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London, England, 1856-04-05

CENTRAL AMERICA.

On the motion for the adjournment to Monday,
Lord GODERICH having urged some inquiry touch-
ing the present position of the controversy between
England and the United States on the Central
American question,
Mr. GLADSTONE remarked that the correspondence
upon this branch of the controversy between the two
countries was now closed, and complained of the
delay that had taken place in laying the papers be-
fore Parliament and the public. The right hon.
trember then adverted to the attempts which had
been made to exasperate the public mind in both
countries. These inflammatory appeals and
threatening proceedings were, he considered, highly
censurable.

Lord PALMERSTON excused the delay in producing
the papers. He pleaded that all the time and atten-
tion of the Foreign-office functionaries had been pre-
occupied (by pending events in Europe ; neverthe
less he hoped that the documents would be ready in
a few days. Until the information thus to be com-
municated was in the bands of the house, he de-
clined to follow Mr. Gladstone through the various
topics suggested in the course of his speech.
The subject then dropped.
SIR C. NAPIER.

On the motion for going into Committee of
Supply,
Sir J. GRAHAM begged permission to offer some
explanations on a personal topic. His assertions in
a late debate, which Sir G. Berkeley had afterwards
reiterated, respecting the conduct of Sir C. Napier at
the attack on Acre, had been challenged in the most
positive manner by that gallant member in a letter
recently published. In his own justification, there-
fore, Sir J. Graham proceeded to recapitulate events
and cite documents, showing that the description he
had given of the occurrences in question was, at all
events, founded upon respectable testimony.
Sir C. NAPIER detailed the particulars of the
whole action which had resulted in the capture of
Acre, vindicating his own share both in the plan of
attack and the honour of the victory. He com-
plained of the unfairness exhibited by Sir J. Graham
in bringing forward accusations respecting events
sixteen years' old, at a time when the great majority
of witnesses were dead or absent. He (Sir Charles)
nevertheless produced and read a number of letters
from survivors corroborating his version of the pro-
ceedings on that occasion.

Sir G. BERKELEY submitted that the allegation he
bad advanced in the previous debate, respecting the
attack on Acre, had been shown, at all events, not to
have been hazarded without fair grounds of belief.
Mr. LINDSAY considered Sir Charles Napier's vindi-
cation perfectly successful.
MY. MALINS concurred in that opinion, and charged
his assailants with unworthily conspiring to disgrace
a veteran and well-deserving officer.
Mr. ROEBUCK also maintained that the charges
against Sir C. Napier had utterly broken down.
London, England, 1856-04-05

GREECE.

Lord PALBOCRSTON, on Thursday, replying to Mr.
Ewart, stated that frequent applications had been
made to the Government of Greece respecting the
remission of export duties, but that little hope
existed of obtaining a satisfactory settlement of
this question during the continuance of the existing
troubled and chaotic condition of affairs in that
kingdom.

TORTURE IN INDIA.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE, on Thursday, in moving
for some returns relative to the collection of taxes in
the Presidency of Madras, denounced the prac'ice of
inflicting torture on the natives of India for the
purpose of collecting the revenue. This horrible
system, be declared, sell prevailed, and he read ac-
counts showing that atrocities of this description had
been perpetrated in the Madras Presidency so re-
cently as July last year, by order of Mr. J. C.
Shubrick, collector of the district of Chingleput.
The Duke of ARGYLL explained that the Indian
Government were in possession of the papers, and
that they should he directed to furnish them.
The motion was then agreed to.
POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.
Mr. WILSON, on Tuesday, replying to Sir John
Pakington and Colonel Lindsay, stated that he would
have no objection to lay the memorials upon the sub-
ject co the table, but the matter was at present
under the consideration of the Post-office authorities.
London, England, 1856-04-05

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PRUSSIA.

The news of the conclusion of peace was received
on Sunday afternoon by the King while at dinner.
His Majesty, accompanied by the Court, attended
a " Te Denim " in the chapel royal in the evening,
and returned thanks for the happy termination of
the war.

