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London, England, 1850-07-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1850.

A significant allusion was made on Saturday even-
ing to one of the most felicitous testimonies ever
afforded of the advantages accruing from British
sympathy with the constitutional movement of a
foreign population. This testimony, in favour of the
policy pursued by Lord PALMERSTON, is altogether
so remarkable, and has been hitherto so egregiously
overlooked, that we deem ourselves more than justi-
fied in directing the particular attention of the public
to it, as a matter otherwise likely to be passed by
without observation, having been merely inciden-
tally mentioned in one of the speeches delivered
at the banquet to the Foreign Secretary. The re-
ference of our observations is to the attitude assumed
by the Spanish nation at a period when the rest of
the European countries were convulsed by revolu-
tionary agitations. The tranquillity maintained,
generally speaking, at that momentous epoch through-
out the chief portion of the Spanish peninsula must
assuredly be regarded as a token favourable to the
diploma tic system of the Liberals. It was an evi-
dence, at any rate, that the social changes effected of
rate years among the Spanish multitude has been
beneficial rather than retrogressive. Even with
arbitrary men in power at Madrid, even with men
whose despotic predilections and domineering tem-
perament induced them to display an indecent amount
of irricability towards the Ambassador from the
Court of St. James'!, it was evident that the
Spaniards were still so far advanced by the spirit of
their political institutions that they, almost alone,
among the continental nations of Christendom,
preserved their bearing of serenity during a time of
extraordinary turbulence. The fact was conspicuous,
and it was not less satisfactory than conspicuous.
Looking back to those times of prevailing anarchy,
it is a circumstance somewhat entitled to
consideration, that Spain and Belgium were
almost the only portions of continental
Europe that shared with England the glory of pre-
serving an aspect of almost unbroken tranquillity.
Belgium, it is sufficiently well known, has progressed
within the thirty y,ara last past very wonderfully in
the scale of civilization. Her improved prosperity,
her moral amelioration, and her intellectual develop-

ment alike arrest the scrutiny of the philosopher and

merit the panegyric of the historian. Within the
liquerititsrval, 'moreover, Spain, if less perceptibly,
has_ _ vot , Ig* a c t aklly advanced socially and
cOnrneremorally and intellectually. This
mo'Cid morioiletiOas teen secured in her iistance in
lefiance4siirtiere, of the moi.t unpropitious circum-
stance. WW2/ intrigue has been -nurtured in the
Pttlueft; Ist ii;
4;1 y eterioration has been evident in the
Gevern' , while licentiou.,ne 31 has been permitted

in high quarters, and the manners of the barrack-
room introduced i
nto the saloons of the Administra-
tion—the people h aye steadily progressed in the way
of general civilizati 'on.

