The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY. JUNE 1, 1852.

Several important resolutions for the readier dis•
patch of business were &greed to by the House of
Commons on Friday evening—having
been proposed
by the Right Hon. Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER. Whatever may be the result, the
mere circumstance is one in the highest degree satis'
factory. It evidences at last that solicitude to bring 1
the Parliamentary dii.cussicns to a close which has
been earnestly, hitt hitherto vainly, anticipated from
the members of her MAJESTY'S Government. Minis'
tars would appear to have at length recognised the
impossibility of ptottutilag the debts much -longer

without in some sort violating the temporary confidence
reposed is them at the commencement of the session
by the people of the United Kingdom. Ample time
has been afforded them for the preparation of their
electioneering arrangements—the only reasonable re-
ward which it was possible the nation could bestow
upon statesmen who, at an emergency like the pre-
sent, have ventured to assume the somewhat thank•
less responsibilities of the administration. They
have long since obtained the various estimates re-
quired for the carrying on of the numerous depart-
ments of the Government. They have acquired even
a certain amount of popularity by the liberal form and
free-trade tendency of their financial statement. Thry
have been feasted by goldsmiths, by Royal Academi-
cians, and by the chief of the metropolitan municipality.
They have found their political pathway—a pathway
that threatened to prove so peculiarly rugged and
distrustful—smoothed before them by the magnani-
mity. of the multitude, and even strewn in some places
with the flawers of after-dinner complimeat. It was
but right, therefore, that the Easter recess, having
passed by without any anxiety, on the part of the
Cabinet,to expedite the labours of the session, some
testimony of the existence of that feeling should be
given at least before the arrival of the holidays at
Whitsuntide. To a sense of this we may attribute
the series of resolutions agreed to on Friday evening,
in compliance with the suggestion of the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER.

The wordink of these resolutions will be found on
examination to be indicative of a really earnest desire
to hasten the labours of the session to a conclusion.
The first on the list, for example, suggested " that
whenever the House shall sit for dispatch of busi-
ness o'clock on any day except Wednesday
and a tSaturday,wteive if such business be disposed of not
later than three o'clock, the House will resume its
sittings at five o'clock; and if such business be dis-
posed of after three o'clock and before four o'clock,
the House- will resume its sittings at six o'clock."
Nothing could, 'surely, be more rational than this,
and eq..ally admirable in its tendency is the proposal
immediately following, to the effect " that when such
business has not been disposed of at four o'clock, Mr.
Sreaxeit (or the Chairman, in case the House shall
be in Committee) do leave the chair, and the House
will resume its sittings at six o'clock, when the orders
set
orders
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of the day not disposed' of at the morn-
ing sitting, and any motion which was
under
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of the day."
speaking, By such an arrangement
as this it is manifest that a considerable amount of
the business still upon the papers might "be got
through" in an interval of time, comparatively
insignificant. Equally meritorious are the
two subsequent resolutions—the one 0 that whenever
the House shall be in Committee at four o'clock, the
Chairman do report progress when the House re-
sumes its sitting ;" and the other, " that all dropped
orders of the day be set down in the order-book, after
the orders of the day for the next day on which the
House shall sit"—thereby ensuring, as far as it is at
all practicable to ensure,.the assiduity of those who
may be in attendance in the Lower House of the
Legislature. For these resolutions, it will be
observed, that the country is directly in-
debted to the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER—the Minister who, out of the whole of
the present Cabinet, has evinced the greatest readiness
and, in many respects, the largest capacity to carry
out some at least among the wishes of the population.
It cannot but be a source of profound gratification
to observe, that in these particulars at any rate, the
only " man of the people " in the ranks of the Tory
Government has been the very one to evince, by act,
as well as by word, a practical anxiety to further
the cause of the national welfare, and the very
one who, in doing this, has revealed no
inconsiderable capacity for conducting the
labours of administration. It must be remem-
bered, for example, that among all his colleagues,
Mr. DISRAELI was the first to recognise the inde-
structibility of the free-trade system, 'and the folly of
still insisting upon the wholesale or even retail re-
vival of monopoly. It was only the other evening
that the PRIME MINISTER was induced by the force
of circumstances, reluctantly, and even then some-
' what ambiguously, to make the same acknowledg-
ment. That acknowledgment, hewevee, had been
made long before—honestly, and, considering its im-
portance, we may add boldly—by the Right Hon.
Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
While Sir FITZROY KELLY was • still declaiming
vociferously upon the necessity of insisting upon the
restoration of the principles of protection, and while
the possibility of so doing was still in a great mea-
sure believed in by Mr. G. F. YOUNG, at one time
the recognised BOANEROES of the agriculturists, Mr.
DISRAELI had come to the conclusion that such a
coutse would be found to be erroneous, because dia-
metrically opposed to the wishes of the general com-
munity. Thinking thus, he bad the candour to avow
his convictions; and 'within the last fortnight we
have seen that conviction acceded to as just by no
less a personage than the Noble Earl the Leader of
her MAJESTY'S Government. Before Lord DERBY
allowed himself thus to scatter despair among the
ranks of the country party, it must not be forgotten
that way had been prepared' for the final decla-
ration the
of the PRIME MINISTER upon the subject by
the financial statement submitted to the House of
Commons by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Of that financial statement, indeed, it could scarcely
be possible that the Liberal party throughout these
islands could very speedily lose a recollection. It
constituted a magnificent eulogium upon the system
founded as far back as 1842. by Sir
Pear—the system of free trade, the system
of remitted
EtE
azation, the system sung by ELLIOT,
g
COBDEN, proposed and re-proposed by
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e by
originally
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1 VILLIERS, argued and re-argued by iIUSBISSON, and
suggested by ADAM SMITH, the Corzaincus of the
political economists. There was magnanimity as
well as wisdom, therefore, in the conception of Mr.
DISRAELI'S Budget, and there was courage as well as
skill in the manner of its actual announcement.
For this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is en-
titled to the approving voice of the multitude, whose
praise will be not the less willingly accorded to a
it man of the
people," whose distinguished abilities
have elevated him to one of the most difficult and
responsible. offices to which he could have been
nominated
the duties of that office he has already displayed his
capacity, while, as leader of the House of
*
Commons,
he has
his SOVEREIGN. For the discharge of
has revealed en aptitude for the manage-
ment of affairs, and a temper in the governance of
debate, such as could hitherto have alone been an•
ticipated from an administrator of prolonged
experience.
These facts, we repeat, it is
satisfactory to recall to the general remembrance.
For, so long as the nation is fated to behold the
Tories in the possession of the seals of office, it is
consolatory at least for the people to recognise in the
group of Cabinet Ministers one who, suddenly selected
offered to his genius by
from among themselves, has justified the tribute thus
evidencing an intuitive
capability for presiding over the machinery of
government.

Nothing could possibly have been in better taste
than the speech in which Sir Hanny SMITH yester-
day thanked the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
the borough of Portsmouth for their spontaneous
address of congratulation. In offering him those
congratulations, honeyed over with the phrases of
panegyric, the municipality and inhabitants of Ports-
mouth were at the same moment, unconsciously it
may be, but truly, forcing upon that unluckly per-
sonage Earl GREY a cup filled to the very brim with
gall
and wormwood. We suspect, moreover, that it
will not be the only draught of the like kind ad-
ministered to the ex-Colonial Secretary. The motion
of Mr. ADDERLEY it was possible to evade by the
resignation of the seals Of government. But we
rather
anticipate thit it will prove somewhat more
difficult for the writer of the notorious dispatch,
dated " Downing-street, 14th January," to escape
from the exposure consequent upon the return to
England of his Excellency the late Governor of the
Cape. There will inevitably be not only pro.
