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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1852.

as if he had been connected by blood or marriage
with the noble families of RUSIELL, GREY, or

ELLIOTT.

At the recent Manchester Meeting, Mr. COBDEN
and Mr. BRIGHT remarked on the chances of their

being invited to take office, and disavowed any ambi-
tion of the kind. If they should be so called on, it
will entirely be owing to the severity of the blow ad-
ministered to the Whig leaders. And the democratic
element will be admitted as reluctantly and sparingly
as possible. Had it not been for that salutary lesson,
a descent from, or relationship to, SARA" Duchess
of BEDFORD, might still be regarded as an indispens-
able qualification for a seat in the Cabinet, without
which the strongest claims should be disregarded.
Such, at least, would be the case if we are to judge
from former experience. Let us, for instance, con-
sider the case of Mr. Hums as a striking example.
From 1811, until the present time—a period of
forty-one years—Mr. HUME has been a faithful and
indefatigable, although unremunerated servant of the
public. He has exercised a vigilant watch over suc•
cessive Ministries, and been the means of checking
much extravagant expendirure. He has all through
been a consistent politician—the only blot on his
escutcheon being his memorable avowal—occasioned by
his devotion to the Liberal cause—that "he would
vote black white to keep the Whigs in office." He
did keep them in, more than once, by his influence,
his forbearance, and his kindness. If ever they owed
a debt of gratitude to any public man, it was to Mr.
HUME. But because he did not happen to belong to
any of the noble families who have hitherto claimed
an hereditary right to wield power in the governance
of the country, the Whigs have never once offered
him the smallest office in any of their Administrations
—they have not even thought him worthy of being
sworn in as a Privy Councillor.
Again, in 1846, when Sir ROBERT PEEL gracefully
took leave of office, he paid a happy and eloquent tri-
bute to Mr. COBDEN, to whom, he said, the public
was indebted for " the pressure from without,"which
compelled Parliament to repeal the Corn-laws. He

put Mr. COBDEN'S claims forward in such a manner,
that the RUSSELL-GREY E;LIOT Ministry (created
actuary by Free Trade, of which RICHARD COBDEN
was the child acd champion) painfully felt that they
must make a show of offering some office to the re-
presentative of this great principle. They did so—
but how ? The Cabinet was formed of the old here-
ditary materials, and then, but not till then, they told
Mr. COBDEN that the comparatively trifling office of
Vice-President of the Board of Trade was at his ac-
ceptance. It was, of course, rejected, as far beneath
the claims of the Hon. Gentleman. It was then given
to Mr. MILNER GIBiON ; but when, after a couple of

years' trial, the chief office in the department became
vacant, which would have given a seat in the Cabinet,
they declined advancing the Right Hon. Gentleman,

because he had not the aristocratic blood which they
deemed essential; and he thereupon very properly
threw up the subordinate situation. Mr. COBDEN,
during the five years which preceded Free Trade, had
shown himself as clever, at the very least, as any Mem-
ber of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Administration. But
although he had brains, he wanted blood. Had
he been the son, or grandson, or brother, or even
cousin of some noble sinecurist, or placeman, or pen-
sioner—he would, as such, have been qualified for
official companionship with the RussELes, the GREYS,
and the ELLIOTTS, who are now grumbling Members
of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. The son of a farmer
in Sussex, and himself partner in a concern in Man-
chester, had no chance, with the aristocratic Whigs,
who affect to be the champions of Liberal principles.
Joss; MACGREGOR was another glaring instance
of their gross neglect of men of ability and experi-
ence. During the time that Hon. Gentleman was
Secretary to the Board of Trade, he had exhibited
his peculiar aptitude for the most important situations,
His services were exceedingly valuable, and his effi •
ciency was recognized in the most flattering manner
by Sir ROBERT PEEL, who candidly acknowledged
the great assistance received from Mr. MACGREGOR,
who prepared the Tariffs that constituted the founda-
tion and commencement of Free Trade. There is no
doubt that Sir ROBERT would gladly have availed
himself of Mr. MACGREGOR'S assistance in a higher
station ; but the Hon. Gentleman was faithful to the
Liberal cause, although he discharged his officialduties
in the most exemplary manner. Although, as Secre-
tary of the Board of Trade, he made all the calcula-
tions and prepared the measures about to be brought
forward, he would not become a member of a Ministry
of whose principles he did not approve. When the
Whigs came into office he became a candidate for the
representation of Glasgow. There was nothing in
the duties of Secretary to the Board of Trade incom-
patible with a seat in Parliament. Lord JoaN Rtrs-
SELL, however, affected to think so; and Mr. MAC-
GREGOR resigned a permanent situation which many
persons would have considered a handsome reward for
Parliamentary services, rather than disappoint the im-
portant constituency whose suffrages he had solicited.
He was elected by a large majority. He exhibited
incontestible evidence of ability in the House, but he
still kept aloof. Had be been made Chancellor of the
Exchequer, as he ought to have been, on any of Sir
CHARLES WOOD'S notorious failures, and allowed the
influence due to the position, the Whig Ministry
would probably still have retained office. The ne-
glect of Mr. MACGREGOR was, however, fully avenged
on the aristocrats, who would not suffer one of the
people, however great his talents, " to come between
the wind and their nobility."
We greatly fear that the present office-seekers (who
were late the office-holders) still cling to the fond de-
lusion that they, by prescription and practice, are
alone qualified to govern the country. Mere ability
goes a very short way with them. Family connexion
is everything—the very alpha and omega of the ne-
cessary qualifications. The Ministry was quite a
family party—cousins and uncles, and fathers-in-law
and brothers-in-law, and other near relatives. They
could not think of admitting any person who was not
"one of ourselves." And, in the disposal of patron-
age, from the famous GREY list of 1832 (by which it
appeared that the GREYS alone held places to the
annual amount of nearly 70,0001.) down to the very
day on which, in a pet with Lord PALMERSTON, Lord
JOHN threw up his cards, these men have invariably
had regard to what were denominated "the claims"
of their own relatives.
We have beard of " an ignorant impatience of taxa-
tion." The clique above alluded to have also an im-
patience, as impudent as it is ignorant. They are
impatient of Genius, impatient of Industry, impatient
of Patriotism, impatient of Eloquence, impatient of
Tact—unless that genius, industry, patriotism, elo-
quence, and tact, belong to, or be exhibited by, one of
themselves. In CHARLES JAMES Fox and in WU...
LIAM PITT they recognized these elements—because
the one was son of Lord HOLLAND and the other of
the fiarl of CHATHAM. In GEORGE CANNING they
would not recognize them, because he was only the
son of a private gentleman. Not only did his Tory
colleagues turn out in 1827, when GEORGE the
Fourth made him Premier, but the very men he had
a right to reckon on assaile3 him, beoausa he was
".No tenth transmitter of a foolish face."

