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The jury that has already bes-n
inquire in 'o Cause of the deathi of-o-
sons who suffered from the explosion of 6in
work manufactories irr._ Westra.nster, was, _Mil Ad
yesterday, at Guy's Hospitals
to hei evidence con
caning the cL ath of Ma: lanadni-:ton-plreßerindtt); -
who was prop, i,.tr,-1-s the-, prenrees where the
catastrophe ecaurred. ,
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Mr. Payne, P
to ayei the said )it was not his in-
the i-,,,ceidert, all the facts having already b:en laid
before the jury at the -previous -infibiries-. He
should, therefore, confine himself to the. Identifica-
teuoiler ttcoo arnonyeirr:ii-y-wi to the (vigil, of
coroner, said
Con of the body of the deteaied; and td the-actu d
caipo of her .death, reserving all further iridenets
until thejary should be re-as:,einbled pn,the,E)th.of
August next. - - •
Cjtuter,„ a-police-constable, said that. ItasawTthe
dee*ed earning out of the premises where the ex,
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plosiou.oceurred led by a police-constable named
Jones. She was first taken to a blacksmith's yard, _
and Alien to a houSe belonging to the same person,
from which place she was taken in a cab to Guy's
Hospital.
Mr. Bennett said the deceased was his w'tfe.
was not himself engaged in any trade. He was not. _
present at the time the explosion took_place. His
wife was 32 years of age. Witness then identified
the body of the deceased.
Dr. Verner, house surgeon .of Guy's .Hospital,
said that the deceased was brought to the hospital
on la-t Monday week, be, weer' 6 and 7 o'clock in I
the evening. She was burnt very much in her
head, and feet. - She was
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treated
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and went on favourably for two or tbrte days ; but
on Sunday Bilt3 refused to take .any food, Eked she-
then begat; gradually to sink, and on the Monday. ,
she died. The cause of her death was the bnrnt
sbe had suffered.
The Coroner thought there could be no diffioulty... _
in the jury coming to a verdict in this case.
A juryman suggested that the inquiry thole(' Le
a j ourned.
'hie Coroner—l do not see any cause for an ad- -
j urnment. The jury will assemble again on the
6th of August, when every additional evidence as
to the origin of the calamity will be adduced be-
fore them. Oa the present occasion there appears
to be no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion
that the death of this person was caused by the
injuries she received from the explosion of the fire- -
works.

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A Juryman—l think we have ample evidence
already before us as to the cause of the death of the
deceased.

A verdict was then re!urned,—" That the de•
ceased Francis Ellen 13: nuett waa mortally burnt
by the explosion of fireworks at No. 4, Elizabeth-
place, Westminster-roaJ, on Mouthy, the 12th
instant."

IN AUSTRALIAN LION.

