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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1841.

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DEATH OF ADMIRAL Silt L. W.
HALSTED, G.C.B.

We have to announce the demise of the above gallant
naval officer, who died on Thursday last, at his residence at
Plymouth, at an advanced age, after a glorious career of
upwards of sixty years in the service of his country. The .
deceased Admiral, who was son of the late Captain Halsted.
11. N., had a numerous family, ten of whom are living, sever
daughters and three sons, who are in the service of the East
India Company. The gallant deceased, when Lieutenant in
the Canada, first distil gushed himself in. Lord Rodney's
action with, the Count de Grasse in 1782, and from his
return to this country in the winter of the same year,
until 1791, saw but little service, when he was appointed
to the Atalante sloop in the East Indies. In 1794
he was removed to the Hectir, 74 guns, under the command of
Rear-Admiral Sir George Montague, and subsequently was ap-
pointed to the command of the Venus, of 32 guns, which
formed part of the squadron of Rear-Admiral Harvey in the
North Sea. While commanding the Phoenix in 1796 he cap-
tured, after a gallant action, the Dutch frigate Argo, of 36
guns, and was favourably mentioned in Lord Duncan's dee-
patches to the Admiralty for his gallantry on that occasion. In
1800 he was actively employed in the blockade of Cadiz, under
the command of Sir Rich. Bickerton, and during his service in
the Mediterranean commanded a squadron of frigates, and suc-
ceeded in capturing La Canere, a French frigate of 40 guns,
and the Success, of 28 guns, and completely destroyed La Bra-
voure, a French frigate of 46 guns. He was subsequently in
1807 selected by Sir C. Cotton, then Commander-in-Chief of
the Lisbon station, to serve as captain of the fleet under his
orders, and he was destined to perform the important and ar-
duous duties of that appointment with credit to himself and sa-

tisfa lion to the Home Government. He returned to England
with Sir Charles Cotton in the Hibernia, in 1808. The de•
ceased Admiral was also a participator in the glory of Sir Rich.
Strachan's victory, and for his eminent services on that occa-
sion was rewarded with a medal. He was in the receipt of a
good service pension of 300/. a year, being the senior flag of-
ficer enjoying that liberal allowance, and had an honorary re-
ward from the Patriotic Fund. His commission was dated as
follows:—Lieutenant, Dec. 8, 1781 ; Commander, Nov. 22,
1790 ; Captain, May 31, 1791 ; Rear-Admiral, July 31, 1810 ;
Vice-Admiral. June 4, 1814 ; and Admiral, July 22, 1830. In
consideration of his brilliant services her Majesty was pleased
to nominate the Gallant Admiral a G.C.B. Feb. 24, 1837.

CURIOUS CAUSE OF ERYSIPELAS.—Yester-
day Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital,
on the body of Matthew Powell, aged thirty-seven, a
plasterer. On Monday week last deceased was drinking
at the Hayfield, Mile-end-road, with others, among whom
was a man named Serjeant. This person having been
called out to work, he took, as he was leaving the room,
from his mouth a pipe, which he had been smoking, and
flung it against the well. A fragment of the pipe.stcm re-
bounded and struck deceased sharply under the right eye,
making an incision, from which the blood flowed. The wound
was washed with brandy, and deceased, making light of it,
continued drinking to a late hour, when he returned home in-
toxicated. On the Wednesday following the wound be-
neath the eye becoming much inflamed, deceased applied
to the hospital and was admitted. It was then discovered
that he had bruises on divers parts of his person, which be
could not account fur. After his admission he was at-
tacked by erysipelas and delirium tremens, and on Friday
died of the former disease. Mr. Gilbert, house-surgeon,
had examined the body internally, and from appearance.
benea, h the wound under the eye he was oropinion that
erysipelas (the cause of death) was produced by that in-
jury, and not by the bruises on the body. The Jury re-
turned an open verdict, viz. :—" Died of erysipelas, pro.
duccd by severe injuries, but by whom, or bow they were
caused, the evidence was not sufficiently clear to show."

