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to be seen, hut if we can depend upon the menaces of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and take the words of Mr. SPRING
RICE in an inverted sense, there will be an attempt made
to make the appropriation of the supplies contingent
upon the result of a conference between the two housle4,.

Mr. WILLIAM GLADSTONE very properly censured as
an act of violence and indecency any concerted plan, to
which any minister of the crown is a party, for the pur-
pose of convulsing public credit by stopping the supplies.
Had the honourable member for Newark characterised
such a measure as_ a detestable conspiracy calculated to
produce anarchy 'lnd commercial ruin, he would not
have used language too strong for the iniquity of t.lite
case. What O'CONNELL or HUME mar do, nobody
cares, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be
above any such base and revolutionary proceeding. Mr.
SPRING Rica affected to be sensible of this, and he ac-
cordingly repudiated the charge of being one of the ac-
complices of HuME and O'CONNELL, and declared that
the appropriation of the supplies •had been postponed in
consequence of the militia bill not having passed into
a law. There is something exceedingly paltry, and
more than suspicious in this wretched excuse ; and the
suspicion is greatly increased by what Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL said subsequently in the progress of the conversa-
tion. He did not adopt the subterfuge of Mr. RICE, but
plainly hinted that the House of Commons had a right
to vote the supplies, or withhold the supplies, when it
suited their convenience, or was agreeable to the wis-
dom of the house !

There can be no mistake as to what was meant by this
hint; but whether Lord JOHN RUSSELL will follow it up
upon the present occasion is quite another question.
We do not think that ministers will refuse to vote the
appropriations, but they can do by a sidewind what they
have not the courage to do openly, and-that-br_tim-course
of policy which such a mind as that of cord JOHN'S is
likely to put sue. The ministers seeing that the munici-
pal bill is amended upon just and conservative principles,
and that it cannot work the destruction that was medi-
tated—seeing also that the church bill is divested of its
plundering clauses—that the bill for insolvent swindlers
and gaol-birds is thrown overboard, greatly to the horror
of all scamps, and THE TAIL in particular—seeing all
this, and that O'CoNNELL's hopes are blasted, the proba-
bility is that the ministry, before voting the money, Will
resign ! Resign indeed ! What else can they do ?
Resign! when they oan cling no longer to office without
being hooted by the very boys in the streets. Who ever
heard of a ministry with only thirty-nine, sometimes
only thirty-six votes in the ' House of Lords on one of
their favourite measures, which has consumed nearly the
whole time of one of the longest sessions upon record ?
Who ever heard of a ministry with a majority of ONE
MAN in the House of Commons, and that man one of
the basest dernagoves in existence ? Who ever heard
of a ministry with the court opposed to it, the nobility
and gentry opposed to it, all the wealthy and intelligent
classes opposed to it, and even the press opposed
to it, oesperately adhering to office in the teeth
of public opinion? Such is the ministry of Lord
MELBOURNE—a ministry solely dependent upon DANIEL
O'CONNELL !

Resign, therefore,. we say, they must. They cannot
help it; they must fall because they cannot stand, and
because they have nothing to hold by,; but will they re-
sign without appropriating the publidmoney voted by
parliament ? Let us consider this question.

The whigs ,know that no other cabinet is likely to be
formed duri4 the existence of the present House
of Commons. They know that Sir ROBERT PEEL *ould
not accept office constituted as the parliament now is, and
therefore they may flatter themselves that they can extort
some modifications from the peers by means of a panic
in the funds, or some monetary convulsion, which they
are doing their utmost to raise.
But this trick we suspect will not do. Infamous and
indecent as would he such a proceeding, we are inclined
to think that the non-appropriation would be speedily re-
medied by an appeal to the people in November. The
country is not now in a humour to tolerate any uncalled
for exper'unents.up,ca-public credit; and with ,respect to
the Whigs they possibly Would suffer from it finite as much
as the conservatives. The shopkeepers would feel the
shock most severely. Stop the supplies and there would
be few tradesmen's bills paid before this time twelve-
months. Ready money transactions would diminish one-
half, and a frightful list of bankrupts and insolvents would
be published twice. a week in honour of whip patriotism,
DANIEL O'CONNELL and Lord Joan RUSSELL. Covent-
garden would be in an uproar; Smithfield would look blue
before winter; the gin 'spinners would have but dry
work; Irish corn 'would not be worth the carriage, and
TOM MOORE, the poet, would be cheated out of his pen-
sion, granted him for writing the most indecent and dis-
gusting doggrel that ever disgraced a civilized age.
We do not like to look upon misery, we do not like to
see convulsion ; but if we were desirous to render the
whigs execrable for ever, and see them completely ex-
tirpated as a great patty in the state, we should counsel
Lord Joan RUSSELL to—stop the .supplies !

