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

T FRENCH EMPIRE. ,IV s•.e have rece i ve d t h e P ar i s j ourna l s o f yes t er - Th e ve _ Ste havi ng p u t some ques ti o ns to the Go- Th ntent as to the conditions attached to the per -31011 to gees to be granted to political exiles and refu tt._ e return to France, the Moniteur replied that Gov nly condition was the recognition of the new frrunaent in France. This had, indeed, been re quently stated in the Government organs, and hi s Pe d a tedlY had the Chief of the State manifested g en. 'esire to render the exercise of clemency as q ge neral as a reasonable regard for the public tran aullillin tY and the consolidation of his power would al r e iv .; The Moniteur has repeated the assurance 2 4 LIY given, and has even complained of the word th -ser it applied by the Siècle to exiles and refugees, aer % declaring that the Government does not pro hmen for their political opinions, and only ands that they should respect the order of g 8 established by the majority in France. Ilioniteur says :—" For the purpose of eau s i tt th e , g uneasiness and weakening the action of fiealevernment, the news of an approaching modi -11,1°4 in the Ministry has been disseminated. k eh " c °rrespondents of...some of the foreign journals Thi - s "Oil it, and add co II entaries from themselves. f o , amour is false, an. does not repose on any "u'clati Zll °ll * ts e i , • emperor, accompanied by General de Lour °/le of his aides-de-camp, and Capt. de Berk ate an orderly o ffi cer , d rove ou t on Thursday, k i ii e o'cl oc k , t o th e B o i s -d e -B ou l ogne, w h ere h e b4 t ed, and walked about for some time. The e of General Esterhazy, which was taking k a. l 7 exercise; happ en i ng t o p as s, saluted his kl e stY with cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" His %et'', after having conversed for some time with o,,gelleral and superior officers, then continued 0 , i tirenlenade, returning to the Tuileries at four e ?ek. Co b ? Emperor has received at the Tuileries, from b e Zude Mollke, the letters by which the King of tr a ' l „ ark continues him in his post of Envoy-Ex- Frs'l\unary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at the q e i e la Court. The C oun t was in troduced with T h e ceremonial usual on such occasions. Ac e Emperor will, it is said, leave for Cora- IV to -day (Saturday). hi t 8 Emperor, as a proof of the friendship enter a.h.,ed by him and the Queen Hortense for Madame Eater de Pierrefonds, consented to be the god toor of the newly-born child. The christening and Place yesterday at the Church of Saint Roch, tio the child received the names of Napoleon hialense Constance. Count Bacciochi represented Taiesty. aliZ . ,ree equest r ian s t a t ues i n b ronze are , it is said, t er tt. to be placed as follows:—That of the Emp (l7.l-4 the middl e o f th e C arrousse l ; th a t o f Louis Ma • ill the centre of the square before the Louvre; That of Francis I. i n th e C our t o f the Louvre. 1 1 4 1:•e word Natio na l over th e en t r ance to the w o ,,, c e of the Ely s e e h as b een effaced, and the The Napoleone placed in its stead. pf new inauguration of the Pantheon as a place J a ,' .l7 lue worship is fixed, it is said, for the 3d of liZ n arY, the fête of St. Genevieve: The Arch 11°P of Paris will officiate. Arch the 'le bridge of Notre Dame is to be lowered at ci r ginning of next year, in order to facilitate zhe • (l o i n Bourse was firm, with not much business 10 6f .g., The Four-and-Half per Cents. opened at 65 e : 4 c., rose to 106 f. 75c., and closed at 106 f. 0 e ,,, for the end of the month ; the Three per 1 , 4 p. closed at 82f. Mc. ; Orleans Railway Shares, , 6 f• 25c.: Rouen, 975 f. • Havre, 527 f. 50c. ; k r : t , Northern, 895 f. ; Basle, 365 f. ; Paris and ty,7uurg, 810f.' ; Paris and Lyons, 902 f. 50c. ; F ra „ -118 and Avignon, 727 f. 50c. ; Great Western of IJi"• c e,, 780 f. ; Caen to Cherbourg, 627 f. 50c. ; Gi4. 11 to Besancon, 572 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, is sue d Shares of the new Bank of Credit Mobilier, at 500 f., 1,365 f. THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. 