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LONDO.V, MONDAY, JULY 26.
THE appointment of Lord DALHOUSIE to the Gover-
nor-Generalahip of India, especially at such a moment
as the present, will be regarded by the public as more
important from its indication of the state of feeling
between great political parties than from the fitness
and impartiality of the choice. To the latter few will
demur. In the ministerial department over which
be presided, Lord DALHOUSIE displayed a degree of
industry, of zeal, of intelligence, of liberality, which
presages well in his favour. Whether he would or
will make a good Governor-General of India in
troublons and difficult times were useless to assert
or inquire. For India evidently does not want a
Marquis WELLESLEY ; nor does it any longer present
a glorious field for the hero diplomatist. India, to all
appearance at present, wants a good administrator,
one able and likely to effect those financial and social
reforms, without which the profit, strengh, and dura-
tion of this splendid appendage to the empire must
remain doubtful.
The appointment, however, will scarcely be re-
oeived as one proceeding solely from the fitness of the
individual. It is, at least, an homage on the part of
a liberal government towards an eminent member of
that fraction of toryism which has fraternized with
liberal men and liberal opinions in questions of com-
mercial reform and of religions toleration. There
exists a strong feeling in the country that the ex-
perience and the talents of such men should not be
lost or allowed to lie idle. At least, it is felt that
when parties come to differ little more than in
name, it would be prudery, or worse, that would hold
up personal incompatibilities.
At the same time there are various inconveniences,
as well as difficulties, in the way of chiefs coalescing
—a political manceuvre that has never taken place
without eventually throwing an immensity of increased
power into the bands of the party opposed to both.
That the followers of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and those
of Sir Roemer PEEL are not enemies, either on the
hustings or in parliament, is sufficiently evident.
That the cherished aims of one indispensably require
the support of the others,alone suffices to create mutual
courtesy and forbearance. But that these aims would
be more facilely attained in a joint cabinet seems
very doubtful.
So young a member of the press .s the Daily News
cannot be supposed to entertain deep-rooted party prej u-
dims, and we most freely sympathise with the public
in its wish to employ all talents, and make use of those
instruments most likely to serve the popular cause.
But we do not think that it would be better for the
oomtry, for Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, or for any
progressive policy in contemplation, that he should be
absorbed in the body of the great liberal party,
even in the ranks of it. For this would leave a
ropen that would inevitably be filled, and be
ecce l for the worse.
The present time, too, would be most unfitted for
any such mancenvre. The country party is that of
all parties in parliament which knows le Ist its own
mind, its own prospects, or even the interests of its
constituents. Ledasit is composedas it is, imposed upon
u it is, no one can reckon on its holding together,
and if there remain a more rational and liberal, though
conservative standard still floating on that side of
the house, members mug in time rally to it. No one
cube more convinced of this than Sir ROBERT PEEL
himself, and he must be too sagacious not to be aware,
that any junction entered into by him with either
radical or whig mast injure him permanently to a far
greater extent, than his conforming with liberalism
might strengthen him temporarily.
The alliance, if it take place, mast be that of inde-
pendent power. If it abandon co-operation for
coalition, we have no doubt it will bo unsatisfactory
in the commencement, and fatal in the end.

Raverriso to the subject of the Scotch elections,
it may help to place the transactions at Glasgow in
a clearer light if we first call our readers'
attention to the admitted fact that the pro-
minent questions in next parliament will be
commercial and finaneial. The scavenging of
towns will be adjusted, and the education question
will be ventilated, and much of the nonsense now gab-
bled upon that head dissipated. As for the anti-
howl, having served its purpose at the
ratings, it will be packed up and laid by for next
election. Bat the pprrooggrrecssr that has been made in
emancipating trade ffomcommercial shackles has left
the whole of our commercial legislation and the
whole of our financial arrangements in such a dislo-
cated condition as will render it necessary, as much
with a view to place the revenue in a stable ocadition
as to relieve individuals from unequal and oppressive
weight of Umatilla. that the reforms begun so boldly
and intelligentlyis immediately carried further.
One of the firaterawahorn the public voice would
call to aid in in& t tusk, is Mr. MAccancoe..
He has in his tome a twenty years' appren-
ticeship to the trode of statesmanship, more espe.
chilly in the departaneat of commercial and financial
=L insey. He boas moreover, the recommen-
of a emelt. and avowed aim. Of all
lin electioneering tereee that have oome under
Mt nodes, those ddieund baf Mr. MACGREGOR to the
mialmethigs in Olargew one indicate a systematic
j Ark the actual prilion into which recent legis-
Wan bat brought add& commerce and finance,
• VIII ballied plia kir the re-adjustment of that
het: ems,bililelinee shattered by piece-meal
llaommaort's addresses show that he
°Mars cordially with the liberal movement in com-
mercial policy; that bolsi carefully and deliberately
formed an estimate of what has been achieved, and
what remains to be done ; and that he has made up
his mind to pro or support definite measures to
that end in monk
opposi to Mr. MACGREGOR the hitherto domi-
nant party leaders in Glasgow offer two gentlemen.
Both of them are, as private individuals, eminently
intelligent and respectable. Their general views
and sympathies are unquestionably on the right
side. If the liberals of Glasgow were at a loss for can-
didates,—if they were so hard put to it as to require
to keep their ground by oppoing to the conservatives
two candidates, who, though they bad no ideas of
their own, were sure to be tbsuid, en all important
questions, following the liberal leaders,—they could
not choose better than Messrs. DIXON and DENNIS-
TONN. But to prefer either to a man who brings
not merely vague sympathies and general pre-
possessions, but knowledge and earnest moire to
promote the liberal cause, would be preposterous.
.Mr. DIXON is entirely untried in public business, and
any person who takes the trouble to compare his
original aa.rest to the electors with the tripine —Put
or appendix ratotyuentiv issued wir see that he has
.
.10•••‘1111Vir to teach him wnat ne ougut
to ininx on some vital questions, but that external
pressure has been able to modify some of his avowed
opinions into a more palatable shape. Mr. De NNIR-
TOUN'S case is worse, for he has been tried in public
life and found an utter failure. Bela known both in and
out of t as one of those impulsive per-
sons, o, while seder the stimulus of some personal
deers) or getepor osnotion, can be brisk and bustling,
but who evat then being no weight of intellect or
inhneation e diecumelon, and who from weakness
ofehometelep tees.pable of continuous earnest exer-
lids. Atng a contented nonentity in the
E. el = through a whole parliament, he
sake lir ti *maw effort when his seat is endan-
illorld; bed the utmost he can achieve, even when
Ii4IVI
by the !car of losing the office to which he
diart emend of the 'Deal distinction it confers,
le sone low amert personalities against his rival or
theist ere higpoutere.
liritr;boer ISOM itthat the choice of a shrewd and
, Independent constituency ißie Glasgow, among three
wash ciadidatea,sissaid to for a moment doubtful .