On Monday M. von Derheydt, acting President of
the Craincil during the absence of M. de Manteuffel,
communicated the important fact to the two Cham-
bers, amidst loud acclamations.
The Zeit does not anticipate that the treaty will
be regarded favourably by all parties, but praises the
moderation of the allied powers. " Prussia," con-
cludes the Zeit," will, above all, see in this happy
event the rich recompense, which she well merited,
of her persevering efforts in favour of peace."
London, England, 1856-04-05

RUSSIA.

By a despatch from Berlin we learn that an Im-
perial manifesto was issued at St. Petersburg on the
Ist inst., relative to the conclusion of peace. It
says :

That, though the war was not sought by Russia, it had
been waged with great energy by the Russian people.
The rights of the Christians in the East were assured;
thus the object of the war had been attained.
Special arrangements had been made to prevent col-
lisions between Turkish and Russian vessels in the Black
Sea, and a new line of frontier had been agreed upon in
Bessarabia. .

The reformation of the whole Russian commercial
system was anticipated at St. Petersburg, and a
Government commission expected to assemble
shortly, in order to examine the question. The
abolition of serfdom was also mentioned; a high
functionary having presented a plan to the Emperor
for that purpose. Before leaving for Finland the
Emperor had issued a ukase for facilitating the ap-
peals of serfs claiming verdicts of emancipation from
the tribunals.
The Polish levy of 30,000 men, of the ages of from
nineteen to thirty-five years, was effected in Poland
on the nights of the 20th and 27th ult.
The Imperial Guard has received orders to return
from Poland to St. Petersburg.
Intelligence from Odessa states the typhus fever to
be raging there with terrible effect.

SPAIN.
The committee of 116 deputies of the pure Pro-
gressista party has published its programme. It
recognises Marshal Espartero as chief, and expresses
its sentiments in favour of the Queen and the present
dynasty. The arming of the National Guard through-
out the country is advocated.
Marshal O'Donnel has recovered his health. Some
disturbances at 13adajoz have been suppressed.
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A CASE OF ETIQUETTE.

[The following letter refers to a police case which occurred in the course of the
week, in which, by an eccentric and extraordinary display of fastidiousness, the writer,
who is " a coalheaver," was refused admission to the Reform Club.]

Fox-h'under the-Rill Hadelphay Warf
Sunday.
Sir,—Not dy'e think hof that 'ere jolly lot the Reform Club as
vouldn't let my friend stand nothink at their tap—cause why the
varmints kinsidder theyselves, wot no one else dues—many chalks
above a coaly? Talk o' the Liberal party as vouldn't sarve me vith the
heavy for coppers down, an' most o' theyselves a goin' tick vith the
cook!

I send this writin' to say that hit' i 'ad a know'd the sort o' crib it
was I vaunt a goin' for the sake o' a drop o' beer to demean myself a
sittin' down vith a lot o' Hirish an' sich like. I'm told here at the tap
o' the Fox that there ain't a crammer in all the papers that ain't made
up in that ere blessed Reform Club.
Your most obedient
THE IDENTICAL COALT.

COCKBURN AND WORTLEY.
Sir Alexander Cockburn is a lawyer and • statesman \lr Stuart Wortley Is
gentleman.—Times, Nov. 21, 181 G.

Cockburn's a statesman ! Shade of Follett hear !
Cockburn's a lawyer ! Sugden, do not jeer !.
Wortley's a yentleman we own—but, pray,
Won't the two epithets hold good each way ?
Wortley's no lawyer, that we all confess:
But Cockburn not a gentleman F—oh, yes !
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE QUEENS OF SCOTLAND,

AND ROYAL PRINCESSES CONNECTED WITH THE REGAL SUCCESSION.
BY AGNES STRICKLAND.
CONTINUING THE LIFE OF QUEEN MARY.

