The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNssz, Fzs. 23. The Loss CmenciLLos took kis not M Aso o'clock. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BII,X. Lord BROUGHAM sad that having had mash eceantn ideation with County Court Judges and other learned per- MI on the subject, he was happy to my that he had been enabled to frame a dame that would meet the dideulties which had been pointed out the other eight by his noble sled learned friend ost the question Moods ; and he would propose it on bringiag up the report. - " . - Lord CAMPBELL osigustod that this clause should he printed. VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS. Lard COLCHESTER postpiewsil e nodes which lit lei titissistsject, on the piper for tomorrow (thu daj), rtil IM O hoar, day. • RINIGNATION OF TILE MINISTRY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—I rise, my lords, for I s purpose of toweling that the order of the day which Made for Friday nest for the appointment of a committee upon the akin of India be diseharpd ; and in making Mot motion poor lordships will readily conceive that the Woad upon which I make it is a circumstance which mast be alroady known to all of your lordships, vis., that all her Majesty'a present ministers hold office only until their too meore have been appointed. My lords, in making this an. mencement I certainly am moat anzioas es make no °herr maims whatever calculated to ezcite any difference of °pi miss, or oven to provoke any sort of discussion. I should fish so to act today, under any circumstances, but more apselally in the absence of the noble earl--• sable and mach valued friend of mine, though a political opponent—a Roble earl, from whom I have within the last hour Imard that ho has accepted office, and is engaged la forming a new administration. And that is work in which, although it is impossible for mm to give him any assistance, I am rare I should be the last asaa to create, while it is in my power to ensue. the slightest shade of impediment to the hemation of that or any other administration under any cireutuitances—(loud cheers)—beanie we are daily informed, that independently of the administration which is now being formed, there are con gealed in this country many anonymous administrations gewly to undertake the duty of conducting her Majesty's slain, but too modest to make themselves kaown. (" Hear, bear," sad • laugh.) My lords, I have, therefor*, only to Mate that, having been long of opinion—and every boar "which has past during the last year has confirmed me in that opinion—th it the retention of office, and the pro- Magaties of official soistebee by a government which does met obtain that amount of support which is necessary to enable it to conduct with eMeieney the Queen's affairs, is' most undesirable ; that such a government, not only CIMS•11 to be a potent government for good, but becomes productive of evil to the country—(has, beer)—l, thou:fon, the wily imam that I was apprised by my oak, friend at the bead of her Majesty's government, es Saturday 1110flihe. that, is consequence of what had passed the sight before, he wire disposed to adopt the muss of nags kg late her Majesty's hands the trust which she bad coo ked te him, instead, signified my satire annescone and approbation of that course, sad I ant sathorieed to tttats that when, may, I eommudested es the mane dm with wcy sellonguas they nannisonsly and nabs- IMO* sessurrod in that sews. (" Hoar, hear," heal Ihe ministerial lesshos.) I don't know, therefore, that wan this 'abject it is neoessery he nee to say stare. What Dare amid I hare said es Inhale' the gowsnatent with which I hare been sernsated awl the wawa with whoa I have had the berme anti the happinesa to ; but, my herds, I stay, perhaps, be breves, coseirlorlsi the positioa ki winch I tel myself to mad, and reneidesing that it I, I will say, Mai iniprobehis—l ought to bass seed a Waage? word—that I shall stein, wader say cirrus shaws, address year lordships dots thaw beaches, I yy bo permitted to add a few wards apse that part of the winamanitatina which I lase to sake. My lards, al- theagit it will, as keg as I have life and beeith, be eon- Moral by ale to be • part of my duty is fellead the pro seed ap slthis house epee steins lopertsia impacliag wasetiess, in times of a must eessallal diesseter, sad whisk I sea afraid will keg osmoses la be eustliel—eilliesgb I shall hit it to be my duty to lase part in sans Immense of rest public iaterest, and mesa especially VW It will be taut saliefactory to ma to take • part spa sea ef time pergione, If it shall semi bereaftev to be pessoted to year laniships, sad tapas which it will be sea eallehatray tg t• give ea elision to year berelehips' Mate, salthesed sal estrancelled by soy elicial restralate I 1 tip, that sithosgb is will bs ay duty so to do, yet as tine has ace sired oboe I think I any ressouably dispose with • sew ▪ or, if I essay um the ezpvesioa, a sempalsery atteami suss ea the proceedings a this bar. And with that belie, I esanot it dews, apse this seudas, without. k the Int place, *sallies my seas Moab when I see small eae—ay puma sad polities' Ildsado—for the weak sad cordiality a that support wash bus them I bays ceastaetly experionotel. Bet. Jae bee. I mast ales all that I Ain quit this place deeply iedebbed to the brews at large, and te • great asjosity say say te eli— des setae lords apposite, he the invariable Madams, woo ury, sad forbeassase with which I have beau meted. Io bas ben say with, sad will always soulless to b ay wish, to 11111* (Awned in the preeeediap of this heels that abeam* of all violas* it 4 temper—of all serlaisay of feeling —whisk I ea sere is easoutiel to the dignity of year Ind. ships' house. (Ruse, beer.) And if I have to aaything seatributed to attain that sad it will be to ate a seem of peat and bran setistaatisa—(hear, bear)—fee I as cos . ;beset that It is by ehmeviag that wine, and that med. of preserding, that year lordships will bast maintain that matharity in the country which you derive from its miestiretiose—en authority which, whatever may be said to the sontrasy, I believe it to be the wish of ell the mai part of the people of this country, that you should mutinies to enjoy. I soy of the eons part of the seuatry because all that portico of the public hes had omelets within the last tow years to ass eat there is so country with institutions similar to theme whole give your lordships a place here, when these lamitatkons leave been brainy destroyed, and a desire to reeenstreet them leas followed, in which it has not at the mom time bees found much more easy to destroy than to essetnest. (Hear, beer.) Therefore, with a most ardent hope that, order whatever government this country to 'lam& year lordships will continue to