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LoSPOS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28.

Tor new Prime Minister, the Earl of DERBY, true
to his instill, is and to his long-established character,
kept last night into the arena and raised his battle
try. Like a hold man, he has at once put the
question at issue beyond doubt. His cry, is " Toryism,
Iteform--No•Frie-TradC!
The House of Lords displayed last evening
en unusual amount of animation. Hereditary
legislators crowded the benches; the gallery, de-
voted to hulks, was lined a ith curious listeners; whilst
the F.4tion of the house where other strangers are
ad„„tted seas thronged. All felt it was a great oc-
claim. A new ministry culled hastily to office—
implaisecl, as it were, for prompt service—were to
=ale their first bow. The people who had thriven
seder the commercial system settled in ltil6 by Sir
jdartur Pret., were expectant. With well-tilled
om." and well.lined hinters, the nation
declined to fall into agencies of alarm, or
to de into cestacies of passion, when Lord
Jolty lit4sErt.'s irinistry was tripped up by their
es-eselleague. The whip had won too little national
gratitude, and had met their promissory note for
reform too indifferently, to render any broad expres-
sion of regret or indignation necessary. Hut they
having fallen, the nation, if not excited, was on the
alert—and something more—for Lord Mituv's ex-
planation; and this feeling was pourtrayed in the
aspect of the House of Peers lust night, when the
PRIME 'MI I.TER rose to make known his plans.
And what is the pnegnonnee of the new Fuisr
Loan of the Tar eseuv 1k admitted he had not
a majority is the House of Commons: he declared
the nerd he felt for the good wishes of his friends
and the consideration of his opponents; and whilst
he raised this cry of p.c. an on one hand, he
made a half threat that if the liberals should pursue
such a course of oppeeitiem as it pleased him to de-
nounce, he would appeal from the decision of the
lower House of Parliament to the country. There
were certain thint,s4 he would wish to have done at
once, before commencing the development of that
policy on which the great contest must ensue.
lkitibiles.P. Ile wishes to have the moneys of the
coentey voted and the Mutiny Art renewed, and
other things put in train for his going broadly to work
to use the influences of his party and position
for the preparation of a new parliament likely. to
adopt the v ices and frame laws upon the proposition
he last night re'vcnlcd to the country. He would
have us Five him weapons to be used against our-
selves: would have us give him time to prepare for
erection ; would borrow our forces for our own sub-
legation.
And what does he decline, and what does he de-
clare Ile declines to disfranchise St. Albans; he
declines to pass the bill of his predecessors for
punishing those boroughs that may hereafter be
guilty et corruption; he declines to adopt all or any
part of the bill for the reforming the representation.
I~utive-pouud franchise; no abolition of property
qualification ; no vote will he allow to a man who
pays income tax or other direct tax; no addition of
new blood will he sanction for the wretched boroughs'
that have sunk to the level of those of the old
Schedule A. He declares against all change. He
denounces all attempts to disturb what is, for fear of
what may be. He does not object to education—by
the poro;Aial clergy • and being urged to undertake
hue present duties only by a sense of patriotism and
lofty duty, he desires the aid of all thorough pa-
triots—who can believe in him.

