THE ADVANTAGE OF " RESPECTABILITY. - question at all: there wa-
all uSeenelit eN•elPie for die:lining to aliiney ean 0,11v go El vellain wEl. ; but there is no ying 11..w. zasswer i!, in 11,0 fact that Me evidence 11nd only a few minutes much it character 14 respectability v. ill clo fie: its fort umate pos- with Mr. IluatE respecting a motion of his, which Ministers also We have said that Mr. 0.7fLato.1ee oweil his release from New- wished to be postponed. Mr. If uer very properly let Loot JOHN gate eetirely to his respectability : and any one who reads the RussELL understand that he had committed a breach ofoilieial de- preceedings ta ill agree with us. Ile ‘1.:: released because his eurum. This steins a small matter, but it was by attending to such health would suffer from confinement. Now, suppose a person not as these that Lord ALT1101IP acquired much of his popularity; and " respectable " were to petition the House for enlargement front Lord JOHN RUSSELL should be made to comprehend, that it is prison on that ground,—Stippose one of the Dorchester convicts necessary, at the present time, for the Ministerial Leader to lay had prayed to be allowed to return to England, because the air of aside aristocratic airs and superciliousness, and to gain the good- New South Wales was not sufficiently braeing.—what a laugh
will and hearty cooperation of his allies. would have been raised among our aristocratic Representatives!
'The complaints of the wanner in which the Home Secretary Yet, if the injury to health arising from confinement within the dispenses the patronage of his office are becoming frequent and precincts of a gaol were admitted as a sufficient reason for the re- serious. We Icarn from the Scotch correspondence of the Courier, lease of the sufferers, Newgate would be untenanted. The air of that Ceptain Wkolvss-was so much offended by the appointment aprison, though that prison be as large as the " fifth quarter - of of his antagonist, Colonel LINDESAY, 10 the command of the Fife- the globe, is always unwholesome. But Mr. O'MALLEy belongs shire Militia, that he thought of resigning his seat. Had the to "a respectable family in the county of Mayo ;" therefore his .Captain acted on this impulse, Ministers would have bad an op- health must not be trilled with.. Had he been some low fellow of portunity of using the influence of Government to return the Tory no respectability, no Member would have ventured to produce Mr. Colonel to the House of Cummons,—which would not have been BRANSBY COOPER or Dr. FARR to speak to the state of his health. much more absurd than rewaiding him with a Colonelcy of Mi- This is merely one among the thousand instances daily occur- litia for his bitter opposition to Liberal principles and the Reform- ring of the different treatment which "gentlemen- receive from. ing Member for Fifeshire. The Fife .herald describes the feeling that applied to the lower orders. Instead of their situation in in Scotland produced by Colonel LINDESAY's appointment as most life being held as an aggravation, it is urged in extenuation of unfavourable to the Government; and we perceive by several any crime they may commit. He that "knows his master s will and doeth it not." is the one on whom few stripes are miii: the ignorant offender is Bogged half to death. It is to be wished, but not to be expected, that a juster role of punishment were observed. We should like the laws to be administered on the prineiple of a worthy provincial magistrate, who fined a person 5s. for being found drunk In the streets. The delinquent remonstrated, awl said he was a "gentleman." "Oh," said the magi-trate, "I did not know that—gentlemen always pay a guinea ; at that, Sir, shall be your fine."
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