The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-01 00:00:00

IM PE It I A PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FaID.►T, Dtc. 31. The bows act at 2 o'clock. ADJOURNMEN OF THE HOU'IK Yr NAYTEK reeved that the hou.;at it. rising adjourn till Thur.(lay, the 10th iif Feh.—Aerced NEW WRITS. Os tht motive 111 Mr fi.arrett , nsw wr,., were oritred for the toatay et IlatMarlton, in the room .f .slr. Char• WIN who hal accepted the aka of one of the 1...,rds of the Twenty, and for L.ch6.ld, in the room rt Lori A. Paget, whet ha. accepted the office of Chief E.perry, or Chief Clerk Morehal to he: !thirsty. WINE DCTIES M r OLIVEIRA ea T‘ altos that after the rect... Et should mass a no •lattust that the dirties on foreips and c kasha Inces be reduced to Is. a idles. CRIMINAL TRIALS. Mr 81 TT gave notice that after the rt ells he +boshd move fur le it a to bring in • bill for granting new Walt in CIIIIIIIIIZI UNIVEIOSITY OF OXFORD. Mr BLACKSr I gave notice that after the recess he 'bight avk whet h. rit was the intention of governintnt to brine in a bill for eArryinn oat the reeonnurad.itioaa of the commissions rs relativetoike Univenity of Oaford. I.*:\ 11'0E111 l V OF LEGISLATION. Mr. K LAI INli ease notice that aftsr the recess he should ask whether it was the intention of government to take any measures for securing uniformity in drawing fu ture acts of parliament. and for the arrangerustit sod rehire con•olidation of esitring statutes. Tka ts,use then adjourned. 4VV/Prz,.-• -• Ti) COILIUSPUN DENTs. A • •tms••l : •Lltes I " Sle Lopeeee. • easulatr. •be •••••• • • roe. ;so it • obbielted mil Imo., 04 1..4 id. -I beemetit •tskev:s4 ter "The 'terve ," CT P. Y.! ;41bCf. 'SW 4' tOoy tt,„ tou mete•etenr., • y • e•t leo plebti MOH WAllilt AT LONIA/N T.1..!D05. I*.v• Dar—lllers 31 lIIs.. ... &L. I. lorwiarm—lierviag. 114.31 m.. LI )NDON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 1. " Nlurt.as's your only wear." It is true that "oar thread of life is a min gled yarn;" wisdom is inter twined with folly. But the two strands are by no means equally twisted. We find here a long strip of the one, and there of the other. In the defunct , year the preponderance of folly has been outrageous; --as we said before—" Motley has been your only wear." It has followed up the grave, anxious year that preceded it, like a farce following a tragedy. The farce has, indeed, trodden upon the very heels of tragedy ; proving the truth of what was said by a great warrior, that there is " but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous"—an apophthegm which no one will deny who recollects the near relationship of NAPOLLON I. to NArot.EoN 111. In the year just the year of grace 1852, it has been as if the Saturnalia, instead of being confined to new year's tide, bad been kept up through the whole twelve months. Fur example—there are two eoeutries who assume—and not without good reason—to be the cadres of the world's wisdom and civilisation. The 1 one is situated on the south, the other on the north of the English Channel. Let us look how these two nations !lace been conducting themselves during the year which the bells of St. Bride's have jest rung out. During the far greater part of 1852 Eagiand has, beau quietly putting up with the rule of a DEithy- Disitst.Li Ministry—one of the broadest farces ever palmed upon a public. No one could keep his gra city when first told that the eccentric author and hero of " Contarini Fleming," and half a &Len more fantastic tales, had been made Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the reality of the burlesque far exceeded expectation. For a while— so long as the accumulation of unfinished business left or. hand by the old Ministers, served to keep the new ones a-going—things went on, if tamely, yet decorously. But towards the close, the " work and fun grew fast and furious." The grimaces of rage and eon sternatiou of the hems abet, °listed from , place transcended all that old MArrinws or LISTON bad ever resented of grotesque absurdity. Lord DERRY a phillipie,s against but successors in dike can only be compared to the clamour of a dis charged scullion, scolding all the way down stairs. So outrageous was the passion manifested by Lis Lord ship that the ex-Ministers having been appointed to repair to Windsor to surrender the charges on the same day that the new ones were summoned to kiss hands, the police, or the LORD CIIANU`.:IILAIN, found it n to insist that the former should go and ref:l l ;7m OreatWestern,the latter by the South- Western railways. But for this precaution it was feared that Lord DERBY might have made a manual assault on hit rivals—pulled the nose of Lord ABER neate—so intense was his vixenish wrath. Lord Drusfs lieutenant was otherwise affected. While the ex-Premier was raving and scolding in the Howse of Lords, Mr. DISRAELI jauntily entered the House of Commons, elaborately arrayed—with a rose in his button-hole—indicative of the silence into which he wished to consign all past grudges. Mr. DIrLIF.LI felt that he alone of all his colleagues bad contrived to show spirit and talent during his tenure of cake. His vanity was gratified at hearing himself praised in ar-is unsuspected quarters, while all his colleagues were consigned to ridicule. Ho alum forward, therefore, to announce their resignation with all the becks and wreathed smiles of a saeseadal actor. He complimented and " soft. eawdered" his leading antagonists till be compelled them—Ante enough against the grain it was with some of them--to reciprocate his amenities. Lord JOHN Harem responded with good-humoured pare. thrJANKII OMR %X with more reserve , Sir C. WOOD with palpable maisifeetatioasof spices. He was, how ever, the only one of his party who kept his temper is their &estrous ejection from the sweets of The explosion of wrath in the (relit was tremendous. The inmates of that citadel of Cosewvatism squabbled among themselves es inveterately as it the discordant spirits of the Jews who witnessed the downfall of Jerusalem bed bees resiseeitated in the breasts of the Israelites. Jositeres himself could not have been worse treated by the zealots of his day than his brother historians Metros and GLADSTONE by the rabid Dieraelites of theirs—the pretext in the case of GLADSTONE being pretty much the same as in that of Joseenve, a sus picion that be was about to go over to the Romans. In England. however, we can congratulate our selves that the farcical government has not lasted eat the year. Begun in the second month, it was brought to • close in the tenth. French follies would appear to last longer. The autocracy of M. BONA ?ANTE, began towards the end of 18.31. has expanded in Itt32 into a lath end plaster empire, which still survives. And the burlesque in France is not only longer spun out, but is every war broader than in Ragland. The nal orfitraiLe and cannonade with which the piece opened would have been too touch fur English nerves or stomachs, which cannot stand these practical jukes that inflict real suffering ea others. In the lame way the slavering addresses e: certain priests and prefects to NAPOLEON 'IL, as to • prophet or rather divinity, would have been hissed in England for their profanity. But the idea ef the huge balloon, with a wicker eagle pendant, the wings of which were to be waved by machinery as it Boated over the heed of the new-crowned Emperor, would have been hugely relished, I though the idea is nut exactly new. HWARTII has something like it in his " Chairing of the Mem ber." where • goose is introduced dying over the Lead of the triumphant candidate; mad even this is said to have been meant as a parody on LE BRUN'S eagle soaring over ALEXANDER. But the space of this prsetical joking must not be too in•ich stretched out. England has shaken off its Lord of Misrule mod Abbot of threason with all their crew, and returns in lii;o3 to the reign of cotnmcm sense and practical business. Hut when is Fresco to !rive done with the folly of 14.1*2 ? Every page of humanity's records, howev.T. for the year Ita2 is not stamped with the brute empty buffoonery as flint which occupies 10 large