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The Govern ment leader is the House of Commons excuses himself fur the perfunctory manner in which he must have been conscious that he performed his task by a reference to ono or two precedents of doubtful applicability, and by the reiteration of the vague and cv isive stock phrase that as negotiations were still pending, it would be injurious to afford Par liament any at-curate information as to their progress. But almost every subsequent speaker who addressed the House during the discussion took carp to remind the noble Lord that for every precedent of the kind he had towel there were many more the other way ; and all concurred in specifically or inferentially ex pressing their Is lief that, in a couutry governed like ours by public opinion, this system of mystification scd siltnee could produce no other result than that of damaging the national influence abroad and respect for Government at home. We gather from the meagre statement of Lord JODY IiU , SELL but one fact of any importance, and that is unhappily one of gloomy and grave signifi- Caney. It is now no longer doubtful that the note forwarded by the Austrian Government to St. Pe tersburg on the 2nd inst.,—the adhesion to which on the part of the CZAR his been greedily accepted by the partisans of despotism everywhere throughout Europe as the baste of an immediate and satisfactory settlement—it is now, see say, unhappily but too clear that this note makes no m-ntion whatever of the invasion of the Danubian Principalities, and no demand for their evacuation. In point of fact, the note in question was framed, not at Vienna, but at Paris ; not by M. BUOL but by M. DitotAN DE LIWTB before the Russian columns had crossed the Pruth. As a mode of ac commodating by diplomatic forms the differences which had diplomatically arisen between Russia and Turkey, it tray have been wisely and well contrived; nor will any one object that, as far as its scope and purport are concerned, it should have been adopted by Ans:ria and Prussia as well as by France and England. But it is worse than trifling to pretend that the Porte can assent to such a note with no greater sacrifice of dignity, honour, and safety, now that its enemy is in open and insolent possession of its fairest provinces, than she might have done two months ago, when her frontier was still inviolate. What would have been friendly and sagacious counsel on the part of her allies early in June, and wise mo deration on her .own part at the period and under the circumstances in question, assumes a very different aspect when proposed in the altered condition of things we now behold. The SULTAN had not then been outraged by a perfidious foe, the revenues of hie provinces publicly entreated, and his viceroys pro- hibited from rendering him the customary acts of allegiance. If without noticing these intolerable wrongs, or stipulating in any way for their repara tion, the Ministers of the SCLTAN shall advise their master to succumb to the invader by accept ing this much vaunted note recommended by the Four Powers, it will only be be• cause they have learned to despair of BM support on which they were taught to rely by the representatives of England and of France. To use the words of Mr. LATARD, Russia will have wane plished all she wanted, and accomplished it in the way most injurious to Turkey and most humiliating to Europe. Had Turkey yielded to the diplomatic TOSISSOIS of Prince MENCHIKOYF, the Divan and the Foreign Embassies at Constantinople and some few wealthy and intelligent persons, would have known (Aber submission, and deplored the hardships inci dent to her anomalous state. But in the eyes of the UM of her people, the diadem of her Sovereign would not have been publicly trampled in the dust ; her resources would not have been squandered in gigantic preparations for armed defence ; and, above all, the confidence, faith, sad courage of the nation would not have been fanned into flame and then irremediably quenched. Infinitely better for Turkey, infinitely more honour able foe us, would it have been had she been told honestly and frankly that she most fight unaided or submit betimes to the overpowering and over-reach ing might of Russia. As it is, all that our Ministers are prepared to tell Parliament and the public amounts to this, that having tried to out-bluster the Muscovite he laughed in their face, and told them be did not believe they were in earnest; whereupon they quietly turned round and bid Turkey get out of the scrape as beet she may. Lord Joax Russet'. told the House of Commons, it is true, that the evacuation of the Principalities mast be considered essential to any final settlement ; and Mr. LATARD, as well as other speakers, appeared to share in his Lordship's confident anticipation that that event woald not be long delayed. For our selves we confess our inability to see the grounds of such sanguine expectations. But, assuming the ac. curacy of the prognostics adverted to, the serious question still remains—what will the effect of the entire of thee, transactions be upon the fate of Turkey ? We cannot concur in any of the views propounded by Mr. COBDEN in the course of his extraordinary speech on this subject. We do not think it is the duty or the intermit of this country to concur in a crusade to drive the Turks out of Europe, either because they are Mahomedans or because their Sovereign has not the same taste for road making, or for architecture, that distinguishes the Cossack King. The policy of the Porte has, year after year, become more liberal in religion and in trade, while that of St. Petersburg hem grown more and more cruel towards every species of dissent, and more and more prohibitive towards every branch of British manufacture. We profess no special admi retina of the tenets of Islamism, or of the defects which still retard the progress in material prosperity of the Ottoman race. But be their faults or errors what they may, they are ancient allies, of whom we have nationally nothing to complain, and free whom the rest of Europe has nothing to fear, Rums, on the contrary, is the common enemy of political, commercial, and religious freedom ; and every province she is allowed to annex, every inter pendent state she is permitted to insult and humblet is a loss and a shams to the civilised world. Leal PALMERSTON'S reply to Mr. CORM'S was THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1853. