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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 9.

A WEEK ago, we endeavoured to urge on the mem-
bers of the new House of Commons the absolute
necessity of keeping their peculiar crotchets from
interfering with necessary business during the present
extraordinary session. Sufficient indication having
been afforded by the notices of motion, that this
well-meant advice was by no means likely to be uni-
versally followed, Sir J. PAKINOTON attempted on
Friday to effect the same object by compulsory
means. We have no doubt that he was justified in
stating that nineteen members out of twenty approved
of his proposition in private; nor are we at all sur-
prised that it was, nevertheless, summarily rejected.
Private opinion and public opinion, that is to say, the
opinion which is expressed in public, are generally
somewhat at variance, and nowhere more than in
parliament. The private opinion of the house is all
in favour of common sense and of the despatch of
business : public opinion looks to constituents and to
the supposed theory of parliamentary privilgea. The
house in its public capacity would not even notice
the hint given by Lord Joss RUSSELL, that its
private wish and judgment expressed, by Sir J.
PAKINOTON, might be at least partially carried out
by giving precedence to orders of the day on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. It is some satisfaction to think that
the members who are so jealous of the constitutional
right of talking instead of acting, will be the first to
troffer under the impending influx of useless loquacity
and officious activity.
We took the liberty of warning the House of Com-
mons of the impending projects of Mr. URQUHART
and Mr. ANSTET fer occupying its time ; and it
must be acknowledged that our forebodings promise
to be fully realised. Each of them now threatens the
introduction of a question which, if entertained by
parliament, might well occupy its time till the next
summer recess. Mr. URQUHART gives notice of an
address calling on her Majesty to exercise the un-
doubted prerogative, which she undoubtedly does not
enjoy, of summoning an Irish parliament at Dublin :
sad Mr. ANSTET demands a sense of historical and
diplomatic documents which, as they range over some
thousands of years, would certainly not be capable of
compression within the limits of an ordinary library. I
To those who are aware of the peculiar political
positions occupied respectively by Mr. URQUHART
and Mr. ANSTEY, there IS something very whimsical
in the mode in which these two singular allies have
divided their labours. Mr. Cations= is the pro-
phet,, priest, and leader of the impeachment sect. For
years -before Mr. Alarm emerged from his native
Australian wilds, the ex-secretary of legation was
animating a band of faithful followers with his own
hatred, first of Lord P•Lemurrow, and incidentally
of all other statesmen, English and foreign ; for it is
a part of the creed, that all living politicians are con-
sciously or unconsciously the tools of the traitor of
Tiverton. As the doctrine developed itself, it natur-
ally included a love of impeachments on their own
account. The feet revere/10N BURKE for impeachui
ILui WARREN rmos, and it would have supported
Hstrritios if he had impeached Braes. With Mr.
URQUHART'S party it may be said that
. . .

Tressoi shiny, mope. re—what's the resew 1
Whatever prospers, straight they call It treason.

