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' V.V DON, MONDAY, A rOUST 16.

A Ctlitt4lrr Correll, is to be held at Osborne, on
Wednesday. Then and there Ministers will have to
intimate to their Itoyal Mistress the time at which
they think the new Parliament ought to meet, and
assign their reason, for the conclusion they have
armed at on that head.

If—a. rumours diligently circulated, with a view
to suicertaiu the possible patience and endurance of
the public, have led people to believe—it is the in-
tention of Ministers to put off as lung as possible the
evil day on which they are to confront the new House
of C ions, all the command of countenance pox-
messed ven by Mr. Inseam.' will be tasked while
be att. mpts to mislead his Sovereign into a belief
that the tardy and procrastinating tactics of himself
and colleagues are either safe or decorous.
Ev. r sluice the first accession of the Reform Bill
ministry to office, it has been held that when a Par-
liameet is dissolved because the ministers of the day
find themselves in a minority, the new Parliament
ought to be assembled if possible on the very day on
which the writs are made returnable. Upon this
rule Earl GRIT acted, and after him dir ROBERT
PEEL and Lord Mittnouatta If Lord DERBY'S cabi-
net arc prepared to set these precedents at nought,
the tack which they have to undertake on Wednes-
day is to obtain the sanction of their sovereign to a
departure from a constitutional practice, the equity
and expediency of which are self-evident. They will,
in shoo I, regardless of their duty to the crown as
loyal subjects, seek to place their QUEEN in the cqui-
iciest position of seeming to sanction a violation of
constitutional practice in order to afford her ministers
a chime of wriggling out of their difficulties.
But apart altogether from the question, whether
it be decent in Ministers to postpone the meeting of
a parliament sumnioncel to declare whether they do
or do not possess the public confidence, there are
many and urgent reasons for convoking at an early
day ate autumnal session of parliament. The rash and
petulant manner in which Ministers have seen fit to run
the risk of armed collision with citizens of the United
Stat.* is a reason why the QUEEN should at this
moment be anxious to obtain the advice of her great
council. With the
_tacit permission of the Bin-
fish Government the Americans have for years
been left free to fish in quarters where it
is now said they have no right. And oar
present rulers, instead of making representa-
i tions on the subject to the American Government,
begin by sending an armed squadron to enforce the
views they have now aiopted. We know that our
Transatlantic cousins are like ourselves, " sudden
and quick in quarrel." 'Mere is imminent danger
that leis unadvised step of ministers may lead to a
disastrous collision. It is therefore highly desirable
that the representatives of the people should be
allowed an opportunity, if they disapprove (as there
can be no doubt they do disapprove) of the insolent
and bullying conduct of Ministers, to pronounce such
an opinion of that conduct as will make it clear to
the Americans that the blame lies not with the
people of Great Britain, but with the imbeciles who
have accidentally scrambled into °See for a few
months. By advising the Crown, therefore, to post-
pone, in such circumstances, the meeting of Parlia-
ment, Ministers again seek to make a stalking horse
of it, behind which they may skulk from the attacks
of the Legislature.
Ever since Lord Millie came into office his coarse
of action has been one continuous equivocating eva-
sion of ministerial responsibility. He evaded a vote
of want of confidence in the Commons, by admitting
that he was in a minority, and promising to go at
once to the country upon the question of free trade,
a pledge which he broke almost as soon as it was
given. He now shrinks from the judgment of that
very House of GRIMM/ which he has got elected,
is lieu of the one he so shamelessly deceived. He
hsa held and continues to hold office in defiance of
public opinion. And now he treats the Crown
with as little respect as he has been treating the
people. He seeks to diminish his own responsibility
by attempting to persuade his Sovereign to appear
his accomplice in procrastinating the day of judg-
ment. There is as little of lojalty as of respect for
pope car rights in his composition.
If Ministers are bent upon putting oft the cora-
menet meet of the autumnal session of course the
(WIEN cannot help herself. A constitutional Sove-
reign mat walk by the advice of her responsible
Ministers. Her MAJESTY will of course see through
their shallow pretexts. When they. speak of reluct-
ance to cut short untimeouslyher enjoyment of repose
in the Highlands, she will smile contemptuously,
thanking Providence in silence that her robust
constitution and the loyalty of her subjects
entitle her to look forward to many autumnal visits
TO her favourite seclusion ; ao that she could afford
to sacrifice one autumn, though her Ministers' precari-
ous tenure of office makes them anxious to gain time
by persuading her that she cannot. When they
allege that Mr. Dessaeas sequestered studies have
sot yet matured his great plan of finance, she will
think—though she may not say—that if Parliament
is not to meet until his vague and crude notions have
beer, condensed into a practicable measure, there is
little chance of its meeting again in her reign.
When they assure her that there is nothing in the
resent aspect of public affairs to render an earlymeet-
mg of Parliament desirable, she will think not only of
the imminent risk of &collision in the Am erica& waters,
but of all that she has just learned during her visit
to Belgium of the complicated relations between
that country and France. And though she is too
much of a lady to say anything uncivil to her
cabinet—too true a constitutional Sovereign to ques-
tion the right of her Ministers to a use for
which they must be responsible-= s muse
but think
in her heart that the throne of England was never
before surrounded by a body of councillors so meanly
and selfishly intent upon promoting their own in-
- tereme, at any coat so utterly regardless of the iignity
of the Crown, or the safety of the country.
And the people will perfectly understand the posi-
tion in which their Sovereign is placed by her
Ministers. The detestation of the DERBY government,
engendered by their wanton disregard of public
opinion, will be aggravated by the manifest selfish-
ness of their attempt to shelter themselves behind
the Sovereign. The DERBT ministry's utter want of
chivalrous loyalty will be quite as distasteful to the
public mi their despotic principles and ro-actionary
policy.