malatain a worse whish swedes you to the respect of the country ; and which Mopset, I am confident, if you deserve it, you will crothise to minima. (Hear, bear.) My lords, I have ventured to way thew mod from the isaraliar situation in which I now lad ssysalf; =Mare mew only to add that it is my in tuition to propose that year kodaldps, es riming troight, do Wren until Friday next. That is the malt of a comas - Weighs which I have had with a noble 11111110 whom I have alluded; but if there is burner of ea codhary character tibia it may be head womanised to transact Ia the interim, there coo be no *edits to your adjourning from day to day ; with a perfect eindereteading, however, that until Friday out, no plebes buesOms will be tranencted. (User.) The Earl of YALlifielitillY said that on the side of the house to which be bsleoged their lordships had beard with pride and pieseere the mosey in which the noble mompeis hod adlremed the home. (Hear, hear.) When he told them that during the political haeAles which had boss waged be bad tried to avoid giving psis or offence. they wield readily septum in that statement—(bear, bear)—es also,' that, on the contrary, the noble marquis lot given emestaat lessons to all, but MINI particularly to those maw than himself, of the courtesy and dignity width was se becoming and nesesses7 in members of their lordships' Imes. (Hear, beer.) He trusted aide that with referume Vs his (the tory) aide of the house, he might say, wide tenth, that he bad never seen eases gives or received. (Hoor, hear.) He loped that the words which the Belie marquis had spoken that day would hog be remembered by their lordships, and wing from the highest authority is the ha" both Ia superior:4, dignity of bearing, and courtesy of meow --qualities whisk had always boon exhibited by the noble aseripeis whim some of the most deep and susiting ise bad been dionmesd—(bear)—be was sus the lempaugo which they had Jut beard hum the noble marquis mule keg be remembered by these of their lordships of more mature see, bet mon particularly by hie younger friends, to whom his &dm:eider must be most boteesial. He had asedag more to add, emelt to express a bops that if the Nom of sweats should prevent the mete marquis from ecropylas the berth on which he was than item, the louse would ast, for many a hog day, lose the basset of his blabs, sad the valuable maple of these virtues is a deli berative memebly, whisk he bad not, with hit sherpeonce, Y ray way orsaiiierateL (How, bow) . ILoud CAMPBELL eaggostod that the osocaftteo es the mum kw procedure boll sight woothiao to sit. ; The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it was so import , sat a weiwaro, that it um ace droirabl• to pruned with It la tho precoot wale Opaline busker'. Their lardokipo thos. at a quarter before 7 o'clock, ad journed to Friday sat. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1852. to Friday soot. alas noble lard resumed Ms was amid samosa iodisation of pausal mood prtoreding from all parts of the bow.) Mr. HUME raid it was bat proper th.t those who were entrusted with the. losemaloa of a utivi try I.llollld ban time to amok, their arrassearosts. What he roma for was limply Nap= OW. that the house, *am it me: at Frifkay pK ttMM Wee the emertenity ,f bearing Ingo VOlfil r eaiiiiistios et the paltry on which thy imposed to carry es the govenue.at. '," Hew, h•oaf," eat lallettea.) Ue said this ber.iu4e he had lu.irtl a rensar that it wee hdeadeft that that hues., sheald mot have the opportseity of meo , bng 11.111. Fee hiereelf, be wee sot wedded to party If they brooch t la geed means he should sapper them. end it tnev brought is bed 1■11111111748 be should opr , w, hon. llu wet. sot wedded to either petty, but was tly. .!r.fireett itlerra.4 of liberal meserarea, earrylag oat free tr farther than it was sow serried ; and he maid only ray he shield be redly disappoiated it be did not hear from her Mikity's intended ministers some explanation of what they meant to do. If they were hostile to free trade, let them haw the candour to state it, but do not let them go to the country without a knowledge of what their policy was to be. The tootles for adjournment was then put and agreed to, end the house adjourned at 26 minutes to 8 o'clock. gite ervirefoL. TO CORRESPONDENTS. e son d aft If " TM F. 1111111111" oreklaiar do sum mmlne• .otimor.ok rasher every Trolly W Maly N. la Wm kr sit. 4 4. ig u m siosimied " The riptimpLoMar Swaim pa" systirmilkeollho. SomerWairen, b y Two Aloof es dm Ore paillsieft by lordlings sent to the Commons' Rowe from nomi nation boroußhs--whether they desire the free and' general exere.um of the franchise which the constitu tion gives them, but that corruption defrauds them of--and whether they desire a real reform that shall make it impossible for the landlords' rents to be fraudulently raised by the taxa tion of the labourer's loaf P These questions the liberals must now unite heartily to ex pound; and these questions the people must be pre pared to answer by their votes. The industry, the prosperity, the progressive freedom of this country— now the only spot left in Europe where real liberty may be enjoyed—is in the scale. With a tory ministry over us we shall need all our prudence, our energy, our courage, and our wisdom, to meet pro perly the inevitable struggle before us. IN what state is the public treasury at the moment when Lord DEBBY takes office ? Mr. CORNEWALL Lawn, late Financial Secretary of the a gentleman whose success in that ;4 1 : e o li ni a Nce office is another instance of the value of litera ture, learning, and systematic mental training in political life, has recently published a pamphlet, the object of which is clearly and deliberately to inquire into the practical results of our existing commercial policy, whereon have been based such important financial changes. Mr. Lawn commences the task thus: That operation which, in the case of a private trader, is called " taking stock" is not unbecoming to the dignity or unsui.ed to the interests of a nation. It is customary and convenient, at certain periods, to ►ook Into the economical position of the country ; to examine the several sources of our public income, and the several branches of our public expenditure ; to compare them with similar heads of re venue and disbursement in former years ; and to survey the movements of trade, of banking, sad of the other pecuniary Interests which admit of being expressed in numbers. If such a summing up of the national balance were useful in January last, it was to be hoped that the RUSSELL cabinet would have perpetuated a free trade policy, and secured the further progress of financial reform by laying before parliament such a measure of representative reform as would have given every liberal