Mr. Oswatn, the retired amber, was the choice of
the oity--he was a power in himself. Strengthened
by his Aisne% an infteeetiel section of the liberal
ehre have beim able (except at the first election)
to Malabo whe should be second member. For
same rears thin have been increasing complaints,
that, he oonseemmes of his annul years and
the idioms scurried over him without his
emorieresessa) by eannexione, Mr. WALD was
no hew the efficient member he once was,
and Mil Mr. Deterstrronst was no member at
all. On this account some of the independent electors
—encouraged by • report (which has been con-
firmed by events) that Mr. OSWALD wished to re-
tire—began to cast about for another member.
Afraid to divide the liberal interest, they. made
overtures to Mr. Demi erroures friends, offering to
acquiesce in his being. again inflicted upon them on
condition that an efficient member was returned along
with him. The overture was haughtily and uncere-
moniously rejected. The nominators of Mr. DENNIS-
TOUN insisted upon naming both members, although
at the time they bad not definitively fixed upon any
second candidate, and did not even apparently know
where they were to find him. finch dictation was in-
sufferable, and, rather than tamely submit to it, the
independent interest resolved at all hazards to start
two candidates, and having. already made choice of
Mr. MACGREGOR they associated with him the pre-
sent Lord Provost of Glasgow, whose integrity is
' cheerfully acknowledged by all his fellow-citizens,
I and of whom all public men who have been brought
in contact with him in his visits to the metropolis on
city affairs feel that be only requires a wider field to
developo fully his high talents for public business.
The domineering procedure of the would-be lords
of Glasgow mud not be imagined to be the mere
result of overweening provincial vanity. These dio-
tators act upon system, though they lack tact to do so
judiciously. They flatter themselves that they are
the parties to whom is confided the guidance of what
Mr. DENNISTOUN'S agent (and manager), in his mag-
niloquent language, calls " those well-known great
party intense', by the legitimate management of
which the rights of the electors are best protected
and maintained.' In other words, these gentlemen
are the agents (amateur and professional) who under-
take to find for party leaders safe and manageable mem-
bers for Glasgow—men who will be discreet enough
to flatter their constituents by votes in advance of
whig opinions when such votes can do no harm (or
good either), and who will find excuses for bottling
up their extreme liberalism whenever it threatens to
be inconvenient. They belong to that section of local
political agents who are at this moment undermining
the political virtue of Scotland, seeking to patch up
the whig ranks with all kinds of equivocal recruits.
Independently of the grave reasons for deprecating
the miserable policy this dam are now pursuing in
Scotland to which we adverted in a former article,
we regret it for the prejudicial effects it may have
upon the prospects of one of the best and moat bril-
liant members of the whig party. An opposition to
Mr. MACAULAY is threatened in Edinburgh. Of the
splendid and effective oratorical powers of Mr. MA-
CAULAY there is but one opinion. But, for his business
talents, less generally recognised, we need only refer to
the opinion of the India House. Mr. MACAULAY,
when sent to India, was forced by the government of
the day upon the somewhat reluctant directors, who
looked upon him as a mere orator. His sedulous at-
tention to business in Calcutta, combined with the
tact and discrimination he displayed, disabused these
gentlemen of their mistaken notion, and none are now
more ready to do justice to Mr. MACAULAY'S working
talents. Yet this consistent, brilliant, and useful
member of the whig party is threatened with a serious
opposition in that most whiggish of constituencies,
Edinburgh.
This opposition does not originate in any prevailing
revolt against whig men or whig measures in the city
of the Edinburgh Review; but it can be rendered dan-
gerous, and can only be rendered dangerous, by dis-
satisfaction at the electioneering tactic the Scotch
Whigs are pursuing. There was an attempt at the
last Edinburgh election to make a set at Mr. MACAU-
LAY on the no-pspsey interest That will not be tried
again, but the leaden of the defeated party still owe
hem a grudge, and only want a fair pretext to join
any other body of easailants. The anti-excise agita-
tion, aware ef this, in resolving to start • candidate in
-Edinburgh', have made Mr. MACAULAY their mark,
instead of his lea prominent, and consequently. less
obnoxious, colleague. The anti-excise agitation is too
new to be strong: Messrs. MACAULAY and CRAIG
might defy both it and the no-popery men if the rest of
their supporters in the constituency were atuthaken in
their alle But the game played by some of the
whig l in Haddingtonehire and in the Dunferm-
line district of burghs has excited deep disgust in many
who disregard " the sonorous bray of Exeter-hall,"
and are not yet awake to the importance of the anti-
excise agitation. Again, Mr. Cowart, the candidate
who comes forward to throw down the gauntlet to
the gauger, is, so far as we can learn, an amiable and
acoompliahed gentleman. It is far from improbable
that, in the present state of public feeling in Edin-
burgh, standing alone, he may pick up so many
second votes among the malcontents of different
classes as to oast one or other of the late whig mem-
bers. And in a scattering battle like this there is no
certainty where the bullet may hit. Mr. Ornsoe
CRAIG may be thrown out—a denouement we have no
desire to witness ; or it may be the fate of Mr.
MACAULAY—Which every friend of liberal principles
and admirer of genius would deplore. And if such
be the result of the Edinburgh election, it will be
the doing of the election managers of the whigs in
Scotland.

