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command in the Imperial armies durinc, the Peninsular
war. "Ah ! what brave men,". he exclaimed, " are the
British soldiers ; and how loyal their officers ; and what
courtesy—nay, brotherly love, subsisted between the com-
batants !" In short, he could not express the tenderness
with which the French and English cut each other's throats
during the Peninsular campaigns. " What has become,"
he said, "of your famous General Eel ? I have had many
parleys with that gallant man." " Eel," I thought to my-
self, " that is a military fish I never heard of ;" but Mr. St.
John at once enlightened my mind by saying to the Count,
." General Lord Hill is now Commander-in-Chief of the
British forces."—Letters from the South—New Monthly.
On Monday the huntsmen while following their
sport in the parish of Egg Buckland, about three miles from
Plymouth, were led by the dogs to discover the body of a
man hanging on a tree-in one of the woods ;it was respect-
ably clothed, but has not been identified.--Exeter Western
Times.

CONSUMPTION OF COKE BY STEAM-CARRIAGES.
—ln an experimental trip, with a heavy train (says Dr.
Ladner, in his new work on the steam engine), I found the
consumption of coke to be four ounces per ton per hour. I
believe, however, the practical consumption, in ordinary
work, to be very nearly eight ounces.

The Licensing Yiagistrates of Marylebone have is-
sued orders to the constables to furnish them with informa-
tion of any alterations which may be made in the public-
houses of the district, by way of diverting them from their
original use, and converting them into gin-shops.
ARGYLESHIRE.—A new candidate for Argyleshire
has appeared in the person: of Mr.-Campbell, of Monzie,
a Perthshire gentleman, of whose principles it is sufficient
to say that he is supported •by Sir George Murray. The
present liberal and patriotic Member, Mr. Campbell, of
Islay, has issued an address, in which he states that it is
his intention, in the event, of a dissolution, again to offer
himself as a candidate for the representation of the county.
The only grounds upon which the Tories are endeavouring
to unseat him are that he haS avowed himself the opponent
of the abuses and sinecures of the Irish Church, and has
avowed his determination to support the system of impartial
government now pursued in. Ireland with such distinguished
~• . • •
success.

NORTHERN EXPEDITION.—His Majesty's steamer
the _Messenger, Captain King, arrived in Hull Roads yes-
terday, with provisions to be delivered to the Cove for the
ships in the ice at Davis' Straits. The Ann, a tender, has
also arrived. The Cove, which had, during the last few
days, been taking in military" stores from the magazines in
the citadel, has gone into the Humber to receive her stores
from the Mcsscnger. She will, most probably, not depart
before Sunday or Monday next—Hull Advertiser.
Lord Ward has arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from his
seat at Dudley. This young Nobleman, who has recently
come to the title, possesses estates of the value of 150,000/.
per annum. His Lordship is in his 19th year.
The mean temperature of the warmest place on the
surface of the globes nearly.2o Fehr. below-the standard
heat of the body. So that clothing of one sort-or another
seems to be , requisite in every region, as a defence against
external cold:'
• The glove-trade in Hexham, which has for some
years been in a declining state, has received a fresh impetus
by Mr. Smith Stobart commencing to manufacture. Every
journeyman in the town is in consequence now fully em-
ployed. Many of them have been engaged in breaking
stones on the highway.—Carlisle Journal.
The subscription at Newcastle for the relief of the
ice-bound seamen employed in the whale fishery already
amounts to nearly 1,000/., including a handsome donation
of 100/. from his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.—
Newcastle Journal of Saturday.
To OUR LAUGHTER-LOVING FRIENDS.—The
New Comic Almanack, 13 Comic engravings. By R.
Seymour, the Letter-press, by T. Hood, &c. Price One
Shilling. The Diamond Pocket Book Almanack, Roan
tuck, Is.? gilt edges, or in morocco, silver lock, 2s. 6d. The
British Gentleman's Pocket Book, corrected to the Ist of
January, contains exclusively the returns of the Town Coun-
cillors of the New Corporations, distinguishing Reformers
and Tories, with the population of each place ; the income
and patronage of the Church, amounting annually to ten
millions ; the enormous income of the Bishops; a correct
List of 1,500 Ladies and Gentlemen, pensioners, placemen,
sinecurists, who receive annually upwards of one million ;
List of Members of Parliament, their political opinions and
addresses ; Peerage, Baronets, and all the Useful Tables,
Roan tuck, gilt edges, 2s. 6d. MarShall's HonSekeeper's
Account Book, adapted for keeping a daily statement of
Family Expenses, the Art of Carving, illustrated with en-
gravings and useful Tables for Housekeeping, 2s. Mar-
shall's correct and superior bound Pocket Book Almanacks,
lin variety, at 6s. Id, and Is. 6d._ each.. • London : W.

