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that by going there as such he might gain an important
position.
Crose.examined by Mr. Roebuck—•When did you first
consent to go to India ?
Witness—ln July, 1857,; after Ali Moored bad .Failed
to proceed by the second packet.
By Mr. Roebuck—Was your real-object in going there
to prosecute the claim of Ali Moored before the Indian
Government !
Witness—Yes.
By Mr. Roebuck—Then you understood the Indian
Government was to decide on Ali Moorad's claims ?
Witnesg —Yee

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suitable_gya_rters to the'numerous soldiefa Wh are . '--, ..,„ continually through the city, and who hulk. a hitherto been billeted upon the inhabitants. The s
efloucester Hotel has been inspected and approved _
by the Government officer, and taken upon a lease
of 14 yearn - . • . . _
The -staff of the 2d depot battalionstationed at
._.
Pembroke have been removed -to Colchester, and
-the whole of.. the depots now at Pembroke hails
bests formed into one battalion.

J•
By Mr. Roeblick—What was the date ,ot Mr. V.
SMith's decision to that effect ?
Witness—ln June.
By Mr. Roebuck—Was it before or after the answer
wag given to the letter of Ali Moorad by the Court of
Directors ?
Witness—Long before.
By Mr. Roebuck--So that you had a thorough un-
derstanding what the result would be before any letter
was sent to the Board of Directors ?
Witness—l thought I had.
By Mr, Roebuck----That the decision would be the
Indian Government would be called on to decide on the
Ameer's
Witness—No, I did not understand that.
The committee snortly after adjourned till to•morrow
12 o'clock.

Experiments have been carried out for some time
past in the manufacturing department of the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, with a view of ascertaining
the best description of smoke-Consuming furnace,
for use in the, Government estaldlishments, for weld.
ing or melting iron, and so as to comply with the
provisions of Lord Palmerston's Act. The plarui
of Mr. Armstrong and Major Vandeleur, R.A.,
have during the past fortnight been tested in a
competitive form in the Royal gun factories. Two
furnaces of equal dimensions were fitted up under
the directions of these gentlemen and employed
on similar work—namely, forging double-heated
blooms from scrap iron. As regardS` the
consumption of smoke they appeareed to be equally
efficient, but the result in other respects has hitherto
been in favour of the latter. The coals consume I
and work done during the ordinary working week
of 56 hours were—

Coals consumed. Blooms made:
Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt.
Mr. lirmitrong's lO 10:. - 4 14
.
Furnace in ordinary use 9 10
... t 10
Mr.- Yantislanes ,c.. 8 10 ... •- 5 -10

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-MONDA.Y.

The intensity of the heat attained iu the last .Wag
also very rinarkable; " The "Irea';ing; of masses of
iron, which usually requires from'4o to 50 minutes,
was -occasionally accomplished in 20, and seldom.
exceeded 30- minutes. The trials are to be con-
tinued.
Vice-Admiral Arthur' Fanshawe; C. 8., the
newly-appointed successor to Admiral Lord Lyons,
G.C. 8., as . Commander-in-Chief of the Mediter-
ranean
fleet, hoisted his flag on board,the gunnery
ship Ex;cenent, Captain Hewlett, ,C.B.,,,at.roits-
nroutfriesteiday afternoon,- Ord sainted the. Port-
Admiral Sir George Seymour with 17 guns, which
having been acknowledged with .15 the Excellent
struck the flag, and it was struck forthwith to
Admiral Fanshawe's flagship, the Marlborough,
131, screw three-decker, Captain the Right Hon.
Lord F. H. Kerr, which is being fitted out with
great alacrity. She got up her steam yesterday,
and worked her engines. She remains in the basin,
and has made 'considerable progress in the rig.
Men'come forward for her freely.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-
decker, was commissioned yesterday at Ports.
mouth as the depot ship of the ordinary in that
harbour, under the command of Capt. H, Eyres,
C. 8., whose officers asd crew turn over to her
from the old sailing ship St. -Vincent:- She will
carry the flag. of Rear-Admiral of the Whits the
Hon. G. Grey, as superintendent of Portsmouth.
dockyard. _ _ _
The Arrogant, 47, screw frigate, was commis•
sioned yesterday at Portsmouth. by. Capt. L. G.
Heath, C. 8., of the Melampus sailing frigate,
whose officers and crew turn over to the Arro-
gant for the service of the coast defence.
The Foyle steamer embarked the depot of the
49th Regiment at Portsmouth yesterday, and left
with them for Dublin.
Another appointment of A.D.C. to the Queen,
the superintendentship of the Royal William
Yictualling-yard, and of the port of Gibraltar,
fall in hand by the promotions consequent upon
the death of Vice-Admiral Walpole.
Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., is now
the senior on the active list for promotion.
The Falmouth, lighter, Carrick, master, sailed
from Davonport on Saturday, with stores, for
Pembroke, taking a party of caulkers from that
yard to cau'k the Orlando,'so, building at Pem-
broke.

