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London, England, 1851-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 185

SALDANHA has now, by his triumphal entry into
Lisbon, completed his revolutionary conquest of Por-
tugal. The old obstructions are entirely removed
from his pathway, and fortune has placed at his dis-
cretion the conduct of a complete political reforma-
tion. In all this his patriotic heart can only recog-
nise the more distinctly those great responsibilities
which are inseparable from the exercise of a dictator-
ship. Considering the magnitude and multiplicity of
the changes required in the system of administra-
tion, it must be confessed that SALDANHA stands
in a position not less difficult and embar-
rassing than that in which PEPE stood for-
merly when he undertook to carry out a series
of comprehensive reforms in the Neapolitan Govern-
ment. After February, LAMAKTINE had a puzzling
office to fulfil; but in the labour of its fulfilment he
was aided by many intelligent and conscientious
fellow-citizens. After the breaking up of the retreat
at Debriczen, after the repulse of the Austrians be-
yond the Danube, and especially and peculiarly after
theth seizure of the fortified city of Buda, KOSSUTH
had a tremendous effort still to make for the political
liberation of Hungary; but it should be remembered
at
in this emer enc he was seconded by military
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forms required at the hands
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to pollute the very fountain head oiv ef
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needs no small amount of skill to purify
what has
been so long and sedulously contaminated. Aware
of this, aware of the courage also which
absolutely necessary upon this occasion, conscious
of
the industry and promptitude wanting, no less than
audacity and self-reliance, SALDANHA has already
evinced his possession of all these qualities by
the sweeping changes effected even now through his

instrumentality. By a few dashes of his pen he is
discharging on all hands the enemies of the constitu•
ti°ll. Functionaries in almost every one of the
provinces of Portugal are being dismissed in succes-
sion
from the exercise of powers which they have as-
sumed only to abuse, and retained only to
render more generally detestable. These per-
sonages be has in most instances replaced by
Septembristas of reputation for probity and
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The House of Commons sat yesterday at Twelve,
Lord II VANE moved the second reading of the Coro
nets' Bill.

Mr. FITZROY moved as an amendment, that the Bill
should be referred to a Select Committee. A short dis•
cussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. AGLIONBY,
Sir G. STRICKLAND, and Mr. WAKLEY spoke in favour
of the Bill, and Mr. R. PALMER and Mr. B. DENISON
against it. Ultimately, on the suggestion of Sir G.
GREY, the amendment was agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be referred to a Select Committee.

The House then resolved itself into Committee on the
Railway Audit Bill, which was defeated on an amend-
ment moved by Mr. PACXE by 62 to 56.

The County Courts Further Extension Bill was read a
second time, and the House adjourned.

The noble example afforded by the constituency of
the Isle of Wight, in the return of the Free-trade
candidate, has been well followed up by the electors
of Harwich. Mr. ROBERT WIGRAAI CRAWFORD
was yesterday placed at the head of the poll by a ma-
jority of six, the extraordinary influence of Mr.
JOHN ATTWOOD, of electioneering notoriety, to the
contrary notwithstanding. Although that gentle-
men was supposed to hold the representation of the
borough in his hands, to be enabled to constitute
any person he thought fit to nominate a
Member of the Imperial Parliament, be
had, unquestionably, adequate reasons for not
coming forward himself on the occasion, or
claiming the most sweet voices of his friends and
neighbours, many of whom had had the most sub-
stantial grounds for arraying themselves under the
blue standard. A certain awkward report of an
Election Committee prevented the would-be patron
of the borough from attaining for himself the honour
which it was generally supposed he had the power of
conferring upon another. It was necessary, there•
fore, to provide a suitable substitute, or " warming-
pan," as we believe it is generally termed in Parlia-
mentary phraseology, and Mr. HENRY MORT
PRINSEP, a director of the East India Company,
was selected for the enviable position.
Mr. PRINSEP, however, has not had much cause for
self-gratulation on account of the honour thus be-
stowed on him. It is true that he was placed in a
quasi majority at the election which took place on the
elevation of Lord BROUGIITON to the peerage. But he
had a high-minded British merchant as his opponent,
a man who would defend to the last the interests con•
fided to his charge. It was too bad that an important
town should be degraded into the position of a nomi-
nation borough, or that it should even for a moment
be supposed that the glorious cause of commerce, unre-
stricted and unimpeded, had lost ground. A petition was
therefore presented against the election of Mr. PRIN-
SEP, and after a most determined and expensive con-
test the election was declared null and void, and a
new writ issued. The same candidates again came
forward, and we have seen the result. The
Free-trader has triumphed—the vanquished of March
has become the victor of May. The re-action,
so loudly and so vauntingly proclaimed at the Pro-
tectionist gatherings, and through the columns of
Protectionist journals, which excited hope in the
bucolic heart, and apparently exercised a galvanic in.
fluence on the corpse of the monster monopoly, has
received a fitting illustration in the recent contests.
What can now be anticipated from an appeal
to the country ? Can it for a moment
be imagined that the general results would
be injurious to the cause of Liberalism, when
the returns have been favourable even in cases so un-
promising as those of the Isle of Wight and Harwich ;
the former being, as we stated yesterday, a purely
agricultural constituency, the fancied stronghold of
the " territorial aristocracy," the landed proprietors
being almost to a man residents in the island, and
straining their powers to the very uttermost in behalf
of their favourite the latter being the very citadel of
" Attwoodisrn," the scene of the incessant attempts of
that " injured patriot" to repeal the Reform Bill and
re-establish the boroughmongering system in all its
ancient perfection. Where is the majority to be ob-
tained that is to maintain Lord .STANLEY and his
party in office when the RUSSELL Ministry have been
ejected by the defection of the Irish Members and
the factious votes of " The Brigade ?" It is manifest
that the first fruits of an appeal to the country will
be the final and formal abandonment of a bread-tax
by the Heir of Knowsley, in pursuance of the pledge
voluntarily given in the House of Lords when ex-
plaining the causes which prevented him from forming
a Ministry, when his SOVEREIGN had confided to his
hands the necessary authority for the construction
of a Cabinet. Lord STANLEY then deliberately stated
to the effect, that if there should not be a majority
in favour of protection, he would make no further
attempt to reverse the free-trade legislation of late
year 3. In this resolution be will be supported by
the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Buck-
inghamshire, the recognized leader of the party
in the House of Commons. An Appeal to the
country may, therefore, be regarded as an expiring
effort, a last convulsive struggle, which they will not
willingly enter upon under present circumstances,
mud with the defeats at the Isle of Wight and Har-
wich before their eyes. We may therefore find that
the immediate effect of these contests will be to pro-
duce greater moderation on the part of the Opposi-
tion, and to induce them to refrain from grasping the
seals of office, even if they should be placed within
their reach during the present session.

