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household suffrage in Mr. llume's motion. This
was the meal-worm by which all our nightingales
were caught. Ido not object to the judgment; I
object that there was no judgment. I object that
there was not even the civil form of asking what
wine we liked, and giving us the chance of saying
" Port if you please." Somebody or everybody came
down with a foregone conclusion that household suf.
frage and nothing else was to be heard of; and it was
done accordingly. On which my counsel is, to all in the
country who think something else ought to have had
a hearing, that they should consider the determina-
tion as one in which nothing has been determined,
and lift up their voices to the extent of their ability,
in favour of what in their consciences they may
think useful and right, without being daunted by
any attempt of Mrs. Partington to interpose her
household-suffrage broom.
It strikes me, on consideration, that the plan must
have been that everybody was to throw dust in the eyes
of everybody. Which is so like some of the commercial
fallacies we have heard of, that an old Leaguer may
be presumed to feel at home. The timid andottahoehseooldn
the frosty side of moderation, were to be comforted by
saying to them, " You see we only go to u
Suffrage." And the energetic and the discontented
were to be told in a whisper, that Houselibld Suffrage
might mean anything, and was intended so to do.
No good ever comes of this kind of double strings to
a bow. The pith of the matter is, that Household
Suffrage, right or wrong, is to large classes a word
of fear and hate, and that there (might have been
something else which would not, and that it is better
to win under a downright, honest name, than to lose
under a double oas.

On Thursday I became acquainted with a fact,
which if it happened earlier had escaped my notice.
the Government have struck out of the Health of
Towns Bill the two paid commissioners. Now would
there be any use in your putting forward a request, that
instead of this you might be allowed to pay them twice
over ? because, if there would, I am ready to make your
proposal. Be assured it would be a most economical
arrangement ; and equally so whether you expect
good from the Bill or harm. If you expect good, the
unpaid commissioners will do you less good; and if
harm, they will do you more harm. An unpaid com-
missioner, or unpaid anything else, is only another
term for a man who is to do his own work and not
yours. Have you any unpaid commissioners in your
warehouses ? If you were my old constituents of Hull,
of whom I often feel a tender recollection in consequence
of the community of early associations, I should
refer you to the celebrated story of the Scottish
sailor, who would not stand for high wages because
"he should be aye picking up something about the
decks." This is the theory everywhere of unpaid
labourers. Some of them decline being paid now,
because they expect to be paid twice over in some
future way ; and some because they wish to diminish
the odium of having been paid twice over in times
that are past. But all of them reckon on being paid
either in meal or in malt ; and, as well you know,
they compass it.
On Friday came on the motion for a Select Com-
mittee on the complaints against the interference of
withh
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the Marquis of Exeter at Stamford. The Prime
Ministerand
gave a cold assent. Sir Robert Peel rose,
weolnietrithaatbiliittywocualrdriebde eovfer
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with n h
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infinite
ill consequence,eicparticularly for minorities like the
Radicals, to
before extraordinaornratgieb
the bringing of complaints
ful provision of tribunalsrunsoals,
free when there was care-
f from suspicion of
undue influence as Electione Committees. Mr. Page
Wood, the mover for the Committee
upset him as no man was ever replied, and
Assizes. He demonstratedthat
upset except at York
the never have been brought before
mittee; that the people who co complaint could
complaint
Election Com-
have been received there ; that map aEined would not
mittee would have had no power of an
3 uall.ecihtiion Cum-
ng for the
act complained of; and that altogether the
q
might as well have been proposed to be referreduest ion
to
the Cham of Tartary. His motion was carried by
178 against 177. There perhaps was hardly aver an
instance, where the ex( rtion of an individual Member
turned a corner so closely.
I cannot help making an observation in this place.
There are a great many rising new men in the present
House on the Liberal side, and a very large propor-
tion of them are lawyers. I think I see a parallel and
an explanation. Something of the same kind was
observable during the civil wars and under the Com-
monwealth. The explanation is, that the times were
serious, and lawyers are used to deal with serious
things. The days are gone by, when men were ruled
by glitter, and government was a mysterious mono.
poly. We want to he governed by the same ap-
proaches to reason, which determine whether Richard
Styles or John Nokes has a right of way ; and the
men who are used to such exercises, rise in the scale
of importance accordingly.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. RRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, May 15, 1848.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box en
Saturday was occupied by the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. William Russell and Miss Rus- •
sell. In the Queen Dowager's box were the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Worcester, the Countess Howe, Captain Somerset, and
Captain Montague. Among the company present we
also observed—The Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of
Devonshire, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox,
the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitz.
gerald, the Marquis of Huntly, the Marquis of Granby,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Mar-
chioness of Downshire, his Excellency the Russian
Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister,
his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency
the Swedish Minister, the Marquis and Mademoiselle
du St. Pierre, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle
Olga de Lechner, the Countess of Blessington and
the Misses Power, the Countess of Ellesmere, the
Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Fal-
mouth, the Earl of March, the Earl of Lonsdale, the
Countess of Cardigan, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of
Cardigan, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Dungannon,
Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Somerton, Baron and
Baroness de Rothschild, the Count de Barke, M. C.
