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nature of the constituency who are to choose the
elected members. It is proposed that it shall be
composed of persons who have previously held
military commissions or civil appointments in
India in her MAJESTY'S service or in that of the
Government of India, or who may possess a direct
interest, to an amount to be specified, in some
property charged or secured on the revenues or
territories of India.
This will be the basis of the franchise. We
confess that we greatly regret that the first inten-
tion of giving representatives to soma large towns
trading largely with the East has been abandoned.
Men may have a considerable interest in the wel-
fare and prosperity of the Anglo-Indian Empire,
may possess the most accurate information as to
its wants and wishes without ever having trod its
soil, or possessing any securities charged on its
revenues. The addition of the mercantile element,
as proposed by the Government in the first
instance, would be a decided improvement, not
setting asido any of those contemplated by the
resolution, but making a large and valuable addi-
tion to the constituency.

It may now fairly be anticipated that no
further efforts will be made to give a factious
character to the proceedings, and that the inte-
rests of India and of the United Kingdom—for
they are indivisible—will alone be looked to.
The Whigs, albeit with a bad grace, have
acquiesced in the inevitable necessity of retaining
the present Government, which has hitherto given
so much satisfaction to the nation, that an appeal
to the country would bs decisive in its favour.
They can only inflict petty wounds, or indulge in--
"The whispered hint, the shrug, the hum or ha— '
The petty brands that calumny doth use."
Their organs are obliged to content themselves
with indicating the acts accomplished, or that will
be accomplished by their means. The Jew ques-
tion is virtually disposed of, the property qualifi-
cation abolished, and there are strong grounds for
hope that the Church-rate difficulty may be sur-
mounted even during the present session, and the
county franchise considerably extended, on the
principle indicated by Mr. LOCKE KING. We have
had the differences with France settled in a
manner creditable to both nations, have ob-
tained the liberation of , Mr. HODGE, and
not only the liberation, but handsome com-
pensation for WATT and PARK, and the restoration
of the Cagliari and her crew. These are great
achievements ; and surely the community at large
have reason to be thankful for the change which
substituted Lord DERBY for Lord PALMERSTON
Lord MALMESBURY for Lord CLARENDON. Mr.
DISRAELI—whose budget won the approbation
even of the Palmerstonians—for Sir G. C. LEwrs
—Sir JOHN PAKINGTON for Sir C. WOOD—Lord
STANLEY for Mr. VERNON SMITH, and Lord
CHELMSFORD for Lord CRANWORTH.

The leaders of the Liberal minority—the men
who taunt Lord DERBY with governing by a mi-
nority, and who yet, being themselves in a mino-
rity of sixty to two hundred and twenty, assume
to head what they call their party—these mino-
rity opposition leaders have at last taken fright.
Last Tuesday all these great men—Lords PAL-
MERSTON' and RITSSELL, Sirs G. C. LEWIS and•
CHARLES WOOD—all voted against the Ballot,
and enjoyed the enviable honour of
giving a majority of ninety-seven to
the party to which they are opposed. That
party, of course, acted reasonably as a party. How-
ever much we differ from them on the Ballot, we
cannot deny their wisdom in keeping together.
We have reason to know that there are those
among the Conservative party who do not
object to the Ballot, but they either
voted with their party or kept away.
The great Whigs could not, on Tuesday,
condescend to that. Like a great monarch of old,
they would say, "The Liberals—we are the Libe-
rals." They found out, however, their mistake:
They learned that, if they were the Liberals, then
there were no such beings as Tories, for, one and
al!, they found their great names associated with
all the good old representatives of landlord-ridden
counties and pocket boroughs. They counted up their
numbers, and, beheld ! they were just sixty against
two hundred and twenty-two, whom they had
deserted.

What should they do ? They would fain
have persuaded themselves that wherever
they were, there was the Liberal party.
Would not the country, on looking over
the division lists, believe that the names of
RUSSELL and PALMERSTON must prove any divi-
sion list to be a liberal ono ? Unfortunately, the
country would look at the tellers and see Vie
names of Sir W. JOLLIFFE and Col. TAYLOR ; it
would look again, and find not only the names cf
B. DISRAELI, Mr. WALPOLE, and other reason-
able Conservative", but those of all the old im-
moveable Tories—many even of the celebrated
fifty-three who gave extreme unction to Protection
in 1852. No ; the country would never be per-
suaded that that was the Liberal list ; it would
not believe that the great Whigs had brought
over such a host of Tories, and such Tories too ;
it woukt, it must believe, that PALMERSTON,
RUSSELL, and Co:, had gone to the Tories. That
would never do! It would strengthen the present
cry of " No difference between Whigs and
Tories." People would surely say, what
should we turn out the Tories for, if when
we are most in earnest for a Liberal measure,
they and the Whigs act heartily together. Some-
thing must, therefore, be done. The Whigs
must try and make-believe that they are not
Tories.

