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OXFORD, OCT. 317—A congregation was this day
holden for granting Degrees, &c., when the following
were conferred :

DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAW.—Williarn Frederick White,
Trinity College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.—Rev. Chas. Digby Legard,
University College ; Henry Sherston Baker, Exeter
ditto ; John Whitlock Nicholl, Jesus ditto ; George
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Peel Round, Balliol ditto ; Robert Milne, Magdalen
Hall.

Mr. G. T. Duffield, of Brazennose College, has been
elected a Fellow of that Society.
Mr. N. Morgan has been appointed an exhibitioner
on the Hulme foundation of the same College.
The Rev. S. Stead, of the same College, has been
tlppointed Perpetual Curate of Burton-on-Trent, Staf-
fordshire.

The Rev. W. F. Sims, of Magdalen Hall, has
been appointed to the Curacy of Ruislip, Middlesex.
The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted
the Rev. F. Brown, of Exeter College, to the Rectory
of Nailsea, with Bourton, Somerset.
This day the Bodleian Library will be closed for eight
days, previous to the annual visitation on the Bth of
November by the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, and Re-
gius Professors.

A large is of new silver is taking place
the Bank with the dividends of the present quarter.

MIDDLESEX COURT OF

REQUESTS.

AN INVETERATE SMOKER.—Had great geniuses
troubled themselves less about perpetual motion, the
elixir of life, the philosopher's stone, and other equally
discoverable matters, and devoted their ingenious minds
to the concerns of every-day life, Mrs. Sarah Becket
would not, perhaps, have been summoned for 1/. Is. by
Mr. John Boucher.

What is the debt for ?" asked Mr. Commissioner
DUBOIS.

" It's entirely a question of smoke," said Mr. John
Boucher. " This lady took the first floor, furnished,
of my house, Southbank, Regent's Park, at 1/. ls. per
week. She occupied it for three days, and then left,
paying me a week's rent, but refusing to pay for a
week's warning." .
" Most certainly," said Mrs. Becket, " I refuse to
pay rent for these apartments—not because I did not,
but because I could not occupy."
" Why not," said Mr. Commissioner Dußois ?
" Because, Sir, the front room hadn't a hole for the
smoke to go out at."
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—What ! Had it no
chimney ?

Mrs. Becket—Oh, yes, but the smoke went up
merely to come down again. The room was fit for
nothing but curing bacon in.

" Dear me, ma'm," said the plaintiff, " bow can you
say so ? It cost me 5/. but the other day for a patent
cow to the chimney to prevent it from smoking."
Then your cow, Sir," replied the defendant, " is no
better than the calf who put it there, for the chimney
continues the most inveterate smoker a house could
possibly be afflicted with."
Mr. Commissioner Dußois said the smoking would
not dispense with the week's warning.
" Indeed, sir ! I am astonished to hear you say so,"
returned Mrs. Becket. " How would you like to
occupy expensive apartments amidst eternal smoking ?
I say eternal smoking, for it was smoke all day, and
every day, and nothing but smoke. Not a single puff
would go up the chimney if it would have saved me
from suffocation."

Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS-But half the chimneys
in London smoke, and if this plea were to avail, land-
lords would come badly off, I am afraid.
Mrs. Becket differed from Mr. Dubois. She was
aware that different points of the compass are obnoxious
to certain chimneys ; that a south-east wind is a down-
right asthma toione row of houses or one part of the
town, while a north-west breeze is anything but con-
sumptive of the smoke of another portion of the me-
tropolis. Chimneys she knew were operated upon by
different winds and the state of the atmosphere, much
like some persons are at " full o' the moon," and in all
these eases there could be no legal or equitable plea.
The smoking of all these chimneys came under the
head of "occasional inflictions," and were to be en-
dured under the consoling reflection " They can't be
helped." Now, this was not the case with the chimney
in the front room of the first floor of Mr. Boucher's
house, South Bank, Regent's Park.
" Sir," continued Mrs. Becket, addressing the Com-
missioner, "the smoking of this chimney does not par-
take of the nature of an epidemic ; it is a chronic com-
plaint ; in fact, if you'll excuse the expression, its con-
stitutional—it cannot help smoking."
Mr. Boucher assured the Commissioner that such
was not the fact. The chimney had had occasional
clouds and fits of despondency ; in other words, it had
smoked a little, but these fits had been most effectually
dissipated by putting a cow on the top of the chimney-
pot, and an extra ventricle, in the shape of a hole made
half-way up into the chimney of the next house.
" The smoking has, I assure you," he added, in con-
clusion, " been quite cured, and at a considerable ex-
pense."