Naturally, of course, the multitude, while securing
to themselves the ad vantageous qualities accompany-
ing the great national i'nlprovernent, or rather, perhaps,
we should say in conr.i quence of the acquisition of those
qualities, have acquire d likewise a greater sensitive-
ness to the short-comings of their rulers. They have
regarded, indeed, thi 3 proceedings of those exalted
personages for a long while past with conflicting emo-
tions of dismay and suspicion. So enormous, indeed,
has the national suspicion become, that the most ex-
travagant rumours have' been set afloat, and by some
individuals it would ea-ell appear actually believed, in
reference to the recent birth of en heir to the Crown
of Queen ISABELLA. Reports so exaggerated
h e been flitting about since the announce-
at of the premature decease of the Royal
i ant, as to be comparable only to the stories pro-
mulgated in the seventeenth century, in allusion to
the birth of a son to the unfortunate King JAMES the
SECOND, stories which cannot even now be forgotten
in respect to Father PETRE and the warming-pan.
Whisperers, in feet, have gone so far ae to question, on
one hand, the reality of the reported birth, and, on
the other hand, the possibility of the child having re-
ceived fair-play—The former insinuation being
directed against the possessors of the Crown, and
the latter against the aspirants for its possession.
Meanwhile the recent sojourn of the Duke and
Duchess DE MONTPENSIER in the peninsula has re-
vealed a fact of no slight importance, namely, that
the heirs presumptive to the Spanish diadem are
cursed with a notorious unpopularity. Even under
circumstances calculated to put the people in the beat
temper imaginable, namely, during the performance
of their favourite amusement, bull-fighting, when
the matadors have bent the knee in homage to the
IferArerz and her French husband, the crowd has tes-
tified its annoyance by the most undisguised sibilation.
Much of this unpopularity of course may be attri-
buted to the jealousy inspired by a sense of the
Orleanist intrigue in which the marriage originated ;
but, no matter what the source to which it is trace-
able, the fact is at once unmistakeable and important.
Another subject for consideration for all those who
would conjecture the future reserved for Spain and
the Spanish population, is the espousal of a Neapolitan
Princess by the Conde DE MONTEMOLIN. The bridal
festivities of the son of Don CARLOS had more-
over, it should be remembered, been preceded
by the marriage of his most chivalrous adherent, the
celebrated General. CABRERA, the hero of Catalonia—
each of those occurrences, purely personal though they
may appear, being calculated to effect in a remark-
able manner the fortunes of the peninsula.
Within the last few days a desire on the part of a
certain class of French politicians has been avowed
in the columns of the Assenzblie Nationale, that the
Republican Government of France should, in the
event of the demise of Queen ISABELLA. without
offspring, resume the policy of the Orleanists, by
merging all consideration for the wishes of the
Spanish people themselves in the question of the pre-
dominance of French interests in the peninsula.
Against such doctrines as these the genius of this age
of liberality and civilization protests most audibly.
The problem to be solved for Spain, as for any nation
similarly situated, is, not the predominance of French
interests, or the predominance of English interests
in her government, 'but the establishment of free
institutions, and the consolidation of a constitutional
authority, in accordance with the will of the Spanish
people—whether the personage selected by that
people, for the conduct of its affairs be the Duc DE
MONTPENSIER, the Conde DE MONTEMOLIN, or some
unborn child yet destined to succeed to the sceptre of I
ISABELLA.
1

After sustaining four distinct and unequivocal de-
feats on the Attorneys' Certificates Bill, the Go-
vernment have at length succeeded, on a filth trial, in
obtaining a majority, and thus throwing out this just
and equitable measure for the present session. It
had reached the last stage of its progress—the third
reading—and, as it was a subject on which the here-
ditary branch of the Legislature could not interfere
with the decision of the representatives of the people,
there appeared to be but little doubt of a satisfactory
conclusion to the contest. Toe cup, however, has
been dashed from the lips of the eager t xpectants ;
their reasonable hopes have been frustrated, even
at the eleventh hour ; their exulting pains have
been changed into lamentations. These unto-
ward results have been produced, not through
any accession of strength on the part of their oppo-
nents, but by the scandalous neglect and apathy,
the gross dereliction of duty by their professed
friends. Had the 139 gentlemen who, on the 15th
instant, recorded their votes in favour of the second
reading of the Bill, and thus affirmed its principle,
been in attendance on Monday evening last, the
measure would have been sanctioned by a majority
of 27, in place of being rejected by 24, and Sir
CHARLES Woon would have learned that no Ministry
can with impunity disregard the dictates of fair play
and common honesty. The 51 absentees have indeed
much to answer for, and they cannot plead the want
of sufficient notice: On the preceding Saturday we
emphatically cautioned them against the " dodges"
that would be attempted, and exhorted them that
they should not, "in the moment of victory, exhibit
any apathy or negligence that might by any possibility
convert their former tfiumphs into an ignominious
defeat." The salutary warning war, however, in
vain; they suffered themselves to be drawn by ether
pursuits from the performance of the important duties
they had undertaken. Perhaps the mysterious in-
fluence of the Ministerial " whipper out"—the pa-
tronage Secretary of the Treasury—might in some
degree account for the absence of " the dirty half
hundred." But, whatever might be the cause, we
trust that the numerous and influential body whose
interests were so shamefully disregarded will scru-
tinize the division lists of Monday, the 15th, and
Monday, the 22d of July, with curious eyes, and
require full and satisfactory explanations when Hun.
Gentlemen are again appealing to their respective
constituencies for a renewal of confidence. We
would earnestly recommend to the profes-
sion that the names of those who voted
on the five divisions, for or against the Govern-
ment, should be printed, and hung up in the office of
every attorney and solicitor in the United Kingdom,
to be referred to in case of a vacancy in the represen-
tation of the district in which he resides. If this
course be adopted, and that the fifty-one absentees be
marked with double lines of black, we premise that
extraordinary vigilance will be exhibited on the re-
appearance of the Bill next session, and that the ob-
noxious tax will only once more be demanded.
Each person interested will thys, for the outlay of a
few pence, get rid of an annual payment of 12/., or
of 81., as the case may be, according to the locality
in which be resides. It will be a cheap mcde of at-
taining a great object. We trust that this hint will
not be thrown away upon the acute and clear-
headed parties who have just sustained so grevious
a disappointment.

