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did before the Act of last session, until the closing of their commercial transactions. Mr. CRAWFORD objected to the word " manage," un less it should be declared not to give the Company the power to sell. The clause was merely to make the Court of Direc tors warehousemen for the profit of the Government, and he knew that the Court of Directors were adverse to the clause. Low as the Court of Directors had fallen by the Act of last session, they were not quite so reduced into the mere instru ments of Government. Mr. P. THOMSON defended the clause. He was able, without hesitation, to assert that it was only looked upon as prejudicial by certain Dock Companies, whose private in terests it might affect. By the trade at large, it was highly approved of, and as it could not upon general grotuttls be ob jected to he felt bound to persevere in seeking to have it introduced into the Bill. Sir J. REID expressed himself favourable to the intro. duction of the clause. Alderman THOMSON opposed. thp introduction of the clause as unnecessary and inexpedient. Mr. MARJORIBANKS was understooi to support the clause. Mr. HA'WES hoped that the Government would persevere in introducing the clause into the Bill. The clause was then added to the Bill by means of a rider. The Bill was then passed. ASSESSED TAXES RELIEF BILL. On the motion of Lord ALTIIORP, the Assessed Taxes Relief Bill was read a third time. Sir S. WHALLE Y moved the addition of a clause pro viding that every dwelling-house used for the purposes of trade, the annual value of which should not exceed at rack rent the sum of 200/., should be exempt from the window tax imposed by the 48th of George the Third. Lord ALTHORP opposed the bringing up of the clause. Considering the s,tate of the farming interest it would be im possible to grant such a boon to trade without violating every principle of justice. The clause was negatived without a division, and the Bi passed. CINQUE PORTS PILOTS' BILL. Sir T. TROUBRIDGE brought up the Report of the Committee on the Cinque Ports Pilots' Bill. In answer to a question from an Hon. Member, Mr. P. THOMSON said he thought it would be extremely desirable that a Commission of Inquiry into the dues and fees paid to pilots should ere long be issued. The Report was then agreed to. SALE OF BEER BILL. Lord A LTHORP moved the third reading of this Bill. Mr. T. ATTWOOD had disapproved of the Bill in its first state, but he now thought it a very tolerable measure. The Bill was then read a third time. On Lord ALTHORP moving a clause by way of rider, that the Bill should not operate with respect to licenses in towns having a population of 5,000 inhabitants, Mr: G. W. WOOD moved an amendment, that no license should be granted to any house rated at less than 101. a year. Mr. ATT"WOOD contended that the integrity of the poor was not to be measured by the rent they paid. It was teach ing the poor a bad lesson to hold out to them that property was the only test of integrity. Lord ALTH OR P then proposed his first amendment,which was that the " certificate" should not be required in London and Westminster, nor within the bills of mortality, nor in places where elections are held, or that return Members to Par liament, nor where there may be a population of 5000 persons according to the last census. After some conversation as to the mode of ascertaining the limits of towns, and what houses should be considered as coming within the limits, the clause was agreed to. Mr. G. WOOD said, in consequence of the adoption of this clause he wished to propose an amendment to it, namely, to provide that no license be granted for retailing beer, &c., under this Act, except the houses in which the beer was to be sold were assessed at not less than 101. a year. This would secure the public from being afflicted with beer-shops construc ted out of the merest hovels,and which in reality were as great nuisances as could infest society.—( Hear.) Mr. WARBURTON objected to this amendment. It was a new restriction, andmost unexpectedly proposed. No notice had been given of it. No one knew that there was any in tention of proposing so serious an additional restriction upon an already too restrictive Bill. If this amendment were adopted an immense number of individuals would be excluded from getting licences, or from getting them renewed, who never calculated that they were likely to be excluded on any such grounds. But what he most of all complained of was, that so important a change should have been brought forward without any notice whatever. Mr. CR IPPS said he entirely differed from the Hon. Mem ber who last spoke. He thought this a most valuable amend ment.—( Hear.) It would tend to make the trade more res pectable : it would give the security of some character and sta tion in society for the good conduct of the house. There were few houses in towns rated at less than 101. that ought to be engaged in such a trade ; and it would contribute to correct the abuses in small country places, where hovels, as they had properly been described, were converted into beer-shops, and which became the scenes of all sorts of iniquity. Greater hardships than such places could hardly afflict the country, and yet, without some such regulation as that proposed in the amendment, he knew not how this part of the evil could be corrected. Half the houses now in the trade in the country were rated at little more than 40s. a-year. Mr. TENNYSON admitted that there was much merit about this amendment, particularly its tendency to secure the respectability of the parties who should engage in the trade ; and if it secured more respectable parties to embark in the trade, it would also contribute to secure the respectability of the par ties who might attend their houses. It would have a beneficial effect as regarded the occupiers of the houses, and those who frequented them. With respect to the observations of the Hon. Member behind him (Mr. Warburton) had that Hon. Member been so very nice about the interests, property, and prospects of others, when he sanctioned the original Beer Act ? Thank God, he had not to charge himself with having taken any, part in that Bill ; but it was an act of the most flagrant cha racter, sacrificing as it did so much involved on the faith of Acts of Parliament.—(Hear.) With respect to the amend ment now proposed, as he sought not to sacrifice that property which might have been involved on the faith of Acts of Par liament—he thought it would inflict much injury and in justice to carry it into immediate effect. He, therefore, sug gested, that, if adopted, it be provided that it should not come into operation until April 5, 1836.—(Hear, hear.) That would enable pa r ti es , i n th e even t of their not coming within the law, or not being willing to abide by its restrictions, to ex tricate themselves, and to divert their capital into other chan ne!s, or their attention to other objects. Mr. PRYME thought that there must be some different criterion adopted to that of the rating of the house, it was so different in different places. In Cambridge, for instance, the houses were seldom rated at more than one-third of the rent, or value ; so that, in fact, such a regulation would exclude all houses below the rent of 301.—a1l houses except those ap proaching to the size of inns. Mr. WARBURTON said this restriction would exclude many most meritorious persons, many of those who could get certificates, and yet could not get licences because they had not houses approaching to inns. Mr. T. A TTWOOD hoped that the amendment would be withdrawn, because the real question ought to be not as to the value of the man's house, but as to the value of his character. A man's respectability and real worth were not to be judged of by the size of his house. If the amendment were pressed, he would divide the House upon it. Mr. S. E. STANLEY said he should support the amend ment. It was desired to increase the respectability of these houses and the occupiers. He knew no better plan of arriving at the respectability of the man than the test of the size of the house he sought to make a beer-shop. Lord SANDON also considered that it would be a good test to secure the respectability of those who applied for li censes. It would work well in Liverpool, and if a 10/. house were to guide the right and the propriety of the elective fran chise, he thought it could not be complained of as a test here. It would also tend to secure good conduct, because the law had stronger hold of the man who had some property than of the man who had none. But though he approved of the prin ciple of the clause, he was disposed to pay some attention to the proposition for affording time previously to its coming into operation, so that parties would have opportunity to give no tices to their landlords. Mr. POTTER said he was surprised that his Hon. Friend (Mr. G. Wood) should have brought forward such an amend ment, and without any sort of previous notice. There were many Members absent, others who had left town, who would have been present could they have had the least idea that such a proposition as the one now before them was to be brought forward. Mr. BAINES considered that houses of the "value" of 10/. was the meaning of the Hon. Mover.