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tion of by far the largest praportion of our Legis-
lature. Look to our returns, called for without
reference to time, place, object, to what prectled,
wh it is to follow, to any •system or coherence whnt-
soever—look to our Committees and Resorts ; little
analysis, concentration, order, often answering only the
local and temporary purpose, scarcelyanswering that—
lOok to our 'Bills wrought into Acts without know-
ledge generally of the first principles of composition
and arrangement, phrase in profusion ovtrlayirg
sense without philosophy—without comprehensive-
ness ; an experiment for the luau or hour, to be
amended in the ensuing session, and surame.aded
possibly in the next. All these fruits follow
from the fertile root o: evil, bad professional legal edu-
cation, or no legal education at all. Every other pro-
fession demands an apwenticethip, every science ks-rn e
previous study. No m e thinks of improvising mathe-
matics, yet what bungler in law making or
law interpreting but does not, by the simple
fact of admission to the arena of either, think
himself qualified to decide impromptu on both.
Belonging then to the former, no wonder he (Mr.
W.) should feel interested in every irnprovemeet
wrought in the studi a of the latter ; they mutually
enlightened, stimulated, assisted each other. To you,
then, Gentlemen (said Mr. Wyse), hut not exclusively
to you—for as " there are many mansions in my
father's house," so there are many labourers of all
seasons and grades in his vineyard—to you, not
exclusively it is true, but to you pro-eminently over
others. and more emphatically than others, is this
highest of human tasks entrusted. To your pro-
. fession belangs not only to bind up the hearts
that arc bruised, to drag the villain with all his
hoarded malignitles into day, to right innocence,
to avenge wroog, to enorcise the legion devil of
evil which infests ail society, but you have also the
function and duty in right of superior intelligence
and station, by example and precept to extend the
empire of knowledge ; ignorance of virtue over vice, of
. moral good over moral evil, of spirit over matter, in one
worn---of civilization—of education. You have to bear
your part fully in the progress of mind, not only in doing
:Tali) wits has been done, well and nobly, by your pre-
decessors, but in doing more, and in doing better than
they—in surpassing them—in surpassing yourselves.
L, such a course nothing is indifferent ; everything adds,
everything is port of the universal impuls-. It is for
this he (Mr. Wise) so specially hailed the institute,
whose labours he hid already referred to. He believed
At a
,great movement in advance, a large stage in the
'trtie intellectual regeneration of his country, He
loped the day was not distant when he should be
allowed to sit under the shade of the tree they were
'planting, and whilst enjoying the refreshment of its
;shade and the beauty of its fruits, not forget the hands
to which both were owing. He concluded by renewing
his thanks for their kindness, and hoped he might be

Jong allowed the honour of co-operating in their labours
and sharing in their useful and glorious results.—
(Applause.)
ite Cilainstat then gave the health of their distin-
guished gut st,his GraCe the Archbishop of .Dublin, the
great prormter of science, as well in this country as
elsewhere, whose presenCe afforded a further proof of
the value 'of their institution; a A the vneral interest
taken in the promoting of th to for which it was
_founded.
The ARCHBISHOP, in retort anks, expressed his
tt Oat delight at finding in such assembly men of ap-
posite et:lL:ions in politics meeting for the common wel-
fare, for the important purpose of assisting in the esta-
blishment of en institution whose beneficial results had
,he en plainly demonstrated by the eloquent gentioman,
'Air. Wyse. He also expressed his desire and anxiety,
so far as was in his power, to advance the objects of the
society.
Mr. WYSE then gave " The health of Mr. Ken-
aiedy, tho Principal."
Mr. KENNEDY, in returning thanks, observed that
tbe.-e were but two circumstances which could induce
him o relinquish his position in the society, the first, if by
his retirement he could advance the object which he had
so much ,at heart, the welfare of the institution ; the
.other that of seeing the institution established on so
broad and portranent a basis as to yender it independent
of individual exertion or casual support.
The CHAIR3IAN then gave " The Irish Bench, and
those distinguished M'mbers of it who were present.
The MASTER of the ROLLS returned thanks on
behalf of the Irish Beneb, and observed that the dif-
Acuities he had himelf expeilenced in the direction
• his own course of study, on entering the legal pro-'
tßssien, were too deeply impressed on his mind to be
cosily forgotten. The ordinary obstacles to which
ail were exposed who made the law their study induced
him to hail with extreme satisfaction the foundation of
institution in Ireland. He bad watched with
• ions care the proceedings and progress of the
Law Institute from its earliest foundation up to this
truly i;,teresting and important era of its existence,
and the tosult of his judgment was, that to secure
the success of so va!aable an undertaking, its di-
rection and gi.:idance cook! not have been placed in
safer or abler haisds. He would duly add, on his own
'behalf, that in whatever position he int'g!it at any Siam
Iv. placed, he would be found ever ready to do Ltnytbiog
in his power to advance the interest of this praiseworthy
sand impor:ant institution.
After other toasts, the party separated at an early
hour, all evidently much gratified with the proceedings
.and good taste evinced during the evening.