Cured !" exclaimed Mrs. Becket. " Bless me !
why all the smoking in the world would not cure it. We
(turning to the Commissioner) tried it every way, but
it was worse than useless. We tried it with the win-
dows and doors open ; that was bad enough, though
some of the smoke did find its way out of the room ;
then we tried it with the door shut—that made it
worse ; but when both doors and windows were closed,
goodness me ! the smoke was enough to poison a sweep.
In all winds it was the same, and when the slightest
puff came down the chimney, the blacks flew about the
room as large and as numerous as flies in a sugar basin."
The plaintiff was sure that nothing short of a white
squall could bring such blacks down that chimney.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS said the plaintiff was
entitled to a week's warning, notwithstanding the inve-
teracy of the chimney in the front room.

A gentleman here stood forward, and said that the
defendant was a client of the firm which he had the
honour to represent, and that he was instructed to plead
Mrs. Becket had no beneficial occupation of the apart-
ments, as, besides the smoky chimney, certain alterations
were being made in the house during the three days that
lady resided there.

Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS was of opinion that there
was a beneficial occupation, and ordered the 1/. ls. to be
paid forthwith.

Upon this decision, a tall, fierce-looking gentleman,
who accompanied Mrs. Beckett, 'spoke in a very
" double-barrel" tone to Mr. Boucher ; and, from the
manner in which the latter replied, it appeared there
was likely to be some more " smoke" evolved before
the matter was settled. In such case it is to be hoped
the lodgers may not be led to any occupation that is not
beneficial.

Sarah Salmon and John Seal, a couple of odd fish,
took their respective places before Mr. Commissioner
Dubois, as plaintiff and defendant, in a matter wherein
the Salmon claimed 19s. from the Seal.

" 1 deals with this here man," began the plaintiff, a
little bustling body, " and buys now and then a few
wegetables on .him. T'other day I agreed for a shil-
ling's worth, and as I heard my babby a crying, I was
in a hurry to give him his titty, and so I pays the man
a sufferin instead of a shilling."

Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Do you mean to say
you paid your money away without looking at it ?
Plaintiff—l paid him on the " sly."
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—On tl4 " sly !" Ex-
plain yourself.
Plaintiff—Why there was a man in my room as I
didn't want to let know as I'd got any money, 'cause he's
always a borrowing on me ; so I puts one hand into my
pocket and picks out a shilling, as I thought, from
my pus.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—How could you do that,
woman ? It appears quite impossible.
Plaintiff—But I did, though.

