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LVINiNnDITiON

they must see that the measure was one fraught with
greater ruin and di,aster to that country and the colonies
than any he had ever known proposed.---( Hear, he I%)
The resolution was then put and carried un inimously.
It was to the effect that the Chancellor of the Exc 1,-quer
having, in his Budget, announced his intention to bring
forward a motion on the Sugar Duties on Friday nex►., the
meeting deemed it its duty to take immediate steps t) pro-
test against a measure which they believed would prove
ruinous to their East and West Indian possessions.
Mr. SEELY moved, and A:r. DOUGLAS seconded, the
adoption of a petition to both Houses of Parliament, em-
bodying the statements contained in the resolutions.
Thanks yvere then voted to the Earl of Mountcashel for
his conduct is the Chair, and the meeting broke up.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Mar 6.

SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE COMPANY V. THE MARQUIS OF

QUEEN SBERY

The LORD CHANCELLOR was engaged this morning in
the Hone of Lords hearing the conclusion of the argu-
ments in this appeAl, but deferred judgment. His Lurd-
ship then let% to attend a Cabinet Council.

COURT. OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, M 4,• 6.
‘4l.lilfiN J. CHF. A 11,CHRISHOP (W YORE AND Di:

YIIILLINOR E

Sir WILLI.% 7,/ FO L ETT VI it h whom was Mr. Cockburn)
mod for a rule to ham cause why a prohibition should not
issue to the defendants to prohibit them from proceeding fur-
ther in a case of deprivation of ecclesiastical rights. He
should state pretty faily the circumstances which had occurred,
and which rendered it necessary that some application of this
sort shmild he made. Certain differences had existed among
the members of the capetular body of York respecting the pro-
perty of the trustees of the Chapter fund. There was an order
made be the Dean and Chapter to pay a sum of money to the
Dean. One of the Canons Residentiary, Mr. Harcourt Vernon,
a member of. the capetular beds, stated thet he should appeal
against that order. He did appeal, and there was a cita-
tion for a visitation to take place on the 18th of January.
There had not been an instance known of an archiepiscopal
visitation in York since the year 17th. A citation for a
visitation was issued on this occasion. At this visitation
Dr. Phillimore appeared as the Commissary or Commis-
sioner from the Archbishop, under the authority of a com-
mission, which stated that the Archbishop had duly and
lawfully appointed a visitation to he held on the lath of
January, between the hours of eleven and two, ee and
whereas we were about to commence the said visitation in
person, but may after find ourselves prevented .by
certain other business, " &c., therefore Dr. Philli-
more was appointed Commissary. That was the autho-
rity under which the Commissary was to act. The visitation
was fur the purpose of making inquiries and receiving pre-
sentments only, and it entered into the mind of no one at
that time that it would ever assume the shape or form
which it did areewards. On the lath of January, certain
articles were exhibited by the Archbishop. and they had re-
lation to various matters connected with the chapter and the
cathedral. The 19th of these articles or interrogatories was
" Are the chancels of the churches and chapels belcnging to
your body in good and sufficient repair ?" That interrogatory
had led to the circumstances which had since taken placo in
the cathedral. On the 16:h ofJanuary the articles were ad-
ministered. N., answers were at that time given, hut as there
were certain disputes respecting the property of the Chapter,
it was thought better that they should be referred to arbitra-