Earl GREY turned fiercely on him, as must be well
remembered, at the very time when CANNING was in-
troducing liberal measures for the country's good.
And thits enmity resulted from CANzsirtn's not being
"of noble blood." It was, however, amusing to hear
Lord GREY then talk of " standing by his order"---
his own peerage being of recent date, the first being
conferred on his father.
Mr. DISRAEL/, and such of his colleagues as, un-
happily, do not boast of noble ancestry or aristocratic
con nExions, may, of course, calculate on the enmity
of the family party ;" for if worth alone made the
Min later, what would their own chances of office be ?
We 7enture to think, however, that the public will be
divo s€d to look rather at what a man does than at
who he is; and that, provided he serve them well and
emele ntly, they will not curiously or captiously in-
qui▪
re whether he has sixteen noble quarterings on his
shi▪
eld,. Lord DERBY' if he conferred no other bene-
fit on the community during his tenure of office, has
at all , tvent,, done
one act of no ordinary importance.
lie has a aminiater
o ever, " the family party."
decessoi.s. lie 5a b a wholesome rebuke to his pre-
solved, wt broken up the clique—he has dis-
hope for

The bus, y borough of
Oldham i 3 now the scene of a
hot elector ^al contest, and one in our judgirent
of no ordim i iry nterest—only second perhaps, to the
one
at nburgb, on the zesult of which Mr.

