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LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL IL

Tim Quarterly Review is is despair as to the
condition and prospects of the Tory party. Very
often of late years it has declared things to be
upon the brink of final ruin, and that the only
attitude befitting a true patriot of the olden school
was that of tragic and inappeasable woe. But
always, until now, some consolatory circumstance
has turned up to mitigate the bitterness of anguish
and to reconcile the periodical Mentor of rConser•
elitism to a prolonged life of equivocal hope.
Matters have at last come, however, to a pass so
desperate that, consistently with the dignity of
prophecy and the self-respect of orthodox augurs,
then, is nothing for it but that expressive preli-
minary of suicide, which consists in throwing
one's wig into the fire. In the present car that
phrenwed act is performed with all the energy of
genuine desperation. The only man of genius
which Toryism has turned up since its last resolute
stand in defence of the Corn Laws—the man
upon whose self-reliant courage and inexhaustible
fertility of resource a bankrupt and broken party
have been fain ever since then to hang—the man
who alone has had the sagacity to discern, and the
art to devise, bow bit by bit his party might efface
somewhat of its long and well-earned unpopu-
larity, and become a fair competitor with its aris-
tocratic rival for power—this man the Quarterly
now turns upon and openly denounces and
reviles as the author of all the misfortunes
of Toryism, the evil counsellor to whom is to be
ascribed, above all other men, the now inevitable
ruin of the British Constitution. It is not merely
for the part which Mr. DIARALLI took in bringing
about the admission of the Jews into Parliament,
or his influential share in abolishing that mighty
bulwark of aristocratic rule, the Property Qualifi-
cation for Members of Parliament ; neither is it
by reason of the strong predilection he has uni•
formly shown for the head of the House of BONA-
PARTE, and for the foreign policy which would pre-
serve this country from a rupture with France
to gratify the old and inveterate instincts of
dynasty and claw. This latter is perhaps the
strongest actuating motive at the present hour
against hint ; but this is not the cause ostensibly
assigned (..r his deposition from the poet of leader-
ship, which his ungrateful and unteachable fol-
lowers now rudely demand. The main charge
set forth against Mr. DIARAELI is his hav-
ing persuaded his party to bid against
the Whigs for Reform. When Lord DERBY was
called to power just two years ago, it was the
right hem member for Buckinghamshire that in-
sisted, we are told, upon his virtually promising a
Reform R.II ; and it was he who, in the following
year, succeeded in leading the whole party, with
two individual exceptions, not only to vote for the
tneaanre he had framed, but to make it their
banner and rallying cry at the general election.
We are now given to understand that all this was
against the sense of right and duty which never
fails to animate true Tories. Their greatest and
ablest organ solemnly declares, in palliation of
that lamentable act of treason to consistency and
the constitution, that in all they said and did
upon the anhject they were insincere. They knew
that they were doing wrong, yet they did it in the
hope of retaining power ; and now that they find
they miscalcnlatisi, they would not only hark back
and declare that property, church, and crown
will be each and all undone if any
measure of electoral concession he passed,
but they turn found upon the statesman
they cheered and trusted, followed and flattered,
from 1848 to 1859, and Propose unblushingly to
throw hint over, as one who has beguiled and
betrayed them. Is this, then, the literal meaning
of all the fine talk we have so long been used to
about the disinterested spirit and honour of Con-
servatism I What has happened sines the division
on Lord HARTINOToNIII motion, in May last, and the
introduction of Lord Jour RUARRII:II Bill on the
Ist of March, to uutigate the shame of the course

