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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 27.

Tws terrible fires that have recently destroyed
so many public buildings in St. Petersburg and
other Russian towns are but too clearly the work

of organized incendiarism. This is the belief of
the Russian Government as well as of the inhabi-
tant' of the capital, and the time and place at
which the principal conflagrations occurred confirm
this natural conviction. They broke out in rapid
succession in different parts of the city, but almost
always in close connexion with some Government
station. The slender amounts received from the
capital show the excited state of public feeling and
the prevalent belief as to the origin of the destruc-
tive movement. " Behind these flames," says the
writer of a letter on the 12th of June, which re-
cently appeared in a French journal, "there is
" a dark mystery which alarms the Government.
" The details of these conflagrations and their
" geography show a concerted plan and a skilful
" organization. I cannot describe the effect of
" these terrible manoeuvres. Consternation pro-
" needs. Political discontent, armed with torches,
" is taking the revenge of savages."
However startling this form of its manifestation
may be, no one at all acquainted with the recent
history of Russia will be surprised to learn that
political discontent of the most serous and threat-
ening kind prevails amongst all classes and through-
out every part of that vast Empire. The Russian
nation is at this moment in the very throes and
agonies of a new birth. For the first time in its
history it is just awakening to political life.
For centuries it maintained • position of inert-
ness and immobility equally mysterious and sur-
prising. The nation was as clay in the hands of
the potter—a passive instrument of the Govern-
ment--and each successive ruler moulded it ac-
cording to his will, and employed it exclusively to
further his own objects and designs. These de-
signs, according to the hereditary traditions of the
Imperial House, referred to territorial aggression
and foreign influence rather than to home pro-
sperity. The reigning Czas invariably sought
to extend his frontier and acquire a preponderat-
ing influence in Europe, instead of striving to pro-
mote the welfare of his people and develop the
vast internal sources of the Empire. It was the
Crimean war that gave a death-blow to this
traditional policy of the Imperial House.
It destroyed the long-cherished dream of
foreign dominion, and compelled the Russian
Government to look at home. With an empty
exchequer and a disorganized army, even the
Czar of All the RCSSIAS could no longer remain in-
dependent of his people and careless of the national
prosperity. The nation accordingly, instead al
being as heretofore the mere slave of Imperial
power, became at once the object of Imperial soli-
citude. This change of position was in itself a
silent revolution, and the results that might have
been naturally expected have followed. The
nation finding itself recognised by the Government
began for the first time to apprehend its own
existence. Beneath this stirring consciousness of
life the old immobility has broken up with the
abruptness of a sudden thaw, while signs of
national vitality have appeared in all directions
with the swiftness and surprise of an Arctic spring.
The new excitement is not confined to any class
or any district. It pervades the whole of society,
and recent events have directly carried the

agitating impulse into every corner of the Empire.
No doubt as yet the national movement is to a
great extent blind, the feeling confused,
and the voice inarticulate. Confusion and in-
coherence must he the characteristics of such
a state. All the elements of national life,
all passions, all interests, all influences, are for
the present struggling together in commotion and
disorder. There is a consciousness of new condi-
tions, of new wants and desires, and the necessity

of extensive changes, but no clear perception
either of the end or the means. Out of the
general confusion the only feeling that has yet
manifested itself with strength, clearness, and
something like unanimity is the imperious desire
for some recognised and established method of
national utterance—some means of expressing the
new wants and desires that agitate the nation.
A government either powerful or popular is
absolutely necessary in order to meet the
grave requirements of such a crisis. A de-
termined autocrat might perhaps even now be able
to arrest the progress of the national movement,
and restore, for a short time at least, a deceptive
appearance of order. On the other hand, a really
enlightened and courageous government might
guide the national impulse into safe chan-
nels and turn it to the best account.
But the central power must be either resolute or
sagacious, if not both. Unfortunately there is too
much reason to believe that the existing Govern-
ment of Russia is neither. It reflects the contra-
dictory tendencies and fluctuating impulses of the
ENPBKOZ% own mind. He is called liberal, and
has earned the character, most fatal to one in his
position, of being welLintentioned. But he is too
weak to abandon altogether the traditions of his
house and inaugurate the changes which the new
era demands. He cannot fully comprehend the
position in which he is placed, or follow out with
any consistency a policy in harmony with it. He
accordingly shrinks from the consequences of his
bwn acts, and is alternately the instrument and the
victim of the several parties that surround his

