The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THIIRSDAT, Dec. 23. The LOUD CHMICTILLOR took his seat at 5 o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Dingwall, prayiag that the jurisdiction of Skala' COliftS might be extended. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Earl of DERBY—My lords, in caosequusee of the Bain:maim which I have received this mormug from the noble earl who bas been entrusted by her Majesty with the formation of a new administration, requesting me to move the s adjmunmeatof your lordahips' house until Monday, by which time he %tusks his arrangements will be com pleted, I ben to move that your lordships' house, at its rang, do adjourn until Nl.Aulay neat. The order. of the day were then disposal of, and the hou s e adjourned until Monday. BOISE OF COMNIONB.—TuntsDAT, DEC. 23. The &mamma took the chair at four recipes. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. rARLIAMWITANT Sir J. WALMSLEY, from I...nester; Mr. BLACKETT, from places in Northum berland ; Mr. J. MACGREGOR. from Aberdeen; Mr. MACAULAY. from places . M Svotland; Mr. COBDEN, from placis is the West Bailing ; and Mr. SMITH. from Nortl.ampton ; praying that the papers published by the house may b.•distributed among 'mechanics' institutions. Tut: Cue or EDWARD Mraaar.—By Mr. COLLIER, fram ryinouth; Lord D. Sf CART, from various places; sad ?..nr W. MOLESWORTH. tram Southwark; preying the iurtber interments of the Britimk government in favour of Cloned Murray. ENTItAXCIIIMIENT or COPT fly Mr. R. LONE, from Ku.derrainster, in favour of enfranchisemeat of c.'pyholds. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Sr J. PAKING ros brought up papers connected with Main at the Cap*. THE FRENCH EMPEROR. Lori D. STUART gave notice that after the ream he akeuld stove for a copy of all papers having reference to the recognition by this country of the establishment ut the em pire in France. MEMORIAL OF THE DUBLIN CHAMBER 01 COMMERCE. In reply to an How. Menem. Mr. HAMILTON said a 111,Yllorfal from the Chamber of Commerce, at Dublin, eomplaining of certain undue i,rri::i dos on the foreign trade of Dublin, bed bees re ceived by the government, and bad been for some time tinder the consiieration of the Chancellor of the Es., theq.let. PROMOTION IN THE DUBLIN POST-OFFICE. Mr. BALL pat t%e question of which he had given no- Gm—whether, in Cling up the vacent office of president of the stoney order deportment in the Post-office in Dublin, the usual prietwe of that department has been violated by the appointment to the venlig of a person not previously engaged in the public service ? Mr. HAMILTON replied. There had been to neglect of established precedent is this ease, for the late president of the department was the first occupant of the once, and there Awl been no departure Irons the ordinary practice, inasmuei as in lb Lord Lich fi eld. as l'estrasater-General, . app inted to a simiiar office in St. Martin's le Grand • gentle man not previously engaged In the postal service; wool Lord C lenncerde, in ISM, did precisely the same thing. W:th respect to the gentlemen to wh..nt the question re. !erred. he (Mr. Hamilton) believed that the hon. member Itinualf would acknowledge that he was likely to prove • most efficient public servaaL Asa proof of his position and ga;:ities, it ought be mentioned that he had just berm nos milm°2ll7 IPPD , ukd , for eleven years, by the eitiserts at large, to the office of Senior Auditor of the Dublin Corpo. ratiop Anneals ; and he had repeatedly received the thanA...of the corperatioa for the manner in which he had disch.aged the duties entrusted to him. RAILWAY ACTS, &e. Mr. G H. WHALLEY gave notice of his intention to 1113•0 for • series of returns of the eipenses incurred in ob taining railway and other acts. THE PROHIBITION OF A MEETING OF MER CHANTS AT GIBRALTAR. In answer to a question from Mr. BRIGHT, die J. PAKINUTON said tbst he had writtsn at the hoe. member's rtquest, to the Govsmor of Gibral tar, for ea; 'AnAtions with reference to the course taken by the goveranr, in forbidding and prvventing a public meeting of merchanu and tradsrs; but that he had not, as yet, re cticed the answer. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. DISILAELI rose and said—Sir, I bailer* it will be fir the cohsenienee of the publio service that I should IMOTO that, at its rising, the house adjourn until tomorrow (th:s day) at tao o'clock. Agreed to. The house accordingly adjourned. glte eh:woo. TO CORRUSPONPENTS. A ...vied thetisehre•Ths Rapra." saMesidir Os some dessistre ',Vette,. Is 7artis4 wee, 'hussy sad regal .4114 la tine Hy ;NC. • •••;....ts•autateaddel The isprest,needes Redoing yam, toe 41 UN 1114 Misaiset•rleset. hy Teo Vela* as the dsy a ;Wishes. RION WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOII. Is Dmr—Mersiag, Ob. SS 2...........Ati055005. 11. 140. asoasow—Marsiag, lb. 1ia......--basrao" lb. Ma. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. SINCE Mr. GLADSTONE is named as one of the pillars of the New Ministry, it is well for us to keep in mind that all his sympathies are still clearly towards Conservatism. He has never lost an opportunity,.—bat has made many since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S death,—of reminding the country that he is a Conservative; in his Letters to Lord ABERDEEN on the Neapolitan atrocities, he ooacladed by expressing his a fflic tion at the dine," dit they would bring on " the great Conservative party ; at the very coannetweinent of this session he intimated his readiness to join in resisting what he was pleased to call democracy ; in the debate on Mr. VILLIERS'S motion he spoke of the downfall of Pip-, tection as relieving his former friends from a fail' position ; and even in opposing the Budget he re called recollections of their former kindnesses towards him in a manner that left little doubt he would prefer their renewed attachment—to any new coonexions. When to these slight but sugges tive indications of political feelings and opinions is added the fact of Mr. GLADSTONE, in the midst of negotiations for the construction of a government in which Lord low; Ituser.tx was invited to take a leading part, proceeded to spend his evenings in the high Tory Club of Landon, a sense of uneasiness most come over Liberals as to what an Assam= Minis ter means. * No doubt, there is a good deal of just.milion feel ing in the esently : and of it Mr. GL&DSTONE may wish to take advantage and constrain a moderate party—a party white shall sedans all that is reason able from Toryism, and all that is timid from Libe ralism. lint a Miektry is not the proper means of asking this attempt i sash 4 party ought to precede, not to meek feens, a Ministry. A government formed ma spooled= es to what sleet it will have ea • is mesh a refinement as Mr. Otatrorrosee