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tinue the intermittent throes of monopoly, while
assemblies, even more influential than the Marylebone
Vestry, on Saturday, will testify, not that " fifteen
thousand," but that fifteen thousand thousand souls
are grateful for the boon of JUSTICE !

Lord STANLEY, on Monday evening, while pre-
senting the " letting-I-dare-not-wait-upon-I-would "
petition of certain of the merchants and bankers of
the City of London on the subject of the corn-laws,
dwelt with much complacency upon the fact, that
amongst the names of firms attached to that petition
was to be found that of BARING Brothers. As my
Lord STANLEY seems inclined to hold up the firm of
BARING Brothers as a high authority in political
matters, it may perhaps be as well to consider the
political professions of the several individual
BARINGS who go to make up the aggregate of this
great, trustworthy, and authoritative firm. The poli-
tical career of the individual BARING Brothers has
been excellently planned for the advantage of the
aggregate BARING Brothers. It has always so hap-
pened that of late years there has never been any
great political party which could fairly aspire to office,
or any section of what the French call possible Mi-
nisterial men, but that section or that party has
numbered amongst its adherents a BARING. Prior
to 1830, the posssible men were divided into
Whigs and Tories, the latter being in office;
we find Sir THOMAS BARING a Tery, and
Mr. ALEXANDER BARING a Whig. Sir THOMAS
BARINQ retires from Parliament, and his son
Mr. FRA.ncis Tuomtnix.x. B&RINQ, enters public
life as one of the Secretaries of the Treasury
under the Whig Government. Mr. ALEXANDER,
BARING, heretofore the Whig Member for Taunton
becomes the Tory Member for Tregony, and opposes
most energetically those measures which Mr. FRANCIS
THORNHILL BARING as energetically supports. The
Whigs are ejected in 1835, and although Mr. FRANCIS
TiaoarmiLL BARING loses office, yet the firm of BAR-
ING Brothers has its consequence greatly increased,
for the ex-Whig Commoner is transformed into the
Tory Peer, and Mr. ALEXANDER BARING
becomes Lord ASHBURTON. The Whigs are restored
to office, and the firm of BARING Brothers is repre-
sented in the Ministry by Mr. FRANCIS THORNHILL
BARING, now appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The firm, however, is not without its representative
in the camp of the Conservative Opposition in the
Commons, for whilst iMr. FRANCIS THORNHILL
BARING, the Whig Member for Portsmouth, is a
Cabinet Minister, Mr. HENRY BiNorram BARING

the Tory Member for Marlborough, is an influential
member of that great Conservative party which it
was the boast of Sir ROBERT PEEL that he had
built up, and accordingly when the great Con-
servative party ejected the Whigs from office,
albeit Mr. FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING went
out of office with his colleagues, still was the
Treasury blessed with the presence of a BARING, and
if the firm on the one hand lost a Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in the person of Mr. F. T. BARING,
it on the other gained a Lordship of the Treasury, in
the person of Mr. HENRY BINGHAM' BARING, and a

Foreign Embassy in that of Lord ASHBURTON.
After the PEEL Ministry had been in office about two
years it became evident that certain of the
ultra-Tories had taken umbrage at the free-
trade tendencies of the Premier, and that
a split among the Conservatives at no dis-
tant day was inevitable. A vacancy occurred in the
representation of the City of London, and the candi-
date who came forward as the champion of the ultra-
Tories and ultra-Protectionists was no other than
Mr. THOMAS BARING, own brother to the free-trader
Mr. FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING, heretofore Whig'
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Defeated in London,
he afterwards was elected for Huntingdon, and en-
tered Parliament just in time to secure

for the firm of BARING Brothers a re•

presentative in every political camp. Whatever
party may be in power, the house of BARING

Brothers will be sure of being connected with office.
Should Sir R. PEEL continue Prime Minister, Mr.
BINGHAM BARING continues in office also. Should Lord
J. RUSSELL become Premier, Mr. F. T. BARING Will

be his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Should a
STANLEY and RICHMOND Ministry be formed, Lord
ASHBURTON will be a member of the Cabinet, and
Mr. T. BARING will have an Under Secretaryship at
least. From their long connexion with America,
" BARING Brothers " have imbibed a considerable

portion of that " 'cuteness" which is the distinguishing
characteristic of the Yankee; but, while we are wil-

ling to accord to them the credit of being " tarnation
smart chaps," we must be permitted altogether to
deny that they are entitled to any respect as great
political authorities.

