The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

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" WHAT have I done to these Parisians?" the EXPZIIOI is said to have exclaimed the other day when the result of the metropolitan elections was brought to him; "if there is a city in the world that ought to be attached to a name, it is Paris to that of BONAPAZTE." Paris, however, is not grate ful; and, although its educated classes, these who arc not Legitimists, have generally abstained from the vote, nevertheless the very shopkeeper is more anxious to give the Government a lemon (that is the word) than extend to it a blind support. One is sorry to be obliged to confess that this repugnance felt by the Parisian trader to his Government, is less the result of en attachment to liberty and to the representative system, than of a disgust at the shameful way in which high functionaries have enriched themselves and gorged their families with gold at the expense of the State and of the public. But, whatever the remota, this fact, at least, is manifest to Frenchmen, that the urban population throughout France is hostile to the present system of government. The Parisian elections speak for themselves. Five members of the extreme and anti dynastic opposition returned in a city full of func tionaries and dependents of the Government consti tute evidence that cannot be gainsaid. The Prefect of Lille has been dismissed because he allowed an opposition candidate to be returned in that city. As 1 Si example of other localities, let the case of Limoges ' be stated. The Mayor wrote to 14.11strriDt, and asked him whether he would take the oaths if elected ? Hie reply was, that he would rather be hanged. And yet, notwithstanding such a reply, BASTIDE bad a majority of 1,500 amongst the town-electors of Limoges. He was swamped by the rural electors of the district, and thus appears in a minority. And so in many other cases. But the nature of these town elections is known to the French. And they can see that the Government is only upheld by the ignorance of the rustic districts. In these rustic districts themselves, the functiona ries have overdone the business. Prefects and Mayors had carte blanche to use every means to return the ministerial candidates, and they were certain to be dismissed if they failed. Under this strong pressure, certain Mayors and Prefects have done unwarranta ble things, and have in consequence disgusted even the ignorant rustics. In some districts the popula tion knew that they all voted for one candidate, where the result was that none but blank bulletins were found in the urn. If a word of reproach be added to the name on a voting ticket, it invalidates the vote. Such was frequently found to be the ease. In ono department the Government candi date was enabled to carry the day by a well-timed shower of hail. The Prefect declared that no district should get indemnity for the losses caused by the storm if it returned an oppositionist. Whatever may have been the truth, the belief was general throughout France, or at least throughout its peasantry, that the election of 1832 nu genuine, and the vote unfalaified. People paid small attention to such matters at that moment. But the tricks and the pressure, the persecution and the falsification, evident to every one in the present election, have created the general belief that an election by universal suffrage in France is a juggle, of which Mayors and Prefects have the key. It would, however, be wrong to construe this, es the EMPLROR, in the ejaculation we have recorded, seems inclined to construe it himself. The opposi tion shown to him by either townsfolk or peasant is b seality lees hostile and kes dangerous than the him by the Legitimists. Those support given to him by the Legitimists. Those who have been returned u members, and walk r arm in arm with the Imperial Government, do so merely in ceder to have an opportunity to betray and destroy it; whereas the shopkeeper and the humble voter, if he is to have a Monarch, would really pre- fer a BONAPARTE to any other ruler or any other family. Kt They are no enemies of Ntroxraf• 111., and have no wish to exchange hie rule for either legitimist absolutionor ultra-democratic violence. But they went more freedom and less favour. They are not at all obliged by that beautification of Paris, which has allowed its proprietors of houses to coalesce and triple their rents. And they are very inelig- mM to see Government interfere even in their pirate business and speculations. It is notorious flat, especially in provincial towns, discounts and pecuniary accommodation have been withheld by the Ranks from traders who have shown them- selves hostile to the Government. These are the kind of wrongs and the species of oppression which artefelt by the citizen class. theyclasa. A. achieve to the Prefects, theirPrefec they care nothing provided triumph or their task of the day. But, in triumph- ing, they injure irreparably the cause which they I • serve, and depreciate the Furintoa himselt in the eyes and the hearts of the French people. Having been thus severe on the manlier and split in which the French elections have been carried on, let us mention one or two things,for which the Rare- ', tot deserves credit. In the appeals made throughout the country on behalf of the Government and its candidates but little mention is made of that military l character and renown which the EMPEROR has re- acquired for France. The 'intention from this is the mere remarkable, aa it was really the most powerful plea that could be urged in favour of the Imperial palsy sad rale.. Tin oriato if Goveleamint THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1857. were, however. antidotes to employ, except moderately ad ipidoity. them