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in China. Bear in mind that great empires are looking at
us, and scanning what we are about to do- We are not now
engaged in a war with ltnasia. That was a fair stand-up
fight, where you had enemies that proved your courage ; but
now we are at war with a feeble nation, a most remarkable
people—a people who though they have carried civilisation
to a great height have not attained the art of war. You all
know that this nation is at your feet. Will the people of
this country, then, with America, France, Germany, and
Austria looking at us, show a less sense of justice, a less
sense of responsibility and fear of bloodshed, than a ma-
jority of the House of Commons ? Because, let me tell you
that in proportion as we show ourselves acting unjustly
towards the weak, just in proportion will lie our
difficulties in dealing with the strong. (Cheers.)
I want the people of this country to hold a proud
attitude before all the world. I look upon the
honour of England as something not to be maintained by
blustering expeditions in the Persian Gulf or in the river
of Canton; but I look upon the honour of England as
being maintained by ever holding a course or justice,
whether in dealing with the mighty or with the weak.
(Cheers.)

He did not regard the statements of the Times, or
the torrent of public opinion iu favour of Lard Pal•
merstou

I say this great torrent of which we read in the Time 4—
(groans and hisses)—is after all nothing but a storm in a
teapot, got up by clubs and coteries, who have excited
themselves, and think that all the world is in as great a
commotion as they are, when in truth all the world is won-
dering what this commotion is about. Of all the popular
delusions I ever knew, this stir is certainly the greatest.
If you hear anybady make remarks in support of this Pal-
merston fever, just ask them what they want. Arc they
satisfied with things as they are ? Do they want no change
for the better? If so, Lord Palmerston is precisely their
man. (Cheers and laughter.) lint if a man wants less
taxation, extension of the suffrage, abolition of church
rates, vote by ballot, or any reform in the Church or State,
then I think Lord Palmerston is not the man for him.
(Cheers.)

Mr. ROEBUCK added a few words justifying his
vote, and urging the people not to be led away with
the cry of " Palmerston for ever !" and " No reform !"
Resolutions condemning the Chinese and Persian
wars, and maintaining the justice of the recent vote
in the House of Commons, were then proposed and
carried amidst tremendous cheering.
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combination." We shall be ready to sup port him
in withstanding uncalled-for innovation—we shall be
equally ready to co-operate with him, cordially and
without rivalry or jealousy, in introducing into and
carrying through the Legislature those great social
improvements in the achievement of which there is
abundant room for the labours of Ministries and of
Parliaments. (Cheers.) My lords, in everything
which relates to the amendment and simplification
of the law—in everything which relates to the re•
vision of our penal system, to the better disposal of
our convicts, to a better provision for rescuing those
who are on the verge of crime, to a better provision
for assisting and stimulating the voluntary efforts of
the country in promoting religious and moral educa-
tion—in all which tends to the physical as well as
the social and moral purification of that vast mass
of contagion which is fermenting in our great towns
and cities and throughout the length and breadth of
the land—in all these the noble viscount may depend
upon it, if he will only enter upon so honourable a
course, that he has a bright career of usefulness
before him, in which he shall have no more cordial
or more earnest coadjutors than the much. abused
and vilified Conservative party. (Hear, hear.) But
if, yielding to external pressure and sacrificing his
own convictions, be gives way to the wild cry for rash
innovations and insidious encroachments upon the
Constitution, then, my lords, I trust he will find that
Conservative party still sufficiently numerous and
sufficiently powerful to stay him in his downward
course—to rescue him from himself and from his

supporters—to preclude him from inflicting serious
mischief upon his country, and from plunging it
into anarchy and confusion. (Cheers.)
My lords, I am satisfied that it is essential to the
best interests of the nation that the Conservative
party, whether in office or out of office, should be
numerous and powerful. I say, without the slightest
hesitation or concealment, I ardently wish—far more
than I either hope or expect—that all those who
were once banded together in support of the Conser-
vative opinions to which I adhere, would show them-
selves again united in the same firm phalanx.
(Hear, hear.) But, my lords, I say with as little
hesitation or disguise, that for such a union to take
place, or, indeed, any union worth the name, it must
be founded upon a concurrence of principle and a

concurrence of sentiment, and not founded on that
which I believe every honest man would repudiate—
namely, a base attempt to unite those who have no
ommunity of convictions for the purpose of over-
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gad anb fastion.

