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legislation that it should, therefore, refuse to conduct

the administration of affairs

LORD DERBY iS

accused of disingenuousness in giving but a quali-
fied assent to the proposition that existing prosperity
is attributable to recent legislation. Surely he, cr
any other man, must be very blind or very stupid

who does not see that a considerable portion of the
popular prosperity, for which exclusive credit is
awarded to Free-trade, must necessarily be attribut-
able to the simultaneous operation of a great influx
of gold and a great efflux of population in enhancing
wages and preventing a redundance of labour.
The spirit of Lord DERBY'S opponents has been
well illustrated by certain querulous gentlemen, who
choose to overlook the recommendation in the
Speech to adopt a liberal and generous policy to-
wards Ireland, and who call the Government to task
for daring to allude to the existence in that country
of an "unhappy spirit of insubordination and tur-
bulence." The only other kind of fault we have
happened to hear attempted to the Speech is, that it
was not so brilliant and startling as certain members
of the Government could easily have made it. For
ourselves, we are much gratified to find that though
there is abundance of stern, useful, and difficult
work cut out for themselves by the Government,
there is not one note of self•laudation nor of high-
sounding promise. Her MAJESTY'S Ministers,
taking the country as they find it, taking public
opinion as it has been expressed to them by the
general election, determine to waive their own
theoretical views on one important subject, and to
proceed to make the results of recent legislation as
beneficial to the great mass of the people, and as
little prejudicial to particular depressed classes, as
may be. The country will not have long to wait a

full opportunity of judging of the practical ability
of the Administration. The means by which they
propose to adapt the financial to the newly estao-
fished commercial policy, will be announced by the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on the 26th

Till that time the world will remain in a
state of excited curiosity; but we cannot for a
moment doubt that our anticipations, founded

instant

upon the unquestionable talents, the laborious
patience, and the straightforwardness of purpose, of
Her MAJESTY'S Government, will be fully realised,
and the prosperity of the country be ensured.

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHILD.—On
Friday, and, by adjournment, on Saturday and yesterday,
Ann Allanson, servant-woman to Mr. Richmond, Field-
street, was taken before the borough magistrates under
the following circumstances :—On the night of Monday,
Nov. Ist, while alone in the kitchen, the gave birth to a
fine illegitimate child, which she placed in the midden of
the adjoining house. where it was found by the neigh-
bours. In the morning it was discovered that she was
the mother, and, on being interrogated by the police, she
stated that, when She placed it in the midden, she did not
know what she was doing. The child, which had been
conveyed to the West Derby Workhouse, is alive and
well. Mr. Owen, solicitor, who appeared for the pri-
soner, contended that the evidence was not sufficient, to
justify the magistrate in committing her. The magis-
trate, however, was of a different opinion, and the pri-
soner was committed to the assizes, to take her trial for
assault upon her child, with intent to murder,
ROBBERY

CHARGE OF

—Jane Wilson and Patrick Carroll, a person
with whom she lives, were charged with robbing a sailor.

named Henry Dorstell, of £ll 155., on the night of the
Gth November. The male prisoner, it appeared, pro-
tended to be a police-officer, and introduced the prose-
cutor to the female. They went to the brothel kept by
the prisoners, when he was fleeced of his belt

the money. Committed for three months eaci