aposals to that military fig and trigoomay m Aker to the natio, la mach mu this& ease, that the opposi ties anifiabas made 1/111 at it, and accused the Owromiamt of not following up Sebastopol by abeam Avoirlits. The Polosit Ckwormoent certainly deserves credit for preemeig se lamorrate a tone, and for on mast mosimio &relining to excite that military ardour in theftwilk people of which a NAroLxox is the legiti mate Iselity. Courage sad circumspection, indeed, Ina the *reign policy of the Imperial Government. W. wish we could see signs of the same foresight in skelisolic policy. The present elections plainly tell OM the existing system cannot have a long lease of pew, and that it may be overturned with the same midii and 1161111 which have attended the overthrow dhows prininents. We have no love for imp maim t we would prefer to see the liberties of Nemo peaceably developed; and should therefore eejdas to see NAPOLEON M. pmt himself right in doe with all claws of him subjects. IT wee with satisfaction that we inserted Lord SHAFTESBURY'S disclaimer of all responsibility for the scheme of transporting Negroes from West Africa to their West India estates, which ths depu tation he introduced to Lord PALMERSTON pripteed to the PREMIER, sad his disapproval of the prtjesi. It is an inconvenience of the power which Lied SHAFTESBURY has acquired over a certain section 111 the public, and of his connexion with Lord PALMER* SION, that his assistanos is sought by interests sad by persons who only partially acquaint him with their wishes and objects, and who, having induced him to act as Master of the Ceremonies in Piccadilly to an imposing deputation, convert his patiently and politease into an erguenentues ad hominess ia favour of a proposition which he never heard et before they slipped it into the plans for which they seek, through him, Lord PALMIRSTON'd support Cr adoption. This is exactly what the West India, interest have done on the present occasion. Under the piss of urging on the PREMIER increased exertions against the African Slave Trade, they induced Lord &inn sa- BURY to appear at their head, and to give ostensibly his sanction to a suggestion which, it adopted, would inevitably involve England in a new kind of Slave Trade. Having placed Lord SHAFTESBURY in this eminently false position, they affect to have received the assent of religious philanthropy and Exeter-hall Ile their project. And it is not until Lord Baormite mud the press have exposed the real tendency of that project that Lord SHAFTESBURY has an opportunity elknowing what it in tiet amounts to. Then be is open pealed to diesseociate himself from it ss " perilous ' to immality. This little episode in his career will, no doubt, infirm greater caution into Lord SuArres- BUM'S very natural desire to render his own popu larity useful to the Patniea. The term which Lord SHAVIEBBVIIT has app..d to the project is a very appropriate One. It is in deed "perilous;" so eminently "perilous" that than can be no excuse for its promulgation but ig norance or delusion. Just observe how the question has arisen. It is only within the last twelve I months that Cuba has revived the African Slave Trade. Previously the planters of that island had been chiefly engaged in procuring labour from the neighbonriog coasts of Yucatan and the distant ports of China. During the tints they were so occupied the African Slave Trade had almost en tirely ceased. Jamaica was then equally, perhaps even more, in want of labour. India was open to it ; so was China. The free coloured people of the United States were, and arc still, looking out for a new and better home. What efforts did Jamaica— did the West India body at home connected with Jamaica—make in that interval to pro- cure free labour, to undersell the Slave produce of Cuba, to render Slavery unprofitable, to keep the African Slave Trade permanently 'oppressed ? None at all. In the last annual report on the state of that island laid before Parliament, the Governor tells Mr. LABOUCHERE that not only had the plasters and proprietors allowed " a large body of hthemers" to leave the island to seek work and wages on the Panama Rsilway, but that " immigra tion/rem every quarter is entirely at a stand still." Thus we find that the very men who, now that sugar has risen in value, insist on the State sanc tioning a modified Slave Trade to procure them labour, were then unable or unwilling to find em ployment for the labour they possessed, and were taking no steps whatever to add to the labouring population of their island. But no sooner does Cuba revive the African Slave Trade than three very planters and proprietors combine to have Africa opened to them also. Now we quite admit that it is for the opponents of this proposition to show why Africa should not be opened to the British West ladies. To close Africa or any other part of the world to our Sugar Planters is a prohibition, and on general principles prohibitions are quite indefensible. What then are the objections to the British West Indies obtaining labour on the Western Coast of Africa ? For upwards of three centuries and a half that coast has been the seat of the Slave Trade; for that period Europe has taught and accustomed its chiefs to sell negroes ; and hitherto the only labour the tropical possessions of Europe have obtained thence has been by purchase. The chiefs and people think it no sin, no crime to sell each other for transport to than possessions. On the contrary, they ban always been ready and eager to supply a dental for purchase to any extent; they know no other I demand, and there is no reason to think or suppose that they will recognise or supply any other demand than for purchase. If we seek labour anywhere we gth ally obtain it on the terms which