Her Majesty the Queen continues at Buckingham
Palace.
Her Majesty held a Court on Monday, and received
the Spanish Minister, M. Gon. Bravo, and the Earl
of Elgin.

The Countess of Derby had an assembly on Thurs-
day evening at the family mansion in St. James's.
square. The Corps Diplomatique were fully repre.
tented.

The Countess Chreptowitch is about to renew the
hospitalities of the Russian Legation, so long ren-

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dered famous by the lady of the late popular repre-
sentative of the Imperial Cuurt in this country—
Baron Brunnow. The saloons of Crush:int-house
will be re-opened for the first time on the 25th
instant, with a grand dinner and evening patty,
which will be repeated on the Ist of April.
London, England, 1857-03-21

increase the amount of the income tax for ordinary,
and not for extraordinary, revenue.
I regret deeply that which appears to be in prin-
ciple an invasion of the arrangements laid j down in
1853; but with this addition of 2,000,0001. the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer calculates that in the year
1857-58 he will have a surplus of 500,0001. That
calculation of surplus revenue proceeds on the
assumption that the expense of the war with Persia
will not exceed 250,0001., and also on the further
assumption that there will be no extraordinary de-
mand on the resources of the country in the present
year. Consequently, no provision is made for that
most calamitous—and, I am afraid, most expensive—
war in, which we are unhappily involved, by no
choice of oar own, with China. (Hear, hear.) But
upon the impossible assumption that the war with
China will coat nothing, and on the improbable as-
sumption that the war with Persia will cost no more
than 250,0001., the balance of revenue over expendi
tare in the present year will give, according to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, a surplus of 500,0001.
To make that surplus of 500,0001. you will receive in
the present year a half-year's amount of the 9d. war
income tax, amounting in round numbers to
4,500,0001. That source of revenue will fail you alto-
gether in 1858. Therefore you will have your
revenue in 1858, as compared with 1857, diminished
in the first place by 4,500,0001. of war income tax.
If the law stands without alteration that revenue will
farther be diminished by a fall on the sth of April
next year of income tax from 7d. to 5d., which would
make a further reduction of 2,000,000/., or, making
allowance for a half year of that 2d. to be collected,
it would make the reduction of 1,000,000/. There-
fore you would have in the revenue of 1858, as
compared with 1857, a deficiency of 5,500,0001. But,
in addition, there is a provision that in 1858 there
should commence a sinking fund to provide for the
debt raised by the present Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, which will swell your expenditure up in
1858 above 1857 to the amount of nearly 1,500,000/.
Therefore, there is a prospect that in 1858 there will
be a diminished revenue of 5,500,0001., and an in
creased expenditure of 1,500,000/., leaving a balance
to deficit of nearly 7,000,000/., against which you
have to set your surplus of the present year of
500,000/. So you stand at present. You find, by
the programme of the Government, that, with no
extraordinary expenses, and with a very Inadequate
provision for the war with Persia, and none for
that with China, you have a deficiency in 1858 of
0,500,0001.

I will not go so far forward as 1860, when you will
recollect that to carry out the plan of 1853 the whole
of the remaining income tax is to be sacrificed,
which will make a further reduction of 5,000,000/.,
London, England, 1857-03-21

SHEFFIELD-Mr, Overend, Q.C. (C), is aeandidate.

