The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

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TIMM DT LAND AND WATS. Mr. amber! . Mire M. Eburne. —Orommor at Salim.' I. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tao Dar—M.lmM. /b. e5..........A1e5e5er. N som Morromow—lionsmlS. ear ...... —Afters% Uli. sem. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY N. CONTRARY to general expectation, Lord DERBY did not make his appearance yesterday in the House of Lords; but upon the formal announcement by Lord GRANVILLE that he and his colleagues had re- signed of f ice, Lord MILSIESBUILT, on behalf of the new Prime Minister, intimated his wish that an ad- journment should take place till Friday next, in order to afford him time to complete the task with which the QUEEN had entrusted him. Lord DERBY may well ask three or four days to * perfect the work of forming an Administration. His difficulties were great at starting, and already they have been rendered formidably greater by the re- foul of several distinguished members of either House whom be bed invited to join him. We stated yesterday that overtures had been made to the pro- minent members of the Peelite section. To-day we are in a condition to state the general result of such offers. Mr. GLADSTONE'S reply was, we believe, to the affect that individually he would not interpose any obstacle in the way of a re-union with the party to which he and his friends had originally belonged but that after so long a secession he did not choose to return to its ranks alone, and that he would con- sequently be swayed in his final determination by the decision of those with whom he generally acted. On applying to Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and the Duke of NEWCASTLE, Lord DERBY was met with refusals, which, though not unfriendly, left no room for further negotiation at the present time. Failing in the quarters we have named, the noble Earl addressed himself to another and a very different one. Considering the highly conservative tone adopted for some time peat by Lord GREY, and the coincidence of his lord- ship's opinions upon the India Bill with his own, Lord Denny deemed it not unworthy of a trial whether he might not be able to persuade the ex- Secretary for the Colonies to form part of his administration. But here also he was doomed to dim- . appointment, and was met by a refusal as courteous as it was conclusive. Under these circumstances, Mr. GLADoTONE, for the third time in the course of the last few years, resolved to decline office under Lord Omer. Equally unpromising, we believe, have been the results of the Tory leader's efforts to obtain additional strength of other kinds. As we stated yesterday, the Great Seal was offered, in terms the most flattering, to Mr. PEMBERTON Lune, whose professional fitness none could dispute, and whose political sympathies had always been understood to be emphatically conservative; but for some reason unexplained the proposal was at once and unconditionally declined; and Sir FREDE- Etc Tar.sir,zu, as will be seen from Lord CAMP- neLeil announcement in the Court of Queen's Bench this morning, has succeeded to the post. Ms lordship will be raised forthwith to the peerage, and will take his seat upon the woolsack in the course of a few days. Time was when the elevation of Sir FREDIFtIC to the first place on the Equity Bench would hare filled Lincoln's-inn with similar mar- -1 mars to those which are recorded upon the promo- . I lion of ERSKINE. But the jurisdiction of the Court I of Chancery has of late years been so modified that comparatively nothing remains now for its highest functionary to do but to arbitrate occasionally between the conflicting judgments of the most highly accomplished and competent equity judges or to sit along with them in appeals from the courts below. The new Lord Chancellor is eminently fitted by temper, manner, and long expe- rience as an advocate and legislator to sustain the splendid part he is about to be called upon to play. He will look the character to perfection; and his soroir faire will no doubt teach him how he may gracefully conceal beneath his embroidered robe any want of recondite or technical learning. Be his de- feet, what they may, they will for a time be forgiven in the universal gratulation that at length we have done with Lord CRANWORTR. It is premature, per- haps, to assert positively what the other arrangements respecting the principal aloes are to be. Mr. DISRAELI has long coveted the post of Foreign Affairs, which we may, without meaning to pay him any compliment, assume that he would fill with more spirit and saga- city than Lord Czt HENDON : his leanings and ideas in foreign policy are unhappily a s anti-liberal, but it I. certain that they cannot be more so. The refusal of Mr. GLADSTONE to accept the Chancellorship of the Exchequer may compel the Right Hon. Member for Bucks to resume his former position in the Cabinet. We should think this unlucky for him, RS well as for his friends. As a financier he was eminently unfortunate. People still recollect that it was upon his memorable proposition for a house tax the Derbyite Government of 1&52 was overthrown. Historians of the period may be able to show excellent reasons for concluding that had it not fallen in that field it was sure to have been annihilated in one not much further onward in its march. But constituencies, and those who have the fear of them before their eyes, seld om look at matters historic II ; and the prevalent notion of Mr. DISRAELI undoubtedly is that nature never meant him for a Finance Minister. Whatpossible alternative in Lord Deanr's hands there may b e, or who else he could venture to entrust with the framing of a Bidget, and the defending i tagai st some half dozen ex-Chancellors of the Esc* aer in the House of Commons, we do not pretend to my. The only man of his party who is confessedly qua.liled for the post—ws mean, of err% se THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1858. Mr. Two As BARING —la not likely to be induced to take it. It is well known that he refused to do so in 11152, notwithstanding great impor tunity, and we have very little doubt that he would use again. Tnosz