Marshall, 1, Holborn Bars, corner of Middle Row.
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A FORTUNATE TIFF.--A paragraph, under this
denomination, is going the round of the papers, viz., " One
of the richest men in England is the Rev. Mr. Hughes,
formerly a poor clergyman, but now said to possess a reve-
nue of between 70,0001. and 80,0001. a yell-. Some years
ago he was part proprietor of a barren piece of land, for
which Lord Uxbridge was then in treaty. The purchase
money (a very small sum) was agreed upon, but the Noble-
man not keeping his appointment one day to finish the busi-
ness, the Commoner, in a tiff, would not give him another
meeting. On the above-mentioned barren piece of ground
were subsequently discovered the rich Anglesea copper
mines, from which Mr. Hughes draws his enormous income."
Now all this might have been very well some 40 or 50 years

ago. A bed of pure ore, GO feet deep, was discovered in
1768 by an agent of the then Lord Uxbridge ; the Rev.
Mr. Hughes, owning part of the land, called Pary's moun-
tain, of course became a sharer in the good fortune ; but
the Rev. gentleman has been dead many years, and the
present proprietor of a portion of the once rich mines is
Lord Dinorben, of KiMmel Park (son of the late Mr.
Hughes), whose daughter was married lately to Lord Gar-
-dener. These mines produced at one time 20,000 tons of
Copper annually, and in 1806 there were 227 men employed
under ground, the consumption of gunpowder was 17,0361b5.,
and of neadles 26,2831b5. ; but at the present time the re-
venue derived from the Works is comparatively but little.
The SEA SERPENT.—The sea serpent seems to
be staying late upon the coast, and we are afraid suffered '
severely by the late snow. Captain Peabody of the
schooner Dove fell in with him near the half-way rock,
somewhere down East—we really do not know exactly
where—on Tuesday last, and had a fair view of him for a
short time. The serpent has grown somewhat shorter
than he was when We heard frOm him last. Captain Pea-
body thinks he was aboufsiXty or seventy feet long.—New
York Paper, Nov. 28.
CURRICLE MAIL.—In a Court of Appeal; against
charges under the assessed taxes, held, in the County- Hall,
a curious case occurred respecting the Post-offii. Mr.
Bowie, the solicitor of that establishment,- attended to
support an appeal presented by Sir Edward Lees, Secre-
tary, to he relieved from a charge for the curricles employed
in conveying the mail between Edinburgh and Morpeth,
upon the grOund; that if any charge was exigible, it was
against Mr. Croall, the contractor and actual proprietor of
the vehicle, and not the Post-cam who had no further in-
terest in them than was caused by the contract, which
merely provided that Mr. Croall should carry the mail at
so much per mile. • On the other hand, Mr. Croall main-
tained, that the curricles were in the employ of the Post-
, office on hire, and that the hirer, Sir Edward Lees, was lia-
-1 bk. He further stated, that the contract was in the exact

9,246,163
2,322,477

11,Y8,640

2,414,583
1,5M,777

9,717,558
1,539,777

11,t257,335

3,706,18 D

877,805

4,640,995

same terms for the curricles as for the mail coaches, and yet
the Post-office had,been uniformly in the practice of paying
the tax for these coaches. The petition of appeal by Sir
Edward Lees was therefore refused, and the_ charge by the
surveyor against him confirmed.-;-Edittbzirgh Courant. •
General Grosvenor's hunting-scat, Stocken-hall,
near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, has been purchased by
Mr. Heathcote, son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, M.P. for
South Lincolnshire.

