The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

;Me eppreisA. TO CORRESPONDENTS. & Derma Vitka ►" lb , ExPesPo." eoliteishig the eine eeleirts ... w t...." a publehed irony bimodal sal Friday siski, for m for ~ wrotebalas• Swale, pryer. t o I Aar, 11.. 44. YI Tee e'eleak as the erg el pul.s.loattur. W.kl . Eif A I.ON LION BRIDOB Tw . —3ll,nang, lb. 36a. Altamee, 74. 17e. ra - a/. 7.. 43. Atones% S 11.. LoSPOS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28. Tor new Prime Minister, the Earl of DERBY, true to his instill, is and to his long-established character, k e pt last night into the arena and raised his battle try. Like a hold man, he has at once put the question at issue beyond doubt. His cry, is " Toryism, Iteform--No • Frie-TradC! The House of Lords displayed last evening en unusual amount of animation. Hereditary legislators crowded the benches; the gallery, de voted to hulks, was lined a ith curious listeners; whilst th e F .4tion of the house where other strangers are a d„„ tte d seas thronged. All felt it was a great oc claim. A new ministry culled hastily to office— implaisecl, as it were, for prompt service—were to =ale their first bow. The people who had thriven seder the commercial system settled in ltil6 by Sir jdartur Pret., were expectant. With well-tilled o m." a nd well.lined hinters, the nation declined to fall into agencies of alarm, or to de into cestacies of passion, when Lord Jolty lit4sErt.'s irinistry was tripped up by their es-eselleague. The whip had won too little national gratitude, and had met their promissory note for reform too indifferently, to render any broad expres sion of regret or indignation necessary. Hut they having fallen, the nation, if not excited, was on the alert—and something more—for Lord Mituv's ex planation; and this feeling was pourtrayed in the aspect of the House of Peers lust night, when the PRIME 'MI I.TER rose to make known his plans. And what is the pnegnonnee of the new Fuisr Loan of the Tar eseuv 1k admitted he had not a majority is the House of Commons: he declared the nerd he felt for the good wishes of his friends and the consideration of his opponents; and whilst he raised this cry of p.c. an on one hand, he made a half threat that if the liberals should pursue such a course of oppeeitiem as it pleased him to de nounce, he would appeal from the decision of the lower House of Parliament to the country. There were certain thint,s4 he would wish to have done at once, before commencing the development of that policy on which the great contest must ensue. lkitibiles.P. Ile wishes to have the moneys of the coentey voted and the Mutiny Art renewed, and other things put in train for his going broadly to work to use the influences of his party and position for the preparation of a new parliament likely . to adopt the v ices and frame laws upon the proposition he last night re'vcnlcd to the country. He would have us Five him weapons to be used against our selves: would have us give him time to prepare for erection ; would borrow our forces for our own sub legation. And what does he decline, and what does he de clare Ile declines to disfranchise St. Albans; he declines to pass the bill of his predecessors for punishing those boroughs that may hereafter be guilty et corruption; he declines to adopt all or any part of the bill for the reforming the representation. I~utive-pouud franchise; no abolition of property qualification ; no vote will he allow to a man who pays income tax or other direct tax; no addition of new blood will he sanction for the wretched boroughs' that have sunk to the level of those of the old Schedule A. He declares against all change. He denounces all attempts to disturb what is, for fear of what may be. He does not object to education—by the poro;Aial clergy • and being urged to undertake hue present duties only by a sense of patriotism and lofty duty, he desires the aid of all thorough pa triots—who can believe in him. Having seen what he denounces, let us turn to what he desires. His faith in his mission is not Strong enough to let him call out aloud and at once the single word, " Protection." Ile moves round about his prey slavering and ham pering it that he may the more quietly destmy it. He points with an artful skill to the example of America, in a way that reminds us how a certain infernal potentate quotes Scripture. He,—the high tory parr, tells us he admires the tariff of America, whilst he says nothing of its government. He wishes for transatlantic taxes whilst he ignores the transatlantic votes. He would copy the evils of America. but declines its virtues. e may hear at the hustings perhaps that the plans of the model republic of the West cannot be objected to by reformers. But the reply will be easy. If we arc to have the high tariff, let us have the cheap government. The Americans put an obstructive duty, ho remiuds us, upon goods from foreign countries that may run in competition with home products. They thus shelter, he would have us think, the produce of their land. If we were. for argument sake, to grant that the Americans act wisely in this matter—which they certainly do not—the cases still would not be at all parallel. In America there is land enough for all— in England the land is monopolised by the wealthy aristocracy ; in America they grow much more food than they can consume; in England we have in creased in numbers beyond that point, and are compelled to import corn. In America there are tens of millions of acres waiting for owners ; in England every scrap of earth is appropriated ; in America there is scarcely a beggar; to England our paupers are numbered he hundreds of thousands. la America they have a dimly republic ; in England we have a costly monarchy. Lord Desalt is surely sot the man who should provoke comparisons of this sat; and the less so when his suggestions are likely to be followed out to their natural conclusions by thousands whose attention he invites to the discussion. And to what finale did the new -Palma MINISTER come' Simply to this. That as the American govern ment taxed foreign goads, he, Lord Deem, would tax foreign corn; and as the dandy of Broadway must few the custom-house of New York before he could complete his Parisian toilet, he, Lord DERRY, would tax the lutif which the English workman requires for himself and his children. Twist it es it may, to this it (ernes at last. Lord DERRY is at once daring and ingenious. He avoids the word whilst he avows the principle; shirks the phrase whilst marking out the road lee means to travel to " Protection." Surrounded by a muster of the nobility of this land, assembled in that chamber,--all carving, and crimson, and gold,—just reared for their delibe rs'ions ; with an audience of elegant women and attentive men, the Earl of DERBY de scribed the policy that is to influence the government just inaugurated. He spoke fluently sad cleverly, and with du e sense of the responsibility of the chierwho assumes the government of this great wintry. From things human he rose with his sub ject to a higher sphere, and appealed, as it were for inspiration for good, to that power greater than any he could claim, and that rules over sad abuse all. With the earnestness of a real sincerity; with the art of a practised orator, and in the wade of a scholar and a gentleman, ho raised Illsirßian.likt• around those who heard him, a rhe torte cloud, all tinted with bright hues of patriotism, hope, prosperity. Hut it was only a haze, tat dup by skill of lordly oratory. And those who looked steadily at it might see it was haze, a, e, and yield we more. Fur through the dim obscure, there wan a figure moving stealthily, as though not wishing to be sen. It was lit ves seeking to rob LAZARUS— & rich, inrunettt d landlord stealthily filching away a pow labourer's loaf. It is understood that an arrangement has been cencluded by the Bond of Tnule with the Trinity by which the light dues now levied on the crestitig 'trade will be reduced one half. Dr.