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London, England, 1852-11-03 00:00:00

be relieved from its recently protracted uncertainty as
to the ulterior designs contemplated by the DERRY
Administration. A little time longer, and we shall
ba enabled to fathom the long inscrutable mysteries
of the existing Government. A funeral pageant must

first of all carry the popular interest away from the
atmosphere of Parliament in the direction of those
vaults of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the centre of which

England is about to place with earnest care, side by
side with the remains of her greatest naval hero,
NELSON, those of her greatest military hero, WEL-
LINGTON. Afterwards, but not until afterwards,
can we turn with undistracted attention to the debates
and divisions taking place hard by the venerable
Abbey at Westminster. Nobody will feel inclined
to scrutinize very rigidly the proceedings either in
the Lords or in the Commons, while the body of the
brave old warrior is reposing uninterred in the
Castle at `'Palmer—saving alone those particular
proceedings which may have reference to the obse-
quies of ARTHIIIi the first Duke of WELLINGTON.
Nobody, still more confidently may we assert this,
would feel for one moment disposed to watch with
ordinary vigilance the nightly additions to the re-
cords of Hansard while the inanimate form of the
more redoubtable soldier of England is lying in state
in the grand hall of Chelsea Hospital. Yet later on in
November there will be the immediate period of the
public funeral, upon the solemn pomp of which the
regard ol the whole nation will be concentrated
to the temporary oblivion of the interrupted labours
of the Legislature. Thereafter we repeat, but not
until then, we shall have reached a breathing time,
in the course of which we may find leisure to listen
attentively to the more momentous discussions taking
place within the walls of the Imperial Legislature.
There is one reflection connected with the approach-
ing session, eminently calculated to prove in the
highest degree satisfactory to the population. Cock-
fighting, it is true, is illegal—but then there are hap-
pily still reserved for the enjoyment of her MAJESTY'S
lieges the rhetorical contentions and wordy squabbles
taking place nightly, at certain seasons of the year in
one or other of the illustrious Houses of her MA-
JESTY'S Parliament. At the particular period at
which we have now arrived, we have the delightful
prospect cf a more than usually varied succession of
" sparring matches" between the legislative athletes
of the United Kingdom. For one thing—we may
rest confident of this, that, each in turn, the principal
Ministers of the Crow❑ will find themselves
pitted against the ablest debaters of the Opposition.
The Earl of DERBY will have a hard

time of it, although he is among the category of the
Prise Ministers ruling the British Empire, osten-
sibly through the Lords instead of the Commons.
Mr. DISRAELI will, if possible, have a still harder,
being required to bear the brunt of the whole on-
slaught as leader of the popular branch of the Legis-
lature. The Earl of MALMESBURY, in the Upper
House, will have to explain away his concessions at
Florence, and to demonstrate that stringent measures
were really demanded by the circumstances of the case
for the future prntectian of the British North Ameri-
can Fisheries. Mr. WALPOLE will be required in his
turn to satisfy the conscience of the country that he
has been neither inactive nor precipitate in his arrange-
ments for the reorganization of the Militia. The
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND will be compelled so far
to lay bare the secrets of the Baard of Admiralty as
to satisfy the community that the old-fashioned habit
of indolence has been abandoned in the English dock-
yards iu the presence of the tremendous preparations,
in the way of maritime improvements, now making
in the French dockyards, as may be readily seen by
a glance at the naval doings at Rochefort. Inquiries,
no less eager and searching, will, doubtless, be shortly
addressed in due course to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON and
HERRIES, to Lord JOHN MANNERS and to Mr.
HENLEY, to the Hon. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD and to
Mr. CHRISTOPHER—in short, to every one of the pro-
minent Members in the DERBY Government. Out of
all these investigations we may anticipate, conse-
quently, not only a large amount of amusement,
but a considerable store of instruction, as to the
course which has already been pursued, and as to that
which is likely to be pursued in the development of
the hitherto veiled policy of a hastily constructed, but
we trust enlightened, Administration.