----(Hear.) With that alteration he thought that the amendment might pass. Houses below the value of 10/. might be safely excluded, for, generally speaking, they cosld hardly have accommodation for the trade. Mr. AGL lONBY opposed the clause as no notice had been given of it. He recommended the Hon. Member to with draw it. Lord ALTHO RP was of opinion that there should be some test, and although he was opposed to the rating being the test, and to the necessity of paying up the rates, he should certainly support the principle of the clause, but would recom mend his Hon. Friend either to withdraw the clause, -or, if he should persist, to alter the clause so as to let the qualification rest on the value of the house rather than or, the rating. If his Hon. Friend pressed the clause he should certainly vote for it. Sir H. WI L L OUG HBY opposed the clause, as it had been brought forward at too late a period to have it properly con sidered. Mr. G. W. WOOD said that he should press the clause, but he had no objection to adopt the suggestion of the Noble Lord, and apply the qualification to the value of the house instead of the rating, provided the value was to be not less than 101. He was also willing that the clause should not come into operation until the sth of April, 1836. After a few words from Mr. M. PHILIPS,a division took place, when the numbers were— For the clause Against it .................... . Majority The clause was then agreed to. The Bill, with a few verbal alterations, was passed. On the motion of Lord ALTIIORP, the House went into Committee on the Consolidated Funds Bill, and the appro priation clause was read and agreed to. The Spirit Licenses Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Starch Duties Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time on Friday next. ~ 35 . 24 ~ -11 The Bayswater Sewers Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Report of the Post Roads (Ireland) Bill was received and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Scotch Voiers 7 liegistrat:on Bill was read a thirdlme and passed. The Report of the Heritors' (Scotland) Bill was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The House went into Committee on the Bank of England Bill. The amendments were agreed to. Report to-morrow. COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. The question being put that the Lords' amendments to the County Coroners' Bill be agreed to, Mr. WARBURTON said there was one of the amend ments to which he trusted the House would not agree. That clause of the Bill declaring the Coroners' Court to be an open one, and which was agreed to by a large majority of that House, was struck out by the Lords. This was done on the representation of Noble and Learned Lords, the law authori ties of the other House, who gave it as their opinion that the clause was unnecessary, as the Coroner's Court was already an open one* In a modern work upon the subject doubts were expressed whether it was open, and it was there held that the Coroner might close it, and exclude the public, In such a state of doubt he was for retaining the clause, and should therefore move that the Lords' amendment be rejected. , Mr. CRIPPS said the clause was one proposed by the Hon. Member himself (Mr. Warburton). He (Mr. Cripps) had made inquiry of most of the Coroners in the country, and they all informed him they considered the Court to be an open one. Lord Denman, who, as Lord Chief Justice, was also the Chief Coroner, and the Lord Chancellor, expressed the same opinion when this Bill was befoie the Lords. ' It was the opinion also of the then Attorney-General, and of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Dublin. Some doubt, however, arose from a decision of Lord Tenterden in the Oldham case, in 1816; but there was a difference of opinion as to the effect of that decision. The conclusion some drew from it was that the Coroner, in his capacity of Magis trate, might turn any person out of the Court who was miscon ducting himself, or who ought not to be present. Ever since that decision; however, Coroners themselves held the Court to be an open one, though they considered themselves as having authority to turn out any person who was misconducting him self. The Lord Chancellor, and other law authorities in the other House, considered the clause unnecessary, and it was on that account it was left out. He hoped no further impediment wouldbe thrown in the way of the Bill,as the objection seemed an ideal one. Mr. TENNYSON thought the matter should not be left in doubt. Mr. Chitty, in his reports, drew from Lord Ten terden's decision in the Oldham case this conclusion : that the Coroner by it was declared to have the power of excluding the public. If the opinion of Lord Denman and of the Lord Chan cellor had been given on this point from the Bench, it would be decisive ; but then it was expressed extrajudicially, as Mem bers of the other House. He understood that one Coroner, Mr. Farrand, still continued to exclude the public from inquests. Mr. POTTER said that in a recent Oldham case the public were excluded from the Court. Mr. Farrand still confirmed to exercise that fiower, and it was through Mr. Garnet, the proprietor o f a Manchester paper, that the ques • tion was brought before a Court of Law, to ascertain whether the right existed or not. • It was most important that the Court should be open, that the public might have the means of knowing whether the business was properly done. This was not always the case. He himself knew an instance of a Man chester Coroner who actually deputed his brother to hold an inquest. The same might be done in other cases if the public were excluded. There was an instance near Bury of a child having been burnt last spring. The Jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. The peasantry in the neighbourhood ex pressed their dissatisfaction • the matter was much talked of, and, if consequence. th e child was disinterred. It was found that the child had been actually destroyed by its own father, who had since absconded. This showed the importance of having the Court an open one, and he trusted, therefore, the Lords' amendment would be agreed to. Lord ALT HORP said there could be no doubt as to the propriety and the great importance of having the Coroner's Court an open one. He could entertain no doubt that the House of Lords, on having the matter represented to them, would permit the clauses to be re-iiiserted in the ( Hear.) The case of the Wygon Coroner, who still perse vered in the practice of excluding the public, was in itself sufficient proof of the importance of removing all doubt upon the subject. The course the House now had to pursue was to demand a conference with the Lords.—( Cheers.) A conference was accordingly demanded, and the rest of the Lords' amendments were agreed to. The Tithe Stay of Suits Bill was read a third time. and passed. Adjourned at a quarter past nine. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Journal de Paris of Wednesday.) " The Government has received this morning, the 6th of August, a telegraphic dispatch, dated St. Jean-de-Luz, Aug. 3, seven o'clock, p. m. " General Jaureguy announces, that on the Ist he beat the msss of the insurgents towards Iturgoyen, and that the Queen's troops are pursuing them in all directions." The Moniteur contains the following telegraphic dispatch, which was received by the Government on Monday evening : " BAYONNE, AUG. 4.