MACAULAY'S return to the British Senate depended.
Mr. Fox would, indeed, be the last man in the king-
dom to place himself on a literary level with Mr.
MACAULAY, but, as a working Member end eloquent
speaker in the House of Commons, his services would
not be inferior to those of the splendid historian. If,
however, Mr. Fox must take rank after Mr.
MACAULAY, where must his opponent Mr. HEALD be
placed ? To mention his name at all, in connexion
with that of MACAULAY, would certainly excite in
every reader's mind a suspicion that we were bereft of
our senses ; nay, to place it beside those of Mr.
MACAULAY'S fellow-candidates, successful or unsuc-
cessful, were, to say the least, a sore impeachment
of our common sense. Whatever the distance between
the brilliant essayist and historian, and the League's
most splendid orator, far far greater is the distance
between a HEALD, of Stockport notoriety, and such
admirable citizen candidates as Mr. COWAN and Mr.
DUNCAN APLAREN. Indeed, two men of the bur-
gess-class could scarcely be selected more fit to re-
present its interests in the House of Commons than
the two gentlemen last named. We have certainly no
personal ground of quarrel with Mr. HEALD, and of
his private life we know nothing ; but we know that
his entrance into Parliament via Stockport was
attended with such Bacchanalian orgies and Satur-
nalia, that we have heard him designated as the " beer-
barrel Member," and heard also that a petition, if
presented, must have released him from the privilege of
voting against every liberal measure in the last Par-
liament. Of course all the excesses of that election,
like those which now disgust every decent inhabitant
of Oldham, " were entirely without the knowledge or
privity of the Hon. Member." We are quite con-
Heat, indeed, that a distinguished follower of Joule
WESLEY, the thorough-going teetotaller, a gentle-
man, who, though a layman, was actually invited to
the purely clerical Conference of the Methodists, and
congratulated too, on his election,—we are confident,
we repeat, that he knows nothing of all the " pot-
walloping" by which his agents gained him one elec-
tion, and are now trying to gain him another.
No, we sincerely believe that Mr. HEALD hates
drunkenness and all its brutal consequences
as much as we do; he is a worthy manufacturer
of the soberest class. Mr. HEALD is also
a Tory,---a Tory intellectually, being of just that
mental calibre which, with a certain amount of even
manufacturing wealth, is so frequently associated
with stand-where-we-are predilections,— Tory by
party, having, we believe, belonged for no inconsi-
derable time to the Church and King squadron,—
and a Tory ecclesiastically, being a specially favoured
supporter of the most thorough-gong ecclesiastical
despotism in the kingdom, Popery not excepted. With
the religious doctrines of tne Wesleyans we have
noteing whatever to do ; they harmonize, we believe,
in all essential points with those of the great body of
Protestants. Till of late years, moreover, the zeal,
honest zeal, for the more part, with which they la-
boured to reclaim the most neglected classes, won
for them the commendations of candid men of all
creeds; but it is only too notorious that, of late years,
that great body has been thoroughly rent on the
question whether Methodist Government should be a
pure Aristocracy of Clergymen, with powers of ex-
pulsion, of suppression of all discussion, of compulsory
self-crimination against a suspected brother,—such
as, we believe, are hardly known in Popery, certainly
not possessed by any other religious body in England
—the question whether Methodist Government
should be of this kind, or should admit laymen to
some share of power, and to some freedom of debate.
Now we think it a very ominous symptom of the
quality of a man's Toryism when he is the special
teveurite of such an ecclesiastical body as we have
described. The more liberal Irish Members, such
as denounced, the other day, the persecutions of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, these are not the favourites
of the more despotic portion of the Catholic Priest-
hood. Nor is Mr. HEALD the approved man of the
large number amongst the Wesleyans who are now
strenuously advocating a more liberal ecclesiastical
system. We must think, therefore, that such a pet
man of the closest clerical corporation in Protestant-
lain, perhaps in the world, is liable to be a
Tory of far less sympathy with British liber-
ties, than the many Tories of the hearty old
school. Toryism of this sort is a kind of ho-
nourable inheritance—an heirloom, so to speak.
Methodist Toryism, with which nearly all the mem-
bers of Conference, and its wealthier supporters, are
so thoroughly imbued, is a very different thing. It
is the Toryism of men born of the people, for some
time subject themselves to the iron sway of Conference,
and at last elevated to become the irresponsible rulers
of the laity from whom they sprung. Hence they
have arranged a system as complete as that of Austria
for suppressing all liberty of discussion, and all free-
dom of the Press, so far as their own body is con-
cerned. Hence they are not the mere inheritors of a
party name which they think it not honourable to
renounce, but the watchful guardians of an absolute
power which they have centred in their own hands.
They live in a kind of constant conspiracy against the
religious liberties of their own body, and are there.
fore just the class of Tories whom we least desire to
see entrusted with the civil and religious liberties of
their fellow-subjects. Mast consistently did Mr.
HEALD vote against every measure of Reform in the
last Parliament. We were chiefly surprised to see
him vote against the repeal of the Malt-tax. We
should have supposed cheaper beer would have been
an undeniable demand of his agents and constituents.
It is by such a Tory that Mr. Fox is opposed in the
manufacturing borough of Oldham. We must think
it almost a disgrace to the borough that an opposition
of such a kind was considered possible. The
merits of Mr. Fox are too well-known to hundreds of
thousands of auditors at public meetings, and to the
more fastidious ears of the British Senate, too well
known to every reader of Parliamentary debates, and
to every friend of cheap bread for the million, of cheap
education for the million, and of political rights for
the million, also, to need a line from us.
We trust the people of Oldham will do themselves
the honour which the electors of Edinburgh have
done, of repairing a most discreditable electoral mis-
hap, at the very first opportunity. Mr. Fox, they
may be assured, is a wan whom, like Mr. MACAULAY,
the opposite party, as well as his own, do not like to
miss from the House of Commons. His speeches are
amongst the few which are listened to and read. In
him, Oldham would have not only a vote, but a voice,
in the Councils of the nation. The electors of Edin-
burgh were obliged, in returning Mr. MACAULAY,
to reject some other candidate who might have done
them credit in the Legislature; the electors of Oldham
are certainly not perplexed by any such difficulty.

WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE.—The Commissioners
of her Majesty works and public buildings have given no-
tice of their intention of introducing into parliament a bill
for the purpose of enabling them to pull down the present
bridge and to erect a new one in its place. The principal
clause in the present bill sets at rest all the doubts which
have been raised as to its being the intention of the commis-
sioners t') erect the bridge lower down the river, for they ask
for powers to " enable them to construct
foot bridge
from or
near the stairs or landing place at the foot of the present
bridge, on the Middlesex shore of the river, to or near the
stairs or landing places of the said bridge, on the Surrey,
shore of the river, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth." The
commissioners also intend asking for powers to enable them to
materially alter the approaches to the present bridge.
THE DIAMOND STEAMPACKET COMPANY. Yes.
terday the annual general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held at the Town-hall, Gravesend, when, the
report having been read by the secretary', the chairman, Mr.
Fletcher, expressed his opinion that the policy of the pro-
prietors was to dissolve the company as soon as possible.
This opinion having met the general concurrence of the
proprietors, resolutions were forthwith passed for carrying
it into effect, and for calling together a general court of pro-
prietors to consider the best means of proceeding. Only one
dissentient hand was held up on the resolution for the disso-
lution being put.
INFANTICIDE.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford, coroner
for Westminster, held an inquiry at the St. George's Tavern,
Belgrave-road, into the circum,tances attending the death of
a newly-born male infant, the illegitimate offspring of Har-
riet Earwaker, a cook in the family of Captain Codrington,
No. 82, Eccleston-square, Pimlico. The child was of full
period, and had breathed ; but the medical man could not say
the exact cause of death. -Verdict—Manslaughter, the child
having died from neglect.
FRATRlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an
inquest at the Bank of England Tavern, Paddington, on the
death of Charles Baker, aged 13, which resulted from injuries
inflicted
Baker,ictedupagher
11
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ras de sa
Deceasede t knife
of a
his
verybrother,
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vesting and provoking temper, but the jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Wil-
liam Baker.
NAMES FOR A CHILD.—A Seville journal states that
the infant daughter of the Duchess de Montpensier has
received the following names:—Maria Christinia, Fran-
J.Fu-slitpas; Isabel, Adelaide, Teresa, erz
Carolina,B
oiseo do Paula, Antonia, Luisa, Fernando, Amelia,
, Josefa, Joaqutna,
wl srit,
4B
gi bui le
dn
as:
Rufina, Lutgarda, Elena,
Polonia, Grti9p3Ts, M 1 h
Lucie, and Narcisa.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.

