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himself, and that charge having been investigated and disproved by Captain Wynne's own confession, that gentleman had not made any report that the charge was not substantiated. Mike MACNAMARA said that he was chairman of a raief committee in Clare, and that committee had sever been visited by Captain Wynne. Mr. J. O'CONNELL mid there was a great probability that the rates would not be paid before nest autumn, and ' that the attempt to levy them would produce great disorder. Mr. W. 8. O'BRIEN thought they should give up all idea of collecting rates from persona holding tenements under 101. a year; at present the amount at which payment began was D. Mr. DISRAELI referred to a letter from Capt. Wynne (page 308 of the published correspondence), complaining of the extraordinary conduct pursued at a presentment sessions is Ennistysion, at which Capt. Macnamara, M.P., had pre sided, and charging that hon. member and his colleague with abetting the feelings of the mob. Mr. C. O'BRIEN denied that anything had fallen from hie colleague or himself on that occasion which could justify Capt. Wynne in writing such • letter. Mr. LABOUCH ERE regretted that charges of this na ture should have been introduced. In the absence of Capt. Wynne, he felt bound to say that, in common with every member of the Irish government, he believed no officer lad more distinguished himself, or acted a more gallant and de voted part, in circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, than Capt. Wynne had done in the county of Clare. He might not have acted judiciously in every instance, but the general scope of his exertions entitled him to the warmest thanks of the house, as having been mainly instrumental in preserv ing the peace in the county of Clare. (Hese, hear.) Mr. SHAW said it was a gross misrepresentation that Emmen in comparatively good circumstances had been placed on the relief works ; the ilia was that no more distres.ed class existed in Ireand than some who were described as timers. . _ _ . . - Alter a few remarks from Lord BERNARD and Mr. 8. Co \WPORD, the clause was agreed to, as were also 9, 10, and 11. On clause 12, Mr. 8. O'BRIEN asked the government to postpone the consideration of this clause until Monday, as it was one on which considerable difference of opinion existed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER truggested that it would be better to take the discussion on bringing up the Lord repo LINCOLN raised some objection to the clause, and sassier/notion ensued. Ultimately Mr. ROEBUCK moved that the chairman do report pro gress, and ask leave to sit again. Mr. DISRAELI had no wish to impede the progress of this bill, but as the money clauses followed, he concurred is the motion of the hon. member for Bath. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said if such was the general feeling of the house, he would at once ac quiesce, (Hear.) The house then resumed ; the CHRIRNIAN reported pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday next. Tne committees on the subjoined bills, vit., the Brewing from Sugar Bill and the Distilling from Sugar Bill were postponed till Monday next. The house adjourned at a quirter-past l± o'slock. Vie Oppreoo. MAILS. The malls foe Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz., and (fibrellea will he made up on the morning of the sth Ifebrnary. The overland Closed mallo, via Mantilla, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, CAlloa. India, Hong Kong, Be., will be made up on the evening of the sth Februari . The West India malls, including those for Mexico, Honduras, and the tlavannah, will be made up on the morning of the 1 7th February. Tb• overlent mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made op on the morning of the 2oth of February. The malls for New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Mier Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Ist March. The malls for British North America, Bermuda, and the United Stater, will he made op on the evening of the 3rd March. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pennine. Duce, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Arai, will be male rap on the evening of the 4th Morel, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice in any vr.ty, any oommuaination that t sent to us anonymously ; but those who choose to address us in oonlldsnoe will hod their confidence respected. NETTFIER CAN WE VNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANT ILLS tISCRIPTS WILATEVER. Advertisements Intended for The lirpres., Landon eremitism's. must to at the 01Ses by Two o'slosk cm the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOE. Tau DAT. --Ilonung, 29 min. prt 3; Alteracoo, 46 min. par 3. To-Moamar —Morning, 1 min, prt 6; Aftereacs, 22 mut. par 6. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 6. In the House of Lords, bust evening, Lord BROUGHAM'S motion for a return of the names of all persons holding shares in Irish railways on the Ist inst., led to a discussion, in which the merits of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S bill, introduced in the House of Commons the preceding evening, were highly eulo gised by the Duke of Elmo°Nts and Lord STANLEY, The Earl of FITZ WIL LIAM expressed his regret that a bill with similar objects had not been originated by the government, and expressed a hope that no im proper interference with the prerogative of the crown would be resorted to, to stay the progress of a measure which should have his determined support. Lord Bitot:oH.o4 intimated that his object in moving for the return was to put Ireland on a level with this country, by enabling gentlemen who held shares in Irish railways to qualify themselves for voting in parliament by dis posing ofithem, or have their names promulgated in the division list. The Marquis of LA NSDOW NE intimated that the exercise of the prerogative of the crown, aye or no, would depend upon the merits of the measure, to which reference had been made somewhat irregularly, and without notice. The Earl of WINCHILBEA, in reference to the existing state of distress in Ireland, urged upon ministers the policy of affording greater facilities to emigration. The Marquis of Lanowne, in laying on the table of the house the minutes lately adopted by the committee of the privy council on education, announced the extension proposed by the committee, and the views the government at present entertain of the question, Lord Brougham, the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London and St. Asap, and the Earl of Winchelsea, taking part in the discussion. In the House of Commons, on the bringing up the report on the Destitute Persons (Ireland) Advances Bill, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER intimated that in the first instance he proposed to take a vote for 300,0001., and that whatever other sums might be required would be proposed to be voted from time to time in committee of supply. On the question of going into committee on the Destitute Persona (Ireland) Bill, Mr. HUFF urged the carrying out of a more extended principle of emigration; after which Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN brought forward his promised motion for estab lishing smaller territorial divisions in Ireland, for the purpose of rating for the relief of the poor.—Mr. LABOUCH ERE said he had con sidered the whole subject most maturely, and had arrived at the determination that it would be impos sible for the government, consistently with its duty to the people of Ireland at large, to adopt the propo sition submitted. The house having gone into com mittee, and some amendments having been proposed and withdrawn, Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN moved as an amendment on clause 3, that clergy of every denomi nation should be eligible to act as members of relief committees, a proposition upon which the committee divided, when there appeared a majority of 96 against it. The committee then proceeded with the remain ing clauses, but the bill was not more than half gone through at the adjournment of the committee, which was followed by the rising of the house. IN the existing state of public affairs it was not to be expected that the ministers should present to the country a great and comprehensive scheme of national education. Ireland occupies the public attention, and more than absorbs all that can easily be spared from the public finances. The utmost that the ardent friends of the cause could reasonably expect was a proof that the subject had not been altogether forgotten, and that whilst the extension they desire must be unavoidably postponed, there should be attention paid to those administrative details which will turn the present available resources to the best advantage. