The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1852.

has net yet addresesd the electors. It le 1111Ftsd that
Cassia Berard, heron the eleaten, will • more
desided imparritiim of his principle thaw whet sustained
ia id
alarm
1,11200.—1 t now appears to be pretty well settled
who me to be the liberal-end free trade candidata. for Leeds
at the next election. As before stated in the Andy New,
I Mr. J.O. Menhall declines the request of the liberal elec-
tton to seer himself again, principally on the ground of ill
health. Sinn the determination of the hon. gentleman be-
emu known, the committee appointed at a mating of the li-
t bend demon, hare been en the look-aid fore ruitable
Ingo. for Sir Oth. Goodman, who had previous.y complied
with the wishes of the electors, to allow himself to be fist
in nomination. On Tuesday evening a crowded meeting the liberal electors was held in the Moak-hall, for the
panes. of considering the qualifications of the Right Hon.
Mr. T. Benet, the late president of the poor-law board, and
at present one of the members fur Hull. Mr. Aldermen
John Wilson presided, and the committee stated that they
had come to the usaninsous determination to recommend
the liberal elector, to nominate Mr. M. T. Baines. Mr.
Councillor Marshall gave an account of an interview he,
as one of a deputation, had had with Mr. Raines. The
right hen. gentleman intimated that be had had some hesi-
tation about going intorprliament again ; but if he could
be of any see in carryin °tweed great principle., he would
waive his personal fee into and obey the all made upon
him by the people of Leeds. Ile expressed himself as a
most decided free-trader, and spoke of the policy adopted
as having been highly beneficial to the public, and impera-
tively called for by the wants of the people. H.
approved of the general principle In Lord John Bee-
' sell's Reform Bill, but took exception to some of
its details, particularly the retention of the clan or nomi-
nation borough., which he considered the great blot in the
Reform Bill of 1832. As to the extension of the suffrage,
be was in favour of going to the extent of the municip .1
franchise at once, but was in favour of shortening the
period of residence (two year. and eight months) now Te•
quired to give a vote in municipal matters. As to the
ballot, he had
but he admitted that there was a strong feeling in its
favour, and ,further experience might effect changes
in the views entertained both by himself and other
politicians. This exposition of the right honour-
able gentleman's political views was received with
much favour by the meeting, and on the motion of Denton
Lepton, Esq., seconded by John Wilkinson, Esq., a rens-
lawn ou adopted, with only two or three dissentient.,
calling apon Mr. Baines to allow himself to be nand-
noted as a candidate for the representation of the borough,
in conjunttiou with SirQeorge Goodman. The whole of the
proceedings were characterised by the greatest unanimity;
an election committee was appointed ; and preliminary steps
taken fur holding an aggregate meeting of the liberal electors
on Monday evening next, to he attended by both the
Liberal candidates, Baines and Goodman. The tones of
Leeds have not up to this moment evinced the slightest
indication of their intentions, The fact is that the liberals
of all shades of opinion, from the high whig down to the
chartist, are se thoroughly united in support of their twe I
candidates, and the register contains so large a majority of ,
liberals, that it is generally believed that the tories vril
not venture to contest the borough at the next election.
LIVERPOOL. —At noon, yesterday, a meeting of
the Liverpool Constitutional Association was held in. the •
Clarendon Rooms, to consider the propriety of presenting I
a requisition to William Forbes Mackenzie, Esq.,one of the
Secretaries of the Treasury, and Charles Tuner, Esq., the
chairman of the Liverpool Dock Trustees, inviting them to
become candidates for the representation of Liverpool on
the occasion of the next general election. The chair was
taken by Edmund Molyaeux, Esq., and a requisition to the
above purport was moved by Francis Shand, Esq., '
banded by Samuel Holm Esq. la support of the no-
am, Mr. Adam Hodgson (a relative of the Earl of
Derbp_ declared that he was a free trader on
principle ; he would throw free trade to the wind in order
to MUM to the country the benefit of a government in i
which the protestant principles of the constitution would
he held safely and sacredly. (Applause.) After setae ,
other addresses, in which it was elicited that Mr. Forbes
Mackenzie had repented and regretted a vote he formerly I
pre a support of the Maynooth endowment, an explana-
ties which was deemed perfectly satisfactory to the meet-
ing,—and a repudiation of the usurped influence of the ,
llsaehester men, who, it was alleged by Mr. Samuel
Hole, thought, by shaking their purses in the focus of the
people, to control tha administration of the affairs of the
ensatry, the requisition ern adopted, signed by about •
201 persons, and a vote of thanks having been paned to Use
chairman, the meeting separated.
Pool.2.—Mr. Savage, a member of the bar, who
let the Let clashes by a majority of 20, is again beton the
eonstiturasy on the protectionist interest. Sir George
IIS gel ewe of the sitting member., retire., and Mr. Kirk-
MC a dingle( of the Bask of Baikal. is
leeregl* haward as biewmatie, atom free tasivprinelphn
BALISIMMT.—A eathetd Iwobethalst analitiala hes
Just wok Mesppearemmin the Geld, in tits person of Mr. i
Pernik the Middlesex magistrate. The Ron. John Ash-
-104111110 to, Ins declined a NOM, whish his
the hasengh aeselased nes
Bath *nada* adopt Ss gowned languhim age of
the ministerial chiefs.

