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worshipped since that time by the name of " Notre
Dame de la Vietoirc," attraeed thouslnds of persons
who hail con-;e on pilgrimage from the surrounding
country. The inhabitants of the interior classes had
spared no expense to enhance the splendour of the fetes,
and many hundred children represented in the .proces-
sion the fathers of the Church, the principal male and ,
fcmtle saints of Paradise, the patriarchs, &c. All were
bLautifully dressed, and some with the most dazzling,
magnificence. The young ladies represented the Queen'
of Heaven under the various titlei applied to the Virgin.
They wore long velvet cloaks, the trains of which were
borne by very little angels. One of the daughters of
Baron de Pira, wore a diadem of complete regal a'tire,
which cost, as we are assured, 10,000 francs. It would
be difficult to form.an idea of the imposing appearance
of the procession. In order to protect the procession
from the crowd, some strong men were ranged on each
side, holding; ropes at curtain distances on the whole
line which it was to pass, so that perfect order was
maintained. _ _

AusTnia. MERAN, OCT. 6.-111 s Majesty the King of
the Belgians pa-sed only five days at Botzen, and spent
the remainder of the time apportioned to his visit to the
Tyrol, in a closer inspection of the environs -of Meram,
w hich he traversed for the most part on foot, and by his
cheerful condescensi-li gained the hearts of all who ap-
proached him. his ,Mejtsty was s‘i much delighted with
Passer that it is probable that be will make a lor:ger
stay on some future occasion.
His 111.1jesty left Meram yesterday, and proceeded
across the stilterjoch to Como, from which place he will
return, without much delay in Switzerland, to his own
dominions.
STIITGARD, OCT. 9.—The Grand Duke Constantine
departed fur Russia at an early hour this morning, after
a stay of sixteen days.
DRESDEN, OCT. :2.-- According to a Nuremburg
correspondent, the prospects of the completion of the line
of the Bavarian and Saxon Railway, in the Saxon territory,
are most unfavourable. Of the required sum of five or
six millions beyond the first eitimate given, not a tenth
part has been raised by means of subscriptions on shares
which should have a prior claim, notwithstanding the
success of the line from Leipsic to Reichenback, which
yields a return of 4 and 4i per cent , and is about to
commence a reserve fund. Tha workmen employed on
the bridges in the valleys of Detsch and Miter, about
3,000 in number, have lately left the works, because their
wages had been stopped, and the line has now been
wholly abandoned. The Government, alone, which is
pledged in such cases to render assistance, can complete
this railway. It is reported that the States are shortly
to be summoned, to deliberate upon this point.

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NEWMARKET SECOND
WEDNE,DAY NIGHT.—LATI
11:GESIIIRE STAKLS.—Even

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OCIOBER MEETING.
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1 agst Sting

1 agst Lad Wildair
1 agst Red Robin—t

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25 to 1 agst Best Bower
25 to 1 agst Evenus
30 to 1 agst Garry Owen—t
30 to 1 agst Vanish
30 to 1 agst Finvaragh
33 to 1 agst Laundrymaid
40 to 1 agst Terrier

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25 to 1 agst Refraction
50 given for the call of 4,000 to 1,000 about Alarm on the
day of the race.

900 to 100 laid several times against Alarm winning this
race and his match with Oakley.

DERBY.
8 to 1 on the field.
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A r.E.i VAIS.

Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Exeter.
Earls, of Strad broke, Chesterfield, Albemarle, Oxford,
Sandwich, Strathmore, Euston, Spencer, Glasgow, Miltown,
Uxbridge.
Countesses of Albemarle arid Chesterfield.
Duds, C. Manners, G. 31annere, W. I'owlett, G. Bentinck,
S. OsLorne, Somerton, C: Fitzroy, F. Fitzroy, Duncannon,
Clifton.

Count Bathyany.
Sirs, J. Hawley, J. B. Mill, M. Farquhar, and 11. Mild•
may.