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since Mr. Wyse, speaking on this subject, said, " The minister waits for the country, and the country waits for the minister, but Time waits for neither." Time, however, has not passed unheeded by both ; more than one minister has learned that the evoking of pride, passion, and pre judice to pervert a discussion involving the futurity of the country, is an experiment too unsafe to be repeated ma y bete country has learned that squabbling about whay the best possible in theory, has no other result than the continuance of the worst possible In pra c ti se . At the present moment, the friends of na banal education, those who have supported the question through good report, and unfortunately, through a long continuance of evil report ; have the satisfaction to know that the minister and the country are equally alive to the vast importanoe of the sub- I'd- On the subject of education, as on the condi tion of Ireland, there is a general and indeed almost a universal feeling, that it act a fit ground for the battles of faction, but a matter of immense concern- ment to the peace and prosperity of the empire. We believe that there never was a period , in history, when men of all parties were more' sincerely anxious to settle their rights and their duties in relation to this great question — never a time when classes and denominations were ready to insist on no more than their rights, and to discharge all their duties. Under theme circum stances we are not disposed to grieve very much for the delay, which the position of public affairs has rendered unavoidable. After a protracted tempest of factious passions, some interval must be allowed for the due action of reason in the calm that has fol lowed. We may be assured that the strength which sound opinion gains in such an interval, will render hopeless the efforts of insidious charlatans and of 1 1 the multitudinous trailers on prejudice and deception ' in any future struggle. The measures propounded by Lord Lecsnowne are not to be measured by our hopes,—scarcely even by our expectations—they must be viewed in their relation to the existing condition of public affairs, nd particularly with reference to the causes which impede the ripening of growing opinion. We are confident that the process of growing and of ripening proceeds much faster than is generally sup posed, and that the day of reaping the harvest is not far distant. Lord LANSDOWNE fairly stated that the govern ment is not prepared to meet the two powerful bodies which object on the one hand to schools, in which a mixture of creeds is permitted, and on the other to any interference with what they are pleased to call the voluntary principle. Firmly persuaded that a very brief experience will show both classes of objections to be untenable, and as firmly persuaded that this discovery cannot escape the honest advocates of both, we find some consolation for the delay, in the confident hope that what is now doubted to be expedient, will at no distant date be found to be unavoidable. One ground for such a hope was stated by the noble Marquis. When first the system of inspection was propounded, it was met by a fanatical clamour, which " frighted the isle from its propriety.' It was denounced as anti-church, un-English and irreligious, and the ministers of the day were compelled so far to yield to the clamour, as to adopt a system less perfect than they had originally planned, and to give the appointments to the patronage of irrespon sible dignitaries. Yet under all these disadvar.tages, the system—maimed and imperfect as its adversaries forced it to be made—has worked so well, that in addition to the schools receiving parliamentary grants, and therefore obliged to submit to inspection, other schools, quite independent, containing no less than 130,000 scholars, had actually requested that in spection should be extended to them as a desirable boon. This gratifying fact sufficiently justified the pro posal for increasing the number of inspectors, and we trust that this increase will be accompanied by a rigid scrutiny of the qualifications of those to be ap pointed. The reports of the gentlemen who now bold the office, printed in the minutes of the Council of Education, are highly creditable to their zeal, inte grity, and intelligence, we can only wish that their new colleagues may not be inferior in the same quali fications. The necessity of substituting a subordination of as sistant, and sub-assistant masters for the monitorial system has long been obvious to all who have attended to the practical working of Lancastrian schools. In correcting the flagrant evils of the monitorial system, Lord ListshomNE has introduced two great principles which we believe will be found of the greatest value, not merely in education, but in the general admini stration of the country. The first is the system of scholastic apprenticeship. Instead of monitors who had no prospect of ultimate reward for the discharge of their duties, we are to have apprentices with the prospect before them of comfort able subsistence if they show zeal, aptitude and intelli gence. Here is at last a confession of the simple truth that " the art of teaching is an art which requires to be taught "—end not merely a confession, but a recog nition of the neglected fact as a principle of action. And still more valuable is the promise, that offices in the revenue shall be mule the reward of educational merit in the national schools. It is not enough that the state should encourage education ; practical proofs are wanting to show that the state deems educational merit valuable, and the proof most intelligible to the masses will be, the recognition of good conduct at school as a qualification for office ;—for petty office it is true, but " little things are great to little men." The proposition for raising the salaries of teachers, and securing to this most valuable and neglected class of the community some provision against the contin gencies of accident, disease, and old age, met, as it ought, general approbation from the assem bled peers. It would be a waste of words to dwell on its propriety and its justice ; but there are obvious dangers of abuse in carrying it out, and we reserve our observations on the subject until the details are before us. The last and not the least important improvement promised us,lis an union of industrial with scholastic edu cation. Lord LANSDOWNE quoted the beneficial re sults of the efforts made by the Rev. Mr. DAWES, in Hampshire, to establish a system of industrial train ing, and we know that similar results, in kind, if not in degree, have been produced in a school established by Lord LtssfiownE on his own estate. The value of *Austria' training is at once percep tible to parents and to children. It makes the former anxious to send their offspring to school,—it renders the school a place desirable to the latter. So far are industrial pursuits from interferin6 with the acquisition of the ordinary course of learning, that in the few schools where industrial occupation is provided for the pupils, the average of scholastic attainments is higher than in the schools where these attainments receive exclusive attention. The reason is obvious ; the children see that there is a perceptible connexion between present life in school and future life in the active world; the labour of the boy is stimulated by the hope of the man : he knows what it is for which he works. Under the old system he was liable to be lieving that he worked only to gratify the caprice of certain unreasonable tormentors. _ The projected improvements announced by Lord LANSDOWNE, though not equal to our desires, are fully as great as we