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WANT OF A PUBLIC PROSE-

cuTOR.

" The exclusion of a public prosecutor establishes an
arbitrary dispensing power in the. voluntary. prose-
cuter. An exclusive power of reclaiming the execu-
tion of the laws lays them, as far as it extends, at
the feet of the person thus endowed. It gives him the
equivalent to a negative in legislation ; it gives him
more ; it gives hini in each individual instance of
their execution, the sole initiative. It gives him, couse•
quently, not only the power of pardoning, but a power
much greater than that of pardoning. It gives him a
power greater than the power so called, as exercised by
the King of England. That monarch's power of p•ardon-
ing extends not to the saving a man from prosecution :
even when it precedes conviction (a sort of pardon rarely
granted), it must be pleaded; and the plea cannot be
preferred till the prosecution has been begun, and the
grounds of it made public. The difference is no slight
matter. In the one case the delinquent can be saved
from so much only of the punishment as goes by
the name of pu&shment ; to the portion of infamy
naturally adherent to the offence it leaves him still
exposed : in the other case, he may be saved not only
from the punishment but from the infamy. A direct
power of pardon, while it takes away the nominal punish.
ment, aggravates instead of mitigating the infamy-
It is a sort of certificate of guilt ; for who would be
pardoned, if he could be acquitted ? By attracting the
public attention, it renders the infamy proportionably
extensive, and gives it redoubled force. A direct power
of pardoning, exposed as it is thus by the nature of
things to public inspection, has not anything like the
capacity for harbouring abuse,. The indirect faculty of
pardoning here in question, by being so inconsiderable
in show, is but the greater in effect. Its power of mis-
el.ief has no bounds ; at first glance you might suppose
it confined to corrupt or ill-judged lenity ; in fact, it is
❑ot a whit less adapted to the purpose of oppression :
for whoever ca❑ license oppression, can oppress."—
Bentham.

The Constabulary Force Commissioners, in their
Report, give the following example of the injurious
effects of the power of dispensing with the law, arising
from the neglect of the principle, " that prosecutions
should be conducted by a public prosecutor."
In Bristol, of 201 persons taken into custody by the
police for felonies committed between April Ist and 31st
October, 1837, in all which cases the parties refused to
prosecute, it appears that upwards of one-fourth of these,
or 53, were cases in which the offenders set at large
were reputed thieves. Of these
1 had been previously in custody 7 times.

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53 reputed thieves.
The consequences of this course of proceeding, as
admitted by the Superintendent iu his evidence, is,
" that it increases crime. Because those parties com-
mitting those robberies go and commit four or five
more robberies before they are detected. If they were
prosecuted they would be prevented doing any more
mischief."

Speaking of the of known thieves living at large
in Bristol, lie states :—" Sveral of those thieves have
been in this situation brought before the magistrate and
let off in consequence of the refusal to prosecute."—
Examiner.

THE ARCHIMEDIAN SCREW-
PROPELLER ABOUT TO BE TESTED
ON A LARGE SCALE.

