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London, England, 1838-08-11 00:00:00

of the Exchequer with all the simplicity that belongs to a great
financier, " surprise I why, it's the very course which was
taken with respect to the hid' Municipal Coiporatio
Bill of 1836." Ay, but at what period of the sum m e
of 1 536 did this precedent take place, which Govern-
ment thus glibly appeal to? On the 9th of August, when
almost every description of business, public and private, had
been disposed of, and the Members remaining in London
had slackened, and almost ceased, from their attendance in the
[louse of Commons ? No ; but on the 30th of June, while
the season both of pleasure and of business was at its height,
London at the fullest, and the attendance of Members regular
and unremitted. At such a time of year no movement that
could have been made, unless at some late hour of the night,
could have taken Parliament by surprise. Was that the state
of the [louse on Thursday evening last, the 9th of August,
1838? But the case of 1836 and the case of 1838, materially
as they differ from each other with respect to the season of the
year, differ yet more materially with respect to the substance of
the transaction. In 1836 there had been no delusive declara-
tion4,of a design to accept the amendments of the Lords. It had
been publicly announced, both in and out of Parliament, that the
Commons Would reject them ; and the power of the Com-
mons to work their will was in that Parliament notorious and
irresistible. In the present Session, on the contrary, the
most insidious professions had been made of a desire to accom-
modate every difrerence ; on Thursday morning not . a man
beyond the confidential circle of the Ministers themselves
could have told what. reception the qualification clause was
finally to meet, and if aft& the intimation given by Govern-
ment, and in the present state of the town, such a muster had
been made of both parties as a couple of days' notice would
have admitted, it is difficult to say with any certainty on
which side the victory would have fallen. Of course, the
Alinisterialists will assert that no possible notice could have
given their opponents a victory. If so, for what reason was
this disengenuous course adopted ? If not for fear of defeat,
was it for sheer shame? Was it that the Ministers, inured

though they are to the discredit of detected artifices, and cal-
lous to the reproach of broken faith, yet shrunk from the
exposure of this new and crowning dishonour, and sought to
shelter themselves from castigation by means of a thin atten-
dance, and the rare and lucky absence of Sir R. Peel ? Times.
If the Members of the Whig Cabinet could, by any fresh
exhibition of their characters and principles, increase the con-
tempt in which they are held, universally, their display, in the
House of Lords, last night, would, beyond question, draw to-
wards them, even a larger measure of that loathing, which
their official meanness—meanness without a parallel in the his-
tory of party—so irresistibly excites in the public mind
Lord Melbourne, who, on Thursday night, denounced the
Peers of England as " a jealous oligarchy"—as copyists of
ca low and truculent democracy"—that same Lord Mel-
bourne, on Friday night—within four-and.twenty hours after
the delivery of these insulting expressions—humbly bowed
himself in submission to the will of the Conservative majority
of the House of -Lords—kissed the rod with which he had been
chastised—admitted that all the views, which on the previous
night he had advocated with so much obstinacy, were un-

soind—anTladOPiedthe grounds on which the Conservatives
had rested their objections to Lord Durham's ordinances,
as quietly as if no doubt had ever existed on the
subject. On Thursday night, Lord Brougham, as well
as the Earl of Ripon and the Duke of Wellington,
urged Lord Melbourne to spare the House, and the country,
and Lord Durham, the pain of discussing the Canadian or-
dinances at length. 'These ordinances, as the leaders of the
Opposition observed, are confessedly, in part at least, illegal.
Ministers themselves admitted that these ordinances must be
modified, and, to a certain extent, counteracted. Let the
whole ordinances, therefore, (so ran the exhortation) be dis-
allowed by the Queen in Council;—and, in that event, Par-
liament will not interfere between Ministers and Lord Dur-
ham! Such was the offer of the Conservatives on Thursday
night. Lord Melbourne and his colleagues spurned at it !
After, however, being heartily beaten, Lord Melbourne inti-
mated, last night, his willingness to do, what he might have
done, previously, without loss of honour ! He will, after all,
disallow the ordinances ! If love of place were a virtue,
England might rejoice in a Cabinet composed of the most
virtuous of men ! On Thursday night, Lord Melbourne
and his followers contended fiercely, that a certain pro-
viso in the Canada Act did not limit Lord Durham's
powers, in the manner contended for by Lord Brougham
and Lord Lyndhurst I Last night, Lord Melbourne
admitted the reasonableness of Lord Brougham's con-
struction of the. Act. Lord Melbourne, it is true, spoke
m)steriously of the dangers that might arise from the course
pursued by their Lordships; and he concluded by requesting
that ample powers, suitable for the emergencies which might
arise, should be given to Lord Durham I Lord Brougham, in
reply, declared that, as to the dangers which were depicted as
being likely to arise from the conduct of the House of Peers
in regard to Lord Durham's ordinances, no danger could ever
arise from their Lordships evincing their determination to
vindicate the great rights of humanity. Lord Ripon, Lord
Wicklow, and the Duke of Wellington, moreover, observed,
that if dangers of the kind described by Lord Melbourne
should arise, that Noble Viscount would himself alone be re-
sponsible for that result, because, had Lord Melbourne taken

