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of the Church and Constitution, both which were endangered
by that ill-judged, unfortunate measure, and, backed and sup-
ported by the good men and true in England's chief seat of
learning, succeeded in ousting from a seat, the duties of
which h had betrayed and abandoned, one of the principal
members of the pro.popery administration, thereby teaching
him a lesson which he will never forget. Not to weary our
readers, let us bring them at once to the present session, and
ask whether the manner in which Sir Robert Inglis has acted
in the " Privilege Question "does net prove that he isnot a
mere partisan, but an honest, uncompromising politician ?
Night after night did he speak against the monstrous claim
of privilege set up by the Ministerial leader of the House of
Commons and his underlings, though it was sanctioned by
many of the most influential members of the Conservative,
party. Night after night did he denounce every fresh injus-
tice which the ministerial clique proposed to commit. Night
after night did he, at the head of a small but noble hand, di-
vide the house, so placing on record that, even in a Reformed
house of Commons, there were men who would not sanction
the attempt to establishlan authority superior to the laws of
the land, and to treat with contumely the venerable judges of
the land. But how flattering to him must have been the re-
sult ! He was beaten then, but he triumphs now ! He has
seen the cause of right and justice, though often cast down,
victorious at last ! And that triumph and that victory, over
one of the most preposterous and extravagant pretensions
ever advanced by any body of men, is mainly owing to his
exertions.

By the vast majority of men of both parties in the House
of Commons Sir Robert Inglis is held in great respect.
Though his principles may be opposed, and his reasonings
dissented from, he is never personally attacked, save by one,
to be abused by whom is an honour. It is well known
that, let Sir Robert act as he may, be always acts from a
conviction that he is right, and not from mere personal and
party motives. This is a principle by which very few of the
representatives of the people are actuated ; in fact, the
greater part of them cannot understand it, but they are not
unwilling to believe that it is something vastly to be com-
mended, and they respect it accordingly. Great deferent eis
always paid to everything that falls from Sir Robert Inglis,
not only by conservatives, but we may venture to say by
ministerialists also. He never bores the house with long-
' winded harangues, bat contrives to put what he has to say in
a moderate compass. Fine speaking he never attempts, nor
does he lord his speeches with " splendid patches" of rheto-
ric ; like the. Duke of Wellington, he " says what he thinks,
and seldom quotes Latin." What he does say is to the point ;
it goes at once to the subject-matter in hand, without any
flourishing, or branching into extraneous topics. His speeches
are such as one likes to read,—clear, plain, practical, and busi-
ness-like, evidently coming from a man who, knowing that
work has to be done, does it at once. It would be well, we
troy observe, in passing, if the majority of our legislators
would act on a similar principle ; for we can tell them that
legislation is work, and not what many of them think it, play.
Sir Robert Inglis maybe considered as the representative of
the church in the lower house of parliament. His zeal in
behalf of the national establishment is unwearied. It is not
that zeal without knowledge, which is not good, but the zeal
of an able, an experienced, and a religious man, deeply im-
pressed with the mightiness and the holiness of the cause he
advocates. Proud, indeed, and much to be envied is the
position which he holds in connexion with our holy church--
a position to which his sterling talent and unblemished inte-
grity, not less than the fact that he represents the stronghold
of the church, justly entitle him ; and may Heaven grant he
may long live to enjoy it.
The member for the University of Oxford is constant in
his attendance in his place in Parliament. His attention to
public business is very great. Rarely will his name be found
absent from the division lists ; never from the list of a divi-
sion of any importance. He is somewhat of a stickler for
order. To O'Connell he is quite a bugbear. Often and
often have I seen the burley agitator called to order by him.
Caring not for the blackguardism with which he is sure to be
afterwards encountered, Sir Robert Inglis never fails to in-
sist that O'Connell, when guilty of any gross indecency, shall
apologize to the house. He will insist upon it in a tone and
manner not to be 'denied, and in circumstances when other
hon. members would shrink from the contamination of a con-
test with the big beggarman. For this Sir Robert has en-
countered the enmity of that man, who, as a matter of
course, lets no opportunity pass without seizing it to spit
upon him his filthy venom, but at the same time he has
earned the thanks not only of every member of the House of
Commons, but of every one possessed of a spark of gentle-
manly feeling. We are happy to be able to add that Sir
Robert invariably treats the blustering mendicant with the
contempt he deserves.