Koudriaffsky, Baron Nicolay, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Saltoun, Lord Fitzroy
Somerset and Miss Somerset, Lady Garvagh and the
Honourable Miss Canning, Lady Dormer, Lady Erie,
Lady Dorothea Neville, Lord Rendlesham and the
Misses Duff, Lady Foulis, Lady Wentworth, Sir R.
Vyvyan, Lady Alice Peel, Honourable Cecil Forester,
Honourable Mr. Arbuthnot, Sir H. and Lady Meux, Sir
Alexander Woodford and the Misses Woodford, Lady
Jervis and Miss Williams, Sir 11. Webb, Sir G. Womb-
well, Colonel Blanc, Major Buckley, Captain Smith,
Captain Reynolds, Mrs. Dennistoun, Captain Ryder
Burton, Mr. C. B. Baldwin, M.P., Mr. G. Cornwall,
Mr. N. Macdonald, Mr. S. D'Orsey, Mr., Mrs., and the
Misses Williams, Mrs. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor,
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Ewings, Mrs.
Rentford, Mr. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Holford, Mr. C.
W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Her
Majesty's box was occupied on Saturday evening by the
Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and the Hon. the
Misses Liddell. There were also present the Duke and
Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess (Dowager) of Bed-
ford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Marquis of Titch-
field, the Earl of Glengall, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Countess (Dowager) of Essex, the Countess Norbury,
Lady Charlotte Toler, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce,
Viscount and Viscountess Dungarvan, Lady Charlotte
Denison, Lord George Manners, Lord Suffield, Lord
George Paget, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord Sal-
toun, Lady Domvile, Lady Morgan, Lady Quintin, Lady
Joddrell, Lady Webster, Lord Somerton, Lord and Lady
Carington, Hon. G. Mulles, Hon. Spencer Couper, Hon.
J. Fortescue, Hon. Mrs. Leslie, Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Gage, Hon. Lawrence Parsons, the Hon. Miss Pepys,
Sir John and Lady Burgoyne and the Misses Burgoyne,
Sir William Lumley, Baron de Steinberg, Sir Thomas
Hare, Sir William Abdy, Sir Henry Webb, Sir W. and
Lady de Bathe and Miss de Bathe, Sir George and Lady
Clerk, Sir F. Trench, Sir G. Armitage, Hon. Spencer
Pousonby, Hon. H. Scarlet, Sir Jasper and Lady
Atkinson, Mrs. Charles Mills and the Misses Mills, the
Misses Richard, Colonel Challoner, Colonel Robinson,
Colonel 011iver, Colonel Wingfield, Captain Knox,
Captain de Bathe, Mr. H. Greville, and isitiss Greville,
Mr. J. Spalding, Mr. J. L. Clayton, Mr. Hume, Mr,
Sackville Lane Fox, M.P., &c.
DEATH or LORD ASIIBURTON.—This venerable
and much-distinguished nobleman expired et three
o'clock on Friday morning, at Longleat, Warminster,
Wilts, the seat of his youthful grandson, the Marquis of
Bath, in the 75th year of his 'age; having survived
scarcely a fortnight his brothers, Sir Thomas Baring,
Bart., and Henry Baring, Esq. His Lordship's illness,
which it would appear principally arose frm bodily de-
bility, was of about ten days' duration. He was attended
up to the last by Dr. Holland, and died surrounded by
all the members of his family. The deceased, Alex-
ander Baring, Baron Ashburton, of Ashburton, in the
county of Devon, was born October 27, 1774, being the
second son of Sir Francis Baring, Bart,, by the daughter
of William Herring, Esq. The deceased was married
to an American lady, Anne Louisa, eldest daughter of
William Bingham, Esq.. of Philadelphia. The issue
of this marriage, which took place in 1798, was nine
children, viz., five sons and four daughters. The eldest,
William Bingham, late Paymaster-General, M.P. for
Thetford, succeeds to the title and estates. His third
daughter is the Dowager Marchioness of Bath.
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—This society held
their anniversary meeting on Saturday, in their new
house in Burlington-street, under the presidency of their
learned director, Professor Wilson, in the absence of the
Noble President, the Earl of Auckland, who was under-
stood to be prevented from presiding by his official
duties. The annual report of the council congratulated
the society on their having obtained a larger and more
eligible house, and on the prospects of increased
efficiency in carrying out the objects of the institution.
It was understood that the facilities afforded by the
new locality would induce qualified members to give
occasional evening lectures on interesting subjects,
which la.ad occupied their attention during their residence
in Oka East

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