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I oda. put 0 ; Ailsrates. 25 mla. past 0 T04101110 , 0-11ongeg. 44 dn. put 0; ARINIIOOO, 5 ella. pant 1. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27. Ir is painful and indecorous to regard the dis tracted state of the royal family of Spain with feel ings that excite laughter. Pity would be a sentiment more desirable to preserve. But it is quite im possible. The court possesses two royal and rustic habitations: one at some distance north, the other at some distance south, of Madrid. The Queen has be- taken herself to one, and beguiles her time in bunting through the woods of Aranjuez. The King, in dudgeon, has set off to enjoy similar pastime at the Pardo. As the Queen has shown some lean ing to the liberals, and is said to have bestowed her political confidence on a liberal general, of course the Nloderado party, in the absence of CHRISTINA and of the MONTVENSIEILY, has embraced the cause of the King. What the strength of that cause is, does not appear. What right Don FRANCISCO has acquired by his marriage to lead a party in the state would be difficult to ascertain or assert. But he is a pisalkr for the moderados ; the best name they could find ; and accordingly they are all throwing up their caps for Don Faaricisco. All people are pretty well informed as to the nature of DoN FRANCISCO'S marriage ; and few would be prepared to award him other guerdone, than the pillory, or a fool's-cap. Still we may conceive that the prince might consider himself injured—that be might feel hurt at the repugnance shown by the Queen towards him. But how does he resent this ? He neither will consent to join the Queen at Aranjuez, nor will he admit of divorce. All he demands is, power and money, a share of authority— the fingering of the crown property. Don FRANCISCO is frank enough not to allude to either his feelings or his honour. He was aider and abettor in forcing the Queen into a • with him. He does not want to live with her. His desire is to have her fortune, not her person. Surely, if ever ruffian demanded kicking and branding, it is the wretch who could behave like this. No romance-writer ever yet imagined such a concentration of meanness ! . Yet such is the personage who has succeeded CHATS- I TINA in the chieftainship of the moderado party. Such is the prince, whom the French court adopts, and pets, and instructs, and puts forward, to keep the sovereign place warm for the MONTPENSIERS, and to thwart, annoy, and perhaps dethrone, the rightful queen. Having ford this lay-figure into half the occupation of the Spanish throne, the French court proceeds to put the rancour and villany of a bad, ambitious, avaricious heart, into it, as if a husband was given to the Queen solely to mortify and to ruin her; and as if Don FRANCISCO was to be fully pre pared for, and supported in, the performance of this task. _ _ . The wretched ministers of Spain, with so little of Castilian honour, or of the sentiments of a Cabal- Jere in them, are hesitating which side they shall adopt ; whether they shall support the rights of their injured and menaced Queen, or whether it may not be more prudent for them to stick close by France, and espouse the pretensions of Dos Fassctsco. We do not include all the members of the Spanish cabinet in this category, bat the majority display this disgrace ful indifference. . . _ It is known that Queen ISABELLA, notwithstand ing her disgust towards Don FRANCISCO, consented that he should retain the title and honour of King, if he did not insist on having with it the control of the Etc;of its functionaries, and of the crown property. ItANctsco, in the hands of the French party, who raised him to his kingship, and a slave to the sugges tions of nuns and friars, would employ these re venues, and organise the palace itself in secret, if not in open, enmity and opposition to the Queen. To grant Don FRANCISCO this, would be giving the ' perverse fool a rope wherewith to strangle the Queen, ' whom he has wronged. To yield to his demands would be rashness and folly. His insisting on such, and setting up a party in the state to obtain them, compels the Queen, in self defence, to demand a divorce, and on the most legiti mate grounds. If the Pope refuse to entertain the petition, the legislature of Spain can undoubtedly do so. And no Spaniard ought, in merely French in terests, to set himself in opposition to such a demand, that could not be made without reason before a national tribunal. It were to be wished that the more sane Moderados would support the Queen in the justice of this demand. For if the following out this aim be left to merely ono party in the state, and that the Exalted° one, civil war will probably be re-allumed, and the national militia of citizens once more arrayed against the army. Under such circumstances the Doke of VICTORY cannot fail to reappear in Spain. With all the pres tige of his name, and the honesty of his character, we much fear that even ho will be enable to redeem and remedy the ill that has been wrought. The scandal of a divorce, and the mutual recriminations which it will excite, whilst the invention of calumny will be more active than the expression of troth—all these will, we fear, throw such a discredit even upon the innocent Queen, that Spaniards will look forth at once is one of two alternatives—the accession of the house of Orleans under the Mosvressmits, or the restoration of the son of Don CARLOS. Which of these would be best for Spain ? which for England ? is a question not to be answered in a moment. How far England ought to implicate herself in these dis putes is another, and very serious question. For our part, the more we see of events and persons in the entire peninsula, the more do we entertain the opinion, that the sooner we wash our hands of it altogether, the better. MR. JOllll GEORGE PHILLTMORE, Of the Oxford Circuit, has recently published two pamphlets on various abuses of the law, which have attracted much attention from members of the bar, and which will repay the study . of non-professional readers. The first pamphlet is in the form of a " Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the reform of the law i" the second is entitled, " Thoughts on law re form," B.m. The author is qualified to give an opinion on the questions which he discusses, not merely by strictly professional attainments, but by extensive knowledge of comparative jurisprudence, as illustrated by the Roman law, and by the practice and codes of modern continental states. As our present ob ject is not to review his writings, but to call at tention to some of the grievances which he denounces, we shall content ourselves with recommending the pamphlets to those who are interested in the im provement of the law, to those who admire a scholar like and eloquent style, and especially to those who like the wholesome excitement produced by fieroe and earnest invective. Es.. eetut strict° quotlet Luctlius ardent Ltheutuit, rubet auditor - if, that is to aim, the hearer i s i n t eres t e d i n the reputa tion of Lord M.DON, Lord BROUGHAM, SAUNDERS or SAWTEM, the Norman lawyers, the present bishops, or any of the other persons or classes who cross the path of the vigorous and somewhat irritable law-reformer. The main object of Mr. Puittimoan's attack is the - I ..ding—the most a i'ltr ate, -" .11 glitell , l Or COIIII3IOU 11.• .„ at Ent. , ..d u os ailliCtia, skill and I SZ°n rcg aired in Prkr prudence. trial. is, • 11 known, often a thlin ea" th - a r t which the " trial ' itse w th e lf e deman . deman ds Bet / O r r: i t ' : , onn ity of opposing *4'lll struggle cmnen9ea ' s ecuring their clients the PlesadeT" "halit.a in steur sl n d g in baffling the ma advantages dam and wind, A rod cause of scums n'euvras of sestsel tha dec . 