The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

The Ervreols. 70 CORRKSPONDENTB, • tweed Little" ;C" athitee WIN wallet'. • I,...eett-.".• pithlt.tted na7 Tuesday awl Ynda, eigtay la time ke put. AVM lAA a.. 0/.11111.11111.1 to. " The Zapeeip," Leados E..11://f gm, wen to .tt the I him, le, Itosherthattest. >h Two .'dock oh the ▪ et 041,1.• tier. MGR WATER AT LONDON ARMOR Try Dan—liarnien„ Alterman, 6b. Ils. 11..0111•W -Mame& 34w. Eo.vDoN, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. No stronger argument can be found in favour of a large extension of the suffrage than the advent to power of Lord Hiusv's government. The new cabinet, composed of a body of aristocrats nod land °Viten. pledged to a peculiar system of commercial policy. assume office at a period-when the sense of the nation his thoroughly ratified the converse of that policy, mid when the experience of every passing boar eithliruis the expeiitricy and bears testimony to the wi-duns of the very system to which they are oppoord. It is obvious, therefore, that the nation has not decreed Lord 11/Lant's advent. What the people hare decreed, ani what they are prepared to maintain. is the precise contrary to every financial cad cossairrci ei project the new Triune Minister can consistently propound. If the representation of England were free, and if the vide,. et the masses was heard in the so-called Cre's ch miller, the retirement of Lord JOHN LLI. would have been followed by the introduc tion to the councils of the state of a very dif ferent class of men. The people's policy would have n carried out by individuals pos sessing some shire of the people's confidence. We should have bad some slight representation in the cabinet of the great commercial and trading in terest. of the rommunity. Our manufacturing pros perity would not be at the mercy of an Oxfordshire connty magistrate, nor the revenues of the nation at the disposit.on of a cleier rhetorician. In the last tory ail trek?' that was formed there were men, such as Mr. Ot. tv•roNr, who, whatever their other faults and failinp, at least were familiar with the requirements of the commercial and manufac turing co cs. But in this present there is not to be found cae num who has even a commonplace ac quaintance with these great classes. On the con trary, there is nut a single member of the event- Min who has not at one time or another evidenced his contempt for all interests and individuals 111111150- ciated with the land. Let it not be said that the nation has to thank itself fur this. To say so is a libel on the people. We hare to thank the system of the state craft which is uppermost in England. We are under the rule of an aristocracy which monopolises and bars against the people every avenue of approach to the throne, and which surrounds the throne with its own relatives and creatures. When one section of this oligarchy is driven to relinquish office it hands over the sovereign and the nation to another section; and so they go on shuttlecocking the state backwards and forwards, not according to the national exi gences, nor on considerations that such and such men are peculiarly adapted to meet such and such crises, but just as may suit their own convenience, and just as their respective successes in corrupting small electorates turn the scale and balance of parties in the }louse el Commons. If the voice of the ixople were properly expresiied in parliament, we could have no such manoeuvres as these. The popular will and the popular interests would be represented in the Cabinet, as well as in the Moues of Commons; and the responsibilities of office would be felt by those who assume it. At present places arc given away, not to the best and most eminent men—not to those best qualified to fill them--not to the men in whom the country reposes the largest share of trust; but as it suits the pur poses, personal or party, of the aristocrat who is called upon "to form a government." Hence it is we have such men in power as those who hold office at this time—a Cabinet formed from bad materials, after tte most clumsy fashion. We have spoken of the small sense of responsibi lity which is telt by the aristocrats who succeed to power. It cannot be expected that men who know nothing of the people, can have much sympathy with the people . But one might at least expect that, if they did not try to study those they govern, they might be careful not to affront them. But the mem bers of the oligarchy, when they get into place and power, thitec far less of the duties than of the plea sures and amusements of their offices. In the "offi cial list of the government," published yesterday " by authority" in the paper which styles itself, how truly we know not, " the ministerial organ," we find the following : Lord Lietsteusat : Tha Karl of Ettliaton, who, it is fully expected, will he la Dublia is Usti to bold the usual state ban ow Mt. l'atriet'ada7. Conceive this ! This lord of tournaments and mummeries, who is just appointed to the Lord-Lieu tenancy of a country he most probably has never yet I placed foot in, is so full of the pageantry and frolics of a Lord-Lieutenancy as to send forth u his first proclamation to the distressed and suffering nation he is appointed to govern that he shall be amongst the people in time to hold a ball! What promise for the peasantry! How en livening for the owners of incumbered estates! This is the great object for which Lord Eotorrox is selected fur the Vice-Royalty of Ireland: not to feed his starving people—not to heal the wounds inflicted in pest conflict, and still freely bleeding—not to preach peace between fighting factions, and to en deavour to cool down excited animosities—but " to bold the usual state ball on St. Patrick's Day" for the amusement of the second-rate Dublin fashion that in St. James's-square his lordship ridicules and mopes at. --- Yet of such are our governments composed; and of such will they be composed whilst anatoerate are "elected for place and power merely because they are aristocrat'. And that system will continue until the people get the suffrage, and until a full stop is put oo the corrupting influences which the aristocracy are now able to bring to boar on the small coasti taencies of the country. THE leading free-traders of Manchester have bees preparing by times for the defence of cheap hod; and they have resolved to revive, if noose eery, the Ann-Corn-Law League. Corresponding measure* are also being taken in the other great towns: the two largest parishes of this metropolis her. already addressed the (luxes ; for Westminster a thorough free-trade candidate has come forward, as Mr. CHARLES Lusnluorou's succemor, in the person of Mr. Vatt efts Su r.t.t.ev, a gentleman who cultivates 2,000 acres (ibis own land in the l)ekeof Muumuus's empty, linesex, and who is as determined an opponent of any tax on hie lamer:re' bread as Mr. CAMDEN himself; nor will mesas be wanting, as soon as a dissolution of parlieneest is fixed, to instruct the hem servants of the country of the deep interest they have in preserving what others have gained for them . _ If, then, agitation, strife, bitterness, and even dis order, have to prevail; if class have once more to be roused against clan ; if town have again to be set up against country—the responsibility