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- _ • - EIF NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " CONYESSIO.NS OF A PRETTY WOMAN." Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., rrlIE RIVAL BEAUTIES. A NOVEL. By Miss PARDOE. Author of " The Court and Reign a Louis" The City of the Sultan," and " Confessions of a Pretty Woman." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. :Cow ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ADVEXTURLS OF A MEDICAL STUDENT. By the Late R. DOUGLAS, Surgeon, R, N. With a Memoir of the Author. " A most remarkable series of narratives—remarkable for the power—we will not hesitate to add tho genius, with which the whole of them are treated." —John Bull. " Resembling the' Diary of a Late Physician' in the tragical and often terrific character of the tales."—Morning Post. "We can imagine no more delightful reading than these volumes. Many of the sketches hold you breathless throughout."—Weekly Chrbnicie. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the public are respectfully announced that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will tote place on THURSDAY NEXT, the 16th of March, when will be per formed (for the second time), Verdi's new Opera, entitled ATTILA Odabella, Mdlle. Sofia Crnvelii ; Foresto, Sig. flardoni ; Ezio, Sig. Cuzzani ; tildino, Sig. Guidi ; and Attila, Sig. Beletti. After which a Divertissement from CORALIA, in which Mdlle. M. Taglioni w ill appear ; Deutschen Rhein False, by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet ; the admired Pas de Roslere, by Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. To be followed by the second Act of IL BARBIEIt DI SI VIGLIA. To conclude with the highly successful New and Original GRAND BALLEr, In Four Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled FIORITA, et la Reine des Rifrides, The Music composed by 54gnor l'ugni ; the Scenery (entirely new) by Mr. C. Marshall ; the Appointm.-nts by Mr. Bradwell ; the Cos tumes by Miss Bradley anti Mr. Whales, under the superintendence of Madame Copere. The principal parts by Mdlle. Caroline - Rosati, Mdlles. Ausundon, Julienne, Lamoureux, Thevenot, Jenny, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni; N.M. Dor, Gouriet, Venafra, Di Mattia. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office of tho Theatre. TIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIO:SAL DE PARIS. THIS EVENING, A variety of EQUESTRIAN and GYMNASTIC PERFORMANCES by the entire Troupe. To conclude with a GRAND CAVALRY MANCEUVRE, by the following Ladies : —Mademoiselles Mathilde, Brilloff, Virginia, no rentine, Eicamelina, Ducos, Corahe, Stanley, and Amaglia. Doors open at half -past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. Second price, Half-past Nine. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tin ler the Manacement of 31r. B. Webster, sole Lessee. R. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled THE WIFE'S SECRET. Lord Arden, Mr. Howe; Sir Walter Amyott, Mr. Jharles Kean ; Jabez Sneed, Mr. Webster; Harrington, Mr. Brix dall Brouillard, Mr. Rogers ; Lady Eveline Amyott, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Maud Mrs. Keeley. After which, the laughable Farce of UNCLE JOHN. Uncle John, Mr. Farrell ; Friend Thomas, Mr. Tilbury ; Edward, Mr. 11. Van denhoff ; Hawk, Mr. Rogers ; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mrs. Comfort, Mrs. Stanley; Eliza. Mrs. L. S. Buckingham. To conclude with the Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. . _ Staje 4anager, Mr. Farren ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Bogies, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors oppn at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'III. Under the direction o Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed TILL FLOWERS OF THE FOTtEST. To be followed by a new and original Farce, entitled OUR NA TIONAL DEFENCES; or, the Cockshot Yeomanry. Prhacipal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, I'. Bedford, Sanders ; Ma came Celeste, Miss Emma Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. Te eonelude with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Boxes, 4e.; Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Doorm open at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the M anagement of M aflame Vestrii. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be porf3rmed a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. Priacipal charaoters by Messrs. 11. Hall, Harley, Ker. ridge, Madame Vestris, .Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with a new Piece, entitled DONE ON BOTH SIDES. Dross Boxes, 55. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ton till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, o.d Bond-street. THIS EVENING Will be performed LE CHEVALIER D'ESSONNE. d'Plerbelay and Le Chevalier d'Essonne, Mdlle. Manialie. Ts oonclude with LA PECIIE AUX BEAU PERES. Dorothee, Madlle. Nathalle. Doors open at half-past Seven, and the Performances to commence at Half past Seven. Boxes and Stalls may be ebtainr.d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Madame PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland. placo. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Shalispere'; Tragedy of OTIIELLO. Othello, Mr. Macready ; Desdernona, Mrs. Butler. After which a new Interlude called MAMMON and GAMMON. To conclude with the Musical Piece of " NO." Sir George Doubt ful, Mr. Bodda ; Commodore Hurricane, Mr. Neville ; Maria, Miss E. Stanley. Dress Circle,!.: Boxes, 45.; Fit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. STRAND THEATRE. NEW MANAGEMENT. GREAT ATTRACTION.-OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with Donizetti's Opera, THE AUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Tonto, :gr. D. King ; Ser vant Sulpizlo, Mr. Herren! ; Ortenslo, Mr. R. Romer; Spontine, Mr. 11. Ilorncastle ; Maria, Miss Poole. After which a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, by oidlle. Louise Blanche, Miss Cushnie, and Mr. W. Smidt. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, called THE CRUMNI LESDS ; or, A Rehearsal Rehearsed. Nicholas Nickleby, Mr. Summers ; Mr. Lenville, Mr. Oxberry ; Smike, Miss J. Coleman ; Mrs. Cruennles, Mrs. L. Rede. The whole to conclude with the Farce of THE LOST LETTER. Principal characters by Messrs. Oxberry, Herncastle, Miss Jaue Coleman, and Mrs. L. Rede. Private Boxea, 11. Is. ; Boxes, 45.; Stalls, 3s. ; Plt, 2s. ; Gal lery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. Oxberry. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, kr. T. Evans ; Portia, Mrs. It. Gordon. After whica a Series of Tableaux Vivans of the late REVOLL. TION IN PARIS. To be followed by FEMALE POACHERS. John Meadows, Mr. W. J. Hammond. To conclude with ILINGE RICHARD YE THIRD. Itexes 20.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Fourth Week of the New Gorgeous Spectacle. THIS EVENING, The New Gorgeous Spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS. with all its splendid appointments, &c. To be followed by, and the evening's entertainments to terminate with GRAND EQUESTRIAN FETE, in which the Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes will appear each evening in their peculiar tad iscomparable Feats and brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Box-office open from 11 till 5. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE THIRD EDITIONS -THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTAItY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by ell Nezcsmen, and at the Sun•gfce, 112, Strand. ILE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Mama IL THEIMONETZIL, Lowest, 84 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 46. BAROMETER, 29.76.—W1ND S.S.W. ; cloudy. aI. .1 WATER AT LONDON-B111.1)GE THIS DAY. Morning.. 40 minutes after 10. Evening .. 22 minutes after 11 " ' ..., ‘ :.:4 ~, > . 1 i ii # . l It .. :- '4 A . • • .2.-* :,- C7IP4 r' - AKIIII k. '..-*--? .....%,:cs..t..Z_ vhit ... ..... -,. , .~• - ;,. . .. °V ::t . . i'. P r • • lai v ....., . • ..,„ ~.. •,,,,, • , - ,7-• •, - 1 1 •,• 4......-• .. * t. -. 