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London, England, 1834-12-10 00:00:00

DROPPED DISPATCHES.

SIR R—B—RT P L TO THE DUKE OF W.
Rome, Nov. 26.
My Dear Duke—That I am ready to make any personal
sacrifice in the service of my country, which can be require' of
a public man, will best be shown by the prompttido with
which it is my intention to attend to your
all
unexPP-Sted summons,
and to follow this notification of myself w •
;:11 the speed that
peculiar circumstances may rende' possible. Thus much in
obedience so the Commands of my Sovereign, and considera-
tion for the claims of Inrty imperatively demand of me. Ex-
cuse me, if I cautiously abstain from committing myself
further at present. I might, if necessary, justify this reserve
on the ground of the scanty information you have furnished me
with as to the past, the necessary ignorance as to the present,
in which, of course, I am at this moment involved, and the
speed with which, as to the future, I am to exchange specula-
tion for personal observation. The young gentleman you
have sent, whose name I have now forgotten, is perfectly in-
competent to give me any verbal information on any political
topic. Indeed, he seems to have no idea beyond that courtly
circle from which he has been rather irregularly selected for
this purpose.
You state that Lord Melbourne's Administration, having
lost the confidence of the Crown and the support of the
people, were at last summarily dismissed on the combined
plea of Lord Spencer's death and their own internal dissen-
sions. That they had lost the confidence of the Crown, is of
course as undeniable as Lord Spencer's death, and is proved
by the result. The internal dissensions to which you allude,
will, I trust, be such as must be admitted by themselves, and
clearly of a practical and immediate nature ; because, if merely
speculative and supposed, they will of course in the first in-
stance be denied, and the accusation will rebound against
ourselves, when we attempt to form a Cabinet, the recorded
opinions of which must, in the present state of party, be an ob-
vious bar to unanimity. I will not, at this distance, pronounce
any decided opinion as to the late Government having lost the
support of the people, but much must have happened since I
left England, if that support is withdrawn, not only from the
individuals, but from their principles ; and if there is, there-
fore, any reasonable hope that we can, with the concurrence of
the present constituency, honestly support in power, those
principles which we have advocated in opposition. You will
recollect that I stated on the first opening of the reformed
Parliament, that " I had no desire to succeed the gentlemen
opposite ; that, on the contrary I considered there was a wider
gulf between me and office, than between it and any other
man in the House," because I knew that the country could
only be governed through the House of Commons, and I felt
that my opinions were not those which were supposed to in-
fluence the majority of that House. Since then I am obliged
in candour to admit that the most constantly recurring portion
of my Parliamentary duty has consisted in aiding the late Go-
vernments in their attempts to modify the opinions of that ma-
jority. Without referring more particularly to the decided
manner in which, upon all those questions still open, I have
declared my opinion in opposition to the popular voice, how
could I expect to be allowed in office to take that line, which
in conscience I would—in consistency I must—recommend ?
You refer to an immediate dissolution as an inevitable re-
source ; the solid advantage likely to be derived from suela P
step you will, of course, by this time have ascertained
such indications as you then anticipated-44 divio: •
the Reformers"—" contempt and dislike of •' eons , irom
among
—and
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- ..versal desire to see us in office.
before I would.
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- , far as they go, be satisfactory ; but
myself advise his Majesty to so strong a mea-
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dissolution, I should desire to see, in detail, that the
most unfavourable calculation of our best informed friends in-
sured us at least a certain majority in the new House. With-
out such a promise, I would not be the man to throw the whole
country into confusion for two months' power.
