New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-20
EUROPE.
English Defeat oil the Rus
Aims in Circassia-Turkish Preparations
for Wnr-Buron Bruck-0ther Great swim
tIers-Layard and kinlkei.

EnLI neutrality-suspicious.
aims in Circas,ia-Turkish Preparations
for Wnr-Buron Bruck-0 ther Grca; swim
cIors-Layard and kinlSei.
Correspondence y The " Y. Tribune. 49,,
LoNDoX, Dee. ;, 1852.
Constitutional life has not appeared TO much
advantage here during the last week. We had
first remarkable display of impudence in the
speech of the Chancellor of the EXchequcr,
Ietracting all lis former opinions and prlncl-
pies by which he and Lis friends had risen 10
rover: We had the sudden conversion of the
protccliOniSt party TO the gospel of free trade :;
and We have had Il street fight between two
members of Parliament, and most riotous
election at Oldham. One hundred and forty
two petitions have been lodged against menu
bcrs of Parliament. charging them with treat
ING, bribery and intimidation and the Secretary
at War. Major Beresf0ri has 10 defend himself
against amOSt serious charge of having sent an
agent to Derby for regular bribery. Had such
scenes happened in some other country, what
unctuous, leading articles should We readin TIE
Times about the corruption OF the people, and
with what selfcOmplacency would the Great
ThUnderor" assure us that il is only the Anglo
Saxon race which understands rational liberty,
and is fix for liberal institutions
Lord PalmerstOn's last move, by which he
rescued the ministry from imminent defeat, has
cstrUuged Lis former friends the Wings and
Radicals from him; but il has proved that he
Knows the machinery OF English Constitutions
aliSm much better than any body else, and that
like old Haruiek he hiRgmaLer, he is always
able TO upset or TO maintain the successive Gov
ernments of England. Tonight the financial
statement which has SO long {" loOmed in the
future" viii at last be made in the House of
Commons. The principal feature of it viii
probably be the reduction OF the Vine duty. and
tie abolition OF the Hop duty The ministry,
however, has until now guarded its secret most
scrupulously ii has not tranSpired, and every
body expects some surprise.
Whilst III Paris, the most reckless iobbing
and the most extrayasant speculation is encour-
aged by the Government, through the charter
of the new Bank, which sooner or later must
lead 20 a commercial cyisiS-probably fatal 70
the new Empire-the English are steadily arm
Inc themselves. Ii is now no invasion panic
as il was last winter Serious apprehensions
about the reckless schemes of Louis Napoleon
pIeoccupying the leading statesmenof England;
there is no great stir in the papers, but in the
dock-yards there is an unusual activity, and
heinerease OF the army and navy WILDE voted
blythe Parliament without serious opposition
people are aware that there is real danger in the
deceitful character of Louis Bonaparte.
The European Powers are somewhat embay-
rassed by the title of the new Emperor. He
Insists upon being called Napoleon the TAird
whilst England, Russia, Prussia. and Austria,
are not wilingto acknowledge his dynastic pre-
tensions. They acknowledge him as Emperor,
asNapoleon, but without numeric designation
Al Of them are suspicious, and so much the