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SATURDAY, JULY

30, 1859

DAY'S, NEWS

)mmons was mainly occupied i
the passing of the supplies yesterday. We give
full report of the proceedings, both in it and tt

The Hotise of

House of Lords

The Paris correspondents of our London conteri

.eal value of the nomir

reduction of the French army and navy. The portio:

of the army which is reduced is still within the
Imperial grasp. The men can be called at any

somewhat sarca
t is to be remarked that it is aiwa

during one of th

3 periods when the army and navy

are in the pied

that the . French marlin

an correspondenCe indicates a very ur

state of public feeling in Lopbardy, wher

lie conclusion of

aided as unsatisfactor

and disappointing.
A sad accident has happened at Cologne, where the
theatre has been reduced to ashes, the wife of the
manager also falling a prey to the flames.

' The Madrid Gazette officially announces that the
Queen is in the fifth month of pregnancy.

The War Department of Vienna has decided that
the first army shall be maintained at present on a
war footing in Italy—its effective strength is estimated

at nearly 200,000 men. The other corps of the Aus-
trian army are on the march to take their former
cantonments in Gallacia and Hungary.
M. Sebille, the Belgian, who, it will be remem-
bered, was charged as an accomplice of Viscount de
Beaumont Vassy, (convicted some months since of
diverEi fraudulent misrepresentations concerning a
patent for an improvement in the manufacture of salt-
petre), appeared on Thursday at the bar of the assize
court of the Seine, to take his trial for the forgery
of a bill of exchange, and also of various letters, pur-
porting to be writtenby officers of the Emperor's house-
hold. M. Lachaud appeared for the defence, and MM.
Dufaure and Floccpiet reptesented a pantie civile,:M.
Pignere de la Boulloy, a banker, to whom the fOrged
bill had been fraudulently negotiated. The. prisoner
Sebille was formerly.a rich ,landed proprietor in
Belgium, possessing a fortune of not less than
£50,000 sterling. On being asked by the president
(M. Legonidec) how it happened that he had run
through such a fine property, M. &bilk produced a
great sensation in court by stating that he had spent
it all in the service of the French Government. The
President shrugged h's shoulders in token of
incredulity. Sebille then repeated his statement in
firm and measured accents, adding that" the occa-
sion on which he sacrificed his property was the
arrival in Belgium in- 1852 of the Viscount de Beau-
mont Vassy, on a secret mission from the President
of the Republic. Upon this the President, With
small discretion, considering the facts which he ought
to have known, warmly reproached t],.

presuming to state that the Emperor had made a
confidential agent of a man who was at this moment
in prison for disgraceful frauds. The pvisoner re-
.

plied, witn a provunius mat tne
Emperor made this man Prefect of the Aisne., and a
master of requests in his council of state, there is
nothing wonderful in the undoubted fact which I
affirm.' Before any speeches of counsel were made,
the court thought fit to adjourn the trial till next

session, iiforder that further evidence may be collected.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Union Bank,
yesterday, tile nett profit of the half year was stated
to be £08(3, which was carried to account for the
liquidation cif" I
Her Majesty 4

.1 a Privy Ccuneil yesterday more

ing. at. Osborne:
Eight election cOrat littees were sitting yesterday
Meld Committee was still wi-
ses on kthalf of petitions.

gaged in examining

with a view to inc

reduce the duty on in