It might, therefore, have been expected that when
Mr. URQUHART obtained a seat in parliament, he
would himself have undertaken the public revelation
of the doctrines of which he has so long been the
exclusive raystagogne. Mr. AnnEr, on the other
hand, is a catholic an Irish member, a professed
repealer, and, indeed, an advocate of repeal in
general, la was shown by his readiness to adopt Mr.
CANNING'S proposition of restoring the Heptarchy.
Among the believers in impeachment, he can at most
be an Oman or an ALL; but the rank of the Mello-
n= of repeal is open since O'Commatt's death to any
one who an secure it. Professing, moreover,
to be a constitutional lawyer, Mr. ANSTEY
might naturally have undertaken the task of
proving that a prerogative exists in the crown
of the existence of which no one was aware. The
proposition for convoking the Irish parliament would,
therefore, rather have been expected from him ; but
dreamt., we suppose, will always go by contraries.
The members for Stafford and for Yooghal have
exchanged their parts, we have no doubt, with the
intention of removing say prejudice which might
exist either, on the ground of his presumed
in advocating his favourite measure.
Here, Mr. leurrav will say, is an impartial English
member advocating repeal. Look, Mr. UEQUHART
will cry, at this catholic, this Irish member, who
never came Into personal collision with Lord PAL-
SERMON, and yet thinks that allay measure with
which that minister was, or was not, concerned con-
clusively provee his guilt. The interchange of parts
reminds us of nothing so forcibly as of the transparent
tricks and melodramatic cunning with which EUGENE
Sol and Mrs. TROLLOPE reprtusnt the Jesuits as
moving society to its foundations.
Mr. Atorrev's notice of motion for papers must be
seen to be appreciated. We really cannot afford
space even for an analysis of its contents. It is little
to say that he requires all correspondence, and all
other documents, which may bear on any diplomatic
transaction of the last 20 years. The dealings of the
Czar of RUSSIA with Turkey, Poland, and England, if
they supply'the gist of the impeachment, occupy but
a small part of the notice of motion. If so profound
a jurist as Mr. ANSTEY would listen to an hum-
ble suggestion, we might remind him that the title
conceded to
was more than a century ago formally
to the Czar by every court in Europe,
including our own. He might as well, in a formal
document, call her MAizeTv, after her klaxon prede-
cessors, Basilian& of Britain, as confine the Emperor
to his title of Czar. But probably he would reply,
that the diplomatic recognition of the imperial title
was invalid and unconstitutional, if not procured by
some antenatal treason on the part of the omni-
present Lord PALMERSTON. It is also very possible
that the QUEEN is still in his estimation only the
fklerative chief of the English heptarchy.
Asengst other documents, Mr. ANSTEY demands
the podallisa of all papers which illustrate " the
acneasd consequences" of the treaties entered into
gse the reiviatka and government of Greece. For many
of the of those measures we fear that
the hos. amber must be referred to the expounders
of canonical prophecies, or, which would
be belie, to his friends, the utterer. of =canonical

