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London, England, 1852-07-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 24.

Is the elections now drawing to a clone the Minis-
terialists have had most unscrupulous recourse to a not
imy creditable trick—that of false and gar-
bled reports of the state of the poll w the day
was going against them. The bulletins of the Mar-
quis of BLANDFORD'S committee represented him as
ahead of Mr. Ossinixe, though that gentleman took
the lead from the first and kept it. There is this
diasdvantage about such a political game of brag,
that it necessarily leads to a mortifying confession at
the close. The same tactics have been acted upon by
the Derbyites with reference to the general results
of the election'. The most confident expectations
have been expressed by them of a majority for
Ministers in the new Parliament. But the time has
pained when anything could bo hoped from such
mystification, and they are now busy eating their
own words by degrecs,—preparing to break their fall,
.—admitting the true state of affairs.
The most zealous organ of the Derbyites in the
press put forth a laboured argument yesterday, on
the assumption that the DERBT-DIbRAELI party will
muster about :k$ strong in the new House of Com-
mons. This it maintains will be • phalanx quite
strong enough for the purposes of Ministers. There
will, it argues, be a floating balance of 20 or 30
vermin, so that in the event of a vote of want of
confidence bring ventured upon by the Opposition
leaders, it cannot possibly be carried by a greater
majority than 322 votes against 298. And then the
d:tticulties iu the way of bringing this majority to
agree upon the members of a new cabinet arc insisted
upon with great earnestness. The inference drawn
hum this is. that eien in the event of the House of
Commons declaring that it has no confidence in the
present Ministers, the Qt'EEN will have to fall back
upon Lord Deane.
Now, let us take for granted the accuracy of these
statements, and the validity of these inferences, for a
moment, for the sake of argument, and in what light do
they place the hopes and intentions with which Lord
Deane and his party are contented to hold olio.?
They are willing to be the Ministry of a minority ;
to hold plus divested of power ; to remain in
.office;
Sot to aCt7.77.7., own opinlOti: and ennv."7-lons,
but to prevent others from actin upon theirs.
Their function will be that oft or incubi,
to paralyse and arrest the action o the body. politic,
to keep it in • state of suspended animation,
" The night-mare Life-in-Death are they who chill
men's blood with cold." _ _

