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Admission, Is.; on Mondays, Gd.; Children under twelve, (Q. Zi r j t / t . SIIII ~) me LOiVDON, THU.RSDAY, DEC. 3, 1868. Mr. DISRAELI, no less than the Emperor NAPOLEON, has had his Second of December. As Prime Minister, the course pursued by him, yesterday, was as start ling as any coup (Petal recorded in history. By ten dering the resignation of himself and his colleagues, as he has done, he has acted as best became the dignity of his position as the Leader of a great Constitutional Party. He has not been driven from office. He withdraws from it. In so doing he has had regard especially to the interests of the na tion, to the convenience of the Legislature, to the preservation intact of his own high Parliamentary reputation, to the honour and consistency of all those, both in the House and out of it, of whom he is the recognized and responsible Leader, and, last:not least of all, to that loyal self-abnegation which best became him, at a crisis of this supreme importance, in his:capacity, a s chief Ministerial adviser of the Sovereign. Hitherto, but more particularly of late, the meanest motives have been imputed to him in that capacity by the more virulent and unscrupulous of his assailants. Ho has been described as a trickster who was bent, above all things, upon clinging to office at no matter what sacrifice of prin ciple—as a mere Parliamentary tactician, consum mate no doubt in his ability as such, but at the best as a political adventurer. By the course pursued by him yesterday, those flagrant and unjustifiable im• potations have been altogether falsified. Ile has acted with the strictest regard to honour. Ile has preserved his consistency. He retires with dignity from the supreme position he has occupied as head of her MAJESTY'S Government. And, in withdraw ing his forces and assuming his position anew as Leader of the Opposition, he does so with his fol lowers not only not disorganised, but in the highest state of vfliciency awl discipline —and carrying with him the prestige of having, during his tenure of office, solved that great problem of Parliamentary Reform which had so long been the stumbling-block of party, and the des:ruction and disgrace,one after another, of a series of Administratioas. By resigning as he has done, Mr. DISRAELI, as we have said, has presJrved his c , :msisteney. He has carried out his own programme. Opposing—mistakenly, as we conceive—the proposition brought forward in the [louse of Commons within a few days after his eleva tion to the Premiership—Mr. GLADSTONE'S no doubt sadden and startling proposition—for the dis establishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, Mr. DISRAELI declined to abide by the adverse decision of that last Parliament : preferring, as in his position he had a perfect right to do, a direct appeal to the country upon the great and momentous question thus abruptly ventilated ; urging at the same time, and with equally good reason, that the appeal then made to the country should be xaade, not to the old and restricted, but to the new and en larged constituencies. In order to render this appeal to the enlarged constituencies practic able, it became necessary that the incom plete measure of Parliamentary Reform upon the broad basis of Household Suffrage should be perfected as rapidly as possible—he and his colleagues retaining office to that very end, namely, that they should finish what they themselves had commenced. By applying themselves to that most laborious task with resolute industry and assiduous application, the Great Reform Act, with which Mr. DisttAELa's name will henceforth always be associated, was with really extraordinary rapidity, under the circum stances, brought to a satisfactory completion. A special statute was passed, the old Parliament was dissolved, a new one was summoned to appear by the mandate of the SOVEREIGN, the writs were issued, the appeal was made to the country, and that appeal, moreover, addressed to the greatly increased body of electors, to the newly-enfranchised multitude, to the enormously enlarged constituencies. And the answer given bythe:country to that appeal has been given— as the world knows by this time, as Mr. DISRAELI is himself the first to recognise—quite unmistakeably. So unmistakeably that the Premier does what no Premier has ever done before him under kindred circumstances—he frankly, manfully, honourably resigns office into the hands of his Sovereign be fore the meeting of the new Parliament. By a resignation like this be disarms criticism. Away to the win , ls go at once all those miserable imputations about clinging to office —about systematic trickery—about paltering with the name of his Sovereign for mere party purposes and for the furtherance of a selfish ambition, no matter how unscrupulously. Against the course that has all along been pursued in this matter by Mr. DISRAELI, no accusation whatever can now be directed. The paltry gibes of partisan opponents must hence forth be hushed for very shame. Mr. DISRAELI has acted not as a mere tactician, not as a political trickster, not exclusively even as a party leader : he has acted throughout—he proves by his resigna tion thus instantly at the close of the General Elec tion and before the meeting of Parliament that he has acted throughout—in his high capacity as Prime Minister of England, as a loyal servant of the Crown and as a great constitutional statesman. Mistaken he may be—mistaken we, as one, believed him to be—on this question of the Irish Church, but we cannot at the same time do otherwise than regard with respect, and in one sense with admiration, the dignity of the course he pursues in his manner of opposing it. IN placing their resignation in the hands of the QUEEN, her MAJESTY'S Ministers have adopted the most dignified and