The Sun. — London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

Ls. Basine o done r c e , s don° ils PO' ---'- `, 1 i 8 )oil 8 4i-i ii 6i --4 5 0 5 0 285 0 18 55 40 11 0 fJtae oil Itions.e6, gr t ' V rt, di N 0 0, ; 05, r ally ,o°frilu°4 roo f* , 5 8P 361 P et t s ' ;We fij bon o f ,o 2 5 ; dto '',ll ° lll' • jattay Ise frog Du e g~l atiOl V . 4 pd Is,le ' iftb re l . a 25 19( 1 rre p, g; 6',1 oft;ilijj.atto v e nt, ; d; r Sj°' f i,ll 'els, Sl . 1 0 0 I(6r 0 00 otl per 5 311 1 ls C't c loV e i r jot'''. FRENCH EM PIKE. eve received the Paris journals of yester- 84 de havi ng p u t some q uestions to the Go , as to the conditions attached to the per- to : 0 be granted to political exiles and refti cetlirn to France, the Mon,iteur replied that e°lldition was the recognition of the new , t il l en t in France. This had, indeed, been Y stated in the Governthent organs, and ; e Y had the Chief of the State manifested to render the exercise of clemency as ; ty a s a reasonable regard for the public tran- The 'ad the consolidation of his power would Moniteur has repeated the assurance litg iv eu, and has even complained of the word 41)pliecl by the Siecle to exiles and refugees, a l a rillg that the Government does not pro , u for their political opinions, and only that they should respect the order of eatablished by the majority in France. , 40ktiteur says :—" For the purpose of Go' ve ll ueasiness and weakening the action of I : 4 ment, the news of an approaching modi -11.1/1 the Ministry has been disseminated. 'M, e .sPondents of some of the foreign journals it) aad add commentaries from themselves. our is false, and does not repose on any t ta Peror, accompanied by General de Lour of his a id es -d e - cam p, and Capt. de Berk- R ,g , orderly officer, drove out on Thursday, , clock, to the Bois-de-Boulogne, where he ~ and walked about for some time. The of General Esterhazy, which was taking e xercise, happening to pass, • saluted his With c r i e s of " Vive l'Empereur !" His k a k after having conversed for some time with k obs el 'al and superior officers, then continued t k . 'tehade, returning to the Tuileries at four E mperor has received at the Tuileries, from e kollke, the letters by which the King of rk continues him in his post of Envoy-Ex- V 4 ,, 1 :3r and Minister-Plenipotentiary at the ceremonial The Count was introduced with E mperor usual on such occasions. 4i et riperor will, it is said, leave for Com . h_lay (Saturday). r Y kperor, as a proof of the friendship enter , ,•,,, ,him and the Queen Hortense for Madame Pierrefonds, consented to be the god ' t 4) ." the newly-born child. The christening Yesterday at the Church of Saint Roch, ,thee Child received the names of Napoleone n ee Constance. Count Bacciochi represented T e sty. te to equestrian statues in bronze are, it is said, be placed as follows:—That of the Empe ti, middle of the Carroussel ; that of Loins ,'the centre of the square before the Louvre; plth , '' of Francis I. in the Court of the Louvre. w ord National over the entrance to the (I N .ct the Elysee has been effaced, and the I th e a /Meene placed in its stead. liviZew inauguration of the Pantheon as a place '`k e worship is fixed, it is said, for the 3d of 1 4 ( ,„ - .Y, the. fête of St. Genevieve. The Arch -111`" ti Paris will officiate. b e ,_ r idge of Notre Dame is to be lowered at meill a ''unng of next year, in order to facilitate e 1;N, ~nnrse was firm, with not much business -the Four-and-Half per Cents. opened at ' s oc rose to 106 f. 75c., and closed at 106 f. r the end of the month ; the Three per c losed at 82f. 15c. ; Orleans Railway thares, 25c.: Rouen, 975 f. ; Havre, 527 f. 50c. ; 17orthern,ib h . " 895 f. ; Basle, 365 f. ; Paris and 51 1 , 1 '''g, 810 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 902 f. 50c. ; N e a °d- Avignon, 727 f. 50c. ; Great Western of 780 f. ; Caen to Cherbourg, 627 f. 50c. ; ° tesancon, 572 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, s'u 4 Share s of the new Bank of Credit Mobilier, 4 't 5 00 f., 1,365 f. THE CONTINENT. INSPAIN. of —Lid letter of the 12th says :—" The Gover the province of Madrid has received an r °to the Minister to refuse the authorisation Nt o 'ecl by a great number of Deputies and ;7'4,t o r of the moderate opposition to hold a pre erY electoral meeting. The application was Ornongst others, by Marshal Narvaez, Mar buero, Duke de Rivas, Duke d Abrant es, 0 0 Sotomayor, and Francisco Martinez th e Rosa. The official refusal is couched kl 1) 1 . following terms :—' Whereas this meet- Noi c i fi ght rep ro du ce the agitation in the public I ,,,tti rc , w hich was caused by juntas of the same "ki; r ecently held, with a tendency to disturb L rN t „, e ° ll fidence, and to paralyse the ordinary t e s .of affairs, it is the will of the Queen, in ;')ri,lth her Council of Ministers, that the au litloll should be refused.' The resignation of ,', trbina, the Minister of War, is now cer r"tier,-,_l-°e Government has successively called on 'th,`" de Mer, Lersundi, and Roncali, but none 11 i s e officers have accepted the portfolio. A re ;1) '~p e current that Queen Isabella 11. had ordered Lersundi to demand his resignation from A0: 41.0 Murillo, and that the General would be Ap o te entirely reconstitute the Ministry. M. kurillo is confined to his bed by the influ- SWITZERLAND. BR it; r ead, in the Constitutionnel :—" Letters from. V e , l land announce that the accession of Napo ito the Empire was celebrated in different g v i ls) particularly in that of Fribourg, by feux I'krt. le and salvos of artillery. The Catholics in th le ltlar who have had so much to suffer from t%t c revolutions, are enthusiastic, for they.well the immense services which the Emperor Ilitttifroleon rendered to Switzerland by delivering ona the yoke of the revolutionists, and they that the influence of Napoleon 111. will aid I '4 e Settlement of their legitimate grievances. th(hire4,: are so many and such real sufferings among h ti v (3 rtion of the Swiss people, that we cannot It a a thise too much in the wishes which they ex- The great Cabinets of Europe cannot on of the P ll4 lect entertain an opinion different from that rench Government." GERMANY. the , e Grand D uc h ess St e ph an i e o f B a d en , aunt of th l4 Peror Napoleon 111., arrived at Coblentz e 14th, on a visit to the Prince of Prussia. Journal de Frankfort of the 15th says : St; e _ i• Alarquis de Tallenay gave a grand diplo -41: two days back, to which were invited ti ll voYs of the sovereigns who have recognised th e w Empire in France, or who have expressed %, e , ,marquis the satisfaction of their sovereigns tl late change . The marquis proposed a toast health of the Emperor of the French, which T h wartialy responded to." Ante Baron d e Bruck, Envoy Extraordinary of t ooi ti „a i , was presented to the King of Prussia on 'a by the President of the Prussian Cabinet. N.,,,y a "lreport was current at Vienna on the 11th," ‘ov'lle Augsburg Gazette, " that the Austrian ulent is about to contract in England an 'eau of 100 millions of florins." 4 . ITALY. ''ct z p i l'ter from Rome of the 6th, in the Augsburg trc,,,,'"e, states that several influential persons have .. tl s ecl. to the Papal Government to prolong : 1 14 e , Torlonia's contract for the monopoly of salt 111 A " ° , l 9,acco for nine years more, on condition of kivirldra,wing a considerable amount Of paper from circulation. The Prince, it is said, has s 4 ed. to Messrs. Rothschild to join him in the 11 43 4e ; Augsburg Gazette of the 14th, states from ib,, that the son of M. Martinez de la Rosa, who •- , t 4 b i 'eriaained there as attache to the Spanish 14 %m a tsY, after the departure of his father, had been hi`" l-1 3r wounded at a fencing school ; the button a dversary's foil having been snapped off, the I N,, tl „Perforated his lungs. 1 7 1 44 uPinione of Turin, of the 14th, states from that the late executions there were effected ea he Spanish garrote, but that, owing to the in 4°, 1t%, --e l;ce of the executioner, several of the pri ,',llre lingered for many minutes in great tor- Which caused such horrid contortions that th e :' (e eutioner was obliged to conceal them from lest f the public. The same paper, adds that lliollisliian Government desired to have the opi -4.410,,,Pf the commission as to the expediency of the garrote . the medical men declined I llow d gYart of it, and suggested that the matter 'the oe layed before the University of Pavia. iltittq tte r, on being applied to; . declared that 3 : ,the garrote was not instantaneous ; never -111, C tie military authorities insisted upon try ealell' ~,,the priest Tazzoli was the first to mount 11. 04 .1 4 "'I 401 €1, which he did with great fortitude, - g his fellow-sufferers to follow his example. SWEDEN. -444 e°ll nts from St oc kh o l m to the 7th state that the tr g (* Sweden and Norway continued to get bet th°llgh lds complete recovery will be slow. publication of bulletins had ceased. 'II P , P tkV4lry O UNIBUS FARES.—An immense degree of oexists at the present time with the omnibuses on th e 'ord-street and Holborn line of road, in consequence 4114 th l)° , ll / 1 Y and twopenny fares between the Marble Arch tilot,oiliZonottom of Holborn-hill. It is stated that all this I '4 4 .! 