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their Lordships would take the measures necessary for
saving their estates, for into that question the matter
then before them of necessity resolved itself." It is for
the protection of the rich, therefore, and not of the
poor, that the measure has been instituted and con-
summated. And how are the rich to be protected
through this Bill ? By the oppression and incarceration
of the poor. Yet we apprehend that, even viewed in
this light, 'the pretext for the measure is frivolous and
futile ; for will any man in his senses believe that had
it not been for this Bill the estates of the aristocracy of
the country would have been swamped and absorbed, and
universal property swallowed up ? The conception is ab-
surdity itself. But further, if it be a bill for the oppression of
the poor, it is also a bill for their demoralization. -Men
may talk as long as they please of the admission of
Clergymen and Dissenting Ministers into the district
houses ; but if there be a truth in ethical philosophy
more substantially confirmed than all or any of the
rest, it is this—that vice is engendered and the human
mind corrupted by the congregating of large bodies, of
whatever age, into one place. Cities are proverbially
more vicious than the plains. The reformation of our
prisons has universally proceeded upon the principle of
separation ; but by this Bill we shall have the families
and children of manufacturing towns brought toge-
ther and huddled up with those of agricultural villages
and districts. Who will take servants out of such
nests of vice ? In our parish workhouses, whoever
were their inmates, they could but import the disor-
ders prevalent in the parish, with which all were or
would be acquainted ; there was no foreign infection ;
but these large seminaries will spread and communi-
cate to individuals of one class the vices of every other.
Had the Speech, besides its notice of this wretched
measure, adverted to the business left undone through-
out this session, protracted to a period of more
than six consecutive months—to the solemn promises
left unfulfilled—to the admitted grievances left to this
hour unredressed—or to the quantity of unmeaning
and unproductive gabble by which the public time and
patience were equally and provokingly wasted, it would
indeed have proved a voluminous document, though by
no means a creditable record of the Legislative prowess
of 1834. Again, we wish to guard ourselves from
stating that all this has been matter of positive blame
to the Government, although it unquestionably affords
room for lamenting the incapacity 'for political business
of some of its existing members, more especially in the
reformed House of Commons. The management of
the questions which came before that House has been
unexampled for weakness and unskilfulness, in those
responsible for it, though generally free from the cen-
sure of evil design. We do not remember that in any
preceding year measures of extensive aim and tendency
were ever brought forward in so crude and imperfect
a condition, or were consequently made the sport of
a levity so capricious and unstatesmanlike. Many
of the Bills sent up to the Lords came under the
cognizance of that Assembly so stigmatized by the
treatment which they had already received in the
other House by the almost ludicrous history of their
progress there, and by the inconsistent and childish
change' wrought in them through hurry, shallowness,
and imbecility on the part of their official superinten-
dents, as to furnish a temptation and constitute an ex-
cuse for the slighting and cavalier mutilation or rejec-
tion which they experienced from the adverse majority
of the Conservative Peerage, headed, on more than one
occasion, by a Learned Member of the Cabinet itself.
Such was the want, and such the result of an absence
of steady principle and of workmanlike power, in what
is called technically the management of the House of
Commons, a department of which the obvious clumsi-
ness and incompetency were, we repeat, without ex-
ample in the whole Parliamentary career of this or the
foregoing generation. The two great subjects of
which, as we have said, all mention was omitted in the
speech from the throne, were Ireland, and the tempo-
ralities of the Church Establishment. It is but candid

