The Welshman

I The Journal des Debuts of the 21st, contradicts its own announcement, that the Kin meant to present the infant Count de Paris to the Chamlwrs on Thursday next. "The truth is," we are told, "that the convocation of the Chambers at so eariy a date is against the Kind's own judgment, and that it was really proposed to his Majesty to imitate Maria Teresa in tile iilt'arit Prince to the assembled legislators. The Kill, yielded to the lirst, but refused acquiescence in the second of these recommendations." 1 lie C ourrier I'rancais contradicts the statement made by the Commerce, that M. Thiers was induced during: a visit paid by him to the Kin- at Neuillv. to agree to support the It trencv bill appointing the Duke de Nemours Recent. The A ational states that extraordinary precau- tions are beinj; taken by the military authorities in Paris, [lie troops are ordered to remain with- in their barracks, and general officers arc seen both day and nijiht in.speetin<; the military posts and ascertaining that the orders of the dav are properly obeyed. The Commerce states that within the last few days orders have been g iven to hasten the con- struction of the fortifications of Paris. AFFAIRS or PORTUGAL.—Our advices from Lis- bon are to the I Sth instant. The reconstruction of the Cabinet (all the chief men being retained) was suspended until the Duke of Palmdia should make known his final decision that this would ne to accept othce there was no doubt. The Ministers of Marine and Justice would certaijily be superseded, and the latter was to be elected to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. From the fencing and want of cordial co-operation with reference to the Tariff reductions, to be considered in the supplements! article of the treaty, our cor- respondent announced positive;)- Llo couvietion that the Convention would not be concluded for months to come, and that the mercantile commu- nity would not derive any practical benefit from the treaty during the. year is42. Our corres- pondent furnishes us with a resume' of the Portu- guese commissioners labours, from which it would appear that no progivss whatever had been made towards a settlement; the report of the Commis- sioners had been referred by the government to Baron Tojal for his judgment uuon its recom- mendation. The baron returned it with a favour- able answer to the government on the dav our correspondent wrote, and a conference with the Portuguese Plenipotentiary would immediately lollow, fortiifed bv'vhich lie would make a pro- ] position to the British Envoy. ]> £ this would not farther matters very much, and the initiation of 1 berality would probably have to he eventually taken by oiir oii-ii zoveriiineiit. The exchange of the ratifications of the commercial and slave trade treaties would probably take place in about, six weeks' time. Both Le?isIativpC?m?herswereas yet occupied with preparatory jabours. The elections, however, with very rare exceptions, had been pronounced vaiid. The Portuguese army w as to be inunediatdy increased bv t.29j men. A decree had appeared for the immediate and effectual enforcement .Hfa tax of 10 per cent. upon every description of property. The Jews at Damascus have completely reco- vered from the effects of the late persecution against them, and are now protected and held in respect. There are in the United States 138 daily news- papers, 111 weekly newspapers, 125 semi and tri-weekly newspapers, and 227 periodicals. II, M. pa eket, PetcrcJ, brinsrs accounts from Rio Janeiro, to the 25ih May, one week later than the advices per .-fctccon, received lately. The re- bellion in the province of Saint Paul had not been suppressed, neither had it extended; but as the troops sent from Rio had arrived at Santos. where they were well received I)N- the inhabitants, it was expected they would succeed quickly in restoring order in tlwi province. The 6 per Cent. Stock re- -.M .1 <VF». r .??.? Buenos An'cs to the 10th W,)t ii i I) -W had occurred there, and we have no further ac- counts of military movements in Entre Rios or elsew here. Admiral IJrown remained with his squadron, which was lyinir at anchor at Buenos Avres, on the 10th May consequently the reports circulated at Monte Video about his ilefection are proved to be false.

