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    A deputation consisting of Mr . Ewart , M . P ., Sir J . Duke , M . P ., Honourable C . P . Viihers , M . P ., Mr . Hunt ( Gaily New *) , Mr . Grant ( Morning , Ad * vertiser ) , Mr . Young ( Sun ) , Mr . Francis ( Athenaum ) , Mr . W . B . Spicer ( Patriot ) , Mr . Ingram ( Illustrated News ) , and Mr , Pratt ( British JBanner ) , had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer , ye * terday , at his official residence in Downing-street , to urge upon him the propriety of repealing the advertisement duty . Mr , Ijwart said the ground upon which they stood -was the great benefit which

    would be conferred on the country generally by repeal , and the disadvantage at which we stood in comparison with foreign countries , the traders of which could advertise free of duty . One of the deputation having produced a New York Courier and Inquirer , aad a New York Journal of Commerce , each covered by an ocean of advertisements on all possible subjects , Sir Charles Wood said it was enough to make a Chancellor of the Exchequer's teeth water to see such a sea of taxable matter . ( Laughter . ) He should not , however , trouble the

    deputation to tell over again a long story with which he was al ready acquainted , although it was very proper in them to come and refresh his memory on the subject . Next ¦ week he expected deputations from all classes of tax-payers in the kingdom , and should hear them all before he made up his mind . Several other members of the deputation urged strongly the importance of the repeal as a boon to the public ; but , of course , the only answer they received was that the subject should be examined into at the proper time .

    Sir Robert Peel delivered his maiden speech at the Mayor ' s dinner , at Tamworth , on Wednesday . He declared himself " a true Protestant of the Church of England , and a Liberal Conservative in politics ; lather a partisan of progress than an advocate of the stationary school policy . " He is in favour of financial reform , but not of any sweeping reduction . He thinks the dignitaries of the Church should bestir themselves , and keep a more watchful eye upon the spiritual interests committed to their care , but he does not eee much cause for alarm in the Papal aggre 6 sion .

    The Queen gave a dramatic representation on Thursday evening at Windsor Castle . About eight o'clock her Majesty the Queea and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert , with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales , Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , the Princess Alice , and the Princess Helena , entered the temporary theatre , in which the performance took place , accompanied b y the distinguished guests staying at the Castle , and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household in waiting . A select party had also been invited to witness the performance , which consisted of As You Like It .

    ihe Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a splendid entertainment last evening to the members of the Court of Aldermen , their ladies , and several private friends . In the evening the Lady Mayoress give a Hoir 6 * e dansante to upwards of one hundred additional visitors , to whom an elegant supper was served in the long parlour . Dancing was kept up with great spirit till one o'clock , when the company separated . A meeting of the Metropolitan Commissioners of

    powers was held yesterday , at the offices in Greek-street , Soho , to receive and adnpt Mr . Foreter ' s report upon the drainage of the metropolis north of the Thames , including the city of London . The total extent of the main Hewers in the propoH « d plan will be thirty seven miles , and the outlet will be at Marking Creek . The estimated expense will , it is said , be £ 1 , 250 , 000 , which could be paid back in thirty years by a rate of 8 d . in the pound on the property in the district to be benefited .

    A meeting of the noap manufacturers of Greut , Iiritain wan held at the London Tavern yesterday , when a memorial to the Lords CominitiHioiierB of her Majesty * 8 I reasury for the repeal of the duty on soap was adopted , on the ground that the dutj of 100 per cent , on the lower qualiticH of soup prensen with undue severity on the poor , »« d beeuune our export trado is falling off through '" reign competition . A deputation from the Convention of Poor Law Medical OUioe r * h * d an intern *!** WUJ » Lord Jfohu Uuvnell , yesterday , at his official residence in Dowui « g « fltrpet , iu relation to an amended « yptem of Poor Law medical relief . W « understand that * bill in now in preparation by hcv «» al influentiftl members of the country party , not only tor restraining t )\ e intarfrrcooe of pay foreign power *

    within thin j « Um , but » 1 «> for pr « v *» i » i » g the admission of British subjects into confraternities , order * in brotberhopd , or even entering into any oath or bond of allegiance to any foreign sovereign . —Herald . The general meeting of proprietors of the London and North-Western Railway Company is fixed to be held on the 21 st of February at the usual hour , and the dividend to be declared will probably he after the rate of 64 per cent ,, without deduction from the reserve fund of £ 144 , 000 . Ih the Equity Court yesterday , in the case of Metairie versus Dr . Wiseman and others , an injunction was moved to restrain Dr . Nicholas Wiseman , John Athanasiua Cooke , aad Edward Norris from selling or transferring a sum of £ 7 G 0 Q 3 J per cent . Bank Annuitie » in the