SHIPPING LAWS.—The Act sth and 6th, of
William IV., cap. 56, came into operation on the Ist inst.
By this enactment the new register tonnage of vessels will
have to be determined ; in some cases causing their ad-
measurement to be less and in others more than under the old
system. Our readers should be aware by the 35th clause
of the sth and 6th of William IV., cap. 19, all agreements
with the crews of vessels,' and all apprentice identures for
the sea service, are exempted form the stamp duty.—Ship-
ring Gazette.
On Sunday two blacksmiths, near Challis, in the
Haute Vienne, being intoxicated, :were amusing them-
selves with feats of strength and other tricks, during
which they were frequently interrupted by a child run-
ning about the shop, when one of them suddenly seized it,
and, laying it on the great anvil, threatened to kill it—at
the same moment the other thoughtlessly pulled the cord
which held the sledge-hal-linter, and let it fall with all its
weight upon the poor infant, whose body was so dreadfully
crushed that the bowels protruded, and, after suffering for
six hours, it died.
THE COMET A MASS OF ICE.—A German
author, Herr F. Von BrandenbUrg, who has already written
a good deal concerning the moon and the stars, according.
to the German paper from which we derive our informa-
tion, has lately informed all Germany; t12r0u3.11 the Leipsi-
ger Tageblatt, that the comet is a mass of ice, that it is
very near the earth, that it will remain near it for a con-
siderable time, and will not be visible. He further informs
the public that the brilliant lights visible in the north arc
caused by the frozen exhalations which fall from the comet,
and are illuminated by the sun beneath the horizon. More-
over, he announces that the moon also is of 'ice, and will
appear of a gold yellow colour, This icy gentleman has
made some further discovery of what might have prevented.
the cholera had its remedies and its coming been known in
time ; but as this scourge has now hap Ply passed, we must
leave them till we are, again threatened with it, when we.
shall certainly spoil the trade of the apothecaries by publish-
ing the invaluable prescription.'
OVlD.—Saturdaywas the anniversary of the death
of Ovid, who died Jan. 2, A.D. 17. This celebrated poet
was born at Salmo on the: 20th of March, 43 years before"
the. Christian era. His father designed him for the Bar,
and he became eminently eloquent ; but 'everything he
Wrote was expressed in poetical numbers. He gained
great admiration from the learned. Virgil, 1-lorace;,Tibut-
lus, and Propertius were his friends, and Augustus became
his liberal patron till he banished him for some unknown
crime. In his exile he was cowardly, and prostituted his
pen to flatter baseness ; and though he desired the death of
the Emperor he fawned upon him in his writings to mean-
ness. He died at Tomas,
,the place of his banishment, on
the Euxine Sea, in the reign of Tiberius, who had suc-
ceeded 'Augustus, and was deaf to the poet's intreaties for
permission to return to Rome. Whatever subject Ovid
wrote on he exhalsted.
An atrocious outrage was committed on Saturday
evening last, in the wood called the Hyde, near Bury,
upon one of the keepers of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk,
named William Barkham. It appears that Barkham was
in the Hyde about seven o'clock, and hearing a pheasant
fly, he ran into the glade, where he observed two men come
out of the covert, and knelt down to watch them. They
approached towards him, and he recognised t.hcm to be two
noted men, named Henry Gurney and Robert Cook. They
did not perceive him till they were within two or three
yards, when they started back, and Cook exclaimed,
" D—n his eyes, shoot !" Gurney immediately discharged