the advice tendered to him—advice which he had since
adopted—of simply disallowing Lord Durham's ordinances,
the whole of what was styled the dangerous discussion of
those ordinances would have been spared. As to investing
Lord Durham with the new powers desired for him by the
Cabinet—Lord Brougham stated that such a proposition was
herftherefore,tss
unnecessaryNitheil i e
blunders
lun
not to be lightly acceded to ! It was natural, he observed, for
the Cabinet to desire to " let down" Lord Durham easily—
and to flatter his vanity with tie notion that, hereafter at all
events, he may hang men without trial, and do whatever may
seem good to him on the plea of expediency ! Lord Ellen-
borough declared truly that the clause which Lord Melbourne
desired to introduce, would have the effect of investing Lord
Durham with powers as ample as those with which, in the first
draught of the Canadian Government Bill, it had been at-
tempted to clothe him—powers, which had been sub-
sequently compressed within very narrow compass I The
concession of such powers could not, Lord Elienbo-
-011 thought, be agreed to, unless Lord Durham
rough
provided with a Council that could not be deemed
N'''' illusory. This This sentiment was responded to' by the
majority of the Peers I It was, eventually, agreed, that Lord
BrOugham's Bill should be converted into a Bill of Indemity ;
and that Lord Melbourne should bring in a separate Bill, de-
claratory of the nature of Lord Durham's real powers. No
extension of those powers will be tolerated, unless his Lord-
ship'shave purchased, by even more than their customary meanness,
present Council be dismissed I The Whigs, in short,
they have effected nothing. They have not succeeded in
a short respite from destruction. But for Lord Durham,
his fall. On the contrary, they have rendered that
and they will yet be compelled to cashier his
;Council. Bitter as these doses are, Lord Mel-
fbarlelamkiourge severe 1 They have been compelled to disallow his
boLr:durirdnnsaelnlicaPend his friends will swallow them, as Pistol swallowed
his leak;—but whether Lord Durham will follow their example,
is exceeingly doubtful I The presumption is, that he will re-
sign
Ministers, after having displayed their impo.sign ;—and if he does, Lord Melbourne and his satellites must
resign also I—Morning Herald.
Her
tense by an ineffectual attempt to defend Lord Durham and
to disallow their validity. The declaratory part,
his illegal ordinances, have given way, and resolved to advise
toYf the Bill introduced by Lord Brougham becomes
The Ministers now admit the interpretation of
the Canada Bill which, up to yesterday evening, it appeared
to be necessary to force upon them by a Declaratory Act,
and they also admit the necessity for an Act of Indemnity for
what has been illegally done. That part, therefore, of Lord
b leo to u
attemptsi
m posi
Brougham's Bill which went to screen the authorities in Canada
r the consequences of their illegal acts will stand good,
from
d, it is understood, will pass into a law with the consent of
ders of their representative in Canada than
grossguanudn
Vinisters. It is certainly better that Ministers should con-
pchoonitdemaplate alpain which •
with-
out shame and disgust the manner
blundering, defence of blundering, and eventually confession
of blundering, has been carried cn. It is utterly disgraceful
still feebleit i s
to Great Britain that she should be ruled over by a Govern-
ment which has
,not skill to get through any affair of moment
with
but
tini
• without falling into difficulties, nor honesty and candour to
get out of any difficulty without falling into disgrace. Lord
Melbourne's speech upon the occasion appears to be a particu-
larly had one, even for him. It is a heap of words
which Scarcely Ponvey Oile OM idea ; but, upon
the whole, leads to the conclusion that he feels himself
beaten, and that, as he does not mean to resign, he will adopt
that which the Opposition tell him is just and necessary. The
;loot, ittlittn elven about a clause to alter the proviso in the
Canada OM 0 tilP PPsept §ession, 'ye loot 1,,p0n to ely tis
a sort of crutch to the ex.cf.cdingly lamp confession of error
and weakness comprised in the rest of his
.speech. He would
not have it all concession,
444 with P Pins° in a Bill which he himself assented to ht it,
a few months -(i I - •i t d d
ago --a e 4140 4 !'q 14eg IV preo the ablest
law} ers and ablest men in England, He by
well that he
has not the power, Prime Minister though he be, to make that
clause invalid, and v therefore, look his • , a
, 4 we,upon notice as
mere tea,
01 co. Many people will naturally expect that Lord
Durham must CONRC Loma as soot; a 4 be finds that her Majesty's
Ministers, wl him advised
io sent out, have her Majesty to dis-
allow the
validity of the ordinances. The probability is, how-
ever, that, while Ministers officially condemn the Governor of
Canada, thoy will ;;e44 RA to jiim the in6st 4bluet represent a.
tions of their helpless state, and bug ho will not be offended
at what they do upon compulsion of an Opposition which they
are unable to resist. The Ministers are cunning enough to
know h
"t giPas flattery will do anything with Lord Porham ;
and it is probable theY'oill be mean enough to resort to that
expedient. bee.iese they are afraid of his influence and ill-
temper, and wish to keep him out of Great Britain, —Korn-
fug Post.

wall omnibus
oTtiepaity of -.--.
At
Lambeth-street police-office yesterday, James
Brenturk, late a servant in the employment of 111 r. Fardell, the Black:
17,11,gp of stealing and ►pawning a coat which had been given into his
proprietor, was brought up for final examination on a
char It appeared the coat had been given him to take care of by one
appendages and some cash. The officers, however,
prisoner was strongly suspected of robbing another gentleman whom
gentlemen whom he had taken from Blackwell to town.
he had taken from the West India Deck Tavern to town, of a watch and
had not been enabled
to trace out the latter property, and the owner of the coat being at pre-
sent in Scotland, the magistrates dealt summarily with the case, and
convicted the prisoner in the penalty of 51. 155., or three months' im.
prisonmei.t in the House of Correction.
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A man of the name of Jmeson, late in the employ-
Tent of Messrs. Mackintosh, the well-known railroad contractors, was a
few days ago placed on the list of out-patients of the University College
siospital, into which institution he had been previously conveyed in
consequence of several of his ribs having been fractured owing to a col_
ilsion between his cart and another. He appeared to be gradually get_
lug better, but while walking along the New.road yesterday he suddenly
fell down a corpse.