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STAMP DUTIES ON PATENTS OF INVENTIONS.
This was read a second time.
Their lordships then adjourned a few missies Wore six
o'clock till Thtusday seat.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, DEC. 20.
This Sensinett took the chair at a quarter before four
o'clock.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
ELECTION PETITIONS.
The SPEAK Kit reported that the reeognisances for the
election petitions against the retuins for Carlow County,
Ennis, Sligo County, Sligo, and some other places in Ire-
land had been found to be unexceptionable.

of thistacan, whatever may be their political opinions, and
•naynet I may sit, will always be to me the most precious
pommelion, sad the one that I shall aver moat covet and
moat appreciate. (Cheers.) Sir, I beg to move that this
house, at its rising, do adjourn till Thursday neat
Lord J. RUSSELL—Sir, I ries for the purpose, in the
first place, of mainly cencurring in the motion which the
right hoe. gentleman ha. just made; and, in the neat place,
to say I feel quite certain that if, in the course of debate,
these flying words at any lime may have carried a barb
with them, it is to be attributed entirely to the circum-
stances in which the house has been placed. For my part
I can only admire the ability sad gallantry with which the
right hon. gentleman hes conducted, on the part of the
government and on behalf of the cause he has undertaken,
the struggle in which he has been (or some time engaged.
(Cheers.) It is impossible to hope that those halcyon days
will ever arrive when, in the course of debate and unpre-
meditated speech, nothing will ever Wilt that shall give
rise to some unpleasant feeling; but whenever that hap-
pens, any such feeling must be done away with if persons
in the situation of the right hon. gentlemen will oily imi-
tate his example. (Cheers.)
Sir J. OltAllitid—Sir, with respect to the futgre I ;„„
altogether uninformed ; but with reepect to the past, after
what has fallen from the right hon. gentleman, I cannot re-
frain from saying one word. It is impossible for me not to
avow that I was somewhat paincet Ly an expression
which fell from tho right hon. gentleman on Thursday
night. If I had thought it heel been by premeditation in-
tended to wound me, my feelings would have been far diC
ferent, and it would have been my duty to have expressed
them in a different manner. lam not conscious that ever
in the course of debate I have said anything with the inten-
tion to wound the feelings of the right hon. gentleman ; '
but I could not believe that without provocation be would
have given utterance to the expression to which I have
alluded. Therefore I was confident that it was spoken
without premeditation, and what the right hun. gentleman
has said to-night has confirmed that impression. (Hear I
hear.) There is no member of this house so deeply attached
to freedom of debate as myself. Certainly, in the course of
our discus.ions, I have myself used unguarded expressions
with respect to others, and I should consequently be
the last person to complain. At the same time I
cordially join in what has fallen from my noble friend
the member for the City of London. I have never (earl to
admire the talents of the right hon. gentleman, who, I
must say, has always under very great difficulties during
the last ten months conducted the cause of the government
in this house with signal ability. (Cheers.) I shall not
for one moment recollect the expression to which I thought
it my duty to refer, and I hope my conduct in this house
at all times will insure me a portion of its respect. (Chimer.)
Sir C. WOOD—Sir, as to any expression which tell from
me the other night, I should be wanting in that proper
feeling which has marked the conduct of the right hon.
gentleman if I did not say a word upon this occasion.
(lieu, hear.) If I had been conscious of having used any
expression beyond the fair limits of debate, I should
not have waited till now to retract and apolo-
gise. (Hear, hear.) But being unconscious of having
done so, I asked my right hon. friend near me, and
he was of opinion that I had used no expression which jus-
tified the attack of the right hon. gentleman upon me. At
the same time, feeling strongly as I do upon the question, I
thought I might possibly in the heat of debate have been
betrayed into a warmth of language far beyond any inten-
tion on my part. I think it fair to myself to soy this, and
I accept the right hon. gentleman's expressions of regret as
frankly as he has offered them. (Cheers.) lam sure he
must feel that, considering the reciprocal kindness with
which at all times we have communicated heretofore, I
could not have intended to have given him any personal
offence ; and I will only say further, with regard to any
expression which could have pained him, that there is no
expression of courtesy which I am not willing to make.
