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future, but the present produces nothing, and the
amateurs are forced to fall back on the past. Is
there not some wrong committed by this idol-worship
of the ancients? Musical genius is rarely sponta-
neous; it is of slow growth. Beethovens, Bachs,
Haydns, Handels, and Mendelssohns, are not impro-
vised. Are we not toa exacting in this railroad
epoch ? LOught we not to be more tolerant, and might
we not gain something by being a little experimen-
tal ? As it is, nothing modern finds believers. We
have no national opera-house; we have no oratorio
composers whose works present the slightest chances
of durability. Costa's Eli seems to be the only crea-
tion since Mendelssohn which finds an approving
public ; and yet the school is widely different
from the accepted German models. Coupled with
this success there is another fact worthy of note, and
that is, the acceptance of Possini's Stubat Mater by
the Sacred Harmonic Society. This is a healthy
sign; it looks as if the domain of art is to be enlarged,
when the Exeter hall amateurs applaud the work of
the most popular operatic composer of any age.
Whether the grand Handelian demonstration fixed
for the 15th, 17th, and 19th of June at the Crystal
Palace will check the progress of this universality in
tut, has yet to be proved; but idol-worship in music
has been most prejudicial, and pedantry has been
as injurious to improvement as ignorance.
Mr. Ella has convened a series of " Musical Union"
evenings, and introduced at the opening one a
German pianist, Herr Derffell. The new-comer
belongs to the strong-wristed school. He is like
one of those orators who emphasise the articles
definite and indefinite, and the conjunctions copula-
tive and disjunctive, but his abilities quite justified
his appearance before his critical auditory. Mr.
Ella treats his subscribers with honourable zeal.
His position enables him to regard art alone ; he is
a professor, and not a player; he is a musician, and
not a composer. He is of no clique or coterie ; and
combining with his natural sympathies fur that
which is good and elevated, administrative ability
of no mean order, the "Musical Union" has thrived
and flourished.

Miss Arabella Goddard has been earning distinc-
tion by her performances of the later sonatas of
Beethoven. It reflects the highest amount of credit
on this young pianiste that she has not shrunk from
the enormous difficulties of these sonatas, which will
soon be as familiar as the Ninth Symphony and the
Second Mass.
London, England, 1857-03-14

THE HISTORY OF EUROPE,

FIZOM THE FALL OF NAPOLEON TO THE ACCESSION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.

BY SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON,

BART., D.C.L.

Vols. T. to V. may be had, in dewy Bvo., uniform with the Library Edition of the " History of Europe from the
French Revolution to the Battle of Waterloo." Price 15s. each.
•
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, Edinburgh and London.

GUIDE TO ELECTIONS.
Next Week, as a Pocket Volume, liimo.,
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that the establishment of a British Resident at
Candahar has been agreed upon.
Intelligence from Persia, via Constantinople, states
that a Russian corps of three thousand men bad
been received with enthusiasm at Tabriz. The
Persian army destined to act against the Afghans
had been reinforced ; and Russia was seeking to
occupy the Khanate of Khoukband, with a view to
the extension of its frontier to the English posses-
sions.

FRANCE.

A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says :

The French squadron in the China seas is about to be
reinforced, and an arrangement has been concluded to that
effect between Count IValewski, Lord Cowley, and Admiral
Hamelin. _ _ _

Two conferences upon the Neufchatel question
have been held. At present the settlement of the
dispute is delayed by the reference of M. de Hatz-
feldt to Berlin for instructions.

Prince Danilo, of Montenegro, has arrived in Paris
with the view to obtain the formal recognition of
the independence of Montenegro, and to establish the
hereditary succession of his family.
London, England, 1857-03-14

PERSIA.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for certain
correspondence between the India Directors, the
Board of Control, and the Treasury, respecting the
proportion of the cost of the Persian war which was
to be charged upon the Indian revenues, or the ways
and means by which the money was to be provided
in India. The noble marquis entered at consider-
able length into the subject of Indian revenue and
government, describing the many local purposes for
which funds were wanted, and expressing much
regret that while money was so much required to
develop the internal resources of our Oriental em-
pire, so large a demand should be made upon India
on account of another war.