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throne. These parties are three, the petty of
reaction, the party of reform, and an intannedinn
party headed by the Grand Duke Custarsrrnaca,
that aims at uniting certain measures of reform with
the maintenance of the old absolutist regime in its
purity. Perhaps the best thing that could happen for
the present would be for this last party to obtain a
preponderating influence in the Government. It
would probably effect some of the social and poli-
tical changes that are most urgently needed, and
prepare the way for the more substantial reforms
that must follow. But something decisive must
be done without delay. The indecision of the
Government, combined with the intermittent
triumphs of the extreme reactionary party, have
roused and exasperated the popular feeling to a
most dangerous extent. Nowhere is this feeling
more intense than in St. Petersburg itself, and
some recent acts of the Government, such as its
severe treatment of the students and silencing the
professors in the University, the arbitrary seizure
and imprisonment of the official assessors that at-
tended the recent meeting of the nobles at Trer
and sympathised with their demand for a con-
stitution—these and similar acts have inflamed
the feeling of discontent to a pitch of desperede
and almost revolutionary hostility against the re-
actionary members of the Government and the
old political regime. This strong hostility, denied
all legitimate expression, found a temporary relief
.in the diffusion throughout the capital of
revolutionary pamphlets and seditious publi-
cations, in the formation of secret societies, and
the publication of secret journals. At length, in
a fit of momentary despair, it has seized the torch
of the incendiary. At such a moment it will
not do for the Government to vacillate between
reaction and reform, and after having excited the
hopes of the people as it has so often done before,
crush them by cruel disappointment into a more
reckless passion for revenge. Nothing but a de-
cided, consistent, and conciliatory policy can allay
popular excitement, and arrest the threatened
anarchy.
The excitement in St. Petersburg, though car-
ried to a morbid extreme, is not a mere iao-
lated movement. On the contrary, the whole
nation is aroused, expectant, and thoroughly in
earnest. Nor will the excitement and agitation
cease until the serious social and political
questions at issue are in some way decided.
The great measure of the present Ursa—the
Emancipation of the Serfs—has virtually de-
stroyed, at one blow, the old political system of
Russia. Serfdom being the basis on which the social
and political hierarchy of the Empire has hitherto
rested, its abolition disorganizes the existing
fabric of government and society. It not only un-
settles, but altogether changes the old and established
relations between clan and class, between the
government and the governed. It raises directly
the most vital questions connected not only with
civil and political equality, but with the admir's-
tration of justice, the organization of the army,
the taxation and finances of the Empire. The
nobles, for example, have hitherto been taxed
according to the number of serfs they possessed,
paying for them so much a head. Now that there
are no longer any serfs the whole system must be
revised, and the public burdenareadjusted. Theright
of postponing serfs was one of the established pri-
vileges of the superior classes, and now that it is
abolished the nobles themselves support the prin-
ciple of civil equity, and demand its recognition by
the Government. Again, with regard to the
revenue and finances of the empire, the
Government has now to deal not with
a privileged class, but with an eman-
cipated nation. Any plan of financial re-
form thus raises the vital question touching the
control of the public expenditure and the publi-
city of the national accounts—in a word, of a
constitution, and the right of the people to a
share in the government. The great measure
of social reform already carried into effect, thus
opens a number of other questions equally im-
portant, and those questions can only be solved by
a thorough change in the whole political system of
the Empire.