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SUNDZILAND.—Mr. Williams Digby &oar has
an treed address of free-trade opinions. There
sea *Mr Mr. reawiek tad Mr. Seymour, freet re nde, and
Mr. 0.7 Hathea, protectionist, in the field. It Is
thought Hedworth Williamson wig not start again.
SOTHERLANDSHIng AND liOen-SIIIRE.—No contest
is expected for either of these counties, sod the re-election
of Sir David Dandle for Sutherland, and of Mr. Jams
Matheson for Rosa and Crontarty, may therefore be con-
sidered all but certain.

TRALEL—Tho Trake aironkk of Saturday con-
tains an addres from Mr. Maurice O'Connell, denying
that he intended to abandon the representation of Tralee.
There are three candidata now spoken of:—Mr. O'Con-
nell, Mr. Blennerhassett, and Admiral Sir Thomas
llerbert.

Wtcc Boaons.—No opposition is anticipated to
Mr. Loch in this district.

lOTONS/111M—A rumour hu been current in
this county, since the dissolution of parliament has bees
talked of; of Captain Dalrymple, the present member.
meeting with opposition, either from Captain May, R.N.,
or Ur. Stewart, younger, of Olesterton.
Wurrox Caird commenced his can-
vass at Stemmer on Monday last, and is mid to have
bees very seeceestel. Bir John M•Taggart has taken the
damn, and arrived in the district from London lest week.

OF THE AMAZON FUND.

