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Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. At.razn Ivic,llo Strand London. 21 , . Tog. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. A despatch from Madrid, Thursday, states : To•day order is completely re-established at Madrid. The Queen, accompanied by the King and by Marshal O'Donnell, has just reviewed the garrison. The troops and the people received their Majesties and the Marshal with enthusiasm. To-morrow will take place the solemn burial of the soldiers who have died gloriously in defending the throne and order. _ _ _ _ The twelve pieces of cannon posted on the Plaza Sevalds belonged to the insurgents. They were captured by the Royal troops after some hours of fighting. The insurrection has been victorious at Saragossa. The garrison there goes along with the people. Catalonia is in a state of insurrection. Arragon is in insurrection. Ourrea has arrived at Saragossa. General infante having assembled some forty members of the Cortes, General O'Donnell had them dispersed. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) in his letter dated Thursday, speak• ing of the Italian question, says :—" With respect to the communication received from the Neapolitan Government, the French Emperor has expressed himself with a warmth quite foreign to his usual habits of reserve. It requires no cleverness to fore see that, in the degree of temporal power reserved to the Pope, and a thousand other questions of detail, there may exist differences of opinion. The French Emperor is reported to have lately cut short the re presentation of these difficulties by saying, Let them (the Italians) settle their own affairs.' " The Moniteur officially confirms the appointment of Aide-de-camp General Count Kisseleff, Minister of the Domains, as Russian Ambassador at Paris. The last despatches from Athens, up to the 11th, mention that Marshal Pelissier was expected at the Piro3ns. The Russians having sent back to Greece the Greek Legion that they had formed, the Greek Government refused to receive these troops, and de manded that they should return to Odessa. The Cabinet of King Otho have in the meantime applied to the English admiral for his assistance in sup• porting their protest. Accounts from Constantinople, of the 10th, states that an electric telegraph will shortly connect Con stantinople with the Dardanelles. The Russian Consuls appointed for Turkey have set out for their destinations. The Governor of Trebizond has sent two batta lions to Batonm to repress the inhabitants of the neighboming province, who had revolted after the departure of the Turkish troops. A letter from SL Petersburg, sayi in the; DThats, The former commander of Kinbnrn, General Kochano witch, has been acquitted by the council of war, and placed for the time being in the cavalry. On the other hand, General Bodisco, commander of Homarsund, has been placed on the retired list. Prince Menschikoff lives in a very retired manner, and remains a stranger to all poli tical affairs. All the officeis who possessed high com mands during the late war have thus received fresh com mands, with the exception of Prince Menachikoff. THE PRESS. The Caucasus contains a report, dated April, of the expedition of a detachment, consisting of the garrisons of the fortresses Fresnaia and Wosdvi• schenski, in the course of which the Russians on their way to the Black Mountains and back destroyed everything they could meet with in the way of huts and stores of corn. It is mentioned further that Schamyl has married his son, who was brought up as a Russian officer, to the daughter of the Naib Tagil, whose territories had been laid waste in the above mentioned foray of the Russians. A meeting of Russian and German capitalists, together with the representatives of the credit insti tutions of Coburg, Dessau, and Dramstadt, has been held at an hotel in Frankfort-on-the Blaine. The object of the meeting appears to have been to settle the programme of a large undertaking to be entered into by their united financial forces in the south of Russia. The capital that they have subscribed for this purpose is said to be 24,000,000 silver roubles. The Australian Mail will be detained for letters till Monday the 21st, and will sail on Tuesday morning. A donation of 1001. has been forwarded to the Royal Medical Benevolent College by M. Otto Goldschmidt, who at the same time expressed his deep regret that Mme. Otto Goldschmidt (née Liud) had been unable to sing for the benefit of this noble institution. His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in- Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards on Sion day, at one o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS—Fumtv. COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND. Replying to the Earl of Dungannon, The Duke of ARGYLL stated that negotiations were still pending with certain steam navigation companies for the purpose of organising a non official and rapid system of transit between Holyhead and Kingstown harbours. DRAINAGE IN IRELAND. The Drainage Advance (Ireland) Bill, which stood for third reading, was withdrawn by the Marquis of Salisbury. THE CHELSEA INQUIRY. Lord PANITURE stated that the report was already printed, but her Majesty's Ministers had not yet de cided what advice they should offer to the Crown respecting the matters to which it related. Their determination, he added, would be arrived at, and the document presented, by Monday next. The Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed, after some remarks from the Marquises of LANSDOWNE and CLANRICARDE. The Perthshire Schools (Scotland) Bill was also read a third lime and passed. Other bills having been advanced a stage, their lordships adjourned at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FarnaY. THIRD READINGS. The house met at noon, when the following bills were read a third time and passed, after some mis cellaneous discussion :—The Income and Land Taxes Bill, the Stamp Duties Bill, the Race-horses Duty Bill, the Coast guard Service Bill, the Cor rupt Practices Preventive Bill, the General Board of Health Continuance Bill, the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Lunatic Asylums Act Amendment Bill, the