believe could be attempted wish safety under existing circumstances. They are all ex cellent iu themselves, and each contains the germ of future growth and development. But in education, as in almost every other great question of human improvement, the adage " not to advance is to recede" must ever be present to its advocates. There still remain obstacles to be removed, objections to be over come, and cavils to be silenced. The government cannot act efficiently unless it is preceded by pioneers to clear away the old and tangled jungles which im pede its path. Something has been done, but more, infinitely more, remains to do. The great charac teristic of our age is the increasing sensitiveness of public men to public opinion. This extends the re sponsibility of the statesman to every person who has a share in forming, or takes a part in expressing, public opinion. Lord LANspowNE clearly intimates, that more is ready, when the nation is prepared for its reception. We believe that the preparatory pro cess goes on more rapidly than is generally suspected ; and we have no doubt that its progress will be greatly accelerated by the proved advantag es s and experienced benefits, which will be found speed ily to follow from the measures proposed last nig ht. THERE is nothing to complain of in Sir GEORGE GREY'S refusal last night to discus the subject of emi gration, introduced by Mr. Hurr. As he hinted, it is of too much importance to be taken up inciden tally. Bat it is to be hoped that either government may without loss of time state their intention with regard to emigration, or that Mr. Hurr, or some other private member, who has devoted attention to that subject, will bring it before parliament in the form of a substantive motion. There is a strong and widely-diffused feeling in favour of emigration out of doors; and the approbation with which Mr. Hurr's remarks were caught up and attended to, shows that the members of the House of Commons have been turning their attention in the same direction. An incidental allusion to colonisation by Earl Fin/mush( was favour , ably received in the House of Lords nearly at the same time that Mr. Hurr was speaking. It is also worthy of aotice that the remarks both of the hon. member for Gateshead and the noble earl were not mere vague generalities which might indicate no thing beyond a misty conception that more room may be found at home after getting rid of some sur plus population: Earl FITZWILLIAM distinctly re essmmended a "system of emigration"—a "gradual system going on throughout the whole surface of the land ;" and Mr. Hu rr's epee& was abrief but intelligent exposition of the advantages of systematic colonials non. Information, that has reached us from various quarters, leaves us little room to doubt that at this moment an unwonted degree of activity is manifesting itself in the department of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners. When we recollect that South Australia, notwithstanding its youthful mis adventures, is already a self-supporting colony, and that the less heard-of Port Phillip settlement has been mach from the beginning, we would fain hope that something may come of this note of preparation. "In South Australia," Mr. Hurr observed, " there is a demand for at least 5,000 heads of families ; the islands of New 'Zealand and the eastern coast of the Cape of Good Hope, afford similar openings ; and without saying what amount of emigration can be borne by Canada, he was convinced that there existed ample means for providing for the increasing popu lation of ages yet to come." The matter does not admit of procrastination. The proper season for _ . emigration to Canada is almost upon us, and is of no long duration. The best time to embark emigrants for the colonies of the southern hemisphere, comes only a few months later. We beg to call attention to the remarkable speech of M. Tillers, made in the sitting of Thursday, and of which we give a rather full report. M. Guizot was to have answered on Friday. We shall defer our remarks till the minister's speech is before us. The repose in which the Chamber of Deputies seemed disposed to leave the Minister of Foreign Af fairs on Tuesday was rudely and most unexpectedly broken the following day. M. Guizot, by a ma nceuvre showing some adroitness, gave the chamber to understand that the interests of the country, the maintenance of tranquillity, and the hopes of a re establishment of a good understanding with England, depended on the chamber following the example set by the British parliament, and maintaining a silence on the question of them arriages. The opposition, thus appealed to on the grounds of its patriotism, gave its adhesion to the minister, and the result was an almost unanimous vote in favour of the paragraph of the address on the marriages. The dexterity of M. Guizot was, however, defeated the next day by the maladroit zeal of his organs of the press, which, instead of accepting the silence of the opposition on the terms on which the minister him self solicited and obtained it, cried aloud that the opposition said nothing, because they had nothing to say. This, ofoourse, called up the two leaders, M. Tillers and Barrot, on Wednesday:the former setting on its right footing the abstinence of the opposition the pre ceding day, required from M. Guizot an explicit declaration that a debate on the Spanish marriage question would, in the existing relations between France and England, be detrimental to the interests of the country. This declaration M. Guizot refused to make, whereupon M. Thiers delivered the speech above alluded to. M. Barrot spoke at length Wednesday. PAWS, Ts. 4. per Coma & De. . N De. • 4 Do. . beleta• 5,1840 De. 4.11143. De. MON Thum sr : Dot Mans . ID.lmp ea L. Ds. Ds. PARIS, Fr. ♦. i:.r w i:..:.:: -- .:: xoru ........, Pr Masm. 7140 116 OD 161 7S 70 10 118.40 1011 96 1;1 10 100/ Pr limey. Ill* U Oa le iii w Ter AreesM. lwat • Leirem. le ao alit 3t3 L 25. 33 03. •n se r........,. - 1.7 SO at DO 870 iii if sid a • The Spanish Mail, with the journals of Madrid of the 29th ult., arrived in Parts late on Thursday afternoon. The ministry was definitively constituted on the evening of the 28th, as follows :—President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Duc de Sotomayor; Grace and Justice, M. Bravo Murillo ; Interior, M. Sejas Lozano; Public Instruction, M. Roca de Togores ; Finances, M. Santillan ; War, M. Livia; Marine, M. Baldasano. CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES. PRIPODENCII OP X. PACZIT. The session commenced at half-past one. The order of the day was the continuation of the debate on the project of address to the king. The debate commenced on the second paragraph, which had been postponed. " The relations of your Majesty with all the foreign powers, give you the firm confidence that the peace of the world is ensure Ve rejoice with you at this." M. Tutees, after a few preliminary remarks, said, I rack. first refer to the Spanish marriages, and to the affair of Cra cow, and in reference to the former, shall ear less of the alliance of the Queen Isabella with Don Francisco, than of the marriage of the Infanta Luise with the Duke de Mont pensier, which, I think, was • premature act. As I was one of the authors of the treaty of the quadruple alliance, I have some right to apt ak concerning it. 1 his to caty had two objects —the first was to prevent the counter revolution in Spain ; the second was to establish a concord with England on a question very difficult and likely to give rise to differences between the two countries. The first result has been obtained ; Spain has been need from a revolution : the second result has not been obtained, but the two countries have made in Spain a war of influence: while France his patronised the modera dos, England has encouraged the progressistas. This is an unfortunate policy ; for in having recourse to such measures we axe likely to protect none save the intriguers of both parties. These two influences have come into collision on the occa sion of the Queen's marriage. France has declared, in principle, that she desires a prince of the horse of Bourbon ; I might have stated that for sixty 'Tars this principle has been maintained as absolute ; but how can it be so