The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1847.

Dad gives against the hon. member's motion for a
committee to inquire into themes in Tuatara. After
explanations and statements from Mr. Rums, Mr.
gcrr, and Mr. Batten, Mr. B. Ossonns jocularly
armed a hope that the SPEAKER would interfere,
is ceder that Mr. Hotta and Mr. SPOONER should
lice assurances to the house that they would take no
lothea no
in the matter, a vroposition
which excited in no small degree the Mint of the
how, Is the course of some observations bearing
ocher hardly upon the hon. member for Montrose,
Lod J. Russell. said the hon. gentleman seemed to
posemachartered liberty of speech in that house, upon
which Mr. AOLIONDT, who misunderstood the expres-
goo used by the noble lord, complained of his ailing
the hon. member for Montrose a chartered libertine ;
when again the house was convulsed, and Mr. Home,
wog defended himself from the attack made upon
him by Lord J. litatustt, walked across the house,
sad took his seat beside Mr. Bromism, amidst loud
sad general laughter,he having previously intimated
his intention of bringing the subject forward again
en Tueliday.—A discussion followed on the medical
treatment of the poor under the operation of the
poor-law Act, and as to the inadequate remuneration
of medical men attendant on the unions.—Sir D.
Nouns moved for a return of the names and resi-
deuces of the parties referred to in the third report of
the relief commissioners for Ireland, as having im-
',comity conducted themselves in carrying out the
'ganef Act. On a division, the motion was negatived
by a majority of 61. The house then went into com-
mittee of supply, the principal subjects of discussion
being the British Museum, the slave trade, and the
case of the family of the late Mr. Thom, formerly
consul at Ningpo, in China. On the house resuming,
at, a prelude, it may be presumed, to the closing of the
maim, the lights suddenly disappeared,—an event
which occasioned much merriment,—the business at
length proceeding with the new lights thrown upon
it by the messengers. A division took place on the
question of receiving the report of the Compensation
for Damages (Ireland) Bill, which was carried by a
majority of 29.

