The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

Chorus—Quack, quack, fol-de-rol, &c..

THE MANDARIN AND THE ENGLISH LADY.--T_ohe
degraded position of females in China is well known. N
a;
No-
thing astonishes the Chinamen who visit our merchants
by our
Hong-Kong so much as the deference which is paid
countrymen to their ladies, and the position wsehich the
expresshelater
are permitted to hold in society. The Very
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at-
tentively, and seemed
ments. When she at length left the apartment, he said to
the husband, in his imperfect English, " What you give for
that wifey wife yours?" " Oh,' replied the husband, laugh-
ing at the singular error of his visitor, "2,000 dollars"
This our merchant thought would appear to the Chinese
rather a high figure, but lie was mistaken. "Well," said
the mandarin, taking out his book with an air of business,
'spose you give her to me, I give you 5,000 dollars." It is
difficult to say whether the young merchant• was more
amazed or amused, but the grave air of the Chinaman con-
vinced him that he was in earnest, and he was compelled,
therefore, to refuse the offer with as much placidity as he
could assume. The mandarin was, however, pressing, and
went as high as 7,000 dollars. The
.merchant, who had no
previous notion of the value of the commodity which he had
taken out with him, was compelled at length to declare that
Englishmen never sold their wives after they once came into
their possession, an assertion which the Chinaman was slow
to believe. The merchant afterwards had a heart), laugh
with his young wife, when he told her that he had just di •
covered her full value, as the mandarin' had offered him
7,00 ; tiollars for her.—Liverpool Albion.
Thy, f.xpenses of conducting the municipal election
of four councillors for Richmond, Yorkshire, are estimated at
3,0001.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
BACHELORS OF 3IEDICINE.=-1845.-
FIRST Divlst9N.—Matthew Bains, King'a'College ; Frede-
rick James Brown, University College; David Peter Evans,
King's College; Frederick John Hensley, King's College;
Alfred Jackson, University College; John Ody, King's-Col-
lege; Thomas Palmer, Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland; Charles
Bland Radcliffe, Leeds School of Medicine. Samuel Hop-
kilts Steel, King's College,;, Phillimore Stiff, Uni.
versify College; Robert Bowie Nalcott, St. Thomas's Hos-
vital :Charles Matthew Wayte, Guy's Hospital ; Ewing
Whittle, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
SECOND ISIVISION.—Thomas Herbert Barker, University
College; James Duncan, King's College; Archibald Red-
foord Ridgway, London Hospital.
BACHELORS ('F LAWS.
FIRST DIVISION —Edward Mulhallen Marum, Carlow COl-
lege ; Phillip Anstie Smith,University College.

TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONAL.
(From the Boulogne Gazette.)
On Wednesday there were a great many causes before the
Court, among the others two for attacks upon an adversary
with a knife, One was to a certain extent accidental; but the
other was a base attempt at assassination, in which two
Englishmen from Calais were seriously wounded. It ap-
peared that the parties had been in, an estaminet on the port
and had there quarrelled: on the Englishmen leaving they
were followed by the other parties and a row was the conse-
quence, during which Bouloy, one of the assailants, used his
knife, which was produced in Court stained with blood, a
formidable weapon, laid open the cheek of. one man to the
extent of three inches, inflicted three wounds on the top of
• his head; another upon his ear cutting down tbe neck and
laying bare the carotid artery, which the knife just escaped,
and other wounds upon the body to the number of nine; the
other EngliShman was stabbed in the back. Fortunately
the'parties had, as an adversary, a man of a. forgiving dispc*
Sition, 'who made slight of his wounds, and would not remain
in bed so long as to send the part les before the criminal as-
sizes, although, when he left his bed, it was with considerable
danger to his safety. On the trial the facts were proved, and
the assailant, who had been already in prison for five weeks,
was further condemned to 40 days; imprisonment, damages,
and fine. • -

• ROBERTSON v. Seorr.—This was an action by Dr. Ro-
bertson Against Dr. Scott for injurious language against him
in the street, capable of wounding his honour and reputation.
