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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26.

MOTIVE& venerable tradition has perished. The
Rays: Speesti. it is toned, need no longer be hollow
sad Inaiesainc, end Ministees have permitted
their Bovaaucut to speak eat tar langur of the
Deist. Theis eta be se sewed opinion about the
Address which her Marlin grenennesd before Par-
liament yesterday. It was direct and simple, gene-
rous and constitutional.

Referring in the first place to Italy, the Qum,
made a declaration of the policy her Goveremest
ham pursued and will pursue, such to will satisfy all
who have wished that England Amid bear in
Europe, and for the good of other nations, a faithful
witness to the priociples on which all her own poli-
tical prosperity is founded. Her MAJZSTY not only
stated but reiterated yesterday the principles on
which her Goveremeet easeented to take part in
the Congress which was to deliberate on
Italian affairs. The Quinn." words are in effect
a renewal and adoption of the memorable declarer
bon made by Lord Joss Rcsanxt at Aberdeen hint
autumn, which at Home was thought impious, at
Vienna revolutionary, at Paris injudicious, and by
Lord NORMAXBY frightfully dangerous, bat which
was witted by the approval of every manly
English heart. " I aseepted the invitation," said Der
MAJLATT, referring to the past, " but at the same
‘' time I made knows that, to each a Conran, I should
steadfastly maintain the principle that no external
" force should be employed to impose upon the
people of Italy any particular government or oon-
" stitutio,i." And, again, looking forward:—
" Whether in Congress or in separate negotiation, I
" shall endeavour to obtain for the people of Italy
" freedom from foreign interference by force of arms
"in their internal loneerne, and I trust that the
affairs of the Italian Peninsula may be peacefully
and satisfactorily settled." Thee' firm and ex-
plicit sentences, transmitted by the electric wire, have
already reached the capitals of emancipated Italy,
where they will rats, still higher the confidence
in this country which the steadfast policy of
Lord PLUILIISTON and Lord Joss Ht seatt
has inspired. They have reached Vienna also,
where they will dissipate the last fond hopes
nourished by miserable stories from Brussels of di-
vided opinions in the English Cabinet.
The tone of moderation in which the dispute with
Coins is referred to, justifies the belief we felt at
liberty to express two months ago as to the dispa.
eition of our Government, as much as it condoms'
the savage spirit of revenge which it is to be re-
gretted has found public expression in some organs of
opinion. We maintained on the first announcement

of the news from the Peiho that nothing bet
confusion, leading inevitably to irregular and
fearful collisions of races, could be expected if
we permitted the Chinon to remain under
the illusions and exaggerated national feelings
awed by their exceptional success at the Takla
forts. For humanity's asks it was right and neces-
sary to deliver the Chines* Government from mia-
emiceptions which would betray it to ruinous courses.
This is the limited and just object which we anew-
stand the QUItES to proclaim from the Throe*.
Redrew, and fulfilment of the stipulations of Lord
F-Lain's Treaty, and not a bloody revel at Pekia,ear
yet the devastation of the Caine.. sestiord, is what
the English Government wants. Far from adopting
the theory of callaot and impatient Akers,
that the Chinese . are knaves and lien, inca-
pable of good faith—s doctrine which would make

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all peaceful (stereouree with them
olio—fee Saglish Goreresseste asserfisi rather
the imagoes el Lord Hum and the met experi-
'seed of oor Coosels in the Chinese Irwip,re, is
reedy to diet with thee es with a pee* prepared
to appreciate and reciprocate just and «pliable
treatment, and ready, tf possible, to dispense

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with a resort to arms in the settlement
this dispute. The QUEEN'S Word' lte:—" It

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" be gratifying to me, if the prompt acquiescence
"of the Emperor of CHINA in the moderate '
" demand. which will be made by the Pleni-
potentiaries shall obviate the necessity for the
" employment of force." We are aura that it
will also be gratifying to the great body of
the English people if such a result can be attained.
The nation is tired of these recurring wars, in which
it can neither gain honour nor profit, and cannot un-
doratand the unifulness of ambassadors who do
nothing bat bring about hostilities. It is very likely
that we have carried our policy too far in past years to
be able now to confine our dealings with that Empire
to the commercial intercourse in which all out into.
rests are concentrated, and to the facilities strictly
neemeary to its prosecution ; bat at any rate, in our
future eounie this object should be kept strictly in
view.

The legislative programme recommended to Par-
liament from the Throne, at the head of which is the
Reform Bill, to be introduced in lass than a month,
is not only unusually comprehensive, bat has the
advantage of being that of a Government having a
prospect of being able to carry it out. At home we
see everywhere the signs of prosperity and content-
ment. India is tranquil, and the colonies happy ►n
the peessesion of the largest privileges compatible
with beneficial connexion with • peat empire.
Never was a better time for deliberate and far-seeing
legislation on great interests.

