The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-27 00:00:00

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Oa every day except r4tortlay lith price of the EXPRESS will be Ilusepeste, as hereto:ore. A Dr ERTISEM TM great value of the EXiIILUTION YhlailLSA is a median r barmier to advi farm AU aileertierneam war to ot Ih. War 10 'Abitefriara at to heron, MIA to the meshes et mob Pero,. to enure raw boa m the number tl tM foirmagam. two., 14. exemlarbeet, lketrtreet. vie erprcoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisenrintsirst a el;led ear Evening paper, inyµ b. e ige Odic, 114 Bouventiistreet, by Tau o'cloak of the lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAT—Mursaat 116 a. .Ater110•1021n. Iwrosauw—liagatag, Ith. 31.. Afteragoa, IL Scs. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. Tun rumours yesterday were few respecting the furniution of a government. hopeful excitement has subsided, and a dolorous gloom pervaded political circles, as if England was as incapable as France of finding men to govern it. Lord STANLEY, it was said, had required a prolongation of the time, and was allowed till Friday . to soften and to weld his un promising and wipnable materials. Yet his lordship was considered to have few hopes of either inducing the country gentlemen to leave protection an "open' quustion, 'or to get any or many of the Peelites to embark with him in so rough a sea, and fur so little purpose. Thu speculator in future ministries was, there fore, compelled to look once more along the scattered ranks of the lets: traders, where in truth !sigma aught hut unanimity. With a great many the cruets sums lIIIM/Vllll to a mere question of persons. And the difficulty se Clll , l to lw not what course to follow out, what principle* and measures to insist on, but how to pack the crews of two vessels into one. In order to begin fairly and calmly the iirl proposal is to fling thu old esiptain overboard, without, at the same t acquainting us who is to be the new. Such is the cool proposition of the Times. Accord ing to this ready reservoir for uny malignity, which a party on the rise may amuse to void un a party falling, lord JOHN RI:SMELL is a great criminal : his " letter gave intowily and political importance to Ow anti-papal agitation. I leaven knows that if any mouth or pen stirred and aggravated that agitation, it was the daily ;Lilian of the Thews, which Journal, in gnedily welcoming and prominently publishin , the 111.111011 S Demme letter, MetllllllKlll4.ll it I.) the fur lowing terse and (.Ipm:sive:ea:title: The letter of lain! John Haswell to the Ilishop of Dur ban., w hint 111 , 41,1 , di, all VV.( Ilt. la•nti.ll7. It is a clear mot iinvoiminimi-iiia ..r prin.*. and 111 int which arc ant rt. .l with w ma.l.-r -ful anauimily by all the wan' and moderate in this conntry. Has a ping ...l e with I n. t i a ly vigour tlit• talo• and niphistical nata l,, g ,,,, i n which tin .ollijnet Iw. lien ...tight to 1,. eii• tangled, laird John lit... II taunts at OM, In tine real merita of do- quo -bow tha as4timption of authority Del r her Ma jesty'. subject* and autircinicy Ofis, her 414. kkk i ..... Itut treating thew empty bravado., of a jolty loreign princ.• with I .anpar.ttive contempt, he linnet 41, to point to the fountain and origin of the evil- -the opintary of a large ntoulna of the English etergy, elm have prepared the way by were( to-arm for this open attack upon our ehun-h ruat rosin. Tin se s. sit iinent•. as ter., and vigorous as thy are wise anal true, would cont .,ml respeet (roof what. ter quart., tiny (linos, but tht ir impottanee is isilmitely 4.oh;inctil when we consider that lb., ore lb, 4k-40a-rate op-int.. of a alatewitaii, the (tit (mod if vibrato., who has now, Ala.! Ito ritual in know- Icel,tr .4 our not.ittution unit myerienre iit ih working, nal whine • lis deeply iml,u.d with tlie spirit nt that aneicht limit. 41 inottarehy which ha. dissivsntletl to us alone of all the nations of Europe truer and unimpaired. Still won, iinpurtant IA this biter aa a aoltsmii illtilitts given ity the kraal sit nor rt. native government to the nation, that the two. Cligiirnioo.l gfil•V•1111`, which it point. nut .hall not rem tin unn wit. If the Lll.l toonpn•- b,,,,iv,, f oams!, to reach this Wt. - niter, it will be put in fain-; if not, laird John Itussell still 1 . ‘1 , n41.111 a pli ant...on, in which all will join, that we am - strong enough to rill. I all oistviiir.l att. k.. Nor 4•. an we la sieve that John Ilusu II has tltti. publicly and ininbittindly .11441 at tention to the aiantacy 4if many clergymen of our own ehorish, who are acting within her porn-Met. the part of / 1 ""o 3 It ~t l " 4 e r PT"l.inr.m.lrti, anti of win,. altainlintment of the it roam, he exprectes no hops, merely for tlic pogo.- 04f holding up tin.,. p r.oir, to obloquy mot d.-:(roue, however wi II HMI IV,' trust a, We in thal,,, sign* of 001 yet perhaps fully mattinil, but c. t pally growing toward. nonplutimi —the purpose of cleansing our ehurcli :non the discnilit rag upon her quite as inuch by tlve trearhery as by the whit,m of her mem bers tbe iturpnwe of muttering our universities au/pe eking better than ,-toads of l'opery and stirism— the juirpasvis of restoring to us our church such as the 'bi t tern*. tool gate it to us, the child of light and man.. unclotisletl • •tiperstition, ands-graded by priesteraft, dear mad tom ivrehriisive in her doctrines, built UM* truth, and abhorring foLtrlotod. if Lord John Ittecall .14a+ really entertain such iiitenti .... s, we arc e.itivinastal le may count with confident, ou th, suptant of the English people, who arc ahioe all lover, of truth, anti who, tliimali perfectly willing to tolerate any ilitTervain• or of - fr o m their own, will nut tole-r.it,• the domineering spirit which atscks for suitrenittey la 1 . ..01.11• it has becii nitnwa,l .-quality, nor the wordid treachery hicli is invdiuw 41,41,411CVN under the wink of u hol low eonfonuity. Now, is it not disgraceful, that an English „journal of the lint circulation and repute should feel itself an above every scruple of conscience, every feeling of honour, every respect for consistency, that it thirst publish two such opinions, within the space of a few weeks, of the sanw document and the same minister Throughout the entire rise of that religious agita tion the Times hounded on the clergy and the laity, and the cabinet. And because, forsooth, this has had the effect of alienating a score of Irish supporters of the government, the Time. tunas natant, recants its protestant zeal, tarts its own whig junegyrism. and actually tomes ut the head of a hind of Anal rivals to &Mod the dismissal of that minister, whom ut the head of the public it drove to an nnt it that very act, and adopt that very whey, for which the rawritiee is demands:4i If u rade Mita dial this, what should we cull him ? Yet one man's fault scarcely implicates a country-. Whereas a journal like the row is considered us one repreawnting the country in its consistency and timidity, as well as in its opinion. And if so, what is the character of the English public' We shall not follow the long and formal string of accusations which the Times brought yester day against that patnm in whom it saw no fault till the day that he fell. We were never *opponent of