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Jjrxder Office , Saturday , March 21 st . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . This House alone held a sitting yesterday evening . SALE OF POISONS . In answer to the Marquis of Westmeath , the Lobd CoAJfCBLLOK said that the subject of the sale of poisons was under consideration by the Government ; but it was a very difficult matter , with which they were not yet quite prepared to deal .
THE LAST BILLS OF THE SESSIOK . The Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills , tie Speaker ' s Retirement Bill , and the Exchequer Biixs Bill , were severally read a third time , and paaaed . THE APPROPRIATION BILL . On the motion for the third reading of'this bill , the Earl of Ellenboeouoh , in an elaborate speech , reviewed the conduct of the Government and the claims of Lord Palmerston on the country . He especially dwelt on the great increase of expenditure , instancing a number of estimates for the civil service generally , which he showed had , in all their items , greatly lacreased since 1848 , and that increase had . been more rapid than ever in the last three years . He said that he had no idea what Lord Palmerston ' s policy was .
Earl Gbanville briefly replied , defending the increase of some of the items alluded to , especially the vote on Education , -which Lord Ellenborough had severely criticized . Owing to recent enactments , many of the items which had been stated to have been added to the Estimate s , were only transfers from the Consolidated Fund , and were not actual additions to the expenditure of the country . —The Earl of MLalmesbury , Loid Monteagle , and Earl Grey
followed , each of them urging the necessity of reduced expenditure with a view to the cessation of the Income-tax in 1860 , and the last named especlally directing Us strictures to the large peace establishment at which our army was kept , and objecting very strongly to the Government ' s violating the constitutional privilege of Parliament by engaging in wars without giving any information with regard to them "to the Legislature . The BUI was then read a third time , and passed , and tie House adjourned at a quarter past seven o ' clock .
America. The New President Has Delivered...
AMERICA . The new President has delivered his inaugural address . He declares himself in favour of restoring the Ancient harmony of the States , and of securing to every inhabitant of Kansas a constitutional right ; and he observes that the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or suspicion of corruption is a great public necessity . The country is embarrassed from a too large surplus in its treasury ; this results in the "begetting of a race of speculators and jobbers . The only relief from this embarrassment is to appropriate the surplus to great national objects . Immigrants have done much to promote the growth and prosperity of the country" .
" We ought , " said the President , " to cherish a saxred regard for the independence of nations , and never interfore in the domestic concerns of any of them , unless required by the law of self-preservation . Our past history forbids that wo shall in the future acquire territory , unless this be sanctioned by the laws of justice and honour . " The President then took tho oath .
Latest Pkom The Continent. Tho Paris Cor...
LATEST PKOM THE CONTINENT . Tho Paris correspondent of the Times , this day , says : — " The Government received yesterday news from Naples . It is said that a reconciliation with France and England is becoming not merely possible , but probable , and that an attache of the French Foreign Office will aoon leave for Naples on a privato mission . Lord Elgin is expected to visit Paris previous to his departure for China , in order to confer with the French Government . I give this as an on dit without vouching for its exactness . Colonel Oklewsky , Chief of Division of Hallways nt St . Petersburg , has arrived in Paris . His visit rolatos to tbe construction of railways in Russia . M . Hubnw , the Austrian Minister in Paris has been tbank « a in tho name of tho Emperor of tho French for tho attention of tho Emperor of Austria in placing the atatue of the first Napoleon in tho public gardens of
fi * 7 r ? - 88 ian /!\ . rCpulsed four thousand Russians on tho frontier of Abasia . Baion Bulow , the Danish envoy , has returned , from Vienna ; lua . Mission to tho two Courts of Berlin and Vienna relative to tho affairs of Schleswig Holatoiu is said to bo a failure , ™ T i !? * r ™ *? £ ? rdor 8 t 0 v Kthiapost if ho demoded from tho 1 W Cab ™<* the satisfaction CHINA . Hong-Kong and Shanghai have bcon fortified
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest
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Theie is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing ' so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the -svorldis by ttevery ¦ lav of its creation in eternal progress . —Dit . ABNOiD . ¦ ¦ ' 4 . " ¦ : ' . ¦ • ¦
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PROFESSOR SAFFl'S LECTURES ON ITALY Professor Safli will commence hia soriea of Italian lectures in Scotland , on April 2 nd . Tho groatcstinteroat has boon excited in tho Scottish towiva bv this announcement . "
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THE TORY MANIFESTO . Lord Derb y has , through the Parliamentary reporters , published a manifesto . The Earl Debb y is about the cleverest of all the Tories , and about the most incompetent to push his own cause . He is the most formidable speaker which the party possesses , yet his greatest power is exercised in exposing himself . Like the knights of old he dashes into the thickest press of the enemy , that he may be the inore completely surrounded . His great speech against Lord Palmekstok , in the House of Lords on Monday night , was in its effect an exposure of Lord Pai ^ meiiston ' s
opponent . Intending to pillory the Premier , the Tory leader pilloried himself and his party . The oration was half rubbish , half business .. The affected " anxiety" about the present state of finance was all borrowed , like the figures , with the deficiency of 6 , 500 , 0002 . in 1858 3 from Mr . G-lai > sto 2 Te . The special attack upon Lord PAiiMEitsTON for not appointing Tracfcarians as bishops , and for letting his admirers ascribe to . him . very foolish objects , was nothing better than railing . The only interest of the speecli lay in the explanation of those things which Lord Derby has not done , and those things which he "intends" to do .
