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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
No. CLXXXV.,
Is just published.
CONTENTS
Quetelet on Probabilities.
2. Merivale's History of Rome under the Emp're.
3. Church and State Education.
4. Alearrez.'s History of l'ed.o the Cruel.
3. Illackie's hylus.
6. Gethe's Festival.
7. 6,ilz it en the Eng'lsh Revolution.
8. The Africin Squadron.
9. The Gldrham Controversy.
LiSndon : Longman, and Ca. Edinburgh : A and C. Black.

This day, Second Edition erdargd, 2s.
FREE GRADE and its SO-CALLED
SOPFIBMS.
Being a Reply to " Sophisms of Free Trade, &c., Examined, by a
Barrister."
London : John W. Parker, West Strand.

STRICTURE OF 'THE URETHRA.
Just published, price Is., by post free, 4,4. In addition,
AFEW WORDS on PERINEAL SECTION,
as recommended try Professor Syme, for the Cure of Stricture
of the Urethra, and on Mr. Wade's recent Remarks thereon, and on
his Treatment with the Potassa Fusa.

By F. B. COUR lESAY, M.R.C.S.E.
Published by H. Bailliere, 219, Relent-street.
Also lately, by the same Author, price 55.,
The PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC
TUR of the URETHRA. With important observations on the Use
and Abuse of Instruments.

MANY have assumed the use of the word
- PALETOT, but the ONLY PATENTEES of the design and
7naterial used in this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of dress
ire, 11. J. and D. NICOLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletot Patentees,
and Mannflicturers of Cloth, who have agents in every principal
Town in the United Kingdbm and its Colon:o•. Their London Ad-
tress being REGENT-STREET or CORNHILL, id est :
Np. 114, REGENT-STREET, forms a department for PALE-
rors, ace.
Na. 116 (the nextbouse), is devoted fo?"MILITARY and DIPLO-
MATIC UNIFORMS. _ . _

No. 118 for 11011 ES and every novel or established article of
costume.

120 is exclusively for BOYS' and YOUT IS' CLOTHING, of un-
ssaal excellence; and at 22, CORNIIILL. Specimens of all may be
seen. •

In each. Department skilful and Intelligent Assistants attend, and
.he admitted fact, " That an article to be really cheap should be
really good," is practically sustained.
WHOLESALE WOO c_,LE N CLOTH and SHIPPING Entrance at
the rear lu WARWICK-STREET, and CHANGE-ALLEY, in the
CITY.
H. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL.

A. Wise, N. Baker, and W. S. Bente.l, Newton
Abbott, Devonshire, hankers, lid. and half a farthing
on any Tuesday after the 15th instant, eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Hir:zel, Exeter.
J. Bannehr, Exeter, liw stationer and printer, 70.
on any Tuesday after the 23d instant, Ve ween the hours
of eleven and three, at the office of M-. Hirtzel, Ex, ter.
T. G. Pocock, li:ngsbary Somerietshire,
milk's., 4d.' on any Tuesday after the 23c1 instant, be
tween the hours of eleven and three, at the of of Mr.
llirtzel, Exeter.

F. Paynter, Perztnce, aft wney, 10. le. on any Tut a-
day after the 15th instant, between the hours of-clewn
and three, at the office of Mr. HirzA. Exeter.

F. Peak, Minim, I),:vonshire, liuc n ani scoAlk n
draper, 4e. 33., un any Tuesday after 23d in aaht, U -
tyre n the hours of eleven and three, a'. tte offila of M".
Hir zel. Exeter.

W. Weeks, Inwardleigh, Devonshire, edi,e tool mak, r
and farmer, 35., on any Tuesday after the 2 3.1 ins•atut,
between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Hirtz 1, Exeter.

C. Besley, St. Andrew, Plymouth, clerk in Dock-yard,
25., on any Tuesday, between the ho irs of eleven and
three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATE.
In the Country.
W. Rawson, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, cake and
seat/ merchant, July 31, at half-past twelve, at the Court,
Kingston-upon-Hull.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

( From the Votes and Proceedings of the Hosise of Cormons.