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necessary to exceed the limits at first proposed fur this Biography, which will be concluded in the next Volume.
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DRAMATIC SCENES, AND OTHER POEMS,

[Nov. 29th.
London, England, 1856-11-22

X 70,893,88.5

£68,438,631

We are not at present discussing the expe-
diency or necessity of empowering depart-
ments to make payments out of revenue on
its way to the Exchequer. The escapade of
Sir BENJAMIN HALL, which has frightened
away the wild fowl in St. James's-park, or his
innocent fancies in providing Sabbath re-
creations in the other parks, may, or may not,
he such as in an estimate would pass without
comment in the House of Commons. But we
adduce these instances to prove that the plan
deliberately proposed by the Commission in
1831 has not yet been carried out, even since
the act of 1854 ; and because we think it
right that the public mind should be brought
to bear upon the fact that, at the present
moment, more than two millions of the public
revenue is exempt from Exchequer control,
and that, consequently, till functions of the
Exchequer, as regards control of receipts and
expenditure, is in this particular incomplete.
We advert to this part of the evidence at
the present time, because we believe that in
it will be found the key to the collisions be-
tween the Exchequer and the Treasury. We
believe that from the very outset the Treasury
viewed with jealousy and repugnance any
Exchequer control.
We suspect that tile Bill of 18:34 was cur•
tailed by Treasury influence, and from the
tenor of the evidence of 1850 we surmise that,
instead of extending that control, as the
Comptroller desires, the Treasury would be
willing to extinguish it altogether.
When we have explained to our readers the
other points in which the Exchequer control
is incomplete and ineffective, we shall be
ready to discuss the important question,
whether the remedy is to be found in strength-
ening its control, or in transferring it to the
Treasury.
London, England, 1856-11-22

BELGIUM.

The Senate have presented their address in reply
to the King's speech on opening the Chambers. A
paragraph, implying censure. of the Protestant pro-
lessors of the universities, for controversial remarks
on the Papal religion, was struck out on the motion
of the Government ; it being held that the Chamber
could not take cognisance of things done by the pro-
fessors in their private capacity as authors.
The news of the projected marriage between Fer-
dinand Maximilian of Austria and the Princess
Charlotte, daughter of King Leopold, is confirmed.
It is stated that the marriage will be celebrated in
the month of July next.
London, England, 1856-11-22

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he had made early in the year to place the question
before the labouring public upon a sound basis.
The noble earl said :

Save and except the sacred cause of education, by far
the most important object which can occupy the attention
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SPAIN.

The state of siege was raised on the 13th. A
liberal political amnesty is spoken of at Madrid.
The appointment of M. Gonzales Bravo to the
Embassy at London is said to be confirmed. The
following diplomatic appointments have also been
made :—M. d'Aguillon to be Spanish Minister at
Lisbon ; M. Bermudas de Castro at Vienna ; M. de
Souza at Constantinople ; M. Alexander de Castro at
Turin ; the Marquis de Rivera at Berlin ; t'nd M.
Layo Quinoniez in Switzerland. Many conflicting
rumours are about.

A great sensation has been created at Madrid by
the news of the conference held at St. Cloud on the
affairs of Spain by the Emperor, Lord Howden, and
M. Turgot.
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE PRESS.

dulgence was slumn to him, Mr. DISRAELI
found time to apply himself to this branch, as
well as to many other branches, of administra-
tive reform : and tn Ole encouragement he
gave to Mr. WiLiaANts,'e efforts, may be attri-
buted the measure which, since 1854, has
brought an additioaal sum of four or five mil-
lions within the eehtrol of the House of
Commons.
Still, even the vmasure of 1854 is incom-
plete. So far from all public monies, " without
exception," being paid into the Exchequer, as
recommended by the Commission of 1831, it
is stated by Lord MONTEAGLE that there are
large exceptions. He admits, as regards the
Woods and Forests, that the department pays
into the Exchequer "just such balance as
" seems fit to the Treasury." And it appears,
from Appendix, page 623 to 629, that, as re-
gards the four principal departments of receipt
for the year ending 31st March, 1856—the
gross amount received being 70,893,8851—the
amount actually paid into the Exchequer was
68,438,6311. ; leaving no less a sum than
2,455,2541. exempt from any Exchequer con-
trol. The particulars are as follows :

Grose Paid into
Receipts. Exchequer.
Customs ..
Inland revenue
Post-uillce
Crown lands
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE PRESS.

MARRIAGES.

