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THE SUN, LONDON, WE_DNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 261 1851.

stone. Lord Stanley is well aware that a policy of re-
serve and compromise will soon become impracticable.
It will be necessary, in any cese, to face the House of
Carat:eons until t'-,e Easter holidays arrive. In that
Interval the Opposition will not be scanting in demon-
strations which will compel an avowal of the Ministerial
policy. If Protection is renounced, the county consti-
tuencies are lost; if it is proclaimed, the free-trade party
will form an irresistible union; and it will be impossible
to leave the question in doubt. The final resolution
adopted by the late Premier was, it must be allowed,
scarcely a matter of choice. The reconstruction •f the
late Government could only have led to a second and
more discreditable resignation. It seemed improbable
that any prudent politician would accept the respon-
sibility of the universally scouted Aggression Bill.
Nur would it have been possible for Lord John Russell
to renounce his erroneous policy without gravely com-
promising his character, by conceding to new allies what
he had destroyed his own party by refusing. Sooner or
later a union must be effected among the advocates of a
liberal policy, and in the event of Lord Stanley's fail-
ure the problem would be simplified by the necessary
substitution for Lord John Russell of some representa-
tive of his party less compromised in his recent errors.
In a few days or a few hews the question may recur;
and it is earnestly to be wished that no personal dif-
ficulties, in the form either of scruples or pretensions,
may stand in the way of a satisfactory arrangement.
HERALD.—As we predicted yesterday that it must
do—the attempt by Lord John Russell to patch up, or,
in courtly phrase, to reconstruct his Cabinet, by the aid
of Sir James Graham and his followers, has turned out
a complete failure. The bubble burst a little sooner,
perhaps, than might have been expected. By Monday
evening every possible combination that could be formed
out of Grey, Graham, and Russell had been tried, and
yesterday morning the Queen desired Lord Stanley to
proceed with the commission to form an Administration
which she had entrusted to him. The causes of the '
failure of Lord John Russell's attempt are obvious
enough: we indicated them yesterday. It is even said,
with confidence, by parties who ought to be well in-
formed, that the chiefs of the conspiracy parted upon not
the very best of terms—that two of them in particular ex-
changed mutual recriminations—and that each applied to
the conduct of the other epithets of rather a strong charac-
ter. Be this as it may, the fact with which the country
is concerned is this—that Lord Stanley is now en-

