The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MOND k Y EVENING, JUNE 7, 1852

previous month. The customs' revenue for the int
quarter of the present year shows the extra-
ordinary Maness of about 20,0001. above the revenue
for eke same period last year. A large amount of business
has been transacted during the month at fair rates. The
Unproved prices for imported flour referred to in our last
h.s been maintained. The market is fully supplied with
provisions, and PflollB an low. Cattle and sheep continue
high, without prospect of change fur some time. Freights
for all ports have ruled low. There has not been much
tonnage shipped for home or foreign markets, but consider-
sbte activity has been manifested in the meeting trade, in '
which a second steamer is now engaged.
Woo'. —Not morn than WO bales bare left Table Bay'
during the month, about 600 (rum Breeds !Bur, and pro-1
bably 1,400 from Alcoa Bay. Advice* by the last mail from
Englend are very encouraging to growers. Very littlo
now remains in the market for shipment.
WIN v.—Thera have been no shipments home this month,
and by last mall thence adviees have reached of sales at
considerably under east at this port, while it is computed
that the stock in band is sufficient to last for two years.
Our colonial trade continues brisk, sad considerable ship-
ments coastwise.

BIIANDY.—ATYIIs to market loge, sty 114 leaguers,
while prices remain at about last month's quotation, say
131. 10s. to 161. per leaguer. A considerable demand fur
frontier, and large shipments to Algae Bay.
Cia•tw.—Arrivals through market and coastwise are
7,300 maids wheat, 1,920 bailey, 4,100 oats, against
7,206 wheat, 1,333 barley, and 3,400 oats. Wheat
remains at about last month's quotations, barley and oats
higher.
l'autes.-105,0001ba raisins, 13,3801bs almonds, and
3,6001b5. walnuts, passed the market during the month, as
well as considerable quantities of pears and peaches. For
all kinds a good demand exists.
Burma.—Only 4 tons colonial to market, and prices are
lower, hitving been effected by the large arrivals of foreign.
HIDES •PID hitand will probably
contiuus so, as last sales from England were at higher
rates.

Fism.—Shipments to Mauritius about 160 tons, when
lot accounts were favourable.
UUAto.-Baln at 31. 10s. to 41. About 400 tons have
left for Mauritius, and the same quantity for Englaud.

Clic Court.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
of Wales, and the Princess Royal, honoured the performance
of the German play with their presence on Saturday even-
ing. The royal suite consisted of the Marchiontas of Ely,
the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Viscount Galway, Major-General
Buckley, and Colonel ouverk.
Prince Albert, attended b 7 Lard George Lennox, Colonel
Wylde, and Colonel Bouverie, was present at Dr. Faraday's
lecture in the Royal Institution on Saturday afternoon.
The royal family tank their usual exercise on Saturday in
the garden of the palace.
Priam Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday, at-
tended by Colonel Bouverie.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning
in the garden of the palace, and the royal children took
their accustomed exercise.

Her ble,WisTy7 Jcineir Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and
the Prince of Wales and the Princes Royal, attended
divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace
yesterday morning. The ladies wed seathetea in waiting,
and the domestic household wets ale presset. The Hon
and Rev. Gerald Wellesley perforinal the service.
The Duchess of Camhridge and the him. M visited
the Duchess of Kent on Saturday se tar eseideare, Ch eesee
House, St. James's. In the evades the Dines. of Kest
accompanied by the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Prisms
Mary, honoured Her Majesty'. Theatre with her presence.
Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Gaper, sad Lord James
Murray, were ia waiting oe dee Deals@ of Keet, and
Lady SuMeld and Baron Kneeing& attended the Dasher
of Cambridge.
The Ducker of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday.

The Committee on Education of her Majesty's most Ho-
nourable Privy Council had a meeting on Saturday, at the
Privy Conseil-oast. Present—The Lord Presides; the
Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury the Right Hos.
Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Right
Han. Sir John Pakingtoo, the Right lion. B. Disraeli, and
Lord John Mennen.

iir:i.Zaiepbeiliteneon, M.P., had an Interview with
Mr. Secretary Walpole, on Saturday, at the Home•olce.
Mr. Richard Marna had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Secretary.
Despatches were received yeeterday at the Colonial-aloe,
from the Gnomon of the West India Colonies.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yes-
terday, in the Chapel yal, St. Jam's. The Ray. Dr
Wesley preached the sermon and administered the sacra-
ment. The Rev. Dr. Hook preached the sermon yesterday
at the daily service.

