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      Leader 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 Lord Chancexl-or said that the subject of the sale of poisons ¦ was under consideration , hy the Government ; but it "was a very difficult mattei , -with "which they were not yet quite prepared to deal . THE LAST BILLS OF THE SESSION . The Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills , the Speaker ' s Retirement Bill , and the Exchequer Bills Bill , were severally read a third time , and passed . THE APPROPRIATION BILL .

      On the motion for the third reading of this bill , the Earl of Ellenboeou-oh , in an elaborate speech , re-• viewed 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 increased 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 Granville "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 Estimates , were only transfers from the Consolidated Fund , and . were not actual additions to the expenditure of the country . —The Earl of Malmesburt , Lord . 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 especially directing his 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 . ly engaging in wars without giving any information with regard to them to the Legislature . The Bill -was then read a third time , and passed , and the House adjourned at a quarter past seven o ' clock .

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      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 . embarras sed 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 sacred regard for the independence of nations , and never interfere in the domestic concerns of any of them , unless required by the la"w of self-preservation . Our past history forbids that we shall in the future acquire territory , unless this be sanctioned by the laws of justice and honour . " The President then took the oath .

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      LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT . The Paris correspondent of tho 7 'imes , this day , says : — " Tho Government received yesterday news from Naples . It is said that a reconciliation with France and England is becoming not morely possible , but probable , and that an attache of tlie French Foreign Office will soon leave for Naples on a private mission . Lord Hlgin la expected to visit Paris previous to his departure for China , la order to confer with the French Government . I give this as an on dit without vouching for its exactness . Colonel Oklowsky , Chief of Division of Railways at St . Petersburg , has arrived in Paris . His visit relates to the construction of railways in Kussia . M . Hubner , tho Austrian Minister in Paris has been thanked in tho name of the Emperor of tho French for tie attention of tho Emperor of Austria in placing tho statue of tho Grst Napoleon in tho public gardons of Milan . " ° The Circassians have repulsed four thousand Russians en tho frontier of Abasia . . Baton Bulow , the-Danish envoy , has returned from Tienna ; hu . mission to the two Courts of Berlin and Y £ ? ot : X : Zt ^ ° *•*¦ " * ** " * «¦ Count Paar has received orders to quit his post if ho d ema ° nd ° " * " * " ** CW > ll » t tho ^ isfaction CHINA . Hong-Kong and Shanghai have boon fortified

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      PROFESSOlt SAPFI'S LECTURES ON ITALY 1 rofosaor Safft will commence hi 3 acriea of Italian lectures in Scotland , on April 2 nd . Tho greatest interest hfta boeu excited in tho Scottish towns by this announcement . J

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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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      THE TORY MANIFESTO . Lord Derby has , through the Parliamentary reporters , published a manifesto . The Earl Derby 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 tlie enemy , that he may be the more completely surrounded . His great speech against Lord Palme rstoh , in the House of Lords o : n Monday night , was in its effect an exposure of Lord Palmerstoit's

      opponent . Intending to pillory the Premier , the Tory leader pilloried himself and his party . The oration was lialf rubbish , half business . The affected " anxiety" about the present state of finance was all borrowed , like the figures , with the deficiency of 6 , 500 , 000 ? . in 1858 , from Mr . Gladstone . The special attack upon Lord Palmerstost for not appointing Tractarians as bishops , and for letting his admirers ascribe to him very foolish objects , was nothing better than railing . The only interest of the speech lay in the explanation of those things which Lord Dubby has not done , and those tilings which he intends" to do .

      He tells us that he has not made Coalition with Lord Pitzwilljam ; or with Lord John Kttsselxi , Sir 3 ? rancis Baring ^ and Lord Robert Grosvenor ; or with Mr . Coeden , Mr . Milner Gibson , and Mr . Boebuck ; and of course we believe him . When people talk of " the Coalition , " they do not mean any conspiracy between Lord Derby and Lord "Robert Grosvenou ; they do not

      suspect Mr . Roebuck of entering n Disraeli cabinet ; nobody imagines that Earl Frrzwilliam would take office under the liight Honourable member for Buckinghamshire . Those things , which nobody helieves , Lord Derby took great pains to disprove ; bu '' - the one thing which people do believe , ho passed over with the 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 hia supporters ; and tho 2 *? 'ess gives tis an account of Lord Derby's address , in which ho deliberately hinted at the possibility of au accession of strength by tlie junction of Mr . Gladstone with tho Tory party . On the very first night after the publication of tho l ^ ress , Lord Disuby stood up in the House of Lords , and announced that the l ^ ress was grossly incorrect , representing him as having said " the very roveivse of whtit ho had said . " "What this meant nobody could toll , especially those who were present at the meeting ; but tho Press itself explained

      the error . _ In its first report it had made a mistake : it had represented Lord Derby as saying that he had had no comm unicatio n with Mr . Gladstone , whereas he expressly said that he had had conversations , lord 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 . GxADSTOtfE . 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 be " 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 hoffourable ; ' too much so for the electioneering purj > oses of "W . B . or of B Disraeli . We repeat Lord Derby ' s own summary , which is extremely compact and plain : •—"I intend to maintain inviolate the great institutions of the country , and I iatend to support , aa 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 Tvhich 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 ; hut 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 $ e found in the Rejected Addresses , under the head of the " Loyal Effusion . " It lies in . that passage about " God bless the King , " and all the other authorities in Church and State ; yea , God bless tlieir pigtails , though they ' 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 Palmerstoh —a task which lie found to be impossible . He could only find out what is not the principle of Lord Pat / mcerston aa a statesmanit is not Reform . Though acting with Liberals , Lord Palmerston" is really a Conservative , and lie was in congenial company only when he went into the lobby against ]\ tr . Locke King's motion with Disraeli and

      tho Tories . Lord . Derby , moved with sympathy , feeling towards him as Burns felt to the Old Gentleman , " exhorts him to " tak * a thought , an' mend . " Lord Derby promises to kill the fatted calf if the Prodigal Son will return home . " If the noble Viscount seeks only such reforms as true lovers of their country —[ that is , Tories ] — may approve , resisting all dnncrerous innovations and

      organic changes , lie will find no more cordial or more earnest coadjutor than tho inuchabused and vilified Conservative patty . " If ho shall do this , Lord Derby assures the noblo Viscount that he has c < a bright career of usefulness before him . " Such is tho . paternal feeling with which Lord D-Bub * addresses tho young Premier in tones of fatherly advice ! Tho Karl foresees tho true fame of

      Palmerston in his future . He is now , as it wore , but commencing life ; and , having sown his wild oats , he hast , under tho patronage of Derby , but to begin hia " bright career . "

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      SATURDAY , MAHOH 21 , 1857 .

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      ? - . There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing ' so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to lceep things fixed when , all the worldisby thevery lav of its creation , in eternal progress . —Db . AbnoIiD .

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      276 T H E LEAD ER , [ No . 365 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2185/page/12/