MONDAY, J. 71.4 8.
HOME-MADE PIRITS IN BOND BILL.
Order for Committee read • Motion made, r.nd Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day three months resolve itself into the
said Committee," instead thereof : Question put, " That tie
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided : -

MINORITY—AYES, 120.
Adderley, C. B. Floyer, John Neeld, Joseph
Arbuthnott, H. Forbes, William Newry, Viscount
Archdall, Captain Fox, S. r.. Norrcys, Sir D.
Arkwright, George Frewen, C. IT. Nugent, 'tr Percy
Begot, lion. W. Galway. Viscount O'Brien, J.
Bateeou, T. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
Bennet, P. Goddard, A. L. O'Brien, Sir Timothy
Reresford, Willisun Gordon, Admiral O'Connell, Maurice
Blackall, S. W. Gore, W. R. O. Palmer, Robert
Blake, M. J. Granby, Marquis of Pilkington, James
Boldero, H. George Grattan, Henry I'lumptre, J. P.
Booth, Sir R. G. Greene, John Portal, Melville
Boyd, John ' Grogan, Edward Rawdon, Colonel
Bremridge. Richard Guernsey, Lor4 Sandi*, John
Buck, L. W. Halsey, T. P. Salwey,;Colonel
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hamilton, G. A. Sanders, George
Burghley, Lord Hamilton J. H. Scholeileld,:W.
Burroughes, H. N. ' Male, Alexander Scully, Francis
Chatterton, Colonel 1111dyard, R. C. Seyraer, H. K.
Chichester, Lord J. Hildyard, T. B. T. Sibthorp, Colonel
Christopher. It. Hill, Lord E. Smith; J. Benjamin
Clive, H. B. Hciod, Sir , 'amender Smyth, J. 0..
Cole, Hon. H. A. Hornby, John Spooner, Ricb.ard
Colvile, C. R. Hudson, G. star Cord, A.
Conoily, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Staniord, J. F.
Corry, H. Jones, Captain Stanley, Edward
Cowan, Charles Ker, Richard Stuart, Lord J.
Devereux, John T. Kershaw, James Stuart, 11.
Dickson, Samuel Knox, Colonel Stuart, J.
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, W. Sullivan; Michael
Dod, J. W. Lowther, Colonel Talbot, J. H.
Dodd, G. M`Cullagh, W. T. Thornhill, G.
Duckworth, Sir J. 31• Gregor, John Vesey, Thomas
Duncan, George • M'Neill, Duncan Vyse, H. lt. H.
Dundas, George : Meagher, Thomas Wawn, J. T.
Dunne, Colonel Manners, Lord J. Welby, G. E.
Edwards, Henry Maxwell, J. P. Wodehouse, Edmund
Fagan, William Meux, Sir Henry Worcester, Marquis •
Ferrer, James Miles, W. TELL/Clui.
Ferguson, Slr R.l Moffatt, George Naas, Lord
Fitzpatrick, J. W. Neeld, John Mackenzie, W.F.