Some weeks ago, says the Cork Constitution,
considerable sensa ion was created in the commer-
cial circles of this city by its being rumoured that
a gentleman had arrived at one of our principal
hotels who had amassed a large fortune in Austra-
lia, the amount of which was put down at about
150,00/. The name of the fortunate individual
was very soon ascertained to be Charles Frederick
Hale, and io several per sons whom be has honoured
with his acquaintance he stated that he was therm
of a timber merchant, who resided some years ago
at Wexford—to other, at Galway ; and that he
had gone out to Melbourne previous to the disco- •
very of the gold diggings. His career there, accord-
ing to his own brilliant account, was a series
of traoxamplecl successes. Laud which he had
purchased for a sheep walk at 1/. por acre be•
came, when the gold mania was at is height, so
high in value that be bad offers for it on all sides
for buildirg purpcses, and sold it at some 15/. per
fuot. His -profits-on other transactions were of an
equally golden characttr. He had imported, he
said, some fine breeding stock from England, by
the letting out of which he had made enormous
sums of money. He had now come back to grace
the county of Cork with his presence, and to enjoy
the otiuni curia digreitate with his princely fortune,
which amounted to beetwen 150,000/. and 200,000/.
The arrival of such a Crcesus—young, too, and a
bache'or—naturally created great excitement, espe-
ci amongst parties who had eligible daughters
at their disposal. Mr. Hale speedily became a -
" lion ;" he was the admired of many a circle, the
guest at many a table ; ho was fo be ,sten in the
CS of i,ur leading merchants, or walking arm
and arm with the principal men in the city. The
solicitors were set on the qui vive by an ingenious
statement (originated probably by himself) that he
was in treaty for the perlase of a large estate in
the west of the county, which was then, and. is still,
in the market. The amount he had offered was
understood to be 100,000/. In a short time, how-
ever, strange hints began to circulate, and singular
circumstances were mentioned regarding the "great -
unknown." Be bad a remarkable defect of memory,
which can-ed him very often to forget his purse.
He had ,borrowed a sovereign from one friend and
five from another. He had run up bills at the esta-
blishments of various shopkeepers. Unfavourable
insinuations began to be circulated ; match mak-
ing mammas began to grow uneasy, but all sus-
picions were dispelled by the gentleman himself,
wno, hiving heard the nature of the statements
that were made against him, threatened in eveiy •
direc ion to bring actions against his slanderers,
and by way of proving the groundlessness of their,
imputations he triumphantly produced a bank book.
by which there appeared to be lodged to his credit
in one of theprincipal banking hives in London a
rum of over 100,000/. This evidence was of
course conclusive. The injured Mr. Hale be-
came a ereater lion than ever. His society was
courted by all, and fortunate indeed was the indi-
vidual who secured his company to dinner, or was
honoured by being permitted to send him his car-
riage arid horses. In the meantime Mr. Hale had
changed hisquarters to the Baths'Hotel Moukstown,
and subsequently to the Queen's Hotel, Queens-
town. The next that was heard of him was at the
Devonshire Arms, Youghal, where he had gone 'to
spend a few weeks of summer. There, it appears,
he introduced himself to the proprie.:,or of the
hotel, and produced the card of a neighbouring
clergyman, who hostated was his particular friend,
and who had recommended him to patronise that
hi.tel during his stay at Youghal. The hotel-
keece-r, however, had s-,me slight 'misgivings upon
the subject. Perhaps he thought it strange tolind
a gentleman continually bazating of his wealth, but.
never giving any tangible evidence of it ; at all ,
events, he took the prudent course of 101 Hale. Mr Bale
respecting _ • •
back, denying all kuowledge of the gentleman—so
The cwleirtghy
much ro, that he could not imagico how he bt came
possessed of his card. Mr. Hales career was evi-
dentlyer The hotel-keeper required
newly ov •
of he bill, but he, as usual, had f Jrgotten
icslesargidynitoanhavreeTmwmediately written
payment
his purse. An information was sworn before a"
magistrate, and he was speedily committed to the
custody or the police. It subsequently appeared
that the bank-book which had rendered Mr. Hale
such good service was the property of a gentleman
in this county, the figures us which bad been
altered, to as to increase the amount from hundreds
to :lions ands. It further transpired 'hat the owner
of the book was so duped by Mr. Hale, that he was
actually in correspondence with him to complete a
mat imonial alliance between bin and a young
lady in his neighbourhood. He was quite unable
to say how Mr. Hale became possessed of the book,
which he thought was still safely locked up in his
escritoire. On Saturday a constable from Youghal
arrived in town to make inquiries with regard to
some pawn tickets which were found ia his posses-
sion, and also to procure evidence preparatory to
his presecutitas before the magistrates, which will
take "lace in a few days.