tion. This proposition was assented to ty all the parties
interested in the dispute, and an agreement was made to
eabject these disputes to the decision of an arbitrator. he
melting at which this agreement was made did not take
place till the 21st of February. In the meantime cer-
eain answers to the interrogatoriel, were put in by some
eit the members of the eapetular body, and one gentleman,
the Revereed Mr.. Dixon, among other answers to the
articles, returned one to the 19th, which (so the Letrned
Counsel was understood to say) was to the following effect :
" Teat the churches of the Dean and Chapter, which are in
many counties:. are repaired, the chancels are usually let, and
are lien by the provisions of the lease to the lessees mid the
leres‘ntinents sold, but whether the proceeds are applied to
repairs dues not appear," Whetht r the answer meant to
charge the ilean with Lasing simeniacally sold the livings did
not .appear, but`elie Dean was thus di,tinetly charged with the
sale of the preseiitetions. There was a second meeting of this
-visitation appointed; ant in the meantime a letter was written
to the Dean, and this lt,ter was the only thing in the shape of
a citation, or a summons o! any kind, which Lad led to pro-
ceedings that had ended in he Dean being deprived of It is
Deanery and all his ecelesiasti,‘l preferments. The letter
referred to was as: fellows Dear Sir, it was only by yes-
terday's post that I received Mr. Dixon's answer. The
answer to the nineteenth article involves a charge against
you, which has not before been brought to my notice, and
which is of so splines a nature, that I enclose a copy of it for
your perusal, in order that you may properly reply thereto on
Thursday ne.xt." This le:ter was signed by Dr. Phillimore.
at was not stattel in that letter that that was a charge which
would be formally,l,rought against the Dean, but merely that
that was the areal or of Mr. Dixon to one of the interroga-
tories of the Archbishop. In fact this was a private letter from
Ur. Phillimore to the bean—it was neither a citation nor a
!munitions. The 21st February was the date cf the letter, and
the meeting' was to be held by adjournment on the 24th of that
month. In t eply to this letter the Dean said that he was then
300 mile: distant, and that he could not attend at the time
specified at that period of the year. The meeting was then
ezain adjourned to the 23d of March, when Dr. Phillimore
stated that it was his intention to try the Dean on the eh rge
ri simony, as contained in the answer of Mr. Dixon. Nei-
ther at that time, nor at any other, had there been
any articles exhibited to the Dean. The simple statement
contained in,the answer was all that he knew on the subject;
The Dean stafed that he protested again 4 the jurisdiction of
the Commissary in respect of the churches, and this occasioned
a considerable alt?reation between the Dean and Dr.
swore. who first refused to accept the protest, insistllT that the
'ean should plead to the charge, but this the I)ean refused to
do. It. appeared that Dr. Phillimere thought right, in conse-
quence of this protest, to proimunce the Dean in contempt,
and the Dean left the Court on the •23d of March ; and
after he had done so, in the itb-ence of the Dean and of al
his friends, tske\Conunissary proceeded to examine en oath,
and vitel voce, e.‹tairr witnesnes, and then under these cir-
cumstances, tri'hott.: any charge made, and w,thout any
articles exhibited, anti in the absence of the Archbishop,
lie made a report to the Archbishop ; and the Archbishop
himself, who ;sad never heard one witness, and had hail-no
opportunity of examining ores deposition of any sort or kind,
on the sole representation of Or.: klellimore, and in the absence
of the Dean, declared that he was convicted of simoniacidly

