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Mr. BRIGHT as our guide through the
intricate maze of the Parliamentary labyrinth, we
should arrive at the conclusion that the representa-
tive system, as we have hitherto carried it on, is bad
in the extreme, and that we should have been much
better without it. He says, indeed, himself that
the sort of Parliament we now have is safe for
nothing so much as the " commission of evil," and
it is not a fair " representation of the intelligence,
and virtue, and the opinions of the people of the
realm." All this is, however, mere matter of opinion;
but the worst part of the speech is yet uncon-
sidered, and perhaps we do not exaggerate when
we say that, taking all things into consideration,
the remarks made last night by Mr. BRIGHT were
the most uncalled for and the most mischievous that
he has ever yet uttered. We consider it to have

been an insult to the assembly he last night ad

dressed for him to have told them that they would
resort to extreme measures if all their demands
were not granted. The intelligent and far-sighted
among his audience know that they dared not do
so, but if they did they would show themselves
completely unworthy of the privileges they claimed
and the rights they contended for. We pass over the
utter ruin Mr. BRIGHT causes to his own reputation
as an honest statesman and a patriotic citizen, and
the injustice he renders to the Parliament and the
Government, in our indignation at his presuming
to consider the people of England as his puppets.
He goes on as if they waited his beck and call to
come forward and overwhelm the recusant and un-
faithful aristocracy, and a perverse and prejudiced
Parliament. If he had nothing better to say than
this he had better have kept silent. " And now this
Parliament of landlords and of rich men, either were
ignorant of or despised the great national opinion,
and they resist up to this moment, and for aught
I know they may possibly resist it when they meet
at the beginning of next February, until the dis-

content which is now so general shall become
universal, and that which is now only a great
exhibition of opinion may become necessarily
and inevitably a great and menacing ex-
hibition of force." Is this the language of a well-
wisher to his country, who aims at establishing the
rights of the people, or is it the clamour of an
agitator who is wild at the thought of his political
opponents doing the work which he desires to have
the glory of—of a politician whose views are so
narrow, and his prejudices so bitter, that he would
rather suffer injustice than take good things from a
class he abhors ?
Mr. BRIGHT is not ignorant of the opinions that
are formed of his violence ; and he thinks the time
has arrived to put down such impertinent
interference. Last night he came out very strong
on this point. He said that " those opponents of
ours, many of them in Parliament openly, and some

of them secretly in the Press, charge us with being
the promoters of a dangerous excitement ; they say
that we are the source of the danger which threatens,
and they absolutely have the effrontery to charge
me with being a friend of public disorder." In the
first place, we venture to suggest that if Mr. BRIGHT
has a right to criticise every one, surely
others have an equal right to pass judgment
upon him ; and in the next, we consider the
manner in which he presumes to talk of the Press
as perfectly ridiculous. He is always insinuating
that he has hidden foes among it, who dare not
face him. He goes on, however, to say that he is
" one of the people." This we deny, in the sense
in which he means it. He is deficient in all those
qualities which have made this country great, mad
kept her glorious, and rendered the English people
safe alike from the anarchy which afflicts the domi-
nions of tyrants, and the disorder that reigns in
the councils of Republicans. In the first place, Mr.
BRIGHT ignores fair-play, and next, he is unwilling
to see anything good in those who differ from him.
He is impatient to an extraordinary degree, and un-
derstands neither the magnanimity nor endurance
of his countrymen. To knock down an opponent is
an easy way of answering his argument, but it is a
course more characteristic of an American rowdy
than suited to the demeanour of an English
workman.

Whether we have Reform or not this next ses-
sion there is no occasion for revolution, and if Mr.
BRIGHT thinks it clever to say otherwise he is
to be pitied for his infatuation. He calls himself a
wise counsellor to the people and their rulers ; but
he is, on the contrary, one who takes advantage of
his half-way position to misrepresent one to the
other. While he denounces the one class as op-
pressors, he makes out the others to be ungoverned
in their passions, and unrestrained in their actions.
It is no exaggeration to say that no individual is so
dangerous to the interests of society than one who
goes about trying to make the straight crooked, and
to a give a false impression of the evants that are
passing around, as it seems to be Mr. BRIGHT'S
ambition to be of this class.