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, Half:past Seven o'clock.

A general feeling prevails here that the O'Connell cabinet is
breaking up, and that probably, ere this is in print, the resig-
nation will have been tendered, and, we need not say, accepted.
Nothing positive, however, has been made public; all the
ministers have been closeted with Lord Melbourne to-day, and,
by the lengthened phisiognomy displayed by more than one of
the closeted, the nature of the meeting (whatever may be the
resolution adopted), cannot be doubted. Indeed, it would ap-
peal even beyond Whig hardihood to attempt to carry on the
government as Lord Melbourne must if he does not go out,
that is, with nine-tenths of the property, rank, and talent of
the country against him. The anticipated exit of the popish
administration has not excited any movement in the funds;
the 3 per cents. for money left off at 891 and the price for
the account is 89-1 The settlement of the consol account
took place to-days and it had passed without any defalcation,
and with little notice. India bonds have declined, the price,
which was at 6 to 7 pm. this morning, leaving off at 4 pm.
The chief object of speculation _during the week has been the
Spanish securities; the intelligence of the insurrection at
Madrid caused the bonds to fall to 35, and the scrip to 23,i dis.;
but the speedy end of the revolt has caused a considerable re-
action, the price of the bonds closing this afternoon at 401 411,
and the scrip leaving off at In 181 die. Portuguese 5 per
cents. so far sympathised with the decline in Spanish, that the
5 per cents. fell to 84; but they have since risen to 851 861, at
which they closed.
We believe we may with certainty affirm that -the Spanish
government has resolved to acknowledge the indepentlence.of
its cidevznt colonies in the new world. 'this, however, has had
but little effect on the various republican bonds; the payment
of either principal or which seems as distant and as hopeless
as ever. • Chiliau bonds are at 36 to 38, Colombian at 31.1, and
Mexican at 31 tot. _ .

All our northern bonds are within a fraction of the prices
lait quoted.
The following was posted at Lloyd's this afternoon:—
"Council Office, Whitehall, Aug. 25, 1835.
"Sir,—l am directed to acquaint you that the lords of the
council have this day received from the office of his Majesty's
secretary of state for foreign affairs, a translation of a not►ce
issued by the health office at Venice, which announces the fol-
lowing quarantine arrangements :
"The precautionary quarantine hitherto levied upon vessels
arriving there from European parts without the Straits of Gib-
raltar, is abolished, and such vessels arriving with clear bills of
health will be at once admitted to free pratique, unless special
circumstances shall render a departure from this rule neces-
sary.
"In the case of vessels arriving from ports occupied by the
French on the coast of Algiers, with clear bills of health. fur-
nished by the French senatory authority there residing, vessels
and passengers will he subjected to a quarantine of fourteen
days, and the susceptible merchandise will be subjected to a
quarantine of twenty days in the Lazarette.
"On account of the appearance of cholera at Nice and
Villa Fr►nca, vessels from the coast of Piedmont and Genoa
will be subjected to a quarantine of seven to ten days, accord-
ing to their bills of health, and their susceptible goods will be
discharged into the Lazarette for ten days.
"I am to request that you will lay this information before
the chairman of the co►um►ttee of merchants at Lloyd's.

- -
(Signed) "C.. GREVILLE.
"To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Lloyd's."
We have accounts to.dav from the Sandwich Islands which
mention the rapid advance .of tbese islands in civilization. An
"extraordinary gazette," printed in the native langnage, and
conducted by the Rev. R. Tinker, had been published at Hono-
lulu, the capital of the island of Oahu. The island of Oahu is
the third island of the grouP, containing 520 square mites, and
about 20,000 inhabitants. Honolulu, the chief town, is the re-
sidence of the king, the foreign functionaries, twelve or fourteen
merchants, and upwards of 7,000 inhabitants.
We have before us a proclamation of J. B. Miller, styled the
political chief of Brogos. It is addressed to the inhabitants of
Texas, denouncing the military usurpation of the province un-
der the dictates of Santa Anna, and calling upon them to or-
ganize and support their political rights. This proclamation
had been responded to at a meeting of the inhabitants, at which
the following, among other, resolutions was
.passed :—" Re-
solved thitd,—That we recommend to the citizens of Texas,
union, concert, and moderation, in the adoption of the measures
to meet thapresent crisis, and that we pledge our fortunes and
honours' in support of such measures as the majority may
adopt." All this looks woundy like civil war, and from what
'te' c'an' learn brother Jonathan has zoinething to do with the
having long courted an excuse to interfere in the con-
-IZ.,:••t.' of Vac Texas, which is• chiefly populated •by American
APACIArre.4.,