Having seen what he denounces, let us turn to
what he desires. His faith in his mission is not
Strong enough to let him call out aloud and at once
the single word, " Protection." Ile moves
round about his prey slavering and ham-
pering it that he may the more quietly destmy
it. He points with an artful skill to the example
of America, in a way that reminds us how a
certain infernal potentate quotes Scripture. He,—the
high tory parr, tells us he admires the tariff of
America, whilst he says nothing of its government.
He wishes for transatlantic taxes whilst he ignores
the transatlantic votes. He would copy the evils
of America. but declines its virtues. e may hear
at the hustings perhaps that the plans of the
model republic of the West cannot be objected
to by reformers. But the reply will be easy. If
we arc to have the high tariff, let us have
the cheap government. The Americans put an
obstructive duty, ho remiuds us, upon goods
from foreign countries that may run in competition
with home products. They thus shelter, he would
have us think, the produce of their land.
If we were. for argument sake, to grant that the
Americans act wisely in this matter—which they
certainly do not—the cases still would not be at all
parallel. In America there is land enough for all—
in England the land is monopolised by the wealthy
aristocracy ; in America they grow much more food
than they can consume; in England we have in-
creased in numbers beyond that point, and are
compelled to import corn. In America there
are tens of millions of acres waiting for owners ;
in England every scrap of earth is appropriated ; in
America there is scarcely a beggar; to England our
paupers are numbered he hundreds of thousands.
la America they have a dimly republic ; in England
we have a costly monarchy. Lord Desalt is surely
sot the man who should provoke comparisons of this
sat; and the less so when his suggestions are likely to
be followed out to their natural conclusions by
thousands whose attention he invites to the discussion.
And to what finale did the new -Palma MINISTER
come' Simply to this. That as the American govern-
ment taxed foreign goads, he, Lord Deem, would tax
foreign corn; and as the dandy of Broadway must
few the custom-house of New York before he could
complete his Parisian toilet, he, Lord DERRY, would
tax the lutif which the English workman requires
for himself and his children. Twist it es it may, to
this it (ernes at last. Lord DERRY is at once daring
and ingenious. He avoids the word whilst he avows
the principle; shirks the phrase whilst marking out
the road lee means to travel to " Protection."
Surrounded by a muster of the nobility of this
land, assembled in that chamber,--all carving, and
crimson, and gold,—just reared for their delibe-
rs'ions ; with an audience of elegant women
and attentive men, the Earl of DERBY de-
scribed the policy that is to influence the
government just inaugurated. He spoke fluently
sad cleverly, and with due sense of the responsibility
of the chierwho assumes the government of this great
wintry. From things human he rose with his sub-
ject to a higher sphere, and appealed, as
it were for inspiration for good, to that power greater
than any he could claim, and that rules over
sad abuse all. With the earnestness of a real
sincerity; with the art of a practised orator, and in
the wade of a scholar and a gentleman, ho raised
Illsirßian.likt• around those who heard him, a rhe-
torte cloud, all tinted with bright hues of patriotism,
hope, prosperity. Hut it was only a haze,
tat dup by skill of lordly oratory. And those who
looked steadily at it might see it was haze, a, e, and
yield we more. Fur through the dim obscure, there
wan a figure moving stealthily, as though not wishing
to be sen. It was lit ves seeking to rob LAZARUS—
& rich, inrunettt d landlord stealthily filching away a
pow labourer's loaf.

It is understood that an arrangement has been
cencluded by the Bond of Tnule with the Trinity
by which the light dues now levied on the
crestitig 'trade will be reduced one half.

Dr.% tit UV TIIE Port MooltlL—f)n Thar* day, •
146Periii-cottage, the lingering period of Thome Moore's
ram to a IP., Me wee in th• 72nd year of of hig age.
He died at Slop. rtaivrottage, near Devises, end hie own r i-
Feawd wigh p owed to a roiling-plaice in the quiet church-
yard of the pariah.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVIKIIIO.
I hear it confidently stated by well-informed per-
sons that, after the elections, the budget will be pro.
mulgated by decree. It is reported as eatiain by the
same authorities that a progressive income-tax will
be established.

Contrary to the information received from other
sources, the Plmnce Napoksoviienter states that a to
of decrees of high importance will appear before
the end of the week.

The following paragraph, which appears in the
Paris correspondence of the Emmariputioss of Brus-
sels, has drawn considerable attention :
It is stated is the best informed quartets that the fusion
of the two branches of the house et Bourbon is about to he
accomplished in the must serious and solemn manner. nit
Bachees d'Orleans is said to base yielded to the supplica-
tions addressed to her, and to have recognised that thy
sincere union of the great and noble house of Bourbon can
alone give ohanoos to her young and beluvid son. N. Thiess
is said to have born the instrunicut of this reconciliation.