The annual Message of the PRESIDENT of the
United States has this year been looked for with
unusual interest ; and the matter of the speech, and
the manner of its conveyance, are alike remarkable.
On Monday, December 3rd, Congress was opened ;
on Tuesday, December 4th, we had the summary
of the Message in London. Little now remains for
science to achieve in annihilating time and space,
since the wonder-working wires place Washington
and London completely en rapport. Whatever be
the
will
at
subsequent
history of the Congress of 1866, it
v
least have one memorable incident associated
Ni
with it which will preserve its recollection in the
records of science, if not of politics.

Of the Message itself we have as yet, of course,
but a mere outline ; but the first few words are all-
significant. " President Jomisox in his Message
adheres to his former policy, and urges Congress
to adopt it." So that the conjectures and rumours
which have been industriously circulated as to the
change or modification of the PRESIDENT'S plans
are completely at fault. We have been confidently
assured that, startled and disappointed by the re-
sult of the elections, he had resolved to accept the
Constitutional Amendment proposed by the
Radicals, and intended to recommend its
adoption to the several Legislatures of the
Southern States. There was little doubt that such
a course had been actually recommended by many
of his Democratic friends and advisers, who thought
that if Mr. JOHNSON consented to the Amendment
it would deprive the Radicals of any plea for dis-
affection, and would force them to fall back upon
the unpopular doctrine of negro suffrage. The
PRESIDENT has certainly failed to obtain that sup-
port from the country which he looked for, a failure
which some persons ascribe to his own intemperance
of conduct and language during his tour, and
some to the ingenious machinations of the
Radicals. He is threatened with impeachment
by a party who are not too scrupulous, and who
would be very glad to get him out of their way ;
and he is certain, if matters do not proceed so far,
to meet with constant and harassing opposition.
Mr. JOHNSON, however, is not the man to be turned
from the course which he has resolved upon by
threats or entreaties. He firmly believes the con-
ciliatory policy which he has adoptel towards the
Southern people to be the best calculated to restore
prosperity and unity to the whole nation, and,
therefore, he ifs resolved to abide by it. He d

claims any desire for a renewal of his
authority, -and, therefore, has no personal
object to attain by concessions which he
believes misplaced and dangerous. What
course the Radicals will adopt remains to be seen.
If they pri ovoke an open collision between the Exe-
cutive ant 1 the Legislature the people of North and
South wit l have just reason to complain. America
has before her the choice between internal prosperity
and union, and the further development of her
natural capacities and the marvellous energies of her
people, or a renewal of those scenes of discord and
desolation from which trade, and commerce, and
social progress in every respect have suffered so
heavily. Surely she has statesmen and legislators
and councillors wise enough, and patriotic enough,
to avert the danger !
With regard to foreign affairs the PRESIDENT
says that " foreign nations have shown a more just
consideration for the national character and rights."
France has announced her intention of postponing
the withdrawal of her troops from Mexico till the
spring, but the States have remonstrated, and Mr.
JOHNSON hopes that France will fulfil her previous
engagements and withdraw at the time originally
appointed. The Alabama claims are still under
discussion, though the PRESIDENT hopes great things
from the friendly temper of the English Government,
and is anxious for an early settlement of the ques-
tion. The financial part of the news is satisfactory,
the Treasury receipts for the year ending June
exceeding the expenditure by $158,000,000.
Almost simultaneously with the receipt of the
telegraphic news comes the intelligence brought by
the City of Boston, of some nine days earlier date.
She left New York on the 24th ult., when it was
reported that some prominent Radicals had held a
caucus at Philadelphia, at which they drew up ar-
ticles of impeachment against President JourtsoN,
which they intended to submit to a Republican
Congressional caucus after the assembly of Con-
gress.