lord Jolly. We are as alive to hi. Meets as to his merits. But W hen we recollect hiy long careey his early struggles, not for plare. l l which was then hop e less . but for the achievement 1 of those gnat measures of civil and religious liberty which for ever must attach to and immortalise his nano* we must own that we regard those flatterers who licked this great minister's plate, and who now, curt that they are, turn to buy and to bite at his heels, with a feeling of contempt indeed for them, b u t of indignant sorrow for the country whose elianwter they stain. Wo an nut however prepared to maintain that torilJoim Ile should ha‘ e a life-tenure of power.' If be 'have failed to the neees-iare art and address of pnaerving the attachment of his party, let him re tire. Bat to di4miui such a ,-tatesman with a kick, such as harlequin might deal to Panlahem, this, thooirh it may snit the Tim... jars with our ideas of justice and detarum. - Let as. more over, see, ero we condemn him, that we actually gain 117 the change. If Lord STANLEY and the protectionists have a chance of success, it in the break up of the great liberal party, and its not being efliciently led. The Tines, with its wonted feelings of delicacy and justice. throws all the blame of Sir ell t REES Woon's budget upon Lord JOUN. And what it proposes is neither more nor lets than to preserve and perpetuate in power the whole dynasty of the GRETA, WOODS. and all, dismissing Lord ions, like a scape goat, his back laden with their crimes. We will not imitate the Tunes in discussing the merits and nail- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1851. rioters, had previously told the magistrates " that the fanners bid him when he came to the house to kick up a row;" advice he very faithfully fullow•cd. These are, of mum, allegations to be supported by evidence before they can be received as facts. But, admitting that, there is, we must say, a very disagreeable combination of circumstances in the case. First we have the union-house be coming, habitually overcrowded just as parlia ment meets ; them we have riots nicely fitting in with and supporting statements of agricultural distress, in the House of Commons, these riots attended with unnecessary and useless military display; and all taking place in an union where the rates are light, where the demand for labour in February ought to be rising, not falling, and where the substantial rents at which farms are let can only be paid by a large employment of labour; but where protection has become a passion, and the dislike of free trade risen to fun•. The case is at least suspicious; and the facts must be obtained, whether they make for or against cheap bread ; for, as Sir James GnAtust remarks, the time has come when truth must be told. church. What a state of things nut of the pale of the church' Have we not seen lately, to the great disgrace of Christ...adorn ' a subordinate of a church carrying on a legal dispute with his bishop--one whom he was bound to obey on every point of doctrine—on a matter of opinion con nected with so important a subject as regeneration? And have we not seen that dispute settled at last by a purely civil council ? . . . I fear not but that the chair of St. Peter will last for ever. Did nut ignorant men say lately, when Napoleon carried ufr its occupant (whodied in prison) —Look, the Pope is dead ; then is an end of the Popes ! And was that the case? And Inure lately still, when that same nation did itself immortal honour by restoring the poutitf to his thr.no, do you think that if they had n o t b ee n moved to this act by God, even the Turk., by the combina tion of political movements, would not have been impelled to restore him ? This idea of the Turkish crescent and Papal keys floating in triumphant union from the castle of St. Angelo is certainly very rich, although not much in harmony with the bygone crusades and the more recent battle of Lepanto. Would the Papal govern ment be equally anxious to aid in the restoration of the Sultan, who is, after all, a Pope in his own way, and a very important one too, should a revolution in Constantinople drive him forth from the Seraglio? I fear not, but reciprocity is not the fiirte of the Roman cabinet, as we have been plainly shewn by its treatment of protestants in Italy, and its claims for religious liberty elsewhere. The manner in which Papal reciprocity is carried out cannot be better exenipliiicd than by what is now going on with respect to the new catholic chapel at Geneva, as contrasted with the treatment of the ' protestant Swiss chapel at Florence. I mentioned to you a fortnight ago the efforts of the Roman clergy to get the latter closed ; but they triumph, notwith standing. greatly, in having obtained permission from the radical government of Geneva to erect a second catholic church in that city. The ecclesiastical paper, the Osserratore ROMallO, has the following pithy remarks on the subject. Protestantism in Geneva is routed—her temples are nearly descrted—radiealism demolishes. stone by stone, the edifice of protestant institutions. In the midst of the political and religious quarrels which waste the descendants of Calvin and Luther, the final and fatal stroke will he the erection of a catholic church in the bosom of the protestant Itotne—on the highest bastion of her recently dismantled fortifications. ..... . London, Berlin, and Geneva formed the pernicious triangle of protestant strategies. God has dio- Posed events in ouch a manner, that the sovereign Ponti ff , ius IX., in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, has bean able to break through this triangle. Let us appeal to the piety of the Romans and the provinces to aid in the execu tion of the great work. The Holiness of our Lord has already deigned to head the list of subscriptions by sif,oning with his own hand for the contribution of one thousand dollar., the moot eminent pro-Socretary of State for a thou sand francs, the Countess Bentourlin for 200 francs, and many other distinguished clergymen and patricians fur va rious aunts. Ready as his Holiness may ever he found to second the views of his ecclesiastical subordinates in reli gious matters, it is to be hoped that he will not always continue so docile to their political sugges tions as at present, nor do I mention this at random, as I have it on excellent authority that uneasiness is again beginning to prevail amongst the Cardinals with respect to the Pope's versatility of character, their Eminences justly surmising that if the actual iron sway of the government should be once relaxed, they would soon have, in their own words, " tutto da (Ivo," everything over again. His Holiness has recently been heard to exclaim frequently that things could not go on in the present style, and complained of his painful position only akw days ago to Count Pieinciani (who, although not a liberal, is capable of affording good advice), saying, "Alt, Count, you are the only honest man I have about me r Certainly, an enlightened and really liberal French minister, setting aside the republican principles which a republican nnslxw sailor might be reasonably supposed to entertain, would be able to to effect much for the good of the Homan people, now that such misgivings arc again finding their way into the sensitive heart of Pin Non° ! Pars