% tit UV TIIE Port MooltlL—f)n Thar* day, • 146 Periii-cottage, the lingering period of Thome Moore's ram to a IP., Me wee in th• 72nd year of of hig age. He died at Slop. rtaivrottage, near Devises, end hie own r i- Feawd wigh p owed to a roiling-plaice in the quiet church yard of the pariah. MONET OItDV.R.S.—IiESERVI. POST-OFFICE, PER., Ira. —On and after the let March the receiving Mace tur letters it litiaten will be opined for the uvue and peyntent " order.. Minor Lumley girder °Mein will he upeued et Hoek, , Surrey, on the eds Much, and at Seaford; 812 1.t.1, ell the VA Minh. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVIKIIIO. I hear it confidently stated by well-informed per sons that, after the elections, the budget will be pro. mulgated by decree. It is reported as eatiain by the same authorities that a progressive income-tax will be established. Contrary to the information received from other sources, the Plmnce Napoksoviienter states that a to of decrees of high importance will appear before the end of the week. The following paragraph, which appears in the Paris correspondence of the Emmariputioss of Brus sels, has drawn considerable attention : It is stated is the best informed quartets that the fusion of the two branches of the house et Bourbon is about to he accomplished in the must serious and solemn manner. nit Bachees d'Orleans is said to base yielded to the supplica tions addressed to her, and to have recognised that thy sincere union of the great and noble house of Bourbon can alone give ohanoos to her young and beluvid son. N. Thiess is said to have born the instrunicut of this reconciliation. According to the best information which I can procure, no reliance whatever is to be placed upon this assurance, which is continually repeated from time to time by legitimist coriespondenees, like that of the Emancipation. Fusion is perfectly hopeless in the eyes of those men who constitute the pith and marrow of the Orleans party. It is merely the dream of a few well-meaning suites men like M. Mole, who would be wholly legitimist if they had not to renounce the must active portion of their own existence as ministers of Louis Philippe. Fusion is the game of the legitimists; it means merely harnessing the strength of the Orleans party to the coach of the restoration of the elder branch. It is well known by all familiar with the political ideas of M.Thiers that this statesman has never since the revo lution of NIS attempted to counsel to the Duchess' of Orleans any such abdication. It would at once ruin that popularity of the Orleans party among the Imaryeonne and constitutional liberals which constitutes their only strength, if the princes of the younger branch surrendered the hopes of their adherents to the antiquated traditions of legitimacy. From what information I possess I can state mitt- dently that no surrender of the kind is contemplated. On the contrary, a fusion of a very different kind is in process of operation, namely, an alliance be tween the Orleanasts and the republican party of General t'avaignac. The legitimists prove mean while, by their frequent defections to the Elysee,their preference of the present rt , yiine to the chance of the regency. The only benefit that can result from the negociutionbetwecu the two branches is the prevention of a civil war between their adhe rants in case the supreme place of power in France should suddenly become vacant. Hut it may be , safely asserted And the legitimists have not the least ' chance of success. A sale of carriages, harness, and saddlery belonging to the Orleans family is now going on at Monceaux. The government is about to issue a new copper coinage. The chief alteration proposed is at first rather startling-. The copper &Time, or French penny. is to be reduced to one half its present weight, without compensating the proportionate diminution of value by any alloy ot t.ilver. To meet the vulgar objections, and calm the public alarm at a measure which turns the French pence into so many copper asaignats, it is contended, in the first place, that the value of copper coins is not real like that of gold and silver, but purely conventional. In fact, if the weight of the present &Wm* were adjusted to the commercial value of the copper employed, it would amount to 40 grammes instead of 20. In other words, you may buy fur a silver franc copper enough to make two francs represented in the latter metal. The (Mime is therefore already a copper assig nat in the sense that its value is purely conventional. Considerations of convenience have caused the cop per decime to represent a mum double its intrinsic value. If convenience shoo d demand that the largest copper coin should be still further reduced to half its present weight and size, the government organs ask where is the impediment. The true answer would be—what few will dare pub licly to give—want of confidence in the present government, which would thus be enabled, by con verting the present &chiles into double the number, to pocket cent. per cent. upon the trans action. Ihe government promises to issue from the mint no greater sum in copper than is re presented by the present coinage in that metal. But as M. Mortimer Tcrnaux says in his elec toral address, "We live in days when little reliance can be placed on promises." Certain it is that the temptation which already exists in so po tent a degree to utter false coin in copper would by the new measure be doubled. But the new coinage is to be so sharply defined, that no mechanic force of 'efficient power could be employed by forgers to pro- duce the like. It has been suggested to reduce the size of the Bros sou by a silver alloy, so u to make the intrinsic value of the coin equal to the sum repre sented. But Ills arrangement holds out still greater temptations to the forger, as was proved by the spurious multiplication of the old pieces of six Lards and two sous. Besides, unless tho new issue were to be reduced in proportion, the transaction, which involves the duplication of the intrinsic value of the present copper coinage, would be a losing one in the same ratio. Supposing the wu and other copper coins to be reduced in the same proportion as the decinie the upshot of the present measure would be to leave the govern ment in