,
General and Mrs. Grosvc nor, Colonels Peel, iiornby, and

Synge.
Honourables, H. Forester, H. Pitt, G. Fitzroy, F. Villiers,
IT. Rous, E. M. Mostyn.
'M ' essrs. Mime, Lowther, Dclme Ratcliffe, S. Stanley, J.
Stanley, Greville, Graham, Jaques, Cockerel!, Magennir,
Higgins, Ouseley Higgins Crommelin, Gully, Drinkald,
Balfour, Mytton, Merrick, Neville, Lloyd, Copeland, Osbal-
degton, Campbell, Collett, Newton, Cjx, Batson, Powell,
*Waddington, Payne, W. Payne, Puleston, &c.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TUE "MORNING PAPERS CF THIS DAT.
TIMES.—The sententious preclamations of the tele-
graphs have at length struggled through the heavy and
ominous clouds which interposed themselves between
MArid and Neuilly, and Louis Philippe has been au-
thentically informed that the Duke de Montpensier has
been married to the Infanta of Spain. Such is the bare
and frigid announcement. Perhaps, his Majesty now
conceives that the victory is won, and that his family
will gather in the glittering spoils, and revel in the cap-
tured city long after the passing jealousy of an ally and
the envious cavils of a neighbour have sunk into silence
and oblivion. Sent tanti. It is worth a little discredit
and some disturbance to have another chance of level-
ling the Pyrenees and doubling the dynasty of Orleans.
The ides of March are come. Before they are past we
shall see a little more clearly what is to be the cost of
the prize. Already is misfortune augured from the boding
incidents of a solemnity which should have made the year
a jubilees. The Spanish Queen and her sister should have
been dowers d with the hearts of their people; not a voice
should have been heard but that of favour, and not a coun-
tenance seen but that of joy ; liberated captives should
have 'milked the national holiday ; and the true and
tried allies of Spain should have sent their representa-
tives to the altar to carry the combined congratulations
of Europe. What has been the reality? A secret and
suspicious negotiation, with rumours of violence and
symptoms of freed, liss been terminated by an abrupt
and unblessed aleance. The marriage of an Infanta has
been compassed and concluded under circumstances
which no Castilian noble would tolerate in his own
family. Amidst the sullen silence of an offended people,
environed by cavalry and guarded by cannon, the intru-
sive bridegroom has traversed the streets of his newly-
found capital, throegh a crowd whose most friendly
feeling was indifference, and whose most innocent senti-
ment was inquisitiveness. No sound of welcome saluted
his cars or cheered him into momentary confidence.
The energy of an unscrupulous Government contrived to
suppress disgust, but it could not supply acclamations.
Arrests instead of amnesties characterised this sinister
festival of a nation ; the marriage of a Princess has
been seen to crowd the prisons with her sister's sub-
jects. From the ill-starred ceremony the friends of
Spain stood coldly aloof, and the representative of
her truest ally and surest supporter withdrew from
the scene, after having vainly tendered the amicable
remonstrances of his country against the contemplated
contract. What will come of a bargain thus ominously
struck—thus stripped of the joys and gratulations of
such solemnities, and completed amidst such dark prog-
nostics of impending evil? The political and natural
horizons were black and overcast as at one of those mar-
riages which, in heathen fable, used to entail miseries
and bloodshed on innumerable generations ; and not
even the fatal ,vtedding of Marie Antoinette was more
gloomily characterised than these precipitate nuptials of
a helpless Princess. Superstition was perhaps required
to infer massacres and ruin from the fall of a scaffold
and the deadly struggles of a crowd ; but the most sober
prudence can only augur conflicts and convulsions from
an outraged people, an estranged ally, an enslaved court,
and a detested intruder. Already ie the unknown issue
of a marriage, which should have supplied reversionary
heirs to the Crown, ignored by that Power to whose
friendly aid both Crown and Constitution owe so much;
et there is joy and gladness at Versailles, as if
forty years had not taught them to dread the tempera-
ment of Spain. It might be imagined that the re-
cords of 1808 were forgotten or inaccessible, so little
is learned from the lesson which they so loudly teach.
Indolent apathy might then, perhaps, have been
mistaken for popular acquiescence ; but such a blunder
is strangely simple now. It was amidst the apparent in-
difference of carelessness or content that the French co-
lumns were pushed across the Pyrenees, and established
in the frontier fortresses, while the partition of Portugal
was put forth as a transparent pretext for the occupation
of Spain. It was without question or interruption that
aeries and Ferdinand continued their unbecoming
arrels, and tossed their neglected kingdom for arbi-
tration or acceptance into the hands of the wily ruler of
France. Not a murmur reached the guard-rooms of the
arrogant Joseph, when the ninety-one notables had con-
veyed to him, as he fondly conceived, the peaceable and
entire possession of the monarchy of Spain. Nev:Aeon
had stronger grounds of confidence than Louis Philippe;
for Charles was an idiot, and Godoy was a fool ; and if
the ambitious Corsican thought that Spaniards would
willingly acquiesce in a Monarch and Constitution
of his gift, he might have been, more readily par-
doned for forgetting 1706, than can King Louis
Philippe be for forgetting 1808.. A week trans-
formed apathy into insurrection. A flame, the most
fierce and violent, burst forth instantaneously from ashes
under which scarce a spark was thought to smoulder.
Arragon, Navarre, the Asturias, Biscay, and the Cas-
tiles, successively or simultaneously proclaimed their
spirit and their strength, and not a link was wanting
in a chain which encompassed the French intruders
with the vindictive hostility of an insulted nation. Spain
seems to fascinate the house of Orleans by an hereditary
law. Scarcely had the first uxorious Bourbon been se-
cured in his palace by the ill-merited loyalty of Castile,
than the Regent tampered with Stanhope for its transfer
to his own branch, or at least for its partition ; and King
Louis Philippe may, perhaps, recal the hour when he
sailed with a Sicilian kinsman to Gibraltar in pursuit of
this favourite prize, with somewhat different ideas of