A. large majority of the members were en. rout 4 for
Liverpool, and the room was, therefore, but thinly at-
tended. The following list of quotations comprises the
business transaction's of the afternoon :

LIVERPOOL SPRING. CUP.
.
Sto 1 aget Gammon (taken)
sto 1. aget Turret (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
If to 2 agil Little Tom {taken)
10 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire (taken)
15 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
15 to 1 agst Morgan Rattler (taken)
9 to 1 aget Escape and Lough Bawn, coupled
(taken)
The following seven were taken for 1001. even, against
the field : —Little Tom, Knight of the shire,
Brewer, Abd-el-Kader, Morgan Rattler, Conrad, and
Emigrant.

TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 aget Clydesdale (offered)
sto 1 aget The Peer (Brother to Marchioness,
(taken)
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agat Adamas (taken)
25 to 1 apt Botany (taken)
30 to 1 agst Melissa (taken)
33 to 1 agst King of the Isles (taken)
40 to 1 agst Tasmania (taken)
50 to 1 aget Wilton (taken)
06 to 1 agst Supple Jack (taken)
DERBY.
500 to 30 agat Toxopholite (taken)
20 to 1 agat The Hadji (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Seneschal (taken)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.

SOUTHWOLD, FEB. 28.
Yesterday the lifeboat on this station was taken
off for exercise, manned by 15 men, three gentlemen
being on board as amateurs. The boat, which was
hauled off by a warp, went out beautifully, the
wind fresh from the E.S. E., with rather a rough
sea on ; but on returning, in about two hours after-
ward, she struck on the middle shoal under sail.
She fell on the port side, and when the masts went,
which they did in about five minutes, the boat
turned over keel up, and subsequently drifted
on the beach in that state. A small yaul was
instantly launched, and picked up the crew,
with the exception of one or two men, who
swam ashore, and of the three amateurs, all of
whom perished by the unforseen accident. One of the
unfortunate deceased was the son of Captain F. W.
Ellis, R.N., of Southwohl ; a second the Rev.—
Hodges, curate of Warnford, and the third, named
Cordes, was the pupil of a gentleman resident in the
neighbourhood. It appears that no danger had
been apprehended on leaving the shore, as the un-
fortunate three deceased had declined to put cn
spare lifebelts which Were in the boathouse, and
r that the accident is therefore solely to.bo n+fri h"tArl
to thw at smut to cross B. sbnal nn which there was
not a summent depth or water for so large a boat.
The boai.'s crew bad all their lifebelts on, in accor-
dance with a judicious rule of the National Lifeboat
Institution, which requires all ifs lifeboat crews
to wear their belts whenever they go afloat, to
which precaution doubtless many of these men owe
their lives. It should be stated that the Southwold
lifeboat is one of the finest boats of the' class
which is in use on the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts,
which possess the entire confidence of their crews,
and which have ere now saved hundreds of lives.
They do not, however, possess the quality of self-
righting, which the majority of the boats of the
above institution do, the boatmen on this part of
the coast having hitherto expressed the strongest
preference to this class of boat, with which they
are so well acquainted, and the boatmen at South-
wold having rejected a self-righting lifeboat in lieu
of the one which they now have.

WRECK OF THE BRIG OSWIr; or, CORTON SANDS
LOWESTOFT, Feb. 23,—The Lowe►toft lifeboat, which is
in connection with the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, was instrumental, during a gale of wind on
Thursday list, in rescuing the crew of a brig and a
yawl's crew who were on board her. The lifeboat wai
towed out by a steam tug, which cast her off under the
Holm Sands. The boat was thus enabled soon to reach
the wreck. Finding her in a perilous situation under
the Beach Fiat, and only one anchor left, with night
approaching, the lifeboat took out her crew, consisting
of six hands and those left on board by the yawl, which
had previously hoarded the ship. The brig came on
the beach during the evening, and i• likely to become
a total wreak.