'on a sufficient de inafelosbemailly imperf ectly iß raised by the plea i but, till the issue is eliminated by with their proceedings the conten di ng l og icians, no judicial suthoritY u The plaintiff states his grievance, the defendant pleads in denial or excuse; the replication may contradict or explain away the excuse ; the rejoinder may confess the matter alleged in the explanation, but avoid its effect: there is no limit to the succession of pleadings, except that, in the nature of things, the parties must come at last, either to an issue of law, agreeing on the facts, or proceed from the lie circumstantial to the lie direct; in other words, respectively affirm and deny some definite proposition, which is then ripe for the decision of the jury. It is in the scientific conduct of this preliminary conflict of logic, which must be carried on with a cau tions regard to a thousand arbitrary rules established by ten thousand precedents, that the English law pe culiarly delights—of/mint alterna canuenee. Indeed pleading, according to Colts, is but another word for pleasing, being so called quia bane placitars maxima placet. It may, however, be assumed, that the plea sure of pleading is principally confined to the per formers, while their clients have as little pleasure in the operation as the patients of a surgeon, who is in the ecstasies of a " beautiful operation." Mr. PnitLimoae would ruthlessly destroy the whole complicated fabric of pleading, and introduce the pr ocess appointed by the civil law for arriving at an mine, by placing it in the hands of a judicial officer to settle, from the statements of the parties. We might perhaps not be unwilling to sacrifice the pleasures of lawyers to the interests of justice, if we were satisfied that the simplicity of the remedy proposed would secure corresponding economy and certainty to the suitors; but the question is hardly ripe for newspaper discussion, as there is no prospect •at present of an actual change. The only public opinion which has any influence on the details of law reform, is that of lawyers ; and although their views may probably be modified hereafter by the exer tions of Mr. PIITLLINIORE, and those who think with him, it is quite certain that at present no proposition for the abolition of pleading would be entertained either by the bench or by the bar. We further believe that, even if the change is desirable in itself, it would be utterly inefficient without a previous or simultaneous relaxation of the minute and technical principles of interpretation which complicate all branches of the common law. It would be possible, however, at the same time, to introduce and exemplify a more liberal and rational mode of interpretation, and to remove the most flagrant abuses connected with pleading by a measure which, among others, is advocated by 'Sir. PHILLLVORE—the entire abolition of special demurrers. When, in the technical controversy or exchange of pleadings to which we have already referred, either party makes a statement which, even if true, is, in the opinion of his adversary, insufficient to entitle him to judgment, the adversary is at liberty to take issue on the law of the case by a pleading which is technically called a demurrer—after which the court in banoo decides whe.. ther, assuming the facts alleged on both sides to be true, the plaintiff or defendant is right in point of law. The demurrer may either be general, alleging that the pleading objected to is insufficient in law, or vemal pointing out some erroror inaccuracy on which the objection rests. It often happens that the real difference between the parties refers only to the law and not is the facts ; and in such a case a demurrer is the only convenient mode of deciding the question at lame. Where the objection taken by demurrer involves the merits of the case, it may be raised at any stage of the suit. A verdict on the facts in favour of a party whose case, as shown on the pleadings, is insufficient, will not entitle him to judgment, if the objection is raised even after a verdict There is, however, a large class of cases to which only special demurrers apply. Technical errors and inaccurate modes of expression mast be specially pointed oat and objected to at the next stage of the pleadings, to become available to the opponent. The courts will not, of their own accord, notice them, and they are, as it is called, cured by verdict ; that is, the law presumes that, even if the statement of the case on the record was in some respects defective, the want must bare been supplied at the trial by each evidence as to have warranted the verdict of the jury. It would not be convenient to give examples here of the trivialities to which special demurrers frequently apply. Pleadings have been demurred to because a date was given of 1835 or 11845, without stating from what era the number of years was calculated. After verdict, indeed, it would be presumed that the Christian era was contemplated by the pleader; but up to that point, if a defect is pointed out, the court cannot or will not shut its eyes to it. If the defect pointed out is undeniable, the party who has been guilty of it may amend, at a considerable expense of money and time; if he is confident in his accuracy he may go before the court on the case, but he most stake the whole result of the suit on this collateral and probably immaterial issue. We can see no valid objection to the entire and im mediate abolition of special demurrers. If courts can presume that trifling errors are immaterial when they are pointed out too late or not at all, they may quite as safely pass them over when the skill of the adverse pleader has detected them. If they mislead opponents it is unjust to allow the mialeader to profit by their own neglect : but there can be no hardshipl in declaring that where they have misled no one, where the blot has been hit at once, the adversary shall not be rewarded for his ingenuity by a triumph in the suit itsel£ The measure would be in a high degree simple and practicable. The distinction between objections open on general demurrer, and them, which require to be specially pointed out is well known to the law. The courts declare by their everyday practice that to neglect the special class of defects is consistent with substantial justice; they might go further, and con clude that it is not consistent with justice to allow any objection to prevail which might have been consistently with justice neglected. The direct ad vantage to suitors would be great ; but still more important would be the establishment of a prece dent for construing the various documents and forms of words which come under judicial cognisance in an enlarged and rational spirit. The extent to which quibbling has been extended by analogy to special demurrers, even in the branches of the law which have nothing to do with special pleading, I. known to all those who have been concerned in criminal or parochial litigation. It may be hoped that with the abolition of those ingenious traps for justice the law in general would lose something of its tendency to over curious word catching. The following extract from an address issued to the electors of South Durham, by one of their present members (Mr. Bowes), announcing his determination not to offer himself again for the representation of that division, is an creditable to the honourable gentleman by whom it is written, as it is discreditable to the constituency to whom it is addressed : Since the period when I first addressed you, in 1832, you are aware I have gone through two contested elections. The experiense of those two contests has convinced me, that although there is not, I believe, in England a constituency is open to the charge of corruption than that of South Barham, yet, it is expected by you that the festivities and parade of an election should be conducted on such a wale Mot a candidate intending to ce7 through a contest with any spirit must prepare hmiself or an espenditure of at least fourteen or fifteen Mousan pounds. If I intimated to