The Archimedian screw-propeller has of late been the
subject of protracted discussion and controversy in the
newspapers and leading scientific journals, and we scarcely
remember any invention respecting the merits of which
*uch opposite judgments have been pronounced. Whilst
it has been confidently asserted on the one hand that this
mode of propulsion is not adapted for vessels of large ton-
nage, although it may be rendered available for small
er ift and for canal boats, it has been as confidently main-
tained on the other hand that the Archimedian screw is
preferable to the ordinary paddle-wheels for vessels of
any dimensions ; and if report, hitherto uncontradicted,
can be relied on, a Company has been formed at Bremen
for the construction of large steamers to be fitted up with
this kind of machinery, and intended to ply between
that city and New York. The screw-propeller, however,
is about to he applied on a gigantic scale, which will put
its capabilities to a severe trial, as the Mammoth, on which
the experiment is to be made, is the largest steam-vessel in
the world, being of no less burden than 3,600 tons, with
1,000-horse steam power. As the subject is perhaps as im-
portant as any that can claim the attention of the public,
we shall here transcribe a passage from the Annual Report
of the Great Western Ship Company, read at their meet-
ing held at Bristol on the 11th inst.:—
" The Directors, having satisfied themselves that it
would be for the interests of the Company to get rid of
the paddle in their iron ship, and to substitute a propeller
upon the principle of the Archimedian screw, have taken
the necessary measures for that purpose ; the slight altera-
tions required in her frame were easily effected, and at a
trifling cost. The published reports of Captain Chap-
pell, made by order of the Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, supported by the opinions of men of the highest
classes in the naval service, and a careful examination of
the performances of the Archimedes whilst in Bristol,
excited the anxious attention of the Directors. Mr.
Brunel, the Company's consulting engineer, entered
closely into the investigation, as one most important to
science, and to their interests ; the owners of the Archi-
medes most liberally placed her at his disposal for the
purpose of experiments, and the Directors were allowed
to send confidential persons to sea in her to register ob-
servations on some points of primary importance in steam
navigation, in reference to which, the performances of the
Great Western had already possessed them of invaluable
data. The result of a most elaborate report by Mr. Bru-
nel left no doubt on the mind of the Board, and they
congratulated the proprietors on circumstances having al-
lowed them to avail themselves of this great improvement
in science, which will still enable them to maintain the
advantages gained by the hitherto unequalled character of
their first ship."
The present state of the civilized world, as it is styled,
renders the subject before us of paramount importance.
Notwithstanding the moderation and good faith which
characterize the British Government in all its transac-

tions with foreign States, there is too much reason to
fear that the peace of the world will, at no distant period,
he disturbed by the ambition or aggression of some of
the nations with whom we arc at present in a state of
very precarious amity. Whatever can be done to avoid
the menaced rupture by the pacific and honest policy of
the British Cabinet, without a compromise of the honour
and fair interests of the nation, we confidently believe
may he anticipated from the present Ministers, who have
signally evinced their earnest determination to avoid, it
possible, that most awful of all human calamities,—an
appeal to arm'. Recent circumstances, however, justify
the apprehension that all the moderation and forbearance of
our Cabinet may be unavailing, and that, in self-defence,
England may, ere long, be compelled to resort to the
ultimo ratio egurn,—the argument of force. Whenever
that catastrophe shall become inevitable, WQ must look
to our navy as our main dependence, and steam vessels
of war will, no doubt, become as numerous as they will
be indispensable. The advantages of such vessels in
chase or in action are too obvious to require any explana.
tion, but it must be equally obvious that the paddle-wheels
of the present construction arc peculiarly liable to be de-
ranged and rendered useless by the enemy's cannon, and
hence the vast importance of the Archimedian principle of
propulsion, provided it should be found capable of adop-
tion without too great sacrifice of speed. This is the
main point which remains to be ascertained, and the pro-
blem is about to be solved by the application of the screw-
propeller to a vessel like the Mammoth. The screw,
being under water, parallel to the keel of the vessel, will
be in much less danger of derangement from shot than the
paddle-wheels; and if this kind of apparatus shall be
found capable of impelling the vessel in other respects as
well, or nearly as well, as the present machinery, no ordi-
nary ships of war can have any chance, either in attack or
defence, with vessels fitted up upon this principle.—Liver-
pool Mercury.

SOUNDING THE SEA BY ELEC-

TRO-MAGNETISM.