1 on the part of the Paddington omnibus 7-Tome ve r?nedeavour to lessen the business of, and ultimately " Lar ge !at road, the cheap fare omnibuses, which receive of of public support. [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE _YETI" CRYSTAL PALACE-7D.ESECR,A7IOX and the alterations required . . for stowing 'stores ar;d' pro visions for Sir Edward Belcher's expedition. She will be thoroughly doubled from the wales down, and blocked on both bows and quarters, to prevent any possibility of receiving damage in the ice. Shipwrights are placed on her, and she is to be completed with all possible dispatch. THE MINISTRY. - - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. OF THE SABBATH (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—The announcement made by Lord Mahnes bury to the House of Lords last evening, that the First Minister of the Crown had left London to wait upon her Majesty, in consequence of what had occurred in the other House of Parliament, removes all doubt (if any could have existed) as to the important and immediate effect of the late division of the House of Commons on Lord Derby's Administration. At the sitting of the Cabinet which was held yesterday morning the collective resignation of Ministers was doubtless resolved upon, and before night it was probably in her Majesty's hands. We must, therefore, consider the Government which has held office for the last ten months to be virtually at an end. In truth, few Governments had ever held office in this country for so long a time upon so slender a foundation. The Ministers were suddenly summoned to the councils of the Sovereign without any direct aggressive effort on their part, in consequence of a casual vote, designed, as it seemed, to gratify the vengeance of a rival, rather than to crown the ambition of an adversary. In a Parliament notoriously opposed to their party opinions, they were allowed to survive the remainder of that session, and even to pass measures of legal reform and public defence, which deserve to be remembered as their best claim to the gratitude of the country. But the principles which they had professed in opposition were in abeyance, and even when they appealed to the country their attitude was equivocal and their language ambiguous. The new Parliament met, and they were not slow to admit that office could only be retained by the abandonment of former pledges ; and to cast the slough of protection was the first effort of the session. Still, however, they had not encountered the formidable array of hostile Parlia mentary warfare. Not even on the address was a party vote taken, and the resolution framed for the purpose of obtaining one resolved itself into a loose affirmation which the Government itself was content to adopt. On neither of those occasions did the Opposition seek to hurry on a decisive conflict, or to cut short the promised policy which " loomed in the future." But the produc tion of the budget rendered such a struggle inevitable ; for although there were several parts of that measure which deserved a favourable reception from the country, yet the main proposition of an extension of direct taxa tion to compensate the removal of half the malt tax was one to which it was impossible for the House of Commons to assent without a dangerous modification of the financial policy of the country. Upon the first real trial of strength in the new House of Commons the Go veruaent is in a minority of 1 9 , and the division ceases , theiFfire, to be one of mere financial interest ; it establishes the fact that Lord Derby is not supported by that majority in the house which can alone enable the Government to be carried on. Nevertheless many of the strongest opponents of this Administration will concur with us in the opinion that it was not desirable that its fall should be accelerated ; and we have uni formly discussed its measures with the utmost forbear ance, because we thought it essential to the cause of good government, and to the ultimate formation of a more stable Ministry, that Lord Derby and his colleagues should be judged of by the country on their own merits. The further they went the more irretrievable became their position. Had it been practicable to bear with such a Government a few weeks longer, it is possible that the task of forming an Administration to succeed it would have become less arduous than it is at the present moment. Without reference to persons and to parties, we are con fident that it is the earnest wish of the country to see the Government placed in the hands of men at once conservative in their principles and progressive in their policy—resolved to advance with energy in the career of improvement, and to include, as far as possible, all shades of the Liberal party in the conduct of affairs. Never was there a moment since the termination of the late war when it was more essential to our welfare that the state should be ruled by men commanding the confi dence of our allies and the respect of our opponents, able to defend our interests with the whole strength of the nation, and to uphold our institutions by the legiti mate power of constitutional government. The time is happily past when it was possible to govern this empire in the name of a coterie, or to convert a reputation earned within those narrow limits into a sufficient claim to the Premiership of England. The material of which a nobler and more energetic Government can be formed are abundant and various, and we repudiate the notion that it is possible either to revert to the decrepid combi nation which preceded Lord Derby's accession to power, or to strengthen that combination by a mere infusion of extreme Liberal opinions. The course of events, the state of parties, and the predominant convictions and desires of the country, point to the colleagues of the late Sir Robert Peel as the men from whom the Liberal party must now look for the most effectual assistance, in conjunction with whatever remains available of the last Whig Administration. We may add that we have reason to believe that private communica tions have already taken place , by which the prin cipal obstacles to this union are removed ; and we believe that it is upon the Earl of Aberdeen that the formation of the new Cabinet will devolve, with the active co-operation, not only of his former colleagues, but of Lord John Russell and the chiefs of the Whig party. The same delicate task of bringing together for the first time men not before associated by party ties might equally be entrusted to the Marquis of Lansdowne, whose experience, authority, and tact perfectly qualify him for such a duty. But that veteran statesman has already taken a formal leave of official life, and although his counsels must ever have the - greatest weight" with the Liberal party, we do not anticipate that he will ac cept the most onerous position in the service of the Crown. Lord Aberdeen has, moreover, the advantage of being less shackled than any man of? equal eminence by personal and party ties. If it should be his duty to distribute the chief offices of State, we have no doubt that he will do it with singleness of purpose and with an undivided regard for the public service. One of the in conveniences of such an Administration is no doubt the number of aspirants for office, some of whom must he content to see their opinions represented by more fortu nate or more able competitors. But the essential point is that the respective elements of such a Ministry should be fairly represented and evenly combined, since the places are not for the men, but the men for the places. The result, if it can be obtained, must be a wider range of opinion and observation, a more candid and correct estimate of the real opinions of the country, a more reso lute superiority to the abuses and impediments of mere routine ; and although a Government so constituted will find itself watched in the present Parliament by a strong Opposition, it will array on its side not only a very large proportion of the statesman ship and the eloqueoce of the. House of Commons, but also the most temperate convictions and important interests of the whole community. The question at this moment pending is, how the balance of the constitutional system in our frame of Government can be restored, and whether the perturbations and weakness by which we have suffered more or less since th e di ss olution of Sir R o b er t Peel's Administration can be corrected. For the honour of the country, and for the credit of those institutions which it is our pride to combine with an efficient authority in the State, it is of the highest im portance that we should have done with Ministers by sufferance, which drag on a feeble existence for want of any one to supersede them, or collapse after a few months spent in the attempt to prolong their official power by the sacrifice of their former principles. The country is prosperous and contented. It takes, perhaps, less interest than gentlemen of the House of Commons suppose in the contests which kindle all their passions. But it requires a Government sufficiently permanent to adhere to a consistent course of policy, and sufficiently progressive to advance with the march of an active and intelligent age. To form such an Administration will be the task of those whom the Queen may this day select for that important duty. We trust that it will be performed in a patriotic and unselfish spirit by all who may be concerned in these negotiations, for the principle of such combinations is the sacrifice of per sonal pretensions to the common interest • and if the example be given in this re spect by those of whom most is required, it deserves to be imitated by all who may be affected by this change in the Government of England. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlE,—The circumstance of the sanction of the Prime Minister to the proposal of opening the Crystal Palace for the reception and amusement of the public on Sundays, has naturally called forth the surprise and indignation of every denomination of Christians who professlo have any regard for the sanctity of that sacred day, the general desecration of which is calculated to be more destructive of our individual and national prosperity than any measures which the most pernicious Government could be capable of originating. By weakening the bonds of religious and moral obligation, we are sapping the very foundation of law and order ; and if we believe that all human ordi nances must bend to Divine decrees, that proud pre eminence which we have achieved amidst the nations of the world, and the internal prosperity which this nation has enjoyed, according to the increase or decrease of the reli gious feeling of the people, are liable to be lost and destroyed. Whence the infatuation which induced the Earl of Derby to give his consent to such a proposition, after having declared his intention of carrying on his Government on religious principles, it is not difficult to determine. It arose either from a weak and thoughtless compliance with the wishes of a Joint Stock Company to increase their profits by the violation of the religious feelings of the people, or from a motive of expediency to gain a fleeting popularity with the lower classes of the community. In either case it is equally fatal to the repu tation of the Minister, and will teach him, that the man who would govern this country honourably to himself, and acceptably to the nation, must not only profess to base the principles of his Government upon a solid