According to the best information which I can
procure, no reliance whatever is to be placed upon
this assurance, which is continually repeated
from time to time by legitimist coriespondenees,
like that of the Emancipation. Fusion is
perfectly hopeless in the eyes of those men who
constitute the pith and marrow of the Orleans party.
It is merely the dream of a few well-meaning suites-
men like M. Mole, who would be wholly legitimist if
they had not to renounce the must active portion of
their own existence as ministers of Louis Philippe.
Fusion is the game of the legitimists; it means
merely harnessing the strength of the Orleans party
to the coach of the restoration of the elder branch. It
is well known by all familiar with the political ideas of
M.Thiers that this statesman has never since the revo-
lution of NIS attempted to counsel to the Duchess'
of Orleans any such abdication. It would at once
ruin that popularity of the Orleans party
among the Imaryeonne and constitutional liberals
which constitutes their only strength, if the princes
of the younger branch surrendered the hopes of their
adherents to the antiquated traditions of legitimacy.
From what information I possess I can state mitt-
dently that no surrender of the kind is contemplated.
On the contrary, a fusion of a very different kind
is in process of operation, namely, an alliance be-
tween the Orleanasts and the republican party of
General t'avaignac. The legitimists prove mean-
while, by their frequent defections to the Elysee,their
preference of the present rt,yiine to the chance
of the regency. The only benefit that can
result from the negociutionbetwecu the two branches
is the prevention of a civil war between their adhe-
rants in case the supreme place of power in France
should suddenly become vacant. Hut it may be ,
safely asserted And the legitimists have not the least '
chance of success.

A sale of carriages, harness, and saddlery belonging
to the Orleans family is now going on at Monceaux.
The government is about to issue a new copper
coinage. The chief alteration proposed is at first
rather startling-. The copper &Time, or French
penny. is to be reduced to one half its present weight,
without compensating the proportionate diminution
of value by any alloy ot t.ilver. To meet
the vulgar objections, and calm the public alarm at
a measure which turns the French pence into so
many copper asaignats, it is contended, in the first
place, that the value of copper coins is not
real like that of gold and silver, but
purely conventional. In fact, if the weight
of the present &Wm* were adjusted to the
commercial value of the copper employed, it
would amount to 40 grammes instead of 20. In
other words, you may buy fur a silver franc copper
enough to make two francs represented in the latter
metal. The (Mime is therefore already a copper assig-
nat in the sense that its value is purely conventional.
Considerations of convenience have caused the cop
per decime to represent a mum double its intrinsic
value. If convenience shoo d demand that the
largest copper coin should be still further reduced to
half its present weight and size, the government
organs ask where is the impediment. The
true answer would be—what few will dare pub-
licly to give—want of confidence in the present
government, which would thus be enabled, by con-
verting the present &chiles into double the
number, to pocket cent. per cent. upon the trans-
action. Ihe government promises to issue from
the mint no greater sum in copper than is re-
presented by the present coinage in that metal.
But as M. Mortimer Tcrnaux says in his elec-
toral address, "We live in days when little
reliance can be placed on promises." Certain it is
that the temptation which already exists in so po-
tent a degree to utter false coin in copper would by
the new measure be doubled. But the new coinage
is to be so sharply defined, that no mechanic force of
'efficient power could be employed by forgers to pro-
duce the like. It has been suggested to reduce the size
of the Bros sou by a silver alloy, so u to make the
intrinsic value of the coin equal to the sum repre-
sented. But Ills arrangement holds out still greater
temptations to the forger, as was proved by
the spurious multiplication of the old pieces
of six Lards and two sous. Besides, unless
tho new issue were to be reduced in proportion, the
transaction, which involves the duplication of the
intrinsic value of the present copper coinage, would
be a losing one in the same ratio. Supposing the
wu and other copper coins to be reduced in the
same proportion as the decinie the upshot of
the present measure would be to leave the govern-
ment in possession of au amount of copper equal
to the half of the present amount of copper in circu-
lation. Whether this metal be wanted for casting
cannon, or covering the bottoms of ships, it ought,
in order that the transaction may not have the air of
an enormous fraud, to be set down in the budget to
the credit of the nation.