THE Ross SHOW AT TUE HORTICOLTERAL SO-
CIES'S GARDEN& —The great rose show of the reason took
place yesterday, at the above gardens, and was much more
favoured by the weather than is usually the case at thaw
feasts of Flora. There was a very large collection of flowers,
but it did not strike us that they were, generally speaking,
either very fresh or very blooming; on the contrary, many
of them had a tweed and faded look, as if the present were
not their first appearance in public since they had been cut
from the stem. There were, however, some specimens of
very great beauty, and one new seedling which attracted
a good deal of attention. Its owner, whose name did not
transpire, had christened his beautiful flower the "John
Hopper," a name which certainly could never have been
borne by the rose with which the nightingale fell in love.
The marquees hail been removed frost the Exhibition end
of the gardens and were pieced close to the conservatory
arcades—a very great improvement. The company was ex-
ceedingly numerous and fashionable, and every one seemed
to enjoy the fine weather, the good music, and the pleasant
promenade.
FITZROY MARKET RAOOED SCHOOL FLOWER
Snow.—A novel and interesting addition to the ordinary
operations of a ragged school, namely, a flower show, was
held on Wednesday, at the school-room, in Frizroy.market,
at which the Earl of Shaftesbury kindly attended, cud dis-
tributed the prizes. In presenting the latter, the noble
earl exprested his unqualified approval of these exhibitions,
and this one io particular. Thirty-three prism were given,
ranging from 10s. downward. and were awarded by W.
Sowerby, Esq., of the Royal dotanic Society, previous to
the distribution by the noble earl, who addressed a few en-
couraging and kind words to each recipient. The Hon. A.
Kinuat4 Miss Twining, Miss Bodkin, the Rev. Mr. Parker,
of Bloomsbury, end the Rev. Mr. Colhead, of St. Clement
Daus, and other friends and patrons of ragged schools,
were present, and the room was crowded throughout the
day by visitors, who seemed astonished that such choice
floral productions could be reared by the poor inhabitants
of such a district. Altogether the collection may be safely
pronounced one of the most successful of its class yet
offered. The proceedings of the day were enlivened by
the perforugaices of the band of the Grotto-passage Ragged
School.
THE HOUSE Or CHARITY, Soap.—Yesterday
afternoon Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, assisted by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, laid the first stone of a Dow chapel for
the House of Charity, in Rose-street, Soho. The House of
Charity was established in 1846, and provides temporary
board sod lodging, fresh situations, or the means of emigra-
tion, for persons above the clam of paupers who may be in
distress. During the year 1861, out of 648 inmates, 323
were servant maids out of place, who were provided with
situations, 13 goveroesees, 2 clergymen, 3 dissenting minis-
ters, 30 clerks, tutors, and schoolmasters, and 25 profes-
sional men, merchants, fanners, Sic. Among the company
present at the religious services and at the subsequent
meeting at the new Howe, No. 1, Greek-street, Soho-
square, were the Marquis and Marehioriess of Londonderry,
. the Earl of Devon, Lord Lyttelton. the Bishop of Honolulu,
Mr. Beresford Hope the Hon. H. Walpole, the Vies-Chan-
cellor Sir W. P. WOod, Professor Bernard, of Oxford ; Pre•
buideries Hassey, D.C.L., Irons, D.D., Kempe, and Dalton;
the Ben. C. W. Furs% J. 0. Bent, W. H. Lyall, W. 11.
Richards, he.

DRA TH OF THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON
MacDoeALD.—Tbe Venerable Archdeacon Macdonald died
on Tuesday last, at his vicarage of Bishop's Catania's, after
an illness of some live or six weeks' duration, which for
the last ten days had assumed a most alarming character.
He was in his 79th year. Re was nephew of the late
Bishop Douglas, who was translated to the see
of Salisbury in 1791, and who admitted him to
holy orders as demean in 1806, and as prwt, in
the year of Lis owndeoesse. 1807. Mr. Heed lied pre-
viously graduated at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1805.
In the year 1812 he was presented to the vicarage of Chit-
terse. near Heytesbury. In 1815 he was instituted to the
incumbency of Bishbp's Coining*. In 18= be was elected
canon residentiary of Salisbury ; sad in 1828 was appointed
Archdeacon of Wilts. He had therefore held use benefice
fur 50 years ; another for 47 years. He had been 39 year,
a member of the cathedral chapter, and 34 in archkliaconal
office. He was twice married. By bia first wife he had
ten children, of whom seven survive; and by the second,
the present Mrs. Macdonald, two sons and three daughters
—all of whom are living.—Devizes aurae.

ffourt.
°mums, Junz 26.
The Duke of Somerset arrived from London
yesterday and had an audience of her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur returned from
London at half-past seven o'olock.