7 -- -. , • • —,..,•• •• ct, t--.;4-. - 1 , - . . • -, • .. .. ventna Ant LONDON, NV EDNESDAY7MARCH 15, 1848. Lord PA.Lmi ! .,Rs•rox has recently, through a diplo matic communication, addressed to the English Ambassador resident at Paris, expressed his solicitude that the members of the Provisional Government of the French Republic should thoroughly comprehend the sympathy entertained towards the victors of the late Revolution by the people and the Administration of Great Britain. The Noble Viscount has even alluded to the hospitalities shown towards the d e _ throned exile of Claremont and his illustrious, but unfortunate family. As one of the most distinguished of the Ministerial advisers of her Britannic MAJESTY, and especially as her Majesty's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord PALMERSTON has explicitly declared that so far from those hospitalities being intended in any manner as the expression of feelings inimical to the recent movement of French democracy, they are lavished upon LOUIS PHILIPPE solely in a spirit of magnanimity. They are such hospitalities, in fact, as would well have befitted the character of Albion had they been awarded to the ex-Emperor NAPOLEON, when lie came like THE IIISTOCLES to seek shelter from " the most just, the most powerful, and the most generous of his enemies!" With the exception of that one damning act of perfidy and revenge—that indelible blot upon our insular escutcheon the proceedings of our _lzilers, under like circumstances, have invariably .eritFd the same liberal munificence. They haTe".-spvariably expressed by their forbearance the nolii4earted and open-handed policy which is alone certain to ensure to itself the admiration of our fellow countrymen. The cordiality of the reception afforded THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY to the unfortunate when once their wildered footsteps I have touched the shores of England, has become:the ' proverb of our kindliness among the nations of Christendom. If we consider for an instant the dif ferent personages who are at this moment sojourners in the metropolis or its vicinity, we shall the more readily comprehend the nobility of our national disposition. In one direction is the dwelling of the Conde DE MONTE MOLIN,—in another that of Dom MIGUEL DE BRA GANZA,—in another that of Prince Louis NAPOLEON. Very recently a villa in the Regent's Park was the tenement of the expatriated Duke of VICTORY. A moment's consideration would enable us to add very considerably to this remarkable catalogue. From all countries the children of woe flock to our coasts as to their last and most secure retreat—as to the im pregnable fortress of their sorrows. The victim of an infamous intrigue—the disarmed despot whose crimes are without palliation—those miserable personages who have encountered ruin either through an unanticipated accident, or through an organized conspiracy—men of all ranks, of all classes, of all races, find a home within the ocean boundaries of Great Britain. This capa bility of affording solace to the evil-doomed is one of the holiest of our national prerogatives. It cannot — it shall not be violated very speedily. And no con tinental state can be more fully enabled to appreciate our humane jealousy upon this particular than the Republican State which is at this moment being organized in Paris; for of the many eminent men who constitute the Provisional Govern ment at the Hotel de Ville, there is one who has per sonally experienced the advantage of our magnani Illlty—we mean Citizen ARMAND MARRAST, the editor of the National, recently one of the secretaries to the Republican Administration, and now one of the chief champions of the Revolution in his new capacity as the democratic Mayor of Paris. Citizen MARRAST himself once found a haven in England as well as the CX. KING of the FRENCII, commonly called the Count DE NEUILLT. There is one distinction, however, which it were well for Englishmen to draw immediately, and which it were still better for them to act upon henceforth and for ever. The distinction is that which exists between generosity and prodigality—between an exalting courtesy and a degrading flattery—between the reception of a criminal, as criminal, or as a hero. For instance, it appeared to us, from the moment when the match was lighted by ODILON BARROT in the Champs Elysees, and when the popu lar explosion burst forth, hurling royalty to the winds, and scattering the Orleans dynasty in all directions, it appeared to us, we say, from that mo ment probable, that the fugitives from the Tuileries would, like so many of their predecessors in distress, very speedily appear upon the horizon of London. In anticipation of this occurrence we suggested the pro , priety of receiving those fugitives es became our pro verbial amenity as a people, though we, at the same time, maintained that their welcome should be of a silence so profound as to indicate our abhorrence of the cause in defending which they had met with their destruction. Some individuals were fired with such supreme indignation at the execrable career of Louis Futures since his first retrogressive steps in 1834, as to demand some public mani festation of contempt immediately upon his appearance. Of this cruel system of retaliation WALTER. SAVAGE LANDOR, was the most impor tant advocate, and while we permitted our columns to be the medium through which his suggestion was first promulgated, we accompanied that suggestion with our most resolute protest—a protest which was morally enforced by the historic claims of Great Britain to the characteristics of humanity, dignity, and magnanimity. We may acknowledge at once that the letter addressed to us by Mr. LANDOR was published by ourselves for two reasons—first, out of a feeling of respect for his eminence in literature, and secondly, because his communication afforded us an opportunity of giving expression to our own sentiments. Since those re marks were written many disgraceful circumstances have transpired in reference to the ex-Royal Family of France, or to those Ministerial sycophants who have shared in their downfal. Louis PHILLIPPE himself —LOUIS PHILIPPE, the systematic violator of his royal oath, of that oath which he swore solemnly before GOD and man to the Charter of 1830— LOUIS PHILLIPPE, who huckstered the virginity of IsAnELLA, who pandered to the despotic views of METTERNICH, who lavished bribes upon his " creatures" in France, and arms upon the marauders of Switzerland—Louis PHILIPPE, this traitor to the cause of liberty, was welcomed at Newhaven, at Croydon, at Claremont—with acclamations ! Sight seers have stood agape before the carriage—have wrestled with each other for the privilege of shaking hands with him, have been fain to kiss the ground upon which he has trodden ; and the stern hospitality which should have been shown to a fallen tyrant has been changed into a senseless and criminal ovation. Of all these disgusting and reprehensible acts, how ever, the worst that has yet come within our know ledge has been the lip-service paid to that monster of Ministerial turpitude, M. GUIZOT, by an ill-witted and perverse committee of the Atheneum. The oc currence to which, we are here alluding is described in the following protest, which is now, we believe, in active course of signature : "It is understood," says the protest, " that six members of the committee of the Atheneum., as suming a power supposed by some to belong only to the whole body, have declared M. GUIZOT an hono rary member of this club, and as many members think that the power, if legitimate, has been most injudiciously exercised in the peculiar position of M. GUIZOT, we whose names are undersigned present this exposition of our views to the committee, as a formal protest against the appearance of M. GuizoT, in the hope that it will obviate the necessity of appealing to a general meeting, which may produce the public rejection of that gentleman, or such an admission as cannot be agreeable to him." Heartily do we coincide in the indignation felt by the vast majority of the members of the Atheneum at this unjustifiable exaggeration of the rights of a committee. That M. GUIZOT is eminently entitled to a mark of honour of this description by reason of his brilliant genius as a historian, and, generally speaking, as a man of letters, cannot by any sane mind be denied, but that he also richly deserves every token of contumely and abhorrence is equally certain, if we only bear in recollection his atrocious policy as a statesman. " Is it more advisable to erect a sign. post at the beginning of a man's life, or a gibbet at the end ?" Such was the very significant and most apposite question asked, some time back, at a public meeting by an advocate of education. Brief as it is, that one sentence is worth all the arguments