Ix the Home of Lords last night a great vsriety
of topics of the first importance were discoursed of,
rather than discomed, upon the canal motion for an
Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Of
the mover and seconder little need be said, save that
the latter was very inaudible, and the former, owing
to the fatal self-consciousness apt to overwhelm an
isexperienced speaker, was wholly inarticulate.
Lord GMT, however, who followed, was neither.
Always able, if not always sound, the noble earl
seldom fails to mpg* the attention of both sides of
the home ; his own, because they never know when
homey break forth into severe attack upon their mea-
sures; his hereditary opponents, became they never
despair when he rises of his doing more to damage'
the popular mum before he sits down than they
ma do themselves. In justice, however, to
Lard Om, it must be owned that, in the present
instance, he confined himself fairly within the
bounds of calm criticism on the general tendency
of the policy involved in • Commercial Treaty
with France ; and to the strictly constitutional
piestiso, whether Parliament ought to have bees
emealted before the resumption of hostilities is
China. Many sincere advocates of Free Trade will
probably concur in the views expressed by him as
to the preferability of each nation regulating its
customs tariff solely with regard to domestic
economy and industry 1 and the most sanguine
advocates of the newly signed conventon with
France do cot deny that it is me an exceptional
case it is to be defended, and not es forming a prece-
dent applicable as • general rule. When we are
acquainted with its provisions in detail we shall,
however, be in abetter condition to judge of its in-
trinsic merits ; and until then all sober-minded
people will defer the formation of any very strong
opinion. Only this one word must be said, for it
has a significance not to be mistaken or disguised—
the first impression made on both Houses of the
Legislature by the announcement of the fact was
that of a chill rather than a cheer.

Lord OIIT'S chief exertion was directed, how-
ever, to the second topic mainly—that of the omis-
sion to call Parliament together to ask its authorisa-
tion of a new armament against China. We are
disputed to go with hie lordship in every part of the
auctrine he so well laid down on this subject ; we
only differ from him as regards its immediate appli-
elation. But the reply of the Dake of Newnan's
on behalf of the Government was simple, clear, sod
decisivs—eo decision that the Opposition, who had
Warily cheered Lard GMT, drew off their support
when he intimated his readiness to test the opinion of
the house by a division. We have entered upon no
new war with China on account of what occurred at
the month of the Peiho ; for the ratification of the
treaty of pear* having been refused the old state of
things still subsisted, and no other can justly be
asserted to prevail, in contemplation of international
law. On the far different question of our policy,
past, present, and future, regarding CUM, both
Lord DERBY and Lad GARY expressed, indeed,
opinions at variance with those entertained
by Ministers; but they did so incidentally
Mbar than provocatively, desiring to reserve their
right of full debate respecting the m►tter for a
future day.
The tiros and patience of the Peers was next sub-
jected to a Myers and sorry trial, by the intrusioa of
the Marquis of NONMANBY, who once more appeared
in his well-known part of defender of the faithless
despots of Central Italy, and supernumerary Ad-
vocate-General of the holy Apostolic Roman Empire
beyond the Alps. A drearier or duller pertonnause
cannot be imagined. With all the familiar grimaces
and natio-dramatic intonations, the Grand Ducal

Legato prepared to open his wallet of curious
proofs against Piedmoot, and authentic do-
cuments to show that the Italians never
did, and do not now, want to be united
under a free Government, but would if they were
suffered go back to political gaol again. But the
reader will read on and on through the tiresome
tirade wit►out arriving at any new fact or even
plausible statement tending to make out the despe-
rate awe of the ei-decant Liberal Marquis. It is all
the 41 Mary over again ; nothing deserving the
VIM at a circumstantial allegation against the
people ot Maly or their liberating rulers that ham not
been disposed of long ago. Lord BROUGHAM
indulged in one of his vehement and solemn adjura-
tions of Ministers to be very circumspect but at the
same time very firm, very decided but very concilia-
tory, very slow to venture on any reform at home,
hat very desirous of seeing all kinds of reform pre-
med use/lasted abroad. We cannot say that we
have been able to discover any definitive purpose in
his outpouring of loud-sounding words, beyond that
of demonstrating to all the world that at eighty-one
the light of other days he. not quite gone out.
Lord Danny, as labia wont, had all the fun of the
ovoidal; to himself, and it was not much to have
after all. He qtrzzed the " mute Milton" of the
Ministerial bench, and turned an unlucky slip of the
tans* of the seconder of the Address to mastic
account. His comments on the Commercial Treaty
with nesse, oesempanied u they were by un-
pleasant suggestions as to the enbanoed difficulties
of the Cu...maw:oa of the EXCHEQUIL with
respect to his budget for the year, were in a
more serious vein, and will not be found
devoid of inherent by the relleotieg. That
they were suggested by the love of mischief'
and the dealt, to eaSsissir, oust party men opposed
to the ex-Premier will of worse believe. Poe our-
selves, we are Dot conserued *lth motives so mug
as with the bearing et MlNMefie at and we Isms'
offset to deny that we Des In the relinquishment of
immediate revenue for the sake of cemented amity

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with France anuequeneas whom gravity ought to
eteivinco iite most sceptical of our neighbours how
sincere is our solicitude for the maintenance of
friendly relations. But that these relations if unin-
terrupted are worth any reasonable or temporary
sacrifice, we entertain no doubt.