MDNOPOLir OF THE BRITISH
WEST INDIA PLANTERS.

The Gazette average price of West India Muscovado
sugar without the duty was—
At the end of December, 1829 ..... —233. 3d.
At the end of December, 1830 ‘,3s. 41d.
At the cud of December, 1831 923. t:;d.
Their crop of sugar imported' in 1830 was
259,500 casks, or about 194,600 tons, cal-
culated at 235. 4d. per cwt P 4,540,600
Deducting freight 903. per ton £875,700
Cost of casks, cartage, shipping,
landing expenses, warehousing,
&.. at 21. per cask 519,000

1,394,700

!Paving for the crop of 1830 ....-£3,145,900
The Gazelle average price, at the end of December
38-10, was 493. Sid.
Their reduced crop of sugar imported in 1940,
has been 137,500 casks, or about 103,000
tons, calculated at 495. Bd. per cwt. £5,115,600
Deducting freight, at 90s. per t0n...X463,5G0
And cost of casks and expenses, as
before, at 2/. per c;:ok

738,500

Leaving for the crop of 1840 £4,377,100
To witioli must be added interest of 4 per
cent. on about 17.000,0001., which they re-
ceived cut of 0,000,0001. compt:nsatioa . . 650,000

£5,057,100

It i; clear that their short c:ops of sugar produce; now
to o m l ions, or 66 per cent. more than their large crops
b• fore the emancipation.
In the same proportion their crops of coffee, molasses.,
rum, &c., produce now more; and the following facts
will :how the disadvantageous trade carried on by Eng-
land with the British West Indies, being likewise the
effect of the monopoly.
The vaiue of finished immufactures, materials of ma-
aura •ture, and goods upon which little labour has been
bestowed, exported to the British West Indies, accord--
ing to Mr. G. It. Porter's Table, presented to the Se-
lect Comm;ttee on Import Duties, was—
In 1836 £3,786,453
la 1837 .
Is 1838
The English people have paid for British West India
Muscovado Sugar, in 1840, from 30s. to 355. higher
than its value in any other market of the Continent.
Caieu!ating only 30s. per 112 lbs. on the raticed im-
portation last year . from the British West Indies,
103.000.-tons, it amounts. to 3,090,0001.
r Brit ell West India coffee, molasses, rum,Szc.
they likewise have paid an extra price.
It therefore results that the English people pay for
the produce of the British West Indies, in addition to
the pica at which it could be obtained from other
countries, an amount equal or greater than the whole
value of the exports from England to that quarter,
Mr. G. H. Porter says in his evidence before the
Sul ct Conarni•te.: on Import Duties, 31st July, 1840:
—" At the pte.ent time the English consumer pays,
exclusive of duty, upwards of 3id. per lb. more for
sugar than the foreign consumer." (2,654.)
Ard Mr. J. M'Gregor, 15th July, 1840 Do
you happen to know what the price of coffe' is in any
of the S-.ates of Europe, as compared with England ?
The difference is about 80 per cent., that is in the free
markets of Europe. (914 ) Sixty per cent., at least,
when the duties are paid ; independently of the differ-
ence of duties, 80 to 100 per cent. (915)."

