The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-09 00:00:00

• under the command of Admiral Parker intended to interfere with any expedition which his Neapolitan Majesty might intend to send against his revolting subjects in Sicily ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE declined giving an answer to that question, because he believed the information re quired would not conduce to the public interest. Lord STANLEY then withdrew his motion. THE IRISH POOR-LAWS.: Lord LUCAN gave notice that on Thursday he should ask if it was the intention of the Government to introduce any measure based upon the recommendation of the Select Com mittee of the House of Peers on the Irish poor-laws and the rating of immediate lessors. CORN MARKETS ( IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the third reading of the Corn Markets (Ireland) Bill, and, in doing so availed himself of the opportunity to reply to an attack which the Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Brougham) some nights pre viously had made on his Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, who formerly filled the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland. His Right Hon. Friend, in the dis patch to which the Noble and Learned Lord had referred, stated that the Irish people were entitled to carry arms for legal objects, with the consent of the magistrates. All that was meant in the letter referred to was, that it was the right of every Irishman to carry arms, if for a legal and authorised purpose, but nothing could be more monstrous than the con struction the Noble Lord bad put upon it, and which he had no doubt would be repudiated by the House. The Bill was then read a third time. TITLES OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES. Lord REDESDALE moved for a copy of a dispatch dated Downing-street, 20th November, 1847, relating to the titles by which Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the colonies were in future to be addressed in all official com munications. He was induced to call attention to the sub ject, as false impressions prevailed in the minds of many, in regard to the construction put upon the Charitable Bequests Act, as conferring titles upon those Prelates similar to these 1 1 the Prelates of the Protestant Church were addressed by. In that Act there was no rule laid down for addressing the Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, or any where else within her Majesty's dominions. Neither were there any titles awarded them under the Royal Commission, appointing them, along with the dignitaries of the Protes tant Church, joint administrators of Protestant and Roman Catholic Charities; so that the letter of the Noble Earl at the head of the Colonial Office, referred to in his notice of motion, proceeded upon false premises, when it stated that the Act of Parliament and the Royal Commission just alluded to was the ground for such titles being conferred upon those Prelates. Earl GREY said, he could have no possible objection to the production of the letter referred to; and with regard to the observation of the Noble Lord, he had to state that, while it might be true that the Charitable Bequests Act did not in terms recognise the rank of the Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church, yet it gave authority for the crea tion of a commission under it, of which commission those Prelates were members, and in which their rank was dis tinctly recognised, for they were there designated as the Most Reverend Father in God John Archbishop of Tuam, and so with the Archbishops of Dublin and Armagh. But more than that, there was a distinct Act of Parliament in which they were so recognised. No doubt it was a private Act, but it was not the less binding or authoritative in con sequence of that; and in the Dublin Cemetery Act, passed in 1849, the Archbishop of Dublin was styled his Grace, and the titles of the other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church were recognised in the same manner, so that while such rank might not be conferred by law, yet the law re cognised it; and, as regarded the colonies, where the digni taries of the Protestant Church and those of the Roman Catholic Church were on an equal footing, he could not see how such rank should be conferred on the former and re fused the latter. He considered the recognition of such rank but an act of justice to the Roman Catholic Prelates in the colonies, and he was prepared to justify and to stand by the course he had adopted in respect t o them. Lord STANLEY denied that the recognition of such rank as that referred to was authorised either by Par liament or by the Crown, and therefore there was no ground for the letter, the production of which was de manded. The production of the letter was then agreed to, and the subject dropped. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. Earl GREY postponed laying papers on the table and making a statement as to this subject until Thursday. ILLEGAL SOCIETIES IN IRELAND. The LORD CHANCELLOR obtained leave to bring in a Bill to renew the Act for the Suppression of Illegal Societies in Ireland, with a special clause relating to clubs. The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. The report on the Charity Trusts Regulation Bill was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. The Trustees Relief Bill went through Committee, was reported, and also ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. Their Lordships then adjourned. THE CASTLEREAGH PAPERS. Nearly ready for publication, in 4 vols. Bvo., printed uniformly with the Wellington and Nelson Dispatches, MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, SECOND MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY, Edited by his Brother, CHARLES VANE, Marquess of Londonderry, G.C.8., &c. It is well known that the high official situations held by Lord Cas tlereagh brought him either into society or correspondence with al most all the leading political personages of this and other countries, and he thus became possessed of a collection of letters and documents more copious and more valuable thun probably any minister of his time could have acquired. From these materials his brother, the present Marquess of Londonderry, to whom they devolved, has pre •pared for publication a selection from that portion which concerns Ireland, accompanied by a biographical memoir of his illustrious re lation, to whose talents, energy, and persevering exertions we are mainly indebted for the great measure of the legislative union. The work will be found one of surpassing importance. not merely on ac count of the records and illustrations of the extraordinary events of a past period which it furnishes, but for the startling points of com parison with cw.currences of the present day. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. tir ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mlle. JENNY LIND. lit _IL The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully Informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGH will take place on SA TURDAY, Aug. 12, when 3fdlle. JENNY LIND will appear in a favourite Opera. With various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the talents of 31d11e. Carlotta Grisi, Aldlic. Carolina Rosati, 31dlle. 31. Taglioai, 11 dile. Cerito, &c. &c. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the 3nx-otrice of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully informed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place TO MORROW EVENING, on which occujon Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear as AMINA, in Bellini's Opera of LA SONNANIBULA. Amina, Mdße. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Itodolpho, Sig. F. Lablache Elvino, Sig. Gardoni. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS. The Frle List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual ut the Box-office of the Theatre, price lOs. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets are to be made. Doors open at halt-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. To conclude with the Burlesque, entitled TAMING A TARTAR. Count eracovieninski, Mr. Worrell ; Kickerwhisti, Mr. Paul Bed ford ; Mazourki, Mr. Wright ; Ivan, Mr. Manyard ; Monsieur Cou pee, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Strelenski, Mr. Cullenford ; Countess Craw vieninskl, Miss Woolgar; Mazourke. Madame Celeste. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN condones to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary and original SOIREES FANT.S.STIQUES, which, on account of his provincial engagements, must unavoidably terminate on Monday next ; the remaining performances mill Le arranged in the following order : TO-MORROW EVENING Commencing at Half-past Eight; and a Day Performances, en Friday Morning, commencing at Halt-past Two. An Evening Per formance on Saturday, and a Grand Farewell Morning Performance on Monday, August 14. