The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1852.

WO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 Real Yarmouth
Bloaters (cured to keep from two or three months) for 65., or
225 for 125., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on
receipt of penny postage stamps for the amount.—Address Thomas
Lettis, jun., Fishcarer, Great Yarmouth.

THOALkS HOOD'S GRAVE.—At ~ General
Meeting of the Subscribers to the HOOD MEXPELA.T, held
Dec. 2d' at the Whittington Club, itwas resolved that.he Subiscrip-
tion List be CLOSED on'the Ist of Fdloruary, 1853, and.

• Miss ELIZA COOK,
Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and
Ma. JOIIN. WATKINS,
were appointed Trustees to the Fund.
The amounts subscribed are depoilled at interest in, the London
and Commercial Bank. • • •
Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwlck e, at the
Whittington Club, Strand; by Miss Eliza Cook, Trusatrer, 54,
Great Ormonie-strset, Bloomsbury; and by Mr. John Watkins,
Hon. Sec., 31, Parliament-street.
Among the subscribers are the following :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G... • • £2s 0
I,e Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P •• . •• ..
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, m.r...• ....• •• • o
0 0
Sir William Frazer, Bart.• •....• • • . • • • • 50 0
James-a:inner, Esq.,.. • 5 0 0
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P ••• •.•
Arnold Rogers, Esq. .••••••••••• • • •• • • • • • • • • 5 5 0
Mrs. Rottert Elliot ... ••• • • ••• • ..
Richard Dawson, Esq., .
George Peabody, Esq..• •••• • • • ••••••• • • • • . • 5 5 0
Edward Moorman; Esq. ..... ••••••• • • • • • • . 5 0
David Salomons, Esq... •••• • .. ..
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge..... •• •• ••••• • • • • • 5 5 0
Miss Eliza Cook
Miss Cu5hman.......... •••••• • • • • • • ••• • • 5 0 0
Proceeds of an "Evening with Hood " at the
Whittington Club... .. ••••• • • • • • 8 8 0
Murdo Young, Esq., and family ..... •• .. 4 4 0
Samuel Rogers, Esq ••••.•••• • • • • • • • •• • 3 0 0
C. W. Mike, Esq... •••••.••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 3 3 0
Charles Lushington, Esq.. •• • • •• •
Elias Davis,_Esq... •••••••• • • • • • • • •••• ••••• • • • '3 3 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere •• •• . . 2 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord John M anners, 31. P..• •• . 2 0 0
Sir James Duke, Bart., . • .... 2 2 0
R. Monckton Milne% Esq., M P.• •.•• • • • 2 0 9
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) •••• •• • - 2 n o
Douglas Jerrold, 11.4. • .• • . • • 2 _ -
T. K. Hervey, Esq. • • • • .3 ••• • • • 2 2 A
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Pont-office •••• • • .. 2 2 0
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • .. 2 2 0
C. W. Dilke, jun., Esq.• •••• • • • ..... ••••• • • • • • 2 2 0
Edward lgoxon, Esq.... ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • . • • 2 2 0
James Coppock, Esq. •
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham •
Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... ••••• • • • • • • 3 0 0
Mrs. Theodore Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) 2 2 0
A few Young Men at SimpVn and Marshall's.. • 1 5 6
Nine half crowns from Manchester.... • • •
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle .• •• • •
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans ••• • • • 1 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham .•..••• • • • • • 10 0
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. ~ 1 1 0
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne.. ••••••• • .. • • 1 0 0
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate)..... •• . 1 1 0
Lady Sandys .. ••••• • • • •• •••• • • • ...... •• . • 1 1 0
W. M. Thackeray, Esq... • .• • •
Charles Swain, Esq, ....... •
W. C. Macready, E-q• • . ••••• • • • • • 1 1 0
J. Westland Marston, Esq • • ...... ••••• • • • .. 1 1 0
Mrs. S. C. Hall
Albert Smith, Esq. .. •••••• • • .• • • .• • . 1 1 0
Lady Morgan...
W. C. M. Kent, Esq •..••••••••• • . • • . • • . . • • 1 1 0
Alfred Crowquill, Esq. •••• • • • • •• • ...... • 1 1 0
William Jerdan, E5q........ ..... •• •-•• • • • • 1 1 0
Hepworth Dixon, Esq ••..••••••••• • • • • • • • •• • • 1 1 0
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P •• • • •••• • • • • 1 0 0
R. Swift, Esq., M.P..... ..... ••.••••• • • • • .• 1 1 0
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P •• •• 1 0 0
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. ••••••••••• • • • •• • • •• •• 1 1 0
W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P ...... •• • ........ ..... 1 1 0
Sir John Kerle Haberfleld, Knt.. Bristol ••• • .. 1 1 0
Mrs Milner Gibson ... •••.•••••••• •• •• • • • • •• • • 1 0 0
Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A... ••• • • ~ 1 1 0
J. B. Buckstone, Esq..• •••••..•••• • . • • • •• .• 11 0
Mrs. Fitzwilliarn •
Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning .... •••• •• . • . 1 1 0
Horace Mayhrtv, Esq.... ••••••••• • • • •• • • • • 11 0
C. Cowden Clarke, Esq. ••..••• • .. • • 1 0 0
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford ••••• • - • • • •• • • 1 1 0
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0
Temple and Winston •••••••• • • • • • • • • ••• •• . 1 1 0
Rev. J. C. Collins .. .. •••••••••••• • • • • • • . • . • . 1 0 0
Eight half crowns from Preston... • • .. 1 0 (I
In pence from Bideford • • •••• • • • •
In Half-crowns, from Bristol .• .. ••• • • • •••••• .. 1 2 6
In Half-crowns and Shillings ••••••••• • •• • • • • • • 011 0
In pence from Bristol. • .
Jacob Brett, Esq., Paris.... •••• • • • • 0 10 0
John L. Burnard, Esq., Bath •• . .
H. F. Lawes, Esq.
Mrs. E. L. Wilkinson .. ••••••••• • • • • • • • . 0 10 0
Miss E. Ebsworth ...• •••••• • • • • . 0 10 0
Miss Mitford • • .... •••••• • . • • • • •• •• • •• •• 010 6
E. L. Blanchard, Esq.. ••• • • ....... ..... .•• • . 010 6
A few Poor Needlewomen.. • •
Frederick Ilogg, Esq. •• . •• • 0 10 6
W. C . Bennett. Esq.• •.. •• • . ..... •••••• • • •• •• 010 0
Christopher Cook ...... ••••• • • • • •• .. 010 0
Miss Ebsworth ........... ....... ••.. . • 0 5 0
W. H. Somerton, E5q..... •• • • •• • 0 5 0
F. W. Adams .. ••• • • • .........• ..... ....... 0 5 0
Charles F. Ivens .. • ..... ••..•• •• •• 0 5 0
W.Rnmsey •••••••••••••• • • •• • • • • • . •• 0 5 0
F. 0. Dowty .• ............... ........ ....... 0 5 0
F. W., of Oxford .... ... •••• • • • • 0 5 0
In other sums 182 19 0

