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THE SUN LONDON THURSDAY E VEN I NG, FEBRUARY 25, 1858

of its provisions from oozing forth. If it was left
to himself, we should not anticipate anything ac-
ceptable to the nation ; and if we obtain it, it
will anly be through the fierce competition between
the rival candidates for the golden apple.
A Reform Bill is inevitable. No procrastina-
tion or evasion will be tolerated for a moment.
It is the touchstone by which the competition will
be decided. Lord DEBBI has a chance, but it will
be long before he obtains another, should the
golden opportunity be neglected or misapplied.
It is nearly six years since he announced his
reasons for accepting office. Let him profit by
the painful yet salutary lesson which he then
received. He can only sustain himself by obtain-
ing the 00-operation of the People. Let him
tender good measures for their acceptance, and
that co-operation will not be refused. Any
mistake or error will be promptly seized hold
of. Should he reject the Ballot, it will
be accepted by one, if not both, of his rivals, and
ensure his downfall. His position is difficult, but
by no means hopeless, provided he can only make
up his mind to sacrifice antiquated notions, and
to legislate in accordance with the spirit of the
ago.

As we recently pointed out, there are already
many indications of unfair and factious opposi-
tion. Those who declared that the nation did not
want Reform, and urged its postponement sine die,
now see in it the one thing needful in political
matters. It is not that they loved Reform more,
or that they have changed the opinions so pomp-
ously enunciated, ore rotund° on the 18th Novem-
ber and successive days. But they see a means of
injuring Lord DERBY thereby. They have detected
the flaw in his mail, and unless he contrives to
repair the defect a formidable blow will be in-
flicted, against which he cannot maintain his
position.

As we have already stated, we, as an inde-
pendent organ of the many, will give the new
Premier that which is dear to every Eng
fish heart—fair play. By his acts he shall be
judged, and if they are calculated to prove
beneficial to the People, we shall sustain him
against all who are not prepared to show still
higher claims to popular favour and national
support.

It is not easy to over-estimate the importance
of Friday night's vote. Its tendency will be
altogether pacific. Peace is best preserved by
mutual respect, and how could France have re-
spected us if we had passed no vote of censure on

the Counts and the Colonels whose addresses and

despatches degraded us before all Europe in the
pages of the Moniteur ? Would it have been
favourable to amity between Frenchmen and Eng-

lishmen, that the former Ehould think us easy to

be alarmed with a little Thrasonic bluster ? When

our countrymen had managed to get a passport,

and to get it trised two or three deep, and to journey

as far as Boulogne or eveu Paris, notwithstanding all
recent attempts practically to increase the distance
—would Englishmen have returned at ill better
disposed to their neighbours, after hearing them

discuss the glories of France, as illustrated by

British laws, passed at the instance of her Colonels

and her Counts ? Especially when, with a French,
man's shrug of his shoulders, it was intimated that

Counts had roundly lectured our Ministers, and
Colonels offered to burn London to the ground,

if their EMPEROR would but lead them thither.
It is said that a Frenchman never forgets Water-
loo, and that its memory is still dangerous to

peace. Most certain it is that Englishmen would
never have forgotten a bill passed in accordance

with French threats, It would have rankled in
our minds for ever, or rather it would have
given rise to anuual motions, till the White
Feather Act had been expunged from our Statute
Book.

It is almost amusing to see how completely all
he blusterers are taken aback. A blusterer is a

great man if he succeeds. MigNSCIIIKOFF would
have been the first diplomatist in Europe had he

but succeeded in bullying the Porte ; but, since
the destruction of Sebastopol, and the loss of the

Black Sea navy, and of command of the -Danube,

all the world seems to have forgotten poor

NIIINSCHIKOYF. Had the Counts and Colonels but
succeeded, how would they not have strutted
before Europe as the fellows to manage English-
men Alas, they have utterly failed I They have
now only to remember a certain saying of the first

NAPOLEON respecting the single step between the
sublime and the ridiculous. Bat the other day
they were the grandest of Frenchmen ; now they
could give something not to have drawn the eyes
of the world upon them. They hear from all sides
allusions to certain old fables of an animal which
clothed himself in the skin of a lion, or of a bird
which adorned itself with feathers not its own, and
heartily do they wish they had not attempted to
act a part above them. On all sides, as the Paris
correspondent confesses, it is acknowledged that
they were rude blunderers, and did not know how
to deal with Englishmen. The truth is they were,
we verily believe, every man of them, actors.