BURGOYNE—SMITH—On the 10th instant, at Florence,
Captain John Montagu Burgoyne, Grenadier Guards, to Amy,
daughter of the late Captain Henry Sealam Smith, Royal
Engineers.
DEVEREUX—HUGHES—On the 10th instant, at St. George's
Church, Denbighshire, the Hon. Walter Devereux, Captain
R.N., to Adelaide Elinor, daughter of the late H. It. Hughes,
Esq., of Bache-hall, county Chester.
FORBES—DUNLOP—On the 6th instant, at Annan-hill,
Charles Forbes, Eel., Bombay Civil Service, sun of the late
Major-General David Forbes, C. 8., to Mary Ann Dunlop,
daughter of the late James Dunlop, Esq of Annan-hill.
PICKWOAD—BUCHANAN—On the 11th instant, at Chisle-
burst, Julia Harriett Manners, daughter of the late Robert
Williams Pickwoad, Esq., to John is Estrange Lenny, son of
the late Lieut.-Colonel Buchanan, Royal Engineers.
WEBSTER—CALDER—On the 11th instant, at St. George's,
Hanover-square, Charles Fox Webster, Esq., son of the late
Sir Henry Webster, to Louisa, daughter of Sir Henry
Calder, Bart.
London, England, 1856-11-22

AUSTRIA.

The Emperor and Empress, accompanied by a
numerous suite, left Vienna on the 17th for Gratz,
Laybach, Trieste, Verona, and Milan. The Court
will be absent for three months. Baron Bach does
not accompany the Emperor. A liberal amnesty will,
it is said, mark the Imperial visit to Lombardy.
The official Vienna Gazette has announced the ap-
proaching marriage between his Imperial Highness
Archduke Maximilian, brother of the Emperor,
with her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte,
daughter of his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
The German journals generally declare that Russia
has addressed a circular despatch to all the powers
represented in the treaty of Paris, on the Serpents'
Island and Bolgrad questions. Le Nord states that
the Czar withdraws his claims.

A letter in the Cologne Gazette says :
A second proposition hos been made by the Russian
Government, and is favorably received here, with reference
to the reopening of the conferences. It is hoped that the
concessions which Russia appears willing to make will in.
fluence the Governments which have hitherto opposed the
reopening of the Congress.
The Germanic Diet met for the second time this
session on the 13th. The business transacted was
of a secondary interest.
The Ost Deutsche Post (of Vienna) enumerates the
services rendered by Austria to Prussia in the
Schleswig-Holstein affair for the purpose of insisting
on the duty of Prussia to support the Eastern policy
of Austria, " called by destiny to be the sole guardian
of the liberty of the Danube."
Upon the Neufchatel question Austria is en plein
accord with Prussia.

A new recruitment is said to have been ordered
throughout the Austrian monarchy.

PRUSSIA.
The Correspondance Prussienne of Sunday pub-
lishes an article directed against the Swiss press, in
which it gives ground for believing that Prussia will
exercise her direct authority over the Canton of Neuf-
chatel, and that the Government of Berlin will exact
a recognition of its sovereignty.
The Nouvelliste de Hamboury states that M. de
Savigny (Sydow!), the Prussian Envoy, will shortly
request the liberation of the prisoners :
In the event of the diplomatic steps taken at Berne not
being successful (continues the Nouvelliste), the Prussian
Government intends marching three corps of the army
against the frontier cantons, and occupying Schaffhausen
by wa, of guarantee; and Switzerland will be called upon
to pay the expenses of the expedition.
A letter from Berlin, in the Nord of Brussels,
says :

General Dufour has had several conferences with the
Emperor on the subject of the Neufchatel question, and it
Is believed here that an arrangement will be come to he-

SATURDAY,

tween the Helvetic Confederation and Prussia. The
Federal Council is disposed, as I have already stated, to
release the royalist prisoners of Neufchatel, provided the
King relinquish his pretensions.
The Prussian Government have selected Jasmund
as the site of a great naval-military arsenal in the
Baltic.
London, England, 1856-11-22

lone Vadat 110 Citg nttliigcnct.

FRIDAT EVENING.
THE return of the Bank of England for the week ending
the 15th inst. shows the following ci.auges compared with
that for the week preceding :
Increase in Circulation
Increase in Public Deposits
.818
Increase in Other Deposits
Decrease in Government Securities 134.810
Increase in other Securities
Increase in Bullion . .
Increase in Rest
Increase in Reserve
_ .

