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JUNE 24, 1854. but the other admitted them to degrees and emolu ments, gave them votes in Convocation, and a share in the governing power. He insisted on taking the sense of the house on the question. Lord JOHN then admitted that if a division were really called he should vote against the second clause, as he had againstthe The division resulted in negativing the second clause by a majority of 205 to 106-9. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL kCANADA) BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill in the Peers on Thursday, The Earl of DERBY, after a warm attack upon the measure as an attempt to change the constitution of Canada from a monarchical to a democratic character, asked the Duke of Newcastle to postpone the com mittee on the ground of the thinness of the house and the want of autlicient notice. The Duke of NEWCASTLE complained of the course taken by the noble earl as unfair, but, after some little altercation, The committee was postponed for a week. THE BARON DE BODE. The long-standing claims of the Baron de Bode were on Tuesday brought before the House of Corn mons by Mr. M. CHAMBERS ' who moved a resolution setting forth " that national good faith requires that the just claims of the Baron de Bode, established after protracted investigation, should be satisfied." Those claims, as the hon. member explained at full length, arose under treaties concluded between the French Nerd English Governments shortly after the restore ration of the Bourbons, for the purpose of providing compensation for the losses incurred by British sub jests through the illegal confiscation of their property during the Revolution. He argued that the late Baron de Bode, whose claims and rights were now transmitted to his heir, had been an English subject ; that his property bad been sacrificed under circum • stances which brought his case under the purview of the treaties in question; and that many distin guished lawyers, among whom were Sir Samuel Ito milly and Lord Lyndhurst, had investigated and re cognised the justice of his demand. Mr. Chambers then detailed the history of the estate of the Bode family (ori ginally a German male fief, situated in Lower Alsace, a province annexed subsequently to France) ; its confiscation, in 1793, by reason of the emigration of Charles Baron de Bode and of his son Clement, the original claimant ; the claim for compensation made by the latter under the conventions in 1814, and the multifarious judicial proceedings resorted to by the Baron Clement de Bode in this country in order to establish his claim. In the course of his argument the hon. member insisted strongly upon what he con sidered to be a misrecital of one of the conventions in the statute bOth George 111., which, he alleged, had misled the House of Lordi—the court of error in the last resort—in finally adjudicating upon the baron's case. He came to that house, lie said; not because this was a legal claim, but because a mistake had been made, to be repaired only by Parliament, which, while it protected the rights of the subjects of the Crown, should endeavour to redress their wrongs. Mr. H. DRUMMOND, who seconded the motion, de clared that the British nation in denying justice to the baron had practised repudiation in its worst form. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL resisted the claim in a speech devoted to a minute examination of its legal bearings. He maintained that the case of the Baron de Bode did not come within the treaty cited, which was intended to redress wrongs sustained by British subjects, while the claimant could only claim a partial right to that title, which he had ac quired " accidentally." He was born in England, and his mother was an Englishwoman, but his father was a French subject, the family were domiciled in France, and the property which formed the basis of his claim was held under the French law. The Baron Clement de Bode took the estate subject to all the incidents of the tenure of the property and to the municipal laws of France, and could not establish a claim for compensation on the ground of its forfeiture unless he could place himself entirely out of the reach of those laws in respect to the tenure. The claim had been thoroughly investigated by various tribunals, and the Attorney General justified the conclusions adverse to the claim at which they had arrived. The wrong sus tained had not been suffered by the claimant in his character of English subject, the property being con limited not as belonging to an alien but to an emigrant subject of France. The protracted debate which followed turned exclusively upon the legal points involved in the case, which were discussed with great acuteness and ngenuity, chiefly by the professional members. Mr. Bowyer, Mr. T. Chambers, Mr. Walpole, and Mr. Malins were in favour of the motion. Sir F. Thesiger and the Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed it. Mr. Spooner and Mr. Dunlop confessed that they had entered the house under predispositions favourable to the baron's claims, but had been con vinced of their groundlessness by the arguments they had heard during the debate. PRES 4 Mr. Wrisox, taking a financial view of the case, stated that the whole compensation fund received by the British Government in trust for claimants had long since been exhausted by payments made on account of its legitimate object. if the present claim were allowed, nearly half a million of money must be raised by taxation from the English people. . . On a division, after six hours' debating, the motion was rejected by a majority of b 2 to 07-15. PROTESTANT CHAPLAINS IN LUNATIC ASYLUMS. The house being in committee of supply on Mon day night, a vote of 164,1051. was proposed for the maintenance of gaols, Beldam Hospital, and pau per lunatic asylums. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD moved as an amendment that the vote should be reduced by 1001., being the amount of the salary of the chaplain in a lunatic asylum. Referring to the vote passed some days since retrenching the item allowed for the ministra • tions of Roman Catholic prie.ts in prisons, he wished to test the principle by proposing a similar reduction in the case of a Protestant chaplain. This amendment provoked considerable discussion, in the course of which Lord PALMERSTON confessed to having experienced much surprise and pain at the result of the division on the former occasion, and deprecated the renewal of a controversy from which unfortunate detenus in prisons and asylums must be the sufferers. On a division the amendment was negatived by 246 votes to 23-223. The vote, as originally pro posed, was then agreed to. tortign null golimial itttiligtitte. FRANCE. Earnest appeals for additional reinforcements have, it is stated, arrived from Marshal de St. Arnaud, and the utmost exertions are being made at Toulon to forward the necessary troops with the least possible delay. In consequence of this it has been found necessary to postpone the formation of the proposed camp in the neighbourhood of Marseilles, there not being sufficient troops left in that part of France to make a respectable figure in the field. The fifth division of the reserve has been ordered for active service, and a sixth division is now in course of formation at Toulon. The accounts from Marseilles state that the fifth division, consisting of 10,000 men, under General Le laillante, is ready for embar kation. The Emperor has decided that four camps of infantry shall be established in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. flonveult, Wiinerenx,i Ambleteuse, and g qm ihen are the four points Axed on. The troops will, it is s,aid, teach their destination about the 15th. July. The effective force will be alto gather 50,000 men, independently of the garrison of Boulogne. The Minister of Marine has decided that two naval engineers shall proceed to England to visit the steam-engine factories' establishments, in order to see what improvements can be introduced into that branch of manufacture in France. Wednesday's Moniteur contains a report addressed to the Emperor, and signed by M. de Persigny, in which be gives a sketch of the history of his adminis tration ever since he became Minister, enters into details as to the principal measures which have been adopted under his directions, and sets forth the difficulties which he encountered in his way and overcame. This report, which fills three pages of the official journal, is supposed to be prepared in anticipatien a, M. Persigny's early retirement from office. MM. Jerome Bonaparte, father and son, the son and grandson of Marshal Prince Jerome by his first wife, Miss Patterson, have just arrived on board the Franklin from the United States. The grandson is said to be a striking likeness of Napoleon T. The Countess de Mentijo, mother of the Empress of the French, arrived in Paris on Monday. The Duke d'Albe accompanies her. Much apprehension for the crops thieughout France has been occasioned by the long-continued rains. The last accounts, however, ,report a con siderable improvement. The price pt porn has risen in Paris, but chiefly from the enhaneed consump tion. In the provinces the markets have fallen in many instances:— " A contract entered into by the Prfeeta of the Seine and Police, with the Authorisation of the Minister of the Interior, and Idld. Margheritte, Lacarriere, Payn, Brunton-hitt, Dubochet , and Gosiwlin, representing the six, gas companies which have the lighting of Paris, is no* under the Consideration of the Municipel Cormell. At• cording to this contract, the privilege is extended ter thirtytwo years, from the lat dannary last. In 11418 all the gas works are to be removed out of Paris. At the expiration of the privilege, all the material will heloag to the city, on the