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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1852.

Another week will bring to a close the different
contests stid remaining to be decided in the three
kingdoms. Already the majority of the elections
have been brought to a conclusion, and already,
therefore, we are enabled to estimate with some degree
of accuracy the relative strength of parties in the new
Parliament. From the analysis made by ourselves
from day to day, it will have been perceived that
hitherto the advantage remains altogether with the
egePosition. Under any circumstances, after the
boasts indulged in by the Protectionists, this could
not have been otherwise, to those who regarded their
assertions with credUlity, than matter for astonish-
ment. Everything considered, however, in the situation
of affairs immediately prior to the dissolution, this
feeling of surprise cannot but be enhanced. For I,
Must be bornein recollection that the Tories possessed
the extraordinary advantage of going to the country
as the men in power—a circumstance always in the
highest degree favourable to 'Whoever may happen at
such a crisis to hold the reins of gevernmeW. Yet,
with this prestige of their Ministerial elevation plead.
ling the electors throughout the country strongly
u their favour, the DerbY ites have failed to secure
number of wets in any degree comparable to those fillt
by the Liberal and Liberal-Conservative candidates,or,
in other words,by the acknowledged candidates of the
Opposition.
Whatever
Imaybe the result of the
tlections still pending,
be
rnadein
alllikelihood
differencel sufficiently re-
markable can
strength of the two great
Par I
se hood
in
the relative
. as to afford any
material improvement in
the .Administration.
jacta est. The result is
already virtually
new Parliament
virtually decided
The proportion of Members in thet
this
may be, almost to a nicety, a
very moment,
calculated.rfln The returns still
made might, in many instances, be paired,hining to be
and the
re'sidue would be altogether too insignificant to tell
v,ith any degree of force upon either
theinestu.ppolrsteris
or the opponents of the existing Cabinet.
h
obvious, consequently, that Lord DERBY will again
find himself in a minority on the re-assembling of the
new House of Commons, as be was before the dissolu-
tion of its predecessor. Nay, in all reasonable
'probability, that minority tell! be fouud on its
altimete ex 1M illation to be yet more de-
trimental to the energies of the Administration.
ik"or the People will tied it difficult to lose a remeen.
br/thee of the fact that, before the close of the last
Passion, the conduct pursued towards the Ministry
was that, prectieslly speaking, of the most lenient
description. At the outset, it is true, a certain por-
tion of the Opposition manifested a willingness to act
towards the DERBY Cr' ,vernment with what we
botdly At the time de6igeated tt factious and there ore
unjustifiiNe hoetiii,y. Deterred, however, from
ParSithlg Vll3 course, either be a eheoehte,"
, second '
Or by, o;)11CP4A;:;g '0 .-3e justice of the indignation
amused outside the walls of the Legislature, even the
Petulant cluster of legislators here referred to
resolved on reflection upon abandoning the policy

upon which they had ungenerously adventured.
Everyone, indeed, after that strove to smooth the
path before the AiminittratorQ, so as to enable them,
es readily as possible,
o carry on the affairs of the
Government.. It was frit, even by their most reso-
lute antagonists, that such was the only ho
nourable course open to them at the time,
aware as they were that the Cabinet had
sprung into existence from an emergency in the
very death-throes of a Parliament. The difficulties
surrounding Ministers were felt consequently to be
more than usually enormous, and it was understood
also that the number of those difficulties was very
appreciably multiplied by the circumstance of a new
Administration being formed immediately before the
dissolution of an old Parliament. The Opposition
understood this after a little show of hostility,
and thereupon magnanimously consented to
forego the delightful temptations of antagonism.
Actually—the Opposition was no opposition—it was
rather a support and an incentive. The moneys re-
quisite for the carrying on the labours of administra-
tion wero voted with unexampled rapidity, and in
some instances with unhesitating munificence. Mea-
sures were hastened with a pleasant facility through
their various stages. The Secretaries of State were
none of them embarrassed by a perpetual discharge of
queries calculated to irritate them in their re:Tective
departments. The divisions were as frequently as
possible in favour of the wishes of the Administration.
Such, however, cannot be the course anticipated by
the leaders of the Cabinet upon the assembling of
the new Parliament. Then, at least, there will re-
main no excuse for the further postponement of the
legislative struggle for principles. Then, at least,
the Opposition will vindicate its right to the appel-
lation. _

Immediately upon the commencement of the
brief session which will inaugurate the New House
of Commons before the winter sets in, the Opposition
ranks will increase in strength with each other upon
one of those great questions, in regard to which their
opinions are diametrically opposed. The Cabinet will
then be reduced to the necessity of formally aban-
doning the interests of the Protectionists. It must
then be decided whether the country will consent to
witness the retention of power by statesmen who
discard in this flagrant manner the very principles
which have elevated them to the supreme offices of
Government.

Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to
the Ministerial or Opposition gains or losses during
the present election, there can be no doubt that the
railway interest has not only fully maintained its
position, but even acquired great additional strength,
so far as the existing returns are concerned. The
electors of Kendal have again secured the efficient
services of the respected Chairman of the London and
North-Western Company. The business habits, zeal,
and industry of the Hon. Gentleman would be sadly

missed in the House of Commons, bad the constituency

with whom he had been connected so far disregarded
his merits as to have chosen another in his place.
So far, however, was this from being the case, that
there was no opposition offered to his re-election, no
encouragement was afforded to any rival candidate ;
and, notwithstanding the unfortunate indisposition of
the Hon. Gentleman, which prevented him from can-
vassing the constituency, or even appearing on the
hustings, he was freely elected, without expenses
trouble, or annoyance. All honour to the men of
Kendal, who afforded so creditable a proof of grati-
tude to a worthy representative.
The Chairman of the Eastern Counties, too, although
retiring from the borough which he formerly repre-
sented, has been returned for Harwich to the new
Parliament. We cannot be supposed to sympathise

with the political opinions of Mr. WADDINGTON, who
is a thoroughgoing Ministerialist, but he has un-
questionably been a very hardworking and efficient
chairman of the Eastern Counties Company, and the
great improvement in the value of its stock since it
came under his management affords the best possible
evidence of the value of his services.
The electors of Salisbury have once more returned
the Chairman of the South-Western Railway. The

connexion, which has existed for more than five
years, has been continued for a further term. Mr.
CHAPLIN has ever proved himself to be a staunch

and uncompromising Liberal, the supporter of every
measure of judicious reform. It is, however, to his
railway capacity only that we are referring on the
present occasion, and we are indeed delighted to find
that one in every respect so competent to maintain
and advance a great, perhaps the greatest, branch of
industrial enterprise, keeps possession of the seat
which he has vrorthiiy occupied during the preceding
ParhamAnt.

The Chairman of the
Great Nth
will, we believe, have a
wails
Rail
r f y
rwtabe
West Riding of York-hires and the Deputy-
Chairman of the Great Western will, we believe, be
equally fortunate for Berkshire., We thus find,
liew Parliament, and
that four chairmen and one deputy-chairman of. the
great trunk lines, having metropolitan termini, have
the . .
been returned to
without opposition. It may,
in several instances
e power has been acquired,
se were only re elections,
and however,
al it beno saadidd,ittihonatelth
quo, so far as the
parties only, rem
Hon. Gentlemen are
election has, however, added a
The Sandwich
V, tern Railway, the grand
tower of strength to reailway party. The Chair-
ainincognlcner'snt:dtw.
man of the South,-I_lte!ia
and nearest route to -
Continent, has been re-
urned under the most cheering and satisfactory
terms. We have so often- borne testimony to theindefatigable exertions of
the Hon. Gentleman—ex-
an they are incessant—that
ions, too, as judicious as •
bow cordially we congratu-
it is unnecessary to say
late the shareholders of the
ilr
1 South-easternailw ayCom propertyp a ny,
as well as all persons interested
throughout the entire kingdom, on the pleasing fact
that these exertions will now beGit u
availableEGo in an en-
largedbe sphere, and that Mr. MAc
enabled to sustain in the Senate the good cause which
he has hitherto BO ably supported, although with
more limited powers.
The six great trunk lines terminating in the me-
tropolis,by
ineanws
oil f the
l thuLoug
brerepbrsesented in the Legislature
of Kendal, Harwich, and
Sandwich, the city of Salisbury, the West Riding
of Yorkshire, and the county of Berks.
Again, we find R&
Acquired an European
nlttrEL MOUTON PETO, who has
reputation, returned by a large
majority for the city
by the heir apparentofofN:L,hrewich, although opposed
" Hero of a hundred
rights." We never eirertained the slightest doubt as
to the result of this contest. It would, indeed, have
been a national calamity if Mr. PET() had
been rejected, and precluded from taking
part in the national councils. Where could
-here be found a more worthy represen-
rad" of industrial enterprise than the gentleman
whose name is almost as well known in France and
jo Norway,* in his native country? In Mr. Gescu
'
_
Mr. PETO, while Honiton and Whitby
too, the.electors of Coventry have sent an active ea
adjator to
i d the engineering abilities of Messrs.
have recognised
There are many others
LOCKE and
fe to. Tile selection we
have made will, however, suffice to show that while
whom
we
miSeThEtTrseaEdNislyoNr.e
in party politics, who
power
menha doefosthteed greatest
eloping the traffic of
Other', who have attended to dev
increased
nave cause to deplore the fickleness of constituencies,
arne t6stives to legislative labours, may
the country who have assisted in affording
facilities for intercommunication—have - - been rnore,
fairly dealt with. It must not be
forgotten that there
is nearly 250,000,000/, sterling embarked in the un-
dertakings of which the gentlemen above referred to
have been among the most zealous promoters, and-
that railways are still heavily, awl, we will add, un-
f tidy taxed. We canna-- wonder, then, at the anxiety
of st,areholdera whose capital is so largely embarked'
in these undertakings to obtain the services of those
who, Without reference to other
pouts, may be ex-
pected to co-operate cordially together for the purpose
of obtaining justice for railways and railway pro-
prietors.

