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ganius, and what was the issue ? Wa will say ho mono
of it than of the anniversary just passed in graceful
silence. Enough, that constitutional govsrnment came
• out of the ordeal in a condition to strengthen itself, and
to remove causes of disaffection, so that; when war is
again forced upon us, it finds us united as we never were
befere in the long history of the country.
It is to no purpose to compare despotism and freedom.
Despotism and freedom have both their strong end their
weak places, by which they must respectively abide, for
neither can borrow from the other. England cannot pie.
fit by secrecy, nor Russia by publicity. It is not, like the
foolish fowl, by hiding our heads iu a hole, that we can
escape the enemy. Discussion is the life of constitutional
government, and to forego it would not ho to acquire
any strength that belongs to despotism, but to destroy
the essential of our polity. A man does not make him-
' self the match fir the tiger by emulating its dumbness,
its claws, or teeth, but by opposing to its brute force
and ferocity his peculiar resources in intelligence and
mechanical aids to human strength:
If we could see the working of despotic Government
we should probably find in it fail as much as, if tot more
errorand miscarriage than in our own, but there is no ex-
posurenfitasetlaas the /a,a, maxim has it, things not ap-.
pearing are as things not existing ; but with us it is by'
the light of publicity
that faults are corrected. But for
the revelations of the press the Miristry would have
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of the'"ulary, and would it have tended to the right
have Ceased to exist. Constitutional government must
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Albert, had confined has appeal to sparing the Go-
veinnient unnecessary and impolitic embarrassment,
and endeavours, we certitioly should have joined heartily
in the' laudations which his Royad Highness
speechlhas called forth from most of our contemporaries;
but the Prince's words, as reported, go beyond this,
and if they do not actually tend to conclusions, tend yet
to countenance conclusions adverse to our free form of
Government in a state of war. We do not believe that
this was the intention of the Prince, for this simple rea-
son, that it is not in keeping with any of the opinions
he hal ever held, which have indeed always been
marked by an opposite tendency. That we hare not
noticed the matter in any carping or inimical spirit
should, be beyond a question in the minds of our
readers, who know how ready we have ever been to
acknowledge the excellent sense and spirit of the Prince
Consort, and to appreciate his many important services.
Nor have we been amongst the least forward in discoun-
tenancing and rebuking unjust impugnments of his
Royal Highness's conduct. And it is in perfect con-
sistency with our desire that the Prince's deservedly
high character should be upheld, that we question the
authenticity of a report ascribing to leis Royal Highness
words not of the well-guarded discretion which has
generally distinguished his public addresses, inasmuch,
at least, as they are susceptible of an interpretation
which will greatly delight the enemies of Constitutional
Government abroad, ay, and also some yearners for
despotism at home.

I PRICE SD.

Captain Thomas Lemon to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Childs, promoted.
Captain Peter Trant Murray Payne to be Lieutenant.-
Colonel, vice Evans, promoted.•
Captain George Elliot to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brown, promoted.
Captain Thomas Charles Cotton Moore to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Parker, promoted.
First Lieutenant Michael Sprott to be Captain, vice
Mitchell, promoted.
First Lieutenant end Adjutant Julius Bunce to be dap-
tain, vice Lemon, promoted.
First Lieutenant -Thomas Page Casey to be Captain, vice
Payne, promoted.
First Lieutenant Henry Treffry Fox to be Captain, vice
Elliot, promoted.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant E.lward Lawes Pym to
be Captain, vice Moore, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Ardley Henry Falwassor Barnes to
be First Lieutenant, vice Sprott, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Henry Brasuell 'Pilsen to be First
Lieutenant, vice Bunce, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Gustavus Francis Munro to be First
Lieutenant, vice Casey, promoted.
Second Lieutenant Arthur Huntley Hill Walsh, to be
First Lieutenant, vice Fox, promoted.
Second Lieutenant 'Alexander Bassett Stephen Sharp to
bo First Lieutenant, vice Pym, promoted.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

East York Regiment of Militia—Hewlay -John Baines,
Mg., late Captain 93th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Jacson,
resigned.

CONINISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

County of Stafford—B.l%yard Dolman Scott, Esq., to bs
Deputy Lieutenant; Augustus East Manley, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
'Nth or Highland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia
The IIononr;ble Simon Fraser to be Captain, vice William
Praser resigned.
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E Ist York Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant John Daniel
Ferguson to be Captain, vice Eggiaton, resigned ; Ensign
Henry Mant Gilby to be Lieutenant, vice Ferguson, pro-
moted ; John Nicholson; late Lieutenant half-pay 14th
Foot, to be Ensign ; Charles Joseph Lynch, Gent., to be
Ensign, in augmenttition•; Assistant-Surgeon George
Earle to be Surgeon; vice Williams, reiigned.

North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles—The Hon.
Chas. H. Trefusis to be Lieutenant, vice Bridges, resigned;
the Hon. Augustus Frederick Warwick Bampfylde to be
Comet.

lst-Devon Regiment of Militia—Samuel Jahn Maclur-
can to be Major, vice Marsh, resigned ; Lewis Knight to
be Captain, vice Maclurcan, promoted ; Albert Tanner to
be Lieutenant.

Devon Militia Artitlery—Ajax Marten, to be Second
Lieutenant ; Thomas Clarke tb be First Lieutenant ;
Charles Deere James to be. First Lieutenant.
West York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Alex. Aitken,
Esq., late Captain 77th Foot, from sth Middlesex Light
Infantry, to be Major.
sth Regiment of West York Militia—George Shirley
Terry, Gent., to be Eusign ;,D tvid Bridges, Esq., to be
Surgeon ; Willi.tm Francis Bridges, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—
Sir William Ridley Charles Cooke, Bart., to be Lieutenant,
vice Morris, resigned.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the 6th February last] :-
4th Regiment of West York Militia.—John Kendall,
Gent., to be Lieutenant.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Lieut. John Henry Blake to be Cap-
tain, vico Or red, resigned ; Lieut. John Henry Gordon to
be Captain, vice Sandbach, resigned ; Ensign John Robert
Leigh to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, promoted ; Ensign
Sheffield Betham to be Lieutenant, vice Gordon, pro-
moted ; Ensign Wm. Gibton to be Lieutenant, vice Watt,
resigned Mark Quayle, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Gibton,"
promoted.
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant John
Frederick Gales to be Captain, vice Milbank, who retires;
Ensign William Chaytor to be Lieutenant, vice Gales,
promoted.
_ _

Northampton Regiment of Militia Ensign Edward
Henry Hare to be Lieutenant; Ensign Hewett Linton to
be Lieutenant.

Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Charles High-
andre Houth Potts, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Montgomery Rifles—Mnjor John Edward Harry-
man Pryce to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant, vice
the Hon. Henry Hanbury Tracy, resigned.
iThe following appointment is substituted for that
which appeared i❑ tho Gazelle of the 19th June, 1855 ]
sth or Royal Elthornc Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Wm. Mayon, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Jaranet, promoted.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Richards, dealer in wood, Lime-street, City.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Lockey Edridge, builder, Bayswater, to surrender,
July 6, at eleven, and Aug. 10, at half-past one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

Win. Bridgewater, coal merchant, Cheltenham, July 9,
and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Prnen, Cheltenham ;
Ibbot and Lucas, Bristol.
John Bentley Carr, brewer, Bardsley, Ashton-under-
Lvne, July 12 and August 2, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Hornaman, official assignee, Manchester;
Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester.
John Warburton, edge-tool manufacturer, Sheffield,
July 7 and ;?8, at ton, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin,
official assignee, Sheffield ; T. Smith, jun., Sheffield.
Samuel Thraves and Win. Harrison, upholsterers, Not-
tingham, July 17 and August 7, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham;
Coopo, Nottingham ; Harrison and Wood, Birmingham.
George Butler Pontius., innkeeper, Devizes, July , 9 and
and August 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller official assignee, Bristol; Wittey, Devizes; Abbot
and Lucas,: Bristol.

