The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

SUN, FEBRUARY 28, 1852.

4d...---2,6691. Ss. Bd.-London expenses, three months,
secretary, office, printing, stationary, &c., 33/. ss. 61. ;
labour cost, Nov., 5261 9s. 3d. ; ditto December, 528/.
; income tax, 28/. ; dividend, 589/. 75,, leaving
balance to next account. 964/. 6s. 7d. The estimated
balance of receipts over outlay up to the period of the
dividend of 2s. 6d. per share was declared..
At Wheal Owles quarterly meeting on the 20th inst.
the accounts showed-Balance last account, 2,1151. 13s.
next meeting, 27th April next, is 1,617/. 12s. Sd. A
sd. ; labour cost, three months ending Dec., 1,776/. 3s.
lid. ; advance to tributers and otbers, 271/. Bs. 83.
carriage and stamps' rent, 112/. 16s. 31. ; lords' and
bound dues, 481. ss. ; merchants' bills, 7321. 193.
5,057/. 6s. 9d.-Tin sold. 2,7041. 75. ; leavings, 1391. 63.
3d. ; received from tributers and othrs, 295/. 4s. 4d. :
leaving balance to next account of 1,918/ 9s. 2d. ; and
showing profit on the quarter of 1971, 41. 3d.
At the West Polguoth Mine
general meeting held
yesterday the accounts showed-Balance last account,
-710/. 193.; interest, 71. 16s, 8d.=.718/. 15s. Bcl.-Labour
cost, merchants' bills, &c., 3751. 13s. : leaving a
bslapce in favour of adventurers of 343/. 2s. sd.
Y meeting, on the 18th
insAt.,t trhreoavcidcoenucnetslisihnoews eqdtia-rlirllance from last account,
80/. 2s. 6c1.; copper ore (less dues), 151. 4s. 91; tin ore,
1,514/. 18s. 2d.; sundries, 1121. 6s. 9(1,1,T0 labour cost, November to end January,
4d.; merchants' bills, 401/. Is. Id.; carriage, 371. 18s. Id.:
leavesbalance to next account, 961. 18s. ad.
Att772l/.. 23614
123.
12 ds.
ts showed-Tin sold, 334/ 3s. 5d.; calls
ece
arrears, 25/. lls. 2d.=
1,3211. 14s. 7d.-Mine cost from August to end Novem-
ber, 1,201/. Ils. 4d.: liSa‘illg profit, 1201. ss, 3d., which,
rvtethildee, 9 Sidney6c2o/.u;n materials and Godolphin Mine meeting, on the 17th
"
inst.,

, s UMUULi U 6•
18s. ld., leaves balance 600/. 14 d.
; sundries, 3/. Bs.;
from lost
olanatThatzdnanyt:
the accounts
1,762/ 13s. 4d.; interest on loan, 13/. 18s. 1,776/. 11 s.
4d.-Labour cost, Dec., 551 19s. 4d.; ditto Jan., 571. Is.
atchceouDnetsvonshCoownesdot NBo,riitahticanae
inspection (Captain Seccombe), 2/.25.
; leaving a balance
at banker's of 1,645/ Bs. 2d.
10d.; secretary and office, 12/. 12s.
At Wheal Russell meeting, on Monday, the accounts
showed-Balance from last account, 234/. ss. 9d.;
call in Nov. on 3,808 shares, 4761; copper ore sold,
2981. 2s. Id.; carriage, 16/. 13s. 2d. = 1,0251. ls. To
three months' labour cost to end of December 465/ 110.
9d.; merchants' bills, 3141. 19s. id.; January cost, 144/.
16e. 4d.; dues, 19/. Bs. 4d.: leaving ha]
----ance to next ac-
count, 80/. ss. 6d. A call of 2s. 6d. per share was made.
At the Wheal Crebor meeting yesterday, the accounts
showed-calls received, 4,895/4 ore sold, 326/. 13s. 5d.;
discount, 18/. Os. 10d.; loan, 1501; carriage, 17/. 3s. 6d;
sundry receipts, 16/. 118. 3d.=5,423/. 9s. By machi-
nery, 4741.; labour cost and materials, 3,9734 16s. lid.;
purchase of sett and materials, 431/. 16s. 6d.; law and
preliminary expenses, office, books, stationary, travelling
and sundry expenses, 450/. 15s. 5d.; leaving balance in
favour of adventurers, 931. Os, 2d. A call of 1/. per share
was made.
At the Kenmare and West of Ireland Mining Com-
pany's meeting on Monday, it was resolved to hold the
4,390 Undistributed shares in abeyance, and not to effect
the purchase of the royalty on the day named, but to
endeavour to got the time for option extended. The
directors declined at present receiving remuneration for
their services, preferring to wait until the concern has
been further developed.
At Treburget United Mines meeting, the reports and
accounts to the end of January were received and
adopted, and a call of ss. per share was made.
At Okel Tor meeting, on the 19th inst., the share-
holders present represented 1,543 shares. The accounts
showed-Cost from September to the end of December,
7351. 7s. 7d.; amount of call received, 7241. 17e. 6d.; and
advanced by the purser, 10/. 10s. ld. =-- 735/. 78. 7d.-
The liabilities are 188/. Os. 6d.; due to purser, 101. 10s.
Id. 1951. 10s. 7d.-Assets of calls in arrear, 1031. 7s.
leaving balance against the company of 951. 3s. Id.
A call of Is. 6d. per share was made.
At the East Gunnis Lake Junction meeting, on
Tuesday, the accounts showed-Silence last accout,
611. 19s. 2d.; ore sold, 1321. Os. Bd.; call, 4131. 155.-_-=
607/. 14e. 10d. Labour cost, Nov., 1634 145.; ditto, Dec.,
173/. Bs. 5d.; London expenses, secretary, office, print-
ing, and stationery, for three months, 17/. 9s. 3d.:
leaving a balance to the next account of 2531. 3s. 2d.
The balance estimated of payments over receipts to the
period of next meeting (27th April) is 88/. le. 3d. A
call of 2s. 6d. per share was made.
At South Wheal Russell meeting, on the 23d inst.,
the accounts showed-Calls received on 3,808 shares,
4761. Cost from Sep. to end Jan., 1852, 2381. 105. 9d.:
leaving balance to next account, 2371. 9s. 3d.
At the Treveylan meeting, yesterday, the accounts
showed a cash balance in hand of 555/. 9s. 5d., and a
statement of assets over liabilities of 61. Bs. ld.
At Tywarnbayle and Nancekuke meeting, at the mine,
on Tuesday, the accounts for November and December
showed-Balance last account, 861/. se. 9d.; costs and
merchants' bills. 3,947/. I Is. 6d..---_-4,806/. 17s. 3d.-By
ores sold (less duos), 4,1604 11s. 5d.: leaving balance
against mine, 646/. ss. 10d.

-At the Wheal Benny meeting, o❑ Saturday, the ac-
counts showed that all the debts incurred by the com-
pany were—Labour cost, November, 221. 10s. 7d.;
December, 321. 4s. 10d.; January, 30/. 12s. 2.d.;
inspec-
tion (Captain Paull), 21. 25.-==s7i. 93.
7d. A call of 2s.
6d. a share was made.