Tee proceedings at the first conservative muster in
the City of London election would be laughable if '
they were not fitted to excite pity. The talk was '
characterised by the garrulity of a party in extreme
old age, conscious of bodily_ feebleness and lassitude,
unconscious of doter. Mr. BARING Was weeping I
ripe at the cruelty o the liberals in putting them to
the trouble of a contested election. Mr. MASTERSI tN,
with great naiceli,, poured out his thankfulness for
having been allowed to escape at last election without
giving pledges ; Mr. BEVAN (the gentleman with
" only one principle ") pledged himself to preserve
St. Paul's from dilapidation ; and Alderman JOHN-
SON vowed that he would never consent to the re-
moval of Smithfield market. No wonder that on
hearing this twaddle the one sensible man who had
unaccountably got into such company exclaimed—
.' Let's have Josere ADY ; he'll tell us of something
to our advantage."
It is painful to be obliged to add, that the proceed-
ings at the first liberal muster are little more to the
feunmse. The candidates were all in favour of " ex-
suffrace," " as far as it is safe," phrases
which mean little at any time, and nothing at present,
now that the subject has been by tacit consent of all
parties allowed to drop for a time out of the category
of practical questions. They declare their resolution
to have the tea-duties altered with a vigour and de-
cision ludicrously diaproportioned to the importance
of the subject, and contrasting strangely with the
simpleton-sleaos and timid vagueness of their pro-
fessions on really great measures.
We can see no personal objection to any one of the
candidates placed upon the liberal ticket. They are,
in every respect, superior to the guardian angels of
St. Paul's and Smithfield-market, or the pledge-
escaping Mr. MASTERMAN. Of the sitting members
it is unnecessary to say anything. Sir GEORGE LAR-
PENT, to the recommendation of great experience in
business combines the rare qualities of ready appre-
hension, precise and comprehensive thought, and an
unaffected clearness of expression. Of Baron ROTEs-
CHILD we would say more. He possesses the high
talent for financial combination hereditary in his house,
combined with that princely spirit of liberal benevo-
lenoe (extended to men of all classes and creeds)
which has earned for that house the proud position of
the most influential among their European co-religion-
ists ; and in addition to all this he is deeply imbued
by education and habits with the sentiments and
opinions of a highly educated English gent:man.
But more than all this, Baron Rovitscin to, quali-
fied at all times to be the representative of the mer-
chant princes of London, has at this moment the ad-
ditional claim upon the City's liberal electors that in
voting for him they support an important principle—
their own right whenever they find a man quali-
fied by integrity and intelligence to transact their
business in parliament, to send that man there
unobstructed by sectarian restrictions. The re-
moving of Jewish disabilities as a boon to that race
or sect is a trifling object, when compared with the
relief of the whole empire from a law which prohibits
electors from choosing the very best man for their
purpose, if ho happens to be a Jew.
It is precisely because we feel convinced that
the liberal candidates for London are capable
of better things, that we regret to see them
taking up ground so miserably low. They have con-
descended to take their cue from professional
agents, who after balancing poll books and regi-
stration books, and counting noses, have dine-
vered that there is a safe majority if old party con-
nections can be kept up. To this end the anti-catholic
prejudices of this brewer, and the anti-sanitary-bill
prepossessions of that corporation magnate, are to be
spared as much u possible. No bold explicit
expressions of opinion on great practical questions are
to be hazarded, lest some bell-wether of some lane or
alley drop off with his little tail of voters. The safe
common-places of party—even to the evaporated vote
by ballot—are to have the changes lustily rung upon
them. And all this clatter and tinkling of brim
kettles is to be kept up to divert attention from the
manner in which the canvassing agents carry their
men to the poll.
The present moment is fitted for, and worthy of, a
more generous game. The late commercial reforms
have done much to break dawn party barriers. Mr.
BARING pleads guilty to having often supported
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and even the gentleman of
"one principle" declares that the conservative opinion
is "not to change for changing's sake, but always go
011 improving." And while this change has been
Terming on the minds of men of mature years, a
new generation of voters has been growing up. It
is the fault of all public men, who have been fifteen Cr
twenty years in active life, to forget that the ques-
tions which first awakened them to keen political feel-
ing are not the questions which had this effect on
the large section of the constituencies which have
come of age within the last five or six years. The
political slogans of the Reform Bill ere are
as antiquated and stale for fully one-half of the
voters 0f1847, as the cry of " Bu tner? and reform,"
or " Witxes and liberty." The staunch whig ee
liberal phalanx, presided over by Mr. JOHN ABEL
Burnt, and the staunch tory or conservative
phalanx, presided over by Mr. BARING, do not make
out between them much more than a half of the City
voters, if so much. There is a floating balance of
unattached politicians fax more than sufficient to
turn the scale, who can be carried, and can only be
earned, by men who, entertaining the prevailing
views of the day on practical questions of immediate
Urgency, entertain these views more distinctly than
most others, see them more entirely in all their bear-
ings, and are capable of expressing their views with
that commanding voice of sincerity, entire intelli-
gence, and resolute will, that enables the speaker to
rouse the inert to action, and keep the fickle steadily
at work. We will not take upon us to swear that Mr.
PATEISON is capable of all this ; but we know that
Lard 'ORS RUSSELL and Sir 0. LARPENT are, and
we believe that a little experience is all that is re-
Timed to place Baron Rornsatitn on a par with
them in tins respect.
What a lasting shame, then, it will be for the
down champions of London liberalism, if, with in
parliament in view, during which an entire revolt
bon will be effected in our system of taxation and
finance, in which the navigation laws under which
oar colossal commerce has been developed will be sub-
jected to a searching scrutiny and extensive revision,in
which the whole theory and practice of education and
Penal law will come under discussion, in which every
bras of administrative government will be tested
with a view to improve its working, in which the
greatest of reforms—law reform—may be ini-
jaernie!Y promoted, the contest for the repre-
sentation of the City is Carried on in spirit wa-

worthy of the occasion ! With the prejudices of
the old allayed, and with a hod of ingenious youth I
seeking for bold and generous leaders, will those who
have been called upon to assume that plaoe, instead
of throwing themselves upon the common sense and
good feeling of the constituency, and rallying a new
party on the ground ef true and just principle, rest
satisfied with 141 war km defeat effected by the
dexterity of their agents ?
Unfortunately the complaint we have ewe to
make of the tone sad temper in which thelptacon-
test has been begun appears more or less a ble
to all the metropolitan constituencies. In estmin-
ster, Mr. LUEIHINGTON'a friends seem to think it re-
commendation enough for him that he is better than
that shadow of a cypher, Mr. Cocrtiunn ; in Maryle-
bone, Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY appeals to antiquarian
reminiscences of a vote against the pension to CAN-
NING'S widow; and the titular agent of the Great
Mogul and the Rajah of Satter& wires to the repe-
-1 ;mutation of the Tower Hamlets. From Sir WILLIAM
MOLES WORTH alone has a voice been heard worthy of
the occasion.