who yesterday evening crowded the gallery of the House of Commons, in the hope of hearing from Lord PA`..nr.a.sioN some explanatory state ment as to the recent reeignation, were doomed to disappointment. The late Prime Minister, rising amid the silent expectation of en unusually thronged and excited audience, simply announced, what every one of his hearers already knew, that be and his colleagues had, on Saturday, placed their resignations in the hands of the QUEEN j that her Mutter' had accepted them ; and that Lord DERRY was then engaged in the construction of a Ministry. Under these circumstances, his lordship moved the adjournment of the House to Friday next. For the present this is all that can be known with certainty regarding one of the most singularly rapid and unexpected devolution of power which the annals of Parliamentary history can furnish. Be tween this and next Friday the whisperers and the mystery-mongers will have it all their own way. Every day, every hour, will wittier the flight of a fresh brood of political canards from those prolific breeding-grounds of Pall-mall and St. James's. Those who take delight in this species of amusement will be diligently supplied with all the excitement that ean be derived from large-type lists of Cabinet Ministers and Under-Secretaries—which duly represent the hopes of the interested, the guesses of the ingenious —the private information of the " best " authorities "—everything, in short, but the facts of the ease. In this last trifling respect there is a high probability of failure, for the simple reason that no facts exist. The impossibility of seeing the Channel fleet, " because it's not in sight," has been acquiesced in by many generations of playgoers as • somewhat unanswerable inference ; it would be cruel to apply the same strict reasoning to the impatient spectators in the great political theatre, or to argue that when no appointments have yet been made their positive announcement must be regarded as premature. It is pleasanter, till we are driven upon facts, to amuse ourselves with fancies, and to allow the rumour of the morning to be authoritative till it is supplanted by the report of the afternoon,--doomed in its turn to be knocked down by the undoubted intelligence of the night. Lord DERBY is engaged in constructing &Govern ment. So much is certain; and we are well satis fied that it should be so. Without affecting to assign places for the colleagues to whom he may be expected to apply, it may safely be presumed th►t he will hardly succeed in finding a President of the Board of Control more incapable than Mr. VERNON Srarrit; an Attorney-General more iguorantof consti tutional, criminal or international law than Sir RI CHARDBITHELLi or• Privy Seal more eminent for all that should not distinguish a British Peer, than the most noble Cue& Joint DE-Bolton, Marquis of CLANRICARDE. That many difficulties imminently beset Lord DERBY—that many more are loom ing &heed of him—is sufficiently obvious to all: it will be for himself and his friends to determine whether they can muster the requisite courage to oppose them. With regard to the Conspiracy Bill, that is doomed by the indig nant judgment of the country. The CHIEF JUSTICE of England emphatically denounced last night, in the House of Lords, the doctrine—reported to have been advanced by the late Arron'Ev-GIENEnat-- " that foreigners are able to do in this country that " which our own subjects are unable to do, and that " what would be a crime in natural-born British " subjects is a matter of impunity in foreigners." Lord CRANWOUTH could only defend his late colleague on the hypothesis that it was impos sible he could have said what he was reported to say. It is sufficient for Lord DERBY'S purpose that, according to the preponderating balance of legal opinion, our own laws are adequate for all reasonable purposes of punishment. This is all that an English Minister ought to want. This is where he should take his stand. Let our own old laws be pat to the proof: if on trial, and in the de liberate judgment of the fifteen Judges, they are found to be inadequate, a case for altering them will have arisen. Till then, let them stand firm and un shaken. Such is the position which the country expects to see taken on this Conspiracy Bill by any Minister who now undertakes the responsibilities of office. With regard to the India Bill, another of the supposed stumbling-blocks of the new Admi nistration, the difficulty is surely more imaginary than real. It would be an exaggeration to pretend that the feeling of the country on this point is to be compared with that deep and vehement torrent of suspicion, and alarm, and anger, which has just swept away, in the apparent plenitude of his power, one of the most personally popular of recent Minis ter'. But this rises in a great measure from the remoteness and the intricacy of the subject, not from any intelligent conviction in favour of the Palmer stonian Bill. The country is by degrees awaken ing to a sense of the danger likely to arise from introducing into India a How Guards army, instead of a working army, and handing over the civil patronage from the picked men of the middle classes to the younger sons of the aristocracy. It is conceivable enough that an expectant House of Commons, at the bidding of a reckless Minister, should eagerly lend itself to a scheme which would make parliamentary services and political jobbing a recognised title to the official spoils of India. But it does not follow that the country at large would entertain this project with enthusiasm, or even regard it with equanimity. It will be a perfectly safe and popular course for any Minister, to postpone all legislation for India until the existing mutiny is finally 'oppressed, and to no Minister would that task be so easy as to Lord DERBY. We have meson to know that the majority against the Gasernment on Friday night would have been larger than it was but for We het that several members mistook the lobby, and went out for Ministers when they supposed they were voting for Mr. Milner Gibson's resolution. The Monileur of yesterday publishes a full report of the debate in the House of Commons on Friday. It thus announces the result —" A member of the English parlia ment, )Ir. Gibson, on the second reading of the bill to sup press conspiracies formed in England, presented an amend ment, which we publish elsewhere. This amendment, whit►, however, in no manner whatever implies the rejection of the bill, wail adopted by 234 votes against 216." The Moniteur says:—"On the news of the vote of the House M Commons reaching Paris, Count d• Penigny, who is on leave of absence, receive' orders to return Immediately to hie peat." Niw AmenturnAnowg.