you a drive to remain your representative, I should feel my self bound in haarnur to be prepared to defend my post against all comers ; and, therefore, se an outlay of the magnitude I hays ssatioasd whenever fresh election' might occur. would neither secord with my views nor my convenience, I ' some time since clams to the determination to retire, when ever the present parliament should expire or be dissolved ; and I only then refrained from making this publicly known to you for the reasons above stated. This frank and candid statement exposes the vice of our minty electioneering system, which is next is magnitude and enormity to landlord coercion with which, however, it is undoubtedly very in timately connected. The frightful expense of county ecatasts not only circumscribes the choice of county siutats, by giving only the very wealthiest landed promoters a monopoly of the representation, but lowers the cha racter of county members, by ma king their qualifica tion unscrupulous wealth, not social and pohtical tlt ness, and not unfrequently leaves a county miarepre sented. Take, for instance, the use before us : sue costal contests have proved that a great majority of the electors of South Durham entertain blend opinions ; for, ever since the division of the county t-• the Reform Bill, it has, notwithstanding all -, • 4 the ontrary, returned two idlirat attempts .. l -27,,u5e of Commons. But members to ts- _ 7 _ . wi t. = -, am liberal squires South Dussam_ ~, 0001. on a contest w ho can affor d ~_ _ .._ I C: to 6 ' dol so now that (none we be es ''' Nit the folly), for the pur /dr. Bowls declines to NA- _ hen, whose poli. o electors two Yosw pail ° thoioni f er rin g th wi th their 01111. Mr. BOWES minx— °.; no pother liberal candidate appear' to "Place Ihin; ; and Mr. fanzine, the rejected conservative of 11841, will in all - probability be sent to parliament, to misrepresent the Booth Durham constituency in 1847. Asti this because "it is expected that the festivities and parade of sa election shell be conducted on such a scale that a candidate intending to carry through a contest with any spirit, must prepare himself for an expenditure of at least fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds." Let us realise the money value of South Durham elections. Since 18j1 there have been two contests for the division. Contests require at least three can didates; and we will not do the gentlemen who have presented themselves to Inch a constituency the in justice of supposing them to have wanted " spirit." 'Well, then, each of these spirited candidates must have spent 13,000/. a piece, or, collectively, 45,000!. a coated. Here, then, we have 90,0001. for two con tests ; and if we add to that sum the cost of the elec tion which was not contested, and the expense of attending to the registration, we should like to know how much less than 100,000!. has been spent on South Durham elections since :832 ? If this calculation, founded on Mr. BOWES' state ment, be even a pprox imatively correct, the only apology or excuse that can be suggested for the constituency of South Durham, is, that they may have been in a profound ignorance of the cost which their love of electioneering festivities and parade inflicted on their candidates; and the only proper exhibition of peni tence and remorse they can now make is to return Mr. Bowes, whose frankness has thus enlightened them as to the consequences of their folly, to the House of Commons free of expense. If they do not, no one can pity them if they remain misrepresented by Mr. FARBER, or by any other of the Duke of CLEVE LAND'S nominees throughout the current generation. We have received the Paris journals of Tues day. On the previous day, the great question of postage reform was brought forward, and its advocates showed that no country in the world, not even Russia, is so mach behind the age in the art of social and commercial intercommunication as France. The following is the average postage pre vailing among the principal countries of the world for single letters :—England, uniform, ls. ; Spain, uni form, 2s. 6d.; Russia, uniform, 4s. • Austria, 2 zones, 3s. 4d.; United States, 3 zones, 2s. 9d. ; Sardinia, 7 zones, 33. 4d. ; Prussia, 8 zones, 2a. Gd. ; France, 11 zones, 45. 3d. . . . The debate was adjourned, but it is sufficiently ap parent that the same fate awaits this measure of social and commercial reform, which has attended every other that has been proposed during the present session. In fact its knell was rang by the Journal des Debate on Tuesday. It is, according to the minis terial organ, a most excellent measure, and a most important reform, and in due time—that is in some seven years hence—may be with advantage carried into practical effect; but at present it is inopportune. The project for establishing steam communication between the chief ports of France and the American continent, has met the same fate. It is adjourned. The line proposed to be established between Havre and New York, by a private company, without any aid from the state, will alone proceed. The commission of the budget have demanded a reduction of 86 millions of francs on the total sum of 131 millions for the budget of 1848, for extraordinary public works; as also a reduction of 10 millions in the budget of the minister of war. On Sunday, the weather in Paris presented an anomalous instance of high temperature at this season. Fahrenheit's thermometer, fairly placed in the shade, rose to 86 degrees. On Monday the temperature was high, but more moderate, and still lower on Tues day. The country around Paris presents all the appearances which promise an abundant harvest ; and reports are received from the provinces generally of an equally favourable character. The prices of grain are falling generally in all the markets. Lord William Hervey acts as minister plenipoten tiary during the absence of Lord Normanby. The Siecle says, that the legitimist party . in France has been much alarmed recently by the seizure of an extensive correspondence of the Duke of Bordeaux with one of his agents residing in France. The police obtained it th rough the in discretion of a person in whose care it bad been temporarily left. Preparations were in progress at Madrid, on the 20th, for the return of the Queen to the capital. The king-consort was still at the Pardo, whence no persua sion could remove him. The royal residence of St. fide forum was fitting out for habitation : it was expected that her majesty would pass the summer there. Re ports of a change in the cabinet continued to circulate, and to be credited. The more immediate cause was said to be the indisposition of the present ministry to take the responsibility of any attempt to carry into effect the wishes of the Queen in respect to those proceedings which are rendered necessary by the conduct of the king-consort. Several bishops were consulted on the 18th by . the council of ministers ; that a report was circu lated that, on the 19th, the ministry tendered their resignations, a step which wee attributed to their unsuccessful endeavours to bring her Majesty and her husband together. El Clamor Publico also repeats the report that the cabinet is falling to pieces, and that its resignation has been, in fact, accepted. It was , added that General Serrano has been charged by the Queen with the formation of a new ministry. Some say that the general wee attempting to form a cabinet, and others that he bad delegated his powers to M. Olozaga. Three distinct combinations were men tioned. In the first, General Serrano was to be Minister of War; M. Mendizabal, Finance ; M. Dome nech, Interior; M. Montane', Justice; and M. Lilian, Commerce. In the second were also included MM. Serrano, Mendizabal, Monpuies, Lujen, and Dome nech, but M. Olozaga was to be President and Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, and M. Luznriaga was to be Minister of Justice. In the third