the country when we seek it imposes on us. Neither is there any inducement for Albion Neely and without purchase to emigrate. Lamar le not redundant or superabundant in any part of Africa with which we are acquainted. Population aawhare presses upon the means of subsistence that egie bier ever heard of. There is from their awes point of view no misery, no tyranny, us appwalka to escape from. Famine is unknown; area la me difficulty in living. There is ipso/anus, *an is barbarity, there is paganism, there are esamet leas evils as we thir.k ; there is, we know, the widest *old for improvement. But there is nothing that 'Simulates, nothing that impels the negro vales tatily to leave Africa. On the contrary, his igaro usaft prejudice, natural feeling, all tend to keep him at ham. Were it otherwise, there is little or no free labour freely and voluntarily to emigrate. Servitude in one form or other, though very different in all its degrees from West Indian slavery, characterises la bour generally in Negroland. It is the recognised status and condition of negro labour. To ask the chiefs gratuitously to part with their labour, to allow the labourers to emigrate without compensa tion, would appear to them as unreasonable as for us to ask our bakers and butchers to supply our tables with provisions without payment. To those who really know the Western Coast of Africa, the very suggestion le preposterous. Bat why not maks Sr twpwilsaat t Bsosase, we answer, it cannot be safely made. A demand for emigrants at Whydah, for example, would soon produce a supply of negroes at that port from the interior; they would be brought down by the old native slave dealers in hundreds and thousands; and, if the proper means were applied, the negro', would be made to go to all appearance voluntarily on shipboard. If they resisted, if they exhibited any appearance of compulsion, if they refused to go, their fete on their return to shore would be simple but certain. The persons who collected these negroes for exportation or emigration, call it which you please, would have to be remumvated; their remuneration would be per capita ; it migbt be small, it might he far less than the Portuguese or Spanish slave dealer would give ; but be it small or great, it ; would be a dealing in human flesh. It might not ho r the old, but it would be a new Slave Trade, so far as Africa was amerced. _ _ And who is it that has sought and proposed and achieved a Holy Alliance of Christendom against the African Slave Trade? Whose fleets have crossed the .-- ocean to repress it ; who has risked war, and hosti lity, and animosity; who has laid herself open to all kinds of imputations because of this policy ? Eng land. And is it for England, on the first pinch of dear sugar, to abandon and back out of, or even to risk this noblest claim to the world's applause? Already the press of the United States accepts the very suggestion as a recantation of what it is pleased to call our past error. Already the press of Madrid intimates that Spain will follow the example of France. Let other countries pursue what policy they please, that course we cannot restrain them from. But as for us, it would be the last and lowest degradation to involve ourselves again in such hypo critical iniquity. Wo say hypocritical, and we use the word advis edly. For not many years ago the hutch Govern ment sought to recruit at their own settlements on the Gold Coast, the military force which they keep up for the protection of Java, where there is no slavery. And what did Lord PALMERSTON then do? As Foreign Minister of England, be compelled the Cabinet of the Hague to abandon that scheme. How could he now sanction this West Indian project without being guilty of the basest hypocrisy ? As it is certain that the Money Market has of late been greatly affected by the flow of silver to the East, It may be useful to glance at the statistics of this movement for the six months terminating on the 30th June, 18.57. The subjoined table exhibits the aggregate shipments direct from Southampton by each fortnightly packet: Total. Jig. 4.... 12.041 .... £428,105 £430,196 867327 Fe „b. 4.... 18, 7, 386 .... 952,940 •••• 971, , 328 20.... 6,775 •••• 670,340 .... 677,116 liareb 4.... 8,231 .... 763,929 .... 792.160 20.... 11,264 .... 776,332 .... 727,587 A tk 4.... 2,0011 760.498 .... 788,684 „ 20.... 11.777 •••• yams .... 744,965 Kay 4.... 2,460 .... 618,091 661,151 20.... 2.128 .... 748,943 761,071 Jane 4.... 6,314 766,299 .... 761,613 „ 20.... 2,146 .... 1,140,471 .... 1,142,616 Total ....Weee 11410,369 £9,765,813 Our table proves bow 4111111111tially this is a silver movement, far the ismittanemin gold have amounted to scarcely one•hundredth part of the total. Suppos ing that the shipments in the second half of 18.57 be equal to those of the first half, the drain will have assumed the astonishing proportions of seventeen millions and a half sterling per annum, without taking into account the considerable addi tional sums despatched by way of Marseilles. Nor, judging merely from the figures before us, does the drain present any signs of slackening ; for,whilst the exports in the first quarter of 1857 were 4,025,7131., or at the rate of 10,102,8321. per annum, those in the second quarter reached 4,740,1001., at at the rate of 18,960,400/. per annum. Last year the magnitude of the shipments of silver east wards excited general remark, yet in the first six months of 1856 the total was not more than 3,100,6331., being 3,00,1801. less than in the cone spending period of the present year. In the corre sponding six months of 1348 the aggregate amount was only 2,614,8061. The increase is especially con spicuous in the remittances to China, which, in the six months now ended, has absorbed 2,726,7801., against