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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1856.

The Addresses have been duly proposed in both
Houses. That in the Lords has been carried,
not without remonstrance, but without a division.
The Earl of MALMESEURY spoke boldly and une-
quivocally. He adduced abundant reasons to
show that the terms obtained could not be
deemed satisfactory by the People. He there-
fore truly declared that the expressions " joy and
satisfaction" were by no means warranted. But
-while he shoWed an inclination to move an
amendment, he carefully abstained from so doing,
so that no opportunity was afforded his brother
Peers of recording their votes against the fdlsome
"toadyism" to which they were made parties. The
House accepted the " joy and satisfaction" with
edifying humility expressed an unanimous
opinion that Peace was re-established on con-
ditions honourable to her MAJESTY'S Crown, and
fully wcomplished the great object for which the
War was undertaken ! An abundance of " the
mysterious condiment, well-known as German
Paste," or what Captain MA.RRYAT termed " flap-
doodle," was patiently swallowed. Lord DERBY
also made a manly speech, but he moved no
amendment. He especially protested against the
unnecessary, uncalled for, and unconstitutional
alteration in the maritime code of England, and
which, as he truly declared, has gone counter to
the declaration of every Statesman at every period
of our history, and which abrogates the principle for
the maintenance of which we have stood against
foreign combinations, awl resisted foreign invita-
tions to the conclusions of treaties, and which we
have stood `by as the sheet anchor of our Naval
Power. This act was "done in the dark, without
the knowledge of Parliament." The Minister
sent and trusted by the country to conduct nego-
tiations for restoring peace on certain bases known
to the country took advantage of his position
to make an important alteration in the maritime
law of England, " without our having the least
idea that such, our birthright, was given away."
The matter cannot rest here. Indignant protests
are not sufficient against conduct which should be
the subject of an impeachment, and which requires
exemplary punishment for the wanton betrayal
of our most cherished rights.
But although we cannot greatly congratulate
ourselves on the proceedings in the Lords, they
were far better than these that have hitherto
taken placa in the Commons. The speeches of
Lords MAL3IESEURY and DERBY, though leading
to no practical resultq, might at least be regarded
as honest protests, proceeding from two of the re-
cognised leaders of a great, party—the former
Noble Lord having filled the office of Foreign
Secretary, and the latter of First Lord of
the Treasury. But in the Commons there
was no man of high position or standing
who thought it necessary to give expression to
his views or feelings. Lord JOHN MANNERS,
" who did not oppose the reception of the Ad-
dress, although he objected to some of its terms,"
certainly held office, but it was in a subordinate
capacity, as Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests—nor can it be quite forgotten that ho is
brother to the Marquis of Ch
A. 1413; who has let
slip no single opportunity for arraying himself on
the side of Russia. While Lord CLAUDE HAIM-
.,
Earl of TON is merely step-son to the f A
BERDEEN-
-the "dear and excellent friend of forty years'
standing" to the original aggressor—the Minister
whose culpable apathy and indifference per.

witted the nation " to drift into the War," Which
might have been averted by any decided demon-

stration or energetic protest, The Noble Lord
certainly struck the Government on a very tender
spot. He explained the gross desertion of the
brave Circassians, and moved the omission of the
word " joy," so wholly unwarranted, and to sub-
stitute " to a great extent the objects of the War,"
for the declaration that they had been fully
accomplished ! Trifling as it was, even this was
something ; but what must be the condition of the
House of Commons when we are obliged to rest our
hopes on such a diluted and milk-and-water propo-
sition.

The speech of the Earl of CLARENDON—the
successful (!) negotiator—however, showed that
it was not through any mistake that the brave

Circassians were surrendered to the tender mercy
of the AUTOCRAT. He tried to show that they
had " n& great clai, to the bonsideration of Eng-

land," and therefore they have wilfully and de-
liberately been abandoned to their fate. As "we
had obtained no military successes on the Circas-
sian coasts, we could impose no terms on Russia."
Is this an argument befitting an English States-
man ? Might we not, at least, have stipulated
that the dismantled forts should not be recon-
structed ? that Russia should make no fur-
ther onslaught on the Citadel of Asia Minor.
If &MAIM. had been comparatively inactive
within the last two years, it was because
he had no reason to repose confidence in
the Allies. They sought not his assistance,
tendered no pledges to obtain his aid. Had
proper means been taken the prophet chief would
have proved an invaluable auxiliary. But he is
now condemned and abandoned to his fate because
he did not of his own accord array himself under
our banners. This disgraceful abandonment of
the Circassian tribes will be one of the blackest
among the many dark spots on the British
escutcheon in connection with the recent War.

