The Express. — London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

Ch* OWPreoo* TU Mit RESPON .a-i.e ''.%al.at t" Ile !Allem." eusettetse the sews evalre's tetit..." a i•LL:trital slaty flask; I , nely *lO4 is lase ear pest. hes tot • t • .1.1(11U4 of The /wee," 2.se.!ee t•esdeg m i c se et t.tec, 111, resserte.strsr.„ 4 Iwo Valet* cm ths ese el peteseatios. WAT Kit AT LONDON BRIDOII. for F.l—Morn. Pt. la. Alevines, l...a.saus—Muctua.. .a._—...Marra. n 34k. LONDON, NA Tr/ WA I', MI 10. Ins Derbyites have done their worst in the metro politan boroughs. And much they have made of it. After poking and prying, and feeling their way. and longing and stretching out their hands, and luring heart and drawing them back, they have tried for three seats, and gained two seats—out of twenty. It is laughable to hear them talk in the face of this. They set themselves to count the votes given for the Liberal metropolitan candidates; they find out that they are fewer than at former elections. Why, what is that to them ' The constituencies may love the Liberal candidates less than they once did, but assuredly they do not hate the Tory candidates less. Except in two instances the mere appearance of a Derby ite candidate sufficed to make the Liberals lay aside their bickering* to drub the common foe. It is ulcer that even if London Liberals mar grow indiffer ent to Lord JoliN Itu.sett, they are determined not to have anything to say to LordDentiv. The position and prospects of the I):rhyites are no more affected by the more or fewer votes given to Liberal candi dates in the metropolis, than they are by the greater or h-ss subserviency of Louis N irotnox's " body" legu lathe to the French PRESIDENT. Tho Der byites axe as decidedly off the ore field as the other. But the spirit of mischief is strong within them. No sooner is the door of one house where they hoped to do h:um shut in their faces, than they set about trying to force an entry into another. Pushed back from the metropolitan borough.. the key turned, and the door bolted against them, they arc now plotting boa they may hirer their way into the metropolitan county. They dream of filching Mr. BERNAL Os nowx e's *eat from him. They are sneaking about among the electors—their fingers are on every man's button, their noaeaare in every man's ear—they are in eimantly whispering that it is shocking to think that the metropolitan county should be represented by a liberal man like Mr. Osmium:. Those pious men who can read the numberless sneers at Chi Wianity with which Mr. Dt.a.tett's works are replete. vet follow him as their political leader ; these zealous auti•Ronianists, who could hear Lord HENTINCE declare himself favourable to the endowment of the Romish priesthood, yet not root: from his standard. they forsooth arc scandal- Med at the latitudinarianism, at the liberal tendencies which they impute as a fault to Mr. OSBORNE. The electors of Middlesex are not the men to be caught by such ..lfu'riou.m cant. As long ago as the begin ning of the reign of Owens; 111., the electors of Mid dlesex saw through and scorned the hypocrisy which sought to divert their attention from the illegal oppression of WILKES to irrelevant bab ble about his religion. The electors of Middlesex i n s. - ,2 will not so far degenerate from their sires, as to allow whispered anonymous imputations against the piety of an approved able and patriotic repre 'tentative to lead them to the fully of discarding' ' him. The metropolitan county and the metropolitan boroughs—the heart of England—is sound. The Melt% ministry will cling to (dice with the tenacity of a sucking tish, the mouth of which does not relax its hold even after the body has been piecemeal chopped away. But as mini s ters they must con d uc t the business of the state among a population of whoii nineteen , n every twenty scorn and detest them. The First and Second CHARLES found such a situation so uncomfortable, that they used occa sionally to shift the seat of government to Oxford; hut the Damn ministry cannot scuttle off in that fashion. They must walk about and transact busi ness where almost all men's eyes look coldly and con tumaciously on them. In general elections, the decision of the metropolis —though never servilely or unreasonably followed— is always found to exercise a strong influence over the decisione of the provincial constituencies. Now as on former occasion., it is clear that the provincial elector+ are emulating their London brethren, and treating the appeal. of the Lterb,itee for their sup port in much the same unceremonious fashion. The set of the English election. is hollow against them. The voice of Scotland is beginning to make itself heard, and it goes to the same tune. Edinburgh, the intellectual capital of Scotland, will re turn two stanch liberals ; Glasgow, the capi tal of its industrial enterprise, though there appears to have been some sad misunderstand ing and mismanagement among the Liberals there, will do the same. And when Edinburgh and Glas gow are at one, the decision of Scotland is never for a monicot doubtful. Some little time must elapse before the temper of Ireland can be made manifest; but it is already painfully obvious that the riots at Stockport, Wigan. and Dublin, provoked by the illtimed proclamation of ministers, have there cal. ed up a spirit that may do mischief before it can be laid again. Lord Dxanv will have little leisure for the anti quarian studies upon which he promised Lord MONTF.AOLE to enter during the recess. He must throw aside his book to prepare to meet a hostile rfiajority in Parliament. If Mr. ROEBUCK is in the secret of the other Liberal leaders, ministers will, at the very opening of the session, have to encounter two motions—one asserting the soundness of free trade principles, the other declaring that the reali sation of • free-trade policy cannot be safely en trusted to men who only a few weeks ago were its moat inveterate enemies. But even though opposi tion should humanely give ministers rope enough, in order that they may have the melancholy satisfac tion of hanging themselves in the way most to their taste, Lord Malay will find the labours of the next ecemon much more arduous than those of the session which is past. He will have to prepare his own budget, and his own bills; he will not be able to take credit for passing the mea sures of the o pp osition. His sayings anddoings will be criticised and opposed in real earnest, not applauded and promoted by their real authors, or by men anxious to accelerate the close of the ses sion by any concession. Lord DERBY', real troubles will begin in the parliament summoned by Lord Deane himself. or all Lord Dania's coUeagues in the House of Commons, Sir 'mut PAKINGTON has perhaps made the most favourable impression; he is intelligent, courteous, attentive, and cautious ; anxious to gain reputation for himself; and desirous of redeeming the character of the Colonial-office in the opi nion of the country ; too fond, it may be, of what is called currying favour by promising to consider and remedy everything; but more distinguished by plain common sense than by fantastic " genius." Let us see then what Sir low: had to say at Droitwich in favour of the Dr.itsv cabinet; let us try to discover from him what it has appealed to the country about ; let us and out, if it be possible, what