But, although Sir CHARLES WOOD has !whirred a
temporary triumph, he will have but little cause for
seb-gratulation. There is " a good time coming,"
longer
be when the entire taxation of the country must
sub-
jected to revision, when he will no n bethe enabled
to defend unfair and unjust imposts oground
that there are other duties equally atrocious—whena
tax is to be judged of not on its own intrinsic
merits merits or demerits, but according to the propriety of
other taxes, which are still maintained de..pite the
serious objections that may be put forward from time
to time. Next year the property and income-tax will
expire. Five-and, a• half million of pounds sterling v, ill
be taken from the revenue at one fcll swoop, and Mi-
nisters, if they desire to preserve the public credit, and
to meet the interest of the ntional debt, must apply
to Parlbanei,t for a renewal of the charge. This
necessity will afford a golden opportunity to fiscal
and financial reforms for remodelling the public
burdens, and diitributieg the weight more equitably,
so that every man in the community may contribute
to the exigencies of the nation secundum statum et
facultates. Such a chance cannot again arise fur many
' years, possibly never. It is certain that an attempt
will be made by Ministers to render it perpetual, but
that should be most strenuously resisted until it be
extensively modified and placed on an entirely new
basis, so that the precarious earnings of industry—of the
diligent tradesman, or the hard-working professional

man—be not charged as highly as the dividends of the
fundholder or the ground-rents of the landed pro-
prietor, and until every crying grievance be redressed.
We need scarcely say that we are not opposed to
the principle of direct taxation, and that we consider
judiciously and fairly assessed property-tax as the
most eligible impost that can be levied, being
at the same time more just and equitable,
more politic and expedient than any other
that could be adopted. Yet, while acknow-
ledging this much, we must remind Honourable Gen-
tlemen of what the proceedings on the Attorneys'
Certificate Bill has so forcibly illustrated—the great
difference between carrying a positive enactment and
resisting any alteration in the law. The vexatious
tactics adopted by the Government on the present
occasion may be exhibited towards themselves
when applying for the renewal of the income-tax, and
divisions may be taken at every stage of the Bill, and
whenever there is a chance of defeating it, unless a
full inquiry be instituted into all the public burdens.
Although sympa►hising with the attorneys in their
recent disappointment, we can scarcely regret that
the fiscal reformers will be ensured the zealous co-
operation of such efficient allies in the general con-
test that is rapidly approaching, and for which timely
preparation should be made. They are, perhaps,
more heavily taxed in proportion to their income than
almost any other class of the community ; they have
to pay heavy stamp duties before they can enter on
the practice of their profession, amounting to no less
than 1451., which, if invested in an annuity, would
produce say 141. 103. per annum ; they hare
also, if admitted three years, and resident
in London, to pay 121. per annum for taking out their
certificate. These sums are in addition to the income-
tax and all the indirect. imposts to which they are
inflected, in common with .the other members of the
community. If then, we suppose, the average
earnings of London solicitors to be 2001.
per annum, and we believe that we are esti-
mating at the very highest figure, if due allow-
ance be made for the various expenses and draw-
backs to which they are subjected, it will be seen
that they have to pay direct taxation to the amount of
32/. 6s. Bd. per annum ; that is to say, 141. 10s. for in-
terest on 1451. sunk in payment of stamp duty, 12/. for
certificate, and 51. 164. Bd. for income •tax, being as
much as is demanded from the proprietor of 38,0001.
Consolidated Three per Cents., and no less than
16 1-6th per cent. on their incomes. This is not as
it should be. It cannot be defended on any principle
of equity, and yet it is but one of many similar in-
stances of injustice equally demanding redress. We
trust that another session will not be suffered to
elapse without suitable remedies being provided,
and we have pointed out the means by which a com-
plete victory may be achieved.