seßing the " .1 certain presentment was made
by the Rev. 114Pf--IL Dixon" was the statement in the judicial
declaration, but none 'Whatever had been made until after the
.sentence was pronounced ; and even that which was- then
brought forward was never exhibited to the Dean of York.
The declaration went on to allege that the Dean bail appeared

to fore the Commissary, but had been pronounced ci;utumacious
and in contempt, for having wilfully interrupted the pi egress of
the proceedings, and declared that he would not sulmit 0 the
authority of the Court. Now, the Areheishop could not areave
what occurred before the Commissary, for the proceedings were
not taken down in writing ; vet the document went on to
.declare, that in consequence of such con,uct he was removed
:and degraded from his office of Dean, and frt m all
Lis dignities and preferments in the province of York. So
extraordinary a prow eding was who ly unheard of in modern
times, and so far as research into ancient authorities went, was
without justification. If it could be maintained, it would
establish that an Archbishop of York, or his Commissary, with-
out any charge duly made or exhibited. might pi oceed in the
absence of the person accused to deprive him of all nis pie.
ferments, and pronounce so severe a sentence as that if de-
grading him from all his offices and digni ies in the Church.
In the course of these proeeenings it never was believed that
they were going to take such a step. but something irregular
was apprehended, and on the 31st of March, which was before
, sentence was pronounced, an application was made to the Lord
. Chancellor for a prohibition, winch his Lordship refused, on
aZke ground that. all t hat the affidavits disclosed was, that the Corn •
enbaary had done that which might lead toa sentence of deprive.
tion ; i.kitthat it was not within his juri,dietion, there being no
criminal ,nroeeeding in the case, and that he could not believe that
the Comin:ssary would take such a step. The prohibition was
refused, and t;te very thing which the Lord Chancellor had said
he could not bel;eve the Commissary would do, was actually
,done. In additio): to this, the affidavits on which the present
applica'ion was tourOed set forth that there was a composition
ent-red into between, the Archbishop of York and the Chapter
of that diocese, which expressly prohibited such an exercise of
archiepisenpal power in such a mann. r. Whatever, the'efore,
might be. the amr.unt. of episcopal authority in other sees, it
did not exist. to that extent here, and the whole proceeding was
sconsequently irregular The Learned Counsel quoted a great
nnanv authorities in support of his argument, and
The COURT ultimately granted the rule.
'fie ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who appeared for the Arch.
• blebel. asked for an early day to be fixed for the argument,
• than peace might he restored to the diocese.
' The COURT said, that it , would depend on Counsel them.
wives when it was brought on. It might be brought on on
the first day of next, feral.
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CO UPT OF EXCHEQUER, MAr 6.
. (Sittings at 'Nisi Pr us
it Westminster, before Mr. Baron
PARKE and a Spec:al Jury.)
aattr,soN A) OTItERS V. HARFORD AND OTHERS.
'This action was hroughtto recover c:,mpensation in damages
Tot al. .
allege infringement of a patent for the improved appli-
cation of air
td produce
other
e hint in tires, forges, and furnaces,
'Where billows a
•
blowing apparatus were required.
This cage has occupied the attention of the Court for three diys.
The defedee
.was the usual 0119 on such occasions-viz., that
ow invent,on
as not a new one, that the specification was at h
with
,
was
Act upon whiCh the patent was granted, and
variance ~ not of public benefit.
that the ,oven verdict fl
1
a.a. verdict for the plaintiff on the principal
• Thury foun .
w
ould fve the effect of establishing his right to
issuese , Jury bfblhUld fve the effect of establishing his rht to
issues, whi .th
(' found for the defendant as to a technical
.the patent, but they point, however,
woint arising in the,
especification.
toOmuovtehtite Court above.
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pijBLIL JOURNALS.
1-4ITUT of the
r: PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
. .we hitherto said of t e hnancial
FROM Till: :HORNIN-- . h . .
CHRONICLE.—In what dwelt raest on
programme of the Ministry, we
.have naturally
A 10 us the most prominently
that part of it which appeared
in the Corn-laws. But
.good; we meats the proposed alteration
the whole plan which
'there are considersnien; bearing hivan . • f
its avour, and might
might have more weight with others in
oliections to th,t
even be necessary, in ;.41eir eyes, to reenoveelf
t wjhich ought not
, part of it which seemed so excellent it, '' ,n' I
to point out
i
so be overlooked. To others, it may be use
ttemp t u ton
snore forcibly than we have vet done, that this a
It is not
the Corn-laws is part only of a more general scheme.
holds—
that monopoly is struck at in one only of its strong ce
it je not that the landlord has been singled out fur a sat.. .t
.niwn
—ol
• that the gauntlet has been wantonly thrown do
' to the " predominant interest;" but the (ise was thus.,
Upon a ,general view of our commercial and financial conii 1-
titan, it was seen that our finances required assistance no less
than our CP.,,amerce needed relief ; and it came then to be con-
sidered whet tijc the requisite aid should be sought for the one
in those ordinar)\measures of taxation which could not but ad.l
something to the i lirdeus and difficulties of the tehT, or whe-
ther some means cot..
td, trot be devised which would alike pro-
mote and vivify both. "'lt .s.v thought that by a wide clever-
'lure from our restrictive '.totem so great an end might Ise at •
'Mined ; and thl 4uestida thene aroseexw rilheenthterwti that interest
Ilaauld be privi'eged from • h
* •ransiltiote whether that
ts bestl
tole to bear the brunt of the .
contribution, which, amidt
alone should be exempted from` , . f
othser sources 0 wealth,
'..the general stagnation of the
least, to flourish aides ncrease,
bas continued, for some time at .
ears has added som. 20
which in the course of the last four ris, which is only now so
per cent. to the value of its p
- uss"alle°eause its prejudices have
indignant at the proposed scheme,
beeepae more obdurate by a
been strengthened, its selfishness
..
ndeed, that we sheuld see
course of unusual. prosperity.
rot j else but a reason to re-
in that prosperity, in itself, anythinge,
good of attack; but
*ice, still less that we should see it to a
the in'
ountry is such as
lie financial and commercial position of
to require that sacrifice among others, and to that position we
course of im.
have been brought, not by any assreckl,
ettain
B or
. providence or mismanagement, but by . '
h h have no
current in the commerce of the world which we • . ti
pin it, an
: power to control. at least by
°P' c'
lge streneth.
which is yearly setting in with increztole, •
our
kOne result of this, and that which it is