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ttOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Engagement of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM and Mr. BUCKSTONE. THIS' EVENING Will be performed THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone will perform. Atter which, a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND, in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone will perform. To conclude with TIIE IDIOT OF THE MILL. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AM Pll IT II EATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Fitzball's new and completely successful Spectacle. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. Will be performed, the new brilliant ipectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR MION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field. To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODIVA AND PEEPING TOE[ OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. GRAND MONSTER CONCERT. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Continuation of the Engagement of Miss HUDDART. Engagement of MISS iiARA FLOWER. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Denson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra barge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, 'Vocal and Instrumental, Conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Cioffi, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg, &c.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Miss Sara Flower and Miss lluddart during the Evening.—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola daring the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten a.m., Feeding Time Five —Jullien's Concert at Six—Fireworks at Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 9. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48; Highest. 60 ; Noon, 63. BAROMETER, 29.89. WIND W.S.W.; morning, fine; afternoon, thunder and lightning, with rain. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. Si ruin. after 8 I Evening .• 31 min. after 9 403 ,„ ST ,}4 • -e-44- , "-• . t e l f .f 4 L. .411( m c, t, tits n LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1848. We were not deceived. Although the month of August had commenced, we felt, and we proclaimed, that one last opportunity still remained within the reach of the popular representatives. That oppor tunity has not slipped away unnoticed. Before the Parliamentary session of 1848 has come to a con clusion one step at lmest has been made towards the general advancement. THE BALLOT has been ac cepted by the Lower House of the Britisi a Parliament. It matters little to us, comparatively .speaking, that the majority which last evening welcomed the motion of the Hon. Member for Bristol was merely five in a House of 167-86 to 81—the fact of that majority is what we are principally disposed to regard, that fact we consider as something more than an encourage ment, we congratulate the country upon that fact as upon an augury of the ultimate success of this great measure of political improvement. THE BALLOT, we repeat it, has been accepted in the Lower House of the British Parliament. Nothing can alter the accomplished fact. of the majority of yesterday evening—not all the phlegm of the Administration, not all the rage of the Opposition, neither the bilious indifference of Colonel SIDTHORP, nor the atrabilious common-places of Lord Jonx RUSSELL. It must be remembered that the Commons have not been sur prised into a division. They were fairly warned— they were fairly consulted—they were fairly counted out into the lobbies; and the result has been a majo rity in favour of the long-projected, and long-calum nieted system of the Ballot. It is precisely at such a moment as this that the inimitable Catechisms of Colonel Tnomrson tell so ad mirably with the population—dissecting a Ques tion, as they do, to its minutest ramifications— placing, line by line, the tough threads of argument —the cartilaginous fibres of truth—the very nerves of the logic of an investigation. We shall look for ward, therefore, to the appearance of a Catechism on the Ballot, and with the more confidence as we re cognise a half-promise of such a pamphlet in the last letter (published in this evening's impression of The Sun) addressed by Colonel PERRONET THOMP• SON to the Secretary of the Bradford Association. Of course we do not for an instant regard yester day's decision as conclusive. In 1810, as well as in 1848, the Ballot was favourably received in the House of Commons, and yet the Bal lot has still to accomplish its triumph over a fastidious opposition. What principally causes our exultation is the naked circumstance that the motion of the Hon. F. IL F. BERKELEY was suc cessful. The extravagant demands of Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, backed as they were by a brawling rab ble and an obscure petition, had received all the at tention they deserved ; that is to say, they were treated with the ignominious derision of Parliament. The manly attempt of Mr. HUME to cleanse away all the corruption and rottenness of the Constitution, by one vigorous gust of Reform was scarcely a jot more fortunate. It is true that the endeavour was wit nessed with the respect due to the Honourable Member for Montrose and his distinguished sup porters ; but it is no less true that the motion of the Radical Reformers was negatived almost as unanimously as the motion of the more ambitious Chartists. The coincidence was too re markable to pass unobserved. A suspicion floated across the imagination of some of those sincerely de voted to the cause of the popular movement. It began to be conjectured that nothing was gained in the way of political improvement simply because too much was attempted ; and the results of that conjecture were first the motion of Sir JOHN HANMER, and secondly the motion of the . Hon. F. H. F. BERKELEY. Both had reference to the security of the indepen dence of constituencies ; both tended towards the diminution of the bribery and intimidation practised with such gross and flagrant effrontery throughout the general election of 1847; both were projected as in stalments of Parliamentary improvement—the one for the punishment of the offence, the other for its prevention—the one for the better exposure of boroughmongers, the other for the better protection of the constituents—the one against the nominees of aristocracy, the other for the honest but dependent voters. It will not have been forgotten that the motion of the representative of Flint merged into a Govern ment measure, having been adopted by the First Lord of the Treasury. The motion of the repre sentative of Bristol has, on the contrary, been ex posed to the direct antagonism of the Prime Minister himself, and yet, in defiance of the opposition of Go vernment, it was accepted last evening by a majority in a House of 167 Members. Government would do well to meditate upon the occult and yet obvious meaning of this occurrence. They would do well to recognise in it an assurance that the rational demands of a great and enlightened nation are not to be rejected incessantly with impu nity. Deny the popular rights time after time; remain stubborn in your contempt for required inno vations ; throw petitions under the table as waste paper ; and cough the popular advocate down as a bore, he attempts to encroach upon your conveni ence by his exposure of humbug and his demands for reparation—•and what is the upshot ? Will demon strations like the 10th of April be of frequent recur rence ? Will rebellions in Ireland and brawls in London be put down as easily as they were only yes terday ? IVill the demagogues of Bishop Bonner's-fields be exercised on the treadmill without exciting sym pathy beyond the walls of the Penitentiary ? Or will the rebels of Boulagh Common be incarcerated in the gaol of Kilmainham without one finger wag ging for their rescue ? No. All confidence in the Executive will have evaporated, and then—farewell to the awe of the State and the obedience of the popula tion ! It is scarcely necessary, towards the close of the summer of 1848, to lay down as a newly dis covered axiom that High Pressure Governments, as well as High Pressure Steam-engines, are liable to explosion. Neither is it necessary, after the grand bouleversement of February, and the successive catastrophes of Berlin, Milan, and Vienna, to insist that those political explosions are as bewil dering as they are tremendous and destructive. Let the Administration remember the glorious demon stration in favour of law and order which was made on the 10th of April in the streets of this metropolis ; let them reflect upon the noble devotion to the Con stitution which has recently crushed the rebellious anarchists of Ireland, and let them respond to the confidence of the population. The dire alternative is before them, an alternative which is at this moment oscillating upon the patience of the million. Let the Government act, but let them bear in recollection while