prophecies. The causes must be traced from the ob-
scure records of the Pelasgian inhabitants of Greece,
through the age of PERWLES and that of ALEXANDER,
across the long records of Roman and Byzantine
dominion, to the Turkish conquest, from which the
history of the war of liberation, of the establishment
of OTHO, and the Greek loan, will be naturally and
easily deduced. Nor is Mr. ANSTEY less devious in
space than in time. Wherever English policy has
travelled, the denouncer follows it for impeachment.
In Naples, at Washington, at Constantinople, Algiers,
and Simla, he finds evidence to support his charges.
If Lord PALMERSTON is the traitor whom Mr. URciu-
HART and Mr. ANSTEY think him, his simplicity in
providing the means of detection is as remarkable as
his superhuman activity in evil.
Our contemporaries have not failed to take hold of
the salient absurdities which we have been describing,
and which we noticed when they were yet below the
horizon of public ridicule. There are, however, graver
considerations suggested by such proceedings as these,
than the mere amusement which is produced
by the contemplation of individual follies and
monomania& The world is ready enough to
laugh at a mass of incoherent and improbable
charges against our foreign policy ; but it would
be well to consider whether parliament and the pub-
lic have done their duty in guarding our international
transactions against censure and suspicion. Mr.
Umansttar and his followers have at least this arr-
ment to use. If all that they say was true, the nation
would be an accomplice in the guilt, for it has pro-
vided no security against it. For all practical purposes,
a foreign minister is despotic and irresponsible. Par-
liament never controls dim—never even watches his
course. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said some months ago,
that the House of Commons troubled itself little with
foreign politics, and it is disgraceful to the nation to
admit that the statement was true. A neck broken
on a railway, a potofskilly made thinner than the usual
workhouse standard, will excite more public interest,
and call out more practical and earnest remonstrance
in parliament, than the most criminal misuse, by
war or by treaty, of the gigantic power of England in
the general affairs of the world.
As far as parliament or the country at large is con-
cerned, Lord PALMERSTON might have done all that
he is alleged to have done. It is true that such con-
duct would have been contrary to all reasonable pro-
bability, incompatible with his own interest or with
common sense, and that it is unsupported by evidence.
But it is not incompatible with the practice of parlia-
ment. The house was counted out on the Portuguese
question. Parliament never gave an opinion on the
Syrian or on the Affghan war. For many years it
can scarcely be said that parliament has de-
liberately sanctioned any important act of
foreign policy, except the treaties negotiated
with America and with China by Lord ASHBURTON
and Sir HENRY POTTINOER. Yet, during that time,
parliament has been morally responsible for the use
made of its sovereign power by agents from whom it
never required an application for its sanction, and
seldom even a subsequent explanation. When Mr.
POLE, without the concurrence of the senate, com-
menced his war against Mexico, he probably
knew that he had the support and concurrence
of the most powerful party in the country. In Eng-
land no party is favourable to war or to egression ;
but no attempt is made to guard against either evil
by any safeguard but the prudence and moderation
which may be found to preside at the Foreign-office.
Feeling strongly the neglect of public duty of
which all parties have been guilty in this respect, we
should feel indebted to Mr. ANSTEY if there was any
probability of advantage to arise from his exertions.
But we cannot thank him for making patriotism ridi-
culous, and jealousy of national honour the subject of
universal contempt. Every idle lounger who affects
to despise foreign politics, every parrot-like fribble
who repeats the cry that Indian policy is all fraud
and violence, and who therefore infers that any parti-
cular act of fraud and violence in that empire is to
pass with impunity, will welcome the laugh with
which every man who has a sense of humour must
receive Mr. ANSTEY'S pompous threats. He will na-
turally accept it as a sanction of his own self-satisfied
inanity, and of the dereliction of duty of which par-
liament and the public have been guilty in matters of
national policy. Mr. URQUHART is Lord PALMER-
sroN's best Mend, if Lord PALMERSTON wishes on
any point to escape criticism or control. A dissatis-
fied inquirer into any part of our foreign policy may
brave the general indifference of the public ; bat it
would require considerable courage to face the impu-
tation of being a supporter of Mr. ANSTEY and Mr.
URQUHART.

AT a certain period of every year, just before the
commencement of what is called "the severe wea-
ther," the public are sure to hear loud complaints
from a certain district of the metropolis known as
Bethnal-green. At one time, some gentlemen meet in
the locality to make preparations for presenting a
silk dressing-gown to the Sovereign, accompanied
with a statement of the frightful distresses of the
manufacturers. At another time, their appeal is ad-
dressed to the parliament, by whom they desire a
law to be passed to make the people buy, because
they are " Spitalilelds manufactures," articles higher
in price, and inferior in quality to the productions of
other looms. This year, as appears from a report
published in yesterday's paper, the customary an-
nual memorial is to be addressed to the Queen Dow-
ager, to whom " the distress" is to be shown, and
whose assistance and patronage is to be solicited.
Her Majesty, it appears, has done more for Spital-
' fields than any one else upon former occasions, and,
therefore, the grateful people make an appeal upon
her purse-strings again.
Now, although we have real pity for the sufferings
of the poor in Spitalflelds, we most enter an earnest
protest against this constant repetition of the begging
circulars. Spitaliields is suffering, but it is from its
own fault. Its peculiar trade has failed it, and the
people have not been willing to accommodate them-
selves to another mode of manufacture, or to the pro-
duction of another class of article. The consequence
is, that the district is in a transition state,
and the people who have no work given
out for them, make no effort to cut out
any for themselves. As in the case of
Ireland, the constant repetition of charitable assist-
ance only tends to perpetuate this state of things.
As long as you go on relieving "the distress," so long
will the distress continue, because the people will have
no motive for exerting themselves to remove it.
The state of the poor in London, generally, is likely,
during the succeeding winter, to be more than ordi-
narily depressed, and Bethnal-green no doubt will
share in the general depreseion. But there are public
bodies fully established in the esteem of the benevo-
lently disposed, which act as conduit-pipes for the
relief of those really deserving cases of want which
arise from misfortune, accident, or sickness. From
these source', as we are prepared to show, should
necessity require, Bethnal-green already receives a dis-
proportionately large amount of assistance. During
the present year, relief from these mines has been
far greater than anal.
And we are prepared to contend that the liberal
relief of cases which come under the heads we have
indicated, is the only description of relief which the
benevolent public can be properly called upon to
afford. To talk of twisting a whole district and a
whole trade, which is and has for years been gradu-
ally decaying, is absurd. In such cases as these, the
law must step in to the succour of the poor, and those
who contribute to the rates will expect the law to do
its duty. . . .