The Army Estimates are to be taken to-morrow
evening in Committee of Supply, and Mr. HENRY
BERKELEY has . given notice of his intention to op.
pose the vote for the Yeomanry Cavalry ; his op-
position to this vote, if successful, will be tantamount
to a disbandment of this most useless, and if not
useless, then most mischievous and most dangerous
corps, and we trust that every Free-trader, every
financial reformer, every lover of peace, every hater
of disorder, will be in his place to-morrow night to
support this motion. Their presence will be needed,
for among the representatives of " the agri-
cultural mind," there will be a large num•
ber of Yeomanry officers, who will, if they can,
make the country pay fur this mischievous and ex-
pensive toy ;we shall find their names the division
list on Friday morning, as having voted to a man in
favour of saddling the country with an expense of
81,000/. to enable them to play at soldiers for one
week during the year. An admirable paper by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wiexig, which appears in the number
for July of Colburn's United Service Magazine, has
proved that for all military purposes the Yeomanry
Cavalry, as at present constituted, are worse than use-
less; that in the event of an invasion, or of their being
opposed to disciplined troops, they would be of in-
finitely greater harm to their friends than to their foes ;
that, in fact, considered in a military point of view, the
Yeomanry Cavalry, which has only one week's disci-
pline and training during the whole of the year, is
merely an expensive playthine ; and, as we cannot
afford just now to expend 81,000/. for the purchase of
a plaything fur the country gentlemen, it would be
but becoming in the Minister to at once accede to the
very reasonable proposition of the lion. Member
for Bristol, and to withdraw the vote. But
then we shall be told that, although they are utterly
inefficient as a military force, yet they are of great
assistance as a police force. This we entirely deny ;
their organization is so clumsy that it requires at
least 48 hours' notice to call them out, and when
called they are unamenable to discipline, and
either refuse to perform their duty at all
or perform it in such a partisan spirit
as to bring great discredit upon the
institutions of the country, and to excite that hatred
of class against class which, next to actual civil war,
is the greatest curseehat can befal a nation. We re-
member the Manchester massacre, when persons
peacefully assembled for a legal object, and be-
havine in a legal manner, were set on
by an undisciplined mob of armed yeomanry
headed by the squires, and hounded on by a clerical
magistrate, and were ruthlessly massacred ; the bitter
fruits of the cowardly onslaught of the JOWLERS of
1819 we are reaping to this very hour; it was at
I'eterloo that the foundation was laid of the class
hatred between the industrious classes and the squire-
archy, who, on that occasion, rode roughshod over
them, which has 'not even yet entirely disappeared.
While, however, at Manchester, they acted with that
cruelty and undue severity which invariably charac-
terise an undisciplined corps, there have not been
wanting occasions in which, as in the " Swing"
riots of 1830, they have refused to act at
all, alleging that if they did so their own
property would be in danger. As an aid, therefore,
to the civil power in case of disturbance, they are,
when not absolutely useless, positively mischievous,
and, seeing the ardent desire which many of these
gentry have expressed at recent protectionist meet-
ings " to .mount their oases, ride into the
towns, and carry the re-enactment of the
bread tax by- force of the sabre," we think
that, as a matter of precaution, these gentle-
men should be at once disarmed and disbanded, not
because we apprehend they will attempt to carry
their threats into execution, but because persons who
can be found so far "left to themselves," as to give
utterance to them, are in intellect mere children, who,
for their own safety's sake, and to prevent them from
doing themselves a mischief, should not be suffered to
play with edged tools or fire-arms.