a gun, being within about four yards of Barkham, and the
whole charge lodged in his face and throat. They imme-
diately ran off, and poor Barkham, who had no other weapon
than a stick, proceeded homeward in the best manner he
could, bleeding terribly. He was met by another keeper
named Osborne, who had been attracted by the discharge
of the gun, and informed him that he had. been shot, and
feared he should never get over it, requesting him to go
immediately to Mr. Powell, the Magistrate. Mr. Powell
immediately dispatched Osborne for Caney, the Bury po-
lice-officer, and Osborne met Cook near the Northgate.
The assistance of Mr. Wing, the surgeon, was given as
expeditiously as possible, and it was found that th whole
charge was lodged in the face, neck, and mouth of the poor
fellow, one of. his eyes being, it is feared, totally destroyed,
even if his life should be preserved, which is exceedingly
doubtful. The two men were apprehended on Sunday.
On Monday the prisoners were examined by Sir 'James
Blake, Bart., and J. H. Powell, Esq., when they were
fully committed to take their trial for the capital offence.—
Norwich Mercury.
On Saturday morning the family of 'Mr. Jones, a
wine-merchant residing in Hatton-garden, discovered that
numerous articles of plate and other valuable property had
been stolen since Friday evening. It was at first supposed
that thieves had entered the house during the night, but
On examination of the premises it would appear that such
was not the.. fact, and subsequent investigation has not
cleared up the mystery in which the robbery. is involved.
Police-officers, however, have been engaged to further, in-
vestigate the affair.
THE LAW.—" I remember," says Mr. Fox, in his
lecture on " legal morality," " an instance which took
place in a parish in Wales. The churchwarden seeing a
carpenter at work in the church, told him to drive a peg
into a certain pillar that lie might hang his hat on it when
he came to church. The next churchwarden brought him
for this before the Spiritual Court. The first decision was
against him, and it was carried from that Court to another,
and from that to another ; it produced a litigation of many
years' duration, and at length a decision was obtained—
that the churchwarden was at liberty to drive a nail into
the pillar, and to hang ,his hat upon it ; and that an apo-
logy should be made to him for the vexation to which he
had been subjected. The parties were adjudged to pay
their own costs, and those costs amounted to upwards of
700/.
A lady, to whom her medical attendant had pre-
scribed turtle soup, late purchased a turtle in the Palais
Royal. The cook discovered under the shell a magnifi-
cent diamond, which a jeweller values at 60,000 francs
(2,400/.) It is supposed that the precious stone must
have been intentionally concealed, although there was no
mark of an incision.—Paris Advertiser.
Astounding as it may appear to strangers unac-
quainted with our institutions, it is nevertheless a fact, that
although the town parish possesses taxed property to the
amount of three million one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterling, it has but ONE vote in the States,—whilst
the; country part of the island, whose taxed property amounts
to one million sterling, or about one-third of the town, has
EIGIIT votes ; and the Court and Clergy, who are not pub-
lic representatives, and. moreover form classes of men, the
latter particularly, have no less than TWENTY-TWO !
Guernsey Star.
PROFESSOR SEDGWICK
When learned Sedgwick signs, or leaves his name
On card, note, letter, we " A Sedgwick" see ;
But, such his science, eloquence, and fame,
One feels dispos'd to change the "A" to "The."
:--Norwich Mercury.