foundation, but must have wisdom and moral courage sufficient to rise above the weaknesses of others, and firmly and consistently to carry them out. Fortunately for this nation there lies an appeal from the temporary Minister to the permanent Monarch ; and we are quite satisfied that when such an appeal is based upon religious and constitutional prin ciples, when it speaks the voice and feeling of the nation, it will ever find a responsive echo in the bosom of our beloved Queen, whose own strict observance of the Sabbath, and the other duties and rites of our holy religion, as well as that of her Royal Consort, and of the domestic household, gives us a high idea of the religious feeling which encircles the Throne, and is a noble exemplar to us all. We as a nation are proud to live under the government of a lady, who, though possessing all the graces of her sex, inherits the noble and manly spirit of her ancestors ; and who would feel no more repugnance in the dismissal of a Minister whose policy was destructive of the welfare of her people, than her great predecessor, that bright occidental star, Queen Elizabeth, in unfrocking a bishop. It is a subject of great satisfaction to us that our excellent Metropolitan Archbishop should have been the first to raise his voice against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays, as it is one among the many instances of that vigilance which he has ever exer cised for the spiritual welfare of the people ; and there is not a Bishop in the country who may not, whatever be lus views upon other points, join the venerable Primate in ap pealing against this sacrilegious attempt to desecrate the Sabbath. With regard to the evasive political opinions of the Earl of Derby, if he has one particle of honour or honesty about him ; if he has the slightest regard for his future reputation as a consistent statesman ; if he has any respect for the sentiments and feelings of those who have assisted in placing him in power ; if his formerly strongly expressed opinions were not a sham and a pretence to de lude the credulous and the unwary ; if his strenuous oppo sition to the Liberal policy which has given food to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and quiet to the internal discords of the people, and which is the glory of this, and will be the glory of succeeding ages, arose from the genuine dictates of his understanding and his judgment, he would at once unhesitatingly send in his resignation to the Queen, stating that with his views he could not satisfactorily carry on the Government of the country ; and that to adopt those which he had ever denounced as ruinous to the people, would affix eternal disgrace to his name, and shake the confidence of the British nation in the faith of her public men. This would be the path of true honour; this would be the path in which the Earl of Derby would tread, if he took an enlarged view of the future, and was true to himself ; this would be the path in which he would avoid an ignominious defeat which will ere long attend the renunciation of his principles and the abandonment of his friends. There may be individuals about the Minister who would persuade him to forswear his convictions, to desert the poor deluded farmer, and the no less unhappy landed proprietor, in the vain endeavour to retain office ; but these are not the Earl of Derby's true friends ; they are men devoid of principle, anti would induce him to sacrifice decency, consistency, propriety, integrity, and every principle which makes an individual estimable and great in the eyes of the right thinking portion of mankind for some temporary personal apparent advantage. No one with any pretensions to com mon sense will ever give the slightest credence to the sin cerity of a Minister who will to-day adopt that line of policy which yesterday he pronounced subversive of the wellbeing of the State. The tergiversation of the Minister will prove but the weakness and the folly of the man. The consequence will be that his quondam friends, now betrayed, will withdraw from him their support, justly and irreproachably too, or afford it in a very scanty mea sure ; and his opponents will withhold their assistance from the natural conclusion that such a Minister will never carry those great reforms, the necessity for the adoption of which is the result of their honest and deliberate convictions. The Cabinet of such a Minister will be distracted, and carry with it the seeds of a speedy dissolution. Even he whose vigilance and sagacity in office were only equalled by his disinterestedness ; he who enjoyed the public confidence in a manner never before witnessed by statesman ; he whose eloquence shook the Senate, and echoed through the kingdom ; whose last convulsive throes were witnessed in that house which had beenthe scene of his former triumphs, the great William Pitt, upon his reassumption of office with a weak Ministry, was allowed to resign without ob servation, sympathy, or regret. In respect to the reported not improbable coalition of the Earl of Derby with Lord Palmerston, it appears to me a most improbable event ; and that if it happened it would be productive only of a monstrous abortion ; for I conceive that Lord Palmergton is too wise to risk the good opinion of the British nation, by attempting to strengthen the hands of a Minister who for so many years has destructively opposed his own prin ciples, and who, notwithstanding any vacillating inten tions, would, I doubt, not, virtually be the counterpoise and drawback of such onward measures, as, in the present highly progressive state of the times, are the only se curity against those scenes of confusion, robbery, and bloodshed which have recently been enacted by the French nation, in which the Monarch and his family were expelled from the throne and from the country. That the Earl of Derby, under any circumstances, cannot long carry on the business of the nation, I feel quite assured ; but my desire is to see him vacate his office with that dignity and respect which will ever accompany the upright and honest, though mistaken, statesman, and which will prove a source of satisfaction underthe disappointments of aspiring ambition, and in the seclusion of a private station. It will require an amount of sophistry, of which the Earl of Derby is not master, to convince me that if he resigns there is such a dearth of statesmen and talent amongst us that an indivi dual cannot be found capable of administering the affairs of the country : that England shall never again rear her head proudly among the nations of the earth ; that her days are numbered. My conviction is, that the exigencies of the time will produce the. man ; and that if, having wisely selected his colleagues, he start rightly and carry on consistently, he will obtain the unbounded confidence and support of an open-hearted and generous people. I remain, Sir, WOOLWICH, DEC. 17. Commander Kerr, Commander Stewart, and Lieute nant Wodehouse, having completed a course of study of steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard, were ex amined by Mr. Charles Atherton, chief engineer, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, as to their knowledge of the principles and working of marine steam-engines, and, having all passed satisfactorily, they received their certificates accordingly, and there are now three vacancies in the study of steam department at this dockyard. The Imperieuse, 50, screw steam-ship, commisioned at this port to-day by Captain Rundle Burges Watson, C. 8., has had John Penn and Sons' workmen at work upon her up to the late hour of S o'clock p.m., daily, during the week, permission having been granted for that purpose, in order to expedite the fittin , of the en gin& of 350-horse power, constructed by that' firm. The Mega3ra steam-frigate, Commander J. 0. Johnson, expects to leave \V oolwich for Portsmouth in a few days, to embark troops at the latter port. Colonel Whinyates, C. 8., K.C.H., Commandant of the Garrison, and the principal officers of the Royal Artillery, dined, yesterday evening, with the officers of the Royal Marines in their splendid mess-room for the first time since Col. Samuel B. Ellis, C. 8., has joined and taken command of the Woolwich division, on his being promoted to the rank of colonel-commandant. First Lieut. E. B. Snow, of the Woolwich division, has obtained one month's leave of absence from Dec. 16. APPOINTMENTS. Master.—Jabex Loane, to the Arrogant, 46, screw frigate. Chief Engineer.—Jabez Barlow, to the Valorous, steam-frigate, Devonport. Assistant Engineers.—J. Robson and F. R. Humph reys, to the Blenheim, 58, screw guard-ship, Portsmouth; John Robarts, George A. Wells, W. H. Rundle, Richard F. Fennell, to the Valorous ; W. C. B. P. Jones, W. G. Miller, to the Horatio, 22, screw-frigate, Sheerness. Naval Cadet.—Frederick S. Vandermarlin (first nomi nation). Lieut. Wentworth, agent of transports at Haulbow line, has been appointed to be transport agent at Dept ford, and Mr. Ede, the deputy storekeeper of the Dept ford Victualling-yard, has been appointed clerk in charge at Haulbowline, vice Wentworth, each to retain his present salary. This is a most curious arrangement, and we cannot see how Lieut. Wentworth's removal will tend to improve the efficiency of the service. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (Front the Mining Journal of this day.) MINES.-The market this week has by no means been in so active a state as last, which may be accounted for by the season of the year, passing events, and the ab sence of several influential dealers. Still the prices ob tained have been satisfactoroy, showing no eager anxiety to sell at lower rates in the good dividend-paying mines, most of which are stationary, except Herodsfoot, which has advanced to 51. ; Mendip Hills to 71. 10s.; West Phoenix, to 211. 10s.; Condurrow has fallen to 1001.; East Wheal Rose, to 2501.; Great Work to 1551,; North Pool to 2251.; South Caradon, to 1351.; South Frances, to 1681.; Trehane, to N.; - United Mines, to 3751.; West Providence, 551. to 501.; Mary Ann, to 281.; Gonamena, to 50/. Trebarvah, to 7/. 15s. In most of the other shares, the dealings have not been to any considerable amount. In Cornwall, 24 shares in Mill Pool Mine were sold by decree of the Vice-Warden, and realised from 51. 4s. to 61. 