Duke of ilicumend or of Rutland. Sir Robert Inglis
will no doubt succeed Richard Lelor Sheil at Florence;
and More O'Ferral alone be received into favour, on
the credit of his kindred bigotry. We :nest own that
all this will be just retribution. No one can doubt
that the true champion, the general who routed
the Whigs, and flung Lord John Russell from his
seat, was no other than Cardinal Wiseman. He and
Schwarzenberg, and the Pope's Minister, planned the
campaign, furnished
i the means, and the manner of in-
vasion. And thus, n the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury, the Papal Court has riot only divided the country
into bishoprics, but convulsed Parliament, stopped the
business of the country for a year, its progress for
several years, and has ejected a Ministry te. tried Libe-
rals, and handed over the country to a retrograde party,
which, but for the Italian priests, bad not a chance of
obtaining it. Lord Stanley owes his Premiership to
Wiseman; and, na dout, however hostile its Lordship
may be in religious leanings, the Cardinal, in all proba-
bility, counts on his sympathy
as an encay of popular
freedom, and as a friend and patron of tee despots of
Lord
Europe. We have no doubt that on the sews of
John Russell's fall, a solemn thanksgiving will
have been offered up at Rome, a T's Doat sting
at Vienna, and that in all convents aid nunneries
of France Montalembert will ordain tie due cele-
bration of so glad an event. It wit: gladden. and
encourage all the reactionists and tyrants,
and religious, in Europe. The religious reactionists,
however, may, nay Must, be disappointed; and as to the
Irish and English Catholics, they have got rid of,Johnny
Log, we opine, and will have to compcund with Ned
Stork. We regret this, as repression of the Papal assump-
tion should have been proportioned to the offence, not
allowed to degenerate into persecution, nay, been tem-
pered by that impartial favour, generous cost ideration,
and gradual elevation in the social and political scale,
which was always the policy of the late Ministry
towards the Roman Csholics. Gratitude, however,
is not in the dictionary of the Propaganda. It
is painful to think that these machinations of
Italian priests should not only have shattered a
Liberal Government and party in England, but pre-
cluded the possibility of its being re-organized. Sir James
Graham not being popular in England, indeed only
popular on the credit of his being a slashing economist
and a daring administrator, irrespectful of men or of
things, durst not face unpopularity in Ireland. It is to
be feared that the announcement will render Ireland
ungovernable for a very long time, if not for over
ungovernable by England. The proof and the expe-
rience that the Roman Catholic party can break up any
Liberal Government in England, even that Government
which would be strongest on all otter questions of
policy, this experiment and conviction will have effected
more towards a definitive repeal of the union, and a
consequent separation between England and Ireland,
than all O'Connell's efforts put together.
Lord Stanley has at length the opportunity afforded
him which his followers have so freqtently effected to
desire. The Noble Lord was summoned to the Royal
presence in the afternoon of yesterday, and again invited
to attempt the task of forming a Ministry. He asked
until to-day to complete his list, and before many hours
it will necessarily be known what in his own estimation
his success has been. As a matter of personal interest
the result will doubtless create no ordinary degree of
curiosity. But as a thing of permanent importance, this
capricious episode in our constitutional history is not
likely to be hereafter dwelt upon as one containing
much either of significance or meaning. The gate
of the political orchard has suddenly been left
open, and the turbulent and covetous crew that
have been in the habit of threatening to scale
the walls, find themselves unexpectedly tantalised
by seeing the golden pippins within their reach. Th.
old gate-keeper, of whom they were mightily afraid is
dead; and his successor has, in a fit of vexation, forsaken
his post.
.Shall they rush in, agmine facto, and proceed
to appropriate what their boyish sods lust after? Or
will the consciousness that after all they have no honest
business there restrain their impetuous leader and his
unruly band? For their own sakes, some of their friends
may be disposed to hope the latter; bat should the former
occur, it will only be necessary to take quiet and pe-
remptory measures. for turning the intruders out again,
when the proper time comes. For any sober or useful
purpose, a Stanley Administration properly so called is a
mere absurdity. Think of a great, busy, exigent, and
clear-headed community like this having the direction of
their vast affairs committed to the'hands of a knot of
dilettanti writers, distressed squires, and delicate lord-
lings—a band of fops, fanatics, and fox-hunters! One
might as well imagine a man of sound mind selecting
for his domestic establishment a set of servants unfit to
work, although to beg for unearned wages not ashamed.
Conceive the amazement, incredulity, and scorn which
the first play-bill of the Carlton theatre must create
throughout the kingdom! As far as the mutes in the
court pageant are concerned, we doubt not the parts
might be filled up as well by Tory grooms and ladies
in waiting, as by those who have enacted those highly
unimportant characters for the last three seasons. But
pageants, however well " put upoa the stage," don't
draw. A discerning public insists upon having some-
thing more for its money than mere masquerading to
the tune of " God save the Queen." We are a busi-
ness people, and appreciate subjects of serious interest.
If the Merchant of Venice is advertised, we want to
know who is to play Shylock? And in the comical
farce of A Nabob for an Hour, we wish to learn
who is positively to play the impostor. Already lists
are handed about each more grotesque in grouping than
the rest. In one, the oddest jumble of Puseyites and
Evangelicals .may be seen; in another, trimming Free-
traders who are ready to vote Tor a nxed duty, and Pro-
tectionists who are ready to cushion protection. Be-
lieve some folks, and Messrs. Gladstone and Nowdeeate
are willing to form parts of the same heterogeneous
Cabinet; while Sir E. Sugden and Sir F. Teesiger, who
held office under Sir Robert Peel, are to figure along
with Messrs. Stuart and Walpole in the array that is to
be made against the policy of 1846. We cannot help
confessing that, if Lord Stanley can make out any
decent excuse for attempting so wild and mis-
chievous an experiment on 'the patience and
peace of the nation, great allowances may in fairness
be claimed for him on account of the deplorable lack
of brains among his own genuine fi diowers. Desti-
tute of the ordinary materials out'of which to construct
an Administration, he would fain' beg, borrow, or steal
what he wants from his neighbours. Unless we are
much misinformed, the Tory captain is open to offers just
now from any or every quarter. e` rare opportunity is
afforded to flexible gentlemen of business habits and
ordinary capacity. Good wages in any department will
be found to be at their disposal, and no objection will
be made or any questions asked on account of past opi-
nions. The only drawback is that under no circum-
stances can any engagement for a fixed period be given.
Notwithstanding this drawback, we should not be sur-
prised at finding odds and ends of other parties attach-
ing themselves to the usurpers; and were we disposed to
be malicious we think we could name some of the wern-
out appendages of Whiggery and Peelism over whose
desertion we should rather incline to laughter than Is-
mentseion. But will Mr. Gladstone, for whom Lerd Stan•
ey asked the Queen to wait until he should find it con-

TO TIIE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD

REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—When you receive this you will know as
much tl3 I do, of the position of the Government.
You will have heard that Lord John Russell stated
on Monday night that he had undertaken to endea-
vour to construct en Administration, and would re-
port progress on Friday.
Whether you and your sons, and your sons' sons,
and your little ones, have escaped this time, is not
yet certain, though there appears hope for it. Aa
we have none of us much influence over either the
present or the future, we must try to improve the
past. And as my share of it, I communicate to such
among you as may think it worth attending to, that
I will never again follow any of the leaders who have
so nearly brought ruin upon you and yours, an inch
further than my own judgment of the ultimate ten-
dency of their cperations. My allegiance is to my
constituents, and not to leaders or to names ; and if
they do everything they ought not to do, and leave
undone everything they ought to do, I will not be
found damaging your interests, through appre-
hension of being pointed at as the shocking man that
did not vote for Mr. So-and-so's motion. _ _

lam tempted to dilate a little upon this. The
two points on which I account myself particularly
constituents, are the preservation of
and the extension of the Suffrage to the
rising
Working Classes. Now on those two points, I
maintain,
that the leaders in question have done all
a
acutest and ablest enemy could suggest to
that
bound Free
tt h Trade,
oady
em
bring about the damage of those two causes. They
seized on every opportunity, leagued themselves with
every temporary hostility, as for example that of the
Irish Catholics, to work fur the ejection of the
Government favourable to our two great causes, and
for bringing in our bitterest enemies. I know it, be-
cause I was there to see.
I find an opinion in my last, confirmed by many
of the Liberal Members who sit around me, whom I
heard saying that Mr. Locke King ought to have
withdrawn his motion after the announcement made
by Lord John Russell of his intention next session
to bring in a Bill for the extension of the Suffrage.
But, they added, that he was kept up to it by the
chiefs. I'll follow such chiefs no more. If they and
I happen to go the same road, it is chance medley
and not following.
Hoping that your chances for repeating the scenes
of the Siege of Bolton will finally blow over,
I remain, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.