TIDE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCEGIS ROYAL —ln this
wedding of the daughter of Victoria, there were touches
of that nature which makes the whole world akin. The
Royal bride in her mysterious paraphernalia of moire
antique, Honiton lace, and "robes defined by flowers,"
glides by us like the pretty spectre of a magic lantern ;
but the young girl sobbing out her heart's farewel', in
spite of elannbeilains and etiquette, upon hrr mother's
bosom, and forgetting for an instant the Princess that
she was, the Queen she was to be, in her passion of filial
tenderness and truth, appeal to sympathies deeper than
the curiosities of a single hour and wider than the loyal-
ties of a single nation. There is, indeed, something more
than commonly touching in a marriage ceremony which,
like this, converts the daughter of an English home into
the symbol of a foreign State, and severs her for ever
from her own people and her native land. And the most
helpless victims of the fascinations of Royalty may be
revived again by reflecting for a moment on the misery
which mast be the portion of many a " _Royal bride,"
wedded not by her own free choice, but by the "neces-
sities of the State," and launched, without a protector or
a friend, upon the chances of a new and formal life
among a new and foreign people. But beyond the
amusement of the fantastic show, and the simply human
interest which attaches to the chief personages and to
their mature relations, Americans must find a more
important significance in this Royal marriage and in the
feeling with which its celebration was received in Eng-
land. The phenomenon of loyalty to a constitutional
crown among a people essentially free was never pre-
sented more conspicuously to the study of mankind. The
bridegroom of the British Princess was not personally
well known in England, nor has the Royal family to
which he belongs earned for itself of late years any parti-
cular share of British sympathy and respect. It is but the
other day, in fast, that the King of Prussia and his pas-
sion for the " Veuve Clicquot," were the weeekliy{ozonrt
and scorn of Punele, and the black sing
le
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hniostrayTeetnaicnqgubirtotetdherbyorJtohhenßoaßir fhootf;_all
compli-
itgodnodmonahllolsiodratys
for all the world, and
theless the day of theihnruoputgiahlos
fmothrninbg. to
throughout the e k
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wh
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ihoonns oottfrT
the Eton boys, who took
all his parish scot-free on thhaet
haoursspesicioouuts e
ndal
carriage
ate Castle Windsor, and pulled it up, with vociferous
j
gates. This national sympathy with
t
the, oth
Princess and with her mother must be taken
as a tribute to the genuine virtues by which Victoria
bas
a won the confidence and respect of her people, and
which have gone far, doubtless, to counterbalance the
disturbing influences of the absurdities and the arro-
gance of the aristocratic element in the English Govern-
ment. The poise of power in Great Britain certainly
needs some such support, for the "families" seem to be
carrying things with a singularly high kand.—New
York

[ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills for the Effectual
cure of Sick Headaches, Bile, and Disordered Stomachs.
—These wonderful pills cured the Earl of Aidborough
and another nobleman of similar complaints, after the
mosteminent surgeons in England and on the Continent
had been consulted in vain. This renowned medicine
will cure any person, however bad his case may be, who
is suffering from general debility, headache, indigestion,
or bilious complaints. These pills aot on the very main-
springs of life, so tbat disease, notwithstanding its
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In consequence of the long-prevailing easterly
winds a very large number of merchant shipping
remains in Plymouth Sound wind bound. There
is no man-of-war in the Sound. In harbour--
Impregnable, Royal William, Exmouth, Cam-
bridge, Wellington, Hogue Ajax, Implacable,
Euryalis, Lapwing, Sylph, Nautilus, Avon ; Con-
fiance and Zephyr tugs.
THE CAMP AT COLCHESTER. --A small draft of
the 56th Regiment has left the camp at Colchester
for Southampton, whence the party will proceed
tQ India by the Overland route. The depot of the
6th Foot has returned from Parkhurst, but as it
Was impossible to find accommodation for them
in the camp in consequence of its crowded condi-
tion, the troops were billeted in the town. The
same cause has prevented the arrival of the three
regiments expected from Chatham, but it is re-
prteu thee more troore are to be stationed in the
town. The regiments at present in Gila Q.4,Lup are
to be comprised of two battalions. The supply of
recruits is extremely good; and detachments con-
tinue to be forwarded to Laudguard Fort, Harwich,
for the purpose of rifle instruction. One of these
detachments left on Saturday. It is remarked that
a considerable proportion of the .recruits which
have arrived recently are from manufacturing dis-
tricts.
The coast defences on the eastern side of the
kingdom are to be strengthened. The 24-pounders
in the batteries of Great Yormouth are, it is said,
to give place to 74-pounders.
Coagrciu.utn FOR THE ISLE OF MAN.—.We are in-
formed, upon good authority, that it is the inten-
tion of Government to establish a coast-guard corps
in the Isle of Man, and that Douglas and Peel have
been fixed upon as the eastern and western sta-
tions.—Mona's Herald.