—The insurgents have been beaten along their whole line. Since the Ist, Rodil has attacked them with vigour. We shall have the details this evening." The Spanish Consul at Bayonne and Lieutenant Colonel Don Miguel Araos, who has been stationed there by Rodil, have received the following communication from that Ge neral : " Five thousand factious, commanded by Zumalacarreguy, Uran gua, Cuebillas, and others, availing themselves of the advantage which their positions gave them, attacked me to-day in flank while I was marching on Olazagutia ; they have nevertheless been beaten, put to flight, and pursued by our intrepid soldiers, whose valour can never be sufficiently praised. (Signed) " JOSE RAMON RODIL." " Head-quarters Ciordia, July 25, 1834, at 11 o'clock at night. The letters from the correspondent of a Morning Paper on the Spanish frontiers, say that another engagement took place between the troops of Rodil and the insurgents on the 27th, which was renewed on the 28th ; that Don Carlos had care fully avoided risking his precious person,' since, on the 28th, he was at the distance of several leagues from the field of battle, having, as it were, one foot in Spain and the other in France. On the 29th he was at Arenas, and was expected in the evening of that day to be at Vera, whence he could step over the frontiers in ten minutes. Letters from St. Sebastian state that intelligence had been received there of three battalions of infantry and all the cavalry of the insurgents having been destroyed. An English brig of war was cruising on the coast. The following letter from St. Jean-de-Luz, is dated the 31st of July :—" There has been fighting for two days, be tween Estella and Etcherry, about two leagues from Pampe luna • the insurgents are closely pressed by Rodil's troops ; all their communications are interrupted ; the enemy cannot receive either provisions or ammunition, and the country does not afford any resources, so completely are the local pro visions, which were in store, absorbed by the presence of the faction which has not ceased for nearly three months to ravage the country; a break-up is expected every day. All the cantonments in the neighbourhood of France are well fur nished with troops ; several superior officers have been sent to the frontier to command them. Don Carlos was, on Mon day last, at Lesaca, where, whilst he was present at a game at tennis, which was played by some of the first hands in the country, he was informed that Jaureguy (El Pastor), at the head of 3,000 Chapelgorry (as the troops under the orders of the General are called), was preparing to proceed to Lesaca, to gain possession of his person, on which the Prince left the place precipitately, and fled to Aranaz, where he still was yesterday. General Harispe has been here two days ; yesterday he went to Behobia, at the head of the 4th Light Infantry, which is in gar rison here ; he had also with him the battery of artillery which is parked in our town. At the bridge of Irun he was vi sited by the Spanish civil and military authorities ; the General received them with his usual affability. He also had a long conference with one of General Rodil's aides-de-camp, who had arrived the night before from head-quarters. The troops left Behobia after a halt of three hours, during which time different pieces of music were played on the bridge of Behobia, and particularly the air of Riego , the Parisienne, and the Marseillaise. To-day the General has passed the infantry its garrison at Saint Jean-de- Luz in review. General Noguez arrived this morning in our town : he is labouring under an attack of pleurisy, which the physicians do not consider to be dangerous. Yesterday the gendarmerie arrested, at Behobia, a well-dressed lady : her proceedings with regard to divers Carlists excited suspicions against her ; in fact, it would appear that she was to play the noble part, on the frontier, of a spy for the rebels. She has been sent to Bayonne under escort. Two trincadoras are fitted out in our port ; they will have crews of thirty men each, and are to be commanded by two young Basque Captains, both very intrepid men, and per fectly acquainted with the coast. These two vessels are des tined to cruise between the port of Socoa and Bilboa. The report that two or three English vessels laden with arms and ammunition for the rebels, were about to land these military stores on the coast, has occasioned the fitting out of these trincadoras." The Revista Espagnola of Madrid of the 28th ultimo contains the following :—" We have considered with the deepest attention the passage in the speech from the throne relating to the foreign debt, which has given rise to such strange suspicions, and cannot discover the least ground for justifying them. As to the home debt, the speech gives hope that it will be progressively extinguished from resources which may be gradually applied with prudent caution and mature examination to that end. What uneasiness ought to be created by this language, when the re-organization of the finances on the basis of a real representative government must produce the most certain means of meeting all engagements, and consequently producing a progressive rise in the public funds as soon as the circumstances which for the moment have an influence upon their prices have ceased to exist ? As to the foreign debt, on looking at the resources so delibe rately pointed out by the speech from the throne, upon the candour and good faith which will regulate the measures of the Government, it is impossible for us to find in these expressions, to which are endeavoured to be given a sinister in terpretation, the consequences drawn. The regularisation of this debt, which is particularly alluded to, can have no other object than. that part of the debt which remains unliquidated, and the acknowledgment of which has been deferred. In fact, how can it be supposed that any Government can have the in tention of touching an acknowledged and liquidated debt, when it is at the same moment about to contract fresh engage ments ? Would not this be to attribute foolishly two contra dictory and opposite intentions—that of having recourse to credit, and at the same time that of taking measures destruc tive of credit ? For our part, we are firmly persuaded that as long as a representative government exists in Spain the na tional credit will become daily more and more solid, for this is the immediate consequence of this form of government. Be sides, no one can be ignorant that our resources, even at the present moment, are'sufficient to cover all' our wants if they are well administered. Who is not aware that a great portion of the taxes raised are lost to the public treasury ? The well directed reconcentration of all the produce would put an end to those embarrassments to which the old administration of routine, which never could do away with a single abuse, was subjected. We know that it is difficult to bring a new system into play, but the obstacles lie more in persons than in things, and we loye to rely upon the known firm resolution of the pre sent Minister to overcome all obstacles." The Journal de Paris states that the Government had re ceived despatches on Monday evening, fully confirming the ac counts of the advantages which Rodil had gained on the 25th and the preceding days, over the insurgents. This journal gives the following precis of the movements of Don Carlos, from the period of his arrival in Spain, down to the 24th : " On the 13th of July he effected his solemn entrance into Ellsondo, where he made the several appointments that have been published. On the 15th, he set out for the purpose of showing himself to the army and to the inhabitants of the val leys of Ulzama, of Basaburna, and of Gulina. Rodil was at this time at Puente de la Reina, a little behind Pampeluna. From the above mentioned places, Don Carlos went to join Zumulacarraguy, in the Amescoas, where he remained until the 19th, from a desire to show himself in Castile, and ex pecting that the gates of Vittoria would be opened to him, he was induced to make his appearance before Salvatierra on the 20th. Here he was received at the cannon's mouth, which forced him to retreat, on the 21st, to Alzaan. From the latter place, he was again compelled to retreat by General Espartero, who arrived from Biscay through Seguro. Having now lost all hopes of being able to seduce the troops of the Queen, and of obtaining a pacific entrance into the fortified places, he returned towards the valley of Bastan, in order to shelter himself from the personal dangers to which he might be exposed on the other side of the moun tains. Since the 24th he has not left the valley ;at one time he is found at St. Estevan, at another in Elisondo or Lesaca, always keeping himself as far as possible from the Queen's troops, which surround him on all sides. We have news of him up to the 30th, still in the valley of Bastan, hemmed in on every side, and destitute of every thing. Under these cir- . camstances, he is become a source of great embarrassment to his party, who, in consequence of his presence, have a sort of head-quartet s to defend, and with less facility carry on their guerilla warfare. He never sleeps two nights in the same spot. To extricate himself, his rebel troops -must obtain a decisive victory, which is scarcely probable, inasmuch as they .have been hitherto beaten in every action." (From the Journal desDebats.) • The villas. of Ciordia, where Captain-General Rodil's head-quarters were on the 25th, is