trusted with the task of forming an AdmitCistration, un-
embarrassed by any rival negotiations. That he will
succeed in forming an Administration that will com-
mand the confidence of the Sovereign and the nation
there can be no manner of doubt. It would be ob-
viou,ly improper to embarrass the statesman to whose
not unworthy keeping are now committed the fortunes

of the national cause by any premature statements or
speculations as to the individuals whom he may select as
his associates. A very few days—perhaps, even a few
hours—will set conjecture and speculation at rest. Should
any appointments be this day definitively arranged we
hope to be able to communicate them at a later period of
the day. At pre.ent we can only say that Lord Stanley is
fully and unreservedly entrusted with the mission to
form an Administration. The most sensitive or anxious
friend of the national cause must feel that in such keep-
ing it will be sate. We offer no apology to our readers
for not amusing them with conjectures which might or
might not turn out to be well-founded. We can only
repeat that so soon as appointments are definitively set-
tled, we shall make every effort to place the information
at the earliest possible moment before our readers and
the public. Many rumours will doubtless be promul-
gated, and perhaps some lists of an Administration an-
nounced, but we shall only deal with authenticated mat-
ter; and we believe we shall, as we have before stated,
be able to announce all that has occurred in reference
to the construction of a Cabinet by Lord Stanley in a late

P.S. lam sorry to find, as this is going to press,
the latest advices very unfavourable. You must get
used to short allowance as fast as you are able. But
remember, it was all because those who ought to have
taken care of you, would have it so.
London, 26 Feb., 1851.

