The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-10 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10, ISO

from the enactment of 1844. The bubble has ex-
ploded ; the vision—the beautiful vision of the
Peelites has " melted into thin air." The confidence
of the public is utterly destroyed. The flaw is de-
tected. Some sweeping measure of reformation
is, therefore, absolutely necessary, in order to re-
store to the commercial interests of this great com-
mercial country that salutary consciousness of safety
which has been filched from them for the sake of mak-
ing a gigantic experiment. It has become notorious
that the market will be always endangered, even in
I times of indisputable monetary security, by the arti-
ficial panics produced by the Bill of 1844. The
banking world is thoroughly convinced of this ;
every individual who is engaged in barter to the ex-
tent of twenty pounds sterling is aware of it; the
fact is blazoned forth in the public funds, in the
private banks, in the railway offices, in the canal
offices—everywhere, in short, where credit is essential,
and ultimate payment is essential, and moderate dis-
count is essential. The thing is beyond all dispute.
I There is no blinking it; and matters cannot be re-
stored to their original position of confidence and se-
, curity until the bugbear that has caused, and is still
causing, these involvements has been manfully as-
sailed and utterly destroyed. _ _

But the Chancellor of the Exchequer announces
that no movement of the kind is intended by the Go-
vernment. A change in the currency law is not enu-
merated among the intentions of the Administration.
But, in lieu thereof, Sir C. WOOD moves that this
evening the House of Commons shall resolve itself
into Committee for the purpose of considering and au-
thorising an allowance, by wayof discount, on the prompt
payment of instalments upon the recent loan, and the
motion is formally agreed to sub silentio. To explain
this matter in the simplest language possible, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to allow the
Money-market generally to "right itself" in the
best way it can, and by an exquisitely selfish ar-
rangement make his own department safe amidst all
existing dangers, and independent of any possible
panic. Sir CHARLES WOOD prefaced his statement
upon this point by observing that on the 18th instant
of the present month, the Government would give
the customary notice for the exchange of
Exchequer-bills, but that a necessity being felt
for the advancement of the rate of their interest, it
would then be determined that Exchequer-bills shall,
from the day of exchange, bear interest at the rate
of 3d. per diem. Having explained thus much of the
ulterior intentions of the Government, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer entered into the details of his mar-
vellously selfish project. The exact character of this
proposition cannot be given more briefly, or more
explicitly, than in his own language, when he re-
marked that—
" The day for payment of the instalments was either the
18th or 19th of June (he forgot which), and the plan pro-
posed was, that any person who paid up previous to the 18th
or 19th of June—whichever it might be—any portion of the
instalments due subsequent to the day of payment, should
receive an allowance by way of discount. If a person, fer
instance, paid in May the June instalment, he would receive
a discount of one month. if in May he paid the July instal-
ment, he would receive two months' discount; if the August
instalment, he would receive three months' discount, and so
on in proportion."
In other words, the nation will here, as in
multitudes of other instances, have to " pay
the piper" for the blundering legislation of a
mistaken statesman. The discounts received by
the persons making these early instalments will,
of course, come out of the public pocket, and they
are rendered necessary by the present difficulty of
obtaining discount, and the difficulty of obtaining
discount springs solely and exclusively from the
evil operation of the Bank Restriction Act. Can any-
thing more be necessary to enforce our argument ?
Surely nothing.
We can only repeat again, more emphatically, our
obligations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for
his very fortunate explicitness.

The opposition that has been offered to the progress
of the Irish Poor-law Bill in the House of Lords may
ultimately be productive of benefit. The public will
be made fully aware of the impossibility of conciliat- I
lug the Irish landlords, of inducing them for once to
give up their own selfish views, and to legislate fur
the general good apart from personal and party con-
siderations. Much has already been done for them.
Assistance has been afforded with no stinted or nig-
gard hand ; they have been loaded with benefits in
order to induce them to co-operate with the Govern-

