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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1857.

THE DAYS' NEWS.

In the House of Lords last night Lord Brougham
made a very energetic attack on the conduct of the
French government, in sanctioning the principles
of a company which has just been started for the
importation of African negroes into the French
West India Islands. The noble lord was of opinion
that the object of the scheme was the revival of the
slave trade, and he was much astonished at the
Emperor Napoleon lending his name to such a
measure. He therefore moved that the House
adopt a petition to her Majesty, praying that she
would use all her influence to discountenance a
project having a tendency, directly or indirectly,
to encourage slavery. Earl Granville did not
oppose the motion, though he was of opinion that
the scheme of the French company would prove a
total failure, and the motion was ultimately
agreed to.
In the House of Commons, the morning sitting
was taken up in the discussion of the clauses of
the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill, in committee. Some
amendments having been inserted, and some new
clauses added, the bill passed the stage. The Burial
Acts Amendment Bill also passed through commit-
tee. At the evening sitting, a new writ was ordered to
be issued for Woodstock, in the room of the Mar-
' quis of Bland ford, elevated to the Peerage through
the death of the Duke of Marlborough. Sir
Erskine Perry gave notice that on an early day
next session he should move a resolution to the
effect that the recent events in India rendered it
expedient that the government of India should be
transferred from the East India Company to the
responsible ministers of the Crown. Mr. Hors-
man, Chairman of the Bath Election Committee,
was called to task for having adjourned the meet-
ing of the committee, for the purpose of attending
the meeting of members of Parliament, held on
Thursday, on the Oath's Bill.
We have a week's later news from the United
States, by the arrival of the Persia, which passed
the landing-stage about half-past four o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The news is not of much
importance. We regret to announce the sudden
death of the Hon. Mr. Marcy, late Secretary of
State of the United States. He expired on Satur•
day afternoon, the 4th inst., at his residence
near Albany. His death was owing to disease of
the heart. He was 72 years of age. Independence
day was celebrated throughout the Union on the
4th, with the usual eclat. In New York and else-
where, there was a large amount of rioting, but the
loss of life was not greater than usual at such rows.
In New York city there.was only eight men killed
and about one hundred wounded. Quiet had'
been restored when the Persia took her de -
parture.
We supply our readers with a full epitome of the
news from the West Indies and the South Pacific
Ocean, just arrived. The steamer Orinoco lost 27
of her crew by yellow fever, on the run to South-
ampton. At the Island of St. Thomas yellow fever
was prevalent, and several of the crew of the Royal
Mail steamer had died. The island of Jamaica
continued healthy, but business was slack. Abun-
dant rains had fallen, and the canes promised well
for next year. At Barbadoes the weather had
continued favourable for reaping, and very little
sugar remained to be made. The health of the
island was good. The political news from the other
islands does not call for comment. From
Peru we learn that Vivanco still held out at
Arequipa, but was surrounded by 3,000 troops. A
collision was soon expected, with the chances
against Vivanco. The Chilian government was
about raising a loan of four millions of dollars, to
complete the Valparaiso aad Santiago Railroad.
The Santiago and Tacna Railroad advanced rapidly.
The Valparaiso Floating dock had received some
vessels, several of them of 700 tons register. A
treaty had been concluded in Lima, having for its
object the protection of the Chincha, Islands,
Lobos and others, by an armed force of the English
and French for the term of ten years, so that they
have actual possession of them ; but the Peruvian
Government has the entire control and disposal
of the guano as heretofore. Other nations are
entitled to enter into the protectorate of the islands.
This is a death-blow to the revolutions present
and to come. The reason for giving the English
and French the preference are, that they are the
heaviest Peruvian bondholders, and this is a kind
of collateral security for their payment.
Our local and domestic news is of no intereet or
importance this morning. Prince Napoleon was
lionising in Liverpool yesterday. He visited the
Town Hall, St. George's Hall, and the Aintree
races, and has set sail in his yacht for Ireland.
Yesterday, there was a grand review at Aldershot,
the Queen, the Court, and all the notabilities being
present.
The celebrated French lyric poet, Beranger, died
in Paris on Thursday afternoon.
That we were quite justified in considering the
insurrectionary movements in Spain as of greater
importance than the Government telegraphs from
Madrid ascribed to them, appears evident from the
number of persons stated officially to have been
arrested at Madrid alone. This number amounts
to 1,549. Either serious dangers are still hanging
over the Spanish Government, or that Government
is mad.

Our Paris intelligence speaks of the presence in
that city of the Prince of Syracuse, brother of the
King of Naples, to whom the disinterested desire
is ascribed of effecting a reconciliation between
his Royal brother and the Emperor of the French.
If a Paris rumour, mentioned as such by a
Brussels paper, may be believed, the complaint of
the Italian governments, referred to a few days
ago, respecting the shelter given to Mazzini in
England, has already been laid before Lord Pal-
merston by the Tuscan representative, and has,
as was to be expected, been met with a simple
reference to the English law.
Intelligence from the Christian provinces of
Turkey is unsatisfactory. In Bosnia the hard-
ships of the Christians do not appear to have been
relieved, and their distress is great. An underhand
fermentation is said to exist, while murders and
crimes are numerous. The trial of a Pacha for the
murder of a Bulgarian girl at Varna, and his ac-
quittal, will be remembered by the reader. This
Pacha: Sami Pacha by name, has been named to
the military command in Bosnia—a nomination
that does not testify to the tact of the Porte, for
the details of the Varna case have not been for-
gotten by the Christian subjects of Turkey, and
the presence of Sarni Packs will scarcely improve
the present state of mind of the inhabitants of
Bosnia. Unless a general reduction of taxation,
and a more equitable distribution of the same,
shall be effected in this and neighbouring pro-
vinces, the Porte must shortly expect to meet
with mischief.

General Farina, Roman Minister of War, has
died of apoplexy, and one of his former colleagues,
the late Minister of Finance, has likewise expired
at Ancona.

The Bank Returns of last night are not so
favourable as had been expected ; still there is an
increase of £75,304 in the bullion in the bank, the