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been returned fer adopting a course that would not ad-
vance my country's interests." The electors of South
Nottingham have rejected the representative whose
only fault consisted in preferring their interests
to his own It is left for the men of the north to
repair the injury, to do honour to themselves by honour-
ing him. The very day after his rejection in the south Lord
LINCOLN was nominated on the hustings of Mansfield. The
protectionists had anticipated an easy triumph ; Lord HENRY
BENTINCK was to " walk over " the course. A young and
untried man, he was powerfully supported because he be-
lOnged to the PORTLAND family and the protection party.
Mr. MILNER proposed him as a fit and proper person, and
calling himself "an old student of the science of
political economy," he gave a proof of his wisdom by the
following extraordinary declaration :—" As an honest man and
an Englishman, he would sooner buy his hats in Mansfield
or Worksop, or Nottingham, than of a Dutchman or a
Frenchman, though he had to pay dearer for them." Now
this may appear very honest and English to Mr. MILNER, but
it is totally at variance with the principles of political
economy. It i 3 a poor patriotism that would only en-
courage home manufactures. If every one, like Mr. MieNEs,
were to buy everything at home, notwithstanding the cost,
would foreign nations not follow our example, and pay dearer for
their own goods rather than take ours, and where would be
our commerce, the source of all our wealth and power? Mr.
Mit.Nes had possibly not considered the subject, neither had
he considered the present state of the country when he pro-
posed a young Lord, whose chief recommendation was his
zeal for protection. Lord HENRY BENTINCIe, the new can-
didate, made a speech, hie first public speech,
in which he proved his sense and judgment
by speaking of the Ministers as " our, present worst enemies."
On the eve of a battle, NAPOLEON turned to a youth, who
was urging him to proceed, " When you have commanded
in thirty pitched battles, presume to advise me." And with
like presumption this young Lord dares to speak of Minis-
ters, who have been taught by experience, and who are now
at every cast, proving themselves the true friends of the
country. While Lord HENRY was speaking shouts
were heard in the distance, and amid general
cheering the glorious news of the division was announced
The protectionists turned pale as the united voice of the peo-
ple celebrated the triumph of " their worst enemies." The
"farmer's friends" also received another blow in the nomina-
tion of the Earl of LINCOLN. Mr. BAILY, of Basford, came
forward to propose him, and in spite of the unseemly inter-
ruptions of gentlemen on the hustings, he boldly declared
that although Lord LINCOI24 was not there, he would not
only nominate him " but get him in. It was not the first
time a subaltern had achieved a victory in the absence of the
general ; he had not expected to take part in an
electioneering contest, but 'he circumstances were such that
any man who had feeling left in him, must, as he did, fling
himself into the struggle, with warm blood and spirits high,
and fight for peace, and liberty, and independence." To-
morrow the contest will take place, and it remains to be seen
whether the electors of the northern division wilt give their
votes for an untried candidate and a worn-out cause, or range
themselves under the banners of those who are now all powerful
only because they are acting for the people's good, and in
accordance with the wants and wishes of the people.

The majorityofninety-sevedecisive of the success of Sir
RostEra PEEL'S measure in the House of Commons. It is
possible, it is true, that some Conservatives who voted with
Sir R. PEEL on Saturday morning may fall off in future
divisions, and we have heard of two or three Members likely
to take this course. They would not be a party to so strong
an opposition as a refusal to go into Committee to consider
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S proposals; bat when the several facts of
the measure come to be considered in Committee, and
when the Bills to be founded on the resolutions in Com-
mittee come before the House, they will tote against
the Minister. But not many are likely to take this course;
and, on the other hand, the protectionists may make sure that
some of their rank and file will fall off in future divisions.
All the two hundred and forty are not animated by the same
zeal in the cause as the Mit.asEs and BANKESES and Cor.Qu-
HOURS—the expectants of office under the Duke of RICH-
MOND. Sir T. ACLARD declared that, though intending to
give his vote against Sir R. PEEL in the first division, has
would be no party to a factious and vexatious opposition, and
that a decided majority in favour of the Government would
determine him to keep aloof from all subsequent opposition.
There are manyother moderate Conservatives—men with strong
attachment to Sir R. PEEL and who have voted against him
with the greatest reluctance—men who have given their
votes against the proposal, less from strong aversion to it on
their own parts, than in obedience to the feelings of consti-
tuents—who will follow Sir I'. ACLAND'S example. The pro-
tectionists will never muster two hundred and forty again
That two hundred and forty was a convulsive effort. It is to
be observed, also, that the number of absent Liberals is
greater than that of absent Tories. The whole number of
the absent, allowing for North Nottinghamshire, Wigan
and Bridport, as vacant, was seventy-one. Of these
twenty-six are accounted for as paired. Of the re-
maining forty-five only fifteen are Tories, and
thirty are Liberal Members. Mr. WATSON and Mr.
GRANGER, who were among the Liberal absentees, were
compelled to go on circuit, and Mr. RICARDO, we are in-
formed, was compelled to go on business to Paris; and these
three gentlemen would have been in the division if the de-
bate bad not been so unreasonably protracted. We regret to
see that so many as eighteen Irish Liberal Members are
absent, on a question of which Irish famine is a principal in-
gredient. However, we may infer that the Government will
on future occasions have the benefit of the votes of several
of the thirty Liberal Members who were absent on Friday
without Fairs. And if North Nottinghamshire is to return
anot;:er protectionist recruit, Bridport is safe to return a sup-
porter of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy.
We rejoice to hear, on the best authority, that the Govern-
ment measure is safe in the Lords, and that it will be carried
in that House by a majority of not less than thirty. Our
readers may rely on this statement, and disregard all the
blustering of protectionist Dukes and newspapers, who blus-
ter the more about the House of Lords only, because they
know that they have no chance in that House.