Monday morning, the men belonging to the
fint battalion of Scotch Fusilier Guards, stationed at the Wel-
lington barracks, Bird-cage-walk, St. James's Park, were
called out upon parade to hear the sentence of a district court-
martial read to private M'Dowell, and Reed, a drummer,
who had been found guilty of desertion and insubordinate con-
duct. The culprits took their station in the centre of the
squat e, and the serjeant-major of the battalion read the seri-
tunes, which expelled them from the regiment and unfitted
them from becoming at any future time, soldiers in any of her
Majesty's forces. M'Dowell has been 23 years a soldier; he
has during that time twice deserted, and-his conduct at other
times has subjected him to such lengtheneeperiods of impri-
sonment, that he has passed nearly half his time in prison.
Reed has been extremely insubordinate. 'the practice of what
is termed drumming out a soldier—viz., the band playing the
" Rogue's March," and the coat being torn from the soldier's
back, &c., was departed from in this instance, and is not
again, as we understand, to be renewed by the household
troops. After the sentence was read, the men were presented
with their discharge, and allowed to walk unnoticed through the
barrack-yard gates.
Deaf
persons, and those who are slightly dull
or hearing, and find a difficulty to catch the sound of a distant low
speaker at a public assembly, will find a most astonishing advantage
from the use of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' newly.invented
Invisible operative Voice Conductor, which, when fitted into the
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come acute, but the ears are so much improved by their use, that
individuals, in a great number of instances, can hear most dis.
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not incur any constant habit of being compelled at all times to
make use of them, and in consequence of the numerous individuals
having been altogether relieved from deafness, they have become in
general use. The Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle
Lenses immediately they are placed before very aged and imperfect
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Albemarla-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76,
King William-street, city.
TRICKS OF TRADE.—Among the numerous
tricks practised by some of the silk mercers of this town to in-
duce the belief that they have not to complain of a want of
trade, is one of blocking up the pavement with large packages
unpacking them during the day, taking
them into the house keptfor that purpose.
at night and preparing them for the next
exhibition. Theeolice should look to this. We can disclose
Cheltenham Free Press.
to our realers som beautiful plans of gulling adopted by the
unscrupulous in this trade, and we shall probably take= early
opportunity of doing
It appears that in several parts of England the
peasants have determined to put a stop to hunting, at least to
the trespass of hounds, for they are said to have surrounded the
cover on hunting days. and refuted to let the fox out; the
tenant thus asserting his right to prevent trespass from I?eissig
committed on the land he occupies. • -

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
NOMINATION OF THE CANDIDATES.

NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY.—This day the nomination of the
Candidates took place in the large roum of the Exchange, a
fine building erected on one side of the Market-place.
About a quarter before ten o'clock, Mr. Larpent, accom-
panied by Lord Rancliffe, Colonel Wyldman, Mr. Close, and
attended by a long train of friends, appeared upon the hus-
tings. He seemed in excellent health and spirits, and was
plainly confident of success. Shortly afterwards the doors
were opened, and the public admitted. Mr. Walter and his
friends appeared at the same time on the hustings. I
observed upon the blue party coming in, that a fight was
immediately commenced. I was at a loss for some time to
discover the object, but I perceived it was to gain the side of
the roum where Mr. Walter was seated. At length silence
was obtained, and the proclamation for the election was read.
During the day the greatest disposition was exhibited by the
Liberal party to give a fair hearing to Mr. Walter and his
friends, but there seemed to be from the first the resolution
adopted by the Chartists and Tories to hear, if it were possible,
nothing that might be said by those to whom they were opposed.
The MAron, S. M. B. Pigott, Esq., came forward
and attempted to address the assembly. His efforts were ren-
dered abortive, and the proclamation and other preliminary
matters passed off in dumb show.
WM. ROWORTH, Esq., the late Mayor, at length presented
himself. He was not there to propose Mr. Walter as a Tory.
—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and cheers.) He did not know
whether Mr. Walter was a Tory or not.—(Laughter.) He
was there to propose Mr. Walter as the poor man's friend,
and such he would continue to be. A great deal had been
said about the discontented classes, and that in sup-
porting Mr. Walter they were supporting them. What
was, he asked, separating the poor from the rich—(Cries from
the Chartists "the Whigs")—but the starvation caused by
that Bill that was driving the Englishman from his fire side
into the workhouse ?—(Cheers. ) He proposed John Walter,
Esq.. as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in
Parliament.
nir. CHARLTON, of Chillwell, seconded the nomination.
