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Now ready, 10s. Gd., bound, with Portrait, IT OL. 11. OF PEPYS' DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE, NEW EDITION, with the omitted Passages restored. Edited by LORD BRAYBROOKE, "The new matter in the second volunle of what we have called • the best book of Its kind in the English language,' fully suports the expectations awakened by the first. Pepys is marvellously enter tenting The writer is seen in a clearer light, and the reader is taken into his Inmost soul. Poys' Diary is the ablest picture of the age In which the writer lived, and a work of standard importance in Eng lish literature."—Athenteuni. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great :Marlborough-street. - - NOW REAEY, In 3 'Nis. post Byo., with Portraits of Pope Plus IX., the Emperor Leopold, and Manzoni, L I 1' IN A THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Y AND ITS PAST CONDITION. By JAMES WHITESIDE, A.M., M.R.1.A., One of her Majesty's Counsel. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. JFIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Aidlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectililly Wormed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGIIT will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, when Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear AS LL;CIA, in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Egardo, Signor Gardoni ; Bldebent, Signor Douche : and Enrico, Signor Coletti. with various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M. Mdlle. Cerito, &c. &c. The Frse List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-otrlce of the Meat re, price 10s. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, and 'rickets are to be made. ------- • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Verdi's Opera, entitled :NINO. Sofia Cruvelli ; Fenena, Mdlle. Vera ; Minns, Sig. Coletti Idaspe, Signor Cuzzani; and Aratesphe, Signor Beletti. After which tbe Ballet of LE PAS DES DEESSES. To be followed by a scene from the Opera of MATRIMONIO fIEGRETO. To conclude with selections from the Ballet of ALM A. Applications for Hoses, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Sox-office of the Theatre. Doors open at half-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management EVENING, f Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS Will be pret3ented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Ye ars Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell; Madame St. Aubert, M a dame Celeste; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool, gar After which the Burlesque of NORMA. Norma, Mr. P. Bedford. To conclude with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. J,OPAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management Ch a rles Mathews. of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee, . THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Comic Drama USED UP. After which, a new comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, Honner; Mrs. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled POOR PILLICODDY. To conclude with BLUE BEARD. Dress Boxes, 58.; Upper Boxes, 48. ; Pit, 28. ; Gallery, Is. No hall-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, WellLogton-street, Is open to the 1...M11e every day, from Ten till Six. • FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33. Old Bond-street. Last Three Nights of the Season. • TO-MORROW EVENING. The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock, when Will be performed LE DOCTEUR ROBIN. To be followed by VESTRIS lER. Dtiring the Evening l'Histoire de la Dense, Pas Comique, par M. Levassor and Mdlie. Durand. To conclude with EGAREMENTS D'UNE CANNE ET D'Ull }.ARAPLU lE. oxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s ones and Stalls may be obtainod at Mr. slitehell's Royal Library, 03, 0 t 5 Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBEI.tT IIOUDI) continues to attract crowded and fashionable indienCei at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinafy and original: SOIREES FANTASTIQITES, THIS EVENING, which he will repeat and every Tuet'day, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eigl:t. In consequence of the great demand Or places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES TO-MORROW MORNING. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be se cured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Ohl Bond-street. xOYAL ATI:REY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Re-engagement, of Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS F.VENING Will be performed THE LITTLE DEVIL. After which, POOR JACK. To which will be added a scene from JACK SIIEPPARP. To conclude with a new and original Drama, in Eight Tableaux, ponrtraying by living characters George Craikmliank's celebrated De signS, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. Edward and Emma Roy (the Drunkard's Children) by Mr. N. T. Hicks and Mrs. E. Bonner, supported by this talented company. Sianager and Treasurer. Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. iv. Batty. Fitzball's new and completely successful Spectacle. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENISLi, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, 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 TILE TRAVELLER'S ROOM. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Miss SARA FLOWER will appear To-Night and To-Morrow. Engagement of Miss ItUDDART. Continuation of the Engagement of Mcllle. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Denson. Superb and Ucique MENAGERIE. Stand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and 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, Clan, Collinet, Koenig, Lazarus, RicharClson, Sonnenberg, stc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Bdlle. Lovarny will sing two fa vourite Songs, Miss lluddart will sing a favourite Song, and with Lovarny will execute an admires Duet.—Also to be seen, dartint the day, the beautiful Mcnagerie—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 during the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten A.m., Feeding Time Five —.Millen's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless autheati cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot he returned. THE WEATIIER.—Sox OFFICE, JULY 25. THER3I•JmETEIt s Lowest, 54; Highest. 69 ; Noon, 69. BAavEnut, 29.78.—W1ND, S.; rain. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 43 min. after 8 Evening • - 21 min. after 9 tt v,0,P4 • Ron— °emu ~~ +r=-, LONDON, TVESDAY, JULY 2S, 184& At last the demagogues of Ireland will find that they cannot embroil the people of these islands with impunity either to themselves or to their wretched su bordinates. Nobly have the Lords and the Com mons fulfilled the expectations of England. What April was in reference to the multitude, July has roved in regard to the Legislature. When the s miserable rabble of the Chartists threatened an insur rection, all party fee lin g , all the invidi ous distinctions of classes, ail the feuds and jealousies excited by re ligious differences, were forgotten on the instant. The population rose to a man ; they stood side by side—the' gentleman and the mechanic, the barrister and the groom, the aristocrat and the shop. keeper—brother s in the defence of their na tionality, fired by t he same enthusiasm and animatedrn with the most stern determination to vindicate the majesty of the law, the blessing of order, and the glory of the Constitution. In a similar spirit the two Houses of Parliament have responded to the threat of rebellion on the part of the miserable El m . tions of Ireland. All the bickerings of political an i. mosity are lost to the recollection in the indignation excited by the diabolical efforts of the insurgent de mocrats beyond St. George's Channel. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the supporters of his overnment, Sir ROBERT PEEL and his numerous foGllowers, JOSEPH HUME, and those who were recently his liege-men in the advocacy of Parliamentary reform, Protection ists, Radicals, Whigs, and Conservatives, the bur gesses from the manufacturing towns, and the knights from the shires famous for their agricultural enterprise--all combine to attest the fervour of their loyalty and the sincerity of their patriotism. On Saturday the Government Bill for the Sus pension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland was passed through all its stages in a single sitting of the House of Commons thr oug h th e preliminary forms, through the first r ea di ng , through the second read ing, through Committee, cla use b y clause, and through the final ordeal of the thirdrea o dr in rapid suc cession. Yesterday the House equal promptitude, the Bill being Lords acted with passed at once th ro ugh all the formains of the Imperial rti Legislature. ne This very day, while we are w the Bill has become the law of thethese words, land —having b e en ratified by the will of the SOVEREIG N. Before thi s evening's impression of The S us from the ha nds of the p ublis her , the parses of the proceeding of the British Legislature will have been some hours on its road t o 41*-, Pre4agactivity could scarcely h ave been ced by Parliament, and certainly that activity A. .will not have been useless — se ein g that it is a legis ,,lative corroboration of the unanimity dis p la y ed on the , rin ~' nitsmorable and glorious Tenth of April. It is an additional and conclusive evidence that the British Empire is inclestruclble 1 -mid that the British Conti.. tution c i never be overthrovst by merely human agencies—because it shows that that Constitution is rooted in the hearts of an united people. Voices earthly and unearthly cry out to Ire land in the first paroxysm of her insane rebellion. The Voice of O'CONNELL the Liberator sounds from his august tomb—repeating that noble axiom which fell from his living lips like a diamond of thought—" No political advantage is worth gaining which requires the effusion of a single drop of human blood!" The Voice of History, the reproaches of England, who, in the days of her own tribulation, lavished ten millions of the public money and four hundred thousand pounds of private charity upon the starving peasantry of Erin; the warnings of LAMARTINE, who repulsed the traitorous de putation from Dublin ; the contempt of the Paris newspapers, at this moment breathing scornfully from the capital of Republican France upon the would-be Republicans of the Ro tunda ; the mandates of the benevolent Pius speaking as their spiritual preceptor to the Roman Catholic population of Ireland ; the horror of Europe, the exe crations of humanity, the anathemas of Christendom —all sound bodingly across the waters of the Chan nel to the promoters of this mad Revolution. Will Ireland hearken to these appeals of reason—or will she listen merely to her own dark passions, to the in sidious war-whoops of her demagogues, to the atrocious dictates of a mistaken and suicidal ven geance ? England awaits an answer—earnestly but serenely. And accordingly as the answer is fa vourable or otherwise will the historian of Ireland have to write of 1848 as the year which witnessed the propitious commencement of her happiness or the awful and tremendous consummation of her misery. Italy is now in that intermediate position which is the most perilous to a civilized nation. It stands midway between revolution and tranquillity—be tween anarchy and order—between constitutional freedom and unbridled democracy. To retrograde would be to cause a terrific explosion among the passions of nineteen millions of the human family. To precipitate the reforms rendered necessary by the age would be to loosen those beautiful ties which bind together In the network of fraternity the different classes of the community. The former step would be dangerous because it would defy into frenzy the natural yearnings of the Italians. The latter would be dangerous because it would stimulate too hastily the already over-excited ambition of the multitude. Never was a medium course more im periously demanded by circumstances than it is at present throughout the Roman peninsula. Never was the holy cause of Moderation more imperatively required than it is at this moment in the council chambers of the Italian Princes. Christendom has recently seen the glory of 'LAMARTINE darkened in consequence of his faithfulness to that great political creed of Moderation. It will soon see whether the kindred glory of Pius can be obscured by a similar devotion to the interests of humanity. The spectacle, we must allow, at once, is a terrible one; but it is as sublime as it is terrible. A glance at the map of Italy, and a moment's re flection upon the position of affairs in that country, will satisfy the most sceptical that its inhabitants are lying in the intermediate state we have already' ex pressed—however similar the situation of the parties in the different divisions of the peninsula, may, at first sight, appear to be. Lombardy, it is true, is still in volved in the doubts and vicissitudes of war—to the eastward, the Venetians are awaiting the issue of the contest between the Sazdician Sovereign and the Pro-consul of Austria, to the westward, the Pied montese (those at least who have not embarked their lives and fortunes in fighting the battle of independence against Germany) are tarrying for the consummation of the victories already gained by CARLO ALNERTO, in a kind of ecstasy of con fidence. Further southwards the petty principali ties, such as Parma, Modena, Lucca, Guastalla, and Piacenza, are drifting to and fro amidst the convulsion of the political elements of Italy a circumstance which is scarcely surprising in a time when the moral electricity of civilization is setting all our calculations at defiance, when the needle varies to all points of the compass in the hands of the most ex perienced statesmen, when, in short, even the cele brated " Pilot who weathered the storm " of mis government in England, would find himself distracted by the innumerable shoals and sunken rocks which have suddenly sprung up about the bows of Europe. Tuscany, more than any other of the independent states of Italy, is paralysed into inactivity for the time being, until the prospects of the Italian million are snore fully developed, when it must be whirled away either to the right or to the left, either to ultra-democracy, or to constitutional moderation, with a velocity only commensurate with its recent quiescence. Beyond these—beyond Venice, Lombardy, Tuscany, Piedmont, and the minor principalities—are the States of the Church, the kingdom of Naples, and the island of Sicily. For the last-mentioned territory has severed the yoke which chained it to the footstool of the inhuman Bourbon, who only the other day wore upon his brow the crown of the Two Sicilies, and whose name is now the execration of the whole world. Once more - the famous island of THEOCRITUS with his idylls, and of POLYPHEMUS with his one eye and his jealousies, has assumed to itself the right of choosing its monarch, and of vindi cating its long derided nationality. The diadem which, according to a beautiful legend, passed from the head of Good King ROBERT, when he slumbered one Sunday evening in a church after the chaunting of the Magnificat, has descended at last, towards the middle of the nineteenth century, upon the forehead of the Duke of GENOA. The plums of good fortune seem to be falling to the lot of the house of Lorraine. The symbols of Venice and of Lombardy are flung at one moment into the helmet of CARLo ALBERTO, band at another, the symbol of Sicily is tossed into the ducal cap of his son. Meanwhile the fate of FEB.. DINAND of Naples is very different. His troopers and their coadjutors, the brutalized lazzaroni, being his only defenders against an ignominious assassi nation, and the remembrance of his atrocious and dastardly triumph over the unfortunate Neapolitans, being his only consolation for the present abhorrence of his contemporaries and the future execration of posterity. Last of all—most sad, most affecting, most solemn, most unaccountable, amidst all this mournful catalogue of vicissitudes—there is Rome and the surrounding dominions of the Papacy. It was the PONTIFF who gave the signal of regenera- tion, it was from the hill of the Quirinal that the tri colour of United Italy was first unfurled, it was from the heart of the Eternal City that first emanated those doctrines of civil and religious liberty which have since, within a few months, carried joy and exulta tion from one extremity of the peninsula to the other. And yet, it is the POPE, who, every now and then, feels most bitterly the