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IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED,
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BAROMICTMit, 29.45.
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sunshine.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Late of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
p 0$ at Nine o'clock yesterday morning..—The stations
Ar lsraiged in order of latitude.
nArusai—Wind N.W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy.
ind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
T-seeitinotc.Wind S.E., calm—partially cloudy.
BasrsasTokas —Wind W., hard wind—partially cloudy.
C4REF.N iCff —Wind S.W.. strong breeze—overcast.
„itiTh"°D—Wind S. W., hard wind—partially cloudy.
''wtl")(3ll—Wind WI, light airs—partially cloudy.
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4'"ltit'QX—.Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
A'°uT"—Wind Nv., gentle breeze—cloudless.
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Lutoirras—Wind W., gentle breeze partially cloudy.
C .I.OII'VE3TER—AVIiId S W., strong breeze—overcast.
HoLYILIZA.O--Wnd N.W., hard wind—overcast.
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W a aßy Calm—overcast.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1852.

It is gratifying to observe that additional proofs of
his capacity have recently been afforded by the
Noble Earl at the bead of the present Government.
Unfortunately, however, these evidences of superior
judgment have referred less to the skill required in
the labours of administration, than to the discernment
imperatively requisite in the distribution of the more
coveted badges of honour, and of those offices which
are the most peculiarly characterised by the mingled

attributes of power and responsibility. Further than
this the testimonies to which we are here alluding
todtild scarcely go, prior to the long and anxiously
expe,cted revelation of the Ministerial policy on the
assemblage of the newly-elected Parliament. Until
an the nation cannot look to the Danny Cabinet for

the exercise of the more delicate and, difficult tune-
time devolving upon the rulers of England, in
obedience to the complex working of the exquisitely
balanced machinery of her Constitution. Until the
1 views of that Cabinet have been delibe;, tely and
minutely explained the people of the United King'.
dome cannot reasonably anticipate the commencement
of those endeavours at legislative improvement which
oan alone tend.to consolidate the fabric of an Adminis-
tration. All that can be required by the community, be-
fore then, from the Earl of DERBY and his colleagues, is
the judicious regulation of those duties which con-
duce to the ordinary, or, as we may correctly term
them, the elementary operations of government. Those
duties,
we mean, of conserving the public peace
without interruption,
of securing the inviolability of
the laws, and of so conducting the intercourse of the
State with foreign powers as to assure the mainte-
inance of international tranquillity. Forinasmuch
as the existing Ministry have acted in these respects
creditably to themselves and satisfactorily to the po-
pulation, they have dissipated many of the fears en-
tertained in their regard by the conscientious and un-
prejudiced members of the Opposition. The country
is, in this manner, prepared to await the disclosure
of tbe'ultimate intentions of the Cabinet in a mood
somewhat more encouraging than could have been
anticipated in February by even the most
sanguine among the many hopeful supporters
of the Administration. Meanwhile, in ad-
dition to the last mentioned of the Ministerial
claims upon the popular consideration, there are, as
before intimated, those recent and, as it were, sup-
plementary tokens of the capacity of the PRIME MI-
NISTER, which are discernible in his very skilful se-
lection in one quarter of the individuals best entitled
to some honourable evidence of distinction, and in
another of those most happily suited to some onerous
and elevated appointment.