The Earl of MALMESBURY complained that the
Government bad afforded no detailed information
respecting the origin, object, or progress of the war
with Persia. Nothing was known in this country
except the accounts of some few military operations.
The Earl of CLARENDON gave some explanations,
and recapitulated the outlines of the treaty with
Persia, in much the same terms as they have already
been published in the journals.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGIi believed that England
was exposed to incessant troubles in the East
through the want of proper functionaries to conduct
our negotiations with Orientals. Successful dealing
with Eastern nations required a special aptitude, all
their habits and modes of thought being so utterly
diverse from those of European.
The Earl of CLARENDON spoke a few words in
rejoinder; and, after some brief remarks from the
Earl of ALBEMARLE, the motion was agreed to.

Their lordships adjourned at half-past six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
PERSIA.

Replying to questions from Sir A. Campbell and
Mr. Layard,
Lord PALMERSTON stated that the practice of
affording protection to Persian subjects when en-
gaged in the service of an English representative in
Persia would be given up when other countries were
willing to resign the same privilege, which, he ad-
mitted, led to many inconveniences. The treaty just
concluded with the Persian Envoy at Paris con-
tained, he added, better terms than had been offered
during the negotiations in Constantinople.
London, England, 1857-03-14

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him. Without scruple Lord PALMERSTON at a
grave crisis deceived Lord DERBY about his
intentions, and snatched at the Premiership
with a sinister adroitness not creditable to his
fame. His Lordship, for the first time in his
life, became a Parliamentary leader, and,
excited by the m..velty of the situation, he
made no difficulty about the means of keeping
himself in power. He bantered sonic ; he
browbeat others ; he cajoled clubs. lie or-
ganised a vigorous band of political trum-
peters to sound his praises, and he paid
marked attention to the fears and hopes of
subordinate Liberals. By means, which this
is not the place to comment upon, the Noble
Viscount procured organs to panegyrise him,
whose sole consistency in public life had been
their systematic depreciation of his personal
pretensions and his foreign policy. Lord
PALMERSTON remembered that his old col-
league and leader, Lord CASTLEREAGI4, had
been " written down," and the Premier re-
solved that no means should be wanting
in having himself written "up." The result
is before the public.
Such are the reasons why Lord PALMERSTON
is now praised by the Liberals, with an
entire oblivion of their professed principles.
Their appetite for place is not yet slaked by
their long tenure of power. The Liberals
have stuffed every branch of the official ser-
vice with their supporters. They have had
twenty years of office against six years of Con-
servative power. The consequence is that an
organised Liberal ascendancy is now installed.
We used to boast that our Constitution was
free, and contained a balanced system of
check and counter-check; and so it does, if the
declaimers about " Liberty " and " Progress "
acted upon principle. But in rallying, round
Lord PALmEnsToN they have abjured every
principle they ever professed, and flung the
Reform banner into the dust. Our free Monar-
chy is threatened with the vices of a simple
form of government ; and Englishmen will be
trampled on by a tyrant majority, obtained
in defiance of political right and of Parlia-
mentary honour, if they do not resist the
intrigues, jobbery, and audacity of the present
Cabinet.

The crisis is grave, and it is critically de•
scribed in words used a hundred years ago by
a great orator, singularly applicable to this
general election :

On this it will depend whether they shall prevail who
desire that Great Britain should maintain such a dignity
and prudent reserve in the broils of Europe as become
her situation, suit her interest, and alone can enable her
to cast the balance ; or they who are eager on every occa•
sion to pawn her purse, and to sacrifice her commerce, by
entangling her, not only too much with the other powers
of Europe, from whom she may sometimes want reciprocal
engagements, but even with those diminutive puwets,
from whom it would be ridiculous to expect aug.
London, England, 1857-03-14