A long argument ensued, and the curse—a long one
with slides—was handed to the jury, the Learned Com_
missioner being of opinion that the feat, as described by
the plaintiff, was " incredible." The Learned Com-
missioner, in this part of the case, did not apparently ex-
hibit that remarkable acuteness which is his peculiar
characteristic, for all doubt on the subject might have
been in d twinkling dispersed had the woman been asked
to give the Court a repetition of the piece of purse le-
gerdemain.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—What are you ?
Plaintiff—l keeps a mangle, and sells sitch things as
a few taters and turnips, and other wegetables.
Mr. Commissioner DOBIOS—And can you swear to
the amount of money in your purse ?
Plaintiff—l'd saved the sufferin up, by pinching here
and paring there ; and I'd put it that morning in my
pus, with four shilliegs to pay my landlord.
The defendant was required to give his explanation.
The defendant, a rough costerrnonger, had that pecu-
liar collection of features which would have led most
persons to think That the name of " Seal" was a mis-
nomer, and that that of " Pike" ought to be substituted.
" On the solid verd and honour of a man," said the
defendant, " I never seed or heerd anything of this
good ooman's suffrin. I've taken pounds and pounds
of her money, and that ere she can't deny."
Mr. Commissioner Duaors.—She don't ; but she
says you have taken a pound too much.
Defendant—Vot, me ! I'd scorn the haction ; I'm
too honourable to do sitch a transaction. I'd souner
give a poor hooman a suffrin 'an I'd wrong her out of a
shilling.
Mr. Commissioner Dow's—Well, tell the jury about
dealing for the vegetables.
Defendant—Vy you sce, this ere gud lady cleans me
out for thirteen pence. She honors out, says she " I
can't pay you to-day," at the werry same time she shoves
a shilling into my fist this here vay—(holding his hand
behind him with a knowing air)—and then she vispers,
as it Vos ony gammon, because she didn't vant nobody
to know as she hadn't got no money.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—This so far confirms the
woman's story.
Defendant—Veil, ven I gets home to have a mouthful
of grub, in comes this here gud lady, and says, " Yourr,
man," says she, " you knows what I'm come about."
" Blow'd if I know," says I, " vithout it's about that ere
shilling as you giv'd me." It warn't no shilling," says
she, "it was a suffrin." " A suffrin," says I, .‘ if I've
got ever a sufferin, vy, it must be among the silver vich
I've given every farden to my vife." So my vife fetches
down the tumbler vere she keeps her money, and ye all
looks in it, and I vish I may never come here agin if any
on us could see a suffrin there.
Mr. Commssioner DUBOIS—What does it signify
whether you saw a sovereign in the glass or not ? if
you had the sovereign, and intended to act dishonestly,
you'd take care to conceal it.
Defendant—Vouldn't rob nobody of nothing. Vy, I
vonce took a golden half-suffrin for a sixpence from a
lady, and I vent, honour bright, and give her all the
Ichange back agin.

Plaintiff—But you heard a policeman was after you.
Defendant—l'll take my hoath as the change vos sent
back afore ever the policeman could get a sight on me.
" Oh, gentlemen," added the defendant, appealing to
the Jury, " I vouldn't take a false hoath for twenty
nor forty shilling—•oh, no (clinching the matter), not for
the wallue of my whole kit."
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—It's a question of credit,
and it is for the Jury to say who they will believe.
Defendant—lt's a worry hard ewe.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—No, a roguish one, if
you had the sovereign.

The Jury found for the plaintiff.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—You must pay the 195.,
Mr. Seal.

Defendant—Von't never pay a brass fardin. You
may take my body to execution, and ven I'm in quod
I'll pay it like—like a cock. " Yes," said he, savagely,
" I'il stick to it like old boots."

Mr. Commissioner Dußois—(to the Jury)—Gentle-
men, I am now satisfied your verdict is right.

PALACE COURT.-THURSDAY.

PRICE sd,

MONEY IVIARKET and CITY NEWS.

(FRIDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—An " Opium Scrip" has been
opened in the Money Market in Calcutta, in which
cons:.derable business has been done ; and some of the
Superintendent's receipts have made their appearance
la this country.
The course which should be adopted by the British
Government in regard to the settlement of the opium
question is in our minds no longer attended with doubt.
Capt. Elliot has now solemnly charged the Chinese Go-
vernment as accessories to the opium traffic, and as
being regular parties to its existence, drawing profits
annually fNm that branch of foreign trade. If such be
the case, we at once repudiate the most remote intention
of making the people of this country suffer to the extent of
one farthing of the loss. The British Government should
at once take a decisive course, and insist for indemni-
fication from the Chinese Government to the
fullest extent. We doubt not that Captain Elliot
is prepared to make good his words, and there-
fore we consider the ease free from further ob-
scurity. A sufficient naval and military force should
be dispatched at once to Canton to seek for
reparation, and, if not granted when demanded
the expedition should immediately disembark their
troops, and the fleet sail up the river. This, we under-
stand, will be an object of no very difficult accomplish-
ment. If it be ascertained that the Chinese authorities
sanctioned this traffic, the first duty of the British Go-
vernment is to let it be seen that its subjects shall not
be wronged with impunity. The question is one of fact.
Foreigners can only know the laws of a country with
which they traffic, by the interpretation given to them
by the Government functionaries of that country ; and
it the Chinese functionaries, for a long series of years,
have allowed and profited by the trade in opium, the
question how far they were justified in allowing and pro-
fiting by this trade is one between them and their Go-
vernment, with which the foreign traders have no con-
cern. It would be monstrous if a Government were
to be allowed to take advantage of the wrong of its
own officers. True, that opium was contraband ;we
have frequently admitted that it was so, by the letter
of the Chinese law. Bur when the people of one
country have traded openly and with impunity with
those of another for forty years, the usage becomes
the law. The device which the Chinese Government
contrived, to shield themselves from their participation
in, and encouragement of, the opium trade, was to hold
the Hong merchants responsible that the foreign ships
had no opium on board ; but, on the other hand, these
very persons bought the opium regularly. The Chinese
authorities knew that they did so, and exacted heavy
contributions from them for permission to carry on
that lucrative branch of foreign trade, and were as
much implicated as the supporters of the drug—much
more so in fact, because, had it not been for the
encouragement which they afforded to the traffic, the
demand could not hare existed, and the culture of the
poppy would not have been carried on to the extent
which it has been, in order to supply the Chinese mar-
ket. We therefore consider that the seizure and cies-
struction of the opium was a most unjustifiable act of
spoliation on the part of the Imperial Commissioner and
his associates, and that the Government of this country is
bound to insist that the British merchants who were the
owners of the article shall be fully indemnified by the
Chinese Government. We say so as regards the past.
The future is open for arrangement ; and if the Chinese
make it a condition of our renewed intercourse that the
trade in opium shall cease or be legalised, the ground
is open for considering those conditions. But taking
the whole case as regards our last forty years' inter-
course into consideration, and the decided charge of Cap-
tain Elliot, " that the traffic in opium has been chiefly
encouraged and protected by the highest officers in the
empire," we deem it clear that the people of this country
ought not to pay one farthing of the loss which has
been sustained by the destruction of the surrendered
opium, and the British Goverment will act with shame-
ful pusillanimity if they do not obtain full and peremp-
tory satisfaction from the Chinese Executive. The sure
course to do so is to take the high hand with these
cunning and self-conceited people. To induce them to
act justly, they must be taught to feel the necessity of
submission ; and if they hesitate to make full reparation
for the loss which our merchants have sustained by the
destruction of their property, a British force ought to
teach them that British merchants are not to be des-
poiled of their property with impunity.

TI MES.— Though money has been comparatively
easy during the whole of this week, there were some
indications in the latter part of the day of a renewal of
the pressure. No cause for this transpired even in the
shape of rumour, but the increased caution in the mo-
netary circles was too obvious to be mistaken.

Tlie foreign exchanges have undergone a further de-
cline this afternoon, which may possibly have had some-
thing to do with the feeling in the money-market above
described. What many persons apprehend is, now that
the credit of the Bank of England on Paris is ex-
hausted, and found, moreover, not to have answered
the original purpose of it by giving a favourable turn to
the exchanges, that the Bank Direction will have re-1
course to some action in the home market in order to
make money again scarce, and place trade, as the
phrase is, again under the harrow. The rate on Paris
was quoted to-day 23 32} to 35 ; Amsterdam 12. to
1, short ; Hamburg, 13. 91 to 10, at three months.
This has been a holiday, kept with more than ordi-
nary strictness to-day, not only at the Stock-exchange,
which as usual was closed, but by the jobbers, few of
whom were to be found about their usual haunts, and
fewer still inclined to the transaction of business. The
unfavourable state of the weather, by which the regu-
lar receipt and transmission of prices and intelligence
between this place, Paris, and other continental mar-
kets, has been interfered with, has no doubt contributed
to this unwonted absence of all speculation. No prices
of the different stocks and shares can be fairly
quoted therefore. Early in the day Spanish were
quoted nominally at 2Si sellers ; and Consols, 904
sellers for account.