SPIRIT or THE PUBLIC JOUNRA

• , 7.77-aa
• We see that we meat hOld the Times 'to the truths
it has spoken respecting the habits and morals of its
party. Our worthy contempterary now alludes to his
lectures of Saturday and Monday,' ,as- " blunt appeals
to the firmness, actlvity, integrity, .ann manhood'of the
If such was'. the inten,"ion, there has
Conseivatives"l
miscarriage'; for the ,Times suc-
that: there was no firm-
been a most singular
manhood in the Tory
indeed, to Ju-
ceeded to perfection in s;.lowing•
firm-
ness no activity, no integri:v)
no
party in Parliament ; that it. OzWered,
venal's description---
s/,emptum
" Monstrum, nulls virtut,l o,
s 2
- A vitiis, aeger, solaquc fortis:
vFn of the
a
After the account which the Times has
pursuits and diSpositions of its friends, evident
a
that there was not, according to its report, a virtue
in them to which an appeal could be made. As
well after a hue-and-cry of " Stop thief, rogue, vil-
lain," might it be explained that nothing more ti; an
an appeal to the honesty of the runaway was ha-
tended in those terms. The Times denies that there
was any symptom of despondency in its
picture of
the • incapacitating vices of its party ; and 'asks :
" When_ troops are publicly reminded of their :elaxa-
tion of discipline, and Orders. are issued for enforcing
the rules of the service with more strictness than ever,
it is no proof that the general means to disband them;,
or to turn his back upon the enemy ?" If the Ge-
-neral-states that his soldiers prefer any place to the
field of battle, that they are excessively addicted to
'skulkingathat they are wholly given up to frivolous or
base indulgences ; in short, utterly debauched and re-
creant, 'We think it intimates plainly enough that,
whether they be disbanded -, Pr not, they must be de-
feated ; and it would be as well to disband such troops
at once, as to wait for their certain defeat. The fact.
is, that the Times seems to feel towards its party
pretty; much as Falste felt towards his ragged re-
giment. Indeed, the tirade of Saturday was but an-
other version of the Knight's confession. " If I be
not aShained of my soldiers, I am a soused garnet.
I ham misused the- King's press damnably." Here
we see - how exactly the two cases agree, for
the Times, in its Tory doings, has certainly
" misused the press most damnably." - Fdstsf
then proceeds to expiate on the sorry quality.
of his folloWers, " such a commodity of warm
slaves, as .had as lief hear the- devil as a
drum ; such as fear the report of a calivar worse Elam
a struck ford, or a hurt wild duck ;" which exactly
tallies with our contemporary's description pfthe To-
ries as men effeminately and shamefully betravl.ig their
trust, by shrinking from labours, and preferring idle-
ness in any and- every form to their duty. Falstqf
proceeds to admit that his people are " tciaSt*and but-
ter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pints
heads," which the Times also proves of its folks at
great length ; or rather we should say that it does!
more, for it leaves them no heart at all. • Falstaff
says, it .might be thought he was followed by a
hundred and fifty tattered prodigals, lately come from
swine-keeping from eating, drab and husks. The Times
makes it appear that the Tory followers are a hundred
arid fifty prodigals, not indeed in the tattered stage, re-
turning frOin swine-keeping, but prodigals' rolling in
the stye of sensuality, prodigals in their day of riot and
excess, and not to be torn from their vices. Falstaff,
however, sees a use in such " pitiful rascals." " Tut,
'tut," says he, "good enough to toss ; food for powder,
food for powder : they'll fill a pit as well as better."
Lo I too, the Times argues that its men, bad as it ad-
mits them to be, are " good enough to toss," food for
'divisions, food for divisions, they'll fill the House as
well as better. The Times in effect says, no matter
how despicable the characters of these men may be, if
they will conic to their places in the House, the cause
will be worthily served by such supporters, and "they'll
fill a pit as well as better," who cannot be had to main-
tain such principles. Having exposed the frivolous or
profligate pursints'of Tory Members, the -Times shows
,that the party must-be routed, if they will not quit the
iii St. Titne4'S•lstreet, to succour the Church in
Parliament, 'and tear themselves from the stews, to
make. a stand for, the purity of the Constitution.—
.Vorning Chronicle.
The Standard of last night, after roticing the sum-
mons of the Ministerial Leader (Lord John Russell),
for the 4th .of February, has the following passage :