ment in rendering an act of justice to their poorer
countrymen, and which must eventually tend to their
own great and permanent advantage. They have
hitherto been treated like wayward and petulant
children, who must be coaxed and bribed to take the
salutary medicine which their unhealthy condition so
urgently demands ; and, like those children, they re-
ceive the offered sugar-plums, but reject the
wholesome accompaniment. The malcontents may
derive an instructive lesson from the ordinary termi-
nation of contests such as we have described. The
offered rewards are withheld when it is found that
they will not induce a patient acceptance of the
necessary remedies, while the latter, rendered tenfold
more nauseous and disagreeable by the very resis-
tance, is forced on the unwilling recipients. We
trust that the moral will not be lost on those children
of a larger growth, but that, while there is still time
for repentance, they may retrace their steps, and,
with a good grace, yield to that which the unanimous
voice of the people so urgently demands, and which it
is manifest to any unprejudiced observer is inevitable.
No struggles on their part can get rid of the measure.
They may retard, but they cannot avert it. Its ulti-
mate success is certain, and, if it is kept back for the
present session, it may probably on its re-appearance
a-sume a still more formidable shape, and come up to
their Lordships, without those clauses that have been
inserted in the vain hope of the landlords being
thereby propitiated, their hostility appeased, and their
acquiescence obtained.
The real nature and object of the amendment which
was carried on Thursday evening, and the inextricable
scene of confusion in which the house was thereby
involved, were well exposed by Earl GREY. He
stated " that the truth was that the Noble Lord
wished to give a damaging blow to the Bill on the
very first day of the discussion, and would not wait
until the proper time for introducing the amendment,
and his Noble Friend had availed himself of the first
opportunity, trusting that many of their Lordships,
not being so expert in Parliamentary tactics, would not
clearly perceive that the object was todamage and preju-
dice the Bill." Lord CAIVPBELL said, " that although
a lawyer of some experience, he certainly was at a loss
to know what was the legal interpretation of the
words which had been introduced into the Bill by the
amendment." We find, in fact, that the effect of the
alteration is something different from what its sup-
porters intended, and that it limits the duration of
the entire Bill to the Ist of August, 1848. In
that time, the clause preventing any relief being
afforded to any man holding more than a quarter of
an acre of land, will have enabled the landlords to
clear their estates of every cottier tenant. They will
have sufficient powers to seize everything the unfor-
tunate man may possess, to withhold employment,
and thus compel him to have recourse to assistance,
ithout which he cannot live ; and thus a cheap and
easy mode of ejectment will be available. We
now know sufficient of the Irish landlords as a body
to induce us to yield an easy credence to the opinion,
that everything sanctioned by the law will, in too
many► instances, be put in force to forward their
darling object, the clearance of their estates, and the
eviction of the starving wretches who have there ob-
tained a shelter, but who may not be the most de-
sirable or profitable occupants.
taken The onlya,a
away by
that could operate to prevent
parties from being guilty of this inhumanity has been
by the success of Lord STANLEY'S
amendment last night for the rejection of the 1 lth
provided that whenever the ex-
cpleanussees,
chargeablewhich to an electoral division exceed fif-
teen-pence in the pound, the surplus
thisu iss to be charged
elined a por-
to the union at large. So long a
tion of the statute the landlords could ma
not obtain
the full benefits of the clearance system; accordingly
it has been expunged, and there is now nothing to
restrain them from carrying their wishes into full
execution.
In the meantime it is gratifying to perceive that
the Ministry have nailed their colours to the mast,
and that they will not yield to the attempts
to " deaden " the effect of the Bill. They will
have it in its integrity, or not at all. They
will insist on the Bill, the whole Bill, and no-
thing but the Bill. The postponement of

the Railways Bill for Ireland, by which 620,0001.
! was about to be granted as a loan to certain railways
in that country, until Friday is peculiarly significant,
and the observations of the Premier on the Punish-
ment of Vagrant's Bill, prove that the Cabinet will
be firm. There is no question on which they
can have the sympathies of the country
more strongly excited in their behalf. It
requires no prophet to say, in case there should
unfortunately be a collision between the Houses,
which must give way. If an appeal to the
country should be rendered necessary, that appeal
will be promptly and efficiently responded to. If
an overwhelming majority at present exists amongst
the representatives of the people, that majority will
be materially strengthened and augmented in the new,
House of Commons. We trust, however, their
Lordships may not be so blind to the real interests of
the country as to persevere with wilful obstinacy in
their opposition, but that they will rather imitate the
conduct of one of their number (Lord SußEwsnuity),
who honestly avowed that his vote on Thursday was
given in error, and expressed his belief " that it
would be highly advantageous that the measure
should return to their Lordships as speedily as pos-
sible for reconsideration."