Letters from Alexandria of the Bth state that
.suastrr ALL has determined to accept the invita-
h. on of the SULTAN to visit Constantinople. He will
be the guest of Hositsw PACHA during his stay in
the Turkish capital.

M. SAVELLI assumed the functions of Apostelical
Legate for the four Legations at Bologna on the 11th of
June. Cardinal MICARA, the President of the Sacred
College, and the popular candidate for the ropedem, is
dead ; it is said of apoplexy.

Madrid papers of the 14th and 15th have been re-
ceived.
The Duke DE RIANZARES is expected shortly
to set out for Paris. Senor AZPEITA has
been dispatched
by the Spanish Government to Rome ; he is said to be
the bearer of important dispattce shes.paoSihsohulGd they
Government
choiceom
of the Conclave in the election of Pope be unfavour-
able to the views of Spain, the
will, it is rumoured, exercise its right of veto, and
nullify the election. The Espanol contradicts a report
which had been circulated in Madrid that the cholera
had broken out in Andalusia.

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MADRID Boise, JUNE 15.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 33 9-16 for cash, and 33% for paper; the Five per
Cents. at 20% for cash ; the Debt without Interest, 6% for

population, of this country subside from all the bustle
attendant upon acclamations, and orations, and pe-
titions and assemblies, to that almost breathless
silence for which they have been remarkable during
the present session. They saw no utility "in crying
Sessa," with CHRISTOPHER SLY, and beating their own
shadows. They had ploughed, and sowed, and har-
rowed, and irrigated, and they repose with folded arms
until the sunlight of legislative !wisdom shall have
fructified their labours, have ripened their opinions
into a law, and enabled them to reap an abundant
and consolatory harvest. That, we take it, is the
correct definition of this tranquillity, the solution of this
so-called problem. It has sprung from joy, not sorrow ;
exultation, not despondency; the intensest interest, not
an inexcusable indifference. Such, at least, has been
the actuating principle of the vast majority. Others
have been impelled to this silent course, because of
their uncertainty—the lull in the exchange of mer-
' chandize extending to a lull amongst the mer-
chants. One branch of trade has delayed
the importation of additional goods, under
the uncertainty of an immediate reduction and ulte-
rior removal of the Customs' duties. One trade has
infected another with this procrastination, and
a stagnatory effect has been necessarily pro-
duced in a considerable bulk of the com-
munity. It becomes, therefore, clear, beyond
all disproof, that the exceeding quietude which has
pervaded society throughout these very remarkable
discussions, has proceeded from a prevalent sense of
satisfaction, mingled with a deep yearning for the
achievement of freedom to commerce. To-morrow
evening the Bill for the realisation of this object will
arrive at its final stage, previous to that of obtaining
the royal sanction; it has passed triumphantly and
unmutilated through the first, second, and third reading,
in the Commons; it has crossed the Beresina ofParlia-
ment—the Committee in both Houses ; it has pro-
ceeded, likewise, with similar success through the
first and t econd reading in the Peers : to-morrow
evening the " Corn Importation Bill" will be in-
troduced to the legislative aristocracy for its
third and final reading, having passed which,
the signature of our beloved and gracious SOVERION
Will render free trade the presiding genius of British
commerce. Then, but not until then, the popular
silence will terminate—the voices of the people will
resound throughout the land expressive of their exul-
tation at an achievement of such an inestimable
importance, and the reverberation of those voices
cannot fail, in time, to find an echo in the council-
chambers of the most remote among the civilised
nations of the globe. Such assemblies as that of the
Cuckfield farmers, on Friday evening, will still con