At East Tolgus Mine meeting, on Wednesday, the
accounts showed—Balance from last account, 31/. lls.
Bd.; cost fur six months, 4531. 3s, 10d.:-------184/. 1.55. a--
Call iu August, 2561.; leaving to next account, 2281.
1.55. 6d. A call of 21. per share was made.
During the week shares have changed hands in Devon
Great Consols, Alfred Consols, %Vest Providence, %Vest
Caredon, St. Aubyn and Grylls, Bedford United, Mer-
llyn, Tremayue, South Tamar, Wheal Golden, st. Agnes
Beacon, Great Bryn, Langford, Condurrow, East Bas-
set, Tamar Consols, Trebarvab, Trumpet Consols,
Wheal Buller, Chiverton, Speedwell, East Tolgus, East
Leisure, Garreg, Great Polgooth, Trevelyan, Sydney,
Wheal Buys, Crebor, Williams, East Boringdon, East
Trescoll, Bryntail, North Trelawny, East It ashleigh,
Golt-y-Men, Union Tin, 'West Wheal Rose, Wheal
Fortune, West Camborne, Leeds Town Consols, Wheal
Ittry St. Just, New East Crowndale, the Wood Mine,
Wheal Basset, Robins, Bell and Lanarth, Carvsnnall,
South Frances,, Brewer, Reath, 43 ,-,ry
n.Arian, Carbons,
Cefn Gwyn,. Esst I rongoch, Polgear, West Goginan,
Tincroft, Mining Company of Ireland, and Wicklow
Copper.
In Foreign Mines there have been transactions in
United Mexicln, Copiapo, and St. John del Rey.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 27.
WHITEHALL, if
Seal,
to direct letters patent
The Queen has been pleased ED. 25,
to be passed under the Great
of a Knight of the United Kin
and Ireland unto Charles Nicholson,g°ln
d granting the dignity
of Great Britain
Medicine, and Speaker of the ~ E.,quire, Doctor of
Al,exvainder McGrigor, from
New South \Vales.
half
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y purchase,
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards--Lieutenant 'Eh- 27.
‘wVhilolisrettoires
Irds—Lieutenant John
nex b. '27.
„ Y purchase, vice Archer-
-3:l3:baoatnral de:Sr B,ewimdhepYol erYe2'ito:rupensg.;,
George bi,3,..eieutenant, by pur-
chase,
without purchase, VicerY Cochrane to be
cChoat
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Foot—EnsigneGl tehorrgpee,
Dec. 13, 1851; Ensign John Robertßarker, deceased,
Pout, to bo Eu3igu, vico Cochrane,
Day,j,(3l from the 80th
BANKRUPTS, . 27.
George Hart and Thomas Hart, hatters,
Southwark, to surrender March 6, at t Union-street,
16, at half-past one, at the Court of Brivo, and April
more, official assignee, Basinghall.stre:kruntcy. Whit-
ford, and Marsden, Friday-street, ch;e Reed, Lang-
Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. apside; Sale,
James Norris, grocer, Watford, Herta,
half-past one, and April 16, ar one, at the March 6, at
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Courtßasin of Bank-
Law ranee, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chghall-street;
Jewry. ambers, Old
William Baynes, flax spinner, Leeds, March
April 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court,
12 and
official assignee, Leeds; Holden and Son,
„22rt. Young
son, Dibb, and Atkinson, Leeds. gull; Atkin-,
George Gillett, grocer, Castleford, Yorkshire
15 and April 5, at twelve, at the Leeds District
March
Hope, official assignee; ond and Barwick, 'trict Court.
James Ogle Holmes and Young sou
heeds,
timber merchants, Sunderland, March 12, at, t Marshall,
April 6, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-1,3:11°e, and
Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-n e District
Young, Harrison, and Young, SunderlandP.cina-ATY,";
Maples, and Searle, Frederick's-place, Old Jew,,,,7alates,
Julien Thomas Denis, wine merchant, ee.;
square, March 9, at half-past twelve, and A 'oester.
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. JohnBoPnril 8, at
assignee, Basinghtill-street; Goddard and I:yr °, Wood-
street, ' °,„ filood-
eial
street, Cheapside.
John Ralph Throadgold, grocer, Southampton, March
5, at twelve, and April 8, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
buildings; Clark, Bishopsgate-churchyard, street-
Arthur Hills, vitriol manufacturer, Isle of Dog,s
March 8 and April 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Freeman and .r.,
In-
thamley, Coleman-street, City.
John Simmonds, builder, Blandford Forum,
Dorset,
March 10, at one, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court
of Thankruptcy. Stausfeld, official assignee; Vermin "
and Co., Tokenhouse-yard; Chitty, Shaftesbury. g
George Senior, apothecary, Fordingbridge, Ram
shire, March 8 and April 20, at half-past twelve, at -
the-
Court of Bankrurey. Graham, official assignee. Til-
son and Co.,, Coleman-street; Hoddings and ci,.:
Salis-
bury,
John Wilkins, builder, BrightouVarch 6, at half_nast
one, and April 10, at half-past twelve, at the Court
~..
Bankruptcy Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghaii!
atr
eet; sowton, Great James-street; Kennett, Brighton.
Sarah • Wilson,hotel keeper, Nottingham, g--•
and April , arch 5
2, at ten, at the Nottingham .
trict Court. B. half-past official' Dia-
ittleatou, assignee, Nottingham;
PA1301201 Nottingham,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TIIE nroaxixo PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
TIMES.—The scene in the House of Lords ISst night
will occupy a foremost place in the memory of many
a future statesman; for there, in one spot, in one brief
hour, and mainly by the act of one man, occurred, net
merely the transmission of power from one party to an;
ther, but the beginning of a new cast of parties, and a
new phase of politics. It was no mere passage of arms,
no spontaneous conflict of temper or ambition, but a
crisis in which stern necessity had marshalled the ante- 1
gonists and dictated the cause. A statesman of great
dignity and merit, whom a long storm of passions and
opinions has drifted to the head of a powerful faction,
was there to make the best terms that he could for it.
when forced into the responsible service of his country,
As the representative of old opinions, surrounded by
many painful recollections, watched alike by friends and
by toes, and standing, as he did, on the edge of a preci-
pice, in the face of overwhelming difficulties, it is not
to be wondered at that the principal actor in this
scene scarcely filled the part which events had
marked out for him. A man who chooses, or
who makes his own opportunity, may easily
do it even more than justice. Lord Derby has often
done wonders when be need not have done anything.
But last night he had no choice, for he appeared to a
challenge. He had to compromise as well as he could
' between a visionary past and a practical future. He had
to confess frankly and to promise truly, where there
could not but be some disparity between the promise
and the confession. If there were these difficulties on
the threshold of his task, the task itself was not incon-
siderable. Lord Derby had, as we observed the other
day, to re-open the session and to inaugurate a Govern-
ment. He had to take up or to surrender measures be-
fore Parliament, and to announce his intentions on deli-
cate points of foreign or domestic policy. He had to
declare himself with regard to the opinions inseparably
associated with his party and his name, and. as he
chose to renounce the idea of immediate action on them
ho had to ask the indulgence of his friends, and the for-
bearance of his opponents; for the most substantial of
all his difficulties remains to be told—he represented a
confessed minority in the Legislature and in the'country
at large. It is not our purpose to follow Lord Derby
through the numerous topics on which he felt
himself obliged to declare himself. Upon several of
them he declared himself with a frankness which will
offend or perplex; but any ono acquainted with his cha-
racter and career, whether with the Whigs or under
Sir Robert Peel, will know that he is one of those who
in their anxiety to say what they think say more than
they are ever likely to do. It was not till he had dis-
charged himself of a debt of affection and respect to
Lord Lansdowne, and bad taken a wide survey of the
present state of affairs, that he allayed the impatience of
his hearers by arriving at the cardinal question of free
trade. As this was the anxiety that lay most at heart,
so it became the most prominent part of Lord Derby's
speech, and the almost nervous excess of illustration and
argument with which he prefaced what may be called his
chief Ministerial announcement stood in unwise contrast to
the comparative vagueness of the rest of the speech. Lord
Derby repeated, illustrated, and defended the opinions
he has ever advanced on this subject. On this point
there is neither change, submission, nor silence. So far
as theory goes, our new Premier is as decided a Protec-
tionist as ever be was; and, if the people of this country
choose to bear with him, there will then be the anomaly
of the two freeest and most self-governing nations of the
world—the British people and the United States—hav-
ing their Executives of one opinion and their Legislatures
and people of another, and that on a point of the greatest
public interest. His Lordship's illustration is drawn
from the new tariff of the United States, which he de-
scribes as Protectionist, without any reference either to
the fact that it is only half as protective as that which
was before it, that it is not protective enough for the
interests wanting protection, that it is too protective for
the citizens at large, and that the circumstances of the
United States are such that it would be absolutely im-
possible to raise a sufficient revenue without levying
considerable duties on articles of foreign ma-
nufacture. Lord Derby's arguments serve his purpose
as ill as his illustration. His statement as to the
effect of a protective duty on the price of
the home-grown article is one that eludes all proof,
and scarcely comes within the reach of intelligence;
for who can tell what relation there is between a general
increase of price and an imaginary quantity of corn shut
out of the country by reason of a duty? One thing is
very evident, whichever way it may tell—Lord Derby
may still be a Protectionist as much as ever he was;
he may be ready to risk power by his frankness; but
there is one test of sincerity which is too much for him;
ho does not care enough for his creed to understand it
and prove it. His is evidently the devotion of the Se-
nate, not of the closet. He will confess himself a Protec-
tionist without being ono in any intelligent sense. lie
can make a clean breast, but, like many another Quixote,
will not make a clear head. That costs some trouble; it
is sweetened by no romance, and sustained by no pride.
We may be sure that for the last five years Lord
Derby has dreamt, not thought about Protec-
tion. But to peas from Lord Derby's opinions and
illustrations, and arguments, belonging, as we think,
rather to dreamland than to this waking world, what
are his intentions? He does not intend to propose any
measure at variance with our existing financial policy
during the present session. To do so, ho is aware, would
involve a dissolution forthwith, and a dissolution just
now, or at any other time in the course of this session,
would on various accounts be a very great misfortune.
Giving up the new Reform Bill, he is prepared to pro-
ceed with all the legal reforms and social improvements
now before the Legislature. Having thus put " Protec-
tion" bodily out of his actual and immediate pro-
gramme, where does he place it? In what tense, in
what mood? At what time will he bring it on, if
if ever—under what circumstances, if any? On
these points we will not undertake to interpret
the oracle. It was misunderstood, we must say
rather wilfully and clumsily, by Lord Grey ; but
it may also be mistaken as wilfully and clumsily in a
contrary sense by Lord Derby's own followers. Here
aro some of the scattered leaves of the Sybil!--" I
think this to be a question which can only be satisfac-
torily solved by reference to the well-understood and
clearly-expressed opinion of the intelligent portion of
the community." Does this mean that Lord Derby will
expressly make the " reference," that he will go to the
hustings on Protection, and that he only asks the for-
bearance of his opponents and the indulgence of his
friends till he can do so conveniently and effectually?
Or does he merely allude to that gradual reaction of
opinion which years may bring forth? What he says
shortly after of " the commencement of the sessioe,"
and " the present circumstances of the world,"
seems rather to circumscribe the horizon of his Lord-
ship's contingent " reference" to public opinion.
On the other hand, such expressions as " the much
humbler, but, at the same time, more useful
part." which he thinks it the office of his
Government to peform ; " the subjects of a controver-
sial and a party character " which he deprecates; " the
moderate and temperate course" which he has prescribed
1 to himself; the "unnecessary party measures " which
,I he contrasts with " the great measures which the coun-
I try has so long been expecting," or, as ho also ex-
presses it, " the course of sound and useful legislation,"
—expressions such as these are not only diffeult to be
reconciled at all with any serious intention of trying to
bring back Protection, but they are scarcely respectful to
it. Measures of legal reform and social improvement, such
as public opinion has lately so assiduously pressed on
the Legislature, are described ;,by his Lordship as great,
sound, useful, long expected,' pressing, and so forth,
while the great cause of " Protection versus Free
Trade" is set down as party, controversial, ambitious,
interruptive, factious, and generally mischievous. What
are we to think of all this? Lord Derby asks an
armistice, and enforces his request by denounc-
ing ' war. Tho terms of his proposed armis-
tice will be thought rather indefinite, and his
aversion to war will be thought at least new. We can
only say, that it remains for Lord Derby and his
friends to interpret his manifesto. If they go to the
hustings on Protection, if they pledge themselves to re-
store Protection,—if they betray any symptoms of
making that the watchword at the next general election;
still more, if they take any actual steps in the for-
bidden direction, such as an attempt to restore the dif-
ferential duties on sugar, they will themselves have
broken the truce they demand. No forbearance will
then avail. They will not be allowed a single week to
strengthen their defences or to shift their ground. As
they, ask for a truce they must take care to keep itthem-
selves. A few days will afford some proof of theirsin-
cerity. Lord Derby's text is rather obscure; we wait to
see how it will be interpreted by the twenty Conserva-
tive Members who will have to preach on it from the
hustings in the course of next week.
CHRONICLE.—Lord Derby spoke night with
undoubted vigour and ability, although hawheadeiffividetly
ill at ease, and painfully oppressed with t
of his position;pre-
but perhaps he would havec judgglenbetter
had he been yet more reserved, unless be had
pared to make a more frank and stroll;
be expected
munication of his policy. It gthotforwerd cora-
thet he should enter into any detailswas
is future measures.
33:5 to his intentions,
or that he should give any sketch of
co:planation of his
He doubtless felt that a too distinct
on the hustings,
plans might embarrass his colloesbg
t jeuct to the opposition
and give solidity
which isted, on the most vital
preparingaub‘ol tahtiweifitnhinatadaonpd without the walls of
sd
unprecedented course of
ofPar qluiaelusteiount's, But,the novel and has
supply him with principles
inviting the country to f
, undertaking to carry out
and a policy,
.instead, of
his own, it might have
any distinct convictions
actualnn.
political been still more prudent bad ho abstainede from the
utterance of mere privahtaerr
any
yes
preferences
vwhichalue
would have been the .
are not intended, to
eitjustification of his conduct,n most
judicious Under the circurnetausetetsil
of his prede-
judicious course to re
in accepting oilic° on the tried weakness
thet' tnemoporary obstacles which prevented
et asors, end on
t parties from being formed on
any new coinbinair,
might fairly have
Rose s resignation. Ile
Lord John his own conduct when he faed l • '
appealed to
nment, as a r f
forming a Gover..e. , . .
conscious
persoreal a the difficulties imposed u ast 3 ear in
POO thatch e was not un-
Pon him by the
incapacity of his followers, added to the
etun-
tenable nature of the cause which it is their bad fortune
io
ret
p crestt ill ent. Y, if the task he declined was
mpraigtibi _1851; it ctiuuet bewhich
eaid tbat theirOrill