English interference from those professed at present.
A few months will now probably show us how far he
has succeeded in a feat which foiled the undying ambi-
tion of Louis le Grand and the unexampled might of
Napoleon ; and what is the real value of the spoil for
which he has not hesitated to imperil a thirty years'
peace and convulse the relations of Europe.
POST.—It seems to be generally admitted among the
physicians of the mind, that there are intellectual as well
as physical epidemics, and that the human understand-
ing has its influenzas as well as the human body. Fully
appears to be as catching as the measles—any one gen-
tleman who may
beinsane upon some point of " social
improvement," has only to inoculate the brains of
his neighbours, to cause
the major part of the commu-
nity to take the mania kindly, and to go as stark staring
mad upon the subject as himself. A little time ago the
enlightened British public caught, the railway fever, and
everybody was delirious about " junctions," " exten-
sions," and " directs ;" but being under skilful hands,
the fever, as usual, was allayed by copious phlebotomy,
or a considerable letting of the vital specie from the
breeches pocket, and it. was found that, as in the well-
known case of Nicola', the Italian bookseller, the
bleedin,g bad the effect of dissipating the illusion.
The last new mental malady is an eruption of clubs.
One or two " noble institutions" have already broken
out, and the streets seem likely in a short time to be
covered over with a severe rash of cockney Parthe-
nons, Palladiums, Athenaeums, and other Bow-bell
temples of wisdom and boiled beef. The clerks and
shopinen of the metropolis, are to be fed and philoso-
phised at cost price. alley are to have three courses of
fish, flesh, and fowl, and a course of scientific lectures
into the bargain, on the most reasonable terms ; and, so
that no time may be lost, the mind is to be feasted with
the body. A professor of hydrostatics is to come in with
the soup—a lecture on ichthyology to be served up with
the fish—and a popular discourse upon comparative
anatomy to lend all the relish of currant jelly to the
mutton. Consequently we may entertain hopes of
shortly seeing the day when Euclids shall measure oat
yards of flannel on geometrical principles, when New-
tons shall calculate the gravity of our accounts at our
bankers, and Bacons oblige us by handing us the copies
of our writs. The richest, the raciest, the summa
stadia of all, however, is a project for the construction
of a series of social Chateaux en Espagne, given in a
paragraph now going the circuit of the papers, and the
first stone of which appears to have been }aid in the
brain of some sapient correspondent of the Builder,
who seems to possess a fine lath-and-plaster facility for
running up castles in the air. The atmospheric archi-
tect puts forth a plan for what he calls " Family Club
Chambers," by which he proposes that the future resi-
dences of the middle classes should consist, like Geefge
Coleman's fat gentleman, of several single houses rolled
into one. He is anxious to consolidate the domiciles, as
well as the funds, of the London gentry, and to locate a
different establishment on each different floor ; or, in
other words, to run up what he calls "a palace" several
families high, and so to found throughout the metropolis
a number of little communities of " flats." But the
gentleman cackles so eloquently on the subject, that, in
order to allow him the opportunity of saving the British
Capitol from the hands of the barbarians, we will give
his own version of the scheme :
" FAMILY CLUB CHAMBERS. That the union of
several private residences under one roof would improve
the architecture of London, is unquestionable. If it
were properly carried into effect, we might live to see
palaces erected for the accommodation of the middle
classes, instead of interminable rows of mean dwellings,
which depress the spirits of all who behold them. The
system would also be most advantageous in preventing
the inconvenient extension of the metropolis."
So that " those interminable roes of mean dwellings"
which constitute the localities of Russell, Eaton or Bry-
anstone-squares, which we believe were erected for the
accommodation of the middle classes, but from the con
templation of which we must confess we never expe-
rienced that "depression of spirits" which the aerial
builder mentions, are, we suppose, to be horizontally
ar condensed,rivea t tandthe
alt
altitude
of
the perpendicularlybra ee elongated, ns
stucco
Mont Blanesd until they
ysodem- and
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wwhmicchh
are
eanokf
cotuhresefitlobetrhte eanetnr.aariziltdoerH,
inspiriting to behold, and must be so healthy to ascend.
This arrangement certainly might have the effect of
" stopping the inconvenient extension of the metropolis"
spoken of ; but though it might prevent London from
growing a Daniel Lambert in bulk, we fear that it
would be the cause of the buildings becoming O'Briens
in height.
HERALD.—We are free to confess that we have
much greater expectations of Lord Cottenham as a law
reformer than we ever entertained of Lord Lyndhurst.
The last-mentioned Noble Lord occupied the great seal
for the third time from 1841 till the middle of the pre-
sent year; and though no man was better aware of the
evil of the monopoly of the sergeants than the Noble
and Learned Lord, or knew better the ill effects of
choking up the approach to one of her Majesty's superior
courts,—or more sardonically laughed at the folly of
maintaining, in the nineteenth century, the usages and
customs of the twelfth and thirteenth,— or more stoutly
maintained the propriety and necessity of Lord Broug-
barn's efforts to open the Common Pleas, than Lord
L 3 ndhursa—yet such waf the uncontrollable laziness of
his nature—such his insentient and careless character--
that lie never made for five long years the slightest
effort to repair a state of things which was operating
alike to the injury of the Bar and Bench, and—what
was of far more consequence than either— to the great
injury and oppression of the suitors frequenting her
Majesty's courts of common law. Somewhere about,
the middle of the month of July, we believe, the great
seals were delivered to Lord Cottenham, and on the 18th
.of August he had drawn up and passed through Parlia-
ment the 9th and 10th Vict. c. 54, entitled "An Act to