that were ever brought forward on the subject. It is an emphatic exposition of what education really is, and what are the all-important benefits which it alone can bestow. This sentence is particularly recalled to us just now, by the appearance of a pamphlet, bearing a title similarly significant and suggestive—" The Prison and the School." The very name of this little work expresses almost as much as its contents. By placing in close juxta-position two words so widely diffe rent in signification it necessitates a com parison between their opposite tendencies, and compels us to decide between the sign-post and the gibbet. The author of this pamphlet, the Rev. JOHN DurroN, is already well known as a philanthropist by his writing s on " N a ti o nal Education." He could not possibly have displayed his philanthropy to better purpose. than by a tt empt i ng , as h e h as mos t success. fully stor na ts e in : this he e betweenl has t ac t sr l dm b oe r n o ea c n h md u o r s e et , d ue ‘ : ceaa t t o ri loyn e , l a, u ,n c da i d n a d t e t o theemphatically,demr e o n a " that the attainment of knowledge prevents the com mission of crime." As an evidence of the truth of this assertion is the fact, that of 25,107 criminals convicted in the year 1846, only 1,936 could read and write well, and only 85 had received a superior education. Hence it is very apparent that the school is the best preservative against the prison—the sign-post is the best warning from the gibbet. By a general (Effusion of education we are enabled, as is very justly observed in the pamphlet, " to cut off, at the very fountain head, the streams of demoralization by which the torrent of crime is ali mented and supplied." If, however, the preservative properties of the school he neglected, the only alter native is to make the plisJn itself become a place of teaching; second only to the conservation of innocence is the reformation of crime. And this is a considera tion which is too much neglected. " Economically► viewed," says Mr. DUFTON, "it is our interest to reform the criminal—socially considered, it is our advantage; and if we regard the ques tion in a religious point of view, it is our duty." The two latter propositions require no exemplifica tion—they are self-evident; be has consequently endeavoured more especially to enforce the truthfulness of the first assertion, namely, the economy of the system which he advocates. We cannot now parti cularise his arguments —one illustration is sufficient It appears that the cost incurred by Government in courts of justice, police and criminal prosecu tions, and correction, amounted in one year alone to 1,557,756/. More than a million and a half for one year's punishment of crime ! How much less might have served for its prevention ? Or how much less, according to Mr. DurToN, would suffice for the reformation of the criminals ! Not that we are so deceived by our wishes as to expect an entire, or even general reformation, but something at least might be done, especially among juvenile offenders. We are aware that among these much has already been effected, in pursuance of recent prison reforms, but we desire more, infinitely more. Speaking on this subject, and on the duty incumbent upon society itself to assist in the regeneration of its fallen members, Mr. DUFTON makes tke following very appropriate observations : " Aids in this difficult task of reformation we may have from a well-organized police, and an enlightened administration of justice; but, at best, these salutary influences can only act upon the criminal parents; the care of the neglected, or rather the perverted, children must devolve upon society itself—upon the nation as a collective body. Wait not until they who have never heard of the value of instruction shall intuitively dis cover its worth, and offer themselves as voluntary stu dents, but go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in.' If every opportunity of training them in virtuous habits be neglected—if every chance of instructing them in useful occupations be thrown away, their inevitable ruin is as assuredly pre determined and predestined as if, according to the Mahommedan belief, it had been graven from eternity on the awful Table of Destiny.' They are lost, and society is the loser. Society has lost all that they have wasted by guilt, and all that they would have gained by indtrory; and we have purchased this double loss at an infinitely higher price than would have ersured us the double gain. The detention of children in gaols is one of tic most expensive modes of punishment that could be de vised, as I shall have occasion to show in another part of this letter; the custody of children in industrial training schools might easily be so managed, as to defray the greater part of its own expenses." Of all great public questions, there is, perhaps, not one cf more importance than that of education. It pos sesses universal interest; it affects every individual, whether the ignorant or the enlightened. It hardly requires the eloquence of Mr. MAcAuLA.r to assure us that national education concerns every member of the community quite as much as the national defences. It is also a question of always immediate interest. Other topics have their times and seasons, they are occasionally and periodically important :—as, for ex ample, taxation agitates us annually, and elections, whenever a new ;vrit, is issued. But education is always, and must be always (until it is established in the most perfect manner) a subject of general anxiety and interest. Nevertheless, it is more than ever brought before us now, not only by the little pam phlet to which we have just referred, but also, although indirectly, by the motion of Mr. EWART, in the House of Commons last night. The question with him is not so much to substitute the sign-post for the gibbet as to abolish the use of the gibbet altogether. It is a matter of very grave and awful importance, and very mach may be deduced in support of the proposition. And yet we are inclined to consider education as even, if possible, of still greater import. The one, it is true, decides on the life and death of those concerned, but the other decides on more—on their guilt or innocence. Consequently we are disposed to regard Mr. Doi- TON ' S aspirations as not inferior even to Mr. EWART's ; for, however much we might rejoice in the abolition of the gibbet, we should rejoice infinitely more in the abolition of all necessity for its exercise. Letters from Rome of the 6th inst. state, that on the receipt of the account of the revolution in Paris the whole population of Rome repaired to the Aca demy of France to proclaim the French Republic. The people afterwards proceeded to the Quirinal to demand from the POPE the long-promised Constitution. Order was not disturbed at Rome, but the agita tion was at its height. The following reply of the Pore to the address had somewhat allayed the effer vescence : " The events, I will not say which succeeded each other, but which have hurried on to a conclusion, justify the demand addressed to me by the senators in the name of the magistrate and the council. Every body knows that I ihave been incessantly engaged in giving the Government the form claimed by those gentlemen and required by the people. But every body must understand the difficulty encountered by him who unites two supreme dignities. What can be effected in one night in a secular state cannot be accom plished without mature examination in Rome, in con sequence of the necessity to fix a line of separation between the two powers. Nevertheless, I hope that, in a few days, the constitution shall be ready, and that I will be able to proclaim a new form of government, calculated to satisfy the people, and more particularly the Senate and the Council, who know better the state of affairs and the situation of the country. May the Almighty bless my desires and labours! If religion derives any advantage therefrom I will throw myself at the feet of the crucified Jesus, to thank him for the events accomplished by his will, and I will be more satis fied as chief of the Universal Church than as a temporal prince if they turn to the greatest glory of God." A letter from Naples of the 6th says : " The old Ministry still continues in office; Prince Cariati, who had been called upon to compose a new one, having declined the undertaking. How this will end no one can foresee." should he refuse to grant the required reforms. The 1 steam-boat companies of Maine and the Rhine have placed their boats at the disposal of the insurgents. The Germanic Diet has passed a solemn resolution that " black, red, and gold are the colours and em blems of the Germanic Confederacy." A letter from Hamburgh, of the 11th of March, says :—" Our Senate, frightened by the great de monstration intended to have taken place on Monday next, has submitted to the will of the people. Ham burgh is now as free as Great Britain." It was reported at Hamburgh that the Bth corps of the army of Prussia had refused to march to the Rhine. On the Bth instant the citizens of Bremen wen' en masse, and demanded from the Senate the following concessions : 1. Publicity of the discussions in Senate. 