The members for the City of London and the
metropolitan boroughs represent in the House of
Commons a population scarcely interior in number to
that of Scotland. The amount of property owned by
the electors a these distriets is almost equal to that
possessed by all the remaining electors of England.
r
o these constituencies are numbered a great
majority of our most distinguished names in art,
science, and literature ; all our greatest lawyers ; most
of our distinguished physicians, divines, and soldiers.
The legislators, upon whom the choice of such con-
' stituencies falls, ought to be men capable of taking the
lead in parliamentary business and discussion. And
the elections for these constituencies, on the occasion
of a general election, are concluded so early, that, if
conducted in a proper spirit, they must inevitably in-
fluence all other elections throughout the country. A
solemn responsibility rests both on the electors and
the elected of the metropolis.

FROM our hearts we pity the future hiatorian of
England in the 19th century, if providence do not
Wad some Caliph OMAR to burn the sessional papers
of the Lords and Commons. The load of voluminous
nothings which the press, at the bidding of our two
legislative houses, annually sends forth, sits like an
incubus on the nightmare-ridden imagination.

The endless details, diffuseness, and repetitions
contained in these documents can only be paralleled
by the frequent unimportance of their contents. Our
arithmetic has failed us in attempting to sum up the
numbers of folio pages that have been devoted session
alter session to chronicle the snail-like progress of the
inchoate houses of parliament The embryonic
history of " Tristram Shandy" is the only prototype
of these chronicles of a building yet to be; and even
here the parallel is not quite exact, for there was wit
in " Tristram," to make it readable. The reports, and
returns, and minutes of evidence bearing on the con-
ception and execution of the new palace at West-
minster, with the episodes of Dr. REID'S pneumonic.,
and the bridge at Westminster, and the sesthetical
rhapsodies of committees and commissions on decora-
tions and the fine arta, exceed in balk many a respect-
able library. If the history of the hours and their
future inmates are to be continued on the same scale
—mercy on our posterity.
The last returns oa the great unborn relate to
" the great clock for the new palace at Westminster."
The title was re-aseuriag : it seemed to indicate an
anxiety on the part of the legislature to take accurate
note of time, from which a penitent resolution no longer
to waste it might be inferred. Anxiety to procure a
correct going, clear-voiced clock seemed to point to a
resolution to silence the SIBTRORTS and other squan-
derers of irrecoverable time by its chimes, or to recal
earnest business members to a sense of their iuty, to
cough the obstructors down. But the contents of
the return dispel these pleasing fancies, and bring to
recollection the sneer of the novelist that none are so
careful to fill their rooms with many and accurate
measures of time as those who make no use of it.

The return only shows that daring the whole time
that Mr. BARRY and Dr. REID have been squab-
bling about ventilation in the cellars, and Mr.
BARRY and the record commission disputing in the
garrets about accommodation for old papers, a con-
troversy about time-pieces nearly as warm has been
waging in the clock tower. Every nook and cranny
of this luckless building seems predestined to peppery
controversy. Kind heaven avert the omen
personalthe progress of our future legislation I
The heroes of the time-piece dispute are the
Astronomer Royal and Mr. VULLIAMY, the emi-
nent clock-maker. We do not intend, at present,
to discuss the merits of the methods advocated by
these gentlemen respectively : there is a preliminary
question to be disposed of Looking to the tone and
tenor of the dispute, it is apparent that Mr. VULLIAIIY
has grave reason to complain of the manner in which
he has been treated.
On the 29th of March, 1844, Mr. BARRY wrote to
Mr. VOLLIAMY, inquiring whether he would be dis-
posed to supply a plan for the clock required for the I
new palace at Westminster. Mr. VULLIAMY under-
took to prepare a plan, and terms of remuneration
were agreed upon more moderate should the
execution be entrusted to him, rather higher in the
event of some other artist being employed. On the
20th of June, 1848, fully two years later, it ap-
pears for the first time to have occurred to the Com-
missioners of Woodsand Forests to take the Astronomer

