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London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

to be aboliehrd ; and they have resolved to petition Parlilrnev
for that object.
This is really too bad. It, is time now to say very P
wins'
thct the course which that Establishment has been folle;
requires serious attention. For three. years since the soe
judgment which the House of Lords and
on their oi."0
appeal, they have, in defiance of law, and in a tone and e`ciloi
a degree of insolence calculated to awaken the authority
and order among all ranks of the people. acted on that veto ri'be,.
lotion which the House of Lords declared to be illet-013,_n..(rc1,
yond their powers. This is the conduct of an establishe'de"to
We say, Air. Cuninghame, Mr. Candlish, and one rarities'
other ardent spirits, are the sole cause of these (I u'eu
They are in principle Independents, though they retain
emoluments and exercise the 'Amer of an establishment,
they ought to leave the Church, the laws and condition' "
which they will not comply with.
Having told these arctent spirits what they
should Jo
Yr
.
with themselves, the writer thus lectures poor

CAMPBELL and Dr. CHALMERS : NHere is a declaration which sets at defiance and laultods/
scorn poor Mr. Campbell and the Duke of Argyll's Bill'istert
other remedies. Election by the people of all their to if;
if;
alone will satisfy them. "By the people," did we Sq.ii eV
made a mistake ; for Dr. Chalmers, who, with that thee
ticity of conscience" which he has said he posses-es ° V
questions, is found speaking in support of this resolutialo4
having propounded the veto, as he declared, in support, iptlo
the preservation of patronage, takes great pains to exPoart„tiV
"household or resident election," or anything, it,
real popular election, he abhors and repudiates.
f Se
Two questions wo would wish to ask these ininistersl,
land. if patronage is a sinful mode of obtaining a IVO
do not they resign, and see if the people will NS." ,od
churches? What would be the fate of Air. Cuningba_t`lee
his miserably small let sittings?—and, again, if the Mire oft
to choose their own minister, why not the wholePeeP.- to t
parish? and why are they to be restrained in their cluoreopeo;
minister of the Establishment, or of any sect, if they
est:)., 10
another whom they like better, who can edify them I,'S
is in all respects more acceptable ? How can an estabor"
be defended, if the principle of election be conceded ?

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The Council of the Birmingham " National Coal 0,
Suffrage Union" have just issued a document which e°,,,
tains some pertinent comments .on Mr. SHARMAN
FORD'S proposed amendment on the third reading °to
hateful and inquisitorial. Income-tax Bill. Irlide
doeument the Council boldly state that " the P`ot
of Commons is corrupted, and that, no longer-
organ of popular feeling, it has become the 'I/ I
ment of a class ;" and add, that they "Pri)d)
against the infliction of any new tax until t
a.radical change has taken place in the represen
.
system, as may effect the destruction of that eetlAj4;-.0
class-legislation, the continuance of which they
believe would be fatal to our very existence as a free,,,;(
independent nation." In this protest we feel str°'.s
dispowd to coincide, for it is in strict accordance
that principle of the Constitution which provide‘thillti
man shall be taxed without his•own consent, or
his representatives in Parliament. And haie thee.;
their own representatives in Parliament ? rtce9,,,
extent they possibly may have, but not to an extent cep
ble of producing substantial good ‘;- for 'the. 1';:f
lar voice is heard there' only in faint, timid ,:
being drowned by Abe.: loud, clamorous 111:p
of the selfish advocates of class-legislation.- 'MtiV
sent constituted, the House of Commons--notwit's
ing the Reform Bill—has unquestionabl • few °f
cof
sympathies in Common with the great bulk of tbeofY
.munity. It expresses the opinions of parties, not
people. It gives utterance to the purblind Preillpe
of tho Few, not the calm, settled convictions of the 'eyi:4,
Had the case been otherwise—were the House IV
and truly the advocate of national, instead of class'
rests, never would. such a flagrantly unjust III:"
as the Income-tax Bill have been allowed t°, Y
even a second reading. The suceess of 6'5
testable impost has been achieved solell„fiii
means of the veriest trickery—by a dexterous P 7
off of one. party against another, and hoaxing both
Throughout the discussion the popular intereal',o'
been wholly lost sight of and the question tretae'.o
Whig and Tory were _the only parties concerned Y,
But all things—even an Income-tax--" work t4t.i
for good," and the present notoriously corrupt sti2l
the House of Commons is the best possible ga4_,,
for its refl:rm at no distant period. We cannot low;ti
on as we are now doing. The popular voice vast
u n
ti
itself heard in Parliament; and sound, enlarged
must supply the place of miserable party itTgl,d,
What between the equivocal, time-serving refbr./f°
the Whigs, and the selfish, thick-skulled obstinsc,,4
the TorieC, the country has been brought to a &incl.:ll
from which nothing can extricate it, but a trdrthli
abandonment, on the part of the monopolists, dot,
iniquitous system of class-legislation ; or, failing ,rat
such a desperate convulsion as shall shake the
social and political fabric to its foundations, and.. 51,0
to atoms the two wretched, factions that have se ,0
made the people the mere blind instruments of their
bition and cupidity.