SHREWSBURY—Mr. lialdock, it is said, will retire. Col.
F. Hill (C) and Mr. Stanley (L) are candidates. Mr.
Huddlestone will also stand on Conservative interes►s.
SAINT IVES—Mr. Paull (C) will contest the election
with every prospect of success.
STAFFORDSHIRE ( SOUTH )—The Earl of Uxbridge and
the Hon. E. R. Littleton retire. The Hon. Mr. Wrottles•
ley (C ) and the Hon. Mr. Calthorpe (C) are talked of as
candidates. Mr.. W. Mathews (L) has consented to
stand

ST krFostr-Alderman P. Cotterall (L C), of Preston, has
issued an address Mr. Carnigie (C)it is said will carry
one seat.

&mow:l—Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., will be returned
probably without opposition.
SITNDERLAND-Mr. R. Hoare (L) and Mr. R. Walters
(L) are reported candidates
Sneezy (Wear)—Mr. H. Currie is a candidate vice, M r
Evelyn, who retires.
Swum( (EAST)—IIon. W. H. F. Cavendish and Mr. J.
G. Dodson oppose the sitting members
T.turrox—Sir J Ramsilett retires. Mr. Arthur Mills
(C) and Hon. W. F. Campbell (L) are candidates. Mr.
Labouchere's return is certain.

TAVISTOCK—Hon. George H. C. Byng (L), Robert J.
Piiillimore (L C), Sir John S. Trelawney, Bart, and Mr.
S. Carter barrister (L) are candidates
TEWKESBURY—Mr. H. Brown will be opposed. Mr.
Co: (CI and Mr. F. Lygon (C) are candidates
Torzes —Mr. Mackenzie, Indian merchant, of London
(L), and Mr. Gregory (C), also of London, are candidates
TRURO—Both members retire, and two Conservatives are
in the field, with every prospect of success
TYNENOUTH—Captain Linskill (C) w:11 content the
election with Mr. Lindsay
WAKEFIELD—Mr. Bandar' retires; Mr, Charlesworth (C)
will be returned,
London, England, 1857-03-21

PARLIAMENT will be dissolved to-day, and
before we can again address our readers the
elections will have commenced. We earnestly
entreat attention to a plain statement of the
issue to be determined. •

The vote on the China question is the pre-
text for the dissolution of Parliament, bit
nothing more. The real cause lies deeper.
The "appeal to the country" was decided on
before that vote was given. , A favourable op.
portunity only :was wanted for dismissing
a House of Commons which it was foreseen
would not submit to Lord PALMERSTON'S
Dictatorship for another session, and that
opportunity was conceived to present itself
when Mr. COBDEN'S motion was submitted to
the House.

As confident as was NAPOLEON on the eve of
his great defeat, the Premier chuckled with
glee to mark the gathering of his opponents.
Je les Liens clone" was his thought as he pre-
pared for the contest. He summoned a meet-
ing of his supporters that he might assert his
authority, and that he might separate his
servile adherents from the men who, on this
particular question, had the temerity to think
for themselves.

Mr. LINDSAY has stated some particulars of
what took place at that meeting. He earnestly
entreated Lord PALMERSTON to make some
concession—to say only that some inquiry
should be made before he formally approved
all the acts of Sir JOHN BOWRING. Lord
PALMERSTON replied that " he did not consider
" any inquiry necessary." He was resolved to
make the vote a test of confidence in himself,
or rather a test of the number of members
who would submit to his authority, and he
desired to drive . into opposition every man
who ventured to hold an independent opinion
that they might be chastised by the "penal
dissolution" he contemplated.
Had he announced before the vote that a
Plenipotentiary would be sent out to China, he
well knew, as STR JAMES GRAHAM, in his speech
at Carlisle, has expressly stated, that Mr.
COED' N'S motion would. have been withdrawn
or rejected ; but then his Ministry would still
have been liable to the control of the House of
Commons, and it was from this control that he
was most anxious to escape.
His views were shared by a large number
of the Official Liberals. They knew their
position to be insecure. They were living
from hand to mouth, not knowing what a (lay
might bring forth. They ,had faith in their
Leader's luck—they had confidence in Treasury
resources. What a glorieus thing would it be
to get a House of Commons troubled with no
scruples of principle; careless of questions of
finance, and elected for no other purpose than
to blindly support the connection to which
they belong !
London, England, 1857-03-21

CHINA.

