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deed, as the clause stood The penalty of forty shillings would have to he sued for by the Attorney tieneral in the Court of Queen's Bench. Then the police officers were to take cognisance of misconduct, u Misconduct" was a very vague word. They were to make a report, but nothing was staid as to what 'was to be done when they had made one. ( Laughter.) Lastly, they were to act as referees ; lint whether with or without the consent of the parties did net appear. Colonel SinTße4r would rather trust to the wis dom of a police officer than to that of the Treasury bench. (Laughter.) The clauses were negatived without a division. A subsequent amendment, stored by Mr. Scemy, was agreed to. It enacted thst the proprietor of every hackney-cab or ttsge-carriage who should withdraw his vehicle from hire for two consecutive days, or for any two days in one week, without just cause, should be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings a day, with suspension of licem e, at the discretion of the Commissioners of Police, unless he had given two days' notiee of such withdrawal. The four-mile radios f r et whence to estimate the double rate of hark fare was also agreed to, and Temple-bur fixed Upon as the centre of that radius. THE LONDON SEWEIts, The comfftittal of the Metropolitan Sewers Act Continuance Bill excited a prolonged discussion on Tuesday. The stall kir the London sewerage called forth loud complaints; the commissioners were heavily attacked as the responsible persons ; and strong reasons were urged why the comtnission should be placed on a better footing. Lord PALMERSTON promised that no new works should he undertaken without the sanction of Mr. Stephenson and Sir William l'ltbitt. No plan of sewerage would be effective which converted the Thames into a sewer, instead of allowing it to he an ornament and a blessing to the metropolis. The Government would take the whole question into con sideration. The bill passed through committee, after an in struction moved by Lord l'At.mcitsvox (anti agreed to on a division ), giving the committee power to make provision as to the moneys borrowed or to be bor rowed under the net. 1 1 4)1..1en The select committee appointed to consider the ex pediency of adopting a mor..t uniform s)stem of liolice in England, Wales anti Seolland, have reported the resolutions to 'which they arrived. They resolve :- 1. That the e‘iating timid Police Act has (from the *missive Obaraeter of its enactments) failed to provide suck A general mid uniform constabulary t Wee as, in their %opinion, is essentially required for the prevention of erime and security of property. "2. That in the districts in which the Rural Police Act has been adopted its effieiency for the prevention of crime, by rendering the detection and apprelieusion of offenders more prompt and eertain, has been aatistlietotily provoll that it has tenths' to the maintenance of (order, and the improved habits of the population ; that vagraney has greatly decreased ; and the effectual protection afforded to property ileettliarly exposed no depredation has, in the opinion of owners and holders of land, rendered its 4 " .11 ' potion more desirable. " 3. That the superintending conatahles appointed under the Ath sad thh e, WO, have proved useful as poli ce Alert's, to the extent of their individual exertions, but that the appointment of a superintending constable in each petty sessional division provides no remedy tior the (-jersey of parochial constables ; and that any system of police mainly dependent Ott the aid of parochial constables mutt prove inetfectual. "4. That the actual most of the mod police fore" is as vertailtable by the ratepayers, while the great aggregate saying elfeeted by it is not so generally known or anal , elated. That it is, on the other hand, difficult to ascertain the extent of the indirect and undefined expense of the parochial constables : it has, however, been proved to greatly exceed the amount at which it is generally esti mated. " to. That where the population of separate districts within the same county differs in amount and iii the cha racter of its employments, and (-consequently in its require ments for a pollee three, an equitable adjustment of the pollee rate should be provided for by enactment. " ff. That the efficiency of all existing police forces is materially impaired by the want of co-operation between the rural constabulary and the police under the control of the authorities of boroughs, or other local ,jurisdietions. That, in order to secure that co-operation, the smaller boroughs should be consolidated with districts or counties for police purposes, and that the police in the larger boroughs alsould under a similar system of IllallBl4l , meat and control to that of the adjoining district or (-comity, and ( where practicable) under the saute superintendence, by whieli arrangement a considereble saving would be of in the general expenditure. "7. That, taking into consideration the aid afforded (hitherto partially and gratuitously 1 by the rural pollee for the protection of the revenue. the maintenance of order. and in promoting the obaervanee of the laws, it is a matter worthy the consideration of the house whither some aid should not he Worded by the tioverument towards defray ing the cost of an improved and extended system of polic e , without essentially interfering with the local management of that