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I believe the Sardinian Government has even received official information to this effect, but I have not heard whether it has thought it necessary yet to demand an explanation of such an imposing force gathering on its frontier. It has, however, determined on strengthening the fortifications at Alessandria, by surrounding ihe whole with detached forts, and the works are to be com menced forthwith. A letter from Parma, of the 2nd, in the Rtacir gitrunto of Turin, says :-r We are told that Marshal Radetzky has officially in- formed the Duchess Regent that, from strategical motives, he intends to increase our garrison to 3,000 men, to be quartered partly in the city and partly in the environs. Placentia has received an increase of MO chasseurs of the Imperial regiment ; the citadel has been demolished, the Austrians have constructed three forts around, armed with guns; they are called St. Lazarus, Podista, and St. An thony. The marshal wants to increase the Austrian army in Italy to 120,004) men ; the Po is to be furnished with military bridges at several points, and considerable bodies of troops are to be stationed along that river and the coasts of the Romagna. A despatch from St. Petersburg, July 0, states : An Imperial ukase extends the amnesty accorded to the refugees of the Western Governments of Russia to indi viduals who took part in the events of 1830 and 1831. No judicial proceedings can be instituted againt them. They will merely have to take an oath of fidelity to tithe Sovereign, and their rights will be !restored to them. They will be considered capable of exercising Govern ment employments after three years' good conduct. The crops in all parts of the Russian empire are said to be excellent, and there is every reason to believe that the yield will be above the average. Advices from Taganrog and the ports of the Sea of Azoff state that great quantities of corn are lying there. A Vienna letter of the sth, in the Nuremburg Correspondent, says : We are assured that in the last few days a new note of the Austrian Cabinet has been sent to the Neapolitan Go vernment, calling its attention to the delicate state of its relations with the Western powers, and the dangers to which that state of things may lead. The Austrian Minister at Naples, General Martini, has been directed to support this note in the most energetic manner; and the Neapolitan Minister, Prince Petralla, has been able to learn, from his conferences with Count Buol, what are the real views of the Austrian Government on the subject. The Journal de Constantinople publishes an ac count of the hostilities of the Russians against the Circusiansi— The Russians of the fortress of Kerkoy killed the women and children of the places called Sintex and Soma!, made twenty-one men prisoners, drove off the cattle, and burnt the houses. They attacked early in the morning a place called Bahtchekoi, in the district of Natadugh, drove off the cattle, and burnt all the houses, the inhabitants barely escaping with their lives. In this affair three of our men were wounded and two killed. The Russians having come to lay waste the country of Iki-Labe, the inhabitants, being forwarned, went out to meet them, and a fierce battle took place. The number killed and wounded is not known. Intelligence from Berlin announces that the formal opening of the conference for the reorganisation of the principalities is fixed for the 15th of July. The Globe of yesterday evening states that the Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, as at present arranged, will take place on Saturday the 19th at the Trafalgar, at Greenwich. THE PRESS: The health of Lord Hardinge, up to last evening, was satisfactory. The noble lord was " much better." Major General W, G. Cochrane, who has for some time commanded the Dublin district, is gazetted to the colonelcy of the 11th Regiment, vacant by the death of General Sir John Wilson. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday, July 11th, 1856, 43,441. HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented and en• forced a petition from two native landholders of the Punjaub, complaining of the conduct of the East India Company in resuming certain grants of land enjoyed by their predecessors, and held, as the pe titioners contended, on terms of perpetuity. POLAND. Lord LYNDHURST inquired whether the Govern. ment had received any official intimation that the Emperor of Russia had granted an amnesty to the Polish exiles. Accepting the statement of fact, and the version of the document as given in the public journals, the noble and learned lord inveighed against the cruelty with which the Poles were still treated by the Czar, and the insufficient tenor of the so-called amnesty which he had lately promulgated in their behalf. The Earl of CLARENDON stated that be bad no official cognisance of the alleged amnesty, but did not doubt the correctness of the accounts which had been published respectin g it. After explaining the motives which had induced the representatives of England and France, at the late congress, to pretermit all allusion to Poland, and which were solely out of a consideration for the interests of the Poles them selves, the Foreign Secretary confessed that he had been much disappointed by the amnesty lately issued, having had reason to hope that it would have been far more complete and liberal towards the exiled natives of Poland. The charge was, he thought, attributable to the advisers of the Russian Emperor, whose own dispositions towards all his subjects were just and generous. THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY. In reply to the Earl of Lucan, Lord PANMURE corrected his previous statement relative to the Report of the Chelsea Commissioners of Inquiry. That document, he had since learnt, was already laid before the Queen, but, not having been transmitted to her Majesty's Ministers, he could not produce it to the house. The Earl of LUCAN therefore gave notice, for Tuesday next, of a motion for an address to the Crown, praying that the report might be forthwith laid on the table of Parliament.. A long list of orders having been gone through, and progress effected with several bills, their lord ships adjourned at half-past eight o' c l oc k. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. NEW MEMBER. Sir W. Fenwick Williams of Kars took the oaths and his seat, on election for the borough of Caine. The hon. and gallant member was introduced by Lord Goderich and Sir G. I'echell, and his appear ance at the table was hailed with enthusiastic cheering. COAST DEFENCE. Mr. HATTER, on behalf of Sir C. Wood, gave notice that on Monday leave would be asked to introduce a bill providing for the better defence of our coasts, and the more effectual manning of the Royal navy. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND. Mr. NAPIER, pursuant to notice, and after sundry appeals to postpone his question, interpellated the Attorney-General for Ireland "as to the obligations imposed upon a privy councillor in Ireland by force of the oath administered on his appointment." This question, he said, was prompted by an assertion of the Attorney-General, which contained an allegation that the Master of the Rolls in Ireland had failed to perform the duty imposed upon him by his oath as privy councillor, with regard to the prosecution of James Sadleir. Utterly repudiating the charge in the name of the venerable judge in question, Mr. Napier recapitulated the facts of the case; and, after drawing the inference that the failure of duty lay at the door of the Irish Executive, and not of the Master of the Rolls, challenged Mr. Fitzgerald to prove the allegation he had hazarded against one of the chief ornaments of the Irish bench. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND complained of the course pursued by the hon. and learned mem ber in pressing on a premature discussion. A tele graphic message bad, as he was aware, been just received from Dublin, mentioning that the Master of the Rolls had that morning made an extraordinary speech in his court, conveying a vehement censure on the conduct of the Government. Upon this ad dress, which he characterised as a desecration of a court of justice, Ur. Fitzgerald intimated that some further discussions must take place ; but the sub- SATURDAY, ject could not properly be mooted until the full de. tails had been received, which would not be the case until Monday next. Meanwhile he denied that he had charged the Master of the Rolls with having violated his oath as privy councillor. His only charge was that some observations of that func tionary were irregular in character, and had given Mr. James Sadleir timely warning to escape. A counter-charge of dereliction of duty had been thrown out against the Government, and on the question thus raised between the Executive and the Master of the Rolls he was perfectly ready to take the deliberate sense of the house. The SECRETARY for IRELAND remarked that the allegation on either side presented this alternative—, either the Irish Executive had grossly neglected their duty, or the Irish Master