were in the act of deploying. Previously—at the
battle of Fuentes d'Onore—while gallantly leading
the Allied cavalry against the enemy, General
CHARLES STEWART took prisoner in the nage, with
his own hand, LAMOTTE, the Colonel of one of the
French regiments. His ability in conducting nego-
tiations of very considerable importance was
no less conspicuously displayed than his gal-
lantry in actual conflict. It is not forgotten
by any of the historians of those stirring times, that
it was Sir CHARLES STEWART who, in the April of
1813, on being sent to the north of Germany by the
British Government for the purpose of accelerating
the conclusion of a regular treaty between Prussia
and Great Britain, induced the Berlin Cabinet to
consent to the terms of the coalition. It was Sir
CHARLES STEWART, moreover, who with
_Pomo DI
BORGO contrived in the same year, by what one
annalist has termed their " able and courteous efforts,"
to overcome the formidable vacillation of the Crown
Prince of Sweden—BERNADOTTE. It was Sir
CHARLES STEWART who, with four other diplomatists
of sufficient celebrity—with HARDENBERG, ABER-
DEEN, D'ANSTETT, and METTERNlCH—accomplished
the almost bewildering task of reconciling the con-
flicting jesdousies and opposing interests which
continued for a long while rife at the
Allied head-quarters. Speaking of the deter-
mination and skill with which Sir CHARLES
STEWART and Pozzo DI BORGO combatted the evils
resulting from the changeable temperament of BER-
NADOTTE, Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON observes that " for-
tunately for the allies their interests were at this
juncture supported at the head-quarters of the Prince
Royal of Sweden by men whose discernment showed
them where the decisive point lay, and whose moral
courage rendered them equal to the task of enforcing
it upon the commander." Happily for the British
Envoy he was empowered at this period to speak with
more that accustomed authority—directing as he did
the disbursements of the British subsidies. Happily
for England he was capable of employing that au-
thority with more than ordinary vigour, and as was.
shown by the event, with more than usual efficiency.
In testimony of the resolution and adroitness
of the course pursued at this momentous
crisis by Sir CHARLES STEWART, it is only necessary
to refer to the written remonstrances addressed by,
him to the Crown Prince of SWEDEN—those remon-
strances " penned with respect but military frank-
ness, and breathing a warm but not undeserved spirit
of patriotic; indignation," which Sir ARCHIBALD
ALISON has declared " remain enduring monuments
both of the tortuous policy of BERNADOTTE at that
period, and of the clear military discernment and un-
flinching moral courage of the Marquis of LONDON..
DERRY." Additional testimonies of a similar de-
scription might: readily be adduced from the pages of
history—but it is surely enough to call that one other
to the popular remembrance by which Sir CHARLES
STEWART, in preventing a capitulation being granted
to DAVOUST and the garrison of Hamburgb, secured
the Allies from the perils that must inevitably have
resulted—perils which the annalist of Europe asserts
" might have entirely changed the fate of the war
next spring ill France"—from the restoration
of twenty-five thousand veteran troops to the standards
of NAPOLEON ! :It is by a graceful and appropriate
selection, therefore, which the people of England
cannot fail to appreciate, that the brother of Viscount
CASTLEREAGH—'the brother of the Prime Minister
who placed Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY at the head of
the British forces; in Portugal—has been named to
the vacant Garter immediately upon the death of the
Duke of WELLLNGTON. Bearing in recollection the
achievements of that great commander, and the very
admirable manner in which those achievements were
seconded by this prowess and the abilities of Sir
CHARLES STEWKRT, we rest assured that the country
will receive with, satisfaction the announcement that
the high badges .of the first order of knighthood have
been thus conferred by the SOVEREIGN upon the
veteran Marquis of LONDONDERRY.

Everybody—under the very peculiar circumstances
of the case—has united in hailing with satisfaction
the nomination of Viscount HARDINGE as the imme-
diate successor at the Horse Guards of his Grace the
late Duke of WELLINGTON. Mere considerations of
precedence have, for the time being, we, cannot but
think wisely, been forgotten. It seems to have been
admitted at once that the principal organizer of the
Militia Bill would be conveniently welcomed at
the present juncture as Commander-in- Chief—
while his previous elevation to the rank of
Master-General of the Ordnance appeared to have
prepared the way for his probable, if not inevitable,
promotion. Scarcely less unanimous have been the
opinions expressed by all parties in reference to the
other steps taken by Lord DERBY for the filling up
of important vacancies—vacancies for the most part
consequent upon the lamented death of the hero
whose remains the nation is about to honour in a
signal manner by the performance of solemn obsequies
at the public expense under the dome of St. Paul's
Cathedral.