But it is not in Parliament merely that this de-
plorable "toadyism" to the powers that be is
manifested. We find it also in but too many of
the ptiblic journals. We rejoice to say that
there are many of our contemporaries who have
remained "faithful to the last," and who well
merit the confidence of the People. But the
Leviathan, who, if it suited its purposes, would
have hurled its heavieit thunders against those
who sacrificed the honour and interests of the
country, has thought fit, once more, to exhibit
its chameleon-like properties, and to sot the ex-
ample' of tergiversation. The Treaty is now
"satisfactoryand honourable"—(honourable, GOD
save the mark !)—all its old protests are forgotten.
It has again jumped into the Aberdeenite policy,
which it maintained while it was possible
to do so. It would almost seem as if the spirit
of Sir PERTINAX MCSYCHOPLIANT regulated its
leading articles, and that its sole object was to
show the ease with which it could " boo, and
boo, and boo," before those whom it supposes to
have obtained a prolonged tenure of office.
From Parliament and the dependent, toadying
Press, we appeal to the national feeling. We
believe the Peace has not merely been accepted
without enthusiasm, but with intense disgust and
indignation. We look for more independent Re-
presentatives, who will not shrink from avowing
their real sentiments, who will not strive to curry
favour with the prevailing influences at the ex-
pense of every honourable feeling. We believe
that seeds have bean sown that will produce fruit
in due season, which will be by no means satis-
factory to the adherents of Germanism.

The schoolmaster—we are told—is abroad, just
now, in the streets of London, ink-horn in hand,
about to re-christen some of our public thorough-
fares ! The Commissioners recently empowered
to set on foot as many improvements as possible
in the general re-organisation of our metropolis
indicate—in other words—an intention to name
all over again certain " damnably iterated " lanes,
rows, courts, streets, roads, places, squares, villas,
terraces ! Localities, north, south, east, and
west, bearing the very same titles, again and again
repeated, in a manner the most frightfully tauto-
logical. Good luck, say we, go with the Com-
missioners in this their very laudable undertak-
ing ! We look to them for a vast deal in the
way of general improvement, but for not one
alteration more desirable than the identical
change here indicated. We sadly want them, of
course, among other things to sweep away that
abominable " Middle-row," which is to Holborn
at onto its greatest eyesore and its most grievous
obstruction. We want them more especially to
tumble down and earl away as so much rubbish
those filthy and dilapidated tenements packed
together between St. Mary-le-Strand and St.
Clement Danes—the principal blot upon the
Strand—the notorious abomination of Holywell-
street I The infamous street where the frouziest
old garments dangle in the Jew clothes-shops,
where the dirtiest old volumes in all the wide world
litter the squalid bookstalls, where the obscenest
prints that prurient imaginations can devise out-
rage public decency by daylight and by gaslight,
glaring through the foul window-panes upon every
luckless passer-by ! We want the Commissioners
to do away as quickly as possible with each hor-
rible nuisance in turn—sweeping away from the
surface of the earth both Holywell-street, Strand,
and Middle-row, Holborn. We want them to
open a carriage way into St. James's-park through
Spring-gardens, and another into the Gleen-park
from the western extremity of Pall-mall. We
want them to get somebody's statue put upon the
vacant pedestal in Trafalgar-square—the statue,
by the way, of somebody a little more respectable
than the " Royal Snob" whose effigy straddles one
of Chantrey's horses in the angle formed be-
tween Morley's Hotel and the National Gallery.
We want the Commissioners to do this, that, and
the other, here, there, and everywhere. But
nothing perhaps do we want them to do more than
the very thing they are said to meditate adven-
turing upon at last, namely, the task of rechris-
tening a variety of our London thoroughfares.