2. Free representation of all citizens. 3. Free public discussions. 4. Publicity in all courts of justice. 5 Separation of the justice from the administration. 6. Trial by jury in all political, criminal, and press cases ; and demanded the concurrence of the', Senate within six hours, or they would proceed to other mea sures. The Senate granted the whole of the propositions immediately. ___ A letter from Berlin, of the 7th of March, an nounces that the Polish Deputies, to the number of fifty, purpose giving in their resignations, not wishing to form a part of the German States General, as likely to affect Polish nationality. This resolution is, it is said, based on the treaty of 1815, which guarantees the national institutions to all the Polish provinces. A letter from Gotha of the Bth states that as soon as the Duke arrived there from England, on the evening of the 7th, he caused a proclamation to be issued, granting equal political rights to all his sub jects, a representative assembly, and freedom of the press ; and this step of the Duke made an address needless, which his subjects had prepared to present him with. A deputation proceeded to his palace, to demand a national guard and trial by jury, which was graciously conceded. Count FREDERICK DETM, the Kossuth of Bohe mia, and twenty of the most distinguished members of the Opposition, have proposed the immediate con vocation of the Bohemian Diet. They give two rea sons for taking this step—First, " To express thei r loyal and true sentiments to the Throne, and to make any sacrifice that may be necessary, compatible with the interests of the State ; and, secondly, "To lend their joyful co-operation to a development of the re presentation of the country." An address to this effect has been forwarded to Vienna. The permanent Military Committee, appointed by the German Diet on the 2d instant, had proposed the adoption of various measures for the security of the confederation, in consequence of the events now pass ing in France. They recommended, amongst others, that the fortresses of Ulm and Rastadt be imme diately armed and provisioned—that the garrison of Ulm be formed of 14,000 Austrian, Bavarian, and Wirtemburg troops, and the garrison of Rastadt of 8,000 Austrians and Bavarians—that the garrison of Mayence be raised to 18,000 infantry and 300 cavalry, to be supplied by Aiistria -and Prussia—that Prussia, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Wirtemburg, and Baden, be charged with the protection of the western frontier, and directed to adopt such measures of pre caution as they may deem expedient, and to give immediate notice to the Diet of any symptoms of danger they may observe; that Prussia should lose no time in arming the fortress of Lux emburg, and Bavaria that of Landau, and that those two Governments should furnish the military com mittee with a full account on the condition of the other fortresses situate in their Rhenish provinces. The Diet had concurred in the above resolutions, and voted a million of florins to defray extraordinary ex penses. On the Bth the Diet moreover prohibited the exportation of German horses from all the states of the Confederation. A letter from Leipsic of the 9th relates that deputa tions of six towns having presented petitionsto the King of SAXONT, demanding the liberty of the press and other reforms, the Burgomaster of Werdau made an harangue on the occasion. His MAJESTY re ferred him to his proclamation, and declared that he would submit to the next Diet such demands as appeared to him Put and oppor tune. The Burgomaster SCAWEDLER, of Meerane, then said, " Sire, permit me—." The KING replied "No I no ! I cannot discuss with you any insensate demands ; I have only to say to you, Adieu." The Burgomaster said, " Sire, do not allow us to depart without some concession? , The KING replied, " I have nothing more to say' to you, adieu!" The King's Ministers have pub lished a notice announcing that they had given in their resignation, but that the KING refused to accept it, resolving to convoke an extraordinary Diet for the 20th, in order that it might be known whether the whole country wished to have the Ministers dis missed. A law on the liberty of the press was to be presented to that assembly. Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived. Their contents are unimportant. MADRID BOMA, MARCH B.—The Three per Cents. were done at 23i for cash; the Five per Cents. at 14 for paper ; the Debt, without interest, at 5i ; and the Coupons at 10. TnE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS• We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The panic in the money-market still continues, and, according to the Constitutionnel, five of the first banking-houses in Paris have determined to wind up their affairs. Among them, it is said, are the firms of HOTTINGWER and Co., DELESSERT and Co., and the house of MALLET. M. EMILE DE GlRAnntis has, in the columns of the Presse, suggested the following plan for lessening the pressure of the financial crisis:— " The perpetual debt is a precious force which, when prudently employed and ably turned to account, may resolve, if not all the difficulties of the situation, at least the most urgent and perhaps the most important ones. No fear ought to be felt at having re course to such means, not only for the voluntary conversion into rente of the bons du tresor that are issued, and the caution-money deposited, but also for the redemption by the State of railways and canals, the working of which it ought never to have alienated, and of the great enterprises to obtain coals and to fabricate salt. The perpetual debt is the bosom which may sweep the money-market clean—the fund to pay off the liabilities, to save and even to augment the social assets. Of all means of credit a perpetual debt is assuredly the most simple, and it is because it is so, that it is the most powerful. Let, then, the sinking fund, which, under the various titles of dotation, re serve, &c 4 takes from the rate-payers 125 millions a year, be at once suppressed. Let the Three per Cents. be given at of. to all holders of Buns de Tresor and to all persons having deposited caution money; let a similar conversion be effected for all the shares of railways and canals demanding to be dissolved ; let the same means be employed to reconstitute for the profit of the State precious monopolies, such as those of salt and sugar, at a cheap rate; let this be done, and the French Republic, we hesitate not to say, will soon have rendered to public credit a greater power than that the loss of which is at this moment so keenly felt. The State thus seizing in an equitable manner on important monopolies ; not by violence, but by er e dit , completing rapidly all th e useful works now in course of execution. The State, by this pacific attitude, will re-animate con fidence, acqui re new s t reng th, give itself the means of reducing its military forces, without increasing the charge of pensions inscribed on the books of the Trea sury, and without plunging into misery a multitude of brave officers a n d non - comm issioned officers ; the State, in fine, will multiply the consumers, and occupy usefully the working classes, putting a stop to the sad spectacle of men turning up the earth in the Champ-do-Mars, for the sole purpose of turning it up—a sort of tread-mill in the open air! D oes wor k fail in France? Are all our railways, from Paris to the frontier, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean finished ? Have all our canals reduced to the lowest limit of price _the transport of encumbering matters, of all the objects of which the consumption would increase in immense proportions if they could be placed within the reach of the poor man? Assuredly not." At Marseilles the demand for money