they act that the people are not prepared to kiss for ever the grinding heel of Finality. Every day's experience furnishes us with additional evidence in support of the proposition of which we more than two years since enunciated, and the truth of which we have on various occasions endeavoured to impress on the public mind—that the whole system of the law of lunacy is " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." In another part of The Sun of this after noon will be found a report of a case which came on for hearing before Mr. Baron AL. DEkSON at Chambers, on Monday last. It was an application made at the instance of the Alleged Luna tics' Friend Society for a writ of habeas directed to Dr. HENRY HAWES Fox, the keeper of the North woods Lunatic Asylum near Bristol, directing him to bring up the body of ' Ir. GEORGE WILLIAM DIXON, an alleged lunatic, and return the authority and cause of his detention. It appears that some time in the month of June last Mr. DixoN, who has an income of 3001., was visited at his lodgings at Bath by Sir GEORGE PREVOST, his cousin, accompanied by a Dr. WATSON. Two days after a keeper from Northwoods Asylum, called on Mr. DIXON, and, after a fruitless attempt to induce him to quit his residence by false pretences, he sent for Dr. WATSON, who declared that he had given a certificate that Mr. DixoN was insane, and that that was a sufficient authority for his removal. " Mr. Dixon, however, refused to go, and the keeper went away, but returned the following day with . another keeper, and produced an order signed by Sir George Prevost, one of the keepers stating that they had had the night before to send twenty miles tor another certi ficate, and ultimately Mr. Dixon was forcibly removed to the asylum. " Information of these circumstances having been for warded to the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, their solicitor, Mr. Bolden proceeded to Bath and Bristol, to inquire into the circumstances attending the case, when the irregularity in the certificates, as required by th© statute of 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 100, having been discovered, the application for the writ of habeas corpus was made on the 17th July, and granted by Mr. Baron Alderson; but the irregularity having on the 15th of July been communicated to Dr. Fox, on the 17th July he wrote to the solicitor, stating that ' Mr. Dixon was sufficiently recovered to be discharged, and he was no longer his patient.' Mr. Dixon not having returned to his lodg vinogsts,fauprphliisca.tritodnrewssas b m u a t d r e e f t u o s e D d r ; . aFnidot it a ntdh then S n i r be ing evi dent th at Mr. Dixon was still kept privately confined, on the 28th July last the writ of habeas was served on Dr. Boa. "The ease-no w came on, on the return to the writ of ' habeas corpus, from which return it appeared that since the former application, only four days before the writ was lodged, Sir George Prevost had signed another order, and obtained two other medical certificates of Dr. Watson and Dr. Symonds, upon which the alleged luna tic was now detained in the asylum, having been taken back there on the 25th of July." We will not go into the other facts of this most instructive case, but will confine ourselves to the question of the certificates, for the purpose of demon strating how worse than useless is this certificate system as a safeguard to the liberty of the subject. It appears from the affidavits that the parties were well aware of the necessity that existed for two certificates, inasmuch as when the keeper seized Mr. Dixon, he said that he had had to ride twenty miles the night before for the other certificate, but he does not say that he pro cured it. If he seized Mr. Dixon without the second certificate, he ought to be prosecuted ; if with a cer tificate, that certificate ought to be produced, and if found to have been signed by a medical man who had not seen Mr. Dixon immediately previously to the granting of such certificate, the Commissioners of Lunacy will be guilty of a gross breach of duty if they do not immediately order the prosecution of the person so signing. But it is admitted that at the time of Mr. DIXON'S final removal from Bath, the second certificate had not been given, but that he was removed to Dr. Fox's private residence, attached to the asylum, where he was seen by a medical man, who gave the second certificate, authorising his incarceration. Knowing these things, Dr. H. Fox was perfectly well aware that he had no answer to the writ of habeas, and that the Judge would order the immediate discharge of the alleged lunatic. He, therefore, states to Mr. BOLDEN, the solicitor for the alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, that Mr. Dixon was so sufficiently recovered that he had discharged; him, whereas it appears Mr. Dixon was during the whole time kept under strict surveillance and restraint, the object being to enable the parties interested to obtain fresh certificates, upon which they hoped to be enabled to sustain their return to the writ- Was Mr. DIXON really recovered, or was he not, at the time that Dr. H. Fox represented to Mr. BOLDEN that he had been discharged as such. If he were so, why was he kept under surveillance ? If he were not so, why did Dr. H. Fox represent to Mr. BOLDEN that he had been discharged as recovered? The public will look to the Commissioners of Lunacy to institute a strict investigation into the conduct of Dr. Fox in this matter, and they will also expect that no Com missioner who has been in the habit of living on terms of intimacy with Dr. H. Fox shall be entrusted with the Aarge of conducting the investigation. The whole affair is another proof of the utter worthlessness of the abominable certificate system. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 31st ult. have arrived. Senor FERNANDEZ CASTOR, the managing director of the Iris Company, has been arrested, and the funds of the company placed in a state of liquidation. The Marquis of BEDMAR has left Madrid for Wies baden. It appears that it was he who betrayed Gox. ZALES BRAVO to NARVAEZ. The QUEEN, it would seem, had been prevailed on by the Marquis of BEDMAR to suggest to NARVAEZ the propriety of issuing an amnesty ; upon his refusal, her MAJESTY was to have made a stand, and to have sent for GONZALES BRAVO. On the QUEEN mentioning the amnesty to NARVAEZ, he sent for BEDMAR, and so bullied and terrified the unfortunate man that he immediately gave up the names of associates, and GONZALES BRAVO was forth with arrested. A Carlist band under MIRALLES has taken pos session of Amposta. MADRID BOLSA, JULY 31.—The Three per Cents. were done to-day at 20 cash, and were 19i too buy ers after the close; Five per Cents., 11 buyers, 114 sellers; Coupons were done at 6i cash; Passive Debt, 3i buyers, 4 sellers; and Foreign ditto, 3i sellers; Bank `hares, 50 buyers; Discount on notes, 7f to 8. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. Wo have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Sardinian envoys, it appears, made an official application to General CAVAIGNAC for an armed in tervention on the part of France against the Austrians in Italy. To this demand General CAVAIGNAC replied that he must refuse the immediate armed intervention of France, as France and England had already offered their joint mediation. The Journal des Debats gives the following account of this transaction : " The Marquis Brignole Sole, ambassador to the King of Sardinia at Paris, and the Marquis A. Ricci, were re ceived to-day by General Cavaignac, President of the Council. We are assured that in this interview the Sardinian envoys made a formal and official demand to the head of the Executive power for the immediate intervention of the French army in Italy. To this demand General Cavaignac, it is said, replied by an nouncing that the Government of the Republic had already provided for that eventuality, and that it had opened on that subject, with England, negotiations of which the very early result would be the offer of a mediation made to the belligerent parties by the two Governments united of France and Great Britain. It is affirmed this evening that the basis of this mediation had already been settled between the two Cabinets, end that they were? resolved, in giving satisfaction to the rights of all, to attempt all means to spare Europe the misfortunes of a general war." The Patrie states that CHARLES ALBERT has pro posed to open negotiations for peace with the Austrian Government. The new Jury Law has passed the National As sembly. The following are its provisions:— " All French citizens of the age of thirty years are to be inscribed in the jury list; but the general and perma nent list will merely serve as the basis of another an nual list, out of which the juries will be taken by ballot. - The annual list will be to a certain extent selected. It will be arranged annually in each canton. The number of names of jurymen which it will contain will be fixed in proportion