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London, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

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SATURDAY NEXT, March 14.

Turn are some important truths in the address
which the Right Hon. EDWARD ELLICE has jolt
lamed to the electors of Coventry. " I did not

approve," he says, and most sincerely lament, the
extreme measures to which our civil and military
authorities in China lave carried their proceedings,
cm their own responsibility and without direct in-
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slenstisas from home." And it appears that it I.
Mt lamely the bombardment of Canton, but the
deportment of the English authorities in
that meets with Mr. Ettica's disapproval :

0 Wain is no man among you more op-

pod 6ma myself to the aggrewiee
WWidi has too mach characterised part of
commercial relations with the Chinese." In

proposing a remedy for these evils, Mr. ELLICE has
hit the right nail on the head, and his proposal has
a wider rango of application than the Chinese case.
He says :—" It would seem full time that this prac-
tice of involving the country in wars in the East,
except ander the pressing necessities of self-de-
fence, should be brought more directly within the
immediate control of Parliament."

This is strong langusge to be need by an able and
experienced statesman—by a gentleman who re-
turned from the Continent for the express purpose
of voting in support of Ministers on the China
question, and who even now calls upon his constitu-
ents to ratify that vote by their approbation. Brit
it is scarcely more remarkable than the language of
• weekly journal, of which it is notorious that •
member of the present Ministry is proprietor and
editor. We are told, in the Economist al Saturday
last, that the representatives of Ministers in China
have acted "in a manner which they (Ministers]
themselves probably never would have sanctioned,
and which, judging by the facts as partially known
to us, seemed open to serious question."
We advert to these declarations of gentlemen inti-

mately allied with Ministers, not for the purpose of
perpetuating a schism in the Liberal ranks, but
for the purpose of indicating the only mode in
which its continuance can certainly be avoided. It is
clear that men of weight and position in the Liberal
!mks who voted with Ministers in the late division,
are as much grieved by the events which have oc-
curred at Canton, and ae amens to prevent similar
events from occurring again, as those who voted
against Ministers. Let these gentlemen, to whom
Ministers arc under deep obligations for their zealous
assistance, urge upon them the necessity of
giving some reliable guarantee that every effort
will be Made to terminate at the earliest
possible period, and with the least possible
bloodshed, the hostilities now in progress in Chins.
Let them inlet upon a further guarantee that in
future no civil or military authorities on foreign
stations shall be allowed to commsenee hostile opera-
tions until they have received the ausetion of the
Government in England, mikes in the ease et actual
attacks apes the lives or properties of Englishmen.
Lord PALMIRSTON, by his intimation that he intends
to send out a Conunimioner to settle the Chinese diffi-
culty, has admitted that he himself ham no confidence
in the discretion of the present English civil and mili-
tary authorities at Canton. This is a step in the right
direction, but it does not go far enough. So long
as the Plenipotentiary, Admiral, and Camel, who
have occasioned the diMenity, remain on the spot,
with the appearance of °Seed authority, their mere
presence will be a some of irritation to the Chinese.
We are not asking Lord Pauntheroz to punith hie
favourite agents. Let him appoint Admiral SlT-
mots to same more agreeable station. Let hiss
premises Mr. Canal PARKIN to NM higher Mike et
another pmt Let hint centimes I. employ even Sir
Join Bonus., provided it he Y passe else where
he ma der him. and where he is ender the imme-
diate nmervision and sentrel el his seperiers. Let
in short, deal with these gintismen as be dealt'
with Mr. Cimarron when be Ina that gentlemen%
longer emitiesense et Washington ea insuperable
barrier to the eindeemese et friendly Medan

