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THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1844.

men of whom the numerous company was formed, then
proceeded from the Guildhall in the following order:—
Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Royal Exchange
Committee.
The Master of the Mercers' Company.
Mr. John Masterman, M.P., and Sir P. Laurie, Trustees
for the Statue.
Executors of Sir F. Chantrey.
Aldermen.
Court of Mercers' Company.
Mr. Tite, the Architect of the Royal Exchange.
Members of the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trustees
Committee.
City. Officers.
The Duke of Wellington's band struck up the National
Anthem as the King of Saxony and the Lord Mayor en-
tered the space before the statue, and the Committee
received his Majesty with acclamations. The King ap-
peared to be overwhelmed with astonishment at the
scene which presented itself, and declared that he never
beheld such an extraordinary multitude. The Com-
mittee having walked twice round the statue, the cover-
ing of which was removed instantaneously amidst
cheers from all around,
Mr. R. L. JONES said he thought it necessary, as it
naturally might be expected, that he should state to his
Majesty, on behalf of the Trustees and Committee, why
they were assembled on that day on that spot. They
met to pay a grateful tribute to one of the greatest men
ever produced by this or any other country. It was
needless for him to say that he meant the Duke of Wel-
lington.—(lmmense cheering.) It would ill become him
to say one word about the transcendent merits of that
great men, because those merits were known and ac-
knowledged by the whole civilised world. The
citizens of London felt it peculiarly incumbent
upon them to erect a statue to that illus-
trious person by subscription, and with the
aid of the Government, who had supplied the metal from
the guns which Wellington himself had taken from the
enemy, they had succeeded in thus proving their grati-
tude.—(Great cheering.) This monument of a living
warrior had been framed by the hands of a great artist,
now no more, and it was a gratifying fact that it was the
first equestrian bronze statue which had ever been raised
during the life of the person represented. Never had
either king or subject the opportunity of seeing himself
so represented before.—(Cheers.) Independently of the
vast military renown of the Duke of Wellington,
the claim of his Grace upon the protection of the citizens
of London for advancing its interests by promoting the
improvements and embellishments which the visitors to
this great City looked upon with wonder, was such that
they were determined to give effect to that feeling in a
way which posterity would be well able to appreciate,
and would leave an example worthy of imitation.—
(Cheers.) The King pulled off his hat, and joined as
heartily as any one in the immense multitude.
His Majesty, after having taken a view of the interor
of the Royal Exchange, over which his Majesty was
shown by the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Tite, the architect,
returned with his Lordship, loudly cheered all the way to
the Mansion-house, where he sat down and finished his
repast. His Majesty afterwards accompanied the Lord
Mayor to the Temple, and visited the ancient Church, the
Hall, and Library, and at six o'clock the King took his
leave of the Lord Mayor, having expressed the greatest
delight at all he had witnessed in the ancient and ho-
nourable City of London.
By the direction of the Commissioner of the City
Police, such arrangements were made as prevented the
slightest confusion. The police, by the acknowledgment
of all, conducted themselves with remarkable skill and
judgment, and the vast population in the streets appeared
to be highly gratified at the very interesting exhibition
of the day.

