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turbed the parental solicitude of Mr. F. Maule, but we forgot
ourselves, Mr. F. Maule "never reads the Morning Herald,"
and so he remains in happy ignorance of what we have said
of his Bill for converting justice into an itinerant pedlar,
seeking custom by the exhitition of the " cheapest" and
worst of wares—wares cheap at no price, and dear at any
price. If cheapness—that is an apparent cheapness—is
the great consideration in the administration of law and
justice, why not begin with the Courts in Westminster
Hall, and by applying the reduced scare of costs to litiga-
tion there, give the public some chance of getting the
genuine article as well as the cheap one ? If the principle
of Mr. Fox Maule's Bill be gouts, it is as applicable to
the Court of Queen's Bench, or Common Pleas, or Ex-
chequer, or to the three Courts of Equity, as to any County
Court in the kingdom.
GLOBE.—The Times assures us that Mr. Walter
never was a party man ; and the Standard, that be is in-
dependent of Whig and Tory. To a c(rtain extent this
is correct. Though receiving support from the party to
which for the time he affected to belong, we arc not aware
that he was ever countenanced by the leading men of any.
Each was glad of his vote—neither cared for his com-
pany. To the world he seems to hays made many
doubiings in his pursuit of the phantom popularity;
but these, perhaps, are imperceptible to the Times, which
bas accompanied his changes, on the same principle that
to aeronauts the earth appears to move, and the balloon to
remain stationary. In that branch of jusenile literature
which is fast gcing extinct, is a continuation of the story
of " Jack and Gill," recording, amonz other things, how
Jack was apprenticed to a blaeksmi.h, and undertook to
forge a ploughshare, but having hammered away the iron
till it would not do for that, he resolved to make a spade.
The like iesult attended his labours, so be went on to a
horse-shoe, and finally to a nail, with equal success. Find-
ing that ton much for his skill, he exclaimed—
"l know this,
If it won't make a nail it will make a good hiss,
So into the water he threw the iron smack,
Hiss,' quoth the iron. I thought so !' said Jack."
In like manner Mr. Walter Las tried to make something of
himself, and has always failed. He sat in the first re-
formed Parliament as" Whig and more,"—in the second
as a Tory. Then, as he says in his pamphlet, " seeing
that no good was to he cape cted there, lie quitted that
scene "—.hick is a delicate way of expressing his retreat
from Berkshire, when there was no chance of his re-elec-

tion. He does not say whether inability to do any good in
other scenes made him seek the old one as Tory and anti-
Polr law candidate fur Southwark; but having failed again
there—having Nile! as a poor man's magistrate, and broken
down at the Crown and Anchor as an agitator—he is come to
the nail at last as Charto-Tory candidate for Nottingham.
STANDARD.—The advocates of the harsh provi-
siohs, and harsher administration, of the New Poor-law
are sorely pressed to make out a case, when they pretend
that relief to such as can partially support themselves is
an injury to those cf the labouring community who are
in a condition to maintain their families without parochial
relief. The attempted sophistry scarcely demands expo-
sure. The poor arc a class, every member of which
may, by the will of Divine Providence, be placed
in a condition disabling him from supporting him-
self and his family without some help. Now let it be said
whether the class is more .kindly treated by insuring that
each shall, without the necesAty of incurring pain or de-
gradation, be insured a living ii willing to work for it ac-
cording to his ability, or enacting that the least abatement
from the average capacity to labour, whether caused by
old age, accident, disease, or any bereavement, must con-
sign him to an ignominious imprisonment as the alternative
of dying of famine ? The labouring classes have indeed
answered the question for themselves; they have de-
clared their willingness to encounter the competition
of the aged and infirm of their number, as the in-
surance that in their own old age and infirmity they
shall net, while any strength remains, be condemned
to the mercies of the union workhouse. The hypocrisy of
this affected anxiety fur the interests of the labouring poor