—The following is • list of the adminietra.Nosa, wit* and tory, which have lead °Mos In England sinew the year 1830, with the dates of their installation and dissolution, vis..—Earl Grey's administra tion, 1830.34; Viscount Melbourne's (that), 1834; Bir Robert Peel's (tit)), 1834-36 i Vhorent Malboariere (second). 1835-1841; Sir Robert Pm!! (second), 1841 . 46; Load J. Russell's, 1846-62; Earl dDer by's &la), 1868 ; Earl of Aberdeen's, 1863-66; Vibrant PaMerstea's, 1866-68. The outgoing ministry has held dike just three Tears. Lord 3. Russell rMaina the rules dimmer nearly six ywo, sad Mr Robert Peel about Am The lad tory aim Lad Derby was woe I• slim a twelvemonth. Mr. Colvile poked in wean of Mr. Milner Gibson's resehi dew. sad agalwit the l oran. tIMINDi of the Conepireey BM, 'kb the Has. Kr. P EARL DERBY% CABINET. The Conservative skid• are leaving no rational I effort marled to form • strong sad melted •dminletr•tioa. The Carlton and Conservative clubs byte bed with fre quented by the members this morales, sad the greatest ba: d gg and animation prevail. Broughams sad she are l i mi ng about; and the minor agents of the old Derby trey see constantly met with, full of business saF =we ll ed,. During the day one statement at jest, w hi c h is something more than • rumour bee been mad► By the report of the pomading la the Court of gesim's Beath this day, printed tn Wither column, it will be seen that Lord Campbell formally announced this morning that Si, F. Timelier had retired from the Britiah Bank ease, by reason of his appointment to the distinguished position of Lord Chancellor. The bar gime telly expremed much gratification on hearing the news. " The first thing," nye the Times, " we hear of Lord Derby's cabinet is that Lord Ellenborough, who has got on so remarkably well with the Indian directors, is to have the Board of Control; and, to induce the directors to swallow the control of a man whom they have recalled from India, the India Bill is to be thrown to the winds. Such is the value of parliamentary time and labour in the hands of amateur statesmen. Of course, Lord Malmesbury returns to the Foreign-office, and the British nation having per formed only a ball prostration to Napoleon 111., and made only half amends by enduring his objurgation in silence, is now to complete its submission by putting Napoleon's private friend end apologist in the Foreign-allot If we are now to be civil to the French Em peror, Lord Malmeebtu7 is the beet Muter of the Ceremonies for the purpose. The Ministry of War is, it is said, to be gives to General Peel, who has shown such wonderful powers of keeping on good terms with everybody by making everything pleasant, and allowing nobody, ex cept the newspapers, to be in the wrong. When he first takes his seat on the Treasury bench we trust he will show that the Commander-in-Chief of our Chinese expedition/eve the best proof of his qualification for the post by leaving it and coining home. As Mr. Gladstone will not be Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli will succeed Sir Cornwall Lewis, with the uncontested leadership of his party in the Commons. Sir F. Thesiger, we are told, Is to be Lord Chan cellor, and if so, nobody, except perhaps Lord Campbell, will grudge him such long-deferred honour. Theonly serious rebuff Lord Derby hu received, it is said, has been from his own eon. No wonder that a young nobleman of such talent and respect should object to be made a yearly sacrifice to filial love. Had Icarus seen his father Dredalus mount up to the skies, and the come down in a slower of feathers, he would probably have hesitated to put on his own wing'. Lord Stanley has come down once in this fashion, and apparently declines to do so again. Such is the cabinet,--such in what it has, and what it has not, that the radicals have resolved to inflict on the country, in spite for Lord Palmerston's not having stood out more expressly, fully, absolutely, and indignantly for the unrestricted right of asylum, whoever the favoured objects, and whatever use they might make of it." The Morning Herald says it was not until late yesterday afternoon that Mr. Gladstone, on the part of the Pealing, declined to insist Lord Derby in his arduous teak. Conse quently "the noble earl has had but a few hours for carrying out his arrangements, which will, in all probability, be completed in the course of the day." Having failed in his /Sorts to reunite and reconstruct a conservative government "upon that broad basis on which it stood in 1841," Lord Derby's next duty (says the Herald) was to form a practical, =end, and en honest administration, composed of gatemen asps- Me of conducting public affairs with credit. "The materials for such a cabinet ere to be found in the ranks of the late opposition, and in the course of • few hours the list of its principle members will be announced. Conjecture is, in the meantime, busy, and various rumours, none of which deserve the slightest degree of credit, are in circulation. Upon one point we can afford the most eatidectory assurance.. The career of Lord Derby's adminis tration, as in the can of his former attempt in 1852, will be marked by real progress and improvement. Without the cant of profenion, It will be eminently successful in practice. The new premier and his colleagues have ever been the advocates of that enlightened progression which secures the welfare of all classes of the community, while it has nothing in common with revolutionary tactics or destructive assaults upon time-honoured institutions end prindplee" In another article the Herald assures us that the new cabinet will Include " members of the highest rank as states men, orators, and scholars; men of the