A Cabinet Council was held at four o'clock on Ba- 11
turday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street. It was attended by the Earl of Derby, the
Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis
of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, the
Right lion. J. W. Henley, the Right Hon. J. C.
Herries, and Lord John Manners. The council sat
one hour and a half.

OFFICIAL APPOINTIIIENTS.—Mr. Alexander Grey
is appointed a member of the Council of Government of the
Mauritius Mr. W. Wade West is appointed a masher of
the council at the Mauritius, in the absence of Mr. Mus-
grove Houghton.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION.
A numerous and highly respectable deputation,
consisting of colonists and London merchants and ship-
none's, accompanied by some members of parliansmat, had
an interview on Saturday last with the commissioners of
emigration, Park.street, for the purpose of urging the
adoption of mews' with a view to satisfy the present
peering demand for scrieultural and pastoral labour is the
Australia& colonise, sad Idtewiss to suggest means by
which its application Aould be regulated so se to prevent
persons emigrating at the exposes of colonial funds tram
retorting to the gold diggings rather than employing them-
selves in those other important branches of productive in-
dustry, upon the 'maintenance of whisk the permanent
welfare of Australia is mainly dependent.
Amongst the gentlemen who attended cm this cieceirien
were Sir Wm. Verner Bart., M.P. ; Mr. Evelyn Denison,
M.P. ; Mr. Wyndham Dodd, M.P. ; Mr. De Saba, Mr. W.
Walker, Major Mercer, Mr. J. Nelson Smith, Mr. Lear-
' month, Captain Stanley Carr, Mr. C. D. Logan, Mr. R.
Brookes, Mr. R. Lewis, Mr. C. Smiling, Mr. Daves-
pert, to.

- The objects of the aerobatics were bully stated by Mt.
Evelyn Desist*, who a:premed die cooddesos la the dl..

polities of the

M naive with ottoativo goo-

I;amnion these proctical suggestions whisk the minable
mpseissee of most of the gentlesesa present enabled
thd to e/c. Ho Mt that few were bettor qualified for
this duty the Mr. De delis, who would state the views of
the d.,_. M. era the seinen of amigestioa as now ma-
dated laid the amp= of goverment.
Mr. DI SALMI mid that the Whet of the dismay of
geld be Amend bed Mod
di add aely et the
bet of megie la fhb erearayt Mei slam de de
salemilMy did laded with Whisk merrebetures of
this emalary were so vitally meneeteL It wee is ad-
mitted All, that four fifths at the ithohltents of the Maid
!Luip%om wens elided with dehrelha weal, whit the
heeded Abided dm Spain, &may, sad Idee-
pry, were illy dilleishkg. The wadies of Arm&
was therishre • Midi ISe• it adeled every maa
wee
w were a east ea his Ike there mild be se
dosht that If Australia sot send us sent
I year's wool clip,• the prise of cloth thromdat the MUM
try would be 4 bad trebled. The pascal dere*
in Now tenth Wales was Is ismaismit defer. Ale hem a
=I: Weer as wee esedseent wed predmes
bode set. Their m MOM, how-
ever, wsetztrt. Mem for medal un
lit emissitonal
pursuits ; and they wished tameially le menet geld.dig-
ewsrmAi.cd.•M etthe Mid coot sad he repotted to
my t he thieft dew of several bedew where
obese of pads dew bad occurred. Omit dideulties,
It. would dad Wed mesented themselves is doing
soggeedees Ms heed. TM pastoral iathats,, bomber
imperfect, de art looked le alms. Them were
other interests that bed equal deed se the Led
Liter
were satitled to a Air ado of the Islam seat eel.
so delilamMies owe bed felt that dm ease would Yep
if eramedleas eld adopt the hilewine regu
thel. That sea malipaat madiag bibrielf of mileaso
Goa telesial hada he the pegmeet of he be his.
trails, in whole or h peal, deuld be leas
a gold-digging licomis he twomare aft* his erefed,hiliti
that be should agree to devote his eervitne dating that
period to employers ia embalmed, patella, se other pur-
suits, at an equitable tate of wages.
" 2. That the governor of the *day shoold have power
to control such egreemeab, sad eased them when amok
dient, sad in the meat of =Weals mieselft to di
the sane that they should came velar an gisism fe
rein, bro.p.orr the their mange
to
Mr. De Bilis further observed that Is wed' be dearth*
to give facilities for the hiring of shepherds ia this wont
ry
by colonists who might be willing to matodate the whole
or part of the passe* messy of the mimed. As there
were ether gest'esen who would expiate their @asthma*
he @dead new mole& with ass=all4,62reute
thanoed seeds that wee
hippy to gale of aslosewledgimg the sew
mionosses always gave sermedg his Ihe ethell-
eal septettes, of the coddle.
Me MIRCER followed, mad suggested some media-
cede of the rules of the esedheleasso as regarded age,
mom modularly in eases where parents Mewed In years
were amedimied by their Imeilise, a elms who would aet
be se 14 single de.
L ARK stated the Massage width he be-
meld he dived from the chaps already made ia