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive.
Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter,
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do
not avail ourselves.
Communications should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of tho writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but us a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must bo accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
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15s to 27s 6d; Jungypore,lss to 26s 61; Commercolly, 148 6d to
2dB; liurripaul, 14a Gti to 25a; liaduagore, 14s to 278;
llauleah, 138 fid to 168 6d; Mundel,ghaut, 158 to Ida. China,
'farttlee, middling and inferior, 22e to 258; ditto superior and
second quality, 26e to 278 tid; yuun fa, IGs Gd to 2;8; Taysatun,
19s to 2os 6d; ditto long•reeled, Ids Gd to 20s; Canton, 14s Gd
to 10, per lb.
SPIRITS—We have had a steady sale for ruin, at full
quotations. Proof Leewards, 2s 6d to 2s 71 ; and Kust India,
28 56 to 2s lid per gallon. Brandy is unusually high in
price. Sales of Cognac, best brands of Id;is, Ila 2d to
lis 4d; Irso ditto, 14ii lld to 15s 4d; older, Ifis 4d to lita per
gallon. Malt•spiirit moves off slowly, and the quotations are
rather drooping.
METALS—scotch pig iron has met a slow sale, at 75s Gd
ns 9tl cash. Manufactured parcels are leer active. Speller, to
arrive, has change.t hands at UM 15s: and ou the spot, 311 ss.
'Fin is dull, and Straits may be quoted at 14:41.. Lead supports
the late ad-rance.

110 PS—Fine samples have sold to a moderate extent, at
full prices; but inferior qualities command very little atten-
tion. !did and East Kent pockets, 31 be to 51 12s; Weald of
Bents, 3156 to 51 ; Sussex, 31 3s to 41; yearlings, 11 lthe to
31 12e per cwt. -
• - • •

POTATOES—The supplies are seasonably extensive, and an
average business is doing, at from bbs w 120$ per ton.
OlLS—Linseed oil has sold to a fair extent, at 40s ad to
41s per cwt on the spc.t. Sperm is worth 1001 to Mil per tun.
Most other oils are dull. Turpentine is heavy, at 40s to 41s per
cwt for spirits.
TALLOW—Our market is very dull, at drooping prices.
P.Y.C., on the spot, has fallen to 30s tid per cwt. k'or forward
delivery very little is doing.
COALS—Eden Main, las; Bmdtlyll's, 16s Sd; Haswell,
17s 311; Hatton' 17s ad; Laukbton, lus lid; Stewart's, 17s ad;
Caradoc, 16s 9d; Cassup, Ds ad; Haugh Hall, lbs ; South
Hello°, las; Tees, 1703 d; Whitworth. 14s per ton.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE The supplies of beasts on
offer this week have rather increased, and the demand for them
has been less active, at late rates. Sheep, calves, and pigs
have moved off freely, at full prices. Beet; from 3a 4d to be;
mutton, 4s Oil to Us; veal, 4a to be 61; pork, da ad to bs 2d per
Sibs to sink the offal.

NEWCIATE AND LEADENIIALL—Tho trade generally
bas ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, from 3s to 4s 6d ;
mutton, 3a 6d to 4s 101; veal, 36 lUd to Ls; pork, 3s dd to
bs 4d per Sibs by the carcase.
London, England, 1857-03-14

throwing the existing Government and forming $
d i sorganised and heterogeneous Government in its
place. My notions may perhaps be somewhat old-
f ashioned and contrary to the enlightenment of the
day, but they are the opinions to which I have
steadfastly adhered through no inconsiderable period
of my life, and I cannot now change them. Such
as they have been such they will continue to be to
the end of my career, whatever may be my political
fortunes. I intend to maintain inviolate the great
institutions of the country ; I intend to support, as
far as my feeble voice can go, the prerogatives of the
Crown, the independence and the hereditary cha-
racter of your lordships' house, and the rights of the
people. (Cheers.) I intend to support the doc-
trines, the rights, and the property of that Estab-
lished Church of which I have always been an
attached member; I desire to see her weak places
strengthened and her defects repaired—l desire to
see her taking a firmer hold on the affections of the
people. But, for my part, I never will consent to
see the withdrawal of one single stone from the
venerated fabric of that Church which I regard with
filial love and reverence. (Cheers.)