only 937,2881. in the corresponding period of last year. These figures refer to China Proper. The other regions of the Fast have this year taken 0,039,0'271., against 4,183,3451. at the same date last year. Finally, in order to give the clearest possible idea of the rapidity of the general movement, we will summarise the aggregate Ivrea he the last seven years, viz.:—the total remitting*, from Eng land to the East were: In the whole of 1851 „ 1852 3,361,977 99 1863 „ 99 9/ 11 4 .5 5 1 1866 In tie Mt six months of 1867, 8,766,8131 , or at rate for the year of 17,531,626 The first question that naturally suggests itself when figures of this magnitude sea addend is, whence are such enormous quantities of silver derived P The answer is readily supplied. Great Britain, we know, does not supply them out of her stock of silver, for enormous though the amount of the silver coinage doubtless is, each piece of British silver money is merely a token, and worth, at the current price of silver, con siderably law than the sum which it professes to represent. But a different system prevails on the Continent,whcnce, accordingly, the Eastern demand for silver is mainly satisfied. From a statement which we have compiled with care, we find that the imports of silver into England by the Royal Mail Company's packets from the West Indies, Mexico, and the Isthmus, have amounted this year to abort 2,260,0001. sterling. Adding an estimated total of say half a million in silver drawn from other Trans- Atlantic sources, we arrive at a total supply of about two millions and three-quarters derived from other ' than Continental States. The shipments of silver alone, direct from Southampton, having amounted, in the first six months of 1857, as already stated, to 8,679,3691., it follows that nearly six millions sterling in silver must have been drawn from the stocks of that metal, either held by the banks on , the Continent or circulating as coin there. In all probability, and especially judging from the im =use quantities of French and Belgian five-frane pieces which are despatched to the East just as they are received from the Continent, it is chiefly upon the actual stock of Continental coinage that this I serious and never-ceasing draught is made. French official returns recently published throw • a striking light upon this remarkable movement. During the first five months of the present year the I exports of silver from France exceeded the imports • of that metal by about 5,900,0001. These exports were doubtless chiefly to England, and in this single feet we have evidence as to the source from which P is drawn the rest of the needful supplies of silver, • over and above those received from Amax. Nor • is this wholesale abstraction of silver from the Con ' tinent a temporary or evanescent process : it has I gone on for yeas, in a constantly increasing I ratio, and bids fair to continue so len se silver can be procured there, and is r *mated in the East. In 1864 the silver exported from France exceeded the imports by 6,348,0001. ; in 1833 by 7,888,0001., and in 1836 by 11,344,0001., making a total drain of 23,780,0001. in the short space of three years. Of this a portion went to the East, another large portion has been locked up in the National Rank of Vienna, awaiting the time— as yet apparently remote—when that institution may be in a position to resume cash payments; and the rest has probably been generally diffused over the Continent or worked up into various forms. As a matter of course, France received an equivalent, which was chiefly in gold. Indeed, according to the official returns, during the three years referred to, the imports of gold into France exceeded the exports of gold Arom that country by a total of 36.392,0001. Deducting from this sum '25,780,0001., being the mons of exports over imports of silver,there remains a balance of 10,612,0001., which the French economists seem disposed to regard us constituting • positive addition to the metallic wealth of the na tion. As a comparison of the returns of the Bank of France at the beginning and end of this period of three years exhibits a great decline, instead of an increase, in the Bank's stock of bullion, it is clear that the ten millions and a half alluded to has not been absorbed by that establishment. French writers, of an optimist frame of mind, allege that it is circulat ing in the shape of coin, and facilitating the enlarged commercial transactions of the nation. Other par ties are inclined to suspect that the amount in question has been principally boarded in the interior of the country, this process being stimulated by the sense of political insecurity which is still unfortu nately too rife, and the only legitimate means of obviating which—we mean freedom of political dis cussion—the Government still obstinately rejects. It would be hazardous to assert that the drain of silver to the East will prevent a reduction in the value of money, for very possibly this adverse element may be counteracted by other mare favour able influences; but it wiU certainly, if it continue, promote a good demand for money, divert large MUM* of gold to the Continent, and thus prevent a return to low rates of discount. Viewed in this light, the silver drain deserves the attentive con sideration of every one engaged in commercial pursuits. SEVERAL Election Committees having reported to the House of Commons the decisions to which they have come in the respective cases they were appointed to investigate, there need no longer be any reserve in dealing with the subject matters of inquiry, or discussing the principles on which their decisions appear to have been based. It is, in fact, of infinitely more importanoe that the public at large should have distinct ideas on the principal questions