o. H. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "in, if having obtained it, she should dare to 
     
     mternpon a second marriage, it matters not 
     
     ,hcther with a rich partner or a poor—her an. 
     
     inily willinstantly cease. Why should the rule 
     
     ybich is applied to the widow ofa miserable 
     
     ubiltern, by Sir John Hobhouse, not be ex- 
     
     tended to the lady pensioner, by Lord Al- 
     
     or e. 
     
    

    
     lbwgs it not a burning shame, that when great 
     
     Ind general distress prevailed in the land— 
     
     when the resources of the merchant and the 
     
     manufacturer, and the tradesman and the arti- 
     
     an, were daily drying up—when shops were 
     
     gmptying and gaols_filling, from beggary in 
     
     lespair; was it not infamous that undeserved 
     
     ind unrequited thousands should be squandered 
     
     in the titled mothers ofmen like the Dukes of 
     
     Wellington and Newcastle, already gorged 
     
     vith wealth ? 1f the late Secretary of the Ad- 
     
     miralty, from his poverty or from hatred of his 
     
     pwn flesh, was unable or unwilling to provide 
     
     for his neice does it follow, either by the law of 
     
     charity or the law of honour, that the naiion 
     
     iliall continue to Mrs. G. Borrow the 3001. a- 
     
     year with which they were burdened for the 
     
     ady-like maintenance of Miss Rosa Matilda 
     
     Broker f—London Spectator. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the London Spectator. 
     
    

    
     The last Unreformed Parliament of England 
     
     at an end. On Thursday it was prorogned 
     
     y the King is person, as a preliminary to dis- 
     
     Nation. 
     
     The session of Parliament that has thus ter- 
     
     ninated will be remembered for ever; and yet 
     
     ot many sessions have br0ught to completion 
     
     o few legislative acts. But their greatness 
     
     nay well excuse their paucity. Had no inea. 
     
     ure been considered but Reform, and forthe 
     
     ake of its originators, it would haVe been well 
     
     liat none else had been,-—that measure alone, 
     
     n vast in itself, and in its yet dimly-discovered 
     
     :onsequences, would have sufficed to give to 
     
     ny session eternal fame. But the late session 
     
     aflother claims to respect than the Reform 
     
    

    
     8. 
     
     The much-opposed and much-misrepresented 
     
     ithe-bill of Ireland, though local in its pre- 
     
     nt operation, has let in a principle hardly 
     
     as important than that which the Reform 
     
     ills established. 
     
     The purification of the Representative s 's- 
     
     in, and the inchoate amelioration ofthe he- 
     
     lesisstical system, have been accompanied by 
     
     _0 measures ofgreat improvement in the On- 
     
     inal Law,—-the Cattle-stealing and the For. 
     
     ery Acts; which, though maimed in their 
     
     rogress by the Aristocratic branch of the Le- 
     
     iilatnre, afford satisfactory evidence of that 
     
     omage to the progress of humanity which the 
     
     ast feeling are now content to offer. 
     
     In the Attorney Bill, again the triumph of 
     
     eason over long-cherished prejudices, is not 
     
     ss apparent. 
     
     'lothat most important object of a states. 
     
     an s study—the Education of the People—no 
     
     considerabletportion of the session has been 
     
     rotitably devoted. For though the Ministerial 
     
     l_an ofEdncation in Ireland did not originate 
     
     ith Parliament, it has been wonderfully 
     
     genglhened by the discussion that it received 
     
    

    
     re. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     In the management of public business, an 
     
     portant step has been made towards a more 
     
     triple and effective system, by the consolida- 
     
     oh of the Naval Boards. 
     
    

    
     And though the abolition of the Scotch Ex- 
     
     u_er be a matter considered in itself of 
     
     a l importance, yet as an acknowledgement 
     
     the necessity and propriety of lopping ofi' in 
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     what is injurious, but what is inefficient, the 
     
     precedent is a valuable one. 
     