" They (the CoriserYative Members) will have seen the
urgent
.public summons of the Ministerial Leader ; and
we. can assure them, upon the very best authority—the
authority of transcripts of letters before iii-that the pub-
lic 'suramons very faintlyexpresseS that earnestness of de-
spair which breathes in all their 'private communications.
We will quote one epigrammetic sentence from a. letter of
a Cabinet Minister If you wish to save the present
Government,. you will be. in your place on the 4tll : if you
desire to see Peel Prime Minister, you may wait till the
sth.' This was addressed to a Whig ; we will tape leave
to adapt it to our Parliamentary readers, by a slight alter-
ation. ' If'you wish to replace Sir Robert Peel in that
station in which your King and country would joyfully see
him, you-will come on the 4th ; if you wish to save Lord
Melbourne's Cabinet, you need not come befote the sth ;
and for that matter, indeed, you need not come at all.'"
We can state, most fearlessly, that this pretented
quotation from the letter of a Cabinet Minister, is a
fabrication. No Cabinet Minister ever wrote a letter,
either to Whig or Tory, containing such a sentence as
that quoted by the Standard. We do not charge our
contemporary with the fabricationabut We boldly and
fearlessly say that some one has been guilty of fabric
cation. We have the highest authority for stating that
no private letters which may have been written con-
tained any solicitations for attendance, beyond the
usual expression of hope, which Ministers naturally
express at the commencement of every session, that
those 'Members who can conveniently attend, will be in
their places at the • opening of the -campaign. The
author of the sentence quoted by the Standard is a
fabricator. We are sorry to •.say that the Tories have
lately betaken themselves extensively to this most dis-
reputable practice. We have lately received letters
sent to different parts of. the country by fabricators in
the employ of the Tories, who 'are evidently not no-
vices at the work. That letters should be fabricated
for Cabinet Ministers can hardly surprise us, who have
seen fabrications in our own name extensively circu-
lated throughout the country. The Tories have a re-
gular corps of forgers in their pay—probably main-
tained at the expense of the- Carlton Club.--Morning
Chronicle.
The people of England are not- now to learn, that
whatever may have been the desire of independent
men five years ago for a Constitutional Reform in the
House of Commons, and however strong may have
been the general conviction that it was necessary to de-
stroy the corrupt power of self-election in our 'muni-
cipal bodies, the Whig partisan Ministers, who put
themselves forward as authors both of the political
reform and the corporate, were little influenced by the
'tendency of either to effect any. particle of benefit
for the nation, but looked to one exclusive object
—viz., the working some grand change in the rela-
tive state of their own faction and of their oppo-
nents, by seizing a permanent gripe of the Go-
vernment into their own hands,- and consigning,
Conservatism to the opposition benches for ever.
For this one, this base, and grovelling end, was all
anxiety for reform, political and municipal, assumed
by the Whig faction on coming into office : it was nee
to secure good government for the State throug!t the
medium of a reformed House of Commons, or good
local government through the efficacy of a number
of reformed Corporations, but to crush Conservatism,
and raise Whiggery into the ascendant, that all the
W
multifarious manoeuvres of the
hits in their three
successive stages of Cabinet making, and in each and
every provision of their measures, touching, Ist, the
elective franchise ; 2d; the municipal franchise ; 3d,
the Church of Ireland ; 4th, the Irish municipal '
re-
form ; sth, the encouragement of ambitious intriguers,
and disaffected republicans among the dissenting. body,
were contrived and recommended to the "groundlings '
of Great Britain and Ireland. Whatever form the
measure to be forced into notice might assume, or by
, whatever vague appeals to ignorance and passion it
might be supported, the same genius and spirit pre-
• sided throughout them all, namely, the weakening the
power of property in all directions, and strengthening
that of fierce, dissatisfied, grasping and irresponsible
numbers. . That the conception and execution of the
Whig schemes have been alike clumsy, feeble, and in-
efficient, is most true, even for the purposes of their pro-
moters. The project failed, and would have failed,

