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SERVIA.

Prince Milosch of Servia has received the follow-
ing note from Prinee Gortschakoff, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Russia :--

" Most Serene Prince !—The Emperor, my mas-
ter, has deigned to confer upon you the Order of
the White Eagle, as a mark of kindness to your
Highness, and 'also to manifest to the Servian
nation the friendship with which he is animated
towards its ruler. In sending you the insignia of
this, order, I congratulate you at the same time on
this mark of attention of my Sovereign, and remain,
with feelings of profoundest consideration and com-
plete devotednes, your Highness's very humble
servant, GORTSCHAKOFF.

"t. Petersburg, March 2."
A decree of Prince Milosch has re-established the
censorship in Servia, and nominated as censor M.
Broukovic, professor at the college of Belgrade.

It has been remarked that Sir E. B. Lytton has
not; attended in his place in Parliament for some days.
The reason of his absence is understood to be the failure of
his health, owing to the assiduity with which he has un-
remittingly discharged the duties of his office, and which
has rendered imperative a temporary, withdrawal from
public affairs: Whatever differences may have existed be-
tween ourselVes and Sir E. B. Lytton, we cannot but re-
spat the sedulous application he has paid to his public
duties, and we are convinced that the sympathy of his
countrymen will follow him into his retirement, which it is
to be hoped will not be of long duration.—Times.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges and
Queen's counsel at his lordship's residence in Eaton-square,
on Friday next, the first day of Easter Term, at 12 o'clock.

It is believed (says the Plymouth Journal) that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert will be present at the
opening of the -Royal Albert Bridge, on the Cornwall Rail-
way,' on Monday, the 2d of May, and that, after the
opening, trains for the public will run between Plymouth
and St. Germans.

The White Star, Captain Clark, has arrived in
the Mersey, from Melbourne, with 14,500 ounces of gold.
The specie. shipped for Brazil by the steamer
Tamar, is £14,940, of which £6,240 is gold and £8,700
silver.

The Royal Bride, Roxburgh Castle, Austral,
Heatherbell, Champion of the Seas, Maidstone, and Con-
flict are still at sea from Melbourne, with an aggregate of
about £639,000 in gold, of which £347,000 may be consi-
dered due.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—About 500 workmen of
various departments are now employed on board this noble
vessel, and as the necessary funds aro now available, it is
confidently anticipated that she will be completed by
August next.
DEPARTURE OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.—A
telegram, received from Cork last night says :—" Tho
Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam Company's
steamer City of Manchester is now (seven o'clock) proceed
ing to sail from Queenstown for New York, with 350 pas-
sengers and a special mail. Though she has only been
advertised 14 days, she carries the largest number of pas-
sengers who have over sailed from Ireland in a steamer for
America.
THE MURDER ON THE. HIGH SEAS.—Yesterday
information was issued for the apprehension of John
Buchanan, late chief engineer on board the Bogota, for the
wilful murder of Thomas Landon, on the high seas. If any
clue can be obtained of him, the police are to send a tele-
, graph to the police-office, Liverpool. It is supposed he will
try to get out to Panama or some part of South America.
A handsome reward is offered for his apprehension. -

THE NEAPOLITAN EXILES.—A grand"full-dress
ball will take place at St. James's Hall, Regent-street,
Piccadilly, on Wednesday next. The arrangements will be
under the entire direction of the ladies patronessei and their
managing committee. The profits arising from the ball
will be handed over to the general committee which has
been formed in aid of the Neapolitan exiles.
WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE APPROACHES.—
Yetiterday the Government bill, which is to be passed this
session, was printed, to authorise the western approaches
to the new Westminster-bridge. Houses in Parliament-
street, Bridge-street, and New Palace-yard, including
Fendall's Hotel, are to be removed for the improvements
contemplated.
GIVING AWAY RAILWAY TICKETS.—There is a
bill in the House of Commons (yesterday printed), which
has already passed the Lords, in which, among other
things, it is provided to be an offence to give away railway
tickets. The parties are to be liable to a penalty of £5 or
imprisonment.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.—An endeavour
is now being made on the part of the treasurer of this ad-
mirable institution to convert the large grav'elled airing
ground forming
,the quadrangle of the hospital into a
garden for the benefit of the patients; the shrubs already
planted appear to thrive very well.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—At
the adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this company, held
yesterday, the Marquis of Chandos in the chair, the pro-
prietors unanimously sanctioned a bill for authorising the
construction of a railway for carrying the West London
line over. the Great Western by means of a bridge, in sub-
stitution of the present level crossing.
FIRE IN NEW BOND-STREET.—A fire broke out
about a quarter before one o'clock yesterday morning on the
premises occupied by Mr. Bubb, bookseller and general
stationer, No. 167, New Bond-street. The fire escape and a
number of engines were soon in attendance. The inmates
escaped uninjured, but though a good supply of water was
obtained the fire was not extinguished until the stock-in-
trade and building were much injured. The cause of the
fire is at present unknown. The loss will fall on the Sun
Fire-office.

