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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We have four day's later news from the United
States, by the arrival of the Arabia, The intelli-
gence does not possess any features of importance.
The murder of Dr. Burdell continued to attract
universal attention- The inquest had not yet
ended;although it had been in existence ten days,
all of .which. time was engaged in obtaining evi
dente bearing upon the melancholy affair; but so
-far nothing of a definite character b`..,Ci leaked out.
No direct clue had been obtaiL,' ed to the perpetra-
tors of the deed; altb"-ough a cloud of horrible
B"9l4C:ll"esed two of the inmates of the
holisf?, We ;.ittve accounts from all parts of the
"rnitrY the!sudden rise of rivers, towns inun-
dat- • . • ,
c,ies swept away, and other property
tnsticryed by unexampled floods consequent upon
the• warm weather and rain of the previous three
or four. days. Albany was in a desperate condition,
the water having risen in a few hours to a height
:never before known. Railroads were much dam-
aged, and in some instances impassable. In Con-
gress no buSiness of importance had been transacted-
Much surprise and uneasiness had been created
by the' Senate, after a long debate with closed
doors, sending back the Clarendon-Dallas treaty
for amendment, to its committee on foreign
relations, as this step was considered in many
irarters as tantamount to its rejection. To NS hat
influence, this new complication is to be attributed
is not specifically made known—whether, in fact,
it be owing to certain marceuvres in the Cabinet
making- process at Washington, to the
regular anti. British demonstration of General Cass
and his wing of the Democracy, or to an im-
_pression on the part of some of the ultra Southern
-members: that. this treaty would militate against
their favourite scheme of a new southern con-

federaey, intended to embrace Central America
within its modest confines, but this is certain,
come whence or how it may. The rejection of a
treaty, arranged with so much difficulty, wears
rather a serious look. Later news from Kansas
state that a new and important move has been
made in the legislature towards the framing of
Pro-slavery CoeStitution. The legislative session
of Noya'Seotia had been opened. His Excellency,
we observe,. announced in his speech that "an
opposition company with adequate resources will
apply for a charter to lay a submarine telegraph
from Ireland direct to Nova Scotia." This is rather
a sudden- intimation ; nor will it operate very
favourably oa-the chances of • the bill at. Washing,
ton, for affording government aid to the company
that starts its enterprise from St. John's, New-
foundland. Presently, we shall have a purely
American line,
.we presume—all, however, depen-
deot on the success of the pioneer.
The home news of this morning does not possess

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any features of interest. The discussion in Par-
liament on the Budget absorbs attention. The
opinions expressed by the metropolitan press on
the Budget may be briefly stated. The Times
supports the scheme of Sir a Lewis, and abuses
Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone suo more. The
Chronicle wildly c.ondemus the Budget, and strongly
eulogises Mr. Disraeli's speech. The Daily News
looks on the debate as putting beyond doubt the
terms, offensive and defensive, contracted between
the hitherto alienated leaders of the Tory party; and
it declares that Lord Palmerston must find some-
: thing better than " New Taxes " and No Reform"
to inscribe on his banners. The Herald thinks it
is an insult to common sense to suppose that the
men who could contrive nothing better in the pre-
sent -"state of affairs than this Budget are fit to
administer the affairs of the country ; and the Post
of course terms Sir 0. Lewis's propositions unim-
peachable.
Fuller details of the colliery explosion are' given

hi another part of to-day's paper. We regret to say
that the loss of life is fully as large as was stated
at,ffrst; and hundreds of domestic circles in the
neighbourhood, of Barnsley now resound with the
wail of lamentation and despair. Louis Blanc has
addressed m-spirited--appealtto the -Republicans of
FranCe, „ifrging upon: them toI take. part in the
• approachinff. :elections ; and, .if possible, return
sgine of: their; number as members of the Legisla-
tire Assembly. Of course, he doe's not intend that
.:thes+ Reptiblican members shall- take the oath of
- allegiance ; .on the .contrary, they are to refuse to
do so-. and the distinguished exile- imagines that
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this: :;display, „of moral courage, and Political
consistency, on ,theirpart, will tend to exhibit the
weakness of the, imperial rule,' and to strengthen
the democratic artnin, the next revolutionary battle.
In local jaztters we may notice, that, the charge
against Captain Tobin,hss been amicably settled,
and he has been discharged freincustod-y. Another
embezzlement case was before the Police Court on

Saturday. • „ .
Our Saturday. advises inform us that the
Paris Constitutional of Saturday had a semi official
article denying the allegations made by Mr.
DiSraeli as to the secret treaty between France
and Austria.: The convention was signed, and
France• engaged to employ its efforts to maintain
order in Italy, on the condition that Austria should
declare war against Russia. Austria did not
declare war, and the object of the convention ceased
to exist. The convention was not executed, had
no duration, and is, in fact, a dead letter.
Later accounts from the East state that the
- Persian government had issued a new manifesto
on the war with England. The manifesto alluded
to the determined hostility of England, and
contrasts that with the friendly disposition always
s,lown by Persia. The manifesto says—" The
Persian government finds itself obliged to appeal
to the Most High, and to use all the means in its
pourer to defend the country and people, and to

resist an insolent 'enemy and to submit to any
sacrifice fot the welfare,and hbnor of the nation,
that these "objects,. its holy religion, may not be
lightly exposed to ignominy and dishonor."
Letters from Vienna now assert that the result
of the amnesty granted to the Italians by the
Emperor of Austria has induced the young
monarch at once to extend the same measure to
the whole of the nations under his sway, and that
decrees to that effect will soon be published.
It is asserted that Russia has joined the Pope and
Prussia in mediating between the Western Powers
and Naples, but the basis is the immediate issue
by the King of Naples of an amnesty for political
offences. This news is not official.