HEATR E-R OYA L, DRITRY-LANE.
T Lessee, M`-r. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING., will be performed CLOUD AND
SUNSHINE. hlr. -I.ame4 Anderson and Mies Elsworthy.
Followed by the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK
NORNER.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROY.&L, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commutes at Seven o'clock. with
THE HUNCHBACK. Julia, Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Master
Walter, Mr. Howe ; Modus, Mr. Bnckstone.
After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD ; or, Harle-
quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ;
Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ;
Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d.l Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 o!Dress Boxes 3 n
Upper Boxes ... 3 0! Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 01Pit 1 0
0 6
Gallery

JR OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
E THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakspere's Play of
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS D REAM.
After which, a now grand comic Christmas Pantomime
entitled. HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess
Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess
Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor-
meek ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
ulo; and
Columbine, Miss C. Adams.

TifEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY 0111CRE.
Mr. Barney Williams.
After which, YANKEE COURTSHIP. Mr: and Mrs. B,

Williams.
To conclude with LATEST FROM NEW YORK.
Commence at Seven.

][I,OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Sole Lessee
and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Charles
Dillon.
After which, a domestic tale, by Westland Marston, en.
titled A HARD STRUGGLE. Mr. C. Dillon, &c.
To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH
ROOKII, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU-
BADOUR ; or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert.
Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White,
Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ;
Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L.
Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ;
Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites,
Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm and
Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans-
formation Scene.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7.
3oz•offico open from II to 5 daily.

T.) OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
V Lessee.% Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING,wiII be performed the play of LUCAETIA
BORGIA,
After which, MT WIFE'S OCT.
To conelnd• with THE SAILOR OF FRANCE.

CANTERBI7RY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
lag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dre., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brnnell, Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr.
Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs.
T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchdeld and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, (Ste., until twelve o'clock.
-

Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Everting,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. 3—Even., 49 min. aft. 3
To.monow—Morn., 5 min. aft. 4—Even., 22 min. aft. 4

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARni 2.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SEADE.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
35 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER. 29.62.
WIN D, Easterly ; strong, fresh, and bitterly cold, with
frost and hard snow. The fall of snow yesterday has
been very heavy.

raw--
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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1858.

In the House of Lords last night the new
Premier delivered the promised explanations usual

on the appointment of a new Administration

Although not quite as explicit on some points as

we could have desired, it was, on the whole,
a straightforward and manly state;nent ; proving
that the nation has every reason to anticipate
measures at least as liberal and progressive as
could be anticipated from the outgoing Ministry.

He may possibly have been a little too chary
of positive announcement of his intentions,

but it is certainly better to go beyond rather
than to fall short of any pledges or promisei,
which may be given in either branch of the

Legislature. The nation has had too many
of these promises—sometimes by the leading
members of the Cabinet in their places in Parlia-
ment, at others by recommendations contained in
Speeches from the Throne, but not the faintest
indication has as yet been given of what will be
conceded to the popular wishes. It is, to say the
least of it, inconvenient to have a subject of such
vital importance shelved, and the people disap-
pointed, after being excited by the hopes held
out of a speedy settlement of the interesting and
important question.
Lord DERBY, avoiding this mistake, declines to
give any specific undertaking on this point ;
but he declares that, "as soon as the pres-

ware of Parliamentary business enables

the Government deliberately and carefully
to consider the question, they will direct
their attention to the defects which exist in the
laws regulating the representation of the people
in Parliament, and to the amendments which may
be made in those laws, and that they will give
that attention with the sincere and earnest desire
to trifle no longer with this great question ; but
with the hope that they may be able in the next

session of Parliament to lay before the Legislature
and the country a measure which may, far a time,
will settle a matter of such deep importance, and
which, although it may not please everybody,
may at least be accepted as a fair and reasonable
raeasureby moderate, impartial, and well educated
men."

