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Finally, the memorandum calls on England and France to unite with Sardinia iu the application of efficacious remedies. THE CIRCASSIAN PETITION. Letters from Constantinople of April :28 state that the Circassian deputation, which arrived some time ago bearing an address to the Sultan, the Emperor of the French, and the Queen of England, presented it on Thursday last to the lisimakau of the Grand Vizier. According to the Journal de Constantinople the a :dress is as follows : To HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE SULTAN, &C. Prayers addressed to God for the Life and Prosperity of the Sultan. Although you are at all times our Pailishaw, our light, the source of our prosrerity and our refuge, yet the invasion of the cursed Russian has thrown us under his tyrannical dominion, and has caused us great evils. Nevertheless, in the same say as when the sun sets it is certain that he will rise again, thus we have Leither been seduce 1 by his persuasions and intrigues, nor cor rupted by his gold, although we have had much to sutler from his tyram,y. We have never ceased to oppose to his forces our lives, our goods, and our children, and, by the aid of God. we have been fighting up to this day, as every body knows. Thanks to God, the light of the Imperial Sun, for which we wished so unielt, has at last spread its is over all Mnssithuans, and especially over the Circassiana. May God the Almighty, in consideration of our holy Prophet, preserve your Imperial Majesty from all evils of this world, and give you a complete victory over your enemies. An old proverb says, " One must always keep up old customs." According to those of our country, accordiug to our imperishable laws, after having taken an oath before God, we set to work, twenty nine or thirty years ago. your servant Zanzadi :debuted Hey. haying chosen from twelve eireassimi tribts twet.ve delegates, provided with letters of credence, he sent there to your Imperial Porte to declare that the Padishab, our only light, and the only cause of our prosperity, being out only sovereign Lord, we will never separate from him. . . -- titnoe that tune, always faithful to the true religion and to the State, we have waned, when we saw arrive at Anapa an esaptoye charged with a ummion in Cireassia, and pro vided with your imperial firman. Your sovereignty was establi+h4A in eircassis. and we rejoiced, and our children sang hynui tO demand from Heaven the prolongation of the life of our Patlisliali and his triumph over his enemies, and we swore before the Almighty that we would never up to the day of judgment recognise any other master. THE RE S. -.When this war bloke out: where our Pedishah- has fought. with his two triies a;ainst the Lussian, your undersiped servants have also fought, as far as it was in their power, under the orders of Sefer Paella; but as rumours of peace have arrived, and that there is no question of Circassia, this petition, drawn tap by the different Circassian tribes, declaring that we will never separate from our Padishah, his been intrusted to 350 Circassian deputies, chosen among those tribes, and according to the maxim that everything returna to its source, we have turned towards you, and we beg your Majesty, kissing the dust of your feet, to order that we may ha placed for ever under the majestic shade of your imperial throne. The Ceremony which took place at the Crystal Palace yesterday was not marked by much enthu siasm. We do not manage these things well in England, or else we are too apathetic a people to care for " effect"—in daylight. The respectable Englishman, on most public occasions, appears ashamed at being caught manifesting enthusiasm. Ho tries a mild cheer or two, and then puts his hat on again. He would seem always in a hurry to get the unpleasant business over. This was exactly the case yesterday. Even when the Queen appeared the burst of cheering was anything but warm, and every other feature of the programme, when an opportu nity for a manifestation was offered, the most pro voking " shyness," for it is scarcely coldness, was evinced. The unveiling of the model of Baron Marochctti'a sepulchral monument, amid the sublime strains of the " Marcia Funebre," from Beethoven's "Sinfonia Etoica" was a touching and solemn iueident. tilany were there who had lost some dear friend, some loved child, brother, or hus band, in the terrible siege or on those blood stained Crimean fields of fight; and, as they looked at that noble obelisk, who will say what emotion moved them? A hymn to peace was then sung to a Russian national air, and the peace trophy unveiled, the mili tary bands playing the march and chorus from Judas 31 accabetts. The Russian national hymn was then played ; and, atter a brief interval, some 500 Crimean soldiers of the Guards and Artillery marched in slow time, and amid some very feeble cheers, past the Queen, who, with her attendants, had taken her place upon a raised dais in the centre transept. At the conclusion of this ceremony her Majesty retired for a short time, when a display of the terrace fountains took place, and the Leta was concluded. Up.vards of 20,000 persons were pre sent; but so large a number appeared but scantily to fill the centre transept and surrounding gal leries. Her Majesty the Queen, desirousof marking the restoration of peace by au act of clemency, has been graciously pleased to grant a free pardon to all persons now suffering penalty for political offences. Mr. Smith O'Brien, with Frost and his associates, will be permitted to return to the United Kingdom. Those political prisoners who broke their parole and escaped from Australia are excepted in the amnesty. The Cambridge Election Bribery case of Cooper v. Slade, was adjudicated on yesterday in the Court of Exchequer, before the Chief Baron and a full bench. Mr. Baron Alderson delivered judgment in favour of Mr. Slade, Q.C., and reversed the