policy he assigns to it. First of all he assures us that the p resent _ is not , a dishonest governm en t. Th e y were Protectionists --says Sir Joita—in opposition ; and they are, he adds, Protectionists in office. But, then, he argues, they ate not obliged by any considerations of honesty or nonaistency to propose a return to Protection ; be . rouse, they . did not come into office aggrcwvel or on a question of Protection. N ow , this reasoning, with all respect to the Secretary of the Colonies, esta blishes the political dishonesty of the DERRY cabi net. For honest men act on their own conviction., not on the opinions of their adversaries; and Protec ,ion is too large and important a question for the councillors of the crown end the leaders of parlia ment to toy to their supporters, " our deepest con victions are all in favour of its restoration, and to ; their opponents, " we have no present intention of disturbing Free-trade, simply because we cannot." The ministers who thus think one way and act an- , other, may be able, may he skilful, may even he sue woeful; but honest, in the best sense of that word, i they are not. It may be true that in the last parliament they never brought forward a motion avowedly declara tory of Protection; but in all discussions on it they announced that when a dissolution tea place they would boldly appeal to the celatry for its decision on that question. Itharefo mise and pledge, they are dishonest'', -breaking and evading.'icy have not le& aiaLst . ch .. appeal. On the contrary, they are hy means in their power attempting to escape an us wriggle out of the promise they then made, and the principles they then professed. They are either dis honest by adhering to their old opinions against their new convictions, or, remaining unchanged in their opinions, they are dishonestly refusing, for the sake of power, to act on them. In either ease, they are sipping the very foundations of political morality; they are setting honour end truth (the highest of all public virtues) at defiance. And so low have they fallen, that the beat of them, Sir JOHN PAEINOTON, can't or won't see and feel and blush for this. And vet they arc men of strong opinions loudly expressi.d on other subje cts . Hear, then, even Sir Jon; PAKINGTON tall about Protestantism, and Popery, and democracy, and law reform, and colo nial policy, and there is no such shilly-shallying; no inch hesitation, and stuttering, and stammering, as, on Protection. When they . can either delude their fol lowers by strong declarations against I'opery and de mocracy, or can flatter the Liberal classes by advocat ing small improvements about which no one differs, who so glib and facile of speech? It is only when Free-trade is at issue that these honest ministers be come mysterious and gloomy, and speak in parables, and ride off in generalities. Their language, before so plain and palpable, and overflowing, becomes only the medium of concealing their thoughts. Now, this incertitude and practical dishonesty, though not very dangerous to the freedom of trade which we have already acquired, is full of danger to the acquisition of that further freedom of trade yet to he gained. Under free trade in corn, sugar, coffee, timber, and the raw materials of our manufactures, the revenue is so rapidly increasing, as to leave little doubt that further reductions of taxation, of a large and comprehensive sort, may in a year or two be made. What these remissions will be, is tolerably clear, with a government in power avowing a free trade policy; they will be directed to promote a further extension of our commerce and so create a further demand for labour, and greater consumption of the necessaries and enjoyments of life. But with a ministry in office who proclaim that the landed interest has been " treated unjustly • " and that the IWcst India interest has been har shly dealt with, as Sir JOHN PAKINGTON does—byi such a ministry a surplus revenue will be applied to compensate the landowners of the United kingdom and the planters of the colonies. So that, though there may be no risk of losing what we have gained, there is the greatest risk of not ac quiring what is almost withiu our grasp. They want to raise a larger proportion of the national revenue from taxes on imported commodities, and for that purpose would augment such taxes ; whereas Free-traders say that it is quite possible to raise all that we want by reducing the duties on tea, on tobacco, on wine, as has been done on sugar, on timber, on raw cotton, and on corn. . Besides freedom is a grand whole ; it is a prin ciple of.pniversal application; it is the foundation for the entire national superstructure; and they who in reasoning refuse us freedom to trade as much as we can, to employ' our labour as much as we can, to cat and drink and be as comfortable materially as we can ; these men will be found trying to limit the liberty of thinking, of educating, of acting, and of wor shipping. And so it is; the Ministers who would, if they could, deny us cheap food, have plainly told us that they will deny us further reform in par liament; they have already shown us how they will deny us freedom of instruction, and they are pre pared to resist the further progress of what they call democracy (using a big word to frighten silly people), but what is simply informed public opinion. If, then, any policy can be discovered in Sir 101 IN PAAINVION'S speech, it is a policy of petty improve ments in small things, and of reaction in all great and national matters; of reaction in commercial policy, reaction in financial policy, reaction in parlia mentary reform, reaction in national education, re action in the great policy of religious liberty, re action in all our relations with foreign despotism. How far, or how little, and how long, the country will submit to such a policy, the elections will in a few days show. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAT EVANINO. The Moniteror becomes daily more communicative of official notes. It contains to-day in this shape a curious lecture to the Senate, which has been, as it appears, stepping beyond the mere tett) allowed that body by the constitution, and embodying in its re ports considerations on the merits of the laws passed by the Legislative Body, whereas they ought only to confine themselves to the question whether the laws contain any provision at variance with the constitu tion. The closing paragraph of this communication assumes almost the sharp tone of reprimand, and is as follows: The government, out of respect for the constitution, has imposed upon itself the paints' necessity of not inserting in the Monsieur the reports of the committees of the Senate, which, without being limited to the question of constitu tionality, proceed to appreciate the merit of the provisions if the law. It is of importance for the dignity of the Senate that this elimination should not take place, sine. it OMB all Millind by no debate, while the vote can only be taken ma the opposition or non-opposition of the Senate to the promulgation of the law. Another note runs as follows: The Sieuk, in its number of yesterday, appears to be as tonished that a certain number of political prisoners had undergone the penalty of transportation to Guyana. We shall confine ourselves to replying that the individuals, de signated by the Siocie as