The feels,' as stated in the Court, were these. The Medical
Society of Boulogne called together its members and those
English gentlemen, authorised by ordonnance, practising in
Boulogne. At this meeting Drs. Scott, Robertson, and Camp-
bell attended. AU adjournment took place, at which •Dr.•
Seat attended, but the other two were not present. It reached
'Dr. Scott that the absentees gave as their reason for not at."
tending that they would not meet -the Society if he attend
because he had no right to be there, not having a regular
'ordonnance (it appeared, on the trial, because it Was not re-
gistered). • Dr. Scott was much annoyed at touch a report,
'calculated to loWer him in the opinion of the French
medical • profession, as a man asserting what was not
'fact, and thrusting himself, upon that assertion, into a society.
where he bad 11.0 right to be, and he made such inquiries as
lad him to believe that the whole calumny emanated from
'Dr. Robertson,. At once he resolved to see bins, show him
the ordonnance under which he practised in France, and re-
quest that he would contradict his former assertions. The
-first place.where they met was in the shop of Mr. Abraham,
tho chemist, where Dr. Robertson was sitting down. Dr.
Scott took a chair and sat opposite to him, 'saying, " I have
been looking after you, Dr. Robertson, all the morning, hav-
ing understood that you have stated thatl I have no ordon-
sance to practise in France, will you oblige me by reading
this?" handing to him the ordonnance. Dr. Robertson im-
mediately replied, rising at the same time, " I shall not read it.,
I don't wish to have any cornmsinication or anything to do with
you," and he made towards the doorway, in which Dr. Scott
placed himself, saying, " but I wish to have something to
say to you." • Dr. Robertson then pushed violently past
him ; shoulder met shoulder and Dr. Scott was nearly upset
into the street. General Willis was passing at the time and
he was called upon to depose as to what lie saw and heard.
From his deposition we gathered that Dr. Scott said, " you
have stated, Sir, that I have got no ordonnance."—" And I
say so still."—" Then, Sir, you state a falsehood."—" I will
go and lay the whole affair before the Procureur du Roi."—.
" And I will accompany you," replied Dr. Scott, " that be
may at the same time hear both sides'of thequestion." Such,
so far as we could gather them, were the-facts of the case. The
lawyers pleaded for one hour and a half on Thursday morning,
pour et contre each doctor, and the Substitut called upon the
Court to condemn Dr. Scott to a fine of 25 francs and the ex-
, pences,for having stated in public that Dr. Robertson had uttered
a gross false' ood ; falsehood is a hateful vice. reproved by
morals and religion, and the accusing any man of it in the
public streets was calculated to Nure his reputation, particu-
larly that of the honourable profession of medicine. It mat-
tered not whether true or false. No man has a right to pro-
claim in the streets the misdeeds of another, if he did the law
punishes Lim. He therefore called on the Court for the pe-
nalty, &c., against Dr. Scott.
31. Marteau was proceeding to defend his client, when the
ciourt interrupted him, stating it was unnecessary. The
judges then retired, and, after a quarter of an hour, returned
into Court, when the President read the judgment, vi bleb
stated that the provocation received by Dr. Scott was a suf-
ticient excuse for bins for the words he used, they therefore
acquitted him of the charge, and condemned Dr. Robertson
to pay the expenses.

SEDUCTION and MANSLAUGHTER.
(From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.)
Yesterday afternoon an inquest washeld before the borough
Coroner, on view of the body of John Ratcliffe, of Union-
place, Howorth- street, Everton, who met his death under the
following circumstances

Mary Charnock, a young and respectably attired woman,
who sobbed bitterly during the whole time she was in Court,
deposed that she was unmarried, and the daughter of William
Charnock. She resides with her parents at Upholland, and
was well acquainted with the deceased. She had had a child, of.
which he was the father.- Seven weeks last Sunday,
at about the hour of four in the afternoon, he came to
her father's house very much in liquor. She was sitting
.by the fire, and her father was lying upon the bed
in one of Abe upper rooms. She desired the deceased to
leave, as she had reason to know that her father was very
indignant with her seducer, and that if they happened to
meet together some evil consequences might possibly ensue.