is so great, that 50f. are given as a premium for changing a bank-note of 1,0001. into 51. pieces. M. TESTE has been set at liberty, on condition that he shall again surrender himself into the hands of justice when called upon to do so. The reason assigned for his liberation is, that he was not safe in the Conciergerie. The Ministers of Baden and of Hesse have signified to the Provisional Government the desire of their respective Sovereigns to maintain amicable relations with the French Republic. On Saturday evening an entertainment was given at the Jardin d'ifiver, tur the benefit of toe workmen out of employ. The sentinel of the National Guard A letter from Messina, of the 29th ult., says— " We have been bombarded from the 22d till the 27th; but yesterday there was a suspension, which we hope will be continued to-day. We have not been discouraged by this cruel bombardment, but on the contrary are prepared to see our magnificent city utterly annihilated, provided that our cause does but triumph. The fire set to the free port by a shell on the 26th is still burning, in spito of all efforts made by the citizens to extinguish it. I shall not speak of the operations preparing for a general attack upon the citadel, from fear that nay letter may fall into the hands of the enemy. Such is the state of Messina. In atl the other towns of the island everything is quiet and going on with perfect order. The Parliament is convoked for March 25th at Palermo. The King will be requested to open the session in person." The Turin Risorgimento announces that a conflict took place on the 3d at Brescia between the military and the people. The details are not given. Advices from Naples of the 6th inst. announce that no new Ministry had yet been appointed. The Sicilian Parliament was to meet at Palermo on the 25th of March. The Ministry at Turin offered their resignation on the Bth. The KING has charged Count CESARE BALBO and the Marquis LORENZO PARETO with the formation of a new Ministry. The law establishing a communal militia in Pied mont is published. This institution is intended to defend the Constitutional Monarchy, and to assist the troops in the defence of the country against a foreign invasion. All Sardinian subjects of the age of from 21 to 33 are called to form part of it, the clergy, foreign consuls, and soldiers excepted. The chiefs of legions are named by the KING from a list of ten, chosen by election ; captains are named by the KING only; all other grades are supplied by election. A letter from Genoa, of the 9th instant, says that there was a current report that Austria was prepar ing an attack on Piedmont. This news, instead of discouraging the people, had given rise to the greatest enthusiasm. The Prussian State Gazette publishes the royal decree on the liberty of the press, to which we alluded in The Sun of yesterday. After recapitulating the resolution of the Germanic Diet, by which freedom of action in what relates to the press is left to the individual States of the Confederacy, his MAJESTY declares that he has instructed his Minister at Frank fort to urge the Diet to the adoption of a further resolution, directing the simultaneous introduction of freedom of the press into all the German States. If this endeavour should prove unavailing, the KING pledges himself to abolish the censorship at once in the Prussian dominions, and to refer the details of the law, as regards the press, to the Prussian Diet at its next meeting. At Hesse Cassel' the people have intimated to the Elector, that unless their demands are complied with within three days, he must be prepared to take the consequences of his refusal. The troops at llanau, Marburg, and Geiszen, have fraternised with the people, and are preparing to march on the capital to force the Elector to abdicate MARCH 15, 1845. who was stationed at the door was the eldest son of the late Prince POLIGSAC, the last Minister cf CHARLES X. The Moniteur publishes the instructions respect ing the election of the Members of the National Assembly for the colony of Algeria. All are to be electors who are born Frenchmen or are naturalized French men. The Minister of Justice and Public Worship has addressed a circular to the archbishops and bishops directing them to advise the clergy in their dioceses to take part in the elections, and to im press on their congregations the great truths of re publicanism. The commission for the arrangement of the libera tion of all the slaves in the French colonies, have issued a notice stating that "that great act of repara tion cannot be accomplished before the completion of the next harvest." The election of the officers of the National Guard of Paris is fixed for the 18th instant. The old officers, who were all elected under the Monarchy, will be everywhere opposed by Republican candi dates. The following decree on this subject appears in the afonueur:-- "FRENCH REPUBLIC. "LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. " Citizens,—The elections of the National Guard are fixed for the 18th inst. All citizens from 20 to 58 years are part of the National Guard; all the National Guards are electors, and ought to take part in the elections. Since the day was fixed a great number of citizens have inscribed themselves. The greater number of the legions have doubled or trebled the numbers of which they con sisted previous to the 24th of February. But it is necessary that all citizens should understand that their right to elect is also a duty on their part. Let all, then, hasten to inscribe themselves. The wish of the Provi sional Government is that all possible facility should be given, in order that the whole of the people should take part in this Republican manifestation. As the lists must be closed on the 13th at midnight, every citizen not inscribed has the right to claim his inscription at the Maine during the 14th, 15th, and 16th. On the 16th the supplementary list will be closed definitively. " The bureaux of each Mairie will be open from seven o'clock till midnight." (Signed by the Members of the Provisional Government.) " THE MAYOR OF PARIS TO THE MAYORS ADJOINT OF IMPERIAL PARLIAM !NT. (THIS _ DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. Mr. IlAwEs took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Kinsale. The lion. Member was loudly cheered upon taking his seat. NAVAL AND v MILITARY ESTABLISH hIENTS. Mr. BAGSHAW presented a petition from a place in Leicestershire, against any increase in the army and navy of the country. The following Bills were read a first time : —The Cornwall Railway ; Exeter and Exmouth Rail way ; Exeter and Yeovil Railway ; Manches ter and Sheffield Railway ; Great Northern Railway ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Railway ; Northern Co,lnties Railway ; Ashton Canal ; Londonderry Railway ; Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ; Aberdeen Railway; Birming ham and Oxford Junction ; London and Brighton Railway ; Exeter and Cowley Bridge Junction Railway; Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (deviation from Leamington to Warwick); London and Blackwall Railway ; Arbroath and Forfar Railway ; Bristol and Exeter Railway (Glastonbury Navigation and Canal Purchase) ; Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch); Bristol Docks Transfer; Dundee and Perth Railway (Dundee Junction) ; and numerous others. CERTIFICATE DUTY. An lioN. AlEmma presented a petition from soli citors practising in Dover against the certificate duty. THE ARMY. Mr. BAGSITAW presented a petition against any increase in the army. INCOME-TAX. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the Bir mingham Guardian Society for the Protection of Trade, stating that the income-tax ought only to be renewed for one year, and that mere economy should be practised in the expenditure of the country. THE DIFFERENT ARRONDISSEMENTS. " Citizens,—The Provisional Government feels the greatest interest in having all those who are entitled to be in the National Guards inscribed in the electoral lists. You are therefore requested to take measures for in- creasing the number of the Council for taking the cen sus. But as the number of citizens to be inscribed com prises the whole of the population from twenty to fifty five years, it is necessary that the greatest facility should be given to allow every man to exercise his right. The preceding decree has arranged for the closing of the lists. The people of Paris will see in this measure a new proof of the lively solicitude which animates the Government, to the effect that complete equality should preside over these operations. .