possession of au amount of copper equal to the half of the present amount of copper in circu lation. Whether this metal be wanted for casting cannon, or covering the bottoms of ships, it ought, in order that the transaction may not have the air of an enormous fraud, to be set down in the budget to the credit of the nation. "It is stated," says the Mkt*, " that Baron Burignot de Vareones, ex-minister plenipotentiary in Portugal, has been named minister plenipoten tiary at Berlin, in the room of M. A. Lefebvre, called to the Council of State. M. Sabatier, secretary of legation at Athens, has been appointed first secre tary to the embassy at Constantinople, in the room of M. do Reculot, who is named minister at Hanover, and M.Reisset to be first secretary at St. Petersburg." The Praise mentions the following nominations in the diplomatic corps : Baron de Talleyrand, now Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburgh,will be named Minister Plenipotentiary at Weymar, a post which has been suppressed since 1848 ; M. Engelhard, Coasul of France, and member of the Rhenish com mission, is named minister at Carlsruhe ; M. Men neval removes from Carlaruhe to Munich. M. de Guitant-Comminge has just been named Secretary of Legation at Munich. The Moniteur has the following : Fur • Is. time the Prism Pretest of the Republic hoe beer swine to alleviate as . Err r possible the last days of the beer sehbers Wee bed ad their blood for the de fence of the eesetry older the republic and the empire. Since Dereaber 2 Louis Napalm hos been able to carry out the sale hispirations of hie mind, and one of the tint of his meerie was to Oar et the disposal of the minister of trams • 'pedal credit iiestleed to be distributed, under the title at aselehmos, emir erdenrity with the decisions of the 1114/10/ke aeasmieiw. M web Mid soldiers as should be feed re rut lbeerbeg sod meet necessitous. The grand erresder ef the Leeks at Illoroar, as president of the arrebrier. beery W Wee per i thut great set of repent then lad /Mil% Mk tie are effective measures to hare the errs etre Peres reinfieutpromptly executed. Al ready *der rempred ef riser er years of age have been satishid•Theile dd ereereefeer rend armies ought la fact to have thei Orle y ere {Mfr brothers-in-arms, since their claims an the swig ..dust, and because they have ler time than 11111111611111 le \Mk The papers of those of se venty years of age bare Won in part examined, and defi nitively admitted to a rare is the assistance to be afforded, and the minister of Moans% who as hie side shows the most laudable irogentess to seed the NONIMIIIIMIS in the aceoni philimeat of its labours, bee rear orders to have the warrants to receive this mom/ eddressed to the persons fur whom they are intended, as soon as notice be given to him of their notate by the gread-ehaneellne After these two categories will MANI the persons of sixty years; they will be the object of the mine solicitude end the same cele rity ; and all leads to the expectation that in a very brief period of time the generous thought of the Prince ?mei deaxwill have received its ectinplete execution. The Munitenr contains a report from tho Minister of Public Works, stating that as the definitive plane, of the Strasburg terminus of the railway from Paris to Strasburg are now decided on, the state will have'' to pay, as its contributive portion of the expense of thst work, a sum of I,lloo,lfiNni. The share of the Strasburg to Bale company in the expense is fixed at :40,90Ufr. which the minister proposes to have paid out oldie last twelfth of the loan of 12,61111,900 francs which the state agreed to make to that com pany. in virtue of the law of July 15, 18-10. The minister proposes that these two sums, amounting to 2,100,000 fr., shall now be paid over tur the expenses of the maid terminus, from the budgets of 1852 laid of 1803. A deem 'from rho President of the Republic follows, ordering the suggestion of the re port to be carried into execution. The Alfoxiteur contains another report from the hlinister of Public Works, setting forth the advantages of establishing a railway communication between France and Ba vain, without being obliged,in order to reach south ern Germany, to pass through the Prussian territory. The Strasbourg to Bile Railway Company having agreed to undertake the execution of a line from titrasbourg to the Bavarian frontier, near Wissem burg, on condition of receiving a subvention of 3 millions, and a guarantee from the state of 4 per cent. on the rest of the capital required for the line, the report recommends to have the offer of the tym pany accepted, and to authorise the immedintc com mencement of the works. A decree follows from the President of the Republic, approving of the report, and directing its suggestions to be carried out. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 20e., closing at 103.33; the Threes fell 20e., and closed at 05.40. Bank of France shares rose 12.39. Railways were without much variation, except Teste and Bordeaux, which ruse 13f., and St. Clermaiu air. GERMANY. P RUSSIA. The semi-official Prussian Gazette, publishes ex tracts from the correspondence which has taken place between the British and Prussian goverturo .ts on the subject of the refugees. We read that on the 30th of December, 1851, Mr. Howard wrote to in form' Lord Granville that he had waited upon M. blanteuffel with the intelligence of his nomination to the Foreign Secretaryship in the stead of Lord Palmerston, "His Excellency," Mr. Howard says, "in assuring me of the pleasure which tile nomination of your lordship afforied him, bade nie declare how gnat a worth he lays upon friendly relations with Great Britain, and how earnestly he wished to stand upon the footing of a friendly intercourse with your lordship. Ho re milked that, in his view, at no time was it more im portant than at present to cultivate such relations with her Majesty's government, and he told me, asa proof of the sincerity of his wishes, that lie had sent to the Chevalier fiunsen by telegraph a request not to present the note to the Court of St. James on the subject of the refugees, since he was desirous that the mutter should drop." On the 6th of January of the present year, Lord Granville wrote to Mr. Howard authorising him to assure M. Manteuffel that "no pains should be spared on the English side to maintain the inter course of the two governments on the amicable foot ing desired." The latest of the communicated despatches addressed by Mr. Howard to Lord Gran ville is dated Jan. 18, and reports that the writer had' presented to M. Manteuffel a copy of his lordship's reply to the French, Austrian, Prussian, and Frank furt notes. The Prussian Premier forbore to allude on that occasion to the tenor of the note, and merely returned thanks for its communication. Lord Bloomfield, the British ambassador at Berlin, returned unexpectedly from England to his post, on the 26th, his leave of absence not having nearly expired. BERLIN, Pea. 21. With reference to the re-organisation of the First Chamber the King has held conferences with MM. Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Von Zander, the leader of the pure bureaucrats, who of late, it is true, have frequently opposed the present ministers, but only in soar as the latter portly leaned towards the wit hers, and partly held, fur decency's sake, to certain constitutional obligations. The result of the con ferences is stated to be the rejection of the proposal for giving to the landed nobility, as a class, the right of electing representatives for the First Chamber; this is tantamount to the rejection of the compromise which the cavaliers have been so eager to conclude with the bureaucracy. This is what I formerly prognosticated; and if the King has really decided, as is reported, the entire ascendancy of bureaucratic government in Prussia, in form ss well as in fact, will at no very distant period be established. Tho draught of a press law, purporting to have been drawn up by the commission of the Frankfort Diet for all German states has found its way into the newspapers. The New Prussian Gazette states it to be merely a project made by the Austrian or Hessian commissioners, and handed to Count Than, who had it revised at Vienna, and then distributed it at the Diet, though it bud in fact no official character. The Prussian government has instituted here on the subject some ministerial conferences, wherein the most influential voices were strongly raised against such a federal law; a state like Prussia dare nut in any way bind its hands in so vital a point as that of lefFislating for the press. fhe proposed new stamp law for newspapers enacts that foreign periodicals shall pay a tax of 25 per cent. on the subscription price. The booksellers remonstrate that this will be • most vexatious mea sure, entailing the necessity of opening and searching all imported bales and parcels; and mat also pro voke retaliatory measures abroad highly detrimental to German publications. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1852. THE PENINSULAR MAIL . The Madrid, Captain Weeks (Lieut. Witch, R.N., Admiralty agent), arrived at Southampton last night. Her dates are : Gibraltar, Feb.l7 ; Lisbon, 20 ; V igo and Oporto, 22. Count Thomar was allowed to land at Lisbon, and two days afterwards he attended the Queen's b all.: Ilia arrival had caused much conver sation. t3aldanha continues to gather strength, but Magalbaens is disliked in the Cartes. On the 13th a solemn "Te ileum " for the Queen of Spain's es cape from assassination was celebrated, at which the Queen, deputations from both chambers, a multitude of functionaries, and a great number of the public satiated. Psnent has been made in 27 more departments, which completes the payments of the Actives and Inactive@ for the month of January. On the lat of March those classes will commence receiving their pay for the current month. Ministers have pre isented the project of their bill of indemnity for the acts of the Dictatorship, but it has not yet been voted on. The scrutiny upon the election of the new municipal chamber took place on the 15th. The names are all progreasistas. The Count Das Antis and the celebrated Jose &term are dangerously ill. The present government have stigmatised the decree of Count Thomar, relative to Mr. Croft, as unjust, and ordered restitution. The Cabralist number about ten in the upper chambers. The govern , most may be considered strong and in a position to carry out their measures. Among them will be a railroad to the frontiers. They intend to ordain a liberal competition for (carrying it into effect. Among . the various internal improvements contemplated is the drainage of Mordego. Ex change, 531. Discount of Lisbon Bank notes, 31 Er cent . lier Majesty's ship Dragon is the only nglish man-of-war in the Tagus. Our correspondent gives the following as the - - - State of the Treasury for the mouth of December, 1851, the receipts of the month, together with the former balance, amounted to 899,612,790 refs.; the payments amounted to 622,688,219 rein. ; among the receipts were— From the Custom-house, 112,868,728 rein, ; the Sote-Caaas, 60,151,099 eels.; duties on grain, 10,182,110 refs. ; the Mint, 8,931,767 rt•is. • and the Yost-wee, 9,198,129 reis. • the sum of 50,248,201 rein. were paid to the Junta do (.4edito l'ublico, and 1,983,128 to Eoglish officers who screed in the Penin sula war. . . . linsinees will now begin in real earnest in the Cortes ; the Cabe&list's are terribly vexed lest the indemnisations to the contract of tobacco should be annulled; it may bring many thing@ to light, and perhaps discover the fountain from whence many riches flowed, and into what direction. TURKEY. It is stated by tsph frot• Onsisitisople that the dispute conc - the bikpines Is adjuoted. Equal nghts are ressaysi to Nt Utrigism. creeds. COLLISION ♦T Srr►.—Ths Avon which brought home the West India and Pacific mails on Thursday came into collision with a full rigged ship off the Limn!. on the morning of the 25th. The collision did not cause any very serious damage. The Avon's port paddle•boe before the spomem was smashed. The mouth of the British channel when the Avon passed wee crowded with shipping. There could not have been less than three hundred soil there. TII Pi ORINOCO STEAMER.—lntelligence has reachtd Southampton of the Royal West India Mail Company's monster steamer Orinoco, which left the above named port on the 2nd inst. with the West Indio and Mexican Oa the sth inst. the Orinoco was in let. 45 21 N., long. 16 W. The wind was westerly, and there was a heavy sea; all was well on board. The weather was fair. Iler per formance wassatisfaetory. She had averaged eight knots an hoar during the voyage. gbe court. The Queen held a court sad privy amen at 12 o'clock yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Sir George Grey had an audience of her Majesty and re signed his seals of oar as Secretary of State fur the Hone Department. Bert Grey had an audience and resigned his seals r Secretary of State for the C o l on i es . Earl Uninvillit had an sudieuce and resigned his seals as Secretory of State for Foreign Affair,. Lord Truro had an audience end delivered to her Illsjoisty the Or9it Seal. Sir Charles Wood had en audience and resigned his seal of office as Chancellor of the Eschequrr. The Earl of Mioto had an audience and resigned the l'riry Seal. The Martinis of Westminster had an audience and de livered up his wand as Lord Steward. The Marquis of Illreadelbane had an audience and de livered to the Queen Isis gold key of office as Lord Chao berlain. 1 he Duke of Norfolk had an audience on resigning his °Mire es Nlaster of the Horse. Lord Marcus 11111, Lord Edward Howard, and the Earl of &What're had audiences, and delivered their Wands of 0 like u Treasurer, Vioe-ClMtoberhtin, and Comptroller of the Household. 