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London, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY L.

HAYINU devoted six eights to slander of the
people, the anti-Iteforwers of the House of Com-
mons have thought fit to allow the Government
Bill t be read a second time without a divide&
In Cie often adjourned and resumed debate, whisk
began the third week in March, and has only ter-
urinated with the first week in May, no device his
been left unemployed which might tend torreate
suspicion of the working dames in the aim& of
those who now enjoy a narrow monopoly of the
privileges of citiaenship. Utterly regardless of
the consequences certain to follow from the use of
Iftnguage so opprobrious and insulting to millions
of intelisgent and industrious men, the Tory oppo-
sition have persisted in stimulating by their
cheers the unarms°, of every species of abuse and
vituperation of popular habits, aims, and
root es, with the avowed object of
searing a majority of the Legislature into
refusing the too moderate demand made on
behalf of the unenfranchased many. Luxury
and license must not be encroached upon by
poreity and toil. People who lived in 61.
houses were comparatively poor, and therefore
they must be positively venal ; they had compa-
ratively little time for intellectual improvement,
and therefore they most be treated as though they
were positively inoapshle through ignores** of
distinguishing between political right and wrong.
The floodgates must be kept feat shut against an
blamed and improving people. What mattered
it that education had so increased that the men of
our day were ten times better informed on the
rights and duties of society and of individuals than
the',.. fathers were thirty years ago f it was all the
mote necessary on that account to resist their
claim,; for being more intelligent, and having
greeter means of intercommunication, and
• settled habits of peaceably combin-
ing together, they would be less likely
to become the dupes of faction. Whet wilt-
tried it that commercial prosperity, combined,
with facilities of emigration, had lightened the
load on labour's mart, and sweetened the temper
of toil ; it was all the more needful to smite its
patient ambition in the face, and humiliate its
honest pride of independence. If the industrious
classes of England were a barbarous and brutalised
mob they could not have been spoken of in terms
of acorn and distrust more undtiguised than they
have been by the reckless men who call themselves
Go:co:natives, and by the half-doses renegades
who continue to skulk about the camp of Lib,- ,
• To hear these madmen talk a stranger
might iniagnw that by them, and them alone, the
buithens of the country were borne, its camps re-
cru:t.•d, its fleet manned, its wealth created,
and its tranquillity preserved. The question
being—not whether any man who contributed to
imperial or Meet taxation, as the bead of a family
pee i ismently living in one particular place, should
hat• a voice in the election of those who ruled
him—but whether one in every ten or
treiy twenty such men should be graciously
palliated to add his suffrage to those of his
wealthier neighbours ; a loud and long-continued
shout of insolent defiance and implacable anti-
pathy is raised ; hereditary corruption and inca-
pacity is told to tremble for its safety, and all the
meat, and churlish sentiments of the middle classes
are prayed in aid of the maintenance of dominion
by caste, by the CaelLS and the MONTatlUs, the
Worts* and the B►an N. 'KJ., et hoc Tuna oth,te.
Yet, as if to prove the cowardliness of this whole-
sal: and indiscriminate vituperation of unrepre-
sented and loyal clannaLts of the smallest
awed of tardy justice, when challenged by the
calm but eloquent voice of Mr. Ciroetoxe to
take upon themselves the noponaibility of reject-
ing the Bill, these caluninistore of the people
sicink from the perfornamice of what they have
been trying to persuade each other all this time
we, a nuolifest duty, and suffer the Second Reading
to be taken without a division.