Intelligence from Hong Kong to the 31st January
confirms the fact of the retirement of Admiral Sey-
mour from Canton and the Dutch Folly Fort to the
Macao Passage Fort. The burning of the suburbs
of Canton on the morning of the 12th January was
followed up the same day by the bombardment and
firing of that portion of the city within reach of the
guns of the Dutch Folly Fort. The fire when
lighted was "kept in trim" by red-hot shot and car-
cases from the ships at anchor in the river. Up to
the Vd January the fire raged within the town, and
some 7,000 houses wero reported to have been
destroyed.
The Chinese were fitting out a powerful squadron
of war junks, and contemplated an attack upon Hong
Kong. Admiral Seymour had anchored the fleet in
line down the river, so as to intercept and keep clear
the passage. Great anxiety existed at Hong Kong
and Singapore, and troops and gunboats were
eagerly looked for.

The Chinese baker, Allum, charged with poisoning
the bread at Hong Kong, had been captured, tried,
and, with three other men, shot by sentence of a
c )uncil of war.

There is no intelligence from India or liushire of
special importance. The troops at Bushire were
healthy, and had experienced no attacks from the
Persians.

A Dutch journal, the Nord Brabandcr, in a letter
from Batavia of the oth January, states that a
conflict has taken place between the English and
Japanese. Two English vessels of war are said to
have forced the entrance of the port of Nagasaki,
where they remained at anchor. Nothing is known
rif the causes which led to this conflict. One of them,

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a steamer, broke the chain across the entrance.
Although the town is well fortified on the side of the
sea, the Japanese authorities do not appear to have
resorted to force to repel the two English vessels.

FRANCE.

A modification of the French Cabinet is antici-
pated. M. de Persigny, it is rumoured, will be
recalled from London to occupy a high post about
the Emperor.
The Emperor has decided that the tax of the sth
June, 1850, upon shares, shall he raised from 5 to
15 centimes npon every 100. Nothing is changed in
the mode of collection. A new regulation will deter-
mine the mode of the application of the tax to
foreign shares negotiated in France.
The Second Division of the Ecole Polytechnique
has been disbanded on no political account, but for
a wilful breach of discipline.
The Neufchatel question, upon the whole, pro-
gresses. M. Water/ski gave separate audiences on
Tuesday to M. de Hatzfeldt and Dr. Kern, for the
settlement of certain preliminary points before the
meeting of the third conference. The Berlin Zeit
(13th instant) denies that Prussia has bound herself
by any previous engagements.
A conference in June upon the settlement of the
Principalities is rumoured in Paris.
London, England, 1857-03-21

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JUNE 6, 1857.

Vroct6ings zn Varlinintnt.

Both houses reassembled on Thursday after tho
Whitsuntide recess.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Turnsmr.
SALE OF POISONS BILL.
Lord GRANVILLE moved that the house go into
committee on the Sale of Poisons Bill, a measure
which contained some very useful provisions, though
it was not, perhaps, as perfect as it might be. The
noble earl, in detailing the provisions of the bill,
remarked that 16,000 persons were at present engaged
in the sale of poisons, and that 500 deaths annually
occurred from poisoning.
After a short discussion, in which Lords CAMPBELL,
HARDWICKE, and TALBOT DE MALAHIDE took part,
Lord REDESDALE proposed that the bill be referred
to a select committee, which was agreed to.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMGNIAL CAUSES BILL.
The report having been brought up,
Lord BROUGHAM expressed his objection to the
substitute proposed under the Bill for the Action
for Criminal Conversation ; and with regard to the
amendment, as it was called, which forbade the
marriage of the wife, lie declared that a greater
blot had never been attached to a useful measure
than by this amendment.
Lord REDESDALE defended the amendment, on
scriptural grounds—" Whosoever married a woman
that was divorced committed adultery."
Lord BROUGHAM said he was well aware that his
noble friend (Lord Redosdale) held that the passage
of Scripture he had quoted was absolutely pro-
hibitory; but his (Lord Brougham's) answer to that
was, that his noble friend had propounded that doc-
trine 150 years too late, for their lordships' house for
a century and a half had gone on missing divorce
bilk and allowing the guilty party to marry again.
The report was received.
THE OATHS BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL brought up the report of the
Select Committee on the Administration of Oaths to
Witnesses, and moved—
That select committees in future shall examine witnesses
without their having been previously sworn, except in
cases in which it may be otherwise ordered by the house.
And—
That all committees on private bills shall examine wit-
nesses on oath, except in cases in which it may be other-
wise ordered by the house.
The resolutions were then put and agreed to
nemine contradicente, and the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY.
THE OATHS DILL.