[FROM A CORREFPONDENT.]

Winter has seldom been accompanied in its ap-
proach by so many considerations of absorbing inte-
rest as those which have now descended almost simul-
taneously upon the thoughts of Englishmen. In Lon-
don especially, the throng of events has latterly
become matter of anxiety as well as of observation.
Even the civic festivities, which annually take
place on the 9th of November, were compelled for
once to be neglected, and GOG and MAGOG were
compelled on Tuesday to watch the twilight stealing
over the bare pavements of the banquetting-room at
Guildhall, instead of over the boards laden with
turtle and pine-apple, in honour of the inauguration
of the Chief Magistrate. The Woods and Forests
seem almost ,to have betaken themselves en masse
for a while to St. Paul's Cathedral. The old Chelsea
pensioners are awakened from their customary
quietude, and the chief apartments of this hospital
are already fitted up for the lying in state of
the greatest soldier in England. The most
immediate object of importance, i❑ fact, to the people
of the metropolis at this juncture, ir, as might have
been expected, the preparations making for the pub-
lic obsequies of the late illustrious Duke of WELLING-
TON. Scarcely any one amongst us has leisure just
now for more than a passing thought of sympathy
for the misfortune which has befallen the United
States in the demise of the most eminent and gifted
of American citizens. For we remember that if
WEBSTER is missed in Washington, WELLINGTON iS
by us as bitterly missed in Westminster. It can
only be after we have evidenced our respect for the
memory of this distinguished personage, by the per-

person.

formance of solemn funereal ceremonies under the
dome of the metropolitan cathedral, that we shall find
ourselves enabled to appreciate the momentous cha-
racter of the events which are at the present crisis im-
pending both internal and externally, in one direction
for the weal or woe of the United Kingdom, in another
for the welfare or misery of Christendom.
Scarcely will the minister of religion have thrown
dust, as an emblem of mortality, upon the coffin of
the victor of WATERLOO, when the descendant of the
defeated of Waterloo will have been solemnly raised
upon the national buckler of France, by the name,
and in the pomp of the Third
with the glory,
EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Contrasting the two inci-
dents, as they
may reasonably be contrasted, from
the circumstance
memorablecumstanc month of November, eof theiroccurrinogmbr
withine, w
the elimits
of this cannot
that grand
apophthegm, illustrate
but be at once impressed with the full weight of their
significance.
lustrate
thatanew
, Mant,he truthfulness
of proposes,
but God disposes." They serve to remind us how
entirely the deeds of Time are the fruits of Pro-
vidence. They indicate, with touching solemnity,
the import of that saying of the Hebrew Prophet,
that as clay is in the hands of the potter, so is the
creature in those of the Divinity. Under these
considerations, it is impossible to regard without
emotion, the inscription upon the tomb of the old
DUKE, and the reply delivered by the new Emperor
to the Senatus Consultura only a few days before the
interment of WELLINGTON. That reply was, as may
have been observed, pronounced in the same palace,
in the same apartment as that in which a similar
document was presented in 1804 to the Great Consul
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Remembering the coinci-
dence of those occasions so widely separated by time
from each other, the descendant of NAPOLEON spoke
thus to the assembled Senators—" When forty-eight
years since, in this same palace, in this same room,
and under analogous circumstances, the Senate came
to offer the crown to the chief of my family, the Em-
peror replied by these memorable words—' My spirit
will no longer be with my posterity from the day
when it shall cease to merit the love and the confi-
dence of this great nation'—what now most affects
my heart is the thought that the spirit of the
Empercr is with me—that his ideas guide me—that
his shade protects me, since by a solemn proceeding
you come in the name of the Preach people to prove
to me that I have merited the confidence of the
country. And little more than a week afterwards
the barial service wai being solemnly chaunted over
the remains of ARTLEUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
At present it is scarcely possible fully to appreciate
the extraordinary singularity of such occurrences as
these being almost simultaneous. Reflection is re-
quired, indeed, for their full and deliberate appre-
, heasion.

A TOMB FOR HOOD.

(From Punch,)
GIYS HOOD a tombstone ;—'tis not much to give
To one who atired so oft our smiles and tears;
But why a tomb to him whose lines will live,
His noblest monument, to after years?

To which I answer, that in times to come—
Times of more equEl lots and gentler laws—
The workers may not seek, in vain, his tomb

Who pleaded, once, so movingly their cause.
If marble mark the collier's, stateman's grave,
It monuments adorn tiis place of sleep
Whose hand struck off the fetters from the slave,
t Ott woe in dungeon's deep,
DiAdn:e his
no wtfihgo sohtfourgTh oil's sad sons and daughters ?
Was not his voice loud For the worker's right?
Was he not potent to arrel, the slaughters
Of Capital and Labour's lesperate fight?
Oh ! mothers, think of his belodious pity
Over the victim of the Bridge of Sighs—
Oh I Almoners of the o'er-cr)wded city,
Think of the shirt-maker'sheart-piercing cries !