to the population. There may be one juryman for every 200 inhabitants, but the lists must not exceed 3,000 in the department of the Seine, and 1,500 in the other departments of France. The annual lists are to be drawn up by a special commission ap pointed for that purpose, and formed, in the departments, of the members of the general council representing the department, the juge de pair and the delegates of the municipal council. At Paris the commission will be composed in each arrondissement of three members of the municipal council, of the mayor, the adjoints, and the juge de paix." The discussion on the Bill relating to the press was begun on Monday and adjourned to the day fol lowing. Count MOLKB, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Denmark; General Baron FAGEL Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of NETHERLANDS ; and the Chevalier PERUZZI, Resident Minister of the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, presented their credentials to General CAVAIGNAC on Monday. On the same day Count LUDOLF, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of NAPLES, charged with a special mission to the French Republic, and M. DE ARNAU DE AOIZ, Charge d'Affaires of Spain, were admitted to private audiences by General CAVAIGNAC, to whom they delivered let hers from their SOVEREIGN, accrediting them ,to the Government of the Republic. It was rumoured in Paris last evening that General OUDINOT, Commander-in Chief of the army of the Alps, had applied by telegraph to the Government fur iu►tructions as to his future movements. The Constitutionnel has the following on the affairs of Italy : "It was rumoured :yesterday that Marshal Radctzky had retaken Milan. However that may be, an armed intervention of France in Italy is spoken of. A negotia tion is also spoken of on the part of England and France in favour of the independence of the Italians. It would be a great misfortune for France and Europe if an armed intervention were necessary; for it would probably lead to a general war. The interests of Austria are not alone engaged in this struggle against Italian liberty. The German union is now proclaimed; and thus Germany is bound to the Austrian causela part of the German states would at once serve that cause with ardour; and all Germany would perhaps be drawn down the same slope. What is certain is, that Russia would not be wanting to the Austrian army fighting against a people claiming their independence. Who can doubt that France would suffer from such a war? Peace is always necessary for the development of liberal institutions and labour, and prosperity can only flourish when thoughts of war are distant. This simple view of the probable consequences of an intervention is sufficient to form a judgment of the sagacity of the men who have directed our affairs since February 24. It was said that it was enough to effect a revolution and proclaim the Republic to ensure the peace of the world. The revolution and the Republic had the effect of pushing Germany towards that unity which is precisely one of the great perils of Italy. It is true, that at present a negotiation is looked f or to save Italy and the peace of the world. If th e a Austria, negotiation ought to have Provisional Government had possessed a little fore sight, it is twobeemnonotphesnedb,acaks thenthat con quered at Milan, and a prey to interns , commo tions, separated from the rest of Germany, placed in face of the untouched army of Charles Albert, would have been evidently disposed to negotiate on more equit able bases than now, when Eadetzky it on - the poixt fsf entering Milan in triumph. But all that was done was to assemble the pretence of an army along the Alps, and to remain inactive. To Charles Albert, who devoted himself to the defence of Italian liberty, was exhibited the greatest coolness. The aid which was shown near the Alps to Northern Italy was not for Charles Albert and his army, but for the scattered favourers of the Re public in Italy. The fall of the King of Piedmont was waited for, and the birth of three or four Republics to then intervene by negotiation or arms. But these hopes were not realised ; the little Republics were not established ; no insurrection overthrew Charles Albert ; Austria inundated Upper Italy with soldiers, and re gained the advantage. Thus the favourable moment was lost. Is not the negotiation spoken of at present too late ? Will it not be attended with insurmountable difficult ies ?" The Havre Journal of Monday thus describes the ar rival of the State prisoners:—" Three convoys of insur gents arrived this morning at Havre to be embarked for Brest, on the steam-frigate Ulloa, on board of which the necessary measures had been taken for some days to receive them. The first convoy, consisting of about 180 insurgents, arrived at the station of the railway between six and seven o'clock. Each carriage contained 18 in surgents and 12 keepers. A number of gendarmes of the department of the Seine occupied the first and last car riages of the train. At brief intervals two other detach ments of insurgents also arrived, and the total number embarked on the Ulloa is at present 441. The neces sary arrangements for the maintenance of order were taken in the town by the authorities. The troops, the National Guard, the Garde Mario; and the Pompiers were on foot to escort the insurgents from the station to the basin of La Floride, where the Ulloa is anchored. To prevent the confusion and inconvenience of too great an assemblage of curious, the bridges Vauban and of the citadel were successively raised after the passage of the detachments ; so that the conquered of June were able to be taken on board the Ulloa without being ex posed during the passage to the regards and observa tions of the crowd. In order to prevent any attempt at evasion, the insurgents ware attached by the hands, three by three; the Gardiens of Paris and the Gendarmes of the Seine, who are t o accompany t h em to B rest , rema i ne d by their side. The embarkation was effected with the greatest order. The hold of the frigate has been divided into compartments, each destined to receive fifteen insur gents. The Ulloa, as we have said, goes out to Brest, where the insurgents will wait on board the definitive destination which will be indicated. Among them are remarked—bourge o i s, soldiers, Guards Mobile, National Guards, still in un if orm, wor k men, o :d men, an d chil dren. Some seem profoundly discouraged, after having accomplished this first etage of the voyage which is about fo remove them for ever from their native coun try; the faces of others express only resignation or in , difference. The careful dress of some contrasts with the negligence, disordered hair, and uncultivated beards of their companions of exile. In the ranks figure some of the illustrious of the emeute ; Thomassin, the getter-up of the banquet of 25 centimes, Gaetan, and several Ita lians and Poles who played a prominent part. The Ulloa leaves for Brest next tide." BOURSE —PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 8. THREE o'CLocK.—The Bourse was exceedingly agi• tated to-day. At the commencement matters appeared very black. The rumour of the armed intervention of France was currently believed, and it was even stated that General OudinOt had marched; but, upon a contrary rumour, and a report that M. Bastide bad announced in the National Assembly a pacifies mediation, in com mon with England, a rise was produced, which continued to the end of the Bourse. The Loan Certificates, which were at one time as low as 1,200, rose to 2,300. The Bourse was e xcee di n gly animated, and a great deal of business was done. For the Account, the French Three per Cents, have risen If. ; the Five per Cents. have risen to the same amount. Loan closed at 2,300. For Money, the Three per Cents. have risen 75c.; Five per Cents. have risen 50c. Bank of France Shares have fallen sf. Belgian Bank Shares not quoted. Belgian 5 per Cents. have declined per cent. Spanish Funds not quoted. Roman are the same as yesterday. Rothschild's Receipts have declined per cent. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 22g. Exchange on London (90 days), 25 27k. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of Ai ay 115: Nothingquoted. For Money — Rouens , Versailles, Strasburgs, Bales, and Bordeaux, have fallen 2f. 50c. each; Northerns, Orleans, and Marseilles, are the same as yesterday; Vierzons and Lyons have gone up 2f. 50c. each. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCIIANGE, AUG. 8. Boulogne and Amiens, 61 Dutch Rhenish. I—ltalian and Austrian, %—Paris and Lyons, 4A—Sambre and Meuse, 2%. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. The list of the new German Ministry, given in The Sun of yesterday, is confirmed. AUSTRIA. His MAJESTY was pleased to accept, on the 30th of last month, the resignation of Count FRANZ STADION of his post as Governor of Galicia. His MAJESTY has been pleased to appoint, by a decree of the 30th of last month, Privy Councillor Wenzeslaw, Knight of Zaleski, Governor of Galicia, inclusive of the circle of Cracrow and Bukowina. At the request of Count VON Rarumacll, his MAJE STY has been pleased to accept his resignation of the office of Government President in Bohemia, and confided the provisional administration of this post to the resident Government Vice-President CARL BARON of Meesery. After the main conditions of an amicable settlement of the Hungarian-Croation questioni had been settled and confirmed by the Archduke Palatine and the Baron JELLACHICH, the former has returoed to Pesth, and the latter to Agram, to communicate the same to their respective Diets. The Minister WESSENBERG will retain his seat in the Cabinet, and is expected here immediately. Placards have been posted in Vienna declaring that the EMPEROR 13 only the first functionary in the State, and that if he r e f uses t o per f orm hi s d uty, he must be dismissed like any other functionary. PRUSSIA. The Prince of PaussrA has visited Stettin, where he was exceedingly well received. ITALY. The following is the proclamation addressed by RADBTZKY to the inhabitants of Lombardy : " Inhabitants of Lombardy, —I have arrived on the territory of Lombardy, at the head of my valiant and victorious army, for the purpose of delivering you from a tyrannic and revoluti onary d om i nat i on. Y ie ldi ng to perfidiousinsinuations, many among you have forgotten your duties to your legitimate Sovereign. Return to your duties of subjects under the protecting sceptre of the Emperor and King. I tender you my hand for a sincere reconciliation. Lombardy, listen to my bene volent advice, receive with confidence my valiant troops. They will guarantee to the peaceable citizens the com plete safety of their persons and properties; but the laws of war will be applied in all their severity to those who, in the wild delirium of rebellion, would shut their ears to my exhortations. You have the choice. For me it is a duty to keep my word exactly. "RAI)ETZKY, Field-Marshal. " Valeggio,' July 27, 1848." RADETZIir was on the 4th under the wails of Milan. CHARLES ALBERT, who had taken a position at Lodi on the 2d, with the intention of defending the line of the Adda, evacuated it on the 3d, on the approach of the Austrians, and fell back upon Milan, for the purpose of covering that city. He arrived there on the 4th, and encamped in that neighbourhood. Before quitting Lodi the KING had detached the division of General SOMMARIVA to Placenzia, on the south side of the Po, to check the progress of the division of the Austrian army which is operating upon that bank. General Sommaaivn has orders to strenkthen his division with the detachments of Piedmontese which occupy the duchies of Parma and Modena, as well as the reinforcements sent from Genoa by way of Bobbio, and from Piedmont by way of Tortona and Voghera. If he should find himself attacked by superior forces at Placenzia, he will be able to execute his retreat on the fortress of Tortona, which covers the fr mtiers of Piedmont. On the 3d the Provisional Government of Milan declared the city in a state of siege, and made every preparation for an obstinate defence. Barricades are erected, and they have expressed a determination to defend the city house by house. The English Chargé d'Affaires at Turin, accom panied by the Frencti Charge Affaires, visited the camp of CHARLES ALBERT on the Ist, from whence they proceeded to the head quarters of RADETZILY, to offer the mediation of their respective Govern ments. It was reported in Paris yesterday that a telegra phic dispatch had been received announcing the'evacu ation of Lombardy by CHARLES ALBERT, who had retired with his army into his own states. General COLLEGNE, Minister of War, made, on the 4th instant, the following speech in the Chamber of Deputies of Turin Gentlemen Deputies,—There was a time when it was thought prudent, that whatever concerned a war should remain mysterious and impenetrable, in order that the enemy should not know on what side the danger would fall on him. But when a nation is determined to employ all the means of defence she can command, mys tery is useless. Let then our enemies know that the Italian nation is prepared to incur all sacrifices for the defence of her independence, and those who have the supreme direction of the councils of the nation are in duty bound to acquaint her with the energetic action given to the general movement. The Ministry, whose first duty is to preside over the general armament, must inform the Chamber and the country of all that they have done." The Chamber, before adjourning (to the sth of September), voted that 150,000 copies of the Gene ral's speech should be printed and distributed. The Risorginzento of Turin, of the 4th, has the following : " Mr. E. Abercrombie has returned from the camp. We have advices from Milan of yesterday, the 3d. The Milanese aro determined to resist to the last, above all, g , t h e Ki ng i s preparing to sustain them with his army; , Milan will be defended by an entrenched camp at some distance from the town, and a part of the troops are already encamped on the site. His Majesty arrived yes terday morning at the gates of the city, coming from Melagnano, and has taken up his quarters at San Giorgio, outside the Roman gate. From the other places where our army is the news is satisfactory." IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. The three o'clock train of the Great Southern and Western Railway this morning has brought no con firmation of a rumour prevailing last night, that Mr. Doheny had been arrested, with several of the peasantry. The Freeman's Journal of this morning contains the following : " We have been informed . by two gentlemen, who were passengers on the Cork mail, which left Cork early on yesterday afternoon, that the coach was stopped by a body of peasantry, some 150 in number (some of whom were armed), on the road near Glendower. It is stated that two or three of the armed party rushed to the leaders' heads, caught hold of the reins, and suc ceeded in stopping the coach, whilst others called loudly on the guard and passengers to alight. Others again of the assailants were beginning to scramble on the coach, when the guard presented his carbine at the parties who held the leaders' beads, and called on them to let go or he would fire on them. One or two of the outside passengers were armed with pistols, and they are stated to have effectually intimidated the parties from getting on the coach. On the guard levelling his carbine at the men who held the reins, they let go and tell back. The coachman whipped on the horses, and the coach and passengers soon got out of the reach of danger. Such is the statement made by our informant, and corroborated by another passenger who travelled by the same coach. No new intelligence has reached us by the early train from the south-midland dis tricts." The following appears in Saunders's News Letter : " Mr. W. S. O'Brien still continues confined in Kil mainham, nor is there any intention, as far as we have learned, to remove him from it to any other place of im prisonment. Town Major White and the High Sheriff were at the prison yesterday, and on this day the guard will be increases. Permission has been given by the Lord- Lieutenant to the governor to admit Mrs. O'Brien, her children, nand Mr. French, uncle to Mrs. O'Brien, to see the prisoner." THE REBEL LEADERS. It is stated that on Friday last Me4gher, O'Gorman, and Dillon called at a f.trmi-r's near Golden, and implored for food and shelter. They were in a most miserable condition, but the farmer was obliged to refuse the request. THE COMMISSION.