Their wrath, and fury, and fears of the insuffi.

ciency of the English law, were all assumed. They
well knew that England would not tolerate eon-

spiracles against the life of the poorest French-
man, not to say an Emperor. It was not for its
own sake that an act of Parliament, especially
such a one as they could hope to get, was wanted
from us. They had another object in view : they
were actors, therefore, and Friday night's vote
has exhibited them to all France as clumsy actors.
Mortifying, that !
The real object of all this artificial fire and
smoke, no doubt, was twofold. One was to get

a locus staitdi for asking yet greater alterations in
our law ; the other to point all the small free
States of Europe to the Great Asylum of Free-
dom, and to be able to say, even England has
made alterations in her alien laws, why should
you hesitate ? The French Government had be-
gun with Sardinia, Switzerland, and Belgium, at
the same time, as with England ; and the argu-
ment was to be, if Old England yield but an inch,
surely Sardinia seventy and seven inches. And
then, when fresh conspiracies were hatched, as
hatched they will be, while European oppressors
drive every active-minded patriot abroad, of
course fresh demands would be made, and CJlonels
would threaten to burn Manchester and Birming-
ham next time as well as London ; and Counts
would accuse us, in unequivocal terms, of preach-
ing assassination ; in short, the furnace of military
and diplomatic wrath would be heated seven times
hotter to frighten us out of fresh concessions.
We believe, therefore, that the cool resolution
ocwfuitlt
lhocell occasionseHeorutshe eo fh Commons will, at the same time,
eoafrtfsutoufre patriots
dispute
all and
overi ll- wi ll ,
Europe.and
Already we aro informed, and w e hope it is true,
that M. LA.lOl3li D' A
written home,
Turin, has
if not hopeieseneas
pro-
posed Alien Bill, 'which
merit, under pressure, had offered3‘tr
tives. The vote of the English a
will resound from Antwerp to
ERGNE, the French Minister
0f
c announcing
tsTTurin,
throughrt
ihene idaciiltffio:mcieumwnl difficulty,
se 1
dinlau Govern-
:lithe representa-
Liberals everywhere to breathe again.
vote, indeed, of European importance. The )
Go-
vernment of Austria And Naples will receive it

with wry faces, but thousands of their subjects
with exultation ; and the small constitutional
states will all look with thankfulness to their great
model, and have at least an argument from the
highest precedent for declining to yield to foreign
interference.

It is, however, after all, melancholy to think
that Lord PALMERSTON should be the man, and
that at 73 years of age, to be dismissed for attempt-
ing to lower the dignity of England. It belies all
his reputed antecedents, and is unworthy of his
reputation at least. We are sorry for it. Time
was when the country looked to him more than
to any man to assert its rank among the nations ;
certain it is that he was regarded as the despot's
foe. How all is changed. Since the Treaty of
Paris he has come to be regarded as the despot's
friend. His Foreign Minister signed away the
liberties of the press in Belgium, and rebuked the
independence of Sardinia, and even Austria seems
to have participated in his blandishments. Naples
itself—Naples that was to be taught how to treat
its own subjects, has been permitted to seize,
piratically, as Lord CLARENDON now admits, two
of our own subjects, and to subject them to all the
injustice and barbarities which are inflicted upon
Neapolitans themselves before trial. And,
to crown the whole, we must do what Englishmen
—Tory Englishmen, too—have always steadfastly
refused to do—we must mend our laws because
they do not please a neighbouring autocrat ! It
was the last straw. The Parliament elected to

the cry of " PALMERSTON and English Honour at
Canton," thought they were at least bound to
maintain English Honour at Paris.