DEFINITION OP A GENTLEMAN,—One de-
fiuition is as good as a thousand, and there is one at hand
embodies as much truth and wisdom as mind can
conceive, or man utter ! Need I sty that I allude to that
which is now matter of history-41 a definition of the term
" gentleman," et once eoinprehensive, plain, correct, and
pki • I ietly prorr. delivered by the eminent Mr. Thurtell,
sit the 0!d 133i1ey, b..fore the bar and bench, a:sembled to
pronounce cn the merits of a celebrated performance of
his in a branch of the fine arts (Viz: Murder
considered as ono of the fine arts in Black-
wood, November, 1839) his night-scene murder
of the gamester Weire. This consummate artist's
definition strikes me as being equal, if not superior, to any
of the dicta in art delivered by Sir Joshua Reynolds him.
self. To the question asked of Z hurtell, what do you
mean by a gentleman ? this great man and magnificent
artiuya magistrr readily replied—" A gentleman is a res.
pectable person, who keeps his horse and gig." What
force I what surprising simplicity we have here! Blood-
II arvey, steam- Watt, gravitation. Newton, arc in comparison
to our defining discoverer, nothing, noodles, nobodies, next
of kin to nonentities. Thurtell had the head to conceive, aunt
the moral courage to davalope and declare xgreat social.
truth, involved in a definition which not only remains in.
full force to this day, but which will descend to future
ages an indestructible landmark for the enlightenment of
socioty.—Spoiman.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC jO§iitNALS.

J'tOM Tilts DAILY PAP-MtS YESTERDAY.
(From the Tines )
The Queen's Speech has now been read throughout the
greater part of England, and has abundantly col& med
the graphic description given of it by Sir Robert Peel—
as a document after Talleyrand's own heart, in its capacity
of concealing the thoughts of those from whom it issued.
The country never heard of a Speech so rich in its nee a
tiv • qualities, so peifect in the ert o 7 leaving all unsaid on
which the public were best eutifled to be satisfied, end
which they sere most enxiou= to !cern. Whilst we are
told by Mr. Daniel Amen of the hundreds of thou-
sand; of the Queen's subj eta vie) have sworn them-
selves in to hi.; handed cot.setracy for tearing to pieces
the Act taf Uni el, the Quc n's Miei,eers, as if
dreading to 1 tok the mi:chief or its au heir in the
fare, pass both over without a syllable of notice !
Whilst a rear has been rsging upon our Indiau
froet4r, one of he left events of wh c't was a battle
ssh rein we lest ter: n•v Britiile officers, tand of the other
icsuite of sabli ao d :tailed knowledge has reached
he people of Eeglantt, what says the Fleryal Speech
• this • 1 reei subject? L never rneetions India at
all? Whilst the Sa .e documents cf North America rre
full of the critical question of At • eorth-west frontier, re-
specting which no syllable setisfactory or reassuring, be-
yond hopes that Great Britain will maintain peace by
(jiving way, has yet been uttered in any quarter, offieiel
or unofficial, what says her Nlajesey's Speech to. comfort
Literally, nut one word ! Whilst naval armaments
and expeditions have been carried on extendvely, the
means of the country anticipated, the Sinking Fond seeri-
fiend. 1 toes and taxes have become inevitable, what says
the Speech with reference to our financial condition ? Net
a single word I Whilst former Speeches, during actual
peace, have dwelt with setisfaceoa open the asstrances
from " all " foreign Pursers of their friendly dieposition,
and of their anx;ety to keep at peace with England,
in the opening paragraph of the present speech the
significant term all is omitted. Whilst England has been
threatened, and Europe agitated, by open threats of war-
like measures by one great military Power against Great
Britain and her Aliies.—whiist it avouM have been a natu-
ral and easy method of tranquillizing the public apprehen-
sions, to indicate (had it been true) that the cause for
such alarms bad disappeared, or had even diminished, by
including France among those Pursers which had conveyed
to our Government an expression of their friendly and
pacific spirit towardsCreat Britain, France is in the Speech
passed over by the IA big Ministers, as if she formed no part
of the European Commonwealth, or deserved no notice on
the part of Qaeen Victoria but one of aversion or contempt.
How far it may suit the taste of France to- be put
on a level with Mr. Daniel O'Connell and his repealers,
in a document addressed to the whole civilized world—
hoes far it may comport with the pride of a nation which
has talked so loudly, we might say importunately, about
its honour, and dignity, and offended grandeur-_a little
time may show ; but this we can vouch for—viz., that all
Englishmen whom we have conversed with are hurt, for
the sake of France, at so glaring an omission, and sur-
prised at the inconsiderate levity of such a neglect. Still
a far graver consideration is, that had the existing state of
our diplomatic intercourse with France been such as world
bear a favourable or promising construction, the British
Government could not fail to have seized the opportunity
of so representing it, or so implying its amicable character,
to Europe,