Francis Edward Tucker, commission agent, Hornchurch,
Essex, July 6, at two, and August 9, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. Basing.
hall-street ; Spyer and Son, Broad-street-buildings.
Richard Kirkman Lane, bill broker and gas manufac-
turer, Argyle-street, Regent-street, July 7 and August 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Mason, Moria-chambers, 17,
Ironmonger-lane.
William Jones, builder, Brecon, July 10, and August 7,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official
assignee, Bristol ; Evans and Sons, Liverpool ; Bevan and
Girling, Bristol.
Thomas Roberts, builder, Llanstephan. Carmarthen,
July 9, and August 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Crutwill,
Bath ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
Frederick Divers, licensed victualler, Great Bell-alley,
Moorgate-street, July 6, at half-past twelve, and August
10, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, nasinghall-street Warrand, Bas-
inghall-street.
Robert Martin and David Wardlaw Scott, merchants,
Great St. Helen's, City, July 6 and August 10, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee,
Alderrnanbury ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

William Epworth Take, wine and spirit merchant, Mark-
lane, June 6, at half-past one, and Aug. 10, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Marten, Thomas, and Ilollams, Mincing-lane.
Daniel Golding, butcher, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, July
6, at twelvo, and Aug. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Haw-
kins, Lincoln's-inn ; Hustwick, Soham, Cambridgeshire.
George Norman Bult, druggist, Tiverton, July 5 and
Aug. 2, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee; Stogion, Exeter.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Jackson, bookseller, Glasgow ; creditors meet
July 5, at one, in the London Temperance Hotel, Glasgow.
M'Kay, merchant,' Muie, Sutherlandshire ; July
11. at ono, in Hill's Inn, Golspie.
John Forbes, druggist, Old Meldrum ; July 5, at one,
in the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen.
Duncan M'Rae, surgeon-dentist and druggist, Perth ;
July 9, at ten, in the Salutation Hotel, Perth.

THE HEA VY TRIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT.

(Front the Examiner.)
We raw with the more concern and regret the expres-
sions attributed to Prince Albert at the Trinity House,
because we knew the exaggerated sense in which they
would be construed abroad, and that they would be
triumphantly cited in corroboration of opinions that the
constitutional government of this country incapacitates
it for war. Since the disastrous mismanagement of the
Crimean expedition, it has been the fashion on the
Continent to moralise on the superiority of despotism,
and to point to England as the example of a people
who have so devoted themselves to the arts of peace
as to be fit for nothing else. Taking Sydney Smith's
jest in earnest, they say that our mission is to make
calico for all the world, and that with that consummation
our successes end. Trade thrives in peace, so they say,
all our institutions are adjusted and fitted to a state of
peace, and are utterly unsuited tt, war. And so they
will glibly run on as if this great country were a new
creation, a thing of yesterday, which had set up success-
fully in trade, but not had experience of any other cir-
cumstances and fortunes. And most unluckily calcu-
lated to countenance this strange mistake was Prince
Albert's remark, "our constitutional Government is
undergoing a heavy trial."
But has the old ship never been ont in a storm before?
Have her qualities not been tested when:she had to buffet
with all the powers of Europe combined against her? Why
this Russian war is to her what the ripple at Spithea,d is to
some old vessel which has made good weather of many a
fierce gale. In how many wars has our constitutional
Government been tried, and not found wanting? We need
not travel far back, we need not even go up to the time of
Anne; it is enough to refer to the mighty struggle with revo-
lutionary France and the power of Napoleon. Then
our Government was indeed on its trial. Our enemy
a great nation, full of enthusiasm, and directed by a
consummate master of the art of war, who seemed to
hold Fortune herself in his absolute bondage : in vain
were combinations cemented with our gold against him,
he swept them away with his cannon, and turned coun-
ter-combinations against us. And England, sometimes
standing alone, never stood undivided in this stupendous
conflict. There was an opposition far from scrupulous,
and there was much disaffection in the country, border-
ing closely on sedition, if not treason itself. There was,
too, not wanting a peace party, encouraging the enemy,
who had its sympathies and good wishes, which ,
magni-
fied
his triumphs and deplored his reverses. Therewasa press not less bold than the press of the present
day, but inferior in character as respects knowledge,
ability, and probity, and not hayino.
ehces to an improved its defer-
public opinion. To con-
summate all these evils, there Were bad laws for