The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

bail been taken with the addition of those words on the Old Testament it could not have been a legal oath. It it was ueeessary for a man who took an oath in a court of law to be • Christian, no jadgu woukl aloe an oath to be taken on the OA Testament ; but would req uire it to be taken on the New Testament, heeausa the to must be the symbol of the faith by which he affirmed. The Louse had used a resolution that the seat for the City of London was full; and they hail pat theasselv.,a rut of court with regard to the inning of a iicw writ. It • man was milieus, and was elected by • constituency, it was coapetent to the houeetto appoint &committee to inquire into any petition t e e r,:itte him with being an alien; and, if it was proved, be woult be excluded from the house, and a new writ would list. Here there was no means of appointing a committee ler the purpose of interr•getiag Baron Rothschild as to whether be was a Jew or a Christian. He took 000 oath an I part of another. The house declared that the . at was feel:, int th .t a new writ for the City of London could set be issued • and then they excluded the member who was eketed trim his seat. (Neer) Those facts led him to the cj asideration of a seems.; question of as great importance a , the original question, which they were now discussing. lots question hail levee awl divided upon within • la; , ten si some (mincer. times. Whether the house was par or thin—e bother it wa. before or after dinner—whate ever were we e k enu ,,, a ,,,,, there was always a large Noss ',nil in favour of the hill, varying from twenty-six at the losi..t to isor: thou a hundred at the highest. Ile would ask hoe. gentler', n ooposite if they thought that after the liou.e of e tom os had divided fourteen time+ In fav , :ur of the eindidate who had been elected by the City of London, it was constitutional ; he would ask them as members of that house, it after ouch incessant and uninterrupted en-1 prNsivas of n, inborn Ly the emettituenciee, it w. s constitn. lions! that t'.ls ipustim shout I remain soy longer' unsettled? Ile noial ask the noble lord (J. Ites-elt) whether there seas any remedy in the constitutios for the .-ate (if thing,. There were two measures wheal might ee adapted. Ore was, the creation of n ew rte.. Ihnet let the house imagine that be recommended it—(" r, hear," and laughter)—the remedy atieht prevo worse than the disease. But that was one mac ly wheel. the constitution offered to the crown, pro. (tided the ewe was of suftieient magnitude. It was well hues Saar in not day it was, if not adopted, threatened, and CA suet as. (fear, hear.) There was also another r e medy. He presumed that is was so, when ;tenth...ma said, "How could you expect the Lnds to ;toes eh, ail% whi.c, there le no ferment in the country 1" Ile (Mr. Brit ht) though! thee the atinnaphere of the 1101387. of Lords was so serene—ilie•orbeil, perhaps, occasionally by the weeag inia of prclates—(laughter)—and the contention of ;any •Ts.-bat s I'l he eheuld have thought that it was, r f all where, tie i .'are where the wicked ceased from trouleinir, lad the weary were at rest. (Laughter.) They were t3ld that there was no ferment in the country. They hail all, soil he (Mr. Bright) had seen a fer niest in the country. Ile did net admire It, some good may have come of it, hut there was muck evil in it. lie would rather see the irmots of legislature take up questions in a brood and Renee or. spirit, awl discuss them in • brood end 7,nernits epirit, instead of waiting till teem erae• ferment in the country approaching to cons fanen, awl then, with a cowardice which was ha mitaeng, giving up that:which they should have yielded with the gratitude and upplauee of their countrymen. But the Jew. were not numerous ; and it was UMW: a that there would he no ferment before which they would quail. (Ironical cheers) Aye, but they would quail soon enough if there was a fer.aent. (Oh, oh, order, ender.) Weil, if the• was tt.ilbtell. he would ruler the sceptics to the his tory • f this country for the last 2 i years. (lieer.) He, however, wanted no ferment ; he want; d parliament to act upon wand principles and in • wise and philosophic spirit, and not to wait for what took place out of doers. (Hear, bear) And wider the circumstances in which the House of Commons was now placed, he would make an appeal to the noble turd, who on this question might be re garded as the head of the government. The noble lord had permuted the house to abdicate the power which it pos. se seal, by precedent, of admitting Jews on a mere eased u . ton of its own. Tito noble lord had recommended the strictly constitutional course. Well, the e institutional course was a very good mime, if it swceedcd. (" Oh, oh," and great laughter.) But the time had now come far the nible lord to make up his mind that unless this bill parsed this session, he would treat Re re-rejection by the House of Lords as he would treat au import rat defeat in the House of Commons—(loud cries of " hear, hear")—in other word., that he would stake the further existence of his government on the question. (Chun.) He, for his par!, would have been glad it the noble toed had not, in this bill, re-affirmed many old Iti:TiC -111011. most of whieo there was no sort of pretence whatso ever for re-enacting if the house adopted the general prin ciple on which the measure stood. (Hear, hear.) He should have been eled, iadeed, if the noble lord, with that great Uhl just intlueuce which he exercised in that hens", had endeavoured, during this discussion, to per suade the house to get rid of the whole system of oaths, and to substitute, if anything were accroary, same declaration which every honest man could have taken in an honest and conscientious spirit. (Hear, hear.) These oaths were of no use, Every man knew they were of no use. (Oh, oh.) Every man who took the oaths at the table—which be (Hr. Bright) was happy to say he bad never taken—knew, a-. the time, that he was piing through • ludicrous farce. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.) Why, art linty, they affirmed that they would not do ;measles which it was utterly impossible for them to do; and they wcold be ashamed to allow the people of England to crowd round them and see them, in groups, taking these ridiculous oaths. (" Order, order," and laughter.) Such a substitution as he had alluded to would, he believed + have been the wisest course for the, house to pursue in this matter; but it the house thought otherwise, then let them at least get rid of this question, which ha d been before them year after year, acid which, after such probotion might surely now at last be allowed to pass through thai gateway through which in succeed:At so many other premed sections of the community had already trave ll ed; and then at last they would be attic to that " this horns of the Commons of En= is free and open to all the Commons of England," and that " every man, be his creed in religion what it may, if elected by a csestitueney of his countrymen, may sit here, and have voice and vote with us in the government of the United Kingdom." (Loud cheers.) Mr. WALPOLE did not suppose that the noble heel would follow the advice of the hen. member for Manehnes ter. (Cheers and laughter.) But whether he did or set, it would be improper for the House of Commons to page over unnoticed the extraordinary constitutional doctrines,/ that hon. gentleman. According to the hon. gentle:mes a when the House of Lords did net agree with the House of Commons, the Rouse of Lords must be got rid of, (Cheers.) In other words, whea the ministers were opposed by the House of Lords, and sustained by the House of Commons, it would be the duty of the ministers to create an artificial majority in the upper houses, (Cheers.) Doctrines like this were surely not to be endured. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman would make this house supreme; but he might remember that only once in Mee history had the (louse of Commons declared itself suprasee by resolution ; and then that resolution was followed up two other resolutions; one of which declared that the bench of bishops was useless, and the other that the monarchy was unnecessary. ( Loud cheers.) There was, however, one point in which he agreed with the honourable gentleman, namely the honourable gentleman's opinion, that if the honourable baronet (Sir R. Inglis) was more generally regarded as • model of sound principles, ' if they would not march much quicker than they do, would at any rate be maintained much longer than they are. (lieu, hear.) The hon. gentleman complained that the opposents of this bill presented him with no facts to grapple with. Now the difference between the friends and the opponents of the measure was that the one proceeded is a Emory and the other based their resistancff us a tact. (Cheers.) The fact was that this nation had been until now a Christian nation in such a seem sad to such an extent that noboby except • Christie was ever allowed either to rule over us or to legislate foe as. (Hear, hear.) The theory was that this was an accident; and the argument turned upon that question. In order to clear the ground, he would concede to the Solicitot+Ocneral that religious liberty was the principle on which the affairs of this country must be conducted; but he denied alto gether that religious liberty was involved in this questioo, icassunch Si the admission demanded for the Jews did not affect the rights of private judgment, but related to the qualifications for an office of trust. (Hear, bear.) He repudiated the sammeetioas of the Solicitor-General that thore men 1101110•1 Intallentacc in the opposition to the bill. Theft was, ea He aasbary, everything in the history of the Jews he lessee isensenti but in that history wee to be found the arming sant lie ; fee from that history he could bet fail to ism this imPortant political axiom,— that patios, like fadieidnals hew their religious reepassi hiLties. (Cheers.) He asked the house to remember that this bill was not forced upon them by soy paramount necessity, and bad not in its favour any strong political expediency. He pat it to them, whether any measure was ever before propounded to parliament with respect to which the advantages to be gained were so miserably disproportionate to the sacrifices to be incurred. (Hear, bear.) What were the advantages, and what the sacri fices ? They were partly personal and partly national. The pereseal advantage was, that they . would certainly give to a few individuals the gratification of associating with them ; but it was to be remembered that, nomerF ally, If the whole populatien were divided by their nuns. hers, they would not be entitle to • single seat. The per scut sacrifice we., that they would indict a wound— (laughter)—upon thousands, and teas of thou aattdrt, et their Christian fellow-subjects, who now confidence in them, because they formed part of a Christian legislature, and who would no longer do so when they had ceased to possess that character. The na tional advantage—putting the argument in the fairest we to the hon. member for Dianchester--was, that they sie Lord J. RUSSELL said the hon. baronet had no doubt a right to utter his conscientious convictions on this ques tion to whichever side those convictions might lead him, yet he hoped he would reflect that it was hardly generous in him to give a vote for excluding Baron Rothschild from sitting in that house, and at the same time to make personal attacks on him. (Loud cheers.) Let Baron Rothschild sit in that house, as he trusted and believed he would, and then let the hon. baronet direct any attack against him, and he would venture to say that Baron Rothschild would vindicate his character in the estimation of that house. The light hon. member for Midhunt had argued with very great ability against the passing of this measure, but he thought that the principles the right hon. gentleman had laid down, could hardly be much longer maintained by him. The right hoe. gentleman said a Jew could not connect himself with the institutions of a Christian country ; and in another Lan of his speech he said let them strike their tents and part, for they did not belong to this country. Mr. WALPOLE made an observation anion the table which did not reach the gallery. Lord J. RUSSELL—That was very near:y the sense of what he understood. Let them take their tents and depart and no vestige of them would remain. Why, one would suppose by this that these persons were entire strangers to the land, that they had struck no root in the soil, and that they were cot connected with the institutions of the coun try; but the fan was that they held many important offices —that a Jew might hold the office of magistrate or of sheriff, erbe a member of a municipal corporation, and in that way became closely connected with the institutions of the country. And as to striking their tents, he believed If the right hon. gentleman asked his right bin. friend the member for Bucks, he would find that they were not merely tents, but that they were fixed in the ground. (Cheers.) They had beard that this ought to be a Christian parlia ment. He asked, was this a Christian country, or was it not ? If they told him it Was, then he said that if Jews wens admitted this would still be a Christian parliament. If they told him it was not a Christian country, he said, let the parliament be like the country; let it consist of Chris tians generally, with seine addition of Jews, and then it would represent the country. He did not sec bow it could he represented, if this were a Christian countty having Jews ' and yet that Jews were not in parliamcat. ';'hen the right hoe. gentleman said parliament had a right to .;osliose these qualifications and conditions as to the right of sating in that house. No doubt it had a right to impose cc edi tions, but they should be reasonable conditions. It was a reasonable condition that a man should be of a certain and should not be a pauper, and that he should not he ral alien. It was not a reasonable condition that Chester or that Wales should not be represented. There were unreasonable conditions and were abrogated by parliament. He said there was not a reasonable condition because these was no reason why a Jew should not be a member of par liament. Belonging to this country, performing all the duties of this country, he had &prima fade right, And they could not tell him that because persons us , der a certain age and paupers were excluded is' was reasonable that he should be excluded. It was no part of his view to carry this question by ds.mi nishing the constitutional authority of the other hous °' (Opposition cheers.) Ills belief was that, as many other questions of the same nature as the present—by the influence of the people at largo, and of that house, as the representatives of the people—had been carried, so this question would be carried, and that before