the oratudasiesen' mulattos.; but, with regard to ferule
easratioa, adverted to the unfortunate results which,
wi in hie own koowledge, had been prevented at Port
Phillip and elsewhere, from the little discrimination ob-
served in sending out youog worsen from the Irish work-
houses.

Mr. W. ()GOLD, M.P., said he felt it his duty, as one
of the representatives of an important Irish county, to
attend on this occasion, more particularly as be kad seen in
the newspapers a correspondence between the commis-
' sioners and the Mayor of Limerick, respecting Australian
emigration. He hoped that whilst acting upon safe rules
they would still set liberally towards Ireland, so as rather
to divert the stream of Inch emigration front America to
our own colonies, where still greater prrsperity was offered
to the industrious man.
Mr. MURDOCH, the chief commissioner, began by saying
that it was the snxioua desire of himself and his col.esgues to
give the most respectful consideration to any represents
them emigration to Australia, front a body of
redeem se ty interested in the welfare of the Aus-
Vaal 410111111illi as those he saw before him, and that he
was much gratified to find from all that had been said, that
there was no difference between the objects advocated by
the:deputation and those which the commissioners had in
view; that the commissioners had always felt and stated,
and had repeated, perhaps segue ad naturant, that in the
administration of the funds entrusted to them they acted
as trustees for the colony, and were hound to consider
principally, if not exclusively, colonial interests ; and that,
as the commissioners had no desire to conceal or mystify
any of their proceedings, he would endeavour, even at the
risk of being tedious, to explain to the deputation what
had been done, was in progress, and was contemplated re-
specting emigration to Australia. He then referred to the
recommendation received from Sir C. Fitzroy shortly niter
the discovery of gold in New South Wiles ; that emigra-
tion would be stopped
_to that colony, and to the conic-
gut nt sending to Moreton Bay, instead of Sydney, the
ships destined for that portion of the colony. He stated
' that at that time the funds in the commissioners' hands on
account of Now South Wales amounted to only 15,0001., all
of which was expended in the Moreton Hay emigration
before the end of April last ,• that up to the end of April
the commissioners had received no authentic intelligence of
any further grant from New South Wales towards emigra-
tion, although they had seen en extract on the subject from
a private letter in a newspaper ; that, nevertheless, in con-
sequence of the assurance which they received from a de-
putation on the 28th Awil, that money had actually been
raised in New South Wales for that purpose, they at once
applied to the Secretary of State for leave to renew
emigration. In regard to Port Phillip he stated that
at the end of last year, having been informed that there
was a great emigration in progress from that co-
lony to New South Wales, the commissioners made a great
effort to supply the gap so crested; that they accord-
ingly relaxed the rules so as to admit of [Amities
with more young children, and extended the age at which
parents could be taken from 40 to 45 ; that in consequence
of these relaxations and the exertions which they bad
made, the commissioners had been able to send out in the
' month of December last 1,900 emigrants, and that they bad
endeavoured eines that time to keep up an equal stream ;
