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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1852.

Another week will bring to a close the different
contests still 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
hi.therto the advantage remains altogether with the
Opposition. 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 it
must be borne in recollection that the Tories possessed
the extraordinary advantage of going to the count].)
afe 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 government. let
with this prestige of their plead-
Ministerial
elevation
log to. the electors throughout the country strongly
in their favour, D crbyites have failed to secure a
member of seats in the
by the Liberal and Liberal-Conservative degree comparable to those filled
Conservative candidates,or,
in. other words, by the acknowledged candidates of the
Opposition. Whatever may. be the result of the
bpee nmdai nd ge
nettesetailni nol difference sufficieatly re-
-1 likelihood in the relative
strength of the two grewat ptahreties, so as to afford an
material improvement in y
jaeta est. The result is already Administration.
virtually d 4/
idea
The proportion of Membersin theec.
new Parliament
may be, almost to a nicety, at this
very moment,
remaining
calculated. The returns still
to be
made might, in many instances, be
paired, and the
residue would be altogether too insignificant to tell
with any degree of force upon either the supporters
or the opponents of the existing Cabinet. It is
obvious, consequently, that Lord DERRY will again
Fuld himself in a minority on the re-assembling of the
riew House of Commons, as he was before the dissolu-
Übe of its predecessor. Nay, in all reasonable
Probability, that minority will be found on its
ultimate examination to be yet more de.
tvvinlehera to the energies of the Administration.
b the people will find it difficult to lose a remern-
-I'exe of the fact that, before the close of the lest
suar'l", the conduct pursued towards the Ministry
as that, practically speaking, of the most lenient
description. At the outset,. it is true, a certain por-
tion of the °Pl3eisiLlen manifested a willingness to act
towards the DERRy Government with what we
boldly at the time designated a factious and therefore
unjustifiable hostility. Deterred, however, from'
pursuing this course, either by second thoughts,"
or by conceding to the of the
justiceindignation
aroused outside the walls of the
petulant cluster of legislators here referred to
resolved on reflection upon Abandoning the policy

upon which they had ungenerously adventured. I
Everyone, indeed, after that strove to smooth the
'path before the Administrators, so as to enable them,
as readily as possible, to carry on the affairs of the
Government. It was felt, 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 were 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 respective
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, bas 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 worthily occupied du►ing the preceding
Parliament.

Tae Chairman of the Great Northern Railway
will, we believe, have a walk over for the
West Riding of yoekahire, and the Deputy.
Cbairman of the Great 'Western will, we believe, be
equally fortunate for Berkshire. We thus find,
that four chairmen and one deffuty-chairman of the
great trunk lines, having metropolitan termini, have
been returned to the new Parliament, and
in several instances without opposition. It may,
however, be said, that these were only re•elections,
and that no additional power has been acquired,
parties only, remaining in statuo quo, so far as the
Hon. Gentlemen are concerned.
The Sandwich election has, however,
added a
tower of strength to the railway party. The Chair-
man of the South-Eastern Railway, the grand
and nearest route to the Continent, has been re-
turned under the
most cheering and satisfactory
terms. We have so often borne testimony to the
indefatigable exertions of the Hon. Gentleman—ex-
ertions, too,
as judicious as they are incessant—that
it is unnecessary to say how cordially we congratu-
late the shareholders of the South-Eastern Company,
as well as all persons interested in railway property
throughout the entire kingdom, on the pleasing fact
that these exertions will now be available in an en-
larged sphere, and that Mr. MACGREGOR will be
e. bas d
to sustain in the Senate the good cause which
he bas hitherto so ably supported, although with
more limited powers.
The
h aix great trunk lines terminating in the me-
tropolis
, will thus be represented in the Legislature
by means of the
of Yorkshire, and the
Sandwich, the city .
Salisbury, and West Riding
acquired an European?
Again, we find sAeueounty of Berks.
MORTON PETO, who has
majority for the city of Norwich,
returned by a large
apparent of othrwich, although opposed
by the heir
rights." We never entertainede "
Hero of a hundred
to the result of this contest. Ina slightest doubt as
been a national calamity if Would, indeed, have
been rejected, and precludedltr. PETO had
from
pert in the national couucils. where taking
there be found a more worthy here could
represen-
tative of industrial enterprise than the gentleman
whose name is almost as well known in France and
in Norway as in his native country? In Mr. el
....E4c,
too, the electors of Coventry have sent an active co:
PSTO, while Honiton and Whitby
adjutor to Mr.
recognised the engineering abilities of Messrs.
have
HENSON. There are many others
LOOSE and STEP
whom we might readily refer to. The selection we
have made will, however, suffice to show that while
men of the greatest power in party politics, who
II" , devoted themselves to legislative labours, may
"ave'eause to deplore the fickleness of constituencies,
others, who bare attended to developing the traffic of
the
country Who have assisted in affording increased
facilities for inte been more
rcornmunica
' tion—hava
fairly dealt with. there
It must not be forgotten that
is nearly 250,000,0001. sterling embarked in the un-
dertakings of which the gentlemen above referred to
have been among the most z a Ipromoters, and
that railways are still0119
fiirly taxed. We cannot heavily,u and,
we
will add, un- 1
of shareholders whose capital is sr, then,
at the anxiety
in these undertakings to obtain
largely
embarked
who, without reference to other points,svices of those
pr to co-operate cordially together may
be ex-
of • for the purpose
obtaining justice for railways and railwayprietors. pro-