long. There was another course proposed, namely, that the ministry should declare that they would stand or fall by this question. Now he thought that every ministry must judge for themselves—(opposition cries of " Oh ! ')—of the measures upon which they would place the fate of their government. With regard to this question he had already said in the City of London, what he bad re peated in that house, namely, that if they could show the generally prevailing 'sense of the country to be that this question ,houl J. be carried, and if the erun:ry would nd a great nuijority in favour of the bill, they niiAt .!, upon it that they would not long have a great resistance 'to it in the House of Lords. lie saw in the last vete that the noble lord, the son of the late Prime I ](mister, had given net only the weight of his vete, osttblith a theory which looked upon the . goventmeit of the country as a soiritlfts, soulless machine, entirely subser vient to their temporal wants and interests ; while the na tional sacrifice which they would make was the sacrifice of the principle which regarded the state as partaking somewhat of & divine character, as acting under divine obligations, as comprehending within its range all the objects of humanly, and as necessarily including among those objects the spiritual nature, the moral reaponsihilities, the eternal des. !Mho of man. (Cheers.) If the government were right, the bill did not go so far as it ought to do; they ought to lay down the broad proposition of the hon. member fur )I )n:hater, that every person, whatever might be his deed, had a right to be elected to a seat in that house. It appeared to him, however, that the bill went much too far; le erre it uniermiuo.! tlie very foundations spin which e 6 ostltution of the e ,uoiry had been raised, I..esuse it &Lied that the natiun, as a nation, wee bound to profess a aatimal faith, and because it destroyed that distinctive tht.raeter of their common Christianity which he believed awl watt:Meted so mach to their temporal prosperity, as he was sure it had to their moral elevation. (Loud option- ; but of his distinguished name and remarkable talents, ton cheer,.) in favour of this question ; and he augured from Sir It. PEEL said he had that day been reading a volume . that circumstance that the question was making progress. of the t' Memoirs of Toni Moore, edited by Lord J ,hn (Hear.) He found others who had formerly opposed the Russell. (Laughter.) lie there found a pia:icicleu in hill were also now ready to vote for it ; and he could not France speaking of the absurdity of a minority eeothiciiog hut confider that when the question should have been car te oppose a majority, upon which Teen Moore wisely b• tied, it would be, as he had already said, the completion of served—" Just as if the country would forget the that system of religious liberty for which already so much force of that opposition." That remark applied, he thonotit, ! had been done. (Cheers.) to the present ease. They (the opponents) kuew The house then divided— they were a minority there, bat that did not prevent Item For the third reading 2BB from representing a majority in the country. (Hear, hear.) i Against it 230-58 The noble lord the member for the City et London, said be The bill was then passed. had exhausted the subject. He believed the noble lord hail • NEW BILLS. exhausted his own arguments, but theirs rested on a hitter foundation. Alter all, however, what were arguments The LOUD ADVOCATE elOs s ined leave to bring in the fallowing hills: To abolish the salary attached to the <Alice whit opposed to pu b li c blc opinion—(laughter)—tha `public et Keener of the Privy Seal fur Sea land, and to enable her opinion which they pposition) reprioentsa ? Majesty, her heirs and successors, to rominate a chairman vitolity had been asquiret b y this eutoect through the debate of the General Board of Directors of Prisons in Scotland ; on the Canada Clergy It-srves Bill. In that dilute, • and to extend the benefits of the act 11 and 12 Vic. for the member of the government had tison from the amendmeet of the Law of Entail in Seetland. rutty bench, and declared that he gloried in being a radical, the inference being that Mr. WILSON deferred his statement on the Customs till Aberdeen, in the decline of his lif e , did the s ame . .I pal r una Lord J. RUSSELL fixed the committee on the Pilotage (L tughter.) Not content with that, the right hon. ge n tl e - . ay. man went on to etigrnatise a dignitary of the church ■• • he house adjourned at 10 minutes after 1 o'clock. w pest to society ;" and it was for honest ch u r c h men , as t well as honest politicians, to cousider whether they would support a government whose members thus stigmotis el the recognised authorities of the church of England. (Hear.) Now, it was said the opponents ,to this measure 'ft re want- ing in charity, but those who threw out that imputation ' might be a hole more charitable themselves. They set a very bad example, by hest charging them with wanting in charity, and in the same breath imputing to them motives which he entirely rejected and denied. (Hear, hear.) lie hail not authority to 'peck far others who sat around him, bat he hail no ,touit he should give expres-ion to the sen timents of many, when ho said, that, for hie own port, he was a friend to civil ..nd religious libertv, and would not give protection, but secure freedom, to ill classes of the community in the ezireist of their religious tenets. (Ii qtr, hear.) Ile did not wish to retain a single statute which in any way restricted the enjoyment of religious freedom, and entertaining those aentiments ho utterly rejected and despised the taunts which had been thrown out against him, because he would debar those from a seat in the house who denied Cue fundamental principles of Chris tianity. Yes, he would debar the Jew from mo cking Christian functions in a Christian parliament, because be believed in his conscience that such a concession would be dangerous to the hest interest* of the land, and yet he was told the other night by a inoinher of the government that he came down to the louse with liberty on his lips but with restriction in his heart. (Herr, hear.) But he was quite sure those who mord wish him were quite ready to make every allow rare ter these expres sions, since they rime from the audacious and immune member for Middlesex. (Laughter.) lie wan, however, surprised that the hon. geutotome sh o uld have 'mooted such motives to him, because the hon. member well knew that the opinions which he (Sir R. Peel) held on these sutiets once coincided with his own, but the hon. oentleinau veined to have laid his former °pinholes upon taking posseeeion of his comfortable berth at the Admiralty. (A laugh.) He kept back something, it was true, but he would take the present opportunity of stating what he did kuow. This he knew then, that if it had not been for the indi vidual exertions of Baron ltmhschiid, Middl sex itself might not have been represented by ita present members— (a laugh)—and therefore when ti,e hon. geatlem m talked about members !wing actuated by impure motives, it would be as well for him first to look at home and see if he was quite free from such an imputation. (Hear, hear.) Of this, however, he was quite certain that the ennrse of time would prove that he was tar less liable to be acted upon by exter nal political causes than the honourable and gantlet mem ber himself. Bat to return to the question of the bill. The