As to the future policy of the Government, which you hint
must be guided by circumstances, you will, I am sure, excuse
me if I remind you that my position as a politician is rather
different from yours. You have in your military character ac-
quired such an inexhaustible fund of reputation, that upon the
accumulating interest of that, your fame will be supported in
splendour threugi all inture generations. There was, on the
one incident in my public life, to which I always re-
cur with pain. A successful sacrifice of opinion to expediency
was to you additional glory—to me irreparable injury. But
change of purpose in one question may arise from honest con-

iction, whilst a general abandonment of recorded opinions is
always stigmatized as want of principle ; and where the first
was so sudden and striking as to excite increasing suspicion,
ho s fatal to reputation would official apostacy be ! I have
now, on the contrary, an unexpected opportunity of vindicat-
ing, to all posterity, my conduct on the Catholic question.
But, tempting as such an occasion is, I will not on that ac-
count refuse to serve my country now, if I can do it w,th
honour and with success. We must not promote Reform for
the sake of place. We must take office to restrain, if not re-
store ; but to obtain power for such an object we may make
general professions—but we must beware that the resistance is
real, the concessions unsubstantial. This course—the only
one which in prudence can, I think, be followed, is, however,
beset with difficulties ; surrounded as we shall be with suspi-
cious supporters and active adversaries : and the fatal objec-
tion, I take it, will be found, that the people who were impa-
tient and dissatisfied at the tardy course of Reform on the part
of their own friends, will not be deceived by our specious
mockery. As I shall so soon follow this letter, I had not in-
tended to have thrown out on paper even these few hasty
doubts. lam obeying your summons with, I own, but very
faint hopes of being able to form such a Government as, true
to its principles, should at the same time receive general sup-
port. But as far as lam myself concerned, I must repeat my
readiness, for such an object, to make any personal sacrifice,
except that of character.

I am, my dear Duke, your ever faithful,
R-B-RT P—L.

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

The completion of the buildings intended for the future ac-
commodation of the Lords and Commons ra,,,ldly proceeds.
The internal arrangements of what is to constitute the House
of Lords, heretofore known as the Painted Chamber, are now
manifest. The woolsack and throne end of the chamber will
be towards the Thames, and at the most distant part from the
temporary Commons' House ; and the approach to the House
for the King, and to the several seats for the Peers, will be
through the door-way from the royal gallery, along which the
King used to pass on his way to the robing-room. This, it.
may be remembered, is the modern gallery, and was erected
by Sir John Soane. The floor of the House of Lords will
be according to the forms that existed in the old House. There
will be throne, woolsack, table, and beyond the table cross-
benches, and a bar, below which counsel can appear on ap-
peals, &c. On each side, gradually rising step by step, there
will be seats for the Peers. At the end opposite to diat oc-
cupied by the throne and the woolsack there is a gal.lery of se-
veral rows of seats; it abuts upon the building formerly con-
stituting the House of Lords, now to tie used as the
House of Commons. The front row is to be allotted to
reporters, with increased protection against the interrup-
tion of strangers, and additional facilities of ingress and
egress. The sides and ceiling of the House are boarded.
The Commons Chamber (heretofore the House of Lords)
also presents the arrangements in a state far advanced towards
completion. The Whole of what constituted the former
House of Lords, and beyond it, or behind the throne, set apart
for the Kim's robing-room, is to be the House of Commons ;
but thongh -there is the addition of the robing-room to the
chamber, and which will be the site of the Speaker's chair, the
lower end of the House will be somewhat diminished, to form
a member's lobby. Over this lower end of the House there is
erecting a stranger's gallery, about where the former strangers'
ladies', and reporters' gallery for the House of Lords was con-
structed, by the cutting of the wall and the tapestry, so that
the gallery should be out of the House. Under this gallery
will be the members' door. On each side of the House will
be seats for the members, gradually rising from the floor, as in
the old House ; and on each side is raised a members' gallery,
constructed after the fashion, if not of the materials, of the
galleries raised for Peers at what was termed the Queen's
trial. The semi-circular windows at the summit of the walls,
and just under the roof of the old House of Lords, are the
chief lights for tie House of Commons. The Speaker's
chair will be stationed at the southern end of the chamber_
namely, that end opposite to the members' entrance and the
strangers' gallery.