thus nakedly proposed I' Had the Whig measure
differed in all its vital elements from that of the
late Government, there might have been some
reason for mystification. But the writer in the
Quartette takes pains to prove the opposite. The
necessity of dealing comprehensively with the
question—of having a new schedule, more or less
extensive, of nomination seats to be sequestrated,
and of extending the county franchise to
ten-pound occupiers—to all this the Derbyite
Cabinet and its supporters committed themselves
last year. Nothing remained, and nothing now
remains as • point of distinction between them
and the Whigs, but the extension of the suffrage
in boroughs ; and upon this, therefore, it is sug-
gested that battle may still be made. But the
reviewer well knows that as far as Mr. Dials=
is concerned the ground would be wholly unten-
able ; and that is probably the very reason why it
is urgently recommended. The ex-Chancellor of
the Exchequer repeatedly stated during the de-
bates of last Session, that the lowering of the
borough franchise wee a question for committee.
Sir E. BULWILII Lrfrole, Sir JOHN PAILINOSON, Lord
Permeter, and Sir STA/NORD NORTHCOTZ said the
I same ; and, what is equally important to be borne
in recollection, Mr. WALPOLI and Mr. Hs.m.sr,
on retiring from the Cabinet, avowed that their
advice had been to give a six-pound franchise in
towns. Why are not all of these politicians
assailed along with Mr. Dessau t Why, if the
crime of electoral concession be his real offence, is
the right honourable gentleman singled out for
obloquyandabuse? Or with what decency can it now
be argued by the Tories that no measure ought to
be passed which would enfranchise any portion of
the working classes, it being still fresh in the re-
collection of all men that they were ready to pass
a Bill not very dissimilar from the present, for
the sake of retaining office, not twelve months ago?
The adjourned debate on the second reading of
the Ministerial measure was resumed last night.
The reactionists and renegade Liberals who for the
last three weeks have been trying to raise ground-
less alarms as to the extent of the enfranchisement

to be expected under the Bill, have had their
reckless and random assertions brought to the
touchstone of proof, and the Government has had
the opportunity of vindicating the truthfulness of
the data on which they founded their calcu-
lations. Mr. DISRAELI has saved his party from
the disgrace of dividing against the principle of
the Bill. If one-tenth of the dangers and hor-
rors painted in the Quarterly were true, the
pious and patriotic Tories ought as honest
men to have taken issue on the second reading.
If the measure has a tendency, as is pretended, to
turn national finance into class confiscation, and
our venerable representative system into an abject
merciless machine for issuing the murderous edicts
of operatives' societies and trades' unions, then it
was the duty of every Conservative in Parliament
to divide against the principle of so nefarious a
measure. Possibly—since the debate stands ad-
journed to Thursday— it is not too late for a remnant
to save their honour after the fashion of the late
Colonel Siarnoar and Sir CHARLRA WRTHZRELL.
Anything would be preferable to the scandalous
hypocrisy of pretending to consider a measure
revolutionary, rapacious, irreligious, and anti-legal,
and yet at the same time consenting to vote for it.
For our parts we should not at all regret to see
the mean and mercenary mask of liberality which
Toryism was content to wear up to yesterday torn
from its unaltered face by its own hinds
in a momentary paroxysm of delirium. Not
a few impostors scrambled into Parliament
last year under the pretence of being Reformers.
Let them be tested now. So long as the Oppo-
mition kept up the cheat of merely differing with
Ministers about details there was no party interest
in the conflict. Lord DIARY'S speech the other
evening in the Lords, and the resuscitation of
the Toryism of thirty years ago in the pages of the
Quarterly Re r iev, have indicated clearly that the great
question of popular representation will after all be
fought out by opposing parties on irreconcileable
principles. Government has gained more by the
firm and manly declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
on Friday night in the estimation of its supporters '
and of the people generally than by anything that
has been said or done for some time. They have
nothing to fear in the coming conflict. Let them
but hold on to their course inflexibly ; and even
in the present Parliament, called as it has been by
their adversaries, they may, if they are only rose- ,
ute and determined, carry their Bill.

TIRE OPTICI or COLONISE. —This morning was
Mined the report of the committee appointed to consider
the state of the law sad practice as regarding the taking of
inquisitions in cases of death, kc. The bill which the com-
mittee recommend on the subject would contain:-Ist. A
declaration of the cases in which coroners' inquests ought
to he held. 1. A clause empowering the Attorney-General
to make application to a judge in chambers for a rule calling
on the coroner to show came why he does not hold an
inquest. 3. A clause empowering the Secretary of State
for the Home Department to make rules binding on the
county police as to the information they are to give to
coroners. 4. Clauses giving a power to justices to fix the
salaries of coroners for counties. Appeal to Horne Secre-
tary, and provision for periodical revision. R Clauses as-
similating, as far as possible, the election for coroners for
counties to the election of a member of parliament for a
county. F. Clauses directing that the coroners' jurors be
henceforth indifferently summoned from the jury lists of
their respective counties ; and that all payment to Jaren
for attendance on inquests be prohibited.