institutions of the Jews still continuo the same as they were 1,800 years ego, their fundamental prMegoes were the same, and u spirit of hostility to the Christian faith still animated sod guided them. And yet the noble lord proposed to extend to them the advantages and power of complete political emancipation. (Rear.) This was the leading principle on which he p! aced his opposition to this measure ; and, as long as he had the power of speech and the facility of expressing himself— (cheers and laughter)—well, sac long as hu had the power of speech, he would nut say the facility of expressing him self, ho would not hesitate to oppose this measure as antago nistic to the notional feeling and sentiment. He was told in a newspaper that the part he was taking was unworthy of the great nano be bore; but he was quite sure that when he was giving expression to his true senti ments, he was not open to that accusation. lie found it disagreeable to him to be placed in opposition to those he respected, but he had the independence to adhere to his own convictions rather thin yield to any other enusideration. The hon. member for Manchester had alluded to another place where they might be unable to bring them to a stole of their responsibility. Whatever the hon. member for Manchester might say he knew that in the limes enter twined with respect to that house, the real excellence of the British constitution lay, because in those hopes they recog nised the mutual check which either house of legislature was enabled to exercise on the other. They might be uuahle both here mid there to restrain and control opinion, but at all events whatever might he the result, the y would have the satisfaction of knowing that they had reiterated their ob jections with %lacewing seal, that they had faith in their convictions, but be had nu liesitetion instating his firm be lief that if this bill was passed both that house and the other house of parliament, and the crown, should it receive the sanction of the crown, was doing that which would tend to shake that confidence and loyalty which bail been hitherto felt in the authority of the crown as defender of the faith. (Cheers.) Mr. FITZROY, who rose amid loud cries of "Divide," and all kinds of interruption, said he was not ping to enter into the merits of the question, but he had a right to get up and ask the house whether the last speech was parlia mentary—whether it was consistent with the spigot of the house—(cheer,)—whether it was decent ? (Hubbub, and loud cries of "Oh, oh.") He asked whether it was decent to apply those terms which had been applied by the honourable baronet to the noble lord the member for London? Ho knew not what might be the signilkation of the terms whale he bad used, when he said no family had contributed so much as that family to gag the liberty of the press. The boo. baronet had no right to say that the election of the hon. gentleman bad cast a slut upon the election of the noble lord. He defied him to point to any dishonourable act either in the public or private life of any member of that family, which Was universally respected in Europe. Ile believed that the noble lord the member for Landon might well be contented to rest under the imputations of the hon. baronet when he could put against them the flattering and distinguished marks of confidence of his fellow- Patus.—Mr. C. W. Grenfcll paired off on Thursday eveniog with Col. Knox.—Mr. Bass paired in favour of the lowa, Mr. Coles against.—Tats a on Knowledge : Sir De Lary Evans fur, Mr. Mangles against. Tire lion. C. liatibury was reported in yesterday's paper u having paired off ou Mr. Gibson 's reiolutions. Mr. Ilan. bury seas present, and voted in the three divisions. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISI03: MOUSE OF COMMONS-APRIL 14. ADVERTISEMENT TAX. Mitring made, and Canton pi op awe, "[tut the i,dvertisancnt duty ought to be ropealc - t." Whereupon the previous goestien put, .1h at twit quesaire be now put." The house disidol-Ayes rue, Nue& .09. MAJORITY-AYES 260. .Idilerley C. F rarklyn, G. W. Newerk, Viscount A et ek, fliocoss Yr Arer , Sir W. A. Oakes, J. 11. P. Ale . ..ander. J. Freweu, C. 11. ()linen, Patrick Aorta-, n, sir Jima Gollwry, Sir W. P. o'llahirty, A. A rawright, G. Gardner, It. Otway, Arthur John Stage, W. George, John Pakenham, E. bailey, bit J. Grow, 0. • Vakingtom sir J. inane, Crowehay Graham, Loud K. W. Pareeke, G. X. W. way, .1. J. 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Cubist,Mr. Ald. Mandyvilk - , Viscount Wakot, Adm. ' rishwond, Sir G. IL Maxwell, nun. J.l'. w a ir gs f e y. Sir J. Davison. R. Meagher, 3 homes Warner, toward Di•itaell, Benjamin Miail, Edward Welly, Sir G. Data, C. Ilden, IV. Whalley, C 11. tlu can, G. blildgun, Robert Whiteside, Junes Danemobe, T. liPeheL W. 'Whitmore, !fairy Dancombe, lion. A. Montgomery, U. Wilkinen, W. A. I soon, CoL Moore, G.ll. Wilcox, IL Duran, W. Moore, R. S. Widiams, W. Vedlen, M. Moreta, Lord Wyndham, lien. Valowcs, Edward Morrow, Ocarina Wynn, Herbert W. Ferguson, Joseph Morgan, C. Rodney Wynne, Wm. W. E. Foyer. J. Monts, G. Frederick Email, W. Murrough, .1. P. TILLFIR. Forster C. Kar, Lord Gibson, T. M. Da, W. J. Napier, Joseph Ewa; William 111%01:ITT-NOES, 169. Adair. liagh E. Goldord, Ambrose L. Moody, C. A. A baton. Wm. Goodman. Sir G. Mosgo, E. M. Banes, M. T. Gordon, Admiral Nor reys, Lord Ball, John Ooulbnrn, Henry O'Brien, Cornelius Ltanog, H. B. Graham, Sir James Osborne. Ralph Baring, sir F. Grey. Sir 0. Paget, Lord Alfred Baring, Francis Grosvenor, Lord R. Palmerston, Via:oust Beaumont, W. B. Grosvenor, Furl Parker, It. Townley Berkeley, Admiral Harmer, Sir J. reel, Frederick Berkeley, C. la Hardinge, Charles S. Phillip., J. 11. Ridilulpti, R. M. Illostin, Archibald Philaim re, R.I. WM... us-Carter, John Hayes, Sir Edmund Plain, T. Bouyrrie, E. Headiam, T. E. Portal, Melville Bretherton, Joseph Heard, J. I. rower, N. Brown, V. Hearin:oat, John Fritebard, J. (truce, Lord Ernest ilwoihrteie. Sir G. Ricardo, 0. Bruce, H. A. Ilineage, Geo. IL Warta, T. J. A. Burrouglies,llensTN. lionnege, 0 . F. Ruehout, Captain *lfni. 0. 11. Clarks Herbert, IL A. Russell, Lord). Campbell, Sir A. Herbert, Sidney Russell, Y. C. Cardwell, Hon. E. Hersey, Lord Alfred Rowell, F. W. ' Cavendish, 0. Howard, C. W. G. gawk. C. B. 0. , Ch a mb er ., Montego H mord, Lord E. Seobell, Ciwt. Chambers, T. liu„vhes, W. B. Bernour, H. D. Chopin, W. J. Ingham. R. Sham, R. D. Courtrai, F. arils, Mr B. IL Shelburn^, Earl Christy, Samuel Jsrogn, Earl Smith, John A. Caton, Lord Johnstone, James Smith, B. V. • Chekburn, Sir A. Jandrow, Sir J. !Macron, T. H. S. Dr.ks, Thomas S. Eingimite, It. N. F. Spoenor, Richard Collo, Walter liianald, A. F. Stafford, Marquis Compton. H. Combs Kirk, Wm. Stanley, Hon. W. 0. Cowper, W. F. Laing, 8. Stapleton, John Cranford, E. H. J. leageton. J. IL Otrutt, Right lion. E. ' laltymple, Vire. Langton, U. G. lancred, It. W. ' Denbon, 3. E. Le l a, G. C. Towline, G. Drumlanrig, The. Lewis, Fir T. P. Twill. G. Doff, George Liodeay, Col. Token, IL Duff', James Lockhart, A. E. Tynte, Col. C. J. K. Duneombe, Hon. 0. Lowden, P. Vane, Lord H. [Modem, F. Lowe, R. Vernon, G. E. U. Egerton, W. Luce, T. Vivian, J. H. Egerton, R. larraggert, Mr J. Vivian, H. 11. Enloe Right Ran. E. Megan, W. H. Wells, W. Elliot, John Martin, John West, P. E. Evros, William Namey, W. N. Wkatha. EL W. I Farrar. James liamsears, John Wilma, J. Fergus, J. UIA/Mlll. A. Wilmington, Bir T. Femur" W. Marbossa. sir I. Wood, Sir C. Fergunn, Sir Robert lligh.ClL Wortley, J. 8. Fitzgerald. J. D. leibash W. M. E. Wyndham, William Fitzroy, M 8.