The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1852.

THE QUEEN'S BIRTH-DAY.

The leading members of the goverment celebrated her
Mitjeity's birthday last evening by full dress banquets, at
which Urge parties of noblemen and gentlemen, supporters
of the present adetini•tration, assembled. The Earl of
Derby, as First Lord of the Treasury, entertained a very
liege and distinguished petty at his official residence in
Downing-street. The banquet being succeeded by an assem-
bly at which nearly SOO leading members of the aristacraey
paid their respects to the Countess of Derby. The Chancel-
Joe of the Exchequer received a large party at his mansion at
Grosvenor-gate. The Earl of Malmsbury, as Foreign Secre-
tary, enlivened the Foreign-odlee with a large party, at
which the whole of the foreign ministers assembled. The
colonial secretary, Sir John Pakington, received his political
friends and employe's at the Clareudou, and the Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole, as home secretary, assembled the judges
and law officers of the crown at CI rillion's Hotel, Albemarle-
street. The Duke of Northumberlacil dined a party of silty
naval officers and others connected with the profession over
which he presides, in the grand hall-room of Northumber-
land house. The Duke of Montrose, as lord steward, enter-
tained a numerous circle at has-mansion in Dolgrave-square.
The MUTIVIi,. of Eset• r, as Lord Chamberlain, received the
noblemen and gentlemen of the royal household at hi,. resi-
deuce' iu Grosvenor-square. Tho Earl of Lonsdale, as bond
presdent, entertained a large circle of peers at his mansion
in Carlton-gardens. After each of the banquets the Queen's
health was proposed and drunk with all the honours.

THE (..701'NTENS OP Dimity's RECEPTION. The
Counter of Derby held 3 reception " last evening, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. This party, following on the grand full
dress banquet given by. the moth r last evening, was by far
the must brilliant reunion of the present season, and a enrol-
leetion of some years' festivitie- under the same official rout
fails to rival anything approaching the assembly of lust
night either in point of anothers or influence. The company
began to set down about 10 o'clock, and trout that hour
until midnight a continued succession of at rivals took place.
About I l o'clock, the splendid throng, which was constant+
ly receiving additions from without, cemplitely tilled the
saloons. As the numerous guests arriving still pressed up
the staircase there ensued at last a complete block, so that
there was no possibility for nearly two hours of either in.
pees or egress,unless the parties di siring the first should show
too great a desire to prere forward, while those who alight
have wished the latter as a relief were withheld from en-
forcing it too vigorously, lest they might be suspected of
too much anxiety to leave so distinguished an assembly.
The Duke of Wellington,with the Marchioness of Salisbury
on his arm, wag nearly an hour accomplishing the ascent
from the Park entrance to the reception saloon.

Yesterday morning, according to custom, detachments
from the regiments of Foot Guards doing duty in London,
amembled on the Horse Guards parade, at half-past nine
o'clock. The hands and drums of the brigade united under
the direction of Mr. Godfrey, of the CohLtream, played the
" National Anthem." A squadron of the Royal Horse
Guards, with their hand mounted, were also present.
Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, sad Commander-
in-Chief (Duke of Wellington), accompanied by their staff,
and a great number of distinguished general officers, in-
cluding Lord Fitz 'toy Somerset, the Adjutant-General,
Viscount Combermere' the Earl of Stratford, &e., arrived
on the parade about lOn'elock, and were received with the
royal salute by the troops, under the command of Col. 11.
'Sentinel, of the Coldstream Guards (Field Officer-in-
Waiting). The inspection then commenced, the bands
playing the " Coronation March " in " Le Pruphete,"
The Troop" (a new one for the occasion), had a very
grand effect, the numbers being about 250 (bands and
drums included). The troops, after marching past, left the
ground for their different posts.
The illuminations in the evening were on an extensive
scale. The club-houses and theatres, as usual, siting with
each other in the brilliancy of their display. The illumi-
nations at the residences of several of the new ministers
were remarked as showing the quickened loyalty of their
owners. The Duke of Northumberland's, at Charing-
cross, Lord Derby's, St. Jurnes'esquare, and Mr. Sc-
meter" Walpole's, in Grafton-street, seem radiant
with imperial crown and royal initials.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM ON THE DERBY
TACTICS.

An address, from which the following are extracts,
has been issued to the electors of Carlisle, by Sir James
Graham :
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made his financial
statement. The official homage paid to truth has been a
full admission of the benefits of free trade; and the budget
for the current year is based on an adoption of the com-
mercial and financial policy of the late Sir ltobert Peel,
which has been so much maligned.
" It is not safe, however, to presume that this policy
is now placed beyond the reach of danger ; its fate is in
the hands of the electors at the approaching dissolution of
parliament.
" Lord Derby, since he became the First Minister, has
declared in his place in parliament that be is au admirer of '
the tariff of the I.7nited States which imposes high import
duties on all artic:es from abroad which may be produced '
at home ; he added, that he considers earn no Just exception
to this rule ; and that, in his opinion, the re-imposition of
a duty on corn is the measure which would best satisfy the
claims or the landed interest for compensation on account of 1
their peculiar burdens.
" The present Secretary of State for the Colonies declares
that he is still opposed to the descending scale of duties on
foreign sugar; and he avows that, if he had the power and
the opportunity, he would prolong the enhancement of the
price to the British consumer, for the exclusive benefit of
the colonial grower, by the continuance of a di"erlminating
duty;—surely, this is protection in its naked deformity.
" An important branch of Sir Robert financial
policy is the reduction of indirect taxation, and the substi-
tution of direct taxation in lieu of it, within moderate
limit,. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he pre-
posed the renewal of the income tax for another year, gave
a significant warning and notified his opinion that direct
taxation, without largo exemptions, is impracticable;
and that with large exemptions it must be regarded as
confiscation.

