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London, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

lIHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY LIVENING, MARCH 28, 1857.

of provocation I Beyond this—YEA issues inflam- '
matory proclamations to the Cantonese, exciting
them to all kinds of brutal outrages against
the British residents 1 He sets a price upon the
heads of Englishmen—tempting, with the aid of
blood-money, the most infamous assassinations !
He so nurtures a feeling of hatred amongst the
Chinese against our fellow-countrymen eighteen
thousand miles away from their fatherland—that
their houses and factories are burnt to the ground ;
that they are brutally murdered in cold blood by
the knives of hireling cut-throats ; that they
find themselves suddenly and simultaneously
assailed by the drugs of poisoners, and the daggers
of assassins, and the torches of incendiaries! Go •
vernor YEA, after setting which hellish game
afoot—is ultimately, we find, condemned, in an
official manner, by his own Sovereign !
A justification, all this, we maintain, a com-
plete and perfect justification—of Sir JOHN Bow-
RING, of Consul PARKES, of Admiral SEYMOUR, of
Lord PALMERSTON, and of the Noble Viscount's
colleagues in the Government ! A signal and
decisive justification ! Why—here were Mr. COB-
DEN and his supporters formally commending
Governor YEH for conduct which Governor
YEa's own Sovereign conceives to be entitled to
distinct and deliberate condemnation 1 The Chi-
nese EMPEROR actually disapproving of the very
proceedings of his own Envoy and Representative
—the very proceedings which, by a strange per-
versity of judgment, are pronounced to be only
right and reasonable by the British Parliamentary
Opposition I
Nothing, in truth, could be more startingly
opportune for the interests of her MAJESTY'S
Ministers than this extraordinary budget of
Oriental Intelligence. It " turns the tables,"
with a vengeance, on the Opposition. It exone-
rates Sir JOHN BOWRING at once and for ever
(in the matter of this Chinese difficulty) from
the charge of precipitancy. It testifies in the
name of the Celestial EMPEROR himself, the
wholly unjustifiable nature of the policy of his
own Official at Canton. It sots a seal to the
popularity of the chivalrous and patriotic, the
dignified, manly, sagacious, and consistent course
pursued throughout the whole of these trans-
actions by Viscount PALMERSTON and his Go-
vernment.

tails upon the hustings—the Prime Minister must
perforce be perfectly outspoken upon the subject
directly the New Parliament shall have as-
sembled in solemn conclave in the legislative
Palace at Westminster. That is one consola-
tion. That is the compensative mitigation
of that which is, after all, merely a tem-
porary disappointment. Ministers must, then,
descend at last from generalities to particulars.
Then, but obviously not till then, the Country
will learn what Lord PALMERSTON really means
by this comprehensive and reiterated phrase of
Progressive Improvement.

LATEST N E WS.

MAGISTERIAL CLERGYMEN.

Progressive Improvement That is the sum-
total of the Home Policy of Ministers. They
won't budge one inch beyond it. They refuse to
particularise. They compel us to content our-
selves, as we best can, with the mere generalised
phrase—(nothing more)—" Progressive Improve-
ment." A Home Policy like this is, of course,
the merest Outline. As much of a mere Outline,
in its way, as any one of MORITZ RETZCEL'S
famous Schillerian or Shaksperian " Sketches."
We are left to imagine the details—to fill up the
shading within, according to our own fancy.
All that is done for us, is done solely in
the way of artistic " suggestion." But then—
as those wonderful sketches of the Great
German Etcher have shown to the world—how
much can be accomplished by a really master-
hand guided by a really master-genius—simply,
solely, and exclusively through the merest Out-
line 1 The subtle twists and turns of the pencil
in those marvel-working fingers of the true Poet-
Draughtsman—what a wonderful significance they
have, to b 3 sure 1 To modify very slightly ame
morable couplet of ALEXANDER POPE in the mere
application, we may exclaim, without any exagge-
ration, of a Genius of this very peculiar descrip-
tion, the Genius, we may call it, of Suggestive-
ness—