% IL IL Wyvill, M. ' Fitrwilliam il 7. W. MAIM.% Young, Sir J. ' Forster, K. llsbrawank Mr W. ' Fortesaus. Chisbedit Millith. TIMM* TELLIIIIL Pretoria*, Colonel Talons Ho r, W. G. G.sdetorie, Captain lisamll. Igu*inve, Earl Glyn, George Care likniummqh Mr O. LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON THE INDE PENDENCE OF TURKEY. A few days since we gave a long report of a meeting at Newcastle, when the question discussed was the Independence of Turkey. It will be remembered that a memorial was adopted by the meeting. To this document Lord John Russell has made the following reply, addressed to the Mayor of Newcastle : " Sir,-1 have had the honour of ree' lying an address signed by you on behalf of a meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. " I am happy to find that this meeting concurs with me in opinion that this country ought to be anxious to main tain the independence of Turkey. " That independence could not be subverted without a great change in the territorial circumscription of Euro • pe, derangement of the distribution of power sanctioned by treaties, and more especially a violation of the engagements contracted h theeat powers in 1841. " That in de pen dence could not be subverted without a danger of the aggrandisement of Bodes already sufficiently formidable, and a disturbance of the balance of power in Europe. " That independence could not be subverted without a great diminution of British commerce, now fostered by the moderate tariff of the Turkish empire. " You may rely upon the constant vigilance of her Ma jesty's government being employed to prevent such misfor tunes; upon the sense of justice and good faith which ani mates the principal States of Europe ; and upon the weight of the British parliament, which will be ever ready to defend the rights and the independence of her Majesty's allies. " I beg you to thank the inhabitants of Newcastle in my name for the distinguished honour they have done me, and remain, sir, with great respect, your obedient Fervent, Chesham-place, April 11, 18.53." " J. Russzi.h. TUE STALLS IN TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.—Last nigh t a meeting of tradesmen carrying on business in Tot teoha m-court-road was held to receive the report of a de putation which had waited on Sir Richard Mayne, in favour of the stallkeepers in tat thoroughfare who are under terror of expulsion from their standings. The deputation said that Sir R. Mayne had received them courteously and said that the police should not act executively in the matter, bat if called to aid the Paving Commissioners, who were the t Tel authorities on this question, they must do so. For his 0 ,-vn part, he was in favour of a gradual and natural abate mt nt of the obstruction, by death or removal of stallkeeptrs teise se places should not he filled up. This statement was mee t, ed with satisfaction by the meeting, 'specially as . 1 cominh' after the expression of Mr. Binghata's opinion on the sam, , side, and it was agreed to canvass the shopkeepers I on th e $O , bjcet, in the hope of making ar impression on the Paving B•.`ard- ItEcewr STAMl . S.—Yesterday a return to the House of Com:nons was printed, showing that .;iv the year ending the bth o f January, PM, there were 4,7 ' 5 ,. 10 re ceipt shops issue.ii -5,17 1 ,546 in the fillowiws 3 *.r. i n t h e y, a ceding the •sth of January la-t. avenue in the last yen.• was 1 9 1, 0 88 1 . 93. 9d. Ths expeftSr of distributing the stan.is of the last year at 2 per cent. was 389/. l•ss. 4d., and the discount allowed to purchasers . 13,41:4:. Hs. 31 Eh, ervre,so. TO CORRI SFOMHENiS. Ed•tlon The Expreee,'' eove;Linir 'he name *noire. “C.rette,"ts pallehrl every Ttee.dey Lai Yrtday ttcht, to time pe^t. rov.itiver.rev:vtavende,'. !cc "The V sprov,.Lertv'mh v.vening payer, Metnt the Off Ice, lb, bourerve-exoet, by Ina 0'0.34 on tbc Say of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. hilt DAT -.l(l)Ttillir. N. 3501„. .Attx moon, 7•. for.aoasew—alon.aar. Altbraoon, 85. 8= as free access to Parliament as the members of LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 16. THE Squires still look with an eye of disfavour upon tho progress of the Jews. They can't forget the times when they drew the teeth and roasted the ribs of their money lenders, instead of advertising lor a " loan upon mortgage!' They arc as jealous ut admitting LIONEL Itornscn lLD i nto th e kill of legis lation as their ancestors were of letting Isaac of York look on upon the lists at Ashby. The times are similar too, in another respect. Then, as now, Wamha the Fool was tho most successful defender of the men of acres. Sl. nsi hie partisans have given up the contest long ago. They are ashamed to make a declaratory enactment that Jews are not fit to legis late, but they arc content to keep them out of the Legislature by an act which was never intended to apply to them, but only to a class of brother- Christians. any other denomination. It then this tendency to give up exclusive rights has manifested itself so constantly and so strongly in the course of our his tory—if the lesson we derive from this history is that the stream of nationality is ever widening, re ceiving contributions from sources which at ono time never reached it, do the opponents of Jewish email. cipation suppose that they can dam up one little source for their own special delectation? The thing is im possible. These men, in their bigotted assertion of the rights of Christians, are the great blasphemers of Chriettauity. Tiny declare that a religion which has stood for nearly two thousand years, has triumphed in every direction, and has civilized a great portion of the world, is in danger from the few scattered professors of a faith which it superseded end de veloped. Their success, let us hope, will be on u per with their wisdom. They tray delay the good cause, but tncy will net be able to arrest it. Coils tianity, which had not been honoured in their advocacy, will have nothing to fear from their defeat. So thought the Reuse of Commons, lust night, by the decision it came to on the third reading of the Jewish Disabilities Hill, when 288 members voted for toleration and 230 against it. The bill is now, therefore, safe through the House by a majo ritp of 58. The Jews, however, true to their character as F. still•necked race, refuse to submit to be deprived of their rights by a chance phrase, and they are per petually knocking at the door of the House and cont ►'elliug the members to show cause why the exclusion should be maintained. This is perplexing. A man may cover a piece of bad logic with a sneer or alittle buffoonery once or twice, but he cannot go on doing su for ever. Wamba's Hitch of bacon would not have had so much resent, - lauce to a syllogism next year, and had he repeated it continually the chance is that he would have been hissed at last. Thus it is in the House. Members are ashamed, session after session, to utter the same platitudes. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK refused to row in the same boat with " the men of acres," wko stick up for the oid perse cution, and Mr. BALL parts company with his fi Muds on the same question. The fact is that the argument is exhausted. The debate last night exhibited She same outrageous assertions on the part of the oppo nents of Emancipation and the same refutations on the part of its defenders. There appeared a chance at one time that a little absurdity would be sprinkled through the debate as an enlivener. Members smiled when Mr. C. BRUCE, who thought that the Jews would be delivered some day, begged the House o.rnestly not to " presumptuously accelerate the period of their deliverance." And Mr. J. Klee, who spoke in favour of tho Bill, brought a little novelty into the debate by stating it as his opinion that it would be as well to ad mit the Jews as early as possible, in order that they might be prepared fur legislation when they got back to Jerusalem. The period when this event would take place could not, he imagined, be far die. taut, as it had been predicted in reference to the time of their restoration, that " Many shall run to and fro." Now in 1831, said the honourable Member triumphantly, the railway from Manchester to Li verpool was opened ! Any amusement that might have been anticipated from a debate opening so promisingly was put a stop to by the dreary expositions of Mr. WRITEBTuE, who harped' upon Sir ROBERT INGLIs'S old string of " unchristianising, the Legislature." As Mr. Bus., in the letter he addressed the other day to his Protectionist constituents to apologise for his desertion from the ranks of intolerance, devoted the great portion of his attention to this argument, we may presume that it meets with considerable favour in the eyes of the enemies of Emancipation. It will be worth while, then, to examine what many of its admirers think it means, and what we ought chari tably to suppose those who employ it mean. Mr. BALL considers that the only ground upon which it can be attempted to justify the withholding a seat in the House of Commons from the Jews, is that held by Sir Roamer Nous, that " if we admi a Jew, wo unchristiauise the House." Of course, if Sir ROBERT meant merely to assert that when we admit Jews, we give up the principle that in a House which is to make laws for the nation, it is necessary that every legislator should be a Christian—if this is all that is meant, then Sir ltueeter need not have troubled himself to utter so trite a truism. Mr. BALL, however, strangely supposes that Sir ROBERT meant to insinuate that the entrance of a Jew would unchristianise the members themselves —that a ROTHSCHILD or a S %1.0310 NS would bring in a virulent infection with them, and that the effects of the disorder would show themselves in the solemn abjuration of Christianity by the united Legislature. The consequences of a catastrophe of this kind would be sufficiently serious. The new converts in the Lower House woad be able easily to prevail upon her MAJESTY to create a Jewish Peer. One creation would be quite ample, fur on taking the oaths, the newly made nobleman would communicate the infection to all his brother Peen, the bench of Bishops would sicken, and, on their recovery, find themselves believers only in what Mr. DISRAELI calls the "first part of the Christian religion." Mr. BALL, in contemplating and repudiating such changes as these, very properly exclaims—" Now, I contend that no man can either make or unmake a Christian ; it is the work of a Supreme Being ; nor will the admission of an individual who is not a Christian unchristianise a Christian Assem bly." Very true, Mr. BALL ; and you might have added that if such a process of unchristianistng were possible, there is no reason why it should not take place just as well outside the Howie as in it, and that a walk into the Stock Exchange, or down Duke's-place, would be attended with most extraor dinary effects to gentlemen who now make declara tions " upon the true faith of a Christian." The strange mistake of Mr. BALL will, it is to be hoped, have the effect of preventing Sir ROBERT from making use of such high-sounding phrases another time. In the meantime, as the member for Oxford still adheres to the sense which he himself attaches to the phrase " unehristianising the legisla ture," it would be well that he should examine what warrant History affords to the correctness of the views which he entertains of the duties of the state towards individuals whose opinions differ from those of the majority on the subject of religion. In the first place, Sir R. INGLIS, and those of his friends in both houses who are adverse to the Jewish claims, are supposed to entertain a mitigated horror for Roman Catholics. If now they will take the trouble to inquire, they will find out that the Roman Catholics form the only CAurch of modern history which has ever for any period of time been enabled to assert its right to be co-extensive with the State. Under the Papacy only, was it that none were ad mitted to the rights of citizenship but those who belonged to the ruling religion. In England, when the supremacy of the POPE was denied, there was an end for ever of making citizenship depend upon churchmanship. It is true that the TUDOR sove reigns endeavoured to concentrate under their own governments the rights which the Popes had lost; but the attempts were never successful. The STUARTS were able to accomplish even less than the Tuvous ; and, after an abortive effort on the part of the most rigid of the Puritans to follow in the foot steps of conscience-compelling menarche, the whole principle was given gip at the passing of the Toleration Act, under CHARLES 11. Having aban doned so much, the Church has acted at least as if it were logically bound to give up more. One by ono have all the privileges of citizenship been handed over to dissentients from the doc trine and discipline of the Church. Society has re cognised dissenters of all classes as definite elements of the natio:l, and no longer withholds from them any of the peiv,;leges which members of the nation, in full possessiot: of their rights, can claim. Test and Corporation A t -ts, Catholic Emancipation Bills— all bear witness to the fact that the tendency of Rublic legislation is absorb into the body of the State all the scattered eleklen tit which cannot be proved to bear within them seeds of damage to the Consti tution. Once it was contensled that the whole na tion must belong to the Churci:. We receded from that ground, and insisted that Olc radiomen! at , least chouid consist of churchmen. Bcatt-' l, flew that, wo fought boldly for the exchigion of cer tain forms of religion. Even this we save been I obliged to yield; the Roman Catholics lute THE answer given by Lord PALMERSTON last night to the questions put to him by the hon. mem ber for Leicester, will b read with no little interest by the public generally, and with cuusiderable sur prise by those who perused the extraordinary statement relative to M. KOSsUTII, which ap peared in the Times yesterday morning. In sub stance, the statement amounted to nothing less than that the SECRETARY for the DoME DEPARTMENT had issued a warrant, under the authority of which I the police had proceeded to search a house belonging to M. KOssUTII, and had found therein a large amount of urns and ammunition, such as amply to verify the suspicions previously entertained of the possessor's intention to levy war upon our humane and enlightened ally the Emperor of AUSTRIA. /low the information which had led to such a proceeding had been obtained our contemporary did not say ; I and its readers were consequently lett in doubt whe ther it was derived from sources of foreign espionage er from the revelations of domestic spies—from treachery in the Austrian post-office, or violation of confidence in that of St, Martin's-le-Grand. Un pleasant