" What a wonderful man the Postman h!"
exclaims the Song of the Day, the song whistled
by every gamin, ground upon every barrel-organ,
thrummed upon every piano-forte. And a won-
derful person indeed that man-of-letters in the
red coat assuredly is—and in no respect more
wonderful than in the fact of his conveying the
correspondence of SMITH, BROWN, and JONES to

their right destination in spite of the bewildering
monotony of the same iterated and reiterated
superscriptions. A task of sufficient difficulty, it
must be allowed, to puzzle any one but a Post-
man, when it is remembered that there are in
London as many as twenty-six " Alfred" streets,
&e.—twenty-nine called " William" forty two
called " John"—and forty-eight called " Charles."
We are so immensely loyal again that we must
needs go and call thirty-eight different roads,
squares, places, (kc., by the name of " Albert,"
and curiously enough exactly the same number
(38) " Victoria." We are such miserable snobs,
too, in the way of Court sycophancy in the abstract,
that we must needs designate no less than twenty-

six by the title of " Regent" —as many as eighty-
one "Queen," and actually ninety-eight (two
short of a round hundred) " King." As if we
had found one unvarying standard of magnitude,
we call positively 126 "Little." And as though
we had arrived already at the millennium, and
Time were henceforth to be no more, and every-
thing and everybody had drunk of the waters of
perpetual youth, we designate 143 of our
streets "New." Not having the smallest fear of
the ghost of Mr. O'Coliztzt.r. before our eyes, we
fifty-eight of our streets after the
We don't at this moment exactly
I:,a uvenio cnal..l”ed
know how many rows of houses are entitled
" Belle-Vue" which can only just manage to see
over the way !—or how many godless lanes and
alleys are called " Church"-street and "Chapel"-

street I—or how many with nothing greener in
front of them than the area railings are termed

Park"-place, "Park"-viilas, " Park"- terrace !

But—there they are, right and left, hither and
thither, as plentiful as blackberries.

Can't we find some better names for our Lon-
don streets than these few very absurd ones, re-
peated over and over again, until we contrive to
render ourselves as tedious in the end as we were
ridiculous in the beginning ? Surely. A hint as
to what kind of names might be chosen in lieu of
the exceedingly preposterous ones we have already
employed usque ad nauseam, may be taken even
now—as it chances—here and there, from some
few of our existing street-corners. Have we not
already some of our great victories celebrated in
" Waterloo Bridge," and " Trafalgar Square,"
and "Copenhagen Fields ?" Have we not, even
as it is, mementoes already of some few among our
great poets in—" Byron Street ' and "Spencer
Street," in Bhakspere's Walk " and " Milton Ter-
race ?" At one spot we have called a square grate-
fully after " Nelson." At many others we have
christened street, road, square, row, place, mews,
wharf, chambers, and terrace with the name of
" Wellington." We have commemorated eminent
men of letters in " Johnson's Court " and in
" Addison Villas "—eminent statesmen in "Peel
Place" and " Walpole Street "—eminent versi-
fyers in " Cowper Street" and " Cowley Street"—

eminent philosophers in " Newton Road" and
" Verularn Buildings." Have we not other heroes,
other bards, othe; glories who might in a similarly
graceful manner be thus commemorated ? Enough
—verbum sap.—let us hope that this suggestion
may not be altogether lost upon the Commis-
sioners ! Then, some other of our great men gone
may say with SHAKSPERE'S

" . . Then shall our names,
Familiar in their mouths as household worth,—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter.
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their `crowded streets' freshly remembered.'