I am most anxious that our debates should be conducted
with the utmost courtesy of expression and good will ; and
I am sorry indeed that anything like personal observa-
tions should have arisen to Interrupt the harmony of our
proceedings. (Cheers.)
Colonel SIBTIIOItF—Sir I have listened attentively to
what has fallen from the right hon. gentleman the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer; and also to whet fell from the
three right hon. gentlemen on the opposite side in reply to
his observations. Sir, I have heard that you may knock a
man down and then step forward with courtesy to give
hint a plaster. (Laughter.) I neither quite subscribe to
the knocking clown, nor have I any faith in the sincerity of
those who offer the plaster. (Renewed laughter.) I have
heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the
noble lord at the head of the government has resigned, and
I have learned, subsequently to my coming into this house,
that there has been a meeting on the subjict in Downing-
street. I was not there, but my absence arose from no
disrespect, for I declare, upon my honour, that I did not
know that any such meeting was taking place. (Laughter.)
Sir, I do not hold any piece, and I never will. (Laughter.)
I have lost nothing, and have certainly nothing to grieve
for • but I feel, nevertheless, for my country. (Cheers
and laughter.) I can cuter into the tidings of the noble
earl (Lord Derby), as an upright and an honourable man ;
and it is possible that, under similar circumstances, I
might even has e done the same myself; but I do not hesi-
tate the less to 'ay, that I deeply regret that that noble earl
should have given way te, in my opinion, a band—
(laughter)—to a phalanx of conspirators. (Roars of
laughter.) People talk of dog and cat, but that phalanx
will be something worse. (Great merriment.) Toe cat'
and the dog will sometimes lie down together, but I ven-
ture to predict that there are feelings in the coalition oppo.
site that will show themselves in the course of time—
less's/am menu turd, lateen mime menet.
(Groat hilarity.) There will come a day when there will
be as mush dissension, as much jealousy, and as much an-
demising as I believe has been practised in the attempt—
the smoosseful attempt. I regret to say—to overthrow a
movement who have endeavoured, though before uatrled,
le their duty, and who have been actuated but
by one , namely, to promote the welfare of all man-
kind. (Cheers and laughter.) It is true that I did not
I=of the house-tax, or the Ineente-tax—(a laugh)—
envy your feelings—(renewed laughter)—but I felt
it the duty one man owes to another to step forward and
endeavour to rescue the g aaaaa meat from one of the most
powerful conspiracies ever threatened. (Hear, hear.)
These are my honest feelings, and I trust I shall never
prove a reerean• to the duty lime to my Savereign and my
country. (Cheers.) I think there is no one that deserves
better of the community than the Chan. eller of the Exche-
quer ; and so bog as lam permitted to hold a seat in this
house I shall remember what has passed, and learn to be on
my guard against the man-traps and spring-guns of hon.
gentlemen opposite. (Loud laughter and cheers.)
Mr. HUME.—flir, I haven* apology to make, as others
have done, bat I have an act of duty to perform, namely,
to express to her Majesty's late government how highly
pleased I have been with the manner in which they have
given oven? facility for the production of information and
the examination of papers which it is so important that this
home should have. (Hear, hear.) I have met
with nothing but civility in every department. (Cheers.)
But, sir, with regard to the motion in your hands,
it involves, to my mind, considerations of very deep and
serious concern. To me difficulties appear, which to others
may not be apparent. lam fearful, that unless a wise
minister shall adopt a prudent course, the character of this
house, and the system so highly eulogised on the continent,
of representative government., may be endangered. (Hear,
hear.) I have a great opinion of the prudence, the cau-
tion, and the discretion of the Earl of Aberdeen ; but, I beg
to say, that in the present state of this country and of
Europe, and after the experiment we have had during the
last ten months, of a ministry attempting to carry on the
government against a majority of the people, no adminie
tratien can succeed unless it is founded upon the broad
basis of those progressive improvements in every branch of
the state which public opinion demands. (Cheers.) Unless
the future government shall look more to carry out prin-
ciples compatible with the extension of this country's
institutions, and to make them more efficient
and useful, it can have no perinanance. (Hear,
hear.) Let the new government be prepared to
to perfect the law reforms already pointed out, to continue
and complete free trade, and to introduce those reforms
which are necessary, not only in our general administration,
but in the manner of conducting elections. (Hear, hear.)