that, in order to do so, they had despatched or chartered
since the Ist January 42 ships ; that, in addition to the
emigrants whom they had sent out since that date, they
had at present in the office either accepted emigrants or
applications to the extent of 7,000 persons ; hut that their
great difficulty lay in procuring ships. That, in conse-
quence of the very large unassisted emigration now in pro.
green, there being 15 private ships in the docks in Liver-
pool, and 28 in London, the freight had risen most seriously,
and that, unless it fell again, the number which the funds
in the hands of the oommissioners would send out would
be eery much reduced. That, in the hope of getting ship*,
the commissioners had sent their advertisements for tenders
to all the principal porta in the United Kingdom, and were
endeavouring to establish a depot in the colonies. Ile then
proceeded to notice the suggestions of the various members
of the deputation. In regard to taking an engagement
from emigrants not to apply for a gold license, but to de-
vote themselves to agricultural or pastoral occupations, after
stating the difileulties which ho apprehended in enforcing
each an engagement, he stated that the commissionen
would not object to the principle of it, and would be happy
to consider with the gentlemen who had proposed it the
manner in which it might be best carried out. That, as far
as regarded hiring in this country, the commissioners
offered no objection to it, but would willingly give plunges
for eligible emigrants going out under agreement to Ronde-
men in the colonies. That they had for some months been act-
ing on the principle of not giving passages to single men
except when forming part of a family or under very special
circumstances, both on account of the great excess of men in
the colony, and because single men were the most likely to
go to the gold fields; and in regard to female emigation, he
stated the great difficulty of procuring eligible and respect-
able females from this country. With reference to the
objections taken to female emigrants from the workhouses
of Ireland, he read a despatch from Bir W. Denison, show-
ing that some 400 young women drawn from those work-
houses, and sent out in the course of last year, had been
found very teachable and well-conducted, and that, in con-
sequence of their good conduct, many more had been
applied for than the colony had received.
Mr. LOGAN, in reference to what had fallen from Mr.
De Solis and Mr. Murdoch, observed that he apprehended
little difficulty in effecting formal agreements with emi-
grants in this country and enforcing them in the colonies.
A precedent had already been established and recognised by
the government in the cases of French and German oigne
eons and other foreign labourers, whose passages, under
certain circumstances, were paid from colonial funds, end
all of wheat went out nadir specific engagements. He had
not heard of any breaches of faith in such instances; ea the
contrary, he believed the erratic. had proved successful.
A desultory masesmilisa them leek place, is the course
of which the aommiedeases impressed their anxiety to en-
tertain every remeasidie es well as their strong
desire to carry eat ups principles most condu-
cive to the metes of °sleeks.
It was daelly haimated by Mr. Evelyn Denison that it
was the wish ad the deptstatton [that Mr. De Sails should
*paha with the heard se as to arrange the details of the
aningeateatt them sampeated.