honourable course. There was nothing to be gained by prolonging in the house of Commons a contest which had been irrevocably decided on the hustings. The battle is over, and the victory won; the debate in Parliament after the polling must have been as much a farce as the nomination which preceded it. It would have been worse than a waste of time to gather together the 658 representatives who have passed through the turmoil of a general elec tion for the mere sake of reproducing in the Legisla lature the fierce personal struggle which has just ended in the country. A " no-confidence " motion may sometimes be an indispensable ceremony, but it can never be deemed other than the most disagree able contingency of political warfare. It may some times be necessary to determine the most important questions of policy, but it never fails to expose the worst side of political life. The personality and recrimination which marked the debate of 1859, when the last Conservative Govern ment was expelled ;_ from office, ought to be amply sufficient to satisfy the country for a genera tion, much more for a decade. In 1864 Mr. DISRAELI'S motion on the Danish question, which amounted to a declaration of a want of confidence, was the only mode of testing the strength of the two parties, and of determining the policy of the country. There had been no appeal to the nation because there had been no previous defeat. The question came for the first time before Parliament. But in the present instance there is not the slightest need for the dismal formality of debating upon a Royal speech which would confessedly represent the policy of but three-sevenths of the House. The Ministry appealed to the country upon a definite issue, and the country has returned the most definite reply. It has assured the present Government that it must give place to another, and nothing remained for the Ministry but retirement. In former times when a choice of deaths was offered to the condemned the option was rarely neglected, and the easiest and simplest mode of demise was chosen. The Ministry also have done wisely in selecting the simplest form of an inevitable formality. The Minis terial crisis will now be got over before Christmas, we shall enjoy our annual festivities undisturbed by politics, and then—the first Radical Government shall have its innings. THE not unnatural curiosity which is felt in ascer taining the exact figures of the respective parties in the House of Commons may now be gratified with scarcely the smallest danger of error. A diffe rence of two score in the original calculations would not have affected the practical result ; but it is satis factory to find that those estimates were in the main correct, that the country has not belied the just expectations that were formed of its decision. The verdict on the side of justice has been favourable almost beyond hope ; the majority against the Irish Church is large almost to danger. In the Reformed Parliament the Liberals will outnumber the Con servatives by 110. The seats yet to be assigned can not alter this verdict by a greater variation than that of one or two on either side. Mr. GLADSTONE will be supported by a party which, under most circum stances, would fall into that security which needs no legislative successes to strengthen its position, that inertia from which the country has already suffered so much. The character of the Liberal leader is, however, one guarantee against a reproduc tion of the Palinerstonian era ; and the character of the new House is another. Mr. GLADSTONE is active or he is nothing; during the reign of his late chief his greatness was merged into one department of the State, simply because there was no opportunity for action in any other. I.li that el i v a as t a financier partly because his genius led him in direction, but also partly because the Budget was for several sessions the most important item of the year. The constitution of the new House, though not wholly satisfactory, is an additional guarantee that the Liberal host will not be idle in its strength. Mr. 0 LADSTONE'S majority is simply a deputation so far as regards the Irish Church question, and is deeply pledged on other sub jects. One of the greatest reforms of our genera tion is virtually accomplished, and many others can no longer be kept in the background. The great attention which has of late been given to the topic of economical administration, and particularly by the Liberal leader himself, leaves it almost beyond doubt that some change will be attempted in this direction, either by the Legislature or the Executive. Then conies the piece de resistance, education, the liquor traffic, and others of the many social reforms which political agitation has kept back so long, Tile Liberal majority is more or less THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1868. pledged on all these points, whilst on the Irish Church question it is characterised by the most remarkable unanimity of the present century. Nothing could be more decisive than the decision of the country in this respect. Not only has the Cave of Adullam again become matter of history, but every species of crotchet and hobby, as well as all shades of independence, have been rejected. It is the one unsatisfactory nature of this election, that in its haste to record its decision the nation has swept away many a valuable member, and has shut out from the national assembly several of its greatest ornaments. To inhabit the Cave has become but one offence amongst many ; all singular or exceptional candidates have met with defeat. It is to be regretted that the sum total of intellect returned in 1868 falls below that which formed the House of 1865 ; but the result proves at least that the nation is in earnest, and that much as it values its men, it values its principles more. In the last days of