The PITT Club Anniversary
day at the London Tavern—and such a miserable
po;iticia
of Members ! Not a man of the slightest
Wma.sacelltel:tceirdßoviL::
nence was present ; there were_no_PEELs, no WELl'l,t
TONS—not even -a GOOLItURN
,thing but a couple of KENYONS, a couple of Duicco3C,/
-three- small Baronets, one Militia Colonel, anti
two dozen or so of the- tiniest 'possible 111embiel
Parliament. Such being the attendance, it niay be gu.?
what were the speeches.! The Chairman—one of
KENYoNS aforesaid—twaddled pathetically abmi!'fii
"days of good old King GEORGE ;" and then. 11:lf
duly wiped his eyes, proctcded to institute a rat' ° .1
tween PITT and PEEL. They certainly resemble
other in this respect—namely, that each has four I'
in his name, and that each name begins with a. 11;;,
we are not aware of any other paints of i
-blance between them. As for his " in°l7,t•
periority," on which the Chairman .
merited . Sir MAIER'', PEEL, what a face .osll
must have,had_to have made such- a remark 1/,
superiority" indeed ! The allusion must certaiillY
been hazarded in joke; and as a joke we accept of
alit, though at the same time we are by no PIO ":1,
pressed iTith an exalted sense of its brilliancy, it
-what better could have been expected from the cM.
of a Prrr Club, and that Chairman a KENYON
•ir
ift

We have received the Madrid Journals of the .
In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 20th, a pre if,
was made for taking into consideration a Bills, of,
to the Chamber by several of the DePtitiesti
the object of which is to permit the ita`P"
into Spain of foreign cotton manufactures,
are now either nominally or virtually pro
M. Gtnnup, a warm opponent of the Pr°7„ p! ~
system, reproached the Ministry with its delay'" '4l
senting the long-promised Government Bill on the I
ject ; and, although the Minister of the I 11291411:
declared that in a very .few days a Bill 01(1,',t
presented, and requested M. G UIBUT to withdraw 11' if,
motion, that Deputy persisted in going to the v°,t,e:t
it was decided by a majority of 74 to 36, t"- c`7,
Bill proposed by M. GuinuT should be taken into ej
sideratiun. M. MATH then asked the Minister of
hether, not,lithstanding this vote, the Gove-r,l)
would bring in its own Bill this session, and was
swercd in the affirmative, the drawing up of the /311'
nearly completed. In the sitting of the Deputies- '1;
21st, M. TORRENTO called the attention of the Ci'f)lol°,
to the circumstances under which Mr. TtiniclatiO4t
la:e British Consul at the Havannah, has cOnt',l2‘-f,
reside there. He had, said M. TORRENT°, Wig,'
privet' of his functions as Consul, on the rertv°l"otj
ces of the Spanish Government, but was -1"e05,17,
at the Havannah as protector of slaves. U'
4'10'4
capacity he sought to excite the negroo; t°
.;plll
against their owners. The HodouraEle 'A;
indulged very freely in remarks against • the
Government, which, he said, was anxious- t
rebellion of the slaves, in order that the tragic, 78 1"
Havannah might be ruined, and that it might 117.,i'reHit:
monopoly of the supply of its' own sugars in`-:
markets. He concluded by calling upon the
4,1=1;1
Government to demand froth England the."',il
Mr. •TURNBULL. The President of the OP-1';`7,010
Ministers, in reply, stated that he had alrettatt
the
the demand, and that if Mr. TURNBULL were rig.
moved by his own Government, the author1"e;01;
Havannah would expel him from the island bY -ocdPi
force, as the Spanish Ministry would neverir t
nise him in the office which had been conferreu
him.• The Bill authorising the Government to ''sue
sury bonds, to the amount of 160,000,000 of r
adopted by the Senate on the 21st inst., by a 111:113
of 78 to 2. There is no other news of interest 'l/00i 1
journals.—A Madrid letter of the 21st alludes 'I
port of the failure of the eminent house of SO%e ,'!,
Co., which has been talked of at the Paris 13°11„.,1(1
the authority of mercantile letters from Madrid,

Glares that it is utterly without foundation.
4
The debates in the French cs
a Chamber of PePL id
Friday and Saturday were rather interesting.
tde .
cussion arose respecting the conduct of the Cjovo..iteo,
in keeping Gen,:ral NEGRIEE in Africa, afts'1.•:111:1•
generally known that he always walked about attcn
the public executioner, and that he put wen to deatbf th
out trial, after the old Turkish fashion %6i11;
Pachas. Marshal SOULT excused himself 11,,dregrcli:
despatches, showing that NEGRIER had aecluiT,43lo.'
influence among the Arab tribes, and by contenulwel'r
the reports were exaggerated, as the persons execLirfiei,:ter'd
murderers. This was poor work for a French alt
lain
The system of fortifying Paris was next o°4- fro'
of, and an attempt made to extort a Pr°ll',iseej to
;11
Ministers that no cannon would be Pl° oc111".
them save in case -of invasion. Whftt ,
11" rt:
site simplicity ! What were the walls r'';ioos.
but to mount guns to play upon the turbulent cijoci.i;
The Parisians are the only enemies dreaded 11 cord
PHILIPPE. The Ministers declined to say 11'