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London, England, 1868-12-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDA Y, DEC. 4.

THE NEW MINISTBE

TUE course of affairs is understood to have gone
smoothly with Mr. GLADSTONE ever since he re-
ceived the Qi-Ezx's message from Windsor. The
hollow absurdity of the rumours industriously cir-
culated by the Conservatives was pointed out in
last night's Exprtss, and all that has transpired
since shows how cruel has been tho injustice done
her MAJI...sTY in inventing for her antipathies and
leanings which have had no foundation in fact.
It is little to the credit of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
enemies that neither the blameless life of the
SOVEREIGN, nor her well-known attachment to the
constitution, has preserved her from inuendoes
and surmises in themselves disloyal ; for when
party virulence stoops to the manoeuvre of assign-
ing personal distaste' or whims as a motive for
acting unconstitutionally it is time to ask where
unscrupulousness will stop It is humiliating,
however, to know that the solitary plea for be-
lieving the idle and malignant assertions so reck-
lessly made, has been found in the ambiguous
demeanour and unconstitutional talk of men,
whose position should have made the honour of
their SovEsMoEtheir first care. The plain truth of
the matter is that her MAJESTY received the
Liberal leader most graciously, and has comported
herself during the present crisis with her accus-
tomed dignity and sense. The half-crazy suppo-
sition that any Peer would be required to mediate
between the Crown and the PREMIER elected by all
England should not have obtained an instant's
credence in any quarter. Tet rumour was
busy to this effect during a great part of
yesterday ; and people not otherwise de-
mented talked gravely of more than one
member of the Upper House 1111 a sham, or " pro-
" perty" Prime Minister. behind whom Mr.
OLAnsioss was to hide. This foolish talk is at
an end now ; and no one ventures to dispute that
the Cabinet will be composed of such materials as
the new PREMIER thinks best. The great families
of the country have given him their hearty sup-
port. •nd there is no luck of representative men in
all sections of the party from whom choice can be
made for office. A really strong government is
what the House and the country long for
most, and by a judicious admixture of mem-
bers of the late Liberal Cabinet with men whom
the advanced Liberal party claim as their own
there is little doubt that Mr. GLADSTONE will enter
upon his tenure of power with every prospect of a
vigorous and successful reign. This is certain—
the Cabinet should be a catholic one, and none of
the various sections of the Liberal party should
have undue prominence over the rest. The state-
ment put forth confidently in this morning's Stan-
dard that wherever it is possible to contest
the seat of a member of the Government
seeking re-election the Jury party will put out
its strength to prevent his return, will not be
without its effect upon the Cabinet. Men whose
waits are safe will have considerable advantage
over colleagues of the same standing and powers
who have been returned by a narrow majority ;
and where there is a probability of defeat,
it will be wise to defer a recognition
which might result in mortification to the
man upon whom it is conferred. The
interviews held last night between Earl
CLARENDON and Mr. GLADSTONE and between
Earl GRANVILLE and Mr. GLADSTONE speak for
themselves ; and the club gossips have been busily
engaged to-day in the pleasant work of shuffling
the official oards. Mr. Lows is credited with a
rather unaccountable desire to go to the War
Office instead of to the department with which his
name is honourably associated, and over which his
abilities and accomplishments so eminently qualify
him to rule. The pamphlet just issued by the right
honourable gentleman on Middle-Class Educa-
tion, is not to be taken as any sign that its author
has any special leaning towards dealing with the
subject for the State, and as Mr. Lows is a power
wherever be is or whatever he does, it is possible
that the choice of his destination may be one of the
most delicate duties falling to Mr. GLADSTONS
just now. For Mr. Lows's return to the fold is
too mat to allow the world to forget his elo-

quent diatribes
social popularity

the Conservative
when his future

tire capacity are
The popular run
ship of State fee War to .
founded on the old official principle of patting
the round men in the Aquas* holes, and
vice reran. For though Mr. CARDWELL'S
official experience would be of infinite value
wherever he was placed, he has no
!pedal qualifications for the War Department,
while the whale tenor of his public life fits
him for the 'post to which so many delicate
duties connected with the Church and so muoh
personal communication with its dignitaries will
pertain. As Secretary for the Home Department
Mr. CARDWELL would render far more official
service than in Pall-Mall; and the interests of the
new Government will, it is suggested, be best con-
sulted by placing him in the former post. It is
unnecessary to go ihrougla the offices of State con-
cerning which so much idle speculation and real
interest is aroused. Each club, and every political
coterie is busy, all naming their own favourites,
with as much confidence as if Mr. Gt.sorroNE
were consulting them from hour to hour. What
is positively known is that considerable progress
has been made in the construction of the new
Cabinet, and that Mr. GLADSTONE has met with
the most cordial co-operation from the members of
his party. Unity of purpose and loyalty to the
great principles which the present parliament has
been elected to uphold are the leading charao-
teristies of the Liberal majority at the present
time, and all wishes are centred upon Mr. GLAD-
trrora and the career before him.