Lord RANCLIFFE here presented himself, and was greeted
with loud whistling from the Tory party. He was heard to say
he was for Annual_. Parliaments, Vote- by Ballot, and doing
away with the accursed Corn-laws.—( The shouts and groans
of the Tories made the Noble Lord utterly inaudible.) He
was understood as proposing Mr. Larpent.
Here a boxing-match commenced between some of the
champions of the two parties. It appeared to us as if the
glues had cot the worst of it, and there was comparative quiet
for a few minutes.

FRANCIS HOSTE, Esq. seconded the nomination of Mr.
Larpent.
Mr. WALTER presented himself amidst cheers from the
Tories and Chartists and hisses from the opposite party.
Silence having in some degree been obtained, he said—Upon
the subject of the Corn-law he had declared himself in favour
of a change, but not a change which would prevent the agri-
cultural interest from paying their labourers. The change
which he advocated was one which would assist in obtaining
for them the means of supporting their labourers and depen-
dents, and it might be adopted without injury to either.
With respect to the Ballot his opponent had observed, "he
would support the Ballot if no other mode could be adopted
for securing to the voter the free exercise of his opinions."
He was surprised that any man should have the hardihood to
recommend a system which was yearly sinking into disgrace—
the frauds of which were displayed in the late election of Pre-
sident for America. If the Ballot were ever adopted there
would he end to all intercourse between the representative and
the elector. He (Mr. Walter) was a friend to education.
But let them not place the cart before the horse. He should
wish to see the poor clothed and fed; and it was vain to talk
about education until that was done.—(Cheers from the
Chartists.) With respect to the Church, his opponent was
connected with a party who hid dealt out heavy blows and
great discouragement upon the Church, and upon Protestant-
ism, and it would puzzle the whole Council of the London
University to make his opponent a friend to the Church, to
which he had assisted in dealing out "heavy blows and discou-
ragement." He (Dlr. Walter) would rather see twenty churches
kept in beauty and repair, than one great iron-eated union
workhouse. —( Immense shouts from the Chartists ) 'Those work-
houses would rise in terror throughout the land, and frown
down the labouring classes of this country.--(Chartist cheers.)
The Whigs had taken off one tax to put on another—they
had taken off the postage, but screwed up the assessed and
window taxes to the utmost. His opponent (Mr. Larpent)
had charged him with changing his views; but this he de-
nied. He thought there was nothing so ridiculous as
frequent changes, but he (Mr. Walter) had contemplated
a Reform Ministry till he was sick of the whole brood.
There was but one reform that would do the poor any good,
and that the Whigs would not give them—(" They won't !"
from the Chartists)—full stomachs and plenty of labour; but
the Whigs gave them a starving dietary and stone walls.
Mr. LARPENT presented himself to the assembly, and
he was instantly assailed with shouts, groans, hisses, and
the whistling of cat-calls by the Chartists and Tories,
followed by loud cheers from his own friends. It was,
however, plain that his opponents had come to the resolu-
tion that he should not be heard, and in order to take the fol-
lowing report of his speech it was necessary to stand close
beside him. Upon some occasions, so awful was the uproar
that he could not be heard even at the distance of a yard.
Gentlemen, 1 am as great a friend to the poor as Mr. Walter.
—(Hear, hear.) I am, too, a friend to liberal principles ; I
am a friend to Reform also. What is Mr. Walter ?—(Cheers
and groans.) I am, I avow it, a Reformer ; my opponent is a
Tory. I avow. that lam so; but he does not say so. He
would have you sink all these great differences ; slur over all
those mighty and important principles that separate us from
each other, and let them all sink in the question of the Poor-
law.—( Hear, hear.) In the course of my canvass, I may say
that my principles have been strengthened, if any addition
could be given to their energy, by finding how much you appre-
ciated the example that was given by your late representative.
in him has been presented to me the accomplished gentleman,
the enlightened patriot, the consistent politician.—( Cheers. )
I have seen that, and I can only say that I will ever be proud
to follow his example.—(Cheers.) And here let me say that
Mr. Walter, my honourable antagonist, has said one thing
which has indeed astonished me, and was well calculated
to amaze you. What ! he is the man who complains of a
change of principles:—he, above all other men, apprehends
such a change in me ! A more extraordinary charge, from
such an accuser, never came from the lips of man !