Sir Robert Inglis is not only a Tory—we cannot apply to
him the new-fangled name of Conservative—in thought,
word, and deed, but in dress and appearance as well. "He
is every inch a Tory." It would be useless for him to pass
himself off as a Radical, for he could deceive no one, his ap-
pearance would at once betray him. The world, in fact, can-
not contain a blockhead so great and so absurd, as he who
could by,-any possibility believe that the frank, open coun-
tenance, the bluff, honest, thoroughly English bearing, of
the subject of our sketch, could belong to a sneaking, sni-
velling Whig, or a blustering, headstrong Radical.

THE MARQUIS OF NORMANDY.
" A certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd,
Shows like a stubble land at harvest home;
He is pertained like a milliner.
01;! he makes us mad
To see him smile so brisk, and smell so sweet,
And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman."
To no one can Hotspur's description of a fop be applied
with more propriety than to the Most Noble the Marquis of
Normanby ; for his lordship is a tall, smartly-made fellow
enough ; his features are sufficiently prepossessing for any
fair damsel to glance at a second time ? his forehead is lofty,
and around it cluster curls of the most luxuriant growth, the
darkest hue, and the most overpowering fragrance. He is
" neatly and trimly dressed, perfumed like a milliner." What
with his pretty face, his small delicate hands, his brilliant
teeth, his sable and sweetly-scented locks : what with his
smart blue frock coat buttoned closely round a waist tightly
laced to the smallest possible dimensions, and the most ap-
propriate possible shape ' • what with his spruce kid gloves,
his tightly-fitted French boots, his gay satin stock, his glossy
hat, his pocket handkerchief of spotless white ; what with
his fine person, his rouge, and paste, and scents, and dress—
the Marquis of Normanby's " outward man," is enough to
take by storm the heart of any very young lady still under
the control of her governess. Nature, it is evident, intended
him for a " lady's man ;" he is a " lady's man" from top to
toe, from head 16 foot. He is eminently fitted to discharge
all the important duties which devolve on such an important
functionary. He would pick up a pocket handkerchief with
the most enviable grace, and present it to its lovely owner
with a smile, which, if she were " on marriage thoughts in-
tent," would make her silly heart go pit-o-pat. No one
could nurse and fondle the poodle bettee than he—no one
could turn over the leaves of the music book with more cor-
rectness. Great, in short, eminently great would he have
been had he confined himself to the sphere for which he was
destined ; and this greatness would not have been thrust upon
him, but he would have achieved it by the force of his bril-
liant talent, unaided and unassisted ; nor would he alone
have been the most favoured "lady's tern" of the day, but
he might have assuredly become the head and leader of the
renowned brotherhood of dandies, " the glass of fashion and
the mould of form, the observed of all observers." Even
now, amid all the care and responsibility of official and par-
liamentary life, few can equal him in dandyism. What emi-
nence, then, would he not have attained in that noble science,
had he devoted to it exclusively his valuable time, his un-
tiring energies, his lofty and commanding talents !
The vastness of some men's ambition is astonishing; but
the ambition of Lord Normanby has been of a " vast vast-
ness it has out-stripped that of all others. The inquiry
how such a mar as we have described—and we-appeal to all
who know him whether our description is incorrect—could
ever have entertained the notion that he would make a states-
man, would, we think, be found not uninstructive ; for it
would show the daring flights of which man's 'soul is capable
—the loftiness of his aspiring, the magnitude of his wishes.
The poet of all time tells us that " vaulting ambition doth
o'erleap itself ;" and the case of the subject of our sketch
proves, if proof he needed, the truthfulness of the axiom.
Most wofully, indeed, bath the " vaulting ambition" of the
Marquis of Normanby " o'erleaped Well." That ambition
led him to believe that he would make a statesman, that his
abilities in the difficult art of government would equal, if not
eclipse, those of the most eminent men either of the past or
present day. But what has been the result? Look at his
statesmanship in Jamaica; look at his statesmanship in Ire-
, land; look at his statesmanship in the Colonial-office. As
Governor of Jamaica, his government was of such a nature
that he was obliged to be recalled. As Lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, he played tricks so fantastic. that good and reflect-
ing men mourned, whilst the wicked and idle scoffed ; and
he acted in such gross violation of the laws of the land which
he was sworn to support and administer, that a deserving
vote of censure was passed upon him by one branch of the
legislature, and he may with good reason congratulate him-
self that he escaped so easily ; for if the practice of the good
old times had been still in force, his head would assuredly
have been in jeopardy. As Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, his incapacity was so glaringly notorious, that even the
incapables of the present administration were forced to rea
move him : yet this man fancies himself a statesman ! and
this man, bedaubed, bedizened, brainless dandy as he is, finds
crawling parasites who can tell him, ay, and can tell the
world too, that he is a statesman, and that his government
of Ireland proves it ! Shame, shame upon them! Even
they might blush to give utterance to so monstrous an asser-
tion—even they might know that the man whose talent pro-
, perly qualifies him to act as a drawing-room ornament, or as
a useful attendant on a fine lady, is not the man to take part
in the government of a great kingdom—even they might
know that one who can afford to spend hours daily in friz-
zling and perfuming his hair, and who will condescend to act
as a walking-block toshow off the elegant cut of some fashion-
able tailor, is not tha man in whose hands should be placed
the management of the internal affairs of such an empire ex
that of Britain.