We direct the public attention to an article extracted
from a respected contemporary (the Caledonian
Mercury), which will be found in another column.
The subject is one of considerable importance,
not only to the colony but to the mother coun-
try. At this moment it is a question of
considerable difficulty with the Government, " What

of the Government, aided a railway company, consi- 1
dering it only just to do so when the company had
completed and opened a certain portion of their line,
and had thereby created ample security to the
Treasury ; and he stated last week, in the House of
Commons, that " he should be bound, the circum-
stances being the same, to adopt a.similar course with
regard to other railways of a like description ; but,"
he added, " the time and mode of the application
would necessarily influence its extent." The mode
of the application in reference to the railways selected
by the Government for public aid is identical with
that which met with the direct sanction of the ex-
Premier ; and with regard to its lime, humanity and
wisdom alike combine to vindicate its seasonableness.

The intelligence received from Madrid, up to the
st instant, inclusively, is of the meagerest de-

scription.
On the preceding evening a Cabinet Council had
been held, at which General SERRANO was present.
In her MAJESTY's approaching visit to Aranjuez, it is
rumoured that the KING-CONSORT will be conveni-
ently left behind in Madrid. On the very day of
the departure of our dispatches from the Spanish
capital, General NARVAEZ had started on his journey
to Paris, attended by four aides-de-camp.
As we have elsewhere observed, the projected removal
of Queen CHRISTINA from the immediate vicinity of
the Tuileries augurs well for the futurity of the
Iberians.

The principal matters of in the Paris
papers of Thursday, which have reached us as usual,
are the lengthened discussion of the preceding fore-
noon in the Chamber of Deputies, and the observa-
tions on Greece uttered in the House of Commons by
Lord PALMERSTON, Lord JOHN MANNERS, and Mr.
PETER BORTHWICK. The harangue delivered from
the tribune by M. GUIZOT is alternately lauded as a
magnificent effort of oratorical skill or derided as a
shuffling piece of elocution, according to the political
partialities and prejudices of the different organs. By
the supporters of the wily Minister it is considered,
of course, that M. GUIEOT has given a conclusive au-
swer to the statements of Lord PALMERSTON. Clever
as is the assumed enthusiasm of M. GulzoT, when

speaking of the anxieties experienced by his Adminis-
tration for the liberal independence of the kingdom
of °TIM, we cannot but coincide in the bitter and
sarcastic sentiments with which that enthusiasm is

listened to by the Constitutionne/ :
" Yesterday," says our contemporary. " M. Guizot had his
turn, and he came out of the discussion as bruised, as over-
whelmed, as his colleagues by the demonstration of his errors,
his rapacity, and his incapacity. There was merely this
difference. M, Guizot, who is a very clever actor in the tri-
bune, amuses and interests the assembly by his talent, his
attitudes, and the sound of his voice. He declaims triviali-
ties with emphasis, imagines grand theories to cover wretched
argumentation, and dazzles his auditory. He regards it as
convinced by what he says, commands, instructs, raises bis
voice and moves his arms with a tragic air. Do not notice
his attitudes, shut your eyes to his acting, dive tothe bottom
of his grand words, compress his inflated phrases, and you
will always find only wretched arguments, miserable acts,
puerile excuses, and the most insolent disdain for the good
sense or the memory of his auditors,"
- -