    

    
     Such have been the positive good deeds of 
     
     the past session. The way to others has been 
     
     opened, if not finished. 
     
    

    
     The evidence taken on the Bank Charter 
     
     will add greatly to our knowledge on a. subject 
     
     of equal interest and perplexity. 
     
    

    
     Though the Taxes on Knowledge still re- 
     
     main, their death warrant may be looked on as 
     
     drawn and soon to be executed. 
     
    

    
     Two bills of great utility, the one public, the 
     
     other private, have been delayed, we trust on- 
     
     ly to be brought forward in such a form as will 
     
     insure their success. We allude to the Gene- 
     
     ral Registry Bill and the London and Birming- 
     
     ham Railway Bills. 
     
    

    
     The Law improvements of the Chancellor 
     
     have proceeded slowly ; but those which have 
     
     been effected or not without their value; and 
     
     for those which he has indicated, more especi- 
     
     ally that greatone, the separation of the poli- 
     
     litical andjudicial functions of the Chancellor, 
     
     it is to be hoped next session will afford him 
     
     ample leisure and opportunity. 
     
    

    
     Much has been effected, much remains to do. 
     
     The speech of the 6th of last December, com- 
     
     mended to our serious consideration the ques- 
     
     tion of Reform ; it deplored the general distress 
     
     —it spoke of Cholera, of opposition to Tithes, 
     
     of the unsettled state of Portugal, of the dis- 
     
     putes in Belgium. Reform has received its 
     
     due share of our attention, but the cry of dis- 
     
     tress has not ceased : the Cholera still remains, 
     
     'l‘ithes are as vehemently opposed as ever; 
     
     Portugal is the theatre ofa civil war; the dis- 
     
     cussions respecting Belgium are yet unfinish- 
     
     ed 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of the future, we entertain, however, no 
     
     fear. It may be that the registry clauses, with 
     
     whioh.in case of necessity, it is in the power 
     
     of Ministers to dispense, from being indiffer- 
     
     ently understood and acted upon, will render 
     
     the new Parliament less effective than it other- 
     
     wise would be. But the machinery is now in 
     
     our hands, and in order to turn out good work, 
     
     we have only to use it wisely and honestly. 
     
     Our endeavors after improvement will no lon- 
     
     ger he neutralized by influences beyond our 
     
     contronl. lfthe next House of Commons be 
     
     not wholly the People’s House it must be the 
     
     People’s fault; they can make it so if they 
     
     please. 
     
    

    
     We turn from the contemplation of the late 
     
     Parliament, to consider for a moment the po- 
     
     sition of the parties that composed it. The 
     
     tories are annihilated. The place that once 
     
     knew them knows them no more. From a 
     
     combinationof the more vivacious portion of 
     
     that long dominant sect with the less energetic 
     
     and honest ofthe Whig party, we may in future 
     
     construct an opposition, they may still hang 
     
     in that copacity as a drag-chain on the wheels 
     
     of our victorious car; but the prospect of again 
     
     directing it, they must resign for ever. The 
     
     Whigs, as a party, cannot long survive their 
     
     opponents. Henceforth the regulation of our 
     
     affair. will require a larger admixture of the 
     
     Democratic spirit than their Aristocratic 
     
     morgue will be inclined to tolerate. 
     
    

    
     The Ministry, which already exhibits signs of 
     
     decay, must be reformed or change], as the 
     
     Parliament of which it has been the remodeller 
     
     is about to be. The head and body, like the 
     
     image of the King of Babylon, are composed 
     
     of precious metal: but the inferior parts are 
     
     iron and bass clay. Such heterogeneous mate- 
     
     rials conld only be held together by external 
     
     pressure; they had no internal bond of union. 
     
    

    
     When the many cease to rave, party, which 
     
    
   
   
    
     "Y department of the State, not merely lived on their madness, must cease to exist. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I? ‘ 
     
     Tories may depart, Whigs may depart, Ca, , 
     
     nets may be changed; but the cause of the... 
     
