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PRISONERS' COUNSEL BILL.

An Act for enabling Persons indicted of Felony to make
their Defence by Counsel or Attorney.
Whereas it is just and reasonable that persons accused of
offences against tl-ra law should be enabled to make their
full answer and defence to all that is alleged against
them ; be it therefore enacted, by the King's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, that from and after the Ist day of October
next, all persons tried for felonies shall be admitted, after
the close of the case for the prosecution, to make full
answer and defence thereto, by Counsel learned in the
law, or by Attorney in Courts where Attorneys practise
as Counsel.

And be it fnrther declared and enacted, That in all cases
of summary conviction, persons accused shall be admitted
to make their full answer and defence, and to have all wit-
nesses examined and cross-examined by Counsel or Attorney.
And be it further enacted, That all persons who after the
grassing of this Act shall be held to bail or committed to
Prison for any offence against the law, shall be entitled to
require and have, on demand (from the person wl.o shall
have the lawful custody thereof; and who is hereby required
to deliver the same), copies of the examinations of the wit-
nesses respectively upon whose depositions they have been
so held to bail or committed to prison, on payment of a
reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding 1 Nd. for each
folio of 90 words : Provided always, That if such demand
shall not be made before the day appointed for the com-
mencement of the Assize or Sessions at which the trial of
the person on whose behalf such demand shall be made is
to take place, such person shall not be entitled to have any
copy of such examination of witnesses, unless the Judge or
ether person to preside at such trial shall be of opinion that
such copy may be made and delivered without delay or in-
convenienee to such trial ; but it shall nevertheless be com-
petent for such Judge or other person so to preside at such
trial, if he shall think fit, to postpone such trial on account
of such copy of the examination of witnesses not having
been previously had by the party charged.
And be it further enacted, That all persons under trial
shall be entitled, at the time of their trial, to inspect, with-
out fee or reward, all deposition (or copies thereof) which
have been taken against them, and returned into the Court
before which such trial shall be had.
And be it further enacted, That this Act may be
amended, altered, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be
passed in this present Session of Parliament ; and that
nothing herein contained shall extend to Scotland.

METROPOLITAN SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT
LAMBETH.—Some difficulties have arisen in getting this Bill
through Parliament, by its appearing that the first project was
for an iron and stone bridge. Then subscriptions were ob-
tained under the impression it was to be a railway bridge ;
but the Archbishop of Canterbury objecting to a railway,
the Bill was altered in the Commons that it should not be a
railway, and now, an endeavour is being made to provide that
the bridge may be so constructed as to be a railway at some
future period ; all which indecision has an unfavourable effect
on the progress of the Bill, as parliament requires to be satis-
fied that the subscribers to the undertaking are aware of these
changes of purpose.
The only two persons living who are sons of signers
of the charter of Independence of the United States are John
Quincy Adams, former President of the United States, and
Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, who has been put in nomination
to that high office.—Montreal Courier.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1836.

We are glad to find that there is a prospect of get-
ting rid of the obnoxious Church Bills. A meeting
of Ministers, and those Members of the House of
Commons who usually support them, was held yester-
day at the Foreign Office, for the purpose of coming
to some understanding on the course to be pursued
with respect to these measures ; and we sincerely re-
gret that this was not done at an miler stage. But
it would appear that neither Government nor the Li-
beral party in the House of Commons were aware of
the real nature and tendency of the Bills in question.