He tells us that he has not made Coalition with Lord Fitzwiixiam ; or with Lord John Husseix , Sir l ^ itANCis Babino-, and Lord UJobert Grosvenoe ; or with Mr . Cobden " , Mr . Milner Gibson , and Mr . Roebuck ; and of course we believe him . When people talk of " the Coalition , " they do not mean any conspiracy between Lord Derby and Lord "Robert Grosvenor ; they do not suspect Mr . Hoebuok of entering a Disraeli cabinet ; nobody imagines that Earl I ' rrz"Williatm would take office under the liight Honourable member for Buckinghamshire .
These things , which nobody believes , Lord Derby took great pains to disprove ; bu * ; tho one thing which people do believe , he passed over with tlie most cursory mention , —the project of a coalition between Mr . Gladstone and Mr . Disraeli . And there is some mystery about it . Lord Derby summoned a meeting of his supporters ; and tho Press-gives us an account of Lord Derby ' s address , in which he deliberately hinted at the
possibility of an accession of strength by the junction of Mr . Gladstone with the Tory party . On tho very first night after tho publication of tho Press , Lord Derby stood up in tho House of Lords , and announced that tho I ? rcss was grossly incorrect , representing him as having said " the very reverse of what ho had said . " "What thid meant nobody could tell , especially those who wore present at tho meeting ; but tho l * ress itself explained
the error . In its first report it had made a mistake : it had represented . Lord Derbf as saying that he . had had no communication with Mr . . Gladstone , whereas he expressly said that he liad had conversations . Xord Derby did not deny this version . A fortnight back , then , he was anxious not to draw discredit on the probability of a junction with Mr . Gladstone . Subsequently that same statesman stood' up to make an eager advocacy of his own . obsolete " budget in a thin House ; and Mr . Disraeli , " protesting against any such discussion , " told him that it
would te " wise " , to forbear . Mr . Gladstone has been found out ; as an enthusiast desperately in earnest , regardless of appearances , lie is quite useless for Tory purposesand he is cast aside . So now there is to "be no ' coalition ; the Tory party is not to be recruited ; it is doomed to continue in that minority which Lord Derby confessed , and which , without recruitment , excludes it from power . This is the substantial product of the explanation .
Having vouchsafed his explanation and his fears , lie vouchsafed the announcement of his ' intentions' for the future . They are ' strictly honourable ; ' too much so for the electioneering purposes of "W . B . or of B . DisBAiEiii .. "We repeat Lord Derby ' s own summary , wliieh is extremely compact and plain : — " I intend to maintain inviolate the great institutions of the country , and I intend to support , as far as possible , the prerogatives of the Crown , the independence
and character of your Lordships' House , and the rights of the people ; and I intend to support the principles , doctrines , rights , and property of the Established Church •—a Church to which I have always been and still am attached . I desire to see that Church , not weakened , but strengthened and repaired , so that it may retain her hold upon the affections of the people ; but I never will consent to the withdrawal of one single stone of the fabric of that Chnrch , upon which I look with filial love . "
There is a more animated version of this programme already extant : it will be found in the JRejected Addresses , under the head of the " Loyal -Effusion . " It lies in . tbat passage about " God . bless the King , " and all the other authorities in Church and State ; yea , " God tless their pigtails , though they ' re now cut off . " That is the authorized "version of Lord Derby ' s programme for the session of 1857 .
There was one clever stroke in Lord Derby ' s speech . It was his attempt to find out the principles of Lord PaIiTvibrston " —a task which lie found to be impossible . He could only find out what is not the principle of Lord Paxmerston as a statesmanit is not Reform . Though acting with Liberals , Lord Palmerston is really a Conservative , and he was in congenial company only when he went into the lobby against Mr . Locke Kino ' s motion with Diskaeli and
tho Tories . Lord Derby , moved with sympathy , feeling towards him as BuitNS felt to tho <( Old Gentleman , " exhorts him to " tak ' a thought , an' mend . " Lord Derby promises to kill the fatted calf if tho Prodigal Son will return home . " If the noble Viscount seeks only bucIi reforms as true lovers of their country—[ that is , Tories ] — may approve ,
resisting all dangerous innovations and organic changes , he will find no more cordial or more earnest coadjutor than the mucliabused and vilified Conservative party . " If ho shall do this , Lord Derby assures tlic nohlc Viscount that ho has " a bright career of usefulness before him . " Such ia tho paternal feeling with which Lord Derby addresses tho young Premier in tones of fatherly ndvice ! The Enrl foresees tho truo fume of his
P ^ i ^ nonsTON in future . He is now , as it were , but commencing life ; and , hating sown his wild oats , ho lias , under tho patronage of Derby , Imt to begin his "bright career . "
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Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21031857/page/12/
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