The gallery for the reporters will be above and behind the
Speaker's chair ; the gallery to be for those connected with
the press exclusively. There will be a separate entrance to
this gallery ; and this increased facility will have the additional
advantage of a ready communication with the reporters' seats
in the House of Lords.

The long gallery is being fitted up for the Commons' offices
the Commons' entrances will be along the former route ; those
of the Lords will be changed.

TOWER HAMLETS.—A general meeting of this
influential borough will be held on Thursday.
ACCIDENT TO BISHOP PHILI)OTTS.—WE regret
to state that on Wednesday last, as our Right Rev. Diocesan
was going down the hill near the four mile stone on the Tiver-
ton-road, in Rew parish, his Lordship's horse fell with him,
and threw him, by which hiS Lordship was severely bruised,
but not seriously hurt. The Bishop was immediately con-
veyed to the house of Ile Rev. Mr. Bond, of Stoke, who sub-
sequently sent his Lordship home in his gig.__ Western Times.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Calcutta has signified
to Government his intention to commence his episcopal visita-
tion next month, and that, if possible, one of the Government
steamers is to be provided for his accommodation. His Lord_
ship's first visitation will be held in the Cathedral in the early
part of August, and he will embark somewhere about the 15th
or 20th of the month, with his Chaplain and a medical at-
tendant, for Moulmein, Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, pro-
ceeding thence to Madras. This voyage, it is calculated, will
occupy about six weeks. The steamer will then return to
Calcutta, and go back to Madras fur his Lordship and suite
about the 20th of February ; so that his Lordship's absence
from Calcutta will not extend beyond the month of February.
The cold weather will be occupied in visitations in the Madras
Presidency and Ceylon. It is his Lordship's intention, after..
wards, to proceed to the upper provinces and to the Agra Pre-
sidency.— Calcutta Courier, July 2.
SHERIDAN KNOWLES.--A friend informs US
(would we could disbelieve him) that private letters from New
York bring the mournful intelligence that this excellent poet
and warm-hearted independent man has had a severe attack
of paralysis. These news will occasion wide and sincere
grief.—Glasgow Argus.
On Monday, Mr. Perkins, of Snaith, surgeon, in
company with a Mr. England., and other friends, went out for
a day's shooting. TE7 bs:..d not been long enjoying the sport,
when, melancholy to r'..tate, by some accident, Mr. Perkin's
gun went off, and 'As contents were lodged in the neck of Mr.
England, Ito almost immediately expired. An inquest was
held "::ne body by Mr. Pearson, coroner, of Selby, when a
"...n.ict of " Accidental Death" was returned. There is an
awful singularity connected with this fatal event : the father
of one of the party was, about two years ago, suddenly called
to another world by a similar accident from the hands of one
of his own sons.—York Herald.

CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN.--On Tuesday a
bottle, containing the following notice, was picked up on tho
shore at Southport :—" Thrown overboard from the packet-
ship South America, by the passengers, March, 1833, in the
Gulf Stream, off Cape Cod, lat. 40, 30, long. 68 west. The
finder is earnestly requested to publish this in the nearest
newspaper to where it may be found, to show the currents of
the ocean, and oblige the pas Angers, as well as confer a be-
nefit on science."

SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween ten and 11 o'clock, Mrs. Petty, an elderly Lady, the
wife of Petty, Esq., of No. 22, Brook-street, Grosvenor-
square, was in the act of descending the drawing-room stair-
case to the breakfast parlour, having for the first time quitted
her apartment after a confinement of several months through
a severe and dangerous illness, when her foot failed her, owing
to the enfeebled state she was in, and the unfortunate lady
fell, headforemost, down twenty three stairs, striking the
right side of her head with fearful violence against the ban-
nisters. Mrs. Petty was lifted up in an apparently lifeless
state, with the blood oozing from her mouth and ears ; and
on the attendance of Mr. Michael, surgeon, of Duke-street,
Oxford-street, being obtained, her skull immediately over the
right hemisphere of the brain was found to be extensively and
dangerously fractured, and but very slight hopes can be enter-
tained of her surviving.