is Lord DERBY'S, and his alone. The liberal and democratic party will, on this occasion at least, be strictly on the defensive; aggression will come from the monopolists. Without Lord DERRY, tke protectionists would never have dared to form an exclusive cabinet. It is he who has risked all for them on the issue of ono battle on one question. It is he who now compels the liberals to see and feel more clearly sad deeply than ever, that without a largely extended suffrage, without the diminution of the power of the aristocracy, with out the supremacy of democracy, our daily Need is not secure, our daily labour is not our own, our free dom to buy and to sell where we please is at the mercy of others. It the continued popularity of Queen VICTORIA, and her people's loyalty, were a small matter—if the material condition of t millions who now gladly recognise the interest she takes in their welfare were a little thing—if a continuation of the balance of interests in this realm were a trifling consideration, the government Lord DERRY has formed would be merely • bad joke. But to shape the policy, to direct the legislation, to wield the power, and to be responsible for the state of the Bntish empire is the reverse of all this—it is the heaviest task ever as sumed by mortal men ; heavier, in the face of the throes and agonies of the continent, now than at any time since ()cotton ILL and Mr. PITT involved England in war. It is then all-important to have before as the very latest opinions of the people in power. The two questions of free-trade and representative refoim are inseparable ; wo have got the one, but without the other it is insecure. 'Turning then to the debate un the address in either house of parlia ment, what do we find the new PREMIER and the new Cusuettimit of the EXCHEQUER saying in their respective Chambers? Hear Lord DERRY on domestic agriculture : I wilt I scald share in the visions of prosperity in which the ashis bases indulged ; but I confess that, is spite of the rim sib. a quarter in the price of wheat, I see no prospect of material prosperity for the agricultural interest. • • • My belief is that the production of wheat in this eons , ealess maw alteration of the law shall take place, mist to an extent alarming, if not dangerous, to to ceastry. • • • I here not at all alien dmy opinion that he the papers of re%inue, es well as for the purpusu of er ts=alea of satire indiedry, it is desirable that should he included in the articles of import se wMt i e s svenue should be raised. Equally plain and distinct was his declaration against reform in the representative system: If the object be to extend still further the democratic plower is this community, then I ray, I tare not what may be the step made, it is, is my belief, • step made in a deagerems direetios, and to that step I shall be compelled toilet mah opposition as it may be Ili my power to offer. • • • I do sot think throughout tho length and breadth et the land, there are tire reasonable men who consider it a matter of the slightest importance whether this hill be introduced or not; and its announcement was, I think, as unjustifiable art on the part of her Majesty's government. • • • and, for my own pert, I do not hesitate to express my opinios, that any advantage which can be derived hews a draw is ear representative system will be more than rmaterbslaneed by the dissdvantagee of • renewed agitation on this eaciting topic. On the necessity of protection Mr. DisaAELt was Mllllllll' strong, though for a very different reason than that expressed by Lord HERBY. Ho at least avoided talking about land going out of cultivation at a time when its culture is extending more rapidly than ever, and when the very downs are being ploughed up for the growth of wheat. Seising on a pericrso passage in Mr. M'Cri.Locit's late publica tion, ho advocated protection as a countervailing duty to repay our squires for the excessive weight of local taxation. But on an increase of popular power he soared far above his leader—far into the regions of nonsense: As I am one of those who that famous motion in this house, that " the power of the crown had incrrea•ed, was increasing, and ought to be di minished ;" as, iu fact, I should be willing to hail as a fact the ravine of thst proposition ; and as I think it one of the great 'misfortune's of oar time, and one most inju rious to public liberty, that the power of the crown has diminished, I am not likely to look with unnecessary jea lou.y or the erection of the prerogatives of the crown. Whilst Lord 1) tux is all for aristocracy and dear bread, Mr. Bimini:Ll (like Lord CHATHAM, ho will, we presume, take the tjUEEN'S orders on his knees) is all for prerogative and countervailing duties; the one will adjust his measure to suit the peerage, the other will lay his schemes to make the Sovereign absolute, and for the sake of "public liberty," re vive the practices of the STUARTS, the object of end less volumes of his father's glorification ; whilst their colleague, Lord NIALIIESBURT, will, no doubt, oblige Prince ScttwAut:NnEart by "making more ample and rigorous use "of the laws against political re fugees, and submit to the "annoyance" which that congenial statesman threatens British subjects with in Austria, and of which Mr. ERSKINE MATIIEB, when cut down in the streets of Florence, had a taste. _ _ _ But to descend from our poetical and fantastic CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S flights of constitu tional fancy on behalf of a sovereign who will be the first to laugh at them, to the sad realities of finance to which he is now condemned, does ho recollect that the Income and Property Tax expires on the sth of April—that forty-ono days hence no further as sessment of 7d. in the pound can be made either on our capital or on our labour—that in six weeks' time he will lose five millions of revenue, having only a surplus of 2,700,0001. wherewith to replace it? And why, last year, was its renewal so limited and restricted? Why, but because its inequalities and injustice might in 1832 be mitigated and removed. l And who has declared so loudly against its notorious and palpable defects as Lord DE/BY and his finance minister? Are we then—will the liberal party consent to vote its renewal in its present monstrous shape till the sth of April, 1833, in order that meanwhile Lord DERBY may beguile' the country into a majority that will enable him to tax our bread, and transfer the profits of our indus try from ourselves, our wives and families into the pockets of the squirearchy? Tho Mutiny Act they may rightly consent to pass; but to renew uncondi tionally the income tax for other twelve months, with freedom of trade in danger—that would indeed be a surrender of the popular cause. No—now is the time, between this and a dissolu tion, to place the income tax on a sound basis. There is both surplus and opportunity. Let them not be neglected or evaded. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 26, 1852. the latter paper speaks of tke dangers of toryism in office: Whim we see the Wks return to power, it is difficult not to can to mind that for a long time they were the very soul of an the dangers whisk tin missed the peace of Europe, and particalarly of all the meabinations which were menacing for Fiance! It is difficult to avoid remembering Pitt, Lord Castelresih, Lord Wallington, and that tory Pleiades, which struggled against as with such fatal obstinacy. God forbid that we should wish to revive old auimosities, the slightest sparks of which, if still alight, we would rather extingui.b. God forbid that we should think that the English cabinet would wish to provoke fresh em barrassments abroad end compromise, without very 01161111/ motives, the peace of the world But the presence of Earl Derby is power is the principle of • cert a i n mistrust, which it is almost impossible to completely get rid of, and which will require the greatest prudence on the part of the prime minister of Eogland to prevent its degenerating into a conflict. It seems that the opposition are so divided on the elections that it has been determined to recommend abstention from the polls as the only ground on which the various adversaries of the government can meet. Yon will perceive that the proclamation of M. Berger to the electors of the Seine, which is posted up to-day, betrays fears of the results of such a tactic. According to the law the candidates must obtain at least one quarter of the inscribed votes to bo returned. The proclamation is as follows : Electors of the Department of the Seine,—Ou the 20th December, 200,000 electors of the department attain placed in the hands of Prince Louis Napoleon the destinies of Fiance, and gave • striking mark of approbation to his sets. It now remains for you to complete your work. Called on to elect nine deputies to the Legislative body, yon will understand the necessity of only giving your votes to men sincerely devoted to the new order of things, and deeichel on seconding the elect of the people in his great 'mission. These men the government presents with confidence to your choice; they arc — MM. Guyard-Delalain, proprietor and captain of the na tional guard ; l).vink, ex-president of the Tribunal of Com merce ; Duperier, member of the Municipal Commission of the Seine ; Moreau (de la Seine), ex-representative ; Perret, mayor of the Bth arrondissement; Fouchi Lepelletier, vice president of the Council of Prud'homtnes ; Lanquetin, pre sident of the Municipal Commission; Maximilian Kamigs waster, ea-banker; and Virus, director of the Coteau* tiomod. Under existing circumstances, and in pre sence of the clear and decided attitude of the go 'eminent, the nomination of any other candidate, however honourable his put conduct, or whatever consideestion may be attached to his name, would be a disavowal which you would give to your selves. Abstention on your part would have a result almost as disastrous; the smallest inconvenience would be to post. pone the election, and perhaps to compromise it, or at least to give it over to chance. You wish for • strong govern. ment, durable institutions, and • serious protection fur sill your interests; send, therefore, to the legislative body men who have the confidence of the government, and who, in its work of reparation would lend it • loyal and disinterested support. The government only wishes for the grandeur and prosperity of the country: you understood that on the 20th December. Be, therefore, faithful to yourselves, in responding frankly to its appeal, and you will again act like good citizens. (Signed) Bettina, Prefect of the Seine. The supplemental list of government candidates for the Corps Legistalff has been published. I can not observe in this catalogue onn name which is known to fame in any way. M. Casimir Perier, whose name appeared in several papers yesterday in a list of independent candidates for Paris, writes to the DEbuts, that under existing circumstances ho cannot accept the candi dature. - - - - - ----- The Petrie, alluding to the lists of candidates con taining the names of Lamoriciere and others of the proscribed, says : We repeat it i one can only see in this a protest or a de fiance. Now, is the situation in which France has placed it, the government cannot support on its own account the protest of any party, nor fur the dignity of France any de fiance. The government has not to defend itsell alone, it has to defend the ballot of Dec. It will not fail to fulfil this double teak. Tho above seems to indicate some measure between this and Sunday to prevent the elections of any of the banished. The Presse observes that it does not know what the President can do, unless it is to de clare votes for those candidates void. No fresh law is likely to appear before the elec tions. The first that will be promulgated subse quently is likely to be that of credit Juicier, which has undergone some hitch in the Conseil d'Etat. On this subject the Presse says: The Connininel has announced as ready the new bill on wait fancier. It does not appear that things am as far ad roseei as stated by that journal. Some days after the 2nd December, the President named a commission charged to sambas the question, and to submit a bill to him in the abertest possible delay. This commission assem tied every Sunday, and took as the basis of its ems minabee, the report of M. Chegarsy to the Legislative Assembly. The result was made known to the President in the early part of this mouth. It appears that he was not 'Mailed with it, as he immediately appointed three minis ters sad two other persons, among whom was M. Legentil, to make a fresh report, after which he will definitively de cide on the subject. The solution of the question is not ex pected lentil next month. M. Oranier has a long puff of the government of Louis Napoleon in the Conalilulionnel, from which it appears t ha t it is in contemplation to grant three lines of railway before the meeting of the Corps Leyislotif: 1. From Paris to Cherbourg. 2. From Bordeaux to Toulouse. 3. From Bordeaux to Bayonne, with • branch to Pan through the valley of the Adour. The meeting of the Corps Legislatif is not expected before May. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 15c., and closed at 103.95; the Three per Cents. rose 20c., closing at 68.90 ; Bank of France shares rose sfr. Railways were again better. Testa and Bordeaux rose 8.75 ; Orleans and Strasbourg, 2fr. each ; Northern and Lyons, 2.50 each. ITALY. MODENA. The Minister of the Interior at Modena has issued a notice, announcing that the telegraphic line which connects Modena, Cluastalla, and Reggio with the Austrian states will be henceforward open to the nse of the public. The tariff is regulated according to the distance in German miles, of IL to a degree, and no dispatch is to contain mace than 100 words. FRANCE. PARIS, WIDIMIDAT The splendour of the mond ball given on Monday night at the Tuileries is celebrated at great length by the government journals. The Patne says that thirty thousand applications were made for tickets, and That eight thousand guests were p -resent. The eireeneatance most interesting to an Englishman is that the President opened the ball with the English amlieseadress, Lady Cowlq, which must be inter preted as as attention .ft .I,bited to produce a cer tain diplamMis elect in the present uneasy state of our relations/Ith France ; particularly as the Prince did not dose at all at the precedingball. All the mem bers of the diplomatic corps were present, and a great nomber of military uniforms of various count . but particularly of Russia and England, were aoliMd in the splendid crowd. Tho ministers and maiden of state appeared in their new cos tawa bit the ouches, having only just succeeded fa palm a dew allbated in the suit imposed by. tlainitle 15..., were not in a condition to opal eels ssihnosi habiliments. Meanwhile, the ant astable esserreses at this was a violent wad between aF a Meli aft %Wed with eireemsta a nsio ult GM sanediel all amid have die/read a festive naafi a I dr Orman,. The origin ot this indigent dlionle Is miss* e► ported, ism mseedaathat es Ye paw of ens at the whiebsrat WIWNIS gyp Or aims of the eters. 