e certainly cannot imagine a severer stroke

for the es-Premier. That he of all men should
be censured for undignified foreign policy. It
was not, we know, all that the louse and the
country had against him. The CLANRICARDE ap-
pointment no doubt did him incalculable damage ;
his aristocratic nominations to the colonies and
comparatively subordinate appointments, outraged
the growing feeling that the public service does '
not exist for lords and the connections of lords
only, and his folly even in beating the Liberal
party by the help of the Tories, on the Church-
rate Bill—a policy which Liberals feared might be
repeated—all had combined to make the PALMER-
STON yoke an uneasy one ; still, had he but acted
in a manly way towards France; had he but respect-
fully rebuked the insolence of Count WALEWSKI,
had he suggested, if but through the amiable voic,,
of Lord COWLEY, that the Moniteur ought to
publish the regrets as well as the offence regretted ;
and had he left legislation till our criminal
Reform Bills were before us, he might still have
been, and with pretty strong support too, the
Minister of EngIand—PALMERSTON has fallen,
alas ! as—the Minister of France !

In Lord BROUGHAM'S " District Courts of
Bankruptcy Abolition Bill," to which we referred
in our impression of Tuesday evening, we find a
most important clause relating to the County
Courts—namely, a clause giving them jurisdiction
in debt to any amount, the defendant having
power, if he shall be so advised, to remove the
C 3.1139 to the superior courts of Westminster Hall,
on finding security for costs to the satisfaction of
the judge of the County Court in which the ac-
tion has been brought. This will indeed bring
justice home to every man's door, and the de
fondant having the power of removal, there can
be no hardship whatever in the proposition which
we consider to be by far the most useful that has
ever been made in relation to these courts. It
will no doubt vastly increase the business
in them, and of course their importance ; and u e
perceive an addition to the number of judges, and
also an increase in the amount of their salaries is
provided for. We annex a copy of the clauses
which bear on this. The towns mentioned in
Appendix A are—

Bradford Brighton CArnLridge
Carlisle Cheater Derby
Dorchester Exoter Gloucester
Halifax Hereford Huddersfield
Hull Lancaster Leicester
Lincoln Norwich Nottingham
Oxford Plymouth Portsmouth
Preston Sheffield Shrewsbury
Southampton Stafford Worcester
York

Clause 9 would therefore ensure a County Court
sitting daily, throughout the year, for the trans-
action of County Court and Bankruptcy business,
at Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Man-
cheater, and Newcastle ; and at least ewe a 'week
at each of the places mentioned in the appendix.
Our notion, however, is, that that appendix ought
to be so enlarged as to include every market town
in England and Wales, and for this simple reason,
viz., that the market towns are those to which
people notoriously resort once a week ; and we
hope Lord &tout:aux will consequently sea the
propriety of so extending this schedule.
VI. All actions which may now be brought in any
of her Majesty's courts of common law at Westtnin
ster, save and except actions for libel and slander, may,
from and after the commencement of this act, be brought
in the county courts : provided always, that it shall be
lawful for the defendant in any action on contract where
the amount sought to he recovered shall exceed the sum
of 201., or for the defendant in any actio❑ of tort where
the damages sought to be recovered shall exceed the
sum of 101., to remove the same into any one of her
Majesty's superior courts of common law aforesaid by
writ of certiorari, on application to the judge of the
county court in which the action is brought, and on
giving security for coats to the satisfaction of such
judge.
VII. And whereas the business of the County Courts
aforesaid has largely increased,and various and important
duties have devolved upon the judges thereof by reason
of recent act : and whereas such duties will be still
further increased by this act : be it enacted, that besides
the additional judges mentioned in section four of tbie
act, the Lord Chancellor shall have power to appoint
such further number of additional judges as he may
think fit, and as the state of the business in such courts
may appear to him to require : provided always that,
including the commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy
so appointed ex-officio judges as aforesaid, there shall
not in the whole be more than twenty-five additional
judges appointed.
VIII. The commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy
now acting in the country, and so appointed ex-officio
judges of the County Courts, as aforesaid, and the
additional judges to be appointed under this act, shall
be appointed to and act in such of the County Court
districts as the Lord Chancellor shall think fit to direct,
or as may be ordered by any general rule or order to be
made in pursuance of this act.
IX. One of the judges or ex officio or additional
judges, and one of the registrars or ex officio or addi•
tional registrars of the County Courts shall sit for the
despatch of business daily, throughout the year, from
10 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the after-
noon (Sunday, Christmas-day, Good Friday, Monday
and Tuesday is Easter week, and days appointed for
public fast or thanksgiving, excepted), at each of the
following places, namely, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds,
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and
one of such judges and registrars shall likewise so sit at
least one day in every week at each of the places in
serted in appendix (A) to this act ; and all sittings of the
judges of the County Courts in matters before them
under this act shall be held at the town-hail, court-
house, or other public building used for the purposes of
holding the courts under the first herein-mentioned act.
X. The salary of every judge of the County Courts
and of every additional judge appointed under this act
shall be one thousand eight hundred pounds per annum,
and the salary of every registrar of the County Courts
and of every additional registrar who may be appointed
under this act shall be eight hundred pounds per aenurp;
and such salaries shall be paid by the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury out of the Consult
dated Fund ; and such a lditional Judges and additional
registrars shall be entitled to the same rstiring pensions
as the other judges and registrars of the Comity
Courts.