"The Artist's sense, how exquisitely fine,
Feels at each touch, acs cues along ute line
Along the one subtle and delicate Outline. A
Home Policy, pencilled after the manner of
MORITZ RETZCII, is the only one sketched out for
us by Viscount PALMERSTON. But it is sketched,
as in the instance of its artistic prototype, by a
master-genius guidicg a masterhand
We must admit !that much in the midst of our
very disappointment. The Ministerial Outline of
a Home Policy is exceedingly suggestive. It is
also, at the same time, wonderfully comprehen-
sive. It admits of any "filling up" that may
be deemed requisite by the New Parlia-
ment. That—precisely—is its merit. That is
what renders it, to our mind, in any
way acceptable. And so far, in fact, we regard
it as very acceptable 1 So far, we deem it to be
the very policy of all others the most acceptable ?
A policy that can be modified, and enlarged, and
improved ad libitum, according to the good-will
and pleasure of the New Parliament 1
A prospect all the more encouraging, seeing
that the House of Commons, now in course of
selection, gives the most exhilarating promise of
proving when complete—what we hoped
all along it might prove—a really Energetic
and Reforming Parliament. Observe, iu tes-
timony of this, the positive "gains" already
recorded on the aide of the Ministerialists
A. Gain of one at 11%ton, of another at Cardigan
Borough, of another at Devonport, of one at
Dudley, of one at Great Grimsby, of one at
Leominster, of one at Retford, and of two at
the twin borough of Penryn and Falmouth !
A gain of nine Liberals out of the first hand-
ful of returns, just to begin with ! A. House
of Commons so elected, elected under such
auspices, auspices so liberal in character and
in tendency—cannot but "fill up" the Mini-
sterial Outline of a Home Policy most judi-
ciously. To the new Parliament will be entrusted
the supreme responsibility of watching over the
development of Reform under the ready hand of the
Leader of the Government. Upon the Legislature,
when at length reassembled at Westminster, will
devolve the duty of giving a shape and substance
to the as yet little else than vapouriform view
of " Progressive Improvement" conjured up by
the magic voice of Lord PALMERSTON.
Yesterday upon the occasion of his unopposed
re-election at Tiverton, the Prime Minister dis-

tinctly avowed his reluctance to make any formal
promises in the way of explaining to the whole
world what he really meant by progressive im-
provement. " Those who know" said the Noble
Viscount, " what is the position of men in
office, but more especially what is tlie position of
the head of the Government, must see and feel
that I should be acting a very unbecoming part
if I were to personate the character of a young
candidate appearing for the first time on the hust-
ings and endeavouring by clap-trap pledges to en-
list stray votes, and going headlong to anything
which one or two persons might toll him would
increase the majority which he is endeavour-
ing to maintain." Adding a little further
on—after a very grandiose yet inspiriting pane-

gyric upon the Oonstitution—" But, gentlemen,
I ain sure you will see it would be unbecoming in
me to enter into detailed pledges, and to
hold out pro:nises with reference to subjects on
which some of you feel an interest ; and there
fore, however I may disappoint the expectations

of some, it is my duty to do so, and that duty,
like other duties, I feel it imperatively necessary to
perform." A marvellously convenient duty, by the
way, as it happens ! Though how " A Duty," in

any way, altogether surpasses our comprehension
under the circumstances I Silent in regard to de-

scriptions opened in Prussia for the royalists of
Neuchatel now in exile have been frequently
talked of; hut do not appear to have been attended
with any satisfactory iesult. We learn, in fact,
that the wealthy royalists of Neuchatel have been
lately obliged to advance a considerable sum to
assist their countrymen who are less favoured by
fortune."