You, too, whose lighter heartsturned from such themes,
Who sought his page for stniles and not for tears,
Think of his wit, how pure an( bright its gleams,
Mocking the sadness of his liter years :
Andlv
'lace of rest—
Whose fiercest scorn ne'er sought a mark unjust,
Whose sharpest wit-shaft ne'e. pained living breast?
istahyol if Hoop should moulter into dust
Without a stone to mark his

T TO THE
MONCITEN LATE THOMAS
HOOD.

(Pram the Sheffield Intependent)
We are subscription has been
glad to learn that a
commenced for erecting
a monument in Kensal-green
Cemetery, to the memory of Thomas Hood. Amongst
the subscribers are—the Duke of Devonshire, Lord
of Carlisle Earls e and E
Brougham.lesmere, Sir James
Duke, M.P., Mr' Macaulay, m.p., Mr. Disraeli, Dr.
Charles XPIC.a39 Douglas Jerrold, Westland Marston,
Eliza Cook, Miss Mitford, and others. It is, we believe,
chiefly owing to the powerful and touching appeals to
the public made by Eliza Cook—a poetess whom Hood
himself would have been proud to can
a sister—that this
movement has proved so far successful. Miss Cook acts
as treasurer to the fund, but we shall be happy to receive
subscriptions and forward them to that ltdy. The quiet
and unostentatious manner in which 260/ have been
already subscribed, is a great honour to ttle fair projector
and her co-operators. Hood was a , eat poet and a
good man, and the lady who is eff ectu'Lg, this record to
his worth is doing a womanly
and "'le act. Among
the local subscribers are—Mr. Aid. , button, Mr. Aid.
Matthews, Jos. and W. T
_ urton: ~..3qrs.
I Arline Ward,
Esq., C. H. and W. raring, &qrs., of n
',worth Hall,
Rotherham. -

and were present from Flo-
w° tt the great
ntaunderstand
late 4 of
THE MISSION' TO TUSCANY --LOTcl Cavan and
Captain Trotter reached London, on their return
rtaining
rence, on Tuesday evening,
nably be
meeting at Freemason's Hall yesterday.
that they bring with them a series of documents,
fifteen in
who, in
number, which will be laid before the Committee
t 4 the Pro-
testant Alliance this afternoon. It is said that
, of
this series of papers will show the grounds for en
far more favourable anticipations, than could reas
drawn from the documents which have been as
:et made
public.—Moraing Advertiser.
the electors rbsyouthtebedeLmibise
REPRESENTATION or ABINGDON.—Mr,
Thomas Norris, of Sutton Courtney, near Abingdon John
borough,consequence of the vacancy in the representationinGteenreesrta,lbCaasurlfeesiilgdu,
ehdasuleer the
favour
demise
elf
Lord Norreye, the late member for the county of
His lordship attended a meeting of the constituency ja' 4Ord.
day, and explained his opinion on the important questions
likely to engage the attention of Parliament. His lordshilr°ll
resolved, in the event of his being elected, to vote fo; is
of the suffrage. At present there is no an
candidate. other
NEW BURIAL GROUND FOR MARYLEDONE,-I'l Bterday forenoon, pursuant to requisition from the ratepaye.:
a special vestry of the parish of St. Marylebone w'
held in the Court.houee, Marylebone-lane, for the pur-
pose of determining whether a burial ground should be pro.
vided for the parish under the provisions of the 15 & 1€
Vic. cap. 82, intituled " An Act to amend the Laws concern-
ing the Burial of the Dead in the Metropolis." Mr. Church-
warden Stephens occupied the chair, and the attendance was
very large- Mr. C. George moved a resolution in favour of
adopting the new act, and Dr. Russell seconded the motion.
Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting, the resolu-
tion was adopted.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A POLICEMAN AT
KILBPEN. Yesterday morning, between three and four
o'clock, as Police-constable Alfred Critle, 239 S, was going
his rounds in Kilburn-lane, he met with two well-known
characters, whom he accosted, when words arose. One of his
antagonists drew a knife, and the unfortunate mane was
stabbed in the aide of the head ; he, however,_ succed in
raising. an alarm, when 14)1320 of Ilia brother oPlacor4 came to
hieasoitarice,

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
The Queen met the New Parliament to-day in

