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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1847.

England may well be satisfied with the prospects
of her internal government. Notwithstanding the
momentary confusion of principles resulting from the
dispersion and discomfiture of Party, she may be
satisfied. In that very confusion there is an augury
e our ultimate unanimity—of an unanimity more
comprehensive, more national, and more sublime, than
has ever before been manifested since the first crude
:materials of the Constitution were created by the
bloodless concessions of Runnymede. Is any indi-
vidual premonition required as a testimony of the
advent of this prospective unanimity ? It is disco-
verable—if nowhere else—in the coincidence, the
extraordinary and unprecedented coincidence, of opi-
nion between the two Great Statesmen of the Age.
The destinies of Great Britain have long oscil-
lated between the championship of Sir ROBERT
PEEL and of Lord Joras RUSSELL. In the strife of
political sentiment those Leaders have maintained the
most prominent, and, until very recently, the most
antagonistic position. In the din of Parliamentary
disputation their names have resounded above all
others.twomost mPITT and Fox were not more peculiarly the
conspicuous statesmen of their generation.
Since the times of those illustrious orators, however,
the contentions of political parties have continued to,
rage unceasingly ; private and excwlushive opinions have
it
come into immediate collision
the grand and
inclusive opinions of the multitude .1. thel. latterii have
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proved overwhelming—irresistible—ant
length
recognised and
a
the two great statesmen of the empire are
recognised side by side under the national bannerthat banner upon which is emblazoned the glorio—us
motto, " Civil and Religious Liberty"—in the van of
the popular movement.
This unparalleled and encouraging coincidence be-
tween the views enunciated by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and Sir ROBERT PEEL is equally visible upon the
most superficial or the most scrutinizing comparison
of their manifestoes to their respective constituencies.
There is, nevertheless, just such a dissimilarity
in the details as to prevent anything like a mono-
tonous sameness. The two DRO3IIOS are before us,
but they are instantly distinguishable from the
striking difference of their costumes, their acces-
sories, and their position. Identical in the character
of their political creed, and in the consummation
which their political principles are intended to
realise, they are strangely contrasted in re-
gard to their auditors, their diction, their retro.
spections, and their relative situation. Sir ROBERT
befitting PEEL, with a tranquillity of manner the
comparative privacy of his station as an
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addresses hia provincial constituents througrehmitehr'°
medium of a pamphlet. Lord Jon-x RUSSELL, with
a boldness becoming the eminence and publicity of
his position tts Prime Minister of the country, per-
sonally confronts his metropolitan electors, and ap-
peals to them orally and oratorically. Both these
iplectioneering addresses are argumentative, ailci their

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arguments are strictly sequential ; both are peculiar
for their felicitous allusions to .the past and their
liberal indications of the future ; both are thoroughly
and admirably independent.
The occasion and the speech of yesterday, in the
City of London Tavern, will long survive in the
recollection of our fellow-citizens. The occasion was
impressive, and the speech most memorable. A
second time did Lord JOHN RUSSELL stand
before the constituents of this vast metropolis,
illustrious in a twofold dignity as their representa-
tive and as the First Minister of the Crown. "Gen-
tlemen," he said, " I stand in a position which is one
of great responsibility—one of great eminence—but
by no means one of ease or pleasure. It has been
asked poetically--
`What is grandeur, what is power,
But heavier toil, superior pain?'
I confess, however, with that very ' toil'—with that
superior pain '—there are charms in power to which
I do not profess myself insensible." Unbowed by
those Ministerial toils, unembarrassed by those official
pains, the N oble Lord courted the renewal of the
suffrages of the metropolitan Liberals, for, said he,
with a beautiful simplicity of enthusiasm—" it
is a charm to be able to advance in any way the
prosperity, to promote the interests, or to enlarge
the liberties of such an empire as the British em-
pire." Never has Lord JOHN RUSSELL appealed to a
constituency under more propitious circumstances
than the present. When he appeared upon the hus-
tings fresh from the glories of baying introduced the
Reform Bill in the House of Commons ; when his
credit as a Reformer was immediately enhanced by
his triumphant labours for the disfranchisement
of Gatton, of Old Sarum, and similar places
of corruption ; when the Test and Corpora-
tion Acts were vividly in the recollection of
the multitude ; when his decisive letter in
favour of free trade was most recently published—
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was not in so prominent a man-
ner the recognised champion of Liberality as new,
when his generous assurances of an unconditional
system of secular education—when his benevolent
labour for the amelioration of Irish miseries—when his
noble expression of sympathy in the return of Baron
LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD, have in a paramount and
distinguished manner proclaimed him a great cham-
pion of civil and religious liberty. The cause of the
Prime Minister is, therefore, not a party-cause, but
the cause of a nation of freemen.