a space in them. To them litture ages will turn to read of the serene close of one of the most protracted lives of public men, yet ti.e most filled up in every part siih hu.inewe—u ith earnest and honourable business. In them the future historian will point out the final close of the seruggle in the English mind, b,ta,en the true fai7h of Frce TrAe and the heresy of Protection. In 101.4, it will hereafter be muted, was appointed the that English Cabinet Minister, who earned him promotion by unflinching loyalty to a strictly logical develope rent, and practical application of the principle of utility as the pole-star of his political action. Amid noise and buffoonery in high places, which might have better beseemed a masquerade or carnival, manly rational, principles have been malting steady progress, and touching and elevating events have on. curred. It is thus we detect the constant presence of a benign and wise spirit ruling the universe in every pause of human folly. Even when men sleep 'or waste their time the great predestined order of events holds on its majestic way. We may say of them to sceptics, or despondent bigots, as GALILEO muttered in the vaults of the Inquisition after his compulsory recantation or the opinion that the world moves—" Episo ar muore." And in this faith we enter upon the new year, confident that it will be more wise, and hoping that it may not be less merry, than the last. FRANCE. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, SATCHDAT WANING. Thirty-seven new Senators have been appointed. Among the number, the Marquis de Pairores and de la Roctiejacquelein, the Counts Flalntuit and Persigny. The Ministers of Portugal, Sweden, and Greece base given their letters of credence to the Emperor. 1 PARIS, THURSDAY EYRNINO. One of the many evil consequences of the present state of the press is the prevalence of false reports, and the absence of any efficient means of contradict ing them. Where the pieta is free, it is impossible that alarming rumours can circulate many hours without a full and satistactory explanation being laid before the public. But in Paris at the present time, people knowing that disagreeable news of every kind is always hushed up as long as possible, hare no confidence in official denials, and the ab sence in the independent journals of any allusion to a given rumour is no proof that it may nit be true, for perchance they may have been ordered to be silent. For the last three days mysterious whispers have floated about Paris that an infernal machine had been fired at the Emperor at Compiegne. The story, wholly unfounded as I believe it to be, happened to reach my ears only last night. I made inquiries and found the belief that something of the kind had occurred exceedingly general, especially in quarters least likely to be well informed. At the Bourse the thing had teen mentioned merely as an idle tale, and it excited no attention. But among tradesmen in remote parts of the town it was really astonishing to find how devoutly the report was believed. I heard the same account from three or four people wholly unconnected with each other. It was said that the Emperor had been shot at, that Edgar Ney had been killed, and his body concealed to prevent the matter from being known, that everybody heard to speak about the affair would at once be arrested, and that several hundreds were already in prison. This morning a contradiction appears in a shape so far from satis factory, that people are more than ever inclired to think that the report cannot have been wholly destitute of foundation. The Presse says that several country newspapers publish the following despatch from the Minister of Police : Paris, Dec. 27, 9 cm. A report has been spread in Paris sad in certain tiepirt wants that, while hunting at Compiegne, the Emperor had been wounded by an &ma'am, and that several ' , emirs of his suite had been killed or wounded. This report is com pletely false. Now it is certainly very curious that reports said to have been spread in Paris should have been con• tratlicted only in the provinces, and that this indirect I publication of an official denial, made three days ago, should be the first information given to the readers of the metropolitan press of the existence of the re port itself. The Monitetrr and all the government journals are wholly silent upon a matter which was thought of sufficient importance, at 9 o'clock in the morning of Dec. 27 to be the subject of a despatch from the Minister of Police to several departmental journals. It is noticed that the paragraph cited by the Presse does not in terms deny that an attempt at assassination was made, hut only that the Emperor was wounded, and that " several" persons were killed, neither of which facts wu alleged according to the story current in Paris. 'flee Alt-nitetir states that the return of the Emperor to Paris was retarded by indisposition, but that no serious results followed, as his Majesty was able to travel without inconvenience on Tuesdu, and to transact buainess with ministers yesterday morning. Ido not know whst has become of the Pope s' nuncio and his credentials. It was formally an nounced that he was to go in state to the Tuileries to present them at one o'clock on Tuesday last. The Emperor did not arrive there till three, and no sort of explanation for the postponement has been made public beyond the fact of his Majesty's indisposition at Compiegne. Nearly ten columns of the .Vuniteur of this day are filled with a list of promotions and appointments in the Legion of Honour, in favour of officers, sub officers, and privates of the army. It will be remem bered that the existing regulations make appoint ments of this character a cause of increased burden to the state treasury. About 6,000/. goes to-day, and no oneon behalt of the tax payers can say nay. The iftmiteur informs us that the news of the pro clamation of the empire has been splendidly cele brated in the Pitteas. It says : The news of the proclamation of the empire in France reached *thins, via Trieste, on the Vito inst. A few minutes after tbis news had been communicated by the French minister in Greece to the commandant-in-chief of our naval forces in the Levant, the French vessels of war anchored at the Pirates were dressed with flags, amidst crie., seven times repeated, of "Vice l'Empersur !" and a salute of 101 guns was fired. A Russian corvette and brig of war, two Greek vessels, and a Neapolitan corvette, the cep:Atlas of which had only a few 'insane* before been in formed by the French admiral of what had taken place, s at t t i esss at dthtehseamusl:ltvies o meut o rs fi t ga, so r a d eig te p ir cannon by Franc The two Russian commandants showed par ' nosier eagerness in coming to compliment the commander of the French sqsadren, and the latter on the following day ',spends d to their courtesy by celebrating like them the fete utty of the Emperor of Russia. The official journal also states that M. Pekoe, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Athens, has officially announced to M. Forth-Rouen, the French minister there, the lively satisfaction with which the King of Greece had received the news of the accession of the Emperor to the throne. New letters of credence were immediately transmitted to M. Mavrocordato. Oa New Year's-day there will be a grand reception at the Tuileries. the members of the diplomatic corps, the senate, the legislative body, the chiefs of the army, the judges of the different courts, the municipality, &c. The receptions will last several hours, each body arriving in regulated succession. 