in the kingdom a deep and lively in terest in its support; how much more necessary and indispensable is it now, when Lord DERBY threatens us with a fixed duty on our bread? when Mr. DISRAELI has the opportunity of proposing with all the force of governmental authority a transfer of the special burthens on land from the pockets of the landlords to the shoulders of the people? when Lord MALMESBURY brings into power w►th him a semi socialist scheme for nationalising the pooes rates, and so refilling our workhouses with paupers? and when the policy whose great results Mr. LEWIS passes in intelligent and unmistakeable review is endangered, if there be honour or sincerity in a con servative administration? Let us, in the presence of this danger, sea how the country stands in its trade and finances; let us as certain the exact state in which Lord lonm Rusatti. hands its welfare over to Lord DERBY; let us know, in figures that cannot lie, what it is that free-trado3 l has done for us ; then we shall be able the better to hold a tory government responsible for any acts that may tamper with or jeopardise the commercial liberty of import and export which we now enjoy, and have to thank the late and present parliament for. First of all, then, Lord DERBY receives the National Finances, in a flourishing condition. Free trade has not, at least, turned a surplus into a deficit. If of late years our expenses have gone on increasing, so also has our income ; and, notwithstanding a re mission since January, 1846, of taxes to no smaller an saament than 6,883,6381., there was at the beginning of 1862 au mess of income over expenditure reaching the emensons sem of 2,726,3961. Lord DERBY will net, therefore, have the excuse of want of means for mot reducing still further the weight of taxation ; he will lad no apology . in the absence of Treasury khans for tampering with or manipulating the minimal finances. Let this, then, above all, be im pressed on the public mind—Lord DERBY takes office with • surplus revenue of nearly three millions ster ling lie will therefore be able, without reverting to a bread duty, to reduce the income tax and get rid a l its inequalities. And how has this enormous—it may be correctly said, this unprecedented—surplus been produced P By merely g i ving the industry of the community fair play ; by simply relieving the natural energies of the people from the weight of oppressive burthens; by only removing pernicious restrictions on their trade: by allowing them to carry the products of their labour to the dearest markets, and enabling them to buy the means of their subsistence in the cheapest. Within the last ten years we have, after an arduous struggle against class interests, long confirmed monopolies, and a powerful combination of aristo cratic influence, obtained free-trade in provisions; we have at least got cheap bread, cheap meat, cheese, butter, sugar, coffee, and all the minor articles of food; we have got cheap freights to reduce the cost of their transport; we have got cheap materials (timber, bricks, glare, &c.) wherewith to build and repair our houses. And mark the consequences. Not only have we pow a surplus rs'enue of three millions sterling, but in nine years our exports have (in ialuealone)incressedfullso per cent. ; in 1842 they were 47,381,023 1 . ; in 1850 they had risen t 071,359,1641.; and in consequence of this demand for labour and of thiii cheapness of living, our general pauperism is now decreasing at the rate of 3 per cent.per annum, and our able-bodied adult pauperism at the still more satisfactory rate of nearly 12 per cent. Let us never, then, forget that Lord DERBY has received the coun try into his safe keeping with a rapidly increasing trade and a decreasing rate of pauperism, and that this, as well as prosperity in its finances, is the re sult of that free-trade policy which he and his sup porters mean to reverse sf they can. But, descending from these all important general results of free-trade, let us examine a little the particu lar items which make up its noble and conclu sive aggregate ; and, first, of bread. In 1845 we imported only 1,141,937 quarters of wheat, and but 2,423,143 quarters of all sorts of foreign grain. Since 1847 we have consumed on an average not less than ten mitlions of quarters ; and of that great in crease in 1851 no fewer than 5,365,887 quarters wore of wheat. Now, by this almost miraculous augmenta tion, we have, as Mr. Lewis remarks, " gauged the capacity of the real effective demands of the country, and proved, by the demonstration of facts, the extent 4 the privation previously suffered by the community." Lt es esessimbsit e Asa, that Lord Dinar, when he seemed do pviriakent of the country, found it yearly mooning ten millions of quarters of foreign E.t. Q a! paid for in goods the produce of British ; as shown by the enormous increase .in bullion in the cellars of the Bank of England. Next in importance comes sugar. In 1842 foreign sugar was excluded from use in this country; and the duty on British plantation sugar was 255. 21d. per cwt. Then we yearly consumed but 4,068,331 owts. Now, the tax on colonial is only 10s. pee cwt., and that on foreign 14s. (to be egaalised in 1854 = ; and the result is the consumption, in 1851, of 1 . 189 cwts., or an increase in nine years of more 80 per cent. Let this " great fact" be ever bine our eyes when we think of the time when a petestionist government succeeded to power. As with bread and sugar, so with timber. In 1843 we only used 1,317,643 Leda of 50 cubic foot each; but the duty being reduced to 7s. 6d., we last year used 2,037,077 loads. In 1842 we took 28,519,648 lbs. of coffee; in 1851, 32,584,164 lbs. In that time our consumption of foreign cheese has more than doubled ; we are now using 14,000,000 lbs. more of tea than we did then ; 8,000,000 lbs. more of tobacco; and one million pounds weight more of pepper. In raw materials the increased importation is just as great; in nine years the increase of raw cotton has been nearly 100,000 lbs.