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LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1846.

Tie labouring classes of the metropolis ought to
feel themselves under very great obligations to the
Bishop of LoNnori for the zealous and persevering
manner in which that Right Reverend Prelate has
advocated their personal, intellectual, and moral im-
provement in relation to the subject of cleanliness.
There is something so truly practical, we may al-
most call it something so truly philosophical, in the
regenerative movement which has latterly been am-
bitioned for the industrial poor, and of which move-
ment the Bishop of LONDON has been the principal
originator, that we regard every additional evidence
of its onward march with a satisfaction of an in-

effable character. We have already so fully expa-
tiated upon the necessity of propagating a love for
cleanliness among the multitude, as a preliminary
step to their more spiritual culture, that any
further dallying upon this question would,
we are willing to believe, be considered as superfluous.
We have demonstrated the absurdity of erecting
museums, and constructing fountains, and endowing
lectureships, and of laying out pleasure-grounds for
the amusement or instruction of the population, when
that population is permitted to continue so massed
and caked-up in the degradation of filth—filth of
body, filth of apparel, and filth of dwelling-house
—as to be altogether precluded from participation in
such elevating studies or such humanizing enjoy-
ments. Let us endeavour to purge away the leaven
of " the earth earthiness" before we attempt to instil
"the heaven heavenliness"—knowledgel Let us col-
lect the diamonds of human intelligence and human
capacity from their circumambient mire, let us re-
move from them that griming of dirt with which
they are tarnished, before we venture upon the more
elaborate task of carving or of polishing! Let us
deprive the satirists henceforth of those scorn-
ful phrases which they have employed for the villi-
fication of the rabble—that rabble which from ages
immemorial, from the antique days of JUVENAL, have
been stigmatised as "swinish," and which humour-
ists of this generation have variously designated the
"unwashed " and the " unsoaped !" Whether we
regard the matter in its physiological applica-
tion, in its tendency to diminish the periodical
mortality, in its power as an instrument
of demoralisation, the cleanliness of the working
classes assumes a greater importance, as a means of
benefiting both themselves and the general CM -
munity, than the superficial obierver would at first
be inclined to imagine. The Right Reverend
Prelate, whose exertions in this cause have
already elicited our applause, has regarded
the matter in this particular light, and
filled with an inward consciousness of the immea-
surable benefits which must result from any sys-
tematic encouragement of this love for cleanliness, he
has permitted no opportunity to escape wherein he
might aid, however slightly, in the acquisition
of such encouragement to the cause. From
all these considerations the petitions just laid be-
fore the House of Lords by the Bishop of LONDON,
calling upon the Legislature to sanction the morale of
this new agitation, have to us a peculiar at-
traction, while the suavity of their recep-
tion by the Peers, and the approbatory addenda
of the Marquis of NORMANDY and Lord
KINNAIRD, render the presentations of those petitions
satisfactory as well as attractive. What the peti-
tioners appear to be peculiarly desirous of obtaining
from their Lordships is simply the permission,
through a Bill, for parishes to borrow certain
moneys on the securities of the rates for the-purpose
of erecting baths and wash-houses, the dimensions
of such establishments being proportionately extensive
with the census of each individual parish, or with the
peculiar destitution into which its inhabitants are
plunged. Their Lordships have, therefore, only one
circumstance to take into consideration before com-
plying with the prayer of these said petitioners, and
that circumstance is obvious enough. Not the pre-
valence of filthiness among the most poorly provided,
and the most prodigiously populated districts, espe-
cially of the metropolis and of the larger cities of
the empire—for that has already been suffi-
ciently proved ! Not the anxiety for such
convenient structures which has spread through-
out these districts—for experiment has eluci-
dated the existence s,f this anxiety ! Not
these or a thousand other similar particulars, but
simply whether there be any stability in this phi
lanthropic speculation. That, we take it, is the only
point of the policy of such an inova-
tion which requires the scrutiny of our
legislators before they award it their
definitive sanction ; and honestly we are certain that
such an investigation will only tend to prove that
these establishments, when once set in operation, will
support themselves—they will have the perpetuation
of their own vitality within them. Liverpool authen-
ticates this assumption, so does Glasshouse-yard ;- so,
also, do the 65,000 persons who have bathed in the
Serpentine alone during the past eight days. We
look for the speedy introduction, and the unanimous
acceptance, of a Bill for the Promotion of Cleanliness.

Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE last night moved an
amendment to the second reading of the Irish Co-
ercion Bill, pursuant to the arrangement that had
been made on Saturday at the meeting which took
place at Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S. The same fatality
which has already occurred on two several occa-
sions during the first reading of the Bill, viz.,
the counting out of the House for want of the
attendance of forty Members, was barely
avoided by the hurrying in of several Members
from the library, refreshment-rooms, and other ad-
joining apartments, while the galleries were clearing
for the purpose of counting the Members present—
the same catastrophe had a second time nearly taken
place on a similar motion, which was prevented by a
like rapid entrance. A stronger proof could not have
been exhibited of the little interest felt by the
Members of the House in the arguments on
the question than the difficulty that existed of
assembling and keeping together so small
a number as that required to constitute a House,
during the discussion of a measure involving so many
serious and important considerations. In fact, the
House had already been surfeited, usque ad nauseam,
with the prolonged discussion which had heretofore
taken place, the several parties had already fully and
entirely made up their minds as to the course which
they would adopt, and the division might have been
taken in the first instance without any difference
in the result. Lord LINCOLN made his first official
speech as Secretary for Ireland in support of the Bill.
His Lordship admitted the unconstitutional character
of the measure, and that it could only be justified by
a stern necessity, by a state of things in which life
and property could not be maintained by any enact-
ments confined within the Constitution. This is the
principle on which the argument must be based, and
the onus probandi rests on the Government seeking
such extraordinary powers to establish a case suffi-
ciently strong to warrant the House in for a time in-
fringing on the liberty of the subject. The Right Hon.
Secretary read a variety of details, and quoted from
the evidence taken under Lord DEVON'S Commission,
but the great majority of the cases cited had occurred
some time before, and were now decidedly too stale
for the required object, and the later ones which were
brought forward were happily not of so fearful a
character, of so harrowing a nature, as those which
had been adduced by Lord ST. GERMANS when
bringing the measure forward in the Lords, or
such as to require extraordinary means for their
suppression. It is not as a punishment for offences
that had already taken place within the disturbed
districts, but as a means of prevention of future out-
rage, that the measure could be sanctioned. If there
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party with which his Lordship is identified have
seldom evinced much interest for the liberties of the
Irish people, and during the former debate on the
subject, it will be remembered that he said, if the
Government delayed the Bill, even a single day,
they would be responsible for the blood of every
man murdered in Ireland. The true motive
by which he was influenced will now be ap-
parent ; he cared not how Ireland was dealt
with, if the corn-laws could still be retained,
nay, if a delay could be interposed before their final
annihilation. And having been defeated in that
object, and the fate of his darling protection virtually

decided, he little regards the particular measure be-
fore the House, or his own recorded opinions thereon,
provided he is in any manner enabled to damage that
Government by whose exertions the monopolists have
been so signally defeated. Such a motive will not
command much respect throughout the nation, or
impress the public with a favourable opinion of the
Noble Lord's qualifications as a Ministerial leader,
should he ever, unfortunately for the country, be placed
in such a position.

Intelligence has been received in Paris from Lisbon
of the dissolution of the PALMELLA Cabinet.

Madrid papers of the 2d have been received.

The contract of the salt-springs of Spain, which is
held by M. SALAMANCA, is on the point of expiring,
and as the Duke of RIANZARES, the husband of
Queen CHRISTINA, is interested in the contract,
which is a most profitable affair, the QUEEN-MOTHER
has actively interfered to procure from the Government
a renewal of the contract. The measure, however,
being prejudicial to the interests of the country, was
firmly resisted by M. MoN and his colleagues,
to the great chagrin of Queen CHRISTINA. This
affair, it is said, had nearly produced another Minis-
terial crisis. Don ENRIQUE was at Bayonne on the
4th of June, having postponed his journey to
Brussels.

MADRID BoLsa, JUNE 2.—The Three per Cents.
were not quoted, but sold privately at 33i for cash,
and 33; for time. The shares of the Bank of San
Fernando were done at 380, and those of Isabel
at 196.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
They confirm the intelligence of the death of the
POPE, which we announced yesterday.