SARDINIA.
The Chamber of Deputies at Turin was still
engaged on the 24th in the discussion of the
bill for the partial abolition of the punishment
of death. On Art. 2 being read, providing that
infanticide should be punished with hard labour fur
Ife instead of with death, _M. G-enina moved that a
distinction be made between unpremeditated and
premeditated infanticide, such for instance as the
murder of an infant for the purpose of obtaining an
inheritance. After some discussion, the words
" provided there have been no premeditation"
were added to the article. Art. 4, abolishing
the punishment of hard isbour in the case of
blasphemy of God, the Virgin, and the saints, and
substituting imprisonment not exceeding three
months instead, was the subject of a long dis-
cussion, some members being of opinion that it
ought to be expunge.' together with Art. 162 of
the Code, which inflicts hard labour fur that trans-
gression ; others, on the contrary, maintaining
that a three mouths' imprisonment was much too
little. At length M. Deforesta proposed the fol-
lowing wording :—" There shall be no penal action
in the ca,es contemplated by Art. 162 of the Code,
except when the blasphemy has been publicly com-
mitted ; and in that case the punishment shall be
imprisonment not exceeding three months." The
article was adopted under this form, and the Chain-
ber also voted Art. 5, diminishing all punishments
by one degree in the case of extenuating circum-
stances.

MARKET NEWS.--(This Lay.)

COVENT

To-day's market was scant
of produce, and the trade ru]
rency.

Pine apples, per lb. 6s 03 to lOs
Colonial do., ea. Os Od to Os Od
Grapes, per 1b...12s Od to 20s
Foreign do Os Od to Os Od
Melons, each ....3s Od to 5s Od
Peaches, p. d0z.... 3s to 8s Od
Nectarines, do. 2s Od to 8s Od
Apples, p. h. sv. 6s Od to 88 Od
Pears, per d0z....8s to 10s 0(i
Oranges, per 100. 5s Od to 12s
Lemons, p. doz. is Od. to 2s Od
Apricots,p. doz. 2s Od to 6s Od
Cherries, per lb. Os to Os Od

-ARDE/T.

ily supplied with most kinds
led steady at last week's cur-

Filberts,per lb ls to is 4d
Cobs., p. 100 lbs. 140 s to s
Almonds, p. lb. Os Od to Os Od
Walputs, per 100 6d to is Od
Figs, per doz is to 3s Od
Strawberries, per
pottle Od to Od
Gooseberries, per
half sieve ... Od to Os Od
Currants, p. do. Os Od to Os Od
Plums. per do. 2s Od to 5s Od
Green gages,do. 4s Od to 7s Od
Raspberries, p. potl. 0,1 to Od

VEGET.
Greens, p. doz. bun. 3s to 3i 6d
Cabbages, per doz. is to is 9d
Savoydo.,p. do. is Od to 2s 0d
Cauliflowers, do.2s Od to 5s Od
Brocoli, p. bun. is Od to is 6d
Potatoes, per ton 603 to 130 s
New do., per do Osto Os
Peas, per quart ...9d to is Od
Turnips, per bunch 21d to 5d
Carrots, per bunch 5d to 7d
Cucumbers, each 2s to 4s Od
Garlic, per lb 6d to Os 8d
Sorrel, per sieve Od to 0,
Spinach, p. d0...2s Od to 2s 6:1
Brussels sprouts, per
half do 25411 to 2s 6d
Onions, p. bush 2s 6d to 4s Od
New do., per bunch 4d to 6d
French beans, per
100 2sod to 3s Od
Leeks, per d 0......... al to 4d

ABLEb.
Shallots, per lb., 6d to 81
Horsera,ddisia, p. bun. 2s to Is
Parsley, per do. 6d to 8d
Celery, per do Os 9d to 1s 6d
Beet, per doz. Is Od to 2s Od
Parsnips, per do. is to 29 Gd
Small salad, p. pun. 2d to 3d
Mushrooms, p. ptl. 1 s 3 dtols 6d
Artichokes, each 4d to 81
Lettuces, per score 9d to is 01
Endive, per score is 6d to 4s
Radishes, per bunch 21 to 3d
Tomatoes, p. hf.sv. 4s to Os 01
Walnuts per 100...0s 8d to is
Chillies, per 100 is Od to is 6d
Capsicums, per 1001 s 01 to 2s
Rhubarb, p. bun. 8d to is 6d
Asparagus, per 100 Gs 01 to 9 s
Sea kail, per pun, is 3d to 3s
Turnip greens, per
II bush is bd to is Gd
D LEADENHALL.