IMPERIAL PARLIAMET.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD-CHANCELLOR (Lord St. Leonards) took his
seat on the woolsack.

The number of peers present was not great. The
Ministerialists and the Opposition had mutually changed
sides, and the Earl of Derby, together with all his late
colleagues, were seated in the front Opposition bench.
The Earl of Aberdeen,_the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of
Clarendon, and,• Earl. Granville occupied the Treasury
bench.

As usual, the galleries allotted to the members of the
Lower House, and to strangers, were densely crowded.
There were also a great number of peeresses present.
The Duke of Cambridge was also in his place.

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.
The Earl of ABERDEEN at ten minutes after five
o'clock rose, and having laid some papers on the table of
the house, proceeded to address their lordships nearly as
follows :—My lords, in moving the adjournment of the
house it is my duty, as it is my desire, to give your lord-
ships the requisite inforMation respecting the construc-
tion of her Majesty's Government, and to indicate,
although very briefly, the principal objects which will
occupy our attention, and the general policy we intend
to pursue. It has been usual for men who are placed in
the situation in which I have now the honour of standing,
to profess the diffidence and reluctance-N.7l'lth vaiich they
have undertaken the task which has been thrown upon

them. I doubt not they have done so in perfect truth-
fulness and sincerity. But if this has been the case with
others, your lordships may easily imagine how much
more largely I must share in those feelings. Your lord-
ships must be aware that I have taken little part in the
proceedings of this house, except on such occasions
when the subjects where connected with the departments
which I have had the honour to fill, and you may
readily believe that my tastes and habits precluded
me from taking any very active part in your discus-
sions. Arrived at the very verge of that period which
has been assigned to human life, it may well be believed
that other thoughts and other aspirations would more
naturally occupy my attention. Nevertheless, I have felt it
my duty to obey the commands of my Sovereign. (Hear,
hear.) Before I notice the proceedings which have re-
cently taken place, I wish to advert to a circumstance
which I understand occurred a few days ago, when the
noble earl opposite (the Earl of Derby), in a manner not
altogether usual, accused me, and those who acted with
me, of having entered into a species of combination or
conspiracy to overthrow his Government. I believe the
accusation was answered at the time by my noble friend
the noble duke near me (the Duke of Newcastle). Never-
theless, I wish to add that my share in such a conspiracy
was not for the purpose of ejecting the noble lord from
office, but for the purpose of keeping him in. (Hear,
hear.) When it appeared from the equivocal and am-
biguous terms of her Majesty's Speech, that it was indis-
pensably necessary some resolution should be moved—
some declaration made of the advantages of free trade—
my own anxiety was that the terms of that resolution
should be such as the noble lords and their colleagues
might have accepted without doing violence-to their own
feelings, and consistently with their retaining office.
Those terms were framed and adopted, and, singularly
enough, had the effect intended by those who prepared
them—namely, that of enabling the noble lords and their
colleagues to retain the offices they held by the as-
sistance and the votes of the very conspirators them-
selves. (Hear, hear.) If any further evidence were
required of the nature of this conspiracy, I have to state
that precisely at that time I had myself taken measures
to engage, a residence in the East, with the firm deter-
mination of passing the two winter months on the shores
of the Mediterranean. (Hear.) So much for myself.
After the debate on the budget in the House of Com-
mons, and the resignation of the noble lord and his col-
leagues, I received on Saturday week a message from
the Queen, desiring my attendance in the Isle of Wight.
It informed me that her Majesty had been pleased to sum-
mon my noble friend the noble marquis near me (the
MargniutLansdeViertp_Attend atille skme,.time. On
communrating with my noble friend'T Isffira that, in
consequence of indisposition, he was unable at that time
to leave his house. I therefore thought it incumbent on
me to await her Majesty's commands. I received them
on the following day ; and my lords I confess it appeared
to me that the time had arrived when it was possible for
men whose political difference the course of events and
recent legislation had almost altogether removed, and