Bullion in Both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post
.......

.
Bills
This comparison is so unexpectedly favorable in its
most important features, that it is perplexing to find in it
any justification of the policy of the directors yesterday
week, in raising the rate of discount on short bills to
from six to seven per cent. Other reasons than those db.
closed in this return must have influenced them. Prc.
bably they had some intelligence of a conditional contract
having been entered into by the Bank of France with a
large house in London and Paris, to furnish in the coutso
of next year something like 12,000,0001. of gold ; bat
most likely the immediate motive from which they acted
was the adverse nature of the exchanges, which, indeed.
still remain against this country. One of these two res...
sons, perhaps both, may have been present to them ; but
there certainly is none to be found in the comparison now
before us. The increase in the Bullion is difficult to ac-
count for, as no purchases by the Bank have been re-
ported. Probably it has been made up partly by small
purchases from private hands, and partly by specie pay-
/
ments at the provincial branches on account of revenue.
The Reserva also shows a considerable increase. Part of
London, England, 1856-11-22

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THE PRESS.

the jury thought it desirable to have the evidence of
the elder children when they got better. From the
state of this poor woman's brain, it was clear that
for some time past she most have been wholly inca-
pable of doing anything for herself or children, and
hence, no doubt, the frightful state of destitution in
which they all became plunged. The privations of
the poor children must have been dreadful, and the
surprising part was that the eldest girl had not had
sense enough to apply for relief. That had not been
done, therefore there was no blame attributable to
any one.
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE PRESS.

place, lel them put their burgh schools on the footing
which was contemplated by John Knox in his admirable
scheme, which they would find in the First Book of I►is-
cipline. In the third place, give respectable endowments
for those chairs now existing in universities. but which
were on a starvation footing—he alluded especially to
the Hebrew chair, and was even content that his own
should be the last. Then, in the fourth place, create addi-
tional chairs for all those branches of learning and science
that had been added to the intellectual training of the
present ege.
THE REV. DR. ROBERTSON, Professor of Divinity
and Ecclesiastical Hi-tory in the University of
Edinburgh, will be proposed as Moderator of the
next General Assembly.
LORD ARDMILIAN, the new Judge of the Court of
Exchequer, presented his commission to the Lord
President on Saturday last.
London, England, 1856-11-22

1114

ARRANGEMENTS have been entered into with Mr.
Francis of New York, for the adaptation of his
mAtallic army floating-waggons for the use of the
British Government. An apparatus is ordered to be
fitted out by the War Department in the establish-
ment of Woolwich Arsenal for the manufacture of
the waggons on the spot, and under their own
control.

VIcE-ADMIRAI. SIR M. F. F. BERKELEY, K.C.8.,
Senior Sea Lord of the Admiralty, visited Portsmouth
on Monday to inspect the new slipway works at
Haslar Beach, for hauling up and stowing away the
gun and mortar boat flotilla.
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE ENTIRE CORRESPONDENCE OF HORACE WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD.

Now first Collected, with nearly One Hundred New Letters. The whole now first chronologically arranged, and a copious Index added.
EDITED BY PETER CUNNINGHAM, FAA.
London : RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED:
Just ready, in post Bvo.,
London, England, 1856-11-22

THE PRESS.

present programme, as laid down in Mr. Jefferson Davis's
confidential organ, is, after the admission of Kansas as a
slave State
1. The reduction of the whole of Central America to a
slaveholding confederacy under General Walker.
2. A descent from Nicaragua, by Walker, upon Cuba
and the West India islands generally, the re-establishment
of slavery in those islands where it has been abolished,
and the annexation of the whole lot to the Union.

8. The adoption of this policy of slavery extension as the
Union•preserv►ng plank in the Democratic platform of
1850.

AUSTRALIA.

