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mere party cry, oft repeated, over the conduct of the
most honest and conscientious men.
" The Peers, however, so far from being touched by
this conduct of Ministers, have either rejected the measures
at once, or struck out or altered the clauses which they
considered most objectionable. The Commons but too
frequently consented to receive and adopt these mutilations.
In thus acting, the House of Lords calculated upon the
timidity and irresolution, of Ministers ; for though the lat-
ter were sometimes irritated into the using of harsh lan-
guage, they were never desirous, as the Peers were well
aware, to do anything willingly to diminish, or to set at
defiance, the power of the Upper House. It was fre-
quently amusing to hear Sir R. Peel, whilst blaming the
expressions of the Ministers, at the same time compliment-
ing them on the prudence of their conduct in conceding,
and not listening to the counsels of their more determined
followers. The Peers have likewise relied upon the cir-
cumstance that one half of the English representatives are
Tories ; that at almost every election the latter party has
gained ground ; and they believe that the people of Eng-
land are indifferent to the Whigs. All these facts are un-
doubtedly true, not excepting the latter one ; and as that
indifference is each day augmenting, in the event of a dis-
solution there is much reason for believing that the number
of Reformers (that is, the aggregate of Whigs and Radi-
cals) who will be returned for England will be diminished ;
for we think, for reasons which we shall state hereafter,
that unless the Whigs adopt a very different line of con-
duct, their party will be diminished to a still greater extent
than that of the Radicals will be augmented. These facts,
and these not unfounded expectations, have produced in the
minds of the Tories a belief that there is in the mass of the
people a change of opinion, from Liberal to Conservative
principles. It is of the utmost importance to ascertain the
accuracy or falsehood of this statement, to understand what
are the feelings of the people, and to look into the causes
of those feelings."

The Reviewer goes on to prove, from the result of
twenty-six contested elections in England, that Whig-
ger), is at a discount throughout the country ; and
consequently, that Ministers cannot appeal to the na-
tion by a dissolution of Parliament, unless they iden-
tify themselves more fully with the' great body of the
Liberals. This, in the main, is quite true. The
Whigs, as a party, are by no means so popular now
as they were in 1835. They were then rather in
advance of public opinion ; they arc now consider-
ably behind it. Their treatment of the Radicals,
whom they dragged through the mire to sup-
port their temporizing timid policy, was equally
futile and injudicious. They wantonly weak-
ened, where they did not absolutely destroy, an in-
fluence, which, if exercised sparingly, and on great oc-
casions only, would have been to them an impregnable
" tower of strength." But they may yet retrieve their
past errors, and regain all the public confidence they
have lost. The country is not unmindful of what it
owes to them, and its Radical representatives will sup-
port them as faithfully as they have done, if they will
but make a bold and decided stand against the abuses
of the Peerage and the Church, and pledge themselves
not to oppose the vote by ballot, and a measure for
shortening the legal duration of Parliament. Such
terms are moderate enough in all conscience, and we
do not, see how the Radicals can discharge their duty
to their constituents, if they longer support Ministers
without exacting them.

" Fallacies upon the Poor Laws" is a practical
article upon a practical subject. The writer seeks not
to penetrate below the surface ; but all that is above it
he represents in the strongest and best point of view.
The only remarkable thing about it is the correction of
the fallacy that the Whigs were the framers of the
Poor Law Amendment Bill. Most assuredly they
were not. The Bill, such as it is, emanated from the
leaders of the Radical party, and was strenuously sup-
ported by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington,
and all the principal Tories of both Houses of Par-
liament. Of the Commissioners of Inquiry, the ma-
jority were Radicals ; so that in point of fact the Poor
Law Amendment Bill is the natural offspring of a
momentary union of all parties--Radical, Whig, and
Tory.