4 4 kadrid letter of th e 12th says :—" Th e Gover -40 of the p rov i nce o f M a d r id h as rece i ve d an t Ler from the Minister to refuse the authorisation s c uded by a great number of Deputies and. p a tors of the moderate opposition to hold a pre ko:".4t°r3r electoral meeting. The application was shi ed ' amongst others, by Marshal Narvaez, Mar- N I ; gel Duero, Duke de Rivas, Duke d'Abrantes, 1e de Sotomayor, and Francisco Martinez 4 , Rosa. The official refus a l is couched I l "ue following terms Whereas this meet riVaight reproduce the agitation in the public 4 4t ". Which was caused by juntas of the same 1, 1113 .fFe recently held, with a tendency to disturb p ro 'IC confidence, and to paralyse the ordinary a.,,gregs of affairs, it is the will of the Queen, in th"°, lll With her Council of Ministers, that the au erlAa.tion should be refused.' The resignation of to neral Urbina, the Minister of War, is now cer q,,- The Government has successively called on I: , g 4 1erals de Mer, Lersundi , and Roncali, but none p os '"Se officers Dave accepted the portfolio. A re v ' , 18 current that Queen Isabella 11. had ordered Lersundi to demand his resignation from ch a , - urave Murillo, and that the General would be 14 4 ged to entirely reconstitute the Ministry. M. tr i " Murillo is confined to his b e d by th e influ za. WA SWITZERLAND. read in the Constitutionnel :—" Letters from le c ,„ 2 Priand announce that th e acc essio n o f Napo cailq "-IL to the Empire was cel e b ra ted in different cl • ° ,l lB , particularly in that of Fribourg, by feux 11 4 ' and salvos of artillery. The Catholics m th e L ielllar, wh o h ave h a d so muc h t o su ff er from r'ate revolutions, are en th us i as ti c , f or th e y well eraber th e i mmense serv i ces w hi c h the Emperor ° l enn rendered to Switzerland by delivering 11 r , 'roll/ the yoke of the revolutionists and they , 14 .6' s that the influence of Napoleon 111. will aid Th e 'te settlement of their legitimate grie vances . re are so many and such real sufferings among %Portion of the Swiss people, that we cannot pr e Pathise too much in th e wishes which they ex thj:4B. The great Cabinet s o f E uro p e canno t on og Oubject entertain an opinion different from that French Government." GERMANY. il ie Tll ,e Grand Du c hess Steph an i e o f B a d en , aunt of on i VaPeror Napoleon 111., ar r i ve d a t C o bl en t z The 14th, on a visit to the Prince of Prussia. Journal de Frankfort of the 15th says b 14 116 Marquis de Tallenay gave a grand diplo th„'e dinner two days back, to which were invited t ellvoys of the sovereigns who have recognised to e th ile w Empire in France, or who have expressed .t th e Marquis the satisfaction of their sovereigns tis ie late change. The marquis proposed a toast lv a ," health of the Emperor of the French, which 11 1 ./I ltaly responded to." A iist e Baron de Bruck, Envoy Extraordinary of the 1 i r i,as was presented to th e Ki ng of Prussia on - " 4 / 1 , by the Presid en t o f th e P russ i an C a bi ne t. 1 1%A ,report was current at Vienna on th e 11th," G ov the Augsburg Gazette, " that the Austrian other loan. of is about to contrat in England an of 100 m illions o f florins." ITALY. lefrom Rome of the 6th, in the Au gs b ur g 14,,e'te - e) states that several influe n ti a l p ersons h ave 1' ' pos ed to the Papal Governm en t t o pro l ong tiqee To r l on i a ' s con t rac t f or th e monopoly of salt I l i a t obacc o for nine years more, on condition of k oil Wi thcira • g a considerable amount of ° paper from circulation. The Prince, it is s a id, h as a*, 4 4- 4 , (3 . 5ed. to Messrs. Rothschild to join him in the Thy Th„ -Koh, 'lugsburg Gazette of the 14th, states from 1 144 —, that the son of M. Martinez de la Rosa, who li i i 3 te lnained there as attache to the Spanish 1 4 0 , 4 „„ a 5q, after the departure of his father, had been wounded at a fencing school ; the button vrea:` a dversary's foil having been snapped off, th e 'gun perforated his lungs. to opinion of Turin, of the 14th, states from by a that the lat e execu ti ons there were effected ek:e Spanish garrote, but that, owing to the in acQtience of the executi oner , seve ral of the pri tAirel'ii lingered for many minutes in great tor the which caused such horrid contortions that the exec utioner was obliged to conceal them from th e e lee of th e public. The same paper adds that ket7listrian Government desired to have the opi ade,t9f the commission as to the expediency of fr r tll g the garrote, the medical men declined lA le l lg Part a it, and suggested that the matter The latterd layed before the University of Pavia. cl eat ,, on being applied to, declared that the by the garrote was not instantaneous ; never eitss the military authorities insisted upon try the The priest Tazzoli was the first to mount NI scaffold, which he did with great fortitude, °lli / 1 g his fellow-suffere,rs to follow his example. S W EDEN. Ac e liii ounts from Stockholm to the 7th state that the t er g .L ?f Sweden and Norway continued to get bet- The "lough his complete recovery will be slow. e Publication of bulletins had ceased. e itz , u , o val .„. OMNIBUS FARES.