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London, England, 1834-05-26 00:00:00

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It is confidently rumoured that more than
one person high in office is lingering out an inefficient
official existence with no other view than to insure, by
required length of tenure, the full amount of retiring
pension.
it A I LWAYS.—Mr.George Rennie is making
a survey for a line of railroad between York and
Leeds. About 70,0001. have been subscribed towards
the undertaking.
The coverlids of beds of state formerly con-
sisted of minever, a sort of fur, supposed by Du Cange
to be the skin of a small animal called the gris. The
coverlids or counterpanes consisted usually of skins of
value, and were always included (as they were also by
the Romans) among the richest articles of furniture.
Romance of History.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A communication from Banbury, under the
head of " Trades' Unions," might provoke a
smile of mingled satisfaction and contempt at
the proceedings described by the writer, if both
feelings were not completely superseded by that
of pity for the sufferings of the miserable crea-
tures thus wickedly imposed upon by the false
and selfish scoundrels at the head of the trades'
unions, and of uneasiness at the liability of the
poor ignorant multitude to be caught, duped,
and betrayed, again and again, by whatever
snares may at any time be thrown out for them
by the same evil counsellors or their successors
in the government of such disastrous confedera-
cies. It appears that the working people of
Banbury, being seized by the like mania with
their neighbours elsewhere, joined a union called
the " Bradford Order of Weavers." The conse-
quence of which was, as a preventive measure,
the dismissal of some of the most activeunionists
by their masters. On the appearance, how-
ever, of certain missionaries a couple of
smooth spoken tailors--who had been despatched
for the purpose from London, the Banbury
malcontents, charmed with the prospect of the
promotion offer:;:a them by those grandees from
and London ; fired with the ambition of being
enr:mied as members of the "Grand National
Trades' Union of Great Britain and Ireland,"
(God help them I) suffered themselves to be
cabbaged out of their connexion with the petty
provincial lodge of Bradford, swore themselves
into an alliance with the most high and mighty
blackguards of the metropolis, and soon began
to fare accordingly : the first fruit of their rash-
ness was a payment of 6d. each, and of 10s.
for some printed humbug bearing the name of
instructions. They were flattered with the hope
of a remittance of 1001., which these represen-
tatives of the system of credit without industry
were kind enough to draw for upon the execu-
tive council in London, but of which, as may
\veil be imagined, not a shilling was ever
received. Under the elation of these
and other delusive promises, one of which
was, that the weavers should all become
masters (I) by virtue of their league with
the unionists of the capital, the unfortunate
fellows behaved in such a way that their masters
took the earliest opportunity of dismissing
them ; and from the destitution and wretched.
ness thus entailed upon 200 of them—for so we
understand the statement from Banbury—what
relief did they experience ? "Nil;" that was
the return. So, when they sent deputies to
London to represent their wants and disap-
pointments to the executive council, what was
the result ? Fine words—but, alas ! no
parsnips were buttered : one 5/. note was
finally wrung from these seducers and betrayers
of the weaving population of Banbury—one Si.
note for the benefit of hundreds of starving
people l There were afterwards numberless
letters_of solicitation written to the potentates of
the executive council, of which the latter had the
effrontery to deny the receipt, until their Se-
tiritary exposed them by confessing the false-
hood. The consequence of the whole operation
was, as it ever will be in such cases, the most
dreadful want by the dupes of the conspiracy,
and a sensible indisposition on the part of parish
officers (and who can wonder at it ?) to make the
poor-rates suffer for their folly. However, the
thing broke up of itself ; it was starved out, as
the journeymen tailors of the metropolis have
been, notwithstanding all their impudence and
boasting. We told these unhappy blockheads
how it would end with them ; and now it seems
that, after about three weeks' starvation,brought
upon them by their own cruel disregard of the
cries of their children for bread, they have been
forced to throw themselves at the feet of the
master tailors, and supplicate for work at the
old prices. We are of opinion that some regu-
lations should be made to avert the occurrence
of such an interruption to the course of trade
hereafter ; and we believe, that as a condition
of any employment being again given to these
now mortified offenders against the rights of
their peaceable and well-disposed brethren, they
will be called upon to sign a paper binding
themselves never more to enter themselves as
members of any trades' union. A report is
circulated and believed, that the accounts of the
-late strike are in a state for inspection, but that
certain " functionaries" of the council have
pretty well feathered their own nests.—Times.