It is announced, and dwelt on with great satisfac-
tion, in the Indian papers, that the reduced rates of
postage recommended in the report of the Post-office
Commissioner, formerly referred to, have been sanc-
tioned with slight modifications, and were to come
into operation throughout India from the Ist of
October last. The importance of this reduction will
be appreciated and felt by all classes, but to the native
part of the community snore especially it must prove
of particular benefit. A schedule of the new postage
duties on letters, papers, and parcels, is given, of
which a few items may suffice for the comprehension
of those directly interested in India affairs in this
country. For a letter not exceeding a quarter of a
tola in weight the charge is to be half an anna for 100
miles, 1 anna for 200, 2 for 300, 3 for 400 and 500,
6 for 1,000, and for 1,400 miles and upwards, 8 annas ;
for letters not exceeding 1 tola, but above a quarter of
a tola, the rates are double those stated, and for each
additional half tola weight a single postage to be added.
For law papers, accounts, and vouchers attested as such
with the full signature of the sender, 1 anna is charged
per 100 miles, for weight not exceeding 3} tolas, 2 for
200, 4 for 300, and so on to 1,400 miles, for
which 1 rupee is chargeable ; and double in all
cases for packets above the specified weight,
but not exceeding 6 tolas, single postage being
added for each additional 3 tolas. For parcels sent by
public bangy, not exceeding GOO toles in weight, nor 12
inches long by 12 deep, and 12 broad, or 2,160 cubic
inches in size, the following will give an idea of the
rates :—For 100 miles, weight not above 50 tolas,
3 annas ; for 200 miles, 6 annas ; for 300, 9 annas ;
for 500, I 5 annas ; for 1,000, 1 rupee 14 annas ; for
1,400 miles and above, 2 rupees 10 annas. For 100
tolas' weight the rates are doubled ; for 250 tolas five.
fold ; for 600 tolas twelvefold the charge for 50 tolas.
For books, pamphlets, packets of newspapers, and writ-
ten or engraved papers sent by public bangy, not ex-
ceeding 40 tolas in weight, and packets in short covers,
open at each end, the rates are—per packet not above
20 tolas, 1 anna for 100 miles ; .5 for .500, and so on
to 14 annas for 1,400 miles and above, and double rates
for all exceeding 20, but not above 40 toles.
According to a letter of a Correspondent of the
Bengal Harken., it appears a report was prevalent that
Commissioner Lin had required that the opium bonded
at Manilla should likewise be brought over to be con-
demned, and, with a view to enforce the demand, had
threatened to cut off the supplies of provisions from Ma-
cao. Although, in corroboration of the report, Capt.
Stayers, of the ship Cowasjee, is personally referred to,
it arose most probably out of some misunderstanding,
as the advices from Canton, on which it was apparently
founded in the first instance, were only to the 11th of
June, and in subsequent advices to the 27th the rumour
does not appear to be referred to.

SUN.—We cannot quote any improvement this after-
noel.' in the Foreign Exchanges ; all the rates were heavy,
and Bills extremely scarce. The firm of Messrs. Baring
and Co. were in the market, on account of the Bank
of England, but their assistance did not avail. The
latest quotations were these :—Paris closed at 25 60 to
601, hamburg at 13 10 to 13 9,1 ; Frankfort at
154 ; Amsterdam at 12 4 to 12 3i ; and Antwerp at
12 3.
The Markets for Colonial produce looked more cheer-
ful th:s afternoon than they have done for some time
past. Of Plantation Sugar :3,400 hhds. and trs. were
sold this week ; prices Is. per cwt. higher. Rum is
ld. per gallon higher, in consequence of the announce-
ment of the Government contract for 80,000 gallons.
As the sales of Tea will commence on Monday next,

IConsiderable attention is directed to the market for
China produce. Tea continues in brisk demand, and
the deliveries are large. On Monday the public sales
will begin, comprising upwards of 64,000 packages.
The arrivals off the Custom-house hare been limited
owing to the boisterous weather. Some fears were en-
tertained for the safety of the Batavier (Dutch steamer),
which it appears was driven back to Rotterdam. It is
to be regretted that she has been detained, as she had
on board a great quantity of commercial letters, to be
forwarded by the British Queen steamer, which leaves
Portsmouth to-morrow. As they will now be too late,
there will be no opportunity of forwarding them for
some days to come, and then only by one of the line of
sailing packets, which will arrive out about ten or twelve
days later.