Sir F. THESIGER rose to state the course which he
proposed to pursue with regard to the Oaths Bill,
the second reading of which is fixed fur Monday
next, And to which he would offer no opposition :

What I propose to do. is to offer no opposition to the
second reading of the hill, but in committee 1 shall pro•
pose the insertion of certain words which will preserve
the Christian character of these oaths. In that manner
1 shall raise the simple question without the admixture
of any foreign matter, whether this house is prepared to
admit to the Legislature persons who do not profess the
Christian faith?
London, England, 1857-06-06

THE PRESS.

•
loretgn anb• 6olonid 3attiligente.
FRANCE.
The elections absorb the columns of the French
papers. The electoral colleges are convoked for the
21st of June, and the electors of every district are
bestirring themselves. The official lists of the Go-
vernment candidates are printed, and a circular from
the Minister of the Interior, addressed to the pre-
fects, has appeared in the Illoniteur. The Minister
recommends as candidates the members of the past
Legislative Corps, whose devotion and patriotism he
warmly commends; at the same time he directs that
the greatest freedom of choice and action be per-
mitted consistent with a due observance of the limits
established by law:— -
- -

If, however (adds the Minister), the enemies of the
public peace should think to find in this latitude an occa.
sion to make a seditious protest against our institutions,
if they should attempt to use the liberty granted as an
instrument of trouble or scandal, you know your duty,
M. le Prefet, and justice will also know how to fulfil its
duties with severity.

The Presse, upon this, remarks :
Is it absolutely necessary to belong to a hostile party in
order to vote against the official candidate ? Cannot, for
example, local objections and difficulties arise totally inde•
pendent of party split? This manner of constituting an
Opposition is not that of the English. In England the
Opposition, let it be Tory, Whig, or Radical, is called, and
calls itself, her Majesty's Opposition.

The other journals in general find little to object
to in the circular; while M. Granier de Cassagnac,
in the Constitutionnel, delivers a clever commentary
upon the text of M. Bitient, the gist of whose
address ho interprets as follows :
When France, loyally consulted, has three times, by a
majority amounting to unanimity, pronounced her u ill, no
group of opinions has a right to hold itself exonerated
from the obedience and respect due to that expressed will
4 the nation.

General Cavaignac has declined to be put in
nomination for Paris.

The Emperor will shortly leave Paris for Plom.
bieres, Stuttgard, awl Biarritz. It is rumoured
that in the course of the month at Kissengen his
Majesty will have an interview with the Emperor of
Russia.

Marshal Randon has been successful so far at all
points in his conquest of Kulllia. The tribes of
Beni-Ratten and Beni-Danclo have intimated their
readiness to submit to terms.

Count de Morny is expected to arrive at Paris from
St. Petersburg on the 25th inst. He will take up his
quarters at the ra4idenoe of the President of the
Legislative Body, where preparations are being made
to receive him.

M. de Germiny has been appointed, though not
yet officially, to the direction of the Bank of France.
The King of Bavaria will remain in Paris until the
12th June.
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POSTSCRIPT.