id for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1936, and paid

.d by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund

mlidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1837

The most remarkable article in this Review is
upon the life of the celebrated Count de Mirabeau.
As we took more than ordinary pains to give
the fullest details, compatible with our abridged li-
mits, of the character of that extraordinary man,
on the first appearance of the Memoirs published
by his adopted son, we cannot now do more than di-
rect the attention of the reader to the very able article
in the London and Westminster Review for the pre-
sent month. It is, however, not without great faults.
The style is crabbed, and so full of involutions, that
we were more than once puzzled to find out the writer's
meaning. Moreover, it ends badly, inasmuch as it
dismisses, in a few sentences, the most important part
of Mirabeau's career in the National. All the
shining and characteristic anecdotes told of the meet-
ings of the Count de Mirabeau, and his brother
the Marquis, who was a decided Royalist, are also
omitted. Nevertheless, the article, despite of its
Benthamite style, and its omissions towards the close,
is one of the most original we have met with for many
months.

The other articles are principally reviews of works,
of which a few are already all but forgotten. The
" Progress of Events in Canada," though republican
in its spirit, contains passages worthy of the attention
of his Majesty's Government.

The Dublin Magazine for this month reached us
too late to admit of our giving a regular notice of it.
We, however, select an extract from a piece of Irish
autobiography, as rich in genuine humour as anything
that has appeared since the commencement of the pre-
sent year. The article forms the first part of the Au-
tobiography of the Rev. Blackthorn M'Flail, late P.P.
of Ballymacwhackem
. .

" From this forward, they lived harmoniously enough to-
gether. The gambolings of Bosthoon during the honey-
moon, though uncouth, were not disagreeable to his strap-
ping bride. Taking them, therefore, each as the represen-
tative of their class, it is enough to say that they were very
well paired, and that she as a M'Fun was quite a match
for him as a M'Flail.

" In this way things went on well enough on both sides,

8,103,418
714,051
5,041
385,476
127,500

282,072

9,717,558
1,539,777

11,2X,335

8,117,868
720,846
3,795
678,053
127,500

422,221

10,070,283
1,167,8

11,338,106

3,160,774
1,267,623

3,313,071

1,892,951

5,236,022

for about two months, when one evening as Bosthoon and
his wife sat together enjoying a comfortable tete-a-tete, he
noticed a peculiar embarrassment of manner in his amiable
partner for which be could not account. He saw very well
that the bashful creature was labouring under some extra-
ordinary secret which she felt a blushing reluctance to dis-
close. Bosthoon, of course, was sorely puzzled as to what
the nature of her communication could be, for as he had
little knowledge of the sex, or of their teasing agreeable
moods and whims, so was he signally deficient in that sa-
gacity which so often enables wit to anticipate experience.
Though deficient in penetration, however, he was no fool,
and consequently took a most excellent method of making,
her abandon that coquettish fondness which she seemed dis-
posed to work up into nothing less than a mystery. This
imperturbable indifference on his part succeeded. Molshy,
after patting him on the cheek, and playfully shaking a pair
of ears (his, of course,) nearly equal to Bottom's, at length
said,
" Bosthoon,
" ' Well, Molsh.'

Molsh hung down her head, first giving him a timid, plea-
sant, significant, roguish glance from the tail of her eye,
after which she placed the palm of her right hand on that of
her left, and began to inspect the joints of her fingers, pass-
ing her left thumb over the back of the right hand, which
was uppermost, and seeming to examine them joint by joint.
" What wor you goin to say, my thracle ?'
" Oh, bad scran to you, Bosthoon ! you'r the dickens !'
" How, darlin ?'
" Go to the sarra, the never a one o' me will tell you.'
" Well, jewel!, sure I can't help that ?'
" Oh, but Bosthoon—sure—no ; bad cess to the word.
Still, I'll take one myself, so I will—(a huge smack inflicted
on Bosthoon.)
" Bedad,' said Bosthoon, licking his lips, that's what I
call doin it honest. Faix, Molsh, you laid your shoulder to
it there. Upon my purty, that was a sappy one.'
" But, Bosthoon, jewel and darlin, you don't know
what I have to tell you.'
" No, in troth, Molshy, but I hope I'll hear it soon.'
" Go way wid you,' she replied in a pet, you have no
curosity ; the never a kiss I'll give you this month to come.'
" Faith, I suspected as much by reason of that last
one. It would cover three weeks and nine days any how ;
but why have I no curosity, goslin ?'
" Bekase, you hav'n't:

" Well, sure I'm the less like a woman, Molsh:
" Here his indifference to her secret induced Molshy to
show strong symptoms of getting pathetic, which is always
the dernicr resort of a woman.