LITERATURE.
WESTMINSTER REVIEW. No. LXXXI.
Clarke, London; 1844.
The first article in the Number before us is de-
voted to a consideration of the public character and
conduct of the present Home Secretary, from the
period when he commenced his political career—now
nearly a quarter of a century since—as a Whig "and
something more," down to the present day, when he
sits in a front seat on the Treasury benches as an
official supporter of the Tory principle of legislation.
The Right Hon. Baronet will assuredly not be best
pleased with the comments which the Reviewer is
pleased to make on his various changes in politics;
and still less with the numerous significant extracts
which he gives from the once well-known, but now
almost wholly forgotten pamphlet on "Corn and
Currency," which the Home Secretary published in
.the year 1826, and the principles advocated in which
he has long since seen cause to repudiate. But
though the article is certainly severe, it is by no
means an unjust one; and if it blames his frequent
political inconsistency, it does justice to his temperate
and judicious management of the navy, when he was
First Lord of the Admiralty, under the Grey Admi-
ministration. " New Spirit of the Age" is a notice
of Mr. Horne's recently-published work under this
title. The Reviewer admits him to be a man of
talent, but denies him the possession of genius, and
observes, in reference to his last quality :—" Genius,
that is, the power of creation, we take to be an ema-
nation of the divinity that shapes our ends, and can
no more work for hire than God himself could in the
creation of the world." Surely this is not the fact.
Walter Scott and Lord Byron were both men of
genius, yet both of them avowedly "worked for
hire ;" so too did Moore, when tempted by 'the bribe
of three thousand guineas to compose his splendid
poem of " Lalla Rookh." Moreover, are not Brunel
and Stevenson, the engineers, men of genius, and do
they not realise a handsome fortune by the diligent
exercise of that faculty ? In the majority of in-
stances our men of genius in modern times have been
men of the world also, who have no notion of giving
the rich fruits of their intellect to the world, except
for a handsome equivalent. " Alison's History of
Europe" is a thoughtful and carefully reasoned essay,
in which the consummate military abilities of the
Emperor Napoleon—perhaps the greatest master of
the art of war that the world ever saw—are alluded to
in a discriminating spirit. We must confess, how-
ever, that it is with no little difficulty that we bring
ourselves to think otherwise than with horror and
detestation of these magnificent military despots—
the wholesale plunderers-and murderers of their fel-
low-creatures. In the article on the " Affairs of
India" the Reviewer rejoices in the recal of Lord
Ellenborough, and the appointment of his successor,
Sir Henry Hardinge, " whose experience and firm-
ness of character," he says, " afford the promise of a
happy dawn to millions." We quote the following,
sketch of the Home Secretary's character as a poli-
tician and a Minister:—
" On the whole review of Sir James Graham's po •
litical life and opinions, we find one point, and only one
(his championship of the Irish Church being not per-
fectly clear of exceptions) from which, so far as we
know, he has never swerved :—viz., that the class of
mortgaged and indebted landowners are a class worthy
of special legislative protection. On this point, we
believe we may pronounce his public character to be
without spot or blemish of inconsistency. The doctrine
has shaped itself differently in his mind, at different
times : once it was the sponge, now it is the sliding-
scale, that must 'save the aristocracy," preserve the
landowners' estates' from harpy creditors, and prevent
the landed property of England from changing hands:'
—but, however the means may have varied, the end has
always been the same—either by adjustment of incum-
brances, or by protection of rents, to save insolvent
owners of land from breaking. This is Sir James Gra-
ham's strong point. This is the one light speck in the
general haze—the dot of terra firma in the chaos. Sir
James Graham may fairly boast that, amidst incon-
sistencies and self-contradictions without number, he has
always been consistent to the principle that the landed
aristocracy and gentry must have Acts of Parliament
put between them and their creditors—must have their
debts paid, or somehow provided for, at the public cost.
His sympathies have been, through life, with a class
of men the most mischievous that any country can be
cursed with—the needy people of quality, the insolvent
lords and gentlemen, the opulent knaves, who cannot
live without their hands in other people's pockets. We
do not know what, if any, may be the Netherby Ba-
ronet's individual interest in the maintenance of this
doctrine of the right of landowners to have their debts
provided for by Act of Parliament, and have no disposi-
tion to inquire. Nor is it necessary to waste words in
discussing the honesty of it. The political morality
which protects and patronises the great opulent knave-
interest fitly accompanies the political religion which
stands up for the purity and integrity of the Church of
England in Ireland. These two are the only net pro-
duct that we can find of Sir James Graham's political
life. After striking out all the inconsistencies and con-
tradictions—balancing and neutralising every plus with
its corresponding minus—these are all that the equation
gives us. It would be scarcely fair to close our estimate
of Sir James Graham's political character, without ac-
knowledging that he possesses, in a high degree, many
of the qualities of a useful servant of the State, His
administrative abilities are, we believe, generally allowed,
by those who have the best opportunities of judging, to
be of the first class. He is a ready, capable man, both
in office and in Parliament, with a fine talent for getting
through business. He made an excellent First Lord of
the Admiralty ; and improved the efficiency of the navy
while curtailing its expenditure. Although he refused
to abolish impressment, he placed two Acts on the
Statute Book calculated to diminish its necessity and mi-
tigate its practical oppressiveness. Unfortunately for
the public, his present share in the Ministerial cast of
parts is one in which mere administrative dexterity is
but a poor set. off against a shabby spirit, a rough tem-
per, and an unscrupulous partisan conscience. As a
Home Secretary, Sir James Graham is one of the worst
and most dangerous Ministers we have had these twenty
years."

NAND-8008 FOR CENTRAL EUROPE.