They probably thought, that as they were founded on
the Reports of a Commission, in which appear the
names of some of the Cabinet Ministers, nothing very
objectionable could have found its way into these
measures. But it ought not to have been
overlooked, that those Members of the Com-
mission were succeeded in consequence of their
official situations, to the Members who had been
originally appointed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and
who went out with him. The majority of the Com-
missioners were still Bishops and Tories, and it is
quite clear that they were the concoctors of the various
Reports, and consequently the real authors of the

measures founded upon them. How else shall we
account for such a monstrosity as the recommendation
that the Bishop of LONDON should have 10,0001. a
year instead of 4,500/. ? And the cloak thrown over

this admirable specimen of clerical rapacity, by pro-
posing that his Lordship's diocese, not being already
large enough, should be increased and rounded by a
corritvAble slice from Essex, and another from Kent I

At the meeting to which we have alluded, there was
considerable difference of opinion. Lord JOHN Rus-
s ELL stated the Bills—one of them at least—had gone
so far that he should consider himself bound to carry
it forward, and that, in the event of his not succeeding
in consequence of the opposition of the Reformers, he
must resign his office. Mr. HUME denounced the
Bills in his plain straightforward way, as bottomed on
Toryism, and strongly pressed upon Ministers the
propriety of postponing them. In this view the Hon.
Member was supported by a section of the Liberal,..
Another section seemed inclined to adopt Mr.
O'CONNELL'S view of the case—namely, that
rather than subject Ireland to the vindictive

tyranny of the Tories, it would be better to
submit to the alternative of passing one of the Bills,
bad as it was. This, we confess, is a hard alterna-
tive. We hate the Bill ; but we hate the Tories still
more. They are ready to grasp the helm the moment
if is quitted. They are gasping for the loaves and
fishes. Place and plunder for them, no matter on
what terms, or for how short a tenure. The tenure, in-
deed, would be but brief—certainly not longer than the
last, but we know that they can do an infinite deal of
mischief in a very short space of time. If, then, the
question be, will you have the B►ll or the. Tories, we say
at once, for God's sake give us the Bill.
The meeting broke up without coming to any deci-
sion, and as a necessary consequence, there was no
House yesterday. By Monday, Ministers will be pre.
pared to take their course. We sincerely hope they
will not find it incompatible to postpone the Bills and
still retain their places. To us, it certainly does not
appear to be so.

In the House of Lords last night the Irish Church
Bill, was read a second time, on the motion of Viscount

, LO

DON, ►S.

MELBOURNE, who introduced the subject by a speech:
wherein he ridiculed, very properly, the high Tory
notion that Parliament had no right to interfere with
the distribution of Church property. " For any one
to say," observed his Lordship, " that it came not
within the scope of Parliament to legislate on this
question, appeared to him perfectly absurd. It was
the practice of the whole civilized world, where there
was a Church possessing a revenue, whether east,
west, north, or south—let the professors be Calvinists
or Lutherans, Zuingileans or Catholics—it was the,
practice adhered to by every sect, by every class of
religious Reformers. To say then that it was not
within the power of the dominant authority of the
State to legislate on such a subject, was saying what
was contrary to all practice, experience, reason, nay,
common sense. It was, he granted, a question not to
be meddled with unless with the utmost caution, and
in an extreme case." The " extreme case," of which
his Lordship here speaks, has now fully arisen ; for
none can look at the present condition of Ireland
as respects the Protestant Church, and not at once
perceive that it is such as cannot be continued without
risking the security of the whole Ecclesiastical Esta-
blishment. The Ministerial Bill proposes that in
places where the Protestants are less than fifty in
number, the resident clergyman shall receive an income
of a hundred pounds ; where the number is above
fifty, and not exceeding five hundred, then the stipend
shall not exceed two hundred pounds, nor be less than
a hundred and fifty pounds. Where the number of
Protestants is not less than a thousand, nor More than
five thousand, the income shall not exceed three
hundred pounds, nor be less than two hundred and
fifty pounds ; and where the number exceeds five
thousand, the income shall be five hundred pounds,
which is to be the maximum income of rural benefices
in Ireland. The Duke of WELLINGTON concurred
in the broad principle of the measure, but dissented
from many of its details, and announced his intention
of proposing alterations in Committee. Previously to
the Bill being brought forward, the Bishop of EXE-
TER announced that he should, early in the next ses-
sion, move for an inquiry into the operations of the
Board of National Education in Ireland, which drew
down on. the Rev. Prelate a grave, caustic rebuke
from Lord PLUNKETT, who accused him, in direct
terms, of persisting in charges against the Board,
which had already been proved to be " rash and un-
fou►►ded." It grieves us to the heart to say a word in
disparagement of such a meek, tolerant, and Christian
dignitary as him of Exeter ; but a regard to truth
compels us to state, that his political conduct in the
House of Lords is by no means calculated to impress
the people with any exaggerated reverence for Episco-
pacy. Still we ought not to complain, for so long
as the VenerabIePHILLPOTTS retains his functions
as an aristocratic legislator, so long shall we be fur-
nished with a strong argument for the expediency
of disembarrassing the Bishops of their political duties
in the House of Lords.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Thursday. The Moniteur contains the following
official communication :--