" You may thrate me as bad as you plase, Bosthoon, but
I'm not in a state to be'—
" Here her tears came with great fluency, and Bos-
thoon's indolence was actually stirred into something like
interest in consequence of her emotion.

" But darlin,' he replied, tell me—tell your own Bos-
thoon, at wasnt what is wrong ?'
" Wrong,' said Molshy, drying her eyes, and with some-
thing of a proud but indignant feeling, wrong, there's no-
thing wrong ;' then all at once, gliding into caresses and en-
dearments, she added tenderly,
" No, darlin, jewel—no, my own Bosthoon, there's
nothing wrong wid me—no, jewel, but the conthrairy.'
" Her voice, while uttering these words, sank by degrees
into a tone of most affectionate and significant confidence.
" Faith,' said the obtuse husband, I'm as proud as a
paycock that there's nothing wrong wid you. Why you
frightened the life outgo' me. I thought you had cotch this
complaint that's goin.'
" Molshy, seeing that all the usual inuendos in such
cases were absolutely lost upon him, bent her face, and
placing her lips to his ear, said,
" Whisper, jewel.'
" She must have disclosed something of singular import-
ance, for Bosthoon on hearing it, raised his head, and fasten-
ing his grey eyes upon her with a grin of delight, that raised
his white heavy brows halfway up his forehead, and distend-
ing his mouth chuckle after chuckle, until it almost reached
those ears the reader wots of, exclaimed,

" ' Thunder and whiskey, do you tell me so ?"
" ' Yes, I do, Bosthoon. Yes, I do, darlin jewel, and
now don't you like me betther than ever ? Don't you
now ? Tell me, Bosthoon, darlin ?"

_ .
" There was no verbal reply given to this query, but a
powerful grappling match immediately took place, which
from the loudness and frequency of the smacks, bore a
strong resemblance to what is called a running fire in a re-
giment of cavalry.
" We cannot dwell long upon this scene, for the fact is,
. . .....

that the billings, and cooings, and palmings, and nursings,
and whisperings, and squeezings, and pressures, with the
other nonsensical endearments that make the honey-moon
look like a beslobbered cake of liquorice in the hands of two
overgrown children, may all do very well in the proper
place, but to a spectator they are in the mean time anything
but delicate or agreeable.
" Still we cannot help assuring our readers that when
this billing match between Bosthoon and Molshy was over,
he once again expanded his cavernous mouth into a gap that
resembled the cleft of an earthquake, and raising his huge
brows one after another like the lumbering portcullis of a
drawbridge, at the same time exposing the whites of his
eyes, he gazed upon her with an ogle which we can com-
pare to nothing except the disconsolate look of a dying calf.
" Molshy in return gave him a diffident but playful pat
on the face, which were it not for a further disclosure that
she had to make, would have led to a repetition of the scene
we have declined to describe as being rather too sweet for
mere lookers-on.
" Bosthoon, behave, dear—behave now. Sure I have
more to tell you.'
" What ! more good news of the same kind ; begad
you're worth goold.'
" No, jewel, its consarnin' my health for the last two or
three days. You know, yourself, I never cared much
about what I'm spakin' of, although I could take an odd
sup now and thin whin I got it.'
" A sup o' what, my thracle ?'
" Arra, Bosthoon, don't you see what I mane ?'
" Faith, I don't think I do, but lot us hear it first, and
then I may get a glimpse of it ?'
" '•''l feel quare for a sup o' whiskey.'
`You want a sup of whiskey. Well an you must get
it. I'll thrate you to share of a naggin, or half a pint in
the market on next Saturday. Wont that be something ?
Buds ! woman, couldn't you tell me at wanst that you
wanted it ?'
Is it me want it, Bosthoon, jewel! Oh, the sorra sup
Tjr my part ever I'd care about it ; sure it's not that at all
dear.
" Upon my purty, thin, it looks divilish like it, thracleen.
If it's not that, then what is it, coaxy ?'
"' The never a one of him understands me a bit, so he
doesn't. Sure it's not me that wishes for it, Bosthoon.'
"By my soul, an it's not me then, Molsh and who the
puck is it, for there's but the two of us ?'
Molshy's contempt was beginning to rise at Bosthoon's
stupidity and slowness of apprehension, but checking this,
she proceeded in a wheedling and confidential tone.
" Sure it wouldn't be right to refuse it to me now.
Bosthoon—now man alive, _I mightn't, or somebody else
mightn't be the better of not getting it ; only two of US !
the sorrow one but you're bright.'