Hughes, London, 1844.
The compiler of this volume, Mr. Coghlan, is wei
known for his numerous guide-books, which have
proved of great service to our tourists in the summer
and autumn seasons. His present work is on a
larger scale than any of his preceding ones, and con-
tains minute, practical directions for travellers through
Belgium, Holland, the Rhine, Germany, Switzerland,
and France, together with a full description of Paris,
the Channel Islands, and the fashionable continental
spas, and a list of the steam-packets to and from all
the foreign ports.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Vol Vii. Colburn, London, 1844.
The Life of Queen Elizabeth, with which the
authoress, aware of the interest and importance of the
subject, has: taken unusual pains, is brought to a close
in this volume. It is by far the completest and most
of this great Sovereign ; and it possesses the additional
circumstantial
recommendation
being wholly free from anything
like fulsome eulogium. The documentary evidence
brought forward by the authoress is exceedingly
copious, and much of it will be new to the majority
of our readers; but the most interesting portion of
the work is that which describes the death-bed of
Elizabeth, and the intrigues of the Ministers and the
courtiers the instant they became aware of the utter
hopelessness of her recovery. The portrait of the
Queen, prefixed by way of frontispiece to the
memoir, represents her as being much more comely
in feature than she:has been generally supposed to be.

TRAVELS IN KORDOFAN.
Madden, London, 1844.
From the preface to this volume of travels we learn
that the author, Mr. Ignatius Pallme, a Bohemian by
birth, undertook the journey to Kordofan, of which
he here professes to give an account, on commission
for a mercantile establishment at Cairo, in the hope of
discovering new channels of traffic with Central
Africa. In the pursuit of his object, he remained
longer in the country than any European had ever
done before him ; and the information which he fur-
nishes us with respecting the existing condition of
this province of Egypt may consequently be looked on
as strictly authentic. But though M. Pallme's volume
abounds in useful information, it is not, generally
speaking, very entertaining, in its character, for the
author's mode of narration is dry and matter-of-fact,
and he lays too much stress on matters of trivial mo-
ment. His account of the present state of slaves in
Kordofan will be read with attention by those inte-
rested in this most complicated and difficult question,
which seems to bid defiance to all attempts at a satis-
factory settlement; but we prefer quoting instead his
description of the Sheikhs or saints who, it appears,
are treated with a world of respect, not to say, rever-
ence, throughout the entire province of Kordofan :
These Sheikhs, or saints, are what we call idiots.
They are unfortunate beings, who, although neglected
by nature, are considered in this country as:direct apostles
from God, to inform the children of men of their destiny.
These poor wretches are all but idolized, everone
Whenthey anxious to show them the utmost respect.
they walk out in the streets, they are stopped by old and
young, who kiss their face, hands, and even their feet,
and offer them everything they wish for. Beings of this
description aro generally very apathetic, and accept little
or nothing; they are, in fact, generally to be met dressed
in the most disgusting clothes, in rags, or utterly naked,
although they would be provided with the finest raiment
if they merely expressed the slightest wish. Their
parents, sisters, or other relations, on the other hand,
know how to turn their misfortune to the best account,
and accept considerable presents for their intercession
with these saints, or for procuring others an opportunity
of consulting this oracle. They give the most absurd
and ridiculous answers to questions that are put to them,
partly as a consequence of their fatuity, and partly be-
cause taught to do so; it is, indeed, scarcely possible at
times to guess at their meaning. The more absurd the
answer, the more contented is the party interested; and
absolutely delighted, if he can only make out a single
word of the whole rhodomontade which in the-slightest
agrees with his wishes. To these saints the women
flock in numbers to beg for fertility. Besides these
Sheikhs, there are others, and Fakeers, who write
amulets, which the women wear on_their arms, or heads,

firmly believing that their most fervent wishes will be
then fulfilled. The latter profession is exceedingly lucra-
tive, and I have seen several persons who have made a
small fortune in this manner, and very well understood
the art of imposing on the people, and of persuading
them to purchase a fresh charm, although experience
must have convinced them of the futility of the last."