political prisoners, belong to an exceptional category. The great majority of then have made themselves remarkable in secret societies by the mast hostile and guilty acts, and some of them have even com mitted mur der . They have not, besides, been sized up pell-mell with the convicts from the beguile, as the Siocle would wish to have it supposed. They have been kept apart in the vessels which carried them out, and the com missioner-general at Guyana has orders to continue that separation. The Motaiteur contains the decrees which I in formed you yesterday would be Published in a rap plement, relative to the municipal elections. The elections of the councils-general and the councils of arrondisement are fixed for the 31st July and let August. The elections for the renewal of the municipal councils are not confined to any particular day, but the prefects are allowed to name any period moat convenient in the respective communes between the 24th July and 26th Sept. inclusively. The Moniteur also contains the monthly statement of the Bank, which has been found satisfactory in the commercial world. The returns for the month present a marked improvement. The metallic reserve has declined nearly 201 millions-7 millions in Paris, and 131 millions in the branch banks. The discount accommodation has increased nearly 30 millions, the amount having been 61,786,880 fr. in Paris, and 93,433.077 fr. in the provinces. The advances on French public securities have fallen off about 41 millions, the amount being 46,422,278 fr. ; but the advances on railway shares and debentures have in creased 91 millions, the amount being 23,974,777 francs. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased 141 millions-8 millions in the Paris establishment, and 61 in the provinces. The account-current of the tressur7 has increased 27 millions, the present amount being 119,677,217 fr. Private accounts-current have fallen off about 31 millions, the present amount being 130,171,631 francs in Paris, and 26,092,412 fran cs i n t h e de partments. The whole amount of the metallic re serve is now 6001 millions to 6261 millions of notes in circulation. The President will arrive at Strasburg on the morning of Sunday, the 18th, after having passed the night at Nancy. The P r i nce w ill remain two dace at Strasburg, taking up his residence for that period at the hotel of the Prefecture, and will not lease to return to Paris until Tuesday morning, The electric telegraph from Paris to Strasburg is expected to he finished in time to announce the arrival of the President in the latter city. The President's journey to the south is postponed until after the files of August. The itinerary is not yet fixed. The .iPmoriul of Aix says that the l'tince is to stop at that city in the course of his visit to the south The President gave a diplomatic dinner at St. Cloud on Wednesday. The Marquis do Lavalotto was among the guests present, and leaves Paris to dsv fur Toulon, to embark for Constantinople in the Charlemagne, about whose passage through the Dar danelles so much n o i se has been made. array, wnieu being organised. The report of the Baron de: Cresdiailhes, in the name of the committee charged to examine the bill of *satin eorisultum on the organ*** of the High Court of Justice, has just been publidliad. It maybe remembered that, according to the coustitution of Iso2. a High Court of Justice, from which there can be no appeal, is to try all crimes siusgittail agalost the President of the Republic, or against dm ininindie external safety of the state. The constitutk• obi& clam that the High Omit of Justice cannot taigning-1 aims of an attentat, except by decree of the Prost- dad of the Republic. Tlus Senator Cunsultum re- Laugin its principal points the law of 1848 coo h National Court. In the new pee ps!, as in the law of 1848, the jury is to he taken from the councils-general of department. The examination is in the first place confided to di, ordinary courts. After this preliminary inquiry the President of the Republic decides whether the OM shall be sent before the High Court or not. neon amination is referred to a rhambre d'seeumligis t formed of members of the Court of Cameaties. The jurisdiction of the Court of Peers required din saw damnation the majority of five-eighths of the veto. The constitution of 184 s fixed the majority at tw► thirds; the present bill proposes it to be semi. twelfths. In case of condemnation the penal codsb applied. The Court of Peers pronoun Ced sentence without reference to that code. The committee appointed to consider the question of relieving the theatres from the heavy poor rate charged on them have decided on its maintenance. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th announce the ar rival in that city of the Queen and King on the previous evening. Their Majesties proceeded at once from the railway station to the church of Atocha, where they attended a thanksgiving service. The English squadron was on the 2nd inst. before Malaga. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, limy 7. Letters from Ostrowow, on the confines of Poland, state that a great number of persons have fled thither from the neighbouring Polish town of Kalisch, where the cholera is raging with great in tensity, the deaths having amounted to forty daily out of a population of ten thousand. This rate of mortality is as high as if in London ten thousand a day were carried off. In spite of the Danish government's repudiation of, the Schleswig-Holstein debts, the bonds continued to find purchasers. They fell first to 20 per cent. But in consequence of commissions to purchase being sent from Copenhagen and Amsterdam, they rose again to 26. The Zeit announces a report, that the Danish go vernment will propose to the Schleswig-Holstein Diet, that the bonds be recognised as a provincial debt. This confirms the suspicion that the whole affair has been a manoeuvre of the Danish ministry to put money into the pockets of its friends who have now bought up the bonds for a trifle, and at the same time to mulct the German capitalists who supported the Duchies in their resistance. .„... us profits pre large on meat. Xl* dd. ..' a hate been sizierecks begging some due to a pin • Apr, but all you can get is " No..' Now Jr has to sow, slid kindly supplies us. Flow A of 200 ba.; beset 11. 3d. for the 41b. loaf ; potty • ewt..i egghAr.fisl. • dozen ; butter, 2a. tok, roo ,d kcheese, 51.' tit ; bacon, 35.; beer. lid. a fleet ,• /ter, 2.. 6i.1. • botrle—vinegar, Is. ; apples, Is. a peas —all fur want of labour. The crops are rutting on the gramad—no hands to paws them, Reap ms get We. to 40e. ma sere with board and grog. Earthenware • price too feetalfijble to mention. There is • fine clay near this place. My grandfather would make • fine thing of it, if he would, mime out, but not unless he brought labourers. All eyes are directed *o government, to i.e wind it will do for us in tld. emergency. I know what it ought to do : empty thek Unitise of able-bodied men and women, and if they must' live here, then let them starve. Let the elate of the ming be known. 110 whet you can to benefit your poor WO, bean. While they are doing themselves good, they ate No. misting as. We have had • steamer from America. Ann. ries will not leave us without cheese, bacon, NA li. The news quite raised the spirits of the coloabb; nets would rather it had corns from our little island Isom. A . p ....,p,. munilliti bast . . •, . Am 21.1 s Cf Bt. and '"( • quart. 