THE important news received by the hat mail
from tic Plate requires a little explanation, for it
• dm.. not appear to hay. been LB yet properly under-
stood and appreciated. At first sight the assumption
of dictatorial power over Buenos Ayres by General
Uftuyila looks a much more violent, and certainly a
much more illegal act, than, the whole facts of the
ease being disclosed, it really is.
lhe great end and object of the recent movements
in the Plate, of the interference of Brasil, of the
alliance formed between that monarchy and the Ar-
gentine Mates, of the restoration of independence
and tot doni of action to the Banda Oriental, and of
the espuleiun of Roma from Buenos Ayres whence
he obatructed the trade of the Upper Provinces—the
end and object of them movements, so far as U 4
QtIIZA was concerned, were two: the consolidation
of the 'rgeutine Confederation, and the formation
of a federal conatituti )))) for it which should secure
to el: its separate members a just influence in their
common concerns and freedom of navigating their
coalmen waters.
In the preliminary treaties concluded for these
purism • the allies especially provided that—we quote
the %tech' of the convention—. if, by reason of this
alliante, the government of Buenos Apes should de-
elure war agaitot the allies, separately or collectively,
this actual al4atice shall become a common alliance
spinet the acid goy, rntnent, oven when ire actual
•Verla shut/ hare breu aenomplialted." Buenos Ayres
did, we know, declare the war here contemplated
spinet flutelike; and it ended in the battle of &atm
Legares, in the eight to Europe of Rosati, and in the