MAJORITY—NOES, 121.
Abdy, Sir T. N. Head!am, T. E. Parker, John
Adair, Hugh B. Ileneage, Edward Patten, W.
Adair, R. A. Henry, Alexander Pelham, Hon. D. A.
Anson, Colonel Hervey, Lord A. Pigott, Francis
Bagsha w, John Heywood, James Plowden, W. H.
Baines, M. T. Heyworth, Lawrence Pusey, Philip
Baring, Sir F.
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Berkeley, C. L. Rolland, Robert Robartes, T. J. A.
Bernal, Ralph Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Colonel
Birch, Sir Thomas Howard, C W. G. Romilly, Sir John
Bouverie, E. P. Howard, E. G. Seymour, Lord
Boyle, Colonel Hughes, W. B. Shell, R. L.
Brotherton, J. Hutt, William. Simeon, John
Buxton, Sir E. Jervis, Sir John Smith, Vernon
Carter, J. B. King, P. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Childers, J. W. Labouchere, Henry Sotheron, T.
Clay, James Lascelles, W. S. Spearman, Henry
Coke, Hon. E. K. Lemon, Sir C. Strickland Sir G.
Cockburn, A. J. Leman", T. B. Tancred, H. W.
Collins, W. Lewis,' G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel Thoruely, T.
Craig, Sir W. G. Littleton, E. R. Tollemache, F. J.
Denison, J. E. Locke, Joseph Townley, it. G.
Dundas, Admiral Mangles, IL D. Tufnell, Henry
Dundas, Sir David Marshall; J. G. Turner, George
Ebrington, Viscount Marshall, William Vane, Lord H.
Estcourt, J. B. Martin, John Vivian, J. a
Evans, William Martin, C. W. Wakley, T.
Fitzwilliam, G. W. Matheson, Colonel Westhead, J. B.
Forster, M. Maule, Fox , _ Wilson, James
Fortescue, J. W. Melgund, Viscount Wilson, Mattheiv
Fox, W. J. Milner, W. M. Wood, Sir Charles
Freestun, Colonel Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P.
Greene, Thomas Mowatt, Francis Wrightson, W. B.
Grenfell, Charles W. Mulgrave, Earl Wyvill, Marmaduke
Grey, Sir George Ogle, S. C.
Grey, Ralph Wm. Paget,.Lord A. TELLERS.
llatchell, John Paget, Lord G. Hill, Lord M. -
Hawes, Benjamin Pakington, Sir John Bellow. B. M.
Ilayter, W. G. Pahnerston, Viscount