On Friday night the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer carried the second reading of his bill to
'evy the English duty on French fire insurances
by a large majority-133 against 31.. Indeed
it was manifestly impossible to leave the matter
in its present state. While English offices have
to pay 3s. 2d. per cont. on every insurance they
effect, and Is. 2d. fur each policy stamp besides,
Free Trade itself requires that the French offices
should not enjoy a protective immunity from the
tax. Such a state of the law must speedily trans-
fer to France every fire insurance in the kingdom.
The English offices themselves would become mere
agencies of French companies. No other bill than
the Government one was before the House, which
was therefore compelled to give it a second read-
ing in default of some better proposal.
We believe, however, as we have before stated,
that the bill will be evaded. The Parliamentary
debates have extensively advertised the French
offices. It is now generally known that insurance
can be effected at half price, and an immense
'Amount of them will certainly be done abroad.
To large insurers the saving will be an object,
and insurers for smaller amounts like as well to
save five or fifty shillings as their richer neigh-
bours to save five or fifty pounds. It will soon
he discovered that it is not necessary to be able
to learn to write French, in order to correspond
with a French office ; and any man who oan de-
scribe his property fairly in his mother tongue
will be able to get a policy direct from La France,
and from other French offices too. Sir CoRNE-
WALL LEWIS knows how patriotic we are, but he
must not tempt even our virtue by the irritation
of an absurdly exorbitant duty. As, to our more
venal fellow-citizens he may be sure that they will
not, if they can help it, pay double Income Tax
tud two hundred par cent. fire insurance duty, if
they can help it. The worthy Chancellor wants
us, indeed, to try how his bill will work—he is
pretty confident that he can stop contraband ex-
ercise of prudence iu guarding against risk from
ire. A little while ago, however, he was quite
as confident that no one would trust a French
iffice, and that no legislation was needed. He
finds now that insurers have more faith in French
honesty than be imagined. Our Government be-
ieves in the honour of our " great ally," and our
classes have about the same faith in the
:treat middle class of France.. Every French
,ffice will have English cm-respondents, who will
riot as agents " negotiate " insurances, but who
instruct persons how to act for thews :Ives, and

no enactment can reach such transactions.
have not the least doubt in the world that we
could obtain an immense amount of ins uranc.3 for
French office without rendering ourselves amen-
able to such a law as Sir C. LEWIS proposes.
If he will not, however, repeal the daty, the
July course worth trying is to reduce it to one
41,illing at least. Mr. HADFIELD has, we are glad

We

to see, given notice of an amendment in commit-
tee to that effect. Mr. HADFIELD ought to be
vigorously supported. The Lane tshire C)rnialny
sent a deputation to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, which urged the abolition of the duty ;
deputation from the Unity, we believe, did the
same ; and the British Empire Fire-office sent
petitions, from its members and others, with
some 17,000 signatures attached. If other fire-
offices would act with equal spirit the end would
be readily accomplished. The duty would, of
course, be laid on farming stock as on other pro-
perty, now that protection was abolished, and
this, with the large increase of insurances, would
go far towards raising the duty to its present
amount. A whole staff of officials also might be
got rid of at Somerset House, by taking the duty,
as in the case of railway companies, on the total
amounts insured each year, instead of requiring
minute accounts of every little policy. As rea-
sonably might every railway ticket bo taken to
Somerset House.

There is yet time for both offices and indivi-
duals to petition. We re3peetfully suggest that

it should be done. Sir C. LEwL3 is known to
waver. A considerable number of the members
have expressed themselves strongly in favour of
a reduction of the duty to one shilling ; the ma-
jority would gladly vote for it ; letters from con-
stituents to members and petitions would enable
them to do it with confidence. From what we
have ascertained, we believe that a very little
effort, on the part,of the community, would attain
the desired result. It is calculated, fairly, that
the injury to the revenue would be small, perhaps
a quarter of a million ; while the reduction
would enable persons to insure much more
largely at the same cost,, and induce thousands

to insure who will not pay tho exorbitant duty

in addition to the office premium.

WRECRS.—During the month of April 157 vessels
were wrecked. In the month of January the number
Wai 265; in Vehruary, 174 ; and in Altrch, 145 ;
making a total in the past four months of 741 vessels.

The well-known Spanish General. Pciin, wai married
in Paris on Saturday morning, at the Madeleine, to
Mdlle. Gonzales, of Aguero, a young lady of Mexican
birth, who brings to the general a dowry of 7,000,000 f.

REPRESENTATION OF LANCASTER, -The Lancaste
Guardian states that :ter. Robert Baynes Armstrong
has expressed his intention of appealing to the suffrages
of the electors at the first opportunity. Mr. Armstrong,
who comes forward on the liberal interest, will be op.
pssed, as has been already intimated, by Mr. Robert
Gladstone, of Manchester.
An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Jobn Mac-
kenzie and Co., Dalfast, was held on Thursday, when a
s'atement was presented, showing liabilities amounting
to 87,442/. and assets amounting t) 21,4031., and a
dividend of 4s. 61. in the puund was proposed and
adopted by the meeting.