Royal into their councils on the great clock question.
In his reply to their application (dated 22nd June),
Mr G. B. Ana names three clock-makers who might
be supposed competent to the task ; and with respect to
Mr. VULLIARY volonteers the information that he
" is said to be unmanageable in temper, and very ex-
pensive in prices." With respect to Mr. VELLIAIITE
temper Mr. AIRY ought to have had better authority
for its unmansgeableuess than is implied by " said
to be," before he set about insinuating so much to his
disadvantage; and whether Mr. VOLLIANY'S prices
were or were not " very expensive " would have
appeared time enough from his estimates.
But Mr. AIRY had gone further in pre-
judging the claims of Mr. VELLIAMY than
appears from this insinuation : nearly a year
earlier (22nd July, l 845), before his opinion had
been 'aka by the Commissioners of Woods and Fo-
rests, he had bound himself by a distinct written
pledge to Mr. DENT (one of the three dockmakers he
names) to support his application. In a letter to that
gentleman, Mr. AIRY says that, in the event of his
being consulted by the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, he will "without hesitation" state that he
considers him " the most proper person to be entrusted
with the construction of another of similar pretensions
[to that of the Royal Exchange]." Mr. VELLIAMY
having come to the knowledge of the content' of both
letters, naturally enough a to stand by the sole
award of the gentleman who was previously
bound in writing to support the claims of a
competitor, and who had bun by insinuating an
unfavourable opinion of Mr. VOLLIAMY on the
strength of gossip and hearsay. The consequence is
that on the 18th of May, 1847, we find the Astronomer
Royal addressing the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, apparently with their entire assent and con-
nivance, in these words :—" It is impossible for me
to consider Mr. VIJIJJANY as a person who can be
employed to construct the clock, he having declined
to compete, except before a numerous committee, and
having objected personally to myself as referee."
Has it come to this, that an eminent and
experienced clockmakez is to be held disqualified
for constructing the clock at the new palace because
he had the sense and spirit to protest against having
the merits of his plan decided on by a sole referee,
pledged beforehand to give the preference to a rival—
that referee having, moreover, without any provoca-
tion, repeated hearsay tattle against him to the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests ?

We have received more than one letter from elec-
tors of London, asking information respecting the
possibility of Mr. Ho-mecum.") taking his seat. The
writers of these letters are very willing to vote for
Mr. ROTHSCHILD, they say, if he san act and vote as
member, but they decline doing so till assured that
they are not making a nugatory election.
On this subject we can only communicate the
assurance of Mr. ROTHSCHILD'S COMDlittSo—sll ho-
nourable men—that he can and will .it. " How," is
left to conjecture.
There is, first of all, no impediment offered by the
law to the election of a member of the Hebrew persua-
sion. And any member as take his seat and vote
for the election of Speaker without making the
" declaration." So far, taking one's " seat" is easy.
But the member must then make the declaration

"on the faith of a Christian, that he will not disturb
or injure the church as by law established." We
doubt much that either Mr. RoTnacnan or Mr.
SALOMONS would get up and make any declaration
on "the true faith of a Christian." If they do, they
are members of parliament. If they refuse, the
Speaker immee at once a new writ, as in the case of
YOONNELL.

But,—
again, Mr. ROTHSCHILD may relktda ftcu etc
tending the first sittings of the house, s say new
ber may oome forward to propose the aben of
Jewish &abilities, strengthened in the brush; for-
ward of such a motion by the fact of the city of Lon-
don having returned an eminent Jew for its repre-
sentative. Some think that it is on this last contin-
gency that Mr. ROTHSCHILD counts.
Such being the facts of the case, the " Elector of
London" must judge for himself.

