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subjects—a fact proved to demonstration, by what i 3
curring at nearly every election in the United kingdot°'
It does not follow, therefore, that the greatest lawyers, eV"
daily when warped by personal and party feelings, are al"
ways the geitititivti organs of constitutional law. In the same
speech Sir John Campbell descanted largely upon another
topic, which appears to have been scarcely worthy of the
Wariiith; the eetnewhat inconsistent warmth, which he has hei
stowed upon it. That tapic is the circumstance of the Duke °
Wellington having held in his own person so many offices dos'
in the short period (but that a longer than was contemplated),
between Lot'd Melbourne's retirement, and the return 0'
Sir Robert Peel from Italy. " The Duke," says Sir John
Pempbell, " became Dictator he combined in his own per:
son the Aka of the three Secretaries of State, First Lora
of the Admiralty, President of the Council, Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster ; and he was, I may say, Attorisel
golielier-yeneral, because, though I remained nominally ill
office during the Dictatorship, it was only to sign par"'
and to do the routine business of the office until asr
eassor should be appointed." As Sir John does not go 0°
to fell the good people of Edinburgh that he refused the
fees of his office dewing this state of things, and as most
people know pretty well that gentlemen of his profession
9eklern "sign papers" but with a golden pen, we may Per"
haps be permitted to infer that there was at least this cur
ference between the temporary Dictator and the temporaryAt'
torney-General, that the one did not receive one farthing of the
emoluments, or exercise the slightest shadow of the patroller
attached to the many offices he is said is have filled, viNIL°
the latter, in the true spirit of his profession took all he
could get. Sir John attempts to justify the use of the
term " Dictator" by a parallel between Augustus COO
and the Duke of Wellington. We doubt, even as a sPe:
cinien of his classical recollections, whether this parallel
can have been very acceptable at the modern Athens.
Certain we are that a parallel bearing less analogy was never
attempted. In fact, the very tern is beneath Sir John
Cain ph ol to have .resorted to ; the very fact of the our
posed Dictator allowing the first law officer of his opp°'
nests to continue as a Wadi upon his proceedings, being
proof enough that his designs could not be very dangerous,
or even questionable. In a word, Sir John ettmpbell know'
very well professionally the difference between obtaining e
rule and making that rule absolute. On this ocer
sion we suspect he will, as far as general concurreelee goes'
take nothing by his motion. Morning Herald.
The triumphant result of the election at Southampton,
in the return of two Conservative Members to replace the
former Whig Representatives of that town, is worthy 0'
especial notice. The opposing candidates were Mr. Bill!,
ham, the Recorder of the town, with much local interest
and the support of the Dissenters ; and Mr. Easthope, wh°,
is a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle and Chairman c"
the Southampton Railway Company. We have reason to
knew that the virulent articles which have appeared in the
columns of our Contemporary under its new management
have had such an erect on the minds of the electors as t°
ensure the rejection of Mr. Easthope. The constitueot
which had been perhaps favourably disposed towards 01"
gentleman, on account of his being a large shareholder in
the intended railway, a popular undertaking at South'
ampton, shrunk with dismay at the doctrines promulgat,
by his Journal. At first Mr. Barlow Hoy was the ore •
Conservative in the field, but the electors went to work
fix eaffiest, and sent up a requisition to Mr. Deal°,
which the lotto' did not hesitate to accept. The evidence
of the zeal and activity of the town is before our readet
Mr. Hoy and Mr. Dottie are returned, and swell the fiat
of men of talent, character, and influence, which the pre'
sent MOO has brought into the public service. In an"
other point of view, the Southampton, election cannot bat
be regarded as most important, we mean in respect to diet
influence which it will have on the southern division
Hampshire. Its favourable result to the cause of order
and OA government has extinguished the hopes of Lot
Palmerston and Sir th.Staunton. Their chances of ose''
cess were before, indeed, but slight ; but if there be faith
in the promises of the men of the southern division, thee
portion of the county of Hants will no longer be disgraced
such a representative as the ex-Foreign Secretaryf_ the
" juvenilo Whig," The addresses which the Noble Mr_
has published or spoken almost equal in number, length'
and tediousness, his celebrated protocols on the Dutch al
Belgian question, with just about as much probability
accomplishing their object.—Morning Post.
The metropolitan constituencies have nobly distinguished
themselves. Every Tory has been expelled from the re"
presentation. The City, Westminster, Marylebone, Finr
bury, Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich, are decided. Lam"
heti' ought to have been determined yesterday, by the re-
signation of Alderman Farebrother. The numbers were--
Hawee 1,564 ; Tennyson 1,532 ; Farebrother 775, that
is 757 below the lowest Reform Candidate. Lambeth
may, therefore, be considered settled. Mr. Alderman'
Wood stated, on Thursday, that " he and his colleagues
had not resorted to the practice of buying up votes
by ,money, which their opponents had done." There