most immediate business to remedy, is the present state of our
finances. It is idle to suppose, as many do, that the defici
which it is necessary to supply is attributable to a rash aban-
donment of taxation. For if welook back to the last two years
of our financial prosperity, the years 1835 and 1836, the last
years. too, in which there was any reduction of taxation, we
find that out of 1,175,0001., the whole estimated net produce
of the taxes repealed, or reduced, the sum of 520,0001. is put
down for coffees, flint glass, and raper duties. These, in
fact, were the leading articles on which the repeal or re-
duction then took place, and yet, in comparing the aggre-
gate net produce under these heads, in the two years
1834 and 1839, we find an increase of about 3,oool.—the
two sums being 1,982,0001. and 1,985,0001. ; and under
the head of coffee alone there is an increase, in spite of the
reduction of duty, from 620,000/. to 780,000/. If we look stow
to the whole produce of the two years 1836 and 1839, we find
a decrease from 48,591,000 e to 47,351,000/. The year 1836,
it is true, was one of singular, nay, even of excessive pro-
sperity, or at least of excessive development cif our resources;
and the depression that has since prevailed has been in some
degree, no doubt, the consequence of that excess. But if
it were only the ordinary penalties of overproduction that we
had to suffer, the country has had ample time to recover from
the blow. There was, indeed, a temporary rally in 1838,
brought about by the disastrous losses of 1637 ; but in 1839
oar commerce and trade again relapsed into that state from
which they have not yet recovered, and show as yet but
little signs of recovering. There is an obvious want of ex-
pansiveness and spring in the sources of our wealth, and though
we have no time to go through the many facts which
show this to be a consequence of our restrictive system, we
will mention one which comprises a multitude of facts within
itself. We mean the great, the unprecedented difficulty which
the Bank has experienced in bringing back gold to its coffers.
This, as is well known, is effected partly by checking importa-
tion through the scarcity of money, partly by stimulating, ex-
portation through the lowness of prices. And in other in-
stances these means have been found to answer the purpose
both promptly and effectually ; but in this instance, that is,
since the last drain in the spring of 1835, the bullion in the
Bank remained for many months between two and four
millions ; and has barely yet, as appears by the last
monthly publication, reached the amount of five mitlions ;
and 416 is not only the immediate and temporary
consequence of the purchase of corn—though much
inconvenience and danger may arise even from- that—but an
evil more permanent and more deeply seated is indicated by the
fact, that though this drain for bullion to a large extent began
more shan two years ago ; though it has been for the last half
year and more very much abated—if it have cot altogether'
stopped—yet the whole power of the Bank steadily direeted to
this point has failed in producing, to any considerable degree,
1 a balance of imports in our favour. Doubtless other causes,
over which our legislation has no control, have tended
to heighten the difficulty ; but it is wilful blindness to
suppose that our restrictive system, particularly the Corn-
law part of it, has not much to answer for in the mat-
ter ; and whatever allowance we make make for the ope-
ration of those causes of which the effect has passed,
or will soon pass away, we should recollect, on the other hand,
that other causes of a more permanent nature, and more di-
rectly incident to our restrictive system, are about to be called
into activity ; we mean the impending changes in our relations
with America and the Brazils. Surely there is something in
this peculiar and novel juncture of our commercial affairs to ,
justify a grater change of opinion than any we have yet heard
of; a more sudden conversion to free trade than any we have
yet witnessed. The present, however, is but a slight advance
in that direction. Free trade is not the only, nor is it even
the chief professed object of the Ministerial plan ; it has further
for its object the restoration of our revenue ; it has further for
its excuse, if it need one, onr financial necessities. Whether
even that plea will avail in its favour against the combination
both of party and private interests which will be arrayed
against it, the division of to-night will show. For it is not the
question of the Sugar Duties akne that is at issue, it is nut the
prospects of the colonist or the cause of the negro that is alone
or chiefly at stake upon the result; but it is, indeed, the
whole question whether the combined monopolists of every
class shall prevail, at the cost of impending ruin to the manu-
facturer, continued hardship to the consumer, and an imme-
diate increase of burden upon all. And it' the opponents of a
more liberal policy should triumph in the conflict, and if that
success should transfer them for a time, at least, to the other
side of the House, the motto which they will have writ:en
upon their banner—the Principle to which they will have
pledged themselves as a party—will be the maintenance of
monopoly in all its branches, at the expense of increased
taxation.