(Laughter.) Is it not true, I ask you, that Mr. Walter is a
double-faced Tory—that at one time he was a Reformer, and
that at another period he is a Tory ?—(Laughter. ) That
here he voted one way—there he voted another ; and that
the vote of to-day was in opposition to that of yesterday; and
the speech that he made on a Monday was replied to and re-
futed by him on a Tuesday ; and he it is that is fearful—nay,
cautions you against any man who may be in his principles a
changeling.—(Laughter.) Mr. Walter then says, that he does
not want to educate men's minds until he has first filled their
bellies ; or, to use his expression, " fed their bellies."—(Cheers
from the Tories ) I say at once, I agree with him—that, too,
is my principle ; and it is mainly to effect that principle that
I wish to repeal the Corn-laws.—(Cries of " Hear, hear,
hear.") My honourable antagonist has said something
which seemed to me to be a disposition on his part to
repudiate his connection with the Times. I can see no reason
why he should repudiate it, for it is a faithful follower of his.
He and the Tinges change together. When he changes the
Times changes also. Why, then, should he be ashamed of
his connection with it? He has in it the advantage of com-
manding the a.:4 of gentlemen of very considerable ability, and
who, to serve his purposes, have not at all hesitated to say that
I was a Frenchman. Gentlemen, I appeal to my personal ap-
pearance, am I a Frenchman?—(Laughter.) Gentlemen, I
was born and bred an Engii.slainan. My father was born and
bred an Englishman. My grandfather was born and bred an
Englishman. My great-grandfather; 155 years ago, became
an exile from his native country, because he was made a mar-
tyr in the great cause of religious freedom.—(Cheers.) It
was because he pre erred his religious liberty to the caprices of
a tyrant that he became an exile. Persecuted bj' Louis XIV.
he took refuge in this country, which he considered as the re-
fuge of liberty, and it was that which made him adop!. as his
motto —" Where liberty is, there is my country."-(Chers.)
The ancestor of my friend, Sir S. Romilly, also came to Eng-
land at the same time. I am, also, to tell you that lam not,
in the common acceptation of tie word, a mere Whig. I am,
as my Noble Friend has said to you—'‘ a Whig and something
more."—(Hear.) The whole tenor of my life must prove
that I never was, never could be, for the constant confine-
ment of the poor within the walls of a workhouse.—( Hear.) I
have been accused, continued Mr. Larpent, on one paper, of
being a placeman ; I never was a placeman—l never expect to
be a placeman—and what is more, Gentlemen, I never will be
a placeman.—(Cheers. ) The real question between me and
111 r. Walter is this—which I have put upon my word—will
you have a person who votes for the Ballot, or the Times
newspaper ? Will you have one who votes for an Extension of
the Suffrage, or the Times newspaper? Will you have Par-
liaments shortened, or the Times newspaper? Will you have
the general diffusion of education, or the Times newspaper?
Will you have the most unbounded liberty of conscience, or
the Times newspaper, that has, for the last twenty years
written for, against, advocated and opposed, supported and
denounced, the most extraordinary, extravagant, and anta.go-
nistical principles?—(Cheers and renewed clamour.) lam
prepared to vote for such a modification of the New Poor-law
Bill as shall at once secure the welfare of the poor, and
the interests of the ratepayer: lam one for giving to the
poor man the full value of his labour, and by free trade
of extending the markets in which the articles that he
produces are consumed, and thus raising the price of his
labour. I would, too, by a Repeal of the Corn-laws—a total
Repeal—give to the poor the full benefit of cheap food; so
that their wives and their children might have an abundant
supply of the great necessary of life.—( Hear. )-1 am a friend
to religious liberty, and have too much of the blood of the old
Reformers in me to sanction any impost that could be re-
garded as a tax upon conscience. I would not have Dissen-
ters to pay Church-rates, but I would have the Church sup-
ported out of its own funds, the working clergy provided for,
and the Church itself maintained out of the proper allocation
and wise management of its own funds.—(Cheers.) I stand,
then, here before you an uncompromising friend to civil and
religious liberty-A am here an advocate for a repeal of the
Corn-laws-1 am here a friend to free trade. Which do you
prefer—these principles of mine, that are consistent, or the
variable, changing, vacillating, uncertain, but at present most
Tory principles of my opponent?—( Cheers. )
THOMAS ROBERTS, jun.,
Esq., then called for a show of
hands.