In chronicling this event, the mind is naturally led
to a comparison of the present with the past, and the
contrast which is presented is certainly somewhat
singular. When the last Parliament met in 1847,
there was a decided majority in favour of Free Trade,
and a Ministry pledged to that policy. In the New
Parliament of 1852, the strength of numbers is on
the same side ; but there is this difference, that
though the success of Free Trade is demonstrated by
the general prosperity of the country, the Govern-
ment is in possession of Protectionists. This anomalous
state of things is explained by the fact of theirs being the
only party capable of taking office, when suddenly va-
cated by the Whigs. As, however, the actual state of the
representation, if not common sense, shows that any
return to the old system is impossible. The existing
Ministry are, no doubt, waiting for an opportunity
to gently lay aside the " cry " which has hitherto
banded them together, with the view of becoming
simply known as a Conservative party. Be that as it
may, the political atmosphere forbodes a storm, and
it is difficult to say what is not looming in the future.
The constitution of the House of Lords is such, that
on the assembling of a new Parliament, scarcely any
change is to be observed among its members ; but since
the last Royal Speech was delivered—that messenger
who respects neither person nor station, has taken
away one from that august body whose absence will
be severely felt by all who have, during any part of
the last quarter of a century, taken part in its de-
liberations. If, as Macaulay says, the new House
of Commons will not look itself without Sir Robert
Peel, what will the House of Peers be without the
Duke of Wellington ? That distinguished person is
no longer there to receive the veneration and esteem
of his brother peers, nor to excite the admiration or
curiosity of strangers. His sage advice and intuitive
foresight cannot again be called in aid in periods
of political difficulty or internal disorder, or when
foreign hostilities threaten the land. The spirit of
that venerable figure on which time had done its
work has now passed away to another scene, but
his memory can never be effaced from the memory
of Englishmen. Independent of the irreparable loss
sustained by the death of the great Duke, his dis-
appearance from the House of Lords will have an im-
portant political influence. It is well known that a
considerable number of Peers, who had more re-
liance on the opinion of the Duke than their own
judgment, intrusted him with their proxies, which
placed him in a position to carry or defeat some
questions of considerable importance. These, of
course, will be scattered about, and perhaps may
influence questions in a different direction than when
in the hands of the Duke. In the House of Com-
mons there are many new faces, most of whom
are comparatively unknown, and inexperienced
in statesmanship. Some of these may have within
them the germs of success, but the majority will,
perhaps, either sink into respectable representatives,
or prove lamentable failures.
Her Msjesty left Buckingham Palace shortly after
two o'clock, and was received on her way to West-
minster with much warmth and enthusiasm by the
spectators congregated on the route. On reaching
the grand entrance of the Houses of Parliament at
the Victoria Tower, she was received by the different
Officers of State, who conducted her to the House of
Lords.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, took his seat on the wool-
sack shortly after one o'clock. Several Peers took
the oaths. Shortly after two -o'clock her Majesty
entered the House preceded by the officers of the
Household and the great officers of State in the
usual order.

Her Majesty having taken her seat on the Throne,
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, left the House to summon the Commons.
After a short interval the Commons were heard
advancing along the great corridor which separates
the two Houses, end appeared in great numbers
preceded by the Speaker. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Mr. Secretary Walpole, and several others
of the Cabinet, were among the foremost.
Her MAJESTY then read the Royal Speech as fol-
lows '—

"Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
"I cannot meet you for the first time after the
dissolution of Parliament, without expressing my
deep sorrow, in which I am sure you will parti-
cipate, that your deliberations can no longer be
aided by the counsels of that illustrious man whose
great achievements have exalted the name of Eng.
land, and in whose loyalty and patriotism the in-
terests of my Throne and of my people ever found
an unfailing support. I rely with confidence on
your desire to join with me in taking such steps as
may mark your sense of the irreparable loss which
the country has sustained by the death of Arthur,
Duke of Wellington.
" I am happy to acknowledge the readiness with
which my subjects in general have come forward, in
pursuance of the Act of last session, to join the ranks
of the Militia ; and I confidently trust that the force
thus raised by voluntary enlistment, will be calcu-
lated to give effective aid to my regular army for the
protection and security of the country.
" I continue to receive from all Foreign Powers
assurances of their anxious desire to maintain the
friendly relations now happily subsisting with my
Government.

"Frequent and well-founded complaints on the
part of my North American Colonies, of infractions
by citizens of the United States, of the Fishery Con-
vention of 1818, induced me to dispatch for the pro-
tection of their interests a class of vessels better adapted
to the service than those which had been previously
employed. This step has led to discussions with the
Government of the United States ; and while the
rights of my subjects have been firmly maintained,
the friendly spirit in which the question has been
treated induces me to hope that the ultimate result
may be a mutually beneficial extension and improve•
ment of our commercial intercourse with that great
Republic.
" The Special Commission which, in concert with
the Prince President of the French Republic, I
deemed it right to send to the Argentine Confedera-
tion, has been received with the utmost cordiality,
and the wise and enlightened policy of the Provisional
Director has already opened to the commerce of the
world the great rivers hitherto closed, which afford
an access to the interior of the vast Continent of
South America.

" I have the satisfaction of announcing to you that
the sincere and zealous efforts of the Government of
Brazil for the suppression of the Slave Trade, now
nearly extinguished on that coast, have enabled me
to suspend the stringent measures which I had been
compelled reluctantly to adopt, a recurrence to which
I anxiously hope may be proved to be unnecessary.
" The Government of Her Most Faithful Majesty
have fully recognized the justice of the claim which
my Government have long urged for the abolition of
the discriminating duties on the export of Wine, and
have passed a decree for giving complete effect to
the stipulations of the Treaty on this subject.
" You will probably deem it advisable to resume
the inquiries which were commenced by the late Par-
liament, with a view to legislation on the subject of
the future government of my East Indian Posses.

sions.

44 GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

"The estimates for the ensuing year will in due
time be laid betore you.

