The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

GREAT FIRE IN BELFAST.

" Messrs. MUSGRAVE, BROTHERS.—GENTLEMEN,—At your request, I beg to state, for the information of the public,
that 'be only property saved from the late fire, in the premises of Thomas S. Major and Co., was that contained in one of
Milners' Patent Safes. From the intense nature of the tire, and the length of time the Safe was exposed to the action of the
names, I was fully convinced of the destruction of the books and papers it contained ; and feel very great pleasure in testify-
ing to this extraordinary instance of their preservation. I may add, that the Safe was placed on the third story, without any
protection, where it remained till the floor was burnt around it, when it fell to the room beneath, the floor of which was like-
wise destroyed by the fire.—Yours truly, "JAMES S. HUNTER,
"Executor of the late Thomas S. Major, of the Firm of Thomas S. Major and Co.

" Belfast, January 2nd, 1854."
TRIUMPHANT RESISTANCE TO ROBBERS, AT MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH AND BROOKES'S,
MANCHESTER.
"Siia,—Last night our Premises were entered by burglars, who made a desperate attempt upon the Milners' Holdfast
Safe we bought from you some time since ; and, although they evidently had recourse to all the usual appliances of accom-
plished thieves, and ultimately to gunpowper in abundance, we are glad to say with no other effect than to injure the lock—
the opening of the Safe they found quite impracticable.
We are happy to be enabled to express our unqualified approbation of the Safe; we believe it is impregnable to thieves.
"If our verbal testimony will be of service to you, you are at liberty to refer to us, end to make any use you please of
this communication.—Yours respectfully, " BUTTERWORTH and BROOKES.
"76, Mosley-street, Manchester, October 22nd, 1851."

THOS. MILNER and SON select the following severe cases of successful trial of their Safes from hundreds of Certincates of
utility, as instances in which they believe that any other Safes than their own would have failed :
Great Fire at the Gutta Percha Company. 1 I Triumphant Resistance to Robbers, Glasgow, James Richard-
Great Fire in Haydon-square, Coubro and Potter. son and Co.
Burglarious Attempt at the Bridgewater Offices. Great Fire in Market-street, Manchester, Thos. Haigh.
Great Fire at the London and North-Western Railway Station, 1 Destructive Fire in Park-lane, Liverpool, Garnias and Co.
Coventry. Entire Destruction of Offices at Birkenhead, including con-
Great Fire at Cape Haiti, W. D. Roberts and Co. tents of strong Safe and Drawers, Milners' standing beside
Burglarious Attempt at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. it, red hot outride, but contents unsinged, J. and W.
Great Fire at Glasgow, Chas. Boyd and Son. Walker. ..
Destructive Fire in Gordon-street, Glasgow, Ker Doecinz & Co.
MILNERS' FIRST-CLASS STRONG " HOLDFAST" AND FIRE-RESISTING SAFES AND CHESTS,
HALF-INCH THICK WROUGHT IRON OUTSIDE ;
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MILNERS' FIRE-RESISTING BOOK-CASES AND CHESTS.
MILNERS' PORTABLE ONE-CHAMBERED FIRE-RESISTING BOXES.
HOBBS' LOCKS, 10s. each extra.
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•
LETTRE DU ROI DES BELLES.

Cabinet du Rol—So. 1,712.
I'honneur de vous informer que le Roi a
pris connaissance de votre requete, en date du 3 de ce mois,
par laquelle vous commnniquez un specificine, que vous
croyez pouvoir 4tre utilite dans les armees, et que iPapres
lea ordres de sa Majeste, elle a ete transmise au Ministere de
rinterieur,k 17 F4vrier ct., SOUS le No. 17, aver one annexe.
—Le Secr4taire, (Signed) D'ANETH
A Mr. F. Albinolo, a Londres.
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THE OPPOSITION LEADERS-A :SCENE

IN PARLIAMENT.