Madrid papers of the 22d ult. abound with rumours, but
bring no news that can be depended upon. It was currently
reported that the new Finance Minister was to commence
his career by cutting down the expenses of the army and the
Royal Family. If he wishes to remain in office he bad better
refrain from this species of economy, for CHRISTINA and NAR-
VA= to a certainty would oust him in a week. Another
report was, that there wculd be a modification of the Minis-
try, and that IsTURITZ and MmAFLortEs would give place to
RobleAm and NARVAEZ• The English Ambassador gave a
splendid ball on the night of the 21st, which was attended
by upwards of 800 persons.

- On the 21st the Three per Cents. closed at 32% at 60 days,
and the Five per Cents. at 239 at 60 days.

The French Minister of Finance has at last introduced into
the Chamber of Deputies a Bill for the reduction of postage
on letters. He proposes fer single letters that the charge
shall be two sous, when the distance does not exceed twenty
), four sous, the distance not
kilometres (1214- English miles
exceeding forty kilometres, and increasing in the same ratio
up to ten sous for a single letter, the maximum postage pro-
posed for the whole of France. The Bill did not appear to
meet a favourable reception in the Chamber, as a more
radical change, something like our penny postage, was ex-
pected. Some of the journals contain further remarks on the
late battles in India ; and we may say all that have commented
en the results have done full justice to the bravery of the British
troops. The Constitutionnel, the organ of the ex-Minister,
who has such a cordial antipathy to England, is even com-
plimentary, and blames Sir HENRY HARDINGE, not for hay-
ing too small an army on the frontier, but for provoking the
contest by assembling along the frontier sense 17,000 men.
"The General-in-Chief in India," says that journal, "is cer-
tainly right to congratulate himself on the victory, which,
however, was dearly purchased, although, after the official
reports, the number of killed and hounded is not so great
as the private letters had represented it. But as to the
term criminal given to the incursion of the Seiks or: the
territory of their brethren, protected by the Company, it is
not in any way justifiable, if it be borne in mind that the
concentration of English troops on the frontier of the
Punjaub had continued for several months, without
any explanation being vouchsafed to the Government
of Lahcre. That the Seikbs, when menaced with an
armed intervention should have made the first movement,
and fallen on the divisions separated from each other by con-
siderable distances, and should have thus endeavoured to
anticipate the blow destined for them, is nothing but a good
piece of strategy. The epithet of criminal must not there-
fore be given to the combinations of the enemy, which only
aimed at defending its independence with greater chances of
success, and displayed more courage and cleverness than was
expected. With this reservation, we join completely in the
eulogium which the army of India, as well European as na-
tive, has merited on the part of its General, and of the
mother-country." The Special Committee appointed to
examine the extraordinary vote of a million sterling for
Africa, after some discussion, bad resolved on maintaining the
limits proposed in 1830, which include the territory lying
between the sea, the frontier of Sahara, and Tell, Morocco
and the Regency of Tunis. According to accounts from
Bordeaux, the free -traders in France are imitating the ex-
ample of the League in more ways than one. On Monday
last they held a meeting in the principle theatre of that town
a very large building, when the Mayor and some half- a-
dozen members of the Association made speeches suitable
to the occasion. The Mayor proposed to raise subscriptions
for carrying out their views. At the conclusion, he an-
nounced that the members of the Association present had
subscribed 11,000 f., and that subscriptions bad already been
received to the amount of 50,000 f. We copy from the
Journal des Debuts the following impartial remarks respecting
United States :
the probable results of a war between England and the

" It is for the advantage of the Union to remain at peace with
England. The first interest of a people before whom a question of
war is placed is, to avoid certain defeat. To all men of sound sense
it must be evident, as well at Washington as in London, that the first
campaign must turn to the advantage of Great Britain, for that
. tpositiong blockade,ii
power has for several years past been making immense preparations.
Ships and steamers, stores, sailors and marines, are all ready in her
arsenals. America, on the contrary, has nothing to oppose to her for-
midable adversary. The agricultural commercial, and manufacturing
interests would suffer immensely fr`om A war. Cotton, which forms
the principal article of American exportion, would, by a rigorous
hokbeplococtkuniundtryeth4eilivpthoeuirase. of New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston,
and Savannah. War would prove the ruin of the greatest part of the
capitalists in the twelve or thirteen states who cultivate that precious
siemeinnige itilsieant Eavnygllaviiiil laenil.
article.d The commerce of the ports of New York, Boston, Phila-
.th°Pida, and Baltimore, -which have dispensed so much 2apital
throughout
able her to do so. The only retaliation which America could inflict
WOUld he by mealy of her cruisers and her privateers. These wold
bpeordtess, tfrooryfider,