is, however, equally transparent with its folly. ISO they
who arc so anxious to protect the labourer from the com-
petition of his eged fAber or infirm brother, show an equal
anxiety to protect him in the rathei; more formidable con-
test with capital and machinery? No; upon this point we
hear nothing from them. They will weep over the losses
of an errand-boy, whom a few shillings a week allowed to
an aged pauper puts out of employment, but they have no
feelings of compassion for a thousand labourers throln out
of the means of maintaining themselves by steam-engines
or power-looms, or by laying under grass vast districts of
tillage-laud. Such is their consistency 1
COURIER.—It is really edifying to find one of the
Ministerial prints degenerating so much into the suaviter
in modo, on occasion of an anti-Cern-law meeting in Man-
chester, where the clergy formed one of the usual staples
of vituperation, as to observe only, that " we were sorry
to hear the chairman at the Manchester meeting, Mr.
J. B. Smith, state, that they had met with
.much
opposition from their opponents, and those, too, were
men from whom they might have expected better things,
the clergy.' This cannot fail to diminish the utility of the
clergy, because such conduct is utterly at variance with
religion." The lament over the diminished " utility" of
the clergy is a novel feature in the political career of the
sectarian, or rather nothingarian, journalist, and would seem
to smack so much of the grace of repentance for past evil anti-
clerical and anti-religious courses, that we would gladly re-
frain from disturbing one in apparently so promising a frame
of mind, could we really believa as much in the endurance
as we do little in its sincerity. That Mr. J. B. Smith, or
any person else of that stamp and station, should seize
every occasion to vituperate the Church and the clergy,
will excite the less surprise when it is taken into account
that the accuser is himself an off-shoot of a sectarian tribe,
and even closely connected with a priestly family in it, and
a tribe usually remarked as the most sour, supercilious, and
intolerant of all sects since the days of the Pharisees, more
especially when dominant, as in the days of the Long Par-
liament, Praise God Barebones and Oliver Cromwell.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—There was but little passing in this part of the
town to-day to attract attention. Money continuessufficiently
easy for all the purposes of trade, and Equally, or even
more so, at the Stock Exchange. It is evident, however,
that the late intelligence from China has affected the
credit, in a greater or less degree, not only of houses
known to have been speculating in the tea market,
but that of others also who ar3 supposed to be im-
plicated, though less directly, perhaps, in the losses
that will bo eventually realised by the leaf. Yet it
is considered that many persons who have not, in the
ordinary way of business, any dealings in this branch
of commerce, may have been induced, by the pecu-
liar state of the trade, and the great prospect there seemed
at one moment to be of difficulties of some duration with
the ChincEe, to participate in it to a considerable extent.
A general dulness pervades the produce markets, and it is
upon this assumption that the circumstance is accounted
for by the best informed people connected with it. The
funds, in the interval, maintain the advance lately reported
with much steadiness. _ _

The packet arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon does not
appear to have brought any news of importance. At all
events, there is nothing in what has transpired that ca I be
considered favourable to the interests of the bondholders.
These was a prospect of the new commercial treaty with
England being at length concluded, and if the bases of it
prove to be what they are pretty generally understood to
be, Lord Palmerston seems to be in a fair way to be out-
manoeuvred by the crafty and unscruplous Lusitanians ; but
the Exchequer was in the same impoverished condition as
heretofore. Not a milrcis was to be tound for the cut rent
expenditure of the Government, otherwise than through
the medium of the old usurious process, to which it has
been the practice to resort when a crisis has arisen to
countenance the proceeding. The bonds here have, never-
theless, advanced a trifle to-day.

A SABBATH-DAY SCENE.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
EARL OF CARDIGAN.
'Tis Sunday, the day of holy rest,
And I must away to the " House of prayer."
God knows, I'm bad enough at best,
And much occasion I have to go there—
If not with the army, at least %Nith the Church
I must keep on terms, or I'll be in the lurch.
(The Riding-school--time of divine service.
Great God ! I own my many sins,
And beg to be forgiven ;
" As we to ethers mercy show,
We mercy hope from heaven."
(The Riding-school—divine service concluded.
That d—d fellow, Rogers, got drunk of a night,
The rules of the service scorning ;
And who would allege it isn't right
That he should bs flogg'd i' the morning ?
'Tis Sunday—the day of holy rest—
But '6 the better the day, the better the deed,"
A hundred lashes he'll have, or " I'm blest,"
Two hundred would be a fitter mecd 1
They'll say 'tis unchristian, cruel, and that,
But who cares a curse for their villainous stuff?
Tie him up to the stake—lay on " the Cat
And damned be he that first cries " Hold Enough I"
I've been drunk myself, over-night, but then
In the company 'twas of gentlemen.
Alt ! now he has got eleven times nine,
One more—and bring me a bottle of wine.
EARL CARDIGAN.

EPIGRAMS.
" Forgive us our trespasses as weforgive them that tres.
pass against us."
" That mercy I to others show
That mercy show to me."
Prostrate in pray'r the Colonel lies,
While vengeance from his eye-balls flashes,
First to his God for mercy eria,
Then gives his man a hundred lashes.

" Whom he lovcth, he chasteneth."
In true Christian spirit and love for his kind,
Another like C-- where shall we find ?
In the house where he worships the echoes will tell,
That him whom he loveth he chasteneth well.

