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THE DERRY trumpet gave forth an uncertain
sound last night. Its notes were assuredly ill-adapted
to inspire military ardour—to awaken an " Up,
Guards! and follow me" enthusiasm. Lord DERBY,
Indeed, made ono or two " palpable hits," when
allying Lord PALMERSTON, and certain theological
asempapers that have been using language in con-
nexion with the PREMIER'S name, which if employed
by others they would have been the first to denounce
as " gat blasphemy." His taunt about the divi-
sion on Mr. LoCKE KING'S Bill, too, WC= to
have told; for it called up Lord GRANVILLE, who
certainly did not mend the matter when he depre-
cated allusion to that unlucky blunder, or, as he
preferred to call it, that " unfortunate contingency.'
But such fencing with buttoned foils, such sparring
with the gloves, will not rouse a party to action. In
short, Lord DERIT does not see his way. He is
not prepared fbr an appeal to the country.
This will not be wondered at by any one who
perused yesterday the only faithful Conservative
journal in the morning daily prem. The Morning
Herald uplifts its voice in lamentation over the dis-
organised state of the Tory party. In the election
for the ('it♦ in 1841 the Herakl asserts that the Con-
sorvatives "triumphed," which, being interpreted,
moans that they carried two sesta out of four. Other
people might call this a drawn game, bat we will not
Be critical about words. The Herakl also de-
clares that at that time the party had a vigorous
and efficient registration committee. Now every-
thing has changed. There is no Conservative Asso-
ciation, no Conservative candidate for the City.
For the appalling change the Herald accounts as
follows :

In PM Sir Ilebtet Peel, by Chapels BBL
ahneked eel Moulded bambini. d bib City followers. In
160. by hie 111 quell MA b emeged thousands In
18te, Lf abseiledes be lerteally broke up the
Petty. MA be 110, es. idea °craned, Weald
of two Cemowatires edema et Se bead of the poll, or
say etalieeill to nem, la. aid dot et the foot. The

wnwk of the City Cemervative Armistice otintsfood to
ranger on for two or three yeses longer, and then ft broke
up, or adjourned aa. die. And now when ea Arlon to
upon as, sot a shed of Coranative orientation erste
It may be so. All theme things may have helped
to break up the Conservative party in the City ; but
there is a fact connected with their former union,
noticed by the Herold, that seems to us to account
more plausibly for the alteration titan any of the

circumstances enumerated by our contemporary :
In 1896, /kr Robert reel, at a dinner at Merchant Tailor:-
ban, gave hie Mohamed counsel, " Register, Register,
Register 1 " The cilium kllowed hie advice ; they imme-
diately itemed • regletralics committee, and in the course of
the neat nu yeah they raised among themselves, and
atleaded in regietration, in public dinners, in two elections,
and ass petition, mom than thirty thousand pounds.

Point d'argent pang de Suisse. The Tory mag-
nates in the City are no longer disposed to disburse
WOOL in the coarse of a year or two. When they
epsell their purses freely they could command two
sesta; now that they have closed them they cannot
command one. If we are to take the condition of
the City of London Conservatives as a specimen of
the condition of their party throughout the country,
no wonder Lord Dzan hesitates to march through
Coventry with them. Ho knows that for Conserva-
tive electioneering gold is the sinews of war, and
he will not fight with a einewless party.

Tim advioce from Canton received by the Over-
land Mail bring down our intelligence to the end of
January. At that date one of the natural results of
a precipitate resort to hostilities, without adequate
means to carry them on, had developed itself.
Admiral SEYMOt R. after destroying the western
suburb of the city--an operation which appears to
have involved the conflagration of some seven
thousand dwelling plasm—had been compelled to
abandon his position off Canton and the Dutch Folly.
With s view to maintaining his communication with