" The Turkish squadron has landed on the plains of Mes-
chia the Capitan Pacha, at the head of 2,590 men. It was to
leave on the 4th for Mytelene, or the Dardanelles."
We have advices from St. Sebastian to the 18th.
General EVANS was then so ill as to be confined to
his bed. We regret to learn that desertions from
the Legion, to the ranks of the Pretender, are be-
coming very frequent. On the 16th a serjeant of
Lancers, and four men fully accoutred, passed over to
the Carlists. Of the same corps, an equal number
deserted to the enemy only ten days before. The men
who thus abandoned the cause of liberty 'and the
QUEEN, enjoy the reputation of having conducted
themselves in the most orderly way up to the moment
of their desertion. They had also distinguished them-
selves by their bravery in the engagement of the 11th
before Fontarabia.

Lieutenant LYNCH has died of his wounds.

Lieutenant-Colonels Ross and BEA TSON were
severely wounded in the late attack on Fontarabia.
Captains CALDER and De BACHER, and Lieutenant
DOYLE, were likewise wounded, but not dangerously.
PARIS, JULY 20.—The check which the Anglo-Christinos
have just experienced, and the progress of the expedition of
Gomaz in the Asturias, the importance of which is not dis-
sembled, are said to have induced M. Theirs again to bring
forward in the Council the question of intervention; but this
proposal is said to have met with the same opposition from an
exalted personage as it has done hitherto.
A Morning Journal says—" M. D. Pellion, aid-de-camp to
the Minister of War, has just been sent to the frontiers of
Spain. It is said that the mission of this officer, is relative to
the measures which are necessary to put an end to the Car-
lists, and the Government is resolved at length to take a deci-
sive part in the war which afflicts Spain, with which it has been
in alliance at least ever since the treaty of the 22d of April."
M. de Chasseloup, another aid-de-camp of the Minister of
War, is gone to Algiers. It seems that M. de Chasseloup
has orders for the recruiting of the Foreign Legion which
serves in Spain.—Messager, July 21.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pents, Jura' 21.
Five per Cents., IcBf. 80c. 75c. 80c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 95c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 40c. :15e.
Bank Actions, 2,272 f. 50c 2,275 f.
ftente tie Naples, 1001. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 103.
Spanish Actives, 3814 38 38
Spanish Differes, 16%.
Spanish Passives, II N 38.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103,1,
Portuguese Three per Cents. 49%.
Haytian Loan, 387 f. 50c.
EXCIIANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 30c.; money, 25f. 30c
Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money, 25f. 15c
—tours Authentigue.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The Three per Cents. have
declined a little. The price opened at 80f. 35c., or 801. 40c.,
strong sellers. Spanish Active Stock has been done at 38,
but the price recovered to 38k, and is now 381. All securi-
ties look heavy.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 85c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 35c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —, Gueb-
herds, —; Differes, 13i; New Loan, —; Actives, 381; Pas-
sives, I l ; Ducats, 100 55 ; Romans, 103 ; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 103 k ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 387 f. 50c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 22i ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, MI; Five per Cent. Perpe
twines, —; Royal Loan, —.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JULY 19.