A Government more pregnant with fatal conee-
quenecs.—more certain to endanger the public tran-
quillity and prosperity,—.cannot be imagined. Time
is the great innovator ; ceaseless changes are in
progress in the composition of society, calling for
treeless changes in the laws, institutions, and policy
of the State. A stand-still, an obstructive govern-
ment is inevitably placed in a state of antagonism
to tho national wants and wishes. Either it is
able to resist the popular pressure brought
to bear upon it, or it is not. In the former
case it becomes an object of hatred to the
people; in the latter of contempt—either way a
spirit of insubordination, of enmity—not to the go-
vernment, but to government in the abstract—is
engendered. A lawless, anarchical tendency is dif- ,
fusel throughout society. The habits of voluntary
subordination to the law, of self-control, which are
the proud distinguishing characteristics of English- I
men, are placed in peril by the continuance of a go-
vernment of a minority in office.
By the confession of the Ministerial partisans them-
selves there will be a majority in the new House of
Commons, amply numerous to dove the present Mi-
nisters from the exalted places into which they sin, ,
reptitiously crept amid the disruption and wrangling ,
of parties in the old. Will this majority have pa-
triotism enough to coalesce in of a Ministry
prepared to act in accordance ivlrTtrretrhat Mr. Drs-
watt would call the " soirit of the age ?" Unless
it is prepared to do so, it is only less the enemy of
the country than the Derbyite Action. What the
country wants is confidence, repose, cautious but
steady and unintermittiag program That can only
be attained under a geommost eopperted by a
working majority in the Home of Chonsons.
Looking to the leading sadism of which the
Opposition is composed, it is those that the only in-
surmountable hindrances to ens it a coalition taut
exist in personal piques and lealmmise. The Liberal
Conservatives profess to be now convinced of the
justice and neocasity of ptomain reform; that
has long been the a cissaise of the Whip;
and the advanced Mask bare gives ample proof
of their willingness to saki precipitate chesge,
provided real program is peemead in a sincere and
earnest spirit. Thus sew km been a time visa
the advanced Liberal" ben "hewn themselves mere
disposed to make allaramese kr the dilleskies la the
way of the mires they ask kr then at present.
In the II • nab there bare hen atom radia-
tions of a dispeekka to and coldly aloof
from the earnest Lbws* upon which
however we are set aped to dwell at present,
confident that the really inineatial Whig leaders
me the nesimity of penceektiew ir understanding
with Usk alas Warmed tors, and axe Sn-
are in their profeesions of a to act upon this
mayietkes. We regret, however, to observe symp-
tom' of a tosaleitzating spirit in the organs of
the least 111111101111 and least powerful section
of the °grids& Sc.. remarks which we recently
tide apsn the neceseity of the parliamentery Peelite•
tad!, pert either with or against the people if they
wow sot see themselves gradually eliminated from
the Hems of Commeem have bees wilfully miain-
tapas& kis as seastiatien to them to join uncon-
ditionally the she of the Whip._
_whims they
=My pint& oat the popielg &their taking part
in the reemarietios ot a Lim park Ps:lament.
neaps to which we advert mistake in the face
of similes returns, that the isniney strength
of its party 1a undiminished, it has dwindled
numerically to one-ball, col its defeated
candidates have for the mat part been its
ablest meo. In despite of this warning it still
exhorts its party to resist in a pedantic
isolation—in an attempt to hid as Meal balance,
which it has mailer see me anew te We
will not Width" kedges of the poly for
the nuaselied matelots of as imesymess water;
but it le dear that if the Lileoel Clanmeallvea are
going to a separate gems they will thiroby play
into Misleads of the enemies of themselves and of
the
OnPse°teg is eertaim tYt the autism all net ling
submit patientl to the eideuellime sea& immehy me-
ceesceily 011 & meads. eirmiesommb of
minorities. Ypada are sense* balmiest in the
smistag deelmalirVbisz to sunken any elm hind
ofgovernment tint &half,
of the proved themsat al ass ialreiVilataral
system,—will be a =Mont argument for satending
it so as to make it a mil ezposat of the
wilL The (sentry Imge !e—the wonky asst`—a
real peerment and if the b =ler
thapeemt elielmeluszetzet.t yam ning he so
sulm_iell in le le

This is whatiheDingilis hart thie is idteg *AY
affect to all revels*. mod breads at eameeracy.
To dissipate them estagmeleil isimegssenteihme of
the eaten mil el sleeked vim the
stresses§ OMNI mill* saw te be liresesd.
The Dle=l Ihe_posphs be ray mesa the
asthma We w ise sompreites-
ahwiphepes embresse the Chews and its prerogative,
the Lade sal their privilege. the law courts and
the law, the esshelesliel institutions of the
sesstry, as well as the lime of Common' and
the by which its s'ib's are elected.
weer the yogis want whsa they ask for parlia-
wreedrery velum le simply era& a &me in the mode
of eledia. the Embers et their emu Hesse as will
give them a red seise is Ihe billistere. They
contempide se semeashmest In the peamegative of
the (hem they ash ad issithesely to smimmine the
certain
law. net they my that Ihe mastitaties ettribatee
powers and privdsw to themselves in the
Weed= sa'mb'aof the Bo um at Cosmesse, and

that these powers and privileges are neutralised and
rendered of no avail by an electoral system which
enables members of the House of Lords, and a few
wealthy political adventurers, to pack the HOUND of
Commons with their tools and dependents. Parlia-
mentary Reformers only ask to have the acknowledged
rights of the people respected.