From Sardinia, our advices state, that the
ceremony of investing several officers of the Sar•
dinian army with the Order of the Bath, took
place at Turin on Tuesday last.
The House of Deputies of the Prussian Landtag
has rejected the alteration of the constitution pro
posed by the Government. The proposal was to
shorten the interval between the two readings of
any bill, altering the constitution, to ten days
(instead of twenty-one.) The numbers on the
division were 189 against, and 101 for. There was
another Government proposition before the house,
embodying a change of the constitution, by trans-
, ferring the regular convocation of the Landtag from
November to January. The Government consented
to an amendment, leaving it open to convoke the
• Landtag at any day between the commencement of
November and the middle of January.
A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Porsen-
hulk of Hamburg, says, that at a conference held
there two days previously between Baron de Wer-
ner, Baron Koller. and the Ambassadors of England
and Turkey, the latter declared that Turkey would
never consent to the union of the Principalities,
not even should the divans pronounce in a great
majority for that measure. Sir Hamilton Seymour
spoke in the same sense.
A private letter from Vienna assures us that
telegraphic accounts received there state that the
town of Bolgrad was to be officially delivered over
by the Russian authorities to the commissaries of
the Moldavian government en February 12.
A letter from Beyrout, of the 6th, states that
Sir Henry Bulwer, the commissary of the English
government for the question of the Principalities,
had arrived in that city the evening before, from
Constantinople. Sir Henry is, it is said, charged
with a private mission in Syria.
A full account of the wreck of the British barque

Thetis, and the loss of seven of the crew, with ter-
rible suffering at sea, will -be found in another
coinmn. The Thetis was bound from the Mosquito
coast to Falmouth or Cork for orders.

The Black alll clipper ship Ocean Chief, Capt
Tobin, was off Holyhead yesterday afternoon, with
a fortnight or three week's later news from Austra-
lia. She would have sailed from Melbourne about

the end of November, in company with, or about
the same time as the London packet ship Black-
wall, of whic,in we have not yet had anyantelligence.
The (?,i;ean Chief will arrive here at about seven
:;:clock this morning.

THERE are only two men in the British
Empire who ought to be satisfied with the
PALMERSTON Budget. We need scarcely add
that those gentlemen are Mr. DISRAELI and Mr.
GLADSTONE. The political follies and economical
absurdities of the former ex- Chancellor of the
Exchequer have long been associated with the
cause of drunkenness and the increase of crime.
Low taxes on malt, and low duties on home
made spirits, are leading points in the charter
of that right honourable gentleman's party ;
while high tariffs against food have always been
held to be unworthy of investigation by a
philosophical age and practical people. Taking
a war, charge of 2,000,0001. off drunkenness, and
leaving a war burden on tea, sugar, and coffee,
so much food, ought to have silenced the
member for Buckinghamshire. He could not
have ventured on anything snore Conservative or
Protectionist if he had been in Sir G. C. LEWIS'S
place. Mr. GLADSTONE'S cardinal 'perfections of
finance and monetary philosophy had shared the
profound consideration bestowed on the Carlton
and its champion. Usury in trade, or extortion,
in the shape of exorbitant and ruinous rates of
discount in commerce, have not been assailed.
It matters not whether one-half of our factories
are forced to go on short time, or the home
shippers dare not attempt to buy goods for
foreign markets, or importers refuse to send out
orders for produce, to keep up our stocks of food
and raw material, owing to the high rate
charged for accommodation, the banks are still
to divide 25 per cent. profit, and usury is not to
be molested. What more can Mr. GLADSTONE
desire, as a Whig, Tory, or Protectionist ?
If politics do not resolve themselves into
money, why bestow on faction the patronage
which belongs to a higher order of intelligence
and patriotism ? The practical result of all our
monetary laws, and financial efforts, is usury and
stagnation in trade, Mr. GLADSTONE sees this,
and as the author of nine-tenths of the industrial
misery and mercantile ruin, and as the advocate of
the system which produces it, he can- show no
just grounds of complaint against the PAL-
MERSTON Budget, or the constitution of a secresy
committee, to enquire into the operation of our
monetary statutes. If he places any faith in the
boasted prosperity of the country, as indicated by
the Board of Trade returns, he can have no
reason to anticipate a deficiency of either
8,000,0001. or 10,000,000/. in the revenue within
the next two years. Mr. GLADSTONE may
excuse himself by saying that he did not in-
troduce " the prospective element" into our
financial system ; but what does Mr. DISRAELI'S
retrospective glances at our fiscal changes remind
us of ? The return of his party to power
emboldened the despots of Europe, filled
this country with agitation and alarm, and
these circumstances were laid bold of by
the Government of 1852, to justify the
bringing forward of supplementary estimates,
under the paltry pretext that the defences of the
country,
which the Duke of WELLINGTON had
thOught were ample; were not sufficient. Lord
DERBY's Government were not satisfied with the
estimates of their predecessors. His " weak
" government"
went to Parliament for more
money, and the ABERDEEN Cabinet, " following
" that policy," asked for larger supplies. In this
way upwards of 4,000,000/. was added to the
public burdens in less than two years ! In 1953,
the expenditure had reached 55,840,0001. Ab-
solutism, encouraged by the presence of a " weak
" Government" in Great Britain, had struck the
first blow, and the wretched sequel in finance
and the general condition of Europe is before

our eyes.
Mr. DISRAELI is very proud, no doubt, of the
display of wisdom his party made in 1853, and
feels quite justified in asking Parliement to go