Prince Louis and Prince Henry of Hesse. attended by
Captain von Westerweller, went yesterday morning to the
International Exhibition, where they were received by Sir
C. Wentworth Dilke, one of her Majesty's Commissioners,
who conducted their Grand Ducal Highnesses through the
Exhibition. In the afternoon the Princes Louis and Henry
paid visits to the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand
Ducbeu of Mecklenburgh•Strelits, the Duke of Cambridge,
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh, and the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, at their re-
spective residences.
Prince Charles and Princess Charles, and Prince William
and Princess Anna of Hesse and suite arrived at Dover
yesterday, in her Majesty's ship Vivid, from Ostend. Their
Highnesses landed at the Admiralty Pier, and were received
by Lieutenant-Colonel Du PIA Equerry to the Queen. A
guard of honour was on duty. The naval and military
authorities paid their respects to the Prince and Princess
Charles upon their landing, and attended them to the Lord
Warden HoteL The illustrious party travelled in the
afternoon by a special train of the South-Eastern Railway,
in charge of Mr. Knight, to London, and proceeded to the
Palace Hotel. The suite in attendance consists of
von Schaeffer:Bernstein, Baroness von Roeder, Baroness n
Scheock•zn-Schweinsberg, Baroness von Greasy, Baron
Ricou, Major von Grolman, and Captain von Zangen.
The Viceroy of Egypt, attended by the Hon. Charles
Augustus Murray, honoured the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer and Ni.. Gladstone with his company at dinner last
evening, at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace. The
company also comprised Mustapha Pacha, Zulficar Picea,
the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of UM&
downs, Lady Harry Vane, Viscount Sydney, Lord and Lady
de Tabley, Lord Brougham, M. Bother, Hon. Mrs. Norton,
Right Hon. Sir John Lawrence, and Mr. Cobden.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Bengal, "Nana Nurain Bao v.
Hume Punth Shan,* part heard, was resumed. The lords
present were Lord Kingadown, the Lords Justices Knight li
Bruce and Turner, Sir L. Peel and Sir J. Colville.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent
to the governess of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong
Kong, Lathan, the Australian colonies, Canada, and
Gibraltar.

DEATH OP MAJOR-GEN. THE HON. ROBERT
BRUCE, GOVERNOR TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE
OP WILLEB.-(THIS DAY.)

We have to record the death of Major-General
the Hon. R. Bruce, Governor to the Prince of Wake, who
expired at 2 a.m. this morning, in St. James Palace.
The lamented general returned home on the 14th inst. from
attending on the Prince of Wales during his tour in the East
in infirm health, arising from a fever contracted at Oon-
stantinople. Shortly after his arrival home, the general had
a relapse, and during the last eight days has gradually sunk,
no hopes being held out since Tuesday.
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The deceased was the second ion of late Thomas Burl
of Elgin, by hi second marriage with Elisabeth, youngest
daughter of Mr. James Towusbend Oswald, of Duunikir,
N. 8., and was therefore brother to the present Earl of Elgin,
Viceroy of India, and of her Majesty's Envoy at Pekin. He was
born March 15, 1813, and married May 2, 1848, Katharinel
Mary, wood daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw
Stewart, Bart. Ilse deceased entered the army as ensign
and lieutenant in the Gresadier Guards, in June. 18311,
and was private secretary to his brother, Lord Elgin, when
that nobleman was Govemor-G enema of Jamaica. In 1847 be

was appointed military secretary and principal aide-de-
camp to Lord Elgin, then Governor-General of Canada, and
in 1855, after his return from British North America, WM
appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. In Novem-
ber, 1858, he had the honour to be selected by her Majesty
and the late Prince Consort to fill the high post of governor
to the heir apparent to the Crown. It was while in the
discharge of hie duties as governor to his royal highness
that he contracted the malady of which he died.
His commissions bore date as follows: —Ensign and lieu-
tenant, 18th June, 1830; lieutenant and captain, 22nd
February, 1833 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel, 2nd Au-
gust. 1844 ; colonel, 20th June, 1851; and major-general,
7th December, 1859.
Intelligence of General Bruee's death was forwarded by
telegraph this forenoon to his Excellency the Earl of Elgin
at Calcutta.