Simultaneously with the selection of worthy suc-
cessors to the appointments which we have above
implied, and which it would have been altogether
needless to have enumerated, the responsibility of
awarding two Garters lately devolved upon the First
Lora,of the Treasury—the:one vacant by the death of
the Duke of HAMILTON, the other by the death of the
Oldie of WELLINGTON. It may now beremarked that in
thesist particulars, as in the others already specified, the
Earl of DERBY has acquitted himself as becomes the
leadbr of the British Government. Already by his
proMptitude the PREMIER has rendered the requisite
number complete by awarding to two of the most
distinguished members of our nobility the dignity of
admission to the most illustrious order of knighthood
in all Christendom. Again, there are:the requisite
twenty-four names enrolled under that of the
SOVEREIGN as upon the occasion of its first
,insti-
tution in 1348—upwards of five hundred years ago—
when the gallant and chivalric Court of the Third
EDWARD was first dazzled by the embroidered
splendours of the cloak, and the tunic, and the su-
perticnic hood, and the two jupons, all powdered
with garters—when the varying motto of the order
was DOW—

On Thursday ;afternoon, at the launch of an Aus-
ridian emigration ship, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
" It. is. as. it. ia." some remarks were made by Mr. W. S. LINDSAY,
worked on the border of the KING'S doublet at his M.P., the great shipowner, in which he certainly
plays on the feast of the Epiphany; and now again— struck the key-note of practical reform. After
"Hay, hay, the wythe swan, glancing at certain mercantile matters to which the
By Godes souls I am thy man,"
Government should attend—such as the system of
emblazoned on the royal shield when his MAJESTY Consulate abroad, the Trinity-house, and the Dover
proceeded in state to the City of Oxford ; and yet at and Ramsgate dues—Mr. LINDSAY added, " And
another time, upon EDWA.B,DIS return from the coati- now that the great General who held the office of
vent,' that quaint old inscription " bony soit q. Warden of the 'Cinque Ports had gone to his rest,
mel y pense," which has for five centuries glittered he could not help expressing his surprise that Lord
in diamonds on the bosom of the English Sovereign. DERBY, the Filet Minister of the Crown, who had
The garter rendered vacant by the demise of the always said that he felt for the shipowners, and de-
Duke of ILesteeroN it may now be remarked has sired to see their burthens removed, should have
been judiciously conferred upon the First Lord of stepped into one of these burthens himself, and ap -
the Admiralty—eminent services to the country, an
pointed himself to this sinecure of 3,0001.
ancient name, enormous possessions and very consi- a year, the revenue for the maintenance of which
derable influence both professional and ministerial, o
having pointed out as a fitting recipient of that high was drawn front the pockets of the shipowners of
England. It would have better become him, consi-
honour his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND.
Perhaps yet more commendable, certainly still more dering the profes sinus he had made, if, instead of am-
appropriate, is the selection of the other cepting that office, he had abolished it."
recipient of the Garter the recipient of Of all men in England, the Earl of DERBY is one
the Garter placed at the disposal of the
of the last who is fairly open to a charge of money-
Crown by the irreparable loss sustained by the loving. Of that everybody will acquit him. But it
country in the death of the late illustrious Duke of
seems to us that, if he has taken to himself the War-
WELLINGTON. To this extraordinary and two-fold denship of the Cinque Ports (and as yet there is no
official announcemient to that effect), he has acted
privilege—the privilege of wearing the Garter, and
without due consideration. The time has arrived
that Garter the one rendered vacant by the demise of
when sinecures s'o ould be done away with. True it
the greatest soldier of England—has been chosen a
Peer whose services both in the camp and in the is that this Cinque Ports' Wardenship has been a sort
council seem to have at once pointed him out:as the of political heirs-loom attached to the Premier-
fittest successor to the collar and the star decorating ship from a period "beyond the memory
during so many years the bosom of the conqueror of
of the oldest inhabitant." It became 'vacant
during Mr. Puree Government, and Mr. PITT gave it
the Iberian Peninsula. It was only what might have
been expected by those familiar with the history of to himself. So i t was taken by others; so by Lord
L
the last European war—that her MAJESTY should LIVERPOOL ; SO by the Duke of WELLINGTON. But,
in these times of reform, when retrenchment is so
now, trough the First Minister of her Crown, be
gracioisly pleased to confer these eminent badges of loudly called for, we think the Minister should pause
knighthood upon no other personage than the veteran ere, by following the practise of his predecessor, he
Marquis of LONDONDERRY. It cannot be readily
perpetuate, in his own person, a sinecure of such ex-
forgotten in England that to the brother of Lord tent. We think, however, that Mr. LINDSAY appears
to have rashly asnumed that there was truth in the
LONDONDERRY was in no small measure attributable