Is there not the profoundest truth in these latter
assertions ? Is there not ? Listen to the presump-
_ _ _

tuous impertinence with which the French Minister
for Foreign Affairs endeavours to cajole the Deputies
of the people by clap-trap phrases, by tawdry pre-
tences of disinterestedness, and by a miserable assump-
tion of probity ! Listen to the insidious ejaculations
of M. Guizoz ! " The support which we have afforded
Greece," says he, " we will persevere in bestowing ;
we will continue to give her a political support, we will
continue to give her a financial support; if it be ne-
cessary we will even come again before the Chamber
to demand of you, gentlemen, the pecuniary means
of ensuring the Hellenic salvation. But," continued
the diplomatist, rising in confidence as he pro-
ceeded, " but I trust that Greece will never
experience that necessity ; I trust that, strong
in h3r constitutional rights, strong in her
nationality, strong in the good opinion of the vast
majority of Europe, which is in accordance with our
own, she will save herself—that she will liquidate her
debts towards all her creditors—that she will acquit
herself of further liability—to-morrow !—at once !"
M. GUIZOT cannot reasonably expect that the bare
utterance of such aspirations, when they are no-
toriously opposed by the Gallic representative at
Athens,; will inspire the dubious gentlemen of the
Chamber of Deputies with the confidence which has
very nearly evaporated.
M. BILLAULT has plainly taxed the Government
with a profligate expenditure in the furtherance of its
foreign policy, without any appreciable advantage
accruing to France in compensation for that expendi-
ture. M. Guizor has endeavoured by a prolonged and
unquestionably brilliant explanation to justify the
conduct of the Cabinet in regard to the recent em-
barrassments in the Hellenic metropolis, and he has
likewise attempted to account satisfactorily for the
ejection of French influence from the councils of the
Spanish SOVEREIGN.
Among those journals which indulge in vitupera-
tions upon this statesman and his efforts at extenua-
tion, the National speaks out perhaps the most em-
phatically. Its language is as follows :
" M. Guizot again yesterday played the game which he
has found successful during the last seven years. Only, if
there be retrenched from his speech the parts relating to
Greece and the Bey of Tunis, all the oration is empty, sig-
nifying nothing. False or hyperbolical in his facts, he was,
as he always is, hollow and illogical in his theories. Look,
for instance, at what he says of Spain, and then regard
the present position of that country. At present Christina
is at Paris—lsturitz in disgrace-Lthe French Ambassador
absent—at present the most marked reaction has set in and
stigmatises every Spaniard suspected of friendship for M.
Bresson ; they whom his influence had maintained in power
are overturned ; they who were placed by him in the palace
have been turned out of doors; the King wished to invoke
the name of France, and at once the Queen ordered him to
be lodged in the apartment formerly occupied by the Duke
de Montpensier, finding in that step two advantages—one
to place him at a distance from herself, and next to intimate
how offensive to her was this appeal to French influence.
England, whom the marriages were for a length of time to
exclude from all preponderating influence at Madrid, now
exercises its power more than ever. She took only three
months to drive out Christina, Tidal, Isturitz, and M.
Bresson from the positions which they occupied; and she
is about to hold possession of the Peninsula both by
Madrid and by Lisbon. With such things before us, we
may ask where are the promised results of the double
marriage ? Let us be shown what France has gained ?
And yet M. Guizot expresses himself well pleased I Truly,
the Chamber must have but little sentiment of its own
dignity, when a Minister thus dares to contradict himself
after a lapse of only three months, and when 'it listens to
him as he so openly mocks her by his assertions. To be un-
able to touch any question without lying, and then to come
every three months and narrate some new theoretical piece
of nonsense—such is the wretched part which this man is
condemned to play."
Enough, however, in all conscience, of this state
juggling and political charlatanerie.
A rumour is afloat that Queen CHRISTINA and the
royal tobacconist, her spouse, are about to leave
Paris for a sojourn in the Italian peninsula. Some
fairer prospect arises, therefore, of an abate-
ment in these perpetual misunderstandings in refer-
ence to Spanish affairs.
No Ministerial changes are now anticipated, ar-
rangements having been made for the postponement
of the modification of the Cabinet until after the close
of the present session.
The Semaphore of Marseilles says—
" The great agitator of Ireland, who embarked on the 29th
ult., at Avignon, in the steamer Aigle, for Arles, arrived on the
Ist inst. at Marseilles. O'Connell is accompanied by his son,
his chaplain, and a physician. According to these gentle-
men, the health of the illustrious patient is much improved
since his arrival at AViglloll. His conversation, we have
been assured, has become more animated than it had been
since his departure from England, a circumstance which leads
us to indulge a strong hope of his recovery."
Besides his lengthened oration from the tribune,
the exertions of M. GUIZOT in the Chamber of De-
puties were directed to another great pecuniary con-
sideration : the Foreign Minister, in the absence of
his colleague of the Interior, laid on the table a pro-
ject of law for authorising the city of Paris to con-
tract a loan of 25,000,000 f.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 78f. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 80c.; the
Orleans -Railroad Shares, 1,236 f. 25c.; Rouen, 945 f. ; Havre,
666 f. 25c ; Great Northern, 610 f. ; Avignon, 770 f.; Vi-
erzon, 587 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 512 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 405 f.;
Basle, 193 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 325 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 425 f. ;
Tours and Nantes. 415 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 4321. 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 4501.; Spanish Three per Cents., 351/1.
The following are the quotations for other lines:—
LYONS, MAY 4.—Paris and. Rouen, 954 f. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 781 f. 25c. ; Northern, 625 f.; Paris and Lyons,