    pleadings mentioned , or any part thereof ; and from receiving the dividends hereafter to become due thereon ; and from applying or parting with the dividends already received by them in respect of such stock . The substance of the case was that * Catholic gentleman , aided by a Mr . Cooke , had geae to a Jdr . Carre , when lying at the point of death , and procured him to sign a deed of gift of almost hi « entire fortune for the benefit of certain Catholic priests and establishments , to the exclusion of his own next of kin , and the object of the suit was to impeach the transaction . Mr . Bolt , who appeared for the defendants , said he was entirely unprovided with evidence for the defence . An interim order was made by consent to restrain the defendants from dealing with the fund until the hearing the

    of the motion , which was ordered to stand over till 24 th jastont . Cardinal Wiseman , who has just returned from a brief viejt to toe Irish metropolis , officiated " on Thursday at the confirmation of between 600 and 700 Roman Catholic children , resident in the north-western division of the diocese of London . The ceremony took place in the Roman Catholic church dedicated to St . John , in Danean-terrace , Islington , the incumbent of which is Mr . Oakley , formerly minister of Margaret Chapel , whose « ecee « ion to Rome made so much atir some time since . There was a large attendance of Roman Catholic clergy present , and all that portion of the building not occup ied by the recipients of the sacred rite wa « densely crowded with spectators of both sexes . the

    Mr , 3 eU has withdrawn from the contest for representation of the Falkirk burghs , vacant by the elevation of the Earl of Lincoln to the dukedom of Newcastle . The contest now lies between Mr . Baird and Mr . Wilson . The Nottingham Journal says , " there is no truth in the rumour which i # going the round of the papers that Mr . Houldsworth ie about to vacate bis seat as representative in Parliament of North Nottinghamshire . " Workmen were employed yesterday in laying down wires in Palac « -yard to form an electric telegraph between the Admiralty and Westminster Palace , in case of immediate communication being necessary during the attendance of Ministers at Parliament . We are informed that Mr . T . A . Mitchell , M . P ., will give notice at the opening of the ensuing session of Parliament of a motion for a committee to inquire into the constitution of the Board of Customs . —Chronicle .

    Sarah Elizabeth , Countess Brooke apd Countess of Warwick , expired on Thursday evening , the 30 th ultimo , at the town residence of the Earl of Warwick , in Carlton-gardens , iu her sixty-fifth year , after a long and painful i } lnee » . She wae the onl y daughter of the late , and sister of the present , Earl of Mexborough , and relict of John George , fourth Baron Monson , of Barton , in the county of Lincoln .

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    Very little doubt can now be entertained that the provisional central power organized at Dresden , ostensibly to meet a sudden emergency , is really a plan for superseding the conferences , and the provisional character of the institution is a mere pretext The Frankfort correspondent of the Cologna Gazette writes to tho following effect , under the date o £ Jan . 27 : — " We are given to understand here , from the best-informed circles , that the new Provisional Central Powor will be established at latest towards the middle of next month . This interim is to he constituted essentially in accordance with the resolution of the compact ( Vert rag ) of

    the 30 th of September , 1849 . It will be associated with a military dictatorship , in order that , in case of any menacing disturbances in neighbouring states , all may be fully prepared to meet them . There is hardly a doubt that Frankfort will be the seat of the new power . His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia , and his Royal Highness the Archduke Albrecht of Austria , are , we are positively assured , to be invested with the executive authority . The Dresden conferences will cease as noon as the Proinsorium is established ; but a Diet , fully representing all the governments , will continue the ' revision' of the Bund constitution in Frankfort . As the ' narrower councils' have provoked so much opposition , and the ' grouping system' of M . von Pfortden haa fallen tit the ground , nothing remains but a return to the old Diet . Iu Berlin the question , we hear , has been already mooted , as to who will represent . Prussia at the Diet iu cas ? Count Alvensleben should decline doing so . Lieutenant-General Selagynsky and Lieulanant-General Itevlie-r have been named as persons likejy to receive this mission . " The Maine correspondence iiddn that in diplomatic circleti the necessity of making Jtcmlsburg a Diet fortress , him been much insisted on , iu order finally to extinguish the jealousies of * Huhlcswig-llolsluiu and Denmark on this subject . A telegraphic despatch from Hamburgh , dated Jan . 25 ) , Huya : —" Two thousand AuHtriaus arrived here , today . The day after to-morrow the two commissioner !! will open the new government . Their Ministers are to be Btohine , Heintze . Mahnrow , and the Syndic Prehn . "

