rested—Mr.
HINDLEY finding some satisfaction for his defeat in
the exposure which he had made of the rotten hollow-
ness of the Tory affection for amendment. On Mon-
day night Lord JOHN R ussm.r. brought forward
his motion for a Committee on Church Lands.
Forthwith Mr. GOULBURN steps forward and
as if copying the very words (the spirit is identi-
cal) of the motion of Mr. HINDLEY, which only
two nights previously he and his friends had hurried

down to the House to defeat, he moved " an addition
to the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, for the pur-
pose of limiting the application of the funds which
might be pointed out by the inquiry to those objects
to which he thought they were strictly applicable—
the increase of religious instruction, and the augmen-
tation of pastoral superintendence."
We pray our readers to contrast the language of the
two motions, and to say wherein there is one point of
difference, or how those who on Friday opposed Mr.
HINDLEY'S, could on Monday with faces erect vote
for Mr. GouLBURN's proposition ? The indecency
of the proceedings is so manifest as to set comment
aside. It is enough for our purpose to thaw atten-
tion to it, and to thank Mr. HINDLEY for having been

;he means of placing the saint-like Tories once more
n the embraces of a cleft stick.

In returning to the further consideration of Dr.
LARDNER'S Letter to Lord MELBOURNE, on a steam
communication between England and India, by way
of the Red Sea, it may be important to begin with
observing, that the learned writer is convinced that
the measure, from the commencement, would more
than repay the expense of carrying it into operation.
Principle apart, and setting aside altogether the colla-
teral advantages—social and political—of a more ex-
tended intercourse with India, Dr. LARDNER has
taken great pains to prove that the speculation would
be a profitable one from the outset. This is placing
the question in a point of view where thousands will
delight to contemplate it, who cannot now be persuaded
to pay the least regard to it. Nor is such a view of
this measure erroneous. Provided a steam communi-
cation be opened with all India, on an extensive scale,
the speculation will prove as profitable in a pecuniary
sense, as it must eventually be politically and morally
advantageous to the inhabitants of England and
India. The greatest danger, however, is to be ap-
prehended from the inadequacy of the first outlay,
and the confining the communication to a single
point by way of experiment. It is to be feared that
the passage will be attempted before the necessary
steps have been taken to ensure success—before proper
stations have been fixed, and the necessary supplies
prOvided at each of them=that the vessels appointed
to make the passage of the Red Sea will not be fitted
to carry a proper supply of fuel ; and, should this hap-
pen, the attempt must inevitably fail, and the blame
which should be cast on the rash undertakers of the
expedition will be thrown upon such as previously
maintained the practicability of the route. Much bet-
ter, therefore, leave the passage unattempted, than ha-
zard the risk of failure at the commencement. The
same observation will apply to the confining the com-
munication with India to one particular point. Unless
a direct intercourse by steam be established between
England and Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and the
Island of Ceylon, the speculation, considered with a
view to profit, must prove abortive. This fact cannot
be too strongly impressed on the mind of the
Legislature. If it be at all expedient that a
communication with India by means of steam
navigation should be established, it is most important—
most necessary—that such communication should from
the commencement be established upon a footing the
most extensively efficient than can be devised. Thus
established, Dr. LARDNER considers that the cost an-
nually of a steamer of one thousand tons burthen
would never exceed one hundred and twenty-six thou-
sand pounds, including wages, repairs, and other con-
tingent expenses ; while the average income, at the
lowest estimate, would exceed two hundred• and thir-
teen thousand pounds " by the amount at which the
conveyance of the Government dispatches, and such
objects of merchandize as would be suited to this spe-
cies of transport, may be estimated." Here are two
large items omitted in a calculation which of itself
offers a strong temptation to mercantile enterprise.
Dr. LARDNER is content to confine his appeal to the
cupidity of his countrymen ; leaving to the Govern-
ment the consideration of the question upon more ele-
vated, but less popular, grounds. Herein he has exer-
cised a sound discretion ; the more especially as there
are few writers in England who better understand the
practical part of the question in all its bearings. To
us his opinions, and the conclusions at which he has
arrived, are perfectly satisfactory ; and we have much
pleasure in recommending his pamphlet to the seripus
attention of such of our readers as are, or may be, in-
terested in the establishment of a steam communica-
tion between England and her possessions in the East.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have
been received. The following advices from Spain
were communicated by telegraph to the French Go-