Advices from Rio hsvo arrived via Pernambuco,
being three days later than those previously received. They
meution a rise of 2 per cent. in the Government Stock,
which was now quoted 104. The prices of coffee co ninued
to be merely nominal, partied refusing to purchase at existing
rates. There was also depreFsiou in the markets for im-
ported goods. Exchange was quoted 264. The railway
project for a line from Rio to the interior provinces of San
Paulo and Minas Geraes was before the Senate, and was ex-
pected to pass, the enterprise being regarded with favour by
the mercantile body.

THE FRENCH

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
We read in the Moniteur—" The Superior Council
Of Public Instruction a,sembled yesterday (Monday)
under the presiciency of the Minister. The session,
which id to last a month, will be principally devoted
to drawing up the programmes of instructions in
letters and sciences in the Lycees, on the bases fixed
by the decree of 10th April last on the plan of studies.
A mixed commission composed of delegates of the
Ministers of War, Finance, and Marine, and repre-
senting the Polytechnic, St. Cyr, Forest, and Naval
Schools prepared a month since, in conjunction with
the Inspectors General of Public Instruction, the pro-
grammes
of the scientific part of instruction. This
commission has showy, by the direction and result of
its labours, the liberal and literary spirit which now
animates men who are the moat deeply impressed
with the importance of positive and practical studies.
The Ministerial circular of the 22d May bad already
pointed out the true spirit of the decree of 10th April.
The speedy publication of the programmes will show
that the Superior Council and Minister, as the
faithful interpreters of the ideas of the PRENCE PRE-
SIDENT, are not less anxious to preserve in the public
schools wholesome literary traditions than to intro-
duce into them such changes as are called for by our
social state."

The article which we mentioned as having appeared
in the Journal des Debats on the recent elections in
England contains some admirable remarks. The
Debats rsjoices over the confirmation of its opinion
that England would avail itself of the opportunity to
ratify those bonds, by which Sir ROBERT PEEL gave
cheap bread and peace and good will to his fellow-
countrymen. It thinks that the accession of an aris-
tocratic Ministry to power in a country like England,
where the aristocracy is so powerful, having at its
head one of the most considerable and most respected
men in England, will have had the excellent result
of definitively ratifying the
work of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, and of showing by the elections that public
opinion, solemnly consulted after
several years'
experience, is far from regretting what has been
done, and far from thinking that the Reformers of
1846 have made their country enter on a ruinous
and mad adventure.
y
Nearly half the Univers is taken up with part of a
speech delivered in 1832 b M. DE SALINIS, now
Bishop of Amiens, on religious education, which he
considered to be vitiated by the too flee dissemina-
tion of the old classical works, and with an article
under the head of " Persecution against the Catholic
Church in New Grenada." The Univers compli-
ments, in warm terms, the Catholic clergy of the Re-
public for its resistance to the law abolishing eccie-
siastical privileges and immunities, and publishes a
letter from the POPE to the Archbishop of BAG OTA,
in which his HOLINESS expresses his admiration of
the courage manifested by that prelate.
the hopes
The Municipal Council of Div in
e, that
course of
the PRESIDENT cf the Republic maY in the
tof the
his journey visit the chef-lieu of the departrnen
Biases Alpes, has just voted 10 0001. to meet the ex-
penses of such an eventuality. The Municipal Council
of Toulon has voted 20,000 t. for the
It is thought at Toulon that the PRINCE PRESIDENT
Will visit that port in September. same purpose.
A telegraphic dispatch from Toulon announces the
departure from that port, on Saturday, of the
screw line- of-tattle ship Charlemagne,
board the Marquis DE LAVALETTE. having on
French Ambas-
sador to the Ottoman Porte, M.. BENEDETTI, first
secretary, and M. SEFEL9, anattach6 of the Turkish
embassy in Paris. The Charlemagne will proceed
direct to Constantinople, where she is expected to ar-
rive in six days.
It is positively announced (says the Constitutionnel)
that the Princess STEPHANIE of Baden and the Prin-
cesses, her daughters, will be present at the inaugura-
tion fetes at Strasbourg.
A bust of the PRINCE PRESIDENT was inaugurated
on Monday with great ceremony in the Marche des
Blanes Manteau. At eleven o'clock a cortege com-
posed of the authorities of the district, the commis•
saries of Police, and the dames and damoiselles of the
market, dressed in white and wearing garlands of
fLwers, proceeded to the church of the parish, headed
by a band of music, where mass was celebrated, and
an impressive sermon preached by the cure of the
,
parish. After the religious service the cortege re-
turned to the market where an appropriate address
was delivered by the deputy-mayor of the arrondisse-
ment, at the close of which loud cries of " Viva Na-
poleon I" were raised. In the evening there was a
grand ball and concert for the benefit of the poor.
The following is the list of pensions granted by the
Comedic Francaise to some of its retired societaires—
MM. Dupont, 4,000 f. ; Michelot, 6,400 f. ; Firmin,
5,000 f. ; David, 5,000 f. ; Desmousseaux, 6,800 f. ;
Manjaud, 5,000 f.; and St. Aulaire, s.oool.—Mes-
dames Talma, 5,200 E ; Deabrosses, 4,000 f. ; Demers
son, 5,000 f. ; hose Dupuis, 6,400 f.; Dupont, 7,000 f.;
Tousez, 6,400 f.; Brocard, 5,0001.; Hervey, 4,8501.;
and Melingue, 3,500 f. Armand, who lately died, re-
ceived annually 7,8001., and Cartigny, 5,000 f. M.
Dupont, who stands first on the list, has received his
pension of 4.000 f. since 1802 ; he is the father of the
celebrated soubrette, who receives a pension of 7,0001.
for her eminent services. After Ikl. Dupont, the per-
formers who have been the longest on the list are
Mme. Talmo, (laughter of the celebrated Vanhove,
and lime. Desbrosses.