HOUSE-TAX and WINDOW-DUTIES
Last evening a large meeting of the ratepayers of the
extensive parish of St. Pancras took place in the spa-
cious vestry-hall, King's-road. Camden-town, for the
purpose of considering the financial:statement and Bud-
get of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, more es-
pecially in reference to the imposition of a house-tax in
lieu of the window duties • as also to consider the pre-
sent Ministerial crisis. The spacious hall in which the
meeting was held is calculated to hold et least 2,000
persons, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission.
The spacious galleries, and even the lobbies of the
building, were literally crowded. Donald Fraser, Esq.,
the senior churchwarden, presided, and was supported
on the platform by Viscount Duncan, M.P., Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, M.P., Sir 13. Hall, Bart., M.P., Mr. T. Wak-
ley, M.P., Mr. Jacob Bell, M.P., and a large number of
members of the vestry and delegates from the various
metropolitan parishes.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, said, having
so recently presided over a great meeting in that room,
heu odnidagnaoitn etxpope cr
et
shi
de s he
oovue
rld have
that
i ais n
mo
esncsoeabs
seeeinn calledbly to
protest against the imposition of the window-tax under
another name.—(Hear.) The proposal of what was
called a house tax was a fraud upon the great body of
the people.—(Hear, hear.) The Chairman went into
several statistics to show the unjust and partial opera-
tion of the tax, and said, whatever Government might
now be in power, or to come into power, they were de-
termined to resist this impost.—(Cheers.)
-Mr. BRETTestouem proposed the first resolution:—
" That the late attempt of the Whig Ministry to fasten
upon the people of England a house-tax, unequal in
its operation, in lieu of the odious window-tax, is as
outrage on. the enduring patience of an overburdened
and long-suffering people, and this meeting urges
upon their representatives in the Commons House
strenuously to oppose any Ministry who will not
repeal unconditionally and for ever a tax which has
so long disgraced the statute-book, and that a petition
founded upon this resolution be presented to Parlia-
ment."—(Loud cheers.) It had been said there was a
power behind the Crown greater than the Crown itself.
—(Hear, hear.) That power had been severely tested
within the last week. The Whigs were now no longer
the advisers of her Majesty.—(Cheers.) The film had
at last fallen from the eyes of the people, and it was
the knowledge of that fact that had driven the Whigs
from office.
ete. treeeeee beuvudrti tlin irmlilutiOn.
Lord DUNCAN. on presenting himself was greatly ap-
plauded. His object in coming there was to hear what
the feelings of the people rosily were upon this important
question, and he could assure them that when he went to
the House of Commons he would not fail to take advan-
tage of it.—(Cheers.) They had heard that day that
there was another Government in power_ Whatever
Government might be. in power now, or hereafter, he
(fiord Duncan) still intended year after year to bring
forward hi- motion on the window duties until they
were repealed without a substitute.—(Cheers.) He knew
that in doing so be was supported out of doors, and
when a proposal was backed by the voice of the people
it must ultimately prevail.—(Hear, hear.) He eared not
for Government, it was the it support he wanted.—
(Cheers, and cries of " You shall have it.") The people,
if they were so minded, could enforce economy and re-
trenchment, which they had a right to el-mand.—
(Cheers.) He found in all the meetings he had attended
Out one universal sentiment on this matter, and he there
pledged himself never to desist from urging this ques-
tion on the Legislature, but he would bring it forward
again and again until it was repealed.—(Great cheering,
and loud cries for " Sir B. Hall.")
Sir B. HALL, M.P., was also greatly applauded. He
was delighted to sea such an immense assembly of his
constituents on this truly important occasion and at such
a crisis. It was peculiarly gratifying to him personally,
because he telt that it was backing him up in the decla-
ration he made when Sir Charles Wood proposed his
midget, that whenever that budget was broug,ht forward
he would take the sense of the House as to whether a
House-tex should be inflicted on the peeple or not.—
(Cheers.) He was happy to find that his views were sup•
ported, not only be his own constituents, but in every
parish. Upon the first blush of the thing, the budget was
tun of absurdities as well as injustice. lo illustrate the
iniquity of the tax, the house of a peer in Belgrave-
,quare, at a rent of 7001. per year, paid 141. Os. 91, or 21
per cent., whilst the same siz 'd house in Russell-square,
at a rent of 1501.. paid 9i per cent. A house is Grosve-
nor-street, rent 4501., paid 21- per cent., whilst the same
iz 41 house in G.iwer-street, at 901, paid 11 par cent.;
and the houses of the poor in Wild-street,- at 181. rent,
paid 61. 3s. 6d., or 33 per cent.—(Shame.) But as to the
souse-tax, they had heard the story of Aladdin, in the
" Arabian Nights," where the magician sold new lamps
fur old ones.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now the
late Chancellor in his Budget had revers,. d that story,
and had made old houses worth more than new ones.—
(L iughter and Hear, hear.) Under his house-tax plan
an old house worth 1001. paid now 11/. 53., and would
pay under the now Budget, whilst a new house worth
100/. would pay but 51., making 50 per cent. less fur a
new house than an old one.—(Hear, hear.) He might
have been met by the late Chancellor with "Oh, that is
an isolated case," but be (Sir B. Hall) was prepared
with a whole district. He would take the parish of
Marylebone.—(Cheers.) The rental of that parish was
897,546/ ; house property, 700,000/. ; present window-
tax, 69,256/. ; intended tax (two-tirds), 46,1711.—
(Hear, hear.) Now if, by a visitation of Pro-
vidence the whole of Marylebone was inundated by
water, or destroyed by any other means, and an entire
parish of new houses were built, they would only have
to pay for their new houses 35,0001.—(L0ud cheers and
laughter.) But were there no people to be taxed by
this house-tax who had never been taxed before?—(Hear,
hear.) In she perish of Marylebene alone there would
be no less than 2,540 persons who would have to pay
the house-tax who had never paid the infamous window-
tex at ar, hear, and sh'sme.) It was idle to
suppose that they cold go on with such a Ministry as
v. as now formed, and with a certain Right Honourable
Gentleman on the Treesury bench, from whom he (Sir
13. Hall) said " Good Lord deliver us!"—(Cheers and
laughter.) It was the ab,urd financial measures of the
late Government that turned them out and nothing else
—(Hear, hear)—and Lerd Stanley was at that moment
the Prime Minister of this country.—(Tremendous hisses
and uproar, with cries of " We won't lave him.")
All he (Sir B. Hall) could say was, that so far as his
vote sent he would not have him.—(Cheers.) He
would do all he could by his vote to turn him out—
(Cheers)—because Lord Stanley in the one House,
and his representative, Mr. Disraeli, in the other, must,
if they act honestly, att•Japt again to inflict a heavy
duty on the food of the pe ,ple.—(Groans, and " Let
them try it.") The men a .Maryls bone, it would be
said, are difficult to please; they had turned out the
Whigs, and now did not like I)israeli.—(llear, hear.)
What on earth did they want?—(Cries of " Cobden,"
and cheers.) He could tell them what they would have.
They would have reform and retrenchment; and if they
could not get both at once, only let, the House of Com-
mons give them the first, and they would get the other
theme Ives. The lion. Baronet at further length
showed that no Ministry could stand ut the present day
who did not carry cut these principles, and resumed his
seat amidst immense applause.
JACOB BELL, M.P., expressed his conviction that
now the public feeling was roused, it would be impossi-
ble to either continue the window duties or impose a
house-tax by any Government.
Messrs. Smith, Baker, Geesin, Nicholsy, and Cooper
having spoken, •
enthusiastic
Plaudits. himo
L,orode
next addressees
meeting,in answera
Plaudits. He said a new Government had assumed the
reins of office, but it was quite impossib:e they could go
on long, because their principles were not those of the
House of Ceramone.—Wesr, hear.) He dux not know
whether Lord Stanley weul I venture an appeal to the
amidst slred nthe
country; all he (Lad Dudley SMert) mid bay wee, the