DEATH BY POISON.—On Monday night an in-
quest was held at the George, in Market-street, Borough-
road, before Mr. Payne, the Coroner, on view of the body of
Rebecca Mogg, aged nineteen. It appeared from the evi-
dence of the mother and sisters of the deceased that her bro-
ther had ran away in August last, and had not been heard of
since. SEe reproached herself being the cause, and was con-
tinually crying. For the last two days she had been delirious,
ever since the men had been hanged at Horsemonger lane,
when she said she thought of her poor brother. She re-
mained with Mr. Bennett, in whose service her brother had
been, some time after he had, left, but she complained of their
always reproaching her for being the cause of his running
away. She had a sweetheart, but the intimacy had been
broken off some time, and the witnesses did not think this
preyed upon her mind. On Friday last she went to a che-
mist's shop and purchased some arsenic, on the pretence of
poisoning rats. The shopman refused to serve her without a
witness, and she returned, accompa.tiled by a younger sister,
when he put up half an ounce With the word " arsenic " on
the paper, as she appeared collected and rational. The de-
ceased took the poison the same night at twelve o'clock, and
died the next day.; Verdict—" Temporary Insanity."
TIM Wi...t.ECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.—The
brats pans, three in number, which have been raised from
the wreck by the exertions of Mr. Dean, are 24-`founders,
weighing, on an average, 51 cwt., and dated 1742, 1748,
and 1759. When first raised they were loaded ; the shots
are as clean and perfect as the moment they came from the
foundry, and the rope-yarn of which the wads are composed
sound and strong. The guns are incrusted with a coat of
lime about the twentieth of an inch thick, to which several
oysters have attached themselves ; but these, as well as the
calcareous coating, separate very easily from the metal,
leaving the gun perfectly clean and sharp in its castings.
Two of these guns, in addition to the King's arms, bear
those of the Duke of Montague ; the other, a Viscount's
coronet over a shield, in the upper part of which is a vertical
crescent between two stars, and underneath a lion rampant
motto, " A Rege Victoria." A few days since some
officers of the Victory went on board Mr. Dean's vessel,
and fired several rounds from one of these guns. Captain
Bagnold, who has carefully inspected them, states that the
perfect and undecomposed state in which t'ne gun-metal has
remained for half a century suggests As utility as an alloy
and it is also worthy of
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shot has been unassailed by'
the sea-water, three wrought-iron bars, which appear to have
been included in the base ring of each gun at the time of cast-
ing, are nearly dissolved.—Guernsey Star.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Sir Robert Peel in 1832 was loud in his invectives
against the press, which he was pleased to describe as
most profligate. About this time the Right Honour-
able Gentleman would seem, from his own declaration
in the House of Commons, to have been scared from
his purpose of recanting his principles a second time
to please the Duke of Wellington. The professed
principles of the new Government are yet shrouded in
mystery, and it would be premature to charge the Right
Honourable Gentleman with an intention of doing
what. the Duke of Wellington was ready to do in
1832. On the 114.119iday of May, 1832, when Sir
Robert's heart failed him, the Times had a very pow-
erful article, which did good service to the popular
cause ; and as it seems as applicable to the present
crisis as to that of 1832, we cannot do better than lay
it before our readers :
" See what is preparing. There is not a town in the United
Kingdom where a meeting is not about to be held, and where
' Create Peers or withhold taxes' is not spoken of as the single
alternative. What, then, can be done with such a people?