11" hat is the moral of this revolting tale 1 It is
twofold. In the first place, it is conclusive u to
th« power of the Administration to keep their
promise if they will of passing a substantial new
mile .4 Reform this session. The Bill of 11131
lad much greater difficulties to overcome, yet it
wa. carried late in the summer thrteigh the Co.
mons, and IVY only arrested ui its prognosis by the
a:mutating obstinacy of the Loris, who in tie 161-
were content to be called uff by the

Court from their senseless oppuiftee
tuner believed that the pressed, BA;;,.
danger of foundering in the Up*,
Lord GREY might try to do if he bed
there, we cannot tell ; but following
the majority of his own personal co..
being either in office Ise iihatified closely with
those who are. Lord Dens; on his put, haws
better than to send his followers in the House of
Commons to the hustings with the disastrous
cry against them that reduced the Conservative
party in 1831 from one-half of the Lower House
to less than one-third of it at a single blow.
So carefully has this game been played up
to the present time that hardly any one of the five-
and-twenty members put forward to vilify and
calumniate the people as an ignorant, impo-
verished, corrupt, and " unaccustomed multi-
tude," will he found to have had seats liable to be
endangered in the struggle : nearly all of them
being nominees for close counties or for close
boroughs. Whenever the next general election

we shall doubtless find those conservative
members who have something like a town or open
county constituency blandly repudiating the senti-
ments they have been cheering of late at West-
minster, and once more seeking to win the
garages of a too credulous people by professing
as they.did last year an intense admiration ei
the virtues of the working claws and a ma&
readiness to enfranchise them. Well, then, if this
be 20 palpably the Derbyite game, Ministers
will have no excuse if they do not out-
/day and baffle it. Once in committee,
they can make the shufflera and the
slanderers part company by compelling them
to divide on each important clause ; and with
substantial majorities in favour of the more
important provisions of their Bill, they need not
entertain much apprehension of its being rejected
in the Lords. But there is another and much
graver moral appendant contingently to the legis-
lative tale just concluded. If in either House, or
on any pretence, the present too moderate mea-
sure should be rejected, it will be manifestly
attributable to the anti-national and truly revolu-
tionary language held on the part of the Tory
opposition. That language is now thought of only
with the indignation due to wanton insult. It is
regarded but as the swaggering of slander and the
raving of political delirium tremens. Should it
tarn out to be of more serious import, should it
prove to be but the inconsiderate expression of a
deliberate purpose—should the clamour of the
lobby and the calumnies of the House prove to be
but the signals of a concerted plot against the
elicaewledged rights of the people—it will behove
them to take other counsel than that which they
have hitherto resorted to, in order that they may
pat an end once and for all to the power that will
have drieen them to bey.

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Coiasal Pearoeby. a • -
The Deane d Kent left Bnakingbain Palace yesterday
afternoon, and retained to her reldence, Fromm Howe,
Windier, attended by Lady Sara L. Melville and Sir
Norge Cooper.

Prii;oe Consort, accompanied by Prince Arthwr,
met to Woolwich yesterday afternoon. Lieutenant-
Colossi Phssoaby and Meier Elphinstone were is ettendage.
The gesso, accompanied by the Princeewss'Alioe and Bta..
trice, sad atianded by the Hon. Beatrice Brig, took a drive
ha s esseisge-and-four in the afternoon. Lord Alfred Paget
slid Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on hcaseback.
. .

Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold honoured Mr. Mayarl,
the photographer, with a visit yesterday at his studio in
Regentstreek
Her Maieety's dinner party in the evening included the
Princess Alice, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the
Hanseatic Minister and Madame Rucker, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Aberoorn, Lord Waimea*, air Robert and
lady Emily Peel, and Captain the Hoe. A. Cochrane, R.N.
The QUeeLl'S private band attended in the Drawing-room
after dinner.

A deputation from Leeds respeeting the holding of •
separate maim within and for the West Riding of York-
shire, had ea interview with Sir G. Cornewall Lewis yester-
day, at the Home-clam
A deputation, on the subject of local claims on ecclesias-
tical property, sad the burial tees of the London clergy, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ',ester-
day, at his odicial residuum is Downingetceet.
A deputation from the Associate Institution for Improv-
Intend Enforcing the Laws for the PrAection of Women
bed en interview with Sir C. C. Lewis yesterday, at the
Remetelos.