For Mr. Walter a hi-ge number in the body of the hall was
held up. For Mr. Laspent nearly the whole of the platform,
a few down the side, and some at the bottom of the hall.
The SHERIFF, amidst loud cheers from the supporters of Mr.
Walter declared the shsw of hands to have fallen upon him ;
and a poll was demanded for Mr. Larpent, which commeacet
at eight o'clock to-morrow.

(From a Correspondent.)
The clamour excited in this place against the new Poor-law
is most unjust and senseless, for here its stringent enactments
have in no instance been enforced. In the Nottingham Union
there has been no separation of man and wife—no denill of
out-door relief in necessitous races—no want of sufficient
food, clothing, or exercise—no lack of care and attention in
ickness—no neglect of education amongst the children, and
only such a discipline has been observed as is suited to the pre-
servation of peace and order in such a community of 500 or
600 persons.

HOW TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT WE AT,
TEMPT.—My rule is deliberately to consider before I com-
mence, whether the thing is practicable. If it be not prac-
ticable, I do not attempt it; if it be practicable, I can ac-
complish it, if I give sufficient pains to it ; and, having be-
gun, I never stop till the thing is done. —Dr. Hunter.
PROFESSIONS OF HUMILITY.—Such profes-
sions are the very cream, the very essence of pride ; the
real humble man wishes to be and not to appear 50..-St.
Francis.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM VIE DAILY PAPERS CF YESTERDAY.
POST.—DESTRUCTION OF Loan MORVETII'S BILL.—
We heartily congratulate the country on the triumphant ma-
jority by which Lord Howick's amendment of the above mea-
sure was carried last night, in defiance of the utmost efforts
of her Majesty's Ministers. The object of Lord Howick's
amendment is to impart the right of voting in Irish coun s to
persons possessing a beneficial leasehold interest in land to the
value of 51. per annum, to be computed by the excess of rating
over the amount of the rent and charges to which he is subject.
This, though nst the kind of franchise of which the Conservative
party can entirely approve, seemed to them so far preferable to that
which Lord Morpeth s Bill would have established, namely, a fray -
chise entirely unconnected with and independent of property,
that, voting in Committee, they thought it their duty to sup-
port it. The strong Parliamentary ground for the course
taken by the Conservatives was clearly and eloquently ex-
plained by Lord Stanley and Sir Robert Peel. But there is
another ground upon which the public at large will rejoice at
the course adopted by the Conservatives, and at its triumphant
result. They have given a deathblow to the Morpeth trick,
or a deathblow to the small remaining reputation of Alinisters
for consistency and integrity. This is the alternative. Let
Ministers make their choice.
CHRONICLE.—The demand of Lord John Russell led to
a very ridiculous misconception of the object of it, which ob-
tamed currency in the clubs—that Ministers were contemplat-
ing a resignation. We will not offer such an insult to the un-
derstanding of our readers as to suppose that they would ex-
pect us to contradict so silly a rumour. No Ministry
would think of resigning on a question which cannot be
deemed a trial of the strength of parties. Lord Howick
had no intention by his amendment of forwarding any
Tory objects ; and though the Tories chose to divide in
favour of it, the Amendment could not have been carried
without Liberals who conscientiously coincided in opi-
nion with his Lordship. Ministers would very imperfectly
fulfil the trust reposed in them by their Sovereign, and ill re
quite the confidence retassed in them by the supporters of Lis
oeral opinions, were they to make such a division as that o-
last night a pretext for throwing up office. Time for delibe-f
ration as to sue course they ought w pursue with regard to the
Bill was very properly inquired by them, because it is neces-
sary they should weigh well the various circumstances which
may render it necessary to abandon the Bill altogether, or to
adopt the alterations of Lord Howick. But why should they
hesitate as to continuing the Government? They would
indeed incur a very serious responsibility were they
to suffer the reins of Government at this time to be usurped
by a party with no claims to the confidence of the country, and
over whom the leaders and moderate men among them have no
control. What ! resign government in favour of men who
one day are violent Orangemen, and the next coquetting with
Chartists ? Besides, the Tories do not possess a majority in
the House of Commons, and must, if they took office, resort
to a dissolution—a dissolution at a time, when, by their al-
liance with Chartists, an election would throw the country into
the greatest confusion. The vote of last night is immaterial,
as far as continuance in office is concerned, though it may add
to the difficulties of Ministers in governing Ireland.
