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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 2.

TO OUR ItRADIRS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A 'Ate clique of the Berea is published every
evetaixg during the racing aeon, containing the
resale of the day's races.

Finis the manner in which the observations of
Mr. Di•stor wore received the other day by his
constituents at t 4eenock, we are glad to perceive
that the t,,,,, • of public sentiment north of the
Tweed has lest nothing of the healthful and hope-
ful tone that has so long distinguished it. We are
daily told that the tide of reaction is at the flood ;
and if wo are to give heed to crowing* and chock-
bop like those of Lord Joitx MANNER:4, there is
not a spot in central England, however high or
distinguished fur liberalism, that may not ere long
be submerged beneath its aggressive wave. We
may have something to say hereafter regarding the
electioneering logic which leads his lordship to infer •
from the chance return of Mr. HEYGATZ for
Leicester the probability of Nottingham, Derby,
and Coventry falling into a similar blunder. Mean-
while it is pleasant to think that Scotland is where
it was on all the great subjects of progress, domest,c
and foreign. Some fallings away there may have
been among Scotch members during the last session
and the previous one ; but these are things
which can be corrected, and whenever another dis-
solution occurs we may confidently expect to
see a winnowing of the chaff from the
wheat. We cannot forgetthat when the Forfeited
Seats Bill was under consideration last session,

the Scotch Tories never ventured to take a vote
on the claim they set up on behalf of the tiniest-
unties ; and the reason currently stated was, we
believe, the true one ; Mr. Distaati and his
friends look upon the representation of Scot-
land with despair, and they could not, there-
fore, be induced to support any scheme for its
extension. The whole tenor of the address deli-
vered by the honourable Member for G...vilock
shows how firm is his reliance on the prevailing
liberality of his bearers. On every question Mr.
Drifter cheerfully takes the popular aide. We
have seldom, for example, seen the case for
the Dissenters' Burial Bill, or the Education
Minute of Council, more clearly or coge•dly
stated, or the encroaching and monopolizing
spirit of High Churchinanship in such mat-
ters more freely or fearlessly rebuked. What
a fey of indignation would have been raised,
indeed, as Mr. Dviswr says, if an Anglican Bishop
had barn debarred by the Presbyterian minister
of the parish from performing the Burial
likerriee ordained in the Book of Common
Prayer at the funeral of the late Lord EOLINTON
yet the converse of this is what every day
takes place in parishes in England ; and it
was against a Bill to remove such a grievance that
the Conservative party voted as one man iu the
past seamen. And it the new Minute of Council
regarding Primary Schools be destined to encounter
strenuous oppneitirm next year, it will be chiefly
owing to the fact that the Church having so long
been suffered to apply the money of the State in a
way to create influence and patronage, it is not easy
now to effect any educational reform that curtails
or circumscribes them.
But as foreign affairs engrain more sad more
of popular attention, we met to a certain
extent look to them as furnishing teat• of
men's soundness and sincerity in VW moss
of liberalism. What is to be the tone of Eng-
land's diplomacy toncerniug Italy, and Hungav,
and Poland ? What line of conduct are we to
pursue respecting America T In the heart of the
people there is indeed, and can be, no wavering on
any of these points. Professional politicians may
think it clever to finesse or to affect reserve with
reference to contingencies that may never arise,
and complications that may exist only in the pnz•
sled brain of bureaucratic society. But as a na-
tion we heartily and openly wish to see Italy one
and free ; as a nation we look back with nothing
but regret on the tameness of our passive compli-
city in 1849 in the trampling down of Hungarian
liberty, not by Austrian troops but by a Russian
army ; and as a nation we have never ceased to
look with loathing on the jointeteck spoliation of
Poland, and with regret, not wholly unselfish, at
the demolition of that once vital rampart for Cen-
tral Europe against the encroachments of Muse°.