" Bosthoon expanded his grey eyes, and first looked at
Molshy with a sadly puzzled countenance, after which he
cast a bewildering glance slowly about the room, and again
fixed his eyes .on Molsh, without appearing one whit the
wiser. Molsh felt that she was reduced to the alternative
as before, of becoming her own interpreter ; so bending

her face again, and putting her lips to his ear, she said—
" Bosthoon, whisper jewel.'
" And in a few words she conveyed the communication,
and received an answer similar to the last.
" Tundher and whiskey, Molsh, my thracle, do you
tell me so.'
" Yes, Ido ; and I feel very quare for want of a sup.'
" Now, the reader ignorant of physiology may not see
the direct bearing which the circumstances I am now de-
tailing are calculated to have on the life and character of
him who is the subject of my autobiography. This, how-
ever, will be better explained by what I am about to narrate.
" Bosthoon no sooner understood the nature of the long-
ing desire expressed by Molshy for the sup of whiskey,
than he put a pint bottle in his pocket and went off to Peter
Byrne's public-house at the cross-roads, for the purpose of
procuring the desired beverage for her.
" The truth is, however, that one cause of his alacrity
to comply with the wishes of his wife proceeded from the
simple fact, that from the moment she mentioned the
whiskey, he felt his own longing for it nearly as powerful as
her's. Bosthoon was never the fellow to flinch from his
glass, and indeed there was scarcely a man in his native
country, who possessed a bead more impervious to its in-
fluence than his. On reaching the cross-roads, like a duti-
ful husband, he lost no time in getting his bottle filled with
the best whiskey the house afforded, with which he would
have immediately returned home, were it not for the very
natural circumstance of his meeting a few of his neigh-
bours, who were going to have something to drink. Bos-
thoon passed to an inner room, and without much reluct-
ance sat down along with them, placing his bottle of
whiskey on the ground by the side of his chair. Glass
followed glass for an hour or two, during which time they
sang and chatted with great cheerfulness and good humour.
Indeed, for the last twenty-five or thirty minutes their
mirth was excessive, so much so, that in Bosthoon's opinion
there was a pound of laughter to each ounce of joke. They
drank his own health with great glee, then Molshy's and
young Bosthoon's, and accompanied each toast with peals
of mirth that made the house ring. At length he remem-
bered the state of earnest expectation in which he left the
wife ; and after bidding them a hearty good night, he put
his bottle in his pocket and returned home, somewhat
crestfallen we admit, in cotsequence of having delayed so
long upon so important a message.
" Oych, Bosthoon, darlin,' said the wife, but I thought
you'd never come, an me in the way I'm in !'
" Why, I met with a few friends, and could neither,
by hook or crook, get away from them. But never mind
Molsh, here's a pint of stuff that 'ud take a tear off a pig,
my thracle. Get me a glass."
" He immediately filled her a glass, which slle no sooner
tasted, than with a strong shudder of aversion she laid it
down, exclaiming—
" By the blessed saints, Bosthoon man alive, it's pure
wather.'
" Wather my thracle," replied the astonished husband,
" didn't I taste the whiskey out o' the pint, afore it wint
into the bottle:
" He then filled a glass for himself, and found that
Molshy was certainly right, nor unless she herself had seen
through the trick, which his boon companions played upon
him by exchanging his whiskey for water, would he, by any
means, have discovered it.
" Oh, Bosthoon, darlin" said the wife, " I feel very