Pardon me, my lords, for laying so much upon my
own views and feelings. We who sit in this great
assembly are not dependent upon the will of any
constituency for reelection. We express here our
own individual and spontaneously formed opinions.
But there is not the less a moral responsibility rest-
in g upon each of us, and more especially upon those
of our number who are honoured with the confidenee
of any portion of their fellow-countrymen, not to
shrink at such a time as this from the frank and fear.
less avowal of their principles—not to veil themselves
in studious mystery, but to declare clearly and man-
fully the course they are resolved to take under all
circumstances and in all political eventualities. In
the assertion of these opinions I may expose myself
to obloquy, to calumny, and misrepresentation, as I
have done before. These things I have had to meet,
and I trust I know how to meet them again, and
live them down. But no man shall have to say of
me during my life, nor, I hope, will any man be able
with truth to impute to my memory, that I have
ever shrunk from the avowal of my political opinions
—that I have ever sunk a principle for the purpose
of obtaining an advantage, or that I have ever be-
trayed the trust reposed in me by those friends who
have honoured me with their political confidence.
(Loud cheers.)
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Volitztal.

f TIIE ROYAL PROCLAMATION for the dissolution of
the present Parliament, and the calling of another,
is expected to be issued about the 25th: of this
month.

THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF THE WEST RIDING,
vacant by the death of the late Earl of Harewood,
has been offered to and accepted by Earl Fitz-
william.
THE DEANERY OF CANTERBURY has been conferred
upon the Rev. Henry Alford, 8.D., the eminent
preacher, of Quebec Chapel, but perhaps more
widely known by his able edition of the Greek Tes-
tament. The learned dean is also distinguished for
his adherence to Tractarian principles.

THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY (iO]IIIITTEE met uf
Tuesday, and examined Sir John Richardson, wl.o
stated that wheat might be grown up to the 58th
parallel of latitude. A considerable population
might subsist as high up as Peace River, but there
could not be a flourishing colony there until there
were good roads:—
He had heard no complaint that the rule of the com-
pany was oppressive. Some half castes told him that they
themselves had a right to the country. They wished to
have the fur trade to themselves. He feared that if the
trade were opened to rival parties, there would be a
recurrence of the old scenes. He had no reason to sup-
pose that the company discouraged missionaries. On the
contrary, a Roman Catholic priest had told him that lie
had much reason to be obliged to them. He saw no reason
to change the opinion be had expressed in his book—that
the country should be surveyed for the purpose of ascer-
taining the mineral resources. He thought the company
could preserve their authority without any change in the
government of the country. The only disturbance likely
to arise would be from people at Red River, who wished
to interfere in the fur trade. A large influx of settlers
would injure that trade.
The committee rose at the conclusion of the evidence
of Sir John Richardgion. No day was fixed for
the next, sitting
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AMERICA.

Advices from New Yolk to the 25th ult. confirm
General Cass's appointment by Mr. Buchanan as
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
An article in the Washington Union on the Central
American treaty, denouncing in very violent language
all interference by Great Britain in America, had
occasioned a very uneasy feeling, as being perhaps
an index of the policy of the incoming Administration
towards England.
A formal application had been made to Congress
for an appropriation to despatch an envoy to Persia
on the 23rd.

The accounts from Nicaragua are very conflicting
and unreliable ; but there appears to be little doubt
that Walker was in a desperate condition. Having
been repulsed on two occasions, many of his meu
had deserted by floating down the river on logs.
A loan to Mexico had been agreed to by Mr.
Forsyth.
London, England, 1857-03-14

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Intelligence from Jassy states that M. Vogoridas,
hitherto Minister of Finance, has been nominated
Kaimakan of Moldavia instead of M. Balache, whose
death took place on the Ist inst.
The evacuation by the Austrian troops, which had
been suspended, recommenced on the 26th of
February • and it is believed will be completed by
the middle of the present month.
London, England, 1857-03-14

THE PRESS.

The late Lord Raglan.

Second Edition, with s New Preface, Portrait, and Plane, 2 ♦ole.
poet Bvo., 24e.,
-

L•
ETTERS FROM HEAD-QUARTERS ;
or, The Realities of the War in the Criulea. By A STAFF
OFFIC ER.