MISSION TO THE COURT OF VIENNA.
Longman, London, 1844.
The diplomatic mission to Vienna, of which this
volume furnishes us with a memoir, was undertaken
by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, at a most
critical period in our history—namely, the year 1806,
shortly after Pitt's death, and when Fox had just
succeeded to office as Foreign Secretary of State.
The volume consists for the most part of official
documents, bearing on the negotiations between this
country and Austria, whose power had been recently
crippled by the decisive battle of Austerlitz ; but
though supplying admirable authentic materials of
some future historian of that feverish period, when
an apprehension of the ambitious views of Napoleon
was the one general feeling of Europe, yet these
documents will be of little interest to the majority of
readers, for they are, with few exceptions, dry,
business-like State dispatches, whose tact and
sagacity can only be appreciated by those who are
conversant with the complicated politics of thosse
times. Sir Robert Adair appears to have acquitted
himself with signal dexterity in his diplomatic mis-
sion, and possessed the most full and entire confidence
of Fox, of whose principles he was a cordial supporter,
and of whose foreign policy the volume before us may
in some degree be considered as the defence. It is
dedicated to Lord Grey in a brief address, wherein
the author gracefully and touchingly observes,
" accept the work in the name of our fifty years'
friendship, increasing on my side in veneration as life
and its business recede from me ;" and is introduced '
by a neat, sententious preface, in the course of which
Sir Robert Adair explains the reasons that induced a
large portion of the upper and middle classes to re-
gard Mr. Fox as the advocate of unconstitutional and
revolutionary principles.

OUR ACTRESSES. 2 Vols.
Smith and Elder, London, 1844,
' These volumes consist of a series of biographical no-
tices, accompanied with brief cursory criticisms on their
talents, of the most eminent actresses and vocalists
that have appeared on the London boards within the
memory of the present generation. The authoress is
Mrs. Cornwall Wilson, who is already favourably
knovtrn to the play-going portion of the community,
by her Memoir of the Duchess of St. Albans. Her
present work is slight and gossipping in its character,
and has the recommendation, by no means common
with biography, of being penned throught in a kindly
and tolerant spirit. The critical portion of it is the
weakest, for Mrs. Wilson appears to be no very dis-
criminating judge of theatrical excellence; but as her
remarks are uniformly put forth without assumption
or pedantry, we feel no disposition to bear hardly upon
them. The volumes are embellished with half-length
Portraits of some of the most distinguished of our
female performers, among whom the authoress justly
allots a prominent station to Mrs. Nisbett, undoubtedly
the most finished comic actress of the day. We
quote the following passages from the memoir of
this lady :
" Mr. Nisbett was a most amiable and affectionate
husband ; and the widow's anguish may be conceived,
but cannot be described. It is said that a friend was
one day condoling with Mrs. Nisbett on the loss of her
husband. Husband !' cried the lovely widow, wiping
a tear from her brilliant eye—
"' He never was a husband.'
" ' How ?' cried her friend, in astonishment.
"' No ;—from the day of our marriage—he always
remained NY LOVER r

" The unexpected death of Captain Nisbett—who
was not, as may be supposed, much of a man of business,
caused perplexity on pecuniary points ; there were dis-
puted claims to property, and some interested parties
threw the affair into Chancery ! Chancery ! there is
ruin—perspective beggary in the very name !
" During the Chancery proceedings Mrs. Nisbett
thought it prudent, for the sake of her own near, and
we may add, dear relatives, to re-enter the theatrical
profession ; a profession which she had quitted under
such happy auspices : and, accordingly, in October, 1832,
she re-appeared at Drury-lane. Her reception by the
audience proved that they had not forgotten their old
favourite, and that they could commisserate her in her
recent bereavement, and encourage her exertions to
counteract the frowns of fortune. She went through a
long list of the leading characters in genteel comedy, on
each night increasing her fame. Amongst her chef-
d'ceuvres were Rosalind, Beatrice, Violante, &c., &c.
Bankruptcies, non-payment of salaries, insolence,
attempts at imposition, and all the petty vexations which
crept in with the degradation and downfal of our na-
tional theatres, at length induced Mrs. Nisbett to accept
the cash-paid salary from an engagement at a minor
theatre, in preference to promise to pay' at a major
house. She passed through several engagements for
limited periods (so as not to interfere with her provin-
cial engagements), at the Queen's, and also at the Strand
Theatres.

