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London, England, 1847-04-30 00:00:00

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precedAted import lion of food. -
That this combination of causes thty4tm more
serious derangement of the exchanges Of Mectirrener.l _
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The fact is also before your HOnourable House, that
the enormous increase of monetary obligations' conse-
quent on the development of industry, the accumulation
of wealth, the increased rentals of enlarged' cities, the
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of our commercial system were about to give way;
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we were declared by a Minister of the Crown to beiwithin forty-eight hours of barter; within that bile(
period when the law of debtor and creditor would hall4Z
virtually ceased; the payment of wages, and the exercise _
of industry would have been impossible, and the means
of existence of society would have failed; then the Bank
of England, by large and timely issues, stayed the ruin
and averted the impending anarchy.
But in the session of 1844 your Honourable House
passed the complement Error Bill of the great Error
Bill of 1819, substituting an inelastic cord for the elastic
cord by which the Bill of 1819 bound the Bank of
England.
Under the law of 1844 the Bank has no power to
save. She can only add to her issues of notes by her
command over her gold, which she entirely loses in the
hour of need. The ruin must therefore hold on its
destructive course.
Your humble petitioner would now call the attention
of vour Honourable House to some of the consequences
of dangers so evidently at hand.
The details of Irish destitution and misery which daily
appal your Honourable House, mainly or more immedi-
ately result from the loss of the potatoe crop, which is
the means of existence of the Irish labourer, and that
misery is only mitigated and existence pr"served by the
power England possesses of pouring out her treasure
unsparingly to relieve.
Now money, which alone pays wages, is the only
means of existence of the English labourer ; should the
Government permit that to fail,—should your Honour-
able House, disregarding the signs of the times and the
warning of your bumble petitioner, neglect adopting
timely measures to prevent the occurrence cf a monetary
crisis, now impending,--a sudden and general suspen-
sion of the employment of labour and payment of wages
must occur ; this only means of the existence of a dense
population must cease, and the Government will hare to
deal at once with Irish and English destitution at the
very time that it loses all financial power to relieve.
One of the most profound thinkers on this subject
England has produced, gave the Government, a quarter
of a century ago, this emphatic warning :—" If the Go-
vernment should delay rectifying the great errors of its
monetary system until a scarcity of food and a scarcity
of money should occur at the same time, then it will be
ruin to advance, ruin to retreat, ruin to stand still."
Your humble petitioner has shown your Honourable
House, that this double and irremediable danger now
thi eatens the country; and he earnestly prays your
Honourable House, that it Would, without delay, appoint
a Committee, to inquire into the means of averting it,
and that such Committee should be directed to examine
yourpetitioner, and such other persons as they may deem
competent; and he prays that your Honourable House
may, in its wisdom, escape the, gui3 and danger of
reducing, by its management, the most powerful,
wealthy, and industrious people in the world to a
condition of misery and anarchy passing all records or
belief.
And your petitioner will ever pray, &c.
THOMAS CLUTTON SALT.
Birmingham, Feb. 18, 1847.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen had a dinner party on Wednesday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company consisted of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, His Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Hammerstein, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis
of Douglas, Lord George Lennox. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Lord James Murray, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The fol-
lowing had the honour of receiving invitations:—The Rus-
sian Minister and the Baroness de Brunnow and Mademoi-
selle Olga de Lechner ; the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen and Mademoiselle Bunsen, Prince Lowenstein, the
Marquis of Headfort and the Ladies Olivia, Mary, and'Vir-
ginia Taylot.o;, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Minto and
the Ladies Elizabeth and Charlotte Elliot, the Countess of
Morton and Lady Ellen Douglas, the Earl and Countess
Bruce, Viscount Ansos, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
lion. Miss Emily Harbord, Mr. J. M. and' Lady Blanche
Balfour, Hon. William Cowper, and Captain F. Seymour.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, honoured
the performance at Drury-lane Theatre with their presence
yesterday afternoon. The Royal suite consisted of the Coun-
tess of Charlemont, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps and Colonel Bouverie. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, attended by the Countess Howe, Hon. Miss Hud-
son, Earl Howe, and the Eat-1 Denbigh, also honoured the
performance with her presence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred took an airing in the
Royal gardens yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
evening consisted of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, his Excellency
Baron de Moncorvo„.Al..l4-Coia.4ill.r Di;t3,,,the Marchioness
of Lansdowne, Lady itoignst., Banoness de Speth,
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Lord aniMadv Beauvale,
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Right titan. ri. and Mrs.
Labouchere.
A deputatibn of the Southwark Improvement Commis-
sioners, consisting of Sir William Molesworth, M.P., Mr. •
Richard Morer, Mr. William Griffith, Mr. Joseph Sterry, and
Mr. Alfred J Ibercocks, architect to the Commissioners,
\vatted on the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Improve-
ments yesterday.
A deputation of the Westminster Improvement Commis-
sioners also waited on the Commissioners of Metropolitan
Improvements yesterday. The deputation included Sir E.
Pearson, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. Kettle.
The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements had a
meeting yesterday at their office in Whitehall- place. There
were present Viscount Morpeth, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Sir
Charles Lemon, Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. Milne, and
Mr. Barry.
A deputation of magistrates of the West Riding of York-
shire, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at
the Home Office, respecting a portion of the new prison at
Wakefield being transferred to the Government for the use
of convicts under sentence of transportation. The deputation
consisted of Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Beaumont, Hon. Edward
Lascelles, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. J. Houldsworth, and
Mr. Shepherd, Governor of Wakefield Prison.
A deputation consisting of Lord Courtenay, Sir Ralph
Howard, Mr. Godley, and Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, had
an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street. Lord John Russell was ac-
companied by Earl Grey and the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,
Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, was prevented by
illness, attending her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a
general meeting yesterday, at their office in Whitehall. place.
The Earl of Powis had an interview with Sir George Grey
at the Home-office, yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Governors of the Mauritius, the Cape of Good
Hope, and Malta.

HEALTH OF THE LORD LIEU-
TENANT.
DUBLIN, Amu. 28.—The bulletin issued this morning
was extremely unfavourable, and, notwithstanding-the san-
guine notice of the state of the noble patient's health which
appeared in the Government journal of last night, there is
every reason to apprehend a fatal termination to his Excel-
lency's malady. After post hour yesterday, and up to three
o'clock this morning, the answer given to the numerous in-
quiries was that there was no change in the symptoms, and
that the Noble Earl was not worse. This day, however, the
prospects of recovery have further "decreased, as will be
seen by a copy of the bulletin issued at nine o'clock A.nt.:—
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April 28, 1847.
" His Excellency continues in a very precarious state."
A little before three o'clock a fresh and equally unfavour-
able bulletin was issued. It is as follows
His Excellency continues in a very precarious state up
to half-past two o'clock."
At four o'clock there was no change, and it is not expected
there will be another bulletin published before seven o'clock
this evening.