Electricity is daily extending its sphere of ol:erations,
and is beccming more and more extensively applicable to
useful purposes. We have this week seen an ingenious
apparatus contrived by Mr. Bain, the inventor of the elec-
trical clock, for the purpose of taking soundings at sea by
electre-magnetic power. At present great difficulty
exists, when taking soundings in deep water, in ascertaining I
the exact time the weight strikes the ground. The object of
Mr. Bain's contrivance is to obviate this difficulty, and he
accomplishes it in the following manner. To the bottom of the
hammer of a bell i 3 attached a piece of soft iron, which is
placed opposite an electro-magnet; and it is so ar-
ranged that whets the. communication between the
coils of wire round the magnet and galvanic battery
is completed, the magnet attracts the iron and holds '
back the hammer. As soon as the connexion is broken
the magnetic power ceases, and the hammer, acted on by
a spring, strike 3 upon the bell. This part of the appa-
ratus is intended to remain on the deck of the vessel
when the soundings are made. The insulated wires
from the galvanic battery, properly protected from
the action of water, serve for the cord to which the
weight is to be attached. The manner in which the
weight is fixed on, so as to complete or break the connec-
tion between the ends of the wires is extremely simple
and ingenious. When the pressure of the weight bears
on the hook, the electrical current is uninterrupted,
and the magnet keeps the hammer from the bell ;
but when the weight rests on the ground, the con-
nectien i 3 broken ; the attraction of the magnet in-
stantly ceases, and the hammer, being thus liberated,
is forcel against the bell by the spring. It would
thus indicate with the utmost precision the moment the
weight reaches the bottom of the sea. The apparatus is to
be added to the numerous curiosities at the Polytechnic
Institution. Its efficacy has been tested in the deep reser-
voir in which the diving-bell descends. The inventor has
been prevented from protecting his property in this inven-
tion by the expense of obtaining a patent, but, we trust, if
his plan be found to succeed in practice, of which wo have
little doubt, that he will not go unrewarded.—lnventor's
Advocate.

ANECDOTE OF MEHEMET ALI.—A short
time since a young man had been sent over to obtain a
knowledge of engineering; whilst resident here his mind
became enlightened, and tie was led to embrace the Chris-
tian faith. On his return to Alexandria he made no
scruple of avowing his new sentiments, although he was
surrounded by a host of persecutors; those persons, how-
ever, one day brought him before Mehemet Ali, saying :
" We beg to bring a case before your Highness, in which
you will be called on to act as supreme judge : this
man was a Mahomedan by birth and faith ; he was
sent to England, where he abandoned his own re-
ligion, and embraced that of the Christians, and,
therefore, by our law he ought to die ; all that
is necessary is to enter into a judicial course
of inquiry, to bring forward facts, and to establish and au-
thenticate them, and then if the case be proved, it remains
with your Highness to enforce the penalties of the law."
Well, the case was gone through, the facts were all proved,
till at length the young man was asked by Mehemet Ali
" have you embraced Christianity ?" The young man gut
up, and with an intrepidity which a consciousness of being
r.'ght inspired, and with the grace of God, which, when it
finds its way to the heart, always enables a man to face his
greatest enemies, said, "lam a Christian." The next
question put by Mehemet Ali was, " Why have you em-
braced Christianity ?" when he made this noble reply, "Do
you ask me why I embraced Christianity ?—my reason is
this : I embraced it because I believe it to be true." His
enemies around him then said " What need have we of
further argument : he has acknowledged his guilt ; nothing
r mains now but that your Highness should particularize
the sentence." Mehemet Ali said "All the circumstarces
that have been brought forward have been clearly estab-
lis'ned, but with respect to this young man, I beg leave to
state that I know him well; he was sent to England to learn
ern; ineering ; he learnt that science ; he came back again,
has been employed in that service, and has proved himself
a minable member of society; I find him still in that place
where I employed him. It appears that he has changed
his religion, but I do not find that in doing so he has
acted from any unworthy motive ; he continues to perform
his duties satisfactorily, and with reference to his change
in religion, I shall leave him to settle that matter between
God and his own conscience."—That young man is now
going about the streets of Alexandria, a noble monument
of the liberality of Mehemet Ali.—London East India
Telegraph.
THE CONVICT MlSTER.—Mister has eons
fessed nothing; but he has made an admission, acciden-
, tally, which almost amounts to a confession ; for he ha;
stated that a part of Mr. Nlackreth's evidence is utterly
false, leaving it to be inferred that the remainder is true ;
for no one could judge of the truth or falsehood but himself.
This slip is of a piece with his unhappy admission at Lud-
low, when introduced for the first time to his victim, Mr.
Maekreth, when he thoughtlessly addressed him thus—
" When you found my hand on your throat "—then
suddenly checking himself, he thus varied his question—
" When you found a man's hand on your throat, could
you tell whether he was dressed or not ?" This slip we
noted down carefully at the time it was made, on the exa-
mination before the Magistrates in Ludlow ; but, unwilling
to increase the odium attaching to the unhappy prisoner,
we. did not detail it in our report of that examination, till
no w the verdict of the Jury has rendered it unnecessary
to snake any concealment.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
.ADELPIII THEATRE.—This popular place of
amusement closed on Friday, when Mr. Yates delivered
the customary farewell address, and announced that it
would open again on Monday, the 20th of September.

