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LONDON:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1841.

There is an end of the Whig Ministry. Lord MEL-
BOURNE in the House of Peers, and Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL in the House of Commons, yesterday announced
its dissolution. Though we have frequently felt it to be
our duty to censure their acts, we cannot deny that we
see their departure from office with considerable regret.
If they were not the wisest, discreetest, best Ministry,
that ever stood at the helm, we compare them rather
with their successors than with an abstract idea of per-
fection, and we dread what is to come.
We have no partiality for what is called a strong Go-
vernment, which means some man, or men, endowed with
a strong will, profiting by the obedience of mankind,
ruthlessly to carry out a theory, and crushing by their
help ail the interests and affections which stand in the
way. NAPOLEON'S was a strong Government, but he
was dethroned and exiled. The Duke of WEL.
LINGTON'S was a strong Government, but' he
was obliged somewhat ignominiously to give up office,.
The country can at present ill exchange the mild care-
lessness of Lord MELnouaNE, and the easy firmness of
Lord JoHN RussELL, for the vice-like gripe of Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL and the tiger-like spring of my Lord STANLEY.
Backed by the army of monopolists, whose tools they are,
and stooping to do their bidding, that they may be the
:more powerful, these statesmen will forma
strong
Government, intent on enforcing wrong and unjust
principles. But the stronger and more overbearing is
eel). a Government of monopolists, the greater must be
t .me friction with society, and the sooner will it end in
f,oine terrible catastrophe.
The causes which have brought about the fall of the
Whigs, lie within themselves. Their power was essen -
iially deriAd from the people ; but when they obtained
favour of the Crown, they turned their backs on their
:ends, and sought to hold office by the help of the oli-
garchy and the priesthood, who never forgive them the
4/estruction of the Boroughmongering Parliament, and
Lr, whom, by this deference, they gave the means to de-
stroy them.

This was the capital error of the Whigs. Thereto
must be added, which is common to all statesmen of our
(lay, too much reliance on e,iisting institutions, con-
siderable ignorance of the natural laws which dictate
be progress of, society, and,hence the Want of any com-
rizenonsive and great plan of policy. Their principles
ot Government were not settled and determined from a
oombined view of what was due to institutions, and
~,-hat living society demanded. They did not adjust the • .;val claims of the past and the future. • They ere
;;ccarclingly one day for concession and another fortr, re-
,,istance—now expounding the largest principles of
Reform, and then giving us the least possible portion
Hof it, or even disgusting their fol!owers I.;y. peaching
Inc hateful doctrine of finality.
'We must look at their co.edeet a 7; mel expected
~rve their party, and as -Ma:Liters of the CrOWto
.ound to promote the public benefit. Ito this later
-opacity, considering the divei-,iity of views which revail as to 102-.Hation, those Ministers per-
!taps best perform their duty who administer
cue laws as they find them, wit.hont attemptiog altera-
tions, except they be like the Cern-laws, glaringly and
palpably unjust. In the opinl:,)n, however, of most per-
sow, the Ministers have sinned against their duty to the
public by not promoting more extensive schemes of le-
gislative improvement.
Some excuse may ba found for them in the youth of
the QUEEN. WILLIA7.II the FOURTH was a mature, and
even an aged man, when he gave Parliamentary. Reform.
The QUEEN is yet too young to
.have very clear and de-
cided opinions on such subjects, and her tutor might
find in that circumstance an obligation to effect as few
changes as possible till 11,:r MAJESTY was able to judge
for herself. Considering this circumstance, the strong
force opposed to them, and, still more, considering that

