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poration— we do know of some benefits which it has

conferred upon many of its members, as well as of
much good-will towards the Corporation as a body
which it has not had an opportunity of . alowing, and
we should therefore be exceedingly surprised that in
any arrangement for the admission of visitors to the
Royal Festival a vote of exclusion should pass the
Entertainment Committee against a Journal, the pro-
fits of which are invariably applied to an Institution
which her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria
not only patronises, but of which it was the first act
of her reign, with respect to benevolent institutions, to
become the Patroness.—Morning Advertiser.

When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be;
When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he."
This well-known distich, which we see so perpe-
tually realised in private life, is literally adapted to the
Satanic spirit which at present rules Ireland, and for
a time directs the destinies of England. Every one
must have marked the suddenly humbled tone of
O'Connell, as evinced especially in his unexpected
readiness to dissolve his mock anti-tithe Parliament,

yclept the Geaeral Association. And why this sudden
lapse into comparative saintship, but that he finds
himself sick at heart at the growing hatred and oppo-
sition with which his conduct and principles are re-
ceived by the people of England ? Besides this, he
finds that the law even in Ireland is too strong for his
designs of Church spoliation ; for, after all the
bluster which we have had ton the subject, the
tithe-resisters find they are compelled to pay, and
that with the addition of swinging bills of costs
to boot. It is highly probable that, in addition to
these circumstances, O'Connell has received more than
one intelligible hint from head-quarters that a temporary
lowering of tone, to a pitch more bordering on mode-
ration, was essential to the continuance of his puppets
in office ; and if such has been the case, no doubt but
the agitator would rather devour all the words he has
ever uttered, than risk the daily golden egg which the
patronage of the Castle affords to him and his fol-
lowers. But the people of England, and no small
proportion of those of Ireland too, are too well aware
of the character of the man to be for a moment the
dupes of his (lona
.ferens. They know full well—
from dear-bought experience—that the Saintship
will only last during , the sickness ; and that, in fact,
his machinations arc, to the- full, as dangerous, if

not more so, when he proffers amity, as when he
threatens with the most deadly hatred. No one,
then, will, we trust, be so weak to be put off his
guard by this seeming contrition and moderation,
which will be abandoned immediately that the
time arrives when the mask need no longer be conve-
niently worn. Both the Whigs and their chieftain
have, it must be admitted, a difficult game to play ;
and one which requires all the skill and cunning of the
most practised heads to save them from losing. Every
day brings proof of the repugnance felt by all ranks of
people in this country to the unnatural rule of this
man ; while the Whig Ministers become every day
more sensible that while they owe to him their political
existence, it is a tenure of office at once treacherous
and fragile in itself, and one which must more and
more destroy them in public opinion. Having 4ter-
mined, however, to brave the tempest, and, if possible,
to keep the sea a little longer, every effort, no doubt,
will be made to effect so desirable an object. Among
other means, that of pacifying O'Connell is to be re-
sorted to ; he, on his part, is willing, of course, to
assist in the experiment. Hence, as an expedient, we
have the tone of moderation before alluded to, so
foreign to his nature and to his ultimate designs. Let
him but recover the ground which he has lost, and the
saintship will be as sullenly laid aside as it has been
assumed.—Morning Herald.
Two days ago we ventured to arraign at the bar of
public opinion the conduct of the dignified persons to
whom the Corporation of the city of London have
entrusted the management of an entertainment about
to be given to the Queen of England on her accession
to the Throne. We said. that, the question having
been mooted in this Committee of the Common Council
of the city of London. whether the compliment of an
invitation should be paid to the Queen's uncle, the
King of the Belgians, it was a direct affront to her
Majesty, and an outrage, as, indeed, any affront to her
Majesty must be, upOn decency and common sense, to
meet and dispose of such a motion by a direct and un-
ceremonious negative. We alluded also to the conduct
of those to whom the Common Council have dele-
gated absolute and irresponsible power in respect to the
Irish Secretary, Lord Morpeth—first rejecting and sub-
sequently admitting his Lordship : repelling the Noble
Lord when he was merely presented to their notice as an
important public functionary, and as an English gen-
tleman in whose veins flows the noble blood of the

Howards, and opening their arms for his cordial recep-
tion when a person of the name of Gore, who happens to
be private secretary to Lord J. Russell, the Minister for
the Home Department, condescendingly interceded
in his Lordship's behalf. The Earl Marshal labours,
we suppose, under au official obligation to be present, •
but it may reasonably be expected that he is the only
person of his name who will appear at a solemnity
which has brought upon one of the race of Howard
the indignity of being recommended to notice by Mr.
Gorc. It is fit to mention, if it were only for Lord
rklorpeth's consolation, the names of some other dis-
tinguished persons Whom the City tribunal have pro-
nounced unworthy of an invitation to meet the Queen,
and with respect to whom the first vote of this court
of honour is final, because Mr. Gore has not inter-
ceded on their behalf. The Duke of Rutland is one
of the most distinguished of the nobility of England
—not for his rank only, although that be the highest,
but for the personal qualities which would shed lustre
upon any rank. His Grace is unquestionably one
of the first of those among the high aristocracy of
our country to wlvmr, in any season of embarrass-
ment or danger, a youthful Sovereign of Either sex
might resort for counsel or for protection, in the
fullest confidence that the one would be dictated by
prudence and integrity, and the other eagerly of-
fered in the spirit of loyal and chivalrous devotion.
There is another and an accidental distinction
enjoyed by his Grace, which, on such an occasion,
ought not to have been overlooked, viz., that he is one
of the personal friends of her Majesty and the Du-
chess of Kent, and has had, we belie ve, the honour
of receiving them as guests under his princely roof.
These seem to be strong_ claims to the honour of an in-
vitation from the City Committee. But they were not
strong enough—they lacked the recommendation of
Mr. Gore, The Duke of Rutland was proposed as a
proper person to receive an invitation to meet her Ma-
jesty, and the proposition was negatived. In this in-
stance the negative
_vote was conclusive, for the pri-
vate Secretary of Lord John Russell did not inter-
fere. We have adverted already to the manner in
‘‘hich this-Common Council Committee dispose of
Royalty, as in the case of the King of the Belgians;
of official rank, in its fare eombination with exalted
birth, as in the case --ef Lord Morpeth ; of the
highest class of the
Peerage, in conjunction with
the personal fnends'hip
of the Sovereign, who ho-
llows
City by becoming its guest, as in the
case of the Duke of Rutland. It only remains for
us to describe their manner of treating that impor-
tant class, the Commoners of England. Mr. Byng,
the Member for Middlesex, may be mentioned by us
without exciting the suspicion of political partiality.
We do not agree with Mr. Byng in politics, but the
Common Council of the city of London do. And
we think that the Committee of the Common Council
of the city of London, in rejecting the proposition that
Mr. Byng should be invited to meet the Queen of
En„e!and at the Guildhall of their city, offered an insult
to the whole body of British Commoners. Had the
question been put to any man of any party, « Who is
the fittest man, apart from official rank, or recollections
connected with office, to represent the Commoners of
England at a banquet at which the Queen of
England is to be entertained by the Corpora-
tion of the city of London'?" what would have been
the immediate and unhesitating reply ? George Byng.
The Patriarch of the House of Commons—the
representative of the metropolitan county for almost
half a century—tire Member of Parliament whose po-
litical sentiments accord with those of the City Cor-
poration, could not have been refused a seat (for here
the idea of any competitor is manifestly absurd), unless
it had been intended to intimate that the Commoners
of England, as a class,• could have no pretensions to
take an interea in the proceedings of the day. To re-