THE rejection of Father MargEvr by the court of
Rome, and the nomination, in preference, of Dr. DE-
Lull' to the catholic bishopric of Cerk, have excited
much attention in Irish ecclesiastical circles. It was
generally thought that there would be no opposition
to Mr. MATHEW'S election. He had been chosen by
a majority of the parish priests, and it was supposed
that the bishops, with whom, since the reecnpt of
1820, the power of appointment virtually lies, would
have confirmed his selection. His great popularity
in Ireland, the respect entertained for him in England,
his extensive influence in the city of Cork, were sup•
posed to constitute invincible claims. Opposed to
him was Dr. DELLIfY, a clergyman whose name was
not very familiar to the Irish public: his life was not
pained mpolitics, and hie pretensions to promotion
were simply founded on his scholastic attainments.
Addresses of congratulation were precipitately voted
to Father MATHLW. A body of,u(Ests indeco-
rously sought to overbear the j of the
bishops. The chimes of Cork "lined lions of
their sentiments a par* setisinsdeal question.
But the alma et in tereslative opacity,
inelbstheety, nisi& trim jansayinelea aedsa of
ethos. Ills wig maws takes togwineW the election
of Fadent Karam asisted• with ether causes, in
stopping.kit elevation. The blimp elected Doctor
DELANY. Their deshien was, as a matter of course,
confirmed at Bowe, and the best Mends of the
catholic church app eesed at the moult.
The reason why ss sebeisable • man as Father
MATHEW was nimbi dleweves attention. Many
mesons were enciselTinth beurard. It was said that
ORS of the bishops inn Minmaisquoting Sr. PAUL,
and opposed Mr. MATHS, wkly on that ground !
Others imputed ketweinny et opinion to that excel-
lent man l But the real reason why Doctor DELANY
was appointed was, because while the virtues of
Father Martusw were appreciated as they deserved,
his capacity for enforcing discipline over an extensive
diocese was doubted by. the bishops. The catholic
dioceses of Ireland require at the present moment
ri"oroue oont-01. Too m"'..'y of ins priests have be-
coMe men! politicians. The late bishop was old, and not
very strict- in Lis die pline. A necessity existed,
therefore, for the app.:!ntnient of a vigorous control.
ling spirit who would bring into better order the
affairs of the diocese.
It is believed that Doctor DELAHY is opposed to
the system of a tribanitian clergy. His influence in the
south of Ireland will not, it is thought, be given to
the cause of limitless agitation. He enjoys the repu-
tation of being a man of sound scholarship, of fine
taste, an enlarged mind, and generous eeneibllities.
He has also the credit, whether truly or otherwise
remains to be seen, of being a man of firmness, who
I will compel the clergy to a more careful avoidance of
irritating topics and offensive proceedings. Much
scandal him been canoed by. the conduct of Mr. Do-
TIENT, the parish priest of Dunmanway. This pastor
of peace at present stands before the public in a
cm-ions position. Every recent Irish journal brings us
an account of his disgraceful notoriety. One day,
the Southern Reporter tells of his figuring as the
electioneering bottle-holder and conducting agent of
Dr. MAURICE Powen, the medical M.l'. for "the
Yorkshire of Ireland." The Evening Poet next day

THE ',IAMBS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1847.

