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peculiar property, the Morning Herald.)
The journals in the interest of the Govtitmett,
and even thos3 claimed by the Whigs as their •
supposed junction
bheataN-veeseon alludedisrael lai
aftel oho.
Gladstone, that it would not only be, gress affecta-
tion in us not to notice it, but might even bear the
construction that we feared to meet the question.
It will not have escaped our readers that the
journals which are most hostile to Conservative
principles put forwardrhe assertion with a degree
of glee which is quite incompatible with the sup-
position that such a junction would strengthen the
Country party.
The Times is jocular, and describes the two
ugthreaatl
gen-
tlemen in qu,e,sitieiolpni4casancxhiconillsiy,or
oslniola,vittilisetihreinrs
Frda'liauc', ard impatient for the day which is to
a(pitbls'w,''ant-slll-bib:ir,!ei
v%l,lea
bless their union.
l\l-n
s at least the wish is falter to the thought,
being pet suaded in their own minds that such a
Proceeding would be the beginning (f the end, as
far as Couservati-m i 4 concerned—
" apparenti-u(2llr the ''hue
:n di tills'agt'''ll V 3 itvhd oa;
is q
" Fas est et ab host() doceri."
This report—of which we do not bAieve one
word—has obtained such publicity, principally, as
we have shown, through the columns of our oppo-
nents, as to render some reply necessary ; and we
proceed to give it, although we are thinly convinced
thitt the report merely owes its origin to the not'
unnatural agreement of two statesmen, otherwise
opposed, that faiths should be kept with the nation
in regard of the pledge given that the income tax
should terminate in 1860. Having made this pro-
viso, we proceed to make some observations upon
the probable effects of the supposed junction, from
the Conservativ point of view, setting forth what .
we conceive to be not only the impolicy, but prat-
tically the impossibility of such a junction.
We have the authority of one of the supposed
contracting parties, • that " England loves not
coalitions," and certainly her experience of the last
two has not been such as to increase her affection
for such ill-omened associations.

[PRIG 4D. STAMPED SD.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING( THE
WEEK.

(Troia the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The deaths registered in London, which had br•en
in the first week of January 1,135, and in Cie kst
welr. of dr., same month 1,200, rose in the week
thrt ended las,, Saturday- t i 1,368. In tire yerr,,
1847-50, the average number of deaths in the week::
corresponding with last; week was .1,180. if this
average is raised for the prupoi,e of comparison,
proportionglly to increase of population, it will
become 1,298 ; and hence it appears that the rate
of mmtality which prevailed last week w,is- higher
than the average ran in the beginning of Feb.
The increase, which the present return shows, on
the deaths in Jan., arises from the recent depres-
sion of temperature, which commenced towards the
end of that month, and continued till near the end
of last week. The weather was generally mild in
the first three weeks of the year. The mean tem-
perature was 37 deg. In the fourth week it fell to
31.2 deg., and last week it was 32.3 deg. ; and on
two days since the 28th ult. it has been 12 deg.
below the average.

The deaths froin diseases of the respiratory or-
gans, the class which more than others rises and
falls with the fluctuations of heat and cold, rose last
week to 859 ; they had been for some previous
weeks about 280. The average of this class, cor-
rected for increase of population, for ten weeks cor-
responding with Ist week,_is 285. The deaths front
bronchitis in the hist four weeks were 170, 164,
166, and 224. The increase of pneumonia in the
last week is much less considerable. Phthisis,
which was fatal in the previous week in 146 cases,
numbered last week 184. looping-cough carried
off 61 children, and, as regards the extent to which
it was fatal, showed little change on recent weeks.
A child died of hooping-cough at 2, Church-court,
Westminster, being the fourth fatal case of this
complaint in the same house. Four children died
of measles in the Marylebone workhouse ; the total
number of deaths from this disease was 38. Only
3 dewhs from small-pox were registered last week
in London.

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It is to be presumed that this new coalition, so
;o call it, could only arise from !he mutual anxiety
of the emincnt persons principally interested to re-
turn to offic' on alm,st any term=. In every such
arrangement there must be at least two contracting
parties, and we ca❑ easily believe that the Peelite
leader has obtained h7s own consent ; in fact, we
agree with the Examiner that Mr. Gladstone is be-
coming exceedingly tired of whet our contemporary
terms his " political hatchelorhood ;" in other
worth, that state of isolation which threatens him
and his Muff& with permanent exclusion from
office and its enjoyments.
Thera is, however, another power whose consent
is absolutely necessary—namely, the Conservative
party as a whole. Will such consent be given ?
We believe not.
Let us not be misunders'ood. We are as anxious
as any can be to see the retnin of our fritncla to
office, but we are equally alocions that styli return
should be pe,manent and secure, We have ro
wish to see in office if not in power, and we
sp-cially deprecate any temporary arrangeme-,t
which would have *he effect of bringing them hack
to the Treasury benches, if suchrestoration were to
be followed by speedy ejectmtnt and great loss of
character.

