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JUNE 25, 1853. 2. That Mr. Hodgson, the only petitioner, did not offer to with. draw the said petition on the receipt of a large sum of money from Mr. Forster, nor was any such offer made by any person oft his behalf. 2. That on or about the 10th of November a preposal was made by Mr. Hodgson to Mr. John Forster, the son of the theft sitting member, to the effect that, in the event of a vacancy caused by the prosecution of the petition against Mr. Stapletuu alone, Mr. Fonder should give a pledge that he and his *lends should not oppose Mr. Hodgson's return ; and that a guarantee should be given, either in the shape of a bond for 1,0001.. or a bet to that amount depending upon the return of Mr. Hodgooft. Both proposals were declined by Mr. John Forster. 4. That on the 15th of April an offer was made by Mr. Taylor. with the sanction of Mr. Hodgson Mule, the brother of Mr. Hodgson, that if a check for 2,01)01. were placed in Mr. Taylor's hands by Mr. Forster, as a security for any costs that wig et be incurred in the prosecution of the petiti , we evidence should be offered against Mr. Fonder's return. he engaging net to use his influence against a Conservative candidate at the next elec tion. This proposal was declined by Mr. Fotwier. 5. That the Berwick election committee met on the 22nd of April, and on the evening of that day a proposal V 4404 made by Mr. J. Coppoe.k, the agent of Mr. Forster, that no further tort. deuce should be produced against Mr. Forster, who should take his theme of the decision of the co ittee on the evidence al. ready adduced, and should not oppose Mr. Hodgson at the coining election. This offer was then realm eel ; hut o► the following day, Mr. Stapleton having declined any further to defend his return, it was filially agreed between Mr. Taylor, on behalf of Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. J. Coppook, the agent of Mr. Forster, that no further evidence should be tendered to the committee; that all costs, not to exceed 3001., were to be paid by Mr. Fonder, but whether ►xonditionally on Mr. Forster retaining his seat or not does not distinctly appear, and that Mr. Forster should undertake not to offer any opposition to any candidate prepaied by Mr Hodgson or Mr. Ulnae. S. That this arrangement was made without the knowledge or consent of Mr. Forster, and was never commuideated to him un. nil the 7th of May following. In the case of TAUNTON the committee decided on Wednesday 1— " That Sir John Rannalen, Bart., is duly elected to Nerve in this present Parliament for the borough of Taunton. That tau voters (named) were bribed to vote or abstain from voting, but that it was not proved that the acts of bribery were committed with► the knowledge and consent of Sir J. liamsden or his agents." BRIBERY AT ElxertoNs. Lord 1). STUAKT gave notice that on the dirt of July ho would move a resolution that it be an instruction to the Atumrney- General to prosecute all persons who had been reported by election committees to have been guilty of bribery, as agents tur candi dates. 'omit, n ant( Colonial nttlligtnte. [Front our own Correspondent.] PARIS, June THE MORiblir contains decrees of importance, dated St. Cloud, `,',end June. The first concerns the aboli tion of the Ministry of the General Police, and gives the following reasons for the act : " Napoleon, &c. " Considering that the calm and security which exist in the empire of France permit the suppression of the Mi nistry of the General Police, the institution of which was caused by circumstances exceptional and temporary, we have decreed, and do decree, that the Ministry of the Ge neral Police is suppressed. " Art. 2. The attributions of the General Police are united to those of the Minister of the Interior, &c. " Napoleon, itc. " Art. 1. A Direction of General Surety is established at the Ministry of the Interior. " Art. 2. This direction comprehends the General Cor respondence, the General and Special Police, the Press, the Printing and Library departments of the archives of the By these decrees M. do Maupas is uo longer a Mi nister. lie is named a senator, and is to be Ambas salor at Naples or at Rome. It is said that three conspiracies, one after the other, have been discovered against the person of the Emperor, and were re vealed to him by others than M. de Alaupas, who ought to have discovered and denounced himself these machinations. If he knew nothing of them he was evidently of no use. But it is a fact that not one of the Ministers knew that the project of suppress ing the Ministry of the General Police was even con templated. The Emperor paid a visit to M. Fould the other day, taking him quite by surprise, telling him he came, as a neighbour, to see him in a friendly fly. Mme. Fould got up a little impromptu soiree, and the Emperor danced on the lawn, with that affability and grace he knows so well how to give to trifles in ap pearance. But lam much mistaken if that evening it was not decided upon " n flare denser" M. de Maupas, although absent. Several other Ministerial modifications are on the tapir. M. Collet.Mergoet, Prefect of the