The wholesale suspension of judicial and law
officers in the island of St. Lucia (an account of
which was contained in our columns of yesterday)
will, we trust, receive that strict and searching
investigation, that mature consideration, which its
vast importance, not only to the accused parties, but
to the inhabitants of the colony, so fully merits.
The summary removal of the Chief Justice, the
second puisne judge, and the Attorney-General at
one fell swoop will require for the justification of the
party who adopted so decisive a course the most
satisfactory reasons as to its expediency,7grounded on,
and supported by, evidence of the most convincing
character as to the truth and certainty of the charges
preferred. In this case at least inquiry will not be
withheld on the ground that it might imply a doubt
of the official infallibility of former Colonial Ministers.
We doubt not that Earl Gm will honestly and
impartially deal with the several cases to the
best of his judgment, and that he will be
prepared to justify his final decision and
the propriety of the reasons by which he may
have been actuated in forming his judgment. The
whole responsibility will be his own, and we are con-
vinced that he will not shrink from that responsibility
in any particular. As yet the matter is sub judice,
and it would be premature to argue on either side
before the evidence is fully known, and everything
that can be alleged either in justification of, or oppo-
sition to, the suspension, is fully before the public.
A. great constitutional question is to be settled. How
far is the independence of the judicial bench to be
maintained in our colonies ? We have already
pointed out the absolute necessity for that indepen-
dence. It is still more urgently required in our de-
pendencies than in the parent State ; and the further
removed from home, the less readily the public
' opinion can be brought to bear on the question, the
more pressing is that necessity. Something more
dignified is required on the part of a judge
entrusted with an enormous power over the
lives and properties of the inhabitants of the
settlement than that he should be compelled to curry
favour by those underhand means, or to have recourse
to those backstairs influences, that are so much
relied on by the underlings of Government, more
particularly in the smaller colonies. What is re-
quired at his hands is an adequate knowledge of the
law. He is required to possess a reasonable share
of professional skill and attainments, and to exhibit the
strictest integrity in the discharge of his official
duties. If he is possessed of these essential qualifi-
cations, and they are zealously applied, he should
be unhesitatingly supported. If he is deficient
therein he should be got rid of without ceremony—
that deficiency, and the overt acts by which it is esta-
blished, should be decided on by a competent tribunal.
In fact, a colonial judge should only be questioned
for acts relating to the performance of his official
duties, and that before the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council. The power of suspension of course
should be vested in the Governor for the time being,
but be should bs held liable for any abuse of that
power.