THE ELECTIONS.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
MR. DISRAELI AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued the
following address to the also:ton of the county :of Buck-
impala :
' Gendeless,—l take the op it of returning to the
county ft him yen Maces tie disolution of parliament,
whisk M eheeds impechei, I shall again solicit the dis-
dain et Wag isember, an honour which
you ham terim y confined on me.
'The ameba is critical, aad it is as wan to disentangle,
from the misrepresentations of ignorant or interested per-
sons, what is real), at stake.
" in 1842, Sir Hobart Peel, at the bead of the conserva-
tive party, converted a considerable and continuous defi-
ciency ia the public revenue into a surplus, by the imposi-
tions of an inteme-taz, which also permitted him greatly to
mitigate our tar&
" Than maws realised all the success which the con-
servative pert_ y_ anticipated fkmi them. In the co of
four years 7,00h,0001. ofcustome duties were repealed, with-
oat materially diminishing the revenue derived from that
branch, and no domestic interest in the country suffered
hthe change.
The prineiples on which these alterations were effected
were the removed of all prohibitions, the reduction of
duties to such a male as admitted ' fair competition'
with domestic produce, and the free admission of all raw
matetiah.

41ted the istidsetica of *dm for these measures in
ttempimp with then gpmelemen woe hew honour the pre-
sent jevernment with Mak supers.
Owe the bar yawti doing with 1846, during which
the eimeerrative party caurifel these wise and beneficial
meemsres, We la our commercial system have
Wien free intsefiestion of foreign corn and of
dil4rwarlirrth.s. asz=neente was not originally con-
templated in the yelley of Sir Robert Peel, for
he the repeal cif libis WS laws within a few
yto his abrogating then. When he re-
eemmenrtrelri repeal it wee te meet an emergency; and
be angel to Leal George Heath**, in my bearing, that he
belielli thst reveal wadi net materially affect the prices
of.Vlberadetreshee.
on of slave-grown sugar was not approved
of 41,134wrieRebert Peel.
*re meseares, unlike the preceding outs, have
oemeimed semes earring among the producing classes
whisk they amt. The distress of the agricultural classes
has been admitted, eimenneed, and deplored from the
throne, older the abbe of a whig ministry; and the con-
sequences of the dangles of the sugar duties were so dis-
astrous to set feerpredneing colonies that, within two
years aßer the paring of the act of 1846, a whig ministry
also found it to modify their own measure.
" The sufferings of the agricultural and colonial classes
bays arisen bem their being thrown into unlimited comps-
titieswidt the fliseismg en emegsai terms with the rest of
their froerr sewer Timm =scud conditions result in
I Irma measures from the pastier imposts and the vexatious
regulations to which our egreleultural end sugar-producing
industries are subject.
The IMO precipitation which attended the repeal of the
protective duties on corn and sugar accompanied the repeal
of the navigation laws. Even the Proposenof that measure
no* admit that ' the shipping interest, exposed to severe
rivalry, is subject to burdens and restrictions which impede
Its prosperity.
Thu as the language of the minister who himself re-
pealed the navigation laws, and yet left the burdens and
restrictions who la impede the prosperity of our mercantile
ovine. This opinion will be found in the recent address of
Lord John Russell to his constituents. That address de-
serves the attentive study of the shipping interest.
" Her Majesty's ministers would consider these burdens
and reetrictioss with a view to their removal. . .

" The ferment hitherto have been tho pumas who have I
been most injured by the repeal of the corn laws, but the
diminution of rent In Great Britain is greeter than is gene-
rally supposed. In preparing the financial statement for
this year, it was officially represented to me, that I mut
contemplate, in estimating the produce of the income tar,
a diadautioa of rout red much lees is amount than
6,000,0004. sterling. Practically speaking. in this country,
rent has become a return for the capital invested in the
im-
provement of land. Lows to secure a return for such in-
vestment are not for a moment to be tolerated, but laws
w►ich, by imposing unequal taxes, di,courrige that invest-'
I meat, are, Irrespective of their injustice, highly impolitic
far nothing eentributes more to the enduring prosperity of
a country than the natural deposit of its surplus espial in

, the improvement of its Et. Justice to the land, in ell
and
atetnax it.sfr.finiarr
ba,tisitevalidlysotheciu
u iniuteres,
community.
•"fhere is no portion of the United Kimplom that hss sof-
fermi more from the precipitate repeal of the corn law! than
tthe of
interest tll
proprietor
of the
Irel .nd. The claim of that country to the consideration of
parliament is irresistible.
"The time has gone by when the injuries which the great
producing interests endure can be alleviated or r.,moved by
a recurrence to the laws which, previously to 1816, pro-
' teeted them from such ealaroiti, a. The spirit of the age
tends to free intercourse, and ao 'talesman can disregard
with impunity the gi Rim, of the epoch in which he lives.
But sleety principle of abstract justice and every considera-
tion of high policy counsel that the producer should be
treated as fairly as the consumer, and intimate that when
the native producer is thrown into unrestricted competi-
tion with external rivals it is theduty of the iqilluturi. in
every way to diminish, certainly Rot to increase, the cost of
production.
" It is the intention of her Majesty's ministers to recom-
mend to parliament, as soon as it is in their power, mea-
sures which may effect this end.
"One of the soundest romms,'among others, by which this
result may be accomplished is a revision of our taxation.
Ties times are favourable to such an undertaking; ju•iter
notions of taxation are mole prevalent than heietidore ;
powerful agencies arc stirring, which have introduced new
phenomena into finance, and altered the complexion a the
fiscal world; and c‘e possibility of greatly relieving the
burdens of the community, both by adjustment and reduc-
tion, seems to loom in the future.