7s. each. Wheal Reeth have fallen to 451.; Comford to 181. North Pool have realised 2351. The Metal Market continues in the most active state. British Tin and Copper in very great demand at current rates ; Banca and Straits have advanced 11. per ton each, at which considerable transactions have taken place during the week. In Plates, Coke has risen is. per box ; Charcoal 3s. ; the makers not being in a situa tion to meet the numerous orders pouring on them ; consequently, a further advance is contemplated.-Lead is 1/. a ton higher, and in great demand ' • sellers firm.- Spelter has given way s s. per ton ; 191 . ss. on the spot. and 191. for arrival.-The Iron Market is more than ever in an excited state. Welsh Bars up to 81. 10s. ; Rails, 9/. 10s.-free on board, an advance of 10 per cent. ; all other descriptions becoming very scarce, the orders on hand are immense.-Pig-Iron also shows a rise of ss. per ton, and may be nominally quoted at 3/. 11s. 6d. per ton, free on board, in Glasgow. In the Bullion Market,-Mexican and South American dollars, 4s. 11 id. per oz. Bar silver without gold, ss. 11d. per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard. Fine cake silver, ss. 54d. to id. per oz. The gold mining share market, during nearly the en tire week, has been the scene of extraordinary excite ment. The receipt of further intelligence from Aus tralia, which more than confirms the astonishing advices previously to hand, has brought in a perfect rush of buyers, and the consequence has been an extraordinary and general advance in prices. The Californian descrip tions are also very favourably affected, although not to the same extent as the colonial. The market this after noon closes at the highest rates ever yet attained, and with a continued and very strong upward tendency ' • in - deed there are - parties who hold on for 101 . and 15/. premium per share. The shares in the Australian Agricultural Company have risen from 901. to 220/., in consequence of the report that their estate Is one extensive gold field. The North American gold mines, though in general more quiet, were firm, and much business transacted in them. Among these descriptions, it would appear that Waller's, L'Aigle d'Or, Garnet, and Moseley, were most in demand. The New Granada Company have received advices ; and as soon as Dr. Gonzales had settled with the Titiribi owners, it was his intention to start for Antioquia and Canas Gordas, with Mr. Whileford, to survey the . valuable mine of Frontino, and the alluvial mines in Quiparado, San Mateo, Chomurro and Clnquenada ; advices from them are anticipated by . next mail. Favourable reports have likewise been received by the Nouveau Monde and Yuba River Companies from their several agents. The con tract between the Gold Hill Mining Company and the West Mariposa is stated to be abandoned, in consequence of the shareholders of the former company refusing to ratify the conditions proposed by the latter, and it is sup posed they are about to enter into negociations with Mr. wood, the engineer of the Agua Fria Company. The machinery sent out by the Carsons Creek Company is found to be amply sufficient for all purposes ; and it is anticipated a further return of ss. per share will be made to the shareholders, leaving sufficient funds to carry on active operations. The shares principally in demand were Colonial Gold, Port Philip, British Australian, Australasian, Agua Fria, Anglo Californian, and Carsons December, 1852. W. G. EATON, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Creek. In foreign mines, the transactions have been in the Imperial 'Brazilian, Jamaica, Cobre, Copiapo, Linares, Mexican and South American, Grand Duchy of Baden, Royal Santiago, St. John del Rey, and United Mexican. The adverse Parliamentary decision yesterday morn ing has necessarily had its usual effect on the Admiralty departments, and preparations for change of quarters are evident. Already we hear of numerous speculations as to the successors of the present Board of Admiralty, should the Queen accept the resignation of Lord Derby. The Hon. Sidney Herbert, who was secretary to Lord Haddington's Board, is named for the First Lord's seat ; and it is put down as a matter of course that Rear- Admiral the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., will come in again as Senior Naval Lord, and carry out his pro jects of manning and arming the navy—subjects so familiar to him from from many years' consideration. Of the other ex-members of the Admiralty only one is in Parliament—the Hon. W. Cowper. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17. • The remains of the late Commander-in-Chief of this port will not be removed until next week. Rear Admiral Fanshawe hoisted his flag this morning at day light as acting commander-in-chief until the vacancy of Port Admiral is filled up. It was reported yesterday that it was the intention to appoint a vice-admiral to the command in chief at Ports mouth, to succeed to the death vacancy ; and that Vice- Admiral of the White Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., will be the new port admiral. We believe that the official announcement of Rear- Admiral Deans Dundas's promotion, together with his com mission, have already been transmitte to the gallant Commander-in -Chief. It will meet him at Gibraltar, most likely, where he will hoist his Vice-Admiral's flag within a week. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, arrived at this port yesterday on a visit to the dockyard, and to-day inspected the ships, accompanied by Captain W. H. Henderson, C.B. The Leander, 50, Captain King, and the Arrogant, 46 (screw), Captain Fremantle, are ordered to Spithead forthwith, and will go out to-morrow. The Archer, screw-sloop, 14, Commander Strange, went out of harbour to Spithead this morning, and awaits orders. HERALD. —It would be useless, and worse than useless, to disguise from ourselves the reality or the magnitude of that disaster which has for a moment struck down the hopes of the Conservative cause. The Ministry has fallen that is admitted on all hands. That it has fallen honourably even its 'enemies will not deny ; and we greatly doubt whether the most sanguine among them ventures to speculate on its long exclusion from power. For though the Government will within a few days have ceased to exist as such, the party which constituted its strength and support remains as before — united, compact, full of confidence in its leaders, and numbering nearly 300 votes in the Commons, while in the Lords it commands a clear majority of the whole. Such a phalanx, so conducted, is, for purposes of oppo sition, irresistible. There is no body of men equally powerful in Parliament ; and whatever incongruous al liance may be patched up among hostile and discordant sections, such a coalition cannot by any human possibi lity retain the reins long enough to do any practical mis chief. " England," said Mr. Disraeli, "does not love coalitions." History attests the fact ; the experience of our own time has proved its truth ; and we are mis taken if, within a few months, the prophecy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer be not again made good, at the expense of some of those who heard it uttered. It is as yet too early to speculate on the immediate fu ture—the real state of affairs being, in all probability, known only to a few individuals, and those few pledged to official secresy. Whether Lord John Russell will be called on to resume the functions which in February last he aban doned, as a burden too heavy to be any longer borne ; whether Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Gladstone, or the Duke of Newcastle, as the heads of that party whose opposi tion mainly contributed to the subversion of the Govern ment ; or whether, as seems to us not improbable, some statesman withdrawn from active political warfare, of high character, long experience, and opinions professedly moderate, will be summoned from retirement to give counel to the Sovereign, is a problem of which we state the conditions, but do not presume to offer a solution. One counsel, however, we will venture to give to those members of the Conservative party who may be at a loss as to the course which they should pursue in this unfore seen emergency. Mr. Gladstone, in his speech of Friday night, which, with great prudence, lie reserved until -after the Chancellor of the Exchequer's reply, made ap peals, which met with no very warm response, to the memory of the past, and to the sympathies of the agri cultural party. His eloquence, we are bound to say, ran to waste. While be talked of 1842 his hearers were thinking of 1846. When he alluded to a separation, which he seemed to represent as involuntary on his part, it was impossible that they whom he addressed should not remember the bitter and vindictive rancour with which—all cause of difference being now finally removed—he had pursued a Government with whose PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17. The steamer Avon sailed yesterday with seamen for ships fitting at Portsmouth. Letters from her Majesty's frigate Spartan, which left Plymouth on the 29th of July, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 13th of October, state that, in con sequence of boisterous weather, she was 11 weeks going from Madeira to the Cape, and for one month the crew was placed on the short allowance of half a pint of water per man per day. The Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com pany's mail-packet Adelaide, Captain Jackson, with mails from Australia, and the General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail-packet Bosphorus, Captain Benson, with mails from the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius, are both ready for sea ; but, in conse quence of a very strong gale of wind from the south west, which commenced yesterday morning, and still continues, there is not much probability of their depar- I ture to-day. SHEERNESS, DEC. 16 The Porcupine, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, of 140 horse-power, Lieut.