highest profindand skill in all the subtleties of the English law, men of schen* and chivalrous loyalty; to many of whom the name at England has been for centuries endeared by the the of blood and of race—her honour being one with their own. Others, too, will not be wanting whom long years of experience have profoundly versed in all the intricacies of foreign and domestic policy." The Morning Poet refers to the present political situation in the following terms :—" The houses of parliament having adjourned till Friday, there is every probability that by that day Lord Derby will have succeeded in forming a (*blast. A second failure would be fatal to his pretensions as a party leader, and to the claims of his followers to that organise don which is the first condition of opposition as it is of go venuuent. All that is certain, however, is that Lord Derby has applied to Lord Grey for his 00-operation, and that he has been refused. It Is equally positive that Mr. Gladstone has declined to form put of the noble lord's ad ministration. It b deo said that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe is unwilling to accept a meet In the new cabinet. tinder these circumstantial, Lord Derby falls beck on the Derbyite party , properly so-celled, and must reconstruct the administration of 1862. The disiributioa of dame has sot yet, we believe, been made ; we cannot, thanks% yet tell to what extent individual statesmen ma; taunt to their (mem positions, but virtually the cabinet of 1862 willing revived to 1868. It will almost infallibly be destined to lead the same life of mendicant minority, continually begging for suffer ance. It must die the same death. Tha common sense and the weight of the country are with Lord Palmerston, and these must ultimately have their effect." DESPATCH FROM HER MAJESTY'S in coninpondeann between you and myself. I accordingly reply to you availing myself, &c. A neceraery communica tion. " Hesn-fung, 7th year, 10th moon, 29th day (14th Decem ber, 1857.)" Lord Elgin acknowledges, from on board the Furious, at Whampoa, the oommissioner's communication. His lordship seas in that document no disposition to accede to the mode rate demands of England, and consequently informs the =minion& that he has celled upon the naval and military oommanders to prosecute with renewed vigour operations against Canton. We than have the following from " Commissioner Yoh to the Earl of Elgin. (Translation.) "Yoh, Imperial Commi Two Kwang, i c., makes nor-General of the in reply. " On the 24th instant, I received your excellency's letter of the same date, and acquainted myself with its contents. "In my answer to your earlier letter I replied to every proposition, point by point, specifically and minutely ; (yet) In the letter under acknowledgment you say that you have failed to discover in the communication which you have attentively perused, any indication of a disposition to accede to the moderate demands preferred on behalf of the goveen ment of Great Britain. I shall endeavour to re-state clearly to your excellency what I said before. " To go back : in October, last year, Mr. Consul Parkes, without any cause, commenced hostilities, attacked the forts along the different approaches, and thrice sent troops to firs buildings and dwellings in different directions. The gentry and people had suffered sadly by this, and on your excel lency's arrival in Hwangtung lest July, as I have heard, presented &petition to you on the subject. No steps having se yet been taken in the cue, crowds of gentry and people have come to my court discontented, and imploring onto write to your excellency to make equitable decision therein; and Wanes I did not address your excellency on the 'abject, they were going to Hong Kong again to clamour for redone at your excellency's place with all their might. By various shifts I have dissuaded them (from this prooood ing), attributing what happens entirely to Consul Parkes' want of sense on a particular occasion, that your excel lency might be spared this trouble (or difficulty). This (shows) the best disposition on my part to be ' conceding.' " (In the next place) ever since your excelkney's coun trymen began to trade at Canton, the merchants of China have, in every instance, conducted themselves towards them with propriety. To the proposition in your former letter, commerce shall resume its muse,' I gave the fullest assent. How, then, emu I be charged with 'refusing I" On the eontrary, there is plain proof that, I promised (to concede what was seed). " As to the passage in the letter under acknowledgement, ' if the commissioner shall meet these demands by silence,' in my last reply I answered every question in its own order; in no wise then was I ' silent.' And as to the other peassge, ' language of retrocesslon end refusal,' I shall instance my remarks on the late Plenipotentiary Bonham's abandonment of the discussions respecting admittance into the city. My last reply detailed clearly how, tor his satisfactory adminis tration of that question, be was honoured with the praisee of all dupes of your countrymen; in no wise then did I use language of retrocession and refusal. " To conclude, our two nations regard themselves as on friendly terms with each other. This being the case, there can be nothing which makes it impossible for us to consult together and arrange satisfactorily by what means, in the words of your excellency, ' commerce may resume its coarse;' (which declination made) what becomes of my re fusal to accede to terms of accommodation ? " Pray ist your excellency, who has a aurae of justice, sad an experience of bturinsee, rube more closely examine and carefully re-peruse my last reply. " I accordingly reply to you, availing, leo. " (December 25, 1837.) j In a brief note to the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Elgin observes that the above communicstion oonoedoe no thing either on the question of indemnity or on that of the right of entrance into the city. "I think it therefore better, as the imperial commissioner has been formally apprised that the matter is now in the hands of the naval and military authorities, that I should abstain from replying to it." Notes are appended to Cauminkner Yeh'e second der patch, in which Mr. Wade, the.trendstor, further *nista in making the original Chinese intelligible. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOW 0171 OWN PARTR. MANDAT EVZNIAIII. The tone of the French government press is de cidedly moderate and conciliatory; but it continues to take it for granted that, under whatever ministry, some bill for amending the English law relating to conspiracy must of necessity be passed. The Pays having prepared a stately article on the subject of the proposed monster meeting in Hyde park, publishes it, and ignores the fact which was known in Paris yesterday morning, that, in conse quence of Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment having been carried, the meeting did not take place. It thinks public meetings very shocking things, de scribes them as " pale copies of the old French clubs," and has not the least doubt that the scheme for the meeting was organised by the foreign re fugees in London ! This evening's Pays says, in a postscript, " At the moment of going to press, we hear it rumoured that Lord Derby finds the utmost difficulty in forming a ministry." The Bourse opened with great agitation, and was exceedingly crowded. The Rents was first quoted at 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 15c., but it rose suddenly at two o'clock to 69fr. 40c., in consequence of the se cond telegram from London announcing a recovery in Consols of t from the fall of t there which had taken place in the morning. The ministerial crisis in England was the sole subject discussed, and there was of course a great variety of rumours. The pre valent opinion at the end of the Bourse was that Lord Palmerston would after all remain in office, and this idea tended greatly to restore confidence. A report circulated in the morning that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe was likely to be in the ministry of Lord Derby, bad frightened people very much in deed. Ultimately the Rents closed at 60fr. 40c. for cash and 60fr. 43c. for account, with a fall of lbe. in each case. Mobilier was firmer, and rose Bfr. 75c. The Northern Railway fell 10fr., but the other lines closed with a good deal of firmness at not more than 2fr. 600. lower than yesterday. The following " communicated note" has been sent to the French journals : The public is informed that travellers coming from abroad will not be allowed to enter the territory of the empire, Wean they are bearers of passports delivered by the authorities of the country to which they belong, and bearing the vita et a French diplomatic or consular agent. The French vise must be renewed for every journey into France. M. Cornuan, late prefect of the Landes, who, it will be remembered, was appointed Secretary- General to the Minister of the Interior when General Espinaase was made minister, was married to-day at the Madeleine, to Mdlle. Vinchon, daughter of the late M. Vinchon, member of the Institute. As Prince Napoleon was going to the Tuileries two days back, his horse slipped and fell in such a way that the Prinoe's leg was somewhat crushed. Fortunately, the limb was not broken, but the Prince was so injured that he is confined to his chamber. Marshal Bosquet, on his return home from a ride on horseback on Saturday, was seized with a sudden rush of blood to the head. Medical assistance was sent for, and the Marshal was bled, and his state now inspires no uneasiness. So much has lately been said in England about the Moniteur, and the way in which it is managed, that I think it worth while to call attention to a specimen of the fairness of Moniteur reporting. Right columns and • half of that journal are de voted to a report of the debate on Mr. Milner Gib son's motion. Sir Robert Peel's long, and certainly not uninteresting speech, is compressed into twelve lines, at the end of which there occurs this passage, .L' Orateur continue au milieu des conversations et de l'inattention de la cliarribre. Now I should really like to know, and the question is, I think, not an impertinent one, where the Moniteur got this infor mation. I have been at the pains to look at the reports of all the London papers that were not seized on Saturday, and I find them all thickly studded with " hear, hear," " laughter," " cheers," and most of them conclude with " loud cheers." The young baronet has yet to shew himself a statesman of his father's calibre, and his friends will probably admit that his speeches are often open to criticism on the score of taste, but unless the authority of the Moni tear is to outweigh an overwhelming amount of in dependent testimony on a question of fact, it is un deniable that on this occasion he at least succeeded in commanding the " attention" of the house. Madame Szarvady (Wilhelmina Clause) who since her marriage about four years ago has been lost to the musical world, gave the first of a series of con oerts at the Salle Pleyel on Saturday, and was rap turously applauded. Her performances of a chro matic fantasia and fugue of Sebastian Bach, and a sonata of Beethoven's showed that the wonderful talent which delighted Parisian society when she was quite a child, has been not only kept up daring her retirement, but matured and improved. gbe Court. The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen yesterday afternoon at Backlash ao Palace. T e d Princ e Consort rods on horseback with tho Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. A deputation from All Saints, Poplar, trensacted business yesterday at the Home-dace. The deputation, which was Introduced by the Hon. 0. By ng , M.P., and Mr. C. B. Butler, M.P., consisted of the R. T. T. Baulky, Rector; Mr. Henry Bradshaw, Churchwarden ; Mr. JAs Carter, Churchwarden ; Mr. Edward Coleman, vestryman" Mr. 8. K. Raison, Modica/ Officer of Health ; and lir. W. G. Ceelsy, Clark to the Vestrymen. The Judicial Ccenmitres of the Privy Connoiliat yester day. in appeal from Bengal, " Bunyan. Saul v. Heinlein tang," was concluded, and sdgment was An appeal, " Bamundoes Moherjea v. rue. Tunes,wee commenced. p wars received yesterday at the C o l on i s l- o M os frout i rt a 'Overnors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Mau ritius. Hie Excellency Count