Lord and Lady Taunton and family have re-
turned to Belgrave•aquare from their seat near Slough.
The Countesa de Flabault had an assembly bet
evening, at the residence of the Embassy, Albert-gate
House. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon honoured
the reunion with his presence, arriving shortly after 10
o'clock..

A special announcement was yesterday posted
in Woolwich dockyard, intimatiog the sanction of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the observance

of the anniversary of the Queen's coronation, to be held on
Monday, the 30th lost. This will does the entire esta-
blishment from midday on Saturday till the following
Tuesday.
Sir Stafford Northcote intends to move in com-
mittee on Fottilkatious (Provision for Expenses) Bill, a clause
or clauses to restrict the application of any monies raised
under the authority of the act to the completion of such con-
tracts for works as are already made, or of such as m►y
hereafter be made, subject to the previous approval of per
Lament.

A large meeting, composed chiefly of operatives,
was held et Stockport, last night, in favour of the principle
of mediation between the American belligerents. It was
held by some of the speakers that a supply of cation was
likely to be obtained if mediatioa were carried out, but a
non-intervention amendment was proposed, and consider-
able diversity of opinion prevailed, though the resolution in
favour of mediation was adopted.
The Lombardo of Milan states that on the coma-'
don of the National Festival of Italy, the clergy of Cam-
polieto, a small place near Campobasso, the capital of the
province of Molise, Naples, having refused to officiate ex-
cept on payment of 10 ducat. (about 43fr.), the members
of the municipal council, headed by their syndic, pro-
cseded to the church, put on the priestly vestinsota, and
song the Te Drum themselves, in which the assembled
congregation heartily joined.
The number of persons assembled at Baden ex-
ceeds by more than a thousand that of any previous year,
and the amusements are sought after with increasing
avidity. The concert-room Salon Louis XIV. and the ball-
' room Salle des Fleur' have been, to use the French term,
inaugurated under most auspicious circumstances. Vienna
has furnished the Opera with some most distinguished
' musicians. Princes and princesses innumerable, besides her
Majesty of Prussia, are upon the list of late arrivals,
amongst whom may be enumerated the Prince and Princess
Hohenlohe,l3artensteio, lAngehonrg, DeSalm-Reffereeheed,
Dolgoroaki, Nicholas Cassino, Michel Gap rin, Barclay de
Tolly, Ypeelante, De Weeds, Lubousirski, Labru;off-Rossoff,
sad IlLitchotaki.