The deceased. however, not only refused to do as be was de-
sired, but said he would go up stairs and see the old man.
At this moment the father came down stairs, and told the de-
ceased several times to quit the house. The deceased still
refused, declared positively that he was determined not to
stir, and said the old man was unable to put hire out. The
father then took hold of the poker from the fireside, and the
witness, fearing that fatal results might follow, stepped be-
tween them with the illegitimate child in her arms. They
pushed her aside, however, and in her agitation she was un-
able to say which of them.struck. She did not see her father.
strike with the poker, but they had a scuffle, the deceased
fell, and the floor was sprinkled with bloOd. This was the'
substance of her evidence.

The deceased was subsequently conveyed to Liverpool in
a whitechapel, and on the 22d ultimo he was admitted into
the Northern Hospital. He then had a large abscess, occu-
pying nearly the lower half of the right thigh, and two small
abscesses below the knee ; and after lingering in great agony
until Sunday last, he died.
Upon a post mortem examination by Mr. John Thomis
Jackson, the house-surgeon, it was found that he had a frac-
ture of he ninth rib on the left side, a large abscess on the
plura, another abscess on the outside of the chest, and another
on the lower third of the right thigh, communicating with
the knee joint. Mr. Jackson was of opinion that the abscess
on the chest must have been the result of external violence,
and that that, and the abscess on the knee, produced the
death.

Mr. Superintendent Brown took the dying declaration of
the deceased on Thursday last He then said that Charnotk
came downstairs on the Sunday in question, with a bar of
iron, or poker, in his hand, that he first pushed him, and
then struck him with the poker below the right knee, and
that, when down, he kicked him three or four times on the
right side and leg. lie added that his reason for calling at
the house was, t 6 get a watch and 12s. which Mary Cher-
nock had, belonging to him.
The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, said the cir-
cumstance of the case showed that the father had received
great provocation—first, in the fact that his daughter had
been seduced, and secondly, by the deceased refusing to leave
the house. But great as the provocation might have been,
it did not warrant the use of personal violence; and the
question for the jury was, whether there was evidence of
malice prepense, thereby making .the crime one of murder,
or whether they thought it might be reduced to man-
slaughter or justifiable homiciee.
The jury, after a few minutes' delibration, returned a ver-
dict of " Manslaughter;" and William Charnock, who is at
present an inmate of irkdale gaol, will be tried on the
charge at the approaching winter assizes.

Sir Robert and Lady Perl will bP honoured by a
large and distinguished circle at Drayton Manor next week.
A small Dutch cutter has been seized at Hull
having on board upwards of 7,0001 b. of smuggled tobacco.
The captain and crew are all in custody.
PROBABLE VACANCY IN THE REPRESENTATION OP
CAMBRIDGE.—The lamented death of Sir John Mortlock
will afford Ministers an opportunity, of which no doubt they
will gladly avail themselves, of shelving Mr. J. H. T. Man-
ners Sutton, by transferring, his valuable services from the
Home-office to the Excise; so that what with his sinecure,
a salary for doing next to nothing, and sundry other odd
pickings from the public purse, -our amiable Member may
set himself down quietly for the remainder of his life, con-
sider himself a tolerable fortunate individual, and, like his
friend, the Rev. Mr. Crick, bless his stars that he was
" born a Tory." Some time before the news of Sir John's
death had reached Cambridge, a letter had been received
from Mr. Adair, announcing his intention of visiting Cam-
bridge to pav his respects to his old friends and future con-
stituents.
middle of next week, and we make this
Gentleman may, we believe, be ex-
statement that it might be considered that his visit was
entirely owing to the probable vacancy in the represents,-
ut
tion of Cambridge. The electors will, no doubt, have ample
the
ehe "1
apportunities of meeting Mr. Adair during his sojourn here,
and, let our election come when it may, he is ready to take
the field.—• Cambridge Independent Press.