1 he Marquis of Donegal had an audience, and delivered to the Qtwen kis Gold Stick of 01Reu as Captain of the Yeoluan . bluard. _ The Marquis of Anglesey had an audience on resigning his (Areas Master-tieneral of the Ordnance. The liar) of Derby had an audience of the Queen. Der Majesty then field a Privy Council fur the purpose of swearing in the members of the new edininistration. S. venteen gentlemen of the new ministry were sworn of her Maje,ty's most honourable Privy Council, and took their places at the board. The Earl of Derby kissed bands on being appointed First Lord of the 'Treasury. The custody of the Great Seal was delivered by the Queen to Sir Edward Sugden, who was sworn into office as Lord Chancellor. _ The Right Hon. William Earl of Lnusd■lo was declared by the (hies■ in council President of her Majesty's most honourable l'riry Council, and AU lordship took his place at the board. The Moat llonourablc James Marquis of Salisbury was sworn into office as Lord Privy Meal. Iler Majesty in Council woo pleased to declare the Right lion. Archibald Earl of Egliuton Lord Lieutenant of Ire land. 1 he Right Ron. Spencer Walpole was sworn in Council one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State (Home Department). The Right lion. James Earl of Malrnesbury was sworn in Council one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State (Foreign Department). The Right Him. Sir John Pakington, Dart., was sworn in Council one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State (Colonial Department). The Quern having been pleased to appoint the Right Hun. B. Di,raeli, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was tulminis tried to the right hon. gentleman. The Duke of Northumberland kissed hands on being ap pointed Find Lord of the Admiralty. The Right lion. U. A. Christopher klawed bands on being appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Earl of Hantwicke kissed hands ow being appointed The Right llon. John Charles Herrin kissed hands on being appointed l'resident of the Board of Control for the AlfArs of India. The Queen in council was pleased to appoint the Right' lion. J.W. Henley, Pre sident, and the Right lion. Charles Lord Colchester. Vice-President of the Committee of Coun cil for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. The Right Hon. W. Bert•sford kissed hands on being ap pointed Secretary-at-War. The Right Hon. Lord John Manners kissed hands on being appointed Chief Commissioner of Royal Parks, Palaces, and Public Buildings. The Right lion. George Bankes kissed hands on being appointed Judge Advocate General. Vis,c,.unt Harding° kissed hands on being appointed Master General of the Ordnance. . _ _ Lord de Ibis kissed hands oi. bring appointed Captain of the Yeoman Guard, and received hum the Queen his Quid Stiek of Office. The Earl of Sandwich kissed hands on being appointed captain of the hon. corps of Gentlemen at Arms. the Hon. William Bathurst was the clerk of the council in waiting. The Duke of Montrose had an audience of the Queen, and received from her Majesty his wand of office u Lord Steward of the Household. The Ili.aqui, of Exeter had an audience, and received from the Queen his gold key of office u Lord Chamber lain. The Earl of Jersey had an audience of her Maiesty, and kissed hands on being appointed Muster of the Horse. Lord Claude Hamilton, *lfreusurer of the Household, and the Hight lion. Cecil Forester, Comptroller of the House. hold, received from the Queen their wands of office.. After the Privy Council, the Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen. tier Majesty was attended by Lord Elphinstone, Lord in Waiting, and Major General Berkeley Drummond, Groom ill Waiting. Prince Albert presided at three o'clock yesterday after- noon, at • meeting of the Commission ter Promoting and Encouraging the Pine Arta in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Canning, Viscount Palmerston, Vis count Mah on, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. tilir James Graham, Sir obert H. Inglis, Mr. B. Hawes, and Mr. Italians; Sir C. L. Eutlake, the Secretary, attended. The meeting broke up at hslf•past four o'clock, when Prince Albert, attended by Col. the lion. A. Gordon, returned to Buckineham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the lion. Amelia Murray, Lord Elphinstone, Cul. the Hun. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Col. the lion. A. Gordon, honoured the French Plays with their presence last evening. Sir Wm. C. Ross, R.A., bad the honour of taking the last sitting for a miniature of Prince Arthur yesterday by command of her Majesty. The Earl of Derby attended at the allies of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street for the first time yes terday. Mr. Secretary Walpole attended fur the first time yester day at the Hommodice. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtoa attended at the Colonial-office yesterday for the first time. The Right lion. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester at tended yesterday at the Board of Trade fur the first time. Last night's Gazette contains the names of ministen as published in our columns. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the Govcrnon of the North American pro , winces from the Colonial•offies yesterday. (Pram last pletit's (Amite.) BUCKINGHAM PALAcii, FEB. 27.—Her Majesty in co mil was this da pleased to declare the Righ t Hon. William, Earl of Lansdale, Lord President of Her Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and his lordship took his place at the board accordingly. This day the Most Noble Algernon, Duke of Northumberland; the Right Hon. John William, Kart of Sandwich; the Right Hon. I Archibald William, Karl of Egliaton ; the Right Hon. Charles Philip, Earl of Hard.icke ; the Right Hon. ' James Howard, Earl of Malmesbury ; the Right Hon. John James Robert Manners (commonly called Lord John Manners) ; the Right Hon. Claude Hamilton (commonly called Lord Claude Hamilton) ; the Right Hon. William Lennox Lamellae, Lord de Roe; the Right Hon. Charles, Lord Colchester; the Right Hou. George Cecil Weld Forester; the Right Hon. Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bart. ; the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli; the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley ; the Right Hon. Robert Adam Christopher ; the Right Hon. William Beres. ford; and the Right Hoe. George Banks, ; were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's mast honour able Privy Council, and took their respective places at the board according Sely. lier Majesty in council was this day pleased to deliver the Great al to the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bartenahaw Sugden, Kat.; whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Ire land was, by her Majesty's command, administered to him • and he took his place at the board accordingly. Her 'Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to the Most lion. James Brownlow .darquis of Salisbury, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day administered to him, and his lordship took his place at the board accordingly. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right lion. James Howard, Eari of Malmesbury, the Right lion. Sic John Somerset Pakington, Bart., and the Right lion. Spencer Horatio Walpole, to be three of her Maje s ty's principal Secretaries of State, they were this day, by her Majesty's cummaad, MOM three of her Majesty's principal Secnitai in of State accordingly. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right lion. Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was this day administered Li him accordingly.—Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. Archibald William, Harlot Eglinton, Lieutenant-General and General Governor of that part of the Untied Kingdom called Ire 'Wed.—Her Majesty iu Council was this day pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, and, in his absence, the Right lion. Charles, Lord Colchester , President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all mutt. es relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 16.—Notice in hereby riven, that her Majesty will hold • levee at St. James's Palm*, on Wednenday, 3rd March neat, at two o'clock. WHITEHALL, FEB. 26.—The Qneen has been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity if a Knight of the Unit.d King. darn of Great Britain and Ireland unto Charles Nicholson, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, and Speaker of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. I/OWNING-STREET, FEB. 26.—The Queen ban been pleased to appoint the Itev. John /lowlin Monsarrat to be Colonial Chaplain fur her Alaji sty's settlements in the Raver (!ambit; also to appoint the Rev. William Cornewall to be Colonial Chaplain fur her Majesty's settlements on the Gold Cont. COMMISSION SIGNED l T TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT or Yortasmiaa.—Oeorge Micklothwaite Stan‘teld, to be surgeon in the 2nd West Vert Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry. KW CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHE QUER. (Fran the Deity Mies.) IVe now have a gentleman occupying the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer who is avowedly deri roue of upholding that which he has aptly designated our " territorial system." Mr. DISRAELI has again and again told the Buckinghamshire squirearchy, that such is the prime object of a British states man. For that purpose he would shift from the land to the industry of the nation those local and special charges which have been inherited with the land, or have been allowed fur, and deducted from, the pur chase money paid for every acre of "territory" our landowners have purchased. Farmers having been induced to take their farms at rents cal culated on a scale of prices artificially high, because their landlords had power enough in the legislature to pass a law to prothise them high prices by act of parliament; and when the pro mised prices have nut been realised, and the law to create an artificial scarcity has been repealed, the farmers very naturally look to their landlords fur reductions of rent by way of compensation ; Mr. Disnam.i then comes forward and tells theta they shall be relieved from their local taxes. The taxes they estimated and deducted before they entered into engagements to pay rent, are to be remitted, in order that the landowners on whose property such taxer are the natural and proper charges, may be saved from the necessity of reducing their rents. An arrangement, thie,•no doubt agreeable enouh to the landlords and tenants, a method of " m uting ' things pleasant " to both parties, because both are " relieved " without any sacrifice on either side ; but what say the toiling millions, the struggling traders, the competition driven manufacturers and capitalists of the nation, to such a method of relieving the 'ended interests? Are they prepared to pay the landowners' taxer to keep up the landowners rents ? Arc they content, now they have shaken off the corn law, which was the landowners' scheme for indirectly taxing all the rest of the people, to take upon themselves the direct obligations of the" terri torial aristocracy ?" This is a variation of the claim of exemption from taxation which was made by the old noblesse of France—and which eventually pro duced to themselves and to the nation ouch terrible evils. These are questions all who live by industry—all who are interested in the bade and manufactures of the country—must now ask themselves, for such are the avowed methods---the elaborately prepared plans—of the new CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for maintaining our " territorial system." This is a key to the financial scheme about to be inaugurated. Let us just see in what this territorial system consists. It is the accumulation, iu comparatively.few hands, of great masses of landed property, which are handed down, in nominal ownership, from generation to ge neration, each successive possessor having only a fettered and limited control over the estate of which he wields the territorial influence. lle can misuse the property, to the serious injury of tho local and general public, but he has no power to improve it. His own present and personal interests are sacrificed to the maintenance of a class interest, a territorial oligarchy, the nearest approach to a feudal system mo dern manners will permit. To conserve this system, to subject all the wealth and industry of the nation to unequal burthens, in order to increase and per petuate territorial power, will be the great and lead ing object of the plans of the present CHAN cEiton of the Exciteileilt. Not that the real interests of the owners of land are ad verse to the interests of the rest of the community; on the contrary they arc entirely identi cal; but It is just the sinister, the territorial, the unhealthy oligarchical interest, contradistinguished from the real interests of landlords, which has done so much to impede and retard the progress of the nation. And now the nation is avowedly to be so governed as will best promote the unwholesome iu ten sts of a territorial aristocracy. Let us turn, now, to an impartial, a neutral source for authority ani illustration on this point. In the most recent work on English husbandry, and one of the ablest, MORTON'S "Cyclopedia of Agriculture," there has just appeared the part which contains the article " Landlord." And here, the subject being treated strictly iu an agricultural sense, the influence , and position of landlords being considered solely in relation to their effect on the state and progress of husbandry, we find evidence mast conclusively con demnatory of that territorial system the present tory government has been formed to advance. After tracing the decay of feudalism in England, in its original term, from the growth of commerce, learn ing, and civilisation, the writer says that "another' cause has existed in this country, the latent agency of which upon the history of landed pro- 1 perty, and especially as affecting our whole agricultural system, can hardly be over estimated. The feudal system, however, decayed and antiquated in its outworks by the lapse of time and events, as a national and social organisation, retained in our body of real property law a fortress that has, with singular tenacity, preserved most of the features of its original structure amidst surrounding change. Tho descent of landed property according to the order of primogeniture, the very backbone of feudalism, has survived the great system which gave it birth and