capitulation of Buenos Ayres to URQUIZA. On the
termination, therefore, of the war, the allies had •
right, under the convention, to maintain authority
over Buenos. Ayres.
USQUIZA had, however, no izill disueition to molle
extremity the advantages sf the allies .ever the
state, from which they heid all perviously enifeeed so
severely. The Brazilian forces, which had really
gained that victory, were at once withdrawn from
the province; UKQUIZA refused to assume supreme
power in a state of which ho was not a citizen ; he at
once approved of is own selection of Dr. Lorrz as
governor; restored liberty to the press; and, sanc-
tioning the meeting of the legislative body, retired
to give his attention to the more important objeets
of the alliance—the Congress to be assembled at Santa
Fe of the whole Confederation.
Whether from the almost natural and inevitable
consequences of a sudden escape from the terrorism
of Bosse, to the freedom thus established on his
downfal, or from that !assumption of superiority over
the other states, which has always characterised the
population of Buenos Ayres, we do not undertake to
say ; but certain it is, that the legislative body thus
assembled went to work rashly, violently, and den-
rraly. Utterly regardless of the power which
recalled it to existence, it assumed
authority quite inconsistent with its own
limited and restricted duties ; it interfered
with the function and free action of the
executive; brought by its proceedings the go-
vernment of Dr. LOPEZ to a stand-still, and when
he (though having the full confidence of the allies)
unable to carry out his own policy, endeavoured to
bring the Chambers to a sense of what they were
doing by tendering his resignation, they accepted it.
Now by this acceptance, the allies, engaged in the
larger concerns of the Confederation, were reduced
to the position of having in Buenos Apes, the most
important city in the Confederation, both an execu-
tive government and a legislative body, adverse and
hostile to their policy. This was a danger to the
great ends of the alliance which it would have been
little short of abandonment of its whole aim to have
submitted to. Accordingly URQOIZA, relying on the
provision of the treaty which we have quoted, has
re-assumed power in Buenos Ayres, and appealed to
the better feelings of the community.
In resorting to this temporary remedy for a
pressing evil, no cruelty or severity was however
practised. A few of the noisiest and most turbulent
of the representatives were ordered to leave the City
on a few hours' notice; but even to them, on the soli-
citation of the Brazilian Minister, further and ample
time was allowed to arrange their private affairs,
and provide fur their families. And what is even
more important, this contretemps at Buenos Ayres
has not been allowed to interfere with the Congress
previously summoned to meet at Santa Fe during
this month, there to frame some common rules for
the administration of the federal affairs.

The truth, however, exhibited by this
assumption of dictatoral power until Congress 471
have settled the terms of confederation is painfully
suggestive ; it is that at Buenos Ayres there still
exists a strong party which Maui at being the head,
the directing power of the whole Argentine Confe-
deration ; a usurpation to which the sad experience of
thirty years his shown that the Upper Provinces
will not submit to. It is from the flocks and herds
of these provinces that the commerce of the Argentine
Confederation has sprung, and it is not reasonable to
expect that, however superior in intelligence the
inhabitants of Buenos Ayres may be, the °nachos of
the riverine states will submit to leave the foreign
affairs, the trading policy, and the very navigation
of their streams, at the complete dispositions of Buenos
Ayres.
It is the interest, or supposed interest, of Buenos
Ayres to collect • great revenue, and to possess the
power which ample means gives ; to have all the
machinery of a complex governmental system, and
to centre the trade of the upper streams in its own
port In short, Buenos Ayres his always hankered,
will ever hanker, after abasing or using its pieition
at the mouth of the Plate to tax and mfluence the
interior. And this it is which the approaching Con-
gress will have especially to guard against. And isherein the interests of English commerce are identi-
cal with that freedom from Buenos Ayrean influence
and taxation which the Upper States desire, it is to
be hoped that, if Sir CHARLES Hamm( interfere at
all, his influence will all be exercised in this direc-
tion ; for its end is freedom of export from, and of
import into, the Plate and its tributaries, and what we
want there is commerce.

IT IS STATED THAT Ma. FEASON, THE AITOII.
NET 01011E1AL'S SOLICITOR YOB CHARITIES, wu
last week on a visit to William of Wykeham's mach
abused foundation, Bt. Mary's College, Winchester;
with, it may be hoped, a •iew to the better admini-
stration of the noble endearments, which cannot ke
Ins Dow than 20,0001. a year.

WE 1601,1 T To HMI Of THE DEATH Olt MR.
losErn FLITCHES, ow of the government inspee-
ton of British and Foreign Schools. Mr. Fletcher
wasamoet valuable pails servant, u his educa-
tional reports amply testily.

THE CAUSE OP VICE-CHANCELLOR PAR/CBI'S
SUDDEN DEATH war angina pectoris. It i• remark-
able that the deceased judge war first seized with it
the first day he assumed his official duties. From the
period of that attack the disease had beets a source of
great uneasiness to his family; and at no time did he
suffer more from it than during the disousion of the
Wagner case.—Daily Nem.