combination M. Jorda y Santarem was to be Minister of Finance ; M. Silvela, Interior ; and General Serrano, War. Nothing, however, is certain, except the fact that the present cabinet is tottering, and that the difference of the royal pair is more and more irreeoncileable. The celebrated Canon Tristany, the Carlist general, who was appointed by the Count de Montemolin Captain-General of Catalonia, has been taken pri soner, and shot. This event wen expected to have a very favourable effect in quelling the Carlist movements in Catalonia. Accounts have since been received by extraordinary courier in Paris, that immediately after the execution of Tristany, the Captain-General Pavia, of Catalonia, proclaimed a general amnesty, according full and free pardon to all the rebels who laid down their arms within eight days after the proclamation. Jose Swell, a cure, and Valerio Roca, an officer, were shot at the same time as Tristany. The two former had but recently returned to Spain from France with Roe d'Erolles, who was killed in the skirmish in which Tristany was made a prisoner. El7l'empo says positively, that General Serrano has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba. This is extremely improbable. El Herald° says that the application of the In fante Don Henrique, for permission to re-enter Spain, has been refused. El Eeo del Comercio, however, says, that his return is only postponed for some days. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 11. Letters from Athens announoe that a majority of the Greek eabiset lad some to the determination of accord lat gegemided by the Porte, for the insult be IL Ilmongna. The Russian war-steamer sent to the Pines' bi N. d'Omilsoff, on the 25th of April, has not yet returned, fat knee the Turkish government received sny elleial annOnneelltilat of the above mtelligesce. It is, how ever, generally to be correct, both at the Porte, end by the cape it. is. It is natural to suppoee that the Greek usinielry, seeing that • majority of the protecting pewee wee plepered to ampere the Turkish government so onsugethedy, bed dependthe prudent resolution of aban doning their opposition to the satisfaction required. The state of Greece is at the prosiest most alarming. The muse =of a suspension of relating between that country and it already beginning to be hill but thouph this ekescinstenee hes apparently bed the east of opening the eye of the Greek ~blast te the dimeters by which the sommery is threstmak it hes ady served to give freak energy to the evil prises of the popu. lace. It is uninstssi thee So prevent the popular outbreak which Wild haw the easaresement of the new determination of the Greek 1, the blame of that =is to be throws on Wand, to the effect of whose t will aka/ be attributed. The billowing is espy of the dispatch communicated by M. peedasti, the aingWi amp d'idfairs' s at Anuses, to M. Oaittl sad Wide bed been ilerwerried from this by , in the Situ nib Me Wu* imiiraws et at Mere with repot se the haesitotwea to w sagsamitaterat hey ow the 25th Jawaary, a • tan at Ow awn at A. He tsposta af the enamel of Y. Illwassres. ad Ilia at 1 1 1. ODOM The milaffa• Odae that to, Oise saalast by b tobinstley to have eromptly stews Me ropures by :NI Porte, sad not ben' THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1847. ,ereertherd thet tar la ere depterble sierreos repeds_„6ll IF niry Meg Orb who hr tromp the eseree of the of Ith lire* theeder, who hill der metre mere Zair — erli the erre et the Pere. The arra Orr thr the Over whirl his rot edit iglidr loft Is Nakao sear by dr predleg emart o f dreeres. sad Idet de pr. Om big is am. gsr ihe err et the Ile et harm nukes ft sere r ft yes Oren whir hal defer labia Tarr with Name ttlft. Ids Wary er Oils dr IL MAN. Weed et the brigs Mader stares wee Midi. weed Imre deer es demur, by ea berried regetreetlea. mob' the seleftrftesee dldseerfty. The empire emir* arra of redesit peered by ble reerreertrs !Whey erillesees ha tar silt, era toireets dVerrelt te urge the Greek Mar te gnat raker lefty the retleftetise mitred by the Pore, es the try mere et teseerder de ddereeee from Kara al irreperelie the bat et the of lnistry. To the comeoardoettoa of' Lord Palmerston, Colettl replied in the following terms— G ew ee le en independent stele, and, each being the ere, she alone her th fight P: ^:?tch oar her own tnterage. The foreign powers hare no r4ht to latertvrn at. we ,mallet or her government ; and if Lord Palmcrinon bad respected this principle, he would have looked at the question in another point of vies. FRANCE.—PARTS, MAY 25.—Faescn CHAMBERS. —ln the Chamber of Deputies, the general discussion on postal reform was continued. In the bureaux of the chamber different bilk came under dimension ; one tending to raise from 41 to 5 per cent. the rate of interest on the loans to be contracted by the departments ant communes, many in stances being on record where the localities have not been able to realise their loans at 41 per cent., the rata of interest prescribed by the law authorising the loans. In the bureaus of the Chamber of Peers, different projects of law were exa mined; ono of which was to open an extraordinary credit for the payment of the half-year due on the Greek loan. AUSTRIA.--VIENNA, MAY 18.—The Vienna Gazette of the 17th publishes an imperial decree for the creation of an academy of sciences at Vienna. The number of members is to be 4S; but there are also to be honorary members, whose number is not to exceed 24, and corresponding members, whose number is to he fixed by the academy. The president is to be named for three years, hat may be re-elected. The vice-presidents and secretaries are for tour years, but may at the end of that time be confirmed in their posts by the emperor. The academy is to receive annually from the government a dotation which is not to exceed 40,000 florins ' 100,000 fr.) The salary of the president is to he 3,000 florins (7,500 fr.) wr annum; that of the vice-president 2,600 florins; the first secretary is to have 2,000 florins; and the second secretary 1,500 florins. The academy is to give four prizes annually, and to fix the value of them. The sittings are to be held in a building belonging to the government. The archduke John has been arpointed curator of the academy by the emperor. RUSSIA.—A report has been published at St. Petenburgh of the produce of the gold mines in the Ural mountains which were disoevered in 1819. They have proved to be much richer than was at first expected, thanks to a new system of working them, and have become the source of a very fine revenue to the imperial treasury. Last year they rendered 68,14801 b ., of gold. The mines con tain also a quantity of small particles of gold washed down with the sand from these mountains, from which, together with that of Siberia, the state has, since 1819, derived no lees than 717,000,000 f. GUADALOLIPE.—We learn that on April 5, about mid-day, an earthquake of considerable duration was felt at Pont a Titre, one of the largest towns of Grande Terre, which suffered in a fearful manner some years ago, from the same cause. _ ---- BAHlA.—Advices from this city up to the 3rd of April have been received at Liverpool; but they allude to no circumstance of interest. Freights were at 51., and 5 per cent. to the channel. Exchange, 30 to 291. ALGERIA.—Wo read in the Moniteur Alge - rien, of the 20th The last news received from the expeditionary column of Marshal Bugeaud are to the 14th instant, from Kef-Redj►la. The son of the Kalifat of the Medjana had arrived the evening before at the camp, and El-Mokrani himself was to arrive the next day, with the chief, of the Beani-Abbem. ijp to the above date the expedition appeared pacific ; negotiations were commenced with 81-Djoudi, the chief of the Kabyle tribes, situated on the north-eastern slopes of J urjura. The health of the troops was excellent. General Juasuf has just brought toe termination, in the hap piest manner, the differences which had arisen amongst the populations of Djebel.Amour. Each tribe has returned - to the authority of the chief given to it by the governor-general. This delicate mission was most cleverly executed, and its re sults give promise of a durable tranquillity 18r these distant countries. Abd.el-Keder is still at the dein on the banks of the Mouloura. The lut information that has arrived repre sents him as occupied with the support of those who are with him, without thinking of attampting anything against us." TAHITI.