supplies at with the eevereoz=de addieneed to
hies by the Two or three
day. 'after, Critilibeilw °magnifies drier a rienet of
law proceedings against Miklos a peninel malt!
This reverend echoes:le essurto bavetweind &swish
of Danmanway into a hot-bed of *hied religionkem.
lie L in the catholic ehamireflim present time mist
some of the debut illitlaffiranne sad Taitnesse
were formerly in the ressitua esiablishmeat. The
most respectable eUhoiio ia Dunieanway, Mr. O'Sci.-
Linn, of Bridgemetent, a gentleman of independent
fortune, while Weeding Mill whit his lady, was de-
nounced from the altar in Unpaged the most insult-
ing character, buena he differed in politics from
the parish Priest. It is believed, however, that
the new bishop will curb each clerical disturbers as
Mr. Dollen% The relation of the two churches in Ire-
land to each other is too well known to Dr. DELANY to
allow of his permitting such men as Mr. DOHENY
and others to continue their intemperate career un-
checked and (=ensured. It was for the special pur-
pose of bridling-in the headstrong spirits of the clergy,
and reducing them to habits of clerical decorum,
that the bishops chose Dr. DELANY in preference to
the good Father MATHEW, who is amiable almost to
a fault, and whose weakness it is to suppose every
one of his ecclesiastical brethren as pure-minded as
himself.
We have referred to the rejection of Father
Miernew, for the purpose of directing oar readers'
attention to the spirit of self-respect which, in various
directions, is beginning to manifest itself in the Irish
Roman catholic church. Those •ho wield the
highest power in that church arc becoming sensible
that a body of demagogues in holy orders is far from
realising the majestic idea of the catholic church,
though Bishop O HIGGINS by his epistolary tirades,
and Mr. DOHENY, by his vituperative propensities,
evidently cherish the erroneous notion. A taste for
something better than parish politics is beginning th
awaken amongst the priests. They are gradually
improving their order as well as circumstances allow
them. The coarse and stupid contempt in which too
many of them have held literature and the more re-
fined pursuits of the human mind, is beginning to
pass away, and in a few years it is to be hoped that
it will be as difficult to find • DOHENY amongst the
Irish priests, u it is now-a-days to meet with a
Trulliber in our establishment. The sentiments of
Dr. DOYLE are beginning to prevail. "Religion
herself," said that eminent Irish catholic, " loses half
her beauty and influence, when not attended or
assisted by education ; and her power, splendour, and
majesty are never so exalted as when cultivated
genius aced refined taste become her heralds and her
handmaids. Many have become fools for CHRIST,
and by their simplicity and piety have exalted the
glory of the cross ; but PAUL, not JOHN, was the
apostle of the nations, and doctors even more than
prophets have been sent to declare the truths before
kings, princes, and the nations of the earth."
We earnestly hope that in the approaching elections
the conduct of the catholic clergy will not give cause
for censure to the political opponents of the frith
catholic.. We trust that a spirit of self-respect, and
a regard for their own order, will restrain them
from plunging into those unseemly courses by ahich
religion and her ministers are degraded. The time
has not far gone by when circumstances made
the Irish priest a politician. But the same necessities
exist no longer, and the anomalous condition of a
tribunitian priesthood is one which the court of Rome
can never finally approve, or the English empire alto-
gether tolerate, for a long-protracted period.

THE conduct of some one of the officers of the
Royal Agricultural Society, with respect to the list
of prizes awarded at the late meeting at North-
ampton, cannot be allowed to pass with the mere
equivocal reproof; given in the vague words of the
resolution of the council. The whole proceeding,
indeed, is an apt illustration of the way in which too
many of these societies are worked to private and
profitable uses, and a proof that the very names of the
honourable men prominently put forth on these occa-
sions are only additional protection to those who
desire to use the influences of the society for their
own selfish p
Prior to theurteenieeting, the council of the society,
by its officers, requested to be informed whether it
was the intention of the Daily News to send reporters
to the meeting, that tickets and other accommodation
might bo prepared. No doubt, like inquiries were
made of the other London journals. This may be
considered as the act of the council—and proper—
tending equally to the benefit of the society and
the public. Reporters accordingly attended from
all the London papers. As we now desire to speak
by the card, we shall gnote the very words of the
gentlemen who attended the meeting from the Daily
Netts;
In reference to the list of prises, it may be necessary to
explain, that the reporter of the Daily News applied to Mr.
Hudson, the secretary, in the morning of yesterday, and to
Lord Egmont, who presided, and Mr. Shelly, who took a
leading part at the evening meeting, and who is also one of
the judges, for a copy o 1 or permission to copy, the award
previous to its being publicly read, which not being till 8
o'clock at night, it was explained to those gentlemen that it
would be too late to be available for publication in the Lon-
don papers the next morning. Mr. Shelly and Mr. Hudson
(the noble president coinciding) assured the reporter of this
paper, together with the gentlemen representing the Morn-
ing fleraid, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, that it
would be contrary to the rules of the society to grant sus
request, but, at the same time, they gave their word that NO
representative of the press had obtained a copy or should
obtain one, except by attending and taking notes at the read-
ing of the award, or waiting until the next day. Notwith-
standing such assurance a copy of the whole of the award,
including that upon the horses, which was not read at all,
was forwarded to the Tunes, whose reporter was not present
at the meeting, by the half past eight o'clock train, and ap-
pears in that paper this morning. Perhaps the council, to
whom we have made a repreeentatien of this matter, may be
able to explain it satisfactorily.
Thu there is a clear case, and proved, in which
" the rules of the society "—binding on its president
and more distinguished officers—have been violated,
and the list of awarded prises given, after u Mr.
SHELLY and Mr. HUDSON (the noble president
assenting)" had given " their word that no repre-
sentative of the press had obtained, or should obtain,
one."
The next morning the gentlemen on whom this
trick had been played presented a memorial to the
council, and the following resolution of the council
was passed on the same day, and a copy forwarded
to them : _