TlMES.—There is something very perplexing to the mind
in the contemplation of a real unreal thing—like Mr Francis
Baring's " Budget." At one mo.r.ent the thoughts begin to
follow it out in all its bearings and results, and become per-
plexed in all its perplexities; but then, in an instant, the re-
collection breaks in—" Pooh I the whole thing is a fiction !
There is nothing substantial about it 1" But, assuredly, the
allowing the mind to rest for a short time upon this most ex-
traordinary scheme has a ter dency to excite no ordi-
nary degree of wrath and of astonishment. Were it pos-
sible (which it 13 not) to imagine that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ever really desired and intended to carry his three
most astounding propositions, it would certainly be time that
some measures were taken in Parliament to guard against anv
further f: oaks of this description being played off against our most
important commercial interests. The whole scheme can be de-
' scribed by no milder term than that of "monstrous." It is
monstrous, if its author really meant to carry it into execution ;
it is still more monstrous if he did not so intend. Take the
first supposition ; and what is it ? In 'a time 4,f difficulty,
doubt, and hesitation, the Chancellor of the Exchequer coolly
proposes to throw into confusion, at one and the same time,
three of the greatest interests in the country. The first and
foremost of all is the agricultural interest. A very low esti-
mate—Mr. M'Culloch's—represents this as the producer of
an annual amount of 197,455,375/. We are not now aleait
to enter upon the queition of the Corn-laws ; but a`l w.ll
admit that to interfere this vast matter would have been,
of itself, quite sufficient occupation for an entire ses-ion of
Parliament. Not satisfied, however, with grappling with this, the
greyest andmost difficult of all qu stions, the Coavernment must,
forsooth, agitate, at the same moment, the two great ennurer-
' cial interests connected with the West Indies and w ith Ca-
nada. Now, these two great divisions of our colonial
empire may be reckoned to amount to about one-half of our
foreign possessions. Looking at the employment they give
to our commercial marine, they might make a still higher
claim. The North American colonies empl,,y, we believe,
about 2,000 sail of merchantmen, having an aggregate of
5(1(1,000 tons. The West Indies give occupation to about
1,0(10 vessals, of 250,000 ions in the whole. The value of
1-friti.h manufactures exported •o these celoni.s in 1837 was
5,597,7;•01. And these are the affairs—these the interests,
which the Finance Minister thinks it wise to throw into con-
; and not only so but to throw them as , into confusion
at one and the same time ! Surely common seine wool I have
dictated the obvious propriety of dealing with these great
matters each by itself ; and of letting one such chan _e suffice for
a single year ! For. let it be well observ,d, that these
are not mere speculative or theoretical changes which
are contemplated, but real and extensively operative
ones. Each one of the three is to yield its quota of hundreds
of thousands to make up lllr. Baring's deficiency. It is as-
sumed to be a certainty that a large quantity of foreign corn
will he introduced, or else the revenue will be largely minus.
It is calculated that a great pro, orti,n of the sugar to be im-
ported shall be Brazilian or Spanish, or else the expected
706')001. will not he realised. It is taken to be certain that
the impeyts of Baltic timber will be greatly increased, or else
the 600,0001. from this quarter will be m.ssine. 'thus it is a
part of the Om o the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the
English farmer, th.,•• Canadian colonist. and the West Indian
planter, shall all lose a large portion of their present custom-
ers, in order that our rt7vellue may gain a new 1,700,0001.
g, our second a prat-. And this brings us'
assertion—
that the Ministerial scheme is equally monstrous—
supposing (what we take to he the case), that the
Cabinet have no real intention, or desire, to carry their
propositions through. For what right, let its *4" have any
Alinisters to throw nearly a'l the great interests t,:f the country
into confusion, merely in order to take the chance sif getting
up a little temporary populari y. a miserable e!ectioneerCig (.-17
of " Cheap bread," and " Cheap sugar ?" There is nothOg
genuine about the plan. It results not from real conviction,
apart from a momentary exigency. Every one can see that,
like the penny postage, it is but the offspring of a fit of despe-
ration. " Something must be done" to avert the necessity of
resignation. And from this mean and miserable motive all
kinds of distress are, in an instant. inflicted on crowds of inno-
cent persons, depending upon the prosperous state of these
three interests. Endless are the miseries arising from this
rash and wicked expedient. Anti then, how revolting is it it,
the midst of all to fall back, as one is often forced to do, upon
that which all people feel to be the truth—that the whole affair
is a cheat—a proposition not intended to be carried, hut merely
put forward to raise a popular cry, and assist in the operation
of a factious dissolution