the polling, Haddingtonshire alone has lifted up her voice against this " dreary uniformity." - Whilst most Adullamites have either recanted or given up the struggle, Lord EL c no, the most uncompromising of them all, has been elected by a considerable majority. As every rule must have its reverse, Lord ELcuo must be received as the solitary protest against the great peculiarity of this election. But the choice of an exception has not been fortunate. The member for Haddingtonshire has been elected to a House from which many a better representative has been ex cluded. if political inconsistency be not a smaller crime thanpolitical eccentricity, he ought to have been rejected. To a Parliament which is more closely pledged than any within the memory of man, the addition of a member who is not pledged at all is unwelcome. Lord ELcno is not without ability, but certainly he is not the best independent politician that the nation could have introduced as a novelty. It would not have been matter of regret if the stern rule had been relaxed in favour of one or two whose superiority of mind would have compensated for their eccentricity of policy. But Haddingtonshire ought to have made an example of the politician who con structs his policy as he requires it. Lord ELcuo, however, will be a living monument in the House. lie will testify to the great decision of the country, which at one stroke has destroyed a small but dan gerous party, and has reduced it from forty to the one who now stands alone amid the general wreck. LATEST INTELL EGENCE. (REUTEIt'S TELEGRAMS.) INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN AI AILS. GALLE D Dec. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bombay, from Australia, arrived on the 29th of November, and the Orissa, from China, yester day. The Mooltan leaves for Suez to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF SEPT. 5-11. The Geelong arrived at Melbourne on the 28th, and at Sydney on the 31st October. OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUS TRALIAN MAILS OF OCT. 31 AND NOV. 6. The Simla reached Galle on the 29th of Novem ber. BOMBAY MAIL. MESSINA, Dec. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera passed Messina at 7.30 this morning en route for Marseilles. HALIFAX, Dec. 2. The Inman Myal mail steamer City of New York arrived here to-day. All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 2.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 4-1- per Cent. End of month -- ItsEan Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7l 65 Mexican Loan ... 21 25 Credit Mobilier End of month... 300 Spanish Threes Credit Poncier ...1535 Horne Debt.. Ead of month... Deferred . RAILWA' GO Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean .** 3ll Southern..... 640 Western Eastern • • 570 Sardinian Austrian 641 Lombard 4l7k North of Spain Saragossa Roman TIIE POLLING IN THE GLASGOW AND ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES. GLASGOW-... 2 P.M. Gordon (C) Moncroiff (L) AnEnnnEN__2 p.m. SOO 526 ... 526 Gordon (C) ••• Moncroiff (L) ••• It would seem to have been arranged between the respective agents, for excellent reasons no doubt, that until after the second day's polling the votes recorded for one candidate shall not appear in ex cess of those recorded for the other. GROSS POLL-4.0 P.M. Gordon (C) ••• ••• ... ... ... 725 Moncreiff (L) ... ... ... ... ... 725 Or less than the aggregate of the two local polls as given at two o'clock. It is clear that no reliance can be placed on the returns as at present made. EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITIES. CLOSE OF THIRD DAY'S POLL, EXCLUSIVE OF THIRD DAY'S VOTES FROM ST. ANDREWS. Swinton (C) ... Playfair (L( ... ... 1270 ... 1261 Mr. William Abbott, the unsuccessful Conserva tive candidate for the City of Cork, has shown a spirit, notwithstanding the failure of his attempt to represent that city, above all praise—through his agent, Mr. Lane, he has voluntarily contributed the sum of £7OO to the various local charities and institutions of the place, amongst which we may. mention £lOO to the Protestant Orphan Society and to the Now Cathedral. He has acted throughout in a most independent and geaerous manner, silencing many of his determined opponents. MEMORIAL TOMB TO TILE LATE SIR J. BROOKE, RAJAH OP SARAWAL—A handsome and massive me morial tomb of grey granite, with rod panels, has just been finished by Mr. T. Gaffin, sculptor, of the Quadrant, Regent-street, and is to be erected at Herrabridge, near Plymouth, to the memory of the late Rajah of Sarawak. The front of the tomb bears the following inscription : " Sacred to the memory of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak. Born at Bandel, in Bengal, April 29, 1803. Died at his residence, Burraton, in this parish, 1868." The sides of the tomb are to be filled with bronzes representing scenes in the life of the deceased. ARRIVAL OF FISII AT KING'S-CROSS MARKET. Yesterday morning, at half-past three o'clock, the first consignment of fresh fish for the above market arrived at the Groat Northern Station, and was at once delivered into the market out of the station. There was a fair attend ance of wholesale buyers, including a number of Billings gate salesmen, and the fish was rapidly disposed of. The prices realised for plaice and haddocks were 7s. to Bs. per basket, and othe r ki n d s o f fi s h were equally cheap. It was announced at the sal e th a t arr angements were now com pleted for a direct a n d l arge s upply of fish at the s ame hour every morning for the future. GAELIC SERVICES.