The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

London were 152 bales from Constantinople, 109 ditto from Gibraltar, 628 from Sydney, 10 from Rotterdam, 22 from Hamburgh, and 102 from Galatz. Since our last report the demand for most kind: of Tallow, on the spot, has sornnwhat improved, and really fine parcels have advanced 3d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. is steady at 35s 3d to 354 6d per cwt. For forward de livery nothing doing. Town Tallow is 35e to 35s 6d per cwt. net cish; Rough Fat, 2s per Sibs. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. j 1,02 Stack this day .... •• 10,390 Price of Y. C ** [to 5 528 15 ° 6C1 D elivery last week • • 1,164 Ditto from June 1.... 81,95 drrivals last week •. 181 Ditto from June 1 ... 184,364 Price of Town • • • • •• I 818 6d 32,414 40,147 403 Od 37A Od to Os Od to Os Od 2,046 1,744 7,72 72,839 htl 9 156 103,377 87,515 434 0(1 384 6cl 42,691 1 52,785 37s 6d to 258 3d 05 I to3ss td 1,911 1,450 74,519 82,913 1,111 1,003 91,692 99,1t,4 39s 6tl 1 38s Cd ••CRIMINAL couirr,—(THlS DAY.) OLD couieT. The February sessions of the Central Criminal Court Were opened this morning. befre the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Sir John Mus- Rrove, and Alderman Lawrance, attended by the Sheriff s , Under -Sheriffs, and other civic fauctionari,4. The calendar contains the names of 71 prisoners, being 17 from London, 39 from Middlesex, two from Essex, five from Kent, and eight from Surrey. The grand jury having been selected and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to charge them, to the fol lowing effect. He was very brief in bis remarks, and simply observed that the calendar was exceedingly light, while, as far as he could ascertain, none of the eases presented any legal difficulty. There were, it was true, some serious cases, but the majority of them were of the ordinary character; and, on the whole, be was happy to congratulate them upon their labours, this • session, being exceedingly light., The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards, some true bills being returned into court, the trials commenced. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The February adjourned sessions commenced this Morning at Westminster. John Garrett, aged twenty-three, a young man of re• markably reap. ctable appearance, was found guilty of stealing two half-crowns, the monies of Peter Squire, his master.. The prosecutor is the eminent chemist of No. 277 , Oxford -street, a nd th e priso ner was one o f hi s as sistants. Tl 3 e ASSISTANT JUDGE, in passing sentence, observed that the education and character of the prisoner aggra vated the offence, and called for a severe punishment. 8e therefore sentenced him to be imprisoned six months and kept to hard labour. 111 A - -NSION-HOUSE.—(THIS DAY.) BEARTLEss ROBBERY.—Mary Simonds was placed before the Lord Mayor, charged with the following cruel robbery Mrs. Robson stated that six weeks since the prisoner elite to her house quite destitute, and she, out of kind -1)1', took her in, and she bad been there ever since. 1 ea terday the police told her that the prisoner was elted op f or stealing a shawl, and upon making an °Ornination she found that several things had been stolen. „„,..• The, prison er sa id that she took the things not with the -mention of stealing them, but intended to return them. ". 4 : 13 e• LORD MAYOR remanded her until Thursday. 14 ARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) 14 ,ekulloN To RUNNING NEWSMEN.—Cornelius ßiley, th , il liant'llargrave, alias .Nimble," and James Powell, A .1 1 (3i) ftyitig newsmen," were placed at the bar before bp' Bingham, charged with creating a disturbance in . 43 •11 1- " street; Berkeley-square, during the hours of divine ,ervice yesterday. ? Wice-constable 191 C said, that about three o'clock yesterday a f ternoon ho was on d u ty in Hill -street, w i'en his attention was caliei to the defends nts, who re calling out at the top of their voices, " The last i! ,•Eti tion—the Earl of Derby's interview with her Ma l'ety-;" and as there had been repeated complaints Oinfilt the newsmen calling out at unseasonable hours, he tbok them to the station, where they had been locked , ter since. The defEndants having expressed their sorrow for their conduct,' l'Ir• BINGHAM said the defendants' voices were very • m usks],, no doubt, and they might be hard pressed to get living•but still they must not call out their papers at seasonable hours or during divine service on a Sun- S'; With this caution, he should now discharge them. gnu ha defendants bowed very low to the magistrate. pr y e zl PP.ed out A of court in double quick ti John, me. Q DER FOR A PREE.—Mr. Broadhurst with merchant. 51, Finceley New-road, was charged 'I A I- 1 /ting drunk and riding his horse on the foot t. B.YeP, 181 C, having proved the case, the defendant as fined 205., which sum was immediately paid. SPORTING NOTES. No. CLXXIV. THE LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. (Continued from No. CLXXIII.) SIR,_TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Nln continuation of my analysis of the Grand Mional, having already disposel'of the heavy division, t ,lhall now make a point of considering the chances of r a j , middle weights, commencing with Mr. Deacon's „` - 'a l f and Half, lOst 61b. This horse has run respectably seva • • ;,. ,rai times, and was well up in this race last year, but ;Much better suited to the two miles of a hurdle-race 'all to the four miles odd of the present steeplechase. atPta . us Smythe's bay mare, Joan of Arc, lOst 61b, once O s g re at favourite ut the list houses, is so badly " in" in 11, ta e ari pson with others, that her chance is completely Et ta li ti s med. Mr. Talbot's Simple Harry, same weight tk the preced i ng, i s au anima l b e l ong i ng to ,7, Me diocre class, and not destined to accomplish any u lordinar feat on this (cession. Mr. Mason's bay ka pp Yre hs s us Mowbray, lOst 41b, within the last fe days )w Of h'"°Ene a rattling favourite, and upon the strength ado Performance last year has been backed for a large lis s -ti l a t of hard cash; her condition is first rate, and she alae colY given some creditable signs in several journeys ee t ,,"Made across the country of being a very danger vsh `ampetitor I, however, have no penchant for her key '. . ths tin b.r, considering, and not without reason, that her ligh ts la held perfectly sate by several others weight, d lO st e s r ,,ill the scale. Mr. S. Thompson's Hardwick, th 4 - •' 0 , Within the last three or four months, upon ton i , Pligth of his performances, has . made no in laid; arable stir in the steeplechasing circles. It was not b ,' ll °ne of his races that he would have won bad he 11 114 ( .7, e , t with a slight accident in approaching the finish, Ettv,il; ills other race he was made a certainty, and won I:4 tl( s plaough. His pretensions are certainly above w as e : b ,:' 1 3 7 , but from past experience I should say he irave) 4 Pable of getting the distance he will have to br qe, ~'") 4 this occasion. Mr. Magnan's ch m Dolly ' s Ircila n Prs, 10at, has figured very well on the flat in tlUisi t - s "' but she is scarcely of that class of animals re eos,„7 for the Liverpool Steeplechase course. Mr. %Z -,' ll , a rs Silent Friend, 9st 121 h, I cannot fancy for ,C y l ;'`„ a nt• Mr. Goodwyn's b m La Garza Ladra, to r r t - , , oit 121 b, for two or three weeks the first favourite backed Popular steeplechase, and by the Englisbers of d for enormous sums, principally upon the credit .4,1e4 s olitary performance last year in the Irish rilttrt r opolita n F ree Handicap S weeps t a k e s, which, is I : it well, was over a course scarcely three miles i ssrc i tl r 3 ,gth, when carrying 9st 111 b, she beat fit2i, „, kxeorge, 12st 71h,.cleverly by two lengths; Daphne, ilb, being a very so so third; Gridiron, 9st 41b, ~ud r th; Corrig, with li s t, up ; t' ii i t inn list ? i t c b, p eeping Tom, Prosperity, lOst 91b, lio'sv a this race arZT 9st 61b, Maid of Mohan, iler, Bst 101 b, were beaten otf. Liver criterion of La Gaz:aieled properly, be taken as Liverpool Steeplechase, for a dra'S pretensions to the the first place, that t cturse was a three-miler, while I I :, Nail f ourand halt' and, in the one, t y a . .. e second, she carried g Weight of 2st 101 b A 11lb receiving only the mein fr o a very good second. All 14 1 Lord George, who ran Corsi itwas made to give her I sm l usl Lord George, with the exception of g, wore and he 4'44 Lord wretched lot, us Uts s cousequently, must be evident to ' 4 3' (, r , 4 pounds; *ill a rr'' lersed in such ma . . tters that the race ' I re l an d b in -- I'd 1 to remarkablyhi is a out to ensue in ogi a „ 110 C Ile kfa 2b ;. She is a fine bay mare - b is v blood, and li , ' - Pr te T`' , darn by Drone, very good as been rs.r. " l b •of Curragh. If not. already Il Trived , y Harrison the drty e uora the Emerald Isle, she will be here in a fe w other side of the eh ' s 'She is much fancied on the admirers that ak e a Z"el, hitt has not that great number of Il i t] England. (To be concluded to-morrow.) I am, Sir, yours, &c. TURF. THE SPIT' THE Fe b: 23, 1852. N-13 " 'N, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST Tr ain, RAILWAY. tafrie"-Week ending Feb. 21,1852 ... £7,430 10 8 , h tet k i e- r, Week ending Feb. 22, 1851 ... 7,5 i 3 5 6 4 04,1 ° ` the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 61,094 1 6 ef the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 62,883 710 Total number of Passengers—Week ending Feb. 21, 1852 ... 45,027 486 engerS ...X ‘,239 12 11 %oda . 2,190 17 9 •.. ••. ••• £7,430 10 8 4 11u „A , nailes open, 1852, 173 LA Cae n Terminus, Feb. 23, 1852. ditto, 1851, 17111. kr 'tart f . tdwin James, Q.C., has been requested to tlr, j°! the Bor oug h o f W estm i nster , I , i , ''.ll Villiers Shelley. in con unction with . lk s ,'" NCE.— 1'0 n ,,,. ~ ,,T FROM THE PRESIDENT 4, lt:'" 'Louis Napoleon has jut sent, thro O u F gh F re k k' 4 i2ti " L ouis in London, to Dlr. J. Laurie, of Hyde-i ar . - P cri : french I,:.g.lliticent gold box, which bears the following ins P 0 _ ,'ral,' Presented b Prince Louis Napoleon, President . - t . orate , to - John Laurie, F , q of Ilyde•park-place, mag's n4 f _tlie counties of de and ssex, him which be 4c)tig,,, i the very gracious gifts received by as a remern if [O. the Emperor Napoleon.