ESCAPE OF A CONVICT.—On Monday evening,
about five o'clock, the convicts employed in the Woolwich •
Dockyard during i the day were mustered, as • usual, on
their return to the Warner hulk, where
during the night, and found to be all present. On their
return to their night quarters, several of the convicts are
engaged in bringing down the hammocks from a place
constructed on the side of .the deck for stowing them
during the day-time, and while engaged on that work, •
which generally occupied from half an hour to three-
quarters of an hour each evening, one of the con-
victs took the opportunity, apparently for many suc-
cessive days, of boring through the plank at the stern
of the Vessel, and in a very dark corner, and each day
flied up the holes he had made with putty; blackening it
over, to prevent suspicion. His plans appear to have been
admirably effected; and he was enabled on Monday evening
to elude the vigilance of the officers, and effect his escape,
by tying the ropes of two hammocks together, and lowering
himself at least a depth of 30 feet into the mud of the
river, where he left all his' clothes, with the exception of
his shirt and shoes. The name of the convict is Samuel
Bridges, aged -24 years; he was born at Bromyard, in Here- -
fordshire, and was found guilty at the Worcester assizes, on
the 15th of July, 1843, of stealing an ass, and sentenced to
ten years' transportation. He was a basket-maker, stout
made, with (lark hair .and grey eyes, and is five feet three
inches in height. It is- suspected he must have had accom-
plices to assist him in his escape, as he often spoke to his
fellow•convicts of going to America in the event of being
liberated. His footsteps were traced round the east entiii.
the
dockyard,
but- there all traces of him were lost.-
AN AMERICAN WELL.—A practical artil scientific
gentleman offers for 30,000 dollat% 'to sink an Artesian,Weir
in Boston to the depth of 1,700 leetiby which it is' estimated -
that more than a million of gallons of the very best water'. c).f.",'•
can be throWn into the city every day, and to:a heiglit, n 3.•••••••
at least 100 feet above the surface-of the eartli. effort.
is about to be made to raise the money by SUbseriptioh,^ 1
American paper. : ..,,,.;;;Tr
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spy ftrr of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
' FROM THE MORNLIG PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The recent decision, or, rather, indecision of the
Cabinet, is as inexplicable as it is unfortunate. No one pre-
tends to say that things can remain as they are. Sooner or
later a suspension of the duties on imported grain must take
place. For this every man: who has attended to the state of
Ireland and Scotland is prepared; and so evident is this, that
most people are astonished at the procrastination which'
Ministers have interposed between popular expectation and
an inevitable necessity. The reasons advanced to defend
their inactivity neither explain nor justify it. It remains in-
explicable and inexcusable. Surely within the last fortnight
no means of inquiry into the state of the harvest have been
witheld from them. They know by this time that there is a
deficiency of good corn in England, a dearth of potatoes in
Ireland, a scarcity impending over Scotland. No further in-
quiry can add to their present information. No further delay
can change the aspect of affairs, or diminish the final necessity
for exertion. And yet they stand with their hands folded,
inert and expectant, bidding men take heart, because as yet
there is no famine in the land! The consequences of such a
policy are as dangerous as its selection is unaccountably,
foolhardy. Whatever is likely to be the extent of the priva-
tion which a scarcity of food may impose upon indivi-
duals during the ensuing year, whatever its duration maybe,
whether for one month or two months, or more, it is the
duty of a Minister to seek every method for abbreviating its
length and mitigating its rigours. The Minister who, fore-
knowing the approach of such a calamity, forbears to pro-
vi,le against it, or masks his indecision under the guise of
deliberation, is virtually adding to the intensity of the evil
which is about to burst upon the country. If there were a
probability of our being always able to purchase food from
abroad at the same rate as we have lately procured it, a delay
- of a few weeks would be of little consequence; it would not
signify whether we laid in our stock in November or in
January, provided the quantity imported kept pace with our
own deficiency at home. But there exists no suck probabi-
lity in the present case. Already some of the continental
Governments are taking precautions which evince a dread of
the same scarcity that threatens ourselves; and it was only
the other day that we quoted the sentiments of no inconsi-
derable portion among our French neighbours—sentiments
which, if followed up in practice, would effectually preclude
any relief being extended to us by the only country in
Europe now capable of affording it with ease. If such be
the case now, what will it be in a few weeks, not to say
months, hence? What may be our facilities for buying
after the next Cabinet Council? The paternal Governments
of the Northern States are no less anxious than the constitu-
tional Ministries of France and Belgium to secure to their
subjects a cheap supply of food. Nor is it unlikely that all
