The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

erpreols. I'ORRESPONDINTP. IN Laproma," aarawalap sap MOM taxable@ led ram Too day mil hulas aagM., taw d 'or a' The Uproar,"Mien Mesabi paper, 10, ktoaaegliaatrast. Two drama as UN TER AT LONDON BRIDGE.. fOi. 12n. M. 2345. EDNESDAY, JANUARY 5. against which the Derbyites keep lugubrious pertinacity, is gene to have been constituted by an titer"—the three contracting parties lite*, and advanced or independent UN Diu.oN, however, in his speech when nominating Lord JOHN lilt's that there were fikur parties to the DERBY had complained that he out of office by a combination of it that was not the ease. The cora. rd of four parties, and the fourth IlVel own party." This statement Mr. Dit.i.ores auditors as a joke, IERSTUN'S speech at Tiverton here were something in it. um told the free and inde nt Tiverton, that if he was either was he an opponent of the e was, he said, " an imps, tied °b ase." He might have added not for his sketch of their ministerial Dry, and his own course in Parlia ew House of Commons met, was Lord PALMERSTON prised the what they did in relation to the ; he praised their Chancery rc leniently, almost approvingly,. of took credit to himself for having e of Commons so to word the Free that the Derbyitvs might not be em, and induced to resign if ied. He hinted that it was wilfulness that made Lord a account of his partial defeat n short, it is impossible to read i's speech at his re-election without how he sat on the Treasury Bench, ;eel with Disa.o2.l about the mi ce of the Pahnerstonian Free Trade had quarrelled with ad been too inveterately attacked cretary by the Peelites—nobody m of being an advanced Liberal. Lords ABERDEEN and LattenowBE ecome their colleague it was as a nd that something, it would now or he wishes it to be, the Derbyites. oble lord is palpably to induce a of the late ministerial party to lowing their leaders into the cold n, and to regard and support him i-piece in the Ministry. impossible he may succeed. The it the meeting of Lord DERBY'S iporters, to which he explained his ng , betrayed but a lukewarm desire His partisans could not in decency the vote; but the moment it was der part of them scampered off to ollifications in the country, too in ) concert measures for strengthen heir leader, or even to soothe and formal protestations of sympathy. two very different clause, of Lord rrs have been alienated by recent -minded gentlemen among them the legerdemain of DISRAELI, ruption and unscrupulousness ".RESFORD, the indecent want of EERY. They are more disposed to • engage in an earnest, systematic irties they are much disposed to gain, the loose fish, the railway bill jobbers who had given in their DERBY, supported the Minister, are likely enough to desert him as 11inisterial patronage—all except ray magnate, whose only chance of cent to Coventry repealed lies in his Y. Here then we have a consider yites hanging in the wind, sadly leder ; and what leader can they • mind than the veteran statesman, Disiuzu himself,—possesses more and has besides the taste and an. If Lord PALMERSTON rem it any section of public opinion, it i we have been indicating, and he in the Cabinet what Lord Sr. lint to be—the means of adding op to the ministerial phalanx. this fourth element to the triple t materially modify its professed here are characteristic differences ma of the Ministry at present ; Bey have been shaken torther in whole session, these distinctions the whole collection of them ap eogeneous. Their professed prin t' will be those which pub of doors prescribes. It is ;atesmen adapt themselves to tone of society. and how rinciples are effaced while party When the late Sir Hoimar PEEL e career of office, even the Whigs g themselves Reformers: now we imposed about one-half of Whigs, tided Liberals coolly promising to re Act of 1831. In the transition t so large a portion of that party iced ELDON, MIDMOUTH, and CAS state of mind, CANNING took the u for a time orator and champion party; but 'me of CANNING'S latest d a protestation that he would tary Reform, and defend dattese rosin:nee and now men, calling s, propose to extend the measure Reform which a stanch old Whig 111 first propounded by Earl GREY, away his breath." ear therefore that the composite sin true to their political proles ,ords go. Henceforth reform and the official politicians of England ins Articles are to the Church; even a sceptics must profess to believe ah to keep active employment. The impend, should the Conservative LANSDOWNE-ABERDEEN Ministry n excess—should the views of the ,inerstonians drown those of the endent Liberals in its secret men which ever results from indifference lack electivity torealiseprofessions is danger can only be averted by the inns of Reformers. There is some lansible in ministerial requests not to in extent that may induce or compel crude, immature measures. But in to life, specious disquisitions on the tare deliberation are often put for y those whom cocatitutional indo en either deliberating or acting, or 'OM on hand makes them proems try reasonable request of Ministers re their measures is entitled to re every attempt to " keep the word he ear, but break it to the hope," nitrated. of human natures so rest, that ' statesmen and ministries always a little pressure from without. hat the pretext put forth to depre iin the case of the three or four palpably inapplicable to that which sought together. Whenever the usT Ministries were urged a little et about some task, there was a aimed by their friends that the peer them over,—their position in office that they could not stand any iNsDowNE-AsszithEr.N Ministry has 3r objecting to a good rough push formers. Its balance and equipoise bear a good deal of pressure. Lord PALMERSTON should fail to bring a Dcrbyitc troop to its rescue, it can still lean on the support of • ne less than three parties. 