—We read in the Currier Flvinfois,Paria paper A letter from Tahiti informs us of a fact which deserves to be related. When Queen Porn** after her con ference with M. Bruat, was solemnly proclaimed, a great number of English families made preparations for their de parture, in order not to live under the Protectorate of France. They were expected to leave the island in the course of a few day s. The methodist missionaries, on their part, do not abandon the field, but remain at their post. They asked the commandant of the English station to nominate. provi sionally, a consul in the island, in order to protect English subjects ; but the admiral replied, that he could not take upon himself to do such a thing, and that he would refer the matter to the government." mix court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the fancy Wear, in the Regent's-park barrack., with a visit yesterday. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Mime Stan. ley, Hon. Miss Damon, Marquis of Ortnonde, Mr. G. E. Anson, Sr F. Stonn. Lieut.-Col. the lion. C. B. Phipps, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. The Queen and Prince Albert inspected yesterday the Emperor's vase and the royal hunt cup, which have just been completed for the Ascot races, and which were nrbm itted by Messrs Hunt and Roakel. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company included H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, his Im perial Highness the Grand Hake Constantine, their Ii.R.HII. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, H.R.H. the Prince of Lucca, H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchess of Sutherland, their Ex cellencies Baron end Baroness de Brunnow, his Excellency Count Sehimmelpenninck, their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Benet, Count Revel, Lady A. Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis of Abercons, the Earl Spencer, Vise. Palmerston, Lord R. Grosvenor, Vice-Adm. Lutke, Le Conseiller d'Etat Hiurowie, Baron de Friedricks (A.D.C. to 11.1.11.), the Countess of Assenburg, Count de Bawd, Baron Zigeser, and the Marquis Provenusli. The Grand Duke Constantine inspected yesterday the Emperor of Russia's vase, of which LLI.H. was pleased to express his admiration. The Grand Duke, attended by the Russian minister and Vice-Adm. Lutke, and also by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. Grey (Equerry to the I Queen), visited their RR.HH. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, yesterday, at Cambridge House. H.R.H. - Prince George visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar yesterday at Marlborough Hoagie: Their RR. HH. the Duke and Duchess of Calm bridp Prince Geary, and the Princess Mary, visited the c 7 bazaar fan in the Event'. Park yesterday. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Do etterday. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Kneeebeck, presided yesterday at the Covent-garden Thea trical Fund (Jinni?, in Freemmona The Earl of Bradford had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday. Earl Fortescue bad also an interview with the right hon. baronet, at the Home•office. A deputation from the Eastern Union Railway Company had an interview with the Right lion. E. Btrutt yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George-street. Despatches were received yesterday at tie Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. BAZAAR AT THE REGENT'S PARK BARRACKS. . _ . . The officers of the Life Genrds caused their ridine school in the Regent's barracks to be fitted ap as ablew for the sale of fancy articles by ladies of distinction, be benefit of the distressed Irish. The sale commenced resew day. It having been announced that her Majesty and Prince Albert would honour the exhibition with their prep serum, the sides of Albany-street, Regent's Park, were bawd with spectators, but by tke hour at which the Queen wee expected the visitors within the barracks were by no means numerous. The bands of both regiments of Life Guards and that of the Horse Guards were stationed on the parade. Shortly after eleven o'clock the cheers of the crowd without announced the approach of royalty, and their Royal Highnewea the Duchess of Glou cester, the Duke end Duchess of Cambridge, sad—after en interval of a few minutes—her Majesty and Prince Albert with their usual attendants, drove' into the rod ; the en trance of each being greeted with the national anthem. Several officers of the corps, with the Marquis of London derry at their head, were drawn up at the entrance of the riding-school, and received the illustrious visitors. The company was not allowed to enter while the royal party re mained in the bazaar, which they did a little more than half an hoar. On the retirement of her Majesty sad the rest of the royal family, the lea distinguished Triter IPSO invited into the riding-school, which they found warsomaisil by stalls formed in so good an imitation of teats Gotha of the occasion would allow. The walls were "Mk mall. Lary trophies, of which the well-knows mew inons were the most conspicuous. The Indio fhrmie einoblei of such fancy needle-work, drawings, len, areaniods, tom de, so generally compose the stock in trade of rzli n seet Amongetthe ladies who had stalls, and peeled the elegancies they had isabained, were, chimer of Londonderry Marldemon of Mash= (limier of Clanricarde, Visommart Cleriariere, of Limerick, Counter of Shimen, Osuolso et law Edgecambe, Counter of Jaw, Cowin et wellen e Countess of Desert, Baroness Used de Beauvais, Lady Marianne Altard,Dln. Qs= i e Duchess of Sutherland also lane her an ilinesloam , clioner of Londonderry. To see stag we e xy r = applied the name of the " Fairy's Counter," as it was by several lovely lit tle beings, to whoa I vow scarcely an hyperbole to apply such a term. As the day advanced the visitors became nvasissioadl the " transactions across the counter' were large. Indeed it could hardly be otherwise, kg stoical spectators, once brought within the tereallb In fluences which emanated from behind the dab. lluess purchasers. Indeed, so powerfully were the influences of beauty, tact, and graceful addreses= to bear on the visitors, that we noticed a few Of Ile MPS cannons passing within a few feet of the counters, not daring to must themselves within the range of a furies ties which they felt it would be impossible to resist. So far am we could learn, however, frost judges of suck matters, the prices of the articles were far from ex travagaat, considering the expensive materials of which so many at them were made. All tastes and purses were to be meoremodated, for some things were to be bought even for armee. Toward+ its close for the day, the bazaar was es timably crowded, and for the names o f many of the more arfalmerade visitors we must refer to the Court Circular. The proceeds must have been very large. Her Majesty made a point of purchasing something from every stall, sad the Grand Duke of Russia, who arrived in the afternoon, was also a liberal enaMmer. The sale will be continued to-morrow and Saturday. EAST INT)T.S. HOUSE, ThE RAJAH OP SATTARA AND THE BOARD OP CON- I moi..