The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-10 00:00:00

To Mumma Passe co.oracneei pitblishing yesterday worsts( at
_ Ave o'clock.

LONDON, FIIID4Y,AktI.ii 10, Mi.

The principal circumstave of importance in the French
papers is the motion of M oucitt ato exclude platerwen
from the Chamber of Deputies. In the Secret Sitting it
is said that a Deputy read a proposition of VlLLatg's in
1813, to the same effect as that against which the Minister
now declared himself. The proposition was rejected by a
.very small majori..y.
(From the Etoik dated Wednesday. March 114
PARIS, 51ASCa 7.
The Chamber or Bepulias ndt yesterday in a Secret Committee.
It is said that NI. Boucher developed his motion, conceived in the
following terms:—
'0 Every Deputy promoted by the Government to an office held
at pleasure shall cease to be a member of the Chamber."
Among the Deputies who spoke against this motion, Messrs.
Chitnet, Boisclairam, and Sesonairrons are mentiored.. _

The motion was supported by Messrs. De Lurid, Jankowitz,
red D. Constant.

The Premident of the Connell replied to M. llyde de Scoville.
The Chamber then voted on the motion, which was rejected by a
very great majori(y
. . . . . . _ .

It is not true that the Doke de Chartres is going (as the Quoti.
diettat asserts) to be present at the coronation ut the Lotperor of
Russia st Moscow

It is not true (as the ('onstitttlionnel pretends) that the !Volk has
had to rectify the news it had given respecting the band of lissan.
'fhe two brothers liatsn were token, as well as Lieut.•Cul. Stiles,
and twenty-one more revolutionists.
We Jo not yet know the fate of the other nineteen taken with the
brothers Baran. Selles and five others have been killed.

We hear of two new Messeniennev, by Al. C. DeLavigne, one nn
the tireeks, composed at Naples, which he has read at the French
Ambassador's at Home, the other called "Christopher Columbus."

[From the Quotidietatc of Tuesday.]
PARIS, AIARCII 6.
A general subjcot of conversation this evening has been the Se-
cret Committee of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss the motion
of M. Boucher. The speakers were Messrs. Rodot, Humbert.
de Sesoaaisons, Reveillere, Hyde de Neuville. B. Constant, and
Villele. It is added that the speeches of Messrs. Reveillere and
Rodot, in favour of the modified proposition., produced mach im-
pression on the Chamber. It is affirmed that s Deputy read in the
tribune a similar preposition made in 1015 by M. de Villele (then
Deputy), which greatly embarrassed the Minister. The result
was the rejection of the Motion Iska very small majority.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS. ARCH 7.—Five per Cents. yftf.
100 c. ; Three per Cents. 64!. trsc. ; Bank Stock. 10801. ; Rentes
de Naples, 71f. 40c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 441 Exchange on
London t—One month 25f. 50c. Three months 25C 25c.—Courr
A Oa:diva .

A Flanders Mail has been received, which contains
speculations about the Congress at St. Petersburgh, and
reports of disturbances in that capital. An account is also
given in our extracts from these Papers of a repulse which
the Grecian fleet is said to bare sustained at IlisralvArgbi ;
but this is completely at variance with the correspvl,dence
from Zantc, given in the Observer, of Trieste, which
states that the Greeks, on the contrary, had gaitell a
signal victory. The Jewish house of Loco, at Bromburg,
has failed for 2,000,000 dollars. Its failure is ascribed to
over-speculation in wool, grain, and agricultural produce.

The proceedings last night in the House of CI mmcns
were highly important. Mr. PEEL, whose official career
in the Home Department has been marked almost every
Session by the introduction of some measure for the im-
provement of the penal code, moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to consolidate the Statute Law applying to theft, and
for the amendment of the law in certain criminal cases.
His great authority for the measure he deduced from a
work of Loril Chancellor BACON'S, addressed to King
JAMES the First. The Right Hon. Gentleman stated that
a Committee sat on the same subject in 1661, and then the
matter stood over until 1796. The Committees at each
period had recommended the measure, but their re-
commendations had not been acted upon. The num-
ber of persons that came under the Lows he intend-
ed to consolidate, were 12,530 out of 14,137, which was
the whole amount of persons tried for theft in 1825.
The number committed under these Laws in the last seven
years were 40,000. 'The subject is of too much import-
ance for us to enter upon to clay ; but we cannot dismiss
it without offering our thanks to Mr. PsEt for the intro-
duction of the measure.

We earnestly hope that the statement made by Mr.
Wit trLaw at the public dinner of the Subscribers to the
Institution for the Cure of Scrofula and Glandular Dis-
eases, an account of which was given in the BRITISH
Pekes of yesterday, will not be auffbred to pass without
the fullest investigation. Mr. Witiudw is an American,
and the efficacy of his mode of treatment in the above
complaints, unhappily so prevalent in this country, led to
the formation of the above Society,-snost hutnanely esta-
blished at Bayswater for the procuring for this class of
sufferers the benefit of the mode of remedy which he bail
introduced with so much success. That lie should have
experienced the illiberal opposition from the medical faculty
in England, which be so publicly complained of at the
meeting, is a subject which will excite more of regret than
surprise in all who are familiar with our annals of medi-
cal science. But leaving the College of Physicians to their
own exculpation from the charge of illiberality, the fact
in which the public are deeply interested is that which Mr.
WilurLdw deliberately stated to have taken place in
MAxvi.E NON Nl'o KII Ot: eL, where tome children having
been placed under his care, just as he had effected their
cure, the Nurse applied corrosive sublimate and red red-
pate to Me !mantis; and that the medicines which he had
applied being powerful absorbents, the absorbent vessels
being in a preternatural state of activity, caused these
mercurial preparations to he taken into the system. " The
consequence of which," Mr. WHITLAIV said, " wan, that
the children, besides having their flesh corroded to the
bone, were near losing their lives also, and would have
done so but for his assistance." This is a charge of a most
appalling nature, and the public will not be satisfied if the
justice of the accusatioh is not fully inquired into. 'Mr.
JODRATI., of Portland-place, upon Mr. WiriTtsAw's al-
hedging that iompary had already been refused, intimated
Ilia determination to examine into the case. Thid we hope