The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1852,

FRA CE.

AINIERICA.

IMPERIAL PARLIAAIEI‘IT

We have received the P a ris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur contains 37 telegraphic dispatches
from east, west, north, a: ad south, all to the same
effect, that the people at %I voting with enthusiasm
for the Empire. The dispatches in question em-
brace the towns of Valence, Dijon, Metz, Bar-le-
Due, Rouen, Tours, Poicrtiers, Besanvn, Nevers,
Nantes, Lyons, Macon, Bourges, Chateauroux,
Calais,- Chartres, Amiens, Orleans, Strasbourg,
Colmar, Chalons, St. Eti,e,nne, Lisle, Montbrison,
Nancy, Bordeaux, and .A.7agouleme.
In Paris, on unday, ; 105 000 or more than
one-half of the electors, v. crted. In the Banlieue,
whole communes marched. to the poll in a sort of
military order with flags,. and voted en masse for
the Empire.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

Shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday forenoon the
British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Niagara, Capt. Stone, arrived in the Mersey
from Boston and Halifax, the former of which ports
she left on the 10th and the latter on the 12th inst.
The Niagara brought 38 passengers and 15,000
dollars in specie.
The Niagara experienced very strong easterly
winds during the greater part of her passage,
which occupied 11 days 18 hours mean time.
The Royal Mail steam-ships Africa and Canada,
hence with the mails, had arrived—the former at
New York on the 4th,7 and the latter at Halifax on
the 11th inst.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from
Glasgow, praying for the removal of all indirect taxes,
and for the imposition of a direct and general Income-
tax. Also, two petitions from Auckland, in New Zea-
land, expressing their extreme surprise at the revenues of
the colony being pledged for the payment of the losses of
the New Zealand Company, and praying for a reversal of
recent legislation on this subject.
Lord PANMURE presented several petitions from
different parts of Scotland, praying for the abolition of
all religious tests for professors of the Scotch universitiee.
OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON

The votes of the army of Paris, as received by
the Minister of War, gave the following result
Yes -
No

The intelligence by this arrival is three days
later that brought by the Washington.
We learn from Nassau, N.P., that the cholera
still lingers upon the island. The mortality has
been very great.

The telegraphic dispatcii.es cannot of course give
numerical details, but the. terms in which they are
conveyed leave no doubt all to the result. At Val-
ence, despite heavy rain, he people were voting in
crowds. The country pe ()pie about Dijon entered
the town, following barn ers, and crying " Vive
l'Empereur." At Metz, rb larger majority was ex-
pected than had appeared on the 20th of December.
The same was said of Rol ; en, Besancon, of Stras-
burg, of St. Etienne, of Lisle, and of Chalons.
The Echo of Valenciennes, of Saturday, contains
the following :

According to the New York Herald, an attempt
has been made to murder its editor, James Gordon
Bennett, a la Napoleon, by means of an infernal
namhine.

Advices from California had arrived per the Star
of the West to the 16th October, two months later
than the Georgia's advices. The intelligence is in-
teresting. Great excitement existed among the
bankers and merchants of California, in consequence
of the adoption of the Treasury order refusing the
receipt of assay ingots in payment of the public
dues—a measure which is calculated to operate inju-
riously upon the interests of the mercantile classes.
The prospects at the mines point to favourable re-
sults from the labours of the winter. Not much
progress is making just at this time, in consequence
of the active preparations for the approaching
season. The shipments of specie have accordingly
fallen off in some degree. The crops in California
have fallen somewhat short of expectation, probably
attributable to the light rains. The miscellaneous
Inews is of no importance.
Interesting intelligence is received from Mexico
to the middle of October. The city of Mexico was
in a ferment. The extra session of Congress had
convened,-and the Cabinet Ministers were on the
point of impeachment. Opposition presses have
multiplied, which ply the Government with re-
proaches and bitter attacks, and the condition of
the country is more unfortunate than ever.
The Government has authorised the arrest of all
military personages who are destitute of passports.
The state of Vcra Cruz has sent two commissioners
to confer with the Supreme Goiernment in relation
to the recent insurrections, and a bill granting an
amnesty to the Vera Cruz insurgents had been in-
troduced into Congress. General Cardenas has
assumed the government of the state of Tamaulipas.
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Spanish vessel was also looked for, to enforce the
payment of Spanish claims. The news from all
parts of the country is prophetic of evil tidings.
The New York stock market was btoyant, with
large sales in investment as Iv ell as speculative
stocks. Prices for all the leading securities had.
advanced. The money-market was withou'z altera-
tion. Exchange firmer. Bills on London, 1101
to 1101,; Paris, 5 15 to 5 131; 36. to
36g ' • Bremen, 79i- to MI ; Amsterdam, 41 to 411,.
Cotton had advanced a quarter cent per ponno.,
with large sales ; the stock at New York was nearly
exhausted, and, there being several large foreign
orders to execute, it was expected that there would
be a further advance. The flour market was very
firm, with a good home demand ; for export not
much inquiry. For wheat the demand was not
quite so active, the advance reported last steamer
having in a great measure checked operations. All
descriptions of provisions were in good demand at
very firm prices. Freights to London very firm, at
the following rates :—Tobacco, 30s. per hhd.; flour,
2s. 6d. per barrel ' • turpentine, 3s. per barrel; and
beef, ss. 6d. to 6s. per tierce. The iron market
was depressed; 150 tons Scotch pig were reported
at 31 dollars six months.