poorly.
" Don't be poorly, Tiuckey, I'll get you another, and
bate the worth of a gallon upon the first o' the skamers I
meet.'
" It's too late, jewel—it's too late now ; the harm's
done, Bosthoon, darlin ; the harm's done.'
" Why, I won't be long out ; sure I'll be here wid it in
no time. And if I meet—
" No, no, dear—you won't go out any more to-night,"
she replied, apprehensive of his getting into a quarrel, a pro-
pensity at which, notwithstanding his sluggishness, he was
rathet active ; " no, no, darlin', all the harm is done ; it's
gone aff o' me ; so that even if I had it, it would be no use.'
" Mrs. M'Flail, in truth, had stated the fact ; the harm
had been done in consequence of Bosthoon's having bungled
the performance of so simple a matter as carrying home
a pint of whiskey to his longing and loving wife."'

TEA TRADE.—The following is the quantity of
tea upon which duty has been paid up to the sth of Dec.,
1836, in the United Kingdom ;
In London.—Bohea (duty paid and retained) 14,062,6801 b.
Other sorts 20,786,392
In Liverpool.—Bohea
Other sorts
In Bristol
In Leith
In Glasgow
In all other Scotch ports
In Dublin
In Belfast
In Cork 443,731
In all other Irish ports . . 600,820
Amount of tea exported during the same period :
From London
From Liverpool 548,453
The removals coastwise from the same ports were :
From London
From Liverpool
The imports and receipts coastwise, embracing the same pe-
riod, were :—lnto London, chests, 414,010 ; boxes, 56,132 ;
packages, 3,383. Into Liverpool, chests, 86,417 ; boxes,
14,986 ; packages, 1,600. The amount of tea in the East
India Company's warehouses, up to the 24th of December,
was, of green and black, 12,306,3761 b., unsold packages ;
15,817,3301 b., sold packages.; and 993,966 deliveries.
An inquest was held last night at the Ship public-
house, Vauxhall-bridge-road, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner for
Westminster, on the body of Elizabeth Pinkup, aged six
and a half years, who lost her life under the following dis-
tressing circumrtances :—The Jury having taken a view of
the body—George Gooch, a butcher's man, said he was pass-
ing through Dorset-street, on last Sunday morning, between
ten and eleven o'clock, and on coming to an open door, he
saw the deceased in the passage enveloped in flames. There
were some females there, but they appeared too much alarmed
to afford any assistance. He extinguished the flames as well
as he could, and having wrapped the child in a blanket, he
advised the women to take her to the hospital, which he
understood they did not do. A little girl named Faucett,
said she had been playing with tne deceased on the morning
in question. They had some pictures, which deceased put
upon the mantel-piece. In a little time she stood upon the
fender, in order to get them down, when her clothes caught
fire. Another witness corroborated this testimony. The
deceased was taken to a doctor, who did everything for her,
but she died about four the same day of the injuries she had
received. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
KING AND QUEEN OF NAPLES.—The Frank-
fort Journal gives the following extract of a letter from
Vienna, dated the 23d ult. :—" The courier who arrived