situated in the Borunda, two leagues to the eastward of Salvatierra, on the high road from Vittoria to Pampeluna. Urdian and Bacaicoa, where the engagement of the 25th took place, are on the same road, be tween Echairi- Aranaz and Ciordia. All these points are very near to each other, upon a scale of three or four hours' march. According to the accounts of to-day, Rodil has advanced his head-quarters ten-leagues, by marching, from Estella to the environs of Salvatierra. But Zumalacarreguy appears to keep his position in the mountains which command the road from Salvatierra to Pampeluna. At all events, we have not yet heard that he has been driven out of that position. The correspondence from Bayonne of the 30th of July speaks of an engagement having taken place between Yanzi and Aranaz. If this should be the case, it must be concluded that the Carlists are pressed on their extreme right, and not far from the frontier, by troops from Ernani, for Yanzi and Aranaz are situated in the valley of Bastan, near the Bidassoa, rather to the southward of Lezaca and Vera, the two last towns (bourgs) in Spain. It should also be remembered, that whilst Zumalacarreguy was carrying on his operations in the mountains, between Le cumberri, Pampeluna, and Salvatierra, the chief of the Carlist insurrection of Biscay, Zavala always kept the field between the high road from Bayonne to Vittoria and the sea. We are not informed whether he has been driven back towards the Bastan by the forces which arrived from Old Castile, in Biscay, in or der to form the extreme left of Rodil's army. (From the Journal de Commerce of August 5.) A letter from the Hague, dated the Ist of August, contains the following : An agent of the house of Gower, of London, has been here for some days. It is known that this is the house that was in treaty for Don Carlos's loan. The publication thereof not having taken place olicially in London and Paris, several houses of Belgium and Holland have been applied to. I n Belgium, the house of Osy and Co.otif Antwerp, will receive the subscriptions ; and•at Amsterdam, Messrs. Delepel, La bouchere, and Co. If the detention of M. Jauge should con tinue, all the subscriptions will be directed upon Amsterdam. It is needless to state, that this affair is negotiated with the au thority and under the protection of our Government." (From the Quotidienne.) Our famous statesmen are fearful -lest the Queen of Spain or the Princess of Beira should endeavonr to cross France, in order to join Don Carlos. The most circumstantial orders have been transmitted to Dieppe to keep watch over all the passengers in the English packets, and more particularly women. The following is from the Gazette du Midi:— " The journa of the Prefecture announces that the stay of the Infant Don Sebastian and of the. Princess his wife, at Marseilles, will be prolonged for some time. ,We have, in fact, reason to believe that their Royal Highnesses intend to take sea-water baths in the superior establishment of Clemen cean, the reputation of which is no longer confined to Mar ceilles. The report which had been spread that the Infant had fled before a revolutionary riot at Madrid is now explained. The Prince certainly did receive at Barcelona, where he em barked for France, the news of the massacre of several monks at Madrid, by the Urban militia, on the 18th inst, and he was the first person who brought the news to Marseilles. was under the windows of the Infant Don Sebastian, th Sun day's melancholy maypole was erected. Having witnessed on this occasion, for the first time, a celebration of the anniversary of July, the Prince cannot have conceived any very exalted idea of our enthusiasm. (From the Constitutiunnel of Aug. 5.) Diplomacy is in a very tranquil state in Paris ; there seems to be but very little to do, for many of the principal nmbassa dors are quitting the capital. Whilst Lord Granville's 'post chaise is rolling along towards the Springs of Aix, in Savoy, M. De Werther, the Prussian Minister, is about to travel in Brittany, and M. D'Appony hardly ever visits his office. M. Pozzo di Borgo alone attends to business, with an assiduity which is remarked by all those who approach the Russian Embassy. Is t'-'3 dull season the time for important foreign affairs ? What does it denote in the present state of European politics ? We reply that few matters are discussed in Paris. If the Oriental question, in which Russia is specially interested, be excepted, the Corps Diplomatique may be at their ease. Everything is done in London, and, to the honour of the Anglo-French alliance, we are bound to say, that the notes hitherto delivered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France are immediately sent to London, to be discussed in common by M. de Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston. This fact proves how intimately united the two nations are. The subject of foreign politics, which was so slightly touched upon in the speech from the Throne, has nevertheless excited some solicitude in the mind of M. Pozzo di Borgo ; he bad h‘oped that, through his influence, the Quadruple Alliance would not be so openly avowed ; that it would, no doubt, be mentioned, but in a vague manner, as an accessary. The phrases of the speech in which this treaty is spoken of have appeared to M. Pozzo to be too explicit ' • they prove anything but that falling off in the amity between France and England that Russia had hoped to see. Now, the following is the tactic which is adopted :—This treaty of the Quadruple Alli ance which had, in the first instance, so profoundly irritated the absolute Cabinets, is no longer anything more than a sub ject of mockery for them. What is it all about ? cry their organs. Nothing more nor less than a great deal of embar rassment that the people have brought upon themselves for a 1 ong time to come. The seeds of civil war have been sown in Spain. Whether you intervene or not what does it signify to Europe ? You have entailed upon yourselves an expense of men and money, and that's all. These expressions but ill conceal real vexation. Spain being freed from the clutches of absolutism, is a progress : the struggle will, no doubt, be long—fatal, perhaps, to the people who are engaged in it, but the principle will survive this tem porary crisis ; it is something, that a representation system exists in Spain ; this permits us to look forward to something better. It remains for the Cortes and the Queen's government to give a fresh contradiction to Europe by the prudence and moderation of their councils. The losses liquidated by one house alone during the last month are estimated at fifteen millions. It was remarked that a great number of New Deputies were at Court the day before yesterday. There were also a num ber of of the representatives of the opposition, viz., Messieurs Lawrence, Glais-Bizon, Havin, Beranger, De Brigode, and several others. The reception was not over until half-pa s t eleven. Yesterday a dinner was given at the Tuileries to several Peers and Deputies. Among the guests were the Duke of Bassano, General Haxo, Messieurs Dupin, Agier, Bedoch, Horve, Viennet, and Dumont ; the King conversed a consi derable time with each of these gentlemen. By an ordinance of the Bth of July, a pension of 6,000 francs a year is granted to the Duchess Dowager of Mon tebello. The Courrier du Bas .Rhin announces 'that, on the 31st ult., a search by the police was made at the houses of several' inhabitants belonging to the National Guards of Strasbourgh, lately dissolved, in order to seize the protest against the disso tion of that corps, and the list of the persons who signed it. The papers demanded were given up without hesitation, as it was intended that the protest, with the names affixed to it, should be published. A white flag was hoisted during the night of the 29th of July, at the Hotel de Ville of Port-Louis (Morbilian) ; thi s flag has been sent to Lorient. A society of workmen of Dijon has addressed a very re markable petition to the Mayor and Municipal Council of that town, the object of which is•to obtain permission for the open ing f the public library on Sundays and ffitedays, in order to render it accessible to the workmen. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. (SITTING OF AUGUST 4. M. Bedoch in the Chair. The order of the day was the sequel of the verification of the qualifications of the Deputies. A number of Members were admitted, and took the oath. A proposition was made for the nullification of the election of M. Ponteves, for the Var, against which eighty electors had signed a protest, no account of certain irregularities, and princi pally on the ground that an elector who had been incorrectly inscribed on the lists as having already voted, had thus in reality been prevented from voting at all. The protest of the eighty electors having been read, General Leydet addressed the Chamber amidst interrup tions from the centre. The Hon. Deputy was opposed to the nullification of the election in question, and thought that, as a general rule, the nominations of Members should not be lightly annulled, as a fresh election' incommoded a department, and entailed a heavy expense on the electors. M. Ponlle supported the nullification, and after stating that M. Pontevs had applied the epithet of butchers (niassacreurs) to those who had fought at Lyons for the maintenance of order and the laws—( Murmurs from the centre)—the .Hon. Deputy summed up by saying that an elector had been de prived of his right to vote, and that had it not been for such an illegal proceeding, M. Ponteves would not have been re turned. M. Dugabel, amidst frequent interruptions from the centre, supported the validity of the nomination. The nullification of the election was put to the vote, sup ported by the centre en masse. Election annulled. The electoral college of Brignolles will therefore have to be again convoked. The admission of M. Bastard de l'Etang was opposed on the grthind of irregularity in the' voting of one of the sections of the Electoral College of Marmande, in the department of Lotet-Garonne. The ballot for the election of the officers of the college had remained open only four hours, instead of six. Election annulled. The admission of M. Emilie Girardin having been pro posed, and the Hon. Deputy being unable to produce a regu lar certificate of birth (acte de naissance), a question arose as to the difficulty of proving that he had attained the age of eli gibility. The question was solved by the production of an extract of a verdict pronounced by the Civil Tribunal of the department of the Seine, and dated May, 1844. The ad mission of M. Emille Girardin was then put to the vote and carried unanimously. Adjourned at half-past five o'clock. FRENCH FUNDS.—PmiIs, Auo. 5. Five per Cents., 105 f. 55c. 65c. itc Four per Cents., 9.f. 1 hree per Cents., 75f. 50c. 55c. 30c. Bank Actions, 1,700 f. • Rente de Naples, 92f. 85c. 93f. 92f. 90c. '7sc. Roman Five..per Cents., 94 Bente d'E*Agne, Five per Cents., 36 354. Rente d' Espagno, Three per Cents., .34% 35M Royal Spanish Loan, 67% 68. it ente Perpet.d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 53M 53 51%. Haytian Loan, 275 f. EXCITANUS ON LONDON. Onc month, paper, 2X. 27%c. ; money, —f. Three niontlis, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 15,. —Coors Authcotique. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1834. LISBON, JULY 19. ( From the Correspondent of a Morning Paper. ) The absurd reports of the Emperor's desperate state of health, of his having a cancer in the chest, and the like, which have been , received in England are wholly unfounded. Hav ing seen him the day before yesterday at Queluz, I can contra dict them from ocular demonstration. He has been riding out twice a day all this week, and, on the 25th instant, he and the Royal Family will proceed to Oporto in the Royal Tar steamer, which vessel arrived this evening in six days from London, superbly fitted up for the reception of their Ma jesties, bringing 100,0001. for Government, and 10,0001. for private account ; after returning from the heroic city, the Count is to go to Caldas da Rainha, for the benefit of the mineral waters, till thee Cortes open on the 15th of August. The present session being extraordinarily convoked, will last only three months, or as much longer as the Government thinks fit, and, will have to attend to questions of the highest impor tance—namely the Regency, the Bill of Indemnity, the new peerage, and last, though not least, the Queen's marriage. Re ports have been set afloat that it is intended to declare the Queen of age, and that a Noble Duke, of high diplomatic repute, has formed the ambitious design of bringing about a matrimonial alliance between her Majesty and his own son, a youth of tender years,—as the only Portuguese subject who could aspire to her hand. I learn, however, from a quarter which has never de ceived me, that, consulting her Majesty's own inclinations, as well as the wishes of her Royal parents, and the interests of the country, and of at least one of its allies, the Duke of Leichtenberg, the Empress's brother will bear off the prize before all other competitors, such as the self-proposed Duke of Nemours, or a Neapolitan Prince. From the same source I learn that, in spite of all that has been said to the contrary, there is no chance of the Duke of Palmella's taking o:ice with the present Ministry, though the price of his amalgamation has been already named, viz.—the cession of the property of the Aixostinho's convent at one-fifth of its value, to secure his support in the House of Peers. In Lisbon the parochial elections of the individuals who choose the provincial electors for Estremadura ' have taken place on the 13th instant, and in the Revista of the 16th inst. you find the names of the parties returned by the different parishes. It was said the Opposition, consisting of Royalists or rather Absolutists, of the friends of Palmella, and Repub licans, uniting against the Carvalho Ministry, had obtained a small majority ; but it turns out since that the Government has, or at least fancies to have carried its point, Carvalho himself having been returned by the pa r i s h o f S anta I sa b e ll a . and none but Ministerial candidates, by some ether parishes, for instance, that of Anjos de St. Jorge, which alone returned three friends to the Ministry. St. Mamede made what you call a double return of Andrade, an oppositionist, and MOS-. tinho Friere, Minister of War, the poll having closed before the remainder of the latter's friends tendered their votes. In the country it is supposed the influence of Ministers will prove still more decisive. To render the election quite fair, the Ministers ought to have granted the freedom of the Press— so much extolled in their journals beforehand. In the mean time a sufficient number of opposition electors has been re turned to admit of very interesting truths being boldly as serted; amongst these is Francisco Antonio Campos, the Pre sident of the Camara, and formerly a Deputy, who made him self already conspicuous by his opposition bias, and Ottolim, a great friend of Viscount Santarem, Don Miguel's Minister. At Oporto the parochial elections are said to have been very stormy, and when Baron Rendorff wanted to address the au dience according to custom at the opera ; he was, I am in formed, repulsed with cries of " Fora, fora" (" Out, out with him.") In the interior many outrages, many assassinations continue to be committed. Near Elvas a traitorous conspiracy was dis covered, the members of which met at night for hostile pur poses, and between Assaceira and Atalia, Father Braga, a fanatic Franciscan monk, has been murdered by the country people, who overpowered the escort conducting this holy guerilla Chief from the prison of Thomar to Lisbon, because, during Don Miguel's time, he had occasioned numerous cruel ties against the Liberals, and wore the Royal effigy on his dress. Accounts of other assassinations arrive daily from the Interior, yet none of the perpetrators of such atrocities have been tried and punished hitherto. Last Saturday night an English soldier in the Queen's service was stabbed on Caes Sodre, and a Miguelite, wearing the cap of the Usurper's uni form, was killed in Loretto—one of the most populous streets of Lisbon, by the guard running his bayonet through him, for refusing to give a proper account of himself. The joy the foreign and native merchants experienced at the introduction of the free-port system, the equalization of duty decree, putting other States on the same footing with the most favoured nations, the British and Brazilian, has been r of short duration ; for in the official Government Gazette of the 16th inst. a decree appeared, not to extend, but to narrow, explain, and modify the free-port system in such a way as to annihilate it almost by a variety of forms, restrictions, and penalties, long before the expected beneficial results came into operation. Four months have now elapsed since it was issued, and not one additional foreign establishment has been formed since on the strength of it. No new warehouses have been erected or even begun (for in this country architects do not build so ra pidly as in England), no cargo of foreign produce has been imported for deposit or re-exportation, and no symptom of fresh animation has been visible on the Exchange or on the quays of the Tagus ; nay, the northern, French, and American merchants complain now more than