with the United States. We have the authority of
• gentleman long resident in Chinu—ot one who
his both friends and valuable property in Hong
Bong—for ;inserting that if these measures are
adopted, it will be easily possible, by judicious ma-
nagement, to place our relations with the Chinese
before the year is at an end on a more satisfactory
footing than they have ever yet attained.
This is perhaps all that can be done to heal the
present breach. For the future we require some such
direct control by Parliament over declarations of
war as is pointed out in Mr. Humes address to the
electors of Coventry. We have just bad a war with
Persia, begun and ended without Parliament having
been allowed to express an opinion upon the subject
Nay, more, the Persian war was declared by the
Governor of a dependency ; even the Crown
was not called upon to exercise what ought
to be its excluive prerogative. And now we
have a war in China (to adopt the critical dis-
tinction of Mr. LABOUCHIRE) commenced without
the sanction of the Crown, and carried on in defiance
of the expressed disapprobation of the House of
Commons. If such hugger-mugger work is allowed
to go on, we may have wars in plenty, with which
the people and their representatives will have
nothing to do but to pay the expenses. Mr.
ELLICE has declared that this must be amended ;
his constituents ought to let him know that they ex-
pact him to work promptly and earnestly for its
amendment. And every constituency in the king-
dom ought to refuse its support to any candidate who
demurs to pledge himself to support • measure
having this end in view.
We say this not ea opponents of Lord PALMER-
STON. According to present appearances, opposition
to the noble lord would be fruitless, even though
we were inclined to it—which we are not. It is easy,
indeed, to detect a central electioneering arrangement
in the placards recommending Lord PALmrasron to
so many constituencies ; but still after every allow-
ance is made, the efl9oll4Melli of a large body of the
electors for the noble lord is undeniable. But it is
the duty of Reformers, while yielding to the current,
to make terms for themselves. If Lord PALMER-

mu is to be kept in Ace by Reformers, Reformers
are entitled to ask some security that he will not
avail himself of the power they confer upon him to
thwart and obstruct their principles. Such caution
I. by no MOM unnecomary. There is not one of the
most ancourpromising adherents of Lord PALMER-
' nor who does not confess to some misgivings as to
the course he may pursue as Minister. Mr. ELLICE
is doubtful on the score of our commercial policy in
the East I another hints to his Lordship that a de-
claration in favour of Parliamentary Reform wadi
be reassuring; a third, that it could be
wished that the Plenums would promise to
be more economical. In short, Lord PAL-
MERSTON'S supporters, to a man, admit that they
admire him, not because of his principles. bat is
spite of them. He, on the other band, wessivss their
professions of devotion like a spoil s& beauty, who
accepts the homage of her admirers as no awe than
her due, and perversely laughs to worn all their
good advice and entreaties that sits will behave
with more decorum. When his supporters im.
plore him to express sympathy with their pro-
fessed principles, in order to enable them to lave
appearances, the gay and incorrigible PAM. laughs
in their faces, and tells them plainly that he is not
going to demean himself by laying the thing that is
not, to cloak their lapses from strict principle—that
they must invent their own excuses. This would
be very amusing in a novel or comedy, but the
business of real life is too earnest to be dashed
aside with such pretty wilfulness. When Lord
PALsteasron and his supporters appeal to Re-
formers for aid, it is certainly not unressonable in
Reformers to ask for some security that the policy
of his Government will be in conformity with
Reform principles.

THE Dissoirxtox.—The royal proclamation for
the dissolution of the present parliament, and the
calling of another, is expected to be issued about the
25th of this month.-06urrer.
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The Roue of Commons are shoat to lees the
services at thehr able sad exedlest Speaktr, who has served
kr 18 years--a longer period than say portions Speaker, if
we except the well-known Arthur Onekw, who occupied the
chair for 88 yaw. Meted to the dab, in fear pertiarnents,
Mr. Leisure bee witnessed the fall of four adminabatioca,
and the mat aka of a Nth; sad ham enjoyed the tall
confidence of Cassava's,. es well as Liberal nenkritas.
" His talents, high character, and eminent public servicea"
charm a edema:eery, "entitle him to a illetkplished
place in the Hoses of Peers; and the public will cordially
approve dewy pecumiary aclmowledgment which parliament
may caw to a public servant at once so worthy and so Judy
popular." Mr. Walpole, Mr. Fitzroy, and Mr. Stuart
Wortley, ere in the field for the vacancy.
The Right lion. the Speaker of the Hoare of Com-
mas gave hie kin& parliamentary full dress dinner on the
evening*, Warder, /eh of March. The following members
were mesa :—Vieceunt Raychem, Viscount Sondem. the
Hon. Arthur Kinnard, the Hon. Henry Berkeley, the Right
Hon. WOliam Monsell, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner
Gibson, Sir George Strickland, Bart., Sir George Henry
Dash rood, Bart, Major-General Sir Henry Davis, Bart.,
Sir James Duke, Bart., Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8.,
General Sir John Fitzgersld, K.C.8., Mr. Frederick Han-
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