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      Ministers Have Not Improved, Iheir Posit...

      circulars in the Moniteur , to prefects , who are at the same moment receiving viva voce instructions in Paris—of electors dragged out of their houses to vote for Government , or thrown into prison out of . the way of opposition—of independent candidates forbidden to appear in any printed or public form , and of the friends of indeat all

      pendent candidates , arrested for appearing rof votes declared null , and reckoned up again , so that the majority becomes transposed , and black , white , ^ - is it not a stupendous farce , played on the stage of the most theatrical nation in the world , with all Europe for an audience , and all posterity for critics ?

      From one week to another , the only fact to be recorded is , that nothing is certain , and all may be expected . The financial crisis will come soonperhaps not soon enough to be a warning . Trade languishes ; State expenditure increases , as the ways and means decrease . No visionary land banks can appease the desperation of a faminestricken and debt-ridden peasant proprietary—no forced compromise with the Bank of France can fill the yawning gulf of national bankruptcy .

      This week , the gobemouehes in Pall Mall , who live on rumours ( the sillier the better ) , would have it that Count Walewski had been sent for by submarine telegraph , to assist in shutting up the Dictator as a lunatic ! La Patrie has been obliged to set us right , by a paragraph to the effect that the Ambassador is absent from his post

      for ten days only , and on strictly private business , leaving the Countess in London as a hostage . Louis Bonaparte ' s disease has not yet reached his brain Lord Cowley , a man , we believe , of slightly liberal tendencies , is reported to have held firm and dignified language on the Swiss question . "We shall be glad to owe Lord Malmesbury the tribute of surprise .

      The completion of arrangements for Steam communication with Australia is a fact of the utmost importance to the Colonies , and also > to a numerous and influential class in this country having relations , domestic or commercial , with our Southern dependencies . By offering to execute the service at a rate not only below all other offers , but below that at which it actually performs a less extensive service , the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has obtained promotion to be a great administrative

      body , and has allied its fortunes , at a time of great events , with the progress of the empire . The facility of communication by post will effect a revolution in our commerce with Australia j which is now brought within a distance of voyage , in point of time , less than that of America ten or twelve years ago . But the facility for passengers is of still greater moment : Australians and England will no longer be strangers , made acquainted only by rare visits . Australia is now within the range of the grand tour . The improvement ought to be beneficial also to a numerous class—the

      emigrants ; but Government does not encourage that class—will not even spend the cash in hand belonging to the Australians , for purposes of emigration ; and we are not aware that any provision is made for the conveyance of emigrants by the fresh route ; yet obviously it would be the better ceconomy . The criminal records of the week are fuller

      than usual of horrors , and the worst still relate to the class of illegitimate parentage—the result of laws parliamentary which are at variance with the laws divine . We do not allude to vulgar Crimea like the o \* trngc on a young woman , abandoned in the attack by u ' cowardly lubber who called himself her sweetheart , but to the horrible sacrifices of children—this child ; thrown by a farmer to his sow , and eaten ; the child put into the fire : \ V . \ N SP ^ fc j ftJ ^ stupid old profligate , its charred remains /" o ^ .-y " ] ^ j ';^ trTcWe < l by the police ; and the two children / . - ' J . ; . ;">; ^ huh ^^ L-N jilivc by their parents , in Ireland—all to I ' V ^ yade and conceal the consequences of a * relation , not / recognised by law . Could the amount of \ ic ^^ icMxvdcr , in all its forms , not excepting the ¦ - ^ .. Vl . S ^ ' ^ S , ; iavaa

      anticipatory , be presented to the view , we should behold a doomed population , vast in numbers , and > where life is tasted , most wretched in its condition . We defend property , we protect ereA . it , we keep police to guard the respectable classes , but who shall protect the innocent against parents depraved , by ignorance and by instincts thwarted father than disciplined ? Our moral code has the face of purity and the nether deformity of the Sphinx- —it is the true giant Moloch of the age .

