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others. We humbly trust, that on the next occasion up-
on which Mr. Roebuck becomes histrionic, and deals in
antics. and 'gesticulations quite as extraordinary as the
speeches he utters, he will give us notice of his inten-
tions, that we may be present to enjoy the scene.
ADVERTISER.—Mr. Roebuck, who seems deter-
mined to make a figure of one sort or another in the
Legislature, last night made the observations of our
habituully-pclite cotemperary (the Times), • the subject of
a speech in the House of Commons. complaining of a
breach of privilege. We are sorry that err. Roebuck
did not exhibit less irascibility and better judgment than
to 'trouble the House With such a paltry application ; we
should have expected more discernment even from " the
one-shilling gentlemen at Drury-lane." In addressing
the House, Mr. Roebuck observed, " he held that no man
could be written down but by himself ;" and yet, in de-
fiance, as it were, of his own better judgment, before
he concluded his speech, he illustrated his position by
loitering himself more from the position to which, as
the representative of a great and influential consti-
tuency he is fail ly entitled, than could the Times by
showering upon hiM its daily vituperation for six
months. It was but natural for Mr. Roebuck to feel
indignant at the revolting and indecorous language of
the public maligner, but it was injudicious to treat its
Vituperation otherwise than with contemptuous disre-
gard, and stark folly to bring the matter under the no-
tice of the House of Commons. It is not a time for
that House to measure its strength. with the public
press, and therefore Mr. Roebuck merely. exposed its
ludicrous incompetency when on attempting to over-
strain privilege he said, " he would remind the House
that • according to its rules he was entitled to bring the
party responsible on his knees to the bar of the H• ease."
.The time is past for these teannical exhibitions
of authority.
POST.—If we may believe the Whigs themselves
(and who should know so well ?) they have always been-
great patriots—very ardent lovers of their country. And
since this sort of love—as well as the more tender pas-
sion—is very apt to be strengthened and made perma-
nent by reciprocity of benefits, the philosophic Whigs
have always taken care, at the proper opportunity, that
their country should afford them something substan-
tial in return for the patriotic affection with which
they regard it. It grieves us to find that these lovers
of their country have at present nothing but a very for-
lorn hope to comfort and support them. It has been
announced by them that no lover of his country (and
therefore no patriotic Whig) has at present any
hope save in the possible rupture of that remarkable
combination which constitutes the present Government
party. Now we must say that this is what may be called
an exceedingly dull and dolorific prospect. If there be
no hope save that which Tests upon the probability of
the aforesaid rupture, we apprehend it is something very
like no hope at all. Our worthy antagonists should not
take so. gloomy a view of things, especially as November is
epproaching, and as that almost übiquitous pens rage Mr.
Wakley has already (al it seems to us), quite enough to do.
We recommend the Whigs to look out for a better hope,
and if nothing more promising should turn up, to make
themselves as cheerful as possible with the reflection that
they may do great 'good in opposition. Perhaps upon
that " bleak shore" (as in one of his moments of unaf-
fected enthusiasm, Lord Brougham called the Opposition
coast.), they may pick up some pearls of price wherewith
to set up business again, and with more success than in
their last start. But even should this luck not attend
them, their condition will at least have the charm of va-
riety, to which they may make additions ad libitum, by
adopting honest, sincere, and practical courses of politi-
cal exertion. •
STANDARD.—The monodrame performed last niglit
by Mr. Roebuck in the House of Commons may at first
sight appear • simply ridiculous, but upon consideration
it will open a train of more serious thoughts. One is at
first amused to see a person dropped, ifs it were, by ac -
cident, into What ought to be one of the most august
assemblies in the world, tumbling and writhing in the
agonies of wounded self-love, amid the coolest indifference
on the part of some, and the unconcealed mirth of others ;
but then when we hear this person talk of cudgelling and
horsewhipping gentlemen far more respectable than'hira-
self, and know that he is by the• accident of the place
privileged to do so, we must begin to think more gravely.
Is it proper that a Member of the House of Commons
should have the right to threaten the cede:el or the
horsewhip, lie himself being protected by Parliamentary
privilege from a retort "in kind !" If so, Parliamentary
privilege goes beyond despotism. And now a word as to
newspapers, the objects, as it appears, of Mr.. Roebuck's
especial hatred and scorn. A newspaper can, properly
speaking, personally insult no one ; it may traduce, it
may calumniate, it may injure, but it cannot personally
insult, besause to personal insult two parties are want-
ing—the man insulted, and the man insulting, and
from le horn, according to the law of society, re-
paration is to be exacted. If a newspaper misrepre-
sents a man, he has his remedy in a contradiction,.
for which the press is always open ; if it vilifies or.other-
wise injures him, he has-- his • remedy in the Courts of
Law, with jaws ever gaping for us ; but nobody expects
him, society du'es not expect him, to look foie any ;other
remedy ; it is a paper or an abstraction that he has to do
with. and not a man that Can insult. To retort by per-
sonal insults upon persons, truly or falsely, supposed to
be connected with a newspaper, any attacks proceeding
from that newspaper, is therefore to be the first insulter.