440 f.
VIENNA, APRIL 29.—North, 1631; ; Glognitz, 121 ; Milan,
107 5-16; Leghorn, 87 ; Pesth, 98; Budweis, 194; Sienna,
691/2 ; Grosetto, 9414.
FRANKFORT, MAY 3.—Louis-Bexbach, 981(3 Frederick-
William, 701 A ; Taunus, 357.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 164—Dutch Rhenish, 4—Lyons
and Avignon (Constituted), 21/2—Northern of France, 113/4
—Orleans and Bordeaux, VA—Paris and Lyons, 4N-,-
Sambre and Meuse,

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—OLIT ar-
rivals this week are small, with the exception of oats. The
demand for wheat is very animated at is. to Ss. per quarter
above last week's prices. Barley continues scarce, and has a
ready sale at 2s. advance, and malt in consequence is more
is
request at an improvement of 2s. to 35. per load. Oats are
ld. per stone, and shelling 33. per load higher. Beans meet a
fair sale at Is. per quarter more money.

NIONEY and COMMERCIAL 10 E S.
(From The Site of Saturday Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday- were 4,000
bales, at about previous rates. Shares were dull, but with
rather less stock pressing on the market.
The quantity of cotton so:d (luring the week is 27,070 bales,
and the stock is 530,830 bales against 794,890 bales at this
time last year. Prices have delined I;4d. to %d. per lb. on
American sorts.
There has been very little satisfaction expressed at the
statement made last night by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, who seems indeed to have a very curious notion
of the best method of alleviating a money pressure.
The proof of this is that he intends to offer
a bonus to those who pay up quickly upon
the new loan, instead of easing the Monev-market by making
the payment as gradual as possible. The plan of Govern-
ment might probably be termed a measure for their
own relief, and will possibly assist the Bank too,
and so far enable the latter to aid the public; but
this is merely " robbing Peter to pay Paul," for the public
advance their money to the Chancellor, and the Bank lends
a portion of it out again. As to the advance of the interest
upon the nnfanded debt, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had not adopted that course, he would shortly have had
them half }rid in.
There are some more favourable points in the Bank of Eng-
land return for the week to the Ist inst., and the general
result is some reduction of liabilities and increase of assets,
witkout the accommodation afforded to the public having
been diminished to any extent.
Notes issued now ...
Decrease
Rest, increase
Public Deposits, decrease
Other ditto, increase •••
Seven day and other Bills, decrease
Other Securities, increase
Notes reserved
Increase ••• •••
Government Securities ...
Decrease ... •••
Bullion ... •..
Increase •• •••
Active circulation from Notes
issued, decrease ••• ••• 64,640
The accounts, one day later from New York, notice a
further improvement in the rates of exchange, and on the
continental cities there was a steady advance here again
yesterday.
The Funds have been heavier to-day, but there has been
very little business doing. There is not much probability of
the instalments on the loan being paid in advance to
any extent,
,or of the holders who do pay, and who
must, very likely, be " strong men " from that
especial circumstance, selling their stock at the present
low prices. Consols have been 861,E for transfer,
and 87 to 863 for time. Exchequer-bills have been
Is. to ss. premium. Bank Stock is worth 189. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 87
The Foreign Bonds have been heavy, but very quiet.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 33%; Mexican, 201/8 ;
and Brazilian New, 821/2 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been 57!4.
Shares have been flat, and the business doing is limited.
13RITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. • • • • .. .. • • 189 189
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85% 851
4
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 86% % 86%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 874 yi 87 Y,
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. S. 1860 .. 9 1-16 8 15.16 8 15-16
Consols for May 27 .. • • .. 87 86% 86%
Exchequer Bills. ci. 2d.
1,0001... 15 1 p .
5001. 1 4 p
Ditto, Small .... 4 p par 5 p
ONE
O'C LOCK.