PRICE sd.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
_ ..._ .

TIMES.—It appears that what passecfai;he late meet-
ing of Portuguese bondholders on the 28th ult., as de-
scribed under this head, has conveyed an erroneous impres-
sion of the extent to which the Committee of the Stock
Exchange are disposed to support the views of those who
took the lead at Oat meeting. The Committee, in fact,
have never expressed any opinion on the propriety or other-
wise of the conversion of the bonds, and have merely as-
sured the parties concerned that they would act in this
case strictly up to the spirit of their former regulation,
so often before adverted to, when the bad faith of
the Spaniah Government became a matter of public
question, and in which they have declared that they
will not sanction or take any cognizance whatever
.of bargains that may be made in new bonds or stock, or
aly other securities, issued by any foreign Government
that has not duly paid the dividends on former loans raised
in this country, unless that Government shall have made
some satisfactory arrangement with the holders of such
stock or bonds, or other securities, on which the dividends
shall have been left in arrcar." In the face of such a
communication from the Committee, it was certainly too
much to say that their support had been secured to the re-
sistance to the proposed conversion, but it may come to the
same thing in the end, if the " arrangement" shall not be
found satisfactory to the holders of the stock generally.
This law of the Committee is a very judicious one, and
has, indeed, always been mentioned with commendation
whenever any circumstances have brought it into public
notice.

The English Stock-market was fully sustained by the
intelligence published this morning of the receipt of de-
spatches from Mr. Fox, so fully confirmatory of the pacific
statements in the " Genevese Traveller's" letter. From
the commencement of business speculation was for the rise,
and another advance' of nearly i per cent. took place, so
that there has been a rise (a very unusual one of late) of
nearly 1 per cent. within these last two days. At the
close of the market, prices were a shade lower than at their
highest quotation, but the dec:ine was so very trivial that
It could only be supposed one of those ordinary reactions
which usually follow as important rise. There is no pres-
sure for money in the Stock Exchange, but nevertheless it
fetches about 4 to 4i per cent.
A correspondent writes to show the commercial con-
dition of Beyrout, where, he says, there i 3 at present a
brisk demand for British manufactures. The cessation of
importation during the war caused the old stocks to go off
at good prices. Lebanon is tranquil, though Naplous
and the south of Syria are in rather an unsettled condi-
tion, and the caravan routs from Beyrout to Damascus, and
from Scanderoon to Aleppo, are said to be as secure as
before the war, while the inhabitants are industriously cul-
tivating the rich alluvial plains of the Bekaa, which is
the granary of central Syria. Silk, which is the sta-
ple article of the coast, is unfortunately unfit for the
European market, owing to a defective system of
winding, and this presents an obstacle in the way
of its trade with Europe. Now, however, operations
are carried on to effect an improvement, and are expected
to prove successful, the war having been the great inter-
ruption to progress. On the whole, the removal of Me-
heinet Ali's power over Syria is regarded as beneficial, and
as causing a more healthy action in the country, while
there scents to be none of that anarchy which some had pre-
disted from the downfall of the Fade's rule.

The gallant conduct of Captain Douglas, and his re-
ceiving the Order of Knighthood, have brought to naiad
the case of Sir Nathaniel Dance, wo was similarly re-
warded for his action with the French squadron during the
time of the r. A correspondent is in eri or, by sup-
posing the case of Sir N. Dance was overlooked, when
Captain Douglas was said to be the first officer of a private
merchant-ship so honoured, as a reference to the paragraph
to wh'ch he alludes will show that a distinction is made
between officers in the East India Company's service and
those of merely private merchantmen, and that it is only
as being the first knighted officer of the latter clads that
Captain Douglas is specified.