AN EX-AFRICAN KING BECOME A PROSELYTE.—
Yesterday the Lord Bishop of London held a confirmation•
at the district church, Christ Church, St. George's-in-the-
East. Amongst the candidates was his Majesty P4.ple,
the ex-King of Bonny River territory, on the African
coast.

MELANCHOLEY SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN.—
Yesterday afternoon a jury assembled at the private resi-
dence of Mr. John Thomas Hind, aged 54 years, of No. 52,
Cannon-street, Commercial-road East, who committed
suicide under the following circumstances. The evidence
went to prove that the deceased possessed considerable
landed property in the parish of St. George"-in-the-East.
He had auffered from an affection in his head, and had had
the.adlace of Dr. Peete, of Cannon-street-road. Yesterday
week one of his sons went to his bed-room and found the
door fastened inside. The door having been broken open
the deceased was fatuad suspended by a rope to a bedpost.
Latterly deceased had been in a low state ofpind. Several
witnesses having been examined, the jury, without hesita-
tion, returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS; AND 'PROMOTIONS
IN ,THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War-office : There are several
;'vacancies for junior clerks; commencing salary, £lOO per
annum. There are vacancies for eight second-class clerks
to military storekeepers ; commencing salary, $3O per annum.
General-PoSt-office : Mr. Daniell, of the surveyor's depart-
ment, St Martin' s-le-Grand, has been appointed postmaster
of Canterbury. Poor Law Board : A supplementary clerk-
ship has become vacant by the death of Mr. G. Ayng Gattie.
Qustoms : A clerkship for general business in Liverpool has
become vacant, in consequence of the death of Mr. David
Scott. East Indies : Mr. E. C. Bayley has been appointed
secretary to the government of the North-west Provinces ;
Mr. F. B. Outram has been. appointed private secretary to,
the Lieut.-Governor of the North-west Provinces ; Mr. e:
R..Coles has been appointed first assistant to the political
agent at Rewah ; Lieut. Acton has been appointed second
assistant to the political agent at Rewah ; Mr. H. C. Hal-
kett has been appointed civil and sessions judge of lloog wlf .
01.4; itScrvire Gazette. .
The Ministerial crisis in Bavaria is, not' yet at an.
end, but no fears need be entertained that' the King mill
have recourse to any unconstitutional measures. It was
rumoured here yesterday that there had been
sesri. ous dis-
turbances at Munich on Saturday, but the report is devoid
of foundation.—Galignani.
There is not one word of truth in the Turin re-
port that there has been a mutiny in the Italian regimente
Airoldi," which is stationed at Agl'am'
in Croatia. The
story of a superior officer having be en arrested and taken to
Verona for having carried on a traitorous correspondence
with-the Sardinians is also false,

THE MEMBERS FOR SHEFFIELD BE-
FORE THEIR CONSTITUESTS.

At a numerous meeting of the supporters of Mr.
J. A. Roebuck and Mr. G. nadfield, held at the
Council-hall, Sheffield, on Thursday evening, the
following resolution was unanimously adopted :
" That, expressing our sincere gratitude to Messrs. Roe-
buck and Hadfield for their past services as our representa
tives in the. House of Commons, we respectfully request
they will again become candidates to represent this borough
in Pa,rliament, and we pledge ourselves to use our best en-
*fieavo`nrs and influence to insure their return to Parliament
at the ensuing election for this borough."

One or two working men complathed of Mr. Roe-
buck's speech in the debate on the Gonernment
Reform Bill, more particularly because he had
offered to support a measure which did not in-
clude the ballot.

Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Hadfield, who had arrived
in Sheffield during the day at the request of the
principal member;: of their election committee,
entered the room shortly after the above resolution
had. been passed. They were received with loud
applause; and, the resolution having been read
over to them,

Mr. ROEBUCK, amid cheers, said,—Mr. Chairman
and gentlemen, it becomes my duty to return you
my thanks for the thanks you have so handsomely
given to me and my colleague. I should not think
it requisite on the present occasion to say a word
about myself after the long series of years I have
been before the public as a public man, were not
the circumstances under which I now appear before
you very peculiar. We are here in this condition
because we have been the friends of popular repre-
rntation. If my hon. friend and myself and a
majority of the House of Commons had thought fit
to desert the popular cause—had we thought fit to
accept a sham Reform Bill, we should not now have
been troubled with the turbulence, as it is called,
of a popular election. I, sir, did my utmost to
irevent a diSsolution of Parliament. (Hear, hear.)
I thought I was doing my duty to my countrymen
in so doing, never for one moment giving the world
or the Ministry to believe that I swerved in the
least from the opinions which I have so often ex-
pressed—(cheers)—but showing them that I was
ready upon the occasion to accept an instalment, if
an instalment of reform were to be given, at the
hands of the present Ministry. (Cheers.) When they
brought forward their bill I was myself one of the
first to denounce that bill. I said it was a sham, it
was -retrograde, it was no advance in fact; and, if
we accepted it, we should be cheated and mysti-
fied ; under the pretence of passing a reform we
should be doing our utmost to repeal the Reform
Act of 1832. In the debate on the second reading
I told the Administration that I looked upon a dis-
solution of Parliament with much terror, consider-
int the present state of Europe—(hear, hear)—
knowing how little nations abroad knew of Eng-
land ; knowing they would think, if Parliament
were dissolved, thatOparties were dislocated, Go-
vernment at a standstill, and that the people of
England were annihilated from the face of Europe
—knowing all that, I told them, it was my object,
if possible, to prevent a dissolution, and that I
would vote for the second reading of the bill if they
would consent to certain things. They said, if we
passed the resolution of Lord John Russell they
should consider it a defeat of the Administration,
accept it as such, and take steps accordingly. We
knew what that meant—either that they would
dissolve Parliament or retire. I wanted to prevent
either alternative, and I said to them, " Supposing
we in committee carry a £6 annual rental for the
borough franchise, with a £lO annual rental for
the county franchise, will you tell the House of
Commons that you will not retire thereupon?"
Besides that, I said I should vote, and I had no
doubt the majority of the House of Commons would
vote, against the transference of the freeholders in
the boroughs from the county to the borough.
(Hear, hear.) There were other things which ought
to be in the Reform Bill, as I believe ; but I had
determined to take an instalment from persons who