--Preaching in this ancient language, at one time regularly performed in Lon don, is being resumed, on account of the great number of Gaelic-speaking people now employed throughout the metropolis. Tho Rev. Dr. 31'Lauchla,o,7 of Elinburgh, officiated on Sunday last to a large congregation of High landers of both sexes. The notice of the rev. gentleman's arrival was very short, but, through the exertions of the Gaelic Society of London, the attendance was numerous and respectable. DUNITILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is ro commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dun►ille and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, LOnd9ll Tortioement.2 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The great topic of the day is the course taren by the Government in anticipating the verdict of Parliament ; and we give an epitome of the opinions of the daily papers on the subject. The Times says: The cards are thrown down. The Ministry have resolved, for the first time since the days of Mr. Frederick Robinson—the late Lord Ripon —not to meet Parliament ; and, indeed, their case is more extraordinary than that of the sole precedent which can be cited to excuse them, for the Parliament which Mr. Disraeli has declined to face is one chosen under the advice given by himself to the Crown. There has never been anything like this volun tary surrender of the high function of advising the Crown. Lord Ripon was afraid to face Parliament ; but then Lord Ripon was called to the post of Prime Minister after Parliament had been prorogued, and his conduct has always been considered pusillanimous. No one will accuse Mr. Disraeli of such fear as is said to have influenced Lord Ripon. Ire has resigned simply because he deemed it prudent to resign. The present resignation must be regarded merely as a strategic move. ment. When Mr. Disraeli and his collea,gaes had con vinced themselves that to be in Opposition was their inevitable fate, they discovered that to be in Opposition as soon as possible was fur their clear advantage. It is much more easy t) fight as a guerrilla chief than as the leader of a disciplined host. The Times acknowledges the advantages of Mr. Disraeli's new posi tion, but after all it is a mietake and a feeble supplement of a gallant career. There are difficulties about the business of Parliament. There is no precedent to govern the advisers of the Crown in the present emergency ; and it is clearly not essential that Parliament should be at once called together; hat the Times believes it will be found that the balance of convenience inclines strongly to a session before Christmas. There is no necessity for the Queen's Speech to do more than indicate the constitutional satis faction of the Crown on recurring once more to the advice of the two Houses, and recommend to the Lords and Com mons the policy of ecclesiastical equality in Ireland, after which Parliament might be . prorogued, not adjourned, till February, when a more detailed policy could be properly expounded in a second speech. The Post remarks that the course Mr. Disraeli has adopted in view of the opinion which the country has expressed in the elections on the question of the Irish Church is convenient and dignified. It is manifestly con venient that whatever body of statesmen may have the conduct of the national affairs, they should be able to take them up with free hands at this time, when the business of the governmental year is beginning, rather than at a period when they would find themselves committed upon various subjects by the preliminary arrangements of their predecessors. If the course taken by Mr. Disraeli is convenient for all sides, it is no less dignified as regards the attitude it takes up for his own party. He has generally been accused of an undue desire to retain office, but it has certainly not been shewn upon this occasion, for he might have retained power for some time, perhaps for a considerable time, after the meeting of Parliament, instead of which he has pre ferred rather to anticipate than to lag behind the actual effect of the late elections. One thing worthy of remark and of commendation in the conduct of the Ministry is, that they have retired without that division of the last spoils of office which bas come to be considered almost the legitimate concluding act of any Government. The peerage conferred on Mrs. Disraeli was the gracious and spontaneous act of her Majesty. The Herald thinks that, apart from the personal feelings of the Administration, there are obvious reasons why two addresses from the Throne, breathing exactly opposite sentiments, should not follow each other in the course of a few days or weeks. And hardly less clear is it that a pro mulgation of measures intended to be passed by a Conser vative Administration during the session of 1869, in the teeth of a hostile majority headed by Mr. Gladstone, would be a somewhat meaningless proceeding. Under the circumstances the Ministry have taken the only prudent course. There may be some ardent spirits who would have preferred to sec the Ministry remain in office and fight it out. But a compact minority of 280 in opposition is a great power in the State, and a weak Government can give but little effect to its principles. The Daily News is lenient with the Premier. Mr. Disraeli cannot be severely blamed for acting upon cer tainties as if they were certain ; and it is sufficient to note, without insisting as a matter of reproach, that the course which he has adopted somewhat strains the forms, if not the spirit, of the Constitution. It might be urged that the House of Commons is the only authorised exponent of its own views. The declarations of politicians on the hust ings, the classification of partisans, and the computations and analyses of newspapers, howsoever accurate, are not known to the law. The adverse opinion to which Mr. Disraeli bows is that of a Parliament which does not yet exist. Though to constitutional prccisians the course which Mr. Disraeli and his colleagues have taken may seem of doubt ful propriety, public convenience