-1852. tit, vpiIPtY.DANE THEATRE —The " Amazon " bane -4e'taes place to-nig . ht, under the patronage . o s f Diit j i st Y , who will, we understand, lie present, occuple 4 I:i t , l .ia attention to an unusual degree, and will produce !olel, ,P,er. After a series of dissppointreents, occasioneds _ , 1111. 4,; 1 ill-ealth, Mr. Sims Reeves re-appeared on a C h eat' a ' h a nd attracted a crowded house. He has made i a t d t e wic s: "'la N vt - e iit in -&a Diavolo, that, we see, he kt N A , ii zt - ,: n , OF THE QUEEN OF M ADAGASC AR .--HEr ~- ~ t:;'''' 810 0 p Pantaloon, which arrived of Portsmouth Zreal,Y (Sunday) reports the death of this troublesome nye - Ptitentate, 'att ' .er the defeat . and degradation& off,thirel *)ov.,,t of her - -mbi t 44 4 t ralY in a contest with a belligerant Die THE SUN, LONDON, COURT CIRCULAR. Lord John Russell had an Ludience of the Queen on Saturday morning. His Lordship had also an audience of her Majesty- in the afternoon at Buckingham Palace. after the breakiug•up of the Cabinet Council, held at the Foreign-office. His Royal Higbrr?ss Prince Albert rode out on horse back on Saturday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. A. Gordon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princss Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usua: exercise on Saturday, in the grounds of Buckingham Mil Ice. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun tess of Mount Edge.cumbe, the Hon. Lucy Kerr. Lord Fdphinstone, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Princ.3 of Wales, and the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of tho Court, and tho domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning, iu the private chapel of Bucking ham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley of- The Earl of Darby had an audience of the Queen yes terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. At her Majesty's dinner party on Friday the band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance at Buckingham Palace, and performed the following selection during dinner:— Overture—" Ali Baba" Cherubini. Ri-cit. and Nachtigallen Duet—" Es war die Nachtigal die Sang" (Casilda). Waltz —" Homage a Londr, , s" Selection—" Cenerentola"... Koh ner. Rossini. Music de Ballet—(Casilda). March—" Alexander" ... Gungl. After dinner her Majesty's private band attended, and performed the following compositions:— Overture —" Naudeville" ... Maurer. Scenn du Rondo—"Il Crociato" Meyerbeer. Fantasie sur des motifs de Mczirt et de Beethoven. Lori John Russell bed a Parliamentary dinner party on Saturday, at his residence in Chesham-place. The compitny consisted of Captain Scobell, M.P.; Colonel Watkins, M.P.; Mr. Mitchell, M.P.; Mr. Morris, M.P.; Mr. James Marshall, aI.P.; Sir William Molesworth, M.P.; Lard James Stuart. M.P.; Mr. Osborne, M.P.; Mr. Horsman, M.P.; Mr. Romiily, M.P.; Mr. Tancred, M.P.; Mr. Kershaw, M.P.; Sir B'njsmi❑ Hall, M.P.; Mr. Leach, M.P.; Mr. John Evans, M.P.; Colonel Thompson, M.P. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office on Sa turday, from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Dispatches were also received from the Governors of North and South Australia, New Zealand, and the Mau ritius. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Cranworth, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, Sir J. Patteson, Dr. Lushington, and Sir Edward Ryan. Lowe's petition for extension of patent (part-heard) was concluded, and Taylor's petition for extension of patent was heard. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The ser vice was read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Bel mere; the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, and the Com munion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Immediately affer the dehat of the Ministry in the Commons on Friday night, Major Beresford, as whipper in of the Conservative party, dispatched a telegraphic message to Swindon, and thence a special messenger to the Earl of Derby, at Badminton, where the Noble Earl bad only arrived the same day on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The Earl of Derby returned to London by the mid day train on Saturday, and arrived at his mansion in St. James's-square at six o'clock. A special messenger arrived at his Lordship's mansion at seven o'clock on Saturday evening, bearing a commu nication from the Queen, commanding the attendance of the Noble E a rl a t B uc kingham Palace yesterday after noon. Yesterday morning a variety of communications passed between th e N o bl e E ar l and the leaders or his party. The Earl of Derby proceeded to Buckingham Palace at half-past two o'clock, and had the honour of an inter view with her Majesty. After leaving her Majesty the Noble Earl had an in terview with Mr. Disraeli. LORD PALMERSTON'S RECEPTION. Viscount Palmerstou's " reception" on Saturday evening was again attended by a brilliant circle of the corps aiplomatique and aristocracy. Previously to the assembly, the Noble Viscount and Viscountess entertained a small par ty a t dinner, the Vnests inc'uding—the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury , iscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount Melgund, Lord Broughton and the Hon. Miss Hobbouse, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley; How John Fortescue, Hon. Spencer Poosonby, Mr. Monckton Wines, MT, and Mr. H. Fleming. The company invited to the " reception" began to set down at 10 o'clock. The Duke of Wellington, as usual, paid his respects to the Nobte Viscountess, arriving about 11 o'clock. Amoog the members of the corps diplornatique present were the French, the Turkish, the Netherlands, the Sardinian, the Neapolitan, the Belgian, the Brazilian, the Russian, the Bavarian, the Danish, the Greek, the Portuguese, the American Ministers and their ladies, the Spanish Chard d'A ffairs, Count Louis Corti, Ccuut l3enteroghi, M. de Veillat, M. J. L. Uibiztondo, M. Both man Hollweg, Count Penponcher, M. Serrnrier, the S:.cretary of the Portuguese Legation, Baron do Geer, &c. . _ _ A great many distinguished foreigners were present during the evening. AL Thiers was among the early visitors. The general circle included, among others, the Duchess of Inverness, the Duke of Newcastle, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marchioness of Aylesbury and Lady Hermione St. Maur, the Earl Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of Delawarr, the Earl Jermyn, the Countess Tankerville, the .Countess (Frances) Waldgrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., the Earl and Countess of Desert, the Count and Countess de Flahault,Viscount Harding°, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Chewton, Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount and Vis countess Eastnor, Viscount Einlyn, Viscount and Vis countess Torington, Viscount Galway, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Brougham and Miss Soalding, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Lord NOrrer, M• P ” Lady Williams, Lord Ernest Bruce, m.p., Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., and Miss Grosvenor, Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Lord Ashburton, Lady James Stuart and Miss Stuart, Lard Campbell and the Ba roness Stratheden, Lord and Lady Montesgle, Lord Hobart, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lord Crewe, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Lord and Lady Foley, Lady Morgan, Lady William Russell, Lord and Lady Beau mont, Baron Lionel Rothschild, Hon. C. Howard, M.P., Hon. George Herbert, Hon. C.. Spring Rice, Hon. W. F. Campbell, M.P., Hon. C ec il Fot ester, M.P., Hon. IL Fitzroy, M.P., and Mrs. Fitzroy, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Miss Shaw Lefevre, the Right lion. W, E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., the Right Hon. IL T. Corry, M.P., and Miss Corry, the Right Hon. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, M.P., Sir' Robert Peel. M.P., Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Sir E. Cole brooks., M.P., Sir Thomas Birch, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, Sir G. Brooke Pechell, M.P., Sir James Brooke, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir James Matheson, MX., Sir Mon tagu Cholmeley, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., Mr. Pinney, M.P., Mr. J. Duff, M.P., Mr. H. Drummond, M.P., Mr. Adair, M.P., Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Roebuck, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P., Mr. Headlam, M.P„ Mr. John Townelsy, M.P., Mr. 11. A. Herbert, M.P., Mr. George R e p ton, M.P., Mr. Disraeli, M.P,, the O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., Mr. Chisholm Anstey, M.P., Mr. Chichester For rescue, M.P., Mr. John Stuart, M.P., Mr. Calvert, M.P., Mr. H. Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Tancred, M.P , Mr. H. Baring, M.P., Mr. P. Howard, M.P., Admiral Bowles, Captain Loch, M.P., Mr. Tenison, M.P., &c. &c. expectedFltOrnißdAeLccoo;:tdß jEsoph: LORD JOHN RUSSELL. w p E o u .N l T d I h N a B y M e D a F 0 t R u D D I S 13 b l l e rt , I think he E . 2nd I well with the couonitcre of a very proper occasion to retire at some future and L. ye will come into office again was spiteful of Lord distant_ time, a greater man. It must try; and I mint I s. Almerston. Now Lord Derby for the Protectionists will never that I feel glad that he will, trade until their friend haante:is e r d sit down quiet with free su re as he attempts to tax b read, h e can d o; b u t F O shtpP, out he will go , and then the no matter in what e down. Lord Derby is not an honest roan ; will settle d ons prove that. o n e t hing is certain, whoevernian;hispast ac nis!er, the sitm e course of Liberal P oll ey must is Ali ust be pur sued. As to the now Reform Bill, it is ail new Reform Bill will he of a .i . umble of nonsense. No service to the Whoever is I+ • country without the ballot. . r Minister must make great alteration in the Property and Income-tax Acts, or tbey wont carry it. Lord John always shone in • • Iso he will again. I suppose Glad opposition, and . stone will be one of the now Ministers. -- --- 7 -.