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has given notice of a motion to take the
whole subject into consideration on the first
day of meeting after Easter. We regret the
period is so distant ; but such a comprehensive
measure as the public expect cannot be settled
in a week. The public will not be satisfied
with a half-and-half measure now, and if the
Government wish to succeed, they will take a
lesson from the success of WELLINGTON in
' Catholic emancipation, and from their own
success in the Reform Bill. Neither of these mea-
sures would have succeeded had they not gone to
the root of the evil. Let this be a measure
of the same kind ; let it be as comprehensive,
as sweeping, yet as just in principle, and the
people will carry them on to victory. We have
too much confidence in the good sense of the
leaders in the Upper House to believe that
they would resist a measure, sanctioned as this
must be by an overwhelming majority in the
Commons, needlessly to raise an outcry against
the episcopal bench, and bring on a collision be-
tween the two Houses which must have the most
serious consequences. Let them not tempt
the people to look abroad and see what
has been done in another country, but
cordially join in redressing abuses, and they
may then look forward to recover that good opi-
nion of the people of England, which their ob-
stinacy against reform had in some measure for-
feited. All that is required is to remove real
grounds of complaint. Restore the tithes and
Church property to their original purposes,
place Churchmen and Dissenters on the same
footing with regard to church rates, and the
Church of England may then defy all its
enemies.

The LORD CHANCELLOR is an admitted
master of logic, but we must honestly confess
that his reasoning last night on the question of
the Jewish disabilities has fairly bewildered us.
His Lordship thought that the un-emancipated
Israelites stood'a better chance of having their
shackles knocked off,if they would only consent
to hold their tongues and lay the subject of
their grievances before the House of Lords as
seldom as possible ! Whv, upon this principle,
that public question has the best chance of
success, which is never talked of—never forced
on the consideration of Parliament—never so
much as whispered in its sensitive and delicate
auriculars !—we wonder his Lordship never
discovered the efficacy of this axiom during the
struggle of Reform, when it was fevering the
country from one end to the other. We wonder
he never then conjured the Rtformers, as his
Grace of WELLINGTON conjured the Catholics,
to " bury the Question in oblivion," on the pro-
mise that Parliament, respecting such virtuous de-
licacy, should take an early opportunity of acting
the part of resurrection-men, and digging it up
again. If perfect silence and apathy be essen-
tial to Jewish emancipation, we do not see why
the same negative requisites should not have
been equally essential to Reform. But the
truth is, Lord BROUGHAM was less speaking his
own opinions last night, than those of the House
of Lords. He was merely expressing the senti-
ments of an assembly, the majority of which
being afflicted with very delicate ears, does not
like to have them unnecessarily bored.

The privilege of voting by proxy is one of
those privileges which ought to be speedily and
totally abolished ; and we are glad, therefore,
to find that the Marquis of WESTMINSTER has
announced his intention of bringing the question
before the House of Lords. These are not times
when an hereditary legislator should be allowed
the power of deciding the fate of some great
national question without hearing a syllable of
the pros and cons of the discussion. Such a
mode of proceeding is a perfect mockery of le-
gislation, as great " a farce" as the Doke of WEL-
LINGTON once described a country meeting to be.
What man of common sense can possibly enter-
tain respect for a decision come to in the House
of Lords, on the strength of a cargo of proxies
sent up from Newmarket or Melton-Mowbray ?
It was the opinion of a celebrated Athenian
legislator, that folks should always hear before
they decide ; our titled folks think this a perfect
matter of superfluity, and reverse it altogether,
by deciding before they hear. A privilege like
this could only have originated in the old feudal
conviction that rank implied omniscience, and
that to be a Lord was the same thing as to be a
SOLoMON. Fortunately, the public mind i
beginning to be disabused of this error, and we
do not despair of living to see the time when a
discussion in the House of Lords shall be decided
in the same sensible, straight-forward manner as a
discussion i❑ the House of Commons.

It will be seen by the following extracts that
the Pacha of EGYPT contemplates some further
conquests in a new direction:—

C&IRO, DEC. 6, 1833.—What I mentioned as a conjecture
in my preceding letters proves to be seriously true. Mehemet
Ali has resolved to reduce, under his dominion, not only the
whole of the Hedjuz, but also the rich provinces of Yemen ;
20,000 men, chiefly regular troops, have been sent thither in
the course of the week. Achmet Pacha, hitherto Minister
of War, and nephew of Mehemet Ali, has the command of the
whole expedition, and left this city on the 2d for Suez ; there
he will embark for Jedda, and there for the head quarters.
Ibrahim Pacha, Achmet Pacha's brother, is already appointed
Governor of Yemen, and will shortly return from Syria and fol.
low his brother.
The conquest of the coasts of the Red Sea will hardly require
any great exertions, but it may be more difficult to penetrate
into the interior of the country, and to subdue the warlike
tribes that inhabit it. Yemen is well known to be one of the
richest countries of ,the East, and the possession of it promises
the most splendid pecuniary advantages to the Pacha. I hope
that I shall be able to communicate to you some particulars, as
well of the plan of the campaign, as of the state of Arabia Felix.
A report is in circulation here, that the English have destroyed
the little fleet of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, of which Turk-
tschi Bilmes had made himself master; but I cannot answer
for the truth of this report.

There are seven plague patients in the Lazaretto at Alex.
andria ; but they all came from Turkey, and as they are placed
under the most vigorous quarantine, there is nothing to be
feared from Egypt at present. This, too, is not a season fa.
vourable to the propagation of the plague in Egypt. Mehemet
Ali is still here ; he resides sometimes in his Palace of Schubra,
sometimes in the Citadel, and sometimes in. the place of his
son.in.law, who died a year ago. It is in contemplation to
establish a polytechnic school, under the direction of Ethen
Bey, a learned Turk, who has passed some years in Egypt, but I
cannot give you any particulars. Father Enfantin is still at Old
Cairo; he lodges with Solimanbry, a French renegado, who did
great service in Sy ria,as A i de-de-Camp to Ibrah imPacha, and may
be considered as the founder of the regular troops in Egypt.
Many St. Simonians have got places here, and have exchanged
their uniform for that of the Turkish Nizam.

VIENNA, FEB. 20.—That an inconsiderable event may not be
distorted by the French journals, and a political tendency as.
signed to it which it has not, I iiil9rlo you that at Klansen-