now when a party of the house is committed to the principle of the counter revolution? You have well defeated the house of Coburg. We should have been to blame if we had allowed it to triumph. Fraiame denred a prince of the house of Bourbon. But what did Spain desire ? Spain as represented by the Queen Christina ? She was not &mumble to her nephews, and to avoid them, she first thought of the Duke de Montpenrier. Every one must approve of her motive. But when it is proved to her, by both French and European considerations, that the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with Queen Isabella was impossible, Queen Christina turned her atten tion on • prince of the house of Coburg. On this choice the Queen was determined, and it was not until she learned that such a union with the hour of Coburg would throw you into a consternation (to use the phrase of the English ambassador, Lord Cowley), that she abandoned the project. In order to obtain a prince of the House of Coburg, it would have been necessary to gain the consent, not only of that house, but also of England. Now what has taken place? The House of Coburg, which has made its fortune by mar riages, might have seen in en alliance with Queen Isabella the climax of its successes ; but not daring to disoblige either of the two countries, it avoided the honour by mules its consent depend upon the consent of England. England, no doubt, wished for a Prince of Coburg, but considering the objections made to such a match, she sought for the Queen of Spain another union, and ultimately suggested Don Henry, the chief of the Progremistas in Spain. Such, then, was the state of affairs. France desired a Bourbon Queen Christina a Coburg, and England (renouncing the l atter on account of France) named Don Henry. It has been said that an agree ment had taken place at Eu, and that France had there and then renounced the hand of Isabella fer a prince of the house of Orleans, on condition that the marriage of the In fanta to the Due de Moutpensier should take place when the queen had issue. The French cabinet added, that it would not approve the marriage of the Queen of Spain with a Coburg; and that the English cabinet having presented that candidate, and broken a former engagement, it (the French cabinet) wandered itself free from its engagement I have read all the documents on the subject, and have come to the conclusion that the Whigs were more disposed than the Tories to favour the Prince of Saxe Coburg. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has said in this place that the Tories had informed the French cabinet that a negotiation had been commenced by their successors in favour of the Prince of Coburg, and that the Tories themselves had not opposed such ea eventuality. You all leave seen the despatch of Lord Aberdeen to the Duke of Sotomayor ; that envoy had put dr question thus If we leave aside the house of Bourbon (Mat is, take the Priam of Coburg), what would England ay ? Lord Aberdeen answered, that England would agree le any choice the queen would make, except a prince of dr royal family of France. The Tory cabinet thus showed itself favourable to the German prince. It was then that the Whigs came into power ; full of the reminiscences of 1840, knowing that then they had followed a weave policy, and hurt their own interests ; this disposition was • happy one for us, and one we should have taken advant In age of. Lord Patent:Teton sent a despatch to Mr. Bulwer, which he said, " We need neither favour nor exclude say candidate. These candidates are three: the Prince of Saxe Coburg, Don Francis d'Alene, and Prism Don Henry." There was seen in this despatch an intention to favour the candidature of the Prince of Coburg ; but a correspondence immediately took place between the two cabinets, sad Lord Palmerston declared that England had no candidate, and favoured none. He, however, added, that it would re with greater pleasure Don Henry as a candidate. On this declaration, the French cabinet proposed to that of England to unite with it in support of Don Henry. Consequently, en August 22, Lord Palmerston wrote to Mr. Thalwer, that England would join with France in recommending Dam Henry. This despatch was communicated, on Aug. 28 by Lord Normanby to M. Guinn, who answered: " I to your common mode of action ; but I cannot 'Low Don Henry to be presented alone, and I propose to join with him Don Francis." It was known at Madrid that the house of THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1847. Coburg, feeling the aispleasere of France, refused one of its gel:cand that England and France were favouring Don rY s . It was on the night of Aug. 28 that the marriage of the queen was derided upon. This decision was pub lished in the Gazette de Madrid on the 29th, and the Cortes were convoked for Dee. It. The manage of the Infanta with the Duke of Montpensier was not decided upon until later; and every one knows that if the wishes of the Spanish people bad bees consulted, the queen and her aster would have married the two brothers, Don Francis and Don Henry. The first marriage was irrevocably eon ! chided on Aug. 29. On Sept. 1, If. Guizot sent for the English ambassador, and said to him :—" The two marri ages are decided upon; one with Don Francis, and the other with the Duke of Montpenaier." The English ambassador objects, and salts,—" Will both marriages take place at the same time ? "—M. Guizot answers, " No ; not at the same time." To explain this answer the Minister of Foreign Affairs added :—" The order for solemnising both marriages at the same time was only given on Sept. 4." N. Guist* -hould (which he did not), have informed the English Ambassador on September 5 of what was taking place. It Is thought that Louis XI V., by placing his grandam on the throne of Spain, would have stifled the bate of that country fir France : this is an error In Louis XIV there existed both the father and the king ; and both characters I respect; but if the king attained his object, I think that the father was deceived. Let us see the truth. Why had Spain sterns joined the Germans against us? Because she possessed the Netherlands. The war of succession having deprived her of the Netherlands Spain turned to our side. But the co.tsequences apse war of suc!8•16011 had not that effeet alone, it had alas given Gibraltar to England ; had establiabed the English on the Spanish territory. What was the result? That Spain began to unite herself to us on the Continent aa well as on the sea. Louis XIV. in placing hiagrandson on the Spanish throne had thought to unite the two countries for ever. Now, four years after the death of the great King, Philip V. de clared war against France, not for national interests, but for the interests of his family ; and thus the union of the families was the cause ortlutt war. It was thought that the marriage of Mdlle. Montpensier, daughter of the Regent, to • descendant of Philip V. would have been productive of concord. We know what enmities, what embarrass ments, the alliance with Spain caused Louis X V.