ARREST OF ALDERMAN PERRIN.—A letter
received by the Caledonia steamer states that Alderman
Perrin, on the very day of his landing in New York, had
teen arrested in a coffee-house upon a civil bill process,
at the suit of Mr. Hunt, merchant, of this city. Hav-
ing given bail, however, he was at once set at liberty.
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser.—LThis is the Orange
Alderman who fled from Dublin two months ago, after
•
raising about 20,000/.1

GENERAL ESPARTERO.

MADRID, APRIL 8, 1841.

The pious and patriotic Duke of Victory has just termi-
nated his devotions at the different churches from his own
head-quarters at the extremity of the Calle Alcala, to the
termination of the Calle 3layor, in the very neighbourhood
of the Royal Palace. Tho military pilgrim was accom-
panied, or rather followed (for he walked alone at the
head of his attendants), in his penitential promenade by the
most numerous and gaudily-equipped staff that ever fol-
lowed at the heels of a General-in-Chief; presenting in
their personal appearance a strange contrast to the humility
of spirit and self-denial which might characterise those
who celebrate the return of this holy season. As for the
hero of Bergara himself, he was arrayed in all the gor-
geousness of military finery. Nothing was forgotten or
neglected which could serve to mark him out particularly
from the crowd of the obsequious attendants that followed
him. Embroidery of the richest arid most massive kind,
stars and orders of the most dazzling brilliancy, scarfs and
ribbons of every hue and colour, were lavished with profu-
sion over the person and uniform of this wonderfully fortu-
nate and very vain man.
As he went along he entered every church on his way,
and remained a few minutes in each, km cling before the
altar ; and having completed his hasty devotions, proceeded
with the same ceremony, still on foot, to the next.
Any notice of this pilgrimage of Espartero would
scarcely possess public interest, were it not for the (to me
convincing) proof of the truth of the observations which
I have made of the state of public feeling as regards him
in most of the principal towns, both in the Basque Pro-
vinces, and in Castile, even to this the capital of the
Spanish monarchy. Whatever doubts I may, in the
anxiety to form a correct judgment have entertained, as to
the exact nature of my views, were almost totally dispelled
by the display of this evening. You arc, perhaps, aware
that the portion of this city which was chosen by Espartero
for the scene of his devotional exhibition traverses
the centre of Madrid, and i ncludes in its inhabit-
ants and its frequenters, not only every class of politicians,
but every grade of society which can be found here. In
that part of the Alcala and the Plaza de las Cortes which
approaches the Prado, may be found the mansions of some
of the highest of the Spanish nobility ; the vicinity of the
Palace at the other and opposite end is not less important,
nor, generally speaking, less aristocratic, whilst the space
which lies between these extreme points is occupied by those
classes, of various callings and different avocations, which
crowd the most populous thoroughfares in a large city,
and which are diversified at every step until they become
blended into one heterogeneous mass in that great
central spot, around, which constantly congregate
the aristocrat and the republican, the merchant
and the water-carrier, the capitalist and the
mendicant, the military man and the civilian, the em-
pleado and the pretendienfo, the honest man and the rogue,
the moderado and exaltado, the Carlist and the republican,
the dupe and the swindler, he who is occupied, and he who
starves on in idleness—l mean the Puerta del Sol. The
part of the city thus selected could not have been better 1
chosen to test the present popularity of the dictator of
Spain. It presented the best ordeal to try the nature
of his political reputation. I followed this man from
church to church, as he proceeded on his way, and I
marked his eye as it sought, with a sort of convulsive
eagerness which the anticipation of success imparts, the
salutations and welcome of the crowd, such as it was,
that surrounded and followed him ; and I saw it droop in
disappointment at the absence of any one of those de-
monstrations of unthinking and hollow popular clamour
which, for a space, hail the presence of a mob favourite ; and
I marked his hand as it fell by his side after having been
vainly raised to return the courtesy which he expected, but
which lie did not receive• Not a single " Viva" was raised
even as he passed the Custom-house or the Post office,
whose hangers on crowded the windows and gates as he
passed. Out of every 100 persons that crowded the streets,
not more than five appeared to accord him even the com-
mon civility which may be snpposed to be due to his mili-
tary as welt as civil rank. The guard at the two establish-
ments I have mentioned turned out, as a matter of course, to
present arms to the Captain-General of the Spanish armies;
but it appeared to be done coldly, mid as a mere matter of
ceremonious etiquette, and not a spark of enthusiasm was
lighted up in the countenance of the National Guards,
those terrible urbanos, formidable when there is no enemy
to contend with, as the former god of their idolatry
ert on his pilgrimage. A crowd of about 200 persons
was assembled at his door previously to his leaving his
quarters ; it was composed of the very lowest classes, and
of boys who were attracted by the splendour of the uni-
forms and the plumes; but even amongst those who are
in every country the most susceptible of being imposed
on by the pomp of military display, he was received, not
only without enthusiasm, but even without the slightest
demonstration of respect. The crowds collected in the
different places through which he passed were not caused
by his appearance, but by the acts of devotion which
are performed during this season, and which render it
necessary to visit every church in Madrid. As Espartero
ascended the steps of the second church in the Calle
Alcala, so great was the crowd coming out and going
in, that be was compelled to remain outside a con-
siderable time, and was at length obliged to go away
without having effected an entrance. Do not suppose
that the crowd retired or yielded to let him press ; he and
his staff were elbowed and pushed about as if they were
not dressed in splendid uniform, or es if he had never in-
duced Maroto to become a traitor. His annoyance at this
disrespect was visible, and it was said that, in a moment of
impatience, he was determined to return to his quarters
without proceeding further. In this, however, he was
overruled. _

