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The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully Informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THUM DAY next, when Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear as AMINA, Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Amine, Mille. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Rodolphe, Sig. F. Lablacke ; Elvino, Sig. Gardeni. With various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M. Taglioni, Mdlle. Cent., &c. Sec. The Frio List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-office of the theatre, price lee. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and Tickets are to be made. HRH MAJESTY'S THEATRE. By Special Desire. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. THIS EVENING will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled LA FIGLIA DEL /tEGGIMENTO. Maria, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Suplizio Sergente, gig. F. Lablache ; Toni°, sig. Gardoni. To conclude with the grand Ballet re-arranged by M. Perrot, en titled LE ESMERALDA, ♦pplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-otfice of the Theatre. I►oors °pea at half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un.,er the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith liennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge; Mr. Wright; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool, gar After which the Burlesque of NORMA.. Norma, Mr. P. Bedford. To conclade with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. AOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. Ttils EVENING, Will be performed a new comic Drama, entitled THE TUTOR'S ASSISTANT. Characters by Messrs. Selby, C. Mathews, F. Cooke, Roxby, Granby, Berridge ; Mrs. C. 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Ye conclude with EGARRkIIENTS D'UNE CANNE ET D'UN PARAPL U lE. ~uses. os, ; Pit, 3s. &I.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 25 Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, M. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary and original SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, which he will repeat THIS EVENL.siG, and *very Tuesdar, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. in consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES an FRIDAY MORNING, July 21 Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may bo secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. 140 YAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction o I Mr. Kerschner. Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING _ Will be performed a new and original Drama, in Eight Tableaux, pourtraying by living characters George Cruilishank's celebrated De signs, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. Edward anti Emma Roy (the Drunkard's Children) by Mr. N. T. Hicks and Mrs. Horier, supported by this talented company. After which, BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke, Black-eyed Susan. Mrs. R. Bonner. To conclude with the new Ballet, entitled LES CONSCRIPTIONS DE BASIL, in Mr. Flexmore, M. Dentin, .Mdlles. Theodore, Adele, and Louise, and a numerous Corps de Ballet from Der Majesty s Theatre will appear. tlainteer an Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. l'ropnetor, Mr. W. Batty. Sixth Week of Fitzball's new and completely successful Spectacts. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter e.cott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR ILION ; or, The Ita.ale of Flodden Field. To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS• TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a favourite FARCE. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. Now Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement of Miss HUDDA.RT. Continuation of the Engagement of Millie. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Dawson. Superb and Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra barge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View •f 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, Cloth, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazaru , , Richardson, Sonnenberg, ac.—Two Solos each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will sing two fa vourite Songs, Miss Huddart will sing a favourite Song, and with Lovarny will execute an admired Duet.—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magi• Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole ecorcluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome. • Gates open at Ten ♦.M., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TIZIS DAY, July IS, the Third and Last but One Grand Miscel laneous Flower Show of the Royal South London Floricultural So• otety, on which occasion an extra Brass land will be in attendance. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected eommunications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 18. TLIERYOMETER, Lawest, 52; Highest, 72 ; Noon, 70. BAROMETER, 30.15.—W1ND, W.N,W., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .• ii rain. after 3 1 Evening .. 34 min. aft er 2 A t . t , 4, 4 .0 4 • , , , r 0 ,40,1" .v. •_ , u AV. sioS, , brE • , .7c„„ Volum LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1848. Scarcely anything could be more propitious than the promise of remedial measures contained in the Royal Speech on the 23d of last November• No thing could be more unsatisfactory than the " Mas sacre of the Innocents" last evening, upon the occa sion of which annual sacrifice the non-fulfilment of those promises was candidly acknowledged by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Parliament has now been sitting for nearly eight months (dating from the 23d of November up to this 18th of July) without any other intermission than the ordinary intervals of the Christmas, Easter, and 'Whitsuntide holidays. And'what has been accom plished during this prolonged session by the Legis lature under the direction of the Russell Govern ment? Let us see. Although a bitter experience has told us that the close of a Parliamentary session is almost inevitably accompanied by disappoint ment, we must confess at once that we were wholly unprepared for the unfortunate circum stances which characterise the session of 1848. It mint be remembered, of course, that after the sweep ing innovations of 1846, we may be naturally the more disposed to cavil at the comparative insignificance of the improvements effected immediately afterwards by the national representatives. But, in expressing astonishment at the miserable results of a peculiarly arduous session, like the one which is now rapidly approaching its termination, we have net forgotten this circumstance. We make every allowance for the extraordinary contrast rendered inevitable by the abo lition of the protective imposts and the security of commercial emancipation. Another extenuating fact must also be borne in remembrance while we are en- THE SUN, LONDON, 1717ESDAY___ElrE1 4 !1;74O,,_ tTLY deavouring to form an accurate estimate of the labours of the present Parliament—we mean the astonishing explosion of occurrences throughout the European continent—occurrences sufficiently remarkable to paralyze into inactivity even a more laborious and less volatile assembly than an English House of Com mons. Besides which, the monetary panic, the mer cantile stagnation, the bluster of an insignificant rabble of Chartist demagogues in England, and the treasonous agitation of Ireland by the physical-force Repeaters, have been amply sufficient to distract the attention of a senate seated within walls so trans parent to external events, and so pervious to the voices of the population, as the walls of the Parlia ment of Westminster. Making every allowance for these drawbacks against active and efficient legislation, we cannot but think that the results of the Parliamentary session of 1848 are miserably disproportioned to the promises contained in the Speech from the Throne, and enforced by the anti cipations of the multitude. Every rational man in the United Kingdom feels that now more than ever there is a necessity for a real representation of the people —for an extension of the right of local self-govern ment—for economy and retrenchment in the ad ministration of the public revenue—for a revision and just apportionment of the burden of taxation — for a just administration of national trust property — for freedom of conscience in matters of religion—for freedom for education—for law reform—for reforms in army and navy, besides many other changes which are becoming every successive day more imperatively requisite.