—An immense degree of the 6 x exists at the present time with the omnibuses on tr the ford -street and Holborn line of road, in consequence a nd ti t Penny and twopenny fares between the thish op,— •e. bottom of Holborn -hill. It is stated that all . izesition on the part of the Paddington omnibus r..ropne cilra is to endeavour to lessen the business of, mud ultimately lirl.ge amount o f Public supe of the road, the cheap fa portomnibuses, which receive ' ItENTAL°. prices i'clay. _...-------- d oe BUS to in lif . , ...........-"'' 3.5 i 6 31i 2.43 83 9 10 11 10 - 1 a 13 if I 1 51 5 34 3 4i 10 9f ii i ii 3 - 1 - 6 - 2 -8 0A r° 7 9 70 71 1 40 °>, e Y OP were g- far Luotat,,, ° L ouse 6':eft , plea, clufro, ushol; Y:eg, new 010- o tir ; sels 81 3 ,,, i r° pet to 2 5 {pe' ; P °t K lt 4P >ts, 2s JP; p ' ,8 er t b` ll 2o o ,vet 6d 0 6at°•P s core al e; per b.- 0 11 Es 90 b loaf. 1. Afit eh ; 13 Id d l U ° ' 4s 6c l W !kens, to p per ii f : r et 6d; 00 0 6 socks, o 10; n a 0 eons, esh 100 7 te t, /311' 1 4a; 141 4 0 441 to Per 8 coax' c i d ; tolod; k it° o o v c019 11 ; o r , os o' o; or (I°'o. ) 12,4 5 a; 'id t° If° 6; tii , tr i j -coo clO Ve i t 10 0' 001 ' s 01, ,or Jo ; clot ;er I°'' - • , 13,00 __._._.. _„r`~..--~. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1852. [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE NETY CRYSTAL PALACE-DESECRATION OF THE SAIMATIL and the alterations required for stowing stores aLd 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. 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 8 o'clock p.m., daily, during the week, permission having been granted for that purpose, in order to expedite the fitting of the en gines of 350-horse power, constructed by that firm. The Megnra steam-frigate, Commander J. 0. Johnson, expects to leave Woolwich 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. THE MINISTRY. - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—The announcement made by Lord Malmes 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- vernuent is in a minority of 19, and the division ceases, theretore, 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 Is 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- ante, - 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 whoso 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 be 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 eloquence 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 the dissolution of Sir Robert 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 f ormer 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 respect 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. 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 b 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 wh e th er the most sangu i ne 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 ; th e exper i ence o f 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 counsel 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, he 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 he 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 opinions he confessedly 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 1842 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 Russell 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, Mr. 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 rust 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 throughoutwithout 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 linilts 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 fair 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 more 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 is. 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 a Protestant Cabinet : English and Scottish Whigs and Radicals 222 Irish Brigade (chiefly Papists) 52 Peelites (chiefly Puseyites) 3l 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, one-third, or about 70, are what - used to be termed Destructives. 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 to pay the price. And what is that price ? About this there can be no mistake. Before crossing the Channel to attend the present session, the Irish members of the Pope's band held a meeting, and then and there resolved tl a; the one point to be insisted on was, " the abatement of that great nuisance, the Established Church in Ire land." Only second to this, was " tenant-right," i. e., the confiscation of the estates of Ireland. To these two objects the Brigade stands pledged, and except by trea son and perfidy they can support the Whig Government on no lower terms. Such, then, is the prospect before us, if the coalesced parties shall be able to form a Minis try. This, of course, is problematical ; but we have heard that Lord Lansdowne, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord John Russell, lately met at