'Like the armorial bearings of the lile of Man, it has three lags, and may apply to itself the Isle of Man motto— 'tuba quocunque jecerii. It may yield and roll about a little if you push it hard, but you might as well think of upsetting a Tousbule. There is little likeli hood of the now Ministers being assailed by unrea sonably angry assailants. Except Lord DERBY and a couple of journals—who are no more regarded than as many angry monkeys shaking their cages and screaming in the Zoological Gardens—no one is disposed to breathe an unfair word of them. The onty danger to which they seem to be exposed is that of " woe unto you when all men speak well of you." They are more likely to be perverted with syeo phantic flattery—such as the 2'i,aes beslavers them with daily—than weakened by denunciations or angry importunity. The spur may be administered to them whenever they appear likely to be sluggish, as, for example, in the matter of Parliamentary Re form. The Derby revelations, coming immediately at the back of the St. Albans revelations, show how urgently a thoroughgoing measure of Parliamentary Reform is needed, yet it is clear from the language both of Lord ABERDEEN and Lord JOHN Russell. that is, of all their promised measures, the one respect-' ing which we are most sure to be told—" You must not hurry us," This must be watched. FRANCE. I'ARIS, TrESDAT Evasiso. A decree in the Muniteur, after referring to the presidential decision of Feb. 12, 1830, by which several "superior" commands of military divisions in France were instituted, and to the decrees of Jan. 9 and Dec. 7, 1851, which created the armies of Paris and Lyons, and stating that the exceptional circumstances which occasioned the creation of those superior commands have ceased to exist, but that it is necessary that the armies of Paris and Lyons should still continue, and that the territorial com mand in those two cities should not be separated from that of the troops in active service, enacts that the superior command of military divisions in the in terior shall be suppressed, but that the commander-in chief of the army of Lyons, shall continue to exer cise that command concurrently with the command of the Bth territorial military division, and that the commander-in-chief of the army of Paris shall at the same time command the Ist territorial military division. The navy to-day conies in for a share of the deco rations which were so abundantly distributed as Now Year's gifts to the army. The Moniker con tains several hundred appointments and promotions in the Legion of Honour of naval officers and sailors, all of course carrying the regulated dotations. The delay in the recognition of the empire by the great northern powers continues to excite public curiosity, but, as time wears on, the rumours on the subject become more and more contradictory. It was confidently asserted last week by many who pro fessed to be in the secret that the letters of credence had all arrived, and would be presented on Monday, Jan. 3, at farthest. Then it was said that Prussia alone had sent instruction to its minister, and this was dwelt upon as proving that there had been no con cert between the three sovereigns. The government papers every day quote from different German journals professing to gi ve rvery terms of the re cognitions, but few of these agree with each other. The more it is asserted that the letters of credence have been settled and contain "no reserves", the more difficult it becomes to answer the question, why have they not been presented. The l'atrie states, I know not on what authority, that the proclamation of the French Empire has been celebrated by all the French Consuls in Austria and Prase* and that the local authorities took part in the demonstrations. The appointments to newly created offices in the imperial household, which I lately announced to you, are but the commencement of the entire revival of all those sinecures invented to reward the adherents of the former empire, which it was fondly hoped the present sovereign would dispense with. Besides the grand chamberlain and the first chamberlain, there are, it is said, to be twelve assistant, and twelve honorary chamberlains. Then, after the ex ample of 1812, forty-six young gentlemen aro to be selected from the best families that can be got to furnish them, to bear the title of pages to the Em peror. The salary question will speedily be solved. Unless expectations shall be dreadfully disap pointed, every office to which the designation "grand" is prefixed, will enjoy emoluments to the extent of at least 2,4001. a year, and many people speak of 3,0004 at.d even 4,0001. as the probable amount. The first chamberlain, first veneer, and all the other spin and span new grandees who are called " first," because they come next after the " grand' " will perhaps be content with 2,0001. ' M. Berryer's letter to the Moniteur, which I sent you yesterday, has not been inserted in that journal, but it is admitted that be was right in maintaining that the council of the order of advocates of the Court of Appeal was not subject to the orders of the court master of the ceremonies. In a curt semi-official note to-thy it is stated that it was announced by mistake that the council of the order of advocates of the imperial court (that is the new designation of the Court of Appeal) had been represented as following the council of the order of advocates in the Court of Caseation among those who "had the honour" of being received by his Majesty on New Year's Day. This form of expression is in tended as a snub for M. Berryer, because the advocates of the Court of Carnation, although in fact a less important and less independent body than that of the imperial court, haves higher rank in pointof precedence. Itappears thatanotherobjectionto the marshalling of the ceremony ofNew Year's Day was made and acceded to. In the programme the Archbishop of Paris was placed as immediately fol lowing the Sesate, and before the Corps Legislatif. The members of the latter body asserted their right, according to immemorial custom, to walk imme diately after the Senate, and the Archbisholt gave way. The Princess Wasa left her chateau of Morawetz a few days ago for Dresden, to be present at the sig nature of the marriage contract of her daughter, the Princess Carols, with the Hereditary Prince of Saxony. PARIS, MONDAY EVINING. There has been some more fighting in Algeria. Commandant Pein, chief of the Arab Bureau, of Boucada, on returning from Laghonat with his goum, attacked and dispersed an important fraction of the 'hostile tribes who believed themselves out of the reach of the French by their position in the south. A corporal of @patois was killed in the attack, but a good deal of boot, was taken. By the establish ment of the French at Laghouat, their line of occu pation of the Heys will be fixed at sixty karma from the coast, and will comprise the three important points of Boucada,Laghonat, and El Blod. The Petrie gives the following contradiction of the news of the occupation of &mane by the French : The English and American journals speak of the occupa tion of the Peninsula of Santana by the French. This news is similar to all that of the same kind given by • great number of foreign prints. After the epidemic hat ceased at Martinique, the Bybille frigate left her station at the Wand to 'give her crew a change of air. She went enticing ►boat in different parts of the waters of the Antilles, and it is her presence in the waters of Hayti which gave birth to the rumours circulated in the American journals. Prince Murat paned the whole of the night of Saturday in assisting to extinguish a tremendous Are that occurred at M. Malen's large carriage warehouse in the Avenue St. Cloud, and the next morning sent I,ooof. for the relief of the workmen who were thrown out of employment. The Emperor has given 3,000 f. for the same