* Instead of obtaining any one of these boons, we have seen the Jewish Disabilities Bill summarily rejected, and the important motion of Messrs. Huang and COBDEN defeated by an enormous majority. Among the more memorable things that have up to this moment been accomplished we can only enumerate such measures as the Mutiny Acts ; as the Alien Act, by which the torch was wrested from the incendiary hands of the Propagandists; as the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Acts, by which a coun terpoise was found for the orations of MEAGHER and the "leaders" of MITCHEL, or as the famous Crown and Government Security Act, by which the crime of treason has been degraded into a felony. Such coer cive or protective measures as those we have obtained : but of the three great boons offered to us by the QUEEN'S Speech how much have we obtained—the permanent improvement of Ireland, the Public Health enactment, and the abrogation of the Laws upon Navigation !—how much of these have been written upon the Statute-book by the hand of Parliament ? Let the Prime Minister answer. According to the statement made last night by Lord J. RUSSELL, the principal measures which are to be persevered with, and (if possible) carried this session are—the Bo rough Elections Bill, a fair Bill enough as far as it goes ; the Health of Towns Bill, good to a certain extent, but deplorably mutilated by the amendments forced upon it during its passage through Com mittee ; the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill, a generous and laudable revival of what has been suppressed only out of consideration for the bigotry of the pusillanimous ; and the Irish Encumbered Estates Bill, perhaps the most excellent and useful Act of the whole session, but the fulfilment of which is excessively doubtful, as the Lords have yet to be persuaded of its excellence. There is, of course, in addition to this, the Sugar Duties Bill, which must be numbered among the successful efforts of the Legislature in 1848, and which will carry satisfaction not only to the old ladies of Ayrshire who delect in toddy, but also to a large portion of the people of Great Britain, and ulti mately to the colonists themselves. Not to mention the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, which is to be pushed through the House of Commons only to be postponed for the consideration of the House of Peers in 1849, and which Bill the Premier slurred over as almost a matter of insigni ficance, not to mention either the Elective Franchise (Ireland) Bill, which is abandoned without a sigh or a scruple—the Bill for the repeal of the navigation-laws, together with all its subordi nate and subsidiary measures, is thrown on one side as not worthy of any further exertion either on the part of the Ministry or on the part of the Parliament. Most heartily do we regret this—not merely because of the nights which have been expended in its dis cussion, and the divisions which have attested the favourable disposition with which it is regarded by the Commons, but because we regard the measure as the consummation of Free Trade, and as one calcu lated to act most beneficially upon our mercantile transactions. Looking back, therefore, along this retrospective vista of nearly eight months' legislation, we see only a fragment of one of the three great boons promised in the Speech from the Throne, secured. The Naviga tion-laws still remain in force, offering an insur mountable obstruction to most of the efforts of British Commerce. Ireland is still, comparatively speaking, unimproved. And of the vaunted measure for the improvement of the Public Health we have only the chance of a few dislocated fragments. Nevertheless, those fragments we accept with a sort of grateful avidity, although we are left without the feeble con solation of Sir HUGH EVANS seeing that now there are not even " pippins and cheese" to follow. The porters of Constantinople are said to surpass all other carriers in Europe in their power of bear ing burdens, often moving with ease under a weight of more than two thousand pounds. This supe riority of performance is not derived from superiority in physical strength, but from a careful distribution of the load over the entire body, from giving each set of muscles a fair share of the entire burden, and making the whole frame lend its power equally to sustain the otherwise overwhelming weight. A similar science is necessary to enable the body politic to bear heavy burdens, without sinking beneath them. If a nation be obliged to support an enormous weight of taxation, that load must be equally and fairly distributed, or the nation will be crushed be neath its weight. Nowhere is this science more needed than in England, and nowhere is it less studied, or, at all events, less practised than in this country. House property in the city of London is taxed at least six times more highly than similar property in Cumberland, or in almost any of the provinces. The heart of the nation, through which the stream of wealth and commerce flows to all other parts of the body politic, is thus oppressed by an unjust, because an unequal load. Its wholesome pulsation is impeded, and a morbid state of feeling is created at the very source of the nation's strength. Although the present taxation of the metropolis thus exceeds the taxation of all other portions of the kingdom, although it is greater than the taxa- ' tion imposed upon any other district of equal extent upon the earth, it is at present proposed to increase this enormous taxation. An unhealthy state of feel ing, existing chiefly in some of the manufacturing districts, has made it necessary to increase the police force, which surrounds and protects the Parliament and public offices of the empire, and it has been de termined to defray the expenses of this additional force, not equally by the entire nation, but by im posing a new tax upon the already over-burdened metropolitan districts. This additional inequality— this advance in injustice—has naturally excited the indignation of the metropolitan tax-payers, and pro voked a remonstrance with the Government. Last week a deputation from the remonstrant rate-payers had an interview with the Secretary of State for the Home Department, upon which occasion the Minister ad mitted that equity and fair dealing demanded that the charge for the additional police ought to be borne by a more extended taxation, but refused to adopt that course, because such a proceeding would require a new Act of Parliament. It needed "Ho ghost" to tell us that such unequal taxation was inequitable. Why should the inhabi tants of London be taxed more heavily than the in habitants of any other part of England? Upon what pretence is a load of taxation laid upon their shoulders six times greater than that imposed upon the inhabitants of Cumberland? Is it because they are more industrious? Is it because they rise earlier and lie down later, and labour harder than any other portion of the subjects of this kingdom? What maxim of go vernment or rule of political economy has ordained that atindustry, so far as the State has power, ought to bringpunishment, and con s i t n an st t e ly ad pr o a f ctise reward, it? upon those who honestly The course of proceeding in this case, which the * See the admirable " Address to the Queen," con tained in the number of the Westminster Review just published, No. XCVLI., pp. 453-503. Home Secretary has openly admitted to be unjust, and has then deliberately adopted, has induced a state of feeling amongst the tax-payers of the metropolis such as we never expected to witness in this order loving and law-supporting population. The deputa tion which waited upon Sir GEORGE GREY, in censed by the resolute adoption of a course of admitted injustice, declared their deter mination not to pay the additional tax, but to allow it to be levied from their houses by the police. That is, they have determined to oppose passive resistance to the enforcement of an