Woburn Abbey, and settled the preliminaries of a coalition Ministry. Such a Minis try, as we have just seen, must adopt as its policy the un-Protestanting of the hurch of England, and the surrender of the Church of Ireland ! Can we write these fearful words without remembering by whom the nation hag been brought into this fearful peril ? The principal assailant of Lord Derby's Government on Thursday list was the junior member for the University of Oxford. And he was supported in the division by the senior representative of the Uni versity of Cambridge. If we could believe for one mo ment that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Goulburn were faithful representatives of these two universities, we should begin to despair of England. By the votes of our two great seats of learning the nation would appear to be consigned to the tender mercies of the Cobdens, Brights, Keoghs, and Gavan Duffys ! If such could really be the vote of Oxford and Cambridge, what hope would be left ? But we cannot believe it. Let the elec tors of those universities look to it. If the coalition Ministry can be really formed, we may find Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Goulburn in the attitude of suppliants for re-election before a fortnight has elapsed. Forth with let proper successors be sought for, and proposed to the electors. Nor are these solitary cases. Mr. Sid ney Herbert gained his election in Wiltshire in July last by the natural device of a wealthy man—the prompt engagement of all the carriages. He has now deprived the farmers of Wiltshire of the remission of half the malt tax and of a considerable reduction in their income tax. Let them prepare their gigs and their horses in good time, and when he next shakes his purse in their faces let them reply by a writ of ejectment from the county. We might extend these remarks to several other names, but we pause. The scheme to which we have alluded may founder before it is offered to the pub lic. The embryo Cabinet may never see the light ; still the electors of every seat occupied by a Peelite ought now to be on the alert, for a few hours may develop strange things. POST.—The purpose with which Lord Derby yester day left town for Osborne is no secret, though its true motive is difficult to understand, unless it be that the Derby-Disraeli Administration are glad to seize the first opportunity of resigning a position, to the exigencies of which they felt themselvs totally inadequate. We have always said that the Ministry could not, by any possi bility, maintain its position without vital modification. It has not been modified, and it has fallen. It has fallen from, apparently, the strangest of causes. The Minis ters who stifled their convictions at the voice of the whipper-in, and who undertook to carry out a policy in whose soundness they could not believe, now quit office for no other reason than that Free-traders refuse to allow them to put into effect the dogmas of extreme free trade. The division which took place yesterday morning on the first of Mr. Disraeli's motions amounted to a distinct refusal to allow the Government to double the house tax, in order that they might, perhaps, lower the price of beer by a farthing per pot—a possibility strongly disputed even by the brewers —and in order that they might, also, perhaps, slightly benefit the pos sessors of light barley-growing lands—the least suffering portion of the agricultural interest—the probability of the latter benefit being equally apocryphal with that of the former. But a wilful genius must have his way, and his way is that of no common Chancellor. Such a man would have taken his slate and his clerks, and having carefully ascertained the accuracy of his balance, would, had it been against him, cautiously have scraped together the means of covering it. Had it been in his favour, and to a large amount—havigg set aside some thing like half a million to provide for contingencies= he would, using his best discrimination, have applied it to the reduction of the taxes which were chiefly oppres sive ; and here we may remark, that it is a failing of Chancellors of the Exchequer to estimate oppression by the loudness of the howl of the oppressed, so that they who roar loudest are frequently first let off. But this by the way. If the Chancellor were a man really of practical ability, the relief given would be judicious and rational. But having obtained for Chancellor a genius inclined to assert that Chancellors, like poets, are born, not made, we must be contented with allowing him a free scope for the range of his large intellect, which, not satisfied with relieving here and there an article more or less unjustly taxed, can be contented with nothing but a grand