Adolphe Duboky (Lord Chamberlain to Ids Ilejesty the Emperor of Austris), acomo peeled by his brother, the Count Victor Dabsky, have takes their departure from the Brunswick Hotel (St. James's) for Peri', an route for Vise= His Excellency the Hon. G. S. Stafford Jerning ham, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kieg of Wartemberg, has left Manrigy's Hotel for Stator& The Duchess of Argyll was safely delivered of a daughter yesterday, at her villa residence on Campden-hill. Her grace and Whitt am promoting favourably. The Duchess of Montrose and Lady Agnes Gra ham have returned to town from visiting Visoount and Vis countess Villiers, at Upton House, Warwickshire. . _ _ The Marquis of Lansdowne has issued cards for a large dinner party at Lansdowne Home, on Saturday nut. The Countess of Ilsrrowby and Viscount Sandon strived in town, yesterday, from Bandon House, Stafford shire. The noble nal remains at Bandon Hoene. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, Piooadilly. The Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstons do Flahault left Coventry Home • kw days mime for Paris. Lord Ashburton arrived at Bath House, yesterday, from tha Orin" Hants. Lady Dorothy Nevill wee safely delivered of a son yesterday morning. Her ladyship and the infest are pro gressing most favourably. Mr: R. Parry Nisbet, M.P., and family hays aniveol tee the season at 31, Eaton-square, from South bream Howe, Wiltshire. AMBASSADOR AT PARIS. The following despatch from her Majesty's Am bemador at Parts was yesterday laid before Parlia ment by command of her Majesty : ZAILL OOWLIT TO THII LILL Or OLMILUNDON. (Eeedved Feb. 21.) PARIS, FIB. 20, 1868. My Lord,—Having learnt by teleg r aph that cer tain resolutions imputing blame to her Majesty's go vernment for not having made any reply to Count Walewaki's despatch to Count Peraigny, dated the 20th of January, had been affirmed by a majority of the House of Commons, I think it a duty to your lordship to place on record, that although I have not been charged to make any official communication to the French government in answer to that despatch, I have been enabled, by your lordship's private in structions, to place before ;the French government the sentiments, views, and intentions:of her Majesty's government far more fully, and I cannot but believe more satisfactorily, than would have been the case had my language been clothed in a more official garb. When Count Walewski's despatch was written, the irritation against the supposed apathy of England is a matter so important to France as the preserva tion of the Emperor's life was excessive. Rightly or wrongly, the idea prevailed that every conspiracy against his Majesty had been organised in England, and that the British laws gave security to the con spirators. No counter-assertions on the part of her Majesty's government would have had any effect at that moment ; and any official notice on the part of your lordship of Count Walewski's despatch would probably have involved the two governments in a controversial discussion more likely to have in creased than to have calmed the excitement which prevailed. It the object was to soothe, it was im portant to let time exert its usual influence, and to reserve the official answer to Count Walewaki's despatch until it was known whether parliament I would answer the appeal which was to be made to it by her Majesty's government. But it ought not to be ignored, that while taking this prudent coarse, your lordship lest no opportu niq' of informing the French government, confiden tially, of the true bearings of the question which had been raised. Your lordship's language has been, from the beginning of this unfortunate affair, clear and straightforward. I have now your lordship's letters before me, in which, while vindicating in language worthy of your lordship's name, the right of asylum which Great Britain has ever afforded to strangers of all ranks and nations, and,whilo declar ing, in terms as explicit as they are determined, the impossibility , of infringing on that great principle of our constitution, you show how utterly insufficient must any enactment be, to prevent men of desperate minds from entering upon desperate undertakings. As your lordship's true, but very inadequate organ, I have faithfully represented your feelings and your principlee, and could I call upon the Emperor or upon Count Walewski, as witnesses, neither, I feel certain, could belie my words. I know not what may be the result of last night's vote ; but, at all events, I lose no time in stating my conviction that to your lordship's judicious and pru dent conduct at a very critical moment it is owing that, without the shadow of the sacrifice of a single principle, our relations with this government have not received a shock which might have been fatal to the friendship which yet happily prevails between the two nations.—l have, &c., (Signed) COWLEY. THE WAR WITH CHINA. CORRESPONDENCE WITH COMMISSIONER YOU. This morning were issued, for the information of the legisl►ture, copier of correspondence between the Earl of Elgin and the Chinese High Commissioner Yoh. In a note to the Chinese commissioner, dated Hong Kong, Dec. 12, 1857, the Earl of Elgin apprises that functionary of the nature of his lordship's powers as ambassador extraor dinary, and proceeds to refer in general terms to the various lafinetions of treaties by the authorities of the province of Kwangtung. These offences have led the governeseate of England and France to unite in a determination to seek by vigorous action reparation for peat, and security against future wrong,. " Under these cirmunstanoet," continues Earl Elgin, " the undersigned think" it his duty to state distinctly to the imperial commissioner that be cannot assume the responsibility of arresting the progress of hostile operations against Canton, until the following demands of the British government are absolutely and unreservedly conceded :—The complete execution at Canton of all treaty engagements, including the free admission of British subjects to the city ; compensation to British subjects and persons entitled to British protection for lows incurred in consequence of the late disturbances. If these