-Commander George M. Jackson, has left the harbour, and has, brought up at the Little Nore, waiting sailing orders for Jersey. She is to re main there as a steam-tender to the squadron of reserve for the Channel Islands. The Wildfire, steam-tender to the Waterloo, 120 guns, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, got up her steam at 9 a.m., and at 9.30 a.m. received on board Vice- Admiral the Hon. Joceline Percy, C. 8., Commander-in- Chief at the Nore, and his secretary, who proceeded to Woolwich in her on an official visit to the dockyard. The Rattlesnake, 8, has this day been inspected by Mr. Isaac Watt, Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy, who arrived here yesterday on an official visit for the purpose of carrying out the Admiralty orders as to her fitment THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN ITT G, DECEM BER 18, 1852. opinions he confeisedly sYMpathised, and from whose members he had personally received nothing but courtesy. That Government has indeed long la-. boUred, by all honourable means of conciliation, to reunite the scattered sections of the party which followed Sir R. Peel from 184 . 2 to 1846. We, in our vocation, have exerted ourselves to the same end. If reunion has now become impossible, Mr. Gladstone will be at no loss to say at whose door lies the fault. We do not hesitate to express our belief that it is impossible ; and that the name of "Conservative" will soon cease to be abused by those who retain nothing of Conservatism but the name. Such being the case, we would earnestly entreat of all true friends of the late Ministry to trust no " Peelite" promises, however specious—to listen to no language proposing compromise or alliance—but, bearing in mind the events of the last few months, to hold themselves in readiness to begin anew, and with re doubled energy, the work of opposition, whether the Administration which succeeds to power be presided over by Lord John Rus:sell or Lord Aberdeen. Lord Derby, we doubt not, will take an'early opportunity of explain ing his views to those who support him ; and as little do we doubt that the present year is destined to witness his own and his colleagues triumphant reinstatement in office. TIMES.—Like a well-written tragedy, the interest of the debate on the budget went on gradually culminating till it reached the highest point of interest in the single combat between Mr: Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, in which it ' terminated. Like two of Walter Scott's champions, these redoubtable antagonists gathered up all their force for the final struggle, and encountered each other in mid career. More equal than like, each side viewed the struggle of their chosen athelites, as if to prognosticate from the result of the war of words, the fortunes of two parties so nicely balanced, and mar shalled in apparently equal array. Mr. Disraeli's speech was, in every respect, worthy of his oratorical reputation. The retorts were .pointed and bitter, the hits telling, the sarcasm keen, the argument in many places cogent, in all ingenious, and in some convincing. The style was in•marked contrast to his opening address. Instead of the long-drawn imperfectly-constructed sen tences, the hesitating utterance, and the slovenly manner which distinguished the opening speech, the style was clear and nervous, brilliant and epigrammatic, and, if sometimes dealing in rhetorical puerilities which a chas tised taste must disapprove, often extorting involuntary admiration from those whose convictions the orator com bated, or whose most cherished feelings he outraged. The attack upon the Exchequer Loan Commission, though wrought out at far too great length, for it occu pied at least an hour in the delivery, and thus wasted valuable time and attention on a mere accessary to the subject, was in itself a masterly exposition of what cer tainly appears to be a great misappropriation, and seems to show pretty conclusively that the sooner a fund liable to so much abuse is destroyed the better. Unfortu nately, this, Mr. Disraeli's greatest victory, was one on a collateral issue. It matters ,little for the purposes of the budget whether the Exchequer Loan Commission ought to be closed or not. This point had derived an exaggerated importance from the able advocacy of Sir James Graham, but was, in fact, of small account. The real question on which the argument, independent of the merits of the taxes imposed and taken off, turned, was whether the Minister was justified in appro.- priating the repayments of this loan to the current expenses of the year, instead of applying them to the reduction of the debt. This question Mr. Disraeli failed to meet, and it was probably from a consciousness of this infirmity in his case that he so much overlaid the former part of it. His argument was based on the most servile adherence to forms and precedents. Because an Act of Parliament requires that a quarter of the surplus of the balance in the Treasury, taken four times a-year shall be applied to the payment of the debt , M r . Disraeli assumes that the debt can be repaid in no other possible manner, and that, unless we have favourable balances in the Exchequer at the time when the accounts are taken, we must not appropriate any sum whatever to the reduction of the debt. Now, this is mere official pedan try. We are no more bound to apply a sum primarily destined for one purpose to another in public than in private transactions. The same argument would prove that a trustee could not keep a separate account for trust funds at a bankers's, but must mix them up with the ways and means of his personal expenditure. Mr. Disraeli says that, all things remaining the same, he will, by carrying these repayments to the accounts of the Ways and Means, pay off the debt in' three years. We say that these repayments ought to go to the extinction of the debt, whether matters remain the same or no ; that this is the character impressed upon them by their origin ; and that it is a piece of unpardonable reckless ness to tamper with them. The repayments do not con stitute the surplus any more than any other part of the revenue they go to make up, and it would be just as reasonable to say that the Customs' duties were em ployed in paying off the debt as this -particular sum. The merits of Mr. Disraeli's speech were, how ever, counterbalanced by no less glaring defects in tone, temper, and feeling. In some passages in vective was pushed to the limit of virulence, and in others, meant, doubtless, to relieve them by contrast, the coarser stimulants to laughter were very freely ap plied. Occasionally whole sentences were delivered with an artificial voice and a tone of studied and sardonic bitterness peculiarly painful to an audience, and tending greatly to diminish the effect of this great intellectual and physical effort. Nor, amid all the vehemence of argument, the glitter of declamation, and the splendour of point and antithesis, was there wanting a certain air of insincerity which detracted very greatly from the general effect. The House of Commons could not but feel that it was witnessing an exhibition of talent and versatility little calculated to elevate its own dignity or the character of Ministers of State, and it probably was not without a feeling of relief that it saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer resume his seat. The speech of Mr. Gladstone, which wound up the debate, was in marked contrast to that of his antagonist. It was characterised throughout by the most earnest sincerity. It was pitched in a high tone of moral feeling—now rising to indignation, now sinking to remonstrance—which was sustained throughout without flagging and without effort. The language was less ambitious and less studied, but more natural and flowing, than that of Mr. Disraeli ; and, though commencing in a tone of stern rebuke, it ended in words of almost pathetic expostulation. While Mr. Disraeli put forth his whole strength in the endeavour to annihilate his antagonists, and seemed to recognise no limit to his invective except a call to order, Mr. Gladstone evidently laboured to curb and repress the exuberance of his emotion, and to bring everything within not merely the limits of Parliamentary usage, but of his own sense of decorum and propriety. That power of persuasion, which seems entirely denied to his antagonist, he pos sesses in great perfection, and, to judge by the counte nances of his hearers, those powers were very successfully exerted. He had, beside, the immense advantage re sulting from the tone of moral superiority which he assumed and successfully maintained, and which con ciliated to him the goodwill of his audience in a degree never attained by the most brilliant sallies of his adver sary ; and, when he concluded, the house might well feel proud of him and themselves. In the broad con trast which we have thus endeavoured to develope, we trust we see a foreshadowing of our entrance upon a new career of public life. Mr. Disraeli, with his telling retorts, his bitter sarcasms, and his dexterous, but often sophistical logic, may serve as a fa ir emblem of the period of stormy political passion through which we have passed, and which it has been the mission of the present session to close. We trust that we have not only got rid of Protection itself, but done something towards getting rid of that personal and acrimonious style of dis cussing public questions which this miserable controversy has introduced. In Mr. Gladstone we see a man trained in the same school, but tempering its asperities with m ore respect for himself and the feelings of others. We hope that the latter cause will triumph with the majority of last night, and that increasing intelligence will compel our statesmen to devote more and more of the public time to reason and argument, and less to personal invective and useless recrimination. HERALD.