"This is the most interesting account which has yet appeared
of the war in the Crimea. The simplicity with which the writer
has told the result of his observations renders his ' Letters ' no
lees agreeable titan instructive • and however much the public
may have been satiated with the oft•repeated tale, we can pro•
miss them that they will here find fresh materials to reward
curiosity."—Quarterly Review.

"It would be impossible to conceive two narratives more
violently opposed to each other than Mr. Russell's and that of
the Starr Otticer."—Literary Gazette.

Joux MURRAY, Albemarle•street.

Keith Johnston's American Atlas.

This day, Twenty-nine Plates, Engraved in the Finest Style of
the Art, and carefully Coloured, hellhound morocco, small

folio, price 6611.,
AN ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES,
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ments, Marine Surveys, and Unpublished Materials. with Plans
of the principal Cities and Seaports, and an Introductory
Essay (16 pp.) on the Physical Geoßraphy, Products, and
Resources of North America. By Professor ROGERS, of
Boston, U.S., and A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., Geogra-
pher to the Queen.
I. 0" This is the only Collection of Maps of these Countries
from documents not yet published in Europe or America.
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General Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B.
Now ready, with Maps, svo. 125.,
THE MILITARY OPERATIONS
in KAFFRARIA, which led to the Termination of the
Kaffir War; and on the Measures for the Protection and Welfare
of the People of South Africa. By the late Sir GEORGE
CATHCART, K.C.11., Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Also, by the Same,
COMMENTARIES on the WAR in RUSSIA
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"Colonel Catlicart's solid and unpretending volume. Lucid,
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its facts audits commentaries."—Quarterly Review.
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London, England, 1857-03-14

THE NEW NOVEL.

Just published, in 2 vole., --
FURIENDS of BOHEMIA; or, Phases of
London Life. By E. M. WHITrY, Esq., Author of " Titer
tioverning Classes."
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genuine purpose. You laugh with him very much, but the
laughter is fruity and ripe in thought. ' Friends of Bohemia'
is no book of broad•gritts; the humours bear on life, thew
localities lead to philosophy. The author has a merriment akin
10 that of Jacques and that of Timon."—Athenaust.
L 044011; SMITH, ELDER, and Co., 65, Cornhlll.

LE BRETHON'S FRENCH GRAMMAR,
Eminently Adapted for Self•lnetruction.

GUIDE TO THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
Especially Devised for Persons who wish to Study that
Language without the Assistance of a Teacher. By J. J I'.
LE BRETHON. Eleventh Edition, revised by L. SANDIER,
Professor of Languages.
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We confidently recommend it, not only to beginners but to
more advanced students."--Guermicy Comet.
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PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL.

A despatch frcm Paris, " Friday, six p.m.," states
it is expected that on Sunday a sitting of the
Conferences on the Neufchatel affairs will take
place. Conciliatory despatches from Berlin are
telegraphed as about to leave that city.
The New Prussian Gazette affirms that the ad-
mission by Switzerland of the King of Prussia's
right of sovereignty is the express condition of the
renunciation of that tight. New instructions to that
effect have, it declares, been forwarded to Count de
Hatzfeldt.

The purchase of the Soulages collection has been
declined by the Government, in consequence of the
recent financial discussions.

A public meeting to discuss the Chinese and Per-
sian wars is advertised to be held at the Freemasons-
hall on Monday evening. Mr. Cobden and Mr.
Layard are expected to attend. This is an opportu-
nity which all Conservatives opposed to the present
system of "turbulent and aggressive " foreign policy
should not fail to take advantage of.
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WORKS by the Late LORD

THE PILGRIMAGE, DONNA CHARITEA,
PLUEDEARD, AND OTHER POEMS. With Illustrat►ons.
Crown 4to. 245.

