1 DECEMBER 1832, Page 16

Colonel EVANS says, in his letter to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT,

that as far as lie can learn, Westminster has not been " in a satisfactory state either to itself or the country for some time past." On this the Committee of Sir JOHN Honsiouse remark- " How is it, then, that Colonel Evans on every public occasion, up to the middle of July last, appeared as a coadjutor with them and a warm approver of the conduct of Sir F. Burdett and Sir J. Hobhouse? The Committee, in their simplicity, believed the honourable Colonel's professions, and thought him a sin- cere fellow-labourer ; but it seems that he then knew 'Westminster to be in au unsatisfactory state,' although he carefully concealed that knowledge from those with whom lie affected to act, and was then only watching for a favourable op- portunity to take advantage of his position for attempting to trick his associate out of Isis seat."

There are three facts in this comment which we could hardly have gathered from the text,—lst, that Colonel EVANS is the city of Westminster ; for it seems that if the Colonel be pleased, West- minster cannot be dissatisfied ; 2d, that, in the idiom of Covent Garden, "some time past" means " precisely four months ago," and neither more nor less ; 3d, that whatever Colonel EVANS knows in November, he must of necessity have known in July. The Colonel is Irish; pray from what country have Sir JOHN'S Com- mittee been gathered?