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Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics- • non, but as a guarantee of h ie good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. Into :IPrtgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY. JULY 4, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. CONSPIRACIES AGAINST THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. THE conspiracy of a certain number of Italians against tho life of the Emperor, to which I alluded some days ago, seems to be marked by a more serious character than was originally supposed. The persons taken into custody are also more numerous ; successive arrests, either in consequence of disclo sures made by accomplices or obtained from papers found at their lodgings, have increased the number from three to twenty-one ; I doubt whether it will rest here. They belong to the same school as Pianori, and their object is the same. They are also said to be connected with the conspirators arrested iu Genoa, who proposed to proclaim the Republic in that city.—The Times (s:cund edition, Friday). The Chamber of Deputies at Turin, in its sitting of the 29th ult., voted the bill for piercing a tunnel through Mount Cenis by a majority of 98 to 28. The Senate was engaged in the discussion of the bill for transferring the maritime arsenals to La Spezia. Official accounts have been received from Athens announcing the nomination of General Kalergi as Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris. Private letters from the same city speak of the increased interest attached to the question of the succession, in conse• quence of the visit of the Queen to Germany. Her Majesty, it is well known, gives her entire support to her brother, the Prince of Oldenburg. THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN AND THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. A LETTER in the Gazette de Lyons of the 15th June contains a contradiction of the reported reconcilia tion of the Spanish Bourbon family. The letter is signed by the Chevalier e Lumley Woodyear, dated Naples, 14th June, 1557, and remarks : On the authority of certain ill-informed ccrrespondent at Madrid several of the English papers have announce( under the title— of the Royal House of the Spanish Bourbons," that the Count de Montemolin has acknowledged the pre tended tights of Isabelle. I am authorised formally to give the lie to these absurd r.tmours, set on tot, no doubt, with the view of galva n sing the Government of Madrid, and of giving it a momentary vigour. M. Lumley Woodyear, states that though the Conde may have tried evelything that " honour may permit to bring within right principles " a family reconcilia tion, denies as " absolutely 'also " thnt such a step as would havo been a 44..611 of the principle of legiti macy, has been entertained : And (adds the writer) that is easily understood, when, independently of the strength of this principle, which rests on the fundamental lass id the Iberian monarchy, men belonging to the different revolutionary sections have not been able to rtfuae the n cognition, at 'east in principle, of the legitimacy of the rights of Charles V. and his funnily. 10 fact, did not M. Martinez de la Rosa declare, in Iti:3l, that the power of Isabella did not rest upon a right, but exclusively on the natural belongings of revolution ? At a later period, did not General Prim say diet there did not exist any right, speaking absolutely, outside of a revolu tionary right, but that of Don Carlos and his children ? In kte, did not M. Olozaga exclaim, in the Session of the THE PRESS, JULY 4, 1857. Constituent Cortes of 18.54, that the royalty of Isabella could invoke no other title but that which she holds from the sovereignty of the people, and that outside of that, and on the platform of hereditary monarchy, Don Carlos and his sons alone had incontestable rights? It is not, then, when these rights have been solemnly recognised even by their adversaries, in the face of the his toric fictions which have been invoked to legitimatise the injuryelone to the crown of Philip V., that King Charles VI., neglecting a rigorous duty, would abdicate his legiti mate rights to the throne, which alone can conciliate in Spain, as everywhere else, the exercise of liberty and the existence of a strong Government and insure the peaceful destiny and the prosperity of the people. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. Attention was called by the LORD CHANCELLOR to the formalities attending the election of Irish repre sentative peers; by Earl TALBOT, to the late atrocious murder of Mr. Price, Inspector of Convicts in South Australia; and by Lord BROUGHAM, to the cumbrous and costly processes requisite for the transfer of real property. The several subjects were briefly remarked upon by other peers, but no practical result followed the discussion. The Sale of Obscene Books Bill was passed through committee, on the motion of Lord CAMPBELL. Some further business was got through, and their lordships adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THAMES CONSERVANCY. A private bill, the Thames Conservancy Bill, gave rise to considerable discussion with respect to the constitution of the proposed Board of Conservancy. Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to the large infusion of nominee members in a board intrusted with eaten sive powers of taxation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER conceded the principle, but pleaded that special circumstances existed in the case before the house. The City Cor poration had surrendered to the Crown their claims to the bed and soil of the river, respecting which much litigation had taken place, but still retained interests that ought to be watched and represented in the Conservancy Board. Soma further discussion ensued, but ultimately it was agreed to pass the bill through the pending stage, and take a definitive decision on the third reading. TEWKESBURY AND PONTEFRACT ELECTIONS.' Reports from the Tewkesbury and l'ontefract Election Committees were brought up, declaring the sitting members duly elected in both cases. INDIA. Replying to Lord CeAtin HAMILTON, Lord PALMERSTON, atter adverting to the heavy arrear of public business, declined to fix a day for resuming the adjourned debate on Indian affairs. In answer to a subsequent question from Mr. G. DUNDAS, Mr. V. SMITH stated that he was ready to lay the Indian budget before the house on the first day not preoccupied with other business. FREE LABOUR IN OUIANA. Mr. T. BARING inquired whether her Majesty's Ministers had adopted any measures to facilitate immigration into British Guiana. He remarked upon the importance of securing an abundant supply of free labour for that colony, and pointed out some sources whence, as he believed, those supplies might be drawn in Africa, India, and Chine. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that every means would be adopted to encourage the immigration of free labourers into all the West Indian colonies. Some precautions were, however, necessary, in order to prevent the introduction of free immigrants being converted into a eutreptitious renewal of the slave trade. With regard to China immigrants, he added that Lord Elgin had been in.-tructed to obtain infor mation, and make arrangements, if possible, calcu lated to facilitate the transit of labourers from China to the West Indies. SITTI,Y. The house then went itito committee of supply, and the remainder of the sitting was principally occupied with a miscellaneous discussion upon suc cessive votes belonging to the series of miscellaneous civil services. The house adjourned at one o'clock. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. THE approach of the day on which the Conservative Land society will entl r on its sixth year induced the executive committee to celebrate its continued success by a festival dinner at the Trafalgar Tavern, at Greenwich, on Wednesday night. The chairman and vice chairman of the executive committee, Viscount Ranelagh and Colonel Brown low Knox, M.P., presided on the occasion, supported by his Grace the Duke of I3uckingham, Viscount Ingestre, M.P., the Right Hon. Christopher N. Hamilton. _ _ _ Alter the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Robert Dimsdale proposed " The Conservative Members of both 1i011403 of parliament," and made a very able speech, . The Duke of BITCKINGHAM, on rising to respond to the toast for the House of Lords, was enthusiastically cheered for several minutes. His Grace stated that, although he had ceased to take an active part is politics, his convictions of former dap.; remained un changed, wnd he sincerely hoped that the House of Lords would never shrink from the pertormance of the duties presented to them by the Constitution. Mr. HAMILTON, replying for Lis health proposed by Lord Ranelagh, said : When freehold land societies were first started he had his misgivings whether it would be safe and politic to extend the facilities of obtaining the freehold franchise by sucl: means ; but he had come to the conclusion, after the experience acquired in the workicg of the Conservative Land Society, that it was essentially sound in principle and good in its results. One fact had struck him, that the Radical societies, since the formation of one on Conserva- tive principles, were disappearing, and the conclusion was obvious, that their promoters found out that giving a man the freehold franchise had the effect of making him com• prebend and appreciate the rights and claims of property. It made the voter, in Let, Conservative i❑ feeling as well as in holding. - - - Several other toasts were proposed, and included the health of Mr. Gruneisen, the able secretary of this excellent society. Mr. GRUNEISEN, in making acknowledgments for himself and colleagues, stated that the approbation of such a distinguished assemblage was a strong in centive to future exertion, as well as a reward for the past. He would but add one word, to remind Con servatives that the three important elements to look to, in order to maintain, and he might add, save their rause, were—'.he public press, the registration, and the Conservative Land Society. If proper attention was paid by the party to these three elements, suc cess could not fail. Obituarg. HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF BEDFORD died yesterday at the family mansion in Belgrave-square. GEORGE SPENCER CHURCHILL, fifth Duke of Marl borough, Marquis of Blandtord, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, Baron Churchill of Sandbridge, and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, died on Wednesday last, at Blenheim, in the sixty-fcurth year of his age. His Grace was the eldest son of George, fourth Duke of Marlborough, by Susan, daughter of John, seventh Earl of Galloway, in the Scottish Peerage, and was born at Bill Hill, in the parish of Sunning, Berks, on the 27th of December, 1703. He received his early education at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and first entered upon public life as Marquis of Bland ford in the summer of 1820, when he was elected as one of the members for his father's pocket borough of Woodstock, which be continued to represent down to the dissolution consequent on passing the Reform Bill, in December, 1832. On the retirement of Cap tain Peyton, in 1838, he was again elected for Wood stock, and continued to hold a seat in the Lower House for that borough until the month of March, 1840, when the death of his father caused him to be summoned to the House of Peers. In 1845 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Ox fordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and succeeded the late Earl of Macclesfield as Lord Lieutenant and Cu•tos Rotulorum of the county of Oxford in 1842. His Grace was also patron of no less than eleven livings in the Established Chula]. The title of Marl borough (the only counterpart of Wellington that is to be found cn the roll of the English Peerage) was conferred, an our reatTers are aware, in 1702, upon John Churchill, the most celebrated captain of the age in which he lived, if not the first general in the military annals of England. It may not be un• interesting to our readers to be reminded here of the terms upon which the Duke of Marlborough hold Blenheim from the nation. It was enacted in 1704 th at " On every 4th day of August, the anniversary of the victory of Blenheim, the inheritors of the Duke's honours and titles shall render at Windsor unto her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, one standard of colours, with three . fieur de lie painted thereon, in acquittance of all manner of rents, suits, and services duo to the Crown of England." It is by a similar tenure that the Duke of Wellington holds the mansion of Strathfleldsaye, and in each case the acknowledgment of the royal or national favour is annually paid down to the present time. THE EARL OF MORNINGTON died on Thursday, after a brief illness, at his residence in London. He was son of the third earl, and was born in 1788. In 1812 he married the eldest daughter and coheir of the late Sir Jas. Tylney-Long, Bart., whose name he thereupon assumed. The proceedings consequent on that alliance brought the earl's name prominently before the public many years ago. His wife died in 1825, since which Lord Mornington has been again married. The constableship of Maryborough Castle and the rangership of Epping Eorest become vacant by the demise of the noble earl, who is succeeded in the family honours by his son, Viscount Wellesley, now fifth Earl of Mornington.