raised before these Parliamentary tribunals, than that any one or two individuals should win or lose the day in political litigation. We have always contended, indeed, that the measures for the repression of electoral offences ought to be kept as much as possible distinct from the mere trial of competitive rights as between au,didates. The one is a very grave and very important matter, in which every right-minded man in the community is concerned; the other is a very unim portant and frequently very ludicrous scramble to be uppermost between two or more reckless subordi nates of opposing parties. It is much to be desired that, whenever the present blundering and impotent law of elections shall be deliberately revised and reformed, this fundamental distinction may be kept in view. All the tentative legislation we have had of late years on the subject has failed, be cause it has persisted in attempting to attain both objects at once, and by one and the same method. Decisions wholly unjust and indefensible as between man and man were come to by Election Committees, not upon any real mis-measurement of proof, but because it was the fashion to talk loud about putting corruption down, and because, as the phrase ran, it was desirable to make a show of deter mination to the constituencies. Like all delusions and deliriums, this also seems to have died away. Practically it was found that the loud talk had us appreciable effect whatever on the hundreds of thousands who possess the right of voting in this country; that, in the main, things went on precisely as before ; and that in reality no result ensued from the blind and random system of punishing tho man who was not proved to be wrong instead of the man who was—save and except the strengthening of a wide-spread conviction that the whole affair was a lottery of the most discreditable kind. The tide of opinion is evidently changed, and we begin once more to return to the regions of fact and proof, in which the principles of equity and the practice of the law of evidence prey ail. The con flicting rights and claims of candidates are dealt with as' things which Committees are competent to deal with, and which they are bound to deal with calmly and judicially, irrespective of party interest or passing popularity. In the course of the last few days, five parliamentary trials have been conducted to their close in this spirit, and in every instance we believe the judgment pro nounced by the Committee will be fully ratified by public opinion. In the case of Tewkesbury no evi dence worthy of serious attention was adduced for the petitioner; and the case practically fell through in the course of the first day. In Marlborough, Rochdale, and Wareham the chief point to be de cided was that which we long since indicated aa the most important that could arise under the exist ing law—that, namely, of " constructive agency." By the Corrupt Practices Act every candidate is required to nominate in writing a legal agent through whom all his expenses are to be paid. All other agents appointed, sanctioned, or adopted by him are illegal, and for all their acts and deeds, hints and expressions, he is fairly and justly answerable before an Election Committee; and should any of the acts of such persons turn out to have been corrupt, the fact of their secret or col lusive appointment by the candidate is deservedly regarded as conclusive of guilty knowledge on his part. On the other hand, nothing could be more absurd or unjust than first to hear a series of allega tions of treating, bribery, or intimidation, and then to assume that the notoriety of partisanship fur niabed sufficient proof of agency—there being no other proof. Against this preposterous doctrine all the Committees we have named, and as far as their proceedings are known all the other Committees now sitting, have unanimously decided. They have uniformly ruled that when a voter is found to have received any gift or promise of advan tage in consideration for his vote, no matter how in considerable, or from whom, the vote is to be struck off the poll ; bat without distinct and positive proof of complicity, either before or after the fact, on the part of a candidate, whether sitting member or pc. titioner, they will not put him on his defence as per sonally or politically accountable. Any other de cision would in truth involve the monstrous comic- quence that any elector in any constituency at any election might, without sanction or authority from anyone, either through covert malice, or open folly, or ill-concealed itch for meddling, tamper with some two or three voters, and then become the master of the fate of the elec tion by simply attending the committee or join ing in the canvas' of the luckless object of his preference. If agency be • matter that may be criminally assumed or imputed without direct proof, then all care, forbearance, purity of intention, and abstinence from corrupt inducement on the part of candidates, is manifestly useless. All the prudential motives to purity would at once be at an end if the theory of constructive liability for self-appointed agents were to prevail ; and we do not know that in a lavish and luxurious ago we are exactly in a condition to dispense with that powerful class of aids to public virtue. In a word, all the essential distinctions between the reputation for political debauchery and that for politi cal virtue would be effaced. No man is so likely to become a reckless proselyte to the system of corruption as a man who, after a hard and honest fight on the opposite system, finds himself made a scapegoat and a victim by the folly, knavery, or treachery of those over whom he had no control. We think the Committees of the present Session show true wisdom and courage in setting their