'I he Munateur publishes a decree of the Emperor, dated the 29th, appointing a commission to examine the ascounta of the different ministers as regards the outlay of the public money and the general expendi ture of the State for 1852 This decree is in pur suance of the law of 1838, which orders the appoint ment of a finance committee annually. The persons to whom, under present circumstances, this peculiarly delicate task is confided, are the Marquis d'Audiffret, senator (president), and MM. Le Roux Louvet, Leroy de Saint Arnaud, du Berthier, Isfusnier de Fleignes, Grandet, Esquirol, and Regnard de liar- twin. The four last named are officers of the Court lot Amounts, the others are members of the Corps lagislatif or Councillors of State. he taking of Laghouat has cost the French the life of a distinguished general officer, General Bous men. Ile was severely, although as it was thought at the time not dangerously, wounded in the assault. It became necessary, some days afterwards, to ampu tate his leg. and although he bore the operation well, and it was considered to have been successfully effected, he fainted and expired half an hour after it was over. The Cherit Mohammed-ben-Abliallah, whose preaching raised the rebellion which led to the war, eluded the vigilance of the French sentinels, i and escaped from Laglieuat in the night. Ile had been left tOr dead in a garden, and is desperately wounded. The Marquis Sirdinian Minister to the Cuurt of St. Janice, has arrived in Paris from Lou. don. PARIS, FItWAY EVV‘INO.. General Arigki de Cusanova, Duke of P.alua, is appointed Governor of the lavatides, vice Prince J• mice lit.aporte, named honorary Govt. !.1. T. oplong is made President cf the Senate; M. Iktroille Presidera, rod M. ltouher Vice-Presi dent, of the Council of State. Prince Murat has rt turned from Germany. \ THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1853. A leading article by M. Michel Chevalier, now I that journalism has fallen upon evil days, is quite en event. The distinguished political economist to.dey makes a merciless onslaught in the columns of tie Debate upon that passage in M. Troplong's report, 0 1 which I particularly directed your attention, wheran the apprehension that the Emperor might use his , absolute power in the direction of free trade, is et pressed in strong language, but little in keeping with the obsequious tout that otherwise pervades the at material composition. M. Chevalier is astonished that the Senate, while professing merely to interpret the constitution of January, 1802, should have gose out of their way to describe the principle of com mercial liberty as "a fatal theory, which would ruin agriculture, annihilate manufacturer and overturn our entire system of poll cal economy." He refers to the experience of England since 1816 as conclusive proof that this policy is the only sound one, and he observes the; with the exception of France, every government of any importance in the civilised world has begun, of is preparing to follow, England's example. While Austria, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Holland, th United States have nll relaxed their tariffs, and nearly abolished prohibitions, France alone main tains an absolute prohibition ugainst nine-tenths of the articles most connuouly required for daily use. If M. Troploug, who is wont to display so much ability in tracing laws to their source, would talc* the trouble to examine the origin of the French cus toms tariff, he would find that the basis of our eases tially prohioitive commercial policy was a law voted under the Directory on the 1001.1irumaire, year Y. which was a law made with a special view to war, and consequently wholly inapplicable to the present timcs. The title of that law was " A law to prohibit the importation and sale of English mer chandise ;" und, although by Articled the prohibition was extended to goods from other countries, the reason given was that English merchandise might perchance creep in circuitously, under other flags, or by land carriage from the continent. The innu merab!e prohibitory regulations made from time to time during the desperate wars of the revolution and the empire, to carry out that occasional law, are almost all in force at this moment, after thirty-seven years of peace. The Committee of the Senate stig me tised free trade as a cleverly-contrived " snare." M. Chevalier retorts this argument : It is in the nature of things that protectionists should be on de con stant watch to lay traps for foreign nations. The essence of their doctrine that the supreme good consists in selling without buying, and that to buy of the foreigner is to pay " tribate " to him. that is a consecrated expressios in the protectionist dictionary. Consequently, in a protectionist point of view, the only good commercial treaty is that which facilitates the lexportation of the produce of national jocosity without permitting foreign merchandise to k im ported in return. Diplomatists, acting upon these notions,have frequently boasted of their skill in laying snares for the nations with which they have been employed to treat. After showing that all such glares are unnecessary according to the free trade irinci ple, M. Chevalier proceeds to refute an assumption lof M. Troplong's, that the Emperor Napoleon was a protectionist. It is true that Napoleon was the author of the continentalpilockade, but he declared positively at St. Helena, in a reported cool ersation of Jute 24, 1816, that he conside. ed that blockade purely as a war measure. That blockade was substantially against England only. Matiuructurcd articles could then scarcely have been imported from any other country, but with regard to raw materials, the Emperor adopted most of the liberal regulations of the glorious constituent assembly of 1789. In the following passage he shows that the Emperor's tariff was much more liberal than that of France at the present moment : Under 'she empire corn and meat paid no duty. Now, wheat is subjected to the aliclilig scale, which without any benefit to the grower trammels our millers, hurts our navi gation, and has above all the enormous fault, now so well wailtratood, of actine as an auxiliary to famine in the case of a bad harvest. Wheat pays an ezoroitant import duty, and by an inhuman regulation, salt me a t, whi c h i s chiefly used by the poor, pays double. Wool, now heavily charged, was admitted fn e under the empire. Cast iron was also free of duty ; it now pays 77 fr. per 1,000 kills/rummies. Und..r the empire steel paid 99 fr. per 1,000 kilogrammes ; the duty now is 1,320, more than themes n timrs the amount. Iron in bo was charged 44 fr., it now pays 206. The injury done to French industry by the artificial prams caused by these duties is immense. M. Chevalier says the, friends of free trade would be only too delighted to accept the tariff of the em pire as an instalment. He quotes an expression of the Emperor at St. Helens, to the effect that it would be necessary to fall back upon free navigation of the seas and entire freedom of exchange. 'I he article concludes thus: Let us, therefore, live in the hope of seeing established this commercial regime, which would lead France to such a high point of prosperity and power, and which would be in perfect harmony with the necessary programme of the domestic poli y of states in modern times, namely, the improvement of the condition of the masses. We have reason to hope fur this, at a not far distant period, for the government does not allow any oppor. tunity to escape of making known that the amelioration of the condition of the people is the foremost of its wishes. This is why I have here the boldness to contradict ()many the authority of the tint President Troplong. In recom mending ti the government in the most urgent manner to perpetuate a system hostile to free trade, those who give that advice would drive it from perhaps the only path by which it might rapidly attain popular ameliorations which are not chimerical, and, against that pressure, it is desira ble that at least one Letsle voice should publicly protest. - - . . . In the above article, of which, owing to its length, I have necessarily given but an imperfect summary, M. Chevalier conducts his argument with the confi dence of an advocate who expects, if not to gain his cause, at least to command attention. What influence M. Chevalier may now have with the Emperor it is impossible to say. He himself tells M. Troplong that he need not have been so frightened, because the government has given no reason to suppose that it meditates anything like commercial temerity. I believe that no one, up to this moment has any