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LONDON:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1841.

Lord JOHN. RUSSELL last night made his an-
nounced speech on the silent and reserved po-
licy of Sir ROBERT PEEL. After adverting to
our foreign relations, and making a number of
observations on the law of the State of New
York, the Noble Lord, with a candour, of which
Sir ROBERT PEEL took a skilful advantage, ad-
mitted that the appointments made with regard
to Ireland gave him great satisfaction. Lord
JOHN does not expect that Lord ELIOT will in-
troduce Lord STANLEY'S Bill; and that admis-
sion made Sir ROBERT PEEL say that the Noble
Lord had now admitted that he had got over the
difficulty as to Ireland, which three months ago
was described as an ins;uperable bar to the Tories
governing that country in peace. We pry not
into Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motives for this ami-
cable candour, but to the public it will appear as
if Noble Lords and Right Hon. Gentlemen
thought much more of their personal feelings
than of that public good for which they meet to
consult.
Lord JOHN took exceptions at considerable
length to
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy for not at
once meeting and discussing the Corn-law
d. ques-
tion, and dwelt with
much force on the great 1 S-
the decay of -trade, and the tress of the people,
immediate measures to give
necessity of taking
relief to the suffering classes. To all his reasons,
not supported by
which were well urged, la but
any motion, Sir R. PEEL turned a deaf ear, and
entered with a more consequential air than usual
which he thanked Lord
into a party controversy,
• 0-
Jourt RUSSELL' for provoking. If he were to be
an alteration of the
taunted with not proposing
Corn-law after he had been only a month in office,
what could be said of the late Ministry, who had
been five years in office, and had not proposed
any measure till they were left in a minority ?
The Right Hon. Baronet also ransacked their
Budget, mocked at their timber duties, though
he had shown that the alteration in sugar duties
would not have added to the revenue, and
asserted that the free traders who now saw corn
in: ported at ls. duty per quarter, would not ac-
cept the Ss." duty, leaving the fixed duty men
without any support in the country. The Right
Hon. Baronet was loud in his assertion, that he
would not govern the county as the instrument
Of any man's opinion, and the instant he could
not freely act on his own conviction of what is for
the public good he would retire.
Lord PALMERSTON answered Sir R. PEEL in a
very able speech, and cautioned the Tories to
remember that there was a country as well as a
House of Commons, and that their majority did
not represent public opinion. Lord PALMERSTON
convicted Sir R. PEEL of applying the argu-
ments which were directed against an alteration
of the Canadian timber duties, to an alteration
of the Baltic timber dates. The oble Lord
might have added, too, that Sir R. PEEL'S calcu-
lations about the sugar duties omitted the im-
portant element of hope. When the Ministers

proposed their Budget they united an alteration
of the sugar duties, the corn duties, and the tim-
ber duties in one scheme. Had that been car-
ried into effect, the corn trade and the timber
trade would undoubtedly have increased. A
stimulus would have been given to our export
trade—there would have been more employment
for the people—speculation would have been rife
—more corn and sugar would have been used—
and a considerable quantity of foreign sugar
would have found its way into the mar-
ket, adding to the revenue, while the price,
in consequence of the additional demand,
would not have sunk so low as at present. Sir R.
PEEL, however, wonderful critic could see only
the price of sugar in the Parliamentary papers.
Great philosopher as he is, he overlooked the
ingredient of hope, though to the administration
of his Tory predecessors it yielded, in the shape
of lottei ies, a fixed sum yearly to the revenue.
It was well remarked by Mr. VILLIERS, that
trade had been paralyzed by the uncertainty of
commercial men as to the conduct of the Legis-
lature, which began in April to talk about our
commercial regulations, and has talked about
them ever since.

Sir ROBERT PEEL reasoned concerning the
Budget on the facts of this year, as if they would
have been the same had the Budget been
settled in May; and concluded, because trade has
been dull, and the price of sugar low, that
the revenue would not have been increased had
trade been flourishing and foreign sugar abun-
dantly imported. A greater master of fallacies,
a more accomplished advocate, and a less candid,
less truth-seeking statesman that Sir R. PEEL
never spoke in the House of Commons.

