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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1852.

Her MAJESTY yesterday opened in person the fifth session
of the present Parliament.
In the House of Lords, the Address in reply to the Speech
was moved by the Earl of ALBEMARLE and seconded by Lord
Lsnose.
The Earl of DERBY, after briefly alluding to the dismissal
of Lord PALMERSTON, on whose abilities he passed
high eulogium, censured the violent attacks which had
been made on the PRESIDENT of the French Republic by
the press in this country, reiterated his opinion in favour of
the imposition of a duty on the importation of foreign corn,
and stated that as there was nothing in the speech of either
the mover or seconder of the Address calculated to inter-
rupt the tone of unanimity which ought to prevail on such
occasions, he should not feel it necessary to move any
amendment.

Earl GREY taunted the Protectionists with their
timidity in not boldly proposing to Parliament the
question of protection or no protection. He concur-
red in reprobating the language which had been
used vituperative of the French PRESIDENT, but
whilst believing that there did not exist the slightest in-
tention of attacking us on the part of any other country,
he still thought it our duty to be prepared in case we be
attacked.

—.
After brief conversation, in which Lord BuovettAm and
the Duke of RICHMOND joined, the House adjourned.
In the Commons, after several new writs had been ordered,
Mr. HATTER mentioned the order in which certain
measures would be introduced by the Government. On the
9th inst. Lord JOHN RUSSELL would introduce a Bill to ex-
tend the right of voting for Members of Parliament, and to
amend the laws relating to the represent.ition of the people;
on the 13th, the Noble Lord would introduce a Bill to amend
the law relating to the local militia; and on the same day,
Mr. LABOUCHERE would Introduce a Bill for regulating in-
ternational copyright with France. On the 16th, Sir PAGE
Wool!. (Solicitor-General) would introduce a Bill for the
reform of the Court of Chancery; and on the same day, Sir
GEORGE GREY would introduce a Bill to disfranchise the
borough of St. Albans.
The Royal Speech having been read,
Sir R. SULKELEY mDvdd sail Mr. BONHAM CARTER
seconded the Address.

Sir BENJAMIN HALL then rose for the purpose of asking
for explanations relating to the late change which had taken
place in the Ministry by the substitution of Earl GRANVILLE
for Lord PALMERSTON as Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and adverted to the remarkable circumstance that
the Breslau Gazette should have spoken of the dismissal of
Lord PALmEnsTos in its publication of the 25th December,
the fact itself having only been announced in London on the
day before. The statement in the Breslau paper was fol-
lowed by rejoicings of an extraordinary kind in Vienna.
Lord JouN RUSSELL and Lord PALMERSTON then entered
into detailed explanations, the importance of which is such
that we refer our readers to the full report which appears in
our Parliamentary intelligence, rather than weaken the force
of them by abridgement.
Mr. H. BAILLIE said that it was his misfortune to differ
from Lord PALMERSTON aq to his foreign policy, but having
listened to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S statement, his conviction
was that the Noble Lord had been offered up as a sacrifice for
the sins of the whole Administration.
Mr. M. MiLxiss, Lord D. STUART, and Mr. ROEBUCK,
expressed similar opinions, more or less strongly.
Mr. Disnmem took a general review of all the topics in the
Queen's Speech.
The state of Ireland was brought under notice by Mr. B.
OsnoINE, Mr. E. B. ROCHE, Mr. NAPIER, and some other
Members.

The Address was agreed to ; and at a Quarter to One o'clock
the House adjourned till today at Four o'clock.

Although the statement put forward in almost the
first paragraph of the Speeeh from the Throne to the
effect that friendly relations with each and all of the
foreign Powers indiscriminately have been up to this
moment uninterruptedly maintained, is calculated, of
course, to relieve much of the anxiety recently felt in
reference to the possibility of another outbreak of
war in Europe—there can be very little doubt that
the more enthusiastic alarmists will be unwilling to
forego the delights of that course of excitement upon
which they have recently adventured. Their brag-
gadocio affectation of patriotism is not by any means
to be so very easily quieted. They must needs
" strut and fret their little hour upon the stage,"
to the delight of those old womenwheoaim. Never
are credulous
enough to place reliance on their hro
mind what the QUEEN says—theyare
pnbortatsoesboef de-
ludedthe by any one of the stereotyped
document reßadeabiydehe wer,haintb:they have the suggestion of Go-
vernment.tohfehirerhaara
upon a series of very warlike recreations.
to foment
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next half-year at least they are
determined
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and extensions of the militia, and so forth, until the
technicalities of the barrack have become familiar in
the people's mouths as "household words." Now, all
along, our views upon this matter have been consistent
in every particular. Long before the commencement
of the late ridiculous panic we insisted upon the
necessity of increasing the means of our national de-
fences. Aware of the insufficiency of the arrange-
ments already in existence along our coasts, we wel-
comed with no inconsiderable satisfaction the solemn
warning whicb, through a letter to Sir JOHN BUR-
GOYNE, was addressed to the country at large by
his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. With similar
satisfaction we afterwards took occasion to refer to
the masterly manner in which the peril of our
position as au insular power was revealed
•