edition to-day.
ADVERTISER.—The history of this country pre-
sents no parallel to the confusion which now prevails
among all parties. And not only is there this confusion
of parties, but there are political complications in pri-
vate circles. Men who used to concur in opinion on all
the great questions of the day, and even to act for years
in per f,ct accord as members of the same Cabinet, can-
not now agree on any important question. We need not
go far for an illustration of this. Take, as an example,
!be two individuals whose names have been so frequently
in people's mouths within the last few da)s. We allude
to Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham. For many
) ears they thought and acted in perfect accord on all the
important questions of the day. For several years they
sat together in the same Cabinet. They were, indeed,
considered a sort of Siamese twins. What are they now?
There is no concurrence of sentiment between them—no
unison of feeling—no harmony of action. Their views en
the quf.stions which are now convulsing the country, are
" wide as the poles asunder." Lord Stanley is the acknow-
ledged leader of the Protectionists: Sir James Graham
is as zealous a 'Free-trader as Mr. Cobden himself.
Lord Stanley's only ground of objection to the Papal
Aggression Bill, is that it does not go far enough—thal
it is not sufficiently stringent: Sir James Graham ob-
jects to the very principle of the Bill. He thinks there
ought to be no such Bill at all. And because he cannot
acquiesce in the measure, he resists all the importunities
addressed to him to join a new Russell Administration.
And so with regard to others of our leading statesmen.
The aspect of matters varies with each varying hour.
On Monday morning it was understood that Lord Stan-
ley had declined the task of constructing a new Cabinet,
as one which was wholly hopeless. Lord John Russell had
again undertaken it, after having for some hours relin-
quished it, as one in which he had no reason to expect
success. During the greater part of Monday there was
rejoicing among toe W nigs, becauae it was believed that the
W hig Minister would succeed in his efforts. Among the
Tories there was corresponding depression. The oppo-
site emotions of grief end joy were strikingly exhibited
in the C.-alton and Ref irin Clubs. At a late hour on
Montitty it was ascertained that Lord John Russell had

filed in his attempt to gain nu, adhesion of Sir Junes
Graham. At the hour Iv, which we write. Lord Stan-

ley, having been again sent for by her Majesty, and in-
structed to furm a now Government, is as busy as can
be in attempting to construct a Conservative Cabinet.

It remains to be seen whether the Noble Lord is des-
tined to meet with success, even as regards the simple
formation of a Ainistry. To that extent he may suc-
ceed, but the permanence of a Stanley Administration is
another matter. It can only last, in the event of his
abandoning all the principles with which he has identi-
fied himself as the leader of the Protectionist party.
The Noble Lord has the reputation of being a rash man.
It he imagines that he can construct a Protectionist Ca-
binet which can survive, he must be more than rash—
ha must be mad. Come what may, happen what
will, every one must to struck with the righteous
retribution which has befallen Lord John Russell.
Lord John Russell's Administration has, by its political
turpitude, brought on itself an amount of obloquy which
has few parallels in the annals of Governments, and
under which, in the nature of things, it could ❑ot, under
any conceivable class of circumstances, have long borne
up. Its latter days were spent amid the scorn and con-
tempt of the people; and now that it has perished, nut
one tear of regret is shed over its bier, nor has one soli-

,
tary voice bet; heard to bless its memory. So perish all
Governments which falsify those solemn professions on
the faith of which they were raised to power! It is a
fitting fate for all Administrations which would sacrifice
great principles to party and personal purposes•—who
would rather see the best interests of the country utterly
ruined, than expose their own situations to the slightest
danger.
DAILY NEWS.—A Stanley Ministry, and of course
a dissolution—the country fairly asked, will it have pro-
tection or free-trade?—will it have a 501. or 101. suf-
frage ?—will it have a House of Commons to register
and to do the will of the House of Lords, or a Parlia•
ment io which popular ithai are expressed, and conatrier•
cial interests fairly represented?—Shall the taxation of
the country be laid upon property or upon industry, upon
the rich or upon the poor?—who shall pay the interest
of the debt, the squire from his rent, or the artizan from
his wages,—these are questions about to be put to Par-
liament first, and then to the country. And if there he
any delay in putting them to the country, it is merely
that the ultra party may gather strength, and make
surer preparations for carrying eut the principles by
which they must eventually stand or fall. We think it
best that these questions should be so put, nay, that the
Tories should have all fair play and advantage in put-
ting them. For if the country, with the experience it
has had, cannot answer them, and with a
shout so unanimous and appalling as to make
those political coxcombs shake in their shoes, that
dare come forward to ask them, then let John
Bull be written down a poltroon and an ass, let a cheap
loaf never be his, and may he be taxed to eternity on all
he eats, and all he drinks, for the air he breathes, and