Wel to revel is.. It is, however, an cape &KM to which this etiantay has never yet been sub *let And if that is the proems we are about to Yee a government which shall rely euppert ea die &eruption of both the parties now is par7en4 end which shall seek to repose on an mien of *bet see called all the moderate politi cises of the emsehy—wby the sooner we know our Sae the better, dist bed: sides may make their erreagernenta asearffingly. Mr. OLtueramir may not, however, aim at any thing so •novel and exceptional as this; he may, notwithstanding his recent expressed predilections and partialities, consent to appeal for support to the Liberal sideeof the House of Commons. This, in a period of surprises like the present, may be the cue that will be taken. But if so, it is a course full of difficulties, both external and internal, for Mr. GLADSTONE; unless, indeed, he will content himself with simply being the Finance Mi nister of the Coalition, a restriction he is little likely to impose on himself or to submit to. The external difficulties consist in Mr. GLADSTONE'S Oxford connexions; the internal, in his peculiar mantel conformation. It was as a Tory that Oxford first elected Mr. GLADSTONE, and it was as a Con.' servative that Oxford has twice re-elected him. And what do we now find? That so sensitive are Mr. GLADSTONE'S own Oxford friends as to the possibility of his having entered into any combination " with other political parties''— that is, with Liberals—for the overthrow of the go verment of the Chancellor of Oxford, that he has felt himself compelled to write a long letter of explanation, just;fication, and denial to Dr. PHILLIMORE, the chairman of his committee. If his own friends in the University are thus jealous of his having combined with I,wd form Russett and Sir CHARLES WOOD in opposition, what will they say to his joining those distinguished Whigs---we h6pi we may still add Liberals—in the government firmed on the destruction of the Cabinet of Oxford's, R~ THE EXPRE6B, FRIDAY EVENING,, DECEMBER 24, 1852. Chancellor P We own we meet eect an agreeab' 1p i Ministry must oome.together i _less,with a view te, solution to this difficulty, increased •a it is yttits ' sink points of Werke" in glee IC ' finis tame submission of M:. 0 urreroxes Oxford bend/ i agreed, do erase to the l owls ag'gnisffisemen thee to ' 'points rit e to the recent electivn of Lord eIDIERSir as Changer/De i upon they are of that University. , ' N - general good. Or measures ver to this end But what a host of farkgreeteediffiaultiesatill sal . will require to be brolight onward fame the peculiar mental contdrmatiort of this most able .•diately, there is none more argent the. and meat excellently disposed gentleman create in one of electoral reform. It is Undeniable that at any government he may join, He has written books, present a small minority of the qualified electors contributed articles, and Limed pamphlets enough to under the existing law returns a majority of the ruin a score of politicians. In an age of progress he House of Commons, aatt that a °wept organisatiea is full of reverence for authority ;—in an age of free- exists which exercises almost absolute control over dom he is full of designs for weaving trammels eccle, this minority. The people know that our existing. siastical ; —in an age of parliamentary omnipotence,li electoral system is a mischievous deception, and they he is full of schemes of synodical action. And will give their confidence and support to no Ministry then his mystification', his refinements, his that is not prepared to reform it thoroughly. The subtleties, his speculations, his quiddities, and hie Conservative element in the impending coalition quoildities—they are endless, and perplexing as they will find that it can gain nothing by tabooing par are interminable. Aud yet who so full of active bone- liameutary reform; the Liberal element that it can violence, of amenity and courtesy, of reasoning only lose character by consenting to have reform power, of reliance on argument. of knowledge, in- tabooed. formation, and intelligence as this uncertain, unde pendable, oscillating, vacillating, anything and everything Mr. 0 LADSTONE ?—whorn his friends can't be without, mid nobody can live with. And then this able, this excellent, this amiable, man ; this admirable debater ; this sage counsellor, grows worse instead of better. He has lost the little simplicity ho ever bad; and now all is mental struggle, mental doubt, mental compromise with him. He has cultivated a conscience until it vibrates and trembles like an aspen leaf—until it has brought 6.11 the casuistry of the Old Fathers to play on modern politics; until—in short, no man, not even Lord ABERDEEN, can say what MT. GLADSTONE will do or say, or advocate next. All we know is that be has reached the conclusion, that between incomes derived from daily labour and from acquired pro- perty, there ought to be no distinction in taxation. Such a man we may highly respect for his moral worth, and greatly esteem for his intellectual capa city ; but confide in politically No :—that is out of the question. THE NEW MINISTRY. The Times says :—We may now safely announce the complete success of the project of a united Administra tion. From the following arrangements it will be seen at ones that all the supposed difficulties of the design have been met in such a way that the country does net lose the services of any considerable statesman, and that no sacrifice of dignity has been imposed on any statesman or any party. Lord /J o hn Russell takes the Foreign-office, with the leadership of the Rouse of Commons. The great and vowing importance of this department in the present state of conti nental affairs, and the fact that in every other European Go vernment the Foreign Secretary is the chief of the Adminis tration, will entirely satisfy the scruples of Lord J. linseell's most jealous admirers and most sensitive friends. The department, it is well known, had at one time been marked out for Lord Clarendon, undoubtedly as qualified for it as any other man in this kingdom. lie has, however, we believe, been among the foremost to persuade Lord John Russell to undertake it. Should it prove too laborious for the Whig chief, he may, without any compromise of dignity, ask to be relieved by removal to an office of less arduous eh , and in that cue no doubt his °Visions will be considered in the choice of his successor. Lord Palmerston takes the Homanfilee. It is im possible to overstate the value of his Lordseip's adhesion, and his implied testimony to the prospects of the new Administration ; still leas is it possible to deify the univer sality of his gs nius, and that tact, which is the first requisite for the successful climbing' of any public office. As Home Secretary, TON it must not be forgotten, his