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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Lords last night, in answer to a
question from Earl Grey, Earl Granville stated that
the Arrow wag not owned,by a British subject, but
that it had been registered under an act in Council,
and belonged to a Chinese, who held some land
under a long lease from the British Government.
Lord Derby stated the substance of his motion for
Tuesday night. It would be to the effect that her
Msjesty had heard, with deep regret, the interrup-
tion of amicable relations between England and
China, arising out of the measures taken by the
British Admiral ; and, in the opinion of the House,
that the time taken for seeking the admittance of
British subjects into Canton was most unfavour-
able ; also, that actual hostilities ought not to have
been commenced. In moving a resolution, con-
demnatory of British Government in India, Lord
Clanricarde took occasion to animadvert in no
measured terms on the present system persevered
in by England. -The Duke of Argyll defended the
Government, and the motion was defeated without

a division.
In the House of Commons the most importan
business was that in relation to the Maynooth
Grant—Mr. Spooner moved that the House resolve
itself into a committee to consider the grants to
Maynooth ; he considered the grants to Maynooth
a great national sin, and called on the House to
remove it, to avert Di'ine judgment. All his
"ploquence was in vain, however, for, after an an'
mated debate, the motion was negatived by
majority of B—the votes being 159 for, and 167
against. Government last night had a narrow
escape of being left in a minority. Mr. Locke King
asked leave to bring in a bill with respect to County
Franchise. He wished to assimilate the county
franchise to that of the borough franchise, viz ,
giving a vote to every tenancy of the value of £lO.
Lord Palmerston opposed, and Lord John Russell
supported the motion; ultimately it was rejected by
a vote of 192 to 179—majority for the Government,
la. Lord Palmerston stated that her Majesty's
Government had been in communication with that
of Denmark respecting the Sound Dues, but that
nothing definite had yet been settled upon. He
expected that a decision would shortly be arrived
at, and he should at once enlighten the assembled
wisdom of the House upon the merits of the
question. The Premier also stated that he had
received no information with regard to an alleged
tfeaty between Russia and Persia, said to be
ratified at Herat, whereby Persia ceded to
Russia territory on the frontiers of Turkey. Mr.
Labouchere stated, that in accordance with the
views and opinions of the Governor of British
Guinea, that island will not be made a convict
settlement. In answer to Lord Claude Hamilton,
Labouchere said no instructions had been sent
to Hong Kong superseding the directions given by
Earl Grey in 1847, whereby offensive operations
against the Chinese were peremptorily forbidden,
without previous sanction from this country.
The domestic news of the day is scanty. Bacon
bas been found guilty by the Coroner's Jury, for
the wilful. murder of his mother. He also stands
accused of murdering his two children. The West
Kent Election has ended, in the return of Mr.
Martin ; and Mr. Monsell, the new President
of the Board of Health, has been re-elected for
the County of Limerick without opposition.
The death of Lord Ellesmere, which we record
to day, will cause much lamentations among
a very wide circle of admirers, all the more
as the deceased was only in the prime of life.
The Religious Liberty annual dinner was held
in London on Wednesday night. It was
a well attended and successful demonstration.
Speeches were delivered by Mr. Barnes, Mr.
Weguelin, Mr. Miall, and other M.P.'s who are
identified with the cause of religious freedom.
The impartial disendowment of all religious
sects" was the key-note of the proceedings ; and
the speeches were characterised by an earnestness
and intelligence worthy of the great and enlight-
ened movement which they were intended to
promote.
The trade and navig tion returns for the month
of December last, and for the year 1856, were
issued yesterday morning. Within the twenty folio
pages of this brochure is presented one of the
most wonderful pictures of beneficent intercourse
among mankind that the world has ever witnessed.
The total declared value of articles of utilikv
and enjoyment produced and manufactured in
these kingdoms and exported to foreign countries
amounted during the past year to no less a sum
than 115,890,867/. sterling, being an excess of
upwards of 20 millions over the preceding year.
During the ten years of free trade our exports
have exactly doubled, for in 1846 they amounted
to no more than £57,500,000. The increase,
comparing 1856 with the preceding year,
is apparent in all our great staples, and
particularly in cotton, linen, and woollen yarns.
The navigation returns are equally favourable.
By the same return we find that the produce of
the customs' duties during the year was
23,745,0001, of which sugar yielded 5,650,0001.,
tea 5,538,0001,, coffee 580,0001., spirits 2,500,0001.,

and tobacco 5,209,000. As to the excise, the
quantities only, not the amount of revenue, ard

given in this return.
Locally there is nothing of importance :trans-
piring. The usual weekly meetings •of the
Dock and Health Committees were held
yesterday, as was also the first annual meeting
of.the Labourers' Dwelling Company. Last night
Orini delivered his second lecture, and the
Guardian Society's annual dinner came off. For
full reports we would refer our readers to another

column.
The news from the Continent is interesting.
From Paris we learn that in the Legislative.
Chambers, a bill has been introduced accord-
ing to :Marshal Pelissier, Due do Malakhoff,
an annual dotation of 100,000 fr , dating from the
Bth of September, 1855 ; also a bill to regulate
definitively the budget of 1854 The Constitu-
tionnel contains an article on the union
of the Principalities, in reply to the attacks
to which the open support which France gives
to the project, has been exposed, on the part
of the Times and the Austrian press. It is not
without significance that this time the Swiss editor
of the Constitutionna, A. Renee himself, signs the
article. This shows that the patrons of the journal
I are in earnest in this discussion.