venient to return from foreign.travel—will he take office
in the Government that we aro told is to be? Will he
go to sea in so crazy a barque with so giddy a captain
and so untrained a crew? Halt, lame, and blind. Lord
Stanley can muster but three 'other individuals who
have ever been in the Cabinet before—his Grace cif
Richmond, Lord Ellenborongh, and poor old Mrs.
Herries. Nobody else will touch the thing. Of course
it seems capital fun for would-be statesmen like New-
(legate, Granby, and Stafford, to be allowed to wear real
political swords, and to be dubbed Privy Councillors. But
what inducement can the presence of such personages af-
ford to any man wh,. has ever had the experience of prac-
tical responsibility? Our impression is very strong that Mr.
Gladstone will have nothing to do with the ignorant and
incompetent triflers, who by their very acceptance of
Eminent place prove themselvei to be unfit for even sub-
ordinate power. Neither ad we believe that Lord
Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle, or Mr. Goulburu,
will quit terra firma on such, a cruise. Had this bur-
lesque upon an Administration been got together at the
close of a session, when the business of the year was
done, we could understand Lord Stanley taking what
even then would have been en indecent liberty with the
nation. He might think it e
4cusable to show Ilia raw
followers a little sport, at the risk of committing occa-
sional trespass on forms and doing minor injury to in-
significant persons. But what does Lord Stanley mean
by pretending to do the public
business with such hands
as he has had the levity to naino as his colleagues? Does
he think to bully the nation by the empty threat of a
dissolution of Parliament? T.
Let him try.

the light he enjoy, without misgiving, consideration, or
respect. What has happened, however, is in the main ,
the best fur the Liberal party. Constituted at it was,
every Parliamentary battle was fought under the
greatest disadvantage. The list of official men in truth
resembled that much-criticised roll of Admirals, of whom
there were three hundred receiving pay, but of whom not
fifty were sea-worthy. The turning them, all to the
right-about, nay, letting oblivion cover them a little, will
make the reconstruction f a Liberal party and a Liberal
Ministry more equitable, more feasible, more efficient.
The testing of the Protectionists, of the scope, value
and sincerity of their opinions, together with their
cohesion as a party, will be another. valuable gain.
The humbug of Protection, and all the fiction of op-
position, must cease; and if Lord Stanley and
Mr. Disraeli come forward with those ingenious
manceuvres to tack their own foolish followers, which
they themselves denounced in Peel, their own want of
principle will render them powerless, as the absurdity of
their acting up to their own principle would prove them
insane. No doubt the country must pay fur this brief
term of power. All useful reform will no doubt be
stopped, the universities confirmed in their present pri-
vilege of nullifying education, or of rendering it a sue-
cursal to Rome. Law reform will halt, and ecclesiastical
efficiency and re-distribution of wealth be blighted ;
the bench of bishops and that of the judges will receive
their alloy ; Ireland will see again its Orange func-
tionaries and its repeal associations ; England will want
more troops and more police to keep down the clamour
for cheap bread. Canada is lucky in having got its
clergy reserves ; it might ask in vain for them
now. As to Chancellor Berries, the House of
Commons will take care to tie that old gentle-
man hand and foot, so as to render him compa-
ratively harmless. But what pranks Secretary Disraeli
may play in Europe, ho who defended Schwatzeuberg
and Hay nau in the mid-t of their despotism and atroci-
ties, passes as yet the imagination of the novelist. A
Stanley Cabinet cannot, however, make a compromise
with Papal aggression: that, at least, is impossible. It
may sin the other way; ray, it must, if it remain true
to its allies and supporters. Influence and promotion
cannot be refused to tin in in Ireland and in England.
Ireland can have no Chancellor like Brady, no more
judges like Perrin and Pigott; and the Roman Catholic
prelates, who turned their backs upon Lord Clarendon,
May EU:MORINO their named and titles tit the levees of the

atß examined,At
hreli .t— -,iiri.la 81:
on the body of Maria Clark Yesterday the inquest
went to confirm the testimonythreesuemvieddencien tolifiswchiot
drunken habits of the murdered woman, and as to the noise
oa(flythe quarrel in which
reported as to the
she lost her life. A woman named Tadd deposed to the de-
ceased having mentioned to her a few
oSce:T-aesnriaoEln
el‘ld witnesses
it liilttphße lt
housewA eTr e
months ago, that her
husband had been reading in a newapa.,
,er an account of a
woman having been killed by her husband having thrust
something up her person. The son of the deceased, Eustace
Clark, WEIS again examined, when it appeared that on the
day of the murder he was in a state of intoxication lying in'
a stable, and that what he said at his first examination was
not true. Mr. Hunt, the surgeon, further deposed that he
did not conoider the wound inflicted on the deceased by
which death was caused was caused by the sticks produced ;
he thought there had been two plunges made. It was pos-
-1 sible the sticks might have
_made them. The inquest was
again adjourned.
INSURANCE OF TAR CRYSTAL PALACE.-It hat
been stated that the various insurance companies have fixed
extraordinary high rates of premium for the insurance of the
articles in the Crystal Palace. They would, therefore, appear
to assume, that the risk is proportionately great. Now pro-
bably no building in the world is better protected against
fire. A six-inch pipe will run round the outside of the build-
ing, with 16 branches into the interior, by which with one
length of hose, and without a fire engine, thewhole area
wil be under control. Every one knows that a small quan-
tity of water at hand is sufficient to extinguish a tire at the
commencement; and as the water wit' be always on the
main, there will be no risk of a fire spreading.
Under these
circumstances, we would suggest that the exhibitors should
form a Mutual Insurance Fund, which would amount to a
sufficiently large sum to cover all risks, whilst the amount
—after (inducting the expenses of the management. which
would be very slight—would be divioed amongst the sub-
scribers at the conclusion of the exhibition.—Mechanical
Gazette.

METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION.—
The Queen has just given an.additional proof of the high
estimation in which she holds this useful charity, by pre-
of Wales, the munificent donation of 250 guineas. Tin
pre-
senting to it, on behalf of his Royal Highness the Prince
board of management have placed a bed in the asylum at the
disposal of his Royal Highness for his life,

SINGULAR MARRIAGu.—A Woman, sixty-eight
years old, who is deaf and dumb, was married for the fourth
time at Jordaston church, Pembrokeshire, on the 21st ult.,
her bridegroom being a young man of twenty-9ne,— Cana-

sooner' the better.—(Loud cheers.) If they could n_ of
look up to the late tVlig Government for the righes of
the people, what had they to txpect from a Govern-
ment professing Pretectionist principles ? (Hear,
hear.) They had expressed their displeasure with
tho Government of yesterday, but would they
be pleased with the Government of to-day ?
(Loud cries of " No, no.") The Noble Lord de-
nounced the family compact of the late Government, but
he could not understand for one moment that the coun-
try would consent to be governed by those whose prin-
ciples were not only to make lieht dear, but bread dear
also.—(Hear. hear, and cries of " We won't hsvo them.")
Mr. Harries was pointed at as the new Chancellor of the
Exchequer—(Groans)—the man who proposed that all
the surplus should be appropriated to reduce the in-
come-tax, and not the window- tix.—(Shame.) He
could ask them would they stand that?—(Loud cries of
" No.") The Noble Lord declared that a revision of
taxation must be insisted on by the people.—(Cheers.)
Mr. 11. FENTON moved, and Mr. MANNING seconded,
an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty only to
take such persons-to her councils as would carry out
reform and retrenchment; which was also adopted una-
nimously.

Mr. C. Freeth, Mr. Halton, Mr. Concanen, and other
gentlemen, addressed the meeting; and, on the motion
of Lord Duncan, a vote of thanks was given to the chair-
man, and the proceedings terminated.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 25.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 22, 1851.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhousee
Bart., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,
by the name, style, and title of Baron Broughton, of
Broughton de Gyfford, in the county of Wilts.
FOREIGN-OFFICE. FEB. 25.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
William Thugal Christie, Esq., now her Majesty's
Agent and Consul-General at Musquito, to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation to the Swiss Confederation.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
George Aikin, Es.q., to be her Majesty's Consul iu the
State of California.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE.
The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Bullet to be oae of
his Royal Highness's Equerries.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB, 24.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Stafford, Northern Division—Smith Child,
of Rownall-hall, in the county of Stafford, Esq., in the
room of George Granville Francis Egerton, commonly
called'Viscouet Brackley, who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty'. Chiltern Hundre:lB.
FEB. 25.
County of Bedford—Richard' Thomas Gilpin, of
Hockliffe Grange, in the county of Bedford, Eiq., in
the room of John Hume Egerton, commonly called
Viscount Alford. deceased.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 24.
Rayal Regiment of Artillery—Mejer-General Na-
thaniel Wilmot Oliver to be Colonel-Commandant,
vice Major-General James Power, deceased, Feb.
18; Brevet Major Charles Berrie S)mons to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Nevett, deceased; Second
Captain Ashley Maude, to be Captain, vice
Symons; First Lieutenant Walter Ferguson Lock, to
be Second Captain, vice Maude; Second Lieutenant
Richard Olcifield, to be First Lieutenant, vice Lock,
Dec. 22, 1850.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Sir Edward Haggerston, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieute-
nant, Feb. 14.
[This appointment is substituted for the one which ap-
peared in the Gazette of the 18th instant.]
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghemshire.
Sherwood Rangers George Gordon, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Charles Thorold, pent., promoted.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of S-eithampton.
N.,rtla Hants Militia—Thomas Best, Gent., to be En-
sign, Feb. 13.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 21.
Tile Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Kut., Lord Chief
Justjce cf her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
We!,tminster, has appointed Thomas Wight the younger,
of Kingswinford, in the county of Stlfford, Gent.,
to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married
women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, and for the substitution of mote simple
modes of assurance, in and for the county of Stafford.
BANKRUPTS.

James Burrell, victualler, Blackmore, Essex, to sur-
render March 7, at eleven, and April 11, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore. official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street; Patten, Ely-place, Holborn; Woodward,
Billericay. Essex.
James Matte, ironmonger, Edgeware-road, March 7,
'at eleven, and April 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee; Basinghall-street;
Tippetts and Son, Pancras-lane.
Charles Frederick Thomas, ship broker, Bristol,
March 12 and April 9. at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Brittau,
Bristol.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Henry Walter Ratcliffe, rag merchant, Harrow-street,