... R 22,506,585
42,555
11,924
335,364
186,639
31,684
33,049
... 2,741,080
... 22,085
... 10,727,319
... 390,000
... 9,337,716
123,826

51%
2%
20 ii,
82%

10A,
P

25
231 k

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince accotnrinied by the
Prince of Wales, awl the Princess Royal, and the
Prince of Leiningen, arrived at Osborne, Isle of ‘Vight,
at half-past one o'clock on Friday afternoon from town.
The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Desart,
Hon. Miss Dawson, Major-General Bowles, Lieut -
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Captain the Hon. A.

H. Gordon, and Dr. Dieyer. -
On Saturday her Majesty and her Royal Consort,
and his Serene• flighne,s the Prince of Leiningen,
walked in the pleasure grounds of Osborne, and the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took their ac-

accustomed airings.
Yesterday morning the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal took walking and riding exercise on the

sea beech.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the ladies and
gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine service in
Whippingham church yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena at Buckingham Palace yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin.
cese Alice took an airing, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, on Saturday.
Her Majesty the Que. n Dowager and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore and the
lessons by the Rev. J. V. Povah. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. T. dills. The anthem, was
" Wherewithal shall a young man." Mr. Kuyvett pre-
sided at the organ.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Viscountess
Barrington and Earl Howe. The Duchess of Kent was
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. The Dean of Here-
ford was the Deputy-Clerk of the Closet in Waiting.
Among the Nobility present were the Duchess of Beau-
fort, the Marquises of Anglesey, Northampton, and
Worcester, Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, and Palmerston;
Lords Fortescue, Spencer, Devon, St. Germans, Cawdor,
Talbot, Palmerston, Castlereagh, and Ebrington.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev.
Dr. Wesley officiated, and the Rev. T. Mills preached
the sermon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlbo-
rough House.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes
terday morning, in the Chapel of the Female Orphan
► Asylum. Major Stephens was in waiting on his Royal

Hi hness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Couper, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with
her presence on Saturday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus
sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the
Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell,
Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis
of Clanricarde, the Right Hon, T. B. Macaulay, and the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half.
A deputation from the Council of the National Insti-
tute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, consisting of
Mr. Pennington (president), Mr. Thomas Martin, of
Reigate and Mr. Clifton (vice-presidents), Mr. Fuller,
Mr. Bird, Mr. Ancell, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Burnett
(members of the council), and Mr. Ross (secretary), had
an interview with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office,
on Saturday, on the subject of medical reform.
A deputation from Whitechapel, consisting of Sir W.
Clay, M.P., Mr. Plumpton (churchwarden), Messrs. Hen-
derson and Liddle, and Mr. Smith, (vestry clerk), had
an interview with Viscount Morpeth on Saturday, at
the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Dr. Paris, President of the Royal College of Physi-
cians, Dr. Burrows (Senior Censor), Dr. Budd (Censor),
Dr. Francis Hawkins (Registrar of the College), and Dr.
Nairne, had an interview with Sir George Grey on
Saturday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
committee meeting on Saturday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Lawrence, President
of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and
Messrs. Travers and Stanleys, Vice President of the
College, had an interview on Saturday with Sir George
Grey.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Ridout, Master of the
Society of Apothecaries ; Messrs. Bean and Callender,
Wardens of the Society ; Mr. Bacot, Deputy-Master of
, the Society ; and Mr. Upton, the Clerk to the Society,
had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at
the Home-office.