the glory of those memorable victories which gained rumour of the AV ardenship being taken, in succes-
sion, by Lord DE RBY. That is as yet only a report. so much influence over Europe to this empire,
and so much renown to the career of the The actual salary of the office is not more than 4001.
Duke of WELLINGTON—for it must be re- a-year, with Weimer Castle as a residence, and we
membered that it was Viscount CASTLEREAGH who think it very probable that if the PREMIER take
placed Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY (in opposition the appointment, he will not accept the fees, &c.,
to the expressed wishes of King GEORGE III) at the which increase the income to between three and
head of our forces in the kingdoms of Spain and Por-
four thousand a year, "out of the pockets,"
tugal. It was to this judicious selection of Lord as Mr. LINDSAY says, "of the shipowners of
CasreenzeGil, therefore, that the subsequent triumph England." Deere is no reason whatever why
of the arms of Great Britain must be directly trace: the Wardenship, moderately remunerated, should
able—and it appears consequently but reasonable that not be taken by the Earl of DERBY. There
now, in 1852, upon the death in his old age of are . responsible duties attached to the office,
ARTHUR WELLEsLEy, the Great Duke of Welling- which must be performed by somebody, and the high
too, the brother of toe PRIME MINISTER who first rank and undoubted ability of Lord DERBY certainly
afforded that renowned Captain the opportunity of should not be disqualifications. Moreover, we venture
directing the deetinies of the continent should be to predict—from the Noble Earl's known liberality—
chosen to succeed to the vacant Garter—among the that his occasional occupancy of Weimer Castle would
most cherished prizes won by his keen sword, the very materially 'benefit Dover and other places in its
guerdon of ligireTeubtable achievements. Added to vicinity, for his expenditure there during any one
these remarkable claims of relationship, the Marquis month would much exceed his whole annual salaryfrom
Of LONDONDERRY possesses others of a more personal the appointment, and he would do good service to the
character, namely, those of his own distinguished sell*, State, by practical example, if he accepted the mere
vices as a General officer in the armies of Great Britain salary, relinquishing the additions from fees, &c.
What those services are the world has long since learnt n Nothing to do, and well-paid for doing it," is
through the records of\its military historian: Se- the well-known definition of a sinecure. The time
lected by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY to accompany him is fast approaching, we trust, when, as every do-
on his appointment to the command of the English nothing and receive-much office becomes vacant, it
forces in Portugal, the brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH will be left vacant. It is not by twopenny retrench-
-now the marquis of LONDONDERRY, but then simply i ments in the salaries of clerks that public economy is
Sir CHARLES STEWART—never left the side of the to be carried in to practice. On the contrary, the
future Duke of WELLINGTON throughout the long people who do the actual work are, for the most part,
and stormy days when our troops were fighting in very inadequately paid. The great sinecures are the
the Peninsula against some of the most celebrated nuisances. _
Marshals of NArOLEON—Rgainst SOULT, who had For example, there is the hereditary sinecure which
carried the imperial crown on the day of coronation, the Dukes of GRAFTON have enjoyed since the titre
and against MASsENA, called by the EMPEROR him- of CHARLES IL There then was a woman,
self the Spoilt Child of Victory. Glancing over the called BARBARA VILLIERS, one of his " IVlost Sacred
luminous annals penned by Sir
___ 'WILLIAM NAPIER, Majesty's" fair favourites, whe finally was raised
the name of Sir CHARLES STEWART occurs frequently to the Peerage of England, by the title of Duchess of
enough to show that he took part not only in almost CLEVELAND. One of her children, of which she said
every battle, but iu almost every skirmish King CHARLES was the father, was created Duke of
that illustrated that protracted and momen- GRAFTON, and, to support the dignity of this " illus-
tous struggle for predominance in the Peninsula. trious" illegitimate, a Royal grant was made, giving
Several times wounded, he repeatedly gave evi- to him and to his descendants for ever the annual sum
dence of his daring as a soldier, as he afterwards did of £7,191 125., out of the Excise, and £3,407 101.
of his skill as a diplomatist. At the battle of Al- I out of the revenue of the Po t ffi s-o ce, making a total of
buera, Sir CHARLES STEWART commanded the second £10,599 2s. per annum. These grants were mad'e more
British division in the centre, at the point where the I than a hundred and seventy years ago, and (as we have
principal attack was anticipated, and was himself ! shown on previous occasions), if all the public money
at the head of the leading brigade when the French I thus received by the Dukes of GRAFTON had
been.put
hussars and the Polish lancers broke suddenly with a I out at accumulating interest, the stun total would now
terrible charge upon the rear, while the regiments have exceeded Twelve Hundred Millions Sterling