Despatoties were received at the ColoniaLeMee vaster-
, front the Governor,. of Malta and the Falkland Islands.
were sent to the Governors of the North
American Provinces.

A fine portrait of the Queen, the gift of hfir
Majesty to the parliament of Victoria, has reseatly base
received in Melbourne, from &gaud. An address of thanks
to her Majesty front both houses of legislature has been
gamed in recognition of the gift.
Mrs. White gave her first soiros deasawle this
mason on Thursday evening, at tier madam u "Wyse*.
square.

The Countess de Pers*ny hen arrived at Albert-
pie House, from Peel..
The Earl and Countess of Morton have arrived in
town for the saute. His lordship has taken a holm in
Oheshani.street.

Frances Countess Waldegr*ve lies issued cards
for a concert on the 14th inst.

The Countess de Beaufort and frmily have left
the Brunswick Betel, Jennyuensst, for the Isle of Wight,.
Viscountess Palmetiton will have an assembly
this mss* at Quabvidas Hew.

Lard and Lady Ashburton have arrived at Ash-
hareem Howe, hes tiro Onage, ter the assess.

The Hon. Richard Cavendish's ball, fixed for
lost night, was postponed at the last moment, owing to the
very sudden and lamented demise at Mr. Cavendish's
brother•in-law, the venerable Archbishop of York.

Tho Ladies Loniaa and Charlotte %evil's, Lord
Herne, and Professor Thompson, of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, are now residing at the Beulah Spa Hydropathic
Establishment, Upper Norwood.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke
anal Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord
lastry, Lord St. Leonardo, Lord lionteigle, the Chancellor
d the Exchequer, ►nd the Speaker were among the visitors
to the Royal Academy yesterday.

The Priem. of Prussia is about to leave Berlin
for Cob Watt Her royal highness will afterwards pto
Writhe to visit her august daughter, and subeequentlp to
Badaa•Beiis, where, am in Fusions years, her royal *h-
omes will pass part of the season.

Chevalier bunsen, we (Athena-um) are informed,
is going to leave Heidelberg, aad will take up his future
abode at Bonn, io order to pumas the literary labours
which he has io hand.

Three thousand pounds have been collected
ehiegy from men of letters and their friends, in aid of the
memorial church of George Herbert, the poet, at Heiner-
ton. About 1,0001. are still needed to complete the work.

The Hallam subscription has reached 1,0001.
The time has therefore come when the form of memorial
may be considered.

Mr. J. Ashton &aka has presented to the
Royal Society the electrical machine constructed by Dr.
Priestley, which bad been bequeathed to Kr. Bostock's
father, the late Dr. J. Bostick. Thu machine is described
sad Sand in Reee's Cyclopedia.

A dramatic performance will be given on Tues-
day, the 15th init., at theliedler's Well. Theatre, the profte
of which will be devoted to the erection of a aimple monu-
ment in Highgate Cemetery, where the mortal remain, of
Ilia Warner, an admirable actress and excellent woman,
nowrepoaa,

Mr. M'Farrou'e new cantata, Christmas, is to be
produced at the next Wedneeday's conceit of the Musical

Mi. Mullah will present Herr Havels oratorio,
John the Deptlet, at fit. Martin's Hall, on the 16th of this
roooth.

The A thentrunt states that the English version of
Gheek's Armido, attempted by Mr. Henry F. Chorley, is
complete—that preparations are in progress for a concert
performance of that opera in Manchester, and for its publi•
cation ; and that it is believed that the paraphrase of the
other three emerge will be accomplished before Midsummer.
This is answer to many inquiries.
A circular letter from Manchester *anathema the
formation of a new association, to be called the Manchester
Pield•Naturelhab' Society, the object of which is to pro.
vide those residewta in and stout Manchester, whu poems'
• taste for astund history, with frequent opportunities of
social intercourse; thus bringing together persons of con.
genial spirit, and encouraging the aria and sciences that
have immediate relation to the works of mature. The plan
seems to have been commenced with • spirit which pro.
rinses nouns, above 200 members having already joined the
society.