(From the Morning Post.)

The Glebe, in reply to the just anirnadverstons of the
Conservative press on the foolish and mischievous suppres-
sion, in the Queen's Speech, of topics which ought to have
been introduced into that document, has nothing to ad-
vance but the following miserable and shallow argument
ad homines :—" If the document so unmercifully assailed
were really as rich in defects as is asserted of it, how is it
that in neither House, although the Tories ;)osses3 a be-
tided majority in one, and a powerful minority in the
other—how is it, we ask, if the Speech were really de-
ficient in some and erroneous in its other topics, that the
Tories did not move an amendment on the Address,
which was an echo of the Speech, and thus manifest to the
country their superior :acquaintance with its foreign rela-
tions—its colonial dependencies—and its domestic conui-
tion ? That the Tories are exceedingly desirous of exhibiting
their superior capabilities of government will not be doubted.
That a successful onslaught on the Ministry at the very open-
ing of the Session, and on the Address to the Throne, in re-
ply to the Speech of the Queen—which we are again and
again reminded is the composition of her Ministers—would
have been seized on by their hungry partisans as a realiza-
tion of their hapes, as the fulfilment of their confident pre-
dictions, uttered in every form of language during the re-
cess, cannot be denied, and yet they suffered the golden
opportunity to pass by r' We can inform the Globe why the
Tories, although they possess a dechled majority in oce,
and a powerful minority in the other House of P.rrliarnent,
did not move an amendment to the Address, and we are
the more bound to communicate this information as the
inducement to Tory forbearance was one which our Mi-
nisterial Contemporary, from any experience he can have
had of the conduct of its own party when in opposition,
need not be expected to conjecture. It is that the Tories
in Parliament, .having it in their option to achieve
a party triumph over their political opponents, or
to render an important service to their country by
ceenteracting in some degree the mischief which
the imperfections of the Speech from the Throne was cal-
culated to produce, had an instinctive preference for the
latter alternative. That a Whig Journal should neither
understand the force, nor even perceive the existence, of
such a motive, is quite natural, and perfectly in unison
with the invariable conduct of the Whig party when out
of office- Thor defects of the Royal Speech which the
Conservatives in Parliament chiefly censured and deplored
were, the omission of any notice of the state of our rola-
teeee with Foinee, 'and of any censure of the re-
peal agitation in Ireland. The opinion entertained of
the letter omission, not merely by the Conservatives
of Great Britain and Ireland, but by every man in
Great Britain, le whose brZast the spirit of party has
not extinguished every inaely and patriotic feeling, was
well and forcibly expressed' last night in the House of
Commcns by Sir Robert Inglis. It Is the unanimous
opinion of all men, without distinction of party, excepting
only those Who enjoy or hope to reap some private and
rersonal acliantage from the Ministers of the British
Crown continuing to teOeMe as they have hitherto done to
Mr. O'Connell. But between entertaining this opinion
and moving an amendment to the Address, in eersusnce of
it, there is a wide and importaet distinotien. The amend-
ment to be practically useful, must have comprehended
the suggestion of measures for the repression of the Re-
peel agitation, or at leant a direct censure of Ministers
for the encou-agement they have efferded to the per-
sees most Actively engaged in It; and upon guch 4tl
amendment 14,2 Conservatives would unquestionably
have obtained a greet party triumph in recording in its
favour the voter; of an overwhelming, majority in one
House of Parliament, and of a majority within two or
three in the other. The party triumph would hAve
been signal, and if the Conservatives in Parliament for-
bore to seiz- it, it was in the pure spirit of patriotism
that they abgtained, The amendment might have been
feet in the House of Commons by a majority of two or
three; end had the majority been only one, it i 3 qe:te
certain that the repeal agitators in frel4n4 would
have taugist their dupes and victims to regard it ai
an expreo.iion of the opinion of the Ilaus.e of Com-
mons in favour of repeal, and would thus have beer.
I enabled to exttnd the soli: re, and increase the in-
ter sity, of a dangerous andpsreicipus excitement.
( F.'om the Morning Herald.)