One of his statements surprised us, because it
was so contrary to his ordinary wisdom. He
again admitted the deficiency in the revenue,
and the necessity for equalising it with the ex-
penditure; "But I cannot take measures," he said,
in substance, " to remedy the evil till I know the
whole deficiency. There is China you have
put the expense of the expedition in that country
down at 400,0001., but can I be sure that it will not
be four times that sum. Then there is a great
Colonial expenditure. New South Wales
is making a demand to the extent of 900,0001.
New Zealand has drawn bills for nearly
100,0001. Canada has been promised a gua-
rantee for a large sum. lam sure the House
will : see that I must have time to con-
sider all these matters before I attempt to make
a financial plan that shall provide for them all.''
Very true, Sir ROBERT, you cannot provide for
an evil of which you have no cognizance, but
does that preclude you from providing fo.r one
with which you are well acquainted ? Let us il-
lustrate this proceeding by a transaction in pri-
vate life.

Suppose Sir ROBERT'S friend, the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM, were out at elbows, that his ex-
penditure exceeded his revenue, and that he vas
borrowing money every year—suppose, at the
same time, that he had farms mismanaged and
underlet, timber which he could fell, unworked
lquarries and collieries which persons were
anxious to hire—would not Sir ROBERT
recommend his Grace to begin at once to make
the two ends meet? Would he not urge him not
to delay improving his cultivation, raising the
rents of his farms, cutting down his timber, let-
ting his quarries and collieries, and so adding to
his resources, while he improved his property?
To he sure he would; and he would, moreover,
treat his Grace as a great ninny, if his Grace
were to say, " Oh, I cannot take these measures
now, I do not know what will be the amount of
my tailor's bill. My Duchess is gone abroad,
and she may yet draw for 1,0001. more than I
expect, and my bailiff may expend 1001. more
on improvements than I contemplate. No; T
must wait to see the whole amount of all the de-
mands which may possibly be made on me, be-
fore I can take any steps, except to borrow
more money."

Now, that which would be folly in an indi-
vidual can hardly be wisdom in a Statesman.
Our cramped trade, may well be compared to
idle quarries and unworlced collieries—our boun-
ties on slovenly cultivation is a mismanaged
farm—our various exorbitant discriminating
duties which may be easily removed, are great-
masses of timber which may be immediately
cut down ;. but neither these nor any other thing
will Sir R. PEEL do till he has ascertained
what will be the extent of the demands on ac-
count of China and the Colonies. Well did
Lord PALMERSTON observe, if the Right Hon.
Baronet waited for the accounts from China, he
could bring forward no Budget till 184'2, and if
he waited till all his colonial Governors were so
well drilled as never to draw an unanticipated
bill, the Right Hon. Baronet would not propose
any measures before the end, not of the next
Session, but of the next Parliament. Yet these
neaseries of Sir ROBERT PEEL— the arguments
which, uttered by a private individual, he would
treat with scorn, were loudly cheered by the
Tories. Every one of them told on the back
benches, and Sir ROBERT ivas praised by them
for avowing conduct as a statesman, which, were
Lei a private individual, they would say, " Re-
commend him to, the care of his friends."

It seems that the old Banking-house of HOB-
HOUSE; at Bath, has stopped; it appears, too,
by the account of the proceedings of the Bank
of England, at the quarterly meeting the day
before yesterday, that the Bank of England
has been very prosperous this last half-year.
It declared a dividend of thrce-and-a-half per
cent. per annum, and at the siLme time added
a considerable sum to the rest. Whatever beilds
the rest of the community, and whatever befals
oilier joint-stock and private LAnks, the Bank
of England flourishes. Like the landlords, it
seems to thrive as the people starve.

Gratitude is the national virtue of Ireland, and
:he magnificent display of it made by the six

lundred noblemen and gentlemen who on Tues-

day last were present at the national entertain-
ment given to Lord MORPETIT in Dublin, is as ere-

ditable to that country as it is honourable to the
distinguished nobleman who was the object of it.
Fei,v people feel more keenly than the Irish; nor

are they quicker to resent wrongs, than to ap-
preciate, with all the warmth of which they are