sanitatis relle aauuri. Should the desire for political ameliorations be sincere, the means of f foiling them might soon be procured. Meanwhile his lloliness has been providing a arnsernir for the diplo matic omipanions of his a jour at Gaeta in the shape of 13 gold tntslals, very large and handsome, the value of the gold in each being 200 dollars. The die, which was broken immediately after the coining of the 15 medals, was executed by Cerbara, and re presented the Pope's head on the obverse, and a view of Gaeta on the reverse. This token of l'io Nouns gratitude will shortly be presented to the antlkmat dors and ministers who followed him in his temporary exile. The Austrian commander, Count Nobili, has pro claimed the penalty of death, without form of judi cial pmceedins, against all persons found with arms in their possession, and whoever harbours, provides food for, or gives information to the brigands. Four or five and twenty of those concerned in the assault on Forlimpopoli arc reported to have been captured. At lesi two gendarmes and a volunteer were recently killed in an encounter with some townsixsple of the lower order, whom they wished to arrest for singing. The culprits, to the number of fifteen or twenty, were subsequently imprisoned by some troops sent from Ancona, ana have already been well bastinadocd for having thrown, either by design or accident, a bit of cigar on the Austrian sentry below the gaol window. A wretch who had murdered his mother, and pre viously caused the death of his wife, was shut hate on the morning before last, there being as yet no guillotine for the purposes of justice. nistrative talents of Lord GREY, nor yet of Sir CosaLes Woou. Ile is defunct, unless the Times' intrigue should galvanise him. What we would say is, that the country have a right to have tho best men of the liberal party to form the cabinet. In order to have them, we must not allow the chiefs of families to expel other chiefs of families. We must insist on having the best men, withbut their tails. We want Lord JiniN without the Itusse.u.s and Ei.i.urrrs— Lord GREY without his rlientelle. If Lord Jonx is to be exiled to Woburn, we cannot do less than fling Sir CIIARLE-4 Wool, into the 'flumes. Let us have a cabinet of capable men, business' men, trustworthy men ; and let us not allow them to form cliques and family parties, each de claring that he cannot come in without his friends, as if a ministerial council was like a feudal gather ing, in which opinions prevailed according to the length of the chieftain's tail. Let us have a broad cabinet, no snug family party of Cia.tit ill and GREY, one pretending to Ire a conservative, the other affecting to be liberal, and neither being either the one or the other but so fur as it suits them, to gull the House and make political capital. Constitutional government, as far as it is carried on by a cabinet, has hitherto been a humbug. And what the Times and other people are now striving at, is just to substitute a complex humbug for a simple one. We can see plainly the intrigues getting up for the purpose. Whoever will look into them will see nothing but baseness and selfishness at work. And if the public light be not let in, the same will go on to the end of tune. W► see that an inquiry into the Barham Union has led to the proof that in no establishment of the kind is the dietary more satisfactory, nor the comfort of the poor better looked to. The inquire, however, should have been not into the dietary, but into the external provocation to revolt. So strong a case of suspicion that some of the local squires, parsons, and tenant farmers, have had their fingers in the Barham union workhouse pie, and have been engaged in there getting up a protection plot, to frighten parliament into the belief that. though Mr. BAINES' returns show a large and sub stantial decrease in pauperism, all the union houses in the country arc bursting with paupers—so strong a case of suspicion of this sort was made out by the Ipswich Erp:ess as to have rendered, one should think, a rigorous investigation indispensable, either for the purpose of disproving the imputation, or of sounding the criminal protectionist depths to which' seltishnes.s ran descend. The charge of a conspiracy to stimulate pauper outra;,•es for party, political, and selfish purposes, is, however, so serious a one—is so repugnant to all our notions of rural virtue and of bucolic simplicity, and is so inconsistent with that devoted loyalty of country gentlemen which professes, even when not smiled upon, to be still the same, that, though the landed interest are not to be valued at their own price, some hesitation must nevertheless be felt in treating this matter at present in any stronger light than as affording suspicions. This much is, however, undeniable, that for two years in succession riots by able-Naha' agricul tural labourer; have burst firth in the Barham union-house, just as parliament opened; that the immediate cause of these riots has been the over crowding of a house with accommodation for 80 paupers of that sort with nearly two-thirds more ; and that the condition of this house has been held in certain quarters to lie conclusive evidence that labourers, us we 11 as landowners and occupiers, are suffering from free trade and cheap and good bread. The Barham union is thinly peopled, and corn 'wises a district of strong heavy land, requiring much labour to cultivate it, end paying large rents when so expensively cultivated; and February is a month when the spring requirements of agriculture increase the demand for labour; when, consequently, workhouses ought not to lx• crowded with able bodied paupers. February, too, in this year has been even unusually fitted for out•doar occupation. So that, both on georral and- spevial grounds, the Bar ham union-house ought not to have hewn excessively crowded with able-bodied laulx•rs on the 9th of February, 1851. Nor were the adjoining union houses. In two of them the number of üble-bodied paupers was less on the lath of February last. than it was in the corre sponding days in 1415, 18141, and Mill; and in another it was less than in the two former years, and only exectakd in 105.51 by uue the !mintier of Bat ham union workhouse contains. we have said, nceounmsl.ctiou f KO able-bodied labourent. the the Ilth of February,. 