recollections associated with the names of the DANDIER' might naturally suggest discretion as to such disclosures to the organ of Lord AISEIt- LEEN. Be that as it may, however, no paius were spared to invest the announcement with the character of circumstantiality; to glorify the pro phetic wisdom of those who had unscrupulously vilified thellungarianchief, and foretold his eventual detection as a pirate and impostor; above all, to heap upon Lord PALMEittiToN reproachful praises for his discovery, though late, of the duty which he owes to foreign sovereigns us a Minister of the QUEEN of ENGLAND. Lord PALMERSTON, to do him justice, seems to have been not at all ambitious to remain longer that was unavoidable under the fatal load of such lauda tions. In his place in the House of Commons last night he did nut hesitate to deny the accuracy of the tale of which he had been made the supposititious hero. With remorseless ingratitude he not only ex plained that the military stores which the police had placed under detention had not been found at the residence of M. liossunt, but at a distance of some miles from it, and that he was in possession of no information which would justify him in asserting that they had been purchased or placed where they were found with the cul.able cognisance of that gentleman. But Lord Faun:risme did not stop there. In answer to a second question, his Lordship declared he was nut aware of any undertaking having been given by her Majesty's Government that they would perform the duties of surveillance over the political refugees resident in this country. The Noble Viscount has too long played the distin guished part of Foreign Minister to u free people to sit easy under the imputation of turning head policeman in his old age, or principal spy to tho despots on whose cruelty he was once the check and in whose cars his name is still a sound of terror. lord PALMERSTON'S position as member of the Cabinet, constituted as the present is , must be as intolerable to him individually as disre putable to the character of our public men, if it im plied such self-abandonment as that on which, with sinister emphasis, his implacable enemy the Times affects to congratulate him. For the honour of British statesmanship, wo rejoice to think that, true to the principles of 1830, Lord PALMERSTON disdains to be " the Minister of Austria." Lower and more degraded still he would be if, upon any suggestion conveyed through the foreign office, from Vienna, or upon any information furnished by spies and informers, or supplied by equally. infamous means, the 1103ta SECRETARY were to violate the sanctity of political hospitality, or to harass an un fortunate exile who had eought the shelter of our shore, by instituting against him proceedings in the nature of a State prosecution, as the Times eagerly recommends, unless he were really guilty of an offence against the laws of the country which affords him a secure asylum. The duty of a Secretary of State in regard to Foreign Governments with whom we are at peace is simple and plain. Whenever authentic and legiti- Mate information shall be given him of warlike pre parations being made within our confines of a nature calculated to excite just suspicion as to their object, !leis manifestly bound to interpose, in eider to pre vent any infraction of international rights being com mitted under the tacit sanction of our name. If arms or ammunition be found secreted, or in such quantities as cannot be reasonably or satis factorily accounted for, it is the duty of Government to seize and detain such stores, and to hold all per sons, whether natives or foreigners, in whose posses sion they may have been found, responsible when legally called upon for their peaceful conduct and in tentions. But there the duty of a British Minister ends. Whatever may be said or insinuated to the contrary, it is no part of his business to act as one of a foreign gendarmerie, to play the part of a letter opener, a detective, or a spy, or to prostitute the power and authority which belong to the executive of a free nation in political prosecutions, to appease the baffled fury of despotic Governments abroad. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 16, 1853. VOt grout. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Tho Earl of Carlisle, Lord Londesborough, and Mr Frost, Vice-Presidents of the British Auociatiou ; Lord Ilotham, M P.; Mr. Blundell, Mayor of Hull ; Mr. Wells, M.P., Mr. Spooner, Mr. Hutt, M.P., and the Hon A. Duneombe, M.P., had an interview with Prince Albert Byesterday morning, on the subct of the meeting of the ritish Association about to ta ke place at Hull. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Adelaide of Ho henlohe, attended by Lady Anaa Maria Dawson. dined with the Thachess of Gloucester, at her residence, Glouces ter House, Piccadilly, yesterday. The Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary also dined with the royal duchess, at Gloucester House, last evening. A Cabinet Council was held yesterda7 afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The council was summoned in the morning, and was attended by all the ministers. The council sat two hours and a half. A deputation on the part of the magistrates of E sex in quarter sessions assembled, to represent their objections to the County Financial Board Bill, now before parliament, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. The deputation' consisted of Sir John Tyrell, Bart., Sir William B. Smyth, Bart., Sir J. Page Woo d , Bart., Messrs. Charles G. Round, N. Burnadeston, W. Cotton, W. Berresford, Charles Ducane, John Disney, and Henry Bullock. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles 'Lindley, M.P., Mr. James Bell, M.P., the Rev. C. B. Dribble, Mr. John Slaytield, Dr. Hodgkin, and Mr. L. A. Chatnernoznw, bad an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial other. ' A deputation from Dartmouth, consisting of kfessrs. Smith, Clift, and Chalker, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Home-ottiee. The deputation wu introduced by Mr. Moffatt. Despatches were sent from the Coloniaboffice yesterday to the Governor General of Canada, and th- Gan runes of the other North American Provinces. Despatches acre re ceived yesterday from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. r• L ROA N-OITICE, APRIL 14.—MEM0ER RETURNED 70 scud: is TIIIO I'ItESENT , 6 "Altl.ll.lAteNt —l3 , TUllgh of LanCaster: Thomas Unene, of Whittitigton-Bull, in the (*entity palatine of Lancaster, Esq., in the room of Ilobtrt Baynes Armstrong, Esq., whom electron bas been adjudged void. FRANCE. PARIS, FIIIDAY EvEsfso. Judgment has been given to-day in the affair of the " foreign correspondents." There is rewon to think that the judges were much divided on the sub ject. for, after retiring to their private room last night for three hours, they announced that the court would not pronounce its decision till the morrow. The sentences are less severe than was expected. The court collectively has shrunk from finding any of the prisoners guilty of belonging to a secret society. Had they dune so, although the punish ment judicially awarded might have been merely nominal, the Minister of Police, by virtue of the unheard of legislation recently introduced into France, might have trans ported any of the prisoners so convicted to Cayenne. All the charges of propagating "false news" are also negativeu. MM. Vallee and Regis de Chantelauze are found not guilty. MM. Alfred de Coillogon and Auhertin, who did not rurrentler, are condemned by default to a year's imprisonment and tines of 1,000 francs. M. Anatole de Cudtlogon is sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a tine of :100 franca; MM. Virmsitre and Planhol to three months' imprisonment, and tines of 100 francs ; M. Charles Flandin to one mouth's imprisonment and a tine of 100 franca, and the Duke of Itovigo and M. de Lapierre to ono month's im prisonment and fines of 100 francs. The two later prisoners are convicted of having used seditious lan guage, and being in possession of arms and muni ments of war. 