lord ship will have the management of that militia in the con stitution of which he has performed so prominent a part. These two name are in themselves a sufficient guarantee for the support of the whole Whig party. The Duke of IiIESITAATLE will take the Colonies. As some other pro bable arrangements, including the distribetion of the Chan celloiship of the Exchequer. the First Lordship of the Ad mink'', and the Presidency of the Board of Control between Sir J. ORAHAM, Sir C. WOOD, and Mr. GLADSTONE, are not yet dvlinitively settled, we forbear to say more, bat the decision will not be postponed beyond to-day. Ir may be essential to the strength, permanence, and utility of the New Cabinet that its member! be wkctcd with a view to their natural or acquired aptitude for administrative business. The days have passed away when the English public could be carried away by mere clap-trap words of party, and induced to overlook the incompetence of party leaden for the offices in which they were placed bungling financier will no longer be tolerated as Chancellor of the Exchequer, or a person utterly ig ' norant of naval affairs as First Lord of the Admi ralty, simply because he vehemently protests his devo tion to the political doctrines professed by the party which is in the ascendant for the time beiog. The public has learned to judo Ministers by the same test as lawyers, physicians, and other profes clonal men. The ABERDEEN organs declare that the Noble Earl is folly aware of this, and has laboured to impart vitality and permanent's to his Ministry by filling the offices with men of approved administrative talent. This is so far well, but by no means enough. Mere able administrators, in the England of the 19th century, will not, and ought not, to obtain the public confidence, unless they are at the same time thoroughly imbued with popular principles. The Conservative character which Lord ABERDEEN is seeking to impress upon his administration, weakens its duration by depriving it of popular sympathy. The people can and will trust no government but one that consents to hold office by the tenure of public confidence; and the history of the civilized world since 1783 proves the wisdom of this determi nation. During this period we have had two great nations in which the people have more or less taken into their own hands the task of political ameliora tion—England and America. In all the rest the people have devolved the task upon their rulers. Framee is only a partial exception. The utmost con ception of popular liberty to which the French peo ple appear at any time to have attained, is that of choosing the rulers who are to art in their behalf as absolutely, with as little check, as the despotic monarchs and statesmen who held the reins of em pire from the death of HENRI IV. till the meeting of the first National Assembly. When we contrast the history and actual condition of the two states in which the people have more or less acted for them selves, with the condition of the nations in which political action has been almost exclusively left to the governments, there can be no doubt that the greatest and least intermittent prosperity has been enjoyed by the former. England and America are (Russia excepted) the only na tions which have not during the period to 'which our attention is restricted, been shat tered by repeated and destructive revolutions. The progress of these two nations in productive in dustry and accumulated wealth, has far outstripped .all the others. In the neatnee of their adminis trative organisation they may be inferior to lees popularly constituted Mates, or they may occasionally cling longer to old prejudices; but there is this in their favour, that every political amelioration intro duced in them, is so with the consent and under 'mending of the whole community, and is irre versible. The reforms of Joemu 11., of Aus ,tria, of LEOPOLD of Tuscany, in a great measure died with them, because they had, in a manner, been forced upon people in capable bi e lreciating them. But all rebus 'which the of America have adopted, sell the m ratioa 'people of ng s have wean f endured. rom Tory or timid Liberal iminist Tho Morning Chronic.'e, after definitely giving the War-office to ,Ir. Sydney Herbert, the Admiralty to Sir James Graham, and the Cancellorship of the Exchequer to Mr. Gladstone, says: The remaining appointments are, perhaps, not yet finally disposed of; bat it is supposed—and we rsjoiee that sues should be the case—that office has been offered to some of the ablest of those liberal politicians who have hitherto been unconnected with the executive government, and who,* junction with the administration would at once add to its strength and tend to secure the oonfidence of the couirry. Lsrd Aberdeen has throughout displayed en honourable desire to render the union of all friends of pro gnu complete and permanent ; and we may well hope that all to whom proposals have been made will concur in the great object of cstabLahing an efficient administration. MUSIC. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. This society gave a performance last evening at Enter Urn, consisting of Mend( lssohn's " Elijah," pre ceded by an elegy, " Mourn for the Mighty Dead," written by Dr. Mackay, and composed by Sir Henry Bishop. This piece is noticed in the review of new musical publications which appeared in our paper of yesterday ; and we hat e only, therefore, to add that it was exceedingly well sung by four solo voices with the chorus, and that its grave sad mournful hormoay produced a very striking effect. The performance of the "Elijah" was, on the whole, very good ;—better in the 4plo pans than in the charm's. It appean to us that both the Sacred Harmonic Societies me eammitting a mistake in the excemive and constantly humming numbers of their choral voices. For mmy the original society used to announce live hendrad u the total number of its band and shim • when the new society WU started it as meracted air hundred; then the old society announced eaves hundred; and now we are told by the new society that Its band and chorus consist of eight hundred per fibemare. It they go on capping " each other in this Maur, we say expect a thousand or more one of these bye. New this is bidding against each other for public liven by inking imposing but deceptive displays of Meng& Were Ii potable to obtain eight hundred or a cheesed velem and instrremMe, ell picked performers, liaWash seek e end therewshly under the coots( Orirli - illeiNlM, then aces Mighty *Oft might be pro demi by seth a Waled Inn Bet It M notorious that these smear ebeenee et faster Hall ass swelled by a mewl et who make a gnat show to We arebeene. ba ba = e r iey at all, so coarsely ash iteenwetly OW they make awn noise tbot senele. Neither Mr. Casts ore Me. beam ma make aorides et mei es rabidly atiMbrie. The coakeetar orieet peeekly lusew them Waetanally, bs iteimatted vbb their quelleallens, ew Bloom daring cis peekraerree whet every kr of *set le debt. Hiear~Meesepe4 with !.bliss token be Vida, fie eeustta a ee emelides eki be Was be demi= I but, rtes bed be Ibe gift of tits May " rias4se bkosolf, be melt aft lobo the &linguists ; or, if he did, he meld eft tae le lawn lass. A melte of hashed (et three et the Nowt) welt4ibesel bell.behtedi ebbed esker wield seek a wraps bigeerlea of reel pewee then b ewe peekteett by the erewds MNlMbied is the orchestra of Imam Mall. It is okee heat this eabesport that the 'admit.