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speeted the notable device of a quarantine established
by the Russian Government at the mouth of the

' Danube, which- has had the effect of impeding the
1 British commerce within that great river, in direct
violation of the two treaties of Vienna and Adrianople,
. ' and in open contempt and defiance of this country.
Lord Palmerston's answer amounted to no more than
this—viz., that a real and &mil fide quarantine was
one which Russia -had a right, by treaty, to establish,
but that a quarantine which, under the plea of securing
health, had a tendency to embarrass commerce, was
one which R ussia had no right to proclaim. All the
world knew this as well as Viscount Palmerston ; all
the world knows, as well ri-.07 Noble Lord, that the
present is not a bonilfii, .I,nrty- :itine, but a factitious,
fraudulent, and insultio: f', h .nation—one
.of that
series of encroachments by v, ,':."- Russia has been feel-
ing her way, and trying how much injustice and inso-
lence Great Britain, under Whig guidance, could be
prevailed upon to bear ; but which, under the correct
title of Russian aggressions, Mr. Stewart has - an-
nounced that he will make the subject of a specific.
motion .on the 15th 'inst. We have received a commu-
nication from a correspondent, ascribing to Russian
plots and manmuvres the recent deplorable events at
Cracow. It is like the truth, and i;; well worthy of
' attention. We hope to be able to pnblish it to-mor-
row.—Times.
While we admire the straightforward honesty of
purpose which distinguishes Sir Richard Vyvyan upon
all occasions, we must admit that, like other straight-
forward persons, he is now and then betrayed into a
want of tact which more wary persons know how-to
avoid. In accusing Lord John Russell of a corrupt
use of his official power, Sir Richard Vyvyan, we will
venture to say, had no idea of attributing to the Noble
Lord , corruption in its literal vulgar sense—viz., a
putting of pounds, shillings, and pence into his coffers,
apparently the only sense which those who took offence'
at the expression appear to think that it bears ; but
what he did mean was, that he made use of his office
of a Minister of the Crown, to poison the source of
justice, by rendering party feelings and attachments the
standard of fitness for the Magistracy. This would
have been charge enough, and strongly enough ex-
pressed, without having recourse to an expression
which an awkward consciousness of having done:
wrong magnifies into a meaning which it was not in
tended to bear. In its more correct sense, corruption
means every thing that vitiates, and in that sense we
know of no circumstance to which it could more
strictly apply, than to a line of conduct which tends to
undermine or destroy the purity of that on which the
whole frame of society hangs together. The extreme
folly, not to say wickedness, of such a mode of pro-
ceeding as that which the Home Secretary has adop-
ted in the appointment of so many of the town ma-
gistrates, was admirably shown up and illustrated by
'Sir Robert Peel, in . his reference to the 'very words
of that report of the Commissioners upon which the
whole measure of Municipal Reform is founded.
What say Mr. Blackburne and his coadjutors upon
this part of the subject ? The following is the lan-
guage of their Report :
" The party spirit which pervades the Municipal' coun-
cils extends itself to the Magistracy, which is appointed by
those bodies, and from their Members. The Magistrates
are usually chosen from the Aldermen, and the Aldermen
are generally political partisans. Hence, even in those_
cases in which injustice is not absolutely committed, a sirong
suspicion of it is excited: and the local tribunals cease to
inspire respect. The corporate Magistrates, generally
speaking, are not looked upon by the inhabitants with. fa-
your or respect, and are (den regarded with positive dis-
trust and dislike." ..1%.,.. ...,.._.
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Though there were wife ' pourable exceptions to
this description, every one ac uainted with these Cor-
porations 1 t4t9
must admit, generally speaking, the truth of
this statement as undeniable. This, then, was one of the
main evils which the Municipal Reform Act was passed
to cure. And how do the • Whig Ministers set about
that cure, but by inoculating their new system with the
vice they so loudly condemned in the old one ? .Nor
is this the only revival of past nuisances which came
to light on the occasion in question. One .of the
principal duties which devolve upon Borough Magis-
trates is the licensing of public houses ; nor is there
any in the performance of which more abuse and cor-
ruption has been displayed. In a majority of the old
Corporations the brewer and the attorney were gene-
rally found playing into each other's hands. Public
houses, the sole property of the former, were uniformly
licensed to the exclusion of all others ; while the work-
ing orders were drugged with a beverage alike injurious
to their health and morals. Has any thing been done
to remedy this evil ? On the contrary, from all that
has appeared, some pains have been taken to perpe-
tuate it, and we have reason to know that in some of
the new Corporations this licensing abuse is as great,
if not greater, than before, while, in none that we have
heard of, has any diminution of the evil taken place.
If this be not in itself corrupt, and if the sanctioning
of it will not beer that epithet, it tends at least to a
corruption which every one must deplore, and which
every well-wisher to the welfare of the community
must be anxious to avert.—Morning Herald.

The Easter recess affords a resting-place in the pro-
gress of the Parliamentary Session, from which it does
not seem improper to look backward to what has been
done, and forward to what seems likely to be done, by
an Administration the most fertile in promises that
ever governed Great Britain. But, unfortunately, on
the present occasion, whether we look backward or for-
ward the prospect is equally dreary. The rich ‘blos-
soms of promises are already blighted ; there seems no
chance of fruit. The scene on either side is one of
gaunt and naked barrenness. Memory, reason, ima-
gination, when summoned to make their returns of the

real, the probable, or the conceivable achieve-
ments of the men who now govern the course of
our national legislation, answer alike nil, nil, nil.
Many important alterations of our internal polity
have been promised. Speculations upon various
subjects has been sett afloat, agitation has been ex-
cited—interests have, been disturbed and impaired.
Change has - been rendered necessary by the incon-
siderate and unreflecting
.promise of change. This
was easy ; facile beyond expression, or beyond any
other form of expression than that which announces it
to hare been actually accomplished by the feeble and
incapable men who now constitute the British Govern-
ment. But, towards settling the many momentous
questions these imbeciles have raised, what can be so
abstird, at this time of day, as to imagine that- thiey
will ever be able to do anything ? . We are
.arrived at
the Eastet recess ;. and what,. after all their magnifi-
cent prpmises.ankprojects, have the Ministry, done,
more than to show that the Administration is a nul-

lity, and that with such an Executive the Legislature
,must bo a nullity also ? What is the .aggregate praQ-
tical effect .of the eight weeks' constant debating We
haVe heard'in the House of Commons ? An increase
of the navy estimates. This is positively all that the
country has obtained, and all that it has much chance of
obtaining. One, Bill has, it is true, found its way to
the Upper. House. It is a Bill to reform the English
Corporation Reforni Bill of last year, and this. supple-
mentary attempt at legislation is so ricketty and mis-
shapen a bantling, we understand, that the House of Peers
will scarcely be able in committee to doctor it into
any'show of efficiency and usefulness. Of the other
Legislative measures proposed by 'the Administration
thereisiiot one that Amises to be in any.degree
more prosperous. than the Corporation Reform
The Irish Corporation Reform Bill, framed in obe-
dience to the will of Mr. O'Connell,, for the purßoqe:pf
increasing his political power, and that of the. Papist
Priests, his confederates, has passed the. House of
.Commons under such circumstances as prove very dis-
tinctly that, upon the subject to which it relates nothing
is yet done. Everybody knows that the House 01
Lords will reject this Bill altogether, or transform it
into a wise and honest, that is, into an entirely new
measure. The English Tithe Bill has made just so