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FEBRUARY 17.
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WEDNESDAY,
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There appeared in the Times of yesterday one of the
most elaborate, as well as impudent, panegyrics, which
we ever yet read in his columns, in favour of the Duke

of WELLlwozow and his Administration, for whom it is

now no secret that the soi-disant " leading Journal" is
regularly retained. After an oblique hit or two at CAN-
-14/110, whom he describes as too dependent and uninfiu-
ential to have carried great ameliorations—risum tenea-
ssus—he lays before his readers the several great and
commanding attributes which in his eyes constitute the
Duke of WELLINGTON a demigod, and hurries to his
capital conclusion, which—if he had the power to move
it as a Resolution in the House of Lords—no doubt
would be carried there, by as outnumbering a ma-
jority as he could desire. This conclusion is
that of all the Ministers of the lest half century, the
Noble DUKE is that especial one, "whose power is in-
consistent with a corrupt employment of the public
money."
We will now take that proposition, first, as the Times
means it : namely, that• the Duke of WELLINGTON is
himself too pure and public-minded, to be capable of a
sinister, o'r corrupt employment, of the nation's money.
We deny it. What example have we, to convince us
that the Noble Du K E is thus " clear in his great office,"
above the clearness of hie predecessors, from PITT down-
wards ? On the. contrary ; we insist that the Du x x is
a personally corrupt Minister, and that he has main-
tained hitherto—and purposes still to maintain, if he
can—his government by corruption. We have no
desire to print the instances in these columns, but
wo could print them, if we were put to it : we
say, we could print them—and the Noble DUKE feels
in his heart that we can. We know of exaltations in
the peerage, for motives which would not bear dis-
closure : we know of promises, which have had all the
elect of purchase in the House of Commons, though
diem promises have not yet been realised: we could
point to splendid abilities, accomplished eloquence—and
*'Dame once Mora than popular—prostituted before the
Noble DiceAsr, and waiting in ignominious inertness, till

the fulfilment of the stipulated price shall convert a sordid
neutrality into active and unconcealed alliance. But
these things are bringing the great remedy of all cor-
ruption with them.
Next, to examine the proposition of the Times,
as he means it not : and here we shall agree with our
contemporary, that his patron is, especially, " the
only Minister of the last half century, whose power is
inconsistent with a corrupt employment of the public
money." Why is he so ? for, in reality, he is. We will
answer. Not because " a corrupt employment of the
public money" is inconsistent with his notions of govern-
ing. but because it is now come to this, that the people
will no longer endure a minister, who administers by
corruption. Not because the Noble DUKE is averse
to borough influence, but because the grievances pro-
duced by that wicked and oppressive influence are be-
come so extreme and violent, that borough influence
must go—or the minister who abets it, fall a sacri-
fice to the new system of things. In this view we
agree with the Times, that the power of the Noble DUKE
is inconsistent with the public corruption, but by no I
means in the sense in which our contemporary would
have it understood to be so.

What the Times says of the appointments to office
since the Session began, only proves himself to be per-
ditissimus inter perditos: to call Mr. STIJ A RTWORT LEY
independent, and Mr. FRANK LAN n LEw is a reformer,
are outrages even beyond animadversion. Our con-
temporary adds, that Mr. PEEL has now declared, i/e
unambiguous terms, that the WELLINGION Administra-
tion places its sure reliance on the PEOPLE! We can tell
our contemporary, that the PEOPLE have no dream of
returning the compliment : they know, by this time, bet-
ter, whom to trust. Out of those little promising Mino-
rities, to which we briefly alluded yesterday, the national
regeneration seems certainly destined to proceed.
As sure as eve are penning this paragraph, the WEL-
LINGTON principles and Ministry will be scattered like
chaff before the wind, and the principles of those little
Minorities will prevail to redintegmtion. The current
has set in, nod it is futile to hope to stem it.