----77= ', „,) --- __Th e Right Hon. me TEE SPEAKER-8 1J1N , ..... , Otl Burghley,Saturday, ~,phe,ankethregfaovueoub,iisngse)scioenmdbPerastili,,,a,ernreeaptrr :—LordlNe'nidatintlnneerrs, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord John Lord Naas, Mr. Banker, R Hon. .G B ele t r h a , l I s . i 3; g J o n o h , il Hon. l _ a r i (l i s e ü ß t euni Boiler, - C4 r l o John , Forester, aking t o S n ir , Major Beresford, Mr. Christopher, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Miles, Mr. John Stuart, Mr. Forbes .Mackenzie,BruCcea,pti‘aiirn Boldero, Mr. Packe, Mr. Henley, Mr. Cumming Baillie, Mr. Philip Bernet. Mt. W. Ctibtt, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Napier, Mr. Bramaton, an d M r . H a milton. CABINET COUNCIL..—t, Cabinet Council was held ~ at the Foreign-office, Downing , street, on Saturday afternoon. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the 'Marquis of Lansdowne., the Earl of Mint°, Sir George Grey, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Rari ng , t h e Ri ght H on. F ox Maule, the Right Hon. Henry Labiaichere, the Earl of Car lisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Seymour, and the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith. The Council sat an hour and a half. LISBON AND THE BRITISII SQUADRON.--It iS re ported that so much have the authorities at Li s b on b een ac customed to rely on the protection afforded b y the presence of a British naval force in the Tagus, that, to prevent the i usual applications for the delay of departure t was given out when Commodore Martin left the Tagus, that he was under sealed orders. LITERATURE. HORACE GRANTHAM; or The Neglected Son. By Charles Horrocks, Esq. Shoberl. Among the many works of fiction with which the literature of the present day abounds there are few to be met with containing a higher purpose than the one before us. From the proverbs of the wise King to the last educational design, the training of youth has engaged the attention of sages, philosophers, and statesmen. As in the world of sense "Man never is, but always to be blest," so in the world of action it is to the new generation that all look as a pillar of trust. It is a natural impulse of human nature to turn from present failures and disappointments to the contemplation of future successes and glory. Hence many have indulged the dream end entertained the hope that the children of their care would be as shining lights . to the world, and gain the applause of their fellow-men. But what right they have to form such an opinion of the result of their labours, or bow such an hereafter can proceed from the now, might puzzle the wisest to determine. The work in ques tion ably depicts the utter heartlessness of many parents, exempt from care, immersed in pleasures, I possessed of boundless wealth, who consider their 1 children as encumbrances that interfere with their f p .r r o o m g r e s s all , f u a r n t d h e r ire annoyance,onlytoobyielanptpruystitroig escape of unknown, and perhap s unworth y p ersons,e those heirs of immortality, for whose care they must render up an account. How, it is asked, can the young be protected from danger and temptation, if no encouragement is held out to them. It is the fashion now-a-days to hold in derision all feeling and senti ment; but the cold caculations and levelling doctrines of materialism will never supply the place of warmth of heart and loftiness of spirit. If harmony cannot prevail at borne, is it likely to be met with amid the discords of the world ? The story is very interest ieg, and there are some characters which form a pleasing contrast to the above, exemplifying the truth of the principles laid down, that good is stronger than evil, end that the apparently hopeless may be saved by timely aid. Mr. Cecil is the good spirit who in terferes to rescue the unfortunate hero from the effects of his folly and error, occasioned by neglect and mis management. Amy is a delightful heroine, full of grace and intelligence, although, as will be seen, she is led away too easily by her feelings. Altogether the perusal of this work insures satisfaction, and a higher admiration is accorded, when it is remembered that it has an end and object in its pages, whose im portance none can deny, and whose improvement all must desire; for, after all, the past is over and the pre sent passing, then it is to the future that we look for the day-spring, on the fulfilment of its promise our hopes must rest. Therefore this narrative espe cially concerns the coming, for, as it has been ably expressed by the author of ",Sybil,"" The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity." The fol lowing extracts will serve to show the object and style of the work : " How many youths there are wandering about amid the busy scenes of life whose parents, though Affluent and even powerful, never bestow a thought on their mural training, far less cu4ivate that natural feeling of love and duty in their children which all orignally pos sess, and which only becomes blunted when the know ledge is at last forced upon them that they aro nothing more than stumbling-blocks in their path, that they aro looked on not as boons from the Most High, but as in terlopers who must indeed he fed, clothed, and educated according to their different grades in life, but who are not worthy of consideration, affection, nay, even corn monregard. " Fathers, fathers of the present generation, ye are all addressed, though some, indeed, form a gladsome con tract to the above. Pause and reflect. Do ye, indeed, blame the dissipated, the erring, and the lost; are ye estranged from those whom God gave and whom In re ality no crimes should sunder from ye, for no father should detest his son—his own flesh and blood I Pause, reflect 1 Is there no neglect on your own parts of those numberless duties which it should be the pride and in clination of ye all to perform? Has there been that fond affection, that watchful care in boyhood, that gentle though firm guidance in youth, which at once attack the hearts and ensnare the respect of sons. It there has not think again, and recollect that ye, ye alone are to blame, and that it is never too late to relent and receive the lost sheep to the paternal fold again. "At this glorious moment, with the moon shining above them, in the midst of the most splendid scenery, and not a sound audible save their own low voices and the distant murmuring of the waters, it seemed to her —romantic by nature, and wound up by the intensity of her own feelings, which were greatly excited by the impassioned ton© in which her lover had related his dream—as if they alone were inhabitants of the globe, that all misery and unhappiness had vanished from the earth, and that in reality they were about to visit toge ther sumo celestial abode of divine love and magni ficence. " She laid her head on his shoulder, and Horace leant against a tree which now overshadowed them, in the full enjoyment of all that superhuman happiness which can not be described, hut is well known to those who have had the good fortune thus to love and be beloved in return by the on e si ng l e o bj ec t o f th e ir worship, and without whom life and all its pleasures would be a worth less blank. Oh, glorious moments! immortal seconds of time! never to be forgotten periods of incomprehensible joy ! when the senses lose the power of thought for aught but the present, and the conventional modes of life aro buried in an absorbing and overwhelming sentiment of mutual love! why are ye so fleeting? why is it t!lipcv.- sibli to prolong your existence, or to court ye ott aid again from the realms above? " NEW MUSIC. 7he Stream and the Willow, Duet. The Wandering Stars. Duet. Farewell ! remember Me. Duet. Say, where shall we Roam. Duet. The Flower Gatherers. Duet. The Warrior Page. Duet. The Angel's Song. The Vision Romances for the Piano-forte. By Brin ley Richards. Recollections of Wal es . B y B rinley Ri c hards. Robert C oc k s an d C o. The words of the se songs are wr i tten by J. E. Carpenter, the music is composed by Stephen Glover. " The Stream and the Willow " is a very pretty duet in Mr. Glover's peculiar style. " Farewell! remem ber Me," is the next in merit. " Say, where shall we Roam" and " The Flower Gatherers" are not re markable for novelty, but are pleasing. " The Wan dering Stars" and " The Warrior Page" are inferior to the others, especially the latter, which is very si milar to the old duet of "My pretty Page. I Vith these exceptions the collection is very good, though the words of Mr. Carpenter are worthy of more va riety than the music gives them. " The Angel's Song" and " The Vision" are written with Mr. Brinley Richards's usual grace and elegance of style, and will bear comparison with the best of his com positions. "The Recollections of Wales " are founded on the oldest national airs and well carried out. " The Rising of the Lark " arid " The Ash Grove " are the best, though the others will amply repay the learner for the difficulties he will encounter. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWA E An error having occurredin - tVe report of the pro ceedings of this company's half-yearly meeting, on Fri day, in respect of the dividend declared, a corrected copy of the following resolution, as pa,ased, is sent herewith:— " Second, That a dividend of 31. per 1001. stock, and so on in proportion, on shares of a lower nominal amount, be now declared out of the net profits of the company, up to the 31st of December last, upon the stock and shares of the proprietors entitled to the same, after making or allowing such deductions as are di rected by the Acts relating to the company in respect of amounts not paid up, and deducting the proportion of dividend payable in respect of any period of which the proprietors of shares are not entitled to. dividend." A general meeting of the inhabitants of St. Paul, Shadwell, took place in their vestry-room, on Friday even ing, " to take into consideration the Bill for Parliamentary Reform introduced by Lord John Russell, and now before the Legislature" ; Mr. Allam, churchwarden, and President of the Shadwell Parliamentary Reform Association, in the chair. Mr. Sutton, overseer, in an able speech, moved the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Foley, and supported by Mr. Skillet :—" That in the opinion of this meeting, the Bill recently introduced by Lord John Russell, is both defective and unsatisfactory, as it denies the right of the franchise to the greater number of the producing classes, makes no provision for the vote by ballot, triennial Parlia. ments, or equalized electoral districts. It is, therefore, to tally unworthy of acceptance." Mr. W. E. Corner trustee, then moved, and Mr. Sheldrick, overseer, seconded—" That a petition, embodying the foregoing resolution, be prepared, and signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting , a nd shat Mr. George Thompson and Sir William Clay be re quested to present and support the same in the Comtnous House of Parliament." Both resolutions were unanimously carried, and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. o the les cries for help ATTEMPTEDI.4 Ar sTRR, A.,LBRDER AND ROBBERY IN VICTORIA , WEsTistrssTun.