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    The offer of H . I 1 . S . declined , with thanks . WM . YorNG . —The novel m question has not been translated . Mr . Nutt , of the Strand , would , doubtless , furnis ^ jP- !^ reflection , see that , except on some special occasion , we cannot undertake to send answers to our Sspondehts , Beams of MS . are sent to . us ; the pro-Sortion ^ which we can find use or roonv for is extremely SnftU . the remainder ifl silently destroyed ; to give specific reasons for every caae of rejection might employ the whole of ' gjanie . . ^

    one persqn , , ^ _ .., ,, _ __ , , __ , „__ We were half-inclined to publish Mr . LangleVs remonn + rance in consideration that Ms adjectives , though still mtemperate , are no longer unpunishable ; but we are debarred by the threat with which he concludes , and we must ^^ rata in our last dumber : —In " Continental Notes , " pace 219 , for ' * Austrian Congress at Berlin , " read , " Customs Congress at Berlin . " In leadm ^ article , page 226 , column 3 , for " was of a nature to make their countrymen hang their heads for shame " read ? waa of a nature to make his countryinen , "&c «

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    Satttebat , March 13 . Both Houses of Parliament met last night . In the House of Commons , Lord John Russell abandoned his Reform Bill , by moving that the second reading be postponed for three months . At the same time , he announced that he would proceed with the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill , which was postponed until the 24 th . Sir W . P . Wood resigned the Suitors in Chancery Bill to Mr . Walpole , who also took charge of the St . Albans Disfrancbisement Bill , which , notwithstanding the opposition of Mr . Jacob BeHwas read a second time .

    In the House of Lords , Lord Ltndbttbst , m moving for some returns , hoped Parliament would not be dissolved until the great mass of private legislation , and the measures of legal reform , had been disposed of . The Lord Chancbixob made a statement of his intentions in respect of the latter , but he was so inaudible in the gallery , that no intelligible report has reached us . He was understood to say , that he was favourable to a thorough reform of the Court of Chancery * and intended to bring in bills founded on the report of the Chancery Commission . -

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    The Royal Itaman Opeba has at length issued its programme for the forthcoming season , which is to be opened on Tuesday , the 23 rd inst ., by the production of Donizetti ' s Les Martyrs . The programme for 1852 is even more rich and varied , though more compact and decided , than its predecessors . All the great artistes , who may be said to have become a part of the establishment , are re-engaged ; fresh names of confirmed European celebrity are added ; the , choral and orchestral forces are strengthened ; the ballet reinforced ; and the supreme musical direction is to be still under the admirable sway of Costa .

    Spohr * s Faust , to be produced under the immndiate superintendence of the composer ; Weber ' s Oberon , and Rossini ' s charming Comte Ory , are among the prominent announcements ; and foremost on the file is a new Grand Opera , by M . Jitlmbn , a promise that will excite the liveliest interest and expectation . We confidently believe that the genuine success of Pietro il Grande ( a capital theme for the composer ) will prove that the man who has done , so much to popularize , can do even more to elevate and ennoble hia art .

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    1 Disraeli was re-elected yesterday nt Aylesbury for the county of Buckingham , without any real opposition . He was proposed by Mr . P . D . P . Duncombo , and seconded by Mr . G . Carrington , of Missenden Abboy . A show of opposition was raised by Mr . Gibbs , who proposed Dr . Lee , of Hartwell House , and criticised the youthful political escapades of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Mr . Disraeli mode a long speech , claiming great praise for his frankness , in laying beforo his hearers a clear statement of the policy of his

    government — a policy we have been unable to detect . Ho briefly entered into the history of the establishment of the Free-trade policy , which , ho said , had been agreed to without duo regard to the great productive interests involved—agricultural , colonial , and maritime . When the Corn-Laws woro repealed , the question of the Poor-rates ought to havo oocH settled ; when the sugar duties were modified , Bluv . e-grown an ^ ^ 00 sugar woro unjustly placed on an