" Yesterday, at six o'clock," says the Journal des
Debats, " M. CAUCHY, Principal Registrar of the
Chamber of Peers, repaired to the prison of the Lux-
embourg, and read to LECOMTE his sentence of con
demnation. LECOMTE listened with the most perfect
tranquillity, and at the conclusion said, 'lt is very
well; I ask but for one thing more—it is to see
M. L'Abbe GRIVEL.' M. DUVERGIER, and
M. L'Abbe GRIYEL, who for the last few days have
had frequent interviews with LECOMTE, joined him
immediately. When the chaplain retired, it became
the duty of the officers of the prison, according to the
regulations, to confine LECOMTE in a straight waist-
coat. He willingly submitted to the regulation. He
never broke silence, except to express his desire to be
revisited by the chaplain. This morning LECOMTE
was again visited by M. L'Abbe CativEL and M.
DUVERGIER. In the afternoon he addressed a petition
to the KING for pardon, in which he expresses the
greatest contrition for his crime. The number of
Peers who voted was 232. It is said that 196 voted
for his condemnation to the punishment of a parricide,
33 for death merely, and three for perpetual imprison-
ment." The Ministers were to deliberate on his case on
Sunday. " The general opinion is," says the Presse,
" that the punishment will be commuted to banish-
ment for life."

Lord COWLEY, the English Ambassador, left Paris
for London on Sunday.
According to the Constitutionnel, 800 marines are
about to be sent to Otaheite and the Marquesas to
recruit the garrisons of those establishments. The
regiment of artillery, several detachments of which
are now in Oceania, will also furnish a new contin-
gent. The troops forming the garrisons of those
islands have been absent three years from France.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow had the honour of
dining with his Majesty the KING of the FRENCH 011
Thursday at Neuilly. his Lordship personally pre-
sented to the KING the Address voted to his MAJESTY
by the Town Council of Glasgow.
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The heat in Paris is intense. The thermometer on
Sunday stood at 86 in the shade.

The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera
on Sunday at 84f. 45c.
Ihe following are the quotations for railway shares:
MARSEILLES, JUNE 3.—Marseilles and Avignon, 885 f. ;
Northern, 747 f. 50c.
LYONS, JUNE s.—Marseilles and Avignon, 870 f. ' • Paris
and Orleans, 1,233 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c.; Lyons,
L36f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 625 f. ; Great Northern, 727 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 8.

Boulogne mad Am ens, 10%—East Indian, %—Luxembourg, IN
—Madrid and Valenta, 114—Orleans and Bordeaux, 10—Paris and
Lyons Constituted, 61/4—Paris and Rouen, 38%.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock this afternoon,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Duke of Wel-
lington, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and most of
the Cabinet Ministers assembled soon after that hour.
HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.--At one o'clock this
day the Park and Tower guns were fired, in honour of her
Majesty's birth-day. The usual inspection of troops took
place this morning, and flags were hoisted in all the public
buildings. The preparations for the illuminations at the
West-end are very general.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

On the opening of the Court this morning, it being the
Queen's birth-day, the judges wore their scarlet robes, and
the Queen's Counsel appeared in their silk robes and coifs.

THE QUEEN V. THE JUSTICES OF DEVON.

Mr. CROW DER, Q.C., appeared in support or an application
for a mandamus to compel the magistrates of the county of
Devon to allow certain items in the account of the
coroner of that county, which they had disallowed.
in Quarter Sessions. The items had beta struck out, on
the allegation that there were no reasonable grounds for
holding the inquests for which the items were incurred.
The Learned Gentleman contended that the coroner was
justified in holding an inquest in all cases where he had any
suspicion that the death was not compassed by natural
means ; and that though the verdict might not bear out the
suspicion, still that did not furnish any reason for disallow-
ing the expense. Having entered into particulars relating
to the items referred to, which he contended were properly
incurred, and having cited several authorities in support cf
his case, he concluded by calling on the Court to grant the
application.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
FARINA V. HOLMES.

This was an action fur goods sold and delivered, tried be-
fore the Under-Sheriff of Middlesex, on Thursday last, when
a verdict was given for the plaintiff for 141. ss. The plaintiff
is an extensive perfumer and vendor of eau de Cologne,
and the defendant a gentleman residing in Albemarle-street.
The defendant, it appeared, ordered twenty-five dozen of
eau de Cologne, which order was forwarded by plaintiff to
Cologne, and the goods were sent shortly afterwards to de-
fendant's agent, and the invoice and dock warrant to de-
fendant himself. The Under-Sheriff, in summing up, said
that the plaintiff had, by the latter act, put it in the power of
the defendant to receive the goods, and his liability, therefore,
was the same as if the goods bad been sent to him in the first
instance. The jury consequently, without a moment's hesi-
tation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount
claimed.

The present application was for a rule to set aside this ver-
dict on the ground of misdirection, and that there was r.o
evidence to go to the jury.
Rule granted on all the grounds.