before of the exactions of the Custom-house, whither they in vain go with the decree in their hands, which reduces the import duties to 15 per cent., but are, in the teeth of it, compelled to pay 40 per cent. in stead of 15. A'.miral Napier is returning to Lisbon. Commodore Rogers received letters from him this day, announcing that as soon as the British Government had repaired the Braganza frigate at its own expense as it purposed doing out of regard for Portugal, he should sail for Lisbon, instead of refitting at Brest. . _ _ _ — Cnionel Pizarro, formerly the right hand man of Marshal Saldanha, was dismissed by him shortly after assuming the command of the Imperial staff, went to England and penned some attacks against this Government, which, on his return, caused his arrest. General Bacon's sentence remains unconfirmed. The time for the meeting of the Chamber approaches, to which all look forward with anxious expectation. The electors for the provinces are chosen, and the election of Deputies is in rapid preparation. The country appears everywhere tranquil, excepting in some parts of Alemtejo, which is still infested with guerillas and other robbers; a chief of this description is said to have still under his command a body of 3,000 men, against whom a competent force has been sent under the com mand of General Schwalbach ; and it is not expected that any quarter will be shown them. They have refused, it is said, to lay down their arms and accept the amnesty offered under the plea that some of their party, who had been brought pri soners to Lisbon, had been killed by the people, that no re liance was to be placed on the Government, and it would be better, therfore, to die sword in hand. It is true that a few unfortunate wretches, known for their crimes, have thus fallen victims to popular revenge. But how many thousands of the same party now reside unmolested in Lisbon and elsewhere in the country under the protection of the Government ? The latest act of popular vengeance we have to relate is that in flicted upon a well-known violent Miguelite, commonly called Padre Braga, a Franciscan friar, who having been arrested on a charge of crime, was on his way from the prison of Thomar to Lisbon, escorted by a guard who had with great difficulty saved his life at the latter place. 'On the road, however, they were met by a large body of armed men, who, ordering the guard to move off, fired a volley upon their victim and killed him in an instant. We hope this will be the last sanguinary act of the kind we shall have to record. LISBON, JULY 24.—The Portuguese Government having chartered the British schooner Itiazeppdio carry dispatches to London, I avail mys , M of this oppOrtunity to inform you that the arrival of the Pike on the 22nd i nstant, w i t h pos i t i ve intel ligence of Don Carlos's return to Spain, via Bayonne, has ex cited great sensation here, and revived the hopes of the Ab solutists to - see Don Miguel one fine morning land again in the Algarves. I happened to be on board the Hastings flag-ship when the Pike was reported, and found Rear-Admiral Sir William Gage sadly annoyed at his despatches .having been landed, and left at Oporto by mistake, which is the more to be deplored at this interesting crisis, as they are, probably, of a very impor tant and urgent nature, and may contain instructions for his detaching part of his force to the north coast of Spain, to Watch the Pretender. The Pike had scarce anchored, when the Admiral fired a gun, and made a signal for a pilot. He ordered Lieutenant Brookin immediately to get under weigh again, and to proceed to Oporto to fetch the miscarried, or misdirected; despatches in question, whi'Ch was done accord ingly, instanter ; but a sort of fatality seems to hang over this untoward affair, so unfortunately marring the plans of the quadruple alli,tnce, for the same stiff northerly breeze which wafted the Pike in four days from Falmouth to Lisbon inclu ding stoppages at Vigo and Oporto, will now impede her re tracing her way to the Douro, and retard her return with the de spatches in question, and consequently the execution of the ope rations directed therein. Pour comble de malheur, his Majesty's steamer Confiance, which is to take Saturday's mail to Eng land, had no coals on board, and this circumstance compelled the employment of a sailing vessel, to retrieve the error pre viously committed. The Confiance has since completed her coals, and accompanies the Royal Tar, to morrow, to' Oporto, whither the latter carries the Royal Family • she returns them to the Tagus, and will probably not be able to take the mail before Monday. . _ Before we learned the arrival of Don Carlos in Bayonne, and his re-entering Spain,. from the co rres p on d ence o f the Morning Herald, this Govttiament had already ordered Ge neral Schwalbach's brigade (which is stationed in the Alem tejo) to be in readiness to march into Spain, and co-operate with Rodil's corps against the Carlist rebels; tut it will now have to cross the whole of Spain before it can intercept the line of Don Carlos's army of operations upon Madrid, if such a one exists, which, it is hoped, will have the same ill-success as Miguel's army of operations upon Lisbon had at Almoster, Assaceira, &c. The Stag frigate, and Nimrod sloop-of-war, returned on Sunday last, from Genoa, and were put under quarantine for a day or two. They brought a great number of letters from the Usurper's followers, to their friends here ; rather an em barrassing circumstance, as the delivery at the Portuguese Post-office would probably compromise the parties they are directed to with the Queen's Government ; and whilst the honour of the British flag is pledged to the writers for their being safely delivered, this Government may protest against that flag being made the medium of conveyance, as the Mi guelite Governor of Madeira did last Spring. Salutes were fired this morning at daylight, in honour of the anniversary of the Duke of Terceira's entrance into Lis bon, and troops have been detached to Santarem, to repress the outrages of some.gueriPa remnants. My Oporto letters represent the parochial elections in that city to have proved unfavourable to the Carvalho Ministry, the Prefect being very unpopular, but in the Province of Min ho, the men at present in power have a decided majority. A. M. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 6. This morning, at an early hour, the Lutworth yacht, under the charge of Captain Mingaye of the Navy, came into this harbour, but whether she came from the westward or the east ward no one"can tell ; she went away again, however, in about three hours, having obtained supplies ; and it is known that the Queen of Spain has received letter to-day from Don Carlos, but how these letters travelled no one knows ; they may, and indeed it is most likely, have come by the Lutworth ; at all events the Queen is in high spirits. Admiral Sir Thomas Williams yesterday rehoisted his flag, having been for the last month visiting his station, the result of which is that he has brought over four Norman cows from Alderney, for the benefit of his farm at Esher, in Surrey. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK AUGUST MEETING. York, Tuesday Night. The following is an account of the sport this afternoon : Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for 4-yrs.-old. Four miles. 4 subs. Mr: Houldsworth's Fidelity The Great Yorkshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., for 3-. yrs.-old colts, Bst. 51b., and fillies, Bst. 31b. One mile and three-quarters. 5 subs. Lord Sligo's b. c. Spume .................................... 1 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Muley—Bequest 2 _ Mr. Marson's b. f. Miss Potter . 3 7 to 4on Bequest, who took the lead and made good running, Spume lying second till about the T. Y. C. starting post, where he wenll• up and challenged; at the distance Lye was at work with 13equest, who was evidently at the mercy of his opponent all the way home. Just on the post SpUrne left him, and won by three quarters of a length. Miss Potter was beaten a long way. Conolly rode the winner. His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs., 3 yrs. 7st. 91b. ; 4 yrs., Bst. 12lb: ; 5 yrs., 9st. 41b. ; 6 yrs., 9st. 71b. ; and aged, 9st. 91b. Two miles. Mr. Skipsey's b. h. Physician, 5 yrs Mr. Walker s Consol, 6 yrs ..................... 