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London, England, 1858-01-30 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY CHANGES SINCE THE

DISSOLUTION.
• Seat vacated by death.
+ .ii by acceptance of office.
4 ~ by election committee.
l by accession to paerage.
II Member seated on petition.
• Ashton
+ Banffshire Major Gordon v Earl of Fife
4 Beverley
• Birmingham John Bright v G. F. Muntz
+ Bucknglimahr. Hn C. G. Cavendish , Hon C. C. Cavendish
• Carmarthen
+ Elgin
$ Falkirk
• Harwich
II Huntngdn.Co. E. Fellowes v
.f E. Fellowes
1 J. M. Heathcote
+ Kent, East
• Leeds G. S. Beecroft v Robert Hall
1 Maio
+ Middlesex
• Nrthmptnali.N G.W. Hunt v Augustus Stafford
• Oldham W. J. Fox v James Platt
1 Oxford
• Paisley
+ Scarborough J. D. Dent v Viscount Mulgrave
II Sligo, Borough Rt Hon J. Wynne v J. P. Somers
+ Tavistock
+ Thetford A. A. Baring v lion F. B firing
• Whitehaven
1 Woodstock Ld A. S. Churchill • Marquis of Illandford
4 Yarmouth
John Mahon J v (E. Watkins
SEATS VACANT.
II Northamptonshire, S. * Reigate
1 Galway I WlWow

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take the true sentiments of her ally, and no longer be-
lieve in her sincerity.
Now, gentlemen, if ever that mutual confidence between
nation and nation which is the true foundation of a stable
alliance should be impaired, it would be a deplorable mis-
fortune for both countries and for the whole of civilisation ;
but, thank God, between two nations interested in pre-
serving their cordial relations, between two Governments
who esteem one another, and who continually display to-
wards each other the most friendly sentiments, the occur-
rence of such an evil is, I am persuaded, almost impossible.

THE ANNIVERSARY of the foundation of the first of
the Australian colonies was celebrated on Tuesday
by a dinner at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate-street.
There was a large muster of the leading Australian
colonists now in England, and several influential
members of the House of Commons, interested in
the cause of colonisation, also honoured the occasion
with their presence. The banquet was presided
over by Sir C. Nicholson, late Speaker of the Legis-
lative Council of New South Wales, and among the
company were—The Right Hon. Mr. Labouchere,
the Right Hon. Speaker of the House of Commons,
Lord Audley, Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Lord Alfred
Churchill, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ttc. Sec. After the
usual loyal toasts had been most enthusiastically re-
sponded to, Mr. Labouchere and the Right Hon.
Sir Evelyn Denison severally acknowledged the toasts
of " Her Majesty's Ministers " and " The Houses
of Lords and Commons." Mr. Labonchere apolo-
gised for the blunders of the Colonial-office. Mr.
Gladstone also spoke in reply for the Commons,
bearing his testimony to the value of the Commons'
rules and orders, which he said he regarded not as
mere dry technicalities, but as the mature wisdom of
centuries, and as constituting no small part of what
was meant by " the admirable advantages of the
British Constitution." Adverting next to the apology
made that night by Mr. Labouchere for himself and
his predecessors in the Colonial-office, the right bon.
gentleman traced the errors of the system of colonial
administration, now happily obsolete, to a widespread
fallacy which bad prevailed for centuries, not in Eng-
land alone, but throughout Europe, and the evil con-
sequences of which had been inherited by later eze•
cutivea

That fallacy lay in the belief that commercial monopoly
was the legitimate and most profitable relation between a
mother country and her dependencies. Such was the
great and muter error which governed the foundation of
our transatlantic empire, and was implicitly accepted as
undoubted truth from the time that the first European
navigators doubled the Cape and explored the shores of a
new world. Rivers of blood had been shed and treasures
of wealth squandered in support of this mischievous theory.
It lay at the basis of our straggle with oar American
colonies, in which the Crown and the Government were
not alone to blame ; the fault rested with the representa-
tive• of the people, who passed the obnoxious Stamp Act and
imposed the tea duty on the reluctant colonists of America.
Men only learnt to correct their pernicious doctrines by
the painful discipline of suffering; and it was credit
enough and happiness enough for us, the children of Adam,
if we were able to say that we had not despised the lessons
of experience, but had striven to turn them to account.
The task of colonisation had been committed to Eng-
land not for her own good only, but for the benefit of
mankind ; and now that the fatal delusion to which
he had referred had been scattered to the winds, he
trusted that we had established between ourselves
sod our colonies a connection not in metaphor only,
bat in truth and substance, founded in honour, affec-
tion, and goodwill.
Sir J. PARINGTON likewise returned thanks as a
member of the House of Commons, and in the course
of a brief speech pointed to the handsome contribu-
tion made by the Australian colonies towards the
Patriotic Fund raised during the Russian war as a
most cogent and gratifying proof of the sentiments
entertained by the colonists towards the mother
country. The aggregate fund raised on that memo-
rable occasion amounted to 1,500,0001. sterling, the
contribution of the Australian colonies being no less
than 150,0001.

Several other appropriate toasts were drunk, and
the company separated at a very late boar.

AT a special Court of Common Council, held on
Tuesday, an address of congratulation to the Queen
and Royal Family upon the marriage of the Princess
Royal was unanimously agreed to.
THE LEVIATHAN.—During Tuesday and Wednes-
day the hydraulic machines were again set to work
at the full tide to push the monster vessel to the
lowest extremity of the launching ways, and even off
them if possible. The attempts were perfectly suc-
cessful, a distance of 6 feet 7 inches forward and
7 feet aft being accomplished on Tuesday with the
most perfect ease in the course of little more than
an hour, while on Wednesday a further advance of
8 feet 8 inches aft and 2 feet 3 inches forward was
also gained. The depth of water under her at
Wednesday's high tide was no less than 11 feet 8
inches forward and 15 feet 6 inches aft, or only
short of the depth required to float her by 3 inches.
Under these circumstances she requires watching
with considerable care, as a northerly gale of an
hour's duration would set her adrift. According to

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