—On Saturday morning, at half-past , in a , t three o'clock, the attention of the police was attracted by in Victoria -street, Pimlico. The consta n,,,,immediately proceeded to the spot, and found John Ro binson,B., forty t wo cliff-highwav years, residing at Albert-street, Rat ing. lie 1,,,,a3 spe,, , d i i re of insensibility on the ground bleed yi,:onveyed. to Westminster; Hospital, where every attention he had been i ust paid his Nv t a ea g .i a d es now lies in a precarious sisal) , to on t the surnetteurrt from unfortunate f em a a man, foreign station, and had been , taondsee It appears from his statement on his aew friends in the neighbour e hood while ni , a w t " when one others one u w, t r r n e eitit,:nile wasi.lo w a n t t l a ri e c k t e o ( - 1 r h i o a c - id stre t et, '' a es t tin th in e st c e o r rner of Orchard-street, six men, who knocked him soldiers belonging to the Grenadier Guardsn e e ized him by the robbed b the e tl throat, and kneeled on his breast, him of liis. Being a powerful young made des perate resistance, and would h ave secure d one ofliii a n ists, had they not used some instrument, and left hai ata i g° , - ,. state of insensibility. Hearing footsteps approaching al ti n they to get over the palings, and made their -- esca le: . across Elliott's-green ; and although the parties are well ‘ known t o the police, and every exertion has been used to bring the scoundrels to justice, up to the present time no clue has been obtained of their retreat. Fortunataly, lie had le f t 71. in the care of a licensed victualler in the neighbour hood of the S:rand. - uv -- One - of the tnonkep3 in Wombwell's menagerie, which was exhibiting at Bristol last week, escaped from his cage, and running along the bars in front of the adjoining cages, was seized by a leopard, drawn into kis den, and devoured. E VENING, MONDAY i SPIRIT of the WH eE a .. Nr PUBLlCeEehWapp yM INISTRY. by Special an corn e a:i x wh il ic E h ß o A ur li e D on •— t T emporari ! shall The dNooubblte have to k s e a s ti n sf t y or t m ie sc d t o ic u g lets tk w em ith . his attendance staves for the last fort been instructed to form t. ed e ig n i : less satisfy the wishes' ''. Lord arrived at his Lord Derby,expectations a () Li f e n k s e rof Majesty,th e nation. kas shortly before seven o'clock dhmouinrsis,traastiwone. esidence in St. James's-square on Saturday, and a few mo ments afterwards a with her Majesty about three-quarters commanding u e e n e n h 0 e a r: , i v e e n d d , h e e r - q f t r ier m ter t s he o g f at Buckingham Palace at half-past two eesterda The Noble Lord remained with that zeal and ability for which he has always been conspicuous, has undertaken the formation of the Cabi net. The names which we are enabled to prefix will, we think, be a sufficient guarantee that Lord Derby has set about his task, thus imposed on him by his Sovereign, ments which he has made earnestness; and that the arrange ment of the country will for conducting the govern tion. The speculations which with -general satisfac last few hours, and have been afloat for the which served to amuse the idle ness or exercise the ingenuity of the loungers, either at the clubs or at journal to certainty. Many of offices, may now give way been highly amusing to those those surmisess must have cur tain, and who listened, (themselveswho were behind the gra tuitous assumptions of learned unseen) to the the principles and the quid nuncs w ith regar d to appointments He does not intend to abjure of the Noble Lord. Protection; he does not intend not Wend (after the to form a coalition either either Protestantism or with Whigs or Peelites; h e d approved fashion of the pre sent principles to which he has long day) to abandon those given in his adherence, t and which will form the basis Sound protection for British industry administrative policy. industry in its several branches is what the nation desires, of those difficulties and the amelioration of those evils and the adjustment which have, imperceptibly almost, gathered round our social system. The weekly orga n sad, like another Othello, when of the late Ministry, gone," vents his spleen by predicating his occupartion is is in no better condition for acceptinging that Lord Derby office now than he was last year. He is read on it ; he speculates on the e o stake his credit chance of Lord Derby's intent to cajole " hi s confiding followers." Our contemporary's connexions not in this re spect been of the most reputable hrve in his lot with a set of politic 110 ns ; Le has thrown act which he would attribute to Lord Derby to whom the erby has become familiar; and be judges of others by himself and his own acquaintances. The N oble Lor be told that he will not gratify him; and it may cure his bi lio usness to is a false prophet in both h i s s p e culations;_ Lord Derby will not forsake nor deceive his party I ; Administra tion is nearly formed, and is in working trim. We ns ac cept our contemporary's cry : the Protectionists are ready. We accept also the challenge which be would place in the mouth of the p e op le— So are we eve wish favour; nothing more than fair p la y and no f • ur; that the people of England should wei g h w ell ths measures to be proposed to them, and test the st atesmen whom Lord Derby has called to share in the A dministration, with those who have retired fro m, or with those didates for office. It is an u n g r acious taskto trample who are can the fallen, and one for w hich we h ave not the least inclination. Still, when the task is forced upon us, and " progressive prosperity and peaceful success" are claimed for the late Admi nistration (can we believe our eyes!) we must ask , where a re the proofs? Is this praise undeserved a satire who will disguise? Is there any party in the nation will take up this cry of the late Ministerial advocates, and e venture to respond to their hollow voice, which can create no enthusiasm, no sympathy, itself devoid of both? prosperity, success" —they sound strange • v a t ewe ' ere are they ? Perhaps we are to look for them in ' Rafraria, or in our colonies, and their satisfactory relations wi • th the mother country. Perhaps, they lurk nearer home; for lurk they d o w herever they are; unless they eai only in the brain of th e writer. Perhaps , he finds thiss - t -peacene--.1 and prosp er ity i n the condition of the agriculturis ts, or in the relati ons no w existing between masters and work men. Perhaps, w hat all others have been trembling at as indicative o f wa r, to him wears the aspect o f and prosperity. Who can account for such - Peace perversions! Equally are we at a loss to discover the progressive success that he boasts of. We ha ve been labouring far several years past under a Ministeria l incu bus , dreaming a sometimes of great, sometimes of hor ribl e things, but r - realising nothi ng . W e have scarcely vegetated—rOot e to the spot, an d i t i s the bitterest of all sarcasms to ridi cule such a state of things by the name of progress. The Ministry could scarce hold together, an unsual act• • ivity would have shaken them to pieces, a step more r rapid than ordinary brought on a crisis. Their pogression has been to the rear; their success is thechronicled in the budgets of Sir Charles Wood anti c dispatches of Earl Grey. If such incapables can command the admiration of our contemporaries, that ad mirationan being; does not require any great things to fan it into .ng; and the Noble Lord who has now been called to cB direct ed the councils of the nation, may rest perfect] duals, of . the applause of such easily•contented in y d' sa * - , if, like his predecessor, he does no more 1".• bring than in measures which he has no intention to press, or pockets the salary of office, without being over -solicitous about the duties. Of thi s , h owe ver, we have appre hension. A stron g an d a v i g orous Government no is re quired, and such a one we shall now have; one, too, that shall not fall .into therive li d • l • ng, captious indif ferentism of its predecessor. The nation knows what. Lord Derby is, and what it has to expect from him. There can be no mistake; no sailing under false colours. There can be no hypocrisyor deceit with respect to the principles of the Nobl e Lord, or of those who are asso ciated with tarn. The nation will recognise in the names of more than ono of them expe rience, and well-earned men of talent, long reputati whose temper, firmness ' and , on ; men, also, to p ru d ence , those re forms may be entrusted and so vainly desired. Unquestionably Lord Derby a hard task before him; ho has to repair the evils and correct the erro r than one department, of s of his predecessors in more which have taken deep the State—errors and evils eradicated. He will have root, and will not very easily be milted by men who will h to retrace false steps, com of their misdeeds, He will have escaped the responsibility before there was nothing but to diffuse vigour where he will have to grapple wite d weakness and incapacity ; come more perplexed in lfficulties, which have be of those who have consequenceto in of the inefficiency the same time he has the with these difficulties. At various functions with ability for carrying out these supported by colleagues whose ity and energy. He will be is as great as that of any o experience, at all events, —with the exception of sir their competitors for office who are neither doctrinaire s James Graham; men,:alata more than all, he will be i good sense of the nation • supported by the judgment and' good aberrations, h as a l s : rhie h , notwithstanding occae to those of its servants who always shown itself favourable duty, and has always been willing have been earnest their willing both to hear and to . judge with candour. TIMES.