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London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

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No. 1G,755.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF, ARTS, TRAFAL-
URE. •
The EXHIBITION of theGAR- ROYASQ LA ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY,
REGENT'S PARK.
The SECOND EXHIBITION, this Season, of PLANTS and
FLOWERS in the Gardens of this Society, will be held To-Moaaow,
WEDNESDAY, the 3rd instant.
In the course of the day the three Military Bands will join and
perform the following Overtures :—" Yelva," by Reisiger ; " Der
Freyschutz," by Weber ; and " Don Giovanni," by Mozart.
Subscribers to the Society are admitted free.
Visitors are admitted by Tickets, to be obtained at the Gardens,
only by orders from Subscribers, price 7s. 6d. each.
Promenades will continue to be held every Wednesday in' June
and July, except June 3 and July 1, the days appointed for the
Exhibitions. _ _

Gates to open at Two o'clock. Carriages to fall into the line in
the road from Park-square over the Bridge in the road facing York
Gate ; to set dovrr6either at the Front Gate, or at the New North
Entrance communicating with the Conservatory.
J. DE C. SOWERBY, Secretary.

WHITSUN HOLIDAYS.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
Dr. Ryan's New and Interesting LECTURE on the CHE-
MISTRY and PHILOSOPHY of DIVING, at Half-past Three
daily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Professor Bachhoffner's LECTURES on NATURAL HILOSOPHY,
with brilliant experiments, daily. MACINTOSH'S ROTARY EN-
GINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for
ascending and descending Inclined Planes, FARRELL'S ARCM-
MEDIAN RAILWAY, the -ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, an EN-
VELOPE CUTTING MACHINE, and WOOD'S NEW PATENT
STEAM-ENGINE GOVERNOR, all in action. Scenes in the
OREGON TERRITORY are among the NEW DISSOLVING
VIEWS. PORTRAITS of Distinguished Men in the GOVERN-
MENT and ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MI-
CROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE exhibiting a
fine Collection of Living Objects, &c.,
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

MESSRS. WICKHAM and CO.'s PUBLIC
SALES Of RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held at the Hall
of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, EVERY MONDAY and
THURSDAYS, at One o'clock.

Orders received until Four o'clock of the day previous to each sale.
London, 1846.

I )ERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, and
WORCESTERSHIRE JUN.'TION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SCRIP, or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
such, in this Company, will be held in the house of Mr. Thomas
Masters, commonly called the Talbot Arms Inn, Rugeley, in the
county of Stafford, on SATURDAY, the 6th day of June next, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of having submitted
to them a copy of the Bill now pending in Parliament to authorise
the construction of a railway, to be called the " Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway," and for approving the
same, or otherwise.
Dated this 251 n day of May, 1846.

R. S. MACKENZIE, Secretary
1, MoorzAte. London.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in re-
ferring the Shareh.dders to the Report of the Committee of the House
of Commons, unanimously deciding that the preamble of the Leices
ter and Bedford Railway Bill has been satisfactorily established
before them.

The Committee of the House of Commons arrived at this unani-
mous decision after an investigation of nearly three weeks, during
which period every effort was made by the :Midland Company to
procure the rejection of the Leicester and Bedford in favour of their
own scheme—the South Midland.

The very strenuous and protracted endeavours of the Midland
Company to obtain a line of railway over the same ground as that
occupied by the Leicester and Bedford Company, afford most satis-
factory proof of the commercial importance of the line, and its value
as a permanent investment to the Shareholders.

The Committee of Management have also the pleasure to inform
the Shareholders, that they are in a position to comply with the
Standing Orders of the House of Lords requiring a deposit of 101. per
cent., without making any further call upon the Shareholders.
The Committee of Management be 4 to call the attention of the
Scripholders to the subjoined notice of the meeting to be held on the
16th of June next, in compliance with t:,e Sessional Orders.
WYNN ELLIS, Chairman.
ROBERT LTNDSELL, Deputy-Chairman.
BAXTER, ROSE, and N,,RTON, 3, Park-street,
Westminster, one of the Solicitors to the Bill.
Offices of the Company, 14, Park-street, Westminster.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the Sessional
Orders of the House of Commons, a Special Meeting of the Holders
of Scrip, and of Bankers' Receipts in this Company, will be held at
the London Tavern, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th
day of June, 1846, at One o'clock precisely, when a Copy of the Bill now
depending in Parliament, intituled a Bill for making a Railway from
or near the town of Hitcbin, through Bedford to the Leicester and
Swannington Railway, to be called the " Leicester an I Bedford Rail-
way," will be submitted for the consideration of the meeting.
The Votes will be taken at the meeting according to the amount of
Scrip held by each person present, who will be required to produce
. .

his Scrip, and to furnish a written memorandum of his name and
address, and the denoting numbers of the Scrip produced, before
being allowed to vote.