Advices from Rio bavz arrived via Pernambuco,
being three days later than those previously received. They
mention a rise of 2 per cent. in the Government Stoek,
which was now quoted 104. The prices of coffee continued
to be merely nominal, parties refusing to purchase at existing
rates. There was also depression m the markets for im-
ported goods. Exchange
was quoted 254 The railviay
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 REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
We read in the Moniteur—" The Superior Council
of Public Instruction assembled yesterday (Monday)
under the presidency of the Minister. The session,
which is 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 shown, by the direction and result of
its labours, the liberal and literary spirit which now
animates men who are the most deeply impressed
with the importance of positive and practical studies.
The Ministerial circular of the 22d May had 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 PRINCE 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
_M
_Mats on the recent elections in
England contains some admirable remarks. The
Debats rejoices over the confirmation of its opinion
ratify thatEtnhegolsandhowhodu,l, by whichdavaili Sir ROBERTtselfof the opportunity
PEELportun gave
ytoe
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
having at its
like England,
where the aristocracy is sowerful
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
g
opinion, solemnly consulted after several years'
experience, is far 'from regretting what hairbeen
done, and far from thinkin that the Reformers of
1846 have made their country enter on a ruinous
and mad adventure.
Nearly half the Univers is taken up with part of a
speech delivered in 1832 by M. DE SALINIS, noW
Bishop of Amiens, on religious education, which he
o
considered to be vitiated byrks, and with an article
tha too free dissemina
tion of the old classical works, and
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 eccle-
siastical privileges and immunities, and publish es a
letter from the POPE to the Archbishop of BAG OTAtt
in which his HOLINESS expresses his admiration of
the courage manifested by that prelate. es that
The Municipal Council of Digne, hop
rse of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic may in the cou
the
his journey visic. the chef-lieu of the department of
Basses Alpes, has just voted 10,000 f. to meet the ex-
penses of such an eventuality. The Municipal
io the
of Toulon has voted 20,000 f. for the sarne purpose.
Council
It is thought at Toulon that the PRINCE PRESIDENT
Will visit that port in September.
A telegraphic dispatch from Toulon announces the
departure from that port, on Saturday,
screw line• of-battle ship Charlemagne, of the
French Ambas-
sador to the Ottoman Porte,
board the Marquis Da LAVALETTE. Frenhaving on
secretary, and M. SEFELS, an attach 4 of the Turkish
pa, BENEDETTI, first
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 fires 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 cons-
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
flowers, 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 " Vive 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 Francais' to some of its retired soeietaires—
MM. Dupont, 4,000 f. ; Michelot, 6,4001. ; Firmin,
5,000 f. ; David, 5,000 f. ; • Desmousseaux, 6,800 f. ;
Manjaud, 5,0001.; and St. Aulaire, 5 Nof.—Mes-
dames'Talrna' 5,200 f ; Desbrosses; 4,0001. ; Derner-
son, 5,000 f. ; Rosa Dupuis, 6,4001.; Dupont, 7,000 f.;
Tousez, 6,4001.; Brocard, 5,0001.; Hervey, 4,8501.;
and Melingue, 3,500 f. Armand, who lately died, re-
ceived annually 7,800 f., 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 7,000 f.
for her eminent services. After M. Dupont, the per-
formers who have been the longest on the list are
Mme. Talmo, daughter of the celebrated Vanhove,
and Mine. DcsbrosEes.

The Dourse was not so firm as for some days past.
103 f. 15c.,
Orleans Railway Shares,
345 f; Great Northern,
The Four-and-a-Half per C, nts. opened at
and closed at 103 f. 5,1 for the end of the month; the
Chree
1,3451Rr
oCueennt,s.9oaot
F.7;2f.Hlsa;.r;e,
635 f.; Avignon, 460 f ; Basle, 292 f. 503.; purls and
Strasburg, 615 f.; Paris and Lyons, 6801.; Great
Wlsterc, 570 E; the New Austrian Loan, 34i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK. EXCHANGE, JULY 13.

Dutch Rhenish, 544—Fast Indian, 274—Luxembourg, 53/8
—Northern of France, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly
Bouloguk and Amiens shares), 14—Paris and Lyons, 174,8
Paris and Strasbourg, 24%—Rouen and Havre, 13 3,4
Sambre and Meuse,
• *—Western of France, BGrand
Junction of France, 4%. _
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