'fhe Hake of Rovigo's arms, as I have before told you, consisted of two swords, ono a relic of his father, 'Marshal Savary, and the other his own sword when a captain of national guards. Thus ends the famous conspiracy of Feb. 0, for which fifty or sixty men of the highest position in society were arrested in their beds, and which, as the go , vernment journals told the public, was pregnant with , danger to the state at the time of its providential discovery. There is a talk of a grand ball to be given by the Empress to the Senate, Cores Legislatif, and the Municipal Council in return for the threepes given in her honour by those bodies. It appears tina the expense of the hall at the Chamber of Deputies will be much less then was supposed. The treasurer has only called upon members to leave VIOL each of their months salary to cover their subscriptions when the accounts sha Ibe finally settled. M. de Muntulem beet, you will remember, gave I,ooof. to charity upon the assumption that, had ho chosen to muskier the obligation de faire danser la cone" as part of his mission, he would have be, n called upon to pay that quota. There is a gr, at deal of exaggeration in the common talk abuts, the enor mous expense of several recent files. A vast amount of scenic effect may be obtained for a mode rate sum of money. -Flowers, draocry, temporary fountains. and Lops-boos are the chief stems of ex penditure. As for the supper and refreshments, the fragments left after a York hunt bali :could amply furnish forth half a dozen routs at the Luxembourg. It is said that the Corps Diplomatique has taken a strong resolution with regard to their receptions. In order not to lay themselves open to the reproach of receiving declared adversaries of the government in their drawing rooms, they will invite no French men who have not been presented to the Emperor. Lord Cowley, I am told, has already acted upon the new system. While mentioning this as an accredited report, I must add that I incline to believe, and cer tainly hope, it is not true. A credit of So,ooofr. has been opened for the erection of an equestrian statue of Napoleon I. in font of the Crystal Palace now building in the Champs Elysees. The directors of the Strasbourg Railway have just placed libraries in their waiting-rooms fur the use of travellers, and it is thought the example will bo followed by other French companies. The Moisiteur contains a statement of the receipts produced by the indirect taxes for the litst three months of the present year, showing an increase of 20,489,000 fr. over the receipts of 1851. and of 14,33-I,ooof. over those of 1852 for the same period. The dfimiteur also contains a copy of a circular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the pre fects of the departments, respecting the exhibition of the products of all nations, to take place in Paris on tke Ist May, 1835. The prefects are requested to place themselves immediately in communication with the chambers of commerce and agriculture its their re spective departments, and are invited to spare no effort in order to ensure the worthy representation of French industry in the forthcoming peaceful struggle. A decree by the Emperor, published in the -Masi lent., fixes the number of men to be provided by each department for the contingent of 80,000 re quired for the present year. STATE 01 THE DAN* OE MANCE WITU TEE BRANCH HANES TO *PAIL 14, 1863. • CY., Cash in hand Cash in the branch baaka f. c. 3.`17,452,239 63 J 9,989,386 00 146,582 16 Commercial bills overdue.. Portfolio of Paris, of which 4 5 ,167,505 f. 08e. were from the branch banks 118,411,611 33 Ditto in the branch banks 131.437,585 00 Ad , anced on a deposit of bullion 1,038,700 00 Ditto by the brrnch banks 880,342 00 Advanced on French public securities 35.734,536 10 Ditto by the branch banks 11,038,400 00 Advanced on railway securities 60,701,100 00 Ditto by the branch banks 16,961,974 00 Advanced to the state on the treaty of June 30, 1848 75,000,000 00 Government stock reserve 10,000,000 00 atto disposable Hotel and furniture of the bank 4.000,000 00 Landed property of the branch banks 3,074.250 00 Interest in the national discount offices 52,762 00 Expenses of management of the Bank and branch banks 854,597 08 Sundries Total 1,012,949,682 80 Capital of the Bank _ 91,250,000 00 Reserve of the Bank Ditto in landed property Bank notes in circulation Ditto of the branch banks 159,390,525 00 Bank notes to order 5,413,131 88 Receipts payable at sight Treasury account current, creditor Accounts current in Paris 111,630,117 96 Ditto in branch banks 27;823:512 00 Dividends payable Sundry interests and di.connts 432,1&5 26 3,709.382 21 doriog the last six months Received on account of protested bills Sundries 710,4.5 02 420,393 82 2,750,208 04 1,012,90,0:42 80 The Bourse to-day was again characterised by: dullness in the demand for government securities; and with the exception of an advance of sc. in the Four•and-a-Half per Cents. for the end of the month, there was a slight decrease on yesterday's quotations in the other descriptions, with a downward tendency at the conclusion of business. Bank stock expe rienced no change. The following are the last [ quotations :—For Cash : Three per Cents., 80f. 30c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 13c. For the account : Three per Cents., 80f. 30c.; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 103 f. 20c. Bank stock, 2,7-13. The railway share market was inacrive, and de clining, with trifling exceptions, Orleans and Paris and Rouen being the only leading lino, that escaped a decline. The closing prices stand thus :--Nor thorns, 905 f. 23c. ; Orleans, 1,01:L:; Paris and Strasbourg, 845 f.; Paris and Lyons, 01 tr. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,093 f.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 807 E SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid are still of da!e anterior to the despatch of the 12th, which owes its rapid trans mission to the use of the Spanish telegraph. Other despatches and letters, however, bring some interest ing particulars on the progress of the crisis. Thus a telegraphic communication, dated on the 10th (the latest letters are of thu 9th) states that the . 1 / a drid Gazette of that day contained the resignation of the Minister of Grace and Justice, Senor Vuhey. At this moment General Roneali and his colleagues were still in power, and, although, as our latest letters show, the Queen was deliberating upon the offer of their resignation, made the previous day, the fulling Ministers inserted in the Gazette a decree, dismissing from their posts all senators in the public service who had voted the government in the division re lut.v4: to We may expect tie, this dose will receive from General Lersundi the same con demnation as that by which the Cortes were closed. Thu C:k bvial kassi...L4: a u.olu.sate