sorrows of ingratitude, it is the Quirinal which is inter mittently regarded with the most suspicion, it is the Eternal City which is at all times the most embarrassed by the vices of democracy and by the intrigues of demagogues. Already GIOBEZTI has spoken upon this subject—and of th e patr i ot i sm, of the liberality, of the democracy of C TIOBERTI, who and be t : dares to raise the whisper of a d ou b t ? GIOB ERTI---- this true, patriotic, radical, democratic GIOBER TI —b as spoken of the possible alienation of Pio Norco lvo the Romans, and he has spoken of it thus me! " he cried, " if, losing sight of the double dignity and double responsibilities of Pius, I can ever have the madness to doubt the sincerity of his patriotism." No, the Romans should ever re member that ; they should ever remember that while they are squabbling in the precincts of the Roman Parliament the soldiers of Piedmont are fighting for the freedom of their common-land, to the war-cry of " Pius—ltaly—and CHARLES AL BERT !" There is at this moment, however, an inter mediate pause throughout the peninsula. Let the Italians avail themselves of the opportunity and unite, or—to use that cant phrase of the day, which expresses so much—let them fraternize! No political pamphlet ever appeared more oppor• tunely than that to which we have already referred on two occasions—we mean the intelligent " Sketches of the Progress of Civilization and Public Liberty," by JOHN MACGREGOR, M.P. We are induced to recur to this brochure, not only because we have been captivated in a great measure by its serene and masculine declamation, not only because we regard the arguments of a close reasoner like the author of the " Progress of America," as eminently entitled to consideration, not only because the history of civilization and the spread of liberal ideas during the last hundred years, dating from the middle of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century, are here epitomized in seventy two pages octavo—but because to all these circum stances may be added just now the extraordinary position of affairs both within the realms of England, and beyond the seas in either hemisphere. So mar vellous, so rapid, so comprehensive, so sudden, be wildering, and tremendous have been the political changes effected since the commencement of 1848, that the average views of the multitude upon the great questions of social distinction and constitutional government are liable to fall into an appalling state of confusion, unless the direct tendency of the popular movement is continually forced upon the recollection of the community, even at the hazard of a wearisome itteration and tautology. Never, indeed, was it more requisite to remind the people of these islands again and again, in language admitting of no possible miscon struction, of the actual sequence of the events which have led England and Europe into their present astonishing predicament. At this important junc ture Mr. MACGREGOR publishes a pamphlet precisely adapted to the existing emergency—a pamphlet which cannot fail, if read with due calmness and deliberation, to place even the most ignorant au courant of the late revolutions on the continent, and to explain away ,those things which may have hitherto appeared to them of a wholly irreconcileable and anomalous character in the development of modern civilization. Our distinguished pamphleteer has concentrated into some sixteen miniature chapters a narrative which spreads over enormous files of old newspapers, over annotations and commentaries, and memoirs and autobiographies, and the lumber of the most garrulous reminiscences, making in all a library, the very catalogue of which is voluminous. Here, therefore, is more than an " Illiad" compressed into a nutshell. And this, we take it, is sufficient reason for our continual reference to the small but solid and philosophic argument of the Ho nourable Representative for Glasgow. If the Communists of Paris and the Red Republi cans of Dublin could find leisure for reading in the midst of their sanguinary and diabolical intrigues, we should certainly conjure them, in the name of every quality that is best and bravest in man, to pon der over the facts recorded in this pamphlet of Mr. MACGREGOR. Those facts would demonstrate the madness of a merely spoliative insurrection—they would show the French anarchists that their favourite doctrine can only lead to their own destruction and execration—they would prove to the Irish rebels that, by abandoning the Moral Force system of their im mortal LIBERATOR, they have not merely rendered their own political annihilation inevitable, but they have, by a series of dastardly and ignominious crimes, caused Ireland to become at once a curse to England and an abomination to Christendom. It were lunacy to imagine for one moment, however, that the ravings of madmen can be in any respect abated by the wholesome diet of a logical disquisition. Our re peated allusions to the pamphlet of Mr. MACGREGOR are consequently made with a direct reference to men other than the rebel bands of Citipan &Awn, or the raw recruits of the would-be Xing of MON STER. We speak not to the irrational but to the rational —not to traitors but to patriots—not in the hope of converting insurgents to loyalty, but with the inten tion of confirming in all, their just, patriotic, and loyal sentiments, the thoughtful men of this old Saxon England. With such an avowed purpose then we earnestly direct the attention of the English people to the third section of this interesting and re markable pamphlet—the section respecting the "Effects of the American and First French Revolu tions." Not that. the chapter conveys any novel or startling revelations—its statements, in fact, being every one of them patent to the student in European and American history—but because it condenses the long annals of those revolutions into the most compact and portable compass, while the pamphleteer deduces a great truth from the occurrences on either side of the Atlantic. After recounting the colonization of Vir ginia and Maryland by republican spirits who sought the realization of their visions of political indepen dence beyond the shores of the United Kingdom— after detailing the struggle which ensued between the descendants of these primitive emigrants and the Government of the mother country, that great struggle which ended in the isolation of the United States, and the dismemberment of the colonies of Great Britain—after telling how it came to pass that the French officers who had fought in North America under the victorious banners of GEORGE WASHINGTON, carried with them to France the enthusiasm of repub lican ideas, and " ingrafted revolutionary principles on the philosophy of the Academy"—the Member for Glasgow shows that the visionaries of an Infidel and Democratic Revolution saw only the chance of the restoration of his natural rights to Man in the de struction of Christianity, and in the subversion of the existing systems of monarchy and oligarchy. That terrible blunder is now goading on the rebels of Ireland, as it did recently the insurgents of France. The catastrophe of their heinous guilt be upon their own heads, and the infamy of the whole movement be concentrated on the memories of their depraved demagogues ! THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. They are principally occupied with the affairs o Ireland, and with the exception of the RVirme, the organ of LEDRU ROLLIN, they denounce, in no measured terms, that which they justly designate as the Communist and Jacobinal movement, at the head of which Messrs. SMITH O'BRIEN and MEAGHER have placed themselves. The fact that the Reform° is favourable to the Irish rebels would be alone sufficient to stamp their cause as the cause of Communism, and the war which they declare a war not against England only, but against all order, all property, and all civilization. The Journal des Debats thus accurately describes ;he character of the movement : " It is the Yoiing Ireland, or, in other words, the Ja cobin, party that makes the present movement. It is not only a Republican movement, which can no longer be a crime in our eyes, but also a Communist movement. This is what distinguishes it from the old agitation, by the aid of which O'Connell drew from England religious emancipation, and so many other reforms. The war which the Irish clubbists wish to raise