• THAT the floor of the. House .of Commons is often made
the scene of an anomalous drama, is true. Not less true
is it that in the course of most sessions it is made the
arena of combats at variance with the professions of
gentlemanly feeling which admittedly actuate the conduct
of nearly all our parliamentary representatives, and the
possession and display of which feeling are indispensable
to the occupancy of a prominent position in the house.
Even youthful students of public events must be familiar
with the acrimonious controversy between the late Sir
ROBERT PEEL and Mr. COBDEN ; nor are they likely to
be ignorant of the pungent oratorical contest between the
same right honourable baronet and Mr. DISRAELI; while
those whose memories and experience stretch over a longer
period, will revert to the famous rhetorical combat between
Lord BROUGHAM and Mr. CANNING, as illustrations in
point of the above remarks. No one of the instances
referred to, however, possessed a greater amount of studied
and ingenious sarcasm, or was delivered with such stinging
severity and damaging effect as was administered by Mr.
D/SRAELI to' Lord JOHN RussEm, on Monday evening;
nor was any of them distinguished by such an eager com-
petition of bitterness as the noble lord evinced in his
replies, for the combat consisted of more than one passage
of arms.

It originated in the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S intimating
the intention of government to withdraw the Bribery Bills
which they had introduced, for the purpose of disfran-
chising the boroughs of Barnstaple, Canterbury, Cam-
bridge, Hull, and Maldon. The opportunity was seized by
Mr. DISRAELI for exposing the administrative incapacity
of the cabinet, as displayed in their inability to carry into
effect measures which they had declared of vital impor-
tance to the well-being of the country. With perplexing
and incorrigible ability Mr. DISRAELI enumerated the
instances in which the impotence of government had been
demonstrated by defeat.
"There have been seven important measures of which
the government have given notice this session. The great
majority of these were brought forward with the authority
of Her Majesty in her most gracious speech, but those
measures that were not introduced in Her Majesty's
speech were not of less importance than those that were
brought under our notice in that -manner. They all of
them touch upon the most considerable subjects that can
engage the attention of parliament. I find that out of
these seven measures the government have been defeated
on three, that three have been withdrawn, and that the
seventh will engage our attention when the present busi-
ness has terminated. They have been defeated on a bill
for the entire change of the law of settlement—on a bill
for the public education of one of Her Majesty's kingdoms
—and a bill for the total reconstruction of parliamentary
oaths. They have withdrawn three bills,—one, the bill
before us for the disfranchisement of a large number of
persons, comprising a large body of the constituency;
they have not introduced, but they have withdrawn from
our notice, a most important measure for the complete
change of the civil service, which, so far as we can form
an opinion of it, would have altered the whole spirit of
our administration ; and they have withdrawn a measure
respecting parliamentary reform. There still remains a
seventh measure, which is one for the reform of the
University of Oxford. On three they have been defeated,
three they have withdrawn, and on the seventh they have
received considerable, though partial defeats. Did they
believe that they could have passed a reform in parlia-
ment ? Did they believe that they could have effected
the reform of the civil service ? Did they believe that
they could have disfranchised the constituencies, or any
portion of them, of these offending boroughs, that they
could have established a system of public education in
Scotland, revised the whole of our parliamentary oaths,
and changed the parliamentary constitution of the country;
settled the law of settlement, and reformed the University
of Oxford ? All these seven measures, whatever difference
of opinion may exist as to their policy or expediency, have
one characteristic. They are either assaults upon the
rights of the subject or on the institutions of the country.
That no one will deny. You met here to-night with the
intention of disfranchising a considerable number of Her
Majesty's subjects. You were to proceed, after you had
read a second time the bill for that purpose, to attack the
rights of the University of Oxford. Some of you may,
perhaps, be of opinion that, in both of these instances,
such violent measures should have been had recourse to ;
but no man will deny that the one makes an attack on
the rights of the constituency of the country, and that
the other is an attack on the rights of one of the universi-
ties of the country. No one will deny that the scheme of
parliamentary reform which the noble lord introduced to