The Amnon fund wasdisponi et ea Tuesday last,—
at asteilsoglsa, by a rasuedes et the seawattee.
Ths Maya e/ Illowthampesa woe he the sink. aimed of
the Amine st the Week Wks Compeer, eaws Oen Lambs
epeeist!, le sena tbe eemittee. It was anal that
.nit
M ermemente .best the Myna et the ha* net
bo waslssil W • eisamittee, sea Si mows were
oseekaki et the Illsree
its..
tier wowsbereelar fta.ra
Maul et Ilsollmewass, tsar EWA= et the Wad Alia
Osepeay, tier Aweless et the osfassfor est Osismal
Oillopeay, sewed deogyassa sea Blasi aft mbillsos.
ether guelaitea et Sealliwalasi The awl essosalea to
betweea 11,11111. sal TWA, amiadve et those ma
whisk hail Asa -.at he towgessey seise The Rev.
lar. Thiel melee* WK. Ides 11.1111 ma Wm body,
MI. sash i Am Sawa Abler et the Sew. Ma Wisest,
we et ibs owl wholly by law), •
widow Arse 260 t. ; Meth* et the
Aid , INL j the paresta of Khasi, the
N.pew serreriew, ma who are eighty years et sr,
g twelve pser whim, whose seas woes Wt
A SO Ammo, meshed ems varylea frees A.
oath. all the servivese soseast the wow, without Mg
szeoptios, receive/ sews et a sad N. web. Malt woll
awned!, two et the servivise crew, ISPIMIPMI sddkieW
petedelso dd. sash ; fee they, thetwithetwidtaa their hr.
sea seallibms es bawd the Data liaise whisk reseasa
yeeasetwl lb, hese wee
elampesi Iv lit mese et ladyas www
Oaly we penes h.
as
bus esdediri As wirewlest lea ihe WWII et the hed.
The sissillestlea et the sea the week's whisk
Ilia elass is to rowavo, have bees slated ia the
Nose; she the aamber mid dkiersiss to w-
ar theileaT was Awed ef, Mewls were veto%
Ifsfree dthelbesestibtabeeLowassim et the Wow
LiablOmpay, to Oast sal the abeam et the
PlaissalwOestpeey,awl Theasewtset
is doe se die Ise. let. Ilhapwat, stesarma et
mai twe af ttee weeINNS
teaL . hail a en, wa
sher, who list ea
bawd a aseeeta. wed he hos eppeready shw eat nibs-
disk seAsseres, by vretider air Obi eight la
thee sootretewats, is wag that the iseadlotatit=
As addle Aeola be wet jaislowly applied ia
the mole et the "WIN erpilermato win
liustlids by vas d the caret WON sal beartressliaa
irises that ewer &Mad the aNsallsa gigabits Anew
It is the haslet the wayless et the Amapa Awl
to latter will willwately wastrat to 14,11101., sad that
they
essa will
t del to Amen the esealtise greteitiss
ta dbe ulls* es.

We have noshed a common'
o[
I:which the
klowtoi la a tratriation, trent written,
lye belleeet by the impale et tbe Mope Ina eeso to
1 pot tart Me Ammo, and whist' it woo bored Lett pow
nara tuned others of So prologaso or mow WIWI
mod. It will be ems OM Ow mink Stu Ner.
wettest torque did evegtadoey M Ws power to seal atolot-
I mot, bat that all hie ANS Wen la vela

Constantinople, Feb. 28.
" A statement having reached this port to the effect that
a barque had been close to the ill-fated steam ship Amnon
without having shown any disposition to afford the sufferers
any assistance, I am inducted to comet that statement as fol-
lows : On our voyage from Newcastle to this port we became
aware about 1 o'clock on the night of the 4th of January,
of a met fire, which we soon made up our minds must
arise from a ship in flames. At that tints we were sailing
on a wind order double-reefed topsails, mainsail and jib,
but we immediately put on; more gall and worked up to
windward, until at three o'clock In the morning we had got
so close to the wreck that flakes of fire fell en our deck.
We sailed round the vessel, which was then a frightfid mem
of dame, without being able to discover any trace of boat
or human being., and, although a strict look-out was kept
with this view, both on deck and from the tops, all our
efforts were fruitless. After this we kept by the wreck at •
little distance till the day broke, but at seven o'clock a.m.
an ctploaion took plus, after which nothing more was to
be seen. We thcrrtore pursued OUT soya e. This took
place in latitude 48 43 N., longitude 6 63, Greenwich.
" B. BonLrfria.
" Barque Dcodata, of Drammen, Norway."

THE PLANS OF THE DERBY MINISTRY.