On leaysng the Treasury, Mr. James Wilson will, it is
stated, acquire and receive a pension of 1,2001. a year.
The hon, gentleman has recentiy taken the late Duke of
Marlborough's mansion in Belgrave-,square.
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THE BEYV MINISTRY.

Ug to last evoning the following were the appoint.
moots definitively made :

FlRir LORD OF THE TREASURY.. Lord Derby.
LORD CHANCELLOR Sir P. Thesiger.
The Marquis of Salisbury.
PRESIDENT or THE COUNCIL
Cnn.-scnuon or THE EXCHEQUER
FOREIGN DEPARTIIENT Earl of Malmesbuty.
HOME DEPART3IPIT
; FOR WAR General Peel.
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE 111 r. Henley.
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL LOTII EllellbOToll3ll.
LORD PRIVY SEAL Lord Hardwicke.
BOARD OF WORES Lord John Manners.
PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD MT. ESLCOIIit SOLIATOII.
UNDER SECRETART AT TITE FOREION.
OFFICH

UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE HO)(R) 1
Mr. Hardy.
DEPATtT3IENT

G.
LORD 4 OF TITE TREASURY 5 Colonel Taylor.
t Mr. Whitmore.
SECRETARIES OF TIIE TREAiCRY MA. Hamilton.r.
t Sir W. Jolliffo.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sir F. Kelly.
SOLICITOR-GENLRAL \lr. Cairns.
LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND Tice Kiri of Eglinton.
SECRETARY FOR IRELAND Lord Naas.

It is said that the Earl of D.A.LKEITH is to be the
other Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. EDWARD
EGERTON Judge Advocate,
The Earl of CARNARVON is to be in the Govern-
ment. - - -

—The Duchess of MA..NontsTER, Misitrass of the
robes.

Sir JOHN PAKINGTON and Sir E. L. BULWER
LYTTON will be members of the Government. It
is not yet known whether the health of the Duke
NORTHUMBERLAND will admit of his acceptance of
the post of First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Chancellorship of Ireland has been offered to
Judge BLACKBURN; bat his answer has not yet
be en releived.

The title by which the new LORD CHANCELLOR
xvill take his seat in the autse of Peers is that of
Lord WoonsTocK. Sir F. THESIGER has chosen
that title because he was first returned to Parlia-
ment for that place.

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"MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY.
The Bombay has arrived with letters and papers
to the 28th Dec.

The rebels in Lucknow are fighting among
themselves. An immense body of the revolters is
concentrated in Lucknow and its suburbs. Sir
James Outram holds his ground at the Alurubagb,
awaiting the arrival of the Commander-in-Cbief,
who is himself waiting the arrival of a heavy siege
train, upon receiving which he will advance on
the capital of Oude.