Marriage Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill, and the Mercantile Act Amemling Bill. The house, at two o'clock, adjourned to the evening. The house resumed at six o'clock, BANKING FRAUDS. In answer to a question from Mr. Roebuck, Mr. J. FITZGERALD stated, that in the course of next session it was intended to bring in a bill with the view of providing some more stricgent means than now existed for preventing or punishing frauds similar to that which had been discovered in the case of the Tipperary Bank. THE FOREIGN LEGION. Colonel GILPIN having inquired what were the in tentions of the Government respecting the Foreign Legion, Lord PsusERSTON protested against these con tinned interrogations, and declined to answer the question. Her Majesty's Ministers, he contended, were responsible to the house for their completed acts, but were not bound to submit to cross-exami nations as to their future intentions. When the result transpired it would, he added, be found that the men belonging to the Foreign Legion had been treated with a due regard to law and propriety. MR. JAMES SADI.EIR. la th. ROEBUCK gave notice that on Monday next he should move that one of the members for Tipperary (Mr. James Sadleir) should be summoned to attend SATURDAY, in his place, preliminary to a further notice for his expulsion, in case of disobedience on the Thursday following. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill baying been brought up for consideration, Mr. HEYWOOD moved that the amendment by which the clause admitting dissenters to a share in the government of the university should be dis allowed, except so far as related to any interference with theological matters. On a division the motion was negatived by a majority of 92 to 71-21. On the motion of Mr. Mitts., the house again divided on a simple negative to the Lords' amend ment, when appeared—For the clause introduced in the Upper House, 90 ; against, 73. Majority, 17. The Lords' amendments were then agreed to with out modification. CIVIL SERVICE TATION. On the motion for going into committee on the Civil Service Superannuation Bill many re .. . . monstrances were urged against proceeding with the measure by several honourable members, and, after a brief explanation from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the bill was withdrawn. MINISTER OF EDUCATION. The Vice-President of the Committee of Council Bill being considered in committee, a prolonged dis. cussion took place respecting the amount of salary to be assigned to the proposed Minister of Education. Two thousand per annum was suggested by the Government, which Mr. HADFIELD proposed to reduce to 1,2001. This amendment was carried to a division, when the larger allowance was affirmed by a majority of 78 to 47-31. The bill was then passed through committee. The Charities Bill, and the Joint-stock Bank Bill, also passed through committe. The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. THE CORRESPONDENCE between her Majesty's Government and that of Brazil upon the subject of the " unsatisfactory nature of the vigilance and energy used by the Brazilian Government to sup press the slave trade," has appeared this week, Mr. Jerningham, our Chargé d'Affaires at Rio Janeiro. in a letter of the 7th of March, intimates, with re ference to some later slavery transactions on the coast at Serinhaem, that unless the Brazilian Go vernment use their utmost efforts to discover the aggressors in the case in question, or in similar acts, and do not prosecute and punish such persons with the utmost vigour of the law, the British Govern ment will put in force the act of Parliament of 1845, " and that while British cruisers will exercise on the coast, in the rivers, and in the harbours of Brazil that watchfulness and activity which the agents of the Brazilian Government neglect to use, British courts of justice will pronounce those sentences of condemnation from which Brazilian courts may be found to shrink." To this note the Brazilian Govern ment replies in terms of indignant surprise, charac terises Mr. Jerningham's note as a manifest and in explicable contradiction to all former admissions of the English Government, asserts that his statements are founded on "inexact and doubtful information," recommends him to obtain better information of the Brazilian Government, and appeals to the public opinion of England against so unjust an act as that of 1845 being put in force : Now, however, that the peace of Europe appears to be possible, Mr. Jerningbam thinks fit to deny the efforts of the Imperial Government, to accuse it of neglect, and utter threats in the name of the Government of her Britannic Majesty with regard to the execution of the bill of the Bth of August, 1815. . . . Nor can the threat directed in such offensive terms against the Imperial Go vernment in the name of that of her Britannic Majesty produce any of the intended effects ; but only lead to the discouragement of the Imperial Government from pursuing its generous promise of repression, even though it is to her the accomplishment of an international duty, as one of the principal political interests of the empire, and a ques tion of public order and future welfare. . . . Recog nising, however, a s it does, that the suppression of the slave trade is not only an interest of the empire, but an obigation contracted by it towards her Britannic Majesty's Government, yet can it not admit that this obligation is to be connected with an instrument offensive to its dignity and sovereignty, or that the agents of her Britannic Majesty are entitled by the convention of Nov. 23, 1826, to interfere in the execution of the municipal law of the empire, or to distribute at its pleasure praise or bionic) in respect of acts done by the Imperial Government or its subordinates. THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS will not permit the prorogation to take place on the 24th, as in tend.ed ; that ceremony will most probably occur on Stiturday, the 26th. A MILITIA ACT to suspend the making of the lists and ballots for the militia of the United Kingdom has been issued. All meetings relating to the militia and ballots for such militia are suspended to the Ist of October next year. Proceedings may be had during such suspension by an order in council.