—STATE TRIALS. The Commission will open to-day. Chief Baron Pigot and Baron Pennefather wiil preside as judges. The following are the calendars:— CITY CALENDAR. Bernard Donnelly, aged 41—felonious assault. Bridget Carroll, aged 32—stealing a child named Jane Hanlon. Christopher Wildridge, aged 20—felony. POLITICAL OFFENCES. John Martin, aged 36 —feloniously publishing sedi tion in a paper called the Irish Felon, at No. 12, Trinity street. Charles Gavan Duffy, aged 32—feloniously publishing sedition in a paper called the Nation, at No. 4, D'Olier street. Denis Hoban, aged 32—same offence in Irish Tribune. Richard Dalton Williams, aged 27—do. Kevin Izod O'Doherty, aged 24—do. Thomas Delaney, aged 18—unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously printing and publishing several copies of a newspaper called the Nation, at Sackville-place. John Flanagan, aged 34, do.; Thomas Delaney, aged 50, do.; William Dolan, aged 39, do.; Luke Tully, aged 26, do.; Andrew Varnald, aged 19, do.; Owen Big gins, aged 56, do.; James Brady, aged 26, do.; Bartho lomew Ll'Donald, aged 16, do.; Charles Reilly, aged 34, do.; Richard M'Keon, aged 28, do.; Patrick M'Keon, aged 25, do.; James Doland, aged 13, do. Thomas Doogan, aged 40, having in his possession 100 leaden bullets, and carrying them through the street. COUNTY CALENDAR. Andrew Carroll, aged 20, assault on a policeman ; Peter Dalton, 23, do.; John Walsh, 18, assault; James Young, 19, for milking cows ; John M'Evoy, 26, do. ; Joseph Foster, 21, do.; James Young, 19, killing a goat; Fred. M'Evoy, 26, do.; James Coyle, 20, highway rob bery, Rathfarnham; Anne Coyle, 52, do.; Thomas Cur tis, 19, do.; Terence Gorman, 28, having a gun not duly licensed; Mary Moran, 20, burglary; Mary-Anne Hay den, 19, do.; Mary Murphy, 24, felony; Frederick Lisk, obtaining money under false pretenees. The master of the Ballinrobe workhouse has been ac quitted of a charge of' murder at Mayo assizes. There are the usual conflicting accounts about the potato crop. But most certainly the blight is making progress in various districts. The far greater portion of the crop, however, is still quite safe. The Downpatrick Recorder contains the following:— " Two war -steamers, the Cyclops and the Driver, have been cruising round the coast during this week. They anchored for a short time in Ardglass harbour on Thursday, and afterwards proceeded in direction of Bel fast. We understand they are laden with arms and ammunition, intended to be distributed amongst the special constables according to the discretion of the ma gistrates, at %hose instance the war-steamers were sent here." The Dublin Commission opens to day. The Cork Examiner, published on Saturday evening, contains the following " Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bari., have left this city for Dublin, where there presence is required in the legal preparations for the defence of the State prisoners. " Mr. Henn, Q.C., has been retained for the Crown, in the pending ti ials at Green-street. The Learned Gen tleman left for Dublin last evening." DEATH OF GEORGE NIMMO, ESQ., C.E.—We regret to announce that on Tuesday last, as Mr. Nimmo, accom panied by two men in a sailing boat, were crossing one of the bays in Connemara, the boat, when at full sail, struck upon a sunken rock which cleft her in two. The two men, with this much-lamented gentleman, perished, being considerably off the land, and beyond the reach of any assistance.—Galway Vindicator. REPRESENTATION OF SLlGO.—Three petitions have been lodged against the return of Mr. Somers.—Sligo Champion. COLLISION AT SEA. The Londonderry steamer, coming to Sligo from Liverpool, and the screw-steamer Connaught Ranger, ran foul of each other, at one o'clock on Thursday morning, near Innisnahull. Both vessels put back to Londonderry. The screw is reported to be very much injured, but the cargoes are safe.—Sligo Champion. . _ (From the Dublin Pilot.) It having been stated that Mr. Doheny had been ar rested, much interest was manifested to day about the Cashel Railway terminus, at which a number of persons had assembled a considerable time before the arrival of the mail -train, due at three. On its arrival we learned that " Everything was tranquil along the line,"—that the people were very busy in the affairs of the harvest, and that the arrest of Mr. Doheny was not true. Mr. Do heny had not been heard of since the previous accounts (elsewhere published), but his early capture was looked upon as certain, as he was stated to be broken down with fatigue and want. There is nothing new about Mr. Meagher, who, it is said, had escaped from Water ford. We were informed that Mr. Joseph Lalor owes his liberation to the fact of his being a naturalised American citizen, and to his having proved ho was over here on business. It will be perceived that it is by the early morning trains alone the political prisoners are conveyed—doubt less for the purpose of bringing them in with the least possible noise or disturbance. COINCIDENCES T has been suggested to us as curious coincidences that Mr. Smit h O ' Brien was tried in Dublin on the 15th of May, the anniversary of O'Con nell's death; was arrested on the sth of August, the an niversary of his burial; and committed to prison on the 6th, the anniversary of his birth. CLONMEL, AUG. 7.—A highly respectable gentleman resident in Golden, told me he was credibly informed that Meagher, O'Gorman, rind Dillon were in Clonoulty on Friday night. It is a village a few miles from Golden, and about sixteen from Clonmel. Th e y were completely broken down, and in a most wretched condition wet, cold, and famished. They called at a farmer's house, and im plored him to afford them food and shelter even for a while; but he resolutely refused, and told them of the caution which was posted up every where. Dillon said he could hold out no longer, and would surrender himself that night, if he could get rest nowhere. We cannot conclude without mentioning the heroic conduct of a young man who, to-day, had a narrow escape of being shot by a villain who laid in wait to assassinate him. The circumstances are as follow: John Hilton, a land steward to George Gough, Esq., of Ardsalla, in this cou n ty, went this morning, at six o'clock, to ring th e wor k hell as usual.A little dog that accompanied him barked on approach ing a shrubbery, and caused Hilton to look sharply about him, when to his amazement he saw a large athletic man within five yards, with a pistol presented at his head ; he made a sudden and violent rush at the villain, which knocked him down, Hilton falling over him, and grasping the pistol, which he succeded in taking from him, but lost afterwards and regained again ; a ter rible struggle ensued, and lasted for three-quarters of an hour, in which Hilton gave the fellow a terrible wound over the eye, but was uninjured himself. He finally secured hire, and brought him a prisoner to Fethard. LARGE SHEARS FOR SHEERNESS DOCKYARD.—The mastmakers of this dockyard have just completed a powerful shears, formed of pieces of timber joined together in a similar manner as the made masts of first-rate ships of war in the Royal Navy. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the main support of the shears when its dimensions are given, being 127 feet long, and 3 feet 1 inch in diameter on the average throughout its entire length. It contains 1,300 feet of solid timber, weighing 27 tons, and required,s2 pieces, each cut out of large-sized trees, and joined together with Jeffery's marine glue, of which it required five cwt. to coat the joikings, and it has been so uniformly applied by the workmen that the superfluous quantity oozing from the join ings on the pieces of wood being pressed together with iron hoops is calculated not to exceed ten pounds weight. The two side-shear masts aro each formed of two very large trees joined together with the same substance, and when they are put up will be of a most efficient description, and capable of shipping and unshipping the largest masts used in the Royal Navy, and moving other great weights. STRANGE, BUT TRUE.—When a man breaks down, his establishment, by a remarkable coincidence, breaks up.— Puffet Show. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the West of England and South Wales Land Draining Incorporation Bill were considered and agreed to. The London (City) Small Debts Bill was read a third time and passed. The Sand bach Charity Estate Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. The Weld Blundell's Estate Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection to appoint the Committee on the Sandbach Charity Estate Bill to sit and proceed forthwith.—Agreed to. The ATTORNEY-GE N ERAL moved that the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills be allowed to sit and proceed on the Virgin Mary Hospital (New castle-upon-Tyne) Estate Bill to-morrow, provided one day's notice thereof be given in the Private Bill-office. Agreed to. Sir THOMAS BIRCH moved that it be an instruc tion to the Committee of Selection to appoint the Com mittee on the Weld Blundell's Estate Bill to meet o❑ Monday if they think fit. —Agri ed to. PETITION. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition against the Poor-law Union Charges Bill. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Chester to the same etf-ct. Mr. BOUVEIIE presented a petition from a place in Scotland against the Marriages Registration (Scotland) Bill. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Silver dale, in Lancashire, against the Highway Bill. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. Mr. BROTHEItTON moved that the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill be read for the pur pose of being discharged. Lord MORPETH presumed the Hon. Gentleman had the assent of the Hon. Member who had charge of the Bill to this motion. Mr. BROTHERTON said he had. Lord MORPETH said, under these circumstances, he would not oppose the motion, but he begged to state that he was prepared to approve of the principle of the Bill by voting for the second reading, and he therefore trusted the Bill would be revived next session. The motion was then agreed to. PIRACY BILL. The House then went into Comrnittee on this Bill. On elauso 1, Mr. MACGREGOR explained that the object of the clause was to relieve parties from the penalties of the piracy-laws who took charge of a vt ssel to carry her to the nearest port. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the clause pro vided no such penalties, and the effect of it would be that the whole mercantile navy would be under the con trol of subordinate parties. Mr. HENLEY said the proposal was most monstrous, and he was surprised the Bill had gone so far. Mr. BERNAL admitted that some alteration was ne cessary in the present piracy -laws, but he could not agree to the alteration proposed by the Bill. Mr. HUME said the provisions of the Bill were ex ceedingly indefinite, and he must object to give the mer cantile navy of the country the large powers which the Hon. Gentleman proposed to place in their hands. Mr. Cowart and Mr. Duscati solicited the Honour able Gentleman to withdraw the Bill. Mr. MACGREGOR. seeing that the sense of the Committee was against him, would accede to the request of the two Honourable Gentlemen. The Chairman was accordingly ordered to report progress. The House having resumed, the Chairman reported, without asking for leave to sit again. BANKRUPTCY BILL. Mr. BOUVERIE, in moving the second reading of this Bill, complained that he had not been treated fairly by the Government in reference to this measure, for two years ago he withdrew a similar Bill upon an intimation from the Secretary of State for the Home Department that the Lord Chancellor had the subject of the bank ruptcy laws under his consideration, with the view to their amendment. No alterations had, however, been proposed either in that or the other House of Parlia ment, and he thought it was highly important that the House should no longer delay the passing of this Bill. Nothing could be more necessary for the stability of the trade and commerce of the country than that the bank ruptcy-laws should always be e fficient and easy of ad ministration. That the present bankruptcy and insol vency-laws of the country were defective there could be no doubt. There was no line of demarcation drawn between the honest and dishonest bankrupt, and until some change were made to recognise that distinction the laws must be ever open to fraud and evasion. Now it was to remedy the defect that had induced him to revive the Bill, and if the House were ready to show its discountenance of fraud and rascality, they would not refuse to acknowledge the principle of this Bill. For the last five-and-twenty years the bankruptcy laws had been subjected to changes, and he felt that it was high time that these laws were purged of their glaring defecte. One provision of this Bill gave power to a Court of Bankruptcy to order the arrest of a fraudulent debtor on mesne process. The other provisions simply consolidated the existing bank ruptcy laws, and the only other new provisions in the Bill gave the Bankruptcy Court power to withhold its protection from the fraudulent debtor, and the creditor liberty to arrest him so lung as the protection was withheld. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said he for one did not deny that the present bankruptcy laws were open to amendment, end as this Bill simply affirmed that principle, while it consolidated the existing bankruptcy laws, he was not prepared to offer any opposition to the second reading of the Bill. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. REMEDIES AGAINST THE HUNDRED BILL. Sir W. CLAY, in moving the second reading of this Bill, fur the purpose of being discharged, said, as the alteration which it proposed to make in the present law involved an important principle, it would be advisable to leave it in the hands of the Government, who would act under the advice of the Attorney-General. He therefore thought he would best discharge his duty by placing it in the care of the Government, if the Secre tary of State for the Home Department would assure him, seeing that there was a very general concurrence in the House with respect to an alteration of the ex isting law, that he would, during the recess, give the subject his consideration with the view of proposing some alteration. Sir GEORGE GREY was ready to admit tihtethat subjectthe law was not in a very satisfactory state, but had been under the consideration of the Attorney- General. He did not agree with the Hon. Gentleman because . he tho i ught t th h a at t t t h h e e e la n w ly a d •a e s er ta g e e t n int a i l i l e y l a a ' W fe w ct a i s ve t , he mode tn wit which it uld so p f r a o r ve hi ast s h c a l t a d im ore t e o t was required that a compensation from the he was prepared, in conjunction with 1 a t u r t n y d rse should prove his claim to compensation from the hundred his Learned was concerdmd' Friend the Attorney-General to give the subject his best consideration with the view of applying a remedy. Mr. CARDWELL said the difficulty, as far as legis lative measures was concerned, was a very small one, and might he settled in a very abort Bill. Instead of thinking that this was an inapt period to introduce a Bill on the subject, he was of opinion that so important a matter should be settled at once, in order that people might know what remedy they had when their property was injured. It he, himself, took the Bill out of the lion. Gentleman's hands, he would have no chance at that late period of the session of pro ceeding with it, and he would, therefore, not divide the House on the question. However, he thought the course taken by the Honourable Member was more friendly to the Government, than to those whose property had been or might be injured. Sir GEORGE GREY said, when he brought in the Bill, he stated that he did not think there was any necessity for a change of the law, but he was not prepared to say that some additional powers were not required with respect to obtaining compensation. Ile had, however, received very few complaints as to the operation of the law, and with regard to Liverpool, which the Hon. Member (Mr. Cardwell) represented, every proceeding had been taken by the Government and the authorities to protect the property of the inhabitants. He did not think that the people in large towns would be much injured by allowing the existing law to remain unaltered until he was prepared to bring in soro• measure to obviate the complaints to which it at present gave rise. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed that when the Bill was introduced his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Department consulted him, and be then stated that as the law had been recently altered, it was his opinion that it should not be again altered unless some very strong grounds were shown for doing so. He had promised to take the subject into consideration, for the purpose et settling upon some expedient to amend the law; and, although certainly several cases of hardship had recently been experienced by the inhabitants of London, he did not think the law would in the meantime press severely upon persons. After a few words from Captain Pechel I, Mr. Drum mond, and Sir W. Clay, the motion was agreed to, and the order discharged. STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTION BILL. Mr. Bh'ItNAL brought up the report on this Bill, which was read and agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION FRAUD PREVEN TION BILL. Lord DUDLEY STUART moved the second reading of this Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, as the Bill now stood he had no objection to it, but if it was understood to legalize societies, such as the Odd Fellows' Society, which had secret signs, he must give it his opposition. Lord D. STUART said those societies were ready when required to make their signs known to a magis trate or a justice of the peace, and allow access to their lodges at all times. The Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed On Monday next. COURT OF JUSTICIARY (SCOTLAND) BILL. This Bill past through Committee. (LEFT SITTING.) THE CLERKENWELL MURDER.—Yesterday evening the jury empannelled in this case proceeded to view the body of the deceased Amelia Merrick, which lies at present at St. Luke's Hospital, City. road. The in quiry has been adjourned until this altethoon, to give time for the post mortem examination. The prisoner has been remanded fora week until the coroner's inquest is over. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFOR,Si ASSOCIATION. Sir,—The most important thing on Monday the 7th, was Lord Palmerston's declaration of his hope of being able, in conjunction with France, to put a stop to the war in the north of Italy. If precedent for a successful operation of the same kind is wanted, it is presented in the establishment of the kingdom of Belgium. • The world has seen there, by the junction of the two leitcling liberal powers of Europe, a free and constitutional go• vernment formed, which has outlived the most trying storm, and stands on record as evidence of what may be done by human efforts, when well directed to an honest end. We shall probably be met by the baby cry of "No inter ference." 