Among the rumours floating about the clube
this morning is one that Parliament may be
opened by commission and without a guzzles
speech, and that the writs for the ministry may
then be moved for and the House prorogued.
These are, however, small matters compared with
the delicate and onerous work which Mx. GlAD-
rrola has in hand ; and it is satisfactory to say that
what is known of the inner history of the last few
hours is eminently cheering to those interested in
the future of the Liberal party.

deed of arreogemeett. The Lowe Juirerms, upon
an appeal, took the course of annulling the bank=
ruptoy, the defendants having been, es it was
alleged, consenting parties to the deed of arrange-
ment. The plaintiff Saud thin brought this
action against Buzz and the other party (the very
names might be made something of is s bur-
lesque), to recover damages for injury alleged to
have beef► done to his business by the
action of the defendants in getting him declared a
bankrupt, and the ease came before Lord Chief
Justine BOVILL and a special jury, with three
counsel on one side and two on the other. The
rest really read. U a infra Was a ,IoAellai.
66 11. J.•
.“411, and the matter," says the reporter, "had
" also been before the Court of Error.' Lord
Chief Justice Bovitz, after the ease had been
before him for two days and a half, was three
hours and a half in summing up, and left twelve
questions to the special jury. These unfortunate
men, after having considered the matter for two
hours and a half, answered some of the questions,
but said that there was no prospect of their
agreeing upon the answers to be given to the others.
" His Lordship then varied the form of some of
" the questions, but this led to no better result.
" The jury again retired, but after a time they
" sent to say, ' All and every argument is es-
" ' Intuited, and it is utterly impossible to agree,'
" and thereupon they were discharged without
" having come to a verdict." Some may pity the
defendants, some the plaintiff; for our part
we invoke a little pity for the twelve spe-
cial jurymen, with twelve questions to shuffle
between them, some of them kindly varied
by the astute Chief Justice. They must have de-
parted with a desperate sense of the unreality
of the whole business, and it is to be regretted
that Lord KINTON was not upon the bench, to
wind up the proceedings with his celebrated
piece of irvelevenee—" Gentlemen of the jury, you
" may now go to your homes, and lay your heads
" upon your pillows with an easy conscience, say-
" ing to yourselves as you fall into peaceful
" slumber, Aug Qum., ant sitillas !"

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
ITMS DAY.)

MB ALLWIA

To those Englishmen who are not so much hardened in
the school of rife as to have lost all natural sinsibility. it
is, °biomes Dhe Daily News, somewhat annoying to find
that, after all the dining and toasting, the effusive speech-
making, and the maple assurances of the last two worths,
we are Mill enviroesd by the vexations and resentments
of the dismal Alabama controversy. An assurance was
given that all was settled, and there was no more to do ;
and when the bend struck up and the blue fire blazed,
and in the centre of the teller Kr. &nerdy Johnson
was seen falling on Mr. Laird's neck, it was hoped that
the tonehing spectacle was a fit sables of the complete

reconciliation of the two countries. An American
correspondent of the Daily News has, however.
shown by quotations from the American press how
wide-qwead is the irritation prevailing on the
other side of the Atlantic. Our contemporary fur ea
more than one occasion expressed a fear that Mr. 'Wordy
Johnson was not going the way to carry his countrymen
with him ; but the language of the chief American jour-
nals shows that the effect of his conduct is not well under-
stood on the other aide of the Atlantic. Mr. Johnson is
exceedingly popular hers, not boom's* he has met Mr.
Roebuck, Lord Wharocliffe, and Mr. Laird, bet because
he has always manifested a sinoere desire to promote
friendly relations between the two countries. The Deily
News thinks that the removal of Mr. Johnson before the
Alabama difficulty is disposed of would be the deliberate
sacrifice of a most efficacious agency in the work of

tat MT AND TUE INTILANCI.