1 while otiose maintain that the quarrel arose from a Aimee en political Wks. Certain it is, that a loud sad fierce scene, in which the coarsest Maths were interelmiled, tilled the hill. It Tidies with emboss. The ladies, ter rified st the treasilematien d a Teem of the pulsar into a 1. 1 W S and sabmgad by WIMP unviorthY of the Imo* limrato. desk husbands ham the ism d thin ige awl. Moony tho patrol% having ham ounindoil Wen Osumi Ora 'Asst. ono of the Preident's minitary honsalsold, by his &s him ono of them woe turned out. To-day $ lad woo to hays been fought, but I have received no inhumation as to the result. It is to be noted at present that the deep schisms which divide the legitimists tend to throw strag glers of that party into the arms of Louis Napoleon. More than one symptom might be seen of this trans formation at the Tuileries ball, where it is reported that the Dukes of Doudeauville and Bauffremont were weent. I see to-day in the Moniker that another legitimist of note, the Marquis de Putoret, is nomi nated a member of the Council of Surveillance of the General Administration of Public Assistance at Paris, in the room of the Duke de Mynas, resigned. M. Charles Monginot, who was secretary to Gen. leavaignac after the revolution of 1848, has just been arrested at his house, and sent to Mazes prison. The papers are much occupied with the change of ministry in England. An article in the Pays on this subject represents tho dangers of war with which the inauguration of a tory policy is fraught, and talks of Lord Palmerston, as one whose advent to power would be the pledge of peace to Europe. You will perceive that this compliment to the pacific disposition of the late Foreign Secretary is diame trically opposed to the opinion of the Mats. The solution of this mystery is simple. The Ifflbats is the organ of the Orleans party, and the Pays of the Elyske. Lord Palmerston prefers the alliance of France to that of the northern courts, and the tories prefer the alliance of the northern courts to that of France. Hence, what appears pregnant with war to the Debais is a symptom of peaoe for the Pays, and vies-terse. The following is the piano in which ROMAN BTATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 20th of February, states that the Popo was expected to ad dress a circular to the French clergy on the subject of the confiscation of the Orleans property. The carnival was going on without accidents, but a conspiracy was discovered to make a disturbance in the Corso on the morning of the 19th. A bloody affray took place on the 14th outside the Ceearini theatre. His holing= beatified two saints on the 17th. SPAIN. MADRID, Fxs. 19. This morning, a priest, who was formerly chaplain to an artillery battalion, was ant into exile into Es tremadura. His reverence has been kept closely guarded these four days, not in the public prison, but in a private room in the Homo-office. His con finement has reference to the late attempt on the Queen. Ho waa accompanied on his journey by two civil guards. A letter from Logrono mentions • murder committed by one priest upon another in the vestry of Brieves Church. A quarrel had taken place between them as to who should say the first masa. After a furious personal conflict, in which they struck one another with the sacred vases, one of them, who is noted for his ferocity, beat out the other's brains with a crucifix. The authorities have ordered an investigation which will bring to light facts showing into how low a state of immorality the Spanish priesthood is fallen. Even the nuncio is said to have complained of the facility hitherto offered to taking orders, and strin- gent measures will be probably taken by the eccle siastical authorities. Bravo Murillo, the President of the Council of Ministers, is preparing laws upon entails, to augment the electors] census, and to make the office of se otter hereditary.. The functions of tho deputies are to be diminished. RUSSIA. A letter from the Polish frontier, given in the Augsburg Gazette, has the following upon Russian military movements: According to our latest advice' from Kalisch and other parts of the hisepases of Poland, the Russian government appears to doubt either in the stability of Louis Napoleon's power or the sincerity of his assurances, as military repa rations are on every band again urged forward with sur prising activity and upon a large scale. The westward movement of troops hie recommenced, and the munitions 'of war are produced and accumulated with great seal. The takers believe that the summer will bring with it a cam paign; sad ea the common soldiery believe absolutely that the Cur is the supreme and rightful disposer of events on earth, they only wait the word to march with alacrity wherever ad, master may " bid them." WEST INDIA AND THE PACIFIC - - DT ILECTRIO FROM OUR OWN COIVIRSPORDINT. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, MID-DAY. The Avon has just arrived, with the West India and Pacific Mails. Iler dates are: Jamaica, Jan. 31; Demerara, 30; Trinidad, 31; llavannah, 20; St. Thomas's, Feb. 7. She brings 00 passengers. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of nearly one million of dollars from Chagres, on account of merchants. From Jamaica we learn that the business trans acted in the market during the past fortnight was, except in a few instances, entirely of a retail charac ter, the late advice' from the nether country, reveal ing the unsatisfactory state of the market ler colo nial produce ' having tended to depress every interest in the island. Sugars have fallen to as low a point as they can possibsy reach, and sales for exportation can scarcely be effected. The produce market was languid and unpromising. No alteration whatever affecting British and l'oreign shipping has been made in the tonnage dues. A proposition to bang British and foreign steam-vessels bringing and taking cargo to and from the island to a certain extent under the operation of the several; acts im posing tonnage dues, bus been thrown out by the Council. From Demerara we learn that the session of the Supremo Court of Criminal Justice for the counties of Demerary and Essequibo, which closed on the 28th of January, was one of the shortest on record, owing to the decrease of crime. The crop of the year is larger than 1850. The Royal (iaztlte states that the planters arc less sanguine of prospects than they were, and that the cause of this revulsion of feeling may be summed up in two brief:terms---beet-1 root sugar and falling market. The Arcot' brings nol news of any of the survivors of the Amazon. The' Avon came home because the Medway was coaled up ready to proceed to the Spanish Main. The Medway will be the next ship home. The Avon, it will be recoi -1 lcctcd, left Southampton as an extra ship, in conse quence of the loss of the Amazon. Int Court. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred the Princesses Alice, Helena, and bns*, and Prince Arthur, took their accustomed exercise yesterday in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. In the afternoon Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. _ Iler Majesty • private b.nd attended at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday evening, and performed— gallants, No. 7 r i ."7: t ,MX:::br o .:," v ga;" Beethoven. The Marquis of Brcadalbane had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-otflee. A deputation from the local board of health of Clitheroc had en interview, yesterday, with the General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall. The deputation con sisted of Mr. Thomas Garnett (Mayor of Clitheroc) and Mr. Henry Thomson (alderman). They were introduced by Mr. Mathew Wilson, jun., M.P. TIIE NEW MINISTRY. The following additional appointments have been made and accepted:—Socretary to the Admiralty, Mr. A. Stafford; Under Secretary for the Home Department, Sir W. Jolla& ; Judge Advocate, Mr. Bankes; Lords of the Treasury, the Marquis of Chandos, Mr. Bateson ; Chief Commissioner of the l'oor-law Board, tqr John Trollop° ; Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Lord Colchester. _ . Tho statement which has been circulated, to the effect that Lord Jocelyn had accepted office, has been formally contradicted. MR. G. F. YOI*NG AND TILE MINISTRT.--Mr. George Frederick Young has, for the present, declined to accept the office of Vice President of the Board of Trade, offered to him by the Earl of Derby. This decision has been taken by the hon. gentleman on the sole round that his health is not yet sufficiently re-established to justify his undertaking the labo rious duties of the office. It is, however, under stood that when his recovery is complete arrange ments will be made for his Joining the administra tion of the noble earl. DEPARTURE OF TUE ARCTlC.—Yesterday after noon, at ono o'clock, the United States mail steamship Arctic, Captain Lure, left the Mersey for New York direct, with a full cargo of fine goods and 20 passengers. EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICII WITH RIFLE CAN NON.—Yesterday Lord Clarence Paget, Sir Thomu Down man, and areat number of the officers of the Royal Ar tillery, It et Engineer., and 4th Light Dragoons, assem bled in the marshes at 2 o'clock, p.m., to witness experi ments with rifle cannon. The shot and shells fired from the rifle cannon were constructed on Lord Clarence Pa get's plan. They are made of cost iron. of a conical or sugar-loaf shape, and having attached at their base a ring of lead rather more than half an inch in thickness, and about two inches in depth, which, when fixed, projects nearly an inch beyond the iron of the shot and shell, form ing a hollow similar to the bottom of a common black bottle. The outside of the lead is cut with three threads of a circular character, similar to the threads of a sharp screw, which renders the shot and shells easy to ram home, and when fired the lead expands and fills the four groves, each being about an inch in breadth by nearly an eighth of an inch in depth. The firing took place from two 9-pounder field battery guns, ono supplied with the usual field battery 9.pountler service, a solid shot of elbs. weight. and a charge of three pounds weight of powder, at a range of 1.000 yards. The other, the rifle cannon, was supplied with Lord Clarence Paget's conical shot, which, from their elongated shape, weighed 151bs. 0 ounces each, and the charge of powder was only one pound weight. NVhen the firing took place with the rifle cannon it was difficult to ascertain the result, as the lead part generally became detached during the flight of the projectile, and striking the ground at from 600 to 700 yards distant, the movement of the iron part was lost sight of, as it did nut appear to strike the target or enter the mound behind it. A light 3.pounder field bat tery gun rifled in a similar manner to the 9 pounder can non, but with len depth of groove, was then taken to within 300 yards of the target, and fired with shells made on Lord Clarence Paget's plan, having a common percus sion cap placed on a nipple, and the second round entered the target near the centre, bursting immediately on striking the bulk-bead behind, throwing down the target and bury ing the iron part of the shell in the massive hard wood. The experiments were concluded on firing the two shells from the 3-pounder rifle cannon. DIRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY. —Yesterday, Mr. Roxburgh, with Mr. W. Gabworthy, solicitor to this estate, attended before the Master in Chan cery Ferrer, relative to the appointment of a permanent official manager. Mr. Roxburgh stated it would be in tho recollection of the Muter that this company was brought antler the operation of the Winding up Act, to recover from the directors 7,6001., alleged to have been improperly paid over by them to the directors of the Derbyshire, Star. fordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Company. Mr. Jay had for this purpose held the appointment of interim official manager, but having been appointed manager to the Monarch Insurance Company, it was now proposed to ap point in hie place Mr. Hutton, who had received similar appointments from the other Masters. The Master having signified his approval, Mr. Roxburgh intimated that Messrs. Oalsworthy, the solicitors, were now prepared to bring in the charge against the directors, for the recovery of the funds. The case was precisely similar to that of the Direct London and Manchester Railway, where a large sum had been recovered on behalf of the shareholders, and was now in course of distribution. The operation of the Acts for Winding-up Railway and Joint-Stock Companies, though much abused, was found to be one of strict justice, and there was no other means of bringing people to account but under their efficient and summary jurinliction.—The Muter: No doubt.—Mr. Roxburgh: Tiny held the balance evenly between parties, and in the case of the Madrid and Valencia, and Direct Loudon and Manchester, thousands of pounds, but for their operation on defaulting individuals, would have been lost, and the shareholders would never have received a shilling of money they were justly en titled to. A COMMON ON Fine. Between twenty and thirty acres of fume was on tiro near Ilythe, In Hants, on Tuesday night. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. The fire illumined the sky for miles round. MISCHIEVOUS lloga.