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Lord Joux RUSSELL has declared it was their conscien-
tious opinions that further organic reforms should not
be granted, we are inclined to suppose that, as Ministers
of the Crown, , they conceived , that they did their duty
by not urging for Ward large legislative improvements.
They have failed, in our,4,opinion, much more as chiefs
of one of the great parties of the State, than as Ministers
of the Crown. Behold Sir E. PEEL. He cares not 'an
atom either for the Crown or the public, except as caring
for both serves the, purposes of his party. He takes
no step, he utters no sentence, without having the suc-
cess of his party in view. To build up that, to add to it
additional buttresses, to lop off over-hanging etere-
cencies, to mo&rate the ardour of some, to stimulate the
exertions of others, to form a homogeneous corps of well-
trained troops, each man,, both in the House and the
country being disciplined almost like a body of Jesuits,
to promote the success of the Tories, has been the great
object of his study from the moment that he told his
friends to watch the registration till he kissed her.
MAJESTY'S hand on accepting office yesterday. •
The Whigs have not pursued a similar course. They
have taken no pains whatever to build up their
party. They have not even disposed of their patro-
nage judiciously for that end. They have attended
neither to discipline within doors, nor to in-
fluence without. They have given registration to the
winds. They have, in fact, had no head, and each de-
partment has been administered rather to serve the pri-
vet) friends of the Ministers than form and strengthen
a homogeneous party of Whigs.
A strong-minded chief, keeping in check the crotchets
of some, and stimulating the indolence of others, would,
never have had his ranks forsaken by one man of talent,
but crowds of aspirants would have been anxieus to
enter them. The reverse has been the case with Lord
MELBOURNE ; and if the Ministers have neglected thair
duty to the public, they have altogether forgotten their
duty to their party.
• They wanted an efficient, ambitious, and vigorous
party chief. Lord MELBOURNE never was, and, by na-
ture, never could be, fit for such a post. His sincerity
and good nature unfitted him for the office. This made
him yield to his oppponents— that made him affront those
whom it was incumbent on him to please and gain.
Nor is Lord J. RUSSELL different. Had he kept the
good of his party in view he would never have
affronted Mr. WAKLEY by an ill-timed sarcasm, nor
would Lord MELBOURNE have been forward to disclaim
all the support the Manchester Conference was calcu- .
lated; if judiciously dwelt upon, to give to the Whip,
and the measures they had brought forward. The Whits,
then, we conclude, have lost their power rather from in-
judicious party management than from improperly admi-
nistering public Alrairs.

The new Government is now to be formed, and gentle-
:nen regard this as a great event. They speak of it in
a solemn undertaker kind of tone, with affected gravity,
as if some dear friend or parent had departed this world
fir ever, whom they were to know no more, but by his
heritage. A sense of great responsibility appears all at
once to overwhelm them, and they seem willing to forego
the possession of the estate, could they restore the de-
parted to life. But what seems so awful to them is for
the public at large a matter almost of indifference—

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set of gentlemen are shoved into the places of another.
It is a change merely of names, not of things. No prin-
ciple is altered, no new measures are proposed. The
Whigs cross hands with the Tories ; Lord J. RUSSELL
compliments them for their gentlemanly opposition ;
Lord STANLEY compliments Lord Jolts for his great
talents and great perseverance, which are admired by all,
and the people stare with astonishment to see the men

they were told were fighting to the-death for some great
principle, involving the fate of the country, only differ-
ing as to where they shall sit in the House of Commons;
when that is determined, they are the best friends pos-
sil)le. They seem to laugh at the people as dupes. They
have called them to take part in their mighty contest
only apparently to tell them' in the end that they have
been malcing•fools of the public.
But are the Whigs and Tories quite so sure that the
people will be made fools of ? The parties may have
degraded the bread-Mx conflict to a dispute whether
there shall be a fixed tax or a sliding scale ; but the
people will not take that view of the question. With
them it is bread-tax or no bread-tax, free trade or re-

striction ; and notwithstanding the temporary success of
the monopolists—notwithstanding the defeat of the
Whigs—the cause of the people has made, by these
party disputes, prodigious progress. The bulk of the•

aristocracy, and the bulk of the priesthood, were againt
us ; the party dispute has enlisted a large part of the
former on our side. That itself is a prelude to victory.
The "Whigs, free from the trammels of office, will be-
come bolder politicians. They must throw themselves

more on the people ; they must form more decided prin-
ciples of Government; and;more comprehensive schemes
of policy. They have come into the school of adversity
to learn, and we look on their defeat as the forerunner
of the complete success of free trade.