unjust tax. No lover of order can regard this state of things, thus occurring in the v,ery heart of the empire at a time of dangerous and universal excitement, without the deepest apprehension and regret. When a people feel that law is opposed to justice, and that redress is resolutely denied, no safety can exist for government—no security for peace. _ In such a state of things, the man who throws a doubt upon the validity of the statutes thus used to maintain injustice, and who thereby attempts to reconcile the letter of the law with the rules of equity and fair dealing, is, in our opinion, entitled to both approbation and support. Strongly impressed with these feelings, we have perused with much pleasure an opinion of counsel, denying the validity of those enactments which have hitherto enforced unequal taxation, and maintaining " that by the fundamental law of this kingdom (which statutes cannot change) all public expenses must be defrayed indiscriminately by the produce of equal taxes upon the same articles; that every sub ject of this kingdom must be charged according to the rule laid down in HAMPDEN'S case, "secundunz statum et facultates"—thus, one hundred pounds worth of property in London cannot legally be taxed more highly than one hundred pounds worth of property in any other part of the kingdom, and that any statute which attempts to change it is absolutely null and i void." We propose to examine this opinion, and the grounds upon which it relies, more fully at some future period. Without expressing a decided opi." nion upon the propositions advanced, we must say that the views put forward are sustained with much vigour, ingenuity, and learning, and appear well worthy an attentive consideration. If it should ap pear that a strict assertion of the law would insure a triumph to justice and fair dealing in this case, we shall have an additional reason for admiring the won derful constitution of our country, which seems to have made provision for all the chances and changes of political weakness and Ministerial imbecility. We would strongly advise the dissatisfied rate-payers of London, instead of resorting to passive resistance, to take the best professional advice on this hitherto• unexamined portion of our constitutional law, and to remember that a very slight legal support may be sufficient to insure the triumph of a cause which is already sustained by every principle of equity, of justice, and of political wisdom. revolution of February. DS not forget that on the morrow of February the whole of Italy was under the yoke, and that to-day, thanks to its efforts and the attitude you took, which was a sensible and ener getic act, nearly the whole of Italy is free, that is to say, that twenty-six millions of men enjoy your alliance. Was it for us, on the morrow of the revolution of Fe bruary, prematurely to cross the Alps, and to go in our own name and attack the Austrians in Lombardy? But do you forget that the groundwork of our whole policy lay in the principle—respect and friendship to Germany, and that an aggression so personal and unwarranted against Austria would have been interpreted as a gra tuitous aggression against Germany itself, have roused all the fluvial states of the Rhine against us, and driven the north of Germany to an alliance with Russia, the very thing it has always been our policy and the policy of peace to prevent? No, we did not place the question thus; we did not 'induce Charles Albert to declare war against Austria; the enthusiasm of his people, the cry of Italy. his position, the ambition of his councils, perhaps the personal thirst fur glory, were sufficient induce ments ' without our aid. His inveterate personal alliance with Austrian absolutism could not withstand the impulse of all Italy. lie advanced. From the day that Charles Albert advanced, we telt, and we expressed it openly, withiait reserve, from the tribune, and not without daring, what• ever your opinion may be, that Italy was free, or would be free. We said, either Charles Albert will triumph alone over the armies of Radetaky, with the aid of the ' other Italians, and then Italy will have acquired her own freedom, a condition the better to defend it: or else Charles Albert will meet with checks, and the independ ence of his own states in Northern Italy will to seriously menaced by the Austrians, and then we shall intervene for the safety of France, and for the existing nationalities on the map, and this is why the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government ex acted, as the first step of his pacific diplomacy, the for mation of an army of 52,000 men at the foot of the Alps, ready to advance. Yuu will not require me, gentlemen, to enter here into further details on the actual situation, as an indiscretion might compromise the affairs of the country. Italy shall be tree, or France will go alland share the danger: that is that we can say at the present moment. One word in reply to a re proach which struck me home in the words of M. Na poleon Bonaparte. He said—' The Republic has no policy, has no foreign policy. I should prefer any bad policy to none at all ; there are political follies which are glorious follies, which sometimes save nations, or which, at least, honour the people whom they lead to destruction.' To justify his words, he quoted the four teen armies of the Convention, and the great and heroic wars of our epoch of crisis and glory. Gentlemen, he overlooked one point, that with all its energy the Con vention 'acted with wisdom and moderation towards those nations and Governments which did not attack France, that it had allies not only among Republics, but among absolute monarchs—that it did not give war for peace—that its policy of fourteen armies was not one of its own seeking, but a policy of necessity and despair; and it was in that despair, and in that necessity alone, that the Convention found, by appealing to the nation itself, the energy to engender those fourteen armies, and to cause at the same time the triumph of the Republic, and of French nationality. It was not there the diplomacy of the Convention, it was its heroiam, the heroism of despair of the country; thanks to the very wisdom of the policy you accuse, we are nut so bad as that, but should it be so, we should find the same energy with more allies amongst the people. As regards the diplomacy of Napoleon, I admire everything appertaining to that name, with two exceptions—his idea of internal legislative organization and foreign di plomacy. As regards his legislative idea, I regard it simply as an outline, but not intelligent reaction against the Idemocratic party, which it was necessary to regu larize and k ee p withi n bounds, but not to stifle. All these institutions were in opposition to the revolution, to the age of liberty. As regards his diplomacy—his only diplomacy was the cannon. He tore up the rasp of the world without ever endeavouring to put it together again. With his sword he pierced all the nationalities and natural alliances of France without ever thinking of the morrow. On the day of settlement fur so long an account of blood and glory, what did there remain for us? Nothing but his name. When France looked around her, she found herself justly abandoned and feared by every Government ; hated by all nationalities; with Poland, whose freedom was in his hand, and whom he left more a slave than ever, with Italy, which he had occupied for ten years, without having done more than to have used it to a change of masters—without sowing one vital spark of indern dence; with Spain animated with the thoughts of an atrocious war against us; with Germany isolated and usurped in all her territories; with Russia provoked into her very deserts; with Europe, in a word, ready to avenge all her sufferings and defeats upon France. Call that glory if you like, I have no objection; but if you call it diplomacy, it is a diplomacy which the Republic at least shall never imitate as long as our voice is heard in its councils. The Republic of the 24th February boasts of having another diplomacy than that of the Convention and of the Empire, than that of despair and conquest; the influence France has acquired in four months, the impossibility of beholding another coalition against her, unless she was to create one with her own hands, proves, notwithstanding