forty. " S. That it is most desirable that legislative measures *Wild be introduced without delay by her Majesty's Ocp THE PRESS. venunent, rendering the adoption of an efficient police force on a uniform prinLiple itopenttive throughout lireat BETTING-HOUSES BILL At the third reading of this measure, on Wednesday, Mr. I'ELLArr proposed to introduce a clause sulljeet ing to summary process before the magistratee, With u penalty of 201., or imprisonment, eit every person who shall by in* placard, or writing, or by utlvertisumoot, t 1 k 1 61' intimation of any kind in any newsrAre 4 -, offend give information as to the result of aux e 00. Oen. in game, thereafter to he run or deter end any editor or proprietor of any neweraver in serting or knowingly suffering t o La lu s t-rte.' tit, r e in any such advertisement, notiro, or Intimation as aforesaid. or any printer or publisher knowingly printing or publishing any such bill, phseard l advertisement, notice, or Ultima' ." The Sotto - mu-Gm:nu. bad expressed his appro. Winn of the clause, when Mr. llouvEntF. interposed with a remonstrance against laying so unprecedented and unjustifiable a penalty upon the editors of news papers. Mr. Wm.rou.: also remarked that under this clause an editor who might announce that he would give an account of any racing events ircnid become liable to the penalty. I iord PALSIERSTON thus enlightened as to the real effects of the clause, admitted that it required more considerittion, and the motion was withdrawn. The bill then passed the Commons. CLITHEROE ELECTION. • - The committee on this election, in a special report, refer to a general question of flinch importance— namely, the unsatisfactory state of the law with regard to the notice which ought to be given to the elector:4 of disqualification In the candidates returned by a nukioriv of votes :-- "Ity the common law, the principle aortas tAt be established that, %VISIm a candidate is in point of fact disqualified at the time of ni, election, all votes given for him with knowledge of the fact upon which such ollsoptallticatiott Ia f Ird moist be considered Na thrown awaty. The committee are of opitMon that the eases in precedent are SI) CI littnulietory that future common teen limy POMO Go different conclusioant, anti they consider it must desirable Na regards the election of 1114•111114•114 of Parliament that the law should he distinctly defined by Slllllll stilt:miry enactment. Under the whilitoistrottiott of the present law .01 tiMietioned by s, • laTerdelits, not °lily laity titillstts••• l ie tlenw it, einistitueueirA by being represented by persons %Olson the ulajurilr of ch.ctors have reje.sed• pat merit iloctiviotosh! voter may be plowed in a ltActitiOA taltAtt..tiV. llte assertion of an opposing party Ow. r Y ) '.l . :'6,lloWaliala to 11,7•111'1411 , 0 his franchise at the risk of his vote being thrown away, mliould the existence of that olisqualineation lw established on subsequent jut estigution." PRIVATE COMMUNICATIoNS. Sir John Shelley having, on Wednesday, read in the House of Conn - lions a circular, sent by Mr. Frewen to the gentlemen of the Opposition, sum moning them to appear in the house on Monday evening, to insist on the restoration of a clause which their lordships struck out of the Turnpike Acts Con tinuation Bill, the following letter has been addressed to the hon. baronet by Mr. Frewen : "Sir,—As I mutat bolt remard the reading by yen hi the If one of Commons. thin morninz. of a note of mine ranked ' private,' titt involvinif n breneli luf eontidenee on the mutt of some member of the Comturintive party. to whom it had been auldresm , ol—in jumtive 10 myself, I demand to know toms whom you received it ? I an your obedient aeriuit, C. 11. Fitimr.s, Wednesday, August 10." CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS.. Mr. Walpole's hill tie consolidate and umeud the laa et re htting to bribery, corrupt trestlinte, and intimidation at eleetions, b e new penned. It ht propeeell that it shall come into open:then on the of Novembeer. Ile,ieles the 1111111:. of Mr. Walpole. the bill bears the 11:11iler of Mr. Die-retell and Sir F. Thesitter. There are 2tl provialons in the nem:atty. in thee day of notteinatiem 14 el oolielate is tee make a 111 . ..larlitiOn that hi , 11144 1101 111.1.11, and w ill not. be. 14 p,irtc to loriberv, treating', or undue influence and every elector, if restitireel, is to tentLe a declaration that he has not, directly or inelirooly, receive., or lead any sum of me rney, Ofilet.,or employment, etc. False tietelarettlents to be wilful perfury. tore* andc7oloniat n►n• (urn OuTespondent.] Pants, August 11. AT a dinner given at the Palace of St. Cloud the poet Jasmin addressed some verses to the Empress fall cf delicate allusions. Taking his inspirations from his heart, he alluded to the mother of M. Mae, eighty .% ears of age, who had undertaken a journey from one end of France to the other to join her son in exile in Belgium. Taking advantage of the sym pathetic feelings excited in the Imperial circle, he was emboldened to ask the pardon and recal of M. Daze to his native country. In speaking of the deep of mtion of a family separated by exile, he took oeeasion to allude with gracefulness to the interesting situation of the Empress, herself about to become a mother. 