There is something exceedingly chivalrous in the zeal
with which the Constantinopolitan Correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle endeavours to uphold the diplomatic
character of Lord PoszsoNny. In justice to the Noble
Lord, who certainly cannot complain of being deserted
in his hour of official extremity by the most consistent
advocate of his policy, we publish in another column the
latest comment upon an article in The Sun received by
our Contemporary from the Turkish capital. But we
have now done with all controversy respecting the merits
of Lord PONSONBY as a diplomatist. The Tories have
settled that question for us. Though in a condition to
refute with the greatest ease the plausibilities advanced
by the Chronicle's Correspondent, we must now decline
entering upon a task at once so useless and so invidious.
We condemned the proceedings of Lord PONSONBY on
public grounds alone ; and as his recal is no longer
doubtful, we have now no cause for disturbing
that repose which Ministers are supposed to seek in
private life, and which no person in any station can more
luxuriously enjoy than the Right Hon. Lord PONSONBY.

AA, must be extremely gratifying to the Anti-Bread-tax
League, to observe that their new champion in the House
of Commons, Mr. COBDEN, has at once earned for himself
the'notice and abuse of the Tory journals. The Post of
Friday, which rates other journals for their vulgarity,
being itself a most courteous gentlewoman, implies that
he is an idiot for asserting that the family of a man of
two hundred thousand per year expends no more for
bread than the family of the common labourer. The
Post should examine if the assertion be correct before
it abuses the gentleman who, the Post asserts, mak,...4-
it.
Of course neither Mr. COBDEN, nor ae-
meant to assert, or, in fact, did assert, -fe
plione, m
seems to be a mistake of
else,
tor the
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criticised by the Post is not foe ._
' ..A1 in other papers, and
its Own Reverter—that a la-
bourer, whose family cone of
con seven persons; himself,
his wife, and five children, expends as much on bread
as is expenLed to supply bread for a nobleman's house-
hold, re.onsisting of himself, his lady, five children, and
at 'Ails different mansions two hundred servants and re-
tainers. These are expressly excluded from considera-
tion, because being luxuries which the nobleman might
dispense with, if they were included, his horses and
dogs, who consume a portion of agricultural produce,
and the tradesmen he employs, who do the like, and on
whom a portion of his income is expended, should also
be included.
The question is not how. a nobleman or how a la-
bourer expends his income, but what portion of the
bread-tax is paid by the nobleman and by the labourer,
on his own and on his families—his wife and ehildren's
COlLsualption.__ There is--.d 3 idiotcy, we
can assure the Post, in assertin Cult the labourer pap;
as much, or more g, of the bread-tax, in this suttee, than
the e
bread es nobleman The latter consum clemparatively but
littl, and feeds himself end Ms family on a great
variety of articles, such a,s
reserved fruits, felloeolate, maccaroni, wine,
p
which are . imported for
use. The fcerint'ilvt"almost exclusively on bread,
his
on bread . and or potatoes, and if he and his
family do 'not consume more of these than are
consumed by the nobleinan'e family, of whose subsist-
ence the:; form only a portion, let the Post judge how
wrelchedly the labeurer and his. family must be fed. From
our knowkdge of. the mode of living of the two families,
we believe more bread is consumed by the labourer's fa-
mily than by that of the nobleman ; and consequently of
the tax on this necessary of life, it is quite correct, and
within bounds, to say, that the labourer pays as much,
or more, than the man with two hundred thousand a-
year. One of the worst effects of the tax is the sevet'ity
with which it falls on those, like day-labourers, whose
iubsistenee congists chiefly, or almost exclusively, of
beead.

The Times, with somewhat more courtesy than the
Pao, condescends to examine some of Mr. COBDEN'S
arguments. It admits their plausibility, and only essays
to refute them by ascribing to Mr. COBDEN what he
itid uot say. "We do now compete with foreigners in
the neutral market," said Mr. COBDEN, but that does not
" throw overboard the danger to our trade from foreign
competition." The competition of foreigners is daily
becoming more dangerous, and from its great progress
the greatest danger is apprehended in future. The
Times infers from the fact, that we have hitherto been
able to compete with foreigners; that the distress of our
people arises from over-trading. We are sorry to see
that once-enlightened Journal on economical subjects
adopt this prejudice. Our merchants might fail from
over-trading, as in 1837, but their over-trading is Oxtra
work fi)r the people, and should, at least while it lasts,
show itself in u greater demand for labour and higher
wages.