Intelligence has been received from Constantinople
to the 25th by the Alexandre. Naib Emin, who was
sowing dissension, and who had refused to lend
assistance to Sefer Paella, has been expelled from
Circassia.

Intelligence from Paris states that Marshal Vail.
lant, Minister of War, has received from Marshal
Bandon, Governor-General of Algeria, the following
telegraphic despatch :

Tizi Ouzou, 29th Mav, half•past six, evening.
The Beni-Fraoucens, lieni•Khelilis, and lieui•Chaibs
have made their submission. I was to have quitted to-
day my camp of El•Hadj-My for Souckel•Arba, but the
boisterous state of the weather detained me. Everything
is going on well.

A telegraphic despatch had announced that the
Grand Council of the Canton of Neufchatel was con-
voked for the :21st June to deliberate on an amnesty,
without mentioning to what category of prisoners
that measure of clemency was meant to apply. We
now know that it relates to such members of the
militia as did not join their regiments when called
on, in consequence of the events of September.
They would be pardoned as a matter of course when
the treaty comes into operation, but by means of
this extraordinary meeting of the Grand Council they
will be restored to liberty or to their country, accord-
ing as they are in confinement or fugitive, about a
fortnight sooner.
A Pans letter in the Nord of Brussels adds:—

Dr. Kern, on leaving Paris, carried with him some
information relative to the dispute which has existed since
1815 between France and Switzerland on the subject of
the valley of the Deppes, in the Jura. This valley,
which is kept by France, is claimed by Switzerland.
Fresh negotiations have been opened for concluding the
affair.
The Empress Dowager of Russia has arrived at
Berne.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
NEW BILLS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in a bill on the
subject of Roman Catholic Charities, which was
read a first time.

The Princess Royal Annuity Bill was brought up
from the Commons, and also read a first time.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT.
A petition presented and supported by the Earl of
ALBEMARLE, complaining of the perplexities and
grievances inflicted upon persons connected with
the mercantile marine, through the operation of the
Merchant Shipping Bill of 1851, produced a brief
discussion, in the course of which the statute in
question was explained and defended by Lord
STANLEY of ALDERLEY, President of the Board of
Trade.
London, England, 1857-06-06

THE PRESS.

To conclude. This writer is a man of vigour
and virulence, whose composition is forcible
though faulty. His volume is like a flashy
casket with some pearls and many pebbles.
He produces such a sensation as we might ex-
perience after a long lecture from Father
Gavazzi, if his Italian reverence had caught a
tremendous Irish brogue, and had reinforced
his nerves with a glass of genuine soaltheen of
the best sacerdotal manufacture. With all his
faults, we hope to meet with our author again
in literature; and we think perhaps that future
effusions from his pen might surpass his pre-
sent, too furibund performance.
London, England, 1857-06-06

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowle lge the mass of letters we recall e.
Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter,
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite iude-
.
pendent of the merits of the
We cannot undertake to return
not avail ourselves.
Communications should always be legibly written, and on one
aide of the paper only. If lung it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment iu town.

of which we do
London, England, 1857-06-06

RYE

BY GEORGE BORROW,
Author of the " Bible in Spain," " The Gypsies of Spain," &c.

" Various portions are known to be a faithful narrative of Mr. Morrow's career, while we ourselves can testify, as to man
other parts of his volumes, that nothing can excel the fidelity with which he has described both msn and things. Far from his
showing any tendency to exaggeration, such of his characters as we chance to have known, and they are not a few, are rather
within the truth than beyond it. However picturesquely they may be drawn, the lines are invariably those of nature."—
Quarterly Review.
JOHN MURBAY, Albemarle Street.
London, England, 1857-06-06

SECOND EDITION.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Lord Elgin, according to the latest intelligence,
was at Cairo, with the gentlemen attached to his
mission.

He was to embark at Suez as on June 5, and
proceed direct to Singapore.