-; of flax, 700,000 cwts. ; of wool, upwards of 15,000,000 lbs. Under such circumstances, what wonder that in 1851 our exports of cotton goods were greater by seven millions sterling in value than they were in 1842—that the value of our silks sent abroad has doubled, and so also machinery . ? That our exports of hardware have increased in money value one million sterling—iron and steel two millions three hundred thousand pounds--and that even our yarns are augmenting in exportable value P These, too, are facts, to be held in remem brance in the presence of a protectionist cabinet. Equally rapid under the influence of an enlarged trade has been the increase in our shipping. In 1844, the tonnage of British shipping which entered and cleared out from oar ports, excluding that which came in and went out in bailout, was 6,691,680 ; in 1851, it was 8,535.252; and last year, in the single port of Sunderland, no fewer than 146 Teasels, of the aggrqgate tonnage of 51,823 tons, were launched; i 'seta now other 73 ships are on the stocks in the Moe port. When, too, was money so cheap; when, gold so abundant; when, stocks so high P All predictions ma to corn imports producing a drain of bullion have been falsified; and in the last five months of 1851, the stock of bullion in the Bank has increased four millions sterling. This, then, is the result of " taking stock," that Lord DERBY receives the country with a surplus revenue of nearly three millions, consuming ten million quarters of foreign grain annually, 68 per cent. more sugar than it did nine years wince, 25 per cent. more coffee, quite as much more tea, and more tobacco—exporting more of all its produce ; with money cheap, scarcely a labourer unemployed, with pauperism decreasing, and generally in such a state of prosperity as that nothing but political per versity can injure. Knowing, then, the state in which he receives it, we are now able to appreciate how he will deal with it. This is what free-trade has done. Who will dare to interfere with it ? HOUSE OF 001011 ►t, FIB. 23. [A sum d Se ibilswing, with the whole of Lard J. Roosirs week effiseseedi la a Mooed Mks of last sea- U te i g rlse aatt a hos shah at 4 eels* eh the • a sly Les. r: te Les. atbilinel mombein the toy bethes m bere . mom Sea away theeegol t nil by heirgest 6 every aveilebie seat IS Ma ides wee esidled. Ahead holies here saw the mostka et the lash Mr. Diemen smi tea 1114V e k mud pMee—so the heedßerianseatads &r 0. Orly Yews awl in a few site:mob Lard Ma sod Melt their mats es the treemmy berth. bailie Mr. IWO& Mr. C. Lewin mg same Ohm et the embeediumise et Me -sat who hod helm mend ties Melba 4.1 & 1 1= tea, who ems dews some wider of is Mrs later. mew pled • seal is the lover frost WWI below the gangway is the__'elosiel slip el the beese. Mr. T. O'Clemer I/hefts, the aommemeemeat ef the amiss his allsemeeely meted sod moseyed the lea** sessabeet ef both=2l: t the phrase be acm timpulluesmilm yy " the leers, wee assegimems cm the presort osessism. • He sealed himself es Se witietseisi herd so the seat mealy weeewi the wader, Ma moilmesd them _.,.dices the Moallest to to he ekes prezheity hs that shim Sri (what was h im to take op with the meat mat) math emilmi ko by Mr. lAboeshore foodai himself la Swam do boa. somber and his shier, sad this by Mr F. Bean M. lowing, and by a similar movement fairly wales him a the beach. NEW MEMBER. Mr. HUARD took the oaths and his soak os his elodba for the borough of Kinsale, is the MOM of Mr. Ems. TIM haw neserer mos introduced by Wing Douai art Mr. Iligglas. PRIVATE zusnisss. _ _ _ The Mowing iills1;;;;;ei;;;;;Iiiiitime. tad marred to select committees :—Aberdeen Fire and Lits ateenennee Company Bill; Ardrossan Railway Bill; Reneeneilid and Red Rill Road Bill; Bedford and Ninths Kan Rend Bill ; Birkenhead Docks Bill ; Bitteribead. Lemerithre. and Cheshire Junction Railway (Atamillimmiat of _poot of line, vle.) Bill; Blackburn and Prates Read and Mir Bill; Bury end Little Bolton Road Bill; Clisaire Omatsbalary Bill; Commercial Gas Complus sod DMA Om Light Company Bill; Derby Gas Bill; Voisin sad Great Northern Junction Railway Bill i t e rmere and Pile Ilaz boar Railway, sad Branch Tramway Hill; Ora. Junction Welsroverits °r =peng Bill; Great Soothe= and Wears Railway (Ire ami) Bill ; Great Waiters Railway Mt Bill; Greenfield , and Shepley-lane Head Road NM CHumber Cemeervancy Bill; Eingwton-upon-liull Did" Bill; Las River Trust Bill ; Leek and Ilaasop and Middlishina mad Daubs Road Bill; Leioester-aguare lgewemeat BR; IJseels shire Estuary Bill ; Liskeard Roads BIG; Lauda NNW polis and National Mausoleum BM; North Staffoadsblue &tilway (Colwich to Wolverhampton, dc.) Bill ; Pedass and Rowley Roads Bill; Permanent Way Company BR; Portrush Harbour Bill; Railway Passengers' Asaimuiee Company Bill ; Sharpies and lloghton Road Bill ; Shef field Waterworks Bill; Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company Bill; Stockport and Karple Road Bill; Stroud and Ilkley Road Uaivimal Emigration and Colonisa tion Company Bill; Wareester and Harsiad Railway' Bill. SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY AND RIVER DUN COMPAIft. Lord GALWAY ein;Mahe sena "realiei of this bill, which he mud the bore had mimed ea non than one previous measion. It was a nneenre premsiled by the Great Northern Company, who, Ism*/ Ailed whin it was broaght forward in their own see" new ealeeNneed that of the South Yorkshire. Hs mined as an emsnimmiS that the second reading be postponed Orr in maths. Mr. CHRISTOPHER the bill, which be is- Wed was a Great Norther n The object was le en able the South Yorkshire Oempaq to avast their Ilse with that part of the Greet Earthen Moe rebid' nea pn rallel to the River Treat. Every badmear bet am, end he was the agent of the noble lord who last spoke, was in favoer of the line. - i;TT7COLEBII.OOKE opposed the bill. Mr. H. BERKELEY supported the second reading. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES supported the amendment. Mr. BOTHERON also supported the amendment. Mr. CHILDERS would give his vote for the second reading. Mr. C. Batten opposed and Mr. WAIONTION supported the bill. After a hw words in reply from Lord GALWAY, the ►ones divided. For tbe mood reading Apirt The bill was Majwis ewassiewistreat lOO NA OOll, _ _ _ Mr. SPOON= poMpositiiiriaiso ea Martwith until saw Easter. (TM amommmat ettMossommi wee respired with iregool diem bytM M u,W boadm.) CO4PISTULTITZ PAITTSZWARIPS. _ _ _ _ - BLA3Irt ow mode at lb btostlin to; ooh lost* to briag is • ME to dte hiallidlllll al labistrial and eo-operstive mew die wooldoir elassea OLEOP TRAIT NEEDLE. Mr. HUME put • quoin Is Closallor tho Et. wj a tt e zesta sa ilo terovotl e tti sp o eau . toy t o . f d tto do --- Mmt of Is Gump Tearth. He (Mr. HaineS hod mien* foie orator in orstso, sad the right hon. sostkoma Car C. Weed) boot ssiortokota to maw b irdlike as to die coot et the pamovol. Thu CHANCELLOR et the EXCHEQUER replied that thu malt et tie WOMB orlbb bid boos mode tote the writeerbodust anima - flit it woo drimblo to ism OW Mr express le ~orbs 110 zremost la turtles to Z trItIIMth saEJEMEL ask to say that He moms would tot be aoro THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Mr. ANIITIT peetpeaed hie wake Le "threw* to the .outmode et tie ISM Antis rozzoN RITIIOIOrI LONDON. Mr. D. 0001IBANI mead whether the goverment itiv eeelli e )( hetre esi:dasup=ri lf the dea dl 'e peak eirdaeallelweameema to el* to the Me of lewd Carol& raqwellai owl "Ma deepieele espiallielly lend op= Il l =goverearat