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ROX. EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—From the time of John Frost's memorable
attack on Newport to the accession of the present Mi-
nistry, scarcely a day, certainly not a week, was allowed
to pass without our being reminded that John Frost was
put into the commission of the peace by the Whigs,
An explanation was given, by which all blame was re-
moved from the appointment. At the time it was made
there was nothing which impeached the fitness of John
Frost for a borough magistrate ; and he was removed
immediately` his unfitness became apparent. Still the
fact was undeniable that a man who had been a municipal
magistrate had become a furious agitator ' • and, instead
of preserving the Queen's peace, had•hetided a furious
mob, and involved himself and others in the guilt and
punishment of high treason. These facts were un-
questionable. Tory orators- and Tory journals urged
the necessity of making the fullest inquiries into the
character and habits of individuals, before they were
placed in the omimission of the peace. We have no
wish to revive the question ; which, for any advantage
it can confer on the Tory party, they may have their
own way. The appointment of Johq Frost might be
worthy of blame; if so, the present Ministry has been
consistent in its practice of borrowing from its prede-_
censors in of making it always a little worse.
The late election at Woodstock has stirred up some
rather unpleasant matters ; but that has been done in
a sort of " unnatural contest ;" and, as it. lies entirely
among•the Tories, we may leave them to settle it among
themselves. It has, however, reminded us that the
Duke of Marlborough is Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Oxford ; and that he received the appointment from
• the present Ministry. The Duke of Marlborough was
a. man
.not altogether unknown as the Marquis ot.
tilandford ; as may be,. seen, not only in the daily
papers of 1838, but in Adolphus and Ellis's " Re-
ports," vol. viii., p. 908, where we find that, on making
a rule for a criminalinformationabsolute, the Lord

Chief Justice said, " I have no difficulty in saying that
if it concerned le.rd Blandford alone, kwould not have

consented to make this rule absolute. His own affidavit

throws the greatest'imputation on his conduct towards
the lady mentioned in these publications; and I cannot
pronounce that her statements on the subject are per-
jured." For the rest of the case, those who are curious

in such matters may refer to the documents we have
alluded to. The length and breadth of the gross du-
plicity, profligacy, heartless seduction, and subsequent
abandonment of the hapless female whom his Lord-
ship entrapped by a pretended marriage, were set forth
in the affidavits which were published in the daily
journals at the time, and are alluded to in the judgment
pronounced by the Court, as reported in the volume
from which we have quoted. We ask, if a Lord Lieu-
tenant had caused a commoner, concerning whom such
an opinion, in such a case, had been expressed by the
highest criminal court in the kingdom, what would have
been said -of him, and of the GovernFnent which allowed
him to retain his Lord Lieutenantcy ? The case in the
Queen's Bench could not have been unknown to the
Government at the time of the Duke's appointment as
Lord Lieutenant. •To say nothing of the notoriety of the
facts, and. the scandal their publication fastened on
the Marquis of Blandford (now Duke of Marlborough);
Sir W. Follett was engaged in the case, and he was So-
licitor-General at the time the Duke of Marlborough was
appointed. We are not disposed to rake up the errors of
a man's youth, and allege them as reasons for excluding
him from decent society or.from office.. Still, we have
a right to ask, what evidence had the Government, which
made him Lord Lieutenant of a county in 1842, that