This, as we have stated, is scarcely as ex
plicit a 8 the community would desire. No doub
a reasonable time should be given to those
who have so unexpectedly been elevated to office,
to prepare a bill of their own ; but surely it can-
not require so long an adjournment. The ques-
tion has been ventilated for several successive
years. Its leading features have been dis-
cussed in Parliament during the last half-dozen
Years. Every member of the Cabinet must have
long, Since made up his mind on its salient points ;
have been prepared to criticise the long-promised
ba Iv and to subject its provisions to a close and
smirching examination. It could not, then, re-
quire *0 rawly months to indicate the nature and
extent
brought of
forheard . t propoaala that would finally bk. w
branch
On this subject the
popular
of the Legislature will naturally be exacting.l
The independent representatives of independ„t
constituencies have a right to know what are the
final intentions of the Government, and what
they really may anticipate if they consent to wail
for another session. Mr. HENRY BERXELBY Wil
bring the matter to a stringent test by his annual
motion on the Ballot/
and the competitors for
elfice, Lord PALMERSTON and Lord J. RUSSELL,
may possibly now see the matter in a very
different
light from that in which they regarded it on pre

vious occasions. As we recently stated, " the
Ballot " will be the touchstone to teat the pre-

tensions of the rivals, the instrument that

will ensure success to its advocate. Why,

then, should not Lord DERBY accept it 'I It is
resorted to in the various clubs of which himself,

and his; colleagues, and subordinates, are members.

It is there found to act well. There is no person 1
that asserts that, so far as these important social
institutions are concerned, the practice is repre-
hensible or un-English. Why, then, not give it
a fair trial, and thereby afford full protection to the
voter from intimidation, whether by landlord,
employer, customer, or mob 7 Why not strike a
blow against every corrupt influence, and
impurity of election, by means far more effectual
than any that have been hitherto suggested ?
That point, at least, must be set at rest, and that
at no distant day. Should Lord DERBY follow
the example of his predecessor, and endeavour
to shroud himself in a veil of mystery, on this
point he may rest assured that a decisive answer
will be imperatively demanded. The stability of
his Government will mainly depend on the
promptitude of the decision he may arrive at in
reference thereto.

The Attorney-General spoke on other points—
the extension of the franchise and more suitable
arrangement of electoral districts—in his address
to the electors of East Sussex, /on which we yester-
day offered some remarks—" Let Lord DERBY
fairly carry out the views of his efficient law ad-
viser and also concede the Ballot, and we venture
to assert that he will be sustained by the great body
of the people." And why should he not ? There are
no great questions at issue to divide and disturb
the country—nothing to induce them to prefer
one set of men to another, provided they obtain
equally good measures. The great reproach hurled
against the new Ministry is that they will accept
and carry out the proposals of their predecessors.
The Times declares that "he (Lord DERBY) had
neither to stigmatise the measures of his foes nor
to announce any of his own invention. On the
contrary, he was entering into vineyards which he
had not planted, and wells that he had not digged,
in the shape of bills which he was prepared sub-
stantially to adopt, either because his friends had
already ♦oted for theca, or, because once in-
troduced, it was necessary to go on with
them. Lord DERBY could not hold out any
hope to the parties most jealous of political
originality of either doing anything the late
Government was not doing, or leaving undone any
thing it had in hand !" Why, then, the virulent
and almost factious opposition to the new Cabinet ?
If the assertion be correct, it is manifest that the
nation loses nothing by the change of men, while
those who lately held office will be stimulated to
something more acceptable to the nation in the
desire of recovering their lost positions. The people
will certainly not condemn them until they have
a full opportunity of being heard in their own
defence.

We have chiefly referred to the statements re-
specting Reform, as they will be most eagerly
perused by the community. Lord DERBY will,
of course, answer the French despatch, and on
the proceedings that then take place his future
course will be marked out. He has witnessed
the manner in which his predecessor alienated
the popular feeling, and with such a lesson he
should carefully abstain from anything that would
exhibit his Ministry in a truckling position. He
emphatically declared that under all circumstances,
and without distinction, the right of asylum
would be maintained inviolable." We shall,
however, await further information, before decid-
ing on the mode in which Lord DERBY may deal
with the question that ejected Lord PALMERSTON
and his colleagues from office:6
al. Dm ;a Lu Lc) irArodtined this Session,
which, it may be assumed, will transfer the
Government of that important Empire to QUEEN
VICTORIA. The Premier declares that it will
secure most of the objects of the Bill of the late
Ministry, and at the same time be free from some
of the objections to which that Bill was liable.
On this subject, too, we must await further infor-
mation, which fortunately will not long be with-
held us.
On the whole, we believe that more may be
expected from the new Ministry than from their
predecessors, and therefore we shall treat them
fairly, and. refrain from condemning until they
have done something really worthy of condem-