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. @ion of the Sultan to ths propositions of Vienna had yet been made, and the warning given to the Patrie was a cause of hesitation and uncertainty in some quarters. The Rente opened below the' closing prices of Saturday, but buyers, acted ;upon, no doubt, by the cheering tone of the Emperor's speech, came forward in great numbers, and the Threes closed (for money) with a rise of 15c. Railways and other securities, the Credit Mobilier I especially, were also very well supported. The Prussian journals have published what pur ports to be authentic copies of communications inter changed between Itussian and Turkish authorities relative to the suspension of the remittances of tribute from the Danubian provinces to Constantino ple during the Russian occupation. There appears no reason to question the authenticity of these papers, of which a translation is therefore here presented to our readers. It will be read with feelings of pleasure and of pride, mingled only with the unWel ease sense of popular perplexity at finding its author as assenting party to a policy which, when vindi cated by Mr. Couoz on the only grounds of which it is susceptible of defence, his lordship feels bound to repudiate and condemn. From the first, the tone assumed both by Lord Jolnt RrSSELL and Lord PAL MERSTON has created the impression that they re luctantly abet the course which their colleagues have pursued; and assuredly their speeches of yesterday will not tend to shake or to remove that conviction. RENEWAL OF AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY. A question put last night by S ir J. PAKINGTON elicited from Mr. PEEL the information that govern ment intend to settle the question respecting the right of tenants of rior.' 7-- Z. Australia to claim leases before the waste lands are handed over to the local legislatures. The mere mooting of the question is one among many pleasing indications that have of late met us that the violence of the gohl hunting fever is beginning to abate, and men re awakening to the sense that there are other things in Australia as good, or better, than gold. No better moment could be seized than this of returning sanity to invite attention to a gallant enterprise on the eve of being commenced in these antipodean regions. A plan for exploring a portion of Northern Aus -1 1 balls has been for some time under discussion; it Au received distinguished sanction ; and indeed it merits all the attention that is paid to it. The proposal is, to start from the mouth of the Vic toria River, to trace that river to its sources, and thence to proceed eastward as the nature of the eountry and the facilities for travelling may permit, until the party strike the upper waters of a stream flowing into the gulf of Carpentaria. Subsequently the party would probably strike across the Conti nent, and re-enter the civilised world by some of the older settlements. A few days since, the President of the Geographical Society and a deputation from that body waited upon the Duke of NEWCASTLE, to lay the project before him; and we believe we may say that he at once appreciated its merits, and did not withhold his sanction. Several leading colonists of Australia have expressed the deepest interest; and some of the moat distinguished explorers of that island-continent lend the aid of all their experience and sympathy. But it is necessary to secure the moans before starting; and the enterprise, we be lieve, only awaits the result of an application to the Treasury, under the very highest sanction which such a project can claim. On such enterprises in general, it may be re marked, that they can never be undertaken, save from an ardent and disinterested love of science, sti =Wilted, perhaps, by a noble ambition for distinction ; but that they are never accomplished, without re paying the cost and trouble. Even such as those into Central Africa and the Arctic Seas have made valuable additions to science; but the mo-e cognate expeditions of VANCOUVER, or of Lewis and CLARKE, have added empire-provinces to the powerful states of America and Great Britain. Com ing closer to the scene for the proposed expedition, COOK added new regions for our trade, and gave new colonies to the British Empire ; FLIN DERS gave us our knowledge of the Australian toasts, and the expe dition of STURT opened to us the river of the M urrayu and the province of South Australia. The proposed expedition would extend the survey of the interior in a quarter too remote for the unaided curiosity of adventurous colonists, yet so far connected with the rapidly-expanding coloni sation of Australia, and with the trade of the East, as to be certain of speedy returns in the shape of substantial advantage. fhe great commercial im- I penance of the Indian Archipelago is seen in the extension of our Chinese trade, in the establishment of a steaming station at Singapore, new commercial enterprises developing themselves to British specu lators in Java, commercial colonisation in Borneo, and many other ways ; to say nothing of the expan sion which will follow the altered relations of India and the eventualities of tke great social movement in China. Already an eye has been cast upon the mouth of the Victoria as a proper place, at least, for a commercial settlement ; and should nothing else offer, the trade in trepang or beche de la titer, a sea slug, would amply repay ' the first settlers. This delicacy is highly esteemed among the Chinese, and is priced accordingly; it is found in large quantities on the north of Australia, and hitherto the trade has been monopolised by the Malays. Already colonisation has been attempted in the north of Australia, but the settlement at Port Essington was faulty in principle: a more thoroughly colonising and commercial place is wanted. The capacities of the north for the rearing of cattle, how ever, have been vested at Port Essington. The climate appears to be excellent : on the southern coast of Carpentaria the thermometer sank to Si degrees during Captain STOKES'S expedition. But, in fact, by hook or by crook, settlement is sure to extend towards that region, where British free trade is already engaging in combat with the old Dutch monopolies that have hitherto reigned supreme. The expedition would rendezvous at Singapore in time to start from the mouth of the Victoria with the beginning of the south-east monsoon. Singapore is chosen because it would be nearer to the starting point from Sydney, and would be a convenient sta tion *hence to procure a few camels from Arabia : that beast, with bullocks and mules, being contem plated for the use of the expedition. Against any enemy that the travellers are likely to encounter a very simple armament would suffice—in style not unlike that of the handful of Texan rangers who soequered a force of eighteen or twenty thousand Mexicans at the battle of San Tacinto—revolvers, Masa, and bowie knives. But the true strength of the party would lie in its courage, temper, and pa tinae—qualities not likely to be wanting in the MR SMOM. A few Hottentots or tame Kollin might recruit the force of bullock drays. A photo- graphic apparatus to record the striking features of the country daily, with its plants and other natural objects ; seeds from Kew to be planted expe 'mentally, like the potatoes and figs with which Coo= enriched New Zealand; and apparatus for testing the mineral resources of the part of the continent, are matters of course in spier outfit of the expedition. The idea of the expedi tin originated with M. ERNEST NANG, its proposed Issisr—a man in every way qualified for the enter- A soldier by education, a geographer by pre a gentleman in every menu of the word, a traveller, a linguist—he adds to all those a frame active and robust, a cheerful gt m , it and a frank and engaging address—the last big far from one of the least qualifications for such a . The fact that he has personally won the of all parties in our party-divided land, the approbation of colonists as well as Colonial Ministers, are attestations of his fitness to lead in a species of enterprise where con fidence in the leader and cheerful obedience, without harshness of restraint, are such essential elements of the safety, comfort, and even the wealth of the expedition. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON hoe given a golden test of his own fitness to judge of a question in Australian geography by the fact that he foretold the existence of the gold on Bei , ntific data ; and the zeal which be has thrown into the furtherance of this project, while it proves his own public spirit, is also a certificate of the importance attached to the expedition. If we observe that emi nent and far-seeing statesmen have been free to en courage expeditions of discovery, from Pi ince HENRY of Portugal to JEFFERSON, the American constitu tionist, and the patron of Lewis and CLARKE, it is not to detract front any merit which the Duke of NEWCASTLE may claim fee his intelligent sanction of the present plan, but to *ark his order amongst statesmen. THE GREAT FIRE AT DOVER.—DOVER, TUESDAY ETININO.—From the inquiries made this day respecting persona missing from their boom since Sunday night, there ,seems not the least doubt, now entertained, but that several men were prematurely hurried into eternity when that por tion of the cliff fell on Monday morning, alluded to in our journal of yesterday. Three or four persons who lived in the neighbourhood of Limekiln-street and Snaresbrook street, and one near the Theatre Royal, have not been heard of since Monday morning, although they were all seen near the spot where that portion of the cliff fell a few minutes before the alarm was sounded. There appears to be now strong ground for concluding that several persons were crushed to death when the issmsams fall of chalk took place. A very considerable period Rest elapse before the authorities a - the tows will be able t• amens the mass of chalk. .la t emir isit. link that IA so as to enable awn le kat% esistalafg how raw wises have perished. I. LETTER FROM THE PRINCE OF MOLDAVIA TO REDSCHID PACIIA, DATED JUNE 25. " I had the honour yesterday to transmit to your Highness* statement of the events which have ensued from the occupation of the Princi palities by the Russians. With the keenest pain I see myself obliged to-day to lay before you a communication which the Russian Consul-General at Bucharest has additneed - • • - —e, eon winch L'2 l " .. • "nil moment received. The contents of the two official papers, of which copies are inclosed, will give Four Eminence a clear idea of the requisitions made to me in the name of the Emperor of Russia to sus pend my relations to the Sublime Porte, and the remittance of tribute in the presence of the Russian army. Immediately after the receipt of these docu ments I had an interview with Prince Gortschakeff, to whom I deemed it my duty to submit my remarks on the affair, and to whom I declared that Ifound my self under the necessity to give information respecting the matter to the Sublime Porte. His Excellency offered no objection. As I feel that it is beyond my ability to discuss measures which must be decided on by the two high Powers, I make haste to report them to your Highness, in order that your wisdom may determine what steps it becomes you to take." LETTP.RII. FROM M. KATCHINSKI, RUSSIAN CONSUL GENERAL AT BUCHAREST, TO THE PRINCE OF MOLDAVIA, DATED JUNE 23. _ _ " I have the honour to communicate, in confidence, to your Highness, the copy of a despatch which the Chancellor (Startts-Kaitzler) addressed to me on the 3rd of June. You will find in it, my Prince, the moat precise directions respecting the conduct you have to pursue in consequence of the military occu pation Athe Principalities by the Russian troops, and of the steps which you have to take for retaining the tribute which Moldavia is bound to pay to the Ottoman Government. " Inviting you to obey the Imperial commands con tained in this despatch, I have the honour to be, &c." 111. DESPATCH FROM COUNT NESSELRODE TO CON SUL GENERAL KATCHINSKI, DATED ST. PETERS BURG, JUNE 3. "The military occupation of the Principalities is not intended, as I have already inti mated to you, to superinduce any change with respect to their civil administration or the persons of their high functionaries, except in so far as the Hospodars may deem the change of some officials advisable, in order to ensure the greatest possible regularity in the various departments of their service, especially of that which is charged with the maintenance of the imperial troops. Still, a question arises respecting which I ought to inform both princes of the view which is taken of it here, that they may regulate their conduct accordingly. I allude to their relations to Constantinople and the Ottoman ministers. These relations must cease from the day that our troops take military possession of the country, when all active influence, all interference of the suzerain power, must cease. Another consequence of the new state of affairs will be the ceasing to remit the tribute which the Pro vinces are bound to pay to the Porte. The money for this purpose is to be collected as usual, but re served for the disposition of the imperial govern ment, which reserves to itself the right to make such use of it as shall seem most expedient. You will communicate this decision, which I transmit to you by order of the Emperor, to the Hospodars." IV. LETTER FROM REDSCIIID PACHA TO PRINCE STIRBEY OF WALLACIIIA, DATED CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 25. "My Prince,—Russia declared, when her troops entered Moldavia and Wallachia, that she had no in tention to alter the public institutions by which those provinces are governed, or the position which is en sured to them by solemn treaties, and the Sublime Porte, which gave credence to these assurances, re solved to allow your highness and the Prince of Moldavia to continue at your posts. But we now learn from the documents which the Prince of Mol davia has transmitted to us, that the Russian go vernment has ordered his highness and you to break off your relations with Constantinople, and to retain the due tribute, which has quite taken us by surprise. Since the Russian Court has thus violated in its fundamental principle the system of the provinces in a point which materially affects the right of property, the Porte sees clearly that it must be impossible in this state of affairs to exercise legiti mate authority in the Principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia. The Sublime Porte has, therefore, re solved that your Highness and the Prince of Mol davia shall quit the Provinces, and this resolution has been officially intimated to the Great Powers. It is therefore necessary that, in conformity with the command which has gone forth from the Imperial Throne, you forthwith quit the provinces. Should you act against this high command, the Sublime Porte will be at liberty to take such measures as its interests shall seem to require." FRANCE. PARIS, TUMMY EVIINING. Yesterday, on the occasion of the Fête Napoleon, the Emperor and Empress found assembled, at twelve o'clock, at the Tuileries, in