cent. per cent. in the course of twenty years to
the wealth of Ireland, What tht. Noble Lord
was prevented from doing to improve the repre-
sentation of Ireland, has more than once
been described by Lord STANLEY and his
friends when seeking in the House of
Commons to disfranchise the sister king-
dom. Nor are the measures which we have enu-
merated all that Lord MORPETH wished to ac-
complish for Ireland. We know that there were
others which the Noble Lord was prevented by
his colleagues from bringing forward, because
they were sensible, not that the measures were
not good and requisite, but that as a Government
it would be in vain for them to think of carrying
them, and that their agitation would but increase
the popular discontent.
We have not space here to enter into any ex-
amination of the speech of the Noble Lord, at
the banquet alluded to, which will be found in
another column. The proceedings at the meet-
ing may, however, convince the Tories that in
attempting to govern Ireland after their usual
fashion they will encounter difficulties for which
they are but little prepared. That it may not be
suspected that any O'CONNELL partiality ap-
pears in the Report, we have taken the bulk of
it, with some slight curtailment, from the
Dublin Evening Mail—the official organ of the
Orangemen of Ireland. The report, therefore—
if a partial one—does not sin on the Liberal side,
and may, on that account, be regarded as cor-
rect by the Tories. The burst of execration with
which Lord STANLEY'S name was received was
not less significant of Irish feeling, than the nine
rounds of applause which followed the cup
quaffed to the health of Lord MORPETH. •

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing adviees from
-Alexandria of the 26th, Constantinople of the 28th,
Smyrna of the 30th, Athens of the 31st ult., and Malta
of the sth instant. The news is not important.
Lord Ponsonby was to leave Constantinople in about
a fortnight, to the joy of the Turks and the Russians,
his allies and friends. Few men in such a station were
ever so unpopular with those with whOm they were
acting.

On the 27th ult. the Sultan and all the Foreign Minis-
ters were present at a review of 6.000 Turkish troops
drilled after the European fashion. It was the first re-
view attended by the Sultan since 1831. The Austrian
Internuncio congratulated his Highness in the name of
the diplomatic body on the soldierly appearance of the
troops. _

Austria has united with France in demanding from
the Porte the recal of British officers from Syria. The
Sultan has complied with the wishes of these Powers,
and orders for the officers to leave that country have been
given. France was jealous of the influence acquired by
these officers among the tribes of the mountains, who
began to regard them as their principal protectors.
The Porte has fixed the tribute of the mountaineers of
Syria at 3,500 purses, or 17,0001. sterling. This tribute
is to be both fixed by the different villages, and collected
by themselves. The evils complained of in the opera-
tion of the commercial treaties, which are to extend to
Syria, are to be carefully inquired into and remedied.
The state of Egypt is satisfactory. Mehemet Ali
allows the Fellahs one-fourth of the produce of their
lands. Ibrahim Pacha grants a third to those who oc-
cupy his domains.

Yhe Bey of Tunis is to escape fur the present On
vengeance of the Porte. Askar, Paella of Tripoli, has
incurred the displeasure of the Sultan by his cruelty
towards British subjects.

From France and Spain we have no political news
apart of the already threadbare affair of the attempted
assassination of the Duke d'Aumale.

We call the attention of our readers to the
brief account of the great meeting held at Man-
chester on Thursday. We learn from various
sources that it was the most decisive demonstra-
tion ever made in that populous, wealthy, and
influential town, and that, with very few excep-
tions, the united inhabitants call upon Parliament
to take their great and increasing distresses
into immediate consideration. The cold an-
nouncement of Sir ROBERT PEEL last evening
will add fuel to the flame. Every independent
city and town throughout the country will imitate
the example, and demand as a right that the
men who have forced the Free Trade Government
prematurely out of office shall not mock a
starving people by idle words and selfish delay.
Now is the time for action. If the people do
their duty the Tory Cabinet must obey them.
The Tories have yielded often, and they shall
yield again.

PARMIAMENTI32,2%
Mr. Martin, in the Hotise of Commons last night, gave
notice of a tnotion for an address to put down privateering.
On Sir Robert Peel moving the House into a Commit-
tee of Supply, Lord John Russell objected at consider-
able length to the policy of the new Ministers, particu-
larly in not making known their plans as to the Corn-
laws.