An Anti-reform Ministry ! or a Ministry of Anti- reformers,
brought round by fear, tendering reform in the spirit of ' Con-
servation,' and nibbling at every fragment of popular conces-
sion in the present Bill, as if what was lost to the country
must of necessity be gained to the Government I That, we
can tell them, will not do now. It is, indeed, possible that
the Tory House of Lords may grant to the Duke of Welling-
ton what it had refused to Lord Grey, and pass the identical
Bill under an oligarch Administration, which, under a liberal
one, it has rejected. But the people have a voice, and they
will cry loudly to a Cabinet of Tory Reformers (should such
a Cabinet be formed)—' Rapacious hypocrites I you shall not
so torment the English nation; support an honest Administra-
tion, for we will not trust the charter of our liberties in un-
clean and factious hands like yours.' "
No ! we will not trust the charter of our liberties in
the unclean and factious hands of the Duke of Wel-
lington and Sir Robert Peel. Their hands are still
unclean end factious ; they have not changed, though
the language of the Times has changed. The people
of England are not so indifferent as the Times would
have them to be with respect to the hands to which
the Government shall be trusted. The real question
now at issue, as is well observed by the Scotsman,
" is whether the old Oligarchy or the People shall
govern the country. The House of Lords represents
the one ; the House of Commons the other. The
people, by the elections of 1832, placed the Govern-
ment in the hands of men who were the organs of
their desires and opinions ; and the Oligarchy are
now making a desperate attempt to get a Parliament
returned which will betray the cause of the people, by
transferring the Government to their enemies. The
simple question which the constituency will have to de-
cide at the coming election, is whether the Adminis-
tration is to be formed of the leaders of the People or
the leaders of the Oligarchy, the friends of Reform or
the friends of Corruption.' The Times of yesterday
tells us, that " whatever may be the cast of a man's
politics—whatever his hopes and wishes—he must be
blinder than a bat, and duller than a hog, if he fail to
see and to understand, that the people will have none
other than a Liberal and Reform Government." But
the old Tory papers tell us, that the Reformers
will all be in accordance with the Tory cast
of politics. If men of an illiberal cast of poli-
tics wish to conduct the Government, it must be to
give effect to their own principles. It may, there-
fore, be assumed, that whether they succeed to the
extent of their wishes or not, the Government of the
Duke and his puppets will endeavour to prevent the
people of England from deriving much benefit from
the Reform Bill. The great point is, make a power-
ful effort at once, and return men to Parliament who
will make no terms with the Tories. The simple and the
safe course is, act on the maxim that prevention is
better than cure. We know not all that the Tories may
do when firmly seated in power. Their designs may
be favoured by various accidental circumstances. But
we know that so long as they are not in power they can
do no injury. The Reform Bill is only the foundation
for various essential improvements of our institutions.
Before the Reform Bill, the Lords returned the House
of Commons ; and they wish to regain their ascendancy
over the Commons. Till the Lords is brought into har-
mony with the representatives of the people, Government
can only be carried on by acting on what Lord John Rus-
sell told us was Lord Grey's principle—introducing no
measure into the Commons, to which it was known the
Lords were indisposed. We are yet, therefore, in a
state of Constitutional anarchy. The Whig Ministry
have been dismissed, to enable the Lords to try whe-
ther the anarchy may be made to terminate in an oli-
garchy. We must not conceal from ourselves that
the struggle is between oligarchy and Constitutional
liberty. We must have men heartily disposed to use
the power given by the Reform Bill to effect those
further changes, without which we can never be secure
against oligarchical machinations against our rights.
It is one of the artifices of the Times and other un-
principled journals to represent the Reform Bill
as a sufficient protection to the people. We are
fully sensible of the immense importance of the
Reform Bill as a means to an end. We have in
that measure the first step in the direction of
effectual Reform. But till our municipal institu-
tions be changed, and some modification of the
Lords take place, we shall be exposed to con-
stant agitation, caused by those who still live in the hope
of regaining their lost power. The people must make
one great effort to obtain, what Earl Grey was unable
to extort. Though we have no doubt of the issue, we
would not have the people to hold the Tories too
cheap. They have been concocting their plans, while
the people, not dreaming of a change, have been taken
by surprise. There is no time to be lost. The people
must everywhere make the necessary arrangements for
the contest. The memory of 1832 is still fresh. In
some of the counties, the 501. tenantry-at-will clause
may give the Tories advantages; but in all the towns,
Reformers will be returned. It would be libellina the
Li
people of England to suppose that they are not fu;nr
aware of the importance of the coming struggle. If
they fail to do their duty now, they will lay the
foundation for much national calamity. Bitterly shall
we all have to lament any want of exertion now. The
Tories will soon make us sensible of our error. No,
there can be no compromise between Toryism and Re-
form. Let us keep all unclean men out of the ta-
bernacle.—Morning Chronicle.