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      Lord John And The "Liberals." A Iaege "B...

      LORD JOHN AND THE "LIBERALS . " A iaege "body of Liberals of all shades , whose names will be found below , waited on Lord John Russell , pursuant to an invitation , on Thursday , with the view of coming to an understanding upon the line of tactics to lie pursued in the House of Commons by those who are disposed to follow the lead of the late Premier . Lord John opened his speech , by describing the new Cabinet as favourable to a protective policy ; and urged that as Sir Robert Peel , in 1846 , had called on him to state whether he intended to continue the free-trade policy , so he conceived they had a right to know the intentions of the Government . With this view he had written to ask Mr . Disraeli

      whether it was the intention of the Government to make any statement oh Monday . Mr . Disraeli replied that they had no such intention . ( Ironical cheers . ) After this , Lord John had consulted Sir James Graham and Mr . Cobden , who both agreed that it was perfectly right to call on the Government for a statement of principles . He deprecated factious opposition , but it was of great importance that the intentions of Government should be known . To do this , Mr . Villiers had agreed to abandon his motion , and simply ask such questions as would elicit the views of ministers . Mr . Villiers rose at once , and concurred ; Mr . Cobden rose ,

      when called , and concurred : he was ready to sacrifice all other questions to the maintenance of free-trade . Mr . Hume , amidst partial disapprobation , said Lord John Russell ought to state the principles on which he meant to form a new Cabinet , supposing he ousted the present , pointedly mentioning a broad measure of parliamentary reform . Mr . Thomas Duncombe concurred with Mr . Hume , with this addition , that he could not approve of a policy which preferred free trade in corn to the greater question of

      the representation of the people in their own House . Roused by tins , Mr . Bright concurred with Lord John as to present tactics , and hinted at parliamentary reform as next to free-trade . Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr . Mangles concurred . Delighted with this approval , Lord John tlirew out strong insinuations that if the Liberal party would only act unitedly , and trust him , he would some day construct them a government on a broad basis . He had previously informed his friends that he intended to withdraw his bill for

      representative reform . The policy agreed on amounts to this : Mr . Villiers will ask on Monday for a statement of ministerial intentions ; if they are unsatisfactory , it will bo open to any Member to move a want of confidence , or a freetrado resolution , or a limitation of the supplies—to do that , in fact , which would compel a dissolution . The general feeling being in favour of a dissolution , and a re-assembling of Parliament in September next . The following is a corroct list of tho names of the members present : —

      Thos . Alcock , A . Anderson , Sir A . Armstrong , R . B . Armstrong , C . Anstoy , John Bagshaw , Bight Hon . M . T . Bainos , M . T . Bass , J . Boll , E . M . Bellow , Hon . H . Berkeley , C . G . Berkeley , R . Bornal , Sir Thomas Birch , R . J . Blowitt , John Bright , J . Brothorton , H . Brown , W . Brown , Edward H . Bunbury , P . S . Butler , Sir E . Buxton , J . B . Carter , Hon . C . Cavendish , Q . H . Cavendish , Wm . Chaplin , Sir William Clay , James Clay , Colonel Clifford , Richard Cobden , Sir T . Colobrooko , Wm . Collins , Hon . Wm . Cowpor , R . Crowder , L . Pawos , Hon . T . V . Dawson , Sir O . Douglas , George Duff , James Duff , Sir J . Duke , Geortro Duncan . T . S . Duncombo , Sir T . Dundaa ,

      Viscount Ebrington , John Ellis , Hon . G . Eliot , Viscount Enfiold , Sir Do L . Evans , Wm . Ewart , John Fergus , Hon . G . W . Fitzwilliam , Captain Fordyco , Matthew Forfltor , Hon . J . W . Fortoscuo , C . Fortoscuo , W . J . Fox , O . Geach , Right Hon . T . M . Gibson , G . C . Glynn , 0 . Gronfoll , G . W . Grenfoll , Sir G . Grey , R . V . Grey , Lord R . Groavonor , Sir B . Hull , J . A . Hardcastlo , R . Harris , Alox . llastio , W . G . Haytor , T . E . Hoadlam , E . Honpage , Jamoa Itoywood , Lord Marcus .. Hill , C . llindloy , T . B . HobhouHO , T . Law Hodges , R . Hollow ] , Lord G .