= Ice puma liblety whisi sane wry pedeend Odle ' sophist pelitiomme ems quite se ready te isie y lid 1131.1 od, le net saws valetas. sentiment. The lees foe the anodise, et freedom of theentit . and adds in the tailividul is the aim fie tees of health sad intiddim i e penienset pennell7 in a If the we ewe geeneeded that of klastty=msee Wit fay, ma diet able admi ' plausible's—eves though devellef to ewers nopelerayispethiss —am all is all anSeient medium& pope 'Ay, the energies of the veggie dill be and the day of the nation's greninaes and closed for ever. Yet, it is sleet, the new ra: a 'being completed on the peZe that admidshative skill is the one thin g . needf sad Bata for from being a drawback, it te ' - _y a rememsndadon to a statesman that he looks down apes of the c= and is impatient their centred. A animated by this spirit will naturally soh to resist—in the least ostentatious an d 'M alting manner it may be, but still to nada limy clang. in our elective system that eau impart nay more direct and effective voice in the similes of parliaments to the pre pu e o le d at largo. The elective system which to 111110 was abolished beadle the people V °l-e disetwored that it gave them the show of choosing their lighinisee sad tax-imposers without the substanow The diedeeneee bf the last few years have shown that the new slew five system devised br Earl OUT is in thi s Nome little better, and the people are urgent to hive it reformed in its turn. A Cabinet animated by such sentiments as we have been dimities will necessarily and conscientiously ems any Such change. They have not sufficient faith In the wisdom and virtue of the people to treat the mak to help themselves in any way or on any oceseleni they believe that it is best for a hw " enlightened men" like themselves to act for the people; they know that the people are averse to being trea ted in this manner, like fools or children; and therefore 1 they seek to uphold such sham and delusive institu tions as give the people the appearance without the reality of power. This is a most dangerous political heresy, however "patriotic," amiable, or accomplished may be the parties entertaining and acting upon it. All history Shows that only a free self-governed people can ba , wally intelligent, virtuous, and permanently pros- porous. Our own history shows that the great source of faction, turbulence, and conspiracy, for the last two hundred ysars, has been the elusory nature of our representative institutions, compelling the people, whenever they had to seek justice at the 1 hands o' unwilling rulers, to have recourse to modes on action not reessoidied by the law or the constitu,, ion, and often in opposition to both. Th e cone -1 uence of this state of affairs was inevitably a , ! founding of liberty with turbulence and lawless. 1 ems in the popular mind a dangerous error 1 hich can only be counteracted by letting the share hich the theory of the constitution attributes to he people in the composition of parliaments be • day. In other words, the New Ministry, if it is to de serve well of the country, must promote Parliamen t Lary Reform. To be creditable or useful a coalition The sale parts (as we have said) wen well esstalsed. Mr. !Mips swq Sis yet 417an s ibli" with Arse lei digeity. lbs. Isienehs, es eayesee, wee way essowal i evader is tho sew of the widow ma kor iiiiii. whisk she whh melt bells& M is* yelpsigal peek was as shanties es weleali Ir ai llellpllllllo dam Miss C. Mus t =sae a asset MIR Bee seise wu sweet swl time, sail herstyle ma pos. Prim She apyastasee et thole% which was quite Itill is =t, we essisie gist thb society is la a ilourishiag • sr" Emma hum Done.— A =lay, ule bee lataki . a=l ea the Coa y t= he ham ef Ildile. es be sea et the gleams eelehalles at the day. =tomb while we have emeleal bus Iliaihelat, whose she am Is. we lases that she is asantfea ia Obi Edam thassetw e efilL eg e tr e " dll e g gite" KJ= bosh Ishii else Yd la Iwo ha debts asseesW*, wllhestedes et ha allemsees. Ilhe ha iel latellf la ail add dog la liesedikhavii aslairad a whet emensed of the in -101. lag 'Pm Imes Ihruldsh yea Ildessedsate's sesis. "± "lii rUrti47 rataacrarap..i. imar..? is all mid* wall es la we " Pc= l 'i s she ha led Ilse neat essesse. KAN. • agIII II Me sales at IPSO Pee. mg Wm" * 4 1 4 L id alse as . Zh er a ell the guss, inlaid aid byte t, et ea sr SAY MUSICAL FESTIVAL—The gem re dio Wit 40 this, the greeted of ear roviocial meek re4, lase lest boa declared to be 11,9261.81.94. doe eispeome were 7,51201. 16s. • ' leavWg a Wiliam of IS. Id. to be handed over WWII to the table - =ea behalf of which the festival was instigated. DRAMA. RE-OPENING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE. 6 Old Drury" is exhibiting symptoms of a re newal aad vigorous vitality under the management of Mr. B. T. limith, Assam brew One important »formation bilis swiesakm of rimy which now range at the rates of the Adelphi and Olymplo i sad soother the determination to ; ar sioi that style of dramatic entertainment which has tits old livamst tragedy and comedy in the taste. TM sempsign will open on Monday night with meths* mita eif "Uncle Tom," for whom British seem end will be noeceded by a gumbo , with its inimitable masks, *add many, este a imps as would not have room on say other atm». It wield be shear cruelty to the pubie Se anticipate their plemearable surprise by any ela serl ptiew rate do of Use tricks. sosaary or ttansfo It will he suileimst to hint Chet m ,on the incidents will be ' the wanderteigisammossis of tits Broth.» Biegrist on La renlhoe Or 11§Iser Dared type hie own spinal column, whisk twists asset in a meaner wholly unheard of even la praskis. An eseellest kisiegida hem been secured in ei pieta el Owe Veered, sad a meet graceful colum bine to lino. Lesiss Bisset*, who will introduce for the Ist time la this aW re • L'ltagosials," the inaugural tiltthe lfraah •no hymn of clownohip et divided between ma Mathews and Herr Doulin, so »studied with talent terpsichorean and pantomimic, and a CallAitikm prodigality of Detch foil and blue fire, the Isoive. I mam. cadorak‘ Adis may expect a rich treat at Drury 's'''s whose theat expect in smaller. threats, to enjoy it. • , T, il . f . - - -.1 .' 