7t04 on Physician. Consol made strong play to the Grand Stand, where Physician went by -him, and won cleverly by half a length. Bran arrived this morning, and will certainly start for the 30 sovs. Stakes on Friday. BRIGHTON RACES, August 6. The Brighton Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5, &c., and 100 soya. added. Two miles. Mr. Alderson's Robin Roughhead, 4 yrs., Bst...Norman I Mr. Rush's Roadster, 6 yra., Bst. 81b 2 Mr. Cosby's Patapan, Bro. to Kate, 3 yrs., 7-st. 21b. 3 Mr. Theobald's ch. c Colossus, 3 yrs., 6st. 61b. Mr. Farrell's Kate, 5 yrs., Bst. I Ilb 5 _ _ Betting-5 to 4on Robin, 3to 1 agst Colossus, sto 1 agst Kate. The,Town Plate of 501. (two miles) was won in three heats and a walk over, by Lord Jersey's Datura, 5 yrs. (Robinson), beating Mr. Forth's Gratis, 4 yrs., Mr. Coleman's Dr. Sewell, 6 yrs., Mr. Gardner's Omen, aged, and Mr. Beckett's c. by St. Patrick. The second was a dead heat between Gratis and Datura. The Sussex Plate of 501. was won in three heats by Patapan (Natt), beating Denbies, Messenger, and Raven. The first a dead heat between Patapan and Messenger. WORCESTER RACES, August 5. The Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., and only 5 if declared, &c., with 20 added. Two miles. 15 subs., 7 declared. Mr. B. King's Lucy 1 Mr. Etwall's Malibran 2 Mr. Moss's Eagle The following not placed : —Mr. Williams's Claret, Mr. Holland named b. c. by Peter Lely, and Mr. Collett's St. Hilary. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each and 20 added. Two miles. 5 subs. Mr. Cookes's Tarantella Lord Foley named Penance 2 Mr. E. Peel's Rutland 3 The City Member's Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. Wyatt's Manchester 1 Mr. E. Griffiths's Rambler 2 2 Captain Phillips's Champignon 3 dr The Half-bred Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 10 added (6 subs. ), were won by ro. g. by Cydnus, beating Eau de Vie and Cannon Ball. AUGUST 6.—The Severn Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. 12 subs. Mr. Bristow's Donald Mr. B. King's Tamworth 2 Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, for 2-yrs.-old. 7 subs. T.Y.C. Mr. Smith's Fidelio Mr. Bristow's Trim 2 The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each (12 subs.) was walked over for by Mr. J. Day's Diana. BEDFORD RACES, AUGUST 6. The Woburn Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Heats, two miles. 10 subs. Lord Berner's ch. m. by Oscar Mr. Phillimore's Titian. s 0 2 dr Mr. G. Edwards's Dirce The Duke of Bedford's Plate of 50/. Two miles. Mr. King's Airy . Mr. Phillimore's Puzzle 2 His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Three miles. Mr. G. Edwards's Dirce 1 Mr. Sowerby's Catalonian Lord Berners's c.—Tippitywitchet - 3 Lord Exeter's Bodice 4 The County Plate of 701. was won in three heats by Airy, beating Ketchup and Titian. PLYMOUTH RACES. The Plymouth, Devonport, and Cornwall Races will take place on Chelsea Meadows on the grounds of Earl Morley, at Saltram, about a mile from Plymouth. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the 12th, 13th, and 14th instant are the days fixed. For the Sal tram Stakes 25 sovs. 15 ft., nine horses are named, and four, if not five, are expected to start. On the same day, Tuesday, will be run for the Plymouth Plate of 100 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. The Three-year-old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and the United Service Plate of 50 sovs., free for all horses. On the second day (Wednesday) the Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. eaci. the winner to be sold f or 150 gu i n eas, if demanded. His Majesty's Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, the best of three three mile heats. The Lord High Stewards Plate of 50 sovs., given by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and a produce sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, with 15 forfeit. On Thursday the Devonport and Stonehouse Plate of 100 sovs. The Half-bred Stakes of 5 sovs each,- with 25 sovs. added by the mem bers for the northern division of the county, gentlemen riders ; and the Beaten Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added from the fund, for horses that have started and not won during the races. In addition to the balls and ordinaries the theatre will be open with a choice company of Sandford's selection, and a regatta - is getting up to come off in the harbour at Devonport a few days after the races. Young Kean has been playing here to crowded houses ; on Monday the house was filled to repletion to witness his Richard, which was enacted in good style and rewarded by abundant plaudits. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW. (From the London Gazette.) M ii. J. P 1 mpton, merchant, Finsbury-square i at 12 J. Newbety, scrivener, Reading, Bet shire It. Bennet, draper, Worcester 2 12 J H. Bieletield, toyman, St. Martin's-lane - 2 11 G. C Davy, linen-draper, New Church.street, Lisson-grove 2 11 C. F. EL-tenon, wax-bleacher, Fulham 1 2 11 W. and F. Fincher, paper mantuacturers, Cowbridge, Devon -2 11 W. Aldridge, chinaman, alaidenheati 1 12 T. Cocking, chemist, Great Portlaud-street, Marylebone 1 11 J. N. Allen, tailor, Lamb's Conduit -street 1 1 BENJAMIN CONSTANT'S CAT.—Constant had a cat which was so great a pet that she attended him in the morning before he got up, followed him into his study after breakfast, and played and reposed when and where she liked. One day, when he was expected to make an important speech in the Chamber of Deputies, his friends, finding that he was absent after his time from the arena, came to seek him at his house, and going into his study saw him quietly reading some book.which had evidently nothing to do with the matter in hand ; and when they told him that every body was waiting, and that they came for him, " What can I do ?" he asked, "look there ! there is my cat sleeping in the sun on the papers I have prepared for my speech, and till she awakens, how can I drag her off them ?" BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, AUG. 4.—Their Majesties set out for Flanders' this morning. They will reach Ghent to-day, and remain there till Wednesday morning. During the stay of the Qom'em at Ostend the King will make an excursion to Courtrar-, His Majesty's s t a y a t O s t en d w ill depend on the weather : r it be fine, he will stop ten days. • The Ministry is defi n iti ve ly constituted in the followi n g : manner :--M. de Theux for the Interior; M. Ernest, Justice,. M. de Muelmaere, Foreign Affairs. The new Ministers took the oath to our King yesterday. M. Go.idebein has entirelY recovered from the effects of his late accident. M. Charles de Brouckere and General Gerard having recovered from their indisposition, will shortly appear to give their evidence nu the trial of the persons accused on account of the excesses in- April. A very important witness has just been summoned to giv e evidende on this subject, which begins again to-day. It is M- Bosquet, the Attorney-General, author of the circular issuect before the time of the pillage, and by which the military offi. cers were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to aerr in case of disturbances, without the order of the civil authority- BRUSSELS, MAY s.—The Moniteur of this morning officialrf announces the nomination of the new Ministers, Count FellX• de Merode, Minister of State (who held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs ad interim) remains Member of the Council' . The Chamber met yesterday, but it was with great difficulty that a sufficient number of Members could be brought toge ther. M. de Brouckere observed that, for some time past, it had hardly been possible to collect 53 or 54 mernbers.—; that two of those who had signed the paper at present, bad already set out for their provinces, and others would go th e ~ next day. He proposed that the bureau should cause the members still at Brussels to be requested to come to the sit ting, if it were but one moment, in order that the Chamber might come to some decision. /It length 52 members we° assembled, the sitting was opened, the law for increasing the number of judges in the tribunals of Brussels and Gh ent ., was read and passed, after which the Cham. l .wr adjourned, and • will not meet again till next session, unless .tn case of neces sity, in which the members will be summoned Jay notices at their own homes. BELGIAN. FUNDS.—BitussEcs, AUG. 5. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Rotligehild's Loan, 5 per Cent 97 Loan of the City, 18:32, 4 per Cent 26% —Brussels Papers, Aug. 6. GERMAN PAPERS, JAFFA, IN SYRIA, JUNE 10.—An insurrection has brace out among the inhabitants of Lebanon, who have joined th e Turks against the Egyptians. It seems that the in surgents have surprised the Egyptian troops, and seiz e the provisions intended for them, that they had be d ' sides advanced in arms as far as to Jerusalem, an I were afterwards repulsed by the Egyptians from the citatle with loss on both sides. Ibrahim was goingto march ageiP st the insurgents with 7,000 men divided into too corps. Mean time, the part of the population who are not Mahometans, in great alarm, as they are in danger of being exposed to the attacks of both parties. —(ltalian Paper.)