The French journals and correspondence of Thurs-
day have reached us. The Minister of Finance, on
presenting the project of law to the chambers for a
loan of 350 millions of francs, proposed that it should
be referred to the committee on the budget This
proposition was rejected by the chamber, and a
special committee appointed.
The ceremony of the delivery of the insignia, &c.,
to the two new cardinals, Giraud and Dupont, took
place at the Tuileries on Wednesday.
The Gazette de Prance says that the serfs on the
properties of the government of Witepek, in Russia,
have revolted, and pillaged the chateaux of their
masters. The latter sought safety in flight
An express from Berne brought to Paris, ea
Thursday, the address delivered to the Swiss Diet es i
the opening of that assembly, on the sth, by the peed-
dent, M. Ochaenbein. We give a few of the chief points.'
After a preamble, the document goes on to state,
that it cannot be doubted that the tendency to pro-
gress is general. Whilst Poland is still bleeding,
whilst recently the significant destruction of a =tot
of Switzerland, the republic of Cracow his lobo
place, contrary to the rights of nations and davit, the
whole civilised world, and whilst, on the banks of the'
Tmus, the independence of a nation has been trodden
under foot, a state of things has been brought about
on the Jur and the Escant which formerly would
have been considered impossible. That was, the 1
strengthening of the constitutional principle in the
north of Germany. The principle of free-trade
has produced the happiest results, and has been
seconded in the most efficacious manner, by
smoothing away natural and artificial obstacles,
such as regulating customs duties, keeping roads
in repair, and making new ones, some of which
often crossed mountains far above the regions of snow.
In all the world, wherever the hardy and persevering
Englishman had made his way, there is to be found
the free Swiss, a faithful companion by his side, to
help in finding openings to the produce of the art
and industry of his country. The principle of has
trade will find a powerful means of action in the
establishment of the new railway, which, disunities
force of the spirit of association, will soon be followed
by others; and one still more powerful in the system
of customs duties, whose object is to do away with
duties and tolls in the interior. The essential prin-
ciples agreed to in every canton, can and will form
the beau of a new pact, which starting from that
point, and keeping entire as much as passible the
sovereignty of each canton, and the existence of all,
will represent a general confederacy, which will be
the surest guarantee of the maintenanoe of national
iodspendence for the execution of all uleasurea for the
posaosity of the people.
Hight of M. Pellapra continues to be the en-
etopic in Paris, loth with the press and in all
circles. It appears that he left Paris on
emoing, when the attention of all the world
was absorbed by the Maatpensierfete. He is said to
have addressed a letter to the President of the Cham-
ber of Peen, in which ho says, that his great age and
the stole at his health more such as to render it =-
plaids hr him toonesoskst the fatigue and anxiety
of Iho imostigatiso, siod has sent a medical certificate
to ant snot. The opposition are loud in their de-
=midis= spoil= the authorities for not putting the
purling unite arrest; and the Gazette des Tribunal=
gams an sedate on the subject, is which it lays the
biases of this =pleat on the Court of Peers.
We give the upset of the proceedings of the court
so Thursday in soother column.
The prowl Mho= bonnet was to take place in the
Limtal tits Moto= Rouge yesterday (Friday).
empt to king together on the occasion all
=odes of opposition appeared likely to fail, u we
Ism from our surempondent that MM. Thiess,
Dime, and Rassinat hod signified their intention
en Thursday of not IZeresant. The thing was
too solisal for these

We have received the journals and correspondence
of Madrid, with the letters of our own correspondent
of the 3rd instant ; the latter of which we give below.
It was said that the Queen Dowager ha addressed
two letters to the Queen and Prince Consort, the effect
of which excited in some parties expectations of a
reconciliation. The advocates of De la Rive, who
is charged with firing at the Queen, have demurred
to the competency of the Tribunal of the First Instance
to try him, and insist that the trial must take place
before the Senate.

MADRID, JULY 3.
Lettere from Barcelona of the 28th ult., contain
alarming accounts of the date of some parts of
Catalonia.