There were not, we believe, any private bargains en-
tered into either in the British or Foreign Funds this
afternoon. Prices must be quoted nominally the same
as they were at the termination of the business on
Thursday afternoon.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The speeches delivered by Mr. Bradshaw, Dr. Rus-
sell, and other Tories, at the dinner in the Guildhall
Concert-room of Canterbury, on Thursday week, and
received by the clerical part of the audience in particu-
lar with such tumultuous applause, have, we understand,
excited the strongest feelings of indignation and disgust
in that city. A requisition has been forwarded to the
Mayor, calling upon him to convene a public meeting
for the purpose of addressing the Queen, in order that
the citizens may have an opportunity of showing that
they hold in detestation the treasonable language uttered
and received with approbation in their town. The
Mayor has appointed Tuesday next, the sth of No-
vember, for the meeting, which is to be held in the
Guildhall. A correspondent, whose communication was
accompanied by a private note, the signature of which,
however, we were unable to decipher, observes, with
reference to an article in the Chronicle of yesterday,
" I really am astonished to see in your paper that the
Tories meditate the dethronement of our gracious
Queen." The answer to this is, that sentiments im-
porting this wicked subterfuge or evasion were uttered
by Jemes Bradshaw, Esq., Member for Canterbury, at
the dinner in Canterbury above alluded to, at which
were present the principal Tory gentry and clergy of
that city and neighbourhood, and received not only
without murmur or dissent, but with tremendous cheer-
ing. Among the persons present, were W. H. Bal-
dock, the Chairman ; H. P. Gipps, Esq., the Rev. Dr.
Molesworth, the Rev. Dr. Russell, Sir John Honey-
wood, Bart., G. Gipps, Esq., W. Hyder, Esq., W.
Delmar, Esq., J. Partridge, Esq., G. Curteis, Esq , and
T. Starr, Esq., Mr. Croasdill ; the Reverends G.
Wallace, J. Metcalfe, W. Delmar, T. Bennett,
and J. Delmar ; T. King, C. Delmar, Sicard,
R. S. Mackeson, Monins, R. Walker, C. Bal-
dock, P. Wood, Knocker, and G. Buckley,
Esqs. ; Major Nearne, Lieutenant Bennett, Mr.
Beatson, M. A., and other gentlemen of mark
and influence among the Tories. The Tories may utter
sentiments which they really do not entertain, but we
can only infer their sentiments from their public avowals.
How are we to suppose that rank treason would be so
rapturously applauded, not by one or two individuals,
but by the chief dignitaries of the Metropolitan see, and
a large assemblage of Tory clergy and gentry, if the
sentiments which were so applauded were not generally
entertained by the party ? It will not, surely, be con-
tended that there is anything in the mental constitution
of the men of East Kent, which would warrant us in
considering them as distinct in feelings and opinions
from the rest of their countrymen. Sir William Cour-
tenay has not, surely, infected with his madness Dr.
Russell, Dr. Molesworth, and the rest of the divines
who figured at the dinner. We are open to convic-
tion, and if evidence be produced that the clergy and
gentry of East Kent assembled at Canterbury are re-
pudiated by the Tories in general, as a disgrace to the
party, and that, so far from applauding the sentiments
uttered by Mr. Bradshaw, and received with tre-
mendous cheers by his audience, they loathe and de-
test them, we shall be ready to receive it. But in
the meantime, we feel ourselves justified in judging of
the stock from this distinguished sample. Where in
truth, arc we to look upon Tory opinions in all their
purity,
if not in a meeting of the clergy of the metro-
politan see and the first gentry of Kent? There is no
meaning in words, if the language of Mr. Bradshaw is
not treasonable : and were the Government disposed to
tread in the steps of their Tory predecessors, and to
drag Mr. Bradshaw and his clerical applauders before
an honest and impartial jury of Englishmen, we think
there need be very little apprehension of their failure to
obtain a verdict of guilty. What does Mr. Bradshaw
mean by telling the Queen of her mistake in think-
ing, " that if the monarchy lasts her time it is
enough," and reminding her of " the forced abdication
of the second James ;" that she is only " Queen of
a faction," and that be will "resist to the death ill
Government and unjustly usurped authority," if
not that he considers himself absolved from
allegiance to her Majesty, and is ready to force her to
abdicate ? How could any man utter treason snore un-
equivocally ? The plea of insanity could alone, we pre-
sume, rescue these Tory traitors from the penalty of
their treason, if the same measure of justice were meted
out to them which has been meeted out to the Chartists.
The Liberals of Canterbury arc about to do their duty.
The time for the Tories to hare done theirs was when
their ears were first struck by the revolting language of
Mr. Bradshaw. We are quite sure that if language of
the same treasonable import had been uttered in any
meeting of Liberals, at any time during the last thirty
years, the very first treasonable sentence uttered would
have been the signal for one universal shout of reproba-
tion. A sense of ccnstitutional propriety has always
been characteristic of Englishmen ; and it is but justice
to the Chartists to allow that they were first corrupted
by the exhortations to violence and bloodshed utttered by
Oastler and his reverend colleague, who, in their character
of Tories, have been often lauded in the journals of that
party. When men meditate dethronement, it is but
fair to suppose they bethink themselves of the means
for effecting their purpose ; and as the man must be
blind indeed who does not see that the forced abdica-
tion of Queen Victoria must open the succession to the
King of Hanover, we are justified in supposing that
those who really meditate the dethronement of her pre-
sent Majesty have been casting about for the means of
bringing that event about. It is not by the assertions
of individuals like our Correspondent, that the effect of
a great public meeting is to be done away with. Here
is the damning fact of the most treasonable sentiments
being rapturously applauded, in an assembly of dignified
clergymen, and the most distinguished Tory gentry of
the capital of the metropolitan see. Whether policy
may at last lead the Tories to seek to escape from
the responsibility of the treasonable sentiments, it is not
for us to say ; but, in the mean time, we feel justified in
charging them on Sir Robert Peel and his supporters.