Whether the law relating to the poor is properly
administered or not in the particular district to which
we refer, is another and a different question. At the
meeting on Monday night loud oomplaints were made
of the mode of administering relief in the workhouse
of Bethnal-green. From all that we have heard from
time to time, we believe the complaints referred
to are not by any means unfounded. We recur to
several police reports which have appeared in our
own and in other papers of previous dates, from
which it would seem that the Bethnsl.green guar-
dians have set up a code of " standing orders " for
themselves, which operate with the greatest hardship
and injustice on the poor. . One of these standing
orders is, that no representation of distress from a
clergyman of any denomination shall be attended to.
Thus, if a minister, in the course of his daily visits to
the dwellings of the poor, finds an unfortunate person
dying of destitution, his representation of the fact to
the workhouse authorities of Bethnal.green only ope-
rates, as it were, to dimluslify the sufferer from re-
ceiving parochial rehet These regulations, and such u
these, require looking into, and if the poor-law com-
missioners, whoever they may be at the present
time, reran or tit glect to inquire, the Home Secre-
tary should be at once appealed to. We believe if ao

open, fair, and candid inquiry was prosecuted in
Bethnal-gretn, it would be Mund that the very harsh
and cruel conduct of the workhouse authorities of
that peculiar locality has had very much to do with
that depressed condition of the people which is the
subject of so much present complaint.

PARLIAMENTARY Nottingham is divided against
itself. Its representatives—the two kings of rent-
ford, late so amicably smelling at the same rose—
have divided themselves, and gone to buffets in the
one chair they occupy. WALTER has been " poking
his fun" at FEARGUS, and FEARGUB has rapped
WALTER over the coxoomb. Envy hath done this.
FEAROUS O'CONNOR, Esq., is indeed a man for a
raw M.P. to be jealous of. Nothing can be imagined
more different from another than the resuscitated
FEARGUR who has again emerged into the House of
Commons _