BAXTER, ROSE, and NORTON,
One of the Solicitors to the Bill.

3, Park-street, Westminster, May 25, 1846,

N.B. Forms of proxy for Scriphelders, who may not be able to
attend the meeting, may be had on application to the Secretary, or to
J. W. Scott, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the PROPRIETORS of the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
will be held at the offices of the Company, at Paddington, in the
county of Middlesex, on TUESDAY, the 16th day of June, at One o'clock
precisely in the afternoon, when copies of the following Bills will be
submitted to the consideration of the meeting in compliance with the
standing Orders of the House of Lords :
" A Bill for making a Railway and other Works from Plymouth to
Falmouth and other places in the county of Cornwall, to be called
The Cornwall Railway.' "

" A Bill to authorise certain alterations and extensions of the line
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Hallway."
" A Bill for making a Railway from Gloucester to the Monmouth
and Hereford Railway, and to the South Wales Railway at Awre, to
be called The Gloucester and Dean Forest "
" A Bill for completing the Line of the South Wales Railway, and
to authorise the construction of an extension, and certain altera-
tions of the Aaid Railway, and certain Branch Railways in connexion
therewith."

" A Bill for making a Railway from Worcester to Perth Dynilaen,
in continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway."
" A Bill to authorise certain alterations in the I ine of the Oxford,
Worcester. and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act re-
lating thereto." _ _ _

" :2S-. Bill for making a Railway from Birmingham to join the Lines
of the proposed Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railways, and to be called The Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction Railway."

" A Bill for making a Railway into Birmingham in extension of
the proposed Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway."
" A Bill for making a Railway to be called The Exeter Great
Western Railway. "'
" A Bill for authorising certain alterations in, and extensions, of the
line of the South Devon Railway, and the formation of Branches
therefrom to 'l'avistock, Brixham, Kingswear, and other places."
" A Bill to authorise an improvement of the line of the West
London Railway and the extension thereof to the River Thames."
" A Bill for making a Railway to connect the cities of Worcester
and Hereford, the town of Ross and city of Gloucester, to be called
The Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway.'"
" A Bill for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway, at
Maidmhead, in Berkshire, to the town of High Wycombe, in the
county of Buckingham."
"A Bill f,r constructing a Pier at Portbury, in the county of
Somerset, and for making a Railway from the same to the city of
Bristol, with a Branch Railway connected therewith."
"A Bill for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at
West Drayton, to Uxbridge, in Middlesex"
" A. Bill for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at
Cheltenham, to join the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway, near Shipton-under-Wychwood, in the county of Oxford."
The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
Dated this 7th day of May, 1846

C. RUSSELL, Chat man

TAANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE NORTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to the Sessional Orders o
the House of Parliament, a MEETING of the HOLDERS of SCRIP
or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this COMPANY will be
held at the Devonshire Hotel, in Skipton, in the county of York, on
THURSDAY, the 4th day of June next, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon
precisely, at whieh Meeting a Copy of the Bill now before Parlia-
ment, and which has received the sanction of the Committee of the
House of Commons, intitulcd, "A Bill for making a Railway from
Skipton to the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, to be called The Wharf-
dale Railway,'" will be submitted to the consideration and approval
of the Holders 'of such Scrip and Bankers' Receipts. As it is essen-
tial that one-third of the capital proposed to be raised by the Bill
should be represented at the Meetine, all Holders of Scrip or of
Bankers' Receipts, as aforesaid, are particularly requested to attend
the same and produce their Scrip or Bankers' Receipts ; and in order
to facilitate the business of the Meeting, and for the purpose of having
their votes correctly recorded, they are particularly requested to
forward to the Secretary, with as little delay as possible, their names
and addresses, with the denoting numbers and amount of their Scrip
or Bankers' Receipts, according to the accompanying forms. The
Holders of Scrip or Backers' Receipts, who cannot attend the Meet-
ing, but may wish to record their votes in favour of the undertaking,
may effect that object by forwarding their Scrip or Bankers' Receipts
to some one of the under-mentioned gentlemen on or before Monday,
the let day of June next, who will return the same to them after the
Meeting, in such manner as they may direct:—
Matthew Wilson, jun., Esq., Eshton Hall, near Skipton, Chairman.
Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., Manchester, Depnty Chairman.
Francis Billiam, Newell Hall, Otley.