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1 of a year has made it more easy. The list of the new Mi-
nisters sufficiently shows that his party has gained no
accession of talent; nor is the lapse of time ever fa.
vourablo to those who countenance a recurrence to
abandoned errors. The part of Lord Derby's speech
which excited the greatest curiosity was also that in
which he made the strongest pretensions to openness,
decision, and candour. After all, it amounts to neither
more nor less than a covert abandonment of Protection
—qualified by an avowal of personal predilections in its
favour, which, as was well pointed out by Earl Grey-,
cannot but tend to prolong indefinitely a most mischie-
vous uncertainty resnecting a question which vitally
affects all agricultural, commercial, and industrial
transactions. The Premier thinks that revenue may
fairly be raised from imported commodities, and he still
maintains that there is no reason for expecting corn
from the rule which applies to less necessary products.
Nay, he even adopts the false principle which the menu-
lecturers of Now England have enforced on the
Government of the United States. lie would
raise revenue, by preference, from foreign produce which
competes with our own—in other words, he would
make the Custom-house the mere instrument of mono-
poly. All this is clear and intelligible enough, as a
key to Lord Derby's opinions on commerce• and finance,
though ho shrinks from the responsibility of giving
practical effect to them. The House of Lords—carried
away, perhaps, by the eloquence of so powerful a
speaker—may have forgotten sor the moment that the
Prime Minister's opinions are not necessarily the index
to his policy. After enunciating the heresies which we
have quoted, he concludes, as we have already said,
by refusing to carry out his doctrines in practice.
A new Government—a Government of which,
for this purpose, he even exaggerates the weakness
—cannot, it seems, disturb an established system.
Under other eircurnstinees—in the course of next
year, perhaps—it is implied that something may be
done to realise his principles. ' But, for the present, Lord
Derby will meet half-way those new and eager admirers
who tender him their support en the well-founded as-
sumption that he will violate the only pledge for which
his party really cares. It will be strange if his col-
leagues in the other House succeed equally well in sa-
tisfying the demands which will, in a few days, be made
upon them. The professions of faith which they must
offer to their constituents will necessarily, from mere
want of ingenuity on their part, be more definite.
The more prominent Ministers may, to a certain ex-
tent, wrap themselves up in official reserve—
while the subordinate members of the Government may
truly, or at least fairly, profess themselves ignorant
of the intentions of the Cabinet. On a similar occa-
sion, in 1846, the in-coming Ministers pledged them-
selves more distinctly to the accomplishment of sanitary
improvements than to any of the more disputable poli-
tied! achievements which they have since equally
neglected. On the whole, however, it was enough to
promise adherence to free-trade, which was triumphant,
and to Whig principles, which might mean anything or
nothing. But even if the counties are willing to sup-
port the new Government without inquiry, Lord John
Manners will have to answer some questions at Col-
cheater, and Sir John Pakington may possibly experi-
ence a similar embarrassment at Droitwich. Mr. Disraeli
may, perhaps, once more succeed in applying his com-
mand of language to the purpose of mystification; and
Mr. Henley has already told his county, in sufficiently
unmistakable terms, that Protection is finally abandoned,
because it has "no faca' to go upon. But they will all
be required to comment on Lord Derby's oration; and
it will be strange if they all agree in the same reading.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
SUTTON STEEPLECHASES