--As to Napoleon, you all know the embarasements to which family alliances exposed him. Ater the revolution of July, instructed by such lessons, ell that we had to do was to form an alliance between the two revolutions of France and Spain. Inttead of doing this, we have taken a part in Spanish dif feicnces of opinion. Popular sympathy was ours an Spain on the greund of our common revolution, and, when we were menaced with war in 1540, the worst foes of France in Spain were ready to aid our revolution. I repeat, all we should have done in Spain was tolgave main taintained the alliance of the two revolutions. The mar• rages of princes cannot supply a substitute fur this alliance ; rather, they oaly irritate national feelings. Go through Spain, from Bayonne to Cadiz, everywhere you will hear Queen Christina charged with a partiality for France, and a sacrifice of the interests of Spain to that partiality. In these circumstances, what is the position in which you have placed the Duke de Montpenaier, in case of a political misunderstanding arising between the new king and the queen-mother? Will be take part with hia step-mother ag anst his brother-in-law, or rice versa t These are the drt urnstances—l say, then, that what you have done is po litically null. But, if it be so, why should Eng gland be jealous of it ? bee:use you have also done a dangerous thing. Suppose Queen Isabella should have no heir. You pray that she may have one; and I pray with you. (Interruption.) I repudiate the treaty of Utrecht. I repudiate it for France ; but suppose that Queen Isabella should have no heir ? You would thou find your- Belt es in an extremely dangerous situation. That authorises me to my, that you have performed an act which is either void or dangerous. And what is the price which you have paid ? You have paid it at the price of • fear ful respoaubility. When they stop the deputies at the gates of Madrid, and when they are imprisoned to be prevented from sitting, you will not be culpable, but you will be embarrassed. What is our situation with regard to England? I have always beta a partisan for English alliance. During 15 years my enemies have frequently made it a subject of reproach. It is, then, a well-known fact . Every one, however, also knows my devotedness to my country and to royalty. ICI could render a service to either country, it would Le the greatest satisfaction I could enjoy; but I would on no account purchase their favours by giving them bad advice. We shall be told, I know, "You speak much at your ease, gentlemen of the Opposition, after having, during twenty•five years, accused the government of too much confidence an England, to accuse us of having sacrificed her independence to her." The real alliance for France is that of England. It is said, there are rivalries between France and England. I know this; but tall me of a country which boa sympathise without rivalries ? Do rivalries render an alliance between England and France impossible s No! and I am certain that if England was shown • great aim to be attained, she is too enlight ened to ask sacrifices unworthy of us. I cannot help saying that I am deeply afflicted by the policy which has been pro posed in this tribune. You are, it is said, at variance with the Northern courts and England, and you are thus reduced to isolation. I have been told that this alliance is good at certain times, and bad at others; and that there is the 'reshot confidence to be placed in the good will of the Tories. I know this. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen are the great spirits and the noble hearts on whom implicit faith can be placed—who agitate questions which affect the happiness of humanity ; but I avow that my sympathies are much more with the Whigs, and the repugnance which tome seem to feel to them is, I think, confounded with that for the Radicals. They object that in 1840 the Whigs were opposed to France. That accusation is ill-founded ; and the proof is that, at the end of 1840, our cabinet signed with those same Whitts a treaty which testified, on the contrary, a great degree of confidence on the port of France. What • moment you have chosen to disturb the alliance with England ! The moment when Cracow was the theatre of an attempt which you did not foresee although all the world announced it. This is the moment which you have chosen to effect the Spanish marriages, and to render England discontented. M. Thiers concluded b saying—l repeat lam for the English alliance ;I do not seek for popularity, hut I art far from despising it. I respect the French nation and royalty, and that is the reason I have told to-day to the nation and to royalty the whole truth. M. °vizor then rose and said, that as N. Thiers had en tered into a lengthened disquisition, he wished, in his answer to touch upon all the points raised by his adversary, and de manded for that purpose that the debate be !adjourned. The debate was accordingly adjourned. gbe QUHM. - FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise this forenoon in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. H.R.H. Prince Albert rode out this morning on horseback, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff. _ . . FRIDAY EvENINo.—The Court will take its de parture from the Castle on Tuesday next, after luncheon, for Buckingham Palace. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent had an evening party ►t her residmce, Frogmore House. A deputation from the council of the National In stitute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, had un interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-ofilce. Mr. N. W. Symonds, secretary of the General Shipowners Society, had an interview with the Right HOD. T. Miner Gibson yester day at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir William G. Hilton Jolliffe had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commis sioners of Railways, in Great George-street. Mr. William Blake had also an interview with Mr. Strutt yesterday. Mr. J. Galt had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. A. Kinnard had an interview yes terday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Pattison, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Hutt. M.P., had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. Col. Mare, M.P., accompanied the deputation of Snatch distillers, with other members of parliament, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday. Lady John Russell was indisposed yesterday, but was better last evening. Lord John Russell's parliamentary dinner, intended to have been given this day (Saturday), at his residence in Cheshain-place, is unavoidably postponed. The Duchess of Inverness had a select party at dinner yesterday, at her residence in Kennington Palace. His Excellency the Brazilian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Pereira-take. _(Frog hat Night's gazette.] WINMOR, ea. 4.—Her Majesty having appointed L. V. Watkins, E.q., to be lord-lieutenant and eustoe-rotn lora= of the county of Brecon, he this day took the oaths appointed t, be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Her Majesty has also, upon the representation of the Right Hon. the lords of the committee of council en education, appointed E. C. Tufnell, Esq., and J. F. Ruddock, Esq., to be two of her Majesty's Inspectors of schools. _ . _ _ . _ WHITEHALL, Feb. 3.—The Queen has appointed Doctor W. P. Alison to be Pint Physician to her Majesty in Scotland, in the room of Doctor J. H. Davidson, deceased. The Queen has appointed Doctor B. Christison to be one of her Majesty's Physicians in Ordinary in Scotland. The Queen has appointed Doctor J. Y. Simpson to be Physician Acconeheur to her Majesty in Scotland. Fonmcx-coyncs, Jan. 2S.—The Queen has ap pointed C. F. Rothery, Esq., in the room of H. W. Macaulay, Esq., deceased, to be her Majesty's Commissioner in the Itixed British and Portugune Commissioo, established at the Island of Bona Vista (one of the Cape de Verd Islands), under the Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal for the suppression of the slave trade, signed at Lisbon, July 1842. MEMBERS urrineceD TO` SEays IN PARLIAMENT. --County of Sussex, western division.—R. Prime, of Wal berton, in the county of Sumer, Req., in the room of C. Wyndham, Esq., who has accepted the once of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. County of Middlesex.— The Right Hon. R. Grosvenor, commonly called Lord R. Grosvenor, in the room of G. Ryng, Esq., deceased. City of Chester.—H. L. Grosvenor. commonly called Karl Grosvenor, in the room of the Right Hon. R. Grosvenor, commonly celled Lerd R. Grosvenor, who has accepted the once of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Waft-tirel M.. Fn. 3. Royal Refit of Horse Oda—Lant. Gad G. J. Mennen to he opt., by pur, Tice Brunt, who rd.; Cor. P. H. Vise, to ho Mut, by par. ; T. Leslie to be tor., by par. la Rest. of Foot—C. Wasiak to be era., by pur., vice Evans, who ret. Ric F.—Capt, W. Cocbam, tram 80th P., to be apt., Tice Creagh, who each• . _ . Tlith F.—Ens. C. F. Kelly to be lieut., by par, vice Bernard, •ho ret ; Fag. C. T. Woe, from elet Y., to be ens. 41st P.--CapL R. Donaldson to be major, by par-, Ike Asher, ihri ; Leah T. A. Bawling to be cepa, by par.; Ens. C. Graham to be Kest, by par. ; C. P. Babas to be ems., by par. ; H. Dixon to be eta, by par. 46th %Velem to be ran, without par., rise Prettyntaa, dec. 73rd F.