A newspaper has abused you ; if your taste direct, abuse
that paper in return—it is all a Matter of taste, and it is
all fair ; but if you are a .gentleman you will leave it to
those who think With Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Roebuck
to single out individuals upon whom to vent your re-
sentment.
COURIER.-•.-The writs issued last night in conse-
quence of the acceptance of office by the members of the
present Government, offer a fair and fresh opportunity
fur testing its popularity. Who but recollects the shifts
and contrivances to which the displaced Cabinet was in-
variably driven upon the occurrence of any change in its
members, or of any vacancy that would necessitate a re-
election. Nothing latterly appeared more difficult for
them than to find amongst their numerous supporters one
of presmnable fitness for office. But how strikingly
different is the position of the present Cabinet, and how
powerfully and conclusively its opponents shrinking
' from the challenge offered by the issuing of no less
than seven- and-twenty new writs, attests it.s power
and popularity with the country... It has been almost
an invariable practice with , every Opposition to dis-
pute, wherever there gleamed the faintest. hope of
a successful issue, the re-election of therprominent mem-
bers of a 'new Administration. and by that means to
strike the first blow at its stability. and power ; nor can
we discover aught of unfairness or unconstitutionality
in such a course of proceeding ; its factiousness would
pf course be measured by the want of- success. Well,
threatened as Sir Robert Peel's • Ministry While
in embryo was with the fiercest and most determined
opposition—thwarted, obstructed, and crippled es he
was to have been at every step of his Ministerial ca-
reer—what do we now behold ? Is it preparations
for contesting every vacant scat with desperate
energy, and for testing the truth of the assertions so
confidently, and, as it appeared to us, so recklessly made,
that the success of the Conservative cause at the late
general election was due to misrepresentation and ca-
lumny ? Here is a fresh field for a renewal of the con-
flict, and those who, with braggart airs and turgid
veuntings menaced the country with a second dissolu--
don, now slink away, leaving their opponents the un-
disputed masters thereof. In the city of Exeter, where
faction was busiest and most active, and where requisi-
sitions had been hawked about from door to doer, hie.
voicing ',
the aid and presence. of some aspirin
Whig-ladical, in order to oust Sir William Fol-
lett from the represetitation of that city, so little
eneouragettient did the factious requieitieptistameet with
from the constitetetteaa that they could find in the
Ili& range of Whig-nadleal aspirants to the honours
of membership, none fool-hardy enough to embark in so
hopeless and disropntable a contest. But, the game
140tlz• looked upon as perfectly hopeless as regards Exe-
ter, it :Appears that the whole strength of the Opp.,si-
tion party is to be brought to bear upon Newark, and
OA the eadellent and highly-gifted Vice-President of
tilt bonito of Trade Ntd Lie annihilated. The re-
doubtable Mr. Gisborne has beeil geldeted as the
fitting instrument for earring this terrible setae-nee
a?teetitiOn; and sacrificing the youthful •and rapidly
rising statesman id tate the Vice-Presidency
of the Board of Trade has beat entrusted, to • the
manes of those. Whig-Radical heroes, who had fallen
iiiiiifenseed in the late conflict ; but, alas I resolve as
proudly as •tifelki divinity, that not only
"c shapes our ends," but thwarts our pill-palms z and that
we confidently anticipate Mr. Gisborne and his Insti-
gators will find, to' their cost and chagrin, to be the case
xis ft:this their jiremeditated assault upon the borough
1'.19;-shetilii la the admbitiltd opposition at so low anebb
in power and popularliY,•tlia ftfaiil the sallole number of
placeS vacant at this moment, including counties, ernes;
and boroughs, only one, and that one Newark, should be
thought assailable ? If they have no stomach for Eng-
lish eoneties; there is an Irish one vacant, Why not try
their Ilan& et n
ea getting tip an elppOsition to Colonel Per-
fc-electiothe ddiltity tit WWI f but we for-
got an attempt of that kind was made at the lag elm-
tmn, and abandoned through sheer despair. . There
is therefore pa room in that quarter for an attack on the
Administeation4 licgtittldgg, ihtlefere) as we are aware
would be the attempt to displace any of the Members
whom the adceptatide Of (Ade has necessitated to tacit
Nth their etiestlitiefite ft fefieitel bf confidence, still, as
the resolves of despair are often as feettfie tie thieepeeted,
, we would wish to impress the different constitttencies
with an appreciation of the absolute necessity for vigi-
lance, activity, and union that exists. By. a timely and
vigorous display of these qualities, they will save
themselves the annoyance of needless contests.