“ Like re-appearing star,
Lake o glory from afor,”
than the same FEAROUS in the same house, before
he was drummed out of " the tail." Then, albeit at
times truculent and apt to bolt, he was snubbed and
kept under by the mighty master to whom he re-
peatedly alluded on Tuesday. night in dark myste-
rious phrase. But now he is jaunty and self-poe-
m:wed, like a man conscious of sitting on his own
bottom. Seated on the foremost bench of opposition,
with PEEL'S bland smile and GRAHAM'S grim look on
one hand, with BENTINCR'S leader glance and Dis-
RAELI'S downcast eye on the other, he looks like the
old Roman god TERMINUS, placed to mark where the
one party begins and the other ends, or like a con-
stable places between the CAPULETS sad MONTAOUES
of conservatism, to keep the peace. While
the rivals keep scowling at each other, PEARCUS
interchanges some pleasant jest with either,
at which both smile. And when he rises, as on Tues-
day night, to mike a motion, how conscious he is of
his own important and independent position ! With
a glib assurance, he pumps up gushes of ignorant
learning, varied and relieved by the most inconsequent
and contradictory remarks. It is obvious that, like
his countryman, Doctor O'Toote, he is quite aware
that he knows nothing of what he is talking about,
and counts upon outfacing exposure by his volubility
and self-possession. Nor is a strong spice of mischief
wanting in this strange compound. He enjoys the
discomfiture of ministers prevented from proceeding
to business by his impenetrability to delicate hints ; he
enjoys the grave face of Sir ROBERT INOLIS while he
fetches a blow at protestant intolerance ; above all, he
enjoys the blank faces of the repealers opposite on hear-
ing their good things said before they can get them
out. Laugh with him, or laugh at him, he cares not
so long as the house laughs and listens; for he knows
that this will strengthen his hold on the mob who are
silly enough to pin their faith to him. With an im-
perturbable good-humour—the result rather of obtuse
feeling than a kindly disposition—with a faculty of
talking nonsense with such fluent self-possession that
it almost sounds for the time like sense, incapable of
even conceiving a principle or taking real interest in
a cause, and wholly engrossed with the task of keep-
ing the position he has attained by years of incessant
activity, he can neither be put down nor put out.
The zest with which the honourable member for
Nottingham obviously enjoyed being the lion of the
evening was gall and wormwood to his yoke-fellow
in office. Mr. WALTER, while thrown into the shade
by the cornecations of his colleague's buffoonery, felt
like Sir Andrew Agueeheek when Sir Toby Belch
was in excellent fooling. "He does it with a better
grace, bat I do it more natural." That Mr. WALTER,
in point of taste, talent, and acquirements, is quite
equal to his colleague, may be granted ; still it was
rather rash in him to contend in public for the laurel
of buffoonery. In the first place, he has a share of
that constitutional, proud shyness, attaching to all
Englishmen, which incapacitates them for en-
tire success in this particular walk. In the
second place, he lacks the experience of his rival
—he has not, like him, performed the part through
all the provinces, qualifying himself by these
repeated rehearsals for an engagement in the great
metropolitan_ theatre. Heedless of these drawbacks,
Mr. WALTER attempted to cap Joe Millers with his
colleague, and was, of course, put down. To make
the matter worse, he lost temper at his discomfiture,
and broke out into vulgar abuse of all Irishmen, when
he only meant to indulge in badinage at their expense.
Nottingham has reason to be proud of her mem-
bers. It would be difficult to find other two in the
House of Commons, running in couples, so well paired
for a cat-and-dog life.
Net viget quiequem Aral* ant mem:dom.
True, it is not easy to discover what advantage
their constituents can derive from the services of gen-
tlemen, one of whom interrupts the real business of
the house to ask for a committee of inquiry into the
history of Ireland from the days of the Saxon EDOAR,
while the other in turn interrupts him to relate e
metamorphosis unknown to Orin--of Irishmen into
negroes. Bat, if not useful, they must at least be
admitted to be characteristic representatives; for
surely no constituency could ever have returned such
a pair to parliament unless

leap/ red with full bumpers of Nottingham ale.

The Paris journals of Monday and Tuesday are, as
they have been for some time back, unusually barren
of domestic news. The reform banquets go on with
a tiresome monotony. A meeting of this kind has
just been held at Amiens, attended by seven hundred
guests, at which M. Odilon Barrot took a leading part.
The mediation proposed in Swiss affairs engages a
large portion of the press. A menacing article, is
which the eventuality of an interposition by arms
force in the ease of the present project being rejected is
allowed to be inferred, appears in the Journal des
Debate. As to the rest, the article is, as usual, nu-
ll measured in its abuse of the federal government
The Nouoelliste, of Marseilles, says that the steamer
Merovee, arrived at that port from:Algiers on the 4th,
brought the important news that Abd-el-Kader had
written to the Duke d'Aumale to treat for a paice
with France, and that in consequence of this the Duke
resolved immediately to leave for Oran. The Courrier
de Marseilles, of the same day, hss another version of
this report, agreeing, however, in the main facts of
Abd.el-Kader seeking to negotiate, and the Duke
d'Aumale leaving for Oran.
The well-known and eccentric Marquis de Boissy
is about to lead to the hymeneal altar the not less
celebrated Countess Guiceioli, the friend of Lord
Byron.
It is now decided, it is said, that M. de Barante is
to have the Naples embassy, and not that of London,
as formerly stated.