Le Nord states that intelligence has been received
from Constantinople to the effect that after a meet-
ing of the representatives of those powers which
signed the Treaty of Paris, the Porte had decided
upon addressing to the Kaimakans of Moldavia and
Wallachia a strong recommendation to conform
themselves strictly to the text and spirit of the
imperial firman.
The representatives of France, Russia, Prussia,
and Sardinia at Constantinople are represented as
holding opinions diverse to those maintained by
England, Austria, and the Porte.

Intelligence from Brussels to the 4th June states
that the conduct of the mob at Jemappe and
Verviers was most violent. The monastic institu-
tions in each town were attacked and sacked, and
the whole of the property destroyed, the priests
barely escaping with their lives.
By the interference of the troops order was at
length restored.

The Moniteur states tint the treaty concluded
between France and Spaiu for settling the frontier
lines of the Pyrenees has been approved by_the
Senate.

The Archduke Maximilian embarked at Leghorn
on the 4th inst., on board the Austrian frigate
Elizabeth, for Lisbon and England.

Marshal Radetzky is not dead, though his situation
is precarious, symptoms of inflammation having ap-
peared.

The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at the Hague
on Wednesday evening.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Herries, colonel
of the 68th, and one of our oldest Peninsular heroes,
has died, after a long life of devotion to the service
of his country and his Sovereign. i

THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT LISMORE died on the
31st ult., at Shanally Castle, in the 83rd year of his
age. By his lordship's marriage with the Lady
Eleanor Butler, daughter of the Marquis of Ormonde,
he leaves two surviving children, the Lady Dunalley
and Hon. George Ponsonby, present viscount,
married to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr.
John George Norbury, and has two sons, Hon.
Gerald, born November 3, 1847, Hon. Wilfred
Ormonde, born November 14, 1853. Viscount
Lismore succeeded to the barony on the decease of
his father in 1797, acquired the viscounty by letters
patent in May, 1806, and was created a baron of the
empire in 1838. His lordship has ever been a most
consistent supporter of the Whig Government,
though from his age and increasing infirunties he
bas for many years booimottble to attepd rigiowtoat,
London, England, 1857-06-06

BELGIUM.

The kingdom of Belgium has been the scene of seri-
ous Anti-Jesuit disturbances during the past few days.
A warm debate in the Belgian Chambers last Wednes-
Jay week, resulting in two of the most obnoxious
clauses of the Bill for the Endowment of Religious
Institutions being carried, excited the mob of Brussels
to that degree, that the same evening vast crowds
paraded the streets singing the " Brabaneonae,"
shouting " A bas les convents," and breaking the
windows of the Jesuit college and Capuchin monas-
tery. At midnight the crowd dispersed. On Thurs-
day and Friday a similar scene was repeated, and
the manifestation became so serious that the bill
was adjourned on Friday. Meanwhile the Civic
Guard was called out, and the troops kept under
arms, while on Saturday the King issued a royal
decree proroguing the sittings of the Chamber of
Representatives and of the Senate, for an indefinite
period. This act at once checked the popular
demonstration, and before night the town had re-
sumed its peaceful appearance, and all disturbances
were at an end. Not so, however, in the provinces.
At Antwerp, Mons, Liege, Namur, Bruges, riots,
more or less, occurred; the Jesuit schools and
colleges, the houses of the obnoxious members, or
of the heads of the Church, being attacked and
gutted. At Bruges, M. Melon, the bishop, was
forced to take refuge in a convent, and leave his
palace to its fate. The hatred of the Ultramontane
party was very distinctly shown throughout the
country, but the intelligence of the abandonment of
the bill will, no doubt, restore the towns to their
usual tranquillity.
AUSTRIA.

The infant Archduchess Sophia died at Buda on
Friday week. The Emperor and Empress arrived
in time to spend with their child the last hours of
her life. The imperial tour through Hungary is
adjourned, and the Emper,r and Empress have
returned to Vienna.
London, England, 1857-06-06

THE ANGLO-INDIAN SCREW.

