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tive to the business of the session, but they were of
the most vague description. It would appear that the
Government evidently are waiting for the dog-days
to pass all the objectionable Bills of the session in a
lump. The Tories used to boast of their superior skill
in managing Parliamentary business. Cali they do
so now ? We know what has been done, but neither
Sir ROBERT PEEL nor Sir JAMES GRAHAM can give
us the least intimation what they intend to do.

Lord WORSLEY moved the committal, pro forma,
of the Commons Inclosure Bill, and wished it to be
postponed, as he had received an intimation from the
Government that material alteration must take place
before they could agree to it.
Colonel SIRTHORP, in his usual honest and straight-
forward manner, condemned the Bill, and said there
were forty-six clauses in the Bill on which he would
divide the Committee. This is a very hopeful pros-
pect for Lord WORSLEY, and he may depend upon it
Colonel SIETHORP will keep his word.
After some remarks from Mr. HUME, Lord SAN-
DON, and others, the Bill was committed, and the
House resumed.

The County Coroners' Bill went through Corn

The House then adjourned at a Quarter past Seven

A short discussion took place last night, in the
House of Commons, on the subject of Lord Woas•
LEY'S Inclosure Bill. In proposing the committal
of the Bill, pro forma, his Lordship observed that he
had that day had a communication with the Govern-
ment respecting it, when he found that, though
favourable to it generally, Ministers' were, never-
theless, desirous that it should be very materially
altered. The measure does, indeed, require a con-
siderable degree of alteration, and it is absolutely
necessary that it should be watched with the utmost
vigilance, not unmingled with a wholesome distrust,
for, as it at present stands, it is exceedingly arbitrary
in its character, being calculated, as Mr. HUME
justly observed, to deprive a large portion of the
poorer classes of the community of those few
uninclosed lands which still remain to them as their
property in common—lands which have hitherto
enabled so many of them to keep pigs, and cows, and
geese ; over which they have exercised an undis-
turbed right of pasturage for ages ; and on which
they have indulged in those manly sports which
afford such infinite recreation. A measure which
proposes, no matter in how indirect and circuitous a
manner, to trench upon these privileges of the poor,
cannot be watched with too much keenness and
jealousy, more especially when it is borne in mind
that the majority of the House of. Commons are by
no means very solicitous to promote the welfare of the
labouring classes of the community, but consider only,
both in their speeches and votes, how they may best
adapt themselves to the views of their lord and master,
Sir ROBERT PEEL. In its present shape we must
confess that we cannot at all bring ourselves to
approve of Lord WORSLEY'S Inclosure Bill. Doubt-
less it was framed with the best intentions, and the
sincerest desire to benefit the interests of the poor ;
but, unfortunately, those interests are left wholly at
the mercy of a Commission which is armed with the
fullest and most inquisitorial power, and whose
responsibility—if we remember rightly, for we have
not the Bill just now before us—is not sufficiently
defined. Those, too, whose rights—the prescriptive
rights of ages—it is proposed to interfere with,
have little or no power given them to obtain redress ;
they must perforce obey the sovereign behests of the
Commission, however reluctant they may be to do so,
and however firmly convinced they may be that those
behests are injurious to their interests ; and as to the
hints about compensation thrown out to them, these—
so far as our recollection serves us—are the vaguest awl
most jesuitical portions of the Bill. Assuredly, on
the first bhish of the thing, it seems a just and proper
scheme to bring as much uncultivated land as possi-
ble under tillage, and so increase the agricultural
wealth of the country ; but there are large tracts of
land in many districts which we could mention,
which, howev,er uncultivated they may be, are of
infinite value to the poor who reside in their im-
mediate neighbourhood, and these should not be
interfered with, except with the ready and cordial
consent of all parties interested in the matter. It
is not the squirearchy only who should be coxi-
sulted on the question, for the inclosure system is to
them a mere increase of gain, whereas to the hard-
worked, ill-fed, scantily-remunerated labourer, it is
an affair of life or death. Deprive such a man of his
right to feed his pigs and his geese on the adjacent
common, and you deprive him of one of his surest
means of livelihood; if he can scarcely keep his head
above water even with the aid of this privilege, he
can scarcely be expected to do so without it; and the
odds are, that he is very soon compelled to
sue 'as a pauper for admission into a union
workhouse. Justly remarked Mr. HUME, " such a
measure as this of Lord WORSLEY'S, ought to be a
Government measure. It was a Bill that would affect
the whole country ; and if passed; it would be a great
injustice to the labouring classes. Already had two
thousand Inclosure Bills been passed, and the only
effect of them had been to give an additional quantity
of land to the squirearchy of the country. He could
assure the Noble Lord that the labouring poor through-
out the country looked upon his scheme with
great suspicion." .For -eur• own part, we shall
watch the progiess Lord Wm:Lk:ifs Bill with the
utmost care and jealousy, for, after the late discreditable
course pursued by the Conservative majority of the
House of
,Commons on the subject of the Factory
question, we have lost all faith- in their sense of prin-
ciple and consistency; and most firmly :believe that
they would even sanction a. measure. for transporting
every tenth poor man in the country, provided that it
met with the approbation of Sir:llOl3E3lT PEEL. The
very term " Conservative". is- hateful to us. It is a
synonyme for political sycophancy,' time-serving, and
trickery of the basest and wost.bare-faced character.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 29th ult.
The state of the young QuEtti's health excites some
apprehension. Her MAJESTY is at Barcelona, from
whence an express has been dispatched to Madrid, to
summon Dr. CASTILLO, who has been the medical
attendant of ISABELLA. from her infancy.
The publication of a decree, dissolving the Cortes,
is daily expected at Madrid.