vincial evidences of sympathy accorded to 1
Sir /Imlay SidITII by town councils emulating
the course pursued by the corporation of .Portsrnouth,-
but there will be demonstratiOns of a rimilar cha-
racter, we doubt not, in more than
One part of the
metropolis, to welcome home the gallant veteran 'vrhal
wvs grossly and want;;nly insalted by Eni GE at I

the very time when, in a remote quarter of the globe,
he was doing good service to his country and his
SOVEREIGN. Besides which, it is just possible—we
hint this for the satisfaction of the peace of mind of
the late Colonial Secretary—it is just possible that
the matter may be brought under the no-
tice of the House of Commons before the
approaching dissolution of Parliament. We can pro-
mise the Noble Lord, moreover, that whatever may
be the issue of these proceedings, it is by no
means probable that he will secure for himself any
very considerable amount of commiseration. There
is one passage in those incomparable verses of an in-
comparable poet, the " Universal Prayer" of POPE,
which—without profanity we would say it—natu-
rally rises at this moment to recollection, suggested
by the course pursued towards Sir HARRY SMITH
by the Colonial Secretary under the late Adminis-
tration—

".Teach me to sooth another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy 1 to others slaw,
That mercy slew to me !"
From the gallant veteran to whom the dispatch of
the 14th of January was addressed, it is not by any
means probable that the blow of retaliation will
descend—or might we not rather call it ?—the blow
of expiation. The character of Sir HARRY SMITH
precludes us from the idea that he will avenge him-
self; instead of allowing himself to be avenged by
others. Besides, he is altogether so obviously in the
right that he can afford to regard the course of
events in the matter with a serenity having
the appearance almost of indifference. As af-
' fording an incontestable proof that this serenity
is unaffected, it is only necessary to turn to
the remarks uttered yesterday by Sir HARRY SMITH
when addressing the inhabitants of Portsmouth. His
observations were as devoid of any evidence that his
feelings bad been for a single instant wounded, as the
language had been which was used by 'Amin responding
to the notorious dispatch of the ex-Colonial Secretary.
Referring to his peculiar and perilous position at
first in Southern Africa, he very aptly and strikingly
remarked, that he was " a Governor without a
legislature, and a Commander-in-Chief without
an army." Nevertheless, such had been his
conduct during the period of his administration of
the affairs of the Cape, that he was enabled
to assert that his policy had hitherto been attended
with successes, and that at the period of his leaving
the colony it gave promise of proving very speedily
triumphant. Sir HARRY acknowledged that his object
had been, from the outset, in the desire of saving the
" money and blood" of his country, to vanquish his an-
tagonists without applying for assistance either to the
mother country or to the adjacent colonies. "I was
endeavouring," he said, " to hold my ground as others
had recommended, feeling that if the Minister of the
day wished to retain Kafraria he would furnish me
with the men to do so, whilst, if he did not want to
keep Kafraria, a good retreat might be made, with
less disgrace with a small army than with a large
one." At that moment, he remarked, reinforcements
arrived at the Cape, and both as Com-
mander-in-Chief and Governor he was com-
_pelled thereupon to extend the scene of his
operations, and the difficulties of his situation
were of course at once vary considerably multiplied.
Speaking of those difficulties, he said, "I had not
only 30000 or 40,000 warlike savages to contend
with, but I had a large body of Hottentots, who were
supposed to be our friends—if savages ever can be
friends—but who now turned agaiost us. I then
stood alone in a storm in which, I maintain, no other
man ever did before in our own time. But the
Minister sending out forces, time should
have been given me ; but," continued Sir
HARRY referring to his subsequent ill-treatment
in a tone of the noblest magnanimity, " he, like
myself, of an ardent temperament, believing I was
acting slowly, though I was not asleep—(Cheers)—
was dissatisfied. Still I was doing as much as could
be done, and I speak now the opinions of a general
who has been in every description of warfare."