or more than one and a half the National Debt.
Pretty pickings these ! Why, from, the time of
CHARLES 11. until to-day, every drop of beer which
has been brewed has raid its proportion of taxation
to the income of the Ducal house of GRAFTON !
Were the excise duties to be abolished to-morrow (as
they soon must be), we should have the Duke of
GRAFTON coming forward and claiming compensation
for the perpetual charge, which King CHARLES made
on the public in favour of his family.

This is only a solitary instance. Unfortunately,
further examples might readily be given. We shall
return to the subject; meanwhile, we are confident
that Lord DERBY'S own sense of propriety will in-
duce him to take the Wardenship of the Cinque
Ports under such restrictions as will render its emo-
luments within suitalle limits—as will render it ra-
ther an honorary thin a merely lucrative post. It
has been the custom For the Prime Minister to take
the situation when vmant, and there appears no rea-
son why, if the office is to be continued (and certain
duties are attached t► it), the Earl of DERBY should
be led, by any fah) delicacy, from following the
practice of his prececessors, and himself becoming
Warden, particularly when he can, at the same time,
reduce the income to suitable limits.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have receivedthe Paris journals of yesterday.
The telegraphic intelligence announces the arrival of
the PRINCE PRESIDENT at Aix on the 29th. His pre-
sence at the ball given by the town was hailed with
enthusiasm, and wit cries of "Viva l'Empereur !"
Oa the 30th he arrived at Nismes at two o'clock,
amid universal cris of " Vive l'Empereur 1" and
" Vive Napoleon IL"

The PRINCE PREIIDENT, on hearing of the disasters
caused by the overfowing of the Rhine, sent 10,000 f.
to the Minister of the Interior, to be divided among
the sufferers by the inundation.
Addresses of congratulation to Prince Louis NA-