The intelligence by the Lightning, with dates from
Melbourne up to the 28th of August, is of no great
importance. _ _

A Ministerial crisis had occurred in Sydney. The
Ministry have resigned! On Thursday, August 21st,
the financial statement was to have been made by
the new treasurer, and hon. members went down to
the house with some curiosity to hear it, as the
finance of the colony is not flourishing just now. To
their surprise, however, Mr. Donaldson, the premier,
moved an adjournment till Tuesday, to enable the
Ministers to lay their resignations before the
Governor :

Only one or two persons ( says a Sydneylcorrespondent)
had the slightest idea that such a denouement was to take
place, and the house generally was taken quite aback. Mr.
Murray, not knowing what else to say, jumped up and
declared that it was a trick. This provoked a bitter reply
from Mr. Darvall, who inveighed against the " vindictive
opposition shown by the Liberals." A general discussion
would have taken place, only it was put down as being
irregular, and the house adjourned. The same afternoon
Ministers tendered their resignations, which were ac-
cepted, and Mr. Cowper was sent for. The Emptre,
which ought to be well informed, gives the following list
of the Cabinet:—
Principal Secretary Mr. Cowper.
Attorney General
Solicitor• General Mr. Isaacs (with a seat
in the Upper House).
Treasurer Mr. Murray.
Secretary for Land and Public

Work; Mr. Flood.

r,o'art an fas4ten.

The Court has gone into mourning from the 20th
instant to the 4th December, on account of the death
of his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen.
Her Majesty the Queen and her Royal Family
continue at Windsor.

The Court festivities are postponed.
His Excellency tha Ambassador of France and
the Countess de l'ersigny have during the week been
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby at
Knowsley. His Excellency and the Countess are
expected to return to town to-day.
His Excellency the Netherlands Minister is ex-
pected in town in a few days from Paris.
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and family
arrived at Bridgewater-house a few days since from
Worsley-house, Lancashire.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and party
are expected to arrive at Goodwood, at the close of
next week, from Gordun Castle, Fochabers, N.B.
His Grace is at present suffering from an attack of
gout.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have left Grosvenor gate fur Paris.
London, England, 1856-11-22

i4e Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 185 G.

THE election of Mr. BUCHANAN as President of
the United States has a European aspect.
It affects the politics of England in particular,
and should have weight with the minds of men
who look beyond the pressing needs of the
hour.

Our readers will recollect that since the Pre-
sidential contest commenced in earnest we
have avoided direct allusion to it. The choice
of a President rested with the American Union
alone. Not that we ever had any doubt of the
result. Five months ago (vide PRESS, June 21)
we wrote that from Mr. BUCHANAN'S reputa-
tion, and from the strength of his party, there
could be little doubt that he would be suc-
cessful; and we said that the Democratic
Convention had in this instance shown much

practical sagacity im selecting their boldest
and weightiest statesman to give effect to their
principles. Those principles, apart from all
domestic questions, were the aggrandisement

of the American Union, the extension of its

territory, and the increase of its external
forces. Mr. BUCHANAN has really been elected,

not because he was supposed to be more
. favorable to shivery than his opponent, but
because his tone on foreign politics was
more decided, and because he took a more
national attitude. Mr. BUCHANAN as the Pre-
sident of the United States is less the repre-
sentative of either the slavery or anti-slavery
party in the States than he is the representa-
tive of the American Union as opposed to all
foreign Powers.
The slavery question is not materially
affected by this election ; or, so far as it is
affected at all, the election has only shown
the insecurity of the foundation on which the
Union rests. The difference between the two

parties is irreconcileable ; it is increasing in
intensity ; it admits of no compromise ; and
sooner or later it must come to that point
when mutual repugnance will dictate terms of
separation, or when hate will bring forth
open war to determine the supremacy.
National sentiment has for the time prevented
this rupture. Generally the Free States of
the North have none one way, and the Slave
States of the South have gone the ether. The

balance trembled ; and it was the attitude, as

respected foreign States, of the two candidates
for the Presidency which decided the contest.
Mr. BUCHANAN was for the aggrandisement of
the American Union. With that principle all
lus conduct is connected. On that principle
Vie Democratic Convention constructed its
platform. FREMONT was favorable to a more
pacific policy, and a less decided attitude.
The sentiment of nationality prevailed in some
States—as in Pennsylvania, where, on points
of domestic policy, parties were about equally
divided. Mr. BUCHANAN becomes President of
the States for the next four years, not pledged
to the extension or supremacy of slavery, but
pledged to the growth of the power and in•
London, England, 1856-11-22

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
Tuesday, November 18.