is a servile war. It is an insurrection against property, of which the avowed end is the division of the land. That transfor mation of the Irish agitation is what makes it in the present circumstances so grave, and the reason is this-- Formerly an insurrection in Ireland could find no echo in England, while now the Jacobin movement in the one corresponds with the Chartist movement in the other, and the shots fired in Dublin, Waterford, or Cork, may set fire to Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, or Notting ham. The English Government knows this, and it is on that account it is taking the most rapid means possible to cut short the insurrection." The same writer thus calculates the chances of the success of the movement : " We do not believe in the possibility of the success of the insurrection. The forces are not equal. The movement party is much less numerous than many, on account of the noise they make, suppose. It is composed of the Young Ireland party only, which has against it, not only the English party, but almost all the Old Ire land party, namely, that of O'Connell and the clergy. On the one side, then, there is disunion—on the other there is not only union but discipline. There are about 50,000 troops, who can be carried with rapidity to any point; and besides this, the whole of the north is Orangist and Protestant. We, therefore, consider the success of the general movement as impossible; but we think that a series of partial insurrections, which cannot be suppressed without the effusion of blood, is inevitable. This is our opinion, but with so s i ngu l ar a country- as Ireland it is difficult to answer f or anyt hi ng ." The - Univers, the organ of M. DE Mori TALEMBERT and the parti pretre, is also exceedingly severe in its denunciation of the Young Irelanders for their departure from the moral-force system so success fully practised by the late Liberator, O'CONNELL. It was rumoured in the Salle des Conferences, yes terday, that the Committee on Foreign Affairs were all but unanimously of opinion that, in consequence of the advance of the Austrians to Ferrara, the army of the Alps, under the command of General OUDINOT, should immediately enter Italy. Galin rani says that, on Saturday morning, Gene ral CA.VAIGNAC received the officers of all the corps of the army present at Paris, of the National Guard of Paris and the Banlieue, of the Garde Mobile, together with members of different administrative bodies, the medical officers of the army, a n d also the Judges of the Courts of Cassation, of Appeal, . of the Tribunal of the , and members of other judicial bodies. The Gene ral was attired in plain clothes, with no other decoration than the Cross of Commander of the Legion of Honour. The officers of ,the National Guard filed off before the General according to their respective legions, the colonels of the legions taking the lead. The Bth, 9th, and 12th Legions, having been broken up, were not represented. The model of a portable barricade was exhibited to the officers. It is destined to protect the assailants of barricades from the shots of insurgents, and has a loophole to fire through, which can be closed when the discharge has been made. The model is in iron, and ball-proof. On presenting themselves to General CAVAIGNAC, the chiefs of the different judicial bodies expressed to him, in the name of the magistracy, the gratitude they felt for the services which he has rendered to the country by his courage and energy, and assured him that he will find support in the magistrates in the accomplishment of his high mission. In reply, General CAVAIGNAC said that the country felt confi dent that they would aid the powers of the State to construct the basis of Republican institutions. The Messager of Sunday evening says " We are assured that the Prussian Government has offered to accredit a Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, but on condition that the French Government shall ap point as successor to M. Emmanuel Arago, at Berlin, a representative wbo shall manifest less sympathy for the German Propagandists, and more anxiety to cultivate friendly relations with the Prussian Government." The following is the decree of the Assembly au thorising the new loan : " Art. 1. The engagements contracted by the sub scribers to the last loan of 250,000,000 francs not having been acquitted in respect of the last instalments due, that loan is declared null and void, so far as regards the instalments not paid up, and the rentes not delivered. "Art. 2. A credit of 13,131,500 francs rentes Five per Cents., the interest ru nn i ng f rom t h e 22d of M arc h , 1848, which shall be negotiated at the price of --, shall be opened in the Ministry of Finance. " Art. 3. The price of the rentes negotiated, as pro vided in the preceding article, shall be paid at the fol lowing periods :—On the 7th August, 1848, 17i per cent.; 20th September, 10 ; 20th October, 7/ ; 20 t h November, 7I; 20th December, 20th January, 1849, 71; 20th February, 7i-; 20th March, 10; 20th April, 7i; 20th May, 7/; 20th June, 5; and 20th July 5 per cent. " Art. 4. On the payment of each of those instalments, with the exception of the first, which is to be considered as a deposit to guarantee the payment of the remainder, the subscribers shall' receive a coupon of renter, repre senting, at the price of the negotiation, the amount paid. The coupon belonging to the first instalment of 13 per cent. shall only be delivered after the payment of the first instalment. " Art. 5. The certificates of the two first instalments of the loan of 1847 for 250 millions, forming the deposit or guarantee of 7f. 52i centimes per 3f. rente, shall, un til the 17th of August next, be deemed acceptable for the same amount of 71. 52i centimes, or sf. rents in the pay ment of the first instalment of the new loan. The sur plus shall be paid in specie. After the expiration of that delay the certificates of the former loan shall be consi dered as null and void. • " Art. 6. A sinking fund of one one-hundredth of the nominal capital of the rentes issued in virtue of the pre sent decree shall be included in the attributions of the sinking fund administration. " Art. 7. The measures to be adopted for the execu tion of the present decree, particularly as respects the holders of certificates of the new loan who shall not have effected the payment of the instalments as they become due, shall be devised by the Minister of Finance." It is said that the contract for the loan will be taken by Messrs. HOTZINGUER and ROTHSCHILD. The Committee on the decree presented to the Na tional Assembly, by the Minister of the Interior, for increasing the Garde Mebile to 26 battalions of 800 men each, and for raising three squadrons of cavalry, has resolved that the effective of that force be fixed at 26 battalions of 650 men each, and that no cavalry be raised. The battalion of Gerdes Marines is to form the 25th battalion, The 26th battalion formed at Rouen is to be amalgamated with the other battalions. The Committee recommends that the men who were to form the nucleus of the cavalry, and who distin guished themselves fighting against the barricades in the late insurrection, be draughted into the line. The resolution of the Committee, if adopted, will effect a saving of 3,100,000 f. (124,0001.) The Con4fitutionnel says that the report of a treaty having been concluded between the Government and the directors of the Northern Railroad Company, for the purchase of that road, is at least premature. The only treaty pending between the parties is the settle ment of the accounts between them. In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday an annual pension of 3;000f. was voted to the widow of M. DORNES. M. SARRUT having announced that the Committee on the Ajaccio election had decided that M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was duly elected, the Presi dent (M. MARRAST) communicated the following letter to the Assembly : " London, July 8, 1848. " Monsieur le President,—l have just learned that the electors of Corsica have elected me their representative at the National Assembly, notwithstanding the re signation ,which I had already sent in to your pre decessor. " I am profoundly grateful for this testimony of con fidence, but the reasons which forced me to refuse the place of Representative of the Seine and the Cha rente Inferioture still subsist; they impose on vie another sacrifice. " Without renouncing the honour of being one day representative of the people, I think I ought to wait to return to my country, that my presence in France can not i n any manner serve as a pretext to the enemies of the Republic. I trust that my disinterestedness will prove the sincerity of my patriotism. I wish, then, that those who accuse me of ambition may be convinced of their error. "I have the honour, Monsieur le President, again to express a hope that I may at some future time partici pate i❑ the labours of the Assembly, and to say how sincerely I desire the happiness of the Republic. "LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE." —(Loud cries of " Tres biers, tres Bien," followed the reading of this letter.) The .assembly fixed the price of the loan at 75f. 25c; In the course of the sitting, the President of the Council announced that the negotiations with the Lyons Railway Company were concluded. General OUDINOT leaves Paris this day for Gre noble, to resume the command of the army of the Alps. BOURSE - -PARIS, MONDAY, JULY 24. THREE O'CLOCK.