FOREIGN FUNDS. . 1!fills. ' Mosey.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. 99 98
i)itto ditto 3 per cent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1357 1355
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 105
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent —
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., :3(1 and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent. 7!i
Ditto, 3 per cent. 5O
Dutch 254 per Cents
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, :3 per cents 7414 74
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 livr cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 per cents. 11133, guaranteed by France 98}4 Vs
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JULY 19.-13 8% ; two months, la 7.
CHRISTIANIA, JULY 9.—Three months. 5.
STOCKHOLM, JULY 12.—Two months, 11 33.
BERLIN. JULY 14.—Three minths, 6. 24.
—Hamburg Papers, July 19.
BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JULY 19.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 10134
Loan of City, 1832. 4 per Cent MO%
Society of Commerce, 45..; per Cent 13750
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 122%
—Brussels Papers, July 20. '

Madrid Journals to the 14th inst. have been received.
The elections commenced on the 13th, and had even
then appeared to run in favour of MENDIZABA L, who,
with OLOZAGA, had been chosen in the sixth college.
The following official notice of the contract for the
New Loan appears in the Madrid Gazette, officially
signed by the pro tenzpore Minister of Finance :

" Her Majesty the Queen Regent, wishing to place at the
disposal of the army all the resources requisite for insuring
the continuation of 'the war with the activity and euergy so
requisite to hasten its conclusion, has accepted the proposal of
M. Gaveria to advance one hundred and twenty millions of
reals on treasury bills. With respect to the circulation and
acceptance of these bills the following rules are to be ob-
served:—
" 1. They are to be received by town magistrates, deposita-
ries, prsceptors, and treasurers of finance, for their nominal
value, and in payment of one half the amount of taxes, such

URDAY, JULY 23, ih36.

As the subsidy of commerce and industry, f,rovincial rents and
enrolments, different contributions, subsidies to the clergy,
and decimal rents.

2. The other half of the contributions must be made in

money.

"3. The arrear of contributions up to the end of December,
1835, may be paid in tote in the above treasury .bills..

"4. These bills are to become current from the 15th of July.
" Madrid, July 5, 1836."
We have no further accounts of the Carlist move-
ments in the Asturias. The capital was tranquil.

The dissolution of the Norwegian Storthing or Par-
liament took place on the Bth instant. From causes
not explained in the documents which convey this in-

telligence to us, the Budget was not brought forward,
neither had that assembly taken 'half of the subjects
usually discussed by it into consideration. The fol-
lowing is the Royal decree dissolving the Session :

We, Charles John, &c., by and with the advice of our Privy
Councillor, have been pleased to order and empower our
Councillor of State, M. Jonas Collett, in conjunction with
the other Members of our Norwegian Government, to dis-
solve the Eighth Ordinary Storthing now assembled no Fri-
day the Bth July, and for that purpose be read and delivered
to the Storthing the gracious communication signed by us,
and dated this day.
We, &c., &c., as sec. 80 of the Fundamental Law describes,
that an ordinary Storthing shall not remain sitting more than
three months without the permission of the King,---we have
graciously permitted the present Storthing to continue its
sittings two months beyond that time. We now find it ad-
visable for the general good to dissolve the Storthing, and
hereby in conformity with sec. 80 of the Fundamental Law,
declare the Bth ordinary Storthing of the Kingdom of Norway
dissolved. We assure the Storthing of the Kingdom of Norway
of our continued favour and affection.

