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London, England, 1852-09-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TEWRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1852.

The letter of the Earl of D,
tilt? obsequies of the departed 1113Y2 in reference to
Hero, whose lamented
death created so deep a sensation throughout the
length and breadth of the land, will be received
unequivocal approbation by all
classes and
with
society. It may be regarded as proceeding gradesdirectly
in
the sentiments of, our
G
from, and expressing Moat
and genuine kinrda:
liness of feeling are
nlous SOVEREIGN. True delicacy
perceptible in every line. It
was what might have been expected from Queen vie.
Toar.A. on such an occasion. Her MAJESTY has com-
pletely fulfilled the expectations of her people in (Ling
honour to the memory of him who in life was her
iftost distinguished subject.
It is now virtually settled that there shall be a
public funeral and that St. Paul's shall be the final
resting-place of the illustrious General. He will
slumber with our own NELSON—" the greatest Mili-
tary will rest by the side of the greatest Naval Chief
who ever reflected lustre upon the annals of
England."

The decision of both Houses of Parliament will be
~,en on the question. Put it is not a. :fraoy JuuDC
,:ouiel be entertained ou the subject—we should in-
deol blush for our country if a single dissent should
be recorded, if the votes were not carried with per-
itic-; unanimity. The delay is merely intended to
tonSer greater honour on the memory of the deceased
nill°l*, and to afford a complete recognition of the
true position and authority of the other Estates of the
Her MAJESTY feels that she is a constitu-
ticoal Abnarch—that she acts in accordance with,
a.,.1 not independent of her people ; and in awaiting
the advice and co-operation of their chosen Repre-
sentatives she offera
a graceful tribute to the true
spirit of the British Constitution.
„ She might," as Lord D
ERTIY truly remarks, "of
her own authority, have given immediate orders for
this public mark of veneration
for the memory of
the illustrious Duke, and Parliament
"
and the country
would cordially have approved the step. The reigning
Sovereign had done so in the cr
se of the distinguished
Admiral who laid down his life in the hour of vic-
tory at Cape Trafalgar ;and there is no lack
precedents to a similar effect, although, utio,"f, other
~
per-
haps the present occasion, no one who had
rendered
sefrvices like NELSON, who had so eminently merited
rhe highest honours from his sorrowing country, was
thus distinguished. But "her MAJEsTr was anxious
that the tribute of gr
atitude and of sorrow should be
deprived of nothing which could invest it with a
thoroughly national character—anxious that the
greatest possible number of her subjects would have
an opportunity of joining it, anxious too, above all,
that such honours should not appear to emanate from
the Crown alone, and that the two Houses of Parlia-
ment should have an opportunity, by their previous
7.anction, of stamping the proposed ceremony with
increased solemnity, and of associating them-
aelves with her MAJESTY in paying honour to
the memory of one whom no Englishman can
'name without pride and sorrow." With that feeling
rthe has adjourned the final decision until
the assembling of the new Parliament, expressing

THE SITN,

merely a wish, that " should no unforeseen impediment
of the late illustrious and
venerated Uommander-in-Chief should, at the public
expense, and with all the solemnity due to the great-
ness of the occasion, IoP 1- posited in the Cathedral
Church of St. Paul's, there to rest by the side of
Nsmox." _ _

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mains

Her MAJESTY observed equal delicacy to the family
of her old and faithful servant. Although his
exploits had rendered him, to a certain extent,
the preperty as well as the glory of his
country—although the " great space which his name
has filled in the history of the last fifty years : his
brilliant achievements in the field : his high mental
qualities : his long and faithful services to the Crown :
his untiring devotion to the interests of his country,
constitute claims upon the gratitude of the nation
which a public funeral, though it cannot satisfy, at
least might serve to recognise," she would take no step
" even in his honour" until the previous concurrence
of his sorrowing relations had been obtained, and it had
been ascertained whether he had left any directions, or
whether his family desired to express any wish upon the
subject. " The sense of duty," however, which, as
we have already explained, formed the great charac-
teristic of the great Duke, prevented him from inter-
fering with what he must have felt would
be the privilege of his grateful SOVEREIGN
and his sorrowing country, whenever his
glorious career might be brought to a termi-
nation. In a similar spirit his sons, the pre-
sent Duke and Lord CHARLES WELLESLEY, left the
matter entirely at the disposal of her MAJESTY ; and
the notification of her wishes and intentions in the
admirableletQteareaebno‘veinrTenfenrirAedhtaosheasverbeestnotohde result.
High High as
opinions and feelings of her subjects, strong as have
been her claims on the affectionate loyalty of her
people, her o
if
pnssihclen,dnuncnt on
feradtdhi is
ti n
al
strength
melancholy
to
theseoccasion
will, if
alike honourable to the ruler and the
ruled, to the chief magistrate of a free nation,
and to those who dwell under her mild, be-
nignant, and constitutional authority. The QUEEN
and the people have been in full accordance, as we
trust they will ever continue.

It may possibly be that the meeting of Parliament
will be hastened in consequence of the melancholy event.
It had previously been fixed for the 11th of November
—a pericd which might be more convenient for the
new Members, and which also might be received in
redemption of the pledges given by the
Ministerial leaders in both Houses. The calamity
which has placed the nation in mourning WE3
not, however, then anticipated. It has rendered an
earlier meeting expedient, if not necessary, and be-
lieving that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
on whom the chief labour will fall, is
fully prepared for the emergency, and that
the meeting might be accelerated without
any great Ministerial inconvenience, we trust that
the Government may be induced to take the step
which, in manifesting additional respect to the
mighty dead, woukl unquestionably be pleasing to the
nation.