WIRTM I NETER REFORM UNION. —At a meeting of
this union, held last evening, in Piccadilly, Mr. W.
Barnard in the chair, the following resolutions were tins-
! nimously agreed to " That this meeting sees in the
committee of the House of Lords, moved for by Earl Grey,
• transparent device for getting rid of the Reform Bill for
this session, and believes, should this device succeed, that
an agitation will arise throughout the country such
as must result in the passing of a much larger
measure of reform with probably much less difficulty."
" That this meeting has heard with deep regret that Mr.
Massey, M.P. for Salford, a professed liberal, has sought
by a reactionary proposal to impede the progress of the
Reform Bill, and thereby to strengthen the hands of the
ccaservative opposition. "That this meeting, sensible of
the urgent necessity of passing the Reform Bill this session,
presses upon the liberal members of the house the propriety
of ?Villain:: further votes of money for the public service,
until the bill of Lord John Russell has passed the second
reading, sod has been considered in committee of the whole
house.

Ha MAJIIITY'S SHIP EDGAIL-A naval court-
etartial mesaibleil yestenlay on board her Majesty's ship
Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, for the trial of John
Clarke, a vate in the Mariam, belonging to her
Majesty's ship Edgar, on the charges "of having, when the
port watch was ordered to fall in on the Marboard gangway,
eadeavound to delay and discourage the service by falling
In with that watch, when he belonged to the starboard, and
by afterwards denying that he knew to which watch he be-
longed :" and, secondly, " for miscondo himself and
disobeying ordery while being conveyed in the s cutter
to her Majouv's chip Victory." The Court found that a
spirit of insufoolination had been shown by a poetics of
the crew of her Majesty's chip Edgar, at Bpithesd, on the
10th inst., and also found the prisoner guilty on the charges
brought against him, and sentenced him to two mt.
prmonment, with hard labour in her Ma s poi at
Winchester, and at the conclusion of that period to be
dismissed her Majedy's Royal Marine forces with disgrace.
The court was then re-sworn, and immediately psoaeeded
to try James Hahne& punier, Royal Marine and
John Menzies, Royal Marine, on charges of "having pre.
vented Sergeant Leshbourne and Corporal Stack trees petting
John Clarke, the prisoner in the loot case, in irate, in the
fore cockpit, and for having rescued him from their custody."
The Suiting of the Court was to the effect that the spirit
of insubordination was shown on board the Edgar on the
10th nat., but that the charges were not proved ainst
the prisoners, who were acquitted accordingly. Thee court
win reumernble this morning, and proceed with the trial of
the remaining oases, there being yet Al prisoners on board
the Victory fur trial, belonging to her Majesty's ship Edgar.

CDt Court.

The Queen held a wart yeuterday sfternoca at
Buckingham laleca

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Le Conunindenr Targion Envoy Extraordinary aad
Minister Plenipotentiary from him Majesty the King of the
Two Sicilies, had an audience of the Quasi', and delivered
his letters of recall. Hia Excellency was Introduced by
Lord John Russell, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, sod conducted by Lieutenant-Gamsral
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies,
. _

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen.
Her Majesty was attended by Lord Harris and Limit.-
Colonel F. Cavendish, the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Professor Owen had the honour of delivering the first of
a eerier of lectures on Natural History at Buckingham P►-
lace before the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Princess
Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur,
Prince Leopold, and the ladies and gentlemen in attend-
ance.

The Princess Augusta of Saxe Coburg and the Duke de
Montperuner visited the Queen.
Prince Leopold took a carriage drive.
A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com.
mission for the Exhibition of 1851 wan held yesterday at
South Kensington. There were present, Earl Granville,
(Chairman); Mr. C. W. Mks, Yr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr.
officer,
Edon. Bowing
d. (Secretary).7 Mr. H. R. Williams, financial
attende

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of Canada and British ColumWt, and
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian 14ands.
Despatches were sent to the governors of the settlements on
the west coast of Africa.
We are requested to repeat that an gentlemen and ladies
attending the Queen's Levee this day (Tuesday) and Draw-
ing-room on the 28th instant will be expected to appear in
court mourning.