—A special general court of the East India Company I was held in Leadenhallotreat yesterday, on the requisition of nine proprietors, for the purpose of " taking into considera• tion the acknowledgment returned by the board of commis 'loner, Mr the affairs of India to the resolution passed by the general court of proprietors, held on the 25th of March last, in order that the court of proprietors, having due regard to the responsible trust vested in them by law, may determine upon the course which it becomes them to adopt on this ex traordinary occasion." The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by Sir H. St. George Tucker, the chairman of the company. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, Mr. Lewis rose to introduce the subject to which the re -1 quisition referred. After reminding the meeting of what had occurred at the meeting of the 25th of March last, when he moved for the production of certain papers relating to an offer alleged to have been made to the Rajah of Sat ter", ke stated that in reply to a letter written by him to the court of directors on the 18th of May, he had received a communication on the presious day, to the effect that no further answer had been obtained from the board of control. He submitted to the proprietors whether it might not fairly he inferred, from the whole correspondence oa the subject, that the board of control did not intend to produce the papers? (Hear, hear.) The resolution proposed on the 25th of March was supported by the hon. chairman, sad by many other distinguished individuals in the direction. (Hear, hear.) Were he to inveigh against this mode of treatment, he would have the sympathy of most of those who heard him • but he preferred leaving the president of the board of control to his own reflection'. Whatever indignation be might feel was absorbed in a feel ing of regret and sorrow, that a person filling such a high office, should, in gratifying an angry and sple netic temper, have forgotten that courtesy and respect which were due to the court of proprietors. He trusted that reso lutions would be adopted marking the court's sense of the impropriety, the impohcy, and the injustice involved in the suppmeaion of those documents. As regarded the question of impropriety, he thought every proprietor would admit that the papers ought never to have been introduced into the secret committee. The statement having been made that certain terms had been offered to the Rajah of Satter" by the British agent at Senores, it was desired to ascertain what those terms were; and after the resolution adopted by the proprietors, he doubted the legality of resorting to the secret committee. The 3rd and 4th Wm. 4 defined the cases in which the president of the Board of Control might send do vetches or orders from India through the secret committee. One of those cases was that of negotiations with native princes. It could not be contended, that the rajah was treated with as a native prince after he had been reduced to • private station. (Hear, hear.) I The Board of Control was only • controlling and superin tending power; the actual governing power was the court of directors ; and if such a course as this were allowed, the secret committee might be turned into an engine to deprive the East India Company of the least share of authority. The retention of these papers M the secret committee was impo litic, uneonstitutional, and an abuse of the functions of the secret committee. He could not but recall the simple and emphatic language In which the present chairman had de nounced the procee d i ngs of which he complained. "My belief," he said, ' that in this case • great wrong has been done, and that that wrong ought to by redressed with out delay." (Hear, hear.) He thought he saw some happy omens that they were approaching • better state of things ; he found such omens in the subdued tone of the directors on this subject, many of whom declared that they were only anxious for juatice, and in the verb proceedings with regard to the secret committee. Jim, hear.) He had no wish to re-open the question of the rajah's conduct ; but he could not refrain from quoting an extract from • letter of Col. Bagnell, a gentleman in the Indian service, who had had ample opportunity of fornthiF a correct opinion. Ile said, " It was not only • current opinion in the 23rd Regiment, bat among all the intelligent natives on our side of India, that the whole was • conspiracy in which the two native officers were made tools of ; that they had never seen the Rajah or any respectable man about his court on the subject ; in short, the whole story of disaffection to us was a lie from beglaning to end, but extremely well got up." The hon. rep. concluded by moving the following reso lutions: . . MS madderinj that the corresponds's adverted to in tbie waressidedica the nth ot Mash isat, am" la earessams at a Simla sill* dads la Yds set sad la ardor fiat the rot at Sods mil Sea be Indsual at lie ilia at tanhead af ma this asst In at *Sea Set ark coda la has Ispardil Yip Se sea* assaltrah l.m = " l: verandea re at sari annspandiss la IS 'arse depirlasat dr a petted at rads Seem wasiea, to say Awl *wry le de patals waxy Spa& awl anaardleallatel. That the nasgrads tics of aervassallma ass la the preset Wass aft* the Wes* et the andas Ole amid la regard to the Isesses at the es-aalab ot dattare. rapapenat la the tra pearlplat at Jueice, and calk upon thin owe le Eidson id convialian of Oa accoulty of an horandlata inquiry ma all the prooredies acaseated with War W. ti, : it i t e rtm f rd h . p ad li f Y : h :th b 7 e; : : - r h . rle i h n e lan : l pe t ir b : -.Bo .i . , e h r e ,: n h P. a y ow Pelt w rs de ba u m ndo :n bet d o c t d ailin the fo ses.d i three reasons—u • source of information, en grounds of principle, and as a means of giving that unfortunate man, the Rajah of Sitters, a hearing. (Hear.) He had been solemnly promised a copy of the charges and evidence in his own language, and the means of refutation ; but this pro mise had been completely broken. His case showed the effects of " secret departments," and ought to render the court suspicious of deferring to them. In his case there had been trial, conviction, and punishment ; but there had been no defence. (Hear.) Let not the proprietor' suppose that this question would ever be set at rest until these papers were produced ; it would be a perpetual source of agitation, and the continued refusal would operate to weaken the power of the court. The people of India expected justice from this court ; end there was only one thing worse than doing wrong—to persist in wrong. (Hear.) If the Board of Control persisted in this encroachment, the company was bound to go to parliament, the only proper tribunal to which -theyeo w el ou l d ap l The n be pea to . phicein tt ec e esrary h.d. e of ffect of the Board s ttis encroach mentof Control not only the whole administration of India, but the whole of the revenues. What was to prevent them from placing in the secret department to-merrow an order for 50,0001. for the construction of a certain railway in India? The Board of Control, originally constituted as a check on this company, had now obtained the chief power, while the office of this company had become to act as an in dependent body in checking the proceedings of that board. While supporting the resolutions, he regretted that they did not go farther, and authorise a petition to parliament. Mr. WEEDING said there was no reason to dread any in vasion of the privileges of the court. The roltemitionists had magnified a very small matter into a cause for assembling this court; it was nothing more than • mountain in labour. He contended that the acknow ledgment received from the Board of Control was the most courteous answer that could have been re turned, and the only answer this court could expect. The conduct of the President of the Board of Control required no defence; he had adopted the only course that was open to him. In March last, in the House of Com mons , Sir J. C. Hobhouse bad declared, in answer to a motion for the pro duction of those paipers, that the