may be pleaded in its behalf. In the avoidance of any explicit declaration of policy other than that of saying " "to Mr. Gladstone, the retiring Ministers gain something. They get rid of all complicity in that monument of wasted labour, the Report of the Irish Church Commission. A.s on the question of Free Trade and Parliamentary Reform, so on that of the Irish Church, the Conservative party has displayed its utter .inability to understand the mind of the nation. Mr. Disraeli renews the old prophecies of disaster which have preceded every great national boon, and the threats of uncompro mising Conservative resistance which are the pledge of a great Liberal victory. If men did not hear this familiar language, they might begin to doubt of the justice and approaching triumph of Mr. Gladstone's policy. It is probable, therefore, that the present month will be devoted to the Ministerial arrangements and re-elections, and to the steps necessary for formally constituting the House of Commons. When these preliminaries are over, Parliament will be most likely adjourned until the usual period in February ; then to meet for the despatch of public business. The Standard is quite prepared to see Mr. Disraeli assailed with invective and imputation for doing the exact reverse of that which he was reviled for intending to do. He will be told that be has treated Parliament with dis respect; that he had no right to anticipate its judgment on issues not yet fairly before it, or to assume the absolute subser vience of the majority to the will of their leader ; and possibly even that he shrank from the ordeal of a debate on the general merits of his Administration. There are Liberals, we verily believe, silly enough to impute parliamentary cowardice to the most daring, resolute, and skilful of parliamentary combatants. But it matters little what such men may say. If Mr. Disraeli has departed from formal rule and precedent in anticipating the judgment of the new House of Commons, he has had sufficient reason for his course. There was, then, no reason why the Ministry should have awaited the formality of a parliamentary vote of want of confidence ; and there were grave resons why they should not. The most important motive for a voluntary and im mediate resignation was the consideration due to the Queen. It was understood that Mr. Gladstone's impatience would brook not a day's delay, and that an amendment on the Address would at once have challenged the policy and the position of the Ministry. It was desirable, therefore, that that policy should not he propounded by the lips of the sovereign. It is more in accordance, at least, with the dignity and neutrality of the sovereign, and with the authority still, though in reserve, belonging to the Crown, that the Queen should not present herself before a new Parliament as the mistress, and in form the patroness, of servants whom the constituencies have condemned, and whom Parliament is about to ask her to dismiss. The Telegraph says Mr. Disraeli has again taken the country by surprise. He has done the right thing in a new style. If we travel back to ascertain why English Ministries have resigned, we find that the causes have, in almost every case, been such circumstances as hostile votes in Parliament, internal dissension, the death of a Prime Minister, the removal of a distinguished leader from the Lower House, or the loss of the King's favour. Mr. Disraeli would have followed the routine course had he continued to fulfil the functions of his office as if nothing had occurred ; to await in his place in the House the issue of some great debate and division ; to take train the next day for Windsor or Osborne ; to return, and make a long speech announcing what everybody would know before hand, and to declare that he held office only until his suc cessor should be appointed. But he has taken a short cut to the right end, lie has committed the exceedingly unoffi cial offence of discovering in the newspapers the fate of his Cabinet ; he has " accepted service " in the most uncere monious way. The Star commends the action of the Premier. Mr. Disraeli has not followed precedents, either in resigning between a general election and the meeting of the new Parliament, or in explaining the motives of his resignation to his supporters in the hearing of the public on the very first day of a Ministerial crisis. But on reflection it will probably appear highly convenient that the resignation of the Government should take place without the delay and turmoil of any angry and iterative party debate ; and the unusual suddenness and informality of his commu nication to the country, though a departure from usage, has the merit of gentlemanly frankness, and will raise the Premier in the estimation of the public. Whatever hereto fore has been admired in him, his character did not stand high for directness. The course he has now taken is nothing if not straightfcrward. The Star has reason to be lieve that the Ministry could hardly have been kept together till the great party division, if even it could have been brought undivided as far as the meeting of Parliament. It was essential, therefore, that something very startling should be done to veil from the world the dissensions which could hardly fail to be developed as the time of crisis arrived in a Ministry comprising such diverse spirits„as Lord Stanley, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Disraeli. Xfatt had the imminent peril of falling to pieces not presented itself, it was most important for Mr. Disraeli to avoid the necessity of showing his cards at the opening of Parliament, especially as in reality he had not a card to show. The Advertiser is satisfied with the course of the Ministry. A principal characteristic of the present day is the vast progress which is made, and which is making, in plans