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By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant
Telescopes, Camp; Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Classes, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches*
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's meow,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles -
distant and an object from 16 to 20'miles. For the waist-
coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. -A valu-
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Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and
known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur.
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ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Reduced .Prices., t r
---- —Tine EVENING (THURSDAY), July .22, will be per.
termed Mozart's chef d'ceuvre, DON GIO ANNI,
Donna Anna, Madlle. Titiens ; Donna Elvira, Madame
Ghioni ; Zerlina, Madlle. Piecolonini ; Don Giovanni, Sig-
war Beneventano ; Leporello, Signor Belletti ; Masetto, Sig. I
Aldighieri ; I 1 Commendatore, Signor Vialetti ; and Don
Clttavio, Signor Giuglini.
After which, a Ballet, in which Madame Boschetti will
appear.
Friday, July 23, LA TRAYIATA, and Ballet.
Saturday, July 24, LI7CREZIA BORGIA, and Ballet.
Prices— Pit stalls, 12s, 6d. Boxes, grand tier, 31. 35,; one
pair, 21. 12s. 6d.; pit tier, 2/. es.. two pair, U. 55.; three
pair, 155.; gallery, 10s.; pit, 3s. 6(1. ; gallery stalls'
3s. 6EI. ;
gallery 2s. May be had at the Box-office.—No free list.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN, NEW THEATRE.

MARTHA.
THIS EVENING (THURSDAY), July 22, will be per-
formed Flotow's Opera of MAIITHA.
Lady Enrichetta, Madame Bosio ; Nancy, Madlle. Didiee ;
Plumkett, Sig. Graziani ; Lord Tristano, Mail e.
; Lo
Seeriffo di Richmond, M. Zelger ; and Monello, Sig. Mario.
Conductor—Mr. Costa.

In the Inoideatal Divertissement, Madlle. Zina,
Deleclaaus, and M. Deeplaces will appear.
To commerce at half-past S o'clock.
Pit, 10s. 6(1.; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 61., 75., and ss. ;
amphitheatre, 2s. 6d„ ; second tier bores, 2/, 12s. 6d.

I.IOY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
AAA Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean,
THIS
EVENING, will be presented the new farce, en-
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titled DYING FOR LOV.
After which, Shakspeare's Play of THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Great Success of the Lady of the Camelias
and the new Extravaganza.
First appearance of Mrs. Wilkins (widow of the late
Sergeant).
THIS EVENING the new Play,
THE LADY OF THE CAMELIAS,
Violette St, Valerie, Mrs. Charles Young, in which she has
achieved the most triumphant success, being nigktly called
twice before the curtain.
After which, THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES, in which
Mrs. Howard Paul will sing "Come into the Garden,
Maud."
Every evening the Ballet of BROOMSTICKS.
The celebrated and only African Tragedian, Ira Aldridge,
will appear on Saturday next.
New arrangement of Prices.—See Bills.

STRAND THE —Lessee aril Directress,
Miss Swanborough.—This Evening will be
performed
DONE ON BOTH SIDES.
Followed by GOOD FOR NOTHING.
After which, MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR.
A Dance of Almas.
To conclude with LOVE IN ALL CORNERS.
Commence at half-past 7.
_ .

Prices of Admission during the Summer Season :—Stalls,
4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes,
it. Is. and It. Ils. 6d. Second Price to Boxes and Pit only,
at Nine o'clock—Bozo, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is.

CANTERBURY HALL, Weatmin3ter-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
qg oompany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
S dections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, D UETS, Ise., viz. : —Miss Russell, Mrs.
Badzey, Wise Brunel, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti,
Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker,
W. Melling. Senor Antonio, E. L. /Time, Mr. Badzey, Senor
Tirol', Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Bernard, and Mr. St. Albyn
Messrs. John G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr.
Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr
F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
S Ippers, Ise., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening
in a New Selection from the Opera of " IL TROVATORE,"
in addition to the usual entercalument,

THE WEATHER—SUN OFTICE, JULY 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night,
72—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.02.
WIND, S.W.; light, with fine cloudy weather.

HIGH WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tina DAY --Morn., 18 min. aft. 11 —Even., 0 min. aft. 0
To-110830W—Morn., 5 rain. aft. 12 —Even., Irimin. aft.l2

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1858.