the European Governments, absolute and constitutional, will
unite to prevent what they will call the ill-timed and unna-
tural rapacity of British gold and British hunger from raising
their markets and starving their people. It is all very well
to say that where there is a demand there will also be a
supply; that if money is offered in exchange for corn, corn
will be given for money ; that the same laws govern the
market of food and every other market; and that it is only
fair that he who bids the most should buy the most. But
foreign Governments are on great emergencies very well
disposed to contravene the ordinary laws of commercial in-
tercourse, and by no means indisposed to check the influence
of British gold. The foreign dealer may be anxious to sup-
ply our demands ; but if his negotiations are thwarted
by .his Government, he will find it no easy matter to
profit by our offers, and he will also find the arm of the Ex-
ecutive supported by the popular voice. It is easy, at all
times and in all countries, to raise a clamour against the
dealers in the staple article of food. It is only within a few
years that our statute-book has been purged of certain pro-
' visions conceived in a spirit of the most narrow-minded, but
once the most widely-extended, jealousy against this class of
men s but this feeling still exists, and is capable of being
fanned into a flame amongst an ignorant populace, and in
seasons of unusual dearth. How great a facility would be
given to such attempts when 'directed against the relief of
F.nglish wants, or the operations of English money, will
easily suggest itself to all who are aware of the envy with
which the greatness of this country is regarded abroad, and
of the cordial wishes often expressed for its humiliation. Nor
could a more desirable opportunity ever present itself to the
malignity of professed foes or jealous friends than that of
England seeking for her people in the granaries of Europe the
, food which she had for so many years obstinately rejected,
and-being herself in turn sent away empty. But to such a
strait we may be driven by the tardiness of a Minister who
is too wary not to know that something must be done, but
'too timid to set about doing it at once.
CHRONICLE.—We have not entered into the personal
controversies which have been raging for some weeks between
the Times and what it calls the Stag Journals. But we must
say of both it and its competitors, that we have perused what
has been written without observing the slightest suggestion
of any practical amendment in the law, or in the Parlia-
mentary method of dealing with the railway question. From
the Government it is vain to look for anything appropriate
or seasonable. The Peel system here, as elsewhere, is to be
" too late." The Board of Trade was a failure, not so much
from its own blunders, as from the coldness of its supporters.
Lord Dalhousie had the misfortune of being connected with
colleagues who, on a brisk attack, threw each other overboard.
Bat what does the Times suggest for the future ? It mag-
nifies existing evils no doubt ; but we look in vain
for a single idea which will illuminate Sir George
Clerk, or alleviate the labours of Mr. Esteourt. There is
much good denunciation of stags and staggery, but not a
particle of suggested amendment—nothing that can elucidate
or dispense with standing orders—nothing that can shorten
or simplify the labours of committees—not an idea on which
Lord Granville Somerset can found a crotchet, or on which
Mr. Green can introduce a ray of light into the commission
chaos of the railway system. Nor are the Stag Journals,
as they are called, a whit more communicative They burn,
no doubt, with a strong desire to allay what they call panic,
and to disprove the depreciatory sentiments which are run-
ning about the town on our modern railway legislation ; but
from neither one nor the other is there thesmallest twinkling
of light amid darkness visible, or the least approximation to a
conjecture how the Parliamentary system can be made to
work under existing circumstances. The truth is, the sub-
ject is one on which declamation is most easy, but improve-
ments quite the contrary. It is easy to declaim against
standing orders—against counsel, attorneys, engineers, and
committees. It is still easier to take the tone of the Minis-
terial press, and to imitate the carelessness of Olympian
Jove on so immaterial a point of policy. What,
call a Cabinet to arbitrate on railways ! Is the Duke of
Wellington amenable to gradients? or the Lord Marquis of
Tamboff to Mr. Hu iscn ? What signifies the labour of pri-
vate Members, if her Majesty's Ministers can have their ease
in Downing-street? But this language is not that of com-
mon sense, and so everybody feels. By right or wrong, the
railway system is now a fait accompli, and of the most sur-
passing magnitude. All of a sudden every city, every market
town, and almost every village is for the means of simulta-
neous locomotion. It is not a light matter, for it involves
some hundreds of millions. We are not philosophers enough
to make distinctions; but in our simple apprehension, if we
spend all our surplus money one way, there must arise a
scarcity in others. We cannot eat our cake and have our
cake. We cannot spend a hundred millions on any single
object one year, without a sort of scarcity the next. Nor will
it be so easy to prevent a deluge of new Bills, notwithstand-
ing the existing discount, as many persons suppose.
