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Unless, indeed, they think that those gentlemen have a suf- by Lord MELBOURNE, who assured him that, " with
Scient equivalent in the permission which they give them to respect to the decree referred to, he believed that it was
deal as they like with the rest of his Majesty's subjects.
not authentic—that it was • not issued by the person
It is several years since the complaint we refer to was
made to the House, and we sincerely hope that the prac- whose signature it professed to bear." We are asto-
tice upon which it was founded lives now only in memory ; nished that a 'Nobleman, like the Marquis of Los-
but the fact of its ever having existed proves the necessity
of revising the present system, as relates to the remunera-
DONDERRY, for whose sagacity we, in common with a
tion of Clerks of the Peace.—Morning Herald. vast majority of his idolizing countrymen, entertain
none but sentiments of the profoundest veneration, can
think of hazarding assertions which do not bear even
the semblance of a probability. Such blundering is
really " too bad l"

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The air of the Conservative Benches does not seem
to agree with Lord STANLEY'S health. Whether it
be too bleak for his constitution, which possibly may
have been a little enervated by a three years' residence
in the mild and sunny clime of the Treasury Bench,
we know not ; but it appears to produce the same effect
on his nerves that an east wind produces on those of
an invalid. His Lordship, never at any time remar-
kable for mildness or suavity of temper, is now become
more irritable and sensitive than ever. He takes fire at
look—is anguished to the heart's core by a cheer.
Happe;:jng to hear Mr. O'CONNELL say something
last night aboli: Conservatives not being the most un-
likely, of all people iri the world, to be fond of a job,
his Lordship fired up, just as if the insinuation had
been levelled against himself ! In vai:: the Honour-
able and Learned Member for Dublin insisted that he
" did not attack individuals, but a side of the House ;"
Lord STANLEY would not be appeased; but finding
that he could make little or nothing of the dispute, he
sulkily let it drop, and then proceeded to justify his
late change of position. And what, does the reader
suppose, is the cause—the momentous cause !—that
has induced his Lordship to shift his seat from the
Neutral, to the Opposition Benches ? Why, neither
more nor less than this—his horror at the cheers to
which he used to be subjected, when he sat in the
seat of the Trimmer ! Placed where he now is, he
thinks that such sounds, " by distance made more
sweet," will fall with greater softness on his delicate
and fastidious auriculars ; and, therefore, he is resolved
for the future to sit among the Conservatives, though
in principles he is no more changed than he was when
he adorned the Neutral Benches by his presence ! Of
all the reasons we ever heard assigned for a statesman
shifting his seat in a British Senate, this is by far
the most extraordinary. Has Lord STANLEY no ap-
prehension that the Conservatives will not " cheer
him" quite as loudly as the Liberals, when he happens
to give a vote against them ? So far as our own ex-
perience enables us to speak, the " cheers" of one side
of the House are quite as annoying as those of the
other. What a pity St. Stephen's is not a Quaker's
Meeting, for then the sensitive Lord STANLEY might
resume his former seat with impunity.

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It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report, that
a Bill was brought in and read a first time in the
House of Commons last night, for the repeal of so
much of the Act of the 25th George 11. as restrains
the amusements of " music and dancing" within
twenty miles round London. The Bill was prepared
and brought in by the indefatigable Member for Mid-
dlesex, and we cannot but congratulate the House
and the country upon the manner in which it was re-
ceived. In the course of his speech, the Honourable
Gentleman was enthusiastically cheered from tha
Ministerial and Opposition Benches ; and on the
question for the first reading being put, the House
was astonished to find its harmony in the affirmative
undisturbed, by any audible groanings of the spirit
twanging through the nostril of a sanctified Ag-
newite. No Saint POULTER, nor inspired" GRIES..
LEY rose to rexpress surprise that any person in
this " most Christian country" should so far depart
from the rigid decorum of the Praise-God-Barebones
system of theology, as to prefer the wanton sounds
of a violin, or the voluptuous heavings of the bosom of
a public singer, to the nasal strains and pectoral groan-
ings of a veteran wrestler with the flowers of Darkness.
In fact, the House has'viry properly deemed it a duty
to prevent itself from being changed into a national
conventicle ; and we may add that the majority of
the Members are men too intimately acquainted
with the real interests of religion, to sanction the
continuance of a system which, at the best, only sub-
stituted for gay dissoluteness in the aristocracy, " so-
lemn vice, stern corruption, and froien, official business-
like villainy." Of the effects of this system on the
people we shall speak presently. Indeed the moralist
has only to cast his eyes around him, to discover the
blessed consequences of compulsory gloom in the social
intercourse of the English peasantry.
The Act of George 11. for restraining " music
and dancing" was originally passed for a period of
three years—Parliament even then, not daring to
make it perpetual until it could be known whether the
people would submit to it. The Commons proposed
its confinement to a circumference of twenty miles
around the metropolis ; but so tickled were the Peers
with the prospect of cooling the heels of the lower
classes, than they laboured hard to have it extended
over the whole Kingdom. In the course of his speech,
Mr. HUNIE stated, that although in consequence of
the growing intelligence and liberality of the residents
within and around the metropolis, and the baneful
principle of the law itself, this Act had been a dead
letter for upwards of fifty years ; yet that the gang of
informers who infest the capital, had taken advantage
of it, to accomplish the ruin of many highly respectable
citizens. We believe that Mr. HUME will find, on a
closer inquiry, that he was mistaken in assuming the
Act of GEO. 11., to have fallen into desuetude for so

long a period as fifty, or even as ten years. Had it
ever become a dead letter, we should not now witness
the habits of gross and filthy debauchery, so disgusting
in the eyes of all foreigners who visit this country.
England, Scotland, and Ireland are the only coun-
tries i❑ the world, in which the populace have been de-
barred the most innocent amusements and recreations,
under the canting pretext of rendering them more
religious. In the eyes of those guiding stars of reli-

gion, our wise ancestors, cheerfulness was one of the

most heinous crimes -of which a poor man could be
guilty, and whatever tended to promote it was a stum-
bling-block proceeding from the Prince of Darkness.

Dancing and music, vocal and instrumental, were

proscribed as meshes in the huge-net with which the

enemy of mankind catches the souls of the saints.
And what was the consequence of all these restric-
tions on the innocent and healty recreations of the
people ? The answer is evident to every one who sees

our streets crowded with gin-palaces, and haunts of low
brutal debauchery. Debarred from the healthy and
invigorating amusement of a dance, the middle and
lower classes betook themselves, when the business of

the day was over, to the tavern, the gaming table, the
pot-house, and the beer shop. Instead of cultivating
the social affections, each reflected the stern gloom
or reckless indifference of the wretches with whom he

was compelled to associate. A veil of hypocritical
cunning, and mutual dissimulation was drawn over the

surface of society—indiscretions were carefully avoided,
but crimes of the blackest dye were secretly perpetrated

without compunction—and while externally all wore
the garb of religious decorum, internally not a feeling
remained, save a wish to be mistaken for saints by
knaves equally assiduous in their endeavours to deceive
others.

The Repeal of the Act of GEO. 11. will open the