whose personal respect for each other had never been
diminished—l thought the time had come when it was
possible for those persons to act together in unison.
(Hear, hear.) I thought that the country was tired of
distinctions without meaning, and which had no real
effect on the conduct or the principles of public men. It
appeared to me that if my noble friend the member for
the city of London (Lord John Russell) should entertain
the same opinion and the same desire, I might attempt
to undertake the task of forming an Administration.
Undoubtedly, I had neither youth, strength, nor ability
sufficient to undertake it without assistance ; but by a
casual meeting with my noble friend the day before I
went to the Isle of Wight, I ascertained that his senti-
ments were entirely in accordance with mine, and I
therefore had no difficulty in assuring her Majesty that
I would endeavour to perform the duty which she was
placed •to lay upon me. On my return I lost no
time in endeavouring to fulfil that duty ; and I do not
say that this was attended with no difficulty ; but this I
will say, that I found in every quarter the greatest de-
sire to reconcile personal objects, and cordially to unite,
as,far as possible, in the promotion of one object—the
good of the country ; a desire in which I admit I fully
shared. (Hear.) In the course of a week I succeeded
in preparing a list of an administration which has been
fortunate enough to receive the approbation of the Queen,
and now stands for the judgment of the country. The
noble lord opposite stated that he thought I could have
done this in twenty-four hours, but I can assure him and
your lordships that I have lost no time in perfecting the
arrangements which were necessary. (Hear, hear.) I
shall now proceed, very briefly, to touch on the different
objects we have in view, and the policy we propose to
adopt. I need not detain your lordships on the nature
of our relations with foreign powers. The truth is, that
for the last thirty years the principle of the foreign policy
of this country has never varied. There may have been
differences in execution, according to the different hands
entrusted with the direction of that policy; but the foun-
dation Of the foreign policy of this country for the last
thirty years has been the same. It has been to respect
all independent States ; a desire to abstain as much
as possible from interfering in the internal affairs of
other countries ; an assertion of our honour and in-
terest ; and, above all, an earnest desire to secure
the general peace of Europe by all such means as we
have in our power. (Hear.) I will not say we may not
have our sympathies excited on behalf of certain States
and their endeavour to promote constitutional govern-
ment ; but the principle of our policy has always been to
respect the independence, the entire independence, of
other states, and not to interfere with their internal con-
cerns. This, I trust, will be still the case, and that we
shall retain the friendship and deserve the good-will o
foreign powers of all descriptions, whatever may be the
nature of their government or constitution. (Hear,
hear.) And if ever it should be the fate of this country
to be called on to interfere, my earnest hope is, that it
may be only to exercise the blessed influence of peace and 1
goodwill. Earnestly as I desire to see a continuance of
peace, and anxiously as I hope to avoid hostilities, at the
same time, I am by no means disposed to relax in those
defensive preparations which have been recently under-
taken, and were perhaps too long delayed. Not that
these indicate any expectations of an alarming and hos-
tile character; on the contrary, they are adopted in the
interests of peace, and as these preparations are essen-
tially defensive, they ought not and cannot give umbrage
to any power. (Hear, hear.) But, my lords, the great
object of her Majesty's present Ministers, the great
characteristic of this Government, and the mission with
which we are peculiarly entrusted, is the maintenance and
prudent extension of free trade and the commercial and
financial system established by Sir Robert Peel. I do
notintend to enter into any discussion of the respective
merits of direct or indirect taxation. The union
of both seems indispensable, and it is from the just
application of those principles that we are to hope
for the prosperity of the country. In our financial
system a difficulty—a crisis I may almost say—arises
by the early cessation of a very large branch of revenue.
This must be met, and doubtless it will tax the inge-
nuity of all those concerned in the undertaking to ac-
complish that great work according to the principles of
justice and equity. (Hear, hear.) There is another
matter to which I must refer, as it is one in which this
country is deeply interested—the great extension of