moderate demands, and those preferred on behalf of the Emperor of the French by his Imperial Majesty's high commissioner and plenipotentiary, be frankly accepted by the imperial oommissioner Yeh within the period of tan days from this date, the blockade of the river will be raised, and commerce will be permitted to resume its owns. Bat the English forces, in con junction with the forms of the French, will retain the island of Ronan end the forts on the river as a material guarantee until the terms of a treaty for regulating these and all other questions pending between the government of Great Britain and that of China shall have been agreed to between the andenigned and a plenipotentiary of equal rank, appointed by the Emperor of China to negotiate with him, and until the treaty so agreed upon shall have been ratified by their respective sovereigns. If, on the contrary, the imperial commissioner shall meet these demands by a refusal, by Asses, or by evasive or dilatory pleas, the undersigned will deem it to he his painful duty to direct the naval and mili tary conamenders to prosecute, with renewed vigour, opera tion' against Canton, reserving to himself the right to make, In that ore, on behalf of the British governmeet, each addi ticeal unmade on the government of China As the altered condition of affairs may seem, in his eyes, to justify." Commissioner Yeh replies on the 14th of Decem ber, to the effect that the commercial intercourse of Canton has been conducted on the same principle as the other porta ; that the Emperor of: Chins has de clared his sacred will that the " Treaty of peace, which wee to last ten thousand years, with a view to the preserve lion of a good understanding for evermore," and which re- gulate• the admission of foreigners, shall not be altered in the case of Canton ; and that in the after of the lorchs, Jua na' and equity are on the side of the Chinese. " Minions of people were eye-witnessos of these things. At the very commencement every Englishman and every other foreigner with a sense of justice did all that in them lay to dissuade the consul Parkas from proceeding, but be would not listen." The threatening part of the plenipotentiary's letter is treated as follows - " Your letter talks of a military occupation of Homan and of the forte along the river, but if you could not proceed once before, even with such a measure as the building end leasing of warehouses there, how should it be possible to station troops on Ronan? The forte along the river have been built at the expense of the gentry and people for their pro tection against piracy. An attempt on the part of the troops of your ex cellency's nation to occupy these will, I fear, produce a state of irritation which may grow into • merlons misunderstanding. (If it do) let it not be said that I did not speak in time, or that I did not do all that in me lay to provide for your safety. The pro positions brought forward in your letter have been suggested, it appears to me, by some mischievous person at your side; they ars not your excellency's own conceptions. I h►ve long heard of year excellency's great experience and discretion; of the universal esteem in which you are held in your own country; the great trust which you have come to Canton to discharge towards your own government, is natu rally the termination of the trouble' here existing, not, as suredly, the creation of (fresh) troubles. Your excellency's acts will, I feel sure, anticipate my confidence in your perfect sense of justice and thorough impartiality. The words ' com merce shall resume its course,' in your letter, are additional evidence of your excellency's sense of justice and practical knowledge. Ever sines the treaty was made, in all their commercial dealings with foreigners, the merchants of China have invariably behaved as they ought. It is not from any hindrance interposed by Chios that no foreign merchant-vessel lass been here since last October. By year excellency's declaration now made, that ' cola ewes between natives and foreigners shall resume its come; you justify to their complete satisfaction the high estimation in which you are held by all classes of your own eceatemen ; what is more, you enable yourself to meet the unless expectations of the commercialists of every other country. To conclude, our two nations have ever ontaideoff themselves so on friendly terms with each other, and the eontineiees of trade between native and foreigner on its sonetameed kettag can, of course, be setlefeeteray arranged THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The absorbing question of the day, the ministerial crisis in England, engrosses the attention of the Paris journals. The Cortttituamine!, in the course of an article on the subject, refers in the following terms to the publication in the Moniteur of Count Walewski's despatch, which was repeatedly alluded to In the course of the late debate : " The publication by the ifonitasr of the despatch ad dressed on the 20th January by Count Walewald to Count de Porsigny was the object of certain observation difficult to account for. The Moniteur certainly had the un doubted right to reproduce this document on the morrow of the day that it had been laid before the house by Lord Pahnorston, without waiting for the re ceipt in Paris of the L ndon journals with an English translation of the text. It was advisable that the French journals should not incur the risk of altering the highly important terms of this despatch by • double translation. This precaution of the Moniteur im juatified by • second fact which we will now mention. The diplomatic docu ments eman►ting from the French government are distinguished by a rare quality; they are always drawn up in the clearest and moat precise terms. Nevertheless, a speaker in the house sought to discover in a phrase of this despatch an accusation directed against England, who was represented as raising political assassination to the dignity of • doctrine. Bad faith is dis played in this method of torturing a text which clearly de clared that England had unfortunately become the refuge of the chiefs of a party which, in fact, raises a doctrine out of political assassination." The Pays maintains that the