We understand that Sir Peregrine Maitland is about to return
to England, and will be succeeded by Sir Jasper Nieulls in the govein- meta of Madrus.—Beightm Gaulle.
Mr. Mettle, Under Secretary of State, has been confined to bed for
Lthe last ten days, by a severe attack of stnellpox. The disorder, how- ever, we are glad to hear, bus taken n favourable turn ; but it may yet be some days before he is able to resutne his Parliamentary mill taliciel duties.— Globe, Thursday. The Times rebukes the Duke of Wellington for his protection of Ministers aguinst the Bishop of Exeter's motion on the Irish Educa- tion system ; and is at pains to show, though with many professions of espeet, that his Grace is little better than an inconsistent driveller. The Westmeath Committee met on Wednesday, at ten o'clock ; and after sitting a quarter of an hour, adjourned till Ft iday, in order to give Lord George Bentinek, a member of the Committee, an opportunity a seeing his horse run for (and lose) the Derby Stakes at Epsom. The Tories give out, that it was a refinement in malice, on the part of Mr. Stanley of the Treasury, not to strike Lord George off the Com- mittee, as he knew that Grey 11Iornus, Lord George's horse, was the favourite, and that his noble owner would naturally be very anxious to see the race. However, the Committee got rid of the difficulty by the adjournmeut.
In the course of the argument, on Monday, before the Westemereta:
Election Committee, various acts of Parliament relative to the reai, tration of freeholds in Ireland having been referred to, the Chairm-s-,, said, he perceived several clauses were precisely the same—aede; verbis. Upon which Mr. Austin said—" I do not know whether tb- honourable Member has been engaged in concocting an act of Pelt meat. I have, many times, and will tell. the Committee how it is donee" I mean an act embodying a portion of another., and repealing parts. We obtain a copy, or rather two copies (it being of coursri printed on both sides) of the old act from the King's printer: we rake the seiseens, and cut out the different sections, and look them throth carefully ; and, if we are industrious, we correct the clerical errors not, they remain in the new act in the same way as they appeleeS the old one : we alter the number of the s.eettons, mid make a new order of them, such :is making section 4 sectimill.17. Thus, by a little writing, and much printing, we make a bill., NS Inch we ask the Hou,e Of COIIIMMIS to pass; and having passed, It goes tip to the Home c'f Lards, no:1 thus becomes the statute law of. the land." This statement occasioned much merriment in the Committee, and nobody attempted to gainsay it.
Leith Ritellie, who by virtue of his Annual on Ireland, and
travels therennto ministering, hes an opinion on the Pot,r Bill now pending in the House of Lords, makes these remarks, in a totem the C1/4roni...1e, on the scheme of confining relief to the sick, aged, and very youty- " It has been proved by the Commissioners of inquiry, to the satisfaction of everybody posse,stal of human reason, that it vox gteat part of the sicknea avhieli evails in Iteland is caused by the want at proper food, clothing, and iu,uIil mt.Ilut this kind of sickness seilont comes into the nomenclature of rh, flott.tot:: it would not he a passport to the hospital. It is a sickness that medi. vibe cannot cute ; its symptous, except in desperate cases, would not deprives man of the chi:lacier of an able.bodicd labourer.' An uble-boditd Limner, however, when sinking gradually under this malady, is to he kit to his fee, breause his etinplaint has not a technical name, and because our Ii titan have taken a fancy for pliesiching instead of feeding the poor.. " It so lcippens, however, that another great purt fetter the sickness of Ireland eonsists of a species of tlisease which int:sums still fewer external indications, Thi 4 is the tribe of maladies which go under the general name of rhrumatirm. We Ii ee licaid of it shoemaker contending fiercely with a customer that the shoe did riot pinch Idu); but that doctor must be a clever fellow who is able to refute a Matt's assietion that he has pains in his bones. " Lord .kini llussell was wrong when he said last night that the proposal d anise noble lon:s was merely to 'mild and endow hospitals. The proposal is, to male all /rtuad iou lampital. The proposal is, to offer a premtuat upon imposture, and false swearing ; and for this reason, that the hospital carmot, from its very nature, present the repulsive features of the workhouse." It is with very great satisfaction we have heard, that there is every probability of dogging being very soon ubandoned, at least on home service; as, from accounts which have reached us from Dublin, we learn that the silent system, so strongly recommended to the notice of the Committee appointed to inquire
ire into Punishments n the Array, has been tried in the military provost prison in dint large garrison, and that the most successful results are anticipated from its introduction.— Morning LicrnAl.
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