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London, England, 1852-06-07 00:00:00

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ThirmutIOMETER, im Tam SHADE.
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511-lewe3t this morning and during the night.
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MONDAY, JUNE 7.
THERMOMETER, fT THE SHADE.
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52 —low= this morning and during the night.
61—this day, at noon.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1852.

The expectations of the public have at length
been realized. Government has, at last, ventured upon
the revelation of its intended policy : and, in the
issue of the long-awaited manifesto of the Cabinet, it
is gratifying to observe that there is an official pro-
mise of a speedy dissolutien of Parliament. The
document announcing this important event, and
giving utterance to these remarkable declarations,
will be found elsewhere in our impression of this even-
ing, compiled during the Whitsuntide recess, dated
from Hughenden Manor, and authenticated by the
signature of her MAJESTY'S CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER. AlthoUgh purporting to be merely the
Right Honourable Gentleman's electioneering ad-
dress to his constituents of the county of Buckingham,
the document manifestly bears in every sentence con-
clusive evidence of its being nothing less extraor-
dinary than a state paper deliberately prepared,
elaborately arranged, and ingeniously well-timed—a
paper not merely expressive of &Individual opinions
of the Leader of the House of Commons, but de-
claratory, in an undeniable manner, of the collec-
tive views of the Administration. The circum-
stance of its publication, therefore, must be re-
garded as an incident' peculiarly entitled to the
consideration not only of the county electors of
Buckingham, bet likewise of all these possessors of
the franchise thioughout the United Kingdom who
are seriously interested is .the development of our
social and political institutions. The address of Mr.
DISRAELI will be found none the less generally ac-
ceptable from the fact of its containing a more explicit
avowal than ever, and one Which cannot but be re-
garded as 'altogether decisive, of the abandonment
—henceforth arid for ever—of the obsolete princi
plea of Protection. The PRIME MINISTER'S confession
the other evening 'in the House of Lords, to the
effect that he by no, means anticipated such a
majority in the next Parliament as would authorize
'him to revive the corn-laws, has been altogether sur-
passed by the candid and more comprehensible
assertions no* made by her MAJESTY'S CHANCELLOR
of the &CHEQUER. The Right Hon. Gentlenaan
begins by reminding his constituents, and thr6unh
them, of course, the entire country, that since the
year 18-12 a system tending to secure the total
alteration of our fiscal and financial arrangements,
has been rapidly undergoing a course of progressive
and cothprehensive divelopercent. By the imposition
of an income-tax (for the first time during
the continuance of peace) Sir ROBERT PEEL created
a surplus out of a deficiency, but still more by that
mitigation of the tariff which ultimately led -to the
recognition of: the. Free-trade doctrines by the leader
and organizer of Conservatism. These measures
leading, to the repeal of customs duties to the extent
of nearly 1,500,0001. in 1842, of 126,0001. in 1843,
of 279,0001. in 1844, of upwards. of 3,500,000/. in
1845, of npwardses of 1,150,0001. in 1846,
of 343,0001. in 1847, of 578,0001. in 1848,
of 384,0001. in 1849, of 331,0001. in
1850, and of upwards of 801,0001. in 1851—con-
stituting an enormous aggregate of somewhere about
9,000,0001. sterling remitted during the past ten
years—received at the outset, as Mr. DISRAELI
himself allows, the cordial' support of 'himself
and his colleagues in the present Administra-
tion. " I had the satisfaction," says he, "of voting
for these measures [up to the memorable winter.
of 1845.6] in company with those gentlemen
who now honour the present Government with
their support." When, however, the great emer-
gency caused by the failure of the potato crop, so
acted in the November of 1845 upon the minds of
the then Prime Minister and .of the then leader of
her MAJESTY'S Opposition, as to induce the former to
Propose the immediate opening of the ports by a
simple Order in Council, and the. latter to address
his metropolitan constituents in the celebrated letter
from Edin'eurgh, abandoning the notion of even a
moderate fixed duty—there was virtually inaugurated
that system for allowing the free importation of fo-
reign corn which has. since been so pertinaciously
opposed by a considerable number of the agricul-
turists. That system is still, it would seem, viewed
as a mistake by the members of the present Govern-
ment, but a mistake such as now, according to their
own acknowledgment, must be regarded as alto-
gether irretrievable. Lord DERBY -confesses that
he would, if, heTcould, revert to the' old corn-laws,
abrogated in 1846, but that such a course appears to
be absolutely impracticable. He doubts even whether
it be possible to dream of a narjority being returned in
favour of the principles of Protection. Mr. DISRAELI
goes further. lie speaks more plainly. His declara-
tions are bolder both in purport and in expression.
Ho-Bays--" The time has gone by when the injuries
which the great producing interests endure can be
alleviated or removed -by a recurrence to the laws
which, previously to 1846, protected them from such
calamitiei. The spirit of the age tends
.'to free inter-
course, enclitics statesman can disregard with impunity
the genius of the epoch in which ho lives." This is
an honourable as it is surely unmistakable. II

asserts as plainly as it can possibly be asserted that
Free-trade is beyond the reach of assault from the
agriculturists.
The subsequent portions of the address to the
electors of the county of Buckingham are as re-

markable as the foregoing—referring less to the past

and more to the future. Hinting at certain remedial
measures for the reduction and adjustment of the

burdens of the community, by judiciously revising
_ _

the general scheme of: taxation, the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER very naturally expresses a hope that
the Cabinet, of which he himself is one of the leading
members, may be supported by that powerful majority
in Parliament without which " nothing great can be
effected" by, any Administration. While intimating
thus much, the Right Hon. Gentleman ruagnani.

mousey offers his tribute of praise to the " personal
i honour and
administrative ability" of the predecessors
rcefmtlieedieaxl isting Government. And as a foretaste of the
measures already hinted at, he speaks,
the1.111)011; of those measures which have already been
Uponjatrod
t
iiLedloy the Earl of Dsuir's Administration.
we 60ne7ivfirste,t of these it would have been as well,-
have remained si'
Bill Which,. b ° lent—namely ; the
.
y
callingout 80 000 militia,
secure the desotice '
a sof the country than it can ulti-
mately become., efficient, popular, and economical."
Of the second m
DISRAELI remarks, with-
somewhat more of P.
0 reason, that 'it is one which
would " confer
a on'
_al3l. interesting and Im.
. vi hioonh t i t ulat i.
prominent'o n
e.
observes, foaue govern
en dpf
be
acceptable
tbul
:eo
entso "willo
trt ha,
depen-
dencies,"eaet
as adroit as it will provoug..expected
portant colony
right principles
while the
reform of .the Court of
the,
Clehnagntcherasc:l,l)ievsou.cah complete
community. from affording the 1
document
and
long-delayed Ministerial explanation. In one re-
spect, At least, it must prove highly •
satisfactory to
the people at large, as we have alread
- y intimated,
namely, by its avowal of the indestructibility
Free-trade principles, and of the impessibiyty of the
IvY0! re-
viving the bygone system of monopoly.
l'illire:tea eheuld

.
The completion of the elect.= telegraph, between
Holyhead and Howth has inflamed the ire of the
" organ" of the young Irelanders in no oTdinary de-
gree. We are by no means surprised at this result. It
would b© strange, indeed, if an act calculated to
cement more closply the cxFstirlg union, to remove
the distinctions that formerly prevailed, and to render.
Ireland really an integral portion of the British em.