solid grounds for forming an opinion one way or another as to Louis Napoleon's present opinions or intentions with regard to this momentous subject. It is, however, certain that he has on many occasions shown much consideration for M. Michel Chevalier, and evinced • disposition to listen to him. The panic terror of the Senate is of good augury, and induces a hope that the Emperor may yet, in the interest of France, not only listen to him, but follow his advice. and political support in the new English cabinet, which, as we learn this day (the 25th ult.), includes the Earl of Aberdeen and Mr. Gladstone. It will be remembered that the latter lays it down in his well known letters on Naples, that the maintenance of the independence of constitutionality in Piedmont is an essential condition of English influence in Europe." SPAIN. There is nothing of interest in the Madrid journals of the 25th. The Ga:ette announces some nomina tions of governors of provinces. M. Melchor Ordonez is appointed governor of Madrid, in place of M. Ven tura Diaz ; General Lasala is named political chief of Barcelona; and M. Fernando Balboa, political chief of Grenada. The Queen of Spain held a grand reception on the 25th, in honour of the anniveNary of the birth of her daughter, and in the evening Queen Christine was to give a grand ball. It being Christmas-day, the Stock Exchange was not open. ITALY. The Gazette de Saroie states that the recent rejec tion of the Civil Maniage Bill in no wise discourages the Piedmontese government ; and that in the early part of the next session the minister will present a new bill, based on the principle of separating the civil and ecclesiastical elements of marriage in the view of the law. The present session, as we gather from a statement made by M. Cavour in the Chamber of Representatives on the 23rd ult., will only last about five weeks. The new session is to commence early in March. The same ministry, it is said, is now inclined to grant the letters of naturalisation which, three years ago, its predecessors denied to the celebrated Te renzio Mamiani, formerly minister of Pius IX., and ' a philosophical writer of great merit. M. Mamiani will arrive in Turin in the course of the present month to open with a discourse the cance of the Society fur the Promotion of Philosophy in Italy. Letters from Venice of the 22nd ult. speak of i political an•ests effected there and the discovery of revolutionary correspondence. The municipal council of the city had been 1(d to sign an address to the Austrian Emperor expre,Fitio. regret, natural enough, that three Venetians should have hcen among the political prisoners recently executed at Mantua. From Tulin a correspondent writes to the Cotoync Gazette :—" We expect to find a great moral > 4 TURKEY. The Porte has not yet decided on renewing the charter of the Bank of Constantinople, which expires the 13th of March; consequently, the directors have publicly announced that henceforward they Minot give bills on London or Paris. The pound sterling, which was regulated at 110, has risen to 118, and would go ultimately higher were it not kept down by the large quantities of bills in the market on account of the shipments of grain and produce to Europe. The government has communicated to the commercial body, however, that the exchange will be regulated by a new system. What this is to be is not yet public. It is stated positively that the wealthy banker, T. Baltazzi, has made proposals to furnish bills nt 110 piastres per pound for the year 1843, on condition of receiving an indemnity of 60,0004 By the bank operations the government lost three times this amount. A letter from Constantinople states that the Sultan has had a suitable house purchased for Abd-el-Kader at Broussa. me court. WINDSOR, Du.. 31. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday : the Prince of Leinirgen, and the Right Hoe. Henry and Lady Mery Labouebere. Tke band of the 2nd Life Guards attended in the Castle, and played during dinner the following gawk: Overture (Op. 60) Quadrille, •• Bachelor" *lonian, .. Lucia di Lammermoor" Doniaitti. Copts Air murk (Stabat Mater) Welts, .. Le Rondo Matin" Polka _ _ [Ursula C al save the Queen. Her Majesty's private band afterward. attended, and performed the following overture, .• La Viriine" Fonts 13, Violin, M. Santos neleinion, Belle!, Ountuee" Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiniagen, went out shouting this morning, attended by Cul. the Hun. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie. The Duehess of Orleans, with the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres, visited her Majesty to-day. The Earl of Aberdeen lett town yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, and Mr. Pressly had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in D mning-street. Sir Thomas Fremantle Ckairmsn of the Customs, had also an interview with t hei right hon. gentleman. The Duke of Newcastle lift town yesterday for Clamber, Netts. Le Chewslier S. de Macedo, Brazilian Minister, attended Lord John Russell's diplomatic levee on Thursday. The following were present. at Lord and Lady .1 ohn Rus sell's dinner party on Thursday :—The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of N , wcustle, the Earl of Aberdeen, EArl Granville, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Right Hun. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Cavendish, and Mr. Arthur Russell. Despatches were sent yeste,rlay from the Colonial-office t) the Guvernor•Genersl of Canada. • (FROM LAST NIGHT'S OAZITTZ WINDSOR, 11Ec. 28.—Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint the Right lion. Edward Card smell President of the Cominit'ee of Council appointed fur the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and ForeignPiantations. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 30.—The Queen has seen pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Lord Ernest Aagustus Charles Bruiteeell Bruce, to be Vice-Chamber laki of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Ri g ht Honourable Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, Viscuant Newport, resigned. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Henry Lord Foley to be Captain of Her Majesty's Honourable Caps of Gentlemen at Arms, in the room of John William, Earl of Sandwich, resigned. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Robert Visa coant Sydney to be Captain of Her Majesty's Guard of Tamen of the Guard, in the room of William Lennox Leseelles Lord de Ros, resigned. WHITEHALL. DEC. 30.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting to the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, the offices of Chancellor and Under Tree surer of her Majesty's Exchequer; the Queen has aim been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under thp Great Seal, appointing the Right. Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., to be her Majesty's Commissioner for the &Heirs of India; the Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the office and place of Advocate-General or Judge Mar ti il of her Majesty's Forces to the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers ; the Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal for nominating, mistiming, and appointing the Right. Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines to be a Poor Law Commissioner for Eng land; the Queen has also been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Hots. Sidney Herbert to be her Majesty's Secretary at War; the Queen has also been pleased to grant the office of Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to James Moncreiff, Esq. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consti tuting and appointing the Right Honourable Sir James Robert Geo. Graham, Baronet; Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8.; Rear-Admiral Maurice Frederick Fitzhardiage Berkeley, C.B. ' • Captain the Honourable Richard Saunders ' Dundee, C.B. • Captain Alexander Milne, and the Ho n o ur . able William Francis Cowper, to be Her Majesty's Com taissioness for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 23.