THE TOUT GOVERNMENT AND THE TORT Pans.
—A eon ef Mr. Hermosa, editor of the Nesemeoliatnineed,
has recently received an appointment as 1 of 00.
vernment IMbools, with o say of MI. e—ftr istermel.
THE MININTERIAL POLICT.—Tbs eissimitdat that
the Earl of Derby would make certain dblissato as to the
mhziaterial policy, at the Prates noricaltoval dieser,
appears at Mast to have bees iluesontsre. Me noble earl
hi.a sot yet accepted the invitation to be proem at the
_ _

A PUBLIC Duni= TO MA. FRED. Put, M.P.,
is to ha given at Bury es Mgit SIB September, at which Sir
James Graham is mmeelledlyes be MOM. Yr. Cobden and
Mr. Bright are also Mid tome reestred baldest:leas.
ASSAULT BT TES MAYOR OF BLAClGnille.—On
Saturday last, is the goatee of some dmotte that took place
between the Mayor of Blackburn, Mr. W. M. Hereby, sad
Mr. Thomism Dogdide chairmaa .fßeet Lancashire
Railway Company (oeightedsi is a OSINIMIIiiIe
the dividend to be paid
id by Oa, 41OITIIV
knocked Mr. Demists me the of the
Lancashire station. Mr. to mower
for the offence before lb. by indictment
before • superior court. We smiseatiosallat Yr. Dupla!,
obtained • true bill against Mr. Hornby, rn Thursday, at
the grand jury, Liverpool.—Manchmter.
lATECT IN COUNTY COURT Lew.—At the Sheriril
Court, Guildhall. on Saturday, Mr. Ankle& • ••u•itor.
rn
ap-
plied to his Honour, Mr. Guey, under e Billowing cir-
cumstances : —His client, • Mr. Bert, bad obtained a judg-
ment la the Bhoreditch County Court for a debt of 6W.
which not being paid,: elocution had issued, end as tla
defendant resided in the City, the process was sent to the
high bailiff of his Honour's court, erbootrowever, sent word
to the high bailiff of the Shoreditch court that be could not
execute it. as he had no jurisdiction to distrain beyond 201.
His Honour said he could give so relief, for he bad no
power in the matter. Mr. Ashley said what was sin.
pular in the GM was, that his Honour's high bailiff had
served the summons and put the machinery in operation at
• cost of 71. to his client, knowing that the object could not
be carried eat, although they had received the fees for
doing so. Hie Honour repeated that he could not interfere.
TOR CHE.AP COWNIAL AND INTERNATIONAL
POIIT4OR AIItIIICIATION, finding that " the influence of
the society has :already produced sensible effects in pro-
moting the übjtcts in view, and might be extended mach
wider by the pommies of funds for the purpose of collect-
ing, printing, and eirearlsting Information,' have resolved
to give to the association a larger basis, by admittiog all
per•oos into its ranks who are favourable to the general
purpose, on payment of • small yearly suhecriptioa.
This step goes to disprove the essertirm—lately made
wriest it— that the association was disposed to
work in secret, and to rely on racial influence
rather than ma public support for the contemplated
reform. Under its now form the association promises to be'
0,111 nude active and influential than before. Earl Gm.
Tulle hos accepted the presidency, and Don Manuel de
Yeas'. the new honorary secretary, has begun the subecrip-
tains by a liberal dosages of • hundred pounds. At a
meeting held at the room of the Society of Arta on
Tuesday last, the emekticee adopted what may be milled a
programme of opisim, en which to appeal u the general
public Inc support, in the four following resolution., which
were unanimously carried. I.Thet it appears to this emaciation
that all the arguments awn by Mr. Rowland Hill in favour
of the justice of ma usifriern rate of postage apply sertainly
to cohst...l, acid probably to foreign eorrispondeace. 2.
That the coat of conveys..., as was proved by Mr. Row-
land 11111, depends epos the number of letters, and not
vino the distance, and that therefore the )ustiee of an
mishits rite is evident. 3. That the ussoistion
the recognition of this principle In the recent adoption of
tanifiro, rotes for printed papers to some of our colonies.
1. I hat tile simplicity and convenience of pre-payment
ilsq appear to apply to colonial and foreign correspondence.