"A pleasant task Is before any future Walpole who may be
dianosed to bring down his predecessor's Catalogue of ' lto)al
and Noble Authors to the limo present. Few names in the
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THE CAMPAIGN of 1812, in RUSSIA.
By GKNKRAL CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ. Translated
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THE SIEGES OF VIENNA BY THE
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LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE
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WELLINGTON; HIS CHARACTER- HIS
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Who can answer for the consequences of
returning a House of Commons devoted to
the will of this Minister for the next seven
years? We see how power brings out the
dark shades of his character, and how age
hardens all the coarser qualities and senti-
ments of his mind. Were he freed from that
representative control which he detests, there
is no limit to the mischief which he might
perpetrate. It was with difficulty that he
was sastrained last ntleifc m committing this
country to a war --;th States. With
a more servile House of Commons, he would
not long want a pretext for disturbing those
amicable relations which he has always re-
garded with disfavour.

When he calls on the country to elect repre-
sentatives at his dictation, must it not be
asked what are his claims to the confidence he
solicits ? What measures of enlightened pro-
gress and Christian legislation does he pro-
pose? On what principles of domestic policy
is his Government to be based in future?
Surely it is too absurd for the most bigoted
partisanship to assert that he is the Minister
to conduct the nation to higher triumphs of
civilisation, and to satisfactorily settle those
great questions of finance, of social improve-
ment, and practical reform which are discussed
by every English hearth, and are felt to con-
cern in some degree the happiness and se-
curity of every home.

When we are told that he brought the Rus•
sian war to an honourable conclusion, we must
demur to the fact in face of the testimony of
his own most devoted and most confidential
adherents at the time when the peace negotia-
tions were in progress. Then we heard only
of the pressure put upon the English Cabinet by
the Emperor of the FRENCH ; it was said that
Lord PALMERSTON was forced to conclude peace
against his will ; that he consented to the
proposed conditions only because he felt cer-
tain that Russia would not accept them ; and
his turbulent conduct for a twelvemonth after
peace had been signed was alleged to be due
to his mortification at the result, and to a
hope, which he sedulously by his public
addresses endeavoured to diffuse through the
country, that the war might ou some pretext
be renewed.

His scheme to return a Palmerstonian mnjo-
rity by casting odium on the independent
Liberals, and by endeavouring to sow division
among Conservatives, has already failed. The
country will not fall down and worship the
golden idol Mr. HAYTLR has set up. Indepen-
London, England, 1857-03-14

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1857

POSTSCRIPT.

(BY SULMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
Paris, Friday night.
. .

The statement that French troops are to be
despatched to China is officially contradicted. The
co-operation of France will he limitel to the vessels
which have already sailed. _ _

Bucharest, March 9.
The bearer of the tirman authorising the convoca-
tion of the Divans has arrived.

Intelligence from Alexandria, March 7, states that
Achmet Paella takes the Department of the Interior,
Abdul Hahn Bache that of War, and Mustapha Bey
the Finances.

Letters from Constantinople, March 2, announce
that the Circassians have defeated the Russians on
the banks of the Labe. The Russians retreated
across that river, leaving on the field four hundred
men, four pieces of cannon, and a portion of their
baggage.

Intelligence from New York to the .27th ult.
arrived at Liverpool yesterday.
The President had signed the Submarine Tele-
graph Bill.
The proposed new AlPxican Treaty was received
unfavourably_by_the Cabinet.

The great meeting at the Guildhall yesterday
was very fully attended. The ball was densely
crowded, and in part packed by the originators of the
motion. The whole discussion was very stormy.
The original resolution was met by an amendment
by Mr. Morley claiming a recognition of the neces-
sity for administrative reform. After a violent and
stormy discussion, the amendment was negatived,
and the original resolution carried by a small majo-
rity.

The Chair of English Poetry at Oxford is vacant
by the resignation of the Rev. T. Claughton. We
hear that Mr. Edwin Arnold, M.A., of University
College, Oxford, a distingnished poet, will be a can-
didate tor the vacant chair.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE
presided at the annual dinner of the German Hos-
pital on Wednesday, supported by Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, and the repres,mtatives of Prussia,
Hanover, Saxony, &c. lllr. Meinertshugen, V.P.;
Mr. Huth, Treasurer; Mr. Walne, Consulting Sur-
geon ; Drs. Sutro and Weber, Physicians, and Mr.
de Mene, Surgeon, and a goodly company of about
160 merchants and other German and English gen-
tlemen, supporters of the charity, were present. The
music and singing were as usual excellent, and the
contributions announced exceeded 18001.
TILE Emu, OF FIFF. died at his residenc?, Duff.
butive, on WO:lmlay, at tic() minutes past eleven,

THE PRESS.