They say that in consequence of an extraordinary
express from Rena early that morning, the war-
steamer, Blasco de Oars, had started for Tarragona,
conveying all the troops it could hold; while Ososta/
Pavia marched by land towards Rens, taking nit a
column of the army upon his way at hfolins-el:Rey.
It appears that the motive of this stir is, that al
Carlist band, consisting of 600 or 700 men, commanded
by Barjo, presented themselves before the walls of
Rens on the 27th. They seised two people, one a son
of an alcalde of Rens, for whose ransom they de-
manded 1,200 geld ounces.
On the evening of the 28th the steamer returned
to Barcelona for mere troops. The general had mu
dered all the artillery up to Montjuich, in the view of
placing as many as possible of the troops indisponi-
bility. The gates of Rens, a large commercial town,
were closed.
In addition to what may be gleaned from the des-
patches of Concha, published in yesterday's Gazette
the Correo says : It appears that Vasconcellos on the;
26th came oommissioned by the Oporto junta to treat
with Oen. Concha fora continuation of the suspension of
hostilities; and assured him that on the following day
a committee of the junta would present them-
selves to treat for the surrender of the place, which
was only opposed by two or three battalions of arti-
sans ; to whose chiefs the necessity would be shown
of entering into the capitulation. It seems that the
only condition demanded by the junta will be an
ample and complete amnesty for all who have taken
part in the insurrection. Vasooncellos declared to
the general that under no circumstances would the
junta enter into negotiations with the commanders of
the naval forces, English or French, or with the con-
sols of those nations, and that, relying upon the
eitivalrous honour of the Spanish government and
army, they will place themselves under its protection,
provided that the most complete amnesty is accorded
to them.
The Elpectodor and Espagnol of yesterday. having
published paragraphs accusing the Minister of
Finance of a fraudulent issue of 3 per cent. bonds to
raise money to pay the active class of empioyea, who
began on July 1 to receive monthly instalments of
their arrears, the government have determined upon
prosecuting those papers for the dissemination of a
slanderous libel. The Gazette publishes a formal
contradiction to the paragraphs in question.
The following is from the Correo:
The cabinet of the 28th of January, placed between the
Queen, in actual poase.iou of authority, and the King, aspi-
ring to the same, declared for the latter ; and lent him their
aid, to deprive his royal partner, if not of the administration
of the patrimony, at least of domestic eupremacy. It was
the opinion of that cabinet, guided by the civil principle,
that the woman, even though sovereign, ought to be subor-
dinate In the family. Hance the events which then took
plans in the pals.. ; hence the open struggle, whose
&et onslaught dates from February, and which was
subsequently inflamed to such • deplorable pitch.
Not contented with resolving the question in a
wrong sense, the ministry of the Duke of Sotomayor sought,
in its decision pleat the Queen, the support of its conduct
in the high bodies of the state. What the Corms had not
done infleptember, in a direct and provident manner, tieing
in • law of capitulation the future position of the King and
Queen, the ministry desired to get done Indirectly by the
Congress and Senate pawing • vote of approbation of their
conduct. The power of parliament was now invoked to
carry a resolution against the political law, while it
ought to have made a provision in concert with it live

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decided that the reireiag sewareien le the hied of the
palace, of the pataaway, el the royal family, as the same
sovereign le the head *ld* slate by the atestitatios of the
monarchy. This is what As present Webb" have main-
tained by its acts. To seppme that they dabs to blow this
coal of dunension, or to in the the least obehiele to the re-
conciliation of the royal , abaurd and calumnious.
They found a question which, in September, was not pro-
vided for, which in February was resolved in a certain
sense, and they rimmed that decision. They found the
King and Queen at variance upon a question of autho-
rity, and they believed and Cleaned that the eonstittp
Simla right was on the aide of the latter. They have
done all that could ha demanded of them. They
knew that the position of the King was embarrassing, from
the want of capitulations, from the want of even docetion, in
which he was left by the ministry that effected the mar-
riage. Desirous of remedying this omission, they said to
the King—" Your Majesty shall have your own suite of
apartments with your special attendants. Your Majesty shall
have a proper flotation, and within this dotatica and resi-
dence your Majesty may follow freely the dictates of your
inclination. Is it the fault of ministers that the King
was not satisfied with them proposals, that he desired to
administer the patrimony, to command in the palms!
Ministers could not consent to these demands. It would in
fact, have been treason to do so. Notwithstanding that they
might leave no means of reconciliation untried, the cabinet
went one step further. They said, with all respect to the
King: "Your Majesty may possibly obtain what you desire;
not, certainly, by the arguments of right and foroe, which
you advance, for neither are upon your side ; but by kind-
ness, affecticia, love. The heart of the Queen may grant
what the law denies." The ministry observed, with regret,
that their °amnesia were useless _ _

There appears to be no fTaittlation for the radiant report
of the Herold, that symptoms of reconciliation appeared on
either side.