Neither the Duke cf Wellington in the Uppar House.,
nor Sir Robert Peel is the lower, would have taken the
pains which they did, %Fon the first night of the Session,
to conciliate the feelings and soothe the temper of France,
if both the one end the other wee not strongly convinced
that the course of our foreign policy &trio; the psst tear
had not bsea sue!: as to anori come just ground of otIone;
to that country. Indeed' Rob:rr Peel, who went more
into the r.:.erits of the case than the illusni.tus Duke, GX-
prrigiy acknowledges that unnecessary aseso of irritation
was given to France by the course whith the diplotnney
relative to the Eastern question took under the au-pines
of
Lord Palmerston. Wooever recollects the view which we
took of, the conduct of our Foreigo Secretary, in the month
of Oc:uber lan:, touching his unnecessarily discourteous
troatment (not to use any harsher term), will Ps' the opi-
nion which tie then expressed, and which, among the Lon-
don, journals, we zneod alone in expros,:ing, fully borne
mit by certain • rissagee in the eile speech of the
Right lion. Baronet at tl:e hard of the Conservetive op-
position, who cannot be accused of a riHrsit ion to cxag.
Berate the errors, or be too severe tip-:n the poliey of
nisnera at any time. T tie conduct et Lord Palmerstun do
the Keeteru worst:on shouli alwnys be consilered in con-
ricelon with sue' preview pelicy of the -Whigs, wnooduriogo
ten years, sssideoustly cunivated, and it was the ;r frequent
boast that they Lad tfenv SO SlieVe3iftl.l —a close an
Berate alliance with F,a,ice. af:W!Jsoluiely essential to the
preservation of fly: peace of Europe. That being so,
' everybody ntuet admit that to justify Lard Palmerston in
stolcienly breaking off a connexion so fang and assidu-
ously cultivated, he ought to be ableto offer such grounds
for abruptly signing the Treaty of the 15th of July
without the participation, or even the knowledge,of France,
as would amount to an overwhelming necessity ; nothing
short of this could justify him or any Britian Minister
in putting the peace of Europe in jeopardy, as he un-
questionably did, and reviving all those ancient feelings of
national animosity in a great and gallant people, which
had all but involved Europe in the cohflagration and calf.
mities of a general war. But Lord Palmerston has not
been able to offer any such grounds of justification—he
has not been able to show any necessity for taking a step
which gave an appearance of capricious levity to the
policy of England, wounded the pride of France, and
endangeredpeace of Europe. Let us see now in
whatw2y thesir
obert Peal treats this subject, alter having
had some months to consider it in all its hearings, and to
form an opinion recommended to the approval of his
judgment and his conscience by all the advantages of de-
liberate and matured reflection. On the question of the
policy at intervention between the Porte and the vassal
Prince of Egypt, the Right lion. Baronet expressly re-
serves his opinion until the production of the documents by
which Government is bound to establish the necessity for
that intervention of which this conntry line not yet ascer-
tained the cast or the consequences. But in regard
to the sort of spirit displayed by our Foreign Secretary
towards France, the documents, or at least the statements
both in crimination end defence, are before the public. It
'would have been better and more satisfactory if there bad
been in reality documents producible in relation to every
step taken in these negotiations. But Lord Palmerston
chose to depart from the old and safe course of conducting
negotiations, by substituting oral communications for
written documents : frir this he received a sharp reproof
from the Duke of Wellington, who said " hedid not know
why it was that, the negotiations had been carried on con-
fidentially and by conversation, rather than in the usual di-
, plomatic manner, by notes." When Lord Palmerston
was a Tory be Was obliged to adhere to the old rules, but
s,ince he became a Whig he has reformed all that, prefer-
' ring for some person or other which the Duke of Welling-
ton cannot divine, the testimony of uncertain tradition to
that of authentic records.