There is much, no doubt, derivable from the close
of the Stag season. It recreates the rural
eye to see a newspaper at last without long lists of names
and nothing else. We congratulate ourselves on having ar-
rived at a close of the system of Parliamentary pluralities;
but, in spite of this, the deposits have been paid in many
cases where there was no reason either for the scheme or for
the premium ; and we may depend upon it the attorney and
engineer, and perhaps a quorum of the executive, will take
good care that the unfortunate shareholders see no return of
their loFt moneys without a further diminution. They must
prepare themselves for the usual consumption of lively turtle
and sparkling champagne; for vigorous exertions, till the
season of white bait and green peas—for tribute to divers
agents, divers witnesses, divers engineers—for still larger
and more useless contributions on account of the attendance
or non-attendance of learned lawyers—and last, not least, for
an enormous and unnecessary and profligate expenditure in
contesting to the utmost in both Houses of Parliament for
points that a little common sense might settle. The deposits,
we affirm, in a great many cases, are already paid ; and whereso-
ever deposits are forthcoming, who ever heard of any uncon-
sumed ? The sacred duty of expenditure must be fulfilled.
The solicitor owes it to his family to save the point of ho-
nour, and to have the preamble proved. The engineer cannot
meet his rival in the provinces without carrying the new Rail-
way "Act" in his writing-case. The committee are nervous
about returning without a Bill ; accordingly they take their
chance of getting one in Westminster, in the certain confi-
dence, at any rate, of having a sufficient one in Covent- garden.
The panic, therefore, comes too late for bubbles without end.
There is. the Peel family of " direct lines." There are junc-
tions without number, and without necessity. For our own
parts, we are getting so immersed in prejudice, that we almost
call upon the House of Commons to throw out every
Bill which contains the names of Members of their
honourable House without adequate local justifica-
tion,' or where any of the illustrious band of
pluralists and absentees, who shall be nameless, figure .in
their firmament. The truth is, money enough for this single
head-of expenditure was voted or authorised last year. If
Sir R. Peel would have the courage to take the remanets, and
nothing else, in 18-16, with a few Bills for Ireland, the over-
gambling would soon be discontinued, and the railway system
would resume good order. But if Parliament, in the anarchy
of accident, proceed next spring, as it did last year, in pass-
ing railroads without reference to the amount of expenditure
required, do not let us wonder if the gale becomes a hurricane,
and the effects become as disastrous as those of 1g25. The
country will be involved in another voluntary evil, not from
providences or misfortune, or foreign war, but, as in the case
of the sliding-scale, from the financial insagacify of the
Government.