Only look at the state of the table, on which there are no
fewer than 130 petitions against the return of hon. mem-
bers. Surely nothing could be more disgraceful. (Cheers )
No government can succeed unless it be prepared to carry
its reformations into the establishments of this house, and
to give to the masses of the people those rights to which
they are entitled. (Cheers.) The noble lord (the Earl
of Derby) was reported to have said that he came into office
to stop the progress of democracy. I cannot believe that
the noble earl intended that in the way in which it has
been generally understood. The constitution of this house
is democratic ; and the noble lord at the bead of the former
administration (Lord John Russell) has declared his
opinion, that the masses of the people have their
rights, as well as the crown and the aristocracy.
(Cheers.) All that I ask therefore is, that the succeeding
government shall take care that the democracy have their
rights, as the best means of preventing those evils which,
it is alleged, have been caused by democracy ; but which,
it will generally turn out on Investigation, have arisen from
a denial to the democracy of their rights. (Cheers.) I
trust that the country will suffer as short a delay as possi-
ble, as the general prosperity makes the present the fittest
time for the introduction of such reforms as are necessary
to render that prosperi.y permanent. (Cheers.)
Mr. CATLEV—Sir, I cordially agree with the hon.
member who lies just sat down, as to the manner in which
the members of the late government have treated all who
have come near them ; end I think he might have gone
still further and said, that in his long experience he had
known no members of this house administer af-
fairs with more practical advantage te the country,
than the right honourable gentlemen who are now ,
vacating their seats on the government benches. The hon. member might have gone even still further; j
and he would only then have expressed the feelings I
know he entertains as a long stickler for the redress of
grievance', if he had said that no man ever filled the office
of Chancellor of the Exchequer who promised more faith-
fully than the right hon. gentleman to redeem these
grievances. (Cheers.) As compliments seem to be the
order of the night, I hope the right hon. gentleman will
accept my humble but sincere tribute of admiration for the ,
manner in which he has conducted the business of the
house and of hie office. Ile entered the administration
with a high reputation, and he goes out of office with that
reputation not only untarnished, but largely increased in
the estimation of his countrymen. (Cheers.) My belief is
that the country will still look to the day when the measures
he has propounded shall be realised; for sure I am that
they will not ho satisfied until most of those measures indi-
cated in the budget are realised by the act of thie house.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was then agreed to.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21.
LORD DERBY yesterday marshalled his defeated
followers, and harangued them, in his customary
style, on the causes and consequences of their late
disaster. They had not been conquered, he assured
them, only out-manoeuvred,—rather through the per-
fidy of their allies than the subtlety or number of
their open foes. In fact, they had been most '
egregiously ill-used; for never had greater sacrifices
of principle been made in the hope of appeasing
enemies and propitiating sulky friends. But all in
vain. First, they had lowered their Protectionist
colours; then torn them from their standards with
suicidal hands, and, finally, buret the tatters in the
fire, and feigned songs of triumph over the impious
incrcmation. All to no purpose. The wicked
Whigs and unpatriotic l'eelites had evi-
dently been only luring them on step by
step to their ruin, and the exasperated Premier de-
clared it to be his opinion that there were no con-
ceivable concessions of mere opinion that would
'have satisfied their coalesced antagonists. From
this time forward, however, Lord DERBY solemnly
vows that he will never consciously go right again.
He sees clearly that it is of no use whatever. The
next time he gets into power he will behave very
differently. And with a view to that happy contin-
gency he urges the necessity of immediate prepara-
tion for another and a final encounter. Instead of
Protection at stake, he proposes to raise tho cry of
" Protestantism in danger." And for the damaged
and sullied banner of Financial Adjustment, he
would hoist the black flag, on which shall bo in
scribed "No quarter to the partisans of democratic
fieedom!"