James Foulds, Esq., Trawden House, near Colne.
Henry Alcock, Esq., Banker and Solicitor, Shipton.

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The Craven Bank and its Branches at Settle, Heighley, Clitheroe,
Colne, Burnley, and Skipton.
Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Bankers, 50, Condit% London,

or to
Mr. Andrew Paton, Secretary, 31, Princess-street, Manchester.
A Receipt for the Scrip or Bankers' Receipts thus transmitted will
be duly forwarded, by the Secretary to the parties Beading the same,
by an early post.
After the Ist, and until the 3d day of June next, Scrip or Bankers•
Receipts can only be received by the Secretary, at 31, Princes-street,
Manchester, and then at the Meeting at the time and place above
mentioned.

MATTHEW WILSON, jun., Chairman.
Dated this 21st day of May, 1846.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE NORTH EASTERN RAIL
WAY COMPANY.

I of
of scrip (or Bankers' Receipts) for
undertaking numbered as follows :

am the holder
shares in this

No. of Shares.

Scrip for 1 share to
Scrip for 5 shares to
Scrip for 10 shares to
Scrip for 20 shares to

MITE ANNUAL GRAND POLISH FANCY
„11.. or FULL DRESS BALL, in AID of the FUNDS of the
LITERARY ASSOCIATION of the FRIENDS of POLAND, will
take place at Willis's Rooms, on MONDAY, June 8. The vouchers to
be obtained from the Ladies Patronesses only, a list of whom may be
had at the Chambers of the Association, Sussex Chambers, 10, Duke-
street, St. James's-square ; and also at Willis's Rooms.

"SURLY HALL NIGHT."-GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.—There will be an EXTRA
TRAIN from Slough to Paddington, at Half-past Ten o'clock, T.M.,
THURSDAY, the 4th June.
lily order of the Directors,
• CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

OLD GEORGE INN, YORK.
To BE LET, with immediate Possession, that
Old Established and wall-frequented Commercial Hotel, the
Old George Inn, Pavement, the present occupier, Mr. William Hill,
being about to leave York.
The In-coming Tenant will have the advantage of the valuab'e
stock of old wines, and will be required to take the furniture, fix-
tures, &c., at a valuation.
For particulars, apply to Mr. Hill, on the premises.

CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in compliance with the Sessional
Orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, a SPECIAL GENE-
RAL MEETING of the HOLDERS of SCRIP and BANKERS' RE-
CEIPTS for SCRIP, of the Caledonian Extension Railway Company,
will be held within the Company's Office, 28, Parliament-street, West-
minster, on MONDAY, the 15th day of June next, at Twelve o'clock
Noon, when there will be submitted to their consideration and approval
a copy of the Bill now pending before Parliament for incorporating
this;Company and authorising the construction of the railway.
Parties attending this meeting will be required to produce their
Scrip or Bankers' Receipts, and to furnish' the Secretary with a me-
morandum of their name and address, denoting the numbers of the
Scrip produced.
J. J. H. JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
JOHN" MARE, Secretary.
28, Parliament-street, Westminster, June 1, 1846.

UNIVERSAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
Capital 100,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 20/. per Share.
Deposit, 10s. per 1001. Shares, in accordance with the Act.
Provisionally Registered.
Under the Management of a Proivisional Committee,
With power to add from the General Committee.
CONSULTING ENGINEER -Professor Ryan, M.D., L.L.D. Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution.
ENGINEER -Mr. Robert Cordon, Nottingham.
RANKERS—The London and County Joint Stock Bank.
SOLICITOR—J. F. W. Fesenmeyer, 23, Bedford-row.
SECRETARY- Mr. Gabriel Kenyon.
Offices of the Company, No. 11, Old Jewry-chambers, City.

