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Lord BROUGIIAU then moved for certain returns
connected with railways, and animadverted in strong
terms on the mania at present existing for railway
speculations. If all the railways proposed were car-
ried out, 130 millions of capital would be withdrawn
from circulation in the course of the next three years,
and a dreadful commercial crisis would be the conse-
quences.

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After a few words from the Earl of DALISOUSIE
and Lord ASHBURTON the returns were ordered.

The Marquis of NORMANDY gave notice of his in-
tention to bring in a Bill for giving the right of voting
at elections to all persons who paid the income-tax.

The Duke of 13UCCLEUCH announced that it was
the intention of the Government to introduce, in a
short time, a measure for improving the sanatory
condition of towns, and that there would be no objec-
tion to extending it to Ireland and Scotland.
The Marquis of NORMANDY then rose for the pur-
pose of bringing before the attention of the House
the manner in which various appointments in the
Irish constabulary had recently been made, and con-
cluded by moving for certain returns on the subject.
Lord STANLEY replied to the speech of the Noble
Marquis. He did not object to grant the returns,
I but he wished them to go further back, se as to show

the appointments which had been made by the Noble
Marquis himself.
After a short discussion, in which the Duke of
WELLINGTON and the Earl of ST. GERMANS took
part, the motion as amended was agreed to.
The Common Law Process Bill was read a third
time and passed, and the Sugar Duties Bill was ..read
a second time, after which their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four o'Clock.
The Greenwich Colliery Railway Bill was read a
second time, after an ineffectual attempt on the part
of Mr. HODGSON HINDE to throw it out.

In answer to a question from Lord PALMERSTON,
Sir R. PEEL stated, that no change whatever had
been made in the terms of the convention entered
into in 1839, between this country and France, for
the regulation of the fisheries.
Sir J. GRAHAM postponed the Medical Bills to that
day week.
The House then resolved itself into Committee on
the Excise Acts, and
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
Repeal of the Auction duty.
Mr. G. BANKES opposed the repeal of those duties
on the ground that their repeal would confer no benefit
in the agricultural interests. The surplus revenue.
had much better be applied to the reduction of the
county rates.
A long discussion followed, and upon a division
the resolution of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was carried by a majority of 137.

The new works in Trafalgar-square have hitherto

proceeded at so dogged and tardy a pace towards
completion, that public expectation has been naturally
excited in a degree proportioned to the delay. Fes-
tival-day after festival-day was named for the corn-
pletion of the Trafalgar column ; for the raising the

colossal statue of NELSON to its Stylobate elevation

above the capital ; and for the anniversary, or corn-
me:norative dinner which was to have been given to

the surviving veterans of October, 1805—at which
one of NELSON'S brother officers was to hare presided,
but which, alas! was eaten only in imagination.
Duke Humphrey in the chair ! A published corre-
spondenceion each occasion between the Committee
of Manaement and the architect—the Committee

and the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and the
Committee and the Board of Woods and Forests—
announced that the disappointment experienced on
the last occasion would certainly not recur on the
one now selected. After a great deal of evasion and,
what we will call, downright shuffling on the part

of the Board of Woods, &c., the consent which
the Government had given to the projected arrange-
ments was withdrawn ; and Lord LINCOLN, in a state-
ment memorable for its offensive illiberality, its chil-

dish absurdity, and its exquisite bad taste, acknow-
ledged that this ungracious determination of the autho.
rities proceeded on the apprehension that the veteran

tars forsooth, whom NELSON had so often led into con-
flict with the enemy, and deathless triumphs in every
conflict, might be likely—after such a public feast—
to commit some outrage dangerous to the publi•

peace, which their valour had so signally maintained
against the aggression of all Europe ! So, the com-
memoration fell to the ground. The subscription
raised for the purpose of dispensing festal hospitality
to the old heroes whose prowess had shed so much

honour on their country, could not be appropriated to
its legitimate object of doing honour to them. 4

pecuniary fractional dividend was the poor
and mercenary acknowledgment of British
gratitude, when it became its misfortune to have its

expression controlled by the act of an inexperienced

but not very diffident public servant. From the first,
we have seen, with pain, that the works in Trafalgar-
square, which should have been achieved on a grand
national scale, have been designed and executed in a
manner whcse shabbiness and littleness seem to be
quite congenial with the feeling with which the Noble
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests counter.
manded the leave to eat their dinner around
the column to the Trafalgar veterans. This
congeniality of feeling is the one only thing
in keeping about the whole affair. Few capitals in
Europe could have offered a finer site than Trafalgar-
square for an ornamental platform worthy of the
magnificent column consecrated to the memory of
NELSON, and of the picturesque, the unequal vista
that fronts it, leading to and partly revealing the
Banqueting Chamber at Whitehall, and the old Abbey
of Westminster. Neither the monstrosity called a
National Gallery, nor the incongruous but stately
screen of Northumberland House, can mar the
general effect of the new buildings, club-
houses, &c. which surround it, and the imposing effect
of the fine portico of St. Martin's Church. It is cer-
tain that the vacant space included within these
boundaries, lying as it does upon an inclined plane,
and in the centre of the greatest thoroughfare between
the Court and the City, the public offices, and the
Parliament, presented capabilities for a magnificent
improvement. What has been made of it ? The very
finest chance has been sacrificed to the very demon
of bad taste. It was determined to have
enormous fountains, the agreeable office of which it
is to cool the air, and refresh the way.
farers in the heat of summer. Therefore
from the whole of this vast platform everything sip!
proaching to either shade or shelter has been rigidly
banished. In the dog days the pilgrim to this
" Column of Fountains" will have to endure the rays
of a noon-tide sun above his head, whilst his weary
feet will be refreshed with volcanic heat refracted
from the wretched pavement of pseudo-asphalte, which,
with its trumpery devices of eight pointed stars, sprawl-
ing in ugly antics of muddy gray and dirty white,
is really enough to expose our notions of public orna-
mental display to the laughter of all Europe. Already
this exquisite compost of mock bitumen is in a rapid
state of disintegration. In its hoar antiquity of
sixteen months, it is already falling into unseemly
hollows, if not absolute fissures.
Now, may we be permitted to ask how the notion
of planting so favoured a locality came to be aban-
doned? Evergreens and odoriferous shrubs, which
are known to grow freely in the near neighbourhood
of St. James's Park, would have imparted picturesque
beauty to the locality, and health and refreshment to
the passenger. By the terraces and walks a match-
less vehicle would have been furnished for the display
of the almost infinite varieties of British marbles
and ores, whose deep and glowing hues are susceptible
of the most exquisite polish. We may imagine how
grand their effect would have been, introduced into the
facing of the magnificent terrace that overlooks the
square from the Pall-mall East approach. But it
would have been still more superb, as developed in
the handsome flight of stairs that already flank that
terrace, and in the panelling
compartments
in Mosaic or other party-coloured
work
o f t,h
the,
surface of the square ;—in the parapets and dressings
of the fountain reservoirs, and above all in the forms
of the fountains themselves. The expenses would have
been very trifling, because the marbles of Derbyshire
and other English counties, Anglesey, thelsle of Man,
and Ireland, are exceedingly cheap. Then the size
of the fountains is quite toy-like. They are like Mr.
Giant FREEMAN'S left off cups for tossing and catching
granetic boulders. They are in every respect paltry
and pitiful, for such a purpose and such associa-
tions. But the planting--how came that important
feature to be discarded ? What difficulty of
selection could there be, 'where the image