Lord Brougham, in consequence of the sudden
change of the weather, is still at Harrington, Lincolnshire,
in full enjoyment of his health, but intends to proceed to the
coast, when the weather is settled and more favourable.
Lord Stanley has left town to traverse the banks of
the Rhine, and make a tour of Germany ; but be has left his
little party of adherents behind him to nibble at Ministers,
and endeavour to frustrate their measures.
The health of the Duke of Northumberland has
much improved within the last few days. The Surgeon-Ge-
neral of Ireland ( Mr. Crampton) is said to have received a fee
of a thousand guineas for a professional visit to his Grace pre-
vious to his departure for Dublin and Limerick.
The Earl of Shannon has purchased the scat of the
late Mr. Nash in the Isle of Wight. His Lordship has relin-
quished the family seat in the County of Cork to his eldest
son, Viscount Boyle, who has been entertaining the Lord
Lieutenant and the Countess of Mulgrave and suite there
during the present week.
MISS PENELOPE SMYTH.—The Prince of Capua
and his lady are at this moment in Marseilles, where they in-
tend to prolong their stay until they shall have obtained leave
to return to Italy.
A melancholy accident happened in Goodwood
Park on Thursday afternoon. Lieutenant G. Fraser, from
Ashling, had repaired thither to witness the cricketing, when
his second son, a boy of nine years old, having mounted the
servant's horse, by some means was thrown, and his foot
hanging in the stirrup, he was dragged on the ground so
as to cause a concussion of the brain, of which he shortly
expired.
VIENNA, JULY 12.—The Emperor has been
pleased to excuse Count Milrowsky, the High Chancellor,
who suffers severely from the gout, from appearing in person
at the coronation in Bohemia, and has appointed Prince Au-
gustus, from Lebkowitz, to officiate in his stead. Count Von
Sufft Petrarch, Ambassador at Florence, is appointed Ambas-
sador at the Hague, and Count Revisak Ambassador at
Florence instead.—Five per Cents., 104 ; Four Per Cents.,
100 ; Three per Cents., 75i ; Bank Shares, 1,5581.—A lige-
meine Zeitung, July 17.
PUBLIC MEETING AT GATESHEAD.—Friday,
a public meeting was held in the Town-hall, convened by the
Mayor, in accordance with a requisition signed by several re-
spectable inhabitants, to consider such measures as may ap-
pear best calculated to support the House of Commons and
his Majesty's Ministers, against a continued factious opposition
of the Peers on the Irish Municipal Bill, based on those prin-
ciples which have been adopted by the Legislature with regard
to the English and Scotch Corporations, G. Hawkes, Esq.,
the mayor, in the chair. The various resolutions were all
passed unanimously, including a petition to the House of Com-
mons, and an address to the King. The meeting was ad-
dressed at some length by Mr. Councillor Brocket and Mr.
William Lockey Harle, in which they showed the necessity of
adopting strong and decisive measures at the present crisis, to
put a stop to the undue influence exercised by the House of
Lords against the Irish Corporation Reform Bill, and ex-
pressing their opinion that justice would never be granted to
Ireland, or any future benefit conferred upon the nation, so
long as the House of Lords remained as an irresponsible body,
and, in consequence, to meet the wishes of a wise and liberal
Government, and the increasing spirit of improvement in the
nation, it was absolutely necessary that the establishment
should be reformed, and made responsible, by the introduction
of a system of popular representation. •
COMPLIMENTARY.—The Chronicle, determined to
call things and persons by their right names, this morning
presents his compliments to the writer in the Times, and tells
him that he is a " raffish blunderer, a dirty scribe, and a pro-
fligate renegade"—that his " blackguard Journal" deals in
clumsy falshood, and that the falshood is repeated in a
i" ruffianly paragraph."
SINGULAR DEATH.—A Birmingham paper gives
an account of a man who suddenly died last week owing to the
adhesion of a stocking-needle to his heart. Upon a post
mortem examination a needle measuring inches was found
run right through the heart. No evidence as to how the
needle got there was produced.
A gardener at Treveray observing that mole-crickets
burrowed in the ground at a very small depth from the surface,
conceived the plan of destroying them by placing earthen pots,
three-fourths filled with water, two or three inches below their
course. Into these the insects fall in quantities, and are de-
stroyed at a much less expense than by the old method of
pouring oil into the holes they made.
The arrangements for the Norwich Festival are
concluded. The performers engaged are Madame Caradori
Allan and Madlle. Assandri, Miss Bruce, Mrs. A.'Shaw, Miss
Rainsforth, and Miss Tipping; Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. W. Tay-
lor, Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Hobbs; Signor Ivanoff and Signor
Lablache. The leaders arc Mr. F. Cramer and Mr. Bla-
grove ; conductor, Sir George Smart. The festival will
commence on the 19th of September. Bochsa is going on
an extensive tour in the West of England, for the purpose of
giving concerts, for which he has engaged Ole Bull, Curioni,
and Miss Bruce.