—Not many of our readers, we suppose, will feel much interest, now the struggle is over, in that which was the immediate question at issue on Thursday night. Whether the house tax should be raised to ls. 6d., or remain at 9d., might be a most interesting topic to the " inhabitants of St. Andrew's, Holborn, meeting at the workhouse in Gray's-inn-lane ;" but it is not one on which we shall waste a single word. The main question which is now at stake is one of an infinitely higher character —namely, whether England is to preserve her Protestant institutions, or to sink by degrees into sub serviency to Rome. The division of Thursday night showed the following combination of parties, leagued together to destroy :Protestant Cabinet : English and Scottish Whigs and Radicals 22252 Irish Brigade (chiefly Papists) 31 Peelites (chiefly Puaeyites) 305 Now, after destroying one Government, the next busi ness of course is to construct another. And how is this to be done ? If the new Cabinet makers had merely to deal with the first section, the 222 Whigs and Radicals, the difficulties would be great, but perhaps not insupera ble. Out of these 222, o ne-third, or about 70, are what used to be termed Destructive& That is, they would at once demolish the Church of Ireland, and curtail as much as possible the Church of England. They would insist on the ballot, and press a Reform Bill which should greatly augment their own power in the House of Common. With all these demands the regular Whigs—the Russells and Lansdownes, would have to deal ; but they would probably quiet them, for the pre sent, by showing them the danger of precipitancy, and by promising them some important concessions by-and-bye. But what is to be done with the Popish and semi-Popish allies ? Take the leading man on the Opposition benches in Thursdays's debate--Mr. Gladstone. He and his thirty friends decided the contest and overthrew the Conservative Government. Is he not—are they not to have a share of the spoil ? Doubtless they must, for without their aid the new Whig Ministry would be in a minority on the very first night of the February session. Of course, Mr. Gladstone and his friends must occupy prominent seats in the next Ministry. But what does this imply ? It implies much that would be ruinous to the character of Lord John Russell ; and, what is of more consequence, ruinous in its tendency to the country also. It implies the sitting of the English Convocation for business, which most Churchmen feel is synonymous with the destruction of the English Church. It implies, also, a bishopric for. Mr. Bennet, now of Frome, late of St. Barnabas, Lord John Russell's polite correspondent. It implies, in short, the Romanising of the English Church, and, of course. the desertion of that Church by the people. Such is the first aspect of the new Mi nistry. But there is another. The Whigs, Radicals, and Peelites united could only bring forward 253 votes on Thursday night, This strength is insufficient. .The new Ministry cannot stir one step, unless they get the support of the " Irish Brigade' also. And _ this support they cannot get, except they are prepared • t, torscay.the price. And what is that price ? About this the statesmen .to whom her Majesty may think fit iteeekaee a s, , - - ' N.. ' ~;a es -s - l as . there can be no mistake. Before crossing the . Channel confide the formation of a Ministry. On the subject afeelt e. a"-qa ) k i sT e ass- - ---,, ;a ' A )to attend the present session, the Irish members of the persons we have little anxiety—the formidable riaturdar:., e aell T'; : je; 1---r W . 7 1 --.4 Pope's band held a mee:ing, and then and there resolved the present crisis consists in difficulties which will Till \''?" - a-i 7 a7...V . ' .e.-I' . ti a; the one point to he insisted on was, "the abatement with equal weight on any Government. - The grayeet a e l ".:, 7;:. 1 -,it ee 71 of that great nuisance, the Established Church in Ire- charge which can 'ever be brought against a retiring Ali- u 'r . .a.' ~,-; is ---' ea ea_t land." -- Only second to this, was " tenant-right," i. c., ! nister is the deliberate accumulation of obstructions for ;'ll'eae--eas— the confiscation of the estates of Ireland. To these two his successors, calculated to prevent the efficient die- : UP . **--. 1 :- objects the Brigade stands pledged, and except by tree,- j charge of their duties. Mr. Disraeli's friends may ap son and perfidy they can support the Whig Government plaud the energy and ability of his closing speech, and on. no lower terms. Such, then, is the prospect before probably they will suggest pleas in extenuation of.. us, if the coalesced parties shall be able to form a Minis- his ' intemperate and ungraceful personalities ; but try. This,. of course, is problematical ; but we have no provocation, and no regard for the aggrandise heard that Lord Lansdowne, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord ment of a party, can excuse those extemporaneous pre-- John Russell; lately met at 'Woburn Abbey, and settled 1 raises of financial concess i ons w ith which, .at the the preliminaries of a coalition Ministry. Such a Minis- i last moment, the Chancellor of the Exchequer at try, as we have just seen, must adopt as its policy the I tempted to bid for Parliamentary support. . Its is . un-Protestanting of the Church of England, and the I impossible to believe that the professed champion of the surrender of the Church of Ireland ! Can we write ; landed interest had deliber a t e ly i n t en d e d t o re - a djust tho these fearful words without reme mberin g b y whom duties on successions ; and t en mont h s o f o ffi c i a l eipc- • the nation has been brought into this fearful peril 1 rience must have abundantly shown the Mel:podia:m . 6y o • The principal assailant of Lord Derby's Government holding out fiscal reductions as just, before the Exelme on Thursday last was the junior member for the quer is able to afford them. - In the eyes of statestuee, . University of Oxford. And he was su pp orted in the promise of future improvements, by w a y 4 exels - e the division by the senior representati v e of the Urn- for an untenable budget, is only a transparent party versity of Cambridge. If we could believe for one me- , stratagem ; but the country at large has not equal nienams ment that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Goulb urn were I of inemesurin.?: the earnestness of a ' Minister's leinguaea a l faithful representatives of these two universities, we Parliament. It is always easy to deelaith against any should begin tb despair of England. By the votes of tax, nor is it possible to justify even the least oneroes our two great teats of learning the nation would appear 1 impost, except on the ground of public nece..sity. •• :But to be consigned to the tender mercies of .the Cobdens. a Minister of Finance may fairly be supposed to know ..- Brights, Keoghs, and Gavan Duffys I If such could the wants and resources of the department which he really he the vote of Oxford and Cambridge, what hope administers ; and 'when a Chancellor' of the 'ExcheqUer would be left ? But we cannot believe it. Let the elec. denounces a tax, lie is understood to admit that it can be . tors of those universities look to it. If the coalition spared without injury to the state. - The case hoecraes Ministry can be really formed, we may find Mr. Glad- ;Worse when, as we before .observed, the . bill drawn on stone and Mr. Geulburn in the attitude of suppliants the future 'is but a renewal of previous obligations, for re-election before a fortnight has elapsed. Forth- which. have themselves •-been dishonoured when due. with let proper successors be sought for, and proposed The most serious question which will require the at- . to the electois. Nor are these solitary cases. Mr. Sid- tention of Lord Derby's successors is with reference to ney Herbert gained his election in Wiltshire in July the provision to be made for the public service. Al last by the natural device of a wealthy man—the prompt though a considerable surplus appears as the balance of engagement 'of all the carriages. He has now deprived the current year, the lapsing of the income tax would the farmers of Wiltshire of the remission of half the leave a deficit in the revenue to the extent of more than malt tax and of a considerable reduction in their income three millions sterling. The most mischievous portion tax. Let them prepare their gigs and their horses in of Mr. Disraeli ' s conduct consists in the levity with . good time, and when he next shakes his purse in their which he has thought fit, for party purposes, to treat. faces let them reply by a writ of ejectment from the this momentous subject. In an early part of the recent county. We might extend these remarks to several discussion, he declared that the details of the schedules other names; , but we pause. The scheme to which we might safely be left for future consideration. There was , have alluded may founder before it is offered to the pub- no doubt, he said, that, on one system or another, a re lic. The embryo Cabinet may never see the light ; still venue of five millions would be raised, as at present, on the electors of every seat occupied by a Peelite ought the income or property of the country. Yet, aseMr. now to be on the alert, for a few hours may develop Gladstone forcibly explained, the schedules assessed at strange things. the lower rate of taxation would have been irre- POST.—The purpose with which Lord Derby yester- vocably reduced from the present standard, as soon day left town for Osborne is no secret, though its true as the committee had affirmed the Ministerial reeelli motive is difficult to understand, unless it be that the tion. Tens of millions in foreign funds, and ' in th- a :is Derby-Disraeli Administration are glad to seize the first of millions employed in commei:oial enterprises, would opportunity of resigning a position, to the exigencies of have been relieved from the present amount of duty, .. which they felt themselvs totally inadequate. We have before any security was afforded that Parliament would always said that the Ministry could not, by any possi- assent to the intolerable inequalities imposed upon - the bility, maintain its position without vital modification. less favoured species of income. Mr. Hume is consistent It has not been modified, and it has fallen. It has fallen in an erroneous theory. Mr. Disraeli only knew that from, apparently, the strangest of causes. The Mini s- he would find supporters for his project, but he had con-- ters who stifled their convictions at the voice of the fessedly never thought of reasons to justify it. Mr. Pitt whipper-in, and who undertook to carry out a policy in and Sir Robert Peel had declared the impossibility of au whose soundness they could not believe, now quit office enterprise which a falling Minister undertakes to per for no other reason than that Free - traders refuse to form before he has even ascertained the nature of the allow them to put into effect the dogmas of extreme difficulties with which he must grapple. It was not a free trade. The division which took place yesterday physical impossibility which checked th e statesmen of morning on the first of Mr. Disraeli's motions amounted former times, but