—The e oonseque j more of the vote on Friday , n i g ht have been much rapid and decisive than , th o se which followed a the very same day, February similar event, strange to say, on; Y 2O , last year. On Satur d a y afternoon, after a me e ti ng -; of the Cabinet , L ord John, Ecasell proceeded to the Queen P alace, an d laid before the the resignation for Majesty by a note the previous he had prepared her halt-past two o'clock, Lord 7usnight. Yesterday, at ; the Queen, and accepted the Derby had an audience of nistration. For that he fully prepared, though of cutnstances under which he modifications as the particular eir- From the Palace ho proceeded office might require. Disraeli, and afterwards, a 3 mightd to the residence of Mr. vote of Friday night, be had an be expected from the an interview with Lord P a lmerston, from which, however, w e ma y add that the distin nothing resulted. h o m he h, oped to obtain guished financial [authority w Exc h eque r is, it is understaodaa his colleague in the up for, tha t anxious and , unwilling to give present honou rs and ensolumenus as the head precaious post his of one of the first eornine 537 arrang i ng the n ames °total :houses in • the world. Rumour has bee n b t he new Cabinet , and alies N o rthumberland at t he Admiralty, and Lord Malmes laced the Duke of bury at the Foreign- office, besides the obvious legal ap pointments. A few hours, however w h o l e Cabinet, which is already formed., will give us the will present the l ist to her Majesty Lord Derby afternoon, and kiss hands on hi s aat half-past two this Thus three days, including a Saturday to office. will settle the question, by handing ay and a Sunday, from a Whig to a Conservative Cabinet. ne over the country weeks since her Majesty opened the t• It is not three was rather more anxiety than usual to know and there work of that session was to be. Besides"now what the express pledges were approaching maturity, that several decided accumulation of arrears, and also ItY, there was a common character. The address from thei crisis of no the Ministerial announcements came in Throne and and, though criticized, were received with succession Legislature soon rushed in inediasres respect The ' , and till f • since we were deep in Chancery an d mie a few hours served meats and ventilation ; in borou g h s ‘ t ise in pre of all sorts and qualifi ca tions. That is ti and electors the merest touch of his wand a celebratedP"t' With quin has changed the whole scene, and, in hark bakers and butchers, contractors, and p ari a • tea d of cheap lam e formers, we find ourselves in green fields a ntary re with sturdy yeomen and hobnailed labourers farmyards, on the scene, as if they had always be en t a i l s once more old original harlequin has been snubbed fo ere. I f the he has his revenge in the freaks of our statesmen his politics, the pantomimic changes of St. Stephen'e.atesmen and if that be a result which is nothing at all, i The result, a false start, the session begins again. It ? that, after the Queen's Speech,' but Lord Derby' s , ti l l no longer gaping fur. How will he open Parliament?" Butwe are let us inter the dead with decent solemnity, nn, first There have descended to the tomb of all the Capulete th : 11 form Bill, the impending Kafir debate, and half new Re a dozen other Ministerial encumbrances. What a vast amount of research, what cleverness, what stationery, dered wottbless in a moment he , the little; is ren dered of Friday ! Here are the Sunday p apers, clever leaders on the topics of the Week, full of all now out of date. Besides heaps of letters, be s id es remou stranees of boroughs untqually yoked, and " illustrations" of the ne w Reform Bill; —.b,,57 own Wyld's borough map of Eng land, there lies be for i e us es Mn the prettiest blue book that ev er was Printed at the e ta file nation, with maps of eve r y county, and ther l'" of e the boundaries of every borough' and the change be made. All these, with the va luable lucubration to the country papers on the same subject, are now s waste Paper. Nobody who thinks fiv e minutes worth rescui from time will read one line of the m. The thoroughly 'gone to the bott om as the Amazon. The Cape questiore it is true, is so easily n g contents not 8 of the set at r es t. Th e Kafirs will go on fi g h t i ng, and are as we shall go on Paying, and every now and then Lord Grey will be evil spoken against; but he can no longer be called to account for the mischief. After a change of servants FEBRUARY 23, 1852. everybody knows that it is useless to ask why so easiest and most decisive victory from the mo little remains ef that china dinner service, and a change meat that Lord Palmerston casually placed him of Ministers equally cuts the thread of official responsi- self at their head ; and his position as teller of bility. A single fortnight of Lord Derby would de- the votes on the division of Friday night connects his stroy the identity of the past and any future Russell name with those of men long oppo se d to his own. From Administration, as the return to office of the very , such a casual service to a nearer connexion the transi same men would whitewash the blackest political I tion is neither long nor impracticable, and though die insolvency. Lathe flows over twenty embryo debates. claimed at present, we shall not be surprised to see it Except, perhaps, for a philosophic censor, like Sir Wil- effected hereafter. Upon the future course of events we Liam Molesworth, whose criticisms attach equally to the I do not s peculate here, but the lesson of the past is already Colonial-office past, present, and future. operations of legible and distinct. Lord John Russell's Administra- attack and defence are now equally obsolete. The I.tion has come to an end from causes which were clearly scene is changed, the actors are in new parts; it is a new ascer t a i ne d b e f ore h a nd, and which might, i n our judg drama that is about to be perf o rmed. So, bidding good- meat, h ave b een counteracted or suspended; fo r i t i s not by to the pa s t, we may now ask, what will Lord Derby the principles of the late Government which have lost do? Of edurse, there is a good deal which he may their weight and. ascendancy in the country, bat, with safely leave alone.. It is not to be expected that he two or three exceptions, the men who, composed it. should take up Lord John's Reform Bill, or that he Those principles will doubtless continue to moderate the should have one of his own in his pocket. He has a policy even of their opponents, and will ultimately bring right to at least a y ear ' s l aw on that subject. As the back to power a party more worthy to represent them; Committee on the Incom e - tax h as not even reported, he for we hope that party will not be framed on the narrow may ;reasonably be allowed a year more of the In and exclusive basis of Whig traditions, but that it will come-tax. Law reform will probably be as safe in embrace and consolidate in Opposition the most active the hands of Sir Edward Sugden as in those and intelligent political servants of the country. to which it has been hitherto committed. As CHRONICLE.—Lord Derby has had an audience of for the Cape troubles, though Lord Derby her Majesty, and has undertaken the formation of a Ca himself is by no .means blameless of them, h e w ill pro - bi net. This will occasion no surprise, as it has long been • , pose the necessary _change of policy , more gracefully ev id en t t h at some new M i n i ster i al com bi nat i on must b e than Lord Grey. On a review of all the questions as effected. The similarity which at first sight appears to yet before Parliament there is only - one which. threatens exist between the present Ministerial resignation and the 1 any immediate difficulty to a Derby Administration, crisis of 1851 is only superficial and casual. On both and that is the very difficulty which has brought him occasions Lord John Russell threw up office suddenly, into power. Should Louis Napoleon give further proof after a d e f eat, i n a thin House, of a dangerous ambition, that would compel on the importance. • On both occasions,on a point of secondary also, the manner of re country a more available description 'of force than Lord signation indicated a mix'ure of pique and of manage- J. Russell has ventured to propose, and would therefore merit on the part of the Premier. But last year it was y preparations, justify Friday's vote. In the absence of that Deus ex his object to an ti c i pate Lord Derb 's machina, Lord Derby will have to devise some measure and to satisfy the C rown, the country, and the mat.: which will reconcile conflicting opinions, and, in the content adherents o f hi s own party that no o th er spirit of Lord Palmerston's amendment, will probably combination than the old Whig league could, at the have to start rather from the idea of a general than a moment, conduct the Ad m i n i stration. The scheme so local militia. Should his ,plan present no very sub- far succeeded that it led to th e recall of the ex-Minis stantial difference from the confessedly hybrid measure ters, and to the exposure of Lord Derby's intrinsic of the late Ministers, they will be bound to give it weakness; but it failed altogether in rallying the Liberal that general and patriotic support which they ex- majority of the House of Commons round their former petted themselves from their usual opponents; leader. The second resignation might be thought and we can hardly suppose that any difference on mere equally insincere, if the causes which led to it had been working details will be allowed to interfere with a great less obvious and substantial than they are. A return to measure of national defence. On this point, therefore, office, at the present moment, would not shelter Lord though the difficulty is specific and immediate, we do Grey froin censure; nor would it make the new scheme not see why it should be insuperable. Unless the House for enfranchising rotten boroughs popular or tenable. of Commons is so far bent on the ruin of the State, or There was an evident convenience in resigning on a at least, is so wholly