Notwithstanding all we have said, we are constrained to
admit that the Marquis of Normanby possesses some ability-.
such as it is. He is a ready and fluent, and rather agreeable
speaker. He has a plentiful command of words, but his
ideas are not very numerous, neither are they of extraordi-
nary value. He is not backward in parrying attacks made
at him personally, or on any of the measures of the govern-
ment with which he has been concerned. Let it not he sup-
posed that he is an orator. A man may be a ready or even
a good speaker, but have little more claim to be called an
orator than his walking stick; and so it is with Lord Nor -
maaby. He delivers his speeches in the most graceful
manner ; every movement of his arms, every attitude has no
doubt been carefully studied before the looking-glass ; every
smile has been rehearsed; every serious look committed to
memory.

" 'makes d
To see him smilelt
so brisk,ands smell so sweet,
And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman."
Perhaps the noble marquis is of more service to the
government in the House of Lords than any of his colleagues,
none of them with the exception of Lord Clarendon, Lein;;
able to chatter so glibly ; and this, be it observed, in these
talking days, is no small qualification for a 'minister. We
must not forget to state that Lord Noraianby is the author
of two thrashy novels—" Yes and No,"'and " Matilda," or
" Jemima," or " Jenny "or some such title. These works
found their way to the cheesemongers' and the lollypop shops
long ago ; soon after they were published they reached " that
bourne from which no book e'er returns." The noble mar..
quis is also a celebrated actor in farces, and it is said his skill
in the mimic art is by no means contemptible.
And nom we leave our readers to say whether a middle-
aged dandy of little talent, of acknowled incompetency as a
statesman—an 'unsuccessful author, but a tolerable farce
actor, is exactly the man they would wish to see filling the
high and important office of Secretary of State for the Home
Department.

OMINOUS COMMENCEMENT OF A MATRIMONIAL LIFE.
—A short time agb, a young man named William Allen. of
Walsall, deserted the second time from her Majesty's 6lst
regiment of foot, now lying at Hull ; he was, as is ustud, de-
scribed in the Hue rind Cry as a deserter, which caused the
police officers in the neighbourhood of Walsall to hr an the
look-out after him, and about a fortnight ago, Ilichsrd ~ i
mei, one of the Walsall police, I eceived intelligence that he
was gone to Aldridge Church to be married, which appears
to have been the cause of his desertion both on this and the
previous occasion. Palmer repaired to Aldridge Church,
where he found Allen and the intended bride, with other
friends • he secured him and took him to a neighbouring inn,
when all parties begged very hard that they might be :nar-
ried. Palmer then sent to the Rev. H. Hardinge to ask if
he would marry them, to which the reverend gentleman con-
sented, if the•otficer was agreeable. The party then returned
to the church. Allen was handcuffed to policeman Palmer.
during the ceremony, after which he was brought to 'Walsall,
and safely lodged in the borough prison till he should se,:,t
for by his regiment.

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Till •vithin these few days we had no idea of what a
dear darling little duck of a man Lord John is. To
continue this most expressive ladies' phraseology, he is
such a sweet thing, quite a jewel ! We had thought
that his lordship was more inclined to the tnodernfee-
losophy in vogue among the utilitarians than to the new
lights, and had feared that he was to be classed among
the degenerate rather than the regenerate.. But from
certain words and opinions which have lately fallen
from his pen, there can be little doubt that he is about
to join brother Knibb, and has received a powerful call
to go and wrestle in behalf of the black peasantry of
our British plantations. It is delightful to witness the
unction with which he consigns the trade and com-
merce of the West Indies to utter perdition—he, pious
soul, thinking nothing of the loss, but giving loose to
his holy joy at the prospect of the sable elysium which
will reign when the sugar cane and its toils shall be for-
gotten, and labour be an unremembered word.