payment of au indemnity of two minim... If any scientific discoveries are made, the companies can not oppose their application. They will pay to the city by 483 way of octroi duty 2c. per cubic metre pf gas during the whole term of the concession. The prices to be laid by city and private persons for gas are also regulated in this arrangement. The tariff is to diminish at intervals during the currency of the contract." GERMANY. No reply had on Thursday been received in Vienna from St. Petersburg to the Austrian summons. A simultaneous answer was expected to the Austre- Prussian note. A Cabinet Council was held in Vienna on Monday, under the Emperor as President. It was resolved that if an evasive answer came from Russia an ultimatum, to be accepted or rejected in eight days, should be sent. The Austrian Cabinet has despatched an answer to the Bamberg propositions, simply renewing the invitations to join the treaty of the 20th April. In case of refusal, it is intimated that Austria and Prussia will follow their own course indeptudently. The Austrian Archduke Albert arrived at Semlin, opposite Belgrade, on the 10th, and reviewed the in• fantry division which is quartered there. At Sandhi he received the visit of the Prince of Servia. A provisional loan of fifteen millions of thalera (56,250,0001.) at four and a half per oent., with commission at one per cent., has been issued in Ber lin at the rate of 94. Theestablishment of maritime commerce is to take a part of it. The King of Holland and the King of Denmark have each declined to adhere to the Austrio-Prussian treaty in their charat.ters of Dukes of Luxem bourg and Holstein, alleging that its engagements might lead into a position inconsistent with their proclaimed neutrality. Whenever either of these so vet% igns determines to declare war with Russia, lie will doubtless think it most consistent with his dignity to do so as a European monarch, and not as a Gerinan prince. SWEDEN. The King and the Prince Royal of Sweden left Stockholm ou the 10th instant for the island of (i oth laud, on board the admiral's ship, the Charles XII., esorting a Suedo•NorwegifUl squadron. His Itlajesty intended to disembark at Shut, and to go afterwards to Wisby : his return to Stockholm was announced for the Isth or 19th. Since 1487 no King of Sweden has visited Gothland. ' .111(Eil 17911±,11 Advices from Turin of the 15th statethat the Judge Gabbri, who had been conducting the preliminary inquiry into the guilt of the persons charged with the assassination of the late Duke of Parma, was mortally wounded with three strokes of a poniardia the streets of Parma, on the .12tiriastant, at lee o'clock in the evening. ••••• IN 1 . . P, The Corriere Mercantil mentions a runieur 'Met rent at "Milan . , according to which it 'eatup - or , cooe Austrians is to be formed at A`olta, op the ?abaci°, '1,4 tensibly for military evolutione," • vet •. ' it In Xtladrid, on the night of the 1501', 4 0Stierals Orlando and Mess 4a were arrested on a charge of harbouring General O'Donnell. . General Messina managed to escape the vigileina of his guards after the arrest, but Geueral Orlando bad. ,here seat off Galicia. The capital MIA tranquil. TURKEY. An important arrangement has been concluded at Constantinople between Austria and the Porte for the occupation of the Nloldo-Wallachian principali ties by an Austrian corps d'annee In certain eases. The principal conditions of this convention lire Said to be that, if Russia voluntarily retiree, the Awittian frooroi 'will enter the prinifiralitiea - 'end ,form it del fence between Ittnisia and Turkey. if Reissia refuses to retire, Austria 'will take such ineseurts as MO appear necessary to "ensure her acting so. .1, al The Sultan has granted al:tension of SOZ piastres to the family of b i l li zt fi racha the gov and gallant defender of'S was killed w 4 shell on the 2nd init. ' Four pieces of artillery; taken at' Slatina, arrived at Widdin on the 4th, and *ere conducted in triumph to the citadel amidst a large concourse' of 'people. Courier arrived on the same day, bringing' a swbrd of honour, sent by Omar Paths to Scander-Bey, wire cc/inmate:led four hundred baithi-besooksiti the affkit at Slating, and Who particularly distinguished him self. The Tarlik'ttive fitted up the Necfjenti Chenkr, three-decker, to' tierve as a prison for the Russian, taken by the Arighi•French cruisers. A first batch, composed of ISO ofolaietis,lfoe'eolonel, one lieritemurt; coltmel, one major, two antogeons seven captains, and twelve lieutenants, that Were br ought by the Sidon, has already been conveyed on board. Safer Pacha 'hair bees nominated Governor of Cfreassia. RUSSIA. Letters and rumotira from Si. Petersburg arrive by various routes, 'the latest dates being the 13th instant Among the intelligence which may be considered authentic' is the statement that the Czar has ordered Prince Dolgorotiki, Minister of War, to . • - I, 1 11; F.