and devices for the saving of time. Now a more obvious or more rational plan for such saving could not easily be pointed out, than by doing away with these useless gatherings and orations in Parliament, when the end is perfectly foreseen from the beginning. Both the members of the two Houses, and also the persons who expect to form the new Administration, will be indebted to Mr. Disraeli for sparing them all this useless trouble. MR. DISRAELI'S ADMINISTRATIOY, On the 25th February, 1868, Lord Stanley had the unusual task of announcing to the House of Commons the resignation of his father, the Earl of Derby. Lord Stanley himself had been mentioned as a possible successor in the Premiership, but on this occasion he informed Parliament that Lord Derby had recommended her Majesty to send for Mr. Disraeli. The House was adjourned till the. Friday, and on the evening of that day was again adjourned to the sth March. The changes in the Cabinet were the substitution of Lord Cairns for Lord Chelmsford, and Mr. Ward Hunt for Mr. Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Sclater- Booth exchanged the Secretaryship to the Poor-law Board for that vacant at the Treasury. On the afternoon of the fifth Mr. Disraeli re-appeared in the House, and took his place as Prime Minister. He had not in the meantime undergone the trouble of a re-election as member for Bucks, a recent statute relieving him of that necessity, inasmuch as he had been only transferred from one office to another, and no appeal to his constituents was required. Mr. Disraeli announced to the House, amidst some cheering and laughter, that the Government would adopt a " truly Liberal policy," and that he would follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Lord Derby. On this occasion Mr. Bouverie made his celebrated speech about the Liberal "rabble." The new Government were speedily attacked upon the question of Ireland, and a few nights after their accession to power Mr. Maguire moved a reso lution that the House resolve itself into a committee on the condition of Ireland. Then Lord Mayo, in a long speech, set forth the policy of the Government, and made the statement about " levelling up," which has since been the subject of such angry controversy. The Ministerial declaration of policy was shortly fol lowed up by Mr. Gladstone's resolutions. During the debate he declared that " the Irish Church as an esta blishment must cease to exist." On the 21st March he gave notice of the resolutions. On the 28th of that month Lord Stanley gave notice of a dilatory amend ment, and on the 30th the debate on the resolutions began, and concluded on the early morning of Saturday, April 4, with a division on which the first was carried by 330 votes to 278, and the Ministry was thus signally defeated by a majority of CO. The subsequent events, including the carrying of the resolutions, the introduction and passing through the Commons of a Suspensory Bill by Mr. Glad stone, and its rejection by the Lords, need only to be mentioned. One practical result was obtained by the united action of the Liberal party in this matter, and that was a pledge from the Government that as soon as the project of Reform was completed an appeal would be made to the new constituencies. Under these circumstances, though not wholly without remonstrance, the Ministry were permitted to carry on the necessary business of the session. In order to secure the meeting of the new Parliament before Christmas, a Registration Bill, by means of which that object would be facilitated, was passed through the Legislature with unusual speed, and on Friday, July 31, Parliament was prorogued. The registrations having been completed, on the 11th of November the Par liament of 1865 was dissolved by proclamation, and the writs issued. After the second defeat upon the Irish question, Mr. Disraeli tendered his resignation on the 3rd of May to her Majesty, which her Majesty declined to accept, and, in pursuance with the alternative advice given by her Minister, resolved to dissolve Parliament after the Reform Bills had been completed, and the new constituency were in a position to be appealed to. Since then the Government have carried the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills through alternate defeat and victory, and the House of Lords has rejected the resolutions upon the Irish Church by an enormous majority. The Government declared they believed the feeling of the country was with them, and th e Lord Chancellor, amidst tremendous applause, threw down his celebrated challenge as to a fair field and no favour. The country has emphatically answered the challenge. The constituency created by the Conservative Reform Act has returned a majority of more than 100 in favour of the Liberal party, and Mr. Disraeli has taken the unusual course of anticipating the verdict of the House of Commons, and has resigned. Thus ends the short but eventful career of the " Young England Ministry." Within the last few clays the Conservatives would have been in power for two years and a half. Earl Russell's Gover nment was beaten on Lord Dunkellin's motion on the 18th of June, 1866, and the third Government of the Earl of Derby was formally sworn in on the Gth of July fol lowing. Only three members of the Cabinet now hold the offices which were entrusted to them when Lord Derby came into power. These are the Earl of Malmesbury, as Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John Manners, as First Commissioner of Works ; and Lord Stanley, as Foreign Secretary. The Premier of July 1866 withdrew from the cares of State early in the present year ; Mr. Disraeli has exchanged the Chancellorship of the Exchequer for the post of First Minister; Lord Cairns has succeeded Lord Chelmsford on the woolsack ; the Duke of Marlborough has been promoted to the office of Lord