But over-trading here means that our manufacturers

The Journal des Debuts of Sunday has a clever article
in defence of the Cretan insurgents. Commisseration
for the fate of the unhappy Cretans comes too late from
such a quarter. The Debuts was one of the Journals
in Earope whose sympathy for, the Cretans, and sup-
port of their righteous cause, was implored by the
members of the old Committee of the Philo-Hellenic
Society ; and yet during the period of their
struggle for independence, not so much as a single
column did that Jousnal devote to 'their defence before
the august tribunal Jf the Great Powers chosen by
the dretans as their Judges. But now that the struggle
is over—now that the bravest leaders of the Candiote
insurrection sleep the sleep of death in bloody
shrouds—now that Turkish lust and rapine
satiated—nosy that the spirit of Cretan independ-
ence, affrighted at
.the spectacle of womch brutally
violated, and children barbarously murdered, abandons
in despair the hitherto unconquered range of the Spha-
kiote mountains—now that Crete subdued and bleed-
' ing lies prostrate in chains at the feet of Turkey,
the Debuts hypocritically approaches to bewail the mis-
fortules of a gallant but enslaved people ! As this ar-
ticle, however, is calculated to benefit a brave people,
whose claims The Sun was the very first journal in Great
Britain to advocate, we gladly make room for an extract
from it :