Although maintaining to the last a brave front before
the public, Mr. Disraeli bad, the Tines says, never
been able to disguise from himself the truth that the re-
sult of the general elections had been fatal to any hope
he might herb had of dill retaining his position, and he
determined to seek safety in voluntary abdication. The
promptitude of the summons to Mr. Gladstone, the unhe-
sitating acceptance by her Majesty of the advice given by
her outgoing minister, and the unfettered discretion re-
posed in Mr. Gladstone for the formation of the new
government, must dispel ono. for an the idle rumours,
engendered by the mere inventiveness of envious malice,
which hinted at difficulties thrown in the way of a liberal
administration by personal distaste or private repug-
nance.

TIM NOTITI POR 111:1110NATION.

The Revak, frankly recognises the generally fair
spirit in which its contemporaries have appreciated Mr.
Disraeli's motive in proffering his resignation without
waiting fora hostile vote. They have, indeed, with one
exception, the Herald tells us, aknowledged that Mr.
Dieraisb's acquiescence in the declared will of the country,
as indicated in the numerical majority awarded to Mr.
Gladstone, has been conspicuously marked by dignity,
good mum, "and a generous consideration for the diffi-
culties of the statesman who has sucoessfully conspired
against him."

WILLI lAA YR. DISIABLI ACTIIIVED ?

If, says the Times, Mr. Disraeli were to clam hie poli-
tical career to-day, it could not be said, and he osetainly
would not himself think, that he bad been an unsuceesdul
man. He has attained his highest ambition, and how
few can boast as much No hostile majorities to the very
end of his life can prevent him from having been Prime
Minister of Ragland. He has been sent for by his So-
vereign ; be has formed an administration ; be has wit-
nessed the envy of his friends and the still more de-
lightful animosity of his foes ; he bas established confi-
dential relations with royalty, he has snubbed a lord
chancellor, he has created a duke and an archbishop—in
short, he has concentrated into a few months all that is
most exquisite in human greatness. Nor are his more
solid political achievements inconsiderable. Though Mr.
Gladstone may deserve the honour attaching to the re-
form of the representation, Mr. Disraeli has gained it.

MIL °Lai:Porous AND RIR /110111.0111113111.
The Herald observes that Mr. Gladstone has won his
way to power, but so far ea the disestablishment sad die.
endowment of the Irish Church is concerned he has not
advanced one step beyond that which he reached when be
carried his first Resolution. As for the liberal majority,
it is simply an organised devalopmant of that hostility
which Irish papists, /botch sectarianism, and political
diment, have ever manifested against the protestant

According to the Opinima ilidiorale, the Provi-
sional Government in Spain has already chosen as
the futon stiesemer of the Queen Isabella, the
young Dube of Genoa, nephew of Victor Brants-
nuel, aged 14. That resolution was in a great
measure due to the influence of K. Olosegs.
The Correspondent-ice of Nov. 29 gives the fol-
lowing sooount of the Republican demonstration
in Madrid :
At half-pest t the ms began to mom, hilowiag
tbe prescribed Has of streets. Posen by the Mialatry
ad the Interior, whisk is guarded by sigma
sadism, there wore WWI cries for a federal republic.
Seam IM MO. the Melaka of the Warder, and Swot
Milan del Bork the Military Governor, appeared on
the balcony and bowed several times. Every district of
Madrid was represented,and there were may deputations
tram the provinces. The students of the capital, wooded
by a band of music, sang the republican hyena, dedicated
to General nand. The democrats of the district of
the Hospielo corded portraits of celebrated republicans.
Amongst them were those of Sizto Camara and
YamiaL The point of attraction was the open space
around the obelisk of the Ind of May. It was with chi-
calt7 that • passage was cleared for PSerrad, Oraffe,
Castalar, Sarni, and the others who took a leading part in
the demonstration. Castelar reviewed the history of the
monarchy in Spain from the time of Philip V. to the pre-
sent hour, and showed that it was productive of nothing
but shame sad hnmListiw "The fate of Spain. perhaps
of Europe, sad of the world, is is your hands." be said.
" Your kilkeasheis and maple may give the death-blow
to trinity and theeemey. To attain this result we do
not need gam or war, bet have simply to vote for the
republic. An act so seisms and tranquil as that of this
day is • giant abide towards the triumph of the republic.
Under a republican Hems our armies will be armies of
patriots, and Spaniards ma my with pride near the grams
of the heroes of the Second of May, of ikaagases, of
Balm, of Gime, sad Tabors, that they are the worthy
ancendeals of them mould have ielledied their skeins
Orme requested the people to dispose (minty and
peaceably, and with no OWN cry than "Long live the

osaseal Pierced declared his personal attachment to
the republican principle, and added :—" It than he say
solaces lwre who are listening to me, I give than the
unaranoe that ander a republic, they will be volunteer
(Rim Wawa living with their imagism and by tie
product ad their own labour:*
The people quietly dispersed.