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Or ENGLAND, JeLY 23,
1847.—The attention of the council having been called by Mr.
Shelly to a memorial addrowed to them by certain reporters
of the London Daily Press, stating that the reporter for one of
the newspapers had obtained the award of the judges on
Wednesday evening, while the memorialists bad not obtained
it until the following morning i the secretary was desired
to inform the memorialists that it was the intention of the
council that perfect impartiality should be shown to every
reporter, and that steps have been taken to prevent on any
future occasions the possibility of a similar occurrence.
Now, this is all very well, so far as it goes—well
enough for the moment, as expressive of the feelings
of such of the members as danced to be present at
the harried meeting of the council. But the affair
cannot end here. Who will believe that the partiali-
ties of such a men are confined to the newspapers P
Who, if the party be retained in power, will ever
after put faith in the awards or any other the pro-
o,edings of the emaciation P The public and the sub-
scribers have a right to know who it was that thus
violated " the rules of the society," and what security
the council have, or can have, that he will be more
bound by the new laws than by the old laws, which,
under circumstances so paintbl to the noble president
and Mr. finnwr, he has so openly violated.

THE appointment of Sir HENRY PO'rfINGER to the
government of Madras pleas ministers in a condition
to unite a graceful act of justice to a meritorious
individual with an important public service. They
can appoint Sir HARRY Shrill governor-general of
our settlements In South Africa.
It was the skill and energy of Sir H. (then CoL)
Sutra that checked the Salbir invasion of 1836, per-
med the invaders into their mountain recesses, and
established British ascendancy among them on a
footing that would have prevented the forays since
experienced, had not the excellent arrangements he
made under the direction of Sir Biszaortri LYVABAii
been subsequently reversed. Daring the brief period
that Sir Kamm administered the government of
the conquered district, be gained the ocmtidenoe
and attachmest of the Baffin and their chiefs
to an unprecedented extent. In appointing him
to govern our South African settlements, ministers
would appoint a man who knows the country, and
has expermnos of the native modes of warfare; who
has approved himself able to conciliate and control
the natives by a judicious mixture of firmness and
humanity ; and who enjoys, on account of his conduct
on the trying occasion alluded to, the confidence of
the natives.

We have advisedly used the epithet governor-
general of our South African settlements, In
to that of emu of the Cape
..The New charter of government
has led warm and general approbation through-
out our South African settlements. Mr. FAIIILBAIRM
and fMr. GODLE.ITEN have eulogised it with equal
emphasis. If ministers were to send out Sir HARRY
SUITS as governor-in-chief to South Africa, with
such a charter as that of New Zealand, combining
three provinces—the Cape Town districts, the eastern
districts, and Natal—into one general government, as
they have done in the cue of New Ulster and
New Munster, they would promote the prosperity
of those settlements, and confirm their loyalty to tho
British crown.

The court of peers was engaged on Friday with the
trial of M. Pellapra for his share in corrupting M.
Testa. This inquiry lost all interest from the result
of the preceding trials. The facts being already esta-
blished and not contested by the accused, the same
sentence was.prouounced as against MM. Cubieres
and Parmentaer—ten thousand franca fine and loss of
civil rights.
The shock which the proceedings before the court
of peers and their result have given to M. Testa has
produced a serious effect upon his health. The symp-
toms of congestion of the brain have been more deci-
sive since his removal to the Conciergerie. Applica-
tions of ice have been resorted to, but without success.
An enteute took place on Friday, on the occasion of
the exposition of some convicted prisoners at the
Palais de Justice, which was quelled by the inter-
ference of the municipal guards.
La Palrie has the following :
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A great deal has been said for some days. past about minis-
terial modifications. The subject was again talked of to-day
at the Chamber, and the best-informed deputies wetted
that MM. Duebatel and Guizot had resolved to replace
MM. Treed!, Cunin.Gridaine, and Jayr, and that M. de Sal-
candy had expressed a wish to retire. It we. elided, that
M. Cumin-Gridaine will be replaced by M. Vitet, M. Jayr
by M. Muret de Bort, and M. de Salvandy by Y. Liadieres.
As to the Ministry of War, there is said to be some hesitation
about confiding a to Marshal Bugeaud. It is certain that
Marshal Souk has sent in his resignation as President of the
Council, and that M. Guisot will replace him. The em-
bassy to Naples is spoken of for X. de Salvandy, and the
direction generale of the indirect taxes for M. Jayr, is place
of M. Boursy, admitted to retirement, in consequence of his
advanced age.
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The offiCial returns of the production, consumption,
and importation of sugar in France, to the 30th June,
have just been published. The number of factories
for the fabrication of sugar from beet-root in France
has for some time past been on the decrease, but the
magnitude of the several factories in operation has
augmented in a greater ratio. The actual production
of native sugar has, therefore, increased. In the ten
mouths ending on 30th June last, the beet-root sugar
made in France amounted to 52,700 tons, while the
quantity fabricated in the corresponding period of
the last season was only 39,400 tons. The amount
expected for the current season is 55,000 tons. This
is about half the annual consumption of sugar of every
kind in France, and it is two-thirds of the quantity of
colonial sugar imported. Owing to the heavy duty
on sugar, indigenous as well as colonial, the consump-
tion of that article is greatly restrained in France.
In Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium, where the
price is lower, the consumption is relatively much
greater. In' England the present consumption of
sugar may be taken at 280,000 tons per annum, being
at the rate of 211 b. per head of the population, while
in France it is only 81b. per head.