The Railway Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 20 added, 12st
each, &c. The winner to be sold for 2001., &c. Three
miles. (13 Subs.)
Mr. C. Symonds na Torn Tough (401.) (Archer) 1
Mr. R. D'Arcy's Gulnare (201.) lOst 51b (Donaldson) 2
Mr. Temple's Regina (201), lOst (Ablett) 0
Mr. Philips's Gitana (401.), lOst 91b
Mr. Reynolds's Black Prince (GOO llst 21b (Owner) 0
Mr. C. B. Lockwood's Fireaway (20/.)
Mr. Stinton's Good-for-Nothing (20/.), 10st (Ennis) 0
Mr. Barry's Grey Eagle (201.), 10st (Poole) 0
Mr. Turner's Charity (201.), lOst (Boyce) 0
Mr. Land's Breach of Promise (401) lOst 91b (Owner) 0
Won in a canter.
Handicap Steeplechase Stakes of 5 soil. each, and 40
added, the second to save his stake. Four miles. (18
Subs.)

Mr. Egfinton's Young Lottery, lOst 41b...(C. Boyce) 1
Mr. Turner's Oily Gammon, 9st 101b...(Turner, jun.) 2
Mr. Namruth's Ten-and-Sixpence, 9st 121 b (Seifert) 3
Mr. Land's The General, 1 lst (Owner) 0
Mr. Land's Bullfincher, lOst 41b (T. Price) 0
Mr. D'Arc)'s Mystery. lOst lib .... (Donaldson) 0
-Mr. H. May's Buscot, lOst .... (Ablett) 0
Mr. Elmore's Kossuth, 9st 121 b (W. Hewitt) 0
Mr. Law's Charley, 9st Olb (Grubb) 0
Mr. Sail's Sir Alexander, 9st 8113
Mr. bait's The Rector, 9st 81b
Mr. Sutton's Susan, lOst (Owner) 0
Mr. Stewart na Orange Girl, 9st ;lb (Archer) 0
Mr. Tibby's The Abbess, 9st (Beard) 0
Won by three lengths; a neck between second and third.
The Aristocratic Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added.
Two miles.
Mr. Stewart'. Tramper (Mr. Morant) 1
Mr. Lambert's Ironside- (Mr. La Terrier) 2
Captain Rowley's Longinus, 5 yrs (Owner) 0
Won easy.

DIAILIOND DUST.
Ships and fishes may make their way when steered by
the tail ; but when we attempt to guide or impel
youngsters by a similar process, we only retard or turn
them oat of the right line.
Conquest is the child of hearts which trust themselves.
Society, like shaded silk, must be viewed in all situa-
tions, or its colours will deceive us.
Infancy is lovable, notwithstanding fretfulness and the
hoopiog-cough.
Men are never placed in such extremes but there is a
right to guide them.
Sin and punishment, like the shadow and the body,
are never apart.
The man who works too much must love too little.
The intention of a sin betrays itself by a superfluous
caution.
There is in every human countenance either a history
or a prophecy.
Sorrow shows us truths as the night brings out stars.
For children there is no leave-taking, for they ac-
knowledge no past, only the present, that to them is
full of the future.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY,

EXETER BALL.

Last night Handet's Samson was performed by the
above society in the most unexceptionable and perfect
manner. The orchestra and choir were stronger than
we have hitherto observed them, and consequently the
music was given in splendid syle. The orchestra is so
much superior to what it was last season, that the im-
provement must be apparent to the veriest tyro in musical
matters, while each individual member of the choir
must have carefully studied the music. Were it not so,
it would have been impossible for them to give the
music so faultlessly as they did last night. The prof e'"
sional vocalists engaged were Miss Dolby and Miss Birch,
M 65911-. Luckey, Phillips, and Lawler. They were all in
excellent voice, and sung deliciously. %Vo may espe-
cially notice the manner in which Mr. Lawler gave the.
air, "Honour and Arms." The fire and spirit with
which he infused it quite took the audience
.by„stortn.
Tho concluding air, " Let the Bright Seraphim, sung
by Miss Birch, and a trumpet accompaniment by Mr.
Harper, jun., was also fine, and notwithstanding the
lateness of the hour narrowly escaped being encored.
The melancholy music of the " Dead March;' was well
played by the orchestra. The hall was quite full, in-
deed at eight o'clock there wag not standing room.

HOLIIIFIRTII CATASTROPHE.-2111E
VERDICT.

The lengthened inquiry into the circumstances of the
awful calamity in Yorkshire, which hurried so
many
beings to an untimely death, terminated Yesterday,an
.when the Coroner s jury, after a delihera '
hours, returned the following
of theocliheeorf
verdict, ti"
of
two
resßerilyboeirrrywasde
dtheaethjubryy
dissenting:—
~ sve find that Eliza Marsden came t
drowning, caused by the bursting
reser-
voir. We also find that the Bilberry
that the :nen were greatly cul-
pable, in its original construct:
com-
missioners, engineers, and overlook ' and
fitnod :Let theP commissioners, in per-
with to
wpaobrlkes,;inannt
wseeacilsnog
per regulation of the
musing the Bilberry reservoir remain for several
and not lowering the waste
years in a dangerous state, a full knowledge thereof
and culpable negligence; and
being under the pit, have been guilty of gross
us bringing in a v
convinced the grossh we regret that the reser-
voirmanagement_ of a corporation pre-
ventserdict of manslaughter, as we are
would and culpable negligence of the com-
missionersa
firm. We also ave subjected them to such a verdict
had they been inthe position of a private individual or
for the
most serious
consideration
the propriety of making pro-
visionhe the Legislature will take into its
Majesty's
sub'
protection ofthnlives and property i)f her
Nets, exposed to danger from reservoirs
placed by corporations in situations similar to those
under the charge of the Liolmo Reservoir CunimiL-
, 61011 CM"