the assertion of M. Na poleon Bonaparte, that its policy is as democratic as it is national—a policy, firm and moderate, it is that policy which has been inaugurated by the Government of February, and of which, I doubt it not, the present Go vernment will follow the bold outlines and happy tradi tions." It is said that M. MARIE, the President of the National Assembly, will succeed M. BETHMONT as Minister of Justice. General CAVAIGNAC has declared that, unless some fresh conspiracy or outbreak should take place, Paris will be relieved from the state of siege on the 25th instant. :The financial state of the Republic occasions con siderable uneasiness. The Debuts, in the course of a long article on this subject, declares that if the system followed for the lae,t five month.; be persisted in, the State is ruined. "We roll down an inclined plane," says the Debats, "to bankruptcy or assign ats, which is the same thing." In the same journal we find it stated that the Go vernment had received a telegraphic dispatch from Naples in three days,.announcing that the Sicilians had elected the Duke of GENOA, the son of CHARLES ALBERT, to be King of Sicily. The Siecle states that orders have been issued by the French Government to the commanders of fleets in the Mediterranean, to salute the Sicilian flag. The disappointed anarchists still continue their atrocious system of assassination and incendiarism. On Friday morning, says the Gazette des Tri• Lamm.; as a detachment of the Garde Mobile, quartered at Courbevoie, was escorting a convoy of gunpowder from Mount Valerian through the Bois de Boulogne, one of the soldiers, quite a youth, quitted the line in the Allee de Passy, and laid himself down in the thicket, saying that he was so much overcome with the heat and fatigue, that he would rather undergo a fortnight's imprisonment in the Salle de Police than march a step further. As the convoy continued to move on, the captain thought it better to leave the tired man behind than. lose time in forcing him to rejoin his company. At day-break on Saturday morning some of his comrades returned to seek him at the spot where they had left him, and found him dead, with seven knife wounds in his body. Neither any part of his accoutrements, nor of 154 f. which he had in his pocket, had been taken from him. The Patric of last night says—" At noon to-day, as a grenadier of the 39th Regiment of the line was crossing the Pont d'Arcole, he was stabbed in the back with a knife. He was taken to the Hotel de Ville. The assassin made his escape." These attempts are not confined to Paris and its neighbourhood ; a desperate attempt at murder and incendiarism was made on the night of the 14th, near Rochelle. A letter from that place thus de scribes it : "A proprietor residing in the small village of Legnon, close to this town, last night hearing a noise in his house, got up, and on opening the door found the pas sage encumbered with faggots, and other combustibles, to which a man dressed en blouse was about to set fire. The owner of the house immediately rushed on the malefactor, but was immediately fired at point blank with a pistol. Fortunately the ball did not effect its object, only inflicting a slight wound in his face. The brave man returned into his house, armed himself with his musket, and went in pursuit of the incendiary, wile had by that time been J oined by two of his accom plices ; lie, however, attacked them, and wounded one severely with his bayonet, but the others fell upon him, and he was on the point of fall ing under their superior force, when some neighbours , attracted by his shouts, and those of his wife, came to his ass i stance . Th e villains escaped into a neigh bouring wood, but the National Guards of the p lace immediately turned out, and proceeded to make a battle, in the n e i g hb our h o od, and it is hoped that the mis creants will not escape. In some other parts o f the vil lage a doubtless with the intention of effecting a conflagration ( quantity of wood was found piled to g ether, a large scale." It appears that during the time of the insurrection many of the Commissuriea appointed to the provinces by M. LEDau RoLLIN suppressed the Government proclamations, and that, in some instances, they even organized clubs to aid the insurgents. In the Maine, M. Lucutteurt, one of the Commissaries appointed by M. LEDRU Rowe, has not yet made public the prcelamation of the National Assembly of the 28th June, setting forth the true character and object of the insurrection, and a similar fate has attended that which followed the event of the 15th May, At Gonesse, only four leagues from Paris, similar inattention on the part of the authorities has taken place. The provincial paper the Haute Loire gives the following details of the manner in which the political business of that department has been managed by the Commissary appointed by the Provisional Govern ment : " M. St. Ferreol organized at Brionde and each of the towns of the arrondissement a Montagnard Club, whore the true republican sys!em of '93 was preached up, where all the mad theories of communism and socialism were inculcated, and where even the existence of God was put to the vote, and after several days' discussion was eventually voted by a majority of 34') to 330. The functionary did not confine himself to the formation of clubs; as soon as it was known that the 11th June had been fixed on for the banquet at 25 centimes, the first mask of the insur rection, a similar assembly was proposed to be held at 13rionde, which terminated by cries of Vive BarE a, Vive la Ripublique Democratique et Sociale,' and the secretary of the club at Brionde, in giving an account of the banquet in a journal, said that • the democrats of this club wished to protest against the or rather the reactionary proceedings of the National Assembly, and to testify their sympathies for Barbes, Albert, and Raspail, whom he considered as the living beacons of the future militant democracy.' " The organization of the municipalities by M. St. Ferriol gave similar evidence of the spirit by which he was actuated. At Beaumont the municipal administra tion was divided by him between three mayors; one holds the seals of office, another the archives, and a third is authorised to sign. At Biesle the same arrangement has been made. At Longeac he appointed an executive power of five members; one of them acts as president, another as an invalid who cannot get out of his bed; the third, and who is specially charged with the police regu lations, has been in Algeria for the last two months, and the other two are equally pre-engaged. The National Guard has never been properly organized, although the rappel is beaten almost every night, but by whose orders no one km,w,." Seizures of arms and ammunition still continued to be made both in the capital and in the departments. The disarming of the National Guards of Lyons is proceeding with the most perfect order. On Saturday the Mayor of Paris in public sitting made the 33d drawing by lots of the municipal obli gations to be reimbursed for the loan of 40,000,000 f., contracted by the city of Paris, in virtue of the law of 29th March, 1832: 1,246 numbers of obli gations were extracted, and of these the obligation numbered 37,690, which was first drawn, obtained a premium of 60,000 f. ; that numbered 30,290, which was drawn the second, a premium of 20,000 f. ; No. 21,277, drawn third, 15,000 f. ; 274, drawn fourth, 12,000 f. ; 28,884, drawn fifth, 10,000 f. The ten fol lowing numbers, from 6 to 15, obtained each a pre mium of 500 f. ; the numbers of the obligations were, 17,668, 27,084, 26,082, 31,182, 16,628, 33,421, 31,868, 21,224, 14,001, 36,380. The sixteenth drawn, which turned out to be No. 6,720, obtained a premium of 1,520 f. Deducting the 1,246 obligations drawn on Saturday, there still remain 9,528 out of the 4,000 which were created, all the others having been drawn and paid off on previous occasions. The 34th draw ing will take place in January, 1849, and be of 1,270 numbers. Intelligence to the 10th instant has been received from Algiers. The chiefs of one of the revolted Arab tribes had made their submission to General GENTIL. The Committee of Finances have rejected the pro position of M. JULES FAVRE, for confiscating the property of the Orleans family. The Committee afterwards considered M. Puoun- HON'S proposition for confiscating one-third of the rents of all properties, and appointed M. TRIERS to draw up the report. PARIS 13OURSE, MONDAY. THREE O'CLOCIC.