Sir Robert Peel defended his own conduct by finding
fault with the conduct of his predecessors, and seemed
to think that he was exonerated for not proposing an
alteration in the Corn-laws, because the late Ministers
had not done it for five years..
Lord Palmerston happily exposed several of Sir Ro -
bert's mistakes. The debate which ensued was animated
by the bold and emphatic language of the free traders
and the nettled retorts of Lord Sandon and an unknown
county representative. It was shared by several
Members and lasted the whole evening. Lord John
Russell made no motion, he only made a speech. Mr.
Fielden moved a resolution, setting forth the distress of
the manufacturers, and declaring that Parliament ought
not to be prorogued without inquiring into it. His
motion was negatived by 149 to 41. The House went
into a Committee of Supply, and agreed to several votes.
It was then adjourned.

The ordinary French Journals of Wednesday
have arrived.

Punlac OPINXON.
The Morning Post calls upon the " tyrant majority "
to laugh down Lord John Russell this evening when he
urges the Government to take steps without delay to re-
lieve the alarming distresses of the people. Was lan-
guage so atrocious as this ever used by any Radical
print, or even by any of the heartless nobles and im-
moral priests of France, at the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion ? These are the words of our Contemporary, who
prides himself on being the representative of the gentler
sex in the' high walks of civilised life :—" We perceive
by our report of what took place last night in the House
of Commons, that Lord John Russell intend; to make a
speech to-night. But we fear' we must infer, from the lan-
guage of the Noble Lord, that he does not intend to con-
clude his threatened speech with any motion which he
will venture to submit to the test of a division. This
is matter of regret. We should like to see Lord John
taking the sense of the House of Commons upon a mo-
tion in unison with the notice he gave last night, so far
as that notice is intelligible. • It is pretty clear, however,
that the leader of the Opposition will not do so, unless
he should find that Ministerial Members, from overween-
ing confidence in the strength of their own party, should
have overlooked the constant necessity of watching the
manouvres of the outs, and, by their absence have given
Lord John a chance of dividing without incurring the
ridicule of the country.E very supporter of Sir RlPeel's Go—
vernment who has not a pair ought to be present to-night,
if it were only to show Lord J. Russell how insignificant
a person he is, and of how insignificant a party he is now
the leader. Upon the merits of the question which the
Opposition leader means to submit to the House to-night,
it is unnecessary that we should say a single word.
He is' to find fault with the Members of her Majesty's
Government, and with their distinguished leader, for
that they having been in office something less than a
fortnight, during which time they have had to obtain
the renewal of their representative characters as Mem-
bers of the House of Commons by an appeal to the
suffrages of their constituents, are not prepared now
during a necessarily short Session of Parliament to bring
forward permanent measures of domestic policy, upon
which it took Lord John Russell and his colleagues
eleven years to make up their minds—if any body is
generous enough, to pay them the gratuitous compli-
ment of supposing that they ever made up their minds at
all. We expect that Lord John will be laughed down to-
night, as any person exhibiting the effrontery of which
he has given notice, ought certainly to be, in an assembly
of respectable and intelligent men.
The Morning Chronicle has the following remarks on
the same fearful subject :—" The manufacturing districts
are all in motion to prevent the prorogation of Parlia-
ment until some measure shall have been adopted for
relieving the distressed state of trade. We find by the
communication of our Birmingham Correspondent that
a requisition to the Mayor to memorialise the Queen not
to prorogue Parliament has been signed by many of the
most respectable and influential merchants and manu-
facturers in that town. There, as in every other manu-
facturing town, the worst consequences are anticipated
from the indifference to the distrevses of the people,
implied in the abrupt prorogation of. Parliament. At
Walsall a numerous meeting was held on Wednesday,
at which a petition to her Majesty was agreed on,
praying her not to prorogue Parliament till both
Houses shall discuss the free trade recommendations in
the Royal Speech, and especially the foreign trade in corn.
Upwards of one hundred signatures were yesterday at-
tached to a requisition for a meeting of the great ward
of Farringdon Without, to prevent the prorogation.
These are but the precursors of the coming storm. Sir
Robert Peel will find that millions of starving people are
not to be trifled with. It may suit his convenience,
and gratify the inclinations of his followers, to postpone
till the spring the consideration of the measures to which
the people look for their salvation, but dearly will he
purchase the convenience. The capital of the manufac-
turers is rapidly disappearing.. Their "all drags down
one banker after another; and the people, without em-
ployment and without food, are to be deprived also of
hope! As Mirabeau said, when a national bankruptcy
was mooted, the yawning gulf will be filled up. Let the
millions be true only to themselves, and he must abandon
his intention."