It is high time that the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany should set its house in order. The dynasty
of CI The Nine Kings" cannot be much longer
prolonged. Like the twin despotism of Leaden-
hall-street, the existence of the Company has been
found prejudicial to the best interests of the
nation, and indeed of humanity and civilisation.
They prevent enormous tracts of land from being
made available for colonisation. It is for their
private advantage to keep up as a wilder-
ness, haunted by savage animals only,
lands that might be converted int) smiling
howesteadi, the abode of many families. It
was stated, and with every appearance of truth
and accuracy, that the comparatively small

portion admitted to be suitable for colonisation,
and which contained 500,000 square miles, would
afford occupation and means of subsistence to every
person of full age in her MAJESTY'S dominions,
both at home and in the colonies. If there be
any the slightest foundation for this as
sertion, is it not monstrous that such
• territory should be hermetically sealed
against the enterprise of our fellow-men ?
If we do not choose to occupy it ourselves, we
should throw it open to all willing to encounter
the toils and dangers incidental to the career of
every person willing to engage in the labours and
perils incidental to the career of the pioneers of
civilisation.

The first point to be ascertained is, whether
the Company possesses any legal rights whatso-
ever under their charter. It is quite certain that
" The Merry Monarch" gave that which he had
not in his possession, and to which he had no
valid title. He might just as well have bestowed
France or Germany, and the " donees" have
asserted their claim to the Imperial purple. As
to the attempt to create a perpetual monopoly of
trade, it was simply absurd, for it was entirely
opposed to public policy, and totally illegal at
the very time it was granted ; and certainly Great
Britain is not prepared to enter on a retrograde
policy for the sake of supporting such a system.
It has been asserted, on behalf of the Company,
that they preserved order in the district ! But
the real fact was, that they "made a soliutde, and
called it peace." There must be at least two
parties to a dispute. Even the most pugnacious
individual must find au opponent before he can
pick. a quarrel—and the Company carefully ex-
clude all corners. Not only is " No Thoroughfare"
the rule throughout their entire dominions, but
there is "No Admission," even on business of
the most pressing and vital importance. They
also claim credit for the exclusion of ardent spirits.
lAA, certainly, we are not prepared to keep a ter-
ritory, said to be as largo as Europe, depopulated
in order that a "Maine Liquor Law" may be en-
forced against a few wandering tribes of Indians.
It may be a very good pretext to use with rabid
teetotallers, but we scarcely think any man of
ordinary sense would think the doubtful benefit
worth the price it costs the nation and more
civilised races.

We are totally opposed to any renewal of the
licence, which expires next May. The late CJlc-
nial Secretary had decided on granting it, and it
is an additional cause for rejoicing at the accession
to office of Lord DERBY'S Government that it
has averted this danger. If anything be given
it will be of a very limited character when com-
pared with the intended donatitn of Mr. LABou-
cRERs. But we hope and trust that the Cimpany
Will be altogether abolished, and the authority of
the Crown substituted. If it remains in existence
the sturdy emigrants will be "
and c"au'd," and find additional difficulties
placed in their Way.

If the Charter were really worth anything at
the time it was granted, it was virtually annulled
when they cemented to accept a J'ArliAnuptAry

title for a limited period, which long since ex-
pired. But really it was of Very little value, so
little iadeed, that it was scarcely thought worth
questioning, until a Right Hon. Gentleman resus-
citated its drooping existence. He discovered the
flaw in the title, and contrived to arbitrate be-
tween the then disputants, and, like the lawyer
in the fable, to get a fair share of the matter in
dispute. We shall say nothing as to the occasion
on which it was once stated that "he was dis-
creditably known in the City," for that related to
another question ; and it is not our intention or
desire to cast any discredit or imputation on his
character. But he unquestionably made the best
use of the existing state of affairs, and his own
interests were by no means disregarded.