" At the Queen's Theatre we were present in Febru-
ary, 1835, to see Jerrold's new drama of the School-
fellows, in which Mrs. Nisbett sustained the leading
character with great and deserved applause. On this
evening there was a terrific outcry raised by the pittites
against the' bonnets, which, at that time, were prepos-
terously large if at all fashionable. The performance
was for some time suspended with the cry of off bon-
nets' not being attended to. One little gentlemen, whose
patience could no longer endure the tower of Babel
before his view, very coolly stretching out his arm, sud
denly and somewhat uncourteously thrust the point of an
umbrella into the crown of the brobdignagian head de-
fender that interrupted his view of the stage, and car-
ried off its straw-built roof on the ferrule of his con-
quering weapon, to the no small amusement of beholders,
but to the great dismay and enragement of the fair but
obstinate wearer. We are sorry to speak in terms of
censure of our own sex, but really on this point they are
very unaccommodating, and deserve to suffer for their
tenacity.

" Oa the evening in question, entreaty had failed to
remove the 'brobdignagian nuisance as it was called ;
skirmish after skirmish took place between female heads
and umbrella points, rendering the performance inau-
dible. At last a jolly tar, with lungs like a speaking-
trumpet in a gale of wind, got upon the seat, and roared
out—' Them as is gentlewomen is expecsed to take off
them helephant bonnets ; them as don't pretend to be
sitch, may keep them on.' The effect of this odd ad-
dress was like magic, the pride of every female took
alarm, and in a minute all the blue bonnets were over
the border,' to the great amusement as well as accommo-
dation of many of the audience."

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.---A. curious dis-
pute has arisen between the Peninsular Company and the
Great Western Company. The former, it appears, pur-
chased the ship, the Great 'Western, for 32,000 L, the
owners undertaking to do whatever the Admiralty sur-
veyors might deem necessary to qualify the vessel for the
mail service. A considerable delay taking place in com-
pleting a set of new boilers on the tubular principle, some
time was requested and granted. All being ready, a trial
was had down the Severn, under the inspection of the
Admiralty surveyor, who found all right with the excep-
tion of the supply of steam, on which he declined to pass the
survey. Some alterations having been made in the boilers,
the vessel was announced as ready for a second trial, at the
request of the owners. A delay of a few days occurring in
sending the Admiralty surveyor down, the owners, with
Captain Claxton, the manager, took on themselves to
withhold the vessel, thus virtually cancelling the con-
tract, and, without notice to the Peninsular Company, ad-
vertised her departure for New York. The Peninsular
Company feeling that, whatever the delay might have
been, it was not to be laid to their account, but to that of
the Admiralty, and not disposed to yield to this summary
extinguishment of what was considered a desirable pur-
chase, an application was made to the Court of Chancery
to prohibit the vessel being sent to sea, and immediately
granted. Thus both this Company's vessels may be said
to be in Chancery, the one, the Great Britain, in the Bristol
dock, the other in Westminster-hall. Odds are now laid as
to which of these ships will be first discharged of the ne exeat
regno. The Peninsular Company have been obliged to dis-
patch another vessel, the Lady Mary Wood, in place of
the Great Western, with the Alexandria mails.—Liverpool

FRENCH MEN OF WAR.—The arrival of the
Danae, French frigate, of 56 guns, at Brest, puts an end to
an idle story which is reported in a Barbadoes paper, re-
ceived this week, that the Dublin, of 50 guns, Captain
Tucker, had been sunk, with her colours flying, by three
French frigates, for having given protection to the Queen
Pomare, who had taken refuge on board of her. The Danae
was one of the frigates at Tahiti, and she mentions nothing
of such an event. The French garrison at the Marquesas
was in distress for clothes and money, having had no pay for
fifteen months, and nothing but salt provisions. The French
navy is certainly moving about much more actively than
formerly. We observe that on the sth April the 60-gun
frigate Sirene, together with the Victorieuse and the Re-
cherche, left the Cape of Good Hope, for China; and on the
27th March the Erigone, 50-gun frigate, left the same station
for Brest ; at the same time the man-of-war Colibri left the
Isle of France for the Isle of Bourbon.—Hampshire Telegraph.
FEROCIOUS ATTACK BY A BULL.--A few days ago,
William Binnington, a servant in the employ of Mr.
Jackson, of Old Sunderlandwick Hall, near Driffield,
went to look after his master's stock, amongst which
was a bull, which made a ferocious attack upon him,
and being unable to escape from the reach of the infu-
riated animal, he was dreadfully gored. His cries for
help, and the bellowings of the savage beast, were heard
by some children at play near the farm, who imme-
diately gave the alarm ; Mr. Jackson immediately called
together all his men, and, having armed themselves,
proceeded to rescue the poor man from his perilous
situation. When released, he presented the appearance
of a mass of gore and wounds ; and his clothes were
torn into tatters. His collar bone was found to be
broken, and his ribs much damaged. On different parts
of the body were large gaping wounds, besides being
much bruised all over. On the arrival f Mr. Simpson,
surgeon, of Hutton Cranswick, he found the man in a
very exhausted state, and fast sinking, but by careful
restoratives, operseveringthe efforts
s andof
was then able to have his wounds dressed and sewed up,
thelife
were administrationre anated of,
andprophee proper
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and his bones properly adjusted. Up to Tuesday last
he was going on with the hopes of an ultimate recovery.
Hull Advertiser.