verdict of the Court below. It will be remembered that Mr. Slade, atter the last election for Cambridge, was sued by the defendant for certain penalties under 17th and 18th Viet., cap. 102, for having promised to pay the rail way fare of a voter from Huntingdon. The case was tried before Baron Patle, and a verdict returned for the plaintiff. This verdict was appealed against, and argued before the Judges, who finally and satisfac torily disposed of it. The Cheltenham election, on Thursday, resulted in the return of the Liberal candidate, Captain Berkeley, by a majority of 186. Lord Wodehouse, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. Petersburg. His Excellency Alei Paeha, First Turkish Pleni potentiary at the late Congress at Paris, arrived in London on Tuesday night, trial his full suite of sevente.n persons. His Excellency contemplates a stay of come weeks in this country. • Count Rudolph d'Appony, the new Austrian Minister, is expected to arrive in London by the end of this mouth. Mr. Grenville Berkeley has accepted the Commis sionership of Customs, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Spring Rice to the Deputy Chairmanship. Mr. Berkeley is succeeded by ,Mr. It. R. Grey at the Poor-Law Board, and by Lord Monck as “ Whip." A Cabiret Council was held on Saturday. All the Ministers were rresent. The Council sat two hours. SATURDAY, U U SE- OF LUJILLS—Erawar. PENSION TO SIR W. 'WILLIAMS. el The royal Message, inviting the hous.e to concur with the other branch of the Legislature in enabling her Mikjesty to confer a pension of 1,000/. per annum on General Sir W. Williams, was brought up by E ar l GRANVILLE, who briefly recapitulated the services per formed by that gallant °dicer at the siege of liars, and ou previous occasions, when accomplishing his professional duties as an engineer °nicer in Ceylon and elsewhere. The motion was seconded by the Earl of DEIUM, and carried nenaine contradicente. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. The Bishop of OXFORD moved for a Select Com. mittee to investigate the mode now adopted for carrying out sentences of capital punishment. The right reverend prelate remarked upon the di•graceful scenes which occurred too often at public executions , and resulted, as he believed, in degrading and bar. barising large classes of the community,and deprived these solemn exhibitions of all their desired effect as a warning to evildoers. Ile recommuided that executions should be henceforth performed within the walls of the gaol, and in the presence only of a few selected and official m itnesses. After some remarks from Lord Campbell, Lord St. Leopards, and the Marquis of Lansdowne, the motion was agreed to, and the committee nominated. TICKETS OF LEAVE. Lord DUNGANNON called attention to the evils re sulting from the continuance of the ticket-of-leave system; and moved a resolution setting forth the expediency of providing some uew plan for secondary punishments The Duke of ARGYLL and other peers baying briefly spoken, the resolution was withdrawn, and their lordships adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock, over the holidays. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FamAy. NEW I!E3IBER. Captain Berkeley took the oaths and his seat on election for the borough of Cheltenham. THE SARDINIAN ARMY. Mr. F. PEEL, replying to Mr. Otway, stated that Crimean medals would, be conferred upon officers and men of the Sardinian army who had served in the late war, upon the same pnnciple as to the French and Turkish forces. THE HOLIDAYS. Lord PALIEBSTON moved that the house at its rising should adjourn to the 19th inst., over the W hitsuntide holidays. The motion gave . rise to a long and miscellaneous discussion, but was ultimately agreed to. POLITICAL AVNESTT. In reply to Mr. T. Dunconibe, Lord PALMEM . TON confirmed the announcement that an amnesty was to be granted, in recognition of the peace for all political offences. Liberty would be thus accorded to Frost, Williams, Jones, and Smith O'Brien; the only exception being with respect to those exiles who bad broken their parole. CASE OF T. DUN! E. Mr. KENNEDY called attention to the technical flaws which had occurred during the trial of Thomas Dunne, as concerned in the murder of Miss Hinds. These !Jaws, be argued, had vitiated the verdict of guilty then returned against the prisoner, who was now lying under sentence of death ; and be com plained of the conduct of the Irirdi Attorney• General in refusing to grant his fiat for a writ of error, in order to a new trial of the case. _ Mr. J. FITZGERALD explained and vindicated the course he had adopted in the case ; expressing his conviction that no legal grounds existed for ehal. lensing or revising the original verdict of the jury. Further legal arguments were offered by Sir A. Cockburn, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Napier, and other members, and the subject dropped. RETURN OF THE TROOPS. In reply to Sir J. Walsh, Sir C. WOOD stated that the greater part, if not all the British troops, would be withdrawn from the Crimea and Turkey, and despatched towards their ultimate destinations by the Ist of next September. PENSION TO GENERAL W11.1.L1315. The house having resolved itself into committee, Lord PktarEnsroN brought up the Royal 3lessAge respecting the pension to Sir W. Williams. la moving a resolution granting 1,t:00/. per annum to that officer, the noble lord daseribcd in a few words of warm eulogy the services he had performed in the defence of Kars. Iha motion was seconded by Sir J. PAKINGTOS and, after a few remarks from Mr. S. Fitzgerald, Colonel North, Mr. Stafford, and Mr. Watson, thil motion was agreed to unanimously. POLICE BILL. The consideration in committee of this bill irai resumed, and the remaining clauses passed, after a discussion prolonged for some hours. On resuming, the remaining business on the paper was disposed of, and the bolsi rase fir tad re 10133, g