614 *RIifiNDIA STEAMER ORINOCO PO releascd from gunmen» in Southampton water _yesterday. The specie she brought was taken tram her on Wednesday. FRANCE. Oli TO TIIE F,ME A merchant, of severs) merchants—and great Ood, what somehants I—without any avowed .object, without any known have caused to be bought, and are stilt buying dais in all the markets of the globe, bat especi ally at Hamburg, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Constantinople, Odessa, Remake Beedeaus, on the coast of Brittany, and even in Patio, conikletable quantities of grain, all destined for England, sa if It were intended to effect a certain mo nopoly, or to prepare for some great contingency. Whet is mat curious in all this history Is that the actors hide themselves bakinda curtain. lloweem this may be, they . PARIS, FRIDAY. By imperial demos Jerome Bonaparte is appointed heir to Ss throw 4 4 %. 5 , 0 :`AR15, THURSDAY EYRNINO. About a month , when the government Jour inale alluded to the *molition of the temporary bar racks that disfigured the approaches to the lavatides, las a proof of the serious intention of the government to reduce the army, I had occasion to observe that the argument was ill founded, seeing that the resolu tion to take down these unhealthy huts had been announced some time previously, and that the new barracks building near the Hotel de Ville would speedily supply their places. I believe I did not notice a subsequent report emanating from the same source, that the artillery of the army of Paris was about to be reduced, being persuaded as I was that all announcements of this kind were illusory and made with the object of serving a momentary political purpose. Any doubts which you may have enter tained upon this point must I think have been dis pelled by the perusal of the remarkable article in yes terday's Moisileur. The fact that vast and unlooked for additions are to be forthwith made to the metro politan barracks is there announced in a swaggering tone, which savours much less of the Bordeaux text 1 4 4 L'Empire c'est la l'aix " than of the ominous pant, ce 'phrase "L'E c'est l'." There to be coa- ntrated in t mpire he Eeole Epee Militaire an " is imposing " force of cavalry, infantry, and artillery ; the general who is to lite there is to be surrounded by a force, of which it is exultingly said, that it will be "almost la corps d'arnWe," it is admitted that the new barracks at the Hotel de Villa will at: once be occupied by 2,400 men, and that they will be capable of receiving a larpr number when necessary, that the infantry at the Eools Mihtaire will be increased from 3,6 0 0 to 0,000, the artillery from two batteries to three, that more cavalry will be quartered in Paris than was ever before known, that the quarters now or dered to be provided for the crack regiment of guides will serve as a model for other cavalry barracks about to be built, and the warlike manifesto winds up with the proud boast that when the already immense Champ do Mars shall bo enlarged, there will be formed " a permanent camp of instruction such as no other country in Europe possesses." I am desirous on this, as on all other occasions, not to say a word calculated to excite unfounded alarm. An appeal to the military vanity of the French is, I readily admit, no proof of hostile designs. The present measure does not necessarilly show that any increase of the standing army of France is contemplated. The arti cle in question represents it as necessary, merely for the better organisation of the service, and is so worded as to convey an impression that the now bar racks are only required in substitution for less convenient buildings, which will be converted to other purposes. But the broad fact remains that whereas just before the proclamation of the Empire the abandonment of certain barracks in Paris was put forward as a proof of the pacific views of the government, the erection of immense military quarters in the capital is now suddenly ordered. The extension will certainly take place at once, while the time when, if ever, the existing "small and inconvenient " barracks will be got rid of is necessarily doubtful. The head of the government, which, curiously enough, asserts in this document that it derives its force from the respect and sym pathy of the country, desires to have a "perpetual camp" under his eyes. With a standing army in the Champs de Mars, an immense force quavered in the Tuileries, and 3 or 4 regiments at the Hotel de Ville, " the Empire of Peace," will make a display of physical force which meat lead to doubts of the accuracy of that designation. The ostentation, way, too, in which the present announcement is made looks like a symptom that peaceful professions have nearly served their turn, and that bravado may be expected to take their place. I understand that General Baragnay d'Hillier has occasioned further delay in the settlement of the new constitution, by moving an amendment in the Senate to-day. I am, however, persuaded that the pertinacious scruples of certain senators will in no wise substantially modify the despotic nature of the institutions carried out for France. The Labrador steam-frigate left Marseilles on the 21st, with Abd-del-Kader and his family and suite on board, in all about 60 persons. Everything that experience could suggest was effected t render the voyage as agreeable as possible. The Emir, on leav ing France, expressed his gratitude for the extreme kindness shown him by the Emperor and the popu lations of the various towns which he had visited. The proclamation of the empire took place on the 11th on board the French vessels in the roadsted of Lisbon. At eight in the morning the Newton and Catinat steam-corvettes were dressed out, and at noon a salute of 101 WIMP was fired. The English squadron lying in the roads and the vessels of the Portuguese navy displayed their flags, and fired sa lutes of 21 guns. It is announced that the English company to whom the St. Dialer and Gray railway has been conceded has undertaken to construct the crystal palace in the Champs Elysees for a sum less by two millions of francs than that guaranteed by government. P ARM 111111111111 DAY Symms. The Moniteur contains the flawing paragraph LlZupon the " myrtles's= egeesticese in grain," !Maiden was reeds gent a month: EAT Agr . icOleot Depabar maw We M imi. artiste Wo wad la a Germs* oewspoper— ' The Fame gewnsessef ir Lt ai lieght at Rem" /sr the Asper „le *WIMP shwa MOO lasts of wheat.' The Bale Naessailieg upon this .ortaties. 