18.10, a riot burst forth in it. no honse then contained IDS able-bodied 'louvers or 2$ in exoNet Of its proper number. On the 9th of February, DM, another riot oreurnd its walls; it then having 124 of such inmates, or 4.1 more than it ought to have had. On both aces s. ecclesiastical justices of the peace called in the aid of the OrttrtY's troops to suppress the riot ; and on neither were the military of the least use; the cavalry from Ipswich standing looking foolishly on, whilst the pansh constables inside did all that was necessary. The hurrv-wum of expo,. in 1850 and Issl to Ipswich 'barracks, and the galloping of a troop of Lancers across the country to Barham were, however, calculated to ,•reate alarm, and to • give a frightful notion to parliament of the revolu tionary state of agricultural mind and habits in Suf folk. It is, nevertheless, quite possible to pitch reme dial measures so strong, as to excite suspicion ; and thus it proved on these memorable occasions. Whether, previously to the Sth of February, IMO, the date or the former riot, numbers of able-bodied paupers had been suddenly poured into the house, is not stated, hut will, &Witless, constitute an im portant point in the investigation to be held. Such was. however, the Me in the present year ; for just as the demand for farm labour Was increasing else where. it seems to have, on an instant, as it wen•. diminished in the Barham union. On the Ist of January, 1831, there were in the house 30 able. bodied paupers ; on the 9th of February, 1831, there were 124 ; two days after there were only 7R. Now, on the very day before the riot, 37 able-bodied paupers were sent in 'by the guardians ; amongst them wen• men named PrNG, Git.tisttrit, PLATEN, BROWN, SILLETr. and M RJORAM—aII fellows of notoriously ill-reputations and disorderly habits; ready for any outrage. _ _ _ Barham union was under the government of Mr. How sum who, thqugh a strict disciplinarian. is stated to have been generally liked by the inmates ; nor is any charge of ill-treatment made against any of his subordinates. Th e di e tary was on th e fullest scale; the allowances of food having been twice of late increased. and exceeding in quantity those of the Ipswich Union house. The paupers had, theafore. neither insufficient food nor internal tyranny to fairly complain of. On the day of the riot the paupers had dined and visited each other, as usual. Towards the afternoon the new comers-in became, without the lcast provocation, disorderly ' • were joined by others; a general rebellion followed : and the house was fairly wreeked: the men before named being the ringleaders. On Tuesday evening, the 11th, Mr. Dtsa %Yu brought forward his motion on agri cultural distress; and, just previously to his rising, a question as to these disturnees was put to minis ters in the house of Commons. The riot came, therefore, apropos for the motion. There are in the union 39 guardians, all stout and stiff protectionists; and the business is chiefly con diteted by two clerical justices of the peace, both of whom tire landowner., and think of free trade as landowners generally do. By the guardians Mr. HOWARD, the governor (entertaining free trade opinions). appears to have been insufficiently sup ported ; assaults by paupers on him had been very leniently dealt with by the ecclesiastical magistrates aforesaid : and his salary was attempted to be re &teed. Mr. Rowan!) Objected to the reception of such large numbers of able-bodied paupers. but his objections were overruled ; and in thee were pressed I and pressed. That as a body the guardians did co fur the purpose of creating di2ittirbanees is incredible. But it is boldly stated that there was a feeling out side. whilst the paupers were being thus poured in, that the riot °lima rear would be repeated ; that s - me of the farmers had dismissed labourers, telling them to go to the union; that others had expressed a desire in the presence of their labourers to see the union pulled down; that one of the guardians had gone fbrther, and threatened to " fill the house to osertiowing." as that would speak volumes to the legislature," sad that PuNG, one of the leading FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evwstxn. The decided opposition manifested be the govern ment against the project of amnesty, and the grounds assigned by the Minister of the Interior for main taining this severe attitnde towards political pri soners, have created much sensation. The report read by M. I'iscatory to-day in the Assembly em bodies the statements made by M. Wayssc yesterday in presence of the committee, and presents a by no means cheerful picture of the state of France as re gards seditious agitation. One might be disposed to attribute the gloomy tone of the explanation of the minister of transition to his inexperience of office; but it appears that for some time past the reports of the prefects from nil quarters concur in representing the agitation of the socialists as remarkably active. The meetings of the affiliated societies recur at closer intervals, and the associations by messes exhibit a political tendency, from which they were formerly exempt, so that the attention of the authorities is directed to organised societies, which have been hitherto regarded as merely charitable, and free from party spirit. At the same time, although the trial of the Lyons affair is still pending, there is clear evidence thiit the revolutionary party is mach stronger than was supposed in the east and south, and that it keeps up a regular correspondence with the refugees at Geneva. It is essential, at the sante time, says M. 11 - aysse, in considering the ques tion of amnesty, to take into account the material situation of the country. The communications of the Minister of commerce make the cabinet appre hend the imminence of a commercial crisis, which has already commenced at Roubaix and Amiens with the falling off of work, and which, coinciding with the agricultural crisis, may place the country in a state of grave embarrassment. Calder such circum stances, a measure of amnesty is exceedingly inop portune. The refugees of Geneva clearly instigated the Lyons plot, and continue to fan the passions of the east and south. Those of London act without disguise, and are continually publishing manifestoes which upbrtid their Paris friends with inertness and apathy, and stimulate them to seditious exertions. Not a fortnight ago, a mutiny broke out among the convicts at Belleisle, on the trivial pretext that they were served with the sante dinner two days in the week; so that it had been found ne cessary to confine forty-one of them to the dungeon. The Minister of Justice, M. de Royer, added to these remarks that it was nevertheless the intention of the government to propose some partial pardons to the Assembly, when it conceived the right nutmeat was come for so doing. and that clemency could be exer cised in favour of men who could oiler guarantees to society. Out of 12,000 persons arrested in June, 1818, only 1,221 had been sent to Belleisle, WO of whom hull been liberated in November, 1849, by de cree of the President, se that the number of those transported to Africa did not exceed 43 , 4. The re port of M. Piseatory concluded with vehement disap probation of such ill-placed mercy as would set once more the whole country on Home. M. Savatier Laroche then to address his in terp•lkutions to the ministry on the viulati 111 l of the electoral law by the goyeniment. The prefect of the Yonne had issued, in virtue of an ordinanty of the President of the lit•public, a decree dividing the town of Auxerre into several sections for theeommunul elee time. M.Savatier Laroche maintained that such a divi sion was contrary to the constitution. M. Waysse ob served. in answer, that the Conseil d'Etut was founded expressly for the piTiose of taking' cogni ranee of the errors which might he committed by the executive power. The legislative power could not. without violating the principle of the separation of the powers, prls•eYd otherwise than by making a law which explained or modified existing legislation. Meanwhile the minister maintained that the division in question infringed the constitution in no single respect. After sonic remarks from M. Canct in support of the interpellations, the house di