1 ' 'ee . .1r: inteti The • , .0 4 aye ..& " . the elect channel the Inch 2 0, wic k o "" ' - 'n putt P it )I^.. tow Ws. a c -•"" F o cell,T , ally .. " . . to d kchi branches of the screw., have Just l a, . e d porter, 2, , i tre e l a u l thorisation of the Minister of War to e , r the —all fur wi Roman army, which le now helot; an organised. ground—ac i, d.7.m . ... . .. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY ZOLLVEILEIN. BERLIN, Jvi.v 7. The Zeit, which generally derives its information from official sources, announces that the Austrian government has actually undertaken to guarantee to members of the Darmstadt coalition a customs reve nue, equal to what they have hitherto received, in case they secede from the Zollverein and join Austria. It is further stated, that the southern states have concluded a treaty with Austria for the appointment of joint consuls. If these two reports are true, they are of decisive import. It cannot be conceived that governments should make arrangements for having their mercantile policy represented by Austrian agents, unless they had finally resolved to quit the customs union with Prussia; nor could they take • more effective step for frustrating all attempts at prolonging the Zollverein. SWITZERLAND. The central committee of the Patriotic Association assembled on the 4th at Rochefort, have adopted a proposition declaring that the people of Neufchatel "desire to remain Swiss, and nothing but Swiss," and protest against any attempts to repudiate the revolution of March and its results, regarding such attempts u criminal and anti-national. The signers of this declaration, received with a view to its adop tion at the assemblies which were to take place at Vahusgia, declare that they will, by all means is their power, make it respected. THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS. The following is an extract from a letter just re "wired in Southampton : " Ashby, Geelong, Victoria, Feb. 23, 1832. " I promised to write to you immediately upon landing. Business has hitherto prevented. You will read this with the greatest pleasure as I can now give you the experience of a few weeks. We landed Jan. 2, 1852. The steamer came alongside the vessel. Four families chose this plate as their residence. I make but little doubt you would like to know something of the second town se regards its im portance in this supposed semi-barbarous region. I assure yoga, if it be barbarous, it is the fault of the English them selves. There are no natives to trouble us. I have sees but about half-a-dozen since I came hero. There 'soothing in them to excite your fear, but • great deal to excite pity. Poor, miserable, squalid-looking creatures, who generally beg for bread. There are some few civilised, and labouring in various capacities. "The town of Geelong is seated on a bay (as that:acme, I suppose, as the world can boast), and extending about two miles inland, all the distance a Slight hill, with • church at the top. I cenacit describe to you anything halloo heauti fully pistaresque, as you stand at the top of either of the streets, and look down upon the silvery bosom of this extensity bay. The land on tee aides is prettily wood e d hill and dale, the other aide extending onward to the great ocean—even till it reaches yourselves; and often do I stand at the front door, look at it, and think we are only seventy-five days apart. We have a very large market square, with well built streets at the four corners. There are many more streets, but all wide and well built. Indeed, the town is well laid out, and bids fair to rival Little England and Liverpool. The shops are very large, even for home ; but here they have such immense stocks. All are doing well, conse quently can afford to consume largely. Taking the sub urbo—Ashby, Little Scotland, Newtown, die., I should think the population to be about 40,000 or 60,000, that is when all are at their houses . , bet now most of the gentle men are at the diggings. It would take an abler pen than mine to convey even • faint idea of proceedings here. The fact is, everybody—old and young, rich and poor, learned and illiterate—are all off to the diggings. A church of England minister thought he should be justified in quitting his ministerial functions and going. His first efforts were crowned with success; the first pleas he dug weighed 71bs. Two men came down last week with 901 b. of the precious metal. Another with 481 be; this I weighed for him. Through it all business is stopped. Though all do not realise such immense sums, all do well. A young man, whom I intended returning with, told me last week he would not take 4001. a year from any house, for he had worked a fortnight and a day and had got 2101. The same person had been before, and when he came down he bought a house for 2001., and hei is letting it for 601. per annum. All buildings are stopped. I grieve to look at them, though I rejoice that the time has at length arrived when the half-starved poor mechanic can gain something to raise him above future want. What is Ragland doing that she is not sending oat her thousands of able-bodied men and women crowding the workhouses ? Tell the poor, both men and women, to get out bow they can, but come. I heard it oontldintly asserted by some gentlemen acquainted with those matters that 100,000 could be immediately employed at &highly remunerative wages, though not at the present enormous ones. I hear there are but three good millers in the colony ; they are off to the diggings. The consequence is, the proprietors of one of the largest mills declares he has lost 2,0001., and that now he shall close. I will give you the present rate of wages so far as I can remember them. A porter to take out goods, per week ; a man to wash bottles at • spirit stole, V. per week ; driving a bullock team, 51. per week ; shoemakers, to, and 10s. a day ; carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, de., 20e. per day, and then it Is • favour ; washing, 6 S. a dogma, 34. in the rough. If • woman goes out, she has 6,. a day and her board!. No servants to be had. A nurse has Si. and 61. per month ; making a dress, 10s. ; • cotton one, Ts. 0.1. Provisions : meat is cheap enough, though it has been half its present price. Threepence per lb. for any part; 'beeps' heads and fry given to the doge. You can buy • good bullock IFIO Court. OSBORNE, FRIDAY. Her Majesty and Prince Albert drove oat in the grounds yesterday. The royal children els° took their usual exercise. The Hon. Colonel and Mrs Phipps had the honour of being invited to dinner. The Prussian Minister tranneted businese yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-o ffi ce from the Governor of the Gold Coast. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the governors of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. (Prom lan ahrtit's Gazette.) FORLION-OFFICE, JULY B.—Tho Queen has been pleased to approve of hi Louis Pranpois `Semis as Causal at Sydney for the French republic. - Cnowu-orewn.—Members returned to nerve in the Parliament muuntoned to be holden at Westminster on Friday, the 20th day of August, 1852.—July 8: Town of Neweastle-upon-Tyne.