indifferent to its wellbeing, point which few have troubled themselves to understand, as to have resolved against any possible Administra- and in which no important principle was involved; and tion, it certainly is bound to give a fair chance to Lord a falling Ministry seldom waits for defeat on a vital Derby arid' the men of whom his Cabinet will probably question. There can be little doubt that the withdrawal be composed. The strange in and out work of the last of Lord John Russell from office is, for the present, defi two sessions has already done mischief enough, and by nito and final. Under the circumstances, general appre this time no sensible person can suppose the late Ca- hension at once pointed to Lord Derby as his successor; binet to be the only body of statesmen capable and although some may have thought that a Go of :governing this country. There must be some- vernment !might have been formed from the ample where a possible Government, unless we are on the elements presented by the various sections of the Liberal high road to anarchy, and that possible Government party, there has been a prevalent disposition to acquiesce may be once more found, as it has been before, in in the postponement of that inevitable event. The Pro the remains of the Conservative party. As wo will not tectionists and their organs are naturally expressing the anticipate the verdict either of the House of Commons exultation which they partially feel, and the confidence or of the country at large on the Government now formed, which they would willingly assume. Even their oppo so we will content ourselves with a mere passing glance nents are for the most part inclined to accept the result at the difficulties presented by its political opinions. for the sake of the remoter consequences with which it Lord Derby does not enter office by vista() of those opi- is fraught; for they know that, however undesirable nions, or on any question connected with them. He is and dangerous, it can only be temporary, whilst they raised to his present position, as Lord John Russell was anticipate from it such a cordial union of the whole raised to his, by the dissensions of the opposite party, Liberal party as will ensure the formation, at no dis brought out on a question not so much of opinion as of taut date, of a strong, progressive, and efficient Govern confidence. There is, then, no need why Lord Derby ment. With the errors of weakness and selfishness should at once attach to his Administration a character which have brought matters to their present crisis it which it does not derive from its origin, or import were at present useless to deal. Their causes and pledges from which, as a whole, it is free. As it is quite their effects may both be summed up in the pro clear that little can be done this session, position that the Government has been thoroughly or with the existing Parliament, so it would and ruinously weak. Yet it is to be replaced by be madness to provoke an early doom by renewing pro- an Administration which must be weaker still, and fessions which are neither recent in date nor capable of which the country only accepts because there is not the an early fulfilment. On the other hand, it would be smallest danger of its permanence. Both in Parliament thoroughly gratuitous and unfair to force, or attempt to and out of it Lord Derby will be weaker than any pre force, on Lord Derby a more explicit and positive devious Minister of the present generation. Since his claration of his financial policy than the actual necessi- public confession, this time last year, of inability to form ties of the nation may require. If we demand a for- a Cabinet, what additional strength has he acquired? bearing policy from the opponents of the new Govern- Half a dozen votes may have accrued to his cause as the ment, much more may we expect it from its friends. result of isolated elections—to be set off against a Such of the new Ministers as are in the Lower House twelvemonth's additional experience of the triumphant will have to present themselves to their constituencies, success of that free-trade policy which he is irrevocably and, unless the agriculturists really are as infatuated as pledged to reverse. Even agricultural distress, the main their libellers repre sen t, they will not press for any ex- resource of the Protectionist party, has already almost press pledges on th e subject of protection, particularly disappeared. The importations of foreign corn have as all the more judicious of the party, after the expert- diminished, and prices have advanced; barley and oats once of six year s , ar e content to stand by the verdict of bring remunerating prices; the cattle fairs are cleared a general election, before mid-day; and, above all, the lapse of time has The event which so abruptly terminated the exist- enabled farmers to adjust their arrangements to the mace of th e l a t e Ad m i n i strat i on h ad not on l y b een l o ng change of circum s t ances, and has carr i e d t h em a l mos t foreseen, but it had been distintly shown for many beyond the state of transition. There is now more months, past to be the certain and inevitable result of dissatisfaction among landowners than among te the course to which Lord John Russell adhered. On nants; and even where it is strongest, it is no Friday, February 21, 1851, the First Minister threw up longer unmingled with h ope. A t t h e mos t, the cry o f the Government with as little hesitation a s he exhibited distress would ha ve b een useless w h en i t on ly ex p resse d on Friday, the 20th of February, 18§2 ; but though a an unreasoning desire for an unjust and impracticable twelvemonth elapsed between these two events, the ex s mode of relief; but, whatever force it might have given istence of the Cabinet in the interval was precarious and to those who undertook to be its organs, that force was unreal, and the delay has proved chiefly advantageous to at its maximum when Lord Derby acknowledged his in those who may now succeed it in power. Unhappily for capacity to form an Administration which could main the party which Lord John Russell has so long led, and taro itself. Nor are the personal resources of the party for the political interests of which he was thus consti- increased. Last year the want of official experience tuted the chief defender, the lesson which the former of among its more prominent members was, as their leader these occurrences might have afforded him was turned declared, fatal to his prospects; and the same difficulty, to no account. The more the spirit of the nation and exists at this moment—and at least to the same extent— the exigency of the times required breadth and boldness although Lord Derby may at least be willing to over-, in the policy of our rulers, the more Lord John Russell look it. Tho Premier of the new Government is a wrapped himself in the tightened folds of his persuasion, powerful speaker, experienced in office, but singularly until his power of serving the country was narrowed to deficient in businesslike capacity, whilst he has been re-; the resources of a coterie. lie was brought back to rearkable, throughout his career, neither for discretion, office last year by the failure of his opponents; but he nor for success. The law offices may be filled by' camera back with no vigorous determination .- to re- creditable occupants; but it is scarcely too much to say, mould the elements out of which a mote liberal that the remaining and more important offices might as, Administration might have been formed. Nevertheless, well be distributed at once pretty much at i so few:ired was the head of the late Government by cir- random. Yet, however, Lord Derby may dist cumstances independent of hi s o wn w ill, , th a t after the tribute his patronage, h e cannot avo id the failure of his opponents had again placed ,the direetien unwelcome prominence of an ally whom he has openly of affairs in his hands; the country submitted to pass a distrusted and slighted. No conventional arrangement year under little more than the semblance of a Ministry, can preve n t m r . Di s raeli from leading the party in the with provisional finances, hypothetical measures of House of Commons: Indiscreet as he may be thought reform, and many infir m or superannuated states - and utterly i ns i ncere as may b e his sympathy with the men. In such a condition the only act o f prejudice s o f t h e party to wh i ch h e has attached himself, vigour which Lord J o h n Russell performed he alone among the Protectionists possesses abilities be was likely to cost hi m d ear, unless he found send the humblest-mediocrity; and the Hou s e, though means to follow up the removal of Lord Palmers . remarkably toler ant o f commonplace in the common ton by the introduction of new elements into his Cabi- rank and file, still requires in its chiefs some trace of net, or by a complete reconstruction of his Administra- superior intellect. Some " large-acred" squires may a. Lion. It was in no hostile spirit t h at these • necessary possibly be disguieed for time as Ministers; but no changes were strongly urged upo n th e,First Minister for magic can transform i nto Parliamentary leaders. Yet a Treasury Bench constituted of little better materials will several weeks before the meeting of P arliament; for the adoption of them was the only count() which could have have to face an Opp osit i on including every orator averted the catastrophe which has now occurred. A b ut one, and, without an exception, every states few weeks would show, we then observ e d, whether Lord man and every man of b us i ness i n the House. So feeble a staff could not cond uc t a P arl i amentary came John Russell was really ono of tho se men of mark who have gloriously governed the B r i t i sh Empire, Paigiit even with the aid of suc h a majority as that or whether he was to be judged as a mer e P arliamen- which Lord Althorp wielded after th e Reform Bill . tary tactician. Yet even his Parliament ary tact i cs And what are Lord Derby's forces? A mo d erate ly have not been successful. With the certainty o f large minority in the Lower House, and a useless ma an early d e fe a t s t a ri ng him in the face —with the jority in the Upper. Before a dissolution can take place fresh animosity of Lord Palmerston burning far revenge ho must probably undergo more than one damaging de -the steady opposition of the Protectionist party ea ger feat. Questions will be raised for the purpose of bringing for office—and the decreasing confidence.of the country, his policy to a test, and of forcing him either to avow, nothing could be more injurious to those liberal inter- or publicly to renounce, the intentions which his sup eats which are dear in the main to a large majority o f porters attribute to him. With a new election before the people of England than the inert fatalism or spathe- his eyes, he has obviously no alternative but to adopt the tic courage of their chief. An attempt was made to ob. bolder, the more consistent, and the more dangerous taro the co-operation of some of the adherents of the course. He has often trifled with Protection, and en late Sir Robert Peel. But these proposals were so faint deavoured to escape from it, b u t h e can a pp ea l t o the hustings on no other ground. I n f ac t, t o a b an d on Prot and indefinite that they offered no attraction and no means of usefulness to men of spirit, character, and section, to shelve it, or to treat it as a secondary question ability, Lord John Russell, unable to increase the which may be postponed for the convenience of party, _ would be to acknowledge that his whole course of _a e dtto e n . strength of his Government, seemed intent only on in creasing its duties and its burdens. He met Parliament since 1846 had been one sustained, continuous, rdo!!