Hong Kong, and keeping ;pen the poseur of the
river, the British commander had stationed the force
under hie orders at different points in the Canton
river, the highest being at the Tectotum Fort, in the
Macao passage, and the lowest at the Bogue Forte,
close to the river mouth. The relative position of
Canton and the Bocce Tigris are not so unlike those
of London and the Nore. Admiral Sundown's pro-
blem is to keep the communication open along
this river line until the arrival of the re-
inforcements which, as we know, are on their
way. That he will be able to succeed in
this object there is little reason to doubt ; but it is
sufficiently humiliating for a British force to have
been reduced, in consequence of ill-judged and vio-
lent acts of aggression, to a defensive position so
embarrassing and so discreditable.
The affair of " the poisonings" remains pretty nearly
as it stood at the date of the last despatches. A-tuts
the baker—a name certainly of the worst omen where
the adulteration of bread is concerned—had started

for Macao on the morning when the alleged
poisonings were discovered. He was pursued,
brought back, examined, and committed with
nine others to take his trial at the criminal
sessions which are held monthly at Hong Kong.
If the guilt of an offence so atrocious has been
clearly brought home to him, there can be no room
to doubt that he and his associates in crime have,
long ere now, expiated by a just doom this abomi-
nable attempt at wholesale extermination. It is,
we observe, confidently stated in one of the local
papers that a careful medical analysis has detected
trues of arsenic in portions of the adulterated
bread ; but at this distance, and with the
imperfect data we at present possess, anything
bite a positive conclusion as to the real facts
of the case would be, of course, premature. We
know the tendency of panic if not to create at all
events to magnify charges of this nature. We by
no means intend to insinuate that the guilt of
A-Lux is a fable, or even that the alleged poison-
ings may turn out to have been at first greatly mag-
nified by natural apprehension—we only recom-
mend caution in arriving at conclusions before we
know the facts ; and we may at any rate be allowed
to express gratification at the intelligence that
" although two or three hundred people must have
partaken of the poisoned food, no lives have been
lost." It is also a matter of considerable

satisfaction that in the fortnight that has
elapsed since the date of the last despatches,
no ground has been given for suspecting any repeti-
tion of an attempt so atrocious: the peace of Hong
Hong does not appear to have been seriously dis-
turbed; no complaints are made of any falling off in
the supplies, nor has any intelligence been received
of a nature to strengthen the apprehensions which
nervous people had begun to entertain of concerted
plans of insurrection by the Chinese against the
European population throughout the length and
breadth of the Eastern seas.

When, indeed, we look back from the 30th
January, 1857, to the 30th of September, 1836, and
compare the relative state of things at those two
periodsinthe Canton waters, we are forcibly reminded
of the " plentiful lack of wisdom" with which
the government of the world is sometimes carried
on. At the former date we were prosperously car-
rying on a rapidly increasing trade, in the extension
of which the poorer classes of this country have the
deepest interest, with the inhabitants of a vest pro-
vince only a little leas populous than the great
kingdom of France. At the latter period this trade
was temporarily suspended, the principal city of
this great province was bombarded—the suburbs,
containing the residences of all the trading
part of the population, were utterly de-
stroyed—our own factories were consumed with
fire—our communication with 'long Kong
threatened—our power of ingress and egress in the
Canton waters confined to those floating citadels
which, amid the swarming craft of the populous
river, maintained, not without some lose of dignity,
the prestige of the English flag. We defy the
most ardent admirers of Sir Joust Bowaixo to say
that thus far England has not been made to pay
somewhat dear for his fixed determination to visit
Tan within the walls of Canton--somewhat
dear for finding Mr. Consul PARKLI in the
luxury of bullying "a barbarian viceroy" because
he declined to apologise for an insult which
in intent he had never offered, and because,
though he sent back the men he had seized with
a civil message, and a promise, satisfactory even to
Emus, that no such seizure should be made in
fetus*, yet he did not replace them on the dock of
that craft, as notable henceforth in history as the
Argo or the Bellerophon, with all the precise punc-
tilio that the petulance of this hot-headed young
gentleman was pleased to exact. And what is to
come ? Admiral SEYMOUR will no doubt hold his
own till the reinforcements arrive—till a little army
of picked English troops, and an effective force of
artillery, is mustered in the Canton waters. Let us
suppose this muster to have taken place. The long
passage is over; the Transits and Megteras have
I slowly wallowed their way over the 12,000 miles
of interposing brine ; the gallant relics of
the Crimea the vigorous rank and file of
I Aldershott—are on board their floating barracks,
' ready to fall to. Let as suppose they have done
their work as they always have done it hitherto,
vigorously, promptly, and well. Let us suppose
Canton taken, and all to be in readiness' for an ad-