BAVARIA.

A letter from Munich publishes the subjoined :

The himself has for some these past shown that he
is seriously pre-occupied with the preservation of the inde-
pendence of Bavaria ; that he Is perfectly aware of the
dengue in which Ida dynasty is involved, and that be is
determined to oppose them as far as lies in his power.
The apprised= of the pension allowed to the poet Oeibel
was a first step in that direction, and the nomination to
the Chamber of Peers of Professor Mellinger, an ultra
Bavarian particularist, extremely German, but anti-
PrUNlillb, was a second. The appointment of 11. Mellinger
weal the more significant that it was • personal act of
the King, accomplished independently of the ministry.

The approaching visit of the king of Bavaria to
St. Petersburg seems to be confirmed. Prepara-
tions are being already made for his Majesty's
reception, which is expected by the Russian court
within a fortnight.

Osamu aura'/ asarar.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 4.

The Mahitear of this morning publishes the
following :—'• Certain rumours which for some
time past have been current gave support to tho
belief that a repetition of the recent gatherings in
the Cemetery of Montmartre were planned for
to-day ; the authorities have therefore considered
it their duty to take the necessary measures
to maintain tranquillity and to prevent any
hindrance of the public traffic in the neighbour-
hood of the cemetery. A rather large crowd
appeared on the Boulevard Clichy, and traffic was
momentarily interrupted, but rapidly restored.
It was necessary to make several arrests. Public
order has been, however, invariably maintained."
The Greek government has acceded to the
monetary convention of 1.865, which is to come
into force on the Ist of January next.

HUNGARY.

PESTH. DM'. 3.

The marine budget has been passed through
both delegations. The closing of their session is
expected to take place on Saturday.
The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet has
agreed to the postal and commercial treaty recently
concluded with Switzerland.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, Doc. 4.

At the reception of the foreign consuls by M.
(Mirka, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, his excel-
lency reassured them as to the present position of
affairs. He also stated that Prince Charles had
by his personal intervention eradicated the bad
impression which had been produced in Constan-
tinople by the letter of the former Minister for
Foreign Affairs, M. Golesco, which bud been
written by him to Ali Poch*, by order of M.
Bratiano.

AMERICA.

KRW YORK, Dec. S.
The Allan btoaniship Danltlattla arrived to-day
at Portland.

Gold closed at 1363, the highest quotation
during the day was 1361, and the lowest 151
Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 6-20 United
States Bonds, 1862, 1111; ditto, 1858, 108 ; ditto,
1886,1101; 16-40 Bonds, 1063. Illinois, 144; Brie,
34. Cotton, middling upland, 243. Petroleum,
standard white, 32i. Flour, extra state, 6 dolt.
90e. to tel dolt. 80c. Corn, old mixed, 1 del. 17c.

The body of M. Berry& was embalmed on Mon-
day, and hoe szposed in a state bed in his chamber until
the time arrives to enclose it in a leaden coffin. The
priests of the districts in tarn recite prayers for the dead
until the intammit, which is flied for Monday mat, at
12. The funeral oeremony will be of great idnitallUhn
compliance with the wishes of the dessessd.
Is • Vial kids for the nalighlienrhseik where he laid
0at10,0406. a year in the rend of asssedlons tlerelsee
The vault of the Baiyar family misb only alms UN; it
was ocaremeted under the eye of tic mastimeml isallseted
datilly et the hot of the altar, is Ss Nis &awe
ad the Whew Ilarbb dale hellcats 1110 makes el the
sarehtio llatei=etbero—=, Ihigedierich.ob.
ruary7B77B7i lall ; lkof miler
4,1846 dually Mae
Barryer,rolerbs Bar, the wife of the orator.
Close by is to be seem the tomb of Mari Omer, dams
il =ervilleiummedlighter of
11., monied
Madre lamina Casa
of of armies V is llaiteelle
Haber, Seer de daintaisendn, Treasurer of Praise and
Master of Aarante to the Kat The little antra h kept
Zlr, b 7 ihe ounsuaevirZ Ste jitisapHeaper
the *glad Mad, beim two
!-decor pictures. The altar wee a gift of the deemed.
Noah have beat affixed in the aperbesat et the hoe
Nears des Pottle Champs, which was coottpled by the
great advocate fifty-eve years.—Oslirsers.
SHIPPING Dumirries.—The captain of the ship
Africa, arrived at Liverpool from New York, reports that
on the 17th of November, In 48 N., 60 W., they pissed
the barque Ward Chipman, ad abandoned and
watsr-loggod, lower roasts sad pads . Hen
poolvy
gale, reports Waiving. Titi teem Cheastal w
ha at varies@ dales large iLiver-
se.
bergs in the South In 1111014114 the Roam Taal
saw part
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SBOOND.