TUESDAY, JULY 9.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to make the Franchise in Counties in England
and Wales the same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right
of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annual value of
ten pounds." The House divided:
MINORITY—AYES, 100.
Adair, Hugh E. Gibson, Thomas M. Nugent, Lord
Adair, R. A. Shafto Grattan, Henry O'Brien, Julia
Agtionby, H. Greene, John O'Connor. r eargllS
Alcock, Thomas Hall, Sir B. Pearson, Charles
Anstey, Thomas Harris, Richard Peehell, Sir G.
Bass, Thomas Basile, Alexander Perfect, Robert
Berkeley. C. L. G. Hastle, Archibald Pigott, Francis
Blake, M. J. Headlam, Thomas Pilkingten, James
Blewitt, It. J. Henry, Alexander Ricardo, J. L.
Bright, John Heywood, James Rice, E. R.
Brocklehurst, J. Heyworth, L. Romilly, Colonel
Brotherton, Joseph Hobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Brown, Humphrey Hodges, T. L. Scholetleki; William
Brown, W. Hodges, T. T. Smith, John-S.
Carter, John B. , Howard, C. W. tomers, J. P. '7
Clay, Sir W. Iluinpliery, Ald. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Clay, James Hutt, William Talbot, J. H.
Cobden, Richard Jackson, William Tancred, H. IV.
Collins, William . Kershaw, James Thdmpson, Colonel
Colebrooke, Sir T. Locke, Joseph Thompson, George
Cowan, Charles Lushington, C. Thornely, T.
Crawford, W. S. M'Callagh, W. Tollemache, F. X.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. M'Gregor, John Wakiey, Thomas
Divett, Edward M'Taggart, Sir 3. Walmsley, Sir 1.
Drummond, Henry Meagher, Thomas. Waiter, John
Duncan, Viscount Mangles, R. D. . Westhead, J. P.
Duncan, George • Marshall, William Willcox, Brodie
Elite, John Makhes _.
on, Colonel Williams, John
Evans, Sir De Lacy Melgund, Viscount Wood, W. P.
Evans, William Mulles, R. M. Wyld, James
Evelyn, \V. J. ' Mitchell, T. A.
Ewart, William Morris, David TELLEILI.
Fagan, William Mowatt, Francis Hume, Joseph
Forster, Mathew Muntz, G. F. King, P. J.
Fox, W. J. Norreys, Sir D.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The anti-Sunday post cause appears to
have a rule of its oan. It has made its way thus far
by a succession of assaults and surprises which is
inaintainets must think nothing less than miraculous
The process began with the petitions. Respectable
men, in their shops and their p arhurS, were slid leely
invaded by a sanctimonious banditti in black eo s
and white ties, and asked if they feared God and re-
verenced the Sabhath. There was t‘o resisting so
solstnn an appeal ; and, with a sort of mesmeric
piety, they signed their names to they hardly knew
sshet,—something about the better observance of the
Sabbath. When the first assault of the S ibbatarian
pressgang proved insuffieien-, it was generally inti-
mated that the impious recusant would find himself
in a position of unpleasant singularity; in fact, that
his name would be posted in a black list of the un-
godly. Tnere was no help for it. What is called
" the argument" was all on one side. As every-
body knows, by painful experience, there is no
thing so readily got up as a trumpery
budget of nonsensical reasons for some fool-
ish little opinion, and men who had written
and received letters on Sundays all their lives without
a misgiving were soon pushed into a corner. Hence
the enormous list of signatures to the anti-Sunday
post petitions—almost equal to Mr. Feargus O'Con•
nor's fabulous muster-roll. After this, the next step
was to surprise the House of Commons, which for
one reason or another surrendered to the saints at the
first summons. Government then either shared the
general panic, or sought to counteract it by an unex-
pected ruse; and one fine morning the world was
surprised to hear that next Sunday there would be
no post. Nothing could exceed the delight of the
Judaiz.rs at this portentous announcement. Their
less willing or less initiated followers, however, were
some of them dismayed to find that the change was
inconvenient, and that they had to pay for their
piety. Hence a sort of reaction on the part of some
who had asked for the alteration, and many more
who bad never had the courage to resist it. To stop
the growing nuisance, Mr. Locke gave notice of a
resolution with a view to a counter-address to her
Majesty. Ile proposed rather late what should, of
course, have been the first step in the affair,—an in-
quiry into the best means of reducing Sunday la-
bour, without quite stopping the post; asking, mean-
while, that the post should be restored to its former
position, and the Sunday service resumed. So the
resolution stood in the list, and a large muster of
Members assembled to carry it. But, behold, ano-
ther surprise ! Lord John, having dreamt a dream,
or seen the ghost of Sir Andrew Agnew, acquiesces
in an impromptu amendment moved by Mr. Beresford
Hope, striking out the proviso that for the present
letters should be collected and delivered on Sunday
as before. The amendment has been adopted on the
principle of a well known Court, casti gat que audit que.
The Sunday post is suppressed, and we are then
permitted to inquire why it should be retained.
Mr. Locke, however, though partially de:eated,
made a very good speech, and elicited another very
good one from Mr. Roebuck. The debate that fol-
lowed, we presume, represents the present state of the
controversy, facts oa one side and signatures on the
other. Neither Lord Ashley nor his coadjutors ad-
vanced a single fact in reply to Mr. Locke's
very weighty statements. It appears that at Man-
chester and Liverpool the news agents have found it
necessary to organize large staffs of " boys," "news-
men," "footrunners," and even "mounted messen
gers," to supply the place of the handful of postmen,
who would otherwise have distributed the London
Sunday papers in the ordinary course of their duty.
Thus Sunday labour has been enormously multiplied
by the late change. If it is so in these two towns, it
must be so at every considerable town in these islands