—AllgemeineZeitu n g , Aug. 1. FLORENCE, JULY 12.—1 n the treaty of commerce betwee: our Government and the Porte, which has lately been public, it is stipulated that the subjects of the two -States Ai' not in any Case whatever be made slaves. The Lucca Journal says that the Pope has commission ' e ; (1 Cardinal Gamberini to collect the various decrees, bulls, an regulations by which the Papal States are governed, to e 5 8,7 • mine them carefully, and to complete out of them a ty 4 :/ rt ' which shall be the civil and criminal code of the Romans. , FRANKFORT, AUG. I.—News has been received from Res s '' that the town of Tula, capital of the Government of that nam e, one of the most flourishing towns in the empire, with a pope" lation of between 20 and 30,000 inhabitants, has been de- stroycd by fire, excepting the imperial manufactory of arms. • The Journal of Spires says that hitherto the examination of the French Journals previous to delivery has led to the withholding of none of them except the Temps, which it° happened twice.—Frankfort Papers, Aug. 1. DUBLIN, AUGUST 4. r : A trial deeply involving the property and character of Mr' Dawson, brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel, has taken Right at the Assizes for Londonderry, and the friends of the 'P a Hon. Gentleman will be glad to learn that the result has s ave _ the one, and completely vindicated the other. It appears fr °l `!. the proceedings that he was sued for penalties to the enormoil, amount of 110,0001., upon various alleged charges of briber); at the election in which he offered himself as a candidate f° the county of Londonderry, immediately after the passiug the Reform Bill. The plaintiff in the cause was a comp -2°f, labourer, named Miller, and it was elicited in evidence ths" he was put forward as the mere instrument of a party, at vrh° after having formerly supported Mr. Dawson with the gre s, t . zeal, now turned round upon him in the most vindictive eP ir !, of hostility. The declaration contained no less than 21* counts, comprising 22 distinct and specific charges; but be fore the evidence for the plaintiff was gone through, th e r . dwindled down to six, and not one of them could be sustaine. After a lucid and impartial ch arge from Chief-Jus tice Doherty, the Jury retired, and returning in the course of a few minutes, they found a verdict for the defendant, with 6 d• casts ' to the great satisfaction of a crowded court. The public will recollect the legal proceedings that took place some time since, in the case of Miss O'Doherty, of Gal way, who, after having been seduced and cruelly abandoned by a young British officer, named Barrow, ultimately e' away and fell a victim to the consciousness of her shame. H father, a most respectable man, brought an action for secla e ; tion against him at the present Assizes, and'on Thursday la y recovered damages to the amount of 3001., with 6d. costs--; a poor reparation for the dreadful injury inffictee upon biro A t 4. a parent, but some satisfaction to the feelings of an indigna° Yesterday a Court of Directors was held * at t he East India House, when the Right Hen. Robert Grant t oo. the usual oath on being appointed Governor of BornhaY: Mr. Grant afterwards dined with the gentlemen in the d iree tion at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. On Wednesday Admiral Napier and M. Meoaiza; bal went from Falmouth as passenger s i n th e Af r i can steam e / for Lisbon ; they took with them a considerable amount specie. • MR. SALT'S MEMOIRS.—The chief interest of this new work arises from Mr. Salt's mis s i on t o Ab yss i n ia, and his subsequent long residence in E g ypt, as C onsu l-G e nera.; When we examine his conduct (he was on l y 25 years o f age , during his mission to the Ras of Abyssinia at Antalo, his Pre sence of mind on several important occasions, his industry jil t collecting specimens of natural history, &c., we certainly I ° s allow that few men could have acquitted themselves more er e ' • ditably. This is, in our opinion, one of the most interesting; as well as important, biographies published during the pre season. nE' FUNERAL OF EARL BATHURST AND - INTERMENT OF HIS LORDSHIP'S LATE SON, THE HON. C 0 1 • SEYMOUR BATHURST.—The funeral of the late Earl Bathe r took place on Tuesday morning at Cirencester, which t°l s the remains of his Lordship reached on Saturday evening: from London in a hearse drawn by six horses, and under ,t l O management of Mr. Woelfit, of Fleet-street, undertaker to tn family. The solemn ceremony was rendered more affecth' and impressive, th roug h fh e c i rcums t ance o f th e rem ains c' r his Lordship's late son the Hon. Colonel Seyrne ll • Bathurst, who died in London about April or May last, has' ing been dsinterred on the occasion of his Lordship's deatb' from the vault in w hi c h th e y were d epos i te d i n t h e new cenie; tery of the Harrow-road, and now borne to be interred in t il family vault in company w ith th ose o f hi s h onoure d an d neue l, „, lamented parent. The utm o st res p ec t was p a id to t h e m oor/ of his Lordship by the inhabitants of Cirencester. The re mains of the Noble Earl, and those of his son, lay in state e ll , Monday in the hall of the family mansion, and were s een 1)7 many thousand persons, some of whom had travelled con sider' able distances to witness the imposing ceremony . The lo l ly of the hall, in the centre of which the coffins lay, were deeP hung with black, on which the arms, and various orders c d. ) which the Noble Earl was a member, were richly p a int At six o'clock on Tuesday morning the death bell of the Al w„ . ' • Church began to toll, and towards nine o'clock, th e hour 8 11. pointed for the funeral, a large body of gentlemen, toget her • with numbers of his Lordship's tenantry, all in deep mourn t he and amounting to nearly 300, assembled on th e l aw n a 1 t t , m ansion, for the purpose of payi ng a l as t tr ib ute o f res pect 0 his Lordship' is memory, in f o ll ow i ng hi s rema i ns to t h e tomb the character of mourners. All th e arrangements being Nl ': the funeral pracessi on p rocee d e d towards the Abbey Clinred The corpse of the Hon. Seymour Bathurst preceded that „-• the Noble Earl. The pall bearers were Lord Thynne, Lawrence, Mr. Cripps, M.P., Mr. Edwards Cripps,' Crovine, and M r . W arner. Th e c hi ef mourners were b ig Lordship's th ree sons — name l y , E ar l B at h urst _ ( l ate T„',%, Apsley), the Hon. William Bathur s t, and the Hon. and I ` . . e , Charles Bathurst. On arrival in the church the solemn r'' t ee , were performed, and the coffins were lowered to their last re, s .re ing pla ce i n th e f am ily vau lt. Hi s L or d s hip' s rema ins deposited in an elm coffin, placed within one of lead, wlir e d was encased in a splendidly-wrought oaken one, richly coved,with black velvet, and most tastefully ornamented. His L °r t ' ship died in his 72d year. The Hon. Col. Seymour Bath` - e t died in his 39th year. Earl Bathurst, soon after the interlece of his noble parent and brother, entered his travelling earr ia° and returned to London. ,- CORONER'S INQUEST.—An Inquest was hula 0 $ tier , child at the Old Justice, Bermondsey, on the body ter , child which was .drowned in a butter-firkin containing vi! in- The mother went out to a neighbour's house, leaving h e ' e ct fant asleep on the bed in her chamber. The mother retur the in about ten minutes, and was surprised at not seeing: 4 ,6 child where she left it ; but, upon examination, she disee fe il that it had rolled off the bed into a buttar firkin about halfe of water which stood at the foot of the bedstead. She il pe nt diately took the child out, and, according to her own stater t i r o before the Jury, " smacked its bottom," thinking at the hod, that it had gone into the firkin of its own accord. The child, however, not having made any noise when the punishinel s ho d inflicted caused the mother to look attentively at it, vib e ., Isi discovered that it was dead to all appearance. She thZ et or, it on the bed, tied up its under jaw, and ran off for a til lat its who, on his arrival, pronounced that it was dead, and t wa ter. death was produced in consequence of immersion in th e .,d was The Jury, in pronouncing their verdict, " That the so ne found drowned by its mother in the butter firkin," at W b ibited time observed that the mother of the deceased bad C. water very great incaution in having a large vessel contain in g so near the bedstead where she left her offspring on home herself, tenk 3 n Per Per "e v 3 °Hi e r, l eStecj n° w ~