IIEII MAJESTY, it is understood, is aura in in the way of adding to the impediments already existing to the King of Hanover s chance uf ever reaching the thronc oj England. The Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy arc immediately about to cancel all dividend checks, now in the hands of the official assignees, which are six months dd. New cheeks will be issued from time to time on the application of the parties entitled but as this may he attended %i-;tli some difficulty during the long vacation, and espe- cially I the n<cotinfant's office is closed, cre- ditors will do well to claim their dividends without further deliiv. The Lords of the Admiralty have issued an order that from henceforth all hired men, employed in her ajestv s dock-yards, shall receive half-pay and medical attendance dnring. illness. Several large ships are further being taken up for the conveyance of troops to India and enlist- ing lor the artillery, and other regiments, is ac- tively going on. The trial of Bean for the attack on her Majes- ty s hfe will take plall on Thursday, the 25th of August next. The session of the Central Criminal Court commences on the 22d. Mr. Justice Wil- liams will, it is expected, adjudicate on the occa- sion. I IIF. INCONII-T -kx--A quarter's Income-tat, un- der the new law, became due on the5th instant, and will be stopped from the quarterly dividends con- nected with the public funds but the tax on income and profits on trade will be collected hall-yearly and it is supposed that, as the assessed taxes are collected in September, the first payment will not be required until nt-xt January, and that will be from the 5th of April to the 5th of September. 1'111: NEW TARIFF.—A remarkable instance of the effect of the new tariff'was afforded in the port of Exeter—one mercantile house entered at the Customs a cargo of hides, and paid about £ 40 for the duty according to the new scale; hut had. (lllt. been paid on the same cargo two days before it would have amounted to £ 400. IMPORTATION OF FOUF.IC.N CATTT.F..—The Eme- rald Isle steamer from Rotterdam, which arrived here on Sunday. brought us the first importation of live, cattle from that quarter under the new law. It was hut a specimen, consistin g of four cows in calf, which found ready sale at remunerating prices. The Innisfail, Gothenburg mail steam-ship, which arrived on Tuesday, brought sixteen pigs. — Hull Rockingham. It is the intention of government to pass only a Turnpike Roads' Continuance Bill this session. The more extended bill is to be withdrawn. At the assizes for the county of Huntingdon, on Monday, there was only one prisoner for Lrial- on a charge of assault committed upon a parish constable in the execution of his duty. THE REPORT OF Mil. lt,)F.Btlc.K .s COMMITTEE on Election Compromises, which had been long f looked for, has come at last; and though it is not very long, it is exceedingly full of matter. There ili, perhaps, nothing in the report that will startle those who are at all cognizant -and who in these days is not?—of the nature of the proceedings at certain contested elections. The system, it is true, has lonx been tacitly understood and winked at; hut when a Parliamentary Committee has distinctly established a number of thlrant CRses of bribery and compromises, it is hardly possible that the legislature can refrain from applying something in the shape of a cure for an evil that has now been broivrht palpably beneath its notice. If Nir. Roebuck's Committee have no other good effect, it will at least force upon Parliament the necessity of takinsr some step, for its own credit sake, to put an end to practices wh ch miurht have been omitted if they could have been "kept un- known." The virtue of des;rin«r eo e\-t,»vm: i ite bribery must now be at least assumed by those who have it aut.-G,ohe. DO-NOTHIXG LEGISLATION.—-The question as to what was to be done with the new poor la w ha received a solution-not the worst, perhaps, ii could have had: it has been postponed to the "more convenient season" of next session, which appears to be already paved" with the good in- tentions which the government is unable to realise III this. It Is not strange that this misrhtv matter of legislation is not grappled with, when thoughts of gunnery and green fields are in the minds o! ion. members still "on duty" in the House, i Ministtrs could not carry a iieii, poor law; but one thing they could llo-ld it alone. Instead o' legislating upon it, they have left it. It must to them he a potent recommendation of this step I that it involves so little sacrifice. In reality, thev nave srot already all that is required the continu- ance of the commission, with its small army of subordinates, wasrfthe main point, and that is set- tled. Smooth,'t/fyfpfore, w ill be the course of the government as regards this question, until agita- tion again compels them to take it np. In the meantime, had not Peel better consider the possi- bility of doing without a new poor law at all? It may be, if he deliberated deeply he would do nothing. This seems the true science of govern- ment when the mischiefs of legislation are com- plained of so loudly. The commissioners can make as much poor law as is needful by virtue of the powers they possess their rules and regula- tions are the vital principle of the act, old or new. and Sir James Graham may repose in dignified ease, and with the full security that no harm will accrue from a paucity of poor law legislation Atlas. I Tn. INCOME TAX.