POLE(); on the lab discovery of the Marseilles plot,
have been voted bya great number of towns through-
out the country. Amongst them are Toulon, Tou-
louse, Marseilles, iAmoges, Grasse, &c.
The PRINCE PRESIDENT, before leaving Avignon,
presented Mme. Ramourio, Mule. RAMEL, and Mme.
COSTA DE BesTsucA, sisters and sister-in-law of the
Prefect of the Vauclause, with different costly ar-
ticles of jewellery.
The Courrier de Marseille has the following :
" We must here point out an incident which shows
the deep respect of Louis NAPOLEON for religion.
The first stone having been laid in the cathedral here,
he felt some scruple, at the moment he was about to
speak to raise his voice in a temple devoted to prayer,
where the ministers at the altar have alone the right
to publicly address the people. Our worthy prelate
soon removed this excessive delicacy, and the PRINCE
then uttered the speech which has been published.
This fact does too much honour to the religious
feelings of the PR3SIDENT for us to pass it over in
silence."

While he was at Marseilles the PRINCE admitted
to an audience a de?utation of the Dames de la Halle.
One of them, in ielivering her compliment in the
language in use among her class, expressed a desire
to soon see Louts NAPOLEON "Emperor and King of
France and Navarre."

O❑ the occasion of the 6th regiment of Light In-
fantry removing from the quarters they have recently
occupied in Paris, to go into the forts of Rosny and
Nogent, the officers of the 43d regiment invited their
comrades of that regiment and of the others of the Ist
brigade of the 3d division of the army of Paris to
meet them, and clink some bowls of punch. The
bust of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, surrounded with
flowers, was placed in the room in which they assem-
bled. General LEvessEun, commanding the division,
was present, and gare the health of the PRINCE, which
was drunk with enthusiasm, amidst loud cries of
" Vive Napoleon I' " Vive l'Empereur !" Other
toasts were afterwards given, and the evening passed
off in the greatest conviviality.
M. MOREL FATIO, the marine-painter, who arrived
at Toulon in the Reine Hortense at the same time as
the PRESIDENT, has been ordered to paint a picture
representing the arrival of the Prince in the Napo-
lecn, convoyed by the whole fleet.
M. JOURDAN, one of the editors of the Sicle, and
M. SOUGERE, responsible editor of that journal, were
on Thursday severally sentenced by the Tribunal of
Correctional Police to a year's imprisonment, and
I,ooofr. fine, for Laving written and published on the
11th August last, an article, entitled "Two sorts of
Debtors," which contained the offences of exciting to
hatred and contempt of the Government of the Re-
public, and of the publication of false news calculated
to disturb public peace.
In the night of the 20th ult., M. CHARCOPINAC,
pupil at the Observatory at Marseilles, discovered a
new planet in the constellation of Pisces ; at mid-
night its right ascension was 2 deg. 48 min., and its
northern declination 1 deg. 46 min. On the 21st, at
10 hours 40 minutes, its right ascension was '2 deg.
36 min., and its declination 1 deg. 42 min.. It ap-
peared like a star of the ninth magnitude. The
director of the Observatory has proposed to call it
Massilia, and to designate it by the symbol (20),
characteristic of the rank of his discovery.
This being settling day at the Bourse, there was not
much business transacted except in the arrangement of
accounts. The Four-and•a-Half per Cents. opened at
104 f. 600., and closed at 104 f. 50c., for the end of the
month; the Three per Cents. closed at 78f. 70c.;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,490 f.; Rouen, 902 f. 50e.;
Havre, 421 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 727 f. 50c.; Basle,
330 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 7651.; Paris and Lyons,
843 f. 75c.; Lyons and Avignon, 638 f. 75c.; Western
of France, 675 f.; St. Dizier to Gray, 545 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TM.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 1.

Charleroi and Erquelites, 163—Dijon and Besangon,
—Grand Junction of France, 5 a—Luxembourg, B—Namur
and Liege (with interest), 83—Northern of France, 283
—Paris and Strasbourg, 30—Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg, 6%
—Sambre and Meuse, 104—Western of France, 1234.