extend to all Barristers practising in the Superior Courts
at Westmin,ler the Privileges of Sergeants-at law in the
Court orCommon Pleas." .As this Act is a model of
brevity and clearness, and a full measure of justice to
both branches of the profession, and to all suitors, we
transcribe it in- ertaiso, in eider that its provisions may
be thoroughly known :
" Whereas it would tend to the more equal distribu-
tion and to the consequent dispatch of business in the
superior courts of common law at Westminster, and
would at the came time be greatly for the benefit of the
public, if the right of barristers-at-law to practise, plead,
and to be heard extended equally to all the said courts;
but, by reason of the exclusive privilege of sergeants-at-
law to practise, plead, and have audience in the Court of
Common Pleas at Westminster during term time, such
object cannot be effected without the authority of Par-
liament: Be it therefore enacted by the Queens most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords spiritual end tempera!, end Cranmons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, that from and after the passing of this Act all
barristers-at-law, according to their respective rank and
seniority, shall and may have and exercise equal rights
and privilege of practising, pleading, and audience in the
said Court of Common Pleas'.at Westminstor with the

said sergeants-at-law; and it Oita! be lawful for the jus-
tices of the said court, or any three of them, of whom
the Lord Chief Jusice of the said court shall be one, t
make rules and orders, and to do all other things neces-
sary for giving effect to this cnactment."
That this measure will not only, in the language of
its preamble, tend to the more equal distribution but to
the consequent dispatch of business in the courts at
Westminster, there can be no manner of doubt. For

the last five years the Court of Queen's Bench has been
overwhelmed with a mass and multitude of .business