Let them, as our Contemporary of the Times
judiciously advises, " fortify themselves for the
(lowing elections 4 just as if they expected a for-
mideble conflict. Let them, remember the
cuttnime little animal' in the Roxburgh case, who, when
everybgdy thought he was still as death, endeavoured to
sprat into the representation by one of the most despe-
rate vaultings -which his pettiness-could attempt- Let
vigilance and active co-opevation be the order of the day.
If there be any laxity or over confidence, it is impossible
to tell what may be the issue. Let no Consertative.elee-
tor slumber at his post ' • otherwise the Whigs may prat-
rise an unexpected eonpde main, and leave us nothing but
stupid astonishment and unavailing regrets."
GLOBE.--Tbe privilege of the Press occasionally
comes into collision with the privilege or Parlhunent, but

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES—A practice is said to exist among the
brokers in the metal trade, which, should it prove to be
carried out, attended with the circumstance which is
brought under notice by the correspondent writing on
the subject, must eventually injure the parties following
1171r:elven teem- -hlreatlyaitelia*--beenesaitl- 1113.011 SOYO-
ral instances the dealers have acted without the inter-
vention of brokers ; and the existence of such an abuse
as that described will, when it is made public, go fax to
lessen the confidence now reposed lii them, The coin
plaint made is, that some of the brokers rid that in their
contracts give the name of their " principal," but insert
simply " sold to my principal ;" and that by this Weans
the brokers cover their transactions, while they make
great profit in addition to their customary brokerage,
as the seller allows the broker 8 per cent. discount, while
he to the buyer allows only 4 per cent. It is not an un-
usual thing in other branches of brokerage to refuse the
name of the principal, but it is not supposed that it is
accompanied by any such profit as that here described.
If it is, it is open to the same censure.
Among- the many suggestions that • are from time to
time brought forward with the view to facilitate the
conveyance of the overland mail, is one which emanates
from _Bombay, and is deserving of attention in the pro-
per quarter, as it is stated materially to affect the
iorwarding of the meil on its arrival there from Suez.
The East India Company are said to send out yo-
lumious despatches, many of them,. nevertheless, of an
unimportant nature, being either duplicates of former
despatches, or. letters containing instructions of an or-
dinary nature, which do not require immediate attention,
the delay of which would not cause the slightest incon-
venience to the Government, nor be in any way injurious
to the public service. It is therefore suggested that
it would be very desirable that the authorities here
should divide their communications into three classes—
' the most important to be marked " Exprese ;" those of
secondary consequence, "By regular mail ;" and all
heavy and comparatively unimportant documents, " At
convenience." This would be a most useful arrange-
ment, and would enable the postmaster-general of the
Presidency to transmit the contents of the mail in a
much more satisfactory manner than he can possibly do
under existing circumstances.
POST.—Attention has been drawn to-day to the late
meeting of the shareholders of the Marylebone Bank,
and it has been considered that the remarks which had
been made some time since on that establishment were
neither unjust nor undeserved. The report of the Com-
mittee declaring that they were unable to furnish the
meeting with a statement of the affairs, hi consequence
of the accountant having failed to perform his promise ;
and the reason put forth by that gentleman for the omis-
sion, ought to be received with some interest by the
shareholders in similar establishments. Mr. Quilter (the
accouutant) states, " that the accounts were se compli-
cated that he could not make them out, hut that they
had been admirably kept for the purpose intended ;
that facts were not recorded until lung after their
occurrence ; and that the whole system was obviously
designed for the purposes of fraud." At a late
meeting of the Committee he informed them that
he had discovered " that when it was reported
that the Bank had made. 1,0001 pro it, instead of such
being the case, there had been an actual loss of 3,0001.;
.that the dividend had been made by debiting certain
gentlemen's accounts for commissions improperly and
crediting them afterwards ; and that the salaries to the
clerks. in the establishments had not been paid until
after, the declaration of the dividend." The Chairman
eiekreowledged that up to the present time the Commit-
tee were completely in the dark as to the state of af-
fairs, and knew nothing Ivliatever as to what might be
.the assets of the Bank, and could furnish no infoema-
the' to the shareholders as to the extent of their liabi-
lities. Upwards of one month has elapsed since the ap-
pointment of the Committee, and yet such has been the
method of keeping the accounts of this, a public Com-
pany, upon the capital of which more than one dividend
has been paid to the shareholder, and to whom reports
of the state of their accountshaiv been presented,
that an experienced accountant with all his skill is un-
able to unravel them. These facts require no comment.