—John Isnwick Burgoyne Blackett, of Wilma, in the county of Northumberland, Esq.; Tho mas Emerson Reviler's, of Lincoln's-inn. fields, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.— July 9 : Town of Berwick-upon- Tweed.—Matthew Forster, of Bellaire, Hampstead, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.; John Stapleton, of South Audley-street in the county of Middlesex, Esq.—City of York: John George Smyth, of Heath-hall, Wakefield, in the county of York. Esq.; William kftirdaunt Edward Milner, of No. 75, Eaton-place, in the county of Middle sex, Esq.—City of Chester : Hugh Lupus, Earl Grosvenor ; the Hon. William Owen Stanley. WAR-OFFICE, Jwt. 9. 2nd Rest. or Lk Oder—H. W. Lau loses, scat., to be comet sad sab.lirat, by rm., vim Lyon, prom. tad Drag. Ode. —J. Do Huai UNADWiciL, gent., to be oar., b led Drip. prom. Geo.—A. bum, gent., to be ear., by pot., viceTlCtrer bottom, 7th Drag. Oth.—P. WiTeIMOTON, gent to be comet, by per., Tier Haan, prom. 4th Light Ural.—lL N. 0. 'thorn, gent. to be cornet, by par., vise Weir, app. to the 6th Dregs. 7th Llght . apa.—W. H. Nn roes, gent to be corset, by par., vice the Ham J. de V. T. W. Viruses, prom. Ilk Light Dregs.—A. & Joan, gent. to be cornet, by par., vice Mew. 10th ard a ruaL lit Dap.—LiD. L ut, gent. to be cruet, by par., vies Baker, app. to the Ight Drgs. lath L. Dress. ft --J li . C. MST, lint,, to be me., by par., Moe Watson, qp. to 17th U. Dregs. 17th L. Drsgs.—H. 1.. Pores, geol., to be oor., by par.; Ur 0. 11. Line. Bart, to be ear .17 per Tire Cater, irbo MI6 IA (or Grenadier) Bast. .00e... —C.H. Teases, goat., to be me. mad lieut., by par, vice Menet, pros. let J. YAKS, gent , to be One, by par, rim Smart, prom ; Ont. Cadet Philip 0. Comm, how the W. Mil. Cot, to be met, without par., vice Peer, app. to 64th F. 4th F.—Cept. 0. PAILLIT, trues IL.p. smut., to be coot., replying the chlferease, Mee ll'Andrew, who emelt; Lieut. O. L Tampi c o! cops, be pt„ by par, Moe Parlby, who rats.; Eno sad Adj. T. Anon to be that, ly par., ors Ileoloson; Ens. H. Bosom to be bout, without par. ; C. Emus, gent., to be me., by put.; J. P. B. Forma gent., to be Mae . by par, Tim Bader, prom. la 71h F. 9th F.—Eas. B. Cowie to be brat , by par. Moe King , who yet.; J. LO. 11Avaalguld, seal., to be Me., by lair., Moe Worm, om. 7th F.—Lbut. .1. D. Vezina to be apt., by Moe the Hon. pr W. PAKIAINAN, WON. to vs =al/. Iliajorily, by per., pm. • Er. H. W. P. 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Pommy. et tbe 4th T., to be mai in the Array; BrovAlid. 0. Tamar, 4. to be lisat.eoL la m ere my Mr. J. Bass, &pearly of dr Ma Malt Miser .1 pee Via Moose% Load, to bath Om best and teesmeary rook ot eapealli In that 'okay slab so Ilmosatmorm —Bros. vitt )rector, upon h..p. 10th F., has bum permetted s mire dram the ormai a tte of a majority, be bolas Moat to beam s Fattier Ft ADMIRALTY lets 1. Chirp or IL Ilsrlasm—Osol. Goal Wr. Pima, to been. lieut.; Gest. Cadet H. L. House= to be see. lieut. ALLEGED MURDER AT LIVERPOOL BY POLICE OFFICERS. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, an inquest, which had been adjourned from the previous day, in order to allow of a pose mortess examination, was resumed before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner for Liverpool, on view of the body of Margaret Baines, a married woman, about 35 years of age, who resided with her husba n d an d mother-in-law in No. 6 court, Grosvenor-street whose death was mused, ae alleged, by injuries indict e d upon the deceased by a police constable. The officer against whom the accusation was brought is police constable filaney (175), who is also said to have violently assaulted two other persona in the house in which deceased lived, one of whom, the deceased' s mother-fa-law, was seriously i n jured by the blows she re ceived. Other pollee constables are accused of having used unnecessary, or rather wanton violence. From the evidence of Ellen Baines, who is married to • cousin of the deceased's husband, the following appeared to be the facts of tie ease About I o'clock on Tuesday evening a man named Pat rick Hughes, who had been standing at the end of the court in Circevener-street, came running up towards the house in which he lodged, pursued by several policemen. This house was occupied by the deceased's husband, Baines. Hughes was pursued up stairs by 801210 of the policemen, who struck him. They then came down stain; the lower room by this time was occupied by several persons, among whom were Margaret Baines, the wife of the occupier of the tenement, and her husband's mother, an old woman, seventy years of age. Whether this old creature said anything calcu lated to provoke the irascible temperament of the un welcome intruders is not certain—her own statement goes to repudiate the suspicion —but one of the men felled the poor creature to the ground with one blow of his iron-shod stick. Margaret Haloes, on seeing her rela tive stretched senseless and bleeding on the ground, ex claimed, " Oh, he has killed my mother ! " Ile retorted, " Yes, and I will kill you." He carried out his determi nation by instantly kicking the younger woman, who was in the last stage of pregnancy, on the body. The result of this was the death of the poor woman, which occurred about ten minutes after receiving the ill-usage. Three witnesses corroborated the foregoing statement in every important particular. The deceased's husband, in reply to • question from the Coroner, said he had no witnemes to bring forward. He was working away from home when the deceased was killed. Police constable Money (the accused, who was in custody by order of the coroner), said the reason why the witnesses had ider.tified him was that his inspector had ordered him to be at the station-house at 10 o'clock next morals,. and all the witnesses came exactly at 10 o'clock, and all of them said he we. the man. They had previously seen him by gaslight, and had passed him six or seven times without Identifying him. Vhen he was brought up before ho did not know what was the matter. Some of the aecuami T sbMtitet constables deposed that Blaney did not strike the deoesocid, and a great deal of con flicting testimony wao adducexl. The consideration of the case was then adjourned till this day. JULY 10, 1852. ► TILE ELECTIONS. • : IVESTMINOTER. THE OFFICIAL 11111CLAItATION. c e d v, in the preggie of all the candidates an ask:eatable gathering of the electors, Mr. Smedley, the • iff of Westminster, concluded the business of the Weeminster election, by making the official announce. ment of the molt. lie stated that the numbers pulled by the respective candidates had been, for Sir John Villiers Shelley Fir De Lacy Evans 3.741 Lord Maidstone William Coningham, Esq 1,716 lie then decland Bit John:Val . :fere Shelley and Sir De Lacy Evans duly returned as citizens to serve in the new pulls ment fur the City of Westminster. He added that he was much indebted to the several candidates and their friends for the assistance they had given him in his arduous duties, and to the electors and non-electors for the good humour with which the proceedings had been conducted. Sir John Shelley, Sir De L. Evans, Lord Maidstone, and Mr. Casingbass having addressed the electors, Sir J. SHILLIT proposed and Sir De L. EVANS seconded a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff, which, having been duly acknowledged, the proceedings terminated. --- MIDDLESEX. - -------- Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. 