'What good thing on earth is done or procured, without interference ? that is to say, without exertion to promote substantial interests when we have them. If a man has no interests, let him say so ; but the fact established by all human experience is, that the interests of every man are to a certain extent bound up with the interests of every other man, and they who deny it, are only seeking ur.derhand for the promotion of some in terest which they conceal. Where a case is new and unprecedented, there may be excuse for saying there is no chart for our• guide :Luce. But when the circumstances are familiar, human wisdom consists in doing that which has been authorised by former success, and not in doing nothing. In the case of Belgium, the almost certainty of war in Europe by any other course, was quashed; and a benefit, second it• not first, was in the good understanding avowed and heralded, by the appearance of France and England in concert for a liberal end. If any man is afraid of red republics, there can be no anodyne for his terrors like seeing the two most popular Governments in Europe, waiving dispute on forms, and proceeding in concert to establish the constitutional freedom which makes the glory of both. _ The Irish rebellion has fizzed off, like a cartridge where the powder has run out. The real fact is, that the powder was ne ve r th ere . Th ere were not the in. flammable materials, either in Ireland or in England* which any match could explode. There was a great noise and talk, got up by those who think, and rightlyr that noise is one element of war. But it will not act 131 itself, and the substantial elements were wanting. Though not altogether " wrapp'd in measureless content,", neither the Irish nor English people have hostile feelings to' wards the existing state of things, sufficient to build week's civil war upon. At the present moment, Europa is only looking to see whether England is behind France in aversion to blood-shedding after resist* once is ever. The French lost seven geneealst from which the losses in other directions may be guessed at. It is not clearly ascertained that the victorious pull in Ireland lost a policeman's little toe. We shall see whether France or England sets up the guillotine first. It we are to be humiliated by being put below France. we will all ask, like Lord Brougham, to be allowed to become citizens of the great republic. On Tuesday occurred what may be classed among the most important events of the session. Mr. Henri Berkeley's Resolution in favour of the Ballot, after long and animated debate, was carried by 86 against The speeches in opposition to the Resolution will make an excellent basis for a Catechism on the Ballot. I ant, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, London, Aug. 9, 1848. PARLIAMEN TARY DIVISIONS. (From the Yotes and Proceedings of the House of Conuno.) TUESDAY, AUG. 8. VOTE BY BALLOT. Motion made and Question put, •6 That it is expediel l ' in the Election for Members to serve in Parliament, that till Votes of the Electors be taken by way of Ballet." House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 86. Adair, It. Shafto Henry, Alexander Power, Dr. Anderson, Arthur Heywood, James Raphael, Alexandl t Barnard, E. G. Hill, Lord Marcus Reynolds, John Berkeley, Craven Hobhouse, T. B. Ricardo, Osman Bernal, Ralph Hodges, T. L. Rice, E. R. Bouverie, E. P. Hume,..loseph Roberto'', T. J. Bowring, Dr. Humphery, Ald. Romilly, Sir John Boyle, Colonel Kershaw, James Salwey, Colonel Bright, John Locke, Joseph Smith, John A. Brocklehurst, John Lushington, C. Smith, J. B. Brotherton, J. M'Cullagh, W. T. Spearman, 11. J. Brown, W. M'Gregor, John Stuart, Lord D. Clay, James Mangles, R. D. Tancred, H. W. Clay, Sir W. Milner, W. M. Tenlson, E. K. Ci,bclen, Richard Mitchell, A. T. Thompson, Georg° Collins, W. Morris, David Thornely, T. Dawson, T. V. Mowatt, Francii Townshend. COO Devereux, J. T. Muntz, G. F. 1 Tynte, Colonel Divett, Edward Norreys, Sir D. Villiers, Charlet, Duncan, George Nugent, Lord WakleY, Thomas Dundas, Admiral O'Brien, T. Ward, H. G. Evans, Sir Do Lacy Ogle, S. C. Westhead .J. P. Fagan, William Osborne, Ralph Willcox, Brodie Fox, W. J. Paget, Lord A. Williams, John Gibson, T. M. Paget, Lord Clarence Wilson, Matthelf Glyn, G. C. Pearson, Charles Wood, W. I'. Greene. John Pechell, Captain, Grenfell, Charles W. Peto, Samuel 11:LLEIS. Hustle, Alexander Pigott, Francis Berkeley, H. Headlamp T. E. Pilki ng t on , J ames Thompson, Colons' MINORITY—NOES, 81. Anstey, Thomas C. Fitzgerald, W. R. Masterman, John Arkwright, George Fitzpatrick, J. W. Mailmen, T. B. Ashley, Lord Floyer, John Moody, C. A. Baldwin, Barry Yorks, W. Morgan, 0. Bentinck, Lord G. Fore s t er , G. C. Morpeth, Viscoun t Birch, Sir Thomas Fox, S. L. Noel, Gerald J. Bourke, R. S Frewen, C. H. Palmer, Robert Bowles. Admiral Gaskell, J. M. Palmerston, Vis. Broadley. Henry Gladstone, W. E. Patten, J. W. Buller, Sir J. Y. Goddard, A. L. Plowden, W. Ir. Burrell, Sir C. Granby, Marquis of Price. Sir BOOS Carew, W. P. Grey, Ralph W. Repton, G. W. J. Chaplin, W. J. Hall, Colonel Burnt°ld, C. E. Codrington, Sir W. Hamilton, G. A. Russell, Lord John Coles, Henry B. Heald, James Sandars, George Curry, 11. Heathcote, G. J. Scott, F. Courtenay, Lord Hltiyard, T. B. Seymour, Lord Cowper, W. F. H o th ouse, Si r J o h n Shelburn e, Earl ° I, Cubittt, William Hood, Or A. Smith, R. , ..,., Denison, J. E. Hotham, Lord Somerset, 'CAP,'" Dodd, George Howard, P. H. Start, Henry (.}. Duncuit, John Howard, Sir R. David Urquhart, ._ Dunne, F. I'. J o n es , C a p ta i n Waddington, 11. °' East, Sir J. B. Lacy, Henry C. Ebringtou, Lord La w , C. E. Wood, Cbarle° Edwards, Henry Le g h, G. C . Wellesley , , e Tl ly i Lr , u is Lord . Elliot, John E. Lockhart, W. Henley, J. W. Ferguson, Sir R. Lowther, Colonel Napier, Joseph MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAI Since Monday, and fresh up for thi s morning's marks, arrivals of English Wheat h ave b een on a comelei Lively limited scale. Notwithstanding the show of saO 3 P to-day was very moderate, and the weather extromelY v riable, the demand for a ll ki nds of Wheal of home t.o. duce was far from brisk. We must, however, ca ll ,0 steady, at very full p r i ces. Prior to the close of bust 0 a good clearance o f t h e stands was effected. There " a somewhat improved inquiry for the best Forel; Wheats, at f u ll y previous quotations. In the ini d _ dg ctli r and inferior kinds exceedingly little business was 4 0 3 . acted.; Th e i mports of Foreign Barley being 00 N o. increase, th at article was at a slow sale, at late 01"11 Malt was a d u ll i nquiry, but not cheaper. The suPrd of :)ats was small. All kinds moved off feeel4,o prices were steadily supported. Both Beans and tie . were quit e as d ear, but Indian Corn and Meal were ivg. glected. In Fl our on l y a moderate business was Pa ce ARRIVALS. Barley. Oats. I F - I 4l°' gee. 1,460 qrs. , 2,440 I English Irish. ....... 5,710 3falt, 1,080 qrs. 12107ZOUG1I PLOP Owing to the continued wet weather, there is more ii3 o i clination manifested to-day to purchase most kincl s be Hops, the prices of whi c h are f a i r ly supporte d. ,f duty is called from 195,000/. to 200,0001. Sor e Pockets, 2/ 2s to 21 6s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 49 , 21 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 218 s to 518 s per C Wheat. 1,610 qrB. Foreign .. • • .. 8,030 WECITECEILPEL. We had a steady demand for each kind of Dies day, at fully last week's quotations. Beef, from 2 1 to to 3s k Bd; M utton , 3 s 8d to 4s 8d; Lamb 43 2 oci 5 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 38 6d to 41 per Slos by the carcase. IPSWICH CORN EXCHANGE, Amt. 8. 0 0 A considerabl e b rea d th of Wheat has been cut, biltDer great quantity car t e d . Th e weather has become r°loo more settled ; s h ou ld i t cont i nue fine to the end O. week, consid e r a bl e progress w i ll be made in 00°0A what is down. Th e supp l y o f Wh eat to-day was gi,pe, the trade heavy, and prices rather upon the de c oto Barley and Brans maintain last week's prices. 09 15 011 a heavy sale. Peas more in request. W e had !. sule fur Malt and Flour. 0 0. PER QUARTER. Wheat 44 s to 54s Beans Barley. Oats. A ttto 0 0 - e.. ....... 25s to 28. Flour, per sack,. 369 1° AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 5 ' Wheat ......... 5,009 quarters, at 49s sd. Oats ............ 93 !I 22s id. Beans ........... 13 ff 35s Od• Pea 5............ 176 33 s 03. ON GENERAL WRANGEL AND THE SC— D WIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. ? When shall this war of Dane and German cease IC ? This tough old knot, what power shall disentaag The nations parley—but, instead of peace, Get " worse confounded" by a G enera l Irrang, ie io,, A MERCHANT'S CL E F The Adelphi company continues its extraora i l V career of success at the H a y mar k e t Th eatre . The `si‘ i rank and fashion nightly patronize the perform/111 09 0 e are justly so popul ar . 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