TI slES.—The precise degree of respect which the House
of Commons entertains for the Whig compact with O'Connell,
and also for the Popish Registration Bill, which, under pretext
of defining the qual.fication of Irish voters, proposed to enfran-
chise every applicant who might ham n to bear the im-
primatur of the Repeal Association, has been pretty signifi-
cantly shown by the division on Lord Ho sick's amendment,
whereby the Ministers were kicked into the kennel by an ad-
verse majority of 21. By the amendment of the Noble Lord,
though scarcely effecting what the exigencies of the case re-
quire, such a substantial improvement has been made
upon Lord Morpeth's collusive measure, as will at
least prevent fraudulent tenures from acquiring the
elective rights due odly to a bona fide qualification
ascertainable by the Poor-law rating. So manifest to the
Whigs was the tendency of tbs proposal for destroying their
stock-dependence in Ireland, that they opposed it with the
most desperate and convulsive energy. Lord Morpeth fawned,
flattered, and implored. Lord John Russell philosophized,
crossed himself, and almost screamed for extreme unction. But
the House happened to be in an obstinate fit; or, we should
rather say, more patriotic and philosophical than its nominal
leader could control. His own troops tore their mountings
from their uniform, and flung them in his Lordship's face. Tne
discomfiture to the disconcerted Whigs was an astounding one.
What new evidence of Whig tenacity and meanness will be
forthcoming on Wednesday, until which day the further con-
sideration of the Bill is postponed, our readers will be at no
loss to conjecture. Alas for the Whigs !
AD VER l'lSEß.—Notwithstanding the proceedings of last
night, we scarcely regret that the Tories were not to be conci-
liated. A Tory- Whig policy would he the most dangerous to
public liberty that could possibly be established in England.
However, therefore, the Tories may cajole the popular suffrage
about the Poor-law, we rejoice that on other points of policy
they scorn compromise. The people have nothing to gain and
everything to lose by a Whig-Tory fraternization. There has,
however, lately been a strong tendency to this consummation.
The anecdote which the Times told of the " worthy gentle-
man" who withheld his subscription from the Conservative
Association, on the grounds that " to displace Ministers would
be merely to drive out one set of scoundrels to make way for
another," seems to have stimulated the wavering Tories into
the more envenomed assertion of their principles. Hence the
taunts of Sir Robert Peel last night. " No surrender" is now
the watchword of the Tories. Ministers must, therefore, deter-
mine decisively and at once, " to be or not to be."
HER ALD.—The Conservative leaders would certainly have
some show of reason on their side, if. in the exuberance of
of their many triumphs over their political antagonists, they
were tempted to indulge in somewhat decided expressions of
exultation. We trust, however, that they will withstand the
" strong temptation," and, by a steady perseverance in that
collected constancy of purpose which has hitherto dignified
their noble and sustained efforts at upholding the true interests
of the country, in the uncompromised integrity of the Consti-
tution—will assert new claims to the confidence and respect of
all their fellow-subjects. And yet—in the contemplation of their
crowning triumph of last night, when they defeated the Whig-
radical Ministry and their party, in a house of 561 Mem-
bers—on the question of the elective franchise according to the
Si. (or Universal Suffrage) standard, so recently set up and
insisted upon in all its stringency by Lord Morpeth, as the
amount of rating to the Poor-rate which should qualify for the
elective franchise in Ireland, they must have felt somewhat of
the abounding self-gratulation of the Macedonian hero, who
" fought all his battles o'er again
And thrice he routed all his foes,
And thrice he slew the slain."
It is our duty now to record that, last night, on the debate
being resumed in Committee on the Parliamentary Voters
(Ireland) bill, Lord Howick moved an amendment which, like
most of his Lordship's kind efforts to assist his political friends,
has proved, in its results, very well calculated to oust them
from their seats.