originals had been 'Wien, and that therefore he would not consent to the production of the copies, which, if produced, would not exculpate the ex rajah. If such a course was sanctioned, the government of India would be impossible. Sr R. Peel had concurred in the view taken by the President of the Board of Control, and Mr. Hume had withdrawn his mo tion. After this declaration of Sir J. C. Hobhouse, in parliament, could any member of this court have supposed that he could possibly grant the paper", in compliance with the vote of this court ? He deprecated the renewal of this (Secession; and said that if these courses were persisted in, the statesmen of 1864 might think it necessary to impose further restrictions on the charter of this company. la order that the court might net be • party to any farther proceed ings in this matter, be would move that the court de now _SWIL Mr. FIELD= assosied the easedesset. Yr. 0. Teoureow NW this wee a motion whke, of all others, the proprietersewskt set to Tees hr. (Hear.) He denied that Sr J. C. Beanie bed mods the stotemat in the House of Comma= sanded le by Ilth. Wimolioc He had never said the -papers bad se enlessy le eamdpese the ex.rajah. (Hear, hear.) [Here Mr. T. mod dm most of Sir John's speech.) When the statement was ant made as to the fact of overtures being made to the ex.rejah, th• met of directors bad thought it their duty, without saes eseerdt ing the Board of Control, to write lausediately to the Hover nor-Geaeral, requiring information as he its propmition which had bees made by Col. Haetimight heed ax-esjah. Sr J. LIMIXIXOTON said the haw r to WY • despatch from the secret oaemagelse tithe diethein. Mr. THOllll'BO2l said it was severthshes apetht that the directors had required this intotthetha he Vsek ewe an, in dependently of any reference to the lewd 008 . Mr. WIOILAX denied this, and mill that the enrol com mittee acted in concert with the Howl et OseitreL Mr. TrrowrsoN said the mbhihhatiat et the sloth elm siutaimilndiattme- Vol The h w n on se ou p ee t roprismi tt o bibbsd f th. librugg ia be t t e o nd re ia L at vitk y Bered nis i i i : hme r w ask Occ is trol i t : the bistrey of this secret comalttoe, sad the estaWiemsat stele Board of Control in INN ; and that *air Joie t verde= were meant to he erheed te et pules er war, or negotiations with the melteepthess se sthiles. Time was nothing in the constitution time meth semellthe to eve the. all =Perim 10 the red etas autos, esampessd of the chairman mnil the senior Ouster_ ,- they were, is fiat , the theatures essibut. Bat be rhea cashed that the mem ow helthe the court was sever peepuly bed m the ewe* esemilles ; neither were the monsbens MOGI theinsithe lewd by their oath to keep hen theireirdkeslese any 1111_14•Ms nevi thews defined by dr Silk esellea et 3 and 4 Wilhite 14. No one now pre ferlei thee thou papers were tweed or Wee • for seven anew refer to bis (Mr. Tim declaration of the 1 I= l ll4l 4 thr ag ea s the Billelalllt of the Board o f end the selseer meth have been aware of their azisteme, mud h r m es bent Isidur ewes for their imp imeir. H• still bed times men, bat had not published A director challenged the bon. proprietor to do so, and said no one was afraid of their publication. Mr. WIORAM called attention to a part of the oath of the secret committee, which the honourable proprietor had not alluded to. Mr. O. Taorraon said that the papers did not relate to any matter which the Board of Control had a right to refer to the secret committee. Whenever these papers saw the light there would be an end of the rajah's case. It had been distinctly noted to the re y lah that if he would give up the agitation in England, certain terms of compromise would be agreed to. As a question of justice, then, it was imposeible to consider the matter calmly and fairly without the strong. est feelings of indignation. The rajah had been accused of imbecility ; but surely proof of that allegation was no res. eon for persevering in an unjust course towards him. B e ' hoped that after MI the honesty and zeal which had been en_ hibited on both sides of the bar, the coon until the papers 'Dad been and full justioe had been done to the deposed rajah. The papers were refused in the House of Commons on this ground, that they had been obtained surreptitiously; whereas, in point of fact, the President of the Board of Control had determined, seven months before, that they should be withheld. (Hear, hear) The rajah, the court of directors, and the court of pre. prietors, had now a right to the production of these pape r ,, The hon. proprietor concluded by reading the following resolution, which he said he had prepared as an addition to the resolutions of Mr. Lewis Whereas, by the act of 3 and 4 William IV., cop. 63, who. 35, it is enacted, that the court of directors Mall, from time to time, amnia a secret committee of three directors% for the meth:War purposes ie this act epecitied; and that the mid Keret committee shall take ea oath, of which the foliowiag words form part, air.: " I will not die time or make known any of theseeret orders, indruelons, dispatth e , adisial letters, or enomunieadoma. which shall he Rent or given to ow by the ennimilwieners for the at tire - of India, ankle I shill be authorised by the mid commimioners to disclaim and make known the same." And, where... the " Particular Purpcses . above mentioned are specifically declared in the 36th section of the same net, in the following armee, sia. " l'rovided aloe, and be It enacted, that if the said board Mall be of opinion, that the subject matter of any of their deliberations concerning the levying war, or the making pewee, er treating or negotiating with any of the native princes or Ratan in India, or with any other princes or states, or touching the pow, to be observed with respect to sub princes or elate., intendea to be communicated in order., dispatches, official lettere re csounitneatione, to any of the governments or pre.idencies in or to any officers or servanta of the said comfauly, Meg be of • nature to require secrecy, It shall and may be lawful got the said board to send their orders, dispatches, official lettere, or onsiturmicatione, to the secret committee of the said court of diem. torn to be appointed ae is by this set directed :" therefore reeolved, that the papers relating to the case of the Month of genera the cora. • munication of which has been refused by the board of commissioners, to a resolution passed by the court of proprietors on the 11th Much, did not form the subject matter of any of the deliberations of that board, and were Rot sent or given by the board to the secret commit. tee of the court of directors, but arose out of a letter, dated the 24th Much, HA which was written by the weret committee, for the per. pose declared in it, of obtaining information for the rout of Mot toes, touching a matter which had been the subject of public debate at the India House. That the originating of such a letter by the secret committee, irrespective of the board of control. and the with. holding of the reply, when received, from the knowledge o!' the mutt of directors, on the ground that the board of commissior.ers refereed to communicate the MM. win WILDS% law mini:piton by the mutt committee of the prover and peculiar functions of the court of dirfetors : a concealment of pepero to which the court of proprist ers had en undoubted right; and a denial of justice to the dep..' Raja of gattara. The &IA 1101 Ax said the object of the first resolution was to declare that the papers ought not to have been sent through the secret committee. Who wee to determine that question when, in point of fact, the responsibility rested with the president of the board? (Hear, hear.) The second resolution expressed disapproval of the delay in ap plying for the papers. Applieation had in tr .th been made for the papers, both in parliament and on the part of the