faces against the hypocrisy and injustice involved in the doctrine of constructive agency. With respect to the other prominent ques tion—that of "travelling expenses“—we perceive that they have so fur followed an analogous rule. The great majority of the judges decided, in "Coots v. Stave," that travelling expenses, if really expended as such, and not excessive in amount, were lawful. An appeal was argued yes terday before the House of Lords against this decision. How that supreme Court of Judicature may determine, it would be idle to discuss. But as the law now stands, it is clear that travelling charges can only be treated as matter of accusation when they are shown to have been colourable, or to have been mere excuses for bribery. In several in stances this latter state of facts has been made oat, and there (we allude more particularly to Cam bridge) the votes have been struck off the poll ; but the Committee have in no case proceeded thereupon to impute to the candidate, in the absence of positive proof, any guilty complicity in the act. BAIL DERBY dND THE,' (From the Rraveitier.) The licentiousness of the Preen is becoming abso lutely intolerable. The parliamentary reporters having /eb bed the Bishop of MAIO of his fair family repute, have thought to cover the rubbery by murdering the oratorical eier meter of Lord Derby. Lord Derby has been much worm meal than Lord Plunkett and detainer by the same hostile Wm& The libel on Lord Plunket, woo confined In the hare insertion on the Tory side of • Division List of a name radiant with the glory of liberal principles mid triumphs. It was nut Alleged that his lordship took a prominent pert in the debate; no speech was actually concocted for him, ranch less a speech alike deficient in taste, discretion, and veracity. A speech of this character, purporting to be • commentary upon our vindication of the bishop, bat, with inmedible daring, teen imputed to Lord Derby. It bears the marks of • libel and a forgery in every line. The clumsy fabricator had obviously not the slightest notion of the style which men of high station, leaders of parties, and masters of language, would employ upon occanons provoking causer., or even justify ing merrily. lie makes • common scold of one of the best public. *peahen of the day, and pats weeds into the mouth of an earl such as few bargemen of any semis of decency would utter. Only conceive an accomplished orator like the Earl of Derby, the great consenstive leader in the Howe of Lords, delivering himself with the following profusion and vile iteration of shrewieh phrase and epithet : "It was discre ditable and diegramful"—and In the next sentence, " it was disgusting and scandalous"—" • wretched libel"— "a disgusting article." Then hie lordship Is made to any that "he never rind a greener, more vulgar, or unprovoked attack." Tho forger of this vomit is a rare authority on a queens* of vulgarity. Ho memo to have thought it impute Bibb to make Lord Derby riot too much in such bootiee of elocution. "The vulgar and ettandaloue tone of the ankle pined it Lebow contempt ;" but not even this was enough; one flower of Billingegate more was indispumable ' to complete the bouquet, so the forgery goes on to wisest that "the writer be. shown entire ignorance Loth of the duties of a peer, and of the obligations of a gentleman and a men of Lonour:' Why, have is a cataract of foul language to remind one of Swift's City Shower." Mu of all bau. awl amen mos to tek wan tweet they att/w1 tr.. by 'bar resat and want. bemires. tree Latch.: walla all drew:NW at ins,. Deal ca.alat turnip toys rase twatatag coact the Baal. We should be sincerely sorry to trace • torrent like this to the decorous region of St. James's-square; but MR it it had proceeded from Lord Derby (which is quite impseillia) we should never think of paying him off in hie own teased% still lees shall we stoop to bendy words unfamiliar to ow pages with the author, whoever he may be, of this mama and palpable fabrication. But the language is not the only evidence that eatisfies that Lord Derby never spoke what is imputed to him. Would Lord Derby have been guilty of such an incredible indiscretion as to give his powerful aid to the circulation of • statement which he really believed to be a monstrous libel on a "harmless, inoffensive, and meritorious individual," — we quote the warm panegyric pronounced upon the Bishop of Team by his new political ounnexions. Ties song having hurt the bishop," it is happily A wned by the Globe, " his friends cry out for an encore." This weaken the blunder to be expected from the green wit and Tipperary gifts of a Lord Donoughreore, but a man el the Earl of Derby's shrewdness would never have com mitted it. It reminds one of the fable of the man who, offended by the repulsive countenance which he saw in the looking-glove, fell into • rugs and duelled it to pieces, but wan made sensible of his fully when a hundred mirrors, Meted of one, returned the same ill-favoured features. The strongest eircumetance, however, of all is that Lord Derby is represented as having said what is utterly untrue. We na►K !deeded, *a Lord Derby is feigned to have:de . - dared, " that the late Lord Plua k et owed everything to the liberal party." We mentioned his name with all the honour and veneration due to so illnetrions a man—• man whose just renown is not to be diminished even by Lord Dououghmore's encomiums. We never mid that Mr. Pion hot was advanced one inch above the merit of his splendid scream not only to his party but his country. His public fame is safer in our hand. than in therm where it ought to be best guarded. We epoko of honours and promotions of another kind, honours net a homage to genius, promotions not the guerdon of any known or recorded merit. We said, and we say again, that the name of Plunket is not in its proper place on any list of the Tory peerage. "A liberal; voted against the admission al the Jews to parliament." Such on the sarcastic blazoning of the Bishop of Teem in the pogo of Dod. We might well be excused from crediting such statements, were we to bear them even from Lord Derby's own lips. But enough, end wore than enough, of this spite ful absurdity. LIEUT. WILLOUGHBY Or THE BENGAL ARTIL LEKT.