Whatever may be the ultimate result of the present
case (or rather cases), it must be valuable in this
respect. Competent persons are at this moment with-
held from offering their services to the Crown in our
colonies from a fear of the arbitrary and undefined
power to which they would thereby be subjected.
They will not relinquish their professional prospects,
or the pursuits by which they may hope to obtain an
honest livelihood, to earn an independent support, for
any situation, however lucrative or honourable, from
which they may be driven at a moment's notice, at
the mere will of a tyrannical Governor, or to gratify
the petty spite and malignity of a Governor's lady.
True it is there must be an appeal to Downing-street
before the party can be fully crushed, but even that
is. not much relied on, for all have not the same reli-
gious faith in the impeccability of Colonial Secreta-
ries (of whatever party they may be) that is felt
by Earl GREY. Neither are they fully aware of the
various influences that may be brought to bear, the
concealed hands that may set the wires in
motion,
and exercise a fatal effect over their future fortune.'
Every motive combines to urge the adoption of some
clear and well-defined rule by which the subject shall
be regulated. We would gladly see these regulations
emanating from the Colonial-office. We are sure that
the present Noble Secretary would not be withheld
from bringing forward that which would appear to
be for the benefit of the numerous interests
committed to his charge from any personal motives,
or for the maintenance or increase of the power or
patronage of his office ; but should matters remain in
their present condition we trust that the first week
of the ensuing session may not elapse before some in-
dependent Member will give notice of motion for a
strict and searching inquiry into the system, with a
view to the establishment of the entire and perfect
independence of the judicial bench in our colonies.;

A letter from Turin of the Bth, in the Augsburg
Gazette, states that the Sardinian Government having
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Intelligence has been received from Rome
resignation of Cardinal Gizzr, in consequence the
recent measure relative to the National Guard having
been adopted contrary to his advice. Cardinal FERRATIg
will, it is said, be his successor.
A letter from Rome of the ith says—" The Ponti-
fical Vicariate has just issued a decree modifying the
regulations for a cessation of work during Sundays
and festivals of the Church. Tradesmen are not to be
bound to keep their shops shut up, except between
ten and twelve in the morning, and three in the after-
noon and sunset. Shops for articles of food of all
kinds, taverns, eating-houses, and coffee-houses, may
be kept open at All hours, except fol; au Lour and a

half in the morning. Provisions may be sold in the
streets at all hours on Sundays and festivals, as in the
other days of the week."
The reigning Duke of MODENA has licensed a
monthly publication entitled Revista Israelitica, of
which two numbers have already appeared. Its prin-
cipal object is to introduce into the worship of the
Jews certain reforms which will render it more in
harmony with the spirit of the age. This is the first
periodical specially concerning the Jews that has ever
been published in Italy.

Madrid papers of the 13th have arrived.

The Gageta publishes a decree, ordering a hand-
some monument to be erected to the memory of Don
AUGUSTIN ARGUELLES, as a testimony of the sense
her MAJESTY entertains of the very proper manner
in which he had fulfilled the office of guardian to
herself and her sister. The monument is to be erected
at the private expense of the QUEEN.
Her MAJESTY was to set out for La Granja on
Saturday.
Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA and his daughter left
Madrid on the 12th for St. Sebastian.

The Ministers have expressed their approval of the
conduct of General CONCEIA in Portugal. Part of
the troops under his command have been ordered to
proceed immediately to Navarre and Catalonia, to be
in readiness to act against the Carlists, should they
attempt a rising in those provinces.
General MENDES VIGo has been appointed Captain-
General of Madrid in the room of General CORDOVA.
The latter retains his office of Inspector-General of
Infantry.
The Prince of Peace has obtained permission to
remain in Paris.

MADRID BOLSA, JULY 13.—The Three per Cents.,
261 money; Five per Cents., 164 money, 17 paper; Debt
without interest, 5i money, 5* paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
They still comment on the Cubieres affair, and
the Constitutionnel, in a long article, endeavours to
prove that the source of this official corruption is
electoral corruption, which it denounces as the basis
of misgovernment and ruinous expenditure
From the pertinacity with which the Courrier Fran-
caisrenews its statement on the subject of the concession
of the mines in Algeria, it is not improbable that the
Ministry may be forced to institute an inquiry into
the matter, in which case we may expect some more
edifying revelations as to the working of the system.
The Courrier says—
We warn Messrs. Talabot and Co., we warn the
Cabinet, that they will gain nothing by being silent, for
we are determined to maintain the question before the
public until it be resolved. At present we affirm but
one thing—the existence of the deed of society which
we have published—we bring our charge only against
the persons whose names are affixed to the Act. But if
the Government refuses the inquiry, is it aware what
will be the result of such a denial of justice? Is it ig
norant of the reports which are in circulation, and which
it would be sufficient to publish openly to render an in-
quiry indispensable? A lunger silence would authorise
all these rumours. Let the Ministry, therefore, order
the inquiry; it is both its duty and its interest to do so.
If it decline, the independent press, it is evident, will
take the matter up, and the Ministry will gain nothing
by its silence."