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain George Thompson Wade to he Civil Commissioner and Collector of Taxes for the Seychelles Islands, dependencies of tho Island of Mauritius. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Thomas T. Kelly, Esq., M.D., to be an Assistant Magistrate fur the district of Natal, in South Africa: _ _ _ -------• DOWNING-STKEET, Dec. 30.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend John Ale sander Mathias, Bachelor of Arts, to be Chaplain ou the establishment of the Government of the island of Ceylon. }Ler Majesty has also been please,' to appoint Richard "Laic% Hanson, Esq., to be Advocate• General for the Colony of South Australia. WAR OFFICE, Die. 31. Ist Regiment of Dragoonv—Assistant-Surgeon John Got riage, M D., from the 69th loot, to be assistant•surgeen, vice Orr, who exchanges. 11th Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant Edwin Adolphus Cook to be captain, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires ; Cornet the Honourable Robert John Annesley to be lieu tenant, by purchase, vier Cook. 15th Light Dragoons. Cornet Hon. Algernon Thorn's Moreton to be lieuttuant, without purchase, vice Von' Streng, promoted ; Serjeant Joseph P. North to be cor net, without purchase , , vice Moreton. . Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards.—Ensign and Lieutenant Alexander Kinlock to be lieutenant and captain, by pur chase, vice Lloyd, who retire-. Coidstresm Guards.—Percy Scawen Wyndham, gent., to be ensign and lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morgan, who retires. Scots Fusilier Guards.—Assistants Surgeon Frederick Robinson, M.D., from the 74th Foot, to be assistant surgeon, vice Bowling, who retires upon half-pay. 19th loot.—Ensign George Clay tr. be lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Rivers, who retires. 32nd Foot.—Ensign Charles Rodick Ricketts to be lieut.- neat, by purchase, vice Harris, who retires. 3Sth Foot.—Lieutenant Samuel Hackett to be captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-major Lecky, who retires upon full pay ; Ensign Rowland Hill Gordon to be lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Hackett. 69th Fsot.—Assistant-Surgeon William John Alexander Orr, from the Ist Dragoons, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Gorringe, who exchanges; Ensign Frederick Hacket to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chapman, who retires. 60th Foot.—Second Lieutenant Cunyngham Jones to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice Sl'Quten, deceased; Ensign William Cubitt, from the 71st Fent, to be 'scowl lieutenant, without purchase, vice Jones. 62nd Foot.—Ensign James William Tibbitts to be lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Minnitt, promoted in the Roy Canadian Rifle Regiment. Royal Cauaiiian Rifle Regiment.—Lieutenant John Chris topher Minnitt, from the 62nd Foot, to he captain, by Ipurchase, vice Cox, who retires. ItUATUK.—In the Gazette of Nov. 23, 1852, for Robert Huey Jex Blake, gent. to be ensign in 18th lost, without purchase, read Robert Hoey Jex-Blake, &c. MENORANDUIC—The Christian names of Ensign Pratt, of the Ilith Foot, are Robert Torrens.s OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dec. 28. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants.—Franeis Towry Adeane Law, vice Purvis, promoted ; Major Fraucis Downes, vice Good enough, promoted; Albi rt Charles Hugo Light, vice Williams promoted ; Francis Henry William Nisbett, vies Wolfe, promoted; Fralklund George Eilgworth Werren, vice Cockburn. promoted; Hurry Clement Siva ni.erton Dyer, vice Conolly, promoted ; Thomas Lloyd Sill, vice Nungle, promoted; Joseph lissuwell, vies Striver, promited ; Joshua Frederick Betty, vice Hardy, promoted; Francis Wm. Eveleigh Szyse.p, vice Hagan, , promoted; John Kelly Holdsworth, vice Fisher, pro moted ; William Ficderiek Moore, vice Hail, promoted; Maurice Ilenry litxmaurice, vice Gritlin, promot , il; Wistir a l am !bull Mi!iitan, vice Nile, pluinged ; Arthur Richard lbanit,ent, %ice Kelly, promoted; floury Rich m Martin, vice Down, promoted; Alexander Patrick Wiilie ' vice J. S. Stirling, pronio•ed. Corps of Royal Engineers.—Gentlentau Cadets to be Se cond Lieutenants, with temporary rat.k.—John Henry Stockman Carter, tins Stoptord, promoted; William Frederick Gang, rice Bri..ge, promoted; James Bevan Edwards, vice Whitmore, promoted. OFFICE OF 011ONAN . CE..DEC. 31. . _ Royal Regiment of Artillery•.—First Lieutenant Audley Mervyn Archdall to be second captain, vice Somerset, retired upon haltpay ; Second Lieutenant Frederick Nurse Cromartie to he first lieutenant, vice Archdall. NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANT. STAFFUILDSIIIRZ. George Holgoeke, THE NEW ELECTIONS. SIR CHARLES WOOD AT HALIFAX. HALIFAX, DEC 31. Last evening the Right Hon. Sir Chnrlea Wood met his friends and supporters in the large room of the Old Cock lon. EDWARD AKRUYD, Esq., of Denton Park, presided, and the meeting was attended by nearly all the leading liberals of the town ; both the whigs and radicals were fully represented on the occasion. The CHAIRMAN referred at surne length to the events of the last election, to the resignation of the Derby ministry, and to the position of the liberals of Halifax at the present time. He spoke with confidence of the return of Sir Charles Wood, and then introduced him to the meeting. Sir C. Wow, was received with loud and prolonged cheering.—lie said—l have often bad to thank you for the kindness of your reception. (Hear, hear.) It is some twenty years ago that I first stood before you as a candi date for your suffrages, anti you must make some allowance if the expressions 1 use fall short of those which your kind ness deserves, and which my awn feelings prompt me to use, if I could find words to express them. I don't know that I can say more than that " I thank you from the bottom of my heart," and I trust that you will believe me that those words express what I do feel ; and it I had spoken in language more eloquent, I could not sac more than that I am deeply grateful. (Cheers.) I stand before you now for the eighth time as a candidate for your suffrages, and I certainly little thought and expected that I should so soon again have a?. peered before you in that character. I hope you will not take it amiss if I do say that I little wished that it should be so. (A voice—" 1 did." Laughter and cheers.) And, gentlemen, if in accepting office iu the present critical state of public affairs, I had only consulted my own wishes and personal enjoyment, I confess that think I should not be at. ailing before you new. For the last week or ten days I have been engaged with these whom I ant proud to call my colleagues in a difficult and painful task, considering how much private friendship and former associations it has been necessary to sacrifice, and more than once I lievo felt no slight envy for those who are not included in the present government. (Hear, hear.) If public office were merely a source of enjoy ment and emolument, without its corresponding duties, it might be a more agreeable task. These who have not beau placed in that situation look upon it u the highest political prize of successful ambition. Those who have know how heavy ate the drawbacks to that successful ambition in the sacrifice of health and of personal en oymeut. Believe me, if publie men were not ae• Crated by what Mr. Akroyd has described as the sense of public duty, few would RC engaged in the public service. (Hear, hear.) But I do consider we are engaged in the performance of a public duty, and although I ask you to re-elect me simply because I have accepted office, yet I call upon you to elect me even as you would do at a general election ; because, in our several capacities, I consider that we arc but simply engaged in the perform ance of those public duties which we hold in common. (" Hear" and cheers.) We are placed by Providence in dif ferent positions in this world, and we must perform our duty. How many are there among you who are engaged in this public election at • sacrifice to private interests, private time, and private enjoyment? (Hear, hear) Those who are engaged thus sacrifice much. And why? Because they feel it to be their public duty to return that candidate wham they think will best serve •the pubiic interests. (Cheers.) As for myself, I may say that I might retire irto private life, and etij'y myself for more than in public office; but it does so happen that I have time which I can devote to the public service. I have been a man of busi ness all my life, and when I was asked by those with whom I am proud to be connected to engage in the government of the country, I felt that I should have neglected my duty to my country, and to the trust which you have imposed upon me, if 1 declined to do so. (Cheers.) Fur 20 years you have trusted ins fur bound arty merits or claims of mine; that oo one can feel more than myself; but when at the last election I was returned by you, it was not unforeseen that a time might come when I might be called upon to take office in the public service. (Cheers.) I was then told in this room, that if duty placed me is that position, those who returned me then would stand by me now. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, no doubt !have felt tt as a great distinction, that when a large party, computed of very vary. nog materials—from those with whom I have the honour to be associated, to whom I have on former occasions been opposed, but with whom I have row seen to concur in the views which I always felt to be right—(cheers)—l say, when a combination of all parties designated by the general term " Liberal " have united for the formation of a govern ment to prevent the rerun to power of those who, by their own fault and their own folly, have failed in retaining it—(cheers)—l say, when all these have concurred in saying that I ought to take my place among the leaders, I should have failed in my duty to you and to my country had I d-clined to do so. (Prolonged cheers.) I helieved that the electors of Halifax would approve of the course I took—(hear, hear)—at any rate, I did not shrink from ap pearing before au intelligent and independent constituency, a constituency not to be bribed or intimidated by any one, and I said, " I will go to my constituency ; I feel satisfied they will approve of what I have done; I will appeal to them." (Cheers.) I am therefore grateful for what, in common parlance, is called the exertions you have made in my favour. 1 have worked in common with you to promote the principles of civil and religious liberty, and the extension of the powers of the constitution to those classes who become entitled to pos• as it—placing the constitution of this country on a broader basis, believing that the basis of our constitution should be extruded as far as the increasing intelligence warrants. (Cheers ) Now, gentlemen it may be stated to you in a few words, as my lion. friend (Mr. Akroyd) has done, how it has come to pass that this election takes place. Gentlemen, you will remember that at the last election I told you to return men whom you could implicitly trust as to their opiumus with reference to the principles of free trade, for it was on that question that an appeal was made to the country, and on that the electors of Halifax, together with those of the other constituencies of the country, were called upon as jurymen to give their verdict. It would have been betraying that great trust, if you had returned men, as to whose opinions on free trade there could have been the slightest shadow of a doubt. (Hear, hear.) I think you did your duty in returning me and my honourable friend en my right. (Loud cheers.) The other constituencies of the empire did likewise, and what would have been the conse quences if they had not, with Lord Derby, professing up to the moment when he bowed to the will of the country, protectionist principles, while other members of his govern ment, subsequent to that decision, avowed themselves pro tectionists still; and that if they sacrificed protection, it was to enable them to resist what they were pleased to call the " encroachment of democracy." (Loud laughter.) They would not yet trust the people, and they there• I fore properly forfeited office ; but eveu when they pro fessed to bow to the will of the country, they did it in a shuffling and shabby manner. (Cheers and laughter.) They reproached Sir Robert Peel for changing his opinions, and avowing that change like a man; and for acting upon it they denounced him as a traitor. But what did they do themselves? Every promise they made they forfeited; every expectation they held out they falsified ; they had changed their views, but they had not the manliness to say so. If they were convinced, as they said they were, that the opinion of the country was declared in favour of free I trade, they ought to have put that expression of opinion in the Queen's spec ch, at the opening of the session. But they did not ; and though since they had tried to say that there w .s something expressed in the speech to that effect, my friends will hear me out that an honest man among them the Secretary for the Home Department—said that the Queen's speech was expressly framed 53 that it would admit of either construe tiou. (Oheers.) Why, had they not gone to the country with every opinion in their mouths, from " Derby and Pro tection " to " Derby and Free. trade ? " We saw two bro thers in the same county—one coming forward for the county with " Derby and Protection," and the other for the borough with a "Derby and Free-trade " cry. What could we expect from them ? What was it our duty to do? (A voice—" To turn them out.") (Laughter.) An appeal had been made to the country upon the question of free trade. The answer was made by the mouth of those whom you sent as your representatives. If they had put that expression of the decision of the country in the Queen's Speech, we should have supported the government in that expression, and no doubt should have defeated the tit y-three honest gentlemen who stood by protection to the last. The late go. vernment did not, however, put that expression in the Queen'_ 'speech, and it was our humble duty to deliver the verdict of the constituencies ou that question. Did we seek to do it in any factious manner ? We arc accused of " combination " to turn out the government, and all sorts of hard words formed on the basis of " combination" and "coalition" are directed against no. Why, the only " corn ' bination " in which we entered was a combination not to torn them out. The leaders of the Whig party drew up a resolution which could never be taken in an adverse sense, and the best proof that it could nut be so taken was that the government adopted it when it was moved by another party. The resolution of Mr. Villiers was couched in stronger terms; hut what were the words of the Government? Why, " Tut the working classes had been essentially benefited by the repeal of the corn laws," but they had not the senor to see that that which benefited was a "wise, just, and bent fizial measure," and they had a M the cmrage t. say that which they believed ; therefore they opposed Me. Villiers' resolution. We asked f .r it, though with some delicacy, because we did wish to turn them out—not that I think they would have gone out upon tb at question even if beaten upon it. (" Hear," and laughter.) But what I wish to chow is that the combination, be it right or wrong, was to avoid turning them out ; and as I said before, when Lord Palmerston mov e d t. e vi ry worth which Sir James Graham, Lord John Rassull, and Lent Al et,i, en had arranged as the most gentle form of expressing our opinion, the government at once acquiesced in those words—a decided proof that they did not consider the resolution calculated to turn them out. Well, see voted fur the resolution that the and tended to promote the free trade measure was " wise just, and be n 1;,. --- ‘io but, beaten upon that, I voted foe se a that " the recent commercial policy was for the bereft of the whole community , tentmeut and welfare of the working dames." There el* matter ended , and I was of opinion that we