the Duke ot Marlborough 'was then a better man than
he was, as Marquis of Blundford, in 1838? And if any,
at what precise time they had reason to conclude that
the respectability ot character and decency of conduct
commenced ? The criminal information was granted by
the Court, as we have seen, for the sake of his family.
Was the Lord Lieutenancy conferred for the sake of his
borough ? One word as to the course the Government is,
we conceive, bound to pursue under present circumstances.
It is the practice of the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, when his attention is called to grave charges
against a magistrate, to require a contradiction, or ex-
planation which, if not satisfactory, is followed by
striking the delinquent's name out of the commission
of the peace. On Monday last grave charges, affect-
ing the• public and private character of the hike of
Marlborough, were publicly stated by Mr. Humfrey,
the Government candidate, in the Town Hall of Wood-
stock, and in the presence of the Noble Duke's friends
and retainers—charges which, if true, would justify
the interference of the Lord Chancellor to prevent
the party against whom they were made and sub-
stantiated, from continuing to act as a magistrate.
How much more when the Lord Lieutenant, the head
of the county magistracy, is thus accused, if he
do not successfully repel the accusations? The charges
were net contradicted at the time—no contradiction
of them has yet appeared. -.lf the Government
do not interfere, and that very shortly, the subject
is of sufficient importance to justify an allusion
to it in Parliament. Some Member, of sufficient
weight and influence to secure the attention of the
House, should question Sir James Graham on the
subject; and ask how long the control of the county of
Oxford, and the appointment of its magistrates, shall be
allowed to remain in the hands of a person who was de-
clared, by the highest court of the land, to have behaved
too ill to be entitled to have a rule for a criminal infor-
mation made absolute ; and whose subsequent conduct,
as was shown by the proceedings at Woodstock on Mon-
day last, is'more than doubtfel.
STANDARD.—Elsewhere will be seen the extract
from Mr., Ferrand's speech, which is to be the subject
of consideration with the House of Commons to-night.
We can find in that extract no allegation which any man
can be required to prove, because we do not see any alle-
gation which, even if true, it would be possible to prove
either by documents or by the mouths of witnesses.
Nither do we see in the extract anything which a deeply
prejudiced man might not conscientiously believe to
be true, though to an unprejudiced man the extreme in •
justice of Mr. Ferrand's deductions are manifest. As it
has beea said before, Mr. Ferrand puts distinctly for-
ward the grounds of his opinion with the opinion itself,
and pretends to have no evidence in reserve—what more
can he be called upon to prove ? What, then, can
the House of Commons do in the matter? The
House may, no doubt, by resolution condemn Mr.
Ferrand's two propositions affecting Sir James
Graham and Mr. Hogg—as every rational and un-
prejudiced man in the country has already con-
demned them—but though there are precedents for such
condemnatory resolutions of speeches, pamphlets, and
sermons; the effect produced by them has left little to
tempt to an imitation of such precedents, and we
not be
doubt
whether Sir James Graham and Mr. Hogg would
the principal sufferers, by leaving to generations, to whom
their worth and integrity may be less perfectly known
than to the present, a record of grave charges pre
ferred against them. The same record will, indeed,
carry the evidence of their honourable acquittal by the
House of Commons; but, alas! we must not expect that
the judgments of the Parliaments of our day will be
more respected by posterity than we are in the habit of
respecting thejuclgatents of former Parliaments. The view
of the present effect of any harsh course adopted towards
the Hon. Member for Knaresborough is not more satis-
factory. The case itself warns us of the danger
of imputing motives ; and the loyalty of the Learned
Member for Bath, proved in both hemispheres—the
loyalty of Mr. Hume, demonstrated by his Canadian
correspondence—and the loyalty of the author of the
appropriation clause and the confederate of Mr.
O'Connell—the loyalty of the three movers of
this unhappy debate forbids that we should
assign to them any bad motives ; but though
we are forbidden to speak of motives, the
House .of Commons (we believe, but are not quite
sure), !permits to intimate consequences, and we think
that with whatever motive or purpose Messrs. Roe-
buck, Hume, and Ward have kindled this broil, the
consequences of permitting it to proceed must be
such as. Parliament ought to avoid if possible. Mr.
Ferrand has complained loosely and generally of
attempts made to crush him and to crush another
gentleman, because they are opposed upon principle
to the New Poor-law, and to long hours of labour
in the factories. Will not a harsh proceeding
against the Hon. Member, upon the very slight grounds
afforded by his speech, be eagerly seized upon by pre
judiced persons as irrefragable confirmation of his
complaint ; will he not, and with apparent reason too
(considering by whom the matter has been stirred !),
be treated as the victim of the economists, the martyr of
the poor and of the factory children. This will give him
a degree of influence which a Christian Conservative
such as Mr. Ferrand's will not abuse, but it will also
create a feeling of resentment against his antagonists
(we will not call them persecutors) which even his vast
influence, will be required to keep within proper
bounds. For our parts, we see but one course to pur-
sue, that will be at once just to Sir James Graham
and Mr. Hogg, and to the quiet of the manu-
facturing districts, and that is, to expunge from
the records of Parliament every word that has passed
upon this affair since it was first opened' by Mr. Roebuck,
and then pass to 'other business, as if the subject had
never been alluded to. This might be profitably fol-
lowed by a resolution of the House, declaring its aver-
sion to meddling firebrands—at all events, the continued
prosecution of the unlucky business prepares the country
ill to consider with due calmness, and a proper freedom
from prejudice, the debates and the division upon the
Factory Bill. •
.10.1100=1.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM.—At the last gene-
ral meeting of the Society of Arts, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, President of the Society, was unanimously elected a
trustee of this institution, in the room of the late Duke of
Sussex. The other trustees, pursuant to the will of the late
Sir John Soane, are—the Duke of Hamilton, as deputy from
the Royal Society; the Earl of Aberdeen, as President of
the Society of Antiquaries; Sir Martin Archer Shee, Presi-
dent of the Royal Academy ; Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter,
as representative of the court of Aldermen ; with Messrs.
S. Iligham, John Tidd Pratt, Charles Barry, and H.
Howard, R.A.
•