The Summer Assizes take place at Lewes on Mon-
day next. The criminal list is happily light, there being only
twenty-two persons from Lewes gaol ; from Horsham and
Petworth there are none. Four Special Jury causes are set
down, two of which being for breach of promise of marriage,
are expected to prove of interest, and to display to advantage
the oratorical powers of the gentlemen of the bar.
The low Irish, who have always a great readiness
at repartee, have denominated one of their countrymen, known
in St. Giles's as a bludgeon man, as the King of Clubs.
The wheat crop, in the United States, is said to
be a complete failure this year.
For several days past the weather has much more
resembled that of February and November, than the middle
of July. On Wednesday night the thermometer, in a shel-
tered situation, was only a few degrees above 40. The loss
sustained by the late storm to the growing crops in the neigh-
bourhood of Downton, Wilts, at a moderate estimate may be
stated to exceed 10,0001.

AN AFFAIR OF HONOlJR.—Thursday morning,
soon after six o'clock, a hostile meeting took place in a field at
Hampstead, between Henry Andrews, Esq., a gentleman re-
siding in Connaught-terrace, Paddington, an extensive West
India merchant, and Boughton, Esq., residing in Great
Albany-street, Regent's-park. Previous to the commence-
ment of hostilities, the seconds endeavoured to bring about a
reconciliation, but without effect. The ground being mea-
sured, the combatants took up their positions. On the first
discharge neither shot took effect; on the second fire, the ball
of Mr. Boughton's pistol entered his antagonist's body, near
the groin, Mr. Boughton at the same moment receiving a
slight wound in the right arm. Mr. Boughton almost in-
stantly quitted the ground ; but it was upwards of twenty mi-
nutes before Mr. Andrews' wound was dressed, and he could
be conveyed to a chaise.

----•
It has seldom fallen to our lot to record a more
distressing instance of mortality than has recently occurred in
the family of Mr. John Joy, of Great Massingham, Norfolk,
surgeon. On the 4th ult., he lost a lovely boy, aged two
years and a quarter; about a fortnight ago another, aged
four years; and on Tuesday the sth inst., in her 44th year,
Elizabeth, his wife (daughter of the late W. Blyth, Esq.),
leaving twelve children to deplore her loss; and on Monday
se'nnight, in the 34th year of her age, after many years
affliction, Ellen, wife of W. Joy, of Northwold, near Stoke
Ferry, surgeon, brother of the above gentleman.—Cambridge
Chronicle.

The rage for building at Gravesend continues, and
a new town in fact will soon be erected eastward of the old
town, composed of handsome buildings. A new pier has been
erected since last snmmer, and places of amusement have been
established for the entertainment of the visitors. Erith, and
other places on the banks of the Thames, from Woolwich to
Margate, are also in a progressive and active state of improve-
ment.

The wealthy Count DemidofF, attache to General
Count Pah'elf; embassy at Paris, having been recalled to the
Russian capital by the Emperor, the Earl of Pembroke, who is
on his annual visit to England, will, it is expected, take the
lead among the fashionable world at Paris next season.
SMALL V. ATTWOOD.—The costs incurred and
paid up to the time the present appeal came on for argument,
amount to the enormous sum of one hundred thousand pounds,
of which sixty thousand has been incurred by the appellants,
and forty thousand by the respondents. The above suns does
not include the heavy daily expenses now going on.
WORCESTER HOP INTELLIGENCE, JULY 20.
The accounts from our plantations state that the plants are
rather gone back, from the want of rain ; but, as we have had
some refreshing showers yesterday and to-day, we may look
for an improvement if there is warm weather.