LAST NIGHTS DEBATE,

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THE DI3SOLUTION.

The Earl of DERBY gave notice that upon the
motion for second reading of the Income-tax Bill
he should call attention to the circumstances under
which the Government had thought proper to
announce a dissolution of Parliament.
London, England, 1857-03-14

THE SOUND DUES AND DANISH TRANSIT DUES.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—in reply to
Mr. G. Dundas, whether it was the intention of the
Government, in negotiating the question of thp
settlement of the Sound dues, to stipulate for thle
settlement of the Danish transit dues on the same
basis—said that a treaty was about to be negotiated
with Denmark for the remission of the Sound does
by the principal powers of Europe, including Austria,
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Hanover, Mecklen-
burg Schwerin, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Norway,
and the Hanse Towns. It was anticipated that the
treaty would be signed this week. It would have
relation not only to the Sound dues, but also to the
reduction of the transit dues; and although he was
not able to state the exact amount of the remission
of the transit dues, he believed it would not be
less than a reduction of four-fifths from their present
amount.

•
THE RIVER DANUBE.
Lord PALMERSTON—in reply to Mr. Meagher,
whether he could afford any information as to the
present state of the river Danube, as far as its safe
London, England, 1857-03-14

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lorwarded ou receipt of a post•ottice order. Elegant aubacription
hair-cutting salmis for ladies and gentlemen. Annual aubtscrip-
Mon, 103.
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AUSTRIA.

The Emperor and Empress arrived at Vienna on
the 12th inst.

A letter from Vienna Oates that grand fetes are
being prepared in Hungary for the reception of the
Emperor.
NAPLES.
AMNESTY FOR ORDINARY OFFENCES.

The official Gazette of the tith publishes a royal
decree, on the occasion of the birthday of the Prince
Royal, granting a remission or diminution of punish-
ments inflicted for misdemeanours or other contra-
ventions of the law.
London, England, 1857-03-14

BIRTHS.

GOUI.BURN—On the 9th instant, in Lowndes-street, the wife
of Colonel Goulburn, Grenadier Guards, of a daughter.
HALSTED—On the 10th Instant, at Blackheath, the wife of
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., of a daughter.
HAltVhiY—On Tuesday, the 10th instant, at 0, Rochester-
terrace, Westminster, the wife of Mr. Edmund Harvey, of
Restronguet, Cornwall, of a son.
ROBINSON—On the 24th ult., at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the
wive of Lieut.-Coleuel Robinson, Royal Engineers, of a son.
SHERSON—On the 9th instant, in Charles-street, Lowndes-
square, Lady Anne Sherson, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.

GLOVER—HAWLEY—On the 2fth of January, at the Cathe-
dral, Madras, Frederick Broughton Glover, Eaq., 2nd Euro-
pean Madras Light Infantry, to Julia Georgians, daughter of
IL T. Hawley, Eaq., of Hartley Wintuey, Haute.
MONTGOM ERY —ELPH I NSTON E —Ott the 4th instant, at
Carberry Tower, N. 8., Captain Montgomery, 42nd Royal
Highlanders, to Anna Maria, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel
Fullerton Elphinstone, of Carberry.
WALLIS-IIEID—On the 3rd instant, at Fermoy, Captain
Wallis, 33rd Regt., to Frances Jane, daughter of the late
James Reid, Esq., of Fermoy.
DEATHS.