our notice was an attack on an institution of the country.
The noble lord and his friends may be of opinion—though
I know no gentlemen who have expressed the opinion—
that the measure was a beneficial measure ; yet they will
not deny that it was a change, and a great change, in one
of the institutions of the country. Supposing the noble
lord bad proceeded with the measure, so dear to his heart,
for the reform of parliament, would he have supposed that
he could carry it ? Suppose the noble lord had not raised
the siege of parliament, after keeping it up for three
years, would he have supposed that he could succeed in
his object ? It is of great importance to impress these
circumstances on the house and the country, because we
are never to forget that we enjoy the great blessing of
having our affairs administered by men who are remark-
ably distinguished by their ability—men who have made
enormous sacrifices, both for their country and for them-
selves. Than the noble lord himself no man has made
greater sacrifices. He has thrown over all his old col-
leagues, and connected himself with a coterie of public
men who the greater part of their lives have been depre-
ciating his great abilities and running down his eminent
renown. If the noble lord had succeeded in the object for
which he made such enormous sacrifices, I could under-
stand more clearly than I do the present position of the
noble lord. But we find it otherwise. I feel that the
time has come when it is impossible not to consider that
we should have had the ample compensation held out to
us for the breaking up of parties, for not following the
spirit and genius of our parliamentary constitution. We
have not received that full and ample compensation in
well-digested and statesmanlike measures that was held
out to us. We were told that the government had no
principles, but all the talents,' and we had a right to
expect that the noble lord—who always wishes to behave
handsomely to the house—would at least have given us
something as a compensation for the remarkable state of
affairs which has banished all his natural colleagues to
invisible positions in this house, and placed him on a
bench surrounded by those who have been decrying his
career for the last quarter of a century."
To these remarkably well-put taunts, Lord Jon
RUSSELL, losing his Parliamentary temper, and forgetting
his customary tact, replied in the to quogue style :
" The right honourable gentleman himself, when he
was a minister, brought forward a plan of finance on which
he had bestowed considerable labour, but he was not so
fortunate as to obtain for that plan the sanction of this
house. Yet I suppose he brought it forward in the ex-
pectation of its being carried. That certainly is our case,
and no doubt we have been much disappointed. [After
some taunting observations as to the Conservative party
and Mr. Disraeli being afraid to test the popularity of the
cabinet by an adverse vote upon their war policy, his lord-
ship went on to say,]—The right hon. gentleman has
more than once, and I have no doubt with great sincerity,
declared his wish to see the Jews in possession of the
franchise with all other subjects of Her Majesty. He
thinks they are peculiarly worthy of it, more worthy of it,
I believe, than Protestants, Roman Catholics, or any other
class of Christians ; but, notwithstanding his great anxiety,
sometimes he supports it, and sometimes he does not
support it—the political conveniences of the hour always
seem to overcome his attachment to the cause. Such
being the case, and such being the condition of the
government, I certainly must regret that this measure
has been defeated ; but with regard to that question
which I must consider as the great question of the session,
I repeat that the discussions and divisions which have
taken place in this house have not shown that it has con-
fidence in the right hon. gentleman and his friends."
So far from daunting or intimidating the ex-Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the invective and accusation of Lord
Jourr RUSSELL only served to chafe and rouse him. With
a power of sarcasm peculiar to himself, and in the wield-
ing of which he has no rival in the house, Mr. Dlsu4xxa
replied :
" The noble lord seems to think that I am surprised
that he has not quitted office; Sir, on the contrary, I
should have been immensely surprised if he had. Many
more defeats, if possible more humiliating, and if possible
more complete, must occur before the noble lord will feel
the necessity of taking such a step as that. I know the
noble lord too well; I have sat opposite to him too
long ; I have seen him too often in the same posi-
tion. Many a time have I seen him experience
the most signal defeats, and I have seen him still adhere
to office with a patriotism and a pertinacity which cannot
be too much admired. The noble lord is in error, there-
fore, if he supposes that I was taunting him with not re-
signing office, or if he thinks I was expressing any sur-
prise at his retaining the position which he occupies."