"We understand that the Duke de Bassano, the
French ambassador in Belgium, not wishing to lose his
electoral right, will avail himself of the facility afforded
by the railway to come to this place to-morrow to vote.
He will be accompanied by all the persons connected
with the embassy, and will return with them to Brussels
in the evening."

The Prefect of the Henault, agreeably to instruc-
tions from the Government, has announced that
extensive measures of clemency will be adopted to-
wards those parties who have been condemned by
th e mixed commissions, who, by a formal decla-
ration, shall renounce their former bad conduct,
and promise peace and submission for the future.
The Constitutionnel remarks as follows on the
elections :

"According to the information which has reached
us from a number of the electoral sections of Paris, the
number of voters on the first day exceeded the half of
the number inscribed. The most perfect order reigned
throughout. There was never any very extraordinary
crowd of voters, but the electors succeeded each other in
such a manner that the voting went on uninterruptedly.
It was remarked that a number of electors who, from
their great age, have usually kept aloof from the ballots,
gave their votes on this decisive occasion. One magis-
trate in the retired list, 98 years of age, came to give his
vote in favour of the nephew of the man who had re-
established the reign of the laws in France."
The Pays says that the number of votes in-
scribed in the twelve arrondissements amounts to
212,824, out of whom 108,221 voted on the first
day.

A considerable number of Deputies have already
arrived in Paris. The Chamber, as our readers
are aware, meets on the 25th.
A committee of tradesmen has just been formed
with a view of presenting to Louis Napoleon a
sword of honour, and a diadem enriched with
diamonds. The committee met on Saturday in
the saloons of a restaurateur in the Palais Royal.
The Journal des Debats has the following para-
graph :

" Some English journals again repeat that the Duke
of Wellington was. a Marshal of France and Duke de
Brunnoy in France. That is an error which was long
since propagated, and contradicted so often that we did
not think serious journals would repeat it any more."
The Bourse closed firm, with an advance on
Saturday's prices. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 106 f., and closed at 106 f. 80c. for the
end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at
85f. 30c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS IN
THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE—Nov. 22.

Dijon and Besancon, 10i—Dutch Rhenish, 6i—Grand
Junction of France, 74—Luxembourg Railway, s—Madras,
7ti—Namur and Liege (with interest), B—Northern of
France, 35k—Ditto, 20/. 3 p. c. Bonds (fmy. B. & Amiens
Shares), 15—Paris and Lyons, 26-i—Paris and Strasbourg,
34—Quebec and Richmond, 3i—Rouen and Havre, 20i
Sambre and Meuse, 1013—Upper India Scrip, # p.—West
Flanders, sA—Western of France, 19.

THE ARMY.

The following general orders have been issued to all
the regiments in her Majesty's service:—

" GENERAL ORDER.

"Horse Guards, Nov. 18, 1852.
"Her Majesty does not require that the officers of
the army shall continue to wear the mouriing prescribed
in the general order of the 22d of September for Field-
Marshal the late Duke of Wellington, except that they
shall wear black crape round the left arm until Monday
next, the 22d inst., when the mourning is to cease.
" By command of the Right Ron. General Lord
Viscount Hardinge, Commanding-in-Chief.
" G. BROWN, Adjutant-General."