"It is stated," says the Mkt*, " that Baron
Burignot de Vareones, ex-minister plenipotentiary
in Portugal, has been named minister plenipoten-
tiary at Berlin, in the room of M. A. Lefebvre,
called to the Council of State. M. Sabatier, secretary
of legation at Athens, has been appointed first secre-
tary to the embassy at Constantinople, in the room
of M. do Reculot, who is named minister at Hanover,
and M.Reisset to be first secretary at St. Petersburg."
The Praise mentions the following nominations in
the diplomatic corps : Baron de Talleyrand, now
Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburgh,will be named
Minister Plenipotentiary at Weymar, a post which
has been suppressed since 1848 ; M. Engelhard,
Coasul of France, and member of the Rhenish com-
mission, is named minister at Carlsruhe ; M. Men-
neval removes from Carlaruhe to Munich. M. de
Guitant-Comminge has just been named Secretary of
Legation at Munich.
The Moniteur has the following :

Fur • Is. time the Prism Pretest of the Republic hoe
beer swine to alleviate as. Err r possible the last days
of the beer sehbers Wee bed ad their blood for the de-
fence of the eesetry older the republic and the empire.
Since Dereaber 2 Louis Napalm hos been able to carry
out the sale hispirations of hie mind, and one of the tint
of his meerie was to Oar et the disposal of the minister
of trams • 'pedal credit iiestleed to be distributed, under
the title at aselehmos, emir erdenrity with the decisions
of the 1114/10/ke aeasmieiw. M web Mid soldiers as should be
feed re rut lbeerbeg sod meet necessitous. The grand
erresder ef the Leeks at Illoroar, as president of the
arrebrier. beery W Wee per i thut great set of repent-
then lad /Mil% Mk tie are effective measures to hare
the errs etre Peres reinfieutpromptly executed. Al-
ready *der rempred ef riser er years of age have been
satishid•Theile dd ereereefeer rend armies ought la fact
to have thei Orley ere {Mfr brothers-in-arms, since their
claims an the swig ..dust, and because they have ler
time than 11111111611111 le \Mk The papers of those of se-
venty years of age bare Won in part examined, and defi-
nitively admitted to a rare is the assistance to be afforded,
and the minister of Moans% who as hie side shows the most
laudable irogentess to seed the NONIMIIIIMIS in the aceoni-
philimeat of its labours, bee rear orders to have
the warrants to receive this mom/ eddressed to the persons
fur whom they are intended, as soon as notice be given to
him of their notate by the gread-ehaneellne After these
two categories will MANI the persons of sixty years; they
will be the object of the mine solicitude end the same cele-
rity ; and all leads to the expectation that in a very brief
period of time the generous thought of the Prince ?mei-
deaxwill have received its ectinplete execution.

The Munitenr contains a report from tho Minister
of Public Works, stating that as the definitive plane,
of the Strasburg terminus of the railway from Paris
to Strasburg are now decided on, the state will have''
to pay, as its contributive portion of the expense of
thst work, a sum of I,lloo,lfiNni. The share of the
Strasburg to Bale company in the expense is fixed
at :40,90Ufr. which the minister proposes to have
paid out oldie last twelfth of the loan of 12,61111,900
francs which the state agreed to make to that com-
pany. in virtue of the law of July 15, 18-10. The
minister proposes that these two sums, amounting to
2,100,000 fr., shall now be paid over tur the expenses
of the maid terminus, from the budgets of 1852

laid of 1803. A deem 'from rho President of the
Republic follows, ordering the suggestion of the re-
port to be carried into execution. The Alfoxiteur
contains another report from the hlinister of Public
Works, setting forth the advantages of establishing
a railway communication between France and Ba-
vain, without being obliged,in order to reach south-
ern Germany, to pass through the Prussian territory.
The Strasbourg to Bile Railway Company having
agreed to undertake the execution of a line from
titrasbourg to the Bavarian frontier, near Wissem-
burg, on condition of receiving a subvention of 3
millions, and a guarantee from the state of 4 per
cent. on the rest of the capital required for the line,
the report recommends to have the offer of the tym-
pany accepted, and to authorise the immedintc com-
mencement of the works. A decree follows from the
President of the Republic, approving of the report,
and directing its suggestions to be carried out.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 20e., closing
at 103.33; the Threes fell 20e., and closed at 05.40.
Bank of France shares rose 12.39. Railways were
without much variation, except Teste and Bordeaux,
which ruse 13f., and St. Clermaiu air.