CHRONICLE.—The defalcation of Abbott, one of
the official assignees in the Court of Bankruptcy is at-
tended with circumstances. so important to the rights and
interests of creditors as to render a strict inquiry neces-
sary, not only into his affairs, but into the system under
which the moneys belonging to bankrupts are managed by
such officials, and the extent to which they are permitted
to retain these moneys in their hands. Abbott is said to
have absconded with a very large amount of public pro-
perty. It is difficult in such cases to ascertain the
amount. We have heard it stated in the present case
at so large a sum that we decline to name it; but if
any very considerable amount should turn out to have
been due to creditors of bankrupts, by the de-
faulter, it will be proven beyond all question, that
there Las been remissness in some quarter. It in ordered
by the Bankrupt Act that the official assignee shall " give
such security and be subject to such rules as the said
chief and other Judges, with the consent of the Lord
Chancellor, shall direct ;" and all the personal estate and
effects, and the rents and profits of the real estate, and the
proceeds of sale of all the estate and effects, real and per-
sonal, of the bankrupt, shall in every case be possessed and
received by such official assignee alone, save where it shall
be otherwise directed by the said Court of Bankruptcy, or
of any Judge or Commissioner thereof; and " all stock in
the public funds, or of any public company, and all moneys,
Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, or other public securities;
and all bills, notes, and other negotiable instruments, shall
be forthwith transferred, delivered, and paid by such official
assignee into the Bank of England, to the credit of the Ac-
countant-General cf the High Court of Chancery." The
Act provides that the official assignee shall " forthwith"
pay in the moneys, as he receives them on account of cre-
ditors, to the name of the Accountant-General ; thus
evincing a proper care and anxiety that their rights should
not be prejudiced by the failure or dishonesty of these
functionaries, leaving the manner of carrying this object
into effect to such rules of Court as the Judges may see
fit to frame for that purpose. Whatever these rules may
be, there can be no doubt that in practice a great deal too
much latitude is given to the official assignees of retain-
ing large sums of moneys. At present the rule, or under-
standing, seems to be, that the assignees being bound to
find surety to the amount of 6,000!. each, arc prohibited
from retaining more than 2,000!. at any one time on
their private account; but if the reports be at all
correct of the amount in Abbott's hands, this rule cannot
have been attended to. The Commissioners must apply
themselves to the subject, and take the neceasaiy means
for compelling the official assignees to comply with the
letter of the Bankrupt Act. Abbott has been dabbling
for a long time past in all kinds of schemes and specula-
, tions ; and no small amount of creditors' moneys is said to
have been sunk upon the Stock Exchange. The last
project we have heard he was connected with was a
Turki,h loan, to be secured upon the security of certain
revenues, which were to be specially assigned by the
Sublime Porte. The docum eats are said to have been all
ready, and the negotiation far advanced. Abbott must
have been duped in this affair, if he advanced money on
it, for every body knows that the Turkish revenues arc
farmed, or sold, so that their assignment, without the con-
sent of the contractors, would ,`cave been good for nothing.

POST.—Another meeting of the Shareholders of the
British Iron Company has been held. The threatened
proceedings of the Directors against defaulters in the pay-
ment of calls, drew together a numerous assemblage. The
case submitted to counsel was read upon the occasion and
the result seemed to be most satisfactory to parties so cir-
cumstanced; the opinion given upon the pant at issue,
being to the effect, that future calls may oe resisted.
Some strong resolutions were proposed and parsed unani-
mously, but which are not to published until they shall
have been referred to the Directors. One of them a..uttio-
rises the filing of a bill of discovery in the Court of Chan-
cery, and for the appointment of a receiver, &c. It was
observed by a Shareholder that the Directors com-
plained that they had no reserve of funds with which
to prosecute legal proceedings, upon which some
members of the Stock Exchange put down their
names fur handsome sums, an example that was
speedily followed by many others ; and measuTes will, we
understand, be immediately taken in the Court named.
The Directors, it should be borne in mind, fought the
battles of the Shareholders most ably and successfully up
to a certain time, and, although things subsequently took
an unfor,unate turn, they are net less competent, nor can
~se suppose, from the high characters of ties individuals,
that they are less indefatigable now than at any former
period. We would, therefore, strongly recommend una-
nimity of action among the parties. Many of the present
proprietors arc persons who have come into the ecaleern
at the eleventh hour, and are what are called " shilling
Shareholders." They cannot be great losers by their in-
vestments, and when they joined the wreck, they were at
all events well aware of the critical nature of its position.