which no five—or probably no ten judgel—im her
Majesty's dominions could effectually get through, so
as to leave no arrears at the end of the term, or, if you
will, at the end of the judicial year. Some idea, and
that a faint one, of the increasing bulk and importance
of the business, may be formed from the fact that one
of the volumes of the Term Reports, which in the days
of East—i. e., from 1800 to 1812—used to amount to
about 550 pages, now, in the days of Adolphus and
Ellis, amounts to the astoundin4 number of 1,080 and
1,105 pages. The cases of parish law, and involving
decisions on the new Poor-law Act, have increased

tenfold since the days of East—while cases of corpora-
tion law have, since 1832 or 1833, increased in a nearly
equal ratio. Railroads, teo, have brought in their
train_ (we mean no pun) a new, i.istinct, . and very
fruitful class of cases, altogether unknown to
the old law; and unle:s each one of the three courts
of common law perf*rms a nearly equal share of
labour, the engine of justice, to make use of a railroad
illustration, will be altogether at a stand-still. The idea
of " exclusive privilege" to practipe and plead in a par-
ticular court can, in the present day, only be defended
by the possession of superior learning, astuteness, and
aptitude—and we have yet to learn that any one of the
twenty-seven sergeants, or sergeants' counters, as they
are called in " Horne's Mirrour," possesses a greater
aptitude than any competent " apprentice" or " utter
barrister" in Westminster Hall. Whether the black

patch on the top of the wig 'or the purple gown of the
sergeant, described thus by Jekyll,
" Their purple garments come from Tyre, -
Their arguments go to it,"
confers on him any extraordinary capability, we leave to
be determined by the learned brother who published the
ease of the sergeants-at law, and who aspirated at a Lord
Mayor's dinner a fervent Nish that sergeants might eat
calipee and calipash at the Mansion-house feasts so long
as British law and the British constitution lasted. Joking,

_ ..... _
however apart,_ there are not above seven or eight of
these serge ant counters who enjoy any considerable
practice, and to say that the whole legal business of the
country should suffer, to secure the monopoly of these
gentlemen, is a proposition so monstrous, that it need
merely be enunciated to be at once placed in the limbo
of preposterous follies. It is, indeed, of the mainest
importance—as every practicable: man knows—to the
attorney, to have his cause handled, ab ovo usque ad inala
—from the beginning to the ending—by the came
counsel. A cause is generally best managed in which
the counsel who has first advised as to the preliminary
steps and pleadings, advises and argues to the end.
Practically this was not so in the Common Please under
the arrangement maintained by Lord Lyndhurst—
himself an old and eminent sergeant. For from
every circuit in England causes were argued in
Banco by sergeants who had not led at the trial, either
at Liverpool—or Exeter—or Stafford—or Bury—oi
Lincoln—or Chester—or Swansea—as the case might be.
And the preposterous and unjust part of the arrrangement
was, that sergeants who excluded all other barristers
from their close court—free as "chartered libertines
themselves—took the wide range of Westminster Hall,
and plied, such of them as had large business, like Sir
Thom,s Wilde—their gainful trade and tuneful tongues
—in every court, from that of the Lord Chancellor down
to the latest created Vice-Chancellor's Court or Court of

Bankruptcy. This was a manifest injustice, and could
only be defended by those who resorted for anti-
quarian arguments to Fortescue and Dyer, or by those
sergeant counters who told us,. as an extinguisher of
all discussion, in the words of Sir Edward Coke,
in his prefaces to the Eighth Report, and in his
First Institute, that sale Common Pleas existed ,
as a distinct court bee the Conquest, and was
not created by Magna Charta. To such pre-adniite
pleaders for exclusive privileges as these—to such
preposterous pedants and prigs—it was vain to
urge the spirit of the Uniformity of Process Act,
altering the mode of proceeding in the Common Pleas—
as well as in all the other courts—vainer still to urge the
spirit and exigencies and re quirements of the age and
time in which we live—for they were blind as well as
deaf to what was passing around them. But now their
illusions are dissipated,—not by the Queen's writ—bet
by the Att of Parliament, which we have given in
its entirety. No longer, therefore, can the ancient
counters—