BATEMAN—On the 7th instant, at Bath, Lady Bateman,
widow of the late Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart.
ELPHINSTONE—On the Bth instant, at Museelburgh,
Lieut.-Colonel J D. Fullerton Elphinetone, aged 60.
LECHMERE—On the 4th instant, at Langdon, William Henry
Lechmere, Esq., youngest bon of the late Sir Anthony Lech-
mere, llsrt., aged 32.
SPEER—On the 4th instant, at West-hill, Dartford, Captain
Wilhelm Speer, late 71st Light Infantry.
STEVENSON—On the iird inbtaut, at Nice, Major Charles
Aldersey Stevenson, 47th Regt, aged 2!.;.
THORNTON—On tho Bth instant, in Albemarle-street, Colonel
Godfrey Thornton, late Grenadier Guards, aged Q.
London, England, 1857-03-14

LORD DERBY'S SPEECH.

combination." We shall be ready to support him
in withstanding uncalled-for innovation—we shall be
equally ready to co-operate with him, cordially and
without rivalry or jealousy, in introducing into and
carrying through the Legislature those great social
improvements in the achievement of which there is
abundant room for the labours of Ministries and of
Parliaments. (Cheers.) My lords, in everything
which relates to the amendment and simplification
of the law—in everything which relates to the re-
vision of our penal system, to the better disposal of
our convicts, to a better provision for rescuing those
who are on the verge of crime, to a better provision
for assisting and stimulating the voluntary efforts of
the country in promoting religious and moral educa-
tion—in all which tends to the physical as well as
the social and moral purification of that vast mass
of contagion which is fermenting in our great towns
and cities and throughout the length and breadth of
the land—in all these the noble viscount may depend
upon it, if he will only enter upon so honourable a
course, that be has a bright career of usefulness
before him, in which he shall have no more cordial
or more earnest coadjutors than the much.abused
and vilified Conservative party. (Hear, hear.) But
if, yielding to external pressure and sacrificing his
own convictions, he gives way to the wild cry for rash
innovations and insidious encroachments upon the
Constitution, then, ray lords, I trust he will find that
Conservative party still sufficiently numerous and
sufficiently powerful to stay him in his downward
course—to rescue him from himself and from his
supporters—to preclude him from inflicting serious
mischief upon his country, rand from plunging it
into anarchy and confusion. (Cheers.)

My lords, I am satisfied that it is essential to the
best interests of the nation that the Conservative
party, whether in office or out of office, should be
numerous and powerful. I say, without the slightest
hesitation or concealment, I ardently wish—far more
than I either hope or expect—that all those who
were once banded together in support of the Conser-
vative opinions to which I adhere, would show them-
selves again united in the same firm phalanx.
(Hear, hear.) But, my lords, I say with as little
hesitation or disguise, that for such a union to take
place, or, indeed, any union worth the name, it must
be founded upon a concurrence of principle and a

concurrence of sentiment, and not founded on that
which I believe every honest man would repudiate—
namely, a base attempt to unite those who have no
community of convictions for the purpose of over.
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Lavaca, Nov. 28th, 1833.
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and proper navigation was concerned ; and whether
there were any reasonable hopes that the river may
now be sufficiently clear to allow of spring shipments
being made to and from the Danubian provinces—
said that the commission appointed to take measures
to render the mouths of ti►e Danube open for na-
vigation and removing obstructions had not been
able yet to settle measures for clearing away the
sandbanks within the delta; but there was one
material point now under their consideration, and
that was, which was the month of the Danube which
would be the most useful for the purposes of naviga-
tion. Many of them thought the Sulina Mouth was
not the best, and that arrangements might be made
by which the St. George's Mouth would be rendered
the most useful.
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LAW OF LIBEL.

Lord CAMPBELL announced that in consequanco of
present circumstances he should not proceed with
his proposed committee to inquire into the law Of
libel, as respects the publication of reports of meet-
ings, &c. He announced, however, his intention of
moving for the appointment of the committee when
the house assembled again.
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The Queen gave birth to a prince on the 28th ult.

SPALN.
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Heals.
The Expenses amount to I X 13,300,592
Estimated Receipts

Deficiency . _ .. ... 240 669 19'2

The resignation of Narvaez, and his appointment
as ambassador to Paris, and the return to power of
O'Donnell, is rumoured at Madrid.
The Mexican expedition is pressed forward with
all haste.

The Emperor Napoleon has proffered his media.
Lion.
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and drifted to that. locality. The colour and the
shape of many of them are so like that of biscuits
that they deceived persons at table, but their variety
of shape is fantasti', beyond description, and their
number immense. Specimens have been sent to the
Geological Museum in Jermyn-street, and Mr. Stowe
is forwarding specimens to all who request them.