A GOOD CHARACTEII.—After enacting Havnau in
cruelty, and Schwartzenberg in policy, Sir Henry Ward, is
unable to imitate even the clemency that Hayden. at last
resorted to in Hungary. There is not a potentate, from the
Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, more despotic, more detested,
more extra-constitutional, more the foe of all reform all
economy. and ad liberal principle, than Sir Henry Ward.—
Daily A-eu.s.
THE WEATUER.—The mean reading of the ham.
meter for the past week at the Royal Observatory, Green-
wich, was 29.814 inches. The mean temperature was 65.6
degrees, which is four degrees above the average of the same
week in seven years. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day it ranged between 8 degrees and 12 degrees higher than
the average of the same days. The temperature was highest
on Tuesday ; and on that (lay the highest in the shade was
87 degrees, and the highest in the sun 105 degrees.
COLONEL SALWEY, M.P.—We regret to learn that
the lion. Member was taken with a fainting fit just before
the House came to a division on the Attorneys' Certificates
Bill yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock. He
remained in a state of insensibility until the arrival of Dr.
Nittih:le co
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Mr. Wakley, M.P., who happened to be near him at the
draught
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trophe is worth 6001. a year.
Advice that is given arrogantly or sharply can
scarcely be expected to be received with humility and grati-
tude.--E/iza Cook's Journal.
ERRATUM,—In our report of the officers received
on Tuesday by the First Lord of the Admiralty, there was
an inaccuracy. Is appears Charles T. llill, Royal
Navy, holds a commission as lieutenant and commander,
bearing date 20th July, 1835, and by an official letter, dated
931 mee, 1850, signed by the Second Secretary (W. A. B.
Hamilton), is styled therein, and addressed on the enyeiope,
" Commander Charles TII9JauI.S Hill."

SIR ROBERT PEEL.
BORN FEBRUARY 5, 1788.
DIED JULY 2, 1850.

BY WILLIAM CHARLES RENT,

Aunton OF

He has perished in peace, yet departed in glory,
The senator's robe, not the hero's, his shroud;
No blood-streaming battles emblazon his story,
Yet still with his fame the whole land rings alma
In the slumber of death he is silent for ever;
No more may his accents the nation rejoice—
The nation who loved him, the nation who never
Can hearken again to her orator's voice.

Oar dreams of his future have died in their splendour,
Have died with his death, and are drowned with our tears;
Alas I that one moment of anguish can render
Thus vain and evasive the vision of years.
Alas! that the genius a realm is lamenting
Should thus have been quenched by the pangs of a day;
Should tempt the DeA.oyer who knows no relenting,
And sink with me sigh to the depths of decay.
He sleeps—but the world is awake to his actions;
He dies—but the age is alive to his worth :
He failed—but in failing dismenaliered all factions;
He ruled—and in ruling replenished the earth.
And now o'er his tomb are the multitude mourning
The loss of their statesman, their idol, their chief,
The sense of whose greatness, their conclave adorning,
Enhances their pride but to heighten their grief.
Though lowly the fate that bereft him of power,
Sublime was the sorrow that rose o'er his fall,
When millions, dejected, awaited the hour
Replete with calamities dreaded by all.
Oh, dire were the portents and deep the emotion
That threatened the State like a shadow of gloom,
When Princes and People, with common devotion,
At sundown and sunrise sought news of his doom.
For well they remember'd the light of his reason
Shone brightest when blackest events were combined,
The horrors of famine, the terrors of treason
But winning new store from the wealth of his mind.
Their gratitude turned to the thought of that valour
That shelter'd the islands when ills o'er them swept,
And musing with awe when he lay in death's pallor,
The senator trembled, the warrior wept.