Do you suppose that his presence produced any sensa-
tion amongst the scum of Madrid society, which haunt,
like untroubled spirits, the Puerta del Sol ? Quite the
contrary ; not a man, ragged and wretched though his
appearance may hare been, ever stirred from the spot
he was standing in, to make way for the hero of Her-
gara. A rather ominous occurrence was taking place
even at the moment the Duke of Victory was passing
that universal resting-place of idlers and pickpockets. The
workmen had, an hour or two previously, commenced their
labours, in taking down the pillar, or column, or monu-
ment, formed of canvass and sticks, which had been
constructed in the centre of the Puerta del Sol, to cele-
brate his arrival in Madrid, and which for some time
past has manifested symptoms of falling. The un-
solid and very fragile structure has suffered severely;
the canvass, which was coloured so a 3 to present an
imitation of granite, has been long torn and shattered
in various parts, and exhibits to the lazy and laughing
crowds which throng around its base the hollowness and
weakness of the deception ; and the linen robe which
covers the person of the figure of Fame, which surmounts
it, has been rent, before and behind, and has for some time
afforded material for the exercise of the wit and causticity
of the unwashed politicians of the Puerta del Sol. Might
not this monument present a not inapt illustration of the
character and reputation of this new ornament to the an-
cient and honourable Order of the Bath ?
In the various towns through which I have lately passed,
and in which I have sojourned for a space, more or less,
during a recent journey from San Sebastian to Madrid, I
was struck by the almost universal feeling of disrespect
with which Espartero's name was generally spoken by
persons of almost every class, including many military
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His reviews to celebrate the anniversary of his victories (?)
in imitation of Napoleon—his addresses to the troop►—his
walking simply arrayed, or gorgeously decorated, with his
wife, amongst the crowds that throng the Prado, appa-
rently unpretending, and on foot like the rest, seem all
unavailing. Discontent and murmurs arc heard every-
where; and in these public displays of pretended humility,
scarcely a hat is raised to salute him, and certainly not a
voice is heard to give him welcome.

HOLLAND.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 11.—Within a very short period
political and moral alterations of far more seriJus impor-
tance than is generally believed, have taken place in this
country. The most remarkable changes have occurred
within the last ten years. In Holland every thing was
upheld by old King William—everything has been shaken
by his removal from the political scene. The confidence
of the public mind has given way to uneasiness.
Nevertheless the constitutional opposition would meet
with great adhesion were it not suspected of Catholicism,
fur, unfortunately, intolerance runs high in Holland, and the
greater part of the Protestants in this country arc inclined
to consider as Catholics all who are unjust towards them.
The Catholic population forms two-fifths of the whole pc). I
pulation of the kingdom ; but this proportion is but nominal,‘s
as the Protestant population is far more powerful by i,
wition. With the exceptionofNoaritmwt emirhßrabaiit
ti: ofat-id
Limburg, frontier provinces, consisting
Catholics, the wealth and functions belong princi;
I°lY to
the Protestants, so that the liberal constitutional op. .
p ot
osition,
although eminently aristocratic, receives but littl su
from the Catholics, who in their opposition seek e ppr
Catholic views. If the constitutional oppc%iti• • PtinciPallY
and it is so undoubtedly, it is not so by AT; r Jll be strong,
.umber, but by
its energy, talents, and the superiorit 5; of its political
views, it is also essentially tolerant it ire
and by so being it does not please the ll,lous matters,
people.
It would be powerful, ir-' . rnr.in boy of the
and intriguing. Its ansene-
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