TIMES.—A sort of rumour has got afloat to-day rB-
- to the property-tax, which is to the effect that the
Minister will consider it good policy to propose the c ei-
tinuance for a further limited period of the tax on in-
come from fixed property, and along with it the repeal
of a corresponding amount of taxes and duties affecting
consumption and the middling classes, trusting to the
saving from the tax on personal income from trade and
professions to increase consumption. We give this as a
version of the case which has been adopted in very re-
spectable quarters, but without placing any great faitit
in it, at these secrets of office' have been too well kept
under the present Ministry to permit any anticii ation of
them by the public. It amounts, perhaps, to a plausible
conjecture, and nothing more.
A. letter from the Mexican agents, dated yesterday,
has been received by the Committee of Spanish Ameri-
can bondholders, in reply to their last communication,
already noticed. Messrs. Lizardi and Co. still contend,
that as agentst of the Mexican Government, to that Go-
vernment they are alone responsible and accountable,
declaring that without express directions they will not
render statements to any other party, and alleging that
such is the established customs with regard to mercan-
tile houses acting as agents to foreign Governments. As
to their intentions respecting the dividend, they refuse
to give any further information.
Several other correspondents have adverted to the
mode of proceeding adopted at the Bank of England in
retaining the assets of holders of stock who are deceased,
or, it living, ignorant that they possess it ; and it is
asked on all sides whether there is any difference in
this respect between the Bank' and private firm in-
trusted with the property of others, which would render
the natural course of proceeding, by a bill of discovery,
for example, less eligible in one case thin in the other.
This is a question which might easily be brought to an
issue by any executor • makings formal demand of the
Bank to furnish hint with an exact account of Jall stock
whatever standing in the name of his testator, and upon
refusal taking proper measures to compel an answer.
We think this mode of proceeding well worth trying in•
any case where large assets of the kind exist, without:,
eindgeffect. At the same time them, and that it could
phardlyrop e
r information
fail
to
have
tike
concerning
it is not to be assumed that the Bank is acting crimi-
nally by adhering to the old form of business in refusing
information, because it presented in general a sort of
protection against fratid, and it had not till lately become
fully apparent what great inconvenience resulted from it.
Now that the attention of the public, however, has been
drawn to it by
the late investigation and disclosures, the
Bank is placed in a different position. The Proprietors
have no interest in retaining these forgot en assets, which
pass after a lapse of ten years to the account of the Na
tional Debt Commissioners ; and it would be a most
proper and acceptable course in them to apply imme-
diately for the assent of the Government to some plan of
publicity, which, while it precluded any fraudulent use
of the information, would enable all parties entitled to
such assets, or their representatives, to obtain them.
Mr. Hogg's position in the city as an East India
director, and otherwile well known to a large circle of
meephants, has rendered his very explicit disclaimer
made on Tuesday night of having ever sought, directly
or indirectly, any Ministerial patronage, a subject of
very general remark. Not a doubt is attempted to be
thrown on the truth of Me. Hogg's declaration, but it
has nevertheless been found difficult to reconcile with it
the fact, perfectly notorious here, that in May last, after
the death- of Lord Fitzgerald, the report was so general

of Mr. Hogg's approaching appointment to the —vacant
post at the Board of Trade, that a canvass was com-
menced for that seat in the India direction which would
have been left vacant upon the recent election of Direc-
tors if that report had proved true. Of course the whole
was a mistake, but it may furnish, nevertheless, some
excuse for those who yielded to the belief that it was not

without foundation. •
The highest price of white wheat of the first quality
in Paris is 33f. per l hectolitre, which is equivalent to
50s. sd. per quarter English ; and the highest price of
white wheat in the London market being 60s. per
quarter, it follows that wheat is 19 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris.