of the Rolls had pro mulgated from the bench a false and scandalous accusation. The case, he urged, demanded a prompt and full examination. He called upon Mr. Napier to bring forward a definite motion on the subject. Mr. NAPIER having briefly explained, the matter dropped for the time. NAWAB OF SURAT. Sir F. KELLY adverted to the treatment which the Nawab of Surat had received at the hands of the British Government and Parliament. He inquired whether his claims were to be referred for further investigation to the law officers of the Crown ; and also whether, if those functionaries decided in hi s favour, the East India Company would be directed to pay the annuity they had withheld. Mr. V. SMITH observed that the most appropriate tribunal to adjudicate upon the claim was the Judi cial Committee of the Privy Council, provided it were found to have jurisdiction in the case. He doubted, as a matter of law, whether the Board of Control had power to order payment of the money by the East India Company; but was assured, as a mat ter of fact, that the Directors would comply with any intimation from the Board as to the justice of the Nawab's claim. COUNTY COURTS. On the motion for going into committee on the County Courts Amendment Bill, Mr. GLADSTONE moved an amendment, setting forth the inexpediency of adopting a system which involved an expenditure of 170,0001. per annum, without some more deliberate consideration. He commented at much length upon the principles and machinery of the County Court jurisdiction, insisting especially upon the necessity of inquiring more fully into the grounds for transferring so consider able a proportion of the expenses of those tribunals to the Consolidated Fund. Sir G. GREY reminded the house that this transfer had been effected in accordance with the recommen dation of the Commissioners. It was decided, as he believed justly, that the County Courts should be supported to some extent on the same principle as the superior tribunals, oat of the public revenues, in stead of leaving the whole cost to be defrayed by fees exacted from the suitors. Some further discussion took place, but the amend ment was ultimately withdrawn, and the house went into committee on the bill. Many modifications were proposed in various clauses of the measure, and considerable discussion ensued. Among others, Sir J. PAXINGTON proposed that the salaries of the county court judges should be equalised at 1,500/., instead of 1,200/ per annum. This amendment led to a protracted debate, but was negatived on division by a majority of 185 to 63-122. The bill was still unfinished, when the chairman Was ordered to report progress. The house then resumed, and adjourned at two o'clock. bk. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE Tuesday, July 8. BANKRUPTS.—JOHN NEwmAN WALKER, Houndeditch, Mid • dlesex, hardwareman—Jjigs HUNT, Noel-street, Islington, auc tioneer—lli:Nay ARMAND THORPE, Harleyford-place, Kenning ton, coach propnetor—JosEcH Rom the younger, Birmingham. factor and cut-nail maker—Hßitety WILLIAMS, Swansea, Glamor- Tan, timber merchant—HE NßY SHAW, Halifax , worsted - spinner— HOMAS WWII HT, the elder, and THOMAS WRIGHT, the younger, York, tailors and draper —HENRY LEADBEATE H. , Huddersfield, woollen cloth merchant—JOHN STOCKS RATITE, Newtown, Up perthong, York, woollen manufacturer CATIIARI NS WILLIAMS 13urscough, Lancaster, licensed victualler and farmer—THomAs Noma N °WORTH, Liverpool, timber merchant—Joss GagooaY, Princess-street, Manchester, accountant—THOMAS HINDLE, RICHARD STUTTARIL and HENRY WALKWAY, Accrington, Lan• caster, power-loom cloth manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQU ESTRATIONS.—ALEzAwnsa Yonwo, Eagle• sham, Renfrew, manufacturer and grocer—JAMES YouNo, Fisher row, Edinburgh, builder—JoHN Low, Glasgow, provision mer chant. Friday, July 11. BANKRUPTS.— ALELLNDER ELMSLIE THOMSON, Collura street, Wine•merchant BENJAMIN CHANDLER, Sherburne, attorney—JoHN MORTIMER, Strand, printax—iiisoaas Cox, Barbican, mathematical instrument maker—Jattss ENROR, Copt hall-buildings, City, dealer in shares—THoists WATSON, Artil• lery-place, mining agent —SamuzLNEVILLE, Northampton, shoe maker- -IttasiErr NEALE, WILLIAM NEALE, and JOHN NEALE, Liverpool, hollowware manufacturers—Grosos FOSTER, Hor bury, York, worsted spinner—Cutur,Es HENRY SEAMAN, North Shields, Northumberland, shipchandier. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JOHN GuuRLIE or Gloom-LT, Motherwell, portioner--PETER LIVINGSTON, Duinfermlitte, grocer—Sir Wiwi.); lizanT Dot, But, Edinburgh, under. writer. commenj