directors, and in both cases there was a refusal to produce them. As regarded the point for what cases the RC.ret com mittee was intended, he maintained that it was impossible to deny that the question at issue was of apolitical chamfer. (Hear, hear.) He (the chairman) had not altered his opinion on the ease of the rajah from first to last. Bat it was a closed question. (Hear, hear.) He held in his hand a legal declaration that after the decision which had been adopted on many previous occasions the question could not be reconsidered. The court was now precluded from enter ing into the question. Everything had been done short of the restitution of sovereignty, to alleviate the condition of the rajah. He could not forget that, while seeking justice for one person, they might be doing injusin to another ; and the apparent uncertainty of the present rajah's position might have the effect of doing him great injury. He wee sorry to have heard the words " angry " and " splenetic " applied to Sir John Hobbouse. In hia own intercourse with that gentleman, he had never met with anything which at all warranted the use of such language. It had been argued that the exigency which had formed a ground for with holding the papers was at an end. Who was to judge on that point ? To him it appeared that an inference in the contrary direction might naturally be drawn. He also de precated the use of acrimonious language in reference to the directors, who had not done anything in the course of the proceedings but what was consistent with the supposition that they were actuated by just and' proper motives. He hoped he had said enough to show that it was impossible that he could concur in the reeolutionr, the adoption of which would, he believed, Bunten no useful end. Sr J. W. Iloou, in reference to a case that had been quoted of the production of papers, said that this was an en tirely different case. With the President of the Board of Control alone rated the power to permit the production of any document from the secret committee. ( Hear.) While the directors were fully able and willing to maintain their rights and privileges, they must not make a stir before they were invaded, but wait till public opinion went with them. It was net by discussing abstract propositions, and maintaining their rights to be equal to those of parliament, that their rights would be maintained. (Heir.) When their charter came to be renewed, thoeearrogantassumptions would be brought forward against them. As the court was ignorant of the contents of the documents how could they judge of the propriety of their beingintrodueed ? He would repeat, it rested only with the President of the Board of Control to do this. He had had the honour of filling the chair of this company under two governments, and by neither had he observed the slightest disposition to exceed their powers, or to invade those of the court of directors. (Hear, hear.) He denied that that court, as a court of directors, had ever sent any despatch to India respecting this matter; if sent from the court, it must have been signed by 13 directors. If sent by the secret com mittee, it must have emanated from the board of control. In case of any differences between this court and the board I of control, there was no necessity for any appeal to paella , meat; the law already pointed out the course to be pursued, to bring the matter before three of the judges of the Queen's Bench. (Hear.) He thought the motion for adjournment the best, and should therefore support it. Sir J. L. LUSHINOTON, the deputy-chairman, expressed a hope that Mr. Thompson would publish the documents is his possession. Should parliament, the proper tribunal, de termine that the Rajah of Hatton was a wronged men, he should be ready to submit to the decision. (Hear, hear.) Me. Bsysox declared his conviction that the ex-Rajah bad been needed with horrible iejustioe. Mr. H. MACK ENZIE said the president of the board of control had never alleged that any public injury would re sult from the publication of these papers. Rueoci BApooax, vakeel of the rajah of Setters in this country, then handed to the directors a speech, in English, on behalf of the rajah, which was read to the court by the clerk. Mr. TWINING had hoped, from the tone of the chairman's speech, that the court might have avoided coming to a die- Mon. It should not be imagined that those who were opposed to the re-opening of the rajah's case were actuated by hostile feelings towards him ; the sole ground of their opposition was that the question had been disposed of son previous occasions. He deprecated the court entering ups : n= ea difficult and delicate as a struggle with the Fre i ths Board of Control. 111 r. lerjeent G ASELEE said he had come to the court to the peers, of assisting the rajah so far as it might be in his power te do so, but what he had heard from the chairman, conyinesi bins that it would not be well to enter into a col lision viik Sir John Hobhouse. They were bound to give thepreaktent credit for being actuated by proper feelings the come which he had pursued; it was he alone who could j u ic i er the prebmilla cased°. of propriety or non.propriety as re - K. OWPMAIIIT original resolutions. Yr. Sealant Reow the attempt to get rid d the resolutions ti disamisellieg dm es mere abstract pro positions. That was se better reams for rejecting them this st would be for rejecting the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," or, " Thou shalt do no murder." The defence set q on behalf of the crown was one which ho had never !Meg for himself. He should be very sorry if the public service d England ever required such prooeedi egs as had been adopted in reference to the rajah of attars. Yr. Lewis, in replying, insisted emphatically on the im portance of the fact that on no occasion had the president of the Board of Control declared in the limas of Commons that it won eseential to the public service that the papers should be kept secret. The court then divided on the question of adjournment when there appeared— For the adjournment Against it The court consequently adjourned NATIONAL BANK OF IRELAND. Ma. O'CONNELL.—Yesterday, the twelfth annual general meeting of the proprietors was held at the office', 13, Old Bread-street—Mr. Ruding in the chair. The secretary read the report, which stated, that during the U ying circumstances of the peat year, the directors had ob served one uniform course, discouraging, as much so was is their power, all speculative operations m Ireland, but affording facilities for the import of provisions intended to supply the growing wants of the country; that, notwithstanding, t h e past year has been one of prosperity to the bank, as, in addi tion to the two half-yearly dindende which had b een: PIA amounting to 22,6001., the directors had remaining a euridal of 10,6121. 10s. 2d., which had been carried to the credit of the reserve fund, whereby It was increased C 060,1081.154 .3 4. Mr. Josue wished to know, before the report was put, how the cements of the late governor (Mr. O'Connell) stood with the book; although from the character of the illustrious doseamal, ea well as of the directors, he anticipated a different ski mmat In what had been put forth by those who were sot aartaleild with the affairs of the bank, respecting his asesamla with it. The MAILMAN said that the balance due from the late =_ Mr. O'Ommell, was only 4,0001., against which Oil 1l ramie to the extent of 5,700/, bodes other lamadliss, proprietors might rest assured the teak woold bra by the late governor. Ile would take to rt at aott. ,oookrerge lliPartwair Owl , sr IL oool ,ll6ls ' y., a ct o, :th 7 rrecting e oth, la moe te rin an v ecl e t: a bsurdeva i . th eanr e adp :in mai d o ea un m e th vt: dri the amiable and deeply lamented governor, Mr. O'Connell, and It ems with extreme regret that, after the prestos 01 1 that dletkraished pence bed so often graced that mow,