— As it may happen that many rc 'ders whose incomes arc below £ 150 a year, are small fundholders, and may not be aware of the means by which to procure the return of the per eentage deducted from their dividends, we republish the following clause, in which the pro- cess to be pursued is set forth;—"Sec. I G:3, Pro- vided al ways and be it enacted, that any person charged or chargeable to the duties granted bv this act, either by assessment, or by way of deduc- tion from any rent, annuity, interest, or other annual payment to which he may be entitled, who shall prove before the Commissioners for General Purposes, in the ma.nner hereinafter mentioned, that the aggregate annual amount of his income, estimated according to the several rules and direc- tIons of thIs act, is less than £ 150, shall be exempted from the said duties, and shall be en- titled to be repaid the amount of all deductions or payments on account thereof in the manner herein- after directed, except so much of such duties as the person claiming such exemption sli, be entitled to charge against any other person, or to deduct or retain from or out of any payment to which such claimant may be or become liable and such exemption shall be claimed and proved, and the proceedings thereupon shall he had, before the Commissioners for General Purposes in the district where the claimant shall reside, pursuant to and under the powers and provisions by which the duties in schedule D are herein directed to be ascertained and charged but nevertheless subject to the rules and directions hereinafter con- ) tained." REFUSAI. TO SERVE AS INCOME TAX COMMIS- SIONER.— Hie following appears in the Liverpool Journal.—"To the meeting which was held on Friday last, at the Parish offices, for the purpose of appointing Commissioners for carrying into effect the Income Tax.—Sirs,—Upon leaving home yesterday morning I purchased at the railway station a newspaper, in which I saw my name as one of the IStipplemelit .,irv Income Tax Commis- sioners,' being my first and only intimation of the appointment! I sha!! make no eoummt on this, j further than to express my regret that one (la" should have passed before I could state my deter- mination to have nothing to do with the carrying out of a measure so unjust, so inquisitorial, so I abhorent to every feeling which remains to fh as a free people. I suppose I am somebody's, but the newspaper does not tell me whose, obedient servant, ,1 mnuLi, uu.i. prosecuted two men at the Petty Sessions there, for stealing from his field a peck of peas in the pods, value 6d, had the consolation of paying 1 Is. i costs for the liberty of punishing them. Dr. Kay, one of the government commissioners, states that in the agricultural counties of Norfolk and Suffolk there had been, amongst a population of 100,000, no fewer than sixty-two deaths from starvation in six months. The Carnarvon Herald states, that no less than 200 labourers have, in one fortnight, been dis- charged from Mr. Asheton Smith's slate works, in that neighbourhood. The same paper adds, our previous statements relative to the depressed state of affairs in the Penrhyn slate works are no way exaggerated. It is the duty of a local jour- nalist to record facts of this, as of every other kind affecting the interests and well-being of large masses of men and those who regard such an- nouncement as emanating from a mains animus. either as regards the trade of the locality, or the conduct and character of such men as Colonel Pennant and Mr. Smith, indulge in a most un- founded and injurious assumption. That the local trade would suffer, from that determination to uphold class legislation, which infused a Tory majority into the present legislature, we foretold long ago and what we reproach Col. Pennant and his fellows for, is that stupidity or blindness which preclude them from perceiving the inevitable ten- dency of their factious policy. EDUCATION.