The Bourse was not so firm as for some days past.
The Four-and-a-flatf per Cents. opened at 103 t. 15c.,
and closed at 1031. 5c for the end of ths month; the
Thee per Cents. at 72f. 15v.; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,3451.; Rouen, 900 f.; Havre, 345 f.; Great Northern,
6351.; Aviolon, 4601 ; Basle, 292 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 6151'.; Penis and L.) ora, 6801.; Great
Western, 5701.; the New Austrian Loan, sq,
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 13.
Dutch Rhenish, 534—East Indian,274—Luxembourg,s3/8
—Northern
dorAmFrizetnnsceB,b !tt)3
1p4e...r
Pads
nßdonLdysons(,femsr_l y
plivaurilsugna"ndan Strasbourg, 24j—Rouen and Havre, 133/,....
Sambre and &lease, 73 —Western of France, 81/4—Grand
Junction of France, 41/2.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the Bth inst. contain no
political news of interest.
Qu-en CurtisTiNA arrived et Oviedo nn the 4th.
A letter from Corunna, in the Clamor Public°
states that the Duke and Duchess DE MONTPEINSIER:
accompani,-d by the ex-QUEEN of the FRENCH and the
Prince DE JOINVILLE are expected there about the
201] inst., on their way to Ferrol and Vigo. The
Archduke FERDINAND MAXMILLIAN Of Austria left
Cadiz for I\ ladeira on the Ist in the Austrian steam..
frigate the Volta.

The Three per Cents. were done at 444; the New
Three per Cents. at 21 15-16; the Debt of the First
Class at 11k; and that of the Second at 5 7-16.

GERMANY.

The Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of PRUSSIA
arrived at Berlin on the 10th from Stettin. Their
MAJESTIES afterwards repaired to Potsdam. Bs
Royal Highness the Regent of the Grand Duchy of
Baden is hourly expected on a visit to the King of
PRUSSIA. The German papers contain no news of
interest.

BELGIUM.
The Independance of Brussels says :—" We arcs
assured that in consequence of the resolution taken
by the members of the Cabinet to offer their resigna-
tion to the KING, orders lahve been sent to the pleni-,
poteutiaries at Paris. to suspend the negotiations for
the renewal of the convention of the 13L11 December,
1845, and to demand that that convention, which we
believe expires on the 16th of August next, shall be
prolonged for some months.
A Brussel, journal states that there will be several
promotions in the Belgian army on the occasion of
the appro,iching 21st anniversary of the accession of
King LEOPOLD. Anion the officers to be promoted
are the two sons of the KING, who are to be raised to
the grade of Captain.
The Belgian G wernment ha% given orders to the
post othces in Belgium not to transmit tickets or,
prospf-otuses of lotteries which have not been legally
authorised.