THE CUBIERF.B AFFAIR.

COITST OF PElRB.—This osee came On, according
to arrangement, on Thursday. The court opened at half-
post twelve. In front was plaited the bureau of the public
prosecutor, occupied by MM. Dtiangle and Glands:, in
scarlet robes. The accused were introduced, and took their
places at three bureaux prepared for then on the right of
the tribune. At the lint bursae were General Desparm
Cubikes, and his advocate ; at the second, M. Testa, accom-
panied by his advocates, and hler,oss, slumber of the Chem-
bar of Deputies ; and at the third were Parmentier, with
his son, and M. Denali Champy, hie advocate—M. Glands,,
Advocate-General, rose end said, that considering that one
of the accused, M. Pellapia, bad failed to appear, he de-
manded that the three accused present be put under anat.
The Chancellor said the mart would take Into its considera-
tion the application of the procureur•goteral of the Kisg in
the round' chamber, after the act of emanation had bees read.
M. Catchy, She , then not the act of oreasation,
which was slot and until four o'clock.—M. Taste de-
manded that a certain devilment connected with the depart-
ment of the finances should be printed, and distributed I.
the owe This was granted, sad the court edgourned till

GERMANY. PRIIBB/a. 13611.1.1114 lEEE 29.
We are now beginning to witness the beteg, seriftemen of
the tut straggle made for freedom and ialepaigoase by be
unSsrausate Polish people. The act ef waraaasa asamt
the Pelee messed of high treason Laski* appellee& The
accused are 261 in number ; 98 noblemen, isishodieg the
Counts Coutantin and Signor Brinaki ; B. Grabondu and
&stria Mielzinski. This document is given in we parts :
the first centains an historical account of the formation at
the democratic association, of its acts, and the result of them.
The sewed part indicates the partocipatimis of the accused
in the plot. As early as 1832 the association was founded at
Paris; 3,000 persons joinedit immediately ; it had for Its dm
to dispose the mind to • revolution in the nesse of
liberty, fraternity, and equality ; and to restore to
Poland the limits it had before 1772. Emissaries were '
seat to Poland, to distribute revolutionary writings and
form relations on all sides. Victor Hohmann wee the heed
'emuaary ; he succeeded in forming corresponding emaciation,
oa all es, but these Associations were so divided in opinion,
el to the execution of the project, that on the demand of
Mr. Hohmann, the amnia central of Paris sent to Posen
Louis de Mierealawski, an officer well versed in military
science. Mieroslawski found that both the preparations and
money were wanting, and, consequently, it was impossible
to think of a revolution for 1839. He returned to Versailles,
and was replaced by Jean Allyafo, who endeavoured to pro-
cure money to buy fire-arms in France and England. The
Poles expected 46,000 guns. It was necessary to procure
16,000 to complete the number. In the meantime, two per-
ties were formed at Poem Stefanaki, a bookseller, placed
himself at the head of a commercial association, entirely
independent of the democratic association. Stefarelli having
been arrested, was replaced by the miller, Emmenn,
and the master locksmith, Lepniski. This association
was principally composed of workmen, students, and
excited peasants, who wished to put all the Ger-
mans to death, but it is inconceivable how the
Poles can have expected to succeed, for it results
from the examination that they had not the neeemary
means to support a struggle with the three great pewee ;
they had neither money nor arras, nor any man whose name
and character could offer them a chance of sucoess. They
thought if they could once set Cracow, Gallicia, Lithuania,
the kingdom of Poland, the great duchy of Posen, and West
Prussia, into a state of insurrection; if they could also MC.
eeed in taking possession of the fortresses, and bring to
their side a part of the Polish soldiers; they would find am-
atunition—chiefs—and that the Polish people in general
would join with them. But the population of the Grand
Derby of Posen was but little disposed in favour of the
nobility, and the promises came too late. The heads of the
conspiracy had understood they could no longer defer, under
pain of being betrayed ; for reports had already been ru-
moured, and it wee said several arrestations had taken place
(according to some accounts on the events of Cracow).