a practical knowledge of the injustice to a distinct refusal to allow the Government to double which would be perpetrated in any attempt to do arbi the house tax, in order that they might, perhaps, lower trary justice ; and the absurd fabric constructed by Mr. - the price of beer by a farthing per pot—a possibility Hume might have warned their rash successor of his strongly disputed even by the brewers —and in order error in rushing in where the greatest financiers feared that they might; also, perhaps, slightly benefit the pos - to tread. The financial q uestion, aggravated as it is by sessors of light barley-growing lands—the least suffering this serious difficulty, is far more important than_ the portion of the agricultural interest—the probability a s gratification or disappointment of any individual ambi the latter benefit being equally apocryphal with that of tion. A large majority of the House of Commons are the former. But a wilful genius must have his way, and certainly in earnest in the determination to maintain the his way is that of no common Chancellor. Such a man public credit as the first condition of national prosperity.. would have taken his slate and his clerks, and having They cannot too early prepare to give an efficient sup carefully ascertained the accuracy of his balance, port to any statesman who, having been entrusted with would, had it been against him, cautiously have scraped the management of the finances, displays an honest , pur together the means of covering it. Had it been in his pose to accomplish his duty to his country, offering -at favour, and to a large amount—having set aside some- the same time, in his past experience, reasonable security thing like half a million to provide for contingencies— for his ability to discharge the functions which he.under he would, using his best discrimination ; have applied it takes . . to the reduction of the taxes which were chiefly oppres- DAILY NEWS.-=The Derby Cabinet have met and sive ;' and here we may remark,' that it is a failing of separated for the last time. Who are to be .their sue-, Chancellors of the Exchequer to estimate oppression by 'cessors is the question upon every political lip ; and as the loudness of the howl of the oppressed, so that they various leanings and attachments sway the differen who roar loudest are frequently first let off. But this judgments of men, anticipations are formed, if not always by the way. lf the Chancellor were a man really of openly expressed, of partial or total change—of censer practical ability, the relief given would be judicious and votive reconstruction or of liberal substitution. We rational. But having obtained for Chancellor a genius are not about to repeat here the reasons which lead, us inclined to assert that Chancellors, like poets, are born, to the conviction that no administration can be formed not made, we must be contented with allowing him a capable of durability which is not founded upon some free scope for the range of his large intellect, which, not broad and positive basis. We shall have other opportu satisfied with relieving here and there an article more or nities of illustrating our views in that particular. We less unjustly taxed, can be contented with nothing but confine ourselves for the present to an enumeration of a grand revision - of taxation—shifting burdens from the the more prevalent rumours which have been, during shoulders of one class to that of another, without giving the last few hours, in circulation in various quarters. any reason more satisfactory than Topsy's " 'Spects its Amid the despair of the discomfited Tories, there. because I'S so wicked"—and indeed it requires a grasp still lingers a vague hope that the same merciful of genius truly Topseian to devise the bold raising of a interposition that saved them from drOwning three huge war tax in order to give a problematical relief to weeks ago, may now be forind able and willing to " small beer." • What but genius of such an order could restore them to life. Lord, Pahnerston, it 'is sail, have'proposed to a house in which hundreds of members though disapproving of the bubble-budget, refused to represent boroughs 'whose rulers are " ten pound house- make any effort to record hiS vote : against . it. Trio holders" to extend the house tax to that very patriotic noble viscount is not the man who would spare himself and omnipotent class ? Why, Mr. Disraeli would label or anybody. else a twinge, when he has made up . hie • the borough menibers who voted for such a tax with mind to - say anything that lie thinks it very desirable an phylacteries fatal to their success in future elections. say, or to do anything that, he thinks it advisable,/ to do. Such, however, as the budget was, it contained 'Cron, which the grateful Carlton sagaciously inferS tb:: a. nothing that was contrary to time principles of free trade, Lord Palmerston was not very sorry to he absent froma and little that was per sc objectiona b le ; but of what was. Clansalay night's division.. They dwell, moreover, With: needless it contained an overwhelming amount. The ..airioua earnestness on the fact, that his son-in-Imps . , duty of its authors was to take it back and amend it, as Lord Jocelyn, .voted for the house - .tax, . whib, .1.;, best they might, and bring it forward again in a more colleague in the 'representation of Tiverton, Sir es i;:e.a. sober form next session. Consistent in inconsistency Heathedte,• as well as his con, abetain.ed from suppoe, ~ e alone, they have preferred to resign , lea vin g the countr y , the Liberal O p position. Finally, the unhappy vietnal s' as they imagine, at the mercy of the Radicals. • At the , !Ir." Disraeli s Incapacity for linanco, • repeat with mercy of any such party it will not be, however, foe Lerious enmphassis• time • roe ;maid - easy exprassion 's ish Conservative principles arc unquestionably in the 'as- • which that great ma - ster of language;. Lord'Malmesbuss, cendant, and men will be found without difficulty ready . thOught proper to imiove the adjournment of the - 1 7. 1)1,•.• to carry them into effect. The ultimate result of the Honee.last evailineHviz., that " Loyd D'eo.iy.haLl gc , ;lo suicide of Lord Derby's Cabinet will be — after the usual to see the Queen at Osborne "—IS most unirainirphie a ; series of small attempts and petty failures on the pa rt of it must be owned, for a Secretary of State to make Ufa, af individuals representing sections of parties—the forms- on any public occasion, and, especially felicitous w: ~n tion of a strong Conservative and Liberal M inistr y , - uttered with reference to me, crisis like the present ; but ready to bear out the dominant principle of free trade which we rather incline to treat as another prOof ,hew with heartiness and singleness of purpose, able to make lamentably the cducaiton of the illiterate earl must have the English name, and English policy, respected abroad, been neglected in his youth. But unless Lord Palmers and preserve the strictest constitutional purpose and ton were to emulate the fame of Quintus Curtius, and practice at home. Any modification of Lord Derby's Offer to jump into the quagmire of Derbyisrn, it does not Cabinet, such as we recommended some time ago, appear very clear how it is possible for his lordship to Would now be impossible—for who would, or could, join avert the fate that now impends over the defeated Minis, him with his , mill-stone' budget hanging round his tern and their adherents ; and how even such a feat of neck ? The Peelites were the party who could best have self-devotion would help them seems equally unintelli given him a clear majority in the Commons, but all Bible. Meanwhile the Whig and Peelite coteries are hope of a junction with them vanished for ever with the busy in building cabinets of cards, and filling up with brilliant sarcasms, but not altogether dignified vitupera- amusing particularity every post, however subordinate, tion of Mr. Disraeli's speed' of Friday morning. No. in the public offices or the Royal household. The re- The fate of the present Government is determined—we spective admirers of Lord Lansdowne and Lord Aber: have always pleaded a fair trial for them—they have deen dwell with complacency on 'the certainty, as they had it, and have convicted themselves of unfitness for su pp ose, of their favourite statesman assumin g his post their position. Neither a " deluge," nor " chaos," nor at the head of affairs. Many lists arc handed about for a "Cobden-Bright Administration," nor even " con- the appeasement of impatient curiosity, but one of the sternation " ensue on their quitting office. As far as most plausible and probable that we have yet seen dis the monetary world is concerned, the feeling of the poses of the principal offices of State as follows : City is manifested by a slight rise in the public funds— First Lord of the Treasury Marquis of Lansdowne not an unusual occurrence on the occasion of a Minis- Foreign Affairs Earl of Aberdeen terial crisis. Suffering agriculturists will, after the ex- Home Office and Leader of the perience they have had, be hard to persuade that they , s Colonic,: ., lose even any prospect of benefit in consequence of the MnGladstone• Chancellor of the lexcheqner :e r. dissolution of the Cabinet. Free-traders will rejoice to Mr. S. Herbert Commons ......... .:, .3.1. JG. Graham Admiralty see men out of office who, when in, threatened to overdo Secretary-tit-War Mr. Osborne their new principles with the excess of zeal proverbial Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in new converts. And the country at large, if it regrets &e. &c. &c. that the ostensible chiefs of so great a party have'proved it seems to be generally understood that Lord Grey but the force of inconsistency and effected but their and his immediate friends would not be included in this own defeat, cannot feel otherwise than that, though the combination ; neither would the leaders of the Man- Cabinet has been overthrown, the Conservative cause chester section of the Radical party. We must repeat has in no way been weakened, and that its principles that these are mere rumours, to be taken only for what they may be worth. a w n i ldl ablestil l co s t antteisnmueenintetheenafesreeeendtabnetm, .with n o lack of tried the C greatH R ON d s l y ? e L i eEn and daythe a h nd ud g n e i night have has lost elapsed s tite interest.since Every thoughtful mind is looking forward, rather than back to the past, well knowing that a negative decision only disposes of one form of error, and that the future financial system of the country has yet to be devised and established. Yet the debate, and especially day night's portion of it , was of more than ordinar y in terest. Left alone by his colleagues, andunsupported even by the general opinion of his party, the Chancellor of the Exchequer called forth all his resources to avert or to adorn the defeat which he had prepared for himself LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(1H1S DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 18.