—The new loan, so far from depress ing the market, has had the effect of steadying it. To day prices were firm throughout, and closed with a decided improvement on those of Saturday. For the Account the Three per Cents. have risen 1 per cent., and the Five per Cents. have risen 25c. For Money the Three per Cents. have risen 75c., and the Five per Cents. 25c. Bons du Tr4lor are at 16 per cent. discount, after having been at 17. Bank of France Shares have risen 101. Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; Five per Cents. have fallen per cent. Spanish Funds, which bad not been quoted for a long time previously, were in demand, but at very low prices. Roman have risen per cent.; Rothschild's Receipts are the same as on Saturday. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of 21st July, remain as on Saturday. For Money, the Orleans has risen SF. 25c.; Northerns, 2f. 50c.; Havres have fallen 2f, 50c.; Marseilles, If. 25c. Basle, If. 25c.; Nantes, 11. 25c.; Strasburgs, 1f.25c.; Rouens and Lyons remain as on Saturday. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXcHANGE, JULY 24. Northern of France, s—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12— Paris and Lyons, 4—Rouen and Havre, 8 1 / 2 —Sambre and Meuse, 2/2. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 19th have arrived. The Clamor Publico announces that the French Go n v im er A me i n , t rhecaevnetrly a ppointed Consul-General ofefused their Exequater to Sen or G Spain in Paris. GRIMALDI, who was originally a barber, is the private agent of CHRISTINA. in Paris, and was the inhabitant of one of her hotels there which was searched immediately after the late insur rection. MADRID BOLSA, JULY 19.—The Three per Cents. were done to-day at 19 and 20, and are reported In to buyers after the close ; Five per Cents., lot buyers, I sellers ; Passive Debt, 3i buyers, 4 sellers ; Foreign ditto, 3i buyers ; Bank Shares, 70 sellers. Discount an Bank Notes, 4f to per cent. Exchange on London, 43 75. GREENOCK RAILWAY.--The agreement between the Caledonian and the Greenock Railway Companies hus been so far altered, that the power the Caledonian Com• pany had of amalgamating at par within fire years is given up, and the Greenock Company is now guaranteed an absolute minimum dividend in all time to come of four per cent. per annum, with one-half the surplus pro fits of their own line, which also the proprietors hold as security for the dividends. Mr. Pinney, M.P. for East Somerset, has been prevented attending his Parliamentary duties by an accident which has confined him to his room. THE TOWN-CLERK. OF GREENOCK.-Mr. Gray, town•clerk, an account of whose attempted assassination has appeared in the papers, is going on as favourably as might be expected. • A meb, partly composed of Chartists, made an at tempt yesterday evening to get up a meeting on Clerk enwell-green, but they were very soon dispersed by a small party . Of police who were called out from the station of the G division. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 21st the following portions of the scheme of fundamenta rights were adopted : ARTICLE I. " Sec. 1. Every German has the right of citizenship of the German empire. He may exercise in every Ger man land the rights which accrue to him by means of this right.—Carried. " With regard to ,the right of electing into the Ger man Imperial Assembly the German imperial election law makes its depositions.—Carried. " Sec. 2. Every citizen of the German empire has the right of making his sojourn or fixing his dwelling in any place in the German imperial territory—of ac quiring landed or house property—of pursuing any han dicraft, trade, profession, or calling that tends to a live lihood—and of acquiring the right of a freeman in this or that town, borough, parish, district, &c. (Gemeinde burger-recht).—Carried. " - The conditions of sojourning and dwelling will be definitively settled by a territorial law : those for the carrying on of a trade, profession, handicraft, &e , by a trade and profession regulation,, enacted by the Imperial Government.—Carried : ayes 224, noes 193. " Until the enactment of an imperial law, the settle ment, &c., of every German in every German state, is under the same conditions as those to which the iohabi tants of that state are subjected.—Carried almost una nimously. " No German state can make a difference between its own members and those of another state, either in burgher rights or in the rights of civil or criminal pro cess, in such a manner as to disparage the last-mentioned members.—Carried almost unanimously. " The whole of the motions contained in section 2 were then carried in a body. " Sec. 3. No other conditions can be attached to re ception into the state-citizenship of a German state than those which relate to the irreproachable character and the sufficiency of means possessed by the applicant for the support of himself and family.—Carried. " Sec. 4. The penalty of loss of citizenship (capitis diminutio) shall not exist. On the day of proclamation of rights, the validity of the capitis diminutio shall cease. " Supplement. And when the penalty is already im posed, it shall be declared null and void, provided ac quired private rights are not impaired thereby.—Car. ried :ayes, 238; noes, 195. " Se;. 6. Liborty of emigration is not limited by the law of the state.—Carried. " Supplementary motion of Raclowitz.—Emigration affairs are under the protection, and are the care, of the empire. —Carried. " Emigration forfeits (gabella emigrationis) may not be exacted.—Carried." A motion for the abolition of the passport system was rejected. By an ordinance dated the 16th the Minister of the Empire for the Department of War has notified to the Ministers of War of the different states of Ger many that the ARCHDUKE, Regent of the Empire, has assumed the supreme command of the entire armed force of Germany. He desires the different Ministers of War to assemble on parade on the 6th of August, 1848, all the federal troops of their respec tive garrisons, to inform them that the ARCHDUKE, Regent of the Empire, has taken the supreme com mand of all the federal troops, to read to them his Highness's "appeal to the people," to make them give three vivats in token of homage to the REGENT. From that day the federal colours will be worn by the German army. AUSTRIA. The new Ministry has been accepted by the Arch duke JOHN, and is thus gazetted in the Wiener Zeitung of the 28th :—President and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron WESSENBERG; Interior, Baron DOBLHOFE ; Justice, Dr. BACH; War, Count LATOUR ; Finance, Baron KRAUS ; Financial Secre tary, Baron STIEFL ; Trade, Mr. HORNBORSTEL ; Public Instruction, Baron Domuory (who has taken that office provisionally); Secretary to the Ministry of Public Instruction, Baron FEUCHTERSLEBEN ; Public Works, Mr. SCHWARZER. The new Ministry publish in the same number of the Wiener Zeitung a document in which they set forth the principles on which they propose to act• They declare themselves in favour of a constitutional democratic monarchy on the basis of the popular Will, expressed in a legal and constitutional manner. They are convinced that a Government cannot be strong unless it leans upon the people. They hope for the confidence and support of all friends of legal progress, and this, they say, will enable them to pro tect the rights of the people and the Throne against all attacks. But liberty cannot be strong unless Go vernment too is strong. The Ministers declare that all just wishes and complaints shall be attended to, but they protest that no power on earth shall induce them to act in contradiction to their ideas of justice and right. A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in the Borsenhalle, states that the opening of the Austrian Diet, which was to take place on that day, had been put off for a few days. PRUSSIA. The Committee on the Constitution have deter mined that the Houses are to be convoked yearly by the KING ; in the event of the death of the Sove reign they are to meet ten days at the latest after his demise. From the death of the KING to the swearing to the Constitution by his successor or the Regent, the Ministers are collectively to execute the royal power. The KING Will in future be not styled King of PRUSSIA, but KING of the Prussians; and the ex pression " by the Grace of GOD" is to be used no longer. The coins of the reign of FREDERIC 11. bear the inscription " Frederica Borussorum Rex." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Appenrade of the 20th says— " To-day a prolongation of the armistice, for three days' tranquillity (to the 23d), was agreed upon. It is further stated, that there will be another prolongation of the armistice f(ur three days, if nothing positive has been effected by the 28d. •. "A document has been drawn up and communicated to the members of the Stock Exchange, at Stettin, showing the loss sustained by that town alone, from the war with Denmark. The calculation is nearly as fol lows I—Value of goods on account of Stettin embargoed at Copenhagen, 502,705 r.d.; value of goods in 89 ships detained in neutral ports, 1,273,000 r.d.; value of ships embargoed or detained in neutral ports belonging to Stettin, 919,000 r.d.; freight loss, 81,000 r.d.; total, 2,777,000 r.d.; to which sum must be added loss of inte rest, wages, supply, &c., calculated at 54,000 r.d. per month. A surmise may be formed from this calculation of the immense loss to which Northern Germany is sub jected, and apparently will for some time be subjected, from this most inauspicious war." ITALY. LOMBARDY. The Piedinontese Gazette of the 20th announces that the Piedmontese troops arrived at Venice on the 14th, and were received with loud cheers by the people. They were to take possession of the city in the name of CHARLES ALBEIT. The first battalion that arrived was one of the regiment Savona : eight more were expected from Ancona. The Venetian papers publish a convention be tween Lieutenant MARSHAL WELDEN and the Pro visional Government of Venice for the exchange of hostages. In consequence of the arrival of Austrian troops at Ferrara, the Prolegate of Bologna, Count BIANCHETTI, immediately formed a committee of war for the organization and mobilization of a military force. The Opinione of Turin states from Casalmaggioto that, on the 13th, a body of 1,000 Austrians attacked 800 Tuscans and Lombardians at about four miles from Rivoli. The engagement was obstinate on both sides; the Duke of GENOA. commanded the Italians. The result was not known. Accounts from Rover belle, of the 10th, state that the operations before Mantua and Verona are still in progress, and that the cannon of the Austrians is heard every now and then directed against the works of the besiegers. On the 15th a person coming from the Venetian territory asserted that he had seen several dead bodies drifted along the Canal Bianco and the Adige. This would be a sign of a battle having been fought near Verona. The blockade of Mantua by the Piedmontese troops is nearly complete. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Esq., after a sojourn of eight months in this country, took his departure for America, on Saturday last, from Liverpool, in the new steamer Express. A QUAKER EXPELLED FOR PAYING TITHES.—Mr. Jelico, a Quaker, having, as agent for a number of per sons in Kilkenny and Tipperary, paid the tithe rent charge to the various incumbents on the properties under his control, has been expelled by the society. Mr. Jelico caused application to be made to the Court of Queen's Bench last week for a mandamus to compel the Society of Friends to restore him to their body. The Court held that it had no jurisdiction. 848, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled in their legislative capa city to-day shortly after one o'clock, in order that the Royal Assent might be given by Commission to the Bill which the Government have brought in, and carried though both Houses, for the purpose of putting a stop to the proceedings that have lately taken place in Ireland. ROYAL COMMISSION. Shortly after one o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Minto, and Lord Campbell, robed as Lords Com missioners, entered the House, and took their seats be low the Throne ; the Commons were then summoned to the bar, and the Royal assent was then given in the usual form to THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRE LAND) BILL; The London and Blackwall Railway 4Connecting Branch) Bill, and The Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Boscobie,Keltr head, and Glencraig Branches) Bill. The Lords Commissioners then bowed to each other and retired, and the House resumed the hearing of ju dicial business. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT BILL. Colonel REID presented a petition from Windsor in favour of this Bill. Lord MORPETLI stated, in reply to Colonel Salwey, that the Bill was demanded by a majority of the inhabi tants of Windsor, and that it would be of great public advantage. Colonel SALWEY hoped the Noble Lord would lot proceed with the Bill in the thin state of the House. An important public path, used from time immemorial, would be closed, and much public inconvenience would result from the passing of the Bill. Lord MORPETH admitted that one of the public paths would be closed, but in lieu of it, a large part of the Home-park, hitherto shut up, would be thrown open to the public. _ _ _ Colonel REID contended that the people of Windsor would be much convenienced by the Bill. Colonel SALWEY went on to state that when the great improvements made during the reign of George the Third were effected, the path in question, which ran directly under the walls of the Castle, and was, there fore, some inconvenience to the Crowu, was diverted to its present course. If it were closed,the people would not be able to get to Datchet so easy a s they did at present. He moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. E WART, (as a great admirer of Shakspere, trusted the Noble. Lord would not proceed so hastily with the Bill. As the amendment was not seconded it fell to the ground. The Bill was then read a second time. POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES (No. 2) BILL. Mr. BULLER proceeded to move the second read ing of this dill. No anxiety for legislation at this late period of the session had induced him, he assured the House, to introduce four Bills at this late period of the session.