associated it with men's notions of na tural right as connected with the inheritance of land." This law, and the custom of entailing on the eldest son all the landed property of the family, has exer cised a widespread, a most noxious effect, upon our agriculture; for under this, the CIIANCELLOR of the Exclieueen's cherished "territorial system," the soil of the country has "gradually concentrated under these stagnating influences into the hands of involuntary, often mere nominal, owners." The new energy and activity now required and found amongst our agricultural tenantry demands from the owner of land, first that he should be in the position of a capitalist that is, be able to make the necessary permanent improvements on his estate to fit it for the beneficial investment of the tenant's capital; and secondly, that he should be willing and able to grant to the tenant security of tenure, by way of lease or otherwise. Yet these two things—these indispensable preliminaries to the well doing of farmers—are utterly inconsistent with the maintenance of our territorial system. Nor is there the slightest difficulty in pointing out the necessary im provements. He who runs may read ; the traveller by the express train can see in the dilapidated farm buildings, the overgrown fences and timber, the un drained land, the half-barren wastes, the plain and nodeniable particulars in which improvement would be undertaken by any owner of land ordinarily alive to his own interest, and free to act up to his know ledge. And all the requisite improvements of land, inclusure, drainage, irrigation, better farm-buildings, repairs, reads, leases, and tenant-right covenants, " all the improvements of which land is susceptible, have been ably enforced," says the writer we have referred to, " with a clearness and self-evidence scarcely complimentary to the subjects of advice so obvious, and duties so attractive. Yet, no one will deny, who has any practical acquaintance with the state of husbandry and of landed estates in this country, that the condi tion of whole districts, in points reflecting upon the proprietor rather than the tenant, is itself an almost Insuperable bar to good farming. There are thou sands, perhaps millions of acres, over which mere I incloeure is all that his been done towards improve ment; while the number is small of those farms which do not require considerable outlay by the landlord to fit them for profitable cultivation." The reason why the well-meant exhortations to improve their estates pass unheeded by the owners of " terri tories" which are semi-wastes, is that such properties could only be improved by division, by the breaking down into more moderate portions those vast masses of entailed land now held by our great landowners; by the abrogation, iu short, of our " territorial sys tem." Now, it is a notorious fact, that at least two-thirds of the land of this country are in strict settlement ; that is, the nominal owner is a mere life tenant. 1k cannot buy, sell, borrow, or even let his land on any rational terms; ho cannot improve, because the capital so invested would all go to aggrandise the already too large proportion of the family property which, under the settlement, must go to Ins eldest son. and he must do something for his younger children. Even his territorial influence will scarcely enable him to provide births at the public cost tor all his sons and sons-in-law. But, "besides the lucre uhacklus of eutuils, the land is subject to an immense variety of locum ' brances, totally distinct from its mere direction of inheritance. It is certain that not more thin half the Income derived froth find truly belongs to its nominal °mien; and the proportion has by many well-informed persons been estimated at not more than one-third. The remainder belougs beneficially to others—to mortgagees, rent-charge owners, join tresses, annuitants, and the like, while the nominal owner bears all the costs of management, and all the accidental or occasional losses, which are necessarily incident to landed property, whether held beneficially orotherwise." Leery ono accustomed to mix with landlords and farmers kitows that this is a true, and nut overcharged statement. Absolute and independent ownership of a large estate is comparatively rare; and the ditficulty of improve ment often lies less in the unwillingness and ignor ance of the landowner, than ill the tact that the ad vantages of such improvements to hint personally would be comparatively small, or that his pecuniary means do not enable hint to become an improver. The only practical solution of the difficulty i that the landowner, like the merchant, should adapt his business to his capital, should dispose of the acres he cannot improve, and raise funds wherewith to improve the remainder. But instead of such a rational course, the dictates of the territorial system induce him to aggrandise the size of his estate ut the expense of him real wealth, to enter into new engage ments, to buy more land with borrowed money, until he approaches the extreme ease of the Duke of BuCKINUIRM, who, with the nominal ownership of half a county, became a bankrupt and an outcast. This subject has long attracted the attention of philoeophical writers mid thinkers, and has of late years become, as it deserves to he, u topic of public disquisition; but its importance has immensely in creased now that we have a retrograde ••averiintent formed to re-impose all the restrictions a n d traunnela ou national industry—olliy recently k u off— end which were invented and maintained solely to uphold this territorial Nyhti!ni, a few salient points of which we have now touched upon. The character of the members of the new govern ment necessarily provokes continent on this landed question; their nets will probably produce still more. And it will be well to mite, at the very com mencement of the struggle iu defence of commercial freedom, that since the repeal of the torn-law there has been more actual improvement of laud, a greater disposition to seek for profit from improvement rather than from high prices; and an increasing de sire to accommodate the law of real property and tho management of estates to the exigencies of modern society, dam existed at any previous time. THE HOLMFIRTH INUNDATION. ADJOURNED INQUEST. The adjourned inquest was yesterday re-opened at the Town Hall, Holmfirth. There were a great number of persons present. George Robinson, a millowner and commissioner, made a voluntary statement, after having been condomd by the coroner, to the etf. et that although he had at different time* opposed the commissioners, he had made many at tempts to cause money to be raised, or to have some portion of the rates applied fur the repair of the Hilberty reservoir, but had always been successfully opposed. Captain Moody, R.E., having replied in answer to ques tions from the et:stoner, this, in consequence of an applica tion to the Home-office, he had made an ex oninatiou of the reservoir, proceeded to make a long smtement in expla nation o f cause of the calamity (which we are com pelled by pressure of matter to postpone publialting). In answer