could carry. that instalment, which they could
They being in a majority in the House of Lords
anything carried through the House of Commons,
if they accepted it, they could get through the
House of ' Lords, and therefore I was quite
willing to receive their bill so amended as
an instalment. (Hear, hear.) There was one
thing which I did not mention, and for this
reason, because I knew I could not carry it through
the House of Commons—that was the ballot. (Hear,
hear.) If I had mentioned the ballot I should only
have brought it forward to my own confusion, be.
cause the majority of the House of Commons was
against the ballot, and there would be no chance of
forcing it upon the Administration. If the Ministry
had said they would receive those two propositions
I made to them, I would have voted for the second
reading of the bill, and I believe I should have
done good service to the country. (Hear.) Depend
upon it we are not at the end of these proceedings.
Before a month has passed over our heads there
may be war in Euiope. I live among public mat-
ters, and there is no man who pays attention to
public matters but must know at this moment peace
or war trembles in the balance. I believe the fact.
that England being in the commotion of electing
another House of Commons is very detrimental to
the cause of peace, and I am a peaceable man—
(hear)—loving peace when it is connected with the
honour and advantage of my country.
H
When peace is for the dishonour or for the
of my country I am for war ; but so long as peace
injury ear.)
can be maintained with honour and benefit to Eng-
land, so long am I a peaceable man. I believe that
England now stands among the nations of the world
as the great arbitress of peace. In our hand, at
this present moment, rests the issue whether the
world shall be alarmed by the noise of arms or
whether the happiness and welfare of mankind be
provided for. It was upon this ground and this ground
alone, I made that proposition to the Administra-
tion, which I think they did very unwisely not to
accept. Therefore, gentlemen, I voted with my
hon. colleague against the second reading of the
bill. I sincerely believe if the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had given me an answer which I could
have accepted ; if he' had clearly and plainly
told me that he would accept the alterations I
named, if made in committee, then I belive we
could have carried the second reading of the bill,
and had no dissolution. Therefore, I say, the dis•
solution and all its consequences are upon the
heads of the present Administration. I am utterly
careless, gentlemen, as to Whig or Tory. I am no
particular friend of Lord Palmerston. (" Hear,
hear," and laughter.) I am no particular friend. of Lord John " Russell. I am certainly no parti-
cular friend of Lord Derby. (Hear.) But I want
my country to be well governed, and whoever
governs it well shall receive. my support. (Cheers.)
I did not at all concur in the-wisdom of Lord. John
amendment. Russell's
voted amendment,
aaihadi
nslt didt nothe
secondl- vote erefaordihnigs
of the bill ; and when
which belongs to it, Times,ceheaonoses
t 0 withsneer. thatandi auda-
citylaughat that distinction, the
fancy that the world knyows little,
knowef
Parliamentary
or they
arp,i,a,aitm.,theaontft atthrhyee
forms. The way the question is put i
words proposed to be left out put
question." What are those words . That the
bill be now read a second time." I voted in the
negative of that proposition. I did not
vet
Lord John Russell's proposition, though Le oMoir
John's proposition was afterwards accented withouth r
a division. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
euerf
his
had
said to me that it was one of the principles
bill, and that he adhered to what he called the
borough system. I believe he meant by
i that the
£lO franchise—that the borough system n his sig-
nificance was the actual borough system as now
existing, because the Ministry were about to alter
it by transferring all the freeholds of the county
that are in the borough to the borough, and the
only part of it they would have kft untouched
}vas the £lO franchise. When 71- asked him
if he would allow us to alter the bill, his
I a
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wasfe
re thattaki
taking
thatadhered
tn
bto e thetheb borough
franchise,
against that sham bill which they had broupghtyuien.
Now, for the future what are you to
expect
all know what my hon. colleague and
myself have
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tdho
ante .w Ih
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hlamveay say in
we Continue to do.
I have invariably been the friend of the exten-
sion
friend o f the h e
the
ballot.suffrage.
E been invariably the
I haveha.° been invariably the
friend of every liberal measure brought forward in
my time, and in that I see no reason to alter. But,
gentlemen, do not
ghrideaetfrom
now undergoing a
the
reallous of
the yourselves that we are
change.commo Commons,
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de
ibnetehnantearly
27 years intime
I have seen .
that house by
the great change made
anges. I wall:sr
When
I came there I found though the people outside had
the power to return 'their representatives, yet that
the persons they returned were so unacquainted
with the business of government, tilt the govern-
mentof this country was in the hands of two aristo-
cratic parties. (Hear, hear.) From that time to this
there has been going on a gradual change, till at
1a.4 the present Mouse of Commons has been more
than any of its predecessors intolerant of anything,
like aristocratic dictation. -What people complain
of in reference to there being no unity of parties is
this: there is in that House of Commons a determi-
nation not to be led by aristocratic rulers. (Hear.)
The day of Lord Tom Noddy has passed away.
(Cheers and laughter.) We are determined—l, for
one, am determined to do all I possibly can, not only
to extend the franchise to the great body of my
fellow-countrymen, but to persuade the middle
classes to prepare themselves for the government
of the country. Now, this can only be done in one
way, and that is by educating themselves. Depend
upon it, the government of a country is more diM.
cult than the government of a mill. There is not