The Times informed us yesterday, that Mr. Emer-
son Tennent had forwarded for presentation to his
Majesty an Address, signed by 22,000 inhabitants'.
The Standard, improving upon the Times, informs us
that the Address was signed by no less than 23,000
inhabitants. " The signatures (adds our evening con-
temporary), we can assure the Morning Choonicle,
have been counted. The Address is loyal, dutiful,
and manly—tendering unreserved support to the Mo-
narch in the exercise of his prerogative ; and antici-
pating from his Majesty, almost in the very same
words (which is remarkable, because they could not
have been known in Belfast), the line of policy pro-
mised by the King, in his reply to the Common
Council Address." We can easily believe that the
names have been counted on paper, in London ; but it
would have been impossible to find individuals corres-
ponding to the names in the town of Belfast. We had ima-
gined that after the exposure of the absurd state-
ments of the Evening Mail, swallowed so readily by
the Standard, we should for a time have been freed
from the necessity of adverting to similar tricks. Why,
the whole adult male population of Belfast does not
exceed 15,000. By the late census, the whole popu-
lation is 60,000—one-fourth for the adult males, is
15,000. The other day about 6,000 Reformers met
to petition against the Duke of Wellington ; and we
are entitled to take the Reformers at 7,000 at least.
This would leave 8,000 persons in a condition to sign
the address forwarded by Mi. Emerson Tennent. The
Orange musters are like the Russian regiments—very
complete on paper. It is the rule, we believe, in the
case of the Russian regiments, to take the actual num-
bers at one-half or one-third of the number on paper.
But this allowance would be too liberal for Orange
addresses. We are not bound to tell the process by
which the number of names on paper is made 23,000.
It is enough for us to demonstrate that 23,000 indivi-
duals corresponding to these names cannot be found in
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Let us be humbly thankful to fortune and to the exer-
tions of Mr. Hudson for this most auspicious event
Yes, the hitherto unknown young gentleman, bearing
the above euphonious designation, to whom in old
times golden statues would have been inscribed—has,
after hunting over half Europe, succeeded at last in
unearthing the wily animal at Rome—(where geese
once saved the capitop—and here we have him, after
fewer than his usual doubles, tail and all, ready to do
wonders—to
" Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculty of eyes and ears,"
with the immeasurable benefits he and they are about
to heap upon this happy country. Sir Robert arrived
yesterday in London in time for the breakfast-table, on
which, we presume, the fragrant reports of Conserva•
tive re-action, as well as other dainties, were profusely
laid. We wish him a good digestion of both. How he
may relish the racy and well-buttered arguments lately
brought on the table respecting the repentance of Old
Sarum and of schedule A, and their miraculous conver-
sion to Radicalism—we cannot pronounce. Mother
Cole's conversion to morality was nothing to this new-
found virtue. The alleged popularity of rotten boroughs
and their champions will at all events make the Right
Hon. Baronet stare. Perhaps, too, he may become
somewhat confused with the self-refuting stock argu-
ments of the Wellington lickplatter prints :—Firstly,
that the people have exhibited no excitement ;—none
whatever ;—not the slightest ;•—and, secondly, that
they are too wise to exhibit such an excitement—know-
ing what they are about (sly dogs I) knowing that
their controul of the purse renders excitement quite
unnecessary. Ah I that controul of the purse, Sir
Robert—" Aye, there's the rub ;" there's the unlucky
result of extinguishing schedule A ; " there's the re-
spect which makes the calamity " of a Minister who
has to beat his brains for ways and means, an affair of
"too long life" for the sake of his personal conve-
nienc.—Morning Advertiser.