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Mr. DISRAELI next addresses himself to Lord JOHN'S
allegation that he and his friends, after criticising the
war policy of the ministry, were afraid to test their own
popularity by an adverse vote, but contented themselves
with a disingenuous misrepresentation of the ministerial
conduct. In answer to this taunt of Lord Jolts, Mr.
DISRAELI accuses him broadly of having suppressed the
most important portion of the papers relative to the
Turkish question, and obtaining the sanction of the house
on a garbled statement, repeating his assertion that the
ministerial conduct could only be explained by " conni-
vance or credulity." He then proceeds
"The noble lord referred—not with much felicity, I
think— to the failure of the last measures of the govern-
ment of Lord Derby, and he then suddenly recollected
himself, finding that their policy led to consequences very
different from his own conduct. As the noble lord has
touched upon those measures, I hope—unwilling as I am
to notice such things—that the house will not consider
me as trespassing upon their time if I refer, also, to the
measures of the late government, with which the noble
lord, as a member of the Opposition, had some connexion.
I will say for the noble lord, that, whatever may have
induced him, from the first moment that Lord,Derby's
government was formed, they did not find in him a fair
opponent. I will not say of the noble lord as he said of
me some 16 months ago, when I gave him a friendly in-
timation that he had better be looking after some of his
colleagues, who, in their sagacity, were insulting the
Emperor of the French ;—I will not say of him what lie
then said of me, that my .conduct was imbued with the
spirit of faction. That is quite-unnecessary for me to say,
if I recal to the house what was the conduct of the
noble lord when the government 4 Lord Derby ruse

first formed. He had scarcely retired, from office—
from which, be it remembered, he was not driven by
any efforts of ours, but by discourtly quarrels with
his own colleagues—when he went into fierce opposi-
tion ; and against what ? Against the measure for
the establishment of the militia force upon the volun-
tary system. Night after night the noble lord opposed
that measure ; he exhausted every combination of
faction ; he opposed it at every stage, and at last be ex-
hausted the support and confidence of his own friends."

After dexterously alluding to the success which had
attended the DERBY administration in reference to their
reforms in the practice of the Court of Chancery, Mr.
DISRAELI proceeds to say :
" But there was another measure proposed by the
Government of Lord Derby, very appropriate to the sub-
ject of discussion now before the house- Year after year
having disfranchised boroughs, petty boroughs, for cor-
rupt practices, you neglected to fill up the vacant seats,
and you left the numbers of this house incomplete. The
government of Lord Derby came forward and made an
enlightened and liberal proposition ; they laid down a
principle, at least, which the noble lord has himself since
adopted for his Reform Bill. They said, you should give
these forfeited seats to the great counties which are not
sufficiently represented. We proposed to give them to
the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire; and how
was that proposition opposed? With all the sanctimoni-
ous rhetoric of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right
hon. gentleman could not permit a " Government of
sufferance" to introduce a measure of parliamentary
reform. " A government must give us proof of its
strength, it must show that it is possessed of the confi-
dence of the country before we will allow them to appro-
priate the seats of Sudbury and St. Alban's to the intelli-
gence and population of the north of England. You must
wait till you have a govermnent worthy of the confidence
of the country." And here, no doubt, the vision of a true
reforming government passed before the right hon. gen-
tleman's prescient and prophetic glance. Well, now, what
have you got in the matter of parliamentary reform from
this government ? The West Riding and Lancashire
have still to complain of insufficient representation, the
vacant seats are lying in the dusthole of defunct suffrages,
and the government absolutely has neither power nor will
enough to deal even with the tainted boroughs before us."