The new Ministry is about to rescind the Tobacco
Contract. The subject of the official intimation re-
ceived from M. Mori, by the Dire tors of the Tobacco
Company, was that her MAJESTY felt dissatisfied that
the administration of so important a branch of the
revenue should be confided to persons not officially
responsible, and she had, therefore, determined to
resume its control.

' Tlie Three per Cents. were done at 28 3-16 3-16
28 for cash, and 281 at 60 days ; the Fivo per Cents,
at 201 for 30 days ; the Debt without interest at 6
for cash.

The Paris papers of Tuesday have been received in
;he usual course.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, the de-
bate on the navy was postponed till the estimates
should come regularly before the Chamber.
The Debats gives a long article on the Bank
Charter resolutions of Sir R. PEEL. After giving an
analysis of the measures proposed, the adoption of
which the Debats regards as inevitable, our Contem-
porary expresses its approbation of the main features
which characterise them, and particularly remarks
on their tendency to the principle of centralisation—
a principle which has raised many objections, but of
which the Debats seems to approve highly.
The sentence pronounced on Mr. O'CoNNELL fur-
nishes a subject of remark to several of the French
nupaon
jptuersbste.antrhd rohsseeevoeaine p.pt,icosition journals regard it.as at once
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The
Globe views with some apprehension the firmness
which has been exhibited by those conducting the
prosecution.

The accounts from Algiers are exciting some un-
easiness in Paris. The report that the Emperor of
MOROCCO had joined ABD-EL-KADER is confirmed,
and the spirit of fanaticism being aroused, the French'
troops may have hard work before them. " Already,"
says the Courrier Francais, " has General LAMORI-
CIERE concentrated his troops on Hernecan, in order
to oppose a barrier to the threatened invasion. ABD-
EL-KADER is on his side indefatigable in training the
raw levies, and the preparation of arms, ammunition,
and warlike stores by order of the EMPEROR is in-
cessant. A son of the latter is to have the nominal
command of the troops of his father, but ADD-EE-
'KADER -is to hi' the real leader -of ;this new hostile