Department de l'Aube, Secretary-General of the Prefecture of the General Police (abolished), is named Director of the General Surety. The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce is to be re-established, and the Ministry of Public Works attached thereto will form one and sole Ministry, under the orders of M. Hahne. Three vessels, now arming at Cherbourg and Brest, united with other frigates, which are pre paring at the same time, will form a Channel fleet, ready to co-operate with the British squadron under Admiral Collie. The circular of M. de Nesselrode meete with little sympathy here. It is considered THE PRESS. as the quintessence of Jesuitism, and a parody in action of the fable of the wolf and the lamb. No one denies it is ingenious and subtle, but its pacific tendency scarcely excels the violence of the arts pre paring on the part of Russia. if the Czar is follow ing out a traditional idea of Catherine IL, and finds the moment propitious to his loug-cherished family views, little does it signify whether the cause be just or not. His brother was not named Con stantine from caprice. The differences between France and the Republic of Ecuador have been settled. Admiral Despoint entered the river Uuayaquil, and obtained the satis faction France had demanded. Mention is made of the armament of two vessels at Toulon. The levy of sailors, which has been de creed by the Minister of Marine, will furnish a contingent of 4,000 men. The Friedland, of 110 guns, has left Toulon to join the French squadron in the Dardanelles. She will take the place of the Montebello, which will return to Toulon. The greatest activity prevails in the dockyard at Cherbourg, in fitting out a number of ships to form a Channel squadron, to act in co-operation with that of the English, in case of their sere ices being required. The funeral obsequies of the late M. Garibaldi, the Pope's Nuncio, took place in Paris on Tuesday, with great ceremony. The pallbearers were two of the Cabinet Ministers, and the Ministers of Prussia and Belgium. Lord Cowley, the English Ambas sador, acted as chief mourner. SAXON Y. The mar►iage of the Prince Albert of Saxony with the Princess Carola of Wasa was celebrated on Satur day last in the cathedral of Dresden. The King on the occasion of it has granted an amnesty, with three exceptions, to the soldiers condemned for having taken part in the insurrection of May. AUSTRIA. A false report that the Russians had crossed the l'ruth, and had entered the Danubian principality of 'Moldavia, was circulated in Vienna at the close of 'Change on the 14th. A licensed broker was severely called to account for having promulgated it, and, though he gave up his authorities, will probably be further punished for the transgression. One of the great dealers, and a gentleman connected with the foreign press, were mentioned as implicated in the affair. The juiseur in question is said to have made a good job of it. Other rumours equally false, or, at all events, premature, have repeatedly obtained cur rency, to the effect that Russia had either sought, obtained, or accepted Austrian mediation for the settlement of the Turkish dispute. The belief in the probability of such an arrangement prevails still in Vienna and Paris. Lord Carlisle has passed through Vienna en route for Constantinople. He purposes travelling by way of l'esth and down the Danube. Special letters for passage safety were given by the Russian Minister in Vienna to his lordship and Major-General Sir C. O'Donnell, who accompanies him on his journey, addressed to all the Russian authorities whom they might encounter by the way. Lord Carlisle is said to be the bearer of definitive instructions to Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe. PRUSSIA. The King is about t visit the baths at Putbus. Ile will be accompanied by the Primo Minister, Baron Manteuffel. The Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the Government to conclude a treaty with France, in con sequence of the great extension of the commercial relations between the two countries. The negotiations begun by the Minister of Com merce, to obtain the accession of the Hanseatic towns to the Zollverein, have proved without success. Major-General Count Charles Bentinck left Berlin on Monday, after a most courteous reception by their Majesties, and with every hope of his long-contested lawsuit being soon decided in his favour. SPAIN. The Government has sent General Prince on a mission tA) Constantinople. There is no change in the Ministry, which still re mains incomplete. RUSSIA . An important Stat© paper has been published in the Journal of St. Petersburg of the 12th instant. It is a circular note, dated the 11th of June, relative to the Turkish question, and addressed by the Russian Government to all its diplomatic agents abroad ; to be communicated by each of them to the Govern ment to which he is accredited : ------- - - - " In this note the Goveniment protests energetically against the ideas of invasion attributed to it, and affirms that in the complications which have arisen in the East it is only a question of the Holy Places. It pusses in re view