HERALD.—It is an old observation, and an observation
too faithfully verified by experience, that mankind are by
far more sensible to even trifling injuries than to the
greatest benefits. War is, however, no trifling injury tol a
nation ; on the other hand, even where its results are fortu-
nate, it is a greater calamity than any other with which a
people ran be vi,itsd—except a war which proves unsuc-
cessful ; either way war generally is the most terrible of
national afflictions. In proportion as war is an evil, peace
must be a blessing ; but loud as would be the voice of just
complaint against an unnecessary war, how little do we hear
of the gratitude due for the enjoyment of uninterrupted and
solid peace. Four years of such peace Europe has enjoyed,
contrary to expectation, and almost beyond hope ; and we
proceed to show, by the testimony of a witness above excep-
tion, that at present the prospect of long-continued peace is
daily - growing more and more certain. Five years
ago M. Thiers, in France, and Lord Palmerston, in
Englaxid, appeared to have taxed their ingenuity to
provide a cause of quarrel between the two great
nations upon whose good understanding the peace of the
world absolutely depends. The firebrand Ministers were
dismissed by the wisdom of the King in one country, and by
the wisdom of the Parliament in the other; but neither did
the ilLeffects of their incendiary practices in office, nor their
own efforts to augment the flame that they had kindled,
terminate with their official existence. M. 'l'hiers laboured
aa-idously, and, for a time, too successfully, to keep alive
the tvai-Enylish feeling by his labour, in the Chamber and in
the rre3B ; and Lord Palmerston, no less industriously, toiled
in his own sphere as Member of Parliament and newspaper
writ-r, to excite among his countrymen a jealousy of France.
If, though aided by the volunteer insolence of the Times,
his Lordship failed, it was because he had to deal with
a people more thoughtful and more experienced in the
exercise of political judgment than our too mercurial,
thoue•li high-spirited, neighbours at the other side of the
Manche. Even the sterlinggood sense of Englishmen, never-
theless, would, scarcely have proved sufficient for the
preservation of peace (for England was but one of two
parties), were it not that, happily for mankind, the Govern-
ment of each country was placed in the hands of men as
desirous of peace, because they knew the real interests of
their respective nations, as their incompetent predecessors
had evidently been desirous of war. M. Guizot in the one
country, and Sir Robert Peel in the other, present a concur-
rence of wise and able and resolute statesmen, determined to
cultivate peace between two great and
.proud neighbouring
nations Such as is rare in history ; if, indeed, there is any
example, in the case of two such nations, of a struggle to
avoid war, without a compromise of national honour, like
that through which the illustrious statesmen named have at
length (we think we may now say it) triumphantly passed.
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as `, is believed, Lord Palmerston's incendiary
artiela•. All honour, and, from mankind universally,
all gratitude, are due to M. Guizot, his colleagues, and
their great and good master. We would not rob their glo-
rious wreath of a single flower to decorate the brows of our
native benefactors. The French King, M. Guizot, and his
colleagues, have had tremendous difficulties against which to
contend, and they have nobly conquered ; but it cannot de-
tract from their merit to say that our own Ministers have
had their difficulties too in supporting the French guardians
of peace; and that, as regards this object, Sir Robert Peel
and Lord Aberdeen have not been reposing upon roses.
We should fill our paper were we to attempt recapitulating
all the influences employed at this side of the water to ren-
der the continuance of peace with France impossible. Our
readers cannot have forgotten Lord Palmerston's inflammatory
speeches in Parliament, or the daily invectives poured
upon Lord Aberdeen, for not counteracting France, in Ota-
heite, in Morocco, in Spain, in Italy, in the Levant,—still less
can they forget the vile libels upon the courage of Frenchmen
and the modesty of Frenchwomen conveyed in the odious
Tangiers and Otaheite letters in the Times. Had our Govern-
ment yielded in even the slightest degree to any one of the
suggestions of Lord Palmerston or the Morning Chronicle,
or bad it adopted, however distantly, the tone of the Times,
a war had been inevitable. By seconding the French King
and the French Ministry, Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aber-
deen have obtained four years' peace, and destroyed the anti-
English feeling in France; and if this were their only minis-
terial achievement, it is an achievement sufficient to reflect
honour upon a long public life.