BANKRUPTS.—W. C. STUART (not Steuart, as before stated),
Cambridge, tailor —JAME. Fooßn, Eagle Tavern, Charlton,
Dover, licensed victualler -CHARLES VAN Lout, Bread-street,
City, woollen warehouseman—GEOßGE KELLY KING, Brighton,
dealer in embossing presses—CHARLES HAWKINS, Strand, Mid-
dlesex, camp equipage manufacturer—MAßlA KAYE, Totten ham-
court•road, Middlesex, hosier—WILLIAM FOSTER, Birmingham,
timber merchant—WlLLlAM HUMPHR/ES, Brierley•hill, Kings-
winford, Stafford, innkeeper— BENJAMIN BAKER, Mouckton
Combo, Somerset, dairyman and cowkeeper—JAHEs MACKENZIE
and STEPHEN COTTON, Leeds, machine makers—Wm. WILLI.
!ORD, Scarborough, wine and spirit merchant—Molise Howtrr,
Sheffield, licensed victualler —.Wass HARRISON, Southport,
Lancaster, coffeehouse•keeper.
Friday, November 21.

BANKRUPTS.—WILLIAM JONES, Broadway, Westminster,
draper—HENßY CLARK, Nuneaton, ribbon manufacturer—
MEYER JACOBS, Steward•street, Spitsltlelds, manufacturer and
printer—ROWLAND NICOLLESTON, Hackneyroad•crescent, boot
manufacturer—Join; Witxmaos, Sittingboume. Kent, railway
contractor—HENßY PHILLIMORE WisciirostnE, Swansea, ship-
broker—ROßEßT RADNOR, PPOSleigil, county of Radnor, Disaster
—SAMUEL JAMES HARRISON, Kidderminster, cabinet-maker
JAMES LEYLAND. St. Helens, Lancaster, beerseller—HytA
lIOLDIN. Walsall, Staffordshire, currier—EDWAßD HYLES,
CROOK, Chorley, apothecary—ROßEßT HELSBY and JOSEPH
HELSBY, Garston, Lancashire, builders—DOMENlCO BRAGGIOTTI
and PAUL. TESTA, Lombard•street. merchants.
London, England, 1856-11-22

LETTERS OF QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA,

INCLUDING HER PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE WITH CHARLES I.
BY MRS. G. P. EVERETT GREEN, AUTHOR OF " LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF ENGLAND."

London : RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.
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On the 28th instant, Cheaper Edition, in 2 vols. Bvo., 215.,
HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND SECTS,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES OF CHRISTIANITY.
BY THE REV. J. B. MARSDEN, A.M., AUTHOR OF " THE EARLY AND LATER PURITANS."

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of a work of great interest and utility."—Daily Netts.
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Mr. Baines, a very high authority, said :

Objection 6.—The measure is perfectly unnecessary. We
possess, on official evidence, the great fact of the rapid and
steady progress of education during the whole of the present
century.

Mr. Unwin was not quite so dogmatical; but, with
many men of ability, who took part in the controversy, he
held the same in substance.

They all felt that something like proof was needed from
them; but their proof might, without exaggeration, be
said to be contained, mainly at least, in the single fact
that in 1851 there were 1 in 8 2.3rds of the population
attending school, which undoubtedly showed a great in-
crease upon the proportion shown when an estimate was
previously taken, about twenty years before. On the
other hand. he believed he was right in saying, that in all
their voluminous speeches and pamphlets there would not
be found any reference whatever to the quality of the
schools which existed. Their boasted 8 241rds was a pro-
portion inferior to that of other countries—it was insuffi-
cient and unsatisfactory; but he denied altogether that
the question was absolutely, or even mainly, one of num-
bers. (Hear, hear.) Numbers became comparatively
unimportant if the schools to which they went were not
worth having. The question he would ask was this,—
From the Tweed to the Land's-end, are the schools of
England what they ought to be? Where they were good
—and no doubt there were many good—there was no
London, England, 1856-02-09

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS, on Tuesday, moved for an
account of the public income and expenditure, urging
many complaints against the Government—particu-
larly with respect to the management of the Crown
estates—who, he declared, withheld a multitude of
details respecting various charges incurred in the
collection of the revenue.