JOAN OF ARC.—In Mr. Serle's f:lrtheoming
historical romance on the subject of the Maid of Orleant,
we understand that the reading world may expect a work
blending in a very unusual manner the high wroiaght spirit
of romance, with the severe truth of authentic history.
Not only has the writer, in the leading features of his
work, strictly adhered to the great facts of her extra -
ordinary career, but in order to give them a fittillg
visit and
" local habitation" he has been at the pains to
examine every spot with which her name and deeds are
historically associated, so that while the fiction of the
work is used to illustrate historical truth, history. is
employed, to give weight and consistency to the fiction.
There has never been a finer subject chosen for an to-f
rical romance, and Mr. Serie has alrea iy given proof o
being well qualified to treat it efficiently.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—A gentleman walking
on the North Terrace at Windsor, a day or two since, was
suddenly stopped, before he bad proceeded more than
a few yards, by the sentinel on duty (a private in the
60th Rifles), who told him he had orders to suffer nu
one to proceed further. The geotieman remonstrated,
of cour,e, with the guard (knowing that the whole
of the North Terrace was always open to the pub-
lic), and asked him under whose authority be acted?
" My orders," replied the sentinel, " are upon that board
(pointing to the usual written instructions) inside the sentry
box; and not one step further must you proceed." The
party, having bad permission to exaino the board, disco-
vered that the instructions upon which the man was acting,
referred :to the sentinels statiioned on the eastern private
terrace (just in front of the Queen's private apartments). It
appeared that some wag had exchanged the boards ; and had
not the mistake been discovered, not one of the public
during that day at least would have been permitted to have
walked much more than a fowyazda on the North Terrace.

The Morning Herald of Saturrday, returning to the New
Poor-law question, observes :—" Of the new or amended Poor-
law Amendment Bill, the 18th clause contained some enormi-
lies of which it is not possible to speak in terms more mode-
rate, and yet more expressive, than those employed by Lord
Granville Somerset. Of that 18th clause we will venture to
say somewhat more. \Ve will venture, without a fear of con-
tradition, to declare it to be unequalled, in the reckless atro-
city of its propositions, by any summary jurisdiction effectet
by modern tyranny."
The Morning Chronicle says, with reference to a late publi-
cation drawn up under the direction of the Canada Company :
—" In America generally, and Upper Canada is a highly-
favoured province, every industrious labourer may soon obtain
a competence. The man who in this country can never hope
to do more than keep himself out of the workhouse, may, by
removing to Canada, by the mere exertion of his thews and
sinews, become in a short time a substantial yeoman. The
tale which this publication tells is calculated to carry joy into
the cottagee of these islands, where at present many strong-
armed men carry on a cheerless struggle, day after day, with
privations amounting almost to famine constantly staring them
in the face. Benevolent individuals should circulate the publi-
cation extensively throughout the rural districts, that well-dis-
posed, industrious men may be enabled to profit by the body of
evidence presented by the Canada Company."
The Morning Post thus refers to the proceedings in Parlia-
ment since its opening in January last:—" What good, we
ask, has the Government done in Parliament during the last
ten weeks ? What abuse has it remedied, or given hope of
remedying ? None. Four nights were consumed in debating
a certain • rapid attempt ' of Government to remedy the ac-
knowledged abuses of the registration system in Ireland, hut
no human being expects, or did at any time expect, that this
rapid attempt ' would be successful. It was known from
the first announcement of the attempt' that its real design
was, not to get rid of the abuse, but to postpone or destroy the
improvement which Lord Stanley had projected. This has
been the great work of the Administration during its ten weeks
of Parliamentary labour."