—The financial position of the French Government is so bad that it has had a most unfavour able effect on the prices to-day. Both Routes and Shafts suffered. There was no news of any kind. Compared with the prices on Saturday, the French Three per Cents. for the Account fell if: 50c. ; Five per Cents, have fallen lf. For Money, the Three per Cents. have fallen lf. 50c. ; Five per Cents. have fallen sc. ; Bons du Ti 6- sor are at 15 discount ; Bank of France Shares have fallen 15f. ; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted ; Five per Cents. remain unchanged; Spanish Active not quoted ; Roman have risen I per cent. ; Rothschild's Receipts have rise❑ 1 per cent. Exchange on London (30 days), ; ditto (90 days), 32k. In Railway Shares the change since Saturday is nut great. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIk LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 17. Boulogne and Amiens, W s —ltalian and Austrian, % Northern of France, 5%. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. TIIE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. In their sitting of the 14th, the German Parlia ment took into consideration the letter of the Hanoverian Ministry to the Estates of Hanover, dated July 7. In this communication it is stated " That the King of HANOVER, moved by the personal qualities of the Administrator, is induced, on that account, to recog nise his election, although the form and purport of the resolution of the National Assembly was well calculated to have caused him to follow an opposite course of conduct." The concluding paragraph in this letter is to the effect—" That his Majesty declares, in case these proceedings do not lead to a happy result, but should proceed in the limitation of the independence of his kingdom to a pitch hpyoild bearing, his Majesty could not consent to remain in a position in which all possibility of advancing the welfare of his country was denied him." The Hanoverian Deputies in the German Parlia ment protested against this proclamation. A long discussion ensued, in which the King of HANoyna's course of conduct was inveighed against in the strongest terms, and at last NVYDENBRUCK'S motion was carried by a considerable majority—viz., " that the National Assembly resolves, the Provi sional Central Executive Power shall immediately demand from the King of HANovEit a diatinct acknow ledgment of the law for the establishment of a Central Executive Power for Germany." The House shortly afterwards adjourned. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 12th instant have arrived. Not content with having a quarrel with England on their hand, the Madrid Government are, it ap pears, desirous also of embroiling themselves with France. The Espana is furious to-day at the idea of the French authorities venturing to search Queen CHRIS TINA'S palace at Paris, and also the residence of the lately appointed Spanish Consul, Senor GRIMALDI, who, though not a Spaniard, has been preferred to that office for former services rendered to that lady. The Paris letter of the Esperanza speaks of Senor GRIMALDI as being compromised—and deeply com promised—in a process about distribution of funds to the insurgents of Paris, and it may be inferred that whatever he has done has been in compliance with instructions of some kind. The Montemolinists in Catalonia and Arragon con tinue to gain ground, and it is now admitted by the most ardent supporters of the Madrid Government, that if CABRERA is not speedily put down the afillir may become serious. The Montemolinists were for six hours in possession of Gracia, one of the suburbs of Barcelona. A Montemolinist guerilla band has been formed in the mountains of Toledo, and several young men have left Madrid to join it. Several Montemolinist bands have appeared in Estremadura. CABRERA was near Olot on the 31. A detachment of thirty in fantry and a squadron of the Principe Cavalry have gone over to the Carlists, taking with them their arms, horses, and accoutrements. The insurrection in Navarre is every day gaining strength. Letters from San Roque and Valencia speak of the embarkation of upwards of one hundred political prisoners from Algeciras for Ceuta, and state that another train of the same number left Valencia on the 7th in the Blasco de Garay steamer. Senor SANCHEZ GATA, ex political chief of Saragossa, was among the number. The Infanta 'RAM& has caused her marriage with Senor GUALL, of Rente, which had given so much of fence to the QUEEN, to be annulled. The ex-husband has been arrested. In the Basque Provinces the Montemolinists have obtained several advantages. On the 13th, they surprised Colonel IRIARTE between the villages of Epinal and Biscarrete, and forced him to take refuge in Epinal, with the loss of several of his men killed, and more wounded. There were 400 Montemolinist infantry engaged in this affair besides cavalry. MADRID BOLSA, JULY 1,--Three per Cents., 20?-, ; Five per Cents., 111. Exchange on London, 43 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The following is the continuation of the speech of M. DE LANLARTINE on foreign affairs, the commence ment of which appeared in The Sun of yesterday : " Is it a court thus situated that can menace you to day, either by an efficacious coalition against you on the Rhine, or by a prolonged and triumphant resistance to the independence of Italy? No, assuredly not. And this brings me naturally to the questiou of Italy, already brought forward, and more definitively stated by M. Napoleon Bonaparte. But I wish first to advert to two observations of M. Mauguin, which were nigh escaping my memory. I wish to put aside all obscurity, to re ply to every assertion. . M. Mauguin said, ' But b e for e entering into the question of Italy, hav e y ou p a id d ue attention to the menacing powers on your flanks, and which must, first of all, be dealt with to allow you freedom of action in case of intervention in Italy?' The two powers alluded to by M. Mau guin are Belgium on the one side and Spain on the other. Let us say, gentlemen, to avoid n ee dl ess dis cussion, that had we wished in February, it was in the power of the revolution to have effaced Belgium from the map, if it had felt inclined to do so. We did not w i s h it; I did not wish it; and I glory in not having wished it, and this is, believe me, the best proof that th e Go vernment was in nowise implicatedin the doubly culpa ble attempt against Belgium—culpable against France, which originated with Belgian and French democrats on the Belgian frontier. We did not wish Belgium to be revolutionized at a moment when France was in revolu tion, and peace problematical, and we did well. Like men of prudence and care, we said—lf Belgium is revolution ized, two factions will arise at once in her own bosom, the one upholding its independence, the other ready to throw Belgium into the arms of France. What was France to do? It she opposed its own party in Belgium, and re fused to incorporate a country ready to give itself up to her, she would have incurred the risk of being reproached with cowardice or treason to the democratic principle in Belgium, by the French Republicans. The incorpora tion of Belgium would have been an act of ambition. and conquest. The consequences would have been mune diate war with Holland and with England, and by England and Holland with Russia and Prussia, and the whole continent. This is why we did not wish it. We must not boast, but we need not blush for our own fore sight. As regards Spain, I differ completely in fact and principle from the line of policy laid down by M. Mau guin with respect to that great country. Since the days of Louis XIV. to Napoleon, and to Louis Philippe, every attempt of France against Spain has turned to the ruin of our diplomacy. Our treaties, our a lliances, our armies never returned but in fragments. Spain is the high road to nothing great for France in the world. She is no auxiliary by sea, as her ports are empty, empty arsenals, and a tew dismantled frigates at Carthagentt; by laud she is no support whatever. It is never by the Pyrenees that the vitality of France can be