"Among all the Christian populations of the East
(says the _Debats) none have suffered so much as the
Cretans, and there is none whoSe insurrection can be
better excused. Crete,in its ancient days, contained more
than 1,200,000 inhabitants. Under the Venetians the po-
pulation was only 900,000, which were reduced to 600,000.
when, after a war of five and twenty years, the island fell
under the Turkish yoke. On the breaking out of the
late Greek revolution there were only 300,000 inha-
bitants remaining in Crete, the result of 150 years'
domination of the Turks ; for wherever the Turk reigns
depopulation follows. Since the Greek revolution
the inhabitants of Crete have dwindled down to 150,000,
of which 100,000 are Greeks, 26,000 are Turks, and
24,000 are foreigners ; but these foreigners are chiefly
Greeks, from the Morea or the lonian Isles. The
cause of this lamentable decrease since 1820, is to be
found in the war carried on by the Cretans against both
the Sultan and :Mehemet Ali, and lastly in the op-
pressive character of Egyptian domination. The sad I em-
nant of a population of nearly one million and a half,
reduced to 150,000, lately took up arms again, in order
to avoid being systematically destroyed by inches. They
preferred to die with arms in their hands than to perish
methodically. But this unfortunate race has again been
brought under the subjugation of its old and cruel op-
pressors the Turks, whose yoke weighs upon the east
with a ruthless indifference to the well-being of their
subjects, for they have everywhere depopulated the
country, and inflicted sterility on the most fruitful fields."
This is no bad picture of the disease. The Dcbats
remedy, which we also quote, is just what we,stiggested
when we recommended the Christian inhabitants of the
Island of Crete to be placed under the joint protection
of the Great Powers of Europe. We cannot too
strongly recommend it to the attention of European
statesmen and philanthropists :
" It istimpossible to make two races inimical to each
other live together in harmony, each having its distinct
laws, its own language, and its own faith. What Na-
ture has separated, let an Administration maintain
peaceably separate. Separation or extermination, there
is no medium. But are the Turks to be exterminated ?
We say no—the fana/,sism of the crusades is gone by.
Are the Greeks theilli4b be exterminated ? Assuredly
no. Europe would not allow it, and Turkey cannot effect
it. What then is to be done ? Guarantee to the Chris-
tian race, subject to the Turkish Government, a separate
Administration, under which it may live secure and pro-
tected.
" We recommend this subject to the Governments of
Europe. Humanity has a great end in view, and diplo-
macy may reap everlasting praise."
Something must be done beyond the promulgation of
the mere letter of the Hatti Scheriff to relieve the Chris-
tian subjects of the Porte from the oppression under
which they have so long' groaned. The world has had
ample experience of the incompatibility of the Mos-
lem creed with
,the progress of an advanced
and ever-advancing civilization. Why this is so
we shall take some future opportunity of discussing, as
the subject is too comprehensive for our present limits.
Respecting the indubitableness of the fact there can hardly
be two opinions among men of any deep reflection.
Yesterday's Express from Paris enabled us to antici-
pate the ordinary news in the French Journals of Sun-
day. The following extracts are not, however, without
interest :
Our Madrid correspondence of the 20th inst. says, that
one of the difficulties to the raising of the new loan; on
the part of the capitalists, is; that Government will not
give them a general guarantee from all the salt duties of
the kingdom collectively, and only offer pa; ial grants
for particular provinces: The Comereto states, that
since the Custom-house Coast-guard have been ordered
to be more strict in looking after smugglers, they have
succeeded in taking many good prises. It adds, that
the Coast-guard intend to show extreme rigour to all
foreign vessels of war (?)
A Warsaw journal states that the Countess Malaclowu
ska, nee Princes Sanguzko, having learned that the Go-
vernment had an intention of erecting a Roman Catholic
church in the parish of Vola, proposed to the authorities
to give 200,000 florins for the building, on condition that
it should bear the name of Saint Charles Borromeo.
The Emperor granted this request, and desired Prince
Paskewitsch to communicate it to the pious lady. The
building will cost 350,000 florins, of which the Govern-
ment will pay the remaining 150,000 florins. The work,
are ordered to commence immediately.
At the last meeting of the Agricto,i •
T':::,atoe: a Society of
Lyons, a new kind of dwarf
ur 1
called the potato, was presented to the re -
bean-
larger than a hazel-nut. embers. The root it not
farinaceous subs+ , sod yields a yellow and highly
-
Tho skin is thin, the leaves,
of the plant are all upon a small scale, and
rsuB;heL more delicate than the gammon potato.
iflto ;3 flowers,
An old man, who had long been porter at the esta-
blishment of the Afoot de Piete, Rue du Paradis, died
suddenly the other day. His wages were only 1,200 f.
tt year, but his income was augmented by trifling fees,
which persons resorting to that place used to give him
for many little services which he had it in his power to
render. On examining into his affairs, he was found to
be worth 32,000 f. per annum. The day before his death
he had received six sous as a gratuity from a person who
had come to pledge some property.
The Sentineli3 de I t Marine, published at Toulon,
says t--" The sick at Mahon are most of them removed
to Port Vendre, whence they are sent to Montpillier,
and great exertions are making, to prepare at Ilyeres
the building which is to receive 120 convalescent patients."
The Gregeois packet has arrived to-day. It brings
from Mahon the last of the sick who were in the hos-
pital. The Gregeois was to go to Cette, but the north.
west wind obliged it to put into Toulon, where it landed
the grit,
The Trieland which had run aground on a shoal at
the point of the Grosse Tour has• got off again after
throwing its water overboard, of which it will take in a
fresh supply in the port.
The Court of Cessation was to have heard yesterday
islicatppeal of the Attorney-General of the Royal Tri-
bunal of Toulouse, with a view to get a different exa-
mining Judge appointed in the proceeding against
Messrs. Arzac Cuse and Roaldes. At the moment when
M. Bresson was preparing to report on the case, M.
Delapalme, the Advocate-General requested that the
affair might be deferred till Friday next, which the
Court granted.
The editors of the eight journals seized on Sunday were
summoned the day before yesterday before Belloche the
examining Judge. The Temps, giving an account of
what passed on the occasion, says—" All that we can
infer from the questions put to our Editor is, that our
number of the 22d is not criminated on' account of the
article which it contains, but on account of the heading
of the article, which was • Retrait du Becensement.' "
Le Commerce,

it SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Thi3 morning, be-
tween nine arid ton o'clock, a man named Peter Adams,
' in the employ of Messrs. Brown and Co., brewers, Pro-
vost-street, City-road, was following his occupation of
atteiiding the copper, and whilst standing upon the lat-
ter, in the act of pushing open a window, for the pur-
pose of letting out the steam, the pocr fellow slipped into
it, and was instantly immersed V his midlie in the boil-
incrliquid. He, however, lost no time in scrambling out
of truly horrible situation, and his fellow-workmen
assisted in dragging from his person his lower garments.
Medical aid was promptly obtained, and the scalds hav-
ing been dressed he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, where he remains in a deplorable state.
RIOTING,—Two neighbours, and old settlers
of respectable connexiors, it is said, had a quarrel recently in
Sussex Vale, N. 8., respectino• a spring of water. One of
them (Harrison) shot the other (Cleveland), in the knee.
Amputation resulted. Harrison fled, but a hue and cry had
issued against him.---Montreal Paper.
" We learn' from Rome," says the Moniteur
Parisien, " that the Papal Government has just forbidden the
reading in public of the Gazette de France. Until lately this
was the only French journal permitted in the cafes and other
public establishments at Rome. The political doctrines and
principles lately professed by the Gazette de France have, it is
supposed, led to, the prohibition of it by the Government of the
Pope. The Mersager sa;s, that the adniission of ebus karma'.
into the states of the Church is forbidden."
The Giornale delle Due Sicilie states thit the
crops in Sicily aro most promising, and that the harveft is
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likely to surpass the good one of last year.

make, or have made, more articles than they can sell.
Why can they not sell them ? The Corn-laws will not
allow them to sell their goods . for food. Our people
want food—the Americans and others want cottons and
hardwares. The law forbids the Mutually advantageous
exchange ; and the law
.is the cause of what is called
over-trading and distress. Mr. COBDEN is quite right,
therefore, in looking to an extension of our trade as one
of the beneficial consequences—not the sole one—to be
expected from the abolition of the Corn-law. The
Times, having now an inclination to make it up with the
landowner, has written some of the common slang
phrases in answer to Mr. COBDEN'S clear and masterly
statement ; but it has not refuted anything he said. Mr.
COBDEN, if we are not mistakenin the man, will go on
and give opportunities enough to the Post to exert its
petty talent of abuse, and to the Times to indulge in so-
phistical misrepresentations.

I S AaY OF el
AND
putatt %otroiDst.

" Who runs muy read."

ronmaGN.
Accounts from Paris of yesterday's date state that the
people are becoming more reconciled to the taking of
the census. The -Ministerial explanations, and the
pledge that no new taxes would be imposed without the
consent of the Deputies, have quieted the public mind.
Three-fourths of the inhabitants of Paris have already
submitted to the measure.
Queen Christina is reported in La Revue de Paris to
have prevailed upon the King of the French to negotiate
With the Spanish Government to permit the ex-Regent
to correspond by letters with Queen Isabella and her
sister. There can be little danger in this at present, as
Queen Christina, during her guardianship of the infant
Queen, was so regardless of her education, that the
Sovereign of Spain and the Indies cannot yet write her
Lname. It appears hard to restrict a mother's corres-
pondence with her children, but when a mother volun-
tarily divests herself of that sacred character for that of
a State-intriguer and anti-Constitutional Revolutionist,
the welfare of the country is paramount to all private
individual considerations. Better a bad mother should
shed tears than that a nation should weep blood. We,
hoWever, doubt the truth of such a report altogether.
The defeat of the Whig Ministry on the Address was
known in Paris on Sunday night. The speech of Sir
Robert Peel was regarded by the Court organs 'as the
forerunner of more amicable relations between France
and England.
The projected Customs Union • between France and
Belgium is abandoned for the present.
The praises bestowed by the English Journals on M.
Guizot's speech at Lisieux- have provoked the indigna-
tion of the French opposition Press. They will have it
that such is our hatred of France that we praise only
those Frenchmen who are traitors to their country.
How proud then our contemptuous disregard of them-
selves must make them I Happy country, where a man
to reap the rich harvest of patriotism has only to say
" all my neighbours detest and abuse me !"
The Royal Family of France arrived at St. Cloud from
Eu, in Normandy, on Sunday'. The King and Queen of
the Belgians were to follow on Monday.
On the 23d inst. the Spanish Government withdrew
the Bill for authorizing the sale of the islands of Anna-
bon and Fernando Fo to Great Britain. It appears that
Spain has found other means of meeting the demands of
the British Government without alienating these islands.
Have they been supplied by France ? The French Jour-
nals cannot wonder if we ask such a question, after their
remarks upon the share England is supposed to have had
in compelling France to abandon Minorca.
Espartero was prevented by illness from closing the
session of the Cortes on the 24th inst. The Regent is
so frequently ill, that we are surprised at his riot rather
desiring to have some person of a more robust frame
associated with him in the cares of the Supreme Execu-
tive GOvernment. The war halted for him while the
Commander-in- Chief of a kingdom's armies ; but it is
of more importance to the welfare of mankind when jus-
tice is compelled to regulate her:Movements by the stop-
watch of a Regent's physician.
The Candiotes complain that they have been betrayed
by the captains of the English vessels, on board of which
they sought refuge.
The Grand Schariff of Mecca has sent an -Envoy to
the Porte, offering to submit to the Sultan if his past re-
bellion be pardoned. He is at the head of 60,000 Be-
douin Ara A chief at the head of such a force may be
sure that bri • petition for pardon will not be cast aside
without many an anxious perusal. The Divan, in read-
ing it, will feel much akin to young Gil Blas when pe-
titioned forsilms by the wooden-legged beggar from be-
hind a cocked blunderbuss..