—N. A. MsciLellar to be ens., without pur., Moe Hickson, prom. in Ceylon Rifle Reel 80th C. M. Craigh, from 9th P., to be Copt., riot Cook son, wbo exch. filth F.—Capt. W. Radcliffe, from B;th F., to be capt.,Miee Camp. tell, who each. 87th F. —Capt. C. F. Campbell, from 84th F., to be clot. rice Rad cliff*, who exalt. 3rd West Ind. Regt.—Ens. J. O'Flansgan to be lieut., without per., Mos Mattlebury, dec.; W. J. kturawures, to be ens.; Lieut. P. J. Hills to be pariumer. Ceylon Rffle Rcpt.—Senn I.leut Henderson to he find lieut,without par., rice 1. B.C. Fraser, dee.; gen IleaL J. MacDougall to be aria heat., without per., rise Henderson, whose prom. in Jai. 9 has bee* canc.; J. Brown to be no. Ileac thrarraniru.—Limit. P. P. Glubto, from 3-Ith F., to be CAA, with out par. • Lieut. W. Mason, from Royal Newfoundland Comp., to be mit.orta4 Puri mss.—The Cluinian names of Nos. Morgan ,of 4th P., are George Augustan. Eutarra.—ln the Gage,. of Aug. 7, 1846, for E. lirL. Freer to be emu, without pur.,rice Blackburn, prom. in 6th F., read — , Kt Black burn, killed to action. REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER. A meeting of the electors of the parishes of Si (leotge and St. James was held last evening at the Hanover square Rooms, to afford Mr. Charles Cochrane an oppor tunity of declaring his political opinions as candidate for the representation of Westminster. Sir Charles Alder presided, and opened the proceedings by briefly stating that Mr. Coehrane's opinions were based upon the most liberal prin ciples; and he was well known for integrity of purpose and the utmost activity in doing good. The interests of the city needed an efficient representative, and he could fully recommend Mr. Cochrane as worthy of the confidence of the electors. Captain HOUOHTON, R.N., concurred in the Chairman's sentiments with regard to Mr. Cochrane, whom he cordially recommended to the electors of Weal inater as being a fit ting representative, and one who would do his duty towards them. The Rev. Dr. STODDAUT ionOWed to the same pur pose, dwelling at some length in praise of the proposed candidate.. . . The Chairman then introduced Mr. Cochrane to the meet ing, who said that it ems utterly impriesihle to cipress to the meetinghis gratification at aedressing them on that occasion. He felt it necessary to state that the life he had lcd had tv,t be. n that of a politician ; •nd he admitted that in that respect he had small claim on their consideration. His life had been that of a private iientre;an7elOik good powe r. With regard to the first point in is address, involving the question of civil and religious liberty, he would say that, without the first, men could not utter or write an opinion ; and, with regard to the second, that he held it to be a great injustice to make any difference between persons on account of their religious principles. Now, on this point, he thought the Catholics had a right to complain of the government, because there were some restricticn, put upon them with regard to municipal rights. With regard to the Established Church, he would say little, but there were some parts of it which he would like to modify. It was a maxim Let him who works in the vine yard taste of the grapes"—and this he applied to the curacies and minor appointments in the church, the bidders of which did the work and starved on small salaries, while their supe riors rolled in luxury. He had addressed a letter to the public press, stating that he should oppose with all his might any state endowment of Popery ; he hoped they would not, therefore, think him an anti- Popery man ; but it was because he disapproved of any endowment by the state of any sect or religion what ever. He opposed it on the general grounds, not bemuse it was a Popish endowment, but because it was a state endow ment. The next points to which he would call attention were, that he was for the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and short parliaments, into which questions he went at length, proceeding from thence to the corn-laws, and the part which he had taken in advocating their abo- lition, referring to the deputations which he had headed to Lord John Rummell nn the subject of opening the ports, and dwelling in a severe manner on their non sweets, which opinions were ill received by the meeting, who re sponded with three ehe is for the noble lord. Mr. Cochrane then proceeded to detail the pursuance of his system of agita tion, maintaining his opinion that ministers had acted wrong in delaying to open the ports and declaring that the death of every unfortunate person from the famine should be laid upon their shoulders. The New Poordaw came next, in which he considered a great reform was needed. Mr. Cochrane concluded by thanking the meeting for the atten tion with which they had listened to him, sad expressing his willingnem to explain any point which he had left untouched. Mr. I :sots asked his opinion of the government measures for Ireland, and whether he did not think that England, Scotland, and Wales were entitled to the same privileges with regard to waste lands ?—Mr. Cochrane acquieeced in the belief.—Mr. Ingle then asked his opinion of the probate and legacy duty on real property as well as personal pro perty, pointing out some points for reform, in the justice of which Mr. Cochrane fully agreed. After a few words from Mr. Edwards, Mr. Lammers' moved the following resolution : That we, the electors of St. Georges and St..73MEIN present at this public meeting, haring !wird with utirdaction the exposition of the political principles and opinions of Churl. Cochrane, Erq., du rip prove of them, and deem him ant and proper person to represent the city of Westminster In Parliament, and determine cordially to co-ope rate and unite with our fellow-citizens to secure his return at the ensuing general election. The resolution was carried without dissent, and Mr. Coch rane having briefly returned thanks, the proceedings termi nated. HAIR-DRESSERS' EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.— Yesterday a meeting of this association wan held at the Bedford-head Tavern, Bloomsbury, for the purpose of adopt ing means to obtain an abridgement of the hours of business. The chairman said it was gratifying to remark that the early closing movement had met with considerable sympathy from the trade, some of the most influential employers having given it their support by closing their shops at 8 o'clock, and contributing to its funds. ROYAL ACIRICULTCRAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.— I The council resumed their sittings for the session on Wed- nesday last, when a monthly meeting was held at the So ciety's house in Hanover-square, the Berl of Egmont, mai dent, in the chair. Among those present were the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Dane. Col. Austen, M.P., chairman of the Finance Committee. presented the report on ' the funds and account, of the society to the list day of the Illeitth of January, from which it appeared, that the Wild property of the society stood at 7,0001. stock, and that the current cash balance in the hands of the bankers amounted to 4,7471. Mr. Fisher Hobbs having brought forward his motion on the suldtell of the annual grant made by the society to the Royal Veterinary College for promoting the application of Veterinary Science to the pathology and dirges of cattle, sheep, and pigs, Mr. Denison, M.P., de. Mad to the council the circumstances under which that pant originated, and the willingness of the college to afford 1 the fullest investigation into the mode in which they had sodeavoured to carry out the views of the society.—Mr. °Blies favoured the council with communications from Mr. D. Webster and Mr. Clay, of the United States, respecting a new mode of preparing Indian corn as food for cattle ; for which, on the motion of Mr. Miles, M.P., the thanks of the council were voted to Mr. Dillies. The council adjourned to Wednesday next. RE-APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO HIsEtSP..—At the ordinary meeting of the Botanical Society of London, held last evening at the society's rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Covent-garden, J. Reynolds, Erg., treasurer, in the chair, Mr. James Barnes, of Sidmouth, exhibited numerous specimens of diseased potatoes of this year's early crop. Mr. B. could find no potato free from the disease, and was afraid it would be more serious than last year. MIDDLESEX HOUSE OP DETENTION.