—(llear, hear.) With but hall-a-year'S experience in his office, he should not have introduced these Bills, but he assured the House that nothing but urgent necessity had induced him to do so. An important Act passed last session expired in October, and it would not be well to let it expire without providing for the continuance of its principles, seeing that they had worked well. He meant Mr. Bodkin's Bill for the removal of the poor. In 1846, as the House would remember, an im portant Bill was passed with respect to the removal of the poor ; but it could not be denied that it had led to much shifting of burdens, yet its effect was to equalize better than heretofore the division of the support of the poor. The burdens were not borne in many places with great forbearance. A Committee some time ago was appointed, of which he: was the chairman, and that Committee, though it considered some details might be altered, yet they came to the opinion that it was not expedient to alter the principles of that Bill. They considered that the area of these burdens should be enlarged. The measure before the House embraced the principle of a Bill introduced at the close of ,the last session by Mr. Bodkin, whose absence he regretted. It would con tinue the principle with respect to the irremoveablo poor, namely, making their support chargeable, not upon the parish, but upon the union, and to continue the laws respecting vagrancy upon the same footing us they now stood. No matter was more difficult to deal with than the question of vagrancy, but at the same time he was prepared to say that great improvements might be made. He had indited a letter to the different boards of guardians on the subject, instructing them to use a wise discrimination, and to refuse relief where it was not right to give it; and he was prepared to take the whole responsibility upon himself. But there was another im portant matter in connexion with this, namely, the charge of the relief of vagrants upon parishes. He found that the parishes in which the workhouse, or in which the residence of the relieving-officer were situated, had a great disproportion of th e ex p enses t h rown upon them. . Many parishes understood the tactics of these things well, and contrived most ingeniously to throw the burdens which they should bear upon their neighbours' shoulders. In South Devon one parish provided a house fur the relieving officer which was situated in another ; and the result was that they got rid of much of the burden that wettld be other wise thrown upon them. lie was fully persuaded that die charge for the maintenance of vagrants should be wade upon the union, because at present the overseers of one parish voted against the overseers of another, in order that they might get rid of their respec tive burdens, and continual excitement and ill-feel ing were the natural results. The funds, out of which the expense of carrying these principles into effect would be defrayed, would be raised by an equal contribution by the proprietors of all the rateable property in the union. In this state of things the questions they had to consider were—first, should there be one equal assessment? or, secondly, the old system of averages? Since the passing of the old Poor-law Act the management of the parishes was placed in the hands, of the collective unions. He had provided in the Bill for the payment of any debts that remained in respect of the building of workhouses by the collective parishes. The expenses of the clerk of , the board of guardians and the medical officers were as much in the pauperised as the unpuuperised parish. For instance, even the most inde pendent workman sought medicine and from the parish surgeon, because his means did not enable him to discharge it. The same remark applied to the other officers of the workhouse—the necessity of such persons in the one parish was as necessary as in the other; this showed that the entire charge should be made upon the union. Much intolerable fraud existed now in the en deavours to reduce the average. tireat grievances existed owing to the system of clearance adopted in many parishes, many of whom not finding it convenient to support the poor out of the rates, took the much easier course of sending them away, heedless of their fate. Many parishes, in order to reduce the ave rages, raised private rates—(dear, hear)—aud in this way no doubt great frauds had been perpetrated. It was for these reasons that he wished to place all these matters upon a proper footing, by supporting the entire poor out of an equal rate upon the property of the union. After due consideration and careful inquiry, he had determined upon embodying this principle in the Bill. These principles were—the support of the establishment, the irremoveablo poor, ana of ~,,_ granoe out of an equalized union-rate.--(Hear.) The Bill could not be taken into consideration without reference being made to its general principle, that of substituting union for parochial rating. The Honour able Member was here interrupted by the appearance at the bar of the House of Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, who informed the Speaker that a Commission of the Lords had been appointed by her Majesty to give her Royal Assent to several Bills agreed to by both Houses, and stated that their Lordships requested the immediate attendance of this House in the House of Peers. The Speaker then left the Chair and proceeded to the House of Lords, followed by several Hon. Members. On his return, he informed the House that the Lords Commissioners hid given the Royal Assent to several Bills (for which see Lords' report). (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals and give several judgments. The Peers present were the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Westminster, and the Bishop of Hereford. WARXER, c SARNER. Their Lordships gave judgment in this case, affirming the decision of the Court below with costs. THE GREAT NUN tUBE.—FULHAM V. ret‘CARTIIT. Their Lordships also gave judgment on this important case, which our readers will recollect was argued before them a short time since upon an appeal from the decision of th© present Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The original suit was instituted in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, for the purpose of obtaining two distributive shares of one of the appellants , Maria M`Carthy, and of a respondent, her sister, Catherine M'Carthy, in the personal estate of their father, de ceased, Alexander M`Carthy, of Cork, merchant. The appellant, Maria, had, with the approbation . of her father, in 1828, become a nun , a nd professed of the order of St. Ursula, at Black Rock, Cork, when her father paid to that community 1,000/. for her admission and maintenance for life. Next year her sister Catherine adopted t he same course, an d paid similar large sum to the convent. The father's pro perty at his death amounted to upwards of 100,000 t. He had ten children , and it was conceived that the 1,0002 given on his daughters' admission to the con vent was intended to be their portion, having renounced by their vows the world and all right of succession to wealth. The Catholic superiors of the convent, Cecilia Fulham and Margaret Lynch, advised them to assert their claim to two entire distributive shares of the 100,000/. in the Irish Court of Chancery. This the heir-at-law resisted for the family generally. The two sisters had executed deeds transferring their shares to the two superiors of the convent, which there was reason to beiieve were not made without th e p ressure and com pulsion of their religious " vow of obedience" upon taking the veil, and the Lord Chancellor acting on that impression, decreed " That the C ourt of f er i ng to direct anissue at law to try whether the two deeds of assignment in the proceedings mentioned, bearing date the 29th day of December, 1843, and the 13th day of March, 1844, were executed by the plaintiff, Maria M'Carthy, and th e respondent, Catherine ' M'Carthy, as tree agents ; and the counsel at the bar for the appellants declining to take such issue, they having insisted that, without any such being directed,. the appellant.s.utexa entitaeds.lo. dem, and it appe ar i ng to t h e C ourt that the deeds wee() no - nor was either of them, executed by the appel!an Maria M'Carthy, and the respondent, Catherine Meer thy, as such freo agents, but that, on the contrary, the same were executed by them not of their free will, but under the pressure and compulsion of the vow of obi) dience ' taken by them respectively on becoming pro fessed members' of the convent, and wherein they still remained as such members, and under the obligation of the vow, the Court declared that no relief ought to be given by the Court founded on deeds so obtained, and thereupon his Lordship did dismiss the appellants' bill, with costs to be paid by the appellants Cecilia Fulham and Margaret Lynch, without prejudice to any other suit which the appellant Maria M'Carthy, or the respon dent Catherine M'Carthy might be advised to institute as the next of kin of their father, Alexander M'Carthy, deceased," From that decree the appellants appealed.' and upon that appeal their Lordships now gave judgment. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after going at some length into the case, stated his opinion to their Lordships to be, that the suit in the court below was improperly framed, inasmuch as two co-plaintiffs having inconsistent inte rests, could not join in a suit. lie therefore re commended their Lordships to dismiss the bill with costs generally, but without prejudice to any party filing a new bill ; to reverse the decree of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland so far as it offered the direction of au issue, but to retain it so far as it dismissed the bill of the plaintiff with costs. Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL concurred with the Lord Chancellor, and The Hovel: ordared the decree of the Court below to be reversed so far as it related to the issue, but retained that part which dismissed the bill. The effect of this discussion is to leave all parties in the position they were before the bill was filed, but enable them to coin mence their proceedings de novo, in an amended form. THE PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW OOLLEGE V. THE ATTOR- NEY-GENERAL. The further arguments on this part-heard case were resumed and concluded to-day; and The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that their Lord ships would give judgment on the case on Thursday. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RE BRADING. This bankrupt was the proprietor of the StiMAIM Tavern and Albert Saloon, Shepherd and Shepheidivis. fields, Islington, and to-day came up to pass hia last ex amination, which had been adjourned in consequence of the accounts not being prepared on the last occasion. Since the issuing the fiat the business has been carried on ander the management of Mr. Brading for the benefit of creditors, under an order of the Court of Review, on a petition for that purpose by the trade assignee, who anticipated being able to pay off the mortgages, and ultimately paying a dividend of 20s. in the pound. The bankrupt passed without opposition. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Ann Burns, a woman of the town, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen from the person of Mr. Robert Cornvon, a gentleman residing at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, a rid watch, value 20/. The prosecutor said he was now staying at Anderton's Hotel, but his real residence was at Neweastle-npon- Tyne. About one o'clock this morning the prisoner accosted him in the Haymarket. After some little con versation he consented to treat her to . some wine, after drinking which he went with her to a dark place, where they stood some time. She then suddenly called out " Here is somebody coin ing" and ran away. He then put his hand to his waimcoat pocket and missed his gold watch; He pursued her, and accused her of the theft. She said, " Oh, nonsense," and put her hand into his waist coat pocket and said " Here it is." He then found it there. At that time a constable came up and ho gave her in charge. Wells, C 1, said he took the prisoner into custody about ten minutes after one this morning. He searched the spot where the prosecutor and the prisoner had been standing, and found the gold ring which had been cut from the watch. The prisoner, in tears, denied the robbery, and Mr. 13tridnem remanded her for a week. • n-} tirbt 'Xbition GOODWOoD RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Craven Stakes. Mr. J. B. Day's The Hero ... The Lavant Stakes. walked o►er Glauca Wet Nurse ... 1 ••• 2 Czarina . ... 3 Won by a length. The Drawing Room Stakes. A dead heat between Sword Player and Glendower. The Ham Stakes. Palmyra colt, by lon * ... . Honeycomb ... ~, ~, Bolus The Grutwieke Stake!. Distaffina Surplice Hornpipe Wiasma ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ••• 2 .•. 3 4 ••• 1 ,•:-. 2 Won by a length. THE THREE HUNDRED SOVS. STAKES.: Van Tromp Cossack Won in a canter. MARKET NEWS.— f THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation • con tinues heavy, and only 70 hogsheads have found buyers, at prices fully is below those of this day week. There have been no public sales of importance, owing to the unwillingness of importers to realise in the present unsettled state of the market. 150 cases Idaroint, im ported in a foreign ship, have been disposed of privately at 18s per cwt. The quantity of Bri tish Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 823 hhds 38 tierces 253 brls, there were taken for home consumrtion 1,403 Wide 175 tierces, 404 barrels. The stock in the same Place is 17,736 hhds 2,371 tierces, 4,310 barrels. COFFEE.— 667 bags 25 casks Plantation Ceylon• were chkfly disposed of by auction at steady rates, but 250 bags Native were withdrawn fur want of buyers at pre vious prices. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 522 nuns 135 hh(ls.• There were taken fur home consumption 100 puns 10 MA:, and exported 61 puns 82 hhds. The stock in the same places is 17,182 puns 3,381 hhds. RICE. -840 bags Penang at auction brought a further advance of 3d per cwt, mid yellowish grain being dis posed of at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt. SALTPETRE.-716 bags Bengal sold without material alteration in value, Bid to aid per cwt refraction, having brought 24s to 26s 6d per cwt. SPIcEs.--2,900 bags Black Pepper, and 330 bags Pimento were offered by auction; the Pepper were only about one-third realised at lid to for ord to clean sifted Sumatra, the remainder being withdrawn above the market value. The Pimento were nearly all with drawn for want of buyers on previous terms. TAELow.—P.Y.C. is 43s 3(1 for old, and 43s Gd for new, per cwt on the spot, and Town 46s Gd. TEA.—The market is quiet. BAY MAR/MTS. SMITLIFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ l ss; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 41 to 51; New ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 lOs per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND. Old Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 41; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 10s; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 15s; New ditto, 31 lOs to 4155; and Straw, I/ 65 to 11 lOs per load. Trade rather dull, at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31155; New ditto, 2l 5s to 318 s; Old Clover, 4/ to 5/ ; New ditto, 318 s to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 lOs per load. Supply good, and trade dull. FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR PUTNEY -BRIDGE. On Sunday evening an accident, which, we regret to state, has resulted in the loss of four lives, viz., two males and two females, occurred on the river Thames, just above Putney-bridge. It appears that about a quarter to nine o'clock, the unfortunate individuals were observed com ing down the river in a skiff, on the Middlesex side of the stream, and when nearly opposite the Steam-boat Pier, close to Putney-bridge, it being nearly dark and raining fast, the boat struck against or came athwart the chains by which a barge was moored, and instantly upset, and the whole of the party were immersed in the water, and almost immediately disappeared. The drags were most promptly procured, and every exertion used to find the bodies; but full twenty minutes elapsed before the efforts were successful, and then the bodies of the two men were recovered, and immediately conveyed to the Swan, Fulham, where several surgeons were in atten dance, but life was then quite extinct. Up to last even ing the bodies of the females had not been found. From one of the sculls being broken in the blade, it is thought tint that ruielt have led to the accident. BIRTHS. Oa the lith inst., at Colwell cottage, Exeter, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel J. A. Thompson, C. 8., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Holkham, the Countess of Leicester, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at St. James's Church, Dover, Richard Phelips, of the Royal Artillery, to Charlotte Frances, eldest daughter of the late Joseph De!afield, Esq., of Bryanstou square, London. DIED. On the 2!st inst., Witham J. Jacob, Esq., late principal of the Accountant's office of the Bank of England, aged 78. On the 19th inst., aged 70, Mary, wife of G. R. Chappell. Esq., of Manchester. On the 20th inst., Mary Alice, the beloved wife of Robes Fowler, Esq., Lamthidge, Bath. On the 21st inst., John F. Le Cointe, Esq., of Upper Bed ford-place. teri9 London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, t!' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at the Sun Office, No. 11 z: Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avoy , i n the count,' '2' Middlesex, Tuesday, July 25, 1848.