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BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
THE QUEEN V. ELLIS AND GREENWOOD.
In this case a rule was ohtaired calling upon the
defendants Magistrates of the West Riding of York-
shire, to show cause why a mandamus should not
issue, commanding them to grant a warrant of dis-
tress against the goOds of Thomas Wall, an inhabi-
tant of the township of Keightley, who had been
rated to a rate of 18s. .for the relief of the poor of
the said Union. It appeared that Wall was lessee of
certain tenements in the parish of Keightley, devised
by a person named John Drake in 1713, t .r the pur-
pose of maintaining a free school and a qualified master.
The testator also; desired that the parish of Keightley
would exempt .the tenements from all rates and im-
positions. A demand for poor-rate being made in
May last from Wall, he refused to pay, on the ground
that his property was not subject to the rate. The
overseers of the parish upon this applied to the Magis-
trates of the Keightley Union for a warrant of dis-
tress to levy the rate, which they refused, entertaining
doubts as to the legal liability of Wall to pay the rate.
This refusal was endorsed by Mr. Ellis and two other
Magistrates named Greenwood. The overseers then
applied to -the Magistrates of Skipton, who refused
to enter upon the. case. A second application was
thin made to the Magistrates of Keightley, two of
whom refused to grant the warrant, two others being
inclined to do so. A rule nisi to compel them was
therefore granted.
Mr. HALL now showed cause against the rule.
The Solicitor-General and Mr. Baines were hesrd
in support of it.—Judgment deferred.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.

GLOBE.--fiir Robert Peel, at the Lord Mayor's
dinner yesterday, asserted as amongst the objects of
the policy of his Cabinet, "to encourage the demand
for labour, and to extend the commercial prosperity
of the country." Somebody has defined a knave a
fool with a circurnbendibus. Sir Robert Peel is a
free-trader a circurnbendibus. It may be ques-
tioned whether the circurnbendibus does not spoil
the -free trader, as it does the fool. Your simple
natural fool, like neighbour Flaniboraugh, in
the Vicar of Wakefield, prospers, one might
almost say, by sheer virtue of his recog-
nised blockheadism. Everybody is disposed to
trust him in his dealings, as nobody thinks
him capable of craft. But your fool with a
circumbendibus circumvents himself, much more than
others. Nobody deals with him who can help it, for
all appreciate his talents for taking in. It may be
questioned, we say, whether the circumbendibus po-
licy is better in public than in private dealings. It is
a policy -which can only indicate folly or knavery,
either in the practitioner, or in those he has to manage,
or in both. If Sir R. feel cannot open the foreign
corn trade by straightforward methods, his ma.nifest
disposition to do so by a circumbendibus, shows how
insidious was his professed opposition to the Whig
measure, his professed championship of the Sliding
Sca!e. His sliding scale, as Lord Palmerston pro-
phesied, seems.. proving a slippery thing indeed. Sir
Robert Peel's manoeuvres, as regards the external
corn trade, remind us of nothing so much as the
underground engineering of the Rat of Dutch re-
nown, whose hole in a dyke let in the sea on a pro-
vince. Let Sir Robert Peel exult in his engineering
at City dinners!
Il!a se jactet in aula Peelus.

Let him assert his claim to extending our ccmmerce
with a circumbendibus—which, to judge from the state
of things in the City, would seem to be rather a long
one. Let him be followed in his speech by the Amen-
can Minister, whose Government is driving at revenue
by a circumbendihus, as Sir Robert at trade ; and
who contrive (Sir Robert Peel and President Tyler)
each to miss his object, precisely by the roundabout
direction which each takes to gain it. America, by
encouraging the importation of English fabrics at
lowered duties—England, by encouraging the impor-
tation of American grain and flour in like manner—
might progressively realise, the one the revenue, the
other the trade and abundance wanted. But Sir
Robert Peel has contrived that American grain shall
come in by a circumbendibus. Nothing that chal•
lenges reciprocity—nothing that sets up astandard of
sound commercial principle, and entitles our diplomacy
to claim the like application of those principles on the
part of agricultural America—nothing like this
is Sir Robert Peel's method of " extending
our commerce." Nothing, moreover, in the way of
revenue to this country does he seek to secure
fixed duty. That would frighten the clod-pole by a
con-
stituents of the Circumbendibus Cabinet. What
does
he .try then ? Works a hole in the Canadae and
United States frontiers—contrives a crannytoletin
corn from the United States, through the British
provinces—which corn will pay duty, not to John
Bull, but to Messrs. llinckes, Baldwin, Lafontaine,
and Company, the viceroys over the Queen of Eng-
land's representative in th 3 Canadas—for the defence
of which provinces John Bull has already decentish
bills to pay, and whose revenues (to be appropriated
by the said liinckes, Baldwin, Lafontaine, and Com-
pany) he will farther have the satisfaction of swelling,
by paying the taxes levied by these gentlemen on the
grain which we shall get through, their hands, from
America, by a circumbendibus.
STANI/A.RD.—It may be worth the while to
follow the line opened by the Morning Chronicle yes-
t May, to the extent of again referring to the proceed-
ings of the Lord Mayor's Day. As our Contemporary
sagaciously anticipated would be the case, the _Minis-
t m-s were not mobbed : they were, on the other hand,
received with courtesy and good-will. There was,
I.crvever, sufficient mobbing of certain members of the
Common Council, to prove that it was the presence of a
good feeling towards her Majesty's advisers, not the
absence of the mobbing faculty . on the part of the
populace, which saved the Ministers from affronts. The
tc roper of an English crowd is never savage, but once or
buttNVl eeyesterday the temper of the crowd was anything
demure. Still Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues
were throughout the
objects of respect. The reason of
this was fairly givenbthe Whig-Radical Lord Mayor
in proposing the health
" Though heh of her Majesty's Ministers :--
addilFeredthe from them in politics, he
believed theyinterestst of the country at
heart; and he unhesitatingly stated his belief that
there was no man to whom her Majesty could with
more safety entrust the administration of affairs than
to Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheers.)"
This is the pervading conviction. Sir Robert Peel
is a safe Minister, and a safe Minister is the Minister
f that the country wants at the end of ora°'
n 4
fif-
teen years of constant turmoil by violent chaeenage3
in an extraordinary perplexity of its foreign and
o
nial relations produced by previous blundering's. The
character of a safe Minister is, after all, the highest
that a statesman can aspire to ; for it includes all the
great qualities necessary in public affairs—boldness in
great emergencies, forbearance, contentment, and an
aversion to experiment " when wealth and peace have
blessed the land." Pitt is justly the object of cur
grateful admiration—for what ? because he was
" The pilot that weathered the storm ;"
because he proved himself a safe Minister in circum-
stances of extraordinary difficulty. Other Ministers
may not have had the same opportunities of serving
the country by their energy and active courage ; but
it will be seen
the least, from, generally,Burleilthat those Nv ho experimented
secured the greatest
amount of happiness to their
clown,the'ron generation, and live
most honoured in the esteem of later ages. There is
often as much real heroism in
patient contentment
as in active enterprise, but thircircumstances of the
6e h
times in which he lives must direction to the
statesman who would earn the proudi title of a safe
Minister.

—ADkuntrf., NITGENT.—We are happy in being able
to state, fi-ol inquiries made at Charing- cross Hos-
e' ~pital this niOrniiig, that Sir Charles Nugent is going
on very favodrsitfly, and little doubt now remains but
--that the Gallaiit Admiral, notwithstanding his ad.

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