had the abilities engaged in it been as eminent as
they were despicable, because the materials of suc-
cess did not exist in the national character and habits.
The rabble may be roused to madness, without moving
a single stone from its place in the structure of society
or in that of the Constitution. Such, however, has
not been the sense entertained by the Whigs, or the
brawling Revolutionists whom they serve, of the pro-
Tess and final result of their legislative undertakings.
They are alike sanguine, because they are alike shal-
low ; and whether it concerns the Reform Bill, or
more especially the Bill for opening the Corporations,
they flatter themselves that one and the other will prove
a death-blow, to the. interests of Conservatism, or, to
speak in plainer terms, of property, intelligence, prin-
ciple, and public character, in this country. We have
already told them how grossly they have been cheated
by their own cunning. They have been singing
hymns of exultation over the kingdom, because in a
large number of cases, as they assert, a mob of rate-
payers, including those whose tenements may not be
worth more than 30s. or 40s. per annum, and forming,
it is to be supposed, a large majority of the entire body
of burgesses, have, in combination with all those
parties whom the old corporate authorities had disap-
pointed or offended, carried the election of municipal
officers against them—in other words, men who have
no political franchise, and who cannot therefore
have any share in electing Members of Parliament,
have chosen a set of persons for town-councillors, who,
as such, are equally incapable of being Members of
Parliament, and of voting for them. Now, let us re-
peat the first question we asked upon this subject a
few days ago. What sort of bearing upon political
power—that is, what change in the elective franchise
for choosing Members of Parliament—is, or can be,
produced by the choice of town-councillors on the part
of persons who have not the elective franchise already ?
Does the vote of a burgess, or does any other act of
his, make him a political elector ? Does his vote for
a town-councillor make that councillor an elector of
Members of Parliament, if he was not one before ?
Does it in any manner increase the political material
of any town or borough ? No. But we are told that
the patronage will in future be so exercised—the funds
will be so distributed—the nominations to municipal
office will be so managed, and salaries so employed, as
to influence the votes of your 101. householders against
the old Conservative interest in the borough. Surely
this, at least, cannot be. Why, this is rank bribery.
This is the very offence, because of the prevalence of
which, and upon that alleged prevalence under the
Administration of the old Corporators, Lord John
Russell rested exclusively the necessity of a Corporate
Reform I Bribery was then a rank crime when it
operated in favour of Conservatism, but when auxiliary
to the cause of Whig-Radicalism, it is among the le-
gitimate ways and means of the Constitution. How-
ever, let us see. In those boroughs, they are not
many, where funds do exist at all applicable to the
ends of corruption, the Whig-Radical and revolu-
tionary patriots had better take care what they are
about ; they are to be, it seems, the governing party ;
they are to have public money at their disposal ; they
are to bribe. Let them bribe skilfully, or wo betide
them. They have first—at all events (we now take
the matter on their own showing)—they have first the
old Conservative interest of the place to a man against
them in what concerns the return of Members to Par-
liament. Then comes the question—can they bribe a
full majority of political electors ? If they cannot,
every man to whom they refuse a bribe—that is, an
office, and a salary—will be jealous of those who are
more favoured than himself, will be exasperated against
the distributors of these loaves and fishes, and will
infallibly join the Conservatives. Thus, the
means of corruption, in so far as they fall short
of a sum requisite to buy a majority, will work
not merely negative, but positive mischief to the
Itetormers!" They will not only fail to make
friends, but they will provoke irrcconcilea‘.lle enemies.
However, this, according to our own general view of
the question, is really of little moment. We are Ea-
tis%e4l that the effect of these returns will be so par-
tial, or at least so equivocal, as to form no solid ground
for tho calculat:ort of political consequences on either
side. If the Whigs think otherwise, why hesitate to
'dissolve the Parliament ? We challenge them to
that test of the va!ue, of their municipal " reform."
That monstrous effects were hoped for from a Radical
victory, we arc well apprised by the monstrous prac•
ticea resorted to in order to insure it. First take a
glance at Cambridge, where the new Corporation has
made its dlbut by the commission of what would
have been charged as positive crimes against the old
—exclusiveness and secrecy in its proceedings. The
Mayor, however, did not venture to refuse—as some
of the Radicals expected he would—to take the
usual oath to preserve the privileges of the Univer-
sity. Now turn your eyes to Bury, where Mr. Eagle
has been elected : should he accept the office, he
will furnish a subject for inquiry, when Parliament
shall have met, how far a Charity Commissioner, who
received an increased salary for devoting his whole time
to the public service, can hold a situation which pre-
cludes his absence from the borough to which he is
attached for more than two months in the year.
Thirdly, make an attentive survey of Norwich. We
do not dare the Radicals, of which a large portion in
that city are of the class of turbulent and republican
Dissenters, whom we hinted at some paragraphs ago
—we do not dare them to a denial of the enormous
and flagitious bribery by which the late metamorphosis
of the Town-council there has been brought about,
because such a denial would be false and impudent—a
consideration beneath the notice of these patriots—but
we dare them, because they know such a falsehood
would be vain—because they know that the facts are
capable of easy demonstration. We have intelligence
on this point which it is impossible to refute. The
Corporation had a clear majority of pledges in 5 wards
out of 8, and a certainty of many Councillors in other
wards. But on the Wednesday before the election
several strangers appeared in the town, offering in the
most open manner sums of money to the new burgesses
to vote " for the Blue list." The bribes Were from
51. to 401. One man was charged with 16 cases of
bribery, and a Whig Alderman became bail for him.
Not much short of 10,0001. was spent for this purpose
by the Whig party. We are asked, did it come from
the Whig faction generally, or from a certain Mr.
G— ?—a rich man formerly in parliament, whose I
bleedings on behalf of Whiggery are said from first
to last to have exceeded 50,0001., and those of another
Mr. G— at least 10,0001. more. Since 1832,
there has been no bribery at Norwich ; but now that
it is an object (whether valuable or utterly futile will
soon appear) to establish an ascendancy in the corpo-
ration,—that is, to fight the adventurers against the
majority of the class who possess property in Norwich
—the practices resorted to on this occasion are noto-
rious. It will be crime and money bestowed in
vain.—Tinzes.