HER MAJESTY'S Lava& —{TRIS DAY.)—This
afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort left Buckingham Palace, and proceeded in state
to St. James's, where her Majesty held a levee.
The Marquis end Marchioness of Ailesbury have
arrived in town from Bavernake Lodge, Wilts, for the
SMOOT/.

The Earl of Galloway has taken a residence in
Eatoe•place for the lemon.

Mrs. Gore, the novelist, who for some time past
has been omitted with blindness, has just undergone an
operation, which, it is hoped, will eventually restore her to
sight.

Mr. Benedict'e annual grand morning concert at
her Majesty's Theatre, under the immediate patronage of
her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, will take place
on Viedtesday, the 13th of June, not the 13th of May, as
&Elltoluboed yesterday.

Yesterday, at St. Mary's Church, Bryanstou-
square, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., led to the
hymeneal altar Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, eldest daughter
of the Duke of Newcastle. After the religious solemnity
the newlymarried couple repaired to Holderneme House,
Park-lane, the residence of Frances Anne, Marchioness of
Londonderry, where a di•jeasier was provided for a select
circle, including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl
and Countess Vane, &c. The noble bridegroom and bride
left town in the afternoon for the south coast, to peas the
honeymoon.

On Friday evening Mr. Mildmay will ask the
Secretary of State for India whether them is any truth in
the statement (printed in yesterday's Express) as to the
conduct of the Indian cadets in passing through Egypt
being "systematically outrageous." And, if that state-
ment be true, whether he is prepared to take steps for dis-
covering and punishing past offenders, and for exercising
more control over those young gentlemen for the future.—
Mr. Einglake also purposes inviting attention to the sub-
ject. He intends asking the Secretary of State for India,
"• question respecting the outrage upon the religious feel-
lap of the people of Egypt, alleged to have been committed
by persons in the service of her Majesty's Indian govern-
ment."

Sir Harry Verney, in committee on Representa-
tion of the People Bill, will move a clause repealing the
Act 22 George 111., cap. 41, which "disables certain
officers employed in the collection or management of her
Majesty's revenues from giving their votes at the elections
of members to serve in parliament."
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states from
Naples, 17th, that all the otudents of the University have
been sent to their respective homes by order of the police.
The Madrid journals of the 19th give no details
of the execution of Ortega, but simply publish two brief
telegraphic despatches from Tortoni annottocing the fact ;
they state, however, that on being told that the sentence
passed on him would be carried out, be displayed great re.
*ignition, wrote several lettere, and drew up his will ; also
that he was allowed to spend twenty hours in religious pre-
paration.

A Genoa letter says :—" Garibaldi in at present
here. On starting from Turin his intention was to proceed
to Nice, but he changed his mind and stopped short. A
spanned his departure for Sicily had been in circulation, but
was quite untrue, as he never had any such intention. The
real object of his journey was to visit Nice."

A letter from Parma, published by the Corriere
ifervezatite, states that on the 17th an ex•lieuteoant of the
Psrmese army, noted for having, as a member of the court-
martial under the old regime, contributed to the condemna-
tion of many political prisoners, was recognised in the
streets of that city. The house in which he took refuge
was instantly besieged by the mob, who seem determined
to renew the abominable tragedy of which Col. Anviti had
been the victim ; but this time the authorities were on the
alert ; a file of carbineers arrived, and marched the in-
cautious lieutenant to the railway station, whence he soon
started for Ale..sodria.

The modifications which the Emperor of Austria
has just signified his intention of introducing into the
administrative organisation of Hungary is declared by the
DEbals to be more apparent than real, and by no means
calculated to satisfy the people of that country. Our con.
temporary even goes the length of expressing an opinion
that the disappointment of their hopes may lead to
additional irritation among the Hungarians.

An extraordinary affair is related in the Russian
journals. Prince Nesvitzky was some years ago murdered
by his servant, who possessed himself of his papers and
fortune, and assuming the name of the prince, travelled
abroad for some years, living in good style. Afterwards
returning, be married a wealthy heiress, named Sokoloff,
and had by her several children. Recently, his imposture
was discovered, and he has been sent to the mines of
Siberia; but the Russian government has authorised the
children and the wife to continue to bear the name of
Nesvitsky.