object. SWITZERLAND. The following note, addressed by M. Druey, the Federal Minister of Justice, to the police authorities of Berne, throws light upon some facts which we recently reported: Berne, Dec. 10, 18.52. Honoured Sir,—The Minister of France remitted to the President of the Confederation, on the 3rd inst., a note, in which it is stated "that a large number of pamohlets in the Trench language, by Victor Hugo, find their way into Frame from Switzerland; that this propaganda is organised at Geneva and at Motet, where thcre exist, so the note Minns, clandestine presses. which multiply the works of this anarchist, u well as those of M. Eugene Sae ; and that the practice of printing and disseminating these pamphlets has existed %mantled for more than seven months." The H. DIM ZY. THE EXPRESS. Vi:EDNFADAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1853. stlaisteilf Taira supreme, the espimtatios that the au- rto reestablish the tranquillity and' mum the repose thoritleniiiMpat a slop to these proceedings. • of the iskabitante of the surroundinedistriet. In order The illeilumests thee made being eery vague, sad more that the rebels may not be able to procure areas or muni or leprumerelain, the Federal Council has Treated V the 'on', the government of his imperial Majesty has ordered Freer % Miler to give it more precise and einummautial the blockade of the sea emit of Moutesegoe, and to this information. Meanwhile, sines the erimplaint of the repro- end a flotilla has just been despatched thither. You are isolative of France is a grave rawer, and it is important therefore requested, M. le Ministre, to communicate these Meat Switzerland should not give just muse of complaint to facts at once to your government, and to apprise your • friendly power, the Council thinks it well irt to wait for consuls on the spot, In order that they may make the ne glemlndiestions which have been asked beim taking Some emery arrangements until time raising of the blockade. slope in the matter. Letters from Bosnia state that all the rayahs ca ne points on which my department has bees charged to Vile of bearint arms have been enrolled, and are to make inquiries, and concerning which I must request you ant.... ....... . le procure immediate information are first—whether I led a fi lli um—‘ ion really exist in your cantos eland:ratios printing-cams Musk multiply the works of Vide( Hugo (such as his altspoteoa I. Petit "), or these of M. Magee' Bee ; second, •Inther the works mentioned have bees pet forward pub- Hely in your canton according to the laws and regulations of the country; and thirdly, whether the works in ques tion have entered France, either directly or indirectly, from your canton. Should it appear that these works have been clandestinely printed, you will have to repress this abuse according to the laws. It is doubtless the duty of the French authori ties, before those of any other state, to protect their country from the introduction of writings which it considers to be dangerous; bet this fact does not absolve the functionaries of Switzerland from their duty to watch that such works may not enter from our soil, in order that neither the con federation nor the cantons may be accused of furnishing a field for the enemies of a neighbouring state, and of wink ing at their acts. We must alio avoid furnishing to the Fr.alch police the least pretext fur adopting a vexatious syst..M or treatment towards travellers entering our country, and in this way diminishing the access of visitors. Ilave the goodness to inform me, as soon as possible, of . the result of your imp AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC. (BY YILECTRIC SELIG/LAM.) (Paoli ouu owx LIVERPOOL, WZDNISDAT MORNING. The United State, Mail steam-ship Arctic, Capt. Luce, has just entered the Mersey, direct from New York. She left that port on Ssturday, the 25th. By this arrival we have three days' latet intelli gence than brought by the Niagara on Monday last from Canada and the United States. Her mails will leave to-night at nine o'clock for first delivery on Thursday morning. Those for the Continent will cross channel at Dover by the mid-day mail. We hastily select the following items from the New York papers just landed : The newly elected vice-president, Hon. W. It. King, is reported better. The papers state that the occupation of Samano by the French is confirmed. In the United States Senate on the 22nd a bill was introduced with the view of establishing a railroad to the Pacific Ocean, and also the adoption of poet routes throughout the entire line ; its introduction was favourably received. In the Senate a motion had been made for conies I of the correspondence which had passed between the governments of England, France, and the United States, relative to the guarantee that Spain should continue to hold possession of Cuba. Intelligence from Havannah, to the 19th of December, had reached New York stating that the British frigate Veata had just arrived there withl three slave ships as prizes, in consequence of which great excitement prevailed in that island. The amsmeMolalsTil;iieiatirstcici the Arctic report business good, and money easy; stocks in pretty good de mand. EXCIANOII.—A fair business done for the Arctic. On London, 1091 to 1081; Paris, 6.13 ; Namburgh, 361 to 3 ; Bremen, 791 to 80. Amu-IL—There is a goal: business doing in ashes. Pots commanding 4 561, and pearls 5 76 per 1001bs. Corrox.—The market is reported very active, with a good business going forward at advanced prices. The news, however, which had just arrived by the British Mail steam ship Ca nada, would, it was expected, again depress the market for the staple. The following are the latest quota. Lions : New Orleans end Mobile mid. fair to fair, 101 to Upland mid. fair to fair, 10 to 4. BREADITUPPII.—The market for grain and flour very firm. Western Canal flour, 6 624 to 6 75; Boathern wheat, 1 24 to 1 26; Indian corn, round yellow, 70 to 72; Indian corn, southern white, 68 to 70; °omegas prime wheat, 1 30 to 1 3'2; Indian Meal, 3 874 to 4. Plovnioss.—There was a good demand, the supply short, and pi ices generally tending upwards. Woos.—There is a very active demand for both foreign and domestic wools of all kinds, with very firm prices. Fairionrs.