Sir E. B. Sugden, the Solicitor-General, voted in the
majority upon the Retford Disfranchisement Bill ; and
Sir J. Scarlett, the Attorney-General, in the minority.
Mr. Secretary Peel will, on the 18th March, apply
for leave to bring in a Bill " to consolidate and amend
the laws relating to forgery."
Application has been made to the House of Commons
for another Bill respecting London Bridge.
Wednesday two votes for the county of Lanark, be-
longing to the city of Glasgow, were sold by public sale
in the Burgh Court Hall, at 1,600/. each.

The Estimates have been laid before the House of
Commons, and it is sincerely hoped that they will be
thoroughly examined and debated.
Saturday night, at eight o'clock, Mr. Garthron Wall,
formerly an eminent ship-builder at the Low Lights,
North Shields, fell into the river from the gallery of the
Star and Garter Inn, and though he was not above ten
minutes in the water, when taken out, every exertion to
restore him to life proved abortive.
THE HOPETOUN STATUE.-It has been determined
to place the equestrian statue of the late Earl of Hope-
toun in the centre of the area in front of the Royal
Bank, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Duke of
Wellington, Earls Bathurst, Roselyn, and Aberdeen,
Viscount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary
Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and Mr. Herries.
The Lord Chancellor was prevented from attending the
Council, owing to being engaged in the House of Lords
in hearing some Appeals.
In the list of votes on Lord Howick's Motion, the name
of the Honourable H. R. Western was omitted in the
Minority of 55.
We have heard, with regret, that the English Opera
House was not insured in the whole or any considerable
part. The reason assigned is the very high terms de-
manded by the insurance offices, we believe four per cent.
on theatrical property, in consequence of its great ex-
posure to fire, as has been found in the cases of the Italian
Opera House, Drury lAne, Covent Garden. Astley's, the
Circus, and lastly this very interesting and deservedly
popular House.
The Ministers sat in deliberation about an hour and a
half. After the breaking up of the Council, the Russian
and French Ambassadors arrived at the Foreign Office,
and had interviews with the Earl of Aberdeen.

Earl Rosalyn, Viscount Melville, Mr. Secretary Peel,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Herries, had
interviews with the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the
Treasury.
The silence of Sir T. Lethbridge, in these times of
agricultural and other distress, astonishes many persons.
The folks of Wells say that the presence of that avowed
" Radical" Mr. O'Connell, only prevents the resumption
of the white hat—the distinction with which Sir Thomas
used to appear in the House, during the last fif of the
landlords' difficulties.

The election of a member for the county of Meath, in
the room of the Earl of Bective, now Marquis of Head-
fort, takes place on Monday, the 22d instant, at the
Court-house of Trim. Lord Killeen, only son of the
Earl of Magall, walks over without opposition.—Limerick
Chronicle.

A TAME ELEPHANT IN CHANCERT.—In the case
of Taylor v. Barclay, 2 Simons's Reports, page 221, the
following is stated to be the language of a Learned
Judge : " It appears to me that sound policy requires
that Courts of the King should act in unison with the
Government of the King."
It is said that Baron Cottu, proprietor of the Algemeine
Zeitung, into receive for his good services the decoration
of the Legion of Honour.
A Correspondent informs us that the Right Rev. Dr.
Weld, formerly of Lulworth Castle, Dorset (which is
still his property), has lately been raised to the
dignity of a Cardinal. This, it is stated, is the only in-
stance of an Englishman obtaining that rank since the
time of Cardinal Howard, in the reign of Charles IL—
Bath Herald.

The fellow who was tried a few days since, for stealing
'spoons from a tavern near Charing-cross, was actually
apprehended by the same police-serjeant who, only a few
days before, had taken him to be measured and ex-
amined as a candidate under the new preventive system.
The elephant at the Adelphi, Miss Djak, made a
noise in the house yesterday, of which we are dialed upon
to give a report. • T 6 gods. were of course in as uproar,
and absolutely laughed natal the lady, like a certain mi-
nister of state, was warned that the most delicate coarse
.was to retire.