(From the Times.)
The Bills, for an endeavour to pass which the Mi-
nisters are commended by the Attorney-General, who
visits the Lords with his censure for rejecting them, are
the Admiralty Court, the Inland Warehousing, and
Electors' Removal Bills. The object of the first Sir
J. Campbell states to have been to place the salary of
the Judge of the Admiralty upon a more independent
footing, and to fix it at a moderate sum (4,0001. a-year,)
instead of leaving it to fluctuate, as formerly, in times
of war. There is not a little of the suppressio veri in
this statement. Lord Brougham, at a very early period
of the Session, had called the attention of the Govern-
ment to the anomaly presented by the mode of payment
of the judge—viz., by an annual vote of the House of
Commons, which most improperly rendered him de-
pendent upon that body ; and having been assured by
Lord Melbourne that a Bill would be presented to
Parliament to put an end to that mode of payment,
he expressed the hope that it would contain a clause
incapacitating the Judge from sitting in the House of
Commons. The Bill found its way to the Lords on the
Gth of August. It WAS not confined to the question of
salary, as one would naturally have supposed from the
Attorney-General'sextension speech. It gave the judge consider-
able patronage, and it proposed the extension of the
wages,
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jority of the House to insert such a clause. In the
course of the short debate upon the Bill, the salary was
not only unobjected to, but, though it exceeded by
1,0. ON. a year the amount recommended by the Com-
mittee selected by the Whigs of 1833, it was admitted
to be not more than an adequate remuneration for a per-
son holding so high a station, even though it were re-
garded as a payment for about twenty-eight days' work
in the year ; and it was even suggested that the Com-
mons might provide, ad interim, by vote for the increase
proposed. But the Lords refused, and, as we
think,
most properly, 'o entertain a Bill hating such objects in
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view as those above stated at a late period of the ses-
sion, and in the absence of the chiefs of the Courts of
Queen's Bench and Exchequer. The object of the
second Bill—that relating to Inland Warehousing—
the rejection of which forms the second article of im-
peachment against the Lords, was not understood by
Lord Lansdowne, who moved its second reading.
I-Ie stated it to be " the extension of the ware.
housing system to those, towns which are not
strictly to be called ports," and he recommended the
Bill to the support of the House on the ground o
its having passed the Commons by a large majority.
Lord Ashburton, upon whose motion the Bill was re-