Ncrrifixo is more generally, more consistently, and
more stedfutly desired by all the industrial, includ-
ing the middle, classes than a reduction and just
revision of taxation. This has just been a topic on the
hustings in various puts of the country, and must,
surely, claim early notice in the new parliament.
Nor can this surprise any redacting person. Govern-
ments„ however much they may try, and whatever
principles they may nominally profess, cannot raise
themselves above the level of the time, and in an
age such ea ours, they—like the bulk of mankind—
seek wealth and extort revenue as the means of in-
flame. and power. At present in oar country it is
only by taxation that the herd and heavy. hand
of governments is felt and dreaded. They invade
liberty, and violate personal rights much
reesiiliithan formerly; the humanity of the age has
blunted the edge of the sword they still bear; and
they are only greater and more powerful than in-
dividuals, in proportion as they have vastly greater
revenues. It is against their undue extortion that
men now have to guard. Money is far more than
the sinews of war, it is the life-blood of
governments, from which sinews, bones, mu.-
elm and all, are formed. Anxious to en-
sure the efficiency of our government, no one
wishes to deprive it of a single necessary supply, but
would only check its grasp of that which is not ne-
cessary fur strength, honour, or efficiency.
The great proposition will be to substitute direct for
indirect taxation ; and as the enormous evils of the
latter—the restrictions it imposes on industry, the
misdirection it gives to capital, the waste it
causes, the smuggling and immorality it engenders—
are all admitted, while the relative merits of
direct taxation are denied, let us just glance at one
of the supcnorities of direct taxation. Few expect,
perhaps fewer desire to induce the Parliament this
very next session to substitute direct for indirect
taxation. For ourselves, we aspire only to discover
the truth—to ascertain and make known the relative
merits of the two systems, and to bring public
opinion to the support of that system which inflicts
the fewest evils.

The Maass alessets for the year ending with
the 6th of 'gamey, 1851, inform us that the gross
receipt of Catolas was collected at the rate per
cent. of 51. 111 e. 81d., and of Faris at
51. is. 110. The rate is very little dilleeet lam
the usual rate, sad may be aesamed to le about the
average. The same account! state that the grows
rsssetpt of ;TIM w 6-; opuecien tit
21.35. 71d. per cent., and of taxes at 31. 3s. 31d. The
two latter are branches of direct, the former of indi-
rect, taxation. We conclude, therefore, rather in the
rough, we are aware, but sufficient for the purpose,
that our direct taxation is collected at tho rate of
21. 13s. 6d. per cent., while our indirect taxation
casts to get it 51. 11s. 10d. per cent. The amount of
the Customs and Excise being 38,178,5771. 15s. 3d.,
were these dutiescollected at the same rate per cent. only
- -

aa our direct taxation is now levied at, we should save
21.18•4 d. per cent., or on the total sum somewhat more
than 1,100,0001. Now, a saving of 1,100,000/. would
enable the government to dispense with the paper
duties or to lower the tea duties 6d. per lb., without
impairing governmental efficiency in the least de-
On the contrary, that efficiency would be
iaerascd by harassing the people so much less—
by getting.nd of many tax ors—or permitting
the extension of so much trade as one-fourth of its
present exorbitant tax on tea stifles.
But is the present rate of collecting the pro-
ceeds of direct taxation the lowest at which it
would be possible to collect it? We boldly
answer—no, while the rate at which indirect
taxation is levied can scarcely be lowered. In
the State of New York, as we learn from Mr. Op-
dykes Treatise on Political Economy, there was
established a few years ago, and it now exists, a tax
called the mill tax, somewhat synonimous to our
poor rate, which levies a mill, the thou:34:B:h pat,
on every dollar of t'Aritl! Or property of the
citizens. This tax costs two per cent. for
collecting it, which is very nearly one per cent.
less than the rate at which our direct taxes are
I levied. So convinced are the Americans of the aim-
plicity of this tax, the ease with which it may. bo col-
lected, the diminution it causes of corruption and
fraud, that it has been adopted by moat of the
'other states, counties, and towns of the United States ;
and it is proposed to derive the whole federal reve-
nues, as well as all the revenues of every kind for
each state, from this single source. Leaving, how-
ever, for the present, all further illustration of this
interesting and very feasible project, we insist only
on the single fact, that a tax levied by a rate pro-
portionate to property, similar to our poor rate, is
actually collected in the United States at upwards of
3 per oent. less than our indirect taxes. By adopting
such a scheme of taxation, therefore, we should,
without in the least impairing the efficiency
of government, save at least 1,140,0001. a year, and
Might abolish the soap and the hop duties, or reduce
the duties on tea 6d. per lb. By merely putting an
sad to so much un.necessary taxation we should cow
ter a greater Mes on the community than all the
advantages put ter which indirect is supposed
to have over direct taxation.