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11Ant CLUBS.—Samples of uniform have been
carefully prepared, in accordance with the practical sug-
gestions made from time to time to Messrs. Nicoll, Army
Clothiers, of 114, 116, vs, 120, Regent-street, and 22, Corn.
hill, London, by various distinguished officers. The colours
are calculated to assimilate as near as possible with cur-
uisples hues mayuof
l be e
neutral rounding objects, so that the wearer of the uniform would
present as indistinct a mark as could possibly be offered for
seen of complete
grays, the
mixed colours of heath, and also a brown mixture, the colour
of the ground ; at the same time it is universally adieitted,
danresesi nsenZCs le iiir ne-
the Here
s'uu
Various ri samples
by all IT h o have inspected these samples th
2 at the shape
of
each is of a character calculated to le entleinau
p est. any g
who may be called upon to wear it.
We understand that an a •
rran ement hag been con
cluded by the Board of Trade ' g Trinity House, by
with the
~ ,11‘
which the light dues non l .
lei on the ceastilli; trade Iv"' ltd
reduced oae-hitlf,

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The medical evidence was lengthy, and very unfit to
give in detail. It merely went to show that the child
was a very fine healthy one at birth, and there was no.
thing in its death to indicate but that it was caused by
purely natural causes, ur that the sufferings of the
mo-
ther at its birth were more than might be aceonnted for
by natural causes. From the description of the brown
powders,the medical gentlemen who gave their testimony
could not pronounce en opinion as to what they were, bat
the green mixture they all egreed was tincture of iron,
known in the " Pharmacilesia" as Griffiths' mixture,
about which a difference ut opinion existed as to its being
proper for women while pregnant.
It further transpired that the prosecutrix had not told
any one of the drugs that had becen administered until
Just before the prey at proceedings were taken, when
Christuias, who was pupil to the late Dr. Fartbrother,
when taken, said that he had only given her some saline
draughts of a harmless character, to deceive Smith, bat
nothing that would effect a miscarriage.
The defence set up was the improbability of the girl's
stmelaoopr:es', a e
t hbanen'tiOprtreho
sebhaeliejlemet
mace
a ttliiticeir,
eallowingcharge,
statement
and s
made
timeasmdouetchbhayt i t w
to
mas to the police was true.• Christ al-
Several highly respectable witnesses gave Christmas
a most ur.exceptienable character, end Dr. Parkes, of
Great Marlborough-street, said that Smith's employrrs
were most willing to take him again into their employ.
The jury, after a short consultation, Acquitted them.
The case lasted until a late hour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLLBONE.

Samuel Dandy was charged with having fired a pistol
at tied severely wounded Mr. William Veale, a cowl-
keeper in Acloia•road, St. John's•wood, with intent to
murder and rob him.
The prosecutor, who appeared to he about 50 years of
age, and whose head was bandaged with a handkerchief,
on being sworn said—Last Monday evening, at about
twenty minutes past seven, I was walking alone in the
Edgware-road, beyond tho fourth milestone, when .L
passed a man who, to the best of my belief, is the pri-
soner, and he was looking into a hedge. The moment
I had passed he walked after me for sixty or eighty
yards, keeping close to me on the footpath. I thought
he was going to speak to me, but he did not. Upon my
looking round he put hie hand down in front of him,
and looking again towards the hedge, he walked
quickly past me and was soon out of my sight. I
came over the hill towards town, and when about fifty
yards beyond the third milestone I heard some one
walking behind me again. At that moment the same
person came close to me, and fired a pistol at nay
head. The flash came across my face, and many shots
struck me. I was stunned, and staggered bleeding
into the road, and afterwards ran on from twenty to
thirty yards, when I looked back and saw a man, who I
believe was the one who had shot me, at the distance
of sixty yards off. Another person coming in the
direction trum London met me, and I mentioned to him
that I had been snot and wounded, and said to him,
'• There he is, up the road;" but he took no notice, and
passed on. There is a great deal of pigeon-shooting in
that neighbourhood, and the person to whom I spoke
might have thought that what .1 said to him was merely
a joke. I ran as far as I was able to a friend of mine,
and he took me as soon as he could to a surgeon.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Who communicated to the police
what had happened to you ? Prosecutor—/ did,
sir; I met a constable in Kilburn, and gave him all the
particulars.

- Mr. BROUGHTON—Do you wish to ask the prosecutor
any questions? Prisoner—No, sir, All that the gentle-
man tins said is perfectly true.
Mr. BROUGHTON—True that you fired at him? Pri-
soner—Yes, sir.

•
Sergeant Hillier, 27 S—l first heard of this from In-
spctor Chambers, and was sent from Bushey, where I
um stationed, in quest of the prisoner. I went out in
plain clothes and ou horseback, having had previously
a correct description of the prisoner. In Newport
Pagnell, to which place I had traced him, I saw him
walking along the street. I passed him, and
having gone a short distance, alighted from my
horse which I left in a stable-yard. I waited till the pri-
soner came up. I then stopped him and asked him
where he came from, and ho said " from Meltuu Mow-
bray." I asked him his name, and ho answered
Charles Williams." I told him I was an officer, and
that ho must consider himself in my custody ; and I
then took him to the public-house at which my horses
had been put up, when I stated to him that he was ap-
prehended for shooting a bea ntlewan at Kilburn on
Monday night. Ile remarked, " Oh, you must make
a mistake," and he repeated that observation several
times. I told him that whether it was a mistake or not
I must take him back to London, and asked him if he
had not lived in the neighbourhood of Newport Pagnell
some time ago. lie said that he bad, and was in the
service of the Rev. Mr. Toeasend. I took him to the
police-station, and on searching him I found in his
pocket s pistol, which I have since ascertained to be
loaded with powder and shot. I also found on him one
paper containing shut and percussion caps, and another
paper in which was some gunpowder. Last night I
weer to Mr. Vieille's, and there saw a doctor Extracting
shot from his (Mr. Veale's) Ear. [Thu shot taken
from prosecutor's ear was pruuuced, and corresponded in
siz3 with those found un the pris,,ner'a peraon.J
Thomas Lisney—l am a blacksmith, in the service of
Mr. Jones Cricklewood. On Monday af,ernoon last
about three o'clock, the prisoner brought to our shop a
and asked n:e to Lxiscrew the barrel. I did so,
and gave it to him, when be commenced cleaning it, and
while doing so a worsted needle broke in the nipple,
upon which he exclaimed " I've -- it now!" I told
him I would unscrew the nipple, which I did, and I
finished cleaning the pistil. Prisoner remained in our
shop till between fire and six o'clock, and as he was
going away I asked if he was going to pay me, to which
he replied, " No, not now. I have a brother-in-law at
Bushey, named Hetherington, who comes up the road
regularly with a hay cart, and if you stop him and give
the name of Dandy, and tick him for a shilling for re-
pay Pistol, he will give it to you, and when I
come this way 111 give you another." Prisoner had told
itm ewtahsatthhoet evb:scoooultdofaffpolarede,toand porocnbahaies
abepiing asked how
stolhe
said
ho After
hadl
prisoner a
properlyskoti
meh
cleaned
o haded
try b
iet pistol s
gai mn
thatd al h
pountgohad
itti intoeiet h
powder with him. I
tried it with powder only, which he gave me, and fired
it off. On the same evening I heard that Mr. Veale had
been shot, and on the policeman calling upon me, 1
ctntand it by
gave as correct a description of the prisoner as I could,
Sergeant Webb, 16 S—Yesterday afternoon, between
four and five, I was on duty at the station-house in
come to
t 0
00
theto M
station.
and t to
a
make
Portland-town, when the prisoner was brought in by
Sergeantscertaiof
hillier,b o
w
The prisoner was sitting by the fire
w the
without being questioned at all, " I know what I hale
whoma rtblle desired
to
charge.
sergeant
was
gone, and he (prisoner) said,
done. Is the gentleman whom I shut dead?" to Which
witness repli,d, " he is not."
Mr. William Grove Carter, surgeon in Manchester.
said Oa
terrace, Kilburn, Monday evening, about
eight o'clock, Mr. News, was brought into my
surgery
by hie • fri rd Mr. Deacon, bleeding
considerably front
several wounds in the neck, caused by small shuts,
of which I extracted; there were others which one
deeply teated to be removed. Some of hwe ere too
which I examined were above the neck I t wounds
-e
me that Mr. Roberts was his regular neck-cloth. He told
and I then advised him to go hulee medical attendant,
the shot which he extracted, and. Witness produced
partly burnt, a portion of the waddingt? piece of parer
which he had tai:
ten front the
collar of •
of the pistol
coat. Mr. Veale had hail he prosecutor's
life. a very narrow estate° of his