President, leaving the position of Lord Steward; Mr. Gathorne Hardy has gone from the Poor-law Board to the Home Office ; the Duke of Bucking. ham, from the post of Lord President to that of Colonial Secretary ; Sir John Pakington, from the Admiralty to the War Office ; Mr. Ward Hunt, from the Financial Secretaryship of the Treasury to the Exchequer; Sir Stafford Northcote, from the Board of Trade to the India Office ; Mr. Corry, from the Education Office to the Admiralty ; and Colonel Wilson Patten, who had then no place, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. Five members of the Cabinet of 1860 have withdrawn from the Government : Lord Chelmsford, the Marquis of Salis bury, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, and Mr. Walpole. The Earl of Mayo left the Cabinet for the Indian Viceroyalty. Another new penny publication has been stated, the Shamrock. As the name suggests, it is to be the " Irish national " organ. A priest of the Church of England has presented Father Ignatius with an old monastic house and fivo acres of land, near St. Albans. It is reported that the statement of the Bishop of Capetown, which the John Bull asserted was suppressed at the instance of the Prime Minister, will shortly be pub-. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Colonel Henry Lowther, M.P., to the Lieutenancies of the counties of Cumberland and 'Westmoreland, vacant by the resignation of the Earl of Lonsdale. A young man was charged at the Southwark Police Court on Wednesday with stealing ninepence from the pocket of a waterman, at the entrance to the Victoria Theatre, last night. In the course of his evidence the complainant stated that he bad lost ninepence, when the prisoner called out, "That's a lie; you didn't lose ninepence, as all I took from your pocket was fivepenee " Ito was sentenced to a month's hard labour. A writer in the Leisure Hour calculates that a copy of the Times, with its full supplement, contains about 20,000 lines, or 200,000 words, and is equal to a printed octavo volume of '5OO pages. The most rapid writing of a lawyer's clerk, if he wrote for ten hours a day, would not be able to transcribe it in less than a fortnight. An ordinary number of the Guardian contains about 142,000 words. TESTIMONIAL TO THE DEAN OF EXETER.—The parishioners of St. James's, Paddington, have presented a testimonial, worth 500 guineas, to the Very Rev. Br. Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter, who was for many years vicar of that parish. It consists of a large orna mented piece of plate, with a pair of candelabra of classical design with emblematical figures of Faith and Charity. THE SPEAKER AND LORD E. P. CLINTON.— Lord E. P. Clinton has issued an address, in which he refers to his retiring from the contest for the representation of North Notts, and the part taken in it by Mr. Denison. His lordship says : "At the time my farewell address was written I was under the impression, formed upon what I believed to be sufficient information, that I had been unfairly treated by my late colleague, and my address conveys that impression. I have since had occasion to consider whether that impression was correct or not. I have seen my late colleague in the presence of my proposer and agent, and have fully gone into the whole subject ; and I am satisfied that in all that my late colleague did no want of faith towards myself or towards the Liberal party can in any way be imputed." Mr. Denison, in his address to the electors, says "he regrets very much to find himself separated from his ate colleague, Lord Edward Clinton, with whom he has acted during the late Parlia ment with perfect cordiality, and for whom he entertains sincere feelings of esteem and regard,",, ,Ir s -_-, i ):,...,e ~,,.. ..-- Ir A' 1' T. Oillt - , ----T , ` 611111.111 4 . . 1 .,- .. ....-__ , , - HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 2. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart, walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Leopold took a carriage drive. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park. RESIGNA7 lON OF JILVISTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Will you oblige Mr. Disraeli by pub lishing in your columns the enclosed Statement , which he has addressed to the supporters of the Ministry in both Houses of Parliament ? I am, Sir, yours, &c., MONTAGU CURRY. 10, Downing-street, Whitehall, Dec. 2. 1868. "If Parliament were sitting, I should not hay° adopted this course.; but as the public acts of a Ministry should not he misunderstood, and 03 there is no other means of explaining their motives, I have taken the liberty of thus address. ing the Conservative members in both Houses of Parliament. " When her Majesty's Government, in the spring of this year, were placed in a minority in th e House of Commons on the question of discstab'• lishing the Church in Irelard, they had to consider that the policy proposed had never been submitted to the country, and they believed that the country would not sanction it. " They therefore felt it their duty to advise her Majesty to dissolve Parliament ; •but to make an appeal to the obsolete constituency would hay° been an absurdity, and the candid opinion of th.