The Times observes in an article on the American question :
" If tne dignity of the United States require them to make
formal inquiry about tho destruction of the Caroline, why did
n it the same dignity impel them to demand national satisfac-
tion fur the punishment of their patriot intruders' at Navy
Island ? The two transactions, as far as Great Britain was
concerned, were precisely analogous. To call the Caroline
affair ` an invasion of American territory,' in any such sense
a> justly applied to the incursions of the Navy Island patriots,
fomenting as they did a serious rebellion in our Canadian pro-
vinces, would be absolutely preposterous. On what principle
the sovereignty of the American States was less compromised
in the punishment of her citizens than in the destruction of a
steam-boat illegally and clandestinely ministering to their ma-
' chination3, we cannot at all conjecture."
Tne illyrning Advertiser, in the course of a leading article
suggested by the late election for St. Alban's, remarks as fol-
lows :—" To propose an extension of the franchise, which by
increasing the number of electors, would impede the success of
bribery, is in Tory estimation a misprision of treason, and to
advocate the Ballot, which must at once put an end to bribery,
by making it impossible to prove the equivalent in return, is
denounced as the instigation of revolution. Yet until we have
both an Extension of the Suffrage and the Ballot, bribery will
prevail, and Election Committees of the House of Commons
will be ----what we dare not name.'

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)

Toe constitution and powers of Parliamentary Elec-
tion Committees underwent some discussion last even-
ing in the House of Commons. The soreness felt by
the Tories at the failure of their attempt to•unseat Lord
Listowell is increasingly manifest. This may be ac-
counted for on various grounds. The Grimstones, a
powerful part of the Tory host, had been beaten in their
stronghold, which they deemed almost impregnable ; and
it would, have proved mere than consolatory under
the mortification arising from the unlocked-for defeat,
could they have dispossessed the invader of their family
possession. Lord Listowell also held a post in her Ma-
jesty's Household ; and to deprive him of the sect he
had ventured to contest successfully against the nominee
of the house of Verulam would be peculiarly gratifying ;
inasmuch as it would be easily construed into a triumph

over the Court, as well as over the winning candidate.
Tnat such a construction would have been placed on
the decision of the, Committee, bad it been fa.vourable
to their hopes, is evident. No sooner was it known

. -
that Lord Listowea had started as a candidate against
Mr. Bond Cabbell, than the most indecorous state-
ments appeared as to the interest taken by the Queca
in his succe3s. Inventions, equally unrestrained by
decency or probability, were put forth with all the con-
fidence of the most direct and indisputable certainty.
The very language was quoted in which her Majesty
was asserted to have directed his Lordship to start as a
candidate, and to gain the election by all means. The
defeated candidate, in the moment of mortification, in-
dulged in expressions of the same kind and tendency ;
and for several days the Tory journals placed no
limits on their licentious imputations of unconstitu-
tional interference. It is therefore manifest that, had
the decision of the Committee deprived Lord Listowell
of his ~eat, the triumph thus gained would have. been
proclaimed in language as gross as the previous allega-
tions had been sweeping and unfounded. That they

shoul,l have been deprived of this much-desired oppor-
tunity of repeating the loathsome tirades in which, at

short interv,:ds, they have indulged against their Sove-
reign and her Court, from the day that Sir It. Peel
was foiled in his attempt to become the major domo
of her Court as well as the head of her Cabinet, by
which the hopes of the party of entering upon office
were prostrated at the very moment they regarded
them as secure of attainment, was o❑ these accounts
peculiarly vexatious. No sooner did they find the elec-
, tiou lost, than they devised the scheme of imputing
bribery—bribery such as in the whole history of elec-
tioneering contests was never before heard of !
(From the Standard.)
Mr. Blrckstone, it will be seen, moved last night for