A T " ,„

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The electors of East Surrey must ha up and doing.
Tliey we: e late in takieg the field ; tbe greater is the
for vi4Orous esstien. Their flag i.s.. hoist. d ;
and they have a candidate in Mr. Alcock well qualified to
unite the suffrages of all who deprecate the calamity of a
Tory restoration to power so long abused. The county
representation of England is, generally speaking, ia a
most incongruous and discreditable state. It is neither
with the Government nor the people; it is the party
neitkr of Court nor country. In its policy, the honour
of the Crown and the interests of the nation are alike
disregarded. It chiefly represents an oligarchy, and' a
monopoly. The s!teely independence that once charac.
tensed the yeomanry has, to a great extent, evaporated.
An honourable and stimulating example is required.
The men of East Surrey are in a good position to
make the first advance eowards a change, a great
practical Reform in county representation. Should
they succeed, timid serfs will become trusty yeomen
in the political struggles of other counties. Their
example will be as a trumpet blast, and the main strength
of the Tory battalion will he broken, its heavy horse, that
has so often rode roughshod over the industrial classes,
oath of town and country. The principles of the Liberal
cendidate arc such as may claim the r.upport of all friends
of a sound system of popular education; of all friends of
a protected, honest and independent suffrage; of all friends
of the combination of an Established Church with reli.
g tolerttion and freedom; of all friends of a brood
ref firm basis for representation in an extended franchise ;
and of all friends of that free trade in the produce of the
earth, which is a surer pledge of reinuneration for the far.
mer than any bread-taxing, rent.ralsing (les ice ever invented
by the shoat-sighted cupidity of a dominant class. The
electors of Walsall and Canterbury have motives for exer-
tion equally strong with those shiest should act %erica' the
Surrey freeholders, though of a different kind. The L'he-
eal cause has not only to make an invasion upon the
county representation, but to repel an invasion or
the town representation. The ste•cess of a Tory party in
a borough of not less than ten thousand inhabitants is a
strange phenomenon, indicating a problem to be solved,
and an abuse, somewhere, to be cone steel. Perversion,
coeruption, or delusion, is implied in the fact itself. The
:lateral and entire Liberalism of the town representation
has been acted upon by ail three; by perversion, in the
crganizcd efforts of Toryism to avail itself of the technical
defects of the registration ; by core option, in the whole-
sale application of the sinister influences of intimidation
and bribery ; and by delusion, in the adroit use of such
topics as the baektvardnese of the Whigs to make further
institutional reforms, the pressure of the new Poor-law.
and other points tending to obscure, in the perceptions of
the many, the immense difference bete:eon the presimt and
a Tory Government. Tnrce mouths of a Peel Ministry
would dissipate ell these fallacies for ever. Bat the con-
viction would be purchased at a bitter price.
(From the Globe.)