There is a rumour from Montreal that
despatches have been received by the Canadian
Government from the Home Government hinting
at the possibility of trouble with the United States,
and advising increased vigilance. This statement
must be accepted with reserve, for it is likely enough
that parties interested in fomenting a difference be-
tween Engled and the United States have set it in
circulation, or at least improved upon a caution re-
specting the Fenians. These worthies seem likely
to be troublesome enough at home as well as abroad,
for a last appeal for arms and money has been made
from the headquarters of Fenianism in New York to
assist in striking a blow in Ireland this year.
England and Canada both may therefore very well
employ extra exertion in discovering and frustrat-

ing their plans. There aro elements of mischief at
work on the Continent of America as well as in the
time-worn despotisms of Europe, and it will need a
clear head and a firm hand to steer the great Re-
public unbroken through the storms.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
The following id from the bulletin of the Mon

!eur :

" The Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy,
General Cugia, has just appointed a military com-
mission to study matters connected with the re-
cruitment and organisation of the army.
" The Minister of Finance of the Netherlands
has presented the budget for 1867, which does not
differ materially from that of last year.
" We have correspondence from Mogador, which
states that the Mecca pilgrims have not yet re-
turned. The losses, the sufferings, the difficulties
of the voyage, and the fear of cholera which raged
in Arabia at the period of the religious fetes, so
diminished the number that in 1866 only 73 pil-
grims embarked at Mogador, although generally
they assemble in hundreds and thousands. The
rebellion of the Chieks of the Orad Nourn is not
yet terminated. They still demand as the condition
of their submission that the privileges they formally
enjoyed shall be restored to them."
The Constitutionnel, in noticing the arrival of M.
Bismark at Berlin, says that it will no doubt give
fresh impetus to the political labours of the Cham-
bers. In spite of the concessions made (adds the
Constitutionnel) the Opposition has not abdicated,
and indeed several members of it are as. hostile to
the 11inistcy as they were before the war.
On Saturday a deputation from the French Demo-

crats were received by M. Bigelow, at the American
Legation, to present a gold medal offered by them
to the widow of Abraham Lincoln. It is a beauti-
ful medal, struck at Geneva, artistically engraved
by M. Franky Magniadas. With the medal the
committee handed a letter to Mrs. Lincoln, signed
by them, and couched as follows:—" Madam,—
We are charged to offer you this medal which has
been struck in honour of the great, honest man
whose name you bear. The medal was struck by
more than 40,000 French citizens, desirous to mani-
fest their sympathy for the American Union in the
person of one of its most illustrious and the purest
of its representatives. If France were possessed of
the liberties which are enjoyed by the American
Republic, it would not be by thousands, but by
millions, who would be reckoned with us, the ad-
mirers of Lincoln and the partizans of opinions to
which he devoted his life and consecrated by his
death. Receive, madam, the homage of our pro-
found respect." M. Albert, who handed the letter
and medal to M. Bigelow, made a speech, in which
he said that the medal was as a homage to the
memory of the illustrious President, and a testimony
of admiration for the man who had immortalised
himself in the service of the United States, and of
the gratitude of the defenders of Democracy and
liberty all over the world. M. Bigelow, in elo-
quent terms, thanked the deputation for their
sympathy.

The system of railway communication progresses
in Switzerland as well as elsewhere. Twelve com-
panies work the Swiss railways at the present time.
The total length of the lines conceded is 1,588,653
metres. The length cf the lines in actual operation
is 1,310,716 metres. The most important lines are
those of the Union Swisse, the Central, the North
East, and the North West. The North East has
paid 7 per cent., and the Central 6 per cent., includ-
ing interest and dividend. The new lines in course
of construction are those of the canton of Argovie,
Orm (Fribour-Lausanne-Berne), Jougne, in the
Canton deVaud, and those for establishing commu-
nications over the Jura mountains. Railways im-
prove every year in Switzerland, and the number
of travellers increases.

The Turin Gazette states that Cardinal de Ville-
court, who is at Rome, is so dangerously ill as to
preclude any hope of his recovery. The Cardinal,
cashier of the
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Bank of Poitiers, commenced yesterday, before the
Court of Assize for the department of Vinne, held
at the former town. The evidence is so volumi-
nous that the trial will last several days. It is stated
that the council for the defence, previously to enter-
ing upon the facts, intend to take a technical objec-
tion to the progress of the indictment on the ground
that the prisoner was illegally arrested in Canada.
The prisoner is a man of 37. He was born at
Chatellerault. In England such an objection would
be taken before the reading of the indictment, but
yesterday the Clerk of the Court read it without
any observation being made by the counsel for the
prisoner. He, however, took the objection after-
wards.