Now, we are not in the secret as to when the
meeting was held. Whether, as before
the CARDWELL resolution, there was a
Sunday meeting at Cambridge House, or whether
two " Lords" and two " Sirs" had a
pleasant dinner and champagne together, or
whether the lobby of :the House of Commons
sufficed—having no secret-service money to spare,
we have no spy reporters, our functionaries of
that class reporting only what every man has a
right to know—but somehow an understanding
was come to. There was Mr. LOCKE KING'S
County Franchise Extension for the 10th
--could not that be made to- redress the
awkward appearances of the 2d ? True,
under one pretext or another, they had all
managed to vote and speak against it before, but
pretexts might be found to vote for it now. First,
and chiefly, it would not give independence to the
counties ; the new voters would, in fact, be al.
most all of them, oven those in the small towns,
in the power of the landed gentry. Next, though
it is almost the same thing, it would not make
the voter absolute master of his own vote. Again,
they could spoil the thing in committee, a fact
PALMERSTON rather awkwardly let out. Then
they were quite sure the Lards would not pass it
—they would have been plagued enough already
with liberal measures. It would look nicely libe-
ral, yet, so far as their intentions went, there
should be no liberalism in it. For the second
reading of the bill, therefore, they would vote.
They.
would then, at least, for once .in the session,
b© separated
from the Tories, join again the
Liberals, and
be
So on Friday forth came e mthoerediviineioa m
n lisatjs ,ta rai tnyd.

the four leaders of the Liberal minority had
actually joined the Liberal majority, and saw
themselves therefore in a majority of fifty-eight
in the House of Commons itself. They, no
doubt, felt more comfortable ; yet the looks
of some of the staunch Liberals must
almost have said to them, " What you with us
again ; what does it mean ?" We hope you will
keep here now you have got here." Well, they
will keep there IF the staunch Liberals do but
"give them a bit of their mind." If they give
the ex-leaders to understand that, being the
Liberal majority, they do not intend to be danced
about by a small minority any longer—if they tell
them plainly—We mean to have our measures
carried, and if you don't carry them the Tories will
or shall—if they point to this session and
show them how much the independent Liberals
have gained by letting the Tories in—if they
assure them that they would rather have the
Property Qualification for members of the House
of Commons abolished, the Jews admitted to Parlia-
ment, and a Church-rate Abolition Bill sent up to
the Lords than the Whigs in office—if they
finally let them know that carrying the
Ballot is the only condition of return
to office, then the Four and their followers will
keep, where they appeared on Thursday night, at
the head of the Liberal majority, and may in due
time find their way back again to power.
As it is, they have plenty of time for repentance.
By voting against the Ballot they have excluded
themselves for this session, and they will have
till next February to show by their conduct that
they are real penitents. The country has noted
the change in position of the Liberal ex• Ministers
on Thursday night. It knows. full well the
reason ! Their conduct, then, must be very ex-
emplary. There must be no vacillation in com-
mittee, no shirking the most liberal view of the
clauses ; no dividing on any of them with the
Tories against the majority of Liberals, or we may
assure them that all is up with them. We do
not want to drive away our worthy old leaders,
but we want them to do two things, or we must
utterly renounce them—they must vote with the
majority of the party through whom they would
rule, and they must asaociato some of Cie popular
advanced Liberals with them in the next Cabinet.

The TAviathan has, during the last fortnight,
been daily "on view" at her moorings. For a
magical half-crown, procurable at Mr. SAms's
Library, at any reasonable hour between morning
and evening, the Londoners have been enabled in
swarms to be whirled down by railway, or in
shoals to be floated clown by water conveyance, to
that particular spot between Blackwall and Dept-
ford where the great monster steam.-vessel rides
at anchor—an object to every one who sees her of
perpetual wonder and admiration.
Although the mammoth ship is still so far from
a state of completion that it is calculated it would
take a thousand men five months' unceasing toil
day and night to fit her out entirely—there is
still, in all conscience, quite enough of her visible to
enable any reasonable mortal to arrive at some
adequate notion of her mat3hless magnitude and
of her unrivalled magnificence.