It is now for the British Parliament to remove
the existing impediments. If the Company have
any rights, which we greatly doubt, let fair—aye,
liberal—remuneration be given ; but let not the
progress of civilisation be arrested by a strict
adhesion to the terms of that stupid, impolitic,
and illegal charter.
The Times has now become the apologist of the
Company, and endeavours to show that, in realising
50,0001. per annum, it has done all that could be
desired or anticipated. The Leviathan has, how-
ever, frequently attempted to bolster up old
abuses ; and we believe that its efforts will be as
abortive in the present instance as on many pre-
vious occasions.

We are all now fearing that the third attemp
to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable will be a
failure. Heaven grant it may not ; but pro-
bably every one has more fear than hope. We
deeply regret to see that, at present, the Great
Eastern—we like the old name—is a failure too.
Assuming, what we sincerely hope may be false,
the two noblest mechanical enterprises of the day
have not succeeded. Tl_e LoLI-..'st ship, for con-
veying men themselves, which the world ever saw,
and the noblest mechanical instrument for the
interchange of the thoughts of men, are both at a
stand still. There is the vessel which can convey
a large town at once to colonise a distant country,
or ten thousand soldiers to defend a British
colony, lying, unfinished, on the boom of the
Thames, and there is the wire which has trans-
mitted numberless messages through its two thou-
sand miles of length, also lying in the holds of the
vessels, with but fluctuating hope that it will
ever lie safely along the bottom of the Atlantic.
Now, two failures do sometimes make one
success, not only in our bankruptcy courts, where
no mystery is suprising, but in the combination
of two mechanical inventions, neither of which
would succeed apart. Do not the Great Eastern
and the Atlantic Cable stand very much
in this relation ? The ono needs chiefly
pecuniary assistance, the other the mechanical aid
of the former. The shareholders of the Eastern
Steam Navigation Company appear unwilling to
embark more money in their speculation ; the
shareholders of the Atlantic Company would pro-
bably find it the cheapest thing they could do to
enable the Great Eastern to go to sea. If the
Agamemnon return again re infectd, no one will
believe that the attempt is hopeless till the twenty
thousand ton vessel has been employed in the
work. Should ii be successful by her aid, she will
as certainly be required to lay many a cable of
equal length, both to enable the requisite number
of messages to pass, and to extend ocean tele-
graphs in many other directions. Nor will it be
only for such very long lines that she will be use-
ful ; her most important peculiarity of all, rela-
tively to laying oceanic telegraphic wires, will make
her services equally desirable for a line to be laid
, like the Red Sea one to India, iu lengths of a few
hundred miles each.
The Great Eastern seems to combine the two great
requisites of the present case—sufficient tonnage,
and the still more important one of a length and
size sufficient to insure an easy motion over almost
any size of Atlantic waves. Were a well con-
structed, as has been proposed for the ships now
employed, in the centre of the vessel, and the
cable passed through it into the sea, the perpen-
dicular motion would be almost nothing ; the
variation of strain on the cable would scarcely be
felt, and we can hardly doubt that the cable
might be deposited almost as safely as it was in
the hold of the vessel. It is for mechanics to
say whether this latter suggestion be impractic-
able. We can hardly think so. If not, we know
of but one objection, that it would be impossible
to buoy the cable if necessary. That necessity,
however, can arise but from two causes—the
roughness of the weather, and the cable running
short. The former would hardly affect the
monster ship ; the latter, with such a burden as
she could carry, ought surely not to occur.
Is it not possible then for the two companies, or
the companies and the Government, to devise some
arrangement? It seems that 60,0001. would enable
the company to send the vessel out to sea, but that
even this sum is difficult to procure. Why, it wore
worth while for some sixty of our commercial men
to arrange a conditional loan of a thousand pounds
a-piece, or double the number for five hundred
pounds each, to give the thing a trial with a vessel
which almost must succeed. It is not for us,
however, to suggest the means of raising the
money for this special purpose ; but, should it be
really needed, should the Agamemnon and Niagara
again fail, and the agreement among the scientific
be pretty general that the Great Eastern would
succeed, we think the nation would not grudge
a conditional advance from the Treasury itself,
rather than witness the total failure of the Atlantic
Telegraph without a last effort.
The project of connecting the two worlds, the
daughter and the mother country, separated furlong
by so vast an ocean—of learnint, in a few minutes
what, within the memory of many of us, we must
havo waited three weeks to learn—of asking a
question and obtaining an immediate answer across
2,000 miles of water—the project is so noble in
itself that it is almost ignominious to renounce it,
till it is proved to be beyond human resources.
But the mere poetry or romance of the thing
goes, of course, for but little with our practical
people; the commercial advantages of knowing
prices at New York, and in Liverpool and Lon-
don, at the same moment, and the political advan-
tages of immediate communication on matters
which might otherwise cost each country as much
as it would cost to lay the line, these are solid
advantages—advantages to be estimated by dollars
and sovereigns—advantages which the most un-
poetical merchant and most routine statesman can
thoroughly comprehend, and advantages which we
believe will compel the laying, some day and by
some means, of the Transatlantic Telegraphic
Cable.

