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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

♦ SPECIAL EDITION et the "EXPRESS,'
matalatng the results of tt►e day's Reese, is pub-
limbed every main daring the Sporting Seams, at
oh 'Meek.

Wnsravxa may be thought of Lord Dust in
other respects, friend and foe must alike admit his
pre-eminent powers as a speech-maker. Nobody
can select topics with a nicer tact, or oommenton them
with happier illustrations. No one commands in
equal msesure a flow of language which is at once
dignified and unaffected, simple yet forcible, flexible
yet awaked. Everything is touched, but nothing
overdone ; there is neither omission, nor redundancy ;
the right things are said and the beet words used.
It is a rare and happy gift. When the tlEng is done,
it seems easy to do; but let anyone try it, and
he will soon learn this difference between the
power of appreciation and the power of performance.
Lord DERBY, perhaps, never exerted this enviable
accomplishment to better effect than in his address
at the Mansion-house dinner. The right kay wu
struck at once by the felicitous comparison between
the circumstances in which the country is placed

now and those in which it was placed in November
1867. We were then in the mid-gloom of the great
commercial crisis, and in the very strews of the
desperate struggle in India. Within three days
at Sir ROBS= CARDEN'S inauguration a ge-
neral crash in the money market was
averted, at the last moment, by the suspension
of the Bank Charter Act; and the country was
trembling with feverish anxiety to learn further
particulars of those desperate deeds of hardihood by
which HATALOCK had relieved the garrison, with-
out being able to raise the siege, of Lncknow. On
Tuesday last it wee Lord Dsaar's grateful task to
present a more agreeable picture. Organised rebel-
lien has been put down in India: the intelligence
we are now waiting to receive is that which
will announce the commencement of the final cam-

paig' n destined to restore tranquillity to our great
dependency, and found our supremacy on a surer
basis. Trade and commercial enterprise are re-
viving, though they have not yet fully recovered
from the panic of last veer; our harvest has bets
abundant; our revenue is elastic; our labouring popu-
lation is well employed and well paid. On
this last point, one of the facts communi-
cated by Lord Druer will excite • very
general feeling of satisfaction. The amount of
pauperism, which had rapidly increased between the
r,eptember of 18.57 and last March, bas, wince the
letter period. been in • course of steady diminution,
sad the numbers of those receiving poor-law relief
(to the last week of last September wee ecosiderably
lower than for the corresponding period in the pre-
vious year.
_ . _

Paring from the internal condition of the oonntry
to oar relations with Europe and the remota Beat.
the Pima Hinman found no reason to abate
the congratulatory tone of his remarks. With
regard to China, Lord Dauer is wanly con-
tent to take things as he finds them. His
opinions on this point are exorcised with a

diateemanlike moderation which will probably omit-
mead itself to many who, widely dissenting from
him as mod questions of national policy, agree with
►im hare. "Of the ownesseonnent of those hostili-
* dee I shall say nothing, but I now rejoice to say
that further bloodshed is at an end, and that Wen-
" ties bars been entered into which will be impels-
" taut, not only to this country, ►at to the pima
" interests of comaneroe and civilisation." la

this mode of dealing with the China
question in its present phase, we are strongly
disposed to concur. Our opinion as to the
111011anienotusout of those hostilities Is, indeed,
unchanged, but the time for protest has gone by.
The silence which soaks to avoid the renewal of
usher altercation implies no assent, far lass any
praise. But let bygones be bygones: sots
regattas; di lor. In the Gestation of bloodshed, if
it have indeed ceased, every htuaane Englishman
mud rejoice, and we are quits willing to be con-
vinced by the course of events, that the interests of
commerce and civilisation have been promoted by
the treaty of Tien-Bin. The advantages of the
commercial intercourse about to be opened with
Japan, if regulated by the Ides and humane cooed-
aerations to which Lord Deur 'Averts, will probably
justify the anticipations in which he indulges; sad
there can be but one opinion among all dams of
politicians as to the conspicuous ability with which
Lord Etram has carried oat the objects of his
arduous and important mission.
The assurance gives by Lord DZILDT, " that
there never has been a moment in which our re-
" lawn' with France have been oa a more friendly
0 footing than at present, or when on both sides of
" the Channel there was • stronger desire to
" maintain the alliance which has so long and
" happily subristed"-- this assurance, which on
ea occasion of so much importance would
not, it may be presumed, be hazarded without
foundation, is calculated to produce the best effect.
Even more important than this statement of feet is
the assertion of the principle by which Lord Dram
declares that his foreign policy will be guided. The
doctrine, sound in itself, is additionally valuable as
being • manifest protest against the policy which, as
practised by Lord Disanr's predecessor, we hays in-1