— A project has been suggested in Lancashire for the application of life insurance to the purposes of instruction. The object is to obtain the best possible education for children, at the least possible expense. With this view it is proposed that parents shall register their children at their birth, and forthwith begin to subscribe A:4 a year for them by this means, aud by a further payment of t-20 a year from the child's seventh year to its eighteenth, funds mav be accumulated which will allow of a ifrst-rate education, with every possible advantage. In case of the death of the child two-thirds of the money paid is to be re- turned to the parents. If is intended to erect, if practicable, a college at Fleetwood, the money to he raised in shares. The scheme is in strict accord- ance with the plan of the National Society, and the education is to be in close connexion with the Church of England. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. kerimin M organs, and Co., the large ironfounders of Bris- tol, took place last Friday, in that city. The liahilities of the firm are estimated at about £ .300,000, in addition to those of their several j estates. Debts to the amount of nearly £ 84,000 were proved. A RETURNED TRANSPORT.—Stephen Nash was arraigned, at the Waterford assizes, for return i ng from transportation. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and added a remarkable detail of the horrors of transportation. He said he was put to work in a dockyard, and because he would not join in a p an of escape, he was not sure of his life. He deter- mined to escape at auy risk, and made his way to a vessel by swimming. The captain would not take him. He remained for three weeks on the beach, swimming to the vessel through water that was full of sharks—one day hungry and another day thirsty—his only food was a musty biscuit and f an odd muscle that he found. At the place where he was at work, if a man was only found with a bit of tobacco in his mouth, he was tied under a triangle, and got fifty lashes. My lord, whatever vou do with me, do not send me back I was mi- serable. Oh, do something for me. The judge said the law awarded the sentence of death, but he might record it in place of pronouncing it. The prisoner was then removed. COACH LADEN WITH BULLIOl.-Niondav night, as the Eagle coach was proceeding to Dover, when on Shooter's hill, a heavy crash was heard, and it was discovered that the springs and body and part of the carriage were broken. The Eagle, it appears, from the statement of one of the guards, was laden with nearly four tons of bullion, on its way to the continent. For the due security of the property, two had been d>eeted to accompany it to Dover. There were no pa-. >»ngers, the coach hav- ing been hired expressly. A messenger was im- mediately despatched fliT another cu.ioh. The accidcnt i* attributed tu over loading. Tllr HONF.ST CABINET.—'Sir James Graham ha- postponed the principal parts of THE POOJl LAV IULL to the next session. Hiving secured the continuance of the most objectionable provision that of the ( ommission for five years, he is for th( present satisfied in the preservation of thosi clauses which are little morerhan techniealitie and questions of detail. There is now no hop' whatever of the country being ultimately relieved from the disgraceful system the Bill supposes. Ii only appears to be more firmly saddled on th, country than it was before." The part the present Government have played in reference to its reten- tion, proves that there is no trust to be given to the professions of anv of its members, as their conduct in session on this subject has been in direct contradiction of the pledges they had ad- vanced on the hustings. — Morning Advertiser. Wewould not needlessly excite alarm, says the Morni, ng Advertiser but if measures be not promptly taken to give food to the people, it is truly fearful to contemplate the consequences of Parliament separating and leaving thousands of the labouring population to the promptings ol tlifililic. -tt)d despair. The question is no longer a parry question between Whig and Tory-or hnd and labour—it is a question imminently involving the preservation of social order and the salvation I of the State; and even the most heartless of the monopolists must he blind to his own interest if j he do not at once forego a portion of his plunder, rather than risk all in a hopeless siruggle with a people made furious by starvation and accumu- lated w rongs. I FOREIGN WIIE\T.