GLOBE.—The Tory organs are somewhat premature
in celebrating what they call a triumph in the majority of
last night on Lord Howick's amendment. No doubt it is
a vote of dissent from the Government proposition ; and
so far it may be r;garded as an advantage to their oppo-
nents. But when we come to consider what the position
of parties upon this question is ; and what a division of
opinion exists, not amongst Liberals only, but also in
the ranks of the Opposition, upon the subject—we shall
clearly perceive that no Tory triumph has really been
gained, and that no party triumph on this question in-
deed is possible. The two persons who certainly should
know best how this matter stands are Lord Howiek and
Lord Stanley—the former the mover of last night's amend-
ment, and the latter the original parent of all these Irish
propositions. The farmer distinctly declared that he had
no right to expect the support of any organised party,
and no hostility towards the Government. " It was
obvious that a settlement was impracticable, if both
sides of the House insisted on carrying out to the' utmost
their own peculiar opinions." The latter " was not pre-
pared to adopt either the one plan or the other—either
the project of Lord Howick, or that of the Geverienent.
Lord Stanley merely regards the rival Liberal projects as
two " Kilkenny oats," which he wishes to see eat each other
up. But there is a thirel,Kilkenny cat in this case—namely,
his own original measure : and if that of Lord Howick
and the Government really should finish each other, as
he expects, it is, quite certain that such a measure as
his will not pass by itself. I: is possible that no agree-
ment may be come to about the franchise ; but it is eel tam
that no success will attend the bare and naked scheme of
disfranchisement. That would havebeen the Tory triumph;
or the triumph of the Stanley section of Toryism. For the
split is more evident than ever in lest night's debate. While
Lord Stanley said he was not prepe.rei to adopt either
the one plan or the other ; and that, while his Noble
Friend ( Lord Howick) had been very successful in ex-
posing the many faults which attended the plan of the
Government, the Noble Lord (Morpeth), on the other
hand, had done much in pointing out what would be the
defects of his Noble Friend's plan in detail—Sir R. Peel,
on the other hand, is exceedingly complimentary to what
he calls the " admirable plan," in some respecte of Lord
Howiek, and professes himself " not indisposed to consider"
its other provisions. Lord Stanley and Sir R ibert Peel are
clearly on opposite tacks, and their dispositions are not
more opposed to Government than they are to each other.
C 0 El RI R. —Mtnistere, it will be seen, had, last night,
the astounding majority of 21 recorded against them, on
an amendment moved by Lord Howick upon the very first
clause of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration and Qualifi-
cation Bill. The object of this amendment substantially
appears to be to preserve the rights of property in the
county franchise of Ireland, as contradistinguished from
the principle of the Government Bill, by which occupa
tion and perjury were to be constituted or continued the
leading elements of that franchise. The working details
of the law by which Lord Howick seeks to accomplish
his aim were not very clearly stated by himself,
nor much better elucidated by Mr. Charles Wood,
by whom the amendment of his noble relative was
treated toe much in the sense of a verbal alteration of a
clause merely, and too little in the light of the asser-
tion and maintenance of a principle adopted specially in
the Rrform Bills both for Ireland and England. The
first clause of Lord Morpeth's Bill, alluded to, " di-
rects the Poor-law Commissioners to certify to the Lord
Lieutenant when a Poor-rate shill be established in any
county or borough, and upon the Poor-law Commis-
sioners so certifying, the Lord Lieutenant to declare
that,
that, upon the expiration of one month, this Act shall
come intotho operation,
qualificationin of referenceveters. toregu-
lating
ntheeppeonort-iriaete
!expre-
tion of such calendar month this Act to come into opera-
tion,
freeholder a n d
or
hreltet caesfeohrowl
da redr t
on o
belle rrseognistteoredbe asenatitvloetderasfoirt
such county, in respect of any freehold or leasehold pro-
perty in his actual occupation, save as herein specified."
To which the amendment of Lord Howick is—e' At page
2, line 11, after the words no person,' to omit all the
words to the end of the clause, and to insert t claiming.
under any Act or Acts now in force, to be entitled to be
registered, and to vote as a Parliamentary elector for any
eounty, in respect of any freehold or leasehold property
in his actual occupation, shall be deemed to have a bene-
ficial interst therein of the clear yearly value required
by such act or acts, except as hereinafter provide I."