The first official act performed by the new Premier
was, as we have stated above, the despatch of commu-
nications to Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham.
Upon the result of this communication, it is of course
useless for us to speculate at the present moment, but
certain we are that the acceptance of office in such a
Government as that which we are satisfied Sir Robert
Peel will form, will be as consistent with the honour-
able and high-principled conduct evinced by his Lord-
ship and Sir James, in withdrawing themselves from
the Destructive Cabinet, as it will be serviceable and
satisfactory to the country at large. We yesterday
made some observations upon Mr. Attwood's address
to his " dear friends and fellow-townsmen" of Birming-
ham, in which we repeated our often-expressed opinion
of the absolute necessity at the present moment of
the oblivion of past political differences upon minor points
for the purpose of securing that unanimity in which
alone is strength, in defending the Constitution from
assaults and inroads which now all men, except the
most desperate destructives, view with apprehension
and alarm. It was in vindication of their Conserva-
tive principles that Lord Stanley. and Sir James
Graham secededfrom the Cabinet in July. In support
of those principles we sincerely trust they will join the
Cabinet in December. There do not appear to us
any questions, or if any very few, and those of se-
condary importance, upon which any difference of opi-
nion can reasonably exist between the Conservative
Whigs and the Conservative Tories. Almost all
the topics likely to divide a Government firmly
resolved to serve the country honestly, truly, and
constitutionally, have been exhausted ; and if the
results have not been such as the Conservatives
of either party might have anticipated, still, as
we yesterday said, it will be the duty of the new
Ministry to carry into effect those measures which
have already become part of the law of the land
with judgment, discretion, and temperance. Sure we
are that, at a crisis like the present, the good sense
and good feeling of those whose property, nay, whose
very existence, is at stake, will combine generously,
vigorously, and disinterestedly, to maintain the insti-
tutions of the country, anxious, as our gracious Mo-
'larch has said, to " correct abuses wherever they
exist," and, like him, " to support and maintain the
Constitution in Church and State." We are con-
vinced that no party bickerings, no desire for office,
no feelings of jealousy, no suspicions of neglect, will
be suffered to operate upon the minds of that class of
men who are likely to be personally affected by the
construction of the new Ministry. To make the Go-
vernment firm and lasting, there should be no prepon-
derating interest in its composition—no particular sect
or party should be predominant ; but a selection
should be made from all divisions of the Conservative.
party of the country, to check the ravages of the De-
structives, who would seek (as Mr.- Attwood says) to
produce in our country a reign of " anarchy, wild-
ness, blood, and terror." We must be content to wait
for a short time for the consummation of the event
which teems with such vital importance. We do so,
however, with hope and confidence, and look forward
to the wisdom and integrity of Sir Robert Peel, in his
new capacity of Premier Minister to a magnanimous
and Constitutional Sovereign, for the establishment of
a Cabinet pure and independent in character, in whose
elements neither selfishness nor personal prejudice shall
mingle, but which, by its firmness, steadiness, and in-
tegrity, may arrest the progress of a system from which
all conscientious men and loyal subjects have turned,
or are turning, with dread and loathing ; and, by a due
attention to the interests of all ranks of their country-
men, ensure for themselves the respect and support of
the people, and for the nation peace, honour, and
prosperity.—Morning Post.
The Scotch have the reputation of being a frugal
people, but their Judges are singularly deficient in the
national habit of good thrift, according to the evidence
given before the Committee on their salaries. Mr.