THE CONTINENT.

question as to the intentions of the Government--which
I have not the slightest difficulty in doing—l must call
attention to the circumstances under which her Ma-
iesty's Government accepted office, and I need not re-
mind your lordships of the understanding upon which
the business of the session of the last Parliament was
conducted, when we thought it right to refuse all appli-
cations for an immediate appeal to the country, so as
not to interrupt the business of the session, and pro-
mised that at the earliest possible period consistent
with public business reference should be made to the
country at large. That reference to the country will
aid must undoubtedly and immediately decide
whether her Majesty's Government do or do not en-
joy that amount of confidence on the part of the
country and Parliament which will enable them satis-
factorily to administer the affairs of the nation. There
i; one important question on which such reference was
made, namely, on what principles of commercial and
fiscal legislation the interests of the country should be
managed. (Hear, hear.) That question has been a
matter of controversy for many years. All parties agreed
in this, that at the earliest possible moment, this ques-
tion should be finally decided, and upon this question,
without disguising his own opinions, or the opinions of
t lose who acted with him, he declared in the last session
o Parliament that he should be guided by the sense of
the community at large, as expressed by the returns
which they made to Parliament, and that he should not
b ring forward any measure in accordance with his own
views, if he found he was not supported by a large ma-
jority in the country and in Parliament. And therefore,
whilst he resisted the frequent appeals made to him to
dissolve Parliament, he gave a pledge that the new Par-
liament would be calledtogether before Christmas, with
the view of deciding on what was to be the future finan-
cial and commercial policy of the country ; and accord-
ingly, in pursuance of that pledge, her Majesty's Govern-
ment advised that Parliament should be summoned early.
in November for that purpose. He had also given an
other pledge—namely, that Parliament should be‘called.
together for the purpose of ascertaining its views as to
particular policy, in order that the ordinary business of
the session might not be interfered with. It was always
unpleasant and mortifying to any one to be obliged to
confess that his opinions were not shared by the (Treat
body of his fellow-countrymen ' • but he would not hesi-
tate to say now, as he had not hesitated to say before,
that the result of the general election was such as to con-
vince him that a very large number of the constituen-
cies, and of the members returned by them, though de-
sirous upon all other measures to give their support
to her Majesty's Government, were determined not
to assent to any alteration of the existing commercial
system ; and therefore he did not hesitate to advise
her Majesty, in the speech from the Throne, in terms
as explicit as it would be advisable and proper to put
into a speech to be spoken by the Sovereign, that the
principle of unrestricted competition was one to which
the wisdom of Parliament decided that the country,
should be subjected. (Hear, hear.) If there was any
ambiguity in the speech of her Majesty it ought to have'
been removed by the declarations made by himself in
that house, and by the leader of the House of Commons
in the other house—namely, that whatever they might
have thought the more desirable for the country, they
were ready and willing as frankly and nnreservedly to
act upon that principle of commercial policy as if they
had been the original authors and advisers of it. (Hear,
hear.) He doubted if any language could have been
more explicit, or whether it were possible to give more
satisfactory assurances to those who were apprehensive
of any alteration or tampering with that system. He
went ,still further, for they resolved not to postpone the
ordinary financial statement to the usual time; but, al-
though impressed with a full sense of the disadvantages
arising from imperfect' calculations, determined at once
to lay before Parliament and the country the full details
of those financial and commercial measures which they
were prepared to recommend for adoption, and by which
Parliament would be able to judge of the sincerity of
the intentions of the Government and the policy it pro-
posed to pursue. He was rather surprised at the noble
marquis saying that the Government gave notice of a
specific resolution affirmative of their principles. That
was a candid or correct statement. Her Majesty's Go-,
vernment gave no such notice. Her Majesty's Govern-
ment were perfectly satisfied to rest quiet till the 26th,
when facts and not words would show the truth and,
sincerity of the course they intended to pur-
sue. (Hear, hear.) But another gentleman opposed
to her Majesty's Government, did think it right to
anticipate the Government—did think that the com-
mercial and financial policy of the country could be more
satisfactorily discussed, previous to the financial state-
ment of the Government, by giving notice of an abstract
principle which he intended to submit to Parliament.
So far from tho Government having given any notice of
a specific motion, as the noble marquis seemed to think,
they appealed to the hon. gentlemen in the other house,
not that he should withdraw his motion, but that he
would postpone it till the house was put in possession of
the intended measures of the Government. Now with
regard to that resolution it was couched in terms which
made it impossible for the Government, or for those who
supported the Government, to accept it, for it did not
confine itself to a declaration of the policy to be pursued,
in future, but contained reflections on the Government,
and expressed opinions with which the framer of the re-
solution must have known that the Government could
not agree. After the declarations of the Government in
both houses of Parliament, he did not think there was