♦iie ambition. Lord DERBY thinks of an Italian
nation only as of a kennel full of unlike hounds,
whose cries can never be in unison, and whose
fierceness is chiefly directed against one another.
Such was his deliberate opinion expressed in the
House of Peers not many months ago. Ho would
have bad the plan of a Northern and Southern king-
dom with a Pontifical centre to hold the balance, in-
stead of a great nation united under one strong
Government. When the cycle of Parliamentary
prophesying shall have revolved, we shall lee
whether he and kis reactionary followers will
adhere to their retrograde .creme. The ex-
Premier is said to have spent a portion of his
autumn in visiting Hungary ; and as his party is
uncommitted so far upon the great controversy
between the people of that country and the cen-
tralizing despotism of Vienna, it is still possible
for them to do the right and the wise thing,
and to adopt the principles which the Member for
Greenock, in common with the best men of the
Liberal party, holds. It would be too much to
expect of l'uonerrAtiam that it should suddenly
awaken to the troth reganling Poland ; but on the
Hungarian question they are still in time tout them-

'selves at ono with the bulk of the community.
Have they the courage or the discernment to do so?
Still more trying to principle will be the
course, hitherto blameless and consistent, which
our Government shall take respecting the Ame-
rican quarrel. We pay little regard to the
vague rumours afloat that the leaders of the
Conservative party incline to question the policy
pursued by Lord Rrs.seit of strict and loyal
non-intervention. We can hardly suppose any
set of men so reckless of the great permanent
interests of the country as to advise the adop-
tion of any other line of conduct. Ephemeral
popularity among certain sections of the com-
munity might possibly be won by the manifesta-
tion of a tenderness for Southern interests and
necessities, at the expense of what is due on our
part to good faith, international right, and the
plain dictates of sound policy in our dealings
with the North. But no intermeddling, however
diplomati:ally disguised, no disregard of the obli-
gations we owe to the great commonwealth with
which we have more ties of kindred, of business,
and of sympathy than with all Europe put together,
could possibly fail to ruin the reputation of any
set of men pretending to the rank and character
of British statesmen. The fact that in • manu-
facturing town like Greenock its representative
should receive nothing but plaudits for the utter-
ance of these opinions is the latest and not the
least significant corroboration of the inference
drawn from the earlier declarations of Mr. Gist'-
s-rose to the same effect at Liverpool. The con-
tinuance of the blockade may for • time
render the supply of cotton from America
scanty and uncertain ; though there is
much in what many men of great mercantile ex-
perience have said all along, that with the high
price the great staple of Lancashire industry will
somehow or other find its way to the banks of the
Mersey. Be this as it may, neither employers
nor operatives have evinced the slightest wish to
put upon Government any unworthy pressure, nor
do we believe that any attempt of the sort could
be made without evoking • spirit of indignant
rebukes and reprobation that would summarily
overbear all such sinister suggestions. The cause
of the Union is the cause of public law and per-
sonal liberty against wanton sedition and the per-
petuation in bondage of millions of men. Come
what may, Great Britain can never waver as to
the side which she morally espouses in such a
struggle ; and the representatives of the people
cannot perform a more important duty at the pre-
sent juncture than in bearing clear and audible
testimony to this national bath.

be Court.

HOLYROOD, OCT. V.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, tbo Princess
Holtenlobe, the Primers. Alice, Helena, Louise, and Bea-
trice, sad Prince Leopold, attended by the Marchioness of
Ely, Lady Amara Brace, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles
Phipps, Dr. Jeerer, Dr. Gunther, and the Equerries in
Waiting, left Bolas eal at half-pest nine o'clock yesterday
morning for Mimed, travelling by railway from Aboyne
to the private station at St. Margaret's, Edinburgh, and
that proceeding in carriages to the Palace, where her Ma-
jesty arrived at a quarter before seven o'clock, and was ro-
ared by the Duke of Baccleuch, Major• General Walker,
Mr. Gordon (sheriff), and the Hon. W. Cowper.
The royal dinner party included the Queen and Prier
Consort, Princess Alice, Primer Hohenlohe, the Dueler
of Wellington, the Ma:three= of lay, Lady A. Bruce, the
Duke ut liucclauch, Sir George Grey, the Hoe. W. Cowper,
Major-General Walker, Dr. Jeers, Dr. Gunther, and the
Equerries in Waiting.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Ocr. 24.