"'But nothing great can be effected by any ministry un-
less they arc supported by a powcrful majority in parlia-
ment. Our predecessors were men who, for personal honour
and administrative ability, need not shrink from a MIDI ,ari-
ion with any body of individuals qualified to serve her
Majesty, but they were sure of a parliamentary majo-
rity ; hence much of their unsatisfactory conduct. They
were justified, from the broken state of parties, in their
continuance in °Mee, which they never evinced any un-
worthy readiness to retain • but it is far from desirable that
such indulgence thsuld become a chronic weakness of our
constitution.

" In the brief period during which we have held the reins,
although placed in a position of great emlsarr unient, from
the impossibility of at once appealing to the country, we
have intro lucid three measures, which it is hoped will soon
become the law of the land. One is a measure of internal
defence, which, it is believed, will soon prove both popular,
economical, and efficient; the second would confer on an
ieteresting and important colony a constitution founded on
the right principles which should govern dependencies; the
third will at length achieve a complete reform of the Court
of Chancery.
"There was a fourth measure which we proposed. Two
petty boroughs, long infamous for corruption, had been
justly and wisely disfranchised. We recommended to
parliament that these forfeited seats should be transferred
to two of the most important communities of the country,
distinguished not only for their vast wealth and teaming po-
pulation, but by all the enduring elements of national
greatness.
.A combination of parliamentary sections de-
feated, on a technicsl pretext, this wise and generous pro-
position, which would have added strength and lucre to the
House of Commons, and have asserted the popular principle
in a enasner consistent with that maiutenenee of elsases
which becomes a free and ancient monarchy, and which is
the best security for order and liberty.
" The time of the House of Commons has been much
occupied of late by a discussion, whether the management
of the Itomon Catholic College of Maynooth r. quint in-
vestigation. Without prejudging the question, her Majesty'.
ministers have felt it their duty to support such an inquiry.
We have been anxious to subdue the heat of religious con-
troversy, and to deal impartially with all her Majesty's
subjects whether in communion with the church of Home
or the church of England; but we cannot sanction an opi-
nion now in vogue, that since the act of 1829 the constitu-
' tion of this country has ceased to be protestant. liy the
act of settlement, our form of government is that of a pro-
testant monarchy; and it is our belief that the people of
this country are resolved so to maintain it, not only in
form, but in spirit.
Various schemes have been devised for the extension
and improvement of the education of the people; and,
among others, a measure was proposed by an intelligent
community, during the present session of parliament, to the
principles of which we could not accede. The only princi-
ple in the present diversity of religious opinion which seems
to be just, is that of encouraging the voluntary effertli of the
several religious bodies by grants of public money in pro-
portion to the extent to which those efforts have been made.
In asserting for all this universal right, we claim for the
church, the national depository of sacred truth, that tho
freedom of her efforts in the cause of education should not
be fettered by regulations and restrictions which arc not
required to afford security for a due application of the
public funds.
" I have touched, gentlemen, on most of the topics which
now engage the attention of the country. They are not mean
issues. The country will have to decide whether it will
maintain a ministry formed on the principles of conservative
progress ; whether it will terminate for over, by just and
conciliatory measures, the misconcepti, ns which have too
long prevailed between producer and consumer, and ex-
tinguish the fatal jealousy that rankles between town and
country ; whether our colonial empire 'hall he maintained
and confirmed ; whether the material development of Ire-
land shall at length be secured; whether such alterations
as time and circumstances may appear to justify and require
in the construction of the House of Commons shall be made
in that spirit of revolution which has arrested the civiliza•
tion of Europe, or in the spirit of our popular, though not
democratic, institutions; whether the church of England
shall still remain a national church; whether the crown of
England shall still be a protestant crown.
I believe that the county of Buckingham is not in doubt
on these beads, and therefore I appeal to you with confi-
dence for your support. I cannot vie with the patriots and
the statesmen whom, for so many generations, you have sent
up to parliament ; but I will promise you this, on my own
part and that of my colleagues, that, if public opinion ratify
the choice of our gracious sovereign, we will earnestly en-
deavour that the honour and the interests of the country
shall not suffer by our administration.
" I remain, gentlemen, your obliged friend and servant,
Hughenden Manor, June 2." *. B. DISRAELI.
WESTMINSTER.
A meeting of the electors of Westminster resident
in the Inward of St. George, Hanover-square, was held on
Friday last at Weippert's Rooms, Davies-street, Grosvenor-
square, to hear from Sir John V. Shelley a declaration of
his political opinions ; HIRST GROROB ROBINSON, Esq.,
in the chair.