00111116,11 it as a pleas et fbise sews, sad it seesiales thas :. In Otis Ibe Gomm paper: are but baba Nixes of statseisets-..bilas4 by wee English Jeereob—etatamenta to w hisi surible pee* cc either :Me of the water lave neves sillosbad the least la be meth a twenty-feu hen.. " The asealeises ot the lab /prints en paths., went We my add far thr, that the esetwals br prolielsos mole by the war &parable* einaprise We setae euesetaptlea of the *bob army for um than a yaw eel that the abaisisteallee invafiably makes its pudase with pablaity of wear twee, and has ao need to resist le the resoluta of kedge ewatsies. This article is a good spesimen of the favourite strategy of the Moniker, whisk is to give an indig nant denial to charges that have never been made. The but peirfit well authenticated iitatimsait et the • was, that immense purhoss genie made for cash in all the merkets of Frirope—thees of France excepted— lad that the corn so pnrshoood had during a long of time been sold in England at a loss. period o s conversant with bulbous became convinced that losing operations so sztoadvo and so persistent had in them nothing of a notteatile character, and it was inferred that they met be the result of some hidden political motive. From a variety of circum stances it wee considered in Mark•lane to be satis factorily made out that these improvident tran sactions were carried on with French capital. 1 wo theories were suggested to account for the pheno mena. According to one, the object was by depres sing the English corn market, to react upon those of France, and so induce a belief that the French granaries were well filled, thus promoting a rise in the funds, and producing an artificial prosperity. Another suggestion was, that certain parties in France who now find it easy to finger an unlimited amount of cash, thought it prudent to provide for their personal comforts in the event of their being:compelled at a short notice to fly the country and seek refuge on the hospitable shore of England. In this latter point of view the surmise was that it had been thought impossible to make large cash remittances to London through Paris bankers without exciting suspicion of the motive, and that by means of im portations of corn from different countries a hoard might be laid up with recrecy. Whatever improba bilities may attend either of these suppositions, the fact 'remains certain. The Press. of Paris com mented upon it some time since, and in last Mon day's number of that journal 1 find it again alluded to in the following striking terms : We spoke shoat a month age of gigantic operations in grain which were being executed upon a vast scale in the ports of Hollaad and the Baltic, the focus of which opera tions wu in Landon and Liverpool. At that time a special journal denied the accuracy of our intelligence, not being able apparently to believe that its London correspondents could have neglected to inform it of an operation which nevertheless Will the subject of every conversation at the Corn Market' n Mark-lane. We now, however, ,dled agricultural journal, the M ercur i a l * des Hanes el MarrAes, fully eonflnnisg the news which we gave on the 17th Nov. last- According to this journal thigh what is taking plase: CMAt king good paymasters, and that is the main rt of what we have just said, our Hamburg cot =1:01 writes that only within the last week, purchases made in that market, at continually rising prices, Kea then 300,000 hectolitres of grain of different kinds M be delivered in the spring in different parts of the Hattie, rod the destination of which is unknown. We give this feet as certain, we have it from one of the first houses iu Hamburg. For the rest this iaoredible movement bus also been remarked at Marseilles, where '200,000 heciolitres of wheat have been bought for immediate as well as future delivery. ITALY. NAPLES, Dec. 14. The proclamation of the Empire in France has had no perceptible influence hero—at least as far as the funds can indicate, since they continue firm. The government paper, the wretched Giornalo dells flue regularly reports the important events which are passing in Paris, from which circumstance, as well as from others of a moro speaking character, it is obvious to conclude that the present policy of the government is to clap their hands and hail the star of the morning. There can be no honesty, however, about this silent acquiescence, or even apparent con gratulation. Napoleon will never be pardoned the sin of his connexion with Murat by the Bourbons, and the apprehension which the very mention of the name of the victim of Pizzo awakened some months rine., but too clearly shows that the approbation by a Neapolitan government of the fad aceinapli at Paris is but the result of fear. One strong bond of sympathy, however, between their Majesties of France and Naples is their encouragement and love of Jesuits. The Giornale. &c., not many days since, quoted a long article from a French paper in defence and praise of that holy body, maintaining their highmindedness and indifference to all worldly ambition ; whereupon the holy fathers are waxing stronger in their zeal, and I have heard in several instances of their visiting teachers of languages and questioning them as to the purity of their faith, and leaving with them a catechism, highly instructive as to saints and miracles, in which they are of course expected to be sound believers. Never, surely, were Mr. Gladstone's principles carried out more consistently than they are being in Naples at the present time. In my last letter I spoke of intended military pre parations ; I may now mention that two large vessels have been put In commission. Of what size they are or by whom they are to be armed and manned, I cannot tell; but everything indicates an uneasy feel ing on the part of government. It is much to be desired, however, that whilst such precautions are being taken against a foreign and a visionary danger, some steps were taken to insure the property and lives of peaceable citizens against the hosts of thieves which prowl about the streets. Many cases have occurred of persons being stopped in the street, and with knives at their throats rubbed of every thing about them. A few nights since a man was mur dered near the entrance to the Villa and thrown into the sea. lie had been watched out of a billiard room, it is supposed, and then robbed and dispatched; but who commits these acts one seldom hears. Had some thoughtless Wight, however, been playing at peck and toss with a airline), and uttered some words which by a refined ingenuity could be construed into disrespect to royalty, the " Viva ria," or the tardy mercies the Ergastolo would have awaited him. The government gives liberty to upwards of 500 galley slave', and thus keep the whole city in apprehension. Apropos of the poor fellow who was murdered the other night, when he was first found, blood was issuing from his noes or mouth ; but all passed by on the other side, as, by a police law, whoever touches or is found near the body, is apprehended and detained on suspicion. The consequence of this regulation in the