When Sir CII3ACK RON EY' s ingenious scheme for
carrying out the original project without any fur-
ther delay whatever shall have been consummated
as vigorously as it has certainly been commenced
—not very much, we fancy, will be left then to
mare conjecture. The stupendous reality will
then tangibly and palpably surpass the day-
dreams of all the day-dreamers who have
ever had romantic visions of what might ulti-
mately, by a stretch of the imagination, be accom-
plished in regard to the possible wonders of naval
architecture. We shall then have before us, if
we pay another visit (as who will not ?) to Tile
Leviathan, when absolutely completed—what is
HOW at this moment there most majesticallyfore-
shadowed.

There already, in that gigantic hull, is the
symmetrical structure of a ship made out of
30,000 wrought-iron plates., knit together by
iron rivets, numbering exactly 3,000,000 ! There,
in other words, is an iron ship, the mere shell of
which weighs fully 10,000 tons ! A vessel, in
her length fully 700 feet, or, in other words,
from stem to stern, measuring along that clear
flush deck, fore and aft, one-eighth of a mile !
In breath, 83 feet ; so that, without her paddle-
boxes, she would stick in passing through one of
the broadest streets of Lou ion—Pall-Mall ; while
with her paddle-boxes, measuring as she then
does 120 feet, she would come to a dead lock in
going down the broadest street of all in Loudon—
Portland-place.

Remove one of her outer funnels and lay it
horizontally on the ground—and a man, six feet
high in his stockings, could walk up-right through
it without rubbing the top of his head bald in the
process.

Unship one of those Brobdignagian paddle.
wheels, and try, and you would try vainly, with
all Mr. CooKE's horses, and all Mr. COOKE'S men
(for the diameter of the whecl•is considerably the
larger) to depssit it in the circus of ASTLEY'S
Amphitheatre.
Collected together, and weighed in the balance
of some good-natured Cyclops—the anchors and
wire•wrought cabl q; alone weigh 253 tons alto-
gether l But then her anchors are to be 10, and
her chain callo is to be measured out to the tune
of 800 fathoms.

Remember, for a moment, that the Leviathan
is constructed to be worked alternately, or all at
once, by wind and steam, by canvass, paddle-
wheel, awl screw•propeller.
Considering her capacity as a sailing-vessel, it
is "not surprising, surely, to find that four at least
of her six masts are to be made of hollow wrought
iion, that three out of the number are to be
square-rigge3, with iron spars ; that the rigging
is to bo of wire, and that the huge shrouds of
this matprial are to be B,IE inches in circumfer-

once.

and warps there
For tte handling of capstans
will be a crew of 350 sailors and engineers—to
whose aid, however, will come the power of cer-
tain auxiliary steam engine;, for the purpose of
working pumps, heaving anchors, and hoisting
sails—sails capable of spreading forth 6,500
square yards of canvass.

It would be idle, we have seen, to dream of
fitting one of her paddle-wheels within the circus
of Astley's Amphitheatre. It is not at all surpris-
ing, therefore, to find that a diamet3r of 24 feet
has been given to her screw-propeller, which is to
have, moreover, a weight of 150 tons, and a
length of shaft of 160 feet.

As to the steam-engine 9, they are to be brought
into play by the aid of 10 boilers and of 100 fur-
/Imo. They stand 50 in height, tiny are to
give, at a pressure of 251 b. to the square inch, a
total average of 2,600-horse power, though
capable, if requisite, of being worked to a force
of upwards of 10,000 horses.

No wonder the speed to be realised is esti-
mated at 16 knots, or, in other words, 20 miles
an hour—the whirl of a railway ! So that, at
any rate, in one month's time by the Cape of
Good Hope, might be accomplished the whole

voyage from England to India, or from England
to Australia.

Supposing—what is not now so very extraordi-
nary to suppose, seeing that the chief difficulties
have been already conquered that the principal
part of the work (the solid iron framework) has
long ago been successfully, triumphantly com-
pleted—supposing the Leviathan to be now upon
the eve of her first voyage. She might, in a
month, take an army of 10,000 men out to the
shores of Hindostan. Or, supposing she restrict
herself to her ordinary complement of 4,000 pas-
sengera—viz., 800 first-class, 2,000 second, and
1,200 third-class passengers. She would carry,
besides 18,000 tons more iu coals and cargo—
giving a burthen of 25,000 tons—the weight of
the whole ship when voyaging. Although under
these complicated circumstances drawing 30 feet
of water, she will still tower above the water's
edge 30 feet additional.
Gas being constructed on board—by gas will
she be lighted.