attacked. Diplomatically speaking, we should only look upon Spain in one point of view as a friendly power, without intermeddling in her govern ment or internal disputes. Any other line of diplomacy . in Spain is erroneous, where there is much to be lost and nothing to be gained, and a field open to usoless and dangerous collision with England for rival influences. Shall I give you a proof that diplomacy is the best even for our infAuence ? Let us look at the past. My instructions to our agents in Spain were to a void all intrigues in Spai n or atMadrid. I let thing , take their own course ; and what was the result? In three months England lost all the ground she thought she had gained, and th a t, notwithstanding the dynastic sympathies which at first d ec l are d themselves against the French Republic, the good w ill o f the Government and of the nation returned,intercourse its own accord, to justice, con fidence, and friendly with u s . I return to Italy, arid I reply solely to the argumentation of M. Na poleon Bonaparte. Italy, Gentlemen, was not for us, on t h e morrow of the 24 th February , a question of theore tical diplomacy.. It was an urgent questi on — one that demanded decisio n and action. If you d o not render justice to the skilful guidance of our affairs d ur i ng the e xi s tence in power of the Provisional Government, ren der justice at least to the power of the AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 12th says—" The first preparatory sitting of the Austrian Parliament was held on the 10th. The Provisional President of the Ministerial Council, Baron DOBLHOFF, opened the sittings with a short address, in which he alluded to the object of the present meeting, and proposed the election of a President, two Vice-Presidents, and six secretaries." After several Members had declined discharging the office of President and Vice-Presidents, these posts were accepted by Dr. JOSEPH VINDLER (Pre sident), and M. JOSEPH WEiss, manufacturer, and JOSEPH MANNHEIMER, Israelitish preacher (Vice- Presidents). The latter accepted the office of Vice• President at the urgent request of the whole Assembly, and especially of several Roman Catholic priests. On calling over the names of the deputies, it appeared that only 190 were present, consequently not the requisite complement (192) for passing reso lutions. The sitting was therefore adjourned to the following day. In the second preparatory sitting on the 11th, at which 197 Members were present, the President pro claimed the Members of the Provisional Bureau ; after which, the Deputy N Euwai,r, read the pro gramme of the provisional order of business. Baron DOBLIIOFF has made no progress in' the formation of his Ministry. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JUNE 14.--Four messages from the Crown, conveying i m portant projects for financial laws, have been presented to the National Assembly : —l. In consequence of the failure of the voluntary loan, which has produced less than if million rix dollars, this loan will be closed upon the 10th of August, and will be replaced by a forced loan bear ing 3f per cent. interest. This forced loan will in clude all Prussian subjects possessing property to the value of 4,000 rix dollars, and will be graduated as follows :—Property of all kinds valued at from four to eight thousand rix dollars to pay 5-10 per cent., and so on to a maximum of 2 per cent. The loan w ill b e payable by thirds, on the Ist of Octo ber, November, and December. The repay ment of the capital will commence upon the Ist January, 1850, at the rate of 1.1 per cent. It is calculated that this loan will bring in fif teen millions rix dollars, of which eleven will be furnished by those liable to the classification tax ; 2dly, towns subject to meal and slaughter-house dues, and one and a quarter to two millions by those who have been hitherto exempted from the classifica tion tax. The second project abolishes the exemption hitherto enjoyed from payment of classification (per sonal or head) tax by certain persons, such as mem bers of provincial states (standesherren), clergymen, schoolmasters, officers of the army and of the land wehr not on actual duty. This is calculated to pro duce 230,000 rix dollars. The third project augments the excise on home-made brandies and beet sugar, from 11 silver groschen to 2f silver groschen per 2,.) quarts of the former, and from l / to 2 rix dollars per cwt. on the l a tter. A fourth project reduces the tax or permit on daily newspapers to a maximum of 1 rix dollar per week, to 12 silver groschen on those published twice, and to 4 silver groschen (sixpence) on those appearing hebdomadally. A memorandum, embracing the whole financial system, and explaining in all its multifarious details the divers sources and employment of national reve nues, ordinary and extraordinary, has been presented by M. HANSEMANN to the Members of the Assembly. In consequence of the sum demanded for extraordi nary expenditure, and for the support of manufac tures, commerce, &c., 23 millions dollars have been required. Towards meeting this, the Treasury has furnished 13, and the voluntary loan 1 1.3 d, and other resources about 2-3 d millions; altogether 15, leaving a deficit of more than eight millions; but as extraor- 1848, .dinary expenses to the amount of eight millions more are inevitable, the deficit will exceed 16 million rix dollars, which deficit must be covered by extraordi nary means. But as the public Treasury at this mo ment contains 2i millions rix dollars, the absolute sum required may be set down at 14 millions rix dollars, for which purpose it has become imperative to have recourse to a forced loan. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. HAMBURGII, JULY 14 —Letters received from Co penhagen to-day state that the armistice was ratified by the KING. and sent off to the head-quarters of General HEDEMANN by a special messenger. The messenger, who was the bearer of the Prussian rati fication, passed through here two or three days ago to the head-quarters of General WRANGEL ; they must have been exchanged before now, and we may expect to hear the particulars within a few days. The Prussian Consul in London having notified to the German captains whose vessels are anchored in British ports to get ready to go to sea, seems to in dicate that the blockade of the rivers is to be raised. As far as our accounts from Heligoland go, the Danish blockading ships are still at the mouth of the Elbe. HUNGARY AND CROATIA. Under the date Pesth, July 7, the Silesian Gazette says : " The fortifications of Arad have likewise been got into a state of defence. The insurgents have plun dered and fired Szolos and St. Michale. "In the numerous Ministerial conferences with the Deputies this Ministry has already secured the ready assistance of the Lower House, and can there fore take its measures without hindrance. " The proposal of the Archduke John that one of the Hungarian Ministry and the Bann Jellachick should repair to Vienna, to consult about the settle ment of the existing difference, has been rejected by cur Ministry, which refuses to act with the traitorous Jellachick, and will negotiate with none but depu ties of the Illyrians legally elected. "The other proposal of the Archduke John re specting the union of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance with the general Austrian Ministry, has met with an equally unfavourable reception." In Carlowitz a fearful, bloody engagement has taken place, and the whole city is now in flames. In Neusutz, also, there have been bloody scenes. In Agram numerous arrests have been made. Private intelligence which we have received states that the Hungarians have taken the city of Vuratd. The village of St. Mathaly has been taken and burnt by the rebels, who defeated the Hungarian detachment posted there, took prisoner and then put to death Captain Count D'ORSAI. On the other hand, Barasd, a large town, has been taken by the Hungarians, who have an army on foot of 50,000 men, divided into three camps, independent of some 30,000 volunteers. It has been agreed also between the Ministers and representatives, that a project shall be laid before the latter for raising 200,000 men, should means be found for paying and arming them. ITALY. SICILY. THE NEW KING. We are without direct intelligence