" The sergeants-at-law both ware and wise,
Who often do come to the parvise,"
claim exclusive privilege "pur enginer la court," to use
the words of the statute of Westminster—(and which
has been erroneously translated in the statute-book " to
beguile the court," for the words mean to dupe and de-
ceive, and the phrase is so used by La Fontaine), for
Lord Cottenhana has levelled the barriers they erected,
and opened the common bench to the common bar,—
to men with stuff in their heads, and with stuff on their

backs.
ADVERTISER.—The meeting held at Manchester
oa Tuesday last, for the purpose of memorialising Go-
verGo-
vernment on the subject of abolishing entirely the re-
maining duties on foreign corn, will, we have no doubt,
be followed by similar assemblages in all parts of the
country. Indeed one has already taken place in Sun-
derland. It is only surprising that meetings, having for
their object the opening of the ports, have not before
now taken place in every populous town in the country.
There is only une thing, in connexion with this subject,
which has caused us greater surprise. Can our readers
guess what that one thing is ? If they bestow a nr•
ment's reflection on the matter, they cannot fail to arrive
at a right conclusion. That which excites
is, our amaze-
ment to the highest pitch, in connexion with the pre-
vailing alarm and the impending famine, that Govern-
ment should not, weeks ago, have thrown open the ports
to the untaxed admission of foreign corn. The
astonishment which we feel is not confined to our-
selves. It is shared by the country. It is universally
felt. If ever a Minister's course was clear, if ever
his duty was plain, Lord John Russell's was so
in reference to the unbarring of oxr ports to the
admission of foreign corn, duty free, whenever it was
seen that the potato env in Ireland was a total failure,
and that the corn harvest generally throughout the
kingdom was below an average. How Lord John Rus-
sell can reconcile his refusal to open the ports at such a
crisis as that which has overtaken us, with the duties
which, as the first Minister of the Crown, he owes alike
to the Sovereign and the people, is more than we are
able to comprehend. It is for himself to explain it. If
the Noble Lord can make out a case for himself; he must
be a much abler logician than the public has hitherto
given him credit for. One thing is certain—there isnot
a man beyond the pale of the Cabinet who does not feel
and say that a graver dereliction of duty was never com-
mitted by any Minister. Time was when the Noble
Lord would have been impeached for such neglect.
Many a Minister before him has stood at the bar of Par-
liament for dereliction of duty of a much less
nature. Morally, the Noble Lord is responsible
for every death from starvation which talaes
place in Ireland ; constitutionally, he ought to
be also so considered, and be dealt with ac-
cordingly. Nay, more, we maintain that Lord John
Russell is responsible for every breach of the peace
which may take place in Ireland, and every outrage on
property which may occur in that country, which has its
origin in the present scarcity and higis prices of food.
11,1 we absolve from blame those who may be the prin-
cipal actors in any popular outbreaks on the other side
of the Channel ? Nothing can be farther from our
minds. The.law must deal with all such persons as
guilty. They must be punished. On the contrary hypo-
thesis, there would be an end of all order. Society would
be disorganised. Anarchy would everywhere prevail.
So long as laws exist, they must be enforced, even
when their violators have been worked up by cir-
cumstances over which they had no control, to a
state of desperation. But if the wretched peasantry
of Ireland are not to be held guiltless, even with
all the palliating considerations which, in their
present condition, can be urged in their fa-
vour, what shall be said of the criminality,
both moral and constitutional, of the Noble Lord at
the head of the Government, when lie has refused to
adopt a course which would have had the effect of miti-
gating the evils which hare driven the Irish to this state
of desperation ? The Whig Premier has the reputation
of being a cool and courageous man. The epithets of
coolness and courage are not those which are to be
applied to his present conduct. Callousness to human
suffering, insensibility to human wretchedness ; in a
word, downright inhumanity, are the only terms which
can properly characterise the conduct of Lord John
Russell. It was the prevailing impression, sumo time
ago, that Sir Robert Peel had no heart. The question
whether the Right Hon. Baronet possesses that article or
not, is one which we have no inclination to discuss just
now. But one thing we know, and that is, that had he
been still Premier, he would, at least a month ago, have
thrown open the ports. Whether humanity or policy
had prompted him to the act, we care not to inquire ;
it
is enough for us to know that he would have done it.
And that he would no one can doubt, with the recorded
declaration before him of the Right Hon. Gentleman,
that the reason of his resignation, in Novembar last, was
because he could not induce his colleagues to concur in
the propriety of then opening the ports.

CUSTOMS.—Charles Shull, Esq., late Comptroller at
the port of Lancaster, is appointed Comptroller of file
port of Falmouth, in the place of Mr. Rearle, resigned.