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London, England, 1852-11-12 00:00:00

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L9NDON, FRIDAY, NOVE.VBER 12.

AT last we have the Defter Ministry on the hip.
They hove wriggled and shuffled and played fast
and louse in every possible way that talent could
contrive, or ingenuity execute; they have cajoled
land procrastinated—talked Protection in the counties
and rev Trade in the towns—haveshullied their cards
with all the dexterity of any number of conjurors—
but justice cannot for ever be defeated, and reckoning
day is at hand. The QUEEN'S Speech has settled
I that point, at all events. The split in the 'fury
couuciis, and the want of an honest policy, has
leaked out through the ltoyal document, and this
being the final feather on the over-loaded camel,
the back is broken at last. Thu thousands who
yesterday read the words that Lord Dully has put
into the mouth of her MaJearv, could only
come to one opinion on the paragraph,
which outweighs all the rest in importance
—the paragraph on the commercial policy of the
country. Anything more ingeniously obscure, and
yet more insidiously dangerous, could not have been
put forward. Whilst compelled, by the notoriety of
the fact, to admit the improved conditiou of the
country, the Tories retrain from admitting frankly
that the change is due to Free rade, whilst they
openly indicate that Free Trade has " inflicted
unavoidable injury on certain important interests,"l
on whose behalf it asks Parliament to " mitigate that
injury."
Such a paragraph in a QUEEN'S Speech could not
fail to bring matters to issue ; and it will surmise uol
one to learn that in the House of Commons last night
measures were adopted that most at once secure a
declaim' of the vital cause of Free Trade rersusl
Protection. The house was crowded on every side,
and when the formal speeches of the mover and
seconder of the Address were concluded, Mr.
CILARLES VILLIERS took the very p .oper step of
piing notice of a Free Trade motion fur the 22nd
tot Supported by Mr. HOME IS • Radical, and
by Lord June Resseie as a Whig leader,
the position of the honourable monher for
Wolverhampton seemed unassailable. Mr. Wal,
POLE endeavoured to show in one way, and Mr.
DISRAELI in another, that the Ministers had said all I
they ought to say—the ono vowed the dubious sen-
tences meant Free Trade, 'Led the other that they
were intended to indicate nothing at all—nothing
that could provoke discussion. lint the llouse, though
amused, was incredulous. Mr. DISRAELI'S oratorical
efforts were spasmodic but inefficient. lie
vowed he had plans of the most meridiem' kind
sure to settle everything—income tax included. Our
whole commercial system had been his especial
study, whilst taxation had been so considered that
his schemes, he was clearly stir ~ must satisfy all
scruples. Hs would have Mr. VILLIERS not waste
the time of the Howe on two debates, but postpone
the threatened Free Trade Resolution till the Minis-
terial chick was ready to break its shell.
This it would do, he thought—he expected
—he could almost premise—by the 26th—" say Fri-
day the 2tith P" No auctioneer soliciting just one
more bid from a gullible bargain-hunter—no anxious
trader smiliug a bargain into a customer against his
will ever employed more deprecating smiles and tones
than the CHANCELLOR of the Exeneuttea as he sug-
gested that the good-natured Mr. CHARLES VILLIERS
should give way. But in vain—and the more so—when
the next voice raised upon the question was that of Mr.
GLADSTONE, who, with all the prestige of high par-