Mr. 131tOUGUTON, alter cautioning the prisoner in the
Chickeheri
three miles right of .'
usual m :inner, asked him
(ealml.) )—I have b what he had to say? Prisoner
a gentleman's servant. I have
and yeatiron
come
lived over at e%ith the Rev. Mr. Townsend,
Newport Pugnell, and while there I
had 3001. left me b
a blued-vessel,ndlon left
at-
tuationt for some time, and then got into a system of bet--
I throughw was
sou
tb breaking
lilt ng
mg upon horse-racing. I lost my money, and afterwards
got into the service of Mr. Dufour, 23, Queen Ann-
street, and while there I still continued betting. 1 was
brought up before your Wor6hip for robbing my master.
I was tried, and sentenced to 51X months' hard labour;
and on the 17th of this month I came out. I then
went to Mr. Dufour, at his office in Gray's-inn, and
asked him to give „,, a little money out of the wages
due to me, to pass nee into the country, but he would
not give me a single farthing. I obtained from a
sister, at Bushey, a half-sovereign, with which I bought
the pistol, powder, &c. I bad no money to get a night's
lodging, and I took the pistol to a blacksmith, who
cleaned it for me, loaded it, and fired it off. I wens from
his shop at halt-past five. 1 loaded the pistol, and then
came as fur as Kilburu-gate to return to Bushey.
when I met the gentleman close to the fourth milestone.
He passed me, and I followed him for a abort time at a
distance of about twenty yards. I passed him, and when
I thought I had got quite out of his sight I put the cap
on the pistol and turned out of the way. I saw the gen.
Orman pass, and followed him again for a short distance,
till I came within twenty yaras of the third milestone.
At that time I fired a pistol, and just as I bad done so a
dog passed. I then ran away about thirty yards, and
saw that the gentleman was standing still. I observed
some one coming up the path, upon which I made off
over the hedge for fear of being detected. A person
passed, and as soon as he bad done so, I made off for the
1 gentleman again, but he bad got out of sight. After
1 that I returned to Bushey, where 1 stayed all night; and
the next morning I went to Watford. I made no stop.
page till I got to Newport Pagnell, where I was take,
into custody. 1 have nothirg more to say.
In reply to some remarks which Mr. Brusghtot mada
upon the case,
. admitted that, on following u
The prisoner p the pro.
secutor after he bad fired the pistol, his 11:10LITe was to
rob him. committed the Mr. Broughton prisoner for shooting
with intent to murder.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 27.

Loci RIEOBSDALZ took his seat on the Woolsack, in
the absence of the Lord Chancellor, at Five o'clock.
On the Treasury bench were Earl Derby, the Earls of
Malmesbury, Eglinton, Salisbury, and Lonsdale. The
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Lord Minto, and
other members of the late Ministry were on tho Opposi-
tion bench. The galleries of the Peeresses were crowded,
as were also the space allotted for Members of Parlia-
ment and strangers. At a few minutes past five,

MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.
The Earl of DERBY rose, and spoke to the follow-
ing effect: —My Lords, the place from which I have
now the honour to address your Lordships is at once
not only a justification for my rising upon this occasion,
but also imposes on me, as I conceive, the absolute duty
of endeavouring, as shortly and succinctly as I can, and
with as much frankness as is due to the audience which
I am addressing, and with no mere reserve than is im-
posed upon me by the position which I hold, to state not
only the motives which have induced me to accept the
arduous task which I felt myself bound not to decline,
but also, as far as I can, to lay before your Lordships an
outline of the course which, having undertaken the re-
sponsibility o'r the Government, I feel it incumbent on
me to adopt. But before I proceed further I feel desi-
rous, indeed, I cannot deny myself the gratitication—in
the presence of the Noble Marquis opposite (Lana-
downe)—of expressing to him that which from my ab-
sence from the House at the last meeting of your Lord-
ships I could not express, my grateful thanks for the
kind and friendly manner in which ho alluded to my
present acceptance of office.—(Hear, hear.) My Lords,
to any man accepting the high office which I have
now the honour to fill such terms of commendation can-
not fail to be welcome, from whatever quarter they
may come; but they are to me doubly gratifying, both
in my public and private eapacity, as coming from one
to whom from my earliest boyhood I have been accus-
tomed to look up with hereditary respect and admira-
tion—from whom, as my advancing years rolled on,
those feelings were ripened into sincere personal respect
and friendship—and of whom I am happy to say that,
neither on his part nor on mine, have the circumstances
which separated our political connexion deadened or im-
paired in the slightest degree oar private friendship,—
(Hear, hear.) My Lards, I hope that this is only a
single example of many that might be cited to prove that,
nmidat all the conflicts of parties in this free country,
men entertaining opinions tar more widely different than
those which have separated the Noble Marquis and my-
self may continue to entertain for one another feelings of
personal regard unembittered by the contentions of party,
and that, however different may bo the views which a
seeso of public duty may compel u 3 to maintain, there
is nothing in this diversity of opinion which may dis-
sever the personal friendship of English gentlemen.—
(Cheers.) But I understand—and I hope that I may mis-
understand—that the Noble Marquis intimated on the
last occasion of your meeting his intention of shortly
retiring from the active pursuits of political life, and
from those political duties which he has for so long a
time discharged with such signal ability and success,—
(Hear, hear.) If the difference of opinion between man
and man could diminish the feeling of personal friend-
ship for each other, it is absolutely impossible that such
can be the case between myself and the Noble Marquis
—of whom lam sure that I am only expressing the
feeling of every individual in the Houle when I say that
he has won the esteem and confidence, and I may almost
say the affection, of every on© of your Lordships who
has witnetieed the firm, and uncompromising, and dig-
nified, yet the perfectly friendly and courteous manner,
with which ho has discharged for so long a period his
duties in this House; and it may be, if in truth he in-
tends to retire from public lite, an encouragement to
future statesmen that they should be able hereafter
to point to his example, and show how, after a
period of nearly fifty years spent in the public ser-
v.ce, a statesman can retire with the friendship,
the warm and cordial friendship, of his political
associates, ansi with the sincere respect and esteem
of his political opponents, and with a character unblem-
ished by a single stain on his political virtue or private
honour.—(Hear, hear.) Having thus relieved my mind
of the debt of gratitude which I feel to be due to the
Noble Marquis, I now proceed to the far more arduous
portion of tne task which is now imposed upon me. My
Lords, it is unnecessary for me to trouble ycur Lord-
ships with any speculations or statements of mine as to
the causes which may have led to the downfell of the late
Administration. Undoubtedly, my Lords, although there
was a general expectation that the resignation of her
Majesty's late Ministers was not far distant, I, for one,
so little expected that such en event would occur on a
late occasion, that, as most of your Lordships are per-
haps aware, I had at the time actually gone down into
the country for the purpose of spending three or four
days. I shall not attempt to speculate whether the par-
ticular vote to which the other House came on last Friday
night, or wheitaer other subjects led Ministers to a deter-
mination to resign their offices, which was only con-
firmsd by that vote. It was on Saturday that I received
the to me surprising intelligence of the result
of the division in the House of Commons, and
of the consequent resignation of her Majesty's
Ministers; and it was on the evening of that day that
I had the honour of receiving her Majesty's commands
that I should wait on her at the Palace at half-past two
o'clock on the following day. I had then, my Lords, to
consider, not what course it was my interest, but what
coerce my public duty required one to pursue. I bad
to weigh deliberately and candidly cn the one side all
the overwhelming difficulties of the situation in which
I was placed, all the awful responsibility of the task
which I felt I must be called upon to perform; and I had
to weigh en the ether side, as it appeared to me, a still
more awful responsibility, if it could be imputed to me
that from personal foaling and an unwillingness to take
on myself either labour or responsibility I had left by
my act the Queen and the country in the present times
without an .Administration, however unworthy it
might be. The Noble Lord will excuse me for say-
ing that I saw little prospect of any other Aclmi-
nistrehion being speedily formed —and, further, that I
saw little prospect of advantage from the resignation
of a Ministry to be spt edify followed up by
a resutnption of their former public duties. I felt, there-
fore, that however unequal I might myself be to the
task, sod however great the difficulties which stood in
my way—difficulties arising from my own position, and
difficulties arising also from the position of those
who, agreeing with me in opinion, are still unable
to command a majority in the other House of Parlia-
ment, still,—l say, great as these difficulties are, deli-
berately weighing and net overlooking any of them, I
felt it to be my first duty to my Sovereign and my
country to provide that at this time the country should
not be left without an Administration; and it was not,
my Lords, without a deep consciousness of the responsi-
bility which I was incurring, nor without a thorough
ectovietion of my own inability to perform adequately
the duties which I was about to undertake, that I at
one:, and without hesitation, intimated to her Majesty,
013 rtoeiving her commend to that effect, my
res.niness to attempt the task of forming a
Government. By the concurrence of all those friends to
Whome I felt it to be my duty to apply, I was able on the
the 'Ling day
to lay before her Majesty as
outline of
Administration, and in the course of the four days
ainc s elapsed I have been able to submit and obtain the
approval of her Majosty to the list of those friends
w"al I have selected to discharge the various sub-
ordinate ditties of to, Government. At the same
time, the Government being thus constituted, I feel it to
be necessary that
I froxidy, fr4,ely,
and
without
state to you, my Lords,
out
reserve, the course of policy
which I shall my
imperative duty to follow.
—(Hear, hear.)
relations of this country, with regard to the foreign
Lords, with
shisure there is scarcely
one man amongst your
the country, who does not earnesPtelaceyindnedzirfenwto isnedeemedainie.
tamed the blessings of universal
peace,—()fear.)
who 7— (year.) There
is not one of my Noble
doesnot think
that every effort on the part of the
be made with the view to averting
humblenanne
of iticurring the miseries of war,—(Gear.) In m n
opinion the desire of preserving Peace is not best
supported by displays of large military and naval ') er
a
tions, by the assumption of an attitude of hostility, and
by the making offensive preparations; whilst, on the
other hand, it receives no advantage from the adoption
of the Utopian theories in which some gentlemen in-
dulge of universal dissarmarnent, or if not of universal
disarmament, of placing the country in a position in
which it is incapable of dcfcince.—(Hear, hear.) M'
Lords, I believe that peace will b best maintained by
observing to all foreign powers, whether powerful or
week, a calm, temperate, deliberate, and conciliatory
course of conduct-(Hear, hear)—net in acts alone, but
in words and expressions also, by adhering with strict
lideli?y to the letter of the obligations imposed on us by
treatits, and by respecting the independence of all na-
times, whether great or small, as well as by admitting
their right to regulate to their own will the internal
affairs of their own administration. My Lords, I be-
lieve the constitution under which we have the happi-
ness to live is, of all imaginable constitutions, the best
adapted to secure the greatest happiness of the greatest
number—(Hear, hear)—and I should be glad to see our
example diffusing itself through other nations and coun-
tries. I hold, my Lords, that we have no right as a na-
tion to entertain particular prejudices or particular sym-
pathies for this or that coarse of government which other
countries may think fit to adopt, bit those courses or
forms of government absolute despotism, limited mo-
narchy, or conattutionst republic. Be it an absolute
Red Republic, that which is the choice of any nation as
regards its internal governrnent—that, I say, is the
choice which a British statesman is bound to recognise.
--(Hear, hear.) My Lords, I concur entirely in the ob-
aertyttiona which were made with great truth and dignity
t
'elv slew „go by the Noble Ele who recently was
head of the 'oreign Department of the late Govern-
moat—namely, that in our conduct of affairs with fo-
reign flattens there is
'ects of these real more dignity, if any of the sub-
iby a foreign
Pewm,,rs conceive themselves to be injured
The in ectiag with forbearance than
with violence. T
in private life is, ,
'l dignified course in public as
es well as to rtes r ttese c-f necessity, to require
u
seco
we deem
whisitbip s
archreparation as in our con-
„;gawts cur own fellow-countrymen. Onach ismy
opinion a
re-
I am cenvinced that it we have reason
the other hand,
hreason to complain of
the course pursued toward,
the
ylna forein country, the
best course te adopt is to state ground of complaint
simply, frankly, temperately, and
intemperate language ; to
calmly, without in-
dulging in vituperative or
submit oar cause to the honour and •
bunal to which we make our cernpiaiJnutstice of the tri-
ja3ticesand to require
from that tribunal that !need of
_ ar, hear.) I
which wo would
be prepared to bestow ourseives,__me
snauot but think, ray Lords, that
`Qtl2l: steadily on