Commissioner Yeh and the Tartar Commander-
in-Chief will remain on board the English frigate
until such time as the decision of Lord Elgin and
Baron Gros shall be made known as to what is to
be done with these important prisoners.
Another despatch says, in consequence of the
capture of Commissioner Yeh and the Tartar
General-in-Chief, the Allies have proclaimed the
First Mandarin Viceroy of Canton, assisted by
two commissioners, English and French. Trea-
sure, consisting of eleven millions of francs, has
been lent the Provisional Government at heavy
interest. Plunder has been forbidden, and the
inhabitants, reassured, have re-antered the city.
An audience has been demanded of the Emperor to
settle a treaty of commerce. The loss of the
allied forces is about 20 killed.

The steamship Valetta, with the Calcutta and
China mails has arrived.
The mails left London at ten a.m.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The news of the formation of tbe Derby Cabinet
has not increased the disposition on the Bourse to
enter upon business transactions.

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, dated Feb. 22, says :
" The French Government has expressed its readi-
ness to make certain concessions to this Cabinet
if the latter will prohibit unfavourable mention
by the Austrian press of the state of things in
France. It is probable that M. de Bourqueney
has given the Minister for Foreign Affai s to un-
derstand that, if he will comply with the wishes
expressed by the Emperor Napoleon cancerning
the press, the French Government will not op-
pose Austria when the question of the reorgani-
sation of the Danubian Principalities and of the
navigation of the Danube are discussed by the Pars
Conference. It is difficult to obtain perfectly au-
thentic information on a matter of such extreme
delicacy, but still you will hat dly be mistaken
if you assume as a positive fact that Count Buol
declined to accept the tempting offrr of the
French Ambassador. The paper of which M. de
Bourquency principally complained was the Oes-
terreichische Zeitany, and he strongly urged
Count Buol to give it an official warning. The
Austrian Minister declined to do so, but he is said
to have directed the authorities, whose duty it is to
watch over the public press, to desire) the editors of
the different papers to refrain from aqacking the
policy of the French Government. The Vienna
public always suspected the principal writer for the
Oesterreichische Zeitang of being on very intimate
terms with the French Government, and it is
therefore astonished to hear that M. de Bourquency
is of opinion that the paper is systematically hostile
to France. If the French diplomatist were pro-
perly informed of what is going on in Vienna he
would know that on Saturday, the 20th inst., the
Oesterreichischc Zeitung contained a leading article
which was at once a justification of the measures of
the French Government and an apotheosis of the
Emperor Napoleon. The news that Lord Palmer-
ston and his colleagues are about to cede the reins
of government to other hands has pro.'uced a re-
markably disagreeable impression here, and in-
formation has reached me that the highest persons
in the realm have expressed their sorrow that such
an event should happen at such a critical morthint.
" It is related in society that his Majesty the
Emperor begins to feel that the concessions two
years ago made to Rome wore too great. In fact,
Austria has gained little or nothing by her move,
for in matters of internal policy the bisho,s are not
so much Austrians, as Hungarians, Italians, &c.
During the night of the 7th inst., three prisoners
escaped from the fortress at Verona, but it is not
known whether they wore COMIII,II criminals or
persons who were in confinement for political
offences. Tile fugitives escaped by the aid of a
sharp file and strong sheets. _ _

"The rumour that Austria is about to send a
corps against Montenegro is devoid of all founda-
tion, but there is good reason for believing that the
Porte has resolved to do so. When Omar Pacha chas-
tised the Montenegrins in 1853, the Austrians posi-
tively refused to permit reinforcements t' be sent
by way of the Adriatic ; but she has now inform,ed
the Porte that it can land as many troops as it
pleases at Ragusa, and march them to Trebig,ne in
the Herzegovine.
" The last news from the Herzegovine is that
Prince Daniel has sent 4,000 men to the assistance
of the Christian at Zubzi, in the Herzegoviue"

THE HIDE•PARK DEMONSTRATION.