(Fres tin Daft Nom)
The unconstitutional resolve of the DIRBY minis• to oarry on the business of the country with a
Howe of Commons in which they have only a mint)•
rity has scandalised even the tories of the old
school. Tho very Morning Post cries tie upon
them. Yesterday that journal read them a sen-
sible lecture on the enormity of their conduct in seek-
ing to evade an immediate appeal to the country.
The Earl of Dam and his CHANCELLOR of the
EICHKQUER for they are rather chary of allowing
any of their colleagues to speak—think they have
said enough in palliation of their attempt to govern
by a minority, when they have told us that their
elevation has been none of their seeking. The asser-
tion is simply untrue. They have laboured hard to
get in, though their opponents were not polite
enough to wait till they were knocked down, but
gave way, with a comparatively whole skin, when
they saw further resistance was hopeless. lint,
granting that they did tell the truth, to what does'
their excuse amount?

Lord form RUSSELL and his colleagues, left in a
minority in the House of Commons. resign: and ter
their sovereign that the most natural and proper per-
son to send for, in the present state of parties, is
Lord DEBBY. This is no more than all beaten minis-
ters do. Nobody before Lord DERBY and Mr. Dis-
RAELI ever thought of pretending that ex-ministers
by recommending the calling in of their rivals
thereby bound themselves to observe an srmed
neutrality tow.rds them. It has always been
understood that ex-ministers are the material' to
make oppositions of, and that the first thing they do
on going out is to make preparations for getting in
again. When Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his colleagues
gave up to Lord DERBY and his friends the vantage
ground ot office, it was quite understood they would
immediately renew the contest from their less
favourable position. It is sheer drivelling to cry
out because they do not allow those whom they
have reluctantly allowed to get into office to enjoy it
in peace.
But when complaints are made of the unconstitu-
timid proceedings of the Hexer ministry, in at-
tempting to 'govern by a minority, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his colleagues are not the only parties
who have a right to complain. Nor are they the
parties who have the greatest right to complain.
'The offence of Lord DERBY against the country is
much greater than his offence against the ex-minis-
ters. It is the country that is aggrieved by his
violation of the constitution ; and even though Lord
DERBY'S argumentuni ad hominens were conclusive
against Lord JOHN RUSSELL, what excuse can he
offer to the country ?
Ever since the revolution of 1688, the constitu-
tional doctrine received and acted upon has been
that the ministers of the crown who canuot command
a mejurity in the House of Commons, must resign.
With the crown resides the right of calling to its
councils any individuals or party within the king-
dom. With the House of Commons resides the right
of negativing the proposals of any ministers in whom
it has not confidence, and thus leaving to the crown
the option of seeing the public business brought to a
stand, or changing its advisers. It is possible that a
majority of the House of Commons may, in acting
thus, be animated by motives of faction and selfish
ambition—may aim at depriving the crown of ad-
visers to whom no reasonable objection can be made.
To prevent this, the crown has it in its power to ap-
peal to the people against the decision of a factious
House of Commons by a dissolution and re-election.
But when the people by their use of the elective
franchise, have on such an occasion confirmed the
decision of the House of Commons, this is received as
a proof that the opposition to the ministers of the
crown has not been factious, and the sovereign and
his advisers must part company, however unwilling
they may be.
Such are the means that have been had recourse
to for preventing such fatal collisions between the
crown and its subjects as preceded the revolution.
Practically the crown has the nomination of the
great officers of state, and the House of Commons—as
representing the people—has a veto upon that nomi-
nation. Before giving way to the veto, the crown
has a right to try whether the House of Commons
has really expressed the views and wishes ot the
people, by sending its members back to their consti-
tuents. Accordingly all ministers, wing or tory,
have, as soon as they found themselves in a mino-
rity, resigned at once, or had immediate recourse to
a dissolution, and resigned if the elections went
against them.
Lord DERBY and his CHANCELLOR of the Excite-
QUER affect to deny this, and rake up some musty
precedents of ministers left in a minority cdntinuing
to transact parliamentary business for some time be-
fore they resigned. But closely examined, and
rightly understood, all these precedents amount to
no more than this : that certain matters of routine
sessional business, required to be carried through
parliament—that to have dissolved without winding
up those matters of routine sessional business would
have thrown the whole business of the State into
confusion—that therefore, by common consent, the
dissolution was postponed until they had been con-
I eluded.

