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THE WHOLE WORKS of the LATE
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ase the fot
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oF ANATI
SINGULAR CASE ,teen years cism.—On Mon-
eighteen
day a young man, about
i. Hospital, D • of age, was ad-
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circumstances. He had had been
labouring under religious
mania for several days, and been reading that part of
Scripture which says, " If thy right eye offend thee pluck
it out, and thy right hand cut it off," and without any cere-
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used in his business, which he did effectually, and then
with a knife he severed the hand at the wrist joint. He
then showed the men who were at work in the same shop
(a very extensive silversmith's) weat he had been doing,
who on seeing
state he was in had him at once taken
the
to the hospital, where he . _ now lies in a state of seeming
tranquillity, but still labouring under the mania, as he fre-
quently utters sentences and quotations from the Bible.
The Italian company, the most distinguished of
whom are Grisi and Tamblrrini, appeared on Tuesday
night at the Dublin theatre in the opera of Semiramide
and Ii Barbiere di Siviglia. Among the personages pre-
sent were the Lord- Lieutenant, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, Lord Fitzciarvnce, the Countess of Carnwatb, &c.

It is not from the sheer impossibility of finding re-
spectable men of their own party to place on the
Episcopal Bench. Several such, and of Oxford too,
have already been noticed in the Ministerial journals.
We have no difficulty in admitting that more than
one of the names so brought forward would have very
gracefully borne th• addition of " Right Reverend."
Dr. Hampden, by his publications, within the last
five years, has created a most favourable impression
among the clergy and other students of theology. His
promotion would probably be as popular at the present
moment as it would have been unpopular five or six
years since. His position, too, as Regius Professor, en-
titles him to notice ; and the repeated preferences given
to others amount to an implied censure on one who, we
believe, rather deserved praise.
Dr. Short, of Bloomsbury, is, we believe, a most ex-
emplary parish priest, as well as a sound and acknow-
ledged scholar and divine. He also boasts of his
" stanch Whig principles," and he is Deputy Clerk of
the Closet to the Queen.

Of Dr. Arnold aad Dr. Hinds we need not speak.
The two names already given are sufficient to show that
Ministers could have been at no loss in finding a very
creditable nominee for the See of Chichester, without
coming to the Conservative ranks to seek one.
When we speak of a coalition, let us not be misun-
derstood. We have never heard, and do not believe,
that any treaty has been commenced—probably none has
even been thought of—for a junction of parties in the
ensuing session. But, without any overt act of this
kind, it may be easy to detect a latent tendency, and to
discern the operation of unavowed, but not the less po-
tent attractions, touching which not one word may ever
have passed the lips of any human being.
Contrast one great and very perceptible difference be-
tween the vacation of 1839 and that of 1840.
Last year's sitting of Parliament dosed with an ad-
mitted consciousness on the part of the Whigs, that
they were not strong enough to get through another
Session. But the remedy proposed, the plan suggested
for obtaining greater strength, was a drawing towards
the Radicals—an infusion of greater " Liberalism "
into the Cabinet. That no effectual cure-was obtained
by this means, is sufficiently certain. Weak as the
Government was in 1839, it was still weaker in 1840.
Symptoms of an entire change of policy were visible
during the late Session. An unqualified surrender of
all that the Church asked in the matter of education
was one most pregnant symptom. But a still greater
amendment was visible in another point. In the Mi-
nisterial Church-rate plan of 1837 it was proposed to
extract a greater value from the estates of the Church,
for the advantage and relief of the Dissenters. In the
recent Session Lord John Russell said he was maturing
a plan for a similar improvement of Church property ;
but that the augmentation was to be given to the
Church he, self.
Such was the ameliorated spirit of the Government
during the sitting of Parliament. The besston showed
a still greater prostration of strength than that which
had been perceptible in the former year. But what
was the remedy now proposed ? Was it, as in 1839,
an advance towards Radicalism, a greater infusion of
" Liberalism ?" Quite the contrary.
What have been the rumours given to the public by
Whig aid Radical prints during the last two months ?
They have been such as these :—That a new party was
about to be formed of some of the Conservatives and of
some of the Whigs, to be called" the Queen's friends ;"
that the Duke of Beaufort was to lead and form this
party ; that his Grace, a known Conservative, was to
accept the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, and so on.
While these reports are spreading by the Ministerial
Journals, Lord J. Russell visits Scotland. During his
stay there he carefully avoids all contact with the busy
politicians of his own party ; declines a public dinner,
though proposed by a very respectable body of Whigs ;
and spends several days with one of the most estimable
of the Conservative nobility—the Duke of Buccleuch.
Immediately after this the vacancy of the see of Chi-
chester occurs, and the person selected, to the disap-
pointment of several respectable Whig divines, is no
other than the very man who would have been appointed
had Sir Robert Peel been Premier !
Can we shut our eyes, then, to the obvious ten
dency of all the Ministerial movements of the last
six or eight weeks? Again we say, that we dream
not that anything so formal or unnecessary as a
treaty of coalition has taken place, or has even been
thought of. But we cannot avoid seeing a change of
conduct so open and palpable. Nor are we surprised
at it. There is, in fact, no other course open to Minis-
ters, if they mean to escape political annihilation. To
continue in the path they have so long followed is cer-
tain destruction. To follow the steps of Lord Stanley,
Sir Francis Burdett, and hosts of less distinguished,
but equally honest, men, it is still in their power to at-
tempt. And this, at least, we can promise them, that
In joining the ranks of the Conservative party, they will
find that with such men as the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Robert Peel, and Lord Stanley, the mere possession of
office and salary will form no obstacle to a substantial
union, so long as the higher matters of principle and
policy are satisfactorily adjusted. •