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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1S

b, 5, the Heir of Knowsley, in pursuance of the pledge
Tr( iluntarily given in the House of Lords when ex-
-I►;laining the causes which prevented him from forming
a. Ministry, when his SOVEREIGN had confided to his
tilde the necessary authority for the construction
o,i! a Cabinet. Lord STANLEY then deliberately stated
t o the effect, that if there should not be a majority
n, favour of protection, he would make no further
utempt to reverse the free-trade legislation of late
p 3ars. In this resolution be will be supported by
e Honourable Gentleman the Member for Buck-
iq the recognized leader of the party
in the House of Commons. An appeal to the
co untry may, therefore, be regarded as an expiring
eft ort, a last convulsive struggle, which they will not
willingly enter upon under present circumstances,
a a with the defeats at the Isle of Wight and Har-
ve ich before their eyes. We may therefore find that
tb a immediate effect of these contests will be to pro-
d e .ce greater moderation on the part of the Opposi-
tiiion, and to induce them to refrain from grasping the
s e als of office, even if they should be placed within
t:h eir reach during the present session.

SALDANHA has now, by his triumphal entry into
L isbon, completed his revolutionary conquest of Pore
tet gal. The old obstructions are entirely removed
fire= his pathway, and fortune has placed at his dis-
c r etion the conduct of a complete political reforms-
tie in. In all this his patriotic heart can only recog-
n ise the more distinctly those great responsibilities
which are inseparable from the exercise of a dictator
ip. Considering the magnitude and multiplicity of
tin e changes required in the system of administra-
tie )n, it must be confessed that SALDANHA stands
in a position not less difficult and embar-
rs ming than that in which PEPE stood for-
ce' erly when he undertook to carry out a series
NC comprehensive reforms in the Neapolitan Govern-
= ent. After February, LAMAETINE had a puzzling
ifilee 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 Debriezen, after the repulse of the Austrians be-
yondti the Danube, and especially and peculiarly after
h.olle seizure of the fortified city of Buda, KOSSUTH
in this ewer da tremendous effort still to make for the political
liberation of Hungary • but it should be remembered
th at
ergenc; he was seconded by military
lii eitenants
K LAPICA, ando remarkable ability —by Best, by
of the
veteran, howeverby DEMBINSKI. With the iliuetrious
Portuguese
has now undertaken the eman-
cipationej one to look to for the completion _e
has, urese affairs are very differently
situated. n
the present moment, himself
of the grand labour
off innovations upon (
to gether with this circumstance,
be red the fact, that never,
forms required at the hands
His predecessors in office had
to pollute the very fountain head
he has adventured. And,
vh should be remem-
of perhaps, were larger re.
contrived
individual.
of
justice, that
needs no small amount of skill t
-° Purify whatathas
it
be en so long, and sedulously contaminated. Aware '
of this, aware of the courage also which is
absolutely necessary upon this occasion, conscious of
Llee, sLDANHA has
the
and industryself-reliance,
anadpf..reiiironp;itudewAanting, no less than
audacity 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-
tion. Functionaries in almost every one of the
Provinces of Portugul are being dismissed in succes-
sion from the exercise of powers which they have :as-
sumed only to abuse, and retained only to
renner more generrlly detestable. These per-
sonages be Las in most instances replaced by
Se..ptembriitas of
potriotism. Nevertheless,
nfoorsmapirlotyabmi
amount of

The House of Commons sat yesterday at Twelve,
Lord H. V&N moved the second reading of the Coro.
ne rs' 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. Atom/um
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. Pacxx 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 WIaRAM CRAWFORD
ws:s yesterday placed at the head of the poll by a ma-
jority of six, the extraordinary influence of Mr.
Jour; ATTWOOD, of electioneering notoriety, to the
contrary notwithstanding. Although that gentle-
man 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, he
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 Most
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 BEOUGISTON 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. Pam-
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 illustratio❑ 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
he returns have been favourable even in cases so un-
p Tomising as those of the Isle of Wight and Harwich ;
t he former being, as we stated yesterday, a purely
a gricultural constituency, the fancied stronghold of
tl ie " territorial aristocracy," the landed proprietors
:b sing almost to a man residents in the island, and
tit ;raining their powers to the very uttermost in behalf
their favourite the latter being the very citadel of
" Attwoodism," the scene of the incessant attempts of
t h at " injured patriot" to repeal the Reform Bill and
rt :-establish the boroughmongering system in all its
a.z icient perfection. Where is the majority to be ob-
t a iced that is to maintain Lord STANLEY and his
E i srty in office when the RUSSELL Ministry have been
e j ected by the defection of the Irish Members and
th e factious votes of " The Brigade ?" It is manifest
eh at the first fruits of an appeal to the country will
LH 1 the final and formal abandonment of a bread-tax