kit it our duty to condemn. , "I baliemk ►
says Lead DERBY, " that the policy best ealculatad
"to preserve the peace of the world is, in.
" first place, a firm and temperate maintaame
" of our own rights, a careful deference to the riglai'
" of other nations, and all possible abstinence from
" interference in their internal affairs. I would add,
a determination not to give or take offence, and, if
" offence should unhappily arise, then to have re-
" mane in the first instance to that principle which
to its eternal honour, wss settled in the Paris Con-
.' ference, viz., that of referring the matter to the
" friendly offices of some neutral country." These
are principles to which every enlightened English-
man will give his fullest salient; it is quite certain
that no Minister who is not prepared to act upon
them ought ever again to be entrusted with the con-
duct of our Foreign Department.
On the subject of the forthcoming Reform, Lord
DERBY was, u might have been expected, dexte-
rously evasive. The excellent Alderman who wee
occupying for the first time the civic throne, had so
far forgotten the host in the politician, as to remind
the Ministry he was entertaining that they had hi-
therto
lived principally upon the measures of their
predecessors, bat that now at last they had a clear
ammo open for the introduction of bold and original
mamma of economy, retrenchment, and reform.
Lard DERBT was not to be Wired in this
way, and few things could be more adroit
than the mode in which the accomplished orator
warded off the unexpected onset. Lord DERBY was
quite right. Important reforms a the kind which
he tells us he is contemplating—" the details of
" those measures of legal, social, financial, and
" political Liprovement," which he hopes " at the

of the Session to submit to the
" impartial judgment of Parliament and the people"
—these it would obviously be out of the question
to communicate at the Guildhall banquet. The
point to be noted here is that Lord Diana
and his Cabinet are, by his own statement, busily
engaged in preparing and maturing important
measures of Reform. To this extent then Ire On
wiser than we were. A Reform Bill, and that deal
extensive kind, is actually undergoing the prows
GI Cabinet Incubation. It is to be something, LEI
Dian tells us, which is to leave an impress 011111/2
institutions—those institutions which he elegantly
and truly describes as " the aggregate of suceessive
"improvements heaped up by successive generals
Lions." The measure which is to leave an imprees
on institutions like theme, can be no mere piece
of occasional legislation. This conclusion we are
fairly entitled to draw bola Lord DIRBY'S words.
To this extent, with all his dexterity, he fairly
stands committed. He is pledged, in the facia the
country, to introduce a broad measure, Mimed, es he
expresses it, " not to please this or that dos, but
" the community at large." Will he redeem the
pledge, and how ? that is the question. It is a
question deeply interesting to the.. concerned in
the probable stability of the DERBY Administration,

less so to those who, like ourselves, care not so
much from whom Reform in Parliament comes,
u that, come from whom it may, it should
be speedy, and broad, and thorough. That
Lord DIARY should succeed in inducing
the Cabinet over which he presides to sanction such
a measure as the people can accept, certainly takes
rank among the d priori improbabilities of politica.
Bet we have lived is an age when to say what cannot
or will not be done in Politics is not less rash than to
prophesy what cannot or will not be done in Science,
When we remember how and by whom Catholic
Emancipation was carried, how and by whom Free
Trade in corn was carried, we cannot affirm it to be
impoesible that a useful measure of Parliamentary
Reform should be brought forward by Lord
DUBE. It is a point, however, on which at pre-
sent it is idle to speculate. There are scenes on
which a humane mind is reluctant unnecesearily to
dwell. It is not pleasant to have to assist in fancy
at a Cabinet interior in which Lord CRILMBFORD
and Mr. HENLEY are being stretched on the rack of
an ever broadening franchise, or agonizing under
the thumbscrew of electoral distribution. Nothing
but • morbid taste can delight in pursuing the
details of the DERBY Reform Bill through these
preparatory stages of acute suffering and unpitied
ignominy. Whether the principal sufferers will
stand the pressure, or whether human nature and
the Dilly Cabinet will give way together, is more
than we can attempt to predicate. One thing is
clear: if Lord DERBY gives the people such a
Refute Bill ati they want, they will take it from
him as readily as from any one else ; if he fails in
doing this, he will have to give way for sea
minister who both can and will carry out what the
nation is resolutely determined by some means or
other to have accomplished.

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