The peculiar acrimony with which the Lord
Chancellor was assailed on Friday night, can
astonish no man who has been in the habit of
looking with any degree of attention to the
Church of England. The causes assigned by
the bishops for their fierce onslaught are by no
means sufficient to account for it. Money, and
money alone, could have stirred up the right
rev. fathers in God to such a display of passion.
" The question of mine and thine (as is ob-
served by Bishop Hall) bath ever embroiled
the world ;" and they who contrast the provi-
sions of the Lord Chancellor's bill with those
of the bill brought in by the Archbishop of
Canterbury two, or three years ago, will at once
see that no true Christian will ever forgive the
noble and learned lord. The most rev. prelate
treated the abuses of the Church as Sancho
Pane did his own hide, when the task of flagel-
lating devolved upon himself. The Lord Chan-
cellor laid about him in good earnest. There may
be simple-minded people who believe that the
bishops really mean what they say, when with
sanctimonious tones they lament the existence
of pluralities in the English Church. Lament
• them ! Not they. Look to the " Clerical
Guide," and observe what a number of livings
are often held by one man, having the good
fortune either to he a son of a bishop, or the
husband of a bishop's daughter. It is because
this bill of the Lord Chancellor will strike at
the fortunes of the young masters and misses,
not yet ready for sharing the spoil, that the
bishops seemed absolutely frenzied. What had
the abuses of the Catholic Church in former
times to do with the question ? The Catholic
Church purified itself from these glaring abuses,
when the English Protestant Church began to
exist, and it is curious that the whole career of
the so-called reformed English Church should
have been stained by corruptions from which the
unreformed church freed itself. The Church of
England is universally allowed to be the richest
in Europe. The lowest estimate of its wealth is
five millions a year. But what constitutes the
great charm of the Church in the eyes of the
aristocracy, is the distribution of this enormous
income. The share actually received by the
working clergy is trifling. The remainder
forms a large fund for maintaining the younger
branches of the aristocracy ; and pluralities are
indispensable for this object. Without plu-
ralities the Church would lose all its attractions
in the eyes of the great. When attachment to
the Church is spoken of in high places, attach-
ment to the gross abuses of the Church is

always meant. If it had been wished to free
the Church from these abuses, how happens it
that during the whole period of its history,
extending to nearly three centuries no time
should have been found for this. Where there
is a will there is a way ; but the Church knew
that gold

" Will fight man's cause,
When fathers, brethren, and the near'st of friends,
Leave to assist him,"
and it was not for the bench bf bishops to ori-
ginate any such gelf-denying ordinance as the
Lord Chancellor has submitted to the House
of Lords. It has been more than once re-
marked that the Church has never failed to per-
secute, with the utmost bitterness, all who ever
hinted at the existence of abuses requiring a
remedy. Even in these latter days the
disposition to persecute remains, though
the power fortunately no longer subsists. Were
there any doubt with respect to the disposition,
the exhibition of Friday night would remove
it. The united Church of England and Ire-
land is the great political sore of this country.
Compared with this great abuse all others are
trifling. In the funds belonging to this united
church, means of corruption exist to an enor-
mous extent. If it be wished that we should
enjoy the blessings of good government, we
must apply ourselves to this crying evil. Lord
Brougham a bill is a bitter pill for the lords
spiritual and temporal, and they will avoid
swallowing it if they possibly can. Whether
they do or not, of one thing they are certain—
they will never forgive the Lord Chancellor for
subjecting them to this rough medicine.—
Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Lyall deserves great credit for endea-
vouring to relieve the merchant seamen from
the tax which they are compelled to pay to
Greenwich Hospital, and from which they de-
rive no benefit whatever. The tax, it appears,
amounts to upwards of 20,0001., and we ob-
serve that some of the advocates for Mr. Lyall's
measure propose that the sum taken from the.
hospital should be made up by some other im-
post laid upon the public. From this proposi-
tion we altogether dissent. The establishment
of Greenwich Hospital seems to be kept up on
a scale of expense far beyond that of the bounty
which it distributes. Are there no overgrown
salaries that may be cut down ? No sinecure
places that may be dispensed with ? If not let
the country insist upon Ministers cutting down
the pension list, that the men who fought and
bled for their country may not be starved, while
splendid paupers live on the national industry.
—Morning Herald.
Earl Grey has given to the Archbishop of
Canterbury and to the Archbishop of York a
promise in writing that the Government, of
which he is at least the titular leader, will make
no change in the constitution of the established
church, without previous consultation with their
Lordships. Lord Brougham thrusts upon the
table of the House of Lords two bills, affecting
most nearly the constitution of the Established
Church, without any such previous consulta-
tion ; and he states in the first place that he has
received the " full concurrence of his col-
leagues,"—in the second place that he had
" consulted his colleagues"—in the third place,
that it is " customary for members of either
House of Parliament, though ministers of the
crown, to bring in a measure in their capa-
city of members, and not of ministers." If
Earl Grey is not absolutely a cipher in the
Cabinet which is called Earl Grey's Cabi-
net,— if Earl Grey is really the Prime
Minister of the Crown,—the consequence
of such a procedure on the part of Lord
Brougham is obvious. How did Mr. Pitt
welcome the rebellion of Lord Thurlow ?
How would Mr. Fox have regarded a demon-
stration of a mutinous spirit in Lord Erskine ?
We can tell,Lord Grey that amongst all men
who take part in political life, Whigs and
Tories, friends and foes, there is but one voice.
Lord Grey should either vindicate the faith of
the Cabinet by expelling the individual who
has compromised it, or he should redeem his
own honour by ceasing to be a member of a
body whose faith has been thus compromised.