We shall content ourselves for the present with refer-
ring to the speeches of the mover and seconder for in.
formation on the somewhat complicated scheme proposed
for -the regulation of the franchise, and to those of Lord
Stanley and Sir knit Peel for an exposition of the rea-

; -
sons why, in respect of thel general principle, theysnp-
ported the proposition of Lora Hewick, whilst at the same
time cautiously guarding themselves against compromise
with its details. It is not, we declare, as a " party inure ph "
that we are disposed to hail the decisive majority on this el:m-
aim, for it must long have been very evident to a'l the
world that if the Conservative party had been ambitious of
Majorities, and ready to accept or achieve them upon the
same terms as those consecrated by Whig usage from time
immemorial, that is from the time of the first Whig, their
opportunities were not few and far between, of almost daily
occurrence during the course of sessions past and present-
STANDARD.— ANOTHER giNISTERIAL DEFEAT.--•
Ministers were last night again beaten. The disgrace, too,
was not a casual one ; it arose upon one of h., eir own Load
sures, indeed, upon the trial measure of the Sessins&—Lord
Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill ; and upon the vital
principle of that Bill—tbe question of qui:lifical..ix.
The amount of disgrace, tor., was considerable and
decisive ; for in a House of 566 members, the Adminis-
tration was left in a minority of twenty-one—a minority
which cannot be regarded as otherwise than important by
men who have not been ashamed to retain pos!..ession of
office by majorities of twos and threes. Such a run.
;ority against Ministers surely juatifi s the concluding.
words of Sir Robert Peel's speech, though these
words referred to the causes of the disgrace, end net
to the disgrace itself, which bad not been consum-
mated when the Right Hon. Baronet spoke. " TLe
question," said Sir Robert, " was net whether Gr
no the franchise • should be co-extensive with the
population ; the question which arose was this, whe-
ther her Majesty's Government had made a prevision
which entitled them to the public coofideree and
the confidence •of the House ? And he must
say, that the course which they had pursued on the Irish
franchise appeared to him to disentitle them to the confi-
dence of the House as of the country." This view s,
as
received by the almost universal cheering of the House, ano.
more effectively ratified afterwards by the vote of the majo-
rity. The natural inference from this result—for which
inference no doubt all must have been more or less
prepared by the solemn threats of the Miniiters that
they would resign upon a defeat—has forced itself
upon the minds of the supporters of the Cabinet..
The Morning Chronicle has this morning as arVele
intended t I expose the absurdity of the expectation
that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues will relin-
quish place and salary in consequence of their late de-
feat. This article labours to prove that the ruin of tee
empire must be the effect of a charge of administration,
more particularly now, when the Conservatives have to a
great extent succeeded in conciliating the Chartists. We
cannot recognize the force of such' argunients. " It seenia
to us that the conciliation of the. only class who have
just grounds of complaint, and the only class who threaten
the peace of the country, is rather a recommendation of a
party to power than otherwise. Our Contemporary is, how-
ever, se have no doubt, correct in its conclusion, however
mistaken in its premises. We agree in the absurdity of ex-
pecting Ministers to resign, for reasons which, if they had
occurred to the Morning Chronicle, might have enabled
it to dispense with its long and isgenious article. Mini-
sters will not resign upon a mere disgrace, because they
love quarter-day, and arc familiar with defeat and igno-
miny ; besides, they have still the apology for taking
buffets with the it salaries, which has availed them for two
years—they we still to guard, like Paladius, ti,e interests
of the Ladies of the Bedchamber.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS:

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
POST.—The English funds have again declined a fraction
on Saturday's closing value. The view taken by us of the
general prospects of the Money Market seems to be admitted
to be a correct one. There is an idea, however, that in addi-
tion to the causes assigned by us, as among the principal one/
of the existing depression, the approach of the day appointed
by Mr. Baring for the production of his budget of ways and
means, namely, the 30th inst., is beginning to tell in some de-
gree on prices, the ascertained deficiencies in many of the
leading branches of the revenue being of an extent and nature
to suggest to prudent speculators the policy of a pause in their
operations. There can be no doubt that the measures about to
be ad,pted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for covering
the national charges must be deeply interesting to moneyed
men, and, perhaps, it is rasher to be wondered at that the funds
should at stech a moment be so little affected as they are.