The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-24
AFFAIRS I'm EUROPE.
0ur London, Athens, Paris, and FrankiOrl
Correspondence.
The American Presidency in
France and England,
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Our London Correspondence.
LONDON. Friday. July 9.

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Ctk-7he Ca~-Anmivusary of American In
dYendwce-AAr. Peabody- The Anniversary at
Pa,ts-IHe Revenue Stocks, &C., &c.
Like yourselves, we are here in the middle Of elec-
tioneering-you for your President and Vice Presi-
dent, We for our House of Commons. The general
elections which are now taking place in England,
differ in many respects from the great electoral con-
tests Of 1892 1895, 1871, and l847. Notwithstand-
ing the great agitatons and excitemens the strange
and even violent phases through which English po-
litics have passed during the last twelve months
the retirement of the whigs-the refusal Of the to-
ries to take offce-the retirement Every like dis
smissaD Of Lord Palmerston, and finally the acces-
sion to power of Lord Derby, who threw up protec-
ton and dissolution Notwithstanding all these, to
which may add the great religious excitement-
the elections have passed off up 60 the present mo
ment, with the greatest tranquility stranger in
London would not be aware that general election
wasgoing on unless he stumbled by chance, in his
walk upon committee room, OF apong booth. In
Liverpool, however, some agitation prevailed. The
two liberal candidates, Cardwell and Ewart, have
both been rejected, and two ministeralists elected
] enclose you list of the members returned up to
the present moment. The liberals are good way
ahead. Out of PA returns known, there only
so mnsteiialiss, whilst the opposition counts 1874
The four old members for the city of London have
been re eiected-Lord John Russell, Sir j. Duke,
.Aasterman, and Baron Rothschild. Solomons has
not been reelected for Greenwich. Palmerston
comes in again for Tiverton; Sir James Graham for
Carlisle Layard (the Nneveh many has been
elected for Aylesbury Sibthorp for Lincoln; Lords
.Joceiyn and Stanley for Lynn; Gibson and Bright
for Manchester; Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Bcnja-
min Hall for Marylebone; Walter (of the Iimes) is
reelected for Nottingham and Mr. Strut takos the
place Of Fesrgus O'Connor; Roebuck comes in for
Sheffield; Hudson (railway king) for Sunderland,
which returns two MEMBERS Sir Robert Peel for
Tamworth Smythe, of dueling notoriety, refused to
come forward for Canterbury, though solicited to
do so-he was loudly cheered when seen at the
hustngs. His adversary, Colonel Romilly. has not
been returned The elections for the counties, uni
versites, and for Ireland, have still to come.
The cry Of the liberals is, free trade-cheap
bread at all price is their battle cry. The ministe
ralists on the other hand, no longer rally to the
cry of protection. That word has become obsolete,
and won't 60 down. They hoist religious banner
now. sDown with the Pope,' Away with May
nooth," their battle cries, and they call upon
the voters to select between Derby and Protestant
Independence, or Lord John Rasseu and subsection
to the Pope.
You will SOC that there is storm brewing no
bigger at present than a mans hand, Extension of
religious liberty will be demanded shortly in con-
junction with the extension Of the suffrage, and the
establishment of civil liberty larger basis. We
shall have, sooner or later, separation Of Church
and State.
religious controversy in England is much to be
dreaded. The late scenes Of riot and bloodshed at
Stockport will give you but slight notion of the
scenes which may be feared should the religious
question be started earnestly. Civil war might be
the result England is approaching crisis, and
the task Of the new Parliament will be an arduous
one.
The elections, of course, throw all other local
events into the back ground. The Queen will
shortly start for Ireland and Scotland. The French
leet is expected at Cork on q cruise.
We have had arrival from the Cape of Good
Hope, with dates to the goth May. There is no
news Of a positive character from the seat Of war
General Cathcart bad established his headquarters
ut Fort Beaufort, and was forming camps along the
frontier.
The conspiracy at Paris has turned out very like
cock and bull story. The Monttem gives the
following version Of the conspiracy
The day before Yesterday at hatf past five o'clock p
NJ MN Balestrno and Messe delegated by the Project
Of Police proceeded to arrest thirteen individuals taken
in the fact Of ciandesiiney abricating arms Other ar
place yesterday and the accused TO the num-
Der of thrytwo have been placed in the hands OF the
police The hitherto collected have not the gravity
which certain journals have attached to them mill
tary plot at st omer has also been spoken Of The ru.
NOR Is without foundation
The triad Of the insurgents at Bedarieux has been
brought to end. Six accused coniaac have been
condo mined 10 DEATH OF the twenty-five who were pre-
sent been condemned TO death i've to hard
labor for three hard Labor for limited period,
to transportation, and two acquitted.
The sttings of the French Senate were closed on
Monday by Prince Jerome Bonaparte, the President
Murray, the Englishman who was sentenced to
death by the Papal government, has been given
new comfortable ocl, in consequence Of the repre-
sensations of the English government.
The return of the quarter is most satisfac
tory 1t shows a real and virtual, If not u formal,
increase in the quarters income under every head.
The only items which exhibit even nominal de-
crease are the taxes and the Post Office The falling
of in the former is merely apparent, for it arises
wholly from the delays which have arisen in the
collection Of the new house tax, which sub
substituted last year in place of the window duties
AS regards the Post Office, need not be surprised
to find decrease Of ten thousand pounds on the
INST ms
three months Of 1851, when we remember that last
year the department in question had the benefit OF
the Great Exhibition. There are no deficiencies,
however-but, the contrary, large augmenta-
tions-under those heads of the return which are
the true tests Of the condition Of the country. We
find, for example, the very great increase OF
Gl83, $40 on the customs revenue tor the quarter
and this too, in the face OF reduced duties on some
articles and Of a diminished importation OF Others
<corn for example) when compared with the cores
ponding period of last year On the excise, there
is an increase Of E23,106, which, though APP
yarently inconsiderable, is, nevertheless highly
satisfactory when we recollect the special
causes which contributed to swell the excise
revenue last summer. In the stamps, we find an IN
crease OF Gl0l ,334-anotber striking sign oil the
growth and activity of the commerce OF the coun-
try. Ii is important TO remember that there
70 special circumstances in operation during the
corresponding three months of last year to produce
any depression OF the stamp revenue, and conse
auently, the present augmentation affords decisive
evidence of the sound and thriving state of the mer
camille classes The property tax shows an increase
of ESQ ITO: the crown lands Of GO 600; and the
miscellaneous" Of II0,9iS.
Adding together ali the items of increase set
forth in the return. and deductng the nominal de
ciencies on the and the Post Office, there re
mains balance of clli,6Sl in favor oft quarter
ended yesterday, compared with the correspond
ing quarter of 1851 But, properly speaking, this
increase ought to be regarded not as one of
GI4468l, but OF e6S6, POS, for entitled to
include in it the sum which is put down as the
decrease of the taxes since it will be collected and
brought to account as soon as the machinery of
the house duty comes into complete operation.
In round numbers, therefore, the revenue return
for the past three months presents an increase of
.G7OO, 900 over the corresponding period Of last
wear; and for that increase, we are wholly in
dcbted to the free trade policy which Lord Derby
and his party have taken office to reverse. IL is
alike curious and fortunate that the official an
nouncemcnt of the above results should exactly