There has been an unusual dearth of political
banquets this season. This fact can easily be ac-
counted for. The worthy bucolics who were always
ready to " eat and drink" for the good of their coun-
try, and who found a dismal consolation in hearing
gloomy tales of the certain ruin awaiting in the first
instance all persons engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and eventually the entire community, including
those short-sighted individuals who were so unrea-
sonable as to object to the imposition of a bread-tax,
were discouraged at the irrevocable abandonment of
" Protection" by her MA JESTY'S Ministers, while
the leaders—the stars who visited the provinces—
astonishing and delighting the rustics by the bril-
liancy of their oratory, and the uncompromising
assertion of the propriety and expediency of a Corn-
law, had many reasons for avoiding such ga-
therings. They could no longer affect to believe in
the possibility of a resuscitation of the defunct monster
That would scarcely go down with the most credu-
lous sample of rural simplicity. Nor would it have
been very politic for those who either are in actual
enjoyment of, or are panting for, a participation in
the loaves and fishes. It was, therefore, probable that

they might have to "swallow" something more than
the viands prepared for general use ; and that broken
or neglected pledges would prove much less palatable
than the mighty joints of beef and mutton, the burning
tankards of potent ale, or the brandied sherries or
fiery port, set aside for the consumption of the sturdy
yeomen. Soma few had nerve sufficient to meet the
disappointed farmers, but such conduct was the ex.

ception, and not the rule. And, generally speaking,
the eating and drinking was devoted to the advance-
ment of agricultural knowledge, or the improvement
of stock. The melancholy fact being, at last, ad-
mitted, that farmers must lock to their own exertions
for success, and not to any Legislative miracle that
could be performed in their favour.
On the other hand, the hurry and bustle consequent

on the general election, and the certainty that Parlia-
ment would meet for the dispatch of business early
in November, and that, consequently, it would be a
time "not for sayings, but for doings," prevented
many assemblages that might otherwise have taken
place in honour of Free Trade, and to express the
unflinching devotion of the audience to the cause of
unrestricted commerce.

The men of Manc'nester were, however, resolved
;hat one demonstration at least should take place

worthy of their former fame, and of the spirit and
determination that achieved a triumph in the face ofdif-
ficulties that might have appalled the most courageous.
What they do in the manufacturing metropolis, they do
well. They are not men for half measures, or leaving
any doubt as to their inflexible resolution. It was
scarcely necessary to kick the unseemly car-
case that had long since been consigned to an early
grave, but so long as any political quack could be
found to express the faintest hope of its revival, it
was well to show what he would have to encounter
in the despairing efforts. No real danger of such a
result WAS to be anticipated ; but there 'would be
mischief in any agitation that might be carried on
under the erroneous supposition that the snake was
only " scotched, notoknillaendy former occasion were so
many pro,."
Neve
pPu/rahraPres'presentatives assembled at a pro-
vincial meeting. Men who were not the nominees
of an aristocratic portion—but who owed their elec-
tion to the unpurchased suffrages of independent
constituencies, and not to bribery or intimidation.
The representative of the West Riding of Yorkshire,
the largest county constituency, was supported by the
honourable gentleman the member fur Glasgow, the
representative for the largest borough constituency
in the United Kingdom. A host of worthy coad-
jutors were in attendance. Mr. MILNER Ginsort,
who might be regarded as the leader of the move-
ment for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, was
Supported by the Hon. H. F. BERKELEY, the tried
consistent and efficient champion of " protection to
the bumble voter in the exercise of his most sacred
duty by moans of the ballot." Many members from
the sister-isle proved that notwithstanding the absence
of manufectur:s in Ireland, and the assertion that it
was a purely agricultural country, the Irish people
were still faithful to the cause of Free Trade, and
that the same efficient support may be anticipated