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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1857.

THE DAYS NEWS.

The official declaration of the polling, at the
Liverpool election, on Saturday, was made yester
day, by Thomas Shand, Esq., Mayor, the returning
officer. The figures stand thus: Hnrsfall, 7,556;
Evart, 7,121; Turner. 6,316, showing the majority
of Mr. Ewart over Turner to be 805.
A numbH of elections took place yesterday. It
will he seen that Mr. Miall has been turned out
of Rochdale, and William Ewalt, Esq., returned,
for Dumfries ; Sir Charles Napier was at the head
of the poll in Southwark ; Messrs Roussell and
Williams have been returned for Lambeth; Mr
Frederick Peel, the War Under Secretary, has
been defeated at Bury by Mr. Phillips, a gentlemen
of peace politics, while Admiral Berkeley, one
of the Lords of the Admiralty, has lost his
seat for Gloucester. It should also be men-

tioned that the Deputy Judge Advocate Gene-
ral, who was put up for the Government
borough of Chatham, has also been defeated.
Mr. Wilkinson, who voted with Ministers on the
Canton question and against Locke King's motion.
has lost his seat for Lambeth ; and Mr. A. Pellatt
has lost his seat for Southwark, Sir G. Strickland,
the Palmerstonian, has been ousted from Preston,
by Mr. Cross, the Conservative, while Cardwell,
on the other hand, retains his seat for Oxford
against the assault of the Ministerial candidates At
Portsmouth too, Sir F. Baring, thehonest Whig, has
beaten his Ministerial antagonist, Viscount Monek.
From Ireland we learn that Messrs. Grogan and
Vance were yesterday returned for Dublin, their
opponents being Mr. John Reynolds, and Mr.
Brady (son of the Lord Chancellor), both advanced
Liberals. It is confidently stated that the Irish
representation this Parliament will turn out a
wholly different affair from what it has been in
any Parliament since Catholic Emancipation.
More than two thirds of it will sit !n opposition to
Lord Palmerston, and no British party will be able
to c ilculate on fifty steady Irish votes. At the
Guildhall, yesterday, Sheriff M3chi delivered the
official state of the poll for the city of London.
Duke being first, Rothschild second, and
Lord .John Russell third on the list.
Lord John Russell, in returning thanks,
adverted to future political prospects. " We have,
he said, " hitherto had as an excuse from every
minister who happened to be in power—it was his
excuse—it had been the excuse of Lord Palmerston,
and he thought it was a very fair and just excuse—
that parties were so firmly balanced in the House
of Commons, that it was difficult to carry Liberal
measures with a sufficient majority to
secure the assent of the other House of
parliament. But if it be true, as he hoped it was,
that the result of this election will be to give a
large Liberal majority in the Lower House—so
large , that the Upper House will no longer have
any reason on that ground to refuse the measures
which may be passed by the House of Commons—
that eXcuse must henceforward fall to the ground,
and Lord Palmerston will have no such reason
to allege for not bringing forward—not six
or seven, or a dozen measures; but beginning
with one or two of great importance, and such
measures 'as .shall show that ministers are truly
reformers, and.that nothing but circumstances have
hitherto cooled their ardour." Such are the:ideas
of Lord John Russell, and we only hope that he I
will use all his influence in bringing forward
measures of utility.
The Chester.assizes were opened yesterday. Mr
Baron Watson presided in the Crown Court, and
delivered the charge to the Grand Jnry. There
r:r3 72 cases in the calendar, many cf hem, and
those of the worst descriptions, being connected
with Birkenhead. The Grand Jury have found
true bills against Smith, for the murder
of Vaughan the police officer at Birkenhead. ,
Locally there is nothing doing. A full report of

the assize, intelligence will be found in another
column. A breach of promise case ended in a
verdict for the plaintiff ; damages £2O.
Mr. Robert Lowe was very srverely handled at
Kidderminster on Saturday. A full account of the
proceedings will be found elsewhere.
There is not much news of importance from
abroad this morning. It would be seen by
our paper of yesterday that the overland
mail brought exciting news from Bushiro.
While peace was being negotiated at
Paris the troops of the belligerent powers were
'fighting on Persian soil. It appears that
the Persians had drawn together at a place
about forty one miles from Bushire. An
expedition was sent out to dislodge them: At
the approach of the British the Persians fled to the
mountains, leaving behind them their stores and
ammunition. Encouraged apparently by the
retirement of the British, the Persians . again
advanced, and made a night attack, which was
repulsed. When the day dawned, the enemy
being within reach, they were assailed by
the Bombay cavalry and artillery, and no doubt
repented, when too late, of their temerity, for they
left some hundreds dead on the field, a hundred
isoners, and two guns. Our loss is stated at ten
killed and sixty two wounded. The Persians it is
well-known despise the native Indian troops in our
pay. That may account for their giving battle.
They found out their mistake, and ilk future they
will have a higher opinion of Sepoys than they
have hitherto entertained. The only circumstance
that mitigates our regret that brave men should
have been killed after the signature of peace is that
the encounter on the plains of Fars may lead the
Persians to a better understanding of the character
of the forces which Great Britain can array against
them.