'I he Emperor granted his request in the most generous manner, accompanying his permission for M. to return to France by no condition what soever. When we consider that, when (Nestor of the National Assembly, N. Rare was one of the most violent opponents of Louis Napoleon, and most offen sive in his proceedings towards hint, we cannot but se. SATURDAY, knowledge the magnanimity of the Emperor in thii proceeding. M. Baze, perhaps feeling how little he merited this goodness, published the following letter in the InNyeedance Belge : Sir,--I have just read in the Sielete with feelings of pain such US I cannot describe the recital of a scene which passed at St. Cloud, and of which that journal gives the billowing aecount. • • • • • • I had thought that I had made all my friends, and par ticularly M, 3tistuin, comprehend that any attempt or solicitation whatever• addressed to the Government in my i:r•uttr would lie hurtful to my feelings, and 1 had hoped that they would have abstained from taking any such steps, as I had a right to expect, us u duty they owed to myself. It has not been so. What has now occurred obliges mu again to reiterate my resolve, the motive of which will be easily understood by all men of heart. The termination of the banishment which in my person strikes three gene rations of exiles can never, even in appearance, be the result of a favour granted, directly or indirectly, to any one, Le he who he may. " lIAZI., " Aikeicn Questeur de I . .k.ssemblee Nationale de France." M. Arago, scarcely recovered from his recent ill ness, has resumed his duties as Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences. M. de Fallout has arrived in Paris. The Emperor, after a personal ex aminatlon, has placed at the disposition of Captain tie Burager the emu of 130,0001'. for the construction of a sailing vessel destined to solve the question long mooted of the possibility of making Paris a sea port without constructing any canal. The Presse adds this remark :—" By the invention of steam, France has already nothing to envy in the insular position of Great Britain. Very soon, through the improvements brought to bear upon the building of ships, Ptuis will have nothing to envy in London." 1 am glad to be of a contrary opinion to the Presse. When the announcement appeared in the 3loniteur that. the Emperor of Russia had given his adhesion to the note sent from Vienna, loud hymns of peace were sung, a great rise in the funds took place, with great erowiugs of the journals favourable to "peace at any price." M. tinizot said, " L'incident passe, twig Tottaire remte." The Ministerial reserves in the British Houses of Parliament have damped the joy of the optimists to-day. The. Russians in Paris are firmly of opinion that the occupation of the Da nubian provinces is permanent, and that the manner and maitre of the operations, civil and military, are sure indications of the " appropriation system" of Russia. There will be a grand dinner at the Hotel de Ville on the 13th of August, in honour of the Fete of Napoleon. One hundred and eighty invita tions have been issued. The Ministers of the Emperor, the Prefect of Police, the Mayor of Paris, and all the high municipal functionaries, will be present at this feast, which is to take place in the magnificent Salle du Trone. The Prince Jerome has quitted his property at . Villegenis for the Château de Mention, where he will remain for the rest of the summer. The Queen Christine is gone to Havre. Her suite is composed of fifteen persons. Splendid apartments have been prepared for her at Frascati. A new sort of carriage has been constructed for the Orleans Railroad. It is a complete house, consisting of a drawing-room, bedroom, kitchen, and wine-cellar, with icing apparatus for fifty bottles of wine—in fact, apartment* funnslied elegantly anti comfortably. It WAS built under the immediate direction of the Comte de L—, and he can now travel " at home " from one end of Europe to the other. The Jockey Club have started by express train to Dieppe, to be present at the steeplechases which are to take place there. Since the affair of the Opera Comique, the words "by order," indicating the intended presence of the Emperor and Empress, no longer figure on the play bills. A numerous escort of cavalry accompanied the Emperor to the theatre Le Cirque the evening before last. There is something important to be made public in the Moniteur tin the 15th instant. I believe it will he the announcement of the coronation, and, perhaps, the arrival of the Pope. It is probable the Emperor will visit Lille More the 15th instant, in which case ho will set off to-morrow. On Thursday last a dreadful storm broke over Lyons : it lasted thirty-five minutes, and caused terrible ravages. The following scrio.comic incident deserves mention :—A splendid banquet was to be given to the Minister at War in the tent of the Field-Marshal Castellane. All the principal official dignitaries of the province and of the town had been invited. At the moment of sitting down t-t dinner the storm broke over them, the wind threatening to carry away the tent., and the tor rents of rain penetrating the canvas. The guests, in most admired disorder, regained the town, well drenched to the skin, without their dinner, and many without. any clothes to change. :Monday next. the 15th. being the /We day of Napoleon. will be celebrated by a magnificent series of processions, illuminations, &c., for which prepara tions have been making during the week upon the grandest scale. The Place de la Concorde, the Barrier de VEtoiie, the (Inns Elysees, and the