PARLIANZEINT.A.Mr.
Viscount Melbourne, on the Peers assembling last
evening, communicated to their Lordships that he and
his colleagues, in consequence of the votes of the two
Houses of Parliament, had tendered their resignations,
which had been accepted, and they only held office till
their successors were appointed. 7
The Marquis of Normanby withdrew the Drainage of
Towns Bill. The Borough Improvement and Building
Regulations Bills were read a third time. The Admi-
nistration of Justice Bill was tread a second tirne.
The Lord Chancellor introduced a Bill to indemnify
some Noble Lord who had incurred penaltiekby neglect-
ing to subscribe the roll of Parliament when he took the
oaths. Would any other person but a Lord be indemni-
fied for vielating.the law ?
In the Qumtnons Mr. Sharman Crawford presented a
p'etition, praying that the House of *Commons might be
dissolved and sent to the people, not the electors, for re-
election. A significant sign.
Lord Marcus Hill having presented the answer to the
Address, which stated that her Majesty would imme.
diately take measures to form a new Administration,
Lord J. Russell annonnced the resignation of Ministers,
following that up by several observations.
Lord Stanley complimented the Ministers on the
goodness of their lives mild the decency of their death.
He found fault, however, with the manner in which the
Queen's name had been used in the Speech.
.Lord J. Russell said emphatically that the Speech was,
like all Royal Speeches, the Speech of thn
After some petty obsertatitms by Mr. Stewart Wortley,
and. Some rontin, Isntiness, t 6 House, as did the House
of Lords, adjourned to next Monday,