GERMAN Y.
The Augsburg Gazette, under date of Nurem-
berg, 23d inst., gives the following details of the dis-
turbance which had taken place in that city :
" The Council of Administration of the poor bad de-
cided on placing in good families, in the country, several
orphan children, in order to secure to them a better edu-
cation. Some persons, however, fancied that the parties
with whom they were to be placed had not been pre-
viously intormed of what was intended, and the public
mind became greatly agitated in consequence, and in the
evening a considerable number of people assembled in
the public square. It was said among the crowd that
the Council pad come to the decision with regard to
these orphan children, in consequence of orders received
from the Government at Munich, which wished to have
the children brought up as Cathuliel, and to make the
girls nuns and the boys mocks. The police endeavoured
in vain to refute these erroneous ideas. The bead of
the police, M. Rieder, was insulted, and compelled to
seek refuge in an inn, the windows of which were broken
as were those of another house in which it was supposed
some priests of the mission were concealed. The com-
mandant of the town, who endeavoured to persuade the
crowd to disperse, was received with loud hooting. The
troops wero afterwards called out, and the crowd was
dispersed, and several arrests took place."
The Augsburg Gazette states from Vienna that
the Austrian budget for 1850 shows a deficit of
77,161,633 florins.

H GAR Y.
ARREST OF THEN COUNTESS TELEBY.
The Breslaw Gazette of the 25th has the follow-
ing :—" A great sensation has been created in Hun-
gary by the arrest of the Countess TELEX; and her
companion Madame ERDELY, at Belfalvo. They have been ordered for trial by a court-martial
at Peterwarden. It is said that the Countess has been
the medium of a correspondence between the refugees
in London and Asia Minor and their partisans in
Hungary. Some of this correspondence has been ,
seized.'

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Copenhagen in a Belgian journal
states that at a Cabinet Council held on the 23d,
under the presidency of the King of DENMARK, the question of the succession to the throne of Denmark
was positively settled in favour of the young Prince
CHRISTIAN, of Glucksburg, who will be adopted by
the KING. In the event of the death of the Pitirics,
his rights will be transmitted" 'to "his descendants, to
the exclusion of the AuguAenburg branch, the mem-
ben of which in quality of first agnates, have a right
to the Sovereignty of the Duchies of Schleswig.l3ol.
stein after the death of the KING GRAND DIJILE. The
decision of the Danish Government will require
the ratification of the Chambers, and it is expected
that they will be shortly convoked for that purpose.
At the breaking up of the Council, the Danish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. DE &EDT; em..
barked for Warsaw, in order to be himself the bearer
of the resolution of the Danish Government to the
Emperor of RUSSIA.

GREECE.
Athens journals of the 18th have arrive.
13th,
King OTHO arrived in his capital on the by
be Austrian war-steamer Vulcain. As soon as the
d steamer was seen in the offing, the QUEEN, accom-
panied by the Ministers and the aides-de-camp of the
liirto, embarked on board the Othon steamer, and
went out to meet him. On landing at the Piraeus,
their MAJESTIES were received by all the authorities,
and by au immense concourse of people; they then
went to the principal church, where a Te Deum was
sung; after which, they proceeded to their palaee,
amidst the loudest acclamations. On the following
ad-
dressed hiTsoblife:GoJursreseTtikv
day, a deputation from the Chamber of Deputies,
beaded by its President, went to the Palace, and
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of its devotedness. The exalted wisdom whieL
our august Queen has displayed in the govern
went during the, nine mouths of your absence
adds to the respect with which your Majesty inspires the country.. The Greek people has under this circum-
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