‘ AB MAND MARRAST, Mayor of Paris. " Hotel de Ville, March 12." Letters from Chambery mention that King CHARLES ALBERT had been burnt in effigy in that town, and that the people of Savoy demanded their annexation to the French Republic. OHM AUTHENTIQUE.-PARIS, MARCH 14.-Five per Cents. (closed Feb. 23 at 1161. 10c.), 73f., 721., 72f. 50e , 72f.,72f. 50c., 721., 25c., 50c., 72f., 721.25 c., 72f., 72f. 50c., 72f., 72f. 25c., 50c., 72f., 71f. 75c., 72f., 731. 50c., 7::f. 71c., 75c., 721.; Four per Cents., 651.; Three per Cents., 491., 48f., 48f. 50c., 491.,491.50c., 49f. 25c.. 49 1. , 48f. 50c. 25c. 50c. 25c., 481. 50c. 25c. 50c., 48f. ; Bank of France, 1,6001., 1,5001., 1,400 f. ; Neapolitan, 72f. 50c. ; Roman, 67f. ; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 691. ; Obligations, 1,10 f., 1,005 f., 1,002 f. 50c., 1,0001. Exchange on London -one month. paper, 25f. 37ic. ; money 251. 35c. ; three months, paper, 251. 22ie. ; money, 25f. 22fic.. PARIS BOURSE, TUESDAY, Mapica 14.—The market has been again depressed to-day, and prices at the_ close were marked rather lower than yesterday—Threes closing at 481., and Fives at 721. Very little business has been done, and that little for cash only. No quo tations for the Account are given. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents., for cash, 481., for account, 48f. 25c.; Fives, for cash, 721., for account, 72f. ; Bank of France Shares, 1,400 f.; Neapolitan, 721. 50e. Spanish not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has been equally de pressed, and quotations are generally lower. For cash Paris and Orleans last marked at 7251. ; Paris and Rouen, 400 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 2001. ; Avignon, 250 f. ; Vierzon, 3001. ; Strasburg and Bale, 3351. ; Nantes, 327 f. 50e. ; Northern, 337 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 307 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 335 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 285 f. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 15.—Wind ~ moderate breeze and dull hazy weather. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind N.N.E. A.K ; P ax. N.N.E. to N.E. by N.—Arrd. Tropicus, Poplren, Rotterdam for Boston; Alberdina, Deddea, ditto, and sailed for Liver pool ; Effort, Brownhead, Hartlepool, and sailed for Aden ; Neptune brig, North, and sailed westward. Arrived from the River and sailed, Volusia, Finlayson, Truzillo. COWES, MARCH 14.—Wind N.—Sld. Victory, New Zealand ; Plancius, Java ; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Nester, St. John's, Newfoundland ; Little John, Barcelona ; Jonge Jacobus, Lisbon. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 14.—Arrd. Duke of Cornwall steamer, Dublin, and proceeded for London. ALDERNEY, Mattel' 12.—The Waterloo, Blackler, of Brixham (coal laden), drove from her anchor in the roads 10th instant, and drove cn shore on a sandy beach, after having struck the rocks. The cargo will be saved, but the vessel is seriously damaged. Wicx, MARCH 11.—The Scotia schooner, of this port, was driven ashore this evening, behind the South Quay, from her anchorage in this bay, and it is expected she will become a total wreck; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, Mama 14.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Adelaide, Port Philip ; Ann, Eliza, and Jane, Paimbouf ; So phia, St. Helena; Cornwall, Trinidad. TORBAY, MARCH 13.—S1d. Persian, Sierra Leone; Emma and Minna, Mogadore. FALMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Un daunted, Adlaide, South Australia; Mary Sparks, China; Unica Ilija, Havannah ; Cato, St. Vincent; Ann, St. John's, Newfoundland. MILFORD, MARCH 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Prin cess, Newton, St. John's, N.B. CLYDE.—SId. Zenobia, St. John's, N. 8.; Madonna, Barbadoes; Euphemia, Newfoundland. DUBLIN, MARCH 13.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Enterprise, Trinidad. LONDONDERRY. SM. Provincialist, Philadelphia ; Fanny, New York. LY;IN, 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Coronilla, Rector, St. Andrew's, N.B. NEIVEURGII, MAME( 11.—The Pilot, Shields, to this port, which went on shore to the north of this place, 7th inst., was got off yesterday, after discharging part of her cargo. EOSTON, MARCH 13.—A large schooner, with one mast standing, has sunk about half a mile from the land, in three fathoms at low water in neap tides, Trusthorpt• church bearing S. by W. W., Saltfleet Mill N.W. by N. MARKET NEWS.-(T HIS DAY.) CORN - EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat, coast wif.e and by land carriage, have been small, and the show of samples to-day was trifling. Although the attendance of buyers was not large, the demand was steady, at fully the advance noticed on last market day. The best Foreign Wheat moved off freely, at ♦ery full prices, but the middling and out-of-condition sorts wk re neglected. Barley and Malt were in improved request, at late figures. Oats, though in good supply, were firm, at late rates. Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn were very dull. Flour steady, but not dearer. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Flonr. lingllsh • • •••• 2,280 qrs. 2,490 qrs. 1,340 qrs. 2,310 eke. -_ 700 I -- Foreign ...... 5,690 I -- 1,280 Malt, 3,940 qrs. WHITECUAPEL. Our market was tulurably steady to-day, at fully previous quotations:—Beef; from 3s to 43; Mutton, 3s 8d t• 43 8d; Ycal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10,1 per 811 s. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS BAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) SHEPHERD V. RAYMENT. This was an action to recover the sum of 5/. 10s., the balance of an account for board and lodging. The defendant allowed judgment to go by default, and, on admission by the defendant as to the amount due, a verdict was given for the plaintiff. The defendant's ATTORNEY then applied to the Learned Secondary to retain the writ till next term, in order that a motion might be made to the Court of Queen's Bench to deprive the plaintiff of costs, under the 129th section of the County Courts Act, the amount recovered being under 201. The Learned SECONDARY said that he did not con sider he had power to stay the writ on such grounds, and could only do so where the verdict was not, in his opinion, in accordance with the evidence, or where some informality appeared on the proceedings. An applica tion, however, could be made to a judge at Chambers, who had the power to order a stay of the proceedings. The point was ono of considerable importance, three being several cases pending for the decision on the above point. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Sergeant ADAMS.) THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT.—The grand jury cameinto court about eleven o'clock, and complaint(' that they had no bills to go on with. The JUDGE ordered the police in attendance as wit resses to be all called into court, when he told them it was quite scandalous that when there were so many im portant cases in the calendar there were now at eleven o'clock only seven cases ready to go before the grand jury. The p o li ce an d t h e w i tn esses were paid for their loss of time, and they ought to be prepared early with their cases, and no t waste th e ti me o f th e juries, who were not paid. Ile would not allow one shil!ing for ex pens.. Wibiluzkca iL soy' C 14.10 WA ready to go on at ten o'clock in the morning. lIEALTII OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. COBBOLD presented a petition from the mayor and corporation of Ipswich in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. The lioN. MEMBER also presented a petition from the same town against the repeal of these laws. PUNIkIMENT OF DEATH. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition, signed by 1,524 of the inhabitants, in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Liv:,rpool in favt:ur of this Bill. NORTHAMPTON. Mr. V. SMITH presented a petition from North ampton praying that it might be exempted from the provisions of the Health of 'Towns Bill, on the ground that it had recently obtained a Bill for a similar purpose, with which the inhabitants were perfectly satisfied. HARWICH. Sir B. HALL gave notice that he should to morrow move, in consequence of the statements made last night with respect to this borough, for a return of the number of electors on the register on the ht day of January, 1847, and at the time of the general election, distinguishing the householders from the freemen, and the names of all persons in the town or within a radius of seven miles, who had been ap pointed to any Government situations, with the date of their nomination, the persons by whom they were nominated, and the amount of salary. Mr. BAGSIIAW—I beg to give notice that I shall oppose the latter part oft he return.