to maul Weiss velleasee Led 3. RUM= replied Uri peedealer impish of Mem Ilaweembeal boa Mia mi peekal. boa** he (Lail. RAMO hod net lola lbe mad isse et the papas, sal eseli ark *aim Mee whether the sow paper wo table.re eon& The d.. pia* weld. we esti% be laid amts . THE MINISTRY. Soot after ire o'clock, as the Mod= that the order. of the day be sow read, Lewd JOHN RUSSELL role and spoke aa fellows— Kr. Speaker, Sir, after the °enflame of Las► Friday night the bowie will be prepared for the saaoinera - ent I have wow to males. - At a meet ing of her Majesty's errata on Saturday we con sidered what erne it was incumbent cm us to puma It appeared to to that it was inmeesible for as to cony cur satisfactorily the Wren of the government in this bow after the recut of the precediag night. We amaidered the alternative of advising her Majesty to us her prereptive to dissolve rawest. Bat we sonsived that than wen sack grave adenoma to sash a course, that we Anion to advise the awn to take thr atop. We, than/on, detoured promptly to lay or resignation bairn her Majesty. which I amordiagly did ea the same ottoman. Her Molest, was granny pleased to accept our resign- Wm, sad has dwell sent fon the But of Derby, who, I undertand, has wiertakes the task of forming a govern ment hod, therefore, we now cry bold oaks until our reessmoss are appointed by her Majesty. Biz, attar this datums% I do not wish to recur to the va rious snots which have taken place sines the commearowit of the esseics. and which may from, When, the subject of debate hereafter. Bet, Sir, I cannot unlade what I have to say on this 06:011111114 wilberat ermeessiog my demo thanks M those who have eapported bat liejesty's government, mid who, daring upwards of Ave mem have ambled me to sustain a burden to whisk, I moat seallem I ma otherwise today nom& (Basosseghs *sees from the ministerial beashes.) Having their esalidence, sad having hod the odveabge of their e'/set, I have been ambled, during that period, so Si am** Ware, that we shall not leave these, mow, in W peat bona of our domestie or of oar foreign Madam, in • Onetime of which we seed be at all ashamed. (Loud ohms tram the ministerial beaches) I wish fur ther to say, with reepeet to cue of my colleagues to whom I am particularly lobbied, that it is to the tsa rist, wisdom sad to the respected character of Lord Limedowne—(locid sheen)—Nat the government have awed the hdlity of being ambled to awry miemoree of mat importmiee through the Hoses of Les*, where • airlistry imposed of the) party to which I Wow des ace assay esawased the support of • .dig. Sr, se I have said I do act wish to Ism le sail musty er Wood to dwell ea saythieg whisk mg Mrs allioNmeste.ohs sew. fa this Muse. (Hear.) As to the Minh I ilia idly say that I Moll thiak gl my duty * WM, oat of ea" as I love opposed is elloh, soy restrestim of the duties ea arm—(leed showdeali— *Aim leader the sans Si melodies or Si temessa More theeriag.) That I MA *llk it my duty te eappert ea eatanelea of the siege M *me who are Need to ameba the bauble for ibe WM= II Ile meaty. beliesiai se I do that wish ea afar tlt silolumeth sad solidity to oat intilottestary welsh Illesildhosieo I will say further that I shell elwar isolhoWbiollsoleollist I may possemarr the smiatssaant etas blesimps dram. (Lead cheers.) I have idly for • le say Sol i dem I ease late the hems, I have had a 41111111111ildidd Is. Lied Derby. stating that it I. We wish frM OWNIIIIIIM et the dead murmur/is wide& he has boos dwell Is make by Ises llaissey that this hewn ▪ eillems till Friday amt. In somplimes with that ebb awl In the premed= of the pablie sonvealesse, I esialsn now acne that this home at its sides do odious NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. irfl; - n..4.i. Wo& tb.ussasw--Ilandat. ditten." N. 490. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. TINE NEW MINISTERS are is oMee. This impor tant fact was stated formally last evening by Lord Joitx Russem,,—now ex-Prime Minister, - to a very full muster of the members of that house over whale deliberations he has for the last five years exer aimed official influence. Whilst making this an nouncement the leader of the whig party did not fail to give the intelligence as much significance as possible. He did not content himself with the usual set phrases common to such ocasions, but put into his short harangue a few addi tional sentences, that told with great effect upon the attentive audience who eagerly watched each word as it fell. In leaving office, he should, he said, be prepared to stand by the policy of free trade, and to advocate the extension of the suffrage to every man whose possession of a vote would bo likely to advance the best interests of the country. He thus, I in his parting address, offered two key-notes to the debates that are in store—two battle cries for his supporters at the hustings—and, in truth, two pleas which ho doubtless hopes may hereafter strengthen the probabilities of his future return to office. The new ministry seems not to have been formed without some change and re-arrange ment and re-distribution of men in relation to the posts they are intended to occupy. At the rising of tbo Houses of Parliament last night it was decided that our legislators should not meet again till Friday next, by which time it is understood Lord Dxner's arrangements will be suffi ciently complete to permit the formal and definite announcement of the various holders of the distinct offices of state. At present the following is the pro gramme as put forward upon authority entitled to credit : Earl of Derby—First Lord of the Treasury. Sir Edward Sugden—Lord Chancellor. Lord Lyndhurst—Privy Soal(P) Earl of Lonsdale—President of the Council Lord John Manners—Woods and Forests. Mr. Walpole—Home Secretary. Sir J. Pakiagton—Colonial Secretary. Major Beresford—Secretary at War. Right Hon. C. Herries—Board of ControL Duke of Northumberland—First Lord of the Ad- mirolty. marl of Mr. Henley—Board of Trade. Mr. Disraell—Masellor of . the Excheque r. Earl of Malinesury—Foreigs Secretary. Lord Jocelyn—S b ecretary to the Board of Control. G. A.HamEton and Forbes Mackenxie—Secretariee to the Treasury. Sir Frederici Thesiger—Atierney-OeneraL Sir Fitxr•y Kelly--Soliciter-General. Mr. Napier—Attorney-Ousel for Ireland. Between the present day ad Friday the liberal party will have ample leisure to discos the plans it will be wisest for them to pane& The tof the whip clears away many asks and whether to impose still greaseless upon um sessains yet to be seen. But the roaesla pant clear. A week ago, the liberal IMO to hesitate and object, and almost ask me he dm step the ought to take. They were stead • aim Bill that was, in truth, vastly lilae a elms, awl were by no means unanimous in the plans . to be *Wowed fat its amendment. On its iniseigit—or relestieo—they were, however, de sad were in the very act of sesmidiks their bees far the fray, when Lord Rummmeow saved them all further trouble in that aration by tripping up the ministry. This, we repeat, has cleared the way. Of the whip thy lead z?: doubts—about do Wass they can oohs se In place of hennaing allies by their eldim they new find open foes in front ; and to men ltemt ern win ning in fair contest that whisk is hair ngbt, the latter is, at least in some raps*, the preferable emillion. By his downfall, Lad Runt Hamm won aersay fail to pie some widow. He is not a men kmpable of billlsties ky events, sad ape time of this Let mileledd OMB can memoir be lot ups Wm. He mast wow see how his Ape mesimmed his plias% and must feel that *4 at eats was masambeeed mot by ems bet by so many Joie diet it meek beams aot only awe but amid Maid his the. ever seek sem Isr -alai • maid s he must umber the lemma of IWO; emd.it pride, to lie alibeselamest take to his memedis son i whomlimp mils= of the people have semildeeme. MUSS Whams meal be known to involve the ihn recognition_ of maw principles. But this belongs to the ili•mo Tot Is return to the present. With rampant keying in front the liberals will bow how to act. To free trade Lord Joao repeats his Minks ; by the test of free-trade the liberals most bastes to try the new Palms Mumma. And not by free-trade alone i—for that necessity d our national =ty can only be permanently assured by g the people's party more power/el la the Home et CCOMMOML An extension of the siege is needed to reader a bread-tax sod that catemies tact be demanded as am and with dmisiom Of course, a Wry obi*, ray float at the adios s he may pooh-posh alas ea he may hmes—_ pretestionist ea he is--with the polka of ftee-kade. But by extorting his gbh= MI thee subjects, we shall be better Ale M deal with him and his party hereafter, sod be wilt be Ism eke to send hie &Hewers to the busting. with a lithe my. When Lord DEM has mdosa out full l / 4 ins p n w ern know whether when they vets far hie they tar dear or Ile sheep beads fee fres sr far im &why s fbrpalmetto rim or for stagnant re baseelety for impromment—or elerekadon of the good we have,—bat =ZTo dud st ill is to be in danger,—to mods . Weemst have increased political freedom' p band in hand with growing political intellige b n sad this cm be mimed alone by a wise and li kasha el the papaw eismeist into the Home of 011.111•1111. lierspise, amity misgivings, and ell sem lbdiria. mot be forgotten, and the SOMME eager now menacing aft ustrallyeaderthestirring Weems of a sense of duty, and he ready to act ore sae phalanx .}teat the 40•111011 0.61117. A die " Adieu ef parliament may be mum a immediately. If Lord DUST can soda sending the sambas at ISM to their he will do so for hesitations Whoa stem in the mu of the whoa' to whisk be bebop The pesoswill dm be appealed to. With them Moralism will rest bite long the amides ef the Insides is dimple. They must be the whim sward the esuatry will be EgTir7bh days saw e4newimerstr thus they g ive t he to Wilma as commipb to resat emy invader whom oar theldheshi hays east and idisaga in the Channel— Wikleaf they via the mammal to be carried on FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENINO. To-day, in the absence of all news at home, poli tical conversation turns wholly upon the change of ministry of England. There is, however, hardly anything in the papers worth quoting on this sub- Bct. The DObats regards the debate on tho Militia Bill as the most important that has taken place in England for severer years, and predicts that if a war should turn up, Lord Palmerston will be prime minister. The Assembl4e thinks that the division of the 20th instant involves the lose of the Militia Bill, and that this was intended by the aisendment of Lord Palmerston. In general, it is still believed here that Lord l'almerston is favour- able to the alliance of Louis Napoleon, as his lordship regards the Italian question as of much greater im portance for the interests of England than the Bel gian one, and therefore looks upon the Austrian policy as more pregnant with mischief to our com merce than the views entertained by the French President. • Count Montalivet took his departure yesterday evening by the Northern train. It is said that he is gone to Brussels. The names of the three other persons who have been arrested for complicity in the affair of M. Becher have not transpired; but I am told that one of them is a nephew of M. de Mon tali vet, and another Baron Fain, a member of the Cham ber of Peers under Louis Philippe. M. Duchatel is reported to have received orders to quit France. (hero appears to be less hope than ever of organisa tion and union on the kart of the electoral opposition. ' The extreme colour of the candidates proposed by the Sic& is an expressive sign of bow little has been done towards procuring an understanding between various shades of the adversaries of the government. It seems as if such candidatures as those of Eugene Sao and three members of the provisional govern ment had been put forward out of despair to contest seriously the elections with the govern ment, and merely with tho view of making a democratic demonstration. It seems that M. Croce-Spinelli, the celebrated republican je;eller, entertained the intention of coming forward for the Seine, but his candidature has been stopped by the government on the plea that ho was designated by one of the military commissions for expulsion from France. This step is the more grave as no definitive jurisdiction was assigned to the military commis sions, which were merely appointed to prepare cases for the decision of the courts-martial. From fifteen ferent parts of France, but they only bought about half their usual supply, alleging that the retail trade was too dull to permit them to purchase more largely. There have been somewhat more sales at Rouen than last week, but sellers were obliged to lower their prices. Calicoes are down. liolbec is perhaps the only articlo well maintained at Rouen.. La France NapuMunienne has the following, which may be regarded as a semi-official announcement : It is said to be certain that the state of siege in Paris will be rsised'immediately after the meeting of the Innate and the Corps Legislatif. The date of this convocation i. not yet fixed. The 20th of March and the Lth of May aro spoken of. However, it appears to be the intention of the government not to convoke the deliberative political bodies before having issued all the decrees which it consider, ne cessary for the organisation of a vigorous authority and ad ministration. M. Becher, of whose arrest I have more than once spoken, is ordered for trial before the ordinary tri bunals on the charge " hawking and distributing 80. ditious printed documents without the name of printer, and unstamped." The other three persons arrested are emporls in the bervire of a panels deli very company. They are to be treed as aecompliees. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 15e., losing at 103.70; the Three per Cents. rose Inc., uud domed at 63.65. Bank of France shares fell 15. 'flirt. is but little alteration in railways. Northern nom.. SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid of the Pith instant, state that the Queen, accompanied by the Kitix, has paid her intended visit to the Church of Atoeha, and that Her Majesty was received with enthusiasm by th e people. BELGIUM. The Belgian Chamber, at the request of the mi. nistcrs, has forbidden the stenographic writers who report the debates, and are paid by the state, to take part in the conduct or publication of any political periodical. The occasion of this injunction iv the discovery made in the seizure of the Bulletin Fran. can*, that one of the government reporters had co- operated in the preparation of that work. SWITZERLAND. The Revue de Geneve has the following on tho relations of tho confederation with France : According to non-official but well-founded information, it appears certain that the Federal Council has replica in a firm and fitting manner to the French note in which it sous attempted to obtain from Switzerland a promise to cop iu future from its territory any foreigner who might he noted to this government. The Federal Council, while refusing to take an engagement of a na ture to compromise the independence of the confede ration, bas, at the same time, announced its readiu,s to take all proper and necessary precautions against the sojourn of political refugees amongq us becoming a sourto of inquietude to neighbouring state+. There has horn written no other note than that to which the Fed, rd Council thus responds, and this note makes no emotion of any other subject than that which now elirita a refusal. The note does not even complain of the conduct of refuge's actually in Switzerland; with respect to them, all its all usiusu are most general, nor is anything said of the Dress, its lie env, or wished-for restrictions. When the French note was handed in to the proper minister, the Austrian eliaro d'attaires made some general verbal observatiuns of the nature of an indirect menace. We believe this is tho whole truth concerning the notes of which so much has been affirmed. The Jouraldes D4ats says : According to letters from Berne of the 20th Feb., the notes exchanged between the minister of France sad the Federal Council do not cease to occupy the Swiss press. The Bond, a journal published at Berne, assures us that the note of France relative to the refugees and to the tamers of the press was supported by England. But this statement appears to be without foundation. The Charge d'Affaires of England, in a conversation with the President of the Con federation,simply testified the desire of his government that, in the affair of the refugees, Switzerland, whilst scrupu lously respecting international law, should maintain tho right of asylum recognised in every country enjoying liberal institutions. There was no question of the liberty of the press. to twenty thousand copies of an address by N. Croce-Spinelli to the electors of the Seine were seized by the police. Not the least important feature in the list of government candidates for the C Legistatif is the absence of Lupin's name, which was expected to be adopted for the Nievre. The signature of the protest against the confiscation-decree seems to have produce:li an inoperable breach between Louis No tfrmad the ex-President of the National Assem .°l2Hence the contest in the Nitvre is expected BERLIN, Frit. 20. b to ein be osn of v t osood he sharpest , b the o th x c eo v u o to tes r o o f f L t o h oio e o pu ppos i i p ti po on The law of March, 1850, for th e reorganisation The administration is making immense efforts to of municipal and rural communities, of circ l es and throw him out; but at present ho seems to have provinces, contemplated changes, in comparison to pwohri;ohrtallwPoo:n,gltisoh carry y rm g o on constitutional t m u t e i re on a t l ri ti p t ri 's n ci p i I t : fferY The ci rec ce /e o p l u i b u r esL ishes the following definitive list of opposition candidates for Paris : Dupont do l'Eure, down to the subordinate elements of the state, and General Lamorici e re, General Cat ac, Cornet, thoroughly to eradicate the remnants of feudal ar- Gondchaux, Dixie, Eugene Sue, and Ferdinand rangements. This measure was the chief aim of Lasteyrie. In support of their election the Siecte reformers long before the revolution. The National says a few words, which will not be lost upon the Assembly hastened to prepare a bill in the most un intelligent electors of Paris, who read the indepen- sparing spirit of radicalism. The government which, dent press with the more avidity , now that it is pre- when it dispersed the Assembly, did not yen vented by brute force from spas V g out. ture at once to cancel all the work of in order expunge but the ok moat t in o The Steele says : Under the law of May 31, as on Dec. 20, we have alwa ys rnoxitisousowpnarths,ancudst advised ODOM the eketorshe questions submitted to make use of their rig to the hts, anm.d to p 'We ro- and carved the plan for local re-organisation till it ban sat ll t aaaged our opinion, and we now, deemed the matter harmless enough. It introduced sonator!** electon to tako part in the b; as formerly, re- llot of Feb. 20. all the conservative inventions for making eonstitu- It is set ear trek to procure the entry of some few repute- tional form a mere tool for bureaucratic influence; wombs. she Legisiativa Body. We only wish to point out, but still it retained the plan of constitutionalising, and consequently of eradicating, feudalism. At that „ma in sail rakisal bm sor distr pa l a ct, t fri he m nsm „ Le y o r f all h y r . o h ly . a .. ble th v y n . all the Mends die Pesach revolution—all the men who, time the government was still resigned to retaining imbued with the pdaMp lee of 1789, desire seriously and its constitutional form as provided by the revised loyally the applissisa at those principles. We hope to be charter, and, therefore, promulgated the law of March, 1850, deeming it necessary that the lower regions of heard sail unersteel by the intelligent population of Paris- We give So =mind list , as it has been rho state be orga nised on the same prisciplo as the es is by Ohs hisses of the di ff erent „u, fro m all material ti change, quarters, therewhcr o e the law . was . to against its immes.. .___ S ____....... ewa lnasto........ ismines :k ssrlsas b lave adopted it. in It . will .i.. e u n ß ee Pe t r. any " peddle aressins, have settled this practical application such resolute opposition, that the government discovered rho anti lillibasessemoraisiss—ditiSmAing • Owe for the divers shades et constitutional elements still to be far I thy sebnit to the electors none but men of Idea whit& sad tube an resemmended by real _services more mimed te Ms sessatei. powerful than it had supposed, powerful enough to offer the basis for systematic reaction, even to the A memorial limbs just been presented to the Council length of getting gradually out of constitutionalism et State, which bids fair to bring down an avalanche el Baca ' claims upon the Treasury. C ount altogether. As regards the towns, which had been n has just sent in a little bill for his arrears organised on the representative principle, and in a °IP toterably democratic spirit, as early as ltiOB, the law at pay as a general since 1815. You may remember was carried into effect, because it made very im that Jerome Bonaparte applied to the Legislative p° °t restrictions in the municipal charters ;but, Aseembly for a eimilu indemnity, and was obliged instead of instituting the prescribed new authorities to withdraw his petition. The cLim of Count Mon in the rural communities, circles, and provinces, the than has been referred to a committee, which has appointed M. Villemain to report thereon. government reassembled the old ones, on pretext of consulting them on the practical The Moniteur of to-day devotes its columns to difficulties which presented themselves against the consecrating the amendments desired by the Senate realisation of the new order of things. The old and Council of State in their costumes. Cloth has den of course declared the proposed new order of or carried the day over velvet, and considerable economy things to be impracticable, and drew up, at the go has been effected by pruning the luxuriant gold-lace vernment's invitation, proposals for making in the embroidery imposed in the original decree. To lay out 801. upon a coat, without being assured of a law of March, 1850, sue amendments as would nullify its whole principle, and leave the existing senatorial pension, seemed rather an unsafe invest basis of feudal organisation intact. These amend themenL Hence the now patrician body petitioned for manta have been adopted and incorporated in a re reduction of their tailors' bills. It is to be hoped tilted draught of the said law, which will soon comediet the success of their remonstrances may encou under discussion, when I will enter on the particulars me them to bolder flights of opposition. The wholesale trade of Paris has been exceedingly of the question, in order to give a notion of Prussia's interior organisation. The first chamber has for the dull during the last week. Some few of the retail last two days been occupied in discussing whe dealers have been a little more active in consequence thor the government could lawfully reassemble of the balls and soirées given at this season. The and invest with important functions the mu. chief commercial feature of the week is the amelio cils of circles and the provincial diets, which, it ration which has manifested itself in the metallur is maintained, were formally abolished by the law of March ,11850. The interpretation of a paragraph, inter gical districts, in consequence of the Vannes railway concessions. The iron masters have received tiosally made ambiguous, always offers a painful orders 'efficient to keep them at work for some time. field for debate, which, however, where the whole The corn markets of France have been rather weaker, with the exception of Picardy and the depart- power of decision is on one side, is itself fruitless. meat of the Nord, where a slight advance has The veteran leaders of the liberals, Colonel con taken place. This rise is, however, attributed Bruenneck, M. von license, and M. von Camp- to the closing of the canals, which has prevented heusen , drew forth by their speeches the loudest the arrival of grain purchased in January cheers of their party ; Professor Stahl and M. von and it is not expected that the present prices will be Gerlach, on the other side, were equally in their maintained many days longer. Wines are steady at glory. Of real importance in the debate were only last week's prices, except in Languedoc, where quo. some expressions of the Minister of the Interior, who tations are lower. The sugar trade is generally re- "gain repudiated the chamber's right to sit in ported dull, but without any material change. Th e judgment on the legality or illegality of ad culture of flax in the Mee du Nord is being greatly mimstrative priecedings, and remarked " that extended. It is estimated that double the former constitutionalism wee the path to revolution quantity of ground hasbeenprcpared for this produce. and socialism." As regards the question in dispute. it The seed is consequently in great demand. Cottons is very clear that if the government in 18 ill meant have been sold at Havre at a nee of from lf. to 2f. the old authorities to be abolished, as un t en able or . This increased activity is attributed entirely to the unserviceable, it now means to restore them because tenor of the advicos from Liverpool, for those from it has the power and the desire to support them, America would have a contrary tendency. The silk which the chamber sanctioned by a majority of 91 trade at Lyons and St. Etienne is a little more to 03 ' brisk. An improved demand is especially noted Privy Councillor Niebuhr, son of the historian, is for organzinee. Letters from Genoa also speak gone one mission to London, partly in order to notify of a probability of a revival of the silk trade in Italy. tin satisfaction of the Prussian court at Lord Grant ille s Nothing is doing in wool, the result of the London appointment, partly in order to inquire into cunt sales being waited for, and fixing attention oxolu- plaints raised that the Prussian ambassador at 'lively. Indigos are completely neglected. Th e London, Chevalier Bunsen, in consequence of his result of the last sale in London and advice@ from family connexions with English society, does not Calcutta press down the article. Dyed goods, more- pursue Prussian interests with the desirable energy'. over, share in the depression of all kinds of tissues, VIENNA, Ft a. 10. for which there is scarcely any demand. Business It is expected that the Emperor will leave Vienna at Mulhouse is completely stagnant. Elbeuf has for Hungary and Croatia in a few darn, and that be been tialWd by n certain number of buyers from dif- will be attended by moat of the Gene rals now hem GERMANY. They the ° Tb =de his • Esro Pur f ",,,. A 1! off;' Olen be lo Intl gad i A Ivor I °r for l DE T 1 of t !est( burg is Gana at t Ir°l