the salon of Louis XIV., Prince Jerome Napoleon, Prince Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde, Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, Prince and Princess Murat, and Prince Fredenek of Hesse. These princes and princesses addressed their felicitations to the Emperor on the occasion of his fete. His Majesty afterwards received the congra. tulations of the Ministers and principal personages of the state. At half-past twelve o'clock their Majesties, accom panied by the princes and princesses, and attended by the other persons present, proceeded to the chapel, where a musical mass was celebrated, under the di rection of M. Anber. The mass terminated with • Te Dews. The Bishop of Nancy officiated. On leaving the chapel, the Empress with drew to her apartments. The Emperor then proceeded to the Salle du Tittle, and there received the felicitations of the Diplomatic Corps, who were introduced by the Grand-master of the Ceremonies. The Emperor, in taking the hand of the ambassador of England, said to him : "I thank the diplomatic body for its congratulations. What could be most agreeable to me this day is to be hold the peace of Europe consolidated—at least I consider it so—without that result having cost anything to the dignity and amour-propre of any nation." Immediately after were admitted to pay their respects to the Emperor, the President of the Senate, the members of the bureau, and the senators who had joined them; the President of the Legislative Corps, the members of the bureau, and the deputies now in Paris; the President of the Council of State, the presidents of section, and a great number of the members; the grand dignitaries of the Legion of Honour, the First President, Pre sidents, and Procurcur-General of the Court of Ces sation, &c. A grand dinner was given by their Majesties yesterday at the Tuileries. Before the dinner, during the concert which was given beneath the windows of the palace, their Majesties appeared at the balcony looking on the garden, and were most warmly received. In the course of the evening their Majesties received Queen Christina and her daugh ter, the Duke de Rianzares, the members of the diplomatic corps, the presidents of the great bodies of the State, the members of the Senate, of the Legislative Corps, and of the Council of State, and several foreigners of distinction. At nine o'clock their Majesties, followed by the persons invited, proceeded to the Pavilion de Fiore, where the Empress gave the signal for the fireworks. At half past ten their Majesties returned to St. Cloud. The illuminations which terminated the fete of Monday were beautiful beyond all description. The conception was of unparalleled grandeur and the execution perfect. The cost of the fete is officially stated to be 28,0001. sterling. The Emperor's speech to Lord Cowley did not pro duce so much effect upon the Bourse to-day as might have been expected. A little disappointment was expressed that no official announcement of the adhe- TRIAL OF LEGITIMIST CONSPIRATORS IN PARIS. The affair called the Vincennes plot, or the Liget Falcate, occupied the Tribunal of Correctional Police, presided over by M. Leer":l cc, 1 0th, 11th. and 12 th 01 Angst. in Miij last, the police made a seizure of I 'wirers in the shop of M. Jeanne, the well known stations} Of the Passage Choiseul, who fur many years past has ex hibited azr wad busts and portraits of the Count us Cham _ fiord, verses setting forth Ilia the lineal he:r of the Bour bons was waiting patiently till France should call fur him, fieur de lys letter paper, and legitimist symbols under various forms. The examination of the papers seized led to the arrest of Jeanne himself, M. Piegard, the father-in-law of AL Prouiltion, and about a duzeo other very obscure persons, who, together with Dubuisson, a legitimist conspirator of upwards of twenty years' standing, and four or five other men not in custody, were indicted for belonging to a secret legitimist society, end ill. Bally possessing arms mid ammunition. Jeanne was further prosecuted for having sold books without a license. Some of the papers seized apparently disclosed a design to get possession at the fort of the Vincennes, but the public prosecutor declined to support this head of the accusation. The mesas of action of the accused were so contemptible that it was impossible to suppose they could seriously have contemplated an attack upon the strongest fortress in or near Paris. Jienne, upon being interrogated, said he had been five or six times arrested, and as often prosecuted, but bad been always acquitted. He had, however, b. en condemned for an affair of some almanacks. The pink., he admitted, had seized some legitimist emblems in hie shop—they consisted, amongst other things, of a por trait of the Count de Chambord, bearing the inscription Henri du France, but not Henri V., or Henri King of France. Ten !ruts of that Prince, with the inscription Henri V., had also been seized. He had kept them waiting for a more happy moment. By the expression " happy mo- I meet" he did not mean to imply that he was endeavouring to bring about a certain political event, but simply that such an event would be a happy one for him. He could affirm that when people asked him for busts of Henri, with the inscription " King," he had refused them. Three riugs, representing the Count de Chambord wearing a crown, had been seized in his bedroom, but they were not destined for sale. He might he wrong in keeping such rings, but it was because he loved the Count de Chambord ; it was a weakness which he could net resist. The police, he admitted, had seized 2,000 legitimist pamphlets on his premises ; but he bed had them since 1848. A copying press bad likewise been seized in his house. Some letters of Dubuisson had also been discovered; he had treated them slightly, but admitted that they were of a compromising character. He had seen Dubuisson at Brussels, and had made a medal fur him. He did not remember who had introduced him to him. "It is astonishing," said the President, " that you should not remember who made you known to a man with whom you became so intimate that you had fifty three of his letters." "Dubuisson," said the accused, " has a mania for letter writing. lie charged me with a host of commissions. He was a botanist, and I know not what ; and he was constantly wanting seeds and plants." "Do you know that be had been an aide-de-camp of Count de Bourmont ? " "I do not teeny know. Dubuisson talks a good deal ; he is a very polite man, and speaks well; but he says so many things that I cannot pretend to remember them all." "Do you remember that he called himself general-in-chief, and represented himself to have full powers from the Count de Chambord ? " " Ah, yes." " Did you believe him ? " " he is ton uiffing." " Ne vertheless, you received his instructions? " " Yes, to take Vincennes and Mont Valerien by myself alone." The accused then went on to say that he had n accepted any political commission from Dubuisson. It had been alleged that he had given brevets of colonel, captain, chef de bataillon, &c,, to all the members of his society ; but the proof that he had not received one was that none had been found. [Here