— (Laughter.) THE INCOME-TAX Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition, signed by 1.500 householders of St. Luke's, against the renewal of the income-tax, on the ground that it operated most injuriously on the professional and trading classes. The,, petitioners considered the Ministers guilty of a breach of public faith in proposing the renewal of the tax after their solemn promise not to continue it beyond the period already declared. THE HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. The HON. MEMBER also presented petitions from me dical practitioners in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, complaining that the proposition in Lord Lincoln's Bill, for appointing a paid medical officer in each dis • trict, had been omitted in the measure before the House, and praying that it might be- inserted. The Hon. Gentleman presented petitions to the same effect, and complaining of the defective nature of the mea sure, from Uttoxeter, Epsom, and Faringdon, in Berks. He bad a petition to present with respect to the poor-law, but as the President of the Commission was not in his place he should defer doing so until he was in attendance. Sir G. GREY said it was well kn own to the House, and it ought to be known to the public, if his Hon. and Learned Friend the President of the Com mission were in his place, that the Members of the House would preclude him from saying one word at that stage of the business with respect to the petitions.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Presi dent of the Commission had informed him that he had made arrangements to have copies prepared of all important petitions that might be presented to the House with regard to the administration of the poor law.—(Hear, hear.) Those copies were sent to him, and underwent his most careful consideration. Mr. WAKLEY was glad to hear the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet. He thought, however, that the Chief Commissioner ought to be present in the House when petitions were presented relating to the admi nistration of the poor-law. Notwithstanding the state ment of the Right Hon. Baronet, he should defer pre senting the petition to which he referred until the Chief Commissioner was in his place.—(" Oh, oh.") LordEBRINGTON —I am here.—(Laughter, and cries of "Order.") The SPEAKER was understood to say that the Hon. Member (Mr. Wakley) was out of order in making the observations he had. The conversation then dropped. HARWICH. An HON. MEMBER moved that the Clerk of the Crown be instructed to issue a new writ for the election of a new Member for Harwich, in the room of Mr. Attwood, who had been unseated, which was seconded. Mr. BLACKSTONE then adverted to the con versation which took place at the rising of the House last night, with respect to his motion to suspend the issuing of the writ until the 18th of April. He did not consider the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Cockermouth (Mr. Aglionby) was justified in complaining of him, inasmuch as he had OR a former occasion been in favour of the course he (Mr. Black stone) now recommended—namely, that the House should have an opportunity of perusing the evidence adduced before the Committee before it con sented to the motion for issuing a new writ. When that evidence was laid before the House, he did not wish it to be understood that he should either bring in a Bill to disfranchise the borough, or to increase its limits. He could not now state what course he should adopt. It was due, he thought, to the sitting Member (Mr. Bagshaw) that the evidence should be printed. The course he pointed out had been adopted on former occasions. The House should bear in mind that Mr. Attwood had been a second time unseated for bribery for the same borough, and it was due to him and to the borough to institute the fullest inquiry, and to be in possession of the whole of the facts before they came to a decision with respect to the writ. With this view he begged to move as an amendment that the Speaker do not issue his writ until the evidence has been printed. Sir G. GREY disclaimed that, in what he said last night, he intended to impute that the Hon. Member had adopted an unparliamentary course. The Speaker distinctly stated that any Hon. Member might move the issuing of a new writ, at any time during the sitting of the House, without notice; and he (Sir G. Grey) perfectly agreed with him.—(Hear.) It certainly did not appear the wish of the House that the objection of the Hon. Member should be decided at one o'clock in the morning.—(Laughter.) Besides, he ventured to hope if the motion were de layed until to day, that the report of the Com mittee would be in the hands of the House. If the Committee had reported, as in the case of Sudbury, that systematic bribery had prevailed at the last election, and had expressed a wish that the writ might be suspended, there perhaps could have been no objection to the proposition of the Hon. Member, but they did not do so ; and as the writs for Carlisle, and other places, had been moved for without opposition, he did not think it unlikely that a similar course would be adopted in this case. The House had had an opportunity of reading the report of the Committee. (No, rio.) Well, then, Honour able Members migift have done so, as it had been printed, and the Hon. and Learned Member for Cockermouth, who was ready last night to sup port the issuing of the writ, had a copy of the report in his hand. 'The Committee reported that it had not been proved to their satisfaction that Mr. Attwood had paid the two persons who had been bribed ; also, that treating had taken place to a great extent, but they stated it had not been proved upon whose authority, so that it was unlike the case of Sudbury. If the borough deserved to be disfranchised it ought to have been done between 1842 and 1848, fur the circumstances of the two elections were alike. Surely the honourable Gentleman did not in tend by his motion to affect the position of his honourable Friend the sitting Member, who had not been petitioned against.—(hear.) It was contrary to all practice to postpone a writ in the manner proposed, and he therefore hoped the House would not consent to the amendment. Mr.IIIJAIE was quite surritewl at 'rhe speech of the Right lion. Baronet who had just sat It to ,!* f • k c c; ; _ r , which had taken place at the last Harv,ich election.— (Hear, hear.) The House would, no doubt, remem her that in the last Parliament Mr. Roebuck obtained a Committee of inquiry into the corrupt practices that were resorted to at the election of 1841, upon his undertaking to prove bribery and corruption in the cases of five boroughs. Not only did the lion. Gentleman fulfil his undertaking in that respect, but he showed beyond all doubt that he could, if he liked, have made out fifty instead of five cases.—(gear, hear.) How was it then that the disclosures mat before that Committee had not had the effect or putting a stop to these corrupt practice/ ? Why, simply because the cases established the last Parliament were too leniently dealt with,. and if they did not now visit these corrupt boroughs' with the severest punishment there never would 1 1 an end to these abominable practices of bribery and treating.—(Hear, hear.) For his part he thought Harwich ought to have no representative at all, and he would tell the House why. He had been ie" formed that the parties who had just unseated the sitting Member were prepared with evidence to show the utter rottenness of the borough, and that one of the local committees vier ° bribed with the present of 1,0001. each to give their support to a rival candidate; but by sr,k, agreement with the other side, they only produce s just sufficient evidence to entitle the Committee to unseat the 3Vting Member.—(Hear, hear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM certainly laboured under the impression that an understanding was come to last night that this writ should be postponed till the minutes of evidence were before the House, and he must admit that he thought it rather unfair that the writ should have been again moved for without notice.