'The Madrid mails of the 19th, with the letter of
our own correspondent, which we give below, have
been received. Other private letters say that the die- i
cordanee which unhappily has so long prevailed in
the palace has been attended with a new scandal.
The prince-consort had signified, as we announced on
a former day, his intention of returning to the royal
palace at Madrid immediately after it wan vacated by
the departure of the Queen for St. Ddefonso. It ap-
pears that before her departure her Majesty caused it
to be intimated to the prince that she requested that
he should not adopt that proceeding; notwithstanding
which the prince gave orders, on the sight of the
Queen's departure, to those in his service to prepare
his apartments in the palace for his immediate recep•
tion, signifying his intention of assuming hie residence
there the same evening. All the usual prepara-
tions were accordingly made, and the halber-
diers were ordered to form the guard of honour
for the interior of the palace. Before these
attendants, however, arrived in the palace, to occupy
their usual quarters, Gen. Cordova arrived there with
an order from the Minister of War, and caused the
gates to be closed, and communicated to the persons
lin the service of the prince-consort a royal order
I which forbade his Majesty to occupy the palace. This
subject, as may be easily conceived, was the engross-
ing topic in all circles on the 19th.
The elections are favourable to the Progresista
PartY•
The Seetinelle de Bayonne says that the Infante
Don Henry, who ie at Bagneres de Luchon, has
offered himself to the Spanish government as a me-
cliator between Queen Isabella and her consort, Don
Francisco de Assis. He has at the same time written
to his brother, urging him to reunite himself to the
IQueen. The Spanish government has not yet re-
turned any answer to the prince. It is added that
Don Henry has written also in energetic terms to his
father, Don Francisco, protesting against the pro-
jected marriage between the Infanta Josephs, and
General Portillo.

A report of the proceedings of the Swiss diet, on
the 19th and 20th, has been received from Berne.
Although the result has been exactly foreknown, the
importance of the consequences to which it may lead
confers much interest upon it. The diet can scarcely
be considered as possessing a deliberative character.
Its members are delegated to give utterance to the
predetermined votes of the cantons on questions
already discussed and decided in the cantonal arani-
bliee. The speeches of these delegates are the ex-
pression of the sentiments of the cantons, from which
they have been respectively commissioned. The ques-
tion of the dissolution of the Sunderbund was the
subject of debate, if debate it can be called, on the
19th and 20th. Whether or not, the seven cantons of
Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald, Zug, Friburg, and
the Valais, could, under the existing federal pact form
a separate and independent league, levy armies, make
laws, and do all the acts of a separate federal
sovereignty, and yet continue to be members of the
recognised confederacy of the 21 cantons, was the
first question to be decided; and secondly, in case the
dissolution of this subordinate league should be pro-
nonnced, when and by what means such dissolution
should be carried into effect? On the 20th, the diet,
by a majority of twelve votes and two half votes,
pronounced for the dissolution, and by a second reso-
lution threw the responsibility of the execution of
such dissolution on the separatist cantons. The dele-
gates of the cantons of the league have protested
against these resolutions.
The means of executing the resolution of the diet
for the dissolution of the Sunderbund, in the event of
the cantons refusing to comply with it voluntarily, are
not yet decided on. The delegates who are commis-
sioned to vote for the execution of the resolutions of
the diet by armed force, not constituting a majority,
nothing definite can be settled as to the means of
execution until those delegates who are left without
instructions shall have referred to their cantonal con-
stituents for the necessary commission. It is now
even confidently believed that, if nwry, the
federal government will be commissioned to diseolve
the league by force of arms, in which case civil war
would seem inevitable, as there is little probability of
the voluntary submission of the cantons of the league.
Meanwhile, the ministers of the despotic states of
Europe and of France affording countenance to the
separate league, and threatening the Vorert and the
diet, foment the growing discord with a view to a
settlement of the question by foreign intervention.

MADRID, JULY 19.
The Queen set out for La Granja on Saturday, 17th,
at 8 in the evening. Her departure was attended
§gth ,12 little show as possible.
Families are daily escaping from the torrid capital
to the cool and delicious place which the Queen has
selected for her summer retreat. Fountains are re-
stored; statues scrubbed; the theatre, a dingy hole
last rar, is being newly painted up; fiddlers are
pouring in in omnibuses from Segovia; and lastly, a
fine battalion of engineers mount guard at the palace,
and give promenaders the benefit of their band.
While all this merriment is toward, the Faro, that
bird of ill-omen, croaks about the accidents that have
happened at La Oranja, and may happen again.
On the morning of the day of the Queens departure
for St. lldefoneo the King-Consort left the Pardo and