The Union Monarchique has the following on the
mission of Senor BUCLIENTAL from Madrid to
London :

" M. Buchental, banker of Madrid, intimate friend of
M. Salamanca, the Minister of Finance in Spain, and
whose wife forms part of the intimate camardla of Queen
Isabella, arrived on Friday in Paris, from which he is
about to proceed immediately to England, with a mission
from the Spanish Government. M. Buchental is charged
to contract with the house of Smith, of London, a loan of
100,000,000 reals, to be guaranteed by the credits of the
Spanish Treasury on the purchases of the national pro.
perty. This intelligence, which we guarantee as en-
tirely worthy of credit, seems to us the more extraordi-
nary, because the capital arising from the sale of national
property was, as is known, solemnly destined to the
payment of the old debts of the State, and because the
Cortes had already, in 1843, positively refused to with-
draw it from that destination to apply it to the execution
of roads, of which M. Salamanca was to have been the
entrepreneur. But at that time M. Salamanca was not
Minister; and, besides, does it not suffice for a measure
to present the character of illegality to cause it to be
sooaer or later adopted by the Spanish Government?"
The niece of Prince CZARTORYSSI, the Countess
DE LA ROCHE-POUCHIN, died last week at Neuilly.
Colonel VALsIN D'ESTERHAZY, of the 74th Regi-
ment, in garrison at Paris, leaves this week for Tunis,
where he is to be employed, at a salary of ao,ooof.
per annum, in organizing the troops of the BEY.
M. TESTE, it is said, was so deeply affected on
hearing the judgment of the Court of Peers read to
him on Saturday, that, for a time, there was great
alarm that he would suffer from a congestion of the
brain, but the assiduous attention paid by him to Dr.
ROUGET, the physician to the Luxembourg, saved
him. The contusion occasioned by the pistol ball
had assumed such a character that it was necessary
to apply leeches. It is feared that an abscess is form-
ing. In the course of Saturday evening General
CUBIERES paid his fine of 10,000 f., also I,ooof. for
his portion of the costs, and I,ooof. for the decline de
guerre, whereupon he was immediately set at liberty.
The Bourse was exceedingly firm on Monday. Stock and
Shares rose in a sensible degree. After having been at
77f. 90c., the Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 85c. The Five
per Cents. rose to 1181. 90c., but finished at 11Sf. 70c.
Northern Shares reached 580 f. (ex. div.), but as in respect of
Stock the realisation of profits brought them down towards
the close of business 1%f., namely, to 5783/4, which was,
however, a rise of 3341., as compared with Saturday's prices.
Bordeaux rose 21/2f. Rouens rose at one moment to 977%,
but closed at 97614.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 77f. 85c.; the Five per Cents. at 1181. 70c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,280 f. ; Rouen, 976 f. 25c. ; Havre,
647 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 578 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 631 f. 25c. ;
Vierzon, 5921. 50c.; Bordeaux, 492 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 310 f. ;
Basle, 1821. 50c. • Paris and Strasburg, 422 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 433 f. 75C.; Lyons and Avignon, 437 f. 50c.; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 460 t. ; Spanish Actives, 291. , • ditto Three
per Cents., 3214. ; ditto Passives, 4%f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,JuLv 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1514-East Indian, -Luxem-
bourg, 11/2-Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), Id/4-North-
ern of 'France 123/4-Orleans and Bordeaux, 53/4-Paris