      Peel , Edward Pdtt & arVes , Robert Perfect , Sir C . pwr-Francis Pigott , Vtm . Knney , W . M . Power " SiT ^ Price , John L Ricardo , E . R . Rice , J . A . Roeb t Colonel Romilly , Lord j . Russell , Hastings Russell r !!! Scohell , G . P . Scrope , H . D . Seymour , Lord S Wou ? % D . Shafto , Earl Shelburne , Right Hon . R . V SmifK ' T . Smith , John B . Smith , Sir Win . Somej-viille b £ « Spearman , W" . H . C . Stansfield , Sir George sWunW Edward Strutt , Admiral Stewart , H . W . Tancred B t ' Tcnnent / Colonel Thompson , George Thompson Tho Thornley , John Toiynley , Richard Townlev ' CaiS Townshend , G . Trail , J . S . Trelawney , Right Hon IT Tufnell , Lord H . Vane , Hon . C . P . Villiers ; C K Sir J . Walmsley , Colonel Watkins , B . M'Gie WiW ' Wm . Williams , Sir H . Williamson , James Wilson < k ' Charles Wood , Sir W . P . Wood , W . B . Wrightson , JanS Wyld , Marmaduke Wyvill . * '• ames Sir Alexander Cockbum was prevented from attending Lord John Russell ' s meeting from severe indis- " position .

      Howard , Hon . C . Howard , Sir R . Howard , Joseph Jlumb , E . Hutching , Jas . Korehaw , Right Hon . II . Labouchoro , J . H , Langston , Sir C . Lomon , G . C . Lewis , Hon . G . Littleton , Jaraoa Lock , O . Luahiugton , W . A . Mackinrion , John Mackio , tho O'Qorman Mahon , R . D . Manglos , J . G : Marshall , William Marshall , John Martin , Colonol Mathoson , Right Hon . Fox Mnulo , Viscount Molgund , Robert Milligan , T . A . Mitchell , Goo . Moffal ; t , Sir W . MoloHworth , David Morriw , Francis Mowatt , M . J . O'Connoll , S . C . H . Ogle , Win . Ord , Lord Alfred Pagot , Lord Charles X ' ftgot . Lord Gcorgo Pagot , John Parker , J ? .

      Parliamentary Representation. The Follow...

      PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION . The following tabular view of the numbers of the population and houses in the several counties , boroughs and towns of Great Britain returning members to Parliament j according to the census of 1851 , is made up from a return just presented to the Hous e of Commons by the late government as explanatory of the system which their Reform Bill was intended to amend : Members Returned . Total Mala Inhabited B . or Cottntieb . population , houses . Co . City . Total Bedford 69 , 553 24 , 505 2 2 4 Berks ... . 84 , 381 33 , 278 2 6 8 Bucks ........ 81 , 168 33 , 232 3 8 11 Cambridge 92 , 590 37 , 067 3 * 4 7

      Chester , N . and 8 222 , 286 85 , 260 4 8 10 Cornwall , E . and W .... 171 , 636 67 , 987 4 10 14 Cumberland , E . and W . 96 , 244 36 , 763 4 5 9 Derby , N . and 8 147 , 737 59 , 371 4 2 6 Devon , N . and S .. 269 , 583 98 , 887 4 18 22 Dorset 89 , 204 38 , 138 3 11 14 Durham , N . and 8 196 , 559 64 , 977 4 6 10 Essex , If . and 8 185 , 390 73 * 626 4 6 10 Gloucester , E . and W . 217 , 822 86 , 271 4 11 15 Hereford 58 , 114 23 , 890 3 _ 4 7 Hertford ... 83 , 161 32 , 705 3 4 7 Huntingdon 31 , 938 ^ 13 , 313 2 2 4 Kent . N . and S 307 , 041 107 , 748 4 14 18 LanoflAtar . N . and S .... 991 , 091 349 , 938 4 22 26 Leicester , N , and » . ... hb , oow 48 . 953 4 2 6