After some explanations from Mr. Wilson, fol-
lowed by a few remarks from Sir H. Willoughby and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the motion was
withdrawn.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on Tuesday,
in reply to Mr. Glyn, stated that the Government
had no present intention either of interfering with
the existing privileges of the Bank of England, or of
instituting an inquiry into the effect of the acts
under which the Bank exercised its important func-
tions in relation to the monetary system and circu-
lating medium of the country. Submitting that a
time of war was the least fit for the commencement
of such an investigation, he thought it undesirable
that any parliamentary inquiry should take place this
session, though no opposition would be offered by the
Government to any independent motion for a com-
mittee of inquiry, should the house consider that
step expedient.
London, England, 1856-02-09

(Intl an lastum.

Her Majesty and the Court will arrive in town for
the season on Monday next.
Her Majesty will remain in town till the 22nd of
March, when the Court returns to Windsor for the
Easter vacation.

Her Majesty will hold levees at St. James's Palace
on the 20th and :27th inst., and on the 12th of
March.

The Court and Royal Family have remained
at Windsor during the week.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert and the
junior members of the Royal Family, attended a
children's ball at Frogmore, on Tuesday evening,
given by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen
arrived at Windsor on Wednesday, on a visit to the
Queen.
His Royal Highness Prince Alberti attended by
Captain Duplat, went on Thursday to the site of the
Wellington College, near 131ackwater.

The Duchess of Sutherland has left Stafford-
house, to join the Duke and family at Trentham,
Staffordshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford have
come to town from visiting the Duke of Marlborough
at Blenheim Palace, where Lord Alfred Churchill is
staying with his Grace.
The Countess Persigny gave a the dansante on
Tuesday evening at Albert-gate House. The corps
diplomatique and a brilliant assembly attended.
Viscountess Palmerston's second reception tales
place this evening.
The Marquis of Clanricarde, as colonel of the
Galway Militia, gave a grand entertainment to the
officers of that regiment, at Aldershott, on Tuesday
evening.
The Earl of Eglinton received the Earl and Coun-
tess of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of
Hardwicke, and a distinguished circle, at dinner on
W'ednesiay.
London, England, 1856-02-09

TEETH. —By her Majesty's Royal Letters
Pat• mt.

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lone complained of impossible.—This to public speakers is in-
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MOGGRIDGE and DAVIS, Surgeon-Dentists to
the Royal Family, No. 13, OLD BURLINOTON•STREET'
BOND-STREET,
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AUSTRIA.

The preliminary protocol was signed at Vienna on
the Ist, the French and English Ministers having
received instructions accordingly the day previous.
At noon on the Ist, Sir Hamilton Seymour, M. de
Bourqueney, Izam Bey, and Prince Gortfchakoff met
at Count Buol's and signed the document. Izam
Bey signed first, then Count Buol, Sir Hamilton
Seymour, M. de Bourqueney, and, lastly, Prince
Gortschakotl. The text of the document is as
follows :

Par suite de I'acceptation par lours Cows respectives des
cinq propositions renfermees dane le document ci annexe,
sous le titre de " Projet des Preliminaires," les soussignes,
apres I'avoir paraphe, conformetnent a l'autorisation gulls
ont recus a cet eftet, soot convenus quo lours Gouverre-
ments nommeront chacun des plenipotentiaires, qui, munis
des pleins ponvoirs necessaires pour proceder a la signa-
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armistice et un traits de paix detinitif. Les dits pleni-
potentiaires auront I se reunir it Paris dans le terrne de
trnis semaines a partir de ce jour, ou plutirt si faire se
peat.
bait a Vienne ce ler Fevrier.

_ .
(Les Cinq Signatures.)
(Translation of the foregoing.)
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GENERAL MOURAVIEFF.

The general is a stout and rather short man, whose age
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