liamentary position, and with an eloquence peculiarly
suited to the audience, the circumstances, and the •
occasion, gave a distinctive and most emphatic support
to the view taken by the Free Traders. Parliament
was called together at this season especially to de-
cide
the differences between the advocates of Protec-
tion and the supporters of unshackled commerce. I
The circumstances of the country required that deci-
sion, independently of all consideration of party; andl
that decision must be had. Mr. COBDEN, Lord PAL-
MERSTON, and Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE endorsed the
arrangement, and, despite the expectations of Mr.
NEWOEGATE and the self-sacrifice of Mr. CIIRUTO-
?HEIL the 22nd of November was fixed for the
ratification by Parliament of the policy which has
enriched and contented the people.
This righteous determination on the part of the
Free Traders must not however be regarded by them
u all they have to do. The enemy they are dealing
with is known to be crafty, unscrupulous, and demise-
rate. After the shifts and expedients tried duringl
the past six months we must not suppose that the
Tory stock in that way is exhausted. To stave off
the result which this very first discussion has
brought about, the funeral of the Duke of WELLING-
TON was postponed, far beyond all need or precedent,
and, with the same object, into the Queee'sl
Speech we see thrust an allusion to the Fine
Arts as preliminary to a request of money to raise'
a ValhalL,--m. some such structure—at Kensington.
Thew two tubs not staying the whale, Mr. DISRAELI,
in the extremity of his condition last night, threw
out ono thing after another as lures to draw off at-
tention from the one topic so full of danger to his
special schemes. He had bran new fiscal arrange-
ments nearly complete; he had a plan about the
income tax ; he was going to adapt our system of
imposts to our new pnuciples of trade. Any-
thing for delay—anything to lead the Free
Traders off their trail; and these attempts, though
failures yesterday, are not likely to be forgotten or to
be thrown aside. Desperate men—desperate deeds.
For this the Free Traders must be prepared. We
shall hear, doubtless, of the injustice of not
permitting the Asian mysteries of Mr. Dts-
11.AELI'S calculations to be revealed; we may be
told that fair opportunities should be permitted
them for the development of their policy ;
we may even bear shrieks about faction and
a perfect rear against Manchester and Cotton Lords.
Such like tricks, and many others which may accom-
pany them, must all pa for nought. Full of high
purpose, and bent on the faithful discharge of a
lofty and truly national duty, the Free Traders must
now sink all other questions to secure the settlement
of our Commercial Policy. "To do things well, do
one thing at a time"—so runs the proverb. We
have this one thing now to do—this settlement of Free
Trade—and the time for the doing of it is the 22nd
inst. Let no Tory tricks introduce disunion into
our ranks—no Tory falsehoods lead any one
astray. The jargon that mutters of unrestricted
trade as a thing important to " a class,"
is too shallow to deceive even the most thought-
less,—for if there ever was a truly broad and national
question, it is that now awaiting final ratification ;
and as yesterday there mustered on its behalf the
Parliamentarry represented by Lord Joint
Rosileet, Mr. COBDEN, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr.
VILLIERS, Lord PALMERSTON, and Mr. Home—
Whip, Radicals, and Peelites—we shall now soon
know what is the belief of THE MAJORITY of the
House of Commons on the question of Commercial
Freedom.