vided, when the pure and simple order of the day was adopted by a majmity of 4'29 votes against '233. A bill was then culoptel for opening an extraordinary credit for the service of the customs and pest. The wine bill was adjourned, and the motion for opening the butcher-trade taken into consideration. The house then rase. In the committee on supplementary credits, the ministers on being questioned with regard to the Roman expedition, stated that the number of French troops could not be reduced, during 1851, below 10,1N10 men and 1,500 horses ; nor could any period be assigned for the cessation of the occupation. The committee, having approved the arguments of the minister, grunted the credits demanded for the main tenance of the expedition, and appointed reporter M. Palsy, who recommends the adoption of the bill. A severe sentence has been pronounced to-day against the socialist paper which may be said to have taken the place of the People. .The Court of Assizes has sentenced the responsible editor of the Voterairerset to 6 months imprisonment and B,ooofr. fine. M. Andre, writer of the article incriminated, and entitled Aux Paysans, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. The paper was suspended fur one month. Fresh endeavours are made to produce a fusion between the Bourbon branches, but with as little success as ever. In fact the Orleans Bourbons see that such u result would extinguish them; and the Prince de Joinville is represented as being strongly opposed to any plan of the kind. On the other hand, it is quite clear that he wishes to be put in nomina tion against Louis Napoleon for the presidency. The report that the Duke of Bordeaux is going to visit London to see the Great Exhibition has set the fusionists one more on the alert. 'fhe funds continue to buffer a slight depression. The Fives fell to-day 10 centimes, closing at 90.35, ITALY. ROMAN STATES. fIOYE, Fan. 14. Whatever measures may subsequently be adopted by the British government, with respect to the papal aggression. I am sure that the position of hi, Holi ness as head of the Roman catholic church. will not be for a moment contested, and yet the Papistieal orators in Rome go so far as to deny Queen Victoria's right to be called head of the church of England. This assertion, together with several others of an equally startling nature. was made last Sunday by Archbishop Hughes, and, coming as it does frOm a future ('ardinal, and possible from a future Pope, for all members of the sacred college arc heirs apparent to the papal throne, it deserves to be weighed by the BritNlL pdblic in the present emergency. The arch bishop was preaching on the supremacy of th e P o p e , and affirmed that no land could remember a time when this supremacy was not—certainly nut England whose savage Briton; were fighting with the Pagan legions of Rome at the timcwhen the first successors of St. Peter occupied his chair. It was not wonder ful, he said, that this supremacy- was not much heard of in the first few centuries or Christianity, when it was fighting against all the arts of Paganism ; but even now, in the cataconilN might be seen the chair whence the successors of St. Peter consecrated bishops to go and evangelise all nations. How (.:claimed the archbishop) can my other sovereign he brad of the church ? In Endand lam courinekd that the gentle and amiable sovereign would not claim any such position, should one of her ministers be candid and bold enough to tell her that she was not head of the GERMANY. In the plenary sitting of the conferences at Dres den which took place on the 23rd, the kingdoms, the -Vette Preatitsische Zeitunu informs us, declared in favour of the nine-vote plan, and the small states decidedly against it. Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Saxony, however, according to the same authority, denied' the competency of the conferences eventually to decree a return to the old Diet. The assembly had adjourned for fourteen days, after the expiration of which time it will be decided whether the present propositions are to be persisted in, or new ones put forward. Baron Man : teuffel had again left ltresden for Berlin, after having held several consultations in the presence of Counts Buol Schaucnstein and Alvensleben, with Prinee Schwarrenberg. The organs of the Prussian minis terial press, especially the Note Preussisehe Zeituity, inveigh without measure against the pretensions of the Austrian cabinet, and openly accuse Austria of aiming at the German imperial crown. The Berlin cor respondent of the Coltsrpte Gazette says that an active secret correspondence has been for several months carrying on between Vienna and Munich, and that a compact has been entered into between those two courts, in no case, and under no circumstances, to allow any increase of influence to Prussia, in order to prevent which Bavaria, according to this agree ment, should be raised to the dignity of a third great . . Our correspondent writes : BERLIN, FEa. 21. Baron .lanteufrel is to return from Dresden to-night. I understand that at the plenary sitting of the conlitenees which took place yesterday, it was resolved to adjourn the sitting, for a fortnight. During this •pare of time the govern- , went of Austria will have the opportunity of bringing the whole force of her powers of persuasion to bear upon the minor states of the confederation, whose opposition to the proposed alterations in the federal constitution and the onranisathm of the central poser has increased in an tztra ordinary degree. She little fry seem aware, too, of th e strength which may be gained by cohesion, for they act together with the greatest unanimity and cordiality. The leader of the opposition is the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Premier in Mecklenburg, Baron Bulow, wbo WWI formerly Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in l'russia. The Princes of Mcektrnburg ' and Oldenburg, who were originally most active in getting up this opposition, take their stand upon the Vienna tree tics, and relying upon their relationship with the northern despot, and perhaps instigated by him, demand that the eonfedentisou shall be re-established on the old basis, and that no attempt shall h" made to curtail them and their colleagues of any item of their federal rights and privileges. Schwarzenberg insists at Dresden, on the project of the eleven votes, and the possession of the presidency in the Engere-Rath. To the former I learn that Idanteuffsl has consented, but his objections to the latter have not been overcome. The Prussian premier has full power to act an the circumstances may require. A variety of different plans have been submitted by both of the parties to each other, some of them of an essentially cora -1 pheated nature. Among them was one for an alternating presidency, which was rejected by Sebwarzenborg, and an other for giving Prussia the presidency in the plenary sit ' time , of the Diet. Au-trio retuning that in the Engere-Rath. This has not yet been accepted or rejected by Manteuffel, if I am correctly informed. WALBROOK ELECTION. A poll demanded on Tueular took place yesterday, when the number, were de clared to be—Mr. Murrell, 31; Mr. Le Blond, 11; where upon the former gentleman was declared duly elected com mon councilman, in the room of Alderman Wire. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. - • THE KAFIRS AND ENGLISH RULE. Whilst the colonists of the Eastern Cape frontier are indulging in the must extraordinary fears of a Kafir iu vasion, a blue book just published puts us in possession of the steps taken by Sir Harry after the hut Kafir war, to regulate the locations of the natives, and so organise them as to render the tiara of renewed rebellion on their part im possible. Sir Harry's plan of native government somewhat res.tubles that of the french in Algeria, and consists chiefly in neutralising the influence of the chiefs, whilst their power is used for the subordinate work of keeping order. To con quer the nomad propensities of the tribes, they arc allowed to locate and form villages, a native headman keeping order in the location, whilst the native headmen are kept in order by white superintendents. The plan followed in the location of natives was first or ganised in the division of Victoria, where it worked so well as to induce Sir Harry to extend it to all the divisions in tho colonies where natives were located, as well on the eastern frontier as at Natal. Had Sir Harry stuck to it hr might perhaps have avoided the difficulties that have of late arisen in British Caffraria. The regulations according to which the locations were formed are these. Sir Harry ordered that each coloured native might receive permission to occupy any part of go vernment land on payment of a quit rent of 11. per nnnum. Every location was to have a headman, with two suits of clothes every year. White superintendents of native Inca. ; thins, to be appointed by the governor, who alone could remove them, with salary of 1001. a-year. Rewards to be offered for the apprehension of thieves, for spoor tracing, fur Kitties travelling without passes, who are to be fined when so found. A certain number of fire-arias to be kept at the locations by the superintendents. Rewards to be given for best cultivation, best fences, best produce. A schoolmaster to be established at each location. Petty offences to be punished by tine, and the monies received I either from lands or fines carried to account in the public accounts. The instructions to superintendents are these. 1. In the successful working of the native locations, both as it regards the people themselves and the security of the frontier, very much must depend upon the activity and dis cretion of the superintendents. Their whole energies will require to be given to this work. 2. Superintendents will see and communicate with the headmen of locations, inquiring into the state of the loca Lion at least once a week. Frequent personal communica tion is of the greatest consequence, both fur the encourage ment and stirring up of the people, and the information of the superintendents. Superintendent; will personally visit every village or kraal at least once a month. 3. Superintendents to keep an exact registry of all under their charge, distinguishing, in columns, men, women, and children, male and female ; also live stuck and property of any value, such as waggons, ploughs, &e. Also how much each man has under cultivation, with the different kinds of grain, &e. The quantity of seed and the amount of pro duce should be ascertained as nearly as possible. 4. Superintendents will settle all cases of dispute referred to them which do not require the interference of a magis trate. The people must, of course, have the right of ap pealing to the magistrate. The headmen of locations Bill settle petty cases of dispute among the people, reference being made when necessary to the superintendent. 'the superintendent will frequently find it advantageous to cull in the advice of several of the headmen, in cases of diffi culty. This will greatly assist him. It will please the headmen, give more confidence to the people, and promote the general peace. _ o. In the case of the spoor of stolen property entering any location, the superintendent will use his utmost exertions, through the headman of the location, to trace the spoor, detect the thief, and recover the stolen property. The assistance of the Kalir police should be immediately called for. When the spoor has been traced through the location, it will be left with the Kafir police. When the spoor can not be traced, the native law of the people themselves must take effill ; that is, the party or parties whose cattle or property obliterated the spoor must account for it. This is one of the clearly expressed conditions on which the Fin goes hare liven allowed to occupy their lands. 6. A registry will be kept of all spoors of stolen property entering locations, by whom traced, and how disposed of. 7. Superintendents will 'grant 151...., to those under their superintendence, stating the object of the journey and the time allowed. Due can hoeing had to the reiesinable liberty of the people, unnecessary travelling to a distance should be discountenanced. This point will require the exercise of very considerable discretimi. Unnecessary ur vexatious in terierence with the people is very undesirable. Passes to boa reported monthly to the civil commissioner's office. it. A monthly report to he muds to the ciril commis sioner of the state of the hications, noting any cin•umstance that may be of importance, especially naming those partko w•ho may be distinguished by good conduct, and those whose conduct is especially basf. 9. In seasons of drought, it is difficult to keep the people together; but for the sake of supervision and education they am to he induced, as much as possible, to rtsAide in vil luges containing not teas than 20 men. _ 10. Superint r i:Mlents will fsmstanliTendeavnur to induce the people, by their advice and influence, to adopt European dress and to raiw European protium. 11. Superintendents will be expected to exert their in fluenve, withoat wag twee, to induce the children to attend the schools that may be established among them. 12. While people cannot lw made religious by law and the orders of government, and it is unwise to attempt it, yet superintendent.: will be exptsted to prevent, in as far as it in their power, the people from pursuing the ordinary secular employments of the week on the Sabbath day. Any heathen rites and practices that are injunuits to MOrilbl and offensive to decency should be, by all teawmable means discountenanced. But questions of a purely religious eh inicter should be left to the teachers of christianity and private christian influence. _ It will lie of the very highest importance that the super intendents labour to exert a moral and religious influence among the people under their charge. If they do so, they are sure, by the divine ble,sing, to be of very great use to the people and the frontier generally. But if their conduct should be destitute of such influence, their usefulness in such circumstances cannot he great. In Victoria, where the system of locations was first estab lished, no less than 941 quit-rents were paid the first year, and that without any difficulty. The establishment of a Kafir police, too, has been a great benefit to the rainy and an essential service. This police was formed in order to abolish that of the Hottentots and whites, which had many inconveniences. The Kafiri arc invaluable for tracing the spoor of cattle, and whilst their efficiency in this depart