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    TQ BBAPEJIS AST J ) CORKESPOMDENTa . Dorset ' s letter rocaived . The book * referred to haw not eome under our notice . Will " A Bachelor" who lately favoured ue with a lettasjr on " Moral Eestiaipts " oblige u « with his ad 4 r « t » 1 It is impossible to acknowledge th « mass of lettw * we ree « iv « . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it ie frequently from reasons quite independent of the merit * of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . It long , it enerea «>« the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the P&fcir *> be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Fleetetreet . London .

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    There is nothing 30 revolutionary . 136081186 there is nothing so unnatural and coiwulsiye , as the strain to keep things fixed when ail the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Da- Arnold *

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    THE MANCHESTER POLICY . The " Manchester policy of next session , " if it amounts to no more than that declared in " a sort of manifesto" by Mr . Cobden and his friends at the soiree on Thursday week , is not sufficient . So far as we can collect it from the speeches of Mr . Cobden , Mr , Bright , and Mr . Milnep Gibsoq , it amounts to this—the Manchester party will support public education , financial reform and retrenchment , and repeal of the taxes on knowledge ; they throw out hints in favour of improved taxation on the Peel principle , irrespectively of a surplus ; it is clear that they will not support the Ministry in any no-Popery policy , but would leave sect altogether alone , simply withholding from it temporal power ; and they profess totally to abandon the principle of voting " to keep out tb $ Tories . " This last is an excellent trait , and there is much that is good in the rest , but taken as a whole the policy is not sufficient to secure the lead in the political movement of the nation . It is not equal to the great political facts , or the great prospects asserted by the speakers themselves . Mr . Cobden declares the Whigs to be indistinguishable from the Tories ; he describes Mr . Bright as assailed by the " insolence" of Lord John Russell , * the man supposed to be the leader of our party ; " he declares that Lord Palmerston is " not the champion of liberty you suppose "—and most truly does he so declare of the man whose course has been subservient to Austria and Russia while affecting to oppose them , —who has played the diplomatic bloodman to Italy and to Hungary . But why does Mr . Cobden leave it to be " supposed " that these men are the leaders of his party ? Mr . Milner Gibson excellently exposes the " red-herring traij" of Lord John ' s No-Popery agitation , and the monopoly rancour of the Church of England against its rival of Rome : " lam afraid , " he says , " that the Church party , who feel that their own time is coming , think it good policy to get us into a quarrel with the Pope , in order that they may be safe " : but not a word that Manchester intends to further " tho new reformation" which appears to be so distinctly foreseen , even in Manchester . Mr . Bright would have an " independent party " : — " I believe there is nothing more essential for the progress of freedom in this country than that you should have an independent party in the House of Commons . Even though we should sometimes go wrong , even though we should occasionally vole against the Government , when you may think that without abdicating our position or principles we might have voted with them , bear this in mind—that whatever slight error we may at any time commit ( and I confess our liability to error ) , that error is abundantly compensated for by the existence of sonte fifty or one hundred men in the IIouae of Commons who havt ; a regard to the opinions of their constituent *) , or ( what is even a fur better guide ) to the principles which they have learnt , which they have taught , and which they value . It in far better for the country that there should be bucIi 11 party , than that any Ministry that ever existed . in this country should be kept in ojlice If there had been no men in I ' arUument but those who trembled for the fate of a Ministry , where would have been tlie liberties that you have already achieved ? and wherewould have been your freedom to import corn at thia very hour ? ( l ' rolongcd cheering . )" Mr . Bright Hccmtj to assume tho present exiaience of HUch an independent party ; but what ciin l >« th « Htrength or independence : of that party which wavera between resistance to an imbecile Ministry imd apologies for itH oppoHition ? We might find tho solution of this wcakncMN and wavering , numerical ; m well an moral , in tho neglwt heretofore to fulfil tho precept well set forth by Mr . Cobden : — " The result of that agitation in tl . o oubo of the corji laws ban convinced me that if anything iu to be dome in this country for the greut mafls of the people , if you arc to tmexred in eHtublinhiog uny reform of mugnitude , it , can only bo done by the people < uit of doom mid in tho House rt' « olvii » K to do that ono tiling , nod totally disregarding the exulting political parties in th * t Houwe .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 1, 1851, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1868/page/9/