certain brevets were produced; they were headed with the words, "France. Justice to the provinces. Deus, Rex of Patria. Tout pour le people et par le pimple. Libertd, Kgaliti, Fraternite." They also bete four seals.] "In one of Dubuisson's letters," continued the President, interrogating, "he says, we must endeavour to find out the effective of the garrison of Vin—,' and he sends you a list of 25 officers as composing that effective." " But I can not tell why he sent that to ins. He is a man who reads and writes and who showers down let'ers which cannot be underst ood." " In another letter he says, ' Eight days ago the master (meaning the Count de Chambord) was at Venice, and he said that it is time to act, to succeed or to die.' " "It is another pieceof imprudence on the part of Dubuisson to say such things. My trade is that of a stationer, and I understand it well enough ; hut I know nothing of cannons, fortresses, and Vincennes." "In another letter he tells you that a person whose word is good for 500,000 f. would undertake to pay a fine inflicted on you." " But the said person did nothing, and I paid the fine out of my own money." " lie then again refers to hie projects on Yin. emus." " That is because Viuccunes is his bobby-horse." " And yours too, it seems; for he acknowledged the receipt from you of a plan for taking that fortress ." " But, Mr. President, lam not mad, as that gentleman is—l do not want to take Vincennes." " Then what plan was it that he sent to you ? " " I know not—he asked for so many things that I lost my wits." "He added—' Courage . We are about to succeed. All the provinces are with us— there is a general plot!'." "A general plot between him sad me t " The accused then proceeded to say that the lists seized in his posseuion were those of the Circle Na tional, and referred to elections, and that it was false that he had cried when they were seised by the police, " I am a ruined man." Dr Vignol, another of the accused, admitted having ac opted the grade of colonel " in the service of his Majesty Henri V., " with the obligation of raising men ; that on re ceiving the grade he had taken an oath in presence of Do. buisson, and that be had belonged to his society. But all that, he said, took place in 1818, when France was without a government. Among the witnesses examined was the Marquis Henry de Larochjaquelin, who said that he knew the name of Du bunion as that of a person who of late years had been mixed up in all the affairs of the legitimist party, but that he did not know hies personally, nor did any one of his ac quaintance. He could, however, assert that it was not true, as he pretended, liac he had been the aide•decamp of Marshal Bourmont. It was proved that the words "patron" and " bourgeois," used in the correspondence seised meant the Count de Chem bard." Merchandise " stood formoney ; " furniture, articles, clerk.," signified the affiliated member of the society ; and the " opening of operations " meant the beginning of the battle. The promises made by Dabuisson to the troops who should fight for the legitimate cause were magnificent. A scale of life annuities, with a handsome sum of ready money, was fixed for all grades from the private to the colonel. The promised rations were such as the army of Satory, even in the days of sausages and champagne, might have envied. Here is the daily bill of fare : Meat, ve getables, white bread, 1 kilogramme ; wine, 1 litre, or 2 litres of cider; tobacco, 16 grammes; and 3 small glasses of brandy. N.B. Roast meat every fête day." The members of the society took an oath of pas sive obedience to a general who would make himself known when the day of action came by the letters CRA D B. The counsel for the defence said that the affair had bees made by the government much more im portant than it really was. They ridiculed the idea that any serious plot existed, and threw the whole blame upon Dubuisson, whom they described as a " chimerical man," with a passion for letter-writing. The prisoners, they con tended were not responsible for the feverish emanations of his brain. Th. court, however, found all the &sensed guilty upon one or more of the counts, and sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment, with fines. Judgment by default was pronounced against Dubuisson of feur years imprisonment, I,ooof. fine, and 10 years privation of civic rights ; M. Proudhon's father-in•law,Piegard,wm sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The sentence against Jeanne was two years' imprisonment, 600 f. fine, and five years deprivation of civic rights. Th. arms and ammunition taken, as well as all the lithographic prints, engravings, and emblems, seized at the house of Jeanne, to be confis cated; the e stablishment of Jeanne, as far as regards the bookeelling, to be clotted. IRELAND. Des',rm. Avo. N. In the Dublin Corporation, yesterday, the following official notifications of the Queen's visit were laid before the meeting by the Lord Mayor: Dublin Castle, 13th August, 1853. My Lord,—l hays the honour, by the direction of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, to transmit for your lord ship's information a copy of a letter from Lord Viscount Palmerston, one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of Sate, announcing the gracious intention of her Majesty to visit Dublin. Your lordship will perceive that her Majesty purposes to arrive on the 29th instant.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient humble sernnt, Tucsess A. LASCOX. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Dalaill7 Whitehall, 12th Augast, 1853. My Lord—l have the satisfaction of informing your Excellency, th►t her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of visiting Ireland. Her Majesty purposes to leave Osborne on the 27th instant, and to embark at Holyhead on the 28th, with the view of arriving in Dublin op the morning of the 29th.-1 am, my lord, with great truth and rerrd, your Excellency's very obe dient servant, (Signed) PALYZILSTON. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND ilUlLLND.—Telegraphic communication will be continuous by the let of October between London and Cork, Dublin, Belfast, and Killarney—the land lines being completed in Ireland and the submarine link between rortpatrick and Donagbactee being at work. VD, Court. OSBORNE, At01.76T 16. The Queen and Prince, the Princess Helena, and the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Hon. Pdsry Seymour, and the Hon. C.iptaiu do nos, drove out yesterday afternoon. A meeting of the Royal Conuniuion for the Exhibition of was held on Monday at the Privy Council Office. The commissioners present were—Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Sir W. Cubitt, Sir C. Eastlake, Sir C. Lyon, and Mr. Coulson, QC. Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secre tary to the Commission, was in atendance. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walter Westrup, Dr. Dundaa Thommon, Mr. J. E. Shearman, Mr. F. Slater, Mr. Thomas Middleton, Mr. William Pairtt, Mr. B. Corco son, Mr. Redden, Mr. G. Wedd, Mr. Northam, and Mr. H. J. Westrup, had an interview with the Right Lion. E. Cardwell yesterday .0 . sue Boars 01 ran .••. unpatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the West India lalands.—Despatches were received yesterday from the Governors of the Wist Coast of Africa. ADMIRALTY, Auo. 18.—PRomorioss.—Surgeons W. Macleod, M.D., and B. D. Prichard, to he promoted. APPOINTMENTeI; Mate J. H. Thomas, to President; Chile S. Boxer, to Sampsan, and C. B. T. Brockman, to Impreg nable; Assistant Surgeons W. N. Brake to Dolphin, and W. G. Ratably and M. H. Dixon, to London; Midshipmen C. C. Eden, C. F. Walker, D. A. Price, A. F. Tighe, J. M. Morris, and 11. F. Blair, to President; Naval Cadet W. S. Bailey, to Valorous. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM AND HIS INCOME. At Dr. Maltby'e triennial visitation, on Tuesday last, he thus referred to the much debated question of his income:—Of the charges which have been made against myself personally I now proceed to take some notice, be• cause, as I have already said, the char►cter of a bishop affects the church to which he belongs. The circumstances under which I received the appointment to this important diocese differed in no respect from those in which any of my predecessors were appointed, except that I was expected to acquiesce in the arrangements made by the Ecclesiasti. cal Commissioners. The commissioners, after much inquiry and deliberation, decided that I should surrender the estates in Yorkshire, amounting to 1,800/. per annum, and also pay for the purposes of the commission the further sum of 11,2001. per annum. I could, of course, know nothing about the property of the see, but men of businen considered this an advantageous arrangement for the bishop. That such an my own opinion, and that it continued to be so for some time, must be apparent to any one who will take the trouble to consult the charge I delivered in the year 1837. Affairs, however, took au unexpected turn. By the introduction of railways,an impulse was given to enterprise and speculation which very greatly affected the episcopal revenues. They created a surplus of 8,000/. a year, and I was as much at liberty to dispose of this surplus as of any other portion of my income. How, then, did I dispose of it ? Not in sordid accumulation, as has been uncharitably represented, but I considered that an opportunity was offered me of repairing, in some degree, the injustice which all who are a^quainted with the see of Durham be lieve to have been inflicted in withdrawing from it, annu ally, so very large a sum, without some proportionate return for the relief of its spiritual wants. I am per suaded I give utterance to your sentiments, as well as to those of every intelligent layman in the diocese, when ex pressing an earnest hope that there may be future regula- tions for our vast increase of population, and that wide spread districts, yet unenlightened by the rays of religious knowledge, may attract more attention, so that the labourers in this, our spiritual vineyard, may be more appreciated and better rewarded. In order to remove, in some degree, the disadvantages to which the diocese was thus exposed I devoted mach of my income to the building of churches and parsonage houses, by giving assistance on suitable scales, as also to other objects of pnbtic usefulness, and in supplying tunas for the support of the clergy in certain cases where no endowment or no sufficient endowment was to be found. I cannot, indeed, hope that I have in every case satisfied the expectations of those who have applied to me ; they may not have been aware of the number of persons who, like themselves, have called for aid ; nor possibly could they know the principle I chiefly keep in view in the ds• tribution of these funds. I consider, first, the claims of a place where we have property, and from which it derives s ome advantage ; and next, I feel myself bound to give as sistance where there are few proprietors, or other persona able to relieve the spiritual or other pressing wants. In addition to each various and multiplied calls, I scarcely need mention that T have for some years past placed in the hands of the ecclesiastical commissioners sums varying from 2,00 et. to 4,0001. per annum, to be employed at their discretion. They, in their turn, have acted most hand somely by calling the sums thus received the " Maltby Fund," and appropriating them exclusively to the build ing of parsonage-limas in the diocese, in Northumberland as well as in Durham. The result of the different pay ments thus referred to is as follows : To the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England up to this year £190,400 0 0 The produce of the Yorkshire estates sur rendered to them 31,500 0 0 Total sum withdrawn from the see.. £221,900 0 0 Voluntary payments up to the lst of this month, amounting to £14,600 0 0 Sums paid by Mr. Oresley on works of piety, charity, and general usefulness .. 41,067 18 6 Sums paid by myself for similar objects in and out ot the diocese 14,319 7 8 Making a total of Including the voluntary payments to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. This portion ot my accounts could not be made up to a very late date ; but I have no doubt it will be found that I have expended above 70,0001. in pious and charitable noes, and not, u has been said, for my own selfish ends. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The report of the directors to the fourteenth half yearly ordinary general meeting of the proprietors, to be held at the London Tavern, on the 20th of August, 1853, states that— The aecounts for the half-year to the 30th of June, 1833, are circulated herewith to the proprietors, and with so little variation in the form which for several half-yean has been adopted and found convenient, as not to call for explanation beyond the particulars afforded by the several accounts themselves. Aber providing for the fixed rents end charges, including the interest on the mortgage debt, now entirely borne by revenue, and for the dividends on the various pre foresee shine, there remains, as per net revenue account (Account No. 3), a balance of 61,1701. lls. 2d. applicable Ito dividends on the original stock, and on the B stock. To pay a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum on the original stock, and at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the B stock, will require the sum of 60,1061. 