Masa: Smart.

The government has succeeded in making a very
diminutive and supremely ridiculous imitation ofa
coop Vied on this the anniversary of U. Baudin's
death, Deo. 3. It will be rememberedthat at the two
recent trials in Paris the Advocate-Imperial sought
to attenuate the frivolous character of a state pro-
secution for subscribing to a monament to Baudin
by the allegation that the subscription was only
ancillary to a great demonstration, projected by
the democratic party for this day. Tho
defendants protested that they never had
any such ides. Since their conviction all
of them who write in newspapers have exhorted

£Wb to play the government game by
going to the cemetery on Dee. 3, and, instead of
provoking a foolish struggle with physical foroo,
to reserve their strength for the elections, at
which every citizen may most constitutionally
give efficacious expression to his opinions. Never-
theless, the government thought it expedient to
pretend to be frightened. As early as 7 this
morning the Montmartre Cemetery was occupied
by at least 300 policemen, who bivouacked on the
open spaces, lit camp fires, and regaled them-
selves with the traditional Eatery sausage and wine.
Aline of sergents-de-rille with their imposing cocked
hats extended all the way from the cemetery
along the external boulevards down the Rue
Notre Dame de Lorette, and as far as the Rue
Cadet. The old Clichy prison was occupied by
two battalions of troops. At 11 o'clock, when
the funerals of the morning were over, every body
in the cemetery was turned out. The strong
measure, thought so shocking and incredible only
a month ago as to be indignantly contradicted by
the Patric as libellous on the government, of ex-
cluding the public from the cemetery, was resorted
to. As was inevitable, the rumour that something
unusual was going on, produced crowds in the
popular quartet of the Boulevards near the ceme-
tery, and abutting upon the Rues Clichy, Blanche,
and Douai. I think it quite safe to affirm that,
with the exception of a few hot-headed etudente,
there was no political element in the crowd.
Every influential leader of the opposition delibe-
rately kept away. Nevertheless, the people
assembled from mere curiosity and hissed the
police. At 2 o'clock a well-dressed man, who did
not get out of the way fast enough when ordered,
was arrested. By half-past 3 as many as 15
or 16 arrests were made. At 4 o'clock the
order was given to clear the Boulevards.
The police made a furious charge, and upwards of
a hundred people, taken at random, were con-
veyed to different guard-houses. By half-past 1
the boulevards were quite clear. A little later
tho police entered the Restaurant beget, in the
Rue do Bruxelles, passed in review all the people
who were taking refreshment there, and ultimately
arrested two. These events, which although not
yet generally known so fully as I have recited
them, are, in the main, within the public cogni-
saner, have produced not the least sensation. The
Bourse was very firm, and Renton closed with
scarcely a fractional change.
The appeal court of Motu has reversed the ter-
ribly subversive judgment of the correctional
chamber of Clermont-Ferrand. It, however, only
inflicted upon the Independent du Centre the trivial
punishment of a 20/. fine. Whatever satisfaction
the government may derive from this judicial vic-
tory is neutralised by the news that the Proyri'l
Liberal, of Toulouse, has been acquitted. This is
the third acquittal in the provinces. I cannot tell
whether there is any truth in the assertion which
I see in various forms in several -se/pers. that the
Emperor now says the Baudin prosecution 1%11.4 a
mistake, and speaks angrily of the tuinisters who
set it going.
An illustrated paper, L'Eelipse, was to have
appeared to-day with a portrait by Gill of M.
Tenet, the author of the History of the 2nd
December," but the censorship, deeming the pic-
ture seditious, has not allowed it to be published.
The bar of Paris will go officially to Berryer's
funeral at Augerville on Monday, and in all pro-
bability deputations from the different provincial
bars will attend.

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