{38a} The Earl of ROSSE’S vote (Pair) against the Repeal of the duty upon paper is inconsistent indeed! His telescope is the wonder of the world, but for free glass what would it be? Here is a Peer, a great astronomer, coming down from his high tower and clipping the wings that carry knowledge. {38b} Mr. BRIGHT in a recent speech alludes to the _Times_ as a paper of “great eminence,” I suppose he means as an enormous liar, for he tells the Birmingham Meeting the crushing and withering truth that the _Times_ is at “this moment selling the dearest interests of this country for _its own private purposes_.”