9s. 4d., and the directors recommend dividends accordingly, which, if adopted, will leave to be carried to nexthaltyear's account the sum of 1,0651 Is. 10d. In the cam of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Redeemable Preference 101. Shares, as only three calls ate paid, and the fourth will not be due till September 30, it is intended to defer paying the dividend till after the scrip has been sent in for registration, and, therefore, to pay it with the next half-year's dividend on the whole share after the general meeting in February, 1854. The dividend to June 30, n ill be Is. 71d. per share, and the sum of 8,5141. is reserved to meet it, including also interest on calls paid in advance. The comparative statement of traffic for the last four half years, attached to the accounts, exhibits the satisfactory re sult of a continued increase. The gross receipt of the half year to June 30, although the first half of the year, and which is usually less productive than the second or autumn half-year, exceeds that ended December 31, 1852, by a sum of 20,0001. The working expenses of the half-year being larger than those of the previous half-year by If per cent. on the gross receipt, it is right to explain that this has arisen chiefly from the higher rates of wages, and from the in creased prices of materials and articles of consumption generall. On the y 28th June last the royal assent was given to" The Great Northern Railway Company's Increase of Capital Act, 1863." The directors found it expedient to abandoa a second bill, which they were authorised to promote in the present session of parliament, for obtaining power to construct a branch line of 7• miles, between the town of Bedford and Sandy, a station upon the Great Northern Line, with a view of preventing a parliamentary contest with the Midland Railway Company, for a line between Ilitchin and the town of Bedford, having made arrangements by which a reason able number of trains on the line to be constructed by the Midland Railway Company from Leicester, by Bedford, to Hitchia, on the Great Northern Railway, are to meet the Great Northern trains, sad to convey the goods and pas. senger traffic to and from the Great Northern line and Leicester, by Bedford and Hitchin and in case of any dis pute arising as to the number of trains, or the nature and leztent of the accommodation afforded, or as to the rates and fares, such dispute is to be derided by the Board of Trade. The directon consider that this arrangement will practically secure to the Great Northern the full benefit of the contemplated Sandy and Bedford branch, without putting the proprietors to the cost of its construction, and a clause, securing this object, is inserted in the Midland Company's Let. • The general meeting in August last year was informed that, uader the pressure of a mandamus, the directors had found it necessary to take steps towards the construction of the Isle of Axkoims Railway, of miles. A subsequent decision, however, of the courts in a similar case, that a mandamus for such an object cannot be grlnted, relit ved them from the necessity, and the intention of making that railway has been abandoned. Subsequently to the lot half-yearly meeting the guts thou of the validity of the so-called working agreement of 26th February, 1862, bet ween t h e Great Norther* ltnih way Company and the South Yorkshire Railway and River Bun Company, came on for argument before the Court of Ex chequer. The learned counsel both in iniquity and at law, un der whose advice the directors have been guided, are clearly of opinion that the judgments of the learned Barons Parke and Platt arc erroneous, and that the view stated by Mr. Baron Martin will ultimately prevail; and, under thi se circumstances, they have not hesitated in carrying the case by way of appeal to the Court of Exche quer Chamber. The question of the validity of the agreement will, therefore, be argued before that court, which will consist exclusively of the judges of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas. In the meantime the deavour s director Kato ve not been int: 4 7„,, * • • . NIL to the , r ri, Ly n- icome an amicable arraneement with the ouitio ....rissoire Company, t o b e regulated entirely by the payment of t3i', according to the quantity of coals carried ; but the communications had between the parties have not hitherto resulted in tiny arrangement. EDMUND DZSISON, Chai mao. The statement of receipts and expenditure on capital account to 30th June, 1853, is as follows : REcitirve :-To capital-for amount received on the original 251. stock, and on the A and B la 10.. stock, 408,437/ 10.. ; extension capital-balance as per statement to 31st Dec., 1852-lees 20,. per share paid during the half year to holders of 19 Extension Scrip Shares, on cancelling the same, as the balance of the deposit thereon, alter pay ment of parliamentary expenses, 1661. ; to preference capi tal, 1849 50-for amount received on this account, say on 103,454 shares ' 1,298,224/. 16.. 91. ; to redeemable prefe rence capital, 1851, for amount received on this account, 750,0001.; to redeemable preferenco capital, 1853, for amount received on this account, 675,4341. 17s. 2d. ; to loans on mortgage under the seal of the Great Northern and East Lincolnshire Railway Companies, 2,594,622!. ; to Reli gious Instruction Fund-balance in hand on this account, 51/. lle. 11d.; to traffic account-for amount ti stiporarily advanced to capital out of earnings, 100,4411. lbs. 105.- total, 10,227,378/. 14.. Bd. PAYMENTB -By general charges on capital account, 513,575/. Bs. 7d. ; law and engineering expenses in parlia ment (including 1,2001. paid on account for examining law hills), 157,6251. 16s. ltd. ; laud and compensation (includ ing 165,497/. Os. 4d. for cony, yancing, stamps, &c., see Analysis A), 1,795,6381. 10s. Id. ; works of eonstru, lion, and materials delivered, on the line completed and in course of construction, 5,490,628!. lis. 7d. ; machinery and bolls for company's workshops, 30,5531. 14s. Bd. ; P14611101 and tenders, 489,2981. 2s. 72. ; currying st o ck, 578.7351. 16s. Bd. ; goods and coaching departme n t s -F or cost o f sack., sheet., cranes, weighing machine., &e., 21,0291. 14s. Bd. ; interest on loans, and on capital, and advances (les. interest received), 68 8,184!. 16.. 9d. ; redo:onion of land tax, &c.,9,3281 Bs. ltd. ; E ist Lincolnshire Railway Company, payments to complete works of, 76,3791. 10s. Id.; ditto permanent way works of 1848 and 1849,7,664/ 16s. 4d.; Royston and Hitchin Railway Company, advance to com plete works of, 23,182/ 2s. sd. , Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway company (transfer account), 76,6521. 19a. 84. ; total payments to 30•11 June, 1853, 9 ,958,4781. 6.. Ild. ; balance (including amount invested in South Yorkshire Railway shares, &c.), 268,900!. 7s. 92. Statement of the number of miles of railway (Great N irthern and East Lincolnshire) in work, the mileage maintained out of revenue, the miles run by trains end by engines, and the cost and consumption of fuel, &c , for the half-year ending 30th June, 18.53. The miles main tained, f.,r which the sum of 18,5611. 12s. sd. is charged in the revenue statement for the halt-year ending 30th June, 1833, are as follows :-London to Walton Junction, near Peterborough, 79 miles 3 furlongs; \Walton Junction to Grimsby, 73 miles 3 furlongs; Boston to Gaineborough. 47 miles 3 furlongs ; Retford to Askerne, 21 miles 6 furlongs: total miles maintained,out of revenue, 223 miles 7 furlongs ; main line, Walton Junction to Retford (maintenance still in contractor's hands), 59 miles 1 furlong : total miles in work, 283. Statement of the miles run by engines during the six months Ist Jan. to 30th June, 1853:-With passenger trains, 914,914; with goods, coal, and cattle trains, 1,153,701 ; total number of miles run with trains, 2,068,615; piloting and empty, 69,765 ; ballasting, 24,739 ; gross miles run by engines, 2,163,119. The Revenue Statement for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1833, gives the following details of payments and receipts : Patts‘ ENTe.