From the Danubian Principalities we have an
intimation that the electoral lists for the Divans
are to be made-up at the beginning of March. The
publication of the finnan was daily expected.
No arrangement, not even a provisional one, has
been come to, concerning the solution of the Neuf-
chatel question. So says a despatch from Berlin,
dated I.7th inst. Our Denmark advices informs us

hat the Danish Council has drawn up a reply to
uv ""s. 11.1111JVA.4 a•a

,o the Danish government to abstain from en
croaching on the constitution of Holstein, which
is a German Federal State, as well as a portion of
the Danish monarchy. If this reply amounts to
a refusal, Austria and Prussia will undoubtedly
bring the case before the German Federal Diet,
which will then have no option but to declare war
against Denmark, and Europe may again have to
witness the dreary spectacle of the Danish penin-
sula being overrun by German troops, while
the German ports will be blockaded by Danish
men-of-war, without any reasonable prospect
of a conclusion of the war, except by the arbitra-
tion of third parties. The application of the
principle proposed at the Paris Congress, recom-
mending arbitration before resorting to hostilities,
seems particularly called for in this case. A hope
still remains, however, that the Danish reply will
be such as to render war unnecessary.
Among the news from the East, one point merits
particular attention. It is the cession of a small
piece of territory by Persia to Russia Distinct
and reliable evidence of the completion of this act
of cession is before us. It is said to be unim-
poi tant ; but we are by no means of that opinion,
The great commercial road between Trebisonde
and Tabriz falls partly on the ceded territory. It
besides extends Russian Armenia, the most impor
taut, of the Russian provinces, south of the
Caucasus. And thus it is that Russia has in-
demnified herself for the territory ceded in
Bessarabia.
Our advises from Turkey informs us that ten
English line of battle ships were to leave the
Bosphorus on the 9th instant for Malta, but it was
not expected that the remainder of the squadron
would leave before the evacuation of the
Principalities by the Austrian troops. The firman
for the convocation of the Divans ad hoc in the
Principalities was expected to be published
immediately in the journals of Jassy and Buchar-
est, after which the electoral list would be formed,
and the elections commence at the beginning of
March.
The heavy portion of the Indian mails arrived in
the Pera at Southampton yesterday.
The Royal Mail Steamer Magdalena, arrived at
Southampton yesterday, with the West India
Mails. The news by her is not important. A
gigantic fraud upon the Underwriters had been
discovered, in Kingston, Jamaica—full particulars
wi!l be found elsewhere. Commercial affairs are
in a buoyant condition. From the South Pacific,
we have still rumours of insurrectionary move-
ments, both in Peru and Bolivia. At Quito the
volcano was in a state of eruption, causing great
alarm to the inhabitants. On the 20th of December
a slight shock of an earthquake took place at
Mexico ; and on the same day a fearful storm
occurred at Vera Cruz, when seven vessels were
lost, and eighty persons perished. The Costa
Ricans have taken possession of Virginia Bay, and
all the river steamers. California is quiet. A
strong shock of earthquake was felt at Lima on
• the 27th Dec.

THE Emperor NAPOLEON'S Speech will be
tong remembered. As an historic mirror, it will

be invaluable to the curious of the distant future.
It relates, with superhuman complacency, the
sublime harmony in which civilisation, which
progresses " like the march of an arm y"—great
misery, the wonders credit has performed, its
inestimable wealth, unimagined riches which
mines are to throw into circulation, the unerring
index to the public wealth indirect taxation sup-
plies, and that internal contentment and univer-
sal greatness which needs 600,000 disciplined
troops to sustain them—can co-exist at one
nstant of time, and under one sceptre. These
are marvels which ought to satisfy the living,
and encourage generations to come. It has
been observed, however, that an air of unnatural
melancholy pervades the whole of the Imperial
address ; but we attribute this to the classic
style in which it was written. The brief, but
dignified allusion made to the finances of the
Empire, gave a very poetical stamp to the epi-
sode ; and the chaste part assigned to Hope,
and the dreams left for the Fates to unravel, are
equally deserving of admiration. Had the EM-
PEROR descended to such vulgar matters, it might
have led to childish and invidious comparisons.
It was enough to tell the world that France does
not receive more than 10,000,0001. annually
from her prohibitive system of indirect taxation,
while, by a partial approach towards Free
Trade, and after many large reductions in our
tariff of inland imposts, we net 40,000,0001. from

the same source !
These are useless discussions. France has a
great and noble part to play in Europe ; and, if
she is so short sighted as to mount civilisation on
her war-horse, and will give us political masqua-
rade for peace, and an irreproachable national
existence, the better part of humanity must bear
the infliction with beeoming fortitude. The
EMPEROR pledges France to nothing, and the
French are not bound by any voice except that of
an enlightened world In this lies the safety of
the peaceably disposed, and the friends of Con-
stitutional government, and progressive tolera-
ration in religion and civil life. And the EMPE-
ROR leaves us to seek some such consolation, as
none was vouchsafed to us from the throne of our
Ally. It seems, in fact, as if the ordinary diplo-
matic compliments of the season had been studi-
ously avoided in the concoction of the Royal
addresses of 1857. Queen VICTORIA was unu-
sually reserved in the last Speech delivered to
Parliament, and the Emperor NAPOLHON was so
silent about his Allies that one can hardly believe
that the lot of Great Britain and France were