present case was, that the poor fellow was kept many hours in the open air in the same sp c bt where he was dis covered, when, had prompt assistance been procured, there might have been the possibility of saving him. Woo be to the man who, when such police regula tions exist, falls down in a fit of apoplexy, or is shinned by a cut-throat. Of the condemned for the events of the 15th May, I have heard recently that they have all been sent to Montefuseo, where Poerio is confined. PIEDMONT. M. His de Butenval delivered his new credentials as French ambassador to the King of Sardinia, on the 15th. In its sitting of the lith, the Senate of Turin con tinued the discussion on the Civil Marriage Bill. M. Roberto d'Azeglio said that he had voted in 1850 for the abolition of ecclesiastical privileges, because he considered it constitutional to do so ; but that the present bill was contrary to the constitution, since matrimony was a purely religious concern; conse quently, he must tote against the bill. The Minis ter of Justice, and other orators, supported the bill, but no new arguments of any importance were brought to bear upon the question. The discussion was adjourned to the follovnag day. The Risoryinunste announces that M. Scialoja, who, after having been so long imprisoned at Naples, ha; had his punishment lately commuted into perpetual exile from the kingdom of the Two Sicilia', and is now in Turin, has obtained letters of naturalisation sea Sardinian subject. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Opinion. of Turin, of the 18th, publishes the following letter from Milan : We treated to a strong* pbsesmosta to Ms day of •t. aabessus (Dee. 7), mimes/Ms is reffeleady kept by the Iliesate rens traties.• la tea tbe Atha Li maks& • bead der al young stesoW, ris&p a, and :Er dear mass. They bed beta evidently paid Ss the Clslof padag ap a riot, sod bringing about a collision. yamiessill at the spatted*, bat in silsom. At the CU,- Omsk, tar eillwes, when amebas were considerably ist =ass to a stead. MI of • sudden, patrols da te= the ask bwmfag streets, but perceiving the V ww : l o4i= s inidboilvo, they withdrew. Shortly wassd, and all was finished. The hod of Om pelt* ma Welbk la this affair ; but, seeing that remained traerill, tbey theop_ht proper not to So &paw the wined by ;wee. The abodes of the eves lately imaishaed at Mom appear to haunt the Austelea amnesia sad its polka A general search was mode some day ego la the einueltes, oratories, and chapels, with a view to seise arms supposed to be concealed in Wm. Every earner was searched. Several old tombs even were opened, into which the gendarmes reluctantly , desoseded. It is needless to add that this penpiaition was attended with no result. It was in all probability a hoax practised on the polite. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 17th publishes a royal decree, annulling the prosecution which had been commenced against the Ileraldo, for publishing the address to the electors of the electoral committee of the moderate party. Tho Ileraldo mentions a report that M. Pio de la Sots, the fiscal of the press, has either resigned or been dismissed, and a Madrid letter of the 17th informs us that the chief of the police of Madrid, under whose authorisation the pro aecution had been instituted, has also been removed from his office. The Mario Espanol, which has shown some hostility to the new government, was seized on the 16th, and a fine of 600 reale was in flicted. In its number of the 17th, the .Diario says it shall abstain from any further comments upon the new ministers until their policy shall be more clearly defined. The Espana announces that the govern ment had refused permission to the electors of the ProAressist party to hold a public meeting. The Madrid Gazette announces the approaching payment of the dividends on the Three per Cents. GERMANY. The Berlin papers contain extensive reports of the movements of the Emperor of Austria during hie visit to that capital. A few commonplace and barely intelligible sentences, addressed to the officers of the garrison on Sunday morning, are treated by the Berlin papers as importune in the present posture of European Weirs. Tho Emperor said, " I am glad to meet here so many representatives of the Prussian army, which I yesterday had the pleasure of inspecting. The army of your noble King has preserved its fidelity under circumstances of great 1 difficulty; but it is this spirit of faithfulness and honour which constitutes the bond of every bra ve army. It is this feeling which binds my army t o that of Prussia, and, therefore, I am able to expr eee to you my conviction, that, whatever may be bab re us, both bodies will stand fast by each other iu th e brotherhood of arms." In the course of the same morning the Emperor visited the Cadet School, and there met Baron lta dowitz, whom some of his enemies falsely said hod been sent out of the way during the imperial visit. On the previous day the Emperor had given an au. dience of half an hour to M. Manteuffel. The convention between Belgium and the Zollve. rein, which was to expire this day, th e 2l t h i nstant, Les been provisionally rtnewetl, on account of th e unsettled position of Zuilverein a ff airs. The Vienna Lloyd states that the King of Prussia has promised to return the Emperor's visit at Vienna. M. von der Ptbrilten's health is ro. established, and it is now improbable that he will leave the Bavarian ministry. TURKEY. The Trieste Garret; of the 18th inst. reports that 1,54 X) Montenegrins had fur the second time attacked the fortress of Spu'z. Zabljnk was completely sue. rounded by the Turks, but the Montenegrin garrison was offering a desperate resistance, knowing that every man fought with a halter round his neck. Combats were incessant in the neighbourhood of Podgorizza ; the tiring of artillery was heard on the 11th. SWITZERLAND. The Capuchins, who have been expelled from tho canton of Ticino, have petitioned the Grand Council to be re-instatcd in their convent ; and th e mun i • cipality of Avegno has also petitioned for their return. TIIE PENINSULAR MAILS' SOUTHAMPTON, Tusonsnsio NiG 111. Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's stc4rn. packet Tagus, Captain Itussell, has arrived here, with the usual mails. Her dates are: Gibraltar, lite. Li; Cadiz, 17th; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto and Vigo, 20th. She brings 43 passengers, specie value 2,41/, sad on freight 1,200 half chests of oranges, 1.50 boxes of raisins, 116 barrels of dates, 160 casts of tggs, and t 3 packages of general merchandise. According to Lisbon letters of the 19th in: stant, the elections hate been generally (*lronic able to the governinuit candidates and ad: verse to the ultra-l'rogres,istua and ultra-Car. list" who formerly acted in concert with Count Thomar, but can no longer be fairly designated " Cabralistas," as the Count fruitlessly counselled them to take no pains in these elections,und did no t himself interfere in them. The Minister of Finance, M. Fontes, had been returned for Lisbon, Oporto, and several other places; the brothers Cabral had not been returned, neither M. Jose Passes nor other chiefs of the ultra-Progresista fraction ;hut the large number of the moderate part of that party, elected as government candidates, is not calculated to alto* the ministers to luxuriate in a bed of roses when the Cortes meet. A telegraphic despatch from Paris had certified to he Portuguese government the arbitration of the French government in favour of Portugal, and against the United States, on the question of the General Armstrong claim, consequent upon its des truction at Fayal in 1814. Admiral Corry had been joined on the 11th by the Vengeance, Phseton, and Fury, from Gibraltar, and on the morning of the 19th got out with those vessels, as also with the Prince Regent, Rodney, and Terms grant, for Portsmouth, after being delayed in the bay below Belem four days by bad weather and an unsate Two French steamers were in the Tegras when the packet left, as also the Sanspareil and Inflexible steamers, Captain Hums having received un admi ralty order to winter in Li4bm, were it was said a French fleet would soon appear. The Lisbon exchanges fur three months' bi!la are quoted by this mail at 541 on London, with a scarcit y . of money, the Board of P u bli c Credit being principally taken, and having remitted 10,0001. on divident account. Paris was at 525 ; Amsterdam, 434. ; Hamburg, 4117. ; and Genoa, 524, with little doing upon any of those places. Portuguese Five per Cents., 39 to 39k ; Four per Cents., 32 to 324 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 215 to 210 milreis per share discount. These rates are is Lisbon bank notes, discountable at 2: per cent., and the state of the share market was dull, with few buyers, and a :declining tendency, except for the Oporto Bank shares, which were at 15 to 18 milreis premium per share on metal. Our Oporto lettere state that the elections in the neighbouring provinces had all gone off quietly and in favour of the government. The British Mediterranean . squadron, under Admiral Dundee, comprising B ritannia, the Vet. pence, Albion, Trafalgar, - Bellerophon, Phaeton, with the steam-frigate the Sampsoa, the Tiger, and the Fury arrived at Gibraltar during the 7th and Bth inst., from Malta. The Tiger and the Phaeunt left on the 10th, and the Vengeance and the Fury on the 11th, for the eastward. The following British ships of war were lying it anchor in Gibraltar Bay when the Tagus lett: The Britannia, the Albion, theTrafalgar,the Bellerophon, the Arethima, the Retribution, the Tiger, and the Antelope. Tiger, and he 7th and he l'haeton dl the Fel re lying at to lett : The Bellerophon, Cr, and the R, ' d the Royal he Castle 111 Princess M► town on Wed- is of Glotiens, ,yal llighnete e afternoon. as, had an is. the Colonial-, 'view with tha the year win d oa Monday Awards of 804 each remit. persons. each der the imme- -1 the Rer. a °Fatuity. ONIBLNA• • bed at the M. 22, ISSZ. prise to lean Derby in tha ',set that his aecrt or en• el and other ream smog cl,ctioL far hat I slowest I the pe.icy Id juitify cu am rca.:y t 4 arts; hat th. a,1 , . as of nr , rt or no' be purpo'e af is a fact or eg to ycradd Ards o!`rY if' ne Court. - WINDSOR, Dt:c.: 3. Tho Queen and Princo Albert, and the Royal Children talked in the grounds adjoining the Cutle tnin morning. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adis lside of Hoheolobe Langenhourg, arrived in town on Wed nesday from Frogmore, and visited the Duchess of Gloms'p ter, at Gloucester HOLM, Piccadilly. Uer Royal Ilighnem with the Princess retuned to Frogmen in the afternoon. Mr. Joseph Linings. delegate from Antigua, had an terview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonials °Mee. Captain Stanley Carr had also an interview with the right bon. baronet. The usual Royal Bounties at this season of the year airs distributed on 'Friday end Saturday last and 00 Monday and Tueeday, at the Almoury, Whitehall, to upwards of 8 . 03 aged poor, Including blind and in fi rm persons, each recces Also the Royal Gate Alms to la aged persons. each neelving 13s. These bounties were issued under the imme diate authority of Me Lord High Almoner and of the Rm. Dr. Jeff , the S'ub-almoner, by Joseph Hanby, `see' . tan. and Yeoman of her Majesty's Almoary m orthuary. LORD DERBY'S CHARGE OF o COMBLV.I• TION." The following letter has been published at the request of Mr. Phillicaore : " 6, Carlton-gardens, Dee. 22, 16.52. " My dear Phillienore.—lt causes me no surprise to lean that the unwarrantable statement of Lord Derby in tha Howe of Lords on Monday night, to the effact that his defeat on Thursday last was the result of a concert or cow bination between the friends of Sir Itobert Peel and other political parties, should have caused much soreness smog those who supported me at the. Lite contested ckctisk fat Oxford. For they will no doot,t remember that I mount before and during that election a wish to And the policy and measures of the government such as would justify so in giving them my support. " That wish I sincerely entertained, and I am rrs.:y_,! show it by reference to all my subsequent acts; hit , ' main question, one really of personsl honour a, will &sof political consistency, is this—whether the cerm - t or Ng' bination alleged to have token place for the porpost 4 ejecting Lord Derby's government from office is a fact or a fiction " I have not the slightest hesitation in stating to yoadd it is a fiction. "I give you this assurance absolutely as regards mesa, and with all the confidence, as regards my ilnni d ' ate . Mends, that one man can have in the veracity of ano:hrt I shall denounce it as a fiction upon every legitimnr Ka. sion that may Wier itself to me, and shall complaio of tld propagation, from such a source, of a statement PO ta)arion and so entirely unsupported by legitimate evidene , . " It was entirely unsupported by such evidence—laf tb only presumption in its favour was this, that we not against the budget of Mr. Disraeli, in strict renhswl with every principle of finance we had professed theisav our political lives, and with the policy of former 44° 2. ministers from the time of Mr. Pitt, arrain.t th r ; principle.' and 'new policies' which Mr. lhsreli or dared at Aylesbury his intention to submit to the fi"! of Commons ; a pledge which I admit that he couty.ftri redeemed. this letter, and a o a q d u e it i e p. a c t i. li i he ly, rty in to ,t, m l a u k ll e contains. " I remain moat sincerely yours, to " Robert rbillimore, " W. E. 01-“" )° ' .- b k r a ent i t, th th e e ru d:P‘nisillift bar. I