NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE had anticipated, that by the time at which we write, the Reform Bill would have been rescued from the Committee, and' WE had anticipated, that by the time at which we write, the Reform Bill would have been rescued from the Committee, and' the sense of the House and the Country from the babble of the Anti-Reformers, with which, as with the constant dropping of a rainy day, it has been pestered for so many weary weeks. We forgot the Drawing-room, which has created a dies non. Next week, we trust, it will be gotten out of the Lower House, and the real war be entered on.
Mr. Caon.na has been greatly arithmetical during the week. The quondam Secretary had been generally set down as so much attached to number 1, that he had neither time nor inclination to look after- any of the rest; but his recent: exhibitions prove that his regards extend to all the digits, from 9 downward. To be sure, he occasionally confounds their names and values, but prac- tice makes perfect—there are hopes that he may get over addi- tion before the session terminate. Mr. FREDERICK Pora.ocir has also tried figures; but his flight has been higher than Mr. CROKER'S—he rose to multiplication ; nay, he even whispered something about the square root! Any one may see that the pre- sent House of Commons must die an early death. Such symp- toms of precocious knowledge are ever fatally ominous.
The Cholera has been attacked in the House. Colonel EVANS charged it, on Thursday, with a troop of seventy surgeons; but Mr. POULETT THOMSON interposed the heads of the Board, and Mr. CHOKER interposed his own head, and on these substances the gallant Colonel could make no impression.
Lord PLUNKETT and Sir WILLIAM NPMAHON have also ap- peared on the floor of the Commons ; the one contending for pos- session, the other for right. Ministers carried off their friend in safety, not in honour—by the cloud in which they wrapped the Chancellor, he escaped from the dignity as well as frem the danger of the fight.
The Duke of RUTLAND has discovered that there is reaction in the Isle of Ely: The light which the Duke would persuade the Lords to follow, rises in a suspicious place; but the Anti-Re- formers rejoice in it notwithstanding, and talk all manner of bin. things. If Ministers advise the King to create Peers, they will be impeached and lose their heads! As they are secure in the Com- mons, their best way is to create a hundred at once, and by the magnitude of the crime, avert the threatened punishment. There can be very little doubt, if they disappoint the People, by allowing. the Bill, either for want of Peers or any thing else, to be lost,' that impeachment will be the lightest of the inflictions to which they may look forviaid.
Irish Tithes have slightly diversified the Parliamentary week: the Reform Bill once settled, we shall have enough of them. Lord WYNFORD, whose devout habits are well known, is exceedingly alarmed at the contemplated attack on the outwork of the Church; and Lord ELDON, who admits that hehas lived" too long, is deter- mined to live alittle longer, in order to defend it. -We fear that all the religion of the one lord and all the patriotism of the other will hardly save the outwork—the citadel must be maintained by -the sound hearts within'.