—A correspondent states that the Liverpool watch committee are engaged in investigating the circumstances under which an au dien ce mumbled in the Catholic Chapel of the Holy Cross, Great Croshall street, to hear a lecture from the Rev. Dr. Cahill, on Mon day evening, were attacked and many of the congregation severely injured. During the lectnru some mischievously disposed person entered the plain and called out that a beam was breaking. About the masa time, the police state, they were informed that a number of Orangemen had en tered the chapel, and that their presence was immediately required to quell a serious riot. A strong furce of police was soon mustered, who proceeded at once to the supposed scene of conflict. Here they found the people rushing out of the chapel poll well, under the panic caused by the alarm of the broken beam. On their arrival outside the doors they were attacked by the police. One poor woman had Iher arm broken, and many are confined to their homes by the *juries received. THE DISRAELI-DERBY MINISTRY. (Vrons the Daily News.) To-day the New Ministry are to " kiss hands ;" and to•day the Old Palace of St. James's will exhibit the well-known features of a levee. Carriages will throng Pall-mall, and St. James's-street will be all animation. Soldiers drawn out and busy . policemen will keep back the curious throng of the oi lionoi who gaze with a greedy wonder upon the jostle of vehicles filled with wonderful people, all crimson and gold, and feathers, and swords, and all framed and glazed in carriages of every imaginable sort and size, from the dignified yellow chariot with marvellous hammer-cloth of the peer, to the dingy hired brougham of the lieutenant of marines. With a real loyalty,—now &most singular in Europe,—crowds of dignitaries, ministerial and non-ministerial, naval, military, legal, clerical, will, to-day, flock about the QUEEN to pay to her position and her dignity that homage which her virtues render so pleasant a duty. In the midst of this curious crowd will be one man to whom the situation may be novel, but the triumph great. The day will lift him fo the ' crowning point of a long-wrought ambition— will reward a fierce struggle unceasingly kept up for years with the steadiness of purpose that can alone secure the realisation of any lofty effort. The lords whose boast is a lengthy penigree, may frown, and the hangers-on of the state may titter; the old aristocratic tories may flat ter themselves they are using him; whilst he knows he is using them : they may doubt, or deny, or re pudiate as they will, but this one plebeian of the throng to-day it is who has created the ministry about to "kiss hands" on taking their places. lie alone saw the way of linking together the elements of a once powerful but disorganised party; he it was who " felt his way" towards healing prejudices in one di rection and widening them in another ; insinuating a doubt here and administering a campliment there; takingupthecudgelsofdebate when hereilitarydulness was suffering from the onslaught of economic truth; or wielding his rapier for defence when the youthful cleverness of modern England fleshed its keen blade in the slothful stupidity of those who think mil dewed prejudices sufficient to satisfy the needs of our time. Beady, witty, fluent, dexterous—and with steady and adherent purpose—he has at last achieved the point he has striven for. Today he must remember the parliamentary scorn that, years ago, sa luted his first parliamentary effort; to-day going on his knee to the QUEEN as one of her appointed ministers, memory can scarcely fail to mai his bitter reply, hurled as the return for that scorn—" The day will come whcu you shall be glad to hear me." And it has come. And Lord Dratuv niay flout, and his friends may scoff if they will, but the men who "kiss hands" to-day arc and can only be re garded as Mr. DISRAELI'S ministry. The son of the scholar and author—himself a novelist and a writer for the press—a wit and au ad venter, r—has banded together, and in reality lends, the lords and lordlings who go with him through the court pageant of to-day. The hope and the anticipation of years has been realised, and—Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, junior, is Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain. And what next ? He has reached the apex, scaled the height, mastered the pinnacle, and become "right honourable." He tastes the alleged "sweets," —and will take the useful salary—of office. lie will have patronage--that will worry him ; colleagues who will use and scoff at him. lie is too quick not to see, too sensitive not to feel, too clever not to ap preciate all this. But the malice of the vain and envious may not surprise, the animosity of the malicious can only amuse him. The bitterness of the showy cup will come from another quarter. The glitter of the levee will not hide it, nor will the jingle of " right honourable" drown its voice. The talent that has lifted the plebeian into the gaudy unrealities of modern aristo cratic life will, also, show its owner the falsity of his position. He is a genius amongst dullards; an emanation of the present amongst those who believe only in the past; a flatterer of prejudices he knows to be hollow; and a preacher of the wisdom of theories long since exploded. Ho takes his place amongat these noblemen of the Cabinet because they have been persuaded the magic of his genius can put new life into their defunct political shams, and that his dex terity will enable theta to juggle and cajole and mislead a straightforward working-day nation who have thriven by their adhesion to political common sense. The ceremonial of to-day must, alas, be followed by the work of to-morrow. Even new-bora ministers cannot always be going to palaces kissing the QCEEN'S hands. The people who only hear of these grand things—and pay fur them—will look for results. They must know upon what terms this tory ministry, reared by an architect from their own ranka, intends to ask for national support. The men who work and the men who think—the men whose busy in dustry gives power to the state and riches to the realm—whose ingenuity asks a fair field, whose la bour requires freedom, and whose children want cheap bread—all these will wait to know what the DISRAF.LI-DERBY ministry intend to do. With the pro verbial generosity of their race, they may say "Give the Ministers time"; with the honourable spirit which every true Englishman in his heart loves, they may cry " Let them have fair play ;" but the time and the law cannot be expected to last long. Mr. l)ts- RAELI must pronounce. With all his power for ap preciating the realities of a question he may pretend to believe in its shadows ; in place of economi cal truths ho may offer us political shams ; and where wo ask for prompt statesmanship, may propose procrastination and official juggle. lie may do all this in a very atmosphere of eloquence sparkling with jokes and pungent with re partee. But it will never do. In the broad clear light of the common sense of England in l8:12 to bring forward the old political stage tricks of the last century would be an insult ; in the pre sence of the free industry that, despite reductions of taxation, offers at this hour a national treasury con taining a surplus of three millions sterling—to pro pose a rent raising bread tax would be sheer selfish mania. To offer legislative leading strings to a na tion long since able to run alone would be insolence. The new CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is far too clove, not to know all this. Let us hope ho is far too sensible to take any step he believes to bo absurd. With a hostile parliamentary majority ; with an expiring income tax; with bla tant bigotry asking impossibilities; with an unde fended coast in very presence of an armed despotism ; with an army and navy scattered over the extremi ties of an empire whose heart is left exposed, whilst its coffers arc groaning with repletion; with a po pular demand for extension of the suffrage whilst his colleagues think Parliament already too demo erotic ; and with loud requirements for an extension of free-trade principles whilst his colleagues are pledged to protection ; with the innate aspirations of a man of genius towards liberty, and his official pledges to oligarchic service—with all these difficul ties in his path men need be merciful and patient towards the man sprung from the people—although in the full pride of a realised ambition ho this day goes to " kiss hands" on the formation of his new obstructive Tory Ministry. Ho has reached the top round of the ladder. With an overload of promises it is impossible to fulfil, and of pledges no man could I keep, how can he avoid toppling over? Kiss's AM UON.