CAUTION.—ALARM or FIRE.—On Tuesday night
last the troops at Devonport were turned out by an alarm of
fire which had broken out in the Mount Wise Barracks. It ap-
peared that one of the young officers of the 44th Regiment
had gone to bed with a cigar in his mouth, reading, and
falling asleep, set fire to his bed, which together with his
clothes, &c., was destroyed; the fire, however, was got under
without doing any further damage.—Demport Telegraph.

THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE'
Many illustrations of this phrase will doubtless be famihar
to our readers, but we believe it was scarcely ever so success-
fully realised as at the Mansion-house yesterday.
The King of Saxony had honoured the Lord Mayor with
his presence at a collation, at which a very small party of
private friends were invited to meet his Majesty. Judge what
must have been the surprise of his Majesty and of his hos-
pitable host, when, in the midst of the repast, the folding
doors were thrown open, and without any further announce-
ment than the exclamation of an usher, " A deputation, my
Lord," Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Masterman presented
themselves to the astonished company. The Lord Mayor,
in evident amazement, begged to know to what accident he
was indebted for the unexpected intrusion, and Mr. Master-
man explained that the object was to request the presence
of the King of Saxony, at the ceremonial of opening the
statue of the Duke of Wellington to the public. The Lord
Mayor suggested that no preparations had been made.
" Oh ! never mind," quoth Sir Peter, " I know the King
is a very active man, for—l saw that when he lately
went over Bedlam with me." With singular propriety,
Sir Peter has a good deal to do with that establishment.
Again the Lord Mayor urged that his Majesty was taken
by surprise, and requested " the deputation " to retire to
another room, when an answer should be sent to them.
But Sir Peter showed no inclination to " leave the warm
precincts of the cheerful" dining-room, and repeated that
" the King was an active man," adding, that there must be
no delay, as "all the people were waiting." It was evidently
of no use to resist further, though the Lord Mayor hinted the
necessity of ordering the carriages. No carriages, however,
would be permitted by the bustling Sir Peter. He insisted
that the King must walk, and he would be responsible for
his Majesty's safety ! Accordingly, in spite of the exertions
of the Chief Magistrate to put an end to this unwarrantable
intrusion on his Royal guest, and on the privacy of a few
personal friends, the illustrious visitor was dragged to the
site of the statue, amidst the pressure of a crowd which the
City Police either could nut, or would not, keep at a decent
distance--through a throng of journeymen masons, and over
heaps of rubbish, to the spot where Sir Peter Laurie's pet
effigy of the Duke was erected. There the King of Saxony
was forced to stand through the delivery of an oration by
Mr. Lambert Jones, with which his Majesty must have been
extremely edified; and at the conclusion of this speech the
Royal victim had again to wend his way back to the Man-
sion-house, from which he had been so ruthlessly dragged,
and was at length left at liberty to conclude his repast.
What an exalted notion his Majesty will carry home with
him of the gravity and decorum of a 'London " deputation."
The patience exhibited by the King, under this infliction,
was only surpassed by the condescension and affability with
which he accepted the elegant hospitality of the Lord
Mayor, and exhibited generally during his visit to the City
—Post.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Nothing could be more misplaced than the Pre-
mier's tragic remonstrances on Monday night at the conduct
of his uncertain and desultory supporters. To read his ex-
postulations, one might imagine he was addressing rebellious
children, or an ungrateful dependent, or faithless spouse. All
the favour, all the confidence, is on his side. " Have I not
made you what you are," he seems to say, " a prosperous and
united family? Have I not taught you, and trained you,
and admitted you to all the secrets of my heart? Do you
not participate in a mighty design, conceived for your sole
benefit? Why suddenly turn upon our only friend and
leader—why band yourselves together against your lawful
head—why daily with the treacherous foe?" We do not
exaggerate a bit. Such was Sir Robert's tone. " Sir (says
he, addressing the Speaker),if it be a matter of unimportance,
we cannot consent to accede to the proposition." The Right
Hon. Baronet, we are told, pronounced this with more than
usual emphasis, and proceeded, after a pause, in atone forcibly
expressive of wounded feeling—" It was carried by a combi-
nation of those who are our general supporters with our political
opponents. If the measure, I repeat, be an unimportant
one, in proportion to its unimportance it is significant of a
want of confidence in our Administration." * * * " I
may be wrong, but my impression is, that it was a precon-
certed arrangement between some of those who usually op-
pose and some of those who usually support us." In fact,
everything—everything, that is to say, in the speech itself—
was tending to a scene. It is impossible to say what we
might not have had; Sir Robert on his knees, perhaps, un-
baring his bosom to the shafts of calumny, ingratitude,
treachery, and all the rest of them, protesting his integrity
to the skies, and flooding the house with his tears. But some
very unkind interruptions spoilt the affair. " Ironical cheers
and laughter" came in very awkwardly at the end of the sen-
tence, and broke the beautifully gradual descent of the
pathos. So the worthy Baronet, unmanned for a moment,
remembered his magnanimity and his figures. From affec-
tions unrequited, and confidence withdrawn, he returned with
double energy to sugars, foreign and colonial, slave and free,
clayed and refined. Indeed, in the very depth of the pa-
roxysm it must have occurred sometimes with rather a ludi-
crous force that a question whether a certain duty should be