" Punts° on the screw " is a term familiar
enough to the Anglo-Indian, but not likely to
be comprehended without some explanation
by the inhabitants of these realms. At the
same time it is most desirable that they
should become acquainted with its meaning,
because without this knowledge no Indian
revenue question can be properly understood.
Putting on the screw, then, means in India a
resort by the authorities to those coercive
processes by which they are not ashamed to
see their coffers filled. The treatment to
which the ryot is subjected in Madras, as
disclosed in the Torture Report, created, and
not unnaturally, great indignation here ; in
India it was simply looked upon as a case of
putting on the screw. Then, again, there is
London, England, 1857-06-06

TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION.

The Probates and Letters of Administration Bill
was read a third time and passed, after some mis.
cellaneous comments upon the details of the measure
from Lord DONOUGIIMORE, Lord WYNFORD, and other
peers.

Their lordships adjourned at eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FumAr.
• EDUCATION.
On the motion that the house on rising should
adjourn until Monday,
Sir J. I'AmNuToN asked for a Government day for
the discussion of his proposed motion respecting
national education, assigning as reasons for his
request the great importance of the subject, and the
difficulty he had experienced in getting his notice so
placed on the paper of business as to insure fur it a
full and deliberate discussion.
Lord PALMEIISION) in replying Butlenueatky to th°
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ITALY.

The Pope continues his tour through his States,
and everywhere mcets with the warmest demonstra-
tions of respect.

SATURDA

The state of siege has been raised from Romagna,
Ancona, and part of the province of Pesaro.

The King of Sardinia arrived at Stresa on the
30th ult. on a visit to the King of Saxony.

RUSSIA.

The Emperor will leave St. Petersburg on the 13th
of June with the Empress, who is about to repair to
a German spring ; they will land at Liibeck, and
proceed in the first instance to Darmstadt, the Em-
press's native place; after a short stay there the
Emperor will take the Empress to Kissengen, where
she is to drink the waters, and, leaving her there,
will go to Wildbad, where the Empress-Mother will
by that time be. While on his visit to his mother at
Wildbad, the Emperor will repair to Stuttgard to see
his sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, married to the
Crown Prince of Wirtemberg, and while there it is
affirmed that he will have a meeting with the Empe-
ror Louis Napoleon, who will between the middle
and end of June be in the neighbourhood of Stutt.
gard. After waiting over the 13th of July, which is
the Dowager Empress's birthday, the Emperor and
his mother will come on to Potsdam, and stay for
some time with the Royal Family at Sans Souci. The
Emperor will be accompanied the whole time by
Prince Gortschakoff, the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
London, England, 1857-06-06

THE PRESS.

series of questions raised, as usual, upon the motion
for adjouiument, adverted to the request of Sir J.
Pakington. At present, he said, the state of public
business was too much in srrear to justify the sur-
render of a Government night, and he recommended
the right hon. baronet to try his fortune again on the
ballot tor precedence on some " motion night." If,
however, his future endeavours should be also un-
successful, and the Ministerial bills, estimates, &c.,
were well advanced, at some later period of the
session the noble viscount intimated the possibility
of finding an opportunity to discuss the important
subject he had taken in hand.

ELECTION PETITIONS.
Mr. ADDERLEY, with a reference to the hardship
of his own case, complained of the practice which
had become very common of presenting petitions
against the return of members, containing all kinds
of calumnious expressions, and then withdrawing
them before inquiry. He asked whether any steps
were to be taken to check proceedings so discredita-
ble and unjust.
Lord PALMERSTON admitted the hardship endured
by members exposed to such unfair attacks, but
remarked upon the propriety of exercising great cau•
tion in restricting the presentation of petitions chal-
lenging the validity of elections to Parliament. He
suggested also that some check already existed, since
the petitioners rendered themselves liable to the
expenses incurred by the member petitioned against
in preparing to defend his return.