Than these surely no words could be more temperate,
and to appreciate their generosity it should be
remembered that they were spoken after the
bitterest provocation. The concluding portion of the
speech delivered by Sir HARRY SMITH upon this in-
teresting occasion is altogether too remarkable, as
throwing light upon his policy, and upon the conse-
quent position of affairs at the Cape at this • moment,
not to command for itself the most serious considera-
tion. "The measures I had commenced," he said, " I
left to the gallant officer, my successor, who relieved me
with the greatest courtesy and kindness, and I left
him in command of an intrepid army in as
good a position as could be desired, for the
enemy bad been driven over the Kei ; and I
still think that my measures will ultimately be
those which will bring peace, tranquillity, and
the ex- Governor of the
" the
which Such were the
Cape acknowledged the congratulations of his fellow-
countrymen' at Portsmouth, on . again netting foot
pherofistptienrgity termsy.
to
incolon
upon the shores of England. Simple though his
language was, we regard it as yielding conclusive
evidence, if only from the very fact of its amenity,
of his complete and honourable vindication.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Sunday, being Whit-Sunday, was kept as a close
holiday at the office of all the newspapers except that
of the Pays. In that journal there are two leading
articles, one on the notice in the Monitiur (given in
yesterday's Sun) on the rumours that have been cur-
rent respecting the foreign relations of France, the
other on the reports. of accounts of 1848. Ou the
first subject the Pays says
" The declaration published in the official journal, in
reply to the reports accredited by the foreign journals
on the attitude of Earope towards France, has met with
unanimous approbation. There are three things which
result from this important declaration;-1. That Europe
has not threatened nok &ea it think of threatening
France in the independence of her political sovereignty;
2. That Prince Louis Napoleon has not changed in his
intentions and in his sentiments, so nobly expressed in
his apes eh of the 29th of March, when he declared that
the Empire could never come except as the result of a
necessity for the safety of the country in the crisis
of parties; .and 3. That France, deciding on respect-
ing the- rights of other nations, is not less so in tusking
her own respected' in the acts which shall manifest
her will to preserve of to modify her' institutions.
What the Government has just said in the Moniteur, we
have said every day for the last two months in the pays.
But the Government, in piing it the authority of its
word, will have produced a result which we alone could
not obtain; it will have restored calm and confidence in
the public mind. There is nothing now unknown in our
future situation. What is shown and what is known to
all is the force of right both at home and abroad. At
home nothing will be done by surprise or from adven-
ture; the nation will decide on its fate; it will accept
that which may appear to it just and necessary. Abroad
France 'will threaten no one, and will make herself
respected by every one. This policy is really wise and.
noble. It secures the order and stability of France and
guarantees the peace of Europe. The Government of
Louis Napoleon has employed the best means of discon-
certing its enemies both at home and abroad; it has co-
vered itself with the only buckler which is invulnerable
--•-the force of its right. When a government has right
on its side it is just enough not to threaten, and strong
enough not to draw back." -
The same journal says—" We have already stated
that the Bill on instruction had not been withdrawn,
as sots e journals have erroneously stated', but only
postponed. A religious journal now states
tlh_ atseve-
ral members of the episcopacy have presened
obser-
vations to the Government on the subject of this
Bill. We know not whether this be correct or not,
but we know that objections have been raised against
it by some of the most devoted partisans of the Uni-
versity, Thus this Bill, which
somebishops opposed
as being too uoiversitary, was objected to at the satae
time by some universitarian as being too Catholic.
Does not this show that the new. law has given an
equal share to the civil and religious powers, and has
found theaneans of reconciling their respective rights
without exaggerating or weakening either ?"
The advocates of the Council of State, M. P.
FADES and M. MATHIEU BUDET, charged to defend
the appeal of the Princes of the Orleans family
against the decrees relative to their property,
have published a memoir, from which it ap-
pears that they intend to rely on four points—
viz., 1, th:t the Princes possess the property in
virtue of the deed of the 7th August, 1830, and that
that property could not return to the state before the
9th August; 2, that they are heirs of the ICING, their
fether, for that part of Neuilly which was purchased
subsequent to 1830, and of Madame ADELAIDE for
part of the domain of Monceaux; 3, that they have:
enjoyed the property for more than twenty Yearsrci
what they considered a good title and with
subjec-
t
of ; 4,, that the property has been made the e
of marriage secreatedttletnents, which havea their
cable rights for. the married 'parties an trrbjevo-6
chil-
dren_.; and finally, that the ordinary, .111dicial UM-
nal& have jurisdiction in the case.
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