We have great pleasure in announcing the return, by
a large majority, of Colonel Ferguson, as Member for
the Kirkaldy district of burghs. Our previous infor-
mation led us to anticipate this result, which is creditable
to the good sense and discernment of the constituency. Tne
intrusion candidate has had the fate which beta's intrusion
in Scotland general!y. We regret to learn from our cor-
respondents, that the Cupar agents fOr the Tories, mid
Colonel Lindsay the Tory candidate for the county,
have been in constant communication with Dr.,Bowring
during the. election. " Noscitur a sociis" is a lair
enough maxim in election contests. Thare is a time.
honoured Scottish proverb, " He that will to Cupar,
maun to Cupar." Dr. Bowring has been to Cupar, to
dine with the Tories, and to divide the Liberals and
it is charity to hope that he comes back a sadder and
a wiser man. We shall only say of the state
cif mind which tempted him thither—not that he
was mad to go, but merely, in the local phrase,
Toe state of the poll shows what a wanton
attack it has been on Dr. Bowring's part ; and the num-
ber he has polled. is, we leatn, made up in great part of
Tories, who have been too glad to make him their cut's-
paw, in hopes that he might cause such a split in the
Liberal ranks as would open a door for their advances
on another occasion. It is tliffi,mlt to decide whether
Dr. Box ring, or those who have made use of him, cut
the less enviable figure in this coalition.
(From the Standard.)

We have heard but one opinion of the Queen's
Speech—viz., that it is the mest meagre, cowardly, and
unsatisfactory document that ever Ministers placed in a
Royal hand. We have referred to one of its omissions
in a preceding article, but another has filled the coin-
mcrcial classes with dismay, and all other classes with
disgust—we mean the omission of a reference to
the position of the country in relation to France.
Every one is England exi ected some manly and
dignified, but conciliatory, notice of the subject, and
the pacifically disposed portion of the French people
must look for it with still greater anxiety. It is not,
however, to be found. Lord Melbourne dared no more
open the question in his Cabinet of open questions, than
he dared to challenge Mr. O'Connell in Parliament by
a notice of repeal. The Times has this morning an
able recapitulation of the " negatives in which the
Royal Speech is so affluent," to borrow Dr, John-
son's grandiloquent joke. In one view—a view per-
haps not contemplated by our admirable contemporary
—the list of things wanting may be eminently us:-
ful. The people of France may see that they arc
not singular in the disregard shown by our rulers.
The war in which has cut-se_ mug h,,-th.4 financ s
of the country, though so long declining—even the
threatened dismemberment of the empire, fail :o
for any observation from her Majesty's advisers. France
Las, therelbre, no reason to complain more than our-
set.ves.. Frenchmen too must see. that if our Ministers
have net spoken, the people of England Have-spoken
the language of friendship and respect no - by their
most honoured and most trusted leaders, as they have
been for many months speaking the same language by
their faithful press.
(From the Courier.)