THE SUN,

that principle, alike in reference to powerful as to weak I
nations, we shall be able not merely to maintain the I
blessings of peace, but also to place this country in an
attitude of sincere friendship with most of the other
nations of the world.—(Hear, hear.) I entertain this
hope the more because it is highly probable that the
preservation of peace and good understanding between
nations will loug continue ; and yet, with that convic-
tion, I say that it is a duty incumbent on us, as her
Majesty's Government, not to neglect the pre-
cautions which our predecessors adopted for placing
this country, by the organization and discipline
of its domestic forces, in such a position as will
render us entirely free from all chance of hostile
aggression. My Lords, I believe that our naval forces
never were in a better or more effective condition than
they are at this moment. I believe that for all purposes
which regard either the security of our own shores, the
defence of the numerous and distant colonies which form
our empire, and the protection of that extensive com-
merce which crosses every sea and Ails every port in the
wide world—l believe that for all such purposes our
navy was never in a mole effective state than it is now.
—(Hear, hear.) Our regular army is also, lam happy
to inform your Lordships, in a state of perfect efficiency,
so far as its numbers are concerned. I repeat the words
—" So far as its numbers are concerned," for, as to the
duties which it has to perform, there is no army in the
world on which so heavy a load of military duties fall.
But, my Lords, efficient as our army is, well qualified as
those are who constitute it, for the performance of the
effective duties of their profession, that army numeri-
' cally—and I am rejoiced at the fact—cannot excite legiti-
mately the apprehension or jealousy of any foreign power.
My Lords, the genius and disposition of the people of this
country are hostile to a large standing army. England has
no desire of aggression, has no wish for extended domi-
nion, much less has she any longing to engage in unneces-
sary quarrels with other countries, requiring a large in-
crease of her military force. She therefore feels that to her
a large standing army is unnecessary. I know and feel,
my Lords, what is due to the honour and character of
this country, and I know and feel that, it it were threat-
ened with hostile aggression, England, Scotland, and
Ireland would rise as one man to defend it, and to repel
the invader.—(Hear, hear.) I feel, my Lords, that
thousands of loyal and gallant hearts would instantly
rush to the rescue.—(Renewed cheers.) We may rely
with the utmost confidence upon the loyal hearts of the
British people—who, I am sure, will rush at once, in
case of necessity, to the service of the country; but, at
the same time, it is impossible to deny that, if they are
not a disciplined and organized force, they will meet any
attempt of foreign aggression under fearful disadvan-
tages.—(Hear, hear.) My Lords, various occasions have
arisen before, when propositions were made not for
creating, but for re-organizing an old constitutional force,
which has been always relied on for the internal mili-
tary protection of the country; but I think it is unfor-
tunate that those propositions have been always made
under the pressure of some immediate anxiety or ap-
prehension of danger, and that when the anxiety and
apprehension passed away all ideas as to the necessity of
the precaution passed away, too, and vanished like a
dream. In such a course there is a double disadvantage.
If the measures for the organization of a new military
force, which cannot be aggressive, but is of necessity
defensive, be taken in haste,—if the preparations which
its organization requires be adopted under the pressure
of immediate necessity, then the preparations are at-
tended with a very large expense; and, from their being
hastily made, are too late, if not inadequate to meet
the anticipated danger. Besides, there is this further
disadvantage in such a course. The very fact of your
taking extraordinary precautions at once increases the
panic and alarm which lead the Government to take
them, and tend in turn to excite the jealousy of those
foreign powrs against whose supposed or intended ag-
gression it is placing itself on its guard. The more con-
fidence I feel that the peace of Europe will not be dis-
turbed! the more I feel the imperative necessity of taking
now, in this time of peace, when we are not pressed by ap-
prehensions, the necessary measures for the organization
of such a force with a view to our object being accomplished
with due deliberation, and yet with that necessary
promptitude which will enable our population to
meet their adversaries, if danger should occur, in some
sort of military array and discipline. My Lords, I re-
joice to think that for the maintenance of the tranquil-
lity of England no military force, regular or irregular, is
likely to be called for. On many memorable occasions,
and more particularly on one occasion within the last
three or four years, the people of this country have
shown, in a manner exciting the admiration and wonder
of foreign nations, that th peace and tranquillity of
England may be safely intrusted to the loyalty of the
people themselves. I believe that this is not owing to
the ability of its rulers. I am sure that it is not the num-
ber of our forces which keeps this country in tranquil-
lity and contentment, but it is a due and frank appre-
ciation on the part of her Majesty's subjects in every
class of the community of the inestimable value of those
institutions under which they have the happines to
live, and a deep-seated conviction that under those
institutions not only the just prerogatives of the Crown,
but also the dearest liberties of the people, are preserved
secure and inviolate.—(Hear, hear.) Under these insti-
tutions we are not only free and tranquil at home, but
are, as we have always been—and God forbid that we
should ever cease to be—an ark of refuge for those whose
misfortunes have driven them as exiles from their own
homes to seek protection here. My Lords, with the dis-
turbances and distractions of foreign countries we have
nothing whatever to do; but when from those disturb-
ances and distractions exiles and fugitives reach our
shores they have always a right to claim, and I hope
they will long continue to claim from us, the frank hos-
pitality of England. But I say also, on the other hand,
that it is the bounden duty of all who, flying from the
misfortunes of foreign countries, find here a safe and
tranquil asylum, not to abuse thp rights of hospitality,
and, above all, not to compromise the interests of this
nation, which receives them into its hospitable arms, by
organizing here against their own country measures
wbieh they must know they can only carry on in safety
Limier the shelter and protection of English law. I say,
further, that it is not only the right but the duty of
Government, without descending to a system—l must
use a French word for it, for, thank God, we have
not an English one which expresses it—of espionage,
or surveillance, which is averse to all the feel-
ings of the country—it is, I say, our duty as a Govern.
ment to keep guard over the conduct of such persons as
are disposed to abuse our hospitality; and, it the know-
ledge of any plan hostile to the Government of their na-
tive land comes to the knowledge of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, it is our duty to put the foreign Government
so menaced in possession of the facts, and thus place it on
its guard against such machinations.—(hear.) Further
than that I do not think it is right nor in the power of
the Government of this country to go. If these persons
under any circumstances, and from whatever country,
attempt to levy war against their own country, that is,
by the law of this country a punishable offence; and it is
the duty of the Government to visit such an offence with
exemplary and condign punishment. Bet, short of that,
which is in the eye of the law an offence, I say that, while
on the one hand we perform the duty of friendship and
all that is required by the comity of nations to be done
to foreign powers, we cannot, on the other—l will not
say to avert the hostility, but to secure the friendship of
those powers with whom we have contracted the closest
intimacies—we cannot. I say, even for that purpose,
strain tho law and constitution of this country beyond
the limits warranted by the law itself.—(Hear.) I have
now stated, my Lords, the principles on which I think that
cur foreign policy ought to be conducted, and I will not
shrink from now speaking frankly and without reserve
on our financial and commercial policy. I need not
remind your Lordship that in the year 1942 I was a
warm and cordial supporter of the financial measures
then introduced by the late Sir R. Peel. I not only en-
tirely approved of the revision of our Customs duties
which at that time he proposed, but I also approved of
the principle which, as I understood, he then announced
of imposing duties on all the principal articles of impor-
tation for the purpose of raising revenue; and not only
, for the purpose of raising revenue, but also for the pur-
pose of levying duties in a given proportion to the extent
to which the articles the subjects of duties admitted or
did not admit the expenditure of future British labour.
I understood that principle to be laid down, and I freely
acquiesced in it, that there was to be the freeest possible
admission of all the raw materials which form the buds
of domestic industry. A different system to a certain
extent has since been adopted; and I cannot but think,
my Lords, that if we look closely to the whole of our
financial system, there is ground for believing that it is
open, both in principle and in practice, for very consider-
able and useful revisions. Let us contrast, my Lords, with
the system of Customs' duties now prevalent in this
country that which I have heard lauded as the high
free-trade tariff of the United States. The tariff of the
United States levies on almost all articles of importa-
tion duties more or less extensive—duties which in
wsWe
h eiwhile
some cases reach to an extensive and almost an oppres-
sive amount, but which ire almost every instance are
levied avowedlyh on those articles which come into compe-
titionaav-eith t e produce of their own soil and industry.
Wogalle recently on quite a different principle, for,
with extensive
Come into mitv!ith
arti-
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competitiont with oar
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' e Between those
enhances the pile • two systems it
appears to me, my
Lords, that the American
system
is defended on principle, and
ae„
country in practice. At •
is the most easily to be
c
the least burdensome to the the
same time I do not shrink from expressing again
that
Which I hare expressed often on former occasions ,nor
from re eating in office what I have often stated out of
office'—hat ill my individual opinion I can ace no
grounds why, from
i
r .rum the general system of in .posing du-
ties on ioreign imports, the single article of corn should
be a ir, litary exception.—(hear, bear.) I state this, my
Lords, as my opinion; but I think this to be a question
which can only be satisfactorily solved by reference to
the well-understood and clearly expressed opinion of
the intelligent portion of the community.—(ll'r' hear.)
Any posibility, any idea of dealing with a tiptoe' so
vast and extensive as the financial policy of this country,
involving in its wide range not only the whole of the
Customs' duties, but also all the incidents and pressure
of domestic and local taxation—any scheme, I say, so
large and extensive, requires to be dealt with by a Go-
vernment strong not only in the confidence of the coun-
try, but also in the confidence of Parliament, and capable
of carrying its measures With a degree of care, and fore.