20s. or 245., or whether a certain reduction should date from
to-morrow or the 10th of November, or should be levied equally
on all kinds, was hardly theme enough for so moving a
declamation. If Sir Robert Peel's measures were the best
ever conceived by the most consummate wisdom, inspired by
the highest virtue, he would have no claim to the absolute
confidence, the utter prostration of judgment, which he de-
mands ; for this plain reason—that his supporters are the
very last persons in whom he reposes confidence. No confi-
dence can last which is not reciprocal. Sir Robert does not
communicate with his supporters—does not prepare them—
does not identify himself with them—does not stand by
them—does not protect them—does not give them the small-
est credit, or the smallest share in his successes, such as they
are. On the contrary, every step in his course is their hu-
miliation and confusion. He deals with them as with his
most open enemies. He takes them by surprise at every
turn. All his measures are coups d'etat. He brings them
into a defile, with the enemy in their front, and some dread-
ful extremity in the rear, so as to cut off all retreat, and then
says, " I don't trust you ; but you must fight or be destroyed
to a man." Sir Robert acts like a Premier, and affects to
talk like a friend. Will he just attempt to think and
feel as a friend for one monient, while .We beg to suggest the
following topics of meditation? He talks in heartrending
terms of a measure "carried by a combination of those who
are our general supporters with our political opponents."
Does he not regularly lay himself out for the support
of " political opponents ? " Does lie ever fail to
overawe his "general supporters," whenever need be,
with some Whig contingent, which he is always able
and ready to purchase at the expense of those " gene-
ral supporters ?" Every Conservative knows that the
moment he ventures to think for himself, he may expect to
find the Whigs on his flank. Nay, more. As soon as Sir
Robert finds a supporter troublesome, he does not scruple to
deliver him, bound hand and foot, to any particular " politi-
cal opponent " he may find ready for the work. With a
glance at the other side of the House, he strikes a compact
that has all the force of " preconcerted arrangement," and
forthwith his too conscientious supporter finds himself in the
hands of his bitterest enemies, without either rescue or com-
miseration. A man must have a wonderful power of sponging
conscience and memory who can act as Sir Robert has never
failed to do when convenient, and yet can talk as he did on
Monday evening.
POST.—In the performance of pantomimes and ballets,
when it is found convenient to convey to the audience some
piece of information beyond what the powers of gesticulation
can impart, it is usual to resort to the expedient of a printed
placard. Thus the rule against plain-speaking is not in-
fringed, nor is the auditory left in the perplexity of ignorance.
We respectfully recommend a similar device to her Majesty's
Prime Minister in the House of Commons. After what has
happened, he need not be very delicate, and his chief aim
ought to be the saving of time and trouble. Whenever a
doubtful question comes before House, therefore, let him have
a large placard erected behind his seat, stating that he does,
or does not, intend to carry the question as he has proposed it
to the House. Honourable Members (very Honourable in-
deed I) will thus be saved the trouble of coming down on a
subsequent evening to rescind the vote to which, in the sim-
plicity of ignorance or misapprehension the House has pre-
viously come. It is clear that, with regard to the sugar duties
question, a good many Members shared in the opinion
avowed with so much naivete by that independent weekly
journal the John Bull, that Ministers would be very well
content to be beaten. They had great confidence in the
duplicity and insincerity of their friends on the Treasury
bench, and felt well assured that their friends, when pro-
posing their vote of Friday night, wished for nothing more
than to make an appearance of an intention, while in reality
their views accorded with the views of Mr. Miles. This
turned out to 'be a mistake but it was a
mistake at which we are not at all surprised. Some
men are slow to shake off impressions and to
acquire new ones. Gentlemen who had listened to the Pre-
mier in 1841, who had heard the contempt expressed by him
for the cant of " cheap sugar ;" who had listened to the
great concern he expressed for the West Indies; who had
witnessed his extreme anxiety about the moral and social
condition of those colonies; who had been elevated into an
enthusiasm of indignation against the Whigs by Sir Robert's
denunciation of the policy which might render it impossible
ever to raise sugar at a profit by free labour in those colonies
—gentlemen, we say, whose memories were full of
these statements, and who are not quick to catch
up new views of things, might naturally suppose
that Sir Robert Peel could not be quite in ear-
nest at the present time. No doubt they said to
themselves that though the Premier might have reasons of
expediency for appearing to have lost all concern for the in-
terests of the West India colonies, yet his views of 1841—
those views upon which, and by the declaration of which he
obtained office, must be what he really wished still to promote ;
but they were in error. Upon this occasion they finessed too
much, and have been obliged to contradict themselves. Upon
such a class of men, however, Sir Robert Peel ought to have
mercy. Let him remember that they have been very busy
ever since 1841 learning the lesson he then taught them, and
trying to " soak into their brains," as Lord Palmerston would
say, the wisdom which he then imparted, touching the cant
of cheap sugar, and the necessity of taking care of West
Indian interests. All that he has to complain of is that they
cannot unlearn what he has taught, quite so fast as he can;
but this may be because they received his opinions with more
respect and more earnest belief than he received them himself.