Such is the mood of this " statesman,"—such the
furious follies wherewith he strives to efface the recol-
lection of ten months' chicanery and shuttling unparal-
leled in our parliamentary history. Like all bullies in
opposition, Lord DERBY has proved himself to be
the most abject of palterers with principle in office.
Enraged by failure he now hastens to resume his
former tone and attitude, and storms in presence of
his bewildered host at the ingratitude and selfishness
of those whom he failed to cajole. But the
desperate expedient will not do. All the luckless
lords and gentlemen who are about to lose their
places cheered him to the echo. Leas could not be
expected of them; "out of the fulness of the heart
the mouth speaketh," but far more piercing is the
cry uttered by the apprehension of emptiness. To
these may be added the expectant' who already en-
joyed by anticipation the good things in which
they believed themselves to possess the reversion.
Finally, at the Downing-street gathering of yester.
day there were no doubt the matchlessfejty-three, who
remained invincibly bigoted to the last, and who
would not even pretend to be penitent on the subject
of Free Trade, when their Proteus-like leader was
vying with Mr. COBDEN in his expo.ure and ridicule
of every species of Protection. The cheers of this I
desperado throng were heard two or three streets off,
aad they separated, no doubt thinking that they had
done something very important in cheering the
vulgar swagger of their reckless chief. Two hours
hardly intervened, however, before the old tendency
towards trickery and dodging betrays itself in the
sporting EarL Lord DERBY'S speech afterwards in
the House of Lords contained hale of the virulence
which characterised that delivered in the morning at
Downing-street. He ventured not to make any
open or direct charge against the Peelite party for
breach of compact or of faith when speaking in the
only place where he could be met and answered.
The few vague and evasive insinuations which he did
venture to hazard were promptly and peremptorily
encountered by a decisive negative from the Duke of
NEWCASTLE, and, thus challenged, were not repeated
by the outgoing Premier. But what is more signi-
ficant and remarkable was the elaborate exhortation
addressed to his followers by Lord DERBY that they
should support the new Administration so long and
so far as its acts were identical with his own. Lord
Denise would fain lure the Whig and Peelite coali-
tion into purchasing his support by the abandonment
of the only principles on which it is possible to con-
ceive that an honourable coalition could have ever
been attempted. The plain English of this impu-
dent and barefaced offer is simply that, if the l'eelites
will break faith at starting with their Whig part-
ners, when the Coalition Cabinet is dissolved—as in
I such case it must speedily be—the aforesaid l'eelites
will be carried by the Tories into BENJAMIN'S bosom,
there to be happy for evermore. In other words,
Lord limier is eager, before the partnership deed is
signed, sealed, and delivered, to persuade one of the
contracting parties that it is their interest to break
it. We wish we could be sure that there was no
danger of success in counsels of this description
because they have been put clumsily and
prematurely before those whom it is in-
tended to delude. But, in truth, nothing
but a distinct and specific declaration of policy on the
part of the AtteitneeN-ResseLL Cabinet will induce
any man of independent feeling or principle to give
it his support. No jumble of great names will do.'
We must know whither the ship is bound. Lord
ABERDEEN has declared very recently that his princi-
ples were as " conservative' as those of Lord DERBY ;
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL has declared as recently
that he desires to see and to aid in the development
of the peaceful enfranchisement of the demo-
cracy. We do not say that their opinions are
opposed, but the people will say that their compati-
bility requires to bo explained. If they arc called
upon to believe in a given formula, then, before all
things, it is necessary that that formula should
be made plain. If seven seats in the new Cabinet
are to be conceded, as it is said they are, to the former
colleagues of Llshiteitsr, Deutiv, and liecetsti-
tw, it is vain to ask the Liberal party to rely im-
plicitly or blindly upon the Whig noblemen and
gentlemen who may think it convenient to coalesce

with them. We do not want a balance of force IA
neutralisation of powers; we want movement sod
progress of soma sort, and at some pace. It is for
the coalition to say what sort and at what 'Klee?