From her mast-head during the night-watches,
while she is coursing at the rate of 20 miles an
hour across the ocean-depths, there will flicker
resplendently the electric light--messages being
always transmitted, day and night, from the
captain to the helmsman, the engineers,the look-out
men, above, below, fore and aft, by means of the
electric telegraph.
And for the realie ttion—for the whole scheme
is already virtually in a great measure, indeed,
actually realised—the Eastern Steam Navigation
Company aro indebted to the energy of how many
gifted and enterprising men, each in his distinct
department ! the original conception of
this mammoth steam-ship—to Mr. J. K. BRUNEL,
the distinguished engineer : For the design of
her lines, and the construction of her metal hull
—to Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL, the eminent ship-
builder : For the fabrication of her huge screw-
propeller, and the application to it of the requi-
site motive power—to Messrs. JAMES WATT and
Company of Soho, the famous enginewrights.
For the responsible and difficult office of super-
intending the general fitting out of the sea mon-
ster—to the gallant skipper of this largest ship in
the world, Captain HARRISON For the general
management of the whole of ~he complicated
arrangements—to Mr. JOHN YATES, the Com-
pany's intelligent and indefatigable secretary.
Thanks, now, to the admirable suggestions of Sir
CUSACK RONEY, the day is not so far off; after
all, when we may hope to visit Blackwell anew,
under yet more interesting circuristances, when the
"Empress of the Waters" will cult her moorings
on her first voyage, and whoa we may bid GOD
speerl on that first voyage, to t:io world's wonder
—The Leviathan.

Bective, the Earl and Countess of Stamford and War II
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rington, the Earl of Cardigan, the Countess of Clare and
Lady Elinor Cavendish and Mr. F. Cavendish, the
Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham and
Lady Victoria Hare, the Earl of Lucan, Viscount
Templeton, Viscountess Melgund, Viscountess De Vesci
and the Hon. Miss Vesey, Viscount Exmouth, Vis-
count Canterbury, Lord Wortley, Lord Wharncliffe,
Lady Georgians Romilly and Colonel Romilly,
Lord Ward, Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord
and Lady Poltimore, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
M.P., Lady Aegusta Start and Mr. Gerald Start,
M.P., Lady Louisa Mille and Mr. Mills, Lord
Arthur Hay, Lord John Hay, Lady Georgiana Codring-
ton, and Lady Henrietta Morant, Lady Rose Lovel and
Lady Edith Somerset, Lord Henry Thynne, Lord
Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., Count Louis Corti,
Gen. the Hon. H. Cavendish, Capt. the Hon. J. C.
Vivian, M.P., Captain the Hon. T. H. Fermor,
Capt. the Hon. C, Elliot, Hon. John Fortescue, Hon.
Mrs. Charles Cast, the Right Hon. H. Fitzroy, M.P.,
and Mrs. Fitzroy, Hon. F. Calthorpe, Hon. Leopold
Agar Ellis, the Hon. Miss Bulteel, Hon. S. Ponsonby,
the Right Hon. S. Wortley and Mrs. Wortley, Lady
Lawley, Lady Macfarlane and Miss Macfarlane, Sir A.
Bannerman, Sir John Lowther, M.P., Lady Tierney,
Sir George Armitage, Sir Charles and Lady Morgan,
Lady Bamfylde, and the Hon. Miss Foley, Sir Thomas
Munro, Sir H. Cotterell, Sir J. Copley, Lady Hislop,
Gen. M. Douglas and the Misses Douglas, Col. Brown-
low Knox, M.P, Colonels Bigge, Doyle, Minchin,
Airey, De Bathe, and Mundy, Major Gage, Major Hall
and Mrs. Hall, Captains Wyndham, Turner, Napier
Start, Leyland and Mrs. Leyland, Capt. Clayton,
Messrs. T. B.Baring, M. P., Webster, Des VO3aX, Ken-
nard, Vane, Knox, Mr. and Mrs. G. Smith, C. West,
D. Darner, Duff, Wickham, M.P., Alderson, Coning-
ham, 141. P., and Mrs. Uoningham, 11. 13. Baring, M.P.,
C. Clifford, M.P., Mrs. Frere May, R. Peel, Montgo-
mery, Woodford, Antrobus, Gordon, Delafield, Coghlan
and Mrs. Coghlan, Norbury, H. W. Currie, Morgan
and Miss Morgan, Wigram, Woodgate, B. Dobree,

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA.

The following devatch has been received at the
India-House :

(Received Saturday, 12th Juno ; dated Malta.
To J. D. DICKENSON, ESQ.,
ALLAHABAD, MAY 10.
OUDE.

Since my last message there has baen no event
of importance in Oude. There have been no distur-
bances, and agreatportion of the province appeared
to be settling down. The Ghooikas have reached
Fyzabad, and on the 6th half of them had crossed
the Gogra. They have met with no opposition on
their way.