—The prevalence of north- easterly winds has brought a targe tiect of vessels, grain -adon, from the north oi" Ivirope, and we I have aain to report an immense supply of foreign wheat—viz., 6i,99!) quarters, making upwards 01 100.000 quarters into London within a fortnight. Thr triple are starving, an I not a hup" is held out. to them." Such w-.s the exclamation of O'Connell in the House of Commons, and such is the sound re-echoed through the country. When Peel is told of thousands dying of hunger, and of every manufacturing town being a huddled mass of misery and famine, he coolly asks whether the exports from L verpool have not increased, and whether tea is not drunk in large quantities. We wonder that the persons he was talking to could command their indignat-on sufficiently to tell him that goods are now being sent out of the kingdom to be sold at a sacrifice, because those at home who used to consume tlum cannot bur them at all: and tea is consumed in Iarge quantities, because those who used to e it in,-at and drink beer are obliged to think it a luxury to gel a little weak teit for dinner. The (iJouaster Journal proclaims the fact, that the attornies of that county are going to organise a formidable opnosition to Lord Lyndhurst's Local Courts bill. The opposition amongst the lawyers will of course bii general. Their craft is in danger. A great number of pilchards have heen taken along the Cornish coast, and the papers from that quarter anticipate a successful season. Th, accounts of the herring fishery oil the coast 01 Ireland are also favour, hie. The Earl of Pembroke has given -£OO towards rebuilding the parish church of Swallowciiffe, Wilts, and the like sum towards repairing and en- larging the parish church of Barford St. Martin, in the same county. I'NIVEHSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—If is recommended hy the syndicate that the fees payable to the Uni- versity chest on matriculation, and on admission to any degree, be increased according to the fol- lowing scale, viz. :—That on matriculation everv iiobleiiiiiii aii(I fellow commoner pay an additional sum of -CC); aii(I every pensioner an additional sum of £ li. That every person admitted to all degree, unless it be honorary, pay an additional sum of £ 1 10s. This proposition will be submit- ted to the syndicate on the 10th of October. SEDCCTION.—At Worcester, on Wednesday, a special jury was sworn, before Mr. Under-Sherif: loss of the services of his (laughter, who <° seduced by the defendant. The plaintif fis a civil engineer residing at Hagley, and the defendant is a nail factor and chain maker at Careless Green. Lve Waste. The defendant, according to the evi- dence, proposed himself as the suitor of Elizabeth Powell, the plaintiff's daughter, who is 22 years of age, and while walking with her in a lonely spot violently abused her person, bur promisee I h i. pr,nise, it her reparation bv marriage. This promise, it would appear, he declined to fulfil. The young woman was confined of a child on the 2:d 01. March last, The damages were laid at £,UO(¡ and the jury returned a verdict for £ ,">00. The Bristol Mrrcury says nearly fiftii letters, 1'ie I f t,rcitr complaining of the non-delivery of The Mercury of last week, have reached our office. We can only say that in evert/ instance the paper was for- warded through the post-office. It is a source ol deep regret and great annoyance to us, that our friends should be so frequently subjected to dis- appointment hv the system of petty- peculation which appears to have sprung up in that depart- ment of the public service, though of course they and we only suffer in common w ith the subscribers to, and proprietors of; other journals. It is in- deed time that some combined representation should he made to the Postmaster General on the subject, as we believe the habit of purloining papers is rapidly on the increase all over the country. Ax AI-FAIH or HONOUR. — On Wednesday morn- ing, a luihtile meeting took place on Putney-heath, between A. Pollington, and J. Tankerfield, Esqrs. Mr. Pollington received the contents of his antago- nist's pistol in the left groin, an l Mr. T. that of \fr. P. slightly in the pistol arm, above the elbow. A surgeon being in attendance, extraete 1 the ball from the wound of Mr. Pollington, and he was re- moved home. The wound of Mr. T. was but slight. The meeting was said to have arisen from a political dispute, relative to a recent investiga- tion of some elections before the committees of the House of Commons. CIIARTISTS' CAMP MEETIXUS. — On Sunday last the Chartists held a camp meeting on Blackstone Edge, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The streets of Rochdale were extensively posted with placards calling upon the inhabitants of the surrounding districts to attend. The speakers hurled defiance ( at their oppressors, and said they preferred dying in the cause of freedom to perishing by the aristo- cratic, starvation laws. The numbers present are differently estimated some suppose there were 10,000, others 20,000 persons. THE Sl"G\K MOSOPOLy.