° country coincided with that of Parliament, that ll° course could be satisfactory unless the voices of th ° enlarged electoral body were ascertained. All means were therefore taken by the Ministry to expedi te that appeal, and a special statute was passed for the purpose. " Although the general election has elicited, il l the decision of numerous and vast constituencie s ' an expression of feeling which in a remarkable degree has justified their anticipations, and which' in dealing with the question in controversy, 13° wise statesman woull disregard, it is now clear that the present Administration cannot expect t ° command the confidence of the newly-elected 1101 56 of Commons. " Under these circumstances, her Majesty' s Ministers have felt it due to their own honou r ' and to the policy they support, not to retain bol d it office unnecessarily for a single day. They lac', it to be more consistent with the attitude the have assumed, and with the convenience of pub lic business at this season, as well as more CO u ; ducive to the just influence of the ConservaW, party, at once to tender the resignation of their offices to her Majesty, rather than to wait W o the assembling of Parliament, in which, in present aspect of affairs, they are sensible that theJ must be in a minority. "In thus acting, her Majesty's Government have seen no cause to modify those opinions 11 1 3° . which they deemed it their duty to found th eir counsel to the Sovereign on the question . 1 f the disestablishment and disendowsnent of the 1 01 Church. They remain convinced that the pr°l 3 ,°: sition of Mr. Gladstone is wrong in princip le • , impracticable in conduct, and, if praett° able, would be disastrous in its effects. " While ready at all times to give a fair c o °' sideration and willing aid to any plan for the i!°: provement of the Church in Ireland—to the pe lleJ which they opposed last session, rife, as t he • , believe it to be, with many calamities to soci et y r and the State, they will continue, in w hate e position they occupy, to offer au uncomprowisi v g resis tan ce. " B. DISRAELI' "Downing-street, Dec. 2, 1868." DEATH OF MR. J. CALCRAFT, -- We have to announce to-day the death of CaP S ' John Hales Montagu Calcraft, R.N., the new i l i ; elected Parliamentary representati v e f o r the born of Wareham, at his father's residence, RemPot °°° House, near Corfe Castle, on Tuesday eve nll3 ; last. Mr. Calcraft had been somewhat unwell No the past month, and being unable to add re , the electors on his nomination at the late e 1 7 , . 0 tion the duty was discharged for him 11 Pi o brother, Mr. W. M. Calcraft, but at this tim e 13 ,1. fears were entertained of any serious results. 0` few days after the contest Captain Calcraft to ol. i cold, which brought on bronchitis and congestio n , the lungs, and for some days past the worst aPP re o hensions were entertained by his family and fri end 0 as to his recovery. The deceased gentleman was b° l l o in 1831, and was consequently in his 37th year. was the eldest son of Mr. John H. Calcraft (vvh ° A f f , . presented Wareham from 1820-6, from 1832- 41 1'; , from 1857-59) and of Lady Caroline Cathe rili i: daughter of the fifth Duke of Manchester. " 0 Calcraft entered the navy in 1844 and becana B o2 , lieutenant in 1854, served through the Crimean ea paign, but was invalided home in 1861, and ina de o.4 retired commander in 1862. Capt. Calcraft, Wh o li d a stanch Liberal and a supporter of Mr. Gladst o 66 policy, was first returned for Wareham in 1-8 1 , ( ; after a sharp contest with Mr. J. S. IV. Drax, ° roe contested the borough as a Conservative. polling on that occasion stood :—Calcraft, 12 ;, Drax, 109 ; majority, 16. In the late contest iO ,, Calcraft had two Conservative opponents -- * l i e , Mr. J. S. W. S. E. Drax and Mr. T. F. Frern O of the latter gentleman receiving the suPP °rt t bs the Earl of Eldon, the Rev. N. Bond, lulu, ; 66 Bankes estate, which at the election in was to some extent given in vk - n t o .e, Calcraft's favour. The extension of the su f "of however, gave him an increased numbe r , supporters in the town of Wareham and ne i g i o bourhood, and counterbalanced the supPor. t to ro lost by the withdrawal of the landed proP rie ,oo above named, who favoured Mr. Fremantle. to t result of the late election is so well knout' 14 we need not refer farther to it than stating that the polling stood as follo0 Car ',„ Calcraft, 314 ; Drax, 301; Fremantle, 68. tain Calcraft was a gentleman of very una 17 a ing disposition, and was greatly respee te all classes in the neighbourhood. His death . cause a vacancy in the representation of W aboo r . e to At the present moment it is only specuia tio of r name any person as the candidate for th e 11. os the seat, but it is generally supposed that one B elk deceased's brothers will be solicited to offer In ° CoP for the representation in the Liberal interes-• ra ft, tain Calcraft's next brother, Mr. IV. who addressed the electors at the late not l3lll3 i s ao is a gentleman in every way qualified. The r° a io doubt that Mr. Drax will again come forl far the Conservative interest. Tor FATAL ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.- -011 ;„ tl O day a policeman, named Thomas Mutch, died a i,lo Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from the effects of jOr t ho received while endeavouring to quell a disturbance ixitrocl4 Grassmarket about a fortnight ago. He bad been ° ,;,i i re• on the bead with a poker and rendered insen sible. 0• ; 1 , 8 well-known thieves have been apprehended as been concerned in the assault. it 8I ROMFORD CATTLE INIARKET. —A very f a-- of mixed description of stock at market y estora,o -t pas changed ownership slowly, at the following Pri cl" ,l,,, ° stone and sinking the offal :—Beasts, 4s to 5 3 ; sw lt ) o 4 ' 4 4d to 5s 4d; fat calves, 4s 8d to 5a 4d ; pigs, 38 10- oor° Bd. Dairying cows, £l5 to £2O each ; ttnd I°l stock £6 to £9 per head. A al faro FALL OUT OF A RAILWAY CARRIAG E ' tr servant, on his way to Rosedale, on Monday, h,il°,,to,tiee° ring between the Kirkham and Castle How` r 'l ll° leaned forward to look out of the carriage wieci°vi.ottieg' door was not fastened, and out he went into tli° % t/ 44 The guard wont back and found him on 11 18 leg i , '4 a t od I escaped with some injury to his head B ud 0 0 -- was able to continue his journey. ap th 4 ata Tfi li epy Day a Tb 11 cal decia Th lloti e , att ao s hare; co rrip