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Whatever is intended for insertion mustbe authenticated by the name and Address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion. but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent trom the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town Cts lortog. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. (By Submarine Telegraph.) BERME, Friday. The Minister of France his read to the President of the Federal Council a despatch from Count Walewski, protesting against the breach of confi fence exhibited by the recent publication of the Treaty. The Council have drawn up a note repellir.g these reproaches. PAnis, Fridny Evening. Closing price of French Funds—Three per Cents for Account, 69fr. 30c. AMERICA. The screw steamship t;anadian, with advices to the Vith ult., arrived at Liverpool yesterday from Port land. The America had arrived at Halifax. From Halifax we learn that the House of Assem bly had passed the bill giving to the New York and Newfoundland Telegraph Company the exclusive privilege for twenty five years of lanuing a submarine telegraph cable from any part of Europe on any part of the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. The steam-fripte Niagara had not sailed on the 25th. A despatch from Washington states that Lord Napier approved of the despatch of a strong Ain,!ri can naval force to the Isthmus. Count Sartige had remained silent. Ten vessels were to be despatched. The Khersonese had airrived out. The ElipPror of Auitria has met with a warm re ception in Hungary. Convocation assembled yesterday at Westminster. In the Upper House, prior to the adoption of the address, the Bishop of Oxford said lie wished to guard against an error that prevailed in reference to the working of Convocation : It had been said that Convocation was surreptitiously working against authority. and that it was seeking powers to which it was not entitled. He wished to say that no authority tha. could come Sown from the Crown would increase the power of Convocation, and that any power to make canons must be originated by a petition from Con vocation itself. The greatest work of Convocation was done when it had no greater power than it had at the present One. The Archbishop of Canterbury said he had often met the c'er k ty in Convocation, and had dismis,ed them because there was no business to discharge : The snmmons under which they met was of a very solemn charactet, and he did not feel himself justified in adopting the ungracious course of putting an end to their deliberations when they had any matters of importance to discuss. He did not think he should be carrying out the instructions given to him by his Soveregn in adopting that course ; and that was the resson why he had not listened to many public and private remonstrances which had been addressed to him. In the Llwer H lase the question of the abolition of the extra chureh service tor the 30th of January, the 19th of May, and the btl► of November was then proceeded with on the motion of Dr. Ullman, the Dean of St. Paul's. THE PRESS. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. GENERAL ASHBURNHAY. The Earl of CARDIGAN, adverting to the attack on General Ashbu:nham, insisted upon the neces.:ity of finding means to prevent, or punish, the offences committed by junior officers of the army or navy, in maligning their superiors through the public press. - - Farther comments on this subject were offered by Lord Panmure, the Earl of Hardwicke, and the Marquis of Clauricarde. REPORTS OF PUBLIC MEETINGS. Lord CAMPBELL moved for the reappointment of the select committee nominated in the teat session, and charged to inquire into the expediency of extend in to reports of speeches in Parliament and at public meetings the legal immunity now enjoyed by the reports of proceedings is courts of justice. After some remarks from the LORD CHANCELLOR, the motion was agreed to. Their lordships adjourned at ten minutes past six o'clock. HOUSE OF' COMMONS. MAYNOOTH. Mr. SPOONER gave notice that on the 21st inst. he should move a resolution recommending the abroga tion of the 3laynoutli grant. THE ADDRESS. The report on the Address to the Queen, in reply to the Speech from the Throne, was brought up by Air. DonsoN, and adopted, after a short conversation. TIE " TRANSIT." On the motion that the house on rising should adjourn until Monday, Mr. LINDSAY called attention to the dicacters which we e reported to have befallen the Transit steamer when on her voyage to Cuiva with troops and stores. Mr. BENTINCK also challenged explanations on the subject. Sir C. WOOD described the circumstances under which the Transit and two other companion vessels had been bought by the Government, fitted with screws, and adapted to the transport service. Every care, he said, had been taken in their rigging and equipment, and if the vessels were not the best of their class in the service, they ought to be so. He believed, indeed, that the accounts of the misndven tore which the Transit was said to have encountered were much exaggerated. TRANSPORTATION. Sir G. GREY obtainel leave to bring in a bill to suhstitute, in certain cases, other punishments in lieu of transportation. In this measure, as the Home Secretary explained it, new modifications will be proposed in the ticket-of leave system. THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORIES. On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, a select com mittee was appointed t consider the state of the British posse•Ainns in North America which are under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company, or over which they possess a licen3e to trade. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. Sir J. PAKINOTOS gave notice that on M )nday he should present a petition from Newfoundland on the proposed conditions of Coe French Government relative to the fisheries of that coast ; and on the same day he should put a question to her Majesty's Government as to what were the intentions of the Government on that subject. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Mr. ADDERLEY obtained leave to bring in a bill for the egvibli.iittnent of industrial schools in Eng land and Wales. The house adjourned at half past six o'clock. THE DOUBLE CONTEST for the Professorships of Poetry and Political Economy at Oxford were decided on Tuesday, and resulted as follows : FOR THE POETRY PROFE4SORSHIP. Mr. Matthew Arnold Rev. J. E. Bode Majority for Mr. Aniold FOR THE PROFESSORSHIP OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Mr. C. Neste, M.P. Re•. J. E. T. Rogers Nr. Nassaw Senior Majority of Mr. Neate over Mr. Roger►, 04; over Mr. Senior, tl4l. The contests excited great interest. SATURDAY, Obituarg. Asneurrrox, eldest daughter of the sixth Earl of Sandwich', and wife of Lord Ashburton, died a t pal is on Monday last, while en route to Eigland from Nice. MR. DAVID TREVENA CoULtoN, who died at Brighton yesterday morning (the Bth inst.), after a brief illness, was distinguished as an English journalist of marked reputation. He was the founder of the Britannia newspaper; and by his ability, conscientiousness, and manly independence, won for that journal a prominent and influential position. Mr. Coulton was also from time to time an eminent contributor to our periodical literature, and as the author f - Fortune " was well known in literary circles. Up to the period of his death Mr. Coulton was closely connected with journalism, and the English press in him has lost one of its most able, most sagacious, and most vigorous writers. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN HUNGARY. As the clock struck four, the war-steamer Croatia, which acted as pilot-boat to the Imperial steam yacht, passed underneath the bridge, and five minutes later the guns from two signal-steamers, which were posted higher up the river, announced to the vast crowds in the streets of Pesth that the Adler (Eagle) was about to appear. As soon as that ill built, tub like vessel had passed Buda, and turned her head up stream towards the landing-place, the guns of the Blocksberg fortress began to fire salutes alter nately with the above mentioned signal-steamers. Shortly after the Imperial yacht appeared the Francis Joseph and Elizabeth steamers, with depu- tations which had gone up to Gran to present their respects to their Majesties. After the Emperor had listened to the speech addressed to him be re plied that he had now kept a promise formerly made to his Hungarian subjects, which was, that he would bring the Empress to see them. His INlajesty added, that he had come in person to learn the wishes and necessities of the Hungarian nation. "On this," said my Blagyar informant, " there was a loud cry of ' Eljen !' which would have had no end, if the Monarch had only added, and to grant its reasonable demands."' lhe Imperial cor tege entered the city by the triumphal arch, and, of er having passed through some of the principal streets, crossed the bridge in the following order : A band of Lancers, a "Banderium " of Curranier, the Court Trumpeters, Court Gendarmerie, carriages of nobles, Prince Esterbazy in his state carriage and-six, with twenty-five running footmen, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy in a carriage and-six, with twenty two running footmen. The Primate of Hungary was also drawn by six horses, as was some other I re late. Here my observations were for the moment interrupted by an officer, who came and requested my neighbours and myself to make room for the Archducal cldldren. Four charming little girls came and endeavoured to distinguish the " Kais...r," but before trey were able to do so they were summoned to the palace, to see the cortege enter the coutt of that place. As I took my stand at a window which hail been kindly placed at my disposal, the Cuma nier, in black velvet dresses faced with brown fur, entered the court, and a gipsy band welcomed them aid' one of those melancholy national airs which, if once heard, are rarely forgotten. The carriages soon followed the Cumaniers into the court of the palace. and when the splendid vehicles with six horses art ived, the wild children of the "puszta" suddenly struck up the National Anthem to the great dismay of the military baud, which seas playing something front the Puritani. The gipsy leader had just managed to silence his men when the Court lackeys appeared, and directly after them a great number of officers and a few Hungarian nobles, who jumped off their horses and hastened to place themselves near the entrance to the palace. A small "Banderium "of Jazygier was followed by a bishop on horseback, who carried before him a silver cross, which seemed to be as massive as an ancient mace. Behind the prelate rode the Emperor, in the uniform of an Austrian General, and a'ter him came a brilliant suite. The next in the procession was the Empress in the state glass-coach, drawn by eight marniticent greys. Her Majesty, who looked remarkably well, wore an Hungarian headdress. The rear was brought up by the Court equipages, in which sat the ladies attached to the Court. That their Majesties were received with loud cheers and flourishes of trumpets need hardly be said. Alter having received the compliments of the authorities and nobility in their apartments, the Emperor and Empress, with their suite, went to the chapel of t. castle, where " Te Deum" was sung.—Letter from Vienna.