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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1856

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ON Thursday Parliament will meet for the despatch
of business. The QUEEN'S Speech will be the
engrossing topic of the day. What the advisers of
the Crown will give us, by way of a programme of
the past and future, is impossible to predict. With
peace negotiations on the tapis her MAJESTY can
scarcely harangue her Peers and Commons in a
warlike strain. Continental chords must be struck
lightly, dulcet notes must be addressed to the
American ear, and domestic affairs, though doleful
in the extreme, must be chaunted to the airs,
" There's a good day coming," and " Cheer boys,
" cheer." In such a composition we shall have a
tolerably accurate outline of the mental charac.
teristics of the leading members of the administra.
tion—the light and exquisite finger of the Premier
the extraordinary placid reassurance of the Foreign
Secretary, and the excessive ponderosity of Sir
CORNEWALL LEWIS heaving like an earthquake. We
should, in fact, never know our rulers if it were not
that they have to go through the ordeal of preparing
the Royal Speech. Men speaking for themselves
may in these o.ays say what they please ;
but, when they come to preparing addresses
for others, words are treated according to
their real value and used with immense
discretion. This, we nay be certain, will be the
case in the present instance. No pledge will
surely be given that peace is about to be restored ;
that an armistice of unprecedented duration will
be granted by the victors to a treacherous enemy,
or that terms will be accepted which would render
a 'renewal of the war as necessary and as
as it was held to be before the Peace Conferences
have taken place. We have nothing to encourage
the hope of the world's tranquillity being restored,
beyond the chance of Russia's becoming internally
convulsed, and leaving her Southern territories
exposed to the inroads of the Allied troop
t With reference to our Transatlantic
affairs,s' Her
MAJESTY may safely repeat the stereotyped phrases,
and assure both Houses of Parliament that
our
relations with America are of the most friendly
character. With regard to other foreleg' Powers,
little can be said, beyond the fact that they have
not sided with the Allies; even in an expression of
opinion ; and that Russia continues to receive
money from Holland, and large supplies through
the Prussian and Austrian territories. The
treaties concluded with Japan and Siam, will, as
a matter of course, be alluded to, and then
will come our internal affairs, and probably
a stray sentence about our Colonies. The
prosperous state of our commerce, trade, and
industry will be dwelt upon in glowing terms as a
prelude to the question of supplies. Here the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will quake, and
the visages of the Ministry will exhibit all the
colours of the chameleon. Mr. LABOUCHERE will
tremble when allusion is made to the actual con-
dition of our Colonial Empire ; but Ministers will,
one and all, survive the infliction, and return to the
duties of office, wonderfully relieved by having
disclosed all they conceive is necessary for the
country to know. Yet there never was a moment

lin our history when greater caution and circum-
spection were required. The Crown can, in no
way, be identified with assurances which may
emanate from the most contemptible sources of
intrigue, nor be induced to convey to the national
of our internal condition which the

ear views

common-sense of the public cannot sustain

Her MAJESTY has nothing to apprehend
from dealing with palpable facts. In telling
Parliament that while taxation has been
doubled no increase has taken place in
the circulating medium required to sustain
industry, trade, and commerce—that all the vital
elements of war are prostrated by usury—that the
whole burdens of the State must, under the pre-
sent monetary system, be thrown upon income and
property, as labour, ill-remunerated, and
constantly subject to be thrown out of employ-
ment, cannot answer the calls of the
Exchequer,—that local taxation without repre-
sentation, and, consequently, replete with corrup-
tion, is fast swamping the productive energies of
the country, and must, ere long, render the more
just and equitable burdens of the national
Exchequer intolerable, and our recognised prin-
ciples of political economy a pure sham—that in
prosecuting the war, if we desire to bring it to
speedy issue, we must appeal to the popular voice
of Europe, and not rely on Crowned heads and
their diplomatic tricksters—and, though last, by far
the most conspicious fact, that if we would pre-

serve the present unanimity of opinion, and
temper of the country, something should be forth-
with done to relieve trade, as the money market is
in much the same state, as it was in the famine
year of 1847• Though these statements would be
somewhat novel, coming from the Crown, neverthe-
less, they would be most gratifying to the whole
community, as Parliament would then know how
to deal with the anomalies and emergencies of the

times

The fund-holder, the merchant, the manufac-
turer, and the working millions would then
know that relief was at hand, and recreant
foreign States would see, in the undisguised
disposition of the British ministry to call forth our
inexhaustible resources for the prosecution of the
war, sufficient grounds to induce them to make
their election between a continuance of bloodshed
and the restoration of the world's tranquillity on a
really enduring basis. We will not be thought
premature in endeavouring to anticipate the tone
and character of Her MAJESTY'S speech, or suggest-
ing what the public must think would best become
the Cabinet under existing circumstances, as all we
have recommended is simply a resume of what we
have contended for on many occasions. Our
cotemporaries have taken time by the forelock, and
anatomised the Royal Speech many days since, as
though it had been thrown into their editorial boxes
by the hand of some magician. The London Times
had a very brilliant leading article on the subject
some days before the peace negotiations were
talked of, and, therefore, their lucubrations must
go for nothing, as far as the war is concerned ; and
as they cannot detect the slightest commercial
distress or embarrassment in the country, it is as

well that those who can should speak out boldly
that the administration may not deceive them
selves or those who rely on their knowledge of
facts and good faith.