should ha g a ; belief away, and enjoyed those Chrietmas holidays whiclje by the determination a the government to bring fowittr. which ohni*: forward lest i k w nsi e , n t o ' t h , t " their budget. This was a voluntary air on tuei 4:- we nothing was done by any portion of the Opposition to pal them to bring forward their budget, nor was . * taken which could have turned them out. Tn e u y n ‘,i t .? teered their budget—this was their owu doing, and 1 4; owe no thanks to any exertion of our party for the res Well, their budget having been brought forward, were 's to say, " However boa it may be, however much s be accused of ' combination ?' " Would that has iewb shay e hi e pen n nt objectort i uh g e h iyy t ti o ( e. C dn i i rg s i,,:yio,eifts against that j ' m tu N l u si moo, no.") t ty are we to be accused of combination because we coo , that if you rolled the House of Commons, iudepeudenti. of the existence of the governme n t, you could not find telt men who would have voted for it. (" Hear, hear," ad cheers.) I have not heard a single m an even of those whs voted for it state that he approv e d o f t h e proposaLs of ti, budget. A gentleman who voted f or i t , t h e other day saidto me, "I am glad that we have g u t r id o f the melt and h o reduction. I thought that yo u (Si r Ch arles) were gulfsright, tax rig ; b h t ,attntd.wwe we did against the do u b oug of the helot wish to turn out th e government we supported them ;" that is to say, they supported that whet they thought wrong, because they did nut wish to change the government, or were afraid of the " delug e " was to follow. (Laughter and cheers.) Now, gentl e : men, as Mr. Aceroyd has said, and truly said, there never was such a delusion as that budget; it contained at lean half a dozen things cloth of which ought to h ave b een fate to it. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, Ido not believe that the repeal of half the malt tax would have benetitel any one; the reduction of the malt tax would have mole but little difference to the consumer, and could not be of the slightest benefit to the producer; therefore, it would have been a sacrifice of two millions and a half merely to put on an sdditiwsal house tax. (Hear, heat.) The budget contained the principles of protection in the highest degree; it professed to repeal half the h p duty, and to put on Co foreign articles what the late Chancellor of the Exchopot called a countervailing duty of twelve shillings per hundred. weight. The duty on lame-grown hops is at the maximum ' of twelve shillings per huudreiweight, and the duty he proposed to put on the foreign hops was 11. 2s, fel, per hundredweight, and this is the proposed of a man who is for "unrestricted competition." (" Hear, hear," anti laugh. ter.) The truth is, the budget was one of promises and not performances. The late Chancellor promised the Grunts protection, but threw it overboard; he then promised theta compensation, and threw that over; and he afterward* pro mised a general revisino of taxation which would beceat en classes, and this he could noL effect. Thu budget was bundle of promises which they could not ' , moons. We thought it right not to doable the house tax, and acting on this conviction we resisted the first portion of the budget, But even with respect to this there was such a fraud at tempted as I never before recollect. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, finding that after having thrown overboard so many principles he was himself is danger of being thrown over by his own prin ciples in turn, owing to the great objection made to his proposal of doubling the house tax, said is effect, "Our proposal is to double the house tax, but I beg to remind my friends that if they do vote for it, I do not consider that they are bound to carry it out;" or, is other words, " Do nut eniharrass yourself with principles, vote to keep rue in office, threw overboard the keystone of our financial fabric if you like, but save the goverment." (Cheers.) But if he did not get the house tax, how was he 1 1 to repeal halt the malt tax ? And if he did not intend to envy out his proposal of the house tax, the proposition was ! then in itself an absolute absurdity. (Hear, hear.) It is not worth while to trouble you with details further than to say tint the surplus spoken of was merely fictitious— (lntighter)—the only surplus the Chancellor had was " money borrowed." (Laughter.) He professed to have a surplus of four hundred thousand pounds, which entirely accrued by applying to the services of the year money bor rowed for one purpose, which if not applied to that ought to have been applied to the extinction of the debt under which it was borrowed. (" Hear, hear," and ch ors.) I ask any man whether, in the present prosperous state of the coun try, it would have been justifiable to have thrown the whole financial system into a state of contusion, for a sur plus which would not exist ;f it had not been borrowed? (Laughter.) 1 ask you. gentlemen, who are able to keep a debtor and creditor sceount, it that is the sort of eureka' on which you would like to depend to show a balance in your favour at the end of the yeas? In this position the government was placed, and, though I have great respect for many of the individuais composing it, I must say that during the whole course of my political career I never saw a government so little caps. ble of conducting the affairs of the country. (Loud cheers.) Then came the question, what was to be done on their resignation ? I beg that you will observe that in spite of all their blunders they had all but a majority in tin House of Common. All the liberals, of whatever shade or class—from those to whom I have during the last twenty years been opposed, as true conservatives, to those whom, on the other hand, I have oppoisedebas going too far ;—now, putting all these together, they barely motto an actual ma jority ; therefore, maces all these parties combined to furze and support a government, there was no alternative but the return of Lord Derby and his frit ads to power, with the in creased strength which they would of course derive from the impoesibily of tiny other government being formed. (Hear.) Let me beg of those gentlrmen—tor I know there are different shades of liberal opinion iu this borough—to weigh well the consideration, that it is easy to agree to stand still and do nothing, but that it is very difficult to agree in the precise measures that should be advanced. (Hear, hear.) We have comprehended within the present cabinet men of various shades of opinion. If it were not so, it would have been impossible to have formed any go , vernment. There may he many persons in this room who may think that in a government comprehending those in cluded in the present cabinet, there are some who are likely to go too far, while others may co. eider it compre hends those who will not go fast and far enough ; but unless the present ministry had been united by mutual forbearance, and the sacrifice of all personal objections and individual views to a degree which, I must confess, I little expected, and never saw exceeded, no li beral government amid hove been formed. (Cheers.) Whatever may be the points of difference among parties at home, yet tho state of the world abroad is no such as to allow this country to be without a strong govern ment. (Loud cheering) I never was an alarmist, and I hope I am not now. No man can look beyond the four seas of this kingdom without teeing that there may be danger from those who dwell on the continent of Europe. While every power there rules by military force alone, no man can assert that affairs arc in so satisfactory a state as to admit of the government of this country being in weak hands. (Cheers) Now, gentlemen, I have said that great sacrifices have been made by many public men of what they might well consider their just pretensions, in order to combine in a strong government. (Loud and renewed cheering.) It was a deep sense of public duty— an overwhelming sense of the necessity of the cue— which has induced them to form a liberal go vernment—a government not