This, however. is not all. the population d the
state of New Tea, dwelling ma mom apart then
oar populations, sash a tem might los moth more
cheaply ellketed hem than thorn Nemo" ez
too, would be umpired to key a diresttveJ
20,000,0001. them of 2,000 PR I thus the
=cost et mnection would be
limib diminkbed in prow*. as the ma
vise lona Piehehly es one a ima as 38,000,0001.
k woad not amount t.l pa mmt.--it might be
mash Is.. W. amid, lower, mder-ootiasate its
by taking only *et nom. lb :maim
then w. fist gyp= the whole mum m-
ammy for the @orrice of the dude to be raked by a
tax to the am tax, and thou it is
highly that the Mode fight be Wed at
Isec than a half per amt., swig ea our oboists:e-
llen, at the very Mast. 3,000. a year, and Meer
Mg the industry of the otawity at the some time
from all the abominable ambletions sow pined on
it by mime md excise dada. to the lemming of
prosperity ender the power to bear the burdens of
lb! oats.

In Maeda It is focal that the same slicers
who cam* township, county, and state taxes,
can aloe Whet the mill tax ; and we. like
the Amadesso, have a body of paroadd and
other -poetess who could, without mush addi-
tional Amp, collect the whole sum
far the enite as well as the sums requirerrig
poor. Sep meld collect 20,000,0001. at the game
expose seedy, allowing something for hemmed
resipmeibility, as they could collect 2,000,0001. Not
Daly have we these officers, but we have, in a per
matey levied ca tlrmai= kr the me of the
teeing the ne ea which
gireNew Toxic =t sad sash a
system big extended here would t gouge
th mere_ into individual eireimutimme
thus takes place, sad weal Name
us been every other almllsg faishilion gni
rtelobtlea. late the may migAseal abonteges
of relditating eas direct it fa all gam Mien amli
into the mem by which it might be may levied,
and made tar sad jest to all, we will set new Wet.
We insttbellsart pigment oe *alibi, palpable, and
certain el Iliad • des wheb amount of
taxe!igmby a ewe as 3, sterling with-
out isriving the pvernment of use sixpence it now
levies cm the pespie, except the engrosses sum at
present walled w solleeting the amount ageseguy to
enable the Ezeentlre to perform its duties.

THE MIDDLE.= ELECTI:fi jo the Editor of
the Doth Nora.)-114,—This adareptastatadaas
(to tier St oallisst hero) of the Mist me to
that, whoa aataymoso I remiss Mu attkiai =it
latter In the Miriam Herald of W. 24.411rwuit
" Henry rownall," sittrts that In " soma" of the
Mr. Osborne dbi ant pit half the suithst of the Molt*
if Blandford. This b sal, trot et Bollia_ ,t aadl h usitos
therefore, La the lohnoos inhabit Bolfout Is sus (the
Lest intaillosat) sal ate " some of So dirtrieta.—l am,
sham thalltot sentat,—N.--Ithool, July, 23.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, F/IDAY
At this montent (a quarter to six)) the whole extent
of street ban the terminus of the Strasbourg railway
to the Barriers de Mtn* is lined an either side with
troops to receive the President, who is expected every
moment at Paris.