"The advancement of the Fine Arts and of
Practical Science will be readily recognized by
you as worthy of the attention of a great
and enlightened nation. I have directed that a
comprehensive scheme shall be laid before you,
having in view the promotion of these objects, to-
wards which I invite your aid and co-operation.
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
44 it gives me pleasure to be enabled by the bless-
ing of Providence to congratulate you on the gene-
rally improved condition of the country, and
especially of the Industrious Classes. If you should
be of opinion that recent legislation in contributing
with other causes, to this happy result, has at the
same time inflicted unavoidable injury on certain

portant interests, I recommend you dispassionately
to consider how far it may ba practicable equitably to
mitigate that injury, and to enable the industry of
the country to meet successfully that unrestricted
competition to which Parliament, in its wisdom, has
decided that it should b 3 subjected.
" I trust that the general improvement, notwith-
standing manytobAscles, has extended to Ireland ; and
while I rely with confidence on your aid, should it be
required, to restrain that unhappy spirit of insubordi-
nation and turbulence which produces many, and ag-
gravates all of the evils which afflict that portion of
my dominions, I recommend to you the adoption of
such a liberal and generous policy towards Ireland, as
may encourage and assist her to rally from the de-
pression in which she has been sunk by the sufferings
of late years.

" Anxious to promote the efficiency of every branch
of our National Church, I have thought fit to issue a
Commission to inquire and report to me how far, in
their opinion, the Capitular Institutions of the coun-
try are capable of being made more effective for the
great objects of religious worship, religious educa-
cation, and ecclesiastical discipline.
"I have directed that the report of the Commis-
sioners for inquiring into the system of education
pursued at Oxford and Cambridge, should be com-
municated to the governing bodies of those Univer-
sities for their consideration, and I rely upon your
readiness to remove any legal difficulties which may
impede the desire of the Universities at large, or of
the several Colleges, to introduce such amendments
into their existing system as they may deem to be
more in accordance with the requirements of the pre-
sent time.

" The system of Secondary Punishments has use-
fully
occupied the labours of successive Parliaments,
and I shall rejoice if you shall find it possible to de-
vise means by which, without giving encouragement
to crime, transportation to Van Diemen's Land may
at no distant period be altogether discontinued.
" The subject of Legal Reform continues to engage
my anxious attention. The Acts passed in the last
session of Parliament have been followed up by the
orders necessary for putting them in operation ; in-
quiries are in progress, by my direction, with a view
of bringing into harmony the testamentary jurisdic-
tion of my several Courts ; and bills will be submitted
to you for effecting further improvements in the ad-
ministration of the law.

" To these, and other measures affecting the social
condition of the country, lam persuaded that you
will give your earnest and zealous attention ; and I
pray that by the blessing of Almighty God, your de-
liberations may be guided to the well-being and
happiness of my people."
After the Speech, her Majesty left the House and
returned to Buckingham Palace, in the same order in
which she arrived.

Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Speaker took the chair at one o'clock.
A large number of Members took the oaths and
their seats.

Shortly after two, Sir Augustus Clifford, the Gen-
tleman Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the Bar,
and;advancing to the table, commanded the immediate
attendance of the Commons to the other House, to
hear her Majesty's Speech read.
The Speaker then left the House, followed by a
large number of Members.

Oa their return, the House immediately adjourned
until a quarter to four.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

•
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady. The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 American for export, and 3,000 on
speculation. American kinds have declined Bd. since
Friday, and Surat and Brazil are rather lower.
Egyptian sorts are 7d. to 70., and in good request.
Railway Shares were heavy, but prices much the
same.

The six-weeks' average price of Wheat is 38s. 9d.
per quarter, and the last week's sales were
104,810 qrs.
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1852. 1851.
Great Western £17,386 £15,911
North-Western
South-Western 9,666 9,267
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford 5,299 4,910
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick

The funds are heavy again this morning, and, as
usual, upon the day of the opening of Parliament
there is not much doing. Consols bring 1004 for
transfer, and 1001 I for the December account. The
New 34 per Cents. are 103 to t, and the 3 per. Cents.
991 /.
Mexican are 25k to Peruvian, 103 to 105.
Portuguese, 371 to 381. Spanish Deferred, 25k to /.
Swedish Loan, 1 to 1i discount. Turkish, 2 to 21
premium. Grenada Deferred, 101 to 11 ; and Dutch,
21 per Cents. 65 to 1.
The share market is quieter. Caledonian, 28. a to
11. Eastern Counties, 12k to I. Great Northern,
20/ to Great Western, 94 to 951. South-
Western, 92j to 931. North-Western, 1241 to
French shares are declining.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock .... 223 th
3 per Cant. Reduced Annuities .. 99i. I i
3 per Cent Console Arms. ... 100} i i
New 314 per Cent. Arms.
• nag Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860. 6 7-16
India Stock —
Do. Bonds, 1000/ B3
►)itto under 1,0004 ..„ . ...
Consols for Account lOO% IA
E cchequer Bills I%d. March June.
1,00.01......
75

500/.
Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Danish 5 per Cent. .. .. ... .. 10 514
Grenada, 1% per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Portuguese 5 per Cents. -
Ditto Converted 5 per Cent. ...„. .....
Ditto 4 pPr Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.— llBl4
Ditto 41/2 per Cent. .. ... 1041/2
Sardinian Bonds, .5 per Cent. . ..... .. 98 yk
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent._
Swedish Loan „ IIA., 019.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852..
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..„ lOO%
Dutch Excha., 2 per Cent., 12 Gull 6s*
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...., 97 1A