The Moniteur contains the following:—"By an ordon-
nance of the 9th instant, the King has appointed the
Count de Sainte Aulare Ambassador Extraordinary to
her Britannic Majesty; the Count de Flahaut, Ambassa-
dor to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and
Bohemia; and M. de Salvandy Ambassador to the Queen
of Spain." The Count de St. Aulaire has already set off.
The 7 emps says :—" Marshal Soult has returned
from Meudon to reside for the moment at the Ministry
of War. The Duke d'Aumale and Lieutenant-Colonel
Levaillant left by the Garden of the Tuileries, in uni-
form, and on foot, arm in arm, to pay a visit to the
Marshal yesterday morning."

Of the miscreant PAPPARD we find the sub-
joined account in the Gazette des Tribunaux :
Pappart, who is only twenty-seven years of age, has
already undergone more than four years' imprisonment
for various offences, and, therefore, it is highly impro-
bable that he has served the usual period either in the
17th or any other regiment. In 1834, Pappart, who is
called the Albinos, from the whiteness of his hair, eye
lashes, and brows, received his first sentence of confine-
ment for a robbery at Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and again
for a similar offence, being detained in all five years in
prisOn. He did not come to Paris till 1839, and was ent-
ployed by. several masters by all of whom he was re-
marked tor his extreme irascibility and brutality.
During a quarrel in a public-house, at Bercy, he
wounded a man with a knife, and suffered in conse-
quence another imprisonment. The woman with whom
he lived, and who has a child by him three months old,
had suffered so much from his violence that, when she
heard of his arrest and its cause, she said, am sorry
for the Duke d'Aumale if he is wounded, but I shall at
last get rid of this wretch.' The preliminary examina-
tions are going on. Yesterday, Baron Pasquier and the
Duke Decazes went to the Conciergerie, and remained
more than an hour."

The National publishes a letter from Clermont, of the
12th inst., in which it is asserted that the rioters having,
in the affair of the 9th, thrown stones at the troops, a
squadron of dragoons, which had received . orders to
charge, sheathed their swords; but that the voltigeurs
of the 16th Light Infantry, on the order of a Commissary
of Police, fired upon a crowd, in a great measure com-
posed of women and children, and that three of the per-
sons on whom they fired were shot dead.

The Morning Advertiser animadverts in , the same
strain to this wretched and wicked attempt to put off the
evil day:—",Now, therefore, is the moment for the people
to support the late leader of the House of Commons.
He. calls for immediate attention to their claims ; let
that call be supported by addresses to the Throne from
every city, town, parish, and borough in the kingdom,
praying her Majesty not to prorogue•Parliainent till the
complaints and sufferings of the people receive the due
consideration of the Legislature. When Sir Robert al-
leges that he has not made up his mind on such subjects
as the Corn-laws, the Poor-laws, the Factory-laws, and the
means of providing for the financial wants of the State, he
at once acknowledges his incapacity as Premier? A
little while since he refused to prescribe until regularly
called in, and now that `he is called in, he delays the ex-
pression of his opinion on the plea of not having made
up his mind. Quackery itself could not require a more
perfect illustration. Let any impartial man answer
to himself the simple question:—;ls the man who has
not yet made up his mind on the Corn-laws, the Poor
Laws, the Factory Question, or the mode of providing for
surplus expenditure, fit to be the Premier of Englund?'
Sir Robert must have come to some conclusions on these
subjects, ana his silence can proceed only from the fear
of the storm of indignation which he knows the expres-
sion of his opinions must excite. By postponing his day
of trial till February, he merely, like a conscious crimi-
nal, speculates on the theory of chances. It is now for
the people to exert themselves against the possibility of
their rights and interests being at that time made
thoroughly subject to the oligarchic dictation which the
Peel Ministry is about to prepare for them."
The Herald describes the plan of the Premier as ab-
solute wisdom :—" Sir Robert Peel has realised our ex-
pectations. He has acted as a wise and prudent Minis-
ter ought to act. To have rushed on the consideration
of all those great topics of excitement raised by the
Whigs to save themselves from the indignation of the
country, without due consideration as a Government,
would have been the most unwise and foolish expedient
his Administration could have adopted. Sir Robert
Peel and his colleagues are in power because the nation
confides in their ability and integrity ; but haste and
precipitation on their part would have shaken that con-
fidence. They have saved the empire from the curse of
Whig legislation ; that is ample service for one session.
The Times, though not so heartless as the Post,
ap-
proves of the dilatory course proposed by Sir Robert
Peel not, however, w thout evident misgivings as to its
consequences. The sneers interspersed throughout its
r mark refers to a speech made by Mr. Macauley,in
which he described the deplorable condition of the
country when the Tories fled from-office in 1830. "Let
the British nation read the statesman-like declaration of
his future policy which Sir R. Peel has of late frequently
made, and never more cautiously and prudently than
last night, and decide how far this portion of the pre-
diction is in progress of completion. But he went on,
filled with the present God,' and' predicted, that they
would return to a situation, in which they could stand
only by crushing and trampling down public opinion,'—
they, who have been returned by the omnipotent force
of public opinion, which has been at •once the cause of
their success, and is, thank God, the reward of their
victory. And the second-sighted seer concluded his
awful denunciations—never were words more full of I ad
—by declaring, that if they fell from that situation,
they might in their fall drag down the whole frame of