The Petrie bas the following astkie concerning
the to be given to the Prima which has
attracted much attention from the eireenistance of
the style d His Highness* being prefixed to the
' President's ordinary title :
His Highness MertaiApieur, the Prialm-Preeldset of the
Republic, will mask Paris at 6 o'clock tomorrow (this)
evening. He will be slicially received at the terminus of
the Strasbourg railway with all the lamenn dee to his
reek. The whole army etPeris will le nadir arms, sad
will form a line from the rue de Chahrol to tbs Sires. Ms
ministers now in Paris, in full costume, Gem. Magma, Gee.
Cerrekt, all the rewinds of division, and the ear of the
garrison, will go to meet the Prince, sad will escort him
tram the termtaus to his palace.
The Mossleser has not reproduced this announce-
meet ; and all the opposition papers which quote it
omit the pompous handle appended to the President's
official title. For the reset, this statement contains
an error, u Louis Napoleon is not going to the
Elysee, but to St. Cloud. It is maid that ho will pro-
ceed shortly from tho latter residence to the neigh-
bourhood of Serene, and inaugurate the newly-por-
chimed mansion and estate of Villeneuve l'Estang.
No carriage nor person, on horseback or on foot, is
allowed to pass along the whole line by which the
President will peas through the capital. The Prince
is to be in an open berouche of state, and will, no
doubt, wear the same uniform of lieutenant-general.
with the Napoleonic addition of white breeches and
jack-boots, in which he appeared at Strasbourg. It
is evidently intended to give this reception all the
eclat possible, and try if possible to move the volatile
Parisians to utter some reverberation of the impe-
rialist cries of Straabourg. But the capital whose
richest and most populous quarters returned Ca-
' reigns° and Carnot for its representatives will
perhaps remain true to herself, and avenge by a dis-
dainful silence the destruction of her ble and
dimmed inhabitants, and the boss ment of their
houses on the days of December. The Steele contains
an article referring to the persecution which I men-
Honed of a half-pay officer for dissuading petitions'
for the empire. In this the republican paper ex-
preemie the conviction that the great mass of the
country is completely opposed to the re-establishment
of the imperial form of government. The people,
beholding all these preparations for the reception of
the President, and seeing the Place de la Concorde
filled with artillery, fancy there is going to be a
fresh coup d'etat, and that the officers will bear Louis
Napoleon in triumph to the Tuileries. But I take
this to be a mere rumour. The report of the Debate
about an imminent change of ministry seems con-
firmed. that tnu tallinafie of the
Prince has been regularly settled with d rams 01
Baden,but not with the Pnneessde Vasa, u was at first
reported. the affianced bride is another Baden
whom I mentioned in a preceding letter as
117 g been selected for this honour, grand-daughter
of Eugene Beauharnais and of Don Pedro. I repeat
that it is confidently stated in official quarters that
this match has been arranged and the contract signed.
It now appears that the death of poor Marshal
Excelmans was occasioaed by the rearing of his
horse, which came in contact near the bridge of
Scores. The spot of the marshal's death was, by a
singular fatality, very near to the scene of his chief
exploit. After the battle of Waterloo, when Blucher
marched on Paris, Excelmans, who was distinguished
by much of the chivalry of Murat, made a dash with
fifteen hundred horse, and drove the advanced guard
of the Premien. from Velizy, close to the forest of
Verrieres back to Versailles.

The body of the deceased marshal was embalmed
yesterday. In the course of the day all the ministers
who are in Paris, and a great number of high digni-
taries of the state, and other persons of distinction,
went to the palace of the Legion of Honour to pay a
visit of condolence to Mme. Excelmans and her son.

The following further telegraphic despatches are
published in the Monikur :
Straeboatn, 22nd, 6 P.M.
The Prefect of the department ofthe Bae-Ithin to the Ilk

Rib, et PeNes.

The Prim left at one o'clock, and has been saluted
along the line with the most enthusiastic acclamations at
every station, although his psomge was announced only a
few 'intents in advance. All the mayors, decorated with
their warts, the cures, and the populations might be seen
hurrying forward to salute for the last time him to whom
they give the appellation of saviour of France.
Fieveral times the Prince had the train stopped to address
a few words of kindness to these honest populations.
Near Hoehfelden, a body of fifty men on horseback, bear-
ing lances with trieoloared streamers at the end, aseorted
the train for a long limpet a gallop.
Before quitting Streabwag. itie Prince caused considerable
sums to be distributed la alai. At Senna, he left the
train to =mime Me iiinely the chateau, which he intends
&sea ergliaa be Ike aged. There es elsewhere be was
greeted with tremmorts of joy, aiding wets,' eased with
bouquets.
I took leave OM Prince at Iliemme, Me lest libelee of
my department. My atiMene of Oa Martha took my
plass in the President'.
Nancy, Md. 1,11p.m.. ami Lome Me, 22ed, 7 p.m.
The Prefect of the Monitie W lllaistere of the Interior