The Company have great pleasure in announcing to the Public,
that since issuing their last Advertisements, they have availed them-
selves of the opportunity of testing, by practical operations the
utility and applicability of their Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas
on the Premises of the Consumer, and they feel great pleasure in
stating that it has'been adopted by the Birmingham, North Midland,
and Midland Railway Companies, and is now in active use at the
following Rail way Stations :
Tring Station, Birmingham Line.
Methley Station, North Midland Line.
Kegworth Station, Midland Line.
At which places it has been used with the utmost success, both as
regards the Station anti Signal Lights, producing in point of bril-
liancy and steadiness a most powerful light.
The Apparatus has also been used at various Lace Mills and Factories,
situate at Nottingham, Derby, and elsewhere, giving the greatest
satisfaction. _ .

The full particulars whereof, and the purposes to which the inven-
tion is applicable, are emboned in the Company's Prospectus, which
may be obtained of the Solicitor, and at the Company's Offices.
.Applicationa for shares, in the usual form, to be made to, and
further particulars obtained from, the Solicitor to the Company, and
also of the Secretary, at the Company's Offices.

MEDICAL EDUCATION.—There is now a
Vacancy for an Articled Pupil in the family of a Married
Gentleman residing in a healthy part of the country, 50 miles
north of London, who is attached to a large provincial Hospital.
The situation offers numerous and peculiar advantages. The young
Gentleman will be well grounded in dispensing and pharmacy ; he
will attend daily, the surgical and medical practice of the Hospital,
and the private lectures and instructions of the advertiser in the
medical classics in Anatomy, Materia 3feclica, the Elements of
Chemistry, Surgery, &c. He will be treated as one of the family,
and the strictest attention will be paid to his morals and domestic
comforts. Premium . moderate

The fullest information 'and references of the first respectability
will be given. Address by letter (prepaid) to A. B. M., 10, Seymour-
place, Euston-square.

I ARLY HAY HARVEST.-RICK CLOTHS,
4with Poles, Pullies, and Lines, complete.

"No farmershould be without a good rick cloth, for it is
certainly one of the most useful things he can have on his pre-
mibes."—Gardener's Gazette.

Rick Cloths, both New and Second-hand, at a reasonable cost,
at BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S, 2, Duke-street, Southwark.
Early application will ensure prompt attention. A Warehouse at
203, Piccadilly. ➢farquees, Tents, Flags, Netting and Bunting for
Fruit Trees, Railway Truck Covers, &c.

SELLING OFF, at 379, Strand, the entire
STOCK of Sheffield plated DISK COVERS, corner dishes.
soup tureens, tea urns and kettles, branches, candlesticks, &c., at an
enormous reduction in price, in consequence of the proprietor leaving
the business. The following prices of some of the most useful
articles are stated to convince the public of the advantages they
may gain by purchasing at this establishment. Sheffield plated
dish covers, waranted best quality, 101. 45. 6d. the set; corner
dishes and covers, 5/. 18s. Gd. the set of four, forming eight dishes
if required ; silver-plated spoons, forks, &c., on solid white metal,
warranted : —Table forks, fiddle pattern, 265. to 365. per dozen ; table
spoons 265. to 365. ; dessert forks, 20s. to 30s. ; dessert spoons, 20s. to
20s. ; tea spoons, 10s. 6d. The British plate articles (the best in Lon-
don) are selling at equally low prices—table forks and spoons, 108. per
dozen ; dessert, Bs. ; tea spoons. 4s. 6d. ; and other articles in British
plate equally cheap, as the stock must be sold. Ivory table knives in
great variety, warranted ; sets of 50 pieces, 3-% inch, handsome 5.-
lance handles, for 345.; table knives, 9s. Gd. per dozen • dessert, Ss. ;
carvers, 3s. Gd. per pair—all balance handles. The stock of jewellery
will be sold at little more than half price, consisting of diamond and
other rings, pins, brooches, and a variety of handsome gold guard
chains, that are now selling for their weight in sovereigns—at W.
CRAMBROOK'S, 379, Strand, corner ofSoutha.mpton. street.

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,' NEW-
ROAEA_LOXDON.

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15th of June.

THE CORN BILL.