_e_, rate deception—that he has been virtually e k o-operating , i i n i c iT . with no recruits in his army, but with measures which it would have required the whole strength of a powerful in the meanest spirit of faction, with a w o e Minister to carry. To carry a Reform Bill and to re- Pablo Government, to throw the business oft legislation form the Court of Chancery were hot tasks for a into confusion, and to make all useful played Government which had repeatedly failed in much impossible—and that he and cheated sYs the credulity, humbler undertakings. Accordingly Lord John had upon the prejudices, an attempt on Lord Derby's of his own followers. no sooner laid his Bills on the table than his Any question--the only question part to palter with thist? thes country wonted resolution appears to have forsaken him. He had, indeed, the encouragement of more than ordi tconduct as a stupendous " or at which gives him the slightest once stigmatise 11 , is pas nary success on the two personal discussions which have and mark his future career as a n nized hypocrisy,' I ci claim to office—would at taken' place.. His triumph was complete on the first night of the session in his vindication of the dismissal ofnation is finally made up. T o a moment's un enormouths living . i f e. the Yet on this point, as he well be maintained were but a feeble the Foreign Secretary; and the admirable speech he de- knows, livered in defence of Lord Clarendon the very nightthat fr e ee m t in rado o must which preceded his fall will be remembered by those who say expression of the firm conviction and the unalterable regarded will depend on the uni heard it as one of the most spirited and effective of his determination of the country. It must not even be ren oratorical efforts. The Militia Bill had hardly been certainty. The passive toleration with which the ne w reckoned amongst the difficulties of the Cabinet, for the dared an open question, nor exposed to r i c n i atlhpeo meantime,o willnot, per general necessity of some suet' measure was all but versal assurance that it is as incapable of car n ry in out Administration will be unanimously admitted, and, with the exception of some its own principles as it is unable to retract or modif details, it appeared to have been concurred in by the them without incurring political infamy. It ia not y House. No preparations were made to meet a hostile ffi an ci d en d t e ly re r fo e p m m em eo b t e o re f d eo t m h m at e , division on that occasion. The asperity of Lord Palmers- " ' ton's 'speech took the Treasury bench hy surprise, yet a stand-still. We have long been accustomedy Members usually devoted to the Government continued or not hi ng done, but it will to see little a ." cl a v p a s nc su e be a stn n downward not to leave the House, and returned to it only to learn that to have even a promise or hope o f i m r . - the Administration had ceased * to exist. That sail are the prospects of a Government Wphiovbement. Such hour suddenly brought to Lord John Russell ma deem endurable because it • which the the country burden carries in itself the ; an opportunity to free himself from a he could ill sustain—to Lord Palmerston a tr i umphteir a brief, though, we fear, a ' ion and because, after Over a colleague who had dissolved h ud nn- it must leave the ground clear stormy l and baneful existence, ,connexion—to the Tory Opposition an easy a whether and united Liberal Admistration or a strong, powerful, looked-for victory. It must remain uncertainh ve ended point out an egress from the .It is not for us to the expected debate on the Kafir war would ft Ministry on necessities in which the nation h labyrinth of conventional in a defeat, and we suspect the danger of the and justly itself. But in the meanwhile has for the moment lost That occasion was overrated, however severely , t_ed whatever public adv a ntage we must labour to secure d been conaemn • may incidentally be derive the policy of Lord Grey might have to face a co- f rom an untoward combi • stances. The But it was less hard for Lord John Russell s onsibilitios first result to be atta* nation of eiretim political lonial 'debate than to bear the increasing Is_ e r f e reform which and commercial pro tamed is, that all friends of e. ,, k The of his position, aggravated by . a scheme of He country demands a g st ress must " close theirran •of all no single party in the nation accepted jumped from the its leading tong Government, be composed no doubt that, accordingly ran the vessel ashore an Palmerston w • i l l after some statesmen, and there can t art Lor d waste of time, and perhaps some tor helm. We know not what pa.midable would redound b t for it uagitation, the national desire will at last claim in this sudden evolution, arsenal resentment be realised.lte • in the improbable or o will only add that little to his fame if, from motives of p his turned upon former col-event of Lord Derby's eventually declining to assume or more vengeance, be had . andhurried rtunity, leagues at the very first opy ° I effect is to place P a rot ee . of the leading supporters of Free-trade will refuse the division, of which the practice The , . Ike- relative Illetitß C rown that assistance which may be required of them, tionist Government in 0 . . organizing the national mi- There may be difficulties and party embarrassments in of two schemes for d by two men who lately abundance; but it would plainly be their duty to tiy, lilts, brought forwar , in the ' ' sam e c a _ ! and ample materials exist at this moment for the forma discussed this very measure m ac to account for so k een , Lien of a Liberal Administration which would eommtnd binet, will not su striking I so a result. Nor had the confidence of the country. It is by no means a difference and that experiment would fail, even for the cirta a sin two months r rooniet; it escaped us, in discus to g o,c 4. ago the con;:©_ I she - after a gallant of Lord Palmerston , separation from th e c a h t . and even failure struggle would infa!nbly quences of future s . t s not to the side of the extreme rote the harbinger ucce..s. Liberal P net, that it wa ofthe 'll • NE W S —Lord Derby but to the advantage party, his hostility would •f Prove- . the Queen to form a Protectieeist Administration: - A tionists, 'that his , 1 openly manifested . That event has no Cabinet of' anyother character it • . w taken place, end Lord be turned. T d the , form, nor would it be in his will. No of political man Palmerston has opeue ., th gates to the party which w " i mark or station who is sincerely to free trade then designated as e common enemy." But the i les could with honour attached • office service he has rendered to one aide is scarcely inferior ! princ p. 'accept confidential • under his Lordship. The man who broke with his col to that for which the other must be - grateful ; and i l in the G es 1846, because he could Lord John Russell was probably as ready to escape I nee conscientiously - °-bread, and who f r om an untenable position, as Lord Derby is to no- I o a fire surrender the tax on of free after e years' experience of the working . free not the arduous duty imposed on h' It will 1 1851, that if ap cep lin. I trade, told her Majesty in February, not be forgotten, however, that the Protectionist he H party in the ,House ° lls e of Commons, won their I pointed Prime Minister he would endeavour to impose a S tr ~~ r im f Y u' y \ _ .. ~° ~~~.~~~ I / eefte r eV fixed duty on corn, is not likely to waver in his fidelity to the question which, above all others, has knit together the sympathies of the party whom h e l ea d s. But had a'et tat it been supposed possible, a recent incident has served to quench all doubt. At the meeting of his adherents, held a few days since, to consider and decide upon the course to be pursued by them in Parliament during the present session, a Noble Lord who occupies a prominent position in the Upper House put to their chief the pointed question whether, in the event of his coming into power, Lord Derby was prepared to redeem the pledge he had deliberately gi ven last year of attempting to renew the tax on food ? And the unhesitating answer of the straightforward champion of the landed oligarchy was an explicit confirmation and reiteration of that pledge. 