With that singular disregard to truth and consis-
teney;which generally marks the Agitator's proceedings,
we have in his recent letter to the Electors of West-
minster a distinct disavowal of the existence of any coa-
lition between Lord Melbourne's Ministry and himself.
The late Mr. Cobbett was wont, in his free and pow-
erful use of the vulgar tongue, to call the people "dolts"
and " jolterheads." We wonder what measure Mr.
O'Connell takes of the capacity of those into whose
hands he expects his State Paper to fall, if he mean
them to swallow or adopt such egregious falsehoods as
this. No coalition ! Why, what says Mr. Sheil, quite
as good an authority as Mr. O'Connell upon the sub-
ject ? He has told the freeholders of Tipperary, and
told them truly, that the compact was formed between
Mr. O'Connell and the Ministers at Lichfield House,
and that its immediate result was the overthrow of Sir
Robert Peel's Administration. No coalition, indeed!
Why, what is a coalition, but a union of parties,
pledged to support each other, through thick and thin,
in every question which comes before the House ? On '
this occasion the union, and the consequent vassalage
on each side is complete. Lord Melbourne and his
colleagues unite with and applaud the very man who,
only two years ago, they denounced in
the King's
Speech as an incendiary ; while the other high con-
tracting party lauds to the skies the very persons who,
in sundry epistles from Derrynane in the autumn of
1834, he held up to every species of ribaldry and
contempt. Nor is it what the lawyers call a deed
without consideration." On the one side the Minis-
try owe their places wholly and solely to the sup-