The Queen and Prince Consort, and Princess Hohenlohe,
attended by the Marchioness of Ely, (bore out yesterday
morning to the Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh.
The l'rince Cowen; and his suite, Furl Spencer, Maine-
General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Ponsonby, left
Helyrood Palace at a quarter before two o'clock in two dress
eurleges, escorted by the Beate Greys, and proceeded to
Pt:nee-street to lay the foundationatone of the DOW Poet-
sees, and afterwards of the new Industrial Museum. His
Paul Highness returned to the Palace at half-put three
eelesk.

rm. Qum, easompenied by Prince.. Alice, ►ndd attended
by the llarchlonue of Ely, dices out iu the afternoon, and
milked en Arthur's beat.

At tee miautes peat 8 o'clock the Queen, the Prime Con-
sort, the Princesses Mies, Melees, Louise, and Beatrice, and
Prises Leopold, attradsd by the Marchioness of Ely, Earl
Spencer, Major-G*O4W the Hon. C. Grey, Dr. Jenner, and
Dr. Gunther, sad the Equerries In Waiting, left Holyrood
for the private statics at Mergaret-street, escorted by the
liceite Greys, awl at half-peat 8 p.m. travelled by a spur.
dal train to Win,Lior, where they arrived at half-past 8 this
moreleg.

A guard et \amour of the l.t battalioa soot Funlier
Chan* wits the baud of the regiment, wu at the Windsor
laaway Ration.

Primer flotieslohe, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
loft PLdsro,d Palace at bailout one o'clock p.m., awl pro-
Orneifti by radway to York, on her way to Windsor Coati°,
wlesee her Senile Highness arrived thin afternoon.
The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Flora Macdonald
lave arrived as Mania of Masotti. in Waiting.
Lord Harris bas arrived as Lord in Waiting, and (lemma
&r Edward Bowater as Greven is Waiting.

Iler Majesty's

for the International &bi-

titian of 11463 have received official information from the
(keener of New Zealand, that he has appointed a local
eammissiou in each of the nine provinces of that colony, it
girding their honours the several Superintendents. to easel
and transmit articles of colonial produce sad mantdacithres,
and be trusts that by their means the colony will be
adequately represented at the forthcoming Exhibition. His
Excellency bac also appointed Mr. John Morrison, of No. 3,
Adelaidecplace, City, the London Commissioner.

The Duke of Somerset bat been appointed Lord
Lieotenaat of Devonshire.

The Duke and Duchege of Hamilton are expected
ie town early neat weak from Scotland, on their way to
Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick leave town
es Wesley sera ea a coetiosotal tour.
The Earl of Wicklow will leave town in a few
days for Brig tea for the autumn.

The Hon. Leopold Agar Ellis, M.P., arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, f rem Dublin
Castle.

Sir Alexander Woodford and Ludy Woodford
arrived is tows ea Wedeseday, alter a oojourn of wend
Ilbostlis as the Ceetieset.

On Thursday, the 17th inst., the Rev. Edward
Roger Manwaring White, M,A., was instituted to the
titanic sad parish church of Ilendlesham, in the county
of Suffolk, oo the presentation of Edmund White, of Moe-
tegu-strart, Portmanequare, in the county of Middlesex,
Fay. On the same day the Rey. John Fitzherbert Bate-
man, ILA., and Fellow (on the Foundation) of St. John's
College, in the University of Cambridge, was instituted to
the rectory of North and South Lopham, in the county of
Norfolk, on the presentation of the Bev. John Bateman, of
West Leak., in the county of Nottingham, clerk.

Uu Friday, the 18th inst., the Rev. Charles
Kirkby Robinson Clerk, M.A., Master of St Catharine.
College, Cambridge, was installed by the Hon. and Rot
the Dean, a canon of the cathedral church of Norwich, an
the resignation of the Right Rey. Henry Lord Bishop of
Worcester.

A meeting of the Society for the Propagation of
tie Gospel was held yesterday at Derby, at which the
Bishop of Oared atteeded, and, in an eloquent speech,
urged on the meeting tho obligations ander which English-
men lay to send the gospel to Africa, on coconut of having
bees among the Ant to arty to that country the curse of
•every.

We axe informed that the honour of knighthood
has been offered by her Majesty to Mr. Fairtaint, of 11
cheater, as a recognition of the lengthened and valuable
aervin• he has rendered to science, and that the distinction
has been nepactludy declined.