No Minister ever more nobly presided
O'er councils that never more needed control,
And ne'er hath ambition more grandly derided;
The baubles of empire that gleam in its goal.
Was England's command on injustice dependent,
His large and magnanimous heart chosa aright—
He abandoned to foes his position resplendent,
And yielded to weakness the wand of his might.
In opulence lull'd, yet his life was devoted
To watch o'er his country and toil in her cause;
Though leisure allured him, his aim was denoted
By drudgery pass'd in amending her laws.
A passion for letters and science, uniting
Their blandishments, sought to decoy him in vain—
Him—the gentle and brave—only stern when requiting
The crafts of intrigue and the wiles of chicane.
Yet, brilliant his acts of political duty,
More brilliant the deeds of his private career,
When for virtues, more sweet in their homelier beauty,
Most loved the great man, some might only revere.
Oh ! solemn the proof of his generous feeling
Drawn forth from its stealth by a blood-stained despair,
The suicide's hand, in its anguish revealing
His nature, still tender, when ravaged by care.

The People he loved more than Place, ever yearning
To govern them wisely, their good to ensure;
And oft from his measures the nation was learning
How, reared 'mid the rich, he yet lived for the poor;
Their homes were the scenes of his fond asp ration,
The cottager's blessing his brightest reward,
More prised than the pomp of a dukedom's creation,
Than wealth or nobility gained by the sword.
Then leave, as he wished, his frail ashes to moulder
Beneath the old fane near the scenes of his youth ;
Though humble its shade, nobler structure were colder
To him who viewed death through the spectrum of truth.
No pageants sepulchral accumulate round him
The symbols of pride that he spurned on life's shore;
More grandly his great recollections surround him=
The Patriot Chief whom the People deplore.
London, 9th July, 1850.

MADAME BOMPIANI'S CONCERT.—Madame Bom-
piani gave her annual evening concert on Monday. By the
kind permission of Sir 'l'. N. and Lady T alfourd, it was held
at their residence in Russe.b.square. The principal vocalists
were Mdlle. Parodi. Mdlle. Uccelli, Miss Lowe, Madame
Lemaire, Signori Furtado. Ciabatta, Coves, Mengis, Mas-
siani, &c. The instrumental music was rendered by Madame
Bompiani herself (an excellent executant), Mr. Norman, and
Signor Ikelheimer.

REPRESENTATION OF CHESTER —We have already
announced that the Honourable William Owen Stanley
was the successful candidate at the poll which was closed
at four o'clock on Monday afternoon, and that the num-
ber of votes recorded in his favour greatly preponde-
rated over those of his opponent (Mr. E. C. Egerton) in
the Tory interest. The Sheriff held his court at five
o'clock on Monday evenig, to declare the state of the
poll, when the official return was declared as follows:
Stanley, 98d; Egerton, 645; majority fur Mr. Stanley,
341. Mr. Stanley was then chaired through the city,
amid the applause of thd great multitude who lined the
streets.

OPENING OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—
The important portion of the Great Northern sys:em of
railway communication, extending over seventy-six miles
is now completed and
between
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The Government officer is to go over it in a few days, and
oopnednoi
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he public Peterborough,
bythe 7th of next month.
report to the Railway Commissioners as to its fitness for
traffic. The total area of rail that will be connectedly thrown
open on the occasion will be 220 miles, with termini at
Peterborough, Boston, Lincoln, Hull, Gainsborough, Great
Grimsby, and York. Of this mileage seventy-six miles con-
sist of the trunk between London and Peterborough, anti 14't
miles known as the Lincolnshire loop, with various links and
branches. When what is called the town's-line between
Peterborough and East Retford, and other branches, are com-
pleted the Great Northern will represent a network of rail-
way, north and south, little short of 300 miles, constructed
at a coat of between 7,000,000/. and 8,000,000/., and so far
on a much less costly scale than any other railway in the
kingdom. Arrangements on an extensive scale have been
made at the King's Cross station and at the various stations
on the line for a large coal traffic, at reduced prices, to be
brought from the South Yorkshire coal tidds, the trucks con-
taining the coal from which will unload at the -edge of the
Regent's Canal for the supply of the London market.

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOVV.---We understand that
Dr. James Adair Lawrie has been appointed to the profes-
sorship of surgery in the University. vacant by the demise
of the late lamented Dr. Burns. •Dr. Lawrie has for some
time occupied a similar office in the Andersonian University.
The appointment is in the gift of the Crown. —Daily Mail.