revision of taxation—shifting burdens from the shoulders of one class to that of another, without giving any reason more satisfactory than Topsy's " 'Spects its because I's so wicked"—and indeed it requires a grasp of genius truly Topseian to devise the bold raising of a huge war tax in order to give a problematical relief to " small beer." What but genius of such an order could have proposed to a house in hundreds of members represent boroughs whose rulers are " ten pound house- holders" to extend the house tax to that . Very patriotic and omnipotent class ? Why, Mr. Disraeli would label the borough members who voted for such a tax with phylacteries fatal to their success in future elections. Such, however, as the budget was, it contained nothing that was contrary to the principles of free trade, and little that was per se objectionable ; but of what was needless it contained an overwhelming amount. The duty of its authors was to take it back and amend it, as best they might, and bring it forward again in a more sober form next session. Consistent in inconsistency alone, they have preferred to resign, leaving the country, as they imagine, at the mercy of the Radicals. At the mercy of any such party it will not be, however, for Conservative principles are unquestionably in the as cendant, and men will be found without difficulty ready to carry them into effect. The ultimate result of the suicide of Lord Derby's Cabinet will be—after the usual series of small attempts and petty failures on the part of individuals representing sections of parties—the forma tion of a strong Conservative and Liberal Ministry, ready to bear out the dominant principle of free trade with heartiness and singleness of purpose, able to make the English name, and English policy, respected abroad, and preserve the strictest constitutional purpose and practice at home. Any modification of Lord Derby's Cabinet, such as we recommended some time ago, would now be impossible—for who would, or could, join him with his mill-stone budget hanging round his neck ? The Peelites were the party who could best have given him a clear majority in the Commons, but all hope of a junction with them vanished for ever with the brilliant sarcasms, but not altogether dignified vitupera tion of Mr. Disraeli's speech of Friday morning. No. The fate of the present Government is determined—we have always pleaded a fair trial for them—they have had it, and have convicted themselves of unfitness for their position. Neither a " deluge," nor " chaos," nor a "Cobden-Bright Administration," nor even " con sternation " ensue on their quitting office. As far as the monetary world is concerned, the feeling of the City is manifested by a slight rise in the public funds— not an unusualusual occurrence on the occasion o f a Minis terial crisis. Suffering agriculturists will, after the ex perience they have had, be hard to persuade that they lose even any prospect of benefit in consequence of the dissolution of the Cabinet. Free-traders will rejoice to see men out of office who, when in, threatened to overdo their new principles with the excess of zeal proverbial in new converts. And the country at large, if it regrets that the ostensible chiefs of so great a party have proved but the force of inconsistency and effected but their own defeat, cannot feel otherwise than that, though the Cabinet has been overthrown, the Conservative cause has in no way been weakened , an d that its principles will still continue in the ascendant, with no lack of tried and able statesmen to enforce them. CHRONICLE.—A day and night have elapsed since the great dsvision, and the budget has lost its interest. 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 Thurs day night's portion of it, was of more than ordinary in terest. Left alone by his colleagues, and unsupported 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 by a reckless scheme, brought forward 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 Universityof Oxford had concluded his masterly address, nine-tenths of the house were convinced of t he soundness of the criticisms which a decisive majority immediately afterwards affirmed by their votes. On previous the tax, and on the malt tax, theatiriie merit of corn ng discussionhad the credit thrown much light ; but Sir Francis ti - . of suggesting, and Mr. G ladstone pleting, a demonstration that the comparatively popular proposal relating to the income tax was the most unjus tifiable and dangerous portion of the budget. If the fate of the Government had not depended on the vote, it is certain that at least half of the actual minority would have adopted by acclamation Mr. Gladstone's views, in condemnation 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 