a man among you who, having a to conduct,
would choose a man not educated to the business.
Suppose it to be a cotton mill, would you not
take a man who understood cotton, who under-
stood spinning, who understood markets and
trade ? Well, then, do you think that the govern-
ment of mankind is not a more difficult opera-
tion than the government of spinning jennies ?
Do you think that a man can suddenly start up,
like Minerva from the head of Jupiter. a full-grown,
full-panoplied legislator ? Believe me, you cannot
expect any such thing. It is the result of study,
and my urgent advice to the middle classes of this
country is to prepar3 their children by study, for
the government of this country. I have lived in
the House of Commons, if not the greater part of
my life, yet for many years, and. I have seen strip-
lings of the aristocratic classes step into the busi-
ness of government. I recollect speaking to Lord
Stanley on the subject. In talking about a very
celebrated man, I said to him, " Know you, my lord,
his case and yours is very different. Such a man's
goal is your starting point; where other men end
you begin. You step right into the business of
government ' • he has to conquer his way up to that.
By the time he has conquered his way to where you
start from, old age comes upon him and he is un-
fitted for his office." (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But
if we can accomplish what I hope we shall in con-
quering greater power for the people, then it will
be your business to pick out from the middle classes
persons who can govern this country. Do you tell
me that the people of this country, who, as I said
the other night in the House of Commons, fill the
earth with their products, cover every_ sea with
their ships, make the world to ringwith their great
achievements in art and science, who have made
the English language and its works the wonder of
the world—shall these men be said to be unequal
to the government of themselves ? Believe me,
there is no such cause as some would represent for our
feeling disheartened as to the administration of the
Government of this great country. Prepare your-
selves thoroughly to enjoy, properly to enjoy, the
great powers that you are delegating us to obtain
for you; prepare yourselves for that, and then you
will be, what I really hope to see you, a self-
' governed, and thereby a happy and well-governed
people. (Cheers.) Ido not think it right at this
period to take up more of your time by an exposi-
tion of my opinione. have stated to you shortly
my view of what has occurred within the last few
' days, and I now leave my hon. colleague to state
his view. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. HADFIELD was received with loud cheers.

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coming
whollynothick
unpre-
paredopoathem, for he had an idea that when Lord Derby
became Minister he extracted from her Majesty a
promise that if he went into office with only one-
third of the House of Commons in his favour, it
should be at his discretion to appeal to the people,
and dissolve the Parliament. He took office in
February last year, with the knowledge that he
had a minority in the house. Therefore, he (Mr.
Hadfield) had always apprehended that .they had
the power ; but he did not think that they would.
have tried to put that power into exercise. It
seemed to him that the defunct party which Lord
Derby represented was playing its last card. The
dissolution was a desperate throw they were mak-
ing, and he dare risk his opinion, and be reminded
of it hereafter, that they would not mend their
position by having a dissolution on the question of
Reform. The bill introduced by Government was,
as his hon. colleague had designated it, a sham. It
took more away than it gave. It consolidated the
aristocratic element, and reduced the influence and
power of the working, skilful, and industrious part
of the community. It was stated by Lord John
Russell, and he Mr. Hadfield) believed it to be a
fact, that the borough of Sheffield would lose 1,900
votes in the West Riding. There were that num-
ber of freeholders in Sheffield who had prided
themselves on haying something to say at the great
contest of the West Riding of the county of York.
Freeholders at a distance were to be able to send
their votes, and those on the spot, who ought to
exercise the right, would find it greatly impaired,
and in some boroughs the electors would hare been
overwhelmed by the foreign influence of persons
who would be able to carry any member they
thought fit. He did vote for Lord J. Russell's reso-
lution itself, and the facts he had mentioned con-
cerning the disfranchisement of freeholders were one
reason for his doing so. But the paramount reason was
that the borough franchise was not to be extended
at all, so that three-fourths or four-fifths of the
householders would
present—
nt_beusotialblle tthoe
vsor pHoseitikonneaNsir
theyo
that by voting for that resolution, from the par-
ticular form in which the question was put-- namely, " that the words
proposed to be omitted
stand part of the question"--he was voting for Lord
J. Russell's resolution, but he also knew that at the
same time that he was voting against the.bill.
Iti
was to him a startling fact that at that moment
four-fifths of the householders of the country were
unrepresented. That number paid taxes to a most
enormous extent. Sir J. Graham had calculated,
• that the unrepresented part of the community paia
taxes to a greater amount than the whole interest
of the national debt,. They were one-fifth, probably
one-sixth, of the adult population of the country'
who sent members to Parliament to legislate for the
. rest of the community, with full power over the
taxes paid by the other five-sixths. The thing wag
I so preposterous and unjust that he had not the
slightest hesitation in giving his support to Lord
J. Russell's resolution. In conclusion the hon.
• member expressed his hope that the business of the
election would be so conducted as to show any [ persons desirous to oppose that it would be fruitless
. to do so. (Cheers.)