The Staffordahire Advertiser dates that the ab-
sence of Yr. Wise from several divisions which have re.
cently taken place iu the House of Commons has been
caused by indisposition. The hoe. member, who suffers
from disease of the throat, is prohilAte4 by his medical
adviser from attending the sittings of the house at night.

in committee on the Aggravated Aasaulh Act
Amendment Bill, Mr. W. Ewart will move the 0111111i011 of
such parts of the bill as impose the punishment of flogging.
We read in the Melbourne Age, of March
17 :—" The unsparing L►nd of death has been se busy ou
this side of the hemisphere as upon the other, and taken
from us two gentlemen, Edward BC Whitty and Ebeneser
Syme, the former of whom was one of the must brilliant
men engaged upon the London pries, and one who, with a
constitution impaired by the incessant struggles of literary
life, came out to this country to seek health, sad found,
alas ! but a grove. The other, Ebeneser Spire, wee for
some time a contributor to the Westminster Review., after-
wards engaged upon the staff of the Argus, and subse-
quently proprietor and editor of this journal. For some
time Mr. lirue eat fur the Lod4on district in the House
of Representatives, but ultimately he devoted himself
entirely to the advocacy of the most advanced political
views by means of the press, and contributed not a little
to the downfall of the O'Shanary ministry, whose injurier us
policy he fearlessly exposed and ably defeated. '

A divorce bill, in its wain features a transcript
of the English bill, has been gamed by thu Legislative
Council of Victoria. The Australian measure, however,
contains two additional clauses of iniportanoe. The first
provides that divorce a mimed et Moro may be obtained for
habitual drunkenness; and by the wound, absolute iliseolu-
, lion of marriage may be granted where there has been de-
sertion for four years, either by husband or wife.
In the Legislative Assembly at Melbourne, the
State Aid to Ratlines Abolitio• all, introduced by the
go►ernment, end the second reading at which was preceded
by • call of the homes, bee been nod a third time and
passed, with 41010114 priest unanimity. Not a voice was
raised against the nassous, and is a house of 154 members,
only five voted against the aseenkiescling. The bill pro-
vides that the great shall exist as at present till the close
of IS6I, and shall then caw. Jews are now for the first
time to share in the great while it exists.

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INTELLIGENT

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INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

Garibaldi, it appears, has not gone to Sicily. ite
was going, and had taken a passport for America
as a blind, but, aocording to a private letter,
Count Cavour persuaded him to abandon his
project.

•
The A rnuntia of Turin publishes an analysis of
Hazzini's proclamation to the Sicilians. In calling
upon them to rise, he mays :

" I was for unity before I was a republican : that
is the reason why I am now ready to sacrifice my
own ideas in favour of a loyal and national
monarchy. Let all the peoples of the Peninsula
become one people. Vive Victor Emmanuel, King
of Italy !—Sicilians, the hour has come !—To arms
in the name of Italy! "Ginsarrn Mazzuri."

The Paris Pays, which at first made light of the
Sicilian insurrection, and regularly announced
every evening for the last fortnight that it was
altogether put down, now complains that every-1
thing on the subject is "contradictory, vague,
dark, mysterious, and that it is impossible to know
how matters really stand." It proceeds to quote
the following letter from the Semaphore oP Mar-
seilles :

" PALERMO, APRIL 25.

"We are in a complete revolution. Palermo
has been in a state of siege ever since the 4th, and
the whole country has risen. Every night there
are combats between the poor peasantry and the
Neapolitan soldiers, who burn and pillage wherever
they go. A great proportion of the nobility is in
prison, and the remainder wish to leave the noun-
, try, but the police refuse them passports. We
are at any moment liable to be pillaged,
by thirri, and not by the peasants, as the police en-
deavour to make foreigners believe. Fourteen na-
-1 fortunate men were lately shot for a conspiracy ;
but only three of them were really guilty. It is
impossible to visit one's friends without a pass from'
the police. Any man who says that the soldiers
commit excesses is at once consigned to prison.
All Sicily is up and is arms. Where the money
comes from no one knows. These poor peasants
were never so rich ; they have four tarins a day."