any necessity for a specific resolution on the subject.
But, granted there was, if the hon. gentleman had at
heart the real interest of the country, and the promotion
of the principles he advocated, he should have so framed
his resolution that it would not lead to any unnecessary
division, and would ooncilitate to its affirmation the
greatest possible majority, if not the whole, of the House
of Commons. '(Hear, hear.) But the resolution was
couched in language which made it impossible for the
Government or their supporters to assent to it with
honour or with credit. The resolution did not go fur-
ther than the affirmation of a principle, and for the
affirmation of a principle it was unnecessary. He'
did not know what other views might be in the contem-
plation of those by whom that motion was framed. If
the object was to overthrow the Government before they
had an opportunity of developing or explaining their
policy, he hoped the hon. gentleman who was going
to move that motion, and the various sections into which
the Opposition in the House of Commons was divided,
had well considered the full amount of responsibility
they took on themselves—(hear, hear)—that they had
not merely considered how they could combine the
largest force for the purpose of overturning the Govern-
ment, but had considered, in the interest of the country,
if that Government was overthrown, whether they had
the materials, the concert, the unity, which would be
necessary to form another Government and to preserve
the country from the inconvenience of a Ministerial in-
terregnum. (Hear, hear.) It might be that they had.
not the intention to frame a Government themselves, or,
to overthrow the Government, but that their intention
was to weaken and discredit the Government by forcing'
on their acceptance a resolution which was offensive to
them and to their supporters ; if that were their inten-
tion, then he had that confidence in the House of Corn-,
mons and in the country, that they would not sanction
a proceeding so factions, and which, if successful, must
lead to serious difficulties. (Hear, hear.) If it had
been the intention of the Government to offer any pro-'
position for the purpose of reversing the system already
established, due notice of such a proposition would have
been given at the earliest period to both houses of Par-
liament. But, on the contrary, both here and in the
other house, the most distinct intimations were made
that it was not the intention of Government to propose
any measure framed in opposition to the established system
—and that our commercial and financial policy was to be
carried on under that system. (Hear, hear.) With
regard to the question put to him by the noble mar-
quis, although they had thought it fght to renew
the inquiry on the subject of their Indian territories ; al-
though his noble and learned friend on the woolsack had
submitted a clear and masterly exposition of the great
measures of legal reform to be submitted to Parliament
—although the principle of legal reform had been dealt
with by the introduction of bills in the other house, not
for the purpose of immediate discussion, but for the pur-
pose of affording time for their due consideration—al-
though his right hon. and learned friend, the Attorney-
General for Ireland, was probably at that moment en-
gaged in laying before the other house measures of the
utmost importance to the condition of Ireland, it was not'
the desire or intention of her Majesty's Government to
introduce at this unusual period of the session, or call
for the decision of Parliament on, measures, except those
strictly necessary for the purpose of giving the most en
tire fulfilment to the understanding and pledges which
was given by the Government on the subject. Beyond
the laying of those schemes of financial and commercial
policy before the house, to which the Government were
pledged, and by which they would stand or fall, it was
not intended to submit any measure of importance to the
consideration of Parliament, nor was it probable that
their lordships's house would be called on to pronounce
any opinion on any important subject before Christmas.
(Hear.)
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that he was
justified in saying that the Government embodied their
views in the amendment, of which notice had been given
by them in the other house of Parliament, because it was
perfectly competent to them either to have accepted the
motion of the hon. gentleman (Isar. Villiers), or to nega-
tive it, or, to avoid discussion, by moving the previous
question. He thought that if Parliamentgel he
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together for the purpose of discussing the
of protection and free trade, that t ougohtttoboetsubr housemitted
to the consideration of this as well as f
the
of Parliament, He did not know- what effect the dread-
ful menace of a resignation might htave,wbeuret he was
icneerd-
tain that Parliament and the cone ry
that free trade should clearly, plicitly, and perma-
he ould not but think that Par-
liament contained members who were quite as experienced
in office as the members of the present Government.
(Hear, hear.)
Lord WODEHOUSE said that, if the conduct of the
mover of the resolution in the House of COMMOIIs
a was
to
to be designated as factious, that epithet equallyapplied
the conduct of the noble earl (Derby), in reference to
this very question, on which their conduct was so equi-
vocal that, the strongest promises must be exacted from
them. To declare, as the noble earl did, that he was
convinced of the soundness of one course of policy, and
that he should carry out another as the Minister of the
country, because there was a majority of the nation and
of Parliament opposed to him, he (Lord Wodehouse)
could not consider to be consistent with his personal
honour. (Hear, hear.) In such a position he (Lord
Wodehouse) would feel it to be his duty either to carry
out what he believed to be the right policy, or he would
resign office. (Hear, hear.) If the noble earl abandoned
protection, his friends in the country believed Aim for