—Professor Wagner, of Berlin, one of the fortunate council medal men, has now on view at Messrs. Watherston and Brogden's, of Hrnrietta-street, Covent-garden, a small reduction of this well-known piece of sculpture—eo well-known, indeed, as to allow of no shortcomings on the part of the copyist. This Herr Wag- ner seems to have well understood hie diminuive imitation, I being on the whole spiritedly modelled SI to the action, and executed with equal fidelity in the minor portions of the work. For the purpose of attaining somewhat of the bronzy texture of the original, the artist has resorted to the two fold method of oxidising and engraving the silver. Oxidised metal we had noticed in abundance at the Crystal Palace, but the application of the graver to modelling purposes, on a round surface, certainly lays claim to all the merits of novelty. However, it can scarcely be said the present spe cimen will be apt to make converts of our silversmiths ; for whatever may be gained in truthfulness is u certainly lost in lack of finish. In other respects Herr \Vagner's work is eminently satisfactory. Tu FIFESIIIRK :Manes.—From a communica tion received yesterday (Sunday) by the authorities here from the police superintendent at Cupar, we learn that the murderers of the old woman, Margaret Maxwell, who was deprived of life in ouch a barbarous manner a few days ago, have been apprehended. The watch which was stolen from the house by the wretches has at the mine time been recovered. There are three parties implicated in the murder, but the names have not reached us.-111ifth British PROPOSED REVIVAL OF THE ANTI. CORN LAW LEAGUE MANCHESTER, Fr.e. The free traders have thoroughly taken the Itlann at the nomination of a protectionist government under the Earl of Derby. The pli rig° which the noble earl gave y the first night of the session to restore the corn law —the composition of his cabinet—everything indicates a ...lied and unmistakeable design to pursue a policy utterly at variance with the opinions and wishes of the country. Such an exclusively "country party " was, perhaps, toss er installed in Mike kefore. So lar as the stover iiiii re. are represented in the House of Commune they inclip!. 1,0,0 county members from purely agricultural constituenti..; whilst the town members might have been chosen eslae in contempt of the public conviction that the time bad COW fur blotting out from the representation the s)st‘ in or no, e i, nation and rotten boroughs. 'lll.l include two no toilsri for Wenlock, two for Lynn, and 0110 each fur the towns of Midhurst, Droitwich, Abingdon, Staniford, ("olehis!.r. Scarborough, and Enniskillen. Not one menial .etu ing county ur borough is to have a voice tb roua h the a,/ administration. Under these circumstances it is that •• a meeting wa, h, last evening, ut the rooms of the Manchester Financial awl Parliamentary Reform Association, Newall'aoltuiliiiie,, far the purpose of considering the steps it we, take iu the prelient position of political parties—th e Ead .4 Derby having been named the heat of a new govtrao,,,, t under a pledge to restore a duty uu turn." Althanuil t:.. meeting bad been summoned by circular only, at a slots, of barely five to six hours, it was one of thi• mint Mew l ,. tial and numerous gatherings that have been tritiii,a the council of the league since the old and p ‘ m a y power. There was no mistake in the spit which ammo. the assembly. It is well known that many of the pinm, went with the express intention of subscribing large MUr of money at once, and assuming a firm and delem.,,r a i i ,. bade; and from the proceedings it will he Will fit chairman's was a task rather of restraining than of raging his forms. There were in all, though calle.l ,t tour o'clock in the aft, rnoim—at all times a must imollai i:a hour—not leas than lob gentlemen present, of anus, tic following is a list : Sir E. Armitage, George Wilson, Manche s t er; st N. Philipe, The Park; John Cheatham, Du/Siete Bayley, Stalybridge ; Wm. Rawsen, Monclicat r • l• . Platt, Stalybridge; P. It. Arrowamith, The Yearns, p.s. ' N. Buckley and Sons, Ashton; Chants l'otter, Here. s ; Thos. Bright, Manchester; Jacob Bright, Roth , s . Nicholas Heald, Ilenrlf Baxley, Manchester; John la wick, Jas. Chadwick, Eccles; John Petrio, Rochdale; .1 f• Dyer, Manchester ' • 'I hoe. Barnes, Fern werth ; Netter., Is -. Dukintield ; Wm. Sale, Manchester; John Platt, (11.111 P. Thomson, Alderman Bradford, Wm. Biekham, Male ter; John Whittaker, Hurst; Councillor Ivee MerSi , 11. Rawson, Manchester; Therms Ashton, ; 11. or,, A , ll worth, Tartan ; Edmund Potter, Jointing ; Es as, Alderman Harvey, W. A. Cunningham, lam. Witt e ),,,, cheater; Aldermen Iligginbattom, Ashton; J. Werrinetun ; William Below, David Ainsworth, C.one ....r Joseph Simpson, Manchester; Abraham (keret-ea, Josii Vernon ' Tostmorden ; George Parr, Manchester; es-S Bayley,Stalybridge ; A Intalom Watkin, ManeLe.b r; rya Whittaker, Hurst ; Councillor Then. Wortlanaton, Johnson, S. P. Itoliinson, Manchester; J. Dewnhana Iran . Watkin Lees, Dukititield ; J. Hamer, W. Mills, 11. ye. al . Peter Walker, Broughton ; Waage Kraus, Beul. ss.'dal.. Samuel Pope, jun., hi:mile:ger ; Joe. Barrett, sal. Meer James Leigh, Stockport ; Charles Ridings, Motel ese. r ; I)an. Cullinge ' Oldham ; A. Ireland, James Rob. rte,,', a. M'Evren ' R. Milner, Manchester; J. Schofield, rough ; J. E. Nelson, R. Rummy, W. Massey, Mantle :,r ; J. L. Whitehead, Raystenstall ; Mr. Van litys, Jam s Woolley, John Armstrong, J. C. Saul, William a sheers ; John Hodgson, Manchester ; William Collier Siellord . J. Gaudier, W. Son ' Manchester; J. E Itnylr, als e si e ter; W. Whitehead, Bradford; Harry Rawest, ('hme s Bury, J. Whitworth,Walter Gow,W. Bradford, J. Wired( v, W. r. Robinson, Ben Selo:field, C. Duffield, Jas Bry.les Sam. Hewitt, J. Wilson, J. G. Lavinia George Rotansen, J. Spencer, H. Davenport, Manchester ; J. (leap, Kane: U. C. Whittinghina, 11. It. Jackson, J. Ea wank Woolley, D. Wills, J. Skaylur, Sam. Lees, W. 11. P. tii. jean, Manchester ; Jonathan Gast Bank; Jaers AUport, Plymouth Grove ; James Moorhouse, John FiShs, A. W. Poulton, 11. B. Peacock, Manchester ; T. Taylor, Wigan, dise. Mr. GEORGE WILSON, in taking the chair, sa4l they (the executive of the Financinl and Purliemeinary R. form Association) had taken the liberty of culling this melee at