But Lord Grey is still the First Lord of the
Treasury ; Lord Brougham is still the Chan-
cellor of England. The government has
brought into the House of Commons a bill for
the regulation of the temporalities of the Irish
Church. That bill is framed with reference to
the continued appropriation of those temporali-
ties to the uses of that church. It is a bill
which of course must have been well consi-
dered, thoroughly discussed, deliberately ap-
proved by the Cabinet from which it emanates.
Upon this continued appropriation of the exist-
ing temporalities to the uses of the existing
church a difference arises between two members
of the Cabinet—one holding the property of the
Church inalienable, the other professing his
opinion that it ought to be forthwith alienated.
We cannot conceive a question more solemn,
nor a difference more direct. Upon the first
suggestion of such a quarrel, upon such a
theme, one should expect that two honourable
and honest men would. feel the impossibility of
continued union in council with so palpable a
discord in sentiment. Yet Mr. Stanley is still
Colonial Secretary I. Lord John Russell is
still Paymaster of the Forces 1 The adminis-
tration of which Lord Althorp is in the House
of Commons at least the nominal leader has
made, through the medium of this same Lord
Althorp, a bargain with the Bank of England.
A certain bill is now pending in Parliament, of
which some of the provisions are, in the opinion
of Lord Althorp, who made that bargain, in-
consistent with the terms of the bargain. Lord
Althorp's view of the justice of the case is sup-
ported by the opinion of every man who is in
the habit of weighing the provisions of similar
contracts. Lord Althorp is unable to induce
the House of Commons to act upon the condi-
tions of the contract ; to ratify the treaty which,
upon his motion, that House of Commons has
made. What would an honourable and inde-
pendent minister do ? The Duke de Broglie,
as minister ot the crown, made a contract with
America ;--:the chamber refused to adopt that
contract ;—the duke resigned. Lord Althorp,
as minister of the crown, has made a contract
with the Bank of England ; the Parliament,
after adopting that contract, has, in the opinion
of Lord Althorp, violated its solemn engage-
ment.—Yet Lord Althorp is still Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and leader of
the House of Commons. We hear men
questioning whether the differences of the
Cabinet have been adjusted? What does it
matter ? Men who can differ upon such sub-
jects, and still meet in the same office,—sit
upon the same bench,—are not likely to se-
parate upon any disagreement, however difficult
of adjustment. Here are disputes,—not private,
not things of mere rumour, but public, exposed
to the common gaze,—involving considerations
of political expediency,—of personal honour,

—nay, even of religious sentiment. But the
Cabinet is the Cabinet still. And it is re-
markable that in all differences and divisions
the victory appears commonly to belong to the
party which in talent or in rank is the inferior
of the combatants. Lord Grey, the Premier,
is insulted by Lord Brougham, his colleague.
Mr. Stanley, a man of acknowledged ability is
thwarted by Lord John Russell, a nobleman
of -confessed incapacity. Lord Althorp, who
leads the House of Commons, is misled in turn
by every member of it.
" So Fate hath ordered that in endless chain

V.k, •••.6.1.• Vv. • •••....
Event from cause shall flow ; but what will be
The end of this, no mortal can forsee !"
Morning Post.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 24.

BYWATER V. RICHARDSON.

This was an action on the warranty of a horse.
The case was tried before Mr. Baron Bolland at the
last summer assizes at Lancaster, when it appeared
that the horse had been sold by auction ; that one of
the conditions upon which the sale of horses at the
repository at which this horse was sold was, that if the
horse was unsound it should be returned within twenty-
four hours. The horse was not returned till some
time afterwards. The horse was warranted sound
and quiet in harness. The plaintiff sold it soon after
he had bought it, and the person who purchased it
from him brought an action against him, and proved
that the horse was neither quiet in harness nor sound.
A verdict, therefore, was passed against the present
plaintiff in that case, and he then brought this action,
in which, when tried before Mr. Baron Bolland, a
verdict was given for the plaintiff, with damages equal
to the value of the horse. A motion had since been
made by Mr. F. Pollock for a rule to show cause why
the damages should not be increased by the amount of
the costs paid by the plaintiff in the first action.
Mr. Alexander, on behalf of the defendant, had ob-
tained another rule that a nonsuit should be entered.
After counsel had been heard on both sides, the
court thought, as there was no doubt in this case of the
plaintiff having been aware of the condition, the effect
of such knowledge was, that he was bound by the
limitations which it had imposed upon him. The rule
for entering a nonsuit must be made absolute.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 24.

DIXON V. NUTTALL.

Mr. MILNER showed cause against a rule obtained
by Mr. Sergeant Bompas, calling on the defendant
to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should
not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered. It was an
action on a promissory note, in these words :—" I
promise to pay M. A. Dixon, or bearer, on demand,
at sight." The grounds on which the rule was ob-
tained were, that the action was brought before the
note had been presented for payment. The learned
counsel contended that the words " at sight" should
be rejected as surplusage.
Mr. Sergeant BaMPAS, in support of the rule,
maintained that this was a bill at sight, and that the
defendant was entitled to three days of grace after
presentment for payment.—Rule absolute.