—The 11140)0 of this intrepid and devoted young soldier should be brought into prominence for the special admira tion of his countrymen. nippily he has been saved for tho present, and if the injuries Do sustained by the explosion of the powder magazine do not ultimately prove fetal, be will, we hope, receive some marked tribute to his courage from the government he serves. We believe that Lieutenant Willoughby owed his cadetehip--or rather, as we should now • write, the East India Company are indebted for his services —to the late Sir Charles Napier. The mother of Lieutenant Willoughby, a most exemplary and energetic person, was left with four fatherless children to struggle with a hard world. In the zenith of Sir Charles's popularity, after his return to England subsequent to the conquest of Scinde, ehe sought the General, told her tale, and entreated hie aid in putting her sons forward. Sir Charles, though s perfect stranger to Mrs. Willoughby, immediately applied for Addiscombe Cadetships for the two MOMS. Willoughby, and obtained them. They have done honour lathe General's kindness and their mother's solicitude. Each °Mow stands high in the estimation of the service, and one of them is now become celebrated for his rare valour and disinterestedness.— gig Court. The King of the lielgiane, with the Prineenn Charlotte of Belgium and the Count of Handers, arrived at Buckingham Palace at ten minute,' pet I o'clock yesterday afternoon, on • visit to her bilajnity. The King wits received at Dover on Thursday night by Lord Ryron (Lord in Waiting to the Queen). cud Captain the Hon. D. de Roo (Equerry to the Prince Consort), Ilia Majesty travelled yesterday morning by the South Eastern cud was met at the Ili it:Mayen Arms Station by the Prince Consort, acoowpaitiod by Prince Fiederick Wil liam of Prussia, and attended by Colonel F. 11. Seymour. Major-Gencral the Hon. Sir Ettwitrd Cut, K.C.11., Comp. troller of hie Majority's Household in thin tsouttry, was to waiting et the elation to receive the King. Seven' of the royal carrier% and four went in waiting, and conveyed the royal party to the lailtsce. Ilia Majesty was received at the grand entrance by the Quten, ussinipanied by the elder member, of the royal family, and attended by the Ladle. and Gentlemen Ia Welting. In attendance on the King and the Primes Charlotte were the Countess d'Yve do Bavoy, Madame de Bevil, Colonel dot Idoerkerke, Captain Burnell, and Dr. Koepl. The Queen held a eourt in the elternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Monlyeitsier were presented to her Mejeety. Tho duke and duchess were attended by M. de Cumyn. the Spanish charg(t The Queen woe by the Primo Consort et the reception, and woo atl ondod by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.. principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Prince of Hobenuollern Siegmaringen had an and!. cute of the Queen, to which hit wu introduced by the lied of Clarendon. — The Court attended by the Ltd and Groom in Walt Mg to the Queen and the Lord in Waiting to the Prise, The bake and Duchera de Mentponsier visited the HIM of the lielgiarul ymterday at Buckingham Pal.re. The Doke de Monti:rimier paid n midi to Prim:* Frederick William it Prussia. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen. The Prima. Consort presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. The cortiniimioners present were the Duke of Newcastle, the M 51441164 of Lamb:wile, Earl Stanhope, and the Right Don. Sir 11. li*U. The esendsry, Sir Charles EssiGke. attended. The meeting broke op at a quarter before six e, lock. His Royal lights= we. attended by Captain the lion. D. de Ital. . Her Msjesty gave last evening a concert at the Palace, at which the following vocalists assisted, Madams Novelle, Madame Alboni, Madame Begin, MdUe. Bally Madame Didik, Signors Giuglini, Garduni, Ronooni, lull, and Herr Formes. The invitttiona a!notintol to about 400. The Duchies of Kent, meonipained by the Prince of Leiningen, mired about hulf-pest aloe o'clock at Backings ham Palace. The Duchess of Combeidge, the Printer' Mary - , and the Dukeof Cambridge arrived, attended by their Indies and Gentlemen in Wait:ng. At ten o'clock the Queen entered the Saloon, which wee fitted up fur the cower'. The Queen was accompanied by the King of the Height% the Prince Connie', the Duelers of Kent, the Prillollll Royal, the Priaceua Charlotte of Belgium, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prineens Mary, the Duke of Cambridge. end Prince Freleriek William of Pruseia, and woo attended by the Great Officers of State and the Ladies and Cleatletua in Waiting. The following was the programme: Quactetto. •• TII r•riterul act' Meolorrw• Hoolo All. 01. !Crone" Cordon'. liactal. e Derr Formel oroa ran catiel . .... . . Kraut. • " Luria eh In pima; 1•0 . v . a• .. . . . • • iCt;ig . W.C4. - e WA Melia= In Metall Dada Dun, " E onerolo dl inert'," Madame Novelle e illc se' (Medea' oollgleas. Alt " Kite. ells puree" Malan* !Mon' &m at Trio. " wale of Wahine,* Me demo lieclo../Icc cello. e 11141 i, itiMelowalo ftwe.ol ..- Atnerces. • '' Iteraave cliosio." gale. Italie Mods al Coro. " A eel Can. - V0',41.;* ii:a*,;.' Hake. /Orwell. 