came to Madrid, where he dined, and passed the day
with his younger brother and sisters at the palace of
St. Juan del Baea Retire. The latter went in two
coaches and six, with their tutor and governess, in
the evening, to take leave of the Queen, with whom
they remained an hour.
The Duke of Sotomayor from the baths of Biarritz,
nesr Bayonne, and General Urras, minister of war in
the duke's cabinet, from the baths of Fitero, have
written to the papers to confirm the flat contradiction
given by their colleagues to the assertions of the
Correo concerning the part which the Sotomayor
ministry took in dip palace question. These seven
individuals deny, in the most positive manner—First,
that the differences between the Queen and King-
Consort broke out during their ministry ; secondly,
that a dispute for authority arising between the royal
couple, the ministry decided in favour of the King.
and sought for support in the course which they had
taken by appealing to the co-legislative bodies ;
thirdly, that they solicited the support either
of the King-Consort or of the Queen-Mother
amidst the difficulties that occurred during their ad-
ministration ; or consulted any other direction than
that of the Queen's own enlightened understanding
and upright sentiments, regarding, as they did, with
veneration the Queen's sovereign and free will in the
exercise of her royal prerogative.
The Correo answers these assertions by the revela-
tion of a very important fact. No sooner had the
senate authorised the bringing of General Serrano to
trial, than the King-Consort assumed supreme com-
mand within the palace, and ordered that no one
should be admitted into the Queea's apartments with-
out his permission. I give, in the words of the Correo,
the statements with wkich it concludes its very deci-
sive answer to the denegations of the Sot/ mayor
ministry.
1. The votes in the congress and in the senate approving
extemporaneously the principles of the Sotomayor cabinet,
and authorising the trial of a well-known general, revealed
to the eyes of all the world the melancholy disagreement
which existed between the King-Consort and the Queen.
2. In consequence of this disagreement the King arrogated
to himself the command of the royal apartments, allowing
entrance only to inch persons as he pleased, a resolution with
which the Queen could not conform.
3. In this dispute the ministry of the Duke of Sotomayor
did not support the will of the Queen.
These facts stand in direct contradiction with the
assertions of the seven ex-ministers.
Tho Correo accuses Lord Palmerston of adopting a
war-menacing tone towards Spain in the debate upon
Spanish bonds, while England swallowed the repu-
diation system of the United States quite meekly.
The Heralelo accuses England of being at the
bottom of the Montemolinist insurrection, which has

burst out anew with so much violence. The French
do all they can to encourage this absurd belief. Re-
ports of this cast may be generally traced to the Lon-
don correspondence of the French and Spanish papers,
than which there is no more active forge for issuing
the most monstrous deceptions. Thus, a London cor-
respondent of the Union Monarchique affirms thst
" the French government caused Lord Palmerston to
be sounded as to whom he would support as successor
to the Spanish crown in case of the death of Isabel 11.
without heirs. Lord Palmerston replied Count Mon-
temolin." This precious specimen of London corre-
spondence has gone the round of the Spanish papers.
The Heralds states that a Carlist officer has been
stopped at Bayonne on his way into Spain. Two
documents were found upon him : one was the order
of General Alzaa, enjoining the bearer to place him-
self at the disposal of General Villareal, Commander-
General of Navarro and the Basque provinces; and
the other a eolonel's commission, dated 1840. It ap-
pears that this person was going to join the band of
the Student.

In consequence of the proclamation of the Captain-
General of Burgos, on the 13th, seven Carlista have
presented themselves for pardon, among whom is
Don Julian Uzrecho, the curate of Atapuerca.
The Captain-General of Catalonia reports from
Barcelona, on the 14th, that the troops had fallen
in with the band of Bartolome Pozas, consisting of
40 men, near Gallifa, and killed some of the rebels,
among them an officer.
On the lith the treasury received 30,000 dollars of
surplus revenue from the rrovinces of Segovia and
Toledo, in gold and silver, which, the Correo says, is
only one of several supplies which are to arrive at
Madrid within a short time from the provinces.
No notice of importance has been received from
Portugal to-day. General Concha left Oporto on the
11 th to pay his respects to the Queen at Lisbon.
Saldanha was to set out on the 12th to visit the pro-
vince of the Minho. _ . _

The elections of the provincial deputies began yes-
terday, and are going on actively.
On the 24th, Queen Christina's birthday, there is
to be a levee ; or, as they call it here, a kiss-handa, at
San Ildefonso. _ . _

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Yesterday, the minister of the government of the
kingdom, Senor Benavides, set out for La °romp.