Anglo-French alliance is above the vicissitudes of a minister or a cabinet; it says "Lord Palmerston, in spite of his advanced age, has die played of late years, in the direction of the political affairs of hie country, the rarest gift, of a statesman. The minister who entered public life by receiving from Lord Castlereagh the post of Secretary of War at the hottest period of the struggle between England and imperial France, had thrown off all him eld prejudiced; and the recollections of his younger days ; and his great sagacity, embracing the true interests of England and of Europe, had led him to become the most persevering and the most able defender of the French alliance. Is it for this that Lord Palmer awn has fallen P Are we to interpret his fall as a check to the alliance? We do not believe this. The alliance lass in the noble lord a superior mind and a hied devotion ; but this alliance rises superior to persona or to individual will ; It represents the new inte rests of civilisation, and we do not believe that a single party exists in England that has not inscribed the French alliance at the head of Its programme." • The next observation of our contemporary is less meri torious : the late hour not prevented the continuation of the debit*, we have no doubt that the bill would have been adopted by a strong rujority." The Patna contains the following sensible remarlut on tho exaggerated article of the Morning l'ose which attributed to the majority that voted in favour of the amendment the intention of menacing Prance " The Port goes a great deal too far in its epinicm. We conceive that this ardent defender of Lord Palmerston should be severe towards the triumphant coalition, but we cannot look at the consequences of this vote in each very gloomy colours. The adversaries of Lord Palmerston have chosen abed field for their victory ; this is their greatest fault. They have defeated him on a question, or rather about a question, which they not only cannot repudiate, but on which they mart themselves seek to triumph." The following is from the Prase : " Those who have followed with attention the current of the discussion in parliament, u also in the press and out of doors, will attribute this vote to two different motives. The spirit of opposition, the desire of giving a check to ministers, figure largely in t he decision; but it would be unjust not to record a certain sentiment of pride and of national susceptibi lity which Is easily aroused in England.' . The Union says : " We have always believed, and we still believe, that, in the present state of Europe, a ministerial crisis in England is an event of gravity, the sole appearance of which is of a nature to excite the most serious attention of political men." The Courrier de Paris exclaims : " For the honour of BpgLnd , Xre aro happy to dwell on the regrets expressed by the London press at the iota on the amendment of Mr. Milner Gibson." This declaration is followed by two extracts from the Globe end Morning Chroniek. PIEDMONT. (PROW 01:II OWN OORRESPONDINT.) TURIN, Via. 19. Yesterday eleven new elections of deputies took I place. The results of ten of them are already known, and there is only one in which the gain belongs to the Clerical party; the Left side has gained two or three members and the others are for the govern ment. These fresh elections, in addition to the ten which were accomplished on the 3rd, clearly show that the first success of the Clericals reall 'h ap pened by a surprise and by their intrigues. them selves confess their defeat, and have litt e or no hopes of the par li amentary contest. At present their eyes are turned towards France, and they think that constitutional liberties on the Con tinent will not be able to resist the di plomatic treasure which will daily . become heavier ; and this confidence of theirs is largely shared in by the official journals of Lombardy, which have for some time past resumed the insolent lan guage from which they had seemed inclined to desist. In the Bilancia, which though not an official journal, is one most devoted to the Austrian government, they have gone so far as to accuse the son of the Deputy Fermi as being mixed up with the late con spiracy in Paris. So foul a calumny as this cannot be endured, and I believe the honourable Deputy will bring an action for it before the Milan tribunals; we shall see whether the Austrians will do him justice. In Turin itself, the existence of a French note to our government upon the affair of the 14th of Jana ary has been affirmed and denied The pertinacity both of the assertion and contradiction of this fact was due to an equivocation. No special note has been sent to Count Cavour from the Chancery of Paris, as I have more than once told you ' • but to him, i n the same manner as to the English and the Belgian ministries, and likewise to the Swiss Con federation, was communicated the same note of which Lord Palmerston has spoken in your House of Commons. This was yesterday declared in the Piedmontese Chamber by the President of the Council, in reply to a somewhat unseasonable inter pellation addressed to him by the Deputy Valerie, one of the leaders of the Left section. I send you the text of the bill which was the day before yesterday proposed to the Chamber by one of the ministers, the Keeper of the Seals. Upon the whole, the impression it has produced upon people's minds is not very favourable, and the Liberals are complaining of it. We are anxiously awaiting the termination of the debates in your House of Com mons upon the bill which is now under discussion, and which turns upon the same matter. A. The Mazzinian journal of Genoa, the Italia a Avoid, was again seized on the 17th, for an article relating to foreign affairs. TIM KW !MI Ht Lon ac hog forma I coati could 1 the ca preen r whole Mr. Praise Fred« The the de Idea Hie pond° porta furred of opt end it know!' other e Brides not atti - Ili debts 1 beak u each ea tha to Dec 18e. 4d Brow¢ 14,162/ debt, 4 Cache 12.. 7d Croa remark but Mr 'WW2 and an the Nu By dfrectoi from bfak N Dill. ru decrees By 1 for the became Coma principl on the Lad die h o iv o prt d Mr:, the mit again ? Mr. have i. 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