to questions from the coroner and the jury, he stated he did not believe the es-a, omit would have horst now, if the o nste.pit had been lesser than the embankment; but from the bad construction of the embankment it ulti mately must have burst. Mr. Jacomb, solicitor on behalf or the commissioners,. called witnesses, who proved that persons were at the reser voir on the night it burst, from Holmfirth, nod knew its dangerous state. Several of them also stated that at half past 10 that night (4th Feb.) they heard Mr. John Roebuck, one of the commissioners, tell people to go down the valley and w aril the people. The coroner would not allow Mr. Jacomb to address the jury. lhe coroner briefly addressed the jury as to the law in a case of this kind, but in so low a voice that he was very im perfectly heard, but be was understood to say it outscored to hint there was gross and very culpable negligence on the part of the commissioners. Ile did out find, its reading over the evidence and giving all due weight to their difficulties and their application to parliament, there had been any thing said to excuse that ne4ligence. It was negligence such as, that if they had been individuals, would have jus tified and called fur a verdict of manslaughter; but on the opinion Ito was about to put before them the commissioners, being a corporate body, could not be indicted for man slaughter; they were not, as a body, answerable for the acts or neglect of iudtviduals. It was well fur them that it was so, because he thought, were it etherwiti.e, they could not have hesitated as to what should have been their ver dict. It was no excuse fur them that they sought to rai-e money to repair the reservoir and failed, or that they . failed in their applications to parliament. Their duty was in that case to have turned off or lowered the water in the reservoir, and though under the act of parliament they might have been subject to penalties, he thought, with the evidence it would have been in their power to give in justification, no magistrate could have been found to convict. It would be for the jury, however, to consider whether they would not accompany their verdict with a recommendation as to the steps desirable in future to be taken in such cases. There were other large reservoirs, and some of them reported to be in an unsafe state; and if they thought ay pubic steps were necessary to be taken in reference to them, no doubt their opinion would be listened to, and have great weight under circumstances like the present. The jury retired to consider their verdict at a few minutes before 2 o'clock. THE VERDICT. (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) " That deceased died through the bunting of the Bilberry Reservoir, which was defective in its original construction. That the commissioners in permitting the reservoir to remain in its dangerous state had been guilty of wilful and culpable negligence, and the jun were only prevented passing a verdict of manslaugnter in conse quence of the commissioners being a corporute body. They hoped that government would make u provision for the protection of life and property against corporations of this kind." MARRIAGE OP JENNY LIND.—We can state on the best authority that the intelligence of Madill°. Jenny Lind's marriage with our countryman, Henry Otto Gold schmidt, published in the London papers, is fully confirmed. —HawsMaw BnewoAssile ENDOWMENT or NlAvsoort.-I'esterday evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Southwark was held at the Bridge House Hotel, to resolve upon a petition to parliament against the further endowment of the college of Maynooth. John Vickers, Esq. in the chair. The 11ev. W. Curling opened the proceedings in a short prayer, after which a most stormy meeting ensued. The chain:win was interrupted several times in the course of his opening ad dream, and the interrupter continuing his disregard of the many calls to order, was ejected. The Rev. Win. Curling, in a somewhat lengthy speech, in which he quoted several works of Roman catholic origin, proposed the first resolu tion, to the effect that the college of Maynooth is an anti scriptural and an immoral institution, and that the support of such a college is a disgrace to the protestant:mu of the empire. Mr. James Henry Shears seconded in • brief speech. Both this gentleman and the proposer met with considerable interruption. A Mr. lownwild here wished to address the meeting, bu: having dropped some expressions which were not well received, the meeting refused to hear him, He. however, amidst considerable confusion, during which great numbers crowded upon the platform, persisted in attempting to ad dress the meeting until the assistance of a poliee-eamstable was called in ; hut, the chairman declining to give him into custody, he kept his somewhat singular position. He afterwards sat down without having obtained a bearing. The second resolution, stating that the policy of endowing Maynooth had signally failed, and that the large sums un constitutionally toted had been expended, nut in improving the condition of the people of Ireland, but in educating men who have helped to keep Ireland in a state of insubor dination and a source of trouble to the government, was moved by Amity Pellatt, Rag, and seconded by John Thwaites, Esq. A third resolution, to adopt a petition to the legislature for the repeal of the act of Di4s, was moved by Dr. Armstrong. Altogether the meeting was very con fused and noisy, and considerable amusement was caused by the address of an operative named Crane, who proposed an amendment to the second resolution. The proceedings were not closed till a late hour. _ _ rURN-OUT uE WOREIVEtWI.E.—In tho neighbour hood of Radcliffe, near Manchester, upwards of 3,:alft work people are thrown out of cmplo ' ytuent, in cons. quince of the winders at Messrs. l'endleburys works hissing determined not to submit to a reduction of winos. THE ST RI a.—NIANCIIESTEIL — ' Tito Stationary engine drivers hare hail a meeting, at which it was agreed to give Is. per week to the men who are out of work. The millwrights of Manchester have held number meeting, at which it a ar. decided by • majority of seven to one to Join the Amalgamated Nociety. This was one of the largest meetings of this trade ever held in Maoctoster. have determined to send deputations to the millwrights in other towns to induce them to art in a similar manner. COURT of CoMMON COVNeu..—Ymterduy, it court was held for the despatch of business. The Market COM. miner's report upon the pro used Islington Market Bill was brought up and recommeudi di opposition to that men. sure. The opinion of six counsel was produced, recom mending the exercise by the court of the right of donation to the church of St. James, Deke'a.plare. Dr. Letheby was elected chemical refiner, and Mr. Taunton was ap pointed meter inspector, for the Central Cias Consumers' Company's gas and works. CRYSTAL PALACE SALE.—A sale of the timber and other materials used in the construction of the counters is to take place on the 2nd March, and the public are to be admitted to view by the purchase of catalogues at Gd. each.