THREE O'CLOCK.
... ... 100% IA
... ... 100% %

Consols .., ..
Ditto Account. Dec. 9

AMERIC A.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
By the United States mail steam ship Baltic, Com-
stock commander, we have advices from New York
to the 30th ult. She has 50,000 dollars in specie on
freight.
The remains of Mr. Daniel Waster were con-
veyed to their last resting place, at Marshfield, on
Friday, the 29th ult., in the pres,:nce of a vast as-
semblage, who appeared to take a deep and melan-
choly interest in the ceremonies. The funeral was
attended by at least 10,000 persons.
A telegraphic dispatch from Quebec, on the 29th
October, stated that the member of Parliament for
Stanstead had died of cholera; aIF.K. the messenger of
the House. Several other deaths from cholera bad
occurred on the night of the 28th. The House was
in a panic, and would probably adj turn at once. o
the 28th Mr. Young moved a free- I rade resolutionn
i
opposition to differential duties. r.fhe questionwas
debated, but without result.
A telegraphic communication fro
York reports that a flood bad oce erred43lHalifax on t the Nsouthew
side of Porto Rico, and that 200 liA!eswerelost.
There was no new feature in the New York
Stock-
market. All the leading securities were
favourfirm,ere of
and in
demand. The Money-market w
the
borrower, and the supply larger,a_s'brioetghhitns
to
sndanond
in the hands of private pities. E
firm.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. J. USTICE CROMPTON. —The
bar of the Northern Circuit, pr ac •tising at the Court of Passage,
have presented a handsome sin 'er vase to Mr. Justice Cromp-
ton, who before his elevation t the bench, while judge of the
above court, performed his d uties with great ability, and
gave much satisfaction to bot h parties.
Oeintotb the
INCREASED SUPPLY OF CIE lIIM.--FrOM an official pa.
th
per i!vapt
oappearstati nt hoaft
opiumin the mw t2h3 ended,B63l bt; h
wherease
10th
like period of the previous, year it was 14,3401 b. The
quantity entered for home octusuraption in the last month
was 7,0721 b., against 2,997 Rh, iu the ow pericd of 1851,

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 10.

The following had the honour of dieing with her
Majesty yesterday : —Her Royal Higlineis the Duchess
of Kent, his Royal Highness the Due de Brabant, hi
Royal Highness the Comte de Flandres, their Serene
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe
Langenburg, their Serene Highnesses the Princess
Adelaide and Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe, the Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey,
Sir J,mes Clark, Colonel de Moerkerke, the Count de
Briey, Sir Robert Carswell, and Mr. Glover.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun-
tess of Desert, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon.
Flora Macdonald, the Earl of Verulum, Sir Edward
Bowater, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, Major-General
Buckley, and Lieut.-Col. Hon. Alexander Gordon, left
Windsor Castle at five minutes before two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, and travelled to London by a special train
of the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, and the royal suite, proceeded frum the Padding-
ton Terminus in three of the royal carriages, escorted
by a party of the 13th Light Dragoons, to Buckingham
Palace, where they arrived at fourteen minutes before
three o'clock. The Queen and Prince were received at
the Palace by the Duke of Montrone, the Marquis of
Abercorn, Viscount Newport, Viscount Mandeville,
Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, and the Master of
the Household.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday.
Monsieur Musurus had an audience to present Nubar
Hey, who had been sent over by the Pacha of Egypt
with a present of some horses fur her Majesty. The
horses were presented to the Queen in the garden of the
palace.
Colonel Schiafino, accompanied by Colonel Facia,
Mexicaneharge d'Affaires,had an audiance of the Queen.
The Colonel has brought some ponies as a present to
her Majesty from the President of Mexico. The ponies
were presented to the Queen in the garden of the
palace.
The Turkish Minister, Nubar Bey, and Colonel
Schiafino were presented to her Majesty by the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majestys
Master of the Ceremonies.

The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen.
The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience of her
Majesty on his arrival ill:England. His Lordship was
presented to the Queen by the Earl of Malmesbury.
The Lord President had an audience of the Queen
Her Majesty held a Privy Council at four o'clock. It
was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of
the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Homes
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the First Lord of thei Admiralty, the
President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of
India, the President of the Board of Trade, the Post
master-General, the Chief Commissioner of Public
Works and Buildings, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Grote
of the Stole to the Prince.
Her Majesty haying been pleased to appoint the
Most Hon. John Marquis of Winchester to be Lord'
Lieutenant of the county of Hampshire, the noble Mar-
quis took the customary oaths.
The Queen having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon.Willtam Lord Bateman to be Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Hereford, his Lordship took the customer/
oaths.

The Queen's Speech on opening the session of Par
liament was arranged and agreed upon.
The Hon. William Bathurst was clerk of the Privf
Council in waiting.
The Duke of Northumberland had an audience of the
Queen.
Her Majesty was attended by the Marquis of Lou'
donderry (cold stick in waiting), the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of
the Household, the Earl of Verulum (lord in waiting)'
end Sir Edward Bowater (groom in waiting).
The Lord Mayor, Mr. John Wood, and the City Re-
membrancer, had an interview with Mr. Secretary 'Wel'
pole yesterday, at the Home-office. The same gentle•
man had also an interview yesterday with Lord Joh°
Manners, at the office of Public Works and Buildings i°
Whitehall-place.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester•
day, from the Governor of Adelaide, Australia.
His Grace the Duke of Leeds has arrived at the
Clarendon, Bond-street, from Hornby Castle, Catteriek.
Her Grace the Duchess has left the Clarendon Hotel for
Brighton.
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