all the incidents of the question, and endeavours to demonstrate that the protectorate claimed by the Czar over the Greeks in the East cannot be contested either in prin ciple or in fact. The note then declares that the want of 175 sincerity displayed on this question by the TurkishOoreen ment, which had accorded to Russia and Frame respec tively contradictory firmans in favour of the Greeks and Latins, obliges the Russian Government to demand Rustle tees for the future. It demanded at first to have these guarantees inserted in a formal convention between Russia and the Porte; but afterwards, from a spirit of con ciliation, it successively reduced its demand to the .hoed; finally, to en engagement taken by the Porte, in the sitar of a note addressed by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. This note, the Russian Government declares, contains the extreme limits of its eoneeetsions, and that if within the delay of eight days the Porto does not accept purely and simply that proposit ion, which has already been the subject of the bud communication of Prince Menschi koff to Rescind ratchet, and the first r•fhsal of which deter mined the departure of that envoy, Russia will be obliged to take the n►cessary measures to cut the knot which it would have been her earnest desire to loose pacifically ; but it thr►ws upon the Porte and those who have encouraged it to resist the demands of Russia the responsibility of all the fatal consequences which that resistance may engender for the peace of the world." The departure of the Emperor of Russia for Odessa is announced. Prince Menmechikoff is at Sebastopol, waiting for the Emper►r's orders. lie is stated to have been appointed liovernor of the Crimea. Two Turkish vessels, one loaded with slaves and the other with grain, have been captured by the Russians in the Black Sea. The war in the Caucasus has again broken out with redoubled fury, and the Russians are reported to have suffered a defeat at the hands of Schamyl. Letters from Odessa state that preparations for war were going on with great activity, but the autho rities still continued to assure the merchants that peace would not b►e disturbed, and recommended them to continue their operations. A division of the squadron of the Sea of Azoff has been ordered to enter the Black Sea and proceed to Sebastopol. This division comprises a number of small steamers. _ TURKEY. At an extraordinary Council of the Ministers, Viziers, and other+, held in Constantinople on the oth inst., it. was unanimously resolvol (A grant firmans to all Turkish subjects, augmenting their ecclesias tiaal privileges, and restoring all religions conces sions made by the several Sultans since the foundation of the Ottoman Porte ; but which have gradually fallen into partial disuse. The hatti sheriff issued in consequence was solemnly delivered to the (treat Patriarch on the 7th, in the presence of a great number of notables. The Turkish armaments continue. Much enthu siasm prevails among the people. The excitement is on the increase, and the Govern ment are straining every nerve to prepare for war. Two regiments on the model of the Chasseurs de Vincennes are forming. They are destined for ser vice in the Balkan. The last French steamer has brought 40,0 IN) muskets for the Porte. 2,0(X) gunners have left for Varla and Shumla. A Russian steamer had arrived to take away the remainder of the members of the embassy. The interval for the acceptance of the new eta wawa was to terminate on the 10th. The English fleet is at the Dardanelles, and the French fleet at 'Penedos. The Austrian Internuncio, M. de Bruck, arrived at tl►e Dardanelles 4111 the 9th. UN I TED STATES. The weekly mail received by the Atlantic brings New York dates to the 11th inst. The Leawler frigate, with the Earl of Ellesmere, the royal commissioner appointed to represent the English nation at the New York Exhibition, on board, arrived at New York on the 10th inst. A further arrival of gold from California had taken place at New York, the estimated value being about 3,0110,000 doll. The New York Herald states that Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, had received despatches by the last steamer relative to the fishery and reciprocity question, and urging the matter upon the attention of the United States Governntent. Mr. Buchanan was desirous of having the negotiations transferred to London. CANADA. Dreadful riots hail occurred at Quebec and Mon treal on the occasion of Father tiavazzi's lectures. He lectured on the 6th inst. at Quebec, and many persons were injured by the mob. Father Gavazzi was himself thrown out of the pulpit, and received a severe cut on the head, and another on the face. (►n the 9th he gave a lecture at Montreal. The Catholic portion of the community became furious; the military were called out, and were ordered to fire on the mob, when seven persons were killed, six mortally injured, and ten severely wounded. Tele graphic accounts state that great excitement continued to exist in Montreal on the 10th. CHINA AND INDIA. The last advices from Victoria and Hong Kong come down to the 22nd of April, and confirm the in