-To maintenance of road, station, buildings, approaches, signals, &c., and junction expenses, 18,6641. I2s. sd. ; locomotive power, 55,1771. 19e. 4d. ; coaching traffic expenses, including compensation, 22,4851. sa. sd. ; merchandise traffic expenses, including compensation, 23,3791. 13a. ; mineral traffic expenses, 10,9601. 7e. ; repairs and renewals of carriages and wsggons, 11,1421. 19e. Id. ; general compensation, not applicable to coaching or goods department, 661. 7s. 7d.; rents and insurance, 1,995/. 17s. 10d.; lighting account, 2,3001. 17s. Bd.; water rents and pumping 4991. lls. 6d. ; clothing account, 1,4811. 2s. 2d.; office expenses and general charges, including direction and audit, 11,0361. 10s. 7d. ; law charges, 1281. Os. 6d. ; other items, 13,7771. 15s. 9d. ; navigation expenses, 1,5821.170.24. ; balance carried to net revenue account, 206.6981. 1.. Id.: making a total on the debtor side of 381,6771. 18s. Id. RECIIIP7B.-By coaching traffic, viz.: For the carriage of 725,064 passengers, 156,8871.9 a. 81. ; parcels, 8,6161.7 s 4d.; horses, carriages, and dogs, 9,1601. 18s. 5d.; mails, 3,6311. 3s. 4d.; by merchandise traffic, via.: For the car riage of goods and merchandise, 94,7841. 10s. 2d ; live stock, 8,534/. 4s. 7d. ; coal and minerals (after reserving Is. 6d. per too for South Yorkshire toll), 87,2221. 3s. 4d. ; by interest on cash balance, rents, &c., 3,5661. ls. sd. ; by transfer fees, 2671. 155.; by dividends on shares held by the company in other railways (less income tax retained by the paying companies), 2,3301. 10s. 6d. ; by navigation traffic, viz.: For amount received for tolls, slues, drainage, and bank rents, &c., on the Foesdyke and Witham Navigation", 5,3501. ls. ; ditto, ditto, ditto on the Louth Navigation, 1,2961. 13s. 4d.: total, 381,5771. 18s. Id. LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY. The report of the directors contains the following: The railway being now finished, with the exception of certain necessary station and other minor works, the execution of which bas been postponed until the corn , pony's powers of raising money under the act of 1853 can be legally exercised, the expenditure during the past half year, under theisead of capital, has been compa ratively small—the principal items bring for land, 3,4131.; works, 9,9631. ; stations, 6,6751. ; and permanent materials, 1,8231. Your dirccton have continued to pursue the policy of raising the means of defraying the unavoidable expendi ture on capital account, by temporary advances and sale of forfeited shares—by which further calls on the issued pre ference shares have been avoided, in conformity with the understanding already come to amongst the shareholders. The loans which have fallen in from time to time during the half-year have been renewed at 3! and 4 per cent. inte rest, by which the future annual liability under this bead has been reduced. In consequence of the adoption by the House of Commons of the resolution recommended by Mr. Cardwell's committee on railway and canal bills, it was found necessary to withdraw the amalgamation bill jointly promoted by this company and the York companies, and to rest satisfied with the interim traffic arrangement, nntil a renewed applica tion can be made to parliament for the requisite powers to carry the amalgamation into effect. The directors thus found themselves placed in a position of some difficulty, being under the necessity of prosecuting the bill to enable the uncalled up capital to be raised for the purpose of pay ing the company's debts, and also to legalise the referent* of all questions as to the apportionment of the future net earnings of the company among the shareholders, to Meun. Glyn and Stephenson (as authorised by the special meeting of the 11th of March last) whilst the Amalgama tion Bill, to which such reference was subject, was itself suspended. Acting under the advice of eminent counsel, the directors nevertheless introduced • clause embodying the proposed reference into the bill as submitted to the par liamentary committee, and they exerted themselves to ob tain the requisite powers, but the committee thought pro per to reject the reference clause ; and they limited the powers contained in the bill to the money clauses, in which state it has passed the House of L ords and received the royal assent. Looking at the compa rative facilities of borrowing money on loan, and at the lower rate of interest at which money raised in this way can at present be obtained, the directors are strongly of opinion that the company should confine itself to the exer cise of the new borrowing powers conferred by the act of 1853, instead of issuing a new class of pre-preference shares or stock ; and a resolution to this effect will accordingly be submitted for the approval of the proprietors. FURTHER MEASURES IN REFERENCE TO THE AIIALOA. MATION.—Under the circumstances in which your directors are now placed with reference to the proposed amslgama tion, it becomes their duty to apply to the shareholders for fresh powers to enable them too (incur with the York com panies in making a renewt d application to parliament for a bill to amalgamate the three companies and their under takings into one. The directors of the York companies having called upon this company to pass a resolution, con firming the amalgamation in • decided manner, and pledg ing the shareholders not to raise any question in opposition to the bill when brought under the consideration of parlia ment, it will accordingly be the duty of your directors to submit such a resolution for the approval of the share holders at the approaching special meeting of the company. A resolution in the following form is therefore ',replied to be submitted, vie.: " That this meeting approves of and confirms the amalgamation of this company and its under takings with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, and York and North Midland Companies and their undertaking., as the best course for this company to pursue under any circumat inces, and pledges itself to support the amalgama tion bill, and not to raise before parliament any question upon such bill having reference to the division of the re venue accruing under such amalgamation between the dif ferent classes of Leeds Northern shareholders, leaving any differences between the various classes of shareholders to be settled by a separate bill, it necessary, to be brought into parliament by this company for that purpose." Haying also been waited on by a deputation representing an influ ential body of the preference shareholders, who are actuated by the desire, which is also entertained by your directors, of discouraging all further agitation among the share holders of the various classes and of giving effect to the de cision of the shareholders at their special meeting held on the 11th of March bilk is far as that ran possibly be steam plished—the directors 'are willing to adopt their recoul ' mendation, that a final effort be made in the next session of parliament to legalise the reference to Messrs. Glyn and Stephenson. And should a sufficient number of the share holders resolve that such final effort be made, the directors will in that Me employ every memo in their power to ob. ' % ►, I ),;