The carrying coal trade for the supply of the metro-
polis and its environs employs some 2,000 vessels, worth
about 2,000/. each on an average. It would be difficult to
divide, from the general argument, the number of vessels
employed, independent of the ordinary trade, under the
rile of the factor ; we have, therefore, assumed our
averages and rates of interest for wear and tear so low
as to allow for any exceptions. The total capital for the
shipping alone would at '2,000 vessels, worth 2,0001.
each, be 4,000,000/. The number of hands employed
in each vessel may average about seven ; the voyages
about eight per year ; -the coals carried about 2,700,000
tons. Now, the detention of the vessels in the general
ratitine being three weeks between Gravesend and the
Pool, the delays of each vessel would he twenty-four
weeks in each year, or nearly one-half spent in worse
than useless idleness, as the vessels have to anchor and
weigh some four or five times to take a hither station in,
the river, until they reach the Pool for uolteling,. The
wear and tear is greater than in moderato weather
at sea, and the. men are dissipating their time and
money, to the disgrace and demoralization of the banks
of the Thames, while their wives and families are suf-
fering privations in the north. No wonder 'Wapping
and Ratcliff exhibit such scenes of iniquity and misery,
while prime is thus nursed by continued pay and con-
tieued weeks of idleness in Merl whose Alpe:ions are so
little above them as to have no moral control whatever.
part of the question of the coal trade as much re-
quires the attention or the parties interested as the ex-
cessire price of. carriage over the first cost of tae coei
If we take the capita! of the ships at four roil
lions, the inteeeee. no that amount fur tWenty-four weeks
of each year would be 92,1001. at five per oent„ to
which add the expense of keeping the men for these
twenty-four unnecessary week., being 14,000 men at
33, a day pay and.preyisiens, would come to 342,H01. ;
and interest on the coals lying in the ships in demur-
rage, say at he s. a ten for 2,000,000 tons, would give
33,615!., with the enormous total, without near and
tear of the, vessels and gear, of 409,71.51„ or nearly
half a million of money absolu'ely wasted in surcharge
from delays alone i t an aetieJe pf surA absolute neces-
sity to all as cod ; and we have here not towelled upon
those oda". items which are incidental to the discharge
and delivery after arrival in the Pool. It must be very
elident, that, with the, present arrangements between
~_the coal-awners iss- the 1541erth curl the factors • here,
much of this excess of freight is unavoidable. •

MONEY MARKET and CITV

(WEDNKSDAY EVENINCf.)
TIME S.—The letters from Manchester state it at very
large orders have been received there from Mexico for
British .‘ throstle-yarn," to be (located within a limited
time, and subjected to a moderato rate cf daty or.ly on
importaticn. This is an important relaxation, though but
a temporary one, of the previously strict law, by which
English spun-yarns have been entirely prohibited in that
country. These orders, if they can be -completed within
the time which has been fixed, will amount to above
200,0001., and have produced some increased activity in
the trade, the attention of the spinners ustolly engaged in
the German and Rusaisn trade bricg directed towards
this -new market. Money had become more easy, and
the bankers were ready to accommodate the spinners and
tredere of the second-class.

Although the quotations for the English Funds have
been throughout the day as nearly as possible the same as
those at the close of btr4iness yesterday, f,r, 'if anything,
were slightly inclined to a fartlier deer, scion, the debates
of last night have, considered by themselves, produced a
favourahlo-imprcision, and it is thought. that bad it not
been for the counteracting effect of the Speech fiorn the
Throne, stocks would have Ilion. The absence of any-
thing in the speeches of the M,mhers of Li:her Mous
th.it could be interpreted into a disrespect for France, and
the general tone Ldoptcd in alluding to that country, what-
ev,A- might ba the different tendency L,f particulat speeches,
have been considered satisfactory, as showing that no ill-
feelingexists in this country, bat that, whatever may
be the opinions as to the foreign policy adopted in re-
ference to the affdirs of the Levant, the desire of peace
is umat.imous. This, it is thought, would have been
sufficient to remove so much of the unfavourable im-
prens produced yesterday as was caused by the omis-
sion of , e
France" in the Speech, especially with the ex.
of Lord Palmerston, that it was cecusicmed by
the notionsait° in
that it would be inconsistent to express regret,
when there had been no diplomatic termination of the in-
tercourse between the two nations. All good effect that
might ha prcJueed from this source is, however, coentcr-
acted -by the parsgraplf sei:ompending. that provisivi
made for exigencies, as the necessity of ra4ing money
seems there to be too plainly expressed for its tffect on
the stock-market to be easily removed. The Speech itself
has been further discussed today, and dissatisfaction is