131.111 , •1111caort Oartlont Imp east Ikllettl, a UM Vann, (Cli•letu, 'ears . a Ilex/tett," Car., chime, potir SlcAvrtas !Covello e Memel Olean' e 1%11,00 'Nina Nana. Air. "Comm rebind.' Madame ita SOW Mewl. Trio. sanest g mlo ben. - NIVe. Balk, Minor Gertlont • Here Pone. Inset. Meek a . Nowt. Duo." Far blartuou &roar lemon' IV ... . Main O wad. Ille•ICC;;• i e Clow Gram' LOA. "Meant woe los Lebec loom rho Inks Mel 'ler, Fonow ID:e Terse., Holed. "OH' lolororne cor." Told ill SeracWo )101110. Mr. Oct a en•dee In the plusoniens Refreshments we. served to the company at intend' during the performance. The County+. de Reality and the Duke end Duchess le Neotours visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Prima of Ilottoosollern Siegniiirinprit oleo paid a visit to her Royal Ilighnses, at Clmence lions', St. James's. The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Clarence Rosin, el. Jsmaie, yosterday, from Portsmouth. A deputation from the Geological Society of London, 00 Fisting of Colonel rortloek (provident), Sir It. J. Morehleela and Mr Leonard Horner (vire.tresidents), Sir Charles Lyon ard Sir Philip Egerton, Kr. (follows), and Mr. R. Cle Mylne (secretary), had au interv:av with Viscount Palma. stow yesterday, to request that such provision may be meat at Bllttillgtollllolllllo for the reception of the ”11151e110 of the society, so will enable it share in the sivantages of the jade. porition of the scientific societies of I. -radon. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-OMOS from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Nese American Trainees. and also to the Governors of Mateo Ceylon, and Hong Kong. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH EIPZ. We (Morning rest) believe we arc correct in announcing that the preliminary arrangements have WO agreed upon for the following alliances in high life : The Marquis of Lothian, with the Lady Constance Tact, eldest surviving daughter of the Earl Talbot, and aistre of Viscount Ingestre. Tho young marquis Ears just attained his 25th year, and his betrothed is not yet of age. Viscount Grey de Wilton, eldest son of the Earl ci Wilt to, with the Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, daughter ci the Duke of Newcastle. ..e Lord Ashley, eldest son of the Ent of Slaaflesbury, with the Lady Merritt Chichester, only daughter of the MarquiS of Donegal), and rioter of the late lamented Earl of Belfast. Lord Robert Cecil, wend son of the Marquis of Salisbury. with Miss Allenon, daughter of Baron Alderson. The lion. Mr. North, elleet son of the Baroness North. with Min Cockerelt, step-daughter of the Earl of Reinke, and sister of the Viseountese Ingestre. Mr. North is heir tO bis mother's peerage, and will inherit an unencumbered estate of 40,0001. a year. This alliance, owing to the youth of the bride, will probably be dolaye.l for some months. Mr. W. It. Reece, of the Coldstream Guards, with Miss Welby, daughter of Sir Cilynne Welby, Bart. Her Majesty the Queen has signified her gracious intention of honouring the Earl and Countess Spencer with her presence at a grand tall to be given to her 'Majesty at Spenser Douse, on Monday, the 13th Instant. The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Royal Mightier" the DIANN of Kent yesterday at Clarence Rouse, St. Jamee'p, _ _ His Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenzollern- Siegmaringen paid s visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clirtnoe House, St. James . .. Ilia Smite Highness the Prince of Leiningess arrived at Clarence Roue, St. James's, yesterday, frogs Portsmouth. _ . • ~ln consequence of the death of the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess of lisrrioglon's paths are for the mew postponed. The Earl Fitzwilliam and Lady Charlotte Went welt Fitzwilliam have left the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, alter a wirer of ten days at th►t eatabliehnient. Mrs. Farquharson's (of Invcresald) ball, previ ously hoed for Monday, the 6th inst., is postponed until Friday, the 10th of July. Mr. Maniaty, of the Northern Circuit, is to be forthwith appointed one of her Majesty's counsel. It is understood that the Bank Charter Committee are not likely to conclude their labours during the pressed melon. They will doubticia report evidence and be msg. pointed at the neat assembling of tarliament. Consequently their anal report will probably not appear until the end of 18.58, or beginning of 1850. DEATH OF SITE ntICHERS OF BEDFORD.—WC regret exceedingly to announce the demise of this much-rearrested lady, who expired somewhat suddenly yesterday, after only • brio' inner& Her grace was the daughter of the third Earl of Harrington. and espoused the premise Doke of Bedford, by whom she leaves an only too, the Marquis of Tarts stock, in 1808. Few ladies have adorned the Bri tish peerage by more exemplary virtues than those which belonged to tho character of this amiable and lamented lady. Though nobly born, her grace was unosten tatious to • degree, and the lending principle of her life weie the study of how much good she could accomplish with the means and opportunity afforded by the distinguished position in which she had been placed by Providence. Her loss win be deeply felt, and the more keenly where etre was best known, among the poorer dependents of her noble lonstand• family estates. The duchess Lad attained her seventieth yew—Port The Dean of Carlisle has left Carlisle on his way to Switzerland. United Semite Gazette. Golipiani says :—" The Bishop of Marseilles anted on Thursday In Paris, on his nay to England. Tits object of his journey is mid to bet to visit steam] Ramon catholic establishments in that country, and to benediction to a new church. Soma' bishops will ll:invited to the caituotiy, at which Cardinal Wiseman la to lersido." , r4*- , . deet of t Re% vcr atm to foul Gar