POST.—A Ministerial Contemporary "believes" be " may
state with certainty that Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the
deanery of Westminster upon Dr. Buckland, the well-known
Professor of Geology." Nothing more likely. It is just such
an appointment as we should have anticipated at the hands
of Sir Robert Peel. His conduct in such matters revives in
our mind the recollection of a vaudeville, that ran its race
on the stage of the Theatre de Varietes at Paris, a few years
back, in which one character was, by the author, called on
to exclaim, "he will die," another, "he will not die," but
the third, preserving the peace between them, whilst sati-
rising the then existing Administration, asserted "he will do
neither one nor the other, but keep the juste milieu." We
fancy Sir Robert Peel finds the Church as much a difficulty
as he does even Ireland itself. There is the High Church
party, and there is the Low Church party, and unwilling to
compromise himself with either, Sir R. Peel resorts—as is proper
to an expediency Minister—to an expedient. He pursues
the juste milieu, and bestows his patronage upon one, inno •
cent, as far as the world knows, of adhesion to any distinct
Church principles at all. In his gift is the Deanery of
Westminster. It has to be filled up ; and, terrified at the
prospect of offending anybody, he leaves alone theologians,
and smiles approval upon a " well-known professor of geo-
logy." It is recorded in Elizabethan history, that a graceful
dancer once danced himself up to the Woolsack. Sir Chris-
topher Hatton, in short, reached the Seals, per saltum. We
take it that, in our times, so long as the Cabinet holds to-
gether, the best speculation will the speculation geolo •
gical. One successful in this line will find in a canon's stall
his Primary; in a deanery—say Westminster—his Secon-
dary; whilst his Tertiary can be no other than a bishop's
mitre, peerage, palace, and patronage. Piron in such a race
would clearly have no chance—

" Panne Piron, qui ne flit rien
Pas memerAcademlcien."
The dignity of an F.R.S. will be as available for the Episco-
pal bench as it seems to be for the direction of a railway.
Some three hundred years ago greedy courtiers were hired
by a profligate King, and their wages paid out of the plunder
of the Church. But staid Ministers are wiser than wicked
kings; they manage things better by far. They want to
reward good men of science, and they reward them in ade
cent fashion, although still at the expense of the Church.
There is a difference, and even a distinction, but sufficient of
an analogy, to suggest grave reflections ; for example, such a
one as this—What has the Church to do with geology, or
any other science, that she should pay for it? Assume the
principle to be a good one, and then let it be fairly -worked
out. Here we are suffering from the apprehension lig a
famine, and all through a disease that has taken hold of
our potatoes. Now, why should not Sir Robert Peel
at once advertise in the public prints that he is willing
to confer the mitre that shall next become vacant upon
the cunning man who shall detect the cause, the preventative,
awl the remedy of this awful evil ? The Fine Arts Com-
missioners advertise for genius—why, at the same rate,
should not usefulness be advertised for by the Minister? An
Emperor once offered a reward for the discovery of a new
pleasure. Let Sir Robert say at once that a Deanery awaits
the acceptance of the inventor of a new manure. Often has
it been asserted, that he who makes two:blades of grass grow
where only one grew before is a true benefactor to his spe-
cies. Caesar, we have been told, did to Italy more good,
when he introduced to her soil the chestnut-tree from Sardis,
than ever he did by his victories; and shall Canterbury or
York be denied to the wisdom that may enable us to treble
our harvests, and make our barren hill-tops blossom like the
rose? Some years ago the Whigs proposed to educate the Irish
people, and, to do so at the least possible cost, they were anxi-
ous to take for the purpose the property of the Irish Church.
Now, it was a merry notion this—aye, and a clever notion—
taking money out of Paul's pocket to buy a primer for Peter.
The Whigs called it " appropriation," but Sir Robert—
harsh Sir Robert—called it "robbery," and protested he
would not do the same thing. Nor has he—consistent Sir
Robert. He has only paid for geological investigations out
of the revenues of Westminster Abbey. If " Dr. Buckland,
the well-known professor of geology," is to be the new Dean
of Westminster, he being unknown to theological students,
except as the author of a work to which theologians have
raised certain objections, and with more or :less reason, we
are puzzled somewhat in respect to another appointment that
has been made in our sister island—made, we add, by the
same sagacious Minister. Dr. Kirwan has been appointed
head of the new Galway College, " in consideration," so runs
the official letter to him, "of your connexion with the
county of Galway as a minister of the Roman Catholic reli-
gion in one of its most important parishes." The Roman
Catholicism of Dr. Kirwan elevates him to the presidency of
an institution professedly scientific—for religion is divorced
from its consideration. Dr. Buckland owes his eminence, if
to anything except the Premier's personal regard, simply to
his distinction as a man of science.