_
We can never sufficiently appreciate
the advantages of
having a great soldier -in the Cabinet, and a Field
Marshal in the House of-Lords. It immensely facili-
tates the mechanical process of change. Nothing is S?
desultory—so -ape to- clog.its own movements—S 3 blind
to its destiny—so. apt to waste its resourees—as a legis-
lative crowd. The moment they are frightened they
get into a heap, and begin to tread on one another's
toes. They are too great for the drill. For many.more
important reasons, therefore, than that particularised by
the Roman Emperor, it is desirable that a Senate
should have one head. The Duke of Wellington supplies
in the Lords that important disideratum. After a due
amount of reconnoitering, feeling, demonstrating, skir-
mishing, and other preliminaries, he matures his plan
in politic silence: Just on the eve of struggle he informs
his Generals what they must do. Aides-de-camp fly
with his orders. Chiefs listen to his instructions. No
matter how little the soldier, or the officer, or even the
commander of a division, knows of the general plan. It
is theirs to hear and obey: If the Peers threaten to be
rather too high and mighty, or if they show indications
of jibbing, there is a reserve "which will either supply
their places or push them on. The Brobdignag Duke
pulls out of his pocket fifty mannikin Peers, who count for
as much as the best for this kind of warfare. The affair
goes off with all the grace and coMposure of a parade. The
word of command is all that they wait for. Attention !
Right about ! And they all are converted by intuition,
and turned by instinct. The people are at the same time
edified by a revolution and entertained with a spectacle.
It is really quite a lesson—whether in the art military
or the art politic, is not at first discernible—to hear the
Duke addressing his comrades. " I beg leave," he says,
" to point out to your Lordships, that it is your duty to
consider Wellthe consequences of any vote that you may
give upon this subject—to consider well the situation in
which you place this House." That is
etie question for
the Lords. There is adelightsfulistiseientifie simplicity
in this way of putting the case. We do not fled a word
here, or indeed in all the rest of the speech, in the
smallest degree allusive to the merits of the ques-
tion, or even to its subject. The Bill might be one
for swallowing Polk's insolence and giving up Ore-
gon, or the abolition of all duty on tobacco, or a
great central railway terminus in Waterloo-place,
or the confiscation of half the property of the Peers, for
anything that appears in the speech. The corn-laws are
as rigorously excluded from it as the Ten Command-
ments are from a schoolboy's theme. He gives she pure
mathematics -of the question. • " Consider well the
consequences." " Consider the situation in which you
place this House." His Grace adds an expression which
speaks the very soul of military discipline. No member
is to consult his own opinion, his own safety, or his own
reputation, but to identify himself with the House. A
soldier is a unit in the army, a Peer is a unit in the
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before he determines to give his vote, and to consider
what would be, under all circumstances, the consequence
if the House were to follow the course he may be about
to do on this occasion." We beg most entirely to concur
in this advice, and entertain no doubt that it expresses
the true theory of a legislative vote, so far as regards
the duty of a member to put himself in the situation of
the House. There are Peers, we cannot help thinking,
who have consulted their party or their pique by giving
an adverse vote, though nothing would perplex them so
much as to find the Lords placed in collision with the
Commons and the people of England. Yet, as the Duke
puts it, it does rather merge the man in the army.
His Grace then reminds his hearers that he has once
before advised them to beat a retreat, and he implies
that they retreated with success. At any rate they
saved their lives and their coronets. Like the judicious
warrior in " Hudibras," they have lived to fight another
day, and, as in the former instance, to run away also.
The Duke encourages them to hope that a repetition
of this movement will be accompanied with equal ad-
vantage. This, in fact, is pretty nearly all that he has
to say. So he says it again :—" I beg of your Lordships
to look a little to the measure upon which you are about
to vote." This seems to promise a word or two on " the
merits." No such thing. The nature of the inspection
is explained by the rest of the sentence :—" and the
consequences likely to follow from a rejection of that
measure." The Lords are to lock at the measure a little,
and pass it, just as you make a shying horse look at a
wheelbarrow a little and pass it. The inspection is not
to be tediously long, or superfluously inquisitive.
But, on the principle, we suppose, that abundans can-
tela non nocet, the Duke repeats his warning for the
fifth or sixth time, without concerning himself much to
diversify the langnage —" I ask your Lordships to look
at the manner in which this measure has come before
you, and consider what is likely to follow from your re-
jecting it." What those consequences will be he states
clearly enough, but we fancy we can just trace a little
tenderness and unsteadiness cf touch when he comes to
describe the state of things which renders these conse-
quences inevitable. "My Lords, this measure was re-
commended by a speech from the Throne ;"—written,
his Grace might have added, " by my Right Honourable
Friend in the other House;".—" it has been passed by a
