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received, and obtain a comfortable independence with
far better prospects than await them at home. We do
not say that such persons make the best class of emi-
grants; but,' generally, that emigration is a far more
suitable remedy for distress caused by over-trading
and over-production in certain branches of manufac-
tures, than the vain attempt to force up trade to the
point of affording it.

The Speech has been spoken, and, with all its
recommendations, has, most likely, been perused by
most of our readers by this. Different epithets have
lave been bestowed upon it, as a whole, by our con-
servative contemporaries; one says it is dictatorial,
another that it is superciliously cOndescending, and a
third, that it is peevish ; but a proper epithet,' to our
taste, is "objurgative"; that is the term which in our
mind characterises it most correctly. The ministerial
coterie however might as well have devoured their
spleen; certainly they will gain nothing by taking this

mode of signifying its existence, and signalising it to
the world. We pass over the commonplace assurances
of peace—the silence about MgLeod—the return of our
minister to Teheran, and even the comical expectation
said to be entertained by her Majesty, that the Celestial
Emperor will see the justice of the demands which
have been made upon him. We had no idea before
that any appeal had been to his " sense of justice,"
much less that her Majesty's Whig advisers placed
the smallest reliance on the sense of justice possessed

by the "brother to the sun and moon"—at least to-
wards outer-barbarians. We pass all this just to con-
template for a moment the royal permission given to
consider the question of protecting duties—" you may
at this juncture properly direct your attention" &c.—
" It will be for you to consider whether some of these
duties" &c. " You may further examine whether the
principle of protection" &c., &c. These permissions
were certainly wonderfully condescending from a

Cabinet utterly powerless, and which well knew while
concocting such phrases, that it would have no official
opportunity to propose any one specific measure which
would involve a consideration of the questions alluded to.

The amendment to the address carried in the House
of Lords by a majority of 72, contains a strong and
distinct declaration on the part of their lordships of
want of confidence in her Majesty's Ministers—a
declaration which Lord Melbourne, half jest, half
earnest, vowed, came upon him like a " clap of thun-
der." He ought to have been better prepared for such
a phenomenon. Their lordships have never shewn the
least defect of proper spirit on any occasion ; and
could the poco curante imagine they would want it
now when they have a House of Commons to second
the motion and go hand-in-hand with them in every
thing that is right, sound, and conservative ?

His Grace the Duke of Wellington, spoke in the
lebate with a clearness and vigour, which affords a

delightful proof that age and service have not yet in
any degree impaired his intellectual powers. Lord
Brougham voted for the Ministers, but spoke a speech
for which they have little cause to feel grateful to him.
The Duke of Richmond, scouted the idea that a Con-
servative Ministry would fall back upon the schemes of
the routed Whigs, more particularly that of abolishing
the existing corn duties ; "but he, in the name of the

,andlords, said that if the new Ministry proposed a

fixed duty, those by whom they were brought into
power would turn them out of power also." The plain
speaking of their lordships, was exceedingly refreshing,
and we need scarcely observe that the debate was on
the whole highly animated and interesting.
In the House of Commons, an amendment, identical
with that in the Lords, has been moved, and will be
carried ; but the debate still goes on, in order to give
such stars as Mr. Alderman O'Cobden, Mr. Ward, of
Sheffield, Mr. Roebuck, of Bath, and other lesser
lights, an opportunity of shining upon the obscurity
of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham,
and other opaque members of the Conservative body.
However, we congratulate our readers that no other
more formidable obstacle exists to the coming in of
the Conservative party. The Globe has favoured us,
officially, with a programme of the week's doings,
which quite seta our mind at ease upon the subject.
Ministers intend spinning out the debate till this even-
ing ; they then consent to a division ; and then—sorely
against their consent—being well beaten, they retire
to the condemned cell for the night. To-morrow morn-
ing they tender their resignations to her Majesty ; Sir
Robert Peel will be immediately sent for, and so ends
the tedious, protracted, and wretched drama of Whig-
gery. This is the Globe's bill of particulars—and we
need only add to it, that it is now fully acknowledged
that her Majesty has in no way identified herself with
a repeal of the corn-laws, or any other of the liberal
measures, beyond a mere official sanction of projects
submitted and recommended to her by her ministers—
a course in all respects unexceptionable, dignified, and
constitutional. The speech of the Marquis of Lans-
downe, on Tuesday, is sufficiently explicit on this point.

It rarely appears to us unseasonable to introduce the
subject of aiding the ministrations of the Church by
so approved a means as that of the Pastoral Aid So-
ciety; but whilst the memory of the late exhibition of
" Ministers of All Denominations" is yet fresh upon
us, we conceive it to be particularly seasonable to do

The inadequacy of the Church, with its existing
limitation of means, to reach that large body of the
people who have been consequently abandoned to such
pastoral care as they could obtain elsewhere, is a fact
so generally admitted and lamented, that nothing need
be said by way of bringing it home more sensibly to
the public mind ; but it is observable that the remedy
for the evil which is the most direct, facile, and imme-
diately effective—though not, we admit, in itself com-
plete—is that which is seldom the first thought of.
By the terms " Church extension" is commonly un-
derstood an increase of the number of Church edi-
fices, with, of course, ministers and services to follow
—a work of great magnitude, and a work of time.
But Church extension, in a most important because
in a living form, is not under the necessity of awaiting
the slow process of making large collections, and of
erecting temples of solid masonry. Church extension
may be carried on without the surmounting of any
such great difficulties, or of any such inevitable delay :
it may be carried on as the Church Pastoral Aid So-
ciety chiefly carries it, namely, by sending forward
more labourers to gather in the harvest. Among all
our benevolent and religious societies, we do not pos-
sess one that has stronger claims on members of the
Church of England than this excellent society. It is,
by its very title, a temporary institution—one which,
recognising a defect, seeks to supply it ; but which
would only continue to- exist so long as there is a ne-
cessity for that " aid" which it is desirous to afford.
Many plans have been of late thought of, to give to
the Church, the benefit of a more numerous ministry
than it now possesses. One is the founding of col-
leges designed exclusively for young men proposing to
take orders, where the necessary education and the
obtaining of degrees would be cheap, and consequently
within the reach of men belonging to a rank in society
from which the Church ministry is at present but sel-
dom recruited. Another is, the institution of an order
of Deacons, who would not be prohibited from follow-
ing a secular occupation, and who, without performing
all the functions of the regular clergy, would never-
theless take up a most important position, and render
both aid and service to the ministry and the Church,
of vast moment. But in the interim, while such plans
are only talked of, the Pastoral Aid Society is in full
work, and in a quiet way performing an incalculable

amount of good

We have been led into these remarks by the adver-
tisement which appears in another part of our paper,
and to which we would beg to direct the attention of