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His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury gave
his annual dinner at Lambeth Palace on Wednesday, the
25th inst., to the stewards of the Anniversary Festival of
the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy. The company
invited included the Archbishop of York, the Earl 31 Dart-
mouth, the Bishops of London, Winchester, and Bangor,
Lord Cranworth. the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Hon. W. E. Dun-
oombe, M.P., the Rev. Sir J. H. Seymour Bart., Sir Hugh
Cairns. QC., M.P., the Rev. the Principal of Jesus College,
Oxford, Rev. Dr. Vivian, Revs. George Aioslie, Henry
Boucher, C. R. Davy, James Ford, Canoe Lonsdale, John
Thomas, and John Wilder, the Rev. Michael Gibbs (the
Lord Meyer's chaplain), the Rev. A. W. Thorold (the
preacher). Aldermen Copeland, M.P., Finnic Rose, Phil-
lips, and Gabriel. the Master of the Merchant Taylors' Com-
piny, Messrs. William rot*, Augustin Robinson, Sheffield
}leave, William Tite, 51. P., C. J. Baker, Thomas Turner,
Thomas Wilson, Felix Knyvett, J. W. Butterworth, H. P.
Gale*, Robert Hithens, and Charles Morrison.
Tsa Hor DllTlLS.—Yesterday evening a banquet
took place at the International Exhibition to celebrate the
repeal of the bop duties. The chair was occupied by Mr.
Beresford Hope, and among the oompany were the Lord
Harry Vane, IL P.; the Viscount Holmesdale,M.P.; the Via-
' count Peveneey, M.P. ; Sir Brook Bridges, Bart, M.P. ; Mr.
Charles Buxton, M.P. ; Mr. Dodson, M.P. • Mr. Donnas,
M.P. ; Mr. Martin, M.P.; Mr. Mackianon, M.P.;
Mr. Perry Watlington, M.P. ; Mr. Kintrea, Mr. Body,
&a. Covers were laid for 140. The ordinary
loyal and constitutional touts having been disposed of
the Chairman proposed as the tout a/ the evening, ' The
health of Mr. Dodson M.P., and the members of the
legislature who bad supported repeal.* In speaking to the
toast, Mr. Hops reviewed the history of the agitation which
had ended so successfully, and 000gratulated the company
on the victory which Lad been piped. The toast was drunk
with great enthusiasm. Other toasts followed, and the
company separated a little before eleven o'clock.

LATIOST INT 141.4 EN UK

ITALY.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on
Monday, K Teochio gave the following account
of the reception by the King of the depu-
tation appointed to present to his Majesty the
address voted by way of protest against that of the
catholic bishops to the Pope :
The Passing/Jr—lt is my agreeable duty to announce to
the chamber the reception accorded by his Majesty the
King of Italy to the deputation charged to lay b•
fore him the address approved in the sitting of the
18th. His Majesty received the deputation yesterday
morning, at half -past ten o'clock. The 'violaters were
present at the audience. I read the address which you
voted. His Majesty, first smiling courteously, said
that when be knew that the chamber intended to present to
him an address respecting the present situation of Rome, it
°warred to his mind that perhaps the chamber supposed
that he inclined to the side of the policy of the bishops.
Then, with a firm accent, his Majesty expressed his thoughts,
as nearly as I can recollect, as follows:—ltaly ought hence-
forth to be sure of her destinies. The King hopes that their
accomplishment is near : but, in order that the end may be at-
' tained sooner, he considers it necessary that there should
be calmness and tranquillity ; he believes that the extreme
parties, instead of being tueful to Italy, would render im-
possible the execution of the work which was so long being
prepared—the work for which so many perils were encoun-
tared, so many fatigues horse. The King trusts to the
wisdom of the nation, who have always, when DO-
' 4xesary, given him striking proofs of it. " I
and my ministry," said the King, in conclusion,
" are ready to advance boldly to the way which will con-
' duct um to the accomplishment of those ends which all
' desire, and I rely confidently upon the entire nation."

RUSSIA AND ITALY.
•' According to advicee," says the

ad, " which we have received from Twin, the
recognition of the kingdom of Italy by Russia,•
which as yet had only been privately an-
nounced, has just been officially commu-
nicated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A week's delay will probably elapse before its being
declared to the parliament and to Europe, as in
that interval a last effort will be made to decide
Prussia to associate herself in the act which has
just been accomplished by the cabinet of St. Peters-
burg. Everything gives reason to believe that the
court of Berlin will respond to those advances, for
after all she has never categorically refused to
recognise the kingdom of Italy ; each time that she
has had to justify her abnormal relations with the
Italian government she has done so by reasons of
expediency, which cannot now be invoked."

(acorn's rzczaa
FRANCE.

the persons claiming compensation." He euergeti-
cally repelled the counsel of M. Fevre to treat with
the Juarez government, and continued : " Our
honour is engaged, and we must avenge the insults
offered to us. On the departure of our allies the
Emperor sent the following instructions direct to
General Lorencez : ' It is contrary to my interest,
origin, and principles to impose any government
whatever on Mexico. Let the Mexican nation
choose what form of government suits them. We
only ask of them sincerity in the elections. We
desire the happiness of that fine country under a
stable and regular government.' "
The rectified budget was afterwards voted.