The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-13 00:00:00

CONFIDENCE IN LORD PALMERSTON.

Yesterday, at a Court of Common Council, the Lord
Mayor gave an account of the manner in which Lord
Palmerston received the vote of confidence lately agreed
to by the Court.
The Loan M.a/oR accompanied by the Re.
membrancer, yesterday had the honour of waiting upon
Lord Palmerston with the resolation of this Court ap-
proving the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers. I have
much pleasure in stating that we were most cordially
received, his lordship expressing himself complimented
by the vcte of confidence recorded by the Court relative
to the courae pursued by her Majesty's Government on
the Canton question. (Loud cheers.)
Yesterday afternoon the following declaration in
favour of Lord Palmerston, numerously and influentially
signed, was transmitted from Cheltenham to London :

" TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD PALMERSTON.

" We, the undersigned residents of Cheltenham, beg to
assure your lordship that we have observed with feelings
of deep regret the result of the division of Tuesday night
last on Mr. Cobden's motion relative to the war in China,
and we beg to express the full confidence we still enter-
tain in the wisdom, efficiency, and vigour displayed by
your lordship's administration ; and we trust that the
appeal about to be wade to the country will, in spite of the
unnatural and factious coalition in the House of Com-
mons, result in more firmly establishing you in that power
which you have so ably wielded during a most trying and
momentous period, in support of the beat interests of this
great country."

It is again affirmed that, during the short period of
hostilities between Great Britian and Persia, the Rus-
sian Government obtained permission from the Court of
Teheran to establish military posts and block-houses in
the. passes of Ba.vazid, in order to secure the possession
of the road by Mount Ararat.
ASSAULTS ON WOMEN AND CHILDLEN.—The following
is the number of convictions at the various police-courts
of the Metropolis for aggravated assaults on women and
children in the year 1856—viz., at Bow-street, 15 ; at
Clerkenwell, 59 ; at Greenwich, 25 ; at Woolwich, 23 ;
at Hammersmith, 23 ; at Lambeth, 24 ; at Marlborough-
street, 27 ; at Marylebone, 11 ; at Southwark, 47 ; at
Thames, 55 ; and at Westminster, 22.
GENERAL THOMPSON FOR BRADFORD.—It will be seen
from the intelligence given in another column that Gen.
Thompson will be requested to offer himself as a candi-
date for Bradford. The electors of Bradford have done
themselves honour by soliciting the services of the veteran
advocate of free trade and reform. Gen. Thompson's
claims are too well known to need any eulogy of ours.
There never has been any doubt as to the place he holds
among the most enlightened and consistent reformers of
the age. No man living has attained to a better defined
position among the leaders of liberal opinion, and few men
have laid their country under greater obligations. To Mr.
Cobe,en and Mr. Bright the praise 61 having achieved
the triumphs of free trade is justly due, but those emi-
nent men would be the first to acknowledge that they
drew tests Di:onions and arguments, in a great measure,
from the wriLlzgs of General Thompson. If there had
been no " Catechism of the Corn Laws," there woul.d
not have been—we are hardly overstating the case—an
Anti Corn-law League. It is a reflection upon the
Liberal constituencies of England, that such a man
should have been allowed to be absent for a single ses-
sion from the House of Commons, where his great expe-
rience, and equally great accomplishments, qualify him
to be of signal service. We trust that Bradford will
have the honour of rectifying this mistake. However
great the claims of any 1. cal candidate may be, they
cannot weigh for a moment against those which are ac-
knowledged on all hands to belong to General Thcomp-
Eol3.—Manchater .Examiner.