yesterday brought a portrait of the King of Naples, richly
set in diamonds, which was to-day presented to the bride
elect at the ceremony, which took place in the throne
room. Yesterday the Archduchess Theresa received a
deputation from the town of Baden, in which she passed
her early years, to congratulate her on her approaching
marriage. At twelve o'clock her Imperial Highness, ac-
companied by the Empress Mother and the Princess of
Salerno, went to the cathedral of St. Stephen. On coming
out her countenance showed that she had been much af-
fected. During the last few days the Empress Mother
as accompanied the Archduchess to almost all the re-
ligious and charitable establishments, and to all the
churches, when her Imperial Highness took leave in
a very feeling :manner. The trousseau of the Arch-
duchess will be as rich and magnificent as might be
expected from the dignity of the house of Austria, and
the wealth of her father, the Archduke Charles. Eight
packages filled with the most valuable articles have been
already sent off to Naples. The King of Naples has or-
dered an extremely rich hat to be manufactured at Flo-
rence for his young Queen. The price of this costly ar-
ticle amounted to upwards of 2,000 livres . it is to be sent
to Paris to be arranged and finished.
Feargus O'Connor made his appearance at Dundee
last week in the course of his present agitation-mission
through Scotland. He was formerly a joint in O'Con-
nell's "tail ;" but finding that Dan was inveterately dis-
posed to take all the pudding as well as the praise to
himself, Feargus has lately set up on his own account ;
and, like most people in the same situation, he is deter-
mined to undersell his old master. He fairly out-herod's
Herod. For one mile that Daniel would go, Feargus
would go twain. He is none of your milk-and-water bit-
by-bit reformers. He goes the whole hog. The greatest
would-be Reformers in this quarter quailed before him.—
Dundee Courier.
The snow in this neighbourhood does not lie so
deep as we have frequently known it, and on slopes with a
Southern aspect a good deal of it has melted in the course
of the last three days. It is somewhat singular, that about
twelve miles to the South of Whitehaven little or no snow
fell, and, as we surmised, the fall in Dumfrieshire has been
but light. But over the whole of England, east of a line
drawn from Carlisle through Manchester to Dorsetshire,
and so far on the Continent as is yet ascertained, the fall has
been immense, exceediag by far any thing remembered for
many years. The loss of life and property, and the general
inconvenience aas been very great.—Whitehaven Herald.
Yesterday morning, between one and two, a melan-
choly accident occurred to Mrs. Anne Maguire, an infirm
lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, residing
in George-street, Portman-square, who was burnt in a
shocking manner by her cap taking fire while she was read-
ing in bed. Her screams brought to her assistance the ser-
vant maid, who fortunately slept in the adjoining room,
and who, with great presence of mind, seized the counter-
pane and extinguished the flames, but not before the unfor-
tunate sufferer was frightfully burnt, particularly about the
neck and body.