from Sicily, but we have every reason to believe that the state • ment of the election of the Duke of GENOA, son of CHARLES ALBERT, to the throne of Sicily, which ap pears in the French papers, is correct. LOMBARDY AND VENICE. The Milan Gazette contains a letter from Brescia, of the 10th, which says : " A well•informed person assures us that the prepa rations of the Piedmontese before Verona are very con siderable. The plan proposed by Napoleon, in his me moirs, with respect to Mantua, have been carried into execution by Charles Albert. The waters of the lake have been turned aside, and the supply is now so low that the miasmatic effluvia must produce very disastrous consequences on the capit4l. The waters which worked the mill at Porto Molina having been drawn off, it has stopped workjng. Waggons are con. tinually passing through Brescia from Alessandria, laden with bombs and ammunition. The attack on the fortress of Legnago commenced on the 4th." Advices from Ferrara, of the 6th, state that in consequence of a dispatch from General PEPE, Gene ral LANTE DE MONTEPELTRO had set out for Venice, to assume the command of the sth brigade of the Pontifical troops. Three batteries of the artillery of Lombardy were shortly to leave Milan for the seat of war. There is no news from the seat of war. ROME. The Duke D'HARCOURT was admitted on the 7th instant to an audience by the POPE, with the usual forms, to present his credentials as Ambassador from the French Republic. TRIESTE. The following dispatch from Admiral com tnanding the Sardinian blockading squadron before Trieste, has been received by the Governor of that place :•-- "BAY OF TRIESTE, JULY 9.—May it please your Excellency—l have the honour to inform you, that in consequence of orders just received from my Govern ment, the squadron which I have the honour to com mand will permit the entrance into the harbour of Tri este, as well as departure from thence, of all merchant vessels, those under the Austrian flag not excepted, pro vided they have net on board, either on their arrival or on their departure, troops, arms, warlike stores, or ar ticles which are deemed contraband in naval war, for which purpose they will be subject to examination. "In order that merchant ships, the Austrians in cluded, may not receive damage from the Italian fleet, I request your Excellency to inform the merchants that no ships will be permitted to cross the line of Italian ships or war stationed for the mainte nance of the blockade of the harbour of Trieste. Any vessel attempting to do this will be fired upon. At night-fall the merchant-ships must always cast anchor at gun-shot from the Italian squadron ; those entering landwards and those departing .seawards, in order to undergo the above•named examination at daybreak. " I avail myself of this opportunity to inform your Excellency, that if the Italian fleet should at its landing be exposed to t he slightest inconvenience by the authorities, it will not, as hitherto, remain inoffensive. "I hope that your Excellency will, with your usual circumspection, issue the necessary orders in this matt er . " I have the honour to remain, with every sentiment of esteem, your Excellency's obedient servant, hear-Ad miral, Commander of the Squadron of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, " ALBINI." WALLACHIA. The Provisional Government at Bucharest has ad dressed a note to the Councils of France, Austria, and Prussia, soliciting the intervention of those powers, in case the constitution sworn to by Prince 13inEsco should be attacked. MARLBR(Y-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Mary Basteiville, a woman of the town, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with having uttered a counterfeit half-crown. Mr. Richard Forrest, chemist, &c., 20, Marylebone street, Regent-street, said, on the previous evening, about five o'clock, the prisoner came into his shop and gilled for two ounces of salts. Witness served her with them, and received the half-crown produced in payment. Directly he felt the coin he found that it was a counterfeit. He told the prisoner such was the case, and she protested against all knowledge of its being base. Witness then sent for a constable and gave her in charge. The prisoner said she had not the least idea that the coin was bad. She had taken it of a gentleman, for favours conferred, a few minutes previous, and would not have attempted to pass it had she known it to have been a counterfeit. Mr. BINGHAM said such might have been the case, and he should therefore discharge her. GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENTS.-Mr. Arthur Marley and Mr. James Bradley, two fashionably dressed gentle men, were charged with wilfully wrenching the knockers off several doors. P. C. 181, was on duty a little after four this morning in St. James's -street, when he saw the defendants, and two others not in custody, go up to a door in the above street and try to wrench the knocker off. Not succeed ing, they went to several other doors, and eventually wrenched a knocker and a door-handle off. They caught sight of witness and ran away. He pursued them and took them into custody. Mr. BINGiIAM fined Morley 51. and Bradley 40s. 'The money was immediately paid. NIARKET NEws.—(THIS I)AY.) COLONIAL. ,SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation continues quiet, 415 hhds having been sold at a decline of f u lly i s per cwt since this day week.. . The public sal es h ave comprised 7, 400 bags Mauritius and 5,800 bags Bengal. The former was nearly realised at a fur ther decline of 6d per cwt; brown at 30s to 365; grey and yellow at 37s to 40s; but the latter brouo'lt steady rates; yellow and white Benares from 35i 6(1 to 435, with grainy qualities at 35s 6i to 49;. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 796 hhds 111 tierces 135 barrels. There were taken for home cousuwption 1,272 hhds 154 tierces 318 barrels. The;stock in the same place is 18,316 hhds 2,508 tierces 4.461 barrels. COFFEE.-42 casks 150 bags Jamaica, 555 Plantation Ceylon, and 900 bags Native Ceylon were offered by auction. The Jamaica and Plantation Ceylon were chiefly disposed of without alteration in value, but there were no buyers of Native at the previous value of 30s for good ordinary, and the whole was consequently withdrawn. COCOA.-50 bags Trinidad realised 36s for ord red, being the former currency. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 931 puns 7 hhds. Tore was taken for home consumption 105 puns hhas„ - And exported 28 puns 150 hhds. The stock in the sam places was 17,944 puns 3,298 hhuls. RICE.-4,100 bags 1,500 pockets Bengal, and 2,000 bags Madras at auction, sold with animation, at prices fully supporting the advance of is paid by private con- tract. Bengal of fine white quality brought 12s 6d, good mid and good dito lOs 6d to 12s, and mid broken 95 to 95 6d per cwt. Madras chiefly at 9s for pinky grain. SPICES.-210 bags Pimento brought a further slight advance, 34d being paid for fair quality. SALTPETRE. -1,620 bags Bengal were all taken in at the previous value of 24s 6d to 26s 6d for 8k to 41 per cent. refraction. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 44s per cwt on the spot, and Town 46s 6d. TEA.—The market is firm. • EMT NLEIMICETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 41 to 5/ ; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 lOs per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 41 ; Clover ditto, 41 to 41 16s; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadew Hay, 3/ to 41; Clover ditto, 41 to 51; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull. New Meadow Hay 21 5s to 31 per load. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. • LAND-TAX. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from Sir John Melphion, Bart., a large landed proprietor in Lie' colnsture, complaining of the want of appeal from the decisions of the Commissioners of Land-Taxes, and praying the House to pass a measure to enable persons who felt themselves aggrieved by such decisions to appeal to some higher tribunal. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Borntisland Harbour Improvement. London and South-Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company Amal gamation. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed-- Esdaile's (Orphan Working School) Charity Estate. New Grand Canal Company (Ireland), N 0.2. SUGAR, 15 UTIEg: Lord G. BENTINCK gave notice that he would pro pose, on the House going into Committee on the Sugar Duties, in lieu of the descending duty of 11. 7s. 9d. ;o 15s. in the new Act on refined sugar, to substitute th fixed duty of 11. 165., and also, in lieu of the descending duty of 11. 4s. Bd. to 13s. 4d. on foreign raw sugar, to substitute a fixed duty of 11. 12s. 6d., with the view of protecting British refiners of sugar as against foreign refiners. NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. In reply to a question from Mr. EWART, Mr. GREENE stated that the ground-floor of the New House, allowing twenty-one inches for each Mem ber, is calculated to contain 3YB Members.—(Laughter.) The gallery was calculated to. contain 130 Members, making a total of 448 Members to be accommodated ; in the New House. The present House only contained 380 Members, and therefore the New House would afford much larger accommodation. CONSOLIDATED FUND. The Consolidated Fund (3,000,0000 Bill went through Committee. The House resumed, and the report was ordered -to be brought up to-morrow. • HIGHWAYS BILL. On the proposition for going into Committee on Ms Bill, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY recorded his dissent splint it, on the ground that it was inexpedient at present. to levy any fresh burdens upon the agricultural districts; he contending that the Bill would have such a tendency. Mr. G. HEATHCOTE trusted that the Bill would be postponed for the present. Mr. CHRISTOPHER was in favour of the Bill, con sidering that by consolidating the management of those highways, which were now under separate control, the expenditure of management would be diminished, and men of greater skill would be employed in keeping them in repair. After a few words from Lord GALWAY and Mr. Rica, Sir GEORGE GREY said he considered that the Bill would have the effect of securing much better high• ways. It had been well considered by the Select Com mittee, and he trusted that the House would go into Committee upon it at once. Mr. LIEN CEY stated a number of objections which he had to the details of the Bill, and hoped that it would be postponed until next session. The country ought to have time to consider the burdens that the Bill would place upon them. He was one of those who considered that shifting burdens was a most injudicious course. In many of the local parishes the overseers were merely rate-collectors.—(Hear, hear.) Calls were made upon them in a very irregular manner, and the result was, that in order to meet the continual and sudden calls made upon them the poor devilif--• (Laugh ter) —were obliged to inflict all kinds of rates upon the rate-payers. Country people had not so much. money as marry seemed disposed to believe —they had no Scotch banking system to take advantage of— (Hear, hear)—and therefore it was most unfair to throw an undue weight upon them. He advised the Hon. Boronet to postpone the Bill unt il t h e next sess i on, i n order that it might receive the consideration of 'the country. He concluded by proposing that the Bill go into Committee this day six mouths. Sir G. GREY could not undertake to give an explana tion with respect to particular clauses which were not before the Rouse, inasmuch as the course was an'un• usual one. Mr. R. PALMER was in favour of postponing the Bill until the ensuing Session, in an early period of which it might be brought forward. It would be im• possible, presente n he thought, to get through the Bill d ur i ng the dSession.m entif theFo urtohuessee divided reasons he should it . support the m Sir W. HEATHCOTE was adver se t o di scussing a Bills of this kind in this stage.---(Hear, hear.) The discussion could much better take place in Committee. It', however, after it had passed through Committee it was not much improved, he should feel inclined to support the amendment, in order that it might be postponed until the ensuing session. —(Hear.) The machinery would be most difficult of compilation, and this alone, at this late period of the session, was an ad ditional reason why time should be given for the careful consideration of this measure. He wished to see bridges, which formed an important part in the expendi ture of the different counties, brought under a clearly defined system of management, as at present county magistrates were much embarrassed by the intricate questions that came before them in relation to this matter. He wished to see bridges and private and public roads placed under a clearly-defined system of manage ment. Mr. HODGES supported the withdrawal of the Bill. Mr. DRUMMOND said this was the second Bill this session that provided for the mortgage of rates; it ought to establish the principle, not unlike that of a mart getting into debt and leaving his children to pay. He telt it his duty therefore to support the postponement of the second reading of the Bill. Mr. CORNWALL LEWIS said the Bill was one of an importantcharacter ; one much required by the country, and, therefore, he thought it should be passed into a law during the present session. He combatted the objection to the principle of centralization, inasmuch as the general boards would be composed of members of local boards. Those who had carefully examined the Bill could not be of opinion that its machinery would be expensive. The . Committee from w h om t h e Bill emanated did not enter tain such an opinion. The rates in England and Wales amounted to 1,600,000/. in the course of year. There was a number of officers who re ceived no salaries and who were, as a matter of course, nearly irresponsible. lie thought there was a certain number of essential officers receiving small salaries, that much good would accrue, and that the present expense of management would be thereby cow siderably reduced. An inspector appointed by the county magistrate at a moderate salary would be found a useful and by no means an expensive officer. He could not, therefore, see that the machinery would be expensive. When they came to . discuss the claus es h e should be prepared to give the fullest information with respect to them.—(Divide.) Mr. NEWDEGATE said he sent copies of the Bill into Warwickshire, and a committee of the rate-payers was appointed to consider it, and the result was that 1,024 of the rate-payers dissented from its principles, and he agreed with them. The present Bill differed little from its predecessor. As the Bill would inter fere with great local interests, and as its principles had not been sufficiently matured, he thought the Government would do well to postpone it. The Bill was only delis vered yesterday in its new form ; the Members expected last night to hear the Bills that would be proceeded with, and that that would be suspended. The House sat until an early hour this morning, and it was therefore impos sible that Members could be acquainted with its prin ciples. Ile refused, therefore, so far as he was c , aicerned, to proceed with it in the present session. The Right non. Baronet said, that those who, like him, acted thus, did so with a view to promote the into.. rests of their constituents, and it was therefore too much to press upon them at this late period of the session gs Bill whose principles were not comprehensive, and there fore most objectionable to the rate-paying community. (LEFT SPEALIIGI.) - - BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAT• —(Tuts DAY.)—The adjourned meeting of the Bir• minghtun and Oxford Junction proprietors was held this morning at the King's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard; Mr- F. Aluntz, chairma❑ of the board of directors, in the chair. The meeting was further adjourned, on the mo tion of the chairm an, till to-morrow. DIEh. On the lf th inst., at Sandgate, Kent, after a long and painful illness, John Strangwayes, Esq., of London, third sos of die late Richard Strangwayes, E sq ., of Well, in the county of York. At Torquay, the Dowager Viscountess Bolingbroke. On the 7th inst., in Lower Belgrave-street, Belgrave" square, Mrs. Catherine Williams, the widow of the late General 11. Williams, aged 78. On the 13th inst.,'atMundsley, Norfolk, Mary, the widow' of S. Hibbert, Eeq , aged 86. 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