The Madrid mails of the 30th ult. and let instant
have arrived. Those of the 2nd are still due. A most im-
portant and interesting debate took plane in the Cortes,
in which the government was violently assailed by
Senor Cortina, and defended with considerable dexterity
and success by Gen. Narvaez. The speech of the
general is represented as having produced an immense
impression, especially that part of it which referred
to T.spartero, who, as Nerves's declared, is free to
return to Spain and to take his seat as a senator in
the Cortes, and that he, Nereus, will be the fore-
most to take him by the hand, and cordially welcome
him back to his country. At the moment of the de-
parture of the mail of the let, Senor Olosaga had oc-
cupied the tribune, and be= observe on the royal
speech and the proposed
A grand dinner was given by her Majesty to the
ministers on the 30th.

Our advice, from Berne are to the 3rd. General
Dufour has returned to that city Irv., in order to
avoid any personal ovation. The mission at Paris,
rendered vacant by the decease of M. de Teohann, is
variously assigned by popular report. finnedDufour and Colonel Rilliet-Constant are mentioned as
likely to succeed to it.
Mr. Peel had not communicated officially to the
president of the Diet the note offering the joint me-
diction of the powers on the part of England, nor
was it expected that he would do eo, that duty being
reserved for Sir Stratford Canning, whose arrival
was daily expected.
The following is the note transmitted by M. Bois
le Comte, the French ambassador, to the prudent of
the Diet, announcing the intended mediation of the
powers. At the time this note was ordered to be
sent, M. Guizot was ignorant of what has sines 611110.
pired. The smaller cantons and the Valais have aims
submitted, and the Sooderbund is dissolved, and its
troops as well as the reserves of the federal army
disbanded. After the preamble, the note goes on
es follows

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ginertpleit would propose fee the re roey►Whaent of pass

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if it would not be right, in the interest of peace and re L."
to interdict to the order of the Jesuits any estiblish...7
the territory of the Helvetic Confederation, sehject tt.
and sufficient indemnity for all the properties, te
houses, which they would have to abandon. le Q.
place, the Dist, confirming its preceding declaration --"i
take the engagement to make no attempts againit
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pendence and sovereignty of the cantons, lush ss
guaranteed by the federal pact; to accord for the flllg R
DAzt
efficacious protection to. the cantons which atot
threatened with an MTA6IOII of the. corps francs, &at
necessary, not to admit any new article in the tedwol Dia
without the assent of all the members of the confedstiti
Thirdly, the seven cantons of the Sonderbund would thi.
formally and really dissolve their separate league.
and lastly, as soon as the question of the Jesuits shttiFl2
completely solved, as indicated in the first perianth
two parties would dismiss their respective torees"etTre:
some their ordinary and pacific attitude. The nadendgi.
is charged to expre the lively 's hope of the King g 66,,
moat that this equitable ss
proposition will be warmly ret„,4
by the two belligerent parties. And be is further chin.
to solicit a prompt reply from the Diet. The under*d
prays his excellency the president of the Diet to accept 04
assurance of his high consideration.—(Slatied) lieu rj
Coors.—Bile, Nov. 30.

The government of Neufchatel had consented to p,
into the federal treasury its double contingent
money, and had renounced prosecuting about three
score of radicals of the mountain, who, in contempt
of its interdiction, had gone to serve as volunteers k
the attack on the canton of Friburg.
In conformity with resolations adopted in a pope.
lar meeting held on Nov. 27, the provisional govern,
ment of Lucerne passed a decree on the 30tk,
eluding the Jesuits for ever from the canton. AAO,
ther decree restores to their rights all citizens de.
prived of them, in consequence of the politimi
prosecutions, from Dec. 8, 1814, to Nov. 23, 18.17,
It also quashes all the political prosecutions nos
pending.