by Sir FRANCIS HEAD, in the work dedicated
by :him to the women of England, What we
were anxious to witness from the outset of the in-
quiry, was the adoption of a new and more compre-
hensive s:, stern of defence, calmly, methodically, if
possible sub rasa, but moat certainly and most as-
suredly, without the boastful shouts, unworthy of a
great people ; or, rather, worthy alone of a gang
of igiturant and pot-valiant bruisers. Such, unhap-
pily, has not been the course recently adopted.
Tne panic got up by the alarmists seems for a
while to have disturbed the sobriety of the popular
judgment. ,There has been heard of late an
amount of fustian and bombast in allusion to the chances
of invasion such as is sufficient, in all conscience, to
provoke a sensation of nausea on the part of those
who preserved their intellects in some degree of se-
renity. Together with this, moreover, we have been
doomed to listen to vituperations upon neighbouring
states calculated more than any thing to bring about
the very invasion dreaded by the vituperators. Upon
this lamentable display of feeling, of irritability,
and of a total absence of common sense and com-
mon judgment, the PRIME MINISTER commented
in the course of his speech last evening—
alluding to the circumstance in language which we
are willingly the means of disseminating through-
out the population. Speaking of the frequency and
virulence of these ill-judged vituperations upon a
foreign Power holding friendly relations with her
MAJESTY'S Government, Lord JOHN RUSSELL ob-
sirved, "I confess that I have seen with very great
regret the language which has been used by some
portion of the press of this country regarding the
affairs of France. I remember something as a boy,
and I have read more, of that which occurred during
the peace of Amiens, which rendered that peace of so
short a duration, and which involved these two great
nations in the most bloody war which ever mangled
the face of Europe. I believe that temperate discus-
sion, temperate negotiation, between the two coun-
tries might have averted the calamity of war with
England, but that the language of the press at that
time was such as greatly to embitter all negotiation,
and to prevent the continuance of that peace. Sir, I
should deeply regret if the press of this country at
the present time were to take a similar course." Now
the words here uttered by Lord Joust RUSSELL
contain nothing more nor less than a repe-
titio❑ of the warning we ourselves have already
addressed through these columns to the more agitated
section of the community. They say in other lan-
guage it is true, but clearly enough—Beware, lest in
the fever and fury of your indignation you revive
feelings of hostility between two races now allied with
each other, and plunge England anew in,to a bloody
and expensive war by creating another blind and
bigotted anti-Bonapartephobia ! A circumstance
which would be only productive of the more
serious lamentation, if we couple with the
foregoing remarks the observations subsequently
made: by the PRIME MINISTER in his speech of yes-
terday, when he said, " We have indeed the great
advantage over the time to which I refer, which is
that the FIRST CONSUL of France, great as were his
abilities, was totally ignorant of the means and of the
constitution of this country; the present PRESIDENT
of France has that advantage over his uncle, that he
is perfectly aware how much liberty, nay, how much
license of discussion prevails in this country, and that
the fiercest and most unmeasured invectives of the
press do not imply any feeling of hostility either on
the part of the Government of the country or of the
people." Fortunately, by means of that very
fact, England may possibly be spared the necessity
(otherwise we should be inclined to believe inevitable)
of becoming involved in a war, which must, if
once aroused, spread far and wide throughout the
powers and principalities of Christendom.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Debate mentions a report that M. VERON and M.
GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, of the Cohstitutionnel, will be
candidates, one at Algiers and the other in Paris; and
that M. LARADIT intends to present himself to the elec-
tors of Auxerre.

Notice has been given to the shipowners of Bor-
deaux by the French Government, that the Haitian
Cabinet has resolved that citizens of Haiti cannot return
to that island without a special authorisation of the EM-
PEROR himself ; and they are accordingly recommended
to take care that all Haitians applying to them for a
passage shall produce such an authorisation.
The Bourse was agitated, and after various fluctuations Go-
vernment s,ecurities closed with a considerable improvement.
The Five per Cents. opened at 103 f., fell to 102 f. 10c., rosy sub-
sequently to 103 f. 30c„ and closed at 103 f. 15c. for the end of the
Month ; the 'I lace per Cents. closed at 64f. 60c. ; Orleans Railroad
Shares, I,oBof. ; Rouen, 657 f. 50c. ; Havre, 260 f. ; Great Northern,
563 f. 75e. • Avignon, 222 f. 50e. ; Vierzon, 497 f. 50c. ; Basle, 206 f.
25c. ; Bordeaux, 428 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 457 f. 50c. ; Tours
and Nantes, 295 f.; Amiens to Boulogne, 281 f. 25f.; Paris and Lyons,
.572 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.
The only transactions to• day were—Boulogne and Amiens,
1038 ex d.—Northern of France, 18.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have arrived.
The King-Consort has returned to Madrid.
The Orden, a Government organ, says—" We are
enabled to confirm the intelligence publisf-cl in one of
yesterday's journals, stating that Lord HOWDEN will re-
tain his post
in the
British Representative at Madrid. We
rejoice at it the interest of both nations. Cabinets
see external affairs through the eyes of their diplomatic
agents, who are also their necessary channels of action
—hence the great influence of the character, feelings,
and opinions of such agents. Who has not observed the
enormous difference, under the same British Foreign
Secretary of State, between the policy and conduct of
the present Envoy Extraordinary and the intrigues of
his predecessor? Nations do not entertain mutual rela-
tions for the purpose of injuring each other, but for mu-
tual good understanding and prosperity. The wisest
policy is the most sincere and loyal one. This was the
impression of the Spanish Government when, on Lord
HOWDEN'S tendering, in the last change at the Foreign-
office, his conditional resignation, founded on motives of
delicacy, it desired that the distinguished esteem which
his Lordship has succeeded in inspiring in all classes of
society with his noble and high-minded conduct should
be known in London. Good harmony is as useful to
Spain as to the other states with which she is in friendly
relations."
MADRID BoLSA, JAN. 29.—Three per Cents., 3s;
after Boise, 38i. New Three per Cents., 184; after
Boise, 18i p. Coupons, 9 ; after Bolas, Passives
5 9.16; atter Boise, 5 9-16. Bank of St. Ferdinand,
1031. Exchange on London, 50.90.