11. Osborne met another section of their constituents yesterday at the Globe Tavern, Mile-end. Each addressed the meeting, and alter some unimportant questioning of the candidates by persons in the body of the hall, A resolution was passed expressive of confidence in the noble lord and Mr. Osborne, and the meeting then broke up. MANCHESTER. The official declaration of the poll was made yes terday morning at 11 o'clock, by Mr. Barnes, the mayor, from the front of the Town Hall. Misnumbers were: Mr. Gibson Mr. Bright Mr. Loch Captain Denman 3,969 This result was received with immense cheering, and, in fact, the public feeling is ihveser of the new members had been most enthusiasts@ ea the previous day during the con test. The excitement was most intense throughout the day, but the hest temper was displayed. To he sure, the legal gentlemen displayed an amount of seal on behalf of the losing candidates, which was rather alarming, and succeeded in carrying two electors before the magistrates for persona tion, who turned out to be quite innocent, and to whom they have had to make compensation, paying to each 5/. The majority might have been considerably increased, but great numbers of the electors excused themselves from voting in the afternoon on the ground that it was sufficiently large. The attorneys on the conservative side have sent the following notice to the mayor, and affect - to treat the election as vitiated by the circumstance there alluded to: "To the returning officer of the borough of Manchester. —We, the undersigned, being two persons qualified to vote at the present election for the borough of Manchester, do hereby give you notice that such election is null and void, the polling not having commenced in Ardwick ward at eight o'clock in the forenoon of the day neat following the day fixed for the election, and for other good and sufficient reasons. And we hereby require and demand of you not to make any declaration of the result of such election, nor to execute or permit to be executed, under the common seal of the said borough or otherwise, howsoever, any indenture of return to the precept of the Sheriff for such election.— Dated the 9th day of .1 uIT, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.— STEPHEN HILLIS ; T. I lIICIVAL BI:NTINO." Mr. Bunting is the attorney who objected to Mr. Mark Philips nominating one of the candidates ; and altogether it would appear that the friends of the beaten candidates are disposed to submit with a bad grace to their fate; but it is probable they will hardly prosecute an objection so fri volous as the above, after expending a sum, currently re ported at about 6,0001., on this contest, with so little justification as shown by the result. Mr. Gibeon's majority at the last contest was only 460, whilst this year it has been increased to 1,498, and Mr. Bright's majority is 1,211—a fact which speaks for the increasing popularity of the hon. gentlemen. Supposing there were no plumper', there will have been 9,735 voters at the contest ; but, as it is known that many persons did plump, we may safely say, perhaps, that the number will fully reach 10,000, out of a consti tuency of about 12,000 persons, allowing for deaths and diequalifications. The point upon which the election is declared by Mews. Loch and Denman's legal agents to be vitiated is this: The mayor's representative at the Ardwick polling booth (Mr. Samuel Fletcher, attorney) arrived at the booth in a state which totally incapacitated him for exercising the functions with which he was invested, and the proceedings had to be delayed whilst his worship ap pointed another deputy. If a political partisan (appointed to represent the returning officer) by getting intoxicated could render an election void, we should have no end to trickery of this kind ; but it is believed that the objection is not souad in law, and will not produce the result desired. But if the objectiou should prove to be good in law, the only effect would be to disgust the public, and the result of another contest would scat the present members by a larger majority than ever. CARLISLE. At the close of the poll on Thursday, at 4 o'clock, • great crowd had assembled in the market-place in front of the hustings, and aloud cheer was raised as the clock struck the hour. Immediately after Sir J. Graham, Mr. Ferguson, and their friends, with music playing and blue banners fly ing, came in procession to the hustings, where they took up the same position which they occupied at the nomination. Mr. Hodgson did not appear. The crowd generally, as on the day . of nomination, behaved with great propriety. A few nosy fellows caused some interruption when Sir J. Graham began to speak ; but after a slight scuffle they were either ejected from the crowd or remained silent, and perfect order prevailed until the close of the proceedings. The MATOU stated that the number of votes polled for the respective candidates up to 4 o'clock was as follows: Sir J. Graham Mr. Ferguson 512 Mr. Hodgson 419 He then declared the two first gentlemen duly elected. (Vociferous cheering.) Sir J. GRAHAM presented himself amid great spnlsuse. After some observations, which we could net hear, owing to the interruption previously alluded to, he proceeded towpeak as follows :—I thought that our proceedings here had al most become ridiculous; we grandees on the hustings stood so much on form and ceremony, and hesitated so much as to who was to be first and to begin. (Laughter.) But the electors of Carlisle are sensible men. They make short work of these matters. They despise those forms and cere monies, and they have decided for themselves who shall be first sand who shall be last. (Great cheering.) I am glad to see that the blue flag reign. again triumphant in :Carlisle. (Applause.) There can he no mistake about it now. (Cheers.) Tho yellow flag was hoisted in Carlisle yesterday for the first time these 15 or 20 years, and this day it has met its fate. Gentlemen, I have fought many battles under that old blue flag, and I never yet fought under it without being victorious. (Cheers.) Once I deserted it ; I paid the penalty of my desertion. I was easily beaten. Never did I fight under it and sustain defeat. Never did I win a victory under it in which I so much re joice as the present. (Continued cheers.) I hold this to be—to adopt the language of our opponents—" a sponta neous meeting." Which is the " devoted crew ?" Was it the crew below ? If so, the majority have expelled it from the meeting. If the devoted crew be the gentle men now on the hustings, to them I owe obligations which I can never express. (Cheers.) Liverpool may have failed in its duty—Preston may have uttered a doubtful voice, but Carlisle, on the present occasion, leads the way a. a great manufacturing( and commercial popula tiooland proclaims to England and to the world that Der T its shall not be the rulers of this country. (Great cheering.) We could not boast of great aristocratic support on the hustings yesterday, but I placed my reliance on the middle clines of Carlisle—l placed my reliance on the working classes of Carlisle, and they have not deceived me. (Cheers.) At the commencement of the contest Mr. Fer guson and I declared that we would not canvass a vote—we would not have a;single runner—we