—A fair business had been done at the ad vanced rates. Grain to Liverpool, 11 to 111 ; flour, 3s. 6d. to 4s. GERMANY. The Post Gazstk of Frankfort states that the immense military magazines at Coblens are receiving provisions and munitions of all kinds, in quantities which suggest an expectation of extraordinary events. Letters from Vienna state that numerous arrests ofworkmen inhabitiogthe faubourgs of that city were effected during the lest fortnight of 1852. With the produce of the last loan the Austrian government repaid, on the 30th ult., a million and half florins to the Bank. The Wanderer of Vienna states that the King of Prussia is expected in that city in a few days, on a visit to the Emperor of Austria. A letter from Vienna, of the 30th ult., in the Breslau Gazette, states that the Austrian govern ment has resolved, on the recommendation of a mili tary commission, to surround the capital with a con tinuous wall of fortification, the extent of which will be five German miles (about 22 English miles). The municipal elections at Leipsic have gone entirely against the conservative party. Not one of their candidates has been chosen. This result has occasioned great excitement in Dresden. The King of Bavaria is to be accompanied on his Italian excursion by Dr. Diinniges, whose name has been upon one or two occasions put forward by the German papers as the probable successor of M. Von der Pfordten, first minister of state. The King travels in the name of Count Werdenfels. After a brief stay at the court of Modena, he proposes to take up his temporary residence at Rome, where apart ments have been prepared for him in the Villa Malta, which the taste of the ex-King Louis has enriched with so many treasures of art. ITALY. New imprisonment, of citizens have taken place at Rome, at the instance of General Gemeau. :rho cor respondent of the Augsburg Gazette states that the portrait of the new French Emperor has suddenly vanished from the shop windows, and those of the late Louis Philippe and the Comte de Chambord once more see the day. A grand-ducal decree was published at Florence on the 27th ult., forbidding the wearing of masks or other disguises during the next carnivat. TWO SICILIES. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 30th ult., qultes letters from Naples, stating that the King of the Two Sidles continues to display much goodwill towards France, and has despatched conciliatory offers to Paris respecting the indemnity claimed by Prince Lucien Murat, for the capital and interest representing the furniture and jewels belonging to King Joachim Murat, which the Bourbon family found after his Hight, and never returned. The amount of these claims is stated at 12 millions. The King of Naples, it is stated, offers to reimburse the original sum without the 36 years' interest, bat as yet no answer to this offer has been received at Naples. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid 4ournals of the 30th tilt. The Madrid Gazette contains several decrees of appointments of public functionaries, and an nounces the following diplomatic changes • M. Gerar do de Souza, first Chef de Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is named Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain at Parma and Tuscany; M. Lozano, Charge d'Affaires at the Carraccas, will replace M. de Souza. M. Arnaud, Minister Plepipotentiary in Belgium, proceeds in the same quality to the Hague ; M.Sondo val, who was at the Hague, proceeds as Minister Ple nipotentiary to Mexico. M. Sancho, Secretary of Legation at Rome, proceeds to Belgium as Charge d'Affaires; M. Vera, Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, goes as Charge d'affaires to Camara ; and M. Banuelos goes from the Legation of Washington to that of Rome as secretary. The Gautte also publishes the revenue returns for the month of December last. There was a falling.off as compared with December 183 l of more than nine millions of reels (more than two millions of francs). RUSSIA. Letters from Pawn and Warsaw, in the Frankfort Post Gazette, state that the movement of troops to wards the western frontier of Russian Poland is going on very slowly, and on some points has been sus pended. The provisioning of the . magazines, how ever, proceeds with undiminished vigour. TURKEY. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Sultan, Captain G. Brooks, arnved at Southampton yester day. Her dates were—Constantinople, Dec. 18 ; Smyrna, 21st; Malta, 25th; Gibraltar, 30th. She brought ship letter bags from the above places. The Sultan brings 7 first-class and 4 second-class pas sengers. Her Majesty's fleet was left at anchor in Gibraltar Bay. The cargo of the Sultan consists of 25,0001. specie"; 4 tubs leeches, 23 cases gums, 11 cases scaminy, 470 packages black fruits, 100 cases sponges, 2,027 - cases raisins, 9,587 drums of figs, 21 cases fruit, 96 cases opium, 2 cases tobacco, 104 bales yellow berries, 208 packages silk, 79 bales sheep§ wool, 920 bales goats' wool, 10 bales skins, 55 packages sundries. The political intelligence received from Constan tinople and Smyrna, by the Sultan, has already been anticipated by telegraph via Trieste. The Journal de Constantinople publishes a letter from Damascus on the recent return of the expedition against the Draws to winter quarters,'wbich confirms the state ments of our own correspondent, published on Mon day last. The same journal denies the statements of the Austrian journals, that Vamik Pacha is blockaded at Mosul, and Mehemet Rechid Pacha at Bagdad, by the Arabs, but gives no positive intelligence of the actual condition of the districts under these gover nors. The Impartial, of Smyrna, publishes the fol lowing memorandum, dated Dec. 14, 1852, notifying the blockade of Montenegro to foreign powers: Notwithstanding the clemency of the Sublime Porta towards the Montenegrins located within the Ottoman Empire, these people have never mead to abuse this forbearance, by indicting all possible mischief on their neighbours. Lately they have incited the inhabitants of the environs of Hersek to revolt, and have invaded and pillaged village after village. Moreover they have at tempted to kindle sedition among the inhabitants of Pifi, who profess the most loyal sentiments towards the government, and not being able to compass their ends they have fallen upon them and burnt their hoaxes. More recently, they have suddenly invaded , he village of Labliak, near the town of Scutari, and seised the fort. The massacres of Hersek and Pin having been brought to the knowledge of the Sublime Porte, it has been judged necessary to take prompt and energetic mea sures to prevent a repetition of such violence. It has there fore been resolved by the imperial government to dispatch troops to thd scene of there disorders, UMimmk Vbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 4. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at three o'clock this afternoon. Previous to the Council the Earl of Aberdeen and Earl Granville had audiences of the Queen. Earl St. Germans had an audience of her Ma jesty to kiss hands on being appointed Lord-Lints nant of Ireland. The Duke of Argyll had an audience of the Queen to kiss hands on be►ng appointed Lord Privy SeaL The Privy Council was attended by the Prince Albert, Earl Granville, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl St. Germans, Sir William Molesworth, and the Duke of Norfolk. The Most Noble George Duke of Argyll, and the Right Honourable John Viscount Sydney, were, by command of the Queen, sworn of Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their seats at the Board. Her Majesty in Council was pleased to declare the Right Honourable Edward Earl ER. Germans Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Most Noble George Duke of Argyll was sworn in Lord Privy Seal. Mr. Charles Greville was Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Duke of Montrose had an audience of her Mgjesty, and resigned his wand of oftioe as Lord Steward. The fluke of Norfolk had an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on receiving the wand of office as Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household. Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting, and Lient.-General Sir Frederick Stavin, Groom in Waiting. The Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Bt. Germans, Earl Granville, the Dukes of Montrose and Argyll, Vis count Sydney, Bir William Molesworth, and Mr. C. Greville, travelled from London to attend the Council by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and arrived at the Castle at half-past 2 o'clock. After the Privy Council the Ministers returned to town by the same route. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday:—The Duchess of Kent, the Prises of Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide of Hohealohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps. Her Majesty's private hand attended in the evening, and performed the following selection : Overture, "Ds lootliesllollw von Windsor" Otto Ifleo W. QUlrtiall, No. S, Op. 1 . 11 , Sadists Costs bile cos Vatiaoical, Fontaiaio doe loottli tli_oout et Os Batboys& The Counter 2.;;ihZaTuCT•eded the Mu thinness of Ely u Lady in Waiting to the Queen. and Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Stosk, has succeeded Major. General B. Drummond as Groom in Waiting. Lord Stanley of Alderley is staying at Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Hon. C. P. Villiers is staying at Wolverhampton. Despatches were received at the Colonial ono* yesterday t from the Governors dl the North American Provinces. (FROM LAST NIGHT'S OAZITTZ.) MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, DEC. 30.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. John George Brabeson, Earl of Beesborough, to be Master of her Majesty's Buck Hounds, in the room of the Right Hon. James Alexander, Earl of Raisins, resigned. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint the Hon. Alfred Paget (commonly called Lord Alfred Paget), to be Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to her Majesty, in the room of the Right Hon. Charles John Lord Colville, of Cuirass, re signed. WHITEHALL, JANUARY I.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be paved under the great seal constituting and appointing the Right. Hon. George Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. ; the Right Hon. William Ewan Gladstone ; Alfred Hervey, Esq., commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey); the Hon. Francis Wemyss Charteris ; and John Sadleir, Esq., to be Commissioners for executing the dices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Gnat Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland:: WINDSOR, JANUARY 3..—Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to deliver the custody of the seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster to the Right Hon. Edward Strati, the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was this day, by her Majesty's command, ad mi nisteredto him accordingly. WINDSOR, JANUARY I. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to appoint Captain the Hon. Dudley Charles Fitzgerald de Roe, of the First Life Guards, to be Equerry to his Royal Highness, vice Beuverie. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 31.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Winston J. Trowbridge as Con sul at Barni&sis for the United States of America.—The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Gustav Heyn as Vice-Consul at Belfast far the Grand Duke of Meeklen burl Schwerin. CROWN-OFFICE, JANUARY 3.—Members returned to serve in this present parliament :—Borough of Hertford . The Hon. William Francis Cowper, one of the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty.—Town of Nottingham : The Right Hon. Edward Struts, of Kingston-hall, in the county of Nottingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lances ter.—City of Carlisle : The Right Hon. Sir J ames R o b ert George Graham, Bart., First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. JANUARY 4.—City of London The Right Hon. John Russell, commonly called Lord John Russell, one of her Majesty's Principal Sseretaries of State. (PlOll ♦ SUPPL 22222 TO LAST NOSIIT'S O12I?TI.) Windaor, Jan. 4.—This day the Most Noble George Dou.rlas Duks of Argyll and the Hight Hon. John au crt Viscount Sydney were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the board accordinsly. Her Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Pnvy Seel to the Most Noble George Douglas Duke of Argyll, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seat was this day administered to him, and his grate took his place at the board accordingly. Her Majesty in Couneil was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. Edward OTSAVIIIe Earl of St. Germans, Lieutenant-General and General-Governor of that part of the United Kingdom, called Ireland. Her Majesty in Council was tois day pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Edward John Lord Stanley . of Alderley, President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, in the absence of the Presidentof the said Com mittee for the time being. THE ELECTIONS. WOLVERHAMPTON. RETURN OF MR. VILLIERS. Yesterday, the Eight Hon. the Judge Advocate presented himself to his constituents for reelection. At 11 eel :rain the morning, the electors quietly walked down to Bt. James's-square, where the hustings were erected, and soon afterwards, kr. Villiers, accompanied by his col league, Mr. Thorneley, and most of the influential resi dents in the town, came down from the Swan Hotel in pro cession to the hustings, and without flags, or banners, or bells ringing, Sr senile of any kind, the business of the election went on in a thoroughly constitutional way. Joan WYNN, Esq., the Mayor, read the precept, and caused the usual forms to be gone through ; after which, E. B. DIMMACK, Esq., an ironmaster and county magis trate, placed Mr. Villiers in nomination. Mr. Alderman HZNICT WALKED. seconded the nomina tion. No other candidate being proposed, the Mavor declared the lion. Charles Pelham Villiers duly elected, amidst the heartiest sheen. Mr. VILLIBBII immediately stepped to the front of the hustings and was received with the 'heartiest cheering. The hon. and learned gentleman proceeded to address the as semblage. He said :—I assure you that it is with