'At the same conference it is equally well known that the resolution was taken to oppose the second reading of the proposed Reform Bill, not with the view of outbidding it by another, bat avowedly on the ground that any democratic concession would destroy the last lingering hope of a return to Toryism.We know, therefore, at starting the-funda mental principles on which the new Administration is to based. They are, in a word, resistance to reform, and a r e t urn to sfrotection. It is undoubtedly Lord Palmerston whom, the P re e ect ionists have to thank for placing them in cffice. By themselves they have been trying hard long enough, but n ever success f u ll y ,. t o ove r • throw their Whi g r i vals. But never in pitched battle during six year n i ng years were they able ti_ seize the citadel. The overturn which' happened this gine twelve month was attributabl e to the alienation. pf • sup porters rather than the strength of the assailing force. But now, under the skilful and unscrupulous guidance of an unlooked-for leader, the reactionists have stormed the heights of office. The banner planted on the sum mit is the old bread-tax flag; but , the hand by whom it has been planted there ie the hand of Palmerston. Why not, then, deck his brow with the appropriate crown? Who so fitted by natural leanings and acquired accom plishments to head the landlords of England? Lavish in his notions of expenditure, a thorough aristocrat in temperament, and the hero of the military clubs, Lord Palmerston could do for the new Administration in the present House of Commons what few other partisan ' chiefs now living could do. The thing to be done is the greatest possible amount of mischief to the friends of peace, economy, and reform; who, for that purpose, so capable—if willing—as the ex-oolleague of Lord John Russell? Of Lord Palmerston's willingness we say nothing. That remains to be proved. Previous to the division on last Friday night, we own we should have hesitated to utter any misgivings we may have felt as to his stability of purpose, where great principles and the maintenance of a great policy were at stake. But after the performance on that occasion, the faith of . every liberal man in th e country can scarcely be staggered—and we await with more curiosity than con fidence the Noble Viscount's next political - exploit. Lord Derby also may have his mistrust;—and for rea sons that , we need not here enumerate, may fancy it un safe to take such a magazine of combustibles on board. Very prudent, perhaps ; but what will happen, sup posing the said magazine should fall into other hands? Then there is claim on gratitude No, 2, in the per son of the (about to be Right Hon.) MeMber for Bucks. If the avenging Viscount consented to ride as jockey, and jumped " protection" over the sdouble fence wherewith office is circled round about;'egually undoubted is it that Disraeli trained the inarticu late animal successfully, when every other hand had failed. Lord Derby can scarcely this time pass over the man who has rendered him such inestimable ser vice. Last year he did not scruple to disown his useful follower, and even publicly to sneer at his own official destitution in having no men fit for high administrative post—though Mr. Disraeli stood by listening to the selfish and supercilious disclaimer. This audacious prank of highborn affectation cannot be re peated now? There was a story current that the Member for Bucks wished it to be understood that he • was ready to play the magnanimous, and that he did not wish any personal consideration on his account to stand in the way of the formation of whatever might be thought the strongest possible Tory Government. If this was only meant gracefully to yield the leadership in the Commons to Lord Palmerston, it would be suffici ently intelligible; but such self-sacrifice seems little likely to be needed. Mr. Disraeli may well assert what is due to his position from the chief whom he has con tributed so potentially to thrust into power. Until the official announcement of the new appointments shall be made, any attempt to analyse them as a whole would be premature. The list of those said to be the New Ministry will be found in another column. We shall doubtless have not long to wait for the authoritative promulgation of Lord Derby's own cast of parts—and we shell then be ready to examine in detail their various pretensions. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 18th the House was prin cipally engaged on Public Houses in Scotland. On the 19th it was occupied by the charge brought against the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, on the subject of his employment of the Irish press. The simple fact is, that the Lord-Lieutenant, acting it is presumable on imperfect knowledge and leaving the management to subordinates, got entangled with an individual of that kind which ever and anon are heard of in the courts of law, who ask for money as the condition of withholding what they call " exposures;"—that is to say,, bring ing forward business transactions, which may have been described in confidential letters in terms not exactly in tended to meet the public eye. There is no man who ever was engaged, for instance, in an election, who can not frame to himself a perfect conception of the case. In brief toms, the charge was naught; and as such was golfigthh thanking his s d n defeated by a vote of 229 to 137. On Friday took place event s w hi c h s hake the condi tion of England, in a way whi c h wou ld ca use terro r if it was but known that such thi ngs o ft e n shake them selves down again. On the introduction of the Govern ment's Militia Bill, Lord Palmerston m oved the omis sion of the, word " Local;" which wa s carried by 136 a gainst 125. It does not appear why anyb o dy s hould hal e se en more in this, than an expression on th e p ar t of the popular branch, that it wants more defence instead of less, an d that it had rather trust itself to a regular Militia un der the old statutes, than to a Local:Militia, of.whieh the character was given, that in the old war nobody ever knew where it was. And it has strong l y the air of iil h umo ur in a Government of grown mean that there s h ou ld be talk of throwing up the reins of Government, because the cou n try w a nts more m i li tia than t h e Go vernmentpressureroposeo. f the ealad his stars for being deliv ered from this th raldom, is tho Minister 'to pout in a co rner? There is something ar had uer ventured the to propose. ludicrous in a Ministry going out, martyrs to a local come forward with a smiling wants more defence; all that was Militia. It is conceivable how a Government may re sign for getting too little, but this is the first time it was ever done for getting too much. The House of face and say it should have it. If the reign of High Tory principles and Protection wantedthis France;itonthsersestYosre,it was to will be announced that the English i Government s aux ,Lois and every drum-boy will be st agog for th e e i n e thousand francs which are kept for him in L this goes on, the Government a ft er °l"ri * if all, crus hed by the English Bonapartist,. will h a v e b een some times gives good counsels. But a pillow What the country will expect, foiled in its expectations it is this, and if it is wise than was looked for • will call some people lees Noble Lords who have '—" Rill expect that the two tion should now the beenseparated by an indiscre has ' been in fact redeemedindiscretion is past and gone, and the two in the 4 taking the bolder lead of give up their direction where former doubt was raised, and be friends. ii quarrel, and like two good children, kiss be the wisest b oy. e that does most towards, this shall Some • fallacies were ' given into by the Government and its euppo e t talked about ers. For example, they perpetually "a state of peace;" the question being whether we might not be startled in our beds some morning like the Alger . me generals, by finding ourselves at war, a n d a hostile force in some very undesirable place as prout. Much also was said about a regular militia being "an aggressive force." In this sense a policeman is "an aggressive force;" for by keeping things quiet at home, ho may enable an army to go abroad. Half the game of life is what men call chance; mean ieg thereby what human care can neither foresee nor alter. Theologians call it Providence, in which they pre sumably are right; and in the hands of that, we are. There are not wanting those who talk of another rea son for the Government's wishing to withdraw; —to avoid the question of the three millions spent in the Kafir war. This would be what the ring calls, falling to prevent being bit. But there was no necessity for such a desperate course; there was balm in Gilead even fear this. All that was wanted was to sieve out the insane element. There is evidence of a political Mrs. Cumming. Men who throw away the value of forty sail-of-the - line upon the coast of Kafraria, and then publish that " the Britisfrerown iiadeiiition have no in terest in maintaining any territorial dominion i n Southern Africa beyond the very limited extant of ter ritory required for the security of the Cape of Good Hope as a naval station," are not men who ought to walk the streets by themselves, still less implicate men of sound mind in their proceedings. They must be sieved out, and quickly; and then the old firm may go on. What would be thought of a Manchester merchant, who spent 300,0001. on unprofitable buildings, and then said he never wanted anything but a counting-house to put his books in? His partners would get rid of hi m , us the London bankers did of the partner who stood up to preach the New Jerusalem at Charing-Cross. The " indispensable" men cannot be allowed to do above a certain amount o f mischief. The course here is plain. Drop the insane element, and put the Noble Lord below t h e ,„ gas y into the place; and then the ship may go ahead again. I am, Sir, yours very Eiteerely, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, 23 Feb. 1852. Th e Queen has been plEttEed to direct that the Knighthood should b e conferred upon Dr. Charles N Speaker of the L eg i s l ative Council of New South W a les. Mr. Cosmo limes, a d vocate, Sheriff of the Shire of Elgin or Moray , is appointed Cl er k to the High Court o f Session at Edinburgh; M r . R . Bell, advocate, i s appoinfe I Sheriff of Elgin or M oray, in the room of Mr. Innes. Fredericlo Madge, Esq., h as b een appointed First Clerk in the office of the Soli c i tor to the Treasury, in the room of Mr. Raven, who retires. Ai r. John .Palmer is appointed Trea surerhoinehototir so of n, of the island of Dominica. Mr. N. Robson is appointed Collector of Customs at the Gambia.—Sunday Paper. DEATH OF A COUNTY: ,CORONER. — DanieI Geran, Esq., one of the coroners of this county, died after a short illness on Thursday last, at his residence, Rushmount. Se veral candidates for the office are spoken of. Cork Con. slitution. A