would not spend a far thing that the law did not allow. We trusted to your un• bought exertions. We felt that our cause, being the cause of the people, was safe in your hands, and we have not been disappointed. (Cheers.) I have now the honour of being returned for a greet commercial city. This commer cial city is but part of • great commercial empire, and the duties which now devolve on me and my colleague, are of the most sacred and onerous charaver. To consider in legislation what is due to the interests of a great com munity like that of Great Britain and Ireland, is, in itself, no light task. But though you are part of a great commercial empire, the nation which we inhabit forms part of a still greater dominion—e dominion extending throughout the whole civilised world—throughout the eastern and western hemispheres—for on the dominions of our Queen the sun never sets. (Cheers.) Think how hard the task of legislating for such multifarious interests. To legislate honestly for such interest' is a noble task ; to legislate sumeiesfully is, indeed, a difficult one. In undertaking so onerous a duty the encouragement of such an assembly u that which I have now the honour of addressing is the best reward a public man can receive. (Cheers.) Those who have exerted themselves to secure this election have had no object to justify except the public object of seeing returned for Csrlisle mem bers who, in the main, embody their opinions, and are likely to give effect to them. (Applause.) They had no interested motives—they ean have no interested motives. On account of their seal, so honourable and so generous, they are entitled to my warm and constant gratitude. This I can say, that in the endeavour to discharge my duty as your representative, the obligation you have conferred upon me shall never be obliterated from my memory. If my life be preserved, I hope to meet you again, and that, so meeting, you will be pleased and satisfied with the conduct I shall adopt, and that you will believe you have neither an ungrateful nor an inefficient member. (Enthusiastic cheering Mr. briefly expressed his thanks for the honour conferred upon him. A vote of thanks having been given to the Mayor, The successful candidates and their principal supporters then walked in procession five times round the market cross, after which they retired to the committee-room, at the coffee-house. Here a crowd assembled, and called for Sir J. Graham. Sir J. GRAHAM presented himself at one of the win dows and said—Gentlemen, one word at parting. You were told yesterday at the huetings that it you returned me as your representative, Carlisle would be en asylum for the destitute. Better that than • hospital fur the incurable. (Shouts of applause and laughter.) I think we applied • pretty strong dose this morning ; I do not know whether it will Dave the desired effect upon our *dyer. series, but if not they must be incurable ind. ed. (Laughter.) As for this asylum, this refuge fur the destitute, after all my wandering, I am happy to lie Inc. nt last. (Applause.) I feel myself at home among 3ou. Your kindness has reeinsipenwil mu fur many sorrows end disappointments, and to he wire ag du on cordial good terms with Carliale neighbours mid friends is must gratifying to my heart. (Continued cheering.) l e the simple language of truth I say tram the bottom of my heart I thank you. (Applause.) We have been c „. gaged in a severe struggle, but it has been eon:Tutted with signal good humour. And now allow me to reconww nd that we should end as we began ; Eugli-hinen one in pnal • humour, and are not int:Hued to bear to roust resentin.nt. I know I now have many kind friends among you; I 15 4 ,1 t I could say—l fear I caunot—that I have no 4.110Mi1. in Carlisle; but if I have an enemy, I canon my part unfeigns edly declare that I hear enmity to no man on account of anything that has passed. (Cheers.) lam the representa tive of the whole people of Carlisle—(cheer.)—and heine forth it shall not be known to me who were my supporters and who my opponents. I have a great duty to perform towards you, and, to the utmost of my a bilit y, I will repre sent the whole of this community. (Great cheering.) The crowd then dispersed. WOLVF:RHAMPTON. The nomination and election for this borough took 1114C0 yesterday . , and resulted in the return of the 01,1 rm bets, Mews. inlets and Tburnely, who have sat for the borough since 1831 E. B. Diumack, Esq., nominated, and Mr. Alderman WA LK vAt seconded, the lion. Charles hilt:ern Villiers, and Joseen WALKER. Esq., ex.mayur of the borough, no minated, and Mr. Bew aecorded, Mr. Thoruley. No other candidate having hewn proposed, the Mayor drelarevl the llou. Charles I'. Villiers and Thomas Thornily, Esq., duly elected to represent the burgesses of Welver hampton in parliament. Mr. VILLIERS advanced to the front of the tinging% immediately and was received with much cheering. Ile said when 1 first went into the Houseful Commons the conutat it was disgusting. You might attack the crown--the I ,Jli.ti tation—tven the bench of bishops— anyth unit you 13,..1 so that you did nut mention tree trade. If you did, then the row began. (Laughter.) Thin you were de. dared to be a bad subject, a repubiican, a leveller, and indeed all sorts of bad things. (Renewed laughter.) You had to endure the advice of all kinds of friends, who said, " Don't meddle with that question (meaning free trade), if you meddle with it, you will never get on in life, you will ruin yourself." Now, I wan glad to hear that sort of thing, for it determined me to: persevere. (Cheer.) It was anything but pleasant work at that time, I assure you. (lieu.) I remember my old friend, Mr. Fryer, your first member, said to me the first time 1 came litre—" Have you the courage to go on ? To persevere year after year, and not only to do that, but to move for unconditional repeal (Cheers.) I replied that I knew a great sacrifice was re. quired, but that I knew the thing was right in principle, and that I would try. (Cheers.) Anil I din so. (lieu.) Fur the first six years, you know, after that time, our friends, as they were called, were in power, but they did not by any means like this question of free trade. (Ilear.) Lord Melbourne said it was madness to talk of such a. thing, and other members of his party said it was a mischievous principle to advocate. (Hear.) Well, gentlemen, I kept my NO miss to your old friend—that genuine free , trailer—Mr. Fryer. f or years I struggled, annually for nine years in succession I moved for a repeal of these lawn unsuc cessfully ; but look at the result. Can you appre ciate my satisfaction and my gladness of helero I who struggled so long and so unsuccessfully ID the face of such bitter opposition—such lukewarm support? No, gentlemen, none can appreciate or enter into the satisfac tion I. feel unless they had gone through that struggle under similar circumstances ; and not all the places, nor all the advantages I might have obtained, would have induced me to forego that which I now enjoy. (Cheers.) Why, gentle. men, at last the whole country has come round to the views you entertained at the time you first elected me. (Hear.) Look at the state of the country now, and cut back your mind to what it was in 1842—that most hurrib'e year of suffering. (Hear.) You witnessed it here, gentle men. Poor-houses full ; prisons