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, JAN. 4.—MEETING Or PARLIAME
lars, it is understood, have beers received here, liVtrting,:-:
the signature of Lord John Russell, urging the IrinAtigktl!4At...4
hers to be in London on or before the 31st inst.
LEvEE.—There will be a levee on Tuesday next, at
which Mr. O'Connell will attend. After visiting Carlow
and his constituents at Kilkenny, the f-lon. Gentleman re-
turns to Dublin, in order to attend the n;eeting of the Ge-
neral Association on Thursday the 12th insle
TRADES' UNION.—The usual week mooting' of this
body was held last night. In reference to a part of the
proceedings, the following paragraph from the lifai4. may
perhaps afford some amusement :—" We congratulate teat
worthy and maligned gentleman, Sir William Lyner, on th.l
vindication of his politics and consistency, to be found in
the abuse with which both were assailed at the Trades
Union last even;ng. As soon as the Tories come into
power, there is little doubt that his honest ambition for
office will be gratified, his appointment to place ; and we
rejoice to see that he has become a trustee for the erection
of Protestant places of worship—a sacrifice of time, con-
sidering the multifarious duties in he discharge of which
Sir William is engaged, that cannot fa,:l of being appreciated
in the proper quarter." "As soon as tie Tories come into
power," Lynar may look for a large share of the loavos and
fishes. Sir William will not, cannot, be doomed to a
lengthened term of expectancy. When he looks at Lo.,g-
ford, and the majority of 93, he must see that his day (If
glory is near at hand.
CENTRAL INDEPENDENT CLUB.--A. meeting of the
Committee of this Club was held yesterday.
COL. BRUEN.—The 17th inst. is the day fixed for the
public dinner to be given to Col. Bruen and T. Kavannah,
Esq., the Members for the County of Carlow. The Right
Hon. Lord Downes will preside.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—Pursuant to a resolution of
this body, Mr. Blake wrote to Dr. NH-laic, to 1-equest that
he would use his influence with the parochial clergy, in
order to promote the collection of the Justice Rent. The
Most Rev. Doctor has complied with the request, and ad-
dressed Mr. French, the Secretary, a long letter, which
concludes with the following passages :—" hope there is
no clergyman in this diocese (writes Dr. APHale) who will
not contribute to that fund, which is created for the purpose
of obtaining that justice which is acknowledged to be denied
on the penal grounds of religion. I trust, too, that there is
not an individual in Ireland, however humble, that will not
shortly give his offering into the national treasury, and his name
to the petitions for justice that will be poured in from all
quarters of Ireland. The triumph that crowned the Catholic
ought to be a lesson to guide the General Association. If
the people commence the new year by a peaceful manifes-
tation of their resolves to have justice done to Ireland, it
will be obtained with the same facility with which injustice
has been already forced to give way. The tithes shall be,
extinguished for ever ; the bloody sacrifices which have so
often stained the land shall cease, and the enormous eccle-
siastical revenues which have been hitherto incentives to
cruelty and corruption, will revert to their original purpose
of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, of giving com-
fort to the sick—in short, mitigating the numerous afflic-
tions of the poor. It is from the creation of that establish-
ment the poor of Ireland may date the epoch of their being
outlawed from the common privileges of humanity ; they
can never hope to be effectually restored until the Legis-
ture issue the decree of its fiscal annihilation, after which
little will be heard of polemical acrimony.

CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.

A special general meeting of the Governors of this Hos-
pital was held yesterday, in pursuance of a requisition
signed by six Governors, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the state and condition of the Hospital, and for
other purposes. There were upwards of thirty Governors
present on this occasion ; and at half-past twelve o'clock th•
Lord Chief Justice Tindal was called to the chair.

Mr. ANDERTON moved—" That the meeting of the Go-
vernors of the Charing-cross Hospital, not being held in
conformity with the laws of the Hospital, which requires
that such meetings should be held in March, April, May,
and June, resolved that the proceedings of such meeting are
void and of no effect."

Mr. STAVELEY seconded the motion.
The resolution was then put, when, on a show of hands,
there were 5 for it and 31 against it.
Mr. PETTIGRE\V said, that question being disposed of,
he would move that a special general meeting be held on
the third Wednesday in February, to consider the report of
the Special Committee appointed on the Ist of August last.
Mr. B. B. CABBELL seconded the motion.
The question was then put, when on a show of hands,
there appeared—
For the resolution,. 8
Against it 23
Majority

Mr. GREEN would move that this meeting cannot se-
parate without recording their high sense of the conduct of
Dr. Golding, the Director, and Mr. Robertson, the Ho-
norary Secretary of the Hospital ; and hereby offer their
best thanks to those gentlemen for the indefatigable zeal
and industry shown by them during the long period they
have held their onerous and highly responsible offices, and
to whose aid the Hospital is mainly indebted for its
existence.
The resolution having been adopted by a large majority,
Mr. PETTIGREW said, that as he could not approve of
the conduct of Dr. Golding and Mr. Robertson, he must
oppose the motion.
Dr. GOLDING returned thanks.

Mr. ROBERTSON also returned thanks.
Thanks were then given to Lord Chief Justice Tindal,
for his able and impartial conduct in the chair ; and
His Lordship briefly acknowledged the compliment ; after
which the meeting separated.