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London, England, 1825-05-06 00:00:00

VIE LONDON JOUItNALS•

DAILY
Gtracts from the Morning Papers, May 6, 189.5:

[THE - TIMES.]
•
We :.have taken some pains to .ascertain the
,source.of a
.rumonr that Parliament is to be disl,
solved before the close of the present year. We
Anew.lhat a short time ago Ministers had come to
a determination to have- another Session. of the
,pr_esent.by no means, impracticable conclave ; and
we had seen nothing in the circumstances of the
"conntrylikely to produce a Change of intention.
Stia.the, repOrt of dissolution Was repeated with
4540 industry and confidence, that we began to
tihink (to use .a familiar phrase) " there most, be
Something in it." 'We have accordingly made in-
.suiries ; and on what does the reader suppose that
this confident rumour..is founded ? Simply and
solely, on the fact that the Marquis of, Hertford
has betted 500/. to 3001. that a dissolution will
'take place before next year. Nowove are'ready
to admit that Lord -Hertford is not Jirithout
means of information respecting the intentions
'that
the Cabinet ; nor are we blind to the fact
that Lord Hertford is ley no means a careleSs,
person in money matters: and _we have logic
enough to draw from these two circumstances,
the inference that his Lordship i 3 not likely to
risk,his money on slight grounds. But still we
are not convinced : we know that there is such
a thing among sportsmen, whether of the Clubs or
the Alley, as hedging a het : and we are not in-
clined,to attach the least importance to Lord
Hertford's - bet, unless his Lordship will favour
ns with an unreserved-perusal of his betting-book.
As we scarcely expect to be favoured with this mode
of informing ourselves whether Lord 'Hertford
has hedged his bet, we shall merely say that we
think a rumour resting solely on such. a founda-
tion is not warty_ of discussion.; especially as we
know that persons with equal means of informa-
tion With his L6rdship are of a diametrically op-
posite opinion.
_After all, we perhaps have given
an undue importance to the. matter by mentioning
it-at all ; for it certainly cannot, in any important
political sense, signify one straw whether Parlia-
ment be dissolved in this year or the next.

[MORNING HERALD.)
We cannot credit the report of an immediate
dissolution of Parliament ; though it still con-
tinues very prevalent. We think it would be
the most injudicious step which Ministers could
possibly take under existing circumstances. If
it were meant as a method of putting aside the
Catholic Question, we do not know a more de-
cided signal for riot and contention than such a
method would afford. We believe the present
_Parliament just as able to decide upon that ques-
tion as a new one would be. And as to such a
measure collecting the public feeling upon the
subject, we believe that any such criterion would
be fallacious. If noise and clamour were
grounds for judging of . public opinion, of
course a general -election would afford enough
of that. But the good sense and right feeling
of the country, it is to be hoped, were not
vested in the noisy or clamorous part of the com-
munity. If so, then there was a time when
Wilkes might have been made King. We are
friends to a Constitutional recurrence to the opi-
nion of the- people, not Only at the stated periods
required by the Septennial Act, but oftener if
circumstances arise to make it advisable : but we
deny that it can be necessary or right to appeal
to-the people on a subject in which the minds of
so many of them have first been worked up into
a ferment. We have heard of appealing " from
drunk-to Philip sober ;" but this would
be reversing the adage, and appealing from the
call-114nd temperate deliberation of l'arliatnent,
to the heated and indiscreet frnits of the clamours
raised by the instigators of " no Popery."

. -
[NEW TIMES.]
The question of the Combination Laws re.
quires to undergo a ,yery careful investigation be
fore the Legislature adopts any 'new measure
upon it. The interest of the workmen, we have
no hesitation in saying, should be first•and most
anxiously provided for by the Legislature.
should be so, beca,ase the workmen are the
weater number—because they are the less in-
formed—and because they possess the less effec-
tual means of guarding their own interest. Whether
the entire abolition not' only of the Statute Law,
but even of the' Common Law, apinst Combi-
nations, was really the best uiode. of protect-
in'g the interests of the workmen may well
be- questioned. Upon abstract princi'iles, there
can be no doubt bdt that masters and work-
men should be alike free to make such contracts
as their separate interests dictate. Neither c
it Tbe`dou)]ted, but that in a prOper state of affairs
those contracts would naturally be governed by
the balance of supply and demand. But we must
not 'shut our eyes to the actual infirmities of hug.
limn • nature. We must not expect an ignorant
Weaver or shoemaker to ,governconduct i}y the
pare principles of political economy. Violent.and
ifain I'4-ruled men will resort to improper modes- of
enfOrting what they call their right,. A #rike,
for wages, as it is called, is almost'always
44) ,with outrages of one Liva or. other—outrages
Wjlich are as gross infractions of, the rights of the
wßilo-pen Ivho do,not strike, as of the misters
iliemselves. Against these evils a strong, practi-
raiz and effectual remedy should ezist, either by
the tOmrnott or Slat Ute Law. SP map, high or
low; should be permitted to compel another to
worli for certain wages, or to restrain him from
iccepting them it 'he thinkis _ ftt ; and not even' an
insult should be tolerated from one workman to
another for such a cause. We. are most-anxious
111,4 T labonr 00-111 d be Well paid ; but sifikeS, and
violent violent. measures in general, do not procure the
best, payment for the labourer. Quiet,
. good
sense, and sound iittorniatio6, among the, media,
will eventually he found the :best security. to
their interests. •
[unrrisit 'PRES9.I •
41r, Brougham "last night gave notice of his
ton'tion to move flie- commitment of, the Roman
Ctifholic Retterßill before the Orders this even-
ing; if Sir P.:Burdett should not be in his place