He then twitted Lord JOHN and his friends with hav-
ing adopted the principle with reference to the Income-
tax which he had recommended, but which they had
repudiated, and continued—
" The noble lord must, as I said before, have made
great sacrifices. He parted from the colleagues of his life,
who had been faithful to him, to take into his bosom the
ancient foes who had passed their lives in depreciating his
abilities and in decrying his eminent career. He gave up
the confidence—l may say he almost broke up the being
of that historic party, the confidence of which to a man
like the noble lord ought not to have been less precious
than the favour of his Sovereign. And for what did he
do it ? Not from any spirit of faction—not from any
spirit of political jealousy or envy of Lord Derby or any-
body else, but because he was devoted to great principles
and was resolved to carry great measures—the great mea-
sures of education for example. To carry the great mea-
sure of education—that was the reason why the noble lord
broke up an ancient and noble party—long connected in
its associations with the glory of this country. There
were also other great measures, but perhaps hardly of
equal importance, and not so pressing. There was the
completion of the reform of this house, the fufilment of
the religions liberties of the country. Those were great
measures indeed. We know what happened with that
great scheme of education which the noble lord brought for-
ward last year. It evaporated most suddenly and completely.
This year, however, the noble lord has contented himself
with trying his great scheme upon one only of the three
kingdoms, and that measure has been ignominiously
defeated. Then we have the great question of Parliamen-
tary Reform. The noble lord took the whole of last year
to mature his bill on that subject, though it was one on
which, as First Minister of the Crown, he had introduced
a project to this house. He had been three years beseech-
ing the House of Commons to undertake the subject, but
he took another year for its consideration, and this year
a measure is brought forward. But who, I ask, obtained
its failure ? I believe the noble lord will find his oppo-
nents probably among those new allies with whom he now
serves. We witnessed the emotion of the noble lord when
he had to come forward in the House of Commons to
announce the relinquishment of his favourite scheme.
There were some who were inclined to view that ebullition
of feeling with indifference or with mockery, some imputed
it to lower feelings and sentiments of our nature; but I
did not. Still I cannot forget that the noble lord made
that measure one of the reasons for accepting the strange
and equivocal position which he now occupies in the Govern-
ment of Her Majesty. But there is yet another bill which
might have reconciled him to all the sacrifices which he
has been obliged to make, and that received a most memo-
rable discomfiture on Thursday night last. All the great
measures for which he made costly sacrifices have been
defeated or withdrawn, but the noble lord still retains his
position. The most eminent statesman in this country,
one of the oldest and most experienced of the members of
this house—one who has been three times Secretary of
State—who has been Secretary of State in each depart-
ment—who was Prime Minister of England for a long
term—who is beloved by large bodies of his countrymen
—who was the leader of a noble historic party—condes-
cends now to accept a subordinate office under one who is
not only a Minister not entitled to the confidence of the
country, but who was his ancient and inveterate political
(hetalksof connivance'.) opponent,ouneea ainnd
this house
only four years a, he rose
asanda
conniver with foreign conspirators. And now he comes
down to the house and tells us that the defeat which his
bill experienced on Thursday night has been occasioned by
my being false-to the principles which I had previously
professed. The noble lord said that I pretended to be an
asserter of the claims of the Jews to political equality with
the other subjects of Her Majesty, and that I made that
cause subservient to political schemes; that when occasion
suited me Ideft the .house and did not vote, and when it
was convenient I did vote, still as occasion suited me.
Now, I give to that statement a most unequivocal and
unqualified denial. Suppose I had got up and said that
the noble lord made Parliamentary Reform a mere politi-
cal convenience—that when it suited him lie quitted the
house, and did not vote at all on the subject, and then,
again, when it suited him, he also knew how to give a
vote against that principle. I might, and- without much
ingenuity, make a very colourable case against him upon
that subject, but I should scorn to do it. But the no ble
lord tan make no colourable case against me. I never, on
any occasion, have quitted this house—l never absented
myself from any division; and if I voted against his bill
the other night, I tell the noble lord that I do not consi-
der that I voted against a bill a hich could have benefited
the Jews, but, on the contrary, that I voted against a bill
which I believe would have been of greater injury to the
Jews than any measure ever brought forward."

