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shall be yielded and given up within seven months from the exchange of the ratifications
of this treaty, or sooner, if possible, by the most Christian King, to those who have a
commission from the Queen of Great Britain for that purpose. Nor shall the most
Christian King, his heirs, and successors, or any of their subjects, at any time hereafter
lay claim to any right to the said island and islands, or to any part of it or them. More-
over, it shall not be lawful for the subjects of France to fortify any place in the said
Island of Newfoundland, or to erect any buildings there, besides stages made of boards,
and huts necessary and usual for drying of fish; or to resort to the said island beyond the
time necessary for fishing and drying of fish. But it shall be allowed to the subjects of
Prince to catch fish, and to dry them on land, in that part only, and in no other besides
that of the said Island of Newfoundland, which stretches from the place called Cape
Bonavista to the northern point of the said island, and from thence, running down by tho
western side, reaches as far as the place called Point Niche. But the island called Cape
Breton, as also all others, both in the mouth of the River of St. Lawrence and in the
Gulf of the same name, shall hereafter belong of right to the French; and the most.
Christian King shall have all manner of liberty to fortify any place or places there.
Between the deliberate falsification and the actual document the dis-
crepancy is patent. The text is corrupted to vitiate and to impair the
and, shaped in the guise of a running commentary, the
matter is put forth in solemn faith as a truth and a reality.

The Irish Chief Secretaryship, vacated by Mr. HORSMAN, has 4
caused Ministers considerable embarrassment. Amongst the English
Members of Parliament who (it is said) solicited the office, is that
sage senator Sir ROBERT PEEL ! His father was once Chief Secretary,
and why should not the present Member for Tarnworth obtain the
post? But the Cabinet did not respond to his ambitious pretensions,
and Sir ROBERT PEEL resigned his Lordship of the Admiralty. Such,
and not the contemplated arrival of the Grand Duke, was the real
cause of his withdrawal from office. It is a singular, we might say an
unprecedented :.drcuinstance, that an office of such a character and of
so peculiar and urgent importance as that of the Chief Secretary to
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, should be allowed to remain vacant, now
for the space of nearly a mouth. The difficulty in filling it is not from the
paucity, but from the number of aspirants ; and it illustrates
admirably the character and nature of Lord PALMERSTON'S Admini3tra-
ticu. As we have had occasion frequently to remark, the
Government of Lord PALMERSTON is of ono shade in Great
Britain, and of another shade in Ireland. It is blue in Eng-
land—it professes to be—and is green in Ireland. Is the
new Secretary to be green or blue? that is the first difficulty. We
venture to state confidently that if it were not for considerations of
this kind, the office would have been filled up long ago. And the
names that have been mentioned among the aspirants are a sufficient
proof of the justice of our remark. Mr. JOHN BALL—the rejected of
Carlow borough, the rejected of Carlow county, the rejected of Sligo
borough. the rejected of Sligo county ! Mr. BALL abandoned a subor-
dinate office under the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland for a Par-
liamentary career. He entered the House of Commons with no ordi-
nary expectations on his own part; he assumed immediately the
position of a leader. There was a competition between Mr. REYNOLDS
and himself, each aiming at leadership, and each at the same time
keeping a side eye towards the Treasury bench. Poor JOHN REYNOLDS
lost his seat and his hopes. Mr. BALL succeeded beyond his expecta-
tions—acquired the right of sitting on the Treasury bench, became a
Minister, raised the green banner for Irish expectants as regards the
good things in the colonies ; and yet his own countrymen have now
excluded him from the House of Commons. We have no desire to
disparage Mr. Ilacr.. We believe he has been an assiduous, and not
an inefficient official ; but we want to know what pretensions had he
to office originally, except his being a Roman Catholic ? Could he
have been Under-Secretary for the Colonies if he had not been a
Roman Catholic. and would he have been suggested for the office of
Chief Secretary if he were not a Roman Catholic ? Well, then, we have
on the other side Mr. HERBERT. a respectable country gentleman of
moderate opinions, considerable Parliamentary experience, and compe-
tent fairly for the office. But lie is a Protestant ! The same objection
holds to Lord Moses:. supposing he were able to obtain a seat. We wonder
Mr. FORTESCUE has not been selected, because his disqualification as a
Protestant is somewhat neutralised by his enmity to the Established
Church and to scriptural toleration. There is one man whose appoint.
ment, we believe, would be generally acceptable ; and that man is Sir
\V. SOMERVILLE This gentleman, we happen to know, though never
dune justice to by his superiors, or allowed to take his proper position
when Secretary for Ireland, was appreciated by Irish Members gene-
rally. But Sir W. SOMERVILLE is a follower of Lord JOHN RUSSELL !
In their distress they have even thought of BERNAL OSBORNE. BERNAL
OSBORNE ! They have succeeded in muzzling him at the Admiralty
We should like to see Beasar. OSBORNE rattling away as the Chief
Secretary. Even Mr. BUTT has been suggested. While writing these
lines, we have been informed that, iu order to prevent further embar-
rassments, Mr. HORsMAN has been requested to withdraw his resigna-
tion. Mr. FITZROY was one of the latest candidates started for the
post.

Mr. JOHN CONNELLAN DEANE, the General Commissioner of the
Manchester Exhibition, has had his services specially alluded to in
one of the addresses presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Mr. DEANE is a gentleman with many remarkable qualities. He is a
native of Cork, and is son of Sir THOMAS DEANE, an eminent Irish
architect. In early life Mr. DEANE travelled in America, and was
subsequently called to the Irish Bar. He was for some years an
Assistant Irish Poor-law Commissioner, and he discharged other im-
portant duties under the cognisance of Government. Ho was actively
engaged in the Cork and Dublin Exhibitions, which succeeded the