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7i-laws

measures of Lord John Russell's admini-
suspend the Peel law, and suspended it
Think of this man

5e ever since

cl to the'end of time !

nay have been good in themselves, or
That is a question in which, for the

'hey are gone, and pro-

iot a statesman worthy of the name in; the
:sans of reviving them. But if they were
Robert Peel is responsible for all the evil
we done ; for, besides that he was their
ite for more than a quarter of a century,
ethod of repealing them after he did make
follow in the footsteps of the League, ren-
their transition state more mischievous
were while in full vigour. Nor is this all.
he time had come for repealing them ; al-

lowing, for argument's sake, that Mr. Cobden was right,
and the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, and
Lord Melbourne wrong ; was it, therefore, necessary for
the prime minister not only to stultify himself, while
abandoning his party, but to drag through the mire such
men as Mr. Goulburn, Lord Aberdeen, and even the
hero of Waterloo himself Why did they consent to be-
come his tools ? Why did a mistaken notion of loyalty—
which was never shaken—prompt them to recall their re-
signations after they had once sent them in, and aid him
in perpetuating a wrong which their honourable minds
condemned even while they tookpart in it ?

If Sir Robert Peel intends his letter shall serve as a
point round which men shall gather, for the purpose of
forming a party distinct from that of Lord John Russell
on the one hand, and Lord Stanley on the other, we beg
to assure him that he has egregriously mistaken the tem-

per of the people of Engfa'nd. Read it will be, read it
has been, in every political circle ; but if we may judge
of its effect upon other men's minds froin the impression

WlHell lb ills llmuC 11pUll uul uvv, c vvl ILICI rizeu
in the estimation of any of them, but fallen. For our-
selves we can say with truth, that we bore with Sir Robert
Peel long and patiently, and experienced the utmost dis-
inclination to fall off from him to the last moment : but
all that feeling is at an end now. He has shown himself,
in his Letter to the Electors of Tarnworth, to be without
any fixed principle whatever ; indeed his protestations of
attachment to the established institutions of the country
seem to convict him of a readiness to betray them. Nor
has he alone, of the members of his cabinet, contrived

ms travel, mix with the world, seek educa- to destroy, at the end of the session, whatever of prestige
best to be had ; and bring back to their they may have carried about them during its progress.
count of knowledge and experience which Sir James Graham has thought fit to come out in the
local peculiarity except the love of court- character of a reviler of the Church. His attack upon
in her cause. 11. Besides all this, the bishops has done him more damage than his opp Os-
lo country itself—its old and glori- tion, however misplaced, to the erection of the see of
-oble monuments of classic anti- Manchester : and it will not be forgotton, we beg to as-
'n every side serve tr ;ve a sure him, in a hurry. Indeed, we have good cause to be-

ne eye
, and elevation to general conversation, lieve, that if Mr. doulburn lose his sea for the Univer-
no small effect in moulding the national cha- sity of Cambridge, and Mr. Gladstone fail of winning his
It seems to the Greek to be almost impossible to for the University of Oxford, both the one and the other
nink or act meanly in the presence of such a literature will owe his defeat, much more to the fact that they sat
Ind such a locale as his. He is, as it were, in an amphi- in the same cabinet with Peel and Graham, than to their
from which the glories of five-and-twenty centu- shortcomings, whatever these may be.
He represents, in his own We are no Whigs. We anticipate little from the pre-
whose ancestral renown he is sent Government ; except a series of blunders ; for they
-trong in the determination are confessedly, one and all, the worst men of business
'lns pedigree by one un- that ever undertook the management of public affairs
g But were 0- -^f -L `qween them and

ion e_ of dignit

cl to uphold

honourable feelit
ne. The modern I return to p

he necessity of choosing Lit..
Power of Peel and Graham forced upon us, we

rnest in his

result is manifest from look anxiously to the general election for supplying them.
_ ible ill
THE SANCTUM OF A DOMESTIC TYRANT.—Behind Mr.
,ecially those connected with Osborne's dining-room was the usual apartment which
lately established, is flourish- went in his house by the name of the study ; and was
whereever a fair prospect pre- sacred to the master of the house. Hither Mr. Osborne
dars. 111. Connected with would retire of a Sunday forenoon when not minded to go
is the improved condition of to church, and here pass the morning in his crimson
The sacerdotal body is now in.,4-1,,,,. ,4,..;.. ~...,,i;,,,, +l,. vs.v..” A ~,,,,,I. of ..1.7A0

riversity

—as well as spiritual enlight- book-cases ;es—were here, containing standard works in stout
that church has, in the midst of the gilt bindings. The "Annual Rester," the "Gentleman's
ever "kept the true faith as a pre- Magazine," "Blair's Sermons," and "Hume and Smol-
-ket," good hopes may be enter- lett." From year's end to year's end he never took one
-.,rge from her comparative
' --inch of the universal of these volumes from the shelf; but there was no mem-
ber of the family that would dare for his life to touch one
Greeks has, of the books except upon one of those rare Sunday even-
It has of ;—. ...Lon +barn tuna nn dinnnw rt.w+mt onrl rtrltem +l,n crraat

:eneral

lity of the
ie Turks.

late years been sensibly improving, and patterns of true
fidelity and affection are to be found in most of the fami-
lies throughout the country. To all these instances of

. _ .
we and prayer-book were taken out of the corner
There they stood beside his copy of the Peerage, and the
servants being rung up to the dining parlour, Osborne
tent, most of them not at all or very imperfectly read the evening service in a loud, grating pompous voice.
'-is country, may be added the almost total No member of the household, child or domestic, ever en-
son troghot Greece. An unpro- tered the room without a certain terror. Here he check&
may now travel from one extremity of the the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler'
`..-:1y as through tax best parts of
_.... so rare is crime of an aggravated dye, that cellar book. Hence he could command, across the cl'
capital punishment is scarcely known. Indeed, the odium whit
in which it is held renders it extremely difficult for govern- the coat.
'rent to procure any one to undertake the office of execu- Osborne
.'er. The difficulties of other kinds experienced some
-To in travelling through Greece, too, are now in a year Mi:.
and ' his d
altogether removed, and in the rest rapidly George
The roads are good, the horses sound, and
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expect to suffer a