      Lincoln , N . and S 205 , 183 81 . 35 & 4 o 13 Middlesex 882 , 823 239 , 362 2 12 1 * Monmouth 82 , 349 28 , 944 2 1 ' 3 Norfolk , E , and W . ... 215 , 254 93 , 244 4 8 12 Northampton , ! N \ and 8 . 105 , 984 43 , 942 4 4 8 Northumberland , N . & 8 . 149 , 454 47 , 737 4 6 10 Nottingham , N . and S . 132 , 381 66 , 053 4 6 ^ 10 Oxford 85 , 629 34 , 360 3 * G 9 Rutland 11 , 801 4 , 588 2—2 Salop , N . and 8 .......... 114 , 340 45 , 648 4 8 12 Somerset , E . and W .... 211 , 045 85 , 054 4 9 13 Southampton or Hants , N . and S ., including M „ the Isle of Wight ...... 201 , 946 75 , 215 5 14 19 13 17

      Stafford , N . and 8 309 , 966 116 , 248 4 Suffolk , E . and W 166 , 201 69 , 285 4 6 9 Surrey , E . aud W . 325 , 037 108 , 822 4 7 U Sussex , E . and W 165 , 772 58 , 663 4 U 18 Warwick , N . and 8 . ... 232 , 411 96 , 731 4 6 10 Westmoreland 29 , 079 11 , 217 2 1 » Wilts , N . and 6 126 , 027 51 , 778 4 14 18 Worcester , E . and W . 136 , 956 55 , 639 4 8 W York ( the three | ridings ) 1 , 797 , 667 450 , 225 6 31 d 7 Wales ( the 12 counties ) 496 , 169 200 , 087 15 U 29 Scotland ( 32 counties ) 1 , 376 , 668 811 , 608 30 24 04 The population and number of houses in the boroughs are also given as distinct from the counties , but having already given this information as illustration of the inequalities in the existing system of borough representation , we do not repeat it .

      Parliamentary Representation. The Follow...

      * Including tlxo University-

      Election Matters. Mr. Bbbesfobd, The Sec...

      ELECTION MATTERS . Mr . Bbbesfobd , the Secretary at War , as had been anticipated , was re-elected for North Ehscx , on luesday , without any opposition . The hustings wore erected in the Manor field , near tho markct-piaco , Braintreo ; and the orthodox course of nomination ana seconding having been gone through , and no ow candidate appearing , tho High Sheriff declared jur Beresford duly elected . Mr . Beresford then f *» fT tho assemblage , consisting of a few hundred ^ i or * inhabitants of Braintree , at considerable lengt" . claimed a fair trial and fair play for tho now minuroy would cotw

      « One of the trying points on which they buforo tho country at a future period , but * *' was that of protection to British industry . ^ ^ hear , and a cry of " You will never get it \ ) most rampant" of all tho enemies to agncumn-L Villiorfl , boasted that 90 , 000 , 000 * . had been tlll"n othor the agricultural interest , and' ^^ jSdtiir * olnsBCB . Then , " according to Cookqr ,, the n « n ^ interest must have booh injured . « o wmmi h , ^ tho fiiireBt and most just mode of giving p «> ^ onl , nU . agriculture , without iryuring the mass of tu « . nity , would be by a fixed moderate duty ¦»« iorO corn . ( Cheors , and cries of « No ! " ) It w " >» & clap-trap cry , that of " Why do you tax tno po ^ broad ? " Poor men did not live on bm ^ 5 l ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13031852/page/2/