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IP, 1841.

society.' What mischief they may thus accomplish is
beyond our power, for we were born south of the Tweed,
to divine ; but it is a consolation for us to know at pre-
sent, that the fundholders are not yet in dismay—the
peasantry are not yet in insurrection—and our. most fer-
tile counties are not yet lighted up with the fires of in-
cendiaries.' Whether the lovers of license and enemies
of order may not deem it necessary to have those fires
re-lighted, with a view of getting up the steam'
against the present monopolists' of power, is a ques-
tion on which some doubt may be entertained by those
who look to the recent proceedings at Manchester, and
to the threatened proceedings at Southwark and
other populous places. But, though there may
be room for doubt, there is none for ap-
prehension, much less for dismay. The groat bulk of
our population is too thoroughly imbued with the con-
viction that liberty is peace, that liberty is order, to be
seduced into acts of outrage by self-seeking professors
of patriotism, who proclaim in our market-places, like
Jack Cade and his rable rout, that there shall be in
Envland seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny.' But
if by any turn in public affairs, which it is impossible at
present to anticipate, the . evils of insubordination and
anarchy should appear to threaten the country, it is en-
couraging to reflect that we have statesmen now at the
helm who know how to protect and how to defend our
beloved Sovereign, and all the time-hallowed institutions
of the land, against the desperate assaults of their reck-
less violence."

The Kent Herald urges that, if the Liberals do not
bring forward an opposing candidate to Sir Edward
Knatchbull, of which at present there is only a rumour,
list they will nevertheless not fail to attend the nomina-
tion and require from the would-be representative of
Kent on what principles the Government, of which he
is a Member, proposes to rule the country. It will be
worth while to witness the Paymaster wincing from the
test. We hope he will he asked whether Ministers pro-
pose to adhere to the sliding scale and the present rate
of " protection" to agriculture, or will follow on the doc-
trines of free tram commenced by Huskisson under a
Peel and Wellington Administration. He must be asked
too what will the Tories do with the New Poor-law ?
Will they mitigate its severity, and by consequence in-
crease the Poor-rates which fall mainly on the land oc-
cupier, or will they, now they are in office, uphold that
which in opposition they, for a factious purpose de-
nounced ? An inquiry may also be made as to the mode
in which the Right Honourable Paymaster, the great op-
ponent of Catholic Emancipation, proposes to deal with
the Emancipated Catholics. Will he act on his own
Anti-Catholic opinions, or succumb to Sir Robert, the
emancipator, whom he formerly opposed ? Will he,
the professed champion of the Church,, act cordially in
unison with Lord Stanley, the demolisher of ten Irish
Protestant Bishoprics ? Will his answers satisfy his
clerical friends in East Kent ? In short there is no
limit to the torture which the applied question might put
him to.

COIV/111.7jRCIA.Xe Emronnx.

The inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Without
have addressed a requisition to Sir James Duke, M.P.,
to call a meeting for the purpose of petitioning her Ma-
jesty against a prorogation of Parliament till some mea-
sures are adopted for relieving the distresses of the
country.