no ordi nary feelings of gratefulness and satisfaction that I stand before you to acknowledge my sense of the act which has just taken p!sce. It is not merely the pride I feel that fur the sixth time you have returned me as your representa tive, and for the fourth time without opposition, but because you have thus sanctioned, by the unanimous expres sion of your approbation, the course 1 have ven tured to take in becoming a member of the administra tion which has just been formed. I can say to you with perfect truth that I did not accept office without the fullest consideration of your opinion and interests, and feeling that I was not actuated by any dishonest or unworthy motives, or doing any thing inconsistent with my private conduct, or the promotion of those principles which we have at heart. I felt no anxiety in having to appear here before you. I did not think that although I presented myself in anew character, you would think I had lost all the character that I had be fore. (Hear.) If a member of parliament goes over to the government and gives up all his old opinions for the sake of office, it is one thing—if the government comes over to the member, it is a very different thing ; for I must tell you that I have found that independent members are usually right and the government is usually wrong. (Hear, hear.) Now, I can truly say that in taking office under the circumstiunce, I have not abandoned my opinions to join the government. I have forfeited none of the principles I professed when you first sent me to parliament ; I have maintained them, and I intend to abide by them. (Cheers.) In my address to you I have endeavoured to explain the motives by which I was actuated in accepting office, and, so far as 1 could, to assist you in forming your own opinions on the subject. (Hear.) I told you that on your great subject the present first minister was what Lord Derby calls a man of extreme opinions; he was for the total and immediate repeal of the corn law; and that at the time he was a member of Sir Robert Peel's government he was the most sincere supporter of the commercial policy of that great statesman. (Cheers.) He has not shrunk from his principles since that time, but he has said that the character of the law which repealed the corn law was precisely that which I gave it in usy resolu tion, and was wise and beneficial. (Che.rs.) lots agree in what the Earl of Aberdeen has said, that there can be no sound conservatism that is not based on a liberal policy ; that is a principle which I think will be acceptable in this town. (Cheers.) You are generally here for principle, not for party. Yon will agree with him that the country is sick of mere party cries and party distinctions, and that it now requires a government established on a broad basis, having its efforts directed to the carrying of those principles and those reforms which are consistent with the wants of the age. (Cheers.) For my part I like that reading of conservatism which makes it consist in a liberal policy ; and the practical proof which be has afforded of it in shaking hands with Lord John Russell, and seeking his assistance to maintain firmly the great measures of liberty aiready passed, and farther to extend the civil and religious liberties of the people—(cheers)--such a government, I think, should be encouraged. (Cheers.) Again, it looks well that he should go to members representing large constitu encies, such as Middlesex, Southwark, Leeds, Nottingham, andWol verbs= pton— (cheers)—and he asks them to join him in his administration. (Hear, hear.) That is not like the ease of a man abandoning his opinions for the sake of jott ing • government, but rather putting an independent member in a position where he could not be justified in re fusing to join such an administration, and assist ia it to accomplish what good it was possible for the people. (Loud cheers.) Lord Aberdeen's administration thee, I believe, is worthy of a fair trial ; for it will be composed of men who wish well to li beral institutions, and promise to pursue a liberal policy. Such a government may do great good, and, if strong enough, save us from those repeated changes which is at all times so hurtful, especially to the trade of the country. I indeed go farther, and consider this combina tion of men under Lord Aberdeen as a great triumph to the popular cause. It shows that those liberal principles which we have so long professed were based on truth, end that truth has prevailed. (Cheers.) I believe that charges of opinion have taken place amongst tie members of the conservative party from honest conviction; that they have learnt to appreciate the character of the people better than they did, and that they have become convinced that the people have a due regard for the rights of others, that they respect the rights of property as much as their rulers. They now understand the principles on which this country should be governed, and th4t it is never so safe and peaceful as when the people are free to act, free to think, and free to trade as they please -, and that the country is governed justly and liberally. (Cheers.) The day was, when the advocates of free-trade were looked upon as democrats—u persons who ought to be avoided; since that time eminent statesmen have been convinced of their error, and now that commerce is so littered and its blessed effrets felt, it is said that a greats!' ✓id a salutary change has been wrought in the condities ',the people and in their circumstances than by any mei. osee that was ever paved (cheer)—and so convinced am lof the truth of that, that I shall be grateful to the vex lot hour of my life for having been permitted to take part red to ambit in that wonderful change. (Cheers.) It has seduced indirectly great results ; it has had the sad of breaking up parties, and that is a good fling • it hi, helped to get rid of oae admints lestim, in reference to which I will say nothing ; ad it has brought together a set of men of talent, who have formed an administration, presented to you, I g I may say, as a Christmas-box. (Laughter.) A cabinet in which there are some of the most experienced statesmen of our time—men who have been high in office at one period or other throughout their lives—men who have differed much before, at last have come to the conclu sion that they can act together, if they act on the principle of free trade, religious equality, and liberal policy generally, extending the rights and the privileges of the people. (Cheers.) And this at a time when it is said to be more difficult than ever to govern the country ; if that is so, it affords all the greater matter for congratulation. (Roaswed cheering.) For my part, I feel satisfied with Lord Aberdeen for what he has said—that there can be no sound principle of conservatism that does not consult the interests of the people at large; and I am grateful to him especially for the