We have nation to believe that a private comma-
nicati.in from a very high quarter in this country
was lately addressed to the Grand Duke of Florence
on the case of the Medial; and that, though the
answer received thereto was not altogether of a sa-
tisfactory nature, it encourages hopes that the punish-
ment suffering by these really unoffending people
' may be hereafter remitted.—Doily News.

Tun Quzzx's Brzecti, on the opening of podia-
inset, wain yesterday afternoon forwarded to the contineat,
by Mews. Willmar and Smith, news and electric telegraph
agents, by whom the Intcopy of that Important doeumeat
was delivered at the dim of the Sahrnarise and European
Telegraph Cempaay in Combat. The royal speech was not
read by hie Mijalty ia Vie House of Lords until a quarter
past two, sad sot • copy was Visaed from the treasury pre-
slogs to that hour ; yet to rapidly was It transmitted by the
wine of the Submarine Telegraph—being at the rats of
forty words a minute--that its receipt was Acknowledged
hy • return message from France at Ilse minutes_ past
three and aau of It was posted at the Borneo Halle
Harth;sup Roam In auly la the Amass.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

The new parliament was yesterday opened with
all the due conottutional ceremony, end in all the customary
solemn state, by her Majesty in person. The parliament
and the people were sufficiently conoious of the grcatee-s
of the occasion, and the momentous importance of the'
event; and when Queen Victoria acts history, the history
speaks for itself. But in the pleasing and splendid seem-
soles rattle inauguration of a new parliament, there were
yesterday two gaps which were olowireed and which pro.
duced leo than the ordinary gratification. The routine
to which we are accustomed was ad wrong, and yes-
terday wee not •'t Queen's day." In the first place,
bemuse the Royal procession passed from palace to
pa:ans in one Stomata shower of teasing rain; and
the gloom that a November denude produces added to the
deeper cad more serious sorrow which Queen and parliament
and public alike shoed in, iu noticing rust, for the first time
in her Majesty's reign, she sea, not received, on coming
down to parliament,
.7 her first sword-bearer, the great
Duke of Wellington. he aged and venerated figure was
mimed by all, in all the pump; and it was, perhaps, the
uppermost thought in the royal mind which found the
earliest expression iii the royal speech. There was perhaps
sa elemental sympathy between the state of the weather
and the pervading sensations of the public mind ; and it
certainly is not • happy omen that the parliament of • not
over-confident ministry should be opened on the only un-
redeemed bed day which her Majesty can remember in
connexion with such an csentaion.

Tbe attendance of peeresses and other ladies seemed, to
'judge by the number of carriage, setting down in Abingdon-
street, to be much the same as usual. At this point
the crowd was tolerably large, and sufficiently severe eriti-
cisme Inn paned on the unsuitability of the otherwise
beautiful dresses of the ladies not wily to tho weather, but
to the day on which the great funeral may be said to have
commenced at Chelsea. Perhaps, indeed, the gay mourning
garments were out of pia c ; and it is to be feared many will
be needlessly punished, for there was no covered way from
the carnage, to the entrance door, and the thin shoes
lookid unhappy trudging through the mud.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1862.

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EQUITY COUILTS.—YESTBSDAT.
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Mr. bacon and Mr. Stevens moved, on behalf of the de-
&edam**, for the production on oath by the plaintiff of
divers documents in his, plaintiff 'a possession, which they
-iwcitled by descriptions couched in rather general terms.
Ibis motion WIN supported by the affidssit of she agent
conducting the defense of the defendants, stating his belief
that the plaintiff had thee. documents in his possession.
The plaintiff in answer made an affidavit stating that he
had loins of the documents but that to comply with the
proposed order would occupy agreat deal of time and cause
much expense unnecessarily. This motion was mace under
the 15 and 1G Viet., cap. nd, the act fur the Improvement
Of the Jurisdiction in Equity. The defendants hal put in
a sufficient answer pad now sought to have the benefit of
ewes' to the plaintiff's documents, as much as if they had
Mod a bill of discovery for the purpoee.
Mr. Itumell and Mr. lisailgette resisted the
motion on the part of the plaintiff, on the fel
lowing grounds :—That the litigation had {proceeded fur
six or seven years, and that the defendants
had never attempted to obtain production until now, aid
that the order would produce great delay. They cited the
cam of " nett v. Mulling.," decided in this court on the
first day of term, and reported in the Daily News on
Noe. 3, in which him Ilouour refused a similar motion.
They also opposed the motion on other grounds.
The Vice. Chancellor said he bad decided in ..Fiott v.
Mulling." not to make the order asked, un the ground that
in that case there was no amulet that the plaintiff had any
ductio.ents. That motion was entirely unsupported by evi-
dence. In this case the court is informed that there are
document*, and can exercise its discretion as to what docu-
ments it will order to Lie produced.
The following is a minute of the order:—Production
ordered eacept of such documents as wet, privileged, to be
opt citled by affidavit, with liberty to the plaintiff to seal up
on oath such ports of documents as were privileged in the
common form. The order to be ultimately settled by the
smut.