The assizes of Digne will not be held this quarter
for the simple but satisfactory reason that there is
no case for trial, a circumstance which has occurred
several times in the department of the Basses Alpes
within a few years.

Destructive fires seem very frequent just now in

France. There has been a fire at Elbeuf in a
manufactory, and the damage is estimated at
160,000 f. Elbeuf is celebrated for its cloth manu-
facture.

The Tribunal of Riom has decided that to call a
woman a " female" is an insult punishable by fine
and imprisonment.

The Charivari says :—" Bismark has returned to
Berlin. Flourish trumpets ! beat drums ! 'We are
assured that he found in his antechamber 1,200
applicants. They are inventors, who came to sub-
mit to the Minister 1,200 new systems of needle
guns."

Dr. P. Lorin has given an account, in the Aca-
demy of Medicine, of a marvellous cure of cholera
which took place under his direction. The patient,
a stout, vigorous young man, was taken to the Hos-
pital St. Antoine with all the symptoms of cholera.
Indeed rigidity had commenced, and the doctors
said that death was imminent. In further prosecu-
tion of experiments which Dr. Lorin had made with
rabbits, he opened a vein in one of the patient's
arms and injected about four-fifths of a pound of
lukewarm water. The patient, who had been in a
dying state, rallied almost instantly. The pulsa-
tion of the heart was quicker, and before the ope-
ration was finished he asked for drink, and anima-
tion was restored. About two hours afterwards he
fell asleep, and the next morning he was able to get
up without assistance, and sit upon a chair. Within
a week afterwards he left the hospital perfectly
cured. Perhaps, after all, Dr. Sangrado was not
quite wrong in recommending his hot-water system.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ROME AND ITALY.

FLORENCE, Dec. 5

The Gazetta di Firenze announces that Signor
Vegezzi has declined to undertake the projected
mission to Rome on account of ill health, and that
the Italian Government have entrusted the mission
to Signor Okello, Councillor of State, and Advocate
Maurizio, who has held the post of secretary to
Signor Vegezzi.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.
CONSTANTINOPLE, NOY. 26.

The latest private advices received here report a
defeat of the Imperial troops in Crete. The Tur-
kish Government are despatching frest reinforce-
ments of troops to the island.
No new cases of cholera have occurred in this
capital.

BERLIN, Dec. 5.

The Spenersche Zeitung of to-day says :—" We
learn that the ex-King of Hanover has yielded to
the representations of England, and released the
officers of the former Hanoverian Army from their
oath of allegiance."

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

The Inman steamer City of Boston, from New
York on the 24th ult., arrived at Queenstown at
7.20 p.m. yesterday (Dec. 4), with 322 passengers
and $61,500 in specie. She landed 64 passengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 7.45 p.n.

ARRIVAL OF THE SAXONIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 5.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Saxonia, from New York on the 24th ult., has
arrived here with 98 passengers for this port, llavre,
and Hamburg ; $184,469 in specie for England,
$227,552 in specie for France, $2,000 for Hamburg,
1,100 tons of cargo, and 19 bags of mails.
On the 2d inst. she spoke the steamer Bavaria
bound west, and the English schooner Willy, from
Prince Edwards Island, steering east ; on the 4th
the Hamburg bark Altmark, off Start Point, bound
west.

The Saxonia was detained in the West Channel
owing to a heavy south-westerly gale and thick
weather.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.
MARSEILLES, Dec. 4.
The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse
arrived here to-day, at 3.45 p.m., with the home-
ward mails. She has on board 139 passengers and
3,900 packages of merchandise.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENOIT.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Specia:
Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. HALL.

This case, which arose out of the extraordinary pro-
ceedings connected with Madame Valentine, was set down
for hearing this morning.

The jury having been sworn separately for the prosecu-
tion, the criminal, the defendant, who was brought up in
custody of one of the officers of the court, was placed in
front of the bar.

Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., said that ho appeared on behalf of
defendant,who had surrendered himself to the jurisdiction
of the court, to meet the charges preferred against him, and
the attorney of Madam Valentine had been duly informed
that his (Mr. Coleridge's) client would appear to-day.
Tho jury, under the direction of his lordship, found a
verdict for the defendant.

There wore two other charges of misdemeanour agains
tha defendant, but in those cases also there was no prose.
cution, and the defendant was accordingly acquitted.