desire he has manifested to (pin over his conservative friends to that view, and to aid him in carry ing on the government. (Cheers.) Now, we start fairly with the new geverement. I can't tell you what the measures of the government will be. I do not expect them to work miracles—(laughter); I think their predecessors Might them thiet befors—(renewed laughter)—that was the rack which Mr. Disraeli split on. (Hear.) There are limits, you know, to human power; and his budget was on the other side those limits. He wanted to please everybody, and he shared the fate which commonly awaits a man so disposed. (Great laughter, and sheers.) Mind, I am not going to say anything disrespect ful of the deputed ; I think they did great good by coming in. (Laughter.) The air is clearer now in consequence; the political atmosphere is more healthy, and a good many of them made a tolerably clean breast of it whilst they were in. (Much laughter.) I shouldn't have eared if they had been in longer; I didn't want to turn them out. (Continued laughter.) They went to the country—they dissolved the House of Commons ; and I simply wanted them to explain what in their idea the appeal to the coun try had resulted in. Now, it struck me, in bringing about that explanation, that if the people were better off than ever they were, there could be no harm in calling the free-trade measure " wise and just ;" and that's all I did. (Roars of laughter and cheers.) I was told that I hurt their feelings, although theg could'nt help admitting the fact. (Cheers.) You remember the debate in paella , ment on the subj ect; but I don't know whether it was intelligible all this way off. (Laughter.) Now, I will explain it if I can. It happens that the friends of the ; late government have a great objection t 3 the Manchester i school of politicians, as they call them, so al th ough they I were going to admit the facts for which I was contending, they refused to accept my words, as they would have done ant other word+ of mine; bat tt all's well that ends well," and we did get a full recognition by the legislature that the recent eetnntereial changes had been beneficial, and that that policy was not to be changed. (Cheers.) Now, with reference to the government, I am as glad as you will be to find that there is to be no shrinking from the consideration of any of those great questions which true liberal politicians have always had at heart ; the subject of parliamentary reform is to receive the fullest con+idera tiou ; there is an admission that our present system of re presentation requires to be remedied ; and I think you will agree with me in this—that the people of this country have never been in fay:Air of violent changes; they have always been content with an admission of the evil, end that the best remedy shall be applied by those who have the power. (Cheers.) It it absurd to think that a small con stitueocy with a hundred or two electors shouldered couple of members to parliament, and that a tow, , fifty-thousend inhabitants should s e nd on l y the I,l' number—(hear)—and is it not of to the !A.,'" sense of Englishmen, that the shameful s y stem of es -" Lion, intimidation, and bribery should still exist t h it T men of wealth and station should continue to he; power to corrupt and to y those over whom t b, y b a th ' influence, for the sake of a vot e ? Such thin gs uz no " longer be permitted to continue. (Cheer s .) W ith referee,. to the ballot as a remedy, I can only say that I do as; eider it a perfect system, but it is at least the b est rt that has been devised, and it is fur those who 05 - 1 ,i At th e a nu,z; ar. and ,„." se W nt it ttoime,howa vobttt to many men ; the tradesman has hi s l andlord ae e e i r s ' e he his customers teasing him out of it, till hi s franchise bra, s comes a source of misery rather than anything else, (R hear.) Thee must he a remedy to this. Meat, ~ Now, in the interview I had with Lord Ab er d een I psisii this out to his lordship ; I told him, too, that I had for the ballot before, and that I should do so again, ea t reply was " that he should always respect the hottest e sn , viction of any one who did him the honour to jsi tt ' anministration." (Much cheering.) Wi t h referent is education, believing as 1 do that every man ought to o able to read the laws which he has to obey, I b elieve s:0 that the government will do what is right in that directsse though I object to much interference by the state o n that seS: ct. Law reform will be zealously persevered in ; and 1 ea aope that the new government will be th e means of doitt away with that paltry remnant of bigotry whizh excladn your fellow-citizens—the Jews—from parliament; yo t them ; you make them high sheriffs, magistrates, ar t . thing ; you allow them to walk to the doors of pardier sea : but not to enter in. (Hear.) Tho principle of Sir Robe; Peel, when he opened wide the doors of parliament Ott Romaa catholics, will, I hope, be adopted by his Wore, in the present cabinet ; and that without scruple that ae shameful remnant of bigotry will by them be put away, i t the cause of free trade very much remains yet to / I done ; in that direction, depend on it, the government yii,l not falter. As regards our foreign policy, I believe e at it will be the preservation of peace with every nation a the world; but, whilst doing that, at lean it wia be of 43 small importance that all nations should sec the strengt h , ( the government at home, and that, in the event of as, violation of British rights or British territory, no goitre. went has better means or larger resources at command he the maintenance of the national security and the =gee honour. (Cheers.) I now repeat my thank, for the hone s: you have again conferred upon me. I trust that wh will arise to shake the confidence of our politi ca l relatio n's long amicably maintained. Every year only confirms e s in the faith of the opinions I entertained when I first pat. rented myself before you ; and I trust that no place, as emolument of any kind, would induce me to do anything's forfeit your confidence and your regard. (Chars.) j place myself in your hands, ready to explain myself at yoy, call ; and now again I take my leave of you w i t h every good fur your fortune and fur your happiness in this ne e year ; and I trust that when we meet again you will bin no reason to regret the business of this day. (f he homey learned gentleman retired amidst hearty and prete ss4 4 cheering.) Mr. TUORNELY, M.P., who was very warmly received, moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor. Ile could not ( 4 said) refuse himself the pleasure of witnessing the proce s s • ings of the day, for certain he was, as of his own existeete, that they would again return Mr. Villiers triumphant: T . Eighteen years since they returned his hon. friend to repo, sent them, and, in his opinion, they did the best thing It was in their