John Hope states that his father, the Lord President,
who has for many years had a salary of 4,3001. a-year,
is greatly in debt," and obliged to give up his car-
riage, though lie has lived, and brought up his family
" quietly and economically," and none of his children
- have, by their debts or expenses, occasioned his em-
barrassment. How the effect can have been prodnced
is, then, quite a riddle, considering the value of money
and the prices of things in Edinburgh. An income
of 4,3001., regularly paid, in the northern metropo-
lis, must be at least equal to one of 5,0001. a-year
in London ; and it is difficult to understand how
the possessor of such a fortune, living quietly and
economically, keeping only one carriage, and unen-
cumbered by the debts of an extravagant family,
could become involved. Yet upon this case and another
of a similar kind will be grounded a demand for an
increase of salary. It should, however, be quite clear
that the demand is rather for an increase of prudence
or better management, as we may be pretty sure that
no accession of income which the country could be
asked to afford, would suffice to pay the way of a
gentleman who without any expensive establishment
could so contrive as to involve himself in debt in
Edinburgh upon a salary of 4,3001. An extra-
vagant man, who gets into difficulties with a good
certain income, may renounce his expensive habits
and bring his expenditure within bounds ; but we
know not what is to be hoped from an economist, who,
living in a quiet way, gets greatly in debt upon a sa-
lary equal in value to 5,0001. a year in London. To
attempt by any addition to remedy this kind of defi-
ciency, would be like pouring more water into a sieve
in the hope of filling it. The quiet manager in Edin-
burgh, for whom 4,3001. a-year does not suffice, must
indeed be plenus rimarum. It is unpleasant to have
to advert to such a case, but it is evident that a coming
job has cast its shadow before it, and we have not only
to consider the delicacy due to individuals, but also the
justice due to the public. An Edinburgh magazine
(Tait's,) which has some convincing statements and
just remarks in answer to the pretences for increasing
judicial salaries, observes on the new habits of ex-
pense which have superseded the old frugality, and
has " a change of style,' which been the cause of
much dishonesty and ruin, and asks, "Is this cor-
rupting, unsafe, and vicious state of manners one in
which the judges of the land should acquiesce, much
less claim to lead as the highest "dbeer oefearaei'ddenut)
Scottish society, and are :5—.1 to•
-•.et.ed re.
Li 4,:; AO by further drafts upon the exnut„..
u returnedppome of the Jury said, lied
Because we think
sources of the country ? The actual amount of
money is, however, a mere trifle compared with
tto"the father or to ."" -
the principle upon which increase is urged, . S
and the ungracious time selected." The other case at -" '
Ivcods
supplied to the father ;" and others, " Because the'

which we glanced is that of Lord Craigie, quoted by
Mr. Hope in proof of the inadequacy of the Judges'
salaries. His salary was 20001. a-vear, about equal in
value to 3,0001. in London : he was " a bachelor of
remarkably retired habits," and lived in a small house,
kept but one man-servant, and no carriage, and yet we
are told his total savings at his death were but 5001.
and an insurance of 4,000/. upon his life. What
does, what can this prove, but mismanagement ?
It cannot be supposed that the salary was not su-
perabundant for the style of life described. In Eng-
land it is remarked that no men are so unfortu-
nate in their investments of money as the lawyers,
especially when they touch land ; and from these
instances we should be inclined to suspect that
their northern brethren must be us unlucky in their
speculations, for we know not how otherwise to account
for the poor circumstances of functionaries of good
incomes and economical habits in a cheap country.
We are no advocates for a niggardly system. The
Judges should be so paid as to be in easy, we may
say in affluent, circumstances, but short of maintaining
a style of luxury or fashion incompatible with the
moral dignity of their office. Whether 3,0001. or
4,0001. a year and upwards in Scotland, equivalent at
least to 4,0001. or 5,0001. a-year in England (and by
some calculations equivalent to 4,5001. and 6,000/.
a year), is sufficient for the proper maintenance of the
Judges, is no difficult question. No case is made out
by bringing forth instances in which the emoluments
have proved insufficient for the persons. There are
men who with their rent-roll of a hundred thousand
a-year are in debt, but that does not prove that a no-
bleman cannot maintain the style of living suited to
his rank with so narrow an income as • 100,0001.
a-year. We hope to hear no more of this matter.—
Times.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 8.