-The sugar monopoly j is a pendent to the Peel Corn Law in their inju- rious effects, both are so similar, that it is difficult to trace the evils of the one, without finding those of the other, running in a parallel line. A curious J correspondence has just been printed by order of the House of Commons. It is entitled, "Copy of j a Letter addressed to the Earl of Ripon, by Messrs. B. Moore and Co., of Liverpool, praying for leave to import foreign sugars for agricultural purposes and for fattening cattle with the reply of the Board of Trade to that application." These gentlemen inform his Lordship that sugar can he advantageously used for the purposes specified, inasmuch as it may now be obtained at from 13s. to los. per cwt.. or about three half-pence per lb. They further add, that they hadjustsold a cargo of :300 tons of Brazil sugar, of fair quality, at 1 Is. (id. per cwt., and that they tendered to his Lordship another cargo of better quality about to arrive at Plymouth for 15s. per cwt. The President of the Board of Trade not being engaged in that line of husiness, of course rejected the offer, and the Privv Council to whom the subject was referred, directed their Secretary to acquaint the applicants that their Lordships could not recommend the adoption of any such partial admission of foreign Of course, they never expected their Lord- shfps would, but they have, nevertheless, done seme service by bringing these important lacts before the public. There it is proved that sugar ot lair quality can be sold for one-fifth of the prie- that the half-starved poor of this country are now paying for it, so that, in order to keep up the incomes of West India proprietors who have I already po ketted from he public purse twentv millions sterling, a tax of 400 per cent, is to oe I i aised 011 one of the great necc .ounea oi Lie.—Hun. i

I. FREE TRADE AT SEA. [The subjoined articles are copied from the Times of last week ] The public may smile at Mr. Gladstone's speecri on the subject of bonded corn, and still more at 8 the measure itself; and that, we hope, without anv bitterness or reproach. He is a penitent: ai I the parental bosom of the kingdom should b i opened to its penitent sons. He had once voted and spoken against this very measure of letting out bonded corn: but it was four or five vekii-i ago; and now, when he comes to examine tl,, question more closely, he arrives at the happv conclusion, that a bill like the present (sanction- ing the letting out of corn under bond tor tb t provision oi ships) would he perfect/i/ llllxcept, v- ahle in its operation as regarded the producii interests of the country" (that is, the landlord* and their tenants), while on the other hand, :t would produce a great augmentation in our trade. If there be not a fund of honest zlill Ib III tv "L human nature," says Sterne in his Tristram Shandy, so much the worse." We are therefore w I till, to be honestly gulled" in this affair; for s ire there is not a single argument for admitting foreign corn into thiscountry. grinding it. and then sending it out -m-ttli our seamen to feed them ti i their voyages, which will not apply to the admis- sion ot it, under the same circumstances, II. remain and feed our population at home. Where is the difference? If our mRrineNol did not ts1, their sea-biscuits from the bonded coru, thee must take them from the home produce, and v* much less would be left to the native population. This act, therefore, is, to all intents and pur- poses, all admission of foreign corn duty free. We do not grumble or find fault with the act itseli; we, in truth rejoice at it only we smiie at thj inconsistency. And we do b-g good-natur:»dlv of Mi ttisters, as we are disposed to support then:, that they would be a little more cautious of drag- ing their partisans through the mire. This is a sad go-back in their career forward. One objection which Mr. Gladstone had enter- tained to the bill, till he had maturely considered the subject, on being appointed to the ofli.te he now held, TV, that it v. )-I,rl give occasion to frauds <> i the revenue," illlplyi that the bonded com might get into home consumption without pavin the duty. What does that signify? It produce* no revenue while under bond. But by the pr sent act it is to feed our population while on tl: i high seas duty free, but not to feed those of II. who remain at home. There is no good reaso however." says Mr. Gladstone. whv parti< < should not be allowed, if they thought fir. to enter their tloiir for home consumption and h t proposed, accordingly, to alter the bill, so as t", give them the power of doing this, on paving th amount of duty required by the corn laws." A laugh is the worst chastisement that this d serves and not more especially as we find the p nalties on fraud in this case are to be diminished that is, the temptation to fraud to be increased; and the bill will, therefore, says Mr. Gladstone, be found particularly b uieficial at this tin.c of distress, as tending, within its comparative' limited spht-re, to the revival of trade and increaxs of the employment for the people." So be it, say. In truth, the matter comes to what we said at when Sir Rohor Peel began to stir in th corn laws—that every measure of his must and would rend, with more or less rapidity, to the freu admission of foreign grain. His legislative plan t cannot move out 01 that orbit.