ment is equal to that of the Hottentot., they arc free from the prejudices which would render the use of a Hottentot police detrimental. Colonel Mackinnon, in his report of the 31st ISA says: Much of the security at present enjoyed by these districts is to be attributed to the vigilance of the Kafir police. These men perform their duty in a most efficient manner, and ut the same time with . out occasioning any irritation amongst the Kafir tribes. This could not be fleeted by any other description of force, certainly not by the British soldier, for he loss not possess the faculty of tracing live stock (the only description of property which the Kafiri steal from the colonists), nor will any length of service or cape rienee in the country enable him to acquire this. The Hot tentot of the Cape Corps, on the other hand, is well able to follow the traces of live stock, and to spoor (track) the foot steps of the Karim who steal it; but there is an antagonism between the Kafir and Hottentot races; hence to revert to the system formerly pursued of sending nut armed parties of this corps to make reprisals on the Kafiri for the thefts which they commit would he sure, sooner or later, to lead to a war-try. I will also here mention the fact, as illus trative in a remarkable degree of the opinion which I have expressed of the efficiency of the Kafir police, that during the two years I have had the direction of affairs in British Kafraria, I have never once had occasion to call out the military in aid of this force. Witchcraft, used by certain chiefs to further purposes of aggression, was also an evil which existed to a great extent in the frontier settlements; and notwithstanding the effort* made to put it down, it seems to be still a moat approved means of creating disaffection among the natives. To keep down this and the assumption of power by the chiefs, is the aim kept in view in t:se government of the frontier. The deposition of Sandilli, which lately took place, is a sign that energetic measures must be used to keep the Kafiri in awe. But that this is best done when the chief governor of the colony has been present in person, is so well shown that it has given rise to the deeply-rooted feeling that Graham's Town should have its local governor instead of being ruled from Cape Town. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS, E'i. 111. I For Mabry. opeuingi Par AranavA. Ittlilie:.l Lowest.i 57 is I sr es I 57 :3 96 0 Mai 45 67 SO Et 63 3 pot Cent& —.l VT TIP O par Owes 3 /K Costa Soot/el ... q per Canna . 113 39 i kressnge on Loudon: at debt, Is'; 90 4.35,34 871. Belgian, 9, IS tu Dili Money. Naples Renton Do. S, 144 — Koman Loan, 1113 , 1 .. Do. 2, .. 1810 ... Treatatry Hotels ... Piedmont 3p. • Cnts ha GO Be k shares ... .. 2222 20..... Butltilk—Vernailies (right bank), 170; Versailles (left bank). 187 .0 ; Pat,. and Oa.. a. 884; l'art• and Itoinin,R t iO; Rouen sod Harm 271 2.1; Shawl l e . and A v i gnon , 190. Str2thourif and Bale, 131 TS; Centre, 4 3 so; Orleans and Hurting; 391; North, 473; Parts and *ni-botag, 334 23; lours and Nantes, 239 75; Dieppe and Yee.a.p, 210. MADRID, FEB. 21.—Three per Cents., 341 ; after Bolsa, 341 to A each, 316 paper. Four per Cents., 13} . Five p‘r Cents., 144; aft er B o i se, 1 4 : cash, 14paper. Coupons, 96 ; after Doha, 9 cash. Passives, ; after Bolas, 51 cash . Bank of St. Ferdinand, 971 to 1. Exchange on London, .50.00. ai BRItLIN, Fts. 2.s.—Voluntary Loan, 1057 ; New Loan, Four-and-a-Mall per Cents., Hai ; National Debt, 817 ; Com mercial Marine Society's Premium, 1276 • Bank Shares, 96. VIENNA, FEB. 24.—Five per Cent. .Ikletalliques, 96: ; Four-and-a-half per Cents., ditto, Ht. Bank Shares, 1240. Exchange on London, 12.41. sr - io IrDr Court. • TILE LEVEE. The Queen held a levee (the first this season) yes terday attenuant in St. James's Puln,e. Iler Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace, attended by the royal suite, with an escort .f Life Guards, shortly before 2 o'clock, and were received by the great officers of state. _ Sir Henry Gordon, hart., hail an audience of the Queen, and returned to her Majesty the badge and ribbon of a Knight Grand Crow of the Ordor of th, Bath aura by his father, the late General Sir Willoughby Gordon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the throne-room, attended by the Duchess of :Norfolk and the Viscountess Canning, Laidies in Waiting, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the I'rinee, the Treasurer of Vie Household, the Comptroller of the Household; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting; Lient.-Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of lier Mttjcsty'a l'rivy Purse; Colonel the lion. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to Prince Albert ; Sir Frederic Storm, Groom in Waiting ; Colon:! Wylde, Groom its Waiting to the Prince; Lord Charles Fitsroy, Equerry in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to the ; and the l'ages of Honour in IVaiting. The Queen wore a train of dark blue terry velvet trimmed with sable, the body ornamented with diamonds. The petticoat was of white satin trimmed with tulle. Both train and petticoat were of British manufacture. He r r Majesty'. head-dmlw - was formedof velvet and gold, nanientcd with diamond.. The Duke of Cambridge wax present at the lerie, tended by Colonel Sir illiam Davison, and Lieut.-colonel Lord William Paulet, Equerries to His Royal Highness. The Queen's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Anna were on duty in the state saloons. Her Majesty's Body Guard, under the command of Captain Kincaid, the Ekoll in waiting, was on duty in tho Palace u usual. The foreign diplomatic circle were introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty and Prince Albert took place : Hy the Belgian . nuater—Mr. Ilarthnleyna de Foutelnert, attachtl to the Belgian legation in London. By the nailed.' Mini to—Count Iteventlow Crimiail r att.tch6 to the Ihtni.ll legation in London. By the Minister front' the United States--Colonel T. B. Lawrence, attache to the Americin legation in London and Colonel Van Al e n, l a t e United States Charvi d'Affaires at Equador, By the Snan;h Miniater—Mr. John Thomas Comyn, first Secretary to her Catholic !dajc.ty's legation. By the Sardinian MiniAer—Count Gropello, attache to the Sardinian 14tationinLoutlon. By the Pros:4 lan 3liiiibter --M. Theodore de &thalami llollweg, attaelV: to the Prusi.iiin legation. . . • ... 7 1 . 11 By the . Austrian Charge d'Affaire s. e Chevalier Reyer t attaehi to Austrian legation in London. By the Ottoman Cliargi, il'Alfitir/c2-31. do Saul, wand Fccretary to the etnhaisy; and Me!tined Bey, eonunandant de la frigate 3lirati Zaler. By the Peruvian Churo IVAlrdireit—Senor Emilio de Althorns, attache to the legation. . . • The diplomatic circle lei; attended by M. Van de Weyer, the lklguin minister, and Mr. 0. Delepierre, secretary of legation; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian minister; Mons. Moreno, Buenos Ayreun minister • Baron de Brun. now, ltussian minister ; M. Alcoimiler de Berg, First Secretary of Ligation, and Count Michel Wielhorold ; General Prince Casteleicialii, Ni•apolitan Minister ' • Cheva lier Bunsen, Prussian Minister; Count de lterentlow, Banish Minister; Count Sehitinuelpenninek, Minister of the Netherlands ; and Baron Stratinus, Councillor to the Legation; lillroll de lichausen, Swedish and Norwegian Minister; Mr. Abbott Lawrence. Minister of the United States of America; and Mr. Bancroft Davis, Secretary of Legation; Senor lsturiz, Spaitish Minister; and Mr. do l:rbiztondo, attaeln , to the legation ; the Marquis d'Azeg. lie, Sardinian Minister, Monsieur Trienupi, Greek Minis ter; Baron Koller, Austrian Charge , d'Afraires, and Count Possenti ; Mr. de Marescalchi, En•neh Charge d'Affaires; Mr. de Sates, and Mr. Sampavo ; t'alsouli Effendi, Turkish Cltarg., d'Affaires; Chevalier de ltibeiro, Portuguese Charge d'Affaires; Monsieur J. 