an exceedingly short notice, in consequence u; the sed.lia change which had taken place in the government of I;.it country. Must gentlemen would be as well int . ..need el this change as he sus; and he dared say they were all agreed that if it were a mere transposition of partes—the substitution of • tory government fur a sing geii ens ment—there would have been nu occasion fur this rn. et iug, but that they would have been content to wept until the new administration bad had an oppertunity of announcing to the country the principles on which they intended to base their prote. dings ; but he thought the question at present riiaid was one so different to a party political question, and one so important te the country, that they were only acting a wit(' and pre dent part m at the earliest tnerucut unneunciug to country the course—if they could agree upon a e'uoM the manufacturing districts intend to take with regard to tle new government. Now, he believed, and many of lau friends thought with him, that it would be impossible fur any government to reimpose the bread tax—(hear, tear) ; but they all knew that if the new government had any particular and distinct feature iu contradistisction to ROT other torus of co...creative government, it was that the Leal of the government himself—Lord Derby—was pledged to the restoration of protection—(hear, hear) ;—that it was at a question with him of Maley or yesterday, nor would i: be a question of to-morrow until it was disposed of. With him it was the Pole object, and almost perpetually the aim of his party, in desiring to renew the conservative element in the uovernment, to restore protection. (Hear, bear.) Ile did not know if gentlemen had read attentively he statement at tho opening of the present parliament, but he (the chairman) perceived, on reference to that statement, that l:c was as distinctly plisleed as he could be—or as any man not in au official position could be—to the restoration of the corn law.. Ou the vary first night of the session he says : "Fur the last three or four years the price of wheat bad been perpetually tallies in this country ; and his firm belief was now, as it had been three years ago, that the production of wheat in this tom try, unless some alteration of the law took place, must to great extent diminish—an extent that would be incon venient, not to say dangerous, to the agriculturists. (hear, hear.) Ile did not look with indifference at the question of the importation of the at ticle of wheat from foreign mare tries, because, unless he was misinformed, we had had peg tical proof that foreign countries considered it their own interest to prohibit the exportation of that supply on whicS we wore mainly led to depend. Ile was by no means can. winced that the repeal of the corn laws might not lead is some instances to extreme fluctuations in price, and, ter a short period, to very aggravating and digressing prices: but he was confident that the affect of the relwal, the total repeal, must be to render this country more aid mere dependent on foreign countries for the principal pne portion of its supply. lie thought such a state of thiner dangerous to this country, and he had nut in the slightest degree altered his opinion, that, for the purpose of 'avenue, and protection to native industry, it was desirable that agri cultural produce should be included among the list of those articles of import upon which a revenue should be raised (Cheers from the protectionists )'' Now, to show that he (the chairman) was correct in assuming that Lord Derby did there pledge himself to the restoration of protection, he might refer to the sense in which the Duke of Richmond applied the observations now referred to. The Duke of Richmond, on that occasion, said, "the farmers would hail with delight the 'Teeth of his noble friend. fur it 'horrid that he still held to the opinion that • eel roue duly ought to be laid on corn for the purposes of proteetion.'"f hen the Earle(' Winchilsea expresses his opinion that they should re impose a duty on foreign corn," and the Earl of Yarborough, "implored noble lords opposite not to allow the farours longer to remain in uncertainty as to their intentions. He hoped either the noble earl (Derby) or the noble duke (Richmond), would state whether they sought to re.impose a duty on foreign grain fur revenue or for protection. (Hear, hear.) Ile could state from personal obeervation that the condition of the farmers was greatly improving ; Senna the present winter he had heard of them executing large drainage and other works. He was satisfied that so small a duty as 3s. or 45., there being a duty of Is. now, would not be considered sufficient by the farmers, so long as they were led away by the hope of regaining what they tilled protection."—The E al of Derby said: " Ile should answer the noble lord's question by another and ask him what was the point where he supposed that a duty ceased to be a 4.1 for the purpsse of revenue, and became one of proteetien: (Hear.) He was quite at a lons to know how the noble lord drew the distinction between the two. His opinion was, that any duty to be imposed, tither for the purpose of re venue or of protection, must to a certain extent art a. a protective duty, and that the amount of protection allardid was to be measured only by the amount of the duty. The principle was the same—the detail might be dill . ..nine Ile was desirous of levying duties upon the import of fare produce, not for the purpose of revenue alone, but for purpose of revenue combined with the collateral object of affording due protection." ((fear, hear.) Well, now , until next Friday evening, when we should have the noble earl's own statement of what it was the intention of his government to do, they were bound to assume that these were the principles on which he intended to acit, and that if they were consistent, three INTO the principles which he and his government would be intent upon putting in operation. If that was tho case they would probably have a struggle with Lord Derby till this question was once more settled. (Loud cries of " blear, hear.") It might be a short struggle. That depended altogether upon themselves, epee the tone they gave to the struggle at the oneet—(eheeri)— upon whether, if they went for • new settlement of th is question, they would be disposed to let it rest on its preeent basis. (Hear, hear.) lie confessed that lie was litlf,tat to mix up as essential to the further settlemen, of this ques tion—if it was to he further settled—a reform in parlia ment. (Hear.) And he would tell them why. He knew if they went to an election the protectionists would poll 33 boroughs, returning frfi members to parlianient, every one of which possesses as much political influence as the borough of Manchester did, though their constituencies un doubtedly were scarcely equal to that of Manchener; s he knew that in these boroughs they would have coercion, in timidation, bribery, corruption, and all those influences tho landed aristocracy could wield at pleasure, and whichi wd fur centuries made aristocratic governments a thing for pleasure and for profit, rather than for the pule' gttooh;.l free. (H vad ear c , rs h ) e ha , d ar rv an u d ea ap t p h la t u w eie h .) ole l o lii kthenecowwwtitleurein uthiey cs