Southwark.
James Thomas Ratcliffe, rag merchant, Harrow•atreet,

Southwark.
Edmund Woods, carpenter, College-piece, Camdeu-tkrwi,.
Morris Barnett, umbrella maker, Napier-street, Ashley -
crescc,nt, City -road.
Sarv.h Detarre, boarding-school keeper, Claremont-
house, Haverstock-bill, Hampstead.
William Chester, beer-shop keeper, King-street, Turk-
street, Bethnal-green.
Leopold Schwabactier, importer of foreign wines, King-
sok t t. Soho.
James Forrester, ale and porter dealer, Chancery-place,
Camberwell New-road.
Lewis Worm:., auctioneer, Brook-street, 11,11:.irn.
James Lowe, potato merchant, Great George-street,
13, mond Bey.
Harvey Allpress Harding, sculptor, Herbert street,
Hackney- road.
George Hayes, warehousl-man, Hy de-place, Hoxton.
Thomas Catterick Parkins, tailor, Wbi%pcbapel.
George Strickland, Bury-street, t. James's.
Francis Restate,!, carpenter, Harlington Cottage, St.
John's- street-roa2, Clerkenwell.
George Hedley, hosiers' assistant, Weston-green, Thames
Diu" Surrey.
Richard Thomas Rye, carpenter, Paradise-street, Ro-
therhithe.
James Edward Godfrey Wilson, engineer and patent
agent, Lindsapplace, Chelsea.
James Bird, warehouse clerk, Birmigham.
William Jewkes, builder, Porter's-field, Dudley, Wor-
cestershire.
Henry Sailer, Easebourne, Sussex.
William Alexander Sanders, plumber and glazier, Stour-
bridge.
John Ward. blacksmith and. wheelwright, Mordiford,
Herefordshire.
William Laws, sugar refiner's assistant, Crabbe, near

Dov•r.
Arthur Osborne, licensed victualler, Newbury, Berks.
James Priscott, farmer, Spaxton. Somersetanire.
Lawrence Bradt' y, shoemaker, Seholes %i igan, Lan.

cahire.
John Dixon, brickmaker, near Pocklington, Yorkshire.
John Parker Sparks, licen.ed victualer, Bristol.
William Pinch, architect, Bathwick, Bath.
Th(Aitras Davies, tamer, Smethcotr, t•alop.

Thomsa Greati.ach, fishmonger, Oxford.
Ftaocis termer, Snainton, Yorkshire.
tinmuel Appleby Dawson, chemist. Manchester.
Thomas F,:lds Heaton, bleacher, Horwicb, Lancashire.
Jur, es bon Ragg, fish dealer, Timporley, Manchester.
James Walker, blanket manufactuier, Batley,Yorkshire
Elijah Lever, Bolton-I,—Moors, Lancashire.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, 13asingball-street.
P. M. Chitty, Shaftesbury, Dorsetsbire, scrivener,
March 18, at one—J. Sydeuham. Poole, Dorsetslire,
printer, March 18, at half-past twelve—J. P. Hill, Ho-
therhithe, engineer, March 21, at twelve—B. Smith,
Threadneedle-street, City, and Bow- common, copper
smelter, and Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, ailver•
smith, March 21, at one—J. Barnard, Stanford Rivers,
Essex, baker, March 20, at half-past twelve—,h; Charter,
Grit:listen, Norfolk, grocer, March 20, at twelve—W.
Binder, Orsett, Essex, builder, March 20, at half-past
eleven—J. P. Burnell, lloorgate-street, and Coleman•
street, City, china dealer, March 21, at eleven—G.
Wilkin, Frith-street, Soho-square, tail,r, March 18, at
two—N. Taynton, Lincoln's Inn, law stationer, Match
18, at one—T. H. Saunders, Bsainghall-street, City, anti
Bradford, Wiltshire, woollen manutacturer, Match 21,
at one.

In the Country.
J. Richards, Cefncoedc)mener, Breconshire, licensed
victualler, builder, contractor, and haulier, March 20, at
half-past twelve, at the Court, Bristol—E. Brien, Bris-
tol, cabinet maker and upholsterer, March 20, at twelve,
at the Court, Bristol—H. Sutcliffe and J. W. Harris,
Rochdale Lancashire, cotton spinners end manufac-
turers, Rochdale,
20, at elevtn, at the Court, Manchester—
J. Thompson, Manchester, cement and gunpowder
dealer, March 19, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS.
brewer, and
J. H. Veitcb, Durham, printer, stationer' following
innkeeper, lid,, on Saturday, March 1, or oboe of jun
Saturday, between ten and three, at the fn
Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Ltttlewood, Thorney Burn Rectory, Northumber.
or, any following
lard, clerk, Is., ou Saturday, March
at the office of Mr.
Saturday, between ten and three,
Wakley, Newcastle•upono-T.YeenZ
farmer, I Id., on Satur-
B. Murray, Stockton.° -.r
following Saturday, between ten
day, March 1, or any Mr. Wskley, Newcastle-upon-
fort three, at the office of
Tyne.
Sparrow,Oxford, draper, sia., on Thursday next,
and three following, Thursdays, between 4. leven and two,
aattheafice of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
J. A pi,u, aßicester, Oxfordshire, scrivener, 3d., on
Thursday next, and three following Thursdays, between
Pleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.
J. Killicle Dorking, Surrey, carpenter and builder,
3s. 2d., on Thursday next, and three following Thurs-
days, between eleven and two, et the office of Mr. Gra-
ham, Coleman-str. et.

I. Biackburu, Minories and Northumberland-alley,
Fenehurch-street, engineer and scale-maker, 23. 5d., nu
Thursday next. and three following Thursdays, between
Pleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.

NOTICE OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Badiughall-fitreet.
R. Northoyer, Skinner-street, Bibhopsgate-street, and
Cheapsidv, liat-matiufacturer, March 19, at, half-Put
clerm---J. Breton, Xing William-wee, City, tasurimoe-