"I he " call" is announced in a despatch from his
lordship to the Governor of British Guiana, dated the
15th of February last ; and which despatch ought to
he received as a sweet song sung in Zion,. a word of
consolation to the saints. Lord John begins the can-
tide tigura.ively, setting forth the deficiency in last
year's crops in Demerara only to have been almost a
million, and they' proceeds to show that this is the
result of a natural cause. It is, humanely observes the
singer, the consequence of emancipation ; and he urges
that the planters, " with little reason, expected that the
negroes were, at all events, to carry on the cultivation
of sugar." Warming with his theme, he subjoins,
" it is not to be expected that men who can subsist in
condor• without hard labour, will continue to devote
themselves to it." Turning from the lyric to the de-
scr.p!ive, he then draws a beautiful picture of a negro
fxaijv living a. life of listless ease on the produce of
the it little plot of ground, forgetting in his enthusiasm
the state of the planter and his family all the while :
" A few acres of ground will produce provisions for a
family, with some surplus to sell at market, and bring
home manufactured goods ; the negroes who earn high
wages, buy or hire plots of land, and refuse to let their
daily labour for hire. There is nothing in this singular
or culpable." Rising then to a loftier flight, his lord-
ship says or sings :
" Nor, were the damage to end here, would t::e British
Government have any cause to feel disappointment. Carry-
ing into effect the religious and benevolent views of the na-
tion at large, it was their object to convert slaves into free-
men ; to rescue their brethren of Africa from the lash of
compulsory toil, and establish them as Christian men on the
soil where they had been transported as chattels, or beasts of
burden. On this, the principal question of all, there is, I
am happy to say, no room for doubt. None of the most in-
veterate opponents to our recent measures of emancipation
allege that the negroes have turned robbers, or plunderers,
or blood-thirsty insurgents. What appears from their state-
ment is, that they have become shopkeepers, and petty traders
and hucksters, and small freeholders—A BLESSED CHANGE,
which Providence has enabled us to accomplish."
Brother Knibb, brother Knibb, you have a formida-
ble rival here. We had no notion that his lordship
was so strong at an exposition ; and should like much
to be an attendant at one of his field-preachings. There
is a vein of tenderness in his style, which marks him
as a brother calculated to he powerful among the sis-
ters. The " coal-black roses" will flock to his private
exhortations, and gather unto his love-feasts. In a
subsequent verse, his lordship, we perceive, speaks
hopefully of " an advance in numbers" among the
black population—" under the institution of marriage."
Such being his choice of subjects, Lord John may be
assured that he will never lack bearers !
But our readers must be marvelling what all this
means. It is soon explained. Governor Light had
applied to Lord John Russell for information as to the
measures which Government proposed to adopt in or-
der to facilitate the immigration of labourers into Bri-
tish Guiana; and thereupon Lord John forwards him
the despatch from which we have culled the foregoing
flowers of rhetoric. The answer, in point of fact,
amounts to this : that all measures which have been
proposed, or which are likely to be proposed, for the
introduction of labourers into the West Indies, will
prove failures, and that it is of no consequence if they
do. "Itis an important," remarks his lordship, with
a lack-a-daisical air, "but still A SECONDARY QUES-
TION, to consider how we can maintain the natural
prosperity of our West India colonies, promote the
cultivation of products for which the climate is adapt-
ed, and keep up, if not increase, the consumption of
British manufactures." The coolness of this is equal
to anything Lord Palmerston has done : to go beyond
the latter is impossible.
So, here is a British minister declaring that the pro-
sperity of important colonies and the consumption of
British manufactures are SECONDARY to the security
of indolence, ease, and enjoyment to the African race.
Hear his lordship speak again :
" Let me, then, look at this question largely." (Oh !my
lord, Oh !) "It is stated—l take it only for illustration—
that the wages of a day labourer are, in Guiana, Is 6d per
day, and in Hindostan not more than 2d. When you should
have removed to Guiana a large number of labourers, they
are still to be free labourers ; the soil is fertile, the climate
invites to indolence; the African race loves ease and enjoy-
ment, at least as much as any other; you have still no cer-
tainty for your sugar crop. In the mean time, it is a mere
matter of calculation to the capitalist what sugar will cost
him to raise in Hindostan, to bring to England, and to clear
of duty ; and whether, all this done, he can compete success-
fully with the Demerara planter. If he can, the sugar busi-
ness will rise in Bengal, and the Coolie remain at home; the
plantation will be found for the labourer, and not the
labourer to the plantation. Changes in commeroe' as great
as this took place when woollen manufacturers came from
Saxony to England, and fabrics of silk went from the East
to France.
Of all the cants that ever were canted in this cant-
ing world, save us from the cant of the politico-econo-