full ; hospitals full ; the road-sides all occupied; the school-houses deserted; the workshops empty ; aye, gentlemen, the suffering and the destitution were such that the honest artisan had not even the decent apparel to appear in the house of prayer. (Hear.) There had been three bad harvests, and you had given notice to all countries not to grow food for you. But that sad year helped us to victory; it converted Sir Robert l'eel. That great man looked on the sad events and the misery of that year, and he said, "there must be no more years of famine in England." In :848 there was famine again in the land, and then Sir Robert Peel surrendered the garri son. it he ever had thought that the principle of pro ' tection ought to be maintained he now gave it up at once. (Hear.) There was only one man in his cabinet who dis sented ; that man, gentlemen, was the Earl of Derby. (Hear.) But he was not in a very responsible office then ; he is now, and ve7 anxious, I have no doubt, that the principle of protection should be given up. (Cheers.) Talk no more of prosperity under protection • why in 1412 the declared value of our manufacturing products exported was forty-six millions, last year the value was seventy-four mil lions; and our imports have increased in like proportion. (Hear.) Ah ! but say the Derbyites, the increase of pau perism is frightful. (Laughter.) Well, gentlemen, in 1834 the poor rats amounted to Bs. fi d. in the pound ; last year it was only ss. 4d. (Hear.) Last year the number of able-bodied paupers applying for relief was shove 17,000 less than in 1834, though the population has increased two millions. (Hear.) Why, it's like flying in the face of heaven to say that prosperity does not exist when we see it ever i day. And now what s all this turmoil in the country about? Why simply that the constituencies of England may say whether they will go back to that blessed year 1842. and to the system then in force. (Hear.) Was there ever such an absurdity ? It's bkc asking a man who had been long ill whether he was tired of improved health. (Cheers and laughter.) Yon know, gentlemen, that as soon as the Derby administration came into office I put a certain mo tion relative to free trade on the paper ; well, I didn't go on with it, because it was at once acknowledged that the parliament wu in a majority for free trade; sad now you know Lord Derby has what is called "gone to the country" on the question. Lord Derhy would do well to con- suit the women of England on this question—(hear, hear)—to ask them what is the state of the cup board. I think there is little doubt of the reply. A noble lord (Lord Maidstone), recently a candidate tor the representation of the borough of Newark, went down there, and I believe the honest women there threatened to scratch his lordship's eyes out unless his lordship was a free trader. (Laughter.) Lord Maidstone is said to have gone back to Lord Derby, and advised him to give up ' protection. And the party have• rather now mode , fled the thing; they say its not protection they want but " the constitution. " (Roars of laughter.) Fur myself, gentlemen, thanking you again most sin cerely for this renewal of your confidence, I have only, in conclusion, to say, that I go to parliament unfettered in any way ; thoroughly in dependent—under an obligation to no man unaided by anything but your good opinion, and that which I value even more—the conviction of having laboured successfully under disadvantageous circumstances, in a cause the object of which was to add to the comforts of the people. (Cheers.) When I return to you, gentlemen. I hope you will have occasion to find as little fault with me as you have at this election. (Cheers.) Mr. THORNELY very briefly addressed the electors, thanking them amidst much cheering for the renewed proof of their confidence. A procesaion wu then formed, and the hon. gentlemen were accompanied hack to the Swan Hotel. The clectori gave them a hearty cheering at parting. MIDHURST. This election took place yesterday. Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary, who was proposed by Mr. T. A. Davis, and seconded by Mr. Hasler IloHist, said that, whether in office or out of office, he assured them he would do the best he could to serve the interest of the Queen. (Applause.) This was the fourth time within seven years, when they first engaged him to serve as their representative in parlia ment, and he felt hound to give them en account of his stewardship, and also what they might expert of him in future. His friend Mr. Monist told them just now that the only point on which in his address he had not been so specific as he (Mr. 110111 st) could have wished, was that which had been called, erroneously he thought, the free trade system. It had not been his habit, and never should be, to reserve from his constituents his honest opinions. (Applause.) If they agreed with him, he should expect their support ; but if they did not agree with him, he was sure they would not entertain any hostile feeling towards him in that respect. During the seven years that he had had the honour of being their representative it took them back to a most important period. Seven years ago, in 1846, was first commenced the new system which had agitated the country from that time to this. In the year 1846 he was sent by them to parliament, when the conser vative party was completely broken up by the conduct of those who had originally formed it, when the principles which had brought that party into power were abandoned and given up, and ail its leaders, only excepting use, and that one was, at the present time, the head of her Ma jesty'. government—(applause) the one faithful only among the faithless who had adhered to the policy that had brought them into power, and which had thrown the whigs from office in 1841. (Cheers.) The conserva tive party being broken up, to whom could he look, or in whom could he trust ? All confidence in public men was broken, and any person who was then sent to parliament, for the first time, could do nothing but examine ter himself and judge for hinise:f, which line of volley was the best for the country, or which line of policy, upon the whole, it would be his duty to follow. There were two policies pro minently before them on that occasion. There was the policy of 11442, supported by the whole conservative party, and the policy of 1816, which ergs supported by only a por tion of it. Ile pointed to that act, because he thought that the main distinction between those two policies hail never been properly or su ffi ciently adverted to. That policy was founded on commercial freedom. It was at that time ad mitted and argued that commercial freedom ought to be the principle upon which this country should he governed, so far, at least, as they could have that freedom in a highly taxed, highly cultivated, and in a highly artificial state of society. Now, it was not so easy a thing, 10 Path a state of society, to have abstractedly free tt10.:.., but they had to consider the application of that system in reference to all the interests which were, or which might be, affected by it. Now, by the policy of 1842, there was a main and broad dis• tinetion between that policy and the policy of 1816. By the policy of 1642 all prohibitory duties were entirely taken away. By that policy, however, small duties were kept 1 1