lIERALD.—Some alarm appears latterly to have been
occasioned on the -Paris Stock Exchange by some large
sales, and. offers ',of snore, of 5,000 franc • shares in the
Lalitte Joiat-Steels Bank there. At one time it was ob-
served the holders seemed determined to sell at any sacri-
fice. -The'cittaie of the panic was referred to, a lawsuit
in which M. Lafitte, the founder and chief Director of
the Bank, had. been • engaged, and which was decided
against him •; but dees not appear that the Bank Ns-as
otherwise connected with the affair.
There hies- latterly-been a kind of speculative mania
in Madrid, such as was witnessed lately in Lancashire
and Yorkshire for all sorts of mining, bank, railroad and
industrial undertakings• • and such more recently as has
been. exhibited in the same way in France and
Germany, to say nothing of the United States. In
:pain this fury has more particularly been directed to
coal, iron, lead, and silver mines. The Government.
finding this disposition to' Industrial speculation,.
which is a new feature in the Spanish character, and
that it was .degenerating fast into the excesses of
gambling, a vice only too common among the people,,
wisely resolved,. if' possible, to' turn it to account for
works of public utility. Accordingly, two enterprises
have been projected in which the public are invited to
take shares in the shape of contributions to loans on
which dividends at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum
arc to be paid, until the capital is repaid and extin-
guished periodically in a given number of years. The
first of these projects ,consists of the formation, or re-,
storation of a high road from Madrid across Castile to
Corunna. The second for the high road to Valencia
by the Cabrillas. For carrying into effect these under-
takings, subscription lists are opened for two loans
of' eight and nine millions of.reals.respectively, as autho-
rised by a law of the Cortes. , A brief description of the
mode in which the lean operation is proposed for the
completion of the first line of. road will serve for both, as
the plans do not materially ,eery. Each loan share is to
represent the amount of, 4000 reels, to be paid up in
four half-yearly payments of 250 reels each, reckoning,.
from the Ist of January, 1842. Interest runs on from •
the date of each instalment and upon it, but until all the
four payments are completed the dividend due on the.
payment previously made may be deducted from such
payment, which will then stand the same for the 200
rcals as if the whole sum were then paid.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Sept. 6, 1841:
Passengers ... £929 12 2
Merchandize 422 12 3

1,352 4 5
Darlington, Sept. 8. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

LA,W INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT.
Wednesday beincr the default day after Trinity Term,
Sir J. Dodson sat for a short time, in the absence of Dr.
Lu3bington, but no business of importance came before
him. In the case of the Elizabeth and Jane, a motion,
by Dr. Baysford, far a monition (at the suit of one joint
owner of the ship against the other joint owner, who was
in poloession, and who had mismanaged her), either to
give her up, or to navigate her on security for her safe
return, was directed to stand over.

•
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
• (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLnoyD.)
THE WIIITECRAPEL DISTILLERY-IN THE MATTER or

JAMES GOLDIE.
Wednesday was the day fixed for the final adjourned
examination of the bankrupt, who was well known as the
proprietor of the Whitechapel Distillery. The fiat was
issued ao far back as January last, and the hearings in
the case have been unusually numerous. The first
balance-sheet rendered by the bankrupt was found to be
very erroneous. A second was next made out, equally in-
correct, a third sheet was prepared, as containing the best
account which the bankrupt could offer. The debts and
liabilities are heavy, and the probable assets very trifling.
Mr. Commissioner HoLnorn asked whether the " pro-
perty" which he. saw entered in the schedule at 9,0001,
was soon likely to be realized ; and
The Solicitor to the fiat said he feared not, as the
concern was deeply mortgaged, and at every step taken
on 'behalf of the creditors they were met with increasing
difficulties.
Mr, Commissioner Hoi.norn—Are the creditors' as-
signees satisfied with the bankrupt's accounts ?
One of the Assignees—The books were very badly
to el.), tphiewbearntl;furpotm, nor
his
doe bt
uh
n"k. e i
thatmphuot hna d:ictehphtei ol
creditors.
been sworn to the truth of his
schTeldleulbe,anvik'arusPdtehlirnj to ha. p. ssed his finial exami-
nation.

Lords Stafford, Carew, Acheson, and Fingall,
have signified their intention of taking I art in the great
national demonstration to -Lord Morpeth,—L 'nierick Re-
porter.