FRANCE.—Rocumar, JULY 22.—A despatch
has been received in Paris, from the maritime protect of
Rochefort, announcing that, on the 21st, the buildings of the
workshop and store-house of the artifices (rockets, cart-
ridges, &c.), at the extremity of the arsenal, from which they
were separated by a canal, were destroyed by an explosion.
According to the lists sent in to the prefect, there were in
the workshop, at the moment of the explosion, one maitre
srtificier, five civil, labourenrs, thirteen naval gunners, one
soldier of the 3rd company of workmen of Marine Artillery,
one distributor, and one clerk; total, 22. Two of thz gun-
nen, one of the civil workmen, the artillery workman, the
distributor, and the clerk, were spared. Thirteen dead
bodies were conveyed to the hospital, and three wounded
persons, ef whom one died an hour afterwards. The fire
that followed the explosion was got under in three hours.
The loss is limited to the workshop and store-house, and
their immediate vicinity. The explosion is attributed to
imprudence.
HOLLAND.—Tan HAGUE, Jut 23.—At the
opening of the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States
I General to-day, the president informed the assembly that the
I committee of reporters had terminated their work on the
proposition of Mr. Hoffman, oa the subject of the Dutch-
Belgian treaty. The discussion of this subject Is fixed for
Monday next.
PRUSSIA.-11Entrr, JULY 19.—The proceedings
in the lets Diet have the promise of producing important
consequences. Among the foremost, we are informed, will
be the complete reorganisation of the machinery of public
administration, which has been at work for the last forty
year., and owing to a boot of supplementary branches dove-
tailed to it, is become too cumbrous and unwieldy for easy
' and accelerated movements. The plan is said to be metered.
—The Director-General of Police his resigned, preparatory
to his being appointed chief of the proposed general police
department for railways.

flit Court.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and her royal
coneort took their usual early Iralk at Osborne.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and the ladies and
gentlemen of the court attended divine service yesterday in
Whippingham Church.

The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with
Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial office.—Lord Howard
M Walden had an Interview with Lord John Russell an
Saturday at his official residence in Downing street.-81r
Harry Smith had an interview on Saturday with Real Gory.
—Sir Thomas Mitchell had also en interview with his lord-
ship at the Colonial-office.
Sir Denis Le Merchant attended on Saturday at the
Rome-office' as Under Secretary of State, in the room of the
Right Hon. air William Somerville.
Sir George Grey left town on Saturday, for his re-
sidence, Fallodon, Alowick.— Viscount Morpeth left town on
Saturday.—The Chancellor of the Exchneer left town an
Saturday for Halifax.—The R#t Has. H. Laboucharo boa
left town for Taunton.—The RqbtHan. B. J. Stanley Itas
left town.
Despatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off
from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening.
The Duke of Wellington, the fluke and Duchess Sr
St. Alban's, and Sir Prod. Trench, attended the early med.
yeetariay at the chapel royal, at. James's. The Bev. Dr.
Wesley all dated and preashad the sermon.—At the daily
Strebill the prayen Welt read by the Rte. T. [tensors, and
the the Roc. J. C. Haden. The inmost wee
preachßow. Br. Wesley. The anthem ald•
Praise the Larito Jamaica.- (Ha a. -
The Grand D. Constantine of Emilia, accom-
panied by Baron Bewmassr end attended by Vice-Admiral La-
ke Rear-Admiral Coolßlydw, Baron Fredericks, Count
Orloff, and IL de Marmarlfts arrived at Blair Athol', Perth-
shire, on Wednesday hat, as a visit to the Duke of Atholl.
The noble duke gave hie ingsgial highness a true highland
reception, his graoe's gallant bend of mountaineers, is full
national catmint, sit she grand duke sad party a cordial
welcome.

The Earl and Countess of Enniskillen and suite
embarked at Blackwall, on Saturday morning, by the
General Steam Navigation Company'. steam-ehip Giraffe,
for Rotterdam, en route for Switzerland.
The Baron Bony left London, on Saturday, by
the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship
Caledonia, for Hamburg.

OF INDIA.-NEW APPOINT-

aritere.—lt is reported that the ministry have recommended
the Earl of Dalhousie for the office of Governor-General of
India., and Sir H. Porringer for the appointment of ‘lovernor
of Madras.

MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES AND THE OFFERED
PRNSION.—Tbe Alholawn states that Sheridan linowlm's
reason for refiuing from government &pension of le'dl. a year
is, that in as far as the amount given measures the compara-
tive estimation, his acceptance of this sum would have been
an admission on his part of lower rank than his long dramatic
successes entitle him to bold.
THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A LETTER-CARRIER.
—Bradley, the letter-carrier, who was so inhumanly attacked
in Mitre-court, Wood-street, is not likely to recover his
reasoning faculties from the effects of the blow he received
upon his head. He was led down to the Post-office on Sum-
day, and had an interview with Mr. Peacock, the solicitor,
when he appeared to be labouring under complete uncon-
sciousness. The opinion of the Post-office authorities is, that
• discarded bank clerk, sr Post-oeice clerk, was pr,vy to the
evidently preeencerted attack upon Bradley, front the fact
that no other person could hove known the conteuts of the
bag Bradley carried. The key with which the bwhwaymen
locked the gate consists of the rusty pipe of an old street-
door key, to which is soldered a skeleton end, quite new, and
seemingly made expressly for the lock. Inspector Shield',
Serjeant Brennan, end a number of the detective force,
have been throughout the week in pursuit of three men,
whose description they have received, but they have hitherto
eluded detection. Up to Saturday the police Lad got so
clue as to when the life-preserver was purchased or the key
made. Neither of the instruments bears any distinctive mark.
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday evening, a
cutter containing seven persons, through the nu drill mss
of the coxswain, came into violent collision with one of the
abutments of Westminster-bridge, and broke about midshipt,
Only five of the party were saved ; two brothers, aped 18 and
23, sons of Mr. Carter, of 9, South-row, Lambeth-walk, were
drowned.