    equality . Whon tho Navigation Laws woro repealed , vexatious laws wore still kept in force , which crippled T \! r nOrKios aild TOSOurco 8 of tho seamen and shipowners . Mr . Disraeli , then devolopod his own pot theory , that the abrogation of protection left tho landowners hurdoned with an overweight of taxation as compared to other classes , and that , to remedy this grievance countervailing dutiea woro required . Wheat , ho exclaimed , tho political economists say you should not

    grow j and on barley , your next best crop , they raise a revenue Of 11 , 000 , 000 ? . If you must not tax wheat , why tax barley ? Mr . M'Culloch was « ited as the advocate of countervailing duties of 7 * - on wheat as compensatory for the withdrawal of protection ; and of 2 s . on barley as an equivalent to the diminished consumption consequent on the taxation of malt . "I agree with Mr . M'Culloch thus far , that I think it the cheapest , the easiest' mode , the mode least expensive for the community to settle this question by a countervailing duty . ( Hear . ) I think there is not one penny that would enter into the aggregate of that countervailing duty

    which might not be almost scientifically ascertained ; and I have no doubt that much less than the English producer is scientifically entitled to , he would , jn the spirit of compromise for which all classes of Englishmen are distinguished , accept . ( Hear , hear . ) That is my opinion , speaking for the community ; not speaking for a class , not speaking for the cultivator of the soil , not speaking . for those who are my constituents , but speaking for the community , it is my deliberate opinion that the cheapest , the easiest , and most effective , the least onerous manner of paying our debts—for it comes to that ( hear , hear)—would be to follow the policy

    recommended by Mr . M'Culloch . ( Hear , hear . ) But I am not going to say that if the people of England , though they may admit the injustice they have committed to the agricultural interest , and though they may express a willingness to settle their claims in a spirit of fairness and even of liberality ; are determined , from what I may consider prejudice , or passion , or short-sighted views- —if the general body . of the community have this prejudice against settling the question in the manner which has been recommended by the highest authorities , I am not going to pledge the existence of a government or a policy upon such a measure . ( Hear , hear . ) What I would pledge a ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦—«¦¦» ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦ ¦

    wi mm f . M *\ J . 1 / A * V fr *™** v m / - ' " ******* * •¦^ v O ' - *^ — ought to shrink from who have acceded to office under the circumstances in which we have- ^—is to secure for the agricultural interest ample and complete redress . ( Hear , hear . ) I am of opinion , as I . said before , that the simplest and the cheapest mode for the community is the one which these great authorities in political economy have recommended . " And if some such course be not adopted , then he hinted that in something like the course recommended by the Free-traders that day—a national poor-rate—the solution must be found , ¦ =

    He actually went so far as to deny that a countervailing duty would " interfere with our commercial system ; " that under Free-trade the condition of the labourer had improved ( cheers ); but that was a consequence not of Free-trade but Irish emigration , which had kept the labour market scantily supplied , and the great gold disooveries which had supplied the deficiencies in the Bank caused by the drain of gold to pay for free imports . He menaced the Free-traders with the immense sacrifices which they would have to make as the price of a dissolution ; but if the country were prepared to sacrifice its private legislation , chancery reform , national defence , and the disfranchisement of the borough of St . Albans . (!) The Protectionists have not the slightest objection , and will recommend a dissolution as soon as you like .

    Turning from these topics , he thus menaced the Opposition , and laid down the only active policy we candiscoverinthespeech . Criticisingthe lateministers : — " I hear that the late Administration and their friends —perhaps their friends , and not the late Administration ( a laugh)—are eager , as they say , that the country should give immediately a decision upon the great issue of Freetrade . I shrink from no immediate decision ; but allow me to say that , as far as I am concerned , the issue shall not be narrowed to tho mere question of commercial legislation . I shall ask the country to decide upon in and

    the policy of thfc lato Government every respect in ovory department—upon that foreign policy which wo endeavoured to check two years ago , though we were defeated in the attempt , oncf which the late Prune Minister of England , only two months ago , virtually announced that we were right in opposing . I shall ask the opinion of tho country upon tho colonial policy of the lato Administration , ( hear , hear , ) a decision of tho House of Commons upon which they escaped —< I will not Bay they evaded —by the local militia . ( Laughter . ) I shall ask tho opinion of tho country upon that question of law reform to which I havo