The deaths of four nonagenarians were returned;
the two eldest of these aged persons, namely, a
widow in Queen-street, Ratcliffe, and a lady in
Southampton-row, had attained the age of 96
years.
Last week the births of 976 boys and 915 girls,
in all 1,891 children, were regis-Lred in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-
56 the average number was 1,620.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.762 in.
The lowest reading in the week was 29.41 in. ; the
highest occurred on Wednesday, and was 30.14 in.
The mean temperature of the week was 32.3 deg.,
which is 51 deg. below the average of the same
week in 43 years. The mean temperature of Sunday
(Ist), was 24.5 deg., which is 121 de-g. below the
average of the same day. The lowest temperature
lon Sunday, which was a'so the lowest in the week,
was 20 deg. The mean daily temperature conti-
nued below the average till Friday, on which day
it was 42.2 deg. The highest reading in the week
was obtained on Friday, and was 47.7 deg. The
range of temperature in the week was 27.7 deg.
The mean dew-point temperature was 29 deg., and
the difference between this and the mean air tem-
perature was 3.3 deg. The wind blew at the be-
ginning of the week geuera)ly from the south-east,
on Wednesday from the north-east, and on the last
three days from the south-west. Scarcely any rain
fell. On Monday and Wednesday there was snow,
but of small amount.

We return t' the phrase, the C.mservative party
as a whole, for it btings ui at once to th 3 question
of practicability. Few will deny that in case of
the junction in question taity_r, plat', nothing less
than the undiviled stre::gli of both Conservatives
and Peelites w,..uld be nece=sary,io maintain it in
place.
Now, the immediate point at issue is, how far
the support of the whole party can be relied on ?
The Conservative body, as our readerA must be
aware, although agreeing in all naa'n points, is in a
certain degree divided, at least so fir as that each
of its different sections give a greater inapt riance to
certain portions of the common creed than is
allowed by the others. _ _ _

One portion, it is evident, look to the religious
or Protestant part as that entitled to predominance. •
A second considers that more importance should
be given to the support of the landed constitution of
the country.
While a third may be said to look more especially
after the commercial and financial policy of the
empire. .
Now, let us see on which of these three ques-
tions Mr. Gladstone can claim the support of their
respective adherents.
Surelyit `cannot be supposed that a gentleman
who is well known for his Pu,eyite leaning=, and
who supported and comforted Cardinal Wiseman at
the period of the Papal aggression, can possibly
expect the support of the religious section of the
Conservative party. We have reason to believe
that an appeal to the constituency at Oxford would
place this matter beyond a doubt. It is stated, to
be sure, that the right hon. gentleman would return
to office as a zealous Protestant ; but in our eyes,
this, if true, would only convey that there is
nothing he would not do to effect so desirable au
object.
Again, the whole landed aristocracy is suffering
under the succession duties, which, sooner or later,
must break up all estates, as certainly as that effect
would have been produced by the repeal of the law
of primogeniture.
This body, it must be remembered, contains, not
only the titled landowners, but the still older and
more widely extended aristocracy known as the
landed gentry.
Surely Mr. Gladstone cannot expect any very
cordial support from those men whose interests he
1 avowedly sacrificed to relieve certain classes from
the income tax who should bear it, whilst there is
an income tax.

Next, let us consider the feeling of those who
chiefly look to his financial and commercial ante-
cedents. No man can doubt that Mr. Gladstone
must pursue in both cases the carrying out of that
Manchester policy of which he has always been the
chief exponent, and can hardly expect the support
of Conservatives in such an object. Moreover,
Manchester, is not, at the present moment, in such
a flourishing state as to render her a very desirable
ally. There are two things now pretty well under-
stood which will in future make au extension of the
Manchester policy, to which we hold Mr. Gla lstene
irrevocably pledged, imposili!e. Too first is, that
the masses are at last beginning to find out that
free trade has not given them the promised big loaf ;
the seconJ, that her wicked connivance In the
maintaining the worst vila of slavery to secure
cheap cotton has IrrAluced stati of things which we
always foresaw —iia'oely, that the reed upon which
she leant would b! elk and. pierce her side.
In fact, the American slave states can supply the
staple of trade no longer ; and this alone wilt ren-
der a return to a Conservative system of policy in-
evitable, even if England had not expressed from
end to end her determ;nation no longer to submit
to direct taxation. How in these circumstances,
we ask, are Conservatives to support. Mr. Glad-

stone ? .
' We have entered into this question at soma
length, because, although firmly convinced that the
junction in question would be suicidal, we consider
that, to avoid dispute and personal recrimination,
which b ei
t 1 bnumn must
itiin wproacultdiebasblbe.etter to prove that it would
We hope we have at 'least shpdloeewnswitilitotuot beeall
feeling which '
sur-
rounded with difficulties and dangers, irrespective
out of doors—that
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attention
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in their rulers
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Englishmen will require hereafter
far more of political earnestness and. integrity than
wwieth all our respect for Mr.
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slecuatiLaint
yd.,
cannboetenbsuuteifleaesl
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political antecedents have not
to the country those necessary, though " immate-
rial guarantees."

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