power to do so. He bore his testimony, the very fullest, to the timely, and well.directed, art able efforts of Mr. Villiers in the free•trade struggle; he had carried his point, and achieved the mat peaceful, the most splendid victory ever achieved by rue ; the result wee evidenced in the general prosperity, and s a alliance between the ablest men in the kingdom forts promotion of the calm, of pro,;reas and the good merle meat of the people. They had cheap food in the place of scarcity and high prices, and even varying prices. The people were well to do—contented and happy. (Chee ri o r. VILLIII49 seconded the vote of thanks, paying t warm tribute of respect to the Mayor, as (he said) his older and most valued friend. This terminated the proceedings in connexion with the election. HALIFAX. RETURN OF Silt CHARLES WOOD. HALIFAX, TUESDAY AFTE/IXOWL The poll was opened at eight o'clock this morning, and commenced with most desperate vigour on the out d the tories. Prior to that hour the electors in the interest of Mr. Edwards were breakfasted at different inns in du town, alter which they were conveyed in coaches, Ws, gigs, &c., to the various polling booths, all of which the, took complete possession of, to the almost entire exclaim of Sir Charles Wood's supporters. The consequences( this stratagem was that Mr. Edwards for some hours vu at the head of the pall by a large majority. At nine o'clock he headed the President of the Board of Control by at least 150 votes. After this the liberals began togas upon their opponents, and gradually gained upon era until they had destroyed their majority. At ten o'clock Ile majority was reduced to 115; at half-past ten, to 72; at eleven, to 12; and at twelve o'clock Sir Charles Wood ea in a majority of 12. Bath parties worked with the mon desperate energy, the liberals continuing to gain upon the tories up to the time of our pared being despatched. At the last election Sir Charles Wood headed the poll from the commencement until the close. The change in the pceitioa of the parties on this occasion is entirely owing to the tuna resorted to by the tories,who have been most profuse in their favours, and have resorted to every name within their power to influence the electors to their side. At the hold your correspondent writes (half-past two o'clock) it is be. lieved that Mr. Edwards has quite exhausted his strength, and his friends are beginning to blame him for st.sndisg s contest. The register contains about 1,109 slec:ors, and it LI expected that nearly 1,100 will poll. I give you below the numbers polled for each candidate at different hours of the day ; and shall forward the result by electric telegrap. Time. Wood. Edwards. 9.20 o'clock 9.40 „ 10 „ 165 11 „ 12 „ 1 „ 2 „ At the last election the numbers polled were—For Sir Charles Wood, .596 ; for Mr. Edwards, 521. Majority fa the liberal candidate, 75. slat. Va as/. Iva CLOSE OF THE POLL. [YY RLECTRIC Lll ] HALIFAX, TUESDAY Arrzasoox. The following were the numbers claimed by the reopte five candidates at the close of the poll : Sir C. Wocd Mr. Edwards BRIGHTON. MITI. RN OF LORD A. HERVEY. Yesterday the irigitO; — eiictiont;;Vplare, to supply the vacancy in the representation, caused by the acceptance of Lord Alfred Hervey of the post of a Lord of the Treasury under the new government. The weather was wet, the usual election crowd in consequence astaj, and the proceedings brief. W. Kiwwzrr, EN. (the returning officer), having gar through the preliminary proceedings, LAWAIKCE PilL, Seq. (brother of the late Sir Hobert Peel), proposed the re-election of Lord Alfred Hervey, which was seconded by Mr. EIMUNDT:II Baoww. No other candidate being nominated, the returning 01. cer declared Lord Alfred Hervey duly elected, and the is denture having been duly signed, Lord ALTHAID H returned thanks for this, hi fourth, election. There were circumstances, he uud, attending this election which greatly increased the side faction which, in any case, he must have felt. First *fat as one of these who firmly and consistently adhered ti thi policy of that great statesman, whose memory the/ ail cherished with the most grateful feelings, haring resin every attempt that had been made during the butt , * years to reverse that wise commercial policy 10011 he established in this country; it was the Kula to him of peculiar gratification, to have beta three times out of the four that he had been fe turned, proposed by one bearing his honoured name' (hear, hear)—a gentleman, moreover, to whom he had been attached for many years by ties of the most ader tionate regard. Second, Brighton had been entrenched , had had the honour of returning members to parliament — there had been about eight elections ; and upon him ( 104 Alfred Hervey) had fallen the privilege, the distinctioc, al being the first representative of Brighton returned w4c' out opposition. He would not detain the electors by eel into details of the principles on which he believed the policy of the new government would be regulated. Be would only say that their great object would be to extend. prudently and cautiously, but still continually to extesdi the commercial and financial scheme of Sir Robert reel They would endeavour also to raise from their present 0 0 of ignorance those large masses of the population in Inn i s towns who at present were growing up, and who wo ad grow up, at all events ignorant of the great truths Christianity, and consequently disloyal subjects. 1 1 1 would apply themselves to an extensio n of law reform. 06 to an extension of the suffrage. (Hear, hear.) hie* lieved it was true conservative policy—he was sure it Ito true wisdom—to approach these questions in a time of Pei' fect tranquillity, when they might be calmly and dio . o * sionately considered, and not wait till the detect of 10 1 , 4 we complained had produced such an amount of popto! indignation as would sweep away the defects and the low tutions themselves together. (Applause.) A vote of thanks to the returning officer, proposed by,ki lordship, and seconded by Mr. AKTIII:It llsweest brought the election to a close. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. THE NOMINATION. This morning (Tuesday) a convocation was taut in the Sheldonian Theatre, for the purpose of electing al', presentative for the University of Oxford, in the room " the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, who has g' eepted the office of her Majesty's Chancellor of the Eg an ' qucr. The name of the Marquis of Ch indos had l'eri mentioned to oppose Mr. Gladstone, but it appeared et* dently without his knowledge or consent. His lordsl4 absolutely declined to serve the purposts of the partl * had so vexatiously made use of his name, but at the I s moment the same party, after summoning their friends! . vote fur Lord Chandov, put forward 35 A can did a te ea tM very morning of the election the unknown name of p..Ael