and Orleans, 50-Paris and Rouen, 381/2-Paris and Stras-
bourg, 41/2-Sambreland Meuse, 714-West Flanders, 3%.
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'HE DISSOLUTION.—We are enabled to state,
upon authority on which the utmost reliance may be
placed, that Parliament will certainly be prorogued on
Friday next, and that the dissolution will be announced
in the Gazette of the same evening. We believe that the
writs for the election of Members for the new Parlia-
ment are already prepared, and will be dispatched to the
various counties and boroughs by Friday's post.
HER MAJES TY'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager's box was last evening occupied by the
Viscountess Falkland, lion. Miss Mitchell, Hon. Miss
Wilson, and Mr. Kerry. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge honoured the theatre with his presence.
Amongst the company were the Duke of Wellington and
Mr. Arbuthnot, his Excellency the Duke de Broglie, the
Duke of Leeds, the Marquis of Huntly, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro, the Countess of Jersey and Lady
Clernentina Villiers, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of
Westmoreland, the Earl of Normanton, the Count and
Countess de Jarnac, Viscountess Dungannon and the
Misses Irvine, Viscount Ranelagh, the Count de Bearne,
the Count de Barbe, Lord Saltoun, Lord W. Lennox,
Lord and Lady 11. Paulett, Lady Dufferin, Lord Carew,
Lord 0. Fitzgerald, Lord G. Fitzgerald, Lord and
Lady Pollington, Lady Woodford, Lady Palmer, Lady
G. Palmer, Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset,
Lady Seymour, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, Mademoi-
selle Olga de Lochner, Baron Nicolay, Count Adrian de
Revel, Count Kielmansegge, M. C. Koudriasky, the
Hon. G. Byng, Sir A. Woodford, the Lord Mayor, Lady
Carroll, and the Misses Carroll, Sir R. and Lady Grant,
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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by the Baron and Lady Augusta Neumann,
Major Stevens, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Mildmay,
honoured the performance at this theatre with her pre-
sence on Tuesday evening. There were also present the
Duchess of Richmond, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Westminster and the Ladies Grosvenor, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Douro, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, the Dowager Countess of Essex, the Earl and
Countess of Wilton, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Vis-
count Canterbury, Viscount Templetown, Viscount
Chelsea, Viscount Dupplin, Viscount Cantilupe, Lord
and Lady Norreys, Lord Henry Lennox, the Hon. Lady
Ramsay, Lady Bellingham Graham, Lady Bicknell,
Viscount and Viscountess Hereford and the Misses
Blackburn, the Countess of Cardigan, Lady Lister
Kaye, the Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, M.P., the Hon.
Charles Spring Rice, Baron Palavicini, Hon. F. Byron,
Hon. J. W. Mlles,, Hon. George and Mrs. Cadogan,
Hon. Mr. Petro, Hon. A. D. Willoughby, lion. Captain
Forester, Sir George Warrender, Sir Richard Paul
Joddrell, Sir R. Vyvyan, M.P., Sir Charles and Lady
Cecilia des Vceux, Sir Henry iWebb, Sir William de
Bathe, Sir Alexander and Lady Spearman, Sir Charles
Kent, Sir W. Abdy, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir
Michael Shaw Stewart, Sir Andrew Barnard, Field
Marshal and Mrs. Grosvenor, Mr. W. Wilshere, M.P.,
Mr. C. P. Leslie M.P., Mr. H. T. Hope, Lady Lawley,
Sir William Ball, Major Mountioy Martyn, Mr. Har-
court Johnstone, Mr. Charles Greville, the Hon. Colonel
Upton, &c.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The match which
was fixed for the 22d inst. has, we aro informed, been
postponed.