Sir Jong SHELLEY rose and addressed a crowded and
attentive audience ; and, after adverting to the circum-
stance of a previous meeting having been postponed in con-
sequence of the death of his father, entered fully into an
enunciation of his opinions on the leading political topics of
the day. With regard to the suffrage, he desired to see •
groat extension, but which extension would, in his opinion,
be a mockery unless it was protected by the ballot,
which was tits only way in which the mechanic,
and tradesman especially, could exercise that privi-
lege with safety and Independence. (Loud cheers.)
With regard to free trade he was its determine and un-
flinching advocate, not only by his speeches and printed
addressee in Westminster,bat by his continued exertions
in the agricultural districts with which he was connected,
by enlightening the minds of his own tenantry, and sup-
porting liberal candidates in various provincial constitu-
encies. As a Sussex squire and • large landowner, an ex-
tansies oceupier, and practical farmer, he would declare that
free trade worked well for him, and if it did not do so for
others the fault lay with themselves. If be should be so
fortunate as to take his seat for Westminster, he should,
in addition to these reforms, do all in his power to shorten
the duration of parliament—it would be a.ike neficial to
members of parliament and their constituents—the former
often neglected hie duty until nearly the expiration of his
seven yesn' term, and the latter too frequently became for-
getful of theirs, for want of shorter reckonings with their
representatives. (Haar, boar.) He was decidedly opposed
to any
.grant from the public purse for other than secular
uses. Should he become their member, he should take
much pleasure in promoting all municipal end parochial
reforms. Notwithstanding the fact that many members of
parliament considered this • degradation, he, on the con-
trary, should consider it • pleasure as well as • duty ; and
he would live amongst them, setting aside • day or two in
every week, when his constituents would have ready
access to him. With these sentiments he trusted he
would be favourably received by this large meeting,
1111 he had been by the eight other parishes In Westminster
waom be had had the honour to address. He did not come
before them with any high oratorical pretensions, but
could declare himself an honest man, saying nothing but
whit he really thought, and if returned he would serve
them with fidelity. (Cheers.)
A vote of confidence was then moved by Mr. WRIOHT
Noce, seconded by Mr. JAKRe SMITH, and carried with
one dissentient.

Thanks were voted to the chairman. and the meeting,
which wan numerously attended, then adjourned.

YARMOUTH.
On Thursday evening last, a meeting of electors
was held in the Corn Exchange, ibr the purpon of hearing
addresese from Admiral Sir Charles Napier and T.
M'Cullagh, Esq., M.P. the liberal candidates for the repro-
mutation of the town. The attendance was very numerous,
the Corn Ezchange being filled in every part, and the ut-
most unanimity and enthusiasm was manifested by the en-
tire assembly. Amongst the gentlemen present were Mr. J.
W. Shelly, Mr. H. Fellows*, Mr. P. Pullyn, Mr. W. N.
Burroughs, Mr. C. Millar, Mr. Richard Hammond, Capt.
Behan, Mr. Robert Barber, Mr. J. JaeAmon, Mr. C. E. Ber-
tram, Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. J. Cobb, Mr. J. Mainprice, Mr.
H. bonneted, Mr. G. Blake, Mr. Blythe, Mr. J. D. Chap-
man, Mr. T. Burros/he, des.
Mr. J. W. Smat.azw, being called to the chair, pointed
out the advantages melting from free trade and the injus-
tice which Ito V•ViV•111 wNld inflict upon the great mass of
the people. He alluded te the declaration of the head of
the present administration that he would reverse that
policy impairing that he obtained • majority in the next
House of Commons, and urged upon the electors the duty
of returning representatives who would support the liberal
policy of the country and the principles of parliamentary
reforin.

Admiral Sir C. NAPIIa then nee, and was received
with loud and prolonged cheering and applause. He said—
I have bad a tolerably extensive caneass of the town, and
although I was told when I first reuse that the requisition,
although sigma by 337 persons, was nothing more than a
picas of humbug, got up an..order that parties might profit
by • contest, yet I must say that to the apotlit of Yarmouth
the whole of the nriitisitioniata, with the exception of ten,