From France we learn that a great many arrests
have just been made at Lyons of persons alleged
to be members of a secret society, formed for the
purpose of promoting the candidature of the exile
Raspail at the general election. A number of
arrests wore also made in Paris on Friday, and the
apprehensions respecting secret societies have been
removed. The French Court will remove to Fon
tainbleau on the Ist of May, in order to receive the
Grand Duke Constantine. General Todtleben is
expected at the Russian Embassy in Paris to await
his Imperial Highnese. The dissolution of the
French legislative body is expected to take place
about the middle of May, and the new elections will
follow early in June. Ferukh Khan is expected iu
Paris again this week ; but as soon as he receives
from Teheran the ratification of the treaty just
concluded he will come to England a second time,
and will then be accompanied by the whole person•
stet ra his legation. It is expected that he will con
elude in London the negotiations already set on foot
for commercial treaties with several powers, and
that he will embark for Persia in the month of Sept.

The attention of Paris is entirely concentrated
on the English elections,and continental politics are
even more at a discount than usual The overthrow
of the Cobden and Bright party has taken every-
body by surprise.
Telegraphic accounts received at Vienna on
March 26, state that an order of the day issued at
Jassy by Col. Skiletti, commander in chief of the
Moldavian troops, declares that at the date of the
25th, not a single Austrian soldier remained in
Moldavia.

Our advices from Spain mention the fact, that.
the Queen has ordered the infant Don Henry to
leave Salamanca immediately, for France.
The reason for this measure is, that the
prince has openly taken part in the elections
as a partisan of the progressists. The-Governor of
Ciudad-Real has been dismissed for an indis-
creet display of zeal. M. Noeedal, the Minister of
the Interior, was a candidate for the representation
of this district. His opponent was the Count
le Caneda. The governor thinking to curry
favour with the Minister, arrested the Count, to-
gether with some of the most influential electors,
and sent them out of Ciudad Real. This mode of
serving the cause of "order" was a little too
strong for M. Nocedal's stomach The moment
ministers, in which he moved and carried a
resolution for the dismissal of the governor. He
then sent a carriage to Count de Caneda, and a
message recommending him to come at once to
put himself at the head of the electoral district,
and announcing that he (M. Nocedal) would
withdraw from the field.
Turin dates of the MI inst. state that on the
day previous, the seventh day of the debate, the
Chamber of Deputies agreed to the Bth and last
article of the bill for the modification of the Penal
Code, and on the whole measure being put to the
vote, there appeared 108 votes in favour of, and
only 15 against the bill.

THERE is every probability that the new Par-
liament will contain a considerable majority of
Reformers. Our anticipations have already been
in part verified, and none of the small cries,
"IVlaynooth," " Castigation of the Chinese," or
" Unconditional trust in Lord PALMERSTOIV,"
have been the prevailing ones. If we read
aright, the constituencies have generally agreed
in a quiet but firm demand for men holding
views of moderate and progressive reform. The
country will gain from the improved character
of the new House. The Prime Minister himself
comes out very distinctly, if not very enthusias-
tically, in favour of reform. Time is the great
innovator, and renders change indispensable in
all institutions that human wisdom can devise.
Some partiality for our own special institutions
may be pardoned in a lord, and him a Prime
Minister—even were the objects of attachment
less worthy, the feeling would be regarded by
the majority of our countrymen as at least an
amiable weakness. But Lord PALNIERSTON
makes the frank and sensible confession, that
even if our institutions be better than those of
any other country, they are still susceptible of
amelioration; things are not to be maintained as
they are, simply because they are, but because
they fit the genius and meet the wants of a
people. This tone is satisfactory, and both the
House and the country will give to the Minister
every credit for his good intentions and Liberal
professions.

Time will show how far the fulfilment will
correspond with the promise. We could breathe
no shadow of a suspicion over the future, but
our trust is that the newly-elected representa-
tives, while they accord a generous and gentle-
manly credit to the Government, will also take
care that there be no backing out from profes-
sions made in the flush and victory of a general
election, but that the reasonable expectations of
a people who love liberty and reform may be
grateful.

Of course, a Chancellor. of the Exchequer can
never spare a tax, or the fraction of one, and it is
always ill-timed and inconvenient to ask him to
make any reduction. It is quite a different
thing when the question is one of,,adding to the
national burden ; then the times and the seasons
are always favourable. But We; do hope the
Chancellor will lend a willing ear•to what may
be pleaded in favour of repealing ',the vexatious
and ill-chosen duty on paper. The return of a
new Parliament is a circumstance favourable to
this reasonable concession. The amount is
inconsiderable, and its retention on the raw