The highest price of flour of the first quality in Paris
Is4of. The. per 100 kilograrames, which is equal to 40s. 9d.
per sack- of 2801 b. English ; and the highest price of
town made flour in London being 50s. per sack, it fol-
lows that flour is 221 per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris.

The price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 36c.
per•kilogramme, which is equal to rather more than 6*d.
per 41b. English weight ; and the price of bread in the
shops of the full-priced bakers in London being
per loaf of 41b., it follows that bread is 381 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

HINTS TO MAKE HOME HAPPY.

TO IttiBANDS.

Keep up the practice of reading the paper during the whole
of breakfast time ; of allowing yourself to be spoken to half-
a-dozen times before you answer, and then of asking your
wife what it was that she said. Upon her telling von, make
some reply which is nothing to the purpose, as it you were
thinking of something else.
Having been out over night at an evening party, which
your wife was prevented from going to by indisposition, en-
tertain her the next morning by a minute description of the
young lady you danced with, descanting on every, point as
enthusiastically as possible.
Take frequent opportunities of praising features and per-
sonal peculiarities which are as different as possible from
your wife's. For instance, if she has blue eyes, say how you
like black ; if dark hair, how much you admire light ; if she
is tall, remark that you prefer a moderate height; and if
short, be constantly quoting Byron, to the effect that you
" hate a dumpy woman."
Some wives are very particular about their fenders. Should
this be the case with, yours, always use it for your footstool.
When fresh drugget has been laid down on the stairs, parti-
cularly_if it is a rainy day, invariably forget to scrape your
shoes.

Discover frequently, on a cold raw morning, that the room
is close, and insist on having the windows open. On the
other hand, be as often, during the height of the dog-days,
affected with a chilliness, which shall oblige you to keep
them shut.

Very often order dinner punctually at five, and very sel-
dom come home till a quarter to six. Occasionally, however,
return at the appointed hour, and, not finding things ready,
complain that you are never attended to.
If your fish, your joint, or your vegetables, should happen
accidentally to be a little under or over done, never smother
your disappointment like some people, but express it as
markedly as you can, and remain in an ill-humour for the
rest of the evening. Be never quite satisfied with what is
set before you, but, if
possible, find some fault with even
dish ; or if not, quarrel with the arrangements of the table.
If you can find nothing else to grumble &it, think of some-
thing that you would have liked better than what has been
got for you, and say so.
Wives occasionally make pies- and puddings,. with a view
to a little approbation. Never bestow this on any account ;
but always say you wished these things were left to the cook.
Knowing that there is nothing but cold meat in the house,
bring home, every now and then, half-a-dozen men, unex-
pectedly, to take pot-hick with you. Your wife will pro-
bably sit at table flurried and uncomfortable, in which case,
amuse them by joking at her expense •
Should you chance, after dinner, to be affected by a slight
it
drowsiness, never resist
because y • ur wife wishes to chat
with you; do not mind her, but go quietly to sleep.
' When you have an evening party at your house, come
home to dress just as the company is beginning to arrive.
Should you find yourself at eleven o'clock at night among
a set of bachelor friends, and be offered a cigar, always stay
and smoke it, and another after it, if you like, and, if you
please, another after that ; in fact, as many as you find agree-
able, sever troubling yourself for an instant about keeping.
your wife and the servants up.
In short, on all occasions consult studiously your own in-
clinations, and indulge, without the least restriction, your
every whim and caprice ; but never regard your wife's feel-
ings at all ; still less make the slightest allowance for any
weakness or peculiarity of her character ; and your home
will assuredly be as happy Es you deserve that it should be.
—Punch.