HERALD.—The Ministerial project for encouraging the
atrocities of the foreign slave trade, and for perpetuating the
miseries of foreign slavery, in the hope of replenishing a wast-
ing exchequer. exciies the indignant surprise of a people, who,
when they advanced an enormous sum of money to get rid of
slavery in our own colonies, never expected to see any Govern-
ment in Great Britain desirous of entering into a partnership
with foreign nations in the profits of the most infamous traffic
that ever disgraced civilisation. We are glad to see that
the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society has spoken
out on this important subject in a prompt and ener-
getic appeal td the Christian feelings of the people of Eng-
land, worthy of the great cause of humanity in which
it is engaged. That cause is the extinction of per-
sonal slavery and the slave trade throughout the whole
world. If the Ministerial scheme should obtain the sanction
of Parliament, the supp'ies of foreign sugar will be almost
wholly furnished from Brazil and Cuba, in which countries,
as the Anti-slavery Society truly states, " the atrocious sys-
tem of slavery is maintaine.t in all its rigour, and the revolt-
ing traffic in human beings is carried on to an enormous
extent. No kss truly does the same society also assert, that
" the inevitable tendency of the proposed reduction in the
duties, will be to stimulate the growth of sugar in those coun-
tries by materially increasing the demand for it in this, by
which the extent of the slave trade will be fearfully increasers,
and its unutterable horrors aggravated and prolonged, while
the condition of the wretched and degraded slaves already in
bondage will be rendered more grievous and intolerable
than ever." It is one of the few propositions of politi-
cal economy, which no one thinks of disputing, that in-
, crease of demand has an inevitable tendency to produce as in-
creased supply; indeed the Government organ of last eveiiing
:roasts of the large supply of foreign sugar which the proposed
al eratiun of the duties will bring into the Bri!ish market; it
alludes also to the great additional comforts and luxur es which
an influx of foreign sugar will allow the public to enjoy, while
it will give an increased impulse to our commerce and in-
dustry. As to the revenue, the project is t m work wonders
fur that, add in order to conv,nce the public that they ought to
hail the sugar " boon with gratitude, our Ministerial Contem-
porary quotes the work of some " most learned Theban,"
whose name we never heard of before, but who, next to the
Secretary of the Poor-law Commission, appears to be one of
its chief oracles.

POST.—We trust the Opposition this evening will press
home their resolution regarding slave-grown sugar at mice, and
thus give the coup de grace to the present wretched Ministers.
'1 he resolution of which Lord John Hessen has given notice,
in favour of the general principle of alteration in the present
Ay;tem of protective and differential duties, is n:anifestly but
another subterfuge—another convulsive throe arising from the
agony of anticipated defeat. The most that Ministers can
expect from it is a protraction of she debate—a little
more delay. But we hope that no such thing will be suf.
beret]. The country anxiously desires a quick derision of
the House of Commons, whether we are to have wide-
spread agitation, and an experimental revolution in
commerce and finance, in order to keep the pre-
sent Ministers in dim, er to get rid of these Ministers aod
their desperate experiments by one and the same vote. If the
abstract matter of Lord John Russell's resolution is to be de-
bated, it ought to be debated before going into Committee,
because what does the Committee propose to do, but to carry
into effect one of the details which is dependent upon the ab-
'tract matter contained in the proposed Ministerial resolution?
The Government proposes a Committee to make an alteration
rif protective and Differential duties in a particular case, and
the Minister says, if the House w;11 not allow us to go into
Committee fur that purpwe, then we shall ask the House
to affirm a barren resolution that such alterations ought to
be made, not only in one case, but in all cases ! Is it
possible to conceive anything more preposterous or unstates-
manlike than this? Can any rational being suppose that ma-
ture consideration or sound discretion has led to such a propo-
sition? Must we not rather conclude that it is a rash and
stupid expedient for delay—a desperate notion suddenly acted