" So matters stood on Friday, when the Chancellor of the
Exchequer opened his budget. On Saturday morning, the
Solicitor-Oenerel addresses the freeholders of the county
of Suffolk, and seeks their support on the express ground
that the repeal of the corn laws has been ruinous and unwise;
that the agriculturists, if they require relief, must look to
the administration of Lord Derby, which is ready to admi-
nister it to them in the neat parliament ; and that with a
view to the satisfaction of their just claims their hopes
most rest on the existing administration. Again, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer has returned to his original ground ;
and even since his speech on the budget ho has declared
that ' when her Majesty shall have recurred to the Waft
herof td,...:zetrizepourynt is prepared :lgatrou fwultflnle, asairrita-r
•
cultural interest which they advocated on the opposition
side of the house.'
" Here then is the reversal of free trade, tho reimposition
of a corn law, or relief to the agricultural interest at the
expense of the community; if the constituencies be not on
their guard, and if they tail to beware of returning a ma-
jority in favour of Lord Derby's government.
" The approved definition:of a protectionist is, a supporter
of Lord Derby's government.
"The simple question,therefore, to be propounded by free
traders to candidates is this :—Are you a supporter or an
opponent of Lord Derby's government? A plain answer
to this question will dispel a cloud of mystery, and will
render the choice of the electors both sure and easy.
" For myself, I will make no professions. My public life
for the last thirty-four years is before you. lam a free
trader; a reformer ; a sincere member of the established
church ; a constant friend of civil and religious liberty ;
and I must add, with pain, that I am an opponent of Lord
Dsrbc'a government."

Mr.E.Bowriog, Secretary' to her Majesty'aCommia-
sinners for the Exhibition of 1851, had an interview with
Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the Home Office yesterday, for
the purpose of presenting the Commissioners' report to the
crown of their proceedings up to the present time.
SUBILOUNE AND CONTINENTAL TELEORAPIIIC
EXTENSlON.—Yesterday, the necessary arrangements being
completed in count lion with the submarine telegraph, com-
munications were effected, for the first time, between Lon-
don and Boulogne. The wires, to be shortly submerged
between Dover and Ostend, opening communications with
the whole of Belgium and that part of the continent, are
now being constructed. The distance and length of cable
required will be three times that between Dover and
Calais, or about 70 miles ; and the experience derived from
the success of that experiment, will enable this greater
stretch of submarine communication to he carried out ht
less cost than that of the first line between Dover and
Calais. The telegraph lines from Dover to Cornbill, inde-
pendent of the South L.'utern Telegraph, are in prepara-
tion, and will be carried by aabhumoua lines along the Ohl
Dover Road. The entire artery of lines' in connexion with
the submarine system, is proposed to be subterranean ; the
wire of copper, covered with gutta perehs, will be enclosed
in tubes throughout the rout*. Simultaneously with the
reduction of rates for the transmission of messages now
being carried out by foreign government., the charges are
being simultaneously modified by the submarine telegraph,
which now communicates with upwards of 200 continental
towns, messages being transmitted and answers returned
from Berlin, Antwerp, Brussels, or Ohent far a guinea,
enabling foreign correspondents and commercial firms, in
matters of emergency, to be in daily and hourly communi-
cation. A message may he sent to lAmburg, the centre of
Russia' and an answer had the same day; and communica-
tion Is ordinarily made between Dover and Paris in about a
minute and a half.

IMPORTATIoN OP CORN PROM IRELAND.—Accord- '
ing to a return just issued, there were imported of all sorts
of grain into Ore..it Britain from Ireland, 3,206,484 quie-
ten in 1843, and in 18.51, 1,324,688 quarters.
ESTABLISHMENT OP A POLICE FORCE IN JERSEY.
—A meeting of the Jersey States, under the presidency of
Sir T. Le Breton, Knight. BailiM, took I lace a few duye
sinee to take into consideration the orders in council for es-
tablishing in the i•isad a court for tho recovery of .mull
di hte, a pobee court, and a paid police. I•he court when•
,be states wen• held was crowd to szceu. It was re-
solved by the stab s to suspend proviaionally the registration
of the onlera r f rrid to, and a committee was appointed to
draw up a petition, praying for a repeal of the said orders,
which the states consider to be an infringement of the pri-
vilege, of the blind.