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 the statesmen to whom her Majesty may think fit to confide the formation of a Ministry. On the subject of persons we have little anxiety—the formidable nature of the present crisis consists in difficulties which will fall with equal we:glit on-any Government. The gravest charge which can ever be brought against a retiring Mi nister is the deliberate accumulation of obstructions for his successors, calculated to prevent the efficient dis charge of their duties. Mr. Disraeli's friends may ap plaud the energy and ability of his closing speech, and probably they will suggest pleas in extenuation of his intemperate and ungraceful personalities ; but no provocation, and no regard for the aggrandise ment of a party, can excuse those extemporaneous pro mises of financial concessions with which, at the last moment, the Chancellor of the Eichequer at tempted to bid for Parliamentary support. It is impossible to believe that the professed champion of the landed interest had deliberately intended to re-adjust the duties on successions ; and ten months of official expe rience must have abundantly shown the inexpediency of holding out fiscal reductions as just, before the Exche quer is able to afferd them. In the eyes of statesmen, the promise of future improvements, by way of excuse for an untenable budget, is only a transparent party stratagem ; hut the country at large has not equal means of measuring the earnestness of a Minister's language in Parliament. It is always easy to declaim against any tax, nor is it possible to justify even the least onerous impost, except on the ground of public necessity... But a Minister of Finance may fairly be supposed to know the wants and resources of the department which he administers ; and when a Chancellor of the Exchequer denounces a tax, he is understood to admit that it can be spared without injury to the state. The case becomes worse when, as we before observed, the bill drawn on the future is but a renewal of previous obligatiOns, which have themselVes been dishonoured when due. The most serious question which will require the At tention of Lord Derby's successors is with reference to the pro Vision to be made for the public service. Al though a considerable surplus appears as the balance of the current year, the lapsing of the income tax would leave a deficit in the revenue to the extent of more than three millions sterling. The most mischievous portion of Mr. Disraeli's conduct consists in the levity with which he has thought fit, for party purposes, to treat this momentous subject. In an early part of the recent discussion, he declared that the details of the schedules might safely be left for future consideration. There was no doubt, he said, that, on one system or another, a re venue of five millions would be raised, as at present, on the income or property of the country. Yet, as Mr. Gladstone forcibly explained, the schedules assessed at the lower rate of taxation would have been irre vocably reduced from the present standard, as soon as the committee had affirmed the Ministerial resolu tion. Tens of millions in foreign funds, and hundreds of millions employed in commercial enterprises, would have been relieved from the present amount of duty, before any security was afforded that Parliament would assent to the intolerable inequalities imposed upon the less favoured species of income. Mr. Hume is consistent in an erroneous theory. Mr. Disraeli only knew that he would find supporters for his project, but he had con fessedly never thought of reasons to justify it. Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Peel had declared the impossibility of an enterprise which a falling Minister undertakes to per form before he has even ascertained the nature of the difficulties with which he must grapple. It was not a physical impossibility which checked the statesmen of, former times, but a practical knowledge of the injustice which would be perpetrated in any attempt to do arbi trary justice ; and the absurd fabric constructed by Mr. Hume might have warned their rash successor of his error in rushin g in where the greatest financiers feared to tread. The financial question, aggravated as it is by this serious difficulty, is far more important than the gratification or disappointment of any individual ambi tion. A large majority of the House of Commons are certainly in earnest in the determination to maintain the public credit as the first condition of national prosperity. They cannot too early prepare to give an efficient sup port to any statesman who, having been entrusted with the management of the finances, displays an honest pur pose to accomplish his duty to his country, offering at the same time, in his past experience, reasonable security for his ability to discharge the functions which he under takes. DAILY NEWS.