    referred . __ _ _ , ^ .. After some skirmishing with a Mr . Barry , Mr . Disraeli was elected by a show of hands , and Dr . Lee withdrew . In the evening there waa a great dinner of Mr . Disraeli ' s friends . Sir John Trollope was duly elected yesterday at Sleaford , for South Lincolnshire . . Lord Noaa , tho now Chief Secretary for Ireland , has given up the contest in Kildare , His committee , m a fcttor to hint advising this courBC , allege that tho price of success would bo " strife and ill-will ; " and that a coalition of tho most opposite parties has boen formed to doloat his lordship . , Lord Naas had no alternative but to yield at once . TFhis is a bitter losson for tho Tories .

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    There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Da . AbkoiiD .

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    THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS OF NEXT WEEK . Possibly we may have next week to record a " bankruptcy superseded ; " for the effete factions of the day are only too willing to shield in each , other the worst infirmities that beset them all ; but according to the present prospect , the new Ministers will have to undergo a " crisis , " at the very moment of their meeting the House of Commons .

    They are threatened from both sides : the Whigs , panting with the desire to return to office , are planning a combined attack ; and the ultra-Protectionists , impatient at the bare idea of postponing the instant application of their doctrine , are said to contemplate an immediate compulsion on the poor Ministers . Thrust into office unexpectedly , without any estimates or measures prepared , unable perchance to postpone

    the general election beyond the few days required for passing the inevitable continuance bills , Ministers are in a position neither enviable nor deserved . Always excepting the undeniable fact , which we set forth last week , that Lord Derby ought not to have accepted office without a clearer warrant in the competency to hold it and to perform its duties .

    Every day confirms our conviction , that a statesman ought not to undertake the formation of a Cabinet , unless he is prepared for a definite policy , and a responsible adherence to that policy . Every day exhibits new evils in the situation of a Ministry which , offers no test of its capacity to command political power , but is launched into a sea of chances , bent only on avoiding critical questions . The opportunity of calling a Ministry to account is valuable , not attaches to

    only for trying the influence which its principles , but still more for the purpose of putting to the ordeal the working strength of the Government itself . The country has had enough of ricketty Governments , and cannot bo expected to tolerate one that avoids tho plainest test of its own right to official existence . It certainly cannot be strong enough to be useful ; cannot be # trong enough to deal usefully with the great questions that press for effective handling .

    Of those , Free-trade is in fact the least urgent ; since it is settled beyond the power of the Protectionists to unsettle it . Our imports of breadstuffs are now derived from fifty countries , with whom corresponding exchanges , direct or indirect , must be made ; and no Minister dares disturb that amount . of commerce , much less to annihilate it . It is one of those things that , being done , cannot be undone ; like the breaking of an . egg , which cannot be made whole again .

    A second and far more pressing question is that of Ileform—the ke ^ to amending the lawmaking machine ; which is in a state practically vexatious and injurious to the people at large . From handling that question tho present Ministry is absolutely debarred by its antecedents . A third great practical question is finance , including the abolition or amendment of tho Income-tax , the reduction of that immense military expenditure which is so lavish and so wasteful , 1

    and the immense massof charge yearly for tho Rational Debt , in tho settlement of which a beg inning ought to be made ; but will Ministers nnd vigour to deal effectually oven with tho Income-tax , pledged as they are to favour the landowners , already so largely favoured in tho incidence of that impost P The fourth question is the one with many branches- —the regulation of industry . Whether we are to have Free-trade or not , tho burdens ov restraints under which eoveral branches of in-

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    Arinancl Morroat died in Paris , on Wednesday otter noon . Ho was ono of tho ablest journalists of our day . Lady Graham , wife of Sir Edward Graham , of Lok , accompanied by her Bon , called , yesterday , on a friend hying in Metropolitan-buildings , St . Paacraa-road . Her twnd was out . Returning down stairs , Lady Grahams toot slipped , and she fell to tho bottom , hor head striking a door bo violently , that her nook ww broken , ma aue aied .

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    SATURDAY , MAECH 13 , 1852 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/11/