the printing of the report of the St. Alban's committee,
and Mr. Thomas Buncombe added a " tit quoque"
amendment, ordering the printing of the report of the
Canterbury committee. Mr. Blackstone spoke of
rumours that the case of St. Alban's had been compro-
mised ; and in confirmation of these rumours Mr. T.
Duncombe remarked that the petitioner's counsel stopped
the case just after having had two favourable decisions.
We know not what to say of the rumours afloat ; but
we are well aware that Mr. Blackstone would not
allude to anything so seriously comprising the charac-
ter of other gentlemen upon slight grcunds : we must,
therefore, believe that the rumour prevails to an extent
and with a confidence of which we were not apprised.
Mr. T. Duncombe's remark in confirmation of this dis-
graceful rumour is, however, we believe inaccurate ;
but we remember, the first decision of the St. Alban's
Committee was, that " the petitioner had not proved
the agency of' Dr. Webster"—a decision so mon-
strous as fully to
„tustify a Counsel in throwing up
his brief, as, indeed, Mr. Hillyard might have done,
and, in our opinion, ought to have done, three days be-
fore. Still, experience teaches us not to be too confident
in the prudence and propriety of the conduct of
every gentleman who calls himself a Conservative.
There may have been a compromise in the Sr. Alban's
case ; and if there has been one we can ascribe it to
nothing but a consciousness on the part of Mr. Ca.obell
that he or his agents have practised bribery ; for we
cannot for a moment conceive that the whole Conserva-
tive party is implicated to the extent that it. must be
implicated, if, as surmised, St. Alban's lies been sold to
save Canterbury. This would be a very alarming case,
indeed ; for it would involve not only the Whigs (they,
however, arc familiar with infamy) and the Conserva
tires in a very disgraceful bargain—it would implicate
two sroorn Committees of the House of Commons as
conniving at that bargain.
(From the Courier.)
It may be readily conceded that Lord John Russell
and the supporters of the New Poor-law Bill are almost
profuse of humanity—are guilty indeed of' humanity-
mongering—when the object is to provide for the burial
of deceased paupers. He would have all such carried
out and buried " decently," and is moreover not india-
posod to provide for the charge to be incurred. Nay
more, he is disposed to allow the dying pauper himself
a voice in the disposal of his own remains, for so at least
we may understand his language where he says that,
" when he spoke of introducing words (into time
clause) to sanction the burial of a pauper in the parish
to which lie belonged, he meant to say, if the pauper
himself expressed a desire to that eject." The huma-
nity of Lord John, however, extends only to the pauper
dying; it is dispensed only when the pauper recipient
that is to be lies in articzdo mortis ; for the pauper
living his bowels of compassion or compunction are not
so readily moved. The former is to be endowed with
laying his bones in his native
locality ; the latter is denied a veto on removal from the
thewor
kh precious
home and
of his own and transportation to that of
any more more
breathe his native. air, or enjoy the consoling con-
disptrainvtileguernoofni Living'. he may no
sciousness of at least dwelling within the pre-
ch
al-
cincts
friends aroundrernen remembered
stillo clusteror ahnadppayre
found,
though debarred the rights of occasional communion
a
dreary prison walls. But
insd native
burstaetsi
asunder,fitee
fields
from
beyond
0 locks,tnhde
his
igsbh bolts, tor set,.
in revenge, or compensation as it may be called, he
may
e'elim on the bed of death the privilege of being
rlaid.
under the same sod, or in the same church-yard urch
burial-ground, with the friends who have gone
or
before
him, or among those who still live to pay the,
fast sad tribute of remembrance and affection. This
latter poor privilege is but an expenditure of humanity
at the cheapest rate after all, with the consoling cer-
tainty, moreover, to those by whom reluctantly conceded,
that it is the last item in the pauper's bill of charge, and
winds up his account once for all. I\liserable as is the
pittance ungraciously deled out, we are yet thankful
that even that little has been extorted.

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MINIATURE CARRIAGE FOR THE PRINCESS,
Rev .u.—A most elegant little carriage is now building.
: ut
tasteful
' r forrw e stsh et
o use
take° or ctchaes i oPniailnaciersign gßso:ailt i;
atondelnlaebalrelythcr inPfalenttePl
fo:
her Majesty through the walks in the gardens:.
little aff.tir, the body resting within a few inches of the
admirably appropriated to
ham Palace and Windser Castle. It is a
ground, and the purposes for
which it will be required. A pair of beautiful Shetland
ponies, in perfect keeping, as to size, with the carriage,
have recently been purchased, and the whole " turn oat"
ail' be an attractive novelty. Thn ponies are so exceed-
ingly tractable and dozile that, it may be said, " even a
child may drive them." It is expected that this Lillipu-
tian affair will he used for the first time upon the arrival o f
the Court at Windsor at easter.