Although the autumnal session of Parliament about
to be commenced will be necessarily restricted in du-
ration and, therefore, to a considerable extent modi-
fied in importance, it must prove essentially one fraught
with a very peculiar interest to the population. Re-
cent occurrences have tended, moreover, to enhance
the curiosity which was certain, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, to be felt in regard to the first meeting of
the Imperial Legislature after a general election of
a very remarkable character. Immediately the new
Members have been duly sworn in, the principal
members of the Cabinet in both Houses will have to
indicate in some measure the policy about to be ad-
ventured upon by the DERBY Administration. In the
Lords no little solicitude will be manifested in refe-
rence to the Ministerial explanations offered to the
country by the Noble Earl the First Lord of the
Treasury, while simultaneously the same species of
anxiety will be entertained in the Commons as to the
revelations likely to be made by the Right Honour-
able Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Doubtless the difficulty in which the Cabinet was
placed shortly after its formation in February, has
been somewhat diminished by the unexpected ability
displayed by its members in at once carrying
out, with all requisite skill, the routine
labours of the Government. It was expected
at the outset that a Ministry created with such
unexampled suddenness, one, moreover, which
necessitated the elevation to power of so many men
who had never before enjoyed the privileges of
office, requiring, indeed, the advancement of no less
than eighteen noblemen and gentlemen to the dignity
of Privy Councillors within the limits of a single
Gazette—an incident so extraordinary as to be
actually, we believe, without any precedent--it was ex-
pected that a Ministry created with such singular, but,
it must be admitted at the same time, unavoidable
precipitation would reveal, before very long, a painful
amount of inefficiency, so far es to bring into dis-
credit even the more practised members of the Ad-
ministration. Instead of this the community has
witnessed with a very agreeable, and the more so be-
cause unexpected, sense of satisfaction the display of
really admirable business powers on the part of the
majority of the principal members of the new Go-
vernment. Under the guidance of the Noble PRE-
MIER, the Cabinet has in respect to the customary
toils devolving upon our administrators acquitted
itself very worthily, and in some particulars even to
admiration. The Earl of DERBY has so far, in
truth, justified the laudatory predictions upon which
Old CHRISTOPHER NORTH, some years ago, adventured
when, in one of the famous Nodes Ambrosiana,
he made en exception in favour of Lord STANLEY,
when reviewing the Whigs of that day—brandishing
his crutch in terrorem over the heads of Earl GREY
and his Ministerial colleagues ! Besides the PREMIER
himself, there are others, now associated together
under his leadership, who have already, within the
last six months, shown a capacity such as to acquit
Lord DERBY of rashness in their nomination to the
responsible posts of Government. The financial
affairs of the United Kingdom are consequently found
to have flourished under the care accorded to them by
the Ri •
ght Hon. Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of the
Exca
t',ukat—a fact bewildering to those hum-drum
men
of business, who cannot understand how any
sensible
budget could ever proceed from the hands of
a popular novelist
Rather a tough nut to crack this
has consequently been to
rum g"" salis thoga h
your dead-level admirers of
properly
official mediocrity! One
bolos
requiring to be taken even
now
arecan ibnee appraobp leer
properly
how the ~ad
nddinhe red tape
fingered by a man
oufndierinzatga
through
imagination ! Mr. ay &LP OLE
Opened,
failed—perhaps
tunit —to
evidence administrative powers Worthyopopfor y
lack o'f again, if he has
a name his-
toricallyhigher toils of the
has disclosed a laudable Government, assi-
duity complicated
in the discharge
at his office in be
labours of the Home Department—having bee, almost
unremitting in his attendance whin
street throughout the whole of the time, already
elapsed, of the long vacation. As yet Sir JoHN
PAXINGTON has had but small occasion to show how
far he is competent to discharge the duties of Colonial
Secretary—though in one particular; at least, we can-
not but think he acted neither with desirable fore-
thought nor with commendable deliberation—we
mean, of course, in reference to his bearing towards
the delegates sent to this country from Nora Scotia
and New Brunswick, with a view to negotiate the
establishment of a grand railway enterprise capable of
binding more closely together and associating more
intimately with the mother country, by bands likely to
have proved indissoluble, the whole of the gigantic
provinces of our North-American possessions! Happily
not thus thoughtless, and we may venture even to says
unpatriotic, has been the course pursued in regard to
?oil. foreign relations by the Noble Lord the Earl of
i
A.LMESBURY. At first, no doubt, we had a crow to
Pluck with him in regard to Mr. MATHER and his
wrong
JOHN
p',4:ni
s we had already with his colleague, Sir
GTON, in regard to Mr. CHANDLER and
his enterprise.
But the Noble Earl showed himself
amenable to reason in the development of the
atecor-
respondence with the Florentine Government—inso-
much that immediately
after Sir HENRY BuLwEE had
arrived at the capital of Tuscany Lord MALAIEssuRy
repaired the blunders into which he had inadvertently
fallen, if he failed to Compensate Mr. SCARLETT for a
very
unmerited depreciation. Beyond this, however,
her MAJ.HSTY'd Foreign
Secretary has yet more six-