Tho Select Committee en the 8.1.nk Acts have
published their report, in which they decline to
recommend auy modification in the provisions of
the existing monetary code. This is Exactly what
might have been anticipated at the time of the
aiip:iutment of the carpf,tlly selected committee.
It was, indeed, a foregone conclusion, so much so,
that little more than half the number attended at
the time when the report was under consideration.
A clear majority was packed. The farce of in-
nly gone through in order to shelve
quiry was o

the question until the fearful ordeal encountered
at the close of last year had been partially for-
gotten, and the rate of interest lowered to
a reasonable eTtent. The hard calculators
had made their profits. They could afford
to give rest to the manufacturing, trading, and
commercial interests. Indeed it suited their pur-
pose to do so, in order to realise their gains.
The suspension of the Charter saved the country,
and also the Bank itself, which could scarcely
have held on for another week, save by withdraw-
ing all accommodation, and thus quadrupling the
wide-spread ruin. That suspension, and the im-
mediate relief thereby afforded, exhibited the
teterrinia causes male, the real grievance, in its
strongest light, twice within ten years. In 1847
and 185; a terrible monetary crisis occurred ;
credit was shaken to its foundation, or rather
annihilated for the time being. Houses of
unquestionable solvency, and possessing ample
means, were compelled to suspend pay-
ments. Tne terrible character of the crisis
will not speedily pass from the memory of busi-
ness men. Indeed, the notion of profit was alto-
gether abandoned, and the great struggle was to
pass through the crisis, even with the sacrifice of
their hard-earned and carefully-guarded savings.
Is it not, then, a gross and palpable mockery to
proclaim that there is nothing to be condemned
in the currency system under which these
grievances were perpetrated, and the temporary
suspension whereof served as an immediate and
all powerful remedy ?

But will the people, and more especially the
Monetary Reformers, submit to be gulled by this
transparent juggle ? Will Mr. DISRAELI now
abide by the report in which he could not have
agreed wore he voting in the committee ? We
hope and believe it will not be so. There
is already abundant information upon the
j,-et, as lie himself emphatica'.ly d,:eared list
February, when protesting against the solemn
farce which was about to be enacted. The admir-
able report of the Lords' Committee, in 1848, ex-
posed the hollowness and radical defects of the
entire system. It pointed out the very mode in
which it had greatly aggravated the difficulties of
1847, and the House properly felt that while that
most important and interesting document re-
mained unnoticed, it would be worse than useless
to resume the investigation.
It is time, then, that Government should take
the matter into its own hands. Mr. DLaRAELI
advocated that course while in opposition, and
he will not shrink from it now that he is in office.
No man is more competent to leal with the all-
important question than himself. He thoroughly
understands it in all its varied details, and if he
is prepared with a sound and wholesome measure
of monetary reform, he will earn for himself the
thanks and gratitude of the entire community,
and erect for himself a monument more enduring
than brass, more glorious than the most costly
Parian marble.