to acknowledge that any reference to the Church ques-
tion must, under existing circumstances, have involved
considerations of extreme delicacy. The subject
could scarcely have been touched upon at all with-
out re-asserting a necessity for those reforms, and
promising a renewal of those measures, or similar
ones, for the commutation of tithe, and the future
settlement of the condition of the Clergy, which
have been so lately and so sternly condemned by the
Upper House of Parliament. It would therefore have
been no strained construction of such a clause in a
Royal Speech from the Throne, to consider it a
pointed rebuke of a proceeding by the House of Peers,
which, let its wisdom or its virtue have been ever so
doubtful, did certainly not transgress the legislative
privileges of their Lordships, or. violate the rights of
any other estate of this realm. Silence, therefore,
upon that painful topic, was perhaps the only alterna-
tive within the reach of Ministers ; and Ireland pre-
senting at this moment no claim to particular or ine-
vitable notice but in connexion with the adventures of
the Church, it is not to be wondered at if the framers
of the speech availed themselves of the opportunity
(in its origin so unfortunate) of passing over what has
been hitherto for many sessions a prominent theme of
dissertation in every Royal discourse—viz., the state
and prospects of the sister kingdom. We sincerely
hope that nothing may arise between this time and
the next meeting of Parliament to obtain for Irish
affairs a larger space in the Royal communication to
both Houses.— Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday a good deal of interest was excited by the
details of the following case :
A young man, of very genteel appearance, named Thomas
Telford Elliot, was brought before the LORD MAYOR under
the following circumstances :—Mr. Edward Russell Bell, an
alebrewer, stated that the defendant was introduced to the
house by a person who represented himself as the commis-
sion agent to a respectable Scotch alebrewer, and who spoke
of the party about to become a customer as a man doing a
large business, and qualified to meet any pecuniary demand.
The defendant resided in a good house in St. Martin's-lane,
opposite to Slaughter's Coffeehouse, and the witness,
although not at all disposed to give credit to a stranger,
was induced to send stout to him to the value of 301. at
three months' credit, the usual period. Witness took a bill
for the amount. Three or four weeks afterwards the
defendant called to order more stout, blit witness declined
to send the article until another reference was given. The
person referred to on this occasion stated that he should
have no objection to entrust the defendant to the amount
of 1001 or 2001., and the witness let more stout to the value
of 231. out of his hands. A third time the defendant ap-
plied for quantity of the same article, and succeeded in ob-
taining an additional supply. At last witness ascertained
that the defendant was an uncertificated bankrupt ;. that he
had been twice a bankrupt ; that on the one occasion not
a farthing dividend was paid, and on the other a dividend
amounting to three farthings had been received by the
creditors.
Mr. Hobler, jun., for the prosecution, had a variety of
cases against Mr. Elliot.
Mr. Trower, of the firm of Trower and Co., of St. Ann's-
hill, wine-merchants, stated that the defendant succeeded in
obtaining a very large quantity of wines, brandies, and rums
from him by references, and by appearing to be the owner
of the house in St. Martin's-lane. Witness ascertained that
the wines he had sent to the defendant had been sold im-
mediately afterwards for a third less than the defendant had
engaged to pay for them. He also found that the house in
St. Martin's-lane was occupied by another person, that a
fresh name had been put up, and that the whole matter was
a complete illusion.
Mr. Hobler, jun., having requested that his Lordship
would remand the defendant,

The LORD MAYOR remanded him till. Friday next.
MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday a man of respectable appearance, named John
Hewitt, who it was stated is a well-known frequenter of
several gambling-houses, was charged with obtaining a
quantity of goods from various tradesmen by means of false
and fraudulent pretences.

George Martin, assistant to Mr. Balls, upholsterer, Ox-
ford-street, deposed, that, on the 2d of April last, the pri-
soner, whom he knew something of, came into the shop and
ordered a rosewood table and dressing-glass to be sent on
hire to the house of Mr. Bulwer, No. 55, Upper Seymour-
street, Bryanstone-square. Witness, knowing Mr. Bulwer
to be an old customer, and that he lived at the place
stated, sent them. Witness made no inquiries re-
specting them till hearingc, the prisoner was in custody, when
he asked Mr. Bulwer if he had ever ordered or received a
table and looking-glass, and was answered in the negative.
It appeared that Mr. Bulwer being out of town, the prisoner
was put in to take care of the house till that gentleman's
return.
James Palmer, shopman to Mr. Nottley, pawnbroker, 8,