Equally distant from the metropolis. With the utmost
contrivance the Sunday papers will not arrive
till Saturday evening, when it is too late to
forward them the same day through numerous vil-
lages lying five or six miles off; for, if a newsman's
round will take him three or four hours, his master
will not send him out at 8 o'cloek rM. on Saturday,
but at 5 the next morning. In reply to these facts,
and some others of equal but more domestic interest,
Lord Ashley and his friends could do nothing but
refer to their 700,000 signatures, to the 41 menbers
of the Town-council of Glasgow, to the 9 bankers,
the 22 physicians and surgeons, the 68 procurators
and brokers, and the 500 commercial men and capi-
talists ; nine-tenths of whom had probably settled the
question by a reference to the 22d chapter of Exodus,
without considering fir a moment to what extent the
commandment was obligatory upon Chri.ttAns, how
far they really and truly observed it themselves, or
how far the closing of the Post-office would actually
diminish Sunday labour on that day, and so answer
its own purpose. Everybody knows the story of
the boroughtnonger who had to get whatever he
wanted from the Minister by the argument, " We are
seven, my Lord ;" and all that Lord Ashley has to
say in reply to the gravest and most undeniable ob-
jections is, "My Lard, we are 700,000." It will be
rejoined, perhaps, that Messrs. Willmer and Smith;
and a hundred or two other firms in their position
throughout the country, ought to follow the example
of the Post-office, and ought not to send out their
footrunners and mounted messengers. But they will
send them out, and if they don't send them out o hers
will; so the thing will be done, and will be the direct
result of Lord Ashley's measure. Nor do we see
how it can possibly be obviated by any arrangements
of the Post-office. We observe that some of the
weekly newspapers suggest that, with a Friday
evening edition, and a pstal delivery very late
on Saturday night, the thing may be managed.
But while the people of Lancashire, the West
Riding, and the Potteries can get news on
Sunday up to 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, is it
likely that they will be content with news only up to
the same hour on Friday afternoon? and, as far a
special delivery of newspapers all over the country up
to midnight on Saturday, so absurd au idea would
never have entered into any other brain than that of
a raging Sabbatarian. It was evident from the be-
ginning that the anti-Sunday-postists would be
pushed to this extremity, for there is absolutely
nothing which they do not expect the nation to sa-
crifice to their hobby. The only argument or fact
that rose above the level of " the 700,000 signatures"
was Mr. Muntz's testimony. "He never could enjoy
a comfortable quiet Sunday, from the number of let-
ters he used to receive. For 30 years he had never
had three quiet Sundays but the last three, and, as
one largely engaged in business, he could assure the
House he had not felt the least inconvenience from the
stoppage of letters." Now, bold as it may be to
correct Mr. Mun`z in a matter of his
own personal experience, we will undertake
to do so. The disquiet which seems to have
alloyed his Sabbath rest for the thirty 3 ears
arose, not from the receipt of his letters, but from
his craving to answer them. We know, to our cost,
his insatiable appetite for letter writing. So far as
I regards the receipt of letters, what can it signify to
the peace of one's mind whether a letter is received
on Saturday or on Sunday, excepting that ten o'clock
on Saturday night is the worst hour of the week ?
A man with ordinary command over his actions and
temper can look over a batch of letters on Sunday
afternoon, break a seal or too, put the business letters
in his desk or his pocket, peruse the private ones if
they seem more important than usual, dismiss the
whole batch from his thoughts, and take a walk with
his wife and children, or, if he pleases, hear the latter
their catechism. Tee sting of a letter is generally
the necessity for answering it, and nobody is ex-
pected to answer a letter on Sunday. People may,
if they like, but they are not expected, and the day
is always a valid excuse. Mr. Muntz, then, has
mistaken the working of his peculiar temperament
for the necessity of the case. If he will put every
inkstand in his house under lock and key on Satur-
day night, and give the key to his minister or any
other keeper of his conscience, he will he able to re-
ceive a hundred letters on Sunday without any dis-
quiet. Nay, we should not wonder if in course of
time he acquired so sublime a state of Sabbatical
apathy as to look on the hundred letters without the
least inclination to open them.
CHRONICLE.—We cannot congratulate either
tie House of Commons or the Government on having
adopted a very hippy mode of self-extrication from
the entanglements of the Post-office question. The
sort of compromise which terminated the noisy and
disorderly debate of Tuesday night is as far as
sible from saving the dignity of the former; andputhse:
best comment on the conduct of the latter s that all
parties concur, with edifying unanimity, in charging
them either with precipitancy, or with want of good
faith. As regards the House, nothing can be more
absurd than the position in which it has placed itself
by the vote of Tuesday, taken in conjunction with
that of the 30th of May. To act first and deliberate
afterwards is, proverbially, the acme if reckless
folly ; yet this is precisely- what our representeti,es
have done, in following up their original address to
the Crown, for a total cessation of the Sunday cols
lection arid delivery of letters, with a subsequent
prayer "that her Majesty will be graciously pleased
to cause an inquiry to he made whether the am ant
of Sunday labour in the Post-office may not be re-
duced, without completely patting an end to the col-
lection and delivery of letters on Sunday." We re-
frau from conjecturing what opinion her Majesty is