But Lord DERBY asks something very different
from such reasonable and necessary delay. He pro-
poses to introduce a spiel and spin new measure of
=taryshange. He proposes not only to dis-
til. Albans, but to call into existonee
leer sew mestinerneies to supply the gap left is
Ike reptiesaledea by the 81'pp/canon of that
and fkilituly. He proposes to re-organise
militia. The minister of the minority, proposes
to introduce sew immures, 'to initiate new
Uses of =tinsel policy, to do—without the can-
tle's/see and nankin of the
.people—all that the
mint esteemed and beloved minister could do with
their mosties. His appointment to °Moe is as yet
oily behests or incomplete; he has been presented'
by be erown to the nation, but the nation has not
yet Ma. Until
isisOsalsl ajshe nat
are ion his seat
dowel, pare usurpations of an authority that doe" not
'belong to him. Nay, the presumption is that, enas-
mesh as he cannot command a majority in the
el Um roes, the people have rejected him.
Massa only prove this by a sumessful appeal to the
VIVI,. Bhrinking hem such an appeal he con-
• that ho is aware of the illegal and unconstitu-
tional elarseter of his usurpation of the ministerial
bastioee.
Lord DERBY attempts to shelter himself under the
gabardine of WIIIJAN Purr;--• shabby subterfuge
for an ex-member of the Fox Club. He says that
Pirr, when he succeeded the coalition ministry,
continued for some time to act with a mino-
rity in the Haase of Commons. But how P
Pirr gave battle almost daily to the hostile
majority upon meanies of his own; at every succes-
sive division he Increased his minority; he gradually
broke down, frittered away, dispersed the comp-
amen of the adverse majority, till he had fairly
placed hie own policy before the country, shamed a
great part of them sat of the field, and having thus
made himself respectable in the eyes of the people
and his &deeming contemptible, he appealed to the
nation to einem between him and them, between his
policy and limits.
Is this the semis that Earl DERBY contemplates?
Nothing Ike it. He shuns debates and divisions,
instead of asuelieg them. He seeks to filch seeming
visisaiss, by_wesift to his adversaries their own
menuns. Limbed of labouring to blason abroad his
beam poloy, provoking discussion upon it, and in-
viting the people to support it, he seeks to conceal
vial It is, and sneakingly professes to be willing to
adopt any line of policy his good masters, the people,
may be pleased to proscribe to him. Such fawning,
wheedling parasite' in the hour of weakness have
ever proved tyrants, if allowed to grow strong.
In fact, Lord DERBY and his colleagues have taken
• leaf out of the book of tte French President. M.
BONAPARTE has created a sham representation of the
people, but be dare not trust even this his creature
with the task of legislation. He is hurrying to
enact a multiplicity of laws before it can meet, and
even so Lord DERBY. His lordship is beating about
for means and devices to pack the next House of
Commons. But afraid to trust even a house of his
own packing, ho is trying to persuade the present
house to do some of his dirty work befonxit meets—
for example, to dispose of the unappropriated repro-
venteione.

Give ministers a fair Mal indeed! Have they
not been sufficiently tried already to let us know
what is in them P They avow that they VI ill
re-establish direct protection for rents if they
can, and smuggle in some equally mischieV-

am substitute if they cannot. They avow
that they have it in contemplation to subvert unsec-
tarian education in Ireland. They are preparing
new devices to coerce the savage conspirators who
mislead the Irish peasantry, and at the same time to
uphold the unjust laws that have driven these despe-
radoes mad, and that, unless abolished, will reduce
many good men to their level. They are seeking time
to organise the means of packing a subservient Hou•n
of Commons, that may abet and uphold their misrule
for seven long years. And in the meantime they are
trampling under foot the constitutiJu ; exercising
the power delegated to them by a reluctant
SOVEREIGN, although they shrink from asking the
indispensable confirmation of their title by the people.