THE METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—During the
last few days much progress has been made on the various
lines of streets connected with the improvements of the
metropolis. In Whitechapel, for the formation of the new
street to lead from Shoreditch Church to the London Docks,
on Friday last twenty-nine houses were sold to the south of
and adjoining Spitalfields Church, and which are now in
course of demolition. When these are removed, there will be
a direct communication with Whn Upperitecliap sel.t.
iari
li‘nßtend,s.Liiaonne,-
Lion-
street, passing to the docks, on the east side, above half the
houses are being cleared away. In
being the continuation of the new street from Leicester-
square to Plumptre-street, the width of the road is marked
out, and which is also done in this latter street, in each of
which thoroughfares the carriage way is above thirty feet
wide. In Plumptre-street the arches for the new houses are
turned, and are ready for the buildings, there being a space
left for a French Protestant chapel, at a short distance from
Bedford chapel, the foundation stone of which will be shortly
laid. On the new line of street in this neighbourhood, from
Oxford-street to Holborn, there is now a direct opening
made,
.though there are several houses to be removed to form
the entire width of
.the street. When the houses are cleared
awa y
will
, which
haveis em g rapidly done by the workmen,
onceworkmen, a new
sewer
btobeformed in what m,a
called
the
Rookery, and, when that is completed, the carriage and foot-
way will be made, the whole of which is expected to be
carried into effect about Michaelmas next.
The authorities of Eton College have received an
intimation from Prince Albert, through the medium of Mr.
G. E. Anson, that his Royal Highness is desirous of attendingdivine service in the College Chapel, previously to his laying
the foundation stone of the new buildings on Thursday next.
The Provost, in order to meet the views of the prince; has
appointed the service to take place on the morning of that
day, at half-past twelve o'clock.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the battle of
Waterloo, the household troops, cavalry and infantry,
mounted guard, wearing laurel
in their caps, and having their
colours also decorated with evergreens. The Chelsea pen-
sioners were also decorated in a similar manner, and num-
bers of private individuals who are out-pensioners, and who
served on that memorable day, wore the Waterloo medal on
their left breast, and laurel leaves in their hats.