We have letters from various parts of Italy; from
Turin to 2nd Dec., from Leghorn and Florence to the
29th ult., and from Rome to 28th. Cardinal Ferretti
was appointed secretary of manorial!, a measure pre,
liminary, as was feared, to his retirement from the
cabinet. The Popolo of Sienna says that the difference
between Tuscany and Modena will be compromised,
Musa and Carrara being annexed to Tuscany, Pon.
tremoli to Piedmont, and Qua:della and Ficiumo to
Modena. The archduchess Maria Louisa will, et,
cording to the game journal, abdicate at once in fei•
your of the Duke of Lucca. Other advice. do no
mention these arrangements, but affirm that the dd.
ference between Tuscany and Modena will be lefty:,
the arbitration of the Pope and King Charles Allot.
A splendid celebration took place at Rome on the
24th on the occasion of the installation of the net
municipal council.
Cardinal Alfieri is appointed Preaident of Rome
and of the Comma, and not, as announced in some
journals, President of the Municipality.
It is announced in these letters that the evacuatire
of Ferrara is agreed on, and that moat of the military
poets of that city have been already given up to the
I pontifical troops.
The prevailing opinion at Rome was that, in the
question raised by M. Paradisi, the Prince Tortoni&
would fail, and that his monopoly of salt and tobscoi
would cease. His brother, Carlo Torlonia, had re.
signed the colonelcy of the national guard.
On the 28th, the English squadron, consisting d
two ships of the line, two frigates, and a steamer,
arrived at Leghorn. The steamer left again on the
29th. This squadron, commanded by Admiral Par.
key, had come from Naples, and was expected to re.
main for some days.

FRANCE.—THE INFLUENZA.—Ten thowand
sons an said to be laid up with the grippe (influenza) et
Lille, but no case has terminated fatally. At Toulouse them
are, it is said, 15,000 persons, in a population of 53,000,
suffering from that malady.
AUSTRIA.—PEEsEuEn, Nov. 28.—The liberal
feeling is showing itself strongly in Hungary. At the sitting
of the State, of Hungary, held at Presburg on the 27th alt
after debates which had lasted six days, the address pr
by M. Louis de Kossuth, deputy for the Comitat of Perth,
and leader of the opposition, was carried by a majority of
four votes. The address proposed by Count Stephen de
Sucheny obtained only 22 votes. This triumph of the op-
position produced such an effect on both parties that the
States were too deeply impressed to continue their laboan,
and, upon the motion of M. Kossuth, the sitting was ad-
journed
THE CHOLERA Is Ausram.—lt is stated in a letter
from Vienna that the cholera has broken out in the circled
Tarnopol, in °said', and that it was raging with a oertsie
violence. The great scarcity of food which at present mire
in that district favours the spread of the disease.
HAYTL—Our correspondent writes : " The coon.
try is happily tranquil. The reduction of the tonnage duties
from 2 dole. to 1 dol. Spanish canoe into force on the let of
November." On the 4th of that month a quorum of the
senators was not present in the capital, notwithstandiag the
urgent summons issued to them. Some senators had not
arrived, and others, finding too few of their colleagues as-
sembled to admit of their proceeding to business, had re-
turned home. An anxious desire was expressed, no budget
having been voted, that the members of the representative
chamber might be present in euflisient number on the
day, appointed for the opening of the extraordinary
Beacon. The opposition journal criticises keenly and Immo
untly every measure of the ministry, This will have
the good effect of making ministers cautious as to the ob.
serums of constitutional forms. It is at the same time a
proof of their respect for constitutional freedom. A smart
shock of earthquake was felt at Port-au-Prince on the 26th
of October. It lasted about 15 seconds, but did no harm.
The weather was calm and serene at the time. A dull
noise, followed by a report compared to that of a cannon
under ground, preceded it.