     People abideth; and ifit change, it must be 
     
     the People’s fault if it change not from good 
     
     to better. The full cup is before them ; may-" 
     
     they drain it with gratitude and discretion, 
     
     and Heaven bless the draught. 
     
    
   
   
    
     AGE.—Parliament,itis said, will berprorogued in 
     
     the course of the week; and Althorp has said that 
     
     the condemned House will not be called together 
     
     again. We may have an election in all probability 
     
     about January. 
     
    

    
     In the mean time, the story of the split among the 
     
     Ministers is revived. As nothing held them together 
     
     but Reform, and that being passed, we do not see 
     
     what they nave now to knit. them to one another. 
     
     Cautious observers have noticed that the Duke of 
     
     Wellington and the Chancellor are coqueting, and it 
     
     is supposed there may be some reason for it. We say 
     
     nothing. 
     
    

    
     However commend us to old Gaffer Grey. He is 
     
     the ,boy to make hay while the sun shines. As old 
     
     Sherry said in One of his songs in the Forty Thieves-- 
     
    

    
     And we’ll be merry here, boys, 
     
     And we‘ll be merry here, 
     
    

    
     For who does know where we may go 
     
     To be merry another year. 
     
    

    
     So. in the Times ofyesterday, we find the following : 
     
    

    
     “ We are sorry to learn that Mr. Elice has resigned 
     
     his situation as Secretary to the Treasury. His vigour. 
     
     his straightforward conduct, his good sense, and his 
     
     good hnmourl! will not easily be replaced. He knew 
     
     how to spur the reluctant, and to check the petulant-— 
     
     (Spring Rice is meant).—-His loss we think will be se- 
     
     verely felt. Mr. Charles Wood, a son in law of Lord 
     
     Grey, will succeed him, of whom we. can at least say, 
     
     that he has the character ofan active and diligent man 
     
     ofbusiness. Colonel Grey will succeed pro tempore 
     
     Mr. Wood, as private Secretary ofthe Premier. . 
     
    

    
     Elice commonly called from the urbanin of his man- 
     
     ners, Bear Elice, was brother-inalaw to old Grry : and 
     
     that relation having ceased, he is turned off to be re- 
     
     placed by a son-in~law. Of course Coi. Grey, who 
     
     beat D'lsraeli the other day at Wycombr, succeeds as 
     
     private Secretary—for son should follow son-in-law, as 
     
     sou-in-law follows brother-in-law. Keep it all in the 
     
     family ! It went last long. 
     
    

    
     One of the family, Howick, we perceive, is taking 
     
     care of himsrlf. Hume complained, on Thursday 
     
     night, in the House of Commons, that the Under Secre« 
     
     tary to the Colonies was not in his place. As this 
     
     complaint happened to be made on Howick‘s wedding 
     
     night, about 12 o'clock, we hope Joseph was mistaken. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Popularity of the House of Austria,——The princes 
     
     of the Austrian family are generally beloved at home. 
     
     notwithstanding the sinister aspect of Austrian politics 
     
     to foreign nations. The Emperor himself receives the 
     
     petitions of his aggrieved subjects in his cabinet, with 
     
     the apparent interest ofa father of a family listening 
     
     to the complaints of his children; he rides out in the 
     
     public pronienades among his people, without guards 
     
     or state ceremony. as ifhe enjoyed their confidence ; 
     
     and although reckoned atyrantin Lombardy, Venice, 
     
     or even Hungary, he is esteemed a kind patriarchial 
     
     ruler at Vienna. his not likely, therefore, that the 
     
     arm of an assassin would have been raised against his 
     
     Imperial Majesty. or any of his family, on account of 
     
     their resistance to political improvement, in a country 
     
     so little disposed to advance in the career of civiliza. 
     
     tion, and so contented withshsir present position— 
     
     T-i'mu. ‘