majority of the House of Commons, consisting of more
than half the House of Commons. My Noble Friend
has said in the course of this debate, this vote of the
House of Commons is inconsistent with the original
vote given by the House of Commons on this same
question, and inconsistent with the supposed views of
the constituents by whom they were elected. My Lords,
I do not think that is a subject which this House can
take into its consideration; for, first, we can have no
accurate knowledge of the fact; and, in the next place,
whether it was a fact or not, this, my Lords, we know—
that it is the House of Commons that has passed this
Bill. . . . That we know by the votes of the House
of Commons." Now, this is much ado about nothing, for
the purpose of disguising something. The Duke insists
on the measure being recommended by the Crown and
passed by the Commons
; both of which are by no means
extraordinary occurrences, and neither of which is
usually considered to bind the hands of the Lords. He
parades the " facts " of the case, the votes of the House
of Commons, and all that, and then pretends that the
Lords have nothing to do with the supposed views of the
constituency. Have they not ? On the contrary, in the
clear still depth of his Grace's own sound understanding
eo
the views of the constituency—of the great and enlight-
ened majority of the p
gives way, and recommends the same course to the Lords.
He knows that the Pie—are the reason why his Grace
People are not against, but for the
measure. He knows also, better than we could tell
him, that the formidable " consequences " which he
mentions a dozen times over, viz., the collision of the
two Houses, the introduction of another Bill, the forcible
passage of that other Bill through the Lords, and the
irremediable damage done thereby to the Upper House,
would not arise from the mere accident of a temporary
agreement between a speech from the Crown and a re-
corded vote to the House, but from the fact that that
speech and that vote were backed by an irresistible power
of public opinion and public determination. His Grace
contrives to elude this fact. The views of the constitu-
ency cannot be ascertained, he says, and whatever they
are to have nothing to do with them. He has more to
do with them than he chooses to confess. If there were
no other votes in the case than a Royal speech and a
vote of the Commons, he might safely recommend the
Lords to do what was right in their own eyes without
fear of the consequences.
His 3 race's discussion of the " consequence" is so
thoroughly en militaire that it deserves at least a place
in his dispatches, whatever its propriety in his legisla-
tive compositions. " I beg to remind you, my Lords,
that you ought not to take a position on which you
cannot stand, on which you can do nothing." Most
excellent advice ! Would that it were more generally
followed. Nine-tenths of the follies and miseries that
surround us would have been avoided if people had only
considered how they were to get out of the scrape before
they got into it. Will his Grace allow us to suggest a
trifling addition to this golden rule ?—viz., that you
ought not to make an advance in which you cannot
persevere, and every step of which you will have to re-
trace. The Duke, and his friend in the Commons, have now
for three or fonr times, completed very long, difficult,
costly, and fatal political marches, in spite of the re-
monstrances of the wisest advisers, with no other result
than an uncommonly quick and disastrous retreat.
For thirty years, with some slight changes of plan, the
nation has been marching under the Duke and his
party against free trade, and now we have to get back
all that distance as well as we can in a less number of
weeks. But we will go on with the Duke's dispatch.
" You have great influence on public opinion ; men
have great confidence in your judgment ; but, sepa-
rately from the Crown and the House of Commons, you
can do nothing: if you break your connexion with the
Crown and the House of Commons, you will then put an
end to the functions of the House of Lords.. My Lords, I
ask you to reflect what must be the immediate consequence
of your rejecting this Bill."
Now, we must say that we think the Lords do not owe
much to his Grace for the peculiar and very gratuitous
footing on which he has placed their acquiescence. lie
has made it a mere capitulation for fear of " the conse-
quences." They might be supposed accessible to reason.
He has not vouchsafed them one argument about the
corn-laws. They might value his own opinion. He has
assigned no other ground for his own conversion than
the very irrelevant and dangerous one, that he was
bound to his Sovereigns by peculiar motives of gratitude,
which obliged him to do all the mischief that his Sove-
reigns, present or future, might possibly ask at his
hands. Ile might have suggested to the Lords that there
was some authority in the voice of the people, that an
opinion advanced with so much force, eloquence, discretion,
and, above all, with so marvellous and noble a peace-
ableness, could not be far wrong. On the contrary, he
studiously blinked the people. He might have recom-
mended that modesty of thought which makes the
humble and the sensible distrust their own judgment
when they find themselves alone in their opinion, which
is the supposed foundation of that unanimity required in
our juries, and without which society must soon be dis-
solved. He might have urged that the cause was not
sacred, that the sliding scale was not an article of faith.
that in a matter of mere commercial opinion it was
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