It is, of course, impossible that a speech so sweeping in
its charges, so trenchant in sarcasm, and so comprehen-
sive in its allusions, could remain unanswered. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL availed himself of another opportunity to
retaliate upon his Herculean foe ; but his blows fell short
of their intended victim. Sir CHARLES GREY came to
the aid of his discomfited leader; and the sneer about his
"sanctimonious rhetoric" brought the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER prominently into the arena of combat.
He professed, however, that his design was merely to
throw oil upon the waters of strife, and in this he was
partially successful ; Mr. DISRAELI, however, remaining
unquestionably master of the field. Even the pacific 'JOHN
BRIGHT affirmed his success, by saying:—
"We have had a more lively discussion than we have
had for some time past, between the noble lord and the
right hon. gentleman. I will not say who has had the
best of it; I think, however, the noble lord came out of
the discussion with some scars. lam one of those who
agree with the noble lord as to the motives which led him
to take office under Lord Aberdeen. But it is impossible
to disguise from ourselves that the elements of that govern-
ment were such that, from the day of its formation, it was
not very likely that it could act for the benefit of the
country. I recollect an ingenious gentleman in this house,
and a great friend of the government of the noble lord,
saying that the cabinet would get on admirably if
they could only avoid politics. That appears to be
about the course that the government have pursued.
Last session, and during , the present session, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer has been very successful. Ido
not speak of the questions that have been talked about a
good deal in the city, but as to the taxes that have been
taken off or imposed the Chancellor of the Exchequer was
the salvation of the Government in the last session of par-
liament, and, so far as his measures have been submitted
to this house, they have been carried by large majorities
this session. But upon every other matter the govern-
ment appears altogether unable to advise, to lead, or con-
trol the house. It is quite clear that the noble lord, who
is by courtesy called the leader of the house, does not lead
the house, and that the house does not follow the noble
lord ; and that the advice which the government in its
legislative capacity offers to the house is not accepted in
any friendly spirit. And, although many of their measures
are good, yet they are unfortunately kicked overboard in
a very unceremonious manner. But if the government of
Lord Aberdeen were formed upon such patriotic princi-
ples, and if the noble lord entered that government with
such honourable views, if the noble lord finds out, after
18 months, that the experiment has been a failure, and
that the whole of the promises held out with regard to
what was to be done in parliament for the country by
that union of men, hitherto separated in politics, have
failed, then I am not quite sure that it will not be the
duty of the noble lord and of his colleagues—as patriotic
now as they were 18 months ago---to endeavour at no dis-
tant time, to form some other combination that may possi-
bly be more successful. The right hon. gentleman (Mr.
Disraeli) has, I must admit, made a very fair defence of
his government. I was one of those who voted against
his budget. I gave that vote—and , I have never con-
cealed it—with reluctance, not as being afraid of giving
an opinion upon his budget, which I thought ill-judged,
but because I could not see in the circumstances of
the country any direct advantage resulting from the
overthrow of that government. But that govern-
ment was overthrown. Yet if the right hon. gen-
tleman had only had the recklessness to have involved
this country in a labyrinth of interminable negotiations,
or negotiations only terminable by the calamity of a war
still more interminable, he would have been Chancellor of
the Exchequer now. On the theory of the noble lord, the
right hon. gentleman, having a majoritY against him of
19, would not have been thrown out by a greater majority
than that against the noble lord, but having involved the
country in war, and having taken the responsibility of
that great calamity, it would have been the duty of par-
liament and of the noble lord to have said, " You have got
us into a war and you must get us out of it. We will not
undertake the responsibility." This is the condition that
we are now driven to by the Government. As far as ad-
vising and recommending measures to parliament is con-
cerned, they have not the confidence of the House of Com-
mons. Many of their measures have been good ones, but,
not having the confidence of the house, they tell the house
11 that it is still absolutely necessary that they should re-
main in office, and that, having involved the country in
I war, the emergency of the present state of things is such
that they cannot' think of quitting the side of the S,ove-
.