—This prison, erected on the site of the new Clerkenwell prison, will be opened for the reception of persons remanded for further examination and committed for trial, on the 25th proximo., it contains 1,000 separate cells. SHIPMENT OF GUNPOWDER. The following notice has been issued by the Admiralty : " Admiralty, January, 1847. Notice is hereby given in pursuance of the Act of the 64th of his late Majesty, Ring George the Third, cap. 169, sec. 6, that it has been deemed necessary and expe dient that from and after the 10th day of February, 1847, (instant), no prints ship of war, transport, or other private or merchant ship or vessel, which may require to receive gunpowder on board before leaving the port of Gravesend, deal be brought up off that town ; but only in the lower part of the reach, at which place their powder may be em barked. By command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. (Signed) H. G. Wain." THE Cosy OF PEACE.—One thousand millions of fiance (equivalent to about 42,000,0001.), earl M. Ardent, *we spent in Europe subsequently to 1815 in fortifications only. All the potentates, great and small, were seised with this mania of fortifying their territories; and time now proves that they put themselves more on the defensive for the maintenance of peace than for invading of one =other. SEGAR.—DISCRIMINATING DUTIEB.—Sir, Your remarks upon this subject claim the best thanks of all un prejudiced men in the sugar trade. The regulations now in force, by which it in intended to erect a standard of quality, may fairly be called " frivolous and vexatious." The reve nue derives very little benefit, but the inconvenience to a merchant u great. On arrival of • vessel, all the sugar on board is entered, probably, for the lowest rate of duty ; but some are found on landing to be such as in the opinion of a custom-house officer ought not to pass at this rate. Then there is • leisure, and a delay, of which too many instances have occurred to render it necessary for me to specify any in particular. With many sugar cargoes it is quite impossible to escape disputes from this source : for the claying of sugar, if of itself held to be the test, would condemn all the growth of Brazil, most of that of Cuba,and a large proportion of East India,both British and foreign, to pay the - higher rate . so that really the at tempt is now made to draw a line between different shades of colour, for instance, and make different rates of duty to apply where the sugar has all been turned out of the same mould or vessel ; that which was at the top, next to the clay, white, that at the bottom, a dark brown. Such an impedi merit to trade will not long be suffered to exist if you will I continue to make known the existence of the evil, and ob i tabs public judgment. —I am, &c., C.—Liverpool, February 3, 1847. THE DRAINAGE Acr IN ENGLAND.—Sir,—There is • statement in your paper of the lit brat, copied from the Stirling Observer, letting forth the comparative enterprise of the Scotch, Bngliah and Irish landlords, relating to the three millions of money given in loan to landed proprietors to drain their estates and employ the labourers. Notwith standing, it is said, the dreadful famine now raging the cultivators of Ireland have appliedonly for the sum of 8,3911. e • Inns mut hare beta written In ignorance at two runner drainage arts, under which Irish landlords have taken up loan.—En. D. N.] England, which is not so pinched, requires only . 80,1141. las. 9d., while Scotland, which in its northern parts n Gaffer log considerably, requires 309,8151. Bs. Bd. Giving to Sea land the palm for patriotic improvements in drainage and employment of labourers, the demand for Scotland (upon Mr. M'Cullosh's returns) amounts to upwards of N. for each arable acre in the country. While, in England, .t amounts only to fl re-eighths of a penny, while, in Ireland, the outlay would be only one-eighth of a penny for each arable acre. The small sum required for England may be accounted fur in this way—it has been the practice for more than half a century so drain the arable land (clay aoi!§) about every 16 years at a cost from to 61. per acre, and that o day has generally been performed at the tenant's expve which precludes the necessity of the landlords of lingland requiring a heavy bent., encumber their twtates. It is very ' evident, then, that the amount required for Sort:and (with lon acreage than that of England) proves that the Scotch landlords and tenants have neglected tho most larneficial out lay for the promotion of rood farming. Therefore, the Stir ling Observer must not claim the merit for patristiim and energetic cultivation when they have yet, in Not land, the drainage of the land to perform.--Joni Bii:o, tenant.former, Hertfordshire. BENKATIONS WHILE INHALING VAVOUR OF FiTHEre —Sir,—Every fact relative to the operation of the newly-dis covered antidote to pain, must just now, be interesting. So far as our first experience extends, the vapour of other pro mises to rank next in value after the discovery of Jeener. Hu mours, however, are afloat of certain injurious mitts of the vapour upon the lunge, more particularly the larger air tubes. Three patients operated upon in a Londe° hospital, after inhalation, have, it is raid, died of bronchitis. If this be true, and the ether be proved to have had a deleterious influence upon the mucous membrane of the bronchiw, its exhibition must be employed more sparingly, but need not be surrendered altogether. Much will depend upon the proper chemical preparation of the reedy and much upon the idiosyncrasy of the patient. These, however, are points for future dieori , ion, and set tlement At present we want facts relative to the exact effects of the inhalation upon persons of different ages, tem peraments, and conditions of health and strength. Thinking that every contribution on these points has some iuterext, I send you an extract from the .Viteidon• Jourmol of Tuesday, which ban amused me, and may therefore amuse ethers. A patient describes, in • letter to a physician, his feelings after having inhaled the vapour of other, without compreemon of the nostrils. The effect., in this case, appear to be very similar to there produced by breathing the " laughing gas."—M.R.o S. Peeling rather fatigued front a long walk, and (real teeny the operations. I determined to refresh myeelf by a few vilialatnes of the ether. I *hall sever forget the entreordinery elects Ishii& were pro duced upon me. At the first trial I made six or right inspirations; during the Ant two or that the taste of the ether mut nither un pleasant, and produced • slight irritation, bat that pelted away, and I felt very much refreshed and eleviced in spit ds, and Mo ut then very comfortable. At the end of eight or eine inspintoinn I left off; I then had a feeling pretty much annlogous to that which is experienced after the third or fourth gla, of good port wine. I as sounewhat elated, with a slight can: ratline emcee the forelmed and a deposition to be cheerful and talkative. After a minute or as I sighed the mouthpiece again ; the vapour had more relish . I drssk, as it were, more deeply, and found inns begin to move against my sill. I breathed MB mere deeply and more quickly, and found that my appetite was in,diable. could not drain in enough, and became violently excited, and I hit the I Instrument taken from me by mere form. After it see removed front my mouth, I seemed to be exasperated and (*breathe more forcibly than ever, and was much pleased and refreshed with the menners of the alt, and I know I made a great anise while expiring and bemiring. My muscular exertions now got entirely ti•yesil my onstrol, I knew where I was, I knew what I had been doing, thalruthe where attempt/net° hold me, but laid not feel their gripes, fril iema edker naked or nothing. it was the only time in my tile that i mold have gone through Ire and water for the mere lino( the thing. I shish. have liked to have mashed everything that Came In my way, midi& It was wry Wish for the gentleme., to try to hold me. I kite very Munson-wid wandered I did not we the-c attempting to hold me strandmil spa the Am. I could notate why they w maid to hold me, owl aid nat wwarsithr my ratio& My ideas • i.vre very bobs tanet, rigid, awl ahingsfol, and I assmed to have no iktinite object in view hamusty a dolsradostlen sot to be restrained from doing what I wished to do, awl yet I dad not tow . :list that was. At thisthismomst, I 11101111 i ICI U.) hist myself for a ts inkling - I felt taped Aatat apparent, through • ciewil,li. fable lipth, and Hit myself ewes dons woo the floor with a tremendous crash, yet *than dm slightest pain. My . censriousneas now returned to me, I kilt the attrourdleary state in which I was.