'l'. de Amoral, Brazilian ('hark, , d'Affaires; and the l'hevalier Limreiro, attachi, to the mission; Monsieur I:ozonises, de Metro, Peruvian ChargO d'Affaires; Viscount Palmerston, the Queen's principal S ecre t ar y of St.itc for Foreign Aestirs; and Lieut.-Col.] foliaSir Edward Curt, her Miktes ty'A M aster of the Cerensuaiei. In attendauce on the Queen at the emtnie were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Rus sell, Right lion. Sir George Grey Earl Grey, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Right lion. Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right lion. H. Labouchere, M.P., the Manniis of Clanricarde, and the Right lion. Fox Motile, Secretary at War. 'the following functionaries of state and official gentle men were also present, : the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Archbishop uf York, the Captain of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Marquis of Angle. y, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Lord Chief J testier. Jervis, Sir Edward Dishrowe, her Majesty's Envoy Extraonlinary and Minister Plenipotens Bury to his Majesty the King 01' the Netherland.: Sir John Millhanke, her Majesty's Minister at the court "r Munich ; the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall ; Mr. Horatio 'Waddington, Under Secretary of State Moue Department; the Queen's Advocate, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor. General, the Attorney-General of Isis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Mr. Tyler, Lieutenant of her Majesty's lion. Corps of Wale:, at Arsas ; Sir George Lee, Lieu tenant of the Yeoman Guanl ; the Deputy Secretary at War, Sir Charles Young (Garter), Mr. Thomas Shifter (Paymaster of the llousch Id), Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal ; Lieut.-C'olonel lion. Robert Boyle (Coldstream Guards), Groom in Waiting to the Queen : Sir F. Palgrave, K. 11., the Deputy-Keelwrof her Majesty's l'ubhir Records; Captain Sir George A. 'Westphal, 11. N., Captain Norwich Duff, R.N., Coluuel Wetherell, Colon3l Wymer, ('.B. I Cohniel 11. Bentinek, C o l one l Owen, CH., mid Colonel 1 ('lark Kennedy CAL and K. 11., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Major darmar, Standard Bearer of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; the Groom of the Robes, lion. Spencer Lyttelton, her Majesty's Marshal of the Ceremo nies • Colonel hall , Silver Stick; lion. Lieut.-Colonel Udell, Comptroller of the liuuhold of her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester; the Master of the Temple, .Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., Gentleman Usher of the Black Mal; Captain Curling, Adjutant of the lion. Corps of Gentlemeu at Anus; Lieut.-Colonel Fitzmaurice, Ad jutant of the Yeoman Guard ; Captain Philffis Eton of the Yeoman Guard ; Sir lkojtunin Smith, ('.5., Mr. Fred. Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Gr ee n R o d ; M r . Charles Hemline, Gentleman l'sher of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Captain Green and Mr. Des Yooe , Gentlemen Usher. iu Waiting • Captain 1100. Mortimer Sackvills West and Mr. Ed war a Ilohhouse, Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty; and Major-General Godwin, Gentleman Usher to his Royal Highness the Prince in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace utter the levee. Lord Smalley had an audience of tho Queen rsterday morning at Buckingham Palace. 116 Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the lion. A. Gordon. The Marquis of Westininger had the honour of dining with her Majesty last evening ut Buckingham Palace. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. This morning several persons of distin c ti o n v i s i te d Lord Stanley in St. James's-square. Several influential members of both houses of par liament arrived in London during the morning. Sir Edward Sugden has also arrived in town. The excitement which has prevailed during the past three or four days on the subject of the ministry was in no degree diminished yesterday. The summons received by Lord Stanley to attend her Majesty at llurkingham Palace at an early hour in the morning, and the arrival of Mr. Gladstone in London front Paris, rather tended to increase the anxiety felt as to the arruntrements in progress. The Clubs were thmnged during the day, and up to a late hour last evening, by groups of eager inquirers, all anxious to obtain the "latest intelligence" from head quarters on the all-absorbing subject. The following incidents, dotted down chronologically, will show the order of events yestenlay : Lord Stanley, in obedience to her Majesty's command, proceeded to Buckingham Palace at an early hour yester day morning, and hail an audience with the Queen. Thoi noble lord returned to his residence in St. James's-squalls at 12 o'clock. The Right lion. W. E. Gladstone immediately after his arrival waited upon Lord Stanley at his lordship'. residence in St. Jameet-square. The interview between Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladston• was of very short duration. Mr. Gholstone subsequently proceeded to Argyll House to pay a visit to th e E ar l o f Ab er d een, w i th whom this right lion. gentleman had a long eonfeyence. The Earl of Aberdeen received visas yesterday morning front the Duke of Newcastle, Vtecouut Canning, and the Right Hon. Edward Ellice. After the levee the noble earl was visited by Sir James Graham, who remained closeted with his lordship for more than two hours. Lord Stanley attended the levee yesterday. Viscount Canning paid a visit to Lord Stanley alter dm levee. Lord John Russell received a despatch from the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday morning. The Earl of Ellenborough received a communication from Lord Stanley yesterday. It is said that Mr. Disraeli has been so closely en daring the past three d a y s a t hi s mans i on in l'ark-lane, no other person than Lord Stanley has been admitted to an interview with the honourable member. The heads of the proketionist party dined with the Earl and Count, ss of Glengall last evening at their mansion is Grosvenor-street. Lord and Lady Stanley, the Earl of Lonsdalc, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, the Lan and Countees of Chesterfield, and Viscount Canterbury, wen among WS guest,. The above are facts. Ws give, as rumours just now in circulation, that Mr. Gladstone has declined to join Lord Stanley, because the noble lord contemplates the imposition of a Gs. fised duty on torn; and that in the event of any difficulty occurring to prevent Lord Stanley completing his cabinet, her Majesty has determined to send for the Earl of Clarendon. 1