—(Near, hear.) He understood that the Hoe. and Learned Chairman of the Committee inteuded to bring the minute under the consideration of the House, and the writ ought, in justice to the Committee, to be postponed until the discussion on the minutes should have been disposed of. Certainly this case of Harwich required great caution, and he would strongly advise that this question should be adjourned till the Hon. and Learned Member for Bute had pot the House in possession of his views upon the sub' ject.— (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir G. GREY, Major BERESFORD could not allow it to go forth that a local committee at Harwich had b e en so grossly bribed as the Hon. Member for Montrose would have the House believe. He denied that such bribery had taken place at all, and defied any lion. Member to prove it. Mr. ELLIOT, one of the members of the Com• inittee, agreed with those who wished this discussion to be adjourned ; but still he must remind the House , that only one case of bribery was fully made out before the Committee, that was the case of Saxbel. True, there were other cases reported to the House, where parties had been supplied with loans; but it was not brought home to the agents of the sitting Member that the loans were advanced fot the purpose of influencing their votes. The truth, however, was, the whole of the evidence disclosed a system of collusion between the sitting Member and the committee of another can' didate, which rendered it exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, to prove the agency of the parties who administered the bribes, and nothing was brought before the Committee to warrant them in reporting specially that the borough ought to be disfranchised. Mr. BLACKSTONE said it was evident from what had fallen from the Hon. Member who had just sat down, that there was something behind in this case which ought to be enquired into, and he should sup-. port the motion for adjournment. Mr. T. B. ROCHE trusted the House would sift this matter to the bottom, for an impression had got abroad, and particularly in Ireland, that English boroughs were becoming more corrupt and rotten than before the Reform Bill. —(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He trusted, therefore, the House w.ouid look carefully into the case, for he had now to give the House notice that every borough the House disfranchised in this country, he intended to claim for Ireland.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He hoped the House would not laugh at this matter, for it was a most serious affair, when they found that a millionaire had it in his power to secure his interest being represented in that House by four or five borough Members. Indeed, it appeared to him, that a system of corruption was going on in this country which strongly resembled that resorted to by a recently deposed Monarch.—(Hear, and laughter.) Mr. BRADSIIAW admitted that there was great bribery and corruption in Harwich in 1841, but in that year there were only 180 electors of that borough, and out of that number in that year 121, as he believed, independent voters promised him , their votes.—(Laughter.) It had been said that his Committee had been bribed—the chairman with 1,0001. in his pocket. He denied it altogether. He had denied it out, and he now most positively denied it in, the House. The number of voters now in Harwich were 280, half of which were not on the register in 1841. He thought, therefore, it would be most unfair and unjust to suspend the issuing of a writ for Harwich, which would have the effect of dis franchising a number of voters that had nothing to do with the act that took place in 1841. He trusted, therefore, that the debate on the subject would not be adjourned, but that the writ would be ordered to issue. Sir B. HALL said the question for the considera tion of the House was, whether a borough that was notorious for bribery and corruption should be allowed to send Members to that House, after the report of a Select Committee that a repetition had taken place at the late election of that bribery and corruption. He for one could not consent to the issuing of the writ, because he thought if they were to have any credit for purity ‘of election out of doors, it would be a disgrace to that House to issue a writ for Harwich after what had lately taken place. A friend of his, in 1841, put up for Harwich, and on that oc casion one of the electors told him that he was secure of one of his votes, but that he would not say who else he should rote for—(Hear, hear)—but he stated that he would not vote till late in the day, and he (Sir B. Hall) had reason to believe that that voter had no less than 4751. for his vote at a late hour of the day. He trusted that the House would not allow the writ to issue until the matter had been sifted to the bottom.—(Hear.) Mr. J. STUART WORTLEY was not aware that the question would have been discussed before to-morrow, or he would have been in the House at its sitting. As the Chairman of that Committee, he had excluded from his mind all that had taken place in Harwich in former years, and con fined himself solely to the particular charges of bribery and corruption at the last election. He thought, after sitting on the Committee, that there was no evidence of general bribery and corruption in the borough of Harwich. Single cases of bribery and treating had been proved, but they weir& not traced distinctly to Mr. Attwood or his agents, with the exception of one case only. He thought' the best course to be adopted was that the debate should be adjourned until the evidence was printed and in the hands of Members, and that the issuing of the writ should be supended until the subject had undergone the strictest scrutiny. Sir J. TYRRELL believed that the borough of Harwich had returned some of the most able states men that had ever sat in that House; and he thought the Government ought not to be in too great a hurry to disfranchise the borough. (LEFT SITTINC) Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardinge, the late Governor-General of India, arrived •at Blackwall Pier this morning, by the General Steam Navigation Com pany's steam ship, Sir EdWard Banks, from Ostend. ARRIVAL OF Bumaon.—The vessel Ganges, ar• rived in the Docks from Sydney, has brought, as a por-. Lion of her general cargo, two cases of bullion, con- signed to order. A letter from Frankfort, of the 9th of March, in the Cologne Gazette, asserts from the best sources, that in its last two sittings, the Germania Diet has been occupied with the question of a Germanic Federal Parliament, sitting at Frankfort. An important decision in that respect was to be published shortly in the Frank furt papers. A . very rich vein of lead ore has just been die. covered within the manor of Hartsop, in Patterdale. The Earl of Lonsdale is lord of the manor.—Carlisle Journal. EVENING, BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Tawstock-court, Devon, the lady of Edward Weld, Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Castle-street, Falcon-square, the wife of Mr. James Moore, of a son. On the 9th inst., k at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Mrs. J. Paget, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Bishop's Teigntoz, Devon, Mrs. Charles Simeon, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Grimsthorpe, the wife of the Rev. J. D. Giles, of a son. On the 11th inst., in Mornington-crescent, Mrs. T. L. Atkinson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover•square, C. Rose, Esq., surgeon, Mile-end, to Mary, second daughter of the late Captain B. Bell, of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Com pany's Service. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Priiigyell, Essex, Frances Russel, relict of the Rev. C. Wallington, late Rector of Hawke's well, aged 100. On the 11th inst., in King-street, Portman-square, Cap tain George. Dard On the 13th inst., the Rev. Henry Claydon, M.A., of CAWS College, Cambridge. On the 11th inst., in York-place, Brighton, Mr. E. Mar.* shall, aged 71. On the 13th inst., at Leamington, the infait son of H. M. Campbell, Esq. On the 13th inst., in Church-row, Hampstead, Mr. John Povah, aged 66. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand. P rinter, at 'the Sun Wilco. Nn 112, Smola, tue i lecinet ui tue Savoy, in uns county of Middlesex, Wednesday, March 15, 184 e, ~ '