Excerpt from Bentley's Miscellany, 1858, Vol. 43

Simultaneous with the relief of Lucknow has been the amelioration of that state of afi'airs which so lately produced the monetary crisis. Legis lation has done its best, or worst, in the matter - for doctors d'rfi'er with regard to the real curative process. Lombard-street, almost at its last gasp, no longer feels the pressure on its throat; and 8 credit stands steady for a while; discount has gone down and Console ave gone up again, and so we are out of that scrape.

Is there to be a new Reform Bill? The Speech from the Throne said something that sounded like it; Lord Palmerston also made a promise. But sgeeches from the throne are not always literal pledges, and certainly Lord almerston is no very ardent reformer. Quien sabe! Perhaps he may be too intent on other matters to think about the constituencies! He may be occupying the present recess in planning another monster mortar, to burst, like its predecessor, the first time it is fired; emulous of Mr. Denison, he may be founding a second Big Ben, to crack as that did almost as soon as its voice began to be heard; or, jealous of Mr. Brunel, devising the means of moving the Leviathan; as Sir Robert Peel said the other da at Tamworth, he may be writing telegram on the crown of his hat een the acts of shooting and bagging partridges he may be cramming his friends and retainers into all the good places that fall vacant, from a colonial government to the treasurership of a county court; he may be doing some, or all of these things, for Lord Palmerston - or he is belied - aims at the reputation of the Admirable Crichton; or he may have resolved to do nothing at all until he is obliged to move - a supposrtion as likely as any. The future career - even fl sevent -three - of a statesman in whom fifty years of political life have not exhausted the Protman faculty, is still a fair subject for speculation; but it would be labour thrown away to speculate on the acts of Lord Pal merston'e colleagues. On one point, however, we may congratulate the public: no new Treaty is on the tapis for Lord Clarendon to mar.

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