THE .MINISTRY. It will be generally admitted that few causes (-oiitr i biit: d more t l ift l of the contributed more to the downfal of the Whig Administration than the utter want of confident • of the Church of England, and the w hole respe.. able part of the nation, in their principles ol action upon moral and religions subjects. Under th<-s > circumstances, it deserves to be noted that t-ver v JKVJH uu^stions 01 n high ittomi, r verninent, has exhibited the s-rietest identity of view between the members of that Government and their predecessors. As impartial chroniclers we call attention to the fact, without for the pr sent drawing from it all the inferences which t might warrant. As a fact it is undeniable. Ilwt statesmen, who. but a short time since eith •• abetted, or at least did not dwck, the outcry if their friends and supporters against measur s which were then stigmatized as immoral, irr iigious, and social, aud unconstitutional, are no v the most zealous and eloquent maintainers of thos<; same measures, and the principles on which they are founded. Whatever may ennstii/ t ■ the dfferen< e be/ween the political sect of Sir H. I eel and that of Lord J. Russell, it is clear that it does not consist ¡,I the p:tssesxion by the former of any the ry or code of practice, or rule of f'.1'JJI'(J;"JI(?/' ax to in iters of th s na'ure, which it-as unkntrwn to or d>s> ••ff-^rd -d by tb' latter. There is an end of" thrt dr am Jrrr elver. Bu: m -n of different principle the* v are not; and it is only due to the Whigs to sav that Sir Robert Peel. Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Eliot have, by their recent conduct an t speeches, plainly shown that they have studied wi the same school of moral and political philosophy with their predecessors.

THE TWO SIR ROBERTS. — SPIRITUAL I DESTITUTION. Sir Robert Tnglis relies upon the gracious pro- mise of the Premier to take the question of church extension into full consideration next session, an so relying has abandoned it for the present. Whether is the credulity of the one Sir Robert or thp 'rood natnrp of the other most to he -IiTn;red ? The event will decide and differently, T)f-riiap,.i. what is imagined by either. Sir Robert the se- cond, like a cautious statesman, as he is, declines promising much, and p>edges lumsell to nothing. w hich leaves as large a loophole as even a Prime Minister need desire. Belore Peei (ran seriousl v incline to tbe question of church extension, what may not happen ? If the ci ies o the starving and the eltinotir., of the distressed ar to continue, the question next session will be between the poor man and the poor man's church.' It the Premier have to decide between physical, and spiritual privations, it is easy to \ICSS wh;(,il must give way. With this prospect, Sir Robert is too cautious'to commit himself. The orthodox Sir R. inuns is iwn ii.j ,,n church extension as it is; by and b%,e, the iyiert, liIIII f) 1a I"r oarrvm?""tsnr(*H?onsa purpose, unless a plethora of commerce and riches unexpectedly visit the InBd. wili not b,? toh'ra?-d. Tbe Prcmh'r has state reasons for regarding the projeN of his friend more patently hut nobody knows bet- ter, that many more considerations than religious onps will go to the settlement of this matter, lr mav be well for Bishop Bioomfield to propound a a magnificent scheme for suoth i n the privations and sorrows of Spitalfields, by building ten more churches in the district of Bethnal-green. The Premier cannot afford to patronise or promo1 e the aggrandisement of the church on so grand a scale. Sir Robert Itiglis, too, may trot his hobby at what pace it pleases him, but far from being able to extend undue favour to those of others. Peel cannot indulge even his own. Clearly, In is not in a position to go ahead" on the hobby of church extension. Starving millions would cry shame at the grant of a million lor more churches, after its stern refusal for more bread. Spiritual destitution, were it proved ever so strongly, is less hard to bear than the cravings of hunger; the people must be fed before they will listen to the spiritual good things the champion of church ex- tension would provide for them. The one Sir Robert says it is needful to wait. and the other has nothing better to do tbitti to -lucky for him that he has done so with so good a grace for, with a ùoœn questions already to distract him. Sir Robert the first must wish his more 01'- thodox namesake had less of piety and more of common sense. Leaving the question in the hands of the government is, after all, per- haps. the best way of burking it for some time to eonie —-Atlas.