—The Derby Cabinet have met and separated for the last time. Who are to be their suc cessors is the question upon every political lip ; and as various leanings and attachments sway the different judgments of men, anticipations are formed, if not always openly expressed, of partial or total change—of conser vative reconstruction or of liberal substitution. We are not about to repeat here the reasons which lead ux to the conviction that no administration can be formed capable of durability which is not founded upon some broad and positive basis. We shall have other opportu nities of illustrating our views in that particular. We confine ourselves for the present to an enumeration of the more prevalent rumours which have been, during the last few hours, in circulation in various quarters. Amid the despair of the discomfited Tories, there still lingers a vague hope that the same merciful interposition that saved them from drowning three weeks ago, may now be found able and willing to restore them to life. Lord Palmerston, it is said, though disapproving of the bubble-budget, refused to make any effort to record his vote against it. The noble viscount is not the man who would spare himself or anybody else a twinge, when he has made up his mind to say anything that he thinks it very desirable to say, or to do anything that he thinks it advisable to do. From which the grateful Carlton sagaciously infers that Lord Palmerston was not very sorry to be absent from Thursday night's division. They dwell, moreover, with curious earnestness on the fact, that his son-in-law, Lord Jocelyn, voted for the house tax, while his colleague in the representation of Tiverton, Sir Gilbert Heatlicote, as well as his son, abstained from supporting the Liberal Opposition. Finally, the unhappy victims of Mr. Disraeli's incapacity for finance, repeat with mys terious emphasis the tree and easy expression with which that great master of language, Lord Malmesbury, thought proper to move the adjournment of the Upper House last evening — viz., that " Lord Derby had gone to see the Queen at Osborne "—a most unusual phrase, it must be owned, for a Secretary of State to snake use of on any public occasion, and, especially felicitous when uttered with reference to a crisis like the present ; but which we rather incline to treat as another proof how lamentably the educaiton of the illiterate earl must hive been neglected in his youth. But unless Lord Palmers ton were to emulate the fame of Quintus Curtius, and offer to jump into the quagmire of Derbyism, it does not appear very clear how it is possible for his lordship to avert the fate that now impends over the defeated Minis ters and their adherents ; and how even such a feat of self-devotion would help them seems equally unintelli gible. Meanwhile the Whig and Peelite coteries are busy in building cabinets of cards, and filling up with amusing particularity every post, however subordinate, in the public offices or the Royal household. The re spective admirers of Lord Lansdowne and Lord Alar deen dwell with complacency on the certainty, as they suppose, of their favourite statesman assuming his post at the head of affairs. Many lists are handed about for the appeasement of impatient curiosity, but one of the most plausible and probable that we have yet seen dis poses of the principal offices of State as follows : First Lord of the Treasury Marquis of Lansdowne Foreign Affairs Earl of Aberdeen House Office and Leader of the Commons Lord J. Russell Colonies Sir J. Graham Chancellor of the Exchequer Admiralty Mr. S. Herbert Secretary-at-War Mr. Osborne Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland &c. &C. &c. It seems to be generally understood that Lord Grey and his immediate friends would not be included in this combination ; neither would the leaders of the Man chester section of the Radical party. We must repeat that these are mere rumours, to be taken only for what they may be worth. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—Tho 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 profess to 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 wis:ies 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 his 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 tlfe 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, and 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 Palmerston 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, December, 1852. W. G. EATON. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 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 remo'red 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 commission, have already been transmitted 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 Spiihead 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. PLYMOUTH, DEO. 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 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 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. (From 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 i 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 5/. ; Mendip Hills to 71. 108.; West Phcenix, to 211. 108.; Condu.Trow 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 91.; United Mines, to 3751.; West Providence, 551. to 501.; Mary Ann , to 281.; Gona,mena, to 501. Trebarvah, to 71. 15s. n 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 V ice-Warden, and realised from 51. 4s. to 61. 7s. each. Wheal Reeth have fallen to 451.; Comford to 181. North Pool have realised 235/. 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 ls. 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 U. a ton higher, and in great demand ; sellers firm.— Spelter has given way ss. 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, 91. 10s.—free on board, an advance of 10 per cent. ; all other description s 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 31. lls. 6d, per ton, free on board, in Glasgow. In the Bullion Market,—Mexican and South American dollars, 4s. 112 d. per oz. Bar silver without gold, ss. 12d. per oz. standard. :Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard. Fine cake silver, ss. 52d. 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 condoms 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 prioes. The Californian descrip. l tions are also very favoural ly 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 151. premium per share. The shares in the Australian Agricultural Company have risen from 901. to 2201., 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, d'Or, garnet, and Moseley, were most in demand. The New Granada Company have received ad:vices ; and as soon as Dr. Gonzales had settled with the Titiribi owners, it was his intention to start for Aritioquia and Canas Gordas, with Mr. Whileford, to survey the valuable mine of Frontino, and the alluvial mines in Quiparado, San Mateo, Chomurro and Chiqulenada ; 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 negotiations 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 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. STATE OF 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, DEOI 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 be 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 Rom—Here ford Journal. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(7HIS DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 18:—Wind at Noona,,,Nss.e of Marseilles,W.,.fine• BIDEFORD, Dee. 17.—The Supreme s from New cas tl e t o Si erra L eo ne, harbour ly andboy lasts aved. night, the owner andwevse seamentc' lost off the lost, master d—Ashland, New Orleans; LIVERPOOL, Dec. 16. Nesmith,;Exc esi lt or us a e n el d i Orontes (s), Alexandria.. —Arrive ch, and Siberia, I S y tn a r te ge ri s oo , a , n N d eCwolulmorbkia;na, N l7 e . w j a o a r n i r e l e e e n s a w n i s Irvine,iddlen; Quebec. Sailed—Louisa Ki St. lll .7 3 o m h , n r 's h , ila N d .B el . p ; hia 3l . D co e a c s . t, l7 c . a — m T e b as e h N or o e uv o e n lle th L e oi p re o , rt fLo n m d H be av ae r h e toW last t n hE i e g Y h mA t ° , fru a ile n laf t n : has become a total wreck, three men and four boys drowned. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 17.—The Rambler, of Cork, is ashore on Beadman's Bay. PLYMOUTH, Dec..ls.—Arrived—Wharfinger, Newcastle, for Limerick, leaky and sails split. FALMOUTH, Dec.' 17.—Wind, W., blew a violent gale last night from W.S.W., with furious squalls ; it hss 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. ULSTER RAILWAY.—A_ special general meeting of the shareholders of th e Ulster Railway Company was held in the board room at the Belfast terminus on Tuesday. Tho 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 they be authorised to subscribe, on behalf of the Ulster Railway Company, for 4,000 shares of 251. each, in the proposed line to Clones, on such terms and conditions for the pro tection of the interests of this company, as they may deem expedient." This motion, after a protracted discussion, during ral which several amendment s were moved and with dvn, was carried by a majority of the meeting to three dissentients. It was stated by Mr. Harrison that Mr. Daman had said the Clones line would be one of the best in Ireland. 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