is one way of fixing bribery on a party. Where 3
constituency consists of householders and freemen, and
one party- has proportionblly more freemen than house'
holders, it may be taken for granted that party has
had remorse to bribery. In all the constituencies, the
freemen, as is well known, are more or less accessible to
bribery. Now, if we average the il-eemen for the four
Reform candidates and the three Tories, we have for the
former 3,166, and the latter 2,831 ; that IS, it difference
between thson of only 335. But if we average the house'
holders for the four Reform candidates, and the three
Tories, we have 2,937 for the former, and 1,69.2 for
the latter ; leaving a difference of 1,245. The only sr
tional way of accounting for the balance of house'
holders being so much greater in favour of the Reformers
than the balance of freemen is, that bribery was ex-
tensively resorted to among the latter. Well might
Mr. Crawford, therefore, say, that when " they cam'
to analyze the poll, they would find that the householder.
had delivered the city from an intolerable thraldrom." We.
wished at one time to think well of Serjeant Spankie ;
his conduct ever since the dismissal of the Melbourne Dl'
nistry, and more particularly a little before and during the
election, has been such that nothing gives us more satisfac:
tion than his rejection at Finsbury. Mr. Spankie treated
the electors with very unbecoming contempt when on Wed'
nesday last he said, " He was sure that the meeting was
almost entirely composed of Mr. Wakley's men.—(Heur.)
He knew Mr. Wakley was a very 'good Reformer'
as to the other Reformers or non-Reformerh
_ _ _

he believed Mr. Wakley to be the only ge;
former among them. All, except Mr. Wakley and
himself, were disguised Reformers ; they did not under-
stand Reform. Wakley and himself were the only tW°
among the candidates who had read about Reform, 10,c'
understood it, and who were capable of representing' the
borough of Finsbury.—(Loud shoutsof laughter.") Wit
the opinions advocated by Serjeant Spankie in his addresses,
to use this language in characterising a candidate with the

opinions which 'Mr: Wakley is known to entertain, is a 11°'
sitive insult to the common sense of the electors. Serjeani'
Spankie little thought that he was praising his own Co'
querer, and he has been caught in his own snare.
Every one will say that he is justly punished.
If the fair and unbiassed voice of the people can
be heard in any quarter, it is in the metropolis, where the
Constituencies are too numerous to be bribed, and electors
cannot be easily intimidated. That the Tories have 1106
succeeded in returning one Member in any metropolitan
borough, is a sufficient proof that they are condemned by
the public voice. But the inhabitants of the metropolis
form not only the most independent, but the most inteilv
gent, Constituencies, of the United, Kingdom. They liaTte,
the best access to political information ; and the examl;
of the metropolis has always, on that account, great 'o'
fluence on other parts of the country. It is, in •trotll
only in the smaller boroughs, and those of the larger'
where the householders are out-numbered by the freemen'
that the Tories can have any hopes of success.-111orrigg
Chronicle.

No fewer than eleven inquisitions on children ;;"1:
to death were charged by one of the Coroners of this count,
his quarter's account at the present Sessions.—Bath Chrots.

A SPIRITED ELECTRESS.—WC give the followil
from a provincial journal :—" A lady canvasser last week 11
Portsmouth, having received a rebuff where she looked for 4,;
plumper, is said to have informed the voter, a tradesman, thl!,
he need not expect her custom any longer ; on which I'l'
better half is said to have replied, That is as you please'
Madam, we did not ask you for your patronage to our AO'
but you came of your own free will. We exercise our discre;
tion in all cases as to public matters, and are not to be blasse
by any customers, be their rank and station in life what It
may.

BIRTH.
On the 3d inst., Mrs. Dettmar, of Meeklenburgh-square,--'°°.

MARRIED. b
On the 6th inst., at Leslie House, Fifeshire, Henry .- u 4d,
Courtenay, Esq., second son of William Courtenay, Esq., to L 3 j
Anna Maria Leslie, sister to the Earl of Rothes.
On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, Captain Robert Watts, of tht:
Madras Army, to Margaret Carter, eldest daughter of W. Hare°u-
Carter, Esq., of New Park, county of Dublin. ho
On the 6th inst., at. the British Ambassador's, Pans, r
Kerbey, Esq., Madras Medical service, to Emily, second daughter
of Captain Holman, R.N.

DIED.
On the Bth inst., at the Lady Colchester's, Montagu Plat ,
the Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, aged 32.
~ in
On the sth inst., in Cavendish-square, Richard Parrott, I
his 58th year.
On the 7th inst., aged 76, A. E. Young, Esq., of OrlingburP
Nort ham ptonsh ire.
On the sth inst., Mr. John Pember, of Crescent-place, Ness
Bridge-street, aged 65.
, relict
On the Bth inst., in Durham-place, Chelsea, Mrs. Eiib.."
of the late Archibald Edgar, Esq., of Jamaica.

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