--Wind at Noon, N.W., fine. BIDEFORD, Dec. 17.—The Supreme Sagesse, of Marseilles, from Newcastle to Sierra Leone, was totally lost off the harbour last night, the owner and five seamen lost, master and boy saved. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 16.—Arrived —Ashland, New Orleans; Orontes (s), Alexandria. 17. James Nesmxitch,_ Sturges, ell and Columbiana, New Orleau ; E - :1817 e ap.d Watrloo, New York • Irvine, Greenwich, ,l an S b St. John's, N.B. • —Louisa Kilham, Philadelphia. 17 The Nouvelle Loire; from Havre Middleton, Quebec. S. iled WEymoUTH, Dec. last night, and has become a to the African coast, came as h to o t r u e l o l n vr t e h ek e , P t o hr rt e l e an m d en ben four boys drowned. The Rambler, of Cork, is ashore PLYMOUTH, Doc. 17. on Beadman's Bay. PLYMOU TH, Dec. 15. — Arrived —Wharfin g e r , Newcastle, Limerick,ouJ leaky Dee. a i n 7 d . W., blew a violent ga l e for sails split. FAI last night from W.S.W., with furious squalls ; it has slightly moderated, the shipping appear to ride well. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 17.—1 t blew a heavy gale all last night from S.W. to W.S.W., with torrents of rain and hail, but moderated this morning. It is again blowing heavily, with rain, thunder, and lightning, with every ap pearance of a stormy night. The hull and cargo of the Arrow, from Sunderland, have been saved, her decks being blown astern and washed out. by a reckless scheme, brought forivaid in a presump. tuous spirit. Mr. Disraeli never displayed more plau sible ingenuity, or ,more rhetorical vigour ; and, but for the bad taste and bad feeling which revolted the judg ment of the house, he might, when a victory in argu ment was impossible, have at least achieved an oratori cal success. But his cause was bad, and his skill was, from the first, employed rather in concealing defects, and in diverting attention from weak points, than in re pelling the formidable attacks of his opponents. A few words in Mr. Gladstone's reply overthrew the elaborate sophistry with which the Minister had striven to cover the misappropriation of the Exchequer Loan repay ments ; and before the member for the University of Oxford had concluded his masterly address, nine-tentie lis of the house were convinced of the so undness d o t f criticisms which a decisive majority immediately i h a ou e y afterwards affirmed by their votes. On tax, and on the malt tax, the previous discussion t had thrown much light ; but Sir Fr ancis Baring had the credit of suggesting, and Mr. G ladstone the merit of com pleting, a demonstration th at that co mparatively popular was the most unjns proposal relating to the income portion o a f l the budget. If the tifiable and dangerou s fate of the Government had not depended on the vote, it is certain that at least half of the actual minorit7 would have adopted by acclamation Mr. Gladstone s views, in condemna tion of the course proposed by their official ' leader. We repeat, however, that the country looks to the future, and the gravest politicians contem plate it with the most serious anxiety. Not that the hackneyed difficulty of forming a Government is likely to be put forward on the present occasion. Every ex perienced statesman in the country is at this moment in a condition to accept office, if the public good requires his services. The majority of Thursday night is ready to support a strong and enlightened Administration ; and it is certain that many moderate and patriotic sup porters of Lord Derby will render their assistance to preserve the country from the risk of too frequent official changes. The term of service agreed upon with Mr. Disraeli is at an end. No question of Protection any longer divides those who may concur in a generally pro gressive policy ; and the new Cabinet—although nothing can at present - be known of its constitution will undoubtedly include names in which both the country and Parliament will gladly place confidence. In a day or two, it may probably be our duty to communicate the various negociations which must follow the selection of ULSTER RAILWAY.—A. special general meeting of the shareholders of the Ulster Railway Company was held in the board room at the Belfast terminus on Tuesday. The attendance was large and very influential. The object for which the meeting was assembled will be understood from the following resolution :—" It is moved by the chairman of the board of the Ulster Railway directors, that the. re commendation of the directors be adopted, and that thay be authorised to subscribe, on behalf of the lErlster'Railw:y Company, for 4,000 shares of 251. each, in the propGs': line to Clones, on such terms and conditions for the Pro bection of the interests of this company, as they may th•eni expedient." This motion, after a protrtcted diseubsion, hiring which several amendments were moved end drawn, was carried by a majority of the meeting to thre - ; dissentients. It was stated. by, Mr. Harrison that Mr. Dargan had said the. Clones line would be one of the best in Ireland. [ADVERTISIMETI —The Curative Properties of Hollo way's Ointment and. Pills are daily attested.—All ranks of society and medical men, both at borne and abroad, speak of these incomparable medicines in the most flat tering terms, and assert that in the severest cases of chronic ulcers, those even which were considered incur able, Holloway's Ointment has been truly efficacious, when used •, and there is no disputing the fact that Hol loway's Pills are the very best family medicine ever known or tried. These admirable remedies will cure bad legs, however inveterately diseased ; likewise rheu matic affections, glandular swellings, and the mom obstinate cases of scurvy, scrofula or King's evil.— Sold by all vendors of medicines ; and at Profewor . loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. • STATE OP THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury of this day.) The wool market has been steady. The imports into London during the week to Thursday last were, 5,396 bales, of which 1,789 were from Port Phillip, 1,216 from Sydney, 807 from Algoa Bay, 397 from Germany, 964 from Taganrog, and 120 from Shanghai. In the English wool market manufacturers have purchased rather more freely of combing and clothing wools this week, and rather improved prices have been obtained. In the Liverpool wool market, there has been a good inquiry for wool at full prices. The public sales on Wednesday and Thursday next, will include 2,400 bales East India, and 2,000 bales sundry low wools. Im ports are very light. With regard to the woollen trade of Leeds, although at this season of the year inactivity and dulness are generally prevalent in the cloth halls, yet we think a full average business has been done in the markets this week. A good quantity of cloth changed hands both on Saturday and Tuesday. There have been several buyers in the town during the week from London, Scotland, and other parts of the country, and some of them have purchased rather freely ; this, together with part shipping business that is doing at present, has caused increased activity in the trade of the warehouses this week. _ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 13.—We have had a dull and heavy market, and there is no disposition on the part of the merchants to purchase at the present time. Wool is firm at previous prices, which operates as a check both to the merchant and manufacturer. BRADFORD WORSTED MARKET, DEC. 16.—W00l has been stationary in price during the last week ; on yarns we hear of an advance of 6d. per gross. The trade is brisk for the time of the year, especially in crapes, and as a natural consequence the position of the manufac- turers is slowly improving. HOSIERY TRADE LEICESTER.—Though orders in the manufacturers' hands are nearly completed, there is less slackness in the general demand at this period than we have known for years past, the consequence of which is that the operatives are generally well employed. Many hosiers have turned their machinery on cotton hose some time past, for which orders are in the market for delivery in the coming year. These yarns have ex perienced a considerable rise, and notwithstanding the reaction in the Liverpool and - Manchester markets, prices remain firm, and the demand exceeds the supply in useful numbers, particularly in blue greys. But little doing in worsted yarns, the hosiers being engaged in working down stocks before Christmas stock -taking. Prices are firm, and if wools keep their upward tendency, of which there seems every probability, a further advance may he expected, as they are not equal to the present value of sorts and skin wool. PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN DOCKS.—The embank ment across Millbay is nearly completed. An opening of about 12 feet will be left until about the middle of Febru ary, when the entrance will be closed, and 2,000 or 3,000 men set on the interior works. Some fears are entertained of the water-tight powers of the embankment, and it has been suggested that the contractors will further strengthen it by laying on the inner side large quantities of the dock excavations. An engine capable of clearing one ton of water per minute will, it is said, be erected on the works. ROBBERY OF 7001. NEAR NEWCASTLE.—On Monday night last, the residence of Mr. Stephenson, at Pontea land, which is within seven miles north-west of New castle, was broken into by fOur men, and a watch and 7001. in notes and gold abstracted. We hear that our esteemed representative, T. W. Booker, Esq., has become the purchaser of that beautiful and valuable estate called Cobrey Park, near Ross.—Herc , ford Journal. 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