disposed to stand still but to advance a government combining as much talent as could be compreho noted in the present cabinet— that is the combination of which the present government consists, and on these grounds they appeal to the country for support. (Loud cheers.) I cannot pretend to say, gen tlemen, that in this combination great difficulties have not been found—roman' considerations uecesearily mast weigh in all cases, yet e great deal has been sacrificed in order to form a strong ond united government. (Cheers.) If we are combined with those to whom on many occasions we hare been opposed, yet, be it remembered, we are also combined with those who, on many occasions, have taken a prominent part in promoting those prin ciples which we hold moot dear. (Cheers.) We hays uuited with us those who took a prominent part in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts—in the mewing of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill—in passing the Re form Bill—in the Municipal Reform Act—and is promoting all the measures for the repeal of the re strictions on commerce and those in favour of the redue. tion of taxation. The men who have been more or less united on those questions have all classed themselves in one government. (Cheers.) Those who have opposed further reform heretofore, have now made up their minds to concur in further measures of reform—(hear, hear)—and addresses are out of those who have hitherto opposed those principles, decla'ing their adherence to them. It may be necessary to take time to concert measures of that description those who have as yet been opposed to them, but we have at least established this, thet nit classes of those called liberals concur in the principles if opt in the details of measures for this object. (Cheers.) I need not refer to the question of free trade, (or that has been entirely settled by the complete surrender of our opponents. (Cheering.) No doubt there are many further measures to be carried for the abolition of protectionist laws still in existence, and they must dingo pear as the surplus revenue will allow it—that you may consider as certain, and it is only a question of time. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, thieve are the principles on which the government go to the country, and if they be not supported as a ministry, then the government must fall into the hands of Lord De :by and his friends, who had stated their strenuous eh tvilnileition to oppose all further improvements in our institutions. That declaration was avowed in the "sty in which the late govern ment went to the country; they then said, Lord John Russell and Ain friends are in power. they are pledged to promote the further improvement of the electoral system, and that we consider as an approach to de mocracy—• to the Deluge.' " (Hear, and laughter.) If you are in favour of any advance, however large or small, 1 think you must support those who are opposed by those who I would stand still altogether—if you are opposed to palter• ing questions of protection, such as I have shown you were developed in the proposition with reference to the hop duty—if, in short, you are in favour of a government of progress. as against a government opposed to all improve• ment, then you must support the present government as against their protect Wei. (Hear,' hear, and cheers.) Now, gentlemen, Ido not wish to refer to any local grounds or topics for we had at the last e lection too much personal fee ' ling, and I am the last mat:, as I wits then, to do anything of the kind I (Hear, hear.) It was not my fault that any bitterness act feeling was excited durina the last election, for 1 base been always anxious that political contests, which must be carried on amongst those who are for the most part friends, should he conducted without asperity or bitter ness of feeling. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless, 1 must re- ground t.ilso noted in le on which he terms ti country.' consider ;Bear, I of tht like I', P in the ife 'Mee t stuenced. ly the eon the ',tutee no they w. were dirt the eolith' of ()rims inetsAber w the "piv iniiaceri gentleir and 1 h , ) What to TCbiSt t O was efli ibited prat rch, (ruin prevent tl .ta their c Am was eni •tbened b .) I nevi , be hia o ion of his :stant, and protests aga once of the church a J s hould Iw unwortl sheers.) 1 never kn dot an appeal to the b distinctly that I am peal, and let us see prepared to withhold Delves enjoy. Let m dot afraid of the resul mentioned, Fame of think it worth wh i le Ana desirous to avoid tweed' mycelf and my give offence to him t a go that question w an which the deem) will accept the how The right hon. b hearty and prolongei ----- ger to the pro addri•ss, prmi sahe pivot or and which he 'Vont of the c say thst 1 c oppouent. ( A member / d o not s any leaning into public lil capcity come that precisely turd to call th ear.) Theo law., which ton Wept tt t h e borough anent, 1 rem , ancminter—ti MU *uPr d woo , 'ell :• the •• pivot,' loud cheers.) Why it was t acts, which hith prohib islislied chore Jatended to p fellow -subject Protestantism as strangtt Vicar, hear.) to any man, I fair poutmioi • Sim a prutesta one who prof 811101 Leat evening, ar electors of ante High Constable *esent. The meet's ;he opinion of this Alfred Hervey is urn aisq., be requested to occasion. At the same time s Hervey was held ut t fas Toting against the lead his osplanation o lo take office under tl be felt confident that of the country in t lorry out the wise an reel, whom he bad a eon. A resolution, I anion to secure his gassed unanimously. Up to this hour t Dent in order to see Trelawny have prow whether any 11111• We I 0101 return me u your re be, gentlemen, your "70, Wectbourne- The followi the newly-alipo • To the lath &reds of Ayles been pleased to ■ate, office in tl Net, for the tb and confidence. make my seat I b which I coul liberal and en] office with the c piei.ent admini at any govern entertaining, o Opinions; and laity, if possible perience of thi tom of the ilia 'finite in one str ta admitting th sincerely desiro political, social, ground, I look former period t timed measure, the purity and bliehment of further develc to the relief Of indirect to ,materially abr education, relic Sal reform of sr Introduction of the consolidat iu foal institutiuu Of real propertl the innumerabl Result from the principles and Objects which A correspondent appearance of Sir Cie baronet to parliamei Il l i a e ee nl - Ta r t r i o on w. Sir T ( ' luncheon at the . been throughoute bo r ough z pres s e d has b basie li berals l'h be i e M No opposition i tion 01 Lord Ern, eptiag office in hi WO take place on Tuei ' to the re-election of 1 .. . a The yo r on writ Thursday, for th it S The election wri reached that town y. been sent to the tows Proclamation was mi Mayor and bailiff. . I . will take place neat .( ! day. Sir Alexander at the Assembly.rin accompanied by Mr. the Oxford circuit, / • short time since. At the eleventh th whig and tory, of a new candidate,' tister-at-law, from principles." lie arrived in thi dressed the electors I ably received, as the L a " tory dodge." printed address, whi his arrival, and in w . • i t chartist principles I x, •..!7—_ THE APPOINT). CONtiTATILES.—Yest waiting co be read a laws relating to the i tending and parish ci vices of high constsb cases. By this bill, the justices, and to p tip houses are t, be Metropolitan Police new law. REMOVAL OF TI j —The Lords Conan baring rim iced ant eminent importer an enty questingr e o that duty, t trabhiti i ton, one of the score' .." Commissioners of i , - talon that rabbits, i schedules of the A be held to belong to sot either in part ate, under the cxi into this country. 1 Lords of the Treasui a general order to a kingdom, directing free of duty. n in g t e is d po vderend `eebury. v conk' the nev third ti I I for Ay 11.1 nut cowrie inistrati rninent on all I it mip le, won he last Ay of r trong gi the nec. irons of 1, and forwa .to the .ire's for and freed soon elopmen cf of tazatiot 'bridge Name c of a bet tion and Jus, p; rty, and %ble ben e est.& inter .d b tamet r