GERMANY.
P RUSSIA.

The semi-official Prussian Gazette, publishes ex-
tracts from the correspondence which has taken place
between the British and Prussian goverturo .ts on
the subject of the refugees. We read that on the
30th of December, 1851, Mr. Howard wrote to in-
form' Lord Granville that he had waited upon M.
blanteuffel with the intelligence of his nomination
to the Foreign Secretaryship in the stead of Lord
Palmerston, "His Excellency," Mr. Howard says,
"in assuring me of the pleasure which tile
nomination of your lordship afforied him,
bade nie declare how gnat a worth he
lays upon friendly relations with Great Britain, and
how earnestly he wished to stand upon the footing
of a friendly intercourse with your lordship. Ho re-
milked that, in his view, at no time was it more im-
portant than at present to cultivate such relations
with her Majesty's government, and he told me, asa
proof of the sincerity of his wishes, that lie had
sent to the Chevalier fiunsen by telegraph a request
not to present the note to the Court of St. James on
the subject of the refugees, since he was desirous
that the mutter should drop."
On the 6th of January of the present year, Lord
Granville wrote to Mr. Howard authorising him to
assure M. Manteuffel that "no pains should be
spared on the English side to maintain the inter-
course of the two governments on the amicable foot-
ing desired." The latest of the communicated
despatches addressed by Mr. Howard to Lord Gran-
ville is dated Jan. 18, and reports that the writer had'
presented to M. Manteuffel a copy of his lordship's
reply to the French, Austrian, Prussian, and Frank-
furt notes. The Prussian Premier forbore to allude
on that occasion to the tenor of the note, and merely
returned thanks for its communication.

Lord Bloomfield, the British ambassador at Berlin,
returned unexpectedly from England to his post, on
the 26th, his leave of absence not having nearly
expired.
BERLIN, Pea. 21.
With reference to the re-organisation of the First
Chamber the King has held conferences with MM.
Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Von Zander, the leader
of the pure bureaucrats, who of late, it is true, have
frequently opposed the present ministers, but only in
soar as the latter portly leaned towards the wit-
hers, and partly held, fur decency's sake, to certain
constitutional obligations. The result of the con-
ferences is stated to be the rejection of the proposal
for giving to the landed nobility, as a class, the right
of electing representatives for the First Chamber;
this is tantamount to the rejection of the compromise
which the cavaliers have been so eager to conclude
with the bureaucracy. This is what I formerly
prognosticated; and if the King has really decided,
as is reported, the entire ascendancy of bureaucratic
government in Prussia, in form ss well as in fact,
will at no very distant period be established.
Tho draught of a press law, purporting to have
been drawn up by the commission of the Frankfort
Diet for all German states has found its way into the
newspapers. The New Prussian Gazette states it to
be merely a project made by the Austrian or Hessian
commissioners, and handed to Count Than, who had
it revised at Vienna, and then distributed it at the
Diet, though it bud in fact no official character.
The Prussian government has instituted here on
the subject some ministerial conferences, wherein the
most influential voices were strongly raised against
such a federal law; a state like Prussia dare nut in
any way bind its hands in so vital a point as that of
lefFislating for the press.
fhe proposed new stamp law for newspapers
enacts that foreign periodicals shall pay a tax of 25
per cent. on the subscription price. The booksellers
remonstrate that this will be • most vexatious mea-
sure, entailing the necessity of opening and searching
all imported bales and parcels; and mat also pro-
voke retaliatory measures abroad highly detrimental
to German publications.