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be seen by the following eAttaset s,--" His Lordship's com-
munication was the stropltst Pant of othcial statement,
and only, thetefiart,
hot indecorous. The Noble Lord
condescended to own that he considered it his duty to
acquaint their Lordships with the fact, which he pro-
ceeded to state in a single sentence, Not a single word
of compliment to the Peers for the 'personal kindness
and courtesy' of their beating tOWaftli llfiil, eVell in tis
heat anti eXeitelhent of debate, escaped from the whilom
Courtier." We are not aware of any particular courtesy
owing by Lord Melbourne as a public man to the House
of Lords. They have never shown themselves friendly
to his Government, but, on the contrary, hate always
opposed it to the utmost of theif PbWet without the
slighttm ohitiohy, under such circumstances, there-
fore, to show any extraordinary or elaborate courtesy to
their Tory Lordships, would wear the aspect, not sin-
I cerity, but studied mockery:
The Adeottigor remarks; In an :Miele an the subject of
financial Itelbtin I:_Jk Jfietlee detnaritli that the fruits of
every tuttu's Industry should be guarded whist the en-
croachments of the tax-gatherer until after its owner has
been provided 'with tit least the pfimary articles of sub •
Sieittee, and with a portion also of the Ordinary comforts
of life. These having been secured, the taxing process
may justly enough fall upon the surplus ; because fall-
ing, as it then would fall). upon luxuries and superflui-
ties, its effects would be as Hale felt as they well could
be. Just the reverse of this is the principle and opera-
tion of British taxation." And for this we have to
thank the Tories, the most persevering and ingenious
tax-inventors recorded in modern history. This party
are now in power, and they can only maintain them-
selves there by endeavouring to undo all that they have
done for the last fifty years and "upwards. Having
already repudiated the obnoxious name of Tories, they
must now make all haste to repudiate its principles also,
especially as regards the system of taxation.
In reference to Lord Stanley's speech last night in the
HouSe of Commons, the Chronicle says.:—" Lord Stan-
ley, for himself and for the Conservatives, has empha-
tically declared to the country, that they have turned
out Lord John Russell because he was an able and faith-
ful servant of the Crown,. and an untiring promoter of
the interests of the people. No other construgtion can
be put upon his words. Free trade, they say, is a very
good thing ; it is a very horrid thing for people to be
distressed ; yet the Minister that would have promoted
free trade, and the budget that was proposed to relieve
distress, are alike discarded. They shrank from discus-
sion ; they out-voted the Ministry ; and now, when
they have obstructed the measures, and turned out the
men, Lord Stanley comes forward, and virtually con-
fesses, that men and measures were alike calculated to
promote the highest interests of the nation." Whether
in office and a member of his Cabinet, or only a volun-
teer supporter of it, we suspect that Sir Robert Peel
will ere long find in_Lord Stanley the most embarrassing
colleague he ever had to deal with. Never were two
statesmen less fitted to work together. The one is all
coldness and caution—the other is rash, impetuous, and
cursed with a temper that constantly clouds his judg-
ment. Lord Stanley is as bold as Sir Robert Peel is ap-
prehensive ; and the boldness of the one like the fears
and distrusts of the other are always exhibited, at pre-
cisely the wrong season.
• The Post observes with the coolest effrontery:—" The
Conservative majority has been won against every in-
fluence but the honourable one of public approbation.
For his position as a Minister, Sir Robert Peel is solely
indebted to the favour and confidence of his Sovereign.
For his position as leader of the majority of the House
of Commons, he is indebted to the favour and confidence
of the people who possess the elective franchise." This
precious paragraph contains as many misstatements as
sentences. In the first place, the Conservative majority
was not won by the influence of public approbation, but
by the sinister influence of the Chandos Clause; secondly,
Sir Robert Peel is not indebted for his new position to
the fitvdur and confidence of his Sovereign, but Co the
necessities of her situation, which just now admit of no
other alternative ; and thirdly, he is not lifted.into office
on the shoulders of the people, but on the shoulders of
the .monopolists and landowners, whose selfish interests
he must consult, to the sacrifice of every other considera-
tion, otherwise out he goes, to freeze once again in the
Polarsclime of Opposition.
In an article on the subject of M‘Leod's case the Times
expresses itself as follows :—" Do we insinuate, then,
that without further ado Great Britain ought to proceed
forthwith to enforce Mr. M'Leod's release at the point of
the bayonet ? By no means. Heaven knows we are no
advocates for war at any time ; nor would we ever have
recourse to it, except as a dire ultimatum when all milder
measures have failed. Measures of that description, how-
ever, have now been long tried. To the great indignity
and disparagement of Great Britain, whose wrongs are
at this moment unredressed, those measures have been
frustrated, as the Americans aliedge, by an awkward
technical anomaly in their republican constitution. We
ask, therefore, what guarantee has Lord Palmerston re-
ceived that that anomaly, which makes so serious and
unwarrantable an assault nuera international justice, shall
un:c,ss a warr,Lilty of
this description have been given, as evincing an honest
anxiety both to atone for .MiLeod's detention, and to
prevent the recurrence of any similar case, we do not see
that anything has been done to satisfy the honour of this