GENOA, Fumy.

An English man-of-war has arrived here, bring-
ing news from Marsala to the 24th ; Trapani to the
25th ; Palermo to the 25th; and Messina to the
27th ult.

The insurrection continued. One regiment had
refused to march from Palermo, as the soldiers,
immediately on leaving the city, would be exposed
to the fire of the insurgents.
Five of the principal inhabitants had been sub-
mitted to the judgment of the civil tribunal of
Girganti.

The arrests continued at Messina.
Marsala was tranquil.
Three Neapolitan steamers were watching the
coast.

NAPLES, MAT 1.

The city is tranquil.

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PARIS, FamAT Emma.

I hear from Turin that Count Cavour cannot
reckon upon a majority of more than 10 votes in
favour of the treaty of cession of Savoy and Nice. I
The °pieties Nationale supports with recent de-
tailed and positive assertions the opinion it ex-
pressed
yesterday that General de Lamoricibre
very likely be overthrown by Cardinal Antonelli.
Amording to the letter of its Roman cor-
respondent, dated April 29, the French genbral,
the old liberal and republican, is now, out
of the abundance of his new-born religious
zeal, all for violent measures and uncompro-
mising resistance to revolutionary principle,
represented by Sardinia ; and the wily Cardinal,
hitherto the incarnation of bigotry and despotism
uses the most moderate language, preaches concill;-
tion, and recommends the Pope to come to an un-
derstanding with the sovereign of Northern Italy !
The Pope was about to banish Baron Gavotti and
Prince Gabrielli (the latter of whom is a member
of the Bonaparte family), for having written a
letter of congratulation to Victor Emmanuel, but
Cardinal Antonelli, of all the members of his Holi-
ness's council, protested against the step, and his
advice was followed. The letter adds that negotia-
tions are already going on with another French
general, who has offered to take Lamoriciere's
place.

It is stated in Court circles that the Emperor
and Empress will pass the latter part of this month
at Fontainebleau, and that their trip to Savoy will
be postponed till June.
M. de Chassiron, councillor of state, has just
returned from a government mission to the East,
and has submitted to the Emperor a memorial on
the state of affairs in China.

M. Ansebne Pectin, who was one of the pioneers
of the annexation of Savoy, and who will certainly
have his reward shortly, writes to the papers to
deny that he is a candidate for a seat in the Corps
Legislatif for a Savoy district. "No doubt," he
says, " our new countrymen are now Frenchmen,
like ourselves ; but is it not desirable that at this
first election Savoy should be represented by
Savoyards ?" The fact is that M. A. Potetin ex-
pects something better than a deputy's uniform,
which only brings in 4001. a year. He will think
himself ill-used if he be not made a prefect.

The Rents continues firm. It closed at yester-
day's price, 71fr. 30e. for cash, and for acoount at
71fr. 35c., with a rise of 10c. Mobilier remains
without change. The railways were depressed, on
account, it is said, of the falling off in the weekly
receipts as compared with last year ; but this is a
very futile reason, because the differenoe is ac-
counted for by the extraordinary profits made in
the spring of 1859, by the transport of troops to
Italy. Orleans and Northern and Western closed
without change. Eastern fell 3fr. 75e. ; Lyons,
Sfr. 75c. ; and Southern, lfr. 25c.
The /ad4peudensee says that the Courrier de Paris,
which has long gone begging for a proprietor and
an editor, has at length fallen into the hands
of M. Emile de Oirardin, and that the government
has ratified the nomination of M. Duvernois as
editor.

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