- all iso, star power won /as - l lay immovable, and yet cow,' sec and hear that was said. Being alarmed, and atprcheodlng I wan dying ""t , llll Z that I could it. nothing for myself, I int• tantly sakt, " Gentlemen, although I am incapable of moving,. I or see you all, and hear every word you am." My reciter at this moment were mast extraordinare, in feet awful, I did set lisow whether my voice was articulate, and that I could he comptehendel. I Merl 'vu say, "Just as I thought, I told you how it would be." On beerier this I became more alarmed; my moments seemed numbered: all my past sins passed before my mind's eye; I thought of my Hereby and all that I loved. I felt I never shimild we them MOM. I would have given all I pureemed for a chance of life ; and -rang myself surrounded by medical men, I said in a solemn and net loos Daintier, " I call upon you an medical men to consult tort her, o itb eat /ova of time, end see what Li to be dose, for I am a deed man." When I had delivered myself of this vetch I saw one of you smile. I said, "It may be Meeting to you, but it is a sena.. matter." You now told me that I should man recover, sad that 1 we. all right. Iltis, however, I did sot believe, and after having had • review of my whole life rigain I th ought 1 KII• 'open carried home on a stretcher-a post ovoilest -an .aquast -a reprimand to the medical men for not knowing better, and then a paragraph the round or the papers detailing the elec. dosimoas of my and adding that gnat attention mot be paid to the Asia of the patient belie adinivistering this subtle agent, the.; Ws eq powerfully upon the principle of animal lik. I watt thorned on rapidly before; I fancied that there wet no one pommel ad Pull cicut power to restore me, not men a mesmerist; the "Arley 0 1 feelings I bad arc beyond all description. I c.v.hl Pee end hear everything, and yet I felt I could not move. I had no apprenahon of tale from my fall, and if you bad attempted on operation upon me I dare my I should have called out, not fr om pots but from seeing and hearing whet you were about. My mate wan not like nigbunere ; it may have horn analogous to it, but it was ten thou -1 sand times more rational, my perceptive and racer,* powers were never more actin, and I passed my eye rapidly from one emote nonce to another, to see ifl could detect say exerted= that would in dicate hope. I heard half a remark, sal then lost myself for a moment. I instantly exclaimed, Oh! lam better now, I CILII get up. IYou or they and, Ile Mill a little longer. No, I said, it ei no tee, for I am reaverod, I am perfectly well; dear me, how foolish I have leen, isilly, what made etc lie there. I got up, drank a nautili.' of brandy end wter, and felt perfectly well, and somewhat &relented of th erein. bition I had made do much for the five minutes I was 4 16'6 , 4d-I lived during t h at link apace months and years, and We aeon:m.on ol • at will never pima (roan my salad. Fla es. —Yesterday, a fire broke out in the tallow and wax.candle manufactory of Mr. Green, 105, Mount street, Grosvenor Naar,. The engines were quickly set to work, and, after some hours, ths fire was extinguished, but not before the work-shop, melting horse, and stock were des troyed, and the furniture in the dwelling-house damaged. The lons is estimated to exceed I,oool.—About half part two o'clock, p.m., another tire took place at a cigar manufactory and tobacconist's opposite the Custom-house, and wax not extinguished until property to a large extent had been destroyed. SUICIDE.—On Thursday, Mr. W. H. Hoskins, a tobacconist, Dunstan's-place, Stepney, sent a letter to his daughter, residing in another part of the metropolis, stating that he intended to commit suicide, and that by the time the letter reached her he should be no more. Am he had made several attempts to destroy himself, the daughter immediately proceeded to his residence. Finding the shop closed, she waited upon Mr. Williams, a pawnbroker, close by. A ladder was procured, and Mr. William., with • policeman, effected an entrance, and found Mr. Hoskins lying upon tho floor quite dead, with a rope fastened abcut his neck. Mr. Wallace, a surgeon, was called in, who said that the deceased had been dead several hours. Mr. Hoskins had peculated largely, and lost the whole of his property. INFANTICIDE.—Yesterday morning the body of an infant was found floating in the river, under the following remarkable circumstances. About six o'clock id the morn ing, a lighterman was proceeding down the river in a barge, when his attention was attracted to something :lending in the water. He rowed some distance, and paled it into his boat, and found the same to bee rush market basket, which he secured as it was passing through Blackfriars'-bridge. He examined the outside, and found it lab( lied, in a bold hand-writing, "To be opened with care, from an old friend." He rowed to the nearest stabs, and, upon opening the basket, he found that it contained the dead body of a newly-born male child. He called the pollee, who conveyed the basket and its contents to Mr. Bridge, the summoning officer, by whom it was removed to St. Saviour's workhouse, Blackfriarsroad, where the body awaits an ingtiest. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. SUICIDE. Before Mr. Carter, at the Duchess of York tavern, Batteries-field', re specting the death of Maria Murray, aged 18. The deceased had been housemaid at Mr. Brians, of Wandsworth-road, where she formed an acquaintance with an engineer on the South Western railway, who lost his appointment and be came very poor. Thu so affected the deceased, that she twice attempted suicide on Monday. After recovering, she showed signs of repentance; but having been left alone, she wane" from the house. Late in the evening her body wag found in • pond near the house. Verdict, "Temporary Insanity." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Psi. 4. The Cork journals received to-day do not, I regret to state, enable me to repeat the consoling conclusions which I drew,from the absence, in those of yesterday, of the usual harrowing details. The last Cork Er'- amine? is filled with accounts of destitution and death. The parish priest of Skull draws a truly melancholy picture of the state of his fleck. He re lates that in one village, where he was called on to visit five adult sick, seven corpses lay for four or five days unburied; and of sixty-three houses comprised within what he calls " this field of death," not three are, he says, free from disease. His brother clergy men or himself not unfrequently prepare for death seven adults in one day. These dreadful ravages are caused by fever, which has now set in, and which finds those whom it attacks perfectly enfeebled from destitution. The Rev. R. B. Townsend, rector of SkitObereen, draws a most painful picture of that devoted